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FOURTH PAGE
THE SUNNY SOUTH
MAY 4, 1907.
Uncle Remus; The South’s Great I
Writer of Dialect Stories
11 Can Cure Cancer
By L. L. KNIGHT.
Written for The SUNNY SOUTH.
L'ST 2 inilas from the heart
heart of Georgia's progres
sive and wide-awake eapi-
literature.
Never has the sense of humor been
more acutely developed in any race of
peotple on the globe than it has in the
southern negro of the ante-bellum
regime; hut unhappily this racial type
lias now passed almost completely out of
tal city, on one of the existence along with the dialect in which
principal thoroughfares of ■ It found expression, and the negro who
the little suburban com- has come upon the scene since the war
rnunity. known as West ' Posfeeses little of the sense of humor
End. stands the pictur- I made Ids predecessor one of the
esque home of Joe!
Chandler Harris, famous
throughout the Ejiglislg-
speaking world as “Uncle
Remus."
For more than twenty-
live years Atr. Harris lias been one of
the prime favorites of the American-
reading public. Young and old are alike
familiar with the adventures of “Brer
Babbit* and “Bier Fox." which the pen
of this grand southern author lias made
Classic, and readers of current literature
always cordially welcome the contribu
tions of Air. Harris, regardless of the
subject On which liq writes.
What Thomas Nelson Page has done
for tlie south of reconstruction times
Mr. Harris lias done with equal art for
the south of ante-bellum days; and while
he does not claim to have 'produced any
thing new or original in the way of lit
erary creations, lie certainly deserves
credit for having put into permanent lit
erary form the fascinating folk-lore of
the southern plantation.
“Some people think I Invented th®
•stories which 1 make Uncle Remus tell. - ’
said Air. Harris. "Ihut snch is not the
case. They all originated with the
negroes themselves. if 1 deserve any
credit it is only for reproducing them in
the. negro, dialect. Most of the stories
T have simply retold substantially as 1
first heard them from the negroes among
whom I grew up down In old Putnam
county. Georgia. Others have been nar
reted to me at second hand; hut my
acquaintance with negro characteristics
enabled me to recognize them at once
as genuine. Though T have never tried
to get at the root of our ante-bellum
folk-lore., my belief is that most of the
stones which we haxe gotten 'from the
negroes were brought over to this coun
try from Africa in 'the old slave ships,
and, they have simply been handed down
by word of month from one generation
of negroes to another."
HIS FAME.
But while Air. Hairis may not have,
originated the Uncle Remus stories, he
will always he associated in the popular
minnd with "Brer Rabbit" and “Brer
Fox." and since the negro dialect is now
rapidly hemming obsolete by reason of
the widespread diffusion of intelligence
among the .scions of this dusky race of
the south, it is due largely to the prompti
tude of Mr. Harris in coming 'to the res
cue that, it bids fair to live in American
happiest of mortals. This change in the
! temperament of the race is explained
by tbe fact that the ante-bellum negro
was the child of nature, tuiored in the
, "indoor life of Hie southern 'plantation,
and unacquainted with responsibilities
of any kind, while the post-bellum negro
is largely the product of article! condi
tions. In the storms of “Uncle Remus"
Mr. Harris has revived the humor of
tlie ante-bellum negro, and along with
i; has also preserved the quaint philoso
phy and the sutperstltioue awe of tlie
supernatural which were likewise char
acteristics of tlie race beUnre tlie war.
A HUMBLE START.
When Afr. Harris first established his
home in West End in 1876 he was wholly
unknown to fame, and if there was
anything In ids rugged countenance at
tills time to denote that Dame Fortune
had single,! him out ns one of her favor
ites it was not apparent to the careless
observer at least, and must have been
hidden behind some of the freckles which
bespangled Ids ruddy complexion.
Beauty. Mr. Hnrriss lias never possessed;
but what is still better, he has always
been able to draw men to him by the
magnetism of his warm-hearted nature,
and this genial attribute is as manifest
in bis writings as it is i'i his cordial
handshake. Coming lo Atlanta to ae-
W'hen Air. Harris first began to work
for The Constitution he was engaged
chiefly in writing editorials, but one
day Mr. 'Sam W. Small, who had been
contributing to the paper some negro
dialect stories which had proven quite
I>opu!ar, decided to accept an offer from
another paper, and in this emergenoy
Alr. Harris was approached by the man
aging editor with the suggestion that
lie try Ids hand in work of 'this same
character.
“But." protested • Air. Harris, "it is not
in my line."
“Well, see what you can do.” insisted
the managing editor. “If 1 find It. all
right I'll publish it; If not \ won't.”
Thus instructed, Mr. Harris went to
work, distrusting his resources, but re
solved to do his best, and tlie result was
the initial output of tlie 1'nc.le Remus
•stories, which (proved to be the West fea
ture of the south's great daily news
paper. In the course of time lie gath
erer together enough of these stories to
publish in hook form, and soon his first,
volume was given to tlie public entitled;
"Uncle Remus: His thongs and His Say
ings."
Since then he has enriched the litera
ture of the south with numerous other
publications. such as “Nigiits With
Uncle Remus,” “Free Joe and Other
Sketches." 1 tMingo and Other Sketches.”
