The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 11, 1905, Image 1
THE BAMBERG HERALD.
Established 1891 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1905 One Dollar a.Year
IN A PAINFUL SITUATION.
Distinguished Traveler the Victim of Mistake of
Beli Boy.
The train on which the distinguished
citizen was traveling for the purpose of
fulfilling a lecture engagement was late
and he arrived at his destination only an
hour or two before the-time appointed for
the meeting.
He went straight to a hotel and was
shown to his room.
He was tired and dusty. I
"Boy," he said, "bring me a whisk." |
The boy went to execute the mission,
and a few moments later a committee
from the local society under whose auspices
he was to appear called upon him in
his room.
He was conferring with the committee
when the boy returned, bearing a tray
containing a glass of water and a smaller
glass with red liquid in it.
"What's that?" he demanded.
"It's the whiskey you ordered, sir."
"I didn't order any whiskey,"he gasped.
"I ordered a whisk broom!". But every
member of the committee representing
the Turkeville Total Abstinence Society
will believe to his dying day that the distinguished'lecturer
got exactly what he
had ordered on that occasion.
Not Older Than She Looked.
A Brooklyn woman lately returned
from Europe was describing to her husband,
who had remained at home, her experiences
with the custom inspectors who
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had taken her declaration in llie uauiu vi
the liner coming up the bay, and, accord,V.v
ing to the Brooklyn Eagle, this is the conversation:
"When he asked me my age," she said,
**1 told him 30."
"But my dear," exclaimed the husband,
"you're over 30."
"I know it," she returned; "but do I
])/ look more?"
fc "No, you don't; that's a fact."
"Well," she continued triumphantly,
? ' convinced that mere man was squelched
once more by the force of feminine logic,
"until I look more than 30 I'm going to
be 30, and I don't care for the old United
?)? States government and all the custom inspectors
and declarations. They can't
make me older than I look or want to
be."
, Impatience Plus Conceit
. "I guess you must have made a misSw
take," 6aid Bodine.
"No, I ain't made no mistake," the
voice came even louder than before. "I've
got my deed and paid the money."
By this time Bodine was impatient.
N "Very well," he snapped back. "Throw
them oat if you want to. i snan t rmwve
{ ^: them."
' Now, the simple truth was that Bodine
Cv had no goods in any store. The man had
probably rung up the wrong Bodine and
was too angry to take reasonable pains
A?Vr: to find it out.
?, It reminds me of an experience I had
in a railroad coach several years ago. I
was sitting next a window with a satchel
on the seat beside me, when a peaked face
man came in at tbe front door. and
stopped in the aisle as if expecting me to
take the satchel away and let him sit
^ beside me.
I did not like the curl of his lip, so I did
nothing but look at him.
"Well," said he scornfully, "ain't you
going to take that satchel off that seat ?"
"No, sir," I answered calmly but firmly.
"You ain't, eh ? " He snatched up the
< satchel and slung it half way down the
aisle.
Just then the big fellow who owned the
satchel and had stepped to the watercooler
for a drink, came back and accepted the
thin man's abject apology amid the roars
of the passengers.
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MI never used pills in my family during
the forty years of housekeeping, that
gave such satisfactory results as DeWitt's
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' His Righteous Kick.
"A woman in this town," says the Hick.
ory Ridge Missourian, "whose husband
owes us $9.75 on subscription, had the
swellest hat that was seen at church last
Sunday, while our wife had to make a
new hat by turning her old one inside out
and putting on 25 cents worth of trim
ming she bought at a remnant counter.
It is such things as these, brethren, that
A cause the iron to enter our soul and make
us regret that we spoiled a promising
career as an auctioneer by becoming an
editor in this durned town."
TERRIFIC RACE WITH DEATH.
