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??' i > CONCERNING THE FOUNDING OF CLEMSON COLLEGE. SOME INTERESTING INSIDE HISTORY? COL. SIMPSON DEFENDS THE MEMORY DF MR. CLEMSON. Anderson, June 4:?So much has been written pro and con in the f newspapers of late of Clemson colHP lege, especially of its origin and its establishment, that a true recitation ft of the history concer ing the college W is timely and interesting. No person m is more conversant with the estab1 lishmeut of the college, the deeding I af the property to the State of South I Carolina by Mr Clemson and the ? 13 conditions then exisnug man v^ui a* W Simpson, the former president of [ the board of trustees of the institute ion. It was he who wrote the will of Mr (Jlemsou, giving ,o the State the property on which Clemson now stands. On account of his ii)timacj with Mr Clemsou and on account of \ the fact that Mr Clemson consulted him frequently concerning the es i tablishmentof the college,the following article from the pen of Col Simpf son given to the press is of much alue, and will be read with keen in r terest. Coi Simpson's statement is & I follows V There seems to be so little kcowr Rn about the life and purpose of Mi I Thomaa Clemeoa :n connection witfc R the donation of ilia property to th< W State for the purpose of founding ar R industrial college, that in justice t( liis memory and his purpose I feel il R~ to be my duty to state the facts anc let the people judge. |R^ A short while before Mr Cal houn's death, his frieada in Charles seeing his declining health,sub. scribetl liberally to purchase or char l ter a yacht to send him on a cruise ^R thinking thereby to restore him t< ^R hi3 canal vigor. Before this Iaudabb ^R pnrpose could be carried into effeci H 'Mr Calhoun died. accurately of the subscribed R bat according to mv recollection i was between $30,000 and $40,000 After his death it was agreed by th subscribers to this fund to apply it t< ^H1 the payment of Mr Calhoun's debts mm He was not a rich man and wa, largely in debt at the time of hii |H death. This purpose was carriei HI into effect. Mr Calhoun's debts wen I paid aud his children released theii .-interest in his estate in favor of thei) mother, Mrs Floride Calhoun, anc her afflicted daughter, Miss Cornelh 'Jalhoun. Subsequently Mrs Floridi jalhoun sold Fort Hill plautatior and the negroes, formerly the property of John C Calhoun, to her son *Gol A P Calhoun, for the sum ir round numbers of $40,0'X),for whicl he gave his bond and mortgage. Mn Floride Calhoun was to reside witl her son, but there was an unfortunate difficulty between the mother anc eon, aud Mrs Calhoun purchased i home in Pendleton and resided then to the time of her death, and it wai there she had her friend and relative Mr Armstead Bart, to write hei will, in which she willed and devised her Pendleton property to he: grandsons sens of John and Willian Calhoun, then deceased, aud the hand and mortgage of A P Calhou: -1 T* 1 TTMl - 1 _ ? i.. LZ 1.L Ion tne rorc uui piamauou, luxw foartha thereof to Mrs Ciemson, he] daughter, and and one-fonrth tc I Mrg Lee, her granddaughter, witfc L the provision that if the bond and i mortgage were given in exchange foi the Jaod, it was to go to Mrs Clem\ ton and her daughter, Mrs Lee, in [ the same proportion. Some time after the close of the %rar and the death of Mrs Floride (Jalhoua and Col A P Calhoun, Mrs - CJemson began proceedings to foreclose the mqi^fage. on th; Fort Hill alaotation. After a great deal of litirgationv accounting, etc.. the court ordered the plantation to be sold. ( Mr Ciemson attended the sale at Walhalla, and bid in the land (Fort I' Hill) for Mrs Clemson and ins daughter, Mrs Lee, for the sum of $15 ,000, considered at the time the vfull value of the land. The cost and expenses of the litigation connected with this foreclosure proceeding, ?wipg to the complicated questions 'iivolved and the number of attorneys Inptoyed, amounted to $8,000. These costs and expenses, instead of >ing paid out of the proceeds of the " sale of the land, were paid by Mr Clemson out of his own private funds. I Mr and Mrs Clemson resided at i Fort Hill. After the death of their 1 two children, Mrs Lee and Calhoun Clerusou, they entered into an agreement to make wills iu each other's , favor, and the survivor was to del ' , vote their joint pioperiy to the State : to found aD industrial college, Mrs . Clemson having nothing to will but ; her three-fourths of the Fort Hill J plantation, while Mr Clemson had [ quite a sum of money which he had fortunately saved after tha war. . It was also a part ot this agreement that Mr Clemson was to will , out of his private property the sum ! of tea thousaud dollars to their ;! granddaughter, the only surviving child of their Daughter, Mre Lee, and their object iu making this do > nation to their granddaughter was r that they could donate their property r to the State free of any claim or : equitable right that she, the grandI child, mght have to the Fort Hill . plantation. T? ? ? /% IT /\r f TT ill j.n uie uicuuimic cue xuiv . plautatiou had been divided accord{ ing to the terms of Mrs Calhouu's . will, setting off three-fourths to Mrs 5 Clemson and one-fourth to Mrs Lee or her daughter. They having , agreed to donate this three-fourths to the State, they considered the , eight thousand dollars paid to bis ? granddaughter, which subsequently , he increased to fifteen thousand dol> lars, would be indisputably the value t of the laud. Mr Clemson always [ considered that the Fort Hill plantation, or three-fourths thereof, was . legally and rightfully his property . as far as any claims that the Cal. houns might set up, and therefore . wa3 his to do as he pleased with, he having paid $2-3,000 therefor. ) These facts are all matters of rec% 1 -- A. it.. L ? Ora except as to lue agreeuieut w t compensate their granddaughter, and c let the Fort Hill plantation be freed from any claim that might be set up I by the Calhouns or others that they, Mr and Mrs Clemsou, were donating s that which they had no moral right to donate. I was a witness to these facts and to the purpose they had in 3 view. 3 There is, therefore, no foundation i for the statement that Mr Clemson > had settled Calhoun's property to the r State, aud then given his name to r the proposed institution. I wrote Mr I Clemson's will, and I state positivei ly that if any one is responsible for i his name given to the college I am i that one. Mr Clemson wanted to - give the name of Calhoun to the , proposed institution, but I insisted i that it should bear his name, bei cause I knew of the transactions by a w hich his grauddaughter was to be ? * ? ? 