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A lib eral commission is given and we have many inducements as helps to secure new sub scribers. Write now for in . formation and an agent’s out fit THE TRAGIC DEATH OF A BRAVE PICKET BY GEO. M’RAE. Late in. the year ISM Longstreet's corps occupied the breastworks below Rich mond. north of James' river, the right of Benning's brigade being near Fort Harri son. which was the most important strong hold for defense on that part of our lines. At this point our picket line was about a mile in front of our main line, and the space between thickly wooded. It could not be seen from the main line. The en emies' pickets were about 150 yards from ours and in plain view of each other. Each picket line had rifle pits, though at this point they were not using them as they were friendly and by mutual understand ing refrained from firing on each other. They would occasionally meet between the lines and exchange newspapers, giving us the New York papers for the Richmond papers. They would frequently do other trading in a small way, generally giving our men ground coffee mixed wiin sugar in exchange for tobacco. While we al ways had plenty of tobacco and scarce of coffee, they always had plenty of coffee and were scarce of tobacco; though I could not understand the cause of their scarcity of tobacco when all the markets of the world were open to them. It was the custom when a picket de sired to meet an opposite picket for the purpose of exchange, he would wave a newspaper which would be in like manner answered by an opposite picket, and each would immediately start to meet the oth er. leaving their arms behind. These con ferences were always very brief. But those who have had no experience, in.war must not suppose that such was the case on all parts of tne line all the time. At the same time the opposing pick ets were friendly at some points on the line, at other places It would be their constant study to gain an advantage and contrive ways openly or by stealthy craft to kill each other. But at points where they were friendly and either side for some cause desired to resume hostilities, they would first put the other side on fair notice. While we were occupying this line the enemy would at intervals each day send a shell from a gunboat in James river over their line and ours, for as those on the gunboat could not see or locate our line to get the range, the shells, which were very large, round ones, would al ways fall or explode somewhere between our picket and main line, where there was no one for them to hurt. But it happened different on one occasion. An old man who was a conscript that had recently been sent to one of the companies of Benning s brigade, was out one day on picket for the first time. He was not cowardly, but seemed to be a careful, me thodical old man. Not being used to them, it was natural that he should not enjoy the strange, unearthly screeching of the huge shells as they would occasionally pass over. Desiring to take some sleep while off duty, he spread his blanket on the bottom of one of the rifle pits as a place least likely to be disturbed by the shells, and. lying down, was soon fast asleep, and perchance, was dreaming of his beloved family and little farm in far away Georgia, and it seemed that no hu man forethought could have made a bet ter selection for a place of safety. It seem ed next to Impossible for one of the shells from the gunboat to have injured him. But he was scarcely more than asleep when one of the shells, for the first and only time, fell short, striking the ground in front of us. but nearer to their own pickets, and ricocheting, passed directly over and high above the rifle pit, striking a tall, springy tree high up near its top. its force being nearly spent, rebounded back and exploded with terrific force as it fell on the old man lying asleep in the rifle pit, scattering his body in all direc tions in minute fragments. One night we could hear the enemy crossing James river on a pontoon bridge. They seemed to be traveling rapidly; foot men. horsemen and artillery; and the length of time they were crossing Indicat ed a large force, and we felt sure a sud den attack would be made on us at some point. But we could not know by the noise made crossing the bridge which di rection they were marching, whether they were going from the north side, which was our side, to attack some point on the south side, or whether they were coming from the south side to attack us on the north side of the James river. I do not know what time it was when General Lee received correct information as to which direction they were moving. However, they attacked us on the north side at day light. and it was late In the day before re inforcements from the south side reached us, a few minutes too late to assist us. We supposed that If they were coming to attack us on the north side they woul 1 strike us on our extreme left, and in this way turn us oqt of