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V PALADINS OF SOUTH CAROLINA John Hampden Brooks, Born Sep teraber 6, 1833. Died Novem, ber 14, 1911 James Henry Rice, Jr., in The State. Capt. "Ham" Brooks, as he was known throughout the length and breadth of the up country, although he became lieutenant colonel during the Confederate war, was born at Edgefield, educated at Cokesbury, Mount Zion institute, Winn.-coro, and the South Carolina college, class of 1854. His grandmother was a Butler, his grandfather, Zacharian Brooks, served with distinction in the Revolution. | and his father, Colonel Whitfield Brooks, was one of the most prominent men of his day and time in the up country. The Butlers and the Brooks were Wrnigs, on whom war laid heavy toll. Many were killed, some being massacred at Cloud's creek. Uwing to the ill health ot his lather, Col. Whitfield Brooks, the management of the plantation fell on his wife, a woman of discernment, shrewd business tact and of large sympathies. Traditions of her linger yet in the community more than 50 years after her death. Captain "Ham? Brooks always told me that he owed everything to his mother's training. "Roseland," eight or nine miles below Ninety Six, was one of the large estates of the old up country. Even so late as forty years ago it had retained features of colonial times. The large plantation faced a flower garden, once tenderly cared for and exquisitely kept. The road wound bv the dwelling in a crescent, turning from the highway. From end to end it was shaded by oaks. One could "hear through their umbrage ancestral the wind prophesy as of yore." In open spaces Bermuda and blue grass grew; back of the grove of big trees behind the house, the land fell away from a spring, pure and sweet, whose flow was carried off in a branch into the wilds of Half Way swamp. To the southwest another branch issued from a hillside, coursing over rocks and through gravelly soil, toward what was known as "the territory," where it joined Ninety Six creek. To the northwest rose from the crown of a hill a pafch of stately pines, visible ten or twelve m:les away in that region of hills and marking the site of "Roseland" as a lighthouse marks port. The upper and lower verandas were festooned with vines. In season the whole place was glorified with roses, but many flowers iblew there down to the "primrose and the violet and the earliest roses blown." ^ The grove was always alive with squirrels, many albinos among them, for Captain Ham followed the example set by his wise mother and was a conservator. The family chapel was just off the highway, to the right as vnn w?r?t toward Edirefiold. These things sre, after all, merely by the way. When you stopped in front of the door, a negro took your horse and the host greeted you. From the moment of arrival you were one of the family. There was neither shade nor shadow of turning in your welcome. The wide hallv had the drawing room on the right, its walls ornamented with ancestral portraits, and the dining room on the left, where the wide sideboard knew and did its duty. Over it air presided Mrs. Brooks, whose charm greeted yoji and grew steadily; for each day and hour revealed some phase, new- and unexpec- j ted, in her gifted character. \ lovely. I woman, a lovable woma*:, with a dig nity never ruffled, ana a grace equal to exacting demands at home and abroad. Her influence was visible. It represented not only law. but the force behind law, love. It was just ; as unthinkable that any man, woman or child should transgress her gracious demands, as would be the attempt to extinguish the sunlight.' Rarely endowed by nature and moving all her youth in the highest.circles of South Carolina society?i-she was a daughter of Gov. James H. Adams? she had been educated at the famous Barhamville School for Girls, just outside Columbia, and later in Paris. The Adams home