The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1915-06-17
ROME RAMBLINGS.
Observation-Disclosures on the Old
Regime and the New.

our boys and girls. some from school
and some teaching school, gives US
much pleasure. Those from school
are: Misses Louise and Annie VIII
son, Columbia college; Amy Eaddy,
Florence Hemingway, Winthrop;
Laura Yates, Linwood, N G.; Ethel
Johnson, Southern Presbyterian COL
iege; Messrs Presley Thomas, Char
lesion Medical college; Charley
Thomas, University of South Caroh-
ma. Teachers at home are: Misses
Iva Eaddy, Pomaria; Pearl Eaddy,
Trio; Marie Eaddy, Carver's Bay;
Emnnie Swan. Indiantown; Mr. Eu-
gene Yates, Winnsboro. Of those
from school, the following graduated
and are now ready to take their
places in the world to try to make it
better for their having lived in it:
Misses Louise Wilson, Amy Eaddy,
Florence Hemingway and. Laura
Yates. How these graduates do mul-
tiply, two or three every year from
this little place. So many that it is
hard for US old folk to keep up with
them. What difference from the
old day. Like Bill Arp, I like to ru-
inmate on the things of the past and
compare them with the progress and
rush of the present" The old-time
economy of the plantation was the
economy of waste. Two servants to
each white person was considered
moderate and reasonable. In fam
ily of eight or ten, with numerous
visitors and some poor kin, there
were generally head cook and her
assistant, chamber maid, a seam
stress, a maid or nurse for every
daughter and little mig for eve-
.ry son, whose business was to trot
around after him and up hunt mis-
chief. Then there were the stable
man, the carriage driver, the garden
er and the dairy woman and two
or three little darkies to drive up the
COWS and mind the calves while the
milking was done, and so on.
But the good old plantation days
are gone. The times have wonder
fully changed since then, some things
for the better, some for the worse.
The old aristocracy is passing away.
Some of them escaped the general
wreck that followed the ar and
have illustrated by their energy aid
liberality the doctrine of the surviv-
al of the fittest, but their name is
not legion. A new and harder stock
has come to the front. That class
which prior to the war was under a
cloud is now seeing its better days.
The pendulum has swung to the 9th
er side. The result of the war made
an opening for them and developed
their energies. With no high degree
of culture, they nevertheless proved
equal to the struggle up the rough
hill of life and now play an impor-
tant part in running the financial
machine.
Their practical energy has been
followed by thrift. They have proved
to be our best farmers and most
prosperous merchants and mechanics
and considered the solid men of the
State and have contributed largely
to the building up of our schools,
churches, etc-a class who form a
most striking contrast to the stately
dignity and aristocratic repose of the
grand old patriarchs and statesmen
whose beautiful homes adorned the
hills and groves of the old South
some fifty years ago. But the chill
dren Of the old patricians have come
down some and the children of the
common people have come up some.
They have met upon common plane
and are now working happily to-
gether both in social and business
life. Spirit and blood have united
with energy and muscle and it makes
a splendid team, the best all-round
team the South has ever had