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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-07
Marlboro and Darlington counties.

Marlboro and Darlington counties.
In those days the waters of the Pee
Dee rarely overfowed its banks. The
land was then as now exceedingly fer
tile and produced abundant crops.
The settlement was healthful ard all
went up to the Revolution, merry as
wedding bells. When the hill-country,
however, began to become populo-s
and the forests were cleared, then
the floods began and have increased
to this day; and as result hundreds
of thousands of acres of the most fer
tile land in the world has become a
howling wilderness, a wallow for al
ligators and breeder of malaria.
In the trip across the Pee Dee
swamp thirty-fve years ago about
which I began to write, noticed long
lines of what appeared to be earth
works for military purposes, was
| just boy, almost, from the hills and
fancied that I was travelling into the
country torn with shot and shell dur
ing our great Civil war. was ig-
norant of history and almost every
thing else though / had diploma
from a good Southern college. When
I think of how little l knew in those
days L am amazed. Yes, there were
earth-works, and of course there must
have been great battles fought :here
during the war. There they, the
earth-works, stretched away through
,, the underground on that bright moon
light night.
l could contain my surmises no
longer, might be crossing a great
battlefield. I, therefore, again dis
turoed the sleepy driver.
"What are those earth-works?" I
asked, "Breast-works?"
"No sah," he replied, 'Deys dams
to keep out de freshets. Dem used to
be fields in slavery time, but de col
ored folks done got freedom and dey
All, | saw the point. Our fathers
were wiser than we sometimes think
; they were, they knew good land and
cultivated it with their slaves. When
the floods began to increase from the
washings of the hills they built le-
wees around the most fertile tracts
and kept the food-waters out, they
fought against the destroyer as long
as they were aEle, but the war came
and help deserted them. We behold
the results. Hundreds of thousands
of acres as fertile as the bottoms
along the Mississippi, lie overgrown
with forests, tangled vines, canes and
brierS, enough fertile land to bread
any three states of the Union-a con-
crete, actual illustration of the Curse
of the Hills.
With the fertile bottom lands ru-
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-07

The city council has done a good
thing in marking off the streets where
the stop ordinance is in force so that
the drivers of cars are required to
stop before crossing the street, and
also by adding stop corner at Cald-
we'll and Friend streets. Now if the
drivers of cars will just ooey the or
dinance the danger of accidents will
be reduced at these crossings.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-07

Canada has voted for reciprocity
with the United States. We are not
sure that we know just what recipro-
citay is, but We think we are for it. 1t
sounds good. at any rate,
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-07
BYWAYS OF STATE HISTORY
DR.. J. W. Daniel in Southern Chris,
Ian Advocate.
The Curse Of The Hills

The Curse of the Hills
l have already said that the bless
ings of the whole coastal country are
hidden in the hills. That is a natural
and, therefore, scientific truth. 1t
is equally true that the curse of the
coastal plains has its origin in the
hills. The key note Of the Gospel is
Redemption and civilization expands
and grows just in proportion to it's
grasp on the key thought of the Cos
pei of Christ. Man has no other mis-
sion but redemption which may, in
deed, be applied to everything earth
~, material as well as spiritual.
Drainage is the application of the
gospel to the swamps, education is the
key word of God applied to the mind,
religion is its application to the Inn
mortal soul; indeed, there is nothing
exempt from it's far-reaching and
beneficial effects but hell.
/ crossed the Great Pee Dee swamp
for the first time forty-one years ago
on my way to Marion, South Carolina,
the next time crossed it was at night
in a numbering old transfer hack run
ming from Society Hill in Darlington
county, to Bennettsville in Marlboro
county. There may have been, and
doubtless was, society at the little de-
pot where / left the train for the
hack, and a hill, also, but I did not
see either. It was night and was
alone except negro who drove the
hack. AS we plunged into the great
swamp I felt like I was leaving all
society and the hills of the universe
behind me; and had, except the
hooting of owls and their weird laugh
ter as they congregated in little par
ties to spend the evening sociably. We
crossed the river just below where
Col. KoIo sleeps on a little knoll
almost on the river bank. He was
murdered in 1881. His house which
stood near the river, in this now des-
olated region, desolated by the curse
of the hills, was surrounded by a
band of Tories and the brave colonel,
aroused from sleep, determined to de-
fend himself and family. There were
with him in the house his wife, an, on
ly daughter, two sisters and two
young men named Evans who were
visiting the Kolb home. The Tories
however soon set fire to the house
and the brave man, at the fearful So
licitation of his wife, surrendered
himself as a prisoner of war; the To-
ry leader accepted his proposition but
as he stepped out ACCOMPANIED by his
wife, daughter, two sisters, and the
two young men who were visiting the
home and offered his sword as an
honorable prisoner of war, he was
shot by Tory named Goings and fell
dead before his door. The house was
stript of it's valuables and burned.
The moon had arisen full-orbed and
flooded the swamp with mellow light.
Whip-poor-wills poured forth their
melancholy night songs, thousand
frogs beloved from the lagoons, thou
sands of peppers piped, owls hooted
and then burst forth in ghostly laugh
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-07

