The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, December 28, 1922, Image 8
FAITHFUL NEGRO WOMAN
WHO SAW LAFAYETTE, j
Mollie Williams, Old Time Ser\ant.
Who Died Thursday, Did
Many Good Deeds.
The Columbia Stale says: Another)
one of the fa'thful. oid time negroes
. has gone. The death of old "Aunt'
Mollie Williams Thursday night re
moved a beloved old former slave,
who had been a servant in severa;
prominent Columbia families, ami
whose life of faithful service am
simple hearted kindness had extended
over an unusual period. She had
always boasted that she took part ir
the Lafayette celebration in 1825 tthe
extent of carrying a basket
flowers from her mistress for t
decoration of the house in which tne
great Frenchman stayed, and of ho'ding
up a little white boy so that !
%could see the parade go by. She never
mentioned seeing the parade*her
self (that was characteristic of "Aum
Mollie's" kind), but she could describe
graphically the floral arc!;,
which spanned Gervais street. lead
ing up to the "Lafayette house.'
When asked how old she was at the
time, she would always raise ho
hand about four feet from the floor
* and say, "1 stand about so high."
In slavery times '.'Aunt Mollie" be
longed to the Allen Jones Green far.
ily and was the personal maid 01 xr
late Miss Lucy Green. Among otlv
"little boys" she nursed in her ea>
lier years was John T. Seibels. well
"known Columbia attorney, and she
was regarded with respect and acection
in her work of amateur sick
nursing by the late Dr. B. W. Taylor.
Even after she became very old, she
insisted upon answering calls to the
sick beds of poor negroes and whites
who could not afford skilled attention.
* Should her children protest
against the risk of her rising from
her bed in the middle of the night,
no matter what the weather, she
wouid answer that the Lord had appointed
her to this work and she
must not fail. Needless to say, she
received no compensation for it.
Nearlyl 30 years ago she went to
work in the family of the late Mrs.
J. H. Kinard and has remained there
* ever since, nursing the children and
the grandchildren and making hersel
a valued and beloved member of the
household.
The old woman had 14 children, 6f
grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren,
most of whom survive her.
She was a devout Christian and
knew her Bible almost by heart by
the pictures and the position of the
books.
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Dividends From Courtesy.
About 200 men and women who
were courteous and considerate in
their treatment of Joseph Bisagno of
San Francisco, or who without knowing
him gave him pleasure, were remembered
by him in his will and
k have just received substantial legacies
under his will.
The beneficiares include actresses,
waitresses, bootblacks, waiters, lawyers,
judges, physicians, business
men, the matron of a jail, a hat boy
and saloonkeepers.
The recipients of these bequests
have reaped cash dividends for their
courtesy. Not all polite persons arc
rewarded with cash, but courtesy is
a good investment.
Men and women who dispense courtesy
freely, doing the everyday work
of life and meeting the minor crises,
of everyday existence with a smile,
disnlavintr fnvhpn ranrp linrlpr irritnt.
ing circumstances, holding out a
helping hand to individuals momentarily
in difficulties, do not expect
money payments for kindly acts.
The kindly acts are expressions of
good hearts. They are fruits of
naturally frieiyjly dispositions.
Such acts cannot be bought. A
surly, mannerless man cannot successfully
feign good temper. Jealously,
selfishness, unneighjborliness
cannot be hidden. Purchased politeness
is a hollow, worthless thing.
Truly courteous men and women
do not expect pay for agreeable conduct.
Their kindliness is snontane
ous, unpremeditated. In every calling
and trade are workers who do
the best they can because their consciences
and their ambitions urge
them to, not because they hope to
profit. And these are the men and
women who oil the wheels of life
and help to make the daily grind
easier for all of us.?New York Herald.
CITY BARBER SHOP.
On account of the scanty of money
we have decided to cut on some of
our prices, as follows: Tonics, 15c;
Clover's Shampoo, 50tf Shoeshine, 5?.
Thanking all of our customers for
past patronage and hoping to still
erve you as your baber during the
coming year, we are.
