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kUhwT^Iohn Owens, Ether ne*'u' at Ab4*r#oA ^oaus# wlfr offered OwenS, her brother, a [ 0f tee cream from the supply f^biixJ had bought Mattisoi* <1 with a., tee pick, drove Owens W tbe house, and the Utter return with * P1"^1 Mnd ***** Mdttlaon ,CJW outside. MettUon weut to M'door with a shot gun, Owene shot hw? tnd missed, and then Mattison ^ t Owens dead. !^Lir of * #0ft ^?b :m>w^ ** lectin* customs from transatlantic s who arrive in New York from Rochester Democrat end ne oTthe hardeat things a man K has to do is keep hia eyes on the i0g when he is sitting in a room ere, judK g from the display they I r^Ke, the g ' Is don't seem'to realise ^ s present.?Cincinnati Enquirer/ "announcements ^ . FOB CLERK OF COURT ^B hereby announce my-aelf a canlate for re-election to the office of of Court for Kershaw County ject to the rules of "the Demojfratic W"*' J. H. CL/YBURN - t FOR MAGISTRATE hereby announce myeelf as a can te for Magistrate in DeKall wnship, subject to the rules of the nocratic primary. OMTm? B. M. SMITH FOR CORONER hereby announce myaelf a candi for re-election to the office of Kner for Kershaw County, and V appreciate the continued support he Democratic voters of the counW. F. RUSSELL j FOR CORONER o the Democratic voters of KeriBr County: I hereby announce df a candidate for the office of Beer of Kershaw County ..and ge myself to abide the result of ^^ primary election. 8. J. WEST. FOR MASTER hereby announce myself as a canj^Bate for the officd of Master in oity for Kershaw County and will ireciate the support o1r the voters the coming primary. W. L. DePASS, JR. FOR MASTER hereby announce myself as a ean^Blate for the office of Master for ^Br9haw County and will appreciate ^B> support of the voters, promising ^ abide the result of the Democratic ^ marv. L. REX JONES j^Brshaw, S. C., June 13, 1928.' 'FOR CONGRESS v ' ^ hereby announce that I am a can '.( in the Democratic primaries Biuth Carolina, for the nomination oresentative of the 5th Congre.* District for the 71st Congress, ^^ 1 take this opportunity to thank people of the District for their l support in the past and to say I shall endeavor to deserve their : port and confidence in the future. W.F.STEVENSON. FOR CONGRESS hereby announce my candidacy as resentative from the fifth district pie seventy first congress, subject he result of the approaching privy, and will appreciate your supZEB VANCE DAVIDSON FOR MAGISTRATE V (Upper Wateree) 1 hereby announce ifiyself a* a Bdidate for the office of Magis t< for Upper Wateree District. BEN A. RABON. FOR MAGI8TEATB hereby announce as a candidate re-election to the offioe of Magis * ot Bethune, promising to abide results of the Democratic primes C. PATE FOR COUNTY DIRECTOR hereby announce myself as a can ?te for re-electtqn to tike office of ector for DeKalb Township and wgp ]j fleeted, to discharge the *s of this office fairly, impartialB ability **** ?* my ^udfirmen* Ver? . Tt> H. G. OAKRISON, JR. ^e, the voters of Buffalo townHP, ask the favor of all voters of "? county in the re-election of V Henry ft. Munn to the office of superintendent as he has faith y performed his duties for the ,nt?rest of the people, VOTERS t FOR MAGISTRATE the request of many friends and KkI 0 Ix>wer Buffalo Township I Kt? fann.?urK^ myself as a can vT. or the office of Magistrate at ^* Pledging mysHr to abide ^ nJ ? ~ and regulations of the V?ioeratic Primary J. E. COPELAND. her, ,I (IR MAGISTRATE trry offer my name as f Aan aistr^ fcb? office of ^ l win m R<^k Townehip ejui aPPw?cist? the support ofthe T. C. FLETCHER. |F0R superintendent or to tho poopl. of * if a Famous Old Mulberry Has Historic Past ~r James H*nry Rice, Jr., well known low country writer, hud the following interesting account of Mulberry, the old time plantation home recently sold by Mr, Dsvid K. Williams, which appeared in the Columbia State of 8unday last: Announcement has come from Camden that Mulberry has been sold. This is the old Cnesuut home, four miles from Camden, for many years the seat of David Rogerson Williams and his wife, before her marriage, Ellen Manning, daughter of the late Governor John Laurens Manning, whose home neiar Scott's lake, in Clarendon county, was itself one of the South's historic shrines. MiJlberry plantation has been in possession of the Chesnut family and their descendants for 191 years, nearly two centuries. There is consolation in the fact that a nephew of David Williams has bought, the property, so that it will continue in tne family. The house, built by Robert Mills, master buflder. who designed Monticello, the Washington monument and the treasury building at Washington, was erected in 1820, as the date on the w.eather vane shows. Few mansions are so girt about with deathless associations. A capacious volume could be devoted to its history; and there is pathos in the fact that Mulberry is one of two plantations remaining, the rest having, been sold to wealthy Northern people. David Williams derives from three governors; his wife from six; and each numbers United States senators among ancestors. In my visits there, conviction has grown on me that no country seat in the South can bear comparison with Mulberry. The plantation consists of 1,600 acres, 1,000 of which hold virgin