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v ? \ 1 3> <8> <S#Y-WAYS OF STATE HISTORY^ <$> <?> ^ The End of the Trail, <? <? ?? By J. W. Daniel, D. D. <$ j In S. C. Advocate ?> <?> It has been erroneously said that tfefere is no allusion in any reputable history to Cateechee, the captive sfeve girl of Keeowee, who saved the weak settlement of Ninety-Six from destruction by the Cherokee Indians. TJloro is })nworor nno roforonco from a very worthy source that sfeould ohallenge our attention. I reft* to Logan's history of Upper South I Carolina, f)age 285. Mr. Logan, speaking of the decline of the peaceable disposition of the Cherokees through the corrupting influence of unprincipled white traders among tljfem, says: "In the latter periods, however, when both Indians and white men had sadly degenerated from their former h&rdy virtue, the endangered trader w*s much oftener indebted for his safety to the devotion and cunning of his corrupt Indian mistress. Many rahantic instances of this kind could bff related. There is one connected tradition, with the historv of old ">r ' t J 1 v Nfc?ety-Six which w* will relate in its proper place/' Unfortunately, Mr. Logan never cfjnpleted his charming story of CJpjfpr South Carolina and, doubtless, far that reason, he Hid not write intn his first volume the legend of the heroic Indian maid who gave NinetySix its name and saved the weak settlement from massacre by the Cher***"" o&ees. ./* ? r -r> 11li? 19 8+ftMT A + .IQuliflof >-1,- 4k MAW AW VUV WWVA J 4 A V K ilV VAiUVOV '"'- "* period of the first settlement of ' Ninety-Six, probably between 1740 aa|d 1750, the son of an Indian trader accompanying his father into the eotmtry of the Cherokees, came to love a beautiful Indian girl, who was enslaved to Caruga, an Indian chief a# Keeowee. The girl was a ('hoct*w, and had been captured by thej old chief m one of his forrays against tne Choctaw warriors. She pecame "Wltrmly attached -to har young lover! wfw resided with his father at NinetySfcr. At some time just prior, most probably, to 1750. the Cherokees determined to sack the settlement and afessacre the settlers. The captive s$pve girl heard of the plot and determined to s4ve her young lover fpom murder. "Therefore, one night sfoe stole away from Kseowee, mount / ea an inuian pony, ana roue a ruin j J$peowee to the settle:neit where her Iftver resided, and betrayed to him the secret plot to destroy the few settlers j %aad rob them of their goods. It is saidj t|zat she made the heroic ride in about twelve hours and put the settlers on guard, thwarted- the , design of the Cherokee warriors, and remained with her lover until both were subsequently captured and carried back to Keeo"W?e. After several years of captivity ' t$iey made their escape and returned to the settlement of Ninety-Six. One mile creek, Six-mile mountain, Twelve-mile river, the Eighteen-mile creek,'Three and Twenty creek, and Sftx and Twenty creek arid NinetySix were all respectively those distances from Keeowee. They afe alii ?<u move ucch n<smpu lit foiaiueni-1 p oration of the captive Choctaw maid's J heroic ride to save her lover. la my investigation of the legend; I became convinced that it was more tradition?that it was a realhistoric fact. I shall, therefore, produce the evidence of its validity and l&ave the reader to draw his own con"T I elusions as to whether or not it is: worthy of our credence. Having been reared within twenty ' miles of old Ninety-Six, the writer ^inew of the tradition from earliest childhood, it having been related to him by his father and mother, who were ootn residents irom cnudnooa in the vicinity of the old town. His 7 father was born in 1811. His life, therefore, extended back to within sixty-one years of the middle of the eighteenth century, 1750, just about; the time the heroic ride of the Indian! nitid is said to have taken place. He j had heard the tradition related by old i whpn hp was a small hnv as an incident that no one at that date doubted. Mr. Logan, a most schol' arly man, a resident of the old Ninety-Six community, and a school teacher, as we have already seen alludes to the tradition and promises to record it somewhere in his incompleted work. It would have been interesting, indeed, had Mr. Logan, who was so intimately associated with the ' r?1H of tho Vi'npfv.