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VOL. XXVII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JULY 9. 1913 NO.52 LOBBYIST AT WORK FOOLS WALL STREET MEN AND LAWYERS ON TELEPHONE POSES AS GONIIIESSMEN David Lamar Arouses Committee to Laughter With Story of Imperson ations and Organized Efforts to In fluence Financiers, Told in Naive Manner With Apparent Enjoyment. ,A story of misrepresentation, im personation of public men and organ i_,zed effort to influence Wall Street financiers, probably without parallel in the history of congressional in vestigation was unfolded Wednesday before the senate lobby committee. A prosperous-looking, self-possess ed individual, calling himself David Lamar, of New York, self-described as an "operator in stocks" and ad mittedly the bearer of several assum ed names, was the principal in the re markable session. With entire aban don arousing the committee to laugh ter at times by his naive admissions, he told of his impersonations, his par ticipation in attempts to influence Wall Street operations, and his asso clation with Edward Lauterbach, a New York laweyr, in efforts to have Lauterbach retained by the Morgan firm, the Union Pacific and other great interests to head off congress sional activity in Washington. He telephoned to financial men and lawyers in the names of Representa tive Palmer and Representative Rior dan. He assumed the guise of Chair man McCombs, of the Democratic national committee, to telephone to Chairman Hilles, of the Republican national committee. Lewis Cass 'Ledyard, of New York, counsel for the Morgan firm, was one of his attempted victiris. Mr. Ledyard came to the witness stand armed with almost a verbatim account of all the conversations had with Lamar, who had represented himself as Congress man Palmer. As he read the record of the conversations, in themselves unusual in their tones, Lamar sitting nearby, laughed and nodded, saying, "that's right," and slapping his leg with apparent enjoyment. The purpose of his impersonations, Lamar contended, was to secure rein statement for his friend Lauterbach, in the good graces of the Morgan firm. Members of the committee de manded that Lamar remain in Wash ington for reappearance before them. Lamar denied.that there had been any attempt at extortion of money from any of the New York financial men. The story evolved during the day, mainly through the Ledyard tes timony, indicated that the latter had been to various members of the Mor gan firm to tell of the "steel trust" investigation resolution which. Lamar had prepared, but that none of the Morgan firm members would pay any attention to the matter or make any effort to stop it. Lamar paved the way for Lanter bach to call upon Ledyard, accord ing to testimony given by Ledyard and corroborated by Lamar. In an interview February 8,1913, between Ledyard and Lauterbach, the latter declared he came direct from Senator Stone, 'who represented Speaker Clark and that he had a proposal to make to the Morgan interests for the heading off of congressional activity against the Steel corporation. Senator Stone took the stand be fore Ledyard had finished and de nounced the whole thing as a "ma licious fabrication" and a "common lie." Members of the senate committee agreed in the belief that it was a fabrication and Lamar laughingly clinched the matter . by breaking in and admitting there was no truth in the allegation. He admitted that he had prepared the outline of the con ditions that should be submitted to the Steel corporation attorney; but he could give no epxlanation of his purpose except that the whole thing was a farce. The story of how Ledyard L'ad kept Lamar on the telephone time after time until he could locate the real Congressman Palmer in Washington: how he had once succeeded in getting Palmer over the long-distance t phone when the bogus "Palmer" 'u. on another telephone; and how h had finally traced the Impersonator to a telephone In Lamar's apartment on Riverside Drive, held the commit tee and spectators almost dumbfound ed for more than an hour. Paul D. Cravath, one of the attor neys for the Union Pacific, and Max well Evarts, counsel for the South ern Pacific, testified briefly as to their experiences with the telephone imper sonator. During his testimony Lamar Interjected an attack upon the Union Pacific, claiming there had .been a falsification in the books of the com pany In 1901, by which about $80, 000,000 had disappeared from its sur plus. Mr. Cravath immediately denied this, terming Lamar a "liar," a char acterization which the committee in sisted should be withdrawn. Cravath declared the attack had been expect ed for several days as a part of a bear raid to depress'the value of the stock for speculative purposes. While Lamar was on the stand Chairman Overman endeavored to make him give his real name, but the witness refused. He admitted under Overman's questioning that he had been in Denver, under the name of David H. Lewis, but denied be had used the name of Simon Wolf. He said Lamar was not his name, but de clined