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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-12-26
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mout hoIler roun' in de swamp all night
an git lost an mebbe break his voice.
| go right now"
mo. | think you'd better stay here,
Pomp," Colonel Belknap said blandly.
"Now that I've caught you l shall
keep you. I'm going to lock you into
the harness room and keep you there
until the last buckle is cleaned and
polished. Once you get out of my sight
l can't expect to see you again until
every string on your banjo is broken
and the last possum In the woods
caught"
Pomp showed his teeth; then his
face sobered. Don you beliebe dat,
massa." he said earnestly. "Mebbe rs
light headed an quick heeled, but l
ain no runabout dat don car for his
own massa, de bes' In de worl'. Jes'
soon's dat backlog burns out rs gwine
be ready for work. an you amt need
call me-"
well l hope you will, Pomp," more
kindly. Last Christmas the backlog
burned a week. only going out on the
seventh day. Even the %greenest. most
cross grained log of black oak wouldn't
be apt to burn that long behind a good
fire. 1t struck me the log might have
been soaking in water for some time
Do you think your log will burn q
week. Pomp?"
"Why-er--yes. massa, | spects II
will " poun confessed. s'an'-an' mebb(
a little more. But you said las year
dat you liked it an Eyed it much as
we all"
$50 | did. Pomp, and | hope the los
will burn its full week. and | shall no
ask any of you to do a hand turn OF
work except the necessary chores unit
1t burns out. But l hope on the Mon
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-12-26
Holly Superstition.

There are many traditions connected
with holly-one, that it is unlucky to
bring it into the house before Christ
mas eve. There are two kinds of holly,
the prickly and nonprickly, and accord
ing as the holly which is brought in
for the Christmas decoration is smooth
or rough the wife or the husband will
be master. A bunch of holly with ber-
ries must be broken from holly which
has been used in church decoration and
kept until the next Christmas to pro-
tect from lightning and insure a lucky
wear.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-12-26
Artificial snow.

White cotton slightly smeared with
mucilage and sprinkled with common
salt or diamond dust will make the
best wintry effect, For store window
or table decoration mirrors make good
water intuition with small sized ducks
placed on them. The effect of new
fallen snow can be produced by taking
the branches and dipping in gum ara
bic water and then s%prinkling with flour.
SNOWFALL effect can be produced by
taking toy balls and covering with cot
ton wooi--Bee Hive.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-12-26

SoLONHH DHiAb' strong enough 10
lift a shovel. don't quite like that.
shall only hire out the ablebodied men
for whom l have no work on h plan
tation just now, and none of them
need go against his will. l think we
can muster about 300, Pomp, and l
want you all to feel it will be partly for
your own interest. Half the money l
receive from the railroad will be used
in rebuilding the cabins at the quar-
tiers. l hope you will be able to make
your log burn out its full week and
that you will be ready for the contract
work the following Monday. This con-
tract means a. He stopped abruptly
and turned away, apparently forgetful
of his threat to lock Pomp in the har-
ness room.
But Pomp had no intention Of bene-
filing by the omission. AS he went
chuckling toward the his thoughts
were on the absurdity of the log burn
ing out in one week. "If he'd done
said bout two Mondays ahead he'd
come Closer" he muttered ~gleefully.
"Jes' a week ain make no dif'runce
bout de railroad work, an OBJ co'se dem
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-12-26
His sorrow.

Maud newly married)-You look very
melancholy, George. Are you sorry
you married me? George-No, dear, Of
course not. l was only thinking of all
the nice girls l can't marry. Maud
Oh, George, how horrid Of you'll 1
thought you cared for nobody but me?
George-Neither do 1. 1 wasn't think
ing Of myself, but of the disappoint-
ment for them.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-12-26

day after the holi-
days you will be
ready to strike
that railroa d
work heartily.
What do the boys
think of it?"
"'Bout you hir-
in us out to dig
ON de new rail
road bed, massa Z
Well, reckon
dey fabors it a
heap. Massa Ben
Cudder, on de rib
Der plantation,
gwine hire out
800 hans to de
railroad boss"
$50 | hear. But
that will take ev-
cry man, woman
and child on his
plantation who is
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-12-26

)MP! 90, Pompl
Pom-pey!" The
call went through
the gu t e L s,
through the shad'
owy live oaks
beyond. u d e
whose o drap-
ed branches the
ground was dim
even at midday,
and ON into the
cypress swamp
to a black pool
over w b | C h q
black boy was
c%rouching. A 3
the call came to
b | m. mellOWe0
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-12-26

you ever q
newsboy? Well.
don't get offend
ed. Hundreds
of other good
p people have
been, a IN o n g
them governors,
congressme en-,
merchants, law
yers, bankers
and even minis
ters. General
p hill Sheridan
was o C e q
boy and
was proud of
the fact. 1t is
not related that
he "shot craps
md slant In oil
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-12-26

