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Daring Dee By Janes 'In, the winter of 1801 -anfl 1862' while we were in. winter q 4arteis, dne of the favorite pastimes was target' shooting with our 4i* rifles. "Atthd time we thoughtit was nothing m'ore thain pastimq'and recreation 'for the soldieray but'the sequel Will prove that we were getting ready for. business. There was a young soldier in Com pany A. of the 13th S. C. regiment I who always went to the target shoot- 1 ing. He seemed to have a keen relish for anything that would enliven the monotony of camp life even if it smacked of a little danger. While he was not a crack shot at the beginning lie soon made one of th' best long range target -shots in the regiment. As time rolled on and the summer campaign opened the target shooting was forgotten until one day the Col onel received an order from brigade headquarters to send then one of the best marksmen lie had and a good trusty soldier also. This was an easy matter settled. Every one said send T-. he will just fill the bill. This suited .T-, he was in for. anything new, even if there was a little fight ing mixed in. On short notice T. reported to bri gade headquarters and from there he was sent to corps headquarters. He was put on what we call the army de tached service, and was made a spe -cial sharpshoter and given a Whitsworth's rifle, one of -the finest long range guns that we had. It also had a globe sight. . Now, with .this globe sight a man could take as ac curate sight at a half mile as he 'could with the naked eye at a distance of 75 yards. With the aid of it graded guide sight and a certain number car tridge a good marksman could hit the bull's eye at'800 yards. Now to give some idea what a sharpshooter with one of these guns could do. While we were in line of battle not far from Spottsylvania, our videttes were in a body of woods on one side of a field and the federal vi dettes were in a field of woods on the other side at a distance of 700 or OO yards. A sharpshooter on our side noticed a yankee officer in the woods on the other side with his field glasses, going from one point to an other, examining oir line. He camo to the nearest point to this sharp shooter, took a position behind a large tree, adjusted his glasses, with his shoulder resting against the tree and his head stuck out looking at us. This sharpshooter took aim at his head and fired, striking his glasses and killing him. Tom Paysinger, who was. an independent scout in the yan kee lines, that night brought the news that one of our. sharpshooters had killed General Sedgwvick, a Major General commanding a corps out on the vidette line that evening. 'Our man, T., made a fine sharp shooter, but they did not keep him a sharpshooter long; for lhe wvas promot ed to an independent scout whose bus iness it wvas to get information from the enemy, even if they must dis guise themselves and go into the en emy 's camp as spies, which they very often did. But before I go on and tell you about T., I wvant to tell you of another scout, and one of his trips into the enemy's line. It was dowvn belowv Richmond in a piece of country that our scouts were all familiar with. And they knew every unionist fami ly and every secessionist and knew who was friendly to them. This scout was William Farley. In telling of one of his -trips into the yankee lines, lie said that hie wvas hid ing near the road wvhen lhe sawv a lady passing that lie knew and he came out 'from his hiding place and spoke t.o her. She told him that some yan kee officer had made her house his headquarters. Farley made arrange nments wvith her that lie would come af ter dark and get into the gardens and would throw some gravel against the windowv. If she heard this, and ev erything was all right, she was to pass the windowv three times with 'a light ed canidle. Everything wvorked all right. She led him in through a win dow from the garden and put him into a closet next to the room wvhere the yankee officer stayed. He could see them, but could not gain any in formation. He could see that they *had some maps and papers and were1 doing some writing. He wanted those papers and was determined to get them if they did not,earry them oikt wvhen they went. After ,a long time,' the offieers ewent out and wvent .up stairs to sleep. He thought ndiv wa's *his chaneo, so lie slipped' into (h roome'gathe'ed up every paper, le could find in the dark walked h:M1ly (Ofa.