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1THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL VOL 1i.-NO. 12. PICKENS. S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1gor- ONE DOLLAR A YEAR BILL ARP TALKS OF APRIL The Grandchildren Had Lots o Fun Out of the Old Man. This month did not begin right April means. to open, but it did no open. It was an April fool. Nothnj shows in my garden but the pens an( onions. The flowera make no progress There is no sweet south wind t< breathe upon them-no sunshine. O Monday the grandchildren impose upon me with their Ilindoo pranks, They gaVe me a cup of chocolate witl whipped cream on top, and it waE nothing but soapsuds. I pretended tc be fooled, but I wasent; I paid then back in various ways. The lindoo started this childieh custom away back in the ages, and it still pleases the children. And now Easter day is at hand that is another name that came down from the Pagans. Ostera was their goddess of' eprinig and it was cor rupted into E stera. How these old heathen names do stick to us. The names of the days of the week and of the months came from them. So (lid the planets and the constellations. Even the prophets and Job had to take them from the Egyptians. But the Scotch people don't call it Easter. They say Pascha day, or passover day. They won't pattern after anybody, but John Knox, and lie said Pascha. But there is a reason for .calling it Easter, for the coi-.ing of spring-the opening of the earth and the flowers is emblematical of the resurrec'ioi-tlie opening of the Savior's tomb and His return to bless and comfort His peo ple. This day corresponds closely with the Jewish passover, and so they ob serve it. Now I want the you1g people to know that Lent is another word that means spring. It is preceded by that foolish festival called mardi gras-or fat beef-and continues forty days in remembrance of the Savior's long fast, an it ends with Easter, and the com m u jon and other rejoicings. As the old-time almanacs would say, " about this time look for Easter hats and flowers and filnery." Christmas is an other festival day that is common to all Christian nations. There are many other days dedicated to the saints, but in course of time it was found that there were not enough days in the year to go round, and so the pope stopped the sainting of so many and had one day set apart as All Saitits (lay. The next (lay after that is All Souls day, on which mass is said by the Roman Catholics for the souls if the dead who are in purgatory. It seems that about 900 years age a pil grim from the holy la 'd found a her mit in Sicily who told him of an open ing between the cliffs of the moun taIns near by that communicated with hades where Pluto lived and that lie could see the sulphurous smoke rising and hear the groans of the lost souls who were being tormented in hell and he had known some of them to escape through the prayers of the priests and this made the devils very mad and lie could hear them cursing the priests with awful imprecations. The pilgrimn told all this to the abbots and monks, and they had a day act apart to pray these lost souls out of hell or hades or purgatory or % hatever it is. Besides these international days there are national days in every coun try. Here we have the Fourth of July and Washhigton's birthday andr Deco ration Day and some others. Germany celebrates the birth of Calvin and L~uther and the kaiser. Scotland that of Sir William Wallace and Bruce and John Knox. hI old England they cele brate the queen's birthday, Magna Charter day and Waterloo (lay amnd May day. May day is the happiest of all and has been long remembored in verse and song and In dancing aroundl the May pole. Tennyson wrote a sad, sweet poem called the " May Queen." Mexico celebrates all the Romnan Oatholic days and has one other that, the rabble call Judas Iscariot's day. It is the next day af ter Easter. On the beautiful trees in the plazza or park they suspend pasteboard images of Judas Iscariot.