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Sk Center ville Township: 155 acres, improved ; also, 67 acres. tar BM _ ? rr*_t_i_ . - ui DCOSKAwmy ivKiump : . 51 acres. i?a Peadleton Township : 77 aores. Sin ITork Township : 104,900,105 and 52 acre Tracts. Ea Hall Township : 289 acres. ALL MORE OR LESS WELL IMPROVED. Ku Ptckens County I have 285 acres in one body and 75 acres in another. In Ooonee County I have several Tracts, running 104, 418,75,385, 138, e?,.ie6~all in Center Township, Tifcere aro no better lands to produce than' J. offer you above, and if you interested m buying or soiling lands in tho city or country, Lee me and ne tell you what I nave to oner. Yours for building up the country and city, JOS. J. FRET WELL, Anderson, g. o. MASTIC MIXED PAINT, We Want to Sell You Your Paint Come in to ace ile ran* let US tell you all about it. Wo have sold this Paint fbrmeny years, und all have been pleased who it. We nave a fine selection pf colors, and will gladly give you a card them if you will call in and request same. Also, a lull line of Varnishes, Stains, Floor Paints, Pumitnre Polish, Faint Brashes, Etc. ti ORR, GRAY JKorl&o Banlr. of Audersou. . ?? OP? l-l'/ Jj 6^)^^^ ^?*WBBCO Qw?r x?xm??m and Merchants Bank, Anderson, g; ?; WAR Si The Privai Newberry Her Books without number have been written upon the civil war. So much HO, that all the great historical facts and thc biography und reminiscences of our great leaders have been told j over and over again. Thcso who have read Lee or Jack- j HOII'S ''Memoirs," J>avis' "History of j thc Confederacy," or Tin' Lust Days 1 <>f the Confederacy, by fien. Gordon, j no doubt what 1 shall tell will appear j tame and insipid, fur 1 shall deal mostly with the private soldiers, tho unknown and unrecorded hero of ?he rank and file of tho Southern Confed erate army. But after all, should not their deeds of valor appeal to us just as muob? lt seems to me, he who stands the brunt of battle does not get the credit of being the hero that he is. Think of the brave boys of 61-65, who often with bare and bleeding feet, in ragged jaoket, and with empty haver osoko, bore our battered flag to the front of a hundred viotorioua fieldaj and wrote on brightest pagea of Amer ioan hiatory the names that will never die. We know what they were by what they aooompliahed against over whelming numbera and resources. I would not pluck one flower from toe laurel wreath of Jefferson Davis, sol dier, patriot, orator and Christian gen tleman; not from K. E. Lee, the peer less soldier and model man of all the centuries nor from StonewallJaokson, the very thunderbolt of war; nor from J. E. B. Stuart, dashing, glorious ..Job," the flower of cavaliers; nor from G. T. Beauregard, kind and fear less, the idol of his moo, and many other worthy comrades of these. But is not the honor great and glorious enough to be shared by leader and follower? If they were here to speak today, I oan hear them say, "yea, a thousand times yea." At one time when John B. Gordon . was being enthusiastically cheered at a banquet in N. x ., he sprang to his feet and said, "Comrades, you are cheering the wrong man, you should cheer the men, the private soldier who made Gordon." In the limited time given mo, I did not have opportunity of talking with many of the old sol diers. One thing, however, surprised me from what I did see-that though true to the Stars and Stripes, and will now hold that banner high, they are as faithful to the Lost Cause as though its battles had been fought yesterday, unconquered in spirit. I asked one what be thought of the idea, being advocated by some of our Northern friends, that the result of the war was but the accomplishments, by human agencies, the will of the Divine. We kuow Ijwo cot fl cting civilizations carno into existenoe with the establishment of the Ameri can Union. As one of the first states men of the South has truly said, the seed of the oivil war were planted some fifty yeara before they were born who lougut nor uattiob, vu* tu ?uta, tu? viv soldier quickly replied, the result ia but another truth of the maxim of the great Napoleon, "The Almighty ia on the aide of the greatest cannon." I am indebted to A. J. Livingston for the following inoident: There lived in Sparenburg county a poor and bumble family by the name of Bailey. They bad one son, Austin, who waa conscripted and sent to Com pany B, 3rd 8. 