The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, July 28, 1897, Image 1

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/ BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. G, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 28, 1897. VOLUME XKXIIL?NO 5. SPECIAL EVERY one knows we cannot have a "Sacrifice Sale" the year round. We always give a good reason WHY we will sacrifice certain lines of Goods. It is this : Le Prices on the following Goods this week : 50 dozen Laundered Negligee Shirts, Cufi and'Collars attached, former price 50c?34c. 37? dozen Laundered Negligee Shirts, Cuff and Collars attached, Cravat j to match, former price 75c?52c. 25 dozen "Work Shirts, good value 50c. and 25c, now 18c 20 dozen Undershirts, good value 25c, now 18c 14J dozen Jeans Pants, good value 75c, now 42c. ' 36 pair Pants?Job?worth $1.25 and $1.50, now 50c . 6 dozen Tourist Shape Hats, popular colors, former price $1.50, now 98c. 4 dozen Yacht Straw Hats, former price $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, now 50c 6? dozen Boya* Straw Hats, former price 75c. and 50c, now 25c 3? dozen Farmers' Straw Hate, former price 75c and 50c, now 25c 3i dozen Boys' and Children's Straw Hats, former price 50c and 25c, now 15c ? -? None of the above Goods charged at these prices?Spot Cash. ..... Now the time to select your Mower and Rake. THE JON MOWERS AND RAKES f Shipped in Car lots?the buyer gets the advantage in freight. We guarantee these Machines absolutely. Unequalled, the latest, the best. THREE CAR LOADS STEAM ENGINES ST0CK ATLAS, ECLIPSE, ERIE CITY, And other standard makes. Our prices simply astonishing. SMITH GINS, . COTTON PRESSES, , SAW MILLS, CANE MILLS, And all kinds of Farm Machinery at figures to meet any hon est competition. Call on or address S?li Hardware Co. Where can I get the very best fitting and most desirable as weli-as stylish Shoes ? Why, where have you been all this time ? Come with me and just look at the most complete stock of Shoes, Slippers, and everything in the way of Footwear, at? * THE YATES SHOE CO., Under Masonic Temple, Anderson, S. C, The only oomplete and special Shoe House in the City. Our prices are low because we buy close, and for cash, and we can certainly give you bargains and enable you to save money. DON'T FORGET Co. BILL ARFS LETTER. The Philosopher Talks of the Mysteries of Nature. Atlanta Constikition. These . modern agnostics, skeptics, atheists and infidels are having a lively time in the New York papers. The columns are open to them and it keeps our Christian and God-fearing people busy in replying to their assaults upon the Bible and Christianity. No two of them seem to have the same faith or to be fighting under the same gen eral, but they are all engaged in storming the citadel, some on one side and some on another and with differ ent weapons of warfare. They are pull-downers instead of build-uppers. One set assaults the miracles and seem to have a special spite at Jonah and the whale. Another set denounce Jephthah for sacrificing his daughter and denounces God for permitting it. They are equally indignant against David for haying Josiah slain and and against Samuel for ordering Saul to slay the women and children and cattle of the Amalekites. They de clare that all these stories are fakes or, if true, that God isa brute for allowing such outrages. Some believe in the Ne tv Testament, but not in the old, while others ridi cule the miraculous conception of the Virgin Mary and pronou nee it a wo man's trick to hide her shame. Some write from a medioal standpoint and j assert that man is by no means a per fect creation physically, but could be improved on in many particulars?for instance, the calf of the leg should have been in front and there should have been one eye in the back of the head and the elbow joint should ?ave had a back action, so that aman could scratch his back and a woman button her dress or fasten her skirt more con veniently. They declare that a per fect man should be built to run like a horse and swim like a fish and fly like a bird. Shakespeare, they say, was only indulging in a little taffy when he wrote "what a piece of work is ?b ?man. How noble in season ; how infinite in faculties; in form and moving ; how express and admirable ; in action how like an angel ; in appre hension how like a God I" Some of these writers talk about sacred and divine things with the most shocking contempt and intimate that nobody but cowards and lunatics be lieve in them.v They would make Voltaire and Tom Payne ashamed of themselves. Now, if a man has doubts about the miracles or the divinity of Christ and is reallj? seek ing after the truth and expresses him self in language that shows respect for the faith of his fellow men, it is all right ; but we are too helpless to be vain , or conceited. ?If I knew where I came from or where I was going or what would be my future state, or if I could prolong my exist ence or could foresee the calamities of life and prevent them, I could afford to strut around and play Sir Oracle. But I feel my helplessness, more and more every day, and like a child in trouble I want to go to my father. Whether there bo a God or not, all the good people I have ever known or read about believed there is. and it is disrespect to them to take His name in vain. .Addison says that Sir Bobert Boyle, who was the great est naturalist that England ever pro duced, had the most profound venera tion for the Supreme Boing and never mentioned the name of God without a pause?a visible stop in his discourse. No well-bred man is ever profane or speaks the name of God irreverently. I cannot understand how medical men who have studied the anatomy of the human body?this complex and won derful machine?should ever be skep tical about God's existence. If I knew how my will, which is immate A mother "'Wj is always v^ ready to sacrifice her-\ self for her baby. But nature does not often call for any stich sacri fice. On the contrary nature calls upon every1 mother to carefully pro tect herself and in that way to protect her baby. During the critical period ween a woman is looking forward to motherhood, the best protection she can give to the tender little life which is depend ent upon her own, is to fortify herself with the health-bringing "Favorite Prescrip tion" prepared by Dr. R. V. Pierce,-chief consulting physician to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical I;astitutet of Buffalo, N. Y., and sold by all dealers in medicines. AH the dangers of motherhood and most of its pains'ana discomforts are entirely banished by the uee of this rare " Prescrip tion."