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FORREST ON Tl How His Men Tra From the Kosh; The landmarks of the old Sooth ?re fas!; crumbling away, and it is onlj a question of a very few years till the mein and women who cnn look back np4in the late unpleasantness and say "Ute remember the smoke of battle, we have heard the rattle of musketry and the roar of eanrton," will hare passed over the river into the great beyond. lishe story of the struggle between brother and brother is surrounded by - a sacred halo. The fierceness and the savagery of it all is dead, and in its place has sprang up a beautiful legend of life, a story that can be told in the nursery to the infant on its mother's knee, or can be clothed with the beauties of a language and descend to history as. the amplification of a novel of purity and truth, whose influ eiifce will serve to ennoble posterity. Even now it ie a treat to hear one of those who belonged to the old school tell of thc trials and incidents of . that, day. Yesterday a veteran wlko had worn the gray with honor in the civil struggle of the '60s, whose faee was scarred and seamed with relies of past experiences, and whose hair was white with the frost of time, was sitting in one of the public offices of the city, and when an American re porter entered he was in the midst of one of these tales of other days which are well worth retelling. It is a story of real life, and the once dark hair of the heroine, which was her glory and pride, is streaked with threads of sil ver. She is now the mother of a family, the wife of a prominent states man of North Mississippi, and her | home itself is a beautiful relic of-the old South. During the earl}'part of the fall of 1864 Forrest's cavalry was encamped at Verona, Miss., one of the few sup ply depots on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, and particularly importan ton that account. Sixty miles from Vero na is Rienzi, a little suburban town, which had fallen into the hands of the Federal troops, and from this place little bands of thc bluecoats were making rapid devastation o? the surrounding territory. Forrest was thwarted in every attempt to pub a step to the depredations, and he was convinced that his misfortunes were | due to some spy who kept the enemy : constantly informed of his move ments. His suspicions were fasteucd oh one of those Federal sympathizers, j so rare in the South, and yet so dan- ? gerous and ruinous to every venture j of the rebels. The man's name was ! Jenkins, and Forrest decided to take ? immediate action. The country people at that time were, of course, drawn together by a common bond of sympathy and suffer ing. Every house was open to the in mates of every other, aud Jenkins, though suspected by his neighbors, had the entree to every abode for mirles around. More than that, his knowledge of the country was unlim ited, and he was indispensable to the Northerners and secretly drew a very handsome revenue from the govern ment treasury. Within half a mile of Jenkins' house lived a young woman who was the daughter of a Confederate general, a woman who would have been willing to die for the cause at any time. She combined the tender, lovable nature of he:-: mother with the courage and will ?Eher father, and more than once ' General Forrest had sought informa tion from-her and had used it to ad vantage. He resolved to ask her aid ia capturing Jenkins, and her part in the plan was to learn of Jenkins' whereabouts and communicate by fourier with a point two miles dis tant, where a signal service began, which extended the entire sixty miles te the camp of General Forrest him self. By this means a message could Ve delivered in half an hour, and every man knew his duty. One afternoon, a few days after she had been commissioned a spy, Jen kins stopped at her home for a drink of water. The young girl waited on him herself, invited him into her par lors, concentrated all her strategem and beauty and smiles on his enter tainment, and when he took his de parture she had his secret. "Will be at home Thursday night,'' was thc message that went down thc line, and scarcely had it been received "Wednesday morning when an order was issued for ten of the most trusty men in camp, mounted on the surest and fleetest horses, to report to Gen eral Forrest at once. Among the number was a young lieutenant, scarcely more than a hoy himself, who was known by the sol diers for his cool daring