The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, March 19, 1902, Image 4
Blossom Time.
Spring came with tiny lances thrust
ing.
And arith waselad in peeping green
In russet bcrk, the twigs encrust ing.
Tenderest blossom point s were secn:
A robin courier proclaimed good cheer:
Summer will soon arrive for 1 am here
And now from cherry boughs in !!ower
The languid breeze arousii shakes:
With every honied breat h a shower
Of feath'er snow in d rift ing tlakes:
And apple trees in bloo:n like ricks of
white.
Are vehld with smoky. amethystine
light.
Ah. litt le soul, on thy first Spring.
Vnclosing merry. puzzled eyes,
Would that a father's thought could
bring
Prophetic counsel more than wise
To guide thee as a father's love would
yearn,
Thou hast so much to suffer and to
learn:
I cannot live thv life for thee .
My precepts would be duli and trite.
Barren as last year's love to me
Beneath tiie'apple blossoms wnite:
But in thv new iiorizen-'s vasrer range
Our heart's close knit shall feel no chul
~ng change.
CHANGES IN PENSION ACT.
Aid Given Where Most Needed and
the Aged Have Preftrence.
The new pension act will be of gen
eral interest. The old soldiers and
the widows will get more this year
than ever before and the general plan
is an improvement. After all have
been paid according to the scheme of
division the. remainder is to be appor
tioned among those who are 60 years
of age and over. In this way those
who are-most needy will be materially
aided.
The clause making the appropria
tion concludes thus: And in case the
same or such amount as shall be ap
propriated shall be insufficient, then
the amount so appropriated shall be
distributed proportionately among
those legally entitled to receive the
same. provided that those pensioners
described in section 1066 as class A,
class B, class C No. 1. and class C No.
3, shall have been irst paid in full:
Provided further, in case the same or
such amount as shall be appropriated
shall be more than sufficient, than the
amount so appropriated shall be dis
tributed proportionately among all
those legally entitled to receive the
same."
The requirements for applicants for
pensions are thus stated:
"The applicant must have been a
resident of the State for two years. In
order to obtain the benefits of this
chapter, the applicant qualified by
residence must also show:
"(A) If a man-ist. That he was
a bona fid- soldier or sailor in the ser
vice of the State or Confederate States
in the war between the States; and
2nd. Either (a) that while in such
service he lost a leg or arm, or sight or
received other bodily injury
whereby he has become disabled or
that he is totally disabled by paraly
sis; and further, that neither himself
nor his wife has an income exceeding
$150 per annum, nor property suffi
cient to produce such an income: or
(b) that he has reached the age of 60
years, and that neither he nor his
wife is receiving an annual income of
$100 from any source, nor possessed of
property suffcient to produce such an
income.
"(B) If a woman-1st. That she
is the widow of a man who was a bona
fide soldier or sailor in the service of
the State, or of the Confederate
States in the war between the States;
and 2nd. That she has never remar
ried, or being 60 years of age is a
widow again, her last husband having
died; and 3rd, That either (a) she is
60 years of age, or (b) that her hus
band lost his life in the service of the
State, or of the Confederate States,
in the war between the States. 4th,
That she has not an income of $150
per annum nor property suffcient to
produce same.
-5th. The classification of all pen
sions shall be as follows:
"Class A-Those who as a result of
wounds received in the war are physi
oeally helpless, or who while in such
service lost both arms of both legs, or
sight; or who are disabled by paraly
sis and are unable to make a living;
whose income does not exceed $150.
"Class B-rhose who have lost one
arm or one leg, and whose income does
not exceed $150.
"Class C No. 1--Those soldiers and
sailors disabled by wounds during the
war, whose income does not exceed
$150.
Class C No. 2-Those who have
reached the age of 60 years, and whose
income does not exceed 8100.
"Class C No.3-Widows of those who
lost their lives in the service of the
State or Confederate States, and whose
Income does not exceed $150.
Class C No. 4-Widows above the
age of 60 years, whose income does not
exceed $150.
"The persons described in the pre
ceding sections shall be entitled to a
pension upon complying with the
other provisions of this chapter, and
shall be paid the amounts hereinafter
set forth to wit: Class A, SS per
month; class B, $6 per month; class C
No. 1, $4, per month: class C No. 3,
$4 per month, and all other pensioners
$3 per month."
The effect of these provisions of the
new act Is just as stated at the outset.
Live too Well.
"American workmen eat two much,
especially too much meat. They dress
too well. There are too many lace cur
tains about their houses. They spend
too much money and save too little.
This is the opinion announced by
Judge Simon E. Baldwin, professor of
constitutional law at Yale. in a speech
at New Haven, Conn. No doubt
Hanna and other leading Republicans
agree with him.
Slaughter Was Awfal.
They are still fighting on the Pona
ma. The revolutionists had fifteen
colonels and majors and seventeen off
cers oi' lower rank killed during the
Agua Dulc engagements. The num
ber of revolutionary soldiers killed is
not specitied in General Herrera's re
port. The losses on both sides are
estimated at not less than 1,200 n'en
or about 33 per cent of the number
engaged.
Good for The Herald.
The Spartanburg Hferald says it
is "not going to be outdone by the
London publisher who has offered
Santos-Dumont $20,000 if he can make
a straightway trip of Y00 miles in his
balloon. so we hereby ofi'er a prize of
20 cents to any man who can tiy. 100
yards from our ottice door. The pres
tige of American publishers has got to
be kept up if we go broke." Hurrah
for the Herald.
TAILMAGES SERMON.
D~r. Talnuge Shows Howv Offeniders,'
May 11e Em1ancipated.
Fromi the lotter to the Hebrews 1)r.
Talmage takes a text and illustrates
how all offenders may be emancipated:
text, Hebrews viii. 12. "Their sins
and their iniquities will I remembr
no more."
