The Cumby Rustler. (Cumby, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, December 8, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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ORDER HE COULDN’T DISOBEY
What Was Poor Darky to Do When
“Old St. Luke Hisself” Gave
Di rections.
The venerable rector of St. Luke's
has a saintly and apostolic appear-
ance. tie also has decided opinions
of his own on most matters and is not
averse to expressing them. Recently,
unknown to him, the vestry decided
to have the next supply of coal for the
church put in "a different cellar from
the one commonly used. When the
coal was delivered the rector, seeing
the drayman making what he thought
was a mistake in its disposal, inter-
posed and in no certain terms bade
the darky place the coal in the cellar
always used for that purpose.
The senior warden several days
later was much annoyed to discover
that his orders had been disregarded
and that the coal was in the same old
cellar. With wrath in his eye he com-
plained to the coal dealer. The latter
declared that he had carefully explain-
ed to the drayman where to put
the coal, so to settle the matter the
darky was called up.
“Sam, you black rascal," thundered
the coal man, “didn't I tell you to put
that coal for St. Luke's in the cellar
opening on Fourth street?"
“Yassah.”
“Mr. Smith tells me you didn’t do
it. Why can't you carry out my or-
ders?”
The darky grinned sheepishly, hesi-
tated, scratched his head, “Well, boss,
you see, I done started to put dat coal
wheh you tole me—yassah, I done
started—an’ ole St. Luke hisself he
come out and gimme fits about it.”—
Harper's Magazine.
Cleanses the System
effectually; Dispels
colds and headaches;
due to constipation.
Best for men, women
and children: youna
and old.
To qet its Beneficial
effects, always note the
name of the Company
California Fig Syrup Co.
plainly printed on the
front of every package
of the Genuine
j N the records ©f the
|. I war department appears
the name of Henry B
Clitz, who was a major
/~p V in the regular service.
1 A and* who rose to the rank
\ of a brigadier general of
v *%- —C volunteers while in the
I ^ yV ) Union army during the
\ ) Civil war. Old army of-
I A fleers remtember* Clitz
I ^well, but possibly mil-
, lions of civilians have
"well nigh forgotten him. After the short
official story of his service written~on
the now time-stained paper hidden
fivray in a vault of the war depart-
ment. these words appear: “Mysteri-
ously disappeared in the year 1888.”
.The disappearance of Henry B. Clitz
Is one of the mysteries of army life.
On other records In the war de-
partment are brief official lines, also
on time-stained paper, telling of the
career of Jasper A. Maltby, colonel
of the Forty-fifth Illinois infantry,
more familiarly
known in the darker . j
days of the country’s 1
history as the “Wash- r
horn’s Lead Mine pi If
Regiment.” Maltby’s p«i Ik
same was brought r-*
\ hack not long ago /
sharply to memory /
.hy the death’ of his _ /
Widow in St. Luke’s /
hospital, Chicago. She I I
& Was a little snow-hair- / /
£/ «d woman who had / /
|, ihorne life's burdens / / J
W dor Just the time al- I
__Sotted by the Psalm- /' t
A SURE CURE FOR ITCHIXG PIPES
And ail forms of skin diseases is Tet-
terine. It is also a specific for Tetter,
Ringworm, Eczema, Infant Sore Head,
Chaps and Old Itching Sores.
“Enclosed fine one dollar for which
please send me two boxes Tetterine $
ihis makes five boxes I have ordered
from you, the first one only, being for
me. 1 suffered with an eruption for
years, and one box of Tetterine cured
me and two of my friends. It is worth
its weight in gold to any one suffering
as 1 did. Everybody ought to know of
its value.” Jesse W. Scott, Milledge-
ville, Ga.
Tetterine at druggists or sent by mail
for 50c. J. T. Shuptrine. Savannah, Ga.
GILT EDGE the only ladles shoe dressing
that positively contains OIL. Blacks and Polishes
ladies’ and children’s boots and shoes, shine*
without rubbing, 25c. *• French Gloss.” 10c.
ST AK comDination for cleaning and polishing all
Rnds of russet or tan shoes, 10c. “Dandy” size 25c.
RADY ELITE combination for gentlemen who
take pride in having their shoes look Al. Restores
color and lustre to all black shoes. Polish with a
brush or cloth, 10 cents. “Elite” size 25 cents.
If your dealer does not keep the kind you want,
send us his address and the price in stamps for
a full size package.
WHITTEMORE BROS. & CO.,
20-26 Albany 8t., Cambridge. Mas*.
The Oldest and Largest Manufacturers aj
Shoe Polishes in the World.
