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COMMENCEMENT IT
LIMESTONE COLLEGE
EXERCISES BEGAN SATURDAY
EVENING.
Public Meeting of Cooper Literary So
ciety Saturday Evening—Address by
Maj. Hemphill—Other Exercises.
Commencement at Limestone Col
lege is now on. The exercises began
Saturday evening with the annual
public meeting of the Cooper Literary
Society, which was held in the college
chapel. The feature of this event was
an address by Maj. .1. C. Hemphill,
the talented editor of the Charleston
News and Courier, ou the subject of
woman.
Major Hemphill’s Address.
.Maj. Hemphill spoke in part as
follows:
“ •And the man said, the woman
whom thou gavest to be with me, she
gave me of the tree, and I did eat.’
That is what Adam said when he was
caught in his first great trangression,
and that is what his male descend
ants have been saying ever since the
birth of time, and what the la''.' of
them will be saying when the leaves
of the great judgment hook are un
rolled. This creature who was made
a little lower tuan tiie angels, who has
subdued .the earth and established
empires and brought the forces of
nature under subjection to his impe
rious wli!, has always sought petti
coat protection in the manner of the
Republican politician of Reconstruc
tion days who was discovered in
a vision to be holding a color
ed person between himself and
the flames in a rather un
comfortable region which need not he
more exactly described on this inter
esting occasion. It would go rather
hard with the world if the so-called
superior sex should become extinct.
I am sure that there would he none
to deplore such a catastrophe more
sincerely than the lovely young wo
men who compose my audience, hut
in the o uadis of creation it was de
termined tint it was not good for man
to be alom. o. } , in other words, that
he was incompetent to manage the
affairs of this world by himself. He
could not take care of the garden
which he had been created to
dress and to keep, and was not
ashamed when a helpmate had been
provided for him upon whom he at
once began to load the blame for his
own indecision of character and
weakness of conduct. In view of the
very had start that he had made, it
is not to he wondered at that ever
since the world began he has been
trying to unload on the woman not
only his sins but his service. We
hear a great deal about man’s author
ity and woman's sphere. She was to
be the mother of all living and to be
ruled over by, her husband, but her
place in the human economy was not
more clearly defined than his. She
was to take care of the children and
in the sweat of his face he was to
provide for the support of the family.
The records of the race from the day
that Adam first tried to deceive the
Almighty down to the present time
show how man has shitfed’his bur
den. In every land under the sun
and in all ages and under all civi
lizations, Pagan and Christian alike,
there has been inequality not only in
the moral measurement of men and
women, hut iu their legal status and
Industrial service. The mother of all
living, yet the drudge of all the ages;
the inspiration of the higher human
achievements, yet the plaything of the
lowest human passions; crucified in
the Roman amphitheatre to make a
heathen holiday; burned as witches
to satisfy Christian superstition; the
breadwinner in Mohammedan field
and the hopeless worker In the sweat
shop of the Jews; the wretched victim
of both savagery and civilization, the
earth and air and sea cry out against
man’s inhumanity to woman.
“There has been, it is true, a
marked Improvement in woman’s con
dition during the so-called Christian
era, and particularly during the last
half of the nineteenth century, hut it
is yet far from creditable to any prop
er sense of justice or any hut the
remotest degree consistent with the
demands of righteousness. We have
been making some progress In our
dealing w^ h the rights of woman in
the United States, hut. with all our
boasted chivalry and our much-vaunt
ed claims of equality before the law
for all mankind, we have grudgingly
accorded to her only a very small part
of the consideration to which she is
entitled. * * *
“There has been a great change in
the legal .tatus of woman, as I have
said, during the last 50 years. Nat
urally, this question has been much
agitated in Massachusetts. In that
commonwealth, as the direct result
of the agitation led by Lucy Stone and
her husband, much has been done for
the amelioration of the legal condition
of woman. Among the legislative en
actments resulting from therfr labors
was a 1)111 enabling a married woman
to make a business contract with her;
husband, another allowing her to:
make such a will as she should see
fit, another giving her a right to her
own clothes, another securing to her I
the right to he buried In the burial j
lot of her deceased husband, and an
other abolishing the law which for
bade the widow to remain more than
4ft‘days in the house of her husband
without payment of rent. It is said
that Connecticut was the first State
to give to married women the power
to make a will. An act was passed
by the legislature of that State con-
iferring this power in 18ft9. Twenty-
•ix years later a similar act was
passed by the legislature of Ohio. In
1L.40 Texas gave married women the
right to make a will. Three years
later Alabama followed suit, and in
1SJ7 Vermont adopted a like measure.
