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A YORK COUNTS 01 V Story of a Woman Wh< Hostile Indians, and With Which the Back in the chambers of our memories there are constantly arising threads of history, tragedy and romance that persist in forming themselves into pictures, and these pictures seem to demand expression in order that they may serve to instruct, entertain and inspire others who may be struck with lessons or valuable suggestions as they may present. In my own memory I find such pictures as have been formed through ' glimpses of the life of Barbara McKinney, and I'll tell the tale as it was told to me." On the banks of Fishing Creek, in York county, many years ago, or more definitely speaking in the days of the American Revolution, there dwelt a family of McKinneys. They were of Scotch-Irish blood and as hardy, brave patriotic and loyal as were the best of those who upheld the honor and glory of Scotland in the days of Wallace ana uruuc. The elder McKinney and his sons, had been among the first of that gallant band of patriots, of-whom an old history of South Carolina published in 1800, says: "Those of the old Piedmont hills of York were the bravest soldiers of the Revolutionary war." Barbara McKinley was the only daughter of the McKinney home. To live up to the times in those days. t one had to be very brave and fearless, and Barbara was no exception. Indeed, from the many stories we have heard of her fearless daring, her invincible fortitude, her strength and courage, when days were the darkest, when not one ray of hope brightened her almost isolated life, she must have been quite a heroine. Living in a comparative wilderness, far from any other habitation, environed by invading hosts and hostiile Indians; in that trying time that awed the stoutest hearts, she displayed with cold, firm deliberation, qualities that were certainly remarkable. While her father and brothers were away with Marion fighting for liberty, she was the soul dependence and protector of her mother, and ? several small brothers, and bore the burden the situation involved with Spartan like endurance. Sh? could flint-lnok musket with uao iuc wju ? ?? unerring aim and ride any horse that could be mounted. On several occasions she outwitted British soldiers, and often challenged the pursuit of Indians. It was said of her that one night she watched a band of Indians slip up to the little log stable at the back of the house and steal a young black mare that she had raised and of which she thought a great deal. It was a wild and fractious animal and had never been mounted by any one but herself. In ther bright moonlight Barbara saw the Indians lead the mare away, and waiting until they reached the cover of the woods, she r quietly slipped from the house, determined to follow them, and bring her favorite possession back or die in the attempt, Keeping the Indians in sight she followed them through woods, swamps, and thickets until they, thinking themselves beyonr pursuit, halted. Barbara saw them tie the mare to a sapling and lay down on the ground at a little distance away tp sleep. Hidden in the undergrowth she waited until she was sure thai the Indians were fast asleep. She 1: 3 rr\ ottomnt tn rPSCllP rSctliZtJU luai iw ui>wu.rv vw - the mare, she would simply have to make good on the undertaking or die in the attempt. She crept softly and slowly up to where the mare was tied and deliberately cutting the rope halter, sprang upon the mare's back. It wa6 done in an instant; but with the cracking of a twig under her feet an Indian had the mare by the rope. She stooped over and gave the savage a stinging cut across his face and eyes with a stout hickory stick she had in her hand. The Indian gave a yell ol pain and dropped stunned to the ground while the mare leaped ovei his body and dashed away like ? flash. Hours after, just as the sue ^ was topping the eastern hills, bruised and bleeding and with clothes torr , to shreds, Barbara stepped from ths mare's back at home. Barbara had to carry water a' night for the next day's use from ? spring nearly a half mile away alons a dark woodland path, past the olc stone malt house, where old Attn Jennie Young once brewed beer, ant where a murder had been committed and where "they said." a haunting spirit genius still lurked. From hen Old Fishing Creek church and it; burying ground could be seen acros: the creek on the hill side beyond. Here I may be excused for digress ing from my story by re-calling tka f { HEROINE 7 THE OLD DAYS i Til J u A A : J. ) neia ner uwn ngaiiidi Who Moulded Bullets s Patriots Fought. ! 