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Savannah. My widowed Aunt Lena,

Savannah. My widowed Aunt Lena.
too, from Atlanta, was visiting us.
1t was the evening of April %, two
days after our Memorial Day, when
all save the bouquets in jars and
glasses had withered on the graves.
The afternoon had been very warm.
We were sitting out in the piazza, to
enjoy the approaching GOODNESS of
evening and hear the mocking-birds
and whippoorwills.
Presently there came to our ears
the rattle of an approaching vehicle;
and slowly the decrepit old carriage
at the naturalization, which served
arriving travellers. came toiling to our
gate.
WHO can our visitor possibly be-"
was the thought in all our minds, for
living friends were o few.
A lady in mourning stepped down,
with an air of uncertainty, and came
up the walk. With h~ospitable inlent,
my mother descended the steps to
meet her.
ut this the Tome of Mrs. Leigh?"
the stranger asked.
81 am Mrs. Leigh" my mother re-
piled. will you come in?"
81 am Mrs. Warrenton from
from New England" the stranger
said. 81 fear l may not be welcome.
My motive for coming to you is a
strange, sad one" She paused, with
a little catch in her voice.
You are very welcome" my
mother replied, gravely. Josephine
set out a comfortable chair.
The stranger seated herself, aud
after a pause, spoke again:
81 do indeed hope that the ques-
ton | am obliged to ask will stir no
unpleasant memories of q past which
we who have suffered desire of all
things to forget. My brother and
my son both fell in the terrible war;"
She glanced pathetically at my moth
er's face. They were. Of course, on
the Northern side," she added. my
brother was killed ct Antietam; but
my son was with Sherman's army,
and was finally reported missing
and that Is all l have ever been able
to learn" Mrs. Warrenton paused
again, to check %fast-coming tears.
Il know positively that he was
alive at Dalton" she continued.
"After that l can learn nothing. But
a mothers heart Graves more; ard
still in the hope Of learning some
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D. BOONE MEMORIAL
Dedicated Near Spencer, N. G.
With Impressive Ceremonies
ADDRESS BY JUDGE PRITCAARD
Six or Eight Thousand People Came
From Many Sections Of the Country
to Honor Memory Of Daniel Boone,
-"the Great Backwoodsman."

Spencer, Specialize fret mens-
orial in honor of Daniel Boone, the
noted pioneer, was held at Bpone's
Cave, Davidson county, near Speneer
Saturday. The crowd, which was es,
timated at from six thousand to eight
thousand people} came from Winston'
Salem, Greensboro, High Point, Ley
ington, Salisbury, Charlotte, Ashes
vile, and from counties adjoining
Rowan and Diridson and some from
other States.
Under the uspicos Of the DAME!
Boone Memorial Association, charter
ed by the General Assembly Of North
Carolina in 1909, Judge Pritchard
spoke III splendid style, captivating
the immense crowd Of listeners. He
was introduced by ex-Congressman
John S. Henderson, of Salisbury, who
also made a brief speech. Judge
I%'ritchard's address which was de-
cidedly scholarly was an elaborate dis
course upon the life of Boone, his
work as a pioneer in North Carolina,
and the northwest, making special
mention CT his connection with the
State Of Franklin at n time a part
of Tennessee as opposed to the fed
err government. Representative
Robert N. Page, Of the sixth district,
delivered a historical address of much
interest giving many facts in connec.
ton with the work of Boone, his ex-
p~erience in North Carolina and what
he did. Col. A. II. .Boyden, of Sails
bury, spoke in behalf of Rowan coun-
ty, thanking the ladies Of the D. A. R.,
many Of whom were present, for their
interest in the celebration. MIR. j. r.
McCrary, of Lexington, one of the
leading workers in the memorial asso-
citation, acted as master Of ceremonies.
The monument is a huge marble
shaft, erected to the memory of Boone
as a donation from Rowan citizens.
The memorial is a one-story, double
roomed, log structure, with clay CHM
ney, and shelter, an exact replica OF
the homestead built by Boone about
1855. Housed within it are numerous
precious relics, such as guns, hunting
knives, powder horns, and articles Of
clothing worn by the pioneer, as we'll
as cooking utensils used by his family.
The significance of the selection Of
the date for the dedication lies in the
fact that April 80 is the 160th ami
versary of the departure Of the Boone
family from Bucks county, Pennsyl-
vania, for their new home on the
banks of the Yadkin river and the
141st anniversary Of the departure CT
Daniel Boone from North Carolina for
Kentucky.
1t is a little known fact that net
many miles away, in old Joppo ceme-
terry, near Mocksville, Davie county,
repose the remains Of Daniel Boone's
father and mother. The grave Of
Squire Boone is marked by a simple
headstone, which has been enclosed
in a steel cage, to ave it from relic
hunters, which bears this literal in
scription:
esquire Boone departed this life in
thay si1ty-ninth year of life.
in thay year Of u Lord l765,
Geneary thay 3D."
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Another Capitol CRATER Guilty.

