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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-22

for me, and my plan was to keep out
of their clutches from the start ana
run as soon as either one of them
came near me- 1 was sure ! couldn't
be caught before l had reached quite
a distance. In throwing at the
mark at school l was AL, and there
was no doubt in my mind that 1 could
put either pursuer out of business if
he should follow too closely.
we reached the deacon's house two
or three hours ahead of dinner, and as
l expected, Jim and Jethro suggested
that l should Join them in some out
door games in the meantime. 1 hated
dreadfully to spend the time within
after the depressing experiences of
other years. l was afraid to go out
with Jim and Jethro, remembering
well how they had been foremost
among the big boys at the village
school the year before in putting my
self and other small boys through
the gauntlet to our exceeding morti-
fcation, both physical and mental.
However, being ashamed to admit
my fear of the boys, even to myself.
1 doubtfully accepted their very civil
bid to go out behind the barn and
play one Obey cat for a while.
Once behind the barn they sug-
gested that the back field nearly half
a mile away, over behind the wood
lot, would really be a much better
place for one Obey cat Not to show
the white feather boldly went along.
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Thanksgiving in that latitude-but it
was bitter cold; yet in a very short
time we all had our coats off. The ball
was of rubber and as lively as a squir-
rel, the pitching was only gentle
tossing and the number of hits was
prodigious. This made it right busy
work for both the ms and the outs.
1t makes me ache for youth again to
think what fun we had on Deacon
Boyle's back field that bitter Thanks
giving Day in the sixties.
but all good times must come to an
end. That one was terminated after
what seemed only about ten minutes
to me by a mighty, suffering voice,
coming from the corner of the wood
lot
'J-J-Jim! Juj-Juj-Juj-Jethro! Cuck-
cuck-cuck-come to dud-dud-dud-din
ner. Wuw- wuw-we been a waiting
for you about an hour
Gosh, Jim cried Jethro, It's the
deacon sure enough. l guess Wen
have to quit the game. SO long, boys.
Here, bub'-to me-'get on your coat
The deacon calls and we got to go.
'sThe meekness with which Jim and
Jethro obeyed the deacon filled me
with awe Of him. Till then, in COM
mon with the other youngsters Of the
village, l had believed such big boys
as Jim and Jethro were practically
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-22
A CORNER IN ANCESTORS
THE WALKER FAMILY.
By ELEANOR LEXINGTON.

Walker siSnifies an officer, whose
duty consisted in walking over or in
specting a certain space of forest-the
royal forests. Walker also means a
weaver or fuller; in old English, or
Anglo-Saxon, the words for fuller was
wealcere. In the North of England a
fulling mill is still called a walk mill,
and a certain kind of clay is called
Walkers clay.
The ancient surname of the Walkers
of Hertfordshire was Forester or de
Forester, derived from their occupa-
ton in the ROYAL forests, as forestiers,
walkers or verderers.
A list of the most common names
was made at one time in England. 1t
was called 1.-The Mighty Sixty" Wal
ker was the seventeenth name in rank.
The Encyclopedia of Heraldry gives
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At every step 1 expected some coarse
horse play, and 1 was careful to keep
my hands in my pockets so as to be
ready with one of the pebbles on the
slightest indication of hostilities.
For once, though, Jim and Jethro
remembering that they were the hosts,
were as civil in their intentions as
they had been in their greetings, and
when we turned the corner of the wood
lot I had lost the last trace Of appre-
hension.
Gathering and waiting on a smooth
bit of close-cropped pasture ground,
just about big enough for a baseball
diamond, were enough young men and
boys to make up two sides of six
1--WE barely had nine on side in those
days.. providing Joined the game. To
my great delight 1 was chosen by
Jethro for his first man and invited to
play in the position 1 liked best. Not
to be outdone in civility, instead of
asking to be pitcher or catcher, mod
estly elected to be chase the ball in
the position that nowadays would be
called center field.
Then the game began, and fast and
furious it was. There was no snow
on the ground-an unusual thing for
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-22

