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Has rB^ |"T T1 fl T M T ~T /V % T fT^ 1 M yfl~ Otty of Union and Suburbs Has *-<*> C?t??n Mil!., O^Knlttlh, I | J |1 1 | 11 I I \ "7| 1 1 / Hj W FWe firaded Sehools, Water Workfl, ^ and Spinning Mill with Dyo Plant, Oil I ' B fl fl "l B H H fl fl fl fl/ I B~1 p, iwerage System, Electric Lights. Three T Mill, 1'iirniture Manufacturing and B B B .j B | J fl *" fl fl fl ifl W fl fl fl' fl B ' i L J Hunks with aggregate capital of ('.'60,000, launber Yards, Female Seminary. B ^ IBB V_X -L B fl -L f Jfl- B A I Electric linil*ay. l'opula'iu.. 7,(HO. g& i ii Pi Courjt ^ i > ?'- " . m . l j' liT ? 1 ; VOL. LIV. NO. 51. - UNfON', SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY^M^MBEIMO, 1904. #1.00 A YEAR. ?__ ' _ . . % - - ? ... TV ~~ " ' "?' fki QUICKLY WE People sometimes drea< % is simply because they the customs of busines embarrassment quick those who deal at this to have it so; we want easy and at home. JKn. A. HlGHOLSai EBi '-it _ r-* ? ' rn inrming .Mory or nit Vx Capture, Imprisonment 1 end Treatment of a I Confederate Soldier. P By B. M. Hord, in "ConfederIP ate Veteran," reproduced in The by request of William ?. lallace Chapter U. D. C. vjipncluded from last week.) \ T ^iad gone a hundred yards V \j\he river bank when I felt i\ von my shoulder and some I one asked, "What company do yuw belong to?" Looking up, I t> saw it was the officer from the [ parapet. "Capt. Ameron's," I replied promptly, at the same , time ordering my squad to "close *'up.", He'walked with me a little | distance, and when not more than K \ fifty feet from wher? they were mounting guard for the day he |halted me, called to the sergeant I of the guard and asked if the de j tail from Ameron's company had m reported. They had. Facing w me squarely to them, he asked if m I belonged to their company. K The plav was over. The Yanks Kt"-. M?a tnAu/incr arrin and. shak I mg their heads, prohouncetTrtrti K&?a counterfeit." Calling a ser geant to take charge of my deI taiPof Rebs, who were as much I surprised as the Yankees, I was ? marched up to the officers' quart|\ ers, stripped of all my clothing, J\ and after failing to find an> f money or papers?I had a $1( Rj ? biH "rolled in a small ball an( | glued to my head under the haii r back of my ear?I was fumishec a pair 6f old second-hand browi jean pants, a woolen shirt, and pair of russet shoes, withou socks. The officers, several o " whom had collected, evidentl intended to make me look a ridiculous as possible, for while w^s M xall, even for my age, th thii wnished me would ha\ been- her large for a six-foo two hundred and fifty pour man. Then they began to que tion me as to wnere I procure my Yankee uniform. They fou see I had designed the pistol ar scabbard?but the clothes? knew I would be punished s ?^ "owlv if T told them I stole tl I coat to make the pants, so I d 1 cided to saddle the whole thii on a Yankee. The recruits the "calf pen" were permitt to come out in detachments, ? companied by a guard, morni and evening to get water at t well in our prison, and I told i captors that I had bought 1 clothes late one evening from < of these guards; did not kn his name and would not rec nize his face. They refused accept the statement; but coaxing bribes, or threats co make me deviate from the tr (?) of this story, so they orde the sergeant to take me to guardhouse, put me in irons, drop me in th^dungeon until memory improved. The gu; house was like our barracks cept it was better built, ha< bunks in it, was ceiled and n comfortable inside. Undern the room which we used '^en an excavation prob He by fourteen feet and e m feet deep had been m was used for a dung The entrance to it was throu trapdoor in the middle of floor, secured by a bolt on upper side. The door was 1 up*" ir thrust down in hof . _ lisoner descended ladder was withdrawn, the dropped back, the bolt shot ?there you were in darknei ' ' iflRS AWAY. | ~ i i d to enter a bank; this g are not familiar with 1 s. But this feeling of ? ly wears away with | bank; at least we try | every customer to feel a I a & SOIL Bankers 1 . j ? solutely . black. A thirty-two j pound shot oh a four-foot chain, with an ordinary spring lock cuff at the other end, was fastened around my ankle and I was , marched to the trapdoor. When it was Opened and I started down the ladder a horrible, loathsome odor from