The Gastonia
V°1‘ XVt11, _ Gastonia, N. C„ October 28. i»»7.
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MAJOR JONES’ COURTSHIP.
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By ftajor Joseph Jones, of Pinevllle, Georgia.
LETTER XXII1.
Pineville, Aug. 24.
To Mr. Thompeoti.' Dear 81r-My
lost letter Mm to produced a non
■troua see it Ion among the cultivators
of hair, and I can’t help bat Tea! a tit
Us proud of tbe soereta of my writ Ini
on tbat sobject. dome grate Oloaofer
has add that the man what made two
spears of grata grow wliar only one
growd before, wot a beanyfaetor, Wall
If that’s true, the rule ought to work
both ways, and I’m of tbs notion that
—In times Ilka these, when tiling* la
run into dob bomlnable extra mae—tbs
mao wbat causes only e decent crop of
hair to grow wkar sicb everlaetiu stacks
of It waa cultivated before, hat a equal
claim to the gratitude of all decent
people. Tbe way my last letter liar
cradled oB the sonp-locks a»d Imperiels,
end gost knou sod rouetysbows (a
truly tlsrmln to tha vermin wbat ne
ually Inhabits them regions, ae the
geografv sea It seem* It'a made a
clean shave of ’em In some parts of
tbe country, sod fallen wbat used to
go about In the hot weetlier aweatio
and smoklu uodcrtlielr burdens of
lialr, and etlnkin with bar’s oil aad
permatnm worse nor a spaniel dog
after a aboaer of rain, is so much al
tered and look so muoh decanter tbat
tber friends and relations don't hardly
know ’em.
Day before yesterday, I went down
to the poet offloe to gtt the Mltoellany,
aud wbeo 1 ax’d the postmaster if ther
waa was any thing for me. ae* be,
“Well, I reckon you’ll Ihlok so gin
you pay the postage.'' and be handed
nia about a donee letters. I paid him
what they come to. tod wsagwlneto
■tart borne, when he liollered oat,
“Stop, stop, Major, here's something
i'!»• (or you,” and ont be oome with a
grate big bundle done up lo s piece of
brown paper.
“Why, wbat upon yesrth la that f ”
tea L “Lord only boowa.” sea he—“it
oome In a extra beg this mornln.”
1 looked at It and betted it in my
bands, bnt I couldn’t make oat what
It waa to live my Ufa—It was $2 pos
tage, ana 1 didn’t feel like peyln tbat
for nothin.
“Maybe It’s a booket.” see the Post
master: “you better open it and aee,
ai.d It It Is you wont have to pay no
postage.”
But I could loll by the feello U
wasn’t no bucket letter, t k no wed
Mery’s aunt down In Auguste aed in
her last letter the wst gwine lo send
her aome little things, and 1 was afraid
to base it opened lor tear the Post
master would see 'em, and tell every
body In PlnaviDe. So I paid the pos
tage and tuck the bundle under my
arm, and went home laugbln all the
way to Uilok wbat a joke I would have
on Mary.
Well, when I got borne, Mary and
1 h« galls some round me the Bret thing,
wantia to know wbat was lo the bun
die,
. After foolln ’em a Mile while I gin
Mary a kind of a wink, and see 1:
“Don’t you remember wbat aunt
Mabaly writ about In her letter? them
little—
But Mery’* band waa on my mouth
in a mtnlt. *
"llueb, huali, now Joseph— give It
to me,” ns she, end tbe snatched the
bundle out of mv treads, end ebe and
the galls run oS to her room almost
tickled to death, to ate tbe little
Qnerlee.
i aot down In a chair and begun Vo
open tb* letter*, when all at once I
beard a load soruum In Uirj> room,
and they all com* main out Ilka they
wa* frightened out ot tber Mtuei.
Mary com* aeraamln to me, «• white
aa a sheet, and I took bar In my lap
and tried every way I snuld to quiet
bar, bat *ha like to faint two or thin*
tlmea. The Orat word abe aed waa.
“Oh, Joaepb It'* eomsthlng hairy I"
“Yea,” *«e all of ’em, "it’a some
kind of a lie* varmint, for it atlrrtd as
toon as it aeed the light.”
”1 couldn’t help bot one* a little to
myself. It mad* coo to mad to think
■om* dratted thing most all tb* time
to b* happenlo to moot Mary, and then
■ho1* to plagy akury.
At aoon a* I rot her pattiBod a little,
I want to as* what It was. Mlaa Car*
lloo abe got the toog* and Mlaa Ktaiah
got tb* broomstlok and eome along a*
brave as bould be. bot Mary bung to
my cot* tall and kap dose behind me
at the could.
"Take car* now, Joaepb,” tea Mm,
“yoa don’t know what It Is, and It
monght Mt* you terrible.”
