Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MAN AND WIFE REUNITED After 40 Years Separation.-Oonfined in New York Prison for Killing Federal Oolonel. A Cartersville, a., special to the Atlanta Constitution of July 30, says: If any one had risen from the (lead it woub probably have caused nio more amazeient than that with which a little family living on the farm of Mrs. Arthur Davis, eight miles from Cartersville, were overcome yesterday morning when Anderson P. Pittman, aged and gray, appeared in their midst as a missed relative who was supposed to have beien long since dead. The home was that of Mrs. James Smith, who was originally a Miss Whiitecotton. Mrs. Smith's mother. lives with her. Anderson Pittiian, who proved to be a imdern Enoeh Arden, after en tering tihe home and laying down a staff aj,.1 smtall budget which lie car rind on his shoulder in a walk out from Cartersville, iipd le perspira tion from his hrow -and aecosted the vouni. matron with: " D, Von have any nilments in your "No. but why do y-u ask ?'' was tie w'lioan's repilv. "Whv. I'm a sort or a traveling doctor, and thou'ht I miglt be of service if some one were sick.'' With a neVOUS impa(iece the old man dropped his ruse for a surprise, and said: "Where is your imother?' Trihe vounir woman replied: 'She is in the other rool.' "Tell her to come here," lie said, and on her appearaie he approached her almid hell ut his hand, saying, Holwdly. "1111shil.'' WVhien tie elilerly woma pulled! sli-hily away, lie added: 1o11nI't he fri.itenedil this is your The Scene as itey enibrae'd as long separated Ilusban and wif,1 was one that Ms. Smithi, t' onily eYe-witness will never. foruet. The story is ne 1' ilenlse interest .Am141 probably has not a1 parallel in Georn-ia annals. Anderson Pittman married .1eruslia4alw ill Ihbersham County just before tit eivil war. One child was i- brn t them, a doaughter, -who is the motie (f a -rood sized family and now lives in Alabama. When his dauthter was a habe Pitt man teed thie cotnfederale army as a lieniber. 'of ' Captain '14111 1 Porter's (01111 any ill tille twenlty- r111t1 Oci urgia infanitry whidlc was nuIid'er Llngst,Zreet in Virginia. Aecirding to his story, PitIman was captured by the Twenty fifth New Y'lrk e 'valry (It Septemiber 17, in Wood eiiiinty.\, Ya. Ile was eam ried north and reainmed in New York prisonl till the eltose of tile war. While a prison1er he was ordered by a colo nel niamed Sanford to open a gate. le started to his task whien thle otlier told him to r'un. Finding that lie moved no t'aster at the comnmanid. thle ot'li' a dvantced and14 heuoan to f.lowr him. A It this Pitt man r'emionstriated and14 tohl14 thle i' llier inless lhe detestedi he wuldi kill hinm. TFhe ot1leir said. -"Yo have no weapion.. ' At this Pitt mani pulled a sixshioot from his bo0o tl1eu that lhe hod succeeded in keep inug comncealed thIiere, and sho t thle otm .et'r severial 1 tims, Ite woundiis pr1ovinig fatal. 1 ittma 1 wa1 i0s trietd by miilit a ry ' courit 1and4 order'ed shot, hut havin madle fiendii t'lot' o et thle ilicials amonuii' halfI and mannuuoeed to' uut his punish-' imnt shifted~i to t hat of a lifet se'ltntnc llin i priin, just t hro nih whia t process lhe hiimiself' is not aware, but sumtlie'e it as theit story goets, ie' ri~t11ined ini pr1is On1 tlirty1-nine11 \'ears ant sii iX 111o1tiis antd the 11'!o~t a retleas1e. iIe w"ent to T4exals where lie hiad sonme ielat ives, an d st aycd 11 short whbile;: thlen began the work of hunting up his family, whaichi he saidl lie had little hope of f;niding. as lie had written scores o letter's while ini prison, to which lie re ceived 11o answer, pr'esuming~ they were iinter'cepted. - He wvent last wecek to Habershai eounty' and b)eganl inquiry of his wife's relatives and learned that the last known of the family was that thiey had mioved years ago to Bar'tow coun ty., Thait dur'irg his absence his wife, supposing him (1eadi, had ma rried Ben ton WhitecotLani, who had been killed in a fight with revenue omeers in the mountains of northeast Georgia. Thiey had reared a considerable family of children. .As above stated, the wife wvas found in her widowhood at the home of her daughter, who was a daughter of Whitecotton. Old man Pittman is 83 years old; his wife is probably ten years younger. They both look spry for their age. The old man said to The Constitution reporter: "Why, they seem to l)e making as inuch over me