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C THE SUNNY $Ou
When Confederates Emm
uated and Federal* ,Em*
tered Atlanta
By G W Dudley
■■elt the 31st of August. 1864,
| our brigade.
bad man type. He is a fine looking, clever
man who has the entire confidence of his
associates.
Some months since. Gentry and Welsh
opened a pool room for taking bets on
the races in various parts of the coun
try. McLaughlin opened a. similar re
sort. A war between the two places was
begun which resulted in consolidation.
Soon McLaughlin declared that Gentry
and Welsh had broken their agreement
with him and the partnership was dis
solved. Trouble broke out anew when
McLaughlin declared that he had been
paying for police protection~and asked for
Wrtttam fur Sie Sunny South
^■■■^■MEXINGTON has a gambling
¥ r king. One man here has
gambling under his com
plete control. This city
MM has long been noted as the
A mecca of gamblers, but
d) never before within the
century of its history has
one man ruled the gam-
5P biers' as supremely as has
John B. McLaughlin for
T §1 the past six months. He
has done what preaehers,
mayors, commonwealth at
torneys and police departments have at
tempted, or pretended to attempt, with
out success. He has cTbsed every gam
bling house in Lexington. What they
have been trying to do for years he ac
complished hr a few months.
It la not to be . thought that Mc
Laughlin is a reformer, for he is not. He
is a gambler, and desires to gamble. The
trouble is that the other gamblers, who
thought they held the situation in the
palms of their hands, did not want Me--
Laughlin to operate in BJSposition to their
own interests, and attempted to squeeze
him out. A fight was on their hands, and
IRAM CRONK, of Ava, Onei-
born
Hu said that he had been forced into
partsemhip with Gentry and Welsh be
came '. Ms room had been closed con-
\ tinually by the police
King Of while his opponents al-
Gomblers ways seemed to receive'
Haitei warning in time to pre-
Siartling pare for a raid, and that
■Allwgationswhen in partnership with
them he was compelled
to pay 3500 a month for police protections
Jie said, in addition, that he Had their
word that no crap games, faro banks or
roulette wheels should be operated, but
that after a short time such games were
started in Lexington in which his part
ners were interested. He declared that
the. other gambling had hurt his busi
ness and that UR contract made by
Welsh and Gentry had been violated.
He tliSft forced them out of partnership
and declared that lie would no longer
give up money for protection which, he
did not get. McLaughlin's room was raid
ed, and when the opposition opened for
business he swore out warrants against
them. U was a pi city 'tttle game while
it lasted, but when McLoughlip continued
to open whenever the opposition did and
to swear out warrants against the others
as soon as his own place was raided, the
matter assumed a serious! aspect, and the
efforts to run a pool room were a ban-
dor ed. Then McLaughlin’turned his at
tention to faro, roulette arid craps. One
afternoon he led the officers to an upper
room over a prominent resort, and burst
ing through the door pointed to (Sentry,
who was sitting behind the \faro layout,
at the same time exclaiming! to Chief of
Police J. McD. Ross: "Therets the gam
bling you couldn't find.” V
Ross took charge of Gently and his
men. but he did npt confiscated the para
phernalia as the law requires.! The po
lice commissioners dismissed Ross from
Ferguson’s
" cavalry, was camped east
of Atlanta about 1 mile.
The ground is now incor
porated into Grant park.
We were ordered to saddle
and mount about sunset
- and the column headed in
; the direction of the "city.
S|pB| Being a private, J knew
nothing of the object of the
■ nl0vement - All day we had
heard the thunder of can
nonading in the. direction of Jonesboro.
Afterwards we learned that this marked
the hopeless struggle of Hardee’s corps
against the overwhelming federal column
thrown against it, but I knew not that
Atlanta was doomed.
We came in on the McDonough road
and marched through the center of the
city. Our regiment filed up Peachtree
slreet till we reached thf line of breast
works which crossed that street nearly at
right angles. Then we were deployed
right and left and placed about 10 yards
from the works, sitting our horses about
20 yards apart. The works opposite to'
where I was stationed were occupied by a
regiment of Georgia state troops. As
soon aa our thin picket line was put into
position these men began to file ouLand
start to the rear.