Harrisburg, Pa, special.-Capitol
architect Joseph NJ. Huston was Fri
day convicted Of conspiracy In false
ly certifying to q padded bill for
desks for, the State capitol after a
trial Of almost four weeks. and by q
jury which deliberated almost twenty
six hours.
The trial is the third of a series
resulting from the exposure of frauds
in furnishing the new State capitol,
and Huston IS the fifth of seventeen
men indicted on charges of conspiracy
to cheat and dcfraud the State TO be
convicted.
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Georgia Convicts Strike.

R~eidsville, Specialists county
faces one of the most peculiar strikes
it has ever known. Thirty convicts,
most of them serving life terms for
murder, and all of them serv; : sem
fences Of 20 years each, have agreed
that they will not work and their
leaders state they will die before they
will do any kind rof work for the
county or State. Several of the
prisoners are white men. /.
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With us in the South, Memorial
Day is an even more pathetic ami
ycrsary than in the North. Owing to
difference Of latitude and climate, too,
It is observed, in most of the States,
earlier in the spring. In Georgia 1t
is observed on April 26th, Instead of
May 30th.
In the North the holiday arose from
the patriotic exertions Of General
Logan; bat in the South the obsery-
ancc of the day was originally due
10 the personal efforts of a Mrs. Will
Jams. OF Columbus, Georgia. and be-
gan earlier.
With US. however, little effort or
persuasion was required to initiate
the holiday. In many of our small
towns aud villages the custom OF
bearing flowers to. the graves of our
dead soldiers began spontaneously.
remember that in the first years
after the war we were accustomed on
that day to drive to the cemetery in
our Did family carryall, loaded with
@reaths Of cedar and glossy magnolia
leaves. made On long, plant willow
branches; piled. too. with sprays of
dogwood and bushels Of wild purple
pansies and dog-tooth violets from
che valley OF the Oostanaula, and
rrab-apple and peach-blossoms from
fhe fields.
The old carryall was an arbor of
fragrance. all Its old ribs and worn
wheels hidden in pink and white
blossoms.
Yet however heavily we went
loaded to the cemetery, We lever had
flowers enough for all the graves,
there were so many of them. Always
there would be found n more grave.
in some far corner, still bare of floral
tributes: and my father. himself a
lame veteran Of Lees army, would
call to us to fetch another armful.
If we said there were no more, he al
ways Eade us divide those on the
other graves and make up what
seemed an equal honor" for the neg
leeted ole.
There was one grave, however,
rot In the cemetery, but down under
The magnolias by the fence, In the ex.
creme corner OF u grounds at
sprin2bank-which for many years
10 one of us ever dreamed OF decor
siins with flowers.
In truth, We children. never went
near the spot. Only in low, awed
tones or whispers did we ever speak
OF 1.-THE Yankees gravel" For In
all those sad old days, after Sher-
mans devastating march through
Georgia. the name Yankee was to US
something far more terrible than that
of Indian; It was the synonym for
desolation and grief.
In my childish thoughts. too. the
word was even more dreadful. On
the day before the battle at Wood
lands. four miles from springbank. a
troop OF Northern cavalry had halted
Rt our place to water their horses,
and several troopers came into the
house. My mother put US children In
the parlor and hastily locked the
soor. but the wlndows stood open
vide, and with childish curiosity I
had toddled forward and stood under
the high sash, watching the horses.
One of-the, cavalrymeu crossed the
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A little later, just as the sun was
setting, my sister and led the way to
the little mound under the rnagnolias.
my mother holding our visitors hand.
Nor had the bouquets of pansies,
placed there two days before, as yet
wholly withered. 1t was when,
through her tears, her eyes fell on
these flowers that the last traces of
Mrs. Warrenton's reserve vanished.
"And you have done this-these
fowers-for my son! For my poor
dead boy!!" she cried impulsively, and
threw her arms about my mothers
neck.
In truth, a common sorrow makes
sisters of us all; and it was thus, at
last, that "the Yankees grave" was
identified.
Mrs. Warrenton remained with US
for nearly a fortnight, and at the end
of her visit changed her first intention
of having her sons remains removed
and re-ipterred in the North.
IF l were to do that, dear friends"
she said to US, 81 should feel that ]
was breaking this dear new bond OF
friendship which, born of a common
sorrow, mas grown up between us.
Here, where heaven moved your
hearts to lay flowers on his grave
here let him rest; and 1, II you will
permit me, shall come to his grave"
