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WAR ST
''Plie Daring !Ride
' Our Women in the War"
During the war for Southern inde- !
peadeuce, there lived justopposite l'a
latka. on thc east hank of t?;" St.
J olin's Uiver, Florida, a Cuban K<'?;
tleman. M aurilia Sanchez, by name,
who carly in life had left thc West
Indies to seek a hume in ilt?- Stan- of
Florida. Many years had parsed .-iii' ?'
then and Mr. Sanchez w;t- at tho time
of th? following incident an old man.
iulirtu and in wretched health. Thc
family consisted of an invalid wife,
one -on wh i waa in the ser vice pf the
(Jonfed racy; and three daughters,
Panciiita, L/jda sud K ugo n ia.
Sus| ! ; a had long fastened upon
Mr. Sanchez as a spy fur the Confed
?rales-, and at the time of this incl
d ?ut. thc old mau had been lorn from
bia !. ::?- . and family, ami was a pris- j
oner in the old Spanish Kort San
Mare.) ? now Kort Marion I at St. Augus
tine. The giiN occupied the home
with their old mother, and were en
tirely unprotected. Many times at
night their Imusc was surrounded hy
white and negro soldier.-' expecting to
surprise them, and Ged Confederates
about thc place for thc Yankees knew
some enc was giving information, but
th ouch t it was Mr. Sanchez.
Thc Southern soldiers were higher
up thc St. .John's on thc west side. It
wis usual for thc Yankee officers to
visit frequently at thc Sanchez home,
ari the girls, for policy, (ind iufor
inatioo) were cordial in their recep
tion of them, and thereby gained
some protection from the thieving
soldier).
Uno warm summers night three
Van kee officers came to thc Sanchez
iiotr.vi lo spend thc evening. After a
?short time the three sisters left the
officers, and went to the dining room
to prepare thc supper. The soldiers
thinking themselves safe entered into
thc discussion of a plan to surprise
the Confederates on Sunday morn
ing by sending thc gun boats up the
river, and also by planning that a for
aging party should go out from St.
Augustine.
On hearing this Lola Sanchez stop
ped her work and listened. After
dearing of the road thc foraging party
VTGUIU take, and gaining all necessary
information, she told Panchita to en
tertain them until she returned.
Stealing softly from tho house sho
aped to tho horse lot and throwing a
?saddle on her horse rode for life to tho
ferry a milo distant; there the ferry
enan took her horse, and gave her a
'boat. She rowed herself across the
?St. John's, met ene Confederate pick
eat, (who knew her) and gave her his
dorse. Out into the night, through
thc woods she rode liko tho wind to
(Jamp Davis, ia milo and a half away.
Reaching the camp she asked for
Capt. Dickison. afterwards Gen. Dick
?son) and told him tho Yankees were
thorning up the river Sunday morning,
and that tho troops from St. Augus
tine would go out foraging, ina south
?orly direction.
?Dhen leaving tho camp Lola San
chez rode for her life indeed.
Sho knew sho must not bo missrd
from home. Giving tho picket his
dorse, she recrossed tho ferry, then
mounting her waiting animal she
--.truck out for home. Dismounting
?some distance from the house, she
turned her horse loose and reached
Ci?me in time for supper, and pleas
antly entertained her guests until a
Cate hour.
That night Capt. Dickison marched
(his meo to intercept tho Yankees.
. Ele crossed from tho west to the east
-side and surprised them on Sunday.
JL severe fight ensued. The Yan
kceGon. Chatfield was killed and Col.
Nobles -woaoded and captured. On
that same "Sunday morning the Van
ibee gunboats went up the St. John's
to .surprise the Confederates. They
?rere ?very much surprised in turn.
The1 Confederates were ready for them,
<&e*&ied a gunboat, ?nd oaptured a
transport, also many prisoners were
?aken by the Confederates.
TThe foraging party lost all their
?wagons, and everything they had
olole-n, and again many prisoners were
.taken, /end Cpc. Diokison sent for
the three sisters to be at the ferry
<(thc one (Lola Sanchez crossed) to see
the prisoners and wagons that had
&een taken.
.Time and again this daughter of tho
^Confederacy aided and abetted the
?Southern cause.
Seme time after a pontoon was oap
tared, and named "The Three Sis
ters" in compliment to those brave
\youog, wooten. Tbo pontoon was
.?ovv-ing Lom Picolata to Orange
Mills.
