The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, February 23, 1922, Image 8
FARMERS PAY BACK
GOVERNMENT LOANS
HEAD OF WAR FINANCE CORPORATION
REPORTS AGRICULTURAL
IMPROVEMENT.
Washington, Feb. 20.?Improvement
in agricultural conditions is beginning
to manifest itself in an order}y
liquidation reflected In recent repayments
to the war finance corporation
in connection with its loans for
export, agriculture and livestock purposes,
Managing Director Eugene
xiyer declared last night in a f rmal
statement.
From January 1 to February 15,
inclusive, he said a total of $15,233,000
has been repaid to the corporation,
of which $3,920,00u represents
repayments of loans made under the
war powers of the organization. Of
that "all repayments have been volwttary,"
Mr. Myer said, "and a con.. J/imKIo
#vP tVio tnfnl rpnresents
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repayments before due dates."
Lincoln's Own Story.
Lincoln's autobicgrahy, or rather
autobiographic sketch, in December,
1859, after repeated solicitation by
his closest friend Jesse W. Fell of
Lloomington, 111., is still in the possession
of Mr. Fell's descendants. It
is yellowed by age. Mr. Fell played
no small part in bringing about
Iincoln's nomination for the presidency.
In the fall of 1858, during the Lincoln
and Douglas debates, Mr. Fell
? traveled over the country quietly
sounding the praises of Lincoln and
appointing lieutenants and campaign
managers. Finding that there was
n uch curiosity concerning Lincoln's
life history, he judged it advisable
to procure a biography to be utilized
m part for campaign purposes. After
repeated requests Lincoln finally placed
in Fell's hands the manuscript,
written with that freedom and unreserve
which one friend would display
in taking to another, and in which
Lincoln's peculiar conversational style
is, happily illustrated. This sketch,
which was never intended for publication,
reads:
"I was born February 12, 1809,
in Hardin county, Ky. My parents
were born in Virginia of undistin
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guished families, second families,
perhaps I should say. My mother,
-who died in my tenth year, was of
a family by the name of Hanks.
My father was but six years of age
when his father died, and he grew
up literally without education. He
removed from Kentucky, to what is
nr.w Spencer county,. Indiana, in my
eighth year. f . '
. "We readied our-new home about
the time the state came into the union.
It was a wild region, with many
bears and other wild animals still
jr. the woods. There I grew up.
There were some schools, so-called,
bet no qualification was ever required
of a teacher beyond readin', writin'
and cipherin' to the Rule of Three.
If a straggler, suppose to understand
Latin, happened to so-journ in the
neighborhood, he was looked upon as
a wixard. There was absolutely nothing
to excite ambition for education.
Of course when I came of age I did
not know much; .still, somehow, I
could read, write and cipher to the
.Rule of Three, but that was all. I
hove not been to school since. The
little advance I now have upon this
store of education I have picked up
tr m time to time under pressure of
necessity.
- 'I was raised to farm work, which
I continued till I was twenty-two.
At twenty-one I came to Illinois and
passed the first year in Macon county.
Hen I got to New Salem, at that
tin .e in Sangamon (now Menard)
county, where I remained a year as
a sort of clerk in a store. Then came
tiie Black Hawk war, and I was elected
a captain of volunteers, a success
that gave me more pleasure than
anything I have had since.
"The next year, 1882, I ran for the
legislature, but was beaten, the only
tin e I was ever beaten by the peo*ple.
He next and three succeeding
biennial elections I was elected to
4he legislature. I was not a candidate
afterward.
'During this legislature period I
had studied law and removed to
Sp-ingfield to practice it. In 1841 I
was elected to the lower house in
congress. Was not a candidate ior
re-election. From 1841 to 1854, both
inclusive, practiced law more assiduously
than ever before. Always a
"Whig in politics, and generally on the
Whig electoral tickets, making active
cai. vasses. I was losing interest in
politics when the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise aroused me again.
What I have done since then is pretty
well known.
"If any personal description of me
is thought desirable it may be said
that I am in height 6 feet 4 inches,
neiu-ly; lean in flesh, weighing on an
average 180 pounds, dark complexion,
wfth coarse, black hair and gray eyes.
Ne other marks or brands recollected.
'Tours very truly, A. LINCOLN/'
BIG DIRIGIBLE FALLS,
THIRTY-FOUR KILLED
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i AIR SHIP ROMA AND CREW
! FALL THOUSAND FEET TO
! DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.
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Norfolk, Va., Feb. 21.?Of the 45
army air service officers, enlisted
men and civilians who left Langley
field air station at 1:45 this afternoon
on what proved to be the last flight
of the giant army dirigible Roma 34
are dead, the bodies of many of them
being charred beyond recognition, and
eight survivors are in the army public
health service hospital here suffering
from chock, burns and bruises.
