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My companion was a law ami successful farmer <hnd a man of cdlK'ntiuu and unusual in? toHigenee, Wo had gone only a siiopt distance fro in his home vVhon he stop ! pal 1)U horse, asked me to hold the lines. aiul 'got ting out made a cross mark in tho road, spit in it and then turning his* vehicle around drove back to Ills house. 1 asked what ho meant by all of that rigamarole. He staled that ho had forgot ten to leave his lyi rii keys, and to gnreveut any inlshao or ill luck on retracing his stops he always made a crass mark and spat in it. (>n conversing with my friend, 1 found him full of superstition as an egg is full of meat. He told me. that he had frequently noticed that if you did m?t pursue this practice some ill fortune was certain to overtake j on 'before your return. He also hciievod In spiritual manifestations, ami spoke of a haunted sj>Ot in the road near his home, where during the Revolutionary war. several Tories were killed in a ^kirmisl.i with Colo nial tr>-K>p??; lie said at Certain times in passing this spot," he hoard tramp ing of horses and the rattling and clashing of swords. On my express ing doubts about the truth of his story, he introduced me to several high ly respected and intelligent men and women ot\the settlement, all of whom I found strong believers in that haunt ed road. There is a streak of superstition in all Southern whites raided during slavery times, and which they imldhed from the negroes. Tlemove from our blacks the restraining hand of rhe j white iii 2i 11 and the influence- of Chris tiani.ty, and in a few generations they would relapse into barbarism and be come eonverts to Voudouism, witch ci'aft and other superstitions charac teristic of their African ancestry, as instance in St. Domingo and pother West Indian Isles, when the blacks are in control and yn overpowering majority. , Even -Jolm < Calhoun. t li o great South Carolina statesman. had a broad vein of superstition running through him. and ?'believed in spiritual' ina nisfestat ions. Mr. Calhoun was often a visitor a't the home ??f my groat grandfather. Judge CJantt, of. Oreenville county, S. C. My father told me lie lias often heard Mr. Cal houn narrate ghost stories and he told of his own experiences. He said while a member of the 1*. S. senate, before the day? ? ?f railroads and when travellers mailt1 b?ng journeys on horseback, he was en route to- Wash ington and spent, the night with a large planter and intimate friend in Virginia. On retiring at night. Mr. Calhoun was consigns to a room and bed with another gentleman who was also a ^uest for the night. On con ducting them to their -chamber the host remarked that if they heard any commotion during the night not to be disturbed. He had had information that bis elder son had landed from a vessel, having attended Oxford col lege in England, and he exacted him at any hour, having sent horse to Washington for him to ride home on. After being asleep for some time Mr. Calhonn says he awoke by being skaken by hi* bed-fellow, who remark ed : "Croat Co.) Mr. Calhoun! JiisV, look in the window, for there stands young Ilia nk ( son "f their hosti. with his throat rut from ear to ear and his blood is dripping all over the window sill !" Mr. Calhoun *aid he looked at the window, but eon hi see nothing save the stnrs shining in the sky. but his companion insisted that lie plainly saw t lie bleeding young mnn. Mr Calhoun said at that hour a clock struck and lie knew the exact time that the Jtpparition appeared His bed fellow was very much e\cj.| o<l hnt Mr. Cnlhoutj told him that what lie saw was purely imaginary, and ?-}tuiioned him not to say anything but to go back t<> bed and get some sleep. -l>ut. bis companion was so ex cited that he did not sleep again that night. .. At breakfast they found that the young man had not returned* and af ter bidding the family good-bye they mounted their horses to continue their journey. Just l?efore starting, a man dashed up to the door on horseback with the horrifying news that the young man had stopped at a bar-room on the road, and got into an alterca tion with some drunken rowdy, and th* trouble ended in bis baring his throat cut exactly as seen by the bed fellow ef Mr. Calhoun and if wm also disclosed that the killing occurred ex actly at the hour the spectre appeared at his father'* house to a visitor. In antebellum days, nearly every settlement had its haunted house or *p"t I romember when n boy hear ing several of thev> stories connected with neighboring place* both in the lower it ihI upeouutiv. hi tlie curly 4<>'s near Kockvule, tho home "l Judge Kiohurd tSautt, in (Jreonvillo county, w a large two story wooden residence, sitting back a short distance from the public road, known as tho ".\larkw?y l'lave." .U i* said dial this old house was haunted and i lie story was Implicitly believ ed. The story runs that more than one murder had been comiuitteed in l hi* house. V traveller was murdered in an up stairs, ruorn, and a cruel *tei> nether kicked a little girl down the steps and death ensued. A highly re spected lady, who lived at this old home when a hride, told me that the house was unquestionably haunted/ (or. she has hoard and seen manifes tations that could not be attributed to natural cause*. She said often in the ?broad day-)lgl)t. when sitting down stairs, she could plainly hear the steps of a small child coming down the stairs and they would then as cend and repeat the walking up and down. There was a bond in the stairs and she -often moved her chair so as to si'c half way up the stairs, | when t he steps would stop at the bend j and then ascend. When she moVod i her chair *o as to set1, tho entire flight \ of stairs, the pattering ceased alto- 1 gethc.r, until she moved when it was resumed. This, lady also said that sFio would make up a feather bod in an up stairs room and smooth it very neatly. She would then; both night and in day-time, hear apparently some one pouring a sack of pears on the floor from near the celling or other strange sounds. ?