Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PLANTATIONS OF CHARLESTON RIVAL VERSAILLES GARDENS Many of Them Still Reflect Old Worl< Charm and Create a Land of Make Believe Harvey B. Goul in Pittsburg Post. Charleston is a city surrounded b\ plantations. The wonderful sea is lands are plantations, and may <ro uj the thousand waterways, or up th< worst automobile roads in the work and there are more piantations. These plantations were and still are, the source of livelihood cf South Caro lina. When one goes to a sea island plan tation the road may be stark naked oi ! !i.L n_1 U. X L.a lined witn .rairnetMJ trues, uut ?*nti ohe goes inland, wherever the roat winds, one passes under the larges and noblest of oaks, giant splotches oJ mistletoe. An avenue reaching maj be for a mile or more, with gothit arches waving with grayish-greei naoss, is a curious sensation. Then is something uncanny about it; i feeling of "never was," and that i: the most unreal and at the same timt the realest thing that ever w? Rice Industry Lost TVioco -nlanfofirrne nil raisnrJ rir< cotton, peanuts and garden truck. Th< rice industry has been lost to Char leston, but the other agricultural pur . suits remain. Many of these planta tions are the original King's grant? drawn up by the philosopher-states man, John Loce, and given to th< Englirv aristocracy for developmen * They date from the time when th< Owners were lords proprietors, cede< and conceived in the days when thi: pftiiatrv was established on the oh leudal system of lords, yeomanry, am vassals or slaves. One may visit the Magnolia Gar dens open to the public at a fixed fee Said fee to go to the upkeep of th< garden. These magnolia or azale; gardens really are one of the flora wonders of the world. To see then in full bloom is breath-taking. All th indescribable shades of the exoti azalea ranging from an almost pa? sionaxe poppy-rea iu a vugui-wmi are there, and not one plant, but ; solid field of wall or color. It is lik a water colorists dream. One ma; rave about cherry blossom- time i: Japan but there is nothing superior t the azalea season in Charleston. Further back in the country, whicl one may approach by one of the bad rivers or by an atrocious automobil road, lies the Middleton Garden o plantation. Lfke the Magnolia Gar den it is open to the public lor a con sideration. In many respects it i superior to the former. In some rc spects Middleton is like Versailles Here we get a vista and distance. It owner was as rich as Croesus and Per Persephone must have b?n his mothei A huge swath of trees at least tw miles long was cut so that he migh have a view of the river. At th side of what was once the house bu which has since burned/down, lies th gardens composed again of gorgeou azaleas and magnolias. Like Versailles, they are laid ou i Ji 1 1.. 1. in terraces, ana mere is a lower hi* and an upper lake. Of course, whe one has hundreds of slaves, like th old Egyptians, one may shovel awa a mountain except for the fact thz there aren't any mountains. Anj way, it is easy to build huge lakes an * hew down a forest when labor is n consideration. And that is what ihes men did. They lived like lords, an* they were lords. While there wen i * 1 - 11 J 1 1? 4.^ 1L unaouoteaiy certain arawoachs lo uh old feudal system, still it had its ad vantages?at least for the owners The original planters were rich men ajid as rich men go they were th< Rockefellers and Goulds of their peri od.> Tkey came to this country rich and tfaey acquired more wealth a: they developed the land. They sup glted the world with cotton and ric*< ahd ijieijb was a time when Charles tbii- was'the maritime center of the ; v country. The planters all had iheir owr boats and when they went up t< Charleston they were rowed up. Thui it is that we get the different boal ^songs as sung and composed by ne groes. Sometimes each plantatior had its boat song. These songs cork under the head of songs of occupa tion, in which the r\lhm corresponds to the bodily movement. Thirty miles from Charleston up the Black river lies the Medway plantation. Thanks to John Bennett. th< author, and Hervey Allen, the poet we were privileged to spend thret days there. That plantation is an other world. lit is a land of make be lieve, a place of used to be, and th< home of "once upon a time." In fad there is no such thing as time on th< Medway plantation,' as it was in the - 1 1. . 