The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, March 21, 1901, Image 4
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The llttlo vi!’nsi> . r. li <-kHi s Mill
hhd never Ih'oii In *r< !i h eiote of ex-
ettemeDt hi !«ll I m l.istorv.
Women. t*erelien<io>l nnil n’ltli rolle<]
up eleeveN riiHlnil n III y t.i nnd fro
•eroee tin* town"* xhr.'ii- sjtwt or lean
ed from their < |« , n uitnliw* nn<l called
excltedlt Inn k nul f«>tth^aHking a hun
dred qno»t !mi - tl:nv n < one pretended
to ana wet Tie ehlhlren huddled
about their in »hi-r>. i ntiKlnc to their
aklrta. their f.i.-< •. v. hlte and their eyes
wide With <vnt:d r and fear. -The men,
UWMtrld.t n i-;! iimmI on the street cor
ner Id f.ot i • f the (XMtoQlce and talk
ed tone In r In low. hn*hed tonea.
The catON- of ail thla excitement waa
the heavy l*"« ipiuirf of <*001100 away off
to the aaath and the lain-ly dlatlnfulah-
able rattle of imiaketrj which told only
too plain.y that a tiattlr wn* lielng
foufht ami that men were Itelng killed
aod mancied hy their fellow men.
It waa In the aprlng of ISM. at the be-
glaolng of the loag and bloody war lie
tweeti the eooth ami the north. The
people at Heckett a Mill amt all over
that part of Miamnirl known aa Pc.**urn
Ridge bad heard rumor* of a coining
It tbey bad gone on la tbelr
uoerrntful way. giving little
It to wbat tbey beard ami feeling
it that even If war came It
•ot affect them
now. right at the beginning, a
battle waa betag fought almoet at tbelr
Jaet a few mile* away
•terting Price aod bia army of
la gray were laying alege to Lei-
ever’body an eVer'llnng is jest shot
all to pieces same as so many hogs.
Yea, alr-ee! What one tinny don’t git
the other does, anti atwlxt ’em they
make a clean sweep, you bet. Oh, my.
but them wars Is dreadful tilings! I’ve
fit In ’em enough to know, an to people
that ain’t never no experlenee
they’re Jest awful. But that ain’t no
uae of beln akeered, an If you all had
ever been In the tight places I have
been In you wouldn’t be neither.
Land, I jest love war, an I ain’t no
more afraid of them gups than I would
bo of tliat many gnats. I’d rather fight
than to eat, au If that battle keeps up
much longer I don’t believe I’m a-ifwlne
to be able to hold myself out of It.
got to keep a powerful grip on myself
to keep out of It now.”
At that moment Jacob Hicks gave a
■tart and stood listening Intently. From
the hard road leading south from the
village there came the sound of a horse
lb full gallop- The rest all heard It
and stood waiting In breathless silence
An Inquiring glance passed from one
to another through the group, but not
a word waa spoken.
Ten minutes passed, and then b lone
horseman, wrapped In n*rloud of dust
appeared on a little rise a quarter of a
mile away. The women aerramed. the
children aet np a cry ami the men
grew whiter than ever. Ebetxearf
■perks-well. It waa not uatll the ei-
rttement was over that any one knew
wbat be did with himself.
The horseman waa Le
lost codling over the rise was a herd
of cattle which the farmers from near
Lexington w?rw hurrying hack into the
bills In order to save tbem from the
depredations of the soldiers. ,
The horsetnan had caught a glimpse
of the cattle bpek down the road and,
being Ip a nervous state on account of
“Shut up. or I’ll shoot you like a dog."
the firing of the guns and cannon, bad
taken It for granted that the soldiers
of both armies were coming.
* The coolness and the flrnmesa of the
stranger reaianred the jieoplc directly,
ami. casting aside a |M>rtioa of their
fear, they gathered alxiut him and"look
ed up to him ns a superior being. The
men admired him for his coolness, ami
the women admired him for that and
also for bis handsome features and bis
magnificent ami manly form.
or try to move another Inch, an HI
blow your head off.’ Them waa the
Identical wonla he said to 81m, for I
heard him with my own ears, an I
guess you heard him. too. Pap."
“I did, Jason. 1 beard him apeak
them very words But wbat of ItT*
Strictly apeakln, ’damn’ ain’t no ensa
word, on I ’low a preacher mought uae
It In a case of emergency, though it
ain't Jeat proper.”