Flung earthward, presumably by a
broken rudder, the huge airship
plunged a thousand feet or more to
strike ground at the Hampton Roads
army base, capsized across a high
tension electric line and burst into
a roaring furnace of blazing hydrogen
gas.
For hours after her fall, the ship
was still a mass of flames from end
! to end of her 410 foot mass. The
! fire was feeding on the million cubrc
feet of gas that had distended the
great bag for the flight.
Barely a dozen of more than two
score aboard had been picked up alive.
One died en route to a hospital. All
of those who' survived the fire escaped
by jumping as the ship struck.
The others, pinned in the hull beneath
the fallen bag, were burned to death.
Heat of the fire fought back rescuers
for hours.
See me before buying sack * rice
or barrel flour, or anything in the
grocery line. L. S. Weinberg.
Building Operations.
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The year 1922, unless all signs fail,
:a going to be a big year for building.
The first touch of spring will
be sufficient to send home lovers and
contractors into the field. The sound
of the concrete mixer and the pounding
of the carpenter's hammer will
be heard in the land. It is estimated
that builders in the country have
bten advancing construction operations
at the rate of $600,000,000 a
month. At a very low and conservative
estimate it is suggested that the
building in the United States in the
present year will be no less than 50
per cent greater than in 1921. These
figures mean, if they possess anything
of meaning at all, that there
will be considerable more employment
in the building business in 1922
over 1921. In the larger cities of the
country in particular, stimulated activity
in construction lines has been observed.
"New York has. more than
$54,000,000 worth of work already
under way, Central West contractors,
it is reported, have about $24,700,000
worth of projects started of which
more than four and one-half million
concerned industry. From every section
of the country, in fact, has come
news of the projected revival in the
building game. It is interesting to
observe that in this array of figures
a considerable portion of the work is
tc be for residences. The apparent
need for more homes, added to a reduced
cost in construction and the
longing for self-owned houses, has increased
the desire of citizens to get
.building under way.?Dayton; Ohio
Daily News.
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See me before buying sack rice
or barrel flour, or anything in the
grocery Jine. L. S. Weinberg.
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666 cures Biliousness.
Hrayer of Cotton Mill Employe
Harding is my shepard, and I am
in want; he maketh me to lie down
on park bpndies; he lcadeth me beside
free soup houses; he restoreth
my doubt in the Republican party, he
leadeth me in the paths of destruction
for his party's sake. Yea, though
I walk through the valley of the shadow
of starvation, I do fear evil, for
thou art against me, thy politicians
and profiteers they frighten me. Thou
preparest a reduction in salaries before
me in the presence of mine enemies,
thou annointest my income with
taxes, my expenses runneth over my
income. Surely unemployment and
poverty will follow me all the days
of the Republican administration and
I will dwell in a rented nouse iorever.?Raleigh
News and Observer.
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"The automobile is no longer a vehicle
of pleasure. It is a common
conveyance, necessary to the business
man, the professional man and tne
farmer."?New York Times.
The Caper-Volstead co-operative
marketing bill legalizing co-operative
associations of farmers and producers
for marketing purposes was signet!
Saturday by President Harding.
John Green, the first white man to
be electrocuted in Tennessee, was executed
at Nashville last Friday in the
state prison for the murder of RobII
ei* Houston, near Johnson City, last
July.
Federal Judge Kennesaw M. Landis
last week announced he had resigned
from the bench and would dev
vote his entire time to his petition
of baseball commissioner. His resignation
becomes effective on March 1.
"No development of transportation
or utility in all recorded history has
progressed at such a rapid rate as the i
adaptation of the motor car to public j
convenience."?Governor Sproul of i
Pennsylvania.
"Far from an economic loss to the
community, as some people have as-1
sumed, the passenger car, to say nothing
of the truck, can, I believe, be
demonstrated to be an actual economic
, gain."?Herbert Hoover. <
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! An offer of $150,000 a year for five ,
years to Secretary of Commerce Her-;
bert Hoover to become director of |
the proposed Sesqui-Centennial Ex- [
position in Philadelphia m 1916 has;
, been made, it was announced last i
I Saturday.
i
: A verdict of $40,000 was awarded
i.i Columbia Friday to Mrs. Lyda i
McDonald in a $150,000 breach of
i promise suit against Richard S. De- j
' sportes, financier. Mrs. McDonald
, claimed she had lived with Desportes;
20 years and he recently left her. j
j An immediate further reduction of;
' 203 officers and 3,000 men In the j
American forces in Germany was an- j
nounced late last week by the war,
department. There will be remaining J
in Germany after this reduction a
total of 169 officers and 2,217 men.
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Mr. ft. T. Whitehead, it is announced
from Lake City, contemplates at
ran early date the erection of a sweet
( potato curing and storage house with
a capacity for curing 15,000 bushels
jand the storage of 10,000 bushels,
j Mr. Whitehead will endeavor to handle
and market the potato crop of
that section.
