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OTT may be whatever you
T re.ýolte to be." This was the
motto of Stonewall Jackson
Ily this rule he lived and
S donqucred. and by it died in
the rush of victory. Such
was Jackson's faith in God and
himself, he inspired not only his
own men with the certainty of
victory, but the entire confeder
acy felt sure of ultimate triumph
while he was in the field. No warrior
was ever worshiped by his people as
was this Soldier Saint of the Lost
Cause. \\ hile he lived and fought the
people of the south saw in him the
lncarn. tion of God's justice struggling
for thni. When the wound which was
inadvertently given by his own men
at Chancellorsville terminated fatally,
the news caine as a chilling shock to
southern hopes. The history of mod
ern times affords no parallel to the
deep sorrow that throbbed In the
hearts of the confederate people when
Jackson died. Those who had never
seen his face wept for him as for their
nearest kindred. They began to real
ize that with hin removed their cause
was doomed. As one of the leaders
declared when he heard the news of
Jackson's death, "God has deserted us,
else he would not have taken Jack
son."
In being so bowed down with grief
at Jackson's loss, it must not be un
derstood that they loved Robert E.
Lee and their other generals less, for
to the first named at least, their devo
tion amounted to idolatry, but there
was something in .Jackson that the
others did not possess which appealed
to the people of the south, and gave
them a sublilme confidence. This was
the reflection of his absolute faith
that the hand of Providence was
guiding him on.
Christened "Stonewall" at Manassas.
Stonewall Jackson, as every school
boy knows, was plain Thomas J. Jack
son until in the battle of Manassas
when the day seemed to be going
against the southern forces. Gen. lice
rode up to Jackson and in despair
exclaimed: "They are heating us
back," and Jacl;:on replied: "Then we
will give them the bayonet." Catching
the inspiration of Jackson's Indomit
able will, Bee galloped back to his
command and shouted: "There is
Jackson standing like a stone wall.
Rally behind the Virginians. Follow
me." Gen. Bee charged at the head
of his men, and in a little while fell
mortally wounded with his face to the
front. From that time Jackson was
known as "Stonewall," and his com
mand became immortal as the Stone
wall brigade.
Stonewall Jackson's ancestors had
lived In Maryland and Virginia for
.more than 100 years and were of
ftoteh-Irish descent. They were all
hbnest, God-fearing people, and they
were of fighting blood, taking a con
gmicuous part, first in the Indian
trmubles, and then in the revolution
Sry war.
Not Robust In Boyhood.
The boy who was to become
m of the greatest military command
ma the world has ever known, was
barn In 1824 In Clarksburg among the
Sbeautiful mountains of what was then
V1rginia, and now West Virginia. He
was left an orphan at an early age
h' the death of his father, and his
mother being unable to support him,
be lived with an uncle, through whose
~Mdness he was given the benefit of
the best schools of those times. With
lt showing any special aptness as a
--olar, he by perseverance mastered
whatever he undertook, and through
.,rd study learned his lessons well
Iake all geniuses of wdr he excelled in
Satheptatics. As a bo* he was not
s~ting physically, and in his early I
Ss~t suffered a partial paralysis,
bch later disappeared through the
Surenous exercises at the military I
*krved as County Constable.
SPartly for the healthful outdoor
pek that the office would give
.l partly to obtain funds to aid in
10 fuarther education, he secured the
:polatment as constable in his dis-r
! t. He was under age at the time,
kt was in such general favor that no
;s lraised the question as to the legal
St ot the court appointing a minor to I
bha oMce. He performed the duties
If this place with industry and fidel
it, though the kind of people he was
R hew in contact with officially, were
o: t nch as to aid in the development t
W ekaracter.