-mmages as large as life, with little holes bored in them from head to foot and in every hole is fastened a cannon cracker. At a given signal the fuse in every cracker is lighted and all of them explode nearly at the same time and such a terrific popping was never heard ouitsidle of a battlefield, and poor 01(1 Judas is torn and rent into a thousand pieces. This is just a sign of what they would do to him if they had him there alive, but 1 reckon it is more for frolic than anmy thing, for they shout andl laugh andi~ dance the hornpipe and make all the racket they can. lBen Franklin saisi that, man was a bundle of habits, ie might have added " and supersitions," for most all people have some belief in super natural things. Two hundred years ego almost everybody helieved in witches. Shakespeare wrote about them in " Macbeth" and Burns ini " Tam O'Shanter." The Puritan. drowned many innocenit women from mere suspicion of being witches. The conceited, self-righteous rascals never accused a man of being a wizard. It is the women who have suffered in all agee. When I was a boy the young people were more afraid of ghosts than they are now. Ghosts are vpry scarce in these days. I havent seen one in a long time. Iu my early youth I was the mill boy and I remember that one evening in th( early twilight as I was astride my horse and grist and going slowly home I neared the country graveyard of Fair. view ehureb and saw, or thought I saw, a getahead of me in the big se4d. It ad armts and legs, but bad so heed. It was white end ionj slewly fro~m me. I cheked... or.... and wondered. I started on again an, got a little closer. Still tie form wa f headless. Broad shoulders aid arm akimbo. Nearer and nearer I drew to it, but it made no sign. My hors, pricked u) his ears as if alarmed. Th t road forked not far ahead, and I ha( resolved that if the ghost took on road I would take the other, whel .uddenly an Old man stopped to cough and took the sack from his shoulder i(and laid it upon the ground. I knem him imstanitly-old Uncle omN Wileon the hunchback--going home from th< mill with his grist across his shoulderi and hi head bent forward so that I could not see it in the dusky twilight, Now, if both of us had reached th( forks of the road and had separated I should always have believed I saw t ghost. That old mill oad and chuich and grave yard made lasting inpressioni upon me1, and so did the mill and the pond and the spring-board and big whcel and the soothing sounds of the water falling over the daiim. We had various adventures with the country schoolboys on the way, for they (ident like the town boys-and they don't yet. I remember that it was on April fool day that I saw in thi rurad just beyond the schoolhouse a package done up in brown paper, and as I had met a man in a buiggy a little while be fore, I suilpposed lie had droppeld it. I stoppjedl my horse and got (own. Pick iDg up the package I untied the string anid took off the wrapper and found anothei wrapper and another string aid then another and another and at last two big [)lack bugs, whose olor was familar. That kind of bugs that advance backward, and you can't tell whether you meet 'ei or overtake 'ei. Just then a score of boys jumped froi the bushes and yelled and sereamed 4' April Fool !" I was so niad I could hardly mount my horse again, but I never spoke a word. I took it out in thinking andI hating. West Point hazing wasent any worse than that April fool was to me. But boys will be boys. BiLl. Ai-. MIS CONvERSATIoN A LoS'T Ai-.i' Conversation calls for training of two kinds; a talker preslpposes a listener. Now, listening is a platonic occupation out of fashion oi this side of the At lantic. Watch carefully a group of our compiat riots chattering together anid you will notice that the speake#r is rarely allowed to finish a sentence. His companions will snap the thread of talk away from hin, unconscious of any incivility-just from sheer nervous inability to hsten to the end; having " caught on'' to the drift of an idea, they can no more listen placidly to its development than they can wait until a play is over, or a cable-car stopped, to make their exit, Have ycu ever been in a barn-yard when a hien more fortunate than the others unearthed a nice fat worm? Long experience having taught the fowl that she will not be allowed to enjoy her prize, she starts to run wiih it, pursued b tie other chickens, who snatch the tidbit from each other until the mangled dainty disap)pears. When our impatient' coil)atriots discuss a topic of interest it gets iucli the same tientment as the worm. Interrupting is a national peculiarity; we are so quick-witted and seize a train of thought with such farcility' that any at.. templt at its elaboration gets oii our nerves.