.Mr. Sanchez still languished in
I*ortrSan Marco, however, and Pan
chito grieved continuously, over her
father's unjust incarceration'. The
.old man was truly innocont, his daugh
v ters wero the informers, but he did
j filQt know this.j
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o?'a lTlorida Grirl.
Kdition Nows ami Courier.
Panchito determined to obtain his
release if possible. After some time
spent io applying she got a pass to go
through tho Vankee lines, ami board
ing one ol their transports, this
young woman went alone to St. Augus
tine, and gained her father's freedom,
taking him with hen hack to thc old
homestead.
There i- th<- "Kinily Cciger l?de."
ami "Lill Servosse's l?de;" hut none
more daring than that of Lula San
chez, the young Floridian Of the
Sont hero l'on fcd< i acy.
The li. 1> C. should look to it that
one chapter at i<. u-1 should I o Lola I
Sanche/. I Miapter.
Lola Hauche/ married Kmanuol
Lope/., a (.'onl'ederate soldier ol' the
Ht. Augustine Hines, Kugenia mar
ried Albert Hogers, another soldier of
thc Ht. Augustine iilues, I'anchita is
the widow ol' the late John I!. M ?ot,
of ( Columbia, S. C.
Lola Sanchez died about seven
years agu. May the memory of this
Southern woman never fade.
Tliso facts were recently related to
me by Mrs. Kugenia Hogers, of Ht.
Augustine, I'la.
Elizabeth W. Mulling*.
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Northern Viens of Ml/.lmgh Lee.
The death of Fitzhugh Lee is the
occasion for the expression of sympa
thetic and appreciative opinion in the
prees of thc northern and eastern
States. Without exception, as far as
we have .?eon, these papers have gon
erounly availed themselves of an op
portunity to speak magnanimously
and justly of thc dashing Confed
erate cavalry leader who recognized
no enemy save those under a hostilo
flag
It was natural that the attitude ol'
Fit/.hugh Lee should appeal strongly
to thc best sentiment of thc North as
it did to tho best sentiment of the
South. It was the attitude of a gal
lant Gghtcr, who docs his best and,
at the end of tho struggle, returns as
gallantly to the tasks of peace-tasks
made more difficult by defeat and losa.
In assuming this courageous position,
however, he was not the leader, as ono
might infer from reading the eulogies
of him in the northern press. Ho fol
lowed tho lofty precept and example
of his uncle, Ilobert K. Lee, and in
this State the course advised by that
great chieftain had already been adopt
ed by Gen. Wade Hampton, who, in
deed, needed no counsel in any path
of honor, of courage, or of right con
duct. In praising Fitzhugh Lee's at
titude, therefore, tho praise must be
accepted, in principle, for other lead
ers of the South in war and in peace.
The New York Times said of Fitz
hugh Lee, tho day he died, but before
it knew of his death:
"There is no man in the South, and
no man in the United States, who con
tributed moro than Fitzhugh Leo to
form, after tho division of the Civil
war, a more perfect union."
In an appreciation of Lee, the Phil
adelphia I'uhlic Ledger, after speak
ing of the "very important part play
ed hy this patriotic man and com
petent administrator in thc era of re
construction," sud:
"Cleveland acted with great spirit
and wisdom in appointing this distin
guished son of thc South and former
Confederate general successively in
ternal revenue collector in Virginia
and consul general at Havana; and
President MoKinley must have great
credit for his decision to retain this
Democrat at the important Havana
poet, and also particularly for ap
pointing him to bo major general of
volunteers during the war with Spain,
and finally, military governor of Ha
vana. * * * Gen. Lee was thorough-,
ly "reconstructed," like his uncle,
the Confederate military leader. Great
soldier as was Ilobert E. Lee, his
real greatness-something of that
largeness of soul whioh we attribute
to a Washington-shone out conspicu
ously in his counsels and practices of
peaco and good will, and in his per
formance of new duties for the up
building of the shattered South io a
reunited country almost from the day
that the war was over."
The New York Sun very gracefully
said: "Fitzhugh Lee dies a hero of
the whole American people. The
illustrious name he bore, typioal of
the highest and purest American
citizenship, is a proud national pos
session, lt is a a name almost can
onised at the South, and at tho North
it is scarcely less honored."
It seems a far cry back to Appomat
tox when one rends such sentiments
in the northern press.-Columbia
State.
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- One way to ba clever is not think
you are too all-Qred clever.
- You can't nlways keep a oook
wheu she isn't any good. j
IIaiii|ituii*8 l'iiussailuhle Iiuiik.
