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TWO SONS SWEETEN LIFE. Among the First Volunteers Went Young Wash Boozman to Defend Fort Sum ter-Dashing Eyed Youth. Greenville Herald. From whence he came, who he is, -what matters it? Is he not the embodied, breathing memory of a dead and gone past? Half living, half dreaming, wholly loving a shattered hope, he is patiently "waiting till the shadows are a lit tle longer grown." Through the first gray days when hope lay in chaos; through the darker days of Reconstruction; through the upheaval when Caro lina threw off the pall of misrule; through the long struggle up the hills of progress. the Little Reb has quietly, walked his way, unmoved, uncaring. In the loved old gray uniform vith an old Confederate Army pistol buckled around him, he lives in a mist of memories, with few vital interests to cut the clouds. Full three score years ago the Little Reb was born. Among the first who volunteered with gun and sword to vindicate Carolina's right to fire on Fort Sumter was the vouth. Wash Boazman. a slender Iandsome lad with dark eves that flashed with enthusiasm as he don ned the uniform that has now come to mean "nothing on God's earth." Bravely, loyally he fought for the new nation that never existed save, in the world's war records and in the hearts of her children. Never once did the young soldier dream that failure could come where love had sacrificed so much. Then came Appomattox. The news spread like prairie fire, com ing as a pitiful relief, to the hun grv., half naked army who were worn out from four years hard work. To the young soldier ,Boaz man, it came a stunning blow; the flag he loved was furled: it had been all in vain. The mainspring of life was strained. never to regain its elasticity. To take up life's duties rmeant to come back to Carolina. He found employment on the Columbia and Greenville railroad and was as faithful in peaceful labors as he had been on the battle field. With will ing hands andl brains he p)erformedl his tasks, but his heart was never in it,-back over the four years 01 travail his thoughts constantly wvent. All things else shrunk and the pro)portions of life became warpedl and twisted. Twenty years ago he was in the cyclone that swept the central p)art of the state andl sustainedl injuries which cripplled him for life. He characteristically explained that he had "been against human toes and science andl came forth unscathed, but when it was the Lord. He smashed him." Fifteen years ago he came to (Greenville. Active la bor was an impossibility from his. infirm health. With a brain ab normally quick in mechanics and hands 'that deftly transmuted ide.as into handy contrivances o~f wire and steel and wood he made a preca rious living selling his unpatented inventions of housekeeping con veniences. That he has,a genius for inven tion is undoubted,. but the swiftness of his brain outstrips the slower fol lowving of the hands, and before one model is completed he has gone deep into the mental evolution of another. Mr. A. G. Gower has given him a workshop in the rear of his resi dlence where he manufactures chil dren's swings. He sells these for* a dollar each. The trade is never, very brisk and at this season it al most ceases, and but for the gener-. osity of friends grim Want would throw off the last reserve for him. Among his inventions are several of real value, but capital and inter-. estedi promoters are wanting to make them of p)ractical use. One in especial is a sofa of many capabili ties. This litte model is slowly gathering the dust of time hidden under other models of more recent' development. Some day when the Little Reb has traversed his long road and' reached the sunny mead ows uinder bright skies, some one will unearth the rude little model andl a gold mine at the same time. Another invention was convert ing the old horse pistol of Confed erate. use into one fulfilling the lo cal legal requirements, "twenlty two inches long and four pounds in weight," that he may wear it with out the onus of "concealed weap ons.' Two loves sweeten the life of the Little Reb, the time mellowed mem ories of a dream country and the living love of little children. Two hat+e embitered his days-doss who bark and irritate him, and ne groes and Yankees to whom he jointly attributes the war. To all others he is a gentle, courteous lit tle man of few friendships and many reserves. As the infirmities of age creep on he has grown very deaf, but through the silence that is begin ning to encompass him, the shrill little voices of children never fail to penetrate. The local chapter of the U. D.1 C. realize that all patriotism