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LIXE ENOCH ARDEN HE WOULD NOT STAY DEAD How P. JJhomson, Wanderer Ex traordinary, Returned to Sa vannah After Forty-seven Years to Find His Wife With New Husband and New Chil drenWants Only to Die Where He Was Born. TORN from the arms of his young wife and baby daughter by the for unes of war, eilled from Savannah by the order of General Sherman, whose army had Juet completed In famoui march through Georgia to the Sea, P. J. Thompson, recently of Kentucky, wan derer extraordinary, has returned to hit native state for the first time in 47 years, only to find his wife hap pily married to another man and the mother of many children; bis daugh ter, whom he left an Infant, grown to womanhood and nursing babies of her own, and bis sister scarcely able to recognise nlra. With the lines of the years scarred deeply into bis weather-beaten face, and his back bent with the burden of many days, the heart of the old man cried for the red old hills tha he had wandered over aa a barefoot boy, and for news of the little family from whom be had parted In his youth. He wished to rest bis bones In the ground that nourished him, and to feel for the last time the breezes that the "Gulf Stream, that wandering summer of the tea," brings to Georgia's shoes. And so he turned bis footsteps back toward the land of hit nativity, and aa a consequence involves his wife in a matrimonial tangle not yet unrav eled. For after having spent the better Tears of a long life at the wife of an other man and the mother of hit chil dren, the old woman It Inclined to look askance at this husband ot her early youth, whom she can now re member only dimly, and whom the has to long believed to be lying In an unknown soldier's grave upon one of the many battlefields with which the bosom of the south was reddened. She It at thy aa a girl In the presence of her former husband, but she continues to Uve v with her tecond husband. A Man Without a Home. . Berty Jones, kindly eyed, white whiskered, who wooed and won the fount Mrs. Thompson, after the had given up her husband for dead, la not Inclined to part at thlt late date with hit life companion. He looks upon the advent of Thompson as a rather humorous Incident that will break the monotony of exlttence for his women folks a little while, and then be for gotten. He cannot conceive that there may be a real interruption in the es tablished order of things, and as to his wife's leaving blm he accepts the suggestion with a laugh. These two together have been the architects of too many human lives to allow a dead man come to life to break the placid ity yof their conugal relatione. Enoch Ardent are supposed to look through windows upon happy firesides and then to disappear again. The ttory of the adventure! of Thompson it of Intense Interest Through all the years he hat been a man without a home, a wanderer, seek ing alwayt after the wlll-o'-the-wisp of ft fortune that forever eluded him. The one discordant note In the har mony Is that he never made an at tempt to return to his wife and home after having been tent nortb by the federal soldiers. Thompson's Early Life. When the war broke out Thompson, not yet of age, enlisted for six months. On the expiration ot that period he went Into t cavalry troop and taw much service In Virginia and Tennes see. The beginning of the last year of the war found him In ft hospital In Savannah. Becoming convalescent, he obtained leave to visit his family in Pembroke, where be learned for the first time that he waa a father, and for a brief and only period of bis life held his baby In bis arms. While he iu ttlll at Pembroke Sherman and ma legions awupt across the state. Bidding his wife ft hasty goodby. the Confederate soldier took refuge In the swamps. That wat the last that Mra. Thompson now alto Mrs. Jonet and the wife of two men, ever taw of her husband. Driven from his hiding place by hun ger, Thompson made his way across the Ogeechee river bridge and fell into the hands of a federal outpost, by whom he was promptly dispatched into Savannah, a prisoner of war. He waa detained' there and furnished with ra tions for ft time, but an order finally oame that no more provisions were to be served, and this, together with an offer of transportation nortb, left Thompson and others In similar pre dicament no alternative but to go Into the land of the enemy as hostages of war. He was sent by a boat to New York, where he remained until the war closed. Escaped Dssth In Cyclone. After the war Thompson wandered Into the welt. Why ht chote the west Instead of the south and home hat never been satisfactorily explained. He lived for a time In Cincinnati, but driven by the unrest that was In blm. he continued hit wanderings over