Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WAR S'i Mrs. i ?icketf* I >csc Ch: A?- thu ?lays lengthen thc anniver sary of Gettysburg, July-1, 2 ami draws near. Soon survivors and mili tary experts will be lighting the hatti-.' ..ver again. Today a forest of monuments, the most beautiful in the world, covers the miles of battlefield, overlooking a vast panorama of landscape, where American history began a ne?- chapter for free government. Mrs. La Salle Corbcll Pickett, widow of General Pickett, thc hero of Pick ett's charge at Gettysburg, when re quested to make a brief statement ol her husband's heroism in connection with that memorable charge, said: "I have written a look about Gen eral Pickett and his men, and 1 do not think I eau improve upon what I said in the chapter on the 'Third Hay at Gettysburg.' The final charge was described by Mrs. Pickett thus: "Dauntlessly Pickett's men pressed forward, the grandest coluuiu of he roes that ever made a battletield glo rious. They reached the post and rail fence, upou thc other side of which, and parallel to it, au ordinary dirt road ran straight through the field across which they were advancing. "Thc fence was but a momentary obstruction. It was but thc work of a few seconds to climb over it aud in to tlx road, while a hundred blazing can ri poured death-dealing missiles in . fsir devoted ranks. ? .Nu?? and herc was givcu to the j world the grandest exhibition of disci pline and endurance, of coolness and ! courage under a withering fire ever j recorded in military history-a scene which has made the story of Pickett's charge the glory of American arms. There in the road, with the deafening explosions of unnumbered shells filling the air, their ranks ploughed through and through agaiu and again by the fiery hail which the batteries from the heights beyond were pouring into them, amid all this terrific roar and ! the not less disconcerting cries of the wounded and dying, they heard the command of their company officers : 'Halt, men ! Form Hue ! Fall in ! Right dress !' "Now they broke forward into a doublo-quick, while canister aud grape whirred and whizzed through the air. On, on thoy rushed toward the stone wall where the Federal bat teries were pouring forth their deadly missiles. A hundred yards away a flanking force came down on a run, halted suddenly and fired into the line a deadly storm of musketry. Under this cross-fire they reeled aud stagger ed between fulling comrades, aud the right came pressing down upon the center, making the line at this point twenty to thirty deep. A few, un able to resist temptation, without or der?, faced the enemy on the right, though thc latter were sixty to one. "The fighting was terrific. Musk ets seemed to cross. Men fired to-thc right and to thc front. The fighting was hand to hand. The firing was into thc enemy's faces. 'The Federals in front fell behind their guns to let them belch their grape and canister into the oncoming ranks, piling up the dead and wouud ed almost in touch of them. When within a few feet of the stone wall the aitillery delivered their last fire fr?, a the guns shotted to thc muzzle. "Victory was within their grasp. Alas! where were the promised sup ports? Worn and exhausted by the tension of the bloody fighting of the day before, in which they had suffered terribly, their leaders dead or wound ed, they had crumbled away under ihe deadly hail of the artillery fire. "Of thc 5,000 who had followed where the fh?h of Pickett's sword led the way to glorious victory or not less glorious defeat, 3,500 had gone down to the soldier's triumphant death, to live forever in our hearts and on the fame-crowned pages of tLcir country's history. " W.UAT GEN. SICKLE? SAW. (ii Pickett's famous charge General Sickles writes for The llepublic : What is commonly called "Pickett's charge," July 3, 1863, at Gettysburg, was really an assault made by General Longstreet's command, by order of General Lee. The troops engaged consisted of Piokett'? Division of Virginians, of Longstreet's Corps and Heath's Division of Hill's Corps, un der thc command of General Petti grew, Hill having been wounded on July 1. I? support of these two divisions wer- Wilcox's and Perry's brigades of And^y -ia's division, supporting Piok j?tk's ??gT>and Lang's and ScaleB's "brigades of Pender's division, com manded by Gonoral Trimble, support ing Pettigrcw's left. Longstreet's at tacking forces contained eleven bri DRIBS. ri]ilion ot C^ettysburg arge. gados, numbering about 15,000 ineu, most of these brigade.-) having been greatly reduced in strength by the lighting ol' thc two previous days. Of these eleven brigades eight belong i il to Hill's Corps, only thp.-e of them belonging to Pickett's Division. Longstreet had no confidence in thc euceess ?