to give the committee further Information. We hope the country will be bless ed with bumper crops this year of gra and Democratic rule. WHITE HOUSE ROMANCE DAUGHTER OF PRESIDENT WIL SON IS TO WED Engagement of Miss Jessie Wilson Second Daughter of the President Has Been Announced. The president and Mrs. Wilson, an nounced Wednesday night the en gagement of their second daughter Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson, t( Francis Bowes Sayre of Lancaster Pa. The wedding is expected to takt place next November at the Whit( House. Mr. Sayre is at present an at torney in the office of District Attor ney Whitman of New York. While close friends of both fam ilies have known of the engagemen1 for some time, announcement wai withheld until Wednesday, the firs1 anniversary of Mr. Wilson's nomina tion at the Baltimore convention. White House officials accompanied the brief announcement with a biog raphy of Mr. Sayre. He is 28 year. of age and after preparing at the Hill school at Pottstown, Pa., and the Lawrenceville, N. J., graduated from Williams college in 1909. He was maager of the football team there, valedictorian of his class and inter ested in Y. M. C. A. work. He spent two summers with Dr. Alfred T. Grenfell in his missionary work on the coast of Labrador and studied law at-Harvard low school where he graduated last year "cum laude." He has travelled extensively during his vacations, spending summers in Alas ka and northern Siberia. Mr. Sayre comes from a collegiate family. His father was the late Rob ert H. Sayre, for a long time presi dent of the board of trustees of Le high university and builder of the Lehigh Valley railroad. His mother was Martha Finley Nevin, a daughter of John Williamson Nevin, theologian and president of Franklin and Mar shall college at Lancaster, Pa. She is descended from Hugh Williamson of North Carolina, one of the framers of the constitution. She is a sister of Robert J. Nevin head of the Amer ican church of Rome, Italy, and a first cousin of Ethelbert Nevin, the composer. Miss Wilson is 24 years of age. She was educated at Goucher college, Bal timore and has specialized in polit ical science. She has done much set tlement work in Philadelphia and has been actively identified with the Y. W. C. A., having recently made many speeches in its behalf. While Mr. Sayre is not known to Washingtonians, he has made several quiet visits to the White House in recent months and was a frequent vis itor at the Wilson home at Prince ton, N. J. The announcement was re ceived with keen interest in capital social circles as the wedding starts the winter season with an important social function. Not since Miss Alice Roosevelt and former Representative ongworth of Ohio were married has there been a wedding at the White ouse. BLOOD SHED AT REUNION. Union Veteran Stabs Men Who Abus ed Abraham Lincoln. Seven men were stabbed Wednes day in a fight in the dining room of the Gettysburg Hotel, as a result of a ight, which started when several men aroused the anger of an old vet eran in blue, by abusing Lincoln. Several of the wounded men are In a serious condition at the Pennsflvania State Hospital. The state constabu lary are making desperate efforts to ind the men -who did the stabbing. According to all the information the authorities could gather the fight started suddenly and was over in a few minutes. It began shortly before seven o'clock, when the dining room was full of people, and caused a panic among the scores of guests. The veteran who was unhurt and dis appeared in the melee was sitting near David Farbor and Edward J. Carroll, when he heard the slighting remarks about Lincoln. He jumped to his feet and began to defend the martyred president and ,berated his detractors. The men who were stabbed, ac cording to the information the sur geons gathered, jumped to the de ence of the veteran when the others closed in. Knives were out in a econd and the room was thrown into an nyroar. It was all over before the rest of the men in the room could get their breath and the men responsible for it had fled. ConfesSes Through Remorse. Tortured into sleeplessness by the knowledge that he had forged his employer's name to a check. H. D. Hendle, a sixteen-year-old youth of Cullman, Ala., surrendered himsell at the Fulton county tower Wednes day morning, with the request thai he be locked up. His guilty con science would not let him sleep, said the boy. Left Fortune to Work Utter weariness of being merely millionare is the reason John O'Brien of New York, Wednesday advancec in explination of his long absencE from the ken of his old friends He mysteriously vanished at the enc of his college year in 1910. He wa: found yesterday in Van Buren, Ark. where he is working as an assistan engineer for a railraad. . Auto Wreck Fatal. Samuel Stevens Sands, step-son o William K. Vanderbilt, was killed ii an automobile accident near Wes Hampton. L. I., Wednesday night The machine he was driving over turned when a tire burst. He livec only long enough to tell who he wa an oanuet that h!s wife be noti