Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-04-02
LOGAN'S HISTORY.
SHEETS NOTED BYA HUMOROUS
CHICAGO SCRIBE.

the Generals hands. The matter will not
be changed much, if any, but Mr.. Logan
has a laudable desire to keep up with the
times in language.
For instance, the sentence in the first chap
ter describing the enrolment Of his regi-
ment, the Thirty-seventh Illinois, reads:
II found great enthusiasm among the
men, who had com many miles and was
footsore and weary"
Mr.. Logan is not sure of the word land"
connecting "footsore" and "Weary," and it
will probably be changed to cor" to save
the sentence from tautology.
BUTT is the chapter devoted to Sherman's
march to the sea that is lurid with pen pic
lures and grammar:
"NIe and Sherman decided to 60 through
Georgia like bullet through cheese. My
men was crazy when told them that they
ing with ham and chickens. What they
wanted was square meals and no rebate, and
1 promised them the best the country raised.
"When we reached Rome l says to my
self must have some roast chicken at all
hazards. Chickens was high them days
they roasted high, too. 1t seemed to me
that chickens knoWed there was big fight
going on. During the first year of the war
they roasted on the loWerest rOost and could
be seized right easy by the forager. After
the battle of Shiloh chickens in the South
seemed to get more sense and roasted one
roost higher. think they heard the ground
shaking all round them and was scarry.
81 remember at Peach Tree Creek one
elegant hencoop was within reach of my
men. / gave the most positive orders that
the man who fired into that chicken coop
should not taste the fruits of victory-mean-
ing roast chicken. The enemy fortified the
coop and placed a battery inside. Above
the roar of artillery we could hear the
squaWking of the fowls and we were afraid
that the COnfederates was making chicken
fricassee. Nothing could hold my men when
they heard them fowls a screeching. We
cleaned out that coop inside of fifteen
minutes, and the Rebels were forced to fall
back on an impregnable pig-pen.
''As was saying when we got to Rome
we found that chickens had evacuated their
coops and was camping out on the topmost
boughs of the trees. They had went to the
top roost in the cOops, but found them un-
safe, so they came out for safety. How was
we to get them to come down and be eaten?
Somebody advised to cut down the trees,
but was adverse to uselessly destroying
property.
$50 l ordered up some sharpshooters and
told them to do their prettiest and soon the
birds was dropping thick and fast with dull
sickening thuds. l shall never forget that
Roman chicken pie"
Nobody doubts that General Logan made
excellent history with his sword. 1t was to
get his own story of the battles which he
gallantly fought that the Chicago Union
Veteran Club adopted resolutions urging
him to add his contribution to the war lite
rature. When the compositors saw the
Generals copy they struck for 7S cents
thousand and 81 an hour for correcting
proofs. This will make the book rather eX-
pensive, but the General has many friends
and his terse style will be admired by bib
liophiles.
REsTLEssNEss OF OLD AGE.-Those who
have been much with the aged have observed
their years, which expresses itself in rest
Iessness and desire for change. They grow
weary of the inactivity which has succeeded
the busy time when they bore the heat and
burden Of the day, and so, sometimes, they
wander here and there, dropping in to visit
a friend or talking with chance acqualn-
tance, trying thus to while away the tedi-
Gus hours. In mistaken kindness and un-
kind affection we often oppress dear, aged
people by our very care. They dislike su-
pervision. The tender watchfulness which
to us seems due to their physical feebleness,
as we'll as fit return for their care for US
in earlier days, is by them resented as re-
straint. 1t annoys them. Then, too, we
try to take all the work out Of their hands
and that they don't like. Nobody who has
been active and useful enjoys the feeling or
being laid on the shelf
Grandfather's step is uncertain and his
arm is less vigorous than of old; but he pos
sesses rich treasure of experience and he
likes to be consulted. 1t is his privilege to
give advice his privilege, too, at times, to
60 into the field and work with the youngest,
renewing his youth as he keeps barely up
with the hearty men not half his age:
Grandmother does not want to be left out
of the household work. When the days
come around for picking and preserving,
and the domestic force is pressed into SER
vice, who so eager and full of interest as
she? 1t is cruel to Overrule her decisions,
to put her aside because "she will be tired"
Of course she will be tired, but she enjoys
the fatigue, and rests the sooner for the
thought that she is still Of some use in the
world.
To those whose homes are honored by the
presence of an aged parent we would say,
deal very gently with those who are on the
down-hill of life. Your own time is COM
ing to be where they are now. You, too,
are "stepping westward" Soothe the rest
lessness Of age by amusement, by considera-
tion, by non-interference, and by allowing
plenty of occupation to fall into the hands
that long for it. Only let it be Of their own
choosing, and cease to order them as if they
were children. A hoary head at fireside
is crown of glory to the house in which it
dwells. The blessing of the aged is as dew
on the pasture, as the falling of sunlight on
a shadowy place.-Phiiadelphia call.
PASSING TWO TRAINS ON THE SAME
TRACK.-I was on a mule train once going
up to mining camp. We were circling
about mountain when we met another
train coming down. The road was just
was plenty wide for one wagon, but not
quite wide enough for two. But the mule
Whackers knew just what to do and lost no
time in doing it. They got out their pine
blocks, pulled the head wagons close t0geth-
er, set the brakes on one, and put blocks un-
der the wheels of the other. Then they
started the mules up and pulled the hubs of
one wagon right over the hubs Of the other.
The inside wagon was right agin the rocks,
while the tires of the outside wheels on
t'other one were within half an inch of the
precipice. 1t did my heart good to see those
mules pull. The whole six of 'em would
squat little, tighten themselves in their
collars and pull gently, steadily together
steadier nor six men could ma done IL.
Why, those mules knew just what they
were doing, and they knew just as we'll as
that if they gave jerk an slipped
a wheel over the edge the whole concern,
mules and all, would be 1000 feet down the
gorge in the jerk of lambs tail. Hub
after hub and wagon after wagon the work
went on, and that's the way we pass two