our works before the reinforcements could arrive from the south aide to assist us. Fort Harrison was almost the last point we expected they would attack, as it would be folly for them to attack it unless they could sur prise it, and it was situated at such a distance in rear of the picket line it was not thought they could come on it by surprise. But at daylight we who were on the picket line were astonished to hear sudden and rapid firing at Fort Harrison, a mile in our rear. They had formed their attacking col umn in perfect quietness near their picket line before daylight, and a little to the right of where we of Benning's brigade were on picket. They formed their line in the shape of the letter V, with the point directed to Fort Harrison, and before it was quite daylight they moved rapidly on the fort and took It. and as they could enfilade our lines from the fort, our troops were compelled to abandon them at once, and then the two wings of the enemy's line straightened out and passed over them; we who were out on the picket line barely escaping out before being cut off. We retired to another line of works we bad already prepared about two miles in rear of those we were forced out of. On this line was a fort called Fort Gilmer. We only had men enough to occupy these works from Fort Gilmer to the right, and for about two hundred yards to the left of the fort. The balance of our works were empty when the enemy attacked Fort Gilmer later In the day. That part of our works unoccupied and defenseless, was quite hidden by dense woods from the view of the enemy, but directly in front of Fort Gilmer was open level ground for a mile from the fort. If the enemy had known our works were defenseless and made their second attack there they would have turned us out of that line also, unless our reinforcements who were al ready near us and fast approaching, would be strong enough to. drive them back again. They did not suppose we had time to fully man Fort Gilmer, and their idea was to hasten and capture it before our reinforcements could arrive, and which they well knew were on the way from the south side; and though they failed in their attack on the fort they succeeded in mak ing the attack a few minutes before our reinforcements arrived and occupied the vacant works. But what made it the more interesting, enlivening as well as amusing, our rein forcements who were just arriving in sight, did not know the enemy were de feated and were retreating. As they were advancing in line of battle at double quick, their course directed towards the vacant portion of the breastworks, they first came in view of the vacant works when they were about two hundred yards from them. The guns were firing rapidly from Fort Gilmer at the retreating enemy; but the reinforcements thought that Fort Gilmer was firing on the advancing ene my, and supposing it was a race between themselves and the enemy which would reach the works first, every man of them increasing their speed struck out with all possible haste for the breastworks, in or der to reach them before the enemy could. If the enemy had let well enough alone and contented themselves with driving THE FEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. MARCH 20, 1902. us out of our first line of works, they would have had much the best of the day. but as it was. before the day ended they got much the worst of It. losing many more men than we did. They advanced to the attack on Fort Gilmer in two lines. The first line was composed of negro troops, and the second line close following it were white troops. The negro priso ners afterwards told us there was no es cape for them, that they were warned that if they turned back the white troops would fire on them. But the fort was - « ( Teaching School in a War Prison ...... lt . 144 | I t | I | f.^.Hltf^* 1 '* I***** 1 ****** 1 11 l 1 I • • Mr. Jerome B. Manus, of Pendergrass, Ga.. talks very thrilllngly of his prison life at Indianapolis when a Federal prisoner of war, from the fall of 1863 to the late spring of 1865. In an interview about this the other day Mr. Manus gave me his and bis comrade's. Rev. W. H. Bridges, experiences. Mr. Manus said: “I enlisted in March. 1862. with company D. 55th regi ment of Georgia Volunteers. Our first en gagement was at Perryville, Ky.. under General Kirby Smith, on July 20th. 1862. Although heavily outnumbered, we won the fight; but not without a hard contest. The union loss was about 7,000. while ours was 400. Perryville Is situated in a picturesque spot surrounded by hills. We then marched toward Richmond, Ky., to aid it; but the battle was over ere we arrived. We then struck camp near Richmond. Ky„ where we stayed only a few days, when we went to Knoxville. Tenn.; but were ordered to Cumberland Gap at once, where we held it until Feb ruary 14, 1863, when we were sent to Hol land courthouse. Ky., to aid Colonel Hart's cavalry, against the bushwhack ers. We were short of supplies, and suf fered