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WAR Sr Tales Told by a i St. Loni* George CaFry Eggleston is the au thor of a volume of short stories which he has called "Southern Soldier Sto ' rios." (The Macmillan Company.) Some of the sketches are very short, but all of them breathe the spirit of contest and of endurance. The author dedicates his book to the 'Joe" so often "mentioned in these stories. He was my loved comrade inarms, and a, sharer in all my war experiences. He is now Dr Joseph W. Eggleston, of Richmond, Va." In one story Joe is the hero. He was a troublesome hero, it appears. The author says: "Joe was very much in earnest at Pocotaligo, S. C., where a great little battle was fought on the 22d of October, 1862." "That is to say, Joe was not quite 17 years old, was an enthusiastic sol dier, and was as hot-headed as a boy well can be/ ' Joe had command of a gun. His men fell about him; presently there were but three left. "The other bat tery was that of Captain Elliott of South Carolina ; and Captain Elliott had just been designated Chief of Artillery. Elliot's battery was really not in action at all. Joe, seeing Cap tain Elliott, and being himself full of the enthusiasm which insists upon .getting things done, appealed to the . Chief of Artillery for the loan of some cannoneers with whom to work his .gun more effectively. Captain Elliott declined. Thereupon Joe broke into a volley of vituperation, calling the Captain and his battery cowards,, and by other pet names not here to be re ported. "I, as Joe's immediate chief, as well as his elder brother, commanded him to silence and ordered him back to his gun." The elder brother worried aboul "Joe. He had visions of court martials and other disagreeable things. When morning came he appeared at Captain Elliott's headquarters at sunrise. "I entered headquarters with a de gree of trepidation which I had never felt before. "Captain Elliott was performing his ablutions as well as he could, with a big gourd for basin. He nodded and spoke with his head in the towel. " 'Good fight, wasn' t it? We have a lot of those fellows to bury this morning. Pretty good bag for three hundred and fifty-one of us, and it was mainly yuur battery's ganister that did it." "I changed feet and said, 'Y-e-s.' "I thought to myself that was about the way I should take to 'let a man down easy' in a hard case. "The Captain carefully removed the soap from his ears : then, turning* to me, said : 'That's a fighter, that brother of yours.' " 'Yes,' I replied; 'but, Captain, he is very young, very enthusiastic, and very hot-tempered; I hope-I hope you'll overlook-his~er-intemper ateness and : " 'Thunder, man, do you suppose I've got any grudge against a fellow that fights like that?' roared the gal lant Captain. "As I rode back through thc woods, it seemed to me about the brightest October morning that I had ever seen, even in that superb Carolina climate." In the story "A Family That Had No Luck" the Southern Soldier says: ""There were two instances of supreme heroism in the Civil War. One was upon the one side, thc other upon the ? other. "One was the charge of Picket's Southerners at Gettysburg. The other ! was the heroic series of assaults made i by the Northern troops on Marye's | Heights, at Fredericksburg. There are a few words of apt and j stirring description of the assault in thc last-named battle, and then thc : writer proceeds to his story of thc un- i lucky family. In the interval between i .the charges "an old man came iu bear- j ing an Enfield rifle and wearing an old pot hat of the date of 18?7 or there abouts. With a gentle courtesy .-that was unusual in war, he apologized to i the two men between whom he placed himself, saying 'I hope I don't crowd you, but I must find a place somewhere from which I can shoot.' ! "At that moment one of thc great I -assaults occurred. The old man used his gun like an expert. He wasted no bullet. He took aim every time and fired only when he knew his aim to bo effective. Yet he fired rapidly. Tom Booker, who stood next to him, said as the advancing column was swept away: 'You must have shot birds on the wing in your time "Tho old mau auswered: "I did up to -0 years ago: but thou I sort o' lost my sight, you know, and my interest in shoot in." " 'Well, you've got 'cm both back again,' called out Hilly Goodwin from down the linc. 'Yes,' said the old man. 