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WAR ST ''Plie Daring !Ride ' Our Women in the War" During the war for Southern inde- ! peadeuce, there lived justopposite l'a latka. on thc east hank of t?;" St. J olin's Uiver, Florida, a Cuban K<'?; tleman. M aurilia Sanchez, by name, who carly in life had left thc West Indies to seek a hume in ilt?- Stan- of Florida. Many years had parsed .-iii' ?' then and Mr. Sanchez w;t- at tho time of th? following incident an old man. iulirtu and in wretched health. Thc family consisted of an invalid wife, one -on wh i waa in the ser vice pf the (Jonfed racy; and three daughters, Panciiita, L/jda sud K ugo n ia. Sus| ! ; a had long fastened upon Mr. Sanchez as a spy fur the Confed ?rales-, and at the time of this incl d ?ut. thc old mau had been lorn from bia !. ::?- . and family, ami was a pris- j oner in the old Spanish Kort San Mare.) ? now Kort Marion I at St. Augus tine. The giiN occupied the home with their old mother, and were en tirely unprotected. Many times at night their Imusc was surrounded hy white and negro soldier.-' expecting to surprise them, and Ged Confederates about thc place for thc Yankees knew some enc was giving information, but th ouch t it was Mr. Sanchez. Thc Southern soldiers were higher up thc St. .John's on thc west side. It wis usual for thc Yankee officers to visit frequently at thc Sanchez home, ari the girls, for policy, (ind iufor inatioo) were cordial in their recep tion of them, and thereby gained some protection from the thieving soldier). Uno warm summers night three Van kee officers came to thc Sanchez iiotr.vi lo spend thc evening. After a ?short time the three sisters left the officers, and went to the dining room to prepare thc supper. The soldiers thinking themselves safe entered into thc discussion of a plan to surprise the Confederates on Sunday morn ing by sending thc gun boats up the river, and also by planning that a for aging party should go out from St. Augustine. On hearing this Lola Sanchez stop ped her work and listened. After dearing of the road thc foraging party VTGUIU take, and gaining all necessary information, she told Panchita to en tertain them until she returned. Stealing softly from tho house sho aped to tho horse lot and throwing a ?saddle on her horse rode for life to tho ferry a milo distant; there the ferry enan took her horse, and gave her a 'boat. She rowed herself across the ?St. John's, met ene Confederate pick eat, (who knew her) and gave her his dorse. Out into the night, through thc woods she rode liko tho wind to (Jamp Davis, ia milo and a half away. Reaching the camp she asked for Capt. Dickison. afterwards Gen. Dick ?son) and told him tho Yankees were thorning up the river Sunday morning, and that tho troops from St. Augus tine would go out foraging, ina south ?orly direction. ?Dhen leaving tho camp Lola San chez rode for her life indeed. Sho knew sho must not bo missrd from home. Giving tho picket his dorse, she recrossed tho ferry, then mounting her waiting animal she --.truck out for home. Dismounting ?some distance from the house, she turned her horse loose and reached Ci?me in time for supper, and pleas antly entertained her guests until a Cate hour. That night Capt. Dickison marched (his meo to intercept tho Yankees. . Ele crossed from tho west to the east -side and surprised them on Sunday. JL severe fight ensued. The Yan kceGon. Chatfield was killed and Col. Nobles -woaoded and captured. On that same "Sunday morning the Van ibee gunboats went up the St. John's to .surprise the Confederates. They ?rere ?very much surprised in turn. The1 Confederates were ready for them, <&e*&ied a gunboat, ?nd oaptured a transport, also many prisoners were ?aken by the Confederates. TThe foraging party lost all their ?wagons, and everything they had olole-n, and again many prisoners were .taken, /end Cpc. Diokison sent for the three sisters to be at the ferry <(thc one (Lola Sanchez crossed) to see the prisoners and wagons that had &een taken. .Time and again this daughter of tho ^Confederacy aided and abetted the ?Southern cause. Seme time after a pontoon was oap tared, and named "The Three Sis ters" in compliment to those brave \youog, wooten. Tbo pontoon was .?ovv-ing Lom Picolata to Orange Mills. .Mr. Sanchez still languished in I*ortrSan Marco, however, and Pan chito grieved continuously, over her father's unjust incarceration'. The .old man was truly innocont, his daugh v ters wero the informers, but he did j filQt know this.j DRIBS. i o?'a lTlorida Grirl. Kdition Nows ami Courier. Panchito determined to obtain his release if possible. After some time spent io applying she got a pass to go through tho Vankee lines, ami board ing one ol their transports, this young woman went alone to St. Augus tine, and gained her father's freedom, taking him with hen hack to thc old homestead. There i- th<- "Kinily Cciger l?de." ami "Lill Servosse's l?de;" hut none more daring than that of Lula San chez, the young Floridian Of the Sont hero l'on fcd< i acy. The li. 1> C. should look to it that one chapter at i<. u-1 should I o Lola I Sanche/. I Miapter. Lola Hauche/ married Kmanuol Lope/., a (.'onl'ederate soldier ol' the Ht. Augustine Hines, Kugenia mar ried Albert Hogers, another soldier of thc Ht. Augustine iilues, I'anchita is the widow ol' the late John I!. M ?ot, of ( Columbia, S. C. Lola Sanchez died about seven years agu. May the memory of this Southern woman never fade. Tliso facts were recently related to me by Mrs. Kugenia Hogers, of Ht. Augustine, I'la. Elizabeth W. Mulling*. . . - 4? - ^--. Northern Viens of Ml/.lmgh Lee. The death of Fitzhugh Lee is the occasion for the expression of sympa thetic and appreciative opinion in the prees of thc northern and eastern States. Without exception, as far as we have .?eon, these papers have gon erounly availed themselves of an op portunity to speak magnanimously and justly of thc dashing Confed erate cavalry leader who recognized no enemy save those under a hostilo flag It was natural that the attitude ol' Fit/.hugh Lee should appeal strongly to thc best sentiment of thc North as it did to tho best sentiment of the South. It was the attitude of a gal lant Gghtcr, who docs his best and, at the end of tho struggle, returns as gallantly to the tasks of peace-tasks made more difficult by defeat and losa. In assuming this courageous position, however, he was not the leader, as ono might infer from reading the eulogies of him in the northern press. Ho fol lowed tho lofty precept and example of his uncle, Ilobert K. Lee, and in this State the course advised by that great chieftain had already been adopt ed by Gen. Wade Hampton, who, in deed, needed no counsel in any path of honor, of courage, or of right con duct. In praising Fitzhugh Lee's at titude, therefore, tho praise must be accepted, in principle, for other lead ers of the South in war and in peace. The New York Times said of Fitz hugh Lee, tho day he died, but before it knew of his death: "There is no man in the South, and no man in the United States, who con tributed moro than Fitzhugh Leo to form, after tho division of the Civil war, a more perfect union." In an appreciation of Lee, the Phil adelphia I'uhlic Ledger, after speak ing of the "very important part play ed hy this patriotic man and com petent administrator in thc era of re construction," sud: "Cleveland acted with great spirit and wisdom in appointing this distin guished son of thc South and former Confederate general successively in ternal revenue collector in Virginia and consul general at Havana; and President MoKinley must have great credit for his decision to retain this Democrat at the important Havana poet, and also particularly for ap pointing him to bo major general of volunteers during the war with Spain, and finally, military governor of Ha vana. * * * Gen. Lee was thorough-, ly "reconstructed," like his uncle, the Confederate military leader. Great soldier as was Ilobert E. Lee, his real greatness-something of that largeness of soul whioh we attribute to a Washington-shone out conspicu ously in his counsels and practices of peaco and good will, and in his per formance of new duties for the up building of the shattered South io a reunited country almost from the day that the war was over." The New York Sun very gracefully said: "Fitzhugh Lee dies a hero of the whole American people. The illustrious name he bore, typioal of the highest and purest American citizenship, is a proud national pos session, lt is a a name almost can onised at the South, and at tho North it is scarcely less honored." It seems a far cry back to Appomat tox when one rends such sentiments in the northern press.-Columbia State. ,- . . i - One way to ba clever is not think you are too all-Qred clever. - You can't nlways keep a oook wheu she isn't any good. j IIaiii|ituii*8 l'iiussailuhle Iiuiik. _ A reader ol The f?tate, a private in Wade Hampton's command, does us the injustice nf inferring that we do not recognize the high rank of Gen. Hampton as a cavalry leader. He finds fault with the omission of Hampton's name from a .-hort aud ob viously incomplete list of southern cavalry commandera. Hut the list did not include Huller, Rosser, Mor gan, Cobb, Wheeler uuJ still others. There was no intention, therefore, to give a rooter of thc captains of Coo I -'derate horse. Hampton's position is unavailable. There is DO doubt that he will always rank among tin.- creal cavalry leaders ol'the world, ami especially as one ubi. helped tc? bring to its hieb effi ciency the magnificent ''mounted in fantry" ul'the South. Thc highest tribute that could be paid his service in tlii- r- spect is thc adoption of thc Confederate cavalry organization by ail thc armies of Ku rc pe and Japan and, not least, by thc inexpugnable Hoer-.. Hen Hampton needs no eulugium. His rank is recognized and secure. lt might be said here, however, that one thine is too generally overlooked in all estimates of llampt m. Ho is treated loo much aa if bc were omy i a leader of horse - though brilliant and successful. He was essentially a mil itary organizer and a general. He was capable of directing extensive movements, of commanding large forces, and of handling mixed bodies of troops in a masterly way. As a military leader, therefore, he out ranked Fit/.hugh Lee, because h?s grasp of situation was wider and firm er, and his powers of organization, and of directing large forces were of a higher quality. In a peace as troubled as war, Hampton also showed greater powers as a leader of men. No man accoui cr.mplishcd more, perhaps no man ac complished as much. Hampton's work in tho reorganizition and re demption of South Carolina is beyond praise, as it is beyond measurement by our usual standards. Here he stands alone as a triumphant leader in victories moro renowned than those of war.-Columbia State. After Thirty Years. Copt. Theodore P. Northrop, of 47 East 10th street, New York, came down from Aiken to take another look at Barnwell. He paid his first visit to this place in February, 18G5, as thc captain of a cavalry company in KU patrick's command. Hts troop cross ed tho Saltkehatchie at Morris Ford and rode into town so rapidly that he remembered the distance from thc creek as not greater than a mile. At this place Kilpatrick had his head quarters in a rear room in the late B H. Brown's residence, still stand ing just in the rear of the Bank o! Barnwell. Capt. Northrop stated that he heart Gen. Kilpatrick, before entering th? town, give orders to a sergeant t< prevent any house burning and t< shoot any one caught applying tin torch. The soldiers wero in ugl; humor from having been fired on a the Saltkehatohie. Capt. Northrop took from Bavnwel v r> * -o \ a negro ooy, r>enmo urown, as i body servant, who ia yet living ii New York. Capt. Northrop captured Col. Al fred Rhett tho night befor^ tho battl of Averysboro, N. C. With a few men ho was scouting 01 the night before the fight and, gettinj unintentionally inside the Confederad skirmish line, came unexpected], upon Gens. Hampton and Taliaferro with a group of aides. He and hi men promptly made themselves in visible and withdrow, and a fow mo ments after Col. Rhott rode up o: them just inside the Confederate line Ile put his pistol in Col. Rhett's fae and said, "You must eome with?me.' Col. Rhett replied, "Who the hell ar you," and drew his pistol to fight Instantly the men with Capt. Noi throp put their oarhines to Col Rhett's head and he, seeing how th case stood, gave up and was car ic tG Gen. Kilpatrick, who sent htm t Gen. Sherman's headquarters. Capt Northrop says Col. Rhett told hit when first aooosted he thought h was dealing with one of Gen? Wheel er's men, and he is satisfied that i Col. Rhett had realised ac the ver first that they wore the enemy h met he ?ould have fought and trie to get away, although he woul hive probably been killed in the at tempt. Capt. Northrop took Col. Rhett1 sword and pistol. The sword wa lost some years ago in a railway trail but he has the pistol still with Co Rhett's name engraved on it.-Bart well People. _ - - A maa feels cheaper about sweai ing off than for being looked np in police station for not doing it. - A woman would rather not I rioh and have people think she wi .than to bo rich and have them thin she Wasn't. - A woman is never BO afraid < catching oaldic tho wet when she hi on low shoes and openwork stookinj as a man is in rubber boots. 'M l?'?f . ' " ' ' ' .- " , ; Stich lo The Bible. When France wont crazy duriog I thc French revolution und tho Jaco bins foreswore God and all that per tained to religion, the leaders were ready to cut kings' throats and even to betray each other to the fatal guil lotine. When a nation forgets God, it may be a "high roller" for some time later, but the end of that nation is certain. Koine and Greece had exalted posi tions in their time, but both weat to pieces under political corruption and general infidelity. The trend of our politics and the bold declarations of men whose learn ing has made them mad indicate to my mind the beginning of decay in these I'nitcd States. There arc people who make a busi ri(isa of decrying the Bible and belit ting Jehovah. They get an audience by Buch methods. There are some people in tho world whose carnal minds would be pleased to know there was no such things as a hereafter and a God of Justice, and such people catch al the sayings of these atheistic writers and speakers. They are dad to see the Uiblc ridiculed out of their particular clique or society. They laugh about .Jonah aud pick out, every scrap of misunderstood history, pointing out to the ignorant the im posstblity of such recitals. The world is crowded with unbelievers, who are impatient of rebuke, abd seeking a cover for their own mis deeds. Such people have no use for the Bible, and would be glad to see it "put out of countenance" - dismissed and forgotteu. Granting we are all ignorant of many things that are spoken of in the Sa cred Book, and that everything there written has the impress of auciect manners and customs, yet thc doc trines of the Bible would bc good to live by if there was no final accouot or hereafter. It is far beyond and above any guide to decent life and upright con duct that the world knows anything about, and it is indiopensable to a civilized government, as a source of justice in law making. Our readers likely know better than I should be able to tell them how long the Bible has been a guide book for the nations of the earth, and that to day it is the basis of all our civil laws I and the regulations of society, and that Bible-reading nations have been shown to be the most progressive civ ilizers of the world of mankind, and that for 2,000 yoars and upward it has outlived its ootemporaries and is more and more a living, active force in everyday life as well as religious experience. It makes one tired to hear men prate '?tx v about the fallacies of the Bible, lt reminds oue of Jacobiu folly. Those who would begiu at the bottom to knock down an edifice which is ; obliged to fall on their own heads, and crush it upon the hopea and hap- . piness of all connected with them are' < not worthy of discussion. The great , trouble hangs about the modern neg- ( lect of the Bibio study. Those who live up to its precepts are the people that hold this old world together and who keep our land and country in working order.-Ex. Not so Funny. In a Pullman car on au English railway recently, says an exchange, a waggish youug man, noticing an elderly gentleman trying to put on a light dust-coat, went to his assistance. While thus engaged, the young man observed a good-sized whiskey flask ?protruding from one of thc old gen tleman's pockets, and thought it a good opportunity for a joke. Having helped the stranger on with his coat, therefore, he pulled out the ilask and said: "Will you take a drink?" The old man did not recognize the bottle, and drawing himself up, re marked rather severely: ''No, sir; I never drink." "It won't hurt you," insisted the wag, "it s the bc6t." "Youngman," said the old gentle man, speaking loud enough for all thc carriage to heat, "if you persist in drinking whiskey you will be a ruined man at 40. It is the curse of ibe land. When I was a boy my mother died, and the last thing she did was to call me to her bedside, and say, 'John, promise me that you will never touch a drop of liquor.' " "Oh, well, in that case," said the joker, "I must drink it myself," whereupon suiting the action to the words, he pulled out the cork and took a good drink. A moment after he dropped the bottle with an excla mation which certainly didn't sound like ablessing and yelled, "Ugh! ughl My mouth's all raw!" Then it was that the old gentleman discovered his loss, and to the aruu-e ment of the other passengers saio: "Ah, young man, you will be oare ful before you take another man's property again. I am Doctor-, and that bottle contained some quinine and iron for one of my pa tients." The young man got out at the next station._ _ _ - A girl without a lot of rib bons inside her clothes whee you don't just see them, yet knew they are there, somehow never seems a girh Will Give Ten Million. New York, April 27.-A gift of ?=10,000,000 by Aadrew Carnegie to L provide annuities for college profes jors of tho United States, Canada and } N'ew Foundland who are unable to con- t linue ia active service was announoed j today by Vice President Vanderlip of j the City National Band. The gift jonsists of United States Steel Cor- \ poration 5 per cent first1 mortgage bonds. . A corporation to be styled "Thc ( Carnegie Foundation," will be or ganized to manage the funda, which applies to universities, colleges and j technical schools regardless of race, , sex, creed or color. State or colonial institutions aro not included where it is preferred that their relations shall remain exclusively with the State. Institutions requiring trusts, officers, faculty or students to belong to any special sect are also excluded. Each institution participating in thu fund shall cast one vote for the trustees, who hold office five years. Twenty six presidents of leading universities, including President Craighead of Tu lane and Denny of Washington and Lee, ate named as trustees. The present value of the bequest is $11, 000,000. Returned the Bill. A peculiar and interesting con science fund story came to light to day. Rev. John II. Marshburn, pas tor of Walker street Methodist church, went to Gideon C. Courtney, third assistant chief of the Atlanta fire de partment and asked: "Mr. Courtney, did you lose a $20 bill ten years ago?"' Courtney was taken by surprise and could not recall thc inoident for a moment. Mr. Marshburn refreshed his memory. "Ten years ago," said the preacher, "you dropped a $20 note in a small grocery store. It w?s picked up there and you asked a certain man if he had seen it. He replied that he had not, though it was he who had found the bill. That man was in my congrega tion a few nights ago when I preached a sermon on conscience and the duty of making restitution. He has since joined my church and he related this story to me asking me to make the res titution that he is due you." Thereupon Rev. Mr. Marshburn handed the astonished fireman a$20 bill and $16 interest up to date; total $36. Sr. Courtney promptly handed the preaoher $5 for the churoh.-Atlan ta Journal, April 23. - About the only thing that can be said in some men's favor is that they are not society favoritiea. Gluttinous New Yorkers. Tho food supply of New York is so ?normous that though the rich aud vell-to-d? gorged from, morning to light they simply could not eat it all. There would still remain an abundanoo for everyone if some way oould be .ouod of distributing tho fragments. Just consider the figures which I bave on careful authority. New York reoeives every week 10, 300,000 pounds of dressed beef, 12, 300,000 pounds of pork, ham and pig's meat, 1,500,000 pounds of poultry, 1,000,000 pounds of sausages, 1,00:, 300 pounds of mutton and lamb, over ?,000,000 pounds of liver, heart, tripe, etc., ove?* 1,000,000 pounds of canned meat, 500,000 pounds of game and 1,000,000 pounds of fish. The fragments of this food, tons and tons of it, are collected every day and carried off to fatten pigs in New Jersey or load the fertilizer ^oows that ply down the bay. Every day of the year from 500 io 000 car-loads of food, much of it perfectly good, are taken from the homes and hotels of New York and simply thrown away. A million people could live and live well on this waste if the problem of col lecting and distributing it could once be solved. And I suppose any kind hearted individual could solve it in a small way himself-with a wagon aud a little brainsl -Success Magazine. Dispensary Must Go. The News and Courier correspon dent from Spartanburg thinks that county will very likely go against the dispensary in the election to be or dered. In Pickens there is soaroely a doubt that the dispensary must go. The opposition to the great moral in stitution is growing stronger every day. It is only a question of time when it will be voted out of most of the counties of the State. A curious thing about it is that towns and cities are coming to the support of the dis pensary-on monetary grounds, for the sake of the revenue-while the oountry is turning more and moro against it. It is said that the pro dispensary vote will be stronger in the city of Spartanburg than in any other portion of the county. And Columbia and Charleston would .both probably vote for the G-. M. I. "What about Newberry County? We -?culd like to see the vote taken in this county, though it would be unwise to foroe the issue before the people are re?dy for it. Whether they are rea?v now we cannot under take to say.-Newberry Observer. - If a young man stops running after a girl, it's doughnuts to fudge ahnMI ?,nrn**n?1 ?tu afta* *k?m ?3: I?? 1 Made in the Golden Sunlight It is conceded by the highest authorities that the soda cracker contains the life-giving elements of wheat in the best proportions. v This being so. then UfiMda B????i.t must at once take first place as the food of the wprld-a sqd^ cracker, but such a soda cracker 1 Made by exact science in sunny bakeries sought, bright and clean, th?t they are a revelation. The flour fe tested; the purity of the water is absolutely assured; the very air is filtered,-why even the temperature and moisture of the atmosphere is accurately regulated. The sponge is kneaded by polished paddles, not by hand. Indeed, If ne*<te fi4?cuit are, only touched once, and then by a pretty girl, from the time the flour leaves the bag until the beautiful p?cl?ge k placed on your table. You ask why all this work, all this care in the making of a soda cracker? Because the soda^racker is the best pf all foo?f. and Ufiftetfft OiieiiSt is most wonderful of aU soda crackers. And vvfth di of it the price is only 5? a package. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY j/ J.