>i his assault, and while dis cussing the plan with General Lee ex pressed thc opinion that "fiftcuu thousand men who could make a suc cessful assault over that held had never yet been arrayed for battle."' Nevertheless thc assault was a bril liant feat of arms, seldom, if ever, sur. passed <ui any battlefield. It was wit nessed by more than ir>i),<H)i? combat ants belonging to thc two armies. It was overtured by one of the most terrille cannonades on both sides ever heard ou any battlefield. Over 220 guns were in action. ?Since the battle of Crecy so many cannon had never been engaged at ouce on any battle field of the world. it was an epoch in the annals of war. No soldier had heard its like before. Thc cannonade did little harm on either side, notwithstanding the noise ii made. It was "sound und fury signifying nothing." The thun der of the conflict was plainly heard forty miles away. But the men in the ranks under stood clearly thc desperate, hopeless character of thc movement, and along the '.ines many of them were heard in subdued voices calling "good-by" to comrades and friends. Yet, with their rifles carried easily at a right-shoulder shift, they moved inward with a light, elastic step, as steadily as if on a grand review. As Scales'? brigade passed General Lee he noticed that some of the tuen wore bloody band ages, having been wounded in the previous day's fighting, and he ex pressed himself feelingly in their be half^ Along'the Fniou position on Ceme tery Ridge the soldiers were watching eajrerly. The long line of the enemy's infautry, as it debouched from the woods on Seminary Midge, presented one of the grandest sights ever seen on a field of battle. Its front was nearly a mile in length. There were no gaudy uniforms, but there was precis ion of movement and an air of disci pline that d-ew the admiration of each soldier who awaited their com ing, while from the gray and glittering Hue waved in blue and red the "me teor flag" of tho Confederacy.-St. Louis Republic. Higher Authority. An Irishman, about whom the De triot Free Press tells, had enlisted in the cavalry service, although he bad never been on a horse in his life. Ile was taken out for drill with other raw recruits under command of a ser geant, and, as luck would have it, se cured oue of thc worst buckers in the whole troop. "Now, my men," said thc sergeant in addressing them, "no one is allow ed to dismount without orders from a superior officer. Remember that." Tim was no sooner in the saddle than he was hurled heels over head through thc air, and came down so hard that the breath was al most knockod out of him. "Murphy," shouted thc sergeant, when he discovered the man spread out on the ground, "you dismount ed!" "I did." "I>id you have orders?' "I did." 'From headquarters, I suppose?" with a sneer. "No, from hindquarters." "Take him to the guardhouse!" or dered the sergeant. Thc Youngest Spy. Henry S. Garr, no.v a deputy at the county jail, was one of the youngest spies in tho service cf cither side in the war between the North and the South. At the age of 10, Mr. Garr received his first instruction. It was the year that the Louisville forts wero built. The order for all able-bodied men of certain ages to as sist in the construction of the forts had been issued, and many Southern sympathizers were looking about for some way to evade the edict. Judge S. A. Garr, father of the deputy jail er, openly declared that he would do no work for the soldiers from the ! North. He also declared that his ne groes should not help build the forts, and thc officers in command of the Federal troops heard of it. A squad of soldiers was despatched at double quick time to the Garr homestead, which was within a hundred yards of Western Park. When thc soldiers arrived they found a barefoot boy sitting upon a If ri? . ?---i. He wai swinging Iii- legs ?tm] whistling us only some boys can. ,\ iii .:(< m ni was i:. charge <.! tho sol on v( lu when i if saw boy. i iv inquired for Judge \ Thc Loy shook his head ! answered that, hu did not know j the Carr and him. Tho soldiers passed. An hour later they returned and the boy was still upon thc gate post. All day thc sol diers searched in thc woods and all day thc boy sat upon the gate post. The following morning the soldiers re turned and again the boy was upou thc gate post. "I sat there about four days," said Mr. <Jarr. "My father and several neighbors and all of their negroes were hid in thc woods, and by means of a signal code we were able to communi cate with one another. "Two or three men were stationed in the treetop?. We all had white handkerchiefs. I watched thc soldiers. One wave meant that they were in thc neighborhood, two meant that they were leaving, and three meant that they were not in sight and that all was wei!.