University of South Carolina Libraries
' (/ J . ... /T^y I ? ? I y mm ? 1 ? .JIUJJU M Mlil.lt ?l T77 THI Ht'lIK BKK# TlUfl ? 'I'flJK CJITV WfiltHONH ? 'rtiiiiic livelier Vwy Often Hu|n>r UUvoly Ij^uoruut of iliiiigtt Buwlic r ./?A?,le<W of th? wild, wood ha* ? iiifionK the cU>' P60Ple '*ho campaign shows that. '*u 1 iwnowB how a moose's horne ?y. Tb. Kai.Mi. Tlie ?rtl?t. h?V? drawn T resembling everything from a C o a huckleberry bush, fl aH they kuew was that the is horned animal, but whethe to boras are more like a cat ,rJ hnriiB or a motor horu they EJn't So tbey made a &J rush for the Museum of Natur i Hlatory to make a study of antl ?' antlers. And that'? the way I bulf nUe horned into the **Cw the artists have brushed up woodland lore and the next step u?m the public to learn, this les t! n natural history. That the Su people in the city are very flo;; fn parn i? a statement that *wlli Probably shock you, coming as It ?* from an Arkansas hill billy who .few months ago had never seen the Inside of a passenger train. ?ift the city people are slow, rh? !lL that thoy Are swift and aUiftH Sued is an illusion I heard a city l! explaining a political, cartoon Suhiu wife. The man waa greatly pleased with the cartoon And this b wbat be suld! ? ??You see here Is Wilson In one; ring of the circus with a donkey; and in this ring is Taft on an ele phant; and here comes Teddy-on-a ^What'b Teddy doing? Playing frnta Claus with a reindeer?" ask ed the wife. "Why, no, silly," said the wise huiband', "-the reindeer is the em blem of the new Bull Moose party." How's that for a town dwellers etupidity? Talk about' the people of Half Moon Mountain, Ark., being *a hundred years behind the age; they bave some excuse for it. They ride in ox carts and have no newspapers. But this city man rides on the sub way mtie-a-minute express and road* penny papers by electric light. But is he wide ^wake and up. to the [second? No, he's behind the times, Itoo. Jtefs from Chrlstmaa ? to the (that's how far behind he is with ulg reindeer. I And yet the city man Hkea to [rail about the country cousin being [i bonehead. When Seth Hlgglna fold his livery Stable In Eureka [Springs and moved back to the farm (a 10-year-old kid who was a chjiitt , lot the Wiggins urchins, ran sadly to [his mother and said: "Oh; maw, the [Wiggins boys have moved to the [country and now they won't know a, [darn thing." 1 When Hank McDee got married he [decided to furnish his home in real, ftity style. Nobody on our mountain [had a store bed with mattress and tarings. We make our own^beds out fwck of corn husks. But Hank was [going to have a real, white man's [bed, bo he drove 18 mlleft over the [mountain to Owl Cove and bought a' [bedstead at a furniture store. The loan told him how to set tt up and [Put on the slats and springe. Hank [drove home and started to put the [thing together- _ The_ slats were j^ [long that they wouldn't fit, Hank [bitched up the next morning and ; [hauled the bed back in disgust. | ["Look at this darn thing you sold , [me. The slats were too long to F it and I had to aleep on the P.^or. What you going to do about lit?" \ The merchant took a 8aw and ; Put off two inches from the end of I pbe slats and Hank started on the |18-mile trip home! again with the Iwd. Th? merchant turned to. his p'erk ad remarked: "If . the country [guys were as smart as the city guys Pbat hill billy wouldn't have hat*, to pleep on the floor last night." t A city sharp came to Half Moon IMountain. He was a writer. He was pupposed to be educated, but he bad never seen a broadax and dldh't *?ow that you had <to sc6re a log before : nx could hack off the Jug-I Jw. He couldn't tell a hickory tr* | fom a sweet gum tree, nor a post from a red oak. Everybod