The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-03-20

He had named his fine mare Emma
so that he could call her Hemma,
reckon. But we made him finish the
story afterwards and tell how one good
friend volunteered to 60 after the II
cense, and another after the preacher
and his landlady and her daughter
baked some cake and got up hextra
supper and they were married that
night at her 'ouse, and all he remem.
bers about what the preacher said
was Whom God attn Joined tUgetAer,
let no man put hasunder," "old Hook"
was patriot, good, honest and true
man, His neighbors at his home in
Dawson county all loved and honored
him, and there was not a man In his
regiment (the Eleventh Georgia) more
beloved by the men that he fed, for he
was chosen their commissary early In
the war, and you know 1t is so natural
to love those who feed you we'll When
rations were short he would travel all
night to secure supplies, and the boys
knew that If "Old Hook" couldn't get
what they wanted nobc dy could. But
In course Of time the old man got sick
and wanted to go home. Other officers
had got furloughs, but he had never
asked for one. He went to bed and
sent for me and told me he was sick
and II he didn't get furlough he be.
lieved he would get sicker and perhaps
die away from 'ome. | suspected that
he was homesick, but he looked sick
and sent up his application. The ar
my had been for some days sweltering
In the hot summers sun not far from
Richmond. The application was re.
ferred to headquarters at Richmond,
and | took 1t In to the proper Official,
wno glanced at II and said: "Impor.
tant movements are daily expected,
and all rurloughs to go home are strict.
ly prohibited. The best | can do is
TO send the captain to Farmville for
thirty days" There was an army hos.
pi.di at Farmville, which was only 30
miles south Of Richmond, where sick
officers were sent to rest and be treat.
ed for their ailments And so he In.
dorsed upon 1t Farmville, and in the
next blank said thirty days. Suddenly
a thought struck me that could not
resist. knew that 'old Hooks" post.
Office In Georgia was named Farmville.
| stepped into a hotel and took a pen
and quickly added Ca" to the word. |
knew that this was risky and ras.
cally, but told him to get ready to
leave next morning How quickly he |
frightened up and how thankful he
was to me. He went home on that
pass and came back in due time, re.
newed and recovered. He said the
conductor looked ard at him and at
the pass, but let him so by the hos.
pital and then he felt safe, knew
II had told him what had done he
couldn't face the music and tell lie,
After the war his people sent him to
the legislature and my people sent me
there, too, and we rejoiced to get to.
gether again every night and rehearse |
the soul-stirring times that we had in
old Virginia.
From time to time | receive good,
earnest letters from the young folks
girls and boys-asking what books to
read and where TO get them. One
came today from young miss who is
teaching a country school, She says
she cannot go to college, for she is too
poor, but manages to save little mon
ey and wants to know what books to
buy to improve her mind. Well, IL
was too poor to buy some good ency-
clopedia, would buy Shakespeare,
Macaulay, Goldsmith, Tom Moore,
Burns, Pope Gray, Cowper, Campbell,
Tom Hood, Caldrdge, Wordsworth and
some of scdtt's novels such as Ivan.
hoe" "Kenllworth" and Anne Of
Guernstene." Buy some Of Dickens
works, as "Dombey and Son" and "Da'
yld Copperfleld." Then there is "John
Halifax" by Mrs. MULCH, and Zen
Thousand a Year." by Warren. Buy
1.-THE Vicar Of Wakefield" for the sake
OF the hermit. OF course our own au.
thors should not be neglected, such as
some of Irvings works and Haw-
thorne and Longfellow and Bryant
Buy Halleck for his Marco BoEaris"
II nothing else. There are two text.
books by Miss Rutherford, of Athens,
Ca, the cultured principal OF Lucy
Cobb institute, that should be in ev
cry respectable household. One is
English authors and the other is Amer
lean authors. Both together make a
good library and are always ready for
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