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W&t Pamberg per alb ESTABLISHED APRIL. 1891. ?? i Published Weekly at Bamberg, S. C. j _______ i Entered as second-class matter April 1891, under Act of March 3, 1879. j ! $2.00 PER YEAR. i Volume 29. No. 12. j Thursday, March 18,1920. ! __ i FUNERAL SERMON BY SLAVE. "Ten Cent" Bill Delivers Oration Over Master. There were 30 old men, veterans in grey, from the Confederate soldiers' home in the undertaker's chapel for the funeral of their comrade, Capt. Thomas McColl Yopp. There were ladies from the United 38* * Daughters of the Confederacy and the Daughters of the American Revolution. There were men in the blue from the Grand Army of the Republic. The chapel benches were filled and many stood. Two ministers spoke?words of honor to the dead and of comfort for * the living. A quartet sang and there was prayer. But it was none of these whose mission it was to pay the last memorial tribute. The former slave of the dead veteran, a man whose heart is as whiie as his wrinkled face is black, delivered the final funeral oration in the chapel, followed to the cemetery the j - casket shrouded in the Stars and Bars, and above the grave bowed his head in sorrow and love of the masS|3g?.\ ter he had served for more than half fe;' a century. "Ten-Cent" Bill Yopp, himself one of the fast fading company whose comrades wait for them across the : river, had been chosen to give the funeral oration. Holding Derby Hat. He sat, holding his black derby hat eKvv. in his hands, his frayed overcoat tightened about his shoulders, on the ^ * front row of the chapel. By stretching one hand he could have touched the Confederate flag that draped the A casket of his master. Behind him gfe. were rows filled with veterans from the home. Some of them smiled at him or waved a knotty hand, but, such was V v the occasion, they were mostly silent. Prom the rear you saw 30 pairs of bent shoulders, 30 bowed heads, white hair what seemed making a gentle halo over each. In the dim light pv flitting through the stained glass . windows you could see their hands , eupped behind their ears, while they listened: ?'? On/thp nthpr sidp nf Jordan |? In the green fields of Eden, Where the Tree of Life is blooming, IS:; There is rest for you . . Then "Ten Cent" Bill rose in his place and began to speak. "My dear friends," he said, "I p "thank you from the depths of my heart for the kind compliment you are are paying me and the kind permission you have given me. Like the ? minister who spoke before me, I, too, J wish to God that the same old feeling \ existed today between the white and h. black that existed in 1860. "I have known Capt. Thomas McCall Yopp, my former master, for 67 JpV- years. My mother nursed him, and so his father, who thought so much of him, gave my mothex* to him before I was born. I know that he never spoke an unkind word to her or to any of his servants. "Since 1856, when I was only a little pickaniny in nothing but a cotton r- shirt and he wasn't too proud to pick me up and ride me on the back of his horse we have been friends. We : hunted together and fished together all day long. I rode with him week in and week out. We would eat our lunch out in the woods and then come home together. Every night before ha wrmlri erc\ to hod ho would SO to p. ~~ " " _ w- -. on? servant's house and to another's ite: and another's, and sit and laugh and joke with them. By and by he would say, 'Bill, I'm getting sleepy,' and we would go back to the big house and eat a little lunch before we went to bed. I slept beside him every night." Tells of the War. Bill paused, a gulp in his voice, and ? then he began to tell of the war, how he and Captain Yopp, joining the ? . ' army in Atlanta in June, 1861, went h' to Lynchburg in a freight car and took the field. They slept side by side in the captain's tent, he said, and when it was very bad weather, Captain Yopp. with a single blanket, between then); would sav, "Cold, Bill? Then pull over!" V > J * Once Bill was sick and Captain Yopp gave him a pass to Richmond and $150, Bill leaving only on condition that he could come back. "He could not see one man imposed j on by another," .said "Ten Cent Bill." "He loved his soldiers equally, as he loved his slaves. He was as brave as a lion and as gentle as a wild flowrer that grows in the spring. I have been %" ' c * ' ^ 1 * ; n m-z ' ' over two-thirds of the world and 1 have never known a finer man than Captain Yopp. < "If his funeral were being held today at the old home in Laurens county," continued Bill, "the streets would ' not hold the people. Only a thin veil ; separates life from death. He has! ; pierced that veil, but we shall join!: him soon. Death has taken charge of ; his body, but 1 know that God has taken charge of his soul!" i j( "Ten-Cent" Bill stopped, his head ; bowed, his hand raised, and, with the;; benediction, the audience stirred and i; began to file out. 11 i , Little Lesson for Agent. i "Madam,'' he began as the door^ opened, "I am selling a new book on;1 Etiquette and Deportment." 