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FINAL SETTLIEMENT Take notice that on 'the 17th day of September, 1921. 'I will render a final account of my acts and doings as Ad ministrator of the estate of 1B. F. iDe Shields deceased, In the ofilce of the J'udge of Probate of Laurens county, at 11 o'clock, a. in., and on the samie day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Administrator. Any person Indebted to said estate is notified and required to make pay inent on that date; and all persons having claims agaist said estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven or be forever barred. J. M. DeSHIFiiLDS, Adhinistrator August 17, 1921. 5-5t-A To Cure a Cold in One Day' Take LAXATIVE DROMO QUININE (Tableta.) It stops le Coug and Headache and works off tho Cold. E. W. UROVE'S signature on each box. 30c. The next time you buy calomel ask for )ai-otai s The purified and refined caloinel tablers that are nauscaless, safo and sure. Medicinal virtues retain ed and improved. Sold only in sealed packages. Price 35c. Wi liar 4- 0 Say "Threaded Rubber Insulation" The Willard Threaded Rub bcr Battery is immune to all ,old-time wood-separator ills. The plates are insulated-not merely separated. No money out of your pocket for separator replacement, be cause Willard Threaded Rubber In sulation neither warps, cracks, carbonizes nor punctures. It outlasts the battery plates. 'Ask about the Willard Threaded Rubber Battery -- the only battery with Threaded Rubber Insulation. Laurens Storage Battery Company W. Laurens St. Phone 446 'Willard Batteries * * * * 0 0 0 0 0 * 0 0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * BY-WAYS OF STATE HIS. * TORY.* * 13,. * No. XXXIX. * A View With a.Record. * * * J. W. Daniel in Southern Chris * tian. Advocate. * * * * * * *0* .**. . *0*e The morning is fine. Thin wisps of fog hang over the streams. It is fortunate we awoke before sunrise; fogs are rare in this high plateau iand when they do occur they are quickly dissipated by the rising sun. From this elevated point you maly trace the south w-estern and south eastern boundary of the county. The line of fog that hovers close to the treetops is the Saluda. It separates the couty on the south West from Abbeville. The river was so named, or rather the alluvial lands bordering It, for the Indians (lid not name riv ers, because the bottom lands were fertile, they called the section through which it flows Corn Land. You may trace this southwes-tern boundary of the country for itite a distance, by an air line It is not more than ton or twelve miles away. The same is true of the souttheastern boundary, a thin ribbon of fog hangs over the T'noree, you may see it now and then through the gaps in the hills, I mean the fog bank. This river - takes its name from Parris mountain, which the Cherokees called Ianorce, Place of Muscadines. You may readily see that the county is not large, It embraces 560,800 square acres; Its average length is only thirty miles and Its av erage breadth only twenty-four miles. Standing on this high -point iwe have the county spread out before us like a mao and may trace its water cours e8 'by the fogs that hover close to the water lines. You readily face the two Rayburss as -they sweep -around the bases of the hills close to us, and emptying, after they unite, into the Kush-ah, or as we call it Reedy river. The thin line of fog southwest of us, jist across the Kush-ah is Walnut creek. On a line almost direcotly from where we stand to Mt. Gallagner, the home of my boyhood, and on lands formerly owned by William Scott, not more than nine miles from us is a spot where one of loody 1Bill Cutnng. ham's atrocities was committed. I have seen no record of it in history. Aly father, however, who was inform ed very thoroughly of the local his tory and traditions of the county pointed out the spot to me when I was quite a small .boy. Not more than half a mile from the creek. In the dcoession between the hills on three side-', there is a spring, near this spring there grew a large white oak, from a limb of this oak he stat ed that William Box, a boy between 13 and I i years of age was hung by Biloody lill's Infamous gang. The father of -the youth andt a companion were hiding near the Box home. They were mounted but unfortunately the b~oy was ridling a col-t not thoroughly broken, When discover'ed the father andl his fellow patriot madie their es calpe, Otttridling thte attacking party. TPhe colt, hov ever, on whlich the boy was mouintedi balked andl was easily cipturedl by the Tories near the oak which I have described. They stop ledl lotng enough to hang 'the brave liIttle fellowv fronm a limb of the oak, took the colt atnd hastened after thle afther(' and( his coimpait otn. Thel mtotht etr and elde(st sistetr of WilllimI 110x ct the bridh) rein by whtich hte was ;suwded, niot long aftetr be was aanttgedi, butt alas! the brave little fel low -('s eck was broken't a nd lIfe was extittct. Tr'adlitiona says the tm'ot her andl sister miade thbe toutgh box in which heO was interred anad