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WAR SI Army Z\ la nen vers at N Atlanta . Nearly two thousand Georgia mili- j tiatueo will be invited to participate tu the regular army maneuvrcs this year, which will take place at Men asses, Va., on the field made famous by the two battles of Hull Run in the uivil wa>\ The maneuvers Will con tinu.! from September 5th to 20th, and already the s'oic^teer soldiers of Geor gia, ...teether with those of .he other South Atlantic Stai.es, are looking forward to the event with extraordi nary interest. Twenty-two thousand troops will participate in these maneuvers. Of this number about eightceti thousand will be of the regular arny the balance .State troops in the division of the Atlantic. Manassas is on thc lino of the Southern railway and the officials of the road are preparing to handle the troops and thc thousands of visitois ; With comfort and dispatch. The accompanying photographs o hov.- historic points now to be seen on the famous battlefield, at many of which the Georgia regiments in the oivil war were engaged. The pictures were loaned to the Journal by Lieu tenant George C. Round, a Union offi cer who fought in both battles of Bull Run and who now resides at MaoasEas. In connection with the coming maneuvers, the New York Herald has colleoted some highly interesting facts. Major General Henry C. Corbin will fight the third battle of Bull Run, says the Herald, aud the general stiff of the army is now engaged upon improving the strategy of General .Stonewall Jackson in what is regarded by military strategists as tho most masterly campaign of tho civil war. From Portland, Me., which never ?jame nearer to war than seeing in the offing Spanish fleets whioh never ex isted, the army maneuvers will be transferred this year to M an asa na, Va., whioh stiP. '. ears the marks of the heavy blows dealt by blue and gray forty-two years ago. For the first time an opportunity will be afforded for effective compari sons between the old army which fought and the new army whioh is being trained to fight. Can the mod ern armament and tho methods of transportation whioh have developed forty years from the day when Pope and Lee raced from their respective bases to the battle ground ohange the result of their maneuvers? Twenty two thousand modern soldiers will be used to test tho prowess of the an cient, armies of the rebellion and prove wha; would have happened had the commanders whose names made his tory possessed Krag-Jorgenson rifles, Dougherty wagons and the new army field gun. It is probable that no field of any of the great Southern conflicts could have been selected whioh lms Buffortd ao little change as the low lyiag land in the valley of northern Virginia between Thoroughfare Gap and the Potomac. There have been few alterations in the general make-up and characteris tics of Manassas since the rear guard of General Pope's army fell baok to Washington. Railroad lines and roads whioh afforded the old combat ants their only methods of transporta tion other than that afforded by the country roads have not changed. The lines shown upon the map of 1862 are still unohanged, exoept that upon what was the left flank of the North ern army there has been eonstruoted a road between Alexandria and Fred ericksburg, and a line aoroBB what was the base of the Southern army from Fredericksburg to Charlottesville. These latter lines would so materially have affected the operations of the civil war that it is probable, if the general staff follows its plan of repro ducing thc campaign of 1862, they will be barred by the umpire. Eighteen thousand regular army troops and 4,000 militiamen from va rious Eastern States will participate io the opcrationsf which will continue from September 5th to 20th. This is the largest body of regulars and mili tia gathered for maneuvers in the his tory of the United States. The fields of Bull Run, Bristow Station, Milford and Manassas Junction will again be trod by armed soldiers. The same istragetio points which played such a vital part in the contest of military science waged between Genoral John Pope, the federal leader, and General Robert E. Les, Confederate, stand Voe same to day as in 1862. Major General Henry C. Corbin, commanding the division of the At lantic, will be in supreme oommand. Lieutenant General A dna R. Ohaffee, ahief of staff, whose actual fighting /service in Cuba, the Philippines and O Irina in the last few. years is fresh in ru in i"., will observe the maneuvers. M ilter/ attaches of foreigh govorn ORI HS. [anas?saa in September. Journal. I