The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, September 09, 1897, Image 3
THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY", S. SEPTEMBER 0, 1897
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THE CYCLONE STKEAK.
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/ of-Cats-a-Fight n."
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of the death by
• of Francis J:
jf trie “Jljfu.* Sanders”
tvh.ie waikiiiR aloriK tlie
id instantly killtd from
two loads of buclifhot
d|s;>at<'!i says no cause
.ct had Keii given, but
w out of a rrl-
we<n tin- victim and his
ised was a member of the
itir*- jrom Butler county,
-ul years city editor of the
\crtiser. '1 he follov.ins
ly the last •‘Rufus *jan-
tten by ilr. l.luyd.J:
k. our old shawl-neck
come around and stood ou
the front doorstep
last Tuesday morn- i
in anti crowed loud
and lonj» and man
nish. like as if he
was ritflrt fresh mar
ried to the most
loveliest pullet in
the settlement.
Mother lowed her
nt sc had been itehin
powerful that day
—which meant that somebody wascom-
iii—and itchiu on the oil side, which
meaiit that it was a man per
son comin. So consequentially no
body didn’t fall over in a faint, and it
want in the leastwise astonishin to me
when lliack .lack Wi^^rius. of Cy done
Streak, rid ujj and luiileil at the ! orsc-
r;:ck about sujrjrer time ihat niyht.
ttut for "Ri'n•*ruI lti«Ii!«*r.*
I.igdit a':<i dismount and Jjit<d) an«l
come in. Black Jack, says I, and he
didn’t fool oir any p-t i-ioiis time in doin
a s he w as told.
After supper Black Jack called the
nicetin to (,rder and jirocceded with
th? jiroeeedins—which the mainest
thing' with him was o lix upu letter to
the president.
“As you know full well. Unfits, 1 never
was what people mought call a wishy-
washy man,” the gentleman from Cy
clone Streak went on to say. “My doc
trine is to see the other man when i oan, 1
but if in case 1 don't see what 1 want, it
wouldn’t make any rosy blushes bloom
for me to take my own native mouth
and ask for it. Now, it would suit me
the best in the world to be the general
revenue raider for Cyclone Streak.
There aint no compellment for me to
come ever here and tell you somethin
that you already know tremendius well
—which is to say that the early run-
nins of the corn Hows free and promis-
cus in 'that historic strip of country.
You don’t have to tell me what you
know, and it ain’t for me to tell you all
1 know. But the various and sundry
things that me and you—both of us put
together—do know to a most heliacious
certainty—ami the things which some
people don’t know , w ould make a whole
jiassel, Itufus.
i “Over there amongst them nills and
hollows, and along the creeks ami
spring branches, the hoys do jest
naturally love it, and make it and drink
it and s< 11 it —till unbeknownnee to th *
general government. This very night
me and you might go and give the signs
and call forth a full supply of the rev
erent stulT—10 years old. If we went in
for the age of it- the iinest and purest
that ever flowed from a gum stump or a
whiteoak spring.
“But now what the general govern
ment don’t know m regards to the peo
ple ami the ways arid means of Cyclone
Streak, Rufus, is a large and gracious
plenty. Whilst my wayward and wan
derin’ feet have pressed the rugged
besom of tlie earth—every inch of it for
miles and miles around—the general
government would git lost twenty times
before she could cross the .• c<*ont creek
and lind her way outen one of them
famous tigliteye thickets. You must
recollect that I was burned and bred
and brung up right over there in Cy
clone .Str« ak. But in 1 hem days it come
to pass that the general government
was j iiiinin at large and bavin a felon
ious good time, whilst the people they
paid the freight.
“Now you can .< <• how I would mor
tally hate to give the boy; away and b<*
forever shut out of the game my- 'lf.
But there is money in it, Rufus, pro-
v:<>in the general government can lind
the right man to tend to the business.
1 have writ the president one letter
wherein 1 told him 1 wouldn’t to say
mind takin the job if the government
would give me so muchdri spotc sh and.
a hall intrust in tho stuff which I
mought pick upon the. rounds. Cpto
ibis time the president never has re-
; ponded buck. Now, it mought be that
In had to hire a lawyer to read my let
ter and is only waitin ti'J lie can draw
the necessary salary and;raise tlie fees
and cost*. But you know I font so very
many when' it comes to writin. and 1
want you to lix up another document
for me. I can tall: It out loud and you
can. set it down in plain I nited States,
and in that way ue mought maybe
fetch him taw.”