Jim Thom, Who had remained silent
all this time, suddenly broke Into the
conversation by remarking with the
air of one who has convictions and
who Is positive of their correctness:
“Ton all hate had your say about
that man, an now It’a time I was hav
In mine. Some of you have reckoned
one thing au some of you have reck
oned another, but none of you ain’t
reckoned right 1 know what that fel
ler Is, an I stand ready to bet a bosa
on It.”
“What are the word you 'lows to
speak, Jim Thorn,” Pap Sampson ask
ed contemptuously, “If you knows so
much about It?”
“The word I ’low to speak Is Jest
this, Pap Sampson, an you all will see
It ar® a true word If you live long
enough: That man ain’t nothin more
nor less than a rascal hldln out from
the law. That’s the word I speak, an
It’s a word I’ll stand .to If It kills me.”
There was a moment of breathless
silence while the people looked from
ope to another,^aud nobody noticed
that one of the company colored and
after abootlng a contemptuous glance
at Jim Thorn turned her face away.
That one person was Ixiulse, the young
and beautlfnl wife of Him Banks, the
man who had fled before the advance
of a herd of cattle.
The people of Beckett's Mill wers
like the rest of humanity In that tbey
were more ready to lielleve 111 of a fel
that "Mr*. Fpaifc* was intensely In ear
neat and sorely troubW^I. and hr,|*ltled
her. Everybody knew Klieneaer Sjeirks
was a braggart and u cow.ard every
body except hla wife. 1b* one |h*i»oo
who should hove known If l>etter than
any one elae on earth.
The blind. unreUKonlug faith some
wives repose In their husbands would
be ridiculous were It not so pathetic,
and Mrs. Sparks was of that class.
“I guess you ain’t got no call to lie
skeered about Elyeueaer, Mrs. Sparks.'
Hicks remarked presently. “You can
Jest l>et he ain't gone to jlne no war
an that he’ll turn up here the fust
thing you know,”
The woman shook her head.
“You cau’t r fool me.” she replied.
“You uns all don’t know Ebenezer like
I do. If you uus had ever heard him
talk as 1 have, a-telllu about the times
when lie fit Into the war an whopped
the battles, you uus would know whar
he Is now. Time an ag’ln I’ve heard
him n-slghin au a-hopln for a war to
git started, so's he could git a otmnst
to Jlne It an fight like he uster. Ht
was shy. an be-wouldn’t tell you all
them things, hut he told ’em to me.”
Eveu Hicks smiled at this. He could
not help it when he remembered how
qften Ebenezer. sitting by the store
stove of winter evenings, had boasted
of lus brave exploits in war and yearn
ed. ns a sick child yearns for Its moth
er, for a chains* to n |>cat them. EIm*d
ezer’s modesty, like .Ids bravery, was a
mere matter of assumption.
Just at that moment a lx>y came run
nlng down the street In a high state of
excitement, and. stopping In front of
the group, jwinted out :.
v Ypti sll lx-tter come au git K!x*nc
sit Sjiarks otiteti the store cellar. Vauae
Two hundred bushels of po
tatoes remove eighty pounds
of “actual’’ Potash from the
soil. Unless this quantity
is returned to the soil,
the following crop will
materially decrease.
We have book* tellmg about
cotnpotnrion, use ami value ol
lertilurn lor various crops.
Tbey ar* soil tree.
^GERMAN KALI WORKS,
93 Naisau St.,
New York.
as b* rsa
hair wa*
barging
■ylog ■
lokrd
■to Mm vlt*
Mly la tb*
*
•tad. *a*l k
IA l<> Ns pallor
“fly fur ywar lives’ - b* #b
bs waa aear ~o«gb is a
Irnoaf gh-
one woman, young aod beautiful ami
strangely unlike the people stx>ut her. I low creature than they were to bellevs
looked first <>0 the stranger, then oa good of him. For this reason the mo*
I be borsetnan. Tbe first she regarded ! )«frfty of those present fell at once la
with unmistakable admiration, but un with Jim Thorn's Idea aod proceeded
of ah
otber.*
“lie’s ao
Bely that look rbanged to 004
Be as sbe turned ber eyes on tb«
Lard.