If haH the reports circulated about
the aims conference had been true,
we would have been in another war
by now.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-07

Don't miss the south's greatest auto
show in Atlanta February 11th to
18th.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-07

This is election year, and hope
springs eternal in the politicians
breast.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-07

"China's greatest general has five
wives" says an exchange. Is that
why he is the greatest general?
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-07

Christmas comes but once year,
and sometimes it takes until midsum-
n1er to get through paying for it.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-07

a cheerful view of life is what helps
to bring success.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-07
, 9 9 o @ . o 8 Q o @ 9 % 8 Q 9
TALKING 1T OVER

8 g y o 9 o 8 @ 9 . @ g g o o .
J. E. w. in Anderson Mail.
If you faint in the day of adversely,
thy strength is small.--Proverbs.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-07

the biggest, most expensive, the
smallest and least expensive, taking
entire families here and there. A
family with an automobile can mi
CRATE when it chooses, just as the
+, bird with it's wings can migrate.
The difference between man with
an automobile and without is the diff.
/ ference between the flying bird and a
woodchuck fastened to his little hole
D.. Those that are foolish say the au
tomobile market is saturated" On
the contrary, the automobile industry
is only just begun, and not half of the
families that could and ought to, have
them. Prices have been reduced
quality has been improved. Keenest
competition has brought magnificent
results.
:. And as you discuss with your fam
ily the question, "Shall We get an au
tomobile this year or waltz remem
Der the following facts:
An automobile means better health
to everybody. Do you want to wal
year for better health? 1t may b.
too late.
An automobile means pleasure fo
the old and for the young. The olt
, can not wait a year, and the youns
; ought not to wait.
; To have an automobile means t.
take more cheerful view of life, ant
The Washington times., 1922-01-23
BROOKLYN MAN IS HELD
FOR KIDNAPPING HIS WIFE

NEW YORK. Jan. 23.--Charles Sab.
batino, OF Blooklyn, was held yesterday
In 900 bail on a charge of kidnap.
ing his wife. who is suing for divorce.
Margaret Sabbatino told Magistrate
George w. Simpson that she left her
husband two months ago and went
home 70 her parents on Riverside
drive. Friday night, she said, she an.
swered the doorbell and on stepping
into the vestibule was seized by sew.
eral men, including her husband, who
threw q chloroform. soaked cloth about
her head and carried her away.
She said she was then imprisoned IN
house on Long Island until she
agreed to meet her husband on down
town street corner. On the way to the
meeting place he telephoned to q
lawyer. who also came to the meeting
place, accompanied by two policemen.
sabbatino denied the abducfton charge.
The Washington times., 1922-01-23
ARE
SPRUNG IN PARIS
TRIAL Of NELSON
Hutchins Girl Accuses Mother
of Forcing Her to Lead
Wild Life.