The letter •• Whleli We Writ.”
Fo Black Jack he talkedi whilst I set
it dovv a, a .id this is t he letter which vv c
writ to the president:
“Rocky Creek. August the 28th, 1897.
— Mister Bresident.—My DearSir: Oncst
more I seat myself with pen in hand
to make some further seatterln re
marks (o iir. regard* to the people
and things in Cyclone Streak. You
never have responded back to the letter
which f writ you some time ago. But
if you will excuse haste \ will freely
forgive you and vote the ticket straight
nt the next election.
“f would Jove the best In the world.
Mister Bresident. to be general revenue
rnider for OyeJone Streak. And moat
anybody can tell you that of all the
men in th*. regions around Black Jack
Wiggins is the man for the place. You
needn't to have any earthly doubts in
regard's to that. Mister President. The
man which knows the woods is the man
to blaze the way. In the fullness of
time I have went the gaits myself. I
know the ropes. I have learnt all the
links. I wouldn’t even sorter make out
like 1 knew everything. Mister Presi
dent. Pick me up and drop me down
GO miles from Cyclone Streak and I
wouldn’t know anything for certain.
I don't know a blame bit more about
our •’■rent and grow in country at large
than your general government knows
about the lay of the land in Cyclone
Streak—which is little more than noth
in. Mister President.
“Now. you mought think that some
of your fellow citizens over there in
Cyeione Streak are runnin wildcat stills
and niakin moonshine whisky. A heap
of people think that. Mister President.
The revenue raiders which the general
government semis out from tow n think
the same thing. But you only think it,
and they only think it. whilst I do
essentially know it. As far back as my
recollection will retch the boys in Cy
clone Streak have been runnin white
ii k ami sperits-of-cats-a-fightin, and I
am one of the boys. Mister Preside],t.
Many ami many a year ago I learnt at
my dear old father's knee that the
shuekin of the corn meant me il in the
barrel, and likew ise also sperits in the
keg. Mister President. It didn't take
me forever to find out that when the
apple blossoms bloomed am} the peach
tree turned red in spots they stood for
plenty of sweet things in the. pantry
first, and then a few drops of brandy
to make the sugar and water taste bet
ter along in the dead 1 of w inter.
“I am knowin to various and sundry
things that have come to puss unbe-
knowance to the general government.
I can go over in the forks of Panther
creek and the Patsalaggy river and
buy the very best of goods—a hundred
proof—15 years old—handmade with
spring water—fine and smooth as silk
and satin, Mister President—for two
dollars a gallon. I don’t mind tellin
you that, jest between ns girls, as it
were, and if you can stand off the
freight I mought send you some sam
ples. But I would ruther you don’t
say nothin about it around headquar
ters—particular whilst congress is in
session—for fears the whole durn
shootin match mought move down into
Cyclone Streak. The fruit didn’t turn
out much and the corn crop is ruther
short this year. Mister President.
Whereas, the committee on foreign re
lations have bought new Winchester
rifles and passed a resolution in favor
of the free and unlimited distillrnent
of plain American whisky.”
ment ever put the fixments on me. Mis
ter President, in some-thin better than
thirty years—which in the main time
1 have run and sold and climbed up
around barrel* on top of barrels, and
hit the finest in the woods—was up
there in the hills amongst the head
waters of Caney Branch. Me and Bud
Travis had went over that niornin and
made a little run—which we both then
felt rich and branched off into a game of
draw poker. By-and-by 1 beard the
Raiders comin. but I couldn’t budge
narry inch right then. There was four
teen dollars and six 1 its in the pot. Mis
ter President, and 1 belt four act s, w ith
flushes barred. Presently Bud called
ne to a show down, and jest as 1 throw ed
my hand to the pack and raked in the
pile the Raiders closed in on us with
their papers on compellment.
“But that was the onlyest time in the
history of the Cyeione Streak that B!a< 1.