with cold and hunger; but we suc ceeded in defeating the bushwhackers, and returned to Cumberland Gap about the 25th of February, 1863. We were then ■ent to Clinton. Tenn., where we remained until May 23d, when we were sent to Mount Celah. Ky.. to* defeat Wolford's Union cavelry. The enemy, however, fled before our arrival, and we returned to Clinton; but remained there only a brief period, until. we were sent to Knox ville and remained there four days only, THE LAST OF A GREAT RACE. New York Sun. Billy West, Billy Emerson, Billy Rice— the stars fall fast. Yet these artists had all but survived their art, for negro min strelsy seems doomed, nor can even the witty Mr. Dockstader give it a long re prieve. The public taste changed; the minstrels relied too much on their old lau rels and wore out their welcome. We know the weakness of the pralsers of past time, and we will not say that the theater at present seems to be Intended mainly for the benefit or detriment of girls too young to appreciate it, or as a means of passing an evening to well-dressed, well fed, mostly unimaginative folks to whom it represents a few hours' rest, the inter val between dinner and a supper at one of the lobster palaces of which New York will soon principally consist. It seems, though, as though tastes and times were simpler once. Perhaps people laughed more easily. The generation that felt the death of Dickens as a personal loss had the gift of hearty laughter. Dur ing the civil war and after, there w’as a natural reaction toward gayety. The great gods of ennui, the Ibsens and the Ttol stois, were not droning as yet. People were willing Ito enjoy themselves tn their own way; and a manager couldn’t boost a stick into a star, and a playwright was not a cheap pathologist. Burton had not long been dead; Wallack was still In his prime. The name of John' Brougham will recall to many not yet decrepit something of the gayety of temper, the high spirits <ft those not altogether remote days. Mr. Joseph Jefferson Is the one eminent sur vivor of the eminent actors on whom the patrons of negro minstrelsy in its best estate were brought up. Why, the boys who waited with beating hearts for the curtain to rise, who wouldn’t have missed a sound of the orchestra, who yelled so ferociously at the appearance of a "supe,” had heard "Eddie” Booth offer his king dom for a horse, especially of a Saturday night, and felt their hair stand up as "Ned" Forrest cursed Gonerll and Regan with all the wind of those tremendous lungs. ?, Negro minstrelsy was no foolish whim. It was legitimate art in its good time, and Mr. Dockstader and Mr. Primrose have not forgotten the traditions. A long beadroll of names and companies comes to the mind. The rattle of the bones tickles the ear agreeably. The eye of memory sees those preposterously black races.lmposslble red lips, abysmal mouths, worltfr-shadowing feet. Where did those monumental shoes come from? The ban jo has fallen Into the hands of the girls— lucky banjo!—and they play it as if they were petting a canary bird or toying with a caramel. The old minstrels used to whack it, thump it, take it by violence. They were robuetrous with it.and yet they dragged sweet tones out of it. The dia logues between the Interlocutor and Mr. Bones were meatier If less artistic than Plato’s. The songs, comic or sentimental, were given with an irrisistible heartiness, often with a clever art. We can see Billy Emerson as Policeman Moriarlty threat ening the truckman: "I’ll have you off that dray for ogling the ladles.” The girls all cry, As I go by. "Are you there, Mo-rl-ar-i-tee?" Good old Billy! He used to make every body feel just as happy as a big sunflower. He sang that, and "Love Among the Ros es" and "Moriarlty” around the world. And he was only one of a jovial crew, high livers, honest and thirsty souls, most of them. Like every honest good fellow, they spent their money freely. Rich again and again, and paupbrs at the end.i Billy Rice with his stump speech; How many ludicrous monologues, temperance lectures anu what not, punctuated by the thumps from an impossible cotton um brella. have the minstrels given! The Mor ris brothers; Nelse< Seymour, one of the mightiest minstrels of all; Mr. Birch, Mr. Backus, Mr, Bernard, Mr. Wambold, all A BUSY WORKER. Coffee Touches Up Different Spots. Frequently coffee sets up rheumatism when it is not busy with some other part of the body. A St. Joe. Mo., man. P. V. Wise, says: “About two years ago my knees began to stiffen and my feet and legs swell, so that I was scarcely able to walk, and then only with the greatest difficulty, for I was in constant pain. • I consulted Dr. Barnes, one of the most prominent physicians here, and he diag nosed the case and inquired, 'Do you drink coffee?’ ’Yes.’ ’You must quit us ing it at once.