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WAR SI Foraging in E After the battle of Knoxville, the army of General Longstreet marched up the river in the direction of the Virginia linc and spent the remainder of the winter among the mountains, near thc eastern border of the State, where wc lound l o ;d supplies abun dant, especially bao >n, which .seemed to have been thc specialty of tho.se farmers. The Yankee cavalry had followed us, a short distance, from Knoxville, but had abandoned thc pursuit and left no forces in those mountains to oppose us, so wc engaged quite extensively in the business of impressing bacon and other supplies, not only for our own consumption, bot for shipment to other departments of the army. I accompanied one of those foraging ex peditions and have been thinking that perhaps an account of that part of our service might bo interesting to tho great modern army of war story readers. Our party consisted of a commanding officer, Captain White head, eight teamsters with wagons to haul tho bacon we might capture and sixteen armed guards to protoct the party from attacks of bushwhackers who were supposed to be lurking in those mountains. We were very un popular with those inhabitants, and there were no demonstrations of wel come extended to us. A considerable proportion of tho pe pie were disoiples of Andy John f-'Mi and Parson Brownlow and sympa thized with the Yankees; the heads of some families we visited being in the Yankee army, and the business we were engaged in rendered us unwel come even to those who would other wise have been our friends. Threats of armed resistance from organized bands of bushwhacker reached us oc casionally and although suoh an at tack seemed not altogether improba ble, we never encountered them. We were required to oall upon every fami ly in the territory assigned us, re gardless of the appearance of the premises, and we sometimes found large stocks of baoon in small houses. The news of our approach always pre ceded us and almost every family bad their meat hidden away, more or less seourely, before our arrival and would then deny having any. We became expert discoverers of hidden meat but at the homes of some, apparently well to do, families we failed to find any. We spent one night with an old bachelor, who lived with several ne gro slaves, in some old dilapidated log cabins, remote from any road except an old blind, wagon trail, so obstruct ed by projeotiug rooks, roots of trees, stumps and washouts as to render it almost inaccessible by wagons. He apologized and feigned deep regret, at being unable to offer us meat at our meals, but we saw a great many hoers -*-.__i_? _. " Ml TOIIUUD OIIQD tUVUU liiu {llouilooil, as well as cattle, horses and poultry. These and many other indications pointed to the probability of there be ing meat about the place, br?t" a most exhaustive search failed to locate it. Some of our men offered bribes to ne gro children for information about the meat, but they had evidently been well drilled for the occasion and gave us no clew whatever to the secret. We called upon one lady who had an unusually numerous family of daugh ters, several of whom were grown up women, and were exceedingly beauti ful. They met us with the sweetest smiles upon their faces and engaged ns immediately in lively and most pleasant conversations; and some of us >.were so fascinated by their charms, .we began to regret the necessity for mentioning our business, which, we felt sure would ruin all that good fel lowship. They denied having mea^ and explained, with great exactness, the causes which had deprived them of that very desirable artin'e of diet, but our search disclosed a considera ble quantity of hams, sides, shoulders, etc., buried under the kitchen floor, - and those sweet smiles and pleasant "words immediately gave way to frowns, "tears, lamentations and moanings that made the place hideous. We weighed out their allowance, 50 pounds to each member of tho family present, and a like amount for eaoh of half a dozen alleged absentees, loaded thc re mainder on the wagons, settled for it in Confederate money and went on our way. We called on one old lady whose son was in the Yankee army and his wife having died, tho grand mother had taken charge of the fami ly and home. She opposed U3 most (bitterly, and after our business was announced, she became very abusive, . denounced us as traitors, thieves and -robbers of defenseless women and vChiiL.v i. She refused to accept the .proffervi price of the meat we had taken a ii when the Confederate bills were thrust into her lap, she indig nantly threw them imo the fire and .burned .them, dedaring that the home [ORIES. last Tennessee. of her SOM, who was loyal to bia coun try, should not bc polluted with such tilth. On one occasion we had loaded thc wagons 'in the country beyond thc Chueky river and started hack to the railroad to unload, going hy way of the ford at thc mouth of the Chucky, We reached the