-Har-per's Buxuri. . Tiir: LoNo DisTrANcE TIuoLLEv. A. L. Johnson tells the Philadelphia Record that he now. has all the neces sary rights far the constrruction of his propIosed electric line between Phila delphiia and New York, amnd that it will be built ini the most substantial and1( miodern manner-, conforming ini every respect to the finest steam railway roiad-bed. The track will be laid with 95-pounrd rails aind the camrs will b)e of the latest a111nd ost impriovedl patte-n, seating sixty people, and will rrun at a speed of at least fifty miles an hour. Tihere will he no grade crossings so that the car-s will go with uninterrupted speed. The fare from the hieamrt of Philadelphia to the heart of New York will be fifty cents, brrt, for dlistances of twenty riles the fare will be only flye cents. There is talk of a trolley line between Washington and( Baultimor-e. Thle trolley is growing more popular' every (lay. Kansas ('ity, Mo., is claiming to be a great fruit dlistribrutinug point ,and in piroof of the same "' points with pridle to these two consignments: in oue (lay 1,000,000 bananaris were rec'eived1 from the tr'opics, andl on Mafrch 4thi ' , 000,000) oranges came in, tire shripmenrt being made from Los Angeles, C al. This orange trasin was comprosedl of thirty-eight cars arid a caboose. Threre were 30-4 boxes of oranges to the ear, making 10,10-2 boxes in all. A mammoth black walniurt ti-ee or the farm of E. P. Gaurs in Will[; me County, Ohio, baa just been sold1 for 84,000. Several lumber dlealeis hravt examifld-chips -from this tree, and all have declared it to be the finest speci men of that kind of wood they evei saw. Tihe tree was eight feet mi dliia me ter, forty feet above the stump an< extended seventy-three feet fromi the burtt to the first limb. The women of a Long 1Island villagt improvement association have given up their ofmees to the men, as the, feel the latter are better quahlied ti diseharg, the dutie ~. The idea o giving up a public Ofce because thi holder thinks anoth' bettor fitted t< do the work is an edlusively feminini idea, which woutl iwork havoc I diverted into m-naeal politics. I THE TEXAS 01L DEPOSITS. S --- How the First Discovery Was Made-May Give Cheaper Fuel. The excitement over the discovery of secmingly imexhaustible oil deposits in Texas appears to be growing. The government experts, geologists and conservative busIness men consider the location of oil in Texas and California of far more importanco than the ths covery of gold in California. In fact, it is looked upon as a development that will have a tremendous economic in 1iLuence on all the in(lustrics of the southwest. George F. Adams, an ex. pcrt of the geological survey, has been sent to Texas to make an investigation ani report upon the extent of the oil deposits an(l the manner in which they are being worked. An official of the geological survey in speakiirw of this matter to the Brooklyn Eagle's Wash imgton corres)ondent said The oil is ,ot the illuminatlmg va riety, but is used for fuel. It will supply the one thing that was before lacking to enable the tremuen-lous re sources of that country to be )roperly (leveloped. Texas is nearly the rich est State in the Union in natural re. sources, but fhere are no coal deposits there. She has gotten her fuel in the past from Indian Territory, and after it had beeirTie(d "aind flpl)ed to 'I exas it cost between $frani QU a ton. The excessive cost of fuel has (lone imuch to retard the operation of tile dLeposits of cement, iron and other ores with which Texas abounds. The (iscovery of a cheap fuel withim her borders will work wonders with Texas mier ests. The utmost excitement prevails all through Texas, anid excursions are run f-ron (alveston to Beaumont to see tIhe big geyser. Four thiousaild persons recently visited Beaumont ii a single (lay. As may be sul)posed the town has experienceed a tremendous boom. People are flocking in and sCouring the country prospecting for oil and hIIyiig up lNdI leases. It is ahuliost imnpossible to secure accomnodations in either hote's or boarding houses, and living rates have gone way ui. New wells