Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WAR Si b.e Different X^eiisioi in Force in So New York K V."tellington, Hopi. .:'.<).-it lias j -"Citied1 strange to many observers here j that t-o little study has been giv< n to ] the pension system of thc southern ! Hate.*, in view of the wide attention ivhi .'li federal pension practices have ! attained. Certainly tho national go\ norcot could learn some lessons from thc systems of the south, for each .tate there has a scheme of its own. io thc main, thc southern pension .ystem :nay bc described as much ?iaij 1er than that of thc federal K<?V irnurent, not only in the sense that '.he rates are lower, hut that there is .'ess cradation, less administration, ! \>im red tape. Sometimes a lump sum Is divided evenly among available; ?jenetoners; this saves all haggling j jver degrees of disability. There is, uoreover, a straightforwardness as to the grounds of eligibility, leaving lit ?tie room for controversy. A person *wiic lei not poor can get no pension; ..Indigence and disabilitp must go to gether. A place in the soldiers' hornes is provided in lieu of a pension, and :t,hese>aro often established at privato "aprense, or maintained by personal contributions. In short, southern ^pensions bear evidence of being a "jauch heavier burden-and for good 'reasons-than that which the whole .country bears for tho soldiers of thc '.to ion. Every State that seceded now has a :07en*jon system of its own. Maryland ?.od Mississippi, and Kentucky, which did not formally secede, provide homes for Confederate veteraos. Tennessee .Io. recognition of the loyalty of its eastern counties, provides pensions nominally available to tho soldiers of beth armies, but practically so hedged -About with conditions that only . southern soldiers oan get them. The .principal of these conditions is that the applicant must he drawing a pen sion nowhere else, and since the fed eral bounties arc much larger and more easily obtained, tho peculiar in dividual who would apply at Nashville ?astead of Washington is very rarely jiet. The Tennessee soldiers' homo Tts located on 475 acres of the Hermi tage, eight miles from Nashville, An drew Jackson's old place illustrating -anew tho irony of fate, that the home of the man who said: "The federal anion; it must be preserved," is now occupied by citizens of his own State "r?ho are recipients of the public bounty Ia recognition of efforts to break up ?he aforesaid union. Maryland has a Confederate soldiers' .home at Pikeville, but she pays no repensions. The building, formerly a .government arsenal, was presented to t&he State and then turned over by Maryland to a private association twfaioh now has it in charge. Any -destitute soldier, or sailor, aoitizen of Maryland, who served honestly under ?the Confederacy, is eligible to admis sion. Maryland has a Confederate ??-widows home in St. Paul street, Bal timore, to whioh mothers of the Con fed?rate soldiers, as well ns their ?vidowB, are eligible. '.Thc Confederate veterans* home of Missouri cost only $60,000, and was .built and is supported by private sub .acription. It is a notable fact of record that certain Grand Army posts .i? that State helped to raise funds for ?Ita construction, and one Union vet . eran is said to turn over the pension .which he regularly received from the federal government to this Confederate (home. Such fraternal inoidents show ?(hat in the border State region where 'hostile armies often divided friends .and neighbors, each Bide promptly xsatae \&o recognize at the close of the -_-?t_: A _ _ ? .i . _ i i_i_ X?.! tu? o i ii vt: i 11.jr ui tua utiivi o uuu /tives. tSince there is no uniformity io the * southern system, depending as they icon State laws, they must, to be .understood, be taken up one by one, aft danst in the most important States. OeoTgia woady leads in pension dis bursement, just as Massachusetts does tcbtate aid and veterans' bounties in - ?horsort&. W. A. Wright, the comp troller o; the State, in a recent letter to .-trh.3 . writw, courteously gives the X 3o.low.ng .-facts .regarding thc State: "fFor the .JOST 1903 the State peid penamos aa\f oliows; t. To disabled Co&federate fl?*?aiers.$181,635 ?ftf .indigent Confederate "'WldtaPC.".-.394,140 3-37^?i> "widows of those who /died in servioe or from dis racfla /or ?rounds reoeived ? therein.... .... ..182,400 Indigent widows 0: soldiers.99,240 i J . .i .' ! .Aggregate Tor 1903.