Jack Wiggins ever got caught with his
finger in his mouth, as it were. I men
tion these things. Mister President, in
erdennent to let you know that the
boys of Cyeione Streak are hot stuff
and hard to handle.
INDIANS AND WHITTS.
i
Bid Arp Wrltasof Mnmnfjos with
Savage Rodekina
lie DIsenttHos Fll noloK?—Ucfem 4o
Ilecent DSntribc* In tlie lionton
TrntiKcrl;>l—TIiere Are Mcu
of Msttiy WimiK.
«!fot KtufT nnd Jlnrtl to Handle.”
“Oncst upon a time the general gov
ernment took and sent a revenue raider
down here to run out old man Wash
Phillips—which at that time the old
man was runnin a big still dow n iu the
forks, and sellin the producements
thereof w ide open and promi a us. The
raider made n deal w ith me and give me
$50 to show him through the swamp
so he could see Wash Phillips at his
place of business.
“Next day I went with him and he
found his man doin business at the old
stand. All I had to do was to shet my
rtf eye at Wash and all was lovely at
the confluence of the streams. The
raider wanted me to tarry around and
watch the sperits till he could take the
prisoner out and turn him over to his
partners, when he would come back
and smash up the shebang. I knowed
tremendius well the s.perits wouldn’t
hurt me. and I didn’t have no serious
doubts but what the raider would soon
come back and fetch Wash Phillips
with him. Mister President, tlie devil
himself, if he was a stranger in Sydone
Streak, couldn’t find his way outen that
swamp without a map. Naturally, of
course, old man Wash didn’t have to
take the lead and blaze tin 1 way out.
and the raider was as had hist as a blind
dog in ten acres of tall oats. Conse
quentially after ramblin around for
about three hours he come right back
to me. and Wash com : with him. Then
tiie general government wanted me to
go ahead and lead that which was lost
la<ek to tiie open road. But we never
put that in the trad" and ! didn’t have
to go. The raider cussed a few fervent
tanzas and then took Wash and ton*
off through the swamp oncst more.
“Bit was way along in tin* shank of
the evenin then before they returned
back to first base, lint they didn’t fail
to come. Mister President. By this
time tlie raider was foamin, furious
mad. lb- left me and Wash both there
at the stand with the sperits and swore
by the 12 epistles he would git out of
that infernal place if it took a week
and come back with men enough to
clean out the swamp. That suited in<*
and Wash, We had plenty of plaii.
grub to eat and somethin more better
than branch water to keep off the chills.
We didn’t have to go. Tin* raider he
went off and was gone all that night
and all the next day. The next time he
come up we ask him where he had been
which he then cussed another lurid
lot and said nowhores in particular.
Ife had jest simply been roamin round
«md round, Mister President, in that dis-
matie swamp—piungin and tearin
through eanehrakesand tighteye thick
et* till you mought think he had rid a
whirlwind through Cyclone Streak.
He wore a pair of ragged shoes on his
feet. He wore a new set of chin whis
kers and a look o'pluperfect disgust on
his face. But nothin more, Mister Pres
ident nothin more to speak of.
“On the third day the Raider made
mother trade. He lowed if me and
Wash would take him out of that in
fernal swamp, give him a few plain
clothe* and say nothin about it, we
could keep the sperits and take the
durned old machinery and go to a
warm and foreign country with It. We
turned him out, and we kept the sperits
and the machinery, Mister President.
But we ain’t gone, nowhere* till yet.
“The onlye*t time the geneia) {joveru-
Tlie Way to Stop It.
“Finally at last. Mister President, the
way to stop the free ard unlimited dis-
tillment of moonshine sperits and w ild
cat whisky in Cyeione Streak—unbe-
kmiwance to the general government—
is to sail in ami stop it. You want a
man for General Raider that con
bunch the machinery and round up ti ■
shiners and wipe out the whole entire
business at one fell clatter, as it were.
And in that ease yon can git my com
pany. Mister President.
“The way you run it now the general
government will pick up a man now and
then, and smash a still here and there.
But that won’t stop the business. The
hoys don’t give a continental dura for
those slight interruptions. Some will
come and some w ill go. whilst the free
and unlimited distillrnent of sperits-of-
cats-n-fightin will go on for ver in Cy
clone Streak. Bud Travis says be can
make a trade with the general gov
ernment to spend six months in jail
every year, and if they will give him
six months to run his business in Cy
clone Streak he can heat six cent cotton
clean out of sight. And Bud ought to
know. Mister President.