“Daddy Jake, the Runaway,” “Kaalam
and His 'Master. Die Adventures of
Aaron,” “Mr. Thimiblefinger," “Sister
Jane." "Plan'Pation Pageants." “The
Chronicles of Aunt ATinervy Ann.” "fin
the Wing of Occasions" and “Gabriel
Tolliver."
Despite the fact that Afr. Harris' fir*-t
literary venture securely established his
reputation and authorized him to devote
his entire time to work of this kind 1 , he
continued to give his serf ices chiefly to
At Home Without Pain, Plaster or
Operation and f Tell Ton
How, Free.
| Old Andersonville; a Vindication j
: ^ Of the South’s Attitude
(JAMES CALLOWAY, in The Macon
Telegraph.)
| ce.pt an editorial position on l lie Con- i tfl P newspaper, reserving for his outside
; stitution, Air. Harris established' his'
home hi tlie suburbs for llie reason, that
j lie disliked the idea, of being vortped up
! in the city, and preferred to get out
! where he could breathe tiie air of the
open fields. Alost of his life had been
spent, on the (farm, and he could never
■get used to living in contracted quarters.
“Cities were never intended for people to
live in." said he. “and so I live on the
edge of the woods." At Wlest End Mr.
Harris has an ideal suburban seat. Sur
rounded by six or eight acres of ground, i
which twenty-eight years <>f cultivation
literary work only such intervals of
leisure a.s he could snatch occasionally
from his grind of (professional labor until
two years ago. when lie severed his
connection with The Constitution and
hade what was thought to be at the
time his farewell to journalism.
RETURNING TO THE TRIPOD.
But having tasted for two years of
the sweets of retirement Mr. Harris again
emerged from his seclusion, and returned
to his old editorial chair on The Consti
tution with increased enthusiasm for his
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at Home. INo Pain. No Plaster, jo
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I have discovered a. new and seemingly
unfailing remedy for the deadly cancer.
1 have made some most astonishing
mres. I bMieve evsrv person with cancer
should know of this marvelous medicine
ind its wonderful cures, and I will he
glnd to give full Information free to all
who write me and tell me about their
case.
Peter Keagan. Gales.>urg. 111., had car.
cer of the mouth and throat. Doctors
said, “no hope." Mr. Keagaq wrote; "It
is only a question of a short time—I
must die “ Today his cancer is healed
tip and he is well. Aly marvelous radie-
tized fluid did It. It has other Just such
cures to its credit. It is saving people
•very day and restoring them to health
and strength. If you have cancer or any
lump or sore that you believe is cancer,
write today and learn how others have
been cured quickly and safely and at
very small expense No matter what
your condition may be. do not hesitate
to write and fell me about it. I will an-
n
R. J. L. CURRY, in his
“Civil History of the Con
federate States," says;
“One of the most sin
gular illustrations ever
presented of tlie power
of literature to conceal
and pervert, to modify
and falsify history. to
transfer odium from the I no t one. The death
guilty to the innocent, is highest from May tn
vain.
No ex-j confederate sufferers. Stanton sent them
Greg, the English historian,
speaking of prison treatment on both
no medicines, no I back.
Percy
rate was at its
November, 1864,
found in the fact lhatjand Mr. Child insisted on no delay in
the reproach of disunion j accepting "the gift." Rut what a fa-
Niias slipped from tlie Del gift It proved to he! It was the
shoulders of the north to hose of the (death knell of thousands of confed-
south." " j erate prisoners. As these emaciates
government All
change, no parole,
federal surgeons. i
But our zeal did not cease here. ,n shies, says: . “But. after all, the federal
the summer of 1864 our government | prisoners did not die so fast as the con-
offered to deliver all tlie sick, wound- federate prisoners, and the north was
cd. emaciated, 15.000 in all. at Sevan- without excuse for inflicting cruelty and
nah. without exchange, without equiv- hardships. If the sick federal* perished
, , r u ■ . . , eiv for want of medicines and hospital
aleni. for humanity p sake- Six; ft wafi , hP fau i t of their own gov-
months elapsing, then in No^mner. ; pJ . nrTient ••
1864. federal ships came and bore off! Grp8 . furt her says: “The confederate
to northern homes 13.000 soldiers, and j reports Ru ffj r . p to show that the confeder-
brought. us not a single "old reh"—j a te government anxiously desired to al
leviate tlie miseries they lacked the power
to cure, waiving every point disputed by
the north."
At Andersonville tlie food issued to eon-
fedartes was largely unbolted c rn meal,
cowpeaie, sour cane syrup, a lit: 1 r- (b ur
and such beef as could be purchased R u
there was no discrimination as to rations.
eratr
On tlie prison question also we. have I returned home photographs were tak- j The prisoners got what was issued to > on-
permitted the north to tranfer the U" and reproduced in all the northern j federates. The death rate at Andet m-
odium of cruelty to prisoners to tlie! Papors, magazines, periodicals, and aj
south, when the reproach rests uponj^ roa ^ howl went up. J lie pulpit, the
the north. Nor can it slip from her I press ' the People, the churches de-
shoulders the odium of her policy, j sanded retaliation: and so respon-
The facts are slowly coming forth. jsive to it was Stanton and tlie Lin
coln cabinet, that our men died like
sheep in ail northern prisons. The
When Ben Hill delivered his Amler-
Eonville speech in the I'nited States
awful death rate of confederate pris
oners was the result of that "fatal
gift —offered In the interest, too, of
misrepresentations against | humanity to save life.
treatment of i Seeing these emaciated prisoners on
j their return, the north cried out for
vengeance, and vengeance was theirs.
was tlie revenge they took!
the day of our humanity gift,
the "retaliation measures" produced a
shocking death rate.
i lie death rate at Camp Douglass.
