Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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m ? ? ?III ? n I III I tm m tmmmm<?tm BY-WAYS OF STATE HISTORY Their Daily Bread Dr. J. W. Daniel in Southern Christian Advocate. Our progenitors in the Piedmont lived on wholesome food, though it did not come to them in sanitary packages it was clean. When the Colonists first came to Virginia tVy found the Indians cultivating corn and from the first settlement of the country it came to be the most universally used article of food among I*1"!-* ^ ^ iio In/] - HIC JCIUCIS. i net aan hu n ans covered the green ears with the shuck, in hot embers, then ate them. The settlers did likewise and called Them "roasting-ears." The savage? also taught them how to boil the dried grain in lye-water filtered through wood ashes, wash it till the husk came off, then boil it till thoroughly cooked and they called it "big hominy." They also observed the savages as they pounded the dry grain in stone mortars, then taking the powdered meal moistened it with water and formed it into a round loaf, then covered it in hot embers to cookit. Many white settlers learned the .art and cooked these cakes on their own hearth-stones and called them "ash-cakes." The cooking utensil: cf the Colonists were limited; however, necessity is always the mother, of invention, and they improved the savage method cooking the corn dough;, they spread it on the blade of a weeding hoe and laid it on live coals and called it "hoe-cake." Indian corn came, therefore, to be the most wholesome article of food in the world, a food which nourishes the whole man. The Scotch pioneer? substituted corn meal for their native oat-meal, boiled it. adding a little salt, to the consistency of a thick gruel, then covered it with milk and ate it, while warm, with a spoon from a bowl. They called it "mush." The simple meal of milk and mush, eaten for supper, contributed much to their good digestion and robust health. The pioneer in a few minutes could, with his trusty rifle, bring down a fat buck and with hot corn cakes and venison could make a good meal. The flesh of the deer was also dried by hanging it over their broad cabin fire-places. They ate it as we eat our chipped beaf. They also learned the art of drying pumpkins by thrusting sticks through the pared i atmaamKmrnmrnammmmmammmmammmmmmmmammmmttamm Pure Small Grain and Grown b 1 KIA r ? ,UlUV7d 1W v< Buy your small gr who is specializing i and rye. Not a seed of cott< farm this year and I shels small grain. I have three variet Hammond, the be: j The Hundred Busl The regular old R< All rich and grade Abbruzzi rye, S2.5 | May wheat. S2.00. H.O. Newber We have cliei lend money in ui on highly impro> residence proper! Newberrv. Loans--$2,500 Inierest-7 per Tillman, Mays / w Afto Greenwood, I s'ices and laying them under sh-lter. J. also dried oushels ot w-i : iruil and p:\served every winter iiuuni liv ol" wain its, hickory mus and chestnuts. Few foods mv move healthful and nourishing than the>e wild nuts. They .sat around their cabin hearthstones and ate them at night. It was a happy occasion repeated every night through a large part of the year. There is an interesting little bit of history clustering about our little word Hall our old Saxon ]) ogenitors followed war and the chase principally for a livelihood. X'irht with them was a time of social feasting. At the close of the day they gathered from the chase, war and tile lield into a crude building they called The All; ihere they rehearse] the de:ids and experiences of the day and feasted on the game they had bugged. Customs changed, the definite article The was dropped and All aspirated became Hal!. The social associations, nowever, sua cling to the word. The cabins of our Piedmont progenitors were really .The All. The father and sons of the ehc.:-e and the field gathered there and the nuis supplied the place of books and magazines?they were all there, no clubs to attend, no business engagements to meet and no social functions to attend, therefore, the center of their social life was The All. All the European vegetables hsd been transplanted in America iong before the settlement of Piedmont. Carolina. They had, therefore, ncas, beans, cabbage, artichiKos, carrols, and turnips, in fact all the vegetables l.~ v m?Annov? vo?