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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-08-19
Gen. Gordon's "reminiscences.

Gen. GOrdon's experiences are
graphically set forth in his "Remlnls-
cences of the Civil War" He was
mining coal in the mountains of three
states-Georgia, Tennessee and Ala
bama-when the war came, aud he
raised company of volunteers. They
wore coonskin caps and were called
the Raccoon Roughs, and became
famous.
"Once in camp we kept the wires
hot with kilograms to governors OF
other states, impioring them to give
us chance. Gov Moore Of Alabama
finally responded, graciously consent
ing to incorporate the captain of the
'Raccoon Roughs' and his coon capped
company into one of the regiments
soon to be organized.
THE reading of this telegram
evoked from my men the first wild
rebel yell it was my fortune to hear.
Even then it was weird and thrilling.
Through all the stages of my subse-
uuent promotions and in all the bat
ties in which | was engaged this same
exhilarating shout from these same
trumpet-like threats rang in my ears,
growing fainter and fainter as these
heroic men became fewer and fewer
at the end of each bloody days work;
and when the last hour of war came,
in the last desperate charge at Apo
mattox, the few and broken remnants
of the Raccoon Roughs were still near
their first captains side, cheering him
with the dying echoes of that first
yell in the Atlanta camp"
In his account of the beginning of
the Bull Run engagement Gen. Cor
don says of Gen. Ewell, the Indian
fighter, who at the last moment went
over to the confederacy: He became
a pious man in his later years, but at
this time he was not choice in his
manner, Of expressing himself. He
asked me to take hearty breakfast
with him just before he expected the
order from Beauregard to ford Bull
Run and rush upon McDowell's left.
His verbal invitation was in these
words: Come and eat cracker with
me. we VIII vi Cdhldot to6CIuSl uCA Z
and dine together in hell To young
officer like myself, who had never
been under fire except at long range.
on scouting excursions, or on the skir-
mish line, such an invitation was not
Inspiring or appetizing, but Ewell's
spirits seemed to be in a flutter of
exultation.
IAN hour later, after had been re-
called from my perilous movement
to feel of the enemy | found Gen.
Ewell, as have said, almost frenzied
with anxiety over the non-arrival of
the anticipated order to move to the
attack. He directed me to send to
him at once mounted man with
sense enough to go and find out what
was the matter l ordered member
of the governors horse guard to re-
port Immediately to Gen. Ewell. This
troop represented some Of the best
blood of Virginia. It's prvates were
refined and accomplished gentleman,
many of them university graduates,
who, at the first tocsin of war, mad
sprung into their saddles as volun-
teers'
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-08-19
Ex-Armv Nurses,

Of the eighty ex-army nurses of tho
civil war who will attend the G. A. r.
encampment in Boston, the week be-
ginning August Is, there are some
who have passed the four score mark.
Others there will be who, though
not as old, are far from being young
women. There are also many other
nurses who, by sickness resulting
from the severe strain of hospital SER
vice. have been rendered too feeble
to leave their homes for such an oc-
casion, however, much they might de-
sire to be present.
Indeed, it will probably never be
known just how many of the hundreds
Of noble women of the north who vol.
unteered their services to their coun-
try when the call came have passed
the years since those terrible days
were at an end in bodily suffering
caused by the privations and exer-
tons that their self-sacrifice d.
rded Of them.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-08-19
A Land of Milk and Honey,

Among the lands flowing with milk
and honey in modern days Denmark
holds a proud distinction. The butter
FROM her eairies brings higher prices
in England than any produced by the
British butter-makers or any imported
from any other nation. The little
kingdom on the north coast of the Eu.
ropean continent exports also $780,
600 pounds of honey every year. Truly
a busy live of industry.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-08-19
VIZ Z5E
5ZN4NNZW
BYLZ1RZD C24NZLaD

the dinner horn blew they started for
the house. The father led by a good
fifteen rods.
His head was down, and he was
thinking up new arguments to ad-
vance, when a strange, buzzing noise
suddenly reached his ears and made
him halt.
He was passing close to one of the
heehives, and the bees were swarm.
ing. They put out by the thousand,
flying around and around, like cork
screw, and as farmer Scott hesitat-
ed which way to run, the whole cloud
began settling down on him.
His straw hat was covered in an in
slant, and then the little workers
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-08-19
The Patriots Death.