? It gives elastic strength and true healthful vitality to the special organs and nerve-centres involved in motherhood. This healthful condition Is transmitted to the baby both by the improved quality of the mother's secreted nourishment and by the child's increased constitutional vigor. It is a perfect health protector to ? them both. No other medicine was ever devised by an educated, scientific, physician for the express purpose of brini^; health and strength to the special feminine organs. No other preparation ever accomplished this purpose so scientifically and effectually. A more particular description of its re markable properties with a full account of some surprising cures of female difficulties is given in one chapter of Dr. Pierce's great thousand-page illustrated book, "The Peo ple's Common Sense Medical Adviser," which is aent free paper-bound for the mere cost of mailing: 21 one-cent stamps; or, cloth-bound, for 31 stamps. Address the Doctor as above. THE BLOOD ' IS THE LIFE! Pui3 Blood is essential to good health. Thousands suffer with impure blood. Thousands who are afflict ed could be cured by tak ing Africana the only pos itive remedy. AFRICANA cures Rheumatism of long standing. AFRICANA cures Scrofula. AFRICANA cures Old Sores. AFRICANA cures Syphilis. AFRICANA cures Constipation. AFRICANA cures Exzema. AFRICANA cures Catarrh. AFRICANA cures all Blood and Skin diseases. A trial will convince you of its mer its. A3?" For sale by Evans Pharmacy and Hill-Orr Drug Co. rial, controls my musoles, whioh are material, and make me extend my hand or my foot or close my eyes tind open my mouth, I? might boast of a little knowledge ; but as it is, the rais ing of my arm or the writing with this pen is a greater miracle than Jonah living three days in the whale's belly. Every seed that germinates and makes a flower is a miracle to me. Some times I wonder if I had a glass that would magnify a million times could I see the embryo oak in a little acorn ;? could I see the orange tree in the seed of the fruit. All nature is full of miracles. Winding up the canes in front of my veranda are madeira vines that climb one way and hop vines that climb the other way and jasmine vines that climb both ways. Every plant has its own laws, and they are un changeable. Just so with the beasts and birds and insects, and I almost, envy them in their happy ignorance of death and a future state. Hun dreds of katydids are singing in the grove: while I write. The males are making music for their unmusical mates. They will sing on and be happy for three months and die. The form and structure of their little bod ies is a miracle, for the utmost in genuity of /man could not make-one. The two little drums that every cicada carries for sounding boards and the tiny frets on their wings that scrape each other with inconceivable rapidity makes a musical note that can b 3 heard half a mile ou a still and quiet night. And then their sense of hear ing is so wonderfully acute ! For what child has not tiptoed to the tree and touched it ever so gently and closed the orchestra. Dr. Holmes calls the katydids "this testy little dogmatist," for they never tire of saying "katy did" and "katy didn't." But about this improved man and woman that these skeptics would make if they could. Sometimes a man does fall over a wheelbarrow in the night and bruise his shins, and I remember well how many hard licks we boys got when we played shinny at the old schoolhouse on top of the hill, but the sores got well and no bones were broken. If the calf was in front the bruise would be as bad and it would make a man's pants bag at the calf instead of the knee, and a woman's calf when riding a bike would look awful. About that third eye in the back of the head, it would very much interfere with our sleeping position and give no room for a woman's back hair and utterly paralyze her devo tions in church. If we are to have a third eye the optical nerves and mus cles should be so arranged that when the two in front are open the one in | the rear should be shut, and vice j ver3a. But this, third eye would of course necessitate a larger cerebellum to hold the machinery, and that would give a man the big head. As to a double-jointed elbow for scratching purposes, I've no particular objec tions, though on a pinch a man can do like Sidney Smith's pips : He can rub up against a post or the edge of a door and get relief. As to that Man chausen business of sunning and swimming and flying, it is folly to discuss. Man has no need of such powers, and if he had four legs like a horse and fins like a fish and wings like a bird he wouldn't be a man, but a sort of quadruplex amphibious aero lie, too smart for this world and not good enough for the next. Good gracious ! what a world of new theories about man and the creation these modern thinkers have got up. They can't fool the old folks, but I fear they do demoralize some of the young. Young man, stop and think before you desert the faith of the fathers. It is safe to say that such great and good men as