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V OL. XXVIU. WALTERBORO-. S. C.. APRIL 18, 1906. NO. 39- TRIO OF SOUTH POETS. CAROLINA By J. Lemacks Stokes, 0. D. Matone returned fcq trouth Caro> 1866. He had been admitted > the bar in Georgia, and he began is professional work at Walterboro rith much promise crff success. In 878, Jnne 3, he was married to Miss )libia Ann, daughter of I'olonel Ben- aminand Mrs Harriet K. Stokes. Lbout this time appeared "“First jOve,” a poem of teeming fancy and rith tenches of exquisite grace; but re have not space to quote it We rill give, however, “Long Ago,” on^ >f his experiments in blairk verse, oncfatng a deeper chord and showing i master hand. AGO. Q r I ogether, hand in hand, we stood that •eve, beneath the poplan by the rock-browed wpring That gunned with liberal coolness, when the lad, Vftiote sun-hot labors fere red all his veins While ploughing on the hillside, and whose sonfc , Iwrur in random echoes from the wood. And died like phantom v ices on the slopes, Came whistling blithely down the briary P»lh, Placaing at every tarn a leaf. To (right the chaffinch with the mock report Df gun or pistol, till, as suddenly Within the shadowy range of feathering gam He first espied ns, and drew back In fright, And scampered off like a wild thing to the woods, As lightly f cted as the panting bare At twilight. Alas! the spring feeds now no rivulet, „ And that slight, girlish form, whoec beauty fed My soul with the divinest light of love, Walks not beside me. >0 I well recall That day! We had gone forth to see the fields To arink the said sweet melody of birds. And gather beart’s-ease and wild violets Where delicate mots climbed on the oozy banks, . v . And bachelor-buttons grew in regiments Upon the tiny ridges. Then/we came Beside the spring, wherefrom I scooped a draught. Fresh-bnbnling to the basin, in a leaf The largest from the lowest popular hough, And doubled up cup-like, giving her a drink; And saw with joy by that chance look And shy The color, like a wayward, stealthy thing, Come o'er the Parian whiteness of her brow. As shadow over eunsbine, and the whole Truth of her love came over me like light. But things are changed. The fountain is no more; The zigzag path, grown into long disuse, la now an ever-widening water-course After the floods; and sad events to stand Betwixt that time and this, lengthening the years. ^ Yet much is still unchanged, untounched. The birds Are merry yet amid the poplar boughs, And the great poplars stand where eist they stood, , And violets yet grow on the oozy banks; And I have yet a perfect picture, made By a great painter on that blessed eve, Of that sweet, bordered interspace: The sparkling bubbles of the rock-browed spring, The spring itself wherein the sunlight danced, The three majestic poplars, and the edge Of broken shadow where the plough- boy stopped, And lastly tnat blithe silencer of birds As in confusion blank he tnrnedand fled. These lie upon the canvass of my mind In coloi* imprescriptible as light. i, ir „ . , * 1 In 1869 a child of rare promise blessed the union of Mr Malone and Miss Stokes. In the following pcem, “My Girl,” we tee* how deeply the fountain of pater nal hve was stirred: s . XT GIRL. I . ? • I- I hare a girl with wide blue eyes. And locks that son her brow like morn, r When young Aurora's in the j|kies— Yellow, like silks ot ripening corn; Her hand is like a teafpell—win it, 0 fame! It has a music in it. Yon may have seen a little copse Lie close npon a field of thyme, Of evening whenthe fresh dew-drops Come on the briars before the rime. While vet the softest light aglow Upon the distant crest of snow: And how'the sweet brown shadows pace Over the little gloaming wood, In dainty contrast to the mass Of dimpled light, like richest blood, In jocund spots about the Such is herfti And wreathing her •.ncii livht we find, A human ilghi; yet all may guess The heavenly emces pf her mind From her sweet form’s mere slender ness. AnAmystery! the dimnles more Upon her cheek than Eistern lore. How often have I dropped, when she Came near me, pen and book and all This earth’s frail, griel-ftd poesy— Things set to sale upon a stall— And richest draughts of passion quaffed Is she but idly spoke or laughed! But the law became distasteful to our poet; and when another fair opening came he gladly welcomed it. He had the offer of the associate editorship of the old Charleston Courier (now the News and Courier.) This was in 1870. He went to his post in the early spring, and enter ed with enthusiasm upon what promised to be most congenial employ; but disap pointment was just ahead. After a few short months his health failed and he was obliged to retire to the country. Mi Malone did not return to the city. But the law was more than ever distaste ful and he opened a small school in Wal- terboro as a means of support: while all the s rength and