Come tc the bridal chamber, Death.
Come 70 the mother. when she ieeis,
For the first time, her first born's breath'
Come when the blessed seals
That close the pestilence are broke,
And crowded cities wall its stroke;
Come In consumption's CHASTITY form,
The earthquakes shock. the ocean
storm:
Come when the heart beats high and
warm
With banquet song and dance and
wine
And thou art terrible; the tear,
The groan, the knell, the pail the per-
And all we know or dream, or fear
OF agony, are thine.
But to the hero, when his sword
Has won the battle for the free
Thy voice sounds like prophets Woro'
And in it's hollow tones are heard
The thanks of millions yet to be.
Come when his task of fame is wrought :
Come with her laurel-leaf. blood bought
Come in her GROWING hour-and lhen
Thy sunken eyes unearthly light
TO him is welcome as the sight
or sky and stars to prlsoned men,
Thy grasp is welcome as the hand
or brother in foreign land;
Thy summons welcome as the cry
That told the Indian isles were nlgn
To the world seeking Genoese,
When the land wiId from woods or PAIN,
And orange groves, and fields of balm,
Blew Ger the ITaytian seas.
-FitZ-Greene HalleCk.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-08-19
GAvHHIs FLOCK WARNING.
Jealous d Minister Certainly Made
lesson Impressive,

Jealous d Minister Certainly Made
lesson Impressive.
The lite town of Bethlehem. Pa,
once confined half-crazy minister
known asRanting" Ranker, who had
been educ}ed beyond his intelligence,
and wassAtimes Historically fanatic.
his stranadoings were as numerous
as they wei we'll known, but probably
the wllde9Feak was during the last
year OF hANventful life.
The quiefttrte village was deem in
slumber onnight when it was arous-
ed by peal ter peal from the bell in
the Moravia church. Men and wom-
en- rushed I'm every side to put out
the supposed fire and the local fire
brigade same forth with all its para
pnernala. The crowd assembled
about the ch|ch, but the bell never
ceased it's fratc summons, At last a
delegation waSent up to see who the
ringer was anting' Ranker stood
there, hall nal) pulling the bell rope
with all his - 1ngth.
What is id Where's the fire."
was their excltI query.
Fire in hell Fire in hell" shout
ed the zealoustd preacher, and if
you don't look d you'll all be burned
up in it,"
How many ats were converted
that night has i er been known.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-08-19
EXPLAINED at Last.

"War may have it's horrors said
Suburbs. reflectively, "but at least the
warriors wives don't make them Stop
whitewash over everything"
rs whitewash darkening your life?"
I asked.
Did you ever get speck Of lime
in your eye, and while prancing
around in yolr blind agony sit down
in the bucket Of whitewash, and upon
at last recovering your sight discover
your pastor watching and listening to
you?" demanded Suburbs grimly.
And yet" he added in a tone Of
amazement, ''people wonder why men
don't so 70 church. Smart Set.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-08-19
Find Relics Of Civil War.

W. d. Short, who lives near Rut.
ledge, has recently dug up on his
farm sixty-four old muskets which
have lain buried since the spring of
1863. The farm where Mr.. Short lives
was once owned by his father at the
time Of the civil war and the story
Of the guns is an interesting one
Colonel Glover, with a force of
union soldiers, had camped near the
Short homestead and were preparing
supper when troop Of confederate
cavalry dashed upon them and cap
tured the company; Colonel GlOver's
soldiers were equipped with fuse"
guns, an army musket superseded
throughout the army by more mod
ern weapons long before the war
closed The confederate troopers took
the guns, but finding they had no am
munition for the old style weapons
left them on the farm of Mr. Short.
The possession Of SO formidable
display of arms at that period, when
even a squirrel rife was on the pro-
hibited list, very much alarmed Mr..
Short and his family, and that night a
trench was dug, the guns piled in
and covered over. There the weap-
ons have rested until one day last
week when W. D. Short by accident
found the resting place Of the old
firelocks and brought them to light.
The stocks are all rotted off and
the iron barrels, rods and bayonets
eaten with rust, but they show plainly
the style of the gun, and locks and
bands are all intact. Since his find
has become known MIR. Short has
been besieged by relic-hunters for the
old guns and he has given them out
to all applicants as souvenirs until all
out two or three of the guns are gone.
Salisbury, Mo-, Press Spectator.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-08-19

