Georgia Historic Newspapers

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Battle of Salem Church,
Before I proceed to my subject I wish
to think you and the other papers and
• the people of Georgia for their generous
efforts to rebuild the Soldiers' Home, and
to express the hope that your lot and
theirs In time and eternity will be as for
tunate as that of the old soldiers who have
received this generous help.
Salem church Is. or was, a Hardshell
Baptist meeting house situated on the
road between Fredericksburg and Chan
cellorsville. As well as I can recall it stood
aoout half way between these two places.
A road crosses the main road at the
church and on the north side of it. The
church was situated in the southeast an
gle of the intersection and was a small
building, but big and old enough to have
a name, and in the beautiful month of
May. IMS, it was immortalised by the
“Gray Jackets," or Confederate soldiers.
When Joe Hooker crossed the Rappa
hannock river Lee's army was posted
dong rhe south side of the river as fol
lows: Anderson’s division above Fred
ericksburg; McLaw's division at the town,
and Jackson’s corps below the town. The
Confederate cavalry patrolled and picket
ed the various fords and- crossings.
Hooker, at the head of the main army,
crossed at the fords above Fredericksburg
and left Sedgewick with about 26,000 men
posted on the Stafford heights on the
north of the river and opposite the town.
If my memory serves me correctly, Barks
dale’s brigade of Mississippian#, of Mc-
Law's division, were on picket duty in the
town at the time. Just as they were when
Burnside made his move December IL
IM3.
Anderson’s division was the first Con
federate infantry which Hooker encoun
tered after crossing the river, which, be
ing very largely outnumbered, fell back
before the Federal force. McLaw’s divis
ion, leaving Barksdale's brigade in the
town, hurried to Join Anderson.
General McLaws took with him the
brigades of Semmes and Wofford, both
Georgia brigades, and Kershaw's South
Carolinians. It started early in the morn
ing and was followed by Jackson’s corps,
evrepting the division of Early, which was
left behind to Join with Barksdale In de
finding our position at Fredericksburg and
its Immediate vicinity.
When the three brigades under McLaws
got to Anderson’s position a forward
movement was made, which brought
Hooker to a stop and finally compelled
him or frightened him with visions of
Jackson to such an extent that he fell
back ar retreated to Chancellorsvllle Inn
and prepared to run, if the opportunity
presented itself.
ChancellorsviUe was simply an inn or
jogging house on the west side of the
road. It was a frame building around
which there was a clearing. I think, of
about thirty or forty acres. All around
♦his clearing for some distance was a
dense wood or rather thicket, very ap
propriately named tne Wilderness.
As Hooker fell back to this place we
followed him until we got within about
one mile of the Inn. when we halted. My
regiment, the Second South Qarollna, was
east of the road, with Its right, my com
pany. resting near the road. Near here a
road branched off from the main road
and looked like R led to the country south
east of the Wilderness. This was the road
jarkaon took when he caught up with us.
Soon after arriving here ope of our bat
teries went Into action in and across the
main road apd opened fire. They directed
their fire on the Tanks by the road. Think
it was done to develop the Yankee posi
tion. If this was the intention it succeeded,
for the Tanks promptly returned the fire
and that with deadly alm and precision.
In a few moments a timber chest in our
battery was blown up and in a few mo*
meats more the position was seen to be
untenable and pur battery withdrew. The
artillery in the Yankee army was the
gamest and best branch of the service.
Their infantry could outrun wild
but the artillery pretty generally stood
their ground, and often In the condition of
the boy who stood on the burning deck.
They knew how to handle and shoot can
non. and no mistake.
However, I am not writing about the
battle of Chancellorsvllle. but wanted to
show where I was "at” and how I got
there.
In the grand charge made on Mr. Hook
ed’s army by the Confederates, our bri
gade went over the Yankee breastworks
in clearing about the inn and Just Where
they touched the main road. As soon as
we got in the road, we were halted and
moved down the road towards Fredericks
burg as fast as we could go.
We came upon Wilcox’s brigade in line
of battle at Salem church, and our bri
gade formed on the right of Wilcox, and
east of the church. We got posted part
ly in an old field and partly in a swamp,
and along the cross-road beforemention
ed. On the opposite side of the road from
us was a road. ...