dui. the grave with thitrt oiwn hand;. Tihie rt depetndetnce (of itur grteat coutry so3'; far as larttoe;, at l east, was in vol vedl, was sealed wvithi lthe blood of its chili That fact reintds tme of a notber intancttte oif thle samte k ind. As we look dIirecly soutth, juist aL fewS miles bteyontid the litne oif foig that Itraces the (oturse of I1lttle rIver, the head wva terus of wite rut 'tn lthrough the city oif I aturtenis, was lie scene (if thte massa etre at Iliays' StatIon. This shameful affaIr occured at iEdgehuill's, idhway between Ilelfast and Miltoni, on ,tho old road leading from Rayburttn th rough Lau rens vIa Orangceburg to Charleston, In Ithe month of Novem hier, 1781. The nitthor' of Random IteCollec(tions of the llevoltion says, llis (I Iays') station wvas at Col. IEdgebill's, east of Little rivet' andt Sitnmons' creek. The diwelling house built of logs was Is fort, Hie was told by Willilam Caldwiell to put hini self in a position of defense; point ing to a sttoke southeast, hie salid, 'T'hat Is my br'other's house andI I know Cutnningham Is in the neighbor hood.'" It is r'ecordled that hlays was In a blaceksmnithi's shtop, making a cleat to hold a lady's netting, whatever thai may have bieen. Ha iys treatedI Caldwell's .warning lightly and replied, "Cutnningham has too mutch sense to comn here." Cald Iwell replied, " Iwill not stay here tc bo butchered," mounted his horse and fled at full s'eed; and as he went out at one end of the field, in which th< house 'was.located, he saw Cunning ham and, his men enter It at the op posite end. "The surprise was complete and overwhelming. 'Hays and his ien -al most without resistance were driver Into the house, and Cunningham'a 'pursult .was so close, that John Tins ley, one of the Tories, struck a full blow with his siword at flays, as lie entered his house. A few shots were fired from. within. and without. Lockley Leonard was killed In the house and one of Cunningham's meri In the yard. A ramrod tipped with flax asd saturated with tar was set on fire and shot out of a mnusekt intc the roof of the house. In a moment the house was in a blaze. flays and his patriots on a promise of good quarters, surrendered. Cunnin)gham selected flays and Maj. Daniel Wil lams (a son of Col. .lames Williams iwho fell at Kings Mountain) as his victims. ;le was about. hanging them on the poles of a fodder stack, when he was assocted by a young son of Col. Williams, .loseph Williams, a lad of 16 who had known Cunning hami1 from thie Liie l he was a child. "Captain Cunningham," alid he, "low shall I go home and tell my mother that you have hanged my brother." Cunningham instantly swore that he should not have that melancholy duty to 'perform. Ile hung him with his brother and Hays. The pole broke under the Weight. of the men. Then Cunningham drow his Aword and lit erally hacked to pieces the unfortu nate men. The slaughter did not stop here. The Tory captaint gave his inen permission to slay whomsoever they pleased. Golden .Tinsiey and his brother, James, of Newberry county, William Dunlap of Iluntersville, Lau reis county, and John CuImmins were the only patriots spared by the bloody) gang. James Tinsley moved to Spar tan-burg and related the facts which I have given to Judge O'Neall as lat: as 1832. Verily, William Box and Joseph Williams were martyrs tc the cause of ou1r independence. Let us turn from 'these horrible tragedies to .pleasanter things. Blelfast, which I incidentally men tioned iII Connection with the Iassa cre of flays and his band of patriots, Was the home of the progenitor of tho Simpson family in lattirens. lic came from elfast, Ireland, and linmed his settlement in honor of the city from which le came. You may recall James Chalmers of New Gti niea; Stevenson calls himill the greatest soul oil the I'acifie. J1amtIes Chaliurs iiaied the IIist bay he discovered on tie coast of Now ('uia. Iverary lay. '\"otild he have ever drlealmed of that name had he not spet his hoy hood days oil I-och Fynve. Iverness in 'Canlada, lelfast in Laaurens atd Iverary bay in New Ginea. all sil dy express that liomie siclkness of the ioul for the seenes of cihihood's lays. It is jIst tlie soul ellingv where it. was born1, and unciton)sciouly 3 cont fessin':~ that it is just a little homc1( ilk. lI efast was just a lit te elfort to give a hromrelike touch1 to the fat 0ot1ntry. I'neonlsciouly men( will make hIistory, record thiriil hp res sions an2 ld witle someO tim ies thie deetp aif tiS hlonorabile' l,autrensi' family 'ithI 1r wro~teth l tinirgs ofi is hieartI for lie 4)h( homt, or 4\xpre'ssedl hisi (onl [luh S of Isaiurens to thlos of fori aiway ileifast. bu It ' n im a ike(i iia tl p;a n lit th A indous me ilo iht- a u re od d i t ali wVe Catch('I littl Ic \isions of whlat thi:. 2tlit allitsho ii(iltey t' thou t One lhing howev''21 . \ e'o l' in tera f t ab/.ie aud a yeost~ et honotrable hrto C le riaoti'on ofthe sc( (fen ir of i a l 1-'rn dicdathethel. 1(( rau xvchil es ti t:lem rit's 21.1( te ome lan . 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