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WAP si V V i UV wi "The Bravest M These words fell from tho lips of a federal general during the battle of Sailor'rf Creek in Amelia County, Vir ginia, on the afternoon of thursday, April (?, 1805. They were spoken of a Capt. Martin, a bravo Confederate soldier who had just breathed his la*t, having been killed at the head of the squad of men composing thc remnant of a splendid company that had gone into that fierce struggle early in the day, three-fourths uf them having been either wounded, killed or cap tured and now thu last of them cap tured. Thc iircumstauccs of the death of this brave man remind the writer most forcibly of the incident in "Les Mi >. ?rables," occurring during the battlo of Waterloo, in which Victor Hugo immortalizes a French artilleryman, Cambronne, and a mere handful of soldier:: "ho would not, could not, surrender. Under the exalted idea that a "Frenohman can die but not surrender" they fought on when the entire French army but themselves bad Lad been mowed down or swept away by the overwhelming charge of the English and German armies. Ono of the English officers, Boeing the hope less condition of these heroic soldiers, and anxious to save them if possible, called out, "Brave Frenchman sur render or we will firo on you." The fearless Cambronne uttered ono word, "Merdi," and with it hurled back dc Sance without dread, urged on the SffV?<>ig and awaiting without fear the Ubiiuiu death that was coming in the next volley of shot and shell. The command was given and a mound of men, a burial of glory, was given to tho bravo artilleryman and his hand ful of followers and not one was left alive to tell of their great honor and soldier-like glory. All day long on this immortal 6th .f April, Capt. Martin and his men had boen engaged in doing battlo. This writer belonged to Custis Lee's division, Ewell's corps, and in that ieroo fight which resulted so disas trously to to tho entire corps, so that but a handful escaped. Gens. Custis Lee, Ewell, and indeed, nearly all tho officers and men were captured, wound ed or killed. Amid the confusion a small body of men, among them Capt. Martin, a small number-10 or 12 of his company and the writer made a charge at a weak point in the enemy's line and got away as we thought. But we were mistaken. There was no way of escapo. We could not get away. The federal troops were everywhere. The Fifth, Sixth and Ninth army corps and Sheridan's oavalry were all around us, We made our way through the woods and across fields and had travel ed a considerable distance, several miles, hardly knowing where we were going. But to us any whore-to es cape-rather than surrender. Latein the afternoon we came into the main road at the forks cof roads, a place known as Deatonsville, tho home of tho late lamented Judge F. H. Farras, a distinguished jurist and well known leoturer on war topics such as "John ay Reb." Hore we rested a while and got some water to drink. Then thero appeared coming over the field nearly a brigade of federa, troops. The writer and a fow others moved away a little from the center of at traction, although it seemed impossi ble to escape. Wo saw Capt. Martin sall his men into line in the middle of the road. His men were not facing the brigade but ho was. We heard i'itcufoderal general oall in loud tones, "Brave Confederates, surreuder or wo will fire on you." Capt. Martin drew his sword and said: "Boys, you hear what the Yankco general says. He .C??ls upon us lo surronder. You may do so if you wish, but as for me, God knows I never, I never can, I never will surrender." By ?.his time a com pany of federal troops was standing ready to fire. They heard this bugle blast of defianoe and before the gener al could stop thom thc whole platoon liad opened fire upon our men. Capt. Martin waved his sword high in tho air, staggered and fell, pioroed by 20 or more bullets. Tho general ordered his men to cesso firing and galloped forward to where Capt. Martin lay up on the ground near an old blacksmith shop. Quickly he sprang from his horse, knelt down by the side of the Dttave, but now dead man and hastily opening his coat sought to find out if io still lived. But the noble, heroic jheart had ceased to beat-ho was dead. The federal general wept bitterly and exolaimod, "This was the bravest man I ever saw and what a pity he should killed. The men who fired without m:r ci ders shall be punished/' God WL/BS t-ini for those lears-thopo man 3y tears. He was not the, first northern gen erar that wept over a fallen Confeder ate. Gen.) Hancock cried over the bod;v.f Gen. John B. Chamblies, an mp ICQ 1 vy i?! vj . [an I Ever Saw." old classmate at West Point. This general ordered a grave to be dug just there-on the roadside, and wrapping the body in a blanket, he was buried near the blacksmith shop. Thc kind officer went into thc shop, got a new shingle and with a picoc ol' charcoal wrote the name, Capt. iMartin, giving his company, regiment and State, and at the bottom Haid: *'Ife wa? thc bravest man I cve.- saw," and then signing kia own uame and command, placed tho shingle at thc head of thc grave. Tho command moved off, we aro glad to say, without us. Some years since the war tho writer asked Judge Farrar about that grave, and he said that a few days after the surrender there came to his homo a poor, sad-faced middlo aged woman with two boys, about 10 and 12 years of ago respectively in an old wagon drawn by two very poor horses, with a plain pine coffin in it, and asked if a certain Capt. Martin had been killed near there. Ile told her yes, and if she wished, he would go with hor to grave. His family and Bonio negroes with spades went to the spot and care fully dug up tho body. Gently, amid a rain of falling tears, and with throb bing hearts they lifted the body out of tho grave and laid it on the grass nearby. Thc blanket was turned baok aud the poor woman fell upon her knees by it and catching hold of the lapel of the ooat cried out with intense agony of distress, "It's him! It's him! It's him! 0, ray God, what shall I do? What will bcoomo of me and my little children?'' The two little boys knelt by their poor doad father and heartbroken mother, and throwing their little arms about her Btrovo to comfort her all they could. She exclaimed, "I knew him by that ooat. I made it for him when he was at home the last time. But, Oh Lord, I did not expect to see him like this." The body was placed in that coffin and carried away by the faithful but crushed and grief-wrung wife. Tho writer has in the last few years tried to find out this family, but without success. Wo believe that ho was from Onslow County, North Carolina. Ho will never be forgotten by us who were with him that day. He waa truly a brave -man.-Columbia State. SUFFERED FOB HIS PEOPLE. An Eloquent Tribute to President Jeff Davis. The anniversary of Jefferson Davis' birthday was observed at the Confed erate home at Pikesvslle yesterday. The Ile v. William M. Dane, rector of the Memorial Protestant Episcopal Churoh and chaplain of the Maryland Daughters of the Confederacy, made the address as follows: "I speak not now on his services ho served splendidly, indeed, but on ly according to tho ability and oppor tunity ^od gave him. And thousands of others did that. Tho humblest private soldier of the South, who did his duty and stuok to nis post to the bitter end, deserves as muoh credit and as muoh honor for his service as the President. But beyond this Jef ferson Davis has four titles to the reverent interest of mankind and to bo held in everlasting remembrance by his own peoplo of the South. "Let me briefly suggest them to your minds. "His first title to suohromembranoe is that he was the called, chosen, faithful representative of a nation uni que in history and superb in moral rank, of a oause dear to mankind and inexpressibly sacred to us. That na tion was our Southern race; that causo was in general humanity's and in par ticular tho Anglo-Saxon's-our own. "The nation that ho ruled waa one utterly unique among the nations of tho earth. The Southern Confedera cy was a nation of which it may bo strangely but truly said that its sun was not seen to rise, nor seen to sot. In mid-heaven of the fi remanient of political systems it suddenly burst on tho eyes of tho nations shining already in the fullness of its strength. Their wondering gaie marked tho flashing splendor of its short oourse-then it vanished behind a cloud, wbieh drip ped tears and was tinged with blood. That short day {was f ulQlleu from its first hour to its last with tho most fieroe and tremendous struggle that the world has ever seen, and for the most sacred and momentous oause known to man on earth-the agony of a lion-hearted people for the most priceless human interest that God has taught man to see, and claim, and fight and die for-the right, in fear of God, to rule themselves, constitution al liberty, the service of no master but God. "With the memory of that -matoh tces nation and itamatohless heroism; with the memory of that immortal struggle, with all its splendid deeds, and more splendid sacrifices, with all the sufferings of its people and all thc blood of its heroes the name of Jef ferson Davis must stand forever link ed. "His second title to our tender memories. Ile was the representa tivo of his people in suffering. Elect of his own people to rule them, he was elect of their enemies to suffer fo. them. He was the ehosen vicari ous victim. They laid on him the falsely alleged iniquities of us all and wreaked on his devoted head tho blind and unjust vengeance they could not wreak upon tho whole people. You know tho history. "No sooner had tho fire of battlo ceased than thc vonom of all ignoble souls was turned on him. Ile was set apart for suffering. Malice and all uncharitableness spent their shafts on him! l?ate, invectivo, menace, slan der, childish, brutal, blind, furiously hurled their missiles. Then they laid hold on him. Human hands touched the sacred person of 4tho Lord's anointed!' This kingly man of loftiest worth and deeds and station they threw into a dungeon and there subjected to strange, savage, unusual tortures, such as no felon is made to suffer. Then on this man who had done nothing amiss against them they forced the crowning ignominy to such as he. "Upon this weak, sick, heartbroken prisoner, in a dungeon in a strong fortress, guarded by many soldiers, with not one armed man on earth standing for his oause, men in the uniform of tho groat Government hung felon chains. Perish the day that saw that shameful sight! Fetters on hands that had held a sceptre and had dono only knightly deeds! Iron on feet that had ever trod only in paths of honor and duty. Unspeakable pain on a heart that oherished only kind and iuBt and gentle thoughts for all! Pain so bitter and intolerable as for the moment to make that strong, calm, patient soul seek for death! Tortur ing ignominy on a stainless life! "They did these things unto him in their blind, unjust wrath against his people! They meant for him a shame ful death, but feared to bring him to trial, even before their own high priests. For the chief priests and scribes of the law warningly said : 'We find no fault in this man touch ing the things whereof ye aoouse him. It is not lawful for us to put this maa to death.' So they branded all that was done to him as lawless and unjust -hatred without a oause and wanton CMelty to the innocent. "And Bee how God reversed all this! The man who, as I believe, had those ohains put on tliu helpless cap tive died 'as a fool dieth,' by his own hand, a miserable suicido, and men are forgetting his name and hating his memory for his sins against his own country. "And for the un soldierly, brutal officer who lent himself so willingly to do the deed of shame and who directly ordered the irons to be put on. Ris ing by successive grades, of course, to be general commanding of the Uni ted States army, he has reached that conspicuous station only to become shining mark for the arrows of misfor tune aB a soldier. Thirty-four years his daring ambition for the highest military rank in the country's service was defeated an? treated with ridicule. The first voice in opposition and scorn that was raised against him was that of a Representative from the North, Massachusetts, who said that 'a sol dier who was oapable of such a hang man's deod as that of putting those fetters on a sick prisoner was a dis grace to his profession and not fit to be honored by this high office' And SQ said they all in Congress and in the country. In tho late war he was re fused command, imbecile offioers be ing preferred before him. And sb to* j day the jailer of Jefferson Davis stands I pilloried before the world as a soldier, discredited and humiliated by his Government, a general commanding, insulted with impunity by his subor dinates, an object of amused contempt to the oountry at largo and none so poor to do him re ve ronce." The Rev. Dr. Dame contrasted the treatment acoordod the commanding general with the honor and reverenoe paid to Jefferson Davis before and af ter death, and then spoke of Davis' influence as "the stay and support of his example to his people, in those hard, trying years, just after the war, as tho third title of grateful memory. 'The dignity and patieno* and cour age and heroic resolution of this peo ple, in that awful time," ho said, "is unmatched his in story. In all this Mr. Davis was grandly representative of his people Who Can tell how much the Southern people owed of inspiration and encouragement to his oxamplel "His fourth titlo, to be held in re membrance by mankind, and above all by the Anglo-Saxon raoe, and by the Southern poople, is this: As the hu man instrument, and entitled to the full oredit of his aot, Jefferson Davis gave to the South, and to the world, who proudly claims him now, Robert E. Lee, God's greatest gift to a raoe, and & timo in some one m&n in .^hom that raoe snail see tho embodimon* of its highest ideals, and the deepest ? ceda of timi tittie, weet their best satisfaction, and who thus wins unriv alled place in the affections and hom age of men are unrivalled over obanoe for service to their raoe and their time." Such men, said Dr. Dame, were Moses, David, George Washington and Robert E. Lee. "Apart from and beside tho splen did and dovoted service with brain and hand and influence which the man so richly dowered by Heaven wrought for the world," Dr. Dame conoluded, "these that ? have named are Jefferson Davis' four great titles to everlasting and grateful memory, by thc race, the Southern poople and by their children's children to the er 1."-Baltimore Sun. To Import 7,000 Negroes to Bay State. Boston May 29.-To punish tho southern states for what is termed their ''wicked oppression of the negro race," some 7,000 southern negroes are to be imported to Massachusetts before the 1st of September. A colored miII?Bter named J. H. Duokrey, whose pastorate is a Baptist ohuroh in Cambridge, is the aotive worker in the movement, and it is rumored that his project has substantial back ing. In the words of the parson, "An exodus has always been the only effectual refuge of an oppressed raoe or class since the time that the He brews left Egypt." So he is preaching and urging and organizing an exodus from Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama. "No hope of freedom for the negro can be entertained while he remains in his present environment," says Duokrey. "So they are oomiog north. We expeot 7,000 of them before Sep tember, and they will make Massa chusetts and New Hampshire bloom like the rose. There is relatively more unoccupied laad in New England than there is in the Mississippi val ley, and the southern negroes who are coming will make possible the utili zation of this land. I have pushed the ohuroh extension settlement idea in the north, but the idea of a general exodus was really that of a wealthy man of the race who owns 5 acres of land in the oenter of a southern city. He is aotively assisting the movement in the south. Duokrey and his associ?tes admit that the object of the proposed exo dus are twofold. The prime object, they say, is to better the condition of the negro. Secondly, they believe that by removing the negro from the south they will injnre the southern whites, some of whom, they assert, "can neither sow nor reap when this movement has worked out to its full extent." If Duokrey and his associ?tes think they have at last solved the so-called* race problem, they are destined to wake up some day with a sudden start. The ohief factor to be con tended with by these enthusiasts is the power in this state of organized labor. Northern mill owners and other employes of labor have threat ened that, in the event of the various un ou. beooming too arbitrary, they will replace their white employees with blacks from the southern states. Should such a contingency arise it is more than possible that raoe riots as violent as any in the Bout' would be waged in the Bay State. Collectively labor unions are suspicious, and nay marked increase of negro labor to the north would be viewed in an ugly light. And then-the faot oannot be disre garded in spite of what the negro's northern supporters say-comes the question of raoe prejudice. Lat our "raoe equality" so reamers say what they will, there is no such thing as raoe equality in Boston. William Lloyd Garrison and Thomas Went worth Higginson may attend negro ban quets on emancipation day, but they aro the exception? The Massachusetts laws favor the negro, but so far as social and industrial life is oonoerned the ne gro is looked down upon. At the pres ent time the negro population in Boston is upwards of 20,000, and of this num ber soaroely a handful are tradesmen, the majority being unskilled laborers. Add 7,000 negroes to the number wa already have and there is likely to be trouble. Duokrey's experiment is an inter , esting one. but it is doomed to result I disastrously.-Atlanta Constitution. Won't let his People Go. If an attempt is made to carry into i-ffjot the scheme for colonising ne groes about Boston, as planned by the Rov. J. Henry Duokrey, it will be found that the idea does not meet with the approval of prominent people of oven his own raoe. According to the present intention of tho Rev. Mr. Duokrey, who it? pastor of tho Mount Olive Baptist Church in Cambridge, he will, within three years, have in duced the migration of a half million of negroes from the South to Boston and its suburbs. It is in fact stated that the first exodus from tho South will bo made within a fortnight, when a party of three hundred will come hero under the guidance of the North ern, Eastern and Western Immigra tion 800104?, whoso headquarters, it appears, aro io the Rev. Mr. Duok rey's Cambridge homo. It is asserted that by September 1 st least 11,000 negroes will have arrived in Bostou. The Rev. Mr. Duckrey is enthusiastic over his plans and has expounded from his Cambridge pulpit the bene fits whioh will accrue from the pro posed influx of negroes. Others are less optimistic in the matter. It. is said that Booker T. Washington is decidedly opposed tc the movement. Tim Bc v. Riobard Carrol, manager of the South Carolina Industrial Home at Columbia, S. C., and formerly chaplain of the 10th United States volunteer infantry, has been in Bos* ton the past week and has met the Rev. Mr. Duckrey and has carefully considered the proposed pisas. He goes back to South Carolina prepared to use his influence toward thwarting the movement as muoh as is possible. He says: "I know of no scheme which would be so injurious to the negroes. It would be harmful to those already here; it would be de trimental to those who would come. Raoe prejudioe is growing in the North because of the large influx of unskilled and unemployed Southern laborers. There can be no objeotion to scattering the negro through the North, but .?ny scheme to bring any number to oae plaoe would be bad. I believe that for the present the South is the best country for the ne gro. I know of no negroes in the South that have trades that are not employed. Lands are cheap; the white people leave the. country and go to the city to work in the mills and the negro has the opportunity to occupy the farms thus vacated. The South is growing in wealth and pros perity, in intellectual, moral and finan cial advantages. All of the white people in the South are not our ene mies any moro than all of the white people in the North are our friends. "Tho negro of the North should protest against this scheme for MB interest as well as for that of the ne gro of the South. Tho latter should stay where he is. The climate and conditions suit him better than any where else. If this colonization plan should be oarried out there would be more raoe riots and more bloodshed in the North than there is now in the South. Already there are too many of our raoe in some localities in the North. -Boston Herald. Must Break a Hoodoo. Theodore Roosevelt is the fifth Vioe President of the United States to beeome President by the death of the oooupaot of the presidential office early in the term. Every one of the five manifested an ambition to secure by eleotion a full term in the office whioh had been fill ed part of a term through the aooident of death. Not one of President Roose velt's four predecessors achieved it. It is for Theodore Roosevelt to show whether he is able to rise above those de pre s ai u g precedents. He has gone into the contest for the nomina tion with greater determination than was displayed by either of his four predecessors. The conditions are more in his favor than in tho case of either of the others. Unless some thing now unlooked for intervenes the probabilities are that he will be nominated on the first ballot and not improbably by a practically unan imous vote. That will break the re cord so far as oonoerna the nomina tion. Whether he will go into history as the first President by aooident who succeeded in becoming President by eleotion will then remain to be deter mined. _,,m * " - _? - All the investments of married men are not made up of home seouri-. ties. -f-.- j. .... ^ It Scares People Who corns of a consumptive family ?hen they benin to cough and the lunga _______9_lmm^___m___m are painful. But I it is a fact beyond 99^HH99SBKB9 diapr oof that ? BMfBlJBKjMilH consumption is HM^H^3HffflP* EOt aC(* cannot bi BBWBP^glMy^W inherited. The m MBamiB microbe -which MQattS^gS^^aW breeds disease j^MflH must' absolutely JBfMiaByiiMHfflBB be received by the BBPLHK^^B^IH individual before SK IHJSEB consumption can flBBigBahdfrffiJitH be developed. HHHHBBKSHII Men and women I H -who have been af j fHcted with obsti ! nate coughs, bron WWIMM?H cniti^ bleeding of the lungs, emaciation and weakness, have been perfectly and permanently cured by the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Med ical'- Discovery. It cures the cough, heals the lungs, and builds up the body with solid flesh. *30f*0 . Will be paid ty die World's Dispensary Medical Association, of Buffalo, N. Y., if tiley cannot show the original signa ture of the individual volunteering the ! testimonial below, and siso of the writers of every testimonial among the thou sands which they are constantly tnblish ing, thus proving their genuin?, .'jess. . ? When I convenced taklet f your medicines, eighteen meath* aso, my bealla mi completely broken down," writes Sirs. Cern JU Sunderland, of ChaneyvUte. Calvert Co.. -Sid. "At time* I could not even walk i ero*?'the room without patna tn my chest. Tht doctor who aiUmdtd ma said thad huU >>oHbUt and that / would naur be ' wU r^rar*. Altogether I have taken eighteen bottles of 'Golden Medical Discovery ' and five vial? of . l'elleta."' I am now almost entirely well, and do all my work without any pain whatever, and can run with XE ore ?ase than I could formerly oatt." Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser, in paper covers, is sent free on teotipt of ax'one-cent stamps, to cover expense of mailing only. Address Dr. R.*V\ Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. ?2nfiBQB^^^a^HHfl^HHHSSIHBslZ^wi ?Vfcgef able Pr cpacaiionfor?s ?iig ?ie Slomaciis andBmwls S" IM -.VN J'S /'(HI; DKI:N Promotes D?geslion.Cheerfur~ ??.?55 ?ftu nC5i.CGnv.?j?13 ??C?SiCT ?piurn.Morpl?ne nor Minera!. >TOT "NARC OTIC. ftanplaa Seed-" ?bcSetita * ItethelU Setts Aat?eJtttt * A perfect Remedy f or Cons?pa Tion, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea Wor ms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and Loss OF SLEEP. Facsimile Signature of NEW YORK. Vox Infants and Children. The .'Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of . . A I O n i . > 11 I 1? -, o 1 ? j y l)<?s).s - ?ye IN . . DCACTCOPY.OFlWnAPPER^I ' VHK CENTAUR COUPANT..HEW YORK CHT. BUGGIES, # WAGONS, HARNESS. Are yon going to bny a Buggy, Wagon ox Set of Harness Boon? If you are, it will pay you to inspect my stock and get prices if yon don't bny. I have the largest stool? to select from in the State. ALL THE LEAPING- MASES. I CAN 8AVE YOU MONEY. Bo sure and give me a call before buying. Car Milburn Wagons just received. J. We have about Twenty Excellent SECOND-HAND ORGANS, In perfect condition, better goods than many of the Cheap new ones, at 825.00 ap. New ones, such as MASON & HAMLIN, ? ESTEY, CROWN and FARRAND. Ali the very highest quality, at prices we have never been able to give. Come and see our Stock ; we may have jost what you have been hunting. THE C. A. 'BEES M??SIfi HOUSE. D. 8. VANnrVBR. E. P. VANDIVKB GENERAL MERCHANTS, ANDERSON^ 8. C., October 8,1902. We propose pulling trade our way this Fall, and have made prices on good, ramble, honest Goods that will certainly bring vt ^ amwa We have the strongest line of Men's, Women's and Chddran s, S?iC?^ we have ever shown, and have them marked down so low that every pair is a great Value. We have another big lot of Sample Shoes that we throw on the market at factory prices. Come quick white we have your size. ft We are money-iavers on GROCERIES. Be;t Patent Flour 84,50 per barral. Best Half Patent Flour 84.00. Extra Good Flour 83.75. ? ^A_a o^El^S?JGAR, LARD, BACON, BRAN,. CORN and OATS always in stock, just a little cheaper than the market prices. We are strictly in for business and want your v^de. Try us and yon will stick to us. . Yourtruty, ^ . YANDI VER BROS? JUST ?E?S5?ES9 TWO OARS OF BUGGIES, ALL PRICES, from a 835.00 Top Buggy ufto the finest Rubber Tired joli -? ALSO, . A I OT OF WAGONS, That we want to sell at ^nce. We keep a large stock of-' Georgia Home Made Harness Cheap? Tho finest, light draft Ia the world. Come and see it Yours ia earnest, VANDIVBR BROS. & MAJOR. A man thinks it ia when the matter of life insurance suggests itself-but circumatan ces or lata h?yo ahown how lifo Kantw by a tlrread when war, flood, hurricanelEd fire suddenly overtakes you, and the only way to be eure that your family is protected in cai? of calamity overtaking ?you is to tn sure in a solid Company lik< T&e Mutual Bensfit Lif ) Ins. Go? Drop in and see us about it. siv a*. MA'X'atxsoisr, STATE AftEHTi