is not: represented in chill stone monu ments and quickly fading flowers. They practically show their kin ship of purpose by donations from the treasury each month and by gifts. Warm blankets which came on his birthday and comfortable garments are among the gifts. For a Christmas gift they have made him a quilt of the colors he loves and have written thereon the names of his friends, a number that quick lv ran into the hundreds. In the prosaic work-a-day south where material progress is the key note, the Little Reb with his love' for the past crystallized into an old world romance, is a figure distin guished by its obscurity. The brain mist veiled, shines brighter because of the one idea that has so tena ciously held it for a life time. Miss Alice's Ring. c A Washington dispatch says:! Miss Alice. Roosevelt has received,: hei real engagement ring. There, has been much gossip and specula tion concerning this feature of her troth with Congressman Long worth, but it cn now be positively stated that she wears a new ring presented.to her by Mr. Longworth, which contains three superb pigeon- t blood rubies, surrounded by large diamonds. The token..cost. upward t of $400. Miss Roosevelt has for some I weeks been wearing a ring of much t value, both intrinsic and sentimental j to the Longworth family, it being: an heirloom. This cont.ained a sin gle large sapphire set plainly in dull gold, the setting being of unique workmanship. t The new ring of rubies and dia-'' monds is the most pretentious piece of jewvelry which Miss Roosevelt has ever worn. At all functions and brilliant pr1ivate affairs the president's daughter has appeared with a conspicuous5 absence of jew- I els. Hder taste in dress is original. andl she dloes not b)elieve in fanciful ; adornmenit for y oung maidis. Shei has never worn ear rings, that relice of barbarism: has never worn more than the modest little chain about< her neck. and as a rule no rings t upon her. fingers at all. WVhen she alplearedl. therefore. with Mr. s Longworth's beautiful sapphire, it 1 attracted universal attention. t .Miss Roosevelt is mnodest about i the significant emblem upon .her inger, and has not app)earedl in p)ub lic with it unless it was concealed by a glove. 'She is looking much better now than she did wvhen she irst arrived in WVashington from her long journey in the summer time. and it is said by those who see her frequently that she has never I looked so lpretty nor seemed so ra :iantly happy as she has dluring the last week.. Source of Fitz Ill Luek. - New Y.ork Times., A rubber plant with hoodoo powers brought the double streak 1 of ill-luck to Bob Fitzsimmons, Jno. Considine and other well known sporting lights living in the Hotel Metropole do not hesitate to say so, and Considine, at any rate, should know. I "I owned the plant." said Con sidine y esterday. "I kept it in my room in the hotel. After I had re covered from a serious operation this summer I heard that the Brooklyn bush-every Brooklyn man of family owns one-could bring on a streak of bad luck, so I determined to give the thing away. "It was the day Fitz left for 'Frisco. He and his wife were here:' in the hotel. I had brought the plant down stairs, intending to put it outside of the hotel and let the< passer-by~ take it. But wvhen Fitz< found it' was bad luck to have the1 thing around he asked for it to give a friend. IHe picked up the thing and crossed 7th avenue to a fellow who kept a wigmaking place. Ast we watched him carrying it across the avenue we feared that the hoo doo might get in its work on himt before he got over. He wasn't hit, by a car or an automobile before het gave the thing away, but all the same I guess that rubber plant got in its work on the way to the wig maker's. 21 MULE3 AN Our second car of Hc when cotton goes to 1 5c See ou We have just receive Buy from us a Rever rour grain crop will pay Quattli "Plenty of sports have seen a plant give the double cross L o its owner. Poor Fitz, he got the )ad luck germ from mine. That le i'm sure of. The result has been s< hat he first lost his first fight and o iow he has lost his wife." a Considine, who is a close friend t )f the ex-champion, said that Mrs. t 'itzsimmons always carried the amonds of Fitz's (lead wife. Rose r ulian Fitzsimmons. "Fitz knew what was coming Fri lay night," said Considine, "for he ti elegraphed a friend to try and get I] tose's jewels from his wife. They vere worth about $20,ooo. Fitz's vire says that he will reach New ork, January 3." h: G About Habit. v Because we have not hitherto had r1 he world speaking genially to one's p vhy we should not begin to form hem in 1906. Professor