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C I * < 111 v**~ ** ^ (f^piTamj'llnfcioiv p <jp^pfcroes off n>ei All over the South there are lovi myriads of graves unknown to the her ' loved ones at home. A lady In Geor- the gla once remarked, In speaking of her fam life: "My riches are all In Virginia, tar I love the dear old State; she is keep- hav Ing all my treasures for me; the dust wit of my five sons is beneath her soil"? hea and here in Kentucky, scattered tior amongst its cemeteries and down in thei its valley and along Its hillsides, there son are thousands of such mounds as tori these, which represent the costly and lovi dreadful sacrifice the homes and BOlc hearts of the South paid In the struggle of the Confederacy, to be free, r The world Is beginning to understand that the greatest heroes of the war were not its officers. It is not probable that more than 30,000 officers, of all ranks, laid down their lives in defense of the Confederacy, and there were more than 4 00,000 privates who gave up their lives for that land. The largest proportion of the heroism r' and chivalry of the army of the South was in her ranks and the bravest men ^ who died were those whose history will never be written. The scout, the picket, the men in the skirmish line, the men in the rifle pit, and on P"*" the parapet and in the trench, were the men who dared most, endured most and gave most in that struggle. The men who showed the greatest ^ bravery, the truest self-devotion, the most splendid courage, were those who carried the guns and "never reasoned why, but only marched to do or die." This isolation in burial, Bll this loneliness in death, Bpeaks in no Vp.- uncertain way of the poverty of the cQn war's survivors and of the desolation which followed In the wake of the U( South's defeat, and of the dreadful ear consequences to its people when its "Fol banner went down before the storm. Jen< k These almost forgotten heroes were or best known to the wives, and moth- The k ers and sisters of the South. It was woman's tenderness which sustained ^an I Bw ? nad GEN. CLEMENT A. EVANS, the Atlanta, Ga., cari Commander in Chief United Confederate tha k Veterans. ? rea them and woman's heart which alone actl } , -Appreciated them and gave them their wit Jnst place among the noblest of the prh | earth. The boy who came back on and bills shield was to women the greatest ro* and truest of all, and she worshiped De' and cherished him as woman alone anu ) u can worship and cherish. The most wai acred of all her treasures, the ten- est } .. -Merest of all her memories were con- all acted with those whom she had tha ^ ,given as a sacrifice to the South. She for a . ft.via. v. . i .aasl >ti Graves r i 3d best, remembered best, and In heart lived longest and truest deeds of those who, unknown to le, surrendered their all on the alof their country. For those who e been burled here or elsewhere hout affection's recognition, the rt breathes out sweetest benedlci and praise. It may be that In se far-away homes they only hold le garment, faded, tattered and J, it may be a gray jacket which ng hands prepared for the young lier when he went forth to the ITHPLACE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS, R Hict for his country; now, as they i :h this sacred and holy relic, in j s and in anguish they say: Id it up carefully, lay it aside, ^ ierly touch it, look on it with pride; . dear must it be to our hearts evermore? ? jacket of gray our loved soldier boy wore. , we ever forget when he joined the brave band, , ) rose in defense of our dear Southern 1 i ill hia bright youth hurried on to the fray, . r proudly he donned it?the jacket of gray. ] ey've laid him to rest in his cold, nar- > row bed, stone have they placed o'er his pillow- ? less head. the proudest of tributes our sad hearts . could pay, , never disgraced the dear jacket of ' n foli it up carefully, lay it aside, ilerly touch it, look on it with pride, j dear must it be to our hearts evermore, i jacket of gray that our loved Boldier boy wore." 