thought he must be a plumb idiot. Kain't you see," said Alec Sim eons, holding up a juggle cut from * white oak and one cut from a sum tree, "that the bark on ' this K>nt look nothing like the bark on wis other one." v l *?f course," said the city man. ' 1 can 8ee *hat they aren't wiKe. i can 8ee that all these trees im* !ie wo?df are different kinds, J?, ^ow do 1 know which is red oak Ri ? I8 gum and which is chinqua in? i Ve got just as much brains ? you have, and possibly more. But A?ave never lived among tree? he re and so why should I know a *eel gum tree when I saw it and ?Lmor* than y?u would know a &ree b* "J1 tleaf ? *** v any ttananaa on it/' ^Jjat'a a banana?" naked AlecT ?h?t truly don't you knoi W a banana iaT". " bi was bl ^e through our *t know a "fcb* does not follow city ItluilM nop I county liuilU. City briln, *?> different from country brains i lf'J you not thorn playloic off th? ??me ground*. All humaWare bon<? artout it f?U??,w T,h0 i? temn* >ou will ti.l. * i1? t'me. *'?ter on it too ? ..7\ at he iB H bonehead. 100, but be won't be willinir tn t* iJ guv" that l\xe\ mln otb<)r words, the Heift ?I Celling the story repre ???Us the equator of wisdom and he ? 2htVy?.authut, * slightly flattened at the poles. bred n?Ai?iU can't bljune the street b?od people for not knowing a moose b??U1 iU r?,n4Ue?r ft?d ?rst time they 1 in- " LRhol??r*P>?. ** iw?'t in their ine, l hey don't make their living o/0H?{feuWlld beaBtB aB do we iu?n of llalf Moon Mountain. U nays us ,kuJ>w the difference bVween a We inlaht ttn<l *. deer'8 h?0f' ??" might go out to follow a trail all SSL. ?X?T,BgKt0 g"' V0n'?0? "d !>r ,u,i ll w,? had bse" trttllluR one tai?? o 4 b?K8 a'* over the mouu tf.! ?.??.,our eyeB ttre trained to no tice al the points that distinguish one animal from another. There are showfi^08. inu Arkan8a#. *>ut if you him wu a bul1 moose's picture to a ill billy he would tell you straight, ami .1 wasn't a deer. That nose ana those horns would toll the story hmi*H?ar8 We pald our tax6s and fought our salt with the money we got for deer skins. ?? *, But the city pfeoplo realize they w ! n?y?r able to buy Anything T,!iSs W Si l?ey know about deer nr!!?l?' T 8 Why tbo buH moose lt? ca,ifbt them unprepared to tell the difference 'between a moose and a reindeer. It seems fun SL?? mi woodmen. But , there is another side to the story. And this niiw *ftory putB the lau?h on us! ~y Morgan went to little Hock on spring wjth a wagon load of d eer Jklns and smoked venison. He oougllt his year's provisions of salt, paper, coffee, matches and gunpow ??& He also bought a pair of store pants. The^ were' the first store pants ever worn by any boy in these mountains. - When we got too civl ized to wear buckskin breeches 'we went in for blue jeans. The women folks spun the cloth and cut <?>- and sewed the garments. So Billy Mor gan & .store pants were a seven day 's wonder on Half Moon Mountain. Everybody cam? for miles around to see them. And the preacher preach ed a sermon against the human van ity of store clothes. He said that the devil was a dude and wore, fine garments to beguile. And vi(hen Sa-. tan wanted to get a man he first "Med a man's mind with a desire to buy his pants at the grocery store coFfoo*me aS buys his flour and But he couldn't scare Bil\y out of his trousers. Now it is an ancient legend In the woods that when a man buys store cloths he finds mon ey in, the pockets of 'em. Ho Jthe neighbors gathered at Billy's cabin when he got back from the city with his "boughten" pants to see how much money he would find in the packets. ' Billy searched thru all the pockets while, the crowd "waits? UlH??yedr~But -nary-xent dt? found. When he got through search ing, all the boys took a turn at