The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-09-20
RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
fBy ECURB NEVARC.)

North Carolina that when the tides
run high and the deep waves disturb
the depths of the waters, that one
standing on the shore can hear the
moaning OF the spirits of those who
lost their lives on those treacherous
sands. This is not merely an item
of passing interest, but it is i'm
portant because a great many peop'e
really believe this thing, and it is
not uncommon to see a group of peo-
pie standing on the edge of the surf
listening to the tones that sound
wonderfully like what they say they
are, and there are some of the wiser
ones who can in them distinguish
even the cries of men, women and
children. l heard an old man of the
sea talking about these things the
other day, and he related them with
the earnestness of full believer,
and many more tales even more
weird and unthinkable TO a person
who knows nothing Of the tales of
the sea He said that he had just
spent his whole life on the sea, and
never feels safe on land. and that
one night coming by Hatteras his
ship got too close in, and they heard
a. someone knocking on the outside of
the ship many feet below water. They
went down inside and when they
answerSh the konck, a woman's voice
said Let me in, let me in" This was
repeated apd they lowered a sailor
to the sp3t on the outside and found
: nothing, but when they went back in
the hold. again and again they heard
the knocking and the cries of "let me
in, let me in.'
l heard the old man through and
then looking straight in his deep set
eyes. asked him if he really believed
all that, and he asked me if l had
ever lived on the sea, and / answered
that l had not. Then" said he
- "take~|the advice of an Old man who
NtNsA seen many strange things. and
beings doubt something that you
as food food A3thing about"
airest you ever think that hea,
ra reduce temperature? | was in {
no section in that awful hot spell
august, and passed a tobacco barr
where a fire was very evidently
burning in the hues at 8 o'clock il
the afternoon, at which time, tn,
temperature without the fire mus
have been enough to cure anything
or kill it. l stopped and asked
about 1t, and the man showed me g
tiny fire not much bigger than
hat, and he said that without the
=. fire the temperature was at least 100
Sbut with it the temperature was 9$
inside the barn which was Just what
he needed. The explanation was
that the little fire produced a draft
that had cooling effect, while the
feet the temperature at all. Believe
it? Why should waste my time
doubling something / know nothing
about, when l am in doubt most Of
the time about the actual problems
that 1 am supposed to know and un-
derstand?
:
The invasion of grave yards, es-
pecially old ones, to find humOr. is
an old habit. but the funniest thing,
and ,at the same time one of the best
ttsngsL I ever saw in one is an in
.ntipn which I noticed recently on
aN,-Ie erected to the memory of a
good and. departed woman, and the
bottom part of the inscription is:
'erected by her brother-in-law.' In
quiry ELECTED the information that
her husband was so sorry and stingy
that he wouldn't spend the money
for the stone, and his own brother
did it, and in doing so, placed fitting
epitaph to the good woman and also
another to her worthless husband
-. a group OF negroes were leaving
the other day for camp. and they
were gay about it. Someone asked
them if they were going to help get
the kaiser. and one OF them answer
ed: mo, sab, we's jes' a-gwine to
= close up de job dat's all. Use allus
noticed dat de white folks dey do all