ston’s army fighting to stay the Fed- eral advance.) “After fighting there “T88 BELLE OF BATTLES" RELICS OF THE BATTLEFIELDS OF BULL RUN, Two Ancient Citizens Who Viewed | and the Yankees after them, More the Slaughter and Cared for the | men kept coming from towards Manas: Wounded.~ Both Still Living on sas.” (The whole of Beauregard and the Battleground, { Johnston's armies were taking posl- “The Belle of Battles” Is a title—a tion on the lenry farm.) “Then the sort of a nom de guerre—borne by a Yankees followed up Henry Hill. The venerable woman who lives at Grove- | shooting had got so furious now that ton, Prince William county, Virginia, we couldn't hear any single musket, a war-worn hamlet in that blood-! and the firlug of the cannon wus 80 soaked reglon wherein the first aud fast that oply opce In a while could second battles of Bull Bun and scores we pick out a single shot, The coun of legs sanguinary engagements were try down there wis now so covered fought. Groveton 18 a hamlet of with dust and smoke that we eouldn’t tragic memories. It is on the War-| see the men, and though they were renton turnpike five miles west of Cen- | shouting we eould not distinguish the treville, three miles east of (Guipes- shouting from the shooting. Now and ville, five miles north of Manassas and then we could see lines of men running two miles south of Budiey. These across the Chinn place, this side of were important names in the heroic the Henry farm, is though they were age of the Republic, { running to get into the smoke and dust Though the old lady was known to’ and shooting. It was an awful sight. the men of the Federal armies of the Every little while a canpon ball or Potomac and Virginia, and to the shell would come over our way, hut we Confederate army of Northern Vir-| were all too interested apd exelted to ginia, and is still known the country] mind I. About four o'clock in the round as “The Belle of Battles,” her! afternoon the noise was at lis loudest, | name is Mrs. Lucinda Dogan. She Is and we could see small bodies of men ninety years old, has ap excellent] golug back across the Matthews' place | memory, good teeth, does not wear and on towards Sudley. Then more eyeglasses and can walk miles at 8, went back that way, and finally the! stretch. field got so full of them and they made Ninety Year Old Witacsses. Such 8 dust Fupsing that we couldn see them. The shooting quicted down | August 28, 20 and 30 are the battle | se we could hear sinzlé shots, and the days of the Second Bull Rum. August] Just in the Henry fold got higher and 80 was Mrs. Doegan's pinetieth birth-| thinner, We knew the Yapkoes wor day. The forty-third anniversary of | running, About six o'clock that even the defeat of Pope by lee and Jack-| ing wy husband and 1 drove over to sop will be celebrated on the field of | the Henry place. The old house was a Groveton, the eentre of the opposing | Leap of smoking ashes. My old friend aries, by a reunion of veterass and | Mrs, Judith Hopry, who was sick Io a birthday celebration for the Belle] hed, bad been killed that morning Ly a of Battles. The two observances will | shell which broke through the house be so interwoven that it would be hard and burst in ber bedroom. All th to separate one from the other. An-} trees about the place had been ghot other feature of the observance will be down 80 that only the stumns were that particular premipence wil be standing. Parties of given to an old-time colored man} were picking up dead men and burying whose name Is Jim Redmond. Red-| them, but plenty of corpses were still mond is also ninety years old. lying around. We saw a great any Groveton Is a group of three houses | wounded wen, and many of them were at a crossroad, Mes, Dogan lives in begging for water. Dead horses were one bouse, Redmond in another end ett Confederates ying around everywhere, ald the ticld, EA —————————— | : brigades of Bee and Bartow of John- for some time our boys ran back from Buck HI over to the Henry place, ! UGAR, N INDIANS THE FIRST SUGAR PRODUCERS. MAKING MAPLE § | THE AMERICA They Dropped Red Hot ftones Into