'the old church on the hillside above ' Fishing Creek was at that time in * charge of the Rev. William Davis, a i ; | venerable and devoted minister of the : Presbyterian church and the beloved 1 friend and counsellor of those simple, t : God-fearing people. It was said of 1 ; him that he wore a hunting shirt 1 and carried his musket in the pulpit ' and stood it beside him while he c preached. He was the grandfather '< of the Rev. William Davis, who at < one time was pastor of Beersheba t church and who is buried in Beershe- t ba cemetery. I But to return to the story. One T night while going down the path to the spring for water, Barbara saw c ,!two Indians slip into the old stone c ! malt house and close the door after 1 them. She knew that they had seen * i her and that they were intending to hide until she went by when they i j would spring out and kill her. With 1 the greatest* coolness she deliberately ? | tended her way down the path to the s spring swinging her water pan, ana v humming an old Puritan hymn. When . she reached the old malt house she L* [sprang to the door and had it securely bolted with its strong wooden bolt before the Indians knew what she was about. She had to keep them prisoners in the malt house for 1 several days before she succeeded in getting rid of them. In the home her's were the hands 1 that kept the fire burning on the hearth all the long dreary winter, and when the house was barred and bolted at night, to keep out foes 1 that were expected at all times, she s would spend long hours molding bul- ; \ lets for some of Mariion's men, for 1 her father and her brothers, or per- l haDs for her sweetheart?for after 1 t , 'the dark days were passed, she mar- jried a kinsman of her'a, a David Mci Kinney, who had distinguished him- s y ; self in the service of Marion, j Barbara had been brought up under the influence of old Uncle Billy Davis's predestination creeds, and 1 was orthodox in her belief that every ( dispensation of Providence was fore- a ordained. She often expressed her- I ! self to the effect that if she was born c 1 to be killed by Indians she would = i I never be drowned in Fishing Creek. ?-?-l * T_ Hair Dreaam escapes iruuu muiauo seemed to have had a fascination for 1 her. She had challenged them so \ often and escaped so successfully that she had become reckless in risking ] her ability of ingenuity in outwit- 1 ting them. ' The day came when there was no 'bread. They had scraped the bottom of the meal barrel. To obtain more j meant a five-miles' ride across the country swarming with a cruel and j barbarous enemy. It looked like i empting Providence to leave the shelter of the house, when pQ? the day ( '! before alarming reports bad been circulated of several depredations committed bv Indians in the settlement. But, there was no one to come to their rescue. She had been to the mill scores of times before and was not afraid to go again. So nothing daunted, she prepared her sack of corn the night before" and before daylight brought her mare from its hiding place in a thicket : nearby, mounted it and with her old flintlock musket across her lap, started ior the mill. As she rode away ion that perilous errand, who would i not have admired her courageous 1! spirit?her certainty of accomplish!i ment? 1 j She had not been gone more than ' j an hour and had just forded the j creek when a band of Indians rush I ed from the undergrowth where they j had been hidden and springing upon :jher, pulled her from her mare, and ! | wrenched her musket from her hands. [;Then the long, sharp scalping knife !j glittered in the morning sun and she 11 knew no more. After scalping her 5 land leaving her for dead on the banks 11 of the creek, they took the mare ' and sack of corn and fled. Barbara ; did not revive until hours afterward. *' She