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2 Letter to Gen. Pickett's S It will be fifty years on July 1 were from j since the battle of Gettysburg be- alone. The di gan, and the anniversary Is celobra- his three brigi ted In the July American Magazine conspicuous 1 with an extraordinary illustrated black hair, an Btory of the struggle by Edgar Allen sent the men Forbes. The battle lasted three blood now gav days and, us everybody will recall, back. And ji General Pickett made his famous away to the i charge toward the end of the third Penibertou w< day. This charge concluded the under a tree, battle and indirectly determined the of the surreni outcome of the war. The following "Of all the extract from the article, which is ett's great clia herewith reprinted through the est human in courtesy of The American Maga- his letter to zinc, gives a dramatic picture of later became Pickett's charge, and of the final " 'You uev? events leading up to the great ca- it. They mov tastrophe that overtook the Confed- death as a b eracy. At this point in the narra- ward in line of live Pickett is just leaving Long- commander in street to go into battle. leading and c "There was one touch of human- Two lines ot' ity in the parting between Pickett were taken and Longstreet that has just come to came, light after fifty years. It humanizes " 'Ah, if I li the hero of that daring charge to two brigades, know that he was much in love. As have been lias idckett turned to go, he placed iu Seven of my c< Longstreet's hands a letter address- one was raor ed to a brown-eyed Virginia girl of my lieu who yet lives. And this was the wounded and postscript which he had written in nels were kilU the brief interval between the can- cer of my wh nonade and the charge: Cabell, was u: " 'Now, my daning, I go; but re- my company < member always that I love you with tion' all my heart and soul, with every "As the tui fiber of my being; that now and for- die, and the < ever I am yours?yours, my be- Pickett and loved. It is almost three o'clock, seeks the Chi My soul reaches out to yours?my From an emi prayers.' * heroic battle "Now the smoke of guns lifts like 'Light Horse a great curtain, and discloses to the ike hopes of eyes of the whole Army of the Po- With uncover tomae the sublimest spectacle of ward to meet the Civil War. slowly up the "And how pitifully cruel it was! remnants ot 1 The long gray line hud to cover al- tears washing wuHi a nine ul upeu ^ruuua ueiore iiv?u 1110 *-?<-< it could use its guns, but it was a,ld gives no within the range of the replenished within his br Union batteries from the start. fault,' he says "The Union gunners began on it save that \vh with solid shot; as the silent line "At midnlg draws nearer, they change to hurst- charge of th ing shell and shrapnel. The Vrigi- were gatherin nians fall like sheaves before the waited at til sickle, hut the ranks silently close, last the gray About midway the line1 is halted and appeared in tl dressed under lire. Then it moves Lee wearily d slowly forward in the face of a been a sad d storm of canister that literally and then leai mows great sections to the ground, in utter exhn But the shattered brigades preserve mindful of th their alignment, oblique to the loft, 'you are and sweep against the stone wall aj sajt] t'iie ( from which now come the cruel volleys of the infantry. , , . 8. "The high-water mark of the u> e*<laimcd. charge was reached by Armistead's , l0mma,l> brigade of Virginians. With his cap !'on,('VI 11 , ? upon the point of his sword to guide . Vi m"1 his men, like the Helmet of Navarre, VW'i1/' * ? he pressed far beyond the fence, ^ oflicei rushed the batteries, and fell dying task, a beside the guns that he had taken. away by an o So desperate was the fighting here ^in of the C< that twenty Confederate flags were so,|l exceeding captured within a space not a hun- daps of hi dred yards square. valley of his "Pickett's division lost 2,888 men " 'Anil he ' killed and wounded, of whom 1,11)1 and fell on hi: CLEAN THE SEEDS. [ oH< I Union Times. If You Don't Like Weeds Why Do heir in You Sow Them? ("hard times." In the current issue of Farm and that many pe Fireside a contributor shows how pessimistic, in; many farmers lit rally