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WAR SI "Was Grettyj?bui'g a 6i\ Not long ago I waa readiug a history of the great Civil War, in which the writer, a Northern man, cpoke of Get tysburg as a Southern Waterloo, and occasionally we fiad Southern writers and speakers who make the same mis take. Any one acquainted with the history of tho two battles and their results, if he stops to weigh his words, will fully realize tho utter inaccuracy of suoh an expression. In truth the worst defeat suffered by either of thc great opposing armies on any field during thc war between the States fell far short of thc overwhelming ruin which overtook thc army of France at Waterloo. The army of Napoloon fled from that field in utter rout, lcaviug in thc hands nf th? victorious allier 227 cannons. It was a rout unparallel ed in history. Never could even the groat Napoleon rally from that blow. Thc disaster was absolutely irretrieva ble. Let us take a brief review of the battle of Gettysburg. On July 1, 1803, General Ewell's corps of Lee's army encountered the two corps of Reynolds and Howard and drove them through Gettysburg with a heavy loss to tho Federals in killed aud wounded, besides more than 5,01)0 prisoneT. On July 2 the Confederates, attacked the heights, to which tho Federals bad retreated after their defeat of tho previous day. In this second day's fight Longstreet's corps, though fail ing to capture the Hound Tops, drove the corps of General Sickles from its position with heavy loss, ita command er being severely wounded, and at the close of the day held the Devil's Den with its woods and the Emmettsburg road, with skirmishers thrown out as far as the Trostle house. Horace Grcely, in his "American Conflict," says th Kt ''the ground on which Reynolds had fallon was now in the center of the Confederate army. They held that abo on which Howard had been cut up, and that from which Sickles had been driven in disorder. True, they also had lost heavily, but they had reason for their hope that tho morrow's triumph would richly re pay all their losses." Up to this stago of the battlo the loss of the Federals was double that of the Con federates. Enoouraged by the reBults of the eocond day's battle, General Lee de termed to continue the attack. The battle was renewed in the afternoon of July 3d, when Pieset, supported by Pettigrew ac i Trimble, made his im mortal charge, pieroing the enemy's center and seizing some of his batter ies, but not being strongly enough supported was obliged to give up the attaek and retire to his original posi tion. A Northern army correspondent, speaking of the conduct of the South ern soldiers after the failure of the general charge, says-: ''They gather ed up their broken fragments, formed their lines aad slowly marched away." Yes, marched away, but only to the point from which they had advanced in tho charge. General Longstreet says: "There was no indication of panic. Thc broken files marched back in steady step." Major General Henry J. Hunt, chief of thc artillery of tho Union army, says: "This was not a 'Water loo defeat,' with a fresh army to fol low it up, and to ha vu made a cha ige to the offensive, on thc assumption that Lee had made no provision against a reverse, would have bees rash in the extreme." He then proceeds to show that u counter charge was simply impractica ble, and says that an advance against the Confederate position would hav< been madness. Leo remained at Gettysburg during the 4th of July, tho Confederate; burying their dead and moving such o their wounded as wero in a oonditioi to stand a journey in an arabulanc back to Virginia. Tho army of Gen L ie began to retire on the night o the 4th. but the roar of the oolumi did not leave Gettysburg until afte daylight on the 5th. Their marol was not seriously interfered with, am when they reaohed the Potomac am found its waters too muoh swol len to admit of the safe passage o 1 their trains and artillery, they threi np breastworks and awaited the attac! of tb? foe. But the Federals, instea of attacking, fortified their own line and remained behind them, unt Lee's army retired aoross the Pot? mae. According to the revised officii figures published by the United Stat? gV?^^ ,,IV'the Federal army lost i GcttyswUrg--SS,ir72 killed, ?14,4; wounded and 5,434 captured, being total of 23,003. By like official returns the Confe erste army lost 2.592 killed, 12,7i wounded and 5,150 captured, being At fa nt PORI BS. Southern Waterloo ?