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Habits of the Robin.
Woman's Home Companion.
Let ns hide behind that cinmp of black
berry bushes and watch the parent birds
as they come to fee* their young. There
comes the father robin now; you can dis
tinguish him from the mother by his
darker plumage. You will notice that In
coming with the food he alights on a par
ticular twig, hops along a particular
branch and alights on a particular side
of the nest. If you watch him for a week
you would probably see him approach the
nest in the same way each time.
Now here comes the mother—a lighter
colored bird, with gray on the back of her
head. You see that she reaches the nest
by quite a different route and alights upon
the other side of it. and she will do this
over and over again. Like men and wom
en. birds acquire habits which they rigidly
adhere to. unless something happens to
prevent them.
Through the Tennessee Woods
• JFtif/i Joe 'Wheeler
After the battle of Shiloh Bragg chang
ed cavalry generals, Chalmers retiring
to the infantry and General Joseph E.
Wheeler, of the Alabama Volunteers,
taking his place. Wheeler was at that
time a young man of about 36 years, nerv
ous motioned and forceful in both man
ner and speech, and showing much of the
dominant military genlilb which was to
make his name so widely known and hon
ored.
Bragg and Wheeler, with their troops,
proceeded to Danville, Ky.. leaving my
individual regiment, the Eighth Confeder
ate, behind at Columbus, Mies., for re
organisation, with orders to rejoin them
at that point.
In the selection of officers the first lieu
tenancy was conferred upon me, and the
man elected captain being away on a fur
lough, I assumed command at once. We
came up with our superior officers the day
following the battle of Perryville, and
were in time to fall in with the retreating
troops.
■Wheeler struck camp a few miles from
Danville, and sent a small detachment
of men under my command back to the
town with directions to watch the move- i
ments of the enemy at that place, and re
port to him avery few hours. We fol
lowed these directions faithfully, remain
ing In Danville until late in the afternoon.
A number of Yankees were loitering
around the streets of the town, lounging
and carousing rather noisily, but they
noticed us very little, and we them, be
yond obeying Wheeler's orders.
w About two hours of dusk some ladies
passed us in an open carriage and per- j
celvlng our uniforms inquired if we be
longed to Wheeler’9 cavalry. Being an
swered in the affirmative, they informed
us that they were returning from Wheel- I
er's encampment, which they had found I
deserted. They had taken out dinner to I
the general and his staff, and offered us I
the provisions. As we had not tasted
food since morning we gladly availed our
selves of their hospitality.
Wheeler's departure without our knowl
edge seemed at first slightly unceremo
nious, but upon reflection we concluded
that some sudden information was the
cause, or that he had acted with Intent,
supposing that as long as Confederates
were seen in arid around Danville the j
Yankees would think their general not far
distant. In short, as usual, W T heeler was
covering Bragg's retreat, and as a slight
ly unusual proceedings we were covering
Wheeler's.
A few hours of swift trotting brought
us to the second encampment, where free
were blazing and preparations for supper
and rest in progress. But as soon as that
meal was over and the night dews began
to fall the buglers sounded "saddle up.” >
and each man tightened the girths of his
saddle, looked to his accoutrements, and
swinging himself across his horse, was
soon rifling noiselessly through the rapid
ly darkening forest, carnage and death
before, and behind him, the woods close
around him and the tranquil heavens
above. He and his horse a component
part of the great Wheeler cavalry.
These maneuvres were continued for
weeks, Bragg slowly falling back toward
the Gap. obstinately contesting every inch
of the way. Wheeler covering that retreat
by night and the enemy barking at our
heels like so many hyenas of the plains
all the time. The dawn of each day found
the wearied men almost reeling in their
saddles, their sleep-hungry eyes endeav
oring to pierce the mists that hid the
rifles of the federal*, until at or near the
first of October we reached the vantage
point of Wild Cat Heights, Ky.. where we
rested for one night beyond rifle range
of the enemy.
The next morning, however, we heard
their guns saluting us over the ridge.
On the afternoon of that day Wheeler
rod down the line of jaded, dispirited
cavalry drawn up before him and address
ing my regiment ordered us to charge
across an open field on our right, and
across which the enemy’s bullets were
singing. Beyond this plain and the fringe
of woods that bordered it, he assured us
wound a mountain road, where we would
be comparatively safe from the Yan
kees, and along which Kirby Smith's wa
gon train was passing in need of our es
cort until the Gap was reached.