**•" coring the days / ^
that this woman lay /
All at the hospital of /
the Beloved Physi- L——
.dan. If her eyes wan- /~—-
Acred about the walls ' / 7
pf her room, it is / J ' —----,
probable that for the . —W J
first time in many f j j
pears when within If / i
any room chosen by / / / /
ih«r as an abiding If if?
place, they failed to I I I
rest upon the folds of I ] Jlf
an American flag. If /
The stories of Gen- II f
'f «rals Clitz and Malt- I I tfjij,
.by were stories of / / / EpTj
•terling patrioUsm. of / / / MfeJ
fiction and of wounds / v —-—-___I fe* j
' received in the dis- (JJ
^ charge of duty. Mys-
tery has added its In- /
Merest to the life’s ( ~~ * »i
•tory of Major Clitz,--W»-
perhaps one should 1 ---—
•ay to his death’s I T " 1
•tory, though there »
J? a*^a78 a P088,b11- /’f/sfc/fASfo a yeA/l
tty that at a great >7 OTY
•go the major some-
Where in some condition still has left in him a
p *park of the spirit of life which moved him to
•oldier deeds.
l Recently a brigadier general of the regular
•ervice, many years retired, came to Washington.
Va the lobby of a hotel he met a veteran as griz-
•led and wrinkled as he. but still of an upright
physical bearing. The general looked at the
■,* man a moment actually aghast and then with
words that came out in the disorder of a “route
tep” gasped:
“John I heard you were dead. I would as soon
bare thought of meeting Clitz.”
y The two had been subalterns In Clitz’s regi-
ment during the Civil war and after, and had
Sored him. It was perhaps the flashing thought
of an anniversary of a disappearance at hand
that sent the returned soldier’s thought to Major
Clitz when In the lobby of a Washington hotel
he met the former comrade, who he had heard
Was dead. The army archives bear no stranger
records than that of this case of General Henry
B. Clitz—he was only a major, however, when he
. won distinction by his gallantry. It is twenty-
three years ago now tbat Major CHtz was lost.
.Twenty-three years, but a man may be found
after twenty-three years.
Major Henry B. Clitz, Twelfth infantry, U. S.
JA-, was once dead and buried and was alive again,
, Was lost, and—the other word that should natur-
ally fit here Is either yet to be supplied, or for-
ever is to remain unwritten. There are scores
of soldiers today, old soldiers—but once a soldier
always a soldier—who, in the memory of what
■happened after Gaines Mills, think that one day
they may again clasp this side of the grave the
hand of Comrade Clitz.
Henry B. Clitz of Michigan entered West Point
In the year 1841, graduating four years after.
Notice to inventors—A device for
squeezing water out of stocks and the
milk supply would fill a long felt want.
most desperate enterprises of the entire war.
There are today surviving members of the
Forty-fifth Illinois in whose veins the words “Fort
Hill Mine” will make the blood tingle. It was
only a week before the Fourth on which Pember-
ton surrendered the Confederate city,
front lay Fort Hill
mm / 200* Tbey say
1 / rjfflnf Major Clitz
I tfKHv fought that
F day as did
L ~ at Cerro Gor-
■0080**° do, only a
W BHMml i cjejlrjjfmgi tie more so.
' HrSHi r /dQHsUBBn The regulars
/ resisted stren-
rfKm uously for an
I t’lHr ^ hour or two.
lM'^1 Finally some
~c—of the men
■»saw Major
Clitz go down.
r / A big wall of
» " I gray was fall-
i ■ 1.1-' 11 ——ing on them
OAl7 TyCAjf7~f~9A? just then, and
many others
went down
too. When the fight was over, and afterward, when
some order came out of the chaotic hell, this re-
port was turned in by General Sykes: “The
Twelfth and Fourteenth were attacked by over-
whelming numbers. The ranks were decimated,
and Major Clitz was severely if not fatally in-
jured. Around his fate, still shrouded In mys-
tery, hangs the painful apprehension that a ca-
reer so noble, no soldierly, so brave, has termin-
ated on that field whose honor he so gallantly
upheld."
Major Clitz went on the list of the dead and
what was left of his regiment mourned him as
few soldiers are mourned.
Suitable orders were issued lamenting the death
of this hero of Cerro Gordo and Gaines Mills, but
before the period of the real mourning was over,
though the official kind had been over for months,
the dead came to life again. Major Clitz had
been shot through both legs and in one or two
other places, but on his showing a few signs of
life the Confederates made a prisoner of him and
sent him to Libby.