* he replied. I did so and commenced drinking Postum in its place. The swelling in my feet and ankles and the rheumatic pains subsided quickly, and during the past 18 months I have en joyed most excellent health. and. al though I have passed the 68th mile post I have never enjoyed life better. Good health brings heaven to us here. I know of many cases where wonderful cures of stomach and heart trouble have been made by simply throwing away cof fee and using Postum.” SHELL BURST OVER HIM AS HE LAY ASLEEP—AN INCI DENT NEAR RICHMOND. better prepareu for defense than they sup posed. and tne white troops were glad enough to get out of the reach of its guns. Many of the negroes did reach the fort, but without any intention of taking it, but to beg to be taken over as pris- oners. • i ‘Tired, weak, nervous" means impure, impoverished blood. The nerves must be fed by pure blood, which may be had by taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the best blood purifier. *** when we went to Cumberland Gap to de fend it. Here we were hemmed by Burn sides on the Tennessee side and Shackel ford on the Kentucky side, and after some skirmishing against an overwhelming force we were surrendered by General Frazer. My regiment was taken to Camp Douglas. 111., but owing to sickness. I was sent to Indianapolis. We surrendered on the night of September 9. 1863. A few days later Rev. W. H. Bridges was cap tured at Morristown, Tenn., and taken to Indianapolis, to my prison. Here he taught school with us. his fellow-priso ners, as pupils. We suffered with cold and hunger, being fed quarter-rations. He required no remuneration whatever, and we grew to love and admire him; for he was a noble comrade. After eighteen months Rev. Bridges and myself were sent as prisoners to Baltimore, Md„ and stayed there three days, when we were sent to Aiken's landing on the James river, and there to Richmond, Va., where we I received our parole for thirty days, and later came back home. On the return home Rev. Bridges was taken violently ill at Charlotte, and was detained there two weeks.',’ , , . , ARNOLD B. HALL. 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 SI.OO. This Is the greatest offer ever made and you should take advantage of It without delay. • z fresh in properly regulated and grateful memories; Luke Schoolcraft, the Water melon Man and Hdrry Bloodgood—claud ite Jam rlvosjaurn off the reminiscences! They say Nell Bryant is lying stricken over in Brooklyn at a hospital, and they say he is more than 70. Lord, Lord, what a foolish thing time is! it must be nearly twenty years since Neil Bryant stripped off the cork, and he is forgotten already. He was in the twenties when he and his brothers opened a theatre on Broadway, somewhere in the fdiir hundreds, three or four years before the war. Bryant’s min strels had their home in Fourteenth street afterward, say, from 1867 or thereabouts, and moved to Twenty-third street in 1870, perhaps, but we are not swearing to any well known as the custom house, and they have chased the blues away from thousands. George Fox.- too soon to be come the melancholy ‘figure which used to be led about the slrbets of Cambridge in the early 70s, was* at the Olympia. Mr. Birch and his halo were at five hundred and somethftifc Broadway. Kelly and Leon's minstrels were on Broadway, near Eleventh street. Harry Beckett was at Miss Lina Edwin's theater—Oh, yes. there was such a theater in ’7O, and near it. we think, was the Globe, where we had the Ineffable pleasure of seeing Mr. Josh Hart in the Sea Serpent. Mr. Antonius Pastor, the immortal; was on the Bowery then. MY. Pastor came over with Mr. H. Hudsofi, and his hand al ready grasped that immortal opera hot or "dry’ hide.” May Tony live forever ajid a day; but most of the theaters and the actors of that time are gone. The race of negro minstrels will be as extinct as the cave bear or the mam moth in a few yeai-s: They gave a good deal of harmless pleasure; and there are many who will join us in kind recalling and remembrance of those noisy, rollick ing and sentimental artists. It can not be denied that ther* is some selfishness In the regret. The death of the favorites of his youth -makes a man feel more keenly that he. too, is growing old. Poor old Nell Bryant, and all the rest of that gay company! The Finches of the Grove are silent. The Cave of Harmony is closed. . Basra the Thß Rin(l You Haw Wways INFORMATION WANTED OF SOUTH CAROLINA VETERAN Atlanta Journal: You will please Insert in your close call columns and oblige The wife of a Confed erate soldier. I want some one who served tn the army with my husband, Butler Kennedy, to cor respond 'with me at once. He served in Second South Carolina artillery, General Tolliver’s command, Colonel Yate’s regi ment; Captain Dixon’s company; Lieuten ants Monroe Wonley, Merrit, Gulton, Roe. Address MRS. MARTHA KENNEDY, No. 6 Harper St., Rome, Ga. Note premium list In this Issue, make your selection and subscribe at once. Republicans Opposed to Reciprocity. Louisville Courier-Journal. . The Republican party was fully committed to the reciprocity of the Dlngley act, buy