the Sap. Important Onc. L STH | | { From time unknown tapped the sugar sweet, They the trunk and drove reeds or pleces o concave bark Into the lower ends t« convey the liquid into a bark {or other receptacle. sap by droppiung hot stones into It, I some cases they allowed the liguid te freeze, and by tipowing out the sutiiejent water the syrup to crystallize For a hundred year ditions of producing changed but slightly Li08¢ ticed by the Indians, except that cooking vessels were made of the maple trees fo | or more the con an ple over | Pri The Present Industry an Much Adultera~ Indians for] made diagonal cuts in ———————————————————— ) : } was removed to allow wupar the iron or copper In place of vesscls of clay or bark. Sugar Camps in the Woods. The boiling was generally done in the open woods, and with no shelter f the weather, leaves, of bark ashes, drippings from the tre nnd other impurities fell Into the onen pails and Kettles, The old-fashioned rata et $ | fire from one which, by could be easily ite the di | to swing the kettle on or off the i Crude crane. Sugar | n the thin sy when dr pieces | i long ti Hated, rom the fOin the end of weights mn a nt anip Iii r tance { heat, or fre was made by walling dow rup until it be came ned y the to ner; { irod ar has brought with } Ii " into il! vase the wag ti nl tw 1 4 | (aien spout, At carried to v buckets by band or with but as the scale of operation Mcreased the gathering tank was Inu duced, and where the work is on large scale, pipes are often run through the “bush.” as the grove is called, connecting with the or with the roadside, whik in dack Kr a nd way is used for collecting sap. a sh yoke ; SOL sugar | tanks larg: row large storage Ole we suar RaUge The Passing of the Kettle, 1d f the Danette ther tual prog thi the About century IT the ent! duupiiol of : 0 esvajporel about | and £r i | Samscd 1 ! | aethod | ! | JIM REDMOND. the third is occupied by a teaant tax] pretty well turned wp by shells and | \ i { side through succeeding compartments, one has boot willing (0 admit. But the er of the Degans. Both Mes. Dogan and dim Redinongd saw the battles of Bull Bun aud looked upon the elds in| all their gory homor. When the firing had ceased, Mrs. Dogan and her chil- dren. and Jim Redmond walked among the dead apd wounded CARTY - ing buckets of water and “gourd” dippers, giving drink to the moaning soldiers. many of whom, of course, were dying. All the old folk in the battle region of Virginia say that the most ‘horrible sound that comes (rom a ‘battlefield is the chorus of cries for water which come fram the wounded After his labor as @ volunteer walter eamier. Redmond worked with a purial party digging the long. deep trenches dn which the Confederate dead weze laid, Groveton is on high ground, but near the Dogan house a hill from which a good view may be obtained of Henry Hill, the junction of the War renton pike and the Sudley road and the valley of Young's DPeanch, all a wile to the east of mn and the real red fighting ground of that red Sundar. July 21, 1861 It was from this hill that Mes, Dogan and Jim Redd mond watched the first battle. His Interesting to let Mrs, Dogan teil the story of the fight in her own way. She sald: Gale Poa Asaf sea ‘sjeags Sao . balls, Ci & ki } Warned of Second Battie. It was more than a year later, An- gust 20, 1862, that Mrs. Dagan, after clearing up the breakfast dishes, w told by a staff Stonewall son fo move off her facw fighting ther 5 on heavy fighting tl and (ia nsvill ae, pike i 2 ) officer of 1 SS Ja would be There had bet Ar down the of wl Oo : aii bw ' i ” 34 1 i nigh TY 3 sy MMA it . : 4] ” | a Mga ld along the abandon Gainsville to about SOO yards Lause, thege Longstreet thr and the approad with the Un tian of Manassas not reached her miles away, when a supports took station mear house and opened on Jackson's All that and the next day tl fierceand bloody fighting around Grove- ton, Of the conditions there she said: “Funeral parties of were burying the dead, had not long ! at this horrible work. The Confederates dug long, deep trenches and lald their men