The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-12-31

1ace loon llhe OLt tVh II aPPiV'
Town apples" were not so common
in those DAYS as nos. Yes, poor
John went away to Virginia to var
.and left bis pretty wife and two
darling babes, but they had hopes
that papa would come back nome
before long. They would 81. around
the fire place at night and talk about
papa's coming home and the poor,
almost heart. broken mother would
weep. But papa never came.
ITO ham cam the saddle,
All bluidy 10 see
To ham cam the steed,
But 10 ham never cam he.
Yes. Mr. Editor, those were hard
times.
mans inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn.
Well, readers, I have been saying
a few words about the war the cruel
war. Talk of the tented field! The
veterans that followed Lee and
Jackson through the campaigns IN
PENNSYLVANIA and Maryland, from
Wilderness to Appromatto1, knew
no tents. Their tent was the SKY
above them. Poor Conrad was there
as veil as George Graham, Pete
Epps, Lonnie Flagler, Louis Jacobs
and many other dear old boys. Yes,
l must mention W d McFaddin,
Billy, we call him. He was a son
of Mr. John McFaddin, who was
always glad to see Conrad.
Dear readers, when ] mention the
children's names that takes ME back
to the old-yes, the old ones. For.
Get them? Oh, no! Sometimes l
think of many of the old ones and
imagine what joyi would be to meet
them all on that beautiful shore and
see them as We so often saw them
here. 1t would be bliss beyond com.
pare. l say so much about my old
friends the readers of The RECORD
perhaps would rather have some
thing else and do not know in what
way / have travelled good long
way through life and cannot be far
from the last mile post, almost to the
top of the hill and ! look back.
Younger people want to look ahead,
but when We have seen the sights,
the ups and downs, and get as far
up the hill as We think we can go, we
are sure to look back:
And now we maun totter down."
And now I want to say something
for the editor. Alb, the printer!
Think of him; 60 to the printing Of
fee and watch him setting type: pick
up, pick up; look here, look there;
his eyes, his fingers must know those
type faces. 1t won't do to make a
miss and get the wrong letters. 1t
must be done quickly; often toiling
with fingers, eyes, brain; he can't
stop, sick Or we'll. The paper mast
come. He knows that hundreds snd
perhaps thousands are looking for
the paper in the next mail. Some
one will think the editor has failed
to send my paper and be mad, and
probably that very one is behind in
paying his subscription. There are
several things that cause the paper
to fail in reaching the readers,and 1t
is seldom the EDITORS fault. l see in
almost every issue the editor says so
many are behind in paying their
subscriptions. Friends and readers Of
The RECORD, give the printer what
is due him, one dollar. What is one
dollar? Poor Conrad is often minus
that much, but he looks upon that as
very little or nothing. But it means
a good deal to the printer. Now,
readers, if there are any of Poo:
Conrad's friends, or any that like to
read his letters who are behind, don't
put it off. We all know what put-off
will cause. Don't say if the editor
had not pressed me l would have