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PaGE two heroism of a wom; Another Remark Times in 1 BY AN A' ,'i \-NTANTT: Q PROGRESSIVE FA HEROISM OF A CONFEDERATE WOMAN SPY D;: r.ii hi- E..i-hanan adminBira tiou Mis ONia! Giftni.^v v;;?. o!:o "f *h6 earlpr* of Wasbil^ . ?! :? Southerner by ' irtSu bat ba : r? Wa-bincton dine* rirj&botl, a widow. beautiful. s/.-coirr.i'>ih*u, wealthy, and noted for her *.v?t asd forceful personality. Her hone- was "he- rendervous of thost nt n or! vial life in the City :>1 Washington. -She vrs jerfj(i2M sevjua.r.:- d with a1.' the itv tVw-.* r-UT: ?] 'ht .ounty. nia.V.y of Saion; she had entti tained in her home. She liTiviv President I?uckhaii.!t v-eil. as we'd as William II. Sirnrd, then a Senator from Xcw York. Her niece, ' no was ai?o a fcrand-daSSbter of Doily Madison, was the wife of Stephen A Douglas, it in Such c ' , : it <-'V friend watched the War c!oad> ttrow ar.d darker, and break av Cb.a.i .vtor,. ^ ha h v.as the :> -/ ? r? of the four ye;&? :-- waAmonp Rc-eV cae-t.-; at the time war chine was Col. Thomas .Jordon. who "fur- leaving Wasjblngton to icc\ - : irrtment -f Ad, atai * Genera of "he (.'on*-derate Army at Mar.a-sus. asked ?- - would i : help the * 'or.iVK rafcy by beiuir a 5< . r ; ' ; . out m1 taVV , ikti'Hts* %- hici. a):-.; was w. .1 n.t'tod to <}{ . as van: \ "'t mc" ' ti;-M uiri man c*'\: 1-1. |8gSjt(Sta? her ti.e rSout" rented 1 lt-i> I a her Jotters to; htm were o be- au;;. j . .. . News rimt Helped .it B '! Run tVcs* . nths ' ? .ie/v -ivy..'." VV :isbi' ;? !?. *.v. - - .d wok ranniS ? ; new!v formed ivtrnm-nrs. dr. 1 ay and niakinfc'a oady to take tiTj tbi crj thai was a.r tidy heard over the ? ity. *On H:.-4.... \\.. ? : r strut? Where would oy strik" fir.-i? Thewere two that \iw < : :?> war* -vious r have .ti-> . eretl. f"i ihtit j :an *<f eampuien would depot:.i on those thinys. I? was Rose v.iiv. nhvw who ??ut a:.d sent word to Oeuerni Beat ! . yard at Man;a-.ve. where he anxiously awa ted tidings of the Federal advance. It w.. a - a: In y 10 that b< first m? ssag a Rose was ?ent to him. saying t. he intended advance .?f the or:- an wa> - : ' " ' sas a Fairfax i ouvt House and Cenlorviliv. it was brought it)to the Cuaiedt rate lines 5?y u lady BK M:~. Iluvai > of '.Va.?hHsU.-r.. who wen; as m?trk- f eui < r.b etffpied the Fair fax Cuivr" Hou-<- to a hou. c . cupied by the -a if:* and d.iui;-hi?r !. an of&eer iv, the Federal Army hut \yho iheroselv--s yen- both Sou'. -:- ; ; and loyal l> their native larid- Gc- rural Beauregard at or;c?: began hi? preparations and sent word to President Davis to cad in all of red force-. The federal force? wet* again delayed ar.ci the* exact date was a? indefinite as ever It was during these trying days of waiting :hat G. Donne: an. .vho. -?? fare jo..4pv the side 01 the South, had beer a clerk in the Department of the lr.terlo? said he ..-as going hack to Washington and find out something deindte. He left armed rrith two words in Col. JoiD.-r.'s ci pher. "Trust bearer," and was told to report to Mr?. Rose Greer how. Shv said he was sent in answer to her prayer, for -he was in desperate need of a messenger. Sh hastily wrote her ir oortant note. 'Orderissued for McDowell to move on Manas.-;-.? tonight," and she gave it to Dor.'iellan whom she sent in a buggy jn relays of horses down the eastern snore ot the .Potomac to a ferry where he couid cross. Cavalry couriers delivered the note to General Beauregard that night, July 1"?. The next day she had word, "Let them come; we are ready for them." The way she got her information was, she managed to get a copy of the order issued to McDowell. When the War Department recovered from the effect of Bull Run, it at once began to locate whe re the steady and swift flowing stream of information to Richmond had its beginning. Suspicion at once fell on Rose. But she would not leave her post of duty, although she was obliged to have realized the danger. Day