The national fower of the Evp
tians is the heliotrope. of the AssN
rians is the water lily. f he lii ndos
is the marigold. of the Chinese is ihe
chrysanthemum. We have no nation
ai fiower. but there is hardly any flower
more suge~stive to marny of us than
the forgetmnLot. We all like to
remembered. and one of our misfar
tunes is that there are so many things
we cannot remember. Mnemonics, or I
the art of assisting memory. is an im
portant art. It was first suggested
1v Simonices of Ceus 500 years before
Christ. Persons who had but little
power to recall events or put facts and
names and dates in processions have
through this art had their memory
re-enforced to an almost incredible ex
tent. A good memory is an invaluable
possession. By all means cultivate it.
I had an aged friend who. detained all
night at a miserable depot in waiting I
for a rail train fast in the snowbanks.
entertained a group of some ten or rif
teen clergymen, likewise detained on
their way home from a meeting of
prebytery, by first with a piece of
chalk drawing out on the black and
sooty walls of the depot the characters
of Walter Scott's "'Marmion" and
then reciting from memory the whole
of that poem of some eighty pages in
fine print. My old friend, through
great age. lost his memory. and when
I asked him i this story of the rail
road depot was true he said, "I do not
remember, now. but it was just like
me. "Let me see," said he to me.
"Have I ever seen you before?"
"Yes." I said: "you were my guest I
last night, and I was with you an
hour ago." What an awful contrast
in that man between the greatest
memory I ever knew and no memory
at all:
But right along with this art of rec
ollection, which I cannot too highly
eulogize, is one quite as important,
and yet I never, heard it applauded.
I mean the art of forgetting. There
is a splendid faculty in that direction
that we all need to cultivate. We'
might through that process be ten
times happier and more useful than
we now are. We have been told that
forgetfulness is a weakness and ought
to be avoided by all possible means. So
far from a weakness, my text ascribes
it to God. It is the very top of omni
potence that God is able to obliterate
a part of his own memory. If we re
pent of sin and rightly seek the divine
forgiveness, the record of the misbe
havior is not only c-ossed otT the
book, but God actually lets it pass out
of memory. "Their sins and their ini
quities will I remember no more." To
remember no more is to forget. and
you cannot'make anything else out of
it. God's power of forgetting is so
great that if two men appeal to him
and the one man, after a life all right.
gets the sins of his heart pardoned and
the other man, after a life of abomina
tion. gets pardoned - God remembers
no more against one than against the
other. The entire past of both the
moralist, with his imperfections. and
the profiigate, with his debauchtries.
is as much obliterated in the one case
as in the other. Forgotten forever and
forever. "Their sins and their iniqui
ties will I remember no more."
Imitate the Lord in my text and
forget, actually forget, sublimely for
get. There is no happiness for you in
any other plan or procedure. You see'
all around you in the church and out
of the church dispositions acerb, ma
lign, cynical, pessimistic. Do you
know how these men and women got
that disposition? It was by the em
balmment of things pantherine and
viperous. They have spent much of
their time in calling the roll of all the
rats that have nibbled at their reputa
tion. Their soul is a cage of vultures.
Everything in them is sour or imbit
tered. The milk of human kindness
has been curdled. They do not be
lieve in anybody or anything. If they
see two people whispering, they think
it is about themselves. If they see;
two people laughing, they think it is
about themselves. Where there is
one sweet pippin in their orchard
there are fifty crabapples. "They have
never been able to forget. They do.
not want to forget. They never will
forget. Their wretchedness is supreme
for no one can be happy if he carries,
perpetually in mind the mean things
that have been done him. On the
other hand, you can, fnd here and
there a man or woman (for there are
not many of them) whose disposition;
is genial and summery. Why? Have
they always been treated well? Oh.I
no. Hlard thing have been said against
them. They have been charged with
officiousness, and their generosities
have been set down to a desire for dis
play, and they have many a time been
the subject of tittle datatle, and they
have had enougn small assaults like
gnats and enough great attacks like:
lions to have made them perpetually
miserable if they would have consent
ed to be miserable. But they have
had enough divine philosophy to cast
off the annoyances, and they have
kept themselves in the sunlight of;
God's favor and- have realized that
these oppositions and hindrances are a
part of a mighty discipline by which
they are to be prepared for usefulness
and heaven. The secret of it all is
they have, by the help of the Eternal
God, learned how to for get.
Not only forget your pardoned
transgression, but allow others to for
get them. The chief stock on hand of
some people is to recount in prayc
meeting and pulpits what big scoun
drels they once were. They not only
will not forget their forgiven deficits,
but they seem to be determined that;
the church and the world shall not for
get them. If you want to declare that
you have been the chief of sinners and
extol the grace that could save such a
wretch as you were. do so, but do not
go into particulars. Do not tell how
many times you got drunk or to what
bad places you went or how many f'ree
rides you had in the prison van before
you were converted. Lump it, brother:
give it to us In bulk. If you have any!
scars got in honorable warfare, show
them. but if you have scars got in igno
be warfare do not display them. I
k-now you will quote the Bible refer
ence to the horrible pit from which
you were digged. Yes, be thankful
for that rsecue. but do not make dis
plays of the mud of that horrible pit
or splash it over other people. Some
times I have felt In Christian meet ings
discomfited and unfit for Christian'
service because I had done none of
those things which seemed to be. in~
the estimation of many, necessary foir
Christian usefulness, for I never swore
a word or ever got drunk or wvent to
compromising places or was guilty of
issault and hattery or ever uttered a
;landerous vord or ever did any one a
lurt. although I knew m1Y heart was
,inful enough. and I said to myslf.
There is no use (I mv I ryinug t do
mv good. for I ie v went thrrough
hose depra vcd eI: pencs " it
ifterward I sazw cosolatio in the
hou'It ihat nm one .gined any (riina
i.11 y tht 1;yin g oin of the hand of
lissoiluteness and in1famyI.