One year later the State of New York
secured to its women the control of
property, and Pennsylvania added to
this right the power to make a will.
In IS 19 Virginia conceded to wives the
same right, and between 1855 and
18G0 The States of Massachusetts,
Rhode Island. Maine, Wisconsin and
Maryland confered upon women the
right to control property and to dis
pose of it by will. At this time there
are' only seven States in the union
in which women do not enjoy some
cor ol of their property.
‘ The surest protection of married
women is written in the constitution
of South rarolina: ‘Divorces from the
bonds of atrimony shall not be al
lowed in his State.’ It is further
provided 'h *he same article that:
‘The real ai . personal property of a
woman held at the time of her mar
riage, or that which she may thereaf
ter acquire either by gift, grant, in
heritance, devise or otherwise, shall
he her separate property, and she
shall have all the right incident to the
same to whie i an unmarried woman
or main is entitled. She shall have
the power to c mtract and he contract
ed with in the same manner as if she
were unmarried.’
^ “The homestead rights of a married
woman in this State are amply guard
ed in the constitution. The right of
the elective franchise has not been
conferred upon her and she is not eli
gible to office in this State, but Is is
provided that a iy woman wl;o has
been a resident of this State for two
years and who has attained the age
of 21 years shall be eligible to the of
fices of State librarian and depart
mental clerks.
“There has alw /s been and still
is very reasonable doubt as to wheth
er the right of the franchise should
he conferred upon woman, hut her
property rights amply protected, and
the power to dispose of her own es
tate as she pleased are conditions of
far more concern to her and to her
welfare and happiness than the right
to cast the ballot. In 22 States of the
union woman now has The right of
school suffrage, in one State the right
of municipal • suffrage and in four
States all the rights of suffrage. It
is only a question of time In South
Carolina, doubtless, when she wtill be
given the right of school suffrage and
the right also to vote upon such ques
tions as affect her property interests.
“There has been a wonderful
change in the provision which has
been made for the education of wo
men in the last half century, and par-
tiicularly in the United States where
the work of the education of women
has made further advance than in any
other nation. In this country the
girls are now educated In the primary
courses on the same plane and in the
same schools with the boys, hut their
intellectual training is also provided
for in many colleges and seminaries
of the highest grade. The first en
dowment of the higher education of
women in this country was made by
the Moravians in the seminary for
girls which they founded in Bethle
hem, Pennsylvania, in 1749. although
it is claimed by Alice Freeman Palm
er. the late president of Wellesly Col
lege, that the earliest foundation was
Mount Holyoke College which was
opened as a seminary in 1873. As a
matter of fact, however, one of the
oldest female colleges established in
the United States, certainly the oldest
established in the south, was the
Wesleyan Female College in the State
of Georgia.
“The education of women is not by
any means confined to the elementary
and higher and classical schools and
colleges, but in the list of 58 of the
leading colleges in the United States
there are only ten to which women
are not admitted to some of the de
partments, and besides the colleges
which have been established for wo
men many professional schools and
colleges have been opened to them.
The training which the women
have received in the schools and col
leges of the country has fitted them
admirably for the larger obligations
resting upon them and has made
them one of the most powerful forces
•n the uplifting of humanity and the
civilization of the world. They are
coming, Father Abraham, one hun
dred thousand strong, coming from
all parts of this country, illuminating
with their influence all of the Insti
tutions of the country which minister
to the welfare of the human race and
its preparation for the higher life in
to which we shall all enter, after the
material things have vanished for
ever, and the prophecy of a new heav
en and new earth has been fulfilled.
