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up a good paving business in
this town pushing the sales
of Tin-: SATURDAY EVENING
POST in a systematic way.
We want the right man, one
who will stick to it. We will
tell him how it can be made
profitable.
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? ? you want to hold your Cotton that is all right. You can arrange to
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o.n.cd by ue.
Your friends,
VANDIVER BROS.
W P. 8.-GUANO and ACID for grain in stock all the time.
ies and Harness!
Now is a good time to buy a new Buggy and Harness,
and we want you to look at our large stock of the latest and
best up-to-date styles, and it will be no trouble for you to
make a selection. Our work is all sold under guarantee. We
have extra bargains to offer. Give us a trial. Our prices are
low and terms to suit.
THE J. S. FOWLER COMPANY.
P. S-We have a few last Fall's Jobs to go at Cost.
MASTIC MIXED PAINT
We Want to Sell You Your Paint.
Come in to Bee us, and let us tell you all about it.
We have sold this Paint for many years, and all have been pleased who
xss? it. We have a fine selection of colors, and will gladly give you.a card
showing them if you will call iu and request same. Also, a full line of
Varnishes, Stains, Floor Paints,
Furniture Polish, Paint Brushes, Eto.
ORR, GRAY & CO.,
Hezt to Bank of Anderson. Reliable Druggists.
Thia Establishment bas been Selling
IN ANDERSON for more than forty years.. Daring all that time competitors
have oome and gone, bat we have remained right hero, We have always sold
Cheaper than any others, a> d during those long years wo have not had one dis
satisfied oustomet. Mistakes ' will 'sometimes occur, and if at any time we
found that a customer was dissatisfied wo did not rest until wo had made him
satisfied. This policy, rigidly adherod to, has made us friends, trae and last
?ng, and we caa say with pride, but, without boasting, that wo have the confi- S
dence of tho people of this section. We have a larger Stook of Goods this
season than we have ever had, and we pledge you oar word that wo have never
?old Furniture at as close a margin of profit as we are doing now. This 4s
proven hy the fact that we aro selling Furniture not only all over Anderson
County but in every Town ia the Piedmont section. Come and see ns. Your
parents saved mousy hy buying from ns, and yon and your ehildren can save
:money by buying lox? tao. We oarry EVERYTHING in the Furniture line,
C, P, TOLLY & SON* Depot Street
The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers
ft LONG LOOK AHEAD
A man thinks it ia when the matter of life
\ insurance suggests itself-but ciroutnstan*
ces of late have shown how life hangs by a
thread when war, flood, h arri cane and fire
suddenly overtakes you, and the only way
to be euro that your family is protested I?
case of cala* ?ty overtaking yob > tb . In*
* sure in a sobd Compary ti*?-*
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WAR SI
Echoes .l.^rom tlio J3ai
Katherine llubboll Cumming, Aug
It W:I> in iJcccmber, that I ,
left ?Jt.-or?-'ia to j-jiu my husband, then |
a captain in the Confederate army
and on thc ntaff of Brig. Goo. John
K. Jackson, whoso brigade was sta
tioned at Bridgeport, Ala. The troops
were guarding a bridgo about com
pleted, which was to take the place
of ono recently burned by the Federal
forces. No town, village, or settle
ment waB there-simply a house, and
a rough otic al that, which tho brigade
commander had taken for his head
quarters; and it was to one room in
that dwelling that I BO gladly went
with my ton-months-old child and old
colored "mammy." Better any sort
of abode togother, even with hard
ships and discomforts, than separation
in thoso war times, with their daily
uncertainties and anxieties. To one
of twenty or thereabouts no serious
views of the situation were taken as
those of older and wiser hoads.
This journey, now an easy and
quick one, waa then quite formidable.
It was a prolonged and by no means a
continuous one, but I was not to be
deterred. So with the light-hearted
ness of youth I made the trip, pre
paring my baby with a bag of camphor
and asafetida around his neck. In
the dirty oars and on tho irregular
trains of thoBo demoralized times,
crowded with troops aad no sanitary
precautions taken, all sorts of conta
gious diseases were abroad in the
land. No one thought of germs or
microbes then. I made many similar
journeys during the four years of the
war, and never boiled any water or
sterilized any milk, yet I and my
child live to tell tho tale.