forest. Lovers of the beautiful in nature, especially tree lovers, can drink in delight from the ?olemu stillness and majesty of the great oak forests which, in ancient times, would have been sacred to the old gods and witnessed rites in their honor. Lord Redesdale tells of an English lord who, on his death-bed, proudly declared: "Thank God! I have never cut down an oak!" At Mulberry this grand aristocrat woqld have fallen on his knees and thanked God for per| witting him to see a forest, to which the noblest in England could bear not the remotest comparison. Oaks, while supreme, by no means monopolize the forest at Mulberry. Giant white hickories, among them here and there, the pignut (myristicae-formis), beach, ash, the tulip tree, immense pines, maples, with holly, black walnut, dogwood, cedar, wild cherry, in short, all I the varied arborescent flora of the mid-country, in its most- favofed part, reveal what a goodly possession Was vouchsafed to the early settlers, and show, by comparison, what wretched return has been made elaeI where for the benefactions of God. I Mulberry house is a fitting crown I of this lordly estate. It is built of brick with granite steps leading up J to the portico, itself supported by white marble columns. Tne wide hall terminates in a grand spiral staircase, so strongly, yet airily constructed that Ruckstull pronounced it [worthy of Michaelangelo at his best. pThe library, Itocked with relics, curios and priceless collections, is on the left; the drawing room on the right; and just behind it the dining room, spacious, appointed and adorned with taste, born of generations of culturq and high living. Two noble sideboards speak of a time long before the meddler and the mischiefmaker put heads together to mar a joy they never felt and destroy customs too sacred for them to understand. One of life's solid satisfactions, where much has been disappointment, come when I reflect that I have paid were geld at that fireside- and per formed libation at those sideboards. There was a time when a-'ipresbyI terian elder, a Baptist deacon or even I a Methodist preacher would have felt no shame in inch a libation?in the days when men feared God and obeyed His commandments, and counted the spirit more than gear or gold. The busts in the hall are genuine Greek and Roman antiques, bought long before this enlightened age be gan to forge them and to adulterate human food. Ruckstull waa positive mift their market value would be at (least $50,000 each; and there is no [ better judge of such values than he. | Those who glibly prate about the progress of this age may be surprised toTtarn that Robert Mills, in 1820, [built bathrooms Into eadh room?not rat-boxes and dog kennels, which masquerade under the name of bathrooms. but large, comfortable rooms, 1 V^fMjl'a guest may take his ease, at | did the Romans more than two mil1 lenniums agO. They are fair-sited (rooms in themselves. So well did Mills plan and so hon| estly did his workmen execute that it became a matter of extreme difficulty for the electricians to get into | the walls -to wire the building, when lights were installed. "In the elder days of art. Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and ^ For the gods see everywhere." ' On the shortfe of Black river, two miles above the highway bridge, rises a white mansion, pillared vbehind and in. front, roof garden on top, | hardwood floors, mirrors, caryen walnut in dining room, two glassed-in sun parlors, modern fixtures from top | to bottom, nested, lighted, everything I modern to the last detail. I wonder (how tbet mansion will look a century I hence. Unless the usual signs fall, it will be senescent in 80 yeUrs and | falling down in 50, unless constant re?u. 1 thousand years from bow, unless ftjfe | or some upheaval of nature destroys ? , general at Cairo. ja?t Wow tha .oatI break of the^g^ta^r^he^ All aud uncle of Abbas Pasha, who was strangled bv two of hi* slaves, *a Jll U?^ l_r*,fUa in bi* ?tory. u w r?* Khaaala, the Copt." Abbas Peubu *nd hie kinswomen, Neilc Khauoum, play leading parts in that romance, which Ltw Wallace tin doubtedly drew upon to form .the ground plan of Ben Hur.* Said Pasha **?, 'ayinjf troubles of his own in u M-.-an atteiiipt to suppress the slave trade; and de Leon, fresh from a country where slavery was a burning issue, could well sympathise. Said tonti of him and as a mark of his regard presented him With a pure Arabian stallion, a noble *nimal, white in, color and with all the nne points of his breed. Ihis horse was sent over and stabled at Mulberro, de Leon well knowing Cental dbesnut'a love of horseflesh; and the horse remained at Mulberry during the war until Sherman s raiders seized him ip 1866 and wHr!i ofL A,thoulfh large renothlL^ere Qfful\d {or his return, ut ,Wa!l *ver heard of M '> and ^ succumbed to the rough treatment on the march. e J^iS rVant3 at Mulberry, with few exceptions, were born on the place blood I lt tf th*ir own ?