'You see J had to. l t's this way : I had *ix boys and six gals. When the war broke out I thought the six boys could do my family's share o' the fightin'. TORIES. Southern Soldier Republic. Well, they did their best, but they didn't have no luck. One of cm was killed at Manassas. two others in a cavalry raid, and the other three fell in different actions-'long the road, as you might say. We ain't seemed to a had no luck. But it's just come to this, that if 'the family is to be repre sented the old man must git up his shootin' ag'in, or else one o' the gals would have to take a hand. So here I am. "Just then the third advance was f made. A tremendous column of heroic fellows was hurled upon us. only to be swept away as its predeces sors had been. Two or three minutes did the work, but at the end of that time the old man fell backward, and Tom Booker caught^im in his arms. " 'You're shot,' he said. ?: 'Yes. The family don't seem to have no luck. If one o' my gals comes to you. you'll give her a fair chance to shoot straight, won't you, boys?"' The story entitled "Two Minutes" relates to the firing of a mine. It seemed that all had been arranged and that the match had gone out. Some one must relight it, a dangerous thing to1 do. The General asked the Cap tain of the engineers to go in and light the match again. The Captain hesitated. Thereupon acertain young man touched his cap and said : "With your permission, I will go in and fire it." "Thank" you," said the General, "go!': , The mau picked up the torch and started into the mine. It seems that the slow-match had gone out within a very short distance of the powder magazine. But, disregarding that, he touched the torch to it, set it off again, and ran with all his might for tho mouth of the opening. "It was two minutes' work. The mine went off just before he reached the outlet, and the air pressure liter ally blew him out of it. He fell sprawling on his face. He was con siderably bruised and scratched in his contact with the gravelly ground, but was not in any serious way injured. Picking himself up. grimed as he was, he took off his ca]), and. dusting.him self like a schoolboy who has fallen iu the street, he approached the com manding officer and said : 'General. I have the honor to report that I have ?fited the mine, apd that it has gone off.' * . ' "The General touched his cap and replied: 'I had observed that fact, and I thank you very much. I beg to say that 1 will make an official report of the circumstance.' ''Two days later we all touched our caps to a freshly-made Brigadier Gen eral of the engineers. The Captain, who had hesitated, remained a Cap tain." The author tells the story of "My Friend Phil." Phil was a negro slave who belonged to a friend of thc writer. "He was a strong man, rejoicing in his strength always; but there was one'thing he would not do-he would not work for himself. "His master was one of those who hoped for gradual emancipation, as many Virginians did, and thought it his duty to prepare his negroes for freedom, so far as it was possible for him to do so. Among other means to this end, he encouraged each to make and save money on his own accouut. Each was expected to cultivate a 'patch' of his own. Their master gave them the necessary time and thc usc of thc mules whenever their crops needed attention. "In this way he thought to train them in habits of voluntary industry and thrift: and some of them, having no necessary expenses to bear, accu mulated very pretty little hoards of cash from the sale ol' their crops every year. Hut Phil would not raise a crop for himself. "" 'What I want to raise a crop for?' he would ask. 'Idon' want no money, ou y a quarter sometimes to buy a banjo string or a fish line, an' I get plenty o' quarters pitched at me when I hoi' de gentlemen's bosses. I don't waut no money, an' I wouldn't know what to do wid it if I had it. My mestah take good care me. au's long as dar s a piece o' meat in de smokehouse Phil knows he's gwine to have plenty to eat. I ain't gwine to earn no money, an' be eas''in 'flections on my mastah. My mastah gives me mo' clo os an 1 kin war out: an' what dc devil I want to be makio' money for. I dunno.' ' Phil did not want to be free. Ile remonstrated with his master, and when told that he was free by law. \ whether or no, I he tear: stream* d down his face. 'Tie wa.