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x _ < Thoughts of the Historic Southern Flags, Suggested By the Flag Presen- ]> (Vc
> tatlon of General A. J. West, Commanding North Georgia Brigade, To mE
PB l the Uniformed Daughters of the Confederacy at the Senate Chamber, -
Vs j October 18. 1901. • • • .
BY COLONEL HENRY WHITNEY CLEVELAND.
. For the God of all food yot Uvea In our
sky;
Ho may punish, but will uot forget.
; There is wealth m our valleys and health
in our hills;
• There is life in the old land yet!
In the dawn of secession. January to
• May isgi. we who were then the young
• men of the.aouth, thought most of two
: dear things "The girt I left behind me,"
i the mothers and the wives, and the flags
• that the heroic women of the States gave
; to us. much as the mother of Greece gave
• the shield to her son. "Some back with it
• dr upon it." In Charleston Miss Lottie
; Fills led her sweetheart to a window
• where the colors of old glory flew over
; fray old Sumter and said: "So long as
' that flag flies there I don't want to see
• you in citizen’s clothes.” He went and
i gave his life. In Burke and Richmond
I and Chatham clubs of young women took
; a ledge not to speak to a man with
• enough legs and arms who did not volun
, leer. The '•minute men" wrote and sang:
• •‘She gave the flowers—'twas springtime
V then.
And bright o’er land and sea
f Flew the fair banners of our land.
The young, the strong, the free;
. And bright as were our banenrs then
I On their first blushing field.
, Still brighter were the hopes those flowers
and blushing buds revealed—
Hopes pure as skies where stars rejoice
• And earnest as an angel’s voice.”
What should be the flag’—what to do
‘ with the flags? was almost as great a
question as was the constitution to be
» framed at Montgomery ?
' When William Henry Walker. Henry R.
Jackson. Alfred Cumming. Joseph E.
Brown and others stood with uncovered
• beads at Pulaski and the Augusta Arsenal
as the starry flag of our fathers came
> down amid the national salute and the
1 music of "The Star Spangled Banner,”
i there were no dry eyes. Miles Turpin
• made the "Lone Star" sheet that took Its
i place No man I then knew wanted to
give up the Red. White and Blue. Texas.
• a little empire, asked for the single white
> star on a field of blue, fringed with red.
South Carolina the pioneer, asked for her
white palmetto on its sky of blue, to
• omit the red bar after peace. The editor
of the old Constitutionalist made U flag of
the stale arms of the cotton states and it
■' was killed in convention by Barnwell
’■Rhett. who said it was a good bed quilt
! design All volunteer companies started
’ with the old uniforms, blue 'and white
fer infantry, blue and red or yellow for
’• artillery and cavalry, green for rifles, like
my own Augusta Clinch, also the Irish
’ volunteers, minute men and regulars, red
i Shirts and the gray.
’ Every company had a flag, often the
white silk or satin bridal dress of some
j mother of heroes, painted or joined with
’ colors. '
! Georgia held to her historic blue and
arch and three pillars, of
i ten with a crimson reverse and the com-
• pany name and the eagle. An eagle flag
» was much discussed.
All of ths secession banners hung across
the streets had the cotton plant with a
• rattlesnake colled at the roots. Nolle me
1 tangere—don’t tread on me!
Os course every company swore with
' lifted hands and swords to carry that
• same flag in every battle front or die with
. the folds about the bearer. A dress pa
rade of a regiment looked like a tulip
• bed. and never dla the premium tulips of
> Holland make such heart aches and con
- tention.
A fun brigade would line up with thirty
> flags. To group them as a bouquet at
' brigade center required a vast detail of
bearers and color guard. When at St.
I Louis tn 1884 Grover Cleveland "made
‘ Borne howl” by proposing to return to
us all captured flags few realised that
the great store of them In Washington
arose from the vast number that the ear
»ly volunteers carried. To get a company
, to send home Its flag was a row scarcely
’ less than when James VI. carried the Ja
cob or Columba stone from Scotland when
he became James L of England.
We all know that the Stars and Bars,
two red bars and one white and constel-
■ latlon on the blue union, was adopted at
! Montgomery and on the favorable result
• of Alex H. Stephens’ mission to Virginia
'it flew at Bethel and Manassas. General
■ Joseph E. Johnston, then commanding.
’ saw that. in the smoke, friend fired on
, friend, as once did South Carolina and
Kentucky, and the southern cross battle
flag was born.
Should there be nine, eleven or thirteen
•tars was then the question of the flag
committee of the Richmond congress.