_
A reader ol The f?tate, a private in
Wade Hampton's command, does us
the injustice nf inferring that we do
not recognize the high rank of Gen.
Hampton as a cavalry leader. He
finds fault with the omission of
Hampton's name from a .-hort aud ob
viously incomplete list of southern
cavalry commandera. Hut the list
did not include Huller, Rosser, Mor
gan, Cobb, Wheeler uuJ still others.
There was no intention, therefore, to
give a rooter of thc captains of Coo
I -'derate horse.
Hampton's position is unavailable.
There is DO doubt that he will always
rank among tin.- creal cavalry leaders
ol'the world, ami especially as one
ubi. helped tc? bring to its hieb effi
ciency the magnificent ''mounted in
fantry" ul'the South. Thc highest
tribute that could be paid his service
in tlii- r- spect is thc adoption of thc
Confederate cavalry organization by
ail thc armies of Ku rc pe and Japan
and, not least, by thc inexpugnable
Hoer-.. Hen Hampton needs no
eulugium. His rank is recognized
and secure.
lt might be said here, however, that
one thine is too generally overlooked
in all estimates of llampt m. Ho is
treated loo much aa if bc were omy
i a leader of horse - though brilliant and
successful. He was essentially a mil
itary organizer and a general. He
was capable of directing extensive
movements, of commanding large
forces, and of handling mixed bodies
of troops in a masterly way. As a
military leader, therefore, he out
ranked Fit/.hugh Lee, because h?s
grasp of situation was wider and firm
er, and his powers of organization,
and of directing large forces were of a
higher quality.
In a peace as troubled as war,
Hampton also showed greater powers
as a leader of men. No man accoui
cr.mplishcd more, perhaps no man ac
complished as much. Hampton's
work in tho reorganizition and re
demption of South Carolina is beyond
praise, as it is beyond measurement
by our usual standards. Here he
stands alone as a triumphant leader in
victories moro renowned than those
of war.-Columbia State.
After Thirty Years.
Copt. Theodore P. Northrop, of 47
East 10th street, New York, came
down from Aiken to take another look
at Barnwell. He paid his first visit
to this place in February, 18G5, as thc
captain of a cavalry company in KU
patrick's command. Hts troop cross
ed tho Saltkehatchie at Morris Ford
and rode into town so rapidly that he
remembered the distance from thc
creek as not greater than a mile. At
this place Kilpatrick had his head
quarters in a rear room in the late B
H. Brown's residence, still stand
ing just in the rear of the Bank o!
Barnwell.
Capt. Northrop stated that he heart
Gen. Kilpatrick, before entering th?
town, give orders to a sergeant t<
prevent any house burning and t<
shoot any one caught applying tin
torch. The soldiers wero in ugl;
humor from having been fired on a
the Saltkehatohie.
Capt. Northrop took from Bavnwel
v r> * -o \
a negro ooy, r>enmo urown, as i
body servant, who ia yet living ii
New York.
Capt. Northrop captured Col. Al
fred Rhett tho night befor^ tho battl
of Averysboro, N. C.
With a few men ho was scouting 01
the night before the fight and, gettinj
unintentionally inside the Confederad
skirmish line, came unexpected],
upon Gens. Hampton and Taliaferro
with a group of aides. He and hi
men promptly made themselves in
visible and withdrow, and a fow mo
ments after Col. Rhott rode up o:
them just inside the Confederate line
Ile put his pistol in Col. Rhett's fae
and said, "You must eome with?me.'
Col. Rhett replied, "Who the hell ar
you," and drew his pistol to fight
Instantly the men with Capt. Noi
throp put their oarhines to Col
Rhett's head and he, seeing how th
case stood, gave up and was car ic
tG Gen. Kilpatrick, who sent htm t
Gen. Sherman's headquarters. Capt
Northrop says Col. Rhett told hit
when first aooosted he thought h
was dealing with one of Gen? Wheel
er's men, and he is satisfied that i
Col. Rhett had realised ac the ver
first that they wore the enemy h
met he ?ould have fought and trie
to get away, although he woul
hive probably been killed in the at
tempt.
Capt. Northrop took Col. Rhett1
sword and pistol. The sword wa
lost some years ago in a railway trail
but he has the pistol still with Co
Rhett's name engraved on it.-Bart
well People. _ -
- A maa feels cheaper about sweai
ing off than for being looked np in
police station for not doing it.
- A woman would rather not I
rioh and have people think she wi
.than to bo rich and have them thin
she Wasn't.