And every spring, since that first
sed pilgrimage to US, Mrs. Warren
ton Journeys southwark to pass a few
weeks at sp~ringbank, and be near the
grave of her son on Memorial Day
Youths Companion.
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retain of course, but a confused recol-
lection Of the fight, the shouting and
yelling outside, the burning barns,
the awful sounds of the firing and the
well-nigh frantic fears Of my mother
for our safety.
kelley's brigade of Mississippians
was formed across the road and
across our plantation; the enemy was
repulsed, and fell back to Woodlands,
leaving e number OF their dead and
wounded. But these we're all taken
eway that night except this cavalry.
man. who was overlooked. and whom
our old oolored nan found down
there by the fence the following even.
Ing. He died during the night, and
Uncle Joe brought to my mother a
silver watch with the initials 81. w."
in the back Of the hunting-case, and
a small seal ring engraved with a
coronet and two crossed spears.
All the men Of our household. as
we'll as our neighbors, were with the
Southern army. There was no one to
call upon; we were even in straits for
food. Nor was there a horse or a
mule or a cart left US. Down there
by the fence. under the magnolias,
Uncle Joe buried the body. And that,
In brief. was the story Of the Yankees
grave.
During all those first years follow.
Ing the war-so enbittered and ter
ribie were all its memories-that
mound down by the magnolias was q
spot Stunned by us ali.
But time mercifully and divinely
softens even embittered memories
such as ours. l think 1t was on the
day before Memorial Day, 1875, that
as we prepared our floral tributes
for the cemetery, my mother stole
quietly away from the group on the
piazza, and taking a handful Of bios
SONS, bent her steps to that solitary
little mound under the magnolias.
IN wonder our eyes followed her,
and when she returned, Josephine ez-
claimed:
why, mother. where have you
been?"
LET us hope, children, that some
where in the North, kindly hearts are
doing the same for our own name
less graves therefor your Uncle
Pinckney and Cousin Will Gresham"
she replied, gently.
We were too much surprised to an
swer.
Aiterward, no Memorial Day was
allowed to pass that some one of us
did not rake off that little mound and
freshen 1t with a few flowers.
So the years passed till 1883. That
we should ever know anything fur
Their concerning this little grave I'M
der the nagnolias seemed improbable.
It was merely one Of so many thou
sands of nameless graves, South and
North.
That spring of 1882, as it CHANGED,
my sister and ! were at home from
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colored Doctors Elect officers.

The Palmetto Medical Association
of South. Carolina, composed of the
colored doctors, adjourned Thursday
night.
The election of officers was held
and resulted as follows: President,
D. H. C. Harry, ~Spartanburg; vice
president, DR.. l.. S. Edwards, An
derson; secretary, DR.. L. A. Macon,
Rock Hill; treasurer, DR.. j. S. Allen,
Chester.
The next meeting will be held at
Greenwood on the fourth "Wednesday
i'll April, 1911.
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person can visit this splendid domain.
With its magnificent trees, Its piano.
rama Of the river winding like a sill
yer ribbon in the distance, and its
quaint mansion rendered distinctive
in appearance by massive Doric col
umns and not gain a new conception
of the matchless peace and charm and
restful content of the life on the old
baronial estates of the South in the
halcyon days before the war.
The stately Arlington mansion,
which was modelled after the Temple
of Thesus at Athens, a. erected i'll
1904. 1t is of brick, covered with
stucco, and With its two wings has a
frontage OF more than 40 feet. The
grand portico is sixty feet in width
and twenty-five feet in depth. Fea-
lures of the manor house are the rem
nants of the old decorations, inclrd-
ing the hunting scene %fresco, which
was painted by General Lees father
in-law, Mr.. GUSTS, who, with his wife,
is buried in q quiet nook in the woods
on the Potomac, their graves being
marked by plain marble shafts. This
historic home Is in an excellent state
Of preservation and visitors are shown
all the apartments of especial inter-
est, including the room in which Gen.
eral Lee was married. There is no
record that General Lee ever returned
to Arlington after the war, although
the veteran servants at the mansion
have long been wont to declare most
steadfastly that Colonel Rob" was
seen about dusk one evening slowly
riding through the grounds in COM
pany with General Grant, and pre-
sumably bidding a last farewell to his
old homs,-Walden Fawcett.
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PALMETTO HAPPENINGS
News Notes of General Interest
From All Parts Of the State.
Youthful Drunkard Shoots Train.