UiCDts will witness thc evolutions. Convenient as the scene of lighting I will bc to Washington and Baltimore, I and even to Philadelphia and New York, thousands of onlookers are ex pected to find their way thither. Al ready inquiries that pour in upon the war department show that many an old veteran who fought in the cam paign of August, 131*12, intends to eec ^ how the soldiers of to-day will handle \ themselves on the fighting ground. To this day wherever the veterans of the campaigns of the great rebellion gather aud stories are told "red Vir ginia mud" has a prominent place. It is declared there is no "stickier" mud in the world and no time when it is "stickier ' than the last rainy harvest months. The campaign of 18(i2 was fuu6ut for the most part by veterans of at least a year's standing. There were four regiments from in or near thc city of New York in that campaign, but they had had time to learn .thc difference between tho pavements of the island of Manhattan and the shift ing slush in the wake of a Virginia rainstorm. It is considered highly probable by army officers that the regiments from the State of New York so fortunate as to bc allowed the op portunity to attend these maneuvres will bo apt to encounter Borne incon veniences before they equal the record of Gen. Stonewall Jackson when ho fought two armies in the same day be yond Thoroughfare Gap at points 15 miles of red clay apart and won the trategy of the game of 1862. Co-operation of militia with regular troops, which forms the basic princi ple of the national scheme of defence, will be afforded thorough operation in these maneuvres. General Corbin re cently went to Virginia to make ar rangements for obtaining permission to operate upon the land desired as fighting ground. Property owners told him the army could begin to ope rate there the first week in September when the harvest will have been com pleted and there will be no danger to crops from the march of infantry, cav alry or artillery. But this date, al though it has the advantage of being comparatively cool and is convenient to the Virginia farmers, has ito draw backs. Most of the national guard organizations go into camp and have their maneuvres in July and August. The militiamen, with whom soldiery is an occupation secondary to that by which they make their living, are bet ter able to leave their oiSeera and shops during the dull summer months. When the wheels of commerce and in dustry begin to limber up in Septem ber it is not so easy for them to absent themselves from the city. Thus far the militia representation will be smaller than if thc maneuvres were held in July. That month, if made ibo period for thi* mimic war fare would undoubtedly result in not a few fatalities from sunstroke. Vir ginia is an extremely hot plaoe in the middle of Bummer, almost too tropi cal for military operatious of this character. I A Charleston lady visiting Port Jef ' ferson, Long Island, recently was a guest at the commencement exercises of the High Sohool of that plaoe, and was so much pleased with an essay, written and read by a pupil, that a oopy was requested. The essay was upon "Confederate Character," and is reproduced, as follows: "What is there more inspiring, more worthy of praise and thought, than the devotion and loyalty with which the soldiers of the South fought during the oivil war. "These men gave their lives for the Confederate Government, their Gov ernment, just as the United States Government is ours now. No mere mercenaries were they, bearing arms for some specific salary; no slaves obeying unwillingly fome ruler's com mands; no soldiers of fortuue, seeking adventure and wealth; no invaders of foreign soil, for they fought but to rc* tain that which they possessed. But some may ask, what sort of a charac ter had these men, these rebels, who attempted to set up a rival govern ment to oura? Wbat right had they to organize themselves aa a nation, with all a nation's rights and powers. These objeotionr can be easily an swered. These men were not rebels. The soldiers of the South were intelli gent freemen; volunteers responding with promptness and alacrity to the call of what they deemed to be their duty. They were patriots, rallying for the def caco of their hemes, tho protection of their property, and the preservation of their rights. "They fought only for the principle of the Union that had been handed down to them by the fathers of onr Confederate Character. common country. Tin cuu.'-c for wi lieh i "OMFederat<? valor poured out ?ts blood i- lonU No longer i.