HONORS THE PASi REGULAR ARMY PATS TRIBUTE TI RESTING HEROES Of THE WAR OF SEEESSION As Forty-Eight Guns Sound Over Get tysburg Professional Soldiers and Volunteer Alike Stand in Solemn Silence to Pay Token of Respect to Fallen Warriors. The regular army paid tribute on Friday, July 4, to the thousands who sleep under the hills of Gettysb.urg. Somewhere down in the heart of the tented city a bugle sang out in silver sweet call that wandered over the field where Lee and Meade made his tory. The big flag before the head quarters of Gen. Liggett flashing in sudden curves of red, white and blue, glorious in the sunshine of a perfect July day, came slowly half way down the shaft. In front of the tent, shoulders squared, figure trim in summer uniform of white, face to wards the flag, the general clicked heels together and stood at attention. Somewhere the guns of the Third battery burst in staccato salute. Every officer over the length and breadth of the wide field, every en listed man, turned away from the du ties of the moment and faced the flag, heels alight with the sentiment of the hour. As the last gun of the forty-eight sent th' heroes clattering about Cemetery Ridge and Round Top there was solemn silence, the hush of ae. Old veterans who did not real ize, perhops, exactly at the beginning what was going on stood silent under the spell of the universal feeling that seemed to sweep the field. Even the clatter of pots and pans in the mess tents was hushed, and the yells of cooks about to dish up the midday meal lowered to whispers. For five minutes the camp was quiet. Then the bugle spoke again in notes more joyous. The silken flag leaped up the staff to its very pinnacle and the noises 40,000 men can make resum ed their sway. The regular army's tribute to the dead and to the flag of a united nation was paid. Only a few minutes before Presi dent Wilson had spoken in the big tent to the veterans in blue and gray, and only a short time afterwards thousands of those who were left be gan their preparations for departure. The president came into Gettys burg shortly .before 11 o'clock from Baltimore. Through the narrow. crooked streets of this war-famed country town he motored out to camp, with Gov. Tener of Pennsyl vania and Representative Palmer of Pennsylvania by his side. His ap pearance at the station of Gettys burg was the signal for a cheer and from down in the Gettysburg college grounds came the customary twenty one guns salute. From the s'ation to the camp over the village streets and gray roads the president was driven while the Pennsylvania consta bulary, looking business-like and effi cient in their slate-like gray uni forms, guarded his automobile and kept the traffic clear. At the entrance to the big tent the president paused for a moment to let the cameras pop away as he stood with head uncovered between a vet eran from either army. His entrance into the tent to the strains of "Hail to the Chief'' brought the .crowd, which estimates say numbered 10, 000, from their chairs with a cheer. The speakers' plaitform 'was filled with the staff officers of governors, with men in Confederate gray and a few in bl'ue, with women in gay dresses and the president in his black frock coat was a quiet figure. Gov. Tener introduced him in a dozen words. As he rose to speak there was another cheer. Fifty Year After. The New York World says "fifty years ago the most distinguished liv fought for three years under the dier who commanded the Confederate army at Gettysburg. To-day the most distinguished living son of Vir ginia is the President of the United States. "On the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States sits a grave and learned Chief Justice who was once a rebel soldier. With him sits an Associate Justice who served four years in the Union army and was three times wounded in three different battles. There sits also on that bench another Associate who wought for three years under the Stars and Bars." Yet Governor Blease says this is a Yankee Nation, and he wants as little to do with it as possible. Besides the men named above, thousands of oth er Southern men are holding high positions under the Democratic Ad ministration in Washington. These Southern men with other men from all parts of the country, make up the greatest government on earth. Call it a Yankee Nation, if you please. Democrats Economical. Uncle Sam closed the fiscal year 1913 with a surplus of $40,083,229, representing the excess of receipti over expenditures, exclusive of Pan ama canal and public debt transac tions. This exceeds last year's sur plus by $3,750,000. The Panama canal expenditures and public debt transactions, however, wiped out the surplus of ordinary receipts over or dinary expenditures and createda deficit for the year of $2,149,000. Bill to Pension Confederates. Congressman C. G. Edwards. of IGeorgia, introduced Tuesday a bill tc gront pensions to Confederate vet -erans and their widows at the rate o: RESOLUTION OF THANK PASSED BY CONFEDERATE VE' ERANS AT GETTYSBURG. To Pennsylvania and the Governme for