after day she waited to be arrested, but all the time she was at work sending all the news she could gather to her friends across the river. She - . CONFEDERATE VN SPY able Story of 'Old. the South r ROSE GREEN HOW" IX THE RMER, AUGUST _\V tic?fid that "it \vas vprv *-? ?. citing* for I would *j? w;. king with one oi the officials, tith- military or state, and w<- would r.os :i washerwoman air; ing her ba>k t of clean clothes - roayl . y attired 'youth tw irkd h cat:*-, that new>- hail been received or w.v- wanted ! would thou ..pen trn my coramunicaj tions i: some ay." %vi jbi :z-.t rn ires from so many different peopb. and in so many | strange ways. The Arrest of Mrs. Cireenhow On the niorr n g of Aogust 23, j Rose was returning from a walk with a member of the diplomatic corps. As she paused a moment at a netgh! r's door, one ? her bumble agents chanced to be coming her way. Further dawn the sft-.t two men weiv watching her: sru know their miss; . To her passing agent she d "1 think that I am .v arrested. Watch from Coreoirairs. I .-ha" raise my handkerp.icl to my face- it .hev arrest me b:ve the information to my friends." She . v --< i ti.v : et to her had several important i v\ . i: r - : th.it nn-rnir.g and also. ;i >rv.;i "1 t*? -vhi. O . ..vill.wnJ *** destroy; the other let in cipher she had to tn:>f to later ha nee to -ie-:v"y. as she could - * r it out of nocko* v.-. ?a? ir .-i-en. I; she vert up fit' e two m- ;i who ; ad fohowcu ho'* ru-jv.' j up, and v iii'U". T.uo detective did '. "l (k*lIc it. but to :.tie un.a on the epics | the 'I'licy followed ?>; i ' arat .-drat i-hc She "i' | a '.h1 out a Moment ' i* r* Ti-Cj a as with men, ami tb"| . he^iUi to -earth cvtrynthesv. Men r.idu (J : :*o ttty 'u oroom and v eat into <. .eiythinfr that I had. E.. u the ie scraps of papers that my little and he> ids had bet; wj t . e on we re >ei..e?i ar.d thoujr:t. to he It v.as a wry hot day a: -! litasked to allowed to eha?u her ' r?:ss, which was grudgingly ah owed, but almost by the time >?.e had : ached her room they flung pen lu r door. She barely bad time to ' Jv?tz<*T the cipher note in iter n. W ry shortly afterwards a woman do tv?t;vc arrived and examined all of hei eioih.Her house was then a yait, and a-tectives waited behind the ; . :-s to arrest all who did not know v. her arrest and might come r.or**. Mrs. Givenhow sought nieiins warn :i.-.-iv. to stay away, iiu; all >i her .-vants were under guard. But there was one who was not un W: WHY NO TBL'Y G< I Solid L jaw m WE ARE AND ST. M THER A m HAVE M TIRE LIP ?3 !=S] r. -s5 m Mr. A. li reputatioi 1 ?f0 jjp If you Buckner. be vice. I David THE WATAUGA ' ;ivr air --:, that was ncr littiedattgh-' ? ;t-r. Ros^. only eight years old. i-o 11 j .mood a tree nod called to ail that 1 ; oa^sed. Mother has been arrestee." j1 Soorte the detectives heard her and 3 .ragged her weepisg fror/i the tree. \ r -p re of the agent on the cor* or . and what Rose con id do. the trap was ' sprung many times that day. Mrs. ?daekail and her sister, cio^c : fi ??: Rose Green how's, ? seized as they entered the door .. i st'3- .hvd and detained. The mot: . comto gto find her daughters, became! i a rrrsonor also. That night the men who were in. { i imniv became drunk, so Mr.>. G?-. . how urged them on :? ou<l taikir.t: as , a warning * * he friends who m conn-. The noise died down too .- .to save two gentlemen who ca djl that . veninc ami that catl ca .. i then; <everai months imprisonn.- . ' i m . .e :.c?er proved vrarge 01 u*- , i engaged in con'.rah&nd and trea ? ibiv correspondence with the C federate?. After midnight, tht :v were a lew minutes when tbe gu. I : was asleep, an dthat ?as what K I had ' ten watching for. ?