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WADE HAMPTON'S WORK FOR SOUTH CAROLINA Great Leader of and His Part inlhe^^B&jiffn to Wrest CJont^RfR Government From Negroes and Radicals. (Essay by Mis? Elizabeth Wilnot Ayer of Florence, which won the medal offered by the Ellison Capers chapter, U. D. C., for the best essay of the Florence schools.) Whenever a crises, no matter how unexpected, arises God provides the side oppressed with a leader, a leader worthy of the cause he is to defend and the people he is to protect, such a leader was Wade Hamntnn 3rd, "the man who saved the State." Though the people of South Carolina had come to know him and to love Jiim through hi? early record in politics and his service in tho war, it is not through these that they know him b?st> nor or these that he is the idol of a State loved by old and young, vip-country.man and lowlander but b'eCAVltfe an old man worn out with \#ar he had come back not to tho 'quiet h% had expected but to take up another fight for his people and his State and through his power to save her from the horror of Radical rule. Hampton was born in Charleston, in 1818. He graduated at the Uni?is? ?J TVAOIVJT VA UUUbll vai Ulllia ill 111 UC" came a planter. He was elected first as representative then as senator to the State legislature. When war broke out he entered the army and was wounded at Bull Run while commanding the famous "Hampton Legion." Later he was made brigadiergeneral and was again wounded at the battle of Seven Pines. He afterward commanded a cavalry force in the Army of Northern Virginia and was wounded a third time at Gettysburg. In 1864 he was made lieutenant-general and commanded a cavalry force in Virginia. He was sent to South Carolina in 1865 and commanded the rear guard of the Confederate army at Columbia. After the war he returned to his plantation and lived quietly until 1876 when ' the desperate situation of his State forced him again to the fore. There were men, good men and honest, who had come/to believe that the only ???? -i?? ?' ,.^T??I*? fir tfenSesl of the Hepub fican nomi nees and in that way get what the; could, but the Democrats knew tha if the. right man could be found the; could win and save the State fror Radical domination and they ala knew that the only man that ev erybody would follow would be Wad Hampton. Hampton was undoubted ly a man peculiarly fitted for such ; position. All his life there had bee influence moulding him for such i task. First the influence of .ancea tors. His people for generations ha been soldiers and statesmen. He ha been brought up to believe that pei sonal pleasures should be sacrifice' for public benefit, that State am country should come before all else Second the influence of environ ment. The wealthy southerner o those days had to be a leader, ha to understand and govern a weake people because a plantation with fiv or six hundred slaves required a ability to rule, mad rule Impartiallj And third the spirit of the time. Th need of the southern people for gen erations Dast for men to do and d?r and win for them Iheir rights ha bred in men a desire to do somethin; and to make their influence fel abroad. So very naturally it wa Hampton who was now brought foi ward. % He was elected as representativ from Richland county to the Augus convention which was held "to an nounce the platform, and elect Stat officers of the Democratic party." H was nominated for governor but rc fused the nomination, saying: "When the war was raging I wa asked to come here and let my nam be used as candidate for governo but I preferred to stay wnere thought I could do most good for m; State and country and since the wa I have never offered one word of ad vice unless it was asked of me. felt that my day was passed an< that in eturning to my native Stat was like him who said 'an old mai me a little earth for charity.' "I will now be perfectly unreserv ed with you on another point. Alei whose patriotism is beyond qucstioi and in whose wisdom I have grea confidence think that my nominatioi would injure the Democratic party o the United States. If it were lef for me to decide between that part; and the interests of South Carolina I would not hesitate in my choice But I believe in the success of Soutl Carolina and that if Tilden is electee we can call South Carolina our own "Now, I do not wish to embaraa the gentlemen of the convention no: to jeopardize the general Democratic party. I would indeed decline the nomination. Besides this, there are men in South Carolina who think I possess a disqualification of which I can not divest myself and would not if I could. I mean what they call my war record. That is the record of 50,000 South Carolina soldiers and if I am to forfeit that and say that I am ashamed to have been one of them all the offices in the world might perish before I would accept them. "These are grave topics gentlemen and I implore you to look over the whole field lest any kindness for me lead you astray. I will now retire that you