Show necessities there are three kinds of necessities necessities which we make necessities that mati mall mane mahe e us and military ri necessities the first named division of my pub subject is of the rarest kind klud because we never see them in the way vay they are intended the second kind of necessities Is numerous and is more readily felt than seen very few men see their own necessities until they are close enough to fry the freckles on the abac parrot a sun burnt neek neck then we feel them they seldom fall to make an impression I 1 suppose from the tho farce of their up aan aavo been aware 0 of the existence of ahli this second class of necessities ever ever aver since bince I 1 was quite a youth most youths know of it but like all other sins they dont like to confess it my gy first impression of them was made by a corset board applied by mother for refusing to take moffatte atts vegetable pills pilla for a bad cold moffatt died soon after that and I 1 never could learn whether it was from chagrin at the way in which he wa was s looked upon as a by the juvenile world or whether he died of a broken energy because he could find no way to make his hla pills any more bitter be that as it may I 1 took the pills and took the corset board also and though I 1 only received ahr three ee sound licks and an attempt as aa interest for my mothers vain endeavors it was for eight hours that I 1 could nob nou walk either bent or straight and had to go half haio 0 of ota ench each h e somewhat in id the raw pota potato t oha 0 1 c style that you so often see in fashionable circles now especially in the streets and other public assemblies but it was not a fashionable style in the time that I 1 refer to and that is why I 1 did not like it I 1 am fond of anything fashionable but I 1 have very little appetite for things thata thau are not especially necessities that make us now ow I 1 have often read of necessities that make men but bubl bubi I 1 have often thought that those three licks and one attempt from that corset board made me 9 as 8 effectually as destiny ever made any one I 1 komo kome come now to the third and last division of my subject military necessities these are the most terrible necessities of them all they are a mixture of the other kinds of necessities partaking altogether of the evil natures of both of them I 1 had some idea efthem of them when at a military school but add this to what I 1 knew afterward and then deduct dedual the difference and it was just like theory and practice between which any marriageable man or woman can tell you there is a difference so vast that the sum tum total would amount to more than the consequential damages done don ebythe by the alabama I 1 ad mire a military necessity less than any of the necessity family and have often wished that I 1 had never formed its acquaintance I 1 was once told by the roll call professor at my institute that it was a military necessity that I 1 should guard a famous rowdy student during hiis hib punishment ish ment menh because I 1 jumped into my bunk on the right foot instead of the left my period of watching was six hours four extra and two regular duty I 1 had watched five of them and fell feli asleep the ungrateful rascal entirely unmindful of the hardship I 1 was undergoing der going for him dropped my jacket collar full of red hot parched ground peas pens I 1 heard a yell like that of a wounded choctaw an explosion of blank cartridges on my back and knew of little else until I 1 was brought to the next morning by somebody rubbing me with turpentine and pasting down a cream creamo plaster parallel with my spinal extension my next military necessity came in the form of an order from my colonel during the war to remain in the breastworks after the army bad fallen back now this was a very stern military necessity and one that I 1 had little appetite etite for ever since that time I 1 have liked 1 aked military necessities less and learned to look upon retreats as perfect shams shame I 1 had always liked retreats better than any other part of service because being a good I 1 was wits always sent as aB a scout Cout in front of the army when going backwards to hunt chickens and eggs for the hospital my next experience was soon after this and in time of a large battle battie it was thought to be a necessity to send our part of the line forward first idid edid I 1 did not see the reason in it but it was done I 1 soon saw less reason in it and so far as I 1 was concerned it was undone I 1 soon became again overwhelmed with enthusiasm as to the grandness of the scenio art displayed before me and this feeling conveyed itself itsell from the cerebrum down the co lassel artery of the backbone down the leaders of my legs and thence taking root in my heels I 1 hurled gun and ammunition to the idle winds and the seekers after ambition and led out for the rear at a rate I 1 have never yet seen equaled A yankee bullet was passing in the line of my backward march and as aa two bodies never could occupy the same place at once I 1 tried to pass it and the bullet went through quicker than a torchlight procession through a powder house I 1 never knew of it though until I 1 had reached a sand bed vastly to the rear and lay down in a july sun to cool off and calculate tho the circumstances but even thus was I 1 better off than when at the front and in my nay warm condition felt as cool coolac as a deacon during christmas I 1 wag was surprised next day to learn that my name was put down among the ini immortal mortal wounded 1 soon after got a A government contract and then know very little of necessities of any kind Q quila quit p in savannah republican |