If bs
peo
sarn
aatd
.ni* a
man as
herself
that
“Ok
to annout
right.
To be a
bead aod
re tbelr belief that be was
tbt
Pap- Sampson she
roped the earth w
mg at
•b,* f*
* kills
I!
egrs
ftyt
aa they were U> war. tbe pw
sobmb Ridge saw a drsadfai
la tbe rattle af tbe maafertry t -»tj
bs bosmtag of tbs bswvy raasna ; ^ M yo *-tj a n
id aa war Is la reality, is tbe tm g, (>M a»a**4 «* sfx-k* Tbe]
ties af tbeae peupir it saa a tbasa | a y m terror atrtrbea Ibal tbey bi
II dUed ibesa wNb a I tbs pswa* Is moaw WMber bi
sf as* aad leetwr tbst la lade I -
ba»a I —Tbey’ro aevsaia, tbsy'ea a<w<
affarted bod lltorji h ft I *Mir* I Imp Ml
sf Its** sas at bead kion tj "Aa ibey'ro a kill
■aa kaswa as I*** Ramp • «tnyta aa a akaagbterta aa a 1
Wag hsea b* a rsl ap ts as ) tbey ffw- kty. gy fs* yaa* Rvi
seacie *b"».a fc>a brad | Tbsa as tbs ftsM mswalag sf lbs
ted wb*
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Would bate mad
ger, and bb alto*
bin* aad make *1
ibal bs bad dua
It waa aU vary
a b
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er hi
isaat.
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trail
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rane ami •tou
tly malutalm
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m"'
was ewvrect.
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« Huberts
Kim
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CURIthd. that li<
p waa right.
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Jest l»ecn married a year?''
“I dare to speak the truth.” Mrs,
Banks replied cuttingly, her Ups curl
Ing with scorn. “I'm plumb ashamed
of you.”
“Then you don’t love me none,” Sim
whimpered broket^ beartedly. “A wife
what loves ber old maii ain't goto to
run him down afore other folks. Lou
ccsy, you don't love me; you don't love
me:”
Mrs. Banks. Instead of being touched,
gave ber husband one scornful glance
and turned and walked away.
With her utter want of tact Mrs
Mann said:
“I guess. Sim Banks, I-oueesy’s been
a-contrastin you with that Mr. Melvla.
au I reckon she thinks you ain't much
shakes compared with him."
Sim's eye* flashed fire In an Instant
god. trembling with anger, he cried
«“You ar* a lyin. Mrs. Mann, w hen
you say any slc)i a thing as that, an if
you was a* man I'd whup you till y
but* wouUa'i bubl stuivks. Jlaln't no
body got no call 10 speak nary a word
g*To l-oueesr, an I ain't r»»o to *ta
atltl an let no ek-b a word be -pok*.
Berkeley 1,197 bale* of sen islands.
Round bales were packed in only
nine counties of tbe State in 1899, the *-
bales averaging 257 pounds. Laurens
and Barnwell counties packed nearly
two-thirds of the round boles, which ,
doe to tbe round bale ginneries
operated by Mr. Blalock at GoldviUe,.
Laurens County., and Mr. Mike Brown .,
at Barnwell.
Tbe average weight of the square
jales was 401 pounds, or nearly twice
that of tbe round boles. The overage
cost for ginning and baling square
l»al:8 in the various counties was as
follows:.
Beaufort, 81.84; Pickens, fll.GC;
Georgetown, and Spartanburg, $1.62;
Greenville, $159; Oconee aod Wil
liamsburg, $1.58; Horry, $1 55; An
derson, $1.52; Richland, $1.43; Cher
okee and Hampton, #1.39; Darling
ton, 81 37; Chesterfield, $1.36; Berke
ley and Florence, $1.35; Lancaster,
$1.32; Laurens, $1.26; Saluda, $1.25;
Barnwell and Union, $1.23; Dorches
ter, 81.21; Bamberg and Edgefield,
81.18; Aiken, 81.16; Darlington, $1.13;
Fairfield, $1.11; Kershaw, 81.10;
Greenwood, "Lexington and York,
81.09; Marlboro, 81.06; Marion and
Sumter, #1.05; Abbeville and New
berry, 81-04; Chester, $1.03; Claren
don and Orangeburg, $1.02.