*.. .$ 857,495 -Aggregate pe niions paid s i nco .1865....$8,118,037 \ r4?'VThere are now enrolled in Georgia mearly 15,000 pensioners. These are /paid, if indigent soldiers or widows, jan average of $60 per annum. The vit sabled are paid according to ch ur ac DRIES. [i Systems "Which .A.re ii thorn States. vcniug l'ost. [ tor of disability from $5 for losa of one linger or toe, to $150 per annum for loss of two limbs, or for total blind ness. Tins list of disabled pensioners have been paid annually since 1 S*i7, and thc payments average about $50 ? per an nu m. "The lists of indigent pensioners ! who do not have to show any disabil ity resulting from the service, but fro in diseases and old age, and who arc very poor and dependent, arc in creasing. The list of widows who arc pensioned for loss of husbands by reason of the service, and also thc list of disabled soldiers are rapidly increasing. "Georgia, in additiou to payiDg pen sions to her disabled and indigent heroes, exempts them from specific taxes levied upon certain pursuits and business callings. They can peddle any kiud of goods, or merchandise free from license tax. They are authorized to act as insurance agents; to keep one pool or billiard table, to run "fly ing horses" or "merry-go-rounds," or to keep any tenpin alley, or table or game (not prohibited by law) with out license tax. One can be a light ning-rod agent without tax. They arc also exempt from poll tax. "The State maintains a soldiers' home, established in 1901, wherein 110 decrepit, homeless old mon are housed, nursed, clothed, and fed. The State appropriates $15,000 annually to maintain it. Any Confederate soldier, with honorable record, who resided in Goorgia December 19, 1885, and con tinuously sinoe, and who shows pov erty and disability whioh prevents him from earning a living for himself, can bc admitted to the home regardless of where ho entered the service. We have in tho home veteran Confeder ates who served in commands from Virginia, North Carolina, South Car olina, Florida, Tennessee and Georgia." This is tho most like the northern system of any State, both in the va rieties of its help and io the liberality of the disbursement. Still the total of Georgia's payments from the foun dation of the system is less than the amount which goes into Indiana every year. Door South Carolina has had to con tent herself with paying for this cause one-fourth of its total State inoome, whioh is about the same ratio that pensions bear to the cost of the fed eral government. But her pensions are very small. In 1889 eaoh pen sioner received on an average 423 40. In 1803 this had been squeezed down to 121.73. South Carolina originally appropriated $50,000 for pensions, but this inoreased in 1001 to $150,000, and in 1002 it had gone as high as $200,227. Even at this sum a South Carolinian who lost both arms, both legs, or both eyes in the Confederate service gets only $8 a mlpntb, whioh is exactly what any union veteran who] has' reached 05 years may get on age alone. He need never have seen the ?battle line, and he may be rich. This reveals the wide difference in the 'results of fighting on the winning and the losing side, and also between the State and the nation as a paymaster. South Carolina publishes a oomplete list of her pensioners by counties, with the ages and amount of the pen sions. This makes a 200-page book. A similar plan has often been pro posed for the federal pensioners as a means of bringing the pressure of pub lic opinion to bear on undeserving ap plicants; but those most familiar with the system discourage the project; they believe that the effect would be to encourage pensioners to seek the largest sum whioh they found any of their neighbors of seemingly the same degree of disability getting. More over, few persons are able to judge in telligently of their neighbor's real weakness, and to make public the amount of his good fortuno would arouse jealousy and envy. Moreover, j it would be a largo expense to print a book of 1,000,000 names; with 333 to a page it would fill 3000 pages, or six good-sized volumes. South Carolina's lesson ia this particular will probably not be taken. South Carolina provides io addition, artificial limbs and eyes for soldi.to and sailors who lost their