>b eslipp-.d into the dark library and got f: .n he top she'.? o hoc k between wli , I leaves were the coveted dispute: t concealing them in the folds of dre-- she slipped back rut? her ro- 1 : 1* a few minutes the guard retur: . t ;?? hi- post at her door. She ' i ( been permitted the companionship f ] Mrs. Mackaii. and now as they : l r! ued on the bed which was in , ; shadow, they placed the dispatch j Mrs. Mat-kail's stocking in her sh j so in hat way the despatch was - ed, for between and 4 o'clock S. - r urday morning, the friends who i i | i'c. . detained were a'.i<wed to part?and with Mrs. Mackail th .vent the priceless dispatch. How a Ball of Yarn Carried . * Ml ^:>age I'll guards went through ev- / i book itai by leal, out too late, : c. ; ' he despatches were ftstme. give r arched. ioTj mlHnf how -he mad, : I ; i;i : wool - r sent: i tm.4jJBAmoih| the phisonets i ?r5 - - i'y't'H' v .!'< and <laugh ? I -i iftit i P&iiijS smcion 1.. I . ithough .. . .iV,- ket : ? n? iv ii ,11 h il?*p? 5 ft nil \\ a.-.M: . .,.. I'll, y were ; .. .- : . >iii ; - ! u.wil th' ' -',T. v i \ .v;?\ e and go ' -jd; -i.Ic. ol' the t . ...... i . their departure, j ; ; , V.i!i .mag-iii '.!.i : : rpri.-o to see M I Grecnhow. closely graniet) >n? both J j -odes by Fvder.d guards, com?rig up to tin- !' front window ai.d t?os a ball of j pink vv.'oi in at the window, living.' " 1 i- your yarn thai you left at!' ray house," and then passed on laugho.i_ With the stupid guards. Mrs., Phillips knew she had left no yarn at1 tier home, so she and her daughter . arefully unwound the ball. Four days later, in spite of her having < been searched at Fortress Monroe, . Mrs. Phillips placed in the hands cf Jeiierson Davis the ball of pink yarn ; an dits contents?one of Rose Green- i how's dispatches in ci phi-r. It was j , by >uch means she was able to out- , wit her many guards. 1 Soon Miss Mac kali was ordered to . nei own Rome and cues* iiK-nds?j nwi r met again on tni< earth, Lose , , was ordered not to buy any papers and was not allowed to know their eon tonus. Edwin M. Stanton was an < old friend of hers and she tried to | ! |L^^(L^?rfLreyErj^ oj^au^^eruaya anlslOTs^raerfeT: ^nenEfOanaaail^ OOD .eather S SOLE AGENTS FO RTH1 \R BRAND SHOES. THE ND OUR PRICES ARE F IADE A SPECIAL REDUC 4E OF SHOES DURING C Buckner a foot specialist ai n is going to have charge of < have any trouble in getting There is absolutely no extr son Depl DEMOCRAT z*.< him to ao;?ear Cor htr ar.d try t??j| ?bcain for her a writ oi liabes corpus, >at he declined When tbe judge ad- j rocated making: an unomcial call. J asked to what term.- would sht. be .vi:iing to subscribe fur her release. | die replied with unbroken courage, I None, sir. I demand my uncondi- ! Ta! reieasc, indemnity for losses, | siivi the restoration of my papers and | j -nects/* j the Tragic Death of Mrs. Greenkow j i Later Rosv Grecnhow w as >ent to j j .1 oid Capitol Prison. She was'! :?.<i and sentenced to exile. At last,! i ,.vorn out. she consented to go south i ?nd not to ratun? as long as war last-: j d. so she was sent to Fortress Mon- | %j*., where slfe told the provost that 'be wanted to be sent wherever i I President \>av?s was. He told her >uvis was in Richmond, but it would: *1 Fi (lt'ra! hands hi:fore she ctiuld I ? .u h there. To that .she replied that in would take her chances, so on he rext morning. Jure J. she and I'.de Ko.se arrived in Richmond, and: r .:t evening our Pre>.d< nt called on ie-j. and hi- words ef gre? iir.g were: "But for you there would have been BaUrt of Uu i Run." Those words ; paid her, she -.-aid, for all she had ; j ndured. <. "Uld I tell you the story of the 27 1 nonths of Rose Green how's life, liuch of the secret history of the 1'onfederacy would be recealed. Everyone thinks that she went to England and France for 'he cause, rut she only said she was going to j /lace her little daughter in a convent. j was while >be was over there that ; wr-'U her book, "My Imprison-1 lie fit, or the First Year of Abolution j lule in Washington." She made friends everywhere she ' vviit and she had much influence j er there. It was in 1 > ; J that .