Unwearied and undaunted, Wheeler
looked unusually small and pugnacious on
his big bay horse that afternoon. Some
thing like a school boy with unrecited
lessons weighing on his mind, but alert
and anxious for the excitement, of the
moment.
“Captain,” he began; “captain, you must
charge across that field and up the road
beyond, where, I am Informed. Klrljy
Smith's wagon train is passing. You will
report to Smith and join his guard until
the boundary is passed.”
Then, despite the proximity of the ene
my. and the bullets continually whistling
around his head, he began and finished a
harangue, which the lapse of time has
obliterated from my memory, but which
under the circumstances seemed unneces
sarily long.
At its termination I gave the command
and we charged across the open, reach
ing the woods without loss. Continuing
in a swift gallop up the mountain road
for a mile or so we had begun to check
our speed, when the adjacent woods seem
ed to suddenly vomit lead. Men and
horses went down in the unexpected! as
sault. Half ot my regiment wheeled and
galloped furiously back. Cqjiing on the
men near me to follow I put spurs to my
horse, and we dashed at tremendous speed
through the surrounding confusion and
down the mountainside out of sight.
Here we paused to consider. The am
buscade had been so sudden we were at
a loss to fathom its meaning. Moreover,
Wheeler had assured us of safety in this
portion of the country. Two men were
detailed to make a careful reconnoiter.
They reported us in the midst of Smith’s
men. We were nearer them than 'Wheeler
had thought, and our rapid galloping up
the road in the gathering dusk had been
mistaken by them for an onslaught of
the federate, and they had acted accord
ingly, and rather hastily.
The result might have been worse. One
of the younger members of the company
was more frightened than hurt by a spent
ball lodging in the back of his scalp, and
went around complaining that he was
killed, until the surgeon ripped the skin
with his pen knife and the bullet fell out.
One poor fellow was so seriously hurt
that he was sent back to Nashville, where
it was found necessary to amputate both
of his limbs.
We reported to Smith and fell in with
his men. He was driving down from the
blue grass plains of Kentucky a herd of
the finest, fattest cattle I had, or ever
have, seen.
And so through the glorious golden Oc
tober weather that lay like a royal robe
over the war-cursed land we rode.
Through frosty mornings when the cold,
brilliant skies seemed set in a superb,
framework of green and blue and opal
escent gold, our horses stepping knee deep
in the dying grasses, while their riders
took their enjoyment in the ever-changing
panorama of earth and sky that nature’s
hand spread so lavishly for their benefit.
Through noons when tae pools curled cool
and dark in the shadows of the trees and
a wind borrowed from some long dead
Maj- sighed through the wayside blooms
and sent the forest leaves in showers of
autumnal beauty to the ground, while the
sound of dropping nuts kept rythmical
, time to our horses’ hoof beats. And
through cold, still, beautiful nights when
the moonlight covered mountain and plain
and dimpling stream with touch as soft
as an angel's dream—on and on until a
subtle intangible presence crept down from
the near blue hills and laid a small cold
finger upon our hearts, whispering
summer was dead.
We reached Cumberland Gap to find
that Bragg had outraced Rosecrans and
the latter was returning to Nashville.
Toward the latter part of December,
about the 2«th, I believe, Bragg was noti
fied that Rosecrans was advancing from
Nashville with heavy forces.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1901.
Bragg at once began a system of re
treats, Wheeler’s cavalry covering his
until the Monday following, when Wheel
er received notice that Bragg was ready
for Rosecrans and to fall back gradually
from Lavargne until the main forces were
reached.
Bragg's army was drawn up in battle
array when we came up, and it was
through his lines of grim, visaged. deter
mined soldiers that we of the Eighth Con
federate, in company with the other
troops under Wheeler, passed, the ranks
closing in behind us as we proceeded to
the rear, and every soldier* of Bragg's
army saluting the "Boj- Brigadier” as we
passed through.
The battle began, and with Rosecrans’
forces largely outnumbering his own,
Bragg drove back the entire right wing
of the federal army in confusion, seizing
4.000 prisoners and 30-odd cannon.
Night had put an end to the fighting,
and the opposing forces were sleeping on
their guns, while the soft, mysterious
darkness of night brooded over blue and
gray alike, when the buglers of Wheeler's
-cavalry sounded "saddle up,” and. barely
awake, we rode away through the Ten
nessee woods, each man and horse fol
lowing the man and horse ahead, the
blind leading the blind, as only Wheeler
and his superior officers were aware of
our destination. All night long we rode,
a vigilant, never-resting procession of
men and horses, past wood and river and
hut, the farm dog wakening to bay his
midnight salute to us from some distant
cottage that the tread of hoofs and jangle
of sabers and spurs had reached. And
when the new day came cold and pale
across the hills we found ourselves at
Lavergne, where we had encamped three
days before and Rosecrans’ army in front
of us, and not until then did the wearied
men and a majority of the officers realize
the miuiary genius of the man all called
"Little Joe Wheeler.”