-Scoutj Kitchell. t.of the front door and by the guard d'the gate, and asked him if he kiiew evhere the fellow was 'that attended o; the .iorses. The guard volunteered o go with him and they found the lellow at the stables. He told him to ring him out one of the best horses is lie had a dispatch to carry and had to go a good long ways. He did not <now whether lie would try to come )ack before day or not. He mounted is horse and rode for the Confeder ite camp with all his might. Next norning at. daylight found him riding ip to Gen. Lee's headquarters with -hose papers in his pocket on as fine ) horse as any yankee ever owned, vhilich he called his own, but lie did lot enjoy owning him long, for he ode him on one of his trips and tl ydnkees came so near getting him that le had to leave his horse and let them lave hini. Now, this was the sort of work that P. was expected to do. He was'brave ind daring and a great many of the joys felt uneasy for him; they were ifraid he was too daring and would ,xpos.e himself unnecessarily, whici [ think lie often did, but lie alway: came but right side up, and went 'hirough the whole war, with the ex -eption of a severe shock of a shell bursting near his head, without a 6vound. In the summer of 1864 as we were Ighting Gen. Grant, as lie came from tie wilderness, I think it was neat Deep Bottom that T went out on a cout down on the Chiekahominy river and was going through a wheat Ield. The wheat was in full head md nearly as'high as a man's shoul ler. He was out between the lines lose to the yankees and was in a lit le path when lie saw two yankes coin ig toward him. They did not see im, so lie got out to one side behin( x large rock and waited for the yan tees to come thinkiii. lie would keep luiet and let them go by. But as they Irew near- lie saw the one in front xvas a lieutenant and the other a cor )oral and but one of them had a gun. lie decided that lie would try to cap 'ure them, so as they got right up tc iim lie jumped up and drew down or 'hem, commanding them to throw uy 'heir hands, at the same time telling is own men to keep them coverel vith their guns. This was a ruse tc ool the yankees and it worked like i charm. But to his surprise there vas another yankee right behind tlhes wo, but lie had no gun and surrend 7red without a word. The lieutenant iand a saber and a pistol. T. made them throwv down their arms and narched all three over into om mles. In my next letter I will tell you more about this lieutenant and of Cind1 treatment to him by T., and the rruit it bore in the days of rec'onstrue ion, when T. and a good many of hus ieighbors were arrested as Ku-Kluix. Taking No Oha.nees. A Glasgow steamer was laboring in m heavy sea, the waves sometimes wveeping her decks, but the offeers und assured the passengers that there v'as no danger, and all seemed rea monably quiet witik the exception of mec meek-appearing' little man, wvho, ~very few minutes, wvould approach an >ffeer, and anxioud~y inquire if he ~houghut the ship wvould founder. ''No, I tell you!'' one of the offTi er~s finally exclaimed, wvith . impa-. ience. ''What is the mAtter wvith iou?'' Look at those other people hey are not scared to death.'' ''Oh, I 'm not scared'' the man re >lied; ''but if the ship wvas going .0 founder, I wanted to knowv a lit he ahead of time.'' ''Oh, wvanted to tell your friends ood bye, and all that?7'' ''W~ell, not exactly,'' the man said, ecsitatingly; ''the fact is, my moth ri-in-law is along with me, and if the~ hip w'as quite sure to sink, I wvanted o say a few things to her.'' The supremacy in English history f little Prince Edward of Wales 'is matter of justifiable pride to his pa ents and tutors, but, according to a tory in the London Telegraph, hisi unowledge of periods and personages si healthuily tempered by the uneon cious humor of the average school oy of eleven years. Hie was being examined recently on he time and reign of Henry VII. ''Who was Perkin Warbeck?'' hue vas asked. "Perkin Warbeek was a pretender,' -oplied the prince. ''He pletendetd to es thme son of a king, but he waen 't. Ele was the son of respectable par Farmerst Union Bureau of Inforanat ion. -Conducted by the South Carolina Farmers' Eduoa tional and Co-Opratlon. Union. OW- ommunication:s intended for this department should be addressed to J. C' Stribling, Pendleton, s. C. The Way We Size It Up. The prices for- your cotton next .Al is just what cotton producers make it. Your work now is about all directed, indirectly or directly, towards mak ing the conditions that are to rule or control the prices of your cotton for this crop and to some extent the next crop, too. If you help do a thing yourself then don't go about blaming some other fellow for doing it. If you can buy your grain, hay and other farm products cheaper than you can raise these products, then you are not as good a farmer as the other man that does this for you, and you can also buy your cotton cheaper than you can grow it, .too. Few people can realize how sick they have been until they begin to get over it; few farmers realize .what a fool they are about cotton until they begin to buy high priced farm pro -ducts with low priced cotton. If it. takes a wise man to act wise, and a fool to act, a fool, then it is a natural thing to expect none but good business men to succeed in buying many farm products with which to grow the one product, cotton. How many of these so-called "bus iness" farmers do you know of that have been up against a business proposition like this for many years that now have nothing to show up their business qualifications in any form of accumulations excepting, per haps, a family of ragged and ignorant children and a mortgaged mule or Itwo? No doubt you'vc heard of the ''bus iness woman'' that borrowed a sitting of eggs from one neighbor and a brooding hen from another-she said she had the nest. Well, now, we are betting