Your servants,
B. U. BLAKELEY.
J. A. ALSTON.
Proprietors.
l2-28-2t.
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WHALES MUST BE SAVED
Present Rate of Extermination,
Threatens Industrv.
If the killing of whales continues;
at the {uesent rate they will be ex-'
terminated before another decade, ithe
warning given by Sir Sidney 1 .
Harmer, F, R. S., director of the
Natural History Department of the
British Museum. Recent investigations
carried out in the whaling areas
has revealed this alarming conditions,
he says.
The whaling industry has survived
since the time of Alfred the Great,
despite the fact that there has nevei
been a year known when scores <
boats did not leave the ports of Eng
land. France, Spain, and Scandinavia
to hunt the sea animals. Sir Sidney
declared in a ecent address in wine,
he urged leg slation against furthei
hunting of whales.
'I'he Greenland variety of the whale
is already thought to ho extinct, and
the hunting of the last few yewjs has
heen confined aiino.il entirely to the*
. u..,nm*n Seas.
The profits derived from the ki:I
ing of these cataceans are enormouand
they increase yearly as the retail
price of the oil and hone increases.
A fair sized whale has a ton o
whalebone in its mouth, which alone
is worth $10,000. It also produced
about thirty tons of oil worth about
$100 a ton. In the season of 1915-1 '
the oil production from Antartic
whaling stations was 654,000 barrels,
or about 94,000 tons.
During the war this oil was recognized
as,'Of vital importance in the
manufacture of nitro-glycerine. It is
now used in the making of soap.
The principal whales caught today
are a species of rorquals, or fin
whales; the blue whale, and the sperm
whale. The latter, the hunting ol
which is principally confined to Americans,
not only give sperm oil, but
often contain ambergris! which is
sold at $20 an ounce and used in the
perfumery trade. The oil used foi
lubricating the wheels of watches
comes from the dolphin, and is the
finest oil known.
DENBY LAUDS MASONRY.
Secretary of Navy Raps Secret Orders
With Political Ends.
(Capital News Sendee)
Washington, Dec. 18.?In a speech
made in ?he Nation's Capital before
? ? in 4-Via inforocf of
tt 1114X3 a lUC^Uii^ Ui Wiv tuwivv* V*
a new Masonic Temple, Secretary of
the Navy Denby praised the Masonic
Order and expressed himself as being
happy to belong to it, because
of its principles of toleration -and
patriotism. Secretary Denby took
the opportunity to criticise secret
orders which aim at religious intolerance,
and particularly those which
put anything higher than allegience
to country. He said in part:
"Certain forms of secret organizations
apparently ar^ designed to supersede
law and enforce their will.
Nothing more dangerous to the continued
mental and spiritual health of
the Republic could well be conceived
than such societies. The fundamental
law of what we turn a 'law-abiding
Irountrv.' is. and must be. obedience
to law. When any community or
body of men or women within a community
disregard the orderly processes
of the law, a blow is struck
at the roots of the Republic.
"In this country any secret order,
no mater how harmless its secrets
may be, which invades the realm of
politics and strives to control the destines
of our country, or the government
of our state and cities, is objectionable.
There is no room, in a
free country such as ours, for persons
who wish to combine in secret and
take oaths that compel them to act
in concert in matters governmental.
Freedom to vote without external restraint
is as clear a right as freedom
to vote in secret. A man's franchise
is his own, no more to be sworn away
than to be sold away."
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Indiantown Topics.
Indiantown, Dec. 18.?Miss Sallie
Bartell of Lander College, Greenwood,
arrived here Sunday to spend
the holidays with her mother, Mrs.
John Bartell.
Mrs. George Lovett and Mr. John
Snowden spent last week-end in
Sumter.
Miss Dorothy Daniel, a student of
Lander College, who has been ill with
a severe case of typnoid lever ior
several weeks, arrived at her home
here Friday, where she intends to
spend several weeks recuperating.
The Indiantown Girl Scouts, troop
No. 1, under the direction of their
captain, Mrs. Lee A. Lovett, are
daily practising their play, "The
Doo-Funny Family," which they expect
to present to the public on Monday
night, January 1, 1923, at the
school auditorium. The Scouts are
planning to begin the New Year
aright by earning money to buy
equipment that they are greatly in
need of.
