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i s.- ? HISTORIC OLD RICHMOND. 'rf A. H. Gibson Visits tho City and Recalls Interesting Events of the Past. rReoeivod too late for last week.] Richmond, Va., April 3.-Editors Courier : Well, here I am in Rioh ?mond, at the residence of our HOD, Walter Gibson, sitting at a second story window overlooking the majes tic James fiver, and looking out aoross Liberty Hill Park, wbiob lies just in front of where I am now sit ting at this writing. The view is beantiful beyond description, being opposite a bend in the river, from whioh point you look in a south? easterly direotion down the river for |ttiiBtance of three miles or more, Nkwn looking in a southerly direction an extensive view of the country be yond the James river greets the eye like a magnificent panorama, whioh includes the beautiful little oity of Manchester. Did I wield the pon of . i accomplished writer I might give a. interesting description of this ma oifioent soene, but as I do not, I lea\ r it to the imagination of your selves and your readers. The Con federate ?non um ont stands just on i the south i de of the park, aa |I best remember, ou *? epot where some big guns were plan ni in time of the war. Just forty years a^ * to-day *Rioh mond was entered by 1 rant's army, coming in on one side, while the Confederates were going out at the other. The scenes and tragedies en* acted in Riohmond that day will ^ vcr be fully written. Her citizens were overwhelmed with consterna tion and alarm, and well they|might be. It was yesterday, forty year? ago, that Gen. Leo's memorable dis P<Vvc.ii waa handed by an officer to President Davis while he was at worship in St. Paul's Episcopal ehuroh, conveying the startling in telligence that his lines were broken in three places, and that Riohmond would have to be evaouated that night. Soon the terrible news spread throughout the oity. I| send here with a, clipping from tho Times-Dis patoh, Riohmond, Va., April 2, 1905, which gives an interesting account of those terrible days. It-is as fol lows : The Fall ol Richmond. "April 3d is a memorable day in American annals, yet so swift is the march of events that the historic sig nificance of the day will occur to few persons. This is the fortieth an niversary of tho 'Fall of Riohmond.' It was in the morning of April 3, 1865, that Ecdoral troops entered the capital of the Confederate States. It was a day of groat emotions. Tho people of the South, her ragged, scarred and heroic armies and her impoverished people were saddened. The great, rioh and powerful North was elated. While Hames were sweeping through Riohmond, enthu siastic meetings were being held in all tho cities of tho East and West. In Washington it was a holiday. All fjtf offioea of tho government were closed. In New York one of the biggest meetings of all time was held. Rolls were ringing and orators wore voicing tho gleo of the North. The broken logions of Leo, magnificent in victory and magnificent in defeat, were falling back toward Danville, Appomattox was soon to follow. "Sunday, April '2d, was a quiet day in Richmond. Tho situation was nc more tenso than it had been foi 4feV>y days. President Davis was at ^OTV?CO in St. Paul's Episcopal church. An officer entered and handed him this tragic dispatch from Robert E. Lee : 'My linos are broken in three places. Richmond must bc evacuated to-night.' The news trav eled on wings through the doomed city. The Confederate archives were packed and shipped to Dan ville. Congress and tho Virginia Legislature left the city. Wagor * trains were rumbling through thi streets. Money in tho banks wai sent to Danville. Gen. Ewoll ir command at Richmond, orderod thai such stores of cotton and tobacco ai could not bo removed, should bo de stroyed. The City Council orderet that all liquors in the warehousoi should bo poured into the gutters. "At night the city was rod will fire. Some of tho fires wore though to have been sot by ruffians for plun A der. Arsenals and magazines wen if blowing up, sholls and small ammu nit ion wore exploding. Tho famou ironolad Virginia, tho Fredericks burg, Riohmond, Patrick Henry am other ships at tho Rooketta wer blown up. Fir? was seething through Richmond and Manchester. Union cavalry appeared in Main street soon after dawn, April 8. "Thomas T. Qraves, aide on tho staff of Gen. Weitzel, whose troops occupied Riohmoud, has written the following description of