By a detour of twenty-five miles we
had marched entirely around Rosecrans’
army, which was just awakening from its
exhausted sleep.
Rosecrans himself barely missed cap
ture, bflng engaged with his breakfast
when the attack was made. The federal
provision trains, heavily laden with sup
plies of all descriptions, were captured
and “in one red burial blent.” By the af
ternoon we were back on the front assist
ing Bragg.
These maneuvres were continued the
second and third night, our troops march
ing around the enemy under cover of the
darkness, attacking and destroying their
supplies at dawn, and returning to aid
Bragg in the afternoon on the front.
During the third morning’s attack
Wheeler ordered my company to charge
a train heavily guarded by the Rosecrans
infantry, assuring us of support from a
regiment further back. We charged as
ordered, but the support failed to mate
rialize, and the federate were too many
for us, closing in around us until we were
forced to cut our way out as best we
could.
I was separated from my command, and
in company with a handful of men, was
forced to spend the remainder of the day
and that night lying in the woods close
to the pike, waiting for a chance to cross
and join the main forces.
Often since when I have felt the crisp
January air around me and seen a winter
moon lying on her back in the northern
skies I have thought of that night, now
nearly forty years agq, and see again
the long level pike stretching like a white
and very crumpled ribbon ahead, down
which Rosecrans' army came all night
long in full and rapid retreat, and again
as if by some strange necromancy of mate
ter over mind I feel a frost whitened sod
cold beneath my feet, the odor exhaled
from woods in winter rushes to my nos
trils, and once more an Eighth Confed
erate volunteer, I am crouching in the
shadows, waiting for the dawn.
By daylight the retreat qf the enemy
became scattered, and we seized an early
opportunity to dash across the pike and
into the woods beyond. We met a courier
and were astounded to learn that Bragg
was also retreating, and orders were to
leave Murfreesboro far to our right.
After the battle of Murfreesboro Bragg
and his infantry went into winter quar
ters, but as one writer has expressed it,
the winter quarters of Wheeler's men
were literally in the saddle. The active
brain of their general could not and did
not remain long idle. Being free to form
his own plans, he conceived the idea of
patrolling the Cumberland river in an at
tempt to waylay and capture northern
transports. He accordingly began prepa
rations to put his attempt into execution
and learning that three transports, under
the convoy of one gunboat, were expected
to pass a point below Nashville known
as Harpeth Shoals, we departed on a
forced march for that point.
My regiment, commanded by Colonel
Wade, was stationed on a bluff overlook
ing the river, where a good view both
above and below could be had. We car
ried well mounted cannon and a number
of unusually good sharpshooters. The
transports were In advance, and soon came
in sight, and after a short skirmish sur
rendered. They had a large cargo of
supplies and a number of wounded fed
erate and their friends on board.
The men were ordered ashore, and
ashore they came in their high plug-hats
and broadcloths very much frightened. We
expected the gunboat to put in its ap
pearance every minute; indeed, the smoke
from its funnel could already be seen
above the tree tops on the curving banks
of the river. Our men were, therefore
ordered to dismount, and with their rifles
conceal themselves in the undergrowth
and necessary preparations for an imme
diate attack made.
One of the finelj’ dressed Yankees noting
these preparations tame up to me and in
a quivering voice asked me what we in
tended doing 'with them. I replied that
we did not Intend hurting them in the
least, but we expected a skirmish in a
few minutes and that I advised him and
his friends td seek the timber until it was
over. They seized the advice and oppor
tunity with coipical avidity and it was
ludicrous to watch them hustle for the
woods. •
The gunboat, a sheet-iron affair, con
structed after the crazy fashion of those
times, came on up the river, shelling the
woods on both sides. Its officers had
heard that the three transports had been
captured bj’ a number of during bush
wackers and when Wade ordered them to
surrender paid no attention to the com
mand. Our battery immediately’ opened
fire, and the first ball passed directly
through the front door of the vessel’s
cabin and out at the back, hurting noth
ing or no one. It informed the captain,
however, that he had trained soldiery to
deal with, and he at once commanded one
of his men to hoist a white flag. The
man loonshly put his head’ out of the
window ahead of his flag and I saw him
instantly killed by a sharpshooter from
the bank. However, they soon managed
to float a white flag and the victory was
ouras. I afterwards overheard the can
tain explaining to Wade that he had been
informed that the transports were in the
bands of bushwackers and did not con
sider the affair seriously until our battery
told him a different tale.