in times of danger, and it was this man whom General Forrest summoned before him. "Bedford,'' he said, "you have a fine detail and these men will follow you anywhere. You will take sup per to-night within three miles ?d' the enemy's camp at Uienzi. Watch your front and allow nothing to pre vent you from reaching your destina HE WAR PATH. >pped a Border Spy. Tille American* tion, avoiding al! engagements on your journey. Paj no attention to anything behind you. I hove that all arranged. To-night I trust to your own judgment. Forward!" Lieutenant Bedford's'orders were to report at the house of our fair young spy for orders. As the detail rode away one of the j soldiers shouted out: "Boys, make I your wills and leave your saddle blan I kets to your sweethearts." Another ! muttered under his breath: "That I dare-devil Bedford would charge hell itself if old Forrest ordered!" The ride was a long and tedious one, but at 8 o'clock a halt was called ! and the destination had been reached. Lieutenant Bedford repaired to the young lady's home, as directed, and he afterwards said he "had the devil of a time to make that little woman believe he was who he was. '' For his uniform consisted of an old pair of blue pants and a Union coat, and he ! was a very suspicious looking object even to himself. Thc girl informed him of the loca tion of Jenkins' house, however, and j he was instructed by her as to the best approaches, for it must be re membered the Federal camp was not a quarter of a mile distant. Then, af ter an hour's rest, the horses were ! left iu charge of one of the men with instructions to fire his gun in case he I was attacked, and the rest started on the perilous expedition, each taking a circuitous route. Each man was ac curately instructed by Lieutenant Bedford, the house was described in detail, and a certain position at the different doors and windows was as sigued to each man. It was under stood that Jenkins was not to escape, i and he must be taken before General j Forrest, dead or alive. 1 Then, turning to the largest man in the detail, Bedford said: "You will go with, rae, break down thc door while I stand ready to enter, and we'll get Jenkins or have a merry time try ing.'' Then to the others: "Boys, cool heads! (io where I have ordered -forward!" , Then, with the lights of the enemy's camp flickering in the distance, these men set out to do or die. From the windows of a Southern home far in the rear the bright gleam of a lamp was just visible to the eye, and the soldiers knew that a woman's prayers were with them. One by one they ar rived at the home of Jenkins, took their stations, cocked their carbines, and when all were in waiting thc word was passed to Bedford in a whis per: "All is ready." The door was broken in with a crash, and in an instant Bedford was on top of the bed in which Jenkins was supposed to be. His man struck ' a match, aud iuiagine thc chagrin of j the young lieutenant when he found . in his merciless grip thc throat of a I woman, her hair disheveled, her face ! blue with fear and thc tears brimming ! from her eyes. It was Jenkins' wife. Her husband had heard the slight j noise ou the outside and had attempt I ed to escape through a rear window, ! but was held by the man stationed there. Not a word was spoken above a whisper, not a gun was fired, and with the prisoner well bound and guarded the detail made their escape, but not without apologising profusely to Mrs. ! Jenkins for the rough handling she had received at the hands of the lieu tenant. "It was one of the most daring deeds of the war," said the old vet eran, "and we stayed about that place long enough to convince Miss that he was no bluejacket, and if you ever go down in that part of thc coun try now. maybe you will stumble on a little family of Bedfords, and if you have the ?rood luck, as I have, to en joy a taste of good old Mississippi hospitality in that home, maybe Bed ford will tell you how became to mar ry a/spy." I "And what became of .Jenkins?*' the reporter inquired. "< Ul, he went where all good men nf his kind went in those days-up a limb. Letting Him Down. ,kl am a self-made man!'" grandilo quently announced thc pompous per son, smiting his swelling chest impres sively. "'All that 1 am I owe to my self and my unaided efforts.' And so ou, to considerable length. "Pardon me!'' ventured the modest man : "but what is your weight? "Two hundred and ten pounds, sir," was thc reply. "All solid, self made man !" "Ah! yes: exactly! Do you know, by thc way. that thc estimated weight of the earth is about6,(1-111 K-UJ.OwOJMlO tons?" "I have hean! so : but what has that to do with me?" "Why. excuse mc ! lint don't you sec how impossible it is that the earth should tip every time you take a step?"