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' Rev. W. H. Smith, pastor of the
T ?Vd fHfw Rnntict rhnrch tendered
his resignation at a recently held
business meeting of the church. Mr.
(Smith has been located at Lake City
, for the past four years, during which
time the Baptists have erected a
, handsome new church. The cause of
his resignation was ill health,
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Maggie and Jiggs at the Golden Gate.
(George Bhuishaw, in Pere Marquette
' Magazine)
St Peter stood guard at the golden
gate, *
With solemn mien and an air sedate,
When up to the top of the golden
stair : 1 ;
Maggie and Jiggs ascended there:
Applied for admission; they came and
stood
Before St. Peter, so great?so good,
Iln hopes, the city of peace to win,
And ask St. Peter to let them in.
Maggie was tall and dark and thin.
With a scraggy beardlet on her chin.
Jiggs was short and thick and stout
And his stomach was built so it
i rounded out.
His face was pleasant and all the
while
He wore a kindly and genja: smile.
The choir in the dirtance the echoes
woke, ,
And Jicrp's kcDt still while Maggie
spoke.
"0, thou! who guardest the gate,"
said she,
' "We two come hither beseechirg thee
To let us enter the Heavenly Land,
And play our harps with the angel
band.
Of me, St Peter, there is no doubt,
There's nothing in Heaven to bar me
out;
I've been to meeting three times a
week,
And most always I'd rise to speak."
"I've told the sinners about the day
When they'd repent of their evil way
I've told my neighbors, I've told 'em.
] all
'Bout Adam and Eve and the Primal
fall;
I've shown them what they'd have to
i d?
If they'd pass in with the chosen few
,I've marked their path of duty clear
Laid out the plans of their whole career.
' I've talked and talked to 'em loud
and long,
For my lungs are good and my voice
is strong,
So, good St. Peter, you clearly. see
That the gate of Heaven is open for
me.
But, Jiggs here, I regret to say,
Hasn't walked in exactly the narrow
way;
He smokes and swears and grave
faults he's got,
So I don't know whether he'll pass
or not.
"He never would pray with an earnest
vim,
Or go to revival, or join in a hymn,
While I,, the sins of my neighbors
bore,
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He gadded about with that Dinty
Moore.
He made a practice of staying out
late?
Which is a sin all women hate.
But at last when he did come home
The rolling-pin went straight for his
dome.
"I know him, St. Peter, know him
well,
To escape from me, he'd go to hell,
But, St. Eeter, I need him here
And hope xhat you can see your way
clear.
On earth I bore a heavy cross;
Give me, in Heaven, still Jiggs to I
boss.
I've brought my rolling-pins, plates j
and jars,
To keep him dodging among the
stars.
"But say, St. Peter, it seems to me!
This gate isn't kept as it ought to i
be.
You ought to stand right by the \
opening there.
And never sit down in that easy chair.
And, say, St. Peter, my sight is dimmed,
But I don't like the way your whiskers
are trimmed; 9
They're cut too wide, with an outward
toss;
They'd look better, narrow and
straight across."
St. Peter sat quiet and stroked his
stan,
But in spite f his office he had to
laugh,
Then said with a dry gleam in his
eyes:
"Who's tending this gate, Maggie,
you or I?" '
Then he rose in his statue tall,
And pressed a button upon the wall,
And said to the imp who answered
the call:
"Escort this female around to hell."
Slowly Jiggs turned, by habit bent.
To follow Maggie wherever she went
St Peter, standing on duty there,
Saw that the top of his head was
bare.
He called the old boy back and said:
"Jiggs how long have yon been wed?
"Thirty years" (with a weary sigh)
And then he thoughtfully added,
"Why?"
St Peter was silent, with his head
hpnt down:
He raised his hand and scratched
his crown;
Then, seeming a different thought
to take,
Slowly, half to himself, he spake:
"Thirty years with that woman there,
No wonder the man hasnt any hair;
Swearing is wicked, smoking not
good,
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He smoked and swore, I should think
he would!"
'"Thirty year? with a tongue so
sharp?
Ho! Angel Gabriel! give him a harp
A jeweled harp with a golden string
Good sir, pass in where the r.ngels
sing.
And, Gabriel, give him a seat alone,
One with a cushion up near the
throne;
Call up some angels to play their
best,
For Jiggs has surely earned a rest.
"See that on finest ambrosia he feeds;
He's had about all the hell he needs.
It isn't hardly the thing to do,
To roast him on earth and in the
future, too."
They gave him a harp with golden
strings
A glittering robe and a pair of wings
And Jiggs looking down from his
high level,
Thought of Maggie and felt sorry
for the devil.
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