Calvin and Luther and Knox and Westley and Whitfield and Sir Isaac Newton and Addison and Pope and hundreds of otherti who lived and died in the faith. were not mistaken. Wait until these agnostics and skeptics all agree on a' religion that will give comfort in ad versity and peace in the hour and arti cle of death. No, don't wait, for they have had timo enough and offered nothing. Bill Abp. The Largest Farm on Earth, The largest farm in this country and probably in the world, is situated in the southwestern part of Louisiana. It extends 100 miles east and west. It was purchased in 1883 by a syndi cate of northern capitalist, by whom it is still operated. At the time of its purchase its 1,500,000 acres were a vast pasture for cattle belonging to a few dealers in that country. Now it is divided into pasture stations or ranches, extending every six miles. Its fencing is said to have cost "about $50,000. The land is best adapted for rice, sugar, corn and cotton. A tract, say half a mile wide is taken, and an engine is placed on each side. The engines are portable ?nd operate a bable attached to four plows. By this arrangement 30 acres are gone over a day with the labor of only three men. There is not a single draught horse on the entire place, if we except those used by the herders of cattle, of Which there are 16,000 head on the place. The Southern Pacific Railway runs for 36 miles through the farm. The company has three steamboats operating on the waters of the estate, of which 300 miles are navigable. It has also an ice-house, bank, shipyard and rice mills. ? A baseball olub has been organ ized at Milwaukee' composed exclu sively of one-legged men. They havo sent a challenge to another club for a game, and it is certain that, on the side of the challengers at least, there will be lees kicking by a half during the coutcot than is is usual iu the baseball games. Trashy Medicines. Many such flood the market. Bo tanic Blood Balm is a conscientiously compounded medicine, the result of forty years' practice by an eminent physician. It is the best blood puri fier ever offered to the public, and is guaranteed to cure if given a fair trial. Try it for all skin and blood diseases, including catarrh and rheumatism in its worst form. One bottle of it con tains more curative and building-up virtue than a dozen of any other kind. Price $1.00 per large bottle. how it stands home. Our retail demand is such that we buy Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.)in gross lots. It sells well and gives our customers er re satisfaction. Our sales have increased 500 per cent, within a few months. We attribute its rapid sale to its size, price and merit. We arc selling four or five bottles to ONE of any other prepara tion of the kind. It has failed in no instance to give entire satisfaction. Jacobs' Pharmacy, Per Fred B. Palmer. M. 1)., Atlanta, Ga, T?LLMAN WAS THWARTED. Elliott-and Bryan too Much for the Pitchfork Senator. Washington, July 20.?There was a lively discussion of the South Caro lina dispensary law in Speaker Reed's room at the Capitol to-day, and the result was that the committee on rules refused to grant Senator Till man's request for a special order to oonsider his bill during the present session of Congress. A special meet ing of the committee on rules was called by Speaker Reed to consider the request on the part of Senator Tillman and those members of the South Carolina delegation who follow him in advocating the dispeneary sys tem for an opportunity to take np the hill this session. All of the members of the committee were in attendance, and Senator Tillman, with all of the South Carolina delegation, except Representative Talbert, were present. Mr. J. Kennedy Bryan was also there to assist Representative Elliott in op posing the consideration of the hill at this time. Senator Tillman, as the sponsor of the bill, was allowed to open the de bate, and it did not take long for him to warm np to his subject, and at the same time warm up those who are op posing his pet >measure. Itjwas appa rent from the beginning that Speaker Reed was not in sympathy with Sena tor Tillman's proposition, and there were several spirited^ colloquies be tween the South Carolina Senator and the Sp'eaker. Senator Tillman claim ed that his bill simply provided that the State of South Carolina should be allowed to regulate the liquor traffic within its borders, and ? went on to state that the present dispensary sys tem would be a success, financially and otherwise, if certain United States j Judges would permit it to have a fair ? trial. He went on to say that every time the dispensary system raised its head in South Carolina the United States Courts would take a crack at it and disable it. He said the people ' of South Carolina had declared in fa vor of prohibition,?and the State Gov ernment decided to establish the dis j pensary system with a view to closing the barrooms - and reducing drunken ness. He went over all the ground to show that the dispensary law was a good law, and added that unless the State authorities are allowed to regu late the liquor business without the constant interference of the United States Courts the system will have to be abandoned as a failure.' j It was after he had been subjected to several interruptions by Speaker Reed and other members of the com mittee that Senator Tillman turned to Speaker Reed and proceeded to con trast the State of Maine with South Carolina from a temperance stand point. 