may discuss them freely. If 1 you decide to nominate some other as true and as sincere as I and I know there are thousands of them, I i will devote myself to secure his elec- ' tion. Come weal, come woe, I am ' with you to the last." U# retired from the hall, then ' other terminations were made but all raffed J* favor of Hampton, who 1 was ttyen tf^a^jfijously nominated by < acclamation, 1 The Democrats had been right. All < men flocked to Hampton's standard 1 iii answer to his calL Democratic * clubs were organized all ovsr th? State and it was here that the "red ' shirt" sprang into prominence. The 1 red shirt of Hampton's men had no ! connection with the "bloody shirt" ? nf ?1 n M. i va ^/tvTviuioi xaiuc auu i&ailiptUH himself was the last man whom one could say "waved the bloody shirt." ( For Hampton's strength lay in his quiet power. It would have been easy enough in those turbulent times 1 to provoke a fight but his policy was indefinitely more difficult?that of averting a fight. The red shirt was first worn by firemen when men were i forced to join either United States militia companies or fire companies and when the Southerners were forbidden to have military organizations tome way had to be found to pro tect themselves, their homes and their families. Clubs were formed, outwardly social, with president and vice president, etc. These were in 1 reality military companies, their offi- 1 cers masquerading under new nameB 1 and as a uniform they adopted the red shirt of the fire companies. Nev- ' er before or sincfe has there been such 1 a" campaign as Hampton's. He was 1 the idol of the peoprf, men women 1 and children. In the cities flowers 1 and flags overhung the streets ' through which he was to pass and j y on. In one place an immense bust ket of the most beautiful flowers y to be found in the whole city wat n hung over the street and as he passo ed it was overturned, showering hin - with perfect blossoms. Every wine dow was filled with loving faces and I- the streets were crowded with cheera ing people gathered from all the surn rounding country. In the procession a marched tiny boys wondrously proud i- of their red shirts and meq so oic d that they could march only a fev d steps, supported by sons or grand - sons and every one of these few stepi J ill- ? u irauKiii witu miiniie pain. nurrar d for Hampton!" was the cry on everj lip. "Hurrah for Hampton!" fron i- serious business men and from im f petuous boys. Blood ran hot wit! d the excitement of the day and H r equaled in fervor the childish relo e gan: n "Jeff Davis rides a milk white horse r. Lincoln rides a mule; e Jeff Davis is a gentlemen l- And Lincoln was a fool, e Defiantly chanted at every passing d negro or radical, "Hurrah for Hamp K ton!" was the battle cry of the whib it people in the fight to rid the Stab s of negro rule," says John S. Bey>. nolds in his "Reconstruction ir South Carolina." And Hampton hac a before him a task no ordinary mar could have undertaken. The Democrats were few, fewer in their owr c State than the Republicans, and th< T???..ui: l i il - -1 *r _ ivc)>uuiiuiiis imu me wnoie uniiec States army behind them. Had theirs been a fight and the whole county was like a volcano boiling and seetb8 ing under the curse?the Democrati e would most inevitably have beer j beaten and beatea badly, and it was in not fighting and yet winning thai v this man's magnificient strength be, came evident. The fight that always j about to be never was, and every one too much dreaded the quiet old mar who wanted nothing better than life e alone on his plantation, to start a n disturbance. And then, "Hamton is elected" " passed from lip to lip, from heart to n heart by the oldest and most wonder1 ful telegraphy, the telegraphy bom * - v only when the minds of a whole peo" pie centre on the one great issue; f when the life of a great cause is at t stake and the hearts of thousands Y centre on one subject. From towns >? to tiny villages the glad news sped, ' and in those three words rest the 1 lie of a people, the salvation of as * grand a race as God ever put on ' earth, a earth, a people that were > not bom to diet r Then came the riots, the days oi horror when each man was forced to take up his gun in defense of home and loved ones. And above all, quiet dominating, the old man who had sacrificed so much for his State, that State whose people were soon to forget him and the service he had done them, forget tha? to him they owed their homes, their peace and their quiet government, many their lives. For the time came when they took away all that he loved and* ( would not accept his services, whem they believed as they had been toljM that he had done no more than many I another ronld V, a <4 i??. J lL ..? ? *1V uau tlie BMIim chance and they lauded to the skies Mart Gary, who, while he meant to do good, Was so quick with his words that he could have done only harm, when they cruelly broke the noble heart so ready to give all to the State he loved so well. But always noble and forgetful of self and at the last we see the pitiable truth of a passage in one of his speeches: "I have claimed nothing of Sout^l Carolina but a grave in yonder churchyard. But I have always said if I could ever serve her by word or ieed her men had only to call me tflu J would devote all my time, my mergy, my life *9 fier service." The "churchyard*' was the bury-* ' ing ground of Trinity church and there he lies after a life of pain and sacrifice and the verse Robert Louis Stevenson asked to have put on his tombstone might well be used for Hampton, one of the grandest of Carolina sons: "Under the broad starry sky nt ?