The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, April 03, 1901, Page 2, Image 2

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WAR SI JProminent Greorgian Union I J. H. Mccue, in It is no very unusual thing for a man to bc hauged, but oue to live through thc harrowing experience, or to revive and live for years after is something seldom heard of. Yet this was tho experience of .Judge Thomas Jefferson Smith, of Jasper County, Georgia, who was an honored citizen of that county for many years before aud after the tragic incident here related. Shortly before Sherman's raid in Georgia every hamlet as weii UH thu larger cities were daily expecting the pillage and rapine which indeed fol lowed. Forsccing that all visible property would be destroyed or in jured, an effort was made by numer ous planters to save their stuck and what ready cash they happened to have. Judge Suiith, who was at the time in his sixties, and, therefore exempt from service by reason of age, was en gaged at home, as was always his wont, in alleviating the wau*..-;!)!' those arouud him aud in superintending his farming operations and protecting as well as he could his business fruin the demoralization incident to the war. Expecting at uny time a visit from the federal soldiers, he secreted his money, amounting to some twenty thousand dollars in gold and silver, in thc walls of his bouse. Thc only per son sharing the knowledge of the hid ing pince being his aged mother, and a sister in an adjoining county. One day in tho fall of 1804 a company of 40 federal soldiers rodo up to the house and demanded dinner. They were shown every courtesy, not that Judge Smith was iu any way a truck ler, but beoauso he was at all times a thorough gentleman, treating all men as gentlemen. Some half dozen ser vants were set at the task of preparing dinner aud a sumptuous meal it WAS. While thc dinnor was in preparation tho soldiers busied themselves by going over the place stealing what they saw fit to and damaging or de stroying thc rest. When dinner was over thoy ran tho mules away aud took with thom thirteen fine horses. During this vandalism and robbery Judge Smith remained at the house as a protection and comfort to tho terri fied female memuers of his family. But when tho crowd was well oil ho started to his negro quarters, some distance from tho house, to ascertain just what damage had been done. His gin house stood near tho road, .which ho had reached when he was surprised to see a detachment of five ?of the men, who had dined at his borne, returning. He was not long in doubt as to their purpose. Thoy rodo up to him and hastily dismounting, addressed him roughly, saying: "Oh! you old gray-headed rebel; thought you had escaped did, you? Well, not muoh. We have come back to get that money you've got hidden away. Give us your keys and tell us where to find it." These sentences 'were laden with insulting epithets. The old gentleman regarded the ruffians fearlessly, and replied: "Gen tlemen, I havo treated you as my guests and mon of honor, doing my duty as my sense of politeness requir ed. You have repaid this treatment by robbing mc and damaging my property to a grevious extent. You are right in the surmise that I have money put away, uut you aro greatly - mistaken if you think that I can be intimidated into giving it up." 4?You refuse then? Well, say your prayers, old man. We will havo your life and the money, too," said one of th?. troopers, at the same timo un buckling his bridle rein. "I havo been praying for forty years. I am powerless in your hands. Do what you will." At this reply Judge Smith was seized, the bridle rein was slipped around his neok. Ho was oarried to the gin house only a few feet away and tho rein was thrown across a Liam. Two men laid hold of the im provised halter and as Judge Smith's body was drawn slowly upward he lost consciousness. When the Judge regained consci ousness be was lying face downward in the finely ground dust under the old gin house. It took bim some time to realize what had happened and to raise himself feebly to bis feet. Thc natter had been removed from hif neok, and nobody was in sight. When bo had proceeded a short distance toward tho house he saw his wifi coming toward him carrying his key? in nor hands and weeping. U?