below Columbia, "Live Oak," was a rendezvous before the war for wit, beauty and fashion. Beautiful women are not uncommon in the world; nor are women of intellect and culture. At least they were not in days of yore. t To beauty, grace, charm, breeding and culture Mrs. Brooks added an inrlirMnfiolitv r?ofv?nr vft as palpable and invigorating as sunshine. The lot of a cultured woman, accustomed to society, who was shut off by force o? circumstance* in the depth of the country, with no near congenial neighbors an-.l in sadly reduced circumstance? after the war. was a particularly trvin<r one In addition, there was the care of a large family. ' How grandly she rose to meet it ana how superbly she was the mistress of the situation was a continual , delight to me, and to every one permitted within tlie sacred precincts ,>f Roselanus. When such women cease t > exis:. there will be nothing w.?rln living for. working for or dying for. Civilization will be in ruins. , On the outbreak of war. Captain, Brooks organized a company, his mo- j ther uniformed the men and he en-1 tered the army, making a record of ! service, distinguished from the begin-! r.ing unto the end. At General Ha- j good's suggestion and by permission i of General Beauregard, he took a lot of federal prisoners, who wished to change sides and formed them into a command, having been himself commissioned lieutenant colonel. These men proved traitors and formed a plot to murder their officers between Charleston and Savannah, where the surroundings were congenial for dark deeds. While awaiting reinforcements, with a lot of men around whom he knew were oath bound ti murder him, John Hampden Brook, displayed the cool courage in whicl he i bounded. I never h-ve known a j lliilll W UU muiv: uvUiti i van^tu ger or more thoroughly despised it. The tense and awful situation, which lasted two hours, was relievec by Lieutenant Colonel Brooks bring ing in Georgia volunteers, who dis armed the mutineers, and five of th ring leaders were shot: At the close of the war Caotai; i Brooks retired to Roselands, and wa not "a successful planter," as newspapers said: for it is profnna i tion to lie in the case of so perfec an embodiment of truth and knightl; virtue. His health militated againsi that; i^oreover, owing to his mother's having always managed the plantation, he had no practical experience However, he was a good manager. rarpfnL nriidpnt. holding thp olanta tion together and providing for his own. What is much better than a successful planter, he was a man impervious to temptation. Reduced in circumstances, suffering for lack of things he craved, he was none the less far above sordid consideration. He never bent a finger nor crooked a knee for financial gain. As he graced the station wherein he was born, he would have equally l graced court or camp, anywhere, in any age, for he was compounded of the old heroic virtues, which have compelled the admiration of men and the devotion of women since Greek and Trojan battled around the walls of Ilium. rr , , , ne naa servca a term in t.ne legislature before the war from Edgefield district. After the war he was elected to the general assembly from Greenwood' and later to the senate, j and in all relations he' was the same | plain, unpretentious, high minded j man, to whom iovaltv and truth out- ? I weighed jewels and gold. There is more to cell than can here I be told. My last visit to Roselands was in late summer. The world was swathed in green, covering red hills; and the shade trees, were in glory. After a delightful hour, when leaving, I looked back. Captain Ham and his lovely wife sat side by side on the veranda as I had seen them a gener-; ation before. That was my last sight \ of them, but memorv keeDs them near ( J and dear. Nowhere in the world of men have I met two examples better fitting Milton's description: '"For contemplation he