own in the Civil war. Virginia reoently made the same offer, while Louisiana pro- ' vides crutohes besides for those who need them. South Carolina has also made the business of peddling medi cine a Confederate veteran's monop oly, by levying a tax of $100 a year upon all other persons who attempt to follow the calling. Mississippi in 1902 and 1903 appro priated $200,000 annually for pensions to indigent Confederate soldiers, their widows, servants and tailors. There are 7,333 on the rolls. It is expeoted that the next legislature will material ly inoroase tho spprcpri/Uion. The first j in aile for thia purpose was in Viii, j That year it gave them ?21,000, tlurj i being ?-illy I.OOO veterana to apply, lt ha- growu annually until it has roached the present amount. This roll includes, as in South Caroliua, a few negroes. In 11)02 these pensions in Mississippi, paid on a pro rata basis dividing a gross sum, became HO small that most of the veterans got little over T2 a month. A home 1ms been established at Beauvoir on the gulf coast, the old home of Jefferson Devis, which has been reproduced at St. Louis. About 20 veterans have al ready been admitted. The home was purchased and equipped and in being maintained by the Sons and Daughters of the Confederate v?t?ran;?. Thc sous raised the purchase money, $10,000, and the daughters the money for the equipment and maintenance, about $5,000. Confederate soldiers who are indigent are exempted from all privi lege taxes except that of retailing liquors and running pool and billiard tables. The constitution of Louisiana au thorizes an appropriation for pensions. Fifty thousand dollars was at first ap propriated, but by ?ct 73 of 1000 this was amended by granting $75,000 an nually for pension!!. As a result Louisiana is carrying on the rel! 2,040 pensioners; 513 are drawing $4.50 per month; 521 are drawing $3 50 per month; and 1,015 are drawing $2.50 per month. Like South Carolina, this State publishes the namee of her pensioners, and thus far they make a puny volume of 48 pages. The conditions are very severe. The report of the State board of pension commissioners, which the Evening Post correspondent reoently rcocived. opens as follows: "The board relies upon the non-pan sioned Confederates throughout the State for the neoessary information to purge the pension list of unworthy ma? terial, if any, and to aid in making the pension list a roll of honor and a pride to every veteran of the State." Considering that the State io now pay ing in pensions one two-hundretha part as muoh as goes into Ohio, foi the present at least its officials ma; be reasonably assured that there is no large amount of padding. Federal pensions to the amount of $330,000 gc into Louisiana annually to Union vet eran?, doubtless negroes in maoj caseo. Louisiana also has an arrange ment for giving State land in 160-aon lots to Confederate veterans suffering from certain speoified wounds. Arkansas in 1897 established certaii rates and then appropriated only $35 000 with which to pay them, with lh< result that each pensioner received ii the appointment but 64 per cent, o the allowance of the State pensioi board. The next year the sum wai made $55,000, the amount being de rived from a quarter mill tax for tba sp?cifie purpose Texas is a large State and a riohe State. The appropriation for the yea ending August 31, 1903, was $200,000 For the next two years it will he $250, 000 each. In 1895 Arkansas provided tba blind veterans should receive $75 an nually. This approximates on month's payment for the same di rabil ity under federal law. In 1901 Ai kansas changed ita annual tax for Con federate pension fund from one fourth of a mill to three-fourths of mill. Floride in the same year provide that an annual tax of one mill ehoul be levied for the pension fund. Mosby* s Long Lost Hat. Orange N. J., Cor. in New York Sut After having laid for fifty years i a northern home, the campaign hi worn by Col. John S. Mosby, the Coi federate cavalryman, and lost by hil when he was shot on December 2] 1864, is about to be returned to il original owner. For many yoars it hi been in the possession of Mrs. Davi C. Halsted, who lives at 275 Centn Park, west, Manhattan. Reoently Mrs. Halsted got into ooo munioation with John Munson, ooo < Mosby's old troopers, who now liv? in Park street, Orange. She told hi that