The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-12
ESTABLISHED 1865.

ancestry. Among TIC SloIlCS ol IL uc
introduced Pocuhont;ls, that heroine OF
tn" pristine forest, whose sweet face
maiden the noble English wife. '':She
WAS only Il copDer-colored I'D squaw,"
said the irreverent Pat Tone, land
Capt. John Smith was Il big English
liar" When the class in ethics was
dismissed that afternoon Pat Tone and
Ben Harrison, who was as brave as Il
lion, adjourned behind some beech trees
to the north of the campus, and fought
as iercely as Powhatan's braves and
the jamestown colonists. After the
fight Ben Harrison walked sorrowfully
to his room with black eye and Bloody
Shirt. Never will Ben Harrison be
ASHAMED Of the CORY emblem Of l race
which is daily murdered, aye, murdered
III cold blood by the Democratic plan
ter> Of the Solid South.
After the battle OF Peach Tree Creek,
General Harrison saw stalwart Con-
federatc soldier writhing on the san
guine-slained field, his handsome face
tlecllcd with blood and dust, his eyes
glazed with thirst and suffering.
''Drink, drink,' murmured the
wounded man. General Harrison, who
joins the sensibiiity of a nervous w0-
man to Il courage nlatchless and Su-
perenement, at once dism0unted from
his charger, and gave-though himself
parched and thirsty with the dust and
heat of battle-his canteen to his fallen
foe. The Confederate raised it eagerly
to his lips with weak and feverish
hands. In a moment he dashed it from
him with an awful imprecation.
"Water," he cried, "and ME from Ala
bama. You'd-d Yankee, would
you insult dying man?'
"Ioung man," said the General,
severely, at once grieved for the loss of
the water and saddened by the impa-
tience and impenitence of the reckless
young rebel at such solemn hour,
''rum has slain its tens of thousands.'
"Oh, bothern replied the rebel, point
ing to his leg, which had been broken
bya cannon ball. "Rum did that didn't
it. Iank, I am prepared to die, but not
to sully the proud lips of an Alabama
gentleman with that cussed stuff"
Gen. Harrison often says he wonders
if that young man recovered. This an
ecdote is vouched for by hundreds of
trustworthy witnesses who were not
present. Prohibitionists, make no mis-
take! Ben Harrison was always an
earnest temperance man.
Gen. Harrison's favorite book is the
"Genealogy of the Harrison family"
The General has a quiet fund of hu-
NOR. 1t was at his suggestion that this
biography was bound in blue and gold
the blue the emblem of the soldiers Of
Indiana, the gold of the fnancicr of
New York.
Anti-tobacco men will be interested
10 know that I;Hn. Harrison never
chews. He tried hard to acquire the
habit, but it made him sick. This is
greatly to his credit. Mothers of Ameri-
ca, ever anxious to keep the filthy weed
from the lips Of your boys, remember
this, and make your husbands, broth
ers, lovers remember it next Novcnl-
ber. Ben Harrison never chews.
',Tis true he smokes, but not to cX-
cess; and even this vicc-for vice the
General is willing to acknowledge it to
be-is the result Of the pioneer habits.
He too carly learned to smoke, as
early indeed as the log cabin campaign
Of 1910. He prefers Il corncob, but
smokes Havanas-from West Virginia
to mOrtify the purse. Of cider, too,
he is Of course hereditarily fond. But
even this dear idol he has cast down.
He is not, as has been said by his un-
scrupulous political opponents, 4 proud
man. Quite the contrary. Clarct is
good enough for him.
I often think, when hear Gen. Har-
rison spoken of as Il cold man, Of Au-
guSte Barbiers line in description of
the great German poet, Goethe:
\ brow OF marble and heart of fire
The General is not q cold man. He
is what the English calla "warm" mar,
Il successful lawyer, with a profitable
practice That is why we expect that
the Changers will cry for him.
Two babies were named after Ben
Harrison before he had been nominated
two days. There are thousands of men
in the late forty-fives whose prenominal
initials are w. II. H. I hope there
will he thousands forty years hence who
will lie named after Blue-blood Ben.