_ * uig my grave ana let me lie, Gladly I lived and I gladly die And. lay me down with a will, rhese be the words you carve for me: Here he lies, where he longed/to b&T Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter is home from the hill." REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE Of V A DTU DAA no If you look at the ordinary counl^ try road after a shower you will -se? small puddles along tya wheel ru^j| and sometimes larger pools. Th>T water stays on th.e road surface ya. I :au8e it cannot draim away into/he I side ditches. If you look closeklfonwill see side ditches which & ac- ' grown up with bushes and weekdes- ' many cases, and which are soVrer from the traveled part of the mh;hat the rj^gctater does not dn|fc- < wi^wnei^h^ wagon &ave& is<5E . ed the travJtii\ way. To prevent water from standing on the traveled , way the road should be raised.ln the . center and should slope gen4y into t broad shallow ditches. It is then . said to have a crown. If it is 10 I feet from the* center of the road to . the side ditch, the surface at the . side ditch should be at least 10 inch, es lower than it is at the centei I where the horses travel. .The road I then has a 10-inch crown. The rail r that falls on a road properly crown . ed will run quickly to the side and , not soak into the surface or form i pools. The side ditches for surface j water should run parallel to the rigM nf wav on/t oVirvislrl Ka ? >? ? -1 I W "?^F ?UMVW1U ac CVWJ . low point so that the water can rnr i out of them into the neighboring; I brooks or streams. If the ditcher . merely collect the water from the road surface and it can not run awa> large pools will be formed along the roadside, which will gradually aoad' into the soil beneath the road and make it so soft that the wheels oi , wagons will cut through the mad . surface and soon destroy it. > Sometimes water runs from land . alone- t.hp moH intn A .?.! . forms a little stream down the wheel i tracks or in the middle where th< 1 horses travel. When driveways wtc i farm yards are built acress the . ditches they frequently form ehatv , nels for water from the farm yarl ; to run into the road. The pipes *?I der driveways become filled with . leaves or rubbish and the water can r no longer run away. If the drive' . ways that stop the ditch water were i rebuilt so that no pipes were neces, sary and the ditch could be left open, : much trouble from surface would be stopped. Sometimes a road runs across low ground or through a swamp where the road can not be drained by side ditches alone. If the road were built higher like a railroad embankment across such low land and made with a crown, it would be dry and hard. Sometimes a road passes through what is called a cut. This is a place where the earth has been dug out eo that the road can go over a hill without being too steep. The water which flows quietly under the i ground on hill sides is known as t ground water. In road cuts such i water sometimes makes the road , very muddy, and the road then needs i what road builders call onderdraini age. A good kind of underdrainage i is a trench to go along under ths i side drain and about 8 feat deep and a foot and a half wide. In this ' trench a pipe is laid near the bot> 1913SINH Harlej Chain or Belt $2 1913 8-Horse H%le It's a P&fihl 5ltf*A'n ri Payitai JL una \ Call o For Sale by T tM> 'and covered, with loose stones no f J%ger than an egg. When ^the s bench is completely filled with c loose stones the ground water, in- 1 stead of soaking into Che roadway, 1 will stop among the stones and flow 1 '4 lown the hill through the pipe. : , I To keep^a road smooth and crown- 1 , ied the bUt method is to 'drag it 1 En a roaa a rag. a roan 'drag is ' de easily with two halves of a < which are about 6 or 8 feet long. * The two halves of the log are set ' 8 feet apart with the smooth faces forward and upright. They are then fastened together with braces , set in holes bored through the log. , A pair of horses may he used to 1 drag the road and are hitched to a chain fastened to the front half of , ; the log. The road drag should move ] forward so that it slants across the < ; road in such a way that a small j amount of earth will slide past the mooth face of the log toward the . center of the road, thus forming the , crown. The edges of the logs will .'wnnnth nut. thn rnt?