AS Southern train No. Al was com
ing at a lively clip, Thursday after
noon, between Grover, N. C., and
Blacksburg, a shot was fired into
the train, SCATTERING the glass in the
window of the rear coach, and mar
rowly missed the aagman, who was
in the rear end Of the coach at the
time. Mike Blanton was arrested and
locked up at Blacksburg, and when
charged with the crime, admitted that
he was present, but said the the
shooting vas done by William Little,
with whom he (Blanton) lives in
North Carolina, saying that he and
Little were both drinking and that
Little was drunk, and that when the
train came along he fired his shot gun
without saying a word.
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Charlerton Girl M~ystcriously Shot.

Charleston, S. c., Specialists
Margaret Musgrave, q years old, is
dead and Clarence e. Grimshawe, a
conductor on the Southern Railway,
is seriously wounded as the result Ct
a mysterious shooting on q lonely
causeway Thursday night. The young
man and the girl were out walking
together.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-05-04
Supreme Court After Lawyers.

Already swamped with work, the
supreme court, in an opinion in a
case in which the documents were es.
pecially voluminous, protests against
the growing tendency Of lawyers to
file lengthy briefs on appeal and in
Inmates that drastic measures will be
taken to secure relief for the court
unless the lawyers bring their cases
within the rules designed to protect
the court against excessive labor.
The court says long briefs consume
time and labor which should be ap-
piled to the merits of questions pre-
sented.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-05-04
Date Cold Storage Meat.

Washington, Special.-Senator Hey
burn, chairman of the Senate Com
mite on Manufactures, which is
CT. citing hearings cn the Lodge bill
regulate Geld storage. suggested
lat the bill be amended so as to
require all stored meats TO be stamp
ed with the date The animal was kill
ed, the date stored and tie date re-
moved from storage.
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Lee and Arlington.

After all, it is at Arlington. on the
Potomac, that the present-day visitor
is most wildly reminded Of General
Lee aud the life he loved so we'll. This
beautiful estate-now a national GEM
etery, where 10000 Union and Con-
federate soldiers are buried-is To-
Gated opposite the city of Washington,
and it was here, as has been ex-
planned, that General Lee spent all
the happiest years of his life. No
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Government Pursues Gamblers.

New York, Special.-Following the
raiding Saturday of two alleged buck
bishops, to the accompaniment Of
arrests and the cutting Of wires, a
new turn has been given to the
government crusade by the statement
Of federal inspectors that other
arrets are to follow and that sew
eral prominent brokers not yet NAM
ed are the real object of attack.
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thing as to his fate, | have %journeyed
South on this sad quest. At the
house of a family near Kingston they
told me of the unidentified grave of a
Federal soldier on your estate.
81 have been to SO many unidenti-
fed graves" the poor mother added,
"that hope has nearly failed me. But
tell me, have you, had you, any clue,
or were there any circumstances. that
would-aid me to know?"
My mother, greatly touched, could
hardly summon heart to tell her; but
Aunt Lena interposed. Have you
reason to think that your son carried
a plain silver watch, marked inside
the case with the initials ]. W." she
asked.
Yes, yes!" cried our visitor, eager
ly. 1.-THE school watch | gave him on
his sixteenth birthday! Those were
his initials-Jerome Warrenton."
In our growing excitement we we're
now all on our feet, gathering about
her.
"And did he wear on his little flu
ger a slgnet' ring, with a coronet and
crossed s%pears?" my aunt asked,
quickly.
"Oh, 1t was he! 1t was he!" Mrs,
Warrenton cried aloud. THAT is the
crest of my own family" she ex-
planned. 20 my poor boy! My poor
boy! And have you the watch and
the ring? And his grave-is it far
to go?"
Too much affected to reply, my
mother rose silently and brought
forth those sad mementoes of the
terrible past; and then We turned
away in~stinctively from a grief too
sacred for the eyes of strangers.
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1nadiana Mare Like Women.