not forgetting to put in all the ges-
lures at the proper places, only with
more emphasis than did the parson.
His father expressed regret at hav-
ing whipped the boy. when he knew
more of the sermon than his parents
did, but Nathan responded Father,
l can tell you now how many rafters
there are in the old church, and how
many birds, too" His father never
whipped him again.
Nathan Walker emigrated to Flori-
ia, and assisted in the development
OF that state. He gave the name of
Florida to one of his daughters.
The Pilgrim ancestor was Philip
Walker, who settled in Rehoboth,
Mass, about the middle of the seven
teenth century. He held various posi-
lions of trust and honor, and con-
tributed s26, which was great sum
IN those days, to King Philips War.
The final and last blood of that fierce
struggle was shed at Rehoboth. Philip
walker was in that gallant hRht
when King Philip was beaten.
The romantic story, treasured in
the Walker annals. is to the effect that
one Of the progenitors of the family
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-22
A NINETEENTH CENTURY
THANKSGIVING
How the Day Was Sometimes Passed by the Coun
try Minister and His Family

MY father was a country minister"
said the man at the end of the table,
land I can remember a good many
Thanksgiving dinners. In the late six
ties, when I was in my early teens, he
preached in a neighborhood that was
strictly rural in every sense of the
word.
1.-THE nearest railroad was so far
away that we heard the whistle of the
locomotive only enthusiastically
When we did the weather-wise prophe-
sled rain, saying the air was so full
of water that it carried the sound far
Their than usual
THE village in which we lived con-
sisted Of a yellow meeting house set
on a knoll in the middle of a narrow
valley; a general store, a shoe shop,
a blacksmith and wagon shop, a red
school house. and, say. two dozen
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stove. There they consumed quantl-
ties of new cheese, stale crackers.
smoked herring peanuts and tobacco.
also perpetrating rank bucolic witt
cisms and interminable yarns OF the
years long gone by, when they them
selves were some on the run, the
jump, the shoot and the 'rassle.
Thanksgiving dinners didn't cut
much Of a figure with the majority Of
the folks who lived near the village.
because of the counter attractions
mentioned. There were a few. how
ever, including the four deacOns in my
fathers church, like him, of New Eng
land extraction. who always celebrated
the day after the fashion of their faith
ers. with a big turkey feast and a
general family reunion. 1t was an I'M
written law that the deacOns should
entertain the minister and his whole
family. in turn, on Thanksgiving. As
a member of the minister's family l
had never had the ineffable pleasure
of spending the holiday at the village.
ITO me, year after year, as far back
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as ! could remember Thanksgiving
Day had meant mortal torture at some
deacon's house. If you've never been
through it you can't understand what
misery it is to sit for hours, waiting
for dinner, on a slippery hair-cloth
chair in a stuff farmhouse rarlor,
listening to the deacon and your father
arguing predestination, infant damna-
ton and baptism by immersiOn, when
you want to be at the village taking
part in the outdoor fun till you're so
cold you have to go to the store to
warm up, and incidentally hear the
bald heads and gray boards get of
their alleged jokes and spin their
yarns.
THE year I was thirteen I deter
mined to break away if possible. 1
had fought my way up to "A place on
the village baseball team. 1t was to
play two games on Thanksgiving-ir
the morning with the boys from the
East Hill and in the afternoon with
those from the West Hi'l-.and it
seemed to me that my entire future
would be blasted if I failed to be on
hand with the rest of the boys.
Il begged my father to sacrifice
custom for once and leave meout of
the dinner at the deacon g. At first
he agreed; though rather reluctantly.
Later he changed his mini, TO my
immense discontinue, and i'll spite of
my fearful protests that l could never
again hold up my head in the village
if l missed the Thanksgiving games.
If the dinner We're to be at any,
bodys house except Deacon Boyle's,
my son. said my father, you might
stay away, but both the deacon and
Mrs. Boyle would feel very much hurt
unless all the family were to go. Be-
Sides the deacon has told me that
neither of the boys are going to the
village this year-they ara going to
stay home just to make it pleasant for
you
Visions of Jim and Jethro Boyle
entertaining me before and after din
ner filled my young soul with dismay.
They We're sixteen and eighteen, re-
spectively, and big enough to be
hundred as Dave Doane, the doctors
son. said, Jim weighing $50 and Jethro
fully ten pounds more.
II argued the question just long
enough with my father to make sure
that he was in earnest; prolongation
of argument with him after a certain
point was decidedly Improbable. But
before we started on the flve-mile
drive to Deacon Boyles on Thanks
giving morning l put half a dozen
smooth. round pebbles. just the right
size for throwing, in my trousers
pocket. They were for Jim and Jethro
in case of need.
IT could understand no scheme of
wouldn't include physical discomfort
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in Maryland. He built a large white
oak log house." and called his place
"Toaping Castle" after the family
stronghold in the old country
An anacdote is told of Nathan Wal
ker, one of the Maryland family. He
had wonderful memory One Sun
day morning at church Nathan was
very FESTIVE, and instead of giving re-
spectful attention to the sermon, was
more interested in watching the birds
fit from rafter to rafter. Upon reach
ing home his father gave him a sound
thrashing for his inattention at serv-
ice which he took patiently, but he
told his father that he knew the text.
and could repeat the sermon. His
statement was discredited. But he re-
peated the text and, to the amazement
Of his family, the entire sermon also
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WALKER FAMILY.