I felt • little sort o’ jubus of the
drafted thing myself, and I luck the
braom-haedln and poked It two or
three times to aav what It wonld do;
but It didn’t etlr, eo 1 wont up to It
aad pulled the paper open, and wbat
do you think it was r As shot* aa
I’m tattle bar* It we* nothin bot a
grata big heap or wbltkor* aad hair 1
As oooo aa I aeed It ( keowed by tha
lb* odor It wan tb* name establishmtat
wbat akered Mary so up to Atbae*.
The gall* aad all of no bad a good
laugh at tha olroumaUnc*. and after
polTla It about a llttla with tha taaga,
w* found tb* follow lag latter la tb*
bundle, which 1 tend you to print In
tb* MMo*Hany:
•Aogmu, Aug. |4.-Xo Major
Jooaa: Sir—( Kara Juit board year
latur toad la whtah you ma to bar*
ilogted my balr and whlakara oat aa
tba object of yoar ridicule. [ regret
ran owl that Lboy aboold hara bean
took a aourea of terror to yoar aat
eabla tedr, and foaling llialeome alone
taaat la dm for tba ontraga upon bar
nrrrooa aanatbllltteo, I bora determined
to anarldm thorn aloriee »f my man
hood. and to aand them to yen to ha
•ubaatttad to an eh punlahmant aa aba
may Amiga to lofltet a poo Umm.
Van raapaattony, eto..
“wnnxBBs.”
Mary laagbad right oat. 'Wall,
wall,” am the; ’If that don’t boat any
thing I Cat hi* wbltkcr* off to ke*p
, ’*tn from *k*rla people I Well, he «>■
1 a terrible fright, *bor* auoogh. end I
; d*re my be’* e right Cbrl*ti*n4ookin'
■art of ■ human, now’* b*> took all
that mooatroue beep of balr off hi*
faor, I would Ilk* to we him now: I
would.”
''K*’* a rlpbt gallant gentleman,
ai*," an Mia* Carfioe; “to anod hi*
whliken to you to ba punlihed for
frightenin’ you ao up to Athana, ain't
be t”
“He li so," in Mils Keetah.
••Well. Man-, what It you gwine U>
do erltb ’em r' aaa I.
"Why.” ace she; •! 1*11 make Cato
taka 'em oot in Uut old Oald to-morrow
and bum ’am.”
"Noueaeose. child," sea old Mtaa
Si ail In a, who's the most too qolo teal 1st
old wnmau In the world; "let Oslo
save ’em till next spring to plant Irish
taters Is; they say hog’s hstr la tba
best thing In llie world (or that, sod I
don't aaa why they won’t do Just at
mil.”
"That’s a fact,” ere L "Here, Oato.
take 'cm out to Uia bero sod he cara
ful of 'em."
“Wall," aaa Mary; "you oan do arhat
you please, but L won’t ast a talar.”
Caio tack the things asd carried ’em
oat, and are all sot down aod weal oo
raadlo’tho letters. Has*lathi next
one what wa opeoed:
"Athens, Aug. Ld-To Major Joseph
Jones : dir—xoor letter has caused a
most alarming decline of soap-locks
and goat-knots, aa you vary appropri
ately call them, 10 this town, aad a
consequent depreciation of Maeaiaar
aad bear’s oil. Tba barbae hare a
perfect harvest of tbe hair crop, aod
our community are becoming to look
llkaeiviliiad beings. U would seam
that a compromise has been made be
tween lbs dandy* and dandyesssa, aod
that bustles are undergoing a sensible
reduction. Oo last Monday at church
I saw IS young ladies silling oo one
bench, where but eight could poesibly
stow Uiemttlvcs on tbe Sunday pre
vious, tnd I also observed that fans
were not In anything Ilka such con
stant reqatsILion as formerly. Having
observed thee* happy humanising re
suite, 1 ball you, air, aa one or tba
greatest reformers of tbs axe. Vary
respectfully, your obedient servant,
"OBSERVER.”
1 read the last part ovar three time*
to the galls. Mary sod aha liked it all
very wall, all bet the bustle part. Sbe
sed aha couldn’t sas why man need
bother Ibeioaetvo* about wbat don't
concern ’em.
"But ltier da oonoern ’em,” tea L,
aud on I went to read tbe next letter:
"Savannah, Aug. 17.
“To Major Jooes— Sir: I have just
read tbat ridiculous latter of yoan
from Atbess, in whlob you have takna
the liberty to apeak of my whiskers In
s most scandalous manner. Sir, you
are a fool, sir—* beardless puppy, sir,
tbat ain’t worth the notice of a giotl*
maa who can nuse a pair of whiskers.
If you had half sense, you would keep
tbat elUy little hysterical wife of yours
at boats (‘did you aver I’ sac Mary, 'the
mtaa old thing) and oot carry bar about
with you whan you go to show yoar
sal f. On* foul at a lima. Besides,
yoo ought to know tbat tbe hair Indi
cates the Mood, aod tbat soot of tba
tba greatest hero** of antiquity wore
long bait and flowing bauds. Rat
who could expect better from a ploy
wood’s fool ?