>v it Journal. total of 20,451. Of the wouuded G,802 were out in condition to bc moved and hence foll into the hands of the Fed erals. In Septe.nbcr, after Longstreet with part of his corps had gone to reinforce thc Confederate army of the West, General Meade made ready for an ad vance against Lee. But the defeat of the Western Federal army at Chicka mauga caused the United States gov ernment to rend to Chattanooga two corps from Moade'? uruiy. Lee then advanced against Meade, who though still superior in number, at once retreated to C^ntervillc, near Washington. For a year and nine months after Gettysburg thc army of northern Vir ginia resisted ull the vast resources ano overwhelming numbers brought against it, and up to thc clone of the summer of 1864, with such brilliant success that Horace Greely declares that "the very darkest hours of tho conflict-those in which our loyal peo ple moat profoundly despaired of a successful issue-were thoso of July and August, 1804; following Grant's repulse from Cold Harbor, thc miue explosion before Petersburg, and dur ing Karly's unpunished incursion into Maryland, and his cavalry raids up to Chambcrsburg and' McConncllaburg." In view of all those facts, to speak of Gettysburg as a "Waterloo ' is absurd. PROF. JOS. T. DERRY. The Courage of a Yankee at Mayre's Hill in 1862. To thc lOditor of The Atlanta Jour nal : I do not wish to make such a use of your columns as will tiro you and the public with my contribution OD Con federate) memories, but I feel that all of my experienee in that Hue are (he property of my fellow-countrymen, and the just inheritance of their chil dren. If I knew of anything which is worth relating and recording, I feel that I havo the privilege with my comrades of putting it on record, so that it will be preserved. This time 1 wish to givo an exper ience which the boys in "blue" can read and not feel ''blue!" What we have been furnishing them to read has left them "wrapt in the solitude of their emotions." While I aui proud of the Confeder ate soldier and ins deeds, and place thoso memories first in my love and affeotion, I am willing to tote "fair" with the yanks, and give them orodii for some things other than "bum ming." Tho Yanks who fought us at May re s hill in Docomber, 1862, had pluok and lots of it, and I wish, if possible, to immortalize the courage of a private Yankee soldier on that occasion. There ia a road, known a3 thc tele graph road, which enters tho town of Fredericksburg, Va., from the South. This road passes around the east and north sido of Mayro's hill. About half way around the north sido of the hill it leaves the hill and runs north into thc town. Where it leaves the hill it leaves a gap in thc oelebrated stone wall or fence. About 20 yards from this gap and in the direction of tho town was a brick house. This house was situated on the west side of the road above alluded to. Near this house Gen. Francis Meagher, of tho Irish brigade, was wounded on Decem ber 13th. On Sunday, the 14th December, my company was in line at the gap in the wall, and we dug up tho road with our bayonets and threw up a breastworks of tho loose earth and stones. From the position we skirmished heavily all that day with the Yanks ly ing down in a depression extending east from the brick houso referred to. Along in tho day these Yanks need ed vfiter and to leave their position in a body to get it would be certain de struction. So every once and a while one or two would jump up and make a break for the town to get water. Instantly hundreds of Confodf would turn their guns on them. All failed to get away but two oi th1 ? % and of these but one ever got bac*. This one after getting to towt returned along telegraph road, heavi ly loaded down with water canteens He oame .leisurely along the roa< making straight for our line-all tht while being under firo. When ho reaohed the brick houc he turned cast and walked quickly am unconcerned, apparently, along th Yankee line, and whon he reached hi plaoe leisurely lay down. He walke along his lino for 100 y.vds or more and the dirt was being thrown u ] ?around him at every step. Thia at jv range of not oxceeding 250 yards. a ' This was the coolest performance i witnessed, oras cool us any ai any rate, that came under my observation during the war. I was real glad he escaped, and I siacerely hope that he is living to day. H. A. JOHNSON, Co. D, Second S. C. V. Atlanta, Ga. ; Fire on the Battlefield. A correspondent, writing from the battlefield to The Macon Telegraph and Confederate, under dato of May 13, 1863, about the battle of Chancel lorsville, gives the following story of a horror of war: "The lino of General Jackson's corps became united with that of Gen eral Lee. and at night our troops oc cupied the battlefield of two days' hard fighting, and slept upon their victorious arms. Directly after the battle, a scene met the gaze appalling to the oyp, and shocking to tho oeusi bility of the most obdurate heart-the wood caught on fire, and the wailiogs of thc wounded enemy were horrible evidencing not on'y pain from their wounds, but the excruciating tortures of tho fire. Many-very mauy-were burnt to a crisp, as well as many of our dead and wounded. I think it no exaggeration when I say the battle of Chancellorsville was by far the most furious contest of tho war, aud more horrid scones met the eye than was ever before witnessed on any other battlefield. But, by the help of an overruling providence, we gained a great victory, and sent the boasting Hooker back howling across the Hap pahaonock-moro severely punished than was bis predecessor, Burnside, and havo made him another sacrifice upon the altar of Northern fanaticism and tyranny." The Age of Mammon. Money-making is the axis around which the world's activities revolve. This is nothing new, adds Collier's Weekly, but probably it was never so true as it is to-day. On every side we see evidences that the world is in a sort of fever of acquisition. Wealth