In gravy, cram
berry sauce and
mince pies.
Long before the
hour for the
spread they
gather about
the doors, fight
ing for places,
like a hungry
bunch of Eng
lish sparrows
over a worm.
How they STUN
BILE, leap and
swarm up the
stairways, slide
for their places
and get busy
filling the ach-
inu voids with
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-12-26

Things are SO arranged in this world
that happiness as a profession must
eve be a failure. 1t cannot be found
by seeking it. 1t is q reflex action. 1t
is incidental, a product which comes
from doing noble things. 1t Is impos-
slble for a person to be really happy
by making pleasure a professionalism
cess Magazine.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-12-26
The Part.

Twynn-I hear that Skidmore has led
the Widow Weeds to the altar. Trip
let-That is what it is called for polite
ness sake, but from my post of OBJ
servation it looked as though the wild
ow were a neck ahead of him all the
way up the aisle.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-12-26

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
-Thoreau.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-12-26

"Oot Va tAS hS
It the big house,
picking their
banjos. singing,
laughing and
gorging t b e M
selves on the
good things that
were spread out
LAWS hly for
t h Q m. M a n
ere in the
living room, in
which was the
huge fireplace,
with its back.
log, not yet a
quarter burned.
From time to
time the negroes
loo k e d at II
wonderingly and
made comments
and spoke the
name of Pomr
with added re.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-12-26
A FARCE Reformer,

The people OF the Haf0e ISLANDS cling
to their old customs and see little good
In change, says the author of 1.-THE
Faroes and Iceland" but now and then
one of them becomes q conservative re-
former. Such was an old man of
Stromo who, in his youth, had learned
cabinetmaking in Copenhagen, then
had been a blacksmith in New South
Wales and later a marine In the Dan
ish navy during the Sleswick-Holstein
war. Having thus Travelled far beyond
the widest dreams of his countrymen,
he returned while still a comparatively
young man to Stromo and invested his
savings in a home. Conservative
though he appeared to o%utlanders, to
the islanders he was a reckless in
novator. He rooted his house with
slate instead of with the traditional
turf, but could find none to follow his
example. They shook their heads in
doubt. He argued vainly with them
against the habit of throwing fish
drinking water lower down. The only
advice they would accept from him
and that after long hesitation-was to
boil their fish oil outdoors instead of in
the firing room. But when this ter
Ribs mnovator heard from a visitor
that women rode bicycles in England
he was so astonished that he asserted
confidently that the world could not
last much longer.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-12-26

ing voids with BOXING IN THE GYM
in them! Older NAoiom'
folks who witness the spectacle laugh
with their mouths and weep with their
eyes to see it. 1T is doubtful if any
other scene in life contains so much
of both the grotesque and pathetic.
Outside of the spread at the home,
many of the papers often arrange
feasts for the urchins who sell "papes."
Mr.. Randolph Guggenheimer fills a
large collection of empty newsboy
stomachs on Washington's birthday.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-12-26
By J. A. EDGERTON

copyright, 1905, by ]. A. E~dserton.l
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-12-26

cabins is plenty good for we all to
sleep in"
Five evenings later most of the ne
groes were gathered at the big house.
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and declaring his sorrow and peni-
tence, he was pardoned. From his con-
duct afterward, it was evident that his
sorrow was only fear of punishment,
for he was again detected in making
ARRANGEMENTS to escape from the colo
ny to the Spanish, and also in persuad-
ing John Rivers and John Cooke to go
with him. The sentence of the council
was that for this second offense, he
should be stripped naked to the waist,
and received thirty-nine lashes on the
naked back.
In these days, when there Is a store
In every neighborhood Of five miles
square, it may be interesting to know
who were the first merchants in the
state and in what their stock consisted.
Sometime after the settlement was
commenced at Ashley river-the pre-
else time Is not known-John Foster
and Thomas Gray formed copartner-
ship for the sale of general merchan-
disc, to adopt the language Of the pres
ent day. On the 18th Of January 1872,
they dissolved the copartnership and
divided the stock on hand. The stock
in trade in this first store in South
Carolina consisted Of eight servants, Of
whom, on the division, John Foster re-
ceived Thomas Witty, VIM. Davise,
John Ratliffe and James Powell, and
Thomas Gray received Richard Poore,
Richard Barginer Edward Howell and
joan Burnett. The other part Of the
stock consisted of deer skins, few
yards of linen, hoes, shovels, axes.
picks, saws chlsels, frows, hammers.
wedges, beef, peas, oil, hens, hogs, tur-
keys and one sheep. The most Of the
stock consisted in agricultural imple-
ments.
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An old soldier describes what turned
out to be laughable experience of two
Of his comrades. In one view OF 1t they
were very unfortunate, but looked at
in another light their case may be said
to have been twice blest;" for they
were certainly glad to get in and glad
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mo! to blazes with the blankets"
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At this horrible suggestion the men
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had the dread disease. 1t was much
longer before any one could say "shin-
giles" to either Of them with any de-
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GASTON.