are being sunk every week, but precautions are always takcn to prevent a waste of oil. Imnproved ma chinery has been introduced, and as soon as oil is struck the flow is checked until tank cars arc secured. Pipes are being laid to Port Arthur. the nearest port, wheire it will be pmlpc(l on board oil ships. Lucas securel leases on 5,000 acres of land before lie began o)erations, and he pays a royalty tu the owners on each barrel that is sol(. As before state(l, the various railioads of that section are preparing to change from coal to oil fuel. The main thing that the operators are waiting for now mire tank cars to take their product to market. Following the dliscovery the price of oil in Pittsburg tumbled dan gerously, but it has since been stea(lie(l. Among those who have since learned that oil existed un(ler their farmnis is ex Senator Roger Q. Mills, who is s:i(l to have been imlade in(lependently rich by the protlucts of a well sunk on his land. 11 One of the great a(lvailtages of the oil deposits is that they are right on tide water, thus making is )ossible to ship it by water at little cost. 'Iie government olicials are very enthus iastic over the (iscoveries a(d ( declare that the oil will furnish a cheap fuel not only for- tihe local industries of Texas andl New Mexico, but for tranis continental transportation and for shipping interests in the gulf and West Inudies. The story of how thme first oil strike was stumbled on and the opening up of tihe unlookedi for riches r-eads like a tale from "' Arabian Nights.'' A. F. I Lucas, a Walhington mining engineer, I was enigagedJ as5 supjer'int~edet of the Avery Rock -Salt mines, ini Louisiana, but having a disagreemenit with the management, he left and dIriftedl over i to Texas. Reaching Beaumont, which I N about thiiee hours' ridte from Galves -t ton, he went out prosp)ectimg for suil phur-. ic struck some suilphiur springs andl obser-ved that a small quantity of natural gas was coming from them. Inl putting dlown a well lie ran across1 a slight dleposit of oil, and this fact, together withl tile presence of nattural gas, ledl him to believe that oil was to b~e founmd there, ic accordingly sank a well for oil. About 1,000 feet wer-e p~enetratedl and a six-inch pipe inser-tedl. Inside of this a section of four--inch pipe 720 feet in length, was dhroppjedl. Tme oil stratum had not actually becen eachedl by the drilling machine, hut it seems that it was almost touched~ at, the time lie four-in ch pipe was Put iniidie the laurger- piipe. Sud~denliy t hose whlo were working the derr-ick that was lowering the smaller- tuibe noticed that it was acting queer-ly. Something was lil ting it fr-om the hot tom. Mr. Lucas und~erstood the signs and called to his men to run for their lives. T1hme oil had burst through tile crust of earth that separatedh it from the dIrill and~ camo spouting up with terr-ific force. It tuushed the pipe thirough the dherrick, canrriedl away all the miachiner-y and finally threw the 720 feet of pipe high into the air. Fortunately, the pipe came (down end first and hurt no one, but it buried itself dleep~ into the earth. It has not since been (lug out. Turn ing about Mir. Lucas sawv a streamn of oil shooting out of his six-inch pipe to a (distance of 200 feet in the air and Rowing off over- the plain at a terrile rate. There was no way to chleck thle flow of the valuable fluid, andl as it sp~readl over the prairie aid was sent for > to build dams. Soon all the male f population of Beaumout was out on the plains throwing up a wall of earth to > hold the oil. A monster lake soon 3 formed and breaking through tbe dam f ran off to a railroad track. A anlvert was built une bum trak and aniother (am coistructel. The ut most caution hiad to be observed t< prevent a spark from dropping into tih oil, for a fire meant complete disastei for everything within reach. 