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WAR SI The I-Iero ol' t! While we were campaigning irs East Tennessee, during the winter of 1863-4, wc .stopped, for a short while, at a place where all thc families in the neighborhood called upon us for guarda to protect tlnir homes and premises from thc ravagea of army foragers. Those guards were allowed board, lodging, washing, etc., with the families they served, and the fare, with those families was KO much bet ter than camp fare, and the duties of ' the guarding so much lighter than camp duties, that such situations were con sidero! very desirable. Several men of our company had al ready gone out to guard houses in thc neighborhood, when a belated appli cant, for a guard, presented himself one stoTuy afternoon, with bitter complaints of depredations by the soldiers, and asked for the protection of a guard. There were many aspir ants for such a place in our camp at that time, but through some lucky stroke of fortune, I got the job and after a few minutes' preparation I was ready to accompany him home ward. Wo travoled on foot along an old narrow, unfrequented road, through a most cruel downpour of rain that was constantly dashed literally against us by violent gusts of wind, with suoh force as to drivo the cold water through our garments and thoroughly drench our brodies. We arrived about night f i 1 and found a most excellent sup per on the J table awaiting us. It seemed that my first duty in my new position was to be tho very agreeable one, of partaking of those much need ed refreshments. Owiog to tho h*ppy adaptedness of thoso savory dishes of food to the cravings of my acute ap petite, I performed that first duty in a practical, businesslike manner that might well have been construed into extravagant flattery for the cook. There were only three of them in the family, the man, the wife and a fourteen-year-oM daughter. Tho man was small and Blender, his gate awk ward and shuffling. Ho was slow and stammering in speech and had a de jected, hen-pecked appearance. Tho lady was largo and corpulent, gracious and kind toward friends and neigh bors, but somewhat spiteful toward her husband and daughter. She was diligent and untiring in her domestic duties, seldom finding time for a mo ment's rest. She was an'incessant talker and her tongue was probably the hardest worked member of her strenuous "body. Tho range of her subjects embraoed little more than thc current gossip of the neighborhood, but she kept up an inexhaustible fund of that kind of information which she dispensed freely to all who came within the range or her voice. The daughter was shy and unap proachable, almost to wildness and she maintained her unsociable atti tude toward me throughout my entire sojournment with the family. The house was a small, ancient looking, weatherbeaten struoture on the bank of a little stream that flowed through a raviuo7bJ- ween extended ranges of hills heavily wooded on one side and a small clearing on the other that form ed part of the family farm. The three small rooms, occupied by the family contained few articles of furniture and that of a very homely style, which suggested extreme pov erty, yet they had abundant stores of all kinds of fr.rui products, the farm was well stocked with handsome, well kept domestic animals and tho little barn yard was literally overrun with poultry. The mistress was an excel lent cook and the meals she served were famous among all who bad been permitted to taste them. They had lost a hog and several fowls since the army had oome into the neighborhood, and those losses had led to tho de mand for a guard. For two or th'je days and nights after my arrival no attempt was mado to disturb any of the property, but then I was aroused from my sleep at a late hour ono night by a furious disturbance among the fowls at the hen roost, and arising hastily, I grabbed my gun and rushed -out with the air of ono on some im portant business. The night was dark and I was afraid that any promiscuous or reckless shooting might result injuriously to somebody, unseen in the darkness, and therefore I very carefully aimed my gun high abovo the range of pro bable danger and fired harmlessly into the murky air. I heard the rapid footsteps and rust ling through the bushes of two or ^throe retreating foragers., who had '4)oeu frightened away by the report of my ga s. The mistress was very much t?isappo;nted over the encapo of the robbers, probably unharmed. She had been hoping for the pleasure of exulting triumphantly over a dead or wounded robber and she expressed X)RIES. ho lien TCoost. ver> strong terms, insinuating her suspicions of my unfaithfulness. I oxcuHcd ruy failure with the conven ient plea of extreme darkness which disallowed of accuracy ol' aim, and the speed of tho frightened robbers that assisted them in their escapo. I evasively promised b?.?..::? .'ut>ults next limo, although I had no intention of banning a comrade on account of her poultry. After three or four nights of quiet arid restfulness another alarm was sounded, by thc poultry, one night after we had all been asleep and I was called upon, by thc mistress, to go out and encounter the robbers again. I went in great haste and, as a precau tion against possible accident, fired at imaginary robbers in the upper air, as on the former occasion and, fortunate ly for me, ono of the robbers uttered a loud and piercing scream which was heard by the inmates of tho houBe. I felt assured that my shot, aimed as it had been so high in the air, had not harmed anybody, and (hat Borcam had resulted from fright or perhaps was merely a mischievous mockery. As tho foragers started to run away one of them stumbled and fell, and when I returned to the house, after my outer garments, shoes, another oharge of ammunition and a light, preparatory to pursuing them, I re ported that ono of them had fallen and that news was received with exul tant demonstrations of rejoicing. By the time I bad completed my elaborate preparations for tho pursuit, the rob bers had escaped and had left no visi kl? * - V~l.:_J *i-*- ?i-- - iraw vawv/v "uuiuu bUCUl 1 Ut IUD pUl'DU* ers to follow. Karly the next morning we all went out to investigate tho situation about the hen roost, and although we found no dead or wounded robbers, we found blood stains on the grass and leaves, plentiful, and after I had secretly con cealed the three or four fresh pluoked heads of decapitated hens I had found among the bloody loaves, there seemed to be no danger or suspicions among them that the blood before us might bo the blood of anything else -than that of human hen roost robbers. From that timo forth I was a most distinguished hero and my praises re sounded throughout that entire neighborhood as the ono faithful, con scientious house guard. Other guards had pretended to fire upon robbers, but I alone had brought forth blood. -D. I. Waldon in the Atlanta Jour Story of tho Civil War. During the war between the States, in a little town in tho State of A dwelt two families who were neighbors. So careful were they in their expres sions of sympathy for either cause, both were in ignorance of the other's, sentiments. Their intimacy as old residents caused them to confide in each other a purpose they had in view to bury what speoie and jewels each possessed to save it from tho hand of marauders of either army. The treas ure, consisting mostly of speoie, was carefully packed in boxes and buried in their orohards some distance from their residences. The wives of the two families doing the work at night. The two only were supposed to know the secret. First ono army and then the other passed, when toward the close of the war the town was occupied and garri soned by a foroo of Union soldiers. By this time the cause of the South had begun to wane and the most ar dent adherents of the South felt gloomy over the outlook. .By this time the true sentiments of each fami ly for the successive parties, had be come fully manifest. Ono for the Southern and the other for the Union cause. Their confidence in their mu tual honor, up to the occupation of the town by Union troops was not shaken. Some weeks after tho occu pation thc wife of the Southern sym pathizer disoovered that her box of treasures had been removed. When sho remembered that she and her neighbor only knew where it was, she naturally eonoluded she had been be trayed by her. To further test the matter she went by night to tho spot where her neigh bor's box had been buried, and with the aid of an iron rod ascertained that her box was still where it was buried. AB human nature i? -about tho same everywhere, she bogan to plan for re venge. The union lady h?d fifi her boarders several of the Union officers. Tho lady of Southern sympathies had made the acquaintance of some of these soldiers who sought her house frequently to buy eggs, milk and oth ? er necessaries. One of these had of I ten expressed his sympathies for tho South and Southern people, although he woro tho blue Her respect in _i j creased for him as each day he de i dared his sympathy for the South. ; His courtesy and deportment were all j one could expect of a gentleman. She decided to interest him -nth tue se j cret of how bhc had been treated and disclose to him the secret of the hid den box. Thu she did and asked that her conGdence bc respected. The soldier concluding that ho ought to have assistance divulged thc secret to one of his lieutenants fer whom he en tertained a hi>;h regard. Ile thanked the goldie*1 for his confidence and pledged a hearty co-operation as soon as the moon waned and the nights grew darker. Now this officer was a boarder at the Union lady's house and subsequently beeauic her son-in-law. When the moon had waned and thc nights became dark enough to favor their enterprise, tho soldier and the lieutenant repaired to thc spot, mark ed near the root of an apple tree, J to unearth thc treasure, but it had been taken away. Moral : What more than two people know is never any secret-sometimes two too many. Thc lieutenant bein1-' inti mate with the family where he board ed, and being engaged to her daughter gave away tho secret and tho hostess moved her box.. The narrator was a party to the incident, tho one betrayed by the officer, and is now a resident of this place.-T. J. Howard in At lanta Journal. Anecdotes of Gen. Sidney Johnston. Rev. Mr. Fontaine, now of Missis sippi, formerly of Texas, relates the following anecdotes of thia distin guished man : I have said that he had at all times perfect self-control. I will mention some instances in whioh I saw hie power of self-government severely tried; but his temper stood the tesl admirably. I was once fishing with him in thc Colorado river. A largo baas seized his hook, and it required all his skill to reel him to the surface of the watei wya?i? ~ suss!! sil!? Ms** ^^icr s ccu* test of several minutes with the pow erf ul .fish, he sucoecded in bringing his fine proportions in full view; but just as he waB about landing him with a sharp strain upon his rod, h< gave an indignant flounce, and disap peared in the clear depths- of tba stream, leaving the snapt line tangle? fast to a willow limb, high above th? head of the disappointed general. H* gave it a gentle pull; but finding i hung fast he-walked up tho back am out a pole with a hook to it, and pull ed down the limb very cautiously;?an< then set to work very deliberately t untangle the gordian knot into whicl he, the bass, and the limb togethei had tied the lino. After the patient labor of at leas half an hour, he succeeded in rightin his tackle, put on another hook an minnow, and "threw out" to temp another bite. It the meantime watohed his motions, very muo amused at the mishap, but said note ing. He made no exclamation of id patience, and exhibited no emotior I then remarked : "General, althoug you are not a member of the Church I believe you are a better Christia than myself in one respect-you a/ moro patient. If old Izaak Walto himself had lost that fish aftor such tussell, and lost his hook with hin and tied up his taokle in that way h might not have cussed the fish or hi luok, but I think he would have sai something spiteful, and have felt little blasphemous." He replied "I have long si nco learned, sir, b experience, that it's best never to gc excited about anything; for, in a fit c excitement, very sensible men are ar to do or say something rash or f?oliat for whioh they may have to repent i a cooler moment." Ho had a great Newfoundland dot whioh was a very great fa-vorite wit the family. Ho guarded little Sidney McCIung and Bettie, his three youn| est children, in their rambles aboi his premises, and I think ho som< times pulled the little girl in a to carriage. But the dog one day wei into the lot of a mean neighbor,' 1 play with a "cur of low degree," proper dog for a master as mean ac worthless as himself. This man, wb had been kindly treated by the goner and his family, but who envied an hated him with that sort of mali< which the base and vulgar generali cherish towards the noble and refinet to diatre 8 ?.ho children or show h spite against the distinguished neigl hors, or from the promptings of son dirty motive w' loh is only understoc by the devils that got into the swii of Genesaeret, or by those who are it stigated by them, threw a pieoe i meat, poisoned with stryohnine, to tl dog, whioh oame homo and ia a ic minutes died with convulsions, in tl presence of the ohildren and their p rents. The little ohildren wept bi teri? the loss of their favorite, ai Mrs. Johnston shed tears. The ge eral was deeply distressed, but sa nothing in anger. Some one prece declared that tho villain who oommi ted the deed ought io bo proseaut or shot. He roplied that if he su or killed him it would make the m no better, and it would do hims* and his family no good; that he wot bo compelled to endure the outrage as there was ho redress for it. The dog was dead and nothing could restore him to life, and ho hoped that his family would bear their IOBS with for titude.-Sunny South. Crucial Test For Coward*. "The Indian has & queer way of determining whether or not a mau is game, judging from an etperience I had some years ago out West," said a man who onco made an educational tour of thc West, to tho New Orleans Times-Democrat, "and thc samo little experience convinced me that the In dian's system of reasoning along this Hue is by no means a bad one. "Stories had been told which brought about a clash between the In dian and tho white man. Tac two men originally had had nothing against each other. The Indian had a bad reputation-that is, he had the ?epu tation of being a bad man, a desper ate, dangerous fellow, who would fight a buzzsaw at the drop of a hat. Hd was proud of the distinction ano whenever an opportunity arose ho was more than delighted to sustain th, reputation. The white man, who blew into the section, had in some way gained a similar reputation. He was said to be a dangerous character and a man who had never been whip ped. We concluded that wo would have some fun. We met the Indian and told him a long story about his now rival and reminded him that his laurels were in danger. We told him all kinds of stories about tho white man and succeeded in getting his pride stirred and his Indian blood was soon up to the fighting point. Soon after this we met the white man and we filled him up with the samo kind of talk. He said he would take care of the Indian all right in duo time and, in short, wouli7 make him take to the woods. Shortly we met the In dian again and told him the desperate white man was after his scalp. He smiled and shook his head. "A few days later we wera talking to thc white mau ?li?c: tue ximian came up to join the group. He had spotted the stranger and knew him (by sight. Without saying a word he walked up within arm's length and struck the white man in the -face with a rough, heavy glove. He paused a few seconds and hit him . again. 'Ugh!' he exclaimed, as he wheeled around and walked away. The white man looked at the Indian in amaze ment, but made no show of resent ment. Later in the day when we asked the Indian why it was that he did not follow up the insult with blows, he told us the white man was * coward. In explaining how he knew it he said the man's 'jaw dropped' when ho struok him in the faoe the seoond time with the glove, and that this, with the Indian, was an unfail ing sign of cowardice, and he paid further that he was awfully sorry he had hit the man at all, for Indians do not like to impose oh men who? are afraid to fight. The Indian held his laurels all right as the most desperate and most dangerous man in that sec tion of the West." A Case of Petrifaction. I cannot at this moment fix the ex act date of an occurrence well known to old citizens of Henderson County, but am oonvinoed the time was be tween 1835 and 1845. A Miss Byers, who lived within two miles of Fletch er, N. C., a 8'j.tion on the Southern Railway, married a man whose name I cannot recall, and they moved to Mississippi. After a nhort residence in the new home tho lady died. The Byers family brooded over the mat ter of her burial in a far-off land and four years later took wagon and team to bring the remains to the home bury, iog ground in North Carolina. When the grave was opeucd in Mississippi tho como was so heavy as to make it almost impossible to raise it to the surfaoe. The body was oompletely petrified. Tho return journey was made in two months. When the By ers family made known the result of the trip the whole oountry turned out to see the petrifaction and easily re cognized their old friend and acquaint ance. Every feature was natural; there was no question about the ident ity of the former Misc Byers. The news spread abroad and so many curi ous people oame to see for their own satisfaction the wonder in stone, that the Byers moved the objeot (?) to the collar aud refused to aho\? it to any one. Agents from museums or show men tried to purchase or lease it, bot nothing prevailed. After some time a second daughter died, and later it was taoitly understood by intimate friends of the Byers family that the petrified daughter's body had been secretly lowered into a very deep vault and probably was oovered with earth before the oasket of the newly dead daughter was carried to the grave and buried in the preaenoe of those assembled. This was done beoause the family feared the body might ho stolen and exhibited.- Charlotte Ob server._ - A woman's figure may be as long as it pleases if it doesn't neglect to get round once in a while. He Saw Himself. "You must excuse me, gentlemen, for 1 oannot drink anything," said a man who was known to the entire town as a drunkard. "This is the first time you ever re fus.d a drink," said an acquaintance. The other day you were hustling around nf ter a cooktail, ?nd in fact you even asked me to set 'em up." ''That's very trua, but am a very different man now." "Preacher had hold of you?" "No, sir, no one has ever said a word to me." "Well, then, what has caused the change?" "I'll tell you. After leaving you the other day, I kept on hustling a?ter a cocktail, as you call it, until I met a party of friends. When I left them I wan About half drunk. To a nun of my temperament a half drunk is a miserable condition, for the desire for more is so strong that he forgets his self-respect in his effort to ger more drink. I remembered that there was a pint of whiskey at home, whioh had been purchased for medioal purposes. Just before reaohingthe gate, I heard a voice in the garden, and looking over the fence, I saw my little son and daughter playing. 'liow you be ma,' said thc boy, 'and I'll be pa. Now you sit here and I'll come in drunk. Wait, now, till I fill my bottle.' "He took a bottle, ran away and fill ed it with water. Pretty soon he re turned, and entered the playhouse, nodded idiotically at the girl and sat down without saying anything. The girl looked up from her work and said: " 'James, why do you do thiB way?' 'Wizzer way?' he replied. " 'Gettin' drunk.' '"Who's drunk?" " 'You are, an' you promised when the baby died that you wouldn't drink any more. The ohildren are almost ragged, and we haven't anything to eat hardly, but you still throw your money away. Don't you know you are breaking my heart?" "I hurried away. The aotion was too life like. 1 could think of nothing during the day but those little ohil dren playing in the garden. You must exouse me, gentlemen, I oannot drink again."-Iowa Endeavor. He Only Smiles. Major General Chaffee '.ells a story about and itinerant American he met in tho Philippines. He was from Texas and was known as "Valsona" Marshall. Ho had become "strand ed" ic Manilla and asked the general to send him home on a transport. "Are you in the United States ser vice?" asked the general. "Not by a blamed sight," was the explosive reply. "I am a free born American oitizen and no confounded satrap." "My orders," said the GeneraV'are j to send baok only those who are in the I military or civil service." Marshall thoughtamoment. "Gen eral, you oould send me if you wanted to," he ventured persuasively. "See here, Mr. Marshall," replied the general, sternly, ''If you were in my place and had my orders, and I was in your place, would you give me transportation?" "You bet I would," returned Mar shall, quickly, "and be darned glad to get rid of you." When the general is asked whether the man got transportation, he only smiles.-New York Times. - When a woman gets burned play ing with fire she oan make herself be lieve the blisters are pimples. - It's an easy matter to acquire a flow of language. All you have to do is to step on a taok with your bare foot. WORN TO A SHADOW. When there is a falling off in flesh in woman or man there ia "comething wrong." And that something wrong u gem.*ally a loss of nutrition due to dis ease of the stomach and the other organs of digestion and xffi*isX nutrition. Some- (. times this loss of . fig IA flesh is ace om - ?rn ponied by variable appetite, but in ^HJAL many cases the ap- TU \ petite does not fail gm AH HflPf and there may be JBJMM a constant desire fl HI I to eat. Languor, fi nervousness, irri- SHLB tability, sleepless- ea~0 W$? ness, ore symptoms ??ST SBS^m&k often associated 1 Bm WBHjfa with this loss oi B S3UB? nutrition and fal- i j/ Ral lins: off in flesh. tf?irWfimt?? Doctor Pierce'o AH HB!-?_Z. Golden Medical B WSBT Discovery eurea I jTOuw ?? di?D-co o? the ctoin- {.-; foi ach and other or- ^BHKjWT^ ' gans of digestion and nutrition. It enables the perfect digestion and assimilation of food so that lost flesh is regained and the physical health reestablished. "I had suffered Aron indigestion and only those who have suffered from lt knot? what it really is," writes Mrs. M. J. Fatso, of 1613 Bast Genesco St.. Syracuse, N. V. "I had had severe Attacks of headache and dizziness, with cold hands and feet ; everything X at* distressed me, bowels were consUpaledand /r.wgrowing Pery thin and nervous. I cannot half express the baa feelings I had when X commenced taking Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. X took Bine bottles of the 'Discovery' and have taken several bottles of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. X commenced feeHng better with the first bottle and kept on improving. Now I am so greatly Improved it; health my mends often speak of if. X most heartily recog? mend these medicines to ?ii ftttScriuf hi 1 -kart.3 The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser, in paper covers, is sent free on receipt of ai one-cent stamps for expense of mailing only. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Tho Kia? 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I ! l i A man thinks it is when the matter of Ufe fv V uuttrmnce suggests itself-bat drcumsuuv coi bf late have shown how lifo hangs by ? ; . suddenly overtakes you, and the only way - :: . 'SS^?SaB & he sure that your family is protected in cate of calamity overtaking you is to n> ~ . ' V'J^B^B? '?!^-^'* Company like The Mutual Be^fitiiif?Ins.Co. ".Dzop in and see us about it. & M. BI. MATTISON, STATE AGENT, Peoples' B*nk;BcildIng, ANDERSON t? C.