*Jnnnv ivuu v>ii l 11 tiiv: i^uiu.yca:i ,^;uvuvi) w'.th many new varieties discovered in America, Irish potatoes, corn, seewee beans and tomatoes, though they did not eat the tomato till about 1630. Up to that time it was i%garded as poisonous as the plant was a variety of the deadly night-shad*. They cultivated it as an ornament:' plant and called it The Love Anplv. It was a South American plant ::i ! originally grew in the vicinity 01 ir. ^ Andes and was introduced into Norc. America by the Spaniards. The South American Indians called the plant Tomatl. The European fruits had also been introduced and many of the first apple, peach and pear trees were brought as scions all the way from Pennsylvania and Virginia in the wagon? of the emigrants. There was ali ! Seed Acclimated y a Farmer Who muu. ain seed from a man n raising oats, wheat m was planted on my raised over 5.000 buies of oats: earlv oat. i lei oat. 3d Rust Proof, d at 75c per bushel. !5 per bushel. LONG rv s r A J ) I I I nts who wish to nlimited amounts ,red business and lv in the Town of aS and up. cent. & Fealherstone rneys South Carolina I so a var.ety oi j?Iliiii ltou ;; 1 >y me Indians that became a lav.nte with the colonists, the Chickasaw i'iu.n. Adair speaks i>: tn* so piums as yrowin.<r in <rreat pr. fusion. The (.'hakasav.s had a tradition that this plum was brought by their fathers l'rora th" South, probably from Mexico as it is conceded that tiiese Indians originally emigrated from Mexico. The plum still survives. The "Horse-apple*' as it was familiarly called became, very early in ihe history of the colonists. a favorite. It is s.iid tu have been developed in Northern Virginia b\ a gentleman named Hoss, a progenitor of the late Bishop Hoss of the Methodist church, therefore, its name, though somewhat corrupted. There was a species of crab-apple from which they made cider. Almost every home had a crude cider press and the bever.igc was kept cool and fresh in their iog milk houses ever the springs. Quantities of fruits were dried in the sun and the wive* of the old pioneers ami their descendants for several generations (and even now in many sections of the country) were adepts a* making delicious tarts and pies Poultry and the domestic animal. thrived, and milk, butter and "egg: were plentiful. The settlers of lower Carolina di( not make such large use of corn a.the Piedmont people, they had nc Roasting ears, that is. they did not. and do nor to this day. call the greet; corn by that name. Xeverthless the} ate it, ami called it "Mutton corn.' A leg of mutton and a dish of gree: peas was a proverbial English din ner. The coastal settlers soon learn ed to substitute green corn for green peas and ate it with their leg of mat ton. Most people in the Piedmon do not know just exactly what thf low countryman means by his "Mut ton Corn" and is inclined to smil; when they hear it, just as they smiL when the low-country man say. chunk for cast or throw. It is re markable how these provincialism: develop in territories so close togeth er. Mills soon sprung up and when and corn were ground into flour am meal. The mills, however, were no always near, sometimes the pionee had to haul his grain many mile, across the country or carry it it racks on horse-back. The trip to th? nearest mill frequently consume, wo or three diys; therefore, mos ? Ml 1 T 1 _ mill nouses nau a ivvui uuaun-u ia ihe mill, or in its vicinity, where th* patrons spent the night, camp-fash ion, while waiting for their fiour an; meal. '"First come first served" wa ihe miller's adage and the rule Around the hearthstones of the pub lie rooms the old settlers from differ ent settlements met and exchangei the news and spent the time socially while waiting for their grist. Tnes old rooms were real trysting place where former neighbors and friend met and told each other the happen ings in the various settlements, set arated kinsmc heard from each ot'n er, deaths and births were learnet of. success and misfortunes were re lateu and from that point the new traveled in every direction so tha the folks at homo awaited the com j_T. _ ... ... __ . v . i .... i ing oi me memoers wno naci gone i< the mill as anxiously as we look fo, the morning papers. They orough the news with them. Their home grown food was fres! and sound, their cut-(ioor life whet ted their appetites and gave then good digestive organs; therefore