In the ground that way. The Union burial parties only shoveled mounds of dirt aver the bodies where they lay, and two or three days later a heavy rain wade the field hideous When the children and 1 got home parties of men were collecting the Patterson's troops in the Shenandoah | wounded and putting them in rows] Valley and was re inforcing Beanee- here In the yard and wherever there | gard.) “Early Sunday marning we | was shade, Doctors were cutting off | heard sheeting down the pike towards | jogs and arms and the moaning was the Stone Bridge, and ny husband awful. They hadn't brought in all the called out that the Xanks were com-Lwounded. There were hundreds sent ing. We went up to the top of that tered all around the farms. The chil bill yonder and some of the neig dren and I took buckets of water out also came WP. We could see the into the flelds and we worked that smoke rising above the trees about way all day and into the night, doing the Stone Bridge” (This was ‘Tiers | what we could for the poor fellows, division of the Unlon army engaging Most of the wounded on onr farm Cocke and Evans’ brigades posted oft | wepe Yankees, but that didn't make the extreme Confederate’ left) “Off! any difference to us after they got towards Sudley we could see clouds! hurt. All our bed sheeting and table of dust rising over the woods.” (Chis | linen went for bandages.” was MeDowell with the divisions of Hunter and Heintzelman executing the flank movement). “After the shooting had been going on for half an hour we capld see crows of men running back from the Stone Bridge to the Sudley road and then going | north towards Sudiey. Southern | troops were coming up from towards | Manassas, marching across the Henry farm, then over Buck Hill and on to- wards Sudley.” (The Confederates) had discovered the Unlon turning movement and were preparing to check It) “Not long after all this, the shooting began between the pike and Budley. We could hear the sharp vile SUG oO AWAIt Ou - ui 1 8 fr ’ Mes. father’s b Union batter) i! Dogan line was . vot firove 6 foro both armies though they ». rn By An Eye Witness. “The Yankees were all around Cen- treville and boys were laying along Bull Run. Some of our troops kept coming through Gainesville from the Valley.” (This was Johnston's army which had slipped away from our The Famous Moaeby Men. Mrs. Dogan's house was the rendez. | vous of Moseby's “Rangers,” “scouts” | “ushwhackers,” “pieates.” variously ealled, many of whom are still living, senttered throughout Northern Vir ginla, The morning after Mosehy took General Stoughton and staff, pris. oners at Fairfax court house, the whole party ate breakfast at Mrs. Do- gan's, The old lady was a star wit ness In the Congressional Inquiry Into the Fitz-John Porter case. Khe test]. fled that Longstreet and staff took cracking of the muskets and the loud reports of the eanonon, and could hear men shouting, Not long after, the men who had marched towards Sudiey came running back through the woods and over the fields, stopping to shoot now .and then. More Confed- erntes were coming from Manassas and were forming on Buck Hill and the Matthews farm.” (These were the | Groveton. breakfast with her on the morning of | August 20 and that regiments of his corps were marching down the pike from Gainesville. "his did much to establish Perter's contention that) when he and his division lay behind | Dawkin's branch on August 20 Long | street's whole corps was In front of | him extending from Jackson's right at Was si of td ¢ ul belug exposed rag Biv 1 ol to 1 id 1 gu tor 1 Fy ‘ Of loss fuel of # sugar far The styie of pas gs for the a form of | giernat sang th por: mabuiactiure of 1 ted " d r sholier. * 10 Lils ing to enter at « ir AIM from wa 's oo Ie to ’ Moun HOW ] trough | They boiled the | pounds an: a | ty supposed that thelr adoption has been | universal, for there are still many parts | of the country in which sugar is pro- | duced only in a small way, and almost every form of sugar making, even the PROPOSED primitive may yet be found. Many caters of maple sugar, as a matter of fact, prefer the coarser open kettle sugar to the smooth, delicate ly flavored sugar produced by Improved evapora tion, The former is darker in color and tronger in the maple taste, Honest pro- ducers endeavor to market thelr sugar and syrup direct or through the asso- NEW WATERWAYS. SHORTENINGS NORTHWESTERN TRANSPOR- TATION ROUTES. Canals Which May be Cut Through Michigan and Wisconsin Penin- sulas.