Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1911 — A Sinecure. [ARTICLE]

A Sinecure.

General Horatio U. King, on one occasion narrating some war memories. said“We suffered many hardships on both sides, but the poor, brave Confederates suffered most I remember a grizzled old colored man who at the outbreak of the Spanish war applied for a place as an army cook. “•What experience have you had?* the old fellow wns asked. " T was cook, sah. to* a Confederate regiment in slxty fo’,’ he answered— That is, sah. 1 had the position of cook. but. to tell the truth, 1 didn't work at it* “‘Why notT " There wasn't nothin* to cook, sah.***