The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-06-06

estimation, he would be glad that he
did it. Especially in this selfish and
thoughtless world, that is, thoughtless
as to every one except self, such acts
as this one are like oases in the des-
ert. Would that I could impress the
value and the importance upon every
boy in Newberry county OF such lit
tie deeds of kindness as this. They
cost nothing but the spirit that
prompts them is an asset more val
liable than gold.
There is a Mrs. Griffith in charge OF
the Crater and she charges you
twenty-five cents to admit you to the
place and to show you the relic room
and to explain the history in connec-
ton with the fight. She says the
land belongs to her family and has
been in the family for hundred
years. While they are building parks
it seems to me that this would be
fitting and suitable place on which to
erect a government park. 1t could be
made into a beautiful place. There
are now several monuments around
near there. One JUST as you enter I
believe to a Massachusetts regiment.
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At the "Crater" you can see the
hole in the ground, and the evidences
of the breastworks are plainly visible,
but the rains have washed down the
dirt into the hole and the breastworks
are also being leveled with the ground.
Pine trees two feet in diameter stand
in the center Of the Crater" The
trench leading up to the mine was
still intact in some places, so Mrs.
Griffith said. In the relic room are
old guns and balls and shoes and can
teens. I had heard the story of two
bullets meeting in the air and forming
a wheel and two meeting in the bar
rel of a gun, but I never placed much
confidence in the story, though OF
course it is not impossible for these
things to be. I saw them. Two bull
lets inbedded into each other and fiat
tened so as to form an almost perfect
wheel. I saw the" barrel Of the old
musket where two bullets had come in
contact with each other. One OF them
is still there and the place where the
other one was IS pliuly visible. The
barrel is split open for about six
inches. There is an inkstand which
Mrs. Griffith says was taken out only
a few years ago and the ink still in
the bottle but that it evaporated as
soon as the air struck it.
I spent Sunday on visit to friends
near Petersburg. There are some ex-
cellent public roads in and around
Petersburg.> I understand that the
roads are being worked by the con-
victs, the counties hiring them from
the State. From Petersburg I ran over
to Richmond on the trolley.
About three hours were spent in
Baltimore. I thought of my good
friend, DR.. seabrook, when I was so
near him and wanted very much to go
on to Westminster, Md, but had to
get back to South Carolina and as
this was purely a business trip had
to forego the pleasure Of extending
it.
I had a few hours in Washington
and went down to the capital. The
house was in session but the senate
had recessed until Thursday. The
only congressman from South Caro-
lima in Washington, so far as 1 could
learn, we're Messrs. Ragsdale and
Whaley. Lever and Byrnes are in
Panama, Finley was at home, and II
Aiken and Johnson were in Washing
ton I did not see them and they were
not in the house the afternoon was
there. There is nothing much to stay
in Washington for just now so far
as the house in concerned. 1t is wait
ing on the senate to act On the tariff