ANnd though an ordinary moral life.
nding in a Christian life. nav not be
s dnm atic a story to tell about. let us
)e grateful to God rather than worry
thout it if we have never plunged into
>utward abominations. It may he ap
propriate in a neeting of reformed
1runkards or reformed debauciees to
.uote for those not reformed how des
perate and nasty you once were. but
io not drive a scavenger'scart into as
;emblages of people the most of whom
'ave always been decent and respecta
le. But I have been sometimes in
,reat eva1ngelical meetings where peo
ple went lit.) particulars about the
;ins that they once committed. so
:nuch so that I felt like putting my
,.and on my pocketbook or calling for
1he police lest these reformed men
night fall from grace and( go at their
:d business of theft or drunkenness
r cutthroatery. If your sins have
een forgiven and your life purified.
forget the waywardness of the past.
Id allow others to forget it.
But what i most want in the light
>f this text to impress is that we have
i sin forgetting God. Suppose that on
:he last uay-called the last day be
ause the un vill never again rise up
>n our earth. the earth itself being
lung into tiery denolition-supposing
that on that last day a group of in
Eeral spirits should somehow get near
nough the gate of heaven and chal
enge our entrance and say: "How
anst thou, the just Lord. let those
souls into the realm of supernal glad
ess? WV hy. they said a great many
hings they never ought to have said,
nd they did a great many things they
"ught never to have done. Sinners
ire they-sinners all."
And suppose God should deign to
inswer. le might say: "Yes. but
lid not my only Son die for their ran
;om? Did he not pay the price? Not
>ne drop of blood was retained in his
rteries: not one nerve of his that was
ot wrung in the torture. He took in
is own body and soul all the suffering
that those sinners deserve. They
pleaded that sacrifice: they took the
ull pardon that I promised to all who,
through my Son, earnestly applied for
it, and it passed out of my mind that
they were offenders. I forgot all
lbout it. Yes, 1 forgot all about it.
'Their sins and their iniquities do I
remember no more.' " A sin forget
ing God! That is clear beyond and
far above a sin pardoning God. How
,ften we hear it said, "I can forg've.
but I cannot forget." That is equal
to saying,. "I verbally admit it is all
right. but I will keep the old grudge
good." There is something in the
demeanor that seems to say: 1
would not do you harm. Indeed I
wish you well, but that unfortunate
affair can never pass out of my mind."
There may no hard words pass between
them, but until death breaks in the
same coolness remain. But God lets
our pardoned offenses go into oblivion.
He never throws them up to us again.
He feels as kindly toward us as though
we had been spotless and positively
angelic all along.
Many years ago a family consisting
of the husband and wife and little girl
of two years lived far out in a cabin on
a western prairie. The husband took
a few cattle to mnarket. Before he
started his little child asked him to
buy for her a doll, and he promised.
ie could after the sale of the cattle
purchase household neccessities and
certainly would not for get the doll he
had promised. In the village to which
he went lie sold the cattle and obtain
ed the groceries for his household and
the doll for his little darling. He start
ed home along the dismal road at night
fall. As he went along on horseback
a thunderstorm broke, and in the
most lonely part of the road and in
the heaviest part of the storm he
heard a child's cry. Rohbbers had
been known to do some bad work
along that road, arnd it was known
that this herdsman had money with
him, the price of the cattle sold. The
herdsman first thought it was a strat
agem to have him halt and be des
poled of his treasures. but the child's
cry became more keen and rending.
an'd so he dismounted and felt around
in the darkness and ali in vain until
he thought of a hollow that he remem
bered near the roan where the child
might be, and for that he started and.
sui-e enough, found a little one fagged
out and drenched of the storm and al
most dead. He wrapped it up as well
as ie could and mounted his horse
and resumed his journey home. Comn
ing in sight of his cabin, he saw it all
lighted up and supposed his wife had
kindled all these lights so as to guidet
her husband through the darknass.
But no. The house was full of excite
ment. and the neighbors were gather
ed and stood around the wife of the
house, who was insensible as from
some great calamity. On inquiry
the returned husband found that the
little child of that cabin was gone.
She had wandered out to meet her
father and get the present he had
promised. and the child was lost. Then
the father unrolled fronm the blanket
the child he had found in the fields.
and o. it was his owvn child and the
lost one of the prairie home. and the
cabin quaked with the shout over the
lost one found: Ihow suggestive of
the fact that once we were lost in the
open ields or among the mountain
crags God's wandering children, and
he found us. dying in the tempest and
wrapped us in the mantle of his love
and fetched us home, gladness and
congratulation bidding us welcome.
The fact is that the world does not
know God or they would all tioek to
So I set open the wide gate of my
text. inviting you all to come into the
mercy and pardon of God-yea, still
further. into the ruins of the place
where onc was kept the knowledge of
your iniquities. The place has been
torn down and the records destroyed,
ind you wvill find the ruins more dilapi
ated and broken and prostrate than
the ruins of Melrose or Kenilworth. for
from these last ruins you can pick up
some fragment of a sculptured stone
ir you can see the curve of sonme bro
ken arch, but after your repentance
md your forgiveness you cannot tind
in all the memory of God a fragment
f your pardoned sins so large as a
needle's point. "Th'ieir sins and their
niquities will I remember no more."
Six different kinds of sounds were
beard on that night which wvas inter
jeted linto the daylight of Christ's as
assination. The neighin g of the wvar
iorses-for some of the soldiers were
n the saddle-was one sound, the
lang of the hammers was a second
sound. the jeer of malignants was a
third sound. the weeping of friends
id followers was a fourth sound, the
i2%ash f lood o the rock was a fifth
sound, and the groan of the expiring
Lord was a sixth sound. And they all
coim mingled into one sa*:i ness. Over a
place in R ussia where wolves were pu r
suing a load of travelers and to save
them a servant sprang from the sled
in to the mouths of the wild beasts and
was demu red and thereby the other
lives were saved are inscribed the
words. ''Greater love hath no man
tha this. that a man lay down his
life for his friend. - any a surgeon
in our own time has in tracheotomy C
with his own lips drawn from the
windpipe of a diplitheritic patient
that, which cured the patient and slew
the surgeon, and all have honored the
self sacritice. But all other scenes of
I sacrifice pale before this most illustri
ous martyr of all time .nd all eternity.