-a strong man physically, but thc- merest child in character, and thc feeling that he n<? j longer had anyone but himself t>> lean ? upon was more than he could ben. The light ol' cheerfulness and -rood ! humor went out of his 'face. The j joyousness of his nature disappeared, and before the summer had ripened into autumn pour I'liil lay down and died of a broken heart." New Core for Appendicitis. "Appendicitis?"' said the doctor who had lately moved here from the west. "Why, I left behind me reputation as an appendicitis expert that would be worth twenty thousand a year in Chicago."' "What's your percentage ol'cures?" asked the recently graduated M. D. "Just an even hundred per cent." "What are you giving men? There isn't a surgeon in the country who's never lost a case. Why even-'" "Yes; but I don't use the knife," said the other doctor interrupting. "Medical treatment, ch? Well, I don't hold much with that. It only alleviates. Doesn't cure. What's your method; oil?" "No. Just water." "Hydropathic treatment for appen dicitis! You must be crazy." "Who said anything about hydro pathic treatment? You hospital youngsters always want to build up a rour-st?ry name for everything, so as io charge more for the bill, I reckon, ['m telling you that I've saved 100 per cent, of my appendicitis cases by me use of water; and now, if you'll rive me a chance. I'll tell you how I lid it; but I wouldn't advise you to ?ollow my method. I don't follow it nyself." "Fire ahead," said the young doc ior. "To begin with the truth, my 100 per cent, consisted of one patient. Vppendicitis hasn't got fashionable mt our way yet. Few people know ibout it, and, in my opinion, it's one >f those diseases you don't get until rou. get to thinking about them." The young doctor looked wise. "In voluntary muscular action due to :ere-" "That'll do," interrupted the older nan. "I'll furnish all thc foot notes nyself. This patient of mine was a :hap named Dunby, a big, robust fel ow, a great eater and too lazy to take ixercise. Consequently his stomach ras troubling him. Well, one day he ;ot hold of a semi-medical paper con aning a long and grewsome article on tppendicitis. That was the first inti nation he had that he was the proud >ossessor of a vermiform appendix. Vs soon as he discovered it, it began o bother him. Re kept poking and >rodding himself to see if he had any >ains there, and naturally he made limself sore. One day he came down o niy office white as a sheet. "I've got it, Doc,' he said; Tve ;ot it.' " 'Got what?1' I asked. " 'Appendicitis. I can feel itswcll ng up. It must bc a lemon seed or iomething, thongh I've been careful mt to swallow anything of that sort.' " 'You've got a stomache ache, and hat's all,' I said. "'Stomache ache! Oh, if you :ould feel it. I'm a dead man.' "'You're a blooming fool,' 1 said, and you'll be a dead fool if you scare yourself into it. Lie down here and et me look you over.' "The result of my examination was ?uch as to assure me that Dunby was luffering from a bad fit of indigestion md scare combined. I tried to get nm to look at it that way, but he couldn't have it. That infernal mcdi ;al article was firmly fixed in his ap pendix vermiformis, and though I was satisfied there was nothing else there, ie was likely to die of it. I got him lome and returned to my office to ?moke a pipe over the problem, prom sing to return that evening. When [ got back there was a little blue nark on his abdomen. " 'Mortification.' moaned Dunby. "As a matter of fact, it was simply i slight bruise caused by his continu il prodding at himself, but I had formed my plan and proceeded to act apon it. " "You were right, Dunby.' 1 said. It's appendicitis. That mark shows t.' "'Oh, my God!' he cried. 'Semi Por my brother. I want to soc my nearest relativo before 1 die.' " *Vnu aron t going t.? die,' 1 said. 'You're going to be cured this very night. How's thc pain?' "'(?one Numbness of approach ing death, he gurgled. '?"Koop your nerve up." I told him. Then I went to a carpenter and had him set in a sort of reversed stocks over Dunby s bathtub, like the kind they used to set malefactors in, only they were contrived so that the man should bc held upside down, and they were padded to prevent his ankles from being hurt. When they were finished I mad'.' Dimby drink water until his eyes bulged out. 