Not only are tho women taking the 1
first place in the rank of the thinkers!
of the world, but they are manifesting
a wonderfully constructive faculty.
This is to he seen all about us in
every romimiiilty every day. Tenny
son wrote in fils beautiful L)cksley
lla'I,
“ ‘He will hold thee when his passion
shall have spent its novel force,
“ ‘Something better than his dog, little
dearer than his horse.’
“The Intelligent and educated wom
an of the present day Is not content
to be the petted darling of tho draw
ing room, but is crowding her way in
to all the trades and professions, and
making herself a force to he reckoned
with in every department, of human
effort and achievement. The number
of women engaged in gainful occupa
tions In 189ft was 3.914,571, and in
19ftft their number had increased to
4,8ftft,ftOft. In 388 distinct Occupations
exclusive of clerkships In connection
with manufactures women were em
ployed in 371 of these in 1900. There
is the largest possible encouragement
in these stupendous figures for those
who are engaged in the work of ele
vating woman and for woman herself.
The Domestic Duties.
“It would be a fatal blunder, how
ever, if in the excess of her enthu
siasm for literature woman should
neglect the domestic virtues which
constitute a large part of the divine
qualities with which she has been en
dowed. A slattern, notwithstanding
her ability to quote Shakespeare,
would be a slattern still. We may live
without music and live without art;
we may live without conscience and
live without heart; hut where is the
man who can live without cooks? Life
is not. all poetry. It is chiefly made
up of hard knocks and splotchy places
and imperative duties. The philoso
phy which would teach a girl to un
derstand the ways of the silk worm
ought to teach her also how to make
and wear a shirt waist becomingly,
not so much to be seen of men as for
her own peace of mind and comfort
of body. Of precious little use will
ho the lessons in political economy
taught in this splendid institution if
they cannot be made of practical and
permanent account in managing th£
affairs of the household. The mixing
of colors In the college studio so as
to obtain the artistic results in the pic
tures which adorn these walls will
not be of great assistance in making
the home beautiful, if. for example,
in arranging the draperies of the
house there is to be an Italian sky
effect over an English landscape. The
hair cloth furniture does not harmon
ize with the Persian rug any more
than a deep sea green necktie goes
in double harness with a salaratus
complexion. There are metes and
hounds in the art. of dressing. No
woman who has not passed utterly in
to the hopeless state, whatever her
intellectual gifts and polite accom-
plishments, can afford to keep up with
the decrees of fashion without run
ning the risk of making a perfect
fright of herself; for it is true that
while a picture hat is in itself a thing
of beauty it. is not fitted to the contour
of every face or adapted to (he exi
gencies of all ages.
“Not only ought woman to know
enough of good literal ure and of the
great world movements of thought
and action to attract by her conver
sational powers, and enough to know
how to apparel herself, to make her
self comfortable, but it is in the
highest degree essential that she shall
possess something more than a mere
textbook knowledge of the "radical
affairs of the home. The green apple
period comes in the life of every
American hoy and girl, and particu
larly to the boys and girls who go to
school. I know that it Is so because
it was my good fortune to attend a
female college just like many of the
other girls until I was 14 years old.
But when we have grown up a little
we find that nearly every one is fear
fully and wonderfully made, with all
sorts of digestive arrangements which
are likely to get out of order at al
most any time and which require
careful If not scientific consideration.
Some years ago Senator Jones, of Ne
vada, made a notable speech in At
lanta in which he attacked the frying
pan as the worst enemy of the south
and its people. There has been some
improvement in recent years, hut the
time was not very long ago when we
literally floated in fat, when the gen
eral conception of a really good din
ner was a dinner plentifully larded
with the juice of the shoat, and the
kitchen and house and all the circum
ambient were filled with the aroma of
the crackling victims of unholy appe
tite. That time is passing. There
has been an improvement in the art
culinary, hut there are still great op
portunities for the improvement of
the household economies and particu
larly the kitchen, which after all, is
the most important feature of the do
mestic establishment. I do not know
to what etxent you have been edu
cated in this direction, hut you know
enough after the instruction you have
received in these classic halls to revo-
hitlonize such of your homes as have
not yet been touched by the finger of
reform, and to teach that it is not
the abundance of the things that are
cooked that makes the natural man
rejoice, hut the manner in which they
are prepared for consumption and the
daintiness with which they are
served.