Hon. Horatio M. Bruce, of Kentucky,
chairman at one time, agreed for our
Louisville reunion to write the congres
sional history, especially as to the bar
now at the end of the flag. Mr. Davis
told this writer that Mrs. Varina Davis
proposed the white flag and union cross
. as a token of the peace we prayed for.
The currency was printed with a prom
ise to redeem "two years after a treaty
of peace.” At Charleston we were as
signed seats tn the order of secession and
that put Kentucky away back, as she
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voted 70.000 the other way. The Kentucky
Lee button has only secession stars.
There are not thirteen but fourteen who
won starry rights in blood. Maryland,
Virginia. North Carolina. South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama. Mississippi.
Texas. Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri,
Kentucky, West Virginia, not a state in
1861. and some elsewhere. Where the
fourteen* Surely the flag maker did not
omit the Pelican brood, fed from the
mother breast, Louisiana, whose Wash
ington artillery alone drove Meager's
Irish brigade from our llhes at Fredicks
burg? Three stars to each bar of St.
Andrew's cross and one central makes a
symmetrical thirteen, the stars of the
revolution, but there are the fourteen or
there are less. •»
I have talked to veterans and generals
at several of our eleven, reunions. Rouse
gave us 1100,000 in Texas, and I have yet
to meet one. even Longstreet, who ever
saw the flag with a terminal bar on any
fort or battlefield or ship.
Vice President Stephens gave to this
Anti-Prohibition Tactics of
The Tenth Georgia Tipplers
BY D. I. WALDEN.
There was more or less frictioq all ti\e
time through the war between the com
manding officers and the drinking ele
ment of the rank and file In regard to the
use or abuse of Intoxicating drinks, and
notwithstanding the shrewdness and fine
executive ability of many of our com
manders whenever the constantly recur
ring contention about strong drink was
encountered the men generally managed
to win. I don’t mean to insinuate that
the officers themselves were all strict tee
totalers. setting worthy examples of tem
perance and sobriety before the men, for
unfortunately no such Inducement to re
form as the example of superior officers
was held out to them, but the idea pre
vailed that for a private soldier to get
drunk and cut up was “conduct preju
dicial to good order In military discip
line.”
Soon after our regiment, which was the
Tenth Georgia, entered the service some
of our men, like those of many other
regiments, began to exhibit symptoms of
an Immoderate appetite for drink, and
this appetite was Indulged whenever an
opportunity offered, and some of them be
gan very soon to make the opportunities
instead of waiting for them.’ The disease
proved contagious and many recruits
joined the drinkers from time to time
who had hitherto been classed with the
other faction.
The authorities instituted various means
for suppressing or controlling the use of
whisky, but all proved Inadequate and in
effective. They issued and caused to be
published general orders prohibiting the
sale or use of intoxicating liquors In the
camps, affixing penalties of greater or
less severity for violations, but men who
were submissive and obedient to other or
ders disregarded this one. Some were
ailing and required a tonic, others used it
as a precaution against possible snake
bites, and. many other excellent excuses
were given for its use.
A strong line *of guards was posted
around the camp with orders to search
carefully everyone who attempted to en
ter, and anyone on whose person whisky
was found must be arrested and punished;
but it was found difficult to enforce this
order on account of the adverse sympa
thies of the guard. /
One young man got a common tin coffee
pot in which to bring whisky Into camp.
He sealed up securely with wax the small
strainer-llke holes through which the'cof
fee was intended to pass from the coffee
pot into the spout. He would have the
coffee pot filled with whisky and the
spout filled with milk, and when called on
to exhibit the contents of his coffee pot
he would pour out a little milk from the
spout, and thus satisfying the guard
would pass in nonchalantly, with an air
of perfect innocence. Then there would
follow some mysterious cases of drunk
enness in the camp.
After this there were provost marshals
appointed to wrestle with the whisky
problem. Their duties partook somewhat
of the nature both of the modern revenue
officer and city detective. They were re
quired to seise and cohflscate all intoxi
cating drinks brought into the camp, and
also to apprehend and prosecute all of
fenders against the whisky regulations.
Mr. Shannon Watterson, of our company
(Company E), a brother of Hon. Will
Watterson, of Jonesboro, was assigned to
For >1.40 we will send The Semi-
Weekly one year and the Five Vaseline
Toilet Articles and any one of the
premium papers offered with The
Semi-Weekly at >I.OO. This Is the
greatest offer ever made and you
should take advantage of It without
delay.