“So long as a man can take a bushel of
corn and run two dollars’ worth of
whisky—unbeknowanee to the govern
ment—they boys don’t partielar mind
them little annual visitations from the
city Raiders. Rut if you ralcy mean
business. Mister President—if you want
a man for General Raider that can
dreene Cyclone Streak as dry as a
powder house before. Christinas, I am
the huckleberry you are huntin for.
“Yours Truly.
“BRACK JACK WlGOIXS.”
“P. S.—Mind you now. Mister Presi
dent, I don’t essentially believe it is
any of your official business what the
people do with the-corn which grow son
their own native soil. And in case you
don’t need me as General Raider for
Cyclone Streak, I do most fervently
hope the boys will run .100 barrels be-
for • < hriatmas-—nnd all unbeknown m e
to the general government..
“B. J. W.“
Now us for me. I don’t know w hat the
president will think or say or do when
he reads thatsecont letter from Cyclone
Streak. But at any rates, it tiin’t my
funeral, and I won’t have to ride feet
formost at the head of the procession.
RUFUS 8AXDKRS.
Not Icr? ago some writer from the
west told us that white people were
r.ir.frying Indian girls more frequently
than ever before. “Indeed,” he sail 1 ,
“the dusky maidens seem to prefer the
p: le faces to their own race and color.”
This provokes me to write a letter
about Indians for tlie special pleasure*
and benefit <f our young people. Bovs
and girN like in rend about them. I
know, hut most of the stories that ap-
j ar are more romantic than true. Dur
ing the war our brigade camped one
right on the Chickahominy river, ab .ut
la mill s below Richmond, and we were
shown the very stone on which Capt.
John Smith laid his head for Powh.it-
t in’s club when the beautiful P^ica-
hontas rushed wildly in the circle and
threw herself upon his bosom ard saved
his life. About the stone I have ir.y
doubts, hut it is historically true that
Powhattan lived thei
end that his
THE SUCCESSFUL SOLDIER.
He VI m ft t
l.emler of
lie n Nntuml
Armed Men.
Lord Wolesley is reported to have as
serted recently that while a soldier
by nature might be benefited to an
almost incalculable degree, by educa
tion and training, a man who lacks sol
dierly instincts can never become a suc
cessful leader of armed men. In sup
port of these views the British general
is reported to have said that one of the
most thoroughly equipped general offi
cers in the English army during the
Crimean war, a man of euperior educa
tion and training, vv;j» one of the most
impractical officers of kis grade in the
queen’s forces. This officer, he said,
had been a faithful student, was blessed
with a good memory, and possessed a
remarkably fine conception of tlie:
greater operations of war as taught by
the books, but with it all was th * most
dismal failure as an officer in all the
British army.
The remarks of Lord Wolesley will
serve to recall to the military student
some of the excentrieities of the fa
mous Prussian ofliecr, Gi ri. Ruchel.
This gentleman possessed exceptionally
great attainments and stood high in the
estimation of military men ns an au
thority and instructor. KventuaJly.
however, with all his great learning
and ability, he brought upon himself,
while at the head of the military school
:n Polndam, the ridicule of the world
by teaching that the “right shoulder
forward,” was the secret of military
success. In other words that th'*
oblique order was the infallible rule for
gaining battles. The battle of Jena,
the scholarly old general thought, could
have been saved to the Prussians, if the
command to advance the right shouldei
had l>eeii given at the proper time, and
an oblique line created to meet the
enemy.
The greatest successes In life, it may
be remarked, usually come to the man
who feels that he is pursuing the line
of leant resistance in his business or
profession, nnd is well qualified by na
ture us well as by nttainm'-nt, for what
he in doing. Tin* leader of armed met;
is no exception to this rule, and the man
who feels that he lacks in soldierly qual
ities, or has this fact made apparent to
1 him by want of success, should at once,
in the interests of l is government and
humanity as well, seek some other field
of labor. - Military Gazette.Chicago.
\ New Varltrfr*
Jerk Did Mi** Prim give you the
cold ►hoiilder or the glai'fluiid?
