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JHE PAST IE6ULAIAINT PAT S TRIBUTE TO lESTING BEROES 8F THE WAR OF SECESSION As Forty'Eight Cans Sound Orer Get tysburg Professional Soldiers and Volunteer Alike Stand in Solemn Silence to Pay Token of Respect to Fallen Warriors. The regular army ■paid tribute on Friday, July 4, to the thousands who sleep under the hills of Gettysburg. Somewhere down in the heart of the tente.; - ’'y a bugle sang out in silver sweet ! 1 that wandered over the field uL. re Lee and Meade made his tory. The big flag before the head- quarler? of Gen. Liggett flashing in sudden curves of red, white and blue, glorious in the sunshine of a perfect July day, came, slowly half way down the shaft. !u front of the tent, shoulders squared, figure trim in summer uniform of white, face to wards the flag, the general clicked heels trceth'T and stood at attention. Somewhere the guns of the Third battery burst in staccato salute. Every officer over the length and breadth of the wide field, every en listed man, turned away from the du ties of the moment and faced the flag h«‘els alight with the sentiment of the hour As the last gun of the forty-eight sent the heroea clattering about Oimfery Kidge and Round Top ther** was solemn alienee, the huah of peace Old veterans who did not real- ire perhops. exactly at the beginning what was going on stood silent nnder the spell of the universal feeling that seerred to sweep the field Even the clafer of pots and pens In the mens tents was hushsd. and the yells of cfxiks sbout 'o dish up the midday meal lowered to whlepers For five tninutee the cgrnp was quiet Then the bugle »(« ke again In notee more joyous The silken flag leaped up the »t*ff to its very pinnacle and the nolaes «0.00 men can make reeum e«l their sway The regular arm) a tribu’e to • he dead and to the flag of a united nation was paid t'nlv a f«-» mlnutee before Tree! dent Wlleon had epohen In the big tent to the veterans In blue and gray, and only a short time afterwards thousands of tboee who ware left bw- gsn their preparatloae for departure Th* preei lent came Into Oettyw- 1 urg st-r-rtly before 11 o’clock from (Vaitlmore Through the narrow, crooked etrea*e of thle war famed country town he motored o«t to camp wtth ('«ov Teaer of Pettaeyl vanle end Kepreeeatatlve Palmer of Pennsylvania by hie side Mia ap pearance at the elation of Getty* burg wse the eigaal for a cheer and from down in the Gettysburg college grounds came the coetomary twenty one guns salute From the efatlon to ’he ramp over the village street* an 1 rray roads the prvwldent was dr ven while the Pennsylvania consta bulary looking bualaese-Mke and effl- clen* In their alate-llke gray uni form* guar’ed hie automobile and kept the traffic clear At the entrance to the big tent the preeldent paused for a moment to l#-t the cameras pop away as he stood with head uncovered between a vet eran from either army HI* entrance Into the ten* to the atralns of "Hall to the Thief" bronght the crowd, which eatimatee may numbered 10.- 000, from their chair* with a cheer The speakers’ platform was filled with the staff officer* of governor*, with men In Confederate gray and a few in blue, with women in gay dresses and the president in hi* black frock coat was a quiet figure. Gov. Tener introduced him in a dozen words. As he rose to epeak there was another cheer. BOY KILLED MOTHER Young Man Arrested for Serious Crime at Abbeville. On Wednesday at about 6 o’clock in the afternoon one Ben Ashworth at Calhoun Falls Was accused of kill ing his mother and was arrested and brought to the county Jail at Abbe ville that night. The jail was well guarded as a lynching was threaten ed. The boy is about 20 years of age. Ashworth himself asserts that he went home drunk and that his moth er asked, "Are you drunk again?" and that he replied “Yes.” Then he claims that his mother remarked that "You are going to cause me to kill myself,” and at once reached under the bed, pulled out a pistol and tried to shoot herself in his effort to pre vent her the pistol was discharged and the bullet entered her brain. It is said that the boy and his fa ther have been on a drunk nearly a year and that there is some doubt as to the truthfulness of tha boy’s sto ry. e City Rous Ice Houses. Seven non-union Ice plants seised by order of Mayor Hunt, of Cincin nati. were