Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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*>■ : -. 4 JOLT I, im. hid OTiJiDtAXD, wimsBoxo, a a TWO. T m; tat tta nirml fta> «r. mall hm kro«ckt Ms tatty W* tav« tawrtf a ff*o4 iml «C 4I« comIob for tad aplaat tta Ratal k . 1 _ fro* d*llr*nr of mall darlag tta past few wo*ks, aad th« rariona debatoa I tar* had tta opportuaitjr at tanrtac ted tod ma to te>r— my ▼lows oa tho taaoflts arlalag from tbo rural fro* dollvory of mall la oar Stats. Of ooarso I do *ot pro* peso to sot forth all tta hoaoftti arlalag from tho R. V. O., booaaso they aro ladood maay, bat I wish to offer for ooasldoratloa Just a fow fuadamoahal oaoa f thoa leave the subject for farther eoaslderatioa oa part of tho reader. The rural free delivery was eo* tablished la 1117 and Its paramount object Is “to carry mall dally—oa fixed llae of travel to people who would otherwise have to go a mil* or more too a post-office to secure their mall,” , If we note the date we readily see that the R. F. O. I* In Its Infancy yet. But, even If It is only fourteen years old It has done much towards the progress and prosperity of our country, la ItOt the poet office had 10,144 of fices, and It Is estimated that It handled 1.200,000,000 pounds of mall matter. Where did all this mall go; to tta city? » Tea, la part, but some went to the country; and how? By the R.*F. D. v v The rural free delivery" of mall m beneficial to our country from an educational standpoint. I well re member Just a few years ago what great difficulty the people had In se inring their mall. Hundreds upon hundreds of people took only the county paper, and quite a number did not take any at all, and the con sequence was that all the news they got was old and they were Ignorant of the existence of anything around In the country save his little home hi* little farm, and, his little com monwealth. Such living as this will always keep the laboring man down In the pit. Thus, in 1297 the R. F. D. was established in order to give the people of the country the fresh news and by so doing left them out of the state of Inertness. There were some ambitious men who lived In the Isolated country that were determined to educate themselves. They would toll hard all day and study at nlght | and In this way a mass of undigested learn ing would be collected but the gathered treasures were of no use to the possessors, because they had no outlet. They were as a bloated toad swelled up to the utmost, but really signifying nothing. They nev er commenced with anybody and th sad consequence was that their min never strove to use Its own powers, never led to think for itself, never forced to trust to its own strength, was unable to enter into the strug gles of life and contend for wealth power and victory; for truth, duty, or Interest Th* knowledge might be ample, but it would be like tbe miser's store of no advantage to the owner. o The rural free delivery of mail has opened up various setlons of Sonlh Carolina and has given to ambitious men an outlet—a great opportunity to let that Undigested knowledge digest so that the pos sesor may throw out his unpar alleled Infueace over his neighbors and lead them on and on to great er success and prosperity. The rural free delivery of mall is beneficial also from a social standpoint. Before It was establish ed there was but little communi cation carried on over the entire country; families separated would seldom if ever hear from each oth er. Perchance the son or daughter was off at school, they would never write to their beloved father and motner from the mere fact that they lived eight or ten, and In some cases perhaps twenty miles from the railroad. Sickness and bereave ments may have befallen ths home folks and departed ones kept igno rant of It all the while, not because th* dear mother no desired it, but because distance prevented It. But 1 am glad to say that such a day as that Is far spent. The country people are no longer separated from the rest of the world. They are brough face to face with the "city gentle men to cope with him with all tbe problems that may confront our commonwealth. ‘What concerns all let all consider’' was Romes moto in so many words and 1 am pleas ed to say that the country folk have through the Influence of the It. F. D., been lifted up on an equal plane with the rest of the