fifty-two different families of Walkers
with their arms.
The name has appeared at different
times in its history as lie Walker
VALERIE, Walcker, Walkern and Wake
There was a Will Walker in the thir-
teenth century; a William Walkere in
the reign of Henry III. and a Nichs
Walk in the time of Edward 1. HUI
bert Walker was Archbishop of Cam
terbury and Sir Walter Walker was
advocate to Catherine, Queen of
Charles II.
In Ecclesfield, England about the
end of the seventeenth century, lived
three brothers-Samuel, Aaron and
Jonathan Walker-celebrated as the
Great Iron Founders"
Peter Walkers father sacrificed his
property in the cause of the house of
Stuart, and fed from Cheshire into
Ireland.
Isaac Walker, another supporter Of
the Stuarts. was forced to fee from
England, and found in France tempor-
airy security. Two brothers accom-
panied him, and a reward of $500 was
offered for their heads. From France
Isaac sailed for America, and landed
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4 Timely suggestion

This is the season of the year when
the prudent and careful housewife re-
plenishes her supply of Chamberlain
Cough Remedy. 1t is certain to be
needed before the winter is over, and
results are much more prompt and
satisfactory when il is kept at
hand and given as soon as the cold is
contracted and before it has become
settled in the system. In almost every
instance a severe cold may be warded
off by taking this remedy freely as soon
as the first indication of the cold APP
pears. There is no danger in giving it
TO children, for it contains no harmful
substance. 1t is pleasant to take-both
adults and children like it. Buy it and
you will get the best. 1t always cures.
Sold by all druggists.
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LINES
ONLY

A new line of hobby Plaid Zibelines,
for misses and children's
suits, regular $500 sellers. for. Use.
We Will place on sale Monday our
several lines of Broadcloth, selling for
$1.25, $3.50, $1.75, at the average
price of .......... .......... .Sl.OO
An exceptional opportunity to get
fine suit cheap. Have just received
dainty line of White Wool and Silk
and Wool Goods for infants and chill
drens sacques and cloaks.
For one day only we will place on
sale a line of Covert. Melton and
Kersey Suitings, guaranteed $1.00 to
$3.50 value, at. ................ 79c
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-22

houses. Not a very attractive place for
a lively boy to begin his teens in, you
may think. but we boys thought it a
particularly good place to be in on
any holiday, especially Thanksgiving.
school invariably let out on that
day, and this gave the boys from all
about a chance to come in and play
baseball then a new game in coun-
try neighborhoods. Unless they We're
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unusually behind in their fall work the
farmers and their hired men knocked
off and spent most of the day in the
village also. Some of the youngsters
among them exercised their marks
nlanship at a shooting MATCH while
some INDUCED in 'rasslin', running
races, jumping and various other ru-
raj athletics.
The gray boards and bald heads
divided their time between looking on
and sitting around the general store
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1903-02-18
Badly
Shaft cred n erves >
and Weak Heart.
Too Nervous to Sleep
or Rest.
DR.. Mile S'Heart Cure and
Nervine Cured Me.