sow the weeds hard times it whic hthey will hate thoroughly and twigs of all tin light so desperately later. Follow- these wallers ; ing is an extract: he heard in tl "I have known farmers who sow- thing about it ad their oats year after year with- much attentioi out ever cleaning them, and then "times are han wondered where the yellow dock vation is ahea and other weeds all came from. If by this time t you wish to see just what there is in howlers are Ju your oats in the way of weed seeds ars, or that th< put in a scren just large enough so ->n. As a matU that tin- oats will not pass through scarce in this c the mesh. Now run a bushel or a man must wr two of oats through the mill, and a living It's t see what you find in your screen and will he so box. It is the same barley and other We believe no small grain Means are a staple lieved, that a crop in many sections, and are usual- strives neeo ly sowed with a common grain drill, "hard times' While they are the easiest, of all grains fo separate the weed seeds fror- where they are loft in they Men ot t ?i do more harm than in other Kdgefiehi Advt crops as they come <p in the row <)in great n where the cultivator teeth cannot generation is get tliem. who are willin "Clover seed is a particularly one, not waitii hard seed to clean, as If has to be :,p. going to cleaned very slowly in order to do exigency. In a good job and not blow over all the Walterhoro IT seed. The separation is very ditfi- statement was cult because the seeds ar?* small and t|H. whiskey of one size, requiring often to he county: "A* rut run through the mill several times (js in" the strei before the seed is right " attorney has agree to refus< cases. If the o The Proper Age l'or Marriage. would do "What is hie proper age at which it aeems tha to marry?" her of the V This question has become so good imp]lis, chronic in the worn, n's departments direction to w of the "yellow" newspapers that u pursue, hut statistician has gone to considerable courage to act trouble to collect data that will en- not say: "Let able the questioners to settle the their sense of subject for themselves These pre- directs, but as cedents con-'fitute the result of his fend men who labors: a blind tiger." Adam and Lve, \. Shakespeare would have a 18", lien Jonsoa, 21; Franklin, 21; ie bar and u Mo/art, 2f.; Dante, Kepler Fuller, j ])0 Advert,i Johnson, Burke, Scott, 2 6; Tjche Brahe, Byron, Washington, Bona- t "here ,n parte, 27; Ponn and Sterne, 28; Lin- Held bar who naeus and Nelson, :'! * Burns. 30; lated sum urn Chancer. Hogarth tml Pel 32, raPn who aro Wordsworth and l>a y, LI; Aristotle, 36; Sir William Jon and Welling- in defiance of ton, 37; Wilherforce. 3S; Luther, mo. ligation 42; Addison 44; Wesley and Young, Furthcrmor< 47; Sv ift, 40; Buff on, !>f>; Old Parr, Ie itate to tnl last time, 120. Walterboro n If Adam and Kve married before this type they were a year old. and the Vet eran Parr buckled with a widow at 1 "0. bachelor and tpli.sters may " . wed at any age tle-v like, and find ^ , > ,1 shelter under great names for either i,. ' rri early or late marriage. u <,.< -> THE LANCASTER NEWS, 1 METHUSELAH A YOl^iSTEK. weetheart I Higher Criticism Reduces His A?e to Less Than Eighty \ \ IMPH \rmistead's brigaade Chicago Tribune. A \ . ^i?raW?iCnoofiPnv?r How old was Methuselah? Nine ' ?"s< adie s Pas iMn? hundred and sixty-one years is the / fti h % a*e whlch> from ?ur earliest youth, id the o ce t.at we have been accustomed to assign Wa across the field of tho patrlarch. Scientific research,,.^ e the command to fall abroad, however, has reduced these ust at that hour, far imposiug Hgurea to 78% years. have southward, k,ant and The expert8 po,rt out that there rV(i i ?re standing together haa aiway8 existed a certain amount .....i arranging the details of joy^t, even among orthodox be- ,.s ?it ier ot \icksburg. Itevers, in the literal truth of the i descriptions ot Pick- uit>le concerning the great age to irge, that ot the great- which the patriarchs uttained. Many terest is the la est theories have been evolved to reduce the Virginia gu. who j^e Biblical records of this kind to i,,,,,,, ins wilt-; 'something near the allotted span of jY..