There was some tali grumbling among j
them, for they understood whai the move
ment meant—the evacuation of the city
they had been called out by Governor
Brown to defend. They were mostly old
men, unused to camp life and tired of its
privations and dangers, and they evident
ly surrendered hope as they marched out
of the trenches. It was now dark. Sud
denly in the direction of the city in our
rear there flashed out a brilliant confla
gration, punctuated by heavy detonating
explosions. I knew then that the work
of destroying the military stores had be
gun. Car after car and ordnance wagon
after ordnance wagon caught from the
flames and helped to swell tEe awful tu
mult, which continued until nearly day
light.
All that long and tedloys night we sat
our horses without relief and without
sleep. Indeed, for myself, I felt not at
all drowsy, for I felt that I was standing
guard over the dying body of the con-
fr-deacy.
Day dawned at last, bright and clear.
As the mists lifted from our front, we
could see for over a mile,
H a county New York,
in 1799 and aged 103, the last
surviving soldier of the war
MBMK of ,K ' 2 ' is about to receBse
—— deserved recognition at the
JA hands of congress. A spe-
jkv claj bill recently introduced
flj -.fin to that end by Represema-
jSr five James S. Sherman, of
I f| New York, was favorably
jjg reported a few days ago by
^ . the committee on pensions
to the house of representa
tives, and is now pending on the calen
der- It Increases the soldier's present pit
iful pension of $12 per month to $25, and
there Is no d.iybt that It wli! soon be
entt-ntd by the house and senate and
promptly receive President Roosevelt's
signature.
The members of the house committee on
pensions, who ordered the bill reported
v ith a generous heartiness and warmth
of feeling that are unusual, are enthusi
astic In behalf of the bill, taking the view
teat 'try honor tnur.i. iv's cnl that con
gress will honor itself in doing this tardy ‘
act of justice to the sole survjvor of our ]
second war with Great Britain. There !
are now on the pension roll 1.527 widows !
of soldiers of that war, widows who in each .
case were comparatively young girls when j
they married their deceased husbands j
after the latter had reached an advanced (
age. But no actual soldier of that
where Generals James Wilkinson and
Wade Hampton,-equally unlucky and in
competent, established themselves after
Dearborn's removal. Thither, too, Gen
eral William Henry Harrison repaired
with bis victorious regulars after the bat
tle cf the Thames on October 5, 1813. But
most notable of all, that" was the post to
which Secretary of War John Armstrong
moved the war department bodily from
Washington, remaining on the ground and
there directing it in person with his subor
dinates from September 5 to Noyember,
1813, in order the better to Inspire effi
ciency and vigor into the disastrous cam
paign planned against Kingston and
Montreal. Moreover, It was to that har
bor tb-at our Commodore Cfcauncey, In Oc
tober, 1814, retired to throw up defenses
for the protection of his ships, and to
which some of General George Izard’s
fighting, it
war
besides Hiram Clark is drawing a pen
sion today, and the n<n3ion bureau offi
cials asset that inasmuch as all the
known soldiers of teat war have hereto
fore received > elisions, Hiram Cronk is
the only such soldier now remaining.
All the soldiers of the revolution hqvo
been dead these many years, the last one,-
L'anii F. Bakeman, having died April 5.
lt«9, aged 109, at Freedom, Cattaraugus
county. New York. The apotheosis of
the revolutionary soldier occurred short
ly before that date, when the veteran
Bakeman was Introduced on the floor of
»ne house of representatives at Was,ling
ton while In session and accorded the
honors due to his unique distinction. The
angt'neosis of the soldic-r of the war of
1812 is yet to come, but it is near at hand
and will came at an early day unless Hi
ram Ctaonk shuffles off the mortal coll be
fore it can be attended to.
Hiram Cronk s' military service in thtT
war of 1812 was short and included no ac
tive fighting on the battle field, but t
was none the less useful
Cronk** and valuable, like that of
ferric* thousands of his com-
DvrlnA rades of whom nobody
Cvanifal has heard. Things along
John B McLaughlin. King cf Lexington
Gamblers
un March 21, 1825. Hiram Cronk married
Polly Thornton at WSslern, and In the
years that followed they had several
children. He subsequently received from
the federal government two military
bounty land warrants, one for 120 acres
and the other for 40, and negotiated both
of them for money, as was the prevailing
custom in that neighborhood. Back, in
1871, while living at Northwestern, Oneida
county, he filed a claim for pension, which
was rejected. Later, in 1878, it was re
opened and allowed at the rate of $8 pe.-
month. On that occasion four of his an
cient comrades in arms, then living, but
now all dead, namely Jacob Vandawaker,
Simeon Fuller, Jasper Cronk and Corne
lius Doty, identified him and testified
that they had served with him under
Captain Fuller at Sackett’s Harbor. In
1886 his pension was Increased to $12 per
month.