~~tw~ ~i..A- C.: ii. *v. vw uaugiuQ ???fv icw.au vu. yankees bsd taken his keys from bin and had gone to the house where thej displayed the keys . before the badlj frightened Women and demanded thai they show them where- the hiddei gold was. Mrs. Smith, knowing noth ing of the hiding place, was equallj POMES. who was Hanged by Soldiers. Atlanta Journal. unable as unwilling to give them any information, and their many threats to her were unavailing. lu thu mean while she was suffering an agony of suspense about her husband. She knew that the keys were his which he carried always on his person, there I foro when Bhe saw them sho apprc hended ut once that sonic ill had be , fallen him. To her passionate in ! quiries concerning him the ruffians turned thc car of stoics, and when she attempted to gc in search of birr.' they ' prevented her. Not until they had searched thc house thoroughly, with \ many imprecations the while, did , they leave. Needless to say they were unsuccessful iu finding thc hid den treasure. .Judge Smith never knew how long ' lie hung but said from thc time he was raised until ho regained consci ousness was about half an hour. There can bc no doubt that tho in tention of the brutes was murder, and : it is only the impatience of thc man I who owned thc bridle rein to be with his comrades that saved ?thc life of i the brave man. Thc shock he sustained was a most severe one, whijh required along time to overcome. In speaking of the in cident afterwards, Judge Smith said that his.previous ideas of death from strangulation were changed from this experience. He had imagined it a horrible and tortuous death, but said it was on the contrary quite easy aud attended with little or no pain. Judge Smith lived till about ten years ago. Ile died at thc agc of eighty-three, after a life of just works, charitablo deeds and courageous ac tions. - mm . m - Wounded at the Wilderness. I was a private in the Benjamin In fantry, Compauy E, Tenth Georgia Regiment, Scnimes Brigade, McLaw's division Longstreet corps. In our regi ment were three companies from Au gusta, one from Savannah and ono from Columbus, and one from each of tho following counties: Chattahoo chee, Wilcox, Pulaski, Columbia, Fayette and Clayton. To tho latter I belonged. Our reg.ment was com posed mainly of young men and it is doubtful if cither army could boast of a oommand which altogether was made up of botter or braver mon. We were fortunato in being trained and com manded by those superb soldiers, Generals Lafayette, MeLaws, Alfred Cumming and Colonel Leroy Napier, all We sc Pointers. Their rigid dis cipline and fino oharaotcr of thc men made up a regiment whoso courage, daring exploits and constant hard ser vice was unsurpassed. Wo had gono through thc snows, storms and bloody battles of Tennessee and wero lying near Gordonsvillo when, on the morn ing of May 6th, 1864, wc were called up beforo daybreak and hastily falling into linc, wo marched with a quick step in tho direction of tho enemy. After having gone four or five miles, we met them in a very thick forest of young pines and cedars. We quickly formed in lino of battle, but by the time we got in our places, the bullets were pouring through our ranks like a hailstorm; I had fired one shot and was reloading my gun when I was j struck in the forehead, by a minie r ball, whioh broke through my skull, but after it got through the skull ib ooomed to havo struck something more salid than bone, for it rebounded back in the direction from whioh it came. I saw the whole world flash up in a glaring blaze of flame and ten thou sand streaks of lightning glance in the sky, whioh broke up into millions of stars and they shot about in every dircotion like a swarm of living me teors in a grand cotillion. After theso sensations passed away, I re solved to become very serious and spend thc remaining moments of my life in a way benefitting my condition as a dying man, for I had no doubt that tho ball had passed through my head, and I knew that with suoh a holo through my head, it would be a useless waste of precious time to at tempt to hope for further life. I was lying face downward, with my head in a hole whioh looked like it had been dug out by a hog. The blood flowed from my wound and settling in the hole, formed quite a pool. I was i looking down in this pool of blood [ while I was trying to compose my > mind and direot my thought into a 5 serious strain, when my mind wander I ed off to a politician, who, at the be ginning of the war, offered to drink all the blood that weald be spilt sn thc war, and I eaught myself picturing to my mind this old man kneeling down to drink blood from my puddle. G ir army had advanced and left the deal and wounded, when some hospi tal men carno np and offered