The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 03, 1913, Page SIX, Image 6
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GAME OF BORROWING
' By EMILY JOHNSON.
When Platchett first moved into the
Pleasantville neighborhood the men
all though him a remarkably likable
fellow. As many of the women as
managed to get a look at the family's
furniture decided that the Platchetts
did not possess any too much of this
world's goods. These furnishings
were plain and somewhat scanty, accord
to Pleasantville standards. But
one and all voted the Platchetts desirable
neighbors.
Platchett made friends readily. He
was usually smiling, was a great story
teller and never failed to laugh at any
story told by another. He was, indeed,
a good listener?he would sit
and listened as if bis life depended
upon it. Mrs. Platchett was in these
things a fair match for her husband,
and the little Platchetts seemed to
pattern their behavior similarly.
The first morning that Platchett
Joined the other male members of the
suburban eolonv for the ride to town
in the smoker of the 8:15 he searched
his pockets in full view of everybody
in the car. Then, with a frank smile,
he accepted a match from Penderby
He held the match in his hand and
put the other hand into his breast
pocket with full confidence?only to
draw it out again empty.
"I came away without a single
smoke!" he declared. "What do you
think of that!"
Penderby was sympathetic. He j
pressed a cigar upon his new neigh-!
bor, a cigar of that variety known as
the Penderby choice, three costing 50
cents. The borrower smiled again, lit
i the cigar, and seemed well pleased.
And he did not bother to return the
smoke the next morning, nor on the
morning following.
Soon the Platchetts became ae
qnainted with every family in Pleasantville,
and then the game began in
earnest.
The front door bell, or maybe the
side door bell, or even the back door
bell of some one of the houses in
the suburb would ring persistently.
A trip to the door would disclose one
of the little Platchetts standing there
ready to deliver his or her message
as soon as the door was opened.
"Please ma'am." was invariably folX
lowed by a request that the neighbor
lend mamma this or papa that or
both parents the other thing. It went
from bad to worse, and when the Platchetts
had been in the house a month
?lacking just one day?the neighbors
decided to rebel.
The men were responsible for the
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for the meeting at which the plan
* was formed.
Next day, after the male population
of Pleaa&ntville had gone to Its various
offices, It was discovered that
Platchett had not caught tl* 8:15.
The women of the suburb knew later
!n the that he had not gone to town
at all, but before they knew thia the
plan had been put In operation.
Early in the morning an ancient,
woolly headed servitor of the Pen
ueruyu arnveu &i uie nmcueu icoidence.
Be carried a portable vacuum
cleaner, and he made polite explana>
tion. "Marse Penderby done say yo'
la to nse die yah today," he said, "an'
he sent It over so's yo' wouldn't have
to come after it"
Before Uncle feben was out of sight
the half grown Turman boy came up
the steps with a talking machine in
his arms. "Ma said she'd save you
a trip," he pouted, "and it's time you
was usin' it again." He turned and
was gone.
As the Turman boy went out of the
front gate little Bobby Jarson. from
the brick v house down the street,
trudged up th,e front walk with a
basket filled with neatly tied and labeled
packages. These were marked
**cup of sugar," "pinob of tea," "olive
oil for salad dressing," "vinegar you
forgot to order" and "flour to do till
v the grocer's boy gets here." He set
the basket down, pointed to it with a
gesture evidently rehearsed and went
away.
As Bobby Jarson vanished Mrs. Marley,
the next-door neighbor, called in
person. "I'm going to my sister's to
spend the day," she began, "and I j
tnougnt l a just come over Deiore I
left and tell you that you can have the
urrey and old Dick tt}J? afternoon. So
you won't have to run out to a telephone
for them, you know." She
turned and marched down the steps,
looking back not at all.
Mrs. Plartchett moved the various objects
Inside the house and shut the
y door. She was smiling and when she
called Platchett he smiled as usual.
When the men came from town that
evening they ate suppers and made i
their way to Penderby's for the meet-'
Ing. They wanted more news than
they had been able to get.
Marley, the nexbdoor neighbor, had
gone to his wife's sister's for dinner,
and It was late when he arrived.