Of late years he has been quite fcrth
and has been slowly gravitating back into
a state of second childhood, requiring fig
aid of a guardian. He has a little fan* of
1M acres near the town of Ava, worth
PSffcap- $1,500, but mortgaged for $1,200;
and on this he resides with his daughter
end his son ir. law, Mrs. Sarah and Jere
miah Rowley, the latter being his guar
dian. His daughter is 70 years old. and
her husband still, older and ths tv* M
it difficult in their advanced yean to ex
tract from • 'he little farm suflUkat to
pay interest •. l the mortgage an4 vM'M^
substance for him and themselves. In-
Vdeed, were It not for the kindness of
charitable friends and neighbors the three
>ould suffer absolute prlvaticn of some
of the necessities of life. The neglect of
this last survivor of the war of 1812 by
congress has come about merely because
attention was not hitherto called to the
case. /
an investigation, the end of which is not
yet. The. investigation was started by
the city council during the summer. A
special committee was appoftited for the
purpose of taking testimony. Why the
committee has never reported to the
general council is not known, although
some of the members say that all of the
evidence is not yet in and that until
Mayor H. T. Duncan gives his testimony
the investigation can go no further. Mc-
comwittee
Hiram Cronk, aged 103
was the most important mustering point
and depot for stores in the north, and
was of the greatest strategic value, both
from a military and naVal viewpoint. The
harbor was the finest on the lake, and the
land rose from its waters in the form of
a peninsula, ascending sheer up to a
height c" 30 feet like the walls of a
fortification, with sides of bare limestone
rock.
At that time the village behind the port
numbered only a score of houses, but the
port was a port of entry and the cen
ter of a large lake carrying trade in
grain and provisions, giving employment
to forty vessels, and during the embsZgb
period immediately preceding it bad been
the great gateway of illicit commerce be
tween the United States -end Canada.
And besides tha sort' asd the village,
there were *hlp yard*. Military store
1 ouses, block hrtuaaa, and marine and mil
itary barracks, built of logs. Into that
bayen was collected all the plunder ob
tained by the American 'troops in the
sacking of York In Canada. In the ship
yards many useful vessels were built .that
afterwords annoyed the enemy on the
lake. There also were stored all the
munitions of war which had been trans
ported thither at such great expense from
the Atlantic seaboard. It was'there that
General Jacob Brown, the New York mil-
Laugblin appeared be£*re ph,
and told how he had been closed by the dinanc
police after the partnership had been fils- j,as j, e
solved ^nd how he had to swear out war- detect!
rants himself before he could get the | rooms.
Battle of Whitehall, North Caroli
as the timber
.had all been cleared away
and Ctat down by the
r*d*ral< ..heavy artillery fire be-
AiMVSacb tween the contending ar-
BmmA ..isles. Just as the first
ettF rays of the morning’s sun
..■Stated the distant hills,
I saw a blue lirffin the far distance, slow- -
ly coming In our direction. A glance wss j
sufficient to explain its meaning. It was
edi the bridge the night
placed a guard over the gui
was then In process of <
Ths advantages were on s
the eonfMsrates who, thorn
tha "tow gWunds, were prM
timber .sad- underbrush. .Hj
sid* .of tbe river there M
hills qsHs unusual for the
March. 1862, and the city was held by the
victorious federal forces about the close
of the war. Kinston, the capital of Lenoir
county, about 30 miles west of Newbern,
after this became an objective point, and
afiout December 10 a series of skirmishes
occurred there. The remains of the in-
trenchmente and fort and long lines of
IANOKC ISLAND and
Newbern had been cap
tured afi# occupied by the
federal forces early in the
war, and Newbern was
thenceforward the base of
operations for attempts on
the interior portion of east
ern North Carolina. The
territory south of the
Neuse river and east of the
Wilmington and Weldon
railroad from Goldsboro on
the west, where this river
and the railroad intersects, to Newbern
on the east, where the river begins to
widen into a sound, was for two years or
more the latter part of the war the
scene of a number of forays and skir
mishes, chiefly Important from the fact
that the confederates with inadequate
forces succeeded in keeping the federals
at bay, and not only saving the state, but
preventing the enemy from taking ad
vantage of the southern forces at Rich
mond and Petersburg through an advance
by way of Weldon.