* Tim- hnstt. wav ' to drag is to begin at the side ditch ] and go up one side of the road, and I then the other. In the inext trip , the drag should be started a 'little < nearer the center and the last trip giver the road the drag may work close to the center itsdVf. Small -ridges of earth will be thrown in the fcorse t?pck and smeared "by the round side of the log smoetWy j>vet Che road. The smearing of the earth by the drag is called "puddling" and it tends to make the surface atf the road smooth and water-tight after the sun comes out. The road is always dragged after it has rained and not whan it is dry. A good, stronp pair of horses with a well-built drag! can drag about 3 or 4 miles of road ill a d?v. and it is the best wav to maintala good roads. In every county some farmed along: each 4 miles Of road rfheuld own a drag: and drag the road when it rains, and he would ^ always find the road in good condi- , tion when he goes to market. i Owing to the fact that many ru- J ral schools were closed at the time when the prize maintenance essay < was announced bv Director IvOfran 1 Waller Page, of the Office of Public ! Roads, it has been decided to extend i the limit for receiving the essays to i Oct., 15, 1913. In addition to the sip % GLE CYL /-Davi Drive. 5-Hc dg.vv vasn ru ?' t -<== ~P n m jrower i wi y-Davi !. Goes Like r Write lor'Catalt HE TIMES, Lt fold medal given as first prize, two lilver medals will be given as sec- j >nd and thiwl prizes. If a child who las submitted one essay previous to 1 ;he issue <of this notice should care to try again, he is at liberty to do so, but Ibe must be a pupil of a rural school. There is some misunderstanding in regard to the subject of the essay. The idea is to set the :hildren thinking how to better their 1 earth roads with the material they have at hand. Ulcers and Skin Troubles. If you are suffering with any old, running or fever sores, ulcers, boils, eczema or other skin troubles, get a box of Bucklin's Arnica Salve and Sou will get relief promptly. Mrs. Imre .Tones, of Rirminorhnm A In suffered from an ugly uicer for nine months and Bucklin's Arnica Salve cured her in two weeks. Will help you. Only 25c. Recommended by The Rice Drug Co. Geo. W. Williams, of Charleston, who has already given two dormitory buildings to the Epworth orphanage, in Columbia, has offered to build another. It is to have ten rooms and to be of brick.?Newberry 3b?erver. Die Superb Beauty and Magnificence of our MONUMENTAL WORK Can only be appreciated when actually seen?why not, then, if you are considering the purchase of a monument, pay us a visit and have us show you some examples of our a/Aflr 7 Our prices are reasonable and the quality of our granite and marble first class?we have no "quarry seconds." We would be pleased to call with sample designs, etc. Command us. You get direct from first hands if you buy from BAILEY UNDERTAKING CO. I '^t: M <r7%^^^]h '? ' i \ v-x "- v/ /? ^ W\w .INDER idson >rse Power. n Cylinder dson 5 the Wind eless, Safe. ate* ' >gue wis M. Rice, Mgr. Master's Sale. State of South Carolina, County of Union. The Sinking Fund Commission Assignee, Plaintiff. Against J. G. Wolling, Defendant. In obedience to an order made in the above stated case, I will sell, at Union, during the legal hours of sale, before the Court house door, on Cnlncl.... V* 1 r inio i L uaicDuajt luunuay^ uui) i, i;ui), inr following land to wit: All that certain lot of land together with the buildings situate thereon, lying and being in the Township of Carlisle, County of Union, and State aforesaid, fronting one hundred and twenty two feet, more or less, on Main street, and bounded by said street on the south, east by property of lJeaver-Jeter Company, north by property belonging to and west by property belonging to M. C. Deaver and commonly known as the Buffalo Lick Hotel property. Terms of sale: One-third, Cash, balance payable in two equal annual * instalments together with interest thereon on each instalment from date of sale, at the legal rate of interest and to be secured by bond of the purchaser and a mortgage of the purchased premises, said bond and mortgage to provide for the payment of 10 per cent attorney fee in case of suit or foreclosure. R. C. Williams, Master for Union County Citation to Kindred an Creditors State of South Carolina, County of Union. By Hon. W. W. Johnson, Judpe of Probate. Whereas, R. M. Estes has made suit to me to tfrant him Letters of Administration on the estate and effects of Peter O'Donnel, alias Peter McGowan, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Peter O'Donnell alias Peter McGowan, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to ,A|J IT-J ^ uciu ul umuii) \j, a., oouin Carolina, on the 27th day of June, next, after the publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand and .seal this 11th day of June, 1913. W. W.Johnson Probate Judge. Published on the 12th and 19th day of June, 1913 in The Union Times.. A running account at a store soon gets ahead of the man's pocket in a