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W ??OfcD JACK" FOOLKD 'KM. Baton VfU'ran Tells of An Incident In the Life of Stonewall Jackcon. Fourteen m?n were fitting in front of a W How Springs boarding house or "hotel!'' as they call it In the suburbs, when the oldest one of the group said: "That was a good paper Col. John S. Cooper had on the battle of Port Republic. 1 was down there with John O. Keld when that fight cams off. ' "80 was IT' said the next man to him. A third man ventured tho same Information. Finally the four? teen ross solemnly from their chairs on learning that each and all of them had been with McClellan in the Peninsula campaign. Working together for many of the past months, not one of the fourteen had thought to discuss army life with his companions Brave men usually have little to say about their per? sonal war experiences. The best war stories, like that of Col. Coop? er, have never been In print. The first epeaker. whose name waa Haesy. started ths conversation agmln wltb the remark: "I read a story the other day of an sntire Illinois regiment having got full on stone fence in the Ten aeesee campaign. That's funny, but not so funny as the fact that In 1862 Blenker's division of the army of the Potomao. comprising nearly 10,000 men. with three batteries of artillery, got lost going from near Manassas Junction across the Shsnandoah Val? ley to Join Gen, Fremont. It waa loot so long, so completely swallowed up, that Oen. Rosencrane was finally sent out after several weeks with a targe body of cavalry to find out what had become of the division. "You could hardly believe that was true, but there sre plenty of men to substantiate tho statement that nearly 10.000 men of our force were absolutely lost to the main army for over two weeks and nei? ther the war department nor the commanding efflcaro In the field knew where they were. It was about this time that the movement on Richmond was checked for the purpose of attending to Oen. Stone? wall Jackeon's operations In the Sheaandoah Valley. He was twenty miles from Strasburg, and we had 41,000 men on his flank, and rear within striking distance. We out? numbered hie forces two to one or snore. N 'Our object wss to capture him. Tou remember that?" The thirteen listeners nodded. The fourteenth continued: "He didn't appear to care a rap about our object. We did recapture Front Royal, which had been taken from u?. but then sfter wu were set down In the sun and allowed to bake there while his forces leisurely moved away from us I was In Shield's division, which finally early ha June was sent after Jackson, or at him and effect his capture. Briga? dier General Carroll was the one Who got the fsmous order from Shields to save the bridge ut Port Republic, the one across the Shenan doah which in his flight It was feared Jackson would destroy. "When General Carroll got to the Port Republic bridge Jackson was acros It and In the town with his wagon trains. His troops were on the opposite aide of the stream. Car? rol' realised the situation at once, ard he ord' red hla artillery In po? et'Ion wh*m thsy would command th? bridge and directed the officer commanding bis cavalry to take pos? session of the bridge. Captain Reld aided In the execution of this com ssand and the bridge was taken. In accomplishing this ore of Jack? son's staff officers, Lieutenant Doug? las, was captured "I sew him wounded, and then brought In." said one of the group. "Well." said Hasey. "Captain Reld ordered him to sit down at the west end of the bridge until the 'ra? ces was over and then hla wound would be attended to. Just then a mounted officer came along wearing a hanging over coat and riding from Port Republic across the bridge to tie west ??nd. He etopped his horse end a*kf?d ('apt. Heid In a abort, gruff manner: ? 'What are you doing here'.*" "Captain Reld thought he was one of our cavalry officers. First Vir? ginia men. and he answered: " *1 am attending to my business, damn you. and you had better go to your command and attend to yours.' The officer excused himself and rode off! to the We*f end of the bridge, putting ?pur? to hU horse and galloping up tb.> hill. Just then ('apt. lb !<l note ed his prisoner having a he-ir. laugh himself ,nd asked him what It wss about. ?"Why.