Illinois, was 16.8; at Alton, III., 20.9;
Camp Battle, Illinois. 19.6; Rock ls-
struction Hon. Alfred Hayliss, of | land, lit., 77.4; Elmira. \’ Y. 32 5
Springfield, 111., should issue a pam-jAt Johnson's Island It was awful. A
phlet in 1906 holding the south up to'Pf’soncr would hunt all day for a rat,
scorn for inhumanity to prisoners.!' 1 ?'* "'mid feign sickness to get a dose.
Professor Bayliss uses his pamphlet; i Rnii r during the day
... , . .. 1 Would let a drop of the oil fail on a
,in !S,S public schools Hence, we I piece of bead to pr-vent starvation
should study tlie prison history of the | What a fatal gilt t" us was that 13 000
south, and when investigated the fact who were released to go home! We
is revealed that the south's efforts j s° l |8ht relief for federal prisoners;
to release and telieve tlie prisoners | If "as lefusc) ours. (he ingrat-
' ‘ “ “ ' that gift of
senate in reply to Blaine. it was
thought he had for all time spiked;
tile guns that had shot forth calum
nies and
the south concerning
federal prisoners.
Rut the war wages on us yet. The!
G. O. P. objects to a monument to ' ^ ,,pp
Captain Wirz. Front
The return of battle flags was a gen
erotis act, tending towards a "mori
perfect" union, and it is strange that!
the state superintendent, of public in-I
ilie was 25 per cent, and our men were
likewise stricken with diarrhoea, t *
cansp of the greatest number of deaths
Captain Wirz, to whom a monument
will he erected, had deep sympathy Dr
the prisoners, and sometimes had hot
words with General Winder and ids son.
Captain Winder, for tlie meager provision
for tlie prisoners' comfort. They always
replied that they were doing the bet
they could.
Rut to tlie writer it was always queer
that parole was not permitted to thejr
own prisoners, and queerer still that nie.l
icines were refused, along with surgeons
and 'hospital supplies, so persistent,
pleaded for by Major Oould and the con
federate authorities.
swer j'our tetter promptly, giving you, j fc tand forth like high monuments, asjsick
absolutely free, full information and
proof of many remarkable cures. Ad-
dress. Dr Rupert Wells, 2781 Radol
Bldg., St. Douis, Mo.
hobbled toward each other and began
the awful combat. From the start It
could t>e seen that Stakiy was tlie more, was signed Major-General John Pope
testimony to her magnanimity, her tory
generosity, her unceasing humanity.
Let us look into the prison history
of the confederacy.
On July 22. 1862. the cartel was
adopted. All prisoners were to he re
leased in ten days after capture. The
very day after this cartel of exchange
nun. Death-producing
measures put upon our
cause the 13.000 emaciated
l""k like strong, well
fatal gift:
John I. Van Alien,
Anderson villa and t*e.ptain Wirz ar» In
the. public eye at this time, because the
Georgia division, I'nited Daughters of
the Confederacy, have undertaken to rre"t
a. nn numrnt to Ca.ptain Wirz, against
which the Grand Army of the Repubi 1
has taken action and appealed to General
S. D. Lee to prevent it.
"Not even a Christian burial of the re
mains of Captain Wirz has been allowed
by Stanton—they still lie side by side
with tiiose of another and acknowledged
victim of the minitary commission, tli^
unfortunate Airs. Surratt, in the yard "t
the former jail of this city " So wrote
Louis Shade, attorney for Wirz. in 1667.
Captain Wirz was a physician by pro
fession. and was born in Zurich. Switzc
land, in 1822 He emigrated to America,
did not i ' n 1849 lf e served as a private in tiie
men. That battles of Manassas and Bull Run. whec
' he was severely wounded in the arm He
Watkins. ' was appointed inspecting officer of
ret a ba
rn e
Schuyler county, X. Y., acting for the j southern prisons. He was sent to Europe
people of Baltimore, visited Elmira! by President Davis, bearing secret dis
prison for the purpose of distributing I patches to Mason and Slidell In Janu-
.. . ' ary (854. he was assigned to duty at
have invested with almost tropical ; first love.
wealth lie owns one of the most attract-| , n , 872 Mr Harr js wa3 1In i,ed in mar
Ive homes to be found anywhere in the; rlaaP to ^ T ^ Rose , of Canada, an,
neighborhood ol Atlanta, and tlie charm ;
of domestic life which hallows the inte several children have come to bless the first two minutes Sambo stood on his i government all Virginia farmers who
1 union which lias proven little -short of uncertain supports, swinging right and ] were found tilling the soil or sowing
scientific of the two. but at ilie same j on July 23. 1862. issued orders that al-
timo tlie negro appeared to have more! lowed his soldiers to shoot as spies
strength and a. greater ferocity. For the [and as enemies of the I'nited States
rior of tlie villa which he calls his par
adise happily accords with the scene
about him. For many years ipnst Mr.
