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ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF
BRECKINRIDGE'S BRIGADE
A T COLD HARBOR BA TTLE
Mr. E. A. Shiver. In hla interesting
article on the battle of Cold Harbor,
of June 3, 1844, made the following state
ment: “The Federate were in a manner
successful in their assault on the posi
tion of Breckinridge, some half a mile
to our right, near what is known as Tur
key Ridge. With his division occupy
ing a summit on open ground he was as
sailed in heavy force, his mountaineers,
like the noble red men. being used to
nothing larger than a squirrel rifle, could
not stand the racket of big and little
guns with canister, so they, too, made a
run for the rear.”
This is an error, or. I should say. the
general statement contains many errors
He says of that body of men that they
were “used to nothing larger than a
squirrel rifle.” On the contrary it hfid
in it men whose flag wore the symbol
of crossed bayonets, and who, on the
preceding month and 16th day, with only
3,300 men. fought and won one of the
most thrilling battles of the war. At
New Market, in the valley of Virginia,
in open field combat, they advanced in
orderly line of battle for two miles,
under fire, with a steadiness that elic
ited from an English officer, who was
an eyewitness and a participant on the
other side, one of the most beautiful
tributes ever paid to southern gallantry,
apd many have been paid and many have
been deserved; and assailed a large di
vision of the enemy* behind breast works
made of fence rails and other things,
and supported by another strong division
not far in the rear, and put Slgeljs whole
command to rout, killing, wounding and
capturing many men and taking six
pieces of artillery. This victory, won by
so small a force from so large an army,
stands as an imperishable monument to
the cool, intelligent courage of the
southern soldier. Again: These same
men. August 23d, 1864, fought another
battle not far below this same New
Market. I quote from General J. A.
Early: “After the enemy's skirmishers
were driven in. it was discovered that
his left flank, extending through Kerns
town. was exposed, and General Breck
inridge was ordered to move Echols' di
vision now under Brigadier General
Wharton (Breckinridge's old division) un
der cover of some ravines on our right
and attack that flank. This movement,
which was made under General Breck
inridge's personal superintendence, was
handsomely executed, and the attacking
division struck the enemy's left flank in
open ground, doubling it up and throw
ing his whole line into great confusion.”
All the arttilery the enemy had was
turned on us, and a brigade of cavalry
was hurled at us. Through streams of
water, over rock fences, against infantry,
artillery and cavalry, across the valley
from end to end of the enemy’s line,
dashed forward and onward these same
mountaineers, cheering, charging, reor
ganizing. firing all the time, and never
halting to rest until there ,wa« no or
ganized enemy tn sight.
Once mere: On October 19. 1864, this same
division, now fought to the frazzle of
1.100 men, might have been seen making
its last charge. The Sixth corps, the best
troops in the northern army, had been
thrown across the path of the victorious
Confederates, about three and a half miles
in the rear of the enemy's breastworks,
at Cedar creek, and Wharton's “flock of
kids” assailed that whole corps, charging
up to the feet of tbe foe and alas! dying
there. Os course the order was a mistake
and "some one had blundered,” but it was
“not theirs to ask the reason why,” yet
“it was theirs to do and die," and there
lives yet an old soldier whose heart was
broken that day. 4bout 300 men returned
from the charge, and how any of them
escaped is a wonder. From many a vale
and mountain of the Old Dominion a great
lamentation went up that day. “Rachel
weeping for her children, and would not
be comforted, for they are not.” These
are examples taken from the records made
by the division that Mr. Shiver criticised
so severely, and show whether or not
those men were not used to battle.
2. He says that Breckinridge's men
could not stand the racket of big and lit
tle guns and ran away.
In reply I call his attention to the fact
that he was a half mile away. This in
validates hte testimony, for he could not
see us from that direction or from half
that distance.
Now as to the facts. 1. The writer was
there and knows what he says. 2. Only
Echols* brigade of that division was with
Lee’s army. 3. Our line was so run as to
make a sharp angle with the vortex near
est the woods where the enemy massed
his force (Hancock's corps.) 4. Our line
had only one man to each three feet and
that only between cannons, which took up
room. 5. Our regimental officers, upon
learning that we were likely to be at
tacked next morning, reported to our bri
gade commander the exposed and weak
condition of our line and sent Lieut. Boul
din to report to General Breckinridge.
