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things and we think we ought to tell you. General Cabell is

very sick in the Clarksville hospital and what do you think, sev-
eral young ladies who were waiting on him fell in love with

him. The consequences may be terrible." Mrs. Cabell replied:

"Is that all, ladies ? Why I cannot see how those young ladies

could have done otherwise than fall in love with General Cabell,

I did it myself." J. M. L.

The day after her marriage at Fort Smith, July 22, 1856,
Mrs. Cabell yielded to urgent solicitation and had her picture
taken. It was a daguerreotype, and this is the only instance
when she would consent to have any form of picture taken.

When General Cabell was captured, 1864, and carried as a pris-
oner to Johnson Island, a small photo was made from the old
daguerreotype and sent to him. It reached him safely and was
the most cherished thing that he had in his prison life. He

was reluctant, even now, to part with it for a few days, but con-
sented to allow it to be used for the cut that appears in this
book, so, that the face of his beloved wife might have a place

among the loved and loving Arkansas Daughters of the Con-

federacy.

Mrs. Katie Cabell Muse, only daughter of General and Mrs.
Cabell, has been a prominent figure in all the women's move-
ments for the preservation of the glories of the Confederacy.
In 1877, she was elected National President of the U. D. C.
organization at Baltimore, Md., and in 1898, at Hot Springs,
Ark., she was re-elected by acclamation.

SOCKS THAT NEVER WORE OUT

General Gordan tells of a simple-hearted country Confeder-

ate woman who gave a striking idea of the straits to which our

people were reduced later in the war. She explained that her
son's only pair of socks did not wear out, because, said she:

"When the feet of the socks get full of holes, I just knit new
feet to the tops, and when the tops wear out I just knit new

tops to the feet."