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MOT A TRIP TO CHARLESTON Comic Write-up of Voyage to the "City by the Sea" Via . .. Georgetown. Sunday night, June 3th, 1921, the good ship Jeanette docked at Con way. A plank was lowered and eigh dissheveled, unkempt, unshaven men : came to shore. Their oyos were ^unk deep into their skulls: linos o I care and fatigue were on their i faces; they moved with the unsteady I gait of men who have suffered I much. Each imm worp ii mini sfr.Jiin ed suit of clothes, mud covered paii I of shoes a?ul a look of care. KacV I man took his suit case and made his departure. Kind hearted citizens interviewed the leader of the party, a lanky, roan colored, blaze-faced man, about .^ix teen hands high, who looked a?though he might at one time have been a manufacturer of veneer. AD that they could get out of him was "We come from the Yamasee side. Leave us where you find us." And the company of stragglers moved off into the night. In the hope of finding an explana- | tion of the mystery which enshroud- j ed the appearance of these men, the i kind-hearted citizens boarded the | Jeanette and found there (he loj; book of that vessel. The passages | that follow are tr.ken from the !o*r { 1 book of the Jeanette. Read 'em and weep: Tuesday, May !U. 19'21. In charge of Capta>n .Joe McMillan, First Mate, Harry Cushman; Deck Hand, Joe Horry; and Cook, Polly, we left Conway at ten-thirty P. M. A large delegation of prominent citizens consist ing of Ed. Sherwood was on the dock WS1 VA n?^ M ? ?v, T, v? , v v?n lUivn Vlli IV A 1 UU^I VM?U broke a bottle on the bow of the Jeanette and sve were under way. The bottle was empty before being broken. Aboard were the following Shriners headed for Ihc Charleston ; Convention: D. A. Spivev, Hovt McMillan, J. E. Dawsey. W. A. Stilley, W. C. Adams and linn Winstead. Before we had gotten to Toddville a terrible thing happened. Mr. Stilley put 011 his fez. Older heads tried ' to dissuade him from his purpose, but he said that on a trip like thi he wanted to have as little on hi 4 , mind as possible.' Just to go him one ( better Hoyt McMillan and Dan Winstead removed their hats so that the . crowd could see that they had absolutely nothing on their minds at all. Wednesday, June 1st. Crossing ( Win yah Bay about sunrise the Jean-1, ette turned her nose southeast and ( within a few hours was threading', her way along the tortuous channel , of Alligator and Six Mile creeks and , on into Santee River. The morning . WA WISHE THE STO PY?WE OPENING THERE I Chesapeake 9bleached She per yard AO PCM" tu ULIi Men's and and Mohair I Brand New I i CO New Spi I : 1 ?. it., .i,: proved an instructive one tor Dr Adams, who le/^ed, that the two sides of the ahi/wp^pfc;;t and stern and not port and Sierry/ lis he had j supposed. Also that the hatch wa<i not the place where the cook got spring chickens and eggs. Before learning any better lie watched sev-j oral hours in the hope of seeing the boat crew shuffle the deck. During the day Hovt McMillan or-j ganized a select choir which render- j ed the favorite old song o!' the sailor, i "Sixteen Men on a Dead Man's 'Chest, Yo, Ho, and a Bottle of Monkley Rum." Dan V/in stead was easily I a star in this selection and ivive* f | promise of an operatic career. Most | operatic singers insure their throats. ' This would not be necessary with j Mr. Winstead, but he ought to take out a large policy on his nose, since ' he uses that organ almost entirely lt\ hen vv "horal work. At Cape Romain Point there cairn ; a Slight rumble from the bottom of ( the vessel, one or two tremors shook: her frame like the gasps of dying; men, and the crew announced that the j Jeanette had gone aground. A large! I oyster reef blocked further progress.! Word was passed in to Jeweler Dawsey and he came up from the bold ! with his sleeves rolled up, his pocket knife and a cold chisel in one hand and his teeth bared for action. Motioning the crowd to stand back and jjive him room and loosening his bclti ?i *41,? M i t-wlv ; nd ! the man advanmi tu un. within a half hour ho had oaten a passageway through the roof and stood ready and willing to make a ; forty foot channel if necessary. Alligator Creek empties into Capo , Romain and many of those on hoaid followed its exampie, if you eet what we mean. The light house at Capo Kemain , passed into t!io distance and McClellansville, nestling in its rice fields and , garnished by its water oaks and pal- j, mettos, was left to the rear. For a ! j matter of ton miles along the marsh j, hound route the Santee Hunting Club., is the only building to be scon. It j gives one the impression of being}, about as lonesome as a cootie on the . Statue of Liberty. And then at four o'clock in the af- i ternoon, at some place which had , never been shown on any map and novel* been looked on by human eye, ] which the linos of longitude and lati- j tude dodge as they pass by, a place)] toward which any self-respecting j compass refuses to point, a deceitful, i ensnaring place where tho water 11 looks doop enough to float the Wool- | worth building, but is really too shal- ( low for tad poles to live in?at this;] Annanias of geography, this Bene- . lict Arnold of topography, the Jean-I* ctte coughed and twisted and strain- , ~ ' 1 finullv stnnnprl !, L'll clliu ^I|uinnv>u "IIVI I < with her nose rammed deep in the!' mud. We entered it as a great bay < miles wide but as the tide went out1: various reefs and islands and ridges LK A BL ES TO THAN PATRON : IT WAS, WITHOUT A re was crowd: were told by p i that was eve VAS A REASON4 un- 36-Inch cambric finish in rv In J uitaii; per yard fS | 15 CENTS Young Men's Palm Bead Suits. ' Stock Vp . NWAY vey Block MBB ttOMtT HWtALD. OOWW stuck their inquisitive heads above the surface and finally dry land which raised a pretty good dust was on all sides, ana one could count the nails in the keel. We decidcd to go no further on account of the chance of run-1 ning aground. No bets were made and none offered that any of the Shriners on board would grace tomorrow's parade down the streets of historic Charleston. In many homes above the mantel in t he sitting room between the two | vases is to be found a picture of a stag standing in water up to his knees, while two deer hounds leap and snap at his nose. The picture is called, "The Stag at Hay." But here was a whole stag party at bay. And the bay was no longer at home j but was by this time in the Atlantic' Ocean fifty miles from shore. There being no wireless on board, the party took a large piece of pine! plank and painted on it the distress j signal of the sailors, "S. O. S." which, as is well known, means Save Our Shriners. Night came on and: the party gathered in the saloon to i discuss the situation. It was de- j cided that some one ought to go on watch. After full discussion, it was agreed that Mr. Dawsey, being a1 jeweler, should take the first Inger-! soli and the champion raw oyster eater of the world went on the bridge. Mi' -J: ?l " ..... >11 UUUI IU UI.NfHMI llll' gloom which had settled on the party, began telling some jokes which his? grandfather had told him as a boy. It was noticed that a large drove of horse flics gathered around and Mr. Sti!ley was forced to quit telling his stories. The horse laugh was drawing the flies. The only way that these flies could he gotten rid of was to run up the black flag, which soon drove them off. An examination of the drinking water showed that only seventy five gallons were in the barrel. Would it last until relief came? That was the question, and each man on board showed the real.stulf of his nake up t>y voluteering to drink no more water until help arrived. Nor vas my water drunk until help arrived and even f< ''nig after tnat time. It takes great rises like this to show men at their best. Tn order to catch my passing breeze volunteers were sailed for to spread the sails. This, journal is proud to record the fact that evel-y man on hoard helped get three sheets to the wind. With these precautions taken -ill i)ut Watchman Dawsev sought then 1 bunks and the iast sound that reached mr ears before sleep overtook us w?s lis resonant vo?o3, "Twelve o'clock and all's swell, ali'i swell. ' Thursday, Jjne 2, 1M21. \t crack Df dawn tiie crew were on their toe:and on the toes o?' the passengers, i The flood