Major Clitz was paroled. When he went back
into the service again and when the war was
over he put in twenty years campaigning on the
plains. In 1885 he retired after nearly half a
century of service, and went to live in Detroit,
Mich. Two years later his old command, with
MONEY III TRAPPIN8.
Ws tall you haw And f
pay baitprl««« Wrtta '
for weekly priea liat
and reference!.
M. SABEL & SONS
LOUIST1LLK, IT.
Dealers I ■ Furs, Hides, Vac)
Established 1856.
TO DRIV E OUT MALARIA
AND BUILD UP THE SYSTEM
Take tho Olu Standard GRO'.’E’S TASTELESS
CHILL TONIC. Y<> “no what yon aro taking
The 1 iriarL. is ,)Lainl printed o.. e ery bottle,
Bhowi 4,' it Is simnly 'hilninc and Iron In a tasteless
form, and the niiost effectual form, fc'or grown
people and children, 50 cents-
In Logan’s
It was decided at a council
of the generals that its sapping and mining and
the subsequent seizing and holding of the em-
brasure made by the explosion would be of tre-
mendous moral and strategical value to the Union
cause. T^e place was commanded by Confeder-
ate artillery and by sharpshooters in a hundred
rifle pits. It was known that if the explosion of
Fort Hill was a success that few of the men who
rushed into the crevasses could hope to come out
alive. It would be what the Saxons called a deed
of derring-do. Owing to the limited space to be
occupied only a single regiment was to be named
to jump into the great yawning hole after the ex-
plosion and to hold It against the hell Are of the
enemy until adequate protective works could be
thrown up.
There was as many volunteers for the enter-
prise as there were colonels of regiments in
Grant’s army. The choice fell on Jasper A. Malt-
by and his following of Illinois boys.
The time came for the explosion. The Forty-
fifth lay grimly awaiting the charge into death’s
pit The signal was given; there came a heavy
roar and a mighty upheaval. Silence had barely
fallen before there rose one great reverberating
yell, and the Lead Mine Regiment, led by its col-
onel, Jasper A. Maltby, with his lieutenant col-
onel, Malancthon Smith, at his elbow, hurled
itself into the smoking crater. The lieutenant col-
onel was shot through the head and morF«41y
wounded before his feet had fairly touched the
pit’s bottom. The colonel was shot twice, but
paid little heed to his wounds. A battery of
Confederate artillery belched shrapnel into the
ranks and sharpshooters seemed fairly to be firing
by volleys. The question became one of getting
some sort of protection thrown up before the en-
tire regiment should be annihilated. Certain men
in the pit were tolled off to answer the sharp-
shooter’s fire and to make it hot for the cannon-
aders in the Confederate battery. They did what
they could, but It availed little to save their com-
rades, who were toiling to throw up the redoubt.
Men fell on every side.
Beams were passed into the pit. and these were
put into position as a protection bv the surviving
soldiers. The joists were placed lengthwise and
dirt was quickly piled about them. Colonel Malt-
by helped the men to lodge the beams. He went
to one side of the crater where there was no ele-
vation. There he stood fully exposed, a shining
mark He put his shoulder under a great piece
of timber, and. weak with wounds though he was,
he pushed it up and forward into place. The bul-
lets chipped the woodwork and spat in the sand
all about him.. One Confederate gunner of artil-
lery trained his great piece directly at the devoted
leader. A solid shot struck the beam, from which
Colonel Maltby had just removed his shoulder,
and split It into kindling. Great sharp pieces of
the wood were driven into the colonel’s side, and
he was hurled to the bottom of the black pit.
The action was over shortly, for the gallant
Forty-fifth succeeded in making that death’s hole
tenable. Then they picked up their colonel He
was still alive, though the surgeon shortly after-
ward said that it would be hard work to count
his wounds. They took him to the field hospital,
and before he had been there an hour there was
clicking over the wires to Washington a message
carrying the recommendation that Colonel Jasper
A. Maltby of the I^ead Mine Regiment be made a
brigadier general of volunteers for conspicuous
personal gallantry in the face of the enemy
A week later Grant’s victorious forces marched
into Vicksburg.
Colonel Jasper A. Maltby or General Jasper A
Maltby as it soon became, lived until the end of
the war, but no system could long withstand the
shock and pain of those gaping wounds. He died
in the very city which he had helped to conquer
Afterward a flag and a precious memory wen
rarely absent from the life which finally flickers
out when the white-haired little widow died a>
St. Luke’s hospital, Chicago
Somehow or other the fellow who
knows it all is never the one who
wins the bets.
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Morton, George M. The Cumby Rustler. (Cumby, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, December 8, 1911, newspaper, December 8, 1911; Cumby, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth770581/m1/2/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.