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9 im KILLING OF CALVES WRUNG VIEWS OF MB. J. W. TWITTY. I Our Venerable Georgia Correspondent Writes of Various Matters, Baseball, Soft I>rlnks, Etc. To the Editor of The News: i What about killing calves? Iu my last letter I had a word to say on that subject. The object was to advise against the aluiost universal practice of butchering calves for market. The more I think about the matter, the more convinced 1 am mai n wrong and should not be persisted in. Now if prices of be??r ruled as they were 15 or 2 0 years ago it would not be so bad (would be wrong in that case) but as it is, it should be viewed as a crime. 1 hope that the far- | mers and cow raisers throughout the country will turn a leaf at this point and not allow their calves butchered , up as the practice is or has been ior years. It might be suggested that 1 am on a point out of my line and consequently incompetent to advise. All I ask is a consideration of the subject and if there is not good sense ! In the matter brought forward, then heed uot the suggestions. 11 The election for sewerage passed j off quietly and developed very little opposition to the bond Issue. I am glad it so turned out and feel sure 1 the town will never regret its action. I am prepared to credit Charlie Jones' manly stand for the success of the enterprise?he is a chip off the old block. If allowed to do so I will have something to say on soft drinks, moving pictures and baseball. I want to create a sentiment against the supporting or patronizing the . three things mentioned. I, I am perfectly satisfied that all , are to be condemned. Some months ago 1 intimated that my opposition (it was known that I opposed the (' game as conducted) to baseball u ?? f.irtJior Iireod. but I WUUUl IIUV 1/c iu. vUv>. take that back and Insist that it is wrong and should be discontinued. Of course I would not oppose neighbors, at a proper time and place, enjoying a game, but to travel miles, j Incur considerable expense, very often teams disagree, fall out and quarrel, abuse the umpire and worse than all betting (gambling) on the Rame. It is such a temptation to boys along this line that it certainly ought to be condmened and stopped. I condemn the moving picture craze because it is so fascinating and our people put in too much time and money attending its exhibitions and no profit whatever in it. I What shall I say about soft drinks? My, my, our people have gone wild on the subject. We blame old topers and claim they are on dangerous ground, and so they are, but let me tell you, my dear reader, that if there is not a check to what Is called soft drinks?Coca Cola, etc. ?the country will certainly suffer. It is admitted that at least some of these drinks are injurious and jeopardize health and the quantity consumed is marvelous. The amount paid out for the stuff is immense. Unlike the old fashioned grog shop. ' patronized by men. women and children are crazy about soft drinks and are allowed to keep tanked up day after day. Let the preachers and persons of influence talk it through the country. This trio of evils is like country. This trio of evils is like Tlanquo's ghost, I fear, and will not down, but I am fully convinced that the country would be much better off if baseball, moving pictures and soft drinks could be relegated to the rear. In a late letter to The News, I ex-1 pressed a desire to know B. P. Adams' ancestors and my old friend, i W. G. A. Porter, promptly gave me the desired information. I am un- ' der obligations to Major Porter. Ves, I know Aaron Adams well and ; intimately. He was a good man, unasKnming and had a good war record. | H. F. Adams, his son, as I thought and believed, is a good citizen and an honorable gentleman. R. E. W. gives your readers a nice i, letter from Gettysburg. I am not , sure that the gathering there (Blue ] and Gray) proved a success in every particular, but I must believe that the two sections are in fuller sym- i J pathy with each other. I was shocked this morning to note the death t>f Ed Allison. I regarded Ed as one of our best men. There ] was nothing about him little or un- 1 , crentlemanly. Peace to bis ashes. . I am sorry E. D Smith failed to , reach Kershaw at the hour appointed but I hope he had a crowd and made ' a good impression. . A few days since I got a nice letter , from R. D. Runlap of Clarksvllle, | Ark., who has recently visited your , city. He is a son of Jeif Dunlap. who was well and favorably known to all i the older citizens about Lancaster I J court