What Saw at
Nancy Hart's Home,
Surely not many more interesting or in
structive controversies ever were sprung
than the present one now running through
the files'of The Journal on the story of
Nancy Hart. ~
I am one who believes In the story as
printed by White. I believe there were
fully as many Tories killed as he records
In his history.
In 1792 Sir William Bartram, the great
English traveler, visited the country near
where Nancy Hart lived. What Georgian
is it that has never read his charming
book of travel? Such fidelity to truth and
such glorious descriptions of the flora of
the country we seldom ever And. His
journey, however, was not so much to
gather historical as it was scientific facta
and it is greatly to be regretted that he
only gives us snatches of historical inci
dents in his elaborate botanical descrip
tions.
He was an Englishman with all of an
Englishman's prejudices. Here Is what he
writes of the country on tfroad river (see
Bartram’s Travels Through North and
South Carolina and Georgia, page M 0):
"I arose early next morning and con
tinued my journey to Fort James. This
day’s program was agreeably entertain
ing from the novelty and variety of the
objects and-views. The wild country now
almost depopulated, vast forests, expan
sive plains and detached groves, heaps of
white gnawed bones of the ancient buf
falo and deer Indiscriminately mixed with
those of men, although present scenes of
uncultivated nature, on reflection, per
haps. rather disagreeable to a mind of
delicate feelings and sensibility, since
some of these objects recognise past
transactions and events perhaps not al
together reconcilable to justice and hu
banity.” Very truly yours,
J. E. D. SHIPP.
Americus, Ga., Oct. 30. 1901.
, The kalsertn of Germany, unlike her hue
bead. haa but one fad. Thia la for the building
of churches, much of the designing of which
ahe does herself, as she haa a good knowledge
of and taste for architecture.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 7, 1901.
writer the engraved copy of the proposed
altered Confederate flag, laid on the pres
ident’s desk. Also a drawing made and
colored, it was said then, by Mrs. Davis,
he thought at the suggestion of Admiral
Setnmes of the Alabama as the white
banner and union could not be made out
In bad weather at sea. One for the
house General Bennett N. Young, of
Kentucky, now has.
In these the bar is the blue of the old
Scotts covenanters and of the robe of
Mary the Blessed.
Congressman Bruce was unable before
I left Kentucky to find any record of the
bar adoption, but did of the white banner
and blue cross, red field.
It is possible that a red bar might have
been intended for the army and blue for
the navy, but I question if either ever
flew on any field or ship. Perhaps Mrs.
Davis or Mrs. Jackson would know?
I should like to write again from the
Macon camp fires if The Journal is not
weary of ancient history not so fresh as
Sam Pv Jones.
this work in our regiment, and although
he was very vigilant and succeeded in
capturing much of the contraband stimu
lants, yet he failed to suppress or even
appreciably check the traffic in the camp.
. Mr. Watterson died very mysteriously
one night and his body was found near
the roadside a shore distance from the
camp next morning. A careful examina
tion failed to disclose any marks of vio
lence or any clew whatever as to the
cause of his death. Some suggested that
he froze to death, but that seemed to me
a very improbable theory.
It was thought by some that the high
price of whisky consequent upon the de
preciation of Confederate money would
assist in suppressing the traffic, but the
men were ever ready with expedience for
overcoming all such insignificant diffi
culties.
I heard a story of a man who got two
jugs exactly alike and filled one with
water, the other being empty. He corked
them securely and after putting them Into
an old- gunny bag swung it over his
shoulder and went to a man who hed
wnisky to sell. After setting down his
sack he took out- the empty jug and
asked the man to fill it with whisky. The
dealer filled it and passed it back to the
soldier, who, after corking it securely, re
placed it in -the sack beside the jug of
water and took out his purse as if to setr
tie, at the same time asking the price! ,
"Twenty dollars a gallon,” answered
the dealer. «* i
"That’s too much,” rejoined the soldier,
"that's extortion; it's an outrage.”
Wheretfpon a squabble ensued which
sooq ripened into a quarrel, and this in
turn resulted in the positive refusal on
the part of the soldier to pay any such
price. The dealer then demanded his
whisky back and the soldier reached
down, took out the jug of water and gave
it to him, and the dealer hastily and in a
very exefted manned emptied the water
into his whisky barrel. The soldier then
replaced the jug in his sack beside the
whisky and taking up his load bade the
dealer good-bye and went on his kray re
joicing. 1 •r - V
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Editor Journal—l want to'join all other
old Confederates in showing our appreci
ation of the great generosity of The Jour
nal in caring for our old boys in their dis
tressed condition .when their home was
destroyed.