and valor formed; For softness she. and sweet attractive grace." "The strength of the hills is Kis also," saith the psalmist, and these were His evidences of strength and beauty, set amid the hills for a season and now withdrawn to Him. All the material prosperity of the up country may shrivel up and fade iiKo a garment, when the moth irets j the fibres." There has recently been j an unpleasant reminder of how frail! material possessions are and how j quickly they vanish. But men and women, endowed with character, living lives of up- j rightness. clean of heart and strong j of arm for what duty requires, are ' eternal possessions. They pass; but! their influence lives. As Dr. Alexander McLaren of Liv-J erpool once said: "We know not how far the water of life may percolate j from its accustomed channels to re-; fresh the roots of distant trees.*' j Verily, the up country does not it- j self know how much it owes to its i forbears, '"who kept the faith of men ! <?nci saints, sublime and pure and bright." i Xo sweeter reminder of a glorious! p-.st can be called up than that of | .John Hampden Brooks and the worn-' ar. he called wife. I !Vop!e n.-r-u to take whiskey as an antidote for snakebites. But snakebiles mh.-> unn antidote for the kind of whiskey we iret nowadays. "ACCORDING TO THEiR MEANS' Contributions of Church Members, ; Century Ago. Evidenl'y Meant More Than They Da Now. Fresh-laid eggs ait' frequently de posited on the contribution plate i! some of the backwoods Kpiscopa churches of the South. Which gi?e* t< show that the spirit of giving hasn' Changed so very much in the H?J y^ar of the Omn-ll Missionary society jus being rounded out. The tirst report o the society, dated May 30. 1SH3. wa: dug up tiie other day. and while i shows no contribution of eggs, a scon of other articles of merchandise seen to have found their way to the plat* from people who gave "according t< their means." This report, for instance, shows tha back in 1821 David Snethen gave i basket of groceries for the support o the missionaries; Stephen North con tribured a medicine chest; Willian Iioyland. a cross-cut saw; Joe an* John Needles, two sieves: S. Masy, ; Coffee mill. John and T. Cluly con tributed. alas! a singularly empty gif ?a safe. .Tolin I>urson came filonj with a tub. whether bath or wash i not stated. 0. Buckley i* credited 01 the books with "Deduction on hat,1 ?1.~>0; John McAllister donated a tlier mometer. Among the other miscellanies an hymn books, slates, spades, shoes trousers, chairs, soap, bridles am locks. Finally, from one liichnri Markall there is a hogshead of tobacco which encourages the hope that souk r good missionary ui mc mu.v.i ... .... lonely station afar oil enjoyed a com fortahle smoke.?Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. MOURNS OVER "OLD TIMES" Elderly North Carolina Woman Think* Present-Day People Behind Those of Her Generation. Bright and chipper, Mrs. Lou Thaek er of Mount Airy. N. C.f celt-orated he; one hundred and eleventh birthday here yesterday at the home of a grand daughter, Mrs. J. M. Edmund*?n. say* a dispatch from Greensboro, X. C., t< the Xew York World. She "worries" Mr. Edmundson he cause she insists on helping him foe< his hogs and work in his garden, am wants Mrs. Edmundson to lei herwasl the dishes and "red up" the house The day before her birthday she rod< uptown in an automobile. 1VOC hum IH.nr Stone I lit- Hill IUU1 ?l ?l.- uv>n vflle. in Rockingham county. N. C. August 20. 1811. Four years :;eo sh< injured her hip in a fall and doctor: told her she would never walk again She laughed at ihem and today is walk in? with the aid of a stick. The jazziness of the young toda? does not meet with he$ approval "Folks ain't like they used to he." sh< said. "Seem* like they haven't got a; much religion." He "Rang the Bell." A number of well-known newspa per men returning the other nighi from one of the summer resorts ha< just managed to get to the city wher their engine commenced to slov down, relates the Washington Star A hurried examination disclosed th< fact that the gas tank was nearlj empty. Two of them elected to ven ture forth in search ol an all-ni^li t-wn rumninpr fiaI'Mfifc* >*iuir mr vn.