17 l_ ^ beginning, is now, ana ever snan ye Father Time, weary of ihe fevers oi this world, has gone there and hum his scythe upon the oaks and lec th< procession of months go by. Time Stands Still He sat himself down in contempla tion beside one of the lakes and drow ?ily he watched the swan* and "r?>os jtev-grees," the praters ami the grande-' > i of al! grand-daddy frogs. And the; j in their turn, said, "Go to, there a-" I no seasons. All life is vain, let u bask here for an neon or two."Thus it is that Medwav is today, a it was in 1(500 when Landgrave Smitl came to the Carolinas armed with ; ; kings grant of 12.000 acres, to h-*v< - and to hold, and to do with as he joll; > well pleased. His title was Land ? | grave and he was governor of Caro 1 lina. He built himself a stone ant ? plaster house in 1 <>S2 and thai house ; stained to beautiful chrome, stil - stands and is still lived in by his de scendants. What can Ik*said of that house an< * those grounds where time ceases t: \ be? The oaks are the largest and thi I j moss is the longest in Carolina, an* tjall around it is a silence that is botl Fj soothing and disturbing. It is like ; j j Baudelaire poem and*a Toe's shor ; J story. The ''Fa!! of the House o II Usher" might have been writtei ;j there. It has Materlincklin qualitie ijthat mijrht have appealed to Debussy s' It is tragic, ghostly and unspeakabl; jj lovely, and withal it has tincture o J decay about it. It is a magnificen ! setting for a neurotic work and ye - * * i i 1.1 i I it is the healthiest place in ine worm 31 Possibly it is only the fruitage of in - finite leisure and report mellowc* - with age. Through it all sleeps Landgravi . Smith, in a4 little burial plot amons - the cedars, and shining down upo? ? j him is one ray of moonlight, whil< t' round about him the whip-poor-will jjand mocking birds sing heart-break i i ingly sweet tones. What care he^fo - '* O TITiil sj neurasthenic interspections: win i; him life is not febrile, and when h 1 j lived and stalked the land, the busi ! ness of life was a very real thin^z - There were slaves to be worked an* ,|cared for; 12,000 acres were undo 2 rice, cotton and indigo. His political were Tory and his religion the Churc 11 of England. His nearest neighbo i was twelve miles away. And ther e were his race horses and the Africa c'dwarfs he brought over.as jockeys Surely Medway plantation, for tha e was its name, was a world in itseli a Farnassus and Arrarat were the clos ! e est neighbors, and, while there wer y adjoining plantations, they were hai n'a day's ride and there were no part.v o line telephones and no R. F. I)., an inn mr>il nrdrr hr.llSPS. and SO lie ha h his family and slaves were sufficien !c unto themselves and were as isolate e' as if they had lived in a castle an r had drawn up the bridge over th - moat. - ; Plenty of Hunting s| Well, the rice growing petered on ",and while the dykes and sluiceway : imi i.i A! are sun izkmc, iin.it- ia nuuiui^, vn m s plantation but deer and alligator. and so every year the descendant: * J Augustine P. Stoney and Capi. Saj 0 Stoney, invite their friends for a dee L hunt. The hound dawgs are untethei e ed, the Yule logs cat and away the l^.go to bag the crashing buck and th e timid doe. What shall it be?terr: I is;pin, duck, grouse or venison for dir !ner? While up here in Pittsburg \v . have storage warehouse chicken. e) Stretching down in front of th n house for a distance of a mile c c more is the esplanade or mall; it rea y lv looks as if it stretched right out t the Golden Gate. Over at the sid '"'are the cabins or quarters for the m ^ groes. In the back are the descrte ?.rice fields and forests in which th e ; deer roam at will. On one side is th J l l(huge pond, where the alligators bar 5 (or moan, or whatever that curiou e sound is they make when they ca motic T V>uw> tn M?k !Yl I H!V:il IllCUtv"* A CilUU V ?.<.? ? traveling bag to find out. ? (Note for all hunting and fish in - clubs thinking of migrating. Carry i " j with you- Sahara is. moist compare * j to a Southern plantation.) These Southern-gentlemen who no> " use the plantations are a fine rate 31 They should be, as their stcc'd*: ' either pure Huguenot, old Englis * , Scotch-Irish. They stand for thing I we consider "idealistic.*' As to coin 1 (tesy and fine feeling, we would d > well to borrow some of their trad: i 5 tion?. The difference, it seems to m< t J between a Northerner and a South -1 erner is this: To the Northerner ev 1 ' ery man is to be suspected until h - finds out he can be trusted; while t - j the Southerner no man is regarde 5 suspiciously?and then the Southern | er wakes up. Personally I prefer ih >: Southern way. It is freer and a lo j more sporting. A society built on ?