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TROUBLES Of MR TIME
South Carolina Lady Tells
of Confederate Days.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis mid Her Short
Stay in ihe Town of
Abbeville.
The following interesting war
reminiscences were written bv
Mrs. J. W. Marshall, of Abbeville,
South Carolina, a sister of Capt.
John J. Calhoun, of Cartersville,
who kindly allowed the News man
to read the story and publish it.
The Historical references are im
portant and interesting. The first
secession speech and the last con
federate cabinet meeting occurred
at historic Abbeville.
The letter is addressed to Capt.
Calhoun and contains many per
conal references to him that he
modestly requested should be
omitted, but his hundreds of per
sonal friends in Bartow county
will consider that the best part of
the story. The letter is as follows:
‘‘My dear Brother: This season
of the year always brings to mem
ory the sad times of forty yeats
ago, when the last hope of our be
loved confederacy was given up.
“Old Abbeville saw the begin
ning and end of the war. The
first speech on secession was here,
on the spot now called ‘Secession
hill,’ and the last cabinet meeting
of the confederacy was certainly
here.
“Mrs. Jefferson Davis had been
with her friends, Mr, and Mrs.
Burt, and the president came here
to meet her. The yankees were
right alter him. My, what a stir
and commotion we had hiding
something to eat and our silver
ware. Several persons buried it
in the woods and could never
identify the place and 'ost it. You
remember our telling you of Mary
and Fanny digging a hole in the
yard to bury our gold. After
everything was quiet they went
boldly out of the front door, but
soon came running back, having
heard some one coming toward the
house. They had actually dropped
the gold, and I had to dress and
go out to get it. Mary declared
she would save some of it and
hurriedly put several hundred dol
lars in gold pieces in her shoes,
carrying it all day. She could
scarcely lift her feet that night.
‘‘Thanks to the freshet that
washed away the bridges that
night, the yankees could not cross
the river aud had to go higher up.
They passed through Anderson,
almost demolished the place, treat
ed many of the citizens badly,
hung up old men to make them
tell where their money was that
they didn’t have and spread terror
generally.
“There is no doubt of the last
cabinet meeting being held in Mr.
Burt's house. Mrs. Burt has often
told me about it, aud only last
summer Jane, the faithful servant
of the Burts, came to see me and
talked freely of old times. She
gave me a graphic account of the
night President Davis and cabinet
met; how very late they sat up; of
his leave-taking early next morn
ing; of his shedding tears as he|
bade them goodbye, saying, ‘lt is
all over. God knows I did all I
could to save our confederacy.’
They went from here to Washing
ton, Georgia,
“You wili remember the big
lamp I had. Wicks and oil had
given out. Mother, who could do
anything in an emergency, knit a
long round wick to fit my lamp
and I used lard to burn it, oil
On all grand occasions in town
my lamp was borrowed. When
Mrs. Burt knew the president was
expected she sent over for my
lamp, with the request, ‘please to
fill it;’ which I gladly did and it
gave a beautiful light compared to
the tallow caudles then in use. By
the rays of my precious lamp the
last meeting of the dying confed
eracy was held. When returned
to me the message came to keep it
sacred. And so it would have been
kept , but unfortunately it perished
like the dying confederacy when
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REAR ADMIRAL CHARLES J. TRAIN. "
Rear Admiral Train, who is enforcing American neutrality In the far east.
Is in command of the United States warships in the Philippines. He was
graduated from the Naval academy in 1884, commanded the auxiliary cruiser
Prairie during the Spanish war, attained the rank of rear admiral in 1900 and
is one of the navy’s scientists.
our dear home crumbled to ashes
in 1876.
“Gen. Breckenridge’s command
was in camp on ’Secession hill.’
It was disbanded the morning
President Davis left. I can even
yet see the poor, heart sick soldiers
tramping, foot-sore, on their way
to their homes in the west. How
glad they seemed to rest on their
weary way under the beautiful
old oak in the yard of our cnild
hood home. Our mother did all
she could to help them. One poor
soldier gave out completely and
was taken care of for a week.
Everything possible was done for
his comfort, but at last his brave
spirit took its flight.
“And now, my dear boy, have
you forgotten your own home -
coming, w’hen mother and sister
and wife were all here expecting
vou for days? When at last the
shout was heard, ‘Marse John is
coming,’ and you rode up on faith
ful old ‘Doc’ who had carried you
so many long miles facing the
enemy, all tattered and torn, to
meet the anxious ones who had
waited so yearningly for your re
turn, there was joy in the old
home. But not a kiss did you
give until Jim had converted the
old school house into a bathroom ■
and a uew suit was put on that:
made you look like your own dear J
self again.
“My, mv, my! the hugs aud
kisses you did get that day to wel
come the soldier boy home agaiu.