1 'The State of Maine is a prohibition State," exclaimed Senator Tillman, and yet you have four barrooms to our one. "We simply keep those'for the en tertainment of our visitors," replied Speaker Reed, with his characteristic drawl, which convulsed the meeting and tangled the thread of the South Carolina Senator's argument. Tillman displayed the greatest ear: nestness in the subject, for, it is said, his political future in the Palmetto State largely depends upon the suc cess of the now tottering dispensary system. He has devoted untiring en ergy to the bill and he hoped to get it passed during the present session. In support of his claim Tillman pro duced before the committee a letter from Senator Chandler, of New Hamp shire, commending the dispensary system in the highest terms. When Senator Chandler went to South Caro lina to attend the funeral of the late Senator Earle he took occasion to vis it the State dispensary, ? and made a hurried investigation of the system. It was Senator Chandler who helped Senator Tillman pass his bill through the Senate a few days ago. Representative Elliott, in opposing the present consideration of the bill, said it was incumbent upon Senator Tillman and his friends to satisfy the committee that there was some good reason why an exception should be made in this case and the bill given the right of way through the House, when no other business but revenue and appropriation bills were allowed to come up. He claimed that Senator Tillman had given no reason which should have any weight with the committee. He said the whole agita tion was caused by a decision of the United States Court, and, disguise it as you may, the one purpose of the bill was to override the decision of that Court by Legislative action. Representative Elliott briefly review ed the subject from an anti-dispensa ry standpoint, and impressed the com mitte with the idea that there was no occasion for hasty or irregular action on a matter of so much impor tance. Mr. Bryan supp?rted the position taken by Representative Elliott, by reviewing the legal features of the case, and he did it admirably. He cleverly turned Senator Tillman's ar gument into a defence of the political situation in South Carolina, and im pressed the committee that Senator Tillman is actuated by local political motives in his zeal in behalf of the dispensary law. As soon as the com mittee caught the political drift of the case, it was evident that Senator Till man s chances for favorable action were languishing. Representative Latimer attempted to break the force of the statements of Messrs. Elliott and Bryan by defend ing tho dispensary law. He said that it was easy, to make charges against the system, but denied that any evi dence had been produced to show that, the system is a failure and should not be sustained by Congress. When the hearing concluded the committee refused to grant the re quest for the consideration of the bill at this time, holding that it was of sufficient importance to require fur ther examination by the judiciary committee, when appointed. Sena tor Tillman was greatly disap pointed by the decision of the com mittee on rules, as he fully expected favorable action. He has worked like a beaver to induce Speaker Reed to give tho bill consideration at the pres ent cession, and he was confident that he would be successful. Later in the day Senator Tillman declared in the 8enate that he was willing to join in a movement to de feat the pending tariff, even if it had to be debated until next December. His threat to defeat the tariff bill may have been prompted by his failure to get a favorable report from the House" committee on rules on his dispensary bill.?Special to News and Courier. ? Germany threatens, to exclude American bicyejes, On a Quaking Railway. There are few locomotive engineers alive to-day who have had a more thrilling adventure in a cab than the man who pulled a train load of passen gers out of Charleston on the night of the memorable earthquake, nearly 1 . years ago. The throttle was wide open and the train was dashing down a long, steep grade at the rate of 50 miles an hour. The engineer had to reach a small station a short distance ahead and sidetrack to allow an excur sion train for Charleston to pass. The local was behind time and the engi neer knew that 500 lives depended on his getting safely into the siding be fore the headlight on the other train hove in sight. Suddenly the earth shock, but the rumbling noise accom panying the shock was drowned in the roar of the speeding train. "Without the least notice the track under the train began to quiver and move, while the locomotive trembled like a deer at bay. The engineer thought that the engine had jumped the track and was running along over the crossties. The train rolled on for half a mile before being ditched. Engineer Charles H. Burn was the only person injured, and he would have esoaped unhurt had he jumped. He remained at his post, however as if glued to the seat. His mind was so intent upon reaching the sidetrack that he could give hut little thought to the earthquake. Mr. Burn recently gave the New York Suri s correspondent at Charleston the story. "It was 9:25 on the night of August 31,1886," he said, "when I mounted the train in the railroad yards here and got orders to pull out to Summer ville, 30 miles distant. The weather was hot, with not a breath of air stir ring. My train started on time, but soon afterward we were delayed a few minutes. My orders read to sidetrack at Ten Mile for a down passenger ex cursion train to pass. When I got to a point a mile and a half from the station I found that I had only two minutes to make the run and have the switch cle'jr for the other train The chances were, too, that it would be on time, ami I realized that I had a race against death. The track ahead of me, however, was clear. Every nerve in me was strained, for I knew what would be the consequences if I ran in half a minute late. I was in this con dition and flying over the final stretch, with the throttle wide open, when the first tremor of the earth was fejt. My first impression was that the engine had jumped the rail and was shooting over the crossties. I looked back