* said Lieutenant Douglas. *I wss Just thinking how funny It was that It should be reserved for a Yankee lieutenant to curse St"n,% wall Jackaon to his face and Bead htm ?hont hM business. That was Oen. fsckson. Lieutenant, and h<ok ?at. II? has been attending to his business you sent him on; up there he coitim "Held looked up toward the bluu, and there, IVI enough, was a latge number of the enemy's guns beln?j trained on the bridge, which be? came at once all too hot for our men, and they retreated with Lieut. Douglas, whom they afterward left at a house In the rear to be cared for. I know this story has been dis? credited by some, but 1 am satis tied that It is true and that Jackson crossed the Port Republic bridge that day and through our tomes reached his own." "So do we," said the thirteen others. "We were there and we saw about all that was going on and knew what was happening. After the bridge episode we fought Jackson the next day?June 3, 1862." "Yes." said Hasey, "we fought him after having been fed on a pint of flour dally per man for a week. Wo were only 2,000 strong. Our line was on Deep Run. We faced south? west toward Port Republic. We ex? pected no reinforcements) and hud no reserves; Jackson held the Port Republic bridge and had whipped Fremont at Cross Keys.'" "I'll never forget," said the moo next to Hasey, "ho v Jackson's tw > brigade came out of the wheat fields the morning of the 8th and went against us. Five times was the attempt made to break our Maes and five times It failed. Jackson never captured us. We lost that day eight pieces of artillery, 26 5 killed and wounded and 634 missing but his loses were over 1,000. We; literally mowed his men down." "Gentlemen," said Hasey, "let us drank to the dead on both sides and the past" Fourteen men rose and the llba-1 tlon was poured. | The Southern Cotton Growers* Con? vention. Thirteen million bales of cotton a? 10 cents a pound are worth $650, 000,000. Any scheme designed to finance the whole crop would set up great difficulties. Conventions of In? terested parties have never done much In the way of bringing about stable xll-the-year-round prices for the South's great staple. Whether any better fruits will come of the re? cent convention in New Orleans of governors and representatives of cot? ton-growing states is a question that can not now be answered. The conference adjourned on last Tuesday. In the resolutions adopted, producers were advised to market their cotton gradually, the aid of fi? nancial Interests was requested, the system of publlcly-owned warehouses was indorsed, a system of properly secured negotiable receipts was ad? vocated, and it was decided to de? mand that the federal government collect statistics of consumption as well as production. The conference took the view that If It was wrong to combine to advance the price of cotton, it was likewise wrong 1?. combine to depress it; therefore, bears as well as bulls, ought to be prosecuted. A twenty-flvo per cent, reduction in next year's acreage was also recommended, and the confi r ence called on Congress, in the event that Congress enacts any legislation for emergency currency based on commercial paper underwritten by banks, to Include in such emeigeney currency commercial paper repre aenting transactions In cotton, cot? ton goods and other manufactured producta It may not be Impossible to finance what is left of tho crop, but any hearty cooperation of the Individual farmer is bound to mee* with fail? ure. The present situation Is due to several causes. First, nature hag been kind to the Southern cotton growr?kinder, indeed than it has been to many other husbandmen; secondly, cotton growers rlvited their eyes on 15 cent cotton and planned accordingly; thirdly, the consensus Is that cotton received their attention to the exclusion of other supplies, to buy which it was necesary to sacrl fce their chief Maple. Haides, the yled was a bumper one, prices wer^ falling, growers were intent upon selling before fi rtber drops occurred, and. moreover. -Todltors wanted their money. Consequently a big rush to procure ready money developed. The Southern cotton farmer must eat, and If he has failed to raise the supplies required for the inner man be must buy them, and f<>r that purpose he must get money from his ohjef re* llanco eotton. N. veri helssji the suggestions made by the conference may result In good, that \fmt ommcndlnir the adop? tion of a public Warehouse seeming to be quite feasible. After Sil, lh< South has enjoyed several yssri *>f high priees. and even if the streak of fat Is absent this rear it win pr??b ebty appear elsewhere -with the tex? tile manufacture?, for instance Th< have been dull, tholff profits hsvs I.n light, and tho Ultimate OOP* sumer has also heretofore fell the l>!n< b of high prices of goods made from dear rotton?Rradstreets, Most of us have had the experi? ence of walking in the black dark? ness of our own sleeping rooms at , ni^ht and