ford carly one desper ately cold morning, and fuund the river about fiU yards wide and about four feet deep, lt was decided to crrry over only one wagou at a time and after it landed to start thc next one, and so on. After all except one had crossed over safely and that one had reached the middle of thc stream, thc very es sential attachment, known as the doubletree, broke and left the wagon stranded in the water. There was only one way out of that unfortunate difficulty and that was for the team ster to plunge down into the water, unharness the team, ride out, borrow a doubletree from another wagon, car ry it back and reharness the team. But before doing so he stood up in the wagon and indulged in a boisterous strain of profuse swearing. Ile cursed the doubletree, the wagon, the mules, the Confederacy, Jeff Davis and inauy other persona and things and then proceeded with his disagreeable task. A F Ult LOUGH. We went to Greenville to unload and as we entered the suburbs of the town we passed our own old 10th Georgia Regiment which was on a march and had stopped to give us the road. When we got to my own com pany (K) I was greeted in a chorus of voices, from comrades with tho very cheering news that Captain McBride had a furlough for me. During my absence an order had been received offering a 35 days' furlough to one ! man from each company and as the custom was in our company, all who had not been home on furlough, were allowed to compete for it through the chance game of dice. A friend won it for me and my furlough had been ap proved before I heard of the applica tion for it. I was kept so busy, ar ranging for transportation, passport and making other preparations for my journey, I had no time to visit Capt. Whitehead's party to bid them adieu or explain to them the cause of my sudden absenoe. Oe account of the suddenness and unexpectedness of my doparture the family had not been notified of my in tention to visit them, and I had ex pected to surprise them by entering the home among them unannounced, but when I reaohed the edge of the farm, I olimbed over the fenoe to take a short out along a pathway through the field, and my twelve year old sis ter, now Mrs. Delia Kimberley, who happened to bo looking in that direc tion; H?W and recognized me, although ' I was fully half a milo away, and had been gone nearly three years. The entire family went out to meet me and the scene when we met in that old field can perhaps bo better imagined than described. Even Aunt Chain, the old black mammy, the best old negress I ever knew, insisted upon putting her arma around me, after the whites had all taken their turn, and the general enthusiasm of the occasion forbade any resistance to the embrace of tho old mammy. I remainod away forty five days, instead of thirty-five, and that was beyond doubt, tho hap piest six weeks of my entire past life. My health was excellent and my appetite almost voracious with ample provisions for the full gratification of all its cravings. Thc weather was lovely and I was at peace and in love with all mankind except the Yankee soldiers, and I in dulged in very little hatred towards them, during those sublimely happy . days at home. Thc adult population of that community at that time, which was the early part of 18G4, was almost exclusively female and every one I met seemed to act the part of a devo ted lover towards me. Invitations from would-be-cntertainers were all the time far in excess of my ability to accept and jnany very desirable ones were declined simply because of my inability to attend, in several different places at the same hour. But those happy days passed rapidly by and brought in their wake all too soon a sad and painful separation aud then there was cnaoted another scene that reminded me by contrast, of the one in the old field at tho time of that happy meeting, a scene in whieh all eyes were suffused with bitter tears and all hearts rent with pangs of an guish. On my return fi thc army, I found them in camp at Bristol on the line of Tennessee and* Virginia, from which point we soon afterwards went forth to rejoin the army of Gen. Lee in Virginia, preparatory to the mem orable contest against Grant's "On to Richmond" campaign. A Story of the Missouri Monler In the Sixties. The uauie of Clark Quantrell in the year3froui 1801 to 1805 on the Mis souri and Kansas border struck terror into all who heard it. Quantrell was a native of Uhio who went to Kansas at the time of tho war there between thc Free State men and thc slave holders. Quantrell took no part in those troubles, but when the Civil War broke out. and a reign of blood shed existed on the Missouri and ^ Kansas border, and in which the law less Kansas Jay hawkers took the op portunities offered by a great war to wreak revenge on the slaveholders, against whom they held grudges from thc old Kansas -troubles, they mur dered Quantrcll's younger brother. Ile then raised a baud of guerrillas and worked bloody vengeance upon the murderers. In the course of his operations he attacked at midnight, Aug. 25. 