Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? Early Ameria | Beaufort's / H By N. L. Willet. Beaufort Gazette. Around Port Royal, S. C., center more early American history thai obtains in any other section of th< United States. The great powers o France, Spain, and England wer< from time to time, something ove: two hundred years, contending be tween themselves for this amazingl: fair land. Those were days full o blood and bitterness. Spain, notec at that time above all other nation: for her cruelties, did some of hei most atrocious work on what ii known as St. Helena Island and i the three or four old forts now ir ruins and situate in the section o: Port Royal, S. C., and all evidence! of these ancient times, were only ii Massachusetts every one of then would be famous through wide publi city and every one would be as muol or more of a national shrine thai those shrines visited so largely eacl year at Concord, Lexington and Ply mouth. As a fact, our national his torians practically make no mentioi and these old landings and these olc wars, down in Beaufort land. ... . A Perspective. To get at a true perspective oJ \ . these old historic days at Port Roy al let me cite the following. In 1601 the English effected a settlement ir Virginia; in 1608 the French settled in Canada; in 1565 the Span iards laid a foundation in St. Au ? gustine, Fla.; in 1620 the Englist . landed in Plymouth. Now as important chronologically as were these above landings there were three land dings in the Port Royal section thai antedated all of the above. In 15 2 C a Spanish expedition?that of Velasquez de Ayllon?landed on St. He lena island and named it and claimec it for Spain. These Spanish were the first white men to land on these Atlantic shores and it all happened eome fifty years before the French put in there. In 1625 another Spanish expedition of six hundred men and following after this landing ir 1520, also landed on St. Helena Island. The Spanish did not conolize S - ; on St. Helena. They acted simply as slave drivers, attempting to carry back American Indians to Spain? the Indians however, dying of homesickness in transit. But since they made the first landings Spain claimed this section as her own and for two r hundred years bloody wars were fought over these lands. These Spanish reports about St. Helena reached France and in 1562 a French Huguenot protestant party sailed from France in two ships. Jean Ribault being in command. It was so notable a body of nobles and .gentlemen a French historian said ' of them, "They had the means to achieve some notable thing and worthy of eternal memory." On May 27, 1562, we find Ribault anchored in ten fathoms of water off what is > known today as Parris Island, just a few miles from Port Royal. > * * * What Ribault Saw* Let me quote here a charming T-vo poo <ya fmm William .T. Rivers's V*M. ?f "Early History of- South Carolina," a book printed in 1856. "Here on the 27 day of May, 1562, he cast anchor in a depth of ten fathoms, at the opening of a spacious bay, which from cape to cape, was three leagues wide, and formed the en'mnce tc a noble river. .The name , of Port Royal was given to this river, on acco unt of its size and beautiful scenery around it. The harbor he oetc nT1fi 0f best and fairest iii th^ world; and it was said that the largest ships of France, 'yea, the argosie. of Venice' could enter in there. "Ha '*1? moored his vessels, RiWilt v . his soldiers went on shore and as equally delighted with the state ' palms, the wide-spreading .live-v. k trees and fragrant shrubs. While they walked through the for ests fiCK-ks of wilk turkey new aDove heads, and around they beheld ..gcs and stags and imagined that they heard the voices of bears and leopards and of divers other sorts of beas unknown. On returning to j.'ie sh'Pi. they cast their nets in the bay and caught fishes in numbers so wonderful, that two draughts of the net supplied enough for a day's food for the crows of both ships." * * * Ribault's Expedition Lands. Ribault explored the surrounding J J 3 ...1. ? i ? coumry ana uiscuvereu wuat u known as Broad river and Port Royal river and he thoroughly explored Parris Island, now used as a large marine station by the government In the name of his king Ribault took possession of this remarkable country. He went back to France to report his great discovery, but first he built a fort on Parris Island on Pilot creek, a large creek leading intc m History; National Shrines Port Royal river. This fort was called Charles Fort. Remains of it s are in evidence today. He left in this 1 fort a garrison of 26 men. Not re3 turning quickly on account of home f wars, the garrison afterward built 3 a ship with the aid of the Indians, usr ing Spanish moss and rosin for caulk ing it. This was the first ship conj structed in America and in this ship f the garrison sailed to Europe. It 1 is doubtful whether any spot in Am5 erica carries as much historic interr est as does this old Charles Fort, for s this fort marks the first attempt to f plant a colony on American