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Some y of the Truest, Noblest and Bravmet Men That Ever Faced an Mncmy Were to be ? f FOUND AMONG THE PRIVATES | BY J. L. STRAIN. J While we were camped at "Ske- 1 daddle Gamp," near Bottom's Bridge ' in Virginia, we had a good deal of J fun at different times?a few in- r stances of which I will relate as the ? beginning of this installment of ? ' "Reminiscence* of the War." * Nathan, a servant of Singleton d Jeter, had just returned from home ^ with a splendid new palmetto hat, t wfcish he bighlj prised, and which 1 at that time was of considerable value, I both on account of its intrensic 11 worth aa well as its ornamental de- J . Sign. Nathan went to the spring, j1 fa* a bucket of water one day, but t 1> a L- L. I L!. L_a ii d?s9r? iie Bwrieu uo uuug mo uii on ? ehoih at the tent door. But as soon I at he got out of sight "Dolph" Fant * got the hat and hid it in a brush I ek As 'toon as Nathan returned Missed his hat and asked Dolph d about it. John Thomas was in the J teat with Dolph, and they adopted fa a plan by which to have some fun at ^ Nathan's expense. Calling Nathan g into the tent Dolph pulled out an a improvised "hand jack" whioh he * had made for his own private use 1 It was filled with flour instead of the fa original and efficient ingredients, ria: racbit toe-nails, spiders, bugs A and tisiard toe-nails. It was cover- ? ed with a thin well worn piece of a leather, oblong in shape, with a * string attached to the smaller end in a order to suspend it for manipuletion. o Dolph had seen one used by some of a the darkies in camp and had no v trouble in making aa imitation ma- a china, As soon as Nathan saw the j "band jack" Dolph knew he had ' him, Dolph asked him if he ever t aw a hand jask before, and he 1 said, "Oh yes." "Now I will tell j ^n," said Dolph, "where the hat is t yon will not tell on me?end keep t it a secret." He promised he would J not give him ewsy, and Dolph pro- c i eeeded .to manipulate the instrument c and talk to it.?He blowed bis breath a on the jack and talked to it in a mombling manner. He (Dolph) < then told Nathan to go te a certain ' lace and keep his eyes fastened o.n ' him, (Dolph.) But when Dolph ? waved n is hand Nathan was to stop J and rake away the leavee. In this i Way Dolph directed him to his spot t where he foand the hat and returned 1 to camp with it much pleased with 1 Mr sneceee in finding it. His face was wreathed in smiles. Next ? Nathan wanted to know who stole ? : the hat. After some farther manic- I elation and talk to the hand jaek 1 Detph told him it wae Jesse Dickins, < a servant of Captain Dickina, of < Sumter couaty, commander of Co. J A.^Claremont troopi. I J ease was a notorious thief and a < terror to the oamp. Nathan swore < VSftgaance against Jess. Dolph told ' kirn if he molested Jessr^^eixld use jack on him and ttt^^^ieted I Nathan. This event added to the efioieney and popularityl of the hand jack, Tapecially among the negroes, i mid soon there was no end to the I < mIIb muU on Dnlnh for Si* "i*rk" i to unearth some hidden mystery. To 11 keep up the reputation of hie jack I k. H. FOSTER, VIM PrMldMt. J >. ARTHUR, AmMmI Cohbr. I iters' Nefieeal Baak ? >N, 8. C. X $?0,000 A 50,000 2 ?o,ooo J $170,000 I . H. WtllMi, Wm. Jeffrie*, A P. MoKtaalek. . FT. Foaier. I w ur BosIbmi. | nmmmmmmmmmmy* Dolph would never make a decision until he had follj satisfied himself or bad snfficient proof to risk a decision, rod then he would let it out, and as rood luck would hare it he never failed that I know of. 8oon Steve Farr, (an old body sesrant of Sergt. R. C. Farr) came and insulted Dolph secretly, saying hat he had loet his watch. He urther stated thql he and Bill Palner (a servant of Lieut. J. W. Palner) were gambling the night before md whon he (Steve) got to nodding te lost his watch, and he thought Sill had it. Dolph told hint he vould consult his jaok and find out. Jut Dalph asked Steve why he did iot use his ewn jaek as he had one. Jteve told him that his jack was out if fix. and. benidfta. it w** in rrong time of the moon for it to be lepended upon and so he wanted dm (Dolph) to make the investigaion. Dolph told him to call BjII q'o the tent. In the meantime Dolph had posted some of his meesoates on what was up. Soon Bilf ras on band and Dolph took out his ack and began to swing it around hen bowed and asked it