1had t coniflaigration occurred it would lav extelided to tle spouting geyser an would have been burning to this day An armed patrol of Inen, itoulted oil borees, kept guard of the lake iight and day, and special care was takeii tc gee that. io sparks were dropped by passing trains. The great problem then before the minig engineer was how to control the flow aud thus save tho precious fluid. Finally he hit upon a scheme. A loiw section of eight'inch pipe was secured atud imioiited on a movable Carriage. One end of it was litted with a Valve. I1Ia1f way up this pipe a T-joint was made and a branch of a six-inch pipe was run out, also fitted with a valve. L'his structure was then moved up to the side of the geyser, -nd the eight inch pipe slipped into position over the old six-inch tube. The olpemnm ugs of the smaller pipe were filled up with oakum ani other material, so that the oil was escaping only through (lie top of the main pipe and out of the side sectioni. The valve at the top of the main pipe was then closed, thu5 divert ig the eiitir', stream off to one side througl the branch section. This male it possible for men to work tbout the base of the well. A (lep Lrench was dug all around the base of tie geyser and then filIed iii with a jed of' concrete. Fromt this concrete icavy supporting lines were run to the .01) of the pipe, so that the whole ap. maratus was securely anichore(I to the oncieCte foundation. When it wais !ertain that eveiythiig was ready, (lie valve on the branch pipe was closed md the stream was cut off. This peratio consumed nine days, and in lie meantime ti' oil was plouring out it the rate of any where between 75.000 md .100,000 airrels a day. The esti nated value of the erude product is )etween +10 and 50 cents a barrel, so it will be seen tlht each day's product was worth inl the ie ighborhood of, F>0,000. After the flow had been Ieckedh a fire occurred in one of the >il lakes and 750,000 bariels were ie atroyel, representin. r lOSS of about %300,0oo. POINTS OF HUMAN ANATOMY L'he Differences Between Men and Women -1yca, Iars, Ton gues, Height. The two sides of a person's face are lever- alike. The eyes a'o out of line n two vases out of five, and one eye s stronger than Ile other in seven er'sons out of ten. The riglht ear is Ilso, as a ru-ile, higher than the left. Oily one person in fifteeii ha.s per ect. eyes, the largest percentage of d ects prevalinig among fair-haired peo )le. Short sight is more C0111111011 inl Owln than aong country folk, ail of 11 people the Gerimais have tilie lag st proportiil of' shi ort-s ig lited per Otis. 'The crystallie lens of tilie eye s the oie poltioin of the human body lich coitin uies to in crease inl size broughout life aid does not cease with lie attaiimeut of maturity. The smtiallest interval of, soun11d can le better distimguislied with one eari hant with both. The nails of two ingers never' grow withI the same ra >idity, that of the middle liger' grow ng the fastest, while t hat of the thumb ~ro ws Ilie Blowest. In f ilfty-I our cases unt of a hundred thme left leg is stroniger' han the right. Th'le bones of an aver' go human male skeleton weigh twenhy cun tds ; those of a wolmau are six ounds lighter. ?.l'ha4. uinruly member, the tongue of woman, is also smnalletr thani that. of mtan , given a man and woman of riual size and weight. It may be api alling to rleet . but ift is nevertheless rue, thatt the miuscles of' the human aw excii ia f oree of oveir '>00 Pounds. T1he symmietry which is the sole ini ell igil e grond for our I ideal of beauty, he proploitioni bet weenI the' uipperI an ower' half of' (lie hiumiani body, exists n nieairly all males, but is niever' founld n thle femtale. Amnerican ihmbm s ale note sytmmetirical thiani thosie of aniy >therci people. The rockinhg chir, ac :orinihg to ian Engliish scienitist , is re tjponsible for' the exer'cise which in !rcases the beauty (If the loweir limbs. L'hie push which the toes give to keep he chair' ina moti o, repeatdcc aind ire >iated , makes the imitep) h-ghi, (lie calf 'oun d and f'ullI, and it mnakes thle anikI e heliciate and sleiider'. Brnitishi woumen auto siaid to averaige wo inchtes mioire in hight thian Aumet i ~ans. .Aveirages lot' the heighlt of wo 'uon showv that those botrn ini summer1)0 mud autumn aire taller' thtan those born ni sprolg andc wmitelr. TIhe tallest girls wre born in August. As fari ats boys nre coniceirned, those who fir'st see the light durlinig aun t andt ttc witer ar'e riot so tall ais those b~orn in spr'ing and1( summer. TIhose born in November the shoi test; in July the tallest. An average heaid of fair' hair' conisists of 143,040 hairs, dark hair of 105,000, while a r'ed head has only 29,200. Fair hiaitrd 1people ar'e b~eomiing less numer outs than fdrmer'ly. A personi who fias lived seventy year' has had pass th rohugh his heart aboui 675 ,920 tons (If blooda, the w hole of thu blood ini the body pasm through thu heart ill abouht t hirity-two beats. TPhi heart, beats on ain average of sevent, times a minute, or 31,792,000 timles in the course cf a year, so that thi heart of an ordinary man 80 years o age has beatan .3,00)0,000,000 times Trhe heart beats te'n strokes a minuti less when one is lying dhown) than when one Is in an up)righit position-Nei Tei: Suna. 