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COL. BACON'S LAST LETTER. The Edgefield Editor Sends His Fare well Epistle From Europe With Greetings to Home Folks. Edgefield Chronicle, Extra. Munich, June 12. 1905. Dear Chronicle: By God's merci ful providence we are in Munichi, the capital of Bavaria. on our way to Paris for one week's stay there. On Tuesday afternoon, the 2o:h, we shall leave Paris by rail and journey to Cheri,ourg on the French coast of the channel. where we will board he u:ick steamer Bremen of the North German Lloyd Line-bound :cr "t:e land of the free and lhe home of the brave" -bound for the green field f 'geiield(alas, too green. :rom all we hear!) for Centre Spring. for Lanlanl's Spring, for peaches. for watermelons, for scuppernongs-for all we have loved from the cradle, for all we shall love to the grave. God bring us safely to the haven where we would be! We came to Munich direct from Dresden, the capital of Saxony. It was in these two cities that we spent much time just 5o years ago. And here we are again-still alive, and still with feelings and impulses and aspira tions-and still faintly but measurably in the human shape. Alas, what have we not seen and suffered-and yet been the object of God's infinite bless ings-within those fifty years-those fifty years so pregnant to our beloved south! We can shut our eyes right now and see Gov. and Mrs. Pickens, and little Douschka, and our brother and his wife, and ourself, and "Tom" and "Lucinda." all hurrying rapidly and rervously to Havre, to sail for :one and reach there before the war should actually commence. How wonderful. how wonderful, are God's rerj::gs and God's providences! that southern band that hurried to la.re, two alone survive. And, following the same train of thought. a very strange thing befell us last night. It was the last night of the southern feast of "Pfingsten" the Whitsu:itide of the Episcopal church- and there were special gaie ties and special concerts in the great public gardens. We went to a concert in the fashionable Ruhmes-Halle Thal-paying 20 pfennige, c cents, for hearing music that $10 could not have brought us in America. On the pro gramme we noticed a number named "Neger Melodien"-negro melodies, We did not give it a second thought. but when it began, the first air was "'Way Down Upon de Swanee Rib ber'," followed by "My Old Kentucky Home," "Old Blind Joe," "Massa's in De Cold, Cold Ground," "Turkey in the Straw." "Ham-Bone," "Ham ~burg Ladies, Your Cake's All Dough," and, finally. "Dixie." At "Swanee Ribber." Mrs. Spalding bent her head, and the tears rolled down her cheeks, and her children seeing this, howled wildly. We stood it all pretty manfully until it came to "Turkey in the Straw" and "Ham-Bone." Then we broke down. "Ham-Bone." as the boys say. "got us." WVe leaned back. *eeeeee * e 1 enware, T eK ichen Ut covered our eyes wit{h" our hands, to shut out the 30,000 people around us. p and plainly saw our beloved friend. Mrs. P. Brooks Mayson, then Miss s Tunie Tillman, playing it on the piano h in the bng, long ago for her young companions to dance to; and plainly remembered how, when she would i grow tired, we would slip down upon the stool, take up "Ham-Bone" and give her turn in the dance. After the "Neger Melodien," the orchestra C played many fine things, but we had q become excited and unhappy and longing. "Ham-Bone" and "Dixie" had completely upset us, and we crept C back tk the Hotel Ober-Ammergau in a much more subdued frame of mind than usual. These reminiscences and reminders fe in a strange land come to us pleasant- tr Iy :hough sometimes sadly. \Vc have ti already remarked upon the strange w likeness of the German emperor to Si all the descendants of our old Col. W Wyatt Holmes of the early days. We C do not know how it came about-by some gay caper of old man Wyatt S perhaps, although we have never a heard of his leaving his native land- n< but we are confident that Jasper Tal- m bert and Wm. E. Prescott are first C, cousins of this popular and autocratic a' ruler. And then all the thousands of photographs, portraits, bas-reliefs and statutes of the great Bismarck bring m right before our eyes, and right before our love, all members of the Aldrich family of Barnwell. Col. Alfred Al- al drich and Mrs. Hal Richardson are la enough like Bismarck to be his chil- R dren; and the early pictures of him. us taken when he was a boy, bring to ar our mind so quickly and so directly th our beloved friends, Mrs. Milledge L. or Bonham and Mrs. Willie Duncan, that B we almost want to kiss them. be Dresden and Munich are ;ay and rh beautiful capital cities, but still we find bc that this ambitious and strr nuous Ger- bc man emperor has made Berlin Ger- =e many, and Germany Berlin. After pr Berlin-the New York of this coun try-all othcr German cities seem dull P and poky. Therefore we shall doubly P welcome "gay Paree," whither we journey tomorrow. We shall prob ably not write you again from this st side, for besides being terribly hurried lo and wildly excited, our feeble pen will shrink frdm undertaking "gay Paree." Yes, indeed, Paris will be too much for us. Good-bye. Tell Mrs. Pam du Holland and Mrs. Billy Kinnaird, and th: Mrs. John Mays and Mrs. Tuck .rei Mathis and Mrs. Georgia Harris and so Mrs. Henry Hammond and Miss Lou al Bunch to remember us specially, in m" lemon pie respects, at Centre Spring re and Lanham's Spring. And tell pretty fo Madge Mays to save us a wvatermelon nine feet long. And tell Joe Holland ni he that we sihall be fully ready to enjoyh that special performance of ours. And Cc tell Mrs. Virginia Addison that our d first duty and pleasure will be to have ta a long knee to knee chat with her. br And tell everybody, every dear soul se from Parksville to Ward's and from, go Chappell's to North Augusta, that we c strain them to our faithful and loving tif bosom.m Jas. T. .Bacon. Cc anc WWIe You ~ I ifalt T When in nee< Lfld a lot of thii irgest stock a inware, Enarr ensils in the C Rt. Rev. H. P. Northrop, and four riests, sailed from Charleston to ew York on Tuesday. whence they a.il for Rome. The Bishop going on is "ad limita" visit to the pope. The vainer a woman is the easier is to make her happy. Found a Cure for Dyspepsia. Mrs. S. Lindsay, of Fort William, ntario, Canada, who has suffered .iite a number of years from dyspep a and great pains in the stomach. as advised by her druggist to take hamberlain's Stomach and Liver ablets. She (lid so and says. "I find at they have done me a great deal good. I have never had any suf ring since I began using them." It oubled with dy:pepsia or indiges 'n why not take these Tablets, get ell and stav well? For sale by nith Drug Co.. Pelham and Son, G. Mayes, and Prosperity Drug The laxative effect of Chamberlain's :omach and Liver Tablets is so reeable and so natural that you do >t realize it is the effect of a edicine. For sale by Smith Drug ., Pelham and Son, W. G. Mayes. id Prosperity Drug Co. Ready money is the root of the anufacturing plant. Mr. J. T. Barber of Irwinville, Ga., ways keeps a bottle of Chamber in's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea emedy at hand ready for instant e. Attacks of colic, cholera morbus id diarrhoea come on so suddenly at there is no time to hunt a doctor go to the store for medicine. Mr. arber says: "I have tried Cham rlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar oca Remedy which is one of the st medicines I ever saw. I keep a tie of it in my room as I have had veral attacks of colic and it has oved to be the best medicine I ever ed." Sold by Smith Drug Co.. lham and Son, W. G. Mayes, and osperity Drug Co. When a man asks a girl if she likes rawberries she is sure he is making ve to her. Cuban Diarrhoea. U. 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