operated Thursday by the board of health in an effort to rsUsvs the saffering canned by tbs strike of the Ice WHITE HOUSE ROMANCE DAUGHTER OF PRESIDENT WIL SON IS TO WED Engagement of Mies Jessie Wilson, i Second Daughter of the President, Has Been Announced. The president and Mrs. Wilson, an nounced Wednesday night the en gagement of their second daughter, Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson, to Francis Bowes Sayre of Lancaster, Pa. The wedding is expected to take place next November at the White House. Mr. Sayre is at present an at torney in the office of District Attor ney Whitman of New York. While close friends of both fam ilies have known of the engagement for some time, announcement was withheld until Wednesday, the first anniversary of Mr. Wilson’s nomina tion at the Baltimore convention. White House officials accompanied the brief announcement with a biog raphy of Mr. Sayre. He is 28 years of age and after preparing at the Hill school at Pottstown, Pa., and the lyawrenceville, N. J., graduated from Williams college in 1909. He was maager of the football team there, valedictorian of his class and inter ested in Y. M. C. A. work. He spent two summers with Dr. Alfred T. Grenfell in his missionary work on the coast of labrador and studied law at Harvard low school where he graduated last year "cum laude.” He ha* travelled extensively during his vacations, spending summers in Alas ka and northern Siberia. Mr Sayre comes from a collegiate family. His father was the late Rob ert H. Sayre, for a long time presi dent of the board of trustee* of I.e- hlgh university and builder of the I.«htgh Valley railroad Hta mother waa Martha Finley Nevln, a daughter of John Williamson Nevln. theologian and president of Franklin and Mar shall college at Lancaster, Pa She la deecended from Hugh Williamson of North Carolina, on* of the framer* of the conatttutlon She I* a slater of Robert J Nevln head of the Amer lean church of Rome. Italy, and a first eouatn of Ellfelbert Nevln. the composer VC.aa V> llaon la ?4 year* of age She waa educated at Goucher college Hal tlmore and has spocUMird In pollt Inal science She haa done much eet Cement work I* Philadelphia and has been actively Identified with the T W C A having recantly made many speeches In Its behalf While Mr Sayre la not known to Washingtonians he has made sevnml quiet vtalta (o the Wblls Houss la recent months and waa a freqnent vis itor at the Wilson home nt Prince ton N J The announcement Was re ceived with keen Interest In csplmi social circles as ihs wedding starts the winter nseson with an Important nods) fanctlon Not since Mina Alice Rooeevolt and former Representative Long worth of Ohio were married has there been n wedding nt the White House KN< AMKD IN (XINCRJCTK. in Wreck Isaads la Brah« flaring the heavy downpour of rain nt Magnolia. W Va . on the Balti more and Ohio railroad, several eara of a freight train were derailed Two car* one containing nand and the other cement, were crushed together, and In the midat of the wreckage. Rrnkemnn Henry Blogge was pinned by the mass of cemsnt. sand and broken cars. Blogge had been rid ing on top of the car of cement when the accident occurren. It was several hour* after the acci dent before Blogge regained con sciousness. Then he found that he waa incased in wet cement and sand, which formed concrete. Blogge’s head, shoulders and arms were clear of the solid mass, hot he could not extricate himself because of the wreckage piled on him. After several attempts the imprisoned man attracted the attention of members of the wrecking crew clearing away the debris and they made an attempt to relieve him. It waa many hour* before they were able to get to him. By this time the concrete bad eet and Blogge was encased tightly In the solid mass. After several efforts to break up the immense mass of concrete two heavy cranes on the wreck train lift ed it aboard a car. The incased man was taken to the Martinsburg shop, where the concrete was broken under a steam hammer and Blogge rescued from his peculiar position. Left Fortune to Work Utter weariness of being rperely a millionare is the reason John 6’Brien, of New York, Wednesday advanced in explination of his long absence from the ken of his old friends. He mysteriously vanished at the end of his college year in 1910. He was found yesterday In Van