enthusiasm of his nature went to his first love, poesy. These were quiet years of mind growth «nd not unfruitful labors. To his per iod, we ithink, belong “Farmer Kay/’a veal idyl, which won a generous recog nition from his literary friends. But now came a new and unexpected turn. Mr Malone was off for Texas* lured by glowing accounts from a friend <of that fair land, and feeling the pressure of business affairs urging a “new depar ture.” -Here he ventured once more into the law, hut for the greater part of his short stay tauabt school, associating jourualism at intervals with his duties as a teacher. And now, to human seeming, a fit climax of a life ot unequal success, but ever strenuous endeavor, was about to be attained. Dr F. Asbury Mood was about to inaugurate the since magnificent Southwestern University, and offered Mr Malone the professorship of English in the infent enterprise. The Doctor, him self a Carolinian, had known Mr Malone in former years. It seemed an ideal ar rangement. We fee) sure Mr Malone would have justified all the hope* of his friends in this congenial sphere. But on his way to Georgetown, the seat of the university, he was taken seriously ill, and died in Austin, September 18, 1873. It is a great privilege for the writer thus to tell of this “guide, philosopher''— of his youth. Our only regret is that so much must be left unsaid. ;lt is indeed a beautiful and heroic lite that we contem plate: of the chivalrous boy-spldier facing the cold steel of Gettj sburg as he followed the gallant Hampton in baLie and bear ing from the field the enduring marks of valor. Of the youth athirst for knowl edge, and overcoming all obstacles to its attainment. Of the man strong ififwil), enthusiastic in spirit, but like “the bird with the brokeu pinion,” unequal (with his poor wounded body) to life’s stern demands, and dying before his time. Of the poet, true to nature and human bearti who won a warm place in the apprecia tion of the few whose songs were destined to sweep the chords of the popular heart with pathjs and power; but who passed away, a genius uncrowned in earth’s Pantheon; and yet whose promise should be gratefully recorded in the higher his tory of mind! What good does it do you to eat if your stomach fails to digest the food? None. It does you harm—causes belching, sour stomach, flatulence, etc. When the stom ach fails a little Kodol Dyspepsia Cure after each meal will digest what, you- eat and makes the stomach sweet. Dr Nicholls, a dentist of Enoree, has been missing from his home since last Wednesday, and his friends and th£ members of his family fear that he has met with foul play and his body dumped into the Enoree River, or that he fell into the stream by accident and was drowned. He was last seen walking down the river bank dressed in a fishing suit It is prd&lble that the Enoree River will be dragged for the body. y ., ■ ■»• ■■■- - Nothing will relieve indigestion that !s not a thorough digestant. Kodol Dys pepsia Cure digests what you eat, ’ and allows the stomach to rest—recuperate— grow atrong again. A tew doeea of Ko dol alter meals will aoon, restore the stomach aad digestive organa to a full C rformanoe of their function naturally. Id by John M Klein. DEATH OF REV A. J. STOKES. One of the Oldest and Most Promi nent At blisters of the South Caro lina Conference. Kev Andrew Jackson Stokes, D. D., of the South Carolina Methodist Con ference, died at Greenwood Inst Friday morning at 9 o’clock as a result of the paralytic stroke which came upon him Tuesday evening while he was attend ing the session of the investigating committee iu the case ofUevC. \Y. Creighton, editor of The Christian Ap peal. Dr Stokes was at once removed to the home of Kev M. B. Kelley at the Methodist parsonage. Medical aid was given immediately bat he never rallied. Mrs Stokes Whs summoned from Allen dale and was at his bed side when the end came. The tuneral was condncted at the Methodist church «t Greenwood Friday evening at ti o’clock. Rev Waddy T. Duncan, presiding elder of Cokesbury district, and Rev M. B. Kelly, pastor of the Greenw’ood Methodist church, con ducted the services. The burial took place at Camden Saturday. Rev W. S. Stokes, D. D., a sou, arrived iu Green wood Thursday and was with his father when the end came. , The other child ren are: Mrs VV. C. Kirkland of Allen dale, A. J. Stokes of Asheville, N. <Qr, and Beverly, who has just recently been under treatment in the Philadelphia hospital. Rev Andrew Jackson Stokes was born in Colleton oonnty, August 25, 1836, and was therefore iu his 70th year. He received his preparatory schooling at Cokesbury. From Cokes bury he went to Wofford College aud graduated from that institntion in 1859. He was afterwards given the degree of A. M. from Wofford. He was licensed to preach in 1858 and was admitted on trial into the South Carolina Confer ence, December, 859. He was super- anuated