Harris lias done the bulk of his work
at home, where, seated at the window,
lie can look oir upon his cows and
horses and enjoy the prospect of his
agricultural operations.
ideal. Though timid in the presence of
strangers, especially members of the ifair
sex. from whom he has frequently been
known to run. Air Harris is always at
home with his old acquaintances and
friends, and makes one of the .oiliest of
companions.
left punches at .Tack, and Jack, swaying ‘ grain
| a bit, withstood tlie Onslaught, smiling , within
while he parried tlie wild blows, and
once or twice smashing in furiously.
“In this round tlie negro received a
right smash on the nose that brought,
the blood in a red stream, and sent him | an " pe s
flat on his back. He sat lip instantly. 1 America ’ 1,1 la,Pr
r cultivating crops on farms
his rear, jand even inside his
j lint s. Hundreds were shot down in
j the field before the confederate gov-
kernment could arrest such conduct
[and get Pope's order rescinded.
ea rs
blankets, clothing, medicines etc H
found our prisoners nearly naked.
I he commander stated that he could
not allow any relief as tlie war de
partment rendered him helpless The
lepartment was telegraphed to
poor privilege of alleviating
"t the prisoners. Mr.
Ids letter to the good
Baltimore, says; "The
"as inexorable, and
war
for the
tlie condition
j a n Allen in
Samaritans of
brutal Stanton
refused all entreaties.
A I'nited Stales
duty at Elmira.
1 ork World, tells
ditions, and among other
became in- "Smallpox cases w
-Serious and Bloody Ending to a Humorous
^ Fight Between Two Cripples
and, placing his gloved hands on rhej^nsed even to making war on Spain a manner th
floor, swung bis body clear and dropped ; because Genera! Verier Issued similar ^^ tne ^m'f
on his stumps. orders in Cuba Did WeyW take his a d ja^ ea t ,hat tbT ^ tU , ally Jav
“In the second, third, fourth and fifth cue from General Pope, that illustrious of one of them would'cause ™ oven ? ppl
rounds thp n:pn fought savagely, with j example that so pleased Weyler that bor to cry out in agony o£ nrign-
knock-downs frequent and honors abol^ he ordered his own walk along; the Concluding liis letter, the medfeaf^of
even, but in the sixth Stakiy landed ftjsame palh? ticer says: "And bunderds of sick
, , , . , _ ... , . 1 left drive on tlie black's pibuth, knock- : By persistent effort of our rommis '.'i 11 '? 1 * n no " ise obtain medical
of seeing Jim t orbett defeat John D. , missing, and the black was if anything.; ing . out several teeth, and as Sambo's si0 ner, the cartel lasted one vear. u known^— ,ln ^ I!p,i ' ""coffined and
Sullivan at the Olympic Club , n this very , v . bit larger than tbe white man ml, rebounded from contact with onel Thp confederaw seeing the emaciated ,Elm,, a ?.. JO K t,1P death rate at
city, and of going to lxmdon to witness cligs'. and shoulders. ! nf t|ip thp whit , man nppercut ■ ar a , isn,, . ‘ sma,t compared to Rock
• •Tim , „ ^ . tnlVir : nr T,IP posis tup wnn man ,n • condition of such prisoners as had re- -island. 111.
file negro had om e to Melbourne on!, i vipiously vvith hls riKht- ani1 hroke his j turnP a. was intense in her desire for [ Hock island
Andersonville.
Alexander H. Stephen’s says in ids war
history that “the men at the head of af
fairs at Washington are responsible fo
ail the prison sufferings in tbe sotMb.
All tbe sufferings and loss of life dur
ing the entire war growing out of thee -
imprisonments on both sides are ftistly
cliargeable to but one side, and that s
the federal side. Had Mr. Davis' repeat
ed offers been accepted no prisoner o
medical officer, on ; either side would have been confined i"
writing to the New-! prison."
sad story of con-J Mr. Stephens further says: “To a’°rt
things said; , the indignation which tbe open avowal
rowded in such 1 of the policy not to exchange prisoners
an ^Possibility j would have excited throughout th<* nort*
th-'
HP] queerest prize tight on
record—and it’s not down
in sporting annals at that fhe sIaughtpr of bip Paddy siavin by
— 1 dare say was a brutal (he same Peter Jackson Farnum had
contest pulled off on the whipped.
outskirts of Melbourne, a " rm ,pIli, ’S Y°" these things only to
give you a glimpse of Stemple s charar-
number of years ago, and tpr , mpt j 1 j m j n Melbourne and visited
as I was one of the few his fine house in the suburbs quite
witnesses to the scrap 1 often, and on one. of these visits Stemple
am
that
n a. position to say
aside from its ugly,
bloody features, it had a
phase strikingly ludicrous,
that is if the ludicrous can
teammate with tragedy.”
Thomas, "f i6an Francisco, en-
pirize
short time before.' He was a wan-
opponent's iaw.
derer on the face of the earth, a tramp. I ..e; aniho wpn , doy . n
a beggar.^ who worked at shoe shining'
alms
when he could and solicited
tlie |
rest of the time. He had stowed hini-
but he was tipi in
an instant, hardly dazed from the terri
fic punch, and. howling like a demoil.
olie.
the prospecting and mining said that Jack Stakiy. a well known lo
business, entertaining a. few chance ac- cal celebrity, had long been Rolling for a
quaintances with tlie relation of some of fight with a man in Ills class, hut thp
his varied experiences, was the spiaker, opportunity had never come his way un-
arid tlie knot gathered about, the gentle- til very recently. Stakiy was a poor
man on tlie gallery fronting the St. young fellow, who had both legs crushed
Charles Pn.m Garden on a balmy even- to a pulp below the'knee jbints by a
asked me if I would like to see
fight.
