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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1922
A GOOD BILL TO PASS.
Senator Miller's bill which has recently
passtv. the Senate is one that
will doubtless receive the heraty approbation
of the people of the state.
It should al3o receive the full sup~
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port of the entire legislative wu>,
but that is hardly probable since it
j3 no more than natural for some of
our representative to differ in opinion
even if they haven't a friend they
would continue in a fat job. The
bill we refer to is that which would
consolidate the duties of the Public
Service Commission and Railroad
Commission and create one commission
composed of seven members, one
from each congressional district, and
have these on 3 per diem basis of pay
that Mill enable the legislature to
secure men of recognised ability for
the work. In commenting on this
bill the Hartsvillc Messenger says:
"Senator Miller's hill which has been
passed for third reading is a step
forward toward proper regulation of
public services in South Carolina in
that it will go a long way tcward
eliminating the inefficiency and ineffectiveness
of the two commissions
a<* they are now constituted. It makes
possible a per diem salary that will
induce the soil: of men needed into
the service of the new commission
and at the same time brings about
an economy by establishing one commission
that will do the work former-*
ly done by two, paying the new one
only for the time worked. Of course
the ideal move would be to establish
9 whole time public service commission
with adequate salaries paid, but
need of economy doubtless proves Mr.
Miller's plan the better one. As the
need of such commission increases
it will sooner or later become a wholetime
department of state government
and the new bill paves the way for
such future development."
The next best thing to a Boy Scout
is a Girl Scout.
The County Record was asked this
week if it would use electric current
exclusively, discard its kerosene engine
provided it could get day electric
current. Yes, decidedly. In fact that
is what we put a let of godd money
in motor equipment for.
Arthur Brisbane, editor of the New
York American, says: "A reader
asked, "Do you think Ford will be
allowed to buy and use Muscle Shoals
for the production of cheap fertilizer?"
"It all depends on the fertilizer
trust and others that do not want
farmers or anybody else to get any
thins cheap. Cheap quality is all
right, but cheap prices for farmers
and others are offensive to certain
influential patriots. If Ford does not
get Muscle Shoals you will know that
the fertilizer crowd have won, in this
Congress."
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The Mouzons of Mouzon.
(By William Willis Boddic.)
Samuel Ruffin Mouzon and Caroline
Montgomery Mouzon, husband and
wife for almost half a century, are
among the most interesintg people
in Williamsburg county to me. They
live on the same spot where his fath^
ers have dwelt for more than one
hundred and fifty years,
j About eighteen months ago, soon
after I had come to Williamsburg,
Mrs. D. C. Scott, then Regent of the
Margaret Gregg Gordon chapter of
the D. A. R., took me one afternoon
to see the Mouzons, along the way
that Tarleton had gone on that certain
memorable afternoon in 1780
from Kingstree to Mouzons, where
he burned the manor house and thirteen
other buildings appendant to the
messuage of Captain Henry Mouzon,
a day's work in his campaign of attempted
terror against the Huguenots
and Scotch-Irish of Williamsburg.
It will be remembered that Tarleton
had pitched his tents on the Parade
Ground in Kingstree that memorable
day in 1780, possibly expecting thai
those good Scotch-Irish women would
regale him and his men abundantly
with their far famed ginger cakes.
Instead, these women began to poui
into his forces some of the leaden'
bullets that they had moulded for
their men to use in the same manner.
Soon after these bullets began to dis-,
tuib Tarleton's siesta, this cavalier,
received a grapevine tellegram that i
McCottry's mounted riflemen were
moving toward Kingstree with no
uncertain velocity. Tarleton knew
that it was moving time for him.
His first halting place was at Captain
Mouzon's home. Captain Mouzon was
the grandfather of Samuel Ruffin
Mouzon. The present Mouzon manor
house was built where the one that
Tarleton had burned stood.
I was interested all the eight miles
fiom Kingstree to Mouzons, having
pointed out to me where the Scott's,
Pressleys, McGills and others had
lived in colonial days, but when we
reached the Mouzon plantation and
I looked down the avenue of sycamores
at the grounded white pillars
of the manor house, my Imagination
made me expect an old rose garden,
arborvitae, and pomigrnnates. As we
diew nearer, I saw them, and caught
the soft breath of violets, aristocratic
violets that had grown and
sweetened a hundred years about the
same doorway.
Mr. Mouzon was not at home. Mrs.
Mouzon welcomed us and led us over
solid brick steps, half worn away by
generations of the Mouzons and their
friends, into her home where I saw
their hair cushioned sofa, candle
stand, book case, all mahogany, fashioned
after the manner of the olden
time. I saw many old bcoks, those
that make one certain when he sees
them where they belong.
Mrs. Mouzon knew me from my
relationship to the lady who had
brought me, allowing opportunity for
many brilliant flashes of wit and
humor from her that otherwise I
should not have enjoyed.
"I am told, Mrs. Mouzon," I said,
"that you and Mr. Mouzon know
everybody in Williamsburg county."
"I know everybody worth, while and
'Ruffle' knows all the rest," she replied.
"I am very sorry that I shall not
meet Mr. Mouzon this afternoon,"
I ventured. "I have heard so many
good stories about him."
"What you heard about 'Ruffle'
were not stories, but the truth/' she
added.
Assisting her n;other in entertaining
us that afternoon, was Mrs. King.
1 who was wearing the Gold Star as
a widow of the World War. Mrs.
Mouzon showed us the Cross of Honor
so worthily worn by her husband. I
saw a painting in the home of the
Mouzon of 1812. He was shown in
full dress uniform. Out under the
cedars in the graveyard, I saw a marble
slab whereon was, "Cr.pt. Henry
Mouzon, Marion's Brigade." These
things showed this family has always
responded to South Carolina's call.