to carry r ] mo ont. I objected to being taken, as I would probably not live to reach tho held hospital: they had better attend to those whose cases were not so hope less. Being left entirely alone, I lay for perhaps another hour waiting for the grim reaper whom, I thought, had already very nearly finished his jen, but '-tie end didn't come, and finally I began to thiak that perhaps my case might not bo so bad-? -ould undertake to get up and stand on my feet, and if I succeeded, I would abandon the thought of dying entirely. I toek hold of some nearby bushes and pulled myself slowly ?.nd cautiously up, steadied myself, removed my bands from the bushes and stood; now I wanted to go to the field hospital, but the hospital men wero gone, so I started to walk; it was only half a mile, but I was so sick and weak that I stopped to rest, perhaps not less than two dozen times. I lay at the field hospital two days without much attention. Thc surgeon scoffed at the win? nf unnrlint? mn f.n tUo hoanit.nl- j>o spoke of my wound as a mere scratch and threatened to send mc to tho front; this was ono of his grim jokes, he. evidently thought that ? WHS done for and soon would bc beyond thc reach of human aid, I left him with out his permission, got aboard a train and went to Lynchburg and entered a hospital. 1 remained at Lynchburg about five weeks begging and pleading for a furlough, but no, my wound was too severe; they-must treat me them selves; ii tinily, I left them clandes tinely, boarded a train and went homo to (?eargia without furlough or pass port; couducters, surgeons, everyone seemed to think that death was grap pling with me and they would let us have a fair tight. Six weeks after be ing wounded 1 reached home; thc family physician opened my wound, removed thc fragments of bone and looking in tho mirror I saw my brain, and settled tc my o\ n satisfaction and that of seme anxious loving friends, tho question, which from my earliest recollections had been in doubt, as to whether I had any brains. -JJ. I. Walden, in Atlanta Journal. He Was There. Nr. lt. W. Whiteside!, of Smyrna, was in Yorkville Monday on business, and during a half hour in which he was rainbound at Strauss's store, he entertained thc writer with some in teresting war reminiscences. Mr. Whitesidcs was orderly sergeant of Company B, 12th regiment, and was with the regiment during all of its hot worg, when he was at home on account of wounds. "Oh, yeB, I was very much inter ested in that old Gaines's Mill casual ty list," ho said. "I was there, and speaking of Gaines's Mill, reminds me of a funny little incident. That morning I had found a partridge nest oontaining 13 eggs, and I put them in my Beauregard oap. During the bat tle wo were ordered to charge, and thc charge carried us through a swamp I bogged up and somehow my oap fell off, spilling my eggs, but did not break them." "And I guess you just went on," suggested a listener. "And I guess I didn't do anything of the kind," said Mr. Whitesidcs with a pitying look. ''It was a hot time there; but by that time I bac learned by experience that when I got hold of any/hing to cat, the propel thing was to hold on to it. I stud right there until I got all of thoa* eggs that I could find and then I went ?... i ? on. Mr. Whitesides oarries the soar of i bullet that wem through his left ea and plowed the flesh to the skull ant along the baok of tho head. Asket as to how ho had gotten the wound he Haid: "It was at Deep Bottom, or Fra tier's farm, the next Tuesday afto the battle of Gaines's Mill. Colone Barnes knew that the enemy was ii front; but did not know exaotl; where, and called for a volunteer to g forward and uncovor him. Somehow it looked to me as I felt oalled upo to ge, and I volunteered. I was in struoted to proceed ahead until I st1 the enemy's line, after whioh I was t fire and fall baok. Creeping along a cautiously as possible, I finally cam in sight of three lines-two of nif gora and one of whites, in the real I raised my gun and blazed away; ot before I oould turn around, there sam a volley and I went down. When oame to myself, I found dead an wounded men lying all about mo." Yorhvillt (& C.) Enquirer. The Best Remedy lar Rheumatism QUICK RELIEF FROM PAIN.