Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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■ ‘Vi *•## •• %■* SOOTi. CABOMU HKISTMAS eve and Judith Ros* found heruelf alone at last but still very lone ly. Her only relative, her kid brother, Paul, had Just Kone away, taking a bride with him. “One of these days, Ju- Jdith, Paul will go and marry some one fand then ybti’U be left alone," her »tbeart, Ralph Reed, told her two rs before on Christmas eve, Just After Judith had refused to go with him into iCiaadm Ralph’s prophecy [had come true—Paul had not sacri- flced his love aifalrs to remain at [home with her and she hadn't expect- ed It, and yet she was thinking how ^unfairly life had treated her, Judith gave a sigh and looked about her, for there were the wedding deco rations, Including the mistletoe, the ■ ‘flowers, tfte'WfeathB, the huge bell and ithe bankej^ altar In the library. • Just as she donned a great coverall apron the electric buzzer warned her that aome one stood in the cold await ing admittance to her cozy home. “Ralph,” was all Judith could say. “Tea, it Is me, Judith. Two weeks ago tonight I listened In on the radio 9n my little shack up there in the 'woods and heard a Pittsburgh radio atation dedicate a number to Paul and bride-to-be, and then it was that JI knew you needed me, Jud'Mi. I lin- aglned they would be marrying, about Oiriatmas, so I started out the very next morning to reach here In time, l>at old Tiro down at the station told Be they had gone already." Itulph blurted it all out ond then ojiened his •arms and Judith crept Into them, ANCIENT MANSION STILL UNPAINTED fPHefW PM You Knew f Would ftttH »• Waiting for You." knowing her troublmi were all at on end, and she was to he repaid for the year* »he hod sacrificed for her r d brot her. “How did you know I would still he waiting for you, Ralph?" she mumbled from the depths of M* great coat. “Love takes a lot tor granted you know, dear, and then, too, a few weeks ago, I heard you ting “Sijii 'Waiting For You, IVnr, M from the radio station, and didn’t l recognize That favorite song of mine even be fore I heard them announce the slng- •tT 1 knew you’d not be singing that If some one else had claimed you.” Just then the buzzer brought them hack to earth and Judith arranged hec tumbled locks as she went to answer the ring. There stood the little old parson who had just left the house a few hours liefore. “Have you forgotten something?” v asked Judith. “No, I believe not; I’ve my book land the promise of two witnesses who will be along in a minute,” Parson Henderson assured her. “Witnesses?” she asked. •‘Yes, dear,” Ralph answered, for ho !md followed her Into the hall. ‘T look a lot for granted, phoned the parson, and now wn. can be married 4B Christmas eve, just ns we had V pliiiift^d To do, when Paul refused to .“go back to Canada, with us.” True to their word, a few moments Tater the parson's sister and her daughter Joined the little group at •the Ross home. Underneath the same wedding bell, before the same flower- hanked altar in the library, in the .shadows cast by the same flickering faflpErs that had furnished the setting “for her brother’s wedding, Judith .promised to “love and cherish” Ralph. There had been oceans of food left •over from Paul's wedding feast and •.tbe little bride, Judith, herself, set •otit Tbe remaining salad, cold pressed 'cblckcB and The other goodies. “Just pdtdmTk wedding dinner, folks,” she tproelaimed. Her eyes grew starry as Ralph re- 'torted: “It might he a pot-luck din ner but It’s not a pot-1 nek Christmas «ve, for it is the happiest Christmas >re in my whole life, folks.” As he 3MMlc tbe statement lie slipped a most generous fee into tuo parson’s hand, mfiing it the happiest Christmas eve for the parson, too. Judith had no ticed his movement; mo she followed %y slipping to the twe women folks tvs tiny Jade pins which she hsd purchased sometime ago to give as 1 presents, hut hadn’t found a place for before. “After all,” thought J«- with Dutly Brushes Lay Where Painters Dropped Them. Natchez, Miss.—It s going to be done some day. in this sleepy little town on the Mississippi side of the Father of Waters the enterprising citizens some day will finish the III tie painting Job that was started on the eve of the outbreak of the Civil war. Mute testi mony of the spontaneity i with which loyal Southerners responded to the call to arms stands in a room on the second floor of the magnificent resi dence of Miss JulL. Nutt. The whole story Is this: William Nutt came to Virginia from England about His great grandson. Rush Nutt, after studying medicine in Phil adelphia, decided to come to Jefferson county, Miss., to practice his profes sion. He purchased a large planta tion near Natchez.