Richmond on ilr v fateful morning: " -As we approached the inner line of defenses we saw in the d'stanoe divisions of our troops, many of them upon the double quiok, aiming to be the first in the oity. A white and colored division were having a regular raoe, the white troops on the turnpike and the colored in the fields. As we neared the oity the number of fires seemed to fnorease. At inter vals there were loud explosions. " On entering we found Capitol Square covered with people who had fled there to escape the fire, and who were utterly worn out with fatigue and fright. Details were at onoe made to soour the oity for able bodied men, white and blaok, to as sist in extinguishing the flames. Gen. Devon's division marched into the oity, staoked arms and went to work. Parson's engineer company assisted in blowing up houses. In this way the fire was obeoked. There was no plundering by our troops. "Gen. A. F. Shepley was placed on duty as military governor. He had occupied a like position at New Or leans after its capture in 1862. Wo went to Libby Prison, but all the prisoners were gone. President Lincoln arrived in Richmond the morning of the 4th, having oome on Admiral Porter's flagship, the Mal vern. Mr. Lincoln visited the Capi tol and inspected the interior of President Davis's house." Richmond of to-day is not, but for some old landmarks, recognizable as Richmond of forty years, so great has been its improvement in that time, of which to undertake a de scription would be out of the ques tion for my feeble pen. H. A. H. Gibson. Mr. Kirksoy's Recommendation. Mr. Kirksey writes: I givo a positive guarantee with every box ot Rydale'a Stomach Tablets and Liver Tablets I sell, and have never boen asked to refund the money in a single instance. I have used these tablets in my family with best re sults, W. L. Kirksey, Morgantou, N. C. Rydale'a Tablets aro prepared by the Radical Romody Company, Hickory, N. C., who authorize evory dealer in their Sreparations to guarantee evory box or ottle of their medicino tboy sell. Wal halla Drug Company. Sleeping Garments. "It was not always so," said a manufacturer of sleeping garments, "but in every groat city nowadays practically every man wears when he goes Lo bed suitable sleeping clothes of some sort either night shirt or pajamas. "In cities probably 50 per oent ol the men wear pajamas with the ?no portion of pajamas worn continuing to increase. I don't like them my self, but undoubtedly they have theil merits. Pajamas, for instance, an handiest to wear in a sleeping car and they are a blessing to a mai who has to get up in tho uight t< tend the baby. "Rut though in tho greater citie practically every man nowaday wears Bleeping garments of BO tn sort, it is not so evory whero through out the country. There aro evory where mon whose occupations woul prevent them from wearing sleopin garments, men who must turn ii ready to get up at a moment's notict And there aro still great numbers c men, in smaller places and in remot parts, who have not yet learned th comfort and healthfulness of sleep ing garments. Tho same thing oannot be said c women. Women everywhere th country over, and in city and oountr alike, do woar night'owns, as the have long, if not always done. D women wear pajamas these days Well, some, but not many. "It was a little fad to wear thon for a time, and there aro some w( men who now wear them ; but the number is not large and it is n< growing. "While the uso of sleeping gai ments has thus boon increasing an extending among men, thore ha? boc falling into disuse a once common! used article of stooping oquipmon namely, tho old time nightcap. "I can Boarcoly imagine an y bod now wearing a nightcap in a city, man might get oold feet in a b oity, but not a cold head. "And so the nightcap, has, fro cities at least, all out disappeared -New York Sun. - Best Way lo Eal an Egg. Almost everybody eats eggs. There is perhaps no article of diet that is more commonly eaten io all countries than eggs. Hens' eggs are used more than any other kind, although some people eat duok eggs, goose eggs and the egg of the guinea fowl. Turkey eggs are not so often eaten ; they are generally kept for batching. Eggs uro said to be per fect food, the same as milk-that is, containing all the food . eloments necessary for the growth and mainte nance of the young ohiok, just as milk does for the young animal. While it is true, of course, that the egg does contain