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VOLUMB XXI. CAMDEN, 8. C., FRIDAY, MAY ??, 1910. NO. 16. AUTOGRAPH LETTER Of PRESIDENT JEFFEBSON DAVIS. Written July 25,1881, Touching "Secession at a Right and Remedy." The letter of President Davis which follows touches upou the vital issue of lMU, J? answer to an luqulry made by'one who wa? called at that time to answer questions by the J? twentv Roanoke Col l ego In regard to national questions under the Constitution. !l?'ld as a pilvatw 1 fairly eight years, It Is now placed before the public as worthy of publication because of the Iseue It me and judicially. It Is worthy of the great man whose merits are being more and mom appreciavaa. tjUg^L ^<..//// ^ /? ?+y~j 0h*y Pc??- <^f? ?y# ??y ^#W? ^v?v/~ #?Ci sj t >*?* /k/< XT" ^#IVr ?? * ta -4? ^<y . HUC*. .?C?OC> ?*.i.??^ /< <r*i>? 1/i^t flCn? >? ti. J ^ V tyi^ ^ /l6*? >VV ?4.?u ? ?* h? a ^"?I ?<. v^#.? 1^ ^rWtvD #1Go My ?yA4a?v^l4tSC ?h^ +4- 4U </* t^> *4 ^AM f ^>??><^ Ay . wtd.?. y J#* <??? i> ? 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In many of our small towns and village*; the custom of bearing flowers ^o the graves of our dead soldiers began spontaneously. I remember that In the first years after the war we were accustomed on that day to drive to the cemetery In our old family carryall, loaded with wreaths of cedar and glossy magnolia leaves, made on long, pliant wlllcw branches; plied, too; with sprays of dogwood and buBhels of wild purple pansles and dog-tooth violets from the valley of tho Oostanaula, and crab-apple and penoh-blosaoms from the fields. The old carryall was an^ arbor of fragrnnoe, all its old ribs and worn wheels hidden in pink and whlto blossoms. Yet howeveV heavily we went loaded to the cemetery, we never bad flowers enough for all the graves, there were so many of them. Always there would be found one more grave, In somo far corner, still bare of floral tributes; and my fsther, himself ft lame veteran of Lee's army, would call to ub to fetch another armful. If we said there were po more, he al-. ways bade us divide those on the other graves and make up what seemed an equal "honor" for the neg lected one. There was one grave, however? not In the cemetery, but down under the magnolias by the fence. In the ex treme corner of our grounds at Bprlngbank?which for many years no one of ub ever dreamed of decor ating with flowers. ?And You Have^Done ThU^ThcM Flower* In truth,, we children never went near the ?pot. Only In low, awed ~ ton? or whispers did ire ersr speak of It?"the Yankee's crave!" For In ?II those sad old day*, after Sher man's devastating march through ' Georgia, the name Yankee was to na something far more terrible than that of Indian; tt^was (hf^nonym for desolstlon and grief. ^ la my childish thoughts, too, the word was even mere dreadful. On the day before the battle al Wood lands, four mllos from Sprlngbank, a troop of Northern cavalry had halted at our plac* to water their horeee, Md several troopers cams Into the house. My mother put ub children In the parlor and hastily locked the door; bat the windows stood open wide, and with chlldlBh curiosity I had toddled forward and stood under the high sash, watching the horses. One of the cavalrymen crossed the p(a*za, and before I could run away, he caught me up and kissed me! To A NEW MEMORIAL TO THE PRE8 IDENT OF THE CONFEDERACY. J?ff?rson Davis Is here portrayed In an emotional role, with one hand rest ing on the open book of history. The statue is by Edward Valentine, and was dedicated recently In Richmond. this day I seem to hear hi* words, "You little dear! You are the very Image of my little sister Rosy!" For years afterward, whenever my brothers or younger slater Josephine wished -especially to humiliate or plague me, they would point the fin ger of s^orn and cry, "A Yankee kissed you! A Yankee kissed you!" It may possibly have been the same ybung trooper, although that Is un likely, whom, after the skirmish and battle across the fields, our old house servant, Uncle Joe, found near the fence down by the magnolias, jjfcpt through the lungs, mortally wounded and unconscious. As I was but thref at the time, I retain of course, but 4 confused reool lection of the fight,, the shouting and yelling outside,, the burning barns, the awful sounds of the firing and the well-nigh frantlo fears of my mother for our safety. Kelley's brigade of Misslsslppians was formed across the