once and saw that the coaches were following all right, but the next in stant I knew it wae. an earthquake. The track under me was jerked to one side and then to the other. I looked ahead, and the bright glistening on the top of the shiny rails could be seen. A second glance showed that the railst were moved out of their original position and were in the exact* shape of a horseshoe. The engine would twitch and squirm, but it held to the rail, and the movement of the I whole train was very muoh like that o? a snake crawling over the Band. "When I saw how ths rails had con tracted I tried to stop the train. applied the brakes, and immediately the engine jumped the track. It was like a whirlwind to me. The cab on the engine was broken off, and the top of the cab was thrown 30 feet, bottom upward.. Arnold, the colorea fireman, went with it and had a close shave, but escaped unhurt. "It is almost impossible for me to desoribe my feelings while on that rooking engine, speeding over rough track at the rate of 50 miles an hour. The speed was not slackened by the winding of the track, but the engine was flying to the right one second and to the left the next, and getting over the ground so swiftly that it took alh my strength to keep myself in by holding on to the lever. The engine seemed to groan. "When we were ditched I was thrown into the soft mud and pinned down by part of the engine. Another shock came about this time, and it buried the engine lower in the loose sand. This made it harder for me, but fortunately I was not burned nor scalded. The third shock came, and down went the engine again in the sand. I could not move a limb, and the heat from the furnace near me fairly made by skin fall away. A lot of frightened negroes came rushing by the train, running they knew not where, and I begged them to get me out. " 'Tain't no use, white man,1 said one old fellow ; 'your time done up now, and we is all gwine down toged der. Goodbye.' "The earth continued to tremble during the night, or at least until 3 o'clock in the morning, when I was taken out of the wreck. I have been on the road for,30 years, but I never expect to go'through another such ex perience as on that night of the earth quake. Nothing but the mercy, of God saved me and the train." The wreck of Engineer Burn's train occurred on the South Carolina and Georgia Railroad, 10 miles from Char leston. At almost the same minute two other wrecks took place, and the only deaths were' those of the firemen on both trains. At Horse Creek the heavy commotion of the water in a pond close by the railroad caused the pond to overflow and wash away the railroad. The train stopped soon after getting in. Engineer Reynolds swam out and landed high in the branches of a tree. The fireman in trying to reach a limb was killed. The passenger train that left here early in the afternoon for Augusta, Ga., met with an accident between Graniteville and Langley. A large pond by the railroad track broke away and submerged the road under the train. The engine left the track in a jiffey, and in the smash-up the fireman was killed. The train remained on the track, and the passengers escaped without a scratch. All along the road the rails were distorted into horseshoe shape, but the engine driven by Burn was the only one that went half a mile over the rough and winding rails. ? We hav? ever found that black smiths are more or less given to vice. Carpenters, for the most part, speak plainly, but will chisel when they can get a chance. Not unfrequcntly they are bores, and often annoy one with their old saws. There is more Catarrh tn this section of the country than all other dispos?e put together, aud itintl too last few years was supposed to be Incur able For a great many years doctore pronounced It a local disease, and prescribed local rem?di?e, and by constantly falling to cure with local treat ment, pronounced It Incurable. Science has prov en catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitulional treatment. Kail's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney A Co. Toledo, Ohio, ia the only constitutional cure on the market. It Is taken Intornally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer ono hundred dollars for any case it falls to cure. Send for circulars and testimonial. Ad IT WAS A FEARFUL CHARGE. The First Maine Heavy Artillery at Petersburg. Neivs and Courier. Living quietly in Charleston, en gaged in peaceful avocations and nev er harboring an unkind feeling for the people who some years ago gave him a rather warm reception, Private Mar cus M. Alley, late of the 1st Maine heavy artillery, sometimes recounts his experience before Petersburg, an experience that has not often been equalled in the history of the world, for he was one of six men who came out of an engagement, representing a oommand of one hundred and three. Mr. Alley does not often speak of the terrible charge of the 1st Maine artillery, but yesterday, his attention having been called to a published ar ticle in regard to some fearful battles, in which the loss of life had been enormous, he was persuaded to tell from personal experience some of the details of that frightful slaughter be fore Petersburg. "I was twice enlisted during the war," said Mr. Alley; "first in the 28th Maine Infantry. I am a native of Eden, Maine. After serving two years in that regiment I obtained my discharge and re-enlisted, early in 1863, in the 1st Maine artillery. This command was then in Washington, and had been therefor a year or more. It was regarded as a sort of picnic party, and the regiments stationed there were called 'Lincoln's pets.' But some little time after this Grant took a hand and moved about twenty thousand men out to the front. The 1st artillery numbered when we left Washington 1,960 men. My regiment was a part of Hancock's 2nd corps, and a