—He was tndustrt- ous and enterprising and being a pa tron of education was one of the three men who founded Oakland college, now known as Alcorn A. & M. col* lege * ' - , * Ornate Mansion Planned. Ills son, Haller, became a scientific farmer and improved the crude Whit ney cotton gin, making It so perfect that from 1838 until the close of the Civil war no changes were made on It. In 18.'»3 the son purchased the site on which “Longwood.” the ornate mansion, was to be erected, Just out side of the city. Grand mansions were no novelty, for there are many here, some of them said to be the finest homes In the South. This, however, was to be the grandest of them all. It was designed along oriental lines and built on the plans drawn up by one Sloani of Philadelphia. It was four stories high, surmounted by s domed cupola. In 1860 the top of the cupola was the highest point In the South. The shape of the house, which stands to this day, Is octagonal, eight rooms opening from the rotunda. Finishing touches and the paintings were being done In 1861 when the w'ar broke out. The painters were ou the second floor when word came of the firing on Fort Sumter. The painters In their haste to enlist dropped their brushes and left the piHnts right where they stood. Fortuns Lost In War. The war cost the Nutts their for tune. Completion of the stately home was delayed and .o this day the fin- laiiing of the second and third tloora remains to he done. The house Is still well preserved, however, despite Its ineompleted portion. And the paint pota still stand there covered with dust, and waiting for that eventful day when work will he resumed. They have become some thing of a shrine to the townspeople wrlio* hating forgotten their feud with tin* North, still regard with reverence the spirit which sent thousands of Confederate soldiers tr combat the In vasion of the Northern troops. Some day. the oki-tlmers tell vis Hors, the work will ce finished "when the painters get around to It.” Social and Personal New* from WQiuton Williston, Dec. 28.—Miss 'Lucille Scott, who is teaching in Piedmont, is at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Scott, for the holidays. Fabian Still, Lybran^l Still and Cul len Boland have returned home for the holidays, from The Citadel. Mis s Dorothy Whittle has returned home after an extended visit to rela tives and friends in Batesburg. Miss Marguerite Thompson, of Winthrop college, is at home for the holidays. Miss Mary Harvey Newsom, who has been teaching in Swansea, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Newsom for the holidays. Miss Sajdie Garber, a student at Converse college, j is spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Garber. LOCAL AND PKBSONAL NEWS FROM ELLENTON Bllenton, Dec. 28.—Mrs. Jennie D. Finnelle, of Decatur, Ga., and her son # Dunett Finnelle, of Newcastle, Pa., spent Christmas here with rela tives. Mrs. C. J. Bagnal, of Sumter, was the guest of her daughter; Mrs. C. G. Youngblood, for Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Rufus R. Knight and little daughter, of Copes, spent Christ mas here with Mrs. Knight’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Turner had as their guests Charlie M. Turner, Jr., of Winnsboro, and W. B. Turner, II, of Barnwell. Mr. and Mrs. Harrell Bagnal and children ,of Sumter, spent Christmas here. Rev. H. H. Stembridge spent Christmas in Waynesboro, with hia v. Discover New Enemy in Fight Against Malaria Chicago.—Man’s war against ma luriu has developed io the tropics I. to a battle with his nearest blood re!s live of the animal kingdom, the red spider monkey. It was pointed out to directors of the Gorgns Memorial Inle oiutory la session here by Dr. Her bert Clarke, one of the board. Doctor Clarke, who Is in charge of laboratory work at Panama City. Canal Zone, said that on an expedi tion this summer info the Jungle he had discovered that the monkey Is a malaria carrier. "The mosquito that carries malaria germs bites the monkey, infecting him and then other mosquitoes pick up the germs from his blood stream.” the doc or aaid, "Neither the govern 1 ment nor the Gorgus Memorial lab oratory expects to attempt e.Ntermina- tlon of red spider monkeys, but rather to segregate them away from the con iM-nlmlnp-" — intolerable Pride 1 think hull the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many/ot our cares aie but a morbid way ot looking at our privilege. We let our blessings get moldy and then cull them curses.