<*hPand /ny 8Uch plantation* remain in tfois day and time; aud, if one stopped to consider it "time would run back and fetch the age of gold." In this godless age, when every demagog on the face of the earth ? doing his utmost to unsettle the minds of laborers and make them dissented with their stations in life, Mulberry shines like a good deed in a. naughty world." In order to grow, man s spirit needs repose, needs permanence in occupation and dwellinir place. B "These quarters," remarked Ruekstull to me, as we were having a goodnight smoke before going to bed, are good enough for the Prince of Wales. Never before had the splen;f, \he planter life struck him with such force; it revealed a world he had dreamed of, but never expected to see. If mankind are to be fed and clothed at prices that men can pay: if the world is ever again to revel in, abundance: if ever the daily fcpefciV of what is to be banished, so t?Kut those who follow other pursuits may have leisure to work, then the big plantation must come back. The small farmer becomes a huckster, a peddler, with every temptation to be dishonest and untruthful in a daily attempt to push up prices of what he sells, kven the women have been tuught to skim the cream from milk before selling it (all right, if they label it skimmed milk," which they do not), and dishonesty has corroded the moral fibres of the nation. What may happen in a wild, chaotic democracy no man knows; but we do know that such things never went on while yet the topless towers of I lion stood": and the old plantations functioned. So it' sweetens the spirit to come on so perfect an avatar of plantation life-?or, better, plantation life itself, Unchanged from its "golden prime." One can easily invite great thoughts on chat noble. portico; one can commune with the spiritual world within the shades of that virgin wood; and, when .he looks out from the upper windows past the curtilage, greensward spaced with trees and dotted with ^plantation buildings, to the policy beyond, and calls to mind the IJ men and women, nourished from these broad acres and the guests which that hospitable roof has covered in time past, he feels that the Paladin* ot bouth Carolina were cradled in purity and fed on greatness. To the sneering who taunt such places and the men who possess them as aristocracies, it may be well to say that no man of that race ever sought to get a thing for himself out * iif ?tate. Many of them served for the honor of serving; all of them loved the state; not one is known to have sought, and certainly not one received, special privilege of any kind. They were uncommonly endowed with fine qualities; the Lord of Hosts is reajKmsible for that; and they applied energy, brains and character to the business in hand. This, continued through eight or ten generations, naturally resulted in the accumulation of wealth. Any man, similarly endowJ 25/ could have done the sshfie thing. . The- ambition of the family, from wneration generation, was to fit itself forever higher and nobler liv*nd finer achievement, result of this might have been foreseen; and, whether foreseen or not, Mulberry is a monumental reminder. ^'?Jlave?dw.elt uP?n the greatness of Athens," said Pericles, in the greatest of all orations, "because I want to show von that we are contending (for a higher prize than those who enjoy none of these privilege, and merit of these men whom I am now commemorating. For in magnifying the uty "J^gnificd them, and men like them whose virtues made her glorious." * So, in speaking of Mulberry, I call before the bar of history the Paladins of whidh it is so signal a memorial, "f and writer entitled to respect are now reforV** passion has subsided,, the truth shines out. like the sun after a storm. Such huild J8i? , wrote Dr. George B. Sudworth, are evidence of the noblest cirlHiitlon America has known." Y?r 7? UP Cemetery We have been requested to announce that members of the Antioch Baptist Church are expected to meet at the church on Thursday and Friof cli?iTni ' *?r PurPO?c of cleaning off the grounds at the cemetery and all members are ear(j neatly requested to be present. .-Xinl of Thanks ^ ^tiesiru to; express our sincere thanks .for the many kind deeds and father, Sam Gaines. These expressions of sympathy ?nd LAood deeds Were very comforting to us in our sad bereavement. "Big Tim" Murphy Victim of Gangster* Chicago, June 27.?The gang gun* gut "Big Tim" Murphy last night. A machine gun barrel was thrust through the window of a sedan cruising slowly by the Murphy bungalow. Murphy's six feet, 'three standing on the lawn was an easy target. Fire streamed from the window of the sedan. The knees of a giant buckled, and the blood of "Big Tim" Murphy stained the grass where he fell. Two years ago Murphy stepped from Leavenworth i>enitentiary after serving a sentence for complic-j ity in the daring Dearborn street station robbery of 1022. Racketeer, mail robber, gambler? Murphy's name frequently was whispered in connection with police mysteries. When "Mossy" Kndicott, who had been prospering in fields which had been Murphy's own was shot dead at his home in 11)20. Murphy was arrested. But they couldn't connect him with It. it was followwuc hi? release in tins case that Murphy for the first time appeared in publia with the body-' guard which designates the marked man in Chicago's underworld. lie was never one to carry a gun. lie had no weapon when he was shot j down last night. Fifteen years ago the word went around that Murphy, who had risen to power as president of the CJas Worker's Union, had been marked for death. 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