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I Logan grille, Ga.
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PORNF.Y AT LAW,
PORCROSS, GA.
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Pjanett and Milton, and in
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TYLER M. PEEPLES, Proprietor
VOL XV.
THE HISTOKY OF SAM JOSE
It is not uncommon rhiug for a
man not worth a thousand dollars,
who lives in a small country town
in a house not fully paid for, to re
fuse the gift of a ten thousand
dollar house in a large city, and
that is what Sara Jones did the
other day in iVashville. And who
is San; Jones.
\\ rilter on the conference mins
! utes it rea ls: “Samual ParkJoDes
Agrnt Orphans Home,’’ but no
body writes him revereud and
everybody calls him Sam. He is
36 years cld, was born in Alabama
and was brought up iu Georgia
His father was a lawyer and his
mother was a sensib'e inteligent
aud excellent woman. Sam vrfjß
precocious boy. He was afvßj
read* for a lively t ; me, a dog fight
» fistienft a fishing frolic or a
speech. VVh nhe was five years
old he was booked for a speeh at
a school exhioition. He ended
his speech with »he prophecy ;‘
“Some day you’ll hear in thunder
tones.
The famous name of Sammy Jones.
He went to the best schools and
look il what he learned by absorp
tion. Nobody saw him study, but
he knew more than any of his fel
lows. The teachers loved him,
laughed at him and lathered laths
wed him. He was full of mis
chief and was about 16 years old
when he hegan to fall in bad ways
He was a vagabond, never a gam
bier or thief or a coward, but he
would get on sprees much to the
grief of hie. good father and
mother.
. A BRIEFLESS LAWTER.
His father look him into his of
fice and Sam was soon “S. P-
Jones, Eb 4-, attorhey a/-.law.” He
had no practice and and no money
but ha met a bright Kentucky
A| irl and married her. Be ran an
pari* drore a dray to make
day Sam who was
m ur
iy .a an engine and was
n..-on aiaoyed by those who fed
the crasher, patting pieces of rock
into the hopper and throwing the
whole ot the machinery out of
gear. Sam declared his intention
io knock the head off next man
who did it. It was done directly
by a hurley Irishman. It was
done diiectly by a big burly Irish
man. Sam seized a hammer and
knocked the Irishman down.
Next day Sam was coming trom
his cabin and in an djieii space,
some distance from every one
stood bis antagonisi of the pre
ceeding day.
“Ye struck me yisterday, said
Bat; “no man ever strike me oncet
who does not strike me agin.”
“Now Pat.” said Sam. “we are
even. You did what I told you
not to do, and I knocked yon as I
told you I would; I don’t bear
malice ; lets drop the matter."
A THREAT THAT PROVES EFFECTUAL.
But the Irishman declared his
determination to have a fight then
and there. The Irishman had only
one eye. Sam looked at him with
yerfect coolness.
‘ Pat,” he said ‘I don’t want to
fight you I can't, you could whip
me in a miuute ; but I can tell you
weat I will do you’ve got but one
eye, and if you lay your hand on
me as sure as yeu are living I will
gouge your eye ou/ and you will
be blind as a bat."
That settled it. Pat knew his
man and muuttering: The man
that will gurge is a coward, ’ lefz
Sam alone.
One day capt. Jones fel. sick,
and in in a little while the prodi
gal son stood by a dyin farmer
He was broken down wi th remorse-
The father died and a great change
came over Sam. He g»ve up bis
bad habits and in (wo weeks he
wes getting ready ty ] reach, That
fall I saw him for the first time—a
sallow, thin faced slouchy little
fellow with s keen blackjeye, he
came to the conference for a cir
cuit. tit got one. He went to it.
He did not dnow much about
theology tlen, in truth he does
know much it i* now but he knew
men and knew their needs, and he
began to preach what made men
jaugh and he knew. He made
men ciy, and ha made men angry
add one day he lost his temper
and came very near wt ipping a
a blacksmith whe made him angry.
He was rather umercitu! to men
whose religeor. was all momh or
all tears.
IN THE OONF.RENCE.
