The press and standard. [volume] (Walterboro, S.C.) 1890-current, November 21, 1906, Image 1
VOL. XXIX.
WALTERBORO, S. C., NOVEMBER 21, 1906. ' ‘ NO. 17
SOMb SIDE Liams ON TML PRI-
YATti LIFE OF SAM JONES.
BY A. W. LA.MAR.
Scene One.
Some tea yean a«o Sam Jones
made up his mlud that he would
have to change his base of operations
ttnd leave Cartersville. His burdens
had become very Rreat by reason of
the large number of people in Car-
tersviile and in the county who were
depending on his generosity. They
waylaid him at the train when he
was expected to arrive; they waylaid
him on his way to the train; they
way laid him ot his home; so he de
cided to make a move. He went over
to Marietta and bought a ten thou*
land dollar home and' paid two tbou-
' gand down to secure the trade. He
went home and told his wife that
when he returned from his next
evangelistic trip, she must be ready
to make the move.
in the meantime, the news of his
removal got out in lartersville, and
upon Sam’s return home, his wife
met him at the door of his home and
laid, ’‘Husband, the house is full of
people. The parlor is full of white
people, and the dining room is full of
negroes. They are all here to protest
againt your leaving Cartersville.
Yan would better go right in and see
them.” So Sam went into the perlor.
The bankers, aud merchants, and
teachers, and preachers, and lawyers*
and doctors, and principal citizens
were all there. One of them as
spokesman said in substance: “Mr
Jones, we have come to enter oar
protest against your leaving Carters-
yille. You belong to us. You have
spent your life here and we all love
you, aud we can’t stand your leaving
us. We feel that you ought not to
go, but should speud your remaining
days among us.” Sam thanked then
all and dismissed the meeting. He
then repaired to the dining-room
whore he found the leading negroa,
merchants, teachers, preachers and
laborers. The leading negro said in
substance: “Mr Jones, we don't
know whether you care much about
qS niggers, but before the I»rd we
all love you. There is not a nigger
in this county that would harm a
hair on the head of one of your
family; there is not a nigger in this
county but would set up all nigh*
with his musket and guard your
home from harm if be knew it was
threatened; there is not a nigger in
this county what knows you but
loves you. You’sebeen a father to
us and our best friend. Many of ns
were converted in your Tabernacle
meetings and we owe everything to
you. We does hate to see you le*?e
Cartersville. It will be hard on us
poor niggers, if you leave us. Mr
Jones, if you must go and will go, we
will try to bear it as well as we can,
but we have come to beg you for the
Lord sake, if you will go, not to taka
wife with you. Mr Jones, she is the
guardian angel of this community.
If there is any poor white peeple or
aiy poor niggers ] n trouble, she is
there. She is the miuistering angel.
For the Lord sake, leave her with us
if you must go.”
Sam sat dswn and cried like a boy
and the negnes cried with him.
Finally, when he.conld control his
emotion, he said, “Niggers, let’s
pray!” They all fell on their knees
and prayed and .as they rose Sam
•aid, ‘’Niggers, I ain’t gwine. I’ll
stay right here in Cartersville till I
go to Heaven.”
&3Wa« well loved in his home
town. Everybody knew that how*
wr hard the blows he’d strike for
the homes of tbs people, for etrio
righteousness and for God, they
knew he was great-hearted aud as
loving as a little child.
Scene Two.
Some years ago Sam Jones held a
meeting with the . leading Methodist
church of Little Keck, tn his charac
teristic style, he wen: for the lashion
and tne frivolity and the worldliuees
of the “Sawciety folks,” many of
whom were in this church. They
were much scandalized and offended
as folks of that class often were with
his deuunciotious of their doings*
Some two or more years thereafter,
Sam was to hold a union meeting
there and some of the ‘‘priucipalisi
brethren” went to their young pas
tor and said, “Pastor, are you going
into the Jones Meetin?” “Yes,” said
he, “I am. Why do you ask?”
“Why,’’ said they, “When Mr Jones
was here before he scandalized us be
fore this community and held us up
to ridicule, aud we can’t stand for
such treatment. We have come to
ask you not to go into that meeting.
You are a promising young man, and
you are very popular with this peo
ple and it will injure your usefulness
if you go against their feelings in
this matter. We wish you would not
do it.” The young tuau said, “I’ll
tell y6u what I’ll do. You all meet |
me in my study tomorrow night and
I’ll give you my reasons for believ
ing I should go into the Jones meet
ing for all I am worth, and after
I've told you, if you still feel as you
do, I will not do it’’
They agreed aud the next night
they were all on hand. The young
preacher snid, “Years ago my father,
a Methodist circuit nder, died sud
denly in Georgia and left my mother
with us six children and nothing in
the world except the pittance the
conference provided for the widow
and the orphans. My mother went
to the country town and found that
■he could get a bouse for $1,500, and
by taking boarders she might be able
to keep her children with her aud
educate and raise them ^until they
were old enough to help. I was a
lad of fourteen. But where to get
that fifteen hundred dollars mother
did not know. Finally she wrote to
Brother Sam Jones, whom sh: knew
was my father’s friend, and asked
him if be could put her in the way of
borrowing the money on long time 1
till she conld pay it gradnally. The
mail soon brought a letter from
Brother Jones enclosing his personal
check for fiifteen hundred dollars as
a gifts to my mother. Thus, she was
able to keep her family together and
when I wanted to study for the min
istry, Brother Jones became my
father and saw me through college.