>n ascending t<? the room nothing .could be seen out of order, except that in the middle- of the bed the imprint of a man was seen. She said that >lic . would smoottt tho bed and soon the noise would bo re peated, and the shape appear on the bed. nth?*r. 'weird stories Ay ere told in eonuection with thi?5 old haunted house. ? Noav ? l.owndesville, in Abbeville county. S. 0., wore two haunted hQuaos aud also a spqt in ihe road where It Is said a traveller was murdered* and a large black dog with him also killed, This -.pot was said to ho haunted, and that between ?undovvn and dark a largo hhtok dog was seen to run across the ??? ?2i vl with its head cut off. Negroes avoided this spt>i after dark, and man 5 whites h?>liiT*i4.1 the story. There lived nearby a family, among whom was a bountiful yoithg girl. Just hud (Hug into womanhood-. One day the girl went tn visit a neighbor, au?] Iter walk carried her by the haunted spot. .Inst before sundown her Wot'her re marked that his ulster had not return ed, and as she would have to pass the haunted spot about dusk, ho would go and meet her, lest she he afraid, So he started, hut did not notice that a large Newfoundland dog, belonging to him. had trotted on 4uhead,s .fust before reaching the Tuiunted spot he hoard his sister give," heart-rending Mirlek, and ?n rushing to her. assls tanee found the girl lying in the road in convulsions. It seems that his* dog, unnoticed by him, had gone on ahead and just us the girl readied the haunted spot, her mind doubtless on the story of the headless doft the animal chanced to cross the road Just before her. She undoubtedly mis took tin* animal for the ghost dog and with a shriek dropped in the road . She was tenderly earrie.d home ami I every effort made to restore her but without avail. An eminent physician j of l.owndcsville. J ?r . Alexander Ar 1 iiohl, was sent for, aiul in spite of j j every effort she continued in convul sions. The i;irl was finally sent to an asylum f??r the insane. ? a|id . after years v|h* died without regaining her mental faculties. l?u! with the abolition or slavery ami breaking of the kindly links that hound the children- of planters to the Mack slave#, the superstitions ha>e passed awny u?ul you now never hear of a haunted house or place. Hut there Nt Ilk lingers In the minds of. out older generation a certain amount of sU]H>r8tltlon. but with a new genera .tlonthU will also disappear. In ye olden time men and women of Intvlligeuec am) education were preg-. uant with superstition. and many lion estly believed in ghosts ami haunt*. County grave yalMs were fa voted sites f i ? v JihosOy scones. (>ue night. neat l.oW udesvUle. S. C\, a jmrty of yonuA l>. ??!???' ?-'a t hered at M nelglihi o f*S hoii?e nut fur from ah old graveyard. Thy ???onvorsat Km t uracil to spirits, when n young ?irl present remarked that she did not believe in such nonsense ami t?> Mhow her courage. would visit alone i In* grave-yard as -the clock *t ruck twelve, ami to prove her visit would slick a sliarikmed peg in tlu? grave of a noted gaihhler ami desper. ado. She started to' carry out her boast, hut after IKing absent an mi reasonable time, her young friends, went to the cemetery to see what de tained her. (?n uearing the oamhlcr's grave they saw something white stretched across it, ami on rushing to i lie spot found the .voting girl lying unconscious. Investigation showed that In driving down the peg in the grave it caught in the edge of her dress. and when she Marled to move away of course it drew her hack, as if caught by a hitman hand. Her fright was so great that, she fainted hut hap plly after a time was restored and Ihc whole thing explained to her, A Tier vau? shock was a.'l the result that fol lowed, The Reason. Hirst lavi driver? *Thcro. ain't as many people killed now as there used to lie, it scouis to inc. Second taxi driver No; nearly everybody owns :i ear, and there ain't enough people 10 go around. Kill* Wlf* *im1 Slhterlii law. Allendale. Sept . 2JK Considerable excitement is rife throughout this and adjoining eonnties as the result of the killing of tw;o ue?ro women near . her<? Kr.tduy night by Mommlngev Privet or. a negro man, who left. this section aheu.t four .wars ago, out witting a mob w Iid, were M'aii-hiuK foi him for. the alleged murder ami assault of a white woman of the Kline section. i'rieater ha* nut been heard of sliu't' the eriiiic until Ijivt night. wheu he u'|ihiih'<1 ttml, beiu? rebuffed h,\ his wife. killed bel aud her sister, who was living with her The ? rime occin rcd last night, ami *imv thai lime |ios>vs have hoeh ss-ouring the country. ami i| Is beliov ed t luil it' the nemo is found moh vio lence will result. Sheriff Heuttelt and several deputies are heading the pus *e*\ and it Is thought thai if the sheriff appt'ehends I'rlcster he will make an effort to remove him to the State IVni, tvntlary for safekeeping. I'p until late this afternoon no traee has heen found of the negro, and it is the opinion of many that lie 'has es raped to the Savannah rivor swninp iiikI possibly to the iieorgla side. The offhvrs of all the adjoiniiig eo.unl.io* have ?>een notified to lie on the look nut for the criminal. The eriiue of whirl* he was ehai'ged wlio.ti- ??.ho I'sriiped from litis seeilou about foil) \i?;irs ago was one of the worse ever eomuiit t ???! in. this jwirt of the Stale, and ereated great excite" men/ ? Several days' en r<'h was made f??r the eH til inn I at lhal lime, but he (?si'iiped. and has not been heard of sita e up ii 1 1 1 i I Krida.v night. All the vt'iujea me id' the old nn?b has returned with hi* reappearance., and there is J i j i it* <1 ? ? 1 1 1 > l t )ih t- mob \ inleiiro will re* ill I if he ts .raptured ? . Mrs. Henry Walboe, wife <?f tin? Secretary of Agriculture. has won eon siderUble fame n< a writer for farm journals. STANDARD GASOlim zman xoir SIAKU 13 asou* Test this Gasoline for Y ou r self. o 1 1 the Road V HOW EVER sincere one mo torist's statement mav be, his experiences wi^h fiLs car cannot be applied exactly to your operation of your ear. 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