shores. i It was also the first place on which i the Huguenots landed and it was also s the first nlaoe in America to build an i ocean-sailing ship, and yet this spot 1 has been ignored by the historians - and is not by any means nationally 1 known. It behooves the state of i South Carolina and also our national i government to set up certain memo rials at this spot. In 1565 another French ship landl ed at Port Royal. Its mission largel ly was to thank Chief Audusta for his kindness to the garrison on Parris Island in 1562. f The Indians. Most of the early landings in Amr erica were handicapped by wars with 1 Indians. Wars at Port Royal, how ever, were all between white men of " three nations, each nation claiming - the soil. Than Port Royal no section 1 of the United States probably was - more thickly populated with Indians. } These were the names of some of the - chiefs: Audusta, Touppa, Mayou and t Stalame, all in the immediate sec> tion of Port Royal and Ovade and his brother, Conexis, powerful chiefs over on the Savannah river. All of I these above chiefs lived in what is ' now Beaufort county. This heavy > Indian population probably was be1 cause of the sensational amount of L game on land and fish and oysters in these great salt water streams that L traverse Beaufort county. In 1562 L we find all of these tribes of Indians cultivating fields of millet?probably ' a species of kaffir corn. All of these ' chiefs divided their corn and millet r with the Charles Fort garrison as freely and as liberally and treated the garrison as if they, these Indians, \ Had Deen civinzea wnite unrisuan L men. This ciltivation of corn and 1 this friendliness among these Indian 1 chieftains to these newly arrived white mbn, the first that these Indians had ever seen, is a remarkable - exhibit and which obtained nearly1 four hundred years ago on the part > of peoples so often called in our his1 tories "red skinned savages." The Gazette's New Home. When the Chamber of Commerce took over the subscription list and "good will" of The Gazettte, it did so when The Gazette had no home; for the destruction of The Gazette plant by fire deprived it of a shelter. Hence, the publication since its reorganization has been from the very complete plant of the Bamberg Herald?a plant that has no superior in its line within the state of South Carolina, and from which the five issues of The Gazette have been printed. The typographical make-up of each issue that has been printed speak as to the artistic merit of the paper, and were we to .lways have The Gagette printed from out of town, we could make no better selection than let eminate from Messrs. Hitt & Bruce's plant.?Beaufort Gazette. A Prohibition Prophecy. 25 years ago U. S. Senator Henry W. Blair said, "The saloon is a place where the people administer alcohol ic poison to themselves, and in most of the states of the union it is done by authority of law; but whether done by its sanction or indifference of law the work is the same. The liquor seller and his victim meet harmoniously upon the floor of the sai loon and at its bar consummate a , business transaction which is suicide i on the part of one and murder by the j i other. But for the saloon, the great-j est evil of the liquor traffic would j i disappear from the land; and if this . omnipresent plague spot were wiped out by concurring state and national law, it would destroy the capital and profits of the most lucra live as well as the most infamous . pursuit known among men." Funny how the farmer who has ^ stuck to cotton with its unstable ' prices will swear off from other crops when prices fall below the cost k of production. - "I am a dog that knows his bone, i I covet and know it all alone? A time will come which is not yet ) When I'll bite him by whom I'm bit" I>I>EMOCRAT FOR LODGE'S SEATWalker is Making ot Hot for Henry Cabot in Massachusetts. (Savoyard, in The State.) If that young Joseph Henry Walker, who is contesting the Republican nomination for United States senator with Henry Cabot Lodge in the old commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a chip off the old block he is mighty apt to bring trouble to the aristocratic precincts of Nahant. Lodge is as patrician as "all the blood of all the Howards." Walker is as plebian as Sicius Dentatus. The pride of the Siour de Coucy was humility in sack cloth compared with the Puri tanic arrogance of the present chief of the house of Cabot and lienal descendant of the Hartford convention. Montmorency unhorsed and disarmed, held captive in a peasant novel, would remain the spoiled favorite of fortune compared with the condition of Henry Cabot Lodge if defeated by the son of the grandest old shoemaker our glorious union ever saw. In the fifty-second congress Massachusetts was represented by a son of the great "war governor," Andrew, by a great grandson of Roger Sherman, by George Fred Williams, by a son of the house of Coolidge. by Moses T. Stevens, by William Cogswell, by J. C. Crosby, by Henry Cabot Lodge. All these were indorsed by t>h? sacred Codfish of Massachusetts^ blue-blooded aristocracy. But the said consecrated old Cod must have thrown a series of agonizing fits when he discovered in the delegation one Elijah A Morse, the gentleman who got rich selling a stove polish he named "Rising Sun." In fthe succeeding congress this enormous and tremendous statesman exhausted what Charles Sumner once called "ridiculosity" when he orated in denunciation of Grover Cleveland _ " - -_i?