In two years we look Bam into
the conference and settled iUbat.
he would do. Since then hfe/has
won his way. He can draw a larg
er audience to-day than ft£ugh
did or Edwin Booth did. He went
10 Memphis, to JjUirtsvillef to
Kuoxville, to BrocffSiyn and at
to Nashville, they built him ,»
great tent /here. • They abused
him. placarded him, threatened and
rallied around hinv The of
three weeks meetings wis 1,000
members to the churches an 1 2,-
jns. *
Jones sayings have become
Himon property. They are his
wwn. They are gathered from a/1
sources, and they always have a
point. “Brother Jones," said a
neraous brother. “What makes
you chew tobacco ?’’
“To get the juice out,” said Sira
Sam Jones ib like no. one and no
one is like Sam Jones, who loves
the good, acorn the mean and
and helps the weak-—Correspon
dent Philadelphia primes.
IMPORTANT TO SCIENTISTS.
“Just look at this ccin. It is
more then a hundred years old,”
remarked Mi s. Yerger to Roscius
ko Murphy,
“7Tiat’s nothing. I’ve got one
at home that’s a great deal older
,/han that. It’s more than two
thousand years old.”
“Loftk here. When you lie why
dyn’t yon lie so it will sound pro
bable, Don’t you know it is ut
terly impossible for a coin to be
two thousand years old r ’ Observ
ed Mrs Yerger pleasantly.
“Wny ia it impossible.’’
“Because this is only eighteen
hundred and eighiy-five. In sis
teen yr twenty years from now
yon may have a coin two thousand
years old. A coin coaid no/ have
been made before the begining of
time," —Texas Sittings.
WONDER PUL BEDBUGS.
Cue day they were talking in
Uncle Hauk’e gro3ery about large
bedbugs.
“I boiled a bedbug nine hours,
and it "wain around all the time,”
said old fifford
“l put a bed bug in a kerosene
lamp and kept it there four years
and it hatched out twenty-seven
litters of bedbugß right in the kero
sene,” said Campbell
Old Llank Allen, who had
been listening as an outsider
here gaxe his experience in cor.
oboration of these facts. Said
he.
“Some years ago I took a bed
bug to Wood's iron foundry and
drooped it into a ladle, where the
melted iron was, and had it run
into a skillet. Well my old wo
man used that skillet for years,and
here the other day she broke ii all
to smasb, and what do you think
gentlemen ? That Yre insect just
walked ouf from his hole, where
he had been lying like a frog in a
rock, and made tracks for his old
rosts up-stairs.” “But he added
by way of parenthesis. “By gin*
ger. he looked mighty pale.”
A LITTLE THING.
“Have you anything to say in
mitigation of your crime ?"
“Can't say as I have.'
“Have you anything to say be
fore sentence is passed, why the
full penalty of the law should not
be exacted V
“Well, no I reckon not.”
“You have nothing then, to offer
in extenuation of your miscon
duct V'
“Hold or a minute, Judge; I
believe there is one little thingtbut
1 don’t know as it will ccunt for
mush, either. '*
“1 never writ any spring poev
tr J-”
“It is enough The penalty
shall be as light as the law allows
len days, and you shall have tur
key every meal a/ my expense fo r
I used to run a newspaper my
self,
“The most unk indent cut of all’
is frequeatlv furnished ycu by
yfur batcher with ibe assurance
that it is sirlicn.
OUR OWN SECfriON-WJG LABOR FOR ITS ADVANCEMENT
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. JULY 7 1885.
OAT MORGIDGE.’
\
j BOW A OEOROIa CROPPER KARAITES TO
UF.T HIS YEARS RATIONS.
The supply merchants of Geor
gia own the farmers of Georgia
Western corn and bacon have an
annual fight wfith king cotton in
; Georgia and the old king gets
whipped every time.
It was once thualy : “Why do
You plaut eotton T
“To bay negroes.’’ (
“What do you want wi/h so
many negroes^”
“To make more bottom”
“What do you want with more
cotton/”
“To buy more negroes.”
Now it is changed and the last
twenty years it has run thusly ;
“Why continue to plant cotton!’
“To buy corn and meat and
mules with."
“What do you wjnt with corn
and meat and mules!”
“To make more cotton to buy
more corn and meat and mules
with.”