- A woman is never BO afraid <
catching oaldic tho wet when she hi
on low shoes and openwork stookinj
as a man is in rubber boots.
'M l?'?f . ' " ' ' ' .- " , ;
Stich lo The Bible.
When France wont crazy duriog I
thc French revolution und tho Jaco
bins foreswore God and all that per
tained to religion, the leaders were
ready to cut kings' throats and even
to betray each other to the fatal guil
lotine. When a nation forgets God,
it may be a "high roller" for some
time later, but the end of that nation
is certain.
Koine and Greece had exalted posi
tions in their time, but both weat to
pieces under political corruption and
general infidelity.
The trend of our politics and the
bold declarations of men whose learn
ing has made them mad indicate to my
mind the beginning of decay in these
I'nitcd States.
There arc people who make a busi
ri(isa of decrying the Bible and belit
ting Jehovah. They get an audience
by Buch methods. There are some
people in tho world whose carnal
minds would be pleased to know there
was no such things as a hereafter and
a God of Justice, and such people
catch al the sayings of these atheistic
writers and speakers. They are dad
to see the Uiblc ridiculed out of their
particular clique or society. They
laugh about .Jonah aud pick out, every
scrap of misunderstood history,
pointing out to the ignorant the im
posstblity of such recitals. The
world is crowded with unbelievers,
who are impatient of rebuke, abd
seeking a cover for their own mis
deeds. Such people have no use for
the Bible, and would be glad to see it
"put out of countenance" - dismissed
and forgotteu.
Granting we are all ignorant of many
things that are spoken of in the Sa
cred Book, and that everything there
written has the impress of auciect
manners and customs, yet thc doc
trines of the Bible would bc good to
live by if there was no final accouot
or hereafter.
It is far beyond and above any
guide to decent life and upright con
duct that the world knows anything
about, and it is indiopensable to a
civilized government, as a source of
justice in law making.
Our readers likely know better than
I should be able to tell them how long
the Bible has been a guide book for
the nations of the earth, and that to
day it is the basis of all our civil laws
I and the regulations of society, and
that Bible-reading nations have been
shown to be the most progressive civ
ilizers of the world of mankind, and
that for 2,000 yoars and upward it
has outlived its ootemporaries and is
more and more a living, active force
in everyday life as well as religious
experience.
It makes one tired to hear men prate
'?tx v
about the fallacies of the Bible, lt
reminds oue of Jacobiu folly. Those
who would begiu at the bottom to
knock down an edifice which is ;
obliged to fall on their own heads,
and crush it upon the hopea and hap- .
piness of all connected with them are' <
not worthy of discussion. The great ,
trouble hangs about the modern neg- (
lect of the Bibio study. Those who
live up to its precepts are the people
that hold this old world together and
who keep our land and country in
working order.-Ex.
Not so Funny.
In a Pullman car on au English
railway recently, says an exchange,
a waggish youug man, noticing an
elderly gentleman trying to put on a
light dust-coat, went to his assistance.
While thus engaged, the young man
observed a good-sized whiskey flask
?protruding from one of thc old gen
tleman's pockets, and thought it a
good opportunity for a joke. Having
helped the stranger on with his coat,
therefore, he pulled out the ilask and
said:
"Will you take a drink?"
The old man did not recognize the
bottle, and drawing himself up, re
marked rather severely:
''No, sir; I never drink."
"It won't hurt you," insisted the
wag, "it s the bc6t."
"Youngman," said the old gentle
man, speaking loud enough for all thc
carriage to heat, "if you persist in
drinking whiskey you will be a ruined
man at 40. It is the curse of ibe
land. When I was a boy my mother
died, and the last thing she did was
to call me to her bedside, and say,
'John, promise me that you will never
touch a drop of liquor.' "
"Oh, well, in that case," said the
joker, "I must drink it myself,"
whereupon suiting the action to the
words, he pulled out the cork and
took a good drink. A moment after
he dropped the bottle with an excla
mation which certainly didn't sound
like ablessing and yelled, "Ugh! ughl
My mouth's all raw!"
Then it was that the old gentleman
discovered his loss, and to the aruu-e
ment of the other passengers saio:
"Ah, young man, you will be oare
ful before you take another man's
property again. I am Doctor-,
and that bottle contained some
quinine and iron for one of my pa
tients."
The young man got out at the next
station._ _ _
- A girl without a lot of rib
bons inside her clothes whee you
don't just see them, yet knew they
are there, somehow never seems a
girh
Will Give Ten Million.