1 "Oh, you are," she responded. "Go i' down there and clean the mud from your feet." 1 "Yes'm. As I was saying, madam, ^ I am sell?" x ^ "Take off your hat! Never address 1 a strange lady at her door without removing your hat." "Yes'm. Now then, as I was saying?" "Take your hand out of your pock- i et. No gentleman ever carries his 1 hand there." 1 "Yes'm. Now, madam, this work on Eti?" . * "Throw away your pipe. If a gen- < tleman uses tobacco he is careful not to disgust others by the habit. "Wait. Put that dirty handkerchief * out of sight and use less grease on 1 your hair in the future. Now you looa 1 a bit descent. You have a book on f 'Etiquette and Deportment.' Very well, I don't want it. I am only the servant girl. Go up'the stairs to the front door and talk with the lady r of the house. She called me a down-1 f right, no doubt-about-it idiot this e morning, and I think the book you are selling is just what she requires." t m m I Read The Herald, $2.00 per year, e ]5 PER I Adde |?j All unpaid taxes and busii m 15th, 1920. H If not paid by April Isi ? issued. = Bv order of the Mayor ; ?? %f * |H of Bamberg. liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^ I THERE ARE MANY GOOD, STRONG B. VALUE 1 Our unalterable polic est possible value to number of people, re or not they are custo: Our welfare is depen of this community, s< Iterest in each mdivid RESOURCES OVE YOUNG WOMAN OX TRIAL. L'liarged With Killing Brother?Sell" Defense Her Plea. Greenville. March 11.?Amber Robinson, the twenty-one-year-old girl, who shot and fatally wounded her brother. Jim Robinson, at her home on Falls stret here, February 2.",, was placed on trial on a charge of murder in the sessions court here this afternoon. The first witness was E. P. Rousemond, one of the two young men who was with Jim Robinson wlien he was shot by the girl. The other young man, Ansell Ballew, was not permitted to testify, the defense proving that he had been convicted some months ago of obtaining money under false pretense. Several other witnesses were -ivnmitiof) lid ntVior* ova witnpetiPe ^AaiUi ll^U f k/uc uv UVI1V1 V The girl will make a plea of self-defense, having declared shortly after her arerst that her brother attacked tier arrest that her brother attacked him. ^ hi m Habit. An ex-judge had been nominated mayor in a French country district. It soon devolved upon him to sanc:ion a marriage ceremony. "Do you consent to marry this gentleman, young lady?" he asked imiably. "Yes," was the reply. Then suddenly changing his tone :o one of 'great severity, he said to ler proposed husband. "And you? lave you nothing to say in your (le-j !ense?"?London Opinion. Pretty Old. Bacon?This paper says although idiculed as a craze it is a scientific act that sour milk conduces to longfvity. Egbert?I guess that's right. I asted some sour milk rtoday, and, jelieve me, it was right in the longevity class.?Yonkers Statesman. liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirp CENT | d to | less licenses since March 5 t, 1920, execution will be M and Aldermep of the citv M B. F. FOLK, JR., H Clerk and Treas. = WAYS IN WHICH A | ANK MAY BE OF PO YOU. :y is to be the greatthe largest possible gardless of whether mers of ours. dent on the welfare ) we have a vital innal who r-orrmoses it. 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Vy Active Vice President, -n p irn ff H.H.STOKES, j ^' p, ff Cashier. J 5'r f V H. L. HINNANT, J D- Col f f EMILE B. PRICE H. J. Bn I^V Assistant Oasliipi'S. TI C Fo "" " fx yT If Bamberg B; v CAPITAL $200,000.00. ft I?v NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF EHR- ! HARDT TELEPHONE CO. ! ^ ; A Notice is hereby given to all per- j m sons interested that a meeting of the i 1 stockholders of the EhrhardtVTele-; B B I phone Company will be held at 10, J B W m mm I o'clock a. m. on the 17th day of Ap-; Wf^ 1 1 I ril, 1 920, at Town Hall, Ehrhardt, j ^ fl I fl I S. C., for the purpose of liquidation j B III and dissolution of said corporation, j II I J. L. COPELAND, M. D., [ A wBWI President. ; Marrch 15th, 1920. 4-15 J ^ USE THE MAIL J X Send Your i > WAN KODAK FINISHING j ? 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