the fetid atmosphere below almost caused me to fall, but, gripping the chain in one hand and the rungs of the ladder with the other, I was carefully feeling my way down with my long russet shoes when the old, familiar challenge of "Who comes there?" sounded in the darkness below. There was a devil-maycare tone in the voice that prompted me to answer: "A , friend without the countersign." "Advance, friend! The rattle of that chain is countersign enough," he answered back. "Are you down?" the guard called io me from above. "Don't know, but I am at the end of the ladder," I replied. When the ladder was drawn up and the door closed, I saw there 1 TITO CI n -Po 1V* 4- fll/?lrOT*1WO? MOt* ^ P ?? " ittiiii/, iiiuivct jiij5 my uj light near my feet that I discovered came from the open door of a small stove. "What's your game, and what barrack are you from?" asked the voice that had challenged me. I told him, and he in turn informed me that he Unfortunate prisoner who, a short tTtn^ fight with a comrade had killed him by striking him in the head > with the footboard of his bunk. The Yankees had taken him out , of prison and ^iven him the r choice of either joining the Yan) kee army or be hung for murder, 1 and he had told them to "hang r and be d?d," so they put him 1 in the dungeon to give him time ft to reconsider. a By his side on the edge of the I it ray of light I thought I saw f something move, and I inquired y if he was alone. "0, no; you .s are in select company down I here," he replied. "There are le two Yankee deserters condemned re to be shot and a crazy nigger t, that stands a good chance of id going the same way." He then 3' told me the negro had gone sudid denly crazy while on post, and Id when the relief guard came id around had fired into the squad, I mortally wounding one of them. ie- He was in the dungeon waiting ne the decision of a court-martial, le- We had heard of the incident ir ng prison at the time it occurred in and there are doubtless many ok ed Rock Islanders yet living wh< ic- will recall it, although we at ng tached no importance to it at th< -he time. But it came back to m< my then with a shudder of horror the for when a very small child I ha >ne been bp"' >ightened by a harrr ow less iniK cue, and ever aftei og- wards the only argument my ol to nurse needed to make me sul no missive and obedient was t mid threaten me with "a crazy man. uth It was a childish fear, but 01 tred Iv'e never outgrown, and todi the I am more afraid of a lunat fkort onvl Viino" livillOT- It W! v*** "O *" * -"O- ?? ^ my but small comfort to me wh< ard- my friend told me the negro w ex- his "bodyguard," and that i no was big enough -and stroi lade enough to whip the two desei eath ers with one hand. The h as a vestige of nerve was oozing c ably of me in a cold pjf ^piration a: sight realized the situation chain ade, land in a twelve-foot dur.gc ;eon. I with a powerful, crazy negro, igh a J dropped my ball, and the rat the of the chain emphasized the h the ror of my situation. My kn ifted began to shake beneath me, * i the as soon as I could speak with I, the j betraying my fear I told door friend that I would sit do^ ? and I that I was rather tired from w ab"! morning's experience. 4 'Sor: can't offer you a chair," he replied. "We recline here mostly, and, as they have not sent your bed down, you will have to use one of the Yank's. Nig:, get the gentleman a bed." There was a commotion in the darkness, then the light shone on two long, powerful forearms and dark j hands that were holding toward me a plank, some six feet long: and twelve or fourteen inches' wide. I could see nothing more, but knew instinctively to whom the arms and hands belonged, tnrera, Sf. front of the sto'sa^-under the ray of light, I stretcned myself out on my back, my ball at my feet," and hands clasped under my head. I have no idea how long I remained in this position, for there is no record of time in a dungeon, day or night is all alike ? black, blacker, blackest?but from excitement, fatigue, and fear I must have fallen asleep, for I was aroused to consciousness by something pulling on my chain, pressing the cold iron against my naked ankle, and,I opened my eyes. On his knees bending over me, his face directly in the beam of light from the stove, and so close to mine 1 could feel his breath on my face, with a maniac's gleam in his bulging eyes, was the