Our men were given permission to loot
the vessels. A majority of them went for
the dinner, to which those on board were
just sitting down when the engagement
began. 1 remember noticing one man
coming away with eighteen solid sliver
forks. Just why’ his taste inclined toward
forks at that particular time I cannot
explain. The officers and the men, in
company with the wounded and their
friends, were transferred to one vessel,
which was sent across the river and an
chored out of harm's way. The other
vessels were lashed together and burned
to the water's edge, and a very pretty
sight it made. There was considerable
ammunition among the supplies, consist
ing of barrels of gunpowder and kegs of
shell's and cartridges and these taking
, Are exploded with deafening reverbera-
BY M. L. WHITE.
tions that almost shook the surrounding
hills and nearly frightened the Yankees
anchored across the stream to death, who
imagined this a plan of their enemies to
get ri<i of everything at once, t
We knew that there was a fleet of Fed
eral vessels several miles down the river,
and for that reason we compeljed the an
chored vessel to remain where it was un
til late that afternoon. We did not know
though that that same fleet had ground
ed on the shoals, and when the first
news of the happenings up the river reach
ed them had thrown their cargoes over
board and were steaming away from us
as fast as possible.
This exploit caused a considerable rip
ple of interest in both north ana south and
Wheeler's marines found themselves fa
mous for a short time.
The day of oqr “nival engagement”
had been beautiful, but in the afternoon
the weather began to threaten change and
by night a drizzling, disagreeable rain
set in. We marched until late in the
night before finding suitable encamp
ment. The next day the rain changed to
snow, and by the time we went into
encampment the next night a heavy snow
fall covered the ground. When the snow
ceased and the wind became less fierce
the air was Intensely cold. We were glad
to come across some old iron works, the
buildings of which had been converted in
to stables by the mountain farmers, and
although they were temporarily tenanted
by a drove of wild hogs we soon dispersed
our four-footed enemies and took posses
sion. The men piled in helter-skelter, car
rying with them great armfuls of the
fodder lying around outside, with which
they stopped the cracks and crevices and
made beds for themselves. I lingered out
side to feed my horse and make him as
comfortable as possible for the night, and
when I went inside found only a small
space near the door left. I crawled into
it with many misgivings regarding its
comfort and pulled the fodder around me
very carefully, getting as far 6ac«. into
the corner as possible, with my head near
the wall and my feet close to the door. I
began to doze, and in a little while felt
a pleasant warmth beginning at my feet,
which gradually diffused itself through
my entire body, and I was soon fast
asleep. All night long while the snow lay
thickly on the ground outside, white and
beautiful in the brilliant moonlight, and
the wind rose and fell above the old
stable in a valley of the Cumberland spur,
I slept as peacefully and as sweetly as I
have ever slept in my own comfortable
bed in far-away Virginia, and in the
morning when I awoke and began to di
vest myself of my foddery covering, an
old sow, who had slept through the night,
curled up on my feet, roused up with a
grunt of Indignation and ran out of the
building. M. L. WHITE.
Gainesville, Ga.
The importance of keeping the liver and
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JUNE.
From “The Vision of Sir Launfal.”
And what is so rare as a day in June?
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Then heaven tries the earth if it be in
tune |
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And the heart in her dumb breast flut
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He sings to the wide world, and she to
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In the nice ear of Nature, which song is
the best?
—James Russell Lowell.
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NEW YORK, May 31.—1 f Lieutenant R.
E. Peary returns in safety from his pres
ent expedition in search of the North
Pole, his wife declares it will be his last
trip to the Arctic regions.
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and to bring him home.
Mrs. Peary will go to New York very
soon to confer with members of the
Peary Arctic club to arrange for obtain
ing a vessel for this purpose. The mem
bers of the club ‘are well known New
York millionaires, devoted to the advance
ment of science and research, who are
backing the expedition.
Morris K. Jessup is its president and H.
L. Bridgeman its secretary. A meeting
will be held to talk over the plans for
the trip, and Inspection will be made ot
the Windward to decide whether she can
be repaired and refitted for less than
It would cost to hire another vessel.
