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THE REUNIOIS
(Continued from last week,)
As stated in the closing paragraph
pf our Texas Trip, last week, the
Ivaliph parade was the great feature 1
of Wednesday, the second day. of the
reunion at Dallas. This parade i
took the place of the lloral parade at <
Memphis, Tcnn., upon the occasion i
of the Veterans Reunion last year.
The people were strewn along the <
streets by the thousands and tens of f
thousands and cheered lustily as the i
glittering parade passed. There
were twenty lloats in the parade i
drawn by teams. These lloats were 1
goneu up in various anu curious ]
^ designs. representing woltdcrlund us
seen by Mustapha, the roomful, in u i
jouri>cy around the celestial circle t
on bright Luna, the orb cf the night,
entitled "Quid Luna Videt," "What j
the moon saw." This was the name i
adopted for the pageant; and rightly t
named in honor of lnr who discloses t
to mortal ken some of her wonders 1
and mysteries of which the poet said: i
"That beautious maiden with fore- t
laden, whom mortals call the moon."
The Kaliph, or king, issupposed to
be sleeping and the wondrous sights t
these lloats represent arc those sup- ;
. posed to have been seen by him, i
when transported by a powerful gini j
to the moon. ?
Float No. 1. "Ilis majesty, the i
King." i
No. 2. Here is a scene where his i
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cuurieurs uispori meiuBcives aim 13 en- 1
titled, "The Royal Court." j
No. 3. "Quid Luna Videt," 1
"What the moon saw." ,
No. 4. The heroes of the "Lost
Cause" showing to the sons how the
battle scarred heroes passed the weary 1
hours when far away from home. It
was iabled "The Bivouac" bearing
the motto, "Camping on the Old
Tent Ground."
No. 5. "In Rome," showing when
the city ofTaber was known ns "The
Mistress of the World.'1
No. 3.. "In the Meadows" at midnight.
"Where fairy cloves
Whose midnight reveals by a forest
side or fountain, sotno belated pes int
sees."
No. 7. "In the Palace of the
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rung wncrc nign reveiry is neiu.
No. 8. "Among the Lillies."
No. 0. From the natural to the
supernatural is a short atop, and the
next the moon saw and disclosed to
the sleeping potentate was a scene
called "The Gratto of ;he Spirits"
"$o. 10. Flower Land."
No. 11. "in Pluto's Realm"
where all is fire and confusion.
No. 12. "The land of the midnight
sun," where iee and mist and
snow abound.
No. 13. "In Fairy Land" in
writing of which Shakespeare said:
"Oh, there I see IJueen Mab
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Athwart men's noses as they lie
asleep.''
No. 14. "Where Bacchus Reigns"
the land of grape and wine.
No. 15. "Above the clouds,"
which is poetically described:
"ILwtten-'s Ebon Vault,
Stuulded with stars unutterably bright
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Through which the moon's unclouded t
grandeur rolls." fi
No. 10. "Mudirn India," the t
land of uiystety avid romance. a
No. 17. "The Tropics," 4'a pleas- a
ng land of drowsy head it was, of a
Ireams that wave upon half shut r
eyes." t
No. 18. "In England," the regal t<
jity of the Ivaliph, where joy reigns p
supreme. whose uiotto is. "On with 1
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.nu uunui;, ictjoy oe unconnneu.
No. 1!). "In the Orient," when u
Persia was ruler of all the realm b
from the ludies to the Mediterra- v
a can. e
No. 20. "Tlie King of Plenty and n
die Queen of Prosperity," "To seat,er
plenty over a smiling land." i"
It was a grand and glittering uf- b
'air. It is impossible to go further v
nto details regarding the different f
'cenes represented hy these lloats as li
;hey glided along the streets, but u
:hosc who saw it have no hesitancy J
n saying it was the grandest sight v
;hey ever witnessed. t
TlUltU DAY. r
This was the day for the grand e
itrect parade of the veterans, and 1
lfter a business session in the*morn-, v
ing the formation of the line was bo- s;
j;un at 10 o'clock The march was t
toon begun, which covered several a
miles up one street and down another, o
in the principal business section of I
the town. Long before the hour for e
the parade the people began to gather ?
along the streets and the jam con- V
tinned until they were packed upon >
either side of the streets for miles, c
being crowded at some points almost I
to the point of suffocation. It is l
said that it took the marching line u
two hours to pass a given point. r
The column was led by mounted r
police, then came Gen. J no. B. Gor- ?
