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JAMES THOMAS BACON. Extract from "Introductory" of "Bacon Book" Soon to be Published. By James Henry Rice, Jr. Praise lavished on the departed *omes from praiseworthy desire to speak well of the dead. When the debt of nature has been paid some thing noble rises to the surface in the heart of the living and lips uttcr the impulse of the moment. Asked if he would keep up his fight on- Mr. Calhoun now that he was dead, Thomas H. Benton said: "No sin, when God Almighty lays His hands on a man I take mine off.'" These things may explain part of the chorus of praise and eulogium heaped or the bier of James T. Ba ,eon, but they will explain only a part of it. The rest was merited tribute, paid by the most distinguish ed men of his day and time. Most of it came from younger men, for the reason that the Paladins of South Carolina, among whom he lived, moved and had his being had almost all been hurried off the stage by the grim apparitor, Death, before his time came. Hampton, whose confidence and affection he shared, was gathered to his fathers seven years before; But ler had but recently died ere his friends realized the grave nature of -his illness; and the distinguished judge, Joshua H. Hudson had finish ed his course, as soon did Dr. James H. Carlisle, one -pf the noblest South Carolinians of the past half eentury. .One by one the Paladins, "the booted and spurred chivalry of South Carolina" born in the pur ple of gentility, had passed to rest. - That Col. James T. Bacon linger ed among the last was a characteris tic of the man and was his due. The great play was over, which began with Nullification, passed through the throes of Secession and Recon struction and ended with the cata elysm of 1890. In those days men apoke and action followed. The fery harangue of the orator might have been subject for badinage, but that from it flowed bloodshed. Quantum Mutatus ab lo. After that even:ts followed and -history was - made but something -had taken flight. The sheehinau nou more hoveted around the altar. Many felt that the glory had departed from Israel. The old code of honor which forbade a man to hol-d up his head 'among gentlemen who spake aught but truth held force no long tar. There were, and are still earnest men and women who believe the State has lost something it will never regain, and, considering this true, >they deem no amount of material prosperity an equivalent. Baion realized-he could not but realize-that the loss was grievous, and as between matters of principle ard matters of interest he never even stopped to consider. Principle :1as his guiding star. Stung to the quick at the wreck of what he cher-1 i6he d, he nevertheless went his way, not despairing that somehow, some where, in God's good time, he would see light break on the stormy waters. He was a hopeful Christian, asnd Christians surely should be hopeful at all times of the final triumph of right. Deep down in his nature this note sounded. So he shouldered his burden and fared on, speaking. the kiind word here, touching the wounded spirit 'with healing fingers there, and at all times teaching, in -'the most beauti lul fashion, by precept and exam ple, that life has its uses and that lo every man~ there is a goal, worth his striving to reach. He preached it in language the common people .ould understand and -he lifted them, eften when they knew it not, to sablimer heights *of life and thought. Yonnz, old, middlejaged, deserving and undeserving, he had a kindly word for all, that he might sneed them; on the journey and ligbten the task laid upon them. Born in Edgefield December 7th, 1830. he died in the same house in which he was born September 8th, 1909. Early Influences. To those nneqiuainted with the istory of Unroer South Carolina, Sand this- includes far too many who Jive in it now. some explanation must be given of the life' which flow ered in so mano illustrious men and in so many exalted women. In South Carolina Up-Country and Low-Country have always been his lorical and not geographical apoella f ions. Roughly sp#king Up-Coun frv meant the old Ninety Six dis triet, which lay in the western part of the Stqte and inelnded all the b"re. wMeh weper reallv formed a part of it. alithough it might have been inelo'ded in surveys a:nd maps. The first settlement of .any conse quenc was at Ninety Six, two miles south of the station, now called Ninety Six on the Columbia and Greenville road. This was 1750, and in the twenty-five years preced ing the War of the Revolution the region filled rapidly with settlers, most of whom came from Virginia and Pennsylvania. These were the best type of English yeomen, mixed with Setoch and Irish and a few French Hugenots. They were at first a serious-minded race and took life earnestly at all times. But even as early as the Revolu tion wealth and culture had spread among them and after the war they cleared the country and amassed