After some effort in the rainy dark night
to find General -8., he gave up the effort
and returned. I heard him tell this, a
few days later, and felt that he ought to
have been shot, because hte failure came
near being disastrous to Lee's army and
caused our brigade great loss. 6. Before
daylight had fully come Hancock's corps
rushed from the woods upon us and over
us. Never a man ran. On the contrary,
the infantry and artillery fought their
guns, big and little, to the utmost of their
power. The Twenty-sixth Virginia bat
talion covered the vortex of the angle and
her flag was very close to that point. H.
D. Craig, a brother of the late Rev. J. N.
Craig, D.D., of Atlanta, was shot while
standing on the breastwork encouraging
the men. All know that our line could
not hold out against such hosts of the
enemy as was converging us, but the
chance to kill Yankees was fine. Chap.
Woodram, our flag bearer, emptied his re
volver into the oncoming mass, having his
flag standing on the earthwork in front.
He said, “They are going to overrun us,
but they cannot take this flag 4ntil they
have killed me.” He furled the flag in
part and then sent its spear through a
Yankee. Withdrawing it he was about to
send it through another when he fell dead.
C. B. Humphreys, a color-guard, seized
the flag, intending to finish Woodram s
purpose, when four Yankees seized him
and after a tremendous scuffle tore the
flag from his hand.
He stood and watched the enemy passing
it from'man to man. until it went out of
sight. He picked his gun, slipped on a
cap (he had just finished putting in the
load when Woodram fell), and shot a
man who was bayoneting a comrade. The
enemy disarmed him and those about him,
and ordered them to the rear. They bay
oneted also Col. George M. Egar, who
fought with hte sword as long as he
could. As our fellows were starting to
the rear Finnegan's men came like the
wind and cleared the angle. C. B. Hum
phreys fell as if shot, and when the last
Yank passed him, sprung to hte feet,
waved hte hat came running back, took up
hte gun and joined in the rest- of the fight.
The enemy took 165 prisoners in that
angle, and kil/ed and wounded a few
more. Not a man ran away—not a man.
The men in the centre of the battalion
were mostly gone; those on each wing
were still there fight ng. and staid there
all that day. With a whole brigade-of re
inforcements in the f.ne Hancock's corps
could not get to it again, and the slaugh
ter of men. from first to last, was simply
.awful. Dead men lay ev«rywhere. The
battle lasted from flfte«n to twenty min
utes, and if Finnegan's men had not been
behind us in line of battle, they could
have done us no good.
General Lee drew in that angle the next
night, and that made it practically safe
from attack.
I have named a few men who fought
about the flag. Others fought equally
well. I state what I know and mention
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA. GEORGIA, MONDAY. MARCH 3. 1902.
the names of men whom I knew. Most
of them fell in other battles. A few still
live. Perhaps the account may fall under
their notice. If so, they will know that
the writer was there, and speaks from zob
servation. C. B. Humphreys was my
brother. He fell at the feet of the enemy
in that last fatal charge above described,
October 19, 1864.
3. The above described was the only
breach made in Breckinridge’s line. We
were run over simply because we could
not kill them as fast as they came, or
nearly so. and that is all there was about
it. On general principles I would say to
The Reclaimed West and the Negro.
' BY JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.. Feb, 11.
N TIME past, readers of The Journal,
thoughtless or 111-Informed, have been
disposed to dismiss lightly my firm
contention that the government had
I
lands, redeemable by irrigation, that
would be ample for the separation and es
tablishment of a negro state.
Every year brings more completely the
indication of the idea which I have ar
gued for ten years.
The great west is entering upon an era
of irrigation and reclamation.
Three years ago the Associated Press
reported that the expert of
the Interior Department at Washington
had returned from a careful and elaborate
survey of the wild lands of the west with
the official statement that there were,
within the scientific possibility of irriga
tion and redemption, some 150,000,000 acfes
of land capable of supporting a popula
tion of over 100,000,000 people
The strenuous President of the United
States, filled with experience and sym
pathy with these western possibilities and
conditions, has given nearly a full column
of his first remarkable message to the ex
planation and advocacy of irrigation for
the purpose of making valuable many of
the sections of the west owned by private
citizens, and for the greater purpose of
redeeming to government use, vast tracts
of land, now useless, that could be made
by irrigation, fertile, productive and de
sirable in wery way.