Buren, Ark., where he la working as an assistant engineer for a railraad. Kills Wife and Commits Bnicide Henry Dodd, a farmer of Green- vale, Tenn.. shet and killed his wife with s rifle Mondkyqand then com mitted suicide. Eleven children sur vive The cause of the tragedy is hot known. PRESIDENT DELIVERS INSPIRINfi ADDRESS TO VETERANS ASKS NATION TO SERVE Shows That the Present Time Needs Sacrifice and Valor in as True a Sense as Was Needed Fifty Years Ago—Appeals to AH Right-Minded Men for Aid. A call to service for the reunited nation that Friday through its regu lar army paid tribute to tho fallen heroes of Gettysburg, blue and gray, was the dominant note of the speech of Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States, at tht semi-centennial reunion on the field where fifty years ago the North and South strove for the mastery. The struggle for su premacy, said the president was for gotten, except for the priceless mem ories of heroism. Still, said the na tion’s head, there exist opportunity and need for service to the nation which produced the men who faced death and pain on the stricken field fifty years ago. The president said: "Friends and Fellow Citixens: 1 need not tell you what the battle of Gettysburg meant. These gallant men in blue and gray ait all about us here. Many of them met here upon this ground In grim and deadly strug gle. Upon these famous fields snd hillsides their comrade* died shout them. In their presence It were sn Impertinence to discourse upon how the bsttle went, how It ended, whst It ■ignlfled’ But fifty year* have gone by since then, snd I crave the privilege of tpeeklng to you for a few minutes of what those fifty year* have meant. "What hare they They have meant peace and union and vig or and the maturity and might of a great nation How wboleeome and healing the peace has been’ We have found on* another again as brother* and comrades In arms ene mle* no longer, generous frlenda rather, our battles long past, the quarrel forgotten except »hat we • ball not fotget the splendid valor, the manly devotloa of the men then arrayed against one another, now grasping hands and smiling Into each other a eye* How complete the uni on has become and how de«r to all of us. how unquestioned how be nign and majestic, as Hlate after State has been added to this our great family of free men’ How handsome the vigor, the maturtty. the might of the great nation we love with undivided hearts how full of large and confident promise that s life will be wrought out that will crown tta strength wtth gracious Jus ties sad with a happy welfare that will tonch all alike wtth deep con tentment’ We are debtor* to tboee flflg crowded year* they have made u^heir* to a mighty heritage "But do we deem the nation com plrte and finished ' Thee* venerable men crowding here to this famous field have set us a great example of devotion and utter sacrifice They were willing to die that the people might live. Bat their task 1* don* Their day 1* turned Into evening. They look to us to perfect what they established Their work Is handed on to os. to be done In another way but not to another spirit. Our day I* not over; It 1* upon ua In full tide. "Have affairs paused? Doe* the nation stand still? Is what fifty year* have wrought since tboee days of battlefield finished, rounded out. and completed? Here is a great peo ple great with every force that has ever beaten in the lifeblood of man kind. And it in secure. There i* no one within Its borders, there Is no power among the nations of the earth, to make it afraid. But has it yet squared Itself with its own great standards set up at its birth, when It made that first noble, naive appeal to the moral judgment of mankind to take notice that a government had now at last been established which was to serve men, not matters? It is secure In everything except the satis faction that its life is right, adjusted to the uttermost to the standards of rlgheousness and humanity. The days of sacrifice and cleansing are not closed. We have harder things to do than were done in the heroic days of war, because harder to see clearly, requiring more vision, more ealm ^.balance of judgment, a more candid searching of the very springs of right. "Look around you upon the field of Gettysburg! Picture the array, the fierce heats and agony of battle, column hurled against column, bat