great fortunes, many of them. Im mediately after the war were found ed a number of schools, at which the classics were taught, and the inevi table consequence was a race of or ators and statesmen. Edgefield had been formed out of the original Ninety Six district, along with Abbeville, Newberry and other counties in 1785. It became early a center of refinement and of culture, being second only to Abbe ville in the number of distiig men that sprang from it, and this was itself high rank, as Abbeville was called and deserved to be called: "the Athens of South Carolina." Prior to the Civil War Edgefield was rich in notables, first among whom stood Francis W. Pickens, chosen by common consent to lead South Carolina in the greatest crisis in her history. United States Sen ator and theni Miister sto Russia, grandson of a distinguished soldier and statesman, Gen. Andrew Pick ens, of the Revolutionary army, Governor Pickens united the bril-' liance of the age in which he lived with the storied romance of times gone by. There was also, Louis T. Wigfall, one of the most polished men of his day; Chancellor Ward law Milledge L Bonham, grand seigneur of his time and later Gov ernor; Preston S. Brooks, famous for his altercation with Sumner and one of the most popular men of the day among his own. people-but why spin out the list I They were Caro liians all and although some of them had their feuds and bitter feel ings to eaeh other, death has claimed them, and we can say Nune Dimittis ver each and every one. It was among such men and in such scenes that the young Bacon rew to manhood. All the high and nnobling influences of the time were showered upon his impressionable leart. Himself born a gentleman, mrro.nded by gentlemen and gen lewomen, his lines were laid in pleasant places. "Soft eyes spake love to eyes that spoke again and all went merry as a marriage bell." But like the fateful dance at Brus sels, there was to rise a fearful morn on all that merry-hearted crew. Like a clap of thunder in a clear k.y war came. Of those distinguish d gentlemen many were left upon the field of battle and at the close f the , bloody strife, Edgefield was: alled on to mourn her bravest and est. Where had been wealth, ease, cul ure was now grinding poverty. To he war had succeded its sequelae of rapne, disorder, bad government, ad the rise of the negro to power. owhere else in South Carolina was he effect more -intense than in Edgefield. Scenes of bloodshed be ame common, in so much that the ounty lomg enjoyed an evil reputa tion, but this was an outcome of onditions. A negro United States marshal walked up behind a citizen of Edge ield with a warrant, saying, " Ii have got you.'' The reply came from a Colt 's Navy and the megro was stretched dead. For many years be tween family feuds, and riotous dis turbance, brought on by the politicali condition of the State, a condition which the high-spirited people of *he county refused to submi~t to, be the odds what they' might, Edgefield al most lived in a state of war. Gradually .thimngs changed for the better; slowly the pendulum swung back. Amid all this riot, carnage, slaughiter and upsetting of things one clear voice sounded always for! riehteousness: one man was never~ afraid: ore heart beat true to the eternal verities. The man was James T. Bacon, sans puer et sans re-. proache, a chevalier strayed from the old heroic ages. His works. now given to the world, speak for themselves. They will be found a souree of perennial delight. Some of the actors about whom he wrote have passed away, many of the scenes have changed, and youngl people of the present may not 'un derstand some of the allusions. but here will be always enough that anybody, can unnerstand, for the things he touched on1 belong to hiu man nature. which although man' ided and of divers hues, remains prctially the same, as in the dawn! of ime, "when Mrn, wakerl by the eircling hours, with rosy hand un barred the gates of light.'' Long after most of the evanescent things of the time have passed away and become nothing, leaving not even a memory, this kindly gentle man who saw truly and uttered wise ly the affairs of his day will be a possession of the race. James T. Bacon had lived to the ,end of a fruitful and honored life. Born in the first half of the 19th century, he had survived the dawn of the 20th by :nearly a decade. In the fall of the year when harvest gratified the husbandman and was gathered in for the solace and com fort of winter, as the leaves turned brown on the hills of old Edgefield, and the grass grew russet along road ways he loved so well, and the streams as is their wont ran low on their lazy course to the ocean, James T. Bacon looked his last in the faces of his loved ones and was at rest. In justice to Col. Bacon it should he remembered that he did his work in such intervals as were permitted from his ordimary journalistic labors and practically all of his work was .one in the newspapers. This has its advantages as well as its disadvan tages. ts gIreatest gain is in direet ness and freedom from verbosity. The present edition is issued by his inephew, Mr. Louis WigfaU Chat ham, who grew up under his au--le and knew him lovingly and well. This is sufficient promise of the faithful charaeter of the work, whose object, aside from its value to the public, is intended as a memorial to Col. Bacon. Indeed it is his en during monument, wrought out of the hearts and minds of his fellow men. MEN ARE AS ELPLBSS AS CILDREN When Taken Suddenly B1.