roasted on his shoulders, chung to his
shirtsleeves and covered him down
to the knees. He reached out his
right hand and grasped young
peach tree to support himself, but
that was all he could do.
Dick came swinging along about
the time the last bee had settled
down, and he stopped short with a
look of amazement. Then the look
changed to grin, and he sat down on
the frame Of the grindstone, crossed
his legs and said:
dad, l wouldn't be in your place
for three of the best cows in Hills.
dale county,"
"Dick, I'm a dead mani replied
the father in hoarse whisper.
"You surely are. You amt goin' to
die of broken heart because marry
the wilder Lapham, but because
about 100000 bees are goin' to jab
their stingers into you at the same
time. You'll feel wuss'n that peddler
did-fur wuss."
"Dick," continued the father, you
must git one O. them new hives and
put some fresh honey around it and
try to coax them bees off. They may
begin to sting me any mint"
Eyes, dad, they may, and they'll
hear your yells clear down to Schem:
erhorn's as the first fifty stingers go
in. III see about the hive bimeby
want to talk with you first. How
old do you think the wilder Lapham
is?"
For heavens sake, but whats has
the wilder Lapham got to do with
them bees? Get that hive!"
"After we've had our talk. How
old did you say she was?"
"a leetle over 80, guess, but I'm
nigh dead Of fright"
"You keep still and you'll be all
right. How big are the widder's
feet?"
"Durn you, Dick, will you see -FOUR
own father perish this way?"
You're not perishin'. How big are
her feet?"
Same as your fathers, or small
er. Now git the hive
"Purty soon, dad. How about the
wilder settin' rlantraps?"
"Dick Scott" exclaimed the father
in as loud tones as he dared use,
them COMPOUNDED bees are crawlin'
down my back and into my ears!"
eyes, they are naturally GURUS to
know who you are. Do you reckon
the wilder set mantrap for me, dad?"
moo. Great lands, how l suffer-"
"The case is just like this, dad
The wilder is at least ten years older
than me, but we love each other, and
want to git married. You married to
please yourself, and l shall do the
same thing. You and ma have had a
heap to say about it, and you've said
some purity hard things, but l guess
vou're willin' to take them all back
now and keep shet. Do | understand
it that way, dad?'
"Naver, Dick-never!
"Then you stand quiet and III go
in to dinner. If I hear you yell
shant come. as it will be too late.
Do YOU want a big funeral, dad?"
"Dick, have l got to chaw my
words?" pleadingly queried thief her
"Or else let the bees chaw yoA."
"Then, Dick-then git that hiv up
here in less'n mint and J gin
to gently .scrape them inferno in
seeks off, fur I'm right on the lint
of faintin' away
And the wilder, dad-the Wild
der?"
Marry the widdH', and be burned
to you!"-Charles Crawford in Bos
ton Globe.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-08-19
Earl Of DaAx,s Romance.

Quite as rom; as any novel is
the true story vhow the Earl of
Darnley met WI This clever and
charming wife. was then Ivo
Bllgh, and "nlles1iting Melbourne
with the Ensl'sh Nketers injured his
hand at a cricket Itch. The wound
was bound IL. for h bv a ladv who
was present, who uh her own hand
kerchief for the plose. and when.
later on, Mr.. Blighanted to thank
his good Samaritanhd return the
handkerchief, he waintroduced to
Miss Florence bropA daughter of a
local magistrate, drming young
girl, with "hom ne y instantly in
love. The sequel rM like a story
book, for they eresttried in 1884.
Sixteen years later lhBligh. bv the
death of his brother dcame eighth
earl of Darnley. IL
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-08-19
What's the use o. dyin'?"

