The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-10-23
TWO QUAINT CHARACTERS.
One MOuIltainecr Who Drinks
a Lot and Another not at all
Both Are Republicans.

VIC "ouHtaIHecT "Ho DTlHK
a Lot and Another not at all
Both Are Republicans.
MIR. Jas. a. Hoyt, Jr., in The State:
| GREENVILLE, Oct. B." MartlI
from the Creek" is a character who's
occcntricitics have been so long know
around Grccnvillc that his fame, lik,
the prophets honor, is not so grca
hercabouts. Martin is proud Of IN
record as Republican and as n con
sumer of corn liquor.
The writor met Martin on tho street
yestcrday-it being The first time ht
had had that pleasure for many months
and good deal of whiskcy can be con-
sumcd in few months by one whose
capacity is good. This was about what
was said:
We'll, Martin, how are you? They
tell me you've quit drinking and come
over to the Dcmocrats"
who told you that? Name the
mani pa like to confront him!"
&C. 1t isn't SOP"
" Certainly not. But | have about
quit drinking. Pm gcttln' old and
eight or ten drinks day sots nc up
pretty high"
Knowing that Martin claims to have
an estimate of The quantity of whiskcy
he has drunk during his lifetime, a
calculation kept by his good wife, the
writer asked for the latest figures:
-Four hundred and eighty one bar
rcls at As gallons q barrels" said Mar
tin. How much does that come
to2'
Il was figured out that according to
This estimate "Martin from the
Greek" has laid away 2O,745 gallons
of whiskcy, good, better and best for
Martin says none of 1t is bad. If the
calculation is carried out il will be scci,
that in order to have consumed this
much whiskcy in his 70 or Is years
Martin must have averaged several
pints day. This is by no means im-
po ssib!c, and Martins claim to being
ga living monument to liquor" is not
SO prcpDstcrous after all. The tenn
pcrancc advocate could figure out n
line lesson from the amount of money
this quantity of liquor represents.
While Martin has "abouL uttit drink
ing,' he says Teddy is all right and
sure to be eectcd--he is a Republican
still, it seems, though no will take
whlskey that comes from either IL Re
publican or Democratic still.
"JulINNIE HElERS."
JOHNNIE Bcicrs is another Grccnyillc
character, but quito on the opposite
line from Martin from the Creeks
Johnnie, like Martin, ls a Republican
but his plido is in two other things,
his record as member Of the lamp
ton legion and his religion.
Bciers is il native Of Germany and
served, | believe, in tho German array.
At any rate he came to this country
in time TO fight for South Carolina i'm
the War for Southern Independence
His admiration for " Mart " Gary, un-
der whom he sorvod, is unboundcd
but he admits his general had one fault
he would cuss."
For a long time Johnnie Bciers was
general delivery clerk IN the postoflicc
and in those days ho knew everybody
in this section and everybody know
him. Being Republican lie lost his
job some years ago under Democratic
administration, and has not had tho
easiest sort of time since and his
health has been bad. knowing these
facts somo of the Republicans must
have wanted TO help him along, fo,
Johnnie told me an incident this morn
ing that seems to prove it. In his
Dutch-lGnglish he SAID that he had
| been offered position Of some sort in
a government distlIlcry, and his reply
to the letter from Columbia was some.
thing like this:
You may know that for four ycals ]
was Confederate soldier and fought
the Yankees. Since that time I've
been soldier OF The Cross and fight
ing the devil. can't 90 over to tho
DEVILS side now and have anything &c
do with making whiskoy. dom
want your job.
Yours truly,
! JOHNNIE BEERS.
| That's the refusal as close as 1t cal
] be recalled from Johnnic's recital il
his broken English