Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I Want To Talk With YOU If you are not carrying a bank account I want to talk with you about the help a bank account will be to you. You and I have a mutual in, terest in your carrying an account * at this bank. Naturally I want to see you identify yourself and your i financial interests with us. You I want to get ahead in the world. I Realizing that^a banking connec| tion is an essential factor in car f rymg your financial plans through to success, vou are interested, vl j -j jail}" laicrcMra* m laenuiyiug yourself with a. strong, serviceable bank. The amount of your present income or the amount of your first deposit is of much less importance than the fact of your making the light start. . Will you come in and talk this matter over with me? I shall be glad to have you. ^ - EC Epps, Cashier. Bank of Williamsburg KIN6STREE, S. C. I week from a most pleasant visit to i friends at Sumter. Miss Annie Miller bas returned J from an extended visit to relatives) at Brunswick, Ga. Mr Louis Jacobs' many friends are pleased to see him out again after j several days' illness. Dr and Mrs W V Brockington left Tuesday afternoon for Wrightsville! Beach for a few days' outing. Miss Margaret Ross is spending' v some d'ys with her friend. Miss, Kathleen Minus, at St George. r ? =?= day. Webarel 3 noee in your immediate locality, write uac CORTR1GHT METAL BO Nortk 23rd StrMl I r * ' " '.._ - ... / ? Mr S Peres went to Baltimore this week. j Miss Hazel Gewinner has returned j from Georgetown. Miss Mary Gordon is visiting relatives at Heinemann. t- . Dr C D Jacobs visited friends at | Gaffney last week. i Miss Louise McGill of Benson is ; visiting relatives in town. Mr W J WhetsMl of Bowman was here Tuesday on business. ft Mr John Britton visited Waycross, ft Ga, several days this week. K Miss Mary James Britton is visitR ing friends at Bennettsville. ft Miss Ruby Koenecke is visiting ft Misses Florrie and Sadie Meyer. I Miss Eunice Harper is visiting I friends at Lakeland and Columbia. ' Miss Mamie MeClary of Lake City' | is the guest of Mrs VV K Mcintosh. I ^ Hon R H Kellahan returrel this ? vwrninnr fmm Hpndersonville. N C. 1 ^ pyuivmiiij >tv?i , Miss Cecilia Benjamin of Georgetown is visiting Mr LJacobs' family. Mr Alex M Gordon, Jr, has gone to Macon, Ga, to attend Macon College. v Miss Annie Stackley is spending some time with friends at Greelyville. Jj^ Mr P G Gourdiu is back from a trip to the mountains of North Car-1 olinjL Hon J P McNeil, the well-known Florence attorney, had business here I yesterday. ? Ladson Fishburne, Esq, has returned from a visit to his parents at ? Walterboro. W L Bass, Esq, and Mr G A Brown of Lake City had business in Kingsti ee Monday. Miss Florrie Meyer returned last Mr and Mrs Charles L Porter of Rocky Mount, N C, are spending some days with relatives in town. Mr and Mrs E F Martin left Saturday morning for a \isit to the former's home in Barnwell county. Mr S A Graham and children, Master Sam and Miss Mattie, of Gourdins were noted in town Monday. i Messrs E C Burgess and B W Butler left Tuesday for Northern markets to purchase their stocks of fall merchandise. Mr E T Speigner of Jonesville, who has been on a visit to his brother.Mr R N Speigner, returned home Friday of last week. Mr A C Swails, the popular manager of the Kingstree Dry Goods Co, has returned from his trip to x T *" l 1 TKli.! I\ew I orK anu oaiumurv. i Mr and Mrs J B Harper of Timj monsville and Miss Mary Morse of Castalia, N C. are visiting at the home of Mr Edwin Harper. The Greelyville Livestock Co offers buggies, wagons, agricultural implements of all kinds at cut prices. Look for their ad in this issue. Nearly two dozen members of .Kirrgstree Lodge A F M participEfted in the funeral services of Mr T R Wilson Tuesday afternoon at Bethel. Mrs J W Riser and daughter, Miss Serena, and Miss Mabel Massengale of New Decatur, Ala, who have been on a visit to the family of LeRoy Lee, Esq, have returned home. Miss Edith Bradley of Wilmington and Misses Flossie Kellahan and Lilian Alsbrook and Mr Clarence Alsbrook of Kingstree spent a few days last week on the Isle of Palms. J S Eron has an ad this week that should appeal to buyers. Thty handle first class goods entirely and charge no more than some others do for cheap, shoddy merchandise. Misses Elmer and Hallie Hinds and Master Charlie Blakeley are home from Hendersonville, where