"My present plans,” said Mrs. Peary,
•Is to sail for Peary Harbor between
July 1 and 15, but, of course, a great
deal will depend upon the season and the
flow of ice along the coast. Mr. Peary
has to report for active duty in Novem
ber. as his leave expires then, and will
probably arrive home in October. He will
have to go under a surgical operatlo*.
A portion of one of his feet was frozen
and he will have to have this attended
to. But that will be of little conse
quence.”
"Will Lieutenant Peary make any more
expeditions of this character?” she was
sslccd.
"Indeed he will not make any more such
trips, and I don’t think he wants to.
It is too far away from home.- He can't
send any news, nor can he hear from
us. His mother died in November, 1900,
and he did not know of it until the fol
lowing August.”
Speaking of Lieutenant Peary's winter
quarters, Mrs. Peary said that the dock
house of the Windward was moved
ashore sheathed and packed outside with
snow, which made him warm and comfort
able.
He has all kinds of canned supplies, coal,
and oil for burning in lamps. The coun
try is depended upon for fresh meat.
He also had 40 saddles of venison left
him and 200 walrus for food for the dogs.
A walrus weighs from 1,500 to 2,500 pounds,
so the dogs were well provided fob.
"I never mention the name walrus but
that I feel like a cannibal,” said Mrs.
Peary, with a shudder. “Truth to tell,
I ate one once. The steaks are tough
and have no flavor. The first time I
tasted it was when we were out of fresh
meats.
"I took a small piece from Mr. Peary's
plate and found it was not half bad. One
of the members of the party thought if
I could endure it he could. That started
the rest, and after awhile we all ate it
and liked it fairly well. It is only tough,
and has no fishy taste at all.
"The time never hung heavily on that
trip, but occasionally I longed for home,
especially during the holiday times, when
everything surrounding me was dark and
dreary. Then I thought of F street and
the gay, laughing Christmas shoppers.
The contrast made me feel decidedly
blue. i
“Did the time hang heavily? No. I had
my little daughter, who occupied most of
my time. I appointed myself school mis
tress and taught her. She was the life
of the ship, and everybody wanted to
play with her. It was hard at times to
have her to myself, as she was such a
great pet.”
Mrs. Peary gave an Interesting descrip
tion of the garments worn by the Peary
party. The clothes are of fur, with a
woolen combination deer skin shirt, fox
skin coat, when out of doors, rabbit skin
stockings and sealskin boots.
The fox skin coat has a hood, the head
being pushed into it. An attachment
pulls It over the-face, leaving a place for
the eyes, or it can be regulated to conceal
the face of the wearer, as he desires. All
kinds of mittens are used.
This costume is copied from the natives,
except that their clothes are made shorter.
When In an upright position their bodies
are covered, but when they bend over,
the coat and trousers do not meet, leav
ing the body bare at the waist. The’ same
is the case at the knees.
This opening in the clothes is the
method of the natives to prevent pers
piration. As they are full of blubbers the
cold does not affect them when it strikes
the body.
The great health precaution is not to
perspire. When this happens the mois
ture forms into ice and freezes, that
being the cause of the injury to Lieu
tenant Peary’s foot. To prevent perspir
ing the Peary party divest themselves of
the numerous garments as the climate
changes, or according to their movements
in following the sleds.
Mrs. Peary has spent three years and
six months in the Arctic regions and dur
ing that time she says that she has suf
fered no discomforts from the cold.
A visitor upon entering the home of
Mrs. Peary can see at a glance every
evidence of Arctic explorations. The hall
way and walls are decorated with curios
and relics brought home by Lieutenant
and Mrs. Peary from former trips.
About the floors of the drawing rooms
are mounted skins of the polar bear and
other animals of that cold region. On
the walls are hung Arctic scenes, the vari
ous Implements of the Eskimo and the
picture of little Ah-ni-ghl-to Perry in
Eskimo Costume. A cabinet in one corner
contains f miniature snow shoes, snow
■leds, pikes and Eskimo dogs.
The way to renew your subscription:
Go to your postmaster and purchase a
money order, sending same to us with
your request, always naming the pre
mium desired and sending full amount,
so there may be no delay.
He Believed in Rotation.
The Little Chronicle.
One day mamma told Milton that he
was older than the baby and must let the
baby have his toj’s if he wanted them, be
cause the baby was the littlest.
Milton was very good, and went in
search of other amusements all day.
The next morning we heard a cry from
the children, and going to find the cause.