TMe people of the west, catching hope
from the inspiration of this new and migh
ty influence, are organizing everywhere,
and pressing the splendid possibility to its
limit
Eloquent and enthusiastic meetings
have recently been held in Chicago, in St.
Paul, in Fargo. North Dakota, in Oma
ha, in Sioux Citj’, in Kansas City, and
in Denver, and the flrm and hearty sup
port of the chamber of commerce, board
of trade and commercial bodies of these
great and thriving centers has been
pledged to active and earnest influence
upon national legislation to further the ac
complishment of these vast and benlflcent
designs.
The industrial commission at "Washing
ton has passed a strong memorial to con
gress along the same line.
The St. Paul papers make a conserva
tive estimate that some 50,000,000 acres can
be redeemed in the Dakotas and in the
territory contributing to the twin cities
of the northwest.
The Omaha, St. Joe and Kansas City pa
pers see the possibility of 50,000,000 more
acres that will pay tribute to those great
and rival towns.
In Denver, Fort Worth and Salt Lake,
the estimate calls for some 150,000,000
more.
Here in Colorado, the press and the peo
ple laugh at the experimental doubt ex
pressed in the cities further east.
Here in Colorado irrigation and re
clamation are established and benlflcent
facts, written upon the smiling surface
of thousands of acres once barren and
cheerless, but laughing now with a fatness
and abundance that give them actually a
higher money value than any productive
lands In these United States. Lands
around Eaton and Greeley and LaSalle,
are selling now <t |ICO an acre and upward
—higher by far than the magnificent corn
lands of Missouri and Illinois.
And the farmers of this section are act
ually eble to laugh at the vagaries of the
seasons, and with tranquil confidence in
their little, almost hidden trenches, to
count their crops as surely and as pros
perously as the "goobers” of Georgia, or
as the long staple cotton of the Atlantic
islands.
The triumph of irrigation will make a
new and greater America, and the addi
tion to the wealth and resources of the
country resulting from its ultimate and
certain future will be beyond estimate.
The fast coming of this new Issue Into
triumphant life of the west makes the
opportunity that I have preached for
years for the solution of our great, un
solved and otherwise uneolvable problem
of the south.
I am not going to reargue that question
here and now. But I cannot forbear to
jubilate over the vindication of a prophecy
that has been so freely mocked on the
lips of the unthinking. I have not claimed
and do not claim any wisdom above the
mass of my fellows here. But I have set
my faith and my prophecy In all these
great matters upon the ultimate benefi
cence of Nature and the providence of
God. The compensations of nature are at
last but the providence of God, who Is the
last imminent factor in the destiny of
nations.
I have never yet known a necessity in
nature, in law or in economics which af
fected vitally the human race for which
Nature and God did not, in due time, fur
nish the opportunity and the way to meet
it. The Almighty has pulsed the semi
tropics with the acids, the turpentine
and the fever-cooling fruits that are the
best balm for all their lite, just as he has
underlaid these wind-swept and frozen
plains of Montana and the Dakotas with
the exhaustless strata of lignite coal to
meet forever the arctic necessities of the
clime.
And the same Providence that marks the
sparrow’s fall will provide the way for
the race to meet Its moral dangers and Its
human duties If we will only follow in the
way it opens wide.
I say it with reverence and In grateful
humility that, basing all my judgment
on this great law of compensation, both
In nature and in Providence, that few of
my prophecies In public affairs have gone
astray within this decad^of great events.
I trust this apparent but really non
existent egotism will simply prove that I
am an old-fashioned Presbyterian, resting
now and forever on the sovereignty and
goodness of God. And it has never enter
ed into my mind to ask for any “revis
ion" on that!
But some of my flippant friends had bet
ter get Into the band wagon with me now
on some of these great questions that are
coming on, or they will be likely to be
left in the procession of events.
And this sounds more like Sam Jones
than the Presbyterian church.