they have been spending the summer months. Inadvertently last week we omitted from the list of excursionists the names of Mr and Mrs \Y H Carr, who are sending a week or two in Washington. Richmond and other places of interest. Capt William Cooper passed1 ' through town Monday en route from j Asheville.X C,to his home at Cooper; postoffice. His many friends are pleased to see Capt Cooper looking 1 fine and apparently enjoying life. j ; The Hamer-Thompson company has! ; some interesting advertising news in its ad this week. The "Overland" : automobile is an exceptionally good machine and the personnel of the 1 agency is sufficient guarantee of reliability. We congratulate our young friend. Robert Kirk, on winning the beneficiary cadetahip at the Citadel r Academy. We hope that his career the next four years will be a credit to himself and an honor to the county he represents?good old Williamsburg. The Kingstree cotton ginnery is now running every day under the efficient management of Mr M Ai Ross. While the cotton crop is undoubtedly cut short, still there is a great deal of the staple that should be brought here to be ginned. The local ginnery,with brand-new equipment and a veteran at the helm, is prepared to do as good work,or better, than any other ginnery in Williamsburg county. Mr G F Wearn, representing the <-l,-vKa Toilnrinnr PAmnanv ftf Pinfin- I nati, will be with the People's Mer-| I eantile Co September 1 and 2 with ! the latest and most up-to-date line 1 I of Fail samples. Don't fail to have; your measure taken for that Fall suit. Remember the dates?Septem-i her 1 and 2, lv)ll. People'^ Mercantile Co. i ... , _ s-24-2t Kin^stree, t. __ Never need repairs ?Inexpensive?Stormproof. I Will last us long as the building. Roofs I >ver twenty years ago are as good us new to- I local representative* almost everywhere but I lizect for samples, price* and full particular*. ROOFING COMPANY 6 I ' Philadelphia, Pa. | The Puritan maicen, Priscilla. Flaked with patches of snow, i hedges sometimes in November. Near him was seated John Alden, h friend and household companio Writing with diligent speed at a tab of pine by the window; Fair-haired, azure-eyed, with delica Saxon complexion, Having the dew of youth, and tl beauty thereof, as the oaprlves Whom Saint Gregory saw, and ? claimed, "Not Angles, but Angelf Toungsst of all was he of the mi wbo came in the Mayflower. Suddenly breaking the silence, t dillger.t scribe interrupting, Spake, in t:he pride of his heart. Mil Standish, the Cap tain of Plymoul "I^ook at these arms," be said, "tl warlike weapons that hang here .vXU. f5?<? > ? *. - ? _' ! "Look at thes Miles Standish In the Old Colony days, in Plymout the land of the Pilgrims. To and fro in a room or his simp and primitive dwelling. Clad in doublet and hose, and boots < Cordovan leather. Strode, with a. martial air. Mil< Standish. the Puritan Captain. Buried in thought he seemed, with h hands behind him, and pausing Ever and anon to behold his glitte lng weapons of warfare, Hanging in shining array along ti walls of the chamber? Cutlass and corselet of steel, and h treaty sword of Damascus, Currgd at the point and inscribed wi its mystical Arable sentence, While underneath, in a corner, we fo^tng-plece, musket, and mate Short of stature he was, but strong built and athletic, Sroad la the shoulders, deep-chests with muscles and sinews of iroi Brown as a nut was his face, but i russet beard was already rtship : itandish, strations by - B andler Christy A Cnmnartv1 - *? >. i}. i e arms," he laid. ] Burnished and bright and clean, as U j ! for parade or inspection! This is the sword of Damascus I i j 'fought with in Flanders; this ' j breastplate, Well I remember the day! once saved le my life in a skirmish; He:-e In front you can 3ee the very i of dint of the bullet Fired point-blank at my heart by a es Spanish arcabucero. Had it not been of sheer uteel, the forte gotten bones of Miles Standish Would at this moment be mold, in ,p" their grave In the Flemish j morasses." Thereupon answered John Alden, but looked not up from his writing: '* Truly the breath of the Lord hath \ ' slackened the speed of the bullet; H* >n bl* By,rcT preserved you, to be 1 ourshieM andouTwSpooT . Still the Captain continued, unheeding ! tig words of the strlpUgf: J , "See, ToV Vfighk tne^ af? Dufnished, as if In aa arsenal hanging; V . ! That is because I have done It my* i' self, and