crawled off into the woods and 11 hid herself in a thicket where all that i i long, hot summer day she lay thirst ing for water and almost dead, t When night came on she left her hiding place, slipped to the creek and washed the blood from her hands and t face, after which she put her apron t over her head, and weak and faint> ing, made her way home. 1 It was many weeks before she ret covered from the fearful illness that 1 followed. But she lived to be very! i-u/i onH was srreatlv beloved bv all I > VIU U11V4 ? WV Q- - - - - who knew her. i She always wore a black silk cap j 3 upon her head and delighted in tell3 ing the young# folks who would gather around her of the tragic way in - which she lost the soft brown hair t i of her youth. Also she told of many CUTTING IN AIKEX COUNTY. [Robert Key Slashed by Calvin Ready, Who Escaped. Aiken, March 12.?Yesterday af- sj ternoon Robert Key, a well-known tc ivhite man, of the Silverton section, a tvas brought to Aiken, having been m severely cut by Calvin Ready, a for- yj mer convict, paroled by the governor cc n 1912. Pi 21 Key had three deep cuts across the Dack and several across the arm, and ;he doctors had to take many stitches id n his wounds. h* Rural Policeman Samuels and Dep- Pj lty Robinson went to the scene of the S( ;rouble yesterday afternoon, but f0 D/mv /If Vi n *3 otv/1 i f i o f h michf that wcau* nau iiuU) anu it 10 vuuugnt v&imv le has made his escape into Georgia. ^ CO From the story told by the offi- ^ >ers, it seems that Ready was paying ittention to a younger sister of Key, 20 md the latter objected to this atten- ce ion on account of Readys reputa- J* ion on account of Ready's reputaleadv slipped up to Key and cut him, fo vith the above results. 0I] C( Ready has a bad reputation in this ;ounty, and the records in the clerk )f court's office show that he was ar- I ested in 1912 on a charge of arson, )ut at the February term of court or that year the case was not pressid. He was charged with burning a louse of Mr. R. R. Garvin. At the same court he was irfdicted for as- A >ault and battery with intent to kill, Ci md when his case was called he )leaded guilty, and was sentenced to he chain gang for four months, or a ine of $75. He took the prison senence, and after working only a porion of the time was paroled. However, this parole is not on record in he clerk's office. W MADE FROM ALASKAN GOLD. B; *011 and Holder Used on Railroad Rill fr of Great Worth. dc fa Washington, March 11.?The pen R< vith which Speaker Champ Clark sa ;igned the Alaska railroad bill was yc nade of Alaska gold and was held m n an ivory penholder made from the usk of a mastodon that roamed Alaska more than fifty thousand P< ears ago. re Vice President Marshall used the ;ame pen and holder to-night when le affixed his signature. The pen- ju lolder was carved in the form of an lis Alaska totem pole by an Alaskan Inlian living at Skagway. bc ns )ther of her adventures, including K: til the things here related.?M. Si .iOuise Jackson in Yorkville Enluirer. * NOTICE-FINAL DISCHARGE ~~ ( On Saturday, March 21st, 1914, I will file my final account as administrator of estate of Mrs. Hennie L. Knight, deceased, with Geo. P. Harmon, Judge of Probate for Bamberg county, and will at the same time ask for letters dismissory as 3uch administrator. A. W. KNIGHT Bamberg, S. C., Feb. 20th, 1914. LODGE MEETING. 1 Bamberg, Lodge, No. 38, Knights >f Pythias meets first and fourth VIonday nights at 7:30 p. m. Visitng brethren cordially invited. A. M. DENBOW, Chancellor Commander, 3. R. GILLIAM, Keeper of Records and Seal. CHICHESTER S PILLS w.yc-v the diamond brand. a; e Ladies! Ask your l>rocri*t for A\ V Chl-ehes-ter s WiamondKrand/Wx Jh Pills In Red and Gold metallicX^// E boxes, sealed with Blue Ribbon. \/ 3 Take no other. Buy of your ' ft Druggist. AskforClll.CIIE8.TER8 ?S DIAMOND BRAND PILLS, for ?5 J years known as Best, Safest, Always Reliable K OLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE \ NOTICE TO DISTILLERS AND 8 LIQUOR DEALERS. * Bids and samples are hereby re- ? quested in accordance with the dis'- / pensary law now in force, for the ^ following goods to be furnished the ^ State of South Carolina for the