The counties of Craven, Lenoir, Jones,
Onslow, Pender and Duplin, comprising
the terrtito - bounded by Neuse river and
the Wilminj, and Weldon Yailroad and
the Atlantic oct. -ere the scene of these
operations.
Tile battle of Newbern was fought in
New York state were at
sixes and sevens in those stressful days,
and in the summer of 1814 a draft of mili
tia Mis ordered. Hiram Cronk, then an
active, well-grown, but beardless lad of
15. spoiling to see real war and longing
for a chance to mix in It, lived at Steu
ben, in Oneida county. In August of that
year his- chance presented itself and as
the recruiting officers were not particular
as to the age of their recruits, he was
permitted to eaUst. st Weston. Oneida
county, as * private, wider a call, issued
a heavy federal skirmish line advanciag |
to occupy Mb Hky advanced steer-/
ly and esattpsPW •• ‘though fearing afc
times IbS, sps wa sseupled and them,
• WlMta they got near the first they made
a rush, and leaping on the works waved
their hats, and wet cdnld hear the faint
“hurrah.” The same maneuver took place
at the next line. By this time they were
within 500 yards of our position, and some
of our men fired scattering shots In the
direction, to which they replied not, but
came steadily on.
At- this juncture Captain Thomas, in
command of our squadron, ordered us to
ifall into line, and we began our march
to the city. We had gone perhaps a quar
ter when we met some gray-headed men
going in the direction of the approaching
federals.
tor' "Aa mineral 3
the federals, who
and begun a cal
an esrty hour of tbe morning." JtgQ W*
in* wis returned by- the connamglto
and tbp dsel was continued thrssjgtadSX'
the fsresoon, wioi both canndw ms
smsU snss In the whole couM*
'this fight only one confederate satgnr
was tilled. Tlie body of this man **S!
■trscl: by a solid cannon ball and W
8. I. Sutton, two citizens of Mosdljr
one ite was found for burial, all ths
tost of the body having disappeared!
The ftdera Is, in their exposed position,
■SflHed quite severely. S. I. Sutton,
wbo visited the battle field a few days
after the battle, found the bodies |HB
number of federal soldiers only parlogf
buried, their comrades having WMB
forced to leave ti%> teMie of agRMg
without attending to ibis duty. AUras
General Foster retired in the direftatm
of Ntewbern the day after this battle,
having become aware of the imprudence
of advancing so far from his base. In'
fact, the weakness of the confederate
forces oply saved him, for a slightly
larger number could have easily cut off
and captured him.
“““ ™ »» » .w-
tion after a lapse of nearly forty yews.
On tHe day after the battle of Kinston,
the federal general, Foster, still keeping
on the south side of the river, moved
westward with the design of cutting the
Wilmington and Weldon railroad south
of Goldsboro. General Evans, of • South
Carolina, heH Goldsboro with his corded-,
erate forces, and General Thomas CUag*.
mail, of North Carolina, noted* as s
scholar, statesman and soldier, occupied
Dudley, on the railroad south of Golds
boro. i i
On the morning of the battle of White
hall General Evans gent some wagon
loads' of supplies from Goldsboro to
Whitehall in charge of John Hardy and
Hall (now LaGrange). Arriving thers
these two reached the confederate forces,
which occupied this low grounds on the
north side of the river. They had burn-
mw. N. T„ and Was duly
Company of Captain Icha-
dackett's £
enrolled iit‘i
* Davis.
After four or five weeks' knockabout
service in camp and on the march he was
discharged, along with a lot of other
These were the mayor and other
city officials, whose mission was to meet-
the commanding officers of the enemy and
try to make somerterms for the protection
of private property. I am sorry to say
that some of our boys jeered at these
gentlemen and told them they were going
upon a hopeless errand.
As we neared the business portion of the
city the signs of demoralization became
evident. About the junction of Luckie
street we met a man with a barrel of
flour on a wheelborrow, headed in the
direction of the enemy. Some of the boys
warned him that he was running in*o the
yanke*s, and he wheeled his load into an
alley and disappeared. When we”reached
the corner of Broad and Marietta streets
we were halted a few moments, and I
gazed upon a scene that'I have never
seen paralleled before or since. Stores
were already broken open and a motley
throng of soldiers and civilians were
helping themselves to whatever fancy
dictated.
A boy belonging to my company, named
Austin Sprouse, asked me to hold his
Btrse, darted into a store and soon re
appeared laden with plunder. One article
t remember was a gold pen, a most use
less thing to Au8tlif, who could neither
read nor write.