road and across our plantation; the enemy was repulsed, and fell back to Woodlands, leaving a number of their dead and wounded. But these were all taken away |hat night exoept this cavalry man, who was overlooked, and whom our old colored man found down there by the fence the following even lid,; He died during the night, and Uncle Joe brought to my mother a silver watoh with the Initials "J. W." In the back of the hunting-case, and a small seal ring engraved with coronet and two crossed spears. All the men of otjr household, as well as our neighbors; were with the Southern army. There was no one to cailipon;we were evjn in stfalts for food. Nor was there a horee or mule or a cart left us. Down there by the fenoe. under the magnolias. Uncle Joe burled the body. And that, in brief, was thejlprT of the Yankee'. During all thoee first years follow ing the war?so embittered and ter tt??f ? ijiiiimiiiiii own b^ the magnolias waa a .. ? ? - such as oars. I think It was on the day before Memorial Day, 1876, that as we prepared our floral tributes for the cemetery, my mother stole quietly away from the group on the plassa, and taking a handful of blos soms, bent her steps to that solitary little mound under the magnolias. In wonder our eyes followed her, and when she returned, Josephine ex claimed: ' "Why, mother, where have .vou been?" "I^et us hope, children, that pome where In the North, kindly hearts are doing the same for our own name less graves there?for your Uncle Pinckney and Cousin Will Qresham," she replied, gently. We were too much surprised to an swer. r~" Afterward, no Memorial <Day Vwas allowed to pass that some one of us did not rake off that little mound and freshen It with a few flowers. So the years passed till 1883. That we should ever know anything fur ther concerning this little grave un der the magnolias seemed Improbable. It was merely one of so many*thou sands of nameless graves, South and North. T That spring of 1883, a8 it chanced, my Bister and I were at home from Savannah. My widowed Aunt Lena, too, from Atlanta, was visiting us. It was the evening of April 28, two days after our Memorial Day, when all save the bouquets In Jars and glasses had withered on the graves. The afternoon had been very warm. We were sitting out in the piazza, to enjoy^ the approaching coolness ot owning and hear the mocking-bird* and whlppoorwllls. Presently there came to our ears the rattle of an approaohlng vehicle; and slowly the decrepit old carriage at the railroad-station, which served arriving travelers, oame tolling to our gate. ? "Who can our visitor pdssibly be?" was the thought In all our minds, for living friends were now few. A lady In mourning stepped down, with an air of uncertainty, and came MISS WINNIE DAVIS. up the walk. With hospitable intent, my mother descended the steps to meet her. "It this the home of Mrs. Lelghf" the stranger asked. "I am Mrs. Leigh," my mother re piled. "Will you come in?" "1 am Mm. Warrenton from? from New England," the stranger said. "I fear I may not be welcome. My motire for coming to you is a strange, sad one." She paused, with K-little catch in bar. tolce. "You are yery welcome," my mother caplled, gravely. Josephine set out a comfortable chair: L The..itrang?^.jMgted heraelf, and ?tt*r a pause, spoke again: "".v* f "I do indeed hope that the ques tion I ui obliged to ask will stir no hnirieaaint msrnortee of a past which we who have Buffered deelrs of all forget My brother and son both fell in the terrible war/* Rhe Rlanced pathetically at my moth* er's face. "They were, of coeroe. on my son traa with 8herm*n'n armj^ and wee finally reported missing? aa< that is aii I hare eter been able to learn." Mr?. Warj-onton paused again, to chock faat-coinInK tears. "I know positively \ that ho was atlre at Dalton," alio continued. "After that I can loam nothing, llut a mother's heart craves more; and still In the hope of learning some thing as to his fate, 1 havo Journeyed South on this sad quest. At the house of a family near Kingston they told me of the uuldentlfled grave of a Federal soldier on your estate. "I have been to ao many unidenti fied graves," the poor mother added, "that hope has nearly failed me. l)ut tell me, have you, had you, any clue, or were there any circumstances that would?aid me to know?" My mother, greatly touched, could hardly summon heart to tell her; but Aunt Lena Interposed, "(lave you reaaon to think that your son carried a plain silver watch, marked Inside the case with the Initials J. W.?" she asked. "Yes, yes!" cried our visitor, eager ly. "The school watch I gave him on his sixteenth birthday! Those wore his Initials?Jerome Warrcnton." In our growing excitement wo were now all on our feet, gathering about her. "And did he we*"* rtr 1 ' . ger ?