'FIGHTING PARSON DUNLOP. A Desperate Charge Under a Stdrn of Shot and Shell. Tlie Charleston Sunday News con. tains a most graphic descri)tioln of t thrilling inicident at Alurfreesboro Tm., which is from the pen of Itev. H1en1ry F. Hoyt, I).l., of Iitriony Grove, Ga. The hero of (lie occasion was 11ev. .1. E. Dunlop, now a zealous and honored 'resbyterian mnister living at (ieorgetown, S. C. Dr. IIOyt's account, is ats follows: Ii tlie suimmer of 182it a Confeder ate cavalry force, consisting of four or live regiment-;, w'as eicamIped at Mc Mlinnville, Tenn. Forrest, afterwards geieral, but at that time ranking oily as colonel, was inl command of tle brigade. The 3d (ieorgia cavalry regi melit, coilImtauded by Col. W. J. Law toll, waI part of tle force. In it was a coilmly coimanlded by tihe Iev. J. E. Dunlop, at l'resbyterian minister, who had rcsignlCd the clarzge of his church in ainbridge, Ga., to buckle on the sword, and1I lad been elec.ed captailn of at cavalry coipanmy, which lie had bn-een ilistrumenta l in raising and to whoi his mni were pei fectly (levoted. At iMurfreosboro was a force of Yankees, consisting of cavalry, artillery and infaitry, and consideral out numinbering the Confederates. Col. For rest decided to surnise and (Icaptiie tle Federals, aid thus get. supphie s aiiil arims for his men, many of Vhiom at that time had nothig more effec yive than double-harrel shotguns. Ac cAdingly we broke camp one battirday an1, after marching all night, reached AIltfreesboro Stinday 1110 ilning just at tle dawi of day. The Federal pick ets were captured without giving ai alarm and our foe, all unconscious of (linger, was quietly sleepilng. They were ill two camps, one, on the ollpo site side of the town from our ip )roaci and the other to the right as we entered. The gallant Wharton, of the Texas ltangers, with part of ihe coiiniiand, was or(lere(l to attack the camp to our right, while Foirest, with the other part, was to attack the oiie oI the opposite sideC of the town. W\'harton's attack was a completo sur prise to the enemy. ith1out warn ing' lie and his Htangers burst into the aleeping camp, yelling all( shioutiniz, (rove out the terrified Fc(lerals, anid for a while held possessiol of tie camp. Aftewards, seeing the small force of their assailanits, the Yatnkees, rallied, anid1, af ter a stubborn fight, in which Wharton was wounlded. they relgaiied lssessionl of the camp. The part uider Forrest, in which was the 2d Georgia, were not so successful. 'Thie no of tle horses' hoofs striking tiuon tilie stOly groniid as we charged through the towi awoke the sleeping in haibi tan )ts, who ru.',hed out to greet us, wildly shouting and checering, an inl their enithumsiasmii raising such a din as to reach the ears of the sleeping ca im p, a short distance out of town. Then, too, another uiexp)ected dif. liculty arose. In the centre of tle town , directly flroiitiig tle street ip which we wero charging, stood the brick Court House. In this was a Federal guard, keeping wtatchi over somei prisonlers. As soon its (lie head of our column iicaine ini sight this guiard oplenedc fire tuponi tus otit of (lie wmi. dows of thie Court IHounce. This unex pled~t attack delayed Forrest and frtis trated his plan of' surprisinlg (lie campI beyond. Whlen we got there, inistead of taking them by suirprise, we found them (Iraw lviup in linie of battle on (lie crest of a slope ini ani old fiel, h aving a splenidid battery of six guns andio a long line of infantry supporting it. We ws cre (lie piarty sturprisedl. Under this unlooked for condition of thin~gs Forrest orderedl Col. Lawton to diraw upi his regiment in front of (lie Federal lines, ini a picce of woods which shiel tered us to some