~Enginering Difficulties Not Great, The canal, anclent Institution thongh ciations, instead of selling it to whole- | It 18, 80 far from having outiived iis salers, wy cose and other adulterants. 10, #8 a rule, mix it with glu- | uses, commends itself with increasing | Urgency as the years speed by. Canals The New England States are the 90 not hold their place in the publi greatest producers, 10 list wi tion of about sugar and ¢ Vermont heading han average annual produc 10,000,000 pounds WH000 gallons “of syrup. eye directly 48 means of cheap trans port, but as short cuts between great of bavigable waters, A short cut is a time-saver, and The total production of maple sugar {n Ume-saver 1s a money-maker. And thi ~ ; Le United tales is abont SU 000,000 PASTURE LAND IN A MAPLE BUGAR GROVE : An Interesting illo ted a% been published | I Mn ve ltr ivi detail i Ei of methods ¢ : : ract i vogue hea pracliced furnish Lis own in dis COM eared ith fraud nny nq 1 on th pur po Versed in $ of farm Bg An Engl Pig Language. 1. IPT advert CRETE TE STR ITE good this {arm REET RETF TAREE iM hs Is TreNORs Dagaared of i we wo I» odge out and cals, exoepl diner. — Even M It Costs a Billion. » Des Moines Regi 1 Load 8 ng Panann wml that “i is probally ik of all that is belug » ! lude that the governed has «1 Upon an experiment that w t more Ab Lune aud money than ai "4 3 : 2 wi nana | is Wa Year oust Yor r ar Jor The : this Car que wit TY i 4 ter-ling LWA and the Red Beg | J come true, the Erie Canal that brough Lakes t | Rey He on Lae wesl. A American canals, Gaal Lakes is vast eno to deserve through the Iu | and the Soo Canal. «iil and weallh ca Is 100 unlve nd. From the days of the Pharoahs a wa- n the I Wis BO Hgo real denjane neration or lu came a fact, Bo well established is t now that commerce between Yuron ind the Orient mar h i “i tong before De Lesseps made 1 Then on our cont} PT Zz { al i" vels JW + i the on River. There was he Manchester Canal, the Elel Cana The Pa a in touch 1 i with In near prospect, ship canal In tween the Inland seas and the Mis in ppd Ly ind, and pow com \ Wikconsin : SALAD, 4 | MD ax Ji 1 dredged Many Miles Shorter. HB damy IMR WOM Ts Li ES) WCE LG WEAR oninsal Ol SURReS 4 Mes ow South Maver Pog apy of Llu ther ot . viich Las Ix he cast The 1 ww ° ’ 1 1 NO : PA at } Cll Ware OYeDooiae 1 O A ’ The commerce « EH ae EAE 0 Ang olher great Wo A the short cuts which eagiascering COM ad. BOILING MAPLE sY 1 reaching the other end in the form of syrup. Th . pr iy the evaporator use today. 1 ments have in the of firing old. re box Las d th portable of fron, Wh fire brick am fed with gt and accurate Is more re lowed to escape. : : in Li | in rove N : in : : nn : Td | n i : } ol with “" r mind rove pen . a | eo bars eat is al dam #0 that th salar, while no smoke wre ( Steam Pipe Evaporators, Probably the latest Improvement in aycup making Is that adopted by a manifacturer in the Adirondacks, A secies of steam pipes Is placed ln the evaporating pan and the sap made to flow around them. The process Is | § ers 1% : fire 11 nite to the his Even if the daliars Instead of the ’ through, times hefore Mr PIN THE OLD ¥ rm of : n 01 canal will be bu ASHIONED WAY. 1 will | built, even though on- | it. even Th ue on are « od » KO i weda tl : iW of tl U § fo 1 1 favor 11 i I Dever as a we de Lesser is to co $200 estimated, Mt ry t a billion canal 1" : EXER) at will be put | But it may happen many | the Job is done that, the pwonle will re : of old as been as Payne suggest i those all-night spe | Senator Morgan and be willing to have | | We | | (1 ax you, Mistuh Locus’, ain’ you never [You holler in de daytime an’ you holler ]! 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