After that agonizing spectacle in be- t
half of our fallen race nothing about
r" a
the sin forgetting God is too stupen- C
dous for my faith, and I accept the
promise, and will you not all accept
it? "Their sins and their iniquities b
will I remember no morre." t
THE WIND AND RAIN. t
t
The Immense Damage Done in Mis- I
P
sissipi and Texas.
0
A dispatch from Ilouston, Texas,
says reports from Wednesday.s rainf
and wind storm say tiat censiderabl3 t
damage was caused a*, various places
in Texas. About four-fifths of the
state was covered by the rain. At a
Houston twenty swall houses were
wrecked with a loss of $15,000.000.
Emanuel White. colored. was crushed
to death and half a dozen others hurt,
none seriously. t
At Ilosenberg ten 1:ouses. including s
the Baptist Church were destroyed be- e
yond repair.
VTh residence of P. H. Callahan, at
Liano was struck by lightning but
members of the family escaped with a
slight shockS.
In and near Tyler a number of
houses were blown tc pieces and sev- c
eral people hurt,. but none seriously, c
fruit trees were badly damaged. The
residence of William Russell at Ber- r
tram was blown over and Mrs. Russell d
and baby injrired. a
Near Midlothian. :Ed King sought c
shelter in a barn and was killed by a
stroke of lightning. The residence of C
T. H. Bentle was blown over ard Mrs. t
Bentle probably fatally injnred.
The store of March Iunlap at Rock
ford was wrecked and a big stock of
goods ruined.
At New Boston one man named
Newton was crushed to death and his
home was totally distroyed. The Opa t
house, Methodsst church, residences i
of RI. M. Miller and J. W. Akin, store
of Dr. Ham and dozens of smaller
houses were wrecked. Many dwell
ings were blown from their founda- a
tions. Trees and telephone poles were a
levelled. Mrs. Dr. Davis lost th-ee Y
fine new buildings. t
A dispatch from Vickesburg Miss.,
says a cyclone swept through the scuth I
ern end of Copiah and the northern see
tion of Lincoln counties .early today. y
killing atleast half a dozen people and
leveling buildings, trees and fences.
Montgomery, a village in Capiah on
the Illinois Central railroad, wes the r
worst sufferer and four bodies are
known to be under debris of collapsed a
buildings. Three miles further south
a railroad camp was wrecked and
three negroes killed. A passenger
train on the Illinois Central road wa~s
struck by the storm and every window
in each coach was shattered. -A t
Hazelhurst considerable damage wasr
done. but no lives lost. Wires are
down in all directions and it is impos
sible to hear from outlyin~g districts.
THE DEATH OF A HERO. s
How General Jenkins Was Killed by
His Ownt Men.
Gen. Micah Jenkins was killed by y
our own men at the Wilderness on the
6th of May, 1864, not far from where
Stonewall Jackson was mortally a
wounded after the battle of Chancel- r
lorsville in May, 1803. Gen. Long-1
street was badly wounded by the vol
icy that killed Jenkins, which was e
ired through mistake at the Twelfth5
Virginia Regiment by their comrades
of Mahone's brigade. The troops were
moving down the Plank road at a critl
cal moment of the battle, Jenkins'
brigade'by the road and Kershaw's
division alongside. Gen. Longstreet1
rode at the head of the column, ac
companied by Jenkins and Kershaw',
andafter discussing-the proposed dispo- a
tion of their troops for reopening bat
tle, Jenkins rode closer to Longstreet,
and said: "I am happy: I have felta
despair of the cause for some months.
but am now relieved, and feel assurredt
that we will put the enemy back
across the Rapidan before night..
These were the last words he evert
spoke. The Twelfth Virginia hadC
been in advance, and was returning to
its Place across the plank road when
the other regiments of the brigade
opened fire, believing it w~as an ad-.
vance of the enemy. The Virginians
threw themselves to the ground in
order to let the fire pass over tl:.em.
when the group of otticers rode intof
the line of fire, and Jenkins fell mnor
tally wounded, Longstreet was struck
with a minie ball, which passed
throughi his throat and right shoulde.r.
Capt. Alfred Doby, of.Kershaw's staff.
and an orderly niamed Bowen werea
killed instantly.
These facts are stated because so
many errors have been published re
cently in regard to Gen. Jenkings.
growing out of the proininence given
to his son in an incident due to the un
frtunate conduct of others. Gen.
Jenkins held the rank of brigadier gen- a
eral. which he received for gallant and
meritorious conduct at seven Pines,
Gaines' Mill and Frazier's Farm in
1862. Jenkins' brigade was in the act
of returning the fire from -a supposed
enemy. .when Kershaw's clear voice
rang out. "Friends;" their arms were
recovered. without a shot in return.
and the men threw themselves down t
on their faces.-Greenville Mounitaai
eer. t1___ _ _ __ _ _
African Cotton. Id
The negroes of the Tuskegee Normai r
and1 Industrial institute who were en- jd
gaged the latter part of 190o by the L
German government to teach the na- a
tives of Togoland. German West r
Africa, how to grow cotton have ac- a:
cording to the report of the colonial c<
committee, succeded In producing cot- li
ton which Is graded on the Bremen C
exchange above American micadling.1
The Tuskegee negroes have demon- n
strated that the land in Togoland isa
suitable for cotton of which there is ft
great abundance. The only obstacle i
to the commercial utilization of this lv
product Is transportation and especial-r
ly getting the bales to the coast. The "
colnial committee has sent an expe- e:
dition of engineers to su~rvey for a iF
railroad from the coast town of Lome I
to P~ahe in the interior.
L NOTABLE ADDRESS.
olonel Jas. A. Hoyt Speaks to the!
Sons of Veterans.
SOME STRIKING STATISTICS
;ven ior the First Time Relative to
Confederate Losses and Regi
mental Losses in Battle In
the Civil War.