hideous face of the negro; in the shadowy light I could see my thirty-two pound shot resting in the upturned palm of his right hand near his shoulder while his left grasped the chain lower down which he was pulling to give hirr more purchase tp dash the ball on my head. / j electric flash was not quicke fthan I took ir> the situation o'J% clap of thunder louder than rr scream of morta' terror. He dropped the ball and, with a maniac's cunning on being discovered, glided like a snake off in the darkness. My comrade was on his feet almost a.c quick as I, and when I explained that the negro was about to dash uWiittumy hnlh & and I heard him kicking hin vigorously in the dark, at tht same time ordering him to "gc up in the corner." In a few moments he came back, told mt the negro would not again disturb me, and to lfe down am finish my nap, which I declined with the truthful assurance that I was not a bit sleepy. The absolute control this southern bo> had over this negro was so incomprehensible to me that rnanj' I vears afterwards I mentioned the fact to my friend, the late Dr. J. H. Callender, for many years superintendent of the Insane Asylum for Tennessee, and a man of national reputation as an expert on insanity, and he informed me that the case was byno means extraordinary; that the negro was a weak-minded creature to start with, that the violent and sudden change from slavery to a United States soldier, the change of climate, habits etc., had evidently deranged hi: 1 feeble mind; that it was a per feet blank as to his surroundings * but when thrown in contact wit) 3 a southern man, hearing th southern dialect, the authoritat e ive tone, and the rough treatmen 9 revived in a feeble way his mem '? ory of slavery, which made hir docile and obedient to the soutl erner, for he only remembere himself as a slave. " It seemed as if I had been coi )_ lined in darkness an eternit o when the trapdoor was openei the ladder lowered, and, instei le of calling for one of us to con \y up and get our bread ana ca lc teens of water, which were o us only rations, I was ordered cn come up. It was a moment as two before my eyes became i I1C customed to the glare of t ">? light; then I realized from t rt~ lantern in the orderly's hand tl lst it was night. The guard v >ut drawn up in open order a1 3 "shoulder," and the officer iec* | the day standing in the 01 j door. "How is your mem I now about your clothes?" t'e asked, as I halted in front or_ him. It occurred to me he wc ee*j believe one story as readily another, so I concluded to si out to the original text. "Very we my he replied: "if we can't sta wn? it out of you, maybe we can si my it out. Muster the guard outs ry I orderly." If I had been at self, I wotild have known at once I this was all bluff to bully me into a confession*. *mit I was weak, sick, and fraz&fed out generally; and when I,heard the negroes close up and come tramping out behind nie, while - the officer marched hie in front, it made me wish I was safely back in the prison once more. The guard was drawn up outside, and I was left standing some ten or fifteen steps in front of them. The officer again questioned me about the uniform, and I again gave him the same old story. After hulhunff me for a time, and repeatedly T^urming me that I was not telling the truth, m a word of three letters, he ordered " the sergeant to put me back in prisbh. I was put in the dungeon Wednesday morning about seven'o'clock and was taken out Friday night about twelve. I wore the ball for nearly two months, when it was ordered off by Capt. Ameron himself. He was officer of the day, and was watching some prisoners clean up the grounds inside the prison. I walked up close to him and drooped my ball to attract his attentionr He turned when he heard the chain rattle, looked me over, hnd asked why I was wearing the ball. I replied because 1 could not get it off (which was a fiby as I could pick the lock witlf a small nail and stout cord is fist as it could be locked, and whijh I did every night after jetong into my bunk, but was f A ATA lirifV?A1lf if '>? ^ ATT iiioiu w jju niuiuui ii. in uaj Lime for fear some spy would report me, then it would have been riveted on my leg). "What did they put it on you for?" he inluired. I stated the case, and told him it was a reflection on the standing of his company, that I had simply claimed to be i member of it when they