The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-03-05

broke a jar and was bitterly abused for
it, and told that he had forfeited the
e2O that he was to get when his term
was out. De was then eighteen and
had yet three years TO toll at his hard,
monotonous work. That night he
poured out his heart to the girl he loved
and declared ho would run away and
go to America on the first sail vessel
that left the port. That he would
make some money here and send it to
her If she would promise to come to
him, and then they would marry and be
SO happy-and she promised.
Within week the opportunity came.
He told one of the sailors his sad story
and the sailor told the mate, and they
took him aboard by night and hid him
down IN the hold of the vesse ell until
the good ship had weighed anchor and
it all to us one cold night at Manassas
and how sad and sweet was his last
kiss, his last embrace, his last good
bye. He choked up sometimes and the
tears glistened in his eyes, but 1T was
pretty story and Dickens could have
built upon it and made tender ro-
nance. This was away back in the
fortles when our State was building tho
Western and Atlantic railroad and
wanted laborers and had sent man to
New York to hire immigrants as they
landed at Castle Garden.
cold Hook did not have TO wait q
day, but was hired and shipped to At
lanta and from there to Allatoona,
| Iuhnra hn did hio Hrot xunrb uo .n; Il
he did not feel safe upon the ocean
voyage or in New York harbor, for he
feared he might in some way be caught
as fugitive and taken back, but when
he got to Allatoona and saw the woods
all around him and tho high hills and
deep ravines and mingled with good
kind-hearted men and women, he felt
safe and free. 81 never knew wat
freedom was before, and you Hamerl-
cans ave no hidea wat blessing it is.
The good woman Were boarded and
her daughter were so kind and gentle
to me that would 'ave 'ugged them
If dared, but thought all of the time
of the girl had left behind me and 1T
nerved me TO good 'onest work and the
contractor soon raised my wages, and
in six months lad 'undred dollars
in bank and got good man to send it
to another good man in New York, and
he found the same captain came hover
with and he took it to my sweetheart,
and she came back with him, and
while / was every day looking for
la letter she took me by surprise one
morning and brought the letter with
her, and we just fell in to beach
hother's harms like -like-maior
hexcuse me now, 1 must go and look
halter my 'oss." He had named his
fine mare Emma, so that he could cal
her Hemma, | reckon.
But we made him finish the stor,
afterwards and tell how one good frienf
|, volunteered TO go after the license
and another after the preacher, ant
his landlady and her daughter baket
some cake and got up hextra supper
and they were married that night a
her 'ouse, and all he remembers abou
what the preacher said was: "Whon
} God 'ath joined together, let no mar
, put hasunder." "Old Hockn was
, patriot, good, honest and true man
, His neighbors at his home in Dawson
: County all loved and honored him
l and there was not q man in his regi
+ meDt (the Eleventh Georgia) more be
, loved by the men that he fed, for h
. was chosen Sheir commissary early il
I the war, and you know it is so natnra
. to love those who feed you we'll. Whel
!, iations were short he would travel al
1 night to secure supplies and the boy