finer body of men never went out iio meet an enemy. "The fight that you wish to hear of, I suppose, was the charge of the 1st artillery upon the earthworks just outside of Petersburg, on the 18th of June, 1863. Well, the regiment was ordered to make an attack on that day, and it was expected that we would force an opening in the Confederate line, and that other troops would fol low us right in and take the fortifica tions. The regiment was formed in a depression of ground?I suppose it was not more than three or four hun dred yards from the earthworks, but protected by the conditions of the land. The artillery, marching as in fantry," was drawn up for this charge in ,a mass. The twelve batteries were massed in double rank, with just marching distance between. I be longed to Battery L, and our position was second from the front. It wa^ just a few minutes before 4 o'clock when the last preparations were made, and at 4 came the the order to load, fix bayonets and charge. As we were moving off I remember -our first ser geant said: 'Boys, put your cartridge boxes around in front, so the Rebs oan't hit you below the belt.' Poor fellow, he was killed by just such a wound as he warned us against. "And then, that charge! Well, you may talk about heroes and alLthat, but I don't believe in it. I have been there, and I believe that in a fight like that, where men are dropping around you, the only thing that keeps you from running right off is pride. You juat say to yourself, 'Now, I won't ruu until John Brown does, and that is sure,' and so you stay in. There was very little bravery in trying to stem'that tide of lead and fire, and the men did not stand it long. We went within thirty feet o? the earth works and one man crossed, and fell dead on the other side?this I learned from Capt. Hanahan, of Charleston, who was present during the engage ment, inside the Confederate lines. We were only seven and i half min utes going and returning, but the hell we passed! through in that short inter val could never be described in words. There was not a Coofedeirate visible when we started, but the regiment had not moved a dozen steps in the open before the storm of grape and canister began, supplemented by vol leys of musketry. The regiment never foltered, however, until within about thirty feet of the breastwork, although the men were being mowed down like grain before a scythe. The canister would sweep a whole line, and the line just back of it closed up and went forward. But human endurance could not stand this long, and when almost in reach of the earthwork the tide turned, and the survivors of that splendid regiment . that had gone out with "three cheers and a tiger" came back to the Union lines. A thousand men had raised their voices in that cheer as the order came, 'forward, double-quick,' and seven minutes la later seven hundred and fifty-three men lay dead and dying on the field. "My battery, L, had ordered rations the day before the attack, on June 18, and the day afterward the rations came for one hundred and three men. A sergeant, a corporal and four pri vates was all that was left of Batterj ? L, and when we came for the rations we could not have attempted to carry them. Of course, all the batteries had not fared as badly .as Ii, but you can draw your conclusions from the numbers; 753 from 1,000 does not leave very many, and it is a matter of record that in six weeks' sorvicc the 1st artillery came down from 1,960 te 250 men. "Talking about those rations re minds me that we decided to save the ration of whiskey, anyhow, and a few days after that, on the 22nd it was, I believe, I was captured while with the regiment to cut the Weldon Railroad. The Confederates flanked us on the left. It was Hill's division. Scrgt. Burlingame and I were among those who were captured, and we had five canteens of whiskey with us at the time. Our captors took us to some small island, and that night we had a sort of consolation celebration, and got pretty happy with the aid of the li quor, in spite of surrounding circum stances. "After that I was sent around to various prisons. I don't know why, I never could understand it about Libby prison. So much has been paid and written about that place, that seems to me to have been made up. I was well treated there. Had plenty to eat, a comfortable place to sleep, a chance to bathe every day, and in fact everything but liberty. The place was kept clean while I was there, and the men could keep themselves so if they had desired. I was also at An dersonvillc, Charleston Race Track, Florence Stockade and Goldsboro, from which latter place I was paroled. I had a tough time at Andersonville and Florence, but of the other places I have no complaints to make. "After the war went to sea fur many years, "and then moved to Charleston, and have been in business here for some years. I like the old city and the South, and expect to end my days here."* How Criminals are Discovered. When a reporter for the Sunday News dropped in at the Central Po lice Station yesterday he encountered Detective James Hogan, and had an interesting talk with that officer in regard to trifles which have entrapped criminals. It is rarely the case that a Charleston detective has any time to waste on a newspaper reporter, but occasionally a scribe is allowed to en ter the sanctum sanctorum of the de tectives, and then the officers are not averse to telling of some of their hair breadth escapes or of recounting some incidents of how criminals are run down. Detective Hogan, who has seen as much service as any man of his age in this section of the country, told last night of some very remarka ble instances of how the merest trifles have put the police on the scent of evil-doers, "and ultimately brought the criminal to justice. "One of the cleverest jewelry thieves was entrapped," said the De