Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-12-16

name al the H31dle" ill otIiejaI sigma 1urp. 5un2 Rnz s. Quentin of Soath Carolina, Iate lieutenant oi cavalry G $. X. now d.5ab1ed through the loss of his arm ia battle, would hardly have vempref=to confess the fnll eN- tent Of his Drrnoms and patronNmic Charles Felix RoZellc St Quentin happily called Roz for short, was what bis parents had burdened him with fol life BnJ then they lived in a roman tic age among a dreamy. half-awak- ened people. in an old house SroWl over, like the Sleeping Beauty's in the wood, with leaf and thorn and flower with hundreds of slaves to do the bid ding of their only son, and red camel jias blossonling in the dooryard as but tereups do in the North Country. Ro2 grew up like a young prince in his own esteem When the family turned out of this home at stated intervals during the year it was to journey in their own carriages and boats to q still more wildly isolated and ovef- grown old mansion among rice fields on the coast Wherever Roz had moved he had considered it a sort of royal prosress-so many black faces had bowed before him, so many rich, ~oc& 1ni hirol n a praised his looks and words and do- ings. The St Quentins were kind masters. rich and liberal to their slaves and there were few of the dark shadows underlying life on their plan tations that were presently to gather and blacken and close in like a pail over the Southland.
 Roz had found himself" first when they sent him away from his tutors to the University of Virginia. While at that ancient and honorable seat of learning, to which he had come with the assurance of a young cockrel pre- pared to crow, he had suffered disil lusionments on many points. The simple and manly young fellows there in training to make the leaders of the struggle soon to come, knocked him about until they considered he had had enough and after that took him into their secret societies and friendships for the gallant fellow that he was
 Then the war suddenly blaZed up like a prairie fire, consuming in it's course every young heart far and near The girls, who knew nothing whatever about the issues of the strife, talked themselves hoarse ad- turing the men to defend their eoun- try from the yandal's tread. They had never met any of the vandals, and had heard only the side of the burning question that their politicians and rabid shareholders intended them to hear. IL was enough for those ardent, eager young spirits, cradled in ideal ism. The excitement of making bat tie flags and bandages, of singing bat ring of stalwart youngsters i'll new gray uniforms, clustered around the piano like bees, carried these Confed- crate lassies cheerily into the fight; and. whether mistaken or not. the same impulse kept them up through the four long years of shock and sor- TOW, peril and privaton, to the bitter end, and went with them into the long CT years of strain to come.
 But it was one thing to be an ard ent patriot mounted upon ones owr charger. and riding into fight witt the thrill of battle in ones veins thought RoZ, and quite another Co tin( ones self lacking a left arm landed high and dry in Richmond lodgins house al the beginning of the last win ter of the war. He had come out 0 around somewhere inside of him, in capacitatins him for any return tt service, and an empty sleeve, of whicl he was forever reminded by thou sand little tiresome things that crop ped up i'll the life of every day Th' surgeons had told him that with car, ne might live out the ordinary spa, of life and an old friend of his ia ther, a chief of one of the bureaus 0 administration ill Richmond. had ;ak en compassion upon his aimless ex
 stenoe, obtainins for him a smal, cler ical position that would insure occu patton and keep his body and soul 10