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WAR Si Some War Time Exp Thompson of '. The Atlanta Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, is doing a good and far-reaohing work in having read be fore its meetings papers giving per sonal exp?riences of tt?o civil war. These accounts of illustrative inci dents and happenings give valuable sidelights on tho history of the war that will be treasured in time to come. Now and then one of these papers has been published ou this page of thc Journal and the following is ono of this historical series and was read by Mrs. A. J. Smith, though the inci dents are from tho experience and were written by her mother, Mrs. J. C. Thompson, of Newnan: I shall not attempt a full acoount of the incidents that marked the dread ful period of tho oivil w;.r, for such an account would fill a volume; but shall content myself with the relation of tho more striking things that aro still fresh in my memory. Nor shall I at tempt any style of narration that would appeal to thc literary critic, but shall give, in a simple statement, the oiroumstanocs that affected most of our home life, and caused the wo men of tho land tho greatest perplexity and anxiety as they tried to meet the %Remands of the cause, and thc loved ones that went to the front. My experience covered tho whole time of the unsuccessful Htruggle. My husband was a volunteer in com pany A, First Georgia regiment, and hit enlistment was the beginning of that trying time, in which were expe rienced the difficulties of managing homo affairs. However, the pressure of home responsibilities was counted as nothing compared to the awful sus pense that always followed the news cf hard-fought battles, particularly those in wbioh Stonewall Jackson's division was engaged in West Vir ginia. In addition to the horrors of being under the rain of shot and shell in battle, there was the terrible ordeal of heat and oold, gnawing hunger, and the weakness which ensued from such privations. But the courage and pa triotism of the wives and mothers at homo was the grand inspiration to the soldiers-not (?es powerful than tho victories gained in fighting for tho in dependence of our beloved South and its institutions. To bring this narration to to an in dividual experience I can only relate a few incidents whioh are light com pared to what was endured by thous ands of women who were on the bor ders and in the midst of the conflict. Of course all the women of the South oould not be Joans d'Aro, for they had to flee from homos for the safety of children and the helpless. Along , in 1861-2 interior Georgia bad but lit tle experience of the invasion of the army. Later on, when our forces be gan to retreat from the western foe, this section began to feel the distress. Hospitals were located in vacant busi ness houses, and this gave the women a more realistio idea of the horrors of war. Small detachments of the North ern army would make sudden and un ? expected raids. About this time we oould hear of nothing but battles, and no news from my husband; entirely out off as we were from communication with the army in Virginia, as Sherman's army was around Atlanta. All my woes were the experience- of many others. Sherman's maroh through Georgia was ^opposed by only afowskirmishers, and ? tras a merciless despoiling of every I thing that lay in his Iraak. When the end of the war was felt to be near . at hand, all was gloom and distress whioh soon culminated in the news that Gen. Robt. E. Lee had surren . dered at Appomattox. After the surrender some of the sol diers of the North who had been ex . ?banged, and had gotten under their . commandfT, had a skirmish here, and were captured in this plaoe, they were marching dowu from the mountains under orders to burn the town and not leave ts much as a chicken ooop. Some old citizens rode out to the Chattahoochee river with a flag of truce, and after an explanation, the buming order ras countermanded. The oommanding officer told his sol diers if they molested any property they would be severely dealt with. I had heard no news from my hus band all these long months, and it was weeks before he got home, as he had to walk most of the way. When he j ??me it was 'with difficulty that I re cognised him. Just here, I will men tion one experionoe of his on July 9, 1864, at the battle of Monocassy, Va. <5cn. Clement ?. Evans waa danger ously wounded-shot through the .aide, and fell nnoonsoious over his {horst's head. My husband and his brotuer. Young H. Thompson, quickly improvised a litter, placing their dear and beloved general upon it, forded ' the river with him, and thus saved him from falling into the hands of the gerny. ORIES eriences of IVLrs. ?X. O. Newnan, Gra. Among the incidents more directly personal I mention the following: After war was deolared between the North and South, it was but a short time before business mattera wcro in a panic. My husband rented our home to av.il ourselves of the advan tage of the rent it would bring during his absence in the army, and moved eighteen miles away to a place known as the old Chair