-Here Is a Common-gense. Safeguard. Big, strong man is as a helpless infant when he is suddenly ill. The sturdiest chap in town usually loses his self-control, and. is utterly un able to regard his condition with the common sense that characterizes his everyday actions. For example: He comes home tired, eats a heavy dinner, and sits down to read and smoke away a uiet evening. Suddenly he notices a weight on is stomach ; then sharp pains around his heart, and a feeling of ~ffoca tios:. Thoughts of ''heart disease'' rush over him, and in his agony he fears the worst. His trouble was acute indigestion brought on by overloading his tired stomach. A couple of Dyspepsia Tablets would have given him instant, relief -would have saved him .hours of sffering. Carry a package of Rexall Dys pepsia Tablets in your vest pocket,~ r keep them in your room. Take one fter each heavy meal and indiges ion will not bother you. Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets remedy tomach troubles by supplying the oe element, the absence of which n the gastric juices causes indiges- I ion and dyspepsia. They aid the tomach to digest food and to quick y convert it into rich red blood and material necessary for overcoming~ 2atural body waste.. We know what Rexall Dyspepsia ablets are and what they will do. We guarantee them to relieve indi- ~ gestion and dyspepsia. If .they fail we will refoond your money. Three sizes: 25 cents, 50 cents and $1.00. Remember you can obtain Rexall Remedies in Newberry only at our store,-The Rexall Store. Gilder & Weeks, Main Street, Newberry, S. C. NEZWBBERY UNIION STATION. Arrival and Departure of Passenger Trains-Effective 12.01 A. M. ,Sunday January 2, 1910. Southern Railway. No. 15 for Greenville.. .. 8:51 a. mn. No. 18 for Columbia...10.58 a. m. No. 11 for Greenville.. .. .2.48 p. m No. 16 for Columbia......8.59 p. m. C., N. & L. Railway, No. 22 for Columbia.. .. 3.47 a. m. No. 32 for Greenville.. . .12.56 p. m. No'. 53 for Colum.bia. . . .3.20 p. m. *No. 21 for Laurens.. . .7.25 p. nj. * Does not run on Sunday. This time table sho'ws the times; t which trains may be expected to depart from this station, but their departura is not guaranteed and the time shown is subject to change with. out notice. G. L. Robinson, Station Master. Chamberlain 's Cough Remedy is a very valuable medicine for throat ad lung troubles, quickly relieves~ and cures painful breathing and a dangerously sounding cough which in dicates congested lungs. Sold by W. Are) Hone With your lan sake of saving you use a fe only recomme analysis. 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I returned in the afternoon, and at four o'clock I could not hold a pen cl in my hand. I returned home, Later and purchased a bottle of SIoans L.1 Linimfent and used it fivs or ik-times befMr I went to bed, and the next was able to go to work and hand as usual." Sloan's Linim-ent is an excellent anti septic and germ, killer.- heals cuts, burns, wounds and contusions, and will draw the poison from sting of. poi *sonousinsects * 2'.i00..nd $1.00' Inimm's booU, on larsest eattee - osandtmass. . -Tr EN . Si.L Work 24 Hours a Day. The bt-ie.t little things everm are Dr. King's New Life Pill. ery pill is a sugar coated globlef health,'that changes weakness i streng:h Ix ng.ioP into energy,b fag into mental power; curing Os stipat.on. i en deahe, Chills, Dyspe~ sia, Malari2. 25e. at W. E. Pelhlam?Ls Noti e NivInE that alv town vt:X f 2 - e'r- .1909, withi' the penalty which has attached must be paid on or before Januai-y 15 af ter whieh date executions willXb& placed H the h' 'de of 'he shrHE against >ll property on whiph tarisA have not been paid. V All liv".es m-st he paid on or, before January 15, after which date the nen'tt provided in the ordi nance will be imposed. Positivelv no extensions. will 'e ranted after this date. Cole L. Blease Mayer] J. R. Seur:ry. C. & T. T. C. N., S. C. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. is not e' common, every-day cough mix tre. It is a meritorious remedy ffer al the troublesome and dangerous] complications resulting from eol&in.. the head, throat, chest or lungs. NoI by W.E. 'elham 4Sonl. Wood's Early Ohio j Seed Potatoes ' are being planted in increasing quantities each year by the largest and most successful market-row ers. 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