"Death wras fast approaching," writes
Ralph F. Fernandez, of Tampa, Fla., describing
his race with death, "as a result
of liver trouble and heart disease, which
had robbed me of sleep and all interest in
\ life. I had tried many different doctors
\ and several medicines, but got no benefit,
S until I began to use Electric Bitters. So
r wonderful was their effect, that in three
days I felt like a new man, and today I
x am cured of all my troubles." Price 50c.
Guaranteed by all druggists at Bamberg;
Felder & Matthews, Denmark.
IN THE PALMETTO STATE.
INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick Reading
Pungent Paragraphs About Men
and Happenings.
Do not tamper with rural delivery mail
boxes. At Greenville in the United States
Court Judge Brawley fined R. O. Gambrell,
of Oconee county, $50.00 for tampering
with a mail box and delivered $75
worth of lecture to him and others on the
subject.
The large dry goods store of the J.
Thos. Arnold Co., in Greenville, was gutted
by fire last Wednesday night. The
stock is estimated to be worth about $40,
000, and there was only $19,000 insurance
on it. The stock was practically ruined
by fire and water.
Last Tuesday night the passenger train
from Charleston to Columbia was stopped
at St. Matthews because the engineer was
drunk and running his engine recklessly.
Another engineer had to be sent from
Branchville to take the train to Colmbia, '
and the passengers had a tiresome wait.
It is s^id that the truck growers of
Horry county will lose several hundred
thousand dollars because of the failure of
the express company to furnish cars to
move their strawberries. Thousands of
crates have rotted by the railroad track
in Chadburn. The truckers will sue the
company.
Thomas Jones, a white man, was shot
and instantly killed in his yard at Spartanburg
last Thursday morning by his
neighbor, Thomas Godfrey. The two men
had been at outs about a grape vine, and
Jones called Godfrey a liar. Godfrey immediately
shot at him with a 88 calibre
pistol with the above result.
William Johnson, a mulatto, was tried
in Orangeburg last week for criminally
assaulting an eight-year-old white girl a
few months ago. He was found guilty
and sentenced to be hanged. The child
is iji a fearful condition, not being able to
walk. She has a loathsome disease, communicated
by the assault, which has produced
a rheumatic condition of the lower
limbs.
Bamberg County's Pensioners.
Clerk of Court C. B. Free has received
the money for the pensioners of this
county, and following is the complete list
with the amounts they receive. Those in
Class B. receive $72.00; Class C No 1, $48.00;
Class C No 2, $15.50; Class C No 3,
$48.00; Class C No 4, $48.00.
class b.
Zeigler J H, Bamberg.
class c no 1.
Bessinger Calvin, Olar,
Cox L L, Denmark
Copeland W R, Denmark
Kirkland Jones, Bamberg
Kinsall Joseph, Olar
Pelham H R, Hartzog
Sease J D, Olar
Wilson H E, Bamberg
Zeigler J J, Bamberg
Zeigler J M, Bamberg.
class c no 2.
Behling E C, Denmark
Bessinger J W, Bamberg
Brown H C, Bamberg
Beard H D, Colston
Burbridge Sim, Bamberg
Bessinger William, Bamberg
Brabham B J, Bamberg
Copeland John S, Ehrhardt
Carter C K, Midway
Carter Marion, Bamberg
J Carter M S, Bamberg
I Crider N, Bamberg \
TAconli "Rnmhprff
| l/JLVyAlU0VU vvwv^/M) *r?.Mww.^
Dempsey R C, Bamberg
I Elkins C B, Bamberg
Garrett J A, Midway
Gillam J B, Denmark
Gillam H K, Denmark
Gillam A M, Bamberg
| Gunnels Elisha, Govan
Hartzog D S, Denmark
Jones J F, Bamberg
Jones J A, Bamberg
I Kinard A, Bamberg
Kirkland J A, Ulmer
Main J E, Olar
McCormack J H, Govan
| Neal Louis, Yiola
Nix R W, Bamberg
Rush L B, Govan
Richardson J F, Midway
Rowell B A W, Bamberg
Sandifer F J, Bamberg
Smoak A P, Denmark
Wilson A, Viola
Williams W W, Bamberg
Weeks T S, Midway
Williams S C, Bamberg
class c no 3.