“Your*. Ac ,
ELFIN.”
“Bead that orer agio, won’t you.
brother f” aaa Sietar Carlins, with a
mischievous am I la oo bar pratty faoe.
But one raadln’ of that letter waa quite
enough. I fait aa hot aa a pepper box
for about a nelnlt—to think tba drat
ted aeoundrel would apeak that way
aboat Mary.
“Don’t you mind,” aaa 1 to bar; “bit
argyaaeuta abowa him to be n fool. The
hair dote ahow tba blood of a hone or
aoow, aod maybe monkeys, but I
newer heard anybody ear before that
human creatures waa to bejodgad by
tbe saute rula. And aa lor the baroaa
of aotlqulty wearlo’ long hair, that all
“*»*?’ J«rt I reckon they waa Jaat aa
much Indebted to iber honaa talla for
thor victories aa to thar own hair or
whlakera Be’a e baboon, Mary, aod
don’t laaa mind him.”
Hara'a another letter:
“■atontou, Aug. Id, 1B43.
“To Major Jooea—Dear Sir: Go It,
old fallow; gtva the goata a swingle*
eriay time you coma serosa them.
Thera it taro or three klnda of arialo
=racy In tola country that I want to
are put down, and one of them la tba
’arUtooraty ef whlakera.’ Thla a the
mart annoying of them all, (specially
In warm weather. Swings them.
Major, till they ehed. Yours alnoeraly,
"A SHAVES.”
I waafarfaotly willin' to road that
ooo orer agin, hot they all wauled la
hoar the seat, wbiob waa tba last. It
waaoa pink eol lov'd paper, ead la Urn
prettyeat hand wrltln' {erer did see.
Here It la:
"Athene, A up oat 10.
"To Major Joaeph Jonta-Dear (Mr:
Mjr rrouae for eddreealn* aiutlMlo
moat be tba Irraaletlbie deeire I (dal to
axpteaa my tratltude to yoa for the
tary treat favor you bare rendered aaa.
Dear Major, I am IndaUad to yaa,
wordeeauoot tall bom much. Torou
I o wo tbo ptaearyatJon of cay daar Baa*
ry. But for yon I woo Id aayur ban
enjoyed tba bllaa of Uile moment, tba
raptata of hnowlat that I pcoaaaa tba
undivided a (feet tea of tbo drat aad on
ly daar, doar, object at car heart.
Tau aaoet know, Major, that aa
Wa grew ap la tore of aaoh other-I
neatf not aap bow happy-oaUI about a
mr atnaa whom tba painful aoarlottoa
waa forced upon mr mlad tba* Henry
waa not aa ardaut la hla attaetimaat aa
formerly. At about tbla period I per
ceWed a Under growth of little ‘plu
fr^’ f* TOO here elyled
Lbeoa, about Ills mouth and chin, and
I could not (all to obmrvetba assiduity
with which ba cultlratod that tiny
growth. At length they broeme par
ewpfelble acroa* tbe room, and be evl
d«tly grew ooMer and colder, eeemlcg
t® forget the fond tiiemae of other days
In bla eodleae dUouuton of U>* faahlon
of Imperial*, whiskers, and muatacbea;
•nd It era* only when X (poke of bla
beard that ha stroked bla ebln with a
degree efeomplaoent aattsfboUon, and
manifested an interest In my aociaty.
(lit beardVre* under hla ooneUnt cul
tam, and "b« dally became more end
more single in his devotion, until It
neenased tbe most hideous proper
ties, and I began to fear that 1 bad
teat all ptaoe Ta hi* affections. One
olgbt last weak, as he sat by the win.
dew. the night been* playing tbroagb
the great tut of hair under bit chin
and Oiling the room with the odor of
noeld olf and absorbed perspiration,
be ehaaord to oast bin eye upon the
'Mlsoellanj'—» paper which X ever
kept opoe say eeutr* Ubte. It wa* the
number which contained jour last let.
ter. lie reed It. I watched with in*
tenses* InUreat the shade of mortldoe
Uoo that played ever his ones manly
Natures In ute mam of hair that de
formed them. He read the supplica
tion In my look at parting, and In a
tremolo os voice bade me a good eve
ning. I received s package, neatly en
veloped and tied with e Una ribbon,
with tha follewiag Hove:
“ ‘Iteu Julie, receive vour discarded
rival. Henceforth my heart Is wholly
thine.1
“Drsr Major, need I my more? Can
weeds express lb* deep end lasting
gratitude 1 am bound to fkel towards
on*, who bsa not only restored to me
the affections of my dear Henry, but
whoa* searching ridicule ba* weened
him from n devotion *o unbecoming to
hla nubia mlud. Please accept my
heartfelt Uianka, sod give my beat
compliment* to your amiable and ao
oomptlebed wife.