they were healthy and robust. Tht doctor, even if he haa been available was rarely needed. There were feu doctors and their places were sup plied by self-constituted practition ers who had learned the virtue medical plant? that g.'ew everywhere in the forests. Tonics were made of dogwood roots and w:!:i-chorry bark sassasfras tea was u.??l to enrich r.h< blood, boneset tea 1 < 1 mv'.'oin wore used for colds. Th?ir domestic rem edies were successful. mi so much from the fact that w.ve o.ie-li| cal virtues in them as that the people were hardy an i healthful ant needed little medicine of any kind. They thought little ;bout medicine and. therefore, rarj-'y needed iv. They never thought of gettTn.i.; ;icland, therefore sickness r:i:re. OLD HAIR TRUNKS AMD MAHOGANY DESKS i ____ : Dr. J. V\T. Daniel in Southern Chris1 tian Advocate. j A woman's headgear is always interesting, even to tne man who pays for it, as weil as to tne man vno simply observes its mechanism. Jo:m Pory. as we have already sa.d, c1)! served his "cowkeepcr' with :.pjcial ; interest in hor flaming silk dress am! the ex-collier's wife's rough beaver hat. Tiu-.se two women of the humb'.r sort. naturally lovcci though they lived on the bonier of America's unexplored wilds, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, as early as 16:'I. ft is a* natural foi , a woman to dress as it is for flowers i to bloom in sprin.;-timv. - ::i:ly ' iiU'.i' iiOtOiS. iu my Oil 11 unx.* >*. >. ;v sjvt:.;. parts i>i stiaw hat:, crowr.s and brims. with bits <- L* faded j".l)l>ons stjil auai-ln vl u> ihcin. I ti'.; not know why tiu-v were pre.-vtv*.! unless it was in memory ol days of ; Auld Lanjr Syne. They siii'.<re.;ied t;> me, however, tlr bit of the story 1 jam trying; to write. Italians in Tu>jeanv grew these verv straws, cut I " - . .. T. , . , i them green and ooautnuiiy oieacruj | theiv. with great care for they knew j that there were heads in America i itching for them, 110 matter what ! they cos:. These Leghorn straw hats were cheap however when compared with Commodes and Beavers. The Commodes, worn by the colonial dames and damsels, were at least a foot high, covered with aigrets, os-: trieh plumes and costly ribbons. In 1742 Leghorn straw hats were advertised in the coioniai papers ranging in price from fifteen to twenty ::hii-j lings, or roughly speaking from four 1 :o thirteen dollars in our money. We have already seen .that milk-maid in Virginia wore a rough beaver with aj bejeweled band. Beavers cost from four to six pounds apiece in England. I doubtless they were higher when ex- i ported to America, yet they were worn at a cost of from not less than' twenty dollars up to Thirty. He who; thinks that our colonial progenitors were less fond of costly headgear; than the women of today does not, :hink in accord with the facts of his-! ;ory. In New York, Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina very cost-; y headgear was worn by women, j Fhere were many Cavaliers settled! especially in South Carolina and Virginia. There was no Puritanical restriction in dress in these colonies. The Cavaliers inherited their prcdis- j icsition to costly dress from their j 'athers across the Atlantic. Theiri dress was a kind of badge of the class j o which they belonged. They seru-j pulously held to the practice of their j fathers in personal apparel as in other matters. The colonists of Maryar.d, especially with those on the i . oasts of Virginia and South Caro-j ina were much given to wearing line, clothes. Many styles of hats with ;'old bands and costly feathers were in vogue both for men and women. \s early as 1694 in Virginia, as well is in the colonies farther north, black x-averettes were worn at a cost of two pounds a piece?about ten dolars in our money. In 1753, I know lot how much earlier, "Black & White & Black Horsehair Hats" were o'd in Charleston. There were al o ''tissue sattin & Chipt Hatts" sold n Charleston and in ali the stores of :he colonies that dealt in ladies dress naterial. ''Fine beverettes with Tabry lining" were also sold in our old City by the Sea. Did beverettes mean >eaverettes? Probably so. What Ise could the word mean? In 1773 'White Beaver Riding hats" were :ommon throughout the colonies. A few years later than the last late a Hessian officer wrote while in \ew York of the prodigality of dress imong the