not left it to others. g ^ ! Bert# yourself, would you bo well erred, la an exoellent adage; ? i So I take dare of my arma, aa you of your pons and your lnkhorn. Then, too, there are my aoldiera, my g great Inalnclble army, i Twelve men, all equipped, having each his rest and his matchlock, I rj Eighteen' iihllllng a month, together j , with Hlat anH dIIIsm I I < , And, like Caesar, I know the name of j f each o:f my soldiers!" i This he said with a smile, that danced , | in his eyes, as tlie sunbeams ! Dance on the waves of the sea, and * vanish again in a moment ' | ! Alden laughed as he wrote, and still the Captain continued: "Look! you can see from this window i >. i my brtjen howitzer planted High on the roof of the church, a preacher who speaks to the purpose. . i Steady, straightforward, and strong. * with irresistible logic, Orthodox, flashing conviction right into the hearts of the heathen. Now we are ready. I think, for any 2 assault of the Indians; | Let thein come, if they like, and the sooner they try it the better? ^ Let them come, if they like, be it saga- kj more, sachem, or powwow, Aspinet, Saraoset, Corbitant, Squanto, ' or Tokamahamon!" | as i Long at the window be stood, and wistfully gazed on the landscape, is ' Washed with a cold gray mist, the S( n, vapory breath of the east wind, le Forest and meadow and hill, and the "1 steel-blue rim of the ocean, t? Lying silent and sad, in the afternoon shadows and sunshine, tie Over his countenance flitted a shadow B< like those on the landscape, >x- Gloom intermingled with light; and 7; i.' v his voice was subdued with emo-j en tion, ! 7. Tenderness, pity, regret, as after aj pause he proceeded: 3. b< "Yonder there, on the hill by the sea. I lies buried Rose Standish; j h es Beautiful rose of love, that bloomed j ? for me by the wayside! | j.-| ht She was the first to die of all who 1 came in the Mayflower! j j . ? reeu above her ia growing the Deia Wiie of wheat we have sown there, etter to hide from the Indian scouts And the graves of our people, est they should count them and see Ther how many already hare perished!" adly his face he averted, and strode up and down, and was thoughtful. Put Fixed to the opposite wall was a shelf of books, and among them Calli romlnent three, distinguished alike for bulk and for binding; Ther ariffe's Artillery Guide, and the Commentaries of Caeear, So h ut of the Latin translated by Arthur Goldinge of London, That nd, as if guarded by these, between them was standing the Bible. You [using a moment before them, Mllee Stan dish paused, as if doubtful Vhich of the three he should choose A1 for his consolation and comfort, Whether the wars of the Hebrews, the Notb famous campaigns of the Romans, >r the Artillery practice, designed for Wri belligerent Christians. Inally down from its shelf he dragged Fill the ponderous Roman, eated himself at the window, and Eve opened the book, and in silence 'urned o'er the well-worn leaves. Till where thumb-marks thick on the margin, , Stro .ike the trample of feet, proclaimed the battle was hottest. Fina Nothing was heard in the room but j the hurrying pen of the stripling, Sud iuslly writing epistles Important, to go by the Mayflower, ! Thus leady to sail on the morrow, or next day at latest, God willing! lo me ward bound with the tidings of , MWh all that terrible winter, ?tters written by Alden, and full of the name of Prisdlla, i Be 'nil of the name and the fame of the : Puritan maiden Prisdlla! : stra " Pusi Love and Friendship Nothing was heard in the room but Alws the hurrying pen of the stripling. * an ocoaelooal sigh from the labor- Ther Ing heart of the Captain, tending the marvelous words and ; " Tli achievements of Julius Caesar. ,fter a while he exclaimed, as he ! This smote with his hand, palm down ward, iearlly on the page: "A wonderful man waa this Caesar! Sine* 'y ;.^'9^B9^KL^VR9' ' jSP^BRFjp ^hemb wy aqg^m/k* .v^ * * r^23pblei?K5&|3^B?9i|HK%$MP^E'm "~~* Every sentence began er cloe ou are a writer. and I am a fighter. m J - VtUIiiifc mck, ir'ho could both write and fight, aad of*"] in both waa equally kHful!" tralfhtway aoawored and apahe John ^ Aides, the comely, the youthful: ( Tea, he waa equally a killed, aa you aay, with bia pen and hia weapona. I 1 omewbere have I read, but where I ' 1 ow forget, be could dictate Patl? ! ' ' rr\1 > ; 1< Ther a H.e rear-guai "I flH treated, the front* BlB &nn to0| fl| the immortaLTweft118 *ay' .,1 r pgioQ ^ I 4^I crowded so closely ^ * -v^ther I .