tlon, followed by other distinguished '<
ofheers and guests. The armies of i
Virginia, Tennessee, Forest's Cav- 1
airy, Dallas Artillery, TransMi-sis- t
sippi, Missouri, South Carolina t
Division, Alabama Division, Arkan- i
sas, Georgia Division, Florida Division,
Kentucky Division, Indian Tcr- t
ritory, Oklahoma Territory, Pacific i
Division, Texas Sons of Veterans I
were all in line including sponsors i
and maids of honor, and several <
bands of music. The carriages con- |
tabling the sponsors and their maids
of honor were just in rear of each Division
Commander and his staff. A ,
prominent place in the parade had
k,.?~ n?l../.,?.l r.- ? > ?* '
uwt oc?ui;i,cu lur urcnerai iiai!ij>ton
and his staff, an<l many and sincere ,
were the expressions of regret hoard
on every side of the death of this
noble hero and patriot.
The parade washy far the largest
thing of the kind ever seen in Dallas,
and in fact, it is stoutly claimed, that
the parade and the crowd were larger
than that at Memphis last year. But .
I have my doubts about this Bo |
this us it may it can be said to tbc '
everlasting credit of Dallas that she, ,
a city <>f less than seventy thousand
inhabitants, was remarkably success-^ '
ful in caring for this great Hood of
humanity. They expected a very
large crowd, and spared no effort,
labor or expense in, preparing for i
C y !t
heir entertainment. 1 understand
hat the preparations were so exten- i
ive and complete that at least two]
housaud more people eou'il have j
icon fed and oouifoitably (juartcred, |
here was an affidavit to the cfl'-ct
hat - ver one thousand cots in the
cno?vlcdge of the committee were un>coupied.
ami a number of residences
vere not half tided to then .junta. I
In the afternoon at 4 o'clock a re
leptioii was tendered to Gen. Gordon
md other distinguished officers a'
he Episcopal College, by Mrs. Tar
>err, the principal, and the festiviies
of the day closed/ a the audi
criutn from 8 u> 0:d0 o'clock by i
;raad Kalinh's ball and the crown
ng of the Queen of the Kaliphntc by
ho King.
rOUUTP AND I. A ST PAY.
This day was taken up in the fore
i. on by routine business, election of
ilieers :unl the >elcc:ion of the next
ilacc for holding the Reunion. (New
Means was the place selected) afror
rhich the meeting adjourned ami
hose who wished spent the remaindr
of the day around town departed
a other points to visit relatives or
riends in Texas, or returned to their
ionics, and a large number went visting.
There has possibly never
een such a visiting record made in
lie. past as was made upon this occan-:...
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. V.-Vweuij^ ;i nu\>iy seillCU
ountry c >mparatively spoaking,
here are hundred:) of people there
rouj every State in the Union, and
here was possibly not an old veteran
t Dallas who did not have soiuo rob?ive
or friend in the State, and on
ccount of the remarkably cheap
atcs offered by the railroads for si?I ?
lips, hundreds and hundreds of them
ook advantage of the opportunity t-?
iiy a visit to their friends in the
jOIic Star State.
One of the incidents of the Itenion
which I do not think ought to
e omitted, and ono that I believe
ill gladden the heart of every vetran
reader of Tiih Times 1 will
lcntion right here:
At Austin, Texas, is locaP d the
ioldier's Home, where some one
undred or more poor old Confederate
eterans are living tenderly cared
or. These poor old heroes of course
itid a great desire to attend the reinion
and once more, and in all
irobabilitv for the last time, meet
nth their old comrades in arms, but
his they could not do on account of
lot having the money to pay their
xpenses. Sanger Brothers, the
argest dry goo-is firm in Dallas, and
vho, by the way arc Jews, learning
if the situation quietly ascertained
he number of soldiers in the homo
,nd purchased tickets for every
ne of them and brought them to
Dallas in a body. Upon their arrival
ach one was supplied with sufficient
noney by these noble hearted
icofde to pay their expenses while
n Dallas. To say that the hearts
?f these old soldiers were made glad
>y this kind act is to hut feebly exjress
it. This was not done as an
idvertising scheme either, as the
newspapers were earnestly requested
lot to give the name of the firm,
md in referring to it the papers said
i prominent business firm had done
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v. xjui it iiMKfu uui 01 ourse anti
i picked it up. It was the he id of
his firm who died the next day after
he soldiers arrived of which I will
nuke mention later.
