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POOR CONRAD WRITET OF WAR TIMES and Publisbes a Letter Written by Htm Nearly Forty four years AgoEditor Hkcord, Dear sir:?The old War i'.uie letter that I spoke about last week was written by me in the last days of the Civil war when we were getting for rations rant nf art-mind r>nrn called meal. J..UV at that time uusifted with the bran in it, called hux by the old time slaves, and eome days we would draw as much as one quarter pound of bacon. The three or four days f rations would be cooked and eaten at one meal by some of the soldiers, without any feeling of indigestion afterwards. The letter 1 have reference to was F ' written to Mrs Lenora Smith, the mother of Mr Robert Smith, wno is now a candidate for the office of Treasurer for Williamsburg county. I wrote letters to many of the good mothers while the war was going on. The fathers, and brothers that were old enough to shoulder the musket, were in the army. I wrote to some of the big girls, too. All were glad to hear from Conrad. Mr Editor, please excuse me for writing^ so much that some of your readers may not care to read, but I can't help it. I have eaten bread in many of those homes when I had * no home or uo place to lay my head, so I was ready and willing to lay my head on the tented fields; ves, we j-.". / stood between Grant's host and Richmond. Those were bad times, , Mr Editor, but we were there a rag_K ged few, but undismayed. Yes there are some of those old bovs still *. liviDg. I must call over some of their names: "\V 1) McFadden, L ! Flagler, old lion heart George Graham, J P Epps and our noble old post master at Kingstree, Mr Louis Jacobs, aud H II Kiuder. I will say a little more about the letter. It was lound by Robert * Smith among some old papers and was handed to me some days ago. I was very much pleased to see a letter 1 had written nearly 44 years ago. I had been in from the beginning of the war. Came to South Carolina J* in 1862 on furlough for a wound re' ifk ceived at the battle of Sharpsburg, in Maryland. I had the grandest time a soldier ever had. The girls! The girls! Oh my?and I the only young man to be seen. What a time! But with all this,Mr Editor, ^1" " *? h 4 ? "".H/V U/.rtlr irt nl/1 \^i t*_ HIV lliUUgUlO ??CIC uaui\ 1U viu I IIginia,and the nearer the time for the leave of absence to be out the more eager I was to get off. The fewer the days left the more restless I became. I heard others say the same. That was a strange feeling. We knew how bad things were there, but many of the men did not want their commands to be in anythiug ^ without them. I have not much else to write or talk about, Mr Editor, except the war time and the good people who have been kind to me and made me so welcome in their homes, having none of my own. The rich hath many friends; but I am poor and have many. They all knew that I was poor aud their kindoess was from pure Christian motives. Well, I think I have said enough for this time. I may say a good deal more after a while. Yours truly, Poor Conrad. the letter. Camp Palmetto, Battallion Near Richmond, Va. February the 19th, 18G5. Mrs L Smith: Dear Friend:? I well know the feelings of yourself and family at present, and I have seated myself this morning to try and cheer you up a little, especially when you hear from the old I man. I went down to see him last Sunday. He was quite well and in fine spirits. I took dinner with him. He is expecting his papers every day to come back. He is a little in hope that he will get off yet, but is rather inclined to think that his, or at least his ladies', petition will come back unapproved by Gen. Lee. I don't think that many petitions or applications of the kind had been made?I was wishing very iuch for him to get off?he said I did not wish any harder than he did. I think he will get off yet. It may be not long, and it may be a 1 month yet. Sometimes papers of that kind are gone longer than that. The only thing, he says, that will; go hardest with him is the marching. The old fellow is williug to tight for his country and do all that he can to gain our idependence, but I think for the prereut such men would be of more value to the rounfrv mi- li.-ime than in the field. We can not conquer alone with men and j no means. One battle will not de-1 cide our fate. Mr Smith is very aniious to come to see me. I wish he would. I do ' not know as he will ever have the I chance of visiting me at my own at at another time. He says it is too far for him to walk. He can come [down and take the night with me. I have taken the night with him often. I think I will get him down here yet I am going to visit some friends in Orange county, and | when I returned I am going to see I him again. Tell the girls I have rnrde a banjo and I have a royal time every night. Tell Miss Jaue I would have j written her but I know that the 1 pleasure it would be for her to re| ceive the letter would be outweighed ! by the pain it would cost her to auswer it. Tell the girls I am going to ; have a grand concert 111 my nouse | tonight in honor to them. The weather is very cold and stormy. The ground is covered with ice. We have been putting away ice for hospital use next sum| mer. Ail the ice houses have been i filled bv our Army. I went out visiting yesterday in search of some garden see to send to ! Mrs Britton. I went to one of the rich fellows who was very gruff. 