- Puck. mm- ? - - Japanese children are taught to write with both hands. WER VISITED BT WHITE MEN Tagt Tracts of Laat! Awaiting Cenra The story of Dr. Sven Hedin'3 trav els in unknown lands, says the Pitts burg Dispatch, doubtless astonished a great many people, who imagined that practically all of the earth's surface is now known to civilization. There was something strange about, the narra tive. To speak of four years' travel - ings in unknown lands in the heart of Asia seemed like a fairy story. But it is nothing of the kind. Dr. He din's story is altogether probable, and the field is still large in Asia, and will be for many years to come. Few people realize how much un discovered country there is still on the globe. In spite of the efforts of Livingstone, Stanley, Baker, Yam berg, Andree and all the others the opportunity for exploration is still ex tensive. It would not be extravagant to say that at least 20,000,000 square miles of unknown lands yet remain to be mapped and described by the in quisitive traveller. Though explora tion is steadily in progress in all quar ters of thc globe there is still a big field left, and many a dreaming school boy of the present day will yet achieve fame among the world's map makers. Thc traveller in Asia has yet to map nearly 200,000 square miles of that continent. In central parts we know nothing of cities, towns and races beyond the extravagant yarns of native pilgrims. There may be peo ples in these interior countries un- j heard of by civilization, as there are ' certainly geographical peculiarities of which wc know nothing. The same may be said, and with con siderably more emphasis, of Africa, North and South America, Australia and the Pacific Islands. Millions of square miles remain to be uncovered in Africa, America and Australia, and not a year goes by but what some hitherto unknown island of thc Pacific is added to the list, and many more remain. Many a tourist in Europe this, last season has heard for the first time, as he sailed past Gibraltar, that beyond thc range of mountains that extend along thc coast of Morocco there is a land that has never been trodden by an explorer. Thc information seems all thc more strange when it is real ized that thc most civilized peoples of the world have been sailing along this same rock-bound coast ever since the days of the Phoenicians. Just think of it! Less thai; a score of miles from a pathway of civilization several thou sand years old, and yet unknown, lt may be all the more suprising to know that it is not ten years since a big lake was discovered in thc heart of thc Pyrenees.thc mountain chain dividing Spain from France, and in thc heart of Europe, one might say. What do we know of Africa? Noth ing but in a general way. Thc ex plorers haye not gone far away from thc river courses. We can follow fairly well on thc map now thc course of the Congo, thc Zambesi, and locate approximately the loni;, mysterious course of the Nile. Hut the geogra phers have little or nothing with which to fill un the white spaces in Central Africa. Some travellers arc gradually breaking their way into thc interior country, and thc next few years will yield many valuable and interesting discoveries: but the field is still large for those with the ambition to travel in unknown countries. Thc most important work of thc fu ture African explorer will be to study thc various races and map out the hy drographie features. There are doz ens of native tribes presenting charac teristics interesting to the ethnolo gists. Wc need more information than wc have of the tree dwellers of Shari, the dwarf tribes of the Congo, thc Baluba, and the remarkable Bach ilangc, who arc already un the high road to civilization. Examine thc latest maps of West ern and Central Africa and you will see great districts without a mark or sign' of the geographers. The great rivers seem without any tributary streams. This is in no sense a pecu liarity. The tributaries are there. Their absence from thc maps is thc most effective presentation of thc fact that they aro not yet mapped out or explored. There is a whole world of unexplored country to the north, south, east and west of thc wonderful Congo. It is merely a theory that these dis tricts arc the richest in the world for tlie fanner and the scientist, lt is certain that gold, silver and precious gems arc plentiful. That the climate is fitted to thc production ol' thc tem perate /.one fruits and plant- is yet to bc decided. Thon- i- work for thc husbandman, :hcmineralogist, thc an thropologist, and the archaeologist as well as to thc topographer. .