women, especially the oung women of that state: "They are great admirers of clean iness and keep themselves well shod. Fhey friz their hair every day and rather it up on the back of the head into a chignon at the same time puffng it up in front. They generally .vaik about with the heads uncovered ind sometimes but not often wear ome light fabric on thur hair. Now ind then some country nymph has ler hair flowing down behind her, ^raiding it with a piece of ribbon. Should they go out even though they >e Lvir.g in a hut, they throw a silk vrap about themselves and put on gloves. They also put on some well :nade and stylish little sunbonnets, from beneath which their roguish fdc V..ivp a most tino* wav of meeting yours. In the English colonies the beauties have fallen in love with red silk or woolen wraps. The* wives and daughters spend more than their incomes allow. The man must fish up the last penny he has in his pocket. The funniest part of it is the women do not seem to steal it from him, neither do they obtain it by cajoling, fighting or falling in a faint. How they obtain it is a mystery, but that the men are heavily taxed for their extravagance is certain. The daughters keep up their stylish dressing because their mothvis desire it. Nearly a'l articles necessary for the adornment of the fe.aale sex are very scarce and dear. this reason they are wearing their Sunday finery. Should this be |ft!n to -how si<rns of wear I am afraid that the husbands and fathers will he j compelled to make peace with the j Crown if they would keep their wom| en folk supplied with grewjraws." i Poor fellow! T am srlad he wrote iso intelligently and doubtless very ; j tiu'hfuiiy but he failed to correctly interpret the American sp:rit though . then youncr. They neither fought ,; for, stole, cajoled nor fainted for money for their line clothes. They i did not have to, as then* sisters in easic-boumi Europe would have ha<l t?. do had they enjoyed the privileges of American .vomen. The va.;:nes.-of lho lio\v woild, its inexhatiS.'h'e S'>u:i-> of suppiy "d a ri >. ic'U'e o several generalions <>u' from u!"?.' : the east rest! iv't.oiis or the oi ' country had breathed into men a higher regard for women and a desire to make their wives and daughters the peers of any women anywhere on tin.' globe. psychologically that was u s:nall facto!- in the hearts of the paTi (?is ;hat brought abont the Revo lution an: 1 built America. They wort' free-born American women and had a ) ig'nt to all that was g >od ami rir-t class. It was that spVit that has made America great and if another America is built in any part ol' the globe that same independent, selfrespecting spirit will have it to build, i hey let their wives and daughters wear the best that they could <aiIY>rd and won their independence too. The "stylish little sunbonnets" spoken o? by the Hessian ofacer was doubtless the hood so frequently spok en of and advertised in colonial papers. They were close fitting and usually lined with soft "ilk. pink or some other becoming: cclor. The winter hoods were often made with a cape which came down over the shoulders and' buttoned to the garment which they wore. Hoods were for centuries a very common article of headgear both for men and wornrr* i * j 1 * il. _ c-n. i noy were suppianicu oy in'.* old fashioned split sun-bor.net worn for many years in the eighteenth and nineteeth centuries, especially in the country and may even yet be seen occasionally. We a Temporarily machines that w< | ready for busine: i ! We have re I cars rolling, and trade as usual. ! i Newb ? ~ i 1.1 i , i || The C I A Carolina Newsp V Gives to its readers the hot off the wires, fairly a ents and the Associated P merited by the Universal ? 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Really. then in tin Ilg'ht of what I nave written, iro;,i ia i corneals or the Old Hair Trunk. the colonistwere r.ot one wh't behind Ju-i a ?eendants o 1 in >-:;p < ne aiii-ear ami many ether thin.us wna-h w> are si metintes disposed tv> th:::k ?>!' a? the whims t.f :t less enlightened at?