etnt, saying thamt lie, with thie rest of his troop, would ride around t hem and attack them in thie rear, and ordering Lawton as soon as lie beard his guns ini the rear to charge themi in front. Thus we stood1 for about two hours, I suppose15, wait. ing to heatr Forrest's gunas ini (lie rear. lIn the meanat ime (lie Fedlerals, know ing that wo were in the woods, kept til an incessaint fire with their am til Iery', seniidinig a conit inua stre 5 am of shot and11 shell screeching over our heads, cuitting dlown thme limbs of trees, bturstinug over us, (doinig no particuilar <famiage it, is trtie, but terrifying amid dhemioralizing (lie mien, most of whom had niever been undi~er five before, Thus matters stood :We, with ouri shotguns, listening to (lie music, of (lhe shells, and (lie Yiinkees having a per. feet picmnic mn the way of target prac. lice; we being the target. Finially, becoming embiloened by otir cotnued silene, (lie sharpshoot, ers from (lie infantry crept (down tO (ho edlge of the woods amnd, concealiunt themselves in (lie underbaish, begamn t~ pick at us with their rifles, and t~h whizz of their bullets was gettimig to b< uincomfomrtably close to otir heads. Col Lmawton, noticing this, dlirected his ad jutamnt to carry a verbal ordemr to (114 maijor to sendo a squaidronl--t wo Corn panies-t(o charge those sharpshooters dlrive them back and return to (lie corn imando. The ad~juitaiit, ini hiis excite menit, mnistunderstoodl tho order and riohng up to thle major,hle said: 'Th< Colonel orde a thant you sendo a squiad ron of men to charge (lint line of battle reform the men and charge back. The order was delivered to Capt. Dunlop to execute. I saw bim straighter r himself to his full heIght in the saddle. I saw (ho fire of battle kindle in hii eye. I saw him dIraw his sabre ane d turning to his Ien he said: ''Forward boys !" "Theirs not to reason why, Theirs not to make reply, Theirs but to do or (lie. Riding down the shairpshooters, i clearing the woods, out in the open V field they were met by a tempest of grape and canister from the artillery and of minie bulls from the infantry. Many a gallant rider and his horse - went down under the storm of shot and shell, But nothing could stay the g headlong course of the fearless leader. : Passing between the battery and the i infantry, he sabred one gunner, drove them all from their guns and caused V, the whole line of infantry next the I artillery to waver. Ilad this gallant charge been follow ed imine(liately by that of our whole command we undoubtedly would have won the day at that moment. liut it was not done. Calpt. Dun lop dashed on after cutting through the line of battle to the rear, and when ont of range of their shot, halted to see who were left of his coninand. Seven men had followed hii through, and were all that were left. Turning to them, le said, with grni humor : "' Boys, the command was to reform and charge back.'' One of the mnon replied : " Well, Captain, we have followed you of this far, but if you are going back through that line of battle you will have to go by yourself. We have hadl th enough of it." Of course lie had no thought of (oing so. Ile was only bei putting his mien to the test. Riding i arondil their line and out of range ofr their-*hot, the heroic iittle band re- k joined their command. wil It is not ily intention to Contintue is. the history of the battle. My only pur- 1 pose was to recount the most desperate is Il charge 1: ever witnesse(I during lmy four years'experience in the war. Suf- it licent to say that by sunildovn we had captured the whole force of the enemy. The boys threw away their shotguns, mat replacing thein with improved arms. The battery we kept till the iwar closed th1 anti good siervicet i, did against its for mer owners. That niihit we started C back for MMiinnville, halting only y. long eiiougih to parole our prisoners, 11 with whoi Forrest, did not wish to be burdened. We reached our camp at, AcMinnville about 110011 on %tlonday, yet having been iii the saddle about forty- ho: eight hours. That hattle secured For rest's promiotion to the rank of' gen. 'J eral, and our gallbot Capt. )unlop d1au afterwards became colonel of his regi- fasi mei.,(1 and was loved an1d 11c1hiired by 3o every man in Iis conimand. Long '1 may lie live to do valiant service to the fast army of the Lord of Hosts tinder the -1 leadership of the great Captain of our Salvation. 