Your*. with sincere esteem,
“Julia.
r. e. xoor remarks open loorfll
oaie liaalla* were not half severe
enough. All modest ladles are either
discarding lbam entirely er reducing
them to e else only aaftcieut to beeoni
Ing fullness to tbetuoka ef the skirt;
observed, was the extent to
which lire. Jones lsdnlgad In ttiom.
and which I believe Is approved by
good taste.”
“Reed It Mini read it aglnl" are
Mary sod all of ’em, and ( had to read
It over agin to gratify ’em.
Mary aea If* the best letter abe ever
reed, aed la worth a dosao of (Job
things aa that old hateful Elfln’a, from
Savannah. Ilia* Carlloe ace I ought
to be really proud of tt, and aea she
wouldn’t marry do man la the world
that wore big ugly whiskers.
I can't think wbat upon yealb pos
sessed that fslier down In Augusta to
send me bla whMera. I apoao be
thought 1 meant bis whiskers, and was
’lermlued to give ’em to me, aeoee I'd
mad* etch a roa* about ’em. Well. 1
don't care about pay In U * bundle for
pouter manors, but I iball nee wbat
virtu* tber la in bair next spring, and
if It doe* make big potaiera, thao I’ll
be willin to admit that billy-goat*
sad man-monkeys la some aeooanl
after all. No more, from
Your friend, Ull death.
Jo*. Jonas.
LETTER XXIV.
PiftBTUxa. September 97*
To Mr. Thompson: Dear Sir—I
ought to writ you a letter last week,
jott to let you know how w* was all
glttin on, bet the fact la that I bad no
time for nothin. I’ve had more thao
usual to teed to about the plantation,
pnllln fodder and plokln oat a little,
over to tb* new ground, oo the teds of
the bill, whar the cotton's opened con
siderable; and lex Idea a good doe) ot
my time baa been took np ea horse
teodtu to Mary and the faaaily. So,
between oversee!n the nigger* and
■tela to Ullage about borne, 1 baint
had no Um* to devote to my cone*
V>ond(*coe.
Ifa monatrooa strange to me how
wlmmln can have so ranch imagina
tion, sod b* id dradfal skery and no
tlooatc. Now, Mary’s jest as fat aed
bloom In aa ever the wee, bar cheeks
lockln like roses, sad pel she's every
now and then Imagtoin aba's sink, sad
gwtno to die, and maklu cut I don’t
love her like 1 umd to, and all sioh
uonaenm. And If I go oat la Um bald
to look after the niggers a white, or
happen to stay down to town more
than a beer wbau 1 go after my paper*
aed letters, when aba’s Jest aa apt aa
soy way to take a cry about It. It
tasks* is* feel bud to see bar set go,
and you oan’t think how glad I aa
wbau abe gits over them NUte streak*
of low apatite. Than site’s jest aa hap
py as a lark, and If you could see bar
them, when she's laughing and ruaio
on With the real of ’em, or plagneln
and rompln with me, you wouldn’t
think her hens Ufa! bright cyus was
over dimmed with a tear, or that her
marrr little heart ever knew the
weight of a tigb. Tbe gall* I* all the
i time eoaxln and babyio bar up ae, I
don’t wonder abe asu child tab aoeao
tlmao. Bet old Mia* Htelllos, she
•cold* her one mlelt and than klseas
her tbe nest, and (aa I mustn’t ml ad
her little whims now. and set she’ll
eutgrow ’em nil sue of these days, t
hope aha will, pore gal), more oo her
Soars ot then mine.
wettn*r nn b*M monatrout
Hot bora for mocr'a two weefci, ate I
doat think I tear did aaa Ibtagalmt
•wawladeuttte twinged »p to with
the tan at Ufa taatiio of tha rear be
fore ft really does toomllGttor
a'ataoooel rhady plane fact eny more
ootbafam af tbarMtb. Tbe doga fa
*!' roato about looking tor noma oool
ptaou, with thor toagooa kauri a way
•i*. »»*<1 V*Utt* at iba rate of about
two hoadred and atrenty flee braatha
a mlott, aad the haaa aad turkaya It
•II gat thar fttlbtrt plated totter ate
ftreaaoot, tod If yoo ooald boar •tor
bruatU yon would ba aboro that all bad
tta qoloay tho wort* kite. Wo bare
bad pratty good bpaKb, except old
MUa bulling, who baa bad lbs Tiler
Grip tor more's a weak. The old wu
maa bad » monsUoo* bad time ol It.
baa drank more ysrb Ian than
eeoagh to kill a boas. (fee see abaal.
ways did eooaider old TlUr a cues sent
«•!» oounlry, for tJebbett-brsebln
and other badoaaa that’i gut ao com
mon of late yaan, and now aba knowa
l»; aha am aba wosdara why the people
don t paUtlon Onncram to send bin
loto Botomy B*», for all the mtoehlef
be’s done seat* he's beta Preeldeat.
