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*{ TRI WEEKLY EDITION WINNSBORO. S.C. FEBRUARY . 900ED 5 THE NUMBERED STONES. This is the ground o! glory, r This is the 1ild of fame And these-be:rimcd a nd gory, Burned with the battle flame i *hese are the vague im-nortals, c The nameless of the fray. P Deep thronged arounli the port:ia, O Death's oternal day! Bard of th3 flowi. phrisos, b -Muse of the silver lnte. Why do you stiat yonr praises, I Why do your chords a:u mut,? ? 1 Uan we aver you bhtmeiess. Wbo sing but of th3 pJUd - -And nigh forget the nwuless. Enwrapt with earthly shro-ad t For them no laurele: wrcatiir;.3, No proud, triump4ant trains No cheers, no c:-ord's doop breathing=, No boastful, brazen strains. C With wind-kissodi biuners la:ying, r With wild reardlss shou , t Their joy was in tho slayin: i Their triumph in the r:t: aons springing from the masses, i The homeland to defend Their blood has wet its grasse3. Their dust with it will blend! Dead to the acia:mtion3- a Dead when the tigt I; donal The pedestal: of cations REst on the grounI they woa. Their valor ours for buying? The price we blush to own Their recompense for dying a Was but a numbered stoae: c -Boston riiot. n IA-Rejed-td ManUSCIPipt i y C. A. ~ d AUL KING, the editor, was kind et;ongs to explais to t me wu,, my contribution t w.u not a'eptab!e. His / re.3ons were excellent, and t) I felt that tiny were what I kn3r to be tras; but I L w.3 not paying particnlar attention to his words. I r, have the fatal glit of seeand sight in egard tQ lengtlh of Iife, and 1 s;173 at he woild pass from this world ithin two years. to the cause of h I could not say. He seemed i. ! h cellen health now, though not of e nobust constitution; few men who do otee work exhibit the gnality of si rgedness which is associated with leggth of life, yet many live to good f2 old age. I was filled with a strange b pitjfor the man before me, so fair minded, generous, and, in his ,ay, n so attractive. Yet I could not say a d; i &d of his short career. This gift is difficult to describe. I ti .y know that I possess it. By ex -.low I ".I tried to set you on the right >ad to sncceed in literature, but.you ,ouldn't follow my advice." 'i "How could I? Am I to go on kill ig people in fiction, and finding )rpses behind doors, and marrying oor girls to rich men, and all that ort of horror, just to amuse a lot of Ile or weary mortals, and earn per aps two dollars a week in money? It's !U very well for you editors, who have regular salary, but for us outsiders, s rough riding." "Yon little know of the trials of an ditor's life if you think you have all .ie bitterness of a literary career," 2torted King, gloomily. "Between ie practical joker who wants to get p a quarrel with any one, and the rank who is driven by a strange mad ess to 'pitch in' to son.ebody all the ime, there is less peace. and less sat Ofaction in editing thau in any other rofession in modern days. I am think ig of taking a sea voyage." 1 wished to warn him of the danger f such a change, but could I say 'at his fate might be escaped on land uy better than at sea? "'v a good mind to go with you," remarked. - "Come on," he replied with alert ess. "As a vriter you have your efects, a too caustic pen, but as a 3mpagnon de voyage I would choose one more desirable." It was some- months before we tarted upon our travels, first to outh Africa, then to Australia. Mr, :ing enjoyed the best of health. I ied to beliete I had deceived my elf. I resisted the temptation to fly -om his presence, to forsake him, in )ite of the ,dread which a coming eath always' excites in me. We reached San Francisco in safe We sta d ' a ass the con .nent. One eveni ner ini io dining - roached us "Is this I pointed ,ached for "You are [onthly." "I am," ig"ity, -f"t sve a un xch. has its "Perhaps ory was d He drew o.n his e eside the c ."I have 1 sarly a hen he s anuseript tis is one "I's-a I .,; s/ TALES OF PLUII K " AIND ADVENTURE, Fizhuah Lee's Arrow Wound. T hin often been noticed that whenever General Fitzhngh Lee visits the White House he stops to have a chat with Captain Loef fler, who stands guard at the Presi dent's private ofBcc and the Cabinet room. This is generally attributei co Lee's pleasant way of treating eve ryone, but it has another origin. Before the Civil War Leo was a Lieutenant in the old Second Cavalry. afterward reorganized as the Fifth. Looffr was a trooper in this regi ment and later a non-commissioned officer. His company