Roanoke, Va, Special.-Georse
Dyer, o horse dealer, and for years
o. driver Of horses on the harness
circuits all over the country, receiv.
ed a genuine shock Thursday, when
a handsome mare, which he purchased
several days ago in Indianapolis, az
rived here, and was found to be wear
ing a false tail. When the groom
took down the mares tail a big wa
of blonde hair dropped to the ground.
Twenty-one other horses came in the
same lot, but none of them wore a
Hrat.b
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TO A DRUMMER BOY.

By R. W. eR1zzARD, LOUISVILLE, Ky.
The robins nest in fair Cave Hill
And gentle zephyrs blow
Where sleep both braves of blue and gray
Soldiers of long ago;
The slabs are white, the sunshine's bright,
The turf is light and green
Nohler sires nor drawer soldier"
The world has never seen.
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Savannah Jury InGicts Packers.

Savannah, Ca, special.-As a re-
suit Of the Investigation which has
been carried en- by the federal jury
here for several days into the prices
of meats in Savannah and the cause
for them, an indictment was returned
against FIVE Of the big packing con-
Germs and three men, local managers
of three Of the packing houses, as in
diyiduals.
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kissed you! A Yankee kissed you!"
1t may possibly have been the same
young trooper, although that is un-
likely, whom, after the skirmish and
battle across the fields, our old house
servant, Uncle Joe, found near the
fence down by the magnolias, shot
through the lungs, MORALLY wounded
and unconscious.
As | was but three at the time, /
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Fannie Carson Case Remembered.

The wife Of Ben Allen, the mar
found dead in bed at his home at Poe
mill, G%roenville county, about eight
days ago, confessed to the coroner
and the sheriff that. the killing was
done by j. C. Lindley, who is now
held in Jail. She led the officers to
believe that Lindley planned to kill
her husband, and skip out with her
after the funeral. Lindley was a
boarder in the house.
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pon't Need EN- TIL Cooler.

In addition to the recent announce
ment of j. D. Gilreath and associates
that they will establish a $4,000
underwear factory in Greenville it
is known that the organization Of the
Muckasee Manufacturing company
was completed Thursday with $780,
900 capital to also manufacture I'M
derwear. Mr.. Gilreath and his as
sociates will organize next week.
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Work Begun on New Railway.

The clearing of the right of way
for the South Carolina Western rail
way from McBee to Huntsville, a
distance of IA miles, has begun. 1t is
expected that the road to this point
will be completed in the late fall of
this year. Light soil and easy grad
ing will cause few delays. The sur
vey up to this time has been made nc
further than Huntsville.
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Will Borrow 100000.

The sum of 100000, which is to
be used in buying additional lands
and in the erection Of certain build
ings to relieve the congested con-
ditions at the State Hospital for the
Insane, as provided for by a joint
resolution passed at the last session
of the general assembly, will be bor-
rowed from the sinking fund commits
sion.
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On to Clemson May 9.

All agencies working for agricul.
ture in South Carolina will meet at
Clemson College on May 9, when the
work in this State will be discussed
in detail. DR.. S. A. Knapp, head of
the United States office of farm de-
monstration work of the department!
of agriculture, will deliver an ad.
dress to the students and visitors
on May 8.
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Gibbes Elected Mayor of Columbia

By a majority of ia, W. H. Gibbes
at present county auditor, was elect
ed mayor Of Columbia, under the
commission form Of government, over
r. S. Earle. The entire vote cast
was 1850, of which Gibbes received
8S2, and Earle 1853.
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Foreign Manufacturer on a Visit.

Paul Teter, one Of the largest tex
tile manufacturers in the south Of
France, is in the State, accompanied
by his secretary. Mr.. Teter is visit
ing Southern textile centres and is
much impressed with the plants he
has visited.