University of South Carolina Libraries
WAR SrI Mrs. Felton ^Pictures* Although thc Southern Confederacy wa? tottering on its last legs, HO to speak, tho 31st of December, 18(51, found the State of Georgiastill in con trol of itr. state capital at Millcdge ville, and we wero still encouiaged to hope that our troops would make a successful stand somewhere, and oar independence as a separate govern ment would bc somehow acknowledged sooner or later-in some way and hy foreign nations. ( Jen. Sherman had inarched through Georgia to Savannah and had turned northward through the Carolinas. The papers told all the encouraging things and left us to experience the depress ing ones. Our family had been skedad ling around thc lower part of Georgia, and had escaped a glimpse of Gen. Sherman, but his tracks wc crossed time and again, until wo settled down onco more in tho half-completed build ing four miles of Macon, which had furnished us a shelter during thc year 18b4. It had no glass-only wooden shutters-no ceiling, and no parti rons, but plastering laths taked on minus thc plaster. Gen. Wheeler's cavalry took our coru to keep tho Federals from oating or destroying it, .and we were living from baud to mo"tb, feoding a considerable family of blacks and whites on corn we could buy down in Twiggs county, by scud ing twenty miles for it, over almost impassable r jads. We went to bed on the last night of tho old year, feeling thankful wc were still alive, still had a ?helter to turn off tho pouring rain, SD ll had cornbread and sorghum to Vve upon, and wero still on mercy's MJC of eternity, and, although we had buried our youngest son, a fine boy of nearly six years of ago, as late as Sep tember, who, with six other children on the place-colored boys and girls i wera swept out of lifo inside of two weeks, owing to an epidemic of ty phoid ?/sentory, following malignant DRIES. Reconstruction Days. measles, we could still thank God it was as well with us, as it was, and wc were privileged togo to bed in peace on the last night of the fateful year, 1,804. Tired people sleep well, as a rule, and wc were awaie that tho night had ? nearly passed, when a tapping on the wooden shutter near the bcd ?woko us. It proved to be our house boy, who waited on the table, who was very loyal to us, and who begged that thc front door might be opened for him, as he liad something to tell us.. When he was admitted, he told, in a whisper, so great was Ina fear of | being overheard, that Home of thc negro men had bceu quarreliog all ! night over a crap game, and when lie left the cabin, one had killed another I aud there was the mischief to pay generally down there. Ile ?aid wc must never let them know lie had informed us, as it would go hard with with him if they found out ho was in thc big house reporting matters. Wo decided to get up and dress with out waking anybody, and advised him to go back and come in after daylight, | as usual. After broad daylight, l)r. Felton j went out in thc yard and called to thc j colored men to ?tart a certain piece of \ work, and was then told that nue of | the negroos had cut another until they j thought ho was killed, but ho rooover- ! ed from his faint and wa? still alive, j but the assailant had fled, along with ! another negro who had been sold to a | man in Macon some weeks beforo at ? his own request, and tho purchaser j had never laid eyes on him afterwards. A doctor was neut for, and thc wounds j dressed. They were ?ll drunk and j had been carousing all night. We | had been soundly sleeping iu that old j shack, and there was not a white per- j son within call, save ourselves, if the { drunken gamblers had attaoked us. We dcoided to try to get Borne ' kuowlcdge from the old Harton home, ! and if possible, return. Dr. Pelton hud ?ii overseer on tho rented planta tion, whose family was left behind in' north Georgia, and tho overseer prora {???d to care for everything until a trip up the country could be made aod thc prospects ahead of us might be better understood, and Dr. Felton started on horseback. This overseer had boen conscripted thc year previous and was away from thc refuge home for up wards of three months, as we sup posed, in thc army. He came in, smiling and debonair, and said he had a pretty fair time of soldiering, etc. Ile was afterwards exempted as a mil ler to run a nearby mill to provide for thc people around. While Dr. Felton was going to and f-oui north Georgia, running risks of life ami health and discovering that we would not bo wiso to leave thc ills we had tu rush into others wo knew nothing of, I was aroused one day by a quarrel in the back yard. It was loud on thc part of thc colored woman and mostly whispered by this white man, who had eaton his dinner and, I supposed, was starting again to tho mill. The dispute grew fast and furi ous. Finally the colored woman cried out: "I dare yer to lay do weight of ycr little finger on dat child. Hf yoi does hit my sister's child ary single lick, I'll walk jes as straight as QIJ two feet will kyar mc into dat house ober dar and tell my whito folks Whar you waa, when you was a pre tendin' to go to do army? Lors : mu8syl Won't dcm white folks hat< ycr like pizen whou dey knows whai yer waa a hiding when dem Yankee: wuz in byar!"' It was a dreadful tax on my natural ly curious mind-to hold still until ou roal protector was in the house onoi more, because I went to bed cvor^ night with fear and trembling and ha< dreadful forebodings as to what migh hPOpon to the family while we wer supposed to be protected by this ron egade overseer but tho time did com when I fela^Jiko I could probe into th matters of which the quarrel had give me the first inkling. When question ed, the colored woman bluffed. Sh "didn't know nothing at ali.7' Th quarrel was over and peace waB patel PAINT N HOUSES. The Actual Cost of the regular ' Shades of ma inez Pai WHEN THINNED READY FOR USE, Will be $1.25 per Gallon! You mix one gallon L. & M. Faint at - With one gallon raw Linseed Oil at - . Makes two gallons Paint ready for use $1.70 80 $2.50 Or $1.S5 per- GhaAlon ! Don't pay $1.50 or more per gallon for Linseed Oil, whioh you do when you buy it in sealed cans with a paint label thereon. ; vi? * DRUGGIST, cd up aud she didn't want to tell. Suffice it to say, to make a long story short, that tho overseer bade every body in the house goodby when he was conscripted, accepted a present of a woolen quilt from me, because bauk 1 eta were played out, also a Testament that we thought would be comforting along with a precious new tin cup that was more .valuable in our eyes than a silver one in later.years, and he cried some at thc gojrng away, and we vero very sorry for him and maybe shed some tears of empathy at the sight of his grief. Ile really went off a little way in the woods, stayed out uutil nightfall, came back to a negro cabin and when he was hungry thc negroes fed bia; during the daytime ho slept on a pallet under a negro wo man's bcd and at night he slept more comfortably and was halo fellow woll met and out of thc army. Wo had gono through that awful siege of sick ness, buried seven in two weeks, had thirty odd on the sick list and yet this man reposed on his pallet, indifferent and callous, for three long'months, all tho time io hiding on our premises, fed and secreted almost within touch without our knowledge. Such were for us tho opening days of the year 18G5. From Nc? Year'? day to the surrender in April anything dreadful might have happened to na. away from any help or without an$ security about anything, doing om utmost to plant and cultivate a oro] under great difficulties and to try tc keep a conscience void of offense to al mankind. Such an experience now would over whelm mc. It required youth anc hope to bear up under such a cloud o: dangers and difficulties; and when '. think of that lonely farm house a hal mile from tho main road, with nothing to wear but what we could manufao turo at home, seourein no government project or future, struggling witl bereavement, loss and danger, I than! God that we have peace in the land and that an overruling Providenc watched over the innocent and th helpless in the days that tried on fortitude so greatly.-Atlanta Joui nal. _ Marvels of Telepathy. Every man may be his own tole phone. This is the amazing declai ation made by the believers in tel? pathy, which may be described SB tb wireless telegraphy of the mind. Sir *William~Orookds has recentl startled the scientists of the world b declaring that it may bo possible t send thoughts across the Atlant ooean or around the world withoi cither cables or tho apparatus of Ma ooni. "It is inconceivable," said he, "th intense thought concentrated towan a person with whom the thinker is i olose sympathy, may induce a tel pathio ohcin of brain waves along whi< a message of thought may go straigl to its goal without loss of energy c|i to the distance? "May not the words "far" ?: "near" lose their meaning in the subtle regions of unsubstanti thought? I dare to suggest it?" This is the opinion of Sir Willie Crookes, the inventor of the Crook tube, which made the X-ray possit)) the president of the British Assoc! i'i?u of Scientists, the "king of ohoi ists" and hero of many v.oientifio e ploits. Any two people' oan do it, ss Rev. Charles II. Parkhurst, v/ho i oently preached a sermon on the sn jeot.. Dr. R. Osgood Mason, fellow of t New York Aoademyof Medicine sa] "There are fortunate individuals i day who have no need of mails ar tel graphs, but who. can communici with one another no matter how wie1 ly they may be separated. . "A cn named Fitzgerald, at Brui wiok, Me., saw and described the Gre Fall River fire 300 milos away. M Porter, of Bridgeport, Conn., denot ed the burning of the steamer Hen Clay at the time that it Was ocourri on tho Hudson river, near Yonkers Ian Maclavon, the famous novell theologian and preacher, has been 1 several years a believer in the h science. He aays: "I believe it is pocsil for persons miles apart to tilk to o another without wires. The mysterious signaling most f quently makes itself felt in the In of trouble, and is often a oall for he "One afternoon., to give a strik: instance uf it, I made up my list sick people *?nd started on my roun After convicting the first visit i going along the main road, about 4 o'clock, I felt a sirocg impulse to t down a side street and oall oh a faa living in it. "The impulso grew so urgent t it could not be resisted, and I rang bell, and considered on the doors what reason I should give for an exp?oted oall. "When the door opened it. tnr out th>it Btrangera now occupied house, and that my family had g to another address in the street precise number being unknown. "Still tho pressure continued, ai a hand were drawing mo, and I Out to discover their new hous?, ? had disturbed four families with vain inquiries. Then I abandc the search, with ?sense of shame. Had a busy clergyman not enough to do without going on a wild goo so chase. "Next morning the head pf that family I had snnght ?? y?:a cr, m G i?iv . my study with evident sorrow on his face. "We are in great trouble," he said. "Yesterday our'little one (a yo?ng baby) took very ill and died ia the afternoon. My wife was utterly over come by the shook, and wo would have sent for you, but we had np messen? ger." pi "What time was iff" I asked. - "Ahput half-paBt 3." Another notable tolepathist is Bish op Samt el Fallows, of the Reformed Episcopal church. "Telepathy is no longer a theory," says Bishop Fallows. "It is a fact I have been interested in it for years, and tho thing I am pondering now is how to bring it into common every day use. "It works, on the same principle as tho now wireles telegraphy of Mr. Marconi. I .viii hail him'as a bene factor of tho human race who will teach people how to use this tremen dous psychic foroe? A young merchant who had several days before buried his wife,, was awaked in the night by her voice. He heard her distinotly calling his name and asking for help. v ^ / So impressed was he by thia mys terious message that ho sprang to his feet dressed and drove at once to tho grave. When he unoovered the coffin and broke it open he found his wife alive and moving in an unconscious trance. Lifting her into the carriage he drove her quickly to his house, sum-, moued medioal aid, and had the un speakable pleasure of seeing her re gain her health. Mark Twain had the honor of being the first telepathiet of note in this country. A number of years ago Le oalled attention to the science, but at the time it was thought to be one of the great humorist's whimsioal fan cies-World Monthly. Demand for Sober Men. Cold-blooded business is doing about as muoh to make men sober as anything else, tho prohibitionist with his demand for closed bar-rooms not excepted. In thia day and time the demand is .for sober men in all tines of business.1 In this day of close com petition, when every corner has to be out, business men demand the unim paired energy of employees, and the man who has MB nerves unstrung and his energy impaired by liquor will very soon find that a sober man has his job. A railroad company, with thousands of dollarB and human lives at stake, will not allow a drunken engineer to haul a train. People will not employ a lawyer whose brain is be clouded with liquor, and when death is to be coped with the public demands that the physician shall %ave every faoulty and that none of them shall be impaired by drink. Tho business j world is making the demand for sober, men more than it has ever made in all its history.^ Liquor drinking ia bad business lo poy nothing of the mor** feature of it, and the business world so looks opon -afc, and io acting on the prinoiple that there are sober men enough in the world to transact the business. _ . _ __ - Browu--"What we call baggage the English oall luggage. < Which word do you think the more appropriate?" White--"Considering how trunks are treated by railroad men. I should say the right word is obuckagc." - Yon must never toll a giri when you aro* going to kiss her ncr any body else after you have gone and done it. 1 I I Pierce's Favorite Prescription, , : TM? advice corneal from a woman who had ? suffered ali the miseries I women can stiffer from g disease, and had bec-* perfect!) and perma nently cured by the nae of Dr. Herce'fi Favorite Prescription. Thia great medkane for women establishes regularity, dries weak ening drains, heals in? "flemtnation and, ulcera tion ard eurea female weakness. . Read Mrs. Xempson's letter and, if you are aickv follow her advice. Although it has been quite a time since I wrote yoq? MT? Mr?. %taxv*on, of Cambria,T&?isaaie Oo., Mich., Boc S7, ??UH your ?ame Uah?e*-?mglnourh?xse, nod X think lt wy duty tolet yoe know that X mn stM enjoying geo? heiOtby thanks tn you and your 'Favorite Pre scriptics.' VVfcrs X (bink kew X wa? 2ve ?*o*r? ago, and then see how I aw now, I. say, God btes? Dr. Pierce's worts* end may ba? Uve lon? to help, poor ???ring women? ' X have never bad any return of my weakness ?nd am weil and baeatyv Can do aU my .omi work without any pain. Yoo saved me ftom the ?tare when, all others foiled. X advise suffering women strongly, to take X>r. Pierce's Favorite Pre scription, a? X know it will cure ia aU cases, if indeed there is a cure." % ? ? ? .? Dr. Pierced Pleasant Pe!**** S? an excellent laxative, sulteo, to the Th?3 Kind You Have Always Bought* and v/hich been In use for over 30 years, lias borne tho signataire of and lias been made under bis per. BOM al supervision since its infancy. * r-cZcc+x&Z? Allow no ono to deceive you in th?3. All Counterfeits, Imitations and ???-Jnst-as-good Va ve but Esp crimen ts tim*, trifle with and endanger tho health of infant B and Ch ildren-Exp crien ce .against Experiment. What is CAST?ftl? ?astoria ls a harmless substitute for Castor OH, Pare goric, Drops and Soothing; Syrups. It ls Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine ncr other Narcotic .substance. Its ago is its guarantee. It.destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It eures Diarrhoea and Wind . Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving- healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea- Tho Mother's Friend. GENUINE ??STORI? ALWAYS Bears the Signatare of The Kind You Have Always Bouglit In Use For Over 30 Years. VMB CENTAUR COMPANY, ?? M UM NAY ?TOSCT. ?KW VORN CITY. We have about Twenty Excellent SECOND-HAND ORGANS, in perfect condition, better goods than many of the Cheap new ones, at 825.00 up. New ones, such as- "'' MASON & HAMLIN, ESTEY, CROWN and 1 F4RHAND. AU the very highest quality, at prices we have, never been able to give. J Come and see our Stock ; we may have just what you h*vebseu hudtlog, ? THE C. A. REED MUSK HOUSE. D. S. VANDIVER. E. P. VA?*DIVEB GENERAL MERCHANTS, ANDERSON, 8,0., October 8,1902. We propose pulling trade our way this Fall, and h.wo made prices on good, reliable, honest Gooda that will certainly bring it We have the strongest lina of Men's, Women's and Children's SHOE'S we have ever shown, and have them marked down so low that every pair is a j great value.' We have another big lot of Sample : Shoes that wo throw on the market at factory prices. Come quick while we hava your B?ZB. We are money-savets ou GROCERIES. Best Patent Flour 84.50 per barrel. Rest Half Patent Fjour 3*4.00. Extra Good Flour 83.75. COFFEE, SUGAR, LARD, BACON, BRAN, CORN and OATS always in stock, just a little cheaper tuan the market prices. We are strictly in for business and want your trade. Tty "ns and you will st?ok to us. Your,truly, VANDBVER BROS. JUST RECEIVED, TOO CM PRICES, froma $35.00 Top Buggy up to tho finest Rubber Tired joli A LOT OF WAGONS That we want to sell at once. We keep s, large stock of Georgia Home Made Harness Cheap. The finest, light draft In the world. Come and see it. Yours In earneati VANDIVER BROS. & M.?JOR* oeiveci Two Oars Fine Tennesseo Vaiioy PERFEOTIMY SOUND. Voa run no risk in feeding this to your stooA. Will also ma&o the very finest meal. Come quick before it is a? gon<j. :O.-b.'!ANDKRft0il. ng mun i mw: miuiniw rna .nm n i n.i. ?? mn II? A man thinks it .is when the matter of life j insurance rug^ests itself-but oire?mstan? ces oblate have shown how lifo hangs by a thread when war, fiood, hurricane and fire suddenly overtakes -you, and tho only way lo be sure that your nnniiy is protected in case of calamity overtaking you ia to h> sure in a solid Company like Tho Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co, Drop in and see us about it. . WC. WC.. I?^JKEI^?W, . ...... tttpAiyp A?tansi?s. i-' Peoplea* B&nk.B?udtag,!<?HX>EP^GK ?. ?