Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1900 — Old Friends Long Parted [ARTICLE]

Old Friends Long Parted

H. W. J. Haro, who lectured here Dec. 7tb, under the auspices of the lecture course, was just as genial and humorous to meet personally, as he was on the platform. To this fact everyone who talked with him will agree. None more readily, however, than Capt. M. F. Chilcote, whose own geniality and humor in conversation has long been the delight of all his acquaintances. The Capt. met Mr. Ham, behind the soenes, after the leoture, and the conversation which ensued between them, had it been taken down in short-hand, would have been as amusing as any of Mr. Ham’s humorous lecture stories. A sample passage or two is all that has been preserved.

Mr. Ham, whose home has always been at Gainsville, Ga remarked, he supposed the Cap tain got his military title ‘down our way,” meaning down south. The Captain admitted the truth of the remark, and said he gotitrieht in Mr. Ham’s own state. He remarked further, that he had passed right through Gainsville, on his way to join Sherman’s march to the sea. With the joy of meeting the long lost friend of his boyhood, Mr. Ham shouted, ‘‘Why, I remember you I stood right on the wood-pile and saw you go by.” “Don’t you remember me?” The Captain admitted that he was on the lodloat for “hams” in those days days, but he really didn’t remember seeing any in Gainsville. And the conversation struck a newlead-