'he severest and most trying of all 1 <s connected with the late war, ( i the watching and waiting for ] Be who would never come; the ertainty and the gloomy despair ich gathered as days and months sed by and no tidings were ught of the father or son. This, ards the end, became the crown- ( sorrow of the sufferings which ' sued the people of the Confed- ( cy. Prisons, hospitals, death on 1 battle held, and the horrors which 1 nected themselves with the awful ' d "missing"?which marked the ; years of the war, left their deeptouch on the homes and hearts of women who longed for a word or ne. or a renort In toll ihom 1 jre and how the object of love gone down into the shadows of hereafter. The "Unknown List" ried with it a terror and anguish t even the most widespread bevement could never impart. The Ivities of actual war alternated h its hardships and softened its rations. It was those who watched i waited who felt the keenest sorr that followed in war's train, th then oftenest came suddenly I without note of warning, and it i those at home who suffered deepand longest; and the sharpest of its pangs was to yearn for forms t would never appear and to listen voices which were hushed in , death. It was the home peoplepeople who mourn such dead a are here to-day to honor?who ixed the war's worst trials. THE BOY HERO OF THE V And lo! thy matchless boy. O Tennest With pinioned arms beneath the gt tree. Looked forth, unmoved, into the w skies. The nut-brown ringlets falling o'ei eyes; He, by kind gaolers, had been ofl nlored; "Speak but one word! To freedom I stored!" The lifted signal, "Hold," the mess cried; And, springing up. stood by the hero's "My boy! This bitter cup must pasi by! Too brave, too noble, and too young tc Your mother, father, sisters?when learn? Even now, perhaps, they wait your return. SSnanlr Knf nnn wor<l * ?1 ?' ^ n-ora CTTC rem eui name! Tia he should bear this penalty and si IH mK . *V/ -.v vBHeB ^BH BR ^I ^HEU '* 1^' - <n^^HSI^Bal ^^^B^Hr.V ' 1 wh' tlMTgKwylffl anr^SHfl mr * VHffiQCuh|j|Qfl||H FROM MODEL DESIGN OF THE J DAVIS STATUE. Live for your mother! Think n moi how?" "Not with the brand of fraud upon brow! I and the 'culprit,' true, might botl free. The broken pledge would haunt not but me. How light soever what promise man make, , FAIR VIEW. KY. TIIE RESIDE] EPLACED BY A BAIT I ST CHL'RC Should he kept sacred for his honor's si My mother! [And choking back the sob, but half i cealed, [lis head drooped low! At last n nature yield!') 'My mother!" Hashed again the t dimmed eyes. 'At her dear knees she taught me hov die! Ser loving heart would be too so puined [f to lier lips were pressed her boy's i falsehood stained." 'My brave, brave boy," the pleader sj again; 'A boy in years, but worth a thous men Lake him for whom, the coward, trai knave, You'd lay your own brave, young life d< to save. ?peak out! Life is so sweet! Be once more!" 'I never knew how sweet life was bef Still?words are useless. General, but give? You're kind; yet if I had a thousand 1 to live, !'d give thein all ere I could face the sh \nu wear, for one hour, u base, dial ored name." ' The die was cast! Our tears were tears For him, who gave one day and gain? thousand years! Centuries on centuries shall go circling But still he is not dead! SAM DA cannot die! ?From the Confederate Vetera Pure anu Spotless. The South's flag, born In the vli :atlon of State rights and nurtu by the blood of her sons upon an b ared battlefields, went down as p and spotless as the breezes that i upon the bosom of the "Shining 1 sr."