“In a recent address to the alumnae
of Packer Institute, Miss Laura Drake
Gill, dean of Barnard College, discuss
ed the economic position of women
generally. ‘Women must know,’ she |
said, ‘that their economic function is'
the expenditure of money. When we !
know that fourth-fifths of the income |
in tho middle classes and nine-tenths i
in the lower classes Is spent directly
by the mother, we realize the wisdom
that should he required In this expen
diture. Many women start out morn
ing after morning to market and shop.
The storekepeers know how to make
useless things so tempting that they
buy. and even' the clerks try to man
age a woman’s purchases. If the wo
men who spend their hours aimlessly
would take part of this time to think
about their expenditure, they would
save time, money and happiness.
They must be taught that expenditure
of money is their profession. They
must make It a science, not a mania.’
“The trouble with most women,
however, is that they have so little
money to spend and it is all the more
important that they should be good
buyers; not patrons of the bargain
counters, not given to the weakness
of taking a thing because it is cheap,
and worthless oftentimes as cheap,
hut intelligent and prudent in all
their purchases. ‘All mankind,” says
Miss Zona Vallance, of London, ‘is
economically dependent upon women.’
The married, woman accomplishes
wonders with what is given to her,
reinforced by what she can acquire
by predatory excursions into the
pockets of pater famillas. I do not
think shq has a fair deal in the dis
tribution of the family wealth. The
general theory followed In her case
Is that she is a dependent, not a part
ner; that she is entitled to an ‘allow
ance,’ not an equal share in the per
capita circulation; that she must ask
for what she needs and not take what
is her right; that she must keep the
pot boiling with less than the head
of the house spends on the appetizers
which he takes at his club or the mon
ey that he watses in riotous excess.
“It was old Matthew Prior who
wrote this catchy couplet nearly 2wi
years ago:
“‘Be to her virtues Very kind;
Be to her faults a little blind.
“But why her virtues and why her
faults? Why the eternal feminine in
all our history and philosophy? Why
magnify the sense of her dependence
and Inferiority? Why assume for our
selves all the greatness and glory of
humanity? What have we to show
for it except a sublime selfishness?
Not only are the women shared out
of our worldly goods and compelled
by the rules and customs of society
to occupy a secondary place in the di
rection of the affairs of the world, hut
their punishment is greater than they
ought to be expected to hear. We in
veigh against her loquacity. ‘Is there
any more garrulous animal than
man?’ asks the essayist of The Sun.
“The most of you will marry—all of
you ought to marry if you can find
husbands worth having. But do not
ho in any hurry about it. Better live
single all your lives than to live
double with an unworthy man for a
single day. I would commend to you
the advice given to two of his theolog
ical students who were about to make
a tour of the old world by the Rev.D.
Dargan: ‘Ask questions, ask ques
tions. ask questions; better seem a
fool and learn something than he a
fool and know nothing.’ If any of
you have / promised yourselves to
young men' who have been saying soft
things and rather stupid things to you
during your college course or in va
cation time, l would suggest that you
ask questions about them. Find out
what they really are; what sort of
company they keep; what habits they
have: how they treat the women folk
of their own families. Are they in
dustrious, or do they loaf around
stores and depots, hearing stories
and telling stories about other wo
men, and captivated with the smart
ness of their own vulgarity? As the
twig is bent, the tree inclines. An
idle, obscene, irreverent young man
will make, nine times out ten. a vul
gar, blasphemous, worthless husband.
Keep away from him; marrying a
man to reform him is the most dan
gerous experiment any woman could
make, an experiment which carries
its punishment with it , and from
which there is no escape in this world
or the next.