the senate has ignored the treaties ao far made under it. That bill, however, was passed nearly five years ago, and tn that space of time opinions change essentially. But even with the assent of the house, given as a concession to public sentiment, it Is by no means certain that a reciprocity treaty would get through the senate. Greater Than the Lion. Catholic Standard and Times. "Yes, he’s absolutely penniless now, but once he was a prominent contractor in New York and got the lion’s share of all the con tract work given out by the Democratic admin istration.” "Ah! I suppose when he turned over ths Tiger’s share he didn't have much left.” There seems to have been at least one practical sort of woman among those who make these hysterical demonstrations over Paderewski. He lost a SI,OOO watch and chain in one of the scuffles the other day. VERSES FOR A CHILD. We lived out under the pear tree. We dined upon tarts and cream. I married you there forever; But. dear, 'twas only a dream! We railed away In the branches To countries strange and new. For we owned estates In Dreamland; But, sweetheart, it Isn’t true! We made a church in the pear tree. Where the angels came to sing; We stroked their wings—but, dearest. You mustn't believe a thing! We cut our names in the tree trunk. So the bark could never grow. And the Dryad cried! But, my darling, "Twas none of it really so! —Josephine Dodge Doskam in McClure's Mag azine. Unwritten Chapters in Georgia History When I was writing the Life of Bishop Pierce an old book of records came into my hand whloh gives a charming view of a scene which our people will never see agate. The view of an old time debatlpg society in a Georgia village. The book holds the minutes of the Greensboro Polemic Moral society and gives its consti tution. Its first session was the 10th of April, 1817. Nicolas Lewis was appointed chairman and Dr. Lovlck Pierce stated the object of the meeting. A constitution was provided and the following members united with the society. Sterling Grimes, Green Bush, Arch H. Scott, Robert Martin, Benjamin Jepson, James Armour, Vincent Sanford, Thomas F. Foster, Nicolas Lewis. Ebenezer Tor rence, Jonathan Pickens, John Bethune and William B.' Holtzclaw. Greensboro was then about 30 years old. It was the center of one of the richest counties in the state, and was famous as the abode es wealth and refinement. The list of mem bers will be to the Journal readers one of real interest, for hundreds of them scattered all through the south and south west will find their ancestors in this little group. Sterling Grimes, who heads the list was one of the famous Grymes family of the northern neck of Virginia and af terwards of Elbert county. Green Bush belonged to the famous Bush family, in whose neighborhood a Methodist annual conference the second ever held In central Georgia was held in 1808. Arch H. Scott was a classical teach er, the father of Rev. Dr. W. J. Scott, who died in Atlanta, and was so often a contributor to The Journal. Robert Mar tin belonged. .1 think, to the family of North Carolinians into which Steven A. Douglass married. John. Armour was a descendant of a Scotch Irishman who came from Ireland to Virginia and then to North Carolina and then to Georgia, relatives doubtless of the Armours who form the collosal provision house of Chi cago. . .. Vincent Sanford, long the clerk of the Greene county court, and noted for his purity of life, and public spirit, a Baptist of the best type. Thomas F.-Foster was the son of George Wells Foster, and the uncle of Bishop Pierce, a prominent law yer, and afterward a member of congress. Nicolas Lewis was the brother, I think, of Mrs. Hugh A. Haralson and William B. Haralson was a young Virginian whose son Hugh was afterward for so long a time a congressman and the father of Mrs. Gordon, and Mrs. Judge Bleckley. Lovlck Pierce was the "old doctor,” then he was a local preacher and a practicing physician, and his old home in Greensboro is still standing. Ebenezer Torrence was at that time the clerk of the court. He was the half brother of Mrs. Judge Longsfreet, and her guardian, and while not a member of the church himself, yet was a devout Christian, and ten years after this time led Judge Long street to give up his skepticism and be come an earnest Christian, and afterward a Methodist preacher. John Bethune was the famous old gen eral who in Columbus defied the awful city council and the mighty mayor and re fused to pay a tax on the vegetables bo was selling from his own patch, and whipped the fight. He was not only fam ous as a lawyer, but accidentally discover ed Blind Tom’s genius and made a for tune out of the discovery. Os Jonathan Bickers I know nothing, but I see ever and anon a poem of real merit from D. G. Bickers, And the name is so unusual that it is likely he is of the same stock. At the next meeting Mr. John West and Colonel Nicolas Howard were admitted to membership. Colonel Howard was a bright young