The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 01, 1909, Image 2
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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
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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- .
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?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'
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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 (
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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 *
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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
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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.
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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.' "?
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