Milton was found endeavoring to collect
all the toys in the room and at the same
time keep the baby away from them. Up
on inquiring the trouble Milton said:
“I let him have my toys and be the lit
tlest yesterday, and now I’m going to be
littlest today.”
A ROYAL DRAFT.
A SHORT STORY.
The summer of 1893 was one long to be
remembered in the great naval supply
house of Gideon Gowenlock & Co., of
Charleston, S. C. An August sun poured
its steaming rays down upon the steam
ing wharf and a hot sea wind fanned the
moist heat through the open windows
among the perspiring clerks. Aside from
the heat, each felt oppressed with a
vague feeling of unrest, for it was evident
to even the office boy that there “was
something doing with old Gid.”
It was now Saturday noon, and from
early Monday morning the old man had
spent ten hours a day in his private of
fice, familiarly known among his em
ployes as the “glass cage,” and had not
been his usual round throughout the es
tablishment generally supervising the
business. Through the ground glass doors
they could see him bending over his desk
or hear his measured footfall as he walked
the floor. Each wondered if a change was
to be made in his department, and, if such
a change was made, if his services would
be needed any further. Suspense was
about at a white heat when the call bell
sounded In the outer office. At last “old
Gid” was going to act. The important *
office boy, Boots, tripped himself twice in
bis haste to answer the call.
“Tell Tom Colston to come here,” said
the old man without looking up. It was
needless for Boots to repeat the message,
as every ear had been strained to catch
each syllable. •
Coltson climbed down from his stool and
appeared at the door. His brown
eyes had a 'dangerous _ light and
his jaw an extra firmness about it as he
stood waiting. He felt that he was beard
ing the Hon in his den.
"That is a pity,” whispered the clerks
among themselves, "Coltson is a clean,
square fellow, but he ought to know the
old man would not hear to his marrying
Miss Solly. It will be hard for him to
get another job in the dull summer
ftionths.”
"Sit down, sir,” said the old man, wear
ily. •
Tom seated himself on the edge of a
chair and awaited his next move. Some
how he felt that he was playing a gamw
of chess with an older head, but was gain
ing confidence in himself.
As usual with the old man when making
a trade, he began a rambling story that
bore only Indirectly but led up to the
matter in hand.
“I have watched you. sir from your
youth up. I knew your father before you.
I was a struggling merchant of little
means When he died, leaving you a small
boy to be raised by your mother. She
had a hard time to make ends meet, but
somffiow she managed to rear you re- (
spectably and you have done well by her.
I understand that as long as she lived
you provided her with a home gnd gave
her the comforts if not the luxuries of
life. That was commendable and I have
advanced you rapidly to where ybu are
now—my head bookkeeper."
Tom nodded and would have expressed
his appreciation, but the old man cut him
short by continuing:
"You went to school with my daughter
Dolly and used to champion her cause
among your play fellows. Later in life
you was her comforter when she lost
her mother, and, as you had lately then
lost yours, you consoled each other. I
might have seen then what all this would
lead up to but I was too blind with grief
and tried to forget everything in my busi
ness."
A tender light, not unmlxed with tears
shone in the young man’s eyes.
"I have always looked upon Dollj’ as a
child, eveh since she took her mother’s
place in my house. I am surprised to see
she has grown to womanhood, the change
has been so gradual I had not noticed it.
In my early business experience I learned
one secret that has been the very key
stone of my success. When I was in doubt
about a move, I laid the case in the ab
stract before a good woman and asked
what action she would take. I have never
known it to fail that the first answer she
gives you is the right one. She will af
terwards waver and change her mind a
score of times, but the first answer is
correct. She arrives at a conclusion in a
way no one can explain, but ninety-nine
times ,out of a hundred, it is the correct
one. I have real long discussions on the
mental equality of woman and man, but
I tell you it is wrong, all wrong. A wo
man's mind Is not a man’* equal, it is his
superior.”
He wheeled his chair about and pointed
at his desk.
"Look at that pile of mall. It Is enough
to make a man sick. One hundred and
twenty drafts sent out in the last ten
dgys returned unpaid in that file. There
is a letter from the Neptune National
bank saying that further time cannot be
extended on my overdraft and today one
of my checks was returned marked in
sufficient funds. In the early summer I
placed mortgages on my real for
about one-tenth of and that
money was insufficient to carry my busi
ness through this dull season. The loan is
not due for a year, but it stops further
borrowing from that source. As you
know, I have thousands of dollars on my
books in good accounts, but you see I
can not realize a cent on them, because
the small merchant and shipper has no
money and won't have till cotton comes
in this fall. In the meantime, my credit
will be ruined, outstanding claims pressed,
and I will be squeezed to death for the
want of a few thousand of ready money.
