The age-herald., 1900-05-26


 Be careful of thy actions, and do not
 quarrel"
 Beware of law and quarrelling, and avoid them; in thy business thou wilt
 have many troubles; yet with care it will
 succeed
 "A child born on this day will have an excitable mind, and will succeed best in
 employ. If female, her husband will be an unfortunate man."
 Hire maidservants."
 Did I ever tell you how a swan twice
 raised the Confederate flag on Fort Stump | ter?" asked pr. l. D. Morgan of Eutaw a noted Alabama surgeon in the service of
 the confederacy. "on the staff-of General | Alfred H. Colquitt, afterwards a senator | for Georgia, there were at Charleston ten | surgeons, and I one of them The | general called us before him one day and
 informed us that it was absolutely neces- | sary to relieve the solitary surgeon with | General Klingman and the garrison of | Sumpter; that the surgeon had been on | duty two or three weeks and was suffer- | ing from nervous exhaustion. Now, 1 want a volunteer to go to Sumpter and I l will call the roll of you gentlemen, be-
 ginning with the oldest said General Col | quitt, and he proceeded to do so. Each | man as his name was called gave some | excuse for not volunteering for what seemed to be almost certain death, for the mere act of getting to the fort was ex- | tremely hazardous. Finally my name was | reached, and l stepped out and saluted. | Morgan, what do you say?' he asked me. | General I made answer, if I ever volun- | teer for such work as that, I hope you | will have me shot for madman If you say go, I go I obey I await orders. I | offer no excuse He smiled and was not displeased. The last name called was that | of little fellow named Swann who had { been surgeon in the Sixth Georgia, Gen. 1 eral Colquitt's old regiment. 'Swann, what
 about my brave old regiment-what say you? asked the general. Swann straighten- | ed himself up and quietly answered: Gen eral, l volunteer to go to Fort Sumpter' | Brave man, brave man. cried Colquitt "Swann got to Fort Sumpter alive, and | was received gladly. Shortly after he re- ported for duty a 30O-pound shot from the | Federal Swamp Angel cut down the Con federate flag. Klingman called for a vol unteer to replace the flag. Nobody re- | sponded. Swann saw that something was wrong, and asked the general what it was. | He was informed. I'll put the flag back, | said Swann, and promptly he proceeded to | his task. He quickly ran the flag up, and | fastened the stay-ropes with wooden pegs | driven in the mass of mortar stone and | sand He came down unhurt and was | cheered. Instantly the flag fell again. cut | down by shot from the Federal battery | Damn those felowsr muttered Swann and then he asked for iron pegs Taking three or four of these, he again mounted l the shot-broken rampant, ran up the flag second time, fastened the ropes with the | iron pegs and got down without a scratch l The flag remained flying after that Ev- cry officer and every man were proud of | Swann, and forthwith lllingman sent a | dispatch to General Bea ttregard telling of Swann's remarkable deed, and saying that if he had thousand men like Swann he could hold Fort Sumpter against the com-
 bined navies of the world Beauregard had the dispatch posted at his headauarters and declared that he would bulletin it to the whole army noble example. Soon after that l met noted newspaper corre- spondent named Alexander. He told me of the dispatch but said he couldn't remem- Der the surgeons name; said it was an odd name, something like the name of bird | or fowl I knew it was our Swann, but I suggested that the name of the brave sur | geon might be Pelican. oh, yes: that's | it. cried Alexander Pelican to be sure. | Tell General Colquitt that I'll dine with | him on Saturday When Alexander ar | rived on Saturday, we were all, Swann in- | cluded, at General Colquitt's headquarters. | .Ah, my general! Alexander exclaimed, | T congratulate you upon the splendid he-
 roism of your Surgeon Pelican! An, brave | Pelcanv Colquitt looked at Alexander | and then at us, and we looked at Colquitt,
 and then at Alexander, all in amazement. | Suddenly the truth flashed upon Colquitt, and he burst into laughter, crying 'Swann! Swami! Swami You mean Swami Q | yes; Swann it is,' replied Alexander, and | there was great fun. But 1t wasn't Swann | who twice raised the flag on Sumpter-it was B brandy declared Colquitt, and there | was roar of laughter. The laugh was on l the brave Swann. We had happy din- | ner. B brandy, it is needful to explain. was a certain brandy brought through the | blockade for Charleston liquor house, and 1 supplied to the Confederate forces under | the usual conditions
 Thomas Sully of New Orleans was in | Birmingham yesterday He contemplates 1 coming to this city to permanently reside. | In any event, he hopes to bring his family | here to stay for a month two. MT. l Sully is one of the most successful of | southern architects. The New St. Charles l hotel in New Orleans was designed by him. ,as were other important buildings in that | city. His opinion is that Birmingham of- 1 fers much to a good architect, and in that | he shares the views of all observant men 1 here and of leading business men through | out the country.
 "Blackman's cartoon in today's Age-Her- | aid on the partial eclipse of the Confeder- ate reunion by the fair sponsors is very clever and happy" said a Confederate veteran. Tt looks as If there might be | more sponsors at Louisville next week | than there will be veterans; but perhaps