The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 06, 1928, Image 7
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. Yet Murphy's buck teeth
continued to gleam in the Murphy
smile and he lived to read the obituaries
of scores of gangsters, racke
teers, feudists and slayers.
Hut 42 years is a long time to live
for one with pursuits so precarious
as "Big Tim's." His time cam# last
night.
The world's star salesman would be
the man who could secure Mussolini's
subscription to a success magasine.?
Louisville Times.
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Twu Portuguese aviators hupped
off from Li abort on Wednesday for
the Attorus, in an effort to fly to the
United States; but were forced to
return on account of engine trouble
aftt'r flying for several hours.
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since 1914, according to statistics
compiled by the British chamber of
commerce.
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