tective, "a few years ago in the sim plest manner, owing to his leaving the impression of his hand on the shop counter. In the accumulation of dust the print showed very clearly the next morning. There was nothing more plain in this impression than the apparent absen ce of the first finger on the left hand. The finger seemed to have been severed at about the mid dle joint. "With this clue? however^ the police had no difficulty in the cap ture of their man, for not three months before the robbery a noted burglar had had a desperate .encounter with a dog while attempting to crack a crib in Birmingham, and he had oome out of the deal the worse off by a fin ger. "A policeman on duty one evening in a Northern city saw two men emerge from the side door of a bank. While one closed and locked the door in the ordinary "way th<3 other lit a cigar, and the two walked leisurely away. Their studied coolness com pletely disarmed the officer, who took them to be officials of the b ink, but as soon as they turned the corner he noticed one of them violently throw his shoulders in a way which is peculiar to people afflicted with ?t. Vitus dance. % The next day details of one of the smartest burglaries of modern times were made known to the world. Two men had obtained duplicato keys, had walked straight into the bank, blown open the safe, and abstracted all the available gold, without leaving a trace of their identity. The police failed to establish the shadow of a clue, and gave it up in despair. Months after ward, however, the same officer was oh duty in another part of the town, when he noticed a loudly-clressed in dividual walking briskly along. In turning the corner the man made the same peculiar shrug to his shoulders which the officer remembered so well. There flashed across his mind the whole scene of the mysterious plun dering of the bank, the same build of man, the same gait and the same ina bility to round a corner gracefully. The officer carefully shadowed his man, had him watched for some days, and obtained sufficient information to justify his arrest. The prisoner's guilt was fully proved,- but he did not divulge the name of his confederate, who has never been captured. "The mere finding of a hat," con tinued Detective Hogan, "Kas often played an all -important part in bring ing a thief to justice. The best ease of this kind "on record is that of a London clerk, who enteted a jeweler's shop with a duplicate key which he had. After helping himself to plun der to his heart's content he made his way out by a side entrance. Under the floor of the shop, however, was an electric alarm apparatus, and as the thief emerged from the premises the police were upon him. He dodged, and getting a clear course in the street left his pursuers far behind. His hat fell off'in the mad rush for liberty, and in lieu of anything better to ar rest the police took summary ven geance on the thief's headgear by tak ing it into custody. It was an ordina ry hat, with no trace of its owner up on it; but tucked neatly in the inside for the purpose evidently of making it fit, was the corner of a copy of a paper dated February 18, 1893, in the corner of which was simply the word "Pole," the name of a social club in London. With this slender informa tion the matter so apparently myste rious became as clear as daylight. A detective visited the reading room of the club, on the table of which were numerous magazines, many of which had? the name of the club written upon them. The word had been written by the news agent who supplied the read matter to the club, so that the period icals should be delivered to the pro per address. The detective saw the secretary, and asked him who bought a certain paper for the year 1893. The secretary gave the officer the name of u young man who was, at the time un dergoing much attention on the part of the police for jewelry robberies. There was very little difficulty in proving the case, but the thief, pleading guilty of a former offense, got off easily. "The disciple of Bill Sykes is often seized with an overwhelming weakness i'or practical joking during a profes sional visit. A Manchester silk ware house was broken into and considera ble quantities of the material taken away during the early hours of the morning. The thieves, among other luxuries, found some Scotch whiskey. Before they decamped the head of the gang, acting probably on the impulse of the liquor, wrote a note to the own er of the warehouse, expressing regret that he could not visit him during business hours. This note was the only clue the police had to work upon, the retreat of the thieves being skill fully carried out; but it was enough. An expert said the writing was that of a left-handed person, written with an unsteady hand. There are compara tively few people who write with the left hand, but the police happened to know just one man who did. The man was placed under arrest and he altogether failed to explain satisfacto rily to the authorities how his wife came to have a dress made of the identical stuff stolen, although it was dyed another color; nor could he ac count for his sudden acquisition of wealth just about the time of the rob bery." ? It costs nearly $1,000,000,000 annually to operate the railways of this country. This includes all ex penses, repairs, bridge and tie build ing and the wages of employees. There arc 800.000 railway empjDyees in the United States. The roads have to make a lot of money to pay all these expenses, ' A Big Gathering. The veterans all over the State are talking about the coming Stato reunion to be held in Greenville. Their deeire in to make the State reunions notable and beneficial gatherings. Returning from Nashville last month tbie idra was fully discussed and endorsed. Greenville is now making preparations to entertain the visiting veterans in excellent style. The