Factory on the Chat tahoochee Uiver. Thc dwelling house there was situated on the border of a dismal swamp and there were no looks to the doors. Mr. Thompson enlisted in the army in 1861, and went to Vir ginia. The parting was almost like taking away my life. Wo left our household effects at the river in care of a r?iwly married oouple. The gen tleman considering himself exempt from service in war. Afterwards, however, the groom, rather than be conscripted, joined a company and vt".n off to the war also. This ail hap pened within a month. Meanwhile, I was resting content about our things being in such good care. I went with my husband to Atlanta, and spent a month there after ho left. After my return, I found my house in Newnan had been rented to another party. In tho most imploring manner, I besought the tenant to vueate my home, having engaged another house and proposed to pay the expense of his moving to it. Ho coldly replied that he had rented for the year and would keep it until tho time expired. My counsel lor advised me to go on to the river, as the time would be only two or three months. And this I did, with a heart full of sorrow at tho thought of living iu that dismal placo. By the kind ness of a gentleman friend, who was going out that way, I and my three children wore carried there. It was a tearful ride. It was dark when we reaohod the nearest neighbor's houeo. The good woman of the house told me I muBt not think of going there at all to live with little children and kindly offered me two rooms in her house un til I oould get baok to Newnan. The offer was gratefully accepted, and we dwelt together most harmoniously. The mail only reaohed us by chance, and this ke?. t me anxious. To my joy, after two months I reoeived no tice that my house in Newnan was va cant, and w friend who was going there with two large empty wagons, offered to move mo in. I found my house oleao, and there was a good supply of provisions on hand-flour, sugar, butter, baoon and candles to light no on into another month. That gave me a brave start. The war waB on in truth by that time, and then it was work in earnest. First of my work was making coats, trousers, and other wearing apparel for the soldiers, which was more pro fitable than carding and spinning. After a time, hats were needed both for women and men, and I beoame quito enthused with that kind of work. The first kind of head-dress for wo men was the shaker bonnets, made of oat Btraw, pasted on stiff foundation made of old oloth. Then came the demand for soldiers* and men's hats. ?3very kind of woolen oloth available waa put into hats. People would bring old oloth coats to be made up into hats. We finally grew tired of ibo "shakers," and began plaiting pine straw, dying it blaok and sewing it together, and this grew to be quite a business. Io fact, we made some real nice hats, and oould not fill all the orders. Mr. Thompson's sister in-law made soldier clothes with me until it got to be rather humiliating work, as wo had togo personally after it to Atlanta. The railroads would let us have season tickets at reduced rates. The work beoame disagreeable ou account of the rash and jam to get it, DO it waa dropped, and the hat buniness was taken up. This was found muah more profitable. A large encampment carno tc New nan. My oow was well kept around tho provender wagons, and I realised a good profit from the increased quan tity of milk. The offioers in oamp near me would exohange coffee for buttermilk. I was very saving with it, and drank wheat coffee, the ub stanoe now called postum. My expe rience with it during tho war makes it distasteful in spite of its changed name. My coffee was very prcoious, I and was saved for sickness, if such a calamity should befall me or my fami ly. My next enterprise was raising hogs. The hospitals were near me, and the garbage they gave me fed my hogs. My son had reaohed the ago of ten years. He improvised a kind of wagon and hauled the oold bread and greasy water, and four fat hogs oame from it. How proud I was of them I Soon a whole army of soldiers were oamped near. One morning I went out early to feed the porkers-my heart sank as I oame near the pen the porkers were gone, aod my for tune blasted! My sister-in-law and I walked everywhere to find even a sight of them, but they were not to be found. About night one of them oame up, shot through the shoulders, and be was a loss, too. Then I put some more in the pen. One night 1 detectod a noise, and went to see about it. I found one of my bogs, with its head severed, lying across the fence. Close pursuit oaused the thief to flee, but the pig had to he thrown to the vultures on aooount of its pov erty. My chioken house was no se curity. I happened to be in my yard about ten o'clock one night, and saw some one climbing the fence with a bunch of my much-prized chickens. My bravery was aroused, the order ?aa given to put thechiokens down or I would shoot, only a threat, for I had no pistol or gun-tho command only quickened the motion of the thief. I cannot begin to enumerate all the trials of my experience through the four long years of war, and the ravages of marauders. However, with all my woes, sometimes such amusing things would ooour that it would produce hearty laughs, and draw the wrinkles of trouble from my brow, and I would forget, for the time, the hard work of carding, spinning, knitting, weaving cloth, making soldiers' olothes and all the rest. No extras were to be had, but we had bread and meat enough, and sorghum in plenty for dessert. Milk and butter, too, came in, whioh is always good living. Once I had the good luck to buy ten pounds of dark brown sugar, that extra was used up with inoredible swiftness. But all the troubles counted for little, when compared to the anxiety about my husband soldier.