1 - . iL _ i compensated tor tne run vame or rne . plantation, and that which he was 1 donating to the State was his indii vidnal property, and Mr Calhoun ? had nothing whatever to do with 3 fhe property or the donation, But it , was Mr Clemson's purpose and der sire to name the college Calhoun . and not Clemson. I was his confidential attorney,and > managed all of Mr Clemson's affairs i for two years preceding his death, i I visited him once every week, and he lived the life of a dignified,heart: broken hermit. During nis last sick> ress he talked to me about religion i and asked his friend and attending I physician, Dr T J Pickens, to pray for him, and he asked me to bring a minister to see him, and I took the Rev Mr Clarkson. He told me that during the several conversations > he had with Mr Clemson he confessed his faith in Christ and said i that Christ was able to save as great a 3inner as he was. It was Mr Clarkson's opinion that he was a converted and saved man. Mr Clemsou was a strong believer in Mr Calhoun and his doctrines. During the early part of the war, while residing at his home near the 1 city of Washington, he was notified by a friend that he was to be arrest' ed next day on account of his sympathies for the South. Thereupon he and his son, Calhoun Clemson, escaped and that night crossed the Potomac river in a skiff and then walked to Richmond and tendered their services to President Davis. Mr Clemson was attached to the nitre and mining works in the depart ment of the Traus-Mississippi and his son was given a commission in the regular army. Mr Clemson served in the department to which | he was attached to the end of the ; war. He then came to Pendleton and then to Fort Hill, where he resided to the day of his death, j His daughter, Mrs Lee, died in New York,and seventeen days thareJ after his son, Calhoun Clemson, was ! killed in a railroad accident at Senej ca, S C. Not a great while after the death of their two children Mrs Clemson died suddenly. For ten years after the death of his wife and children Mr Clemson lived a lone.1 '-fftln f Q lifo nml VlJ9 j OULLlCy UtOUIUCV II4V) wuv4 uw v^wv.... ; was one of the saddest scenes I ever witnessed. In my many conversations with him he impressed me as one who thoroughly understood the conditions in which the people weie left by the results of the war. Having graduated from the School of Mines in Paris, he was firmly impressed with the conviction that an I industrial education would alone I meet the conditions then existing and he was vitally interested in helping to establish such an institution for the benefit of the rising generation. R W Simpson. Pendleton, June 3,1909. Men Past Fifty in Danger. Men past middle life have found comfort and relief in Foley's Kidney Remedy,especially for enlarged prostrate gland, which is very common among elderly men. L E Morris, Dexter, Ky, writes: "Up to ~ year ago my father suffered from 1 ney and bladder trouble and seyera physicians prouounced it enlargement of the liver and advised an operation. On account of his age we were afraid he could not stand it and I recommended Foley's Kidney Kemedy, and the first bottle relieved him, and after taking the second bottle he was no longer troubled with this complaint." D C Scott. Nance-DaeieL The editor acknowledges with sincere appreciation the following invitation, and extends in advance most hearty felicitations to the charming bride-to-be and her chosen knight: Mr and Mrs Robert Drayton Nance request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter Mary Tabitha to Mr William Lowndes Dauiel on Wednesday morning, June the sixteenth, at eleven o'clock, Praahrlorian Plllir^h X ivovj vwimu vmm* vm) 1 Cross Hill, South Caroliua, i * - The Tired Fee 111* is cured by Lippmau's Great Remedy. It also cures Neuralgia and Violent Headache. It feeds the nerves, makes the blood rich and the patient 1 strong. If you would be well and i happy use P. P. P., Lippmau's Great Remedy, Sold by W L Wallace. 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Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium. The beet blood portfler in the vorldF. V. LEPPMAN, Sarannah, - , Osorgla, I JohDSonvilie High School. Pursuant to a call of the trustees of Johnsonville High school district, the patrons met at the school building at 11 a m, May 29, for the purpose of nominating a board of trustees to serve for a term of two years. After j hearing the report of the board for the past scholastic year, the old board was re-elected, consisting of Dr W C Hemingway, S B Poston and C J Rollins. The following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Resolved,That we,the patrons of the Johnsonville High school district,in convention assembled do hereby express our high appreciation of the eminently high and conservative services rendered by the board for the past I >u siiiuiaaiiy .vcai a. . ^ Resolv^^^\d, That' % hereby "\ppre of the splendi<" taking of each . teachen t school room. There i Ore interest being manifested in the school by the patrons of the school than at any period of its history, judging from the attendance, not only of the children at school, but the attendance at the meeting when the trustees were to be elected, whose duty it is to elect teachers and finance the school. This is perhaps the most healthy sign of interest, when all are interested in who shall have the management of their children's welfare. The outlook for the school is brighter for greater progress in the next two years than at any period in its history. J L Mullinix. Venters, June 5. If you have pains in the back,weak back or any other indication of a weakened or disordered condition of the kidneys or bladder, you should get DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills right away when you experience the least sign of kidney or bladder complaints, but be sure that you get DeWitt's Kidney and Blad der Pills. 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