The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, July 09, 1913, Image 1
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.