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7 I A MONUMENT TO "MAMMY." Roanoke Time*. From the Washington Post we learn that somebody proposes to build at Washington a monument, to cost a million dollars, to the memory of the fast vanishing negro "mammy." Washington is about the last city in the country in which such a monument should be placed. It is Infested by swarms of insolent, truculent, loud and offensive persons who call themselves, we believe, Afro-Americans, or some other such fancy stage name. These are about the only - .1 . _ A1 __ 1 1 1 people in tne worm vvno can De called "niters" appropriately and properly ? "niggers" with a small n and two hard sounded gs. They are not negroes. They have lost or abandoned all the good qualities of the negro and retain all the bad and have taken on all the worst and most glaring and visible faults of the white man with none of his compensating virtues. Mammy does not belong in such company. While she was on earth she would have scorned it loftily. If she was put on a pedestal to look over the Washington outfit it would be hard to imagine that even in bronze she could restrain her indignation; for Mammy always had her opinions and was ready to express them. Nobody dared call her "nigger." Sedate and dignified gentlemen who are dominant forces in their communities had their hides tanned in early youth for using that despised word to Mammy or in her presence and subsequently fought creditably through four years of war, never suspecting that an occasional switching cowed and degraded them, as the modern humanitarian and scientific theoretical experts in child life tell us it should have done by all the rules. Mammy was boss and slave, but slave chiefly through her affections. She was a strange compounding of arrogance and humility, humble for herself, arrogant for her place. When the child was sick none so tender or so tireless, so patient, so constantly hovering as if to guard off death and disease with her body?hardly even the child's own mother WVipn pPil<l was sorrowful none so comforting or so tolerant; when the child was bad, none so eager to protect or so quick to forgive as Mammy ?and yet in matters of discipline exemplary and occasionally terrifying. Her lectures on standards of deportment and conduct were brief, in vernacular, incisive and convincing and invariably sound. She was loving, loyal to the core, adoring, and her adoration of those to whom she'was attached was her whole life. She had no interests but those of the family and the children and found in them all the sources of her simple but well asserted pride. She was shield and refuge in trouble, soothed grief and was a friend unfailing; and in times of joy rejoiced with sober countenance but the most elated heart in the household. As twilight fell peace descended on her soul, which grew large and beautiful with her love for the white child she held gently to her bosom and for the God to whose praise was written the old hymn she softly crooned in rhythm to the rocking of her body. From her lowly place in life her heart went high, for she looked ever upward and loved and believed. Love and faith were her instinct, her creed and made all her range of thought? love ior uoa ana cnnaren and those immediately about her. She troubled herself not at ali with speculations or doubts 01 learning-. She was content tc serve faithfully and to give hei devotion undivided, to find hei happiness in the happiness o) her people, to believe implicitly that when she died she would g( with her own folks to heaven that the servant would b< cherished and guarded anc blessed, always by the Almighty Maker, that the weary would b< at rest in a serene peace forever It could be said of her, as th< late General Moise said of Wad< Hamilton's slaves, that the onlj brand they ever bore was th< name of their master stampe< deep on their hearts. Washington is no place fo Mammy. We do not know tha a monument will be built t her. Much of the best inanhoo< a nrl urnmonhrw) ftf fho Snnfli f MIIVJ VT V* WIIV I^VUVII V the third and fourth generation is a living monument to he fidelity ana her care. And th South has many monuments ye to build and few dollars to spar i.V' fjjr- ? . V ^ : l v *1 > it * IBty ; v ' * JtFlB&JZl U 's' -Mfe for them. But is such a monument is erected anywhere it should bear the most beautiful, comprehensive and laconic epitaph" ever written?that written hy Father Tabb for his own Mammy? "Oh, Power Divine, "Be thou to her as she to me and mine." 1765 1910 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON 126th Year Begins September 30. Entrance examinations will be held in the county court house on Friday, Julv 1. at 9 a. m. All candidates for admission can compete in September for vacant Boyce scholarships, which pay $100 a year. One free tuition scholarship for each county of South Carolina. Board and furnished room in dormitory, $12. Tuition, $40. For catalogue address Harrison Randolph, President. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATION. The University of South Carolina offers scholarships in the Department of Education to one young man in each county. Each scholarship is worth $100 in money and $18 term fee with free tuition. Examination will be held at county seat July 1st. Examination of students generally for admission to the University will be held at the same time. Write for information to S. C. MITCHELL, President, Columbia. S. C. SPECIAL NOTICES. FOR SALE?The Cousart house and lot in Sprattville. Apply to Mrs. J no. Q. Cousart, 1113 S. Caldwell Street, Charlotte, N. C. LOST?Sunday afternoon between Fort Mill and home of F. Nims one ladies' black Cape with brass buttons. Reward for return to The Times. STRAYED?On Sunday afternoon one young Setter Dog, white with light Drown ears. Answers to name "Rover." Reward for return to S. W. Parks, Fort Mill. FOR SALE I have a few bushels of Simpkins Prolific Cotton Seed which I will close out at 80c, f. o. b. Rock j Hill. Apply to W. J. Caveney, Rock Hill, S. C. DACE i Bloomer Girls SATURDA I GAME CALLEE Admission, 25c; i | =ii ?n i j Terra Co I have just rece Cotta Piping, all 24-inch. If you putting in any kin TAT^ll if lArill ITT vii, it. w in pa^y piping from me. V. B. Bl; __ ???? ' i mimml?^? I NO TREASURE-LADE Is likely to corr Your surest waj after what you < ; g one best way to ' DEPOSIT YOUR MOI s jj And you'll knov ^ I make and how e I here helps you t 1 0 stance, you can r I for two cents, t I is so cheap or n< \1 The Savings Bank e I W. B. Meach&m, e Lhhhhmmhm V * I Mullen's Hornet's Nest Liniment For Cramp Colic, Cholera Morbus, Diarrhoea and Dysentery. And Oother Bowel C?om plaints. Externally, "As Good as the Best and Better Than the Rest." Wiv-Sold by all Druggists and Country Merchants. W. N. MULLEN'S SON, Proprietor, No. 313 Weit Eighth St., Charlotte, N. C. Winthrop College. SCHOLARSHIP and ENTRANCE EXAMINATION The examination for the award of vacant scholarships in Winthrop College and for the admission of new students will be held at the county court house on Friday, July l,at 9 a. m. Applicants must be not less than fifteen years of age. When scholarships are vacant af- i ter July 1 they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this examination. Applicants for scholarships should write to President Johnson be- : fore the examination for scholarship examination blanks. Scholarships are worth $100 and free tuition. The next session will open September 21, 1910. For further information and catalogue, address Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. FOR SALE Elms property in Fort Mill. Two-story, 7-room dwelling, 1J acre lot, with good barn, orchard and well. For price and terms, write W. L. Plexico, Rock Hill, S. C. List your property with me. BALL 1 no Cnrt Mill i voi i ui i iviiii Y, MAY 21, ).,AT 3:30 P. M. grandstand, 35c. 1 [=jl '"-jjj tta Piping ! ived a car of Terra sizes, from 4- to are contemplating id of drain or bored r vni I to kmr tKo j v/v? I.W kywjr 1.1 iv^ | inkenship. IE-1 :=)t=l N SHIP I ie to make you suddenly rich. ' to wealth is to look carefully sarn and spend. There is only do this. mv* ltd WITH US I r all the time how much you much you spend. An account o save in many ways. For in- I mail a check for any amonnt I No other way of sending money early so safe. of Fort Mill I Cashier ? Anno We beg to ? occupying our The public in at any time great pleasur< building. Bett 8 We are bet take care of c we solicit youi ance of safety \ I If you are n I invite you to I I The Peop ROCK H 1 SAFE, S "Rock Hill' We are the Fort Mill bra ted "Rock Hill" Bn to ride in the best and < on earth buy a "Rock of money could buy you buggy. As to its durabi the hundreds of users. Farm W One- and two-horse i si/es and of the best m such as Studebaker, ( nri i-i 11 o ? i iionmiii. nee us 11 yi > Fort Mill Mv Order your Job Printin U 11 V/ C II announce that ^ new home, is cordially inv and the office] 3 in showing y :er Prepare ter prepared tl Id and new cus r business with and fair treatr tot already a ci jecome one. >les Nation; ILL, - - SOUTH CAROI >UC<JfcSi>HJL, 9 Buggies. F I agents of the celeiggy. If you want easiest riding buggy Hill." No amount i a more comfortable lity, we refer you to I Ask your neighbor. agons. n all of the different < lakes manufactured, Carver, Nissen and ou need a wagon. lie Comp'y i ig from The Times. >? / ' jQnJ 1 lent. ve are now v" ited to call rs will take ou over the id. I ian ever to I tomers and I the assur- I nent. I astomer we I al Bank, I ^INA. SECURE. J GO CARTS G AND CARRIAGES. we can suit you in anyhing you may want in the pay of a Cart or Carriage and t will pay you to get our rices before you buy. ^ ^ I Only $6.50, delivered. We will sell 50 of these ip-to-date carts for the rcnainder of April at the spe ;ial price of $6.50, delivered inywhere in South Carolina. Send us your check or money order and you will jet the cart by the next express. W. G. REID & SON ROCK HILL. S. C. * MITCHELL HOTEL, (Formerly Nicholson Hotel) CHESTER, - - S. C. Rates, $2 Per Day and Up. S W. MlteMII, Prspritttr. I A