*. ;~K;II ior a voits oi a jjnvuie pcusiuu um, at the close of every sentence of that wonderful address, in mournful and tearful numbers, Mr. Moore uttered the refrain, "He never smiled again, Mr. Speaker, he never smiled again." Some wit said of the famous English actor Foote that on accosion be loved to look "like a basket of chips on the road to hell to be burned." Morse beat that, beat it out of sight, and even the sacred Codfish would have roared with riotous laughter had ihe been present. But old Joseph Henry Walker was the kingpin of the Massachusetts delegation. He was a wonderful man. He was a big bundle of commonsense, of sterling honesty, of bad manners. He was as candid as Ben Tillman, and as fearless as Hector of Troy. He was the son of a shoemaker and ' ' TT. mmseir a snoemaKer. ne wa,a a uucbusiness man and in honest walk accumulated a big fortune. He was a pillar of the Baptist church and made bounteous contributions to the great Baptist college, Brown university. He was an inveterate Republican, but mugwumped in 1884 and voted for Grover Cleveland, something Henry Cabot Lodge wanted to do, but could not muster the courage to do. He manufactured the "Walker boot," famous in its day, celebrated for the excellence of the material of which Ti-or. fo aViinnor? and nn*ahl<? ff)P t/hfi 1 . >? C* c iUOUivavu WMS* . Mw> >?- ? ? superior workmanship of its manuj facture. The Walker boot was syn| onyn for honesty in business. One day he gave me in private con| versation a lecture on the secret of j success in business that I wish I j could repeat, for legitimate business ' in America would prosper by a prac! tice of this old fellow's philosophy, j In violent manners he assailed Geo. ! Fred Williams in a speech. He was called to order, his words were taken down and for a whi}e it seemed that the house was going to be fool enough to expel him. The thing was referred to a committee and there it died, as I recollect. He was the under dog in the fight, and he got my sympathy. I went to him and related to him stories of fiercer assaults made in debate than he was guilty of and ihe asked me to find them for him, which I did. He was thus equipped for the battle, and was disappointed when it failed to come. If Joseph Henry Walker had. been gifted with clearness of statement and lucidity of expression he would have writ his Dame on the congressional roll. His defeat was partly due to the want of academic education; but mostly it was chargeable to the vigor and enthusiasm of his nature. He was much like that other old Yankee, Israel Putnam, just as fearless, just as audacious, just j as impetuous. He urged that congress expend the entire surplus in the treasury?over j $200,000,000?for public buildings j and grounds. He and I had a cussing match over it and I charged that his desire to squander the surplus was to deprive the Democrats of a most convincing argument to support reform of the robber tariff. He retorted that I was a fool, also a reprobate, and then he expounded his plan. He could be clear and lucid in private conversation. When speaking1 in public he strove to be eloquent and when eloquent he was not entirely lucid, though he was one of the two men who got the better of Bourke Cock ia.il, liic muau cluyucul man uuugicoo has known the past half of a century. The other man who trimmed the brilliant Irishman was Swager Sherley, of Kentucky. * * It was when the financial "panic" of 1893 was at its worst that Walker, proposed to spend the surplus. Here was his argument: "This government is just beginning to grow. Half a century hence a presidential cabinet will consist of at least 20 secretaries of as many departments. Today land is cheaper than it will ever be again. The wage of labor is smaller than it will ever be again. The cost of building ma terial is cheaper than it will ever be again. In this town we are paying out enormous sums for rent of offices to house the government contin- 1 gents. The thing to do is to condemn and purchase every foot of ground south of Pennsylvania ave- : nue between the Capitol and the ' white house and between the avenue and the Mall and erect grand and beautiful and capacious buildings to house the government. It will save many millions." He was right, the hard-headed bus- : iness man he was. The enterprise he favored and that some day will < be adopted would cost five times as muoh now as it would have cost 1 then. s Strength to young Joe Walker's ; ai*m. He is as courageous and as hon est as his dad. I doubt if he has his dad's sagacity. Lodge would rather ; by beaten 20 times by a patrician ' than by this son of a plebian, grand a man as that old plebian certainly was. There are tidings that there will be a heap of unrest ih Massachusetts. DECLINES TO GIVE NAMES. Senator Christensen Says It Would ! Mean Losing Sight of Issues. Senator Christensen has written the following letter in reply to a re- 1 quest from W. Smoak, of Aiken, ( that the names of the state officers 1 criticising the work of the Griffen- 1 hagen experts: Beaufort, August 2, 1922. 