Splendid Treatment--Pleds Utmost Loyalty to United States. At a meeting of the Confederal Veterans at Gettysburg the followin resolutions were unanimously adop ed: "Resolved, by the ex-Confederate at Gettysburg assembled that ou thanks are due and are hereby ter dered to the state of Pennsylvani for initiating the movement whic has made it possible for the survi ors of the two great armies whic fought in this illustrious field fift years ago, to meet in friendship her to-day and plant a monument c peace a monument which shall stan as the symbol of American valor manhood and brotherhood. "Resolved, that we thank the gol ernment of the United States for th magnificent and munificent. manne in which it has seconded the effort of the state of Pennsylvania in carry ing forward this great work of peac and fraternity between the blue an gray; and without any self-abasE ment whatsoever, we desire to real firm and pledge not only ourselves but all our brother ex-Confederate: and all the people of our loved Soutli land to the utmost loyalty to the gol ernment of the United States and t the flag of our country. "Resolved, that we take pride I: the fact that to the armies of th Confederacy is due the credit of de monstrating the utter impossibilit of the dismemberment of the Unli When we consider that 600,000 me of the very flower of chivalry, a good material as was ever organize in a fighting force, and directed b euch commanders as our belove Robert E. Lee and his lieutenant, in spired by a sectional devotion such a has not elsewhere been known I: history, failed to separate the state we see that the demonstration wa complete, that the thing was not t be done, and our failure must giv pause to those who in the. futur would contemplate . such an under taking." Democracy and Currency. For- many years and up to th time that Woodrow Wilson was elect ed President about a score of men Ii New York with J. Pierpont Morga1 at their head had in their power t< impound financial credit. Nobod: could borrow money for importan enterprise without tneir consent an if the proposed industry in' any wa: competes with their enterprises ni banker dare finance the new concern no matter how good the security The acquisition of the Tennessee Coa and Iron company by the street trus showed that certain men In Nei York could create a financial pani whenever they think it to their in terest to do so, and they can put al end to a panic whenever they hay accomplished their ends. There was the panic of 1907; was assuaged as soon as Theodor Roosevelt, then president of the Unit ed States, granted indulgence to th steel trust to violate the Shermal anti-trust law and .buy the Tennesse Coal and Iron company. You se the Tennessee Coal and Iron con cern made a better steel rail thal the steel trust could produce. Har riman ordered 40,000 tons of rail from the Tennessee Coal and Iro1 company. Whatever else he was Harriman was the best railroad mai in the United States in this-h would have the very best equipmet for his roads, regardless of cost That purchase of rails made the pani of 1907, for the mission of that pan Ic was to enable the steel trust to ge Tennessee Coal and Iron. .As soon a it acquired that rival, in defiance c law, and by permission of a Repubi can president of the United State: the panic was stopped. "Savoyar'd," a strong political writ e, says had we been blessed with sound banking system that allowel credit to be based on solvency ther would have been no panic of 1901 The Tennessee Coal and Iron con pany, instead of being the propert of the steel trust, would this momen be its rival. Moore & Schley foun themselves* loaded eown with Ten nessee Coal and Iron, and they coul get no money from the banks bridge them over the panic, thoug any number of capitalists would glac ly have come to their rescue had the: not been afraid of Morgan and Mo: gan's associates. That sort of thin is what Wilson is resolved to put a end to. He Is determined to fix it s that a few men can not make and ut make panics--SO that anybody wit adequate security and ordinary hoi esty can borrow money for any legi imate enterprise. 'Dropped Dead While Plowing Alfred Gunthrap, about 50 yearsc age, living in Blacksburg, droppe while in his field Thursday afternoo: Death was presumably due to he: prostration. Mr. Guntharp was tot constable at Blacksburg and we known. Gave Patient Acid Bath. Mrs. Emma Larason, sixty yea1 old, is dying at a sanitarium at Nev ark, 0., as the result of a carbol acid bath given her in mistake 1; the nurse In charge. The woma was barned from her neck to he Find Jewels in Depot. Over $98,000 worth of jewelr: stolen from the Fifth avenue firm< Udall & Ballou, of New York, w; found Wednesday in Pennslyvani railroad station in a valise. Governor Blease has found out the he can't bulldoze the United Statt War Department into doing his bit ding, a he thought. S AN UNUSUAL CASE e. MISTAKEN IDENTITY CAUSED BI TWO MISSING TOES. t Negro Almost Convicted at Bennetts e , ville When It Was Found That He Was Not the Man Wanted. e One of the most