SAs he approached manhood be
ni not display that sober, ser
a sture that ilafterwards domi- f
'tdl him. The spiritualization of
Ilg he did, and his rule of
thing every act of his life a re
lo act came later. At this time
ha Ws little different from other
at men in attending horse races, h
hue raisings and country dances. a
 truthfulne.ss and aggressive hon- t
r remained untarnished from child
bd He was always modest, self- n
Ilet and full of dignity and cour- H
Suncess In Mexican War, h
At the age of 18 he obtained a
-Wuu Point cadetshlp and entered 11
lt institution. llis literary educa
,t had not been thorough and he v
llresed with difficulty. In the ex- n
tions which closed the first half o
's norvitiate he came within a
be of falling. He steadlily im- o
. bowever, through his earnest w
'!ction and untiring perseverance d
graduated at the age of 22. in a
seventeenth In a class of about ti
Wore on Vis;tor's Nerves
ý: AS I'm not particularly  ntlusi
@ over my vacation," :sail the lady
the young face and the beauti
aII8 hair, In answer to her friend's
"I far I'm growing old
Ia mind and Impulses, I mean. I've
asing one of my pet fancies
perhaps it was-and that Is
disconcerting.
chlefest charm of youth, to
Sove been its originality. Per
seventy. The Mexican war was then
in I)rogress, and Jackson was at once
made second lieutenant by virtue of
his West Point commission. Ills serv
ices were brilliant in this campaign,
Sand he was piomoted to the rank of
major.
Became Devout Christian.
So far Jackson had not given deep
study to religious uijects, and had
little krnow leldge of creeds. \Vhe(n hle
returned to the United States at the
close of the Mexican war, he became
intensely concerned in Christianity,
arnd joined the Episcopal church.
From that time forward his every act
was characterized by extreme piety.
lie is (luoted as having said that two
hours was as long as he could go
without communing with his Maker
in prayer. Conscientiousness was one
of his niarked traits, and duty was to
him of first consideration. Ills rev
er-ence, of the Deity was that of the
standard of perfection and of the
soirce of authority. lie ,elieved in
a ,spcial Provide.nce, and was errone
otnsly called a fatalist by some. His
abiding trust and simple faith were
those of a child. He never questioned
the whys and wherefores of Provi
dence but fervently prayed for every
thing and was satisfied with what oc
curred. "I prefer God's will to my
own," he said.
A few years after the close of the
Mexican war. he accepted the chair
of natural philosophy in the Virginia
Military institute at Lexington, and
took charge of the cadets at that
place This connection o!pened up for
him nis career in the war. At the
outbreak of hostilities between the I
states he responded to the call of the
governor of Virginia, and placed his
cadets and himself under Gen. Rob- I
ert E. Lee's command. He was ap
pointed colonel of the Virginia Vol- 1
unteers. After the battle of Harp
er's Ferry he was promoted to the I
rank of brigadier general in recogni- I
tion of his eminent ability. I
A Thunderbolt in War.
He then began those marvelous 1
military operations that have won the
plaudits of all mankind. Military
experts have pronounced his ma
neuvers greater in some respects
than Napoleon's and surpassing in
details those of Julius Caesar.
He was a thunderbolt of war-energy. '
He would strike at one point and in
an incredibly short time attack at
some distant place, and hurl his forces '
against the weakest line of his op
ponent. He was never routed in bat- i
tle and never had an organized por
tion of his army captured. The I
baffling strategy which he brought to C
bear upon the opposing forces, his a
furious attacks, and his remarkable
marches :ade his name and fame as
a leader of armies undying. Whilea
the battle raged he would be in the
very front of danger, and when the
crisis was passed he would retire to
his tent for prayer. His trust in the
Almighty made him fearless of all
things else. He united qualities that t
seemed incompatible, by combining
military genius of the highest order a
with intense religious fervor. He would '
never tell his plans of war even to a
his closest associates, and those
around him would not know what he
intended to do until the orders were t
given. Hie made rapid marches, ad- r
vancing and retreating with a swift- ,
ness unheard of before in the annals
of war. lis sudden onslaughts usual- t
ly swept all before him, and when the t
opposition brought against him over
whelming numbefs he would suddenly d
disappear to crash like lightning in n
a new and unexpected place. His tac- g
tics were to advance and fight and ii
aIls this was an "off" summer for the
youth who gathered at the little shore
plaeo where I spent the summer; any
,nay it was a bit disappointing to find
them all memtbers of the 'Oh you'
family.
"I'll admit the first two or three
times one hears a gay youngster hail
another with a jovial 'Oh you Harry.'
or 'Polly,' as thy. case may be, it
sounds rather smart, but given 20 or
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I go on fighting until victorious.