When Sedgwick succeeded in getting
possession of Mayre's heights the road
to Chancellorsvllle was open to him, with
the exception of surti opposition as Wil
cox’s and the remnant of Barksdale's
brigades could offer him. He promptly
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took advantage of his opportunity and
moved towards Chancellorsvllle. Wilcox,
with his “people.” as he called them,
made stands at different places, and held
them until flanked out; he did this so as
to give Lee time to help him, as he was
being driven upon the rear of Lee’s right
wing.
The Yankees had been flanking and
forcing him back all day long and when
he made his stand at Salem church, he
was attacked by Sedgwick with the same
tactics and the same confidence as before,
but McLaws had gotten his brigade into
position in the nick of time. In this at
tack Sedgwick made his heaviest and
most determined flank move in front of
Semmes and Wofford on the left of the
line; as by this he hoped to connect with
Hooker, near the river.
The Yankees were astonished at finding
troops on the right and left of Wilcox—
they had not expected to have any fight
ing to do at these points. They also were
surprised In front of Wilcox, for they
did not expect him to flank—they thought
he would be gone as before. The Federal#
came pouring through the woods right
up to our lines, and when they were fired
into were close up. so that when our line
fired on them they fell thick and fast.
Numbers of them fell right tn the road,
and only a few feet from the lines. Their
loss w«s heavy in killed, wounded and
prisoners.
I saw lots of prisoners who could not
speak a word of English, and who had
been In the United States only about thir
ty days.
They had Joined the Yankee army for
the bounty, which at this time was about
|750. We called these fellows prisoners (?)
of war—that IB soldiers (?> captured in
war. I have said to myself many times
since this; "Oh, soldier! how many sins
have been committed In your ngme?”
The resistance which they met in tnls
attack was so unexpected and so sudden
that they never rallied, and It put Sedg
wick on the defensive.
We made no general advance after this
repulse, but simply maintained our posi
tion. This was necessary, as before we
could advance, k was necessary to es
tablish connection with Early on our
right.
While we were waiting for this to be
done, we were shelled by the Federal ar
tillery and as they could not see our line
because of the wood In our front, the oc
curacy of their fire was a study—they
burst shell and shrapnel right over and
at us. ’
If I remember correctly, the woods
caught fire in front of Wilcox's brigade
unit some of the Yankee wounded were
burned. Finally, we got in touch with
Early on our right, and Kershaw's brig
ade, with the co-operation of troops right
and left charged the Yanks. .
They shelled us heavily as we advanced
through the timber, and while we paid no
attention to the bursting shells, we did
to the falling limbs and tops of trees, and
these were about as bad as the shells.
But the brigade pushed ahead in spite
of shells and falling timber, and the oppo
sition of the Infantry, and we forced them
out into the open country which lay along
the river.
When we had done this and had also
gotten out of the timber, the Yanks lit
out—lnfantry, artillery, and all!
It was In the afternoon. We pursued
them towards Fredericksburg and also
towards the river, but we failed to catch
or disable all of them; some got away.
When night overtook us in the fight and
pursuit was impossible, we halted at a
farm house. The moon soots rose, in fact
rose about the time night should have
set in. so that It was pretty light.
While we were here a lot of mounted
musicians rode into my regiment's line.
They were Federal#, and had been out
during the charge, and in trying to get
with their own men after night fell into
our hands.
We captured a number of Yankee sol
diers in the same way while at this place.
AU of them came Into our Une from the
direction of our right and rear.
We must have opened up a gap between
our brigade and Early, and thus these
people escaped, being driven with the
others.
The battle in and about Fredericksburg
and Salem church was Important, and Is
separate from the main fight at Chan
ceUorsville, for this latter was over before
that at Salem church had begun. But
from the way the battle of Salem church
was brought about we might consider
the fight there, at Fredericksburg and be
tween the two places, as a scholium to
the main proposition—Chancellorsvllle, or
the WUderness.
The fight was lively, interesting and
funny. The losses of the Yanks under
Sedgewick were greater in proportion to
the number of their opponents than was
the case around Chancellorsvllle.
I never thought that our division and
Early’s whipped Sedgewick, but when we
charged him his men thought Lee, Jack
son and the devil were after them, and they
fled from them, and not from us; for I am
satisfied if this had not been the case they
would have stood by their guns until we
got near enough to put salt on their tails,
when we would have bagged them all. As
it was, the river was their salvation.