something n a whisper; Bill looked on in masement. He was aahj and disressed. At last Dolph turned to Jill and said, "Bill out with it now ,nd I'll saj no more about it. You lon't want to be exposed. But if rou do all right then just give Steve lis watch and that's the end of it." Vt+k/Mit Half i ivwvuv IUI ?UV? VUIVUJVUJ XVI11 ;an to unbutton bit pants and from n inside pocket be drew out Steve'i ratch and handed it to him. After bat Store offered Dolph $25 for tis hand jack. Not leng after this the "York dees," as it was called, loet their poena. Joe Leech oalled to Dolph ? the top of his voice (and he had a trong one too) to bring out his jack nd find the spoons. Delph went ut and after investigating the oase eked for more time?stating that it raa the wrong time in the moon to aake investigations with the hand aek. In the meantime he went to rork in a sly way and found out hat Jess Dickins had the spoons. Phis sustained the reputation of the ack to tell anything that was a mysery and long it was talked o? but heee are the only cases that I will iresent just now, as they will is well remembered by a lot of ild soldiers who recollect the circumtanoes to which I have referred. Some time after this Bill Sanders some across Steve Farr learning Pete kicKissick how to eat fire coals. The result was that Pete had a very ore mouth soon after that and no>ody knew what was the matter of t You ought to get Bill Sanders o tell what ne saw on that oocasion. It will make a dog laugh to hear lim tell it. While we were camped at D! icend bridge in the winter of 1862 tad *63, Bill Goings resolved to ive a better life and quit swearing, sbich he never had indulged in exjept on urgent occasions. He was litting in nis tent one day when Dt I. IfMI A ? 1 lT. * rrauK mmwoou. Knowing bu aesire to do belter, popped hia head inside jf the tent and Said, "Bill, hate you rieard anything from home lately?" He said he had not particularly. Frank said, "well I hare got a letter from home and Jane (that was Frank's wife) wrote me that Bryant Fowler has got a discharge from the army and is at home making tar, and he has about burnt up all that rich 'lighterd' of yours on the Cole place that you got from John Molt laaick." Bill forgot himself tad in words mors forceful than slega swore be was going to buy him furlough and go home and kill Br ant. One night in the winter of '( while about ten or twelve of us we on a scout in the neighborhood Casey's farm, near Williamsbur It was only a few days after the ba tie of Frederick sburg. The s?o was on the ground and the weath was intensely cold. We were far advance of our lines, with orders watch the movement of the enena and report immediately to camp an demonstration on their part, as Gen Lee expected momentarily a move c Richmond. Men and horses wei suffering with cold, snd it was eoi eluded to divide our force and alio one part of the scout to rest an *1, 1 ? v:i. A. naiai ?uoiuoti*uo WUUC IUO UlOt patrolled the couotry and kept watcl This gave the men off doty an oj portunity to have a good time. The Virginia ladies were intensel "sessesh" while many of the oh men bad been paroled by the federt authorities daring their first invasioi of the Peninsula. Our men took i duy and day about to do guard duty Those off duty mingled with the citi zens and often the young men wouli manage to get up parties and )iav< the yaung ladies of the nsighborhoo< come in and have a good time danc ing and playing until a reasonabl hour, then all would break up, am the soldiers would repair to thei rendezvous and the girls to the arm of Morpheus. One night we had a party at Mr DanieL Hawking and Mprtthino w?r going on in high style. There wa about a dozen girla present and a many boys?including same of thi neighbor boys who oame in to se< and take part in the fan. Mi* Kate Hawkins had a first rat< piano and she knew how to plaj it. We had also a first class fid dler on hand with a splendid vio lin. One man stood guard wit! our horses a short distance fron the house ready to give the alara: in case of danger. '1 he nice parloi was brilliantly light un and we wer< in the midst of a cotillian when all at orce the sound of horses' hoofi came thundering down the avenut leading to the broad gate that opened upon the highway. Everyone real ized the situation at once. The men dropped tne arms or their partners and sprang for their gons which