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Why Are Country Friends Shunned?
It is a strange thing to rhe that
so many town folks think country
people are not made of quite as
good clay as they are. It is a fact
about it. Why, I can not say.
When I was a little girl about
thirteen years old my two sisters,
my oldest brother and I used to go
to the city to study music. I re
member very distinctly three little
girls who studied piano under the
same teacher. Quite well I remem
ber the superior air those little
girls wore when around this little
country girl. I was very shy and
timid,very sensitive as most little
country girls are. I shall never
forget one little conversaticn we
had. They asked me why I did not
come to their graded school. I re
plied that I hoped to enter their
school the next session. They
smiled knowingly at each other
and then asked what grade did I
suppose I would enter. I told them
that I wanted to make the sev
enth. (They were in the sixth, but
I did not know it ) A smile of
scorn spread over their faces but
their only reply was “Umph.’
How ail these subtle smiles pierc
ed my childish heart. I look back
at it all now, and smile at the big
ness of it then.
The next session I entered the
Abbeville Graded school, I stood
the examinations but I never made
the seventh grade, for 10l they
put me in the eighth. My little
friends (?) of the previous year,
aud I still had the same music
teacher but they said nothing
further about my grade. The sec
ond year while there, two of these
little friends were expelled.
I shall never forget my first day
at school, I was from the country
—and, of course, curious. The
children all sniggled and stood off
and looked at me from afar. Not
one came up to offer me the hand
of friendship and welcome, I was
from the country and therefore
isolated. Oh, the agony of those
first few days. I wished many a
time that I could run back to the
country , lay my head in mother
nature’s lap and cry myself to
sleep.
But every cloud has its’ pilvery
lining. All these sinister smiles
and this aloofness were making
me a stronger and better girl, and
from that day to this I have es
poused the cause of a country
child, and have given my life to
uplift them, to broaden their hori
zon, to widen their vision, and re
move th> ir o’,stacles.
These few days had their effect
on my whole school career. I de
termined to show these children
that the heart and brain of even a
country girl could cope with theirs
and, when I graduated from Ab
beville Graded school I believe I
had proven this Some of my dear
est treasures today are recom
mendations from every teacher of
those duys. Just, the other day I
had a letter from one of my be
loved old Professors telling me
that he had read religiously all
that was said about me in the pa
pers. Oh, the joy of knowing that
after all these years I am remem
bered by the teachers of those
days.
One of the little girls of those
school days was at the convention
of the S.C.Federation of Women’s
Clubs recently in Columbia. I
bad given my address and several
of the club women were around
me, inviting me to come to their
cities to give this same address
and saying extraordinary things,
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when this little girl of the by-gone
days, a woman now, came up
and very gushingly told me that
she wa« proud of me —that I had
covered myself with glory, etc. I
said in my heart, “Ah, little girl,
I don’t need you now. I needed
vou in those trying days of 1898.
Why didn't you shake hands with
me then?” ISn’t it strange that
when we need help no one is will
ing to give it? And when we are
beyond need the world is willing
to help.
I wish people could be bigger and
not so pig-headed and narrow. I
wish people could learn that cost
ly clothes and gracefulness do not
always cover a pure soul or com
mon sense, that a man is a man,
no matter where he comes from,
that there are both great and small
people in the city as well as in the
country, and that after all true
character, no matter it is, is
the only thing that counts in the
end.
Kind hearts are more than coro
nets, and simple faith than Nor
man blood. And that when the
rich and poor, the city and coun
try folks meet together we realize
that the same dear God made us
all. —Marie Samuella Cromer, iu
Aiken Sentinel.
Jury List.
The following persons were
drawn to serve as Grand and Tra
verse Jurors for the August Term,
1911, by his Honor B. T Rawl
ings, Judge of the Superior Court
of the Middle Circuit.
grand jurors.
J S Alexander, G S Spell, W T
Jenkins, D R McArthur, E M
Smith, R A Peavy, P A McQueen.
W W Anderson, A M Moses, D T
Gibbs, J J Odom, W J Poe, G W
Harden T A Scarboro, W O Dono
van B F Wolfe, J L Sutton, N B
Jarriel, R A Smith, D W Branch,
J A Bland. M Anderson, S I Hus- .
sey, G L Johnson, W W Moseley, ,
P H Banks, J P Brown, G R Roun
tree, I E Aaron, W S Harden. i
TRAVERSE JURORS.
A A Darby, C A Garbutt, J R I
Pool, M Findlv, J F McSwain, S H
Stanley, L Brewer, J L Anderson,
U H Partin, T R Sharpe, J S
Banks, E LMcDildea,H L Lank
ford, H A Burk, F M Wilks, B D
Williamson, H T Thompson, A J
Mathews, W C Clifton, S C McCol
skv. C W Brazell, O M Glisson, S T
Hilton, K J James. F L Hardy, R
S Lanier, J W Robson, B T South ■
well, J T Page, S B Meadows, ,T T
Hilton, J M Meadows, S E Webber
J P Pughsley, V B Herring, M
Leader.
Citation.
GEORGIA —Toombs County:
To whom it may concern:—Mrs. Annie L.
Jones having made application in due form of
law to be appointed permanent administrator
upon the estate of the late Gifford C. Jones,
deceased, of said county, notice is hereby giv
en that said application will be heard at the
regular term of Court of Ordinary for said
Toombs county to be held on the first Monday
in August, 1911. Witness my hand and official
signature, this 10th day of July, 1911.
G. T. Mason, Ordinary.
Lible for Divorce.
In Toombs Superior Court. August Term 1911.
Maud Brown vs Joe Brown—Libel for divorce.
To Joe Brown, defendent: The defendant,
Joe Brown, in the above stated case, is here
by notified and required to be and appear at
the next Superior Court to be held in and for
the county of Toombs. State of Georgia, on
the third Monday in Aug. 1911, to answer the
libel for divorce in the said case, tn default
thereof the Court will proceed as to justice
shall appertain.
Witness the Hon. B. T. Rawlings. Judge of
said Superior Court, this Ist day of June, 1911
P. S. Hagan,
Clerk of S. C. Toombs County, Ga.
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