losing ourselves within ! narrow surroundings. blundering I I about stupidly, not knowing where i tno liroplace or the window or the j door or mantle-piece or any article of furniture was. .So, if we thought, I we could imagine the situation of a j human being astray in a forest or l a desert by night or by day without I guide or land-mark or traci; to foi \ low, or glimpse of kindled light to direct. In the forest, densely black, in the desert sands hooded and scorched by the sun or lying while and far beneath the moon, or at sea with the sun shining tlercely as a consuming fire or the moon or at sea still, throwing glittering radi? ance on the crests and foam of break? ing waves?the condition is the same. Lost. The sense of direction Is gone in the wide stretches of the desert or the sea as It is in the shades of the forest or the confined black i ness of the little room. As we are in the black darkness of sudden awakening, as we are in the desert or forest or tossing solitary at sea, so we are in life without faith and hope and belief. We come into the world helpless and blind. As we become older, no matter how fortunate and surrounded with help and comforts, or how unfortunate or environed in misery and poverty we may be, we begin to look about try? ing to see. Left to ourselves we dis cover with our growing thought and intelligence and knowledge, nothing but darkness and mystery. We make a new link, a small link, in a long chain of people extending into u hidden and lost time gone. The highest and most clearly bred of us can trace back not more than a thousand years, an inconsiderable period of the life of the world and the human race. Behind the most remote and exalted ancestor we can trace may be a long lir.e of slaves and criminals and ruffians. What is to come after us, what is to happen to us when inevitable death has end? ed our M\es here, be they brief or long, we cannot know. What de? scendants we wlll^ leave and what they will do in the world and wheth? er they will make our names splen? did or ignoble, whether they will jus? tify our pride of race and breeding or carry family names into obscur? ity, are matters beyond our possible knowledge or control. Each of us is in a dark room, a black forest, toiling in the desert without land-mark or direction or tossing on a cruel sea wdth an un? broken horizon on every side and no hope or help or destination In sight ?unless? And there comes the cruelty, the blind and frantic bruising and blighting and destruction of the ag? nostic, who says we may know noth big, and the Infidel and atheist who tries to teach us that all wo think we know is wrong. They leave us tu black darkness. We do not Know Whence, nor why nor how we cane iatt this life, that the inspn utiom und longings of our souls are hut careless and unmeaning instincts. They would leave us lost and wan? dering and hopeless, destined to live and suffer, to beget and to bear and leave and then to rot as our times BTrive and to return to the oblivion from which we came. None of us who can think believe that we are intended to stumble from a blank past, through an un? satisfactory and more or less dis? tressed life to a future without mean? ing or promise or result. Our In? stinctive tendency Is to feel that there must be a light and guidance and leadership, release and compen? sation, reward und balm somewhere. So the most of us of healthy and normal constitutions reject the teach? ings of the apostles of darkness, whether they be Ingersol, with his brilliancy and keen analysis, or the most vulgar and vociferous clown, who, on a little knowledge, tries to erect a structure of nothing and from murkiness attempts to lead us to nothing and obliteration. BOOS Use the soul of man seeks and yearns for light there must be light. Generation after generation among Women and men of many conditions Of life, Of many am-* and parts of the world, we are given evidence that there |s light ami guidance. that there Is no need for any human being to stand baffled and blinded by black neSg or the wide expanse of the World on the dry sands of the des? ert or ths mocking waters of the .sea. The cloud l.y day?the know? ledge of sorrow and darkness surely to com.? In every human lif.?the pillar of lire by night assurance of some promised and beautiful land vet to come and sure guidance to It? remain and continue T<> the eyes of humble hope and firm faith there Is no darkness, and to a soul equipped With belief and honest longing, there can be none of the horror of being i<?st in ths darkness between ths past and the future, in the perplexltloi ami wastes ami trackless