remarkable cases g of mistaken identity, caused by sim t ilar peculiarities, happened at Ben nettsville in the trial of Neal Davis, ;s alias Tom Hightower, for wife mur r der. In 1904 Tom Hightower, a-ne - gro man, murdered his wife in a a most brutal way, severing her arms h and limbs from her body, cutting her r- throat and otherwise brutally cutting h her. The different parts of the body y were buried at different places in a ,e bay. Tom Hightower made his es df cape. d Last February a negro who was r, raised in Marlboro county, was serv ing a sentence at Easley and !e re ported that another negro on the e gang at that place and at that time was Tom Hightower. The arrest was made and the negro who claimed to . be Neal Davis was brought to Ben e nettsville. The resemblance was d most striking. A striking feature of the resemblance was that Tom High tower had lost a great toe on the left foot, as had the prisoner. After being brought to Bennetts ville he gave his name as that of Neal Davis, stated that he was raised o in Pulaski county, Georgia, - gave names of citizens of that communi ty - e Several negroes in this county who had worked with Tom Hightower , and knew him intimately, swore posi tively that the defendant on trial was Tom Hightower, one of them using s the expression, "If that Is not Tom d Hightower, he is in Tom Hightower's y Hide." Two white men who also d knew Hightower well, testified that the defendant was Hightower. Two s chaingang guards from Pickens coun ty had been brought to Bennettsville by the State, and they testified that s Davis had told them he had murder s ed his wife, that he had cut up her e body and buried it in different places. e The defence sought to weaken this testimony by showing that these two witnesses made no reference to the confession when the sheriff went to Easley for the prisoner, and that e they said nothing about it until some time afterwards, when all of the facts had .been published in the daily pa a pers. The State had also brought two witnesses from Georgia. These two men talked to Davis, and testified that they were satisfied beyond all doubt that the prisoner was not Tom Hightower, but that he was Neal Davis; that he worked under them on their plantation several years to 1904 and left there In 1904. Tom t Hightower had -been in that county and section several years prior to the killing of his wife in 1904. . The missing toe of Hightower's f-oot was cut off irregularly and rag e gedly, and not smoothly. The state. ment of Dr. Crosland was that the t toe on the negro's foot had been am e putated by a skilled surgeon, and . that It was as fine a piece of sur a geary of the kind as he had ever seen. It was altogether smooth. Two e other witnesses .testified positively e that the defendant was not Tom . Hightower. After being out a few aminutes the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. aENCASED IN CONCRETE. Brakeman in Wreck Lands in Sand, e| Cement and Water. .|During the heavy downpour of rain c at Magnolia, W. Va., on the Balti - more and Ohio railroad, several cars t of a frelight train were derailed. Two s cars one containing sand and the f othe~r cement, were crushed together, -and in the midst of the wreckage, , Brakeman Henry Blogge was pinned by the mass of cement, sand and broken cars. Blogge had been rid a ling on top of the car of cement when C Ithe accident occurren. e It was several hours after the acci .dent .before Blogge regained con sciousness. Then he found that he Y was incased in wet cement and sand, t which formed concrete. d Blogge's head, shoulders and arms .were clear of the solid mass, but he d could not ertricate himself because of the wreckage piled on him. After several attempts athe Imprisoned man -attracted the attention of members Y of the wrecking crew clearing away -the debris and they made an attempt g to relieve him. c It was many hours before they 0 were able to get to him. By this time Sthe concrete had set and Blogge was h encased tightly in the solid mass. SAfter several efforts to break up :the immense mass of concrete twc heavy cranes on the wreck train lift* ed it aboard a car. The incased man was taken to the Martinsburg shop, if where the concrete was broken under d a steam hammer and Blogge rescued 1. from his peculiar position. n Vaughan Must Die. 11 T. U. Vaughan, former superinteni dent of the Odd Fellows' orphanage at Greenville, who at his trial in Greenville confessed to having crimai s nally mistreated young girls under . his care, and who was condemned tc e die by electrocution on December 30, y but appealed his case to the supremE *n court in a decision announced Mon sr day afternoon by the supreme couri will have to pay the supreme penalt: of the law. Suffragists Not Encouraged. ~fA committee of suffragists called t on Speaker Champ Clark, Majorit: a Leader Underwood and Chairmat Henry, of the House committee Wed nesday to urge the creation of it standing committee on woman sf s frage in the House. It is said the: 1 received little encouragement 'trou the Democratic1eaders. ILSON'S