James. vho has made a profound study of iabit has furnished us with one or L wo excellent maxims on the sub ect. First. he tells as that it is in- ti lispensable to begin with "as strong al nd as decided an initiative as pos- a] ible. Accumulate all the possible h ircunstances which shall reinforce p, he right motive. Put yourself as- p iduously in conditions that encour ge the new wvay and make engage- pa nents incompatible with the old; in hort. envelope your resolution with w ~vry aidl vou know.' Never suffer n exception to occur until the new1 abit is securelv rooted in your life. ach lapse is like the letting~ fall of ball of string which one is care 'ully win ding up: a single slip un- I oes more than a great many turns vill wind again. Let the expression f your habit be the least thing in he world, speaking genialy to one's, ~randmother, or giving up one's eat in a horse car if nothing more eroic offers. P>ut let it not fail to ai ke place."-Magaret E. Sangster n Woman's Home Companion for anuary. Scalloped Lamb with Mlacaroni. Thisdis isequally acceptablea or a luncheon or supper dish. It aa be cooked several hours be ore meal time, then baked for re ieating and browvning the crumbs. Cook one half of a cupful of. mac .roni broken in one-inch pieces in tI oiling salted water twenty-five ninutes. Drain in a strainer and h: our over it cold water to prevent he pieces from adhering. Add one fd one-half cupfuls of tomato auce and put one half in a buttered )aking dish. Cover with cold roast ir amb cut in cubes, strips or thin u' ices, then add the remamning mac- r ironi. Cover with b)uttered crack r crumbs. Bake until the crumbs r~ ire brown.-WVoman's Home Coin- P )an ion for January. I A M1anaging Editor Run Mad.' lc llentown (Pa.) Item.s The ways of managing editors r past finding~ cut, and truly the ' nanaging editors seem to have run 0 nad of late on the subject of per ;onal journalism, which is a polite va of referring to newspaper ork that sticks its nose where it A ias no business. One of the latest d worst exafrnples followed on the )fficial announcement the other day f Miss Roosevelt's engagement to C< .epresentative Longworth. Many c )f the WVashington correspondeCnts H vere inundated with demlandls for T p)cial stories, b)ut the limit was y~ he case of one local man who re- -o eived a telegram as follows: C 'Write immediately 1 ,ooo word in erview of Nick Longworth 's viewsC i race suicide." Needless to say A he story has not been sent vet.B A sign of a happy marriage. Vrhen a man says his wvife spoils I 1 o HORSES! rses and Mules just ai ., and then you can ha r Buggies, H d a car of TENNESSE sible Disc Harrow and you. Yours to I ,baum PROSPER Few Dead Delinquents. VOls (New York) Review. Out west no man dies content un ss he has paid his newspaper sub ription, for the editors have a way squaring things in their obituary :ccounts. For instance, an Indian rritorv editor recently took the :casion of the death of a reader to rite thus: "Deceased was a mild tannered man, with a mouth for hiskey. He came here at night ith another man's wife and joined ie church at the first opportunity. e owed us $7 on the paper." Paper Changes Hands. C. M. Palmer's Chicago office is closed the sale of the Times, rove City, Minn., to H. N. Lynn, ho has recently resigned from the iral free delivery sevice at Val iraiso. Nebraska. Propcrly Pious. ippincott's Magazine. Pious propriety reached high :le in the case of a man who was )out to undergo an operation for >pendicitis, and he declared that 4 did not want the operation to be rformed until his pastor could be -esent. "Why do you want your p)astor esent ?" asked the physician. "Because I wish to be opened ith prayer " was the reply. Stupid Fellow. atholic Standard and Times. Miss Short-Mr. Slokoche tells ec you always call your father op." Miss Long-Isn't he too simple r anything? I never say "Pop" cept when Mr. Slokoche is call on me, b)ut he can't take a hint all. Wealth. The Man-We are already rich ~vond the dreams of avarice. The Woman-True: but there e so many who are rich further ~vond.-Puck. Easy for Him Gerald-I am to play the part of e fool in the amateur theatricals. Geraldine-You never did like .rd work.--New York Press. For Sale. Nearly 2,000 acres of best land .Newberry County. One half ider cultivation. Labor on it to in 20 horse farm. 4 miles from ilwav station. Will cut to suit irchasers. If not sold by January t will be withdrawn from the arket. Terms reasonable. Price w. Great opportunity for home ~ekers and investors. W. K. Sligh. Correct English How to Use It." 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