^^9 e was no room for the; 0rd??l Why, be seized a shield* al soldier, * I |S| himself straight at the he* 0i| H bis troops, aod commanded iel captains. t ?^1 g each by his name, to order Forward the ensigns; i to widen the ranks, and give more room for their weapons; |H| e won the day, the battle of somethlng-or-other. \ 's what I always say: If you wish i thing to well done, must do It yourself, you must not leave it to others'" I was silent again; the Captain continued his reading. ' ilng was heard in the room but the hurrying pen of the 6tripllng. H ing epistles important to go next lay by the Mayflower, d with the name and the fame of 9B cf the Puritan maiden Prlscilla; H y sentence began or closed with the name of Prlscilla, the treacherous pen, to which he 1|H confided the 6ecret, B| re to betray It by singing and JH shouting the came of Prlscilla! . lly closing his book, with a bang - a it Jk A?..Aa I n uie puuu?ruus iu?ci, en and loud as the sound of a solller grounding his musket, i to the young man spake Milee 3tandlah, the Captain of Ply* mouth: en you have finished your work, [ hare something important to ell you. ot, however. In haste; I can wait; [ shall not be Impatient!" ghtway Alden replied, as he olded the last of his letters, pH lag his papers aside, and giving ; J fl espectful attention: ah; for whenever you speak, I JB un always ready to listen, ji iys ready to hear whatever peralns to Miles Standlsh." , 'S eupon answered the Captain, ens- S ?rraased, and celling his phrases: B i not good for a man to be alone, fl lay the Scriptures. ' ?jfl t Kats nnid before, and again ind again I repeat it; S y hour la the day. I think It, and eel It, and aay It 9 ? Rose 9t&ndish died, my life baa I been weary and dreary; at heart have I been, beyond tte beaJlna ct frlendahlp. n"my lonely hoe re have I thought of the maiden Priscilla. la ak?a jn the world j bar fatter t ind mother andDrother In tha winter together; I aaw bar Kolng and coming, ' 1 to the grave of tha dead, and now to the bed of the dying, int. cburageoua, and strong, and laid to myself, that If ever e were angels on earth, as thera u-e angels in heaven, have I seen and known; and the ingel whose name la Priscilla s In my desolate life the place rhich the other abandoned. ; have I cherished the thought, >ut never have dared to reveal it, g a coward In this, though valiant inough for the most part o the damsel Priscilla, the love lest maiden of Plymouth, that a blunt old Captain, a man yvffl lot or words but or actions, .^a s bis hand and his heart, the land and heart of a soldier, in these words, you know, but :his in short is my meaning; a maker of war, and not a maker if phrases, who are bred as a scholar, can jay It in elegant language, as you read in your books of the pleadings and wooings of jovers. as you think best adapted to win :lie heart of a maiden." ? hen he had spoken, John Alden, :be fair-haired, taciturn stripling ghast at his words, surprised, embarrassed, bewildered, g to mask his dismay by treatng the subject with lightness, ng to smile, and yet feeling his I leart stand still in his bosom, as a time-piece stops In a house :hat Is stricken by lightning, i made answer and spake, or J rather stammered than answered; h a message as that, I am sure 1 should mangle and mar it; ni would have it well done?I am inly repeating 7our maxim? must do It yourself, you must not leave it to others!" with the air of a man whom noth Ins can turn from his purpose, I ely shaking his head, made as I iwer the Captain of Plymouth:* JE (To be Continued.) ^ ^ ' j V X" Such /V " " Now to the grave of the deau. ^ sven letters at once, at the same All time writing his memoirs." rruly," continued the Captain, not Tr3rl heeding or hearing the other, rruly a wonderful man was Caius ^ry' Julius Caesar! etter be first, he said. In a little ust Iberian village, j Tfau ban be #cond in Rome; and I think j ma rlirht when he said iL i **" """ " j "HUC wice was be married before he was , twenty, and many times after; | J attles five hundred he fought, and a ( thousand cites he conquered; You e, too. fought in Flanders, as he him- j self has recorded; gut Inally he was stab*?ed by bis friend, j the orator Rrutus! Gray ow, uo you kt:ov what be did oo i , certain occasion in Flandert; JMCou Miles ? With Ilhi Howard Ch < C'opyriirhTU* I F~ ,