1803, the town of Lawrence, Kan., held by thc Jayhawkcrs, who were organized guerillas fighting on thc side of the 1'nited States. With H00 men he stormed the place, with a loss of 80 of his followers. He killed lill and wounded 581 of the occupants of the place, and burned it to the ground. This was only one, but .the moat de structive of his raids. Recently, at Independence, Mo., the survivors cf Quantrell's band held a reunion, at which some seor's of them were pre sent. They are all old men and are respectable citizens. Interviewed by members of the press, they one and all declared that he was a man of mild and gentle disposition, and was al ways. One of the survivors, James M. Campbell, who lives in Kansas City, Mo., was interviewed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He said : "Quantroll was the smartest man I ever knew. He had the qualifications of leader ship born in him. He knew just what to do in every emergency. In oamp, he was gentle and sometimes jqlly. He was kind to his men and to prison ers whenever be had any. Quantrell never got excited, not even in a fight. He was cool as a oucumber. They oalled him reckless, but he never un necessarily endangered the lives of his men. And he could shoot-ah, how that man could shoot ! I was with him regularly for nine months, and off and on for a year and a half longer. His men did not fear him, and there was only one offense for whioh he said he would have one of his followers taken out and shot. Quantrell gave orders that any member of his troop who insulted a woman should be shot. He said to us : 'No matter how muoh a woman may abuse you, take bes" abuse. Lot her talk and scold, but say nothing to her in resentment. Wo are fighting men, not women. No provocation will excuse an insult or baok talk toa woman.' And you will find," oonoluded Campbell, "that no member of Quantrell's oommand was ever accused of insulting a woman. There were men on the otherside who were different/' History, as it is written by the men on the other side, oalls him a blood thirsty demon, a merciless marauder, a vandal, a desperado at the head of a band of savages, plundering and nlftiightprincr under the COVerof a ?tato of war. There has never been a more ferocious and fiendish warfare, than that waged by the Kansas Jayhawkers on thu Missouri border, and Quantrell and his band were its products. They were Missourians organized tn defend their own frontier, and to retaliate upon their murderous foes. "That the people of Jackson County, the starting point of the Quantrell men and one of the centres of their opera tions, regard these survivors as heroes of war is not to be doubted," ?aya the correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. Is akin to insanity. Many a woman re alizes this as she lies awake hour by hour, peopling the darkness with phan toms, starting at the creaking of the bed PjlV^ "^^^^^^t^l Kans, and aeon j ' cause nervous I 1 ? ness and sleep lessness. It is the best of ton.^ and in vigorants, nourishing the nervis, en couraging the appetite and inducing refreshing sleep. Irregularity, weaken ing drains, inflammation, ulceration and female weakness are perfectly cured by "Favorite Prescription.'' ? My wife was sick lor over eight years," writes Albert H. Fuite, Esq.. of Altamont, Orundy Co., Tenn. "She had uterine disease and was treated by two physlcans and got no relief. At last I read about Dr. Pierce's medicines and wc de cided to try his "Favorite Prescription.' 1 sent to the drug store and pot one bottle and the first dose gave ease and sleep. She had not slept any for three nights. Delng sure that it would cure her I sent Tor five more bottles and when she had taken the sixth bottle she was sound and well." Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets should be used with ? Favorite Prescription " when? 1 ever a laxative is required. j ?juaotrcll wa? shot down by Federal' soldiers io Kentucky a month after the surrender of Gen. Lee, and he I died from his wounds in a hospital at Louisville shortly afterwards. The shocking and horrifying facts of the Civil War appear to be .forgotten, and our people are only concerned with the barbarities perpetrated in the Philip pines. The Missouri border in 18*31 G5 was the scene of events which make the cruelties enacted in the Philippines pale in contras?. The .'