-Louisville Courier Journal. Thc Loss of Two Sheep. "A good many years ago," said a well known Michigan lawyer who waa reminisccuing the other day, "I be came greatly interested in a state prison case. A young farmer was charged with having driven off ten out of a flock of twelve sheep and- sold them to a butcher. He put up a fair defense, but was couvicted and sen tenced to a term of three years. "There were plenty of people who believed that he was perfectly inno cent, and even the butcher who bought the sheep came in time to doubt if he had identified the right party. After the case had stirred up a whole coun ty I took a hand in it. In my peti tion to the governor I had the evi dence of the young man's father, mother and sweetheart, and I got eight of the jurors to sign it. I made out such a good case that tho gover nor took it under advisement and finally agreed to issue a pardon. In speaking to me of the case he said: " 'There is no sort of doubt in my mind that this was a case of mistaken identity, and I shall be only too glad to restore thc young man to liberty.' "It became my pleasant duty to drive seven miles over the muddiest of roads to bear the news to the par ents that a pardon was to be issued. The old man was under the weather and in bed in a room off the parlor, The wife received me and sobbed over the good news and then went in to her husband. That partition wall was thin, and they both spoke in loud tones, and I plainly heard her say: " 'Uh, Samuel, there's a man here who says our John is to be pardoned tomorrow!' " 'You don't say!' he exclaimed. " 'Yes; it's certainly so.' " 'Going to be pardoned right out, eh?' "Yes; he is.' "'Wall, wall, that's good news. Say, Mary, what a fool John was not to get thc other two sheep while he was about it.' "I left the rejoicing farmhouse, in tending to wire tho governor to with hold the pardon," said the lawyer, "but it presently struck me that I had advanced ribout 20 good reasons why the young man couldn't be guil ty, and I therefore decided to sing small and lot things go on. He was duly pardoned aud sent home, and the governor never met mc for years after without congratulating me on rehabilitating an innocent man wrong ly convicted! '-Detroit Free Press. - It is easier to recover lost money than lost time. Family cares and duties do not weigh down the well woman, and the children are never in her way. But when the womanly health fails, and there is a con stant struggle with weakness and pain, household duties are a burden almost past bearing, and children are a cease less annoyance and worry. Weak women are made strong and sick women are made well by the nae of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It establishes regularity, dries disagreeable drains, heals inflammation ana ulcera tion and cures female weakness. Sick women are invited to consult Dr. Pierce by letter, 'ree. All correspondence strictly private and sacredly confidential. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. "1 had been ailing ?jome time, troubled with female weak ne?*," writes Mr?. Wm. H. Johnson, of Avondale. Chester Co.. Pa. ?Kvery month I woutd have to lie on my back. I tried tunny different medicines and nothing gave me relief unUl I begin Dr. Pierce's medicines, using two bottles or ' Favorite prescription ' and two of 'Golden Medical Discovery.* These medid nea have cured me. When I began your treatment I was not able to do very much, but now I do the work for my family or nine, and feel better to-day than I have for n year. I thank you. doctor, from the bottom of my heart, for well do I know that you are the one who cured me." ?Favorite Prescription" has the testi mony of thousands of women to its com plete cure of womanly diseases. Do not accept an unknown and unproved sub stitute in its place. . Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the best laxative for family use. from One .Motlier. "A woolan of criminal tendencies, j who.-ic occupation was the keeping of I a disreputable house, aud whose 1 habits wert; of thc lowest, including < excessive indulgence in alcoholic stimulants, died when 6he was 51 years old. That was in 1827. Her descendants have now been traced. They number 800. "Seven huudred of them are crim inals, having been convicted at least once. j "Three hundred aud forty-two of them are drunkards, acknowledged by | all as such. "One hundred and twenty-seven j arc immoral women. "Thirty-seven of them were mor- j derers ami were executed for their crimes. "This family has cost the nation | ?3,000,000, this being the sum paid out for theil' trials and executions." i -Mrs. M. J. Annable, State super intendent of rescue work of the Wo men's Christian Temperance Union. ? Mrs. Annable gave