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j?? . : 01 OUR LINE OF CLO BRANCHES, BETTER DRESSES. ANOTHER LETTER FROM POOR CONRAD. H)K lECtlUCnONS OF THE DAYS OF YOKE AND MORE RECENT HAPPENINGS. Editor Count v Record: ? 1 am going to give you another let- j ter. I have had the most of it written for some weefcs, but was very ?? ?II ?-? /ll/l U HI*A lima OUSV Uiuerwisc UUU uiu IIUI uaic uuiv | to quite finish it. I am sorry, too, on ; acoouut of the delay, as several of my friends want to know why I have not given them another letter. I am agreeably surprised to learn that so many find my letters interesting, ao I must say something. Well, friends, time keeps rolling oft and I see 60 many things to re-; i mind me of the years that are fleet* j ,mg and that the places that knowj as now will soon know ns no more! forever. J ust think of the hundreds ?yea, the thousands, who I have i knowu and met, many of them much younger than myself, who have long i j passed away, and I am still here, yet i without the least idea how near I ( am to my last mile post. This reminds me of the notice of the death of Mrs Matthews, which I saw in The Record some time ago. Mis Matthews was ranch ] younger than 1 and as I have men- j tioned her name 1 will also write T something about her father's fam- . 0 ? t ?y. I met all of the older otusj} -Bitter years ago?yes 60 years?and a iBatii 1853 I met them often. But { *fler that time I saw very little of j - them and for that reason I remember v very little.abont Mrs Matthews, as j .about the dates I have mentioned j he was quite small; but it .is still r tad to thiok jve shall never itee her c agaiu on earth. May she rest m!0 ipeace with the good angels and the! j 1 bloat on that beautiful shore. Mrs ^ SMatthews' father was Dr Cannon. v He lived and owned at one time the $ famous old live oak avenue near ( Goo*- creek bridge. The place I a thiok was sold and bought by Mr ^ John C Vo**. the mau who raised 0 --'"Tner and was ray god-father. He t alio owned the old Eighteen Mile j house and took in travelers going c and returning from Charleston with a cotton, and a good many of them i ( would leave their saddle horses at j the Eighteen Mile house and get ( Mr Vose to send them across 4 miles s to the old South Carolina railroad! j to ride 1? miles down to Charleston t oo the traiu. It was fun and some- ( thing unconiinou for the country,, people to ride on a railroad and Poor j ( Conrad was on the go each time! ] along with theoth*r little "niggers'' j, to fetch back one of the buggies, : or geuerally an old gig or kind of'] sulky that carried two persons and a "waitnuu" on a seat behind The j i travelers were always' quite merry! and took much interest in me, and I would beg me to see that their horses : i were f rd, watered and curried reg-' uiarly and many a quarter was slip- j ped into*my hand when they would' / ?r i.?j i i ! return, ior air vuse nau ibi^c imiuj full of tine hay and corn and I did 'i my ben with the stock. I remember ! Mr David Epps was iu one of the! parties. 1 drove a mule named. Buck and i remember Air Epps[ asked. me why the mule switched; his tail so much. He alsoa3ked my name and after 1 came up here to live he called me uCousarn" for a long time. 1 remember Mr John McFaduiu, the father of Air Mc- j Faddin of this town, stopped at the Eighteen Mile hou3e one night. Colonel Distant was iu company ft JR NE 1 THING IS IN THE MOST THAN IT HAS EVF.R BEE V gggggggggjgggi: with him. The Colonel was on a big spree and wanted to swallow the negro boy that attended to making the fire in the gentleman's room. Mr McFaddin was a great laugher and was heartily amused at Mr Distant. Whisky was plentiful in those days and the decanter was always on the side-board and fall. It was as common for any of the travellers to walk up to the side-board without saying a word to anyone take a drink, as for any of us to-day to drink out of a bucket of water,-and seldom one would get drunk. Well, so much for the old "Eighteen," as we little "niggers," used to call the place. It was a heaven to me. My happiest days were apeut there. I called Mr and Mrs Yose "Pa Vose" and "Ma Vose." Tt was a place for good eating and many a hnF hiif-.tor*ri cifflp and niece of MWW v%* " X?? ? toast soaked in milk and sugar "Sonny," as the old negroes called him, would put himself on the outtide of. Well, Mr Editor, I made two beginnings to tell some of my recollections of Dr Cannon's family, but I can't help going back to my boyhood days. "backward, turn backward, 0 Time, m thy flight, Make me a child again, just for tonight" I do not remember Dr (Januou, as le died before I was old enough to enow him, but I do remember his ridow, Mrs Katie Cannon, the nother of Mrs Matthews, whom I lave been writing about. She was a lister of old Mr John J Keardon. he mau who brought me to this ?rt of the country in 1850. He ras the great-grandfather of the teardoo boys, who were living in kits fAd*n nrtf Inn nr Q ffA M rs (!an. UIO WT1MM UU? ... ion, or "Aunt Katie," as many ailed her, was a good woman, full >f life and a great talker. She had, think, three sons and, I think, hree daughters. I worked along rith one of the sons named Theolore at the carpente's trade in /harleston in 1853, and that was boot the last 1 saw of him. I will ell s( milling that Aunt Katie said nee that 1 have often heard a good nany laugh about. It was after she >ecame a widow. The house she iwned on Goose creek was a goodi?ed brick building but got burned lown, so Mrs Cannon had a wooden Irame building put up with a clay :himney to it,' and it happened that ouie old fellow called at the widow's louse on a certain day and I don't hink Aunt Katie cared much to >ntertain him, as it was said he had i uegro wife. He may have had jourtship in his head, for we all cuow but few men who have not got some deviltry m