It is simply maddening to see my thrifty
years’ struggle end in failure, for lack of
a sum that I have given annually to
charity."
Great beads of perspiration stood out
on his forehead and his voice sounded
hollow with despair. Tom’s eyes flashed
sympathetically and he started to speak
but the old man grew calmrand spoke
on in a determined way—
“ Since Dolly’s mother died I have al
ways asked her about business. I would
carefully simplify matters so she could
understand the story. I would 'tell her
and I found she had her mother's same
keeh sense for pointing out the right
way. I laid the case before Dolly last
night and waited for her first answer,
knowing I eould not go wrong. She was
not in the humor for answering my rid
dles and she said: 'I would ask Tom
Coltson, the man I love.’ ”
"Bless her dear heart for that,” whis
pered the young man, tenderly.
"She climbed upon my knee and said:
'Father, I have no mother now and I
must tell you,’ and the dear child told me
that you two had exchanged vows to
marry this fall if I gave my consent. It
was a surprise and a revelation to me. I
would not say then what I would do. I
hoped some time in the far off future to
have my daughter make a brilliant match
with one of our grand old southern fami
lies, but ”
“Mr. Gowenlock, I have seen for the
past month that you was battling against
fearful odds, and. as the times grew hard
er and collections more difficult, that your
ruin was inevitable unless your partner
or partners making up the company came
to your assistance to tide you oVer till
fall. I was not sorry, I was glad of It. I
see one Insurmountable object between me
and happiness, and that is j’our money.
"The rich Mr. Gowenlock would never
consent to his daughter’s marriage with
his bookkeeper, Tom Coltson. Employers
generally regard their office force as an
aggregation of animated adding machines
and seldom credit them with being men of
spirit, with human hearts and minds like
themselves. I have been Dolly’s friend
from childhood and I could not help but
love her. I told her so, but she bade mo
wait till fall before I spoke to you, as
she said it was too soon after her mother s
death. I promised, but I knew then that
the crash would come in the meantime
and I had hoped that you would look
more favorably then on m>’ suit. I know
that she ta far above me, but I love her—
do you understand me—l love her, and
will give her a life ‘of devotion to in a
measure make up the difference between
us.” v
The fire of splendid young manhood was
blazing in his eyes as he towered above
the surprised old man.
“I am not ungrateful for what you have
done for me, and if your partners will
not come to your assistance all that I
own shall be converted into cash and
placed to your credit in the Neptune Na
tional, but it will not be a fourth of the
amount required.”
The old man choked as he wrung the
young man’s hand, but he grew calm and
replied:
"No, lad, that would never do. You
speak of my partners; I have never had
but two. The one, my wife, is dead; the
other, my daughter, is the only living
partner L have. When I was your age I
was quick to think and act; now I am old
and slow and can only see that 30 year*
of labor is to be wiped away in 30 days'
time. Dolly said to ask you, and,” he
continued, like a drowning man catching
at a straw, “if you will find away out of
thqse difficulties you shall have my daugh
ter and become a full partner with m 6!”
The young man caught his breath and
exclaimed: “What! Do you mean it? You
consent that I have Dolly?”
Coltson’s nimble brain was acting now
like lightning. His eyes wandered around
the room x and fastened themselves on a
map of the world that hung on the wall.
Unconsciously’ he began to trace the Ibng
dotted lines that .mark Uie cofirse of ves
“Thirty days’ time; a fight for thirty
days’ time.” kept pounding through hi*
brain at every violent heart-throb.
Several of these lines joined at Constan
tinople. His eyes wandered back to the
office desk piled high with returned
drafts.
"I have It!” he exclaimed, “draw a draft
on the Sultan of Turkey for 110,000 and de
posit it with the foreign bankers. Messrs.
Wix & Wing. Tell them you desire to
check against it. They have often solic
ited your foreign business and know noth
ing of your embarrassment. The draft
will be more than 30 days in transit. Even
if they cable the refusal of payment, you
will have time to regain your lost ground
and can reimburse Wix & Wing for tho
draft when returned by a local check on
the Neptune National. The high standing
of thte house, the boldness of the stroke,
the credit of the Turkish government
make the thing possible. Os course, the
draft will be returned, but not till fall
cotton shall have turned the tide in your
favor.”
The old man rose and clapped the young
man on the back in admiration.
