Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-04-01

newspaper many years ago and | be-
lieve lots Of people would, like TO read
them. Subscriber, Rock Hill, Marcl,
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This dreadful dark and dismal day
Has swept my glories all away.
My sun goes down; my days are past
And | must leave the world at last
O Lord what will become of me?
am condemned, you all now see;
TO heaven or hell my soul must iiy
All in Il moment when l die.
Judge Daniel has my sentence passed
These prison walls, | leave at last.
Nothing to cheer my dropping head
Until I'm numbered with the dead.
But oh that dreadful Judge fear.
Shall l that awful sentence hear?
Depart ye cursed, down to hell
And forever there to dwell.
I-know that fri@htful ghost I'll see
Gnawing their flesh in misery.
And then and there attended be
For murder in the first degree.
There shai! meet that mournfu! face
Whose blood | spilled upon THIS
With fiaming'eyes to me h"'ll say:
Why did you take my life away!
His feeble hands fell gently down.
His ciattering tongue soon lost lis
sound.
TO see his soul and part.
1t strikes me terror to my heart.
I took his blooming days away
Left him no time TO God to pray.
And il sins fall on his head.
Must | not bear them in his stead.
The jealous thought that first CAV"
strife
To. make ME take my husbands
life.
For months and days spent my
time.
Thinking how to commit this crime.
And on a dark and doleful night.
put his body out OF sight;
With flame / tried him to consume
But time would not admit il done
You all see me and on mo gaze
lie careful how you spend your
days.
And never commit this awful crime.
I;ut try TO serve your God in tKn".
Freamasonry of SoIdiersl,ip.
No. they never forget ii as long us
they are able to take interest IN thc
things of this .word-thcse old vet
Grams of tho country's wars. II is an
adventure that sticks in the mind--'il
the soul. and whenever occasion arises
il bursts out anew. with enthusiasm
that gluws and burns.
Pretty nearly the whole OF Fort -alll
township was in attendance on the
military exercises in connection win
the return Of the bodies of Bales ana
Hall to the soil Of thci: old home COM
munitv last Thursday. In the great
throng that surrounded the speaker"
stand were men, women ana chllureil'
of every age and walk in liIe--Iitlmhlc
toilcrs. prosperous directors oi buS!-
ness. industrial and financial activity
children in arms, whitrhaired rHlfl-
archs, and sweet old grandm"thcrS.
While Col. r. =. Spratt was telling
of the unsurpassed soldicrship Of the
Thirtieth division and the heroic: con-
duct of Builcs and Hall in what wits
one of the greatest military feItS OF
which history has record my attrnt'"n
was attracted 10 the intense interest,"
with which an old man beside me drank
in his rlouucnt words. Tall ana
str-lirh, he stood, almost as immorabIc
as the marble soldier who stands gu;iro
over the Park; but with sparkling eyes
lighting up face Of pleasing bcncEo-
lencc, the imprcssivcncss OF when WIS
heightened by the long white hc;lFo
that covered his breast. AS TO Whit
his thoughts were, OF course | coult
only Spcculate; but il seemed L" m'
that under the spell Of the speaker
words. he was not only hearing Du'
seeing, and probably living over aSa'i
tho ,,mu3icns of more than HALF Il
century ago.
Great soldiers. these boys s-lI"thln&
like them i'm the world today, ! re-
marked, but in most cases thtii
fathers and glandfalhrrs have beer
through something more or less OF th'
same sort" trYe old gentleman assent
cd ard in reply tb Questions, it 10
ye>ourd that he was Mr. Merritt. WIG
went through the war from start |,
Gnisl, as u member of the Sixth S"atl
Carolina Vunixtcers. Hc WAS had'!
wounded twice: once by 4 bullet tina
struck him in the face, knocked hearl!
a,I the teeth out Of one side ur his I;Ir
and canc out the back Of his neck:
got this by asking questions.
lis Colonel Coward still living
"uh. yes" replied. the colonel i
still living at his home in OrnnSrhu':
and in good condition considering NJ
ycars; hut YOU wnrc not 'ndcr c"l"ne
Coward. He was Colonel nf the tiilIi.
"Nu. but know Colonel Coward
once ut rarmvilc our regiment WA
attacked j.; IN overwhelming force, II
a disadvantHgcous position. our "i
lircrs were not equal to the situate"
and We were in Il serious mes. !
l,nl..d rs ir"tvr wHrrc riding tn III, Gu