\i least .~>,000:(MHI square miles of unknown country, au area larger b\ one hall I than the total area ol' thc I nitro i States, i- awaiting thc scientist s visit I to Africa. j Strange talcs conic to us at inter vals of a race ol' white people living ii: thc far interior No civilized mai has eve)- reached their country, w li iel ! is said to be on the skirts of M dcserl geons Explorers. extremely dangerous to croas. Efl made from time to time to reach tl people have been repulsed by fierce tribe surrounding them. A hammedan priest, named Al Ha saw one of the tribe some years a while on a pilgrimage to Mecca Hadji described the man as bein, white as any European he had < met, with light hair and blue c; Who will find these people ? Australia is another great field the explorer. Developments strange and important as those tending the efforts of the African plorers may await the traveller in continent of the Pacific. More t 2,000,000 square miles of unmap and unknown country awaits the v turesome individual who shall eade or to penetrate its wilderness. South America is also entitlec consideration. There are parts o that are less known than any othei the world, not even excepting Afi and Australia. For some reason tr oilers have neglected the South Hemisphere. It is thought the 1 healthy climates of the southern zc are responsible, but this scarcely plains the lack of knowledge conce ing the districts in the higher a tudes. The results of Dr. von Steine trips up thc Xingu tributary to I Amazon, the discoveries of newtril and curious remains of earlier occuj don were sufficient to stimulate f ther energy in this direction. N the least in teresting would be partit lars concerning thc tribes of negro descendants of thc Spanish slaves w escaped to the wilderness to fou tribes more barbarous than those frc which they were taken in Africa. Thc headwaters of the Amazon, t interior of Brazil and Ecuador, a even the Orinoco, arc awaiting inv< tigatiou. [Results extremely impi tant te mankind may be achieved frc the exploration of these districts, has only been a few years since 1 learned that Western Patagonia offc great opportunities to the cattle raise and that even cold, bleak Terra c Fuego, the "Land of Fire," is al adapted to sheep farming and oth kinds of stock raising. Even the sea is not without its o portuuities. It is believed that mai islands of the Pacific and lower Atla tic have never been visited by whi men. This statement seems hard believe, but there are many evidenc of its truth. Within thc last fe years a group of islands hitherto u known have been placed on the mt to the northward of New Guinea. Tv islands have also been added to tho: comprising the Bismarck Archipelag and dozens of others in isolated pos tions are the revelations of recei days. Geographers estimate that ; least 500,000 square miles of islan territory remain to be explored, an when thc matter is given thought tli theory seems possible enough. Take the interesting island of Xe j Guinea as an example. Half as larg as Alaska, and with a climate mot conducive to successful exploration, i is still but little known, exceptio along thc principal water courses New Guiuea would be a veritable pai adise for the explorer with a fondues for natural history. Its llora is anion the most wonderfully diversified i thc world, and it is as richly cndowci with peculiar forms of animal, inscc and bird life. The obstacle which ha stood in the way of exploration ii X?w Guinea has been its savage in habitants. Though there are sonu peaceful tribes, many arc still canni bals, who liercely resent the encroach ment of the stranger. British America and Alaska arc both largely untapped. Any recen chart of cither territory will presen large spaces which, if not market "unexplored."' show by the absence ol natural features that they are un known to the map-makers. In addi lion there still remain the great Arc tic and Antarctic fields. They an mentioned last because the