This generous action on the part
>f these big hearted men i'uriished
the inspiration which brought
forth the following touching lines
"roui the pen of W. L. Sanford, of
)f Sherman, Texas, and which were
published during the Reunion in the
Dallas News:
Tin: VKTKRAKK Or AI STIN* 1IOMK.
I'liey want to go to Dallas, too, and greet
the warscarred throng;
l'lio veterans of tho Soldiers' Home,
they won't be with us long.
They've heard of the reunion, and their
pallid faces glow
W'itli thought that w ill not perish, and
their old hearts long to go
And grasp again the hands of those
they knew in that proud dav
When, bidding home and friends goodbye,
they armed and rode away.
Across the sun-kissed prar.iries dyed
with blossoms fair and sweet
There come tho blare of bugles and'the
sound of marching feet;
The voices of old captains ring again.
upon the ears;
They catch the strains of "Dixie" and'
the rebel's rousing cheers;
The martial spirit in them that has
slumbered wakes once more,
And now they long to "fall in ranks,"
perchance with Loagstreet's corps.
In vision gleam the campflres, with the
comrades scattered 'round?
Sum.*1 lounging on tiic fallen trees, some
st ret el ted upon the ground.
They smell the bacon frying and they
hear the kettle sing.
And drink, in thought, the water that
comes bubbling from the spring;
They see the bright stars looking down
upon Virginia's snow,
While thrilling recollections troop from
out the long ago.
Their misty eyes grow lustrous with a
strange, deliant light
As memory paints the tragic scenes of
('hicamauga's tight;
The flash of gray hattallions plunging
headlong to the fray;
The storm of iron hail that sweeps the
uarit hlue ranks away;
The banner with the starry cross that
proudly Haunts before,
While Braxton Bragg is paying ofT
Stone River's bloody score.
They want to bring to mind those
deeds ami fight the battle o'er
Around the mess with comrades of those
wondrous years of yore.
They know tiieir days are numbered
and the obi souls yarn to see
Once more the face of Gordon, of .Toe
Wheeler and Fit/, heo
Before they join the martyred host on
death's eternal shore?
The laurel-wreathed imortal who hare
journeyed on before!
Their stay, alas, is growing short; a few
more years, at best,
And reverend hands will gently lay
them, one by one, to rest,
And now shall we withohl from them
the modest boom they crave,
So small to us, so great to them?
Those gallamt hearts who gave
The strength of their young manhood,
aye! their blood, their limbs, their
all
In grand, heroic answer to their stricken
rnnntru'iB noil'
All, no, for proml old Texas, come what
may, will not forget
The valor of her loyal sons, nor fail to
pay the debt
Of gratitude she owes to them for what
they bravely bore
When armed oppression planted foot.
upon her sacred shore.
Her great heart throbs response, while
the warm tears start and How
And generous lfands will funrnish
means and, God be praised, they'll
go.
SOMKTHIXi! AIJOUT DALLAS.
I had alwavs .associated Texas with
the wild and wooly West. As stated
in my first letter, 1 " expected to
find wild horses and cattle by the
thousand, with the typical cowboy,
bristling with pistols and lassoes,
with his fringed leather leggins dashn
no
ing hither and thither over the plains
on his wild hronclio. I cxpec.ed to
find hundreds of these cowboys com
ing m and out of Dallas. [ was woe
fully disappointed in all 'his. In
fact I never Raw anything suggestive
of the West, according to the idea I
hud formed. I only saw one man
with a hat at all approaching the
famous Texas sombrero, and I learned
that man was from east of the Mississippi
and had bought it and was going
to wear it home as a souvenir,
possibly of a period that has apparently
long since disappeared, at least
from this section of Texas. When I
landed in Dallas I wai astonished to
find that I had landed in a l ir ge and
strictly up-to-date city, comparing
favorably in appearance with Richmond,
Knoxville and some of our
other most important cities. There
1 found broad, nicely paved streets,
towering buildings, thousands of
electric light, telephone and J tele
graph wires, street cars one way <>r
another about every two minutes, and
often running in the same direction
nn.o mirnifn o*\orf I 1 nowr.../I * U ^
VUV, UIHW'U a?'(U v 1. luai IIVU IIIUI r
wore seventy iniies of s'reet cur line
in the city ami there were severity
cars running. Right here I will
pause to say that as an evidence of
the tremendous crowd that was at
the reunion, the street cars collected
$ ">,000 a day in .r>c faros, for three
days, to say nothing of thoso who
Ix-at t itles, and used transfers from
one line to another.