- t!;< re a Confed erate Government, Capital, army or flag, yet something ntill remains, and that something H the certain definite ly marked clement of manhood and re finement, thal was most noticeable amoog the Southern States during their unfortunate struggle lo exist as a nation. That element nurviving in the descendants of the old Southern stock, constitutes one of the most pre cious, invaluable aud permanent pos sessions of our most glorious Repub lic. Who can deny that the Southern soldiers were products of Southern homes, which homes as one notable writer has said, "were veritable patch es of Paradise." In those homes was the Bible, "the most holy of bookr;" the only volume having God for itu author, truth for it* contente, and salvation for its etd. There religion reigned supreme, and it is due to this fact that the Southern soldiers were such mcu of character, invincible and fearless. Another Southern trait whioh is worthy of imitation is, its feeling towards the r?ce it once held in bon dage. To say that the slave holders of the South were the awful monster.1 <\nd tyrants that they are cbimed tc '.ive been is to discount two hundred ' fifty years of missionary work bj tho Anglo Saxon race,.and to insuli the Church of Christ as it existed dur ing that period. "That the negro loves the Soutl and tho South loves the negro ii proven by the fact that at the out break of tho civil war their cumbo *as four millions, while now the ne gro population amounts to over eigh millions. The best friend to the ne gro is not the Northern philanthrop ist, whoBO theories are often basei upon errors of ignorance, nor the poli tioians in Washington, who use hit for a politioal machino, to be operate in the interest of some party. No, i is neither of these, but it ia tho ol time Southerner who has tested an tried the worth of the negro, durin ?nd since the war, who haa aooon plished the most for his well-bein{ and who is looked up to and honore by the negro himself. "The last and best trait of the Coi federate character is its intent "Americanism." The South befoi and after tho war, even to-do; V7UB and ia the most thoroug] ly Amerioan section of our who country. If there were whole reg ments of immigrants landed at Cast Garden during the war, they were n enlisted under the Confederate fla If there were re<?ii:o who oould har ly speak the English language, ai who were in want of Amerioan hist tory, laws and customs, they did n join the Southern army. If the were men who were soldiers for ga and self-advancement only, and n for patriotism, it is difficult to ii agine them wearing ragged suits gray, and undergoing all tho hardshi of defeat. If to day there are Am obists and traitors to demoora idean, you will not find them in t South. Never in any place in histc were men moro earnest in their 1 liefs. Neyer were any >. .riora inf enoed less by passion and prejudi or more by the guidance of pure a lofty ideas. For four long yeara th consecration to the cause o?' their inf] country, and their unsurpassed oo age on a hundred battlefields, olaiu the admiration of the world. "History knows no nobler attes tion of fidelity than ahines in I record of the Confederate servi Never before, never siooe, have m tial heroes, whethc of Greeoe Borne, Franoe or Spain, or Eogla Russia or Germany, shown more pi enco on the lontf weary marohes, h< tier cheerfulness in oomfortl camps. More good humor in porer more stubborn resistance in withsta ing the attaoka of overwhelming ni bera of the foo, from Manassas to i pomattox-all ever the Sooth, fi Virginia to Texas, the Confedei soldier, with duty as his watchwt was ever the Bame loyal hero, long as wars of defenoe are deei honorable by oiviliied nations, BO 1 as oourage and endurance excite miration, so long as self-saorifioc spires, and loyalty to one's ooun unremitting and supreme, brings the patriot's ardor and the po song, just so long will the chara of the Southern soldier be writ "high in fame's eternal temple. News and Courier. - - tl m A Bargain. A woman who does her own si ping 'for the house" went into a 1 drug store to buy soap. It waa 8 ci per oake. Sbe looked it overoaref and asked the surprised derk: "Do you give three oakes for a q ter?" After he had reoovered from dase he replied: "We do not, as a rulo, madam, we will let you have them at prioo." She bore them away in triumph, not until the shouts of joy from rest of tba hons* as ssc told ci bargain did the awfnl faot ? upon her conciousness.-Minnea] Jo nm ah_ __ u>an'e idea of a heroine woman who can suffer in silence. : A LIBERAL EDUCATION. fiomo Comment on the Cuery "Doe? a College Educ.r. sn Pa/?" Young people oft i ' i.