their neaas? "Man's heart at a foot distance is not known." But, auyhow, if courtship was in that old codger's heart Aunt Katie knocked it out. He no doubt was hopeless aud a little at a loss for a subject to talk about. Looking around at the honse with a clay chimney, he said at last, "Well, a frame house and a clay chimney." Aunt Katie was quick: "Yes,'' she 3aid. "A white man and a nigger wife." If that visit was plauned for courtship, that was the end of it, and that's not all about that family in the way of sharp and quick answers. Auut Katie's mother, old Aunt Polly, as we called her, was quick, too. She lived to be quite old, up in the 60's. I remember her quite well. She ?vouid often tell me about the Revolutionary war. She was 7 years old then. She said the Tories would often come to her father's house to capture him and they wopld \ 9 W SPR ARE MA DECIDE ATTRACTIVE STYLES, i iNBEEORE. A NICE LINE Yours t S . MA KINGSTf XCSCSC3C3S3S3C always ask where he was. She would reply: "Nowhere; he is in the bushes and yon fellows can't catch him." She added: "I was a sassy little dev. il, too." I tnink I told you in mr last letter that I had been to Mr J J M Graham's and had planed up all the lumber he wanted. He has built quite a nice, large store on his plan* tation, near his dwelling. Mr Olin Epps rented his planing mill and had me to plane qnite a lot of fine seasoned lumber for him, He expects to make a Que dwelling house. I think he has about 30,000 feet of1 nice lumber "tongue and groove"? flooring, ceiling, weatnerooaraing,; mouldings and about a*s the trim* mings to build quite a n house. I think he is going to make a cage and then trap the bird. He has been baiting for some time and 1 think the bird has been quite near , the bait, but I can't say if the bait is tempting enough. Olia seems very j quiet and I think he is stepping very cautiously around for fear he j may cause a fluttering. Olin is a no- , ble young man. I stayed with the ; family while I ran the planing ma? ( chine for him and i shall always , remember their kindness. Until my stay with them I did , not know that Mr Epps had so ( ? V . - ? many sons ana aangnters?seven ox , each and all living. And one remarkable thing about the sons, not ( one of them chews or smokes tobac- ? co, drinks liquor or swears. Just ^ think of that! tVhere can we find y another seven brothers, or five, or say even three, who are free irom these slavish habits? I have often noticed when tbe father is a praying Christian the sous are of tener reckless and rowdy tban gentle and kind. But a this family is a shining exception. 8 Mr Epps has a son living in Ala- J bamaand in a prospering business 1 and not afraid of work. Olin told 1 me that not loug ago that brother ^ drove a team of oxen one whole I week and about the end of the week 1 be was elected vice president of the 2 bank of his town. Not because he * r drove the team but because he was ' the right man for tb*t position. Well, I have finished np Mr Olin * Epps' lumber aud have helped to 1 haul the planing mill back to Mr J " ''v Al!- 1 Li J XVI Vjrranaui. V>I1D uruugut my lumber back on his wagons for my 1 new boat, and 1 have commenced to * build it, but I bad to stop yesterday ' and go down to Mr J M NexEen'sand ' gin a few bales of cotton. Finished this afternoon and am back at Mr H O Britton's, under whose hospit- 1 able roof 1 am made welcome, where ' peace ever dwells and kindness is 1 seoond to none. I hope to have the ^ new boat ready in a few weeks and J ihe will be named "Rover No 2." I am going to try to have a nicer boat, 1 hoping to please the ladies and chil- ( dren,wives and sweethearts of friends ii ? * tU WC1I <UJ 1UCO Well, Mr Editor, I hope I will not tire you with this letter. I could say a good deal more but the poet said: "Words are as leaves of the trees: when greatest in abundance there is less fruit of sense found beneath them." Love to all, from, Poor Conba.i>. People past middle life usually have some kidney or bladder disorder that saps the vitality, which is naturally lower in old age. Foley's Kidney Kemedy corrects urinary troubles, stimulates the kidneys and restores strength and vigor. It cures uric acid troubles by strengthening the kidneys so they will straiu out the uric acid that settles in the muscles and joints, causing rheumatism. W L Wallace. ING A KING A D HIT SHADES AND CUTS. 01 AC | ID TA DATE I A DIE o please, R C U S, IEE, S. C. sescsxescsescs We?er Be Abusive to the Steward. "Never speak harsh words of rebuke to a steward on an ocean liner," declared a Congressjn?' ^ Jfew York. f / "One summer 14 leyed over to the other side. The i. st day out, at mealtime, I found that I had to embrace the table leg to get near enough to operate with my knife and fork. For my unpleasant seat I called the 'steward to account. Most harsh was my criticism. Then I told him I would have my meals served thereafter in the upper cabin. "The next morning the cabin steward told me of a better room and that I should get it immediately. It was more costly and elaborately famished than the one I occupied with my traveling companion. Then, too, it was on the main deck. I looked over the room and decided to make the change. I bad my luggage, with that of my friend, moved below. When he saw the new quarters be gasped with horror. 'Man alive!' be said, 'this is the worst hole on the ship. You and I are in for a [jreat big seasick.' We got every jar rf the ship and good and seaaicic, too. "The day I landed the dining room steward met me on the deck. (Mnch >bliged for changing,' he said. "It -vh8 at my request that the cabin steward got yon to move. The gentleman ahead of yon in that cabin ind who wanted to moye gave me ?75 to fix the deal. I thank you for vhat is a m'lt gtorir tip.' "? Washington P it, k It iter. 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