Sometime after this visit, I met
Mr. Mouzon in Kingstrce. I asked
him to tell me something about himself
and his tribe. "I like to talk
about my good friends," said he.
"One of the best of them is a saintly
Presbyterian minister, another is the
most accomplished gambler in the
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I asked him about the War Between
the Sections and he told me many
interesting things of those four years
(of fraternal strife, which Webster
had foreseen and prayed so frevent- i
1/ might pass. After Mr. Mouzon
had told me of many of the fierce
fights of that long ago, North against
South, all at once he straightened up
like a young man rejoicing in his
strength, a thin mist softened his
g'ittering eyes, and pride American
tcned his voice as he said, "I always
received chivalrous treatment from
the Yankees. I never knew a Yankee
officer who was not a gentleman.
They were just as careful to require '
that a prisoner received his righs as 1
they were that he obeyed the rules !
of war."
"Once I was captured and taken
or. a long march through Virginia,"
he continued. "The provost marshal
in charge of the squad of prisoners
to which I belonged was a strict disciplinarian
but fair and just That
man would not allow his prisoners
drink water from any source until
h-? knew such water pure. When we
reached a safe fountaii, he let every
prisoner drink all ne wanted before
he permitted any of the guards to
touch a drop. This guard cared for
us better than we should have cared
fcr ourselves."
"Some years ago," said Mr. Mouzon,
"when the monument to General
Grant was being considered, I remarked
one day to Capt. Kelly in Kingsti-ee
that Grant was a gentleman and
that I should like to conribute $100 j
towards erecting the monument to
his memory."
"How about the period of Military \
Law in South Carolina just after the
War?" I asked.
' "General Sickles gave South Caro
lma the best government it has ever
enjoyed," he answered. "The taxes
on one tract of land I own were $14.00
a year during the Sickles administration,
while they were $400 on the i
same tract the year after matters
were turned over to civil administrators.
When Yankee soldiers were
stationed in Kingstree, peace and
order obtained. They executed the
v.ill of the best element in the community."
I could write many things of great
interest that Mr. and Mrs. Mouzon
had told me since I have known them,
but they themselves, he four score
years and she but few his junior,
both vigorous mentally and physically,
appeal most to me. Mr. Mouzon
is of Huguenot descent; Mrs. Mouzon
almost pure Scotch-Irish. The Mouzons
came to South Carolina soon
after the Revocation of the Edict of
Nantes in 1685. The Montgomerys
left Scotland for Ireland about the
same time, lived in Ireland for a
<ri?npiatinn. and then came to WiJ
li.imsburg county, South Carolina.
The Huguenots and the Scotch-Irish
are from the same parent stock.
They are Scythians, nomads that
Alexander never conquered. These
Scythians wandered across Europe into
Ireland, thence into Scotland. The
Huguenots went from' Scotland into
France a few centuries before their
migration to America in the last days
of the seventeenth century. In
France, these Scotch yielded somewhat
to Latin influence. It is very
interesting to note that the French
Huguenot name deSuassure and the
Scotch name Saunders are both derived
from the Greek name Alexander.
Alexander fought the Scythians, yet
they liked him and named many of
their sons for him. All the world
knows what the Scotch tongue did
for the name Alexander as well as
how the French garnished the name
Saunders to suit their taste.
Two centuries of pioneer life in
America rubbed off much of the
French veneer- from the Mouzons and
of the Scotch from the Montgomerys,
and it is exceedingly interesting to
note how nearly the fundamental elements
in Samuel Ruffin Mouzon and
Carolina Montgomery Mouzon coincide
and harmonize. To a student, this
good man and his good wife are beautifully
the same. Together and alike,
they have met the trying times they'
have lived and both of them are!
strong beyond the Psalmist's allotted !
years. |
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USED FOR MANY PURPOSES, j
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Some Interesting Facts Furnished
by the Federal Agricultural
Department.
In its studies of the control of
watermelon diseases the United
States Department of Agriculture
has found that there are numerous
uses for watermelons outside of their
consumption as a popular fruit
Housewives have long been familiar
with pickles and preserves made from
watermelon rind. In China and other j
oriental countries watermelon seed
is used as a table delicacy. Seedsmen
in this country not only ship
seed for this purpose, but also find
a market for their product in the
Chinese districts of New York and
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ban rrancisco. mis uiung iur uie
seed is evidently not restricted to the
Orient, for some years ago a wellknown
explorer reported an African
tribe that sharpened the teeth in order
better strip the hulls from watermelon
seeds. Within recent years a
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manufacture vinegar from the juice, j
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during the past few years of hardship
concentrated watermelon juice
has been used in place of sugar to
sweeten coffee.
The production of watermelon seed
is an industry by itself. In u single j
county in Florida approximately 7,000
aires of watermelons are grown annually
for seed purposes. This one
section supplies a great propoition of
the watermelon seed planted in the
United sflJtes, and on occasion also
ships to foreign planters. In recent
years shipments of seed for planting
have been made to Tarsus, Asia Minor,
t > China, and other far-distant points.
During past years profits in our
southern watermelon industry have
been severely cut, due to the effect
01 several destructive diseases. Anthracnose,
a fungous disease of the
foliage and fruit, means reduced yield
and pock-marked melons that rot in
the field and in the freight car.
Stem-end rot is a trouble that occurs
in transit only, and originates with
infection of the melon by the causal
organism at the cut stem. Anthracnose
is controlled by spraying the
vines; stem-end rot by th^ practice
of field sanitation and stem treatment.
Plans are being made by the depart
ment of agriculture to assist growers,
an/1 r>nrrir>r9 fn fchft nron
er application of disease-control measures
during the coming season.
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mysteries in the itudy of human history.
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