3sSsANhat's the use o. dyin'"
8you must go and git all tangled
&ith wilder as old as the hills,
50u haul off and hit a peddler
|1lGhave you in the county jail be-
saturday night!
1Skfny, no wonder that me and
have bin havin' cold feet
sKs last three days and huntin'
|S2Sfses for our tombstones! I'll
Zone more talk with you when
aup to dinner, and il you can't
s'SSSie to listen to reason then III
6fough with you"
1 had nothing to say in reply.
SIas as much astonished as his
|S u sis sudden outbreak, but 1t
VI iyen him confidence.
z pair worked along for the next
|s1 iSurs without a wee. and when
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-08-19

29 many things had happened
bees swarmed back of the
Sthat June day.
s. tott, son of the hard headed
Ehearted old Farmer Scott,
n in love with the widow
3l months before. He was
Il years of age, and working
Sther as hired hand, while
p and owned the next farm
list.
easy. to get up an argument
ff retrospective ages, showing
Slisparity was too great and
side, and The father
.S<Sr all it was worth.
fei Scott had called upon the
h nd charged her with seeking
Ills guileless son, and had
nptly turned out doors. The
jS had mixed in after that,
Hair was the leading subject
T. sation for five miles around.
~ cott was no talker, but he
AZ 0od hand to think. He was
h in love, and he was as de-
I'd to marry that widow as he
five, but he couldn't stand up
THE arguments of his father
Mess the tears OF has mother,
Kept quiet and waited for an
nike, cyclone or some other
sation of Providence to help
never they were working in
lids together the father would
1.-THE sky with a squint, take a
III glance around the farm, and
remark:
II 1T seems awful that I've got
IA my prime and leave all this,
ally before them young pear
begin to bear, but I'll have to
iii have to do it.
ats the use 90 dyin'?" Dick
ask, knowing that he must say
hing
Ion't want to, but I've got to.
i've a week after you've went
l1rried to the wilder Lapham.
tn that my only son has gone
Iarried his grandmother, and a
h With feet like an elephant at
E61ld break my heart and send
aly grave"
III you marry who you want.
whom you married ma"
SfNas different. In them days
dsdidn't set traps for young
saad widders wasn't schemin'
Wal night. Dick, gol durn We,
I'VE want to make a hyena Of
lM fur and send my gray hairs
W. The grave in sorrer?"
would change the subject or
tos talk back any further, and,
5mCttering to himself for half
M longer, the father would get
osst.
this June day, however, when
t0 were repairing the rail fence
III the corn and the potato
md all nature was reveling in
llmy sunshine, the usual discus
oDened with a different prelim-
md became red hot at once.
eddler came down into the field
sif he couldn't make a sale of
ket knife or a pair of suspend
nd he had a little joke to get
out the widow Lapham wearing
tousers after marriage.
WAS still grinning when Dick
"a him into the thistle patch
eemed sorry that there was not
N him.
Z thunder, Dick Scott" ex-
III the father as the peddler
@ himself up and started off,
lcu appear to bring eternal dis
On this family. 1t wasn't 'nuff
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-08-19
Princess Has Many Godfa

Probably no person in the b.d
as many godfashers as did ress
irene of Prussia wife of Phi, feo.
~. When she va born hersfa -.
ouested the membSs of theas i'm
regiments forming portion thia
cavalry brigade to he sponsors EnA
baby. When she was chrsAed
about 1000 soldiers stood fors Is
SUonsOr an i
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-08-19

20 Wlnchester IN 1895. For many
years he has been prominent figure
in ecclesiastical life in England. part
ly through the personal appreciation
of his capacity shown by Queen VIC.
toria, who had him appointed dean of
Windsor in 1883. DR.. Davidson's
views on the chief matters OF contlo.
versy in the English church are we'll
known. In the house of lords he has
gained high place among the Epis.
copal statesmen, especially in regard
to social movements, and his zeal in
educational matters has often been
proved.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-08-19
A Social Trs1v

She first put on darkIe dress
Then changed it for a {ple one:
Then changed again. in I distress
To one 'twixt chestnutA and din.
And vet once more she nj charpe
And put pale pink rigH on.
Her nusnano sro"'eu 'iH1 strong and
His patience was complet gone
They went to call upon solkriends
That she was anxious Ethnress-
lis ever thus when womb nanIs
A lot of time upon her dlI
This time her plan succeeihot
In stunning folks. for OHsi
Her hostess said: ITS quiEoo hot
TO think of turning. up gas"
S. w. Gillian in BaltimoY eric,n
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-08-19
Memorial to Great Ex.:-