all the elemente neoessary for the young ohiok, yet it would not follow that these elements are in the right proportion for the sole nourishment of an adult person. That eggs are a splendid food is not to be questioned, but that eggs alone would furnish snffioient diet for a grown person is hardly probable. Eggs consist of prot?ine and fat, water and mineral matter. It is the prot?ine or nitrogenous matter that builds up and repairs the tissues of the body, while the fat supplies energy. The white of an egg is often said to be pure albumen, but tt also contains phosphoric acid and sodium ohloride or common sa!t. The yolk contai us the fatty part of the egg, phosphorus, calcium, mag nesium, potassium and iron. Eggs also contain sulphur, and this proba bly accounts for the dark stain left by egg8 on silver, the sulphur com ing in contact with the silver forming silver sulphide. Eggs are very easily digested. Raw eggs are more quickly digested than cooked eggs. Soft boiled egTs, roasted eggs and poaohed eggs are more easily digested than fried or hard-boiled eggs. The stomach will digest a raw egg in from one and a half to two hours. Soft-boiled and roasted eggs require from two and a half to three hours, while hard-boiled or fried eggs must be allowed from three and a half to four hours for digestion. Eggs furnish a good sub stitute for meat and we believe it would bo ftr better for the average person if eggs were more frequently used in plaoe of meat. Especially do they make a light, nutritious dish for breakfast, instead of the usual bacon or ham or sausage.-New York Tribuno. At a meeting of the executive committee of tho National Associa tion, in .Chicago recently, the State dairy aud food department reports were submitted, showing that 4fi?, 000 infants died in the United Str.tes last year from thc effeots of food poisoning. This claim was made by J. N. Ilurty, secretary of tho Indiana State board of health. Ilurty pro duces figures to show that 66 per cont of the total deaths of infants in America last year was duo to poisons administered in impure foods and deadly concoctic is placed on tho market hy fraudulent food manufac turers. Renewed efforts toward pro hibiting the sale of food products containing poisonous adulterations is to bc made hy tho association. Blame No One But Yourself if You Don't Cet Well When SicK. All wo can do Ja elvo advice. Of course that's easy. But our advice la really worth a little moro to you than most people's, for we ofter to give you the drat bottle of our medicine free, li lt fnlls to help you Wo could not afford to do this unless our medicine was good, Such an offer, on the wrong kind of medicino, would put a Dferobant prince in tho poor house. Dr. Miles' Nervine, however, ns years of oxperlenco hnvo proved, ls a medi cino that cures tho sick. Those whom lt cannot benefit-less than ono In ton thousand-we prefer to refund their money. 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M IL. M o MKuiOAli CO., {LABORATORIES, KLKIIAHT, IND. GO TO Ruskin Anderson, SENECA, S. C., FOR Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Notions, Pure Groceries, Clothing, Shoes and Oxfords, Hats and Gaps, Neckwear. ^General Merchandise,^ Furniture and Sewing Machines on Easy Terms and at Right Prices. Seneca Anderson, Seneca Rules for Character Reading. Addressing the Chicago Credit Men's Association recently, Dr. Chas? F. Roger, who, according to the Chicago Record-Herald, "has mado a study ot character reading for six teen years," laid down a number of interesting rules. Here are Dr. Roger's rules : 1. A man who presses his thumb on the back of your hand when shaking hands is liberal. 2. The man who never presses his thumb against yours when hand shaking is stingy, and the higher he keeps his thumb the stingier he is. 3. A man who shakes hands with the tips of his fingers ouly is not to be trusted-ho may pay one debt, but he will never pay tho second. 4. When a man gives you a listless and lifeless band, whioh yon have to shake, beware. 5. You can tell a liar as far as you can see him by watching his eyelids. If the eyelid cuts off the eye at the outside corner, drooping over it, the possessor is a stranger to tho truth and has only heard of veracity as a word in the dictionary. 6. The persons who show white white all the way around the eyeball are persons who prevaricate. 7. When a porson's head is bigger at thc back and sides than at the front and top, the animal predomi nates over tho intellectual forces. 