In March before tho time of whioh
I write, I was in Chattanooga a little
whilo, for I "followed the drum"
whenever I had the chance. My stay
there was cut short, aa tho troops were
ordered from there to Mississippi,
where early iu April wr.s fought the
battlo of Shiloh. The baby was thou
but two months old, and we arrived in
Chattanooga during some bitter weath
or, with snow and ice on the ground.
At the little hotel-poor in tho best of
times, and now crowded with troops
ard tho accommodations totally in
ad<quate-wo managed to obtain a
very small room. In reply to a re
quest for a fire, word was sent, from
the omeo that one oould not be fur
nished that eveuing. Then our re
sourceful manservant-faithful to his
young master throughout the war
took a coal scuttle and walked the
streets of Chattanooga till, by his piti
ful talo of a freezing young mother
and child, he touched some hearts in
the express' office, where the souttle
was generously filled for him. My
baby slept in the tray of my trunk,
and his sleep was as peaceful as if in
a silk-lined crib. Io the next room,
separated by a board partition only,
with cracks wide enough for the light
to shine through, was the body of a
little child who had just died from
measles. But ia those momentous
times it made little impression. These
were some of the episodes in my career
as a Confederate soldier's wife.
After thia digression, I return to
my Bridgeport visit. Beaching my
destination after by no means aa un
interrupted journey, and in my de
light at greeting my captain, I did
not take in at once the rough looks
of our house and its surroundings; but
old "Aunt Betsy". was heard giving
her opinion pretty freely: "What
Merse Joe made of tobring Miss Kate
and die yer ohile to sich a place-not
fitton for while folks?"
That same dingy old house, how
ever, will always he associated with s
hsppy period; for in my unhappiness
during the succeeding years of pri
vation and sadness I of ton looked
baok at that month of bright winter
days on the banks cf the Tennessee se
the most ser one and satisfactory of all
those of the three dreadful years that
followed. I bsd only one room. A
bare floor, a stove with tho pipe
through a window pane, one mattress
about two inches thick on a pine bed
stead, a box on legs with a pillow in
it (brought in my trunk) for baby's
crib, ? hand glass tho only mirror, a
table with washstand appointments,
nails about the unplaetered wells fdr
clothes-auch wore ' my quarters, * for
which I waB most thankful. I must
not forget tho cow wo hired for my
little boy's benefit. But then ibero
was fine weather, horseback rides
every dsy, pleasant ? officers .in our
moss, and a companion in tho wife of
our brigade commander... So I lived
from day to day shutting out the .fu
ture, j '
This peaceful life wa?'suddenly and
rudely broken up. : We had enjoyed
our Christinas dinner, such as it waa,
two days* before, - .-Lise a ihuudersia
1 eu* cfs, clear sky oome tba ordeirl
'ORIES.
ttl G o?' ?S?tirl'reesboro,
usta, Ga., in Confederate Veteran.
attack it near Murfrecsboro, Tenn.
What should I do now? Where
Hhould I go Y I was very much alone,
so it was a great relief when Mrs.
Jackson said, "I've decided to go
with troops as far as Wartraoo, wbece
I have relatives," and, turning tu j
me, "you must come too, for they are
suoh loyal Confederates. I know
they will cheerfully take in any one
whoso husband is in tho army."
I gladly accepted the offer. Then
such a hurried packing up and get
ting off-officers, men, horses, tents,
o?mp furniture, cannon, ammunition,
two lone women, a baby, a nurse. It
was Sunday, too, for no time oould be
lost. Well, we took a hastily im
provised train, and about four o'olook
that wintry afternoon it stopped at a
small, desolate station, about eighteen
milos from Murfreeboro, and deposit
ed our forlorn little party and trunks
on the platform, minus a waiting
room, where there were no signs of
life. Tho train sped on its way
dwindling to a speck in the distance,
while with heavy hearts and. tear-dim
med eyes we watohed those nearest
and dearest to us borne swiftly away
to certain battle and not improbable
death.