as they would old Geni erdi Grant. Well, they thought they would wear my poor life ont in prison bitt I thank God there is a little of it left for ie to enjoy with my family. I've got 120 acres of land that they got of mine because they supposed I was dead, which I am going to recov er through law, and I hope to settle I down on it and be happy, and I must have that daughter in Alabama with 4 me that I gave the name of "Ade line'' before the war got me.'' Work for August. The Commoner. If the lawn is not satisfactory, or i a new one to be laid out, there is no I better time for the work than during i the months of August and September. I Having applied plenty of manure, plow or- spade the old grass under neatly, and let it lie until September, I when the hot weather will have de composed the sod underneath. The < fall monuths are generally moist, and , the atmosphere,. especially at night, i laden with water, and this will cause the grass to grow up quick and strong. Before winter sets in, the grass will I have "rown strong enough to pass 1 through the cold with as little damage as the Old grass. Rose blishes and other shrubbery, as well as hardy herbaceous plants, will he mullich heneffited by a luleh of lawn elippinels, etc., during the hot. dry months. and the frequent rains of the t early fall will decompose the litter ! and add to the richness of the soil. I Sow spinach now in your vegetable < garden, and( do not neplect to sow a s bed of lettuce, as it will be fine in Oc toher. e For cabbage worms, it is recom- v mended to strew road dust thickly 11 over the cabbage while the plant is b wet wit dew. This will discourage s the worm. If the cabbage head is i: erackiinr or bursting, partially pull it r out of the ground, but (10 not lift it entirelv: this will stop the growth, which is the cause of the bursting or erackinr. and tie plant will go on makin!z a stolid head. Au!st is tihe monti in which most lily bulis should be planted in the border. "Many of them must make a t -riwth (1f fislin,-e before cold weather sets inl. and1l, too, the bllbs. will dry it and beeone weakened an md worthless it' kept ouii of tle iroumid too lon.z. Queer Architectural Jokes. Boston Post. A good deal of indignation, real or i simulated, is worked up in the higher eireles of Pennsylvania polities over a collection of' portrait busts display ed upon the bronze doors of the new state house at Harrisburg. Architee tural jokes of this sort are of frequent occurrence. A good deal of chiselling had to be done uponl th.e facade of our Publie Library a few years after the completii-n of file buildinu to bliter- ' Iate the acrostic spelling of the names of its architects up and down the cat alogie of, tireat mien of all ages there inserihed. Aid today, deftly worked in amo kn the deorativ carving on one of the tine businiess blocks in B3os- I ton,. may be discovered the emblem of AWW. Then you wa the many diff Bros.' Wagor and durabilit: line of Wagoi makes. Call sure to sell v( he palvn-broker, the triple balls, a tl ;ly reference by the artist designed to it he source of the fortune of the own- n 4r. Yale men whose class numbors run 1 )ack anywhere in .the sixties will re- y -all the fine square church tower on b "hiaple street, in whose irregular p ishler were figured plainly and neat- si y, at regular spaces, every ace in the ti )ack-save one. Tradition had it o: hat the architect perpetrating this c rreverent joke fell from the scaffold- a ng when on a visit of inspection, and cl lie trefoil never was set. The other tees were broken out with some dif- si 'uculty a number of years ago. ti Telling Time by rilowers. a 'hiladelphia Bulletin. The professor of botany paused tn- ti ler an oak and the young girls in A vhite grouped themselves prettily a ibout him. ''To tell time by the flowers,'' he it' aid-''you should all be able to do a hat. Think how convenient it would u1 eo at this season. p ''It is 5 a. m. when the sow thistle di opens. It is 5.30 when the dandelion ti pens. It is seven when the white lily tt pens. it is S when the hawkweed pensi. t 1 ''At 11.12 a. in. the sow thistle si loses. At noon precisely the yellow oat 's board closes. At 2 p. m. tiu: awkweed closes. At 5 the white lily bi loses. The dandelion closes at S te harp. 11 ''Since Pliny's time forty-six flow rs have been known to open and shut ,ith great punctuality at certain T ours of the day and night. It would c possible, with a little labor, to coi- at truct a garden whose flowers, fold 'g and unfolding, would make a first- ei ate clock.'' Si wi Preserving Citron Melon. 