The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-30
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A hitherto unpublished story of Stone
wall Jackson is told by Former Governor
Thomas G. Jones. Governor Jones was a
student at the Virginia Military Institute
when Jackson was professor there at the
outbreak of the war between the states.
Jackson was rather a stern disclplinarian.
Jones had been at the institute for two
or three years, and had come to be a SER
geant of the cadets. He had one day TO
drill an awkward squad, and lost his tenn
per in his work; whereupon he made the
boys "double-quick around a tree. He had
them going it hard, when suddenly he
heard from behind him the short, sharp
command, ''Double-quiek, there!' Double
quick!" repeated the wrathful future gov
ernor of Alabama.
mo! You, sir! Ealt!''
Jones looked behind him, and there stood
cold Jack" as Jackson was called by the
boys.
"You, sir! You double-qulck yourself!'
Jones looked at his Superior officer in
amazement.
Doubie-quickr' was the stern command
and instantly Sergeant Jones was trotting
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oughy indignant, and furiously angry. His
awkward squad looked on.
Within an hour Jones had sent in his
resignation. In answer he received an in
vitation to sup at Jackson's home. He de-
cned. Then came an order for him to re-
port to Jackson instantly. That order was
obeyed. After some talk, Jones said, But
you, sir, Inundated me before my menu
"You lost your temper" said Jackson,
calmly; land, besides, you forget that you
are not an officer at alll' That ended the
trouble and now nobody more reverences
the memory OF "OId jack than Governor
Jones.
"The fish are fairly leaping to the hook
in the Cahaba river said an angler. "A
friend of mine one day this week caught
sxty-hve trout, and most Of them were
very fine. Perch seem even more anxious
than the trout to get caught, whilst as re-
CARDS catfish and cells, they fight for the
opportunity of being taken out of the
water. A great many fishing parties go
from Birmingham over the mountain to en-
joy the sport the Cahaba now so abundant
ly offers That is particularly true of Sat
hire a wagonette, stock it with provisions
| and beer, and on Saturday afternoon drive
to the river, camp there and spend Sunday
fishing. 1t is great fun. All the meat
taken is breakfast bacon to fry the fish
with. Bakers bread and cornmeal are
taken in abundance, and the anglers feast
and enjoy the woods. What more could
any man wiSh?''
Colonel j. M. Falkner's plantation of
sixteen hundred acres, near Montgomery,
is supplied with water from one bored well
three and one-ffalf inches in diameter and
200 feet Deep said man familiar with the
facts 1.-THE water is chemically pure, and
is very abundant. Alongside the we'll is a
great jug sixty feet deep. At the bottom
of this Jug pipe connects with the well,
and the water flows in, uniform depth of
sixtcens feet being maintained, notwith-
standing the. great demand for water on
the plantation. Colonel Falkner has the
finest dairy in Alabama. IL not in the
south. Nearly all his milk is pasteurized.
and is never delivered to purchasers ON the
day of milking. The skinned milk Is fed
to pigs and calves, of which Colonel Falk-
ner raises large numbers. The colonel has
arranged for the shipment from BirIning-
ham of many carloads of Stag to be placed
about his stables and farmstead in order to
prevent mud. His land is prairie and it
easily becomes muddy. Colonel Faulkner,
who is one OF the best loved of all men, is
justly proud of his plantation"
Charles p. Jackson, of Montgomery, for
several years clerk of the Alabama rail-
road commission and now with the Mobile
and Ohio road at Montgomery, was in
town yesterday.
T. s. Kyle, of Gadsden, spent yesterday
In town. t.,,t,.i.uk%