^iv fnm. I munity, all of whom knew the tradi-! tion and never doubted >t, been spared t? fulfill his promise. In the year 1880 I was in the hor.ie * of Col. Robins who iived within a short distance of the site of the rIndian town, Keeowv. Mr. liobiris was a most repucatb gentleman of the old school and possessed a lemarkable memory relative to the old traditions of the early settlement of Pickens and Ocor>ee counties. He was born in 1800 and had known the fraHifir?n frnm parlies*", childhood. He had been told it i>y his father, to whom it had been told by the earliest settlers, but also by the last remaining Cherokees of Oconee county. They all explained the names of the creeks and Ninety Six in connection with the ride of the Indian ma:J to save her pale-face lover. In the early autumn of IS79 I spent the day in the homo -?t \lrs. Norton, the then .aged mother of the late Judge J. J. Norton of Waihalla. Mrs. Norton, who was a very inteMigent woman, lived or> the Oconeo side of the Keeowee river and in almoei rifle shot of the old Indian town of Keeowee. She was the daughter of Col. Gresham, who owned large landed interests in Oconee county. He entertained Wm. Gilmore -Simms at his home for weeks (see Wigwam and Cabin) and, Simms says, entertained him most pleasantly with many traditions of the early settlement of the county, some of which Simms recorded. Mrs. Norton related to me the tradition of the Indian maid and its relation to the streams an Ninety-Six. She told me the name of the maid, Cateechee, and said the traditional meaning of the name was "The Dear's Head," also that she was a Choctaw slave girl. She had gotten her information from her father. Col. Gresham was a very intellicentleman and honored in his day. He O -7- rr7-r- - - . sold twenty-five thousand acres of Oconee land to the German colony that settled Walhalla, generations ago. Gen. Sam McGowan was born and Teared in Laurens county in-the vicinity of old Ninety-Six. In '77 or '78 I heard this distinguished jurist and Confederate hero, in a speech at Walhalla, advocating the completion of the old Blue Ridge railroad to tt "11 m 1 i.1 iwioxviiie, lenn., renearse cue suuij of Cateechee's ride, showing the fact that the Columbia and Greenville railroad from Ninety-Six to Belton and the Blue Ridge road from Belton to Pendleton followed Cateechee's trail, and argued that these pioneers of the forest, the Cherokees, sought out the best grade when they made paths and that, therefore, the old Indian trail through the Rabun Gap was the most direct and the most feasible route across the mountains. So it must be conceded that the tradition of the maid of Keeowee has been sustained from the most trustworthy and intelligent sources. So much for the tradition. But is this well established tradition wort'hy of a credence beyond and above the misty atmosphere of traditional lore? The writer thinks so from the following deduction. (To Be Continued) A Prize Winner Mrs. Odalite J. Wallace, daughter of Mt1. and Mrs. William Johnson of this city won first prize, $25, in a content through the Charleston News & Courier, the contest ending last week. From the nature of the contest, and the many contestants, ,the winning of this pries is well worth cheriihing by the recipient and she is being congratulated upon her success. The content is fully explained in a notice below from the News and Courier of the i'.h instant, which contains valuable information for the benefit of the public, which it would be well for all to study. Mrr. Wallace received a letter from the management which we take pleasure in reproducing here, but we contend that she was right in the instance in which she was regarded ai Dcmg wronf. She tyrote a given sentence in one advertisement thus: "Neither water nor wer.ther can affect NertJe Wave tresses." They churned that "affect" should have been written "effect," which is net right in that sense. Following is a copy of the letter: 18 Broad St., Charleston. S. C. March 3rd, 1921. Mrs. Odalite J. Wallace, 1237 Calhoun Street, Newberry, S. C. Dear Mrs. Wallace: We take pleasure in enclosing you herein our check for $25.00, you having won the first prize in our page of presidents contest. Col. George Martin, who handled this contest for us, told us that it was not often that a contestant has only one mistake, as war, the case in your answers, and while there were several others who only had two mistakes, yours is the only case in which there was only one mistake. It may interest you to know what your mistake was. It occurred in your turning for Madame Gibbes' Beauty parlor the word "effect," j v 'which you will see is not misspelled, : instead of the word "curley," and I which should have been spelled "cur|ly~ J ; Please acccpt our congratulations, 1 and with best wishes we beg to re-1 i main, Yours very truly, J The News and Courier company, i per: (Signed) R. 0. Seigling. | The News and Courier's article is! ,as follows: I ! ?