The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-04-27
NEWS FROM KEARSE.
"Old Timer Writes of Springtime
the Crops, and News Items.


eyes and minds of all. Even the
aged look with interest and admira-
ton on the new formed leaves, fruits
and flowers, and still remember when
in youth their heart turned lightly to
love as do the youth of to-day. Even
an old rhyme maker is made to sing:
Here the violet and the honeysuckle
In the valley of the great Sake
hatchie,
It's lovely glenns and shady dells
Unknown to the warlike Apache.
Here lovely maidens with eyes OF
blue
And noble youths of an alien race
Go pleasure bent on catfish stew,
Not the willy Indian, but the paler
Here the Young brave kissed his dus-
ky bride
And drank deep the waters of Sal
Now when her palefaced sister wants
cat
She bids her lord to the swamps and
fletcher.
And he humbly asks the critics to
be lenient with his verse for the
valley of this historic stream in
spring will cause these spells. Even
on the face of a calf is written fun
and frolic as he scampers with up
lifted tail and it's dam looks on COM
placently knowing it will soon wear
off and this same calf will be an old
and sedate COW; not 50 with men who
drink this water, for as the years
Toll on the sense of fun and humor
grows, the eye still has the merry
twinkle and the face wreathed in
smiles, and legend has it that If fate
so DEGREES that far away he shall
roam, still with hungry soul and
longing eyes he yearns for Saltke-
hatchie.
But even here COMES sorrow in the
night. Alas that prize acre of corn
has had a visit from an old SOW and
eight or ten pigs, a fourth destroyed
and all to do over again! How green
and pretty it looked, an almost per-
feet stand as it stood four to six
inches in four foot rows, now prone
and dead, those intruders little
dreaming the harm they were doing,
and the pride of an old mans eye
marred and disfigured; not word
of reproach to them has he, for had
they belonged to careful owner
nothing would have been. Yet Joy
comes in the morning, it will be
planted over, and as 80 often before
the old farmer will console himself
that all happens for the best, even
if he gets left in the race, for then
he can dodge behind the wall an old
SOW and her brood Of pigs did it.
Then, too, on yesterday evening
the Rev. D. B. Groseclose gave the
baby boy, Quintus Brabham, as a
blushing bride, Pearl, the charming
daughter of Mr.. J. G. Breland, at
whose home in the presence of many
friends he pronounced them man
and wife.
Miss Mary Abel will give public
entertainment at White Point school
house on Friday evening May 5, at
8 p. m. All are invited and pleas
ant evening assured.
Miss Gertrude Johnson left to-day
to resume her school at Swansea, so
rudely broken into by smallpox a
few weeks ago.
Gardens are on a boom, and the
fresh, crisp and tender vegetables
are to be enjoyed in every home. O1e
gardner measured a cabbage that tip
ped the rule at three feet seven and
a half inches across the top in the
presence of others.
The oat crop will be poor in many
fields, but where fertilizer was lib
orally used fair crop is assured and
enough gain over the unfertilized to
pay a handsome profit for the use
of same.
L. A. Brabham and Misses Nell
Kearse, Ettie Kearse, and Evelyn
Brabham attended the Sunday-school
conference at Orangeburg last week.
A pleasant time reported, and high
praise given the hospitable people of
that city. OLD TIMER.