But there are many things In which
Sam Jones and the Presbyterian church
are not so far apart, and there are times
when It Is good to be like both.
Here at Colorado Springs, looking out
upon the glories of Pike's Peak with
Its eternal court of snow and Inhaling a
climate that has no superior In the uni
verse, my thoughts turn to poor Tom
Cobb, who breathed out here hte brilliant
and aspiring life In the brave but fruit
less search for health.
There are few careers whose untimely
ending have carried me more Into the
shadows than this. He had brains, he had
a noble name, he had courage, he had
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accuse Confederate soldiers of cowardice
Is unwarrantable, especially Virginia
troops.
Jackson, Ga.
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superb physical beauty, he had high and
well defined ambition and he had a great
and tender heart. And just as his star was
rising in the heavens, in the very high
tide of youth and health and promise, he
was smitten with the touch which can
never be mistaken, and came here, far
away from home and friends, to breathe
out hte last sigh among strangers, and
to turn, day after day hte brave but de
spairing eyes upon the delectable moun
tains, high as hte hope and definite as
hte ambition, and—let us t trust—to find
beyond their crested peaks the calm and
peace of an eternal morning.
Well,- there is no nobler place than this
to die—or for that matter, no nobler place
than this to live. Upon one side the might
and strength of the everlasting hills, and
upon the other side the scope and free
dom of the illimitable plain. The atmos
phere so light and sparkling with ozone
that existence Is a joy and the emphasis
of the Infinite in every suggestion of
earth and air and sky. With 5,000 cubic
feet of air* lifted in pressure from hte
head, one walks almost on wings and
finds it easy to forget his debts and for
give his enemies.
I could not live In North Dakota, but if
ever I get rich, In newspaper life In At
lanta, I am going to make Georgia di
vide time with this Incomparable climate
and this surpassing scenery.
But a man has to travel here with his
"character” tn hte pocket In affidavit form.
The climate makes most strangers as
light-headed and giddy as the aftermath
of a chamber of commerce banquet, and
even if an eastern gentleman should keep
orthodox upon his legs he Is likely to go
astray upon his “conversation.” It Is the
best policy to acknowledge the situation
and to apologize in advance.
For this reason, when I stood last night
for the fourth time before what I have
always regarded as the most brilliant and
cultured audience in all the west, I had to
tell them:
Your atmosphere so queers my speech
That I can neither scan nor time It.
So remember; if it Isn’t right.
That I’m talking through your cli
mate!
COMMERCE MENACES
HAPPINESS OF HOME
CHICAGO, Feb. 26.4-A warning note
that women and girls in this country were
being drawfi Into commercial and manu
facturing pursuits to an extent that jeop
ardized the welfare of future mothers
and was a menace to a happy home life,
was sounded by Prof. D. L. Klehle, of the
chair of pedagogy In the University of
Minnesota, before the department of su
perintendents of the National Education
Association now in convention here.
Hte address touched a popular feeling
In the minds of the thousand or more ed
ucators from all points of the compass,
and that portion stating that home life
and surroundings were above all sordid
gain was applauded.
"In this stage of commercialism and In
dustrial conditions,” said Professor
Klehle, “No provision has been made for
motherhood. This phase of life seems to
have been brushed aside. In fact, we are
making money-earners of our daughters
in commercial pursuits.
“While women have every right to an
equality with men in matters of educa
tion, they are going outside their sphere
when that portion of their education fit
ting them for the higher duties of home
life and motherhood does not take prece
dence over everything else.
“Education for women that began only
a few years ago on elementary lines has
extended to technical and classical courses
and has enabled women to compete for
places formerly filled by men, who sup
ported families In many Instances. The
continuation of women entering the com
mercial and industrial field cannot but
have disastrous results in time, unless
something Is done to provide for a home
life also for women and the tendency to
enter the office and factory Is checked.”
SCHLEY AND
AT CHARLESTON FAIR
CHARLESTON. S. C., Feb. 27.—Admiral
and Mrs. Schley were the guests today of
the Daughters of the Revolution at the
South Carolina Inter-State and West In
dian exposition.