Those were times that tried men's
souls and women's hearts, lt might
have been somo comfort to me if I
oould have impressed on that ?mpetu
eua young soldier of mino the words
"Remember, caution is not fear, nor
rashness valor's test;
If he who tights and dies does well,
who fights and lives does best."
But no, I knew he would daBh into
the thickest of the fray. Surely our
situation was dreary. Night was
coming on, and we did not know ex
actly which way to turn, Mrs. Jaok
son bestirred herself to find convoy
ance for ourselves and belongings to
our destination, several miles distant,
the home of her relatives, where, un
announced, we expected to take
refuge.
Tbe early-Betting December sun
disappeared, and it was quite cold.
Seoiog a bright fire through the open
door of a little one-story house across'"'
the wide country road, I took my
baby over there for some warmth.
Hesitating at the threshold, I saw a
woman with a child stretched out On
her lap apparently ill. She looked up
and said: "You're weloome to como
in out of the oold, but my cbild has
scarlet fever." Any mother will
understand my hasty retreat to 'the
wind-swept platform.
In the meantime a vehicle had ap
peared-a one-horse affair without a
top-so we jogged along, mostly
through the woods, with night upon us,
to an unknown plaoe and to people un
known to me. On reaching the resi
dence and before we alighted, Col.
Erwin and his wife opened their door as
welles their hearts to us. I received
as warm a weloome as if I were a dear
child returning after an absence, and
from that moment I felt at home
among them. And how inviting that
comfortable library and big, oraokling
wood fire looked after my rough quar*
tnrs of the peat month I In thia love
ly home were assembled various peo
pie, for no one was turned away who
asked shelter. It was hard to tell
who Were the family proper, as re?a
gee relatives and soldi us on tho way
to and from' "the front" became un
expected guests like ourselves. Of
coursa the dining table was taxed to
its utisost capacity. .-Thtf'4*ja*'l:p|?
pie, who showed each boucoUo^feoW
pitelity, wore afterwards\:t'{ftfl?d; to
i leave their homo through th? exigea
c?es ot wsr, and died/ soon af tor the
\ clo so of hostilities impoverished and
broken in body and spirit.
Daily, under those beautiful but
leafless trees of Beechwoo&l^ow
wandered, walting, yet dreadiog, tho
news from "tba front.''; And tuen
the suspense af ?or the battle began 1
It was December 31. We were too
far off to hear the firing of small arme.
But O the booming of those cannon,
the bursting of 'those- shells, ' whioh
broke up thestillness of ejar. peaceful
abode! And every dull boom aucV
every exploding sholl represented so
many lives .gone, so" many ; bek|ts;
broken? in all parts of our dtstrioted
"Ah! if beside tho dead slumbered
tho pain!
Ab! if the hearts that bled slept w^Ui^
' theslaloV . . ". '/ '
U the grief-died! But no;
Death will not have itm^
we/ were ; wM^
he?rts almost stood '?tili, euoh Wa? the
tension. But I rec<lived a number of
communications diieot from tho field j
of baUle dttri'og tboss days of ceafliet
(ana ; preserved io ; this time.) '$%?*f\
were scraps of soiled paper, minus* *D
veiopes, brought or sent by soldiers
>ing to the rear, with jtsat a few pen
-- - m. . V> M-M J*M m
oiled linee; but ? how I prized them!
It was a marvel that they all reached
me safely and without delay.
Herewith are copies of extracts:
"Lebanon Pike, Deoen 1er 2d, 1862.
-Wo have at last oettled down in
position to await the enemy. We aro
ready for him, and everybody is in
good spirits and confident."
"Docomber 20, 18G2. - I hope you
have not been uneasy loo iv ?nd that
you received my scratch written this
morning. It is now too late to ex
pect a battle today, and if we have one
to-morrow you will hear the sound of
it. Keep your courage up. I sispt
last night on pretty wet ground, but
am quite well. I hopo you had no
trouble in getting to Beechwood yes
terday."
"December 30, 1882.-We have a
vory honorable place assigned us in line
of battle in Hardee's wing. The
enemy has not advanced cinco Satur
?ay.
"Murfreesboro, Field of Battle,
January 1, 1862.-The .go nor al and
staff safe. My horse shot and killed
under me. We hold the battlefield.