on this woman coming out ahead of the man that buys every thinr on credit that he uses in grow inl., his Crop of cotton. Now, this is the class of cotton pro ducers that control the early cotton market. These are the real dumpers, and the men that furnish the supplies of all sorts to such unbusiness like, in competent managers of such an im portant industry as cotton growing, are the real responsible parties. These never-do-wells could never rule the cotton business unless the supply men and the landowners put this import ant business in the hands of such in competent parties. These business men and the land owners are now coming together to control this matter; they are requir in- each of this class of cotton pro ducers to diversify his crops, which is the only wvay to enforce the neces sa ry fundamental p)rinciple or sys em upon which the south can ever make her prices for her cotton and maintain profitable prices. Now is the time to prepare for har vesting the small grain crop. Of all the busy months in the cotton states the -harvest times arc the times of the most work and the shortest time to do it in. Cotton and corn crops and small grain all need attention about the same time. Farmers' Unions can aid each other through these extremely busy iveeks b)y clubbing stogether and buying binders, threshing machinery and oth er costly farm machiner-y, that per haps may be too much outlay for one farmer to foot up ; and1 if the Union does not see fit to buy this machinery they can combine and1 contract with some member that will do all this liar vesting machine wvork for them at the proper time, and thus make it possible to guarantee sufficient wvork to justi fy a progressive young man to invest in an up-to-date outfit. This kind of work is right along the st.raight road with thme truie principles of the Farm ers' Union. Farm labor is now too high to use, only behind the best farm machminer~y, tools, telam and imple ments. If one farmer cannot afford to get the best of all these, the far ors must combine their efforts and help each other, so as to obtain this important help just at the time when improved 'machinery is most needed upon the farm. Union men, take hold of this harvest question now and get ready for hot times ahead., 'Cheap Hogs. If you were to nmake a cheap coat you should have cheap material to be gin with. But when it comes to hogs, a cheap, ill-bied anim~al is not the kind to start with!l You should have a wvell bred aniimal, chmeap food and a good, snmart ch'ande of good hog sense to start with, in order tio grow cheap pork I We can~ shIow a fine, thrifty, growing -lot' of hogs that has eaten ',othing ibut a food of one pound co ton seed to four pounds ruta ba turnips boiled together, from first 4 November until April. In April -tl clovers, alfalfa, spring turnips, ba ley, rye, sorghum, with good bermu and other good pastures,'with a litt bran slops. and surplus garden true will keep iloats, sows and pigs groi ing until August, when early cowpe and soga beans will come in. Y< should fence in these beans wil clbeap hog wire fence, moving it aboi to suit, as you cannot 'Afford to pic peas for hogs! We ore not stuck ( the plan of turning hogs on plough( lanJ-in spring or summer to gathi potatoes, pindars, etc., as their roo ing t up the soil in wet weather doi damage-besides you want rings : their noses while on pasture and ti pea fields. We have planned to pla 12 acres of soga beans and will grai these'with hogs, as well as 12 acres i cowpeas and finishing on a litt corn. Some farmers do not seem 1 know that the days of 'root hog 4 die" has gone, and we cannot expei a hog to root his living out of ti ground unless there is something'i the ground to root for I A profitab hog must be kept growing from sta to finish. Not being sure about our propo [tions of cotton seed and ruta bagi being a well balanced ration for sow pigs and shoats, we called on Pro Newman, of Clemson, who has ei dorsed our ration as being about rig] in his letter following this. Clemson College, S. C., Feb. 24,190 Mr. J. C. Stribling, Pendleton, -S. C. Dear Sir:-Referring to your il quiry concerning the feeding of co ton seed and ruta baga turnips I hogs, will say that assisted by M Burgess, I have looked up the nuti tive ratio of these two feeds and fir that using them in the proportion thi you have practiced, that is 1 1-2 bus] els of cotton seed in a sixty galk boiler, the boiler filled with turnil and then the whole mass boile makes an excellent feed for eithi brood sows or young pigs. I do ni know whetfher you compounded th ration for the especial purpose fi which it is used or not, but you hai hit upon the exact nutritive ratio f( brood sows and pigs, which is-1-4, ar you could 'not well improve upon i For brood sows without pigs, ti cotton seed meal should be decreas( and the turnips increased, since it not- necessary under such conditioi to use feed so rich in protein. Tridstinlg that this may answer i purpose, I am Very truly yours, C. L. Newman, CARDOZO SCHOOL IN NATIONA CAPITAL. Representative Aiken Calls Commi sioner West's Attention to Re cent Article in "The State." Feceling that South Carolinians hu an