tery bellowing to battery! Valor? Yes! Greater no man shall see in war; and self-sacrifice, and loss to the uttermost; the high recklessness of exalted devotion which does not count the cost. We are made by these tragic, epic things to know whst It costs to make a nation—the blood and garlics of multitodes of unknown men lifted to a great stat ure in the view of all generations by knowing no limit to their manly will- ingnees to eerre. In armlee thus marshalled from the ranks of free men yon sill see. as it were, a nation embattled, the leedem and the led. YOUNG GIRL SEALED ALIVE IN 8TONE-ENCLOSED TOMB. After Tearing Off Blindfold Mason Was Compelled at Point of Pistol to Complete the Job. The identity and fate of a young girl who was walled up and left to die in a building near Barcelona, Spain, has caused the Spanish author ities to Institute a rigid investigation. The affair was made public through the statement made by Esteban Gut ierrez, a Btone-mason, who tells a thrilling story of how he was com pelled, at the point of a revolver, to do the work. Gueierrez declares that, after he had advertised in a newspaper for work, two well-dressed men called at his address snd asked him to ac company them in a motor car into the country a short distance to make some urgent repairs. Reaching a dense woods on the outskirts of the city, the two men and a chauffeur seized, bound and blindfolded the stonemason, and a few minutes later the oar stopped in front of a loneely house. The mason declares he was led in side and ordered to wall up a narrow aperture the stone and mortar being in readiness. Gutierrez says he heard some one sobbing, and, tearing the bandage from his eyes, he saw a young girl, bound with ropes and wedged in the aperture. He was promptly knocked down by his captors, and when he arose, was ordered to build a wall ao as to en close the girl, and when he refused was threatened with revolvers. The maaon declares that, at the points of the guns, he was compelled to wall up the young girl after which the car conveyed him to a woods severs! miles away. * here he was unbound, given |20 In silver and warned not to speak of the Incident Ix>et. he wandered several hours before he was discovered by a sroodsman. snd. reaching Barcelona, he went at once to th* police snd may kn >•. If you will bow little except In form Its action differs In days of p*a<>* from !t« action In days of war "May we break camp now and he at ease* Are the forces that fight for the nation dispersed, disbanded, gone U> their home* forgetful of th* com mon cause* Are ost fort** disor ganised. without oonstUsted leader* aad th* might of m*a couacloueiy united because w* contend, not with armies, but with principalities end power* and wickedness In high places Are w* content to lie still* Does our union mesa sympathy, oar pane* conteatmeat. oar vigor right action, our maturtty aelf-cemprahea sloa aad a dear coatdeaca la chose lag what »* shall do* War fitted us for aclioa. aad action never -~if n I have been chosen the leader of the nation I can not Justify the choice by any qualities of my own. but so It has com* about and her* 1 stand Whom do I command* Th# ghostly hosts who fought upon thee* battlefields long ago and are gone* These gallant gentlemen stricken In veer* who** fighting days ar# over, their glory won’ What are the or der* for them, and who rallies them? 1 have in my mind another hoot, whom thee* set free of civil strife In order that they might work out in days of peace and aetled order the life of a great nation. That boat la the people themselves, the great and the small, without clasa or difference of kind or race or origin: and un divided In Interest, If we have but the vlaion to’gnlde and direct them and order their live* aright In what we do. Our constitutions are their arti cles of enlistment. The orders of the day are the laws upon our statute booka. What we strive for ia their freedom, their right to lift themselves from day to day and behold the thinga they have hoped for, and so make way for still better days for those whom they lore who are to come after them. The recruits are the little children crowding in. The quartermaster’s stores are in the mines and factories. Every day something must be done to push the campaign forward; and it must be done by plan and with an eye to some great destiny. “How shall we