But these figures are light comparud
with the cost of ginuing and baling sea
island cotton, which was as follow* on
bales averaging 347 pounds: Charles
ton, 88; Berkeley, 17.06; Beaufort,
86.96.
Tbe average cost of. ginning and
square baling 864,714 bales of uplands,
averaging 491 pounds, was $1.29; while
the average cost of ginning and round
baling 3,602 bales of uplands averag
ing 257 pounds was $1. *
Tbe entire crop of cotton raised in
Ibis country ib 1899 was 9,645,974
bales, of whi<!h 9,043,231 bales wsre
square uplands, averaging 498 pounds
in weight and ginoed and valued at au
average cost of $2.03 per bait ; 500,464
balsa were round uplands averaging
259 pounds aod ginned aod baled at aa
average cost of $1.15; and 97,229 bales
islands averaging 388 pounds ia
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Wrs Is tm sftAA^vf. as4 mi
kodr Is fotag to to bnrt"
TW >■ kasW*4 aronad. and
ta th*W oxSet Hoy saw a lall
too*:ag yonag maa wNb a pair af kern
Mark *y*o aad a firm cast of foanSn-
that w*r* retrntstod to tow*
rsnpeev and even utoslwswo. He
ih*r*. and from
■y Urd. M's Jaot awfnir
way yon say mat Uraa'ma
remarksd. "aa well may y
er all them tkseeamls that
hflted. far they are a-dyto la
aa never ssoppia to as thrtr-
Where are t
Maas la pray for ’om. aa I’m a-gnli
to Re tt."
■atring her artloas to her words, the
woman koelt la tbe etrset and prayed
long aad fhrrewtly, but sbe prayed all
alone. Brerybody sis* was too excited
to Baton to ber petition# even, much
teas take oart In tbem.
Tt*# aboly awful" Jacob Hicks re-
with an ominous shake of bis
A “’Pears Jest like tbe whole
Id Is goto sll to smash an that
tty soon there ain’t goin to be no
to nothin. Seems like I can most
“Ton tms ms| a
•ao y4*a**« I ot I
think sa o hat I t
I II monarr t* sti
I’m nr*wg etro If
tbe tawrdto toms* sa
•Sd man a ttsra I hat* anhA an I asiti
say. that that MWr Is a yrrnrWr an
that he's an hla nay np to Inmron Rmy 1
tar e to mah* aa eyo» let mmt Ih prea* h (
at lb* Oama Ami ftRsrvttft Imwm m %
*“ l*AA AAMfMMMU I Ml AA«# Mlkl tbst |
AA i'SB Cftft fttsS krr-p Ml A ftAf IA If (ill :
IW tPfftAA AmvAMK AMI I (AU JTAAI .
right Bute yon atR’l a gome to rhaa^ j
my mtad none. The words I spoke at
■ret I spank ag'in sa them nords Is
that that f»Urr ata t an mere a preach
*r than a raMrft te—Rery a apevk more."
“Jaaoa Roberta If that frtloe a la’I an
arenrber. aa yon air ao thwd shorn af
it. maybe yon‘11 |eot la* good enongh to
I 1*41 ns a hat amlrr the sua a* may be."
I*ap Hampaoa tbutuprd hie rah* |
I dowa on lb* ground aad
self
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Mr.
Daniel C.
Koper. of tl
be cea-w*
1 the hall wee rtuwverts
wee wnmg to let hi* pi
irrfttj
1, who le a i
native of >**
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to prwparv
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ly to be
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be owner of
d doodad a
ny far dance
s y.mng pan
rod to noo tt.
thnnght o* Jim l
a fttgttire from
anggvotrd H. *
“W under o hat
now." som* um
"that ho s hod f«
aft
I la
"lowd. I l*npr he aia I broa sa killed
notaxly ~ 11 teks rrmarkrd. with a shod-1
drr. “bat like mortgh that's )**l wbat
»i
bear tbe groans an the cries of the
thousands
that are mangled an dyln.
My Lord, my Lord! I wonder wbat
world Is ever goln to come to sny-
jsm.
"An the wust ain’t begin to come
ylt,” Ebeneter Sparks said solemnly.
"Lord, tbe war ain’t fairly got started,
aa this flgbtln ain't nothin to wbat It
will be before It's over. Jest wait till
XM’ve seed flgbtln as Tv* seed It, with
tkousands an tbonsands of men a-figbt-
tl an ever'body a-glttln killed! That
thar’s war share enongh."