go ing through them. One funny- thing about it was. that ' they wouldn't have known what money was if they jhad found some. For at that time I no coin or bank potes had. ever been seen in these , mountains. Smoked Pork, corn and. coonskins pa&ed as currency. Whne it came Jake Les j lie s turn . to search the trouser's, I he found them inside out. Sewed into the waistband was a card with green filigree work on It and red letters that said "Waist 35." "Hurrah!" yelled Jake, 'here it is. It's a greenback!" None of the men -could read, but they made out that the figure was 36, so they decided that it was a $35 bill. The green filigree work they though was printed words saying the Uni ted States Treasury would pay $35 ^n gold on demand. Well, that pants check passed for I currency in ' and around our settle ment for twenty years. Billy Morgan paid it to Tom Jelly for his little pony. Popcorn. Tom bought Uncle Joel Spehce's farm with it. Sooner or later every man in Half Moon Mountain took in that pants check at its face value. Jess Blumby fi nally got it for a yoke of steers a?d a shotgun. He owed Ace Watts $5 -and Tip Honey out $8. When they found he had sold his tfteers Jfor cash they pressed him for payment. Jess told thWn he couldn't change the pants . check, It being the only cash money In the settle ment. But they pointed out that he coftld cut It in two between the three and five and as he owed one of them $3 and the other $6 It would make even change. Jess did this and f>ald off his debts About three months afterward The got to thinking that he had only owed $8, I and as he had spent his entire $36 ! In paying It he was loser $27. But twhere had the money gone to? Yearo afterward when .the rail road came through, the people learn ed that the check me^nt &lrty-flYe inches around the waist, and thttt it wasn't money at all. But it had certainly done, a heap of buying and selling before the boom busted. Now you could not fool us hill people with hand made bear tracks in {he mod; and we Could Tell lEocreach owls' cry from a panther's a mile away in the woods. Hut we couldn't tell a green back from a panW chec i That's because we are not use^to seeing and handling money. But the city people could toll the dif .. .- Ay ?> r . ? MRS. THOMAS A. MARSHALL Wtfo of tti'o Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee. Honorary Vice Proeldont Woman's National Oamocratlo Laagua. Mrts. Thomas H. Marshall, wife of the vice-presidential nominee of the Democratic party, Is a keen student of affairs and as the constant compan* Ion of her husband has had an exceptional opportunity of specializing on human nature. A very practical and far-reaching result of this peculiar^ In terest In the larger family of the state? ^she* has no ofilftWB' Ot ?Wll? Is found In the long list of humanitarian bills passed by the Indiana legisla ture during hef husband's regime as governor- A bill to curtail child labor heads the list, whloh numbers twenty, and Includes almost every legal -cor |-r?otloa for the immediate relief of labor, especially tor that pertaining to < 'women and children. - The Marshall home, like that of the Wilsons', is a home of books, and yet ona.dofiH not ..ffiftl "booklah" wHhlnKg walls. On the oontrary. one feels very muoh at home there the moment Mrji. Marshall appears upon the scene. ?a4, If possible, more so wh*n Mr. MtrrafcaU cornea In. They are such chums, this "tender-heartsed" governor and his wife, and where one is the other Is pretty sure to be found. They have traveled all over the country together, and If the Woman's National Democratic league has anything to dp with It they Will eoon be going to Washington together. Mrs. Marshallls bowr?iT vioe-pre8ident of the Ieague and keenly inter' ested In Its work, not because' it Is part of the campaign, but because she reoognlses the permanency of the movement to educate women In the prin ciples of Democracy. > , MARRIAGE LICENSES Recently Put on Record at Prqbate Court Office. ?