SPEECH PRESIDENT DELIVERS INSPIRING ADDRESS TO VETERANS 'ASKS NATION TO SERVE Shows That the Present Time Needs 8 Sacrifice and Valor in as True a s Sense as Was Needed Fifty Years Ago-Appeals to All Right-Minded t Men for Aid. t A call to service for the reunited I nation that Friday through its regu lar army paid tribute to the fallen heroes of Gettysburg, blue and gray, was the dominant note of the speech of Woodrow Wilson, president of the a United States, at tht semi-centennial c reunion on the field where fifty years c ago the North and South strove for s the mastery. The struggle for su premacy, said the president was for gotten, except for the priceless mem ories of heroism. Still, said the na tion's head, there exist opportunity and need for service to the nation which produced the men who faced death and pain on the stricken field s fifty years ago. a The president said: "Friends and Fellow Citizens: I need not tell you what the battle of t Gettysburg meant. These gallant a men in blue and gray sit all about us here. Many of them met here upon this ground in grim and deadly strug gle. Upon these famous fields and C hillsides their comrades 'died about c them. In their presence it were an impertinence to discourse upon how the battle went, how it ended, what it signified! But fifty years have gone by since then, and I crave the c privilege of speaking to you for a few minutes of what those fifty years b have meant. "What have they meant? They a have meant peace and union and vig- a or and the maturity and might of a r great nation. How wholesome and t' healing the peace has been! We - have found one another again as t brothers and comrades in arms, ene- p mies no longer, generous friends a rather, our battles long pr.st, the s quarrel forgotten-except that we ia shall not fotget the splendid valor, u the manly devotion of the men then arrayed against one another, now t grasping hands and smiling into each c: other's eyes. How complete the uni- b on has become and how dear to all , of us, how unquestioned, how be nign and majestic, as State after b State has been added to this our great family of free men! How handsome the vigor, the maturity, t] the might of the great nation we d love with undivided hearts; how full I of large and confident promise that a life will be wrou'ght out that- will crown its strength with gracious jus- d tice and with a happy welfare that Ii will touch all alike with deep con- t tentment! We are debtors to those t ifty crowded years; they have made us heirs to a mighty heritage. d "But do we deem the nation corn-v plete and finished? These venerable men crowding here to this famous d field have set us a great example of devotion and utter sacrifice. They d were willing to die that the people b might live. -But their task is done. Their day is turned into evenng-. , They look to us to perfect what they tl established. Their work is handed on to us, to be done in another way t but not in another spirit. -Our day c is not over; It is upon us in full tide. t "Have affairs paused? Does the nation stand still? Is 'what fifty years have wrought since those days of battlefield finished, rounded out,c and completed? Here is a great pee- d ple great with every force that has ev'r beaten in the lifeblood of man kind. And it is secure. There is no one within its borders, there is no power among the nations of the earth, to make it afraid. But has it yet squared itself with its own great s standards set up at Its birth, when It made that first noble, naive appeal to the moral judgment of mankind ~ to take notice that a government had now at last ibeen established which was to serve men, not matters? It Is ~ secure In everything except the satis- a faction that its life is right, adjustedc to the uttermost :to the standards of righeousness and humanity. The days of sacrifice and cleansing are0 not closed. We have harder things t to do than were done in the heroic days of war, .because harder to see clearly, requiring more vision, more cairn balance of judgment, a mnor e candid searching of the very springsr of right. "Look around you upon the field of Gettysburg! Picture the array,t the fierce heats and agony of battle, t column hurled against column, .bat- r tery bellowing to battery! Valor?. Yes! Greater no man shall see in war; and self-sacrifice, and loss to the uttermost; the high recklessness of exalted devotion which does not count the cost. We are made by these tragic, epic thiings to know1 what it costs to make a nation-the blood and sacrifice of multitudes of1 unknown men lifted to a great stat ure in the view of all generations by knowing no limit to their manly will Ingess to serve. In armies thus marshalled from the ranks of free men you will see, as it were, a nation embattled, the leaders and the led, and may know, if you will, how little except in form its action differs in days of peace from its action in days I of war. "May we break camp now and be at ease? Are the forces that fight for I the nation dispersed, disbanded, gone I to their homes forgetful of the com -mon cause? Are out forces disor -ganized, 'without constituted leaders ~.and the might of men consciously1 -united .because we contend, not withi Sarmies, but with 'principalities and1 powers and wickedness in high1 plae. Are we content to lie still?1 WALLED UP IN HOUSE OUNG GIRL SEALED ALIVE IN STONE-ENCLOSED TOMB. Liter Tearing Off Blindfold Mason Was Compelled at Point of Pistol to Complete the Job. The identity and fate of a young irl who was walled up and left to ie in a building near Barcelona, pain, has caused the Spanish auuxor :ies to institute a rigid investigation. 