-".! r saw anything like matl. J -"" ed across that held of j iias been surmised that in the soutb nttalion marches for- earliest times the mouther?the pe- ^et j battle upon drill, each ri0d of a moon cycle?was called a ..OUU) front of his command. ; year> Thus, Adam's 930 years of vioUy heering on his men ufe> caicuiuting a year at 29Vfe days, rece{, the enemy's infantry the length of a lunar month, works jjOUig i?and no support ()Ut to 75V* years. After the month buve' ! year there would appear to have jud lad only had my other come a five-mouth year, the limit of a different story would five being derived from the fingers frJm bed to the world. ... of one hand, it being remembered olonels were killed and that primitive people always used cjfjte' tally wounded. Nine the fingers for purposes of calcula- 'A 't(,v tenant-colonels were tlon. Then came the 12-montli ^voujt three lieuteuant-colo- year. \Vest< id. Only one field ofii I Ground for this rearrangement is ' ole command, Colonel alleged to ho given in the psalmist's ' . nhurt, and the loss of limit of life of three-score and ten c sfticers was in proper- years. Furthermore, it is maintain- * ' ed that, between the times of Noah . .. liult and the shouting and of David, no such extraordinary . . eye turns away from change could have taken place as to '. the bloody field he reduce the life of a man by eleven- M' eftain who has lost, twelfths. On the five-month year nence overlooking the basts, Abraham's 17 5 years shrink !' ground, the son of to 72 and Isaac's 180 to 74. ? ' Harry* I-.ee has seen It may be, it Is also pointed out, j11"' fc the Southland perish, that there intervened a six-month 1)et>u ed head he rides for- year, discovered by Jacob while lte< I'ickett. who comes watching Laban's flocks. Thus Ja- cattle slope with the pitiful cob's 147 years work out at about lmngj his broken legion, the 73. The 12-month year began with rest j the grime of battle the Egyptians, who saw that a com- range ks. Lee's face is ca'm plete period was made up of the two that j hint of the emotions "years." in one of which the days gia a east. 'It was all mv were longer than the nights, and in thous >. 'Now help me t> the other of which the nights were cattle ich remains.' longer than the days. rang! . . . ~ _ . It is a curious fact that the Chris- matu lit a cavalry officer in , , m ? e rough wagons that , s Klarat,for in due 1 , g up the mangled men {.)urs(i Qf Uim? Horh Hashona will "Vcrij le Generals to>nt. A. af Christmas time and then shipp outline ot Traveler ;UOh ,,p with the Christian year. citv. tie dim moonlight au i yjUs. however, will not occur for senici lismounted. This has :}() 000 g ay, General! he said, * . ned against his horse dippe lustion, seemingly uti- Our Excellent Intentions. I"?) . e other's presence. , ... ... , ? . I atu quite clear tliat one of our om much tatigued, Geaer- xcorst failures is at the point where, Ei,id tavalry officer having resolved like angels, we drop shinn 00 bad! It's too bad!' iiack into tiie old matter of fact life tie Then he gave the and do just what we did before, t>?- j soutli 1 of the day?and it cause we have always done it, and 'suit e wounded men who because our fathers am*, mothers I a heat vain and whose moans did it, all ot which mav he the vorv ..... 1 - * ?" ; 1 Hilt rere ot the Lost Cause reason vhy we should not do it. j as (0 went to his harrow- There is no station in life, ai d no far \ nd 'Traveler' was led place of one's home, where, if he tor b rderlv. Then the Cap- want to enlarge his life by caring Gf sc anfederacy, with his people outside himself, he may pUstu t sorrowful, drew back not start 011 a career of enlargement ; small s tent and entered the which shall find the answer to our breed Gethseinune alone question to be tha t the man who reaso went forward a tittle, enters upon infinite purposes lives most 4 f. (1)> . the intinite life. He enlarges his cattle life by every experience of life.? breed ted ward teverett Hale. of pU nd Times." aU ?c 1 II Put Vuur Money in Ileal Estate. ( j uch being said about ' Spartanburg Herald. grazii It's a sort ot liabi' ! The Atlanta Georgian is giving the > ople have N'uturaii- Uoung men of Atlanta a little talk ?? kny men would preach on real estate. And what is true of I dollars hung in t t. jn Atlanta is true in Spare? trees Kverv summer tan burg and in any other growing about hard times may (own in the South, ip land. One blessed The Georgian says: is that nobody pays "Some of our friends seem to be 1 to them. The cr? nee llessly alarmed because of a i. money is tight, star- stringency In the money markets in d.'' Everybody knows ten rope and America, hat these calaamity "Money stringencies are neither 1st plain, everhodv Ii- new nor startling. They were old ey have distorted vi.