0h Peel and cut tlie melon -into pieces 1% bout two inches square; put into : ater containing an ounce of alum for Ir ach- gallon of water, and let boil ui-'1y d tender. Drain off the water and Itrow it away. For each pound of 1el111 allow a pound of sugar and I Tl upfoul of clear water, making a yrup of this. boiling until clear anl ti kinninr frequently. To each pound i f the fruit, allow a sliced lemon, a ci, It tIe green ginger root also sliced, and wI dd this to the syrup after you have at tt in the fruit. The fruit should nW ook about five minutes bef6re the s:,e :inger and lemon are added, and hi hould cook ten minutes longer when ti heY are added. * ha A Drying Corn and Beans. et ['ho Commoner. w The old way was to boil, then shred ai he corn from the cob and dry. Try e his way, which a reader recommends: ei :f possible, have your corn ready the a: iiL,lht before, or have some one to husk tI mnd silk while you prepare the corn. -1 X fter it has been husked and the silks -rawn off, cut tIe grains down; 1 tot. eut too close to the cob, and serape e: lie rest ; have a hot oven ready, put si GOINI AGO! nt all the info: erent makes. s, and our lin V. Remembei ais and Buggie and examine, )u. 4.LE\ McCaughrin 1i corn in bread pans and let it cook tiil, when stirred with a spoon, no tilk will show. Keel) well stirred hile cooking so it - will not burn. ave a stretcher ready, and scatter 'r corn on it. Now, while this has oen cooking, you can prepare another anful and slip it into the oven as )ol as the first panful is out. In iis way one can dry all the corn an dinary family will use. By this pro ,ss, the milk is cooked to the corn ad does not dry up in little parti es. To make a stretcher, take any long rip of cloth, and tack the cloth along ke edges on either side to boards or rips of lumber and nail a piece ?ross the ends-soniething like a .ilting frame. Stretch the cloth as ght as possible without tearing it. 100-pound weight flour sack makes convenlient size for handling. Wax beans, dried in the following anner, are fine: Prepare the beans for cooking, and boil in clear water til tender; then drain off the water ace the beans on a stretcher and y. Use the saime water to cook your -xt batch of beans in, when cooking dry. After corn anid beis have dried, ey shouild be put ill n heavy paper ek of some kiid. as insects cannot t througl tihe heavy papelr as they I tirough elothi. In drvin.- corn an.ld ans, select them while young and nder, using only perfect ones, and ive fresh to start on. Cream of Corn Soup. ie Commoner. Boil the corn first, on the ear; score d press from the cob so none of the sk is inxed with the grains: add a p of hot milk and press through a Ve. Blend a little flour and butter th hot milk. seaot to taste and icken the above, adding a little flue minced onion. and return to the Ive: and as much tdhin cream or riclh lk as is needed to make tile quanti (lesired: heat anid serve it cups. "Dog Days." it ('4ommoler. The period of the vreatest heat of e summer is called " do. days.'' and S refereece to the fact that ill an 'Ilt timies. this waIS also tile seasonl ien the dog-star rose with the sun, d to this was attributeId the mialig .it energy of the sun's rays at that ason. Sirius. the Do! Star. is the ihbtest star in the heavens, and at le time was thought to exercise a Ilefil influence upon humatn affairs. Itlioueh .ancient astronomers descrih I it as a red star, it is now a clear hite star, in the constellation Canis, id is. itn mythology, closely associat I with the story of Orion. What -er, of baleful influence tile ancients cribed to the rising of the star with e sui. is purely fictitious. as it is the -eat heat which works the harm. The wise youtg mant keeps 1both re on1 tihe small boy with whose big ster he wants to face the parson. 3 TO N4OR rmation you We are har e of Buggies -, we ask no s than you h get our' pri TANS Block, Newt iM & SON irmacists. s. What you buy of -antee Absolute Satis ge sent out, ites your prescription )ur main business is Ve allow no slip-shod t medicines only. We > carry out the doctor's reasonable. ' & Son, Newberry, S. C. PROSPERITY, TY, S. C. - - $25,000,00 - - 12,160.00 tr cent. on time deposits. accounts. 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