\n ?? w .i.i..u...v. In the car. The searchers, after trav ersing many streets, finally cam< across 11 station on which was a sign "Open all night." No siirns o life, however, were visible. Finally on of the scribes happened to notice J rope protruding through a window o the building in which were kept oils grebes, accessories, etc. Giving th< rope a vigorous pull, he nearly yanke* the custodian of the service suitioi out of bed. the rope being attachei to the caretender's font?a rather nn and novel way of ringing the doo bell. Princess Elizabeth. Elizabeth, the second of the i!l-f:)te< daughters of the ill-la'ed Charles 1 was horn at Sr. .lames' palace in Ktt? When she was six years old civi war broke our in England and the re niaining nitie years of her life wer passed with strangers. She saw he father only a few times, tne last i?e ine on the (lay before his executior Charles took the child on his hue and srave her such advice as miirht b expected from a father about to di< A year and a half after his death sin ton. at the ace of fifteen, breathe1 her last. P?y some ir was said Croir well liad decided to apprentice her t :i buttonmnker, bur historians detr tfiis. It is knnwn the protector pr< vided amply for her during her shut and unhappy lifetii ;e. A monumen wns erected for her by Quren Victori on t!ie occasion of rebuilding tli church }it Newport. where she wa buried.?< -hicasio Journal. Picric Acid fcr Farmers. Tli;ir the fanners of tin* coiintr, have not h??en slow ;?? avail their solves of the opportunity to obtain , p>od a.irriiullural explosive at a lo\ cost is shown hy the fact That in tii fiscal year ending .Ti!i:e .?A 102L'. ."I.'Ju 1 7M pounds of pier!" acid has hee distributed hy the hureau of puldi roads, I'niied States Department o Agriculture. False Eyelashes. FaNt* eyelashes are '"lie of the lai e?-t ways in which science is c??-uperai i11tr with natmv. Th??y :ir.? n?a<lf> <i ival ' 'Mti*' in I??n:rthj ami :iro arnu.iir 1 . >!! :: K?: ?>f aiiiiesiv ^ilk ni&ttri;il \\hi<-ji will clinir t?? tli fcyelhl - or is supposed to. ; WENDS OF SLAVONIC CHiGlN i Variety of Tribes Mingled to Form What W?s at One Time ;i Powerful People. Tlu- Wends :i r?* a sort ion of the i j Slavonic rare, Unix in that part 1 i of Germany known as Lusatia. partly ? I in Prussia and partly in the former l j kingdom of Saxony. In the Sixth een3 j tury the* Wends were a powerful peot ! i'h*. extending along the B:ilti<* from f ' the Kibe to the Vistula and south to > j the frontiers of Bohemia. They comt ' prised a variety of tribes. To the f? 1 Wends at the outbreak of the war i Prussia was merely a military expres* sinn. They have always remained j closely united anions themselves, preserving the old customs and c?>nt siflerin/x the min.irlin? of races by mari riajre as opposed to the laws of f orijrin. The distinctions of caste . anions: them are very marked and i scrupulously respected. They rail d themselves Sorbs, and are known in i history as Polabs. Their language. of which there are two most marked t dialect<. is Saxon and Prussian, with t sections that speak a mixed form of s both languages, which is described as i being between Polish arid Czech (Bo" hemian) and was reduced t<> a writ - ten language in the Sixteenth century. The people of Weiuiish speech ? numbered 144.000 in the "SU's. were reduced to 110.S00 in 1000. and are 1 considerably less today. I BOILING MAY BE OVERDONE > Too Much Cooking Said to Ee Fatal to Vitamines, Which Are Necessary to Life. f Ever since tho mysterious little vitamines have claimed the attention of science, new theories have been exi pounded from time to time. Now comes the claim that vitamines - are hits of sunshine. Because of the important part cooking plays in main . taming or destroying these precious r . vitality givers, it is well to learn what > . the new theory asserts regarding it. - ! Vegetables grown above ground, ac; cording to this theory, are richer in ) vitamines than those nor having the ' direct rays of the sun, otherwise . known as root vegetables. 