McKenzie Laurenia, Olar.
CLASS C NO *.
All Eliza S, Olar
Breeland N E, Kearse
Boozer Elizabeth, Denmark
Baxley Ann E, Midway
Blume Sarah, Ehrhardt
Carter Sarah, Ehrhardt,
Chassereau Mary E, Ehrhardt 1
Drawdrey Ellen, Denmark
Fail Emily, Denmark
Grimes Emma, Govan
Gillam Amanda, Govan
Hagins Lavinia, Bamberg i
Hair S E, Govan i
Hadwin Eliza, Bamberg <
Hutto Rachel, Denmark <
Hiers M A, Denmark
Hutto Jane E, Denmark
Inabinett M A, Colston
Johns Mary, Midway }
Kirkland Harriett, Colston i
McFail Sarah W, Bamberg <
Morris Eliza, Bamberg
McMillan M A, Bamberg <
Morris Elizabeth, Bamberg
Morris Nelly, Bamberg <
Prescott E C, Bamberg i
Smoak Rebecca, Bamberg
Tant M E, Bamberg , i
Tant Sarah Ann, Bamberg i
Tant Julia, Bamberg. I
NEGROES WANTED CARROLL'S LIFE.
Stormy Scene in Baptist Convention at Union in
Which Richard Carroll Defied the Black
Grafters and Gave Their Names.
Union, May 5.?"I will put a bullet hole
through you if you repeat your charges
in this convention," was the sensational
threat sent to Rev. Richard Carroll, a
prominent negro educator, by a negro
preacher in high circles who is attending
the great Baptist gathering here. For
several months past Rev. Carroll has been
orally and through newspapers making
grave charges against the character of a
nf nflffpn Rantict ministPrS in
uiajv/iiij vsx avgiv i/u^wi^v
this State, saying that some of the more
prominent ones had formed a ring and
that collections ma?e for foreign missions,
education and orphan work had
been diverted into their own private
purses.
The knowledge that he was here to
push his substantiated charges made those
interested employ almost every means including
threats against his life to have
him remain silent. However, he was undaunted
and the investigations which he
demanded and helped to conduct brought
out the facts more than over seventy-five
other ministers corroborated his statements.
A striking feature occurred when in a
wild, disordered assemblage one prominent
delegate demanded of Carroll to
"name them."
"You are one," was the reply.
Another preacher immediately sprang
up and shouted, "Am I one too," evidently
thinking to bluff the speaker who
calmly replied:
"Yes, you too," and proceeded to draw I
a book in which he had the names of.
every one implicated.
This caused a storm of confusion and
calls, "You need not read any more."
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(Jarroli, wno is aomg a goou wwr*. iur
negro youths in Columbia, and who has
the support of the whites, seems to have
the special antipathy of many of his race
who sarcastically denounce him as "an
ingrate." "The white man's friend" and
seeking to raise himself on the dead
bodies of the negro race. The whole session
was a dramatic one and the ring is
larger than supposed, judging by the violent
opposition against Carroll.
tfreat Head for Finance.
Breck Musgrove's friends are telling
this story, says the Birmingham AgeHerald.
A few days ago one of Breck's political
constituents came to Birmingham and
made a hurry call on Breck for $400
Wouldn't Breck lend him that amount of
money for sixty days?
"Why, bless your soul, my dear fellow,"
said Breck, "I haven't got 400 cents with
mejustnow. I tell you what ^ou do. You
go up here to the First National Bank,
and ask 'em to let you have it. They'll be
glad to do it for you."
Thirty minutes later Mr. Constituent
was buttonholing Breck in the lobby of
the Hlllman.