?Confederate Veteran. HUGH T. MORTON. JR., ?the | THE SWORD OF ROBERT LKB. b we real- Forth from its scabbard, pure and bright Flashed the sword of Lee! Far in the front of the deadly tight. High over the brave in the cause of Right tran It* stainless sheen, like a beacon light, Led us to victor)-. lee! Forth from its scabbard, high in the air tllows Beneath Virginia's sky? And they who saw it gleaming there -intry And knew who bore it. knelt to swear That where that Bword led they would dan r his To follow?and to die. t im- Out of its scabbard! Never hand ' Waved sword from stain as free, >o re- Nor ourer swonl led braver band. Nor braver bled for a brighter land, enger Nor brighter land had a cause bo grand, Nor cause a chief like Lee! side. ) you Forth from its scabbard! How we prayed That sword might victor be; ? die! And when our triumph was delayed, they And many a heart grew sore afraid. We still hoped on while gleamed the bladi long Of noble Robert Lee. prit's Forth from its scabbard all in vain. Bright flashed the swonl of Lee; tame. ^ Tig shrouded now in its sheath again, It sleeps the sleep of our noble slain, > Defeated, vet without a stain, r Peacefully anil proudly. L ?Father Abram Ryan. i ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON. I Ere yet the sun bad pierced the eastern skies f Or dews of morn assumed their diamond I hue, I With diligence intent upon surprise I In steady lines old Southland s columns drew; With sudden peal' the voice of thunder woke The hills that slept in Shiloh's solitude; And valor pressed through floods of fire 1 and smoke. | Inspired with hope and manly strength I renewed. I , When fickle Fortune veiled her face the ft while lni< filial ?i.~ ?1.1:? - i?-* P with grief, And Victory relaxed her cheerful smile And gently stooped to crown her fallen chief, Where shades of Southland's dauntless I spirits dwell, ' To consecrate the spot where Sidney Johnston fell. ?M. M. Teagar, Flemingsburg, Ky., in Confederate Veteran. A YOUNG CONFEDERATE. 3AM Master Hugh T. Morton, Jr., Illustrates the spirit of his class. His nent grandfathers were both colonelB .In the Confederate army, and the little my fellow, though but eight months old, was manifestly as happy as older persons. He was evidently the youngest him, "Rebel" who participated In the memorable occasion of the Blrmlngma> ham Reunion. STCE AS IT APPEARED IN 1886, WHEN H. ike! A CONSPICUOUS DAUGHTER. One of the most conspicuous figiust ures at the Confederate reunion in Richmond, Va., was Miss Mary Hall, ear' of Augusta, Ga., a Daughter of the r to Confederacy, who occupies a unique position in the regard of the Southre'y ern people, and especially of the vetMth erans who fought under the stars and MISS MARY HALL, The most conspicuous Daughter of the Confederacy in the South. ired iun- bars. Miss Hall, who was an earnest iure adherent of the "lost cause" during day the Civil War, still cherishes for it a tiv- feeling of reverence and devotion. She glories in the fact that she was identified with it, and as a token of her changeless loyalty to it she invariably wears a small Confederate flag or badge. She Is the only woman iwlio 1b a full member of a Confederate veterans' camp, and she marches for miles with the camp at reunions, attired in gray and wearing a campaign hat, which, with her close-cut hair, gives her quite a soldierly appearance. The crowds along the lines of march always give her an ovation. Miss Hal! has placed six hundred silken Confederate flags on the graves of departed soldiers. At the reunions she is always an honored guest and receives many attentions. Not Saying Much. Carrots are said to be four times as nutritious as cucumbers. That is not saying much for carrots, either.? Macon Telegraph. : CYCLONE ? Property Losses W The Loss In Tenne b Hundreds of Ds Atlanta, Oa., Special.?Cy and tornadoes, the like of whicl not been known for years, through the South Thursday I and all Friday .leaving in their hundreds of dead and mangled t and the dismantled wrecks of ( erty worth many millions. Tennesee was an especially sufferer. At 9 o'clock Friday oareful estimates indicate the least 50 people were killed in Qtate qlpne, with monetary about $1,000,000. At Franklin in IlilUboro there was loss oi The lattgf town Is said to be p cally destroyed, while at Centi and adjoining villages the loss | ported very heavy both in livei property. Near Pulaski, Giles c< the death list reaches twelve, many are injured. In the vicinity of Chattagnoop storm was felt at its worst, phone and telegraph wires blown down and the movemen trains was greatly hampered, hurricane followed the Cumbe valley, wrecking small towns an troying farm