Now, if you think I ought to go back
onamanof God like that, you all
say so.”
They all hung their heads! At
heart, they were good men. The
tears began to fill»their eyes and
finally the leading brother who had
been most prominent in his opposi
tion to Sim said, “Let us all pray.’*
They fell on their knees and their
hearts were broken up. When they
arose they all took the young pastor
by the hand and said, “Go into the
Jones meeting, pastor, and we will
back you for hll we are worth.” And
they did.
' u m* •
Biliousness and Constipaticn.
For years I was troubled with bilious
ness and constipation, which made life
miserable for ms. My appetite failed
me. I lost my nmal force and vitality.
Pepsin preparations and catharics only
made matters worse. I do not knew
where I should have been today had I
not tried Chamberlain’s Stomach and
Liver Tablets. The tablets relieve the
ill feeling aS once, strengthen the diges
tive functions, helping the system to do
its work naturally.—Mrs Rosa Potts,
Birmingham, Ala. That tablets are for
■debyJohnM Klein.
An Interesting Letter From Brant.
Is there a Womans Rural School
Association in Colleton county? If so
I certainly think its members evi
dently must have been taking a long
rest, for I have been in this county
since July 15th and have heard noth
ing of its accomplishments.
I admit that I am in the region of
light-wood-kno*8, which is said to be
the most isolated part of Golleton,
and I bding situated in the back-
woods nm not supposed to know
the happenings of the better parts,
but I try to keep in touch with
school work through the medium of
newspapers, journals, etc, yet I have
seen nothing of an account of such
an organization. I think every other
county in the state nas organized
and why cant we? I am sure Colle
ton has as many wide a wake, ener
getic, progressive teachers as any
other county but seemingly some
factor is needed to promote this
work.
The purpose of such an association
is to further the material improve
ment of the rural schools and a
pledge to do something for the im
provement ot at least one school
during the vear, is the only condition
of membersh.p. Yon who are inter
ested in education should help to
further this movement
Why couldn’t the teacher meet at
some place in Waltertoro, (say the
graded school building, 1 suppose Hhe
principal would permit us to use it
once a mouth) and exchange our ideas
of teaching different subject.
1 am sure it would be to an an ad
vantage to some teachers, for if they
are like I am they are daily seeking
new devices, especially for the pri
mary classes.
To you who are interested in little
entertainment in ywur schools wilt
find these simple owes amusing and
beoefiicial.
The first step to take is to beautify
jour school rooms and grounds, this
can be done by a trivial expense. To
defray the expense of pictures, give
the children a fishing party for this,
place a curtain across a corner of the
room, high enough to prevent any
child from peeping over; behind this
have a box filled with tiny articles,
such as frying pans, dolls, etc. You
can make some things for this pur
pose, and with ho cents you can pur
chase 50 articles at 1c each. To
proceed with your party, fix a fish
hook by placing a little box on the
end of line and the line tied to a
pole (tell the childaen to bring pen
nies) let each child put 2c in the
hook and fish for something. Of
course, you being behind the curtain,
fix the fish on hooks. From this
little party yon can realize 50c after
theexpense for 40c you can buy 20
nice 8x10 inch pictures, with the
other 10c you can buy at any news-,
paper office, large sheets of colored
mounting paper, have the children
to cut this in squares and mount the
pictures. If you have no. window
shades, drape your windows with
this beautiful gray moss. You can
get pretty ferns now in the woods and
plant in boxes. If you have ceiled
rooms you can keep hycinths or
narcissus blooming in water all win
ter. 4
To add books to your library, or to
buy a little clock, have an apple
rolling, for this, fix a narrow plank
slanting, put one end on yoor desk
or chair, the other end into a little
box, procure as many apples as you
have pnpils, and offer a prize for the
ode successful in rolling an apple in
this box, charge a little fee, not over
60 and the children will all oome and
delight in it.
I would give my my program for
Arbor Day, but have made this too
jong now. Wishing you all a suc
cessful year, I am.
Louise D Suber.
Brant, S. C., Nov 14,19C6.
Taken as directed, it becomes the
greatest caratlv* a;eni fer the relief of
suffering humanity ever devised. Such it
Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea. 35
cents, Tea or Tablets. J M Klein.