0. Regiment, thoa en camped near Riohmond, Va. He, with several others, came marching into oamp, Bailey lagging behind, be ing an awkward boy, dressed ia bark* dyed cl o th tug, straw hst and stitched down shoes. The boys at once began to guy him, telling him to come down out of that hat, etc Bailey said, "boys, let up and give me a trial ia bettie," and I tell you he pot a good many of the noisy boys to shame, for he was one of the bravest and coolest boya in battle that I ever saw. This poor, brave fellow marched and fought with the old 3rd regiment through all the battles we were engaged in until the battle of the Wilderness, where I waa knocked out. I lost a leg there andi never saw my friend again. Sometime after the war I met Capt. Nane?, and in talking about some of oar brave boys, I happened to mention the name of Bailey. The Captain's eyes flashed as he said, "wno, Bailey of your regiment ? " ' "I saw that brave boy af ter hs seaaivett the death wound. Oar regiment was fighting abrigado of yankees below Richmond. ' The. Una was formed in an elbow shape, yoe?, company occupying the crook of f this io the sink of an old road. The ene my esme in BU cb numbers th at eh ey drove back a little of bur part of the line, but dared nea .come over the elbow. Some of my men wore wound ed, Slid Capt. Nance, and in looking thom up, I came upon BaUey,lyiog in mm i^^H^^i^p you 'wounl?edr, I .saw be atm ha4 bis gun gripped in bis baals. Lensing over the banV, be said, ?Cr?*.e. JLJI ?Ai.1 J 'JS-JJLM UV/i* J i' J Hil to Soldier. sid sod News. I want to get ooe more crack at the yankees, and if they oome this way, I'll finish ono more." Capt. Nance said ho was shot through the lungs and bleeding profusely while talking io him. Died where he fell, and if buried at all, buried by the enemy Another incident in Waich tobacco plays an important part, given me by our ex-sheri ff, \V. W. Kiser. After a certain battle, our men had stretched themselves behind an old fence trying to pet a little sleep, when unexpectedly from the enemy's side, came a whizzing six pound ball, whioh lodged in a craok of thc fence. The fuse was about to explode, a little smoke and blaze just visible, when a young man (we could not find out bis name) deliberately raised himself on his elbow and spit it out. A risky thing, for had he missed the fuse, his head would surely have been blown off and the lives of many of his oomradea lost. Mr. W. W. Riser says he has used this argument in talking to tho preaohers in ? favor of the use cf to baooo. There are two marked traita of the American soldier, be he from the North or South. The one is oatiefy ing the inner man, and the other, the disposition to see the oomio side of things. No amount of hardships, no deprivations oan destroy that love of fun whioh ia inborn, as he merrily laughs at ("anger and jokes almost in the very presence of death. This re minds me of a story I beard Mr. W. C. Sligh tell the other day, in whioh he he and his comrades took quite a longing for aa old Virginia farmer's honey. They first tried to buy a gum, tho old man would not sell. Provi sions were scarce aod they had not tasted honey for months. The long ing took suoh strong hold on them, that they deoided it was really neces sary to have some honey to mako them good soldiers. Feeling this way and easing their consciences wita ino thought that tho yankees would take it if they didn't, they proceeded, un ! der the cover of darkness, to bear a I gam to the camp. Thrusting ? rail ! through the oap of the guiq, so aa to ! be easily carried by two. Ohl hor rors, tbe bees oame swarming out in I great numbera, and Mr. Sligh says, he I would rather fight the yankees any time tbas bees. But not onoe did they think of giving up the dear bought trophy. They B mack ed their lips in anticipation cf how good the honey would bo, fought bees; laughed, and trudged along. Knowing how muoh Oaptain Nanoo enjoyed eating and so as to avoid being reported, they divided with him. Sure