'he affair was made public through he statement made by Esteban Gut -rrez, a stone-mason, who tells a tirilling story of how he was com elled, at the point of a revolver, to o the work. Guelerrez declares that, after he ad advertised in. a newspaper for rork, two well-dressed, men called t his address and asked him to ac- 1 ompany them In a motor car into the 1 ountry a short distance to make Dme urgent repairs. Reaching a dense woods on the I utskirts of the city, the two men I nd a chauffeur seized, bound and lindfolded the stonemason, and a 1 -w minutes later the car stopped in 1 ront of a lonsely house. The mason declares he was led in ide and ordered to wall up a narrow 1 perture the stone and mortar being 1 readiness. Gutierrez says he 1 eard some one sobbing, and, tearing tie bandage from his eyes, he saw young girl, bound with ropes and 1 redged in the aperture. He was promptly knocked down by is captors, and when he arose, was E rdered to build a wall so as to en lose the girl, and when he refused ! ras threatened with revolvers. The E iason declares that, at the points of ! tie guns, he was compelled to wall E p the young girl after which the 1 ar conveyed him to a woods several I iles away, where he was unbound, C iven $20 in silver and warned not - > speak of the Incident. Lost, he 4 randered several hours before he C 'as discovered by a woodsman, and, 1 -aching Barcelona, he went at once the police. - oes our union mean sympathy, our eace contentment, ou' vigor right ction, our maturity self-comprehen ion and a clear confidence in choos ig what we shall do? War fitted s for action, and action never ceases. "I have been chosen the leader of ie nation. I can not justify the t oice by any qualities of my own, ut so it has come about and here I and. Whom do I command? The hostly hosts who fought upon these attlefields long ago and are gone? hese gallant gentlemen stricken in ears whose fighting days are over, ieir glory won? What are the or ers for them, and who rallies them? have in my mind another host, hom these set free of civil strife in rder that they might work out in ays of peace and setled order the fe of a great nation. That host is xe people themselves, the great and re small, without class or difference f kind or race or origin; and un ivided in interest, If we have but the Ision to guide and direut them and rder their lives aright In what we o. Our constitutions are their arti les of enlistment. The orders of the ay are the laws upon our statute ooks. What we strive for is their eedom, their right to lift themselves rom day to day and behold the xings they have hoped for, and so iake way for still better days for iose whom they love who are to xme after them. The recruits are e little children crowding in, The uartermaster's stores are in the lnes and , factories. Every day mething must be done to push the mpagn forward; and it must be one by plan and with an eye to me great destIny. "How shall we hold such thoughts our hearts and not be moved. I2 'ould not have you live even to-iday s holly in the past, but would wish to 1 tand with you in the light that breams upon us now out of that reat day gone by. Here is the na .on God has builded by our hands. that shall we do with It? Who bands to act again and always in the pirit of this day of reunion and hope nd patriotic fervor? The day of our untry's life has but broadened into orning. Do not put uniforms by. I ut the harness of the present daya n. Lift your eyes to the great tractsi f life yet to be conquered In the In- 1 irest of righteous peace, of thati rosperity which lies in a people's earts and outlasts all wars and 4 rrors of men. Come, let us be comn ades and soldirs yet to serve our llow men in quiet counsel, where ie blare of trumpets is neither eard nor heeded and where the mings are done which make blessed e nations of the world in peace and ighteousness and love."t Chinaman Dies at Age of 150. Dr. Cho Choy, late of China and uba, died at the Ellis Island Immi ration Station, New York, Monday1 i his hundred and fiftieth year. He ied for fifty years in his native md and claimed to have spent near ir 100 years in Cuba 'practicing med :ine among the Chinese there, rhere he acquired ' considerable realth.1 ' I* Gets Large Damages. Two hundred and fifty thousand tollars and all the costs of the suit is he price the Marquis of Northamp on has agreed to pay to settle the uit for' breach of promise brought .gainst him by the London