"I wonder If that war'll git herer
some one asked in trembling and fear.
At this question the men and women
all looked inquiringly and with wide
eyes in one another's face os If in-
▼King an answer. After a short pause
■bencaer Sparks sold confidently:
"Land! ' Of course that war’ll git
bera. How can It help 11 when It’s so
■igbT Yes, sir-eel You bet it’ll git
bera. Why, tbem two armies will wal-
Wp each other all round over the
country Jest llko a paasel of dogs wal
lop on* another all over ever*whar
whan tbey git to flgbtln. Conroe that
wain gtt bera, Jeat as shorn as any
one of tbe
“Aa we'll all bo killed.'
In terror.
to be." Ebeneaer re-
“Doo't am bow It
■■a ba balped with all tbem guaa oa
i poppin away all tbe time
_ away. Yea, str-ee!
My Is Boto shore to gtt killed.
Fly for your UvetT’
he had come and bow be bad ao sud
denly appeared Id the vlllagQ were
mysteries, but they were mysteries the
people did not stop to consider Just
then. Had an augol from heaven ap
peared among the denizens of Beckett’s
Mill ac that moment they Would scarce
ly have considered it strange, for to
them It was a day of strange and mys
terious happenings.
“What do you mean?” the stranger
demanded of the horseman. “And who
Is It that Is coming?” _ v
“Them armies,” the horseman re
plied. “Oh. my Lord, they’re a-comln,
a million of 'em, with guns an cannons,
an they’re a-killln an a-siaughte-rin an
a-slnyln an a burnlu erer’thlng in their
track. Oh, fly, fly before It’s too late!”
The horseman spurred his horse and
attempted to ride on, but the stranger
took hold of the bridle with one hand
and with the other dfew a pistol from
his pocket, which he |K)luted at the
horseman’s head. *
“Damn your* Re said." “You make
another squeak or try to move another
Inch and I’ll blow your head off. What
Ao you mean by soaring all these wom
en and children mit of their , lives?
Haven’t you got a particle of senseT*
“But they're a-comln. 1 tell you." tbe
ether protested la trembling tones, his
eyes starting from tbelr sockets, “a
million of"—
"Shot up. 1 tell you. or 1*1 snoot you
like a deg. Haven't xoo sense
•• know % drove at chtlr from
thrown down tbe gauntlet aad Is wait
ing to see If anybody Is going te be
foolhardy enough to take It up
Tbe young stranger, having quieted
tbe fear* of tbe people at Hcckrtt'a Mill,
bad departed on bis way giving no ac
count of himself further than to state
that bis name was James Melvtn. He
tab! nothing of whence he came nor
whither be was golng.nor bow be hap
peued to be among them.
Very naturally the people were cu
rious about blm aod equally aa natural
ly they fell to discussing him aa noon
as be was goue.
Tap Sampson being recognized aa the
village oracle very properly resented
tbe audacity of Jason Roberts In dar-
lug to dissent from his conjectures, and
In uttering his last speech be felt that
be had certainly put Jasou down for
good and all.
But Jason was more teuaclous than
Pap supposed, and after pondering the
matter a bit be said:
“I may be mistaken, of course, an so
may you, Pap, but mistaken or not my
notion Is that that feller Is rich an that
he has come here from somewhar to
buy somethin.”
Pap gave a contemptuous sniff and
Indulged In a little incredulous laugh.
“You have said that, Jason Roberts,”
he remarked, “an mebby you have said
true words an mebby you ain’t But
If you thinks they are true words meb-
oy you can go fudder an say what that
feller Is flgurin on buyin.”
“Oh. 1 don’t know’,” Ta son' replied.
“Most anything, I reckon.”
“That won’t do, Jasou. It vfon’t nigh
do. You can’t edge out of a box lu
that aort of way. The fact Is you ain’t
nanotion under the sun w hat that fellef
Is here for, an you mought jest as well
say ao.”
“An you ain’t no nojion neither, Pap,
no more than I have.”