“Capital, boy, capital! Draw on the
Sick Man of the East! Sounds like a ro
mance. Tq his Imperial majesty, the Sul
tan of Turkey. There is life in the old
land yet!” he exclaimed, like an excitea
schoolboy. “Who would have thought my
bookkeeper such a Napoleon of finance!”
Nearly thirty days later a draft wa*
presented by the imperial Bank of Con
stantinople to the Turkish minister of
finance.
“I have no record of our indebtedness to
this Gowenlock & Co., of Charleston, 8.
C.» U. S. A.,” and he frowned as he gazed
at the handsome lithographed draft drawn
up in Coltson’s dashing chirography.
"Send it back,” he snapfied at the tremb
ling collector. .
"Send what back?” said a voice behind
him and the grand vizier of Turkey swept
into the chamber amid a host of fawning
(Officials. i
"Your highness, this is a draft drawn by
one Gowenlock & C 0.,” he said, in his
most deferential way. "They are of
Charleston. S. C., U. S. A., wherever that,
may be, and it 4s for 250,000 piasters. I
cannot find that we are Indebted to the
infidels,” and he handed him the draft
with a low bovr. /
The distinguished diplomat took the pa
per and merely glanced at the fqce. Turn
ing it over hej-ead the endorsements. It
bore the names of Wix & Wing, of
Charleston, S. C.; Morgan, Fellrock *
Vaster, of New York; Rothschilds & Co.,
of London; Credit Lyonnaise, of Paris;
Banca Italiana Commerclale, of Rome,
and the Imperial Bank of Constantinople.
"By Allah! these infidels, Gowenlock *
Co., have royal nerve, but do you not sdh
in what a position it places us? If thlr
draft is returned unpaid it must go back
the same channels through which it came.
We are negotiating a loan of fifty million
pounds sterling from the Rothschilds. If
this draft is returned through them they
will think us a bankrupt natiop, not even
able to pay the paltry sum of 250,008 pias
ters. Think of what Turkish securities
would suffer in Lombard street. It is but
a trifle. Pay it and protect our credit”
Ninety days later he was surprised to
receive another paper from Gowenlock it
Co., but this time it was a check for tha
amount, together with Interest, and a let
ter of thanks for their enforced loan.
Across the wide Atlantic in the parlor of
Gideon Gowenlock in the city by the sea a
young man took a sweet-faced girl in hl*
fond embrace and whispered:
"I drew a draft on royalty and the re
turns brought me a queen.”
Look at our clubbing offer* and re
new now before your paper is discon
tinued. - .
HOMER AND MILTON.
Relative Merit* of the Iliad and Para
dise Lost.
The Salt Lake Herald.
To say that “Paradise Lost” has given
greater pleasure to a large number or to
any number of readers than the “Iliad” Is
to state something that had probably not
occurred to any man who has read both
works.
It is well within the bounds of reason
to say that hardly qne in twenty of the
people who start to read Milton’s wonder
ful poem ever finish It. On the other
hand, hardly one in twenty who begin any
good translation of Homer’s magnum
opus, fail to read every line of it. The
pleasure derived from the "Iliad” is hard
ly to be compared with that derived from
the work of Milton. It is not necessary
to read the former in the original Greek,
although to appreciate it in all of its full,
ripe beauty it should be read In the orig
inal.
There are a number of translations,
however, that retain practically all that
is best i» the "Iliad;” at least they con
tain so nearly all of it that proficiency
in Greek is not a sine qua non in its per
usal. It may be said with reasonable
certainty that for every one who has
read "Paradise Lost” In Its entirety, 100
have read the "Iliad.” From the quar
rel of Archtiles with Agamemnon and the
Greek army to the burial of Hector, the
"Iliad" is full of action, of noble thoughts
and of lofty sentiments.
The Cingalese and the Master*’ Eye.
Homeward Mail.
A Ceylon tea-planter with a glass eye
wanted to go away for a day’s shooting.
Approachlng'his men. he said: "Although
I myself will be absent, yet I shall leave
one of rnj- eyes to see that you do your
work.” And, to the surprise of the na
tives. he took out the glass eye, placed it
on the stump of a tree, and left. For
some time the natives worked like ele
phants, but at last one of them, seizing
his tin in which he carried his food, ap
proached the tree and placed it over the
eye. As soon as they saw that they were
not being watched they all lay down and
slept peacefully until sunset.
A Toast to The Journal.
, (Auguata Herald.)
Here’* to the Sunday Morning JournaL W«
afternoon papers are “it,” after alt