"The First National Bank people," said
Mr. Constituent, "told me they'd be glad
to help me out, and that if I'd get you to
indorse my note*they'd let me have the j
coin."
"That's mighty white of 'em," said
Breck. "Isn't it? Say, though, I'll tell you
what Til do. I'll just switch the thing
around. You go back and tell the bank
people that if they'll indorse your note
I'll let you bave the money."
Indiana Society Intelligence.
Editor Hoosrer State: You will corrct
that item you had in the paper where
Henry Brock come home and found his
wife in the embrace of the boarder. That
is a lie, and the one that had it put in the
paper was judging me by himself. Henry
Brock did come home drunk, and as he
come in the kitchen he found me washing
the dishes. The boarder was in the
bedroom dressing. Henry Brock knocked
some of the dishes off the table. This
scared the boarder and he ran out of the
house and down the road sailing. If I
were the only woman in this neighborhood
who has a drunken husband I would
move out. But there are others. It has
only been a short time since our near
neighbor came home drunk, gathered a
club and made for his old lady, and if it
had not been for their son stepping in he
would have killed her. There was nothing
said in the paper about this. Another
man came home drunk and had a fight
with his wife and scared the hired girl so
badly that she left the place. Nothing
was said about this in the Hoosier State.
trill do well to keen their own I
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door yard clean. Mrs. Bollie Brock.
?Newport, Ind., Hoosier State.
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when he was in this office today, we asked
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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS.
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Aronnd
the Connty and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt, May 8th.?Capt. J. M. Danneily
and Miss Mattie Belvin were married
on "Wednesday of last w ,ek at the Methodist
parsonage by the X.ev. T. L. Belvin,
father of the bride. They boarded the
train for Charleston and other points,
and will be zone thirty or sixty days.
Mr. Tom D. Jones and family have
moved to town, and will be our citizens.
We welcome them in our midst.
We had a very heavy rain in this section
on last Thursday, accompanied by
hail in some places enough to do damage,
making it necessary to plant portions of
the cotton crop over.
The earth is so very wet now until the
farmers are getting behind cultivating
their farms. The grass however is not
waiting for the weather to get suitable
for ploughing.
Prof. W. E. Sawyer went to Charleston
last Friday on business.
Miss Carriebelle Speights, of Hendersonville,
S. C., is spending some time with
her sister, Mrs. Willie Moore.
Mrs. F. T. Moore and daughter, Mattie,
have gone on a visit to Walterboro.
Mr. J. D. Padgett is very sick.
A fruit tree drummer was in town and
spent Sunday with us. What next ?
Jee.
Govan Gossip.
Gov an, May 8?The following marshals
have been elected for the commencement:
Mr. Luther Kennedy and Miss
Estelle Lancaster are the chiefs; Mr.
Spurgeon Mather and Miss^Mary McCormack
are seconds.
Those who won medals in the contests
are: Miss Estelle Lancaster for the best
essay; Miss Jennie Herron in music; Nettie
Nimmons for the best attendance and
[Talbert Lancaster won the prize for
the greatest number of books read from
the library. The judges in the essay contest
were: Prof. Oxyner and Miss Hooton,
of Olar, and Mrs. Lucy Lancaster, of
ice Pncohnrnnarh nf
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Olar; Rev. W. W. Glover, of Augusta, and
Dr. J. R. McCormack, of Olar.
Our commencement will begin May 21.
Rev. J. B: Holly, of Bamberg, will preach
our commencement sermon. Commencement
exercises will be on Tuesday, the
23rd. We extend a cordial invitation to
all.
School Exhibition at Kearse.
The school at White Point Academy,
after a prosperons session of six months,
closed last Friday evening, May 5th. An
exhibition was given, to which the public
was invited. At eight o'clock the
doors were opened and the crowds, which
were waiting, were politely ushered to
seats and provided with programs by
Misses Ettie and Mell Kearse. Everything
being in readiness, at 8.30 o'clock
the curtain rose and exhibited the taste-1
folly arranged and beautifully decorated
stage, and then the exercises commenced.