houses. At Ebe eighteen houses were blown dowi .At Charlestown the storm sw up the Hiasse river, destroying ertv. At Fayettcville three known to have perished. At many houses were blown dowr, at Gilestown not even a shed wa standing. Memphis reports heavy loss towns within a radius of 100 in three States. . At Horn Lake, Miss., half lives were lost and the pro damage was very heavy. In Arkansas eight persons Kint'd near ataramoth Springs i score of buildings wrecked, points in Arkansas report heavy Atlanta and most of Georgi caped with only slight pro losses during the blow. But young people, brother und sister, liam and I'earl Withra, lost lives here Friday afternoon b; capsizing of a rowboat during a den squall. The hurricane continued upc course of destruction in Alabanu day night. Huntsville sends wo heavy loss of property, with pro several lives sacrificed near the nessee line. At Danville, in M county, Alabama, the storm s with terrific force. At Hnrtsi least one is dead and many hurt Soon after dark Friday nigh storm winds began shooting i the railroad telegraph and tele] lines connecting Atlanta with tanooga and Knoxville and wire munication, which had been kept great difficulty during the after censed entirely. The Western Atlanta Railroad offices here rep that south of Chattanooga, near erson, Ga., several big trees blown across the railroad rig! way, tearing down wires and ho up five trains. The death totals were swelled SUGAR COMPANY" New York, Special.?The Ame Sugar Refining Company, of New sey and the New York corporatii the same name Tuesday paid int< treasury of the United States $ 000, completing a payment aggr ing $2,134,000 in settlement o: civil claims arisinir out of the fi ulcnt weighing of sugar on the d of the refineries in Brooklyn and Bey City. The companies fu agree to give np their right of np The settlement was made upon advice of the company's lawyers FARMERS PLAN A I Charlotte, N. C.t Special.?P dent H. Q. Alexander, of the N Carolina division of the Fair Union, is very much interested it plan proposed for the organizatir the several cotton warehouses ir individual Southern States into gigantic corporation. The wareh< which have been erected bv the t' THE MOSLEM DISO , Constantinople, By Cable.?A come message was received Thur form the town of Hadjin, in the vince of Adana, where five Amei women missionaries have been t with thousands of refugees sought safety there from band Moslems seeking to put them to sword. Hadjin has withstood a i for the past eight days and the iooaries have been sending frantic appeals for help. Thur a message reached here from Lambert, the daughter of Bi Lambert, timed 10:22 a. m., w said: "With the arrival of the tr PLAN FOR SOUTH! Washington. D. C., Special.? Department of Commerce and L line tirvin o nlon nishing of immigrants with del and reliable information which ii lieves will meet with the co-open of Middle Western and Sout States in particular. Assistant retarv MeHarg is preparing plai make a section of the immigratioi effective which has hitherto be |psiii ill Run Into Many Millions, tsse Ajone Being $1,000,000 >ad and Mangled Bodies clones day night by three lightning victims i have at Monroe, Ga. Late in the afternoon swept a rushing windstorm, accompanied by night blinding lightning, broke over Monwake roe and one of the bolts struck the todies, residence of M. B. Barrett, running prop- down the chimney. Barrett, his wife and his 17-year-old daughter were heavy killed, and a 10-year-old son and a night younger child were seriously shocked. it at i that stJorm ln ^ jjjddjg West losses jmd Chicago, Special.?Belated reports , ? . _ okr?.i. ?L ~ 1 *' * " - llte iuai me cu-aiii anil destruction, irncti- 0QUSpd bv the terriflle storm that -eville STVePt over the Middle West Thursday js rc_ night, were more extensive than at p nn<j first indicated by the meagre tele>untv. ^raPb carried over damaged wires, and Three men were killed in Chicago by the collapse of a factory. Homeless a the men- w'ompn and children spent FriTele ^av *n Grange houses in many suwere bnrbs. where the storm had upset imt ? substantial houses. The In the path of the storm before it rland rtacbed the Great Lake region, great d de- destruction of property is reported, nezer lp,,s* eleven persons were killed. 