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WAR ST How **Squire" Lamb ] Fit I'o the .-Jitor of The State: | Two years ago at the re.|UCHt of my eou.rade and friend, Sheril! Thos. .J. Duokett. I wrote (wholly from memo ry) a brief history of the old Hag of the Third regiment of K ershaw's old briga-ie, which was read on Memorial ?Iay. This description wa- in essen tial matter- correct, i said among other things: "At the battle of Chick am au {ta (Jen. Kersbaw rode up lo "Squire1 Lamb, us we always called bim and said: 'Sergeant, give me (hat !~\?g,' proposing to lead the charge, for which our lines were form - : in- . to which the 'Squire' answered;! No you c*o't gel this flag, general; ryoiu: out where you want it to go, I 'll ?ta'; ;t. but you can't got this Hag. ?gen : al. <^r.nnd "Id Kershaw pointed to (L tree a thousand yards i:i Iront. "Now, s rgcant, straight toward that tree Then I briefly described the ilerrifjc asuault on Snodgrass Hill. A short time after Memorial day, ???>0.'>, I learned that some members of 'the Third battalion, who had, I sup never known or had forgotten wjf the cpitiodc between Gen. Kershaw <and Lamb, were disposed to discredit i:uy statement and to confound it with a similar incident on the same day at fttie same hour, with Gen. Kershaw aud Uolorbcarer Kvins of the battalion. IPkifl ,'cd to some correspondence b< - Iw. y?. myself and Stato Treasurer Jen >.iinr?, who was a gallant soldier of the taliou and commanded a company I that field. From this oorrcspan icoce I found that he, Mr. Jennings, Lad never known of the Ker-haw ??aiub incident, as I bad never heard of the. incident with the gallant Kvins, or had forgotten it, if I had known of ?t. "\Ve both found also that there was no conflict between us. The story of how Lamb had refused ?to give up tho flag on that famous eld had been known by our boyB as a iiart of the unwritten history of old ?Uocipany G, (Laurens llriars) of the Third regiment for these 40 years. Sergeant Lamb was one of our com ff*any. Although I had written wholly tfwm memory, 1 knew I was correct in essential particulars, but bearing of ?lue disposition of some persons to mix ?tttp with tho Kershaw-Kvins incident, ?T asked Squire Lamb the first time ? taet him (ho was present when my article waB read in the Court House ^Memorial day) to give me tho particu lars of Kersbaw's coming to him at Ohickamauga. He Bays: "Ho didn't iride, be walked, up to me and said, "Sergeant, let mo have the flag.' I tsaid, 'No, you can't get the flag; tell ?ine where you want it to go; I'll take at there.' I pointed to the battalion and said, 'There, general, is tho trou ble,' meaning that the battalion was ilosiog its direction, or oausing the brigade to lose its direction, wherc ?"xpon Kershaw pointing to the wooded (freights of Snodgrasa Hill, now to be snade i'ainous for a thousand years by 'this heroic assault and the perhaps no ileeo 'heroic defence by Thomas, said: ^Sergeant, select a tree or an object -sft-aight to the front and march di s arectly to it, and hurrying to Color Nearer levins 1 think that he got hold } ?3? bis flag." '. This is borne out by Mr. Jennings ? *Jffb.o says that Kershaw did get hold I exf the battalion flag. It must not be I ?<KigoUen that all this was the work of \ is. very few minutes in a long sight less I time than it takes to writo it, and <wfei?e every man in tho brigade waB ?u?iing toward the front and under rire, and was all done by Gen, Ker ahew to rectify his alignment to ?change-somewhat the direction of his cmrch, and while crossing that large ?jpuaing at the farther side of whicb W3?c received the first deadly volley of musketry, and in crossing which we ever afterward said that we had exe cuted Korshaw's order changing the direction <of tho march as if we had been on un ordinary parade. N?fJoe survivors of Company Gl; t (Briars), were together here on last Wednesday, 26th, when I brought up che question on purpose to learn their c ecoilee.tkm -of the occurrences at Cbickamatrga. "Several of tho number mhs> were there, remember the Ker ^"haw-'Lamb incident, among the num luer A.. Y. Thompson, a man of splen Sid memory. Judge Barksdale of Louisiana, .TirBt sergeant of the com vaQY 'A^&Hant soldier who lost an arm ?ftrere, was present. Ho recalls Ker jf&aw waving either flag or sword,'but ra?i ' right in front of our rcg'me.nt, Millich seem* to bear out the idea of >X ec&haw lnvinu waved the battalion tfag, after leaving Limb. In a contribution to The News and t?ieraid of Winnsboro of March, 1903, *. -copy of wbioh I procured -some months after my write-up of the Third rregiruent flag in April of that year, yEIoc. It. H. Jennings says of this JSpisrVdo: "Kershaw walked up to ijtvvns and taking the 11 .g from him 'ORI HS, Relused to Grive up his ? it I walked out in front of the li'.e, so that the liag could he seen from all parts of it. F,\ius thinking perhaps that th<- general had an idea that he was going to waver, walked alonir with Kershaw and pleaded with him to 'please give him the flag,' and just point out to him where to go, and as suring him that he would go there or die. Gen. Kershaw kindly trave it back to him and pointing to a large green pine :il the toji of the hill paid: 'l>o you see that pine? 'Ves,' said Kvins. 'Go directly t" it,' and he went." At the time of the correspondence between comrade Jennings and my self, referred to. we agreed that some thing explanatory should be published about this nppareut, but in no sense a real conflict. Hut as most of us have done with regard t" tin- priceless treasure of our glorious history I went alonir. and neglected i*. Again last May while, at the State Democratic convention in talking the matter over, myself and Mr. Jennings, we agreed that something ought to be published \ and 1 again resolved to write, and yet 1 may never have be. n sufficiently im pressed with the necessity for it had it not be.-n that last autumn, by acci dent, I learned that at the last annual i session of the Stale organization of the If. !>.(.-. some Udy?unwittingly, of course- disputed or challenged the 1 (Jhickamauga flag story, so far as it connected Sergeant Lamb with it. 1 ' then once more resolved that 1 would publish something that would, oral least should, set the matter at test. I Another thing that made mo hesitate was n natural aversion to rushing into print. But 1 am satisfied that it '; should be explained for tear that after all living witnesses arc gone, and that will not be long, some of the younger generation might be misled to believe that some survivor might have been vain enough to fall into the egregious error of trying to appropriate to his command honors that justly belonged to another. Fortunately for all con cerned, for t!ic living and for the dead, there is glory enough for all. If the old Third regiment was wanting in glory, the Third battalion could well spare some of her laurels with plenty left. This history of one is the his tory of the other, they fought and marched and bivouaoked side by side, shoulder to shoulder, from Sharps burg to Frcderioksburg, Chancellors ville, Gettysburg, Chiokamauga, Knoxville, the "NVildorness; Spottsyl vania, Cold Harbor, Fisher's Hill and on to the end at Greensboro. Briefly the explanation is, that on that famous field, the bloodiest in percentage of losses of the war, there were two flag iueidents between brave old Kershaw of the FirBt South Caro lina brigade and two of his no less brave color-bearers, Kvins of tho Third battalion and Lamb of the Third regiment, brought about by the effort of Kershaw to change the direc tion of his march and under fire and ahilrt every part of thw brigade was pushing to the front in that famous assault on Snodgrasa Hill, as before ! said the bloodiest of the war of tho sixties, not excepting the railroad cut slaughter at Stcood Maoassas or the bloody lane at Sharpsburg, the stouo wall, Marye Hill at Fredericks burg or the third day at Gettysburg. I write solely in tho interest of keeping tho record straight and for the truth of history, and trust that I have made it sufficiently plain to re move doubts or misapprehensions as to these occurrences, and in writing hope that I have not left ground for impression that any one in either command was lagging at Chiokamauga, or that there was call for personal ex ample by Gen. Kershaw; far from it, fori have always said that, although it was but a little more than two months after the groat reverse at Get tysburg, I never saw our boys in bet ter spirits, never saw them go into battle in batter shape. Both Lamb and Kvins were stricken down badly wounded in this battle. The Third regiment never had its flag captured in battle. The old flag I was spirited away from Greensboro at ! the time of the surrender, the 26th of April, 1865. And our former cap tain, 11. P. Todd, then lieutenant colonel, being in command of the Third ! regiment, and the "Briars" being ono of the eolor companies, the flag was brought home by our company and has ever since been, and is still, in our care. ? I send this to'your widely circulated and justly popular paper, hoping that some at least of those who have felt sufficient interest in this matter to discuss it heretofore, may see it, and will ask our country papers to re print it. O. G. Thompson, Co. G. Third S. C. Rcg't. Laufens, S. C. Iii?? ?ith his A mi). As the Civil war recedes farther and further from the present day there looms larger and larger in the story of it the figure <{' Gen. Robert K. Lee, the adored leader of the Confederate armies. There is Bcaraely a houae hold of importance in the South io which some story of him is not proud ly told, but few illustrate the quali ties for which he was beloved better than these which the New Orleans Times Democrat received from a wo man who met the general on his la^t retreat The army had halted two miles from Petersburg, on the road to Appomat iox, and General Lee and his stair had been asked to dinner at the home of a well known jurist at Summit, iced inint-julip was the favorite beverage f Virginia gentlemen in those days, and when the stall and guests had as sembled, just before diuuer wa9 an nounced, the glasses were passed. encrai Lee was iu conversation with a young lady. He offered his glass to her. after the old >ty 1 e, then barely raised it to his lips, and set it down untasted. He took up and drank in stead a glass of water. Looking round the room, where all the mer. were drinking with relish, he said: "Do you know, I really believe this glass of water refreshes the inner man far more than the julep.-' Kven his host's famous'liquor could not tempt him. It was said that a bottle of brandy presented to the gen eral before the war was returned to the giver unopened after the surren der, with the ret pues t that she would use it in some ease of need. At the dinner General Lee took a cup of coffee and added sugar and cream. It was especially fine .Java, brought in before,the war, and his hostess exclaimed, "Oh, General Lee! Do you take cream in your after-din ner coffee." "I haven't tasted coffee for so long," h<- said, smiling, "that lam afraid to take it iu its full strength." "It is true," said one of his staff, later. ' Kvery bit of cotlco that has come into his hands he has always sent it to the hospital." As he rode away from Summit on famous horse, Traveler, he passed the home of a poor old woman who had sent her sons to the army. The youngest, whom she called "Dolly," was her special pet. Like every poor Southero woman, sho believed Gen eral Lee was the personal protector of her son. When she saw bim she rush ed out and caught his bridle. "O, General Lee," she oried, "What's become of my Dolly?" Although he was even then without hope of saving his army, and was en grossed with plans for making the last desperate stand in the faint possibility of a union with GeneralJohnston, tno irreat leader, divining at once that "Dolly" must be a soldier son, replied in his gentlest manner: "Madam, if you tell me Dolly's name and the name of his company and command, I will try to find out fori you." His hostess said that as ho rode away all the tales.she had beard and read of warriors and their deeds rush ed to her mind, and sho felt that never were their qualities of courtesy and chivalry personated in another as in the South's general.?Youth's Companion. Her Nightmare. "I had such a horrible dream last night," said Mrs. Gushington, acoortl ing to tho Chicago llccord-Herald. "I shudder every time I think of it." "I never mind dreams," replied Mrs. Ka Flippe. "They don't mean anything. What they arc depends on what you've been eating." "Yes, I suppose that's true, but this one sticks in my mind.' It hes made me fcsl depressed ail day." "What was it?" "I* dreamed that I was dead and gone to heaven." "Dear me! Still, as long as you went to heaven I shouldn't think it would make you feel so bad.' Per haps heaven wasn't what we've been taught to expect it to be. No streetB paved with gold, no angels with wings, no?" "Oh, yes, it was perfeotly grand, as far as the looks of the plaoe went. There was the loveliest music, and all the angels were as beautiful as they oould be, and everywhere, as far as I could see, the scene was just?well, heavenly) Nothing more splendin oould possibly be imagined. But there wasn't a deok of oards in the whole plaoe aod there wasn't anybody there who would even talk about bridge.' Bean tho Ni Kind You HaW AhW]f3 Boif?tt Signatar? of ? A man learns a lot about not get ting rich in the summer resort season. ? A woman always trios to figure out from the way the envelope is ad dressed whether the letter contains good news or bad news. , ? No minister is as black as he dresses himself. ? Though too proud to work, many a young fellow is willing to accopt free . board and lodging from his paron'ts. \ ? ? > .' # - ''- ' i'-v^jfX---' , -. . . ; .;. % V .' ,: ;/: :Oj Potato Which is Fruit San Francisco, May 4.?The Ex aminer Bays that Luther liutbaok, of Santa Rosa, lias succeeded in pro ducing another wonderful creation which will come under the head of potato experiments and is known as a potato fruit. Briefly summarized, the evolution is a matter of planting a tuber and gathering from the potato vine a lusciou> white fruit, one that is delightfully palatable and makes excellent preserves. Mr. Burbauk has named the potato fruit "pomato." When compared with a tomato the pomato is smaller in size and its meat is white instead of red. It is highly flavored. In other words, it is a flavor of a fruit rather than a potato. Mr. Burbank speaks of the creation of the pomato as resulting from the turning of the plant life in an opposite direction. "Instead of cultivating the tubers we now cultivate fruit, aud tubers are of secondary consideration," he said., ''the fruit on the vine being the main object." Mr. Burbank has now some 10,000 varieties of potatoes with which he is experimenting. Most of them 'are hybrid seedlings of his own creation. A Joke That Went Wrong. "The "hunch," which may be call- ! ed a premonition, is a wonderful thirjLr. That it exists there is no doubt. Almost everybody has "huoches" now and then, and they usually say they "worked out." Hay Clark, a traveling man who is at the Coates House, was in a sleeper bound for Texas recently when he had a "hunch" that an accident was about to happen. "It worried me so I dress ed and went into the smoker, three cars ahead," said Clark the other uight. "Fifteen minutes later a broken rail wrecked the train and the j sleeper turned completely over, in I juring two dozen people. I ebcaped without a bruise." A doctor who lives at the hotel smiled at this. "I had a queer 'hunch' once myself," he said. "I was in Denver and was walking along a very dark street about midnight. Suddenly a 'hunch' told me to turn oft the street or I would be killed by a footpad. I pulled my self together and scoffed at it. Half a block further a man stepped out of an alley and raised an iron pipe over my head. The blow, I knew, would kill me.v i;What happened?" asked Clark. "Why," replied tho doctor, "the 'hunch' 'made good.'. The pipe came down on my head and knocked my brains out." The doctor slapped his sides and laughed heartily. Clark was silent a moment. Then he said: "Well, doctor, I've often wondered what was wrong with you. That'ex plains it." The doctor did not join in the laugh that followed. The South Needs Immigrants. South Carolina, with 14,000,000 acre? of unoccupied land, has come forward with a plan that seems to of fer much in the way of solving the immigration problem. The State needs new white blood to work tho mines and fields, and while this situa tion has beten made known for many years in tho usual way, it has not brought such results as are desired. Now the Slate has opened, headquar ters in New York city, under the charge of the State commissioner of immigration, and an effort will be made to direct new comers to the op portunities in tho South. It is a fact that a very large propor tion of the immigrants reaching New York have no definite idea of where they can locate to tho best advantage, and the result is that most of them re main in the cities to eke out a miser able living. Could they but know that broad aoros awaited their willing I hands, and that rewards for labor in thai, direction would exoeod anything offered by the big cities, it is believed that they would gladly take advantage of the opportunity. The South is peculiarly suited by olimate and resources to the people of Southern Europe, but they are not generally informed Of this. The con sequenoe is that section has failed to receive its share of the immigration, while other parts of the country, and the large oitics, are being ovororowd ed. Yet it cannot be said that there are too mauy people in this country so long as vont tracts of land remain un tilled for lack of workers, and, after nil, it may be that the moBt serious problem in connection with immigra tion is that of distribution. If South Carolina should get enough immigrants to work her 14,000,000 aorcs it is ob vious that the situation would be much improved at onoe.- Minneapolis Times. ? The mightiness of the pen is due to the ink. ? Some men's ideas of reciprocity re rather onesided. ?- Making gold bridge without gold is an ancient industry. ? Only'fool mon ask Women to help them keep their secrets. ? Never judge a man's feet by the Uppers his wife makes for him. A Soldier's Nerve. Ooc day an army surgeon was dress ing -the wound of a sjldier who had been shot in the neck near the carotid artery. Suddenly the bloodvessel gave way, and just as quickly the surgeon thrust his finger iuto the hole to stop the flow. "Doctor," said tb<5 soldier, "what does that mean?',' "It means death," Baid the surgeon calmly. "How long can I live?" asked the soldier, whose mind was perfectly clear. "Until ? remove my finger," said the doctor. The 6oldier asked for pen and paper, wrote his will and an affectionate let ter to his wife, and when the last thing was done said quietly: "Let it go." The surgeon withdrew his finger, the blood rushed out, aod in a few moments the man was dead. She Recognized The Bishop. Bishop Coleman of Delaware, the Episcopal dignitary who every sum mer makes a two or three weeks' tour over the country, trauipi?g incoguito, is a man of tremendous appetite, and is proud of it. But a story is related of a Kent county housewife who got the best of him. She was the learned prelate's hostess on one of his tramp ing tours, and knowing very well who he was, set before him a dinner fit for a man of gre-t labors. The bishop appreciated her cooking highly and told her so, but he was unprepared for her rejoinder: "Bless ye, bishop, eat your fill, for I love to see you eat; eat till ye bu'st; I wish you would!" Dividing The Work. Elder Elgeconib was for many years pastor of the Tree Baptist Church in Vienna, Maine, in which town lived a simple minded man, named Perry Wood. . (Joe hot Sunday in the summer the parson had occasion to admonish 6ome of his hearers for going to sleep during the service. The next Sunday while the minister was in the midst of his sermon, he h<?ard something whizz across the room aod strike the wall. He continued his sermon, but kept one suspicious eye on the congrega tion. Soon he saw tbft ?impie minded Perry, who was nittiog in the etove room in the rear of the church, rise, take an apple from his pocket and bring his arm back preparatory 6 for a throw at the head of a sleeping dea con. "Perry Wood," exclaimed the irate parson, "put that apple up, and if you ever throw another one in this church I'll?" "You hold right on, elder," broke in the excited Perry, "you tend to your preaching, and I'll keep them awake."?Boston Herald. The Reformative Looking Glass. Some time ago a very clever story appeared in one of the magazines. It told of a desk mirror given by her pupils to a public sohool teacher wherein the teacher could look to see hew pretty she was when oho smiled aud how ugly when she frowned. The mirror, so the story ran, transformed the teacher from a crabbed and cross charaoter to one that smiled and be came popular. The story contains a truth. The problem in making tho world better and brighter is to get people to see themselves as others see them. If, then, we could provide looking glasses at every turn of life we almost would be able to reform the world. Ho who fumer, and fusses and frowns over his task, being provided with an ever-present mirror would be able to size h m self up as others size him. And. he who gets drunk, or makes an ass of himself, could note the process and be ashamed, And she who is peevish and sour and sulky might look and hate her ways. For no matter how plain the woman's faoo if ahe be but bright.aod cheery her faco will be beautiful. And no matter hew handsome in fea ture the woman may be if she wears a visage of discontent and moodineas she will show herself ugly. The handy mirror would reveal the ugli ness and the woman?touched at a v5u! pciut?-would redeem her fea tures. It is said no woman can pass.a mir ror without looking into it?a good habit that men might profit by. . People are well behaved before their mirrors. If the looking glass could be kept before them frequently enough they might bo uniformly well behaved, Let ns faoe the mirrors often. Not for vanity's sake, but character's. Let us see ourselves na wo are and often, that we nr.ay assimilate our selves into thedikenesB of our better solves.?Atlanta Journal, ? Platonic love is supposed to have been invented by his sat an io majesty. ? One ein pick out a self-made man by the good English,ho doesn't use. ? Marriage is speculation; divorce is investment. Man in The Year 6C00 B.C. I Tbc lcogtb of time man bas been koown to inhabit this earth has been proved to be at least 8,000 years. A. , M. Arneulinoau has issued ths Sr?i , volume of the history of his excava- , tioDS at Abydos, the sacred r?sidence of Odiris. Here he has found pre historic tombs, and from their con tents he knows that they date back 8,000 years. Fortunately for the ex plorer, thi Egyptian of that day thought of death as a state so closely allied to life that he would have need of all tbe necessities und com forts he bad used hpre. Consequently these were placed beside him in his tomb, and from them the nineteenth century explorer can tell bow I tbe people of the year 6,000 B. C. lived, what they ate, how tboy dress ed and v?hat was the range of mind and civilization in that anoient time. Cereals liko wheat and rye prove tbe agricultural tastes of these people. Date stones evidence the growth of the palm. Ox and gazelle bones bIiow that these men were not vegetarians. Democratic iustinct was then alive, for there are many specimens of or naments which show great skill; beads, metal bracelets and rings of various sorts. Pottery, both for kitchen use and for ornament, show that at first this art was practiced before the knowl edge of the potter's wheel and after ward with its aid. The furniture was found only in fragments, for most of the wood bad rotted away, but the ivory legs of sofas remained and are a valuable find. They show that the hippopotamus, whose tusks formed these legs, was hunted by these early Egyptians. But one illustration shows us how nearly those people were akin to the people of today. This is the disoov- ; ery in one of tbe tombs of what must have served as a baby's nursing bot tle in that far-away time and place. It is au eanhern vase, with a hole in the bide into which a bit of cloth could be inserted that tbe baby might draw milk from tbe vase. ? When it comes to keeping ap pointments you will invariably find the bill collector on the spot. ? The typewriter is mightier than the telephone?when it comes to re producing the message in court. ? Many a crooked man is supposed to be perfectly straight because other men are unable to get into his curves. ? A woman can't understand why a man should want to wear tailor-made clothes when the other kind are cheap er. Some men possess so much wis dom that they are unable to lay their hands on a certain brand in time to utilize it. Substitutions of Leather. Leather is becomiog more and more of a puzzle to retailers. Substitution of leathers is now bo deftly practiced that undoubtedly many a buyer iu completely fooled. The tricks of the tanoers are innumerable, and as these are masked behind the practices of the shoe manufacturer, the shoe retailer has a tough proposition to ascertain whether or not he is getting real or imitation goods. Cowhides and sheepskins are among the cheapest hides and skins in the market, but by a few clever manipula tions tanners make them valuable. A cowhide is tanned* Then it is put through the splitting machine, which machine is so delicately adjustable that it will shave off leather as fine as tissue paper. For the tanner's practical purposes it splits leather into any weight de sired; a fine kid for a woman's shoe, a heavier calf weight for boy's and men's shoes, or even heavier stuokfor workingmen's shoes. The lightweight split is given a vici kid finish, the me dium a vclour calf, while the heaviest weight may be grained. Other splits may be chrome tanned and given a patent finish, and may be sold as pa tent colt. A sleek leather, especially cabretta stock, is made into imitation of kid, and large quantities of it arc sold as suoh. Sheep leather is even given a patent finish and sold as colt and kid. ?Shoe Retailer. The Value of Example. To have your child truthful,'be truthful. To have him temperate, be tempe rate in all things. To have him kind to others, be yourself kind to others. ** Prescribe healthful amusements, and, so far as you can, take part in them. Prove to him by your life that a good name is to be chosen before great riches. Teach him that riches arc not to be despised, but ahould never be got by doing harm to others; that when ac quired should be treated as a trust, uot as a hoard. To have him honest, present to him in yourself a living example of hon esty. The chief part of a child's knowledge comes through observation. Ao's mean more to him than speech. ?Philadelphia Inquirer. ? Almost any girl can induce a young man to accompany her to church, but it isn't quite so easy to persuade him to accompany her to the altar. The Land of Uneeda Biscuit ?The Modern Soda Cracker Bounded on the North by the Purity of the Snows ; on the South by the Nutritious Wealth of the Tropics; on the Bast' by th? Healthf illness of Scientific Baking; on the Westlay the Energising Power of the Mountains. ": / NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY f)oHrt forget GrahamCrackers Boiter This BiscaSt Social Tea BiscaSt Lemon Snaps