at the lost conference in Spar- tanhurg, December, 1905. Until that time he had been in the regular work as a pastor with the exception of a brief period when he was a professor in the Spartanburg Female College. Dr Stokes served many important pastor ates and was presiding elder for the full term of both the Marion and Sumter districts and also of the Charleston dis trict. He served 25 years as a trustee of the Columbia Female' College. He was the chief agent in founding the Epworth Orphanage and . served as president of its board of managers. He also served as president ol the legal conference of tho South Carolina Con ference. The degree of D. D. was conf-rred npon him by Emery College, Georgia, 1898. He married first a daughter of the late Whitefoord Smith, D. D. By this marriage he had one son, Rev W. S. Stokes of Spartanburg. His present wife is a daughter of the late Samnel Wagg Capers. Three children were born of this marriage. CLOSE SHAVE FOR FAST MAIL. House Votes $142,000 For Southern ° Railway’s Train 97. Washington, D. C., April 14.—The fast mail appropriation of $142,000, which the Southern railway annually receives from congress, w as once more passed by the house of representatives informally Friday afternoon, but it got through by the narrowest shave it has ever known, the vote on the. mo tion to strike it out of the postoffice bill being 1UG to 102. For the past month, or ever since the postoffice committee incorporated thfe'item in the general appropriation bill, it has been the opolnlon of south ern members that the subsidy would be stricken out this time. There has been an earnest effort made on the part of the Southern railway’s friends and the friemJs of the fast mail train, with the result that the few votes necessary to save the appropriation were won over. The item is not yet safe, as the vote Friday was taken in the committee of the whole house. This is usually the deciding *yote, however, and unless some members change their vote when the item is voted on formally it will pass congress. Representative Moon, of Tennessee, made the motion to kill the subsidy for the fast mail train. o- BUSINES5 LOCALS. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases pot together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors prouonneed it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. 8o { ence has proven catarrh to be a con stitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Care, bianufactnrsd by F. J. Cheney & Co, Toledo, Ohio, is ths only constitu tional cure on the market, it is taken Internally in doses from 0 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucus surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it foils to care. Send for circulars and tes timonials. Address: F J Cheney & Co, Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggist, 75c. Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation • • State Constables Miller, Mulligan, Hayes and Dean destroyed a 180- gallon still in the upper section of Spartanburg county Saturday morn ing. In addition to cutting up the still the officers captured v 1,500 gallons of beer and ten gallons of corn whiskey. This still was in the Dark Corner section, lust this side of the North Carolina line. - A Guaranteed Care for Piles. Itching, Wind. Bleeding, or Protrading PBea. Druggists refund money If PAZO OINTMENT fails to care any case, no matter of how long standing, m 6 to 14 days. First appdcatiou gives esss and rest. 50c. If yoor druggist hasn’t it send 50c in stamps and it will be forward ed postpaid by Paris Medicine Co., S*. Loois, Mo. Another shipment of hats and notions just iu at Mrs A R Carson’s. Do yon bny eggs, chickens and coun try produce? Yes, and pay top market price. A W Warren. See my spring salts before you buy. I can please yon, and save you money. H W Black, Jr. Layer rairifts, cherries, apple jelly and fruits. Capers’ Bazaar. Griffon Brand clothing the best made for style, tit and wear, for sale by H W Black, Jr. Come and see me boys. Lots of fan and amusement drinking ice oold soda water at A W Warren’s. Woodlawn batter in prints 30 cts. Capers’ Bazaar. Go to Felder’s for water coolers. Low quarter shoes for Ladies, Men aud children, in black, tan and white, prices right. H W Black, Jr. A W Warren is located next door to C DC Adims. Call on him when yon want anything in the grocery line. He will treat yon right. 4 18 It. Just received a fine lot of crockery at Felder’s. 4 18 It A variety of iron bedsteads in stock close prices at Halford Hardware Co. It v * Go to H Zolin’s, the new clothing store in Walterboro, for np-to-date spring and summer salts. Cheapest store in town. Goods guaranteed or money returned. 