Gastonia Gazette, Jan 10: There Is
some talk Of the Southern building a
new passenger and freight depot in
Gastonia. These are two things bad
ly needed. Gastonia has always de-
served far better than the railroads
have supplied within her borders and
it is earnestly desired that the South
ern build a depot such as the busi-
ness interest Of the town demand. ....
1t seems that somebody has been
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panys name to help them work a
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spectfully cautioned against fraudu-
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contributions or subscriptions by
persons representing themselves to
be employees of this company.
Misses Nell and Annie Lee Neill of
Glover, who have been attending
school at Linwood Female College,
returned home Wednesday. .... Will
Moore, a negro who lives near Pleas
ant Ridge was bound over to court
under a $50 bond by Esquire S. 5.
Morris on a charge of assault.
Trouble occurred in Moore's house
Tuesday when Moore went home and
found another negro. Tom Beacon, in
company with his wife. Moore, after
picking Beacon up and throwing him
over the fence. proceeded to give him
good licking. .... Beginning at
noon Wednesday, a printer in the
Gazette office set 13 columns of ad-
vertisements in 10 hours on the proofs
of which not an error appeared.
This record, which Of itself will be
of interest to the printing fraternity,
was made by Mr.. Will Marshall, the
seventeen-year-o son of the editor.
He had no thought of making a rec
ord until his proofs were read and
showed II up. .. THE YORKVILLE
ENQUIRER says the price of the new
cook book we described last week is
not $3.50 but only so cents. We are
obliged, however, to believe, as we
said last week, that the price is too
low so long as it stays below $3.50
per copy.
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tg A refractory Irishman in Jail
named Dennis McGinnis, refused to
work The keeper said to him: NC
Ginnis, you go to work or to the pump"
"Niver" replied the Irlshman. A Sec
ond time the keeper ordered McGinnis
to work, but he refused to bulge an
inch. Nov for the last time, McGin-
MIS-" exclaimed the keeper, you go to
work or to the pump" "Niver, SIR"
said McGinnis, Strengthening up to the
full dignity of a man. Faith, sir, I'll
lave the Jail first"
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CAESAR" AND HIS WIFE.-There are
husbands who, among their male COM
panions, like to have it supposed that
they are just little tyrannical at
home One such man, who had two
or three friends at his house one even
ing, remarked, as they were chatting
together comfortably at a rather late
hour
"Yes, do what like at home. My
wife, she has to bend to my will, I can
tell you. In my own house I'm reg
lar julius Caesar"
His wife came into the room in time
to hear that last sentence. The tyrant
Of his household looked little uneasy,
but his wife neithed frowned, nor ap-
parently, paid any attention to the re-
mark But after a moment she re-
marked very positively
Gentlemen, it is late, and Julius
Caesar has got to go to bed"
Whereupon the husband arose, stam-
mered his excuses and retired leaving
his guests to find their way out as best
they could.
It was in another household that the
husband once remarked to his wife.
you know, my dear, that am the
head Of the house!"
You may be the head as much as
you like" said the wife, but I'm the
neck"
1.-The neck? o yes, you may be the
neck If you want to. my dear"
VERY we'll. It's the neck that
turns the head whichever way it
pleases, isn't it?"
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A TEMPERANCE House, see you
are building a new house, Mr.. Bung."
Yes. you are right" Made the mon-
ey out of whisky. l suppose" No"
why, you are a liquor dealer are you
not?" "Oh. yes! But the money I'm
putting into this house, was made out
of the water 1 put into the whisky.
Every farthing was made out of water,
sir"
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6T A young and accomplished Chi
cago lady recently eloped, and a young
er sister was questioned by her angry
father. whom he suspected of knowing
more about the matter than she was
that your sister was going to elope?"
inquired the old man. NO. father; she
never told me anything about it," Did
you suspect anything?" Nothing
whatever" replied the girl. Did she
make any preparation for the esca-
pade?" Not that l knew anything
about" Did you not see her make
any arrangements for going away?'
None, except to wash her feet"