I don't know whether there will be
any more fighting."
"Field of Battle, January 2,1862.
Wo were not in any fighting yester
day. The enemy are behind the rail
road, to which we drove them. Col
W. T. Blaok, commanding the 5 tl
Georgia Regiment, r*aa killed day' be
fore yesterday. Ed Anoley killed
Ed Hall has died of his wounds,"
"Field of Battle, January 3, 1862
r-No serious fighting since Wedno*
day. Enemy intrenohed. Gen
Breokinridge attacked them and wa
repulsed. If things oontinue thi
unoertain many days, you had bette
go home. Keep your trunk ready t
move at a moment's notice. Not
withstanding the bitter cold, inoh
ment weather, and no cbelter, we ai
well."
History puts down Murfreesboro, c
Stone's River, as a drawn battle an
as one of the biggest and bloodiest *
the great war. Tho fourth day af ti
the battle had begun I was wanderin,
as usual, ai m'en sly id restless
about the grounds when 16aw a hors
man approaching the house, and, ho
ing ho might have some tidings of i
terest to me, I hastened to interco
him. Then I saw a gaunt and trav<
stained-looking soldier who weari
dismounted, and not till he spoke d
I recognize my own husband. H<
rejoiced I was, one can well imagin
to seo him alive, literally just "out
the jaws of death," even though
told me he had but a few hours
stay. How I wished he could tell
? wound severe enough to keep h
from "the front" for a while; but i
so. Although he had been down
the "valley of death," stormed
with shot and shell," sleeping oh t
wet ground, olothes^oaked with ri
and not changed for a week, little fe
aud less sleep, yet he was whole ?
well. /
The Confederate army was in ord
ly retreat, not being followed
Roseorans, so he had made a deb
from the main column to reaoh Bee
wood and see us and hurry , us
southward by the next train. V 3
oars might stop running at any i
ment; the country wai full of * sit
glers; it was a lawless time, aud t
we. ran the risk of falling within
enemy's lines. To be "within
enemy's lines!" Boy* mttObV t
meant to,, me ! for^ I was ? Nerti
daughter,1 though V Southern v
To stay where I then was meant i
I soon might go, without let Or ?1
drtnoe, to an Eastern home; wi
loving hearts were eagerly, wai ti nf
welcome me and my baby whenovt
could reaoh there. No other wei
getting to them but by special
flag of truce, or blockade runner,
my native ' ;land was "now alien;
after a little hesitation and con flic
'emotions, I felt that I must etan
the land of my adoption and abor
?ry has always bs?fcjib jr. hbtoo,;
with a people makes yon on
?:th*,miv;. ... ; :H ?:
\#0tiiXti mo train i wenVr till ^nel
morning. After much perauasioi
I ~p_r^v*iledi -i* upon; ! o^r i ; worn and *
I and wnt and hnn a rv \ a n)[A i A P in
and dry bia c?o thea, partake of ; a
meal, have a night's rest frota o
ground, and ,' rejoin oomms!
tho morning. By yieldiug t? on
treaties ho had to mak^i;^?|iij
the next day to overtake his t
tnsi 3??? poor <hofse died fr?n
gia to watch andf wait, t? posse!
;^ttl?: ia\;|jtt^
jopV?'- '-brave front abd a ^ ch
Tribute to Confederate Yeteva?
.'. '; Men y aro thjL eloquent tribute
have Wn offered.thoConfeao^tf
*r*U^
?CBsi ve h ave over Se?n p??d RT
j^f th? late Geo. John/B^?bydbb
time ^h on n? . WM/^o'rnmt?d?r-ia
of th? survivors ;&%?Q::Amy.
South, tu one 'ei.ld^i^jbl
.ftiesssifc^^
"oran tho public'--h^m?
to1 tb^Wo^W*?*^
people. Were tho recipients of these
honorn. tho ex-soldiers of victorious
armies, bringing to a grateful peo
ple the trophies of their triumphs,
the world would comprehend the
meaning of a welcome snob as is hero
extended; but they were not the vic
tors in that titanic struggle. They
are tho shattered remnants of the
long since disbanded armies, whioh
leave to posterity no acquisitions of
territory, no accretions of public
wealth, or of political power. The
?t???oy which those mon leovo to their
ohildren aud people is a record of un
[ tarnished honor, and of the most
heroic defensivo, struggle io human
annals; and the sole compensation for
their cervices and suffering is that re
ward whioh noble natures feel in euch
recognition Ly their grateful country
men.