the great oart ot the western country, stopping for a time like any bird of I passage wherever chance placed blm. He peddled goods for a livelihood, worked on farms, cut timber in the forests did anything that came bis way that offered bread for hit hungry mouth. He never wrote to find out what had become of his wife and child. After a brief time he found himself the proprietor of a cross-roads store near Mound City, Kan. Here, be says, he cherished the hope of some day achieving a competency and of return ing to Qeorga with means to searcn for his people. But at night a cyclone swept over the land while he cowered In a cellar and In the mornlug he found his store distributed over a num ber ot counties and blmself again homeless and penniless. Nothing re mained of hit possessions but an old tub, which alone had withstood the storm and remalnded to mock him In hit loss. He again became a wander er, setting his back steadily upon wife and home and child. He moved Into Kentucky and again began to build up hit shattered for tunes. He became tbe proprietor of a general atore and again began to dream dreams of a competence. But disastrous fire visited him, and he watched all his earthly goods go up in smoke. After the fire be peddled fruit trees In the mountains, and watched the distillation of the yellow corn that had waved He golden ban nereta over Kentucky a aun-klssed bills. He walked with tbe feudists In the Kentucky hills for a number of yean, braving flood and storm In the pursuit of hit several peddling occu pations. Worked His Way Home. Recently he decided to carry out his long cherished Intention of returning to Georgia. Old age was now coming upon him fast, and with the coming of age his mind turned upon the past He worked his way across the Inter venlng states and came at last again to Pembroke. But all the friends of his youth had disappeared. Many of tbe old families were broken up. The little slabs In the churchyard told him where moat of the people he knew had gone. The gravea of hla father and mother he found there. No trace ot hla wife and child could he find. A chance acquaintance told him that hla alater had married and waa living In Savannah. He found hit sister, Mrs. Jessie Davis, after some search, and con vinced her, with some trouble, of his Identity. From her he learned that his wife, after giving blm up for dead, had married again, and with their daughter, who was alao now married. lived in BUtchton. He offered no rea eon for having abandoned hit family to long, and hit titter did not prets him upon the point Msy Woe His Wife Agsln. Thompson went on to BUtchton to see the wife of bis early manhood and his middle aged daughter, whom he remembered as a littler child. He spent a day at the home of L. A. Schuman. the husband of his daughter, whom he saw mothering sturdy men and worn- hora she had brought into tbe world In the years that had trans formed her father from a veteran of twenty-one to a bent and broken wan derer of sixty-eight With the as sistance of ft picture taken before he went away, and by recalling intimate Instances of her baby days, he suc ceeded in convincing his daughter that he wat her father. Meane to 8tay In Savannah. Thompson has announced that be will epend the rest of his days In Savannah. Precisely what are his In tentions regarding his wife are not known. He hat given no Indication of what procedure be will adopt In this respect It Is generally believed that he will not make any endeavor to Interfere with present arrange menta. Jonea will certainly fight for hit wife, although he bat exhibited every Indication of being friendly to Thompson unless the latter putt up a fight Mra. Thompson Jones will un doubtedly prefer to remain with the latter. She mourned Thompson lor dead many years ago, and she cannot recognise he father ot her daughter In the sued visitor. But ber politlón la delicate aa well aa humiliating. She hat two living hutbanda, which la ft little beyond the oal of the law. However Innocent she may have been, she Is now living In a state of polygamy. To desert ber last husband after all these yeara and go to a perfect Btranger la a little more than could be expected of her, and yet her position as the wife of Jones Is a trying one. Nobody blames her, but those who know the ctrcum stancea are wondering what tbe out come of the tangle will be. Her nu merous offspring by her last husband would not consent to her leaving the root of their father even If she wlBhed to do so. Not Sure He le Her Brother. It Mrs. Thompson had gone Into court and had her husband pro nounced legally dead before she mar rled the second time all would have been well. But so certain was she that he was dead that she did not take this precaution. Possibly some technicality