tPARIS, Jan. Assassination after
sensation Is being sprung In the case
of Harry w. Nelson. Of Virginia,
charged with q serious offense against
solange Hutchins, the American so
ciety girl who has been dancing In the
Moulin Rouge under the name Of Mil
dred Meredith.
The first came when the girl told
the court she did not know the name
of her father, and charged that her
mother had falsified the registry Of
her birth and secured her passport
through fraud.
Another was when Soiange com.
planned that her mother took her, q
girl scarcely In her teens, to society
affairs where she was given liquor by
every one" and accused her parent OF
forcing her to leave home and adopt
her present mode Of life.
Immediately following SolanEe's dep
osition, which was made dramatically
from the center of the courtroom. and
before the girl had called her Witnesses
to corroborate her testimony, Nelson's
lawyer swore cut O warrant against
Mrs. Hutchins. charging false com
plant.
nelson UeHcLlteu thc VA
tenders act at the first trial, ten
months ago. when he was charged
with assaulting photographer. This
was the charge on which Nelson was
originally arrested, Mrs. Hutchins de-
nouncing him to the police after
Solange ran away.
The second charge against Nelson
IL abduction, the principal witness be-
ing Roberta Cuffs, divorced wife of
David Joyce. of Chicago, who swore
she had seen Nelson and the girl In
O bedroom together.
This is denied by Solange, who de-
clares her mother has frequently tried
to force her into the arms Of society
men visiting her home, but she has
always refused their advances. This,
she declares, Is one Of the principal
reasons she fed. OF Nelson she a..
serted:
HE Is q loyal friend; no more"
The third was when II was disclosed
that Mrs. Hutchins Is none other than
Belle Livingstone, daughter OF John
Ramsey Graham. OF Chicago, who.
woman in a party sent to explore the
gold mines of Egypt. Permission for
the expedition was granted by Lord
Kitchener. and Herbert Hoover repre-
scented Barwick & Moring. London
mining engineers.
Nelson Is still held, but 1t Il intimst.
ed that because Of disclosures which
have been made by Solange Mrs.
Hutchins win drop the case.
The court In inclined to favor Nelson
because Of his war record. He has
been decorated with the croix de
guerre. BIS
The Washington times., 1922-01-23
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t32 DOSES) without obligation or expense.
Only one bottle to the same address or
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The Washington times., 1922-01-23
NEW YORK BABY HAS KING
OF GREECE As GODFATHER

NEW YORK. Jan. 2s.--Constantine.
King Of Greece, was by proxy . GOD.
father to an American baby ct Q chris.
tening In the Little Church Around
the Corner yesterday. The child. who
Is the thirteen.wesk-old daughter OF
Capt. and Mrs. PAxtone Hibbsn. was
given the name of,Jean Constantine"
! From her augu& S3ldtattisr. IA the
person OF his prozlHr Qs7tnnnos Trc.
jano, ex-arch OF thS 1reek Church In
A aa'S 1ro.. sns Wa. ~, ssncs ssnS
following her name, From Her God.
father, Constantine, r."
Captain Hibbsn was In France In
the American expeditionary forces, and
after demobiiisation enlisted In the
work Of the Near East relief In Trans
Caucasian Russia. The child's mother
was Ceciie Craik. Of Montgomery, Ala,
who received the Croix de 0uerre -
Red Cross nurse In France.
The Washington times., 1922-01-23
|COMb SAGE TEA IN
| HAIR TO OARKEN It
| IT'S Grandmother's Recipe to
| Keep Her Looks Dark,
| Glossy, Beautiful.