“I’ve said wbat he's here for, Jason,
an I’ve said tt boldly, an, as' I remark
ed. tbe worda what I have spoke I stick
to. an HI routiner to stick to ’em as
long aa Qab’H’s got a button left oo bis
cool That feller Is a preacher, an
bee"—
“Too hare eaid that Pap. aa thar
ain’t ao see ta too rhawia your hash
may tie ttist ww* #
<>r •Mturthia." another added "I reck
on he's uxiet iimcsu enough (o do any-
thing. Judgio by bis looks."
"Or he niouglii ’a’ ruMwO a honk, for
all we*know. land, like a* not he's
got a bushel of money bid about him
somewhar."
. These were all merely surmise* 6a
tbe |iuri of the speaker*, for none of
them knew a thing on earth alxiut
James Melvin. It I* strange, however,
bow near to the truth a mere surmise
may nometlme* draw. That J*rae«
Melvin was a fugitive fn>rp tlie law
wax a fact and that some'of the ether
sumiiaex smacked strongly of the truth
were also facts.
All at once at this point the attention
of th<' villager* was drawn away from
James Melvin and fixed on another
subject.- .Mrs. Sparks had come dash-
lug In among them, her face pale and
haggard and her eyes wet with tears.
“Whar’s my old man?” she cried.
“Whar’s Ebenezer? Hain't none of
you uns seed nothin of him? Oh, my
Lord!” ,, -
Not until this moment had any one
noticed that Ebenezer Sparks was ab
sent, and consequently nobody was in
a position to enlighten bis other half
as to his whereabouts, Mrs. Sparks
looked eagerly from fne<- to face,, then
broke fortli In heartrending lamenta
tions.
“Ob, my-poor, brave, foolhardy El*e-
nozer!” she walled. "I’ll never git to
see him no nvoie, neveir'In. all thla
world! He'll be killed! He's shore to
be killed! I Jest know be will!”
“Why, great granny, Mrs. Sparks,”
Hick* exclaimed, “whatever has got
Into you to make you talk tbat n-wtf^?
Who or wbat Is* gbln to klll lEbenezer,
do you s’poeo?”
“Oh, my Isird, Jake, the war'll kill
him! It’s Jest shore to, an I won’t nev
er git to lay my eyes on him ag'in.”
“Why, land of Goshen, Mrs. Sparks,
bow do you go ’bout flggerlu that put?
How’s the war gwlue to kill Ebenezer
when be ain’t got nothin to do with It,
I’d like to know ?"
“Bat he’s a-gola tp have somethin to
do with It.' Itoa’t you all know tbat
tkrni can no os an tbem guns has dose
■ot him pfamb crazy aa made him ee
I git R
got kotnhed It nil
tent?".
“DUI you 'low
retched clean lo
RampMin a«ked.
the war ba<
Hick*’ cellar
‘an war you
tin m
d<>U
’ Pap
down
tatcra
thar hxikln round ntong
for a battle to whupV”
Ebenezer grinned, hut made no reply.
Hla wife, however, who had come op
Just In time to hear Pap’s question,
•aid
“I reckon. Pap Sampson, you all
thinks you uus is powerful smart My
land, didn't none of you uns never
start nowhar.an gtt lost oo the way?
Humph! Like as If Ebenezer couldn't-
’a’ fell Into that cellar or got sort of
rattled an run Into It by mistake!
Reckon the next thing you all 'ill lie
tryln to make out that Ebenezer are a
coward
“Lord, Mls’us Sparks, we don't need
to do nary sich a thing as that,” Pap
Sampson replied promptly. "Ebene
zer hits done made that all out as plain
as the nose on your face hisself. Yea,
slr-ee.”
“Guess Ehenezet-.an Sim Banks haa
done showed Jest how brave they are,”
Jason Roberts observed, with a laugh
“One of-’em a bidin In a cellar an the
other’n tearin down tbe road Hppoty
cllppety, an all. on account of a drove
of old cows. Say, I bet the war’d soon
be fit If they uns had a whack at It.”
“Lord! Wouldn't Jt, though?” Pap
said, with a chuckle. “Why, It’d Jest
be whupped all to frazzles In no time.”
Then everybody laughed—everybody
except Sparks and Banks and tbelr
wives. The two first bung their heads
In shame, Mrs. Sparka bristled
Ber husband's defense, whi
Banks gave her husband a look full of
disgust and coolly turned her back on
him.
