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TIN POT ALLEY IVAli Keillor Wallace of dewberry Observer Writes of His Escapade in 187? Outrival}: Ronsotelt or Mile*. Tho newspapers have recorded with (laming headlines, evidently thinking the feat was most wonder ful, that President Roosevelt recent ly rode ninety miles on horseback In One day, between 3:30 in the morning and 8:40 in the evening. And Gen. Nelson A. Miles, retired, the noted Indian lighter, and persecutor of the hue President .Jefferson Davis, .iust returned from Europe, declares that he once rode on horseback ninety miles in nine hours, and threatens to do it again it anybody doubt his word. Roosevelt used a relay of four horses in his ride: Miles does not say how many he used probably half a dozen. The fresh horses at intervals in the ride very materially refreshed and rested the rider. 1 can loll Of ride that, in some re spects, especially in tho manner of foolhnrdlness and physical endur ance, surpassed both the above-men tioned feats. It took placo a good many years ngo. but did not get in<o the papers. in fact, the partici pants were not anxious for public at tention just at that time, for if the ride had got into the papers they might have got Into jail. it was on tho 2'jtlt day of Octo ber, 1870. Two young men from I,nurons county, who had been mixod ui) with the "kuklUXea", more or less. during their summet vacation, wer^ ul Woftord college, when news cuine of the war In "Tin Pot Alloy." In the town oi Lauretta. The news was vague, but of the most sensational character, und alarming reports soon spread among the students from that county. They were aogor to go to the assistance of their follow citiz ens, who were supposed to he at the mercy of tho negroes. Spartanhurg was then only n one horse town, with little provision in the way of livery. After persistent efforts, David ('. Humbert from "Tumbling Shoals," and another stu dent from "Belfast," succeeded in hir ing two beasts -one a horse, the other a mule. The horse, which they named "Roslnantc," was about as graceful and as Heel ns a giraffe, and was built after tho same gen ual style of architecture, with a nah called a "rack" that threatened to shake his rider to pieces. The mule called "Balaam" was small and lough and phenomenally lazy. Nothing would mnko him no out of a slow walk except a long hickory switch thai could reach clear under his belly and come up on the other side, and numbers Of that kind were worn out on the trip. The horse was only a little loss lazy, but could make longer strides and more speed. The boys left Spartanhurg about 10 o'(dock at night, without leave of Iho faculty, taking care not to ask ii. for they knew it would be refused. Such a ride on such beasts may I" faintly Imagined, but can never be de scribed. The riders, changed horses several times; not from tired to fresh opes, as did Roosevelt and Miles; Ihoj only changed from horse to i I'll ? and then back again, whenever the rigid arm of tho rider of "Balaam" had given out and when "Roslnante's" ride: could stand the "racking*" and tho wracking no longer. And so the thirty.seven miles were made. The young warriors rode into the town of 1.aureus down the long Wans hill, across Little river, up by iho cemetery, on to the public square, not knowing what danger they were about to face. There was an omin ous silence like the silence that pre cedes the storm. The sun was just rising. "Not a drum was hoard, nor a fun eral note." Clrlm-vlsngcd war had smoothed his wrinkled front. The carnage ol battle that had waved so hotly the evening before had ceased. The lighters had none. Over on the long hill (hat leads out of town on the east side lay two or three "dead nig gOI'S." how i! by the Milnm's branch, three miles further on, lay the dead body of Probate Judge Powell, the onl> white man killed. There wore other casualties; not many, for when Iho whites opeind on the armed n<? groes In "Tin Pot Alley" In such un expected number and SO much vigor of shot t;uns and rifles and pistols the negroes and their few white uin?s the " radicals" and "scalawags" of that day, who led them into trouble made a prceipitate retreat and fled in torror for safety. The illnsappolnted students?-disop pointed because ih<> had not arrived in tlnio 10 take part in the fray rode oli a mile through town to a friend's house, ate breakfast and fed their hen sis. In an hour after arriving lhey had remounted, with faces turn ed toward: spartanhurg and tho col legi ; no longer apprehensive about "I'ucle Sam" and his minions, but P aring If their escapade now seeming 10 (hem. so very flat and unhorolc Should Conic to tho cars of tho Pres ident they might be Ignominious ly Shipped." They arrived in Spart auburn somewhere about dinner; at least It must have been not far from that, for the two most prominent Con in res that stand out In the recol lection of tho . hb" are the breakfar I at one end and the dinner at the oilier. Tho would-be warriors paid a dol lar and a half apiece for tho beasts; which was certainly high enough, considering tho fact that they had to "work their passage" and that they were sore in every bone and joint and muscle for ft weelc. The faculty never knew. Now, i submit that this was a harder ride than ItOOSVelt'S or Miles', .tust think of the difference in the 11100118 of locomotion, a difference as great ns that between a cattle car and the finest Pullma;:. Tliey rode horses thorough bred, and trained to IhO smooth and gentb "single.fool": while ours, never having known any vocation but to draw the wagon and IhO plow, walked like snails or trotted or "racked" with n rait that loosened overy button on the rider's coat and drove his spinal colums up into his mcdtlllfl oblotigata. As the solo survivor of the gallant i i-oops that rode from Spartanbni p, 111 the "Tin Pot Alloy" war In tb" ?00(1 old 'own of I.aurens, 1 claim the laurel. I know that history and the Associated Pies; will give no show to an humble fndhldunl who Mr1v?'? fdv precedence over one mmi who is president and another who wanted to bo. 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