The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-04-07

call this Was as roal TO us then,"
said my informant. cas- WAS the battle
At Manila afterwards to him. We
madc our way steaitnily to the upper
window, opening it wlLh the utmost
caution, lest our prey, Appraised Of
our approach, should escape us, but
upon entering the room there WAS not
creature t. bn seeD. Ga examining
tho door we found that the shovel had
fallen against it in such way AZ 10
prevent its being opened from the
outside, and the mystery being thus
solved, wo descend q the stairway AID
set about our syrup boiling"
Another adventure in which the
danger was by no means imaginary
threatened y more serious termination
aud might nave reversed the victory
ut Manila.
There was pile Of logs in the back
yard 1T the Doweys, aud the doctor
having professional call likely to
detain him all day, George procured
n hall'fil.ed powder horn, and calling
his young companions together, invited
than to unite with him in a self ap
poiuted celebration. Having b,red
. hole in QUE Of tho logs and filed il!
i'll with powder. they arranged fuse
inserted u plug, and retired to u safe
distance to await results.
The plug was not driven in with
sufficient force, however and was blown
out without making the desired re-
port. Raining forward with one i'm
pulss, the boys would have recharged,
but George, waving them back, ex.
claimed: 'One mans life is enough
at time" and going to the log, was
proceeded to pour i'll some powder,
when it exploded directly in his face.
With eyes fast, he made straight for
the rain tub, and plunging his head
in, shooS it violently about. When
he Iaised it, with hair all singed, and
aud eyebrows and lushes gone, he
presented strangely altered appear
aIce, but there was not q qriver on
the small, powder burned face, az,
turning to his companions, he asked:
"Does it show much?"
The least candid of them was obliged
to admit that it did; but George, still
sanguine of detection, hoped that
after it stopped smarting it would
look better"
When the doctor returned from his
distant call that evening, however, ho
found patient awaiting him at home;
and in the quiet seciusion of the two
or three days following the adventure
the future admiral had leisure in
which to concoct new plans for the
entertainment of himself and his young
friends.
ADMIRED GOLD ZACH"
During the Mexican war he was an
ardent worshiper at the shriue of
Gen. Tayler, who clicked the euemy
every time" He never tired Of look.
ing at a picture Of him which hung in
his own homs; and when the boys,
catching the military spirit which
pervaded the air, fought sham bat.
ties he always insisted upon person.
Ating "Old Zick,' assigning the part
Of Santa Anna to some one else, all
apportionment Of character 80 .-etimes
resulting in a mutiny.
Oae Of the younger set, then "six
year DID, and net allowed to go with
the big boys, recalls the fascination
that society had for him, and the hair
erecting stories of the yellow back
variety with which he sometimes re.
galed him. On a certain memorable
evening the smaller boy, stealing
away from home at dusk, joined young
Dewey and two OF his associates, and
accompanied them up deep ravine
to an old fashioned sawmill, which
they set in motion, t.e double object
thus accomplished being the seeing of
1.-THE old thing shake to pieces" and
securing ola days holiday for their
friend, the millers son, by the suspen.
siol of operations consequent upon
draining the pond.
Tho immense amount of snow which
falls in the mountains and valleys of
New England and the large deposits
of ice which form in it's rivers make
the breaking up of winter in that far
northern climate period to which
every boy endowed with a spirit of
adventure looks eagerly forward.
Two small rivers, the Winooski and
the Onion, come together in Mont
pelier in such way as TO form the
letter L, and around this letter the
town is built. In the spring, when
these streams are swollen by the melt.
ing snow, and pieces of ice are hurried