Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1902-02-26

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 ne was
| chosen tn cir 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 II "Old Hock'' couldn't get
what they wanted nobody 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 if he
| didn't get furlough he believed he
would get sicker and perhaps die away
| from 'ome. l suspected that he was
| homesick, but he looked sick and sent
| up his application. The army had been
| for some days sweltering in the hot
summers sun not far from Rich mond.
| The application was referred to head
| quarters at Richmond and l took 1t in
| to the proper official, who glanced at
| 1t and said: important movements are
daily expected. and all furloughs to go
home are strictly prohibited. The best
l can do is to send the captain to
F'armville for thirty days" There was
an army hospital at Farmville, which
was only 80 miles south of Richmo
Where sick officers were sent to rest
and be treated for their ailments. And
| so he indorsed upon it Farmville, and
in the next blank said thirty days.
suddenly thought came over me that
could not resist. I knew that "Old
Hooks" postoffice In Georgia was
named Farmville. I stepped into the
hotel and took a pen and quickly ad-
ded Ca" to the word. knew that it
was risky and rascally, but did it.
and took it to "Old Hook" and told
him to get ready to leave next morn
Ing. How quickly he frightened up and
how thankful he was to me. He went
home on the pass and came back in
due time, renewed and recovered. Ho
said the conductor looked ard at him
and at the pass. but let him go by the
hospital and then he felt safe. I knew
IL had told him what had done he
couldn't face the music and tell a 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 10 time I 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 teach
Ing country school. She says she can
not go to college, for she Is too poor,
but manages to save little money and
wants to know what books to buy TO
improve her mind. Well, if / was too
poor to buy some good encyclopedia,
would buy Shakespeare, Macaulay,
Goldsmith, Tom Moore, Burns, Pope
Gray, Cowper, Campbell, Tom Hood,
Caldridge, Wordsworth and some of
Scotts novels such as "Ivanhoe."
"Kenilworth" and Anne of Guern-
stein" Buy some of Dickens works, as
"Dombey and Son" and David Copper
field" Then there is John Halifax" by
Mrs. Muloch, and Ten Thousand a
Year" by Warren. Buy The Vicar OF
Wakefield" for the sake Of the hermit.
OF course our own authors should not
be neglected, such as some of Irvings'
works and Hawthorne and Longfellow
and Bryant. Buy Halleck for his
Marco Bozaris" II nothing else. There
are two textbooks by Miss Rutherford.
or Athens, Ga, the cultured principal
OF Lucy Cubb institute, that should be
in every respectable household. One is
English authors and the other is Amer
lean authors. Both together make a
good library and are always ready for
reference. / had rather give up any
two other books than those. "The
Fisherman's Prayer" by Jean Ingelow.
in the first named, is worth twice the
cost of the book. Now most of these
books can be bought nicely bound at
prices from so cents to 81. But there
are hundreds of good books by such au-
thors as Mrs. Austin and Charlotte
Bronte and Mrs. Hemans, Mrs. Sigour-
ney and others. | name only a few to
ht the slender purse of our young peo-
pie. You can now buy the plays of
Shakespeare separately for a small cost.
and so would get Hamlet" Mac
beth" Romeo and Juliet" and "Mer
chant Of Venice" When you ale able
by all means get a Cyclopedia OF bio
graphy, so that you can turn to the in
teresting sketches Of any great man or
woman, such as Gallileo, Mozart. Han
del. Raphael. Beethoven. Audubon.
Linnaeus and hundreds of others. But
don't crowd your youthful mind with
modern novels. They are made to sell
that's all.--Bill Arp in Atlanta Con-
stitution.