expanses of the present. Beoauee many of our hi man rsce 1 wander and wonder and look anx? iously for any gleam of light to guide them; because the light and the guidance lire offered all of us and the paths into which we can be led | are straight and the endings are < sure ? therefore wo resent most earnestly the efforts to dim light, to obscure paths, to teach that there is mystery behind us and around us, that there is nothing before us. In our view the worst enemies of the human race are the more or less cul? tured people who undertake to teach that we have come from nothing and are going nowhere. They d tprlve life of its purpc.se and sorrow of Its hops. They throw about human lif-j the bewilderment of Intense darkness, the shadows of a sunless and unbrok? en forest, the horror of untraeked desert and ocean, and would leave it lost, helpless and hopeless.?A. U. Williams in Roanoke Times. ADVANCE GUARD DRIVERS ARRIVING IN SAVANNAH Trying Out for Vanderbilt and Qrand Prize Races. Savannah, Ga.?The advance guard of drivers and cars :or the Vanderbilt Cup and International Grand Prizo j races and light car races, which will ! take place in Savannah on November ( 27 and 30, have already arrived and are daily trying out the famous course ! over the Chatham county roads. With I the large number of entries and tho i world's most famous drivers, these j two big blue ribbon events of auto ; mobiledom will unquestionably prove , the greatest road races ever held in I the world. Never before have two i events of such magnitude been held I at one time. Heretofore tho Vander j bilt Cup race was held at Long Island In October and the International Grand Prize Race at Savannah in November. Owing to the inability of tho promo? ters to get the proper protection for the course during the race and the unequalled facilities offered by Sa? vannah, it was decided this year to hold the big event at Savannah. It can hardly be called a curtain raiser for the Grand Prize, as It is itself such a world famous race, but it will be run first and two days later the Grand Prize race will be run, the two days being allowed to give competi? tors in the Vanderbilt race ample time to overhaul and "tune-up" their big space-killers for the Grand Prize event In these races and the light car events it is probable that over seventy-flvo cars will be entered. The course is seventeen miles long, and with the cars eating up distance at the rate of 80 miles an hour, it will be readily recognized that there will always be "something doing" on ev? ery part of the course. Specially con? structed cars have been entered, the most dare-devil drivers in the world have been secured and it is absolute? ly certain that the excitement is go? ing to be Intense and the races the grandest sport ever held in the South and, barring unforeseen accidents, the greatest the world has ever yet known. Dollar Diplomacy^ (From the Popular Magazine. 1 "What is this 'dollar dipln they're talking about?" aniced ; good-natured man. "Same old kind we've always, had exclaimed the thin man. "It m< .. that only milllonnries can afford tc be ambassadors." Two generations ago a Dut*5?i phy ?lcian, out walking with ni* <......, called the lad'e a**r-t*>n *s - ? - hay lou'i aS 1 In . ; ? i It n u1 my son.' Raid ho, "i ? rh? ?trivalent of whsl one in ' ? !r ;xar ajoess or ab&i Iii uvvds." rJURINQ THE SAVANNAH RACES, The Indian Refining company, which has the contract for oiling the Savan ' nah course for the Grand Price, the Vanderbilt Cup and the Light Car races to be held in Savannah Novein ber 27 and 30, Will tender an enter? tainment under the auspices of the Savannah Automobile Club on No? vember 29. A Now Jersey woman has been a OOOk In a family for forty-two years She has never asked for a vacation, bos never found fault with anything, has always cooked on a coal range, and is happy and contented. The negroes of Charleston are still calling for aid for the storm sufferers on the island and In the city while for some months we have seen the appeal.