interest in the naming of a scho building in Washington after the n grro state treasurer and1 convict Ca dozo and thinking that the disti comissioners would be glad1 to kuno any adequate objection to such thinig, Representative Wyatt Aik< when he saw the story on the subje, in the Statc some days ago wrote letter to Mr. Henry L. West, one< the (listrict commissioners, protestir against the contemplated course. M West is a democrat. He has replit to Mr. Aiken 's letter. The whole le ter may interest 'the readers of tI State. It is as follows: Hon. Wyatt Aiken, House of Representatives. D)eaii Mr. Aiken: I beg to a knowledge receipt of your letter il closing clippings from the "'Columbi Slate," wvith reference to the namir of a school building in Washingtc after the late F. L,. Cardozo. I ha, examined .into the rec'ords and Ih: that th~e rccommendation as to tI name' was made to the commissione1 by tile board of education "tin vie of his long andl eminent service to tI colored race and more particularly his work in the cause of educatio1 as p)rinceipal of the M Street Hip schuo'l."' I (lid not know--and I a' qpuite certain that the other commi: sionjers were equally unacquainte withl-Mr. Cardozo 's record in Sout Carolina. -As far as we had an knowledge, Mr. Cardozo was a goc citizen in the District of Columbi and, unquestionably, is held in e: cellent repute for his work in conne tion with the colored schools. In th connuection I note that the corre pondent of the "Columbia State a1ccpts the statement that Cardom "h ore a good character hee, an: that ''there is nothing that I en learn which wvould indlicate that I: ever managed to get hold of any pul lic moneys or sell any State or natiom al bonds, appropriating the procee( to his private uses, as in the good ol (lavs of yore." In otherw.ds .em t- was, nothing upon the, records here to ,a led the commissioners to veto the )f recommendation of the board of edu t0 cation, and no reference was made at r- any time to the events occurring in a South Carolina. le Very truly yours, Henry L. West. is News From Excelsior.. Rt Excelsior, April 2.-We have had h a chance of rain in this section and it very little farm work has been done k the past two weeks. The farmers will z have plenty of time though to get in d their crops from now on. A large )r amount of fertilizers have been haul t- ed in this section but a good deal of ,s it will be put under corn. The farm A era are beginning to learn that it te doesn 't pay to raise all cotton and de- I it pend upon buying their corn. In e crease your corn acreage and cut )f down your cotton crop again this le year and you will reap the benefit of o it next fall. This ought to be the or. motto of every farmer this year. t Glad to learn that our friend Chips 10 is improving from his recent illness n and hope he will soon be himself l0 again. rt Mr. E. M. Cook spent Wednesday night in Columbia. r- Mr. Otis Kibler, of Newberry, is is visiting in this community. as We still have a few cases of mena f. sles in this section. They hang on I- well and are no respecter of persons, it so if you have not had them, look out. Miss Bettie Werts, of the Saluda side, is visiting Mrs. H. J. Kinard. . Tile fruit crop has been badly in jured, but still there is some left for '- us. t- A number of our young men met ' on the school ground Saturday after r. noon and practiced playing ball. 1- They show up a pretty good team and (1 will soon be able to play Newberry It or sonic other team. I- Mr. J. W. Watts, of Newberry, n spent. Wednesday night with his )s mother's family. i Mr and Mrs. Rufus Crumpton ,' spent Saturday and Sunday in New >t berry. Is The grain ill this section has a nice )r appearance but on lowlands has too 'e much rain. n' The R. F. D. mail service is ippre d ciated by our people and we hope Un t- cle Sam will not discontinue any of L the routes whatever. d Mr. 0. W. Kinard is spending a few is days down at Ballentine on business. [s Quite a number of the citizens of Mt. Pilgrim section met last week ts and partly opened up a public road leading from Mr. John Long's resi delce to the church. We are told the road is now in good condition. The roads should all be improved soon asi L the farmers can spare the time. Rev. W. 1-. Whitaker, pastor (of the -fethodist. - church in Prosperity, preached a good sermon Sunday af ternioon to a good congregation from the theme: "'Remember the Sabbath (lay and keep it holy.' Ld Sigma. - The Habit of Blaming, et Miedical Talk. t Some people spend most of thir time in blamling othert poplle. They abhlamle this one for one thing, and thatn tone for anlot her thing. All dlay long at they are lblaming somebody, aeesing somne 011e, bringing up a list of dam agimg accusations against various peo The practice reacts upon01 the one YOUR PRESENI Our TO INS a urWeeders, Planters, e Farm Fencing, Poultry Wire, .s Barb Wire, ii~YE ii We also have acomi: Ii Lime,.Cement, Extra Sand Poles, Carpenter a Implements. Screen I ~IScreen Door Paints, Sture Polish, etc., And We Can I -That you make m< 1 :SUMME who does it. It is disagreeable to all who hear it. 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