enough the next day the old farmer came nosing around. Of course Captain didn't know anything of the missing gum, The old ' man said he could find out, for they were obliged to be stung, but strange to say, not one cf them were siuug) ??v6ji,L'.I. ujigu, wiro asppanea to get a live bee in his. month while eating the boney. Suoh a time as the boys bsd getting bim to bed for a bsd toothache, and the old farmer ?ss none the wiser, and never knew who got his gum, which Mr. Sligh was a witness to.. '. '..''' j One more incident I would like to give as it brings-ont the love of brav ery of bosh loader and follower. At the Second bettie of the Wilderness General Lae, seeing bis army over powereden (J failing baok in a demor alising condition, thought ibo battle was lost, bat just at this t?as Long* street's corps, after a fit? days marob, oame up jost in time to turn tbs tide of battle. Lea seeing Longstreet, said to the )>lye, "ooma follow ms and we will drive them baokAt th at command, there weat up a multitude of voices from the bsit? Hos: "No, no, y on shill opt lead, bat wo will do ?hst yon oo m m and." Alibis time, about ?wonty soldiers caught bis horse by she brille and said, "General," you must go (r? tho rear." As thoy led him backt he wept like a ohild. The boys, af te ? putting Lee in tho rear, mads a dasperate charge on the Fed erals and drove them to tbe river, capturing four or fi va thousand pris doers ead a small quantity of arma. If' nightfJia^tobV lhr**4 hoars the whole Federal army would bave basa o^ured.:^';-^ . ? 'fael lhat shy rtminiacencsi of the B?v? 'war' WP?**' % iu^i^^mm a tribute to th* Bojern snola^ Uko the privater soldiers, their names '. are unknown, eave within t? limited : Woman, who ; ^v;at?n?mB?iT?s^wuoiiy v Tor the love of their cherished 'South' H land. Young and old; tba e^kalr*-* ? matron, the ^tto* mo?h?r? ?ttbt^ \ sra,' tb whomihe'sweet Wsm'a^^s|| j er had never been lisped by baby lips, 1 all alike, enlisted under thiev*s*t*d; j banner. Their first work was macing j lbs un if or m s o r their brave defenders, nett came oureing the sick, fer sswurt ujjiuj&rjfjjfjr. of our mi?t), UDUBe^. to the hardships of o&mp life, wtie soot home to be nm sed back to health, or laid to rest. I. cannot express the surprise and anx iety to which they were subjected. No one who did not pass through those fearful days eas imagine ihv sorrow of friends loft behind, longing as they did for news from the front. And where aro those Southern moth ers? Nearly all have entered into rest. The few who remain, grand mothers'now, with faltering step and gray hair, will soon join their sisters in a land of peace To their daughters, they have a leg acy to bequeath the Confederate me morial. To them they commit tho sa cred trust of keeping green the mem ory of the men and women who lived and suffered through those trying years. The South hus a history to preserve, a history they are proud to give to thc world, aud tho names of Davis, Lee, Jackson and bootu of others should never pass into oblivion, but should be handed down from nother to daughter for generations to oomo. "We may scourge from the spirit all thought of ill, 'in the midnight of grief held fast, And yet, oh sisters, be loyal still, To the sacred and stainless psst." Brave Soldier. The bravest man I ever saw at the reoent meeting of Confederate survi vivors at New Orleans, a resolution was psssed thst medsls he presented to those who hsd shown the greatest J 'alor on battlefields. It recalled to ; my mind a picture that I witnessed in I General Joseph Johnston's army in 1861. At the bsttle of Kennesaw Mountain forty of the Oglethorpes, Company A, were ordered to charge across an open field, and recapture some rifle pits at the edge of a piece of woods occupied by the yankees, out of which our men had been driven about a half hour before. The Ogle thorpes oaptured the rifle pits, and occupied them, but they found that instead of a . picket line, they were fighting Logan's army corps, at close quarters. One of our men was bayo netted as an evidence of the closeness of the fighting. Of the forty men making the oharge, and taking the rifle pits, the majority, as I recollect, were killed, wounded, or oaptured. But to come to the description of the ideal soldier. When we were in the rifle pits protecting ourselves as' best we could, and fighting this overwhelming force, just a few feet in front, as I turned in the pit to reload my enfield muzzle loader, my attention was st traoted to a ?tranger, not one of our Oglethorpes, a tall, slender soldier in gray, apparently abc;.!