-k tis, "Will it pay to go to colley . J', "?IO is going to bo a merchant, ?1 druggist, a farmer, etc.?" Whether or not a liberal educa tion pays depends upon the ambi tion of the inquirer. Do you want to bu just aa much of a niau as pos sible, or do you want merely to get as much money as yon can? Jf your ambition is simply to sea how many goods you can sell and how much money you can rake to gether; if you have no desire to reach out into the broad fields, to be known as a man who amounts to something in the world, who carries waight in his community; if you have no ambition to be a man of broad, liberal, progressive ideals; if you do not wish to know anything about your goods before they reach your store, where they are made or tho conditions of the people who ! manufacture them and have no de \ sire to better their conditions; if you have no ambition to make the world a little better than you found it, then a college education will probably not do you much good. If it is simply going to increase yoiir capacity to grasp, seize and hold material things, to get a little more away from others by your long headed methods; if it is only going to increase your shrewdness, your ability to scheme ways and means of piling up more dollars, then I do not advise you to go. But if you \ want to be of real help to your gen eration; if your ambition is to be just as much of a man as possible, to be larger and truer and nobler; if you wish to make the most of the material the Creator has given you, then get all the knowledge you can transmute into real power. I I notice that it has been the I broadly educated men that have en larged and improved the spheres into which they have entered. As a rule, it has been the boys who have been to college and gained a liberal education who have mixed brains with the soil, who have de veloped marvelous possibilities of agriculture by their knowledge of chemistry and botany, by their abil ity to study the effects of climatic conditions upon crops, who have brought fruits and vegetables and I cereals to greater perfection by theil superior knowledge.-Success. Master of the House. A tale is told of a family consist I ing of two members, a middle aged undersized man and his strapping belligerent wife, a woman whose temper was worse than uncertain. One evening just at dusk th< neighbors were startled by hearinj shrieks, thumps and other unaccus tomed noises issuing from the house and, supposing that the place hac been entered by burglars, severa j persons went in at the open dooj and proceeded to investigate. The sounds came from an uppe: room. Rushing upstairs, the in truders flung open a door, to discov er tho stalwart lady of the hous< brandishing a rolling pin, while he unfortunate, other half, huddle< against the wall under the bed, wa piping in a quavering voice : "I will be master in my owl house! I will be master in my owi house!" _ Childish Cariosity. Little Florence, aged 6, had bee spending the afternoon with a neigh bor who had just lost a near relative and who was working very hard to ge some mourning gowns made. Florenoe had been very good an aeked 00 questions? bat when she re turned home her inquisitiveness at sorted itself. Her mother explaioe as olearly as she oould, and for a fe moments Florence sat in deep silence Then: "Are all her gowns going to b blaok, mother?'* ; "Yes, dew." ? "And is she going to wear blao night gowns?" "No, dear." "Well, doesn't she feel just as ba io the night as she docs in the day? - A teaoher in an uptown sohoe told her class one afternoon that sh expeoted each of them to bring in th longest word in the English laognag on the following morning. The nes day thirty-eight out of forty pupil turned in word* whioh ran from foui teed to twenty-one letters in lengtt continues the Philadelphia Pres: Fifteen submitted the word "disappn pardonableness," containing twenty cse letters. Some gav'e in the name of Russian offioers. After tho teach? had congratulated the fifteen who gav in tho word "disapproportionableness she told them that there was a sti longer one whioh was supposed to h&v been coined by William Gladstone an Contained twenty-four letters. It wi "diooBtiuHohmentarianianj." ;.* * '-* A man's !dea of personal lib erl is his ability to butt into the aff&ii of his neighbor. - A eldo* lt usually mora partiei lar about the ohoioo of a second hui band than she waa about the Grst. I - When a couple gets married tl bestows her band and ho putt his fot in it. - A man always sympathizes wit the under dog in a fight-until hegel Hoked. , A PEASANT'S FEAST. Thc Meal to Which Three Artists Wero invited In Italy. 