1 at? ttt at i. a o n -tii. \\ . oiiiuan., niAcu, o. vj. Dear sir:?Your letter is at hand requesting the names of the two South Carolina officials criticised by the Griffenhagen reports, and who wrote to a Georgia official a condemnation of these reports. You ask that I reply to you through the newspapers that carried my recent lettei so I am sending this to each paper to which my other was sent. In my letter to Governor Hardwick of July 21, to which you refer, I did not give names because this whole matter should be considered at this time by the voters without getting led _ _ i. asiray mio personalities. > i To cure the conditions in the two ] offices mentioned, and in all the other ] offices needing reform, requires a < legislature that will consider the i facts and act. The last legislature ] made a beginning, a remarkable be- 1 ginning, nd if the people will elect < one this summer to complete the job 1 we will get further. These two officials were not the i only ones criticised by these reports, i There is no need to pick them out. 1 The need is to change our system of supervising the expenditures of i our aDnroDriations. The legislature, 1 which corresponds to a board of di- j rectors of a corporation, needs to have some control of this expenditure, to see that the appropriation law it makes is carried out. The legislature needs to have more disinterested information about the necessities of our fifty-odd departments and institutions. All it hears now is ex parte statements of the heads of these departments and institutions, except when it has a special report made like the Griffenhagen report. But such a report as that is needed only once in a number of years. There ought to be some means by which the legislature can constantly keep in touch through its own officials, re- I sponsible to the legislature. You can not expect your appropriations to be made to the best advantage until this is done. Naturally, some officials and departments do not like this proposition. They want to go ahead in the old way. What was not a serious matter when we were a backward state spending a million a year, is now a decidedly serious matter when we are a progressive state spending over five millions. The old ways do not work now. As it is now, the ex- t penditures can run away with the leg- * islature, and it needs to establish con- ^ trol. The need is for a new system to t K- \\ir + Vi n riovf lpfiqla tllTP. 1 UC csiauiiaucu uj buw ?-?_. It can save us money and get better service. The legislature is the important thing for the voters to think 1 about this summer. ( - There are some sincere, well meaning men who believe that the people of this state can get along best by coddling the big money interests. These good men urge that if the legislature does what these great corporate interests want it to do then these corporations will be good to us and give us prosperity. This is all very well until the legislature is asked to grant special favors. When the income and waler power tax bills come up, for instance, we hear from these corporations. If you add to the influences of these great interests with their powerful legislative lobbies, who do | not want the burden of taxes shifted more on to them?if you add to their influence, the wide spread influences of certain departments and institutions of our state government who do not want appropriations cut, then indeed you have an influence at Columbia that it takes a strong legislature to handle. If the voters will only see to it that the next senate and house are nade up of men who have their hands free, who are not closely allied to the big corporations and who are not partisans and special pleaders for c-nma nortionlar donortmont nr insti W*JLL\J UVUiUi WMVU V v. tion of government then the next legislature will be in position to complete the work begun by the last legislature, and guarantee to us that tax money is wisely spent and more fairly raised. Last spring I was urged to be a candidate for governor and advocate those issues on the stump. It is desirable to have these issues so presented in the state primary campaign, and it is being ably done; and it will be very helpful to have a governor favorable to common sense and practical economy. But the place these issues are to be settled is in the legislature. As a member of the senate finance committee, I can at this time use my experience in these matters to best advantage there. But no menber or group of members can accomplish much unless the voters are awake, and lay aside personal feelings, and local politics, and elect broad minded, independent men to make at least a working