The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-03-14


reckon. But we made him finish the
story afterwards and tell how one good
friend volunteered TO 80 after the r.
cense, and another after the preacher,
and his landlady and her daughter
baked some cake end got up a hextra
supper and they we're married that
night at her 'ouse. and all he remem
bera about what the preacher said
was Whom God 'ath joined together
lot no man put hasunder." "0ld Hook"
was a patriot q 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 we're short he would travel all
night to secure supplies, and the boys
know that II "Old Hook" 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 a 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 it In to the proper Official
who glanced at it and said: 'Impor.
tant movements are daily expected,
| and all furloughs to go home are strict
ly prohibited. The best can do Is
to send the captain to Farmyille for
thirty days" There was an army hos
pital at Farmville, which was only 80
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.
l stepped into a hotel and took 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 go by the hos
| pital and then he felt safe. | knew
! If 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 a 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, if
was too poor to buy some good ency-
j clopedia, | would buy Shakespeare,
Macaulay, Goldsmith, Tom Moore,
Burns, Pope Gray, Cowper, Campbell,
Tom Hood. Caldridge, Wordsworth and
some OF SCOTS novels such as Ivan.
hoe" "Kenilworth" and "Anne Of
Guernstene" Buy some Of Dickens
works, as "Dombey and Son" and "Da-
vid CoDperfeld." 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 Irving's works and Haw.
thorne and Longfellow and Bryant
Buy Halleck for his Marco Bozaris"
if 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
reference. had rather give up any
two other books than those. THE
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