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THE MYSTERY of
TUBBS' MOUNTAIN.
BY HOVSTOUN BICHAKDSON HARPER.
Beware of thejealoaa Spanish lover,
Or thou majrest rne it.
—Old Poem.
Sad, strange romances in the south
there are, bnt this of fair Julia Reming
ton could never be told until now with
historical accuracy, as its cloud of mys
tery has just been rolled back.
*******
‘ In the corona of foot hills which wall
in the picturesque town of R in
Northwest Georgia, the tallest on the
east is called “Tubbs’ Mountain’’ (now
Mount Saracinesoa.) Like many other'
spots in the superstitious south it has
its shroud of mystery. The story has been
told and retold in most exaggerated hid
eousness and never correctly by the
darky folk.
The lonely cabin on the crest stood
for years like a sentinel. This hovel— [
for such it became through decay—was
built when the mountain top was
cleared, and planted as a peach orchard.
The raising of peaches proved a losing
venture, the trees went wild, the hut to
rack and ruin, and was supposed to be
the home of “hants” by the negroes.
The ghost story started from the time
of the strange disappearance of the first
negro tenant who was murdered, or
suicided—a deed seldom committeed by
the happy blacks in the land of the
possum and potato. The deserted cabin
standing out boldly against the sky be
came to the laborer in the cotton fields
in the valley a time mark, for he could
look at it and then at the heighth cf the
sun, and tell the hour.
Few ever visited Tubbs’ Mountain,
the darkies shunning it for fear of the
“hants,” and the white folks finding
the exertion too severe to climb to the
summit.
One day no matter how many years
ago the good people of the pleasant town
of R were astounded at the sudden
and incomprehensible disappearance of
Miss Julia Remington, the belle and
beauty of the place in all that it implies
in the south, and her jealous lover, Dr,
Cabdillo Jabez.
They went for a horseback ride, on
this fatal day as they had often done,
and to this day have never returned.
The story of the mysterious disappear
ance is one of entrancing interest.
Dr. Jabez was]a young physician—or
medical student, would more exactly
describe him—from Caracas, Venezuela,
who was under the tutelage of the world
renowned surgeon in this Georgia town.
The great physician had known Jabez’s
father in a Berlin hospital. The young
man besides being strikingly handsome
and highly elocated was .a descendent
of a Spanish grandee, one of the mem
bers of the ancient family of Dons hav
ing come over with Columbus on his
second trip. Miss Remington was one of
those ideal types of the southern girl
who occupies such a high niche in the
romance and history of Dixie land. It
was known that the young doctor had
been attracted by the strong magnet of
love; that he had been persistent, but
the proud and wealthy Remingtons^were
ambitious that the queenly daughter
should spend at least two years abroad
before deciding upon her partner for
life.
The stabbing of Julius Caesar did not
excite the ancient city by the turbid
Tiber more than did the Remington
sensation and its attendent develop
ments in R by the muddy Eh,
Miss Remington and her Spanish cava
lier were last seen near the foot of
Tubbs’ Mountain, but her anxious fam
ily did not become unduly alarmed
about her until the second day of her
departure, as she often rode over to spend
the night with a family at ‘‘Barnesley’s
Gardens’’ celebrated in Augusta
Evans Wilson’s novel “St. Elmo. ”
On the second night when she had
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Inot returned there was no sleep at the
Remington home. Before daylight the
dozen horses in the stable had been
( Mtohed to vehicles, or saddled and the
( country for many miles was scoured.
I The man sent to ‘ ‘Barnesley’s Gardens”
returned about nightfall without a clue.
No one had seen the young lady on the
roads in that direction within a week.
! Others brought in similar stories. With
I that great often displayed
■ by southern gentlemen, when a woman’s
j name is oonoerned, Col. Remington had
I bade his family, servants and friends to
preserve the utmost seoreoy about his
daughter’s disappearance. Thus three
days and three nights passed without a
word of the missing couple appearing in
a newspaper, or the story getting on the
( telegraph wires. Col. Remington him
i self took up the clue of his daughter
having been seen at the foot of Tubbs’
Mountain. The negro boy who while hoe
ing cotton had seen them repeated his
■ story with the addition that it began to
r ain, and that he ran to the house be
fore he saw which way they went. In
quiry at the houses beyond to ascertain
if they had stopped in out of the rain,
failed to give any information. Nobody
else had seen tnem. Had the irresponsi
ble negro boy lied? But Col. Remington
determined to sift the matter through.
Trusted messengers were sent on the
roads to the villages of C 8 , and
C—-town, distant sixteen and twenty
miles respectively. The father heart
sick rode along part of the way to en
quire again at the nearby houses. About
noon with two friends he rode back to
the foot of Tubbs’ Mountain, and one
of them suggested that they ride by the
bridle path to the top of the peak.
What we never anticipate is that
which always happens!
In the fireplace of the lonely cabin
one of Col. Remington’s friends no
ticed a piece of cloth bordered with
fur. It was recognized as a piece of
Julia Remington’s cloak! Then a lot
of bones—human or not —they could
not say. Deep under the ashes was
found a ring—an opal surrounded
with diamonds—inscribed “Julia from
Father.” That settled it. The news
papers all published the “Mystery of
Tubbs’ Mountain” the next day.
Could anyone have ever conceived
such a Spanish devilas Dr. Jabez, dis
sector and Incinerator?
*******
The mystery was never unravelled
until a few months ago. The gossips of
R heard it with amazement. Mrs.