I can imagine their sad faces and feel
ings while their all was burning and then
their unbounded joy when notified of the
grand and patriotic deed of The Journal.
Being an old Confederate myself of the
Tenth Alabama regiment from June, 1861,
to April, 1865, I can appreciate such God
send kindnesses to old comrades.
I love all old Reba, especially, those of
the Tenth Alabama. I .think it was in as
man}* or more, battles, skirmishes, forced
marches, etc., than any 'other command.
Mustered into service in 1861 by Colonel
(afterwards general) John H. Forney,
now of Jacksonville, Ala., whom they
would have followed to the jumping off
place and farther, if he wished, as on
three different occasions when there were
hazardous risks to be taken in charging
and capturing batteries and when volun
teer regiments would be called for. Gen
eral John H. Forney would be seen on the
Old bay horse, hat in ?iand, galloping
down the lines calling for his old regiment,
the Tenth. .. . ! .
Go? Yes, we went and made our prowess
felt every time. Those were our close
calls.
~ My closest call was at Salem Church,
connected with the battle of Chancellors
vijie and Fredericksburg, where the
Yanks, ten to one, chased us from Fred
ericksburg two miles to Salem Church.
Over the hills we went and crept back and
lay very flat on the ground, just under
the, brow of the hill, where we could see
three heavy lines of battle advancing, our
orders being to wait till the command to
“fire.” . . -
“Wait till you can see the whites of
their eyes," which order came as they got
within about thirty yards of us, and after
about three rounds our line raised the
Rebel yell, which the blue coats could
never stand, and charged and drove them
at full speed back under cover of their
batteries, they leaving more dead and
wounded than we had engaged. It was
there I received two shots that gave me
a furlough; and there, too, a brother was
killed by my side.
I had many other close calls—at the
Blowup or Crater, the Wilderness, and
many other places. I love to read com
munications and close calls from old com
rades. They carry me back to old Vir
ginia, and camps, marches, battles, etc. I
think it the duty of every Confederate sol
dier to read his Bible and The Journal’s
close calls and be prepared when the
summons comes, which can't be long, to
meet those old comrades and loved ones
already beyond the river.
I have some old redes that we prize
highly; a piece of our old battle flag that
waved over and enthused our boys in
many hard fought battles. Also the strip
of white cloth given us on forming first
line of battle. We supposed at the time
that it was intended to*bind our wounds,
but it was to tie around our left arms tp
designate us from Yanks. I also have the
hymn book and Testament carried
through the war, and a pass used in *62,
signed by captain, colonel and general,,
and last, but not least. General R. E.
Lee’s and General William Mahone's fare
well addresses to their commands, written
by myself on the old yellow Confederate
paper on the day of surrender, April 9, '65.
May you live long, and may prosperity
crown your every effort. Is the wish of
your comrade In arms.
J. D. STAPLES.
K., 10th R. A. V., A. N. V.
Oxford, Ala.
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THE THRILLING STORY OF
AN ADVENTUROUS LIFE
• - I
BY JOHN P. TWOMEY.
The most daring navigator and ocean
wanderer that ever lived is Captain Wil
liam Andrews, of Massachusetts. This
adventurous and sturdy old salt is at the
present good moment a traveler on the
broad expanse of the ocean deep in a boat
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less than three times his own length.
His undertakings since his great
achievements have amazed the whole
maritime world are no longer called fool
hardy, for it is now admitted by all that
Captain Andrews is as safe in one of his
tiny craft as is the first cabin passenger
on a Cunarder.
This brave seaman's first venture of the
kino was made in 1878, when he, with his
brother Walter as a companion, crossed
the Atlantic in the wonderful little boat
Nautilus and made the trip in 45 days.
They started from Boston and were bound
to the Paris "Exposition Universelie.”
The cut made of this boat is from a pic
ture taken of the Nautilus upon her arri
val at Mullyan cove, Land’s End, Eng
land, which was the first point of land
reached by them.
The second trip undertaken by this fear
less individual was much more hazardous
than the, first, for his trim craft, Dark
Secret, was but 12 feet on the keel, being
3 feet less than the and he was
alone. The start was made from Point of
Pines, Revere beach, Massachusetts, June
18, 1888. ; The Dark Secnet was equipped
with just enough prepared food and drink
to. last one man two iponths. Following
great hardships the captain reached Eu
rope after a memorable passage
of 61 days. He was feted in England
and on the continent for the success he
had gained in so safely making the trip,
for no one ever expected to again see him
alive after he bade adieu to his Ameri
can friends and launched his boat prepar
atory to making the long journey.