these startling statistics yesterday at tho annual con vention of the New York County "Wo man's Christian Temperance Union in the Church of the Saviour, Hast lO'.Hh street, near Madison avenue. Mrs. Fraciu A. Westerfield, president of thc county, presided at the meeting. It was in pointing out the tremen dous necessity for rescue work that Mrs. Annable cited the case which so shocked her hearers. "The community, humanity as a whole," she said, "is vastly affected by the saving of one person now. What can I say to you that will more strongly emphasize the value of mis sion work than what I have just told you of the awful influence on future generations of one woman who pur- | sued her evil way to end? "What a glory it would have been if that woman could have been res cued when she was young. Mrs. Annable said the statistics in regard to this remarkable case have been carefully preserved. She did not care to state the m>mc of the wo man, for the sake of the 100 descen dants who have escaped the evil hered ity, and are respectable members of society. The statistios, she said, had i beeu gathered in Brooklyn.-New York Herald. - mm - - Cures Blood and Skin Diseases, Itch ing Humors, Ezema, Scrofula. Send no money-simply write and try Bontanic Blood Balm at our ex pense. A personal trial of Blood Balta is better that a thousand print ed testimonials, so don't hesitate to write for a free sample. If you suffer from ulcers, eczema, scrofula, '/lood Poison, cancer, eating sores, itching skin, pimples, boils, bono pains, swellings, rheumatism, catarrh, or any other blood or skin disease, we advise you to take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.). Especially recommended for old, obstinate, deep seated oases of malignant blood or akin diseases, because Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) kills the poision in the blood, cures where all else fails, heals every sore, makes the blood pure and rich, gives the skin the rich glow of health. B. B. B., the most per fect blood purifier made. Thoroughly tested for 30 years. Costs $1 per large bottle at drug stores. To prove it cures, sample of Blood Balm sent, free by writing Blood Balm Co., At lanta Ga. Describe trouble and free medical advice sent in sealed letter. B??yThis is an honest offer-medicine sent at once, prepaid. Sold in An derson by Orr-Gray Drug Co., Wil hite & Wilhite, and Evans Pharmacy. - Ex-Governor Morrill's apple orchard in Kansas now contains over 04,000 trees, and is said to bs the largest single apple orchard in the ! world. Eight thousand trees have ' been set out this spring. i - One sure way to tell whether a 1 man is a liar is to see how mad he 1 gets when he thinks you have called . him one when you haven't. J HAR PERFECT, ROMAN Ti A. tremendous stock of these no CAR LOAD Just received and more en route to us. farmer friends with the best that can be which to wage the warfare against erat afford to enter into this fight unless he is We can fit you up with an; Implen your crop. By availing yourself of this offer y work and not let it push you. His Otlii-r Name. A bright-looking 1-year-old boy of this city, playing on thc Atlantic City beach last Summer, struck up a pass ing acquaintance with a group of little girls about his own age, says the Philadelphia Times. The mother of one of thc girls, chaperoning the party, was taken with the pretti ness of their new playmate, aod asked him: "What is your name, little boy?" "Jack." "Jack, oh? Jack what?" ,:Jus' Jack." "Oh, no. child! You must have another. Now, what is it?-Jack what?" "Oh, I know!" he joyfully cried. "It's what mama says-Jack Be have!" _ _ When he Would Suffer. On a wet night recently there was a jam of passengers on a south-going tramcar. A number were standing on the rear platform, among them ono whose dog's felt hat proclaimed him a parson. An Irishman with a short c'ay pipe climbed on, and he was hard ly on board when the clergymau said: "There must be no smoking here." "Sure, the wind is blowing it back as fast as I'm making it," said I the Irishman, "an' it's dishturbin' no wan." "lt doesn't matter. There's no smoking here. You must go up above." "Very well," said Paddy, as he took the first step towards climbing up aloft, "there'll perhaps come a time when you will get a dry sate below, an' it'll be more fire than smoke that'll bother you then!" And the other passengsrs roared. Head it in his Paper. George Scbaub, a well known Ger man citizen of New Lebanon, Ohio, is a constant reader of the Dayton Volkszeitung. He knows that this paper aims to advertise only the best in its columns, and when he saw Chamberlain's Pain Balm advertised therein for lame back, he did not hesi tate in buying a bottle of it for his wife, who for eight weeks had suffered