use / of the county, S.C. Liquors to be * Bamberg cunty, S. C. Liquors to *e j shipped in car load lots except beer, / freight prepaid to Bamberg, S. C., to- ^ wit: ? All kinds of corn, rye, gin, wines, ^ brandies, both in bulk and bottled in ^ full one-half pints, pints, and quarts. j Beers in pints and quarts to be | delivered at Bamberg, Denmark, * Ehrhardt and Olar, S. C. fi Also bids on empty bottles, one- j haif pints, pints, and quarts, in disAll goods shall be furnished in ? pensary cases, corks and tin foil, compliance with and subject to the terms and conditions of the dispensary law of 1907, and bidders must observe the following rules: 1st. All bids must be sealed, and G there shall be no signature or mark ? upon the envelope indicating the 8 name of the bidder. 2nd. All bids must be sent by express or registered letter to Geo. A. Jennings, treasurer, Bamberg. S. C., on or before April 6th, 1914. > 3rd. The contract will be award-! ed to the lowest responsible^ bidder, 8" the board reserving the right to re- P ject any or all bids, or parts of bids. & The board requires that on all bids submitted the age and proof of all ^ goods shall be stated, and all bids I $ shall be in gallons, one-half gallons. ! quarts, pints, and one-half pints. ? Bids will be opened at the office of j ^ the county board, Bamberg. S. C.. on | April 6,1914. i ? J. M. GRIMES, i % V iid11 man. j :r. B. KEARSE. I f W. H. FAUST. ? Board of Control County Dispensar ies, Bamberg County, South Caro- j lina. ( Hastings' Prolific Corn Yielded 214 Bushels on I Acre If you are going to plant corn this jring, either to fill your own crib or . > enter the corn club contests, the )rn to plant, is Hastings' Prolific. Official United States govern- ] ent records show this corn has elded more per acre than any other >rn planted in the South. Hastings' rolific won the Georgia record with .4 bushels to one acre; the Missisppi record with 225 bushels; the Armsas record with 172 2-3; the Flora record, 129 1-4. Hastings' Prolific is won five-sixths of the corn club izes in Georgia. It has won gh yield per acre records in every :>uthern state, three years out of ur. This corn produces a grain and for;e of the finest quality. It is the >rn tuat it will pay you Dest to piant >ar in and year out Prices: Packet, 10 cwnts; 1-2 pint, i cents; pint, 30 cents; quart, 50 rats, postpaid. Peck, not prepaid, ; bushel, $3.50. Order today. Write 1 once for our big free catalogue, is full of valuable agricultural inrmation and is a good book to have i the farm. H. G. HASTINGS 6 Atlanta, Ga.?Advt. IFE, FIRE, LIVESTOCK HEALTH and ACCIDENT INSURANCE gent for Superior Monument Co. nn Save you Money on Tombstones.. W. MAX WALKER EHRHARDT, S. C. CAN YOUDOUBT IT? rhen the Proof Can Be So Easily Investigated. When so many grateful citizens of imberg testify to benefit derived om Doan's Kidney Pills, can you >ubt the evidence? The proof is not r away?it is ^lmost at your door, aad what a resident of Bamberg ,ys about Doan's Kidney Pills. Can >u demand more convincing testiony? t t QmrtaV "Rrid^p St.. Bamberg, C., says: "I have used Doan's Kidjy Pills which I procured at the sopie's Drug Co., and can strongly commend them. I took this remedy r backache and other symptoms of dney complaint and found it to be st as represented. You may' pub?h my endorsement." If your baok aches?if your kidneys >ther you, don't simply ask far a kid>y. remedy?ask distinctly for Doan's idney Pills the same that Mr. noak had?the remedy backed by >me testimony. 50c aH stores. FosteriDburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. 1 Nervous? | yj Mrs. Walter Vincentf ^ g\t of Pleasant Hill, N. C., ry writes: "For three sum- ?\3? mers I suffered from rS Sj nervousness, dreadful I? P pains in my back and d& 9)1 sides, and weak sinking J spells. Three bottles of ^ Cardui, the woman's pS Sj tonic, relieved me entire- ? P ly. 1 el like another j ill person, now." [(?) )i TAKE - 4$ | Cardui | >y Die Woman's Tonic ^ 8|l For over 50 years, fr Cardui has been helping pQ} ?)| to relieve women's un- (@ yp necessary pains and gvi building weak women up f/5j? to health and strength. 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