-A who use Chamberlain's Pain Balm ft rheumatism are delighted with tl quick relief from pain whioh it afford When speaking cf this Mr. D. 1 Sinks, of Troy, Ohio, says: "Son limo ago I bad a severe attaok < i h cum otis m in my arm and ehouldo I tried numerous remedies bot got i relief until I was recommended 1 Messrs. Georgo F. Parsons A Cc drnaaiata of tina plann, tn irv Oh*! berlain'o Pain Balm. They roooi mended it so highly that I bought bottle. I waa soon relieved of i {?sin. I have oinoo recommended tl iniment to many of my friends, wi agree with me that it is the best rent dy for musoular rheumatism in t market." For sale by Hill-Orr Dr Co. Value of a Woman's Life. Thc recent decisiou of a Judge at Akron, Ohio, that the value of a wo man's life is $500, while that of a man it $10,000, has created not ?lone a ?a??ation. but something like sn in dignant uprising among the women of that vommuoity. They contend, and not without justice and reason, that the Court baa no right to lay down such a hard and fast rule, or to ap praise masculine and feminine lives by the rules whioh govern relative values of sheep and oxen. As a matter of faot, there are almost as many exceptions to such a general rule as that ot the Ohio Judge as there are men and women. When the law does not put an arbitrary, uniform valuation on their lives they must bu valued according to their astual or potential value to those who are or may bi dependent on them. If they are of no service to anybody then they are of no special value to themselves or any one else. It is cbjurd to say that every man's life is worth $10,000 when there are large numbers of men who arc of ns more value than a yel low dog, and it is equally absurd to say that every woman's life is worth but $500 when there aro large num ber? of women who are of no more value than a canary bird. If thc value of a man's lifo is to bc estimated by his services to the com munity, there are those whose loss cannot bc computed in dollars. So, too, are there women whose value to^ the community is above price. In fixing tho value of life, where the law has not fixed it, tho utility of that life is the fact to be considered. There is no other fair test, and deter mined by such a test there will be as many different prices as there are peo ple, ilaay women will be appraised as high as some men and some men may be appraised as high as many1 Women.-Chicago Tribune. His Defense. In a court room in a Western city, says an exchange, a tramp stood oharged with stealing a watoh. He stoutly denied the impeachment, and brought a countercharge against his accuser for assault committed with a frying-pan. Tho Judge was inclined to take a common-sense view of tho case, and, regarding tho prisoner, said: "Why did you allow the proseoutor, who isa smaller man than yourself, to assault you with a frying-pan without resistance? Had you nothing in your band with which to defend your self?" "Bedad, yoaf Honor," answered the tramp, "I had his watoh, but what was that against a frying-pan?" If you need a soothing and healing antiseptic application for any purpose uso the original DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, a well known eure for piles and skin diseases. Beware of oounter feits. Evans Pharmaoy.^ _ - Mauy u howling swell ia tko re sult of a defective tooth. Beware of little expenses: a small leak will sink a great ship. Money is prolific, thc first hundred saved earns the second. Fools uimke feasts, and wise men eat them. Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessar ies. Always taking out of the meal tub and never putting in soon comes to the bottom. If you would know the worth of money go try to borrow somo; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrow ing. Creditors have better memories than debtors; creditors are a supersti tious sect, great observers of set days and times. It is easier to 'build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. He tuai u?? uuuu done you a kind ness will be more ready to do you an other than ho whom you yourself have obliged. If you will not hear Reason, she will sureiy rap your knuckles. DeWitt's Little Early Risers are dainty little pills, but they never fail to cleanse the liver and invigorate tko system. Evans Pharmacy. - A boy boasts of what he is going to do when he becomes a man, and an old man brags of what he did when ho was a boy. Rheumatic pains are the enes of protest and distress from tortured muscles, aching joints and excited nerves. The blood has * been poisoned by the accumulation of waste matter in the system, and can nc longer supply the pure and health sustain ing food they require. The whole system feels the effect of this acid poison ; and not until the blood has been purified and brought back to a healthy condition will the aches and pains