-d- in the days of Joseph. They come r of fact, money get- :ind tr0 a frightened bird, ountry .-very summer V\'al! street may l?e in the dold>rk or lieg or steal : >r rum -. but the rest of the country is ; bat way ev?-rywh>i ru.? . it g along in its normal way. Of to the end ot time course, the revision of the tariff is w, as we always lie- tu-mg some uneasiness, hut that, man who honestly too. wil! pass away, have little fear o: 4 tVe bid our friends cheer upAr.d 1 * we were asked for advice we would say to those who have money to Invest: I enrage N-ede.t , , r,.a] estate Put your money rtiser i. the ground' All wealth comes leed <>: this day and out of the earth! More great for- I .1 men of courage, men tunes have been made In real estate! g to stand >r fail al- ' v ?p 1 over ll?iiu in any other ig to see w bat others I ' '*'/ L or do ln a , ena n I 1 ..w! Buy In the right a recent issue of The place Hii> on the line of advanceess and San da r 1 Mu ?? *?>' ??> 1 development. liny only 1.. gl.nii.iil> > - much .is von enn enrrv situation in Colleton Then improve your property, and nor is going tiie roun- >'>" need have no fear of tin' fu ts that a prominent tursaid that lie woul i "The Hearst newspapers have ale to take blind tiger ays urged readers to buy real v ther attonerys at this estate likewise." "I' you i?u> right you fan not t tills particular im-ni f;,i: r<> increase the money you in- ' falterboro liar had a v,'sf his conscience giving 'Many people will tell you that hat course he should f'11 ~ r-l?at or the other part of tho lie was lacking tn >'*'ir ls not the 'real estate season.' upon n Why did he "tiood real estate has no season, other la-AV.-Y. io ' " xround is always hero. Tlio duty and their < >;, to buy is when you have the for me I will not le triune/ to carry your purchase?and bear the ear-marks >: v r" tliat >*ou huy only property ' Such a stand ae that ' :eTta,n to develop and imwliole-onie ? tt upon i'r ' '''* days go liny. pon the community 10 ,hl* >'ou nefMl not wor" Iser is pleased to state V >'' ^?re is assured." members of the Edge- ? . i;..; a shrewrt mnn to Rct rU:h will not for a stipu- , vpire his wrlortake the defense of . known to soil w uiskey j < hurnlierlniii's Colic, Cholera nn<l . i.i? .i i j i iMurrntM'u lusinooy. conn.i nil Every family without exception , these attorney \ > not should keep thla preparation at hand ' 'uch stan i openly during the hot weather of 'ho sum-1 ' la ryers of nier monthe. Chamberlain's Celle Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy Is i worth many times Ita cost when a Cold in One Day an? ,S *Lm0flt Cftrta,|l 10 be ' 7 needed before th summer Is over i ,hr It has no superior for the purposes for whi?h it is Intended. Ruy It it < now P'or sale by all dealers. I " JUNE 24, 1913. TFD MMIirV f ATTI F bile; the Kreat varl< I L<I* yllALIII LA I IIX ture grasses and leg urn grow luxuriantly ou all tOVR thk PAHTIIRI.?) because of the mild wint tov R 1 Hh I AHTUIU.S. If the western rauchm ford to pay southern far iern Farmers Advised Against prices for cows, pay the h dling Off Their Cows to rates to the West, stand ... ? .. . which naturally occur d< Western Kanchmen. ping th,n cattleX 8Uch loug .shlngtou, June 23.? During also bear the losses due t ast twelve months cattle buyers climatic conditions, been active in Louisiana, Miss- raahe money on them, v >i, Alabama, Georgia, and Flo- ^he southern farmer w purchasing cattle to be ship- owns 'be cattle as well a 0 the Middle Western markets lu? lands, and who needi .her canners or stockers. The uure upon the soils, keel > paid for canners during this on ^be farm and secure t 1 have been so high that thous- <;d profits? He can, if h of cows and heifers