fact ol these icy regions of thc North ami South l'oie being unknown is patent to the schoolboy with his first googra phy. The advanees of science in rc cent years make it possible that some of us may yet be pretty well informet regarding the physical peculiarities ol these districts. .Nevertheless, thc ob staeles are so great-they have defeat cd thc most determined efforts foi centuries-that there is no certainty of when or how the secrets of the po lar regions may become known. The individual with a taste for ex plaration may. indeed, lind opportuni ty for the display of his talents liol far from home. There are a nuinbei ol' districts in the Northwest .uni Southwest that are still unknown ti j the geographer. In Washington Stati is ;i district estimated io be I?.OUI I mile.- sijuarc that, so far as known, i has never ?nen visited hy the foo! of.M v. ?lite ma i. There are others of equal ; um-.MI it mle., and rigid within tho bonn ; dane.-. ..i" ihe I nited States. How's This. V,C .ll.:- ?M . l!n: <!o<! Dollar.;-reward lor any case 11 rm ur rh t i.-i 1 mnoi IM; um oil hy llalPs ! Catarrh euri Wc, lin* uiidt'.r*i^n<d iuv< known I-'..I ? heney for Oi" I." years. ;e.d le-lieve lt itu |.ei :'??..! ly ! honorr.hlc in all hushics; transactions and titian" , ( ??illy aide to.carry out any nhligataous n.ade hy ; theil Iii m , WEST A TRI*.*.V. WI-..!, sale Dru^isls, Toledo, O. WA MUN". KISNA.N .v MARVIN, Wholesale Prug I gists, Toledo, c>. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, adnu; I ! directly upon I he hlnod and in neon s surface.* ol tho Haslem. IV.il ininnials st? ti I. free, Pri?e 7??e. t ?./-r iViM?e S?ld hy nil drn-iMs Those Hugging Partiel. ? Charleston paper, several years ago, published the following: "An ex change says that hugging parties for the benefit of Churches are a recent importation into the South, but they are becoming very popular in some sections, especially in Tirginia. Thc prices are as follows: For girls under 15, 35 cents for a hug of 2 minutes; from 15 to 20 years of age, from 35 to 75; another man's wife, 1; widows, according to looks, Irom 10 cents to $2; old maids, 2 cents apiece, or two for a nickel, and no limit of to time." To which a lady very properly ob jected and replied as follows: In your last issue there appeared a paragraph entitled "A Hugging Match," which was intended tobe funny, but which proved to be mean. It embodied the old fossilized slur on old maids, and averred that in thc hugging matches now in vogue in di vers places, while young girls and widows were hugged at a dollar or two each, and a very few seconds allowed at that for the thrilling performance, old maids were hugged at 3 cents each or two for a nickel, with no limit as to time. I'll vouch that the author of that paragraph is a bachelor who keeps his blacking brush on the man tle-piece, and his clean shirts in the coal box, and who is a good enough judge of whisky to pull the stopper out of a bottle of corn whisky and smell the negro that hoed the corn. And if the truth were only known, he has been rejected by a dozen girls, perhaps some old ivaids, any one of whom would had to have supported him had she been fool enough to have had him, and all of whom render thanks night and morning now that they had sense enough to kick him. I am an old maid, and I am happy. I don't know how it feels to uncork a bottle of paregoric at 2 a. m. to quiet a squall that was caused by a colic in stead of a cloud; and I am ignoraut of the process of pulling oft' a pair of muddy boots at midnight and swath ing with wet towels thc burning, ach ing forehead of a "'lord of creation," who promised with a lie upon his lips at the holy altar, to love, honor and protect mc as long as he lived. I re peat ir,. 1 don't know anything about these delights of matrimony. I sup pose I ought to be pitied. ??But I had rather be laughed at because I am not married, than not to bc able to laugh because I am married. If you will ex cuse me for being confidential, I'll say in closing, that during a career of 30 years I've only been hugged one time. On that occasion, strange to say. I got three scents. 1 didn't want any more. The three scents I got were scents of disgusting hair oil, rum and tobacco. - Father-::Come. young man, get your coat off and come with me !" 