An appropriate memor1nto the
great geologist and scien1 II Josenh
lie Conte, has been erectd Yose.
mite valley by the Sieh Iub Of
California. 1t is lodge, b ktrono
ly and simply, containing large
room, 25x36 feet, with a lnd stone
fireplace at one end, amos Ssmal,
room on either side the ehAo IN
the opposite end. 1t is at i bnnrr
end of the valley. #hy
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-08-19

..a-.!oada Of treasure therefrom,
erased his namc from the calendar of
the saintt ana Ordered his bones to
be curn, nd tr~ ashes to be scat
tered TO LII. fCN Winds.
Whether this was really done. no
one cal tell 1T this day. In 1888 a
stone coffin, with the remains Of a
skeleton Y .jch some declared to be
that of the rartTred archbishop, was
discovered In Ihe crypt and re-buried
after careful eZamiIa ton. A curious
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-08-19
Grants Lack of Imagination.

On one occasion Gen. Sherman, In
discussing the difference of tempera-
ment in military men and the effects
of military movements upon them,
said that Gen. Grant had SO little i'm
agination that he could look unmoyed
upon appalling scenes.
Il remember when our military was
moving down troops by thousands
and shells were exploding all around
us! looked on in terror, l confess
that ! was frightened half out of my
wits, though l might not have shown
it in face or actions. l turned to Gen.
Grant and saw him gazing calmly
upon the awful work of destruction
and wondered why he did not change
his position. He remained intently
watching the battle, giving orders
from time to time. when suddenly
shell burst near us, scattering men.
horses and gun carriages into frag-
ments. l expected we'd both be
killed, when the general coolly took
a cigar from his pocket, lit it, and
said: 4 think we'd better move back
few PAGES. 1t seems to be getting
rather hot here"
Gen. Grant had no love for war.
He said this repeatedly. When
Charles Sumner, during a conference
on the Alabama claims, insisted on
preposterous damages from Great
Britain or immediate war, Gen. Grant.
with much seriousness. said: do
you know, Sumner, what war means?
II you'd seen what l saw at Shiloh
and Chickamauga, dead and dying
men piled up many feet deep. you
would never want another war. |
certainly do not, and there shall be
none if | can prevent it."
Gen. Daniel f. Sickles, who left
leg on the battlefield of Gettysburg.
says: II don't recall any JOY on 60
ing into battle. My feelings were of
anxiety that my orders should be
properly carried out. The sense of
responsibility in a battle overshadows
all other feelings. Personal danger
is never thought of-only danger to
the movement and the army. Joy
comes at the end, if you win vic
tory. l remember quite well the feel
ing of exultation when we had won"
In reply to a question Gen. Sickles
said that he did not know just when
he was shot; he was aware OF it
few minutes later, when he discov-
cred his boots were full of blood and
his inability to move his leg.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-08-19

IncombustbIe CeIluloid.
incompatible celluloid is French
invention.
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The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1904-02-24
Mica.

The health of this community is
not very good at this writing.
Miss Mary Jane Gnliland is i'm
proving some.
Mrs. Sallie Hendricks has been
To.J' - g5. - r.,, ."v o,oiAs.
Mr. Agustus Williams is some bet.
ter at this writing.
Miss Nora Looper of this section
spent last week with her sister, Mrs.
Harvey KonEcmoro, of piclIens.
Mr.. d. G. Moore, one of Green.
Vile connty's best farmers spent last
week with j. Lucian Hondricks and
family.
Misses Cora and Maggie Chapman
were the guests of their brother, Mr..
Cnridine Chapman of the Lenhardt
section, one day last week.
Mrs. Ellen Looper and childl en-,
and Mrs. Sallie Hendricks were the
guests of Mrs. Jane Hopkins, one
day last week.
Miss Eva Hendricks spent last
week with hor sister, Mrs. Nora
Fondley, of Maynard.
Wishing tho Sentinel Journal
much success, | remain,
Blue Eyes.