Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-07-02

bit" A lad, standing little ways
OF, looked up with twinkle in his
You wasn't scared?" why, no I
| was not" Well" said the lad, you
might make yourself believe that, but
you can't make anybody else believe
l asked very old man If he could
remember anything about mud-hole
in front of Mrs. MaXwell's at any
time, and he replied that he could
not remember the time when there
was not one there. Wonder If the
editors memory has not played him a
mean trick? Mr.. Steck says that one
w. NJ. Brown lived hard by. Now l
am frank to confess that l do not un-
derstand just what he means when
| he says hard by" and then goes OF,
quite at length about my being too
modest to mention the fact to the
mayor. Too modest to set up kick
100 modest to try to array one part
or the town against the other! Too
modest to let our little town alone in
| peace and happiness, but write long
articles in The Courier and tell the
people In one breath that they are
spending all their money on Main
! street and leaving off all other
work, when they pay taxes and
| should be looked after, and then in
the very next breath give US hail Co
lumbia for doing anything on the
side street without his permission, or
that Of our mutual friends" (and
| our mutual friend never showed up)
Well. this Is the first time that |
have ever been accused of having an
| oVer-abundance Of modesty. But |
want to make a concessions: | am too
modest Cor have been) to write long
articles in the paper trying to create
an unrest among the people, and to
criticise everything that the Council
did, and not find in all their work
one little bit that | could have a kind
| word for, and | would be the last
man in town to be calling up the
mistakes Of the eX-Mayor, for | real
iZe that will make some mistakes. I
make them In my own business, and
; will make some for the town.
"One w. NJ. Brown lived hard by!"
One J. A. Steck has an Office hard by!
Just the same distance from Mrs.
Maxwelrs that | am. Now, if he
means a block away when he says
! hard by, then we both live at the
same guilty distance.
Now just word about the ceme-
terry: ] am ready to confess that up
to this time the Council has not done
anything to improve the awful con-
ditions that Mr.. .Steck has so graphi-
caily described, since that wonder
ful arraignment Of our neglect to
the dead, and it was neglect, and we
ought to have real good pounding,
but we have that same old excuse we
/ 1x
think about it, We have not had
charge Of this work so very long. Won
know, and our mutual friend" did
not say one word to us about this
work, and ! guess we are guilty, and
from the description of its neglected
condition | am almost afraid to go.
| We might see GHOSTS" out survey
| ing their awful surroundings. But I
have made some little inquiry about
the matter since it has been called to
/ our attention, and to all those whom
, ! ash ahOnt tie matter, say jhal they
! cannot remember thut Ihcrc was rvcr
anything done t. tho ccUntcry dur
ln& the administration Of ono j 4:
/ Slock notwithstanding l." has cies
, tkat should b.Iu him. II may be
rather immodest in me to say this,
but would it not have been much
resting place of the dead thing of
beauty. regular Chinese flower gar
den, while he was In office, and not to
have waited Oh those whom he knew
not to be very fond Of him?
Now, Mr.. Editor, | had thought
last week that | would do no more
| writing on this subject, and now
am through This is the last half Of
the second inning, and we both have
had our say. You began the very un-
pleasantly, and while | would have
been very glad Of the editors sup
port, nevertheless, he is perfectly
free to do and to say what he likes,
but we are going right along, whe-
ther you go with us or not.
With apologies to the public for
imposing on them in this long article,
beg to remain, Yours truly,
w. NJ. Brown, Mayor.