Col. James A. Hoyt of Greenville,
:ic distinguished veteran, delivered
n address recently before the J. L.
oker Camp, Sons of Veterans at
artsville. In reference to the losses
i the war sonie striking facts were
rought out. that have never been put
>gether before. The information will
e interesting to veterans as well as
eir sons. Colonel Hoyt spoke as fol
Iws:
The Southern Confederacy was com
osed of eleven States, which in 1860
ad a military population of 1,064,193
ith which to confront the 4,559,872
f the same class in the other States
nd Territories. During the next
ur years the military population in
le south was increased over 200,000
om those reaching their 18th year,
ad in other States and territories the
ilitary population wasincreased over
00,000 from the same source. Those
ho were exempt on account of physi
il infirmities or otherwise, constitute
i every country one-fifth of the mili
ry population, and official figures
ow that 25 per cent. of the persons
zamined in 1863-65 by the United
tates authorities were rejected as un
t for military duty. The Confederate
-cruiting officers did not insist upon
ny high standard of'physical require
ients, as the needs of the army were
o pressing, and they accepted all re
ruits and conscripts except such as
,ere manifestly incapacitated for
flitary service. The aggregate en
alment of the Confederate armies
uring the whole war, according to
n estimate in the "Southern Histori
il Society papers," which was ap
roved by Adjutant General Samuel
oper, numbered over 600,000 effec
te men, of whom not over 400,000
rere nrolled at any one time. The
tal enlistments in the Federal armies
-ere equal to 2.326,168 men recruited
>r three years' service.
These figures substantially main
in the ratio of the military popula
ion as ascertained by the census In
860, and as to the Federal armies
bey are based upon the statistics of
e war department in Washington.
'he official rosters of the Confederate
rmies at various dates during the
,ar show the following number of
rganizations that were in almost con
inuous service in the field; 529 regi
1ents and 85 battalions of infantry;
27 regiments and 47 battalions- of
valry, 5 regiments and 6 battalions
eavy artillery, and 261 hatteries of
(ght artillery. The aggregate is
quivalent to 764 regiment of ten comn
anies each. Only a few new regi
1ents were organized after 1862, and
a most cases they were consolidations
f previous organization. The recruits
.nd conscripts were assigned to the
ld regiments to keep up an effective
trength.
The totali loss of the Confederate
rmies in killed and mortally wounded
ill never be definitely known. and
an be stated only in round numbers.
summary of the casualties in each
attle and minor engagement, using
iicial reports only, and in their ab
ence the estimates from Confederate
ources, indicates that 94,000 men
ere killed or mortally wounded on
he Confederate side during the war.
In the report made by Gen. James
1. Fry for 1865-66, there is a tabula
ion of Confederate losses as compiled
rom the muster rolls on file in the
ureau of Confederate archives at
Vashington. The returns are incom
lete. and nearly all the Alabama rolls
re missing. The figures are worth
oting. however, as they show that at
ast 74,524 were killed or died of
rounds, and that 53,297 died of dis
ase. Without meaning to make any
2vidious comparison, the tabulation
f General Fry's report shows that out
the 74,524 who were killed or died
f wounds, North Carolina and South
arolina are accredited with 32,595, or
ore than 43 per cent. of the total
>ss. The highest percentage of loss
killed and mortally wounded, rated
ecording to the military population
1 86, belongs to South Carolina and
a most complete vindication of her
tion in leading the secession move
lent, which the Sons and Daughters
f Confederate soldiers can treasure on
de part of their fathers.
Mr. Kirkley, the statistician of the I
*nited States war department, states
Le deaths from battles during the
ivil War, as he terms it, at 110,070,
[ which 67,058 are classified as killed
action and 43.012 as having died of
rounds. Estimating from the loss in
iled and mortally wounded, the con
lusion is drawn that there were 275.
75 men wounded otherwise than
iortally in the Union armies, making
to total number of killed and wound
: 385245, within a small fraction of
i total number of effective men in';
!i the armies of the Confederate
tates during the entirie four years,]
that for each man in the Confeder
e service there was a man killed or
'ounded in the Federal service. The
umber of wounded who were treated 1
Sthe Federal hospitals during thet
-ar was 246,712, which embraced I
in-tenths of all the wounded, accord
ig to the surgeon-general's estimate.
'iere Is no way of arriving at the ex
t number of killed and wounded. buti
be hospital records are substantially
~curate. and the losses in minor en
igements for which no official re-e
irns of casualties were made will un-t
:ubtediy increase the total consider- e
At Gettysburg, which has been I
~rmed the greatest of historic bat- e
es, the Federal loss is stated at 3,0;fl c
lled. 14,492 wounded, and 5,425 cap- (
ired or missng. The mortally woun-i
d are as usual included In the 14.492 i
ported simply as wounded, but this t
>es not fix the actual loss of life, and
ieut. Col. Wmn. F. Fox, United States
emv. has examined the rolls of eachI
egiinent which fought at Gettysburg
T taking name by name, he has as
rtained that 5.291 men lost their
yes on that field and the Second
orps (Ihancock's) sustained a loss of
28 in killed and died of wounds. or
2arlv one-fourth of the total loss thus I
eertained. It was there that this
muus corps had the hardest fighting
its experience and won its greatest
urels: and it was there they met and I
pulsed Pickett's magnificent charge, a
here the fighting was deadly in the r
rtreme. The percentage of loss in the v
irst Minnesota regiment was with- i
it an equal in the records of modern r
fare. Only 293 men from 8 corn
panics were in action of July 2d. and
he total casualties were 215 of whom
7 were killed and 168 wounded. mak
.ng 82 per cent. The Federal regi
nlit sustaining the grcatest Ilss iII
)attle durinmr the entire waj was the
Fifth New lampshire. which lost 295
lien. killed or mortally wounded in
ietion. from 18361 to 1865.