1 At Ciolden. Mo., a part of the town erved vvns destroyed and many homes were prop- w,<M'ktd. Five persons lost their are l,vpRCuba Summerville, Mo., the wind erei and havoc and two persons wero ^ills left C<I* Many were injured. The storm was furious in Southern from Illinois and at Texas City, near Carmiles four persons were killed and many | seriously wounded. The town was dozen w?-ceked. perty Great damage to property and crops was caused in Mieliignti on the were fns' Rl,orp ?f Lake Michigan, Bentno tnd a Harbor and South Haven being in the Other PaHi ?t the storm. ' loss 1? Wisconsin, for many hours there a os. ranged a severe snow storm, causing pertv damage to property. At Lacrosse and two Superior, traffic was hampered beWil rausi! of drifts. their y the Many Killed in Storm. i sud- Louisville, Ivy., Special. ? Dispatches, fathered throughout the inj'S South bv the Associated Press Friday i r nrd of m?ht, indicate that a least 114 perbably sons met sudden death in the great Ten- wind that spread havoc throughout organ the region south of the Ohio. The .truck number of injured is probably threeill at fold that of the killed. It is substant. tinted that 114 persons were killed, t the distributed among the following icross towns: ihone, Tennesce: Youngs Crossing. 5; Chat- Favetteville, 15; Noblesville, 1; Hnrtcom man county, 1; Medina, 4: Clnrkswith ville. 1; Centreville. 1; Franklin, 1; noon. Hillsboro, 4; Somerville, 3; Laeonia, and 2; Ilclls, 2; Quito, S; Giles county, orted 12. Em- Mississippi's most disastrous point were was Horn Hake, where IS met death, it of Arkansas has four dead near Hartlding sell. Missouri has seven killed at SomerFri-' ville and 11 at Golden. ?AYS~ u7sT CIVIL CLAIMS rican settlement from the latter was made Jer- public Friday night in which they >n of say that the settlement seemed wise i the because of the fact that the goveroSOfi. meat had threatened otherwise to egat- bring other suits for amounts reachf all ing nearly $5,000,000. The settlement *aud- while it discharges all t,he civil locks claims made by the government Tor- against the companies, does not prerthpr vent the bringing of criminal prosepcal. cutions against the men rosponsiblo the for the use of the fraudulent device i. A by which false weights were recorded. 3IG WAREHOUSE MERCER 'resi- in Georgia and Mississippi have al'orth ren<ly been merged into a State corners' Porat'on n,,d tlie plan is meeting with signal success there. President C. S. 1 *'1C Barrett, of the National Union, is in >n of South Carolina now engaged in an i the effort to consolidate the warehouses one of that State and it is likely that a uises similar move will be begun in North rnion Carolina at an earlv date. RDERS IN'ADANA CEASE wel- the disorders in and about the city sday have ceased, and we are all safe and pro- well. Lambert." Adil Bey, permanriean fnt under-secretary of Stnte in the done I ministry of the Interior, said that the who government would make a searching s of investigation into the cause of the i the disorders and punish the instigators, liege Reports received at the ministry of mis- the interior indicated that quiet now out prevailed everywhere. The secretary sdav said that the government recognized Miss the necessity of providing food, medishop cine and shelter for the sufferers, and 'hich liad taken steps to provide these and oops inaugu-ate other measures of relief. O GET GOOD IMMIGRANTS -The I dead letter. This section provides abor ' that States or territories may appoint fur- agents to represent them at the immiflnite grant stations of the United States t be- for the purpose of presenting to imltion migrants either orally or in writing ,hefn the special inducements offered by Sec- the State or territory to aliens to setis to tie therein. Efforts have not bees n set made in the past to put into force this en a been taken in it. x?. .