* to them to get out and do the work that Is waiting on them In every community around them and it would not be necessary for them to appeal t<> charity. In fact these re? peated calls for aid remind us of the Story of the negro preacher who said his chances for heaven were the best because he turned over at le?a*?t ten percent of his collections to the Church. Somebody must be wanting a graft in that matter.?Florence Times. The road plow and the street gang are again at work on North Main street, it seems a fmeer thing to dig up the st cot as .) as It dries Off SO thai It w 11 I 1 - verted into a mire again I ? H *he rain OOmes, v'k ? ? r si I ' HP not using a log drag. Graphic Pen Picture of Carlsbad and Its Dyspeptics. MUD BATHS AND VILE WATEH T*h- Victims Drink Often and Drink Deep and Absorb With the Evil Crew Large Dos.s of Misery?An Un? pleasant and Costly Road to Health. A city shaped likt a v o, a cup con? taining hot water. The sides of the Mty are clothed with plliM, and in the hollow lie the waters where the dys? peptics of the world forefather to drink and to be healed. They desire to be freed from excess of fat, from yel? low skins, from pains that catch oue In the small of the back and from the stiff joints that follow hard upou the pleasures of the too abundant board. In Carlsbad you drink often and drink deep. Drinking is your main occupation. Your drinking glass is Btrapped over your shoulders as you wander, sipping from spring to spring as assiduously as any one bee, but you do not get honey. Your misery begins at 6. At 6 o'clock they call you, and you are expected to be shaved and decent before you face the world of waters and of miserable sinners at 7 o'clock. If yon had not been a miserable sinner, too, you would not be here, but you have done those things you ought not to have done and you have left undone those things you ought to have done, and your penalty is Carlsbad. So you take your place at the end of a queue 300 dyspeptics long and wish you were dead. You very nearly are, for no "morning tea" sustains you; they forbid that; it is strictly against the law. You take your turn at the "Spru? del" spring uncomforted by the cook. Everything contributes to your misery. A German close behind you Is tread? ing on your heels and breathing loudly down your neck, and a gentleman in a curious top hat is conducting an or? chestra with intent to make you merry, lie fails. You hate him. And every moment you draw nearer to the "Spru? del" spring. It leaps from the bowels of the earth toward the roof of the' colonnade shrouded in its own steam, and a girl in waterproof overalls catches you a glassful by means of a long pole. Then you retire to a corner with the evil brew &nd try to drink it. It tastes of dead rats?hot ones, long dead. Your character may be divined by your method of dealing with it. It may be faced as one faces a pet beverage, "with an air," or it may be dallied with in sips?or thrown away. It may beat you altogether, but this is rare. The hardened dyspeptic who does his year? ly "cure" has a trick with a little glass pipe. He is im it: tt 1 by the wise. Aft? er the first fell glpss you hurry to the little glass pipe stall aud buy a little glass pipe for your very own. and half nn hour later you brace yourself to? gether for the second dose. If you have sinned deeply you may be order? ed even three, but probaoly you will be let off with two goes of "Sprudel" and one of something lighter. An hour afterward you may naTO an inadequate meal of sour milk. <-ne eg? and a browny roll that would baf? fle a dentist. During the morning you will he required to undergo a bath, possibly of mud. reekiug with curative properties and very expensive?as ex? pensive as the luuch you would dike ! to have afterward if they would let you. Even as It stands your mockery of a meal, fruit, rice and a bit of a boiled bird climbs up to a total hither | to unassociated with such elementary Insufficiencies; At 4 o'clock you drink more water. At 10 the long day closes with a final gulp, and the dinner Inter? vening is beneath the diguity of words ?of any words. I Sixty thousand of the sorrowful sub? ject themselves to tJvse penalties year? ly every summer. But in spite of the (50,000 you will probably be a lonely soul in Carlsbad. Its dietetic system does not make for sociability or mirth. But as the days go by the pink hues of health begin to return to your cheek, your color ceases to be drab and your temper becomes less vile. You find you can tolerate your fellow man with some degree of \ courtesy even when he breathes down 1 your neck and clears his throat in the regio.i of your ear. There is less of Hamlet about you and more of ruck, for your days are ordered now more In conformity with nature's plan and your reward is an equability that is foreign to the life of broken laws in the place from whence you came. For two or three weeks this quickening process will develop and continue until in the exuberance of health you return to your land. When you are not here Carlsbad puts its shutters up and goes away to cure itself of the tedium of having cured you. and by the time It has finished with you its oof era are quite com? fortably stocked igainst a holiday, for you were not a "cureguest" for noth? ing. Still you were cured, and a cure is always cheap. Hut on the whole perhaps It would have been cheaper If you had kept the law.?I-ondon Mail, i - Interesting Spot4. "I suppose." says the lady next door, , "that you saw mat y really wonderful j places while you were abroad." ! "Yes, indeed." replies the returned truveler. "I think the most shivery of them all, however, was the cataoorners in Home. I have the nightmare about it yet."