The distinction minst he drawn he
,ween a percentage of loss and the
;reatest loss in any given battle, de
)endent upon the nutr.ber of men car
-led into action. The several losses
tre not always the largest numerical
y. Take the Twenty-sixth North
,arolina. Pettigrew's brigade. whose
vhose loss at Gettysburg was 86 kill
d and 502 wounded, making a total
>f 588, in addition to 120 reported as
nissing, who were lost in Pickett's
:harge. nearly all of whom must have
>een killed or wounded, as they fell
nto the enamy's hands and were not
neluded In the hospital report. The
:asulties were 708 out of 820 who were
>resent, and this loss occurred mostly
n the first day's fight, which is an al
nost unexampled record. The per
:entage of loss in the Twenty-Sixth
\orth Carolina at Gettysburg 71.7,
vhich is the third highest percentage
n the Confederate army.
The First Texas in the battle of
intietam (Sharpsburg) carried only
!26 men into action, and the loss was
5 killed and 141 wounded, which is
;2.3 per cent., the highest percentage
m record. The Twenty-first Georgia
Lt the Second Manassas (August 28-31,
862.) with 242 men in action, lost 38
cilled and 146 wounded, or 76 per
ent.
The Palmetto Sharp Shooters at
razier's Farm (June 30, 1862,) with
75 men in action, lost 39 killed and
15 wounded, or 67.7 per cent.
The Sixth South Carolina at Seven
?ines (May 31, 1862,) with 521 men in
etion, lost 88 killed and 181 wound
d, or 51.6 per cent.
The First South Carolina Rifles
Orr's regiment) at Gaines' Mill. with
537 men in action, lost 81 killed and
25 wounded or 56.9 per cet.
Anderson's South Carolina brigade
afterwards Jenkins' and then Brat
on's) in the "Seven Days Around
:ichmond" with 1,250 men in action,
ost 136 kiiled and 638 wounded, 13
nissing or 62.9 per cent. This loss
ccurred in the two battles of Gaines'
1ill and Frazier's Farm.
Longstreet's Division (Anderson's,
ryor's, Wilcox's and Featherstone's
rigades) during the Seven Days Bat
les, lost at Gaines' Mill and Frazier's
arm, 766 killed, 3,435 wounded and
37 missing; total 4,438 out of 8,831
gaged, or 50.2 per cent. Nor was
his an uncommon loss, as the official
-eports often indicate a loss of 40 per
ent. or more. Through the desper
te struggle of four years, with its
;cores of great battles and minor en
agements, the ranks were divided
mnd sub-divided until the end came,
md with it a brigade or division was
nerely a thing of shreds and patches.
:s early in the war as Sharpsburg
September 17, 1862), regiments were
ommanded by captains and compan
es by sergeants.
Gettysburg was undoubtedly the
reatest battle of the war; the strat
~gic issues involved were the most
mportant; Washington city was im
periled, and the Federals were on' the
efensive; and it was the turning
>oint in the fortunes of the Confed
3racy. The contending armies were
ot only large, but were at their best
n point of dtscipline and experience.
ee and Meade were battling for the
nastery, and the loss of life exceeded
hat of any other field swept by these
3wo great armies.
Antietam (or Sharpsburg) was the
loodiest and most furious battle, and
nore men were killed that day than
my other one day of the war. At
settysburg, Chancellorsville and
Spottsylvania, the fighting covered
:hree days or more: a~t the Wilderness,
old Harbor, Shiloh, Chicamauga and
atlanta the losses were divided bet
een two days, but at Antietam the
esperate work began at sunrise and
~vas practically ended at 4 o'clock in
the afternoon. Lee's army consisted
>f 35.000 foot-sore, weary soldiers,
>oorly clad, and slimly fed, while Mc
llellan brought 60,000 men on the
eld. with a reserve force of 27.000 in
~ull view of the contest. One-fourth
>f Lee's army, imore than ,-8.000. lav
ead or wounded on the field, while
~IcClellan's losses were 12,500 in
ound numbers. It was a square,
1and-to-hand fight and the survivors
>n both sides slept in the very lines
here they had fought amid the car
iage of the~ bloody field.
In the seven Days around Rich
nond, Lee's army was between 80,000
Ld 90,000, the very ilower of South
rn youth and chivalry, and he never
ed its like again.
Grant's army at the Wilderness two
'ears after numbered 120,000 com
losed of veteran regiments, whose
lags had waved above the smoke arnd
in of numerous battlefields. An
ither year came, and the remnant of
ee's matchless soldiers furled their
lags in the presence of Grant's stead
ly increasing numbers, for the work
f military attrition had been accom
lished.
Will Meet in Charleston.
Major T. Rt. Robertson, a member
f the council of Charlotte ai.d major
f the 1st North Carolina Sta te troops.
.rrived in Charleston Thursday and is
topping at the Argyle. Major
tobertson's mission in the city is to
rrange for Charlotte Day at the Ex
osition during North Carolina Week.
'be date will probably be April 8.
ut Major Robertson will confer with
he Exposition otlicials and a date will
le officially set bor the occasion.
,ajor Robertson, wvho is a Mystic
;hriner of high degree, is also an old
outh Carolinian, having been born
n Winnsboro. and he has many
riends in Charleston. Hfe says that
orth Carolina is coming to Charleston
n masse during North Carolin a Week
he inoving cause for the emigration
f the Tarheels being n(ot so much the
xposition as the fact that the news
as gone abroad that the Governor
f North C'arolina and the Governor
f South Carolina will both be in
~harleston at that time and everyone
a the State is determined to be on
and when they meet and see what
hey say to each other.
Dog Popuilation.
There are in F"rance 2.864,000 dogs.
n average or 7-> to every thousand
uman beings. lrish dogs come next.
ith a percentage of 7:3 per thousand.
ngland has only 38 per thousand.
~erany :31, and Sweden only 11. It
stated that Germany claims to have
most 2.500.000 dogs, Russia only 1.
00.000, and Turkey only 350.000.
A Hlistorical Govermient.