It was after this second and most ap
plauded triumph that the writer first met
this intrppid saltmaster. He was mak
ing a touf of the principal ports in this
country and the fame which he had so
meritoriously and richly earned having
preceded him he" was the recipient of
pnarked attention at every point he cared
to visit. A typical American, reared on
the seaboard and being in comfortable
circumstances, Captain Andrews was al
ways ready and eafpr to engage in any
la Indian Dugout Men Sail
6,400 Mlles On Blue Ocean •
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APIA, Oct. 12.—Captain J. C. Voss and
A. K. Luxton, the adventurous Canadians,
who sailed from Vancouver early in July
in an Indian dug-out canoe for a voyage
around the world in her, arrived here safe
and sound October 10, having traveled in
that time a distance of 0,400 miles.
; After leaving Vancouver, B. C., they
sailed for 56 days without seeing land or
sail of any description, and on August 81
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' Onrthe day Bragg's army reached Har
rodsbutg, on the retreat from Kentucky,
I was seized with a violent fever; next
morning the fever Was still burning, and
as our surgeon. Dr.-D. A. Kinchloe, was
Incapacitated for his duties, and I utterly
unable to walk and the army on the move,
Lieut. Charlie Cannon, commanding my
company, put me into one of Capt. (Quar
termaster) Jim Bell’s wagon; after the
wagon train had become separated from
the army. My fever had somewhat abat
ed and Major J.ason. chief quartermaster,
came along and heaved us all out of the
wagon.
I got a horse out of an abandoned corral
and rode with Capt**" Bell, Commissary
Armstrong and Chaplain Mallory, of my
regiment (Blythe’s Miss..) to the north
foot of ‘ Big Hill. While I slept, my old
horse, tied to a bush close by the
train, got a scare from some Yankee cav
alry and hulled out, leaving me and
eight other invalid stragglers asleep.
Next morning at sunrise we awakened,and
gathering what supplies we could from
the debris of the deserted camp, started,
exausted a* we were, on a painful march
across the hill.
Os course we wejv captured and sent
under a guard from an Onio and. Illinois
regiment of 60 men. juynmanded by Lieu
tenant j(. S. Bardlcw.
One hundred and ninety ragged Hebs in
all, we jnarched through the country to
Lebanon, thence by rail to Louisville.
During that march the ‘’close call” refer
red th occurred in thia wise:
Among rite prisoners of our crowd were
about twenty of Morgan’s cavalry, reck-
PARALYSIS AND COFFEE.
Symptoms Disappear When Drug Is
Abandoned.
“Tea and coffee were forbidden by my
physician, for I had symptoms of par
alysis and it was plain that the coffee
was the cause of the trouble. I began
using Postum Food Coffee and am now a
steady advertisement for Postum. The
old symptoms of paralysis disappeared in
a very brief time after I began the use of
Pcstum and quit the use of coffee. Do
not use my name publicly, if you please.’’
Morrow, O. The above name can
be given by the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd.,
Battle Creek, Mich.
Coffee is such a direct poison to the
nerve centers of many highly organized
people that it produces all sorts of disor
ders from stomach and bowel troubles,
palpitation of the .heart, kidney troubles,
etc., etc., up to more Intricate nervous
diseases, such as paralysis. The way to
keep well is to leave off coffee or any
nerve destroyer of that sort, and use
Postum Food Coffee, which is a direct re
builder of the nerve centers. Sure and
well defined improvements in health will
follow this course, as can be proven by
any person who will make the trial.
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i venture which would bring him that cov
eted gratification of having accomplished
some unusual
’ Being of this turn, when the first sug
’ gestion was made to him that so small
> a boat as the Dark Secret proved to be,
t could not live at sea, he straightway
braved the dangers that were pointed
out to him, and demonstrated his ability
to take care of himself under the most
trying conditions, for his “cockshells"
were many times threatened with total
destruction- > <
Again in 1892, Captain Andrews sailed
another boat, first to the Azores islands
and then to Portugal, but his long ab
sence before any intelligence of his where
abouts could be learned, gave rise to
grave fears that he was lost. After awhile,
however, he bobbed up serenely and par
ticipated in the festivities being held over
there in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, the
famous Portuguese navigator, and Chris
topher Columbus, the discoverer.
