The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, November 16, 1911, Image 1
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I must now go on and tell about
9 the "Eden Muse^L' in which are exjhibited
life-size wax figures of some
grju the most prominent people. At j
:v? the door as you enter stands a po|[ylieeman,and
he is so life-like that you j
Sf"*uaagine for a moment that the eye
F of the guardian of the law is upon j j
I you. Go further on and there sits
i the "guard off duty," snoring so 1
naturally that it startles you. Below
k in the basement, the "Chamber of
^iorrors" is seen?the electrocution
of the murderer of President Gar * 1*1
thp r.hristian martvrs being
I tortured during the Spanish Inquisition
in the dark ages, the coronation
scene of King George and Queen
Mary, and among the rest too numerous
to mention, sits General Lee
when he is about to resign, with
sueh a sad expression on his face.
We saw in the morning "Times"
that a Chinese war vessel had arrived
and that the marines would land at
i dock on the Hudson river: so
Jright and early we took a surface 1
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? .'car and got mere just m umc tv i
K^three hundred or more pouring out c
L of the small boats, making their way I ]
to Broptiway to take in the sights, j *
We locked for their long pig-tails, ?
' but their hair was closely clipped. ^
' The Chinese war vessel was quite a *
^curiosity,flying its yellow flag with a 1
* red dragon on it. While we were up *
in that part of the city we thought ^
we would take a view of Grant's 8
; tomb, in which Grant and his wife lie c
side by side. As the gentlemen visBitors
enter, a policeman at the door
jBrequests them to remove their hats. %
^ t is a beautiful edifice of white f
marble.
B Cleopatra's Needle is an object of I
interest and curiosity, when one re- r
Bmembers the distance from which it v
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B came, and being the largest of the 8
lypbelisks on the Nile. k
Efe The parks of New York are not 1
Bbnly ornamental but useful, especial- *
I ly to the poor. The tenement houses, Ir
Bin which so many thousands live, are j *
^Broyded to overflowing, and many s
MGTevening we have seen old grand- k
^fciothers too old to go to the parks
^Krving to get a breath of air on the; *
Bflre-escapes, with their little grand- ^
children in their arms. Men too old e
to work stay in the parks day and 1
Knight. The city helps them to live, j j
At one o'clock at night any one who '
Kchooses to join the bread line and {
wait till his time comes will be given i
|a 01 ycsiwuajr O Micau uuui
'yesterday's bakery, and in the win- |
tter a cup of hot coffee is added. The i
4>read line is sometimes a mile long. '
Of course jn winter the weather is |
800 severe for any one to stay out i
at night.so these old men go to the i'
if
. guard-houses and ask to be locked {
up till morning. 1 i
" ; We "took a trip to the Bronx '
Park one morning, and as we knew |
j^.would be an all-day jaunt we pro- i
Tided ourselves with luncheon. It!"
uite a distance from our board-' '
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between buying the
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ng-house and took us over an hour
to get tnere, flying along or the elevated
express. It seemed so strange j
to see people in the top part of the i
louses, some, just eating breakfast, j
some, dentists working on their pa-1
tients' teeth, and all kinds of em- i
ploymerits going on. As soon as we j
reached the Bronx we went to see
the flowers; from there we went to
ook at the animals. The monkeys, i
if which there is a great variety,
tvere very interesting. They look at
vou so cunningly and make so many
funny gestures. The animals' cages
ire kept as near like their native
launts as possible. The lions have
2Treat holes in the rocks in which j
they can come in and out. The white
polar bears have the floors of their
:ages of ice, and the snakes from
\frica and India have their places
artificially heated. We were told that
inimals are boarded in the Bronx by
iifforont />irf?ncoQ Hnrinor thp winter.
When we got through taking m
riost sights of interest, we were
flad to get back to our boarding
Mace, as we were thoroughly tired
ind glad to rest.
John Wanamaker, Macey and Siefel-Cooper
are among the largest
lepartment stores. Wanamaker emMoys
fifteen hundred clerks, so you
nay form some idea of what a large
establishment he has. When you get
;ired walking about, just go into the
jeautiful parlors, take a seat at one
\f tVio Hoolrc nnrJ wrifp nn thpir <stn
ionery to your friends. We went
nto Tiffany's grand jewelry store
md looked at the Tiffany diamond,
vhich they keep to exhibit. The Hip>odrome
is said to be the largest
)lace of its kind in the world; it is
>etween a circus and a theatre, and
ias a seating capacity of five thouand.