she had a hat which she believe belonged to the noted guerilla leade Mr. Munson wrote to his old ohief ar has just received a reply to the effei that tho hat in question is undoub edly tho one be lost when he was eho Mrs. Halsted had already said si would return it to Mosby, and tl latter has authorised Mr. Manson got it for him. He has sent word Mrs. Halsted that he will present tl hat to the military museum at Was ioftton, where it will be placed wi his old coat, as a relio. There is a good story of the w connected with this hat. When Cc Mosby was shot, he and a oompanio Thomee Love, were eating supper the house of a fermer named Lake, Fsrquier county, Ya. A party of tl Thirteenth New York cavalry on raiding expedition rode peet the f ai house, and Boeing the horses of t two outside, stopped to investigate. Io the sor imm ago which fol lo we Gol. Mosby waa shot through the:? domen ead Love waa captured M? by, despite the pain of hi? wound, h preseooe of mind enough to tear the coat, on which was the insigoiu his rank, an<i throw it under n couchi I Then hu fell unconscious. Thc fi doral soldiers strode in and captured Love. Turning tu the ujen and women of the family, the federal ollicer in conrnand inquired who the wounded soldier was. "Lieut. Johnsou, sir," replied one of the family. "Is he alive?" asked the union offi cer. One of the troopers looking forward said the mao wasn't dead, but in the same breath and reaching for his pis tol, he remarked that he would be a dead lieutenant soon. The officer io charge of the troop in terposed, and the wounded Confed erate's life was saved. The troopers took Mosby's boots, spurs, cloak, hat and cape and, leaving him on the floor, rode away with Love. They left the two horses behind, and as soon as thc troop was out of sight, Lake and members of his family h i tolled up an ox cart and took Mosby to a hiding place, where he lay help less for two mouths. Love wu-i looked up in a union prison and became the bunkieof Mr. Munson, who had been captured elsewhere. For a long time they mourned their leader as dead. The night after tho sorimmago at ?hefarm house the union soldiers biv ouacked. While in camp they made a search of the clothing they had cap tured and their rage knew DO bounds when they discovered from the con tents of the pockets that the clothing had been worn by no less a personage than Mosby, the guerilla, on whose head a prioe was set whioh made it t great incentive to any mau to capture him. "Boots and saddles" were soundec and tte tricked soldiers stormed dowi OD the Lake homestead, only to fine that their quarry had escaped. In the course of time the articles o! Mooby'o clothing fell into different hands. The hat was given to Lieut Col. Nathaniel Coles, who was in oom m and of the Thirteenth New Yorl cavalry. Ho io turo gave it to hi niece, Mrs. Halsted, in whoae'possea sion it has been sinoe. In his letter to Mr. Munson Col Mosby expresses great happiness ii getting his hat back. He says h proposes showing it to Presiden Roosevelt before he gives it to th museum. It is a slouch hat of th type nowadays oalled the "roug rider," and around it is a piece of gol braid._ Foo?ug The Ex Slaves. Information was received here ye terday that the United States Govert; mest officers have arrested in Spartac burg a negro named John Dogai charged with personating a Goveri meot officer. The negro is now hel in Spartanburg jail for trial at th Greenville term of the United State Court on October 18. It is allege that Dogan claimed to be a speoii agent Bent by the Government to gi\ pensiona to ex-slaves. The form? slaves were to get provisions, lumbe money or anything else they wantec if they paid the freight charge; These freight charges were to be pai to Dogan in advance, whether tl object of desire was money or lumbi or household goods. Five dollars at ninety-eight oents was collected fro: one old negro and $1 35 from auothe all he had. The latter was to pay tl remainder the next day, when he r ceived $300. Another negro pa $2 40 for $400 in money and lumb with whioh to build a house. Tl Government authorities took up tl muter and soon had Dogan io jail, seems that he had reoently been r leased from the Atlanta prison, whe he had served a term for the attemt ed murder of a watohman in August and that prior to that time he had ser ed three years in the