I have reeeivad a good many loiters
worn I wrote to yoa, about my wlifs
ar lettm, from rattan aU overy the
•onntry. Some of 'am ara terrible
aaad with me, aed aopa la vary mimb
pjeaaad with my etrletara ou hair.
Tba follow! n letter was root red two,
91 HO!" MP>, and M the writer I*
a military mao and swot anxious to
bear mr opinion on tba eutyeot, 1 bare
concluded to give him my rtewi in aa
taw words as poMiblr.
“Batomtom, 8apt. 0.
"Dmt Major—81nee your atbeee let
Ur made Ito mppaaranoa ia the Mtoeel
laay Lbara it baa bean oaila a eooatar •
naUoo among tha unfortunate dieel
of Abenlom, and I harm no doubt
but that aa many of tbaaa gantry bare
town ahoto of their ‘pride* aa Buffered
damage by the eeletratad ‘eoaptoch’
ordar of tba curtailing Beoretary. It
to uoWvexmU queetto* (at tba lawyers
••») with gaoltemao of tba ‘errord and
plnma whether you Intend to extend
your prohibition to ^Georgia Mijon’
aod their iubal(«m«r whether there
are U be any cxoeptiona to unlreraal
amootb facet? Now, I regard the
‘sllltU1 ua a bind of privileged claim,
arbo have aa much right to be hairy
aa Kama bad. But‘noo* varroua,'aa
Mr. Orlop need to aay when at lom far
, *<>», »to, aa you ara a Major
yonreolf, you will perortye Uieimpor
tanoa of your petition and oo doubt
Iu your next letter will gtre ua your
view* fully on tble subject.
••Very reareotfeUy yoora.
“ConrouAL Trim."
How 1 with Corporal Trim aud «v
rrrkxxly else to understood am aa Uili
plat. 1 hsin’t got no objtetioa to rsa
•ouable whiskers l0 tber right piece,
5® ® military man. or anybody else.
Decent luokln whisker* la well eoougb,
but wbst l oljeet to Is lltrsa bomiua
bto grate big oatlaudlsh looklu things
that hirer a mao’s fsos all nrsc, and
make It look more like a weasel lookln
Dot of a muss insures thau tire eouute
®®*ce of a human creator. But all
whisker* sbouldu't ba of a ruaaonable,
deoeot vise, but thay should be la their
right place, and not oo the upper lip
por oe the tip ead of Urn Ohio, like a
billy-goat*. I have always thought
that the great Creator of all things In
tended, In outside appearance at least,
lo distinguish bstwaoc man, monkey*
and goats, though ther doss happen
sometimes to tsa monstrous rase ns -
bianos In thsr tastes sad order of Uier
mind*. Wbeeever 1 sea a chap trylug
to coins the goat by eultivatln a scrap
of hair on the tip earn! of hia ohlu, I
can’t bslp but wooder why be don't
hero his oust tall cut lo tura up lie
bind and have It lined on the eidcs
with hair. It would ba a decided Im
provement, an would make him look
more Ilk* the animal ha seems so anx
ious to Imitate.
Bat the Corporal arenas more anx
ious to have my opinion about the
proper kind of wtalekari tor millUa offi
cers. who, hs ss*. b* thinks baa a good
right to bo hairy as Bsaw. Wall, I
ain't disposed to dispute that, but If
tber hair don’t do ’em uo more good
thau that chap's did wluit sold hia
birthright for a bowl of rad soup, aod
got footed out of hie father’s blessing
with a piece of goat ekiu, It wouldn't
bo worth tber while U> waste usuob
bear's grease lu ita cultivation. Be
sides. If thay sna to be called into ac
tual aervloe with slob whiskers ou as
some of ’em wear oow-a days, and bad
to charge through such hammocks as I
did la Florida, tber wouldn't be a
mother’s son of ’em (It through, bat
they would be left hangln by tber
whiskers in tbs bamboo briars, ilka ao
many A.M*lotus of old, fur lb* boa
sard* to sat at tber letrurw.