world, und by- their gradual ele vation have been brought to real ise the important place they play in life. _1 1 he farmer is the back- indirect ly he. the world. Indirectly he greases the gas-electric cars that ply up and down on various railroads through out the South. Indirectly he does all the business of the world. This TV man was once deprived of showing his worthiness of being a true citi- ttair coateats aad k£> lifted bis af ta a bigtar plane. Tta wortd will aat tblak aay Bare of yoe ttaa yon tbiak of yoaraelf, and a people Iso lated, sooa ~ tblak tbemeetvee belit tled, and tta world thinks eo too. Bo we see that tbe R. F. D., has helped oar country socially. Again there are autay bebeflts arising from the rural free delivery of Ball Bpob a Boral aad roltgtoas point of vlow. I havo beard old people talk about Baaday school, aad they would caBttam "court- lag scboola" Now you woald bavo as tad Mr. A. way ta called a Baaday school a "courting school” be would tavo said: “Why, when I was a boy I woald saddle Daley, By homo, shortly aftsr dinner aad gallop over to Mr. C.’s to got to ride vrtth my girl Nannie. Wo would court all tbo way to tta church. When wo arrived there, w* would diamount, and go lato tbo cborcb aad as tta superintendent, a good old Christian man waa try ing to expound tho lesson to us all, the young people would keep up a continual buss all over tbe churcb Tbe teachers were all un lettered aad we would get no moral lesson out of the Sunday ^school lesson at all. So a Sun day school Is just simply a - courting school after all." This Is shout such talk as old people would have put up a few years ago; but the rural free delivery has blotted out such ideas as that and has awaken ed the people up from a I be of cotuiidcraolp interest, because it were, and baa caused them to reotioa of tta ratal Letter Carriers’ aeeeriefiea of tide Staet, vhfcB is to ta taM la Floreses oa Julj> * 4 aad t, pro mises to ta Boot sacceesfal from every eaadtpolat. There will ta a Bomber of dlsttegalabod gaeots aad aad speakers preseat, and a' meet interesting aad helpful programme' has been arranged with supplsmea- tary entertainments aad 'attractive aatare. " Thomas E. Wicker of Newberry, president of * o association, baa ad dressed ‘be following open letter to tta rural carries of tbo Staet: “Advices from every section of te State tedicaet tat tta conven tion at Florence, July 2, 4 and 2, will bo hot blggeSt'and boot conven tion tta association baa over held The business men and tbe local car- Viers at Fleronco aro making ela borate preparations for tbo enter- atlnment of tbo delegates, aad all visiting carriers. A special feature of tta enetrtalament will bo a picnic coupled with tho famoos' pine bark fish stew of tta Pee Dee' section. Othr features of Interest will be a grand parade of the moto rcycle mall riders of tbo State, and a rousing, hair-raising game of baa** ball between the F D.’s of the upper counties and tbe R. F. D.’s. of hte lower counsies. Don't miss tbe baseball if >ou want to laugh and grew (at. "The atove b«f. to ho wlthr the serial side of title conventions thr.» business side cf ihe i invention will look through the glass clearly and see that s Sunday school is not a of the presence of a number of distinguished men, who will take Bn rf P a, t discussion of questions ‘courting school,” but a moral ^ . . . ... .! that will come before the conven- religious Institution. - Of course there are many other ,0 *‘ things that I could mention along this line but as 1 said at the be ginning I would state only a few benefits and leave the rest to the reader. I think 1 have said enough to cause the ordinary man to see some of the benefits arising from the rural free delivery of mail, I trust that every reader of this ar ticle will see this matter as 1 do. If he does I feel sure that the car riers will not be tempted to say something they ought not to say on account of bad roads. I pre fer to Improve the minds of our young men In all the rural dis tricts by bringing them Into s)vnpa- thy with our own age and time, and the way to do It, is partly at isast through the aid of the rural free delivery Let us build good roads, and then ask "Uncle Sam” for a boy to handle our mail. In order to make men wise and great, and good, by giving them a chance to study the beautiful world which has been constructed