-.1 ? ;t!! such siutf is Mutant ejroi:rii t<> the student who has ^ jih- to the real heart of history for jtis conclusions, it i? very true th-.t the ridiculous occasionally cropped out. but has it ceased? in hea'jjeur for example, there was extensively advertised an.! worn the "Air Balloon" hat. I ii > not know what the "Air l>alioonv was but it must have ..et-n .. of fashion trom the nam: that was ?riven to iv. and then did not last very lonjr which was proof thai the . oivl f-.f.l ,,f t, , :y,t Jit! not endure it. The "Hive" was Ic.'i. :er lived and <:at- J f .rth-r back in ;!ie seventeenth ccn-ury. It was a -.ssive straw hat shaped like a bee-live. But do r.ot sporadic freaks .stili nuke their appearance in the fashion world. Yes, my parable is true. The heart of history is always fresh. 1 do not care for its dry records of battle and military plans but 1 do low the life, thought, customs and fashions that pulsated in the t hearts of the homes of the men who j fought those .(treat battles and when I can penetrate to where the Old Hair Trunks have enshrined them, then history is fresh and inspiring to me for i find the same thoughts, ideal?, customs ana tasmons puisaiinar in the warm hearts and their activities all around me. They are my j thoughts and my people that const;-! i j re running r we have rigged ui ere not so badly dz 5S. N placed our stock ai are in position to ta erry Lumb r'fcone [ember Newberry Chamber of Commex. harlotte 01 aper For Carolina Pec Clean and Reliable. worthwhile news of the Carolina nrl jipfMimtelv reported by its co ress, greatest news gatering age Jervice report and Newspaper En 1 organization that keeps constar and seeks to give them just what .1 news, fraternal order news ant or.the benefit and entertainment comics. that make THE ;ne Minute Ir idea! newspaper pressions and ex scribers. Pithy Paragra Order Section chuckles. Prize.4 wittiest sayings H. Sirnonds, the Society of the nternational pol- social events ' r< * f The most com ica s Great Com- c , , Sucrts publisned I. -A weekly story A Colored Coi ?e?s. or-1 daily comic William Thornton known "Srir.gin; t Institute. Planus. a:nous Songs, by Fiction, Scieni ture articles. weekly story by A Church D lessons, Real Est rs> edited b\ .he Srecinl 'i^ent' Carolinas Seetlo, l containing gen- courage, advancc '3 for the house- commercial, civi( states of Xorth < Rates Daily and Sunday n. -1 uany uui) * Sunday Only ! Department, THcl CHARLOTTE OE tuic the privileged .society in which 1 live. ESTELL CELEBRATES IN HONOR OF GIRL "Godbold Day" Observed to Weicome Oiympic Star Back Home Estill, Sept. 7?"Godboid day was obstiviv; in Estill today to welcome home Mis- Lut iie Godbold, famous g.ri athlete v. ho bloke tilt* record for a shut put by a woman in the recent Uhmpie games in Paris. M..-s Godbold was escorted this evening to a stage erected in the center <)i the tow'ii and decorated in tne garnet and gold colors of Winthrop vj.ii^e. trie South Carolina college the young woman represented when she qualified for the Olympic team from the L'nited Slates. With the guests of honor on the stage were Governor and Mrs. Wilson G. Harvey, her parents and several other relatives. IV 1J j j kv ?>IISS UOUOOiU was nu:uuai.cu uy Mayor Theus and spoke briefly and modestly of how she won two medals in the Paris games d sot a new world's record. She told of secreting two bottles of French wine in her bag, one for the governor of South Carolina and the other for the mayor of Estill, but they were taken from her by customs officers. Governor Wilson G. Harvey also delivered and address, and a reception for Miss Golbold and the governor followed. now. 3 a few of the imaged and are nd have seve.al ike care of our er Co. -<% I r isprupr >ple ? Constructive, s, the nation and the world rps of special correspondency in the world, suppleterprise Association. ltly in mind the needs and they want in general news 1 views, and numerous speof the whole family, interviews, a page containing exchanges of views of the subphs, a page full of laughs and 5 are offered each day for The submitted by the subscribers. ! Carolinas, a section featuring of the two Carolinas. . plcte and detailed report of in the state. nic Section on Sunday and sevfeatures, including the well? Up Father," by George Mctific Writings, and othor fea Irectcry, weekly Sunday school afc pa?c, etc. ion is callod to the Made-ini, the object of which is to en\ and promote the industrial, and social interests of the ind South Carolina. , 1 Mo. 3Mos. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. 75 $2.25 $4.50 $9.00 5 1.75 3.SO 7 .CO 40 1.10 15 3.50 {SERVER, Charlotie, N. C.