About the same moment I saw another
member of our squadron. Dan K„ come
in from a side street with saddle packed
with bolts of calico and
STssing a big f box of tobacco
Troop* mounted in front. He
M*d* No was about half drunk
Homos st from whisky obtained In
Looting the medical stores of the
givermbent. It was
a surging, half-crazed throng.
Women and children were not
mammy, Aunt Becky, the colored babies
or me.
I can never forget how tenderly mammy
tried to sooth my childish grief when
my nurse was married to one of the plan
tation men and became a plantation darky
herself. I wept and refused to be com
forted. I was old enough to dispense with
a nurse, besides there were others to
look after me, but I did Jove “my Caro
line” so.
When her little boy was born I bid to
name him as soon as I heard the news,
and mammy said of course. T should, and
as Caroline was more than
Chilli pleased to give me this
Named pleasure. I unhesitatingly
Tee named him “James Beau-
Two regard,” for the two
‘‘Heroes" greatest heroes (in my
eyes) of the confederate
army—my big “buddy,” who was a ma
jor, and General Beauregard.
It was during those stormy scenes that
mammy showed her strength.
I do not know what my mother would
have done without this faithful friend,
my father being away in the confederate
congress, and after the news of a battle,
oh! the long weary days and interminably
nights of anxiety for her three boys in
the front.
Often mammy would sit up all night
long, keeping up fires and bolstering up
my mother. I well remember how she
would go out Into the night to find out
what made Lee. the watch dog. bark so,
and my mother would start and tremble,
fearing it might be a messenger with' dis
patches (they came sometimes in the
night). Mammy would take my mother
by the hands and lead her to a comfort
able chair and make her sit down.
-7 ’ * soul/’ she would say, "yo’ will
wear your po’ self out a walkin’ up and
down and puttin’ yo’r eyes out cryin’; we
ain’t heard no bad Eews yit, and mebby
we won’t; you knows bad pews travels
fast,” and when dispatches did come mam
my was tbe comfortor when the news
was bad, and when good she would laugh
and cry for .Joy and thank the Lord for
His mercies.
How happy she was to make good things
and pack boxes for her boys at the front.
When the yankees were expected to
march down upon us, mammy was the
trusted one to help mamma hide her valu
ables. and when at last they did come
mammy stood faithfully by her and me—
all alone as we were in the house—and
it was she who talked up to the smart
bluecoats when they annoyed us toomuch,
and when all that we had was destroyed
and no money excepting confederate
money; coffee and sugar had long been
things of the past. Mammy conceived the
idea of selling our early apples to the
yankees at the camp just in tbe rear of
the house, instead of giving them away
as had been our custom always.
- “It wam’t no use givln’ dem .our apples,
when dey done ’stroyed everything else
dey could lay dey han’s on of..ourn,” and
taking the miserable little shin plasters
fiisfissM ss listt pat*
Interesting Litigation Over
Estate of Andrew Johnson
By L H THIN
A LAWSUIT is now pending in the
chancery court of this city of gen
eral interest because of the involvement
therein of the estate of the late President
Andrew Johnson. Mrs. Martha Patterson,
last surviving child of Andrew Johnson,
died some months ago, leaving iTte estate
from her illustrious
Andrew Johnson
Captain John Landstreet, of
, a former son in law of
Patterson, has instituted
aside her last will and to
previous will by
Told and shrieks, flew up the
By chimney and away to
Export witch land. That was the
most fascinating of all the
many splendid tales she told us in her
own way. She sfould get up and shake
herself and show us how the witch would
do, and laugh until the teaTs would come
at his unhappy predicament, but it was a
very serious matter to us, believing as
we did every word of it, for mammy
could not be mistaken.
Her love for us was beyond measure
and seemed even greater than that she
cherished for her grandchildren. Mammy-
settled most of our difficulties., always
taking the part of the oppressed, turning
on the oppressor with terrible threats, no
matter which of us It happened to be. Per
threats, however, were never carried into
execution. My propensity for eating up
the bird’s share of the curd she made
daily for my brother’s mocking bird trou
bled her greatly, for she always divided
it with me, but when my brother held
me to account for my offense and when
things were getting pretty serious for me,
she Immediately espoused my cause and
down would go pans, rolling pin or what
ever she happened to have In 'her hands,
an 1 with outstretched arms would gather
me in and say: “Go long dare now, boy,
I jiss dassent you to tech my chile.”