tide would be due at five r)'clock and, as Shakespeare so well says, the tide never breaks an engagement, or words to that general OCK AFS K YOU ONE AGE ON OUF DOUBT THE GREATEST I ED FROM MORNI1 AANY THAT OUR R SEEN HERE IN < BRAND NEW GC Mens blue chambray Si Work Shirts Mens na All sizes or (lra 48 CENTS 50 h, Panama G,ve us ^our 1 1 fl fill such as You Hi ^ Before. ^>EPAl Upper Main AY g. 0., JVXM 9, l?ai effect Our hope was to catch the tide at the flood and make our way back to the channel. Pretty soon the jbay began making its way home after i a night at sea. Dan W instead said 1 that the bay was like some men?you I never know where they are when | they go out at night. A small boat ; was put out and carried on ar.chor 'some thirty yards toward the channel, throwing it overboard. | All hands were then summoned to seize the anchor rope and pull in the hope of sliding the boat along on the bottom. So that rope was seized and backs strained and chests swelled and arms tugged, but the Jea letto simply settled herself v little .aore comfortably in the mud, put her | watch under the pillow, put out the cat and went to sleep. By and by it began to dawn on Captain Joe McMillan that three pairs of hands were missing from the ropes and a count of noses showed that D. A. Sp'.vey, Hoyt McMillan and Dr. Adams were not among those present. The fearless captain sought them out and found Dr. Adams and Hoyt McMillan standing on the stern engaged in an earnest discussion of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Col. Spivey was seated in the saloon waving his arms backward and forward and wriggling his fingers so rapidly that, the bones rattled like an empty wood wagon. He explained that lie was a believer in the power of mind over matter and. that lie had several tons of mental force tugging on the anchor rope. He made the thing: so j simple and attractive that \ve all decided to use only mental force and rest our hands and the anchor rope slid into the sea. No man ever yets corns on his brain from pulling with mental force on an anchor rope. P>y and hy there came to our ears :i steady staccato sound like the rattling of clods on a coffin. Finally j the dim outlines of a vessel in the! channel were discerned and as t he i mists of morning cleared away men were seen moving about her deck. She threw an anchor overboard and came to a stop. We shouted for help and the captain of the other vessel, The Lofton, shouted back some query which for a long time we could not understand. With a shift in tho j breeze we caught his question:) "What's the matter, tire trouble?" To make a long story short the Shriners of the party got in three -mall boats and made their way to j The Lofton, Dr. Adams standing in the bow of the first small boat with his arms folded, looked like Washington on the Deleware, Hoyt McMillan in the second looked like Napoleon j on St. Helena and Dan Win.stead in the third looked like Portland Ned on Probation. And so the Shriners sailed on to Charleston in time for the parade which was featured by j the appearance of Mr. Stilley with a dominick rooster under each arm. Onlv flio pvovv* nnrl tlin l/nn?\D?* n4* 1 Ua w i ?i * vnv v? v ?? umvi vnv \j i v iiv ID SAVE AND ALL F ? OPENING ? OPENING SALE EVER KN( NG TILL NIGHT A STORE HAD THE DNE STORE AT 01 fODS AT THE LO ealpax Fruit of The Loon insook shirts The genuine bleachi wers, each per yard GUIS n GUIS 'atronage and in Re- Ladies UD ied you on Bargain.4 A . , ZX v**nfnH r> ive Never Heard of I 1 XIllvtv4 tt I be Appreci RTMErv l Street jlog book were left on the Jeanette. ! But why continue the narrative? I The papers have published full ac! counts of the convention. It was a full convention. So far as this log ibook is concerned the veil of silence ,is drawn over incidents which wise editors thought it well not to print. ! On the full tide of the afternoon ! the Jeanette was drug off the mud ! by a small tug which squeezed her i way alongside. Six o'clock this af(tcrnoon we had made twelve miles toward Charleston from the fateful jbay and again the Jeanette flew the coop and settled down peacefully on ja mud bank. Night came on and the . tired