"Like lo see a prize fight? Why. of
course, T would, and so T Informed my
host., hut when he laughingly told me j sporting men in a barroom that he he
that the prospecive contestants were : matched against the black
P gless men, of the same size and w eight, struck Stempie as being a most novel
my ardor was a bit cooled. Stemplejone, and he engineered the thing through,
subscribing a large share of the purse
exchange, and the confederacy was
unprepared for the action of Stanton,
order No. 209. breaking the cartel
By this order federal prisoners were
not to be exchanged or even paroled.
If paroled they were forced hack in
to the federal army. This order. No.
"Stakiy saw the negro begging In the! )lpP(1 t ” I)S " and r p a ,.fij nR Stakiy. who j 209, caught the confederacy unpre
streets one day, and being game for a! was coming -toward him. he grappled! pared to meet the prison problem,
fight himself, proposed to some of thej w .,^ ex-miner. The cripples locked 1 The cemetery at Andersonville was
arms in a fierce embrace, and before be founded on this order. Tt wa
The pl an ; could be prevented the enraged Jamal-1 passing sentence upon federal
he scrambled on hls hands and stumps
self away in a ship in Frisco and finally | loward his PnPmv -. ThP referee and all
wound up in the big Australian metrop-; of , ]f! at , hp riMgsidp .-rierl out: “That's
foul fighting!’ But the negro paid
no
self.
false cry of cruelty toward prisoners wa-
raised against the confederates This wa -
but a pretext to eover up their own vio
lation of the usages of war in this, re
spent among civilized nations "
Again Mr. Stephens declares in hls
“War Between the States;" “The effort
which have been so industrious],i made
to fix the odium of cruelty and baibariU
upon Mr. Davis and other high officials
under the confederate government' in the
matter of prisoners, in the face sf all
the facts, constitute one of th© boldest
and baldest attempted outrages upon the
truth of history which has ever heen es
sayed . ’ *
Jefferson Davis, writing from Beauvoir
prisoners. The climate! December 10, 1888. said: "in tbe matt'—-
old w-inds. merciless nf prisoners throughout thp war. the con-
our men froze to death federaey did less than it would, but the
has
v „ - history within it-
Davis Ah fh" n rT for H. Jefferson
E Lee arc Lincoln and Robert
7?'_ L,eP ? re connected with its nis-
vei-V sem,T,f u' rpmo ^ efl - isolated and
t ' ... sp ‘»t was chosen a.s
taiy puson in the fall
coni Pdi'ra
inhospitable,
blasts. Here
The death
of
m i 1 j -
1863 for |
rm freed his right arm. and. placing | oners, for tlie north knew- that
Hi- P i oners
pris-; thp
the | dersonville prisoners th —
his thumb in the corner of Jacks left j confederacy was without medicines j inglv marched Hv , ney "ere, accord
Of £50 out of his own bank account. I ^ H"™ 1 ' ,OCt ° rS and ? ot p fi" ippp<1 -arc* coast. The captains a lo ***
"The thine was keut nrettv ouiet and , „ , , for prisoners. Hence, Mr. Davis and j fused
thing ta. ken pret . q n t, Tn an agony of pain poor Stakiy [ Colonel Ould the commissioner of p „_! no order,
a regulation ring was pitch'd in | thrust his head downward and fastening! ... H _
of tlie barns in the rear of Stemple s j . , . , « ar nho's neck hit and tnrD ’ anse ' put evei> effoi t to get | sanv |j ]p nnr i J,”'
house. Mrs. Stemple being conveniently ' ‘ ' nf oniverine flesh Th- L SCinfled or<|pr ^ T °- 209 - and Colonel j thp way hack loo p l,Ke st1pp P along
i . - - ■ .absent at the time o„ a visit to her I Woo ^ gpurt o d 'clear across the ring, but: Uuld was * lven ,hp authority |-Here Stanton ’ refused' ^he "weM'’"yei;
ing last we?k drew inro a closer circle great mass of rock falling on liim while j mother at Sydney. Karly on the morning ])V t j me seconds and spectators ln baling* with Major Mulford, I'nited; when they received the “sick" rt ?. et
and s it all attention. tn a mine up country. Of course, the . set 20 of us repaired to the barn, :ook ! WPVp at work dragging the demons | States agent of exchange. Everything j tal 'ated" because they were the sick a'lfi
"The fight that 1 am referring to was crushed members were amputated, and j our places about the ring, and waited | uwrlv . frrm , oat q, „ thpr Luckily there! "as done to emphasize tlie • fact that; not "’e* 1 - Spurned Alexander H. Stephens'
• ' . mission rP ♦ V-. ^ • *
llnies'- s '- ratp w- as 77.4. and three ! beqr il could: and in return received the
Bin it • 8t 'r a * as a f Andersonville. I worst which could he meted out to It.”
that o V i a most forgotten in the south ’■ The English government appropriated
we also offered a gift of “well" pris- ' S20.000.000 to rebuild the Boer homes d°
was understood that vessels on | stroyed by it R armies, but no homes were
nn,.ni. _ Florida would take tiie An- ever rebuilt in the south. General L
visit to
Early on the morning
ook !