A dispatch to The Neue Freic
~resse froma Constantinople Thursday
nnounces that the town of Kyankari.
ortheast of Angora, in Asia Minor.
ras destroyed by an earthquake March
2. No detatils of the disaster has been
aceved. Kyankari had 20.000 in
nhitants
SCHOOLS FOR CRIME.
Fault Found with Jail System of
the United States.
Indiscriminate Mixing of Prisoners
Breeds a Vicious Class-Our County
Jails the Worst Institutions
in the World.
It is to be hoped that the period
of self-examination upon which we
have entered will lead to a true ap
preciation of other socia? menaces
than that threatening from the an
archists' camp. If the suppression
of those who incite to violenee
against government be a necessity
what shall be said of measures to
prevent the multiplication of the
brood of ordinary criminals who
threaten the life and property of the
common man throughout the land?
asks the iiBoston Transcript. Our tol
eration of anarchistic propaganda is
hardly more culpable than the gen
(ral indifference to conditions which
(irectly foster criminality in the o:
dinarv sense of the word. We are
reminded of this by the severe con
demnation of our prison system by
the Howard association of England
in its latest utterances. After a
thorough examination of reports
fron a majority of our states the ex
perts of this association pronounce
our county jaibs "the worst institu
tions of the kind in the world." and
the conclusion is based upon studies
at first hand by men qualified for the
work.
The chief indictment which the
English experts find against our
county jails (and it should be re
membered that the overwhelming
number of prisoners are housed in
them) is the indiscriminate herding
of inmates of all ages and grades
and their enforced idleness. In oth
er words, the county jails supply the
very best conditions for the culti
vation of criminal instincts and the
graduation of resourceful crooks.
This is an oft told-tale which could
easily be elaborated. yet the county
jail, in cha'rze of an appointee whose
chief qualification is of a political na
ture. remains as a monument to pub
lic indifference about a vital subject.
There is small comfort in the reflec
tion that the county jails of this com
monwealth are on a higher level
than some others, or that the worst
hotbeds of immorality and crime are
to be found in some benighted south
ern state. An abundance of recent
evidence has been published showing
local shortcomings.
It is not to be wondered at that the
Howard association views with sus
picion our general methods of treat
ing wrongdoers as tending to in
crease rather than to diminish crime,
although it seems questionable how
atributable to the so-called "severe
although it seems questionable how
justice of British punitive measures."
At all events our critics are more
than justified in pointing to the
need of prison reform in the United
States if it be our aim to diminish
crime. This is said with a full
knowledge of the progress already
made. In reformatory work we have
set some notable examples, and in
the wider field of penal reform we
have hit upon some discoveries of in
estimable value, such as the indeter
minate sentence and the probation
system. Yet, as a whole, our prison
system is had.
Even Japari shames us. According
to Kiego Kiyoura, ex-minister of jus
tice. Japan has realized some ideals
in prison administration which we
still hold merely as theories. It has
,centralized its prison administration,
securing the advantages of uniform
ity and economy which centralization
affords. It has established a school
for the training of higher prison offi
cials, with a programme in penol
ogy, prison hygiene, criminal psy
chology, statistics, anthropometry.
the maintenance of ex-convicts, meth
ods of reformation and practical
drill in prison management. It has
an association with more than 10,00C
members for the purpose of improv
ing persons, not to mention local
committees and societies for the aid
of discharged convicts. Some of the
things we most need little Japan has
already realized-foremost among
them what corresponds to state con
trol as opposed to county control1
and a higher training of prison offi
cials whose tenure of office is di
vorced from local politics.
An Expensive. Telegram.
Punctuation, which used to be re
garded as a very essential part of
composition, does not receive the
same attention to-day which was for
merly given to it. There is, how
ever, one man who, if he were asked,
would be likely to concede its im
port ance.
He is a wealthy business man of
New York, a man of large liberality,
and very generous to his family.
During his absence from the city his
wife desired to make a purchase of
laces amounting in value to $2,000.
The sum was iarge, and, although she
knew his generosity, she decided to
telegraph to him for his sanction
before buying.
In reply to her telegram of inquiry
came the answer: "No price too
high." Touched by such liberality,
and stimulated by the cheering mnes
sag~e. she proceededl to buy not only
the laces which tshe had mn mindl. but
other goods to the value of $4,000.
\\he the hushand returned an~d
his wife showed him her- pitrchases
he asked t o see the telegram which
she had received It was something
of a surprise to him, but he said
nothing. What he had written was:
"No. Price too high."-Youth's Com
panion. ________
- Asked to Aet a Divorce.
The following is the closing para
graph of a late news dispatch: "Two
years ago New York society was sur
prised to learn that Richard H. Hunt,
the architect, asked his wife to get a
divoce and thus allow him to marry
Mrs. Walter Watrous. Last year she t
went to Dakota to secure the divorce
and there fell in love with Dr. Har- 1
gens. He then divorced his wife, and
his maariage to Mrs. Hunt followed."
How perfectly lovely and romantic!
What a convenient thing is the di- 1
vorce court!
A Costly Cent.
A Wisconsin woman who dropped a
penny in a dry goods store insisted
upon the cent being recov-ered. The
clerks struck a match and looked for
the copper. a roll of cotton batting I
caught the Ilame and sixty thousand
dollars was lost. When the wreckage
was cleared away the woman asked
the proprietor of the place to make
good her loss.t
With the Cudahy kidnapping cases
fresh in the minds of~ the people, theI
eislature passed an act extending thet
punishment for that crime, so that one dc
who is guilty of that offense shall be
ent to the pninstary for life. n
Victims of a Tidal Wave.
The Pacifle Mail company's steamer
Newrort, from Central Anerican and
Mexican ports. briugs th: tinst details
of I he terrible disaster b) tween La
Libertad and a point th;rty miles
north of Scajutla. Early on the morn
itig or March 4. without warning, a
tidal wave swept over all ti.at length
of coast, and when the Newport sailed
for San Francisco, fifty-three bodies
had already been recovered and buried.