"Well," he commenced, "I don't so
touch mind their using old Dick and
the surrey to haul all that crowd to
their new home?five good miles it is
to Farville. too? hut I do think it was
rubbing it in to haul their household
furnishings, a bit at a time, in the
same vehicle.
"And I'll tell you something else,"
went on Marley. "If I were you fellows
I wouldn't go out to their new
place with any idea of recovering what
you kindly loaned them, because
Platchett's liable to borrow your carriage
and make you walk home."?Chicago
Daily News.
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Sometimes an old man doesn't use
glasses; he drank from a bottle.
MAN WHO DRIFTED ON
By GEORGE PATTILIO.
While we dawdled in the shade cast
by the wagon, the Bantys told us their
history. It was that of restless wanderers
who constitute a never-ceasing
caravan from as far east as Louisiana,
wending westward and north through
Oklahoma. Texa*, New Mexico and
Arizona. They find a virgin country,
break it, and nature heaps her bounties
in their laps. Then comes a bad
year, and they have made no provision;
or the spirit of the rover, that
will not die, wakes once more; again
their wagons take their whining way
through the wilderness.
Surely the goal will prove fabulously
rich; always that hope?it never burns
out. The memory of starvation cannot
dim: hardships and distance do
b6t fan it; it fires their souls as the
lure of gold tempts prospectors. And
on their heels comes the plodding
farmer, who goes patiently to work to
wrest a living out of the claims
they have abandoned, and wakes,
some morning, to find that civilization
is knocking at his door and he is
rich.
Banty had tried raising maize close
to the nations. No; the climate did
not agree with him and his wife.
"I liked it, Ed," she protested.
"But it wasn't doing you no good,
Goldie," he said. "I could see thai
easy."
He had nothing to say against the
climate. It was good enough climate,
but its effects were far from satisfactory.
In consequence, they had disposed
of their acres to migrate to the
Panhandle. All that was years ago.
"That land is selling at $20 an acre
now,' I observed.
"Twenty dollars. I swan! Do you
hear that, girl? This gen'l'man says
they're paying $20 an acre for that |
plains land," said Banty, his eyes glittering.
"And we done sold ours for
$3. If we d only waited!"
"Yes," his wife sighed; "it's too bad
And we done lost that $1,900 in New
Mexico, you recollect, Eld?"
Indeed, he did. Banty wagged his
head over the inscrutable ways of the
jade Fortune, and murmured, "Well,
well. Who'd have thought it?"
This was a worn-out tale to us, one j
of little meaning. Nesters came and
nesters went. If they did not go soon
enough we sometimes furnished the
impetus; for, of course, the southwest
was intended by the Creator to be a '
cow country, and it is an iniquity that j
agriculturists should win it for corn
and cotton and other mainstays of
life.
Banty had fenced a quarter section
near El Capitan mountains, and, with
this as a base of operations, had put
his nestegg in sheep. But the sheep
bad dived over a cliff on a night of
rocking storm, and there was none
to prove what, or who, propelled them.
Much good it would have done him
could he have proved It So once more
he had gathered his scant belongings
into a wagon to set out for that
promised land.
"This is the last time; yes, sir,"
cried Banty, in his excited cracked
tones. "Where we're going now they
say it's a regular Garden of Eden,
like what the Good Book tells about.
All you have for to do Is to stir the
ground some and you've got a crop.
Six cuttings of alfalfa in a year; yes,
sir."
"Ab/1 fnr?ot hnw i>alm Rnri
peaceful It all is, Ed," Goldie spoke
up. "Don't you mind how Brother
Ducey said they were all so friendly?
He said no man's hand was lifted'
against his neighbor, Brother Ducey
did."
"Huh-huh," Dave grunted. He had
given the recital his most earnest attention.
and now he shook his bead
reprovingly.
"That's just the way it is every time
?the way you done. It's what I've
been telling these boys here for ten
years," he declared. "Birds of a
feather gather no moss."
"What's that you say, Mr. Dave?" ,
"A rolling stone gathers no feathers,"
Dave corrected sternly. "You all
know what I mean."?McClure's Magazine.
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It is the oldest object of personal
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Coming to more recent epochs, we
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