Through it all he prayed and prayed.
More than once as his brigade was
passing into action, he could be seen
sitting motionless upon his horse with
right hand uplifted, and while the
war columns swept by him in solemn
silence, Into the fiery storm of shot,
his lips would move in earnest prayer
as the earth trembled beneath the
thunder of cannon, and the very air
of the heavens seemed agonized with
the shriek of shell.
Slain by His Own Men.
"You may be whatever you resolve
to be," and so he resolved and so he
won. He believed that his marvelous
victories would go on to the end of the
war, and that the southern cause
would triumph, but God willed other
wise. His victory at Chancellorsville
was followed soon after by his death
from the injuries inflicted by the
fire of his own soldiers, who in
the darkness of night mistook him and
his escort for the enemy. He ac
cepted the Divine Will with that same
satisfaction he did His favors, know
ing it to be best. As he lay on his
deathbed conscious that his earthly
aircastles were in ruins, and that his
life was ebbing fast, he was thorough
ly resigned to his fate. When the
shadows came closer, and he realized
that the end was at hand, he said as
his last words: "Let us cross over
the river and rest under the shade of
the trees." So be died courageous
and trustful, a noble example of the
winning of life's battle by simple faith
and devotion to duty.
Fought for State's Rights.
Was he sincere? His critics ques
tion. HIow, it has been asked, could a
man pray for the continuation of hu
man slavery? The civil war was not
I waged for or against slavery. It is
true the agitation of the slavery ques
tion brought about the issues out of
which the war came; but the south
did not fight to keep negroes slaves,
nor did the north fight to make ne
groes free. The south battled for what
it conceived to be the rights of free
.. . . . . . . . . . . . - r
30 young people living in the space of
two city blocks for three months, with
the one constant greeting, 'Oh you
Bessie.' 'Oh you kid,' and its novelty
palls on one.
"Needless to say this particular
crowd of young folks devoted many of
its rightful sleeping hours as well as
its waking ones to larks and escapades
of all sorts, and an ancient body like
myself never appreciated being
wakened at any and all hours of the
night by the tuneful cry, 'Oh you
Mary-Paul-Jane' from the nest door
and independent states confederated
under a constitution guaranteeing
those rights; the north fought to es
tablish the indissolubility of the union
of those states. It is plain now that
armed conflict over this question was
inevitable from the time the states
came together to form a "more per
fect union," and adopted a constitu
tion without settling the question of
the right of a state to withdraw from
that compact. The future was certain
to bring either disunion or the sealing
of the union in blood. If the differ
ence as to the dissolubility of the
union had not arisen out of slavery,
it would have come over some other
problem. The south was deeply im
pressed with the righteousness of its
cause, and Lee and Jackson and the
other great leaders believed in it as
they did in their religion. They were
fighting for the freedom " of their
states-not for the slavery of men
and women.
These disputes are all forever
settled now, and no patriotic
American wishes they had terminated
other than as they did. Nevertheless,
the southern cause was to millions of
good people a sacred cause, worth
At the Austrian Border
"You may talk about the dlmcul
ties you encounter with the customs
inspectors on arriving in New York,"
said an English woman in New York
the other day. "but you will find that
worse troubles of the kind aLccumulate
for you in certain parts of Europe. Es
pecially is this apt to be true on the
Austrian border.
"I was coming up from Turkey on
my way to Paris a few months ago.
Owing to the fact that my cousin, who
had been traveling with me, could
not get away from Constantinople. I
had to make the journey alone.
"The train on which I traveled
is supposed to be one of the finest in
Europe, but most of the way to Vien
na it stops every few minutes. They
told me the reason was that they had
been unable to get enough coal to
start with and that these stops were
necessary to get fuel. Apparently
they took on about a shovelful at each
station.
"We reached the Austrian frontier
about two o'clock in the morning, and
then uniformed customs officials went
through the train routing out every
body. They wouldn't let the women
dress, end I had to hurry out with
nothing on but a dressing gown, and
the night was cold, too. We were
huddled in a room in the station ane
our hand luggage was brought out.
while every compartment in the train
was searched. Then they made us
open our bags and satchels.
"The man who attended to my lug
gage was a very disagreeable sort of
person. He insisted upon my opening
every parcel I had.