*? ? w- M* & atx ? it uivvD) ui Liaurvut) and Miss LiUier Miller 'Stevens, of Camden. . ' Mr. H. P. Trimnal and Mrs. JTan nie Boykln, Kershaw county. Mr. Benny Conyers 'and Miss Cary Lee Hasty, Kfershaw county, v- - Mr.- A. - Lr McLeOd , Camden and Miss Minnie Lourlne Greer, of Lee county. -Mr. A. W. Rabon and Mrs. Alice Rabon, Lugoff, S. C. Mr. W. D. Seegers, of Buffalo ^township .and Mrs. Bessie Clyburn of Bethune. Mr. J. L. Holland and Miss Mlt tle Branham, Camden. / Mr. Jaines Broom and Miss Lessle Lee Baker, Kershaw. '? Mr. 1 1. W. Vaughan and Miss Mollle Watklns of Bethune. Mn Hampton Boyce and Miss Mattle Smith, Camden. ( Mr. Leonard King, of Bethune an Miss fda Black well, Camden. Mr. W. C. Black well and Mrs. May E. Marshall, Camden. Colored. Newton Herbert and Sarah Murry Geo. Ballard and Alwerda Murry. Wallace Doby and Daisy Mickle. Isaac English and Mattie Dixon. Joe Sams and Rosa English. Walter Price and Bessie 'tyeil. Ross Thompson and Sallie Howard. Walter Davis and Maisfe Perkins. R. J. Johnson and Helen Crewel. Handy Hammond1 and Hattie Gai ther. , Carter Missouri and Sarah Jack son. ' Washington Jennings and Minnie] maybe when Rooeerelt lsf elected he will pot the pictures of animals on the money* 4 buffalo on the cent, a coon on the nickel, a bull moose on the quarter and a buck on a silver dollar.. That would bring na ture lore and city tore together. Then when a hill billy h&Td^* city Alan call a dollar "one buck," he'd know what ooin he meant by the picture on it. Youeontdirt buy oar farmjiirttta KINO OP TRAMPS * : Killed While Riding Rod* lu Rail rood Wreck. I Leon R, Llvlngs*on, the "gentle man tramp, "as he liked to be known and "A No. 1," as he. called himself, has been killed in .a rallrpad acci dent* according to newspaper ac count#. He met his< death riding the rods under a passenger coach, in a railroad accidents "A- No. 1" wilL bfi recalled by many people in Charles ton. _ His familiar mark, .which he placed on buildings, walls and fen ces wherever he traveled, from which he came to be known, in fact the only name by which ho was known generally, is to.be seen about Charleston. In the office of The I Evening Post the symbol is In seve ral places Inscribed, bearing also the date, ??3-10-19U" with the ar row pointing to the south. Indicat ing his route on leaving Charleston. His stay In this city was unusually long for the reason that he met with an accdlent ytA. the Union' sta tion and was corfrined in the Roper hospital with a broken- ankle for several weeks. As a result of the fall he entered suit, through Attor neys Logan & Grace, and in June the case was withdrawn, having been settled. When he was discharged from the Roper hospital, "A No. 1" was a guest at the St. John Ho tel for the few days he was here. On acoount of the suit he had to disclose his name to give the action standing in court.. As far as known this was his only visit to Charles ton. ' i Undoubtedly king of tramps was ."A no. 1." When he was not travel ing he 'looked to be a prosperous business man, being scrupulously neat fend .presenting a good appear ance. One might have taken him for"* thrifty comjnreclal traveler. He - was Intelligent, ft* wrote sever al books, describing his tramp lifet These 'books and his photographs had oooslderable sale. His peenliar traits were many.