Virginia merchant, who was the ancestor of Judge Howard Van Epps and of George Muse. John West ancestor of those Wests who remov ed to Polk county. On each Thursday evening the society for a while met to discuss profound ques tions. The first was as to “whether jus tice was Innate or acquired.” There was a long and animated debate and that justice was Innate Messrs. Bethune, Jepson, Lewis, R. Martin, J. Martin and Dr. Ray voted aye. That it was acquired, was the opinion of Messers. Bickers, Bush, Foster, Haralson, Pierce, Sanford, Scott, Torrence and West. So it was decided it was natural to be just, a fact which I think few now dis pute. The little society 'tackled hard questions and debated them vigorously, and one of its questions was as to the future state of the heathen. They debated the question till 11 o’clock on a hot June night, and Messrs. Foster, Lewis, Martin, Pierce, Ray and Torrence voted for the poor heathen, but Messrs. Bickers, Haralson, Sanford, Scott and West refused the poor fellows a shadow of a hope. Every now and then Dr. Pierce was wanted to deliver a moral lecture or preach a sermon. They tackled that ques tion, ever a living one, "Is dancing sin ful?" but it was too weighty a subject for one evening, and so there was an adjourn ed term and then the vote was taken. Messrs. Bethune, Bickers, Foster, How ard, Martin, Pierce and Torrence said yes, but Mr. Nicolas Lewis said nay. Then they took up the question as to whether duelling was justifiable and all said nay except Mr. Thomas J. Moore, who said yea. They made a rule that no member should speak at one time more than two hours. Then came the question of taking usury, and there was a close vote, five against taking and four who said no sin in it, among those in the negative being my kinsman. Colonel Nicolas Howard. In November, 1817, Mr. Torrence pre sented the name of a sprightly young lawyer, A. B. Longstreet, who had now settled in Greensboro to practice law. Then Julius Alford, the ancestor of Al bert Cox and Thomas Dawson, joined the debaters. They discussed the question as to whether the cultivation of literature advanced the happiness of the nation. They decided it did, but Dr. Roy, Judge Longstreet and Judge Bethune said no. They contributed 12 l-2c each to buy candles and candlesticks. Then the question in which the good women were interested was warmly de bated. "Is' it morally wrong to follow fashion in dress?” The debaters took their places. Judge Betham. Mr. Bickers, Mr. San ford, Mr. Woodham, Mr. Henry Lewis and strangely enough Mr. Longstreet said it was but Messrs Alfred Haralson, Nic Lewis. West. Redd, Foster, Forrest and Dawson said it was not. The young law yer spoke on one side, but voted on the other and the Only ones who voted that it was sinful to follow the fashions were Dr. Pierce, Vincent Sanford, Mr. Bickers and Henry Lewis. Then came the ques tion of man’s free agency. It was too weighty a question for one evening, and so it was given a second evening. At last the debate was over, and the only advocate of a bound will was Brother Bickers, who held his ground. Every Thursday evening the little group met to discuss some weighty questions. They had been of a moral or metaphysical charac ter exclusively, but they enlarged their ideas and discussed political questions. One of these was: “Should the State be Divided Into Congressional Districts?” This was carried in the negative. The society continued to grow and among the new members were young Wil liam C. Dawson, who over thirty years af terward was the popular senator. Th a only question 1 find in which there was a unanimous vote was “Is the banking sys tem advantageous to the community?” All said It was. The society having flourished from April, 1817, to December 15, 1818, disappears from view. Its last question concerned the study of the dead languages. At the last meeting Mr. Redd, Mr. Bethune, Mr. Fos ter, Mr. Nic Lewis, Mr. Woodham were all who were present. Whether it was frozen out or not, or whether the shillings to buy candles were withheld, or the rec ord book was lost, I cannot say. t Greene BY GEORGE G. ••• SMITH, § VINEVILLE, MACON, GA. was now in her golden day. The lands were fresh and rich. Cotton was high, ne groes were cheap. In that neglected book, the best picture of Georgia life ever paint ed, "William Mitten,” by Judge Long street, we have’a good picture of the lit tle village before the coming of Bermuda grass, and the exodus of the people. The descendants of these old Greene county people are scattered from Georgia to the Pacific coast. The people who have reach ed high distinction who are connected with those who formed the Greensborough Polemic and Moral society, it would not be easy to enumerate. Nearly all these families moved to the west of the state or to Alabama. Judge Longstreet was the president of two col leges and two universities; Wm. C. Daw son was a senator; Thos. Foster was a congressman, and Hugh A. Haralson