and waited |
between wo legless men. unfortunate Jack was doomed to go about the rest! for the fighters to appear. We did not |
creatures who hobbled about on sawed- of his days on stumps, a sadly abhre- | have to wait long, as soon Stakiy and
off stumps at the extremity of their i viated man. Stakiy I remember to have j his attendants were on hand, to he fol-
thighs, capped wTlh leather, and the bout | seen. He was quite a hanger-on around lowed a little later by Sambo and his
was arranged more a s a joke than any- i the pubs, where the fancy and the sport-| seconds.
thing else ling element congregated, and he posed' “The men. stripped to the waist, with
“A man named Stemple. once the i as a hag puncher. He could get around! white trunks extending to the leather
keeper of a public house, out at the time with remarkable agility on the leather i caps of their stumps, and streamers
of which T speak rich in a lafge way [ caps into which his thigh bones fitted, j about their waists, presented a strange
from a successful speculation in sheep, j and he had a great depth of chest, aj picture, one In which hnth the tragical!
was one of the most ardent followers of fine spread of shoulders and long, sinewy j and the comical elements blended. They
the fancy I had ever seen. In his arms, and had he had his legs lie might i were broad enough, hut. oh, how short
young days, whe n just out from Eng- have achieved great tilings in the twen-1 they seemed in contrast tn the height
land, he shone as tlie backer of Did Bill ty-four-foot square. of their seconds, who stood about them
Famum. the hard-hitting collier, who "Stakiy was one of tlie contestants, ! in the center of the ring, while the ref-
pn; the blade giant. Peter Jackson, out but who was the o'-her I asked Stem- eree, a sporting editor on a morning pa- ^ ^ ^ mio-ht add too
of business at an early period of Pe-' pie, and then he told me of all the ar-, per, ’who had been let in on tlie scheme ' "'/'the most' terrible
ter's fighting career, and later he lost i ran gem cuts, plans and so on. The sec-1 after pledging secrecy, gave them their ' ‘ p
nearly all he had acting as tlie backer ■ ond figlilcr was to be a Jamaican negro! instructions. The fight was to be iirf-
of the negro savage. Starlight. I named Sambo, who had lost his legs bylder straight Q'ueensberry, and the men
"Stemple, after he had become rich, | being run over by a surface car 1n New'donned small, hard, two-ounce gloves,
went all over ilie globe to attend prize York. His legs were off about in the| "Soon time was sounded, and the mis-
figh's. and I remember hearing him tell I same place that Stakly's pins werejerable cripples, like two maimed tigers.
'Plains and commanders re-
rJ*to' e t P a!- t c h ti Rlft * Saying ,hev had
's to take them. And we lmri
po °' fellow® bank to A mler-
was a doctor in the party, and it was | we were scant of food, of doctors, of I 'prisoner Ct6f '™ ission of the fed-
h\s skill alone that saved the negro from j medicines—indeed. absolutely unpre- j fused the "weTr^in e pwlvil 0r re , ,ie j-* re '
bleeding to death. As for poor Stakiy. T% ' ° ~ ’
his eye couldn’t he put hack, and he
was doubly crippled. Tt took all the in
fluence of Stemple and his friends to
keep the matter qui
| had to be held in sr
I era! weeks that their wounds took in I
healing. The negro was given a few |
pounds and sent away to Xew Zealand. !
and Stakiy was handsomely provided for j
by Stemple and a few other rich men j
who attended the grewsome spectacle.
pared to bold captives. j them hack to prison yet
A deaf ear was turned to It all. | and persecuted vilely our prisoners onT
It is intsresting history to follow the | °f the emaciated appearance of the*
confederate authorities in their effort to! sp 0t as a gift for huniamr-
and the fighters! abatp pr(son sufferins . C o,onel Ould. ^ '
luslon for the sev- . ....... ..
from tlie day the cartel was disre
garded. pleaded for medicines and
physicians, offering to pay the fed
erais in cotton for them, as the fed
eral captives needed these. No re
plies were made to Commissioner
sa ke
gift was their own men;
horse bearing Greeks.
.. . " r,.-. Hlllimi
„”„\,?V qtrang;er ,han fiction. The
not a Trojan
When Mr.
That
the queerest fight
leans Picayune.
on record, j Juld.
that if j In 1864 prisoners increased fearfully
New Or-jat Andersonville, and to «are for them,
’“•'•anie serious. No medicines for ianiiin F. Butler
Cancer Is Curable
A QUARTER OF
SUCCESS WITH
A CENTURY’S MARVELOUS
SOOTHING, BALMY OILS.
MRS. B. F. SMITH. Columbia, Mo.
Cured of a Terrible Cancer of Fore*
head.
Over a quarter of a century Dr. Bye
has demonstrated beyond a shadow of
a doubt that Cancer and Tumor ar©
Durable diseases with soothing, balmy,
aromatic oils.
A THING WORTH
KNOWING
No need of cutting off a woman’s
Drea3t or a man's cheek or nose in a
vain attempt to cure cancer No use
of applying burning plasters to the
flesh anc. torturing those already
weak from suffering. Soothing, balmy,
aromatic oils give safe, speedy and
certain cure. The most horrible forms
of cancer of the face, breast, womb,
mouth and stomach, large tumors.