Remington, the mother of the fair Julia
grieved herself to death in a few
months. The stern and stately colonel
died about two years later. Their
handsome son, a thoroughly dissipated
fellow, while attending Yale college was
killed in a drunken brawl during a trip
from New Haven to New York city-
The fine old Remington mansion near
town fell to decay and ruin and departed
glory. The return of a member ©f the
United States embassy from Caracas,
Venezuela, a native R , but at the
time of his appointment a resident of
Atlanta, explained the unknown. He
made some inquiries about Dr. Cabdillo
Jabez in Caracas. A member of his
family stated that the young surgeon had
returned rather unexpectedly from th e
United States, arriving on a cheap tramp
steamer from Mobile, Ala,, and bring
ing with him the dead body of a beauti
ful young woman whom he said was
his wife. In Jess than a month his
father died and he committed suicide on
the grave of his wife.
Young Jabez never told how in drying
Miss Remington’s cloak it bad been
burned; how she had dropped her ring;
how be bad persuaded her to fiee to
South America with him and how they
had sailed from Mobile before Col.
Remington gave the alarm. This was
found in a letter Miss Remington had
written her mother and left among the ef
fects of Dr. Jabez. Who would not
believe that ghosts and divers
evil spirits haunted the lonely hut,
after the series of tragedies are
known as one unfolded in this the
first authentic relation of “the Mystery
of Tubb’s Mountain?”
THE COURT JESTER.
A Practical Joke That Will Sommen
Played on Cardinal Wolsey.
Amelia Wofford tells of “The Cour’
Jesters of England” in St. Nicholas.
The following is related of King Henry
VlH’s jester:
Sommers, like Scogan, liked a prac
tical joke, and one that he played on
Cardinal Wolsey is thus quaintly told
by Armin:
“Os a time appointed the king dined
at Windsor, in the chappel yard at Car
dinal! Wolsey’s at the same time when
he was building that admirable work
of his tom be, at whose gate stood a
number of poore people, to be served
with alms when dinner was done with
in, and as Will passed by they saluted
him, taking him for a worthy person
age, which pleased him. In he comes,
and finding the king at dinner and the
cardinall by attending, to disgrace him
that hi never loved. Harry, sayes heq
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lend me £lO. Vvilat to doe? saies tnc
king. To pay three or foure of the car
dinall’s creditors, quoth hee, to whom
my word is past, and they are now come
for the money. That thou shalt, Will,
quoth hee. Creditors of mine? saies the
cardinall. He give your grace my head
if any man can justly aske me a penny.
No, saies Will. Lend me £lO. If I pay
it not where thou owest it. lie give thee
£3O for it. Doe so, saies the king. That
I will, my liege, saies thee cardinall,
though I owe none. With that he lends
Will £lO. Will goes to the gate, dis
tributes it to the poore and brought the
empty bag. There is thy bag againe,
saies hee. Thy creditors are satisfied,
and my word out of danger. Who re
ceived, saies the king, the brewer or
the baker? Neyther, Harry, saies Will
Sommers. But, cardinall, answer me in
one thing, to whom dost thou owe thy
soule? To God, quoth hee. To whom
thy wealth? To the poore, saies hee.
Take thy forfeit, Harry, saies the foole.
Open confession, open pennance. Hit
head is thine, for to the poore at the
gate I paid his debt, which hee yields
is due, or if thy stony heart will not
yield it so, save thy head by denying
thy word and lend it mee. Thou know
est I am poore and have neyther wealth
nor wit, and what thou lendest to the
poore God will pay thee tenfold. * * *
The king laught at the jest, and so did
the cardinall for a shew, but it grieved
him to jest away £lO so.”
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Two men walking on Campbell street
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“What for?”
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Hm Been Seven Times Under the Knife
Since the Original Amputation.
General Henderson of lowa has come
back to Washington for the session of
congress rejuvenated. Having had his
leg amputated again, he seems quite re
freshed. His leg has been under the
knife seven times since the original
Imputation during the war. The first
Imputation was a little above the foot.
The last was above the knee.
General Henderson is now chairman
of the house judiciary committee.
Everybody in congress calls him Dave
Henderson. Everybody likes him be
cause he is so amiable and jolly. Most
members fear him as an antagonist in
debate because he is suoh an unconscion
able fighter. In 20 years there have been
but three or four men in congress with
lung power to equal him, and there is
an energy and eloquence about his ad
dress which is apt to drive an antago
nist off his bearings. Most men get more
or less ill natured when they suffer
greatly, but with him it is almost the
reverse. If possible, he is better natured
under pain.
It is a most remarkable thing the way
he and that piece of a leg of his have
contended for mastery. In the first
place, the bones of his ankle were shiv
ered by a shot. He was young and
thought he could stand it if the foot
oould, and he held out against amputa
tion for several months. During the
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seven times his leg has been under the
knife since then he has taken gas but
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He is a most energetic worker, one of
the most active men in congress. Dur
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congress and the extra session of this
congress he was a great sufferer, as he
has been at intervals before, as a pre
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pulled something off his flesh, but never
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the smile with which he met all classes
of people. When he saw that the leg
was getting the best of him, he decided
to have apothem piece taken off. This
was the most serious operation he had
been compelled to endure, as it had to
come off above the knee. He neglected
his correspondence for just nine days
on account of the operation. Four days
before the operation was performed the
doctor ordered him to Atlantic City to
take a complete rest, so that he could de
termine whether the amputation would
be necessary. During that time he did
no work. Again when the operation was
performed he had to give his stenogra
pher a holiday, but on the fourth day
he was dictating letters. The second
day after the amputation he was play
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