getting has become a passion. The publie press is filled with gossip about tho great money-makers and tb air methods. Enormously rich men are held up ab models. The acquisition of wealth iii set before our eyes every day and every hour as an example of SUOCOBS. Tho Pierpont Morgans, the Henry C. Fricks, the Schwabs, Carne* gics and Hills are the modern ideals of our youth. Nor is this all. Science and art are beooming more and more the mere hand-maidens of industrial ism. Our greatest scientific men are devoting their energies, not to pure science, not to their noble profession in its abstraot or elementary form, but to those applications of it which result in some new economy of the world's work and in the formation of more immense stock companies, with bonds and common and preferred Bbares, dividends, and all the para phernalia of modern financial opera tions on a big seale. The men who love science for science's sake are giv ing way to tho Edisous, Teslas, Trip iers, Pupins, Marconis, those wizards who by day and by night seek to wrest from nature some aew and commer cially profitable service to mankind. Tho number of patents taken out at Washington steadily increases, not withstanding the predictions made not long ago that American inventiveness had reached its high tide. ThiB is the age of materialism and of mam mon, sure enough. Rehnmatlsm-Catarrh in the Blood. TuiAi. 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De scribe trouble, and free medical advico given. Blood Balm thoroughly test ed for 30 years: over 3,000 voluntary testimonials of cures by B B. B. Hill-Orr Drug Co., Wilhifca & Wil hitc and Evans Pharmacy. - A professional burglar in Berlin, Germany, found a new and original way of adding to the ordinary profits of his profession. After eaoh bur* glary he sent a full account of it to .ne of the daily newspapers, and foi s J this ht- received payment is the usual way. But ho tried his plan once toe often.' Tho editor became suspicious and gave information to the police who socs found how ibis amateur re porter was able to beat rivals in thc way of early information. How to Get Rid of House Flies. Io reply to a request from the liaily News for some method of abating the fly nuisance, Mr. L. O. Howard, en tomologist of the United Stater de partment of agriculture, senas the following: The stable of the Ujited States de partment of agriculture, in which about twelve horses are kept, is situ ated about 100 yards behind the main building of the department, and about 90 yards from the building in which thc division of eutomology is situated. The stable has always heeu very care fully kept. The manure has been thoroughly swept up every morning, carried outside of the stable and de posited in a pile behind the building. This pile, after accumulating for a week cr ten days, ur sometimes two weeks, is carried off by the gardeners and spread upon distant portions of th? grounds. At all iiuies in the sum mer this manure pile has been swarm ing with the maggots of the house fly. It is safe to say that ou an average many thousands of perfect flies issu d from \ \ every day, and that at least a large share of the fies vrhich constant ly bothered the employees in the two buildings mentioned came from ?his source. On the ' asis of the experiments of 1897, an attempt was made, beginning carly in April, 1897, to prevent the breeding of house flies about the de partment by the treatment of this ma nure pile with kerosene. The attempt was begun carly in April, and was carried on for some weeks. While undoubtedly hundreds of thousands of flies were destroyed in thc course of this work, it was found by the end of May that it was far from perfect, since used at an economical rate the kero sene could not be made to penetrate throughout thc whole pile of manure, even when copiously washed down with water. A considerable propor tion of house fly larvae escaped in jury from this treatment, which at the same time was found, even at at eco nomical cost, to be laborious, ?sd such a measure in fact as almost no one could be induced to practical y adopt. ' There remained, however, another measure which has been suggested by the writer in an article on the house fly published in 1895, namely, the pre paration of an especial receptacle for the manure, and this was very readily done. A closet 6x8 feet had been built in the corner of the stable near est the manure pile. Dt had a door opening into the stable proper, and also a window. A door was built in the outside wall of this closet, and the stablemen were directed to place no more manure outside the building; in other words, to abolish the outside manure pile, and in the future to throw all of the manure collected eaoh morning into this closet, the window of which in the meantime had been furnished with a wire screen. Tho preparations were completed hy the middle of June, and a barrel of chlor ide of lime was put in the corner of the closet. Siooe that time* every morning the manure of the stable is thrown into the oloset and a small shovel full of chloride of lime is scat tered over it. At the expiration of ten days or two weeks the gardeners open the outside door, shovel the manure into a cart and carry it off to bo