After looking around half an
hour 1 decided to go out to the
fair grounds, where the reunion head
quarters had been established, and
take in what was to he soen there
and return and have a unk with somebody
who could tell me about Dallas.
'Pl.n l. *1
i IIU tail I? OUU1U IIII CU
miles out from the city. I found
qnite a crowd there and the badge
salesman and all the other trinket
hawkers usually to he found in such
places very much in evidence. The
famous Midway, however, was conspicuous
for its absence, the miniature
railway belt line was there how
ever, and Ave took a ride around the
grounds on it. Hearing music over
at the State's headquariters I went
over and listened to a violin contest
between two veterans, the music was
verv fine hut not being on the committee
to decide the question I ambled
on and inspected the dining
1 (Continued on 4th page.)
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MMINIS'BW OF THE WAR.
Interesting Incidents Connected
With i iw Lute War, Stringing Out
a Greet Pent of f'nwrittcn History,
in Which tiie I'tivate and
m <nhor<lin d Officer* nre Oivenl
fjCredit fustic Due Them. Some
of the Truest, Sot)lest nnd Urn vest
Men Th it Ever Faced an
IS 11 cm y Were to he
FOUND AMONG THE PRIVATES.
KY I. STI: A IN*.
(A 'ontinued. >
Chapter Y 111.
A great tn;fny of our ' . ! ! boy*"
?ill remember how the Virgin;? ?:ir's
used to sing patriotic ;?ii. ? i heer
them while fighting tor the (J ?? f" deraey.
' Tne Homespun Dre-s has
been revised, remodeled nod published
iti several b *ok- ami paper.*
which claim they Iihvc the original
ballad. Hut rhev are mistaken,
some of tliem. The real author was
Ni.ss Carrie Hall Sinclair, who was >
born in Millyedgevilie, (ieorgia, '
May 22, 183!h She w .s a <?.?u_r:itor '
of a Methodist ; re ichor of great 1
note, ami d.?o a great niece ot ilobert
Fulton who invented il?e .-tea m boat.
Nobody ei.-e ? ee i c'aiui its authorship.
Miss Sinclair was a pupil !
Alexamler 11. Stephens, vice president
of the Confederacy.
Here is the poem a< if came from
the pen of Miss Sinclair.
"Oh yes, I am a Southern girl and 1
glory in the name,
And boast it with far greater pride than
getting worth or fame,
I envy not the. Northern girl, her robes
of beauty rare,
Though diamonds grace her snowy neck
and pearls bedeck her hair. '
rnoisi's:
Hurrah! Hurrah! for the sunny South
so dear,
Three cheers for the hoiuespon dress
that the Southern ladies wear?
My homespun dress is plain I know,
my hat' palmetto, too;
Butthen it shows what Southern girls
for Southern rights will do,
We scorn to wear a hit of silk, a hit of
'Northern lace,
But make our homespun dresses up
and wear them with much grace,
Now Northern goods are out of date,
and since old A he's blockade
We Southern girl's will he contented
with goods that're Southern made,
The Southland is a glorius land and
her's a glorious cause,
And here's three cheers for Southern
rights and for the Southern hoys!
We send the bravest of our land to hat- i
tie with the foe.
And we would lend a helping hand, we
love the South you know,
We send our sweethearts to the war,
hut dear girls never mind,
Your soldier love will not forget the
girl he left behind.
A soldier is the lad for mo?a brave
heat I adore;
And when the sunny South is free and
fighting is no more,
I'll choose me then a love from out that
gallant band;
The soldier lad I love the best shall
have my heart and hand.
And now, young man, a word for you,
if you would win the fair,
ir. n?i.i ? i i
nv> w me nvia win*re nonor calls and I
win your la<lv there,
Remember that our brightest smiles ate
for the true and brave.
And that our tears fall on the <<ne who
tills a soldier's grave."
(To be continued.)
Santuc Sittings.
"We love the land where we can stand
Free and united, heart and hand;
Where liberty is mistress yet
111 spite of bnhe or bayonet!"
Perhaps wo arc enrouto to tho
coronation of bribe and bayonet.
I jjuess the Democratic representatives
at Washington aDne.ir ?o
| be quite an inc 'rigable set, to some, j
I do not believe I ever saw as I
i many blackberry blooms as there is j
! this season, and the crop bids f;\\r to I
be abundant,
j Itev. Mr. Merritt ftlled bis ap
pointincnt at the Metbobist church
)LSON & SON,
:ers,
R BUSINESS
neut and every accommodn>tent
with
LKTKLX1MO.
ce except life.