1 went into his piazza and knocked at j ; the door. He came out, and I told him I wanted some garden seed. Says he: "My God Almighty,I have ; to buy all I use myself." The piazza and steps were covered with ice. I then started out and slipped from the top to the bottom?a 1 in o s t breaking my neck. I went to show ; some of my mess how I fell down 1 the steps and knocked all my ink ; over. j Tlieie is a great mass meeting in ! Richmond today. Soinj of the j greatest statesmen and orators are i u.l/lreia tl-ie nennle nn the eondi 'v ? i? r tions of our country and oiy only I road to independence. All is quiet along our lines today. We have had some fighting at Petersburg day before yesterday. If you do not have tune to answer this, a few lines from the girls will do the same. If I write to one I will write to all or get the blessings of all in the country. With my kindest regards to the family I remain as ever, Conrad Constixe. There is one preparation known today that will promptly help the atomacb. This is Kopol. Kodol digests all classes of food, and it does it thoroughly, so that the use of Kodol for a time will without doubt help anyone who has stomach disorders or stomach trouble. Take Kodol today and continue it for the short time that is necessary to give you complete relief. Kodol is sold bv W L Wallace Notice. I will be absent from the office several weeks. Candidates wanting- blank pledges to file will apply to Dr A II Wil liams for same, or they may be obtained by applying to Mr Cargile at The record office. All assessments may be paid to Chairman Williams. n XKf Wat pp V/ ff f f VUI U) 5-25-tf Sec. Co. Ex. Com. Departure of Passenger Trains at Kingstree. The Atlantic Coast Line railroad has promulgated the following schedule, which became effective Sunday, April 19, 1908; ?NORTH BOUNDI No 80 7:40 a. m. *No4G 11:42 a.m. No 50 6:36 p. m. -south boundno 51 10:52 a.m. *No 47 5:46 p. m. No 89 9:13 p. m. *daily except sunday. ! ! Picnic at Brown's Ferry. On Thursday, July 16, the road was filled with picnickers, old men, women, youths aad maidens, all with one object in view, and that was to enjoy the day, wending their way toward Brown's Ferrv, a beautiful grove on the famous Black river. Au attempt to pen a description of these beautiful grounds with their magnificent rustic scenery would be doing the orignal a gross injustice. Every^ng was fixed and put in "appl border by the efiicieut conin The Georgetown band J the most charming music. . were about oue thousand peo\ \ present, coming from lower U iamsburg aud Georgetown countie. 4 Ai 'A. one o'clock when every onewas ei jig life to the fullest extent,4 i iu the shadeaud drink- ( ing~ J lemonade, diuner wa^ ann iced. Without crossing tne plait highway of talk*, this was the most . '^borate affair on the programme. ^\V heti we went to tie table it calk'' from many of us the old quotation^ from Shakespeare: "Now good di^ .stion wait on appetite and health oh both." There was plenty of everything in the way of eatables, even Mr Josiah Doar got enough lemon pie('?). After the pi tsatit task of eating, the old men gathered in groups to talk politics, the laduiS tried to keep cool, while the yV. Hies and geutlemen, youths Uutl maidens strolled ' leisurely about the grounds admiring the grand scenery of the river, until it was announced that there was to be some speaking. The speakers were introduced by Mr J F Munnerlyu. The first speaker was Senator \Valker, followed by Messrs Josiah Doar, Hugh Frasier and W H Andrews. Each make a brief, in teres tiug talk and each was greeted with great applause that came straight from the heart of every one. After this' the crowd again scattered and wandered far and wide over these vast grounds. As the sun cast its last ray of light over the beautiful landscape it disclosed only the deserted grounds that every one had left unwillingly, yet taking with them love and joy a id a great desire to have another picnic at these beautiful grouuds next year. F. R. H. When Aoc " roubles Women. "Women," said a marriage license clerk, "often lie al>out their age in the certilicate. Look here. This is a letter from a woman now, asking me if a little age lie will illegitimate her marriage. She says she is thirty-six, and her fiance tlpinks her twenty-nine. She wants naturally to maintain the illusion. I get such letters every week. I reply, if stamps are inclosed, that there is no law against-these lies. After all, they do no harm, do they? Yes? No? "There's a law against them iD Australia. There only the other day a divorce was granted a man on the plea that his wife had lied about her age to him. She was, it seems, forty-six, but he had thought her only thirty-five."?New York Press. . The Earliest Money. The earliest money was probably shells or strips of bark. Skins appear very early as a medium of exI chancre. Later on sheep, oxen andi o other 6ort of cattle were used as the measure of value. With the advent of agriculture the products of the farm were sometimes made to be value units. So late as the early colonial times in Virginia tobacco was used as currency. Eventually the metals iron, silver and gold became the almost universally recognized money of civilized and semicivilized peoples, iron taking the lead in point of time.?New York American. Thumb Bells. The thimble was originally called a thumb bell by the English, because worn on the thumb, then a thumble and finally its present name, it was a i^uicxi uivcuuuu and was first glass and pearl. In China beautiful carved pearl thimbles are seen, brought to England in 1695. Thimbles were formerly made only of iron and brass, but in comparatively late years they have been nettle of gold, 6ilver, steel, honj, ivory, and even glass $nd pearl tKimble3 are seen, bound with gold and with the end of gold.? Eclectic. Read the Farmers & Merchants Bank's ad. this issne. NoticeDuring the absence of the editor for several weeks any communications for publication or business should be addressed to The County Record, otherwise delay will be occasioned C W WoLFEL 6-25- tf. Title, Mortgage, Bill of Sale, Lien on Crop, and Lien and Bill of Sale combined blanks for sale at this office. 2-13tf The Largest and Most f jniplete Establishment South. ( GEO. S. HACKER X SON, I -MAXUFACTIH :RS OF? Sa&h, Doors, Blinds Moulding and Building Material, J* Sash Weights and Cord.* CHARLESTON, S. C. \ PATRONL' HUME INDUSTRY ...J V . DUIIU"** LI IICI pi IJI/O I 4 .jk From Greelyvme Brick Works. > ~ rrespondence So.icitcd. ft K. O. TAYLOR, Pres. S. V. TAYLOR, Sec. &, Treas. 5-21-tf. W. 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