“Flowers for the Living ”
It is a common thing, when our
loved ones have passed on to the New
Life, to lay upon the stilled bosom a
wreath or bouquet of choice flowers,
and the custom is a pretty one. But
did you ever think of what a travesty
of life it is, when one attends the
funeral of one who has been a faith
ful, loving wife, always practicing
self denial in order to minister to
husband and family, and see that
husband place upon her bosom or
coffin a spray of flowers, when we
know that while the poor woman
lived he was never the man to spare
a dime for a bouquet to gladden her
eyes, or to take time to spade up a bed
iu the yard that she might plant
flowers and grow them herself? How
often we see women who love and
long for flowers who, when they ask
for a few cents to spend with the
florist for living plants, roots or
bulbs with which to brighten an
otherwise naked y^rd are met with a
refusal, and told that there is no
money to waste on such useless things!
Just a paper of mixed seeds—costing
but ten cents; and it would have
gladdened so many dark hours of
discouragement; have lifted untold
loads from the tired heart. But it
was* ‘a uselese expense and a waste of
time, and she would better he patch
ing old garments and darning socks,
if she had so much time to throw
away!’’ Haven’t you seen such cases?
Oh, friends, let us give flowers to
the living. Let us scatter r< al flowers
along the pathways over which the
living feet must tread, as well as lay
them on the hushed bosom of our
dead. It is a little thing ts do, cost
ing so little in money or time or
strength, that it seems strange that
men who profess to k’ve their wives
do not oftener fill their dooryards
with flowers, and cheer the hearts of
the home-keei>er with the beauty and
fragrance while they may enjoy,
rather than scoff at this hungry
longing only to lay upon the coffin
flowers, the cost of which is given to
her in life would have filled her days
with joy unspeakable. Do you ever
think of it—the money she earns lor
you by her unselfish sacrifices? Do
you think nothing belongs to her?—-
The Commoner.
PRESCRIPTION FOR HEADACHE.
• When you have headache or other
nerve pain try Ake In-The Head tablets
and you can have your 10 cents back if
your headache or neuralgia la not re
lieved in 15 minutea. No matter what
the cause is one tablet gives relief. J 51
Kiein.
Why la This?
A prominent business man of our
town handed ut the following letter,
which is self explanstiry:
Charleston, S. C., Nov 15, 1906.
My dear Sin When we went, to
send yon a telegram yesterday in ao-
cord with your wishes, ? e were in
formed that there was no tel^ruphic
communication at that time with
Walterboro. We were equally un
successful with the telephone. We
sent up to the depot and intiied the
letter on the train, which we hope
reached you last night.
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la every clime Ifcs color* arc unfurled
Iu fame hat spread from sea to aea;
Be aoi surprised If la the other world,
You hear of Rocky Mountain Tea. J M
Klein.
Adams Run Notes. ' -
Editor Press anJ .Standard: No»-
vember days are here and with it
come the desertion of our village by
our summer swallows.^It seeun*
lonely now for several families have
returned to their winter home*—
among whom we noto Messrs Humph,
Bruen, Fits Simons, Ravenel. Mr*
F Y Legare has joined her husband
at Pon Pon—also Mrs Gordon Tay
lor.
Mrs Ada Barnwell is visiting the
old City by the Sea this week.
Mr aud Mrs Fox visited the city
last week.
The Gala Week visitors were
channeif with the old city last week.
This place was well represented.
Charleston was at her best, aud the
weather was beautiful. Who ever
did not feel fully repaid for the trip,
and find many pleasant incidents
must bs hard to please, indeed.
A visit to the navy yard, a walk
around the dry dock, which is »
wonderful piece of masonry, fully
compensated me for monetary out
lay, to say nothing of meeting
numerous friends from various part*
of the State, the trades display, and
other sights, besides the merry, good
natnred crowd which thronged the
streets, was exhilirating to me and 1
don’t think I am peculiar.
Dowling Dodd and daughters took
in Gala Week.
Our correspondents are very slow
about writing.
Dr Bays will be at the Methodist
chapel Monday, Providence permit
ting.
By the way, I see “our bachelor”
takes a young lady riding—& very
ebarming lady, too.
« Many thanks Mr E^tor, for the
cordial welcome you extended to
More Anon,
Your stomach churns and digests lbe>
food you cat and If foul, jr torpid, or out
ot order, your whole system suffers from
blood poison. Hollister’s Rocky Moira-
tain Tea keeps you well. 35 cents, Tew
or Tablets. J M Klein.
Musician at the Citadef.
The Board of Visitors at their July
meeting abolished the position ©F
paid musician held for the past few 1
years by Sergt Crosawell and
awarded a free scholarship to »
bugler, Cadet Rosenbaum, of Green
wood, one of this year’s recruits,
holds the scholarship at present
8 C M A “Bulletin.”
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