And this ruinous system has run
on and on until now at the end of
the year /he mea/ and corn men
chant shakes his mortgage and
every shake brhgs in a bale of cot
ton and every bale represen’s five
sides of bacon or forty bushels of
corq and more starvation.
The poor fellow who tilis the
soil bn a credit, for another who is
sitting in the shade, resorts to
many devices in order to get his
year's rations. Many times a mule
or a cow is duly described in /he
/npply merchant’s inor/gage and
'frequently the seeker fur supplies
manufactures to order by the
wholesale (in his mind) whole
droves of cattle, several pair of
mules and a pen of hogs, all of
which are duly mertgaged.
Mr. T N. GibsoD, member of
one of our largest supply firms, ;
tells tne following story on one of
bis colored cropper customers :
Dock Coperland, of the Valley,
applied to Gibscn & Sewell, for
credit for supplies. They agreed
to sell him Dock gave him a
mortgage on one mule, two cows
an d six hogs. The clever firm let
Doc have a “year's rations,” and
sent him on his way rejoicing.
Duriug Ihe year as Dec would
come in on .Saturday evening, Mr-
Gibsan would always propound the
usual question asked by the sup
ply men of the customers;
“Well, L oc, how's crops ?”
“Pow’ful fir, Mars Torn. poYv’ful
fur. Eberything am lubley an
dars de peerauce dat tilings am
gwin ter be iniUp Title long bout
gedderiu time,” replies Doc, and
the merchant rests satisfied.
It was a chilly day in bleak lDe
cember. The merchant sat by his
cozy fire in his office. Doc’s ac
count remained open with not a
siDgle credit. The office door gent
ly creaked open and in walked Doc
with hat in hand. His chin was
on his breast, and his under lip
hung low down and altogether he
was the picture of despair.
The merchant rose from his
6asy chair and eyed Doc critically
and after a moment’s pause said :
“Hello, Doc, is that you! Why
ain’t you dead? I thought you
wer6 gone. Haven’t seen you
since crops were laid by. Welli
Doc, how’s crops!”
“Mars Tom, I’se mity poorly. I
ain’t ded do, but I’se not eejoyin
ob my health so berry good at de
present time bein. Yes sit I fee's
rm'y bad. Had mity bad luck.
Mars Tom de cows am gone dead
an de hogs tuk and got de cholery
and died too, whulchyer gwine ter
do wid me ! Yes, Mars fom, dem
dar cows whar 1 gib yer in de
inergidgie wnaryer got, dey tuk
an went ober dar in Marywedder
county wbar dey get dis ’ere stock
law an dem rascally folks tuk an
kilt dem cows, an de hogs dey all
got de cholery, an fore God I
couldn’t sabe nm. But I’se brot
yer de mule, Mars Tom, dar ’e is
out by be back do. Yer can tek
’ltn and gib me credik for ’im,
won’t yer Mars Tom! Hits de
berry bes I can do fer yer. Fore
God dots de truss, Mrs Tone
And a silvery watt red tear trick
eled down the old darkey’s cheek.
“Well, Doc, wo couldn’t aßt no
mo re of a man than that. Yes,
| we’ll take the mule and give the
account ctfdit. and congratulate
yon on the houest. way in whitli
pou have acted,”
The mule was laken and Dpc’s
account was squared on the books
and he left
Early the next sp fjtfig among
/he first rpplicants for credit at
the store of Gibson & Sewell was
Doc Coperl*ud. <nune up
smiling and pleasant, .va “basket
of chips" and greeted Mr. Gib
son .’
“Hi is yer Mars, Tom ? I’se
pow’ful glad to see yer.”
“Well, Doc, thank you, how do
you do!”
“Oh, mity well. Mars Tom,
mightiy we’l, Mars Tom, /’se cum
back ter yer fer ter try to git yer
to let de old nigger bab er few
rashuns fer ter mek er crap wid
de presen/ incumin yere. What
dey er gwine ter ao bout it ? My
bi udder in de law, Sam, bab, er
mule and 1 speks by Me help er de
Lord, de sprang an summer show
ers fer ter cum up square wid yer.’’
And the old chaff bowed and
scraped in a most winsome way.
“Says the merchant: “Well>
Doc, how about our cows and
h >gs! What have you got to give
me a showing on.”
