Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-19

amateur shoe shop and made shoes TO
the younger children Of that home
Nice little shoes he made tool Then
after the hats worn under the Unior
were worn out, more hats had to b.
made, since they could not be bought
One lady in the eneighborhood of Greene
Springs knew how to make pretty pal
metto hats-the style of hat still mad,
In some parts of Florida, the liglItest
and most delightful summer headgeai
ever worn. So 1t came to pass that the
Greene Springs people and all the resi-
of the neighborhood were supplied with
hats Of that fashion. Lights, too, in
those days had TO be homemade These
lights were of tallow, subjected to va
ried processes, and then poured into
molds around cotton wicks that had
been grown, picked, ginned, spun. cut
and twisted by the "hands" on the
plantation.
Yet even with this lucent industry
going on in the house there we're nights
when novels-for novels did sometimes
run the blockades-had to be read by
the blazing of pine knots in great open
flreplaces. Farm work had TO be car
ried on, and the homely supplies OF
meat and meal had to be increased. A
sorghum mill was put up on the place
| for the manufacture of molasSes and
coarse sugar, and wheaton flour, that
had heretofore been brought from the
In
and ground at home. Besides all this
to be superintended, the school was
kept up all the four years of the war;
and thither came many of the sons of
the south who were too young to be
admitted to the ranks of the army.
All the old students of this institu-
ton who had become University of
Virginia graduates, and who might
have been available at other times as
assistant teachers, were now off ''to the
front" So it came to pass that the
doctors daughters had to be pressed
into service as teachers. For several
hours each day the newly made spin
ners, weavers and seamstresses were
metamorphosed into fair Hypatias,
who lectured to young men on the
''ologies"
Fortunately this home was spared
those greatest horrors of war-the rout
of soldiers sweeping over home place
and leaving desolation in its track, or
the passage of Inarauding parties, the
riff-raff of an army, to whom nothing
is sacred--or the meeting of hostile hosts
in sight of ones doors.
None of these horrors of long con-
flict came to harrass this homestead.
Indeed, the war was pretty we'll over
when these people saw one of the in
vading host-I say one advisedly.
He came, this one, not with futter-
ing banners or braying trumpets,
though he did march away to the
sound of the drum. He came, not
with the gay trappings and confident
air of an invading power. He came a
prisoner, and very lonesome one.
His is the only real and well authen-
ticated case of invasion of which Hale
county can boast--if she cares to boast
of such a misadventure.
He was German, this invader, who
became the lone captive. He could
speak no English. He had, possibly,
fresh from sea voyage, donned the
blue uniform at Castle Garden. / do
not suppose he felt very wretched or
very tragic over his capture, for in all
this melee of fighting between soldiers
who spoke one language, and in some
instance claimed kin one with the
other, probably this poor foreigner did
not realize fully at what moment he
crossed Mason and Dixon's line, or at
what road crossing the inhabitants OF
the surrounding country became his
enemies
He must have fallen very much to
the rear, and as his brigade swept up
the river after the several encounters
with the state university cadets in and
about Tuscaloosa, this poor fellow mis-
took the route and swept down the
river. And thus, all alone, he came
from the hills of Tuscaloosa county to
the hills of Hale county, and some
| WucIt dDOub tll6 lHulstu ulOuIluS az
Carthage (thumb marks of race that
have moved on" long ago) our blue
| coated soldier invaded" an enemy's
| home.
Then was there great CONSERVATION
in the neighborhood of Carthage. The
Home Guard hastened to arm them
selves and to disarm the invader, and
they kept watch for the hordes that
might follow this simple forerunner.
Very little could be got out of this
invader, whom lack of a gun had trans
formed into "a prisoner of war.
But 10 some OF the simple country
women, who came from near and far
to see real enemy" il did not seem
at all strange that yankees" talk
should be so unintelligible to honest
folk. They thought that foreign tongue
of his was very proper tongue for a
Yankee" to have.
To the ignorant ones of the neigh
borhood he was an exciting wonder,
with just enough suspected attributes
of an alarming nature to make him the
more interesting.
He was kept ut Carthage but a little
while ere he was passed under guard to
Havana
There the Carthage Home Guard had
the pleasure of seeing their own excite
ment, now grown somewhat the worse