1 j It is declared that over-boiling kills 1 the stimulating action of the vita, , mines. The housewife who would supply her daily menu with these vitality? i giving items should look well to the fres?n fruits and vegetables in the . nVarket at this time of year. ! It is claimed That because the vita1 V x mines are actual rays of sunshine. . artificial heat tends to destroy their natural power. Therefore fruit and thnt iiiMv tip ejiten r:iw are i more beneficial than win-:; boiled. i i . j Oldest Engines in England. 4 i Two engines whic!i are si ill pumps ing away after a hundred years are ! to he seen In the Prookmill Road ! pumping station of the London water i hoard. They were built one hundred . | and one hundred and ten years ago ( respectively. Every day sin<-e they I were installed rhev have raised on an ! average 1,7.~>0.000 gallons of water. ; and the total amount they have pumped must he at least sixty thousand million gallons. These engines, 7 which are probably the oldest work. ing machines of their kind in the t country, are of fifty horse-power, and I each works two pumps. They are of . 1 the type that was once used in the if It o n /1 ovAont fiir ;i fi>\\* P V.W.-111*.. L modern improvements which have f been added during recent years, they e are exactly as they were a century , ago. f Soon they are to be replaced by . | new engines. n<>t because they are nor p j capable of performing th^ir work, but I | because modern engines work more 1 ! cheaply. ! i- ^ Heated Argument. r It was the girl's busy day and everything seemed topsy-turvy, nothi ing \.-M? ?>n time, and she was rush! ing aro'ind the office at a rate that ^ J she thov>irht could not be rivaled: but [ i Sambo.* the office boy. came in with ; : rhe speed of n cyi-lone and she fe!r I ! outdone. Now. Sambo's movements at ! all times are leisurely ami deliberate. . and no amount of threats or coaxing ?l oimlil S.-nnbo to exert himself be r i '" i. j yond the speed of a slow movement , i eaniera subject. Therefore this unusual e| display of locomotion from $amho p ? was most surprising. The girl stopped to > ! get an explanation. Sambo-rolled his ? i eyes, took a deep breath and eluci; dated: "The boss is on a tenr and he ! sure is mad: he's bawled out every,, j body on the place and he's having vi some argument now. That there ;>ri. gumenr was get tin' so hot Ihat I ,j j knowed the ole automatic fire sprink,j ler would begin to work in another ; minute, so I ju?t run before it hap M ! pened."?Kxchange. "Rolling Court'' in Florida. i Florida lias :i "rolling court." oper: ntiujr on t!??? Atlantic boulevard ne; r v Jacksonville. Justices of the peace i- | and their hailiiT* patrol the highway a i in passenger automobiles. acrojn* v i panied hy dozens ot' deputies on niotore1 cycles. rAidv t ? pounce upon any ; driver who endangers frallic. Fpon i] ; making an arrest, the deputy ami his .. iivoceed until met hv one of \ I" I f the ''rollini: courts." Only British Instruments. Fur :i < :' two !!? > f.?r illy iS'.iii! M; in <i; ??.?t - Iiri;;jin sii'iiili! <;!;? ]nvvi-i?n f t!::tt o.jl> 1'rnNIi insiniim-n:> '<? n<<vl. is "lii- iVi'MrniiiwiI:itii?n t* ?)f ; !:?> "T"-!-."