The admiral and hte wife arrived this
morning and were escorted later to the
exposition grounds by a committee of the
daughters* His greeting, as he passed
through the streets, was very enthusias
tic. The exercises at the exposition were
set for two o'clock. Among those to sit
on the stage were Mrs. C. W. Fairbanks,
president-general of the daughters; For
mer President Mrs. Daniel Manning, and
Mrs. J. C. Burrowes. Addresses were by
Admiral Schley and Captain Richmond P.
Hobson.
The beautiful weather brought out an (
enormous crowd.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., Feb. 27.—Admiral
W. S. Schley passed through the city last
night, en route for the Charleston exposi
tion from Washington. He talked quite
freely with several citizens, who were at
the station. He said that he appreciated
very much the sympathy of the people In
the recent Sampson-Schley controversy,
and expressed himself as having no com
plaint whatever to make of the recent de
cision of President Roosevelt In the case.
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MISERS AND THEIR MISERIES.
BY M. B. WHARTON, D. D.
On last Sunday 15,<X)0.000 of children In
the United States and Canada had for the
subject of their lesson Annanias and Sap
phira, who, because of their love of
money their miserly Instincts, kept back
what was due the Lord, and perished mis
erably at the apostle’s feet. Such is, in
effect, very often the fate of misers.
The desire of gain was implanted in our
moral constitution by the great Creator.
It need not be argued that all want mon
ey. How could they get on without it?
How could they solve such practical
questions as “What shall I eat and what
shall I drink and wherewithal shall I be
clothed?” without a due attention to “the
one thing needful?" It Is Interesting to
see the young and old, the high and low,
the rich and poor all in quest of the so
called “almighty dollar.” They cannot
help striving to get money and ought
not to help It. The desire for gain is all
right provided It Is not carried too far.
It Is owing to this desire that forests are
felled, proud cities built; that activity
prevails in our streets and a great com
merce whitens our seas.
But the great danger Is that men will
carry It too far. Our Savior dwelt upon
nothing so much as the tendency of mon
ey to interfere with our higher, spiritual
Interests. He said: “How hard Is It for
them that trust in riches to enter Into the
kingdom of heaven, and again I say un
to you It is easier for a camel to pass
through the eye of a needle than for a
rich man to enter Into the kingdom of
heaven." This too ardent desire for gain
not only debars men from the kingdom
of heaven hereafter, but from the king
dom of happiness here. The very word
miserable is derived from the word miser.
Annanias and Sapphire were not the only
persons wrecked by the desire for gain.
The world has had thousands upon thou
sands of such creatures, but the few I cite
are especially interesting.
It is said that London bridge was built
from the fortunes of a miser by the name
of John Overs. He amassed hte wealth by
ferrying passengers over the Thames, but
he lived like a dog. He would walk dbout
the markets and other places where there
was a likelihood of finding them, and pick
up "marrow bones” from which he made
soup that constituted his chief and al
most only diet. He gave the same to hte
laborers. One day he feigned death,
hoping that hte laborers being good Cath
olics would fast for at least twenty-four
hours, but when he discovered they did
not do it, he appeared to them in hte
graveclothes and one of hte men think
ing he was a ghost, struck him with an
oar and killed him. Hte daughter Mary
gave the estate, amounting to one million
dollars, to the priests, and they built Lon
don bridge with it, the parish being called
to this day "St. Mary Overs, Southwark."
Thomas Guy, of Guy’s hospital, was also
a great miser. He ate hte meals upon
his shop counter with a soiled newspaper
as his tablecloth and it consisted chiefly
of cheese and crackers of the poorest
kind. When he died hte donations were
the, most munificent In all England. Guy’s
great hospital being the outcome of his
hard-earned savings.
John Elwes, another miser, was a mem
ber of parliament, who slept on a filthy
mattress, and lived chiefly on rolls and
water with occasionally a little ’coarse
He died with half a million dol
lars. Accounts are given of two great
French misers. One was Vandvllle, who
died worth eight hundred thousand
pounds. He took cold carrying logs of
wood on hte shoulder to his garret, stolen
from a poor wood cutter* He refused
to pay a druggist for medlcjie that might
have saved his life. He objected to being
bled twice, sepapately at three pence an
incision, and ordered all the blood taken
at once, having twenty-four ounces
drawn, from the loss of which he never
recovered.