*-' *'? llttlo fln >>*? ? wjignel ring, with a corOnot and ^crossed spears?" my aunt asked, quickly. "Oh, It was ho! It wan be!" Mrs. Warrenton cried aloud. "That Is tho creat of my own family,"' she ex plained. "O my poor boy! My poor boy! And have you the watch and the ring? And his grave?Is it far to go?" Too much affected to reply, my mother roue silently mid brought forth those sud mementoes of the terrible past; and then we turned away Instinctively from a grief too sacred for tho eyes of strangers. ? A little later, Just as the sun was setting, my sister and I led the way to the little mound under tho magnolias, my mother holding our visitor's hand. Nor had the bouquets of pansles, placed there two dayB before, as yet wholly withered. It was when, through her tears, her eycB fell on these flowers that tho last traces of Mrs. Warrenton's reservo vanished. "And you have done this?these flowers?for my son! For my poor dead boy!" she cried Impulsively, and threw her arms about my mother's nack. In truth, a common sorrow makes sisters of up jfcjfc and It was thus, at last, that "the Yankee's grave" was ?identified;? ? JS~f'K Mrs. Warrenton remained with ua for nearly a fortnight, and at the end of her visit ehanged her first Intention TO A imUMMKll BOY. BY R. W. QRI/.ZARIt, UHUMVKJ.K, KT. The robina nont In fair rave Hill And gfntle nonhyra blow Where wieep botn bravea of blue and gray?? Soldier* of long The hIhIim tiro white, the HUiiMhine'a bright, The turf iu light und green - . Nobler aire* nor braver noldier The worhl hau never wen. Hani by I/>uiuviUe'ti uny, bunding atre?U, Where grim Death beam hi* own, Where dwell the dead in their long Bleep, The Keaper ha? hi* throne; And there upon a cloudlet* duy 1 paused boaide a tomb To dwell in thought on life and death In that lone place of gloom. Many deep-wrought inscriptions there On Berried grave stone# gleamed; Hut of them all none held my eye Nor to my fancy seemed 80 fraught with love's tender tribute, tSo tense with woe to come, Ah that which simply told but this: "Hoy, we muss thee at home." Long years have flown since he went forth ' To live u soldier's life; The atone that marks his resting placo Tells he fell in the Btrife. Gone now the friends who vigils kept \Vhcro his young feet did roam, But biding through all the years thl?? "Hoy, wo miss thee at homy.'"' ?Confederate Veteran. Lee nn<1 Arlington. After all, It Is at Arlington, on tho Potomac, that tho present-day visitor 1b most vividly reminded of General Leo and the life ho loved go well. This beautiful estate?now a national cem etery, where 16,000 Union nnd Con federate soldiers are burled?Is lo cated opposite the city of Washington, and It was here, as has been ox A VIEW OF ARLINGTON ON THE POTOMAC. of having her son's remains removed and re-interred In the North. "If I were to do that, dear friends," she said to us, "I should feel that I was breaking this dear new bond of friendship which, born of a common sorrow, has grown ^ip between us. Here, where heaven moved your hearts to lay flowers on his grave? here let him rest; and I, if you will permit me, shall come to his grave." And every spring, since that first sad pilgrimage to us, Mrs. Warren ton Journeys southward to pass a few weeks at Springbank, and be near the grave of her son on Memorial Day.? Youth's Companion. The Place Pop It. An old Scotswoman Was advised by her minister to take snuff to keep herself awake during the sermon. She answered briskly, "Why dlnna ye pu' the snuff in the sermon, mon?" plained, that General Lee spent all the happiest years of his life. No person can visit this splendid domain,. with its magnificent trees, Its pano rama of the river winding like a sil ver ribbon in the distance, and Jts quaint mansion rendered distinctive in appearance by massive Doric col umns and not gain a new conception of the matchless peace and cbarm and restful content of the life on the old baronial estates of tbe South in the halcyon days before the war. The stately Arlington mansion, whieh was modeled after the Temple of Thesus at Athens, was