hold such thoughts in our hearts and not be moved. I would not have you live even to-day wholly in the past, hut would wish to stand with you in the light that streams upon us now oat of that great day gone by. Here is the na tion God has builded by our hands. What shall we do with it? Who stands to act again and always in the spirit of this day of reunion and hope and patriotic fervor? The day of our country’s life has but broadened Into morning. Do not put uniforms by. Put the harness of the present day on. Lift your eyes to the great tracts of life yet to be conquered in the in terest of righteous peace, of that prosperity which lies in a people’s hearts and outlasts all wars and errors of men. Come let ns be com rades and soldiers yet to serve our fellow men in quiet counsel, where the blare of trumpets la neither heard nor heeded .gpd where the things are done which i the a otiose of the world la peace aad rtgh REENACTED IT UNFHERATEJ IN CEIETEIT RlliL IDENTITY CAUSED BY TWO MISSPBO TOES. 1 . m RECEIVED WITH CHEERS ▼Ule Wheat ft Waa Was Not the By the Old Defenders, a Philadelphia Brigade, When They Reach tlxe Stone Wall—Grays Climb Over to Shake Hands and Halk of the Days That Were. A handful of men in gray re-en acted Thursday the charge of Pickett across the field of Gettysburg. Up the slope of Cemetery ridge, where death kept step with them in ’63, 150 veterans of the Virginia regi ments of that Immortal brigade made their slow parade. Under the brow of the ridge In the bloody angle, where the Philadelphia bridge was a handful In blue, scarce ly larger, waited to meet the on slaught of peace. There were no (lashing sabres, no belching guns, on ly eyes that dimmed fast and kindly faces behind the stone wall that marks the angle. At the end, In place of wound or prison or death, were handshakes, speeches and ming ling cheers. The veterans In gray marched for quarter of a mile over the ground that they traversed during the charge. They came up the slope In column of fours. Irregular but re sponsive to the commands of Maj. W. W. Bentley of the Twenty-four Vir ginia. one of the few effleer* of eith er Pickett’# or th* Philadelphia bri gade* preeent. Ahead of them mareh- *d a band snd well down the column was * faded Confederate flag. Its red field pierced with many holes. Its cro** bars dim and Its ahaft colored with the aweat of many a man who died that It might fly high In the last desperate effort to pierce the Union lines Its progress was slow snd palnfnl for the timothy In the field was high and Its plowed surface waa not easy for weady feet Up to the very edge of the atone wall, covered now wtth tangled vines, shaded by trees and peaceful as s aumraer Isas, they marched In the hot asn while the bend played "Dills’’ There they stood for half as hoar while their comrades ta bias peered across at them The hi a* Mae formed bahlad the all Overhead floated a faded stand ard of th* Second army corps Behind ‘hem were the stats lea of the Phfte- delphie brigade end the Feerth Unlt- 1 fits tea hosiery where tateed died. As tbs men la gray formed la a long Mae faring the wall, aad Bar* aad the flag of the corpe were rroeeed la amity Star* aad Stripes were aafaried aad th* crowd that came to watch bar* Into a cheer IteJreaeBtatlve J Hampton Moore, of Pennsylvania, mad* a long speech aad Maj. Beat- ley answered him on behalf of th# South The veterans in gray ware given a medal provided by Jobs Wan- namaker They crowded ever the •ton* wal. shook ana da aad the charge was ovsr. There waa picturesque figure la the Ua* that cams up tbs slope. W. H. Turpin of the Fifty-third Virginia appeared la th* uniform he wore on the day of ths charge. Hi* feet were boaod ia cloth, he had an army blanket strap ped to his back aad he calmly amok ad a long stemmed corn oob pipe. There were fifteen regiments In Pickett's division that day in 'll, and the histories any that S.OOfi men charged acroee the field. Every field officer waa killed or wounded except one lieutenant colonel and two-thirds of the line officers met the same fata. Of the 5,000 who charged, only about 2 000 returned to the Confederate po sition. The Philadelphia brigade num bered about 1,200 men and lost 45S in killed and wounded. One of the most remarkable of mistaken Identity, caused by titu lar peculiarities, happened at Ben- nettsvllle in the trial of