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the Season, November to May, at
Pineburst, Moore County, North Carolina.
(Founded by James W. Tufts)
Herbert Jj. Jillon, . - - Editor
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Saturday, March 1007.
Tommy's Complaint.
Father's got the fresh air craze and mother's got
it too
And I don't know if I can stand this bloomin'
winter through;
We haven't a furnace fire 'cause father says as
where
A lire is unhealthy, so we warm with his hot air.
He gets up early ev'ry morn' an' thaws out both
the cats,
And then goes up in our spare room an' does
some acrobats;
The winders are left up all night, an' in the
mornin', gosh I
I have ter crack the ice up in the pitcher when 1
wash.
An' mother, too, she's just as bad, she walks
from 2 till 4
And then comes back an' pulls at somethinn'
hangin' on the door,
And then she takes a big long breath it's one o'
her best tricks
And doesn't breath till she has counted up to 96.
We live od malted shavin's and shredded door
mats, too,
An' I can't use my appetite it's just as good as
new.
An' so I'm goin' to grandma's house where I can
sleep an' Btuif
Till mother gets her lungs filled up an' pa gets
air ernuff.
Puck
HISTORIC STATE FLAG
free Seeds.
The bloated trusts they may restrain,
The railroads they may fetter,
Make common grafters howl with pain,
And promise to do better,
Keep most disbursements to our needs,
But still we'll have our garden seedi.
Economy may be the cry,
But still the mails will carry
The seeds they might prefer to buy
To Tom and Dick and Harry.
Meanwhile the prudent farmer feeds
His chickens with those garden seeds.
Hard wheat they send to Maryland .
And rice to North Dakota,
With cotton for the strong demand
In northern Minnesota.
No sense of fitness e'er impedes
The distribution of the seeds.
But anything you want to grow
You only need to mention.
Your congressman is glad to show
Constituents attention.
In lieu of other acts and deeds
He'll send a sack of garden seeds.
Chicago News.
NOTE In line with giving visitors definite in
formation regarding the State of North Carolina,
the editor has secured several stories of which
this is the tenth to appear.
The articles already printed include the fol
lowing: Dec. 29. Industries; Jan. 5, Educational
Equipment; Jan. 12, Hall of History, State
Museum; Jan. 19, The State Museum; Feb. 2,
The Theodosia Burr Alston Portrait; Feb. 9,
Famous Fort Fisher; Feb. 16, Famous Pistols
These; March 2, The Strange Story of tne
Croatan Indians; March 9, The Edenton Tea
Party.
HE State of Xorth Caro
lina played the most
prominent part in the
first battle of the Civil
War, which was fought
June 10th, 1861. on the
Virginia peninsula a few miles west of
historic Yorktown. The troops had been
very early in the field, having been called
out in April aDd seizing forts at Beaufort
and at the mouth of the Cape Fear river,
below Wilmington, the principal seaport.
The latter fort was twice seized, the
first seizure having been made by the
colonel commanding the militia regiment
of the county, but the Governor directed
that the fort should be returned to the
custody of the ordinance-sergeant, who
then represented the United States. It
was not until the 20th of May, however,
that the convention passed the ordinance
of secession, this act being hailed by a
salute of one hundred guns, fired in the
capitol square, the signal for the salute
being given by the waving of a handker
chief by a lady who sat in a window of
the convention hall.
Then and there a strange thing hap
pened, which one of the wags of the light
battery firing the salute declared was the
"First Blood of the War," for as a gunner
swung his rammer to load, a very savage
bull-dog, thinking the motion was made
toward him, sprang at the artilleryman
and took so firm and deep a hold upon his
leg that the brute had to be killed.
Troops were then already in camp here
in large numbers, and the first regiment
of Volunteers was pushed to the front a
few days after the secession of the state,
going first to Richmond, where it at
tracted a great deal of attention by reason
of its fine personnel, and then going to
Yorktown.
The commander, Daniel Harvey Hill,
who had been an infantry officer in the
war with Mexico, was a native of South
Carolina, and had, for his gallantry in
that war, received from that state a
golden sword of honor. The companies
composing the regiment were all those
of the uniformed militia in various towns,
one of them having been in service since
1791.
The regiment had a strength of over
fifteen hundred officers and men and was
excellently equipped, the rifles being
among those taken when the state seized
the United States arsenal at Fayetteville,
where it found some twenty-two thou
sand stand of arms, half of which were
later given to the State of Virginia in ex
change for heavy cannon which the latter
state had seized when it occupied the
evacuated navy yard at Norfolk, where
the United States abandoned some thir
teen hundred guns, mainly of large cali
bre for those day?. The guns this state
thus obtained from the Old Dominion
were used to arm the forts along the
North Carolina coast and the little fleet
of vessels which the state maintained as
a separate navy, but which were later
merged into the Confederate navy.
The First llegiment went into the war
in great style, many of its members being
gentlemen of large means and high posi
tion, and some of these took with them
body-servants, and a great many good
stories are told about the first days of
campaigning, one lieutenant, gorgeous
as to apparel and whose hat was adorned
with three sweeping ostrich plumes,
having been mistaken by both privates and
officers of other commands for a major
general at least, and so given all the
honors. But the regiment, though gay
enough as to dress, was as brave as the
French "mousquetaires"' of the olden
days, and quickly proved this fact.
The Federal troops had as their base,
the then greatest fortification in the
country, Fortress Monroe, and from this
an expedition set out to attack Yorktown
and to cut off communication between
that point and Richmond. The Confed
erates moved out from Yorktown, there
being the full North Carolina regiment
and a few Virginia troops, and the Con
federate force entrenched itself at a
church in a rather lonely section, known
as "Big Bethel;'
The Confederates had a very clever en
gineer officer who threw up quite a sub
stantial breastwork. The fighting began
very promptly on a warm day and both
sides showed plenty of gallantry. The
North Carolina troops had a good posi
tion, but were annoyed by the fire of
some Federal riflemen posted in a wooden
barn. Colonel Hill ordered four men
from company A of his regiment to drive
the sharp-shooters from the barn and to
burn the building. The men advanced to
do this, taking advantage of the little
cover to be had, and ran across the open
space. Before they had gone very far
one of them, Henry F. Wyatt, was shot,
fell mortally wounded and soon died.
He was the first Confederate killed in
any regular engagement during the war.
Wyatt's fall did not check the advance of
the other men and the barn was burned.
The Federals made a sharp attack and
came very near overwhelming the Con
federates, but the North Carolina regi
ment repelled this, two companies doing
the work very cleverly under Colonel
Hill's personal direction. The Federals
retired, leaving the field to the Confed
erates, who to be sure made the most of
the occasion, sending telegrams to
Raleigh, where there was a joyous demon
stration, and where the Convention im
mediately ordered that the word "Bethel''
should be inscribed upon the colors of
the regiment and that the name of the
regiment should be "The Bethel Regi
ment." The flag of the regiment, of which a
photographic reproduction accompanies
this story, is of very fine silk, now some-
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