Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-11-18


hats II that fashion. Lights. too. IN
those days lad to b. homemade. Thee
! lights wcrs Of tallow, subj lcte1 10 Va
RCD processes, and thcn poured INTO |
mods around cotton wicl,s that had |
been grown, picked, ginncd. spun, cui
and twisted by the "handsp ON thr
plantation.
Yet even with this lucent industry
going on "a, The house thor, were night
when n vols-for novels did sometimes
run the blockades had TO be read by
the blazing OF pine knots In great open
ilreplaces Farm work had to bo car.
rled on, and the homcly supplies Of
meat and meal had to be increased. A
sorghum mill was put mp On the place
for the manufacture Of molasses and
coarse sugar. aud wheaton Hour, that
had heretofore been brought from the
north aud west, must now be grown
md ground at home. Besides all this
TO be supcrintendod. 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 tho ranks Of the army.
Al tho old students Of this instlti
ton who had become University Of
Virginia graduates, and who might
have been available at other times n
assistant teachers, were now oil ito the
front" 80 Il came TO pass that the
doctors daughters had TO be pressed
into service rs teacher, For several
hour. each day the newly madc spin
ncrs, weavers and scanstresscs were
mctamorphoscd into fair Hypailas,
who lecturcd TO young men on the
'ologics"
Fortunately this home was spared
those greatest horrors Of war-the rou,
Of soldiers sweeping over home place
and leaving dcsolAtion In its truck, or
tho passage ~ narauding parties, the
ifraG Of an army, to whom nothing
issncrcd the meeting ofhostilo hosts
la sight Of onc's doors
None Of these horrors Of long con.
flct came to harrass this hoincstcal
Indeed, the war was pretty well over
when these people saw one Of the In
vnding host say one ndyisedly.
lie came, this one, not with nuiicr.
Ing banners or braying trumpcis,
though lac did march away to the
sound uf the drum. ~ came. not
with tho gay trnpping- and confident
air Of nn Invading power lie came q
prisoner aud a very lonesome one.
His Is tho only real and wen anthem
iicntcd case Of invasion Of which Halo
county can boast--if she carcs to boast
Of such misadvcuture.
lie was German, this invader, wht
became the lone captive Ito could
speak no English. Ito had, possibly,
fresh from Tea voyage, dunned th,
blue uniform at Castle Garden Il,
not suppose ho felt worry wrciched oI
very tragic over his capture. for IN al
this mclcc Of fighting between soldier
who spoke ono language, and In soni'
instance claimed kin one with the
other, probably this poor foreigner did
not realize fully nj what moment Ia
crossed Mason aud DlSon's line, or a
what rond crossing the inhabitants o
the surrounding country became hi
enemies.
lie must have fallen very much q
the rear, and as his brigade swept nj
tho river after the several encounter
with the state university cadets la an'
about Tuscaloosa, this poor fellow mis-
took the route and swept down tn
river. And titus, all alone, he cqm
from the hills Of Tuscaloosa county &
tho hills Of Halo county, and some
where about tho Indian mounds n
Carthage thumb marks of race thn
have moved on loug ago. our blu
coated soldier invaded an enemy
home
Then was there great oonsternatio
In the nelghborhood Of Cartilage. III
Home Guard hastencl 20 arm them
selves aud to disarm the invader, nn
they kept watch for tho hordes tia
might follow this simple forcnnner,
Very llttlo could be got out Of th
Io,mcd into a nri.oncr of war
Hut to some Of thu simple eountT
xon,rn who csn,o f,om near and d
% 500 n rcal ,'snemy y n ana not see,
a, an s,ran,. tbn, n ,,yanl,ee'.p ,nl
should Ia "a rnIn.olliclbIe 10 hone
folk. They thought that foreign tongr
a, hIs was a very proner tonguo for
"yonlscu IN have
IA tho tynor,nt ones ~ tba nel,l