Siviv; moveV.
(From Th*' Denver "Ropublh-anA
(■let the first $1,000. After that
sirk. no proper food.
Stephens bad failed in his
humane mission for exchange and for
purchase of medicines and secure doctor-
a . n<1 hospital supplies for tlie federal cap-
ind Robert Ould had failed in' ail
then General Le© himself un-
i" something with the militarv
oinmanders in the field. Genera.! Ben-
was in charge of the
th
ins effort f
dertook
died "a. prisoner on parole." fhe north
should pension all confederate widows
whose httsibands died victims to Stanton's
policy of nonexchange, for the north re
fused exchange and allowed no aid. no
relief. The odium of this prison business
is not ours; the reproach belongs to the
north.
Truss Torture
Once Tkonght Necessary for th<
Raptured, lint Is Sow Done Away
With by a Simple. Xat.
oral Inyentlon.
Wonderfal Appliance Retains anil
Cures Without Knife, Danger ar
Fain in Manner Entirely
Sew and Peculiar
to Itself.
To relieve the ! pris ‘ n ' 1 department, and lie
rcterrevi ihe
Sent on Trial
prisoners and acquaint the Lincoln peno,-j! , ra . ' ian ’ approvingly, and
... .... , , General Grant thus replie '
•abtnei with prison conditions and the; “Cite Po;
I need of exchange and (pedicines and’etal Butler
physicians, a delegation of prisoners! I differ from General Hitch cock
M. TANT. Crete, Neb..
6?vq of oar Mild Method of Curing Cancer: "To©
have performed one of the most miraculous cures
in my case ever heard of."
THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK
Write today for it and learn
how you may b©
CURED AT dOME AT
SMALL EXPENSE
Persons living a great distance from
Kansas City, who cannot come to our
place for treatment, can be treated by
mail ant. express successfully. We
i n miti'rv! i k.„>. k„. have constantly from 500 to 1,500
Mr. L. \v”eon. of Midway Moi. *“'years old, pat,ents whpm are treating by mail,
had one located in the same place and was removed . are from every state in th®
and sore healed in six weeks time. Union, and we have found that where
Mr. Brady Mitchell, of Number One. Tenn., cured the patients will follow our Instruc-
°f epithelioma (cancer) on lower eyelid, by home tions closely a rapid cure is the result.
ugly ulcers, fistula, catarrh, terrible .»* All communications by letter or other-
skin diseases, etc., are all successfully , ^'rf- large ranreHli braas? lex., cured ol „., se wln bp str ictly confidential. Per-
treated by the application of various Mrs. W. a. Southard. Buffalo, Mo., cancer c* sons desiring: to know more of this
forms of soothing oils. brea«t size of teacup, cured by home treatment. vaJuable treatment should write.
set many men to saving:. They fix
upon that sum as the grlitteringr. far-
off herald of a. fortune some time to
b£ made. To a. man on a small sal
ary—a. salary, say. out of which some
thing" can be saved weekly without
too much deprivation—the advice is
good. There is something in it that
acts as a. stimulus to economy. And
who will deny that economy is a good
thing or that any truth that lights the
way to it should not he* known?
Many men. therefore. have heen
buoyed up in their economies by the
belief that the first $1,000 is the hard
est to q;et and that afterward all the
rest would he easy and the good things
! of the world that follow a bounteous
| supply of money would be within easy
reach. It is a pity that tlie man who
invented that saving could not also
have told us with equal advantage how
j lo turn the $1,000 over and make two
of it. ft takes a long time to make a
i wage-earner see that “money works.”
His idea of making money is to work
for it himself. Tt never occurs to him
I that money works much easier than he
I »*an and without any of the hardships
: he himself experiences—that is to say,
i until he has got the first $ 1.000. That
usually makes a young man feel like a
financier, and he talks wisely of in
vestments.
money making is easy. Phis is the u . erf * sent to Washington at urgent i on ° ,,r held in southern prisons
old time sage advice of the hard-head- request of Captain Wirz. These federal! ! l } ot . exchange them. but. every man of
ed. self-made man. That axiom has soldiers and prisoners went on t hat 1 . A ^coonies an active soldier
• . a. , * , j against us, directly or indirectly Tf we
mission of rnanV and cama back and! begin a system of exchange to' liberaJ©
reported "failure.” They told the pels-jail prisoners we will have to fight until
oners their own government had tbc “ whole south is exterminated if w©
hold those' caught they amount to no
more than dead men. To exchange pris
oners would insure Sherman's defeat and
compromise our safety.”
^Wliat an unconscious tribute General
_ _ Tria* torturs is no longer neoeasaiT. Galling
eplled- I dipping truaaea and barbaroua methods of treat
Point. August 13 IR64- Tn ;Dg raptur ®. are *-*7 —Rh by the aonderfi
«— .» . ; . .' To Gen- mvenuion of a quiz: who h?» snent thirty vears tc
On tlie subject of exchange make It absolute;? perfect. The marreheua ne-»
tt i- Brooks' appliance gives to the ruptured initan*
'elief, rest, and security where alt others fail. I<
tops all irritation and restores every part to iti
Grant pays to those veterans lingering
thprn m-iarmci’ /Iwn n ♦
Dp. BYE, 905 S. BROADWAY, KANSAS CITY, MO.i:
Alexander the Great.