cease. Mrs. James Kell, of 707 Ninth,street. N. E, Washington, D. C. writes as follows: "A fe? months ago I had an nt tack of Sciatic Rh cama t ism in its worst form. The pain was so intense that S became completely pros- iflflw^ tret cd. The attack was an ??m unusually severe one, and BanfflB my condition was regard- fw JU^BB eil as bring very danger- WV ?R\ ous. I was attended by ?v \?r\ Bb? enc cf thc rno^t able doc- ^ Sjff? JBSBF tors in Washington, who is ?StgjBfaMsaT also a member of the fae- 3?BMH Hsflri ulty of a leading medical HHJ college here. He told me ?HBWBWBHSWB1HOT to continue his prescrip tions and I would get wru. After having it fitted twelve times without receiving tue slightest benefit, I declined to continue tua treatment ant longer. Having heard of S. S. S. ( Swif t's Specific) recommended for Rheumatism, I decided, almost in despair however, to give the medicine a iriul, and alter I had taken a few bottles I was able td hobble around on crutches, and very soon there after had so use for them at all. 8. S. 8. having rared me sound and well. All the distresstas pains have left me, my appetite has returned, and I am happy to be again restored to perfect health. tfgmmS jflBEfr jjPfa the gfeat vegetable ?T^ WLN purifier aud tonic, ia ^Stek ^am. ^fek tne *deal remedy in all tefcJsTfetJSf fetistWrheumatic troubles. ^m\\W *QSff? 1*Wm*tW There are no opiates ol minerals in it to disturb the digestion and leid to ruinous habita. Te have prepared a special book on Rheumatism which every sufferer from thia painful disease should read. It ia the most complete and interesting book oz the kind in existence. It will be sent free to any one desiring it. Write our physi cians fully and freely about your case. We make no charge for medical advice. * THE SWIFT SPECIFIC co., ATLANTA, GA. Reward With Proof to convict the man -who said we were GIVING AWAY PIANOS AND ORGANS. WE are selling so LOW and on such EASY terms that there war some reason in the report. But we must inebt that it is, to a certain extent, a mis ike. Next time you come to town drop in and shake hnn-.b with us. You know we handle SEWING MACHINES also. TEE C. A. HEED MUSIC HOUSE. D. 8. VANDIVBR. E. P. VANDIVBB Vandiver Bros. GENERAL MERCHANTS - AND - JOBBERS OP GROCERIES, NOT BR AQUINO, but giving you cold facts when we say that we can sell you that bill of Floor, Molasses, Dorn, Tobacco, Coffee and Hay, If j cu give us a rt asonable chance. DRY GOODS, SHOES and HATS At mighty interesting prices. Big line of extra choice Sample Shoes ant Oxfords soon to arrive. Ba eure to see them. Yours for Trade, VANDIVER BROS. Glenn Springs Mineral Water -FOR SALE AT EVANS' PHARMACY. npiiE GLENN SPRINGS WATER ha? been koowa for ova? * hundred years- ?ad JL recognised by the bent Physicians In the land aa a care eur? for diseases of the Liver, Kidneys, Bladder, Bowels and Blood. Romo of Ita remarkable cor? * wera brought before &ho notloe of the publia In toe Charleston Medical Journal la loi*. MK88B8. EVANS Pn&nuAOT-QER*K? : I have been a sufferer from Indigestion fox several yaam, aar* baa? found the CSA of yonr Glenn Springs Water of groat benefit to me, and can ooLddently recommend it to any suffering from ilka troublas. BU E. ALLEN STEIOKLMIll OEWTBST, OFPttfl-S--Frost Haems ayer Pans ers and Merchants Baak? , Tba opposite eat Illustrates Con tinuous Gam Teeth. Tba Ideal Plate-more cleanly than the natu ral tarah. No bad teat* or breath rom Platea of thia hind. ?^^^^ H For Infanta and CMlo>ep. |^^^M^^^^^^^^^^888figB 1??i@ SCinif ^fciu Huvs s Imitating tte Food and?etf ula- EB _ g ling the Stomachs aialBcwels of g| BoaiS t?6 i swwwgywl yVA Prornotea Diction JCheerful- S WM Br aeasandRest.Contain?nelUter S n?> Jfo Jidaf Oplwn.Morpliiiie nor Mineral. [JE UJL #|\ lar KOT'??ABLCOTIC. j?L\l?r 'OUJ*S?MUELHTCHSf? ^ aV/%?^ ?Ku. ? rv Jp*' In A pcrfccl Remedy for Constipa non, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea HI l&y ? Worms .Convulsions .Feverish- Bl lir FAu il ?BAU j ness and loss OF SLEEP. M \j* l?l UVRf ? Fae Simile Signature of | tm "'s a? *1 ^?gg^j Thirty Years unv ? vmn i TUB CBNT*UH COHfAWV. NSW TOR* CITY. . Come Across, Gentlemen! THERE is no use* holding out longer. We are the only real whole thing-in this white man's town. When in the rash and hastie of life it Lo comes necessary for business to be done, and that on business principles, v?o ] aro the gentlemen who rise to the emergency and do the thing up In proper j shape. -| We regret that it is necessary for our customers to bay