The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-10
NO WIFE FOR Them.
SEVEN MEN RUN THEIR BACHE-
LoRS' HOME AT WHITE BLUFF.
FATHER AND SIX BROTHERS.
LOOK AFTER ALL THE DUTIES Or
DINARILY a WOMAN'S.

Family is That of the Coles. Who
for Years without the Aid of a
WOman-Thcy Like the Life and
Declare That mo Woman VIII En-
ter It-why None of the sons Have
MRrrfed-Didn't Like Their Grand
fathers ExampIe-Death aud In
White BIufT Home.
Seven men are residents of one house
at White BLUM. and there is not wo-
man on the place Every Bit of work
about the place, household duties, wash
ing, cooking and the rest, is performed
by one or more of the men, and the
strange part about it is that they declare
that they enjoy the life and are deter
mined to stick to It, No woman has yet
invaded their domain, and they declare
that none ever will
The men are the Coles-father and six
sons. Oak View is their home. The
name is derived from the great oaks that
surround the place. These oaks have
been disastrous to former residents of the
place, but the Coles knew better than
their predecessors the danger of drink
ing water in which oak leaves had long
been STEPPED, and none OF them has suf-
fered from the proximity of the oaks
we got the place about eighteen
months ago. said one of the young mon
yesterday, land it came to us with rath-
er DANA ging reputation Within a short
time three of the former owners and
jewellers upon the premises had died,
while two others had become insane In
beginning our improvements and removal
tons, however, we turned our attention
first OF all TO the well, which was I'M
covered and carpetted at the bottom with
many inches of oak leaves that had fallen
from the trees above Right there
was the explanation of the mortality
and dementia among the former residents.
We had heard something about the in
furious effects of water poisoned by oak
leaves, so we looked UP a wen known
physician in Savannah, who corroborated
the report we had heard, saying that the
human system could not stand for oak
leaves, as they would produce either death
or insanity. All of us are still alive and
probably no more crazy than the ordinary
run of mortals, 50 there must have been
reason in what the physician said. for we
cleaned out the we'll carefully, construct
ed a cover for it and have kept il clean
ever since"
Mr.. J. w. Cole is the father of the six
young men who have no aspirations to-
ward wedlock. His sons are Messrs c.
H., j. w, Jr., r. f., Il. H., c. l.. and S.
G., all of them well known as craftsmen
of one turn of ingenuity or another. Not a
trade that could be useful on their place
of thirty-five acres is missing from the
general fund of handieraft that is pos
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rapidly becoming the standard of excel
leuce for all such houses and small
tracts.
why is H." one Of the young men was
asked, that neither you nor any of your
hrothefs have taken unto himself help
meet?t AfFtEt
We'll" was The rather unexpected an
swer, we took warning from the exam
pie of our grandfather The old gentle
nlall fafthffltyS sought to carry out the
Biblical Injunction and his progeny was
about as much like the sands of the sea-
shore as that of any man. Twenty-Five
children called him father and by the
time he died, which was after he was So
we stopped trying TO count his grand
children and REORGANIZATION. They
were legion, and the old gentleman en-
joyed reputation because of his fruit
fulness that spread over the entire state
of Kentucky.
Nov you can see what an example
that was to be Stunned. / don't want
any such aggregation as that. and neither
do any of my brothers. Such an achieve
ment as was my grandfather's would
seem to me to be about all that could
be expected Of one family. and the re-
punishment of the earth has been accom-
plished largely through him.
I'm fact, no woman is needed in our
q hah a
BILE, and we have been 'baching' II for
years Before we went to White Bluff
we had an establishment in Savannah
that knew nothing of women. All the
work that fails ordinarily to the lot OF
woman is done just as satisfactorily by
the cook among our brotherly bunch.
That was an honor that | had for a long
while, but ! have passed it up to one OF
the younger ones, and he is the lady of