The record-union., 1899-10-27

failure We're food for mirth, and the
| patchwork trousers as pictured by the
speaker were things to treasure up, and
then came the hardest trial of the war
except General Lees surrender-the
| salt gave out. He told how his mother
| had gone through the lines, accom-
| panied by himself, to get salt, and how
after she got through she could neither
| get the salt nor get back home with
| out taking the oath; he told how she
| abused the Provost Marshal as only an
| irate woman could, and how she finally
went into a room to take the OATH
| and kept both hands down and her
mouth tightly shut while others were
| swearing, and, finally, how she got her
salt
And DR.. Steel was under fire. Major
Wallace, a neighbor who owned an
orchard on the river bank, told him that
| June apples were ripe, and the hint
was enough. He also told his father
| that June apples We're ripe, and the
| next day they rode over, six or seven
| miles, to take a chance at the Majors
| apples
| The speakers father, upon reaching
| the levee, reconnoitered, and saw a.
| gunboat down the stream in front of
| the Majors orchard, and he left for
the mules. The boy begged to stay and
| get look at the boat, and his request
was granted. He pressed through the
| underground to the edge of the water
and the boat came up the stream He
had in his hands a stick, and as the
boat came alongside he stepped to the
| edge of the water and pointed his stick
+ IF fhn r.
shook stick at Uncle Sam. and the
last. Every gun on the boat opened
fire on him, and he-ran. He, however,
had the satisfaction of knowing that
the United States Government wasted
more ammunition upon him than any
one individual in it's history. for while
the opening broadside was delivered at
II o'clock, noon, the bombardment was
SUN In progress at IL o'clock at night.
Inc federa4s We're expecting an at
tempt 10 cross the stream would be
made by body of Confederates and
mad orders to shell the woods if they
saw a man, and-they obeyed orders.
Lees surrender was like a funeral in
every FAMILY in the South For the
speaker, he cried because it was all
over and he had not killed a Yankee,
not being old enough to go to the
front.
He saw the soldier boys of the South
depart for the battle at the call of coun-
try, and he saw them return. AS they
viewed the scenes of desolation about
their former homes, the same spirit
actuated them to go to work and re-
oulld which had actuated them to
march away to the beat of the drum,
and 1t was by that tireiess energy that
DlXle was made again to blossom from
the chesapeake to the Rio Grande
And the speaker said. "the same
men still own the country: the men
VINO wore the gray are the men who
made the New South"
When General Forrest came to die,
Dr. Steel said, he presented to his son
the sword he had worn. with injunc-
tlons, should occasion require it, to un-
sheath it on behalf of the Union. as
ne had done for the South. And the
injunction was followed. When war
with Spain was declared the sons of
the south sprang to the colors as their
fathers had to the stars and bars, ready
TO die for the flag their fathers had
fought against.
The Creator, DR.. Steel said, had been
In good humor when he formed Cali
forn1a. In the morning as he came
down from the summit he had seen
some OF the beauties of the great Col
den State and was pleased with what
ne saw, but as he looked the thought