It was mammy who tied up all our lit
tle stumped toes with soot and turpen
tine and who respectfully but bravely
pleaded for us and begged off many a
well-merited punishment from our long-
suffering “mamma.” It was mammy, too,
with all her goodness and kindness, who.
scolded lustily when “Miss Lizzie” would
keep giving nrovisio'ns to ‘‘dem po’ white
trash,” a class all respectable slaves held
in profound contempt. “Po’ white trash”
and "Tree niggers” were mammy’s pet
abominations.
Long ago “ ’lection day” was a long hol
iday for all the blacks, not that they
voted in those days, of course, but it was
a holiday they all enjoyed. It was a great
day for mammy and for me. All the plan
tation darkies came to town in Wagons
and carts and brought every blessed pick
aninny along. - Mammy knew she and
Aunt Becky, Jhe turbaned guardian of the
plantation children, would have a long
day together.
While the others were taking In the
town, these old women, with happy faces
and holiday gowns, stayed at home to
mind the babies and talk, while I knew
what a great time I would have playing
with the good-natured colored babies.
School might as well not keep as far as I
was concerned, for go I would not. Why.
they were the very best times of all, bar
ring. of course, hog killing time. Our
descended to her
father to her only child,
Patterson.
Richmond, Va.
•the late Mrs.
suit to set
substitute therefor a
which his daughter, the great grand
child of President Johnson, was the bene-
ficigry.
The great Interest arising from this
litigation is due to the historic character
and value of much of the property, real
and personal, involved in the contest. The
famous tailor shop in which President
Johnson worked at his trade, the home
stead in which he lived for twenty years
.previous to his death* and monument hill
upon whose crest he and his wife and
children are burled are part of the realty
attached under the bill of Captain I .arid-
street, ‘
The personalty included in the pro
ceedings is very interesting, embracing
a great number of historical relics, prom
inent among which and particularly in
teresting is a full life size portrait of
Abraham Lincoln, presented to Mr. John
son by Mr. Lincoln himself, a life size
portrait of Mr. Johnson, painted while
he was president, the old tailors' bench
upon which Mr. Johnson worked during
his early life in Greenville, a valuable
gold watch, diamond studded, presented
to Mr. Johnson by the negroes of Ten
nessee during his administration as gov
ernor, and a very costly silver water set
given him by the loyal citizens of Nash
ville in the stormy days of the war.
Among the valuable personal effects
also involved are the correspondence, pri
vate writings, documents, etc., of Mr.
Johnsofi during his presidency. Perhaps
riage was indeed her "tower oi
In Die domestic circle, and never once in
all the long years with many changes in
times, of cloud and sorrow, in hours of
sunshine and gladness, from 1836 to 1866,
J^rrmr— turn aside from her path of
duty or her devotion to my mother's in
terests. In my father's absence from
home during his long political career,
mammy was head cook, head nurse nnd
general guardian of the. whole place—
everybody looked up to her. even good old
tJncle John, her husband.
8b| commanded respect, for she was a
respectful, dignified—yes, I may say—an
aristocratic old lady. I do believe mam
my was a real ladyr''’Knowing her duties
gg s servant and ever faith
fully performing them, made her
pp*f The first thing I can re-
( Stber is mammy taking me in her arms
| Jen I had fallen out with everybody
and rocking me to sleep in-her com
fortable lap. singtfig the sweet old lulla-
hies that come to mt now with dear mem
ories of the past. "Rock-a-bye baby, upon
the tre«j top,” etc., and "Daddy s gone a
bi ffing to get a little rabbit skin to
wrap the baby up in"-alternately scold
ing nurse and all the rest of the world
f-- “pestering*' her baby.
JW., .« ter on, when I was older and
people; his father, Newton Haralson, be
ing 6 feet 2 inches; his brother 6 feel i
inches. The gentleman standing beside
him in the cut shown above is the
writer, who is 5 feet 6 inches. The con
trast is great.
Mr. HaraU on was born in Chambers
county and was reared cn the farm. He
has always enjoyed perfect health, sag.
is full of life asd energy.. He weighs SB
pounds and wears A No, Hyghost ,
Hr JAS E TIMMONS
THERE lives in east Alabama, In
* Chambers county, a few miles north
of Lafayette, a ycung man who is away
Up in the world when it comes to height.
This young man is Woodson A. Haral
son, of beat 4, a prominent section of
the county. Mr. Haralson is 6 feet 11
Inches high, 24 years of tge, and is a
farmer. He comes of a family, of tall