actress, Iiss Daisy Markham, whose real Lame is Violet Moss. City Runs Ice Houses. Seven non-union ice plants seized y order of Mayor Hunt, of Cincin iati, were operated Thursday by the xoard of health in an effort to relieve :he suffering caused by the strike of PICKETT'S CHARiE IEENACTED BY CONFEDERATES ON CEMETERY RIDGE. RECEIYED WITH CHEERS By the Old Defenders, a Philadelphia Brigade, When They Reach the Stone Wall-Grays Climb Over to Shake Hands and Halk of the Days That Were. A handful of men in gray re-en acted Thursday the charge of Pickett cross the field of Gettysburg. Up the slope of Cemetery ridge, where leath. kept step with them in '63, L50 veterans of the Virginia regi nents of that immortal brigade nade their slow parade. Under the brow of the ridge in the )loody angle, where the Philadelphia >ridge was a handful in blue, scarce y larger waited to meet the on laught of peace. There were no lashing sabres, no belching guns, on y eyes that dimmed fast and kindly 'aces .behind the stone wall 'that narks the angle. At the end,' In )lace of wound or prison or death, 'ere handshakes, speeches and ming ing cheers. The veterans in gray marched for . quarter of a mile over the ground hat they traversed during the :arge. They came up the slope In ,olumn of fours, irregular but re ;ponsive to the commands of Maj. W. W. Bentley of the Twenty-four Vir ;lnia, one of the few officers of eith ar Pickett's or the Philadelphia bri rades present. Ahead of them march .d a band and well down' the column was a faded Confederate flag, its red lIeld pierced with many holes, its :ross bars dim and its shaft colored with the sweat of many a man who lied that it might fly high in the last esperate effort to pierce the Union Ines. Its progress was slow and painful or the timothy in the field was high nd its plowed surface was not easy or weady feet, Up to the very edge >f the stone wall, covered now with angled vines, shaded by trees and eaceful as a summer lane, they narched in the hot sun while the and played "Dixie". There they stood for half an hour while their :omrades in blue peered across at hem. The blue line formed- behind the all. Overhead floated a faded stand Lrd of the Second army corps. Behind hem were the statutes of the Phila telphia brigade and the Fourth Unit !d States battery where Gen. Arm stead died. As the men In gray formed in a ong line facing the wall, the Stars Lnd Bars and the fl.g of the Second orps were crossea in amity; the tars .and Stripes were unfurled and he crowd that came to watch burst nto a cheer. Reiresentative J. Iampton Moore, of Pennsylvania, nade a long speech and Maj. Bent ey answered him on behalf of the outh. The. veterans in gray were ;iven a medal provided by John Wan iamaker. They crowded over the tone wal, shook aan4s and the harge was over. There was many a >icturesque figure in the line that :ame up the slope. . W. H. Turpin of he Fifty-third Virginia appeared in he uniform he wore on the day of he charge. His feet were bound in lth, he had an army .blanket strap ied to his back and he calmly smok d a long stemmed corn cob pipe. There were fifteen regiments in ~ickett's division that day in '63, and he histories say that 5,000 men harged across the field. Every field ffier was killed or wounded except ne lieutenant colonel and two-thirds f the line officers met the same fate. )f the 5,000 who charged, only about 000 returned to the Confederate po 'tion. The Philadelphia lbrigade num- 2 ered about 1,200 men and lost 453 n killed and wounded. BOY KILLED MOTHER foung Man Arrested for Serious Crime at Abbeville. On Wednesday at about 6. ojelock n the afternoon one Ben Ashworth it Calhoun F'alls was accused of kill ng his mother and was arrested and >rought to the county jail at A'be rile that night.. The jail was well uarded as a lynching was threaten d. The boy is about 20 years of age. Ashworth himself asserts that the rent home drunk and that his moth r asked, "Are you drunk again?" Lnd that he replied "Yes." Then he aims that his mother remarked that 'You are going to cause me to kill nyself," and at once reached under he bed, pulled out a pistol and tried 0 shoot herself in his effort to pre rent her the pistol was discharged rnd the bullet entered her brain. It is said that the boy and his fa her have been on a drunk nearly a rear and that there is some doubt as o the truthfulness of the boy's sto Refuses Requisition A dispatch from Augusta says it ecame known there Wednesday ight that the governor of South Car lina, just prior to Gov. Brown going ut of office, returned to Atlanta the requisition papers asking for the -de ivery to Georgia authorities of Moye 0. Dowling, who was cashier. of the defunct Citizens' bank. Negro Customs Deputy Removed Qickly heeding the protest of Brunswick. Ga.. citizens against the~ placing of Eugene R. Belcher, a ne gro, in the position of deputy cus toms collector in charge of the port . of Brunswick, Secretary McAdoo, of the treasury department, Monday re voked Beicher's designation and nam ed . Ii Johnson as deputy collector.