Their surprise when they charged what
they thought was only Wilcox, and the
way they were handled and driven back
was funny; and the way they hit the grit
when wo finally charged them was funny;
and the music the boys made with the In
struments we got from the band Was fun
ny; and the astonishment of the Yankee
band when they fell In with us was like
wise funny.
Sedgewick’s crowd was defeated by Gen
eral Astonishment. In fact, I never think
about the battle of Salem church without
smiling.
I enjoyed Comrade Mcßride's account of
It, and merely add this to his because I
think that something from ev.ry brigade
ought to be written so that tne readers of
The Journal can have a history of the
battle.
Some accounts from the following com
mands ought to be given; the brigades of
Barksdale, Wilcox, Cobb or Wofford, and
the brigades of Early's division. Espec
ially should some survivor of Wilcox’s
Alabamians and Barksdale's Mississip
plans write of it, for around these two
center the most important and interesting
histories of the events which led to the
battle.
Don’t grumble because the Yankee says
he whipped us, but tell the public how we
licked them.
One individual cannot tell all that his
brigade did, because each regiment was a
distinct organisation, and rallied and ad
vanced over different ground and follow
ed separate flags.
To be exact, then, each regiment ought
to have a historian, and such historian
should send his communications to the
Journal. In this way we will have com
piled a history of 313 pages in a year.
I have a little grandson who says that
when General Jackson got after the Yan
kees that they were scared to death; they
ran as fast as turkeys, with their hair
standing straight up on their heads, and
that he would like to have been after
them.
He says he Is going to keep these short
calls In The Journal and write a true his
tory when he is big enough.
So. comrades, The Journal is not only
publishing history, but is making histo
rians for the future.
W. A. JOHNSON,
Co. D, 2nd S. C. V.
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JOURNAL’S
| SATURDAY ;
| SERMON
<• ... '
The text teaches: ’
1. The need of our children—bringing up.
2. Who ought to bring them up—fathers.
3. The means to be used by fathers in
their bringing up—the nurture and ad
monition of the Lord.
4. The Bible plan or God’s plan for bring
ing up our children. "Ye fathers provoke
not your children to wrath, but bring
them up In the nurture and admonition
of the Lord."
5. And that this message to fathers Is a
commandment from God.
In all this epistle to the Ephesians and
to us, St. Paul is telling us how to attain
to noble life and character. Hear him:
"Put off the old man which Is corrupt ac
cording to the deceitful lusts, and be re
newed in the spirit of your minds, and
put on -the new man which after* God is
created In righteousness and holiness.”
“Till we all come in the unity of the
faith, and of the knowledge of the son
of God unto a full-grown man unto the
measure of the stature of the fullness of
Christ." This high Ideal of life and char
acter Is set before fathers, mothers and
children, who lived in that great and
wicked city of Ephesus. Into this city
came the commerce of Asia by land and
sea, and It was the center of the Idola
trous worship and orgies of "Diana.”
. Surely, if fathers could bring up their
children there, in the nurture and admo
nition of the Lord, it could be done any
where. It was done there and thank God,
It is being done in thousands of homes
here. Father, see to It that your home Is
one of them.
The need of our children.
"They are in the midst of a crooked and
perverse generation.” "The days are evil,”
and St. Paul's faithful description of those
faraway times is the exact portraiture
of these modern days. He says:
"Put on the whole armor of God, that
ye may be able to stand against the wiles
of the devil. For we wrestle not against
flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the
darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness In high places—Ephesians vll,
11-12. These are the foes with -which we
and our children must contend today.
They will need mighty help to triumph
over these enemies of their souls. But the
same Holy Priest who enabled St. Paul
to see and know the foes, also showed him
the plan for our good fight and perfect
victory. Certainly no father is willing to
risk mere expedients with his children
In such a conflict as this. No, our chil
dren as well as ourselves must put on
the whole armor of God. Here is our duty
as fathers, "drilling,” “bringing up” in
the use of the whole armor of God.
Who must bring up these children?
There Is definite answer: "And ye fa-,
there, provoke not your children to wrath.
I
The Original Story of Nancy Hart.