house and the upper creeks , The young man (R. D.) was delighted with his trip to the old home of ! his parents and says lie has made | many trips but never got as much pleasure out of any as this old home ! trip. His father. It J. M Dunlap. was a good citizen and soldier. Young Dunlap is related to the Cas- i keys and Nelsons, many of whom he met on his recent trip. It appears that he is in the stock business and I presume Is doing well. His father knew bow to make a dollar and how to take care of of it, too. At the proper place, in this letter, I forgot to mention the fact that a large majority of the governors in this (U. S.) country favor Sunday games of baseball. It ought to shock the country to know that friends of the game have such bight (co re -*?'4 r>nf it certain RliriiKu f ly a gross desecration of the day and shows to what extent our people are out of the line of duty. I did think I would Introduce and criticise modern dress, such as Is worn by a certain class, but I am not posted and cannot Impress and condemn the fashion (so-called) as it deserves to be. However, I will call attention to the many strictures emanating from the preachers and our best people. These things ought to be altogether sufficient to cause the devotees to abandon and pro< 0 uounce against the pructico. Such f~ apparel in public is to be condemned and it is hoped that it will be and that it will be left off?narrow J skirts, etc.?let it be so. Day before yesterday (Sunday) I.H attended church the first time since the unfortunate accident. It de-'. _ manded a walk of near four blocks, .V aided by crutches, I made the trip j without much fatigue. The brethren ' (and sisters) seemed glad to see me and manifested much concern in my . behalf. I am not quite so well as I ** hoped to be. During the day my feet 1 would swell more or less and cause " some pain and concern. I hope the ' n new symptoms will not prove serious. 1 aJ It is quite warm here now and somewhat oppressive, hut like tern- Jn perature from every point of the 1? compass, therefore, we should not complain. Crops are reported good 111 in this section, especially caute- e< loupes, melons and tomatoes. It just now occurs to me that this letter is about finished without men- i Honing the name of your governor ?' (Ulease.) I must say he has got his ly foot into it touching thu appropria- h< clou for the military encampment? tc so acting that the government at Washington refuses your state her di pro rata share of the funds she is en- fc titled to in the premises. Still give ni him rope and let him hang himself, Kind words to all friends and rela- fa fives. Yours truly, i tt J. W. TWITTY. ) rc Valdosta, Ga., July 15, 1913. |l< , h< ol One on (lie Editors w it Ueorgc Fitch. I ^ An editor is a tirea, nervous man, who decides what shall go into a st newspaper and explains why it got in j)( afterwards. j The editor works upstairs at an antique desk entirely surrounded by old papers, and produces the results (j( which enables the business manager a] 10 sit down stairs in a room fitted up , with mahogany furniture and a Per- r~ stun rug and to respond to toasts at great banquets in solemn state and dress suit. It is the editor's duty to feel the ? pulse of the world and hold the A stethoscope to business; to assist at | the birth of history, to translate the , present, refuse the past and arrange P the future; to illuminate ignorance. reward merit, put the spotlight on villainy and the pulmometer on re- , form; to make statesmen and dessl- j ; cate demagogues; to elect presidents, j crown heroes and secure bigger sal- w aries for baseball pitchers; to act as j an alarm clock for public opinion, as an elevator for political candidates n, and as a goat for every man who , ( says something in a careless mo- ' j ment and who repents later by de-'_ daring that he was misquoted; to ' w embalm truth, annihilate error, to bring the national tear for great misfortunes and the national laugh at tt great foolishness. For doing all this (M some editors get as much as $200 a tj month. , u An editor can lower a tariff, head . off war, harness the wrath of the J.j whole people and raise a million Jol- j lars for flood sufferers. And some editors are so powerful that they can t) raise their own salaries $10 a week. n Editors are seldom praised, but jj they do not tnind that. If the red- , faced man who is seeking an editor fails to find him and has to lick the ? -j"? ?? ...?ii r?' janitor lnsiean, me t-uiim In satisfied with 1!fo. Kditors do not often ride In