Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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It is bound up with some IONAL Banks in the FEDERAL ' i we can go to our FEDERAL J t ALL the money we need. We ngs Department in which your and you can get your money at i ithout any question?and wh'le J piling up interest for you stead- J I I WITH THE CHIME CLOCK I I a where it^will be absolutely sale I ILLIAM, J. D. ARTHUR, j ce-President. Caahier. J i I I ? e i a HE I $ i a us m m V licico rw33? t igoti *11 m A!i For More | tTY YEARS * Y ill Leads X X >ale by f J i Supply Co. I 1Y4. ATA ATA ATA. ATA ATA ATA ATA 4T4 AT^ A^A 1FT 1 _ /^V I ue uwners! sings and Inner Tubes need doctoring. ; At Reasonable Prices plete Vulcanizing Plant. LCANIZING WORKS Near Foster's Shop idertaking Co. | >rs and Embalmers Furnished When Desired. 'romptly Day or Night \R, Manager. Old Postofflcc Building ?? & SLIGH'S I X iAGE... | * BUSINESS | tRY STREET A ON, S. C. A HE WHO WROTE W The Man Who Penned the Dec laration of Independence. i WORK OF TIMOTHY MATLACK. H? Was a Clerk In the Continental Congress When That Immortal Doou> ment Was Adopted and Was Also the Finest Writer In the Country. Who wrote the Declaration of Inde pestilence? Thomas Jefferson, of course; every one knows that. Rut who held the pen anil formed the letters on the great piece of parchment that the members of the Continental congress signed? It Is one of the largest official papers in existence?one skin of parchment nearly three feet long and more than two feet wide. The writing Is nearly twice the normal size and Is unusually handsome aud clear. XIII- sn iiniij n uv ?U3 uiuereu W promulgate the work was Charles Thomson, a man of high charucter, who had been the principal of a school at New Castle. Del., and 011 active patriot. The first congress chose him as secretary In 1774, and he held the office until the Continental congress passed out of existence 011 March 2. ss 17SS). During all those fifteen years It was only 011 rare occasions that any other hand than his wrote In the Jour- g( mil. One of the clerks In Thomson's otfice in 1775 and 177<"> was Timothy Matlack. who died at Ilolmesburg, l'a., in 1821). 0. when he was ninety-nine years of age. , To carry out the order of the con- ? gross that the Declaration be proclaimed. Thomson needed more than a score of copies, for he had to send It 11 to every one of the states and to the army. So, to save time, he did not J},* attempt to have any copies written oiT with the pen. but sent the original draft, wh'nh the congress had passed, to the ofiii ial printer, John Dunlap. The following morning the printed copies were In Thomson's hands They were printed on one side of the paper ^ on large sheets eighteen inches long and fourteen and a half Inches wide in g( the form known as broadsides. It was from one of those copies that Philadelphia first heard the Declaration read, and It was one of them that o, became the official copy, for Thomson had not copied the Declaration even j(, into the Journal of the congress before ' he gave it to the printer; but when he cc wrote the Journal for July 4 he left ? a blank space for the Declaration, and , the next day, with two wafers of red u wax, he fastened in the printed broad- 1 6ide. r I have said that sometimes nn entry was made In the Journal of the cougress by another hand than Thomson's. The first of those occasions was on June 12, 1773, when Timothy Matlack recorded a resolution to set aside a 1 day for fasting and prayer to avert the [ desolating calamities that seemed to be g1 Impending. Matlack had l>een appointed a clerk in Thomson's office on May 13, and five days later, on May 20. he wrote out the most important docu ~ merit that the congress had Issued up , to that time?the commission to George I? Washington to be commander in chief 1 of the American army. The identifies- JJJ tion of the penmanship of tlie eoramls- ^ slon with that of the entry in the " Journal and of both with an autograph ? letter of Matlack's thut is among the " papers of the Continental congress is certain. * Probably there was not at that time a man in the country who was Matlack's equal as a penman. Fortunately. Matlack was still a clerk in Thomson's office when the Declaration of Independence was ordered to be engrossed for final signature, and si the task of copying It was assigned to h him. Fie copied from the printed broadside. That Is clearly shown by t< the heading of the broadside, "In Con- L gress, July 4. 