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About Haralson banner. (Buchanan, Ga.) 1884-1891 | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1889)
TRet L AR R o e e ~FIENDS OF WAR SR e Terflfy%nfim of the Scream ~ of a Shell on Soldiers. ) W\m by a Shell Meant /fi&‘* _Total Annihilation. There is something terribly ‘menacing - in the ping of a musket ball, as it cuts the air above the heads of men in line —something to try the nerves 'of the bravest in the rush of a solid shot, but of all the devils in war the scream of a shell is the wickedest. A bombshell flies with a long ‘‘w-o-u-s-hl'’ some thing like the rush of a big skyrocket, and there are shells used by the light artillery which fly with a sort of long drawn sigh, not at all tterrifying. But the man who hears the scream of a Whit worth shell will never forgzet the sound to the day of his death. Itis a concen tration of the war-whoop .of an Indian —the snarl of a tiger—the scream of a woman in mortal terrer. It begins afar off with a muttered threat of vengeance; it grows upon the ear with a howl as of wolves in pursuit of the lone traveler; it comes nearer with shrieks of baffled rage; it is at hand with a scream which can be likened to nothing but the cries of a mob mad for death and destruc tion. - I have seen a dozen 'men killed by these Whitworth shells, ‘and I verily be lieve that most of them were so terrified by the sounds that they suffered noth ing in the moment of.death. - One could tell, after a few experiences, whether the shell wasin the direct line or to the right or left, but the coming ever brought a feeling of helplessness—a sort of dumb terrar which held the limbs captive. One could not have run away had he so desired; but where could one run to? Who could say just where these terrors would fall after their flight—the instant they were to ex plode and send their fragments hither and thither to search out and claim their victims? While the blockaders lay off the mouth of the Cape Fear River two or three of the Whitworth guns «were in constant use by the Confederates. They had a range of six miles, anl were al most as accurate as rifles. ‘Whenever a blockader ventured in within range by daylight she became a target.for a Whit worth. If the wind was off shore we could hear one of the ‘‘devils’’ almost as soon as it left the muzzle of the gun. Its flight began with a shriek es fiendish glee, changed to a moan of agony, rose to a scream for vengeance, and :the last quarter of a mile was a «ombination of scream and shriek which brought the hair on end and the cold «hills to:the spine. - The man who pretended not to . hear them was a base hypoerite. The ) man whose ears can take in those sounds vwithout affecting his nerve does nat live Ito do battle. Our vessel was struck:two .or three times, and on five or six .o=oca .sions had close calls, but the shells swhich struck were no more terrifying :than those which dropped inte the water vwith the hiss of a monster serpent = Jhundred feet away. : To be killed by a shell bursting at the! ;instant of contact means more than death. It means such complete annihilation as can be affected in no other manner on earth «©xcept. by the explosion of gunpowder or nitro-giycerine. The vietim may see a flash or hear a roar, but it must come in ithe fiftieth part of a second. The ven- 1 geafloe of man grants him the merest ' fata of time. Those to the right and left see a flash of flame and hear an ex plosion and the *w-h-i-n-g!” of frag ments, but the victim—perhaps the man on his immediate right and left—has been blotted off the face of the earth, as « if he had never existed. When the roar of \battle has .died away to a low growl; Zm’)when the growl has become an occasional mutter; when the mutter has lapsed to a gasp, in which a man in blue or gray yields up his life to a stray bullet, we - will make a search. There i 3 blood on the parched grass, bits of burned cloth ~ing on limb and bush, a lock of hair ~ here and there with a bit of scalp at ~tached. 'We may find a button or two, abroken and twisted gun barrel or ~ bayonet, the visor of a soldier’s cap. . Thatis all. These are the relics—the fragments—of a soldier struck by a ' ghell. Thatis, they may be. Some _ times not even a button is found, noth _ ing but a splash on the earth to show %t»plbod and fragments fell there. s y et . The fastest train in England is drawn by a three-cylinder locomotive. sRSR R L AR g T T “%&"fifiw i . j"'«i"‘.}‘é_:» «.wv_,ui»fwr% % 'To men of scientiflc rosearch in Tndians, parts of Decatur County, lying ‘about twenty - miles east of Columbus, llnd., are most interesting. There are in that county a number of mounds, the work of the mound builders. They are of large size and of peculiar shape, and are supposed to mark the burial places of members of that extinct race. The most remarkable mound 1n the group is located on the farm of Orlando Miller. It has been considerably explored, and a rave collection of historical relics found buried in it. Among other discoveries made during the excavation was the unearthing of several skeletons. The latter are of large size, the lower bones measuring six inches longer than those of an ordinary man of this age. This would indicate that the height of the men of that race was about eight feet. A very large and peculiar shell was also found in the mound. Itis walued very highly as a relic. The State Academy of Science has arranged to spend severa] days in exploring the other mounds of the county during the summer, = and i some interesting discoveries are ex pected.— Chicago Herald. b A Few Facts About Oranges, Few persons, even orange-growers themselves, are aware of the various sources of profit that may be obtained from an orange orchard outside of the sale of the fruit. A New York chemist has stated to an Eastern paper the result of his observations in Southern Europe, and mentions the following processes as there in vogue: Extracting by pressure orange peel oil (oil Portugal), price per ounce, §2; distilling Heroly oil, per ounce, $4; distiliing falling green fruit oil, per pound, $4; distilling leaves woil, per pound, $2; preparing wine, per gallon, 50 cents; preparing citrie acid, per pound, 50 cents; preparing dry orange flowers, per pound, $4; preparing orange blossom pomade, per pound, $2.50; preparing orange-flower water, per gallon, $2.50. Of .course some of the processes require the use of ma chinery, but from the high prices pre vailing of some of the products this cost would soon be repaid. When low prices for the fruit obtain, orange-growers might, by employing some or all of the processes mentioned, render their crop much more valuable.—Fresno (Cal.) Lizpositor. , Flax as a Profitable Crop. 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