Rev. George G. Smith, the Macon histo
rian, writes to tjie Macon Telegraph to
correct the impression that might have
been formed by a recent article In that
paper, to the effect that Nancy Hart
might have been a creature of romance.
Historian Smith declares, as Is a well
known fact, that there was a Nancy Hart,
but he thinks the story of her capturing
the tories, of her being cross-eyed, and
her wading the Savannah river, lacks
foundation. It was, however, published In
part In the Georgia Journal of 1825, but
was evidently a fabrication. Historian
Smith says It was believed by George
White and printed in his historical collec
tions, but has no sufficient support. Neith
er Colonel Jones nor Bishop Stevens ac
cept it, and old Judge Underwood said he
had been raised in Elbert and never heard
it. The Harts were highly respected peo
ple, and Thomas Hart Benton was the
grandson of Thomas Hart, a brother of
Benjamin.
In explaining his statements about the
story of "Who struck Billy Patterson,”
Mr. Smith said:
"William Patterson was a rich merchant
In Baltimore. He owned much land in
Georgia. His will was placed on record
In Carnesville. A young lawyer made the
story which appears in The Telegraph.
There was no truth in it. Billy Patterson
never was in Georgia, never was struck
and never offered a reward for the man
who struck him. I had no Idea of being
quoted or I might have been more careful
in my statements and not have uninten
tionally misled the reported.
“I was not aware until last week of
when the story of Nancy Hart’s prowess
was first published, when I found it in
an old Journal in the Telegraph office.”
The story of Nancy Hart was published
in the Milledgeville Recorder of 1825, and is
as follows: . "•
This old-fashioned matron of Amazon
ian strength and habits, says The Re
corder, occupied such a conspicuous sta
tion during the times that tried men’s
souls, and women’s, too, that it is thought
expedient to take a passing notice of some
of her most prominent actions; particu
larly as the old revolutionary stock is
nearly gone, and their deeds, like the
whtte sails of vessels disappearing in the
mist of the ocean, become more indistinct
until they are lost—or will be so distorted
by tradition that credulity itself might
pause at theia recital. The following par
ticulars are based on incontrovertible
facts:
•Nancy Hart and her husband settled be
fore the revolutionary struggle a few
miles above the Ford or Broad river,
known by the name of the Fishdam Ford
in Elbert county, In the bend of the river
near a very extensive canebrake. An ap
ple orchard still remains to point out the
spot, and to prove the provident powers
of its planter. In altitude Mrs. Hart was
almost Patagonian and remarkably well
limbed and muscular—in a word, she was
lofty and sour—she possessed none of. that
nobility of nerve which characterises mod
ern times—marked by nature with prom
inent features, circumstances and accident
added perhaps not a little to her peculiar
ities. She possessed none of those graces
of motion which a poetical eye might see
in the heave of the ocean wave or the
change of the summer cloud; nor did her
cheeks (I will not speak of her nose) ex
hibit those rosy tints that dwell on the
brow of the evening or play on the gilded
bow; no one claims for her throat that it
was lined with fiddle strings, but this
must be acknowledged, that her step be
spoke energy, and be it said only for the
sake of truth that she could round off re
gardless of being called a hard swearer.
The perforating punch of the gatemaker
never did closer work on the yielding tin
than did that dreadful scourge of beauty,
the smallpox when it set its emphatic
signature on her face. She was horribly
cross-eyed, as well as cross-grained, but
nevertheless she was a sharpshooter.
Nothing was more common than to see
her in full pursuit of the stag—the huge
antlers that hung around her cabin or
upheld her trusty gun gave proof of her
skill in gunnery—and the white comb
drained of its honey and hung up for or
nament testified her powers in bee find
ing. She was remarkable for her fre
quent robberies on these patterns of in
dustry and piqued herself on the invention
of an infallible bait for their discovery.
Many can testify to her magical art in the
mazes of cookery, being able to get up a
pumpkin in as many forms as there are
days in the week; she was extensively
known and employed for her knowledge
in the management of all kind of ailments,
| BRINGING UP A CHILD. |
TEXT—“And ye fathers provoke not your children to wrath; but bring
them up In the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”—Eph. 6:4.
BY REV. JOHN E. ROSSER, £
J-! Methodist City Missionary.
but bring them up in the nurture and
admdnltlori of the Lord." You cannot do
your duty to your children nor keep the
commandment of God by leaving your
work to others.