majority. You appear to be disturbed by the criticism of the special legislative committee that employed Griffenhagen associates. You refer to the incident that it was called by some a "smelling committee." Let it be remembered that some such nick name is applied to any committee that really gets facts, for facts are apt to be unpleasant in certain quarters. The Dispensary investigating committee Df 1905 was called names and condemned by many, and one complaint ?vas that it employed some outside =>YT>prt hplu. But its work resulted in the overthrow of a corrupt system. The committee that investigat3d the state hospital for the insane in 1910 was roundly criticised and ?iven unpleasant nicknames for the 3ame reason. However, its report brought about the rebuilding and rearganizing of that sorely stricken Institution that had been a blot on the good name of the state. So it bas been with other similar committees. They work for the interests ?t the people and if they secure changes the ywill be criticised by many of those who are changed and oy their friends; because many officials do not like their ways changed, hev are like the rest of us. A legislature that is not ready md able to make these investigations md then act vigorously cannot preset and advance this commonwealth. The last general assembly got the 'acts and began to act on them. Will ;he next general assembly finish the iob? Very respectfully, NIELS HCRISTENSEN. Editor's Invisible Place Among Men By Henry Watterson. "I AM NO MAN'S SLAVE. ' I AM A MAN AMONG MEN. THE ROOF ABOVE ME IS MY OWN. THIS THRESHOLD IS MINE; AND, HOLDING NO COMMISSION BUT THAT WHICH, SENT FROM HEAVEN, MAKES ME A SPOKESMAN FOR MY FELLOWMEN, AND HAVING NO WEAPON BUT A HANDFUL OF TYPES, I AM ABLE TO DEFY THE WORLD THAT PROPOSES, UNBIDDEN, TO CROSS IT, BECAUSE I AM SUPPORTED BY AN INVINCIBLE ARMY, READY TO RALLY AT A MOMENT'S NOTICE FOR THE DEFENSE OF ITSELF, WHICH IS MY DEFENSE." A summer thought: it is all right :o rest when the farm rush is over, )ut it is better to do something v?hile resting. Take some vacation ;rips into other communities and see low they farm. Isn't it strange how the political >ee so often buzzes around the head )f a humbug? DR. THOMAS BLACK DENTAL SURGEON Graduate Dental Department University of Maryland. Member S. C. State Dental Association. Office opposite postoffice. Office hours, 9:00 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days Druggists refund money If PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. Instantly relieves Itching Piles, and you can get restful sleep after the first application. Price 60c. Tie Fidelity Mntaal Life losnraoce Co. rt# vi x uuaucipuia Will pay you an "Income" if you live ?your family if you die?you should know about this plan C. W. RENTZ, JR., District Manager, Bamberg, S. C. Habitual Constipation Cured in 14 to 21 Days "LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN" is a speciallyprepared Syrup Tonic-Laxative for Habitual Constipation. It relieves promptly but should be taken regularly for 14 to 21 days to induce regular action. It Stimulates and Regulates. Very Pleasant to Take. 66c per bottle. NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF VICTORY BONDS. , The Treasury Department has called in all Victory Notes bearing the distinguishing letters, A, B, C, D, E. or F. preceding the number on bonds. These bonds are to be redeemed on December 15, 1922. All parties who purchased these bonds through this bank may hand us their bonds and we will forward them for redemption to the Treasury Depart- ? ment. BAMBERG BANKING COMPNAY. Bamberg, S. C., Aug. 1. Colds Cause Grip and Influenza T AYATTVF RRflMO HI nWTW T.KW. the cause. There is only one ' Bromo Quinine." E. W. GROVE'S signature on box. 30c. RILEY & COPELAND Successors to W. P. Riley. Fire, Life Accident INSURANCE Office in J. D. Copeland's Store BAMBERG, S. C. I DR.GJ.TRULUCK I SPECIALIST Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat ' Barton Bldg. Phone 274 4 Orangeburg, S. C. ? To Our I r i ILusiumws * 1 How to Make Jams and Jellies from Fresh, Canned or Dried Fruits, with Only One Minute's Boiling. P It's so easy to make jam from strawberries and other Knmmo r% y\ A fwnif c ?a1 1 tr fi?Am jpw ucii iuo auu 11 uiic, jciij liuui bottled grape juice as well as from oranges and grapefruit, and wonderful marmalades, too by the new CERTO process that we want you to try it. -h JUST HUM OF IT. 4 Only one minute's boiling. Fifty per cent, more jam or jelly from same amount of fruit. Better color and flavor. ; No failures. - Costs less. TRY THIS I Qt. grape juice, 3 1-4 lb. susar. 1 bottle CERTO. Makes I about 15 six-oz. glasses of the most delicious Grape Jelly you ever tasted for less tban 9c a glass. | ? AND THIS I , 2 Qts. strawberries, 3 1-4 lb. sugar, 1-2 bottle CERTO. Makes 15 six-ounce glasses of really wonderful Strawberry Jam at a cost of only 6c a glass, with -<4 strawberries at 25c a quart. J (See full directions inside 1 package for these and other re- 1 | cipes.) I Phone 15 Tom Docker : QUALITY SERVICE ,