-Atlanta Journal. Judge Gerald's Presentment. Judge G. B. Gerald, of Waco, who was recently a visitor to the city, tells an interesting story of a presentment of death and the happy denouement, the particulars dating back to one of the most fiercely contested engage ments of the lute civil war. 4'Some years before the war I had a dream," said the Judge. "I dreamt that I was a participant in a tierce bat tle between two great armies. The picture of the battle was very vivid. The two armies ocoupied opposite sides of a stream, with towering, snow capped mountains in the rear of each. They moved toward each other and the conflict began. In my dream I oould see the batteries, planted on the opposite heights, belching forth death, while the infantry struggled for mas tery on the plains below. I could see the smoke and hear the shouts and din of the terrible conflict as it pro gressed. I eould see myself moving forward in line, when suddenly I both saw and felt myself struck by a bullet, whioh ended my part in the struggle and closed my earthly career forever. I saw myself die on the field of car nage without a groan or a struggle. "But I awoke aud was giri, because it was all a dream. "On the morning of the 13th of De cember, 1863, the two armies of Lee and Burnside were facing eaoh other at Frederioksburg. "As we marched to the conflict, and the early morning mist cleared up, I saw two armies in the valley, with a narrow stream flowing between. I lifted up my eyes and there were tow ering mountains behind each army, and they were snow-capped. "It was the reality of my dream of years before in al! its details. There oould be no mistaking the scone-it had been indelibly impressed on my memory. "I knew that before the sun should set that day I would be atretohed a siomaclis oo snits. The man who puta on stilts does not in crease bia actual stature by the breadth of a bair. He feels taller while he's on the Stilts, and when he's off them be feels a . shorter than be ever I - I felt. Stimulants aro I fur I the "ti***of i*1* stom t**) eeb. They make a liidl man feel bettor fox the ^if^mWmi time being, but be fllwM I ffllllffk feels * great deal worn JTMSOH I H lhrawl?'or toem afterward. W??SBM IffiuflfflH The need of the mon Ml Ina }j|$jj|lf |/^j|w hose stomach ia YV? S F? Jat?on" bat ~ 8trcn?t? VroraH&lk/ ?r. i-icrc&B solden BBMMMI Medical Discovery ( M ? perfectly answers that wB? E$l Heed, Itcnres thc dis IKfif E&g eases of the digestive B???! and nutritive system HH SS which -nahe Che stom Bf MR acb aweak." It en ? ral ables the digestion and BB ? assimllatian o? food, BO Hf N that the body receives W \ the nutrition on which \f * dejeode tts strength, / M tonk Hm bptttaa ot ?BM pjsarnsri foi ?tosases gjj?? w*e? ClareSce +~* me so mach good t didn't take afiy more. X op* e*n est Boost amvOdns; pxm. iftxnep-wtffl?eoiaa *rlth lt 1Iia?-JhrfciJow bow to OfimV yoa for your jriod lnjoW-~Hon. 1 tried? Wj^e jEot of tifinga your t?edjctoe,' ?nd b?w lt "emS bte wMt Thought I wooWl to a boto* of k. Am now AtedlW I did. for Too not know wfeat I ?bopld Em dons htdk not boca fort*. Vfcx?c*<tolden Medical DiKovesy.? The sole motive for saoetttatkm ls to permit the dealer to make the little mose profit paid by the sale of lesa meritorious medianes. Be gains: Yon lose. There fore asset* no mrbstknhs for "Gotten M?dical lWrr.B * Tba sluggish mer ls made active by tba ?ss ciVk. Mose's PlstaaM Peile*. corpse oo the plains before me. My time bad come to die. "I oalled to a follow officer and, taking off my watch and ohain, hand ed them to bim, with a request that they be entrusted to my servant to be delivered to my family, together with a last message to them. He laughed at me for drawing ea my imagination, but I assured him that I knew what I was doing; that I would never ?eave tbs battlefield alive. "Having made these hasty prepara tions for the inevitable, I went forward to my doom as bravely as I knew how. "The eonfliot waged and the bullets whistled, but none of them came near mo. "The agony was long drawn out, but 1 knew it would all be over with me in a little while. "Well, the battle closed, and, in stead of stretching my length on the field, I came out of it unscathed. "And," concluded the Jndge, "I haven't had any faith in presentiments since."-Houston Post. Overwhelmed bj Holten ??t&?. Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 26.-One was burned to death, two fatally in jured and a third was severely hurt, while two strangers are reported miss-1 iog, as the result of sudden collapse of thc furnace of the Williams Iron company in Birmingham to-day. The dead: Thomas J. Edwards, gen eral manager of the plant. Injured: James F. MoAunalloy, storeman, fatally burned; Allen Maw, colored, foundryman, fatally burned; Ohas. Sampson, son of the secretary of the company, severely injured. The break in the furnaoe caused a mass of molten iron to gush forth and Edwards and the injured men were unable to esoape from the fiery steam. The two strangers who are missing and whose names aro unknown were talking to Edwards at the time the ex plosion occurred and may be under the debris and iron whioh has since"har dened. Thia Signatar? is on every box of the gonalno Laxative BrocnHJuinine Tablet? ibm remedy that earea a cold tn.o-.?lag - Charity may cover a multitute of sins, but greed isn't one of them. - Muoh of the oharity that begins at home is too feeblevto get next door. Kew Century Catechism. Q.-What ia the ohief end of a mau? ^A..-To get a living. Q.-What do you understand by a living? A.-Million? of dollars. Q.-What is the raine of money? A.--It is ?ore precious then the souls of men. Q.-By what rule should we govern our lives? A.-The golden rule. Q.-Will you repeat it? A..-"Do unto yourself whatsoever you would have others do unto you.s Q.-What should be our morning prayer? A.-"Keep me this day from mak ing a fool of myself!" Q.-What beautiful quality should be manifest in all the dealings of men? A.-Unselfishness. Q.-Define it, please? ; A.-Unselfishness is that whioh we have a right to ezpeot from others. Q.-Should international marriages be encouraged? A.-By all possible means. Q.-What rule should govern these marriages? A.-If you have a fat purse and no title, look for a title; *f a title and no fat purse look for a fat purse; if you have neither don't look for either. Q.-What oan you say of a stylish womar A.-Her prioe is above rubies. Q.-How do men rate style? A.-As something ( more to be de sired in woman than virtue. Q.-What do we understa nd by the divine command that we have oharity one toward another? A.-The possession of that kindly spirit whioh prevents one coming down too hard on the other because we re member having done the same thing ourselves. Q.-What is recorded of thc success ful? A.-They shall be held in everlast ing remembrance. Q.-What is required by those who would succeed in life? ? A.-Absolute belief in one's infalli bility; no consideration s crothers and no act to a stranger that oan be mis taken for courtesy. Q.-Is gentle breeding a bar to suc cess? A.-Unquestionably. Q.-Explain this, please? A.-In a woman it is considered de signing; in a man, improper. Q.-Against what insidious vioe should we constantly guard ourselves? I *A.-The safety-pin habit._ Tlie Torrent Harrow ! Torrent Harrows and Turn Plows to go at a sacrifice for the next sixty days. j From now until January 1st, 1903, we will sell our entire stock of Har rows and Turn Plows at greatly reduoed pri?es. These Goods have advanced ahout ten per cont, but these Harrows and Plows were bought at the old prioe, and we must sell them to make room for other goods. Our Torrent Harrow is ahead of anything ever sold,here for putting in small grain, and the celebrated Steel Boam Syracuoe Plow has no equal for pulverising and mixing the soil. If you need one or both of the implements you cannot afford to miss this opportunity to get one. We are in the Hardware business to stay, and oau sell. you loaded and empty Shells, Shot and Powder, Gaps, Cartridges, and Guns from the oheapest to the highest. . Onr stock ox Nails, Barb Wire, Mule and Horse Shoes is complete. Builders Supplies a specialty. The only complete line of Grates in* town: We have any kind of Grate you want. Yours for trade, BROCK HARDWARE COMPANY, Successors to Brook Brothers. Who Puts up Prescriptions *? WE invite the privilege. We use the best quality of every drug ; we exercise the most exacting care with every part of the work. We produce, medicine that brings the best possible results. We charge only a living profit above the cost ot materials. Let Vs Fill Your Prescriptions. . EVANS PHARMACY, ANDERSON* S. C. MAKE YOUB WIFE HAPPY I WHEN you sell your Cotton put aside a little, drop in and see us. and let us fix up a SUITE OF FURNITURE, or Set of JOINING CHAIRS, or LOUNGE, or a nice ROOKING CHAIR, for you to niake ? nice present to your wife. PEOPLES FURNITURE CO. COFFINS and CASKETS. JJp-So-Date Funeral O?r. Everything in the Furniture line Give us a call. v ?JN?A;N I S ,' ( JU I. UKI..S Promoles D?gest?oaCfaeerrur ness and Rest.Contains neither Opium.Moipluns nor Mineral. WOT "NARCOTIC. Atop? af(Hd.J}rS?I4UELP?TCf?EJt Pdnykin Seul' v j8j?Smtm% * J JSSSt? v?- I ??mi jw ? ? Aperfecl Remedy for Constipa tion , Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea Worms .Coirvulsions .Feverish ness and Loss OF S?JBEP. lac Simile Signature of NEW YORK. Alb & y~y 1) ()S ) s"~ ]3dt I N I S EXACT. 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