Pretty soon we saw a little smoke
rising over in the woods and found
out that Jim was burning your old
clothes. He said ‘Marse John
brought too many travellers home
with him,’ For the moment we
were glad and happy enough over
your return to atoue for all the
terrors of the war.
“The reconstruction days that
followed were even more bitter
and trying to us than the war pe
riod. God grant that our children
aud grandchildreu may uever feel
what we have felt and experience
what we haye experienced.”
The News is glad to give place
to such a charmingly told story as
this and knows it will be read with
delight and that Capt. Calhoun
will be thauked for letting it be
published.
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before or after he kissed you?
Maud —I can’t tell. During the
excitement I forgot all the details.
—Life.
A LITTLE TOO MUCH.
Straw That Finally Broke the C|mal’s
Back.
Seuator Hansborough of North
Dakota has long been the owner of
a country newspaper*says Harper’s
Weekly. Of late years otherduties
have prevented his giving it much
attention, audhe.has depended on
divers itinerant journalists.
“I’ve had some good men in the
place, too,” the senator once ob
served to a friend; “men capable of
holding an important place, on a
city daily. Then I have had some
who did not altogether make good.
I remember one in particular, a
man named Einkwood. Linkwood
was never satisfied with simplicity.
He would refer to an ’equine
horse,’ and in the case of a tramp
killed in a railrood accident said
that the unfortunate man sustained
‘a fractuie of the spinal column.’
Another of his pet expressions
was ‘tripping the light bombastic
toe.’ ”
“You probably didn’t keep him
long,” suggested the friend.
“Oh. I didn’t mind these so much.
But when the daughter of a leading
citizen was married he spoke of
the bridle procession ‘proceeding
down the aisle to the entrancing
strains of Mendel & Son’s wedding
march’ I decided we had reached
the parting of the ways.”
Met His Match.
In a crowded subway train a
pretty young woman of sedate
and almost haughty appearance
occupied a cross seat with a rather
tipsy man, who kept leaning over
aud repeating in her ear:
“I do so love to sit beside a good
looking girl!”
Her black stare failed to silence
him. As he continued his com
pliments her cheeks grew redder
and redder, until she finally rose
with dignified disdain and hung
on the strap.
Her place was immediately
filled by a buxom young woman
of the pompadour type. Not in
the least daunted by the change
of his neighbor, the tipsy man
began repeating his speeches in
his new companion’s ear. The
latter turned to him with a de
cisive twist of the head-and said:
“Shut up, vou old fool.”
The tipsy man subsided into his
overcoat, and the woman of the
pompadour rode in peace to Har
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MRS, FELTON’S TALK
Great Address on Rights
of Children.
Distinguished Bartow Lady Handles
Important Theme Ably and
Entertainingly.
fi|The Royston Record gives the
following account of a recent ad
dress of Mrs. Felton.
Her address upon “The Rights
of Children” at College Hall, May
the 22d, was one of the events of
our commencement occasion. It
was listened to by a large and
appreciative audience, and pro
duced a deep and lasting impre -
sion, an impression that will last
long in the hearts and homes of
our people.
Her plea for the home, the sub
stitute for that garden of Eden
lost in the morning of creation,
was most touching, sweet and
beautiful.
She said in part “That the bear
ing, the nurture, and education of
children is the first duty of the
world of mankind. Sow'ing wild
oats may be recreation to the
thoughtless men of the period but
what a harvest of woe to unsus
pecting wives and mothers?”
“The first duty of the state is
to conserve all forces that will
make happy and useful men and
women. The first duty of the
church is to maintain a barrier
behind which men and women can
so live as to perpetuate the race
in virtue and sobriety, and the
first duty of the family is to remove
faraway from those yet to be as
well as these‘already here, every
taint of evil or disease that will
corrupt and debase the innocent
and helpless.
She said childreu have not only
the right to good pure blood, free
from every taint of vice and dis
ease but also a pure, wholesome
Christian home, let it be cabin or
mansion. And the obligation to
provide these tilings is laid upon
parents by the hand that created
all things and enforced by the pen
alty of losing every species of sat
isfaction and happiness should
they fail in these duties.
She truly said that millions of
money and all other things com
bined could not satisfy us if our
childreu go wrong from our neg
lect.
She said there are i,000,000 de
ficient delormed, idiotic people in
the United States to day due from
avoidable causes, and that the
laws of the future may define
marriageable people by requiring
them to have a certificate of sound
mind aud body aud by requiring a
bond for the faithful discharge of
the duties of the marriage state. *
Indeed, it was a noble and gra
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and brain of one of the south’s
greatest women. The greatest of
all that is tenderly and motherly
and good, Mrs. Felton has en
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hundreds of our people who feel
that her coming was a blessing
that may soon be repeated.
Why does she not write a book
upon home, the paradise of earth,
for the benefit of her beloved
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