!. :Vnl. <Ve coniinr ! > iV* l.??n-!on Iv.vnimj 'l imes, i hi?s lie-n :i!?j?r??ve?J l?y tli?' <:ibineu n I? HI I W WW IM ^ FIRST COMM The Co mm i December 3.192 wonderful results in <?Q 9*3 cO J S O & s ^Li <lJ * * Every farmer wli as every citizen c of the market, which both the f filed and, of com inasmuch as mor 1 . "5 turned over to iii Let us all re: ket bigger and gi 77 The Comme: i I i u 11111 u 11 v v i v t e t i t 1.4 i^il il "Well! I! j| Strong!" | j H Mrs. Anna Ciover, of R. F. D. H j 2' 5, Win field, Kans., says: "I a w 'oegan to suffer some "months G Hs ago with womanly troubles, and ?=j 2 I was afraid i was going to get a ; in bed. Each month I suffered &j j *3 with my head, back and sides?a ? 3 weak, aching, nervous feeling. ?5 i ?;! I began to try medicines as I Q j ; Hs knew I was.getting worse. I H 3 did ifot seem to iind the right tj 2 remedy until somsene told me of P ? vniivvi p i I Tiis Woman's Tool? I 5 I used two bottles before I could H 3 see any great change, but after >j that it was remarkable how ?3 j much better I got. I am new H <3 well and strong. ! can recom- j?| P mend Cardui, for il certainly >-3 ; K benefited me." H a If you have been experiment- Q I >' ing on yourself with all kinds of I;-* h different remedies, better get H j p back to good, eld, reliable ' j ?! Cardui, Ine medicine for r-J , I H women, about which you have j always heard, which has helped tji m msnv thousands of ethers, and wi ' hi which should help you, too. H ' C Ask your neighbor about it; she ?5 i -) has probably used it. Oj ~ For sale everywhere. p fcj * ; SW Nose stopped up?^ Imenthoiaium i i j ^kqulckly clears i?>5/ | ih 'iiu"fcaaMas?BaraHafaB8i I r rM Is Easy Money i li f yir If 3 easy if you get /J good equipment and s've ^"e sams attention to it as you wouid to any other business #^2?S?k _ from which you expected to earn a profit. Too many people make the mistake of trying to raise chickens successfully with | cheaply constructed incubators. ; ere famous for j? | their large i strong, healthy j chicks that ! CTOw.Tnev s1 > ! towbeenWa fe."; ?4' T i for man wears l- M I by the tearing 5^1 0 ! ooultrvinen if ; Amcrica. A W*r ?- '?? *'?.? '>:.vr *" ?; cause wo nr.- here to rtny and cannot afford to tri'Ic with your etrgs. Come in J uikl '.< ' :? O :"- * i \ ' A MM! if Ft? a Ai, ?2 ? Ji e' OF THE UNITY MA mity Market, which 1, closed its first yea = Thereceiots for th( * lo sells through the if Newberry, should i as it provides a c armer and the cons 5e, our merchants sh e than 90 per cent. < iem by the farmers. solve to make the C "eater during the coi xe National Bar rcial Bank The Exci For Good Men's Suits o Come and st stock, see the supe know why we're d and Suit business. Soft, warm, f< ings, anything you that will make yc / notice. J. LI Main Si. Tg?P?J.V JUW P. 3BPBO?rgi P 'llpps^a p " ? ^ > 5' --'I ik~VA?if5/ Q3"s"^ STi wo?;c?>:>*?? ,ao PH^L}-* tS-J s.^.i LJ5';? j'? rnr:".??n / Kfv & 2* K3EjSj?3rofeBO <? y MT/S&jrt <* "> ^ w? zr- 'A I 'JP t. z, KZ J> .,/ :; & .: Pcsfherr. con? ?.* ~? H? 1'c'n. A hen m::rt. have to form feather? r:vl .: yet most surr::n-:r fscdo I'ttie protein. Ycu en: ed egg i'lu.nrp nc't IT. feeding o pFrpmTA r^i .5 ??f Tl < w" ^ vV:-; guaranteed c^f; n^d rer/." ?.r?g rations. P"nr^ ChcA/3 fccthcrr. fast. Tiifry *:rcp he; when c.-r.d T-;fv'hr off the yield cf mprojjeily Vcu can't ncrlcct yo*jr Ivzr.s now end i:>:pcc: a focsvy 'T/' ylck: .?t*v:;2tc:7? / Feed i'or wir.ter new, ^ Let your bcr-r. sh"v; you hovv much :;rcp?r iceding counts. L^'der I oday j * SAR Y RKET was organized r Saturday with 2 year amounted B * ? h market, as well reel justly proud hannel through umer are bsnelould feel proud, )f the amount is j ommunity Marrr irno r 12:211^ J VCII . ik hange Bank j'' j ??? ?? ? i 1 L | . Overcoats j . r Boys' Suits ie our wonderful i r values and you'll oing the Overcoat ibrics. new colorwish for at prices >u sit up and take \ : e:vy NEWBERRY, S. C. J ww?ai?i in wmmmmaown??ip?" wp mjj fe.) j ' \ v g|g} ' ^s, k * C#(& ><> pro- K & proton / - V 7 og?r., fitf contain a -void , ^ n< a" O'-/ ' v- ,- > '-y? - "^ii" '^V