(lan Who Shaves. Shaving is practiced by nearly every man, but is properly done by very few. If you aro often shaved by a barber you should select one who does not rub his hand hard over your face, as many do, to ascertaih whether you have been closely shaveu, says the Baltimore American. This will irritate the skin very easily and make lumps appear. Very often, after a barber has gooo over your face once with a razor and is finishing the shave, he will ?give your face an upward stroke with thc palm of his hand, using pressure between each stroke of the razor, to see that no patches of beard remain. After a shave you should be very careful to keep your hands away from your face, as the skin is more tender then than at any other time. If you shava yourself you should have your razor honed at least three times a year to keep it in good order. You should also have a good strop, vith a canvass part, for rough sharpening, as well as a smoothing strop. In buying a strop it is well to have a barber select it, then you will be sure to get a good one. Before shaving it is well to lash the taoe with soap in warm water, as there are apt to be germs in the least little bit of dust or anything that might be on your face. One cannot be too oareful about this, for a out of tbs rszcr, cvsa 20 small, is apt to make an ugly sore if the ski?? is not perfectly oleau. A wash before shav ing will also soften the beard. All men should learn'td1 uso both hands in shaving. Many 'attempt to shave both sidos of the faoe with one hand and usually succeed in outting themselves. In faot, many men out themselves whenever they attempt to shave. This difficulty could be over come if both hands were used. The ' faoe should be well lathered with , shaving soap, a kind that loes not dry quiokly, the lather should be well rubbed in the beard with the tips of the fingers, wbioh softens it to suoh an extent that one does not have to contend with the razor pulling, which not only hurts severely, but irritates the skin. ~ D In cold weather the skin should be thoroughly sponged in warm water, and afterward in cold water, whioh keeps it from beooming ohapped. Be fore the faoe has been dried a little witch hazel should be rubbed on. Then, after wiping thia off, taloum powder is good. In ease of a out it ! is well to have a pieoe of alum at I hand, whioh, if you dampen and apply I to the out, will olose it up quickly, that if small, it cannot he seen. After you have finished using the rasor it should be washed, then dried until not a damp spot remains, then sharpened on the strop before putting baok into the oase. If these direc tion are followed you will find that it is not suoh a disagreeable ordeal to go through with in shaving yourself. You will also save time sud barber's bills. If your food doe3 not digest well, a few doses of Prickly Ash Bitters will set matters right. It sweetens the breath, strengthens the atomaoh and digestion, creates appetite and cheer fulness. Evans Pharmaoy. Adulterated Liquor*. One of the moat baneful thinga I know anything about," said a man who is fond of h.s morning's morn ing, "ie the evil of cheap and adul terated wines sud liquors. Really it would be interesting to know how many frauds are praotieed by the men who are engaged in retailing the va rious brands of wines aol whiskies, and eordials and beers and thinga of that sort. It would be more inter eating, and yet more shocking, to know the vast amount of harm which results from thc sale of adulterated wines, cheapened whiskies and other refreshments, which are sold over the bar. Recently there has been a con siderable- amount of talk by experts with reference to tho use of wood al cohol. There is really no telling to n-hat extent wood alcohol is used in wines. Take many of the wines that aro brought within thc r jach ot tho poorer families, and in nine cases out of ten it will be found that some pro cess of cheap and injurious adultera tion has been resorted to in order to preserve thc taste and solor of the wine while bringing it within reaoh of the poorer classes. If physicians are right in what they say about the bad effect of adulterating ingredients, then it would not be safe to even guess at the awful consequence of using theso liquids. Wood alcohol is rank poison, and experts have been able to definitely determine its effects on the human system. How many men have been sent to the insane asylum on ao flwint of the unconscious nae, if I may put it in thia way, of these impuri* ' ties? How many men have been sent to jail for the commission of some a;t of violenoe while under the orazing influence of these cheap liquids? One dare not make a guess. It ia no bad estimate to say that the use of oheap and adulterated liquids has furnished a heavy per cent of the inmates of asylums and jails. Pure whiskey, and pure wine, pure liquids generally of the intoxicating kind, are bad enough. They will disease the mind and body soon enough if used in excess. What shall we say of the excessive use of oheap adulterations? One's hands oan simply be raised in holy horror."-New Orleans Times-Demo crat. - A Kingham County (Kan.) farm er ia growing a row of corn a little more than twenty-five miles long, for no other reason than to be singular and extraordinary. He commenced in a fifty-acre field and went round and round in a oirole with a lister un til he had planted the whole in a sin gle row, whioh commences at one of the edges and terminates in the mid dle. 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