- 22 years old sunding up at full height in the open field, a few feet in front of Logan's army corps. He was bleeding from a wound in the temple, and from an other io the leg, but he stood ereotsll alone, snd as fast ss ho could losd his rifle, would deliberately fire, and give the Confederate yell. Wo called to him to oome in the rifle pits, but the spirit of wsr was on him, as the ex pression of his eyes showed, and ha stood and fought, paying no attention to the oalls, tn the confusion RB tho fighting progressed, I lost sight of him. but inquired of a fellow soldier, who told me that he thought a third bullet knooked him down, but did not kill him. I never -knew his. nome, or where ho came from, but nave often wished I did, and wondered if bo is still living. If alive, be' should wess ons ol tho medals; ' j ? *;W? Ht Eve. ; ; Btjrton, 8. fr* April 35, \m? "/if if '^^^^gl?0^? .ooo loj?siiy. ] mound on tba northern slope over i whioh waves this morning a flag of J red, white end blue. ?? Ibis grat^ | lie! beautiful wreaths of laure! and | hnno>'ts/?f.';.wbtto''ros?s.;.' '-What' flossj j that flag, tell? It tells that hors, un- j der Southern sides, ; sleeps a soldier, j who, iiko our own, was that faithful, | loyal aud trds |0 ?U convictions of J duty. jlewas a UnionaoJwerv^V;.-:' ?". \ Ovet each Confederate gravo there j wsvs? a tiny Confederate flag, which 1 was pissed there to mstk these giaves \ for decoration day. Having th? tree j spirit of patriotism the committee in ? ch argo did. not place the Stars and Bars on this grave; but instead tho Star Spangitd Banner; under whioh )i thia hero fought, b?od and died. And $ wiib th* wt; of .'sif^t?tw-?i;^ % marked by loving h sada. That tiny 1 that the ??ra have Hugh* ns that the \ principles of tho #ny;;iad:^#?^ wsr>:toi?^;;on^ a?o ^ a?fe forent viewpoint, and that today al ? and wherever he sleeps, and that ow g J ??Mrhi-: .. !?- *'-j.;?-, '.V.. "MM Tho faithless aro usually the i ? 4-3vwf j-'?hoald be no pUo?liU ismis^^tf itis>ou>:fsalt.; :;_;/., ;';-|Hr *tt takes a wis,o wo?sn to' soase si aerrs50--;-v. /'LX'^ ; Hayed bf a Flog of Tobacco. Austin, Texae, Ma? 12.-There waa muoh lawlessness in Toras daring tbs civil vf sr and tbs Reconstruction I period following. Major W. M. Spsc.ee, editor of the Austin Daily Tribune, waa a member of one of the Banger oompaniea in those dsya and had many narrow escapes from death. The tightest plaoe he was ever in was wheo he spent tbs night in the camp of the notorious Willis brothers, who were accused of many murders and other crimes. Five of them were af terward oaptured and were lynched ia Austin. "The only thing that saved roe from being killed by the Willis brothers' gang was a plug of tobacco," Major Spenco said the other day: "I was out on a scouting expedition and was j alone. "A cold norther, accompanied by a dismal rain, set in, and I soon became chilled through and througb. I rode on until I saw a light shining through the trees. I approached the spot cau tiously. When I got near I saw a small log cabin and adjoining it waa an arbor built of limbs of treen. "Under this arbor a fire was burn ing and seated eloBe to the fire were an old man and a woman. I rode op and made my coif known to thom. The old man asksd me to dismount. I waa glad to do so, and when they offered me a oap of coffee made ont of parched corn meal you may be sure I felt grateful for the hospitality of tba old couple. "I drank three or four cupa of oof fee and then drew forth a big plug of tobaooo abd took a chew. The old man and the woman fastened their eyes upon the tobaooo and naked mo give them aome of it. "I oomplied with their re quo st and they filled their pipss with it and sat dona by the fire and smoked. *I never Baw more pontentment expressed upon the face of a human hoing than