by our wise and great and good Creator. WALTER BLACK. Ruffin, 8. C. June 17, 1911. A PARABLE ON BOYS. The following trite article was written by Editor Ernest Camp in tbe Walton Tribune: "Verily In this day and generatio the father raisetb up bis son oa the streets and sidewalks. He layeth around the sods founts and inblb- eth slop and hookworms. He grow- eth In knowledge of nothing save cigarettes aad cuss words. “When he attaineth the age of 12, he scqulreth a suit of clothes turned up at the bottom two fur longs above his feet. He displsyeth a pair of noisy sox, with purple background with violets to the front. He wesreth low-rut shoes and e green tie. He looketh like a banana merchant on the streets <f Carlo. “The Inside of his head resem bles the inside of a pumpkin. “He falleth in love with a spindle shanked girl with pink rlbbwas on her hair and he rraveth for an eutomoblle that he may ride her forth in th* springtime. He think- eth work is sinful. He scattereth his mothers’ pin money like a cy clone scattereth a rail fence. He slt- teth up at night to write poetry and glveth no thought to the multiplica tion table. His mind turneth to the vanltlea of life, and not to the high cost of corn bread. "Verilyi, verily he needeth a board applied vigorously to the southwest corner of the anatomy. ‘ "lie thinketh hla father a plod der and hia mother a back number. He pictureth to hkneelf great richea suddenly acquired. He dreameth of steam yachts and private cars ‘Among those who are expected to be present axe: United States Senator E. D. Smithy Oov. Qole L. Please, Lieut. Gov. Chaa. A. ^jnlth.F. H. Hyatt, president of the State Good Roads association; a re presentative from the postoffice de partment, and an effort is being n.ade to secure Dr. Platt of the University of North Carolina, who Is s distinguished good roads ad vocate and an orator of national re- intauon. 1 have invited P. V. De *aw, the fourth asaistant postmas ter general but I have not yet been advised whether he will come. 1 have also sent a special Invitation to each of the seven congressmen of the State, and It Is highly proa- ble that several of these will be present. ”1 wish In closing, to Impress the carriers of the State with the importance of this meeting. All car riers are urged to come, whether members of the association or not; don'*, forget that. There is much business of Importance to be trans acted. Among other things, you mas* be prepared to elect s new president for the ensuring year.” OBITUARY. On Monday morning, June 19, at 3:30 o’clock the angel of death en tered the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. B. Campbell and took from them their precious darling son James Thomas, aged three weeks and three days. He was a perfect ly glorious child at first but in the second week of its precious life he was stricken with whooping cough, which was too severe for s young child to bear. Our hearta are aad and almost broken but God’s will must be don not ours. He doeth all things best. It leaves our heart and home vacait although he was with us so short a time, but we pray that you are in far better lands, and that we may Join yon. He was laid to rest in the family church yard at Drs. Creek. Death Is a very solemn thing, "T*** brought to us because of sin. And as we watch our loved ones go Our hearts are pained within. *■ The Lord gased at our darling with tearful eyes. He kissed bis drooping cheeks It was for our Lord of Paradise That he bound him in the sheavea. The Lord has need of my flower gay The reaper said and smiled. Dear tokens of earth are they. Where he was once a child. He shsll bloom in the field of light. Transplanted by my care “Yes, he thinketh himself the re | And upon their bosoms hone of the world, turns the mighty wheel* of stuff. He hatteth in where he is sot wanted: he criticiseth his eld- trs; lie purchased) cheap perfume and smelteth louder than a ‘billy , goat. "When he groweth up he getteth a Jdb as clerk in a store at 2100 a day and swlpeth extra from bis boss until he Is caught." J. E. Morris of Ruffin had busi- neas in town Saturday. ® bite * This sacred darling bear. Mother gave in tear* and pain. The darling she most loved. She knew she would find him all again In the field of light above. Oh Not In cruelty, not in wrath. The reaper came that day, a Twas an angel visited the earth. And