following general order has just been issued from the headquarters of the Sout.h Carolina division in Charleston: 1. The annual reunion for ISO? of this division will be held at Green villo, S. C, commencing at 10. a. m. August 25th. The rates which will be given from all points within the Stai?, will allo w a large attendance of delegates. All comrades of the division are earnestly invited to bo Eresent. Whether delegates or not, tbey av? a right to be in the convention.. Confederate Veteran s who have not yet joined the TJ. 0. V. ara cordially asked to join their former comrades in tlhls grand reunion. The division now has nearly 100 camps,, and this reunion is apt to be the largest ever held of ex-Con federates in this State. . This good people of Greenville are mak ing every arrangement for the entertain ment; of the veterans, and- we can be sore of the moat hospitable and loving recep tion and care. \ 2. Each camp will appoint oro young lady as sponsor, whose d ties and place ' at the reunion will be designated in sub sequent orders. 8. As soon as farther details of the ar rangements are fixed they will be com muni cated to the division. s By command of Major General C7 ?bvine Walkeb. Jas. G. Holmes, Adjutant General, Chief of Staff. mm * m '?.' ' ', ' All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? She?I always preferred June weddings. He?Yes. Howmanyhave yon had ? ? Many paupers have lived to be 100 years old, but thero is no record of a millionaire having attained that ;p. 1 ? ? George?Is your father a banker? Maud?No; why? George?Nothing, only your little brother seems to be a teller. ? Fred?"He married the girl I was engaged to." Arthur?"Well don't worry. You'll get over it before he does." ? Browne?But he has lost one leg and both arms. How did she' ever c?me to fanoy him ? Towne?He's a remnant. 7 "?;;! ? A Spanish inventor renders from grasshoppers a fatty substance which is declared to make the finest soap yet produced. > ' ? William C. Ussery, M. D., of St. Louis, says that the best food for those suffering from typhoid fever is the banana. .. ? The letter "I" in the Chinese language has 145 ways of being pro nounced, and each pronunciation has; a different meaning. ? "How often do you kill a man ?" asked a passenger of a New London motorman the other day. "Only once," was the laconic reply. ? A Boston millionaire, who re cently died, made provision that his wife should receive each year exactly her own weigit in pure gold. ? "This milk tastes as if it was watered," said Mr. Bronson. "I know it is, papa," said Tommy. "I saw the cow taking a drink myself." ? A 6-year-old was seated in a bar ber's chair: "Well, my little man. how would you like your hair cut ? ' 'Oh, like papa's, with a little round . hole at the top." ' ? Watts?My pastor insists that the bicycle is an, invention of the. devil. Potts'?Well, it is mighty hard to keep in the stra;r;ht and narrow path on one of them. v ? "My wife is a most original wo: man," said Brown. "Why, when I proposed to her, instead of spying, 'This is so sudden,' si said, ell, I think it's about time.' ? Mrs. Watts?You must find this out of door life rather pleasant:. Weary Watkins?Oh, the out of door part of it is ail right. It is the out a' grub end of it I don't like, ? Jints?The idea of "asking mo what I'd do if I was rich i The que s ton is simply idiotic. Filkins?Wny so !? Jinks?Because any one in his right mind would know that I would do nothipg. ? When a boy walks with a girl an though he were afraid someone would see him, the girl is his sister. If ho walks' so close to her as to nearly crowd her,against the fence, she is th sister of some one else. ? "Hello," exclaimed Tommy, "there goes one of them horseless carriages ' ' 'Where ?' ' shouted Aunt Maria, rushing to the window. "Why, right 'cross the way, aunty. Don't you see that it is drawn by mules." ? "You told me this horse had won half a dozen matches against some of the best horses in the country. He can't trot a mile in six minutes to save him." "It was in plowing matches that he took the prizes, sir. ? There is a negro man working' near Dublin, Ga., who says he is one of 40 children by one mother. Ho says his mother was married four times, and gave birth to ?27 boys and 13 girls in North Carolin;, and is yet living. ? There are 250,000 words in the English language, and most of them were used on Sunday by a woman who. discovered after coming out of church that her new hat was adorned with a tag on whioh was written, "Marked down to $1.98." ? R. D. Green, a negro orator of Bradford, Pa., says that he can provo by the Scriptures that Adam and Eye were both black and that when Cain killed Abel the Lord put a mark on Cain, and that morkwas a white skin. Ever since that interesting incident Cain's descendants have beeb white folks. ? "May I ask what is going on in the village?" inquired the observant stranger. "We're celebratin' the birthday of the oldest inhabitant,, sir,' ' replied the native. "She's a 101 to day, sir." "And tell me, pray, who is that little man with the dreadfully sad countenance who walks by the old lady's side ?" "That's her son-in-law, sir. He's been keepin' up her life insurance for th' last 30 years." ? At last the English sparrow has found a champion and defender. "There is no longer any doubt about the mission of the little pestiferous English sparrow," says Dr. Miles of Marion, S. C. The doctor says he has four acres of tobacco near his barn, where the birds nestle, the. worming of which has not cost him anything this year. These little birds do this work free of charge?for the love and affection they have for the worms and with which they feed their young. He claims that there were four acres more off from vbe house, and out of the reach of the birds,. which had to be wormed once a week.?. ?partanburg Herald.