This celebrated mariner with his bride
of but a few weeks have just left Atlan
tic City to spend their honeymoon on the
ocean blue at the most perilous season of
the year. ■ ’ '-
They are going in the “Dark Secret II”
and expect to cross the pond in less than
50 days. The captain’s latest boat has five
feet beam and is flat bottomed. She is
sloop-rigged ahd will carry severh.l extra
sails. An arrangement which allows the
tiller to be secured in any. desired posi
tion is an invention of Captain .Andrews.
The boat is decked all over with the ex
ception of the cockpit in the center, and
this has sliding hatchways which can be
closed during storms. The keel of the
boat will be weighted with 300 pounds of
lead, and this with the water ballast will,
it is believed, insure her against capsizing.
Oars for use in an emergency will also
be carried.
Water for the voyage will be supplied
from 100 half gallon bottles that will be
stored under the floor of the cockpit.
Fifty pounds of ship biscuit will be placed
In the lockers on each side of the boat
and the rest of the stores will consist of
oatmeal, coffee, sugar, condiments apd
canned goods.
Although at the good age of 60, it is be
lieved Captain Andrews will safely return
with his precious charge.
Brunswick, Ga.
they landed at Penrhyn . Island. From
there they cruised tq Apla, arriving Oc
tober 10. The venturesome travelers re
mained but a few hours in Apia—only
long enough to secure a supply of water
and provisions—and then set sail for Syd
ney by way* of Fiji.
Both men were In good'health a'nd ex
pressed themselves-as satisfied that they
would be able to complete their under
taking.
Bears the Ths Kin(l YwHIWAIWIfI Bought
Signature
less, daring fellows, who, on account of
some rough treatment given by the
Yankee guard to one or two of the pris
oners, had formed a deadly brotherhood
of about 15v of the prisoners under a sol
emn oath to destroy the whole Yankee
layout the next time a Confederate was
cursed or strv.ck.- I knew of the con
spiracy, and though I was not one of the
conspirators, I approved of arrangement
thoroughly, and had it occurred as pro
vided by their oath I would certainly have
joined in the fray, for the moderate ex
ercise, pure air, and the “home grub"
we got at the houses where we stopped,
together with tne pure apple brandy, of
which one Federal gave me. three good
slugs a day, had restored my strength.
That Yankee from southern Ohio, a cous
in. by the way,., of Bishop Randolph 8.
Foster, of the Methodist . Episcopal
church, had taken such a liking to me
that at his request Lieutenant Bardlow
had turned me over to him for safe-keep
ing, and we slept and ate together, drank
from the same canteen and chewed from
the same piece of tobacco till we entered
the prisoners' barracks at Louisville. He
was a noble, generous, great -heavy-joint
ed woodchopper, and we had lots of fun
together, and kept most of the crowd in
good spirits joking one.another. Out day,
while we were resting at noon and chaf
fing each other as usual, Joe said:
• “Uncle Smith, why the h did you go
into the Rebel artny?” (They all'took me
to be a western man.)
I replied: “I fiid it just to get a chance
to eat a Yankee."
"Why did you join the Yankee army?”
“Just to get to eat up a Rebel," he
answered.
Then said I, "you had better chew
down on me right now; I guess I’m about
the toughest mouthful you’ll ever get a
chance at."
He turned to me with a lightning-like
motion, face pale as death, and • eyes
flashing fire. We faced each other for
fully two minutes. I kept one eye on his
face, the other on his gun, as far as pos
sible, ready for any emergency, but
scared almost too bad to breathe, for as
I stole a quick glance around the com
pany, I saw that every one of that
guard had a Confederate soldier on either
side of him, ready to execute the oath.
and had Joe Stark made a pass at me, in
two minutes there would not have been
a live Yankee on the ground. I believed
that Stark would have killed me, but I
knew he would not survive the action
two minutes. True, we had all given our
paroles and had the documents in our
pockets, but that would have “cut no
ice” under the circumstances.
Stark may have "smelt a mouse," for
after an awful two minutes of such
steelly gazing Into each other’s eyes, bls
face relaxed its fierce rigidity and he
broke into a broad laugh, with the re
mark: “Well, you are the d st case I
ever met."
I consider this the closest call I had
during the war. j. B. K. SMl’i-x,
First Cor, Co. A„ Blythe’s Regt. Miss.
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I The Judge and Dan’l - I |
| 1
BY EDGAR WELTON COOLEY. . - |
(Copyright. IWL by Dally Btory Pwb. Co.) * I
A tall, raw-boned man sat on the top
of a “stake-and-rlder” fence, in the shade
of a butternut tree, whittling a stick. Be
neath him, curled up in the higih and
tangled swamp grass, a squirrel dog dosed
lazily.