[ foundation of laissez-taire, to sa? >, nothing of the virtue? of savoir-faire -! is not a bad basis upon which t -! build society at large. -1 And thus it was that we left <>n of the oldest houses on the continent tj Hervey Allen cranked up his GO-foo ?, or 60-horse power motor boat (it i 1. so hard to tell which is which), ani i wo cnmp alonsr the Black rivei * i ii ? V ^ ? - - ^ t with the blue herons flying: overhead J.und the porpoises rolling: over th waves, and a lots of little boys mak ! ingr folish noises, thinking: they weri (coercing deer and moose ( is the plu -,ral for moose meese?) out into th< - open to be shot. - r^irilnly one way fo see rhnrlostoi t * is from I he river and bay. It makes y it easy lo understand why the Xorthe erner hated to resign I-Yri Sumter. BABY RESCUED FROM g| GASOLINE EXPLOSION .Movie serials have by no means any ^option <>n thrills. s;iys Manager Wells f ' of the Newberry opera house who has J just seen a preview of "A Kiss in . Time,*' a new Wanda Hawley picture j which will be shown at his theatre Thursday. ] -Not only is 'A K ss in Time." full .'of laughs," s'tys Mr. Wells, "but there is in it one of the best planned thrills } I have ever seen in all my career as >;a showman. :?! "A baby is seen playing near a \ gasoline tank wagon. A leak is car! lying the dangerous fluid along the x road for some distance, towards a l spot whore ?i carelessly thrown nnTteh f lies smouldering. The gasoline ig:i nites, and the flames run back toward ? : tiie wagon. Just before it gets to the . I tank the hern rushes in, grabs the ba ^ by an;i ire is it to safely before the f tank explodes. t| "Audiences can ahvays.be counted t'on to be interested in a baby, and the suspense in this episode is excel_ lent.- It must have taken real nerve, j ! however, for the actor, T. Hoy Bornes j to put over the stunt in the face of ? such actual dancer. The force of the j' explosion knocks him to the ground. 1 All in all it is a really big scene, and 2 lends a certain dignity and substans | tiality to what might otherwise be _! dubbed a merely frothy comedy." r! i "JUST PALS" NEW FOX PLAY WITH BUCK JONES e ? - .1 117!!!! T?*.. { Euck Jones in me winiam rw.\ j production "Just Pals," a drama of i the wheat country from a story by I i 'John McDermott, is announced as the s .j feature attraction Monday at the opr 1 era house. The scenes are laid in a small town e i on the border-line of the wheat and .'cattle countries. It deals with the >. J ; nf fi /ipipf.fo,] "nobody." a boy j- 11 ? V. O v/x *. v ^ j ^ ~ , . |waif arid a beautiful school teacher, "iwho become united through circumistances that constitute what has been c j described as a most appealing story. ! Buck JoJnes is seen in the part of I J3im, the "nobody*'?a ne'er-do-well (j who at heart is courageous and chiv . wuo. Jack Ford is the director and the (j, cast includes familiar names. M|H? Newi From St. Philips This seems to be a strange year as the cool vwf.her still continues. The farmers are about to finish hoc'si in.'j; their cotton for the first time. ?j The ball game between Mollohon Van! St. i'lulips last aaiuruay was <i 5? j tijiht one although very interesting as n St. Phillips was successful in winning:, r j the score being: 5 to 6. St. Phillips, ;'*.if nothing: prevents, will try West y End. They will play on West End e diamond. And the third Saturday l" j they arc expecting: to play Caidwell '" on the Caldwell diamond, e fr.?. ccmhi ;md bottle drinks were I soli! last Saturday for the benefit of :C,Si. Phillips ball team. ,rl Last Saturday aft(frnoon the Wo1 man's Missionary society of St. I'hil0 lips church met with Mrs. J. W. Lome inick. The meting was well attended " by the members and several visitors ^ A very interesting program was car^ ried out. A beautiful soio was sung " ' " ? - . t v , t>y 1V11SS'Anilll' vju^ciuii. ?? V. ?.?*. k pleasure of entering the name of Mrs. ls G. H. Sllgh as a member. After the N.'meeting delicious cake, tea cakes and y ice tea were served. The noxt meet, ing will be hold with Misses Daisy and ?: Cora Wicker. ;t | Mr. and Mrs. II. H. Ruff and daughj tors and Mrs. M. R. Ruff and G. II. ! Ruff spent Sunday afternoon with iV Mr. and Mrs. "Buck"' Taylor of ' Prosperity. 