took our darling away. HU Motker. Jane it Tta arepa around thin eaetlea on looklB* flae, although greatly te need of rate. Mrs. A. E. Chaplin aad daughter,, Miss Man Chaplin have Just return- ed home from a ploaaaat stay te Charleston where thdy attended tta eommeoeemeat exercise* of the con federate Homo College. Miss Ed na Chaplin also attended th* Al umnae Claes of tta Confederate Home College. Mrs. J. A. Postell spent Thursday Ip Charleston. Mias Helen Whatley of Early Branch returned home oa Saturday after a pleasant visit to her friend Miss Edna Chaplin. Mr. R. Chaplin aad little daught er, Rosalie went to Charleston Sat urday. Mr- Chaplin returned, but hia daughter will spend some time with tar aunt Mrs. Ashley E. Chap- Ha. Mrs. J. A. Tocher aad son, Mr Sea brook, of Beech Hill are vUit lag Mr. aad Mra. W. E. Chaplin. A very enjoyable picnic was given at Chaplin’s Point last Friday. A large table was spread under the beautiful oaks by* the river and the hungry crowd that sat down did ample Justice to the good things set before them. Pie and cake just flew, while chicken seemed to take feet and walk. One of the young men suggested that they stand to finish eating, another said that he wanted some more dinner but didn’2 think he could eat it Just then. The afternoon was spent in playing croquet and enjoying ice cream and cake. Those who attended were: Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Chaplin and family, Mrs. A. C. Chaplin, Miss Ed na Chaplin Miss Helen Whatley of Early Branch, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ackerman, Mr. Wm. Sands, Mr. R. Ackerman of Charleston Mr. and Mr. J. A. Postell Mr. ad* Mrns. W.* E. Chaplin and family, Mrs. J. A. Tucker and Mr. Seabrook Tucker of Bee<h Hill. MIsa Maybelle Chaplin and nephew. Master Richard Glover hav returned home after spending a week In Walter boro with relative*. Weil Vlr. Editor, I have already taken up too much of your paper, so most stop. If you are kind enough to pub'ish this I may> come again. «S*lSJ* «VT- News From Bella. Ruffin June 21,—Special.. While listening to tbe sweet songs of the birds and gating on nature's beauti ful mantle of green, 1 often think what a happy world this should be, and what a true life we ought to live knowing that life is what we make it. "Life Is no dream or thing of naught, Know you this that life is thought. And to live is not life, if naught is wrought.” Crops in this section are genera lly in a flourishing, condition. The seasons being exactly' suitable for them. The school at Little Rock begins Monday July 10th, under the man agement of Miss Wilhelmlna Ben nett of Ashton. Miss Bennett has Just returned from Rock Hill, wheis she attened Winthrop College. She nas taught in this section before, so all may feel assured of her efficiency. ^ < Mrs. W. W. Bryan and niece. Mis Mullle Crosby, have returned home after a pleasant visit to Jackson ville. Hr. and Mrs. Richard Crosby and little daughter, Anaie Bell, visited Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Johns, of Tabor Sunday. Mrs. P. C. Crosby and children, spent Saturday* and Sunday laat at the home of her mother, Mrs. David Givens of Sniders. Miss Minnie Crosby has returned from Charleston after an extend ed visit to her sister, Mrs. < Willie Hlers. Miss Jerusha Givens of Savannah is visiting relatives and friends here. Miss Mayme Carter Is spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. S. J. Ulmer of Pine Grove. Ira Avant and sister. Miss. I-anle, spent Saturday and Sunday' with their cousin. Miss Florrle Crosby.. Misses Mattie Carter and Alice Crosby' spent last Wednesday very pleasantly with Mrs. H. 1). Pad gett, Jr., of Ruffin. We are very glad to state that the condition of our Sunday School is very much Improved under the management ef S. B. Crosby. Mr. and Mrs. T. H .Caldwell Jr., were welcome visitors at Sunday School at Little Rock Sundayv R. L. 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Cashier .J OBITUARY. In loving rememberance of Wil- Hia place ia vacant, and never ca» be filled the Lord know* be*t. Ham G. Benton, who departed this The Lord giveth and the Lord tak- !tfe April 29, 1911. Sleep on dear father and take thy rest » We know we love thee but Jesua v I loves thee best. eth away. , When you are sleeping, we aro weeping over your sweet and silent grave. Hia Son, J. H. BENTON.