that shown by those two old people while they sat there smoking, with the cold norther blowing around them. ' "An hour or so after my arrival a big strapping young fellow entered tho sheck and I was introduced to him as the old oouplo's soc, A little later on another young fellow came in and I was told that be was also their son. "By this time my suspicious were becoming aroused, but I did not say anything to indioate that I was alarm ed. Both of the young men asked me for some tobaooo. I gave them liberal ! ohewa and some in addition to smoke j in their pipos, and they seemed to ap preciate the favor very muoh. "I had been Bitting there talking to th; old oouple and these two' mon for to heur T i **o when ? heard the strain? ?.f ? violin. I looked in the direo;i"u ?hoaae the sound oame and Baw a 1 i ii n i -bining through the1 trees. The Cjd ZimU i?rF m? giauC? ?u.diz? ?iid:- I . .. h A J $ ll t *|*The other boya live over there; you'll have to sleep'with them to night.* s v '*Wben the time esme tb retire I went over to tho spot whare the other light waa shining. I found eleven moa and two women ia a Utile log sabin, . Banka were arranged "around tba room for the??'^?abmtood?t?bttjt "I did not i?^?yO^ Milv^-^^^J greeting from them, but when they focad that I had a good supply of t^ baoeo their, v/waicd ap to me consid arably. The men sat \ around and shewed and smoked un< nearly mid night. Twas not molested and neal iM'Kot long a!4WKve oftoelv^ brothers showed ap et old maa lUp ?non's, on the Colorado River, ?jbak wara captured at that pisco fend brought back;j$-iAM^^ cUood io thc' guard hausa hefe and ? vont around td .baye a look aa j&tPBj. told nv? that they had intended ktH ?|"!nie,'; wM|e I' was i^^m0M Hi cedar brakea, but that I treated loam so wejr^ofc^^ lided to 1st mo orL They had beoo )sfof tobaooo ;fot^?yei?V.?S?^i>?j?; heir cravings for tho wood ts^R aluioai lobearable, they said. I relieved .heir suffering in that particular, tem ftt?riUr. at. least, ;.1;aa4 "tney:/ebo#e'd; After years of patient siudyaud ex- j ?riment, bad given ina world a pre ci?? *Mob is au abso?ntevj|?f it care for every form of rhean Monuments to the Living. The newspapers of the 8tate have contained recent!; e carious bit of neera about Mr. and Mrs. Joel Coving ton of Hebron, Marlboro county. It related to tho dedication of the tombs of this couple, with an address by a man and memorial essays by two yonog women. This ia not a new idea altogether. The address and dedication part may be; but the other part is not. Num bera of people have been known to preparo their cwn tombs in which they' - were to be buried. The writer remem bers well visiting when a boy at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Foster Wells, ucar Chappells, this county, and see? irig their tombs or graves ia the fami ly graveyard insight of ?he home. The graves had been cut into solid rook about as deep as the ordinary grave. The rook was on the surface of the earth. Another rook was there to fit down into this, leaving space for the coffin. Our recollection ia 4ba& the graves were .noe made on tho ?pot, but at a distanoe and transporter there. They remained in the graveyard several years before they, were needed. The burial consisted in placing the coffin io thc took, thoo fitting tho other ? rock over it and sealing it up. : Gol. Glint Ward of Wards: Edgefield oounty, had his monument and that of his wife prepared end erected in their family burying ground years before his death. They were handsome marble monuments,'his being eurmousted by a marble statue of himself that was a striking likeness.--Newberry Obsery er. . ' j|-u ! -- A knowing man can size op the I love of a woman by her signs. --In telling a man of his failings nee a long-diatance telephone. Births, ->^Tfet Mi* m Ump fogg , can easily ba raised with re?TJiar. even B&mdo, anJ of tbs very beat grade,foi: which the highest prices can he fatten st your warehouse, or f???a? tssssse bsyers if you Triai, ? Um woektt before planting, liberally-nae tree them i "' i S?holaif?^ Examination. lege jmd 'for, the t^ieston of new* etSdents bo held afc the County o^n ^43*W' ,?5? cat?o?ae.;fc addret? Pres D. B. Johnson, Bock