New York, April 27.-A gift of
?=10,000,000 by Aadrew Carnegie to L
provide annuities for college profes
jors of tho United States, Canada and }
N'ew Foundland who are unable to con- t
linue ia active service was announoed j
today by Vice President Vanderlip of j
the City National Band. The gift
jonsists of United States Steel Cor- \
poration 5 per cent first1 mortgage
bonds. .
A corporation to be styled "Thc (
Carnegie Foundation," will be or
ganized to manage the funda, which
applies to universities, colleges and j
technical schools regardless of race, ,
sex, creed or color. State or colonial
institutions aro not included where it
is preferred that their relations shall
remain exclusively with the State.
Institutions requiring trusts, officers,
faculty or students to belong to any
special sect are also excluded. Each
institution participating in thu fund
shall cast one vote for the trustees,
who hold office five years. Twenty
six presidents of leading universities,
including President Craighead of Tu
lane and Denny of Washington and
Lee, ate named as trustees. The
present value of the bequest is $11,
000,000.
Returned the Bill.
A peculiar and interesting con
science fund story came to light to
day. Rev. John II. Marshburn, pas
tor of Walker street Methodist church,
went to Gideon C. Courtney, third
assistant chief of the Atlanta fire de
partment and asked:
"Mr. Courtney, did you lose a $20
bill ten years ago?"'
Courtney was taken by surprise and
could not recall thc inoident for a
moment. Mr. Marshburn refreshed
his memory.
"Ten years ago," said the preacher,
"you dropped a $20 note in a small
grocery store. It w?s picked up there
and you asked a certain man if he had
seen it. He replied that he had not,
though it was he who had found the
bill. That man was in my congrega
tion a few nights ago when I preached
a sermon on conscience and the duty
of making restitution. He has since
joined my church and he related this
story to me asking me to make the res
titution that he is due you."
Thereupon Rev. Mr. Marshburn
handed the astonished fireman a$20 bill
and $16 interest up to date; total $36.
Sr. Courtney promptly handed the
preaoher $5 for the churoh.-Atlan
ta Journal, April 23.
- About the only thing that can
be said in some men's favor is that
they are not society favoritiea.
Gluttinous New Yorkers.
Tho food supply of New York is so
?normous that though the rich aud
vell-to-d? gorged from, morning to
light they simply could not eat it all.
There would still remain an abundanoo
for everyone if some way oould be
.ouod of distributing tho fragments.
Just consider the figures which I
bave on careful authority.
New York reoeives every week 10,
300,000 pounds of dressed beef, 12,
300,000 pounds of pork, ham and pig's
meat, 1,500,000 pounds of poultry,
1,000,000 pounds of sausages, 1,00:,
300 pounds of mutton and lamb, over
?,000,000 pounds of liver, heart, tripe,
etc., ove?* 1,000,000 pounds of canned
meat, 500,000 pounds of game and
1,000,000 pounds of fish.
The fragments of this food, tons
and tons of it, are collected every day
and carried off to fatten pigs in New
Jersey or load the fertilizer ^oows that
ply down the bay. Every day of the
year from 500 io 000 car-loads of food,
much of it perfectly good, are taken
from the homes and hotels of New
York and simply thrown away. A
million people could live and live well
on this waste if the problem of col
lecting and distributing it could once
be solved. And I suppose any kind
hearted individual could solve it in a
small way himself-with a wagon aud
a little brainsl -Success Magazine.
Dispensary Must Go.
The News and Courier correspon
dent from Spartanburg thinks that
county will very likely go against the
dispensary in the election to be or
dered. In Pickens there is soaroely
a doubt that the dispensary must go.
The opposition to the great moral in
stitution is growing stronger every
day. It is only a question of time
when it will be voted out of most of
the counties of the State. A curious
thing about it is that towns and cities
are coming to the support of the dis
pensary-on monetary grounds, for
the sake of the revenue-while the
oountry is turning more and moro
against it. It is said that the pro
dispensary vote will be stronger in the
city of Spartanburg than in any other
portion of the county. And Columbia
and Charleston would .both probably
vote for the G-. M. I.
"What about Newberry County?
We -?culd like to see the vote taken
in this county, though it would be
unwise to foroe the issue before the
people are re?dy for it. Whether
they are rea?v now we cannot under
take to say.-Newberry Observer.
- If a young man stops running
after a girl, it's doughnuts to fudge
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