The old cropper broke into a
hearty laugh “Yab ! yah!
yah ! Mars Tom, Lor’ bress yer
sole, yer tink dem dar cows ain’t
done cum baker gin an’ I got ’em
hum now in de lot, an’ dem hogs !
I jess got bak hum in /ime 'miff
to fotch ’em too er gin, fore d'od
I did, Mais Tom, Ain’t dat good?
Y’ab! yah ! yah !”
“Yes, pretty good. Doc. pretty
good,” said Mr. Gibson, “and this
house will never let such a cus
tomer slip. We’ll seil you again
Fix up the the papeis."
And, Doc went home on top of a
load of corn and bacon saying ..
‘Root hog or die.”—Talbatton
New Era.
HIS LOVE WAS CHILLED,
“Love you 1” echoed /he young
man; “why, I’d walk through fire
to sit by your side tor ten min
utes !’
“That’s awfully nice) I wish pa
loved oia that way."
“Doesn't he!’,
“Oh, no. She asked him at din
ner for a S3OO camel’s hair shawl,
and he made her cry.”
“How?”
“Why he said that, with wheat
touching a dollar, and he a kal
million bushels short on a delivery
at eighty-soven cents, she’d better
be thiukiug of six cents a yard.
Why, what ails you, Augustus ?”
“I — l — i hat is, I’ve got to meet
a man at sharp 3. Half a million
bushels short eh 1 Good day, Miss
Fairbanks.”
And he went off kicking himself
for not being in love with an ice
dealer’s daughter.
TRUE NOBILITY.
Many a man has died unhonor
ored, unsung who left in every
footprint, from childhood to the
tomb, a rich and brilliant legacy
worth commemorating was ever
left to the world, which was no:
babtized in tne sweat of honest
toil. From mental and phisical
exertion the earth has been made
lo blossm. the seas have been cov
ered with life, civilizition has shot
its sunshine into the gloom of
rudeness, land science has ruined
its softness.
On every field that bears a
tempting harvest on its breast, on
every brick in every building bat
was ever reared, on every thought
that burns to light the world, iD
every workshop, mine and furnance
and factefy— wherever labor
sweaslsate written the eiedendnls
of true nobility.
—• a • *
“1 told Jones what I thought of
him the other day and I could Sbe
be didn't like i*, He couldn't con
ceal his feelings from me 1 saw
he was mad right off," said
Brown.
“It doesn’t take yon long to
see through a man,’’ observed
Smith admirtagly “What aid he
do.”
“He kicked me down stairs.—
New York Graphic.
WGULDN TFORGET HIM. *
A oenevolent gentleman while
waiting for a street ear, was ap
proached by a negro who asked
him for a nickle. The gentleman
only had a nickle, but there was
something so appealing about the
negro, that he gave him the nickle
aud decided to walk home.
“Thankee. «..i ’ tnuukee. lie
Lawd ain’t gwiueter furget yer fur
dis.”
"That’s all tight.’’
“Y'as, sail, yas.”
Just then the street car came
along and the negro hopped on
with agility
“Here,” exclaimed the gentle
man “You are an old scoundrel.”
“Y’a-, sail, yas, but the Lawd
ain’t gwine ter furget yer Arkan
saw Traveler.
m*• - ——
The revision of the old testa
ment has revived the hopes of
Borne people who expect to haAe
things smoo/hed for them all
through this life. Ic was this ins
terespng fact that induced Shuttle
to attend church yesterday.
‘How did you like the seiiuou?”
inquired a friend as he passed on/
of ihe vestibule.
“Never was so disgusted iu my
life. Why the man took “Thou
shall no/ steal' foi bis text.
Tkat’s a good ’.ext.”
“It’s the sane old text. 1
thought tho new version wouhl
read, ‘Thou slialt not compromise
for twenty five cems on the uol
lat.”—Hartford Post
The s trongest wood in the
United States according to Prot-
Sargent, is that of tho nutmeg hic
ory of the Aruansas region, and
the weakest the West Indian birch
fburseva). The most elastic is the
tamaric, the white or shell bark
hickory standing far below ib
Tbe least elastic and the lowest in
specific gravity is the wood of the
Ficus aurda. She highest in spe
cific gravity upon which in gener
al depends value as fuel isa taiu
sd by the blue wood of Texas>
condalial obvota.