auto- ( mobiles, and If they save any money n' the business office feels a.s cheap about It as if It had paid too much for printer's ink. Kditors would he J* the wisest men In the world but for .Jl one thins?they remain editors. i Some men are horn editors, hut a more die at the job. ; K' I al in The 11 ;i i> p v Man. >< ti w Edgefield Chronicle. . n< 1 tl The happiest man in the world I? :.. rhe common, even- day chap who makes his owr. living, pays his own . | bills and has the respect of his , neighbors. He saves a little money ts he noes along, but doesn't try to ^ set a corner on his local output and le is not a slave to ambition or so- f icty. Ifnever expects to wear out lis trousers in the senate, and when ,i; ie glides out of l?ed in the morning j jfj le never wastes any time to pick out '-s lie righr tint of socks, suspenders A uid necktie that will blend with t.heip1 teneral effect. 1 _ lie only wears a hfgh collar when cj ie feels like it, and when his pet corn I a) >egins to Jump, he jerks out his ; ' Knife and cuts a four inch gash in = the side of his shoe and nothing is ' ^ -aid about in the local paper. Re I never has to sit up at night to poultice his conscience. He believes in t the doctrine of live and let live. When he encounters one or the needy he doesn't stutter with his pocket p hook. The plain plug of a man is hnrmv because be is satisfied, and lie doesn't spend half of his time yearn- | ing for something which his salary H will not permit him to hay. (live us a more plain men and the world will Le i h better. n S Pleasing tlie Bnbv. I ri It was a steamy, cultry, stocky | li afternoon in August, and the Mazing ! V sun beat fiercely down upou the I t< pavement. All the world was In i h shirt slaves, and the "counter skip- i C per" leaned somewhat flabbily e against his goods. Two ladles enter- j ed his store and In the arms of one , h there basked a crowing Infant. g "Can you," the lady said, "can you . I please show us some rugs?" jy "Madame, I can," he answered, s And he did. Boll after roll he spread v before their eyes The perspiration g rolled down his cheeks. He gasped, c he tottered, he staggered. At last? t "Don't you think," said one, glanc- j r lng at her watch, "that It Is time to a leave?" jl i "Not quite, dear," said her friend, je patting her Infant fondly on the i cheek. "We've loads of time to j spare to catch the train, and baby I so loves to see him roll them out!" a I ' 4 THE LANCASTER NK The Ignorance Th card's Dairyman. In a rather remarkable series ot tters, "Touching Unrest, Cause and emedy," by William M. Babbatt, e find the following reflections upl the question of human food, parcularly as relating to the milk suply: "Briefly speaking advisedly and ithout reservation under Christian lie, there is not a spot, where, in jverty or affluence, during the first ul important years of their lives, lildren are started properly so as to aKO neauny men or women, in rav nig experience, I am sorry to say it, have not found a woman, and there re few, if any, men, truly acquaint1 with all that pertains to the prosit food obtainable for the rearing [ children, for the rearing of man. "For example, in 1895 upon my rrival at a town which is universal- ' credited with being in the very part of science, 1 crossed the street ? gain a view of what is said to be rchitectually as perfect a catheral as there is in Europe. I soou lund myself in the midst of clergy- i en and priests, who had come from ' rery quarter of the globe. Being imiliar with the building I soon reirned to the court and sat down to >lls and tea. Upon paying the bill HO cents indicating the class of atel) just across from my table cans I ! milk were being taken from a ass of garbage in a covered van ith the inslgna of the emperor on Unlike the remainder of the visl >rs 1 ucguii invuHUK.iiiiiK me cuuui- | ons of the people living In the seven | rests under the shadow of the j autiful cathedral. Being familiar, J was not surp 'sed to find that of j tery ten born, there were during | le first twelve months four or five j paths. While these percentages are I liove the average, they, or similar I The Real Reason for ugusta Chronicle. Possibly the most oft repeated hrase of the present day is "the Igh cost of living," and if you ask le average man or woman what it leans lie or she will immediately belli to talk of the terrible cost of livig nowadays, and of how the luxues of the table, house rent, servants, ages, and everything is so much igher than it used to bo that life is fearful struggle, except to