1T.T. Hor'r. H Tarmony Grove, Ga. "' i The Unl ited States Navy Depart- pu ment will exhibit at Bliuffalo an S by 20 foot map of the world, oii which will be placed :107 miniature lead models, V representing the wat fleets of all na tions and their location from day to tea( day. illui Judge John J. Jackson, of Parkers- " burg, W. Va., in point of ecryvice, is Ph the ol.lest judge on the United States 6 bench, having received his commission to from Lincoln in 1861. edu stit You know all - about it. The wa . rush, the worry, t he goi, exhaustion, gin You go about phi. with a groat you Yu can't throw br off th is feeling. 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A jy WrIte tShoosep p0 If you have, any camnp t wh~ateveri .. and desiro thes best med aI~fidtte on .-. n! osil receive, w riethise d t . i ply, *lthot coa . d s'.prmt a.e 1 Dn.j J.EC.wE~ell, Sa 'A-* u Two hiindred bushels of po tc nvwe eighty pounds So ' Potash from the soil. t n ..this quantity s returne(d to the soil, the following crop will Smaterially decrease. N%'- have 1ooks teling about Congton, use and value o( . Iertbi ~ for various crops. They are sent free. GLRMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. IN A HUMOROUS VIXIN. )oacon Jones--what do you think our latest new convert? Do you Ak it a genuine case of conveision ? )eacon Brown-'aum afraid not. In remarks le has made in prayer eting thus far he has not boasted of tig the vilest of sinners.-Boston lSlscr ipt. be-1 want you to promise to do it I ask before I tell you what it a)a--BIut why not tell me what It rat? he---Oh, if I did you wouldn't do Brooklyn Life. iliffers -luncom is a self-made , isn't h0? Viffers--Yes. What made you k so? litfrs-lie seems to be so well sat d with (lie job.-New York Week 'he J1ustice- I don't remember ever ng you before. Vl'e Accused-No, Your Honor; see, you don't belong to our set. ston Taiscript. 'ho Old Man---Your love for my ghter seeni to have grown very since youi found out I was worth uiuchm money. 'he Young Man (admiringly)-No or, sir, tian the subject warranted. letroit Free Press. The hoy," concluded the oculist, color-bliiid." Then, what do you think we should him at?" Well, what's the matter with mak an inpressionist painter of him ?" hiladelphia 'Times. STriaun means across," said the Iher, , can any boy give me an itration of its use ?" Yes, ma'amn," spoke up little Willie; rans-parent,' a cross parent." ladelplhiat Record. I thil Cducutiou might put an end var." flow ?" Well, if the weaker parties were cated to see that it is better to give thant to get whipped.'"-larper's I must confess I'm rather super Well, I'm niot. I wouIln't be that Xou womldn 't, ohi ? No. It's a sure signi that you're ig to have hand luck when you be to get superstitious."'---Philadel i Press. I tell you, hank clerks are not suft miiily remunerated," exclaimed the ker quite forcibly. Oh, I don't know," said the bank sidlent, with a sad smile; " our last aiving teller got about *20,000 a *r for six years."--Brooklynx Life. Cerrigan--We're thinking av nam huimu Garge Washington. Casey-Ilave yes got Kelly's per ision ? TIhat's th' name av his goat! P~uck. 4 medical sensation makes a sensa n of a man " who lives without uns.'" lrethreni, what we want is ws!-Atlanita Conistitution. I could die for you,'' he cried. Buti the girl gave no sign of recipro a ffection, A nd mmy life,'" he continued, "'is uried for iP20,000." I amn you rs,"' she sighed, ''till ath."--Philadelphia Press. AMistress 1 hope) I didn't disturb and your lover when I Went into kitchien last night. ~ook-Not at all, mum. 01 told that you was my chappyrone.. k. lHe would never have become so icted to drink if it hadn't been for trouble lhe had." Why, what trouble did he have ?" IHe had trouble in keeping away un it."--PLhiladelphia Press. 'You are awfully, foolishly extrava it," saidl the matronly friend. I know I am," replied the girl, %apa never will let me have money long as I have C cent.".-IndianC is Press. Msl'!SNU I FMBITTTONS it w NOD85gY. Move ecas n we een pessiby Aill Geav antee of poetieos baeked by eursesube exeelled. Umnter say *inte. !lge free. dress. COLUMBIA 3151IN (mg, LVnUUL, 5, 0.