Oh'd'ilft- Neither. die gave me tiie
tilted nc*e. N\ Y. Prcsu*.
(laughter, a lovely lass of 11. did save
Jt hn S.nilh’s life, as he in his letter to
the queen of England says, “at th"
minute of my execution she hazarded
the beating out of her own brains to
save mine.” She afterwards married
John Rclfe, with her father’s consent,
and from that union came the Ran
dolphs, of Virginia, and n little si rain
of that same Pocahontas blood flows in
my wife's veins, and she is proud of it.
and loves to tell the story to her numer
ous and lovely offspring. That little
strain isn't bigger than a cambric
needle, but it has never lost its strength.
She would make a right good Pocahon
tas now if anybody that she loved was in
danger. In fact, she has some Indian
tiaits still ling ring in in r besom, and
should have been named Indiana when
she was christened.
But it si < ms that over since Poca
hontas married a white man the Indian
maidens of all the civilized tribes have
been willing to do the same thing. It
is well known that the daughters of the
Creeks and Chcrokees in Georgia al
ways said yes when a good-looking
white man proposed marriage; but such
unions were net hasty nor deceitful,
they had to be in earnest and from
honorable inertives. If an Indian maid
was betrayed by a designing white man,
he could hardly es«*npe, for the whole
tribe became avengers of blood. Her
virtue was her dearetyt ornament, and
if she lost it ihe third finger of her left
hand was dismembered at tlie second
joint, and that left her shame always
visible.
Now it seem* to be settled by the men
of science that the Indian belongs to th<*
Caucasian or white race, or else he is
aboriginal and is a race of his own.
II" is neither Mongolian, Malay nor ne
gro. He v.as first found here on this
continent, just as the negro was first
found in Africa. As the elephant was
found in Asia, the kangaroo in Aus
tralia and the llama in Peru, so th"
Indian may be a native of the manor
born, for geologists say that this conti
nent is tiie oldest by several thousand
years. But where he came from or
how he got here is a question too deep
for me. Tlie existence of Aztecs in
Mtxico is still an unsolved problem,
and who were the mound builders is
a matter of doubt and speculation. One
thing, however, seems certain, that tiie
race is doomed to extinction. Thecom-
mand “be fruitful and multiply” does
i not belong to them. According to the
United States census reports, in 185.’{
there were in the United States and ter-
! ritories 4(K).7G4; In 18C0. 339,421; in 1870,
I 313,712; in 1880, 309.543; in 18H0. 248,-
253. Of these 58,800 are classed its
civilized. The Cherokee* and Creeks
were sent from Georgia to the Indian
tirritary uinuit 00 years ugo. The
former then imtnliered near 15.000;
they number less than thait now. What
is the matter with them? They have
fin" lands, hoih for pasturage and culti
vation, and the bounty of the govern
ment would nearly support them,
'i ney have good framed houses *o live
in and have as good schoolhouses and
churches as our country people have in
Georgia. They arc classed as civilized,
and dress just like white folks, and cook
and eat as nourishing food as we do.
“What is the matter?” I asked of one
of their edtreated minister*-. “God
knov **.” said he. I mingled with their
p"< pie and talked with them. They
did nut seem to lie sad < r distressed
about anything. It was not that the
i children died before maturity, but that
th" mature died Paster than children
were bo'u to take their places. The
exception to this decline of tin* ram*
1 seem I to b* in tlie families where
white men had intermarried with Jn-
dian maidens. These unions were
prolific of children who were healthy
:m I hand ome. and always bred after
tin* mother, having her cinnamon color,
her > 'raight b'ack hair and high cheek
Ixuies. There is no apparent mixture
of blood as that which appears in the
mulatto who is ihe half breed of whites
nnd black*. But these Indian types,
wt alien in succeeding generations of
i quadroons and octoroons, and if ever
tii" tribes tire saved from extinction,
i* will he by this increasing amalgama
tion with the white race. Those unions
do not seem to shock the sentiment of
mankind ns do the unions of whites
with negroes. Even Vussar college
would not he horror stricken at the
discovery of an <**ioronn among her
pupil-. Indian students may be found
in many of our colleges and are not
rejected at hotels or boarding house*
or theaters or churcbe* or on railroad*.