a. congressman, and Dr. Lovlck Pierce has a world-wide fame. Searching over the old books in Greens boro is like old mortality among the tombs. As one rides through the country and marks what has been, the feeling of sadness grows. Greensboro has under gone fewer changes than any Georgia village. The court house stands now where it stood then. There • the Pierce house, the home of Nicolas Howard, and of John Howard, my grandfather, of the Dawsons and Grimes and Fosters and in these homes there is the same old Virginia hospitality and the same kind of viands as then. It is the only place in Georgia where I find beaten biscuits and Brunswick stems. I have had rare pleasure in studying the have had rare pleasure in studying the picture of this debating club. The ladles did not apparently attend the debates, but when Dr. Pierce once a month de livered a moral lecture or preached a sermon they were out in force, and now that the Moral and Polemic society said it was not sinful to follow the fashions, we may be sure that they were not slow to show what the fashions were. Long since the last of these debaters has gone, but the same questions which engaged them engage us now. WANTED—Two traveling salesmen in each state. Permanent position; S6O and expenses. Write Central Tobacco Works Co., Penicks, Va. kentikKOf! as DEPICTED BY GOV. BRADLEY Copyright, 1902, by Hughes & Ousley. Louisville. A Picture of Domestic Felicity. Many years ago there lived in a central Kentucky county an old gentleman by the name of Stormes. He had two daugh ters, one of whom married a man named Ware and the other a man by the name of Hicks. Both couples immediately com menced housekeeping in the neighborhood. Meanwhile the old man lost his wife, and after mourning what he considered a proper length of time, proceeded to in vestigate the matrimonial market. He had a snug little farm, with neat and comfortable buildings, the necessary amount of stock, some ready money and. among other things, possessed numerous bee gums and a lot of old tobacco, which he kept for his individual use. In a short while after he instituted search for a wife he was rewarded by finding a handsome widow, who was of rather unusual size and, withal, a good woman, who appeared to take his fancy, and they were married. The usual rows grew up in the family on account of the second marriage, and many things were done by his sons-in law to annoy and bedevil him. - At length his bee gums were spirited away, and a short while after ins tobacco went in the same manner. Stormes was a Christian man, but this was more than he could stand. In a fit of anger he accused his sons-in-law of the theft, by reason of which each of them promptly sued him for slander, concluding to obtain his estate by law, as no other opportunity was presented. When the case came on lor trial Stormes secured the services of Major Turner, of Richmond, who was one of the most successful lawyers of his day. He was an old-fashioned, plain, but strong speaker, and could weep copiously at a moment’s warning. The defendant admitted the speaking of the words and alleged their truth. At the conclusion of the speech for the plaintiff Major Turner arose and addressed the jury about as follows: "Gentlemen of the jury, you all know my client. You know that for more than a half century he has led a spotless life. During all that time he has been a zeal ous Campbellite {the jury was mostly of that persuasion, a fact that had not es caped the astute major). 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Ga. streamed down the Major’s face) along came these infernal sons-in-law, with heil in their hearts and without the fear of God before their eyes, and steal his bee gums and tobacco, and then, because he calls them the thieves that they are, sue him for damages and attempt to rob him of his home in his old age. “Great God, gentlemen, did you ever hear of such a damnable outrage!” In uttering the closing sentence the Ma jor's voice reached the highest pitch and rang through the court room like a trumpet blast, and with the perspiration standing out in great drops and mingling with his tears he took his seat, midst tumultuous applause which the court was unable to restrain. It is perhaps unnecessary to add that Stormes won his case. Pathetic Speech Spoiled. A distinguished member of the Harrods burg bar was Judge Chas. A. Hardin, who died only a few years ago. It is said of him that one occasion he was making a speech against some men who had torn down a house which sheltered some wom en and had driven them out into the cold and pitiless night. The judge was an ’ef fective speaker. The speech on this oc casion was very pathetic. The ridiculous part of it was caused entirely by an awkward mistake. Among other pathetic things, he said: * "Yes, gentlemen, these poor helpless women were driven out qf their homes,by these ruffians. Not only driven out; but Into a dark, cold, chilly, December night in the month of January.”