"Now, in my effects was a large box
of Turkish delight, which, as you may
know, is a sort of sweet paste or gum
piazza. They went nightly in a body
to the post ofmce-a small town's
most popular meeting place-and on
their return left their several mem
bers at their respective homes with
the never-omitted parting salute from
all-'Oh you-'
"In the morning neither cockcrow
nor dashing waves, not even your
neighbor's cook nor a fish peddler dis
turbed our morning naps, but some
'up and coming' youngster up the
street, or perhaps nearer by, began
waking the varioe members of the
praying for and dying for. Exactly
as no southerner now regrets that the
union was maintained, so no patriotic
northerner denies the sincerity of the
southerners in fighting so bravely for
a cause they believed altogether right
eous.
Roused North and Thus Saved Union.
The evening bells of life are tolling
for the survivors of that fierce con
fliect, and one by one they are being
laid to rest in their last camping
ground. The animosities of other
years have subsided in the soft twi
light of time and the deeds of thoye
who wore the gray as well as those
who wore the blue are the common
glory of a united country. Jackson
believed and taught that God's will is
best, and so all see it was in the end
ing of that contest. It was this man
of iron and of faith that was raised
up through his mighty victories to
arouse the nation, and thus preserve
tbhis federated republic that is the
hope of the oppressed of every land.
Faith in God, faith in his fellow
men, faith in himself, these are the
ways by which Jackson won a fame
that will become brighter and bright
er as time flies through the ages.
and is considered a great delicacy out
there. I was taking it to some friends
at home. The box was solidly con
structed; in fact, there were two out.
er cases of wood, and the candy was
in a scaled tin box.
"'You must open this box,' said the
official in gruff German.
"'I certainly shall not,' I replied,
and I explained what it contained,
"'But it must be opened,' he in
sisted. He refused to believe me.
"'Then open it yourself,' I said;
'but you must fasten it up again.'
"He growled and started in. The
outer case was securely nailed and
it took some time to get the top oil
When he had removed that and re
vealed another wooden box the official
swore. Then when he had got the
top off the second box there was the
tin. He spoiled the blade of his knife
cutting that open and then when he
came to the Turkish delight he was
disgusted.
"Of course I laughed in his face
Then he refused to pack the boxes
again, but I insisted, threatening him
with all sorts of things about appeali
Ing to the British ambassador, and so
on, so he finally turned in and did as
I ordered him, while my fellow pas
;engers chaffed him at being ordered
'bout by a woman.
"I learned afterward that a woman
traveling alone had been smuggling
e lot of Turkish tobacco Into Aus
tria and that the officials had lately
been keeping a sharp lookout for her.
My being unaccompanied had aroused
suspicion."
The dentists who took a stand
against kissing probably lost the ps
tronage of all kissable girls.
crowd by calling, 'Oh you Dick, Patty,
and so on till the whole set were
awake. So was'every one else.
"I did learn the names of one
young man and his sister, but as for
the others, were I to meet any of
them on Broadway or the Bowery or
any other place I should be tempted
to greet him with, 'Oh you Harry. Oh
you kid.' Perhaps I was an 'Oh you
something' this summer myself."
Trying to pesst the tows red ise
a certain amoust da grseam e
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Nine-teeths d ell the sickaes d women is due to seme der.g.emset or die.
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The Place of Honor.
Farmer Hodge was of the good, old
fashioned school, and he always gave
a feast to his hands at harvest time.
It was harvest time and the feast
was about to commence.
Giles was the oldest hand ad the
hostess, with beaming cordiality, mo
tioned him to the seat by her right
hand. But Giles remained silently un
responsive.
"Come," said the hostess, "dou't be
bashful, Mr. Giles"-he was Jst Giles
on ordinary occasion-"you've a right
to the place of honor, you know."
Giles deliberated a moment, them
t)oke.
"Thank you kindly, Mrs. Hode.,"
he said, "but if it's all the same to
you. I'd rather sit opposite this poud
den'I"
An Admission.
Ired-I proposed to Miss DIagley
last night.
Joe-Don't believe I know her. Is
she well of?
Fred-Yes, I guess so. She refused
me.
Bad Breath
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