Ostervald, banker and millionaire, star
ted his fortune with money he made from
picking up old castaway corks and sell
ing them again. He lived on three pence
a day, and hte diet consisted of bread and
milk only. He died leaving millions and
yet died of starvation, so says a recent
notice. The worse case of all was
Frocue, which I well remember, went
the rounds of the American press not
many years ago. He amassed millions,
but was afraid to loan It either to In
dividuals or the government. He dug a
deep hole under hte house and in a huge
self-locking Iron chest he kept hte vast
hoards of gold. He was suddenly missed
and not heard of for years. At last hte
humble home was sold, and the pur
chaser was excavating a foundation for
a new building, when the Iron chest was
found, with the key on the outside. Fro
cue was found (Genevra like) within. In a
very good state of preservation, but with
the flesh eaten off of both arms, after he
had consumed the tallow candle.
But there have been misers in this
country, too, and some of them have come
under my observation. In one of the cit
ies where I was pastor a member of the
church lived In a very common building
with one room and ate his meals out of
a tin plate, drank his coffee from a tin
cup, and used a pewter spoon. He had
amassed a fortune of over two hundred
thousand dffilars. A deacon of my church
went to him In hte last illness, and telling
him he was going to die begged a church
lot, and 35,000 In cash to improve it, from
him. That church I constituted and it
bears hte name to Ihls day.
Jn another city there lived a member of
a Methodist church who had amassed a
similar amount. He owned quite a good
brick residence but lived In the cellar, did
his own cooking, and sustained himselt
with the plainest and cheapest food. Great
efforts were made to get him to donate
310,000 to the church, but he declined. He
gave away about fifty thousand dollars
to some young ladles who had been kind
to him. and I judge the lawyers who were
much “in evidence” got the balance.
Strange to say, years before he died he
erected a costly vault in the cemetery,
and he lies there awaiting the assize of
eternity.
A distinguished lady of Alabama told
me of a miser who died In her section of
the state, very wealthy. He had vast
heaps of gold, “bright and yellow, hard
and cold,”, on which it was his delight to
gaze. When taken fatally 111 he sent for
the doctor, who pronounced hte case hope
less, and told him be had better attend at
once to any disposition he might wish to
make of his fortune. “Doctor,” he said,
“can't I in some way carry my gold with
me?” The doctor replied, “No, and If you
could It would not benefit you in the land
where you are going—it would all melt.”
Verily, “They that would be rich fall
Into temptation and a snare, and Into
many foolish and htlrtful lusts that drown
men In destruction and perdition."
But what Is the cure for such avarice?
I answer, benevolence—giving money to
the poor. General Alpheus Baker, the sil
ver-tongued orator of Alabama, used to
tell of a miser who had become so miser
able for fear of losing his gold that he
went to the river -to drown himself. All
at once he thought of a poor woman who
had often appealed to him in vain, and
concluded he would go and give a good
portion to her, as his gold could be of no
use to him except to sink his poor body,
and he had enough for that. In the very
act of giving he recovered his lost reason,
and concluded he still had something to
live for, and that was to do good. Said
the great Shakespeare,
"The quality of mercy is not strained,
but droppeth as the gentle rain from
heaven upon the plants beneath. It Is
twice blest; it blesseth him that gives, and
him that takes.”
A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE,
Frances Morris was seated one day in
the nursery, telling her little sister Mabel
about the circus
She had been that attqrnoon to see the
performance, but Mabel, who was suffer
ing from a severe cold, was forced to re
main at home.
Frances was just telling her of the fun-
ny clowns when their older brother rushed
into the room.
“Oh, Frances,” he cried, “a bear has es
caped from the circus and they cannot
find him anywhere.”
“Well, he cannot get In the house, we
know,” said Frances, trying to reassure
Mabel, who began to cry from fright.
When Mabel had fallen asleep Frances
crept noiselessly from the room.
About midnight she was awakened by a
strange noise down stairs. A horrible
thought came to her—that It might be the
bear.
Each moment added to her terror, so she
resolved to run to her mother’s room, at
the farther end of the hall.
There was a dim light burning In the
hallway, which made objects discernible.
Why Jerry Jenkins’ Wife Left Home.
BY ROYAL DANIEL.