-Judge. ?? No whip cuti . ? deeply as the lash , of conscience. g*roverb. _ ______. ? t Mr. Robert Chafln, ??f Mayesvtile, was in the i .ty Monday. current \or;<:%. False teeth made uf paste in Germany ere said lo -etain their color as well as porcelain ones, and tg he stronger and cheaper. Aviator R?dgens made 1,193 mile* | in thenty-ona hours and tifty-three minutes. BCany of his miles were made in forty-eight seconds. In a new internal combustion en? gine invented by a Pennsylvanlan the burned gases are blown out of the cylinder by air compresed in I the has of the engine, i A Califoroian has invented ma? chinery for pumping warm air out of a freight car and filling it with cold when perishable articles are to be shipped short distances. The invention of a Chicago hotel, steward fills a long-felt want. It is a machine that will wash and dry I eighteen thousand dishes in an hour, j Moreover, it needs the supervision and help of only two persons. The rations for a day provided by Japan for each of her soldiers in the field are three little bags of ri'e^j and a bunch of dried vegetables. This means rice for all three meals and a vegetable addition for din? ner. By the will of a French lady who died recently a farm was left to the town on condition her family vaulQpj was kept in repair, while the rest of the estate was to be divided among those attending her funeral. Bargain Day Special. Through an error the name of the^ Sumter Drug Company was omitted from the list of the merchants who had subscribed to the Bar gain ^Day^" fund and who were co-operating to make this day a big success. The Sumter Drug Company will have Its share of Bargains on sale on that dayfe A. V. SNELL, Sec. WHEN THE MAILS LEAVE. Latest Schedule for Closing of Malls Prepared for Service at tl?e Sam-" tor Poet Office. _ v The following schedule which has recently been prepared for service at the postoffice will be of Interest to tho patrons of that office. The schedule shows when all mails closed for the various mail tra which take mall out from this ci This schedule was In effect Frid September 15, 1911. ga Train No. 35, Florence and At ta, due to leave 6.47 A. M; mail cU ee 8.45 P. M. Train No. 54, Wilmington and lumbia, due to leave 7.40 A. M.; mail closes 7.00 A. M. Train No. 4 6, Florence and Or angeburg, due to leave 9.40 A. M.; moil closes 9.10 A. M. I Train No. 52, Greenville ais^ Charleston, due to leave 9.41 A. M.; mail closes 9.10 A. M. Train No. 68, Gibson and Sumter. due to leave 9.45 A. IL; mail closes 9.10 A. M. Train No. 71, Camden and Sumter, due to leave 9.4 5 A. M.; mail closet 9.10 A. M. Train No. 51, Wilmington and Co? lumbia, duo to leave 11:15 A. M.; mail closes 10:45 A. M. Train No. 73, Sumter and Wilson, due to leave 3.30 P. M.; mail cloees 3.00 P. M. Train No. 50, Wilmington and lumbia, due to leave 6.65 P M.. mail coses 5.15 P. M. Train No. 69, Camden and Sumter. due to leave 6.31 P. M.; mall closes 6.00 P. M. Train No. 36, Florence and Augt ta. due to leave 6.35 P. M.; mall cloa es 6.00 P. M. Train No. 63, Greenville and Char? leston, due to leave 6.35 P. M.; mail closes 6.00 P. M. Train No. 56, Gibson and Sumter, du?) to leave 6.50 P. M.; mail cl< 6.CO P. M. Train No. 47, Florence and Orange burg, duo to leave 8.26 P. M.; mail closet* 8.00 P. M. Train No. 55, Wilmington and Co? lumbia, due to leave 9.30 P. M.; mi closes 8.4 5 P. M. GEO. D. SHORE, Postmaster. rua* loff Assuming the population of Peru to be some 4,000.000 people, this would make the averago purchasing pow? er of tho Peruvians, so far as tl United States is concered. about 11.fi percapita; but, as at least 50 per cent of these 4,000.000 are Indians and non-purchasers, tho real pur? chasing power of the Peruvian la considerable higher than tb's. The county chain gang has been moved from the Salem section to the Rishopvdlo road and is now at work In the vicinity of the alms house, a section of the road that has been bsdly cut into holss and ruts during the recent wet weather. The crowd on the street Saturday was larger than on any other day this year. Perhaps the lovely wee bet did much to brim? the crowd tcv toWtl.