Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-05-27
A BRIEF VISIT TO BONNEVILLE.
written for the Spirit of Jefferson
by Arthur Hawks, Sr.)

by Arthur Hawks. Sr.)
The other day paid a hurried Wis
it to bonneville. HomeviNe? Oh.
yes, you call it Chares Town, but to
me it is and always will be Home
vile, the centre of the world. The
sun, moon and stars revolve around
it. | did not pay as long a visit to
bonneville, as / am going to in the
not far distant future, God willing.
i You see we left Baltimore after
breakfast and got back in time for
supper. Our automobile fairly flew
over the elegant roads of Maryland.
/ Nobody passed us except one man in
a Ford. and he was going the other
way.
As soon as we. crossed the River,
/ began to feel at home And when
we stopped on Hunters Hill and
/ looked down on bonneville, | felt
like Rip Van Wrinkle. / shaded my
eyes with my hand, and said as that
the Village of Falling Waters?
And | was home again. | stood
before my fathers old home, and
down through the Sunshine Years,
heard my mother singing:
Hush, my Babe, lie still and slumber
Holy angels guard thy bed.
In that blessed home ! never heard
cross word from my good mother.
my good father, or my good step
mother. Then / went up on the hill
where the little green mounds are
over the sacred dust of my ancestors.
and | was so glad could stand there
uncovered, and say so my son and
grandson could hear me. t'Dear
bonneville, / have-come back after
/ a long. long absence, and | have not
done anything that l am ashamed
Of" The streets were all haunted
with pleasant ghosts | thought of
my preachers first, of Doctor Dutton
and of the Bishop of bonneville. Rev
A. c. Hopkins, whose memory is a
benediction. Then of my school
teachers, my Uncle Nathaniel Greene
North, and Rev c. N Campbell and
Mr. Craighill, all of blessed memory.
remembered when General Jackson
made my father Major and Chief
| Commissary, and the pleasant group
my father gathered around him
Capt. John Lock, and | remember
ed as we entered Gettysburg, he
stopped to get a glass of milk from
/ a lady, took her address, and after
/ the war was over, went back and
married her.
That great peace loving man, Mr..
| James Campbell.
Then Mr. Fred Blessing, overflow
ling with good will to all men, and a
splendid forager. Mr.. William Gala
her, with his elegant voice and his
violin to cheer the long evenings in
I =
Bunker Hill, and last but not least,
John Shorts, our negro cook from
Winchester, who could make a six
course dinner out of nothing.
And Charlie, the little yellow boy,
who was captured three times by the
| Federal troops and came back to
Father each time. But after the sur
render, he went to New York. Some
rich man took him as his valet, but
Charlie was taken i'll, he was in the
/ free ward of a new York hospital,
when my father borrowed the money,
went to New York and brought
Charlie home and he died in my
fathers arms. It's good to remem-
Der that.
/ remember Mr.. Sam Woody very
WE'LL who had the longest legs | ever
saw and could walk faster than a
horse could run.
| There was an old time train with
grasshopper engine that used to
walk from Winchester to Harper's
I Ferry Capt. Barley, an elegant
fellow was the conductor. He knew
everybody on the road. 1t was eight
miles from Charles Town to Harper's
Ferry. The train sometimes made it
in 80 minutes One day, as it stop
ped at Charles Town, Captain Barley
saw Mr.. Woody standing in the
station. He said "Hello Woody,
going to Harpers Ferry? Eyes"
IAN right, get aboard. mo, thank
you, | will walk Pm in a hurry"
Now they say, in Charles Town, he
got to Harper Ferry fifteen minutes
ahead of the train.
The Hon. VIM. H Travers was one
of the leading lawyers, a perfect
model of the ideal gentleman. After
the close of the war between the
States, ! worked for awhile in my
fathers lumber yard at one dollar
per day. | was also telegraph opera
tor. / was my fathers only son, and
he did not have any daughters. he
thought | ought to study law and be
an ornament to the bar. He sent
me to see Mr.. Travers, and right
there / found my vocation and my
avocation. Mr.. Travers said "Ye s,
you read law Commence on the
Bible, when you have finished study
ing that and are posted on it, come
back and | will tell you what to read
next. | never went back.
| am still studying the Bible.
When Mr.. George Haines, the
father of the present Editor, was
Editor of the Spirit of Jefferson. |
used to write for it semi-occasional-
I ly. One day, on the last of March,
he asked me to write an April Fool
Article for his paper that came out
on April first. / did-oh, ! did. l
wrote a very complete account of
fha h1,rni,,or IF +ka Court House. fold