:d at the same rate as Post
Sumliiv. His text was from 1st
Jo!,'..
1\ i" v uM be ab nit as cheering
now as < i: possession of a few dollar-.
S-. ei-Kis along the river are
auftVi i* s b:,illv. WP Viawp lio.l -
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with prospects of more.
Wt r- r i< heading. stalks low and
, roV|.'Oti i'< r a good crop is slim,
and utiles.' rai.i e ones soon some will
be a failure, t tally.
In < 1 (',?. c* -11-*r? is eonvng up
well aiul plants look healthy. The
lio* we ill.e; i the thing. The crop
?*.?t. - i'l.-in : g.?i>(l stand to sonie
leu \ t . la i I "ii.
tli it' .re jetting ha I <?n horses
and tuuh-' r'.'s year, and stuck suffer
t'r u: ite of them. They can't
wi>-|. i places. We are greasing the
ems Invests. Il mks and bellies of
our- -very morning. It is humane.
i lino are some as pretty stands ?f
to. nied. iin ! ite pl anting as 1 ever
sa-A. t.'.o vs have taken up some
and no but mis w.-rujS are killing
s it.' h : < ;, til-' whole iheSC plan :!is
i very promising.
! i' a good thing to have a variety
it' green soiling crop for hogs, hut as
sure as y.ni try to raise and m ike
jio.'r. on s.rghuui, pinders, chufas,
fiotaO'Cs, artich -kes. etc , it i?
soing ? take time in making
r >\ food trig. f-i.m the prin i|iic
crop corn, ami the consequence
kviil lie ? short corn crop. Corn and
fieas are two essentials. and a pasture
I shoii 'I add, for summer grazing,
md c'ovi r for early spring. Therefore
it is the cheapest to have pastures
where hogs can do their own
grazing, for sure it takes much time
to prepare and work many patches.
1 heard ?o*no men talking, saying
that a cettain piece of wheat would
make twenty bushels per acre. Some
disagreed, and now I venture to say
tha* T d> not I clievc thero is an
acre in Santuc that will come up to
twenty bushels, and not a farm that
will average ten bushels per aero. I
have seen much hotter wheat than
any here that did not make twenty
bushels. I lo not believe in raising
wheat extensively here for with all
tip* pampering it is grown at a loss.
I am trying again a few acres but I
believe 1 could make more clear
money from corn and peas hiring all
the work done.
With all of the fuss they are keeping
tip ar Washing on about tha
atrocities of the U. S. soldiers in tha
Philippines, aren't the Democrats
bringing the Republicans reluctantly
to it. Rut hasn't it beon this way
by th j 1". S. army before? How
many poor Confederate prisoners
died of starvation in Northern prison
< where there- was money to buy
food for them? I low many were
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uuauie u> survive Hardships, ahuses,
brutalities, froze out. exposed while
sick hy a government that could
have been humane. Murdered in-?
directly if not directly. It is the
same stock that is doing all this now
and you can't expect much better of
them.
11 by Dknvkr.
Icj Crenm Oil.
The faiimr who sells his cottonseed to
the oil 11.ill pockets the proceeds and
turns the corner to a handy ice cream
saloon, where lie J may cool and soothe
his inner man, little t hiuks that the commo'ityhe
has jift unloaded from his
wavon at the depot ha* in it the cud?
el* lYcnts of i he popular dish of purchase*,
lit it. it is 1.0 c tin !e s inf. We are no
lonct'i d?*i? m <1 Ml' o ; "(>?t si* i?'
ww , |<??
?:11- oie no, and when she noes u i str ke.
u sets the bucket ami It-a-* in thu further
j a m e we 9"rply t urn us to th can ot
sal <1 oil mini- from < -> ton seed and jr t
,.:1 tnp fills ii? d"<\ to ii ake our cretin.
And without t si <r1i? mi. rolie to t(nuUn
us This nmy *<>ui <1 a little wU4 tu 'W*
1 homy handed,11 hut if he will watoli the
jih i'v sin ;\vho (U'U"?oi skrates at th*
W? sern ?xh\hit. in Charleston, h? io*v
see the whole \ r?>ce-8, ael if he h ar?? (V,
UMV oat some <?f t In* ?'i earn. The cow U
i no longer 4 it,'1 when ion cream i?
j cerne<l
tiubsciilue for The Tin>f%?