'J'!;.' titree arti.-ts were invited by , Fagiola to a feast. They found tho family all gathered in the living ; room <>i* a rather superior peasant's house. Tho floor was cf Mother I Earth. There were salted hams and j strings of garlic hanging from the j ceiling. In front of the open hearth were hand wrought andirons with little cages at the top in which tho | pipkins of food were kept hot. Fagi ola made them welcome, and, his wife having announced that tho polenta waa ready, thc husband lit erally laid the board. The guests and the family seated themselves, the children on wooden stools, the grownup people on rush bottomed chairs, and Fagiola took a large hoard from the corner. With a knife ho scraped off tho dried meal Etjpking to it out of the door, tho .f^wls gathering to feed upon the scrapings. Then he passed his hand across the board and, finding it comparatively smooth, laid it upon the knees of thc company, who were sitting in a circle. Next he took from tho crone, where it hung over j the lire1, a large, three legged iron I pot of polenta (hasty pudding) and I emptied it upon the board. His wife with a long pudding stick spread out the mush to the proper thickness. Then each person staked out his claim hy drawing a circle in the polenta with a leaden spoon. The smallest child, they noticed, drew the biggest circle. Next Fagi ola took from the cage in the and iron, where it had been keeping warm, a saucepan filled with snails stewed in brown gravy and helped each person to a share of the snails, 1 putting it down carefully within the limits of the circle. That waa all the feast, except the inevitable vino di paese, which really takes the Elace of meat with these people". dppincott's. Sensitive About Her Age. An aged woman of the name of Samantha Skaggs, who for many years had resided near Ripley, 111., and was known by her numerous descendants and all the people of the countryside as Grandmother Skaggs, was compelled to go to court to testify as a witness in a lawsuit over a disputed will. "Mrs. Skaggs," said the attorney for the defense in cross examining her, "may I ask how old you are ?" "Do I have to tell that, judge?" she said, appealing to the court. "Why, yes, madam," replied the judge. "It's a proper question, and at your time of life you surely need not be sensitive about your age." "Well," she answered, "I'm nine ty-seven." But she told it with evident em barrassment and reluctance. She knew that everybody in the neighborhood believed her to be 100.-Chicago Tribune. Genuine Antiques. The zealous clerk was trying to persuade Mrs. Comstock to buy a pair of antique brass candlesticks. "Madam, these are genuine old can dlesticks." "Well, how om I to know they are?" "Because you can buy the imita tions anywhere. And I advise you to snap these up while you can get them. There have been so many imitations that the demand for thc genuine article is falling off, and ?v"-#a>4- ,..;n ?no moll UiHv yul ci o TT xii uvsv luai^u any more antique ones." "Is that so? Well, I certainly am fortunate to have seen these be fore you sold them. How much are they ?"-Youth's Companion. ' '"AJjViM Dogv _.^jm?a*M A farmer who nad sold a flock of sheep to a dealer lent him a dog to drive them a distance of thirty miles, desiring him to give the dog a meal at the journey's end and tell' it to "go home." The drover found j the dog so useful that he resolved to steal it, and instead of Bending it I back he locked it up. The animal grew sulky and at faat effected its escape. Evidently deeming the dro ver nad no more right to detain the sheep than he had to detain itself, the dog went into the field, collected all the sheep that had belonged to its master and, to that person's in tense astonishment, drove the whole flock home again!--London Opin ion. _" - . \ - Easily Explained. "What did you say was the trou ble with my ole man's stomach?" asked an old colored woman of the doctor who had been called in to prescribe for her. husband. "I said," replied tho doctor, "that the most. annoying symptom seems to be water brash, or pyrosis, as wc doctors call it. He must be more careful regarding the foodie eats." "Dat am just what.am the matlab with him-pierosis," said she. "Ete's the biggest han' for pie you eher see. He eats most three pieces every meal. It suvely am pierosis he am suffering with."-New York Times. - More than eight million of the 13,500,000 people io Mex too do not work. 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