Not even the saintly Wife, the mother of
your children, can take your place. Still
less can you impose It upon school teach
ers, Sunday school teachers or the
preachers. They are all to be your helpers
—they coud not be more if they would.
It Is written, “Bear ye one another’s
burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
And also: "Every man shall bear his own
burden.”
The means to be used by the fathers
In bringing up their children—“the nur
ture and admonition of the Lord.” "Nur
ture and admonition” are not raw mate
rials like bread and water. They are as
similated materials by mind and spirit,
the outcome of which is “nurture and
admonition.” As the mother takes the
bread and water into her own body and
transmutes them into the sincere milk for
her child, so fathers must feed upon the
word of God—yea, and the very Christ
himself, by communion with him.
The product is “nurture and admonition
of the Lord.”
In other words, the Bible is not 'nurture
or admonition to your children, nor Sun
day schools or church services. You fath
ers are to be God’s epistles to your chil
dren.
They know no Bible nor church nor God,
save as they find these in your life and
character. These must be Incarnated in
you. The children read you and you are
their "nurture and admonition, whether
you will or no.
It is still true, though you turn away
from the Green pastures of the Lord and
feed upon the bitter weeds of earthly
philosophy, or the poisonous vines of the
counsel of the ungodly.
It takes time to nurture and admonish
your children in the Lord.
Your first time Is due them and you
have all the time there is.
There is no business so Important to you
and your children as their "bringing up.”
It was well said years ago If a father be
called to kingship and have not time to bo
king and bring up his children as God
commands, let him not hesitate, but “quit
being king.”
For what shall it profit it a father to
become rich or famous or ruler—to gain
the whole world and lose his own chil
dren?
What service for fellowmen, or moreover
tor God, takes precedence over this charge
to fathers?
Our Lord thought when among men in
the flesh that children dishonored God, as
well as father and mother, when they
put into temple chests what ought to go
to parents.
Then is It not true that fathers dishonor
their children and God when they neglect
and yielded the rilm to no one in the
variety and rarity of her medicaments.
Her skill and knowledge took a wider
and more profitable range, for it is a well
known fact that she hbld a tract of land
by the safe tenure of a first survey, which
was made on the Sabbath hatchet in hand.
But she was most remarkable for her mili
tary feats. She possessed high-toned ideas
of liberty—not the marriage knot could
restrain her on th«MU#upJect. Like the
"wife of Bath "
She received over tongue-scourged
husband, ■-
The reins of absolute command.
With all the government of house and
land,
And empire o’er his house and o’er his
land. J
WHEN WAR CLOUDS GATHERED.
The clouds of war gathered and burst
with a dreadful explosion In this state.
Nancy's spirit rose with the tempest. She
proved herself "a friend to her country,
ready to do or die.” \
All accused of whiglsm had to swing.
The lily-livered Mr. Hart was not the
last to seek safety in the canebrake with
his neighbors. They kept up a prowling,
skulking kind of life, occasionally sally
ing forth in a kind of predatory style. The
tories at length determined to beat the
brake for them. They, however, conclud
ed to give Mrs. Hart a call, and in a true
soldier manner, ordered a repast. Nancy
soon had the necessary materials for a
good feast spread before them—the smok
ing venison, the hasty hoecake and the
fresh honeycomb. Thesfe were sufficient to
prove the appetite of a gorged epicure.
They simultaneously stacked their arms
and seated themselves, when, quick as
thought, the dauntless Mrs. Hart seized
one of the guns, cocked it and with a
blazing oath declared she would blow out
the brains of the first man who offered to
rise or to taste a mouthful.
They all knew her character too well
to imagine that she would say one thing
and do another, especially if it lay on the
side of valor.
CAPTURED SIX TORIES.
“Go," said she to one of her sons, "and
tell the Whigs that I have taken six d—d
tories."
They sat still, each expecting to be of
fered up, with a doggedly mean counten
ance, bearing the marks of disappointed
revenge, shame and unappeased hunger.
Whether the incongruity between Nan
cy’s eyes caused each to imagine himself
her immediate object, or whether her
commanding attitude and stern and fero-
COFFEE DID IT.
Would Have Been Fatal If Kept Up.