Alexander succeeded to the throne of
Macedonia in his twenty-first year. He
died at the age of 32. Thus in the spa.-c
•if about twelve years the young soldier
cad brought the Greek states into sub
mission. crushed Darius and his millions
of Persians and crossed Indus and de
feated the Indian king Poms. Alexander
was not merely a brutal conqueror, hut
tried to weld the various countries into
in northern prisons! Grant
mous at Appomattox, shows’
heart here.
rnagnam
the iron
own
abandoned them and exchange or
medicines they would not get from
Stanton. This created despondency
among the prisoners. Tt is to be
hoped tlie fate of those who went on
that mission was such as should be
fall heroes and brave men. A monu
ment should he erected to them, thus
Illustrating Ihe efforts of the confed
eracy on the side of humanity.
These heroes met the same answer
as Alexander H. Stephens, who was
sent on a mission of mercy in behalf
of the prisoners, authorized by Mr.
Davis to plead for exchange, and fail
ing in that to secure medicines and
needful supplies for such as were kept
in confinement. But Mr. Stephens was: Bui they died, bound hand and foot, jn
not allowed to see Lincoln as he hop- j "retaliatory" shackles. Oh, that "fatal
ed. Mr. Stephens always declared his j kilt of 13.000 si<’k! After that gift, it
mission in behalf of tlie prisoners had! was as if sentenee of death were passed
not heen a failure had he heen allowed ! ,™ r Vl Prisoners,
to see Mr. Lincoln Stanton stopped, tllP WPll ^ lBO nSre To" Florida andlhe 1 ”"©?
him at the 'outer guard. to use Mr. fusal of the gunboats to accep, them
Davis’ language. Admiral S. P. Lee. | But (here was a second march to Flor-
U. S. N., commanding the blockade j Ida. Tn the winter of 1864 orders came
squadron at Newport News communi-| Horn General Howell Cobb to take the
rated with the Washington govern- Ahfi p rsonville prisoners to Jacksonville,
men,, stating the object of Mr. Ste- ^
Pliens mission. To quote Pi esident Macon lawyer, had charge. The prison- !
Davis' own words, "lour mission is; ers were marched in sight of Jacksonville
simply one of humanity, and has no and the order given: “Go to your own.
political aspect," A mopt pathetic whether they receive you or not." and
picture that—the vice president of the '? L ". ■ s ° lr,ie ''a withdrew, and thus closed
confederacy, himself feeble but for j
humanity s sake on a rugged tour to serves, was placed in charge of the sick
Washington -to appeal to Lincoln sj and feeble at Andersonville. nn d was i 1 * m# “
cabinet to save life! I there when the surrender came. iliagea which ewes.
In tiie summer of 1864. by order of Phat "fatal gift" and Stanton's conduct j *!®liear guaranteed,
the confederate government, Robert ' during the "retaliatory period." from the
Mr. Stanton's official report, made on
July 19, 1866. showp that federal prison
ers died. 22.246, while confederate prison-
ei's died. 26.576. The sugeon general of
the 1 nitcri Slates reported Ihe federal
prisoners held by us were 270.000; the
cuntcredate prisoners held north, 220.-
000 Phis tells the pathetic story of that
"fatal gift" of 13.000 sick, sent home to
get \\*>||. No sick were given in return.
uac aitcpwarcla. Truas tortura
truaaaa or* thrown away faravez.
ass
RTiere other® fall is where f ham
my greatest ancceaa—G. B. BROOKS.
.r-r-
£ £U. m SS
TQPdwful relief of this nur»alous „g>
iilaace and no one with rupture con for a smile
lay afford not to have it. ^
K* 0 - women and children.
**■ Mtonjahing auccesa and lasting
Britton, a wealthy roanufac-
% f f»blehem. Fa., ’ vSicre me pryae and
riSSOSP*: J?* 81,1: u wou W be a
fentaw Godsend to the unfortunate who suffei
t 0 " 8 . . a •** could procure the Brooks
lupture Appliance. My runt&e it all hea
ad nothin* era- did it huTyonr appliance
Where others fail la where I have my ■
solid e nip Ira.
onteaerate government, rn'rori : "7, ■' c' 1 ."’'" 1 ’ ln " i mtirmy atnfactorv—£22
mill offered to pay for medicines and! 3C °° pmar,atpfl unti J ; wtim. Do not lay this aride^or
m * m m . ^ W **J * • iv W VUUg Uv 9
Godsend to the unfortunate who suffer
could procure the Brooks'
Appliance. My rupture it all healed up
iance.’’
- my greatest
fl° . . Peds. ialve*, ointment*, or
of any kind, nothing complicated, no
^u»*2 T but just a simple, natural ap-
No fakes or Uea.
refended If not
for foil infor-
iist straight business, and
hivsniro 1 snnnlies also salaries of fed-i Cl ^ S<> ? f J hP "' ar ' was ,he cause of the j sut write today for Brooks
hospttal supplies, also saiarie^ or 1 a | ,- e f usa i „f a ,- e ], P f f un d. I. A. Beresford ibout Brooks'
oral surgeons, to he paid for in cot- Hope, member of larliament. sent over a •"’to* 8 i B
ton delivered directed by th® federal shipload of iblankets to the thinly clad I
or delay, or forget,
‘ 11a ah
Brooke' mareeloui new Appliance. (Ives
f P 5w'bboo*/JhStoi