- Newberry Lady Wins the Prize The "Page of President" has again j created great interest and replies; i came in every mail during the period j j of the contest until they amounted to j j hundreds. 4 . j The advertisers received postal j cards and letters from practically' * n j- - cc > i every town ana smai; postoaicu jiui, j only throughout South Carolina, butj some from Georgia and North Car- j olina, telling that their advertisement j was read. After going over each re-; ply very carefully, and checking the j mistakes, it was found that Mrs. Oda- j lite J. Wallace, 1237 Calhoun street,] Newberry, had the nearest correct answer, with only one mistake. She said that only six served two terms { and gave the right names. Most everybody thinks George Washington icarvo/l tivn fprms. hut. hp did not: hd served only seven years, ten months and four days. This lady is to be congratulated upon answering that question, as only a very few even answer it correctly, and when some claim only six served two terms, they will name Washington and leave Cleveland out. The contest created qujte a diversion, and many of the readers of The News and Courier know more about the presidents of the United States than they ever knew before the advent of this interesting feature. The intentionally misspelled words were: Extravagence, evrything, fone, j telaphone, quallity, survice, mor- j gages, diziness, garantee, curley, clame, satisfactory, promply, wastes, streat, curtsey, buisness, porteers, j fastideous, depositers, especialy, pat- { erns, surve, fone, scientificaly, bet-! tur, administrater, polisy. j Many of the replies showed deep study, and that they were compiled i with cjirii nr?H miirii thnncht. Thp j con test editor wishes to thank all who j helped to make the page a success, , and feels that The News and Courier i \ can congratulate itself on having given its readers and advertisers a feature that proved that it had a real purpose. Many mistook the words "specialty, mete, distributers," for ronie of the intentionally misspelled words, but they were not?they can be found ! in Webster's dictornary with a definition. Contest Manager's note: There! was only ono with ono mistake, five ; I with two mistakes, and six with three { 1 fhpn r>11 thf> ivnv tr? Ihirhv-! . two mistakes. One claimed five had been assassinated, W. H. Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Lincoln. Garfield and McKinley. One said Wilson wasj elcctcd from Washington. Many said j I hs was elected from Virginia, where 1 he was born; Lincoln from Kentucky I where he was born, Taylor from ; Kentucky where he was buried, several claimed Grant was elected from j District of Columbia, when in fact . ni national officer could have b?c,i j ' i -i-i i* IL _ _ r r* ! | eicciea irom ir.e j-Msmci 01 ^uiuni-1 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrnammmmmm1? ! I I Do you ma toe ofatrviiie davls free fronTfatigi For those who strength and e: .ic til | ACS j This sturdy bl< i wheat and ma rich in the ve: | required to bi> tam health an i I ! 7? ! ' Econor Made by Postum Cereal C Sold by Grocet i i y bia, two or three claimed Benjamir Harrison from Ohio where he was born. One claimed -John Adams was * ' i ** IT- i.i r\ i. eiecien irom Virginia, anowier uraut from New York. One said W. H Harrison was clccted from Indiar territory. Even one claimed Jeffer son Davis as one of the presidents ol the United States. Many claimec Lincoln, McKinley, Roosevelt anci Wilson served two terms. If you want to know about the presidents oi the United States?just ask a few how many men have been president of the United States?note the an swer. t Schedule of Passenger Trains Effec tive 12:01 A. M., Sunday, January 30, 1921. Southern, No. 15, for Greenville due at 8: 48 a. m., daily. due at 12:30 p. m., daily. due. at 10:11 a. m., daily excepl due at 8:25 p. m., daily. Southern, No. 17, for Greenville due at 3:40 p. m., daily. Southern, No. 18, for Columbia Southern, No. 16, for Columbia C.. N. & L.. No. 55, for Columbia Sunday. C., N. & L., No. "52, *f or Greenville due at 1:00 p. m., daily. C., N. & L., No. 53, for Columbia due at 3:38 p. m., daily. C., N. & L, No. 54, for Laurens duo at 6:10 p. m., daily except Sunday. C., N. & L., No. 12, Mixed train for Laurens, due at 9:30 a. m., running one hour and 30 minutes lati account A. C. L. connections, expect o/l oKaiif 1 1 -Afl u m &U OUVUV X X IVV M* M*I C., N. & L., No. 13. 