, In some of the tribes, us in the Creeks
, and t lieroke***, their features, their
beauty *nd their traits of character ap
proximate the Anglo-Faxon. Kchool-
i craft, w ho is the highest authority, say*
ihsir features are regular, their < • pres-
I *ion noble; they nrc taciturn anti sto
ical fo the last degree, cunning and
watchful, persevering in the pursuit
and revengeful in the destruction of
their enemies, hospitable and grateful
fer favors, close observers of natural
phenomena, their temperament poetic
and Imaginative and their simple elo
quence ( f great dignity and beauty of
expression. Many of the women are
really handsome, and their skin is thin
ner, softer and smoother than is the
white race’s,
Boudinot was a very handsome, im
pressive man even in his old age. 1 ui'-t
him at Fort Smith some yea it- ago. Be
was educated at Brii.octon. He was a
Cherokee was born in Vann’s val
ley, near Rome. His mother was burn d
on a hill that overlooks ( ::vc Spring.
When hut a lad he w as taken west w ith
the tribe in 1S.37. Not long after that
he was sent to Philadelphia t > s -hoot
and was adopted by Elias Boudinot. a
wealthy philanthropist, and took his
name. While he lived he stood high
as a learned and eloquent advocate, and
was the agent and amba>sador tit the
tribe in all mutters connected with the
United States government. But now
these tribes do not have to send their
children so far away to g t an educa
tion. What our government does is
always well done, and ha; ds< me s.-bool
houses are found all over the terri
tories. in ls77 the policy of educating
them w as organized and $20,00'.) appro
priated. In 1880 it was increased to
$75,000. In 1S85 to $992,000. and in 1890
to $1,204,568. 1 reckon it is two or
three millions by this time. And, be
sides this large amount, the diff rent
religious societies of the United States
givu largely to the cause, the Roman
Catholic church giving nearly half a
million annually and having charge
of more schools than all the other de
nominations put together. Then,
again, just think of the land they have
got—KiO acres to each head of a family.
80 acres to each child 1-s years old and
40 to tlie younger. Just think of all
the old and decrepit ones b' ing mp-
jKjrted by the government and all the
voting ones educated free. Why, it
would seem that with all this fraternal-
is-m and private benefaction a child is
fortunate to be born an Indian. The
wards of the nation, whether red or
black, are having a good time.
There wa* an old song that was sung
by a lazy vagalrord, nnd it said:
“Oh, I wish I was a pooso
AD forlorn, all forlorn.
Oh, I wish I was a goose
Eating corn!”
But now the song of our thousands
of trumps to sing is:
“Oh, I wish I was an Indian!"
Itusedtobetaughtin our college text
books that population increased in pro-
portiou to the. comforts of life that the
common people enjoyed. This theory
fits the southern negro pretty well, for
they continue to multiply like rabbits,
in spite of all the barbarity that the
Boston Transcript accuses us of, but
it does not lit the Indian, nor does it fit
the average Boston family, that never
has more than two children and
wouldn’t have any but for somebody to
inherit the estate. But that Hartford
(Conn.) Times knocks the black out.
;indgoes further in defense of the south
than our own papers or preachers.
Verily there are many men of many
minds.—Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitu
tion.
THE “DUTCH MESS.’
Gave Back
It Wit" First Oricanlzet! I.oiik IJcforc
the Revolutionary Wnr.
Long before the struggle between
the American colonies and the moth
er country began, says Dr. Conrad,
in the United Service, Gen. Daniel Mor
gan, of revolutionary fume, organized
what was commonly known at the time
ujs the "Dutch Mess,” consisting of him
self and six other residents of Winches
ter. The members of the mess always
accompanied the general in his expe
ditions against Indians, long Is-fore the
revolution, and were w ith him in Brad-
dock’s campaign and afterwards in Ar
nold’s expedition into Canada. Dur
ing these campaigns they carried and
carefully cared for any one of their
number who happened to be sick or
was wounded.
When Morgan was commissioned by
Washington to organize the rifle corps
which afterwards became famous, the
members of the mess came to his a**-
sistaiu c and drilled and instructed th"
men. The corps was composed entire
ly of .sharpshooters. They had no
bayonets on their rifles, and wore
fringed burning shirts, Indian leggii.s,
moccasin:; and fur caps. According to
tradition, they made their own clothe.-.