'If you drink a lot of water.' I ex plained t" him, 'ii will wash the for- j (.?.iii matter '"f "I' lin- appendix as j soon a- thai organ is reversed. S wal- j low evei'3' drop you can get down. ! "When Muuby had drunk tili lu j was pulled like a pouter pigeon my as- j sistanl and I look him ami hung him HU by I he feet over (!;<. bathtub. !t ! was a very bani job. too, for he was | heavy. Three times wc lilied him np. and three times wo li uni: bim up and made an inverted roaring cataraei mit of bim. 11 wa- prc I ty tongi: treat- j meut, but the moral elfect was grand, j As -null ;i- In- Was abb' tit talk ll'' as sured mr that lie wa- washed out clear tu I bc I ?ps nf his toes. < y J no man ever got a more thorough in bath. Just to make sure I turc him a fake x-ray and told him t pendix was clear. " 'Now,'said I,'all you'vc got t( take plenty of exercise, don't o1 and don't worry. "We'll leav carpenter's work there in eas have another attack.' "If you'll believe it, thc first Dunb3rdid as soou as he wa: enough to get around was to get and knock thc stock contrivat flinders. Such is the ungrateful of man. But he sent me a check I was almost ashamed to take talked about my wonderful skill I was afraid to be held up to thc tempt of the profession as an a tiser. My reputation was made. I don't expect to adopt that treat herc, and I shouldn't recommenc to try it in case of the real thing. "No; I'm not likely to," sail hospital doctor. "Of course I hardly tell you that the case you is one o?' hysterical involuntary : cul-" "I don't think you need," re] the other dryly. "If I'd told m j tient that the undertaker, not I, w have had his money. It don't ah pay to call a spade a spade when i double-barreled Latin-named sp You might write that in the fron your notebook. Yes; you're come."- Chicofjo later- <hean. - um *> m -? She Was in Mourning. He had asked her to be "his' and she had made up her mind 1 she had "worked out" long enou anyway. So she accepted him. was perfectly satisfied with her ph but she wanted to have a house of own. So they were married. It wasn't long afterward that came back to sec her former misti about something, and the latter ticed that she was wearing mourni Of course she was sorry for her, ? was rather surprised that she made mention of her bereavement. It is deed a grievous thing when a hon moon is cut short. Finally the former mistress brou* up thc subject herself. "You are in mourning, Maggie she suggested. "Yes," replied Maggie, comp ccntly, and with no show of feeling at all, "I thought it was thc leasl could do fer 'im." "It is showing no more than prot respect, of course. I am very son It must have been a great shock." "Great shock!" exclaimed Magg in surprise. Then, as she grasped t idea, she went on, "Oh, he ain't dead with the accent on "he." "You haven't lost your husband Maggie shook her head. "Then why arc you in such dei mourning?" . Just to please the poor lad," a swered Maggie. "You see, it's th way," she went on, when she had d cided to tell the story. "After v was married, he comes to me, an' 1 says, 'Maggie,' he says, "thc poor w man uiver had nobody to put on inouri in' fer her, an' I dunno that she teen treated right.' he says. 'Who says I. 'Mc first wife,'says he. 'SI was all alone in the world, exceptii fer mc,' he says. 'She had no wime folks to wear mournin' fer her. Ai so I says to him, 'I'll do it fer thc po( woman,' I says. An' herc I am." And thc best of it is that the stor is absolutely true. mm . mm. - Lawyer-"lam afraid you wi have a hard time proving your inn? cencc." Bill, the Burglar-"Well hang it! that's what 1 hired you fer. Children like it, it saves their lives. YV mean one Minute Cough Cure, the i ufa! li ble remedy for coughs, colds, oroui bronchitis, grippe and all throat and hm troubles. Evana Pharmacy. - Hoes my whistling disturb you?' "Oh, not in thc least. I'm used t hearing men whistle. I'm a collccto for a millinery house.'" - A schoolmarm says her ap scholars are not generally her rappe? scholar^, though sometimes they an rapt ones. It is a great leap from tho old lashionei duxes ol' blue-mass and nauseous physl to the pleasant little pills known as li Witt's Little l-'irly I Users. They euri constipation, sick headache and bilious ness, tl vans Pharmacy. - Thc two most awkward things ii this world is a woman holding a gui and a bachelor holding a baby. - Forty-four muscles are callee inty play in the production of tin human voice. Thirty-live years make a generation That is how loni: Adolph Fisher, ol /.anesville, < >., su tiered from jules. Ht was cured by using three boxes of De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. I'vans Phar macy. - The American liible Society prints or gives away about I,."