with the most terrible pains in her back and-could get co relief. He says: "After using the Pain Balm for a few days my wife said to me, 'I feel as though born anew, and before using the entire contents of the bottle the unbearable pains bad entirely vanish ed and she could again take up her household duties." He is very thank ful and hopes that all suffering like wise will hear of her wonderful re covery. This valuable liniment is for eale by Orr-Gray & Co. Training of Children. It will not do to preach to little folks and fractice the opposite; chil dren are keenly observant of inconsis tencies; they are perfectly literal; to make them otherwise is to first teach them to say what they do not mean; then they are punished for being un truthful, when the fact is they have heard you do as much many a time, with no one to punish you for it. So the mistress of her home and her ohildren, to say nothing of her maids, and perhaps men, will do well to cul tivate a broad, kindly, large way of looking at and criticising the faults and feelings of ail humanity, that she may not bc horror-stricken some time at a chance remark of ono of her' wee tots, in which she can, if she be quito honest with herself, see the logical result of her practices, not her preach ings. _ Of what does a bad taste in your mouth remind you? It indicates that ./our stomach is in bad condition and will remind you that there is nothing so -ood for such a disorder as Cham be; .din's Stomach & Liver Tablets after having once used them. TLey cleanse and invigorate the stomach ind regulate the bowels. For sale at 25 cents per box by Orr-Gray & Go. IRRELL, KLONDIKE. w in our warehouses. OF HOES We are prepared to furnish our found in these United States with )-grass. No progressive farmer caa i fully prepared. lent you need to thoroughly cultivate ou will be in a position to push your AYe?elable Pr eparaliorifor As similating tte Food andBegula-' ting theStomachs artdBoweis of 1N??-N I s/( Hil. 1)HKN Promotes DigesHonXheerfur nessandRest.Corttains n.ei?ter Opium.Moipl?ne nor Mineral. NOT "NARC OTIC . J*apc of OldJlrSAMUELPiTCJOIl pumpkin S tr ii' sllx.Sf/lM * l?xkelU Sato - sinise Xrett * OatkmiSu?ar ii??narmen. novar. Aperfecl Remedy forConslipa Tion, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Feverish I ness and Loss OF SLEEP. j Facsimile Signature of NEW YORK. Ti I For Infanta and Children The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature . A.I b nYo.i Hi?, iii ti; . fi in Use For Over Thirty Years \ I EXACT CO0^QPWpARi?ER. TM* "ENTAun COMPANY. WW? VORR CITY. D. 8. VANDIVER. J. J. MAJOR. E. P. VANDIVER. Vandiver Bros. & Major., DEALERS IN BUGGIES, SURRIBS, PHAETONS, WAGONS, Harness, Lap Robes, Whips, Etc. ANDERSON, S. C., APRIL S, 1902. WE have a large and beautiful line to select from and our PRICES ARE RIGHT. COME TO SEE US. VANDIVER BROS. & MAJOR. JUST A WORD About Something that should Interest You! !!!!!! WE HAVE A FEW SECOND HAND UPRIGHT PIANOS ! Some you would readily buy for new. BARGAINS THESE. A big lin? of Squares for practice work ; you will find they fill the bill as-well as a nen one. At from 819.00 up. OUR ORGAN DEPARTMENT is running over with good things. You should see them and get prices. A few special bargains if you come at once, OUR SEWING MACHINE DEPARTMENT is by far the largest in tho State, and more Standard varieties are here to select from. Here are bar gains in second-hand Machines that you ought to pick up. Come in when in town, and we will take pleasure in showing you through. THE C. A. HEED MUSIC HOUSE. fife [ A Well Furnished Home Is not necessarily an expensively furnished one, as at TOLLY'S band some, even sumptuous, FURNITURE is procurable without great outlay not that we deal in knocked-together, made-to-sell sort, but because we are content with a reasonable profit.on really good articles of Furniture Our best witness ia the Goods theni Yours truly G. P. TOLLY & SON, The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers, Depot St., Anderson, S. C. A. G. STRICKLAND, DENTIST. OFFICE-Front Roams over Farm en and Merchants Bank. The opposite ont illustrates Con tinuous Gum Teeth/ The Ideal Plate-more cleanly than tba natu ral teeth. Ko bad taste or breath ?rem Pis'-a of thia kind* A LONG LOOK AHEAD A man thinke it ia when the matter of life insurance suggests itself-but circumstan ces of late have shown how life hangs by a thread when war, flood, hurricane and fire suddenly overtakes you? and the only way to be sure that your family ia protected in case of calamity overtaking yon ia to in sure in a solid Company like The Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Go. Drop in and see us about it J*~ ? M. Ht?Lm MATTISON, f. STATE AGENT, Peoples' Sank Building, ANDERSON B. O.