Mrs. Mann noticed the conduct of
Mrs. Banks and promptly called atten
tion to It by saying:
"Lord, Looecay, you ain’t nigh so
quick to at^nd np for yonr husband as
Betty Sparks It for her*a. Ton acta for
all the world Jest Ilka yon is plumb
ashamed of 81m.”
“1 am,” Mrs Banka replied flatly.
“Who could help being ashamed of a
• f
]*B
' i * -
ig the
r«
tame of the
folly exploit
mg (his w<
This ia the
the history
tbe •utiaik-i
T •
>'s o
first
re
other a
he cea
wrt of
rre gather*
tn«l which is
fticle lunch-
•as bureau.
IU kind talpRptr
Mate*
1 bv cot re*
I that he 9oml
towing Taeec
dare. He at
> aod bills act
og ’ oa M>h
“ 4 SLi.'
the
iti-ea.-** agita-
MBthewper ” at
or a ttatarday
ba given a alii the lai
ty toomtnf to riuee hie
M»ce got oat a thoaaaad
macing a •* grand rloa-
lay evening, to which
.ml all ** were lavtted. A local
deaenbea the “ grand rloasag ”
iggsat dniak the town ever
xxience and through the census sou-
BmCow^TBc WflEHn ~gTrfT'* TmV
atqount of information reUltog to tbe
cotton industry, ami one of the most
interesting tables is that •bowing the
production of cotton by counties. Tbe
figure* for this Stole will prove especi-
aily interesting to our readers, the
yield Being 876,445 in commercial
bales or 837,105 in five-hundred pound
bales, which are distributed as follows:
THIN
Commer
cial bales
... 28.047
26 889
.. 39 615
.... 17,704
... 38,100
... 3,908
... 18,188
5,389
Abbeville
Aiken.
Anderson,.
Bamberg »•«••.
Barn well
Beaufort
Berkeley
Charleston
Cherokee 10,;
Chester 21,045
Chesterfield 14,193
Clarendon 21,866
Colleton 8,048
Darlington........ ,' f 29,552
Dorchester 7,569
Edgefield 20,125
Fairfield.. 22,212
Florence 19,137
Georgetown 1,305
Greenville 26,809
.Greenwood 28,884
Hampton 14,755
Hqrry..
Kershaw......
Lancaster......
Laurens... J..
Lexington
Marion
Marlboro.......
Newberry.
Oconee— ,10,695
Orangeburg 65,149
Pickens 11,323
led up in Richland 12.573
iifc &S. siTu'diT:. .t: ... h wa
5,281-
17,727
20,499
39,993
14,352
28,939
39,194
26,245
500 Ib
bales
'-’MOO
25,044
38,456
17,817
38,048
3,3 >4
11,888
3,707
9,700
19,133
18.919
22,512
8,099
29,462
6,234
19,304
21.618
18,991
1,296
24,645
26,987
15,028
5,194
17,458
18,576
85,888
13,024
187,685
38,467
24 240
9,972
62,071
10,320
12,605
istffif
Lots of
people
hive thin
hair. Per
haps their
nts I
HAIR
hair; per-
their
haps
children have thin
hair. But this does
not make it necessary
for them to have thin
hair.
One«
thing
Awn
you
may
rely
upon—
nail
visor
it.
makes the hair healthy
and vigorous; makes
grow thick* and
It cures, dan-
also.
It always restores
color to gray hair,—
all the darh, rich color
flf early life, Jltatis
'anil
33,747
5J.404
17,062
20,318
33,119
Spartanburg 36,739
Sumter 50,670
Union... 18,258
Williamsburg: 20,630
York • *••*4 • • e.e* •V^.e * • « 36,037
Orangeburg County has 4he honor
of leading the rest of the counties in
(lie production of cotton, while Sumter
la second on the hat and iGeorgetown
haa grown the leant.
Charitotvio County produced only tea
Rlaad cotton, yielding 5.389 bales of
a* »44
t aad Barkalov are the only
no
r<
longer need of
our looking old be-
ger
king
ore your time.
Sl.a0atottl*.
“ A* * r*i
to tfa* h*ir
Vigor h*e on «qu*l.
gteoa no perfect
everyway.
lira. A. M.
Aeg. U.to
L for rwtortag
tier* Arar'i
Ayor's
It hoe *tv»*
Btbbbl,