8. In judging women tho essential things to be observed are the lips and eyes-pay no attention even to powder and rouge in your estimato of female charaoter. The woman with a thin upper lip-like a streak of red-is not only cold-hearted, but clammy. 9. If a woman's eyelid cuts off the eye at tho corner she is a liar like tho man with tho corresponding eye lid. 10. If she has white all tho way around hor eye she does not toll tho truth. 11. Beware of tho person, man or woman, who does not look you straight in the eye. If he or she examines the wall or tho sky or the dog, make up your mind that you are dealing with one who is insincere. 12. Courage and force of charaoter are shown by tho person who walks with his head held up in the air. Mortgaging Prospective Crops. William E. Curtis, the well-known correspondent of the Chicago Record Herald, has been writiug his daily letters from Alabama during the past few weeks and in last Thursday's paper he has an interesting letter on the cotton situation. His letter is very abie, and except in two or three particulars remarkably true to the facts. This paragraph is especially wise and timely : "Another curse, equally demoraliz ing, is the general aud habitual method of mortgaging crops ; tho ancient plan of living ahoad of their incomos, which has boen practiced by white planters throughout the South for generations, and has boon acquired by imitation by their negro tenants. It is the habit of a great majority of tho Southern planters, black and white, to spend their money before they got it, by mort gaging prospectivo crops to secure advances made by them by commis sion men to pay for their supplies and other expenses. This practice extends to the white and negro tenantry of the largo plantations throughout the South. When a man rents a tract of cotton land on shares (as 35 por cent, of land is cultivated) he expects his landlord to furnish him animals, implements, seed, food, clothing and everything else that he or his family shall require, and charge whatever is given against the pro ceeds of tho coming crop when it shall be harvested and sold. Tho landlord, therefore, makes a double profit from the tenant. The tenant never gets ahoad. He usually con sumes tho entire value of his cotton before bo picks it, and ho goos on from year to yoar, gainiug nothing and getting nothing but a living for hts labor. It is useless to discuss this subject in the South. Nearly ovorybody is willing to admit that the practice is vicious, demoralizing and ruinous ; but it is fastened upon the people and thoy seem to be satis fied with it." PISO'S CURE FOR* cunts wu mt AU ELSI FAILS. Tl Myrup. TMtea Qootl. , Cough Intime. Bold by droggltu. pH <J>llgMllBla??is1ge>^yM This Editor Had Been There. Some of oar exchanges speak of this paper as a farmer's paper. Well, we must acknowledge we have a leaning towards the farmer-in faot, the editor is a farmer. We have followed the plow and a pair of brindle mules to turn over many aores of black alluvial soil and bumble bees' nests. Wo have ohopped off and set out hundreds of shooks of corn when the frost was on the pumpkin. We have waltzed after the scythe and oradle to tie up aores and aores of golden grain in days gone by. We have tunnelled into tho potato hill and brought out bushels and bushels of the rich, luscious fruit, with tho hoc and the plow handle. Wo have turned the grindstone for hours and hours, in tho bright summer's suu, until the world seemed all a hollow mockery. We have ohopped down tho Jim son weed in all its glory, and saw it fall a withered mass of ruinB to the earth. We have cut stove wood with a dull axe in the bright July sun until we felt like running away from home and becoming a train robber. We have played hide and seek with the razor-back sow in tho corn field for hours and hours, when the mud was on our breeches and the water in our sooks. We have ohascd the cow with or um pied horn out of tho wheat field, and watched the wobble-legged calf hang on to the teat like a politician to a fat offico. In faot, we havo done everything that is dono on a farm, from engi neering a hay rake to fighting over a line fence, and have raised every thing that can be raised on a farm from an umbrella to a deed of t rust, and why shouldn't wo havo a follow feeling "for tho farmer?-Exchange. 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