J
ERRY JENKINS was the second in
command. Hls shoulder straps didn’t
mean anything. Before he got mar
ried hejwatched married men with hte
weather eye and told himself how he
would walk erect and throw the gaunlet
to hte wife and be the whole thing. After
he got a wife and saw how the ground
lay, he reproached himself for ever wast
ing hte time building air castles. So he
just dropped Into the wings of the stage
and looked on at the leading lady in the
star role.
Jerry wasn’t always an ill-tempered
man. In hls youth, before the days of mat
rimonial slavery came upon him, he knew
a thing or two and Imagined he had an
opinion of hte own. He fought through the
civil war and learned to dodge bullets
right along. At hte trade as a olacksmitn
he took pleasure In tackling the mule with
the longest ears and heaviest rear appen
dages. He laughed at danger when serving
hls turn as a volunteer fireman. One day
he tempted providence and got married
and then hls courage began to dwindle
like the fire In the stove when you turn
the damper on.
Mrs. Jenkins grew strong and waxed
mighty In the eyes of her fractional part.
She practiced the art of being stern and
unrelenting and when she thought It was
about time to give Jerry a curtain lecture,
she sent the cook out for a walk, drew the
curtains down and looked straight through
him. At first he bucked and pawed the
dust and pulled hard on the rein: then he
felt the spurs and settled down to balking.
In hte passion he would try to do every
thing at one time and when resignation
came he wouldn't do anything anytime.
These at home rehearsals began to tell
before the wife was a fortnight wedded
and her husband dropped a hint or two
about the place that he might some day
not be found at home and would go away
wearing hte grip and best tile hat. It was
the worst thing he could have hit upon,
for Mrs. Jenkins at once became furious
and fired her heaviest guns broadside.
She would have to take him in hand, she
said, and teach him how a husband should
talk back at hls fond little baby of a wife.
Women were always weak and vadlatlng.
she declared, and it was one of the first
duties to enter a gymnasium and get exer
cise and then teach mon their proper
place. These ominous caylngs smote
mightily upon the ear of the henpecked
one and he sobbed nights in hte dreams.
It is possible that Mrs. Jenkins still
loved her thirty-second, but she loved Mrs.
Jenkins more and took no pains to keep it
a secret. She declared it was his duty to
kiss her every time he came home from
work and not the part of a husband to
complain that she ate onions. He smoked,
didn’t he? She set up a brass yard meas
ure for the golden rule and always held
it over Jerry’s head. If he didn’t stop
thinking about hte business and pet her
more, and if he didn’t tell every woman
he met that hte wife was much prettier
and far dearer than they, and If he didn't
quit looking pleasanter on the street than
he did at home, she promised every woe
ful fate that history knows as ths lot of
the most unfortunate of mate creation.
In vain did Jerry jeopardise himself by
differing with her. lie brought home big
books full of advice to the rooster-peaker,
but It wouldn't go. She know more than
the books. Nobody could toll her any*
thing, and she boasted. It was her great*
est pleasure to tell other women how she
had old Jerry going. She couldn’t Under*
stand how they let their husbands have a
say about anything. And it was not long
before all the women of the neighborhood
had taken a vow to be as Independent as
Mrs. Jenkins and to rule with even a
sterner hand. Thon the wives, having
plotted together at the whist club, swore
none would know a rival in the art of
brow-beating their husbands, and they all
forthwith donned the feathers and used
up a bucket of war paint.
Jerry was In the meantime getting very
desperate. He laid awake at nights plan
ning hte escape. Ono taorning he reached
his conclusion and wont to hls office with
a determination burning in hte breast.
He was stoop-shouldered on revenge. He
made up hls mind that he would stay at
home and nurse and do like his wife want
ed him. but he chuckled to himself that
great would be the cost to her.
He bought him a cheap cornet and un
dertook to play it. He got connected with
a drum and began taking lessons every
night. He swung Indian clubs all over
the house. He did fancy shots with a pls
tol in hte bedroom, doing stunts at the
eye* of hte picture gallery of people-in
law on the wall He bought a pack of
fox hound# and starved them in the cellar.
He tortured the cat by imitating its sweet
heart at midnight.