Gail Hamilton asserts that liq
uor is sold to all who wish it in
nearly every town iu the State of
Maine. In a journey last sum
mer for hundreds of miles tbroug .
out thescat/ered villages aud ham
lets of Maine she found the almost
uinersal testimony to be, “you can
get liquor enough in bad places
for bad purposes, but you cannot
get it for good purposes in good
places.”
“Well,” said the college presi
dent, “what do you known ?’’
‘ Nothing," was the freshman's
response.
“Well, you are just four year®
ahead of some of the tber pupils.
It takes them four yeurs to learn
what your know to start wi/h.
Your prospects are fine sir,"
An “ear plug made of vulcanite
and used as a protection against
both wind atd noise is coming it
to use in England. It was
Cnailes Lamb who thought man
would be improved if furnished
wi h an “ear-stopper” to corres
eye-lid whet a relief from tlia clat
ter oj ths street—not to mention
the bores
“I say, Sambo, where did yon
git de shirt siuds?"
“In de shop to be sure.”
“Yah, you just told me you
hadn’t no money,”
“Dat’s right.”
“How did you get dem, den,”
“Wei l I saw on a card in de
window, “Collar Studs,” so t col
lated dem,"
A colored youth named
Andrews from South Carolina,
successfully passed his examina
tioc an 1 was admitted as a cadet
at West Point. Wonder if he
will get his ears trimmed.
The Ildnoise legisla'ure lave
passed a civil rights bill which
pti's a which puts a white man on
a footing of equality wi/h the ne
gro.- Exchange
“Do you love me as well as you
did ?" softly asked the bride of a
week of her husband. “Quite,my
darhug- doctor's bills are so high
that I yoh as well as it is pos
sible for you to be.” he replied
OHNT. WILSON. Jr.. Publisher
NO 17
GEORGIA NEWS.
Measles are raging in Monticello.
a
There are fifteen business houses
in Hogisville.
A new academy building is to be
erected at Harlem.
Pulaski county willsoor. vote on
the fence question
ivn old gentleman living near
Hurlem exprets to make inis yesr
250 bushels of corn and y bales of
i cotton with a 28 year old male)
The visitors on Cumberland Is
land at this time number about
one hundred.
Work preparatory to building
the new court House at Juthbert
steadily goes oc.
An Ocoone man says that he has
drank three quarts of whishy every
day for several years,
Matthew O’Brien, of Columbus
has been presented with a hand
some hunting cased gold watch,
Abiaham H. Morgan, of Way
cross. was the first Pos/raaster in
Georgia appointed by President
Cleveland.
Clayton county can boast of a
man who ia yet in life aud hale
aud hearty, who at one sitting ate
60 boiled eggs.
Allen Pasco; the negro who was
shot in Catoosa county a day or
two while fleeing to avoid arrest,
as died from his injuries.
The “no fence law” sentiment
is growing very fast in Randolph
county. Many who opposed it a
year ago are strongly in favor of
it now.
Congressman Crisp asks for ap
plications for appointments. as
cadet to TPest Point from tne
Third congressional district until
July 20.
A Harlemite says that some time
in the past at his home an egg wa B
boiled and when opened contained
a parfoot grain of corn in its cen
tre.
A good many of the children of
Gibson have just recovered from
light cases of the chicken-pox.
There are two or three cases in
town now.
Dark Corner disirict, Oconee
■ >umy, held an election on the
stock law question on June 23
Stock law carried the day by a
majority of 21.
Prof. G. A ) Gran bury has re
signed the Presidency of the Rey
nolds Migh School at Columbus,
uhicli lie has been so successfully
conducting.
G’oorgu. S. Williamson of Clay
ton county, has a bat made with
his own bunds, which he has worn
egularly since 1871, and it is a
good hat yet.
The Athens Fair Association
has purchased the land for the
fair grounds and will commence
putting up ihe buildings very soon
It is not ssttled yet whether they
can be ready to hold a fair or not
the association will do their best
to give a fair some time in October
if possible.