"Coffee! Oh, how I did want it after
the nervous strain of public work. Some
thing warm to brace me up was all the
breakfast I craved, but every time I
drank it I suffered the dying sensation
that follows it with heart fluttering and
throbbing of the throat and ears.
"I had no strength to throw away in
that way, so decided that hot water must
do for me.
“One morning I came to breakfast in
the home of some friends in Pueblo, Col.,
just in time to see the mother pouring
some rich deep yellow coffee into mugs
for the two little boys. One little chap
had thrust his Angers in the mug and was
licking them with such approving smacks.
This opened the way for me to say: “Are
you not afraid of the effects of coffee on
the little folks?’ The mother explained
that it was Postum Food Coffee made at
Battle Creek, Mich., and remarked, “We
think there is nothing like it.’ Then she
explained how the new coffee had weaned
them away from the use of the old fash
ioned coffee and tea because *it is so
wholesome.’ I drank It for the first time,
and was delighted, not only with the de
licious flavor, but the after satisfaction it
gives. One day I was speaking with our
family physician's wife about Postum,
when her daughter remarked: ‘Yes, mam
ma, we are out of Postum, and I have
used coffee for the last two mornings and
it always brings the tired feeling and
troubles my stomach and bowels, but Pos
tum makes me feel all right.’
"In one home they served Postum in
such away that it was tasteless. I have
found that Postum boiled sometimes five
minutes, and sometimes ten, is nothing
more than spoiled water, but when it is
made with two heaping teaspoonfuls for
each cup, and boiled fifteen or twenty
minutes it becomes a tried and proven
breakfast favorite, and for refreshment
and wholesome nourishment has no
equal.M. Yates Goshen. Ind.
the bringing up of their children, though
they speak to multitudes in God's name.
Judge thou.
The heaviest burden, of our land Is not
Its ignorance, though that Is heavy
enough, but the children brought up In
all else except the "nurture and admoni
tion of the Lord."
The cry goes up all over the land from
school houses, business houses, churches,
courthouses, almshouses and prisons for
fathers to. "bring up.their children in .the
nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
O that all our fathers would heed this
cry and stand up like Joshua and the
eKers of Israel saying, "as for me and
my house we will serve the Lord.” Then
shall it be said of us, “the people served
the Lord all the days of our fathers.
Blessed is that people whose God Is the
Lord.”
The Bible >lan for bringing up our chil
dren:
There are Just two features of it.
1. Don’t rely on negations in moral con-
duct. Ail systems of training which merely
show what we ought not to do are fail
ures. •
They are only half truths and only result
In "provoking our children to wrath.”
2. The Bible plan ■’includes "admonition”
and "nurture.” too,—the positive side of
moral conduct—what ought to be done.
“And ye fathers provoke not your chil
dren to wrath, but bring them up in the
nuture and admonition of the Lord.”
Whatever has been said of the plans
from the worldly-wise for bringing up
children, no one ever heard this—a dying
father or child praise that plan or re
joice over death and the grave.
On the other hand, never did dying
parents or children regret having reared
the children by the Bibie plan.
This message from God to father is a
commandment.
We thank God it is so. _
God, through His word, has told us
what we ought to do.
"And when God has told us what we
ought to do he has already told us what
we can do.” ‘
• There is another thing fathers must do—
choose between the plans of the ungodly
and of God for bringing up our children.
We cannot do both, and we will take
either the ways of the world or the plan
from God-
May the Holy Spirit make us wise, that
we may walk in the way of God, saving
our wives, our children, our country and
ourselves. May we live nobly, die in peace
and have a joyful entrance into the ever
lasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ.
Bears the Yo ° Haw * ,wa ”
Published In the Milledgeville ;!;
Recorder In 1825.
clous fixture of countenance overawed
them, or the powerful idea of their un
soldier-like conduct unnerved them, or the
certainty of death, it is not easy to'de
termine. They were soon relieved and
dealt with according to the rules of the
times. This heroine lived to see her coun
try free. She, however, found game and
bees decreasing, and the country becoming
old so fast—to use her own words—that
she Bold out her possessions in spite of her
husband, and was among the first of the
pioneers who paved the'way to the wilds
of the west.
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WU TING FANG IS INQUISITIVE.
In His Trip Through North Carolina
He Jollies the People.