No estirrate of the full l .ss of life
could n ade. - The wave went en
tirely o., the barriers builJ along the
coast, and swept the towns of La
Libertad and Acajutla. "There
seems to have been not the slightest
warning of the disaster," says an ofl
cer of the Newport. '.'There had been
some heavy weather along the coast,
but nothing that would warrant such
a territic wave. The only I hing that
will account for it is some great vol
canic eruption far out at sea. The
wave rolled in like a mountain and
there was no break to it-until striking
the beach, when it swept over the em
bankments, covering them to a height
of live feet, completely inundating the
whole coast and almost wiping out all
the small buildings in La Libertad and
Acajutla. When we left, the work of
of recovering the bodies had only just.
begun, while nothing at all had been
done in the way of 'repairing the
damage, except replacing the fresh
water plant at Acajutla."
Four etates were admitted to the
union in 1SR9, two in 1890. and two'in
1S96. In the space of seven years as
many stars were added to the flag and
-wha; is m.ore importont-as Mar y
members to the United States senate
as during almost 40 years pre ceding.
It is not surprinsing that, after the
enlargement of the union by so many
commonwealths, there should be come
disposition toward conservatism in
passing upon the cases of new. appli
cant s for admission, says Youth's Com
panion.
Yet all the territories which are at
present eligible for admission as states
are preparing to knock at the doors of
the Fifty-seventh congress. "State
hood conventions" for the further- -
ance of this purpose were beid in Ari
zona and New Mexico in Octcl-er, and
last m-onth delegates from Oklahoma -
and Indianterritory met in convention
with the same end in view. Arizona
and New Mexico are making common
cause in their-campaign, and the gov
ernor of each territory, addressed the
convention of the other. Oklahoma
and Indian territory are alo acin'g
together; a:rd one plan contemplafes
the organization of one state,' Okla
homa, to include the Irdlar. t.'rritory.
Oklahoma. the youngen-t of d-hese as
piring territories, which was ort-anized
only 11 years ago, has the larcest pop
ulation, 398,000; Indian territory,
comes next, with 392.000: New Mexico.
third, with 195.000; and A-zera last,
with 123.000. These are the ilgures of
the census taken -1s months ago. and
they do not include Indiany' not-taxed.
No doubt they are each below the pres
ent population of. the territories.
If new states were admitted or re
fused admission on princ'oleo of ab
stract iustice, the politicl predilec
tions of their people would not count.
Practically, however, that considera
tion does enter into the question in
the minds of congresenen. At the elec
tions last year Okishoma and .New
Mexico were carried by the republic
ands, and Arizon-a by the democrats.
As for edian territ.-y. its ?overnment
is peculiar, and the people have had no
opportunity to show their opinions on
national poWe.
Rates for South Carolina Day.
The Southern Railway has arrang
the following round-trip rates to the
Charleston Exposition for South Caro
lina day:
Allendale $2.55, Bamberg $2.00,
Batesburg $275, Blackstock $3.65, -
Blackville $2.25, Boykin $275, Branch
ville $1.50, Camden $2.75, Chester -
83.75, Cornwell $375, Denmark $2.00,
Elko $2.50, Edgefield~ $2.80, Fort
Motte $2.25, George's $1.00, Orange
burg $2.00, Ridge Spring $2.75, Sally
2.50, Springfield $2.45, St. Matthews
82.25, Trenton $2.75, Barnwell $2.30.
Tickets at the above very low rates
will be sold for all trains on March 19
and 20 1902. Tickets good for return
ive days from date of sale. Tickets
sold March 19 will be good returning
to leave Charleston until night March
24, 1902. Tickets sold March 20 'will .
be good returning to leave Charleston
antil night March 25, 1902.
These rates from all points on the
Southern Railway in South Carolina
re the lowest ever afforded, and are
intended to give everybody in the
State of South Carolina the very best
>pportunity to see the beautiful South
arolina Inter-State and West Indian
Exposition.
The beauties of the Exposition and
she vast knowledge obtained by seeing
ihe extensive exhibits from all sec
ions of the country, can only be ap
preciated by a visit to the Exposition.
Old-Time Apple Buttee.
One barrel of sweet cider, boiled
down one-half; then add the apples,
pared, cored and sliced to the boiling
clder, until the right thickness. When
half done, add cinnamon and allspice
(ground) to the taste and sweeten
with best old-fashioned sugar house
molasses. I~hve a wooden pa ddle-bored
full of auger holes and long enough to*
reach the bottom of the kettle. It
must have a very long haudle, so that
four or more persons can stir the apple
bu'ter at one ti-me: for it is a long.
tedious and tiresome thing to make
real appe butter. It will take from
early morning until 12 o'clock mid
night to get through. It used to be the
Eashion long ago to invite the young
folks to help, and finish up with a sup
per and a dance. But you have a fine
.ot of apple. butter which will last for
years. Add the appies slowly; also
hnve the kete well propped, so it will
not wobble about while stirring. An
dd-fashioned fireplace is the beet,
with a crane.-Washington 5tar.
Twenty-two Drowned.
The steamer Providence, plying be
ween Vicksburg and Lake Palmyra,
as overturned Wednesday morning
>y a sudden squa.ll at lond Landing,
Lnd twenty-one of her passengers and
rew were drowned, The dead are:
lapt. Win. Cassidy of Vicksburg, mas
er: Charles Roup of Vicksburg, chief
:ngineer: Clyde Scott of Vicksburg,
otton seed buyer: Dr. N. A. Lancas
er. a prominent physician and planter
f the Palmyra neighborhood. Seven
een colored roustabouts and deck pas
engers whose names have not been re
iorted.
Why They Laughed.
A Georgia paper tells of a revival
neeting at which a. man arose and
aid he was the wickedest wretch in
he town. "Pd go to perdition If I -
hould die to-night," he concluded.
mnmediately an old deacon started
he hymn. '"if you get there before I~
o. look out for me, I'm coming. too.Y
Lnd then the deacon wondered why