A rattlesnake bit a mule, an ox,
a cow, and a yearling belonging
to Esquire Ellison, near Cherokee
mills, last week, from the effects
of which the mule has died, and
perhaps the others, stock
was in an old pasture or field that
had been turned out for years.
His enakeship it supposed to be
very large and a l, out twenty years
old.
Amos Ryals. Daniel Ryals and
Th rnton Powell, all colored, have
been arrested in counectton with
Dr. J. Dudley and two otbei
negroes, charged with burglary
at Warwick. It now appears that
Dr. Dudley had nothing to do
with burglarizing the store, but
that he either bought or took
charge of the goods after they
were stolen.
At thaJanrary election, 1885, in
Clayton county, there were three
candidates for Clerk of the Su
perior C'iurt, the sir names of each
of whom commenoei with a “K;”
An incident of this kind has
pjo iably never occurred in any
cenntv since the organization of
the government. Upon reflection
it will be seen that comparatively
few names commence with K-
GWINNETT HERALD.
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EDITORIAL BREVITIES.
Influential men in the Domin
ion are using their best efforts to
save Rief from the gellows.
Governor Hill of New York re
fuses his assent to the Broadway
Arcade Railroad bill.
The Onio Repu oiican State Con
veiiti h nomiuHted ex-Judge For
akcr for f/overnOr.
A serious riot occured on Sun
day at a negro camp meeting at
Mount Zion Church, York county,
S. C. One man was killed, two
fatally and twenty seriously injur
ed by knifes and razors.
Four of Pinkerton’s detectives
are in Canada, and it is thought
they are on the trail of Scott, the
Mabhatian Bank aos - >nder, who
go/ away with SI6<!,OOU ca h.
A dispatch from New Rivrf,
Tenu., c n the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad, says that a tunnel caved
in Thursday on a construction
train, and six persons were killed
and twenty wounded.
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The yach/ Stiletto, built on a
new plan, distanced the Mary Pow
ell in a race to Si£g Sing. The
twenty-eight miles was made in an
hour aud seventeen minutes, the
fastest time ever made. The same
plan in a regular yacht and on en
larged principles ia expected to da
velop wonders.
The bill exempting soldiers
from the operaii<ras of the civil
service rules passed the Massach
usetts Legislatnreto be engross
ed.
James H. Ratter, President of
the New York Central and Hnds
son River Railroad, died at his
country home in Irvington, N. Y.
He was a prominent railroad man
M”. Rutter was born in Lowell,
Macs,, February 3 1836.
A Probibitary liquor law riot
took place at Spring vale Me.
Much damage was done although
no lives were lost
An expio-ion occurred at the
famous Sanio Tibnroco mine in
Mexioo. 1‘ ive hundred cases of
giant powder explobed. Ten per
sons were killed outright and as
many more wounded. The mine
and everything near it are a com*
plete wreck.
Jotio Rowley fell 228 feet down
a shaft of the Athens, Pa., coa{
mine ard was crushed,
In the conflagatiou at AuxCayes
Ifayti, on May 15, 300 buildings
were destroyed and 1,000 families
were rendered homeless. The
oss is estimated at. over $2,000,-
000.
The bill to apportion the State
into Congress districts was passed
in the Pennsylvania Seneate over
tie (Joyetv or’s veto by a two
thirds vote.
Many lives ure reported to have
been lost by the wrecking of fish
ing of fishing boats on the New
England count.
Mr. Van Booklen, the, American
citizen who was imprisoned in
Hayti has, Las been released.
A Kentucky wonman ssks the
annulment of her marriage because
she believes the man with whom
she has lived some eight years
has negro blrod.
A temperance corvsntion in At
lanta Ga., indicates the growing
popularity of prohibit’ontion that
state.
David Wayne engineer, J, J.
Cleaver, conductor, and J. Duck
house; fireman was kiled. neaa Nor
riston Pa., by by a collision of
freight trains-
G. Cooper of Estillice Dakota
while standing in bis barn waa
struck and instantly killed by
lightning.
Hsnry Miller, of Lewiston. Me.,
lias a piano which was made in
London in 1725.
A Miiford (Conn) man claims to
have canght eight clams weighing
eight pounds,
Sir Peter Lumsden declinee to
accept a sword of honor until he
js on more amicable terms with the
war office