of the law will come to her rescue. The matter haa not been Inquired Into. With her the matter Is simply that here are two men. both living, whom she has recognized as hus band, and both of whom are the fa thers ot her children. Thompson it back in Savannah, at the home of hit titter. She declares that while the has accepted him, she Is not at all sure that he la really her brother. She does not believe that real flesh and blood brother could drop suddenly from nowhere In par tlcular after an absence ot 47 yeara. Everybody la afraid to take the mat ter Into court for fear of further com plicating the situation and bringing out trying points heretofore over looked. The consensus of opinion seems to he that Thompson ought to disappear again and remain dead. Or, better still, he ought to have remain ed In the west, and not come back to trouble bis wife at all. Jones Is apparently waiting for the other man to make the first move In the case. ' He holds the trump cards In that he Is In possession ot the dis puted wife. "And possession is nine points of the law, you know," he says with a laugh. Ha Is not letting the situation worrit him much, either. It la probable that aa long as Thomp son does not move be will allow the matter to drop. And Thompson ap pears Inclined to be quiescent He will remsln with his sister tor tbe present There Is plenty of time to make his plana for the future. Has Fund of Strange Tales, This Is the basis upon which the mattér stands at present Thomp son's ambition seems solely to be among hla own people to make a lit tle niche aomewhere where he can apend the remainder ot hla daya and earn five feet of ground In tbe end In which his bones may rest along side those of his father and mother. Why Thompson did not tramp to ward Georgia Instead of continually away from It Is a secret that remains locked In his own bosom. On this point he has been consistently silent. He talka of hla adventurea pleasant' ly and of the affairs of bis family hu morously, but any questions leading up to his reasons for remaining away so long Invsrlably silences blm. Thompson shows bis age more than his wife. His face Is finely lined and wrinkled. His shoulders are a little bent, but they are of great breadth, and would Indicate that he was a man of great physical strength In his young er days. Hla teeth are white and fine, and his smile Is pleaaant and Infec tious. He haa at his tongue's end the "blarney" that comes to all who put their feet upon the road. He has fund of strange tales always ready to tell, and he apparently takes delight In relating them. He it a pleaaant com oanlon, and there is much crude wis dom burled beneath his experiences. All Georgia and the south Is Inter ested In the strange case. Everybody has a solution ot the difficulty; to of fer. The theories advanced are thick at dust In vacant houses. But It is not theories that are troubling these old people. It is hard facts facts that drive thought home aa with the Impact of a hammer. What It to be done! Suppose Thompson de mands his wife at the hands of Jones? What will the consequence be? Mrs. Jones cannot deny that she Is the wife of Thompson under the law. Then what will the consequences be to tbe children who have been born to her in the Intervening yeara since Thomp ton disappeared? STATE TAKES HAND IN FIGHT New Jersey Leads In Advanced Legis lation Designed to Cheok Speed of Tuberculosis. What it designed by the National Association for the Study and Preven tion ot Tuberculosis as the moat ad vanced legislation In the campaign against tuberculosis that baa been enacted by any state In the United States, If not by any country In the world, la found In a bill recently passed by the New Jersey legislature and signed by Governor Wilson. The new law provldea that tuberculosis patients who refuse to obey the regu lation! laid down by tbe state board of health concerning the prevention of their dlBease, and thus become a men ace to the health of those with whom they associate, shall be compulsorlly segregated by order of the courts, In Institutions provided for this purpose. If tuch a patient retimes to obey the rules and regulations of the institu tion In which he is placed, he may "be Isolated or separated from other per sons and restrained from leaving the institution." The law further pro vides that all counties In tbe state of New Jersey shall within six months from April 1st make provision In spe cial Institutions for the care of all persons having tuberculosis In these I counties. The state treasury will sub sidize each county to the extent of $3 a week for each person maintained In these institutions, except those who are able to pay for the coBt of maintenance. 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