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Why nat allow me to ?ell yon a reliable l'?ano or Organ. Wo guarantee ^v?ry Instrumfiit thar, goes ont <>f coir Wardrooms, and have a large a*?nrrn eut to select frc.ni Have just received 1 ew style* of Ivers & Pond Pianos - AND - Farrand & Votey Organs, And wv are getting in se.verai oilier makf s of hig.u grue Instruments Also. largo line of Guitars. IJunjos. Violins, Aufiolmrp*. ?fcc., at lowest possible ii mi res. HEADQUARTERS for the Celebrated Kew Home, 3<3eal and several o:.her leading Sewing Machines. Call -Jf?ii see us. ur wri:M for catalogue anil prices Kcspectfullv. Tile G. A. Eee? ETnslc House. T?KEJOTICE .. We hereby notify all parties who owe Bleckley & Fretwell past due papers that owing to the death of our senior, Syl vester Bleckley, that the same must be paid at an early day, not later than Nov. 1st next, as a settlement must be made with the heirs at law. Your prompt attention to this notice and a compliance with same will be duly appreciated. Yours very truly, JOS. J. FRETWELL, Survivor Bleckley &FretwelL Sept 15, 1*97 12 NOTICE. AUDI TOR'S OFFICE. A'XDKR-'ON, S. C. THIS cllica will he open to receive Be innis of URAL ned PERSONAL property for tixadon for the next fiscal year from the lirs.t nf Jan us ry, ISUS, to the .Otb Februarv folio wins, inclusivo. ir is important thar ail Lands. Lots and Buildings he enumerated correctly; for, unless there is Mime chang?? in the law, this assessment of Reality will stand for the next tour years. Consult your deeds and give thf* number of acres exactly. Under the new >u?essiiu: laws the Town ship Assessors art* rt qui red t-> make lt.1 turns fur all Taxpayers timi fail to return to the Auditor within the time prescribed by law. so ihat t^ere is barely a chance for delinquents to escape tbc penalty. For the convenience of Taxpayers we ill also have Deputie-? to ta?e Returns nt the following times and t>kie.>?: Holland s, Mondnj, January lo, iSlis. Starr, Tuesday, January ll Cook's, WedtWday January }-. Moseley, Thursday, January li? Molfattsville. Friday. January 14 Storevillo. Momiav, January 17. Clinkse-iles' v,iM. Tuesdav, January 1*. Piereetown. Wednesday. January ll?. IMshop's Branch. Satiird iv, J.-oi. 22. .'..ul un. F rid riv. January 21 Wytttt% Store. .Monday. January 2-1. C-dar Wreath, tuesday, .'annary 2"> ?rive Fmk-. Wednesday, Jan -J'i Wig?ngton'? Store. Wednesdai. Jan. Equality, Thursday, January 27. Pendleton, Friday, Janna'v 2S. Townville, Friday, .ho mirv 2S. January 2U. lav an ?III! iiesoav, .ian 'i ugaloo Sa!untjiv I-?0nea Path Wedin Jan nary 12 and 13. Belton, Friday and Saturday, January ! I and I Ti. Piedmont, Monday miry 17 ami IS. Poizer, Weilnesday. dav. January li). 2n and 21 William-ton, M unlay J an mu v L'I HIM' 20. t; :>. C. ROLE M AN, Auditor Anderson County. Dee s iss?7 21 Thursdav and Fri Tuesday, Cotton, like every other crop, needs nourishment. A fertilizer containing nitro gen, phosphoric acid, and not less than 3% of actual will increase the crop and im prove thc land. Our hooks tell ail abou: tho subject. The are free to any farmer. GERMAN KALI WORK?, 93 Nissau St., New York. . MA, Cotton" Is not the hand maid of prosperi ty That's more the reason you should wear the best make of Shoes. Our line is? built for service. Sold by Cash-buying merchants. Ask for the Red Seal. J. K. ORR SHOE CO., Atlanta, Ga. -j Drs. Strickland & King, DENTISTS. OFFICE Iii MASONIC TEMPIE. Ga9 and Cocaine used for Extracfc ='g Teeth. _ All parties owing me notes and ["accounts are requested and urged to pay same as soon as^possible. I need my mon ey and will be compelled to make collections early in the season. Save the trouble and expense of sending to see you. J. S. FOWLER. Sept. 29, IS?7 14 1 PATH HIGH.SCHQOL. "AS closed a m< st satisfactory yr ar's work to both patron* and teachers. The ourinni; for the next Sestion promises even better result-* Hon ;<> secure toe best School is tb? cons'ant study of the teachers Excellent library, modern ap paratus', live methods, and trained teach in;?. Next Session opens Monday, Sept. lith, 1>!'7. Board in best families at ve#y low rate?. Oitr fu nh** information write to- J. C. Il '?RPEK, Prin., EIORES Path, K. C. July 14,1S?J7 3 3m ?JVTOTICE TO CREDITORS, il Ail p ....<.. . having claims against um E-'?- of J. E. Grill;::, deceased,. ?ire hereby notified ro present tho same, properly proven, to the undersigned with in ti:.-' ?i:m> prescribed by iw, and those indebted to make pavmecr. W*. C. LEE, Adni'r. 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