The day we were there it was
xowded.
One thing that pleased us in New
fork was the humane manner in
vhich their animals are treated, es>ecially
the horses.
We were anxious to walk over
Brooklyn bridge, but were advised
lot to do so at that time, as there
vas a strike among the employees
>nd it may not have been safe, there
>eing a good deal of fighting among
hem. We would have liked to visit J
he "City of Churches," made fa- j
nous by Henry Ward Beeeher, but
t took up all of our two months to
ee New York city,and the other will
lave to be deferred till next time.
It was quite amusing to see in the |
he papers the letters written to Mri
Jreen, son of Hetty Green, the rich-1
st woman in America. It seems!
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The difference in cost between
tance, is very small, but there's j
tion. Cheap goods are a continu
noyance, and it will pay you whe
i come here and get the best.
REE HARE
WHIOI FSAI R AND 1
that the old lady made her son prom- i
ise not to marry until after her j
death-,which occurred some time ago. j
He was literally besieged by love:
letters from all over the country,1
and even from across the water. [
He has been making his home at the
Waldorf-Astoria, and is about forty j
years old.
Our time was too short to take in
New York properly, as it would take
six months to go to all the places of
interest.
I advise any one traveling to prepare
for tips. We were besieged with
waiters.bel! boys and stewards,as we
were nearing our journey's end and
we find that that has always to be
reckoned with in calculating our expenses.
We were sea-sick nearly all
the time, and scarcely ever went^
to the table, yet the men who stood
behind our empty chairs were quite
persistent about their tips. Fruit
wrs the only thing we could eat, especially
oranges.
On the trip we passed a light ship
LY MOTTO IS TO PLEASE
*ONSON, Lane
which is stationed at that spot in the
ocean. It did seem so lonely all by
itself, but it is necessary for the
safety of vessels passing that way.
Those who live on this Government
light ship are relieved, we are told,
at the end of six months by another
family. Sometimes we passed a buoy,
which is placed to warn the passing
vessels. The bells in them, rung by
the motion of the waves, sound ?d so
sweet and wierd.
One of the officers on board talked
very interestingly to us about everything
relating to the sea; he told us |
that not one person in a hundred, in ,
case of a panic, would know how to (
strap on a life preserver, of which .
every room has two, but the main |
dependence is the life boats, which ]
cannot sink in the roughest waves. ?
In case the person understands the ]
life preserver.it will hold you up unless
a shark gets hold of you, of |
which there are always a great many |
following a ship,especially if there is ,
a dead body on board. The fog-horn <
blew nearly the whole night, and we \
were told that fog causes a great ,
many disasters at sea. Sometimes it j
is so dense that vessels crush into (
one another without knowing there j
is another vessel near. |,
Visitor, j (
Kingstree. November 1ft.
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source of amazement. If you would I
have such an appetite take Chamber- i
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a healthy appetite, but strengthen :
the stomach and enable it to do its
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"POOR CONRAD" TELLS ABOU1
OLky MEN OF WILLIAMSBURG
AND NEIGHBOR COUNTIES.
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I wish to write about more of th<
old men of Clarendon and Williams
bur# counties and also of those o 1
Sumter. There are not many peoph
living now who knew old "Uncle*
John Harrington, who lived in whal
is called "The Corner," where Blacl<
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i tall man would have drowned if
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river ana rocoiangu iunv. rwuwr
igo turns to the left up through the
western part of Clarendon and Sum
ter counties and Black river turns tc
north-east, making a deep elbow
called "The Corner," onoe a fin*
place for deer and wild turkeys. Uncle
John and his wife, Aunt Sally,
lived there and in their yard stood e
giant water-oak. One summer nigh I
not long after Uncle John and Aunt
Sally were married an owl lit in the
oak with his hoo-hoo-hoo. Uncle
John said: "Sallie, you understanc
what the owl said?" "No, John.'
"Young gal sweet like shoo goo.'
