Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-08-10
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HOME, SWEET HoME.-John Howard Payne
was warm personal friend of John Ross, who
will be remembered as a celebrated chief of
! the Cherokees. At the time when the Cher
okees were removed from their homes in GeOr-
gia to their present possessions, west of the
Mississippi river, Payne was spending few
weeks in Georgia with Ross, who was occupy
ing miserable cabin, having been forcibly
elected from his former home. A number of
prominent Cherokees were in prison, and that
portion Of Georgia in which the tribe was To-
Gated was secured by armed squads OF the
Georgia militia, who had orders to arrest all
who refused to serve the country.
While Ross and Payne were seated before
| the fire in hut, the door was suddenly burst
open, and six or eight militia-men sprang into
the room. Ross wife was seated on trunk
containing many valuable papers and small
amount Of money, and, at the unexpected IN
truson, she sprang up and screamed Wildly.
Ross spoke to her in the Cherokee language,
telling her to be seated if she would save the
contents of the trunk, and as she sat down
again, the intruders told Ross that he and
PAYNE were under arrest, and must prepare to
accompany the squad to Milledgevile, where
they would be imprisoned. The soldiers lost
no time in taking the prisoners away. Ross
was permitted to ride on his own horse, while
Payne was mounted on one led by soldier.
AS the little party left the hovel rain began
falling and continued until every man was
drenched thoroughly. The journey lasted all
night. Toward midnight Payne's escort, in
order to keep himself awake, began hum
ming--hOme et-sweet--home, when
Payne remarked:
s'Little did 1 expect to hear that song I'm.
der such circumstances and ut such time.
Do you know the authOr?"
''No,' said the soldier; edo you?"
eyes" Payne answered; 81 composed it. ,
''The deuce you did You can tell that to
some other fellows, but not to me. LOOK
here, you made that song you say. If you
did-and know you didn't-you can say it
all without stopping. 1t has something III IT
about pleasures and palaces. Now pitch III
and reel it off, and if you can't I'll bounce
you from your horse and lead you instead
of it,
This threat was answered by Payne, who re-
peated the song in a slow, subdued tone, and
then sang it, making the whole woods ring
with the tender melody and pathos of the
words. 1t touched the heart of the rough sol
dier. who was not only captivated but con
yinced, and who said that the composer OF
such song should never 60 to prison, If ht
could help it and when the party reached
Milledgeville they were, after preliminary eX
animation, discharged much to their surprise
Payne insisted it was because the leader OF
the squad had been under the magnetic intu
ence of Ross conversation, and Ross insist
ed that the had been saved from insult ant
Imprisonment by the power of "Home, SWee
Home, "sung as only those who feel can sing
it. The friendship existing between Ross ant
Payne endured until the grave closed over tn
mortal remains of the latter.
How TO SLEEP WELL.-No healthful sleel
comes except that which follows voluntar!
or involuntary action of the body. Pedestri
ans fall into sound, deep sleep as soon as pu
to bed at the appointed time for rest. Thi
is the sleep from voluntary muscular exercise
y person in good health sits around the hous
all day an invalid may all day sit and loung
and lie down from morning until night with
out sleeping and both the healthy man an,
the invalid, in the course of the evening, vii
become sleepy I'D fall into sound repOse,. th
result of the weariness which involuntary
action brings about for the various organs o
the body, the heart, the liver, the stomach
the eyelds, work steadily every day. The in
testines are as ceaselesS in their motion a
the waves of the ocean as these latter ar
always dashing toward the shore, SO is tn
waste of the body downward and outward fron
the first breath of existence to the last gasp o
life. There is not a movement of the system
voluntary or involuntary, external or intel
nal, which does not require power to cause 1t
When that power is to a certain extent eX
,, hausted, instinct brings on the sensation o
sleepiness, which is the result OF eXhauste
power, intended by nature to secure that cessl
; tion from activity which gives time for recu
peration, very much as a man who runs for
while stops and rests so aS to get stronger t
run again. We get up in the morning witt
a certain amount of reserved or accumulated
strength in the course Of the day that strength
becomes expended to the point necessary TO
the commencement of q new supply, Whlci
comes from the rest the rest from sleep
Opium narcotics, all forms of anodynes
cause sleep artiicially, compelling rest. 4
horse may be tired so that he cannot move
he is compelled to be at rest it is not the res
of tiredness, hence it is unnatural. AnOdyne
tie man down /; they take away his power O
motion, they compel a rest, but it is not th'
rest which is the result of used-up strength
hence it is an artificial rest causing an artifi
cial sleep, not natural and sleep which is un
natural cannot be healthful; hence the trutl
of the first utterances of this chapter-health
full sleep comes from the expenditure of ths
strength of the body in various forms of eXer
cise.- Halls Journal of Health.
THADDEUs ~Thaddeus Steven:
was buried in the graveyard for colored peo
pie at Lancaster. He declined to lay hi:
bones with those who were too proud to asso
ciate themselves even in death with the race
whose sufferings had excited his sympathy
In his public conduct, in his domestic life
and in his testamentary arrangements he made
clear his detestation of the distinction which
society had always maintained.
Stevens was certainly the great COmmOnel
of the war period. He was for while the
House of Representatives its action lay i1
his voice. Opposition wilted before his strong
will. Weaker men, and sometimes more
conscientious men, cowed beneath his lash
and were driven into measures they fail
would have escaped. Gen Garfield for in
stance, did not believe in the constitutional
ty of the reconstruction laws he had, indeed
demonstrated their unconStitutiOnality in the
Supreme Court but he voted for them under
Stevens stern command as obedently as il
it had been high treason to have an opinion OF
his own. Stevens tolerated "nO nonsense,
as he called it. When member offended him
or was slack in his service, which he CALLED
the service of the party, he had no hesitation
in writing to the gentleman's constituents
that he had no further use for him, and they
had better keep him at home. lie never pre-
tended that he thought the rec0nstructiOna
laws constitutional. On the contrary he can
didly stated his opinion that they We're entire
ly "outside the constitution and as candid
ly expressed his sovereign contempt for the
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