was one of the two which were engaged in a sharr fight with the Kiowa and Coir.che Indians in the Cimmaron country in Texas in 1359. The Indians hadl taken reftge in a narrow canon which could be entered only from one end, and there hal thrown up a fortifica tion of logs, from behind which they poured a ho' fire into the troops. The character of the canon was such that the horses of the cavalry were useless, and they were left outside, the men advancing on foot. Only a few of the Indians had firearms, the rest had bows and arrows. Had the the Indians been as well arnied as they have been in later wars, the loss of the whites would have been very large; as it was only four or five sol diers were killed, though the Indian loss amounted to nearly fifty. A charge was made on the log fort, and Lce, who was a dashing officer anda wonderful favorite with his men, was the first to scale the breastwork. he arrows were whizzing all about im, and one struck him in the breast, ting a very ugly wound. As he fusion was so great about i-row Yet it is only just to the rank and file to say that they would have advanced as steadily on their own initiative. Ht-in a R.ac- With Death, A high trestle bridge more than a glnarter of a mile long, supporting the single track of the Nickel Plate Rail roa:1, spans the valley of Grand River, east of Painesville, Ohio. The bridge is little wider than the distance be tween thr rails, and the Eies are placed eigh+ or ten inches apart, the space between being open to the river below. A young mau who crossed recently had a thrilling experience on the bridge. He had jast passed the centre when a fast train rounded the curve Sbehind him. As the engine whistled he quickened his pace. With every step the train was rushing nearer and there was not a moment to lose. Once the young man stumbled and seemed aboat to fall, but qiekly re gained his balance and hurried on. As he reached the place for which he had started the train was close behind and he had just time to swirg himself over the side of the bridge as the lo comotive thundered by. The ends of the ties were slippery with grease from dripping axle boxes and his foot slipped wide as he left the trnck. His right hand, stretched blindly out be fore him, touched a round iron bar, bracing two parts of the bridge, and with a grip like that of a drowning man his fingers clasped around it. For a moment he swung in empty air. In another his left hand had found a place beside his right and his feet tonched the welcome edge of a brace below. With bleeding fingers ciutch ing the slender iron bar that vibrated widely from side to side uioments seemed hours. At last the train passed. and the young man was able to climb slowly to the track above. Unnerved by the trying experience, he lay for a mo ment streten;ed acloss the rails, and then rising to his feet, with blanched face and unsteady limbs, made his I way to firm ground. Two Tussles With Bridges. in-+ n owes his life to f which his arpen ALL ABOUT THE SAUSAGE THE VARIOUS CASINGS USED ANC WHERE THEY COME FROM. What Sausa ges Arc Made Of-The Great Quantitios Produced-3Iany Amerlean Fausages Now Exported-Thousands of Men Engaged in Making Them. Sansages are made with sheep, with bog, and with cattle casings. All the hog and cattle casings used in this c)uutry in sausage making are from aniuals raised here; the great bnlk of the sheep casings come from various foreign countries; from England, and countries of Continental Europe, and in smaller quantities from Australia and New Zealand. Great quantities of sheep casings are imported, and on the other hand large quantities of American hog and cattle casings are exported to various foreign countries. aiieep casings, as they are put up for sale to sansage makers are in bun dIles containing three hundred or four hundred feet of casings, according to the caliber. Millions of bundles of such casings are sold annually, which are used for frankfurters, wienerwnrst and other small sausages. These casings range in size from half an inch to an inch in diameter and the sausage maker can get any size he wants, and so nake sansages iu practically any desired number to the pound, from six to twenty. The casings are first roughly sorted as to size and they are then separately blown up by an operator who inflates them in lengths of a few yards at a time, the entire length of a sheep casing being eighty or one hundred feet. The operator inflates only so much of it as he can observe