A shattered nervous system nearly always
leads to some affection of the heart espec-
tally where the patients heart is weak from
hereditary or other causes. DR.. Miles Heart
Cure is not only great heart regulator, but
II is blood tonic which speedily corects
and regulates the hearts action, enriches the
blood and improves the circulation. II will
build you up Just as il did Mr.. Crawford
whose letter follows, and greatly improve
your general health:
"I have been so greatly benefited by DR..
Miles Nervine and Heart Cure that freely
recommend them as the best remedies for
the diseases they are recommended to cure.
When l began taking these medicines l
weighed scarcely 40 pounds, my nerves
were badly shattered and my heart troubled
me a great deal. had pain in my left arm
and shoulder had difficulty in sleeping on
my left side, had frequent smothering spells
and my heart would futter and palpitate.
l could eat scarcely any kind Of food without
suffering great distress, and was so restless
and nervous that l slept little night or day.
Now l am never bothered with my heart,
my nerves are steady as a die, l sleep we'll,
eat well and weigh 1863 pounds. / am happy
now and am trying to make back the money
l spent for doctors who did me no good
while was ill."-T. r. CRAWFORD, Center,
Texas.
All druggists sell and guarantee first bot
tie DR.. Miles Remedies. Send for free book
on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address
Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1903-02-18
Meeting Of Township AS
SCISSORS.
SCISSORS.

The Township Board of Asses
sorS tor tn e various townships in
the county OF Lancaster will meet
on the first Tuesday in March,
3rd instant, 1908.
1t IL the duty of Township As
SCISSORS to canvass each and every
return of personal property Of
their respective townships, in Or
der that individual returns may
be equalized as near as possible.
In every instance where a ma
terial change in the return of any
individual amounting to one hun
dred dollars and over, the Asses
sors will keep a note of the
changes made and forward same
by mail to the County Auditor
so that notice can be sent to the
parties so raised in order that the
taxpayer may have the cpportu-
nifty to appear before the County
Board of Equalization.
The Township Assessors ap-
pointed by the Governor will
take notice and qualify at once.
The Chairmen of Township
Assessors are ex officio members
of the County Board of Equaliza-
ton. Jno. A. Cook,
Auditor Lancaster Co., 8. O.
Feb. 17th, 1908.
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Farmers, Attention

Why raise 7 to SC cotton when
you can as easily raise II to lac
cotton2 The O. S. Long Staple
upland is the cotton you want,
as prolific as the short staple
varieties, grows we'll in this lat
itude, had several acres last
year that made | bale per acre,
easily picked, as the lint is long
Il { to II inches) and tenacious,
does not "cow lick" like short
staple. | give copy of letter
shown to editor reporting sale
of some of crop: "Boston, Feb.
IL, 1903. Sir: We beg to ad-
wise sale of % bales of your cot
ton at l34cents per pound, less
freight to mill. Yours truly,
Barry, Thayer & Co." Order
quick. Price of seed in two
bushel sacks 80 per bushel lob.
Chester, S. G. w. O. GUY,
Chester sc.
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DISPENSARY AGAIN.

Under the call of special order
Mr.. Hoods joint resolution to ap-
point a committee to investig ate
the management Of the State dis
pensary came up for . third
reading.
Mr.. Sharpe Immediately moved
an indefinite postponement.
Mr.. Hood moved to lay this
motion on the table.
Mr.. Msyfield desired b fore the
vote was taken to read tho fol.
lowing letter from Mr.. II. II.
Drum, the dispensary commits
sioner.
Columbia, 8. O., Fob. IL, 1908.
Senator S. G. Mayfield, Senate
Chamber, Columbia, S. O.
Dear Sir: At your request l
furnish you the cost and selling
price of "Hunter Rye" and that
Of Cream of Carolina" Hun
ttr" costs $40 for quarts, $12 for
pints and S13 for half pints-an
average of $12 per case; the sell
ing price ia $1.25 for quarts, 85
cents for pints and so cents for
half pints. The cost of "Cream
of Carolina" ls 1920 for quarts,
1920 for pints, 1920 for half
pints-an average of 1920; the
selling price is 81 per quart, so
cents per pint and 25 cents half
pint. So you will see from this
that the average percentage Is
very near the same. You also
asked me about the statement
that dispensers had ordered goods
and could not get them, other
goods being substituted in their
place. | will say in reply to that
that 1t is absolutely untrue. |
have a record at my office Of
every order showing what was
ordered and what was shipped
and my shipping book will show
what was sent aud in no case do
/ ind that any goods we're sub.
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Bridge to Be Let.

