The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, July 27, 1904, Page 2, Image 2
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. Coan tin/? out the children
and $ aged, there remain ? 3:7?4,
148 - possible producers who pro
dace absolutely nothing Th?5
and there is an astonishing figura
ta ere are ia domestic service 1,488,
024/as against 116,000 of dignified
salary earners.
- When a girl is in love it takes
but ono other person to make a
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