Tber la some excuse for pretty ocra
alderabta wbtektre oo militia officers,
lo times of dec gar. baosuse they sort
o’ bids lito algae ef share lo a reller’s
fare, whore, if U* slot got no pluck,
ha’s ]*st ae sere to show the white
feather aa he’s born-, aud I halat the
least doubt In the world but that is
the reason why big whiskers la so
frehlooahla In the army. But in times
of peace their slat uo excuse for thuo
darts grata whisker* that look like
the man’s faoe growed oo thorn instead
of User growl o oo hia fare, apse tally if
they ar* red or sorrel odor, Kvury
man’s toot le adapted lo a sertalo
man's lacs for a certain six* and out of
whisksrv, soma men oe* go barefooted,
aod so ms oan go without whisker*,
bat tber la no mere propriety lo arear
ing a mus a tala of hair oo the faoe
than tber ia la stlehts one’s fast into a
pair of leather maO-baas. It'* all a
matter of taste, sad as I ballsy* the
•train's got mare of that artlcls than
the rasa, try a long shot, 1 think tbs
host piss Is for every men to lsuvs It
to hts wife, end thorn that Uatrvt go*
ao wife lo go without whisker* till
thay rtt oo* When my pileber was
tuck for my book, tbs aagravsr pat oa
s very gsotesi pair of military whis
kers that would do very wall ror s
Major or e Colonel, but asoee 1 got
married I’ve shored ’em all at, ns
Wary am I look a great deal better
without 'am sod literary men halat no
Masse* to soosmbre thrir 1 a toller teal
earns with si oh things. Corporal Trim
one git Um drumour of his oompeny
to arum him up • satiable pair for a
Corporal la a few mtotta, which should
always bear about the same propor
tion to hta common die officers that a
little pocapooo la a snbaltern's osp
dona to the Bowln (aether Is that of a
Hrtgadlsr General.
Hut I rueko* I’f* writ «aou«ti tbout
urkMun. How do you tbiok liowru
Would i* tWIDUMT I
*■ for Mr. uur, loot* “4 to* ull,
m**t, u4 t«wi p u4m im'i
)wt w (*od ter Pr**M*»t rwart teJl »•
? ,Uli1P ,!* tot ■ glngetowk*. Your
friend, till death. Joe. Jos*..
(To Da OoaUauad Hut Thonday.)
■•vim la dw aeae*.
PMtitfcipMe
Tlie extent aad variety e< tha ma
teHel developmeat of the South aad
the revival of budoeaa In a-t section
ere of the moot gratifying character.
Mines, nauufacturts. agriculture uad
traiieporUlluu are healthily active tad
employment la abaadaat, with wage*
aad pricve buoyant. Tha crope have
been mm than ordinarily fruitful,
wltb raevrvutloa aa to ootteo and
totaieeo, compeneation ter tha latter
being bad la aa laereaae In qootatioao
Tlie Southern farmer to ttoglaalngto
dJverelfy bto crope. SoTo toogm
etakee hie all on aottoe aad proapere or
teito ae that itapje to nmttaaraUve or
oocooeamfoL Be to giving greater
attention to cereal*. to fruit aad. to
order produor, aad flada tha resuUo
greatly to bto utteteetton.
M Inlag operation* an being oooduo
tedoa amen extenelve acato, with
greater Intelligence am) aretem, and
the prodeoti are being marketed in a
store boaioem-Uko wav. MaaaUo
taiee toiowa wonderful growth, aad
tha South to peeparlaw to aayply Ita
own need* la this particular by making
hp tha flaiebed aixlote with tha raw
aatarial and tha labor at lie door.
Notable progreat to ahown io Urn tex
tile trade*.
With Its own oolUn and the flaaea
of lla uwn sheep the Booth is felting
ready to make lie eUlee and towna
▼eritaUa hives of ludoatry.
I^aa politico and more nttsutlou ttbti
Ineea, ItM repining over the loot causa
aud more ambition (or the fatarv, leas
anoitonal distrust and mem friendly
no-operallon with Northern nalghbora
thla la tbu spirit of the Booth of to-day,
•ad It la. Indeed. • ptaaaem to learn
that under toeh worthy Inspiration
that seetIon I* fast ataumlag tlia pro
portion of a laud overflowing with
milk and hnttvy.
■aa«a Hens VrtsaS.
PMadetsMa IVam.
First aud foremost woman la man's
beat friend—
Because the la hla mother.
Second, Uecauaa she is hla wife.
Beoausn without War lie would be
rude, rough and ungodly.
Ueeauaa she eaa with him eodum
pnlu quietly and axt Joy gladly.
Because she la pat tool with him la
lllnaaa, aoduraa hla fretfulnaaa and
“mothers" him.
Because aba teaches him llm value
of gentle words, of kindly thought and
of consideration.
Because on her breast ha ean shed
I tasra of rapnatanoa, and ba la never
rnmlndad of them afterward.
Because slot wlU atlek to a bud
tbrough good and evil report aad al
ways believe to lilm If aha lores him.
Because when be la behaving like a
fretful boy—and they alt do, you know,
at times—with no reason la the world
for It, woman's soft word, touch ot
glance will make him ashamed of him
self. as ha ought to be.
B tea am without liet as an Incentive
ba would grow Isay, there would he no
good work dona, there would ba no
noble books e rttten. there would ba no
beautiful pictures painted aad there
would ba no divioe strain of melody.