CHARLOTTE, N. C„ Oct. 17.—Tn his
trip through North Carolina to attend the
meeting of the passenger agents at Ashe
ville, Chinese Minister Wu Ting-Fang,
wherever his train stopped and he was
called for, appeared on the rear platform
of his special car and questioned and Jol
lied the crowd at the station in his char
acteristic manner. He spent about an
hour in Salisbury Tuesday, and greatly
amused those assembled around his car.
The Chinaman asked about the popula
tion of the town, how many were white,
how many colored, and the number of
Chinamen who lived there. When told
there were three Chinamen, one woman
and two children, Mr. Wu said he hoped
the people of Salisbury treated them kind
ly.
At Hickory, a large crowd called for the
minister, and Mr. Wu said, "Why are you
children not in school?”
“Because we came here to see you,” re
plied a little girl.
“How did you know I was coming?”
continued the Chinese ambassador.
"We saw it in the paper,” replied the
young lady.
"What paper?” asked Mr. Wu. The dis
tinguished celestial then inquired what
the population of the town was, and on
being told that it was 3,000, he said:
"Where do they live? I don’t see the
houses.”
Find Bostrom’s Improved Farm Level
advertisement, and see what you get free.
Some newspaper has discovered that
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who married the
daughter of Senator Aldrich the other day,
doesn’t smoke, drink, play cards, race
horses, dance, believe in treating, go to
the theatre or play golf. What a lot of
money has been wasted on this young
man.
Tom he was a piper’s son,
He learned to play when he was young
But the only tune that he could play
Was “Over the Hills and Far Away.”
F!nd his father and mother.
COLONEL WAYLAND’S NIECE.
The once splendid property of the
Southern Grain, and Lumber company was
in ruins, and had been so for such a
period that it ceased to interest any one
but the passing stranger. Its splendid
beginning and sudden collapse no longer
elicited the comment of the people to
Whose neighborhood it promised at one
time to bring--prosperity.
Yet the site and its surroundings were
in its decay. The main build
ing was intact, though lush Vines crept
up through the half-rotted floor, the dirt
dauber buUt along the mouldering walls,
and the unsightly windows; and through
the adjacent woods hundreds of decaying
logs testifled to the mammoth scale of
the enterprise in its inclplency. The
kingfisher, perched on a protruding shaft
over the great dam, was seldom disturbed
except by the Idler or an occasional ang
ler; and down on the-sandbar the wary
turtle lazed in the summer sun, with
none to molest or make it afraid. What
calmness to follow the bustle and stir
the place knew in'the years gone by!
Ten years before, Colonel Wayland and
his young friend Hollln McVall had con
ceived the Idea of erecting their plant
there, and the future .loomed propitious
indeed. With a capital of a quarter of
a million dollars they purchased ten
thousand acres of timbered land, erected
a glantlc concern that was a wonder to
the natives, and brought from a distance
three or four hundred lumbermen as well
as a number of agriculturists and ex
perienced mllJere. Millions of feet of lum
ber were cut,-and the whir of saws and
the drone of rollers made a song which
stirred the sleepy denizens into some
thing like a corresponding activity.
Suddenly, however, there were rumors
of friction between the partners; a sensa
tional trial resulted; the owners of the
property left the community, the employes
following from time to time; and the logs
in the mountains became moss-covered
and rust began Its ravages on the ma
chinery.
Colonel Wayland's family consisted of
himself, his son Luther and a niece. Miss
Mary Woolistan. The son was dissipated,
and the gossips had it that this was one
reason for Colonel Wayland’s removal to
that out of the way region—lndeed, a more
cogent one than the hope of bettering his
fortune. Luther and McVall had no ad
miration for each other, and it soon be
came apparent that their dislike was due
to a rivalry for the hand of Miss Woolis
tan. Their relations were strained from
the beginning, and It was somewhat nat
ural that the father should take sides with
his son, though a man of too much Judg
ment to believe that the latter was al
ways right in the tilts the young men
now and then had.
One day, surmising that McVall had
declared his* love to the young lady, and
that she had responded favorably, Luther
had an interview with his rival, upraiding
him for coming between him and happi
ness; and intimating that the attentions to
his cousin should cease. He was under the
Influence of intoxicants, and McVall over
looked for the time his threats and im
pertinence; but later in the day was forc
ed to more drastic measures.- He was ap
proached by Luther just’outside the main
building, where a number of the employes
and patrons were gathered, and before he
was aware of the young man’s intentions
was struck a stinging blow in the face.