-he left Eng-1 . jid suddenly and -ailed tor Wilm-i -."ton on tb >ntp ?"ondor. Sh( had. .mned to return aS?no.-t at once and i marri'-J : e in E- ^land, but j .* fact that . 5 eft he-: sweecheatl .... . .... i iiiel r lit* ': daughtov and risxed n?.i , it-raw Stniei was imjiwriaiit indeed.I ifle < rip-- fear Rr. ei cheffigflffiincc j . sv. i.:. I?y tjbe blockade. SI:. .. almost iU the mouth of the river ! d not yards from hoiv when: . y Mii'hleii a vtinsel ahead ami rhou. it it was one ?t the Federal aijsuhon, so the frightened pilot ran f.:- ship on New Inlet bar. In truth .it vessel they saw was the blockade Night Hawk. whicii had been ! t. down the rught befot . Mrs. i-!..- r.nw was afraid of bei: .aught r.; rile, with Judge Holcombe and I ;eu: aant Wilson, who were Confederate agents, asked that they be put ashore. The boat was capsized and Rose Green how went to her death, for around her body was much itoid that weighted her down. flu* next day her bod> was washed ashore and she was buried with a i onfedcrate dag wrapped around her coffin, and every Memorial Day hei ?rave is decorated with the graves of the soldiers of lb?>l-lbt>5. It is also told that when her body was found that there were papers addressed to President Davis, and they were sent to him. COMMERCIAL PRINTING OF EVE RY KIND BY RIVERS PRINT. CO. ij??rL^iyayEiyi^a^ 1 ihoes? | E BUSTER BROWN S Eg Y ARE SOLID LEA- g? REASONABLE. WE S m :TION ON OUR EN- gg OURT WEEK ffi nd shoe fitter of wide o^j S our shoe department. jgj : the right fit see Mr. |j|i a charge for this ser- |{jj L Store | MONEY 1 WHAT DOES YOl "GOODBYE Oi "WATCH IV YOU CAN TEACH I DEPOSIT IT WITH MAKE IT TALK ] WILL BE ) The People Trus' BOONI LADY WAS IN A FROM NERYO Blloxl, Miss.?"I had, for a year or I mere, r.ervous indigestion, or some iotm cf stomach troubie," says Mrs. Alonzo 11 Ford, 11 !7 Clay Street, this city. 'Thcj; water I drank at that time seemed to constipate me. 1 would suffer until I go! i so nervous I wanted to get down on the | floor and roil. I felt like I could tear my clothes. "Every night, and night after night, I had to take something for a laxative, and it had to bs kept up nightly. My side would pain. I looked awful. My skin was sallow and seemed spolted. I would look at my hands and arms, and the flesh looked lifeless. "I happened to get a Birthday Almanac, so I told my husband 1 would try the Black-Draught, which I did. I took a tew rig doses, i icii much bciier. my liver acted well. 1 made a good, warm teaand drank it that way. Soon 1 found II Li ?r? neres kjfooc the Man wlRoya! J. B. TAYLOR, - - J. H. VAN CANNON, - AUGUST 30. 1923 rALKS JR MONEY SAY? FOREVER" R IE GROW" T TO SAY EITHER US AND WE WILL FOR YOU. YOU J 'LEASED * \ is Bank& b Company i, N. C. i BAD HX UQ l&SngPXOTBftM uo ErcugULeiiUii lhat nervous, tight feeling was going, as was the pain in my side. I found 1 did not cave to take it every night. Soon , a iter i few weeks, I could leave it oft for a week or so, and ! did not sutler with constipation... I gained flesh, t have a ! good color, and believe it was a stubborn j liver, and that Black-Draught did the work. "I went to my matter's (Mrs.Dceteis), one day, and she wasn't well at all. . . 1 ' told her we'd try Black-Draught. We j did, and now she keeps it to take after eating. It certainty helped her, and we neither will be without It in our homes, it is so simple, and the dose can be! regulated as the case may be. We use i Small doses after meals for indigestion,j and larger doses for headache or bad | ?? M UVCf . Thediord's Black-Draught liver medicine is for sale everywhere. j m I I News for \o needs a Cord ROYALS are the > only tires in which ou get the benefit of * he three new U. S. liscoveries ? Sprayed lubber ? Web Cord nd the Flat-Band /lethod of building a -ord Tire. Made in all sizes 0 x 3'/2 and up. Jnited States Tires are Good Tires ' 4 - Boone, N. C. Banners Elk, N. C. v4- : f-V i "ii'rSri4
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