* He ^ef*sed to dlvrilge his identity, pre ferlng to be known as "A No, 1." He was proud of his ^calling and w. ? with luuuy prominent people, espee tally 'big railroad officials, some or whom hail rewarded hint with passes in return for Information he had given preventing wrecks and dam age to property. He boasted that he had traveled 1,000,000 miles with' out paying a cent for fare, and that o.uty once watt he compelled to pay, $7.50, for train patmage. This wan one of the dark spots in Jils other wise bright career, us he saw It. i "A- No. I". was aatd to have been, born and roared in Han Francisco, ifivery place he visited, ho left his rutulllar mark, with the date and direction he was bound, lie wasi known In the newspaper offices of j the country generally, lie carrledj a Compactly arranged scrapbook of dippings, wrapped in his overalls' which he wore when ^)e sot out on J the roud and Immediately discarded: I'.vhen he reached his destination uiid had,, an opportunity to freshen up.-r- Charleston Post. ? 'Mtl Minute* Frum llrowdway." The following is what the VVln ston-Saleui Journal has to *ay about "46 Minutes From Broadway," which appears .at the Camden Opera House, Friday night, Oct. .18. "FV^rty-fivo Minutes Fyom Broad way," easily one of the brightest j things that ever evolved -from the brain of George M. Cohan) came again to the Auditorium lant and was well received by a ffclr sized audience. Mr. Bert Leigh, featuring jib "Kid" Burns, scored as the slangy, big hearted product of, The Way and For^y-Becond street. Tho company gave an entertaining production generally speaking. As a matter of fact there Is ho much good Btuff in Cohan's musical play that it has to "get across'" with! an average amount of pushing. "Mary is a Grand Old Name," "Forty-five Minutes From "Broadway11 ?and "80 Long Mary" are indeed about the tunefullest Items that have sprung TfSm lire White W&y l!T~tTiSBFn botch years, <> The company repeats the produc tion tonight and probably will re ceive a larger patronage than was accorded last night It is a clean, pretty story that is told, with abun dant humor interspersed, and It leaves a good taste at the cloae." | (Advertisement.) llUTHUNti JTKWS NOTES. Social and personal Items From our STefffhborinf Town. | Dr E $ Truesdell and MIhh Ola Bethune were in Camden Tuesday. The trip v us made in Dr. Truesdell' car. Mrs. M. A. Williams, of - Green ville, 1b. the* guest of her niece and nephew. Mm, H. T. Thomas and Dr. B. L. Norwood. Mr, Theo HiUiard was at McBee Sunday. The oyster supper given by the Bethune Band Thursday night was well attended and |54.86 was made. Dinner will be served by the La dies of the Baptist church, Saturday Oct. 12, in the store recently va cated by the Stevens' Mercantile Company. " '.J , ' ?> Dr. S. C. Byrd, president of Chl cora College leotUred at the Presby terian church Sunday night in the interest of the Presbyterian colleges of the State. Rev. J. N. Forbis, &nd Mr. J. A. McCaskill left Tuesday morning to Attend Presbytery at Olanta. MVh. Jarley will bo in Bethune next Thursday night, Oct. 17, with her wonderful collection of waxwork representing illustrious characters such aa "Queen Elizabeth," Sir Walter 'Halelgh, Little BoPeep, Mother Ooose and many others too numerous to name.. She will be aided by her two talented assistants Peter and John, who dust, oil and wind up the characters. These fig ures when wound up will motion in ?o natural a manner that jnany peo ple have falsely supposed them to be endowed with sense but ? Mrs. Jarley says she can assure you that that Is not the casq. This play has been very successfuly given in Greenville, Clio and tWlqntbcfro, so come and laugh" with us. >"7r~7r'j' Mrs. Jarley*? Famous Waxworks, ?the local talent show, will be given In the town hall at Bethune, Oct. 17, the admission fee is - twenty* five cents for adult* and fifteen IH KILLING NKAK KUItNHAW t'alnl Affruy (Kcurrft) l/*st l,,rW?y M untiling. Last Friday morning near Ker shaw In thin county, Mr. <). 