The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1882-12-08
"THE BOYS VINO NEVER Cor HOME"

guests, George w. Peek, who was unable to
attend. II is an amusing production. Says
the writer : 1 don't know what it is, but
there is something in beans that makes men
sociable and reckless Beware of beans,
Tom, as y you value your future happiness
Look not upon T. he bean when it is baked
and giveth its color in the pan, for at last
II swelleth like an accordeon and bitcth like
cucumber. But would like to be there,
Thomas, aud take the old soldiers by the
hands and look into the eyes that are be-
coming dim and notice the effect of Father
Times penciliugs on the faces of the boys
who twenty years ago were full of vitality
and as kitteny as any man that ever kept
step to the rattling of a canteen against a
cartridse,box Boys, do you realize that
you are growing old /? 1t is hard to realize
it, but if another war were to break out
your little baby that you left in its mothers
arms twenty years ago, growing at the hand
me down blue uniform in which you were
disguised, would be the chap the government
woul want. Boys, you are rapidly becoming
'old back numbers; though you feel young
enough to stub around home, you are
exempt now. Do you realize that the ht-
tie baby girl that clung to you as you said
good>by, twenty years ago, with tears in
your eyes as big as glass paper weight or
an editors diamond pin, is now a woman
married, and that another baby is trying to
utter the word 'gra ndpa, when you come in
putting on your youthful airs? 1t is pleas
ant now to chase the fertive bean around
the home campfire and talk of the nights
when you slept on the ground in pup tent,
or on some battlefield, with your wet ard
m ldIy pautaloon logs frozen as stiff
as dried Goldfish, while you dreamed
that every star that was looking down from
above was the eye of "a dear one at home
beckoning you to Hold the Fort and hur-
ry up and get through with the foolshness
and come home. You can laugh now as you
think how you got up in the morning after
had such nights rest. looking as though
been drawn through brush fence. You
who are left have right to be happy, but
In the midst OF your bean banquet let me
ask you to stand up with your tin cup of
black coffee, and drink to The boys who
never got home,' the brave fellows who re-
turned not to meet the loved ones they
parted with twenty years ago. Let us hope
that the great congress above removed the
disabilities Of the boys who left vacancies
in their regiments, and that the few chick
ems they took in the way of business from
the enemy will not be entered up against
them on the Big Book, but that the provost.
guard at the gates of the New Jerusalem
will present arms to them and tell the bows
that when we all get in our work here,
and are ready to join our regiment in Heav-
on, that the fellows buried years ago may
stand on the parapet as we come Struggling
In, and give us the old soldiers, welcome
with three times three with tiger
And We shall say to them, 'all right, COM
rades, we should have been here before.
only we were detained by business
Is IT y HoAx.-The account published
in the Constitution on Sunday of the sale
of 400 acres of mining lands in Forsyth
County, OF this State, to an English mining
company, for one million pounds sterling.
has created considerable inqu
In regard to it we have only to say that
our reporter printed precisely what Mr..
Moore told him. Since seeing the printed
account MIR Moore says that it is correct in
every particular. That Mr. Moore has sew
cral bank of England notes for 900 pounds
each is certainly true. That English ex>
perts were here, that English lawyers we're
here, that the deeds were made up and
signed and attested by Governor Colquitt as
his last official act is equally true. AS to
whether or not the trade will stick, and Mr..
Moore will receive his $5,O0O,0OO, and
half million more be put in development
OF the mine, we can say no more than the
public can judge from the facts as gwen
US by MIR. Moore.
We may say, however, what we have
often said beforehand that is that fewer
OF our people appreciate the value of the
mines Of North Georgia or the stnpendous
possibilities ahead of them. The day of
adventure and chance has passed with them
Gold mining in Georgia is now just as much
business as cotton-raising in Georgia
Under the improved machinery and meth
ods 1t is known that ton Of ore that
would not pay for the handling ten years
ago will now yield the richest dividends.
The assertion that "the whole of Forsyth
County can be bought for FIVE million doll
lars" is long ways from being true. AS
fast as the sterile hllsides Of that county
and the adjoining counties are tunnelled
into and the gold ore disclosed, they rise
enormously in value.
The development Of the mining interests
has been steady and constant. Within the
naSt month thIno nnw inills nf ciuIu E,...,