‘It is not part of my purpose, how
ever, to interfere with any affairs of
the heart. If you do not know how to
take care of yourselves atfer complet
ing the full course of study at this
well-equipped institution, the fault is
in your teachers or in your stars. It
would he Just as well, perhaps, for
you to remember that you are still in
the hands of the Philistines, and that
whatever the degree of restraint
placed upon you by those who levy
the taxes and run the government, it
might he the part of prudence for you
to hear the ills you have rather than
to start an insurrection against the
present so-called orderly methods of
society. Remember that Port Arthur
was taken only after months of sap
ping and mining. A great many of
your numbers will probably engage in
the work of teaching. But who selects
the teachers? The men. They pay for
woman teachers, whatever their qual
ifications, is much less than the pay
for men teachers. Who fixes the sal
aries? The men. Some of you doubt
less own property subject to taxation.
Who assesses the value of your prop
erty and levies the taxes on it? The
men. They have the power and will
hold it as long as they choose. You
can gain nothing by open revolution
and active resistance, but you know
that men are great fools, that they
can be coaxed when they cannot be
driven; that they are inordinately
pufftd up with their own self-esteem,
and that they will do almost anything,
however unreasonable it may be, if
they are only handled with true femi
nine sagacity. Make them believe that
there is none to dispute their author
ity, and by gradual approaches, gain
ing a little advantage here and a lit
tle there, the victory over time-worn
precedent and much-abused privilege
will he won.
“But, after all, what does it matter
If In this fleeting life we do not reach
the summit of our soul’s desire?
Hero, as the ancient Persian poet
says:
“‘We are no other than a moving row
Of magic shadow-shapes that come
and go
’Round with the Sun-illumined Lan
tern held
In midnight by the Master of the
Show.
“ ‘But helpless Pieces of the Game He
plays
Upon this checker-board of Nights
and Days;
Hither and thither moves and chectea
and stays,
And one by one hack in the closet
lays.
“ ‘The Ball no question makes of Ayes
and Noes,
But Here and There as strikes the
Player goes;
And Ho who toss’d you down into the
Field,
He knows about It all—He knows—He
knows!”
The remainder of the exercises con
sisted of music and recitations by
members of the society.
Sunday morning tho commence
ment sermon was preached by Rev.
W. E. Hatcher, D. D., of Richmond,
Va. Hla text was “To him that over-
cometh*’—not man as distinct from
(CONTINUED qN PAGE THREE.)
A NEWSY LETTER
FROM WILKINSVILIE.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OP
LOWER CHEROKEE.
Personal Paragraphs Concerning Pop
ular People and Short Items of
General Interest
Wilkinsville, May 2G.—Last Wed
nesday morning an ugly affair took
place at the home of Mr. George Le-
master’s, which should he a warning
to people to he on the lookout for
loafing, thieving characters, whether
they he white or black, native or oth
erwise. As we gather the facts they
are substantially as follows:
Mr. Lemaster had that morning
left his home early to go to Cherokee
Falls and from there to Gaffney. His
little daughter, Miss Ellen, who is
quite young and a motherless child,
went to her uncle’s, Mr. R. B. (Dick)
Lemaster’s, and she and ^ her Aunt
Mollie (Mrs. Dick Lemaster) conclud
ed to visit Mrs. Wm. H. Webber (who
is a step-daughter of Mrs. Lemaster,
and also a cousin of Miss Ellen), and
in doing so they had to pass by the
home of Mr. George Lemaster. The
little girl, wishing to change her
dress, told her Aunt Mollie that she
would run on home and be ready by
the time she (Mrs. Lemaster) got
there. When Miss Ellen got to the
house she heard something she
thought was a dog shut up in the
house and she concluded to go and
put it out. When she entered the
room a great big rough nigger fell
over with his head inside the closet
while his feet and legs were on the
outside. The child naturally was
frightened almost to death and ran
out of the house. By this time Mrs.
Lemaster had come up and was wait-
inf for her in front of the house.