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I haven't had* any trou ble since ... I sure can testify to th< good that Cardui did me. I don'i think there is a better tonic mad< and I believe it saved my life." For over 40 years, thousands of wo ? ' A ? a- < men nave usea uaraui sutxussi.uujr in the treatment of many, womanlj ailments. If you suffer as these women did take Cardul. It may help you, too. At. all druggists- E 85 * -TIT I ji n?t^S' ; work nA J? lack reserve ' nergy m,T ,a.~ =r*ius ie ideal food. I ?nd of whole I! Ited barley is f ry elements ( n -I o s ma ana mainid strength. ; -Easy) to Digest nical I * o.,Inc.,Battle Creek,Mich. f s Everywhere if ESTATE NOTICE jte ; The creditors of the estate of W.1 tc F. Coats, deceased, are hereby noli-! at 5 fied to render to the undersigned, oriel > their Attorneys, Dominick & Work- tl . i man, at Newberry, S. C., an account t( j ] of their demands duly attested, arid all persons indebted to .-'aid estate |r are notified to make payment like-' J. ' wise.' [ CLEORA I}. COATS, i Administratrix, i 1 ' J. GETTIS COATS, 1 Administrator, j J Chappells, S. C. r ! t ^ ^ . ^ ^ ^ ? like Castor Oes? j then why make them take it? Why cling to the old idea that a medirine must he unnleasant in order to be good? Dr. Miles' 1 > Laxative Tablets i TASTE LIKE CANDY j a t iirtr nn a nn i rtL-1 LilVL i?inUl\/ j The best authorities say j thzit their main ingredient "accelerates the peristalsis in the same way as castor oil." Good for children and adults. , Get a box at your drug'store. ; I A few doses G56 break a cold.? Adv. NOTICE QF FINAL SETTLEMENT Notice is hereby given t.'int the undersigned will make final settlement J ef the estate of Godfrey Himnn, s deceased, in the Probate Court for ; Newberry County, South Carolina, on Monday, the fourth day of April, 1921, at 11 o'clock in tho forenoon and will immediately thereafter apply to the said Court for leic tv i'' J ''' ' ' Vv * A'Z 4 ' ' V'"' ? - - ' ' I ' - ? - " , I ' . ' . i t r--. :-' : , i . ' , - - . 3 .:> i \ Paii 1. '* . > *' i}.a r . _ ' ! ' I I '' ! M i ;i ! ~ 3 Any surface that is covered and will pot dee ; ; and saves the cost of fr< fn 'Vf : \, ; :v hi - i ' > ' ' .j'r I : ' . - ' ? > . ,< . f , ? f ! .>.' '' < ' ,' - ;'V>: p vy.-v.v'' f "' "The Ne P?."' - 4 W or write t L ts dismissory. All parties indebted > the said estate will make immedi-'I ;e payment. All parties holding I aims against said estate will present . le same, proved as required by law, , > the undersigned or their attorneys, ; lease & Blease, Newberry, S. C., y said time, and all claims not pre- ' ?iited will be forever barred. HAKUIKT F. HARM AN, < *.^vt r ii-i TT t 4 XT J117 L 1^1 Hi >l Execut rices. : j THOMAS J. HARMAN, GODFREY D. HARMAN, J. W. HA KM AX, !Exccutors. owherry, S. i, [arch 1, 11)21 taw it ! i OTfCE TO ROAD WORKERS. All persons liable to do road duty i nd who do not pay the Comniuta- [ on Tax of six dollars by March 15th ; i?xt will be required to do six days j :bor 021 the public roads of the ounty. To all licenses not ] 15th day of March th< order of the Town C ' ten per cent. Come ; censes and save annoj penalty. J. V ' -c giwaw m n?e wtawrrwtr?sragBMMWMMK?a i ii 11 r??c? imiiii tjwgr??w?K'i To all delinp of the Town Ey order of- the r tions will be issued March upon all taxes Do not allow this a: be added. J. V cii / 'V-, 7,\ ' " } d $i;'**'// *?, ;" < '"/ f$ ffi ?> ' '*,/ ! <, " V ' * , ' / ' i''s ' <?' #'V ? & ' ' Xi - * ' ' - - ^ : - ' ^ *" fc:?:$<'y':::::y'^ .. _ > " '^ ': ''' ''*' ' / GVdd Enddecay, keeps^ oi ' . ' ' ;"': and bright for a and looks weiik : bility is 'thfrxkeqik 9 - , iX;|r- f i/ ^ " "/ ':7V>> ' farm that'needs ; enameled, varnis 'djs>\ way, there is a C especially for th: We have them arest Glidden ] he Glidden Co., Clevelan it* || i GEO. P. BOULWARE, Chairman. VIarch 3, 1921. MOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT I will make a final settlement of he estate of Mrs. A. T. Brezcaie in iie Probate Court for Newberry L'ounty, S. C., on Monday, the 14th lay of March, 1921, at 10 o'clock in he forenoon and will immediately thereafter ask for my discharge as Administrator of said estate. Al! persons holdm? claims against said estate will present the same, proved as retired ??y law, and claims % not presented will be forever barred. Ml persons indebted to said estate will make immediate payment. A. T. BREAZBALE, \ Qualified Administrator. Newberry, S. C., Feb. 7th, 1921. I C F* A TkaS 1-J paid oh or before the sre will be added, by ouncli, a penalty of and take out your lii ? /? ll jance ana cost ot tins V. CHAPMAN, lerk and Treasurer. ??a???? 'lit (ax cavers ? r-v of Newberry lown Council execuon the 15th day of unpaid on that date. ? j x - 'jit \ anoyance anci cost to i 7. CHAPMAN,. ;. J 3i'k and Treasurer. j ?????? 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