The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 23, 1908, Image 3
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Bank's ad. this issne.
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for publication or business
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rrespondence So.icitcd.
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Building and Superintendent of Work
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Co, stores Timmonsville and
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Week End Rates.
siting- May SO the Atlantic
' e offers week end rates
eston for $1.95 round j
;kets sold for all trains
/ and Sunday forenoon
good to return on Tues,Rowing
date of sale. These
:s will be on sale each
up to September 6. tf.
Jon't
Wait!
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IS DESTROYED, BUT IN-1
S.URE NOW,
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By Fire or Cyclone.
If you want the best, get your
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Cyclone Insurance Companies.
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Always That I can save
Remember you money on
SASH, DOORS AND RLINDS
AND OTHER
BUILDING MATERIALS.
Wholesale Prices Direct .from
Factory. Everything Guaranteed
to come up to Specifications.
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% 13 worm a iair (hivc. vuv..^ ^
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v able equivalent for onr labor. 3
r But we give an honest dollar's ?
% worth for every dollar we get, f
? and we endeavor to permanent- 3
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//AAf SKOCL1K MBSTXV??
jj l8t ftn<1 3rd MODdh^
mmWS Visiting choppers oordially
invited to com#
VX^NjCtTi. igfpYf up and sit on a stump
Ns5i W or hang about on tha
^ limbs.
Philip stoll,
9 27 12m. Con. Com.
Bucklen's Arnica Salvo
The Best Salve In The World.
Registration Notice.
The oflice ot the Supervisor of Registration
will be opened on the 1st
day of .July and will remain open continnously
every day. except Sundays,
through the months of July and
August for the purpose of the re-registermg
of any person who is qualifiedas
follows:
Who shall have been a resident of
the State for two years, and of the
county one year, and of the polling precinct
in which the elector offers to
vote four months before the day of
election, and shall have paid, six
months before, any poll tax then due
ami payable, and who can both read
and write any section of the constitution
of 1895 submitted to him by the
Supervisors of Registration, or who
can show that he owns, and has paid
all taxes collectable on during the
present year, pioperty in this State
assessed at three hundred dollars or
more. J. Y. McGILL,
Clerk of Board,
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