State Penite tiary in Colombia for housebreaks and laroeny. - One of the best ways not to ai oeed in life is to spend your til reading artioles on how to succeed life. - A woman oan have a good til thinking what a good time she WOE have if she were having it. - The application of a poro plaster is a great drawback to lo\ making._ . I'fct Terrors. "Had it ever Htruek you that moat everybody baa a pet terror," paid a student of human nature. "Menthe would not be afraid on the battlefield will faint if a cat cornea near them. ] know nf cases in which men have goo? through life having a deadly terror oi Bomething with which they have nevei come in contact. Fer instance, 1 know a man who lived io New Yorl City all his life. His ouc dread wai that some day he would step on a rat tlesnake. He confessed to me thal the idea bothered him continually, al though he had never in his life beet in a region where rattlesnakes aboun ded and did not have any expectation! of going to such a place. We all know that most every person has ? certain kind of nightmare, which al perturbed moments of life will come to bother sleep. Whatever form this nightmare may take, and probably in the case of no two persons is the form exactly alike, it invariably exciten the uacanny, overmastering terror which is to my mind the most uncomfortable oppression that may afleot the human spirit. A great mauy persons will ex perience this sensation of terror il they happen to be awakened by thc moonlight shining in their faces. The persistent nightmare with me is one which I think is remarkable in manj reBpeots. It has come to me in peri ods of my life when I have suffered from high fever, or after I have ex perienced much mental worry, which is a speoies of fever. As a nightmare which by cumulative stages leads ur to a Btate of horror, it is particularly effective and extremely simple. The dream begins by aa imagination that 1 have wakened in a dark room, and that some vague preaence in the dark is threatening me. I rise in trepida tion, and in the dark seek the mantel. The matches are hard to find; I grope all over the mantlepieoe, over the washstand, the burean and finally when the suspense is becoming almost unbearable, ?I find the box. Taking out a matob, I strike it io feverish haste. It flickers, and before I get it to the gas jet, goes out. ? try another matoh. The sulphur refuses to give any light. Another matoh, and just as 1 am about to make the jet, it too, becomes dark. , Thin goes on, one matoh after another. I begin to be lieve that something in the room in tends that 1 shall never have a light. The sensation is maddening, and when I finally really awake, it ia some time before I can shake off the sensation of terror that has domina ted me."-New Orleans Times-Demo crat. --- ? ??? - Simple Experiment to Prove Earth Bound. Although it waa demonstrated more than 2,000 years ago that the earth is globular in form, there are certain persons who maintain that it is flat. About thirty years ago a controversy on the subject waxed so hot that it was determined to pat the matter to direot experiment in order to settle the question onoe for all. The place chosen was near Bedford, England, where there is a straight six mile stretch of water. At both ends and in the middle of this water pests were erected, each of the same definite height above the water level. Upon i.-L!_:?u _ i-i_ _i_ <L. lUU&lug ?nu . a d?iocuv|*D riuug tug tops of these three posts it was clear* ly seen that the centre one o vertoppe-' the others by about six feet, owing to> the curvature of the surface of the earth. These experiments were recently repasted io a more specific manner by H. Y. Oldman, who read a paper,on the subject before the Glasgow meet* iog of the British association. The same results were obtained, with the important differenee that by the em? ployment of a tele-phot?grsphio lens and camera the six foot prominence of the middle post was recorded in an unmistakable manner. - A man is brave when he will ad mit he is afraid to argue with bis wife. .-The older a joke is the younger is the fellow who g<*ts it off for Bome thing new. f/?fp//&/w/?rr ''s o % j i&??ses on. TMao??cffs ' Uver ana Bi?od --. Sgrup?===~ CURES BY REMOVIHB THC CAUSE A THREE-FOLD REMEDY far mil Illa Ow? to_ tiocattrooSte?. 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