?HU. Ot ld l?iblcs and Testaments a year. I II case II I' wa r t he seashore re sort s u'i'iM not bc i j II ?tc so popular next slimmer. M. I. Yocum, Cameron, Pa., says: "I was a siillVr.er lor ten years, trying uiosi all kinds of pile remedies, Inn without success I?eWitt's Witch Hazel Salve was recoin mended to me. I used ene It has ell'ected a permanent cure.*' a pennancut truro tor piles DeWitl's Witch Hazel Salvo has no oipial. ICvaus Pharmacy. - Kev. Francis Schneider, ol' New Vork city, claims to have manned 'l't\) couples dining the last two months, and as ho docs not accept less than *.'' for each service, he prob ably feels I hat "Blcsl i- I lie tic t hal binds.'" A Woman State Officer. Among the progressive women of the West Miss Estelle Keel, of Wyo ming, occupies a unique position. She is State superintendent of instruc tion, also register of the land board, and was elected to both these offices on thc regular l?epublican ticket, bc ? ing the only woman in the United States who has been elected to a State office. Miss Reel has been in Wash ington some weeks in the interest of thc land board of Wyoming. She is empowered with authority to negotiate the sale of the lieu lands from thc Government to her ?tate, which in turn, are sold to private in dividuals or corporations. It is frankly stated at the interior department that Miss Reel has trans acted the business in one-third thc time and with better pecuniary results to her State than has heretofore any masculine register of Wyoming. Miss Reel has been at thc Waldorf Astoria this week, not as a pleasure seeker in thc metropolis, but busily engaged in the interest of the educa tional part of her public duties. She arranges the curriculum of all the schools, selects text-books and ar ranges the school instituto meetings throughout her State. Ten years ago Miss Reel was a school teacher in Illinois, and, coing to W yoming for her health, became interested in its educational matters, till by rapid promotion, through thc recognition of her exceptional talents, she occupies her present high position. So popular is she in this State of equal suffrage that her political influ ence is clearly recognized as an impor tant factor by the Republican party, to which she belongs. She was expected as guest of honor at the West End Woman's Republican Club yesterday afternoon, but. being hastily called out of the city on busi ness, a letter of regret was sent, in which she said in part: "I have been looking foward to meeting the "New York women, of .whose intelligent interests in politics J have heard. The feature of your political work that has appealed to me most directly is the fact that it is carried on so entirely along education al lines; that you are always striving to enlarge the opportunities of the masses for education, believing that in that way the principles to which we adhere will be most permanently es tablished."- ?VCK: York Tribune. - The man who waits till he is bet ter before beginning a religious life, is like the debtor who supposes that it will be easier to pay his obligations after they have been doubled by accu mulated interest than it is now. - ';1 see by that sign," said thc man in the chair to the barber, ''that you hone razors for private 1150*." .'Yes, sir ; have you some that you want honed ?" ''No, but I was won dering why you didn't hone the razors you use on your customers." - Xever cry over spilt milk. The milkman has already wasted enough water on it. 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I will cheerfully recommend Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pro tcription to all invalid ladies." - Minnesota has a law to encourage tree planting. A bounty of $2.">u an acre is offered, and at least one acre must be planted, while no one person can collect for more than ten acres in a year or for more than six years. Any tree but the black locust may be planted. Last year bounties were paid to twenty-five coun ties for planting 9,524 acres. The law has been in operation sixteen years. In that time more than 100,000 acres have been planted in trees. - \n Oriental story tells us of a man who was asked to lend a rope to a neigh bor. His reply was that he was in need of rope just then. "Shall you need ita long time?" asked the neighbor. "I tbb k I shall," replied the owner, "as I am going to tie up some sand with if." " Po tie up sand !" exclaimed the would bH borrower, "I do not see how you can tie up sand with a roie." "Oh, you can do almost ?tn thing with a rope when you do not want to lend it," was the reply. - A stranger, on walking through the streets of China, for the l?rstlime, is puz zled, among other things, by the appear ance ol' jar* in various positions on the roofs of houses. A jar placed with its bottom end toward the street indicates L that the daughter of the house is not yet of age to marry. As soon as she has de veloped into a marriageable maiden the jar is turned with its mouth to the street. When the young lady gets married the jar is removd altogether. - The length of the coast line of the United States, aeeording to the coast sur vey, is "),71") miles, embracing '2,Zi)4 miles on the Atlantic Ocean, 1,"wo* on the Oulf ot Mexico and I.S10 on the Pacific Ocean. - For 3,000 years the Hindoo standard ol living has been almost the same tor rich r.nd poor. The rnjah's floors are bare, aud the rich man washes in the open air and dries himself in the sun like his poorer brother. - Daniel Webster said, ' One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate, but be must die as a man." ^?r-<l----Ol^^^ THE BANK OF ANDERSON. Vic Pay Interest on Time Deposits by Agreement.. Capital.SI 65,000 Surplus and Profits . - 100,000 Total ----- $265,000 OFFICERS. .1. A. Bi:ncK, President, .ins. N. Biiowx, Vice-President. ?1. F. M.ULDIX, Cushier. DIRECTORS, .r. W. Ko 1:1:is. i '. W. FAST. N. O. K.iKMKK. .I'>S. N. B?OWN. .1. A. BROCK. .1 G. DDCWORTII. J.J. FKKTWKLI.. J. M. Sl I.T.lVAN. B. F. MAULDIX. Haring the largest capital und surplus ol' any Hank in thc State outside ol' Charleston, wc otter cYpnsitors the strongest security. This applies io our Savings Depart nient, where we pay iniere.-t. as well as io active accounts We loan to regular depositor customers at our lowest rates. Private loans arranged without charge between our customers, and oilier investments secured ir hon desi red; Witn twenty-five years experience In hanking, aud willi unexcelled faci ides ai our command, we are prepared to <;ive satisfaction in all business I ra tractions, and will, as heretofore, tab*! care ol Hie Interests of our regular eu-tomcrs ai all times. A-F-R-I-C-A-N-A Absolutely CHITS Rheumatism. A-F-R-I-C-A-N-A Absolutely CUMS Scrofula. A-F-R-I-C-A-N-A Absolutely cures obi Sore*. A-F-R-I-C-A-N-A Absolutely cures Syphillis. A-F-R-I-C-A-N-A Absolutely cu tvs Exzema. A-F-R-I-C-A-N-A Absolutely ?-lires Constipation* A-F-R-I-C-A-N-A Absolutely cures ( Jatnrrh. A-F-R-I-C-A-N-A Absnlutclv CU H KS all Blood Diseases. dorsale by lOvans I'bartnacv and Hill Orr Drug Co. "VTOTICEOF FINAL SKTTLKMJ2NT, _iA The undersigned, Administratrix ol' the l?state of Jesse C. Monis, deceai eil. Iieteby ti ves notic- that she will on the IS h day of April. 1^!IS. apply to tilt' Judtre of Probate for Anderson l\ uti ly fora Final Settlement ol'said Estate and a discharge from brr office a? Admin istratrix. MA UV E OTT/.-. Adm'x. Vi arch tu. I-os. :,s .-> Corn responds readily to proper fer tilization. Larger crops, fuller ears and larger grain are sure to resul from a liberal use of fertilizer containing at least 7% actuai Potash Our books are free to farmers. GERMAN KALI WORKS, sa Nassau St., New York. i FOR ) LOW ) Texas, Mexico, California, ) Alaska, or any other point, ? < with FREE MAPS, write !? < to ] FRED. D. BUSH, j District Passenger Agent, iLisifi&NaslieKBi Drs. Strickland & King. DENTISTS; OFFICE IN MASONIC TEMPLE. $Sf* Gas and Cocaine used for Extract s g Teeth._ Cash [Buyers of Shoes will find it to their advan* tage to look into the val ues offered by the J. K. OER SHOE CO., Atlanta, A card addressed to W. E. Crook, Box 64, Spartan burg, will bring our sam ples. NOTICE. All] parties owing me notes and ; accounts are requested and'urgedtopaysame as soo as'possible. I, need my mo ey and will be compelled make collections early in th! season.I, Save the-trouble and expense of sending to see you. J. S. FOWLER. Stpt. 29, 1S!>7 14 1 . .?4 HONEA PATH HIGH SCHOOL. HAS olostd a most satisfactory year's work to both patrons and teachers, lg The outlook for the next Session premises >% even better result* How io secure the? best School is tb?? cona'ant study of thee teachers. Excellent library, modern ap-| paratus, live methods, anc^tiaincd teach- fl ing. Next Stssion opens Morday. Sept. S Otb, lbi>7. Beard in best Jamilies'at verySflfl low rates. For further information write to- J. C. HARPER, Prin., HoneaPath.S. C. 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