were standing in a corner of the room The girls shot up stairs saying tc us, "don't shoot, don't shoot, if yea do they will kill some of us 01 burn tne house." But it turnec out to be a lot of loose horses thai had been browsing about the prem ises, which had become playful anc came galloping up to the house. Il broke up our play for that night and it was some time before manj of us got entirely over the frigh they gave us. No doubt had i been the enemy we would hav< given them battle, as we had a least 100 balls in readinees for an; emergency. (To be continued.) Santuc Scintilations. She made him shave his moustache off and raise one new, when they wer wed, For since the first pressed other lipt She'd have one "all her own," sh said." Alas, there are some who haven' a husband all their own, after they'r wed, let alone the moustache. Would anyone wish to see a pret tier dawning than Sunday morninj u ? noo After a week with the aunshin bottled up, don't jou feel like join ing in with the chorus while th birds are singing? Eight days of solid, hard, cloud weather, rain, hail, sleet snow, wit! no reactionary period", is what w hare just gone through. A few more days, and the littl birds would have been thinned ot considerably, may were out earl and late trying to get something t eel Saturday morning a pair of mul< of Mr. W. T. Stokes, ran awa with tha wagon, threw him out o the tongue of the vehicle, ran againi a pile of lumber, and probably won] have killed Mr. Stokes or themselvi had not the sawmill hands stoppe them. Mr. Stokes was bruised an the mules were skinned np to too extent. It was a narrow seeap at Some plank in the wagon ?lippc?l a forward and struck the mulei cius y- iog them to run away. The Ladies Aid society and tno 52 Society of Little worker* are at re work and are beginning to show rcof suits toward Salem Baptist church, g. Very few men who can are doing it- anything: the "n.ater of the brutes" m makes them want to spend their er mouey for almost anything else, in Wonder if many men never feel to ashamed. ty I believe tl Republicans always ty pretended to love a colored race, and 11 I believe it was all for a purpose? ! fV\r mnnon i?? ^ ?-I ' f uuuvj iu mo oiiu, anM uut lor re lore of them. Now they are kicki ing up a row at Washington all about w Uncle Sam's little brown nigger d babies orer in the Philippines. The ir Republicans' expensive babies, l. I have heard of Mr. Crumpack> or. I guess bis name must be suggestive of bis efforts to pack some 7 crumbs into the national laws cond cerning the South. I am no polid tician, but I am sometimes amused n to see how some of them are trying t to drop such questions. Perhaps they ibink it a long lane that has no i- turn and when it turns they may d get into a mire. e I heard a sermon recently from d the text on fixing your affections ora - things above, etc., in which the pase tor said the poind would cause the afd feotions to follow, etc., during which r he alse said .that he had heard girls s say they would not marry any man that they did not love, but they had ' better be trying to get a man who e loved them ; for if a husband truly b loved hia wife he would not mis9 treat and impose upon her. This 9 seems true, every word, and it is safe 9 to bank on. llien there must bo ' 6ome men we all know who do not 9 love their wives, and I have evidence f to believe it, If we can't do any * better towards a wife than some - boasted benedicts who would deign 1 +rv rviwa im orlviaA wre Ka/1 vvr uo i?u??wvj nw u?u ucivoi 1 C" 1 main bachelors. 1 During the big mow it was not <" good for hunting rabbits?they did * not come out much where they I could be tracked, and well bunnie ? did not. After the mow was nearly > gone numerou? tracks could be seen 1 on patches of snow. They could * not be traeked so they seemed not to i be afraid to ramble. Up in Kansas 1 the people talk of the extent small > boys go in exterminating bunnie, but * the small bey is simply not in it com> pared to the negro. They scarcely i ever let up, week day or Sunday, " spring, summer, autumn or winter, I with untaxed dogs, and guns, sticks, t rr.clr*. Afc/v Will th#vr cr^t him? - Well, yea, I guesa their meat is out I and they hava got to have it. I t have heard of some people catching ? rabbits in the summer to feed their f dogs on. The dogs had to run, the t bread was out and they had to have 1 the