erected in 1804. It Is ot brick, covered with stucco, and with its two wings has a frontage of .moro than 140 feet. The grand portico is sixty feet In width and twenty-five feet in depth. Fea tures of the manor house are tbe rem nants of thoold decorations, includ ing the hunting scene fresco, which was painted by General Lee's father in-law* Mr. Custls, who, with his wife, Is burled in a quiet nook In tbe woods on the Potomac, their graves being marked by plain marble shafts. This historic home Is In bn excellent atate of preservation and visitors are shown all the apartments of cspeclal inter est, including tbe room In whfch Gen eral Lee was married. There is no record that General Lee ever returned to Arlington after the war, although the veteran servants at the mansion baVe ion? been wont to declare most steadfastly that "Colonel Rob" was seen about dusk one evening slowly riding through the grounds in com pany with Oeneral Grant, and pre sumably bidding a last farewell to his old horiae.?Waldon Fawcett. Farming Without Capital. It is absurd to expect that the small farmer, alooie among -rsmalt men, should achieve success without capital. With capital all is possible; wltbwi# U ouly the exceptional1 n Is likely to be heard of.?-Estates Gs < Germany is freely imitating Amer ican pasterns in the jnantffacture of (arm implement. aVl .. machinery, though America* harvests? still pro - - . ?, * CUMMINS RATE PROPOSAL BEATEN IN SENATE Amendment For Approval of Traf fic Agreements Lost PHYSICAL VALUATION IN HOUSE Beveml Itrgiilnra Join Iimurgrnta nnd Democrats hi rutting Through La rollefie llullrond VUn?IUg uUrt StJll Hold Control* Washington, D. O.?The Cummins Amendment to the Administration Railroad bill, providing that truffle agreements, with the rates mid classi fication!! made under them, must he approved by tho Inter-State Com inoroe Commission before going Into effect, was defeated in the Sonato bv a vote of 29 to 35. The vote demon atruted thnt tho regulars have a safe though not a very wide margin for heading off insurgent amendments. At the same time, at the other end of the Capitol tho House Insurgents #%tieared to have It all their own ^ Fol'ette plan for way,'and m* A*r-.n? physical valuation, wifvi.. 1/1 I CiiaiiCO iii tho acuata, n?S ISCOfpOr ated In the bill as an amendment. It Is now apparent that by tho time the llallroad bill is passed by tho two houses separately It will have bccome two bills instead of one. The meas ures are dally getting further and fur ther apart, and even when the House measure came from Mr. Mann's com mltteo It was quite different from the measure reported by Senator Elklns, In the 8enate flght the roll call showed eleven Insurgent Republican Votes In favor of the Cummins substi tute for the mild Crawford amend ment, which Chairman Elklns had al ready accepted for the committee. Tho Insurgents were Beverldge, of Indiana; Borah, of Idaho; Brlstow, of Kansas; Burkett. of Nebraska; Clapp, of Minnesota; Cummins, of Iowa; Dixon, of Montana; Dolllver-, of Iowa; Gamble, of South Dakota; La Fol lette, of Wisconsin, and NelBon, of Minnesota. This list of eleven makes about tho full number of Insurgents as ordina rily available In the tariff flght. The fact that some of them should bo found In the Insurgent column, how ever, Indicates the force of the cry -from homo for progressive legisla tion. 'Mr, Burkett has never been regular in his insurgent tendencies, and he Is up for re-election next fall. Mr. Gamble and Mr. Dixon are also far from straight-out- Insurgents, though their torms have still some years to run. 'All the Democrats present ^oted solidly with the insurgents, and all tho pairs that were.recorded showed the same tendency. Four Democrats were absent without pairs, however, and had they been present and voted with their party the defeat of the amendment would hnvo been by the narrow margin of two votes. The unpaired absentees were Senator Smith, of Maryland: Bankhead, of Alabama; Clarke, of Arkansas, and McEnery, of Louisiana. Mr. Smith has been at home 111 for some time. 18 PLYMOUTH ROCK A MYTH? President Lowell Also Questions Au thenticity of Washington Elm, Cambridge, Mass.?President Low ell, of Harvard University, address ing three thousand school teachers of greater Boston, questioned the exist ence of Washington elm and Ply mouth Hock, He was speaking about entertain ing President Taft and the visitors who will attend the