177(1." which is repro ir duced in the written Declaration in the saihe form of lettering. ii A few years ago some of the officials in the library of congress, who knew fj that Matlack was the best penman employed by Thomson, made a compart- w son of General Washington's commls- a slon, which was known to have been written by him. with the Declaration, w ' The first peculiar letter in the commission Is the capital "N" in New q Illimosllll'c And *Vf? ft <1 tta Pftllhlnr. 1 ?? "" CI part in "Nature's" In the second line of C( the body of the Declaration. Tho graceful flourish at the top of the "T" in the word "To" in the commission Is repented in the second of the sentences ^ beginning "That" in ttie Declaration. c In tlie word "offer" in the commission it there is a marked peculiarity in the double "t." The llrst "f" U made like' the old fashioned long "s." It appears in the word "effect" in the Declaration, then in "suffer" and "sufferable." That is the most noteworthy peculiarity In Matlack's writing. The capital "D" in the commission and in the last line of the Declaration, the capital "B" in the ^ commission and In tho word "British" ^ in the Declaration, the whole word jj "Congress" In both documents?those and other details established beyond a doubt that the writer of tho great Dec. o laration was Timothy Mntlack. si In 182 i? when John Qulncy Adams a was secretary of state, a skilled en- d graver, William J. Stone, made n cop- ^ perplate facsimile of the Declaration. * That is the only ono that has ever been made. It was distributed by order of ^ congress and is familiar to us all. It Is a perfect reproduction In every particular of the original document and la a Q fine specimen of the engraver's art.? b Galllard Hunt in Youth's Companion. d ti a / ere a itk / CJneed / iKJiuishin^ / thein atme? 1 / Eat them beta / Irteqr ever / ^ooa. .At all OTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE tato of South Carolina, County of Union. Court of Probate. Notice is hereby given that on the 1st day of November, 1916, at 11 clock, a. m., in the Court of Proite for said County, the undersigned ill make his final settlement as Adinistrator of the Estate of J. C, lack, deceased, and that thereupon ? will apply to the .Fudge of said oiu't, for his final discharge as such dministrator. J. J. Black. This 19th day of October, 1916. Published in The Union Times foi ) days. _ OTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE Late of South Carolina, County of Union. Court of Probate. Notice is herebv triven that nn th* Hh day of November, 11)1(5, at 11 clock, a. m., in the Court of Proite for said County, the undersigned ill make his final settlement as Ex:utors of the Estate of R. Rusl rown, deceased, and that thereupor i will apply to the Judge of said aurt, for his final discharge as sue! xeoutors. Copher W. Brown, H. J. Waldrop. This 19th day of October, 1916. Published in The Union Times foi ) days. OTICE OF FINAL DISCHARGE tate of South Carolina, County of Union. Court of Probate. Notice is hereby given that on th< 1th day of November, 1916, at 1! clock, a. m., in the Court of Pro ate for said County, the undersigne< ill make his final settlement a: uardian of the Estate of Henr ? Going, and that thereupon he wil pply to the Judge of said Court, fo is final discharge as such Guardian Geo. W. Going. This 24th day of October, 1916. Published in The Union Times fo: u (lays. JONESVILLE Jonesville, Oct. 23.?We are havini )me beautiful weather. We haven* ad much frost yet. Mrs. C. C. I.awson visited her sis ?r, Miss Lillie Long. Sunday. Mis> ong has been quite ill, but is nov nproving. Mr. J. W. Cunningham made a bus less trip to Spartanburg Friday. Miss Ada Conrad of Pacolet visiter riends in Jonesville Sunday. Mrs. Sallie McKissick of Green rood and Mrs. Harrison of Columbii re visiting Mrs. Eunice Kennedy. Mrs. J. W. Cunningham spent i rhile in Union Saturday with friends Mrs. Bell Martin and children o lowpens and Mrs. Iris Brown am hildren spent last week with thei ousin, Miss Ida Wyatt. Brown Eyes. YOU CAN HAVE eautiful hair if you keep the seal] lean and healthy. Neglect result 1 baldness. We recommend J1 T MADE, MARW 4b. 2 Tr iiu.iiic in nit; illuming 01 me. n< 'ho loafs last loafs best.?Oklahonu ity Oklahoman. n-Fos( A Mild, Effective Laxative A Liver Tonl Does Not Gripe nor Disturb the Stomach. a addition to other properties, Lax-Fo Dntaius Cascara in acceptable form, i timulating baxativeandTonic. 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