hare. b For men of generous heart, unselt fishness and men who are desirous of J doing a great good, and for the public, let us look at Messrs. A. S. and W. D. Douglass, of Winnsboro, that Vox told us of in his last article, who had given a road to Cherokee county in order to avoid a steep hill. Who, ? in Union county, who is generous enough to the traveling public to sell i, reasonable, not give, a strip for e a road around steep hills. But I am afraid some would put it in even a t worse place, if they could, to get the e road bed for a cotton patch. I know many who come as near taking the r road to plant in as they can. Some g who will mutilato the road as bad as they almost ean for selfish personal e benefits. Go to the Messrs. Dougi lass, ye men, and learn a lesson. Ye e will not etarve. Do a creditable thing for the good of it. y Thinking about th# increase of pay h for township assessors or board of e equalization the law makers said they could put on enough tax to make | le more than their pay. Did one ever it notice things not even on a tax book. . TK ava ara nam*a vamatt ibUa Iiawa j auviv ? u uvj^i \j nvuaou n u\/ uoto *> cows, ete., and they never return because they are women "and don't ? have to pay taxes." Some men pass y the poll age stop every other tax. n But negroes are generally about a? st honest as a lot of whites. Theirs are Id greatly ignorance. Whites are purely ss tax dodging and the moie property d some have the more they dodge, id A poor man with a little land has le every cabin of note taxed, but the e, large land owner has comparatively )LSON & SON, :ers, R BUSINESS rjent and every accommodastent with uin in yt 11 ii/ii tucj oaj bilClU II1USC UP so many men of good moral character, ] e'.c. Ay, it they could always draw men of good, moral character, intelligent, conscientious, thero might be a 1 great difference in the findings, and ' with 'hat kind of men everyone on 1 the g. and jury, violation of the law would become less, but when there are violators, immoral, unprincipled ' men on either, what need the people to expect? For men to sit in a grand 1 jury loom and find true bills against 1 men for assault, for carrying concealed weapons, gambling, especially. 1 with negroes, is inconsistent and you ' need not expect much from them. ' Yet I have seen a grand juror playing cards with negroes, carry concealed weapons and was guilty of as bad an assault as any tried at Union in quite a while and probably would have committed the ' battery" if be had not been so much of a coward. This won't do. In Tiib Timks of Jan. 31st in his article speaking of the Editor's travels, Telephone said: "If there is anything I enjoy it is a trip in the country, visiting hospitable farmer's homes, and there are plenty of such homes all over our county." I feel like thanking Telephone in behalf of the plain country folks?farmers. Farmers have always been the butt of jokes in city papers. He is considered greeny with hayseed in his hair, slouched hat on his head, sunburnt kin and hands as rough and horny as a crocodile's back, aud withall a dictionary of bad english and grammar, rough and uncouth. This may partly be true, but under that slouched wool hat is very often a good brain, under that rough shirt is a warm patriotic heart beat ing, and under the rough skin is as good strain of blood coursing as can be found anywhere, and for genuine hospitality and thoughtfulne33 of ones comfort, you can always find in the country in the farmor's homes, and the city and town men going into the country will find and say so. If you happen around you are going to be invited to dinner, and can find a welcome lodging at night, receive the best there is at the place and can see i . . ? . . ? now one is inea 10 De mane comfortable, and then go away with not a cent charged to him for board or lodging. You are welcome if a farmer can poaeibly doao. If one is not it is an exception and not the rule. Often entire strangers are given lodging and no charge. Those men know the country people like to see them come among them, and of course they appreciate it. They are gentlemen and like good company in their rough rural way. IIkt Denver. [True, true, every word of it for genuine, whole-souled hospitality, give us the Union county farmer. Among the greatest pleasures it has ce except life. id at the same rate as Post been our good fortune to enjoy has