Seeing the child so badly frightened
Mrs. Lemaster asked her what was
the matter and the child, waving her
hand, told Mrs. Lemaster to he quiet
for there was a great big nigger in
the house. Mrs. Lemaster started to
go in and see who it was, but the
child protested, and upon reflection
Mrs. Lemaster concluded not to go.
hut told the child to run and get some
help and she would stay and watch
(he houfce. But the scoundrel made
his way out at a hack window and
escaped before any one could get
there.
Perhaps it’s very fortunate for
Mrs. Lemaster that she didn’t go in
the house at once for the scoundrel
finding himself caught might have
killed her, and it is exceedingly for
tunate, no doubt, for the little girl
that she ran out, for he would have
been none too good to have murdered
her to cover up his crime.
Who the suspected party is we have
no means of knowing, but it must be
some one who is familiar with the
place and who knew that Mr. Lemas
ter and his little daughter were both
away from home at that time. Could
the wretch have been caught and
identified we do not propose to have
to say how he would have fared—it
would have been rough, though, in
the face of existing circumstances.
We do not desire to criticize any of
the officers of the law for neglect of
duty, but. all such cases ought to be
dealt with summarily when the facta
are known, no matter whose private
interest it effects, nor to what extent
Unless a prompt execution of the law
follows, similar or even worse cases
may reasonably be looked for. Need
less delay In executing the law is only
a premium on crime.
The unfortunate shooting scrape
between Messrs. Sam Kennedy and
Sam Sandulin can't be attributed to
liquor this time.
People from all parts of the county
have about the same reports of their
crop prospects—too much rain.
Labor is scarce. Hoe hands can’t
be had at any price.
A suspicious looking craft, we are
told, makes periodical trips down
Broad river. Signals are given at
different places along the route by
firing a gun. “Of course” nobody
knows th* crew nor what the vessel
is loaded with, but everybody has an
idea—“booze.”
We had the pleasure of meeting
several prominent men from the coun
ty at Gaffney last Wednesday. They
seem to he more or less disheartened
about their crop prospects—both cot
ton and corn.
Mr. Thom. Whisonant, of Hickory
GroVe, who is in the real estate busi
ness, was in Gaffney last Wednesday
on business.
The present state of. the cotton crop
and the resultant outcome Is now en
gaging the public mind more than
anything else, especially among the
farming class.
Mr. Albert M. Grist, of Yorkville, one
of the firm of L. M. Grist’s Sons, who
own and publish The 4Yorkvllle En
quirer. visited New York last week,
and this is what that paper has to say
about it:
Probing in the Dark.
“There is very little doing among
(he New York brokers In the cotton
business Just now. either as to future
contracts or as to spots. It is be
cause the trade is entirely at sea both
as to tho acreage question and as to
crop conditions.
“Mr. A, M. Grist was In New York
last week on business, and shortly af
ter he had registered at the Astor
House he received a polite note from
the well known firm of Haven A
Clement, asking him to call at hia
convenience and tell the firm what he
know of the situation In his part of
the State.
"Finding a little spare time on his
hands and as curious to learn about
the situation up In New York as the
brokers were to learn about It down
here, Mr. Grist accepted the Invita
tion, and spent a quarter of an hour
or so with Mr. Sterrett Tate of tho
firm.
“ ‘We spend a great many thousand
dollars every year,’ explained Mr.
Tate, ‘trying to get as accurate infor
mation as possible about constantly
changing conditions in the cotton
crop and cotton trade; and I have no
hesitation in saying that in all our
experience the situation has not been
so puzzling as it Is now. We have
men that we have always regarded as
reliable and possessed of good judg
ment. telling us that there have been
heavy reductions In acreage and fer
tilizers, and others in whom we have
just as much confidence saying that
unless Providence interferes the cot
ton crop will be fully as large this
year as it was last year.’
“Mr. Grist replied that he could not
speak of his own knowledge except
as to York county; but he felt quite
sure that there had not only been
something like 20 per cent, less acre-
planted in this county this year as
compared with last year, but the pro
duction on what has been planted will
be cut from five to fifteen per cent,
on account of the most unfavorable
weather conditions that the county
has known for years.