The programme was as follows:
"Welcome Address," by Flossie Shaw.
I "Song of Summer Time," by School.
Recitation, "Nothing Tall," Pearle
Breland.
"When we are Men," Faber Kearse,
Hoyt Breland, Ira and Lee Garrett,
I Leon Johns.
Song, "Red, White and Blue," by School
Recitation, "Don't," by Genia Shaw.
"Beautiful Bells," Mell and Ettie
Kearse, Evyln and Sarah Brabham, Sudie
j Ritter, Flossie Shaw.
[ Recitation, "When I'm a Woman,"
i Pauline Johns. ' .
Recitation, "Grandma's Beans," Evyln
Brabham.
Pantomine, "Nearer My God to Thee,"
Mell and Ettie Kearse, Marie Kearse,
Sarah Brabham. Sudie Ritter.
"Four Celebrated Characters," Hilda
Kearse, Genia Shaw, Pearle and Janet
Breland.
Recitation, "Mattie's Wants and Wishes,"
Salome Brabham.
Tableau, "Rock of Ages," Mell Kearse,
Flossie Shaw.
"Hattie's Views on Housecle&ning,"
Sadie Breland.
Song, "Vacation Comes Today," School.
Play, "Topsy Turvy," Cressie Breland,
rT TTPari TTnoroo
Horace xceaxsc, iuam. uvax^b, vwi uvu^v
Sarah Brabham, Ennis Breland, Mell
Kearse, Willie Bitter.
Song, "Class Farewell," by School.
The play,"Topsy Turvywas the main
feature of the entertainment, and being
both interesting and comical, seems to
have been heartily enjoyed by those present.
The school room was well filled and
as everybody seemed in the best of humor,
perhaps it isn't too much to say that each
one spent a pleasant evening.
It is to our beloved teacher that we owe
our thanks for having caused all present
to spend an enjoyable evening. While
we truly appreciate her effort, we as truly
acknowledge our deep obligation to her.
Never has a teacher more wholly won
the love and confidence of pupils and
patrons than has Miss Annie Weeks, and
it was with many regrets but with equally
as many good wishes we saw her leave
on Saturday morning for her home at
Elloree. Scholar.
Branchvilie on a Boom.
Braxchville, May 8.?Mr. L. M. Felton,
of the Piedmont Electric Company,
who is here erecting a telephone system
and electric light plant, will spend a day
or two with his family in Anderson this
week, but will return and finish his work.
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ready up, and both plants will be in full
operation within the next few weeks.
Telephone lines will probably be run to
Smoak's, in Colleton county, and to
Hunter's Chapel, in Bamberg county, and
Branchville will be in communication
with the surrounding country.
The coming of the telephone and electrict
light has, it appears, had the desired
effect on the business men of Branchville,
and they now, at least, partly realize the
possibilities of the town. There is talk
of a $15,000 hotel and a system ginnery
with a capital of about $10,000 being
erected here, and probably an electric
railroad which would connect with the
Hampton and Branchville Railroad near
Lodge, S. C., and with the Atlantic Coast
Line near Elloree, or with the boat line
on the Santee.
The annual conference of the Women's
Foreign Missionary Society, of Orangeburg
district, embracing about 70 Methodist
churches in Orangeburg, Bamberg,
Barnwell, Aiken, and Colleton counties,
will meet in Branchville Friday night,
May 19, and continue in session through
Sunday. Delegates are expected from all
the church missionary societies, and a
number of prominent ladies from different
parts of the state will be in attendance.
Mrs. W. A. Bass, Mrs. P. C. Dukes, Mrs.
Provy Myers, and Mrs. Belle izlar, together
with the pastor of the Eranchville
Methodist Church, the Rev. S. A. Nettles,
have the details of the meeting in hand,
and a profitable and interesting meeting
is expected.