been our visits at the homes of our farmer friends in this county ?Ed.] r Resolutions of Respect. In the month of May, A. IX, 1807, Cross Keys Lodge No. 137, A. F. M., was organized, and the year following (1808) a charter was granted by the most worshipful Grand Lodge of South Carolina with the subject of our .sketch as Worshipful Master. We do not say that our worthy past master, Y. S. Bobo, was a perfect man, but we do eay as a citizen, i i * "" uuiguoor, iutner, soldier, husband and christian few excelled him. He was quiet and unassuming, did not tr7 to make mankind believe that he was more than what he was; his faith was well founded, he followed his Lord and Master fearing no danger, and when about to take passage on the cold and turbulent river he convinced the writer of this that there was no embargo laid across the channel and that the sails were all well up and that the captain of the vessel had full control of the seas for he had calmed the raging storms before and that he had nothing to do but to cast his anchor home at last. Therefore be it Resolved 1st. That this Lodge has lost a faithful member, the community \ quiet, good citizen. Resolved 2nd. That we tender his widow and children our sympathy in this their darkest hour. Resolved 3rd. That these resolu;ions be inscribed in our minute jook, published in our county papers ind a copy be sent to the family. ) Thomas H. Gorm, Com. / Jksse B. Davis, , \ G. Thomas Hollis.' Cross Keys, Feb. 22, 1902. Inherent Strength of the South. "Twenty years ago the South, burdened with debts which had been largely imposed upon it by unscrupulous legislatures, without any accumulation of wealth, and without financial credit abroad, was just emerging from tho wreck and ruin of war," says the Manufacturers' Record of Baltimore in its Twentieth Anniversary Number. "Its railroads were mainly short disjointed lines, poorly equipped, and in many cases almost; if not quite, banbrupt financially as well as physically; its laboring peoplo were without industrial training as operatives, and its business men without experience in thu management of industrial enterprises ; its cotton mills were few ana far between, and very rarely could the light of a furnace fire be seen. Starting under these adverse conditions, the South had to meet the competition of the North and West, which at that time were flushed with unprecedented prosperity. Their railroads were burdened with triffic; their capital and energy had for years been employed in the greatest and most profitable undertaking which ever fell to the lot of any nation?the building up and outfitting of the empire stretching from the Ohio to the Pacific coast. Millions poured into that section had returned with millions of profit to manufacturers, to bankers, to land owners and to merchants. The great financial powers of Europo and America were concentrating their forecs upon the upbuilding of that territory in order to mako more valuable their vast investments in rilroaads and in land grants. Under theae diverse conditions, the fact that the South has been able, during the last twenty years, to keep pace with the rapid expansion of the North and West is in itself a high tribute to the people of this section, as well at a proof of the inherent strength of its industrial foundation." Wm. A NICH( BANK SOLICIT YOT1 Am! promise courteous treati tion consi; G-OOD Write all kinds of Insuran MONEY ORDERS Issue Office and Express Company few houses, and they the bigger kind. Why is this? I hare looked over the Auditor's books and saw such places that I knew. You can too if you lo >k. If thero was no tax dodging I taxes could be cheaper. Some of the roads across the bot. torns are very bad and "foot passengers" can scarcely get along at nil. The streams are filled, some have changed their courses and running "broad cast" over the bottoms. "Rafts" are in the stream?. Every year the County Supervisor ? ays for art advertisement warning the people to clean out the streams as the'liw says. Yet I know there are some who utterly ignore this warning, I do not thiuk giving Jt any more attention than they would the croaking of a frog in one of the ponds in these bottoms. You can ride along the road and hoar the water pouring over these obstructions. Where does the blame lie? There must be some. The jury law being unconstitu tion il the legislature passed a new 1 *- '