11. Wat son shot and Instantly killed Mr. T. 10. Gregory, and ho hlmsol^ was bad- ? iy wounded by Mr. Gregory. It Ih not kno.wn what the direct cause of the tragedy was, but some ?<ay It was of old standing. . The shooting occurred about oue mile from KerHhuW when the two m<?n mot in the road and locked buggy wheels. . ? Coroner I>lxon was notified und held an inquest . There were throo eye wltnestteu to the tragdy ? Lewis. Peach and Mluseu 1011a and Laura) Peach who all teutified the same. t The testimony ot Low In Peach i? given below; "Lowi# Pouch- sworn says: Mr. T. 10. Gregory came to my houso yes terday aborning about 7 o'clock, Fri day, October 4, 1912, for me to piik cotton. I got In the liuggy with him, ?ut in, his lap. After going abou 1 mile we met Mr. O. H. Watson. Mr. WatsoiY'ftUd Mr. Grogory locked - buggy wheels. .When Mr. Gregory got within about 12 feet of Mr. Watson he started to turn out Of tl?e road but his horse waB young ... and would not turn. They then locked buggy wheels. Mr. Watson theft reached, down In the buggy, got his pistol and wont to shooting Mr. T. 10. Gregory; ho nhot Mr. Gregory two tlmos. Mr. Gregory then got out of the buggy, -went round be hind the' buggy, got his pistol out of Ills pocket and shot Mr. Watsou. I was not moro than two or three stepa from the buggy when Mr. Gregory shot Mr. Watson. The. first time Mr, Watson shot Mr.,, Gregory ' I was' in the buggy. I then" got out of buggy. 1 After the shooting Mr. Gregory' was lying on the ground, Mr. Watson walked off; when Mr. . Watson got about . 100 yards he lookedriynok- und tmid.-to-Mr. Grog ? ory "Qh G ? D? - you, I have got "you." Mr. Watson sat down oh a stump and reloaded his . pistol. Neither Mr. Watson or Mr. Gregory * spoke when they met," ,? Drs. W. C, Twftty and L. T. Greg ory were called to examine the dead ? j man and found two wounds, One en tering right side on a line dratwn from point of shoulder and point of hip/ breaking seventh rib, passing in direction of heart and this ground was sufficient to produce defth. Mr. Watson is not dangerously wounded as was at first reported trod lii nojwr improving. ? '-j. ? - - ? Both were highly respected' an.d> well' known citizens and the tragedy is deeply deplored, v ? School i)?y at County Fair. Friday , November 8 th, has been ?elected for School Day. aIbq on. this date the Boys' Corn Contest audi-tho Glrla' Tomato Contest will be held. Interesting programs have been arranged for each of these fea tures. I. JT. MCKENZIE, ^County Bupt. Education ; mi Respite for McNaughton. It now^seems probable that Dr. W. J. McNaughton, <the former Ker shaw coutity man, charged with the murder) oJ Uflred Flanders, at Swalns boro, Qa? will get a new lease on life; ; Governor Brown, of georgia, will follow out the recommendation of the prison commission that a stay of execution be granted until after the trial of Mrs. Flanders, widow of the dead man, wfco Is "also ac cused of the murder. After Mrs. Flanders' trial Drf McNaughton will again applyjt* the prison commission for executive clemency. Lost. - Baby's Oream Coat, with three blue enameled gold pins, chalked together. On public road to Mul berry or streets of Camden. Reward If left at Zemfr & DePass' drug store. i . A/- , .? ? ?' ?'fvtz.x ti A .',TT -v? v? ; V ? 1 X?- >V' - '?> o Wedding at Pine Creek. 7 J liv*. ????*?'* t' 'fSwWpSiiw v < *> : On last Sundfty afternoon at 3:15 o'clock, Mr. B. C? C^nyers and Mips Cora Hasty were happily united in the bonds^ otf matrimony. Probate Judge W. h. -MoDowell officiating. Tbie attendants were. Mr. and Mr?. "**?* ^ r*urfM^: kttd Miss Belle MeCasklll. ^ N '? ????-. & .