Prof. W. P. Etchison and his assistants,
Miss Edna Heard, of Florence, and Miss
Daisy Boneste, of Charleston, are preparing
for commencement exercises which
will take place this month. Commencement
in Branchville is always looked forward
to with great pleasure, not because
it is the winding up of the school year,
but because it is a happy time for the
pupils as well as the parents, and BranchI
ville has a school her citizens may well be
' proud of.
The Baptist parsonage here is nearing
completion, and will soon be occupied by
the pastor, the Rev. Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith
is very popular with the people, and is
doing good work for his church.
Mr. W. A. Bass, of the Branchville
Railroad Hotel, has just returned from
a visit to his relatives in Virginia.
- Mr. and Mrs. H. Wolffe, of Allendale,
spent Sunday in town with Mrs. R. Pearlstine.
Baseball Game.
There will be a game of baseball at the
park here tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon
between the Fitting School and Denmark.
Game called at 4.30 p. m. Admission 15c
and 25c. Go out and see the game. A
good exhibition is promised.
Citizens of Bamberg.
To the voters who persisted in running
me for warden in municipal election and
voted for me, I thank you for your confiJ
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me I am truly grateful, for I did not want
the office and you leave me free to run
my cash business where a hard earned
dollar does its full duty. Be sure.and see
my line of shoes. W. D. Rhoad.
New Advertisements.
money to lend.
Messrs. J. 0. Patterson, Jr., and J. W.
Patterson, of Barnwell, advertise that
they are prepared to loan money on improved
farms at a low rate of interest.
See the ad. in another column.
theodore kohn.
See Kohn's new ad. He offers seasonable
goods at bargain prices. Read the
ad. and send him an order.
Trotti & Trotti?Dental Notice.
Gale & Gale?To the Ladies.
H. M. Graham?Law Card.
Dr. H. F. Hoover?All Kinds of Patent
I Medicines.
. Country Correspondence.
Rain! "More rain, more rest."
The farmers' general is very evident, in
full force.
Misses Minnie Lee and Estelle Bessinger,
of Bamberg, were the guests of their
cousin, Miss Pearle Sandifer, in our
midst Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Hughes visited
their mother at Clear Pond, Saturday
and Sunday. i,
The angel of death visited our vicinity 1
last Tuesday morning and claimed for
its own the spirit of Mrs. Henry Pearson. ,
She was sick only a short while, passing j
quietly away before a physician could be
summoned. She was of a quiet, unobtrusive
nature, kind and gentle to all. To
mourn her death she leaves a husband, /
one daughter and two sons. Her remains 1
were interred in the family plot at Be- <
thesda cemetery on Wednesday morning, 1
Rev. J. B. Holly, of Bamberg, conduct- !
ing funeral services. <
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Daniel Decatur Emmett and "Dixie." ,
BY H. C. DICKINSON.
Some one has said, "Let me write the
songs of a nation and I care not who
makes it's laws."
No doubt the inspiring strains of "God
save tne jung," "uixie," ana "ian&ev
D'oodle," have caused the tide of battle to
turn at a critical moment and a victory
won.
Col. James H. Sprague, of Ohio, represents
in one of his beautifnl songs, "My
Dear Ohio Home," a young soldier
wounded and dying in the Orient and
longing for his faraway home on Lake
Erie. When President McKinley first saw
it he was greatly wrought upon and said
it was the most pathetic song he eVer
heard, and since then it has been called
the ex-President's favorite song. Little
did the obscure Ohio boy, Dan Emmett,
imagine that his wonderful verses, would
enthuse thousands of his countrymen as
they boldly marched to face bayonets and
the cannon's mouth.
The Charleston Courier many years ago
in an editorial contended the song was
sung on the streets of New York eighty
years before from the fact that a wealthy
planter by the name of Dixy owned a
large tract of land on Manhattan Island
and possessed many slaves who knew
various medleys and melodies which they
were wont to sing as they returned from
their day's labor or in the streets of the
"quarters."