CORN, HA? ] and OATS, but since it is they are to be felicitated upon the fact that on warehouses are chook full of the beet of those products, bought at such a prk? J that will be directly tprned to the advantage of our friends who buy of ai. Our reputation for liberal and fair dealing, together with oui bona fide gan- j antees on everything we sell, leave absolutely no grounds for h?sitation or doubt in the mind of a new customer. We have the prettiest WHITE MEAL ever brought to this place, and in the line of cheap FLOURS we challenge all comparison. We. can sell you any grade of this goods you want, except tho cheap, adulterated Floura sometimes offered in competition with ocr pure wheat goods. DEAN'S PATENT sales have increased 275 per cent this year over the same period last year. That's the way we keep a good thing going. We are offering some special bargains in DRESS GOODS, SHIRTS, SHOES and P ANTS in order to reduce Stock for new Spring Goods. Tier must go within the next thirty days, and our friends will gave money bj buying during thai time. This is no Cost Salo, but ia much ' cheaper .baa most so called cost sales. Always ready to serve yon, DEAN & RATLIFF E. GARDEN SEED. Suist and JTerry's. Remember when you go to get your Seed to get fresh ones. Ad this is our first year in the Seed business we ban, no seed carried over from last year. Yours, F. B. CRAYTON & CO. Near the Post Office. HARRIS LITHIA WATER Is the strongest natural Lithia / Water in the United States ! Which is shown hy the analysis ?nd issiimoatsls from thu mes? coted Phyrf* ciana of the country. Read what Major S. S. Kirkland, who h known bj almost every one in Sooth Carolina : HinnnDT?T.n ct r. A- in lOflA MB J T. H ABRIS- Dear Slr: I truly feel eo grateful for the benefit* derim from Harris LUbla Water that, were I able, I would like to erect a monument? commemorate Its virtues and curative cowers. For over thirty years I have been a fearful Bufferer from whet Ia known asfr stitts or Catarrh of the bladder and enlargement of the prostrate gland, canoed noa. exposure and hard horseback; riding danns tho war ?nd eines, too. My bladder constantly In 0 dreadful atatrof irrltat????, ? ?u-inu .? t. .estant deaire to urinate, pa* tlcuiarlv during the night. My urine ..*.??- ??'? * v?rv ?i?irk color, and tbtok with mr ons and deposits; sometimes as dark H . mi > ftruutc lye or black copper and of s vea disagreeable odor. I consulted my phi aiuiana. Some of them, the moat promu*? in the South, and I believe they did all they could s bat I never experlonoea ww slightest benefit from their od vice. Old remedies ead new remedies were aaa. Every known remedy I believe wea taken by me and, besides, vari?se mineral *? tera, bot to no effect, and for yean I struggled along ; ead I truly believe that * over thirty years I did not enjoy tea consecutive days free from pain or annoys w from this dreadful disease of my bladder, until finally about two or tbreo years ag I letdown and bad to give nr> my profession (civil engineering.) X bsd about ?*. cludod to "throw np tho eponge" and struggle no longer, when friends urgedI noe v try Harris Ltthia 8pringa, whtoh I finally ooneladed to do, more by way of obuflsj Interested friends than for any great mod that I expected from tba waters. to the 8prlnge, reaching thom about tba middle of Jan?, tired, atete and wita na* faith, bat determined to give the watara a fair and aa hones, trial, whtoh Edld.jw? I can truthfully and honestly ?tate that I wa? wall rewarded for 00 dolng.?for bes?? I left there I sfopt'-joasdly and was rarefy disturbad by calla of nature. I wac, ^ the first time in over 25 yeera, pawing clear, healthy Water-the reanlt of the F3 and wonderful curative powsra o? Karrie Utata Water. Too moobi cannot bea*1 for thia great health-restoring fountain of nature. ^ Toa are, gentlemen, at liberty to refer to me aa to tba great healiog props*? of your Harris 14thia Water, -.I have known of a number of other purtles who siw wegnaranteothatonoglRS?of Harria lethia Carbonated Water relieve any case of indigestion in ono minute's time or money refunded, cj^ taken after each meal will cure tho moat stubborn cass of indigestion, will you sager when voa have this guarantee ? The Harria lethia's Ginger Ale la superior to any other Als on the ts? ket, because it ia made from tho famoua Harris Idthia, and you receive m benefits of the Water besides getting the bea. Alo. EVANS PHARMACY can supply you with the Water in any quan?tf HARRIS l?THIA WATER 00" Harrte Spring, & <*