“Sizing up the situation as he saw
it. among the broktys, Mr. Tate
claimed that while everybody in his
line would prefer higher priced cot
ton, improvement is prevented by the
prevailing uncertainty. Spinners are
certain that last year’s crop was
greater than their requirements, and
except for the uncertainty as to the
acreage and condition of the present
crop, prices would be lower. If
the spinners felt reasonably c§rtain
cf a decreased acreage they would be
buying right now; but in the light of
such conflicting advices as are being
received by all of the leading cotton
dealers it is not likely that there will
he anything doing until after the ap
pearance of the government's acre
age report on June 3. If the govern
ment report shows a reduction of the
acreage, Mr. Tate is satisfied that
there will he an immediate stiffening
of prices ,and if this report does not
show a reduction then prices will at
once begin to fall.”
Rev. w. H. White will preach at
Salem the first Sabbath in June at
11 o’clock A. M.
Since the wet weather set in we
have been having very muddy roads.
In some places between here and
Gaffney the mud Is axle-tree deep.
The roads seldom, if ever, get worse
in the winter time.
Mrs. Amanda Lee and her son, Sam,
went tq Gaffney last Wednesday on
a shopping tour. . ;
We were glad to meet among ouF
friends at Gaffney last Wednesday,
our old army comrade, Mr. Richard
Morris, who was one of Lee’s army
followers and was always on hand
when any fighting was to be done.
He lives in the western part of the
county, near Macedonia, and is one
of its quiet and good natured citizens.
Misses Ethel and Jessie Strain
found a swarm of bees yesterday and
got Uncle Sill to hive them.
If one-third be equal to one-half,
what is one-fourth equal to?
That home is to be pitied where
plenty of good reading matter is not
to be had, or where the family take
little or no interest in it. Nothing
speaks better for a family than to
hear the children give intelligent and
well connected accounts of what they
have read in some good book or news
paper. With our school advantages
this is possible In every home in the
land. Nothing ig so annoying as to
be constantly within the sound of
neighborhood gossip or the clap-trap
of the professional quid nunc who
thinks he knfcws something of every
thing that is going on, both at home
or abroad, and is always ready to give
his opinions about matters of which
he has yet to learn.
The rain continues. Several farm
ers speak of plowing up their cotton
and planting it over, or planting com
and peas on the land. . ‘
If you could buy some people for
what they are really worth and sell
them for what they think they are
worth, a fortune would be realized by
the transaction. * J. L. S.
BLACKSBURG BREVITIES.
Peronals and Locals from the Iron
Oily Across the Broad.
Blacksburg, May .27—Mrs. L. Black
and children, of Charlotte, N. 0., are
visiting relatives in town.
Mr. L. G. Wylie spent Sunday in
Hie! ory Grove with his parents.
M \ Bura Webb, of Spencer. N. C,
spci r Sunday in town with Mr. Jr. :ies
Blalock.
Mr. Victor Roberts, who is corking
in Spartanburg, spent Sunday n town
with hh parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Albergotti -eturned
home yeste ua/ a^ter an exte.M °d trip
to Portland. Oregon.
Mr. Cleveland Shepard, of C ’ .’ney,
is spending a few days in town with
his brother.
Mr. Broadus Moss spent Sunday
with his parents at Buffalo.
Mrs. M. F. Nickols and little daugh
ter. Addle, of Earl, N. C„ are visiting
friends and relatives In town.
Mrs. M. E. Earl has returned home
after spending a few days with rela
tives in Earl, N. C.
Mr. and Mrs. M. Roberts and little
daughter, Blanche, are visiting rela
tives at Patterson Springs.
Mr. J. Ratteree came home Satur
day, after spending a few weeks with
his daughter, Mrs. W. B. Weir, at
Kings Mountain.
Master Haskell Turner jg visiting
hla sister, Mrg. Wm. Finley, in Mar
lon, N. C.
Miss Bessie Smith went to Spartan
burg Saturday to visit her sister.
Mrs. C. A. Stewart w?nt to Spartan
burg to attend Converse commence
ment