Charles W. Habner, in his "War Poets
of the South and Confederate Campfire
Songs," from facts at his command explodes
this statement and says Emmett
composed the words in 1859 or '60 without
applying any air, which was set to it
by Bryant or some other orchestral leader.
Emmett was "devil" and afterwards
foreman of a village paper for two or /
-
three years, then drove the band wagon >
of a circus for a season in New York.
After one year he returned penniless to . 'i
his father's home, who asked him how
much money he had saved up and being
answered, "not a cent," the angered pere
told him he was not worth the salt he ate.
He again set out for the metropolis and
twenty years later it is related he strode
into a rehearsal of Bryant's minstrels
with a manuscript in his pocket.
"Here's a new walk 'round boys," he.
said. "What do you call it,Dan?" "Dixie."
In a short while the whole city took it ' : 1
up. Rumsey and Newcomb's minstrel / ;
troupe carried it to Charleston, S. C., where
it held the boards for one week,
enthusing that "quaint old city?the hot
bed of secessia?the city of Spanish influences,
more like a Moorish town with low |
stoops and brick floors?than any one on
the American continent except the great
Cuban city?Havana." The negro boys
tHprp were soon whistling it on every
street and in a short while it was the
popular martial air of the cotton States.
In April or May '61 the writer was in the
old city by the sea and saw several companies,
among them that gallant corps,the
Washington Light Infantry, composed of
the flower of chivalry, march forth "with
screaming fife and throbbing drum"
under the martial strains of Dixie with
Palmetto flags proudly floating above "
them, going to board the trains for camps ' of
instruction at Columbia, S. C., and
Richmond, Va. \ -J|
A few persons believed Dan Emmett
got his idea of "Dixie" from Mason and
Dixon's line and many others think that
it's author was a Southern man, but as
stated above he was from Ohio, having
been born at Mount Vernon in 1815. Not
even President Lincoln and the officers
of his cabinet knew who was the com- 2
poser of the famous song according to
statements gathered from a mutilated leaf
of "Gleanings from the world of music,"
picked up by the writer two or three
years ago. k -V
A large body of Confederates had been
i captured down in Virginia and were being
marched through the streets of Washington
headed by a band playing "Dixie."
One of his officers rushed up to the Pres- >
ident who was standing in the portico of .
the Capitol and said it was arch treason
for the band to be playing the rebel ttfne. .
The President replied, "Oh, let them play
it! Did we not capture the song with
the prisoners?" showing clearly he was.
under the impression that it was of Southern
origin. Still the South claims it as
its own and like Banquo's ghost and the
cause that was not lost, "Dixie" will
not down.
A chronicler of the day (name not
given) visited the "renowned musician a
few days ago where he is spending his
last days. The door was opened and a
pleasant faced old man of over eighty
years appeared and greeted the newcomer
warmly. Mr. Emmett wears a cap and an
overcoat in the house, fastening the latter
to his body by means of a strap. He has
blue eyes, which are continually laughing,
and with all his years of hard work
and privation he is a pleasant, sociable,
kind-hearted old man."
A Wonderful Saving.
The largest Methodist church in Georgia,
used 32 gallons of L. & M. mixed
with 24 gallons of oil, thus making paint
:ost about $1.20 per gallon. They calculated
to use 100 gallons of other paint.
Saved about $80.00 and also got a big
ionation of L. & M. Dealers gladly seu
L. & M., because their customers call for
t, and say they used it 12,14 and even 30
rears ago. Don't pay $1.50 a gallon for
inseed oil, which you do in ready for use
saint. Buy oil fresh from the barrel at 60
ients per gallon, and mix it with L. & M.
Paint. It makes paint cost about $1.20
ser gallon. Sold by Bamberg Pharmacy.