Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-04-26

looms, learning the intricate process Of
cloth-making. The great armies for
the most part depended .npon these
delicate hands for clothing. Neither
were the little girls or young ladies at
school idle. When een upon the play
grounds OF In recreation rooms they
were dexterOusly plying the knitting
needles, each priding herself upon the
number of pairs Of socks to be sent to
that much beloved and honored army
of the Confederacy. With marvellous
skill, becoming attire, a varity Of hats,
shoes, and all of those little articles Of
personal adornment 80 dear to feminine
hearts were contrived out of tnothing"
with the utmost ingenuity.
The kindly presence of Southern
ladies in hospitals will ever be held in
sacred memory by remaining veterans.
Her benign nature ever ready to soothe
aud alleviate the sufferings of friends
or foe, her own needs atinted to pro-
vide delicacies for the sick and wound
ad, reading and writing letters, giving
cheerful and comforting words to the
Responding or sending dying messages
to dear distant mothers and wives. Such
was the daily occupation of these noble
Southern women During these tlOu-
blesome times love and coutship was
not forgot, and a talisman given at
parting, a ring, a lock Of hair, or the
picture of some sweet girlish face did
more to strengthen and revive the
weary soldier and languishing prisoner
than anything else could have done,
and many little love tokens, such as
gutta percha rings, neatly embelished
with silver hearts, found their way
out Of gloomy prisons to fair hands,
plighting the troth of many a lovely
Southern girl to her ardent and patri-
otto lover.
The larders of Southern households
we're now we'll nigh exhausted, and It
was pathetic to Q how the faithful
old mammies contrived to replenish
these necessities. Substituting parch-
ed rye and dried sweet potatoes for
coffee, and digging up dirt of the old
smoke house, which had received grain
were given to flames, private res
licences and beautiful public buildings
we're burned to the ground growing
crops and every prospect of comfort
and living were destroyed; and the
once prosperous and abundant South
was now reduced to a state of desols-
ton sorrow and bereavement.
Many we're crushed TO death. Many
threw themselves on the eartn' being
either wounded or exhausted and I'M
able to continue their flight. The
great mass continued to hurry onward
leaving their dead and wounded on
the battlefield. Thus ended the hrst
encounter of the great civil war.
During three years Of varying yicis-
/ situdes the OOnfederates fought with
sanguine fury, (and with the ferocity
Of tigers gaining many decisive bat
ties, aud victory was almost within
their grasp. Although the contest was
not ended and the tide for the time
seemed against them, they were still
hopeful Of glorious achiev ments, al
though lie armies we're diminished, its
resources IN men and means appar-
emily exhausted and Southern ports
blOckaded, but devotion aud patriot
ism triumphed over all these obstacles
on numerous battlenelda and inflicted
crushing defeats on successive armies,
each Of which Our arrogant foe fondly
imagined 60 be invincible, Il was not
until che closing scenes OF 1854 that
the unwavering confidence Of the Con-
tederates was shaken. "Sherman's
march to the sea- had completed the
success Of devastation. The whole
country was laid waste. Mills were
burned, factories demolished, barnsful
Of the dripplngs Of that abundant store
Of hams and middhngs for years, and
by 8 mysterious process converting Il
into 3 t'pFime" quality Of salt, and
many times her f'White foIkisI table
was spread with unusual delicacies. the
result Of "mammiosn foEaging visits
10 the camps Of her Northern friends.
The Southern armies were now re-
ducod to abiect starvation and want,
aud cut Of from all aid and ~auatenance
the ~COniederaOy, Ike q Wearled gladi-
at0r, whose spirit was invinoiblo,
reeled under the exhaustion and dual-
" 8uccummed TO an enemy inexhausti-
bic ii strength and reinforced by the
world. was no testimony against the
valor or the sklll with which Der atrug-
gle was directed.
The sons and daughters Of the South
have exhibited heroiam 30 Sublime IS
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come, and The achievements ok South
ern genius and valor Is as radiant ~
ever shone upon the blazing crest OF
war.
When the wheat market jumped or
"a Chicago the other day seventeen
centa On the bushel IN q couple Of
hours, Il meant the ruin 81 3 good big
gang Of gamblers, but the real value
Of The genuine article Was 81 noWiso
affected. Sometimes the thought
comes that probably It would not sori-
ously in5uEs the producer oE The con-
gumex s. By some Kind ol s twiet Of
the wEaz4 all these fellows Who gamble
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