Uncle John wore no socks and the
coldest nights slept with bare feel
uncovered and often through the
night he coulc. be heard rubbing his
feet together. He was a kind-heart
ed man; in conversation a commor
word with him was "by blood." He
had several sons: Zack, Ned and
John. Once he had a dispute with
John which made him very angrj
and, with the words, "by blood," he
prave Zack a punch that broke two of
his ribs. He was a powerful man. 1
spent one night with these old people
when I was a boy.
Old Mr Josiah Fleming, whom I
have mentioned before in one of my
letters, also lived down in "The Corner."
He wrote my epitaph 57 years
ago. Mr Fleming and his sons made
it their rule to go fishing every Monday,
Once upon a time going up the
river (I suppose he had taken a
J ram and was feeling good) where
it was common to pass under a tree
that had fallen across the river, he
said, "Watch how active I am; I will
jump over that log and land in the
boat." I do not remember who was
paddling the boat, but as Mr Fleming's
weight left the boat it bobbed
Lip and struck the log and Mr Flemng
went out of sight under the wa
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| the other man with the boat had:
> not caught him.
Mr Fleming somehow thought
i that the spirits of men after death
passed from men into animals and I
r from animals into men again. He [
said he had a faint recollection of
once being an old gray mule.
Mr David Epps, father of Mr D J
Epps of Kingstree, was not so old as
some of those I have mentioned; he
? was a jolly, fat man and had four
. brothers: Ned, Jim, John and Bob.
I David was a member of the Legis;
lature once,as was James. Some one
? remarked on seeing what a big fat
I man David was that he must be the
'hntt nf thp familv "weichinc
. 335 pounds. Not so, John was much
, the heaviest; all five brothers were
. of aldermanic proportions. David,
, Robert and one sister lived at the old
j homestead together; they had many
, slaves and "Poor Conrad" spent
. many pleasant days and nights with
them.Well does he remember the big
t open fire-place in the hall where in
; the winter days "Aunt Jane" would
. have a large heap of baked sweet
; potatoes in one corner of the broad
; hearth, with the sweet, sugary juice
I trickling down on the hearth, and
? Conrad had an eye on them, too.
' During the warm weather all of the
> little negroes that were not old
t enough to do field work were kept in
> i the yard in sight of the house. I
; suppose there would be 40 or 501
. suckling- babes and their nurses and
! many between those ages. They
? were all fed from the kitchen, the
I happiest set of beings under the
i sun, and they could sing, too; while
r waiting for their meals they would
, be chanting their songs and it was
> melodious to hear them carry all the
different parts. Their words were,
while expecting to see the trays and
bowls with the hot victuals coming
out of the kitchen door: "Bread,
come on, bread, come on," and rereverse:
"On come, bread; on come,
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bread," growing louder and louder.
Mr David Epps would come out on "l
fhp ni?77a and shout at the tOD or
his voice, "Shut up there, you d?
hellions!" The voices would die
down,as Major Jones would say, like
the voice of a sick kitten and would
soon begin to rise higher and higher.
That old homestead was one of the
places. After Mr David and his sister
Jane were married, Robert remained
at the old place. Going to
"Uncle Robert's" was a joyful saywith
many young folk. A more wholesouled
man never lived. Gone but not
forgotten, his good deeds live after
him; his dear wife, "Aunt Pattie,"
is still alive and living with her son,
Joe. and the same kind hearts are
under that old roof still. "Poor
Conrad" is going there before
God Willing, and no doubt some of
the same kind of sweet potatoes will
be waiting for him in that same old
chimney corner.
Yours as ever,
Poor Conrad.
A Father'* Vengeance
would have fallen on any one who
attacked the son of Peter Bondy. of
South Rockwood, Mich., but he was
powerless before attacks of Kidney
trouble. "Doctors could not help
him," he wrote, "so at last we gave ?^
him Electric Bitters and he improved
wonderfully from taking six
bottles. It's thejjest Kidney medicine
I ever saw." Backache. Tired
feeling, Nervousness, Loss of Appetite,
warn of Kidney trouble that
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Bright's t^sease. Beware: Take
Electric Bitters and be safe. Every
bottle guaranteed. 50c at M L
Allen's.
Few men know what is good for
them until some wise woman ' has
told them.
"It is a pleasure to tell you that
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is the
best cough medicine I have ever
used," writes Mrs Hugh Campbell,
of Lavonia, Ga. "I have used it
with all my children and the results
have been highly satisfactory." For
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