The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-05-16

Some iounGing on the fallen trees, som c
stretched upon the ground.
They smell the bacon frying and they
hear the kettle sing.
And drink, in thought, the water that
comes bubbling from the spring:
They see the bright stars looking down
upon Nirginia's snow,
While thrilling rccollcctions troop from
out the long ago.
Their misty eyes grow lustrous with q
strange, defiant light
AS memory paints the tragic scenes of
Chicamauga's fight;
The Hash of gray battallions plunging
headlong to the fray;
The storm of iron hail that sweeps the
dark blue ranks away;
The banner with the starry cross that
proudly flaunts before,
While BraXton Bragg is paving off
Stone Rivers bloody score.
They want to bring to mind those
deeds and fight the battle DER
Around the mess with comrades of those
wondrous years of yore.
They know their days are numbered
and the old souls yarn to see
Once more the face Of Gordon, of Joe
Wheeler and Fitz Leo
Before they join the martyred host on
deaths eternal shore
The laurel-wreathed mortal who have
journeyed on before,
Their stay, alas, is growing short; few
more years, at beSt,
And reverend hands will gently lay
them. one by one, to rest,
And now shall we Withhold from them
the modest boom they crave,
30 small to us, SO great to them
Those gallant hearts who gave
The strength Of their young manhood,
aye! their blood, their limbs, their
all
In grand, heroic answer to their stricken
country's call,
All, no, for proud old Texas come what
may, will not forget
The valor Of her loyal sons, nor fail to
pay the debt
OF gratitude she owes to them for what
they bravely bore
When armed oppression planted foot
upon her sacred shore.
Her great heart throbs response, while
the warm tears start and flow
And generous hands will FURNISH
means and, God be praised, they'll
go.
SOMETHING ABOUT DALLAS.
| had always associated Texas with
the wild and woody West. AS stated
in my first letter, l expected to
find wild horses and cattle by the
thousand, with the typical cowboy,
bristling with pistols and lassoes,
with his fringed leather leggins dash
ing hither and thither over the plains
on his wild broncho. | expec ed to
find hundreds of these cowboys com.
ing in and out of Dallas. | was woe
fully disappointed 10 all this. In
fact | never saw anything suggestive
of the West, according to the idea |
had formed, | only saw one man
with "A nat at all approaching the
famous Texas sombrero, and learned
that man vas from east Of the Missis-
sippi and had bought it and was 60
ing to wear it home as a souvenir,
possibly of a period that has appar-
emily long since disappeared, at least
from this section of Texas. When I
landed in Dallas | wa1 astonished to
find that [ had landed in lar ge and
strictly up-to.date city, comparing
tavorably in appearance with Rich
mond, Knoxville and some of our
other most important cities. There
| found broad, nicely paved streets.
towering buildings, thousands Of
electric light, telephone and itele
graph wires, street cars one way or
another about every two minutes, and
often runuing in the same direction
one minute apart. | learned there
were seventy miles of street. Car line
in the city and there were seventy
cars running. Right here | will
pause to say that as an evidence of
the tremendous crowd that was at
the reunion, the street cars collected
$4,000 day in sc fares, for three
days, to say nothing of those who
beat rides, and used transfers from
one line to another.
After looking around half an
hour decided to go out to the
fair grounds, where the reunion head
quarters had been established, and
take in what was to be seen there
and return and have raik with some
body who could tell me about Dallas.
The fair grounds is some three
miles out from the city. | found
quite crowd there and the badge
salesman and all the other trinket
hawkers usually to be found in such
nlacns vow much in nui1encn The