“Now, you dastard!” hissed Luther.
"Any one who takes that is fully enti
tled to the role of treacherous friend!”
McVall was rather slight physically, but
he had developed his muscles by out
door sports, and' was in consequence a
wiry antagonist when aroused. The in-
I IV i 11 Vb
"Now, you dastard!” hissed Luther.
suit could not have been silently borne
by him, even had he been less able to
resent .it; and so, Infuriated beyond con
trol he raised the cane he generally car
ried and administered several blows
on the head and In the face of his as
sailant. The latter struck out with great
spirit, but becoming blinded by the blood
flowing from his wounds, he was obvi
ously at a disadvantage. A last blow
with the heavy cane brought him to his
knees, when the bystanders interfered and
separated the two.. Each was carried
to his home, and as It was then late, a
second immediate meeting was not prob
able.
"Your beating has sobered Luther,” ob
served a friend to McVall an hour later.
"But he says the affair Is not over; you
should keep a sharp lookout for him. I
do not believe he would hesitate to take
any sort of advantage.
As is generally the case with one slow
to anger, McVall had not yet become
composed. He was still in a considerable
rage.
"And I am not through with him,” he
replied. "He must apologise to me for
his wanton attack when he becomes so
ber.”
This threat, which would not have been
made after he had cooled off, probably,
was remembered against him to his hurt.
The next morning Luther Wayland was
missed. Inquiry was made, but he was
not hearg of. One of the mill .employes
stated that he had met him . .about-10
o'clock the night after the difficulty, and
he had explained to him that he was going
to seek McVall and apologise for the act
committed while beside himself with li
quor. McVall averred that h* had not
seen him after the trouble, and seemed as
much mystified over his absence as the
family.
The weeks passed. There was a decid
ed coolness between the partners, but no
clash. About three months subsequently
a body was found in the mill pond, bare of
clothing and so mutilated by the fish that
it was unrecognisable. The opinion war
I ilnx
. "I never believed It*
general that it was Luther. There was
talk of foul play, and suspicion pointed
to Mc\ all, and he was arrested, tried arid
acquitted for lack of evidence, there being
nothing against him but the threat before
mentioned. Saddened and soured, Colonel
Wayland gave up his enterprise and mov
ed away; while McVall did not care to
remain in the community, that believed
him guilty of murder and shut down the
mill and also left the place.’ r'
At intervals during the years that fol
lowed men came to look at the property
with the idea of buying it, but no deal
was ever consummated.
About a decade from the giving up of
the enterprise, McVall, returning from Eu
ropa, decided to visit the place where he
had spent some pleasant as well as un
happy days. He had not forgotten ’’love's
young dream,” although he supposed that
Miss Woolistan looked back to their old •
intimacy with feelings of revulsion, con
sidering him a criminal unwhipped of
Justice.
Is there such a thing as telepathy?
Why was It that Coolnel Wayland and his
niece decided about the same time to re
visit the mill site?
On his arrival McVall heard that they
were in the community also. He did not
care to meet them, and Intended to leave
soon. He strolled from his lodging house
and, looking through the main building,
passed down to the sand-bar where Ln for
mer evenings he often met Miss Woolln
stan for a boatride. He was startled to
find that some one had preceded him—a
woman who had a familiar appearance.
Her back was to him, but his approach
had been noticed, and he decided to pass
on by her.
In a moment more Miss Woolistan—
changed by the years, but beautiful still
—arose and offered him her hand. She
was not a little embarrassed, but hes
greeting was with the old-time cordial
ity.
“Then you no longer believe me a crimi
nal, Mary?” he asked, with a hint of re*
proach in his eyes.
"How could I, when Luther Is alive and
well?” responded the lady. Then softly:
"L never believed it He left home that
night, and when he came to us five years
ago, he declared that the trouble with
you had been a turning point in his life.
He has completely reformed, and—”
"And now we are to be happy at last?”
"If you wish it—yes.”
As this bit of personal history is not a
story who,e art might be jeopardised by
an explanatory word in conclusion, let ms
say that the Southern Grain and Lumber
company was reorganised, and the couple
so long kept from love’s heritage were
happy. *
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