The fence was •in the bottom lands in
the edge of a vidage. A river flowed near
by and a road climbed a hill and rolled
away towards a larger town—the county
“Dan’l,” the man said, addressing the
dog. “pears like everything is goin' to.
rack an' ruin in Cloverdale. Times ain’t
what they were hereabouts twenty years
ago.”
' The dog raised his head and looked at
his master a moment; then lazily resum
ed his nap. The man laughed—a low,
gutteral laugh. •
“Dan 4.”
The dbg made a vain attempt to raise
h«r head. Then he tried to wag his tall,
but. fat.ed. A king-bird darted from the
fer.ee near by, fluttered a moment in mid
air and then resumed its perch.
"You’re just like the town, Dan’l,” re
sumed the man. “just like the town.
Don’t do nothin’, sir, but sleep in the
shade. Ain’t got no more energy nor a
turtle on a log. I declare to goodness,
sir, I don’t know what's goin’ to become
of us all." < ' "
' High overhead a hawk circled slowly
in the blue sky. From some where across
the roau came the song of a meadow
lark and the plaintive whistle of a ground
squirrel. .w Z
"Listen to that nqw—just listen to that
squirrel over there coaxin’ you to come
an’ catch ’lm, an’ you— ” .
The man paused as he caught the sound
of wagon wheels approaching. A sleepy
looking horse, hitched to a light wagon
and driven by a white haired man, came
shambling along the road. When the
driver saw the man on the fence he
drew rein. ’
I r "Howd’y, judge,” he said. “Howd’y.
"Howdly, major,” replied the judge,
throwing away his stick. “Mighty fine
day.”.
‘ The major coughed.
“Clouds over In the southwest,” he said.
"Looks like It might rain.”
Both men lapsed into silence. The horse
stood with closed eyes and nodded head.
The dog panted in his sleep. The hum
of insects arose from the grass. The ma
jor struck an iron weed with his whip;
then he looked up suddenly.
“Come here, judge," he said.
The other climbed slowly down from the
fence and shuffled over to the wagon. The
dog raised his head a moment; then low
ered it again. The major leaned far over
the wheel, with the manner of one who
has an important bit of information to im
part.
"Cloverdale has a doctor,” he whispered,
and leaned back to note the effect of the
announcement.
‘"A doctor? When did he cornel ’
“He didn’t come at all,” replied the ma
jor. chuckling. “It’s a woman!"
“Good Lord!”. exclaimed the judge, ex
citedly. “Excuse me. Brother Thornton, if
I swear a little, but I’ll be damned if I
know what the town is cornin’ to, sir.
A woman doctor! Weil, well, well! Nice
business for a woman to follow. Better
be in the kitchen, where she belongs.”
.“That’s what I allow,” replied Thorn
ton. "Them’s the very words I said to
Sophie when I hearn it. ‘Better be in the
kitchen,’ says I, ‘where a woman belongs,
just think of the Influence of our daugh
ters ’ says I. ‘There’s nary a one of ’em.’
says I. ‘but what’ll be glttin’ the notion
in her head that she’s too good for wash
in’ dishes and makin’ beds,’ says I.” And
the major gave vent to his displeasure by.
whipping the dust into clouds.
"As men of influence in Cloverdale,
Judge Whitmore,” resumed the major,
straightening himself up with an air of
great Importance, "as men of influence an’
leadership, as you might say, I allow It’s
our solemn duty, sir, to use every means
to discourage this woman'from remaining
in our midst, sir. She’s a menace to the
community.” And he coughed as though
the responsibility sat heavily upon -him.
‘ Whitmore nodded "his head in approval
and climbed awkwardly Into the wagon.
“We’ll Inform her that her presence
here is ‘not needed,” he said, determin
edly. ,
Thornton gave a. pull on the reins. The
horse reluctantly opened its eyes, slowly
shook its tail at .the flies and started de
liberately toward town. They rode a short
distance in Spence and then Whltmoye
suddenly said:
“Hold on a minute, major. I swan If we
ain’t left Dan’l behind. Wouldn’t take a
farm for that dog, sir. Smartest dog in the
country. Here, Dan’l; here, sir; here!”'
Thornton ’ seethed annoyed at the de
lay and retorted sharply:
“If your dog's so thunderin’ smart. I’d
think he’d find his way home afone, sit.”’
The judge gazed at Him 'with a look of
withering contempt.
