The following is an extract from the Selma (Ala.) Sentinel, October 1st, 1863

Request by John Harrolson, Agent Niter and Mining Bureau, C.S.A., for ladies to preserve their "chamber lye" for munitions is followed by three-stanza poem ridiculing him and the women for collecting urine. Request by John Harrolson, Agent Niter and Mining Bureau, C.S.A., for ladies to preserve their "chamber lye" for munitions is followed by three-stanza poem ridiculing him and the women for collecting urine. Prose and poetry. Within border of type ornament sections. Title from first lines.