immediately proceeded to iron me. ( saw.his eyes twinkle a little as he said, "So you are the little rasc&l who claimed to belong to myicompany, are you?" I confessed I *-og. In a f?rrr^~ to Tonavr? >vTve nau1 resrCTN?6 rhe Dig ditch that was being dug icross the prison, when he sudlenly stopped, looked me square in the face, and asked if my irons were riveted on. I told him they were not. Without re- j moving his eyes, he asked me if [ had been wearing the ball all the time. I assured him I had (with proper allowance for truth nndpr the circumstances.) "Now, see here. Johnny, I am going to have that ball taken off, but I have heard that you fellows can nick one of those locks in a flash. Let me see you do it," he said, looking around to see that no one was in hearing distance. After another assurance from him that the ball should come off, I took my little nail and string out of my pocket and in a twinkle had . the shackle off. He examined i the nail and the string, then tolc , me to do it again, which I did , He only said: VWell, I'll be d? 5 Fasten it back and come along.' - Passing out the gate, he called : , sergeant and told him to tak i my irons off and put me back i e prison. I thought I detected sly wink as he nodded his hea ,t to me and turned away, i- There is but a short span c n life left me, but I' would give i- good slice out of it to know d my comrade in the dungeon living and to grasp his hand on< n- more, or to meet some of tl ty members of the detail that d, marched out that morning wi1 id i the slop barrels, none of whom ie { knew; but if any are living ai n- I read this article, they will cc ur i tainly remember the circui ! stances of my arrest. tv/ I or Nearly forty years have pass ic- J since my dungeon experien* he ' yet at times I can feel the 1 he1 breath of that burly negro lat my cheek, can see his bulgi /as eyes with a maniac's glare t a them close to mine, and in i of shadowy darkness see my bal his uplifted hand ready to ory and crush- my head; I screan he | mortal terror, and?I feel sc of one shaking me and a v< iuld i sounning far away, sayi as ! "Husband, husband, wake dek You have a nightmare. 11," must quit eating such heavy s irve pers;" and I wake up to th loot. God it is only a nightmare ide, time, and that it was not cai my- by overfeeding on Dart's doj IF. M. FARR, President. T a Merchants and Plan Successfully Doing Busin ana is the OLDEST nank in 1 P* B Iiiih a oii|ilt:il unci siirpliitj tJ H l? th?> oil'v N *TIONAM W I has <1 iv1<I(mkU inn Si g t>nv8 KOII It per emit, ii rj ,'1 Is the only llnnk in U -In ft H ! h?s IhirRlnr- 'ro.if vault B? ?3 |>hj'8 iiio-?* taxes than AI I WE EARNESTLY SOLI i .....i... tBt COST op LIVING. Ai> increase of One Per1 Cent Over LasT New York Dec. 10.?In the month just past the cost of living advanced one per cent, due to the increase in price of dairy products. How the annual cost of living has steadily risen in the United States is shown in a series of tables published in Dun's index number, just issued. Tendencies to further increase are shown by the scarcity of wheat, milk, eggs, wool and hides, all important items in connection with making arrange- { ments for the winter. In 1861, when the civil war had just begun, the annual cost of living was $121.63, and in 1864 it had risen to $312.73. The year 1870 saw the allowance for each j person reduced to $165.47. There j was a gradual decrease until the! lowest mark, $72.45, was reached | in 1897. The cost for the_ sue- | ceeaing years was: lays, syy.y41899, $80.42; 1900, $95.29; 190l' $95M; 1902, $101.59;' 19031| $100.35; 1903, $100.14. The commodity price proportioned to the consumption for each person was on the firat of this month $100.54, as compared aiiVanc^M? Jit November and | month was due to the increased I cost of eggs and dairy products. Eggs rose eight cents a dozen, and milk was a cent higher a quart. Spirits, tobacco and tea showed no fluctuations in price. Although the fall in cotton has been great, the prices of cotton goods have fallen little, owing to the limited supplies. The available supply of wool has been depleted and it is expected that the price of woolen garments will increase. "Scarcely any significant change," runs the report, "is noted in boots and shoes, but hides and leather have moved steadily upward, almost without interruption, since the packing ; house strike, which