July Tenth

MAMMY'S FIRST EXPERIENCE AT THE 'PHONE

We heard Mammy say "Hello-H'llo! (What meks you rattle de handle so?)

Is dat you, Miss?-wants Main twenty-free! (I ain't gwine to have you foolin' wid me!) I say, Main twenty--- what's ailin' you? 'Bizzy!' I guess I'se bizzy, too! You gim-me dat number twenty-free, I'se bizzier 'n you ever dared ter be!"

MARY JOHNSON BLACKBURN

July Eleventh

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The Old World had its Xantippe; but the facts have not been fully established in the New!

"Under This Marble Tomb Lies The Body
Of The HON. JOHN CUSTIS, Esq.,
Of The City of Williamsburg,
And Parish of Bruton,

Formerly Of Hungar's Parish, On The
Eastern Shore

Of Virginia, And County Of Northampton,
Age 71 Years, And Yet Lived But Seven,
Which Was The Space Of Time He Kept
A Bachelor's Home At Arlington,

On The Eastern Shore Of Virginia."

“This Inscription put on His Tomb was by His Own Positive Orders."

July Twelfth

Jackson's genius for war, Lee's resistless magnetism, were not vouchsafed to Hill; but in those characteristics in which he excelled: invincible tenacity, absolute unconsciousness of fear, a courage never to submit or yield, no one has risen above him, not even in the annals of the Army of Northern Virginia. He was the very "Ironsides" of the SouthCromwell in some of his essential characteristics coming again in the person and genius of D. H. Hill. HENRY E. SHEPHERD

D. H. Hill born, 1821

July Thirteenth

Though the Grey were outnumbered, he counted no odd,

But fought like a demon and struck like a god, Disclaiming defeat on the blood-curdled sod, As he pledged to the South that he loved. VIRGINIA FRAZER BOYLE

N. B. Forrest born, 1821

July Fourteenth

Pleasant and wonderfully fair,

Like one that knows her own domain,
Magnolia-flowers in her hair,

And orange-blossoms rare,

Let her not knock in vain!
Lift up your equal heads to her,
Of all your courts contain, co-heir,
For lo! she claims her own again!

DANIEL B. LUCAS

(The South Shall Claim Her Own Again)

July Fifteenth

FACT OR FICTION?

For four years the Northern States fought to keep their Southern sisters in the Federal family; then having soundly thrashed these sisters in order to keep them at home, they suddenly shut the door and kicked them down the steps! The "erring sisters" are now fully restored to the family circle; but they had a longer and more painful struggle in the effort to get back than in the attempt to get away. More briefly, for four years the Federal government, led by Lincoln, maintained that all of the Southern States were in the Union and could not get out; and then for five years, under the rule of the Radicals, it argued that some of these States were out of the Union and could not get in!

MATTHEW PAGE ANDREWS

Reconstruction ended and the Union restored by the readmission of Georgia, 1870