convention of the National Educational Association on July 2 in a hospitable manner. He said the convention would be a failure if the entertainment commit tee only showed the Chief Executive places like Plymouth Rock, if there is a Plymouth Rock, and the Wash ington elm, if Washington had any thing to do with the Washington elm. TO PROSECUTE! BUCKET SHOPS. Attorney Robbing, of Chicago, Rc? tnined nu Assistant, Washington, D. C.?Attorney-Gen eral Wickersham retained the ser vicea of Henry S. Robblns, of Chica go, as special conned In connection with the prosecution of the bucket shops. Robbing is the attorney of the Chi cago Board of Trade and has devoted much time and attention to the prep aration of legislation on and prose cutions against bucket shops id Illi nois and the Middle Western States, and Is said to be qualified exception ally to assist in the effective prosecu tion of them. TOLD HER ACE TO CENSUS MAN. Bat It Took Warrant and the Police to Make Woman Do It. Richmond, Va.?It took a warrant, a pojice officer and ? United States commissioner to make Miss Elite Pet tlcolas tell frer age to the censue man. Miss Pettlcolaa declared she wouldn't, slammed the door In the census roan's face and fled to tb? postmaster for aid. A warrant was Iscued, and iWtg United Btates Commissioner Brady told her ther? was a prospect of a heavy fine and a jail sentence If the didn't answer Miss Pettlcolaa tear Rhode Island Hits A- resolution iBmm&s* nTT'i.1 Tiv i MfnfT)^ 'i'r< "% NEW RECOJDJ COTTOH Dealers Transfer 200,000 Gales Worth $15,000,000. Culmination of (irenteit Deal la Ills* lory of World's Murkela UnnccotM* pan led by Exciting Hcencs. New York City.?A now world'* record for the actual transfer of "spot" cotton was established on th? New York Cotton Exchange when ths ? long-talked-of May deal of the Pat ten-Brown-Hayne-8cale? pool was brought to a head. Within an hour after the market opened "spot" houses tendered to tb# hulls 2 00,000 hales of cotton on con tract. The bull leaders were prepared for the emergency. Every bale tendered was accepted. Cash settlement for all the cotton tendered on May con tract will be made. To finance the deal $15,000,000 will be required. Although the flood of delivery no tices cttmo upon the bulls in enor mous volume, the conditions on the Exchange were in no way perturbed. No more excitement than usually characterizes routine affairs was lift evidence. May went up thirty points and then iira?Hcted. Speculative months rose i CiV *? *After thv first nine to hour the bulls receiveuTlb tlceB and it was evident then that thfc bears had reached the limit of their available supply. It was not learned Just how much May cotton the bull crowd contracted for. They assert that they are pre pared to take over all of their cotton," and according to the Exchange rules the sellers had until the last of May to deliver. It is against this group of bull op erators in cotton that the Govern ment Is proceeding, on the ground that they have been engaged in a combination to buy up all the avail able supply of raw cotton of the 1809 1910 crop, thereby monopolising the staple and causing the prlco to rite to an abnormal price. * Jamea A. Patten, of CffTCStgU? who was here to look after the details of his May deal, said that, as^far as he was concerned, there would* be no "corncr," and that he was confident there would be no trouble resulting from the May deals. < SMITH'S WOMAN FRIEND JCNOWlf. folding Red Victim's Family Re cog. nlzes Description. Lee, Mass.?The identity 1* known of the handsome woman who vu with Wellington Smith when hit neck was broken by the closing up of a folding bed in a furnished rOora house in West Twenty-third street, New York City, The family qf the wealthy paper manufacturer recognise the descrlp* tlon of Smith's companionas that of a well-to-do unmarried New York woman, long a friend pf Smith* Whom he called "Anna/' She usually passes the summers Jn Lee. The family, It Is said, will not dt?>, close the woman's name. Smith's body arrived here In charge of the son Augustus. Mrs. Ralph, the boarding-house keeper, said the couple had been there before, occupying the aame room. She Is described as good look ing, well preserved, with broiftl eyat and hair streaked With gray, KERN. TO BEAT BEVBKIPGB. * Indorsed by Democratic Convention of Indian* nt fndianapolle. i Indianapolis, Ind.?Two blgDemo cratlo bosses who have menaced In diana with their ambