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WAR SI "\V~irming Brilliant Ha By Dr. It. J. Mass The recent unveiling of a mono cii.'ut in the city of Houston. Texas. <iu March 17 last, the anniversary of :St. Patrick's day, to the memory of the brave Irish captain, J>ick Dow ning, and his heroes, was a befitting occasion. Captain Dowling's name is uiost sacredly embalmed in history, sand will be transmitted to future generations with embellished luster, ms the able defender of Sabine Pass, offthecoart of Texas on the Gulf of Mexico. A most interesting account cs given in a recent nuuibcr of The tStinny South, how, with forty men, he succeeded in capturing a federal fleet with :','J0U soldiers aboard. To the honor of General Bedford Porrest belongs the distinction of hav iurj achieved on the western border of 'Icorgia a victory very much in keep ling with that of the Irish captain, UicL- Howling, of Texas. Prom old mat Tosiah Davis, late of (Jobb oottnty, but now a resident of Atlanta, ?whc is a double veteran, having rraithfully followed the fortunes of 4rieneral Winfield Scott through the .11-ec.ican war and during the sixties of <6he last century, an active partici pant in almost every battle fought by General N. B. Forrest, I gain the un published facts concerning the cap store of Colonel Streight, of the Van tcoe army. /?eari?g well up under the weight ??? years, long having passed the octo genarian milepost, Mr. Davis is still well preserved and in fine physical vigor. I give what ho had me to ?Write down in August, 18H8, Ihe ratatemeDt verbatin etliteratum. Here iare his words: "In the fall of lB?Il ltosecrans was tin Mursfreesboro, Tenn. lie ordered 'General Streight to select 2,500 of the (best cavalrymen in the army and to *go as expeditiously as possible by way of Home to Atlanta, Ga., taking <Oorintb, Miss., in his route. At ?ChiB timo Genoral Forrest was front ing General Dodges' army in the Ten nessee valley, near Courtland, Ala. To counteract Streight* s march, For rrest received orders to pursue Streight with utmost dispatch at all hnzirds. At this time Forrest bad a trifle jver sixty men, all told. Besides Crom long and continued marches the thorses wero all jaded, so much bo fib ere was scarcely a good horse in the whole bunoh. At his starting point Forrest was at least GO miles from Streight, a very rough country inter vening. Ho left, however, within <two hours after receiving hie orders at ILO o'clock a. m., encountering ^Streight'a command the next day at Oays Gap, on the north end of Sand Mountain, Ala. '"Here was the biggest fight on all (the way. The loss on both sides was very heavy. During the engagement I saw bushes on both sides fall like uiay under the scythe blade. In fact, ?they flew so thick at one time that it ?eemed that no one could escape. This hot fight lasted at least three fcours. After capturing two of our tguns, Streight very abruptly ceased firing and left, Forrest in hot pursuit. This was "bout 11 o'clock in 'the cuorniog, but before night we caught <ap with Streight, reoaptured our two guns, finding that Streight had spiked them with wooden pins. Night came on, and, oh, how tired I was, and hungry, no words can .tell! Hadn't hid a thing to eat in forty-eight hours. Alfter my poor old horse had finished fris short ration of corn, I raked up Che scattered grains and sifted the ?and and dirt from thorn and ate thorn our. Never in all my lifo did I taste -such deiioious food. The memory of *hat ?uee? fraantaf mo tilt this day. "After'Kjtftipg.awhile, ForrcBt ap? lAfOffehed *S6rt?gh.t'a camps, drew op ff'.ts men a^out '9 o'clock p. m. in the bright. moonlight ?boni 300 yards 4kwajr, ordering us to use double shot und shell, and double charge of oen Jiieter, with orders to fight to the fin t&h. -After quite a fight, Forrest cap Cared many men, a large supply of ?uttlers' goods, which, I tell yon, came in a mighty good time, for For rest's .half starved and worse than ..ttslf uaakeu ?en. I tell you it was a "regular feast. Leaving a aumoient foody of men to guard the prisoners ?od bury the deed that had fallen; on both sides, Forrest, with a small body ?f men, left in hot pursuit. After {going about 6 miles, being very much Qiarrassed by Forrest, Streight cross ing a oreek, burned a bridge. Here Forrest was greatly nonplussed. Massing a house, General Forrest in. ?Iaired the way to the nearest bridge. Here a beautiful, sprightly mountain '.girl, a Miss Sansonfc came out and itold General Forrest that the yankeo tgeoeral had captured her brother, and I ?/t he would allow her, Bhe would go ; t /. (nith him'to the nearest bridge, show &i<u the way and a shorter route, up ; ' '" . . ' ' ..: / .v 1 '' V' rORIES. ttles at Fearful Odds. ey, in Mutiny South. I on the express terms that he should ' recapture her brother aud restore him to her! Gallant as he wa>, he Haid, j 'Miss, mount the horse behiud me and ; before 12 o'clock your brother will be ; yours.' "Miss Hanson at once gut up behind I the confederate general and piloted him to the bridge. <ioing this route, ' General Forrest gained very rapidly j upon the fleeiug yankces, and after ; fording the Coosa Kiver, at a double ' ?juick Hpeed, he soon caught up with j Streight and had another fight, with j the usual consequence of routing the ] yankee general, and a few minutes j before 12 o'clock Miss Sanson had , her brother restored to her. "Soon after this Forrest Hent iu, under flair of truce a demand for sur render. Streight refused. Within I au hour, Forrest sent in a second de J mand for surrender. To this Streight ; sent another refusal. After an hour . or ho a third flag of truce was sent iu with a similar demand, informing j Streight with no equivocal terms, that i h? had him in such predicament that , he waa obliged to surrender. In an ! swer to this Colonel Streight sent to General Forrest a message to como to see him. Forrest went. They met undei a big crab apple tree, had an in terview, which lasted at least two hours. About this time Forrest had only about sixty men and he had given special orders that each man should march around almost in sight of Streight's army, and give command as though ho was an officer commanding a squad of men, so as to make it ap pear that Forrest had at least two or three thousand men under his com mand, who were at that time attempt ing to surround Streight and his com mand, whilst Forrest and Streight were holding this meeting. "Streight's 2,500 men had also been reduced to 1,650. Feeling that he was in tho enemy's land, pursued by an army of superior numbers, StreigiiL surrendered, the only condition being that the officers were to be allowed to go out carrying their side arni9. This vas Sunday about !> o'clock a. m.,- 3 inileB from Codar Bluff, on the Rome road. After spending two or three hours in pleasant converse with each other, General Streight very pleas antly asked General Forrest to show him hin army. When told that he had no army except tho sixty men who were then guarding 1,650, Streight wept bitterly, was inconsola ble, fearing that bis commanding gen eral, Roaeorana, and his good people at. home would never understand the :mstanoe8 under which he surren dered 1,(350 men in full equipment to Forrest's ragged, half starved, half naked, broken down sixty men." With the exoeption of what Private Davis has told about this Sand Moun tain road, Forrest's capture of Streight has been written and rewrit ten on various occaaions. So hpve the praises of Dick Dowliog and his men been sung and reaung throughout Dixie land. Now, in this connection I am in possession of a bit or history connec ted with a brave band of Walton oounty, Georgia, soldiers, sixty in number, known aa company H, Cap tain Joshua M. Mitchell commanding, Forty-second regiment Georgia infan try. Mitchell with his daring boys in gray on one occasion achieved a vic tory whioh, in my humble opinion, should take rank with either that of the cavalryman, Forrest, or the Irish,oaptain, Dick Dowliog. What I am ssying has never been in print before. So I feel it a great privil?ge, as well as a pleasant duty, to give a sketoh of this brave deed as detailed to me by one of tbe few sur vivors of this Spartan band, Lot there be honor to whom honor is doe, although it should come in at the eleventh hour. While Johnson's army was near the Alabama line above Dalton at the foot of Rookjfaoe mountain on the afternoon of the 24th of February, 1864, Captain Mitohell received orders to detsoh his company for special picket ssrvice. Bis men were do ployed tome 12 feet apart, and for elf-defense, direoted eaoh man to build for himself a rock pile. This pile mast be breast high and fully 3 feel wide at the top. By dint of hard labor and by night this was success fully accomplished. About sunrise next morning, the 25th, the yankee pieket, fully 750 strong, advanced and instantly attacked the confederate forces. . The attack was very severe, but Oaptain Mitchell and his sixty men wore equal to the occasion. They made the defense equally as vigorous as the attack. About .this time the left wiog of the confederate forces gave way, leaving Captain Mitchell's small company unprotected in the field. Hut by firmly maintaining his position in a haif hour he drove the enemy into their pita. Within a few minuted the federal forces were rein forced by some seven or eight hun dred men, probably Wisconsins, com manded by Lieutenant Colonel Dick enson. The assault was for three hours very severe, indeed. About this timo compauy 11, had exhausted its ammunition and fell back about 120 yards when Captain Mitchell met a full supply of cartridges. The men within a few minutes filled all their boxes and formeil a new line. Here Capt. Mitchell was reinforced by a few men from com pany F, same regiment. The line was a few yards behind the crest of a little ridge from the enemy. 11 stealthily hurried to the crest. The eneny be gan forming a line on top of the ridge, but retreated from Captain Mitchell, who ordered his men "Ready, "Aim," and when the yankee officer commanded: "Right dress," "Fire," the volloy was ho deliberately aimed and deadly that it created wild com motion among the blue coatH, and an entire rout soon followed. Captain Mitchell's command kept up a hot pursuit, capturing the yankee com manding officer and twenty-five men. There were left on the field over forty yaukces killed, besides quite a num ber wounded. Captain Mitchell him self was badly wounded, but notwith standing this kept at the head of his force. His first lieutenant, J. F. Williams, a brave young officer and two privates killed, were the only casualties to the bravo boys in gray. When Lieutenant Colonel Dicken son, the yankee officer, found that his seven hundred had been so utterly wiped up by only a handful of Walton county, Georgia, boys, he said to Captain Mitchell: "My dear sir, I am ruined. This news of my sad dis aster and ignominious defeat will be certain to reach my home in Wiscon sin, and how can I, oh! how can I faco my people at home in Wisconsin, who have placed so much confidence in me and my brave boys?" Of this noble band of Georgia boys who made the yankee colonel cry, thero still lives Captain Mitchell, who loves to tell by the hour of tbo inci dents and times that tried men's soul. Also, T. M. Armstead, the present faithful tax collector of Fulton coun ty, and Mr. Gresham, a successful merchant of Social Circle. All along on the battlefields of Chickamauga to the hills around Atlanta, several of this noble squad "fighting fell," yielding up their lives in behalf of the eause dearest to their hearts. The Heal Fourth or July. On the 3rd of July, 1776, John Adams, then one of the representa tives of Massachusetts in the conti nental eoDgress, wrote to his wife Abigail: "Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever debated in America and a greater perhapB never was nor will be decided among men." In a second letter written the same day, he said*. ' "But the day is past. The 2nd of July will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be cele brated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devo tion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward, for ever more." When the resolution was taken up on the 2nd, nil the States except New York, voted to accept it. Thus, on the 2nd day oV July, 1776, the in dependence of the thirteen united oolonies from the throne of Great Britain was definitely deoided upon. The 2nd and not tho 4th, may be oailed the true dato o? the separation. We oould with propriety celebrate the "Fourth" two days earlier. That the participants in th? work considered the 2nd as the true dste is shown by the letters written by John Adams, quoted at the beginning of this article. The popular fancy, ho *cvor, seized upon tho 4th, the dste of acoeptanoe of Jefferson's more dra matio declaration of. tho reasons for the separation, as tho proper day to celebrate. The debate upon thedoou mentwas continued until the after* noon of the 4th, and, say9 Jefferson, might have run on interminably at and other season of the year. But the weather was oppressively warm, and the hall in which tho deputies sat was oloae to a stable, ('where the hungry flies swarmed thiok and fierca, alighting on the legs of tha delegates and biting hard through their thin silk stookings. Treason was prefer able to discomfort," and at last the delegates were brought to sueh a state of mind 'as to agree to the Do I elsration without further amendment. It is a mistake to suppose that the document was sigaed by the delegates on that day. It is improbable that any signing was done save by John Hancock, tho president of. the oon groA, and Charles Thompson, the secretary.?Paul Leland Ilaworth in Harper's Magazine. Attitude of Kathodist Church. To the Editor of The State: Permit the statemeot that your views of the moral principle involved, touching the sale of intoxicating bev e.ages, are not those held by the churches of our commonwealth. So far as the Methodist denomina tion is concerned you are at direct va riance, if the following paper in recent years adopted by the Orangeburg and Suinter district conference be taken as testimony in the case. Speaking to the resolutions at the time of their passage at Sum ter, the late Rev. Dr. O. A. Darby in his impressive manner declared it to be the best statement of the attitude and duty of the Methodist church he had ever heard and gave to it his unqualified endorsement. Here is the paper as a whole: "It is manifest to your committee that among the agencies preventing the reign of Christ in the hearts of men none are more seductive and de structive than the drink habit and the drink traffic. " Your committiee believe that every church member as a loyal and true disoiple of the Lord Jesus is by his vows fully committed to total absti nence from the use of spirituous liquors as a beverage, and to a faithful and persistent cilort in suppressing the traffic. We are persuaded that if, our church members shall simply withhold their patronage from these corrupting devices of the devil, thesucoess of the cause of temperance will be largely assured. But Christians are expected to do more?to use all possible dis cretion and pains to rescue their fel low men from their appetite for intox icants and to remove from them the temptation. "The attitude of the church toward these iniquities can but be one of per sistent and uncompromising hostility. We therefore recommend the follow ing as expressing the siuaere senti ment of this district conference: "Resolved, That our laymen and pastors should unite in earnestly seek ing to win away from the drink hab it each and every one of our mem bers addicted in any degree to this evil. And we recommend that to this end our pastors make diligent person al inquiry of our members concerning their observance of that specification of our first general rule which for bids 'drunkenness' and 'drinking spirit uous liquors unless in cases of neces sity.' "Resolved, That we urge superin tendents of our Sunday schools to give due prominence to the study of a quarterly temperance lesson, whereby to inculcate the principles of sobriety in the minds and hearts of our youth. And we recommend the monthly or occasional holding of a prayor meeting for promoting the interests of the tem perance cause. "Resolved, That as a conference we deplore and condemn tl. action of our State legislature allowing tho manu facture and sale of wine for beverage purposes. We furthermore deplore and condemn the poisoning of the fountain of learning fostered by the State, in that the profits arising from the Bale of intoxicants by the dispen sary aro appropriated to the support of our common sohools. "Resolved, That as a body we put on record our oonviotion that the .sale of spirituous liquors for beverage pur poses by any one is morally criminal and cannot be in anywise condoned. And that while the South Carolina dispensary system has probably re duced drinking and drunkenuess,wo be lieve that it is reaohing a desirable end by unlawful means, and therefore can receive neither Christian commen dation nor support. We also insist that national and State legislation prohibiting the manufacture, importa tion and sale of spirituous liquors for use as a beverage is the only safe and morally oorreot way of dealing with this monster iniquity." Suffer a word of exortatioo, Mr. fid* itor, while the people are thinking on this vital theme. The fact that the educational in terests of our State are financially fostered by the fond arising from the legalized sale of spirituous liquors, will necessarily cause the ohild mind (whether youth or adult) to imbibe the notion that the liquor traffio is not so great an evil after all. More over, the insidious untruth will invest the ohild heart, namely, that the drink habit cannot he so hideous as mothers and preaohers have all along declared. Suoh infamous notions will be ir resistibly instilled into the imagina? tion of our confiding children and com mon folk, and, by this unscrupulous deception, destroy their faith and fu ture. There it * well-defined principle in tho code of politioal, social and re ligions ethics admonishing us to "bo ware of the Greeks Rearing gifts." Any profit of the dispensary or any other system of trame in intoxioants, accruing to so praiseworthy an institu tion a s education, necessarily tends to fasten that "sum of all villainies," as John Wesley styled it, upon our sys tem of government, and commits the awful blasphemy of condoning that which God condemns. Can Christian people maintain th ' integrity in the eyes of the world and any reasonable hope of heaven in their hearts, except they deplore and de feat the iniquitous methods?all and singular?by whioh this monster evil is perpetuated and nurtured in our State and nation? Until the liquor traffic is utterly outlawed, as is mur der and its kindred orimes, Christian citizens consenting must stand con demned as individuals at the bar of di vine justice. W. A. Betts. Mulltos, S. C, Jone 26, 1905. Fine Art in Graft Line. "VYhon the circus comes to town, everybody goes crooked," observed a* side-show orator out of the wealth of his experience. And just before the performance in the big tent, he proved it to me?in a way. Ke told me be forehand what he was going to do, and it was a test. A stranger gave him a five-dollar bill in payment for seven side-show tickets. The man in the ' 'pulpit" thrust at him the tickets and a handful of silver. Ho had purpose ly "shortchanged" him to the extent of one dollar. By the time the strang er had reached the side-show entrance, he discovered the shortage. In two strides he was in front of the ticket seller's "pulpit," clamoring "fraud." "Yew've swindled me outen a dol lar!" he shouted. The ticket seller heard him through, apologized, and gave him two, fresh, clean, one-dollar bills, one of which lay evenly upon the other. Without a word the man seized them, and dashed into the tent. I followed him, knowing pre cisely what had been done. Joining his friends he told them of the mis take the ticket seller had made, and laughed over the ease whioh the oir eus had defrauded itself for his bene fit. The shoe had slipped to the oth er foot, you see. He had "beat aoir cus;" it was the sum of hio ambition; his wildost hopes had been realized. He was watching the "Mexican knife thrower" when a hand touched his shoulder. He looked up into the eyes of the ticket seller. "Come here a min ute," said the latter, and drew him to one side. Then he explained in an undertone: "My friend, I thought I'd test you. I did "abort-change" you a dollar. Oh, I knew you'd be back. I gave you your dollar; you were entitled to it. But in addition I gave you anoth er dollar,?a bill,?a fresh, clean, one dollar bill. I waited a while, but I couldn't see you tearin' a hole in that canvas to get to me with it. Now, my friend, shell out that dollar before I knook your bloomin' head off.'" He shelled. "Didn't I tell you," observed the sideshow man to me as he mounted his "pulpit" aod cleared his throat. I And I was compelled to nod agree ! ment.?Pilgrim Magazine. Shaking Hands in Chicago. I Chicago, June 28.?For the seoond time in its history, Columbia Post, No. 708, G. A. R., has given a camp firp ?n honor of Gen. Stephen D. Lee, of vioksburg, commander of the Con federate Veterans of the South. All of *.he Confederate organizations of the city joined in the event. Addresses of weloome were delivered by Gen. John Corson Smith, department com-, mander of the G. A. R., for Illinois, Junior Commander Patton, of the National G. A. II., and by other prom inent veterans. The feature of the bivouac was an appeal by the Southern soldiers for the return of the tattered flags and banners that adorn G. A, B. trophy rooms to the men from whom they were won during the struggle of the 60'b. In regard to the reoent ?tion of Congress providing for the return of the flags now in the war office at Washington to the Confederate sol' diers,Gen. Lee said: "I am glad the wound has healed so that the flags ean be returned before those who loved them and bled for them are under she sod." i -? ; Beautiful Spring. - *'Father, dear father, some home with me now, for ma has some carpets to beat; she's got all the farnUure ont in the yard, from the front door oloau down in tho btreat. The stove most come down and be put ia the shed, and the yard must be eleared of dead grass; for it's time tooleaa house, and the devil's to pay?and tho windows sadly need glass. Father, dear father, come home with me now, and bring some bologna?. *ti cheese; it's iSo'olook and there's nothing to oat?I'm so hungry I'm weak in the knees. All the dinner we have will bo cold scraps and Buoh, and we'll have to eat stand lag up, too; tor the table and all are bat in the yard?ob, 1 wish Spring cleaning wes through I Father, dear father, come home ' with me now, for for mtvis as mad as a Turk; she says you're a iasy old thing, and the pro por'js'Jo pat you to work. There's painting to do and paper to hang, and the window casings to so rub; for it's house oleaning time, and you've got to come home and revel in suds and cold grub."?Clifton (Kan.) News. ?- There would be nioro groat poets if there wore fo^er great critics. Ghostly Footsteps. Ad old New York merchant told the story: "I was working in our store down oc E? street that night. It was a five story building and we occupied it all. I used to work in those days? all day long and a good deal of the night?as most men have to if they have a big business and want it to grow and keep straight. "Well, I was pegging away that evening until close upon midnight. There wasn't a sound anywhere. I knew there wasn't a soul in the build ing except myself. Suddenly rn this stillness came a succession of. stealthy sounds, like oautious footsteps on the stairs. "I dropped my pen and rushed out into the hall. No signs of anything there. I listened for a few minutes. My heart was beating pretty bard, but that was the only sound I oould hear. "I went back to my writing again, aod for ten minutes or so everything was still. Then once more came those mysterious footsteps. By this time I was pretty well unnerved; but I went carefully up two flights of stairs and looked thoroughly through all the rooms on two floors. There was noth ing out of the oommon. "Again I sat down and went to work. This time I got in nearly half an hour of good ciphering before my ghost woke up again, but he did wake up, and this time with suoh a deoided and unmistakable noise that the cold sweat started all over me. "My pride oame to my aid and I de termioed to search the house. M7 j knees shook a great dea\ but I man aged to light a candle that I kept on my desk (or sealing. Qrasping this in one hand and a piece of gas pipe in the other, somehow or other I mana ged to stumble up iLii stairs. I went to the very top of the house. I look ed into every smallest nook in every room on the fifth floor. Then I took the fourth, and so on down. Not a thing was doing. I was more mysti fied than ever. "As I stoid at the top of the last flight of stain and was peering down it, utterly bewildered, suddenly I caught sight of my ghost. There, in plair sight cf me, w*s a great gray rat, going backward down ihr. stairs, and dragging in his mouth 2- big bone. This, of course dropped from atair to stair with a 'dull thud' that we hear so much about, and gave the effeot of a person going stealthily down the stairs. "I have run dows two or three ghosts in my time, any every one ot them was a rat." ? m m* ?If one would see his own faults he should borrow his neighbor's spec tacles. ? As a rule, the greatness of mar. may be measured by his small docdt of kindness. ? Many a weak man has good in tentions, but isn't strong enough to carry them out. ? The world owes no man a living, but it owes every man an opportunity to make good.y ? Opinions held by the avciage. man are of the second-hand variety. m i Food to work on is food to live on. A man works to live. He must live to work, He does both better on Uneeda B?s?u!t= the soda cr?cker that contains in the most properly bal anced proportions a greater amount of nutriment than any food made from flo?r. MIXED PAINT. We Wftnt to mi You Yonr Paint. M llll IiIIIWMHIII'.MfH HI IB III'I'll m Come in to see us, and let u? ttll you all about it. We nave Bold this Paint for many years., and all have been pleased who l it; We have a ?ne eelection of colors, and will /gladly give you a card showing them if 'yott^,esf|%8md;Rqtteat same. Also, a full line of? Varnishes,Stains, Floor Paints, rnmituie rolish, Paint Brashes, Eto. ORR, CRAY & CO,, Next to Bank *f Anderson. freUable Bruggfotfl, A GOOD TIME ? f To have ycar Carriage and Buggy Repaired and Repainted, ? ; so they wul be ready when you scsq* them. We have a splen* did stock good, dry Rims; ?poke?, Sliftfls, Wheels j also, Luni? ./ her in the rough, and nearly everjthinj; it takes to put a vehicle myoo? shape, with plenty (rood help :tf> g'rre prompt service. . , HUBBER TIES A. SPECIALTY. PA0L E. STEPHENS.