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8 OUR LAND OF 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 Miscellaneous. T 1 RTDff w b® dealre a monthly Regulator that 1.1 111 caweocCall will nJ ease address with JUxLUIDU stamp. Dr. Stereos. Buffalo, N.Y. ; TRm« y FREEST yoa wrlw So-day. * r Sß | i aS.a Traas Cs, ChLea<«. MACHINERY. , gnSCIAL-Juat received, car load of Keyatone Com Hurters and Shredders whieh we era affarln* at special prices; abao have on hand t full and complete line of Engines. Boilers and Saw Milla, both portable and stationary, and *n rises For the next fifteen days we will make special pric, on all goods Call and get oar pricea. or write for catalog, quotations, etc. MALSBY * COMPANY, 41 South Forayth St.. Atlanta. Ga. TELEGRAPHY taught tbomu<hly and qulrtty; porittona oe •ared. Catalog free. Qaargia Tetegraph fickaal, Senria, Os. b, W 10 BAIT HtMTHHTT FKL P . T .Hass aUt Dropsy and its eotn- CTHha. 5 phesuou s specialty for twenty 7 ■■’’••e. wonderful A saeooss. Have cured saaay thoss cue:i.is.Giin3s:n, Box T Atlanta, Ga. J ; jiOaHfoaa, Crirttea a taith a r _ 4/9 The Oaaajln. B oaiixaw I ourw. ft -Artaat BariMaa flaw start to flairt" Moat thoroosk Bsrtll l ■ I DapCt La lai act as «K snduaeaa. Cm traa Mention Semi-Weekly Journal. positions’ Carepaid. Cheap board. Send tor LSO-p Catalogue. . ***CTICAL NaabviOe, St. Loaia, Atlanta, Moatgomety, Little Rock. Ft. Worth. Gtlvetvo. A Shreveport. Endorsed by burineasmenfmai MainetnCal Over students past year. Author 4 text-books on bookkeeping-, satae on same $25 t 0950 per day. No vacation. Enter any time. Bookkeeping, sbort baad.etc., taught by nitL Address Dept. B B 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 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦l'M* »♦♦♦♦♦♦♦. : Tenth Alabama I: At Salem Church ;' < > <i ♦♦♦♦M ll 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. , K -T ' 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 [_ — ——— . \ ' '■ ' - lb-*- ' ' ”-■ JMS'. •■ UM SP 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 • .’ « e..e». k • 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 < ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ »>♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ II A Reminiscence f JI Os Morgan s Cavalry 1 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦ ' 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. trSe 14* ♦»- • 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. Vol. Inst. Rye, Palata- jQf degree. ZwMF ZtW *T Quarts Express Prepaid '"irgaSE?* 4 Send for complete price list, juit out. a ..PURE DVC > nIL i ■ Jy Seven to Nine Years One Old* °* e JY• M - Glendale Springs Distilling Co °* d F s Wblakey. 31 W. nitcirafl St., Atlanta, Os- s - ’y. strictly'pure No goods sent C.O.D. Cash must be sent Th ® fuLjtta**** hand-made sour mash. with each order. 7 to 9 Years Old. third nattonal bank. 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. 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