Bacaum—and this la the beat reason
of all—when the world had reached an
unenviable stats of wlekedaess Urn
bleated task of brief In* It a Savior for
all mankind was riven to a woman,
which was God’s way ot sotting ait
teal of approval on her who la mother,
wife, daughter and sweetheart, and
therefore man’s boat friaod,
■aMeff Umm a Pdtt, T#o.
CUilon DmootoI.
Senator Uarioa Bailor, an apostle
of reform wbo goes about »eretelling
agaloat the ate of psmss by public
oOclals, rtdsa oa a pass over the At
lantis Coast Una and ba hoso doing
an for 00000 tins This matter la sim
ply mentioned la the Interest of oon
■Money for which virtue Governor
Kassel sod Senator Butter have obuo*
lately no rospaet. Wbo eaa have faith
in lhair alnoarlty or choir honesty
whoa they are attempting to hound
down other paopte for a thing whlaii
they do theoamtrwT
apwpqp—dMsaaap—s
Jo4ge Mm* 44||»U Oh (Mi Plan.
Lunotr topic.
Jodga Graea haa on« method of (tool*
lag wlvh offeodara that other judgaa
would do wall to eopy. Ha ragolraa
ihoae oonrlotod to p*y tba Boa and
eooU oa the apot or go to tail or tba
obam gang. Ha haa bung up the alga
ia bla ooorU "lX>a*t m»\ lor ereda,
however good tba aaoanly. We do a
oaah boamera alrlotly.”
— ■■■'—I at. 1 •
W.rriM uOh ■UVario.
TMBM*.
la aonta parte of Devooahlre tha
people live to be vary old. Jlb old oeaa
of BO, iiviog gull# a diMaeoe trom Uta
naaraat town, requiring none hually
grooetiae, toot hie aoo, a ana at ear
only -odd jaara of age. Whan tha aoo
failed to ehow on with tba prnvtalona
le tiara bla grandfather, eealenerUa of
108, aaM paayiahlp: “That'a what
aofwea from aandtag at hid.”
BATTLE OFTHB
OHABTLT SXOOL
Monow «m*j roan or
HAVMTa.
I
•O U** (Pbvrr a/,_j
^."w dnitb
"•"«** >“1 ««y fa baty tba
daad. Tha* one put n| »»w
fatten of tba haute of Uia ~fliTTiniii
wm tba unberief dud, UU lav far
*•!»«[«*• all wnc tba Mood
•talnad laid*, oaa of tba moat borrLUa
fad Ibaifty nlfhto ever expaaad to
banuo rtelon. I’mImUt mm hetllsMd
of tba civil war afforded auabaaap
i—*--**r ‘ inniia ■» ttiib.
Ordinarily, attar a «fbt, barylnf
partial wan datallad. nod tba loop.
«•«»>,• «HM fntve, wat,
dat mad tha dead wan at lent oov
aaat.bat sot ao ban. Grant ooald
aot atop, aad tteloof atratoboCoaas.
*?£• .yfo y.Hbflaaby’a fwerillaa,
that totamnad bar wan tbaBappaben
aack riyar and tba Bearcat onion linen,
unruled aid from that dlraatlon la
re.-vassra,5p«rs«
SpoUeylvaata Court Hoorn.
. fy* •« »T »*wy looklaf em tba
portion ot the Qeld wham tba daraa
cod deadly flfbtlnf at Umj 4and(,
18M, marred. It waa four or five
dayaaftar tba Bfht. about tha Mb or
10th of May. 4 Msall detachment of
oar refluent had beaa ant au»
eort U a train ot nabelaaeei, te
father fa the woandal who hud been
temporarily cared for in Ian* aad
wmT hatllfiaM, aad 1
that had aa opportunity to via* this
bUtorto aoaoa. Durine tha Ibbty
thru yean ten* It buban a. open
aovatioa whether to be fled oraerry
Umt I rlnltad thin ImUle-deld. It
ovoid not be more vividly Impraaaed !
upon toe had lean It yntardtor. It I
aad a berridl
day dream ell tbaas years. Often ban
I preyed that rtetoua of than up
turned faoea, blackened and dietorted,
>>f fUiaoed aye hull*, of
£• oot-at retched taada.
ymlifly atUI fraeplof for eupport,
thy ranad (oust wrapped In blue
nod fray, that bad foofht their last
battle and now l*« aide by aid# la tlwt
peat charnel Bald, attain ha UoUed
foryc from my recollection. Tlwu
afnlo, ( have b*wi clad I kuew ao well
haw baitarmia, Urotal and inhauan It
“*<U wm KUd Hint I knew bow
10JXI0 daad lirfura looked, who bad
faced aod met death amid tba wild,
fret tied aoenaa of m»« of tha rreeteet
battle* la the hfaiUtry nf the world.
une ot in* u>nwt (Mum to
u* that day. aod theone moat thorouctv
>f Omd U oar memorise. <ru that all
over the battlefield, or at least. that
part we visited, there lay three boy* io
bias to one la gray. It will be remem
bered thet all through tba WiUaraesi
Igbt that Coofadatataa wan protected
by a system of earthworks aod Mmtily
eoMtooeted fortlfioatlona and abattem,
•bile Uw Union troops wets compelled
to flgbt largely to Uw open, aad aaeaH
the Confederates In their stronghold*
From them It was utterly Impoaslble
to dislodge the enemy exoept by the
masterly eerlea of flank movements no
aoeceesfally nxroutod by Qeaetal
Grant.