The old.tims mixture Of Sage Tea
and sulphur for darksning gray.
stresked and faded hair IL grand.
mothers recipe, and folks are again
usins II to keep their hair . good.
even color, which IL quite sensible,
az we are living In an age when q
youthful appearance In Of the great.
est advantage.
Nowadays, though. we don't have
the troublesome task Of gathering
the sage and the mussy mixing at
home. All drug stores sell the
ready.to.use product. improved by
the addition OF other ingredients,
called .'wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
Compound" It is very popular, be-
cause nobody can discover It has
been applied. Simply moisten your
comb or a soft brush with II, and
draw this through your hair, TAX.
ing one small strand at a time: by
morning the gray hair disappears,
hut what delights. the ladies with
Wyeth,s Sage and Sulphur Com.
Mound ID that, besides beautifully
darkening the hair after q few
applications. Il also produces that
soft lustre ana appearance OF abun-
dance which 10 % attractive.
The Washington times., 1922-01-23
Wonderful Demonstrate
AT Peoples Drug Stores, Pertaining
To Tonall, The Universal Tonic
and System Builder

afflicted
OF
cured know but know there stomach troubles
untold suffering to the already afflicted and say acids and
will read the formula Of Tona you will note Ton contains minerals
medicine and Herb Root
q
afflicted kind medicine
ever
and D.. C.
The Washington times., 1922-01-23
WOMAN AND HER
BABY ARE found.
SLAIN IN CHICAGO
Ratchet Used to Perpetrate Re-
voting Crime missing
Husband Sought.

CHICAGO, Jan. 2s-IThe decapi.
tated bodies of Mrs. Margaret Tier.
ney, twenty-six years old. and her
three-tear-old son, Ralph. yesterday
were found In their home. They had
been murdered with Ratchet found
near the bodies.
The room had been tightly closed
and the gas turned on, but the cor
oner said there was no doubt that
both mother and child were dead
Patrick Tierney, Mrs. Tierney's hus.
band. IL sought in connection with
the double killing. ..N.
Ralph's body was tightly clasped
in his mothers arms, and police
think that she was defending her
, child from the attacks.
The Washington times., 1922-01-23
WIFE CHARGES
|. SHE WAS MADE
LIVE IN SHACK
Graves Divorce and Pictures
Hardshps Of Canadian North
west Life In Complaint.

DETROIT, Jan. 2s.--Life In a
shack In the Province of Alberta.
fortyjtwo miles from the nearest
town. was portrayed by Grace Hay.
wood when she asked Judge Dinge.
man for q divorce from William Hay.
wood. For three years, she told the
court, she was left on a claim her
husband was homesteading while he
would be away for one to three
months at time.
She was only fifteen years old when
she went there. a bride, shortly after
their marriage, April IS, 1908, she
SAID. There was no other house for
miles, and for three years she was
unable 10 write or receive letters
from friends and relatives.
Part OF the time the only food she
ana her two children had was whole
The Washington times., 1922-01-23
PHILIP MELCHER.

Philip Melcher, widely-known
baker of southeast Washington, and
prominent in fraternal circles, died a,
o'clock this morning at his home,
1872 K street southeast. He had
been Ill for the last two years. Ar.
engagements for the funeral have not
yet been completed.
Mr.. Melcher was born in Ger.
many. He was fifty.four years old.
He came to this country when he
was seven years old, settling in
Washington. IIe was q member OF
the Masonic fraternity and KALI.
polls Grotto.
Surviving Mr.. Melcher are his
wife and six children, Lottie. Edith,
August and Henry Melcher, Mrs.
Anna Jeffries and Mrs. Lena Kinney,
the latter an employee OF The Wash.
ington Times.
The Washington times., 1922-01-23
ADvERrIsEAiENT.
WORRIED
WIVES
READ THIS


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will be well and good-natured again
ana STRONGER. too. Good blood. good
health, makes happy good hunnor--
that 10 the way It goes. n You don't
give him some kind Of . tonic he win
probably get worse--they usually do.
DO to the drug store and ask for
Guides Pepto-Mangan IN hquid or
tablet form II 10 pleasant 70 take
Tor O few weeks.
The Washington times., 1922-01-23
HAS MONSTER PROJECT
FOR BUILDING Relief

NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-Having
battled before the Lockwood commit
tee for a year and a half against
the innumerable evils besetting the
housing situation in this city and else.
where, Samuel Untermyer took the
platform yesterday before the Free
Synagogue Of Washington Heights and
revealed the most gigantic construc-
tive scheme for relief that has yet been
put forward.
This plan. in which Mr.. Untermyer
says he has interested the officials Of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com.
pany. calls for the investmemnt of ap-
proximately 100000. 900 in the cree.
ton Of 1900 model tenements," con-
tanning 45, 900 four.room apartments.
to be rented at prices within the reach
of the average laboring man, and to
he situated within from fifteen to
thirty minutes Of Grand Union station"
The Washington times., 1922-01-23

wheat. furnished by the Government
for seed, and her clothing was made
from gunny sacks, MRS. Haywood tss-
titled. So
One day she saw a man passing
by the house, and called 10 him. He
told her OF little town that had
sprung up six or seven miles away.
He gave her some washing 70 90
little town, where she was able TO
earn S35 q month, she said. About
three months later her husband came.
The court awarded her Q decree.
Cruelty was alleged.
The Washington times., 1922-01-23
JOSEPH T. SLINGsBY.

News Of the death Of Joseph r.
Slingsby, past president of the Ma.
tional League Of Masonic Clubs and
widely known In Washington frater.
nal circles. at his home in rutherford,
n. J., was received here today by
Lynn T. Troutman, president Of the
league.
A telegram OF sympathy from the
officers Of the league was sent Mrs,
Slingsby by william Musser, president
Of the Washington advisory board, and
William B. Severe, secretary. The
funeral vii be held at the Masonic
Temple, Rutherford, Wednesday after
noon at 2 o'clock. President Trout.
man will attend the services.
The Washington times., 1922-01-23
MRS. LORENZA NORCIO.

Following an illness Of one week
Mrs. Lorenza Norcio, wife Of Paul
Norcio, Of .703 II street northwest
died yesterday at her residence. She
lived in Washington the past twelve
years. Besides her husband she is
survived by six sons and one daugh.
ter.
Mass will be celebrated wednesday
morning at the Roman Catholic
Church Of the Holy Rosary. Inter.
ment will be at Mt. olivet Cemetery.
The Washington times., 1922-01-23

PARIS, France.

LoR space that known
emnently satisfactory things with coat
frock This black sfa coat has sec
black moussene band it. that gmpses OF the
and white fouard slip beneath Il has lines Of nns oAe.
sleeves straight onepiece slip sleeveless and has m
"bateau' neckline edged with Of the braid
THREEPIECE TAEUR jersey de sole boucle from
Madeleine and Madeleine convnces one that simple CO.
right the frocks bodice Of white duvety sleeveless with
neGk-lne and has rising OF ne
slit pockets unique collar Of
which all exceedingly decorative And the slender with
its grdle slashed several inches deep
intervals about the lower edge
The Washington times., 1922-01-23
DEATHS.

ma LLEY-Efisaseth. 70 yrs, 3it sth ct.
ne.
wEDD1Na-Robert n. o. yrs. o.. nns.
DQWSEY-Anns c., II yrs, Casualty
hosp.
HoFFMAN--wiiiis. - Yrs. slr st.
sw.
sIMPsoN.Fannie A.. - yrs, 1855 Kai.
PEYToN--Cunninshs r., IS yrs, Gar
RBAD-Elsie r., mo-. iIo1 w Ct. %,
DAhMoN-Wiliiam So yrs, +sb Grant ct.
wALKER--nip- Is yrs. 1915 ist 1t. nv.
The Washington times., 1922-01-23

Jacobs Oil at any
drug store, pour
a little in your
hand, and rub it
right on your
aching back; and
by the time you
count fifty the
8 or g n Q 9 8 and
lameness Ia gone.
Don't stay Grip
4 pied. This sooth-
ing. penetrating
oil needs to be
used only once.
It takes the pain
right out and