Neal Daria, alias Tom Hightower, for wife mur der. In 1904 Tom Hightower, a ne gro man, murdered his wife in a most brutal way, severing her arms and limbs from her body, cutting her throat and otherwise brutally cutting ler. The different parts of the body were buried at different places In a bay. Tom Hightower made his es cape. Last February a negro who wag raised In Marlboro county, was serv- ng a sentence at Easley and he re ported that another negro on the gang at that place and at that time waa Tom Hightower. The arrest wag made and the negro who claimed to be Neal. Davis wag bronght to Ben- nettsviUe. The resemblance was most striking. A striking feature of the resemblance was that Tom High tower had lost a great toe on the eft foot, as had the prisoner. After being brought to Bennettg- vllle he gave hla name aa that of Neal Davis, stated that he was raised Pulaski county, Georgia, gave names of citlsene of that communi ty. Several negroes In this county who had worked with Tom Hightower and knew him intimately, swore . lively that the defendant on trial Tom Hightower, one of then* the sxprsoeloa, "If that Is not Tom Hightower, he la In Tom Hightower’s Hide.” Two white men who aloe knew Hightower well, teotified that th* defendant was Hightower. Two chaingaag guards from Ptekaas coun ty had bees brought to BeaaettsvlHo by th# Bute, aad they taeUted that Davis bad told them be bed morder ed his wife, that he bed eat np her body and bnrled It la different The defeaee sought U weak testimony by showing that these two Kneeeee mod* no reference U the coufeeeloa when the sheriff went U Easley for the prisoner, and th* they said aotbiag about It aatll time afterwards, when all nf the bad been pnMMhnd In the dally pn- Democrats Economical. Uncle Sam closed the fiscal year 1913 with a surplus of $40,083,229, representing the excess of receipts over expenditures, exclusive of Pan ama canal and public debt transno tions. This exceeds last year’s sur plus by $3,750,000. The Panama canal expenditures and public debt transactions, however, wiped ont the surplus of ordinary receipts over or dinary expenditures and created a deficit for the year of $2,149,000, > Confesses Through Remorse. Tortured into sleeplessneee by the knowledge that he had forged his employer’s name to a check, H. D. Hendle, a sixteen-year-old youth of Cullman, Ala., surrendered himself at the Fulton county tower ’Wednes day morning, with the request that hs be locked up. His guilty con science would not let him sleep, said the boy. Gets Two hundred and fifty Uw dollars and all the costs of the smH Is the price the Marquis of Northsmit- ton has agreed to pay to settle th* suit for breach ad promise against him by the boadon Miss Daisy N asm* Is Ytolet the kUUng of his wtfa la 1994. ilssAag tee e< cat off godly, asd sot t of Dr toe oa the a acre's foot had boaa patated by a shilled saicaaa. U was as fine a pioaa #f faery of the kiad as he had It other that the Hightower. After betag eat a mlaataa the )ary ret armed a of sot guilty. BLOOD AT EEUEIOffi. Save* men day in a fight la the dtalag room ad the Gettysburg Hotel, aa a result of a fight, which started when several men aroused th* anger of aa old vet eran In blue, by abusing Lincoln. Several of the wounded men are la a serious condition at the Pennaflvaala State Hospital. Th* state constabu lary are making desperate efforts to find ths men who did the According to all the informatloa th* authorities could gather tho fight started suddenly and was over ta a few mlnutee. It began shortly before L seven o’clock, when the dining room was full of people, and caused a panic among the scoroa of gueots. The veteran who was unhurt aad dis appeared in the melee waa sitting near David Farbor and Edward J. Carroll, when he hoard tho slighting remarks about Lincoln. Ho jumped to his feet and began to defend the martyred president and berated his detractors. The men who were stabbed, ac cording to the Information the sur geons gathered/ jumped to the de fence of the veteran when the others closed In. Knives were out la a second and the room was thrown Into an uyroar. H was all over before the rest of the men In the room conld get their breath and the men responsible for it had fled. o o W ' - •m 'M William K. YaaderMtt, Hampton. L. L, W< The mashtn* ho urns drtriM ovsr- •m* to regufi* thot Ms w«» to a*»