thrown upon the ground. Judging from actual examinations of the manure pile, the measure is eminently successful. Very few flies are breeding in the product of tho atablo, which formerly gave birth to many thousands daily. After this measure had been carried on for two weeks, employees of the department who had no knowledge of the work that was going on were asked wheth er they had noticed any diminution in the number of flies in the office. Per sons in all of tho offices on the first floor of tho two buildings were asked this question. In ?vary offico except one the answer was that a marked de crease had been noticed, so that the work must be considered to have been successful. The account of remedial work has been given with some detail since it shows so plainly that care and clean liness combined with such an arrange ment as that desoribed will in an in dividual stable measurably affect the fly nuisance in neighboring buildings. With the combined efforts of the persons own i ncr a stable in a given com munity, much more effective results oan undoubtedly be gained.. We are accustomed to think of the house fly simply as a nuisance, but ?hey are undoubtedly the oarriers of contagion, as has been proved both practically and exporimcufcly many times since Dr. Loidy daring the war of the rebellion found that they were responsible for the sprrad of hospital gangrene. The enforcement, there ; fore, of cleanliness in stables and the i obligatory building of receptados for horse manure, wonld seem to the writer i subjects worthy the oonsikeratton of > ! the boards of health of our oitles. i The noose fly has a number of nat > ural enemies, and the common house i eentipeds destroys it in considerable , numbera; there is a small reddish mil? . which frequently covers its body and > gradually destroys it; it is subject to the attacks of hymonopterous para ??ten io its larval condition, aud it is destroyed by predatory beetles at the same time. The most effective enemy, however, <s a fungus disease known as empusina muscat, which carries off flies in large numbers, particularly to ward the close of the season. The epidemic ceases in December, and al though many thousands are killed by it, the remarkable rapidity of devel opment in tho early summer months soon more than replaces the thousands thus destroyed.-'Atlanta News. Mau 27._?_ Twin Brothers so Alike They Separated. "The remarkable Burge* ? twius, of Auburn, N. Y., whose identity baffled even the Bertillon system until a few telltale soars were found, have decid ed they look too much ?like to live io the same town," says the New York Tribune. "Acoordiug to their own story, no o&? usa ?eli them apart but they themselves, and even they at times find this hard to accomplish. As if to .nake the resemblance still oloser the i1 other of the twins gave them names which are almost identical. They were christened Hay ?nd Roy. They are now 17 yoars old. Ray and Roy Burgess during their early child hood were indistinguishable ozcept to their mother, who held the clews of their ideutity in certain small marks and twists of hair. The main oharao terists of featuri and form to whioh the great majority of mankind owe their individuality in appearance are exactly similar in the Burgess twins. Both have dark brown hair, gray eyes, slightly flattened noses, moderately thick lips, long ears and rounded chins. In weight Roy has had the advantage at several different times, although at present both weigh exactly 144 pounds. Both are 5 feet 9 inches tall. While ohildren the twins enjoyed their sim ilarity and played all sorts of pranks on the?; fellows. Having left school to enter business, however, they have found that their lack of individuality in of great annoyance and even injury. All kinds of mistakes are made by a debtor stopping the wrong twin on the street to pay him or a creditor run ning down the other one who owes no one. In consequence the twins de cided to separate, and last week Roy went to the town of Keene, N. H., where he expeots to enjoy the novel experience of having an identity of his own. Ray remains in Auburn, although he has also planned to go where he will have the use of his own individuality. By staying in Auburn he is still mistaken for his brother by his brother's friends, who believe the latter may have returned on a visit. Before Roy's departure for New Hampshire the twins were measured according to the Bertilion system at the Auburn prison. The system proved successful in distinguishing them O' ly because of the discovery of a lew scars. Happened Right in the Family. The cross examiner was a smart man, whose object was to disooneert the witness and discredit his testi mony. "What did you say your name was?" was the first question. * Michael Doherity." ' i'.chael Doherity, eh? Now, Do herity answer this question carefully, are you a married man?" "Oi think so. Oi was married." "So you think because you got mar ried that you are a married man, do you? Now, tell me whom you mar ried." "Who Oi married? I married a wo man." "Now, don't you know better than to trifle with the court? Of course you married a woman; o id you ever hear of any one marrying a man?" 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