He read up on histories of rebellions and
acted the part of a rebel chief. He didn't
do a thing but mock Pandemonium and
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The Tn-er-seal Package keeps them fresh, crisp and good.
and as she peered over the bannister iff
her flight she saw something on" the bot
tom step that chilled her heart with fright.
There, at the foot of the stairway, stood
the big, brown bear.
She uttered a loud, frightened cry,
which speedily brought the household to
her rescue, and when bruin was captured
he proved to be a large fur carriage robe,
carelessly left on the foot of the stairs by
a servant.
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laugh Bable to scorn. The noise in ths
house was like a din spelt with a capital
letter. He spent most of hte time trying |
to invent something that made mors{
noise than he could. Then he held fort*,
nightly carousals and clinked glasses with
the select few who understood the situs*!
tion and had wives of their own. He in-'
auguarted a night school for weary-wil-'
lles-of-the-wife-wlnners-soclety and theyi
crowned him king and set up a great howl i
that there was none better than he to lead
them to happiness.
Then he began to open his wife's letters •
and write across the envelope “Opened
through mistake,” and remall them,
laughing at her fury all the while. He
told other husbands how to get along in
the world. He had a big time all by hhn-
Self.
By this time Mrs. Jenkins was getting
very nervous. The least sound made her
start.
Jerry took great delight in disguising hls
voice and ’phoning the fire engine people
that hte house was on fire. And when the •
wagons got there he would be serious and t
tell them he was the victim of a practical«
joke.
He told hte w.fe he had received an
anonymous letter, and was in hourly dan
ger of being assassinated, and would stem
the back door and make her think it was
a pistol shot. He became expert in hte vil
lainy and feigned insanity when she tried
to call him down.
Mrs. Jenkins got on to hte racket and
asked him one uay if he' didn’t think he
had got even, but he dhook his head sadly
and said “No.”
The next night he went home and
found .114 picture turned toward the Wall
and a note on hte writing desk.
Now Jerry has dyed his hair and is be
coming affectionate with the girls, for ha
believes a wife was a good thing, after
all, to have about the house.
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'HOOIHCTHS,
TAXED SSO YEAfILf
TAX IS IMPOSED BY BILL PASSED
BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE
OF MISSISSIPPI.
JACKSON. Miss., Feb. 27.-The Stats
Privilege Tax bill as passed by the senate
this morning had a most original sections
in It, which illustrates the condition laj
some parts of the state. In the "bill as',
passed, there was a section which pro
vided that a special tax of fifty dollars
be Imposed upon all Hoo-Doo doctors,
who practice this profession in the state
of Mississippi. The Hoo-Doo doctor is an
aborigine© of this state, and in some parts
of It he Is found in large numbers, spe-|
dally in the counties where the negroes |
are found in the largest numbers. The
calling has grown so in the state that it! i
is now necessary to put a special taxi
upon the doctor, and it is thought that l
the levy of fifty dollars will have the 4f-'
feet of lessening the numbers of the Hao- I
Doos.
The Hoo-Doo doctor and hls bag, which I
he carries along with him, by mean# of.
which he is able to cure all and every dis
ease that the flesh is heir to, Is wonder-1 .
fully and woefully made. The doctor’s)
hoo-doo charm bag Is usually filled with!
the left hind foot of a grave-yard rabbit, j
the index finger off the left hand of a
black negro, a lot of kinky hair, and arti-l
cles of like nature. He is held tn great |
fear and reverence by some of the negroesj
In Mississippi, and is supposed by them toj
have power over the spirits of the evil,
and with hte charmed bag can drive them ’
away with the greatest ease. The Hoo- •
Doo doctor among the ignorant negroes l
has worked for a number of years, and
some of them have grown rich in follow-I
ing their profession.
Student and Tutor Quarrel.
ROME. Ga., Feb. 27.—Professor George'
Hunt, of the North Rome public school,)
and Ollie McCurry, a scholar, had a dlffl-j
culty yesterday afternoon. Hunt Insisted!
upon the boy reciting a speech, but Me* •
Curry refused, stating he had been ex-'
cused. It is said Hunt ran tbe boy o«| otj
the room with a poker. Hunt says Mc- ;
Curry attempted to strike him with a,
blackboard