51 Mr. G. H. Sligh and Mr. Major Ruff tlin vncnvil An rjit.fhinsr * .Iiavv Ml V/X\V 11 UP jv M V-.. - ?i coolers as they caught twelve last : week. 0 G. H. R. ; ! -%j Oh!?A famous actress was at a , big reception. She was asked by her " host to recite something. She could e think of not lying to suit the occasion 0 i and begged to be let off with a sh->rt " selection in her native language. :*! Her audience could not understand L": a word, but were enthralled by her *i gestures and tones..She received trei ;ij mendous applause. *1 Just before the guest went, iter ' 'hostess said: ''Do tell me what vou 0 vocit ??!?.'* j "It has no name," said the actress. L>"I was counting from 1 t'.> 230?in ! Polish." On the Square.?"\\ c had (juite a <1 game up to the boarding house last 'ji night." .j "Poker?" j "Xo. The landlady was going to - lick one of the boys for not paying e j his board, I tried to checker, the -j jumped me, crowned him and :old u^ l' : both to move." j "I>i<i you do it?" i! ' ( i TEACHERS WANTED i The trustees of Silvo; street sclooi 'will receive applications fo-* three; j teachers, principal and two assistants, : until June 11)21. I'r: ;:>:* 1 sal! ary !>1<M) per month ami assistants t'ach ?li() per niontli. Term ciuht 1 I months. II. C. Xeel, i ll*!!:, S:iwv! street, S. C. .">-2i-t<l NOTICE JURY DRAWING. , Notice is hereby l'Vhi v.v, [ ilie undersigned Jury ( 'oinMissin!;ci" for Newberry, wii! .-it !' <>< !";-k ;i. m., (June ! 7th.. in I he Clerk of Court's of ! j A Caiifor | St. Phiilij 1 TT U j May, J? j i For Benefit of St. f i I Admission - ! i A fine play by So and enjoy the ev? help us to fit up < that we may go f I i u.s The same St built into U into U. S. T 2 5* ; L. C. GXNER, K\ SERVICE SEKVIC DRUG COMFAN" li"f, o|><-r:!y | :: : !; \v lh*. . ; -v?. .-? of : ' y to sitv? a.! ivi-j .*/.? .. (' MiOTi Picas ;UM i! S'v'S>li>in whif'ri covvrvI'! oYim'k a. in. .iulv :iii, .J. !' \V I; i:! i.tU, 15. ISA !.!'A< KK. c. c. -.'in .Mi'KUT. .1 tsry ' ???>!iiii' .-v.*- to.* Nnvlicrr, i I'dUiiiy. Neuralgia, Sprains.?Adv. To break a cold take GGG.?Adv. 'HIS.- Ross 3S School f) C.QA p M Vj Ootll? i . iJi. hiilips Baseball Team 15c .and 25c' cal talent. Come . * 1 sning witn us ana aur ball team so orth to victory. I 1 . TUBES andard of quality . S. Tires i3 put uaes. % ? t v.^ p* > "F:~.d the U. S.Tirr with the full, com; sizftl line ?r {:<.$!> U. S. ? a 8 isP\4L _ _a?L? ..i?* -sat -j ?KMK art Cf? narcis, 3. C.; CANNON AU; O '?, WhitrnireS. C.; J. M. NlCH if, Pcmaria, , S. C. . I ; i Gibbes.gr am Does "Every ! >' it Job Is f;K'ili!i' t Paint i Guaranteed I Mwrpas? Wit Gbbe J I I ? To Holder: COT! \\Y liavc v p-vmU<vl*-ie working ' 'for letter ( <H) without obii Service ROSE & Cotton Bro 24 Stone St. Ij ' : I ,I.MJ 1-1 - urn .'>n.u ..air wwmjt-rjgrrrrzaxr--tx* sr *? ? \ ^ ^ ^ J \7"0IJ probably know a. man v X hobby with him. He knows the best little old car there is of it< And he'll stand up for that ze world in any kind of an argument -> ;!e Year by year an increasing ni feel tne sdme way about U. S. For a while they may try " "bargains,*' "big discounts*' and But usually it doesn't take lon^ sense the economy of the standar For years U. S. Tire makers ha fng quality tires ior sane tire users of medium or light weight no les: heavy car. The tire buyers of the land he with a mighty U. 2. Tire follow, * * * The U.S. lire msi-:e: sponsibiiity for suppiyir , wide following with /? energy. V \ :jL* N inety-two L'.S.F ac J> : are established, coveri / V ; >' ^ countrv.. C--.'A ' * ?' Find the U. S, Tin ; r-i-"jc fh.- 'ntpntion of will know him by his V si.^ed line of fresh, livt quality first, and the ibt of size, tread and type gest cities of the land. ^ Ru er yoop* SERVICE, N cv/berry, S. C.; P< OLS, S'lverst rcet, S. C.; McC vni^^llj^ mrr^**''^?WWLi _ WD Your Car Need Painting? 11<HSfinl ll to us -our s !' ?; handiinj.: Repair, r.i'l Trim Work arc un''(1 in South Carolina. te Us For Prices v s Machinery Co. Columbia, S. C. C^PB ' ?-"r"*T*111T?nrT^T 5 of ON plan to offer you. Write iirntion on your part. SON kers New York \ ? ^a-tc/^gvvmju. WWW* ?mm 1 men Hi iF* SStBBBU&d ^hose car is a jest why it's 5 class. ir against the i imber of men Tires. job lot" stuff, rebates.'' ,r for a man to d quality tire. ve been build;?for the car 3 than for the ive responded 'ing. Ill *s meet the re- % . . . / this nationcharacteristic tory Branches ng the entire s dealer who \r nngyou iuu all. completely ? U. S.Tires-*same choice as in the big ioy 1 DM ARIA ULLOUGH J)