curtailed th( supply. The shortage has nevei | been made up, and it is likely t< continue, because hides are onb * a by-product, and there is n< prospect of such a demand fo ; beef than an abnormal numbe of cattle will be killed. The othe a solution lies in the importatio e nf foreign dry hides, which ma 11 be substituted to a certain e) ** tent." (1 There is an echo of the deman f for tariff revision and the unr< )f stricted importation of raw m: ? terial in the conclusion that "th . movement was also diverted fro 1S its normal channel because < :e low prices. European marke 1(j now receiving1 many hides whi< Lv formerly came to this country th 11 O f PORT ARTHUR LOSSE Not Equal to the Ccsua ed ties at Cold Harbor? Grant's Long Reon gret. ng in In one of the recent assaults the Port Arthur, according to I in English correspondent who is fnll given to wild exaggeration, 1 in Japanese lost four thousand i >me in one hours fighting. This ;>ice fearful rate of loss, indeed, ng, it is only remotely compar up! with the Union loss in the ati You on Lee's intrenchchments 3up- Cold Harbor on that June m ank ing in 1864, when not less 1 this seven thousand were ki ised wounded or missing at the f, v f the first hour. There have i s iii ii ii?tnTiT~iTrfr?iwirirn?i?iiiii > J. D. ARTHUR, CasbUr. I C 33 ters National Bank, iess at the "Old Stand." Union, lof$10n,000. Itniik in 1'nion. luntlnir to $310 40i>. H iilprcst on H 11 in8"Gctt <1 l?v no officer, ij . >?n<| Sufo \vI Ii 'I'i r.c-l. ck. * .1, tho Vntikn in Union comliin d. gt CIT YOUR BUSINESS. | haps been no bloodier ten minutes in all the history of warfare than the first ten of the charge on Cold Harbor fortifications, when bac?f xvi&y his soldiers beaten when he came toT?&le \??s that tary career later in life hV^Ul:. that the one mistake which he deeply regretted was the ordering of that assault. It is probable that three thousand, and possibly four thousand, Union soldiers fell in the first quarter hour of that ill-advised attack on intrenchments that were too strong to be taken by storm. In the present Russo-Japane3 war, larger forces may in one or two instance have been brought into action than any that met in the American civil war, but in proportion to the numbers engaged and the duration of the conflicts it has yet to be proved that the losses equal the destruction wrought in several of the more desperate combats of the i 1 l ? ^ T "? 1 nruggie ueuveen tne rsiortn and the South.?Providence Journal. o Reasons for Prosperity. Mr. George Paish of the London Statist, after a trip through the United States, is of the opinthat this country has entered tinue for several years unless unforeseen disasters occur. He based his conclusions upon tha following conditions, according to the New York Times: "First, money is plentiful? too plentiful, say the bankers, looking merely to the low rates they have obtained this fall?and a plentiful supply of money at low rates means that no difficulty will be experienced in procuring capital for desirable objects. Second, there is no distrust, and the hesitation usual before a . nlnnl inn is now Cfiv ; pi COiUdl V/1C41 V1VVV1V. ir.g way to confidence. Aplenti^ ful supply of money plus c.nfifr dence are two conditions essen3 tial to good trade. Third, a large r section of the country is making r good profits from the unusually ^ heavy cotton, maize and other y crops, with the exception of c- wheat, and from the relatively high prices at which they are 1(* being marketed. On the whole, therefore, the crops now gathered js will greatly add to the accumum lated wealth of the agricultural of community. Fourth, prosperous ts agriculture means an active de? mand for manufacturers and for transportation, and involves heavy consumption of coal, iron S. ore and other raw products. Hence, the profits of all sections li- of the community are increased. Fifth, the extension of manufacturing plants in recent years has been so great that a much larger output can be made without ap;on preciable additional capital outan lays, thus making a large portion '* not of the new supplies 01 capiu*i arising from the nation's surfs a plus profits available for other but purposes, notably construction of able additional railway tracks, now tack badly needed on many lines to orn- ta^ce care tra^c*" than C liod end The Times and the Metropoliper_ tan Magazine one year for $1.80.