Wo a« In onn place where the men
In lines of battle Lad taken ot their
knapsacks nod laid them In a long
raw, evidently to ba prepaced to mate
a charge upon one of these earthworks
ot the Confederates am little dis
tance in (root. TLoos knapsacks re
mained almost uudlatarbed, white the
men lay, some la heaps, eoma bees
and there la front of Uw rortiOeetteea
Uwy bed charged open. XX this point
Uie Union dead lay thtekest. 1 believe
I oould have dismounted and watted
a dlrtasaa as great as two ally Moots
•ad neyer mwa have stepped upon the
Kand—walking 00 fiend both* eU
way. Indeed bod I oafimtakoa
“• flhaotly Jo«nwy. I wo#M bee* Moa
compelled la some pteem to etlmh over
Mens of Uw dead.
There was a alight growth of aader
bniehat this point, wtth a tew tram
reroalolag. I mafia a careful examine
Uop and oould not mo a limb or twig
ee bush that waa not narked to a toil
led, and aoma ot them la several places.
The wonder seemed sat that then
were to maay dead. hat that soy lived.
Ottoen aad orlvate* all made oommoa
eases hare, for among tba deed wo
not wed the shining shoulder strep* of
the eommleeiooed officers mingled wtth
Uw ordinary Waa uniform or the com
mon soldier. The tram wmo torn and
shattered, the tearful work of ebot and
shell being shown on every tide.
Haskett, oantaens haversacks, keap
seoke—In fact Marly alt that makes »
the neeeaUamaoto of Uw soldier, were
■MUerod la all directions. Xaar the
road, evidently smashed by a solid
xfgflSXfk!
Xoneof u* fait Ilka
*et of gboulteb vandal
saw a tetter extoad leg __
of a deed Oaataderata sold ter I dis
mounted, aed. amen af the bays gath
ered amend wo look ad it ever. It was
wera aad partly lllegibte, bot wa mod*
out that it was from the lewu of Ham
M. la the State nr Xerlh Carolina.
U wae la a lady's bead wrlUag, aad the
parttea that wa wan able to read wm
as fellow* i
XT If BAB JAOK-Wa bop* Ul*t
f"» *•“ totBW ud Np M with
'ita Mmw crop; b*t If Bdt,«Odo
lTp! 55 •"*? w0## »»X» ®W <hBt
Am — looted at tho lotto* and U*a
f1 *£. »••• ®* *>•* lock,
bate turn ozpoaoM to tS
s»
focwaid 4^FUTCmmSi *Saee (2m
ley ee they bad ph—ad band Ik—t
to thereto far UMUoefMacaaallaaa.
-giaai.’SSStSBS
tbe' uTlr i|T ywTu)
haw marly failed to dlaMto la
with* Uawewfif1 aad^dfrtoaT u!
■UrtaJ on the Ion* —rah toward Air
rxeadrU, Va., whew tba orareet help
f1* h^u,1#«Tl0* «»W be pec awed.
In Cortina tin ha " ‘r- .•
the Uottetf SUtaa
waa driven tato a _
poor fallewa were „.Uw w. U waa a
aad eodloa to their brief dtraai of beta
and hum, and one of the toa thou—i
cruel, bitter aaeoee of that cruel and
Wtter ww.-t^rrua o. Sl..pwd, Oota
tauiy P., Sixteenth Row YortVoUa
Lear Cavalry.
M. Quad In Si. Loula (UpobUe.
YeetanUy wa raealwd aa invitation
tw*i thalradlu* me af Plan Rill la
tba aetyaetef a rail/old °°
locality. Tba aald
oor thaafcc, bat we tba
how. Tbe laat tie ill
Piee QUi it waa oa U
qoaaUon, aad we were
Ho* op aeatthta*
aalaataa after wa *
earcaaaee of Jaok-i
la* do an on aa, i
retire aomabody hitea withal__
P» w* detta witHa* to oaB It eve*,
hat tba other fallow* were not. They
lariated oa reaato* oa ate totiee over
tba wont nod la tba Ikrtury, aad
wa ware ao played oat whan we waehal
•£
afterclape aha—teriaUe of tha Plan
BlHera ere ralanlatad fa nh aa
orator Uied «f life. Wall —d a
apaaoh owr to ha teed to tbe crowd,
our cTJertur*od 0*3irUf aawTooma
to »«tap right—W.