"On the other hand, no popular as
semblies of intelligent and high-spirit
ed citizens, in the world's history,
were ever freer from partisan eeal or
self-Becking spirit, or ignoble jealous
ies or sinister intent, and the muse of
history will yet embalm in ono of her
sweetest stories tho absolutely un
selfish character and exalted aims of
these Confederate gatherings. Tho
pathos of that reoital will be doepened
by its simplicity and its beauty
heightened by the lesson it will teach
to humanity. The story will record
the simple but sublimo truth that
these reunions occurred year after
year and left behind them at every
stage of their proceedings the indis
putable proofs that these brQsd<micd
ed men were neither embittered by
disappointments nor dwarfed by ig
noble passions, nor warped by politi
cal ambitions, nor narrowed by sec
tional prejudice, nor blinded to the
interests of the oommon country by
selfish aims; but that, made unselfish
rt rough suffering, broadened and en
nobled by sacrifice, refined and puri
fied in the fires of affliction, they em
brace as a brother every true lover of
their country and acknowledge . no
superiors in devotion to the Common
wealth, and in unfaltering support of
the laws, the flag, the honor and the
freedom of the American republic"
- To the political victors belong
the broils.
- An honest gas meter is the
noblest work of a corporation.
- Age may tell on a woman, but it
seldom tells the whole truth. '
- A broken promise may be mend
ed, but it will always Bhow tho crack.
- A girl admires the tone of a
bachelor's voice when there is a ring
in it. . ' '?
Thought He Yian a Serrant.
i
In her book, "A Southern Girl io
'ol," just published, Mrs. D. Giraud
Wright tells this story about Gen.
John C. Breckenridge, of Kentucky: .
Ile waB invited by a certain lady
of rank in London to luncheon. The
lady had just advertised for a foot
man. Mistaking the hour, Goneial
Breckenridge roached tho house be
fore tho appointed time, and by some ?
accident was ushered into Lady
Blank's presence without being an
nounced. Tho day was iu June.
Owing to the beat the blinds wero
dravrn, letting in a subdued light.
Lady Blank, glancing at tho advancing
figure, to the astonishment of the
visitor, addressed him thus:
"Have you a reference from your
last place?1'
The general took in the situation in
stantly and, with a twinkle in his eye,
unobserved by tho hosteae, answered*
respectfully, "Yea, my lady." -
"Whet were your duties?" was the
next query.
"Well, my lady, in the last three
places I held I was vice president of
tho United States, major general in
the Confederate army, and seoretary
of war of the Confederate States of
Amor io a."
The lady, covered with confusion,
exclaimed: "Oh, Gen. Breckenridge I' *
But he was not tho least bit discon
certed and treated the whole matter as
a joke.
Why He Htfet Wear Hat.
Sorot evy Pi oreo, dressed in white,
was suirounded by newspaper corre
spondents, all smiling, for the genial
seoretary was dodging a question by .
telling a story, Baye the Chicago
Chronicle.
"So this old woman," said Seoretary
Pieroe, "announced to all the world
that she would turn Baptist. She
had heard, you see, that young Bap
tist minister was giving a roast of
beef and fall wrap to every new con
vert he got,
"Her own pastor heard somehow,
that it was not so much religious con
viction as it was the desire for the
beef and the wrap that was^ leading
the old lady to chango her faith, and,
accordingly, he sought her out. "n.
. " 'Hannah,' he said, sternly, 'yon
aro .going over to the Baptists, I
hear?'
" 'Yes, sir* th?t is? correct,* said
the old woman, .
" 'Hannah,' exclaimed the miniar
ter, shakiug his forefinger at her,
'would you sell your soul for a roast
of beef?'
?; ''She looked up anxiously:
" 'No,' she answered; "not without
the fall wrap.! " ;
BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. : ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1?05. VOLUME XLI---NO. 26.
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