crew went to their bunks. (Editor's Note?For several pages the record can not be deciphered. The entries for Friday, Saturday and jSunday are smeared over by great! j blotches as though a soft shell crab might have crawled over the pages. (Every now and then the words "Gib-' son" and "Yamasee" can be read. The hand of the writer was shaken as though by St. Viti?o dance and it [ is feared that sea sickness must (have been upon him. As soon as the icalm waters of the Waccamaw were : reached on the return trip from Charleston the record again resumes.) We have just passed Bucksville ) headed toward Conway. A meeting of those on board was held and the following resolution was unanimously passed: Resolved: That we hereby petiticfti our representatives in Congress to1 jr.se their influence to secure a con-j version of the inland waterway from | McClellanville to Charleston into a highway. We believe that by crushing the oyster shells in the bottom of the channel a splendid oyster shell highway can be constructed in what is now known as the channel. A few hills in this channel will have to I be removed and levelled, but there will have to be no filling anywhere along the line. It is high enough alreadv. We hereby pledge the assistance of J. K. Wawsey in removing the oyster reefs along the route. What appears to ho a channel is not. The moral of this story is that all is not cold that shivers. LEGAL SALESDAY. Last Monday was salesday but there was very little doing at the courthouse. There was one sale of a tract of land under execution, and j one small tract in Simpson Creek' township advertised under the foreclosure of a mortgage. Kach of the tracts brought very small sums of money. There were very few people in Conway for salesday. One of the sales was made by the Clerk of the Court while the other was made by the Sheriff of the County. o l Kill the Tobacco Worms with Arsenate of Lead, 35c the pound at Piatt's Pharmacy.?Adv. I A DOLI OR YOUR LI) >ALE DAY )WN IN THIS SECTION ND EVERYBODY \ : LARGEST CROW! NE TIME BEFORE]WEST PRICE IMA n Berkeley ng. 60c cambric per yard 22 GENIS -to-date Dresses. A New nd are on Display. Your I ated. IT ST< Conway, Soutl YOUNG CHILD V HAS ACCIDENT Eunice McMillan, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. Hoyt McMillan, suffered a very painful but not serious accident Wednesday afternoon, and was immediately taken to the Burroughs Hospitul for medical treatment. From what the Herald reporter could learn it seems that the little girl ^ in company with several others, was plaving in front of the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Ambrose, on Fifth Avenue, and that she was climbing or had climbed up a small tree by the side of the street, and was moving from one limb to another when she stepped on a rotten limb which sudden ly gave way, she falling to the ground breaking one arm and severely bruising her head, though it was not thought she suffered a fractured skull, yet the accident was considered by those nearby at the time as very serious. o v Then the Club Adjourned. Some one told n Rood C g story nnrt the Inevitable better one followed. "We hnd n cat at home," related the quiet man In the corner, "which was fond of plnylng with the wife's ball of wool, one any tno <*nt swallowed It, iiml some months Inter when kittens were born they were nil wearing Jump* ers." ? o A Novel Tip. Spooking of tips, n (vise recently came to our nttendon v\ ere n diner tendered n smart waitress nn ofTer of marrlaue, Informing her that he culrl not nITord to tip waiters, hut If ~he hnil no objection she might tnke himself. The tip wns accepted.?Boston Transcript. Ird Sanctuaries In Canada. Rlrd sanctuaries nre being created In suitable places throughout Canada lo protect the breeding grounds of water-fowl and other Important bird localities. The protection of waterfowl In the great, plains Is most Important. The water-fowl need the protection because of the* Increase In agriculture and the drain ^e of many of their former nesting areas. DR. C. S. DIETZ DENTIST Office over S. T. Sessions Store. CONWAY, S. C. , f L A R ? 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