and con trol; the inflation being to grade the casing to size, and to discover flaws, if any. The imperfect parts and the small ends are cut out, not, however, to be thrown away; but to be used in the manufacture of strings for tennis rackets, in making surgical ligatures, round belts for hollow faced pulleys and parts of cotton looms, and for violin strings.. The perfect casings run in lengths of from ten to sixty feet, the various sizes being sorted together with the greatest nicety. on casings are larger, and they in the individual animal ings do; that is to say from a hog varies, in sections, distinctly, kness, and con for the kinsr. kind of meat, ag beef and pork to gether, and there are many sausages made of more than two kinds of meat, mixed in various proportions, accord ing to the kind or the grade of the sausages to be prodnced. As to the quality of the materials o. which they are made, some sansagev are made of selected meats, and som are made of finer parts of the mests than are used in others, but the greal majority of all sausages are made of the trimmings of hams and sioulder:, and of forequarter meat, and, gener ally speaking, of the cheapest parts of good meat. There are, in faer, fei parts of the animal available for tht purpose that are not used to some ex tent in sansage-making. More or less bull beef is used in the manufacturE of some sausages, but, it is pointed out, bull beef costs more than cor beef, and there is, it is said, no meaf better than prime bull beef,- in the right percentage of the entire body of ingredients, for the sausages in which it is used. In some sausages rice used as one of the materials. Limited quantities of pulverized craekers and of potato flour are used in som e sausages to help to bind the in gredients together: in pork sausages the crackers, handsomely bro wued, help to give the sausages an attractive appearance when cookel.--New York Sun. HIS SUDDEN WEALTH. Why the Syndicate Bontaht Soda For the Shoemaker's Children. The development of the Missouri "zinc fields" brought out almost as many curious and amusing incidents is follow the discovery of a new-'gold region. The Joplin Index tells one it has a pathetic side-of a family of ten children, orphans, whose estate consisted of a quarter section of rich' zinc land. The syndicate that was deveioping the region wanted the property. The guardian of the children was a shoe maker of Joplin. He had been a friend of their father, and was working hard to keep the estate intact until they should grow up, and to educate them mea.time. After he had refused offers that in creased $10, 000 at a leap, day after day, he~ became tired, and set a price of $200,000, so that the syndicate would cease bothering him. It happened, however, that that particular property was a necessity for them, and they would have given twice as much. So they took him up in a twinkling. The court ap roved the and the amoint was anuded over .ertified chc ' THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD/BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Lucky Blds-He Wasn't Equal to the 0. casion-.The Modern Youth-Merely a Guess-The Difference-In South Af rica--Ready to Quit, Etc., Etc. Fall many a bird with plumes of brilliant hue Was hatched to waste its songs on desert air; Ah, lucky warbler, if it only knew There are no women's hats to trim out there. Washington Star. He Wasn't Equal to the Occasion. Rose-"Did you ever faint, Isabel?* Isabel-"Only once; and I bumped my head so hard that I never tried it again. "-Indianapolis Journal. The Modern Youth. - "I started at the bottomandclimbed up," said the old gentleman. "But it's much pleasanter toboggan ing," returned the spendthrift son. Chicago Post. A[erelYi Guess. Man at the Fish' Market-"The mackerel are running very small this season, ma'am." Young Housekeeper--"I suppose it's on account of the dry weather."- - Life. The Dl8erence. "Detectives in real life are not. a bit like the story-book detectives." "That's so," said the man who hasn't any savoir faire whatever; "the story-book detective invariably catches his man sooner or later." In South Africa. First Kaffir-"Say, what's yo hurry?" Second Kaffir-"Don't, stop m I'm the special correspondent of New York Hustler and I have a .b of startling rumors from the,front.' Pack. nealy to Quit. -- First Office Boy-"I call my 'Gridley.' " Second Office Boy-"Why is - First Office Boy--"Because h fire when he is ready!"-Pack. The Siad tihe Wanted. g * *.