The six acted as j ersonal aides to Mor
gan, and were his quartermasters,
cemmi;. arii*s and adjutants, by turn,
but they were never coRnnii-sioned offi
cers; they were private : from the* be
ginning of their re-nutr! able service to
the end of the war. The members of
the mess, including Mejr ,r ;wi himself,
ami also many of the men in the corps,
carried turkey wing bones, by means
of which they could call each other
. when they became separated or re-
ejuire <! assistance*.
Morgan's riflemen first or,me into
special notice at the battle of Saratoga,
where Gates captured Burgoync and
his 7,f)<;0 Hessians. The prisom r’s were
finally turned over to Morgan'* corps
anx) were conducted by it to the valley
of Virginia, whore they remained un
til the close of the war.
On th« march of the corps, while in
charge of the prisoner#, the peculiar
calls of whistles made by the riflemen
on their turkey bone* was a source of
constant interval to the British offi
cer* with the Hessians, who ooeaidon-
nlly heard it during the day and often
at night from men on watch. Rotne-
i time* it came from the* top* of tree*,
, when* n lookout was stationed, and at
, other time* from uni xpreted localities
all about them..
Tin* “ini-W survived tin* war, and nil
it* member* lived to good < !d age-i
after it* close. A monument will soon
be erected to Morgan. ar_! the rMn*i n «
of hi* faithful ajt*i*t:uit* will be gath
ered about their Itonon'd chief.—Mili
tary Gazette, Chicago.
There is no reason for being despondent
artel considering diseases of the blood
incurable, simply 1>ecause the treatment
of physicians and many so-called blood
remedies fail to effect a cure. Though
it is naturally dishearteuing to the'suf
ferer who faithfully takes the prtscribed
treatment of the physicians, often at the
expense of hundreds of elollars, to find
himself no better as time goes
by. still a cure will result from the right
remedy. S.S S., no matter what other
treatment has failed.
The reason that S.S.S. (Swift’s Spe
cific! has so successfully cured even the
wor^t cases after other treatment had
been tried in vain is that it is the only
remedy which forces the poison from
the blood and permanently eliminates
it from the system, which is the only
correct principle of curing the disease.
Mercurial remedies bottle up the poison
and tear down the system, while S.S.S.
forces out the poison and builds up and
adds strength and vigor to the entire
system. It is nature's remeiiy, and con
tains no harmful ingredient.
Mr. Charles Glenn, of 1563 Dudley St-7
Cincinnati, is one of the many who
constantly praise S S.S. for giving him
back his health. He says:
“From childhood I was afflicted with
a terrible blood disease, and have
taken almost every blood remedy on the
market, but my case was deepseated,
and one by one they failed. The large,
red blotches increased in size and num
ber, and soon covered ray entire body.
“My parents had me treated by a num
ber of physicians, but the disease was
too much for them, and after their tem
porary relief was over, I found myself
growing steadily worse. Thus I grew
into manhood, handicapped by a terrible
disease an 1 having tried so many reme
dies without telief, when a friend urged
me to take S.S S. 1 had little faith in any
medicine. I was happy to find, however,
that I had at last gotten the right remedy,
for one bottle of S.S.S did me so much
good that I soon had hopes of being cored.
I continued the remedy, and was cared
completely, the unsightly spots soon
disappeared, leaving my skin perfectly
clear. My general health was also bnift
up, and I am robust and strong. I be
lieve S.S.S. will cure the worst case of
blood poison in the world.”
S.S.S. is a real blood remedy, and will
cure the most obstinate cases of Cancer,
Eczema,Catarrh, Scrofula, Rheumatism,
Contagious Blood Poison, old sores,
or any disease caused by impure blood.
It is
Purely Vegetable
and is the only blood remedy guaranteed
to contain not a particle of mercury,
potash, arsenic or other mineral. S.S.S.
is sold by all druggists.
Valuable book* and on blood and skin
disease* will be mailed free by Swift
Specific Company, Atlanta, G*.
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notice;.
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lOMre***
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Rock Hill, 5. C.
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