The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-26

dred' pieces of artillery, fntermingled with the Bursting of several hundred shells. The emotions they produced conidn.t enced during the first moments of that storm.
 Sam Oliver was my constant friend. He was expert in playing sweepstakes a1 ahos. sorces Sps Ss would sve Jacket pockets filled with marbles; the other. with tops. Sam was sturdy. fight. There was big boy. much larger than Sam, with whom he had, on an average, about one fight week. One day they were having % some words ,a,h when ,n whip you and I'm going to do it." Enough said! At 1t they went. Sam gave the boy q worse whipping than usual. I thousht he put in few extra Sam was my childhood's ideal. In my old age, think of him as one of the
 noblest boys ever knew. He would fight the big boy, He A befrisnded ,tn the in. Tt,
 strong; the noble help the helpless.
 Years ago I heard that Sam was dead.
 His little friend has never forgotten him.
 One noon Jim Hutchinson and my
 brother had a fight on the sidewalk, at
 the corner of the Colclough lot. The
 boys Were evenly matched and fought
 rs slsa ssrs ss The osss eao soys s ! wall that excluded the combatants from my view. I couldn't tell how the battle was going ! danced around the ts around the wall, wild with fury--trying to break through to Jim's assistance.
 Charley Ball. noticing Airs efforts, caught and held him, until the fight had recess that afternoon to get my lunch, Charley, who went to his dinner ard consequently had no lunch, said to me: You You ought to give me 2 biscuit .yoS you fully. the obligation was under to Char ley for services rendered, and willingly divided my lunch with him. In fact, I would cheerfully have given him do9en was a cadet at West Point at the open ing of the war; resigned, entered the Confederate army. and did gallant ser vice as Colonel Of a cavalry regiment. There was rain cloud gathering when school was dismissed that evening. My brother hurriedly saddled his pony and We started for home. Jim, with Ali seated behind. overlook us in Bogue- homme, just as the rain was beginning to fall. He had an umbrella; my brother had none. He halted and extending the umbrella toward my brother. saying: Joe. take my umbrella. I can ride fast before I get wet" HostiIities were never resumed. Jim's father, Mir. J. J. Hutch inson, and my father, were fast friends. They did not ,. belong to the same sa1s.p polit. a candidate for office. Mir. Hutchinson would come to htsN assistance with all the
 earnestness of his nature. He movc1 about ea I is5o. Jim 'G; graduated. % a year or two before the war. at Tuscaloosa. with first honor, entered the Confederate ser- vice AS aide de camp to General Rodes, and fell, the l2th of May at Spottsyl- vQnfa linn hnrSahack daah- ing over the field of Gettysburg, car rying dispatches from General Rodes. I thought of his boyhoods battle. Ali Tuscaloosa. with first honor; entered the Confederate service, and was, killed. Joe, the younger brother, graduated year or two after Alf, at Tuscaloosa. with first honor, entered the Confederate ser vice and was killed. heard, after the war. that Mfr. Hutchinson was dead-had died of a broken heart.
 suspect Tom Bagby was the most gifted boy In school. but do not think he was very studious. He was too mis- chievous for that. His dark eyes were ever twinkling. The scholars would re- cite selections on Friday evenings. Toms seat was in such a position that he could not be seen by the teacher When ever boy would begin his speech Tom would contort his face in such manner certed. In the event of the teachers looking around to learn the cause. Tom could be seen with his elbows upon the desk and his eace in his hands, the pie gomcry hefore the war. believe he had commenced to practice law. Had he lived and applied himself he un- doubtedly would have made brilliant man.
 Wick Parsons used to go home to his dinner. He would return in the afternoon with a pocket of gingereakes. At recess he would swap with me q ginger cake crazy Just to think of & gingercake for biscuit! Why, a gingercake was four or five times as large as biscuit, and ever so much sweeter: But Wick's fath- gotten sorter tired of ginKercakes. His younger brother, whose name I do not recall, was among the anarchists who were executed in Chicago for the part they took in the Haymarket riot.
 Oliver and Raymond Reed lived near the school house. The boys who had talent for alliteratlon would call the latter Raymond "Rowdy' Reed. They or '54.
 Dick Goldthwaite was the. only boy in school l would tackle for 8 game of mar bles. had noticed that Dick had very He would hold 1t between the tips of the thumb and index finger. give 1t altwtst and let it fly. had noticed. that pc. that Dick seldom. if ever. piumbed to the mark. So felt that I was a match for him. Frequently two little boys. off to themselves, could be seen on the Col clough sidewalk laboring at a game of marbles. Dick was two years my senior, but he always toted fair. He wouldn't fudge-much. It strikes me that heard that Dick was an officer in the artillery service during the war. l wonder if he Is still living!
 Hailes Taylor was the champion pugl list of the younger set. always gave him a wide berth After the lapse of ler's office during the late reunion. recognized him instantly and made my self known. He refused to believe that I represented all that was left of his little schoolmate. Tom Taylor and George Hailes joined us. We forgot all were no longer veterans. We were boys a gain. We had a juvenile reunion. all to ourselves. Hailes accuses me of hay ing given him whipping some fifty odd V, ;,rs ago. He is certainly mist lken. That doesn't tally with my record at the "other fellow"
 Just as the boys, with shouts of joy, rushed out the schoolhouse, one day at noon. drunken man, nn horseback. happened to be passi lg. The man sup pose. ina aglned that the boys were shout Mir. Morris, passing on his way to dinner, said to the man: Don't pay any attention to them! They are nJthing but boys" The man replied: T am nothing but a boy myself. I'm drunken man, and I took the statement. | seriously; but 1t puzzled me no little. l The boys realized instantly. that they | had found a rare bird. and were de- | lighted with the find. Without any pre- l