“It’s quite evident, sir," he said, “that
you don't know as much about a- dog as
a gadfly knows ab6ut -heaven. No self
respectin’ ' dog, sir, would think of goin’
home Without his master. Here, Dan’l;
come here, sir.”
“But don’t he know enough to follow
you?” asked the major, contemptuously.
“Os Course he does, sir; of course he
does. But how do 'you 1 think a dog finds
his master? Do you think he runs around
with his head-tip in the air, like he’d treed
a 'cobn? No, sir. He trails him by the
scent of his nostrils, str. Do you under
stand? By the scent of Ms nostrils. And no
dog In this country has h finer set of
nostrils than'Dan’l has, sir. But even he
cannot trail ma jn a wagon. Here, Dan’l!
Dan’l! Ah, here he comes. Yes, sir; -fin
est dog in the country, sir.”
The major smiled and cracked his whip
over his horse’s back. The wagon rum-
bled along Into the village and up the
main street of the town. * .s • e •>
A yellow cat suddenly bounded out of
“Smith's Emporium” and- loped aeros*
the street in front of the horse. The dog,
from under the wagon, started in pur
suit, but his movements were tod slow.
The hind wheel caught him and bore him
to the ground, where he lay, bowling with
pain. > • . ' *
Thornton stopped his horse and Whit
more climbed out and took the dbg In his
arms. The animal looked appealingly into
his face and whined dismally. The'judge’s
face grew grave and tears glistened in
his eyes’. A crowd gathered white Whit
more stroked his dog’s shaggy cost In
helpless pity and scowled at Thornton.
“Can’t help it,” said the major from
his'seat. “Your dog’s so infernal- smart,
thought he’d had more sense tßrsn to get
In the way of a movin’ wheel.”
The judge’s lips twttched ahgrily. ’
"Major,” he said, severely, “you’re an
old fool, sir.”
The crowd suddenly parted and a'young
woman, carrying a surgeon's case, .made
her way to the judge’s side. She was tall
and graceful—pretty but not handsome.
But there was tender compassion In her
large, brown eyes. She kneeled beside
the wounded brute and petted his head. ■
“What an Intelligent looking .a <??iaL”
she said. k '
The judge’s eyes spafkled and he glanc
ed triumphantly at the major.
The woman stooped and examined the
dog’s leg that hung, limp and useless, at
his side. “Why, his leg is broken,” she
said. "Is he your dog?”
“Yes'm,” said Whitmore, pathetidsllyt
"Wouldn't take a farm for him. Owned
him for years. We’re great friends,
Dan’l an’ I.” The dog lopked up in his
master's face and wagged his tail, "Ah’
then—an’ then, Dick gave him to me be
fore he went to the city.” ’
“Dick?” said the womtm.
“Yes’m,” said the judge. “Dick Whit
more, my son.” ./ .
"Oh,” replied the woman, and her eyes
twinkled merrily, "Well, bring him over
to my office; I'll fix him up and he’ll ba
as good as ever in a short time.”
Whitmore smiled, and taking the dog
In his arms followed her. . "Dan’l ia i a
smart dog,” he said, “but he didn’t know
the major was such a blamed fool that
he’d drive over him.” '' • * , ”
A fortnight later, the judge received a
letter from his son. It reafl!’ \'. v
“Dear Father: “Now don't swear when
I tell you that I have >o completely re
covered from the old fogylsm which - one
Inhales with the atmosphere'tn Cloverdale,
that I have actually fallen in love with a
new woman—a female doctor. We are to
be married shortly. My Intended is now
a resident of your fossilized old' town.
Where She insisted in locating and open
ing an office in spite of my vehement pro
tests and my assurance that she Would
be run out of the village inside of a
week. Her sign reads, ‘Nettle • Graham,
M.D.,’ and while she does not make *
speciality of canine surgery,* she is quite
successful in that line, I believe. I trust
that prejudice will not.force route with
hold your congratulations. Your way*
ward son, •'DICK."--'
The return mail carried the judge’s re
ply. It was brief, but concise: • -""
“Dear Dick: I always .knew* yoji wnap
a lucky dog. Miss Graham's got more
right down hard sense than all «he oth
er residents of Cloverdale put together,
including Dan’l. She knows a smart dag
when she sees one, and that’s more than
can be said about Major Thornton, who
poses as a modern Solomon. God bless
you, my boy. Your forgiving father,
"HEZEKIAH WHITMORF.”'
OCTOBER.
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The color box of nature spills, its .adostes all
about , ’
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phig out. r —E. Alden.
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