The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-08-02

charges that seem 10 be unavoidable
OF course we can dismiss the cook and
do without the telephone, but we do
not wish to, for both are great com.
forts. especially when company comes.
We have long since dismissed the
horse and COW. Now. where do the
food and clothing come from, for II
takes more for the unhxed things than
the fixed Then there is something
wanted almost every day for charity
Book agents come almost every day
and excite our sympathy, but we have
long since cut of that expense. One
came yesterday that had General
Miles for one Of the editors. It
shouldn't stay in my house Those
northern publishers seem to think we
have no feeling-no resentment-ma
they seek to shove Uncle Toms Cab
in" and other frauds upon US, and some
Of our fool people swallow the bait.
Why don't they buy Dr. Curry's book
or Raphael Semmes" or Percy Grey
or some book that has fewer pictures
and more truth.
BuL, DRESSINGS on the good, old-fash-
oned country people, who have no fix
ed charges to pay-hone hardly. and
the unhxed are not bought from the
butcher or the baker, nor are the dry
goods altogether regulated by the
fashions OF the town or city. They
raise their own supplies of -four and
meal and lard and chickens and eggs.
When company comes they call up
Sinda and tell her she will have to kill
another chicken, and that Is all of II.
OF course they must buy sugar and
coffee, but they make their own iel-
lies and jam and peach pickles from
their own fruit and can beat Dio Lew
Is on cherry tarts and apple dumplings
and chicken pie. Just go to a farmers
club one time if you would know what
these substantial country people can
do in the way of picnic.
But l like company, and when It
comes it is a real pleasure to spread
before them a feast of good things and
/ AluAbu up Win lCO GlGou anu CohOs
like such things myself and am sure
to get them when company comes, for
my wife came from the old-fGshioned
stock that always echoed the militia
captains order when he exclaimed to
his men: Tention, company" Pay
attention to your company.
When Napoleon was in Egypt and
about to fight the great battle of the
Pyramids he addressed his troops and
said Soldiers! forty centuries are
looking down upon you from the
heights of those Pyramids" And so
we may say to the veterans Of 1861.
Soldiers! forty years are looking
down upon you from the heights Of
Manassas. Forty years ago from
the 21st of this July was fought the
great battle Of the civil war. 1t was
Sunday then, and it is Sunday now.
To those engaged in it that battle
seemed to be the greatest of the war.
1t was the first and made the deep
est impression, for our boys had never
been in a fight and did not know what
they could do. Not one in fifty had
ever been in service, against an en-
envy, but they were ready and eager
for the battle, and on that day they
avenged the wrongs of half a century
and proved themselves heroes and pa
triots. For weeks old Joe Johnston
had been playing battle-door and shut
tle-cock with Patterson between Win.
chester and Harper's Ferry. One day
Patterson would give dare as far
as Charlestown and fall back without
a fight Another day Johnston would
give dare as far as Buckletown and
fall back without a fight. Our boys
were discouraged. But when the or
der came to march to Manassas they
knew they were to join Beauregard
and fight. Every order was whispered
not a drum was beaten-not wagon
| allowed to move. The campfires we're
left burning and only Kirby Smith
was left behind with his brigade to
play with Patterson and keep him from
finding out the army had gone. But
Kirby slipped off later, taking the cars
at Strasburg, and he got to Manassas
just in time for the fight Patterson
was left behind without foe, but he
never found it out till Saturday night
too late-too late to follow and help
Mcdowell.
That night march will never be for
gotten-that fording the broad and
beautiful Shenandoah by torch light
the hnvs IN to their arm nife aud hold