have goue bis cattle of ticks, increa e shambles which should have ciency of his pastures h retained on the farms for mixtures of lespedeza, I ing purposes. This is especl- while clover, or perhaps loticeable when the receipts of alslke clover, and redtoi ern cattle at the St. Louis mar- pasture lands; and by ra or the last twelve months are bays ami forage crops foi ared with those for any pre- bis stock and finishing the period of similar length. The k,,t. The surplus cattle its of Alabama, Mississippi, and fattened by feeding cotto iana cattle at that market ?" Kras?. or grazing field almost doubled duriug this per- beans while feeding sor trate; or they can be flnii ice the tlrst of Febuary buyers ''r>' '?t during the wiub the farms and ran (drees of the winter feeding 110 ro have been scouring the Gulf proved more valuable tl s in search of breWiug -stock. as the addition of it to I r years agt? this class of caattle ration invariably increase 1 have been scorned by the 01 the daily gains and re urn ranchman as breeding cost, thereby making grea , but with the shortage of cows The quality and quantity reeding purposes the ranchers which can be produced c lad to get these cheap cows, these cheap lands cannot :iich they will breed good beef by the high priced la The halfbreeds resulting from corn belt, whereas the c< mating make fairly desirable duclng it is far less beca animals. cheap labor. eral thousand cattle have al- The farmers of the ! been sent from these States therefore urged to discoi jxas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, wholesale shipping of tli tome of them are said to have cattle to other states, t< shipped as far as Montana. pastures of the cattle ti cently there were perhaps more ?n<l unloaded at one time in Bir- ? ham, Ala., for feed, water, and P gen while en route to the western ; ? .. \t, cl11* In ... . . and better cattle, but >s than have ever been seen in mo f,table to ;a|se ? place before in one day. Oeor- th are h uatlves Th ,nd Morida are sending out lncreased in fortility , ;ands of these native southern wMch t ' atftho returns when applied to ug from $15 to $2.1 a bead for cro d vegetable re animals. A shipment of 40 tho S()i, \h amount t ads of cattle was recently ... . , . clal fertilizer necessary from Oseceola county, ? ____ , , , . rr., "a crop will be reduced a da, 111 one day. They were ?i?i 1 , ed to Kansas via Oklahoma , jt , 1 1 .. 1 The cattle were dipped in ar- ' il solution before loading, to ,, aj ' tl ... V'. .. ,. * . ? % eradicating the cattle tic them of ticks, and were to be .. . . ' , , , rt, , , obtained from the Bureau d again 011 arrival at OklahoMty before going above tho Industry, Department o ral quarantine line. ture, Washington, D. C. lie people of the South seem farmers are also advised that these cattle are being the Department's county ed out as the number of scrub onstratioil agQnt8. are being reduced and the 1 will get better cattle as a roThey do not look far enough Guaranteed Ke/.eina 1 1. however, or they would see The constant itching, if Ihe shortage of cattle is HUdl rodnose rsisli onH c..use buyers to come from the fects of eczema, tetter, s Vest to buy these scrub cattle itch, piles and irritating reeding purposes, the chances tions can be readily curi uthern farmers refilling their skin made clear and si res with good cattle are indeed Dr. Hobson's Eczema Oin , for where are these good J. C. Eveland, of Bath, ing cattle to come from at a "I had eczema twenty-flvi nable price? The best and had tried everything, profitable way of getting good When I found Dr. llobso throughout the South is to Ointment I found a cui up the native cattle by the. use ointment is the formula re bred bulls, and by castrating clan and has been In usi rub bulls at an early age. ?not an experiment. T e South is especially adapted we can guarantee it. A1 ising cattle, because of tho long or by mail. Price 50c. ig season, the t-.ormous areas Chemical Co., Phlladelpt rap land, much of which is now Louis. Every Woman SI New Per/ mm ii i i,i j m Oil Cook It means a cool, clean kitel cooking. No wood to cutsmoke?no soot. M ile with 1, 2, 3 an Indicator marks amount ct a \m a or* mi i rkiiJLy/^rviy V-/ JL L Washington, D. C. (New Jers Richmond, Vau BALTIMC Norfolk, Vo. sty of pas- Notice of Election. \ ^ ies ,, whlcl} Wheras. one-third of the elector? ' and one-third of free-holders reslder^' . ing in Riverside school district, No. en cau at- Lancaster county, have petitioned Piers ?.??t the county board of education to f. order an election to determine the losses Whether or not the 3-mill tax now v}gt ship- levied on all real and personal prop' ai8lahces, erty |n 8ajd 8Ch00i district for school ~y: j ? a.change purposes shall be repealed. K and then We hereby order the truotees of I . hy cannot Bald 8Ch0ol district No. 7 to hold the ho already election on Wednesday, June 26, S t? . Kraz~ 1913, at Riverside school house, at i 3 hi ?m^J which election only such electors as j ) his stock return real or personal property for j nPTUS taxation and who exhibit their tax I e will free receipts and registration certifl- I se the eili- i cates shall be allowed to vote. I iy planting ; Rules for opening and closing of I >ur clover, J pQn8 to be same as in all general A iiuililntiic I ? it utvifwuu, elections. p over his A. C. ROW ELL, dsing more j. GARDINER RICHARDS. 9 r wintering V. A. L1NGLE, 1 in for mar- County Board of Education. I can the be ?. > ^ nseed cake , \f \ (A s of velvet Notice of Election. [ \ ufl ne concen- whereas one-third of the electors f \ M died In the aml one-third of free-holders resid- ' \H er months. jng jn Craigsville school district, jH ughage has No jn Lancaster county, have K tian silage, petitioned the county board of ed- ?> .he feeding U(.atir to order an election to de- ; is the size termine whether or not the 3-mlll duces their tax now levied on all real or perLter profits. SOual property in said district for i of silage school purposes, shall be repealed. >n some of we hereby order the trustees of be surpass- aaid district No. 8 to hold the eleouds of the tion on Wednesday, June 25,'1918, ost of pro- at Craigsville school hourfe. At i luse of tho which election only such electors as ' return real or personal property for South are taxation and who exhibit their tax ntinue this receipts and registration certificates lelr female shall be allowed to vote. Rules for > free the 1 opening and closing shall be the ck, and to , same as in all general elections. quality of A. C. ROWELL, if purebred J. GARDINER RICHARDS, y will not V. A. LINGLE, nlfo lsircnr pAiinfv Hnnril n f ITHnpotfnn will be far _________ ind to feed e soils will NOTICE, by the ma the?cotton To Teachers nml Trustees?Second matter into Notice. >t coiunier- You are hereby reminded that the to produce jaw now requires the annual report ind a more Qf 0Very teacher to be filei. in the iroduced. office of county superintendent of methods ol education witliin two weeks after South and the schools close. Several ba\e not ks may be done this as yet. Some teachers i of Animal have left their reports with the f Agrtcul- trustees and the trustees have fallSouthern to send them in. Please attend to this at once as I to consult am hound ly the same law to make farm dem- uiy report to the state superintendent. The penalty for failure to make the report is per above Is $26 and cancellation of certificate of temedy. teacher. , burning, Now unless the reports are forthreeable ef- coming in due time, I will be forced lalt rheum, to resort to measures that will bring skin erup- them. You will please (those who ed and the have not made their report) govern nooth with 1 yourselves accordingly and save me itment. Mr. j this unpleasantness. 111., says: | Also the county board offered at3 years and , tendance buttons to -ill chldren of All failed. j the rural schools of the county who n's Eczema made 90 per cent on attendance, re." This These buttons have not been ?rder-^ of a physl- j ed because only one teacher in thjC*^ s for years ( county has made a report, as to tbV hat is why number needed. Please send you^^ 1 druggists, reports and the buttons will be Pfeiffer given as stated, ila and St. A. C. ROWELL. County Supt. of Education. lould Own A ectiort n Tii Tum stove ten, less work, hotter no ashes to carry?110 d 4 burners; of oil in font. . COMPANY ey) Charlotte, N. C. )RL Charleston, N. C. Charleston, S. C. I MKMHMMrr ~w rvSMMUMBMBUMMMl