666 cures Chills and Fever.
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Unmarked Shrines.
(By William Willis Bodtlie)
Oh, Williamsburg! Williamsburg!
If the mighty works which have been
done in you had been done in Maine
and Massachusetts, they had long ago
been covered with monuments!
I do not feel anything but the
most profound reverence in using the
above sentence. There arc so many
sacred places in Williamsburg unmarked
that one is excusable, even
justifiable, in beiai:ng the county foi
its negligence. There are so many
places in Williamsburg county where
the Muse of History would commend
bn f>rpr:inn of shrines!
I am thinking today especially of
Indiantown church. I want to see
a bronze tablet over its portals
whereon something like this will b
written:
"INDIANTOWN CHURCH.
The Lord Cod Jehovah, has been
continuously woishiped at this place
from the building of the First Church,
A. D. 1757, until the present day.
In 1780, during the War of the Revolution,
Wemyss destroyed the First
Church, and the Congregation worshipped
on this spot under the open
sky until the Second Church was
built. The Second Church was removed
in 1835 and the present building,
A. D. 1922, Witts erected. In this
Churchyard lie buriefl soldiers conspicuously
valiant in every war in
which South Carolina has participated,
and men and women who have
well served the State in every period
of its history."
I can not approach Indiantown
Church without seeing the Burning
Bush and hearing these words, "Put
off they shoes from off they feet foi
the place whereon thou standest i
Holy Ground."
Are there ten men in Williamsburg
who know that thirty of the bravest
young men ever born in this county
were killed on August 27, 1780, or.
Academy street, in Kingstree, between
the Silverman residence and
the Confederate monument, when Major
James' Battalion fell on Wemyss'
British soldiers and hurried them out
of the county? Are there even five
men in Williamsburg out of the many
hundreds passing along Academy
street every day who know that this
spot has been baptized by patriot
blood ?
I should like to see a bronze tablet
erected on Academy street in
Kingstree that would forever remind
the wayfaring man that this soil is
sacred. Why couldn't we place a
tablet about half way the street,
possibly on the Methodist churchyard,
that would tell this story to our children
and our children's children?
There are many other places in
Williamsburg that deserve to be
crowned with everlasting laurei
wreaths, and I have heretofore called
attention to some of them, but the
two places mentioned in this article
appeal to me especially this morning,
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WOULD INOCULATE DOGS.
Bill to Compell Requirement to be Introduced,
To Fight Rabies.
Compulsory inoculation of all dogs
in South Carolina as a step toward
the eradication of rabies was approved
by the state board of health at a
recent meeting in Columbia, and announcement
was made that a bill
covering this requirement would be
prepared for introduction.at the next
meeting of the general assembly.
Decision of the board was taken
following a report by director H. H.
Smith, of the state laboratory, who
declared: ,
"The rabies situation in South
Carolina never improves. It is growing
worse. The number of rabid
animals and the number of human
beings bitten are increasing every
year."
Asserting that the killing of dogs
known to be suffering from the malady,
and the muzzling and quarantining
of other dogs were preventive
measures that have failed to check
the spread of this disease, Dr. Smith
added: >
"The only sensible, practicable
method for the eradiction of rabies
would appear to be the compulsory
prophyliatic inoculation of all dogs
once a vear by a single injection oi
rabies vaccine at the owners expense.
The report said that this method
had been successfully employed in
.Tannn anH directed attention to the
compulsory inoculation requirement ir
Connecticutt.
Three persons have died of rabies
so far this year in South Carolina,
according to the report, which states
that 725 have been given the Pasteur
treatment.
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William Shannon Morrison, professor
of history and economics at
Clemson College for thirty years,
since the institution was established,
died suddenly at his home on Christmas
night at midnight of heart failure
after an illness of only twenty
minutes. The death of this venerable
gentleman will be learned with
: profound regret by Clemson alumina
in Williamsburg as well as every oth|er
county in the state.
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