—Beecher. CadetT David Kennedy is at home from West Point for the holidays, to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Kennedy. Cedets Harold Woodward and James McKerley, of Clem?on college, are at home for the holidays. Miss Hairiett Sellers left Friday for her home m Pauline, where she will spend Christmas. Misses Wyatt, Wilkes and Kent, members of the faculty here, left Friday for their homes in Georgia. George Dyson and Joel Kennedy, students at Wofford college are spend ing the holidays here. Mrs. Je»se Anderson, of Wilson, N. C., and daughter are spending some time with Mr. and Mrs. Q. A. Ken nedy, Jr. Misg Lenna Davis has returned to Williston for the holidays from Dun can, where she rs * a teacher in the schools. — J. D. Hamrick spent Friday and Saturday with friends in Williston en route from Beaufort, where he is principal in the schools, to his home in North Carolina. Miss Ruby Courtney, who has been teaching in Bryson City, N. C., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Courtney, during the holidays. Miss Julia Ray, principal of the Wil liston grammar school left for her home in Denmark Saturday afternoon, where she will visit her mother, Mrs. Giulia Ray, during the holidays. Bobbie Lee and Marion Willis, of California are expected home for the holidays where they wilk riait their mothers faring the holidays, Mrs. A. S. Blanchard and Mrs. W. T. Willis, Sr., respectively. Mr and Mrs. Byron Wham, of Pamplico, are visiting the latter’s par ents, ( apt. and Mra. W. D .Black. A. L. Wcathershee and family, of Tampa, Fla., are visiting his mother, Mr*. Bessie L. Weathersbee. , Willis Thompson, of Philadelphia, is spending the holidays with his mother, Mis. W. G. Thompson, Sr. I>r. and M:*. A. B. Weathersbbe, of Belton, are expected Christmas at the home of their mother, Mrs Bessie L. Weathersbee. Mr. and Mrs. Frqd Wiggins, of Birmingham, Ala., are spending the holidays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Black. Mrs. John Marshall Lee is spending Christmas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Varn, in Walterboro. - Wyatt Woodward, of Akron, Ohio, is spending the holidays with his father, R. E. Woodward, near Willis ton, J Miss Elizabeth Stalling, ‘*of Wes leyan college, and James Stalling?, of Forman university, are with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. F. L.'►Stal lings, for the holidays. n " Mr. Hicks, of Georgia Teeh 4 _ will spend the holidays with his aunt, Mrs. W. H. Half: parents. Mrs. C. J. Ashley and Miss Annie foreman were the guests of Mr. and M Mrs. Morse Carroll at their home in North Augusta. , Mrs. Ida Brinkley, Miss Elizabeth Brinkley and Fred Brinkley, II, spent Thursday with relatives in Bath. Mrs. B. L. Easterling, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Phillips and children, of Barnwell, were visitors here Tuesday. -Mr. and Mrs. Bush Bonner, of At lanta, visited relatives here this week. Miss Carrie Freer an,d nephew, of Charleston, were the guests Christmas of Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Greene. The •Cttristmas pageant, “Whi.te Gifts for the King," was beautifully given Monday night at the Baptist church, about 25 people taking part. An offering was made afterward for the Connie Maxwell orphanage in Greenwood. Several Christmas trees were en joyed by the children. Each teacher gave her pupils a tree on the last day of school, and the little people of the various Sunday schools were given Christmas trees. Mrs. Ida Bush and Miss Mamie Bush, of Vance, were the guests of Mr? and Mrs. W. D. Bush during the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Thames and children visited their parents near Hampton thia week Dr. and Mrs. Frqd C. Brinkley and children spent Christmas Day at I^un- barton with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Brinkley and children are visiting relatives in St. Stepens. Mr. and Mrs. Lyon Tobin, of Au gusta, were the guests recently of Mr. ar^d Mrs. Z. D. Miller. Dr. aiyl Mrs. John Hood and little son spent Christmas with the for mer's parents in Georgia. Mrs. W. E. Miller, of Augusta, ar rived Thursday to visit her mother, Mrs. M. E. Danish. Barnwell, “Senatorial courtesy” is another old idea that has been debunked. RECEIVED! • / A carldad of nice fresh MULES and HORSES, which were bought at prices that suit the times. In the lot I have an extra fine driving mare and three saddle horses. The mules are all well broken and will work anywhere. Will sell cheap for cash or will trade. Come in and see what a nice lot of animals I have. rTerms to those ^giving good security. CHARLIE BROWN Special Program THE VAMP THEATRE Friday, January 3rd Dix, Esther Ralston and O. P. Heggie in “The Wheel of life.” Daring Drama! Warm Romance!" ~ Action! Cbming Next Week: May McAvoy in ^Stolen Kisses” and Billie Dove in “The Man and the Moment” Don’t Miss These Wonderful Attractions An optimist is A-man who expect* to find a clean pair of socks without holes. TRY A BUSINESS BUILDER ~ FOR SATISFACTORY RESULTS. FRUIT CAKE THAT YOU’LL ENJOY Claussen’s 1841—Sculk’s Favorites. P. W. STEVENS OPTOMETRIST Office in Jewciiy Store barnwellK. C. 1 Fifteen Years a Specialist ex amining Eyes and Prescribing Glasses at Your Service. 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