4 18 2t. For summer Dress Goods, in lawns, dnek and chsmbries go to H W Black, Jr. Don’t depend on your neighbor for the campaign news this year. Subscribe to The Press and Standard—$1 in ad vance. Good coffee lOcts per lb. H W Black, Jr New sbda water outfit, never been used, for sale cheap. Capers’ Bazaar. Easter Shoes—Ladies and Misses Ox fords, all the swell, smart styles for spring and sammer wear. Also Ladies aud Misses White Canvas Oxfords. Headquarters for Mens, Boys, Ladies, Misses and Children shoes; everything clean aud np-to-date at vonLehe’s, The Shoe Man. 4 11 It. No. one Timothy Hay. H W Black Jr club sausage, hog head A Card.: To the voters of the town of Walter boro: Some one has circulated- the re- ixirt that I will not be a candidate for re-election as inteudant. Ido not know how and why such a report was started. This is simply to notify my friends that I do expect to offer for re-election iu May. J no. H. Peurifoy. April 10, 1906. • Adam And Eve. The following poem was written by * Rev. R. S. Williams in negro dialect: Nuttin To Do. Adam and Ebe had nnttiu to do Wen dey was aiibbin in Ed^n, But only to wank de gahden tri*o For the Lawd gib dem all dey was needin. And Satan was den jist loafing aronn Wid mischief chock fnil^in e head, And somehow anudder M issis Ebe he found, "• And harken to wat he sed, ” < He told her dat she conld ete obe de frate Dat growed in de gospil failin, An Ebe jist tnck ebry word ferde trute. Fur dat is a woman’s failin. / «• i When Adam cum home he sed, “O no,” Bat Ebe at him winked both eyes, j Yon kno how it is—it had to be so, , ; 1 “And Adnm did eat likewise. Wen de|Lawd cum aronn an seed wat dey did, Dat on his choice frnit dey’d bin feeding, He oolled em np from wey dey wuz hid And den drobe bote ont ob Edin. Moral. -i i r Do sistars be caifnl how you wank. An don’t lead de bredren astray,' But follow de line of de gospil chawk ? And lets dribe ole Satan away. • _ • NERVOUS PEOPLE.| Something You Ought to Know. 1! Count] cheese bokmies. sausage, hog Capers’ Bazaar. WANTED—Men in each state to travel, post signs, advertise and leave samples of our goods. Sultry $75 per month. $3 per day for expenses. KUHLMAN CO„ Dept S. Atlas Block, Chicago. 1 31 3 mos. Pretty Spring neckwear, cheap, at HW Hlack, Jr. r . White beans, sweet potatoes and cab bage. Gapers’ Bazaar. This is campaign year. Call at The Press and Standard office and subscribe for yonr county paper—$1 in advance. Large stock embroidery 5c to 15c per yd. HW Black, Jr. Fresh eggi from choice bred Plymoth Rock hens. Capers’ Bazaar. FOR RENT—My store formerly oc cupied by Lemacks Bros, in Walter boro, is for rent. Good location. Apply to C P Fislfbarne, Walterboro, S. C. 4 4 4t- Memorial Services. Memorial services will be held at Doctor’s Greek on Saturday. April $1. Her J. P. Graham and Rev J. L. Daniels of Walterboro, are expected to deliver “No nerves and never irritable.” ( This is wbat our well known drnggist. John M. Klein, says people report after taking Viuol. “It is remarkable,” said Mr Klein to the editor of The Press and Standard: “How many people bny sed atives and all sorts of opiates to quiet and deaden the nerves, when they are weakening their entire nervous system by doing so. “Nerve troubles are easily cured.” conntiuued Mr Klein. “It is simply a case of treating the general weakness, not the nerves alone, and that is just what Vinol does in the most direct ami simple manner possible. It cures nerve tronbles because it bailds one up, and makes one strong all over. It invigor', ates the entire nervous system, makes new blood and vitality. “Vinol contains no drags, and yon know what yon are taking—simply the medicinal curatives found in cod liver oil with a little organic iron added. It is fast superseding old forms of cod liver oil and emulsions because it is so delicious to the taste and has no sach mervelous vitalizing power.” * It is for this reason that we say to every nervous, run-down aud debilita ted person in Walterboro, trv Vinol, and if it does not cure yon come back and get yoor money.” John M. Klein, Droggiat. Wouldn’t Trnit Him. “Of course,” said tho sarcastic man, ' “yon always do your wife’s bidding.” i ^“Gracious! No!” replied Mr. Hen- | peck. “She wouldn’t let me. When she goes to an auction sale she never takes me with her.”—Philadelphia Press. « s Contend ictorr. • j “Has your son arrived at years of discretion?” “Oh, yes. He’s about to be married.” , "How you contradict yourself!”— 1 Cleveland Leader. j All. pain must be to teach some good j in the end.—Browning! j- A PriZd Awarded. Minnie, daughter of John O’Bryan,; waq given a prize, each for attendance, behavior and recitations at the close of the Mewville school * ~ Miss M. Sue Williams, Teacher. ■ n ♦♦— — Notice. The next regular teachers’ examina tion will be held on the third Friday ia May, which is May 18. o < > . . . H. A. Crosby, ' JI Oh.Bd.Ex. April 14, 1906. -•-n STRAYED—Two cow*—onejmilk cow, dark dan color and one white •potted heifer. Reward if returned to Ja* E Peurifoy, Walterboro, S. 0., •HU" . Lilt.; Mjt: ■ ,A..