I will let to the lowest respon-
sibIe bidder on Thursday, the
9TH day of March, next, at IL
O'Clock M, the contract to build
a bridge across Flat Greek, at the
ford near Sylvester Small's resi-
dence.
Plans and specifications will
be made known at the letting.
Bond will be required of the sue
cesslul bidder, The right to re-
ject any and all bids is reserved.
i. }. PERRY,
County Supervisor.
Feb. II, 1908.
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1903-02-18
LEGISLATORS' PAY.

Thirty-three states out of forty.
five in the Union pay their legis.
lators q per diem, while twelve
pay = salary. The average per
diem for the whole forty-five
states, according to the statistics,
is $4.s7, and the average length
of the session in the states which
pay = per diem is sixty.three
days.
In Georgia the Legislature is
prohibited by the constitution of
remaining in session for longer
than fifty days and for that fifty
days work the legislator gets the
sum Of 81 per day. California
and Nevada pay their legislators
SO per day. This ia the highest
per diem paid in the United
States. Kansas. Oregon and Ver-
mont pay their lawyers the sum
Of 50 per pay. This is tho lowest
per diem.
The longest session Of a legis.
iature paid per diem is the
Michigan legislature, which sits
for 13O days. The shortest term
of legislature paid a per diem
is in Oregon and Wyoming where
the time for making and unmak-
ing Jaw is confined to period of
thirty days. In South Carolina
the term is forty days.
The state of New York pays it's
assemblymen $1,000 per annum
and sessions are held every year
and sessions cannot exceed 1875
days. Pennsylvania also pays
her Legislators 81 500 per session,
but the sessions are held only
every two years. The sessions are
limited to five months.
The state of Maine pays her
solons $3.50 per session. Where
fixed salaries are paid the sessions
are rarely ever limited. The
longest session Of salaried leeis-
iature is in Connecticut, where
the sessions Gre from three to six
months and in Illinois where they
last from SIX TO 6ovan months.
The shortest session Of q saIaried
Legislature Is III New hampshire
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whore the legislators adjourn,
after they have worked about ton
weeks.
Iowa has biennial legislative
sessions and tho members Of tho
assembly receive $3.50 per term.
The average length Of these Sos.
sions is ninety days. In Now
Jersey the sessions which are an
nual last from eIeven to eighteen
weeks, $500 per term is the salary
paid. Wisconsin, which has bl-
ennial sessions, also pays $500
per term.
Illinois pays 1000 per session,
but the legislature only meets
every two years. In Alabama
the Legislature is allowed to
meet only every four years.
Georgia ls one of the few states
that has annual sessions. The
following states have annual
meetings of the legislatures ::
Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jer-
sey, New York, Rhode Island and
South Carolina. With the excep-
tion of Ala bama, which has quad.
riennlal sessions, all the other
states have biennial meetings Of
the legislature.
Missouri has a peculiar law.
In that state the legislators re-
ceive SIS per day for the first sew
enty days of the session and after
that only 81 per day. It is safe
to say that the sessions in that
commonwealth are rarely over
seventy days.
In Texas SIS per day is paid for
the first sixty days and after that
only 50 per day. 1t is also said
that the Texans usually adjourn
about the sixtieth day.
The state of Utah pays her leg,
lslators for sixty days and after
that they can cit as long as they
wish, but the members get no
pay. 1t is not recorded that the
house or senate ever met after
sixty days had PASSED.
All of the states except Della
ware and New Jersey pay the
members of the house and senate
mileage.-Atlsnta Journal.