the Lulti-millionaires. People have talk1 so much about it that everybody ates to oat?dreads to keep house -and feels oppressed with the awful eight of this cost of living! But they would study the subject earelllv they would find out that the J ouble with the expenses of the av- ! rage household is not that this and , nit is a few cents higher than it sed to be?it is because people's andards are higher and their deres greater to a large extent than i former times?because what were ixuries to our grandmothers or even > our mothers are now considered ecessities to the present-day houseold. Then another reason is because the merican woman, especially the outhern woman, knows so little bout household economy?houseold economy in both it literal and lore extended meaning. As for lings costing more, while it is true >me things cost more, others cost >88, clothes, for instance, can be ought much cheaper if "meat" is igher than four years ago. Certain rticles of food like canned goods st cheaper rather than higher. All >rts of ready-prepared foods, cere Is, and so forth, are now on the mrket that were not known some !?ars ago, and so the expenses eat lemselves up. The trouble is, as as said above, the housekeeper does ot try to see how she can overcome le advance of prices along some , nes Iry substituting other things-? >w women take the trouble to even ivestigate the prices prevailing at liferent stores to find out if she >uld get better prices somewhere se they simply "follow the line of ast resistance," and phone to some ore where they have shopped be?re order what they want without iking prices, and then when the ills come in wonder why everything so high, and complain bitterly of le present cost of living! Almost rery store has some specialty where certain class of goods can be pur- ' nasod cheaper than at other stores, ; lid every store has also special sale IVCKSS OF A HliIM> PHYSICIAN I i in I From llirtli, He Studied Mcdi* cine and 1'assed fvxaminat ion? Makes Diagnosis bv Touch. .. nainain itecorn. As it Is well known, the most won- j erful deaf, dumb and blind person ving is Miss Helen Keller, whose lertness of mind and perserverance ave caused her to make such relarkable accomplishments despite er three-fold affliction since birth, t is now claimed that a rival to this emarkable woman has been found 1 Chicago In the person of Dr. J. , V. Bolton, whose appointment as afcendant physician at the tuberculosis ospital at the Dunning Asylum, 'hlcago, has recently been annonncd. At the age of 14 Dr. Bolton, who as been blind since Infancy, was raduated from the Illinois State lospital for the Blind and for many ears traveled all over the country elling typewriters, finding his way without assistance and making a Ami llvlnrr I.ator hu fttildlfiil merit. Ino, being the first blind man to ake the fall four years' coutho In nedlcine and to pass the Illinois eximlnatlon for medicine and surgery, t Is said that when he was graduatid from the medical college he could lame 500 of the 600 men In his class ust by shaking hands with thorn. )r. Boltcii Is now only 25 years old ind during the past few months has { : V\ S, JULY, 18, 1913. at Is Destructive conditions prevail everywhere. "Doubtless the largest percentage of university men, scientists and students of books is to be found in France and Germany. Yet in this vital question, to wit, normal milk production and distribution, while the world's most costly dairies present soino most unscientific condi- ; tions, it has been almost Impossible, | due to filth and stench, for tne wunout first covering my face with a | handkerchief, to quickly walk i throuRh some of the cow stables of ; reputable French and German dair- ' ies. For man's well-being, rather i than the intelligence which is indis- j pensable, this denotes the ignorance which is destructive. The same author makes the following statements which at least j challenge thought and study: 1. At recent prices, the entire produce of the earth would not I cover the cost of restoring the fertilizing elements taken from it. 2. The earth is not producing sufficient to properly feed and bus tain all its inhabitants. 3. At recent prices the earth's i production is insufficient to properly ; clothe and house all the people. 4. At recent prices the produce of the earth would not return a fair compensation for labor and for the proper maintenance of farm Improvements. 1 5. Prior to commercialism there was never relatively so large a decrease in the world's food produc- I tion, and so large an increase in the number of people in a state of hunger and starvation more especially since 1800. 6. This brings out the fact that, through and under the guise of philanthropy, they would make the pub- ! ' -- - ti a- I ?n,1 lie Nil IliM ItfVi.*, lllf 1UU1IU |iwi ifio uuu centralists cannot in any sense provide for a small fraction of the peopie they pauperize." High Cost of Living days, when prices are greatly re- j duced. Many and many a dollar f would be saved the average house- \ hold if the housekeeper would study . the advertisements in the newspapers and take advantage of special ! sales. But the two great faults of j the American housekeeper are her , habits of wastefulness; not dellbeiate waste, but careless or ignorant j waste, that amazes and horrifies a French housekeeper or any foreign- | er; and her Ignorance of the sub- j stltutlon of one thing not so expensive for another. The greatest com- ! plaint that housekeepers make is along the line of meat, yet, here ( above all other places, could dollars be saved if women knew more about how to buy meats, and what the dif- j ferent cuts can be used for. A ! French woman takes a cheap cut of j meat that costs less than half what j the usual cut bought here costs and i can make a more delicious dish than ! any piain roast con in ever no?sue j knows how to buy, what to buy, and how to prepare It after it is bought. Nothing is thrown away in the kitchen of housekeepers that really know what they should know and are willing to take some trouble?but here again that strange apathy or indifference makes her leave all that to the cook, or possibly she will say in justification, "Oh, my husband can't bear left-over dishes." That is because the housekeeper does not know how to prepare left-over dishes as they can be'prepare^ If any household that is today Si Terlng from the Increased cost of living would first of all find out if they are not requiring | more than in former times and running their households by much more j luxurious ideals than when they be- : gan housekeeping, and if the house- j keeper (whoever runs the house and 1 makes the purchases, whether a paid housekeeper, the wife or the hushand) would study where to buy cheapest, what to buy, and what to do with it after it was bought?and ' then would see that waste was cut off?the chances are they would find in a month's time that they were llv- ! 1UK JU?i? an luiiiiui tuiiij aim uu irnn mnncy than Ave y^nr* ago. The higher cost of a few foodstuffs, the few dollars more for rent arc not what is making It so hard for j the average household to live?it is the ever-increasing insistence upon luxuries? the great American habit of waste, and the ignorance of domestic economy on the part of the housekeepers or their unwillingness to take the necessary time and trouble to cut down expenses. examined 3,500 patients at the municipal tuberculosis hospital, less than 60 of whom knew he was blind. His diagnosis is made wholly by touch and he gives the exact temperature by feeling the skin and can give exact pulse count without the aid of a watch. This blind prodigy says he can take his raised type books to bed with him and read all night in the dark, thus giving him an advantage in siunying. 11 is nara 10 conceive how anyone blind from birth could attain so great a success In the profession of medicine. A Tribute to Southern Women. Edward Lansing CowJes, In Columbia Record. 1 Southern women, born to preside o'er our destinies, reared In the cradle of generosity, nurtured In the arms of eternal wisdom, gifted in grace, endowed with beauty, rich in refinement, priceless in their loyaltv, tender in their mercy, calm in their patience, proud of their virtue, Southern women! Ah, mighty have humble men become In the heights of their ambitions, for were not their rewards based upon a woman's love? In all the land no fairer women cast their sweetening Influences upon human kind than here. Southern women! The Impelling force j that moulds a genius from the common clay, inspirations for nobler lives and higher purposes. The Great Sculptor of a billion faces pays His tribute In the atmosphere of n roses, amid influences of Southern 0 valor, chivalry and hearts of tenderness that pulsate with the warm, red glow of animation from the well- V springs of eternal justice. No cloud are dimmed their loyalty, no doubt jvj Bre betrayed their confidence. Slow to love and slow to anger, quick to resent a stain upon name or purpose, gracious in demeanor, courteous in treatment, beautiful in expression, their love is their life and to live for you in the life you must live if you K( gain their heart. Treasure it, place ?l upon it every ounce of value In golden virtue of appreciation. Deal thoughtfully, soberly, well. Turn r your footsteps toward the goal of ' "her" ambitions 'til the day will come when you will occupy a statesman's chair. Listen to the music of her voice, the soft ripple of her w laughter, the songs 011 her lips from h#r heart and her soul, every human impulse Is for you. C? w di Helen Keller's Genius w p? U1 The Cleveland Star. la For twenty years the heroic and P" successful struggle and achievements Ji of the blind, deaf and dumb Helen G Keller, a native of Alabama, have c< been the marvel of the United States. A Deaf, dumb and blind, by unceasing bi effort and distinguished teachers, bi like the celebrated Alexander Bell, e< of Bell telephone fame, and other, fi she has overcome this triple hand!- ai cap and has learned to sing. tl She Is a genius that has triumphed b over every difficulty, laughed at ob- o stacles, has become the apostle of c< rnnH cheer and a noble insniration T to the weak and afflicted, for her tl book and success have won for her , Si a national reputation. tj Reading and writing with her sen- a slvitive fingers, and talking also to w normal hearers, "he has shown what h a plucky woman, ' 1 whose vocabu- w lary there Is no sl i word as "Fail," can do in life's struggle. It appears as If it were a miracle, ' H that this brilliant and resourceful If woman, c{\n write fc>ooks showing her <1 genius and is taking voice culture 1 w and learning to sing. Here Is a liv- t' Ing monument to heroic perseverance a< and a rebuke to the more fortunate A and normal people who accomplish so little in life. ?*' She has achieved one victory after ? another by many years of struggles ^ until this child of silence has made a her dumb lips to speak and sin?. C( To be a deaf-mute Is a double s] affliction, but this child of silence is K now taught to speak or imitate words ^ she does not hear yet she can see and N enjoy life notwithstanding this hand- C icap. The loss of these three senses, ^ sight, hearing and talking, is consid- ^ ered a triple and unsurmountable handicap almost equal to death. But d Helen Keller, aided by noble and b self-sacrificing teachers, had the w genius ror conquering aimcuities until she has made herself famous and 1 her achievements surpass the majority of younR women of her aRe G possessed of all their factultles. The h people's interest in this brave heroic w woman has increased and the climax wns reached when the papers said n she now sinps successfully. "Helen n Keller, the iivinR testimonial to the miracles of intellectual resurrection, ^ makes hope a duty, and despair itself a sin." ^ w K Tin* Silent (i n. t] y r Richmond Times-Dispatch. n The historic Runs that for sixtythree years have done duty at the ^ VirRinia Military Institute spoke for the last time, when upon the 50th anniversary of Stonewall Jackson's j death, they thundered their saluteH to their former commander. "Let _ this battery, which has known so . much of toil, like the sword of Jack son, rest, but not decay. In sacred idleness," was the order read to the corps by Commander Wise, and then Col. William T. Poague, of the Rock Bridge Artillery, who had commanded the guns In the War Between the States, and eight of the surviving gunners fired the guns for the last ' time upon the same parade ground ^ whence. In 18f>7, Jackson marched the cadets to the camp of Instruction at Richmond. "Venerable with age and honorable service," the guns tenderly have h been placed to rest about the spot where Jackson In fmmortal bronze surveys the Valley of Virginia, in 1 whose defense he waged a campaign n that earned for him glory that grows brighter and brighter with the years The silenced guns are rich In asso- ^ elation with him. A year after they f had been given to the institute by President Zaehary Taylor as an evi- ^ dence of his admiration for Its en- 0 dets, who were his personal escort jj at the unveiling of the Washington j monument there. Thomas Jona- s than Jackson came to the lnstitu- s tion, and, serving as Instructor in n artillery, usee tne guns ior nis worK ^ in that connection. They were a part n of the armament of the 'Itock Bridge e Artillery and one of them fired the j, first hostile Confederate shot in the Valley. They roared their defiance at First Manassas, when the Reliant ^ Bee christened Jackson "Stonewall." ? The caison of one bore him to burial. They were captured by General Hunter, of the Union army, and were taken to Washington, two years later to be returned to the Institute by . Lincoln's secretary of war, Stanton. They remained in use from that time f until their retirement, on serving as I the evening gun. Never silenced by the guns of the ' Invader, they are now by reverent i hands mounted to stand in eternal guard over the hills where sleep Lee and his mighty right arm, Jackson. 1 Silent for all time to come, they yet will speak from generation to gen- I eratton concerning their captain, ' who lived and who shall live again 1 in the shadow of the wings of i Jehovah. As a uenlus a inan ?r th* real thing if he ran buy his wife a $6.98 hat and r.n.ke her forget thaf it was an electric runabout she wanted. , -?: ? ACK TO GETTYSBURG IEVVS OF LANCASTER SURVIVOR ajor W. G. A. Porter, Co. I, 12th UeRlmcnt, McGowan's Brigade, Writes of His Recent Trip. d the Editor of The News: After fifty years has past and >ne, with a small number of the irvlvors of the battle of Gettysburg, >ught July 1, 2 and 3, 1863, by the d of state and county, our way lere, and back was paid. It would ave looked too bad not to have ac;pted this kind offer and not go and iok over the field where two of the randest armies had met and we ere a part of one of them. The fes of the nation for the last few lontlis have been turned to Gettysurg. The meeting of the Illue and ray was on that bloody battlefield, here fifty years ago they fought in eadly conflict on Seminary hills 1th over one hundred cannon minting over to Cemetery Hill, a ille away, where the Union army iy, with as many cannon, and more srhaps, pointing to Seminary Ridge, illy 1st the battle was begun. Mcowan's South Carolina brigade was immanded in that battle by General bner Perrin. History may tell o! rave men and deeds done in battle, ut when that gallant brigade charg1 the enemy in the morning of the rst day from behind the stone fence nd routed them and drove them irough the little town of Gettysurg, there they were halted by their wn general, who said. "You have jvered yourselves with glory, rest." hat night when the roll was called le loss of Company 1, Twelfth outh Carolina Volunteers was thirr-seven killed and wounded. That wful night pf July 1, the heavy heels of artillery, the tramp of orses, the cries of the dying and ounded, made It a night of sorrow, >r many a brother was dead. July nd two armies, one on Cemetery [111, the other on Seminary Ridge, ly waiting. At day the artillery ? uel begun. All day long the guns ere roaring so awful that the earth embled for 20 miles around. The scond day passed with but little ghtlng in Hill's corps. The morning of July 3rd came, the Lin rose on thousands living but set n thousands dead, tot that was the ite of the Confederacy, to settle nd sure enough It was ,but what did nst? The following figures will , how: [tiled on Union side 3,155 [founded 14,529 li8sing 5,365 onfederate killed 3,500 [founded 14,500 lissine 13 As the sun was rising that awful ay little did I know that I was to e one in that large number to be ounded, but I was. While our ompany was ordered out to support tie sharpshooters, I was wounded in lie arm. then I bid farewell to lettysburg and made my way to a ospital. All who were able to walk rere allowed to save themselves, hlrh I did. How different was the leettng fifty years after. We were let by open arms. No booming of annon andl rattling of small arms, iften in shaking hands you could see tie tears rolling down the cheeks, ye whre shown nothing but kindness rhile I stayed. Yes, it was a great athering when I think of it, when early all the old soldiers had past tie 70th mile post and worn with ears. Before I close this sketch want to say to any that lay criticise the Gettysburg renion, had they been there in tiat great battle and the reunion tielr minds would perhaps be dlfsrent. And now before I close I lust give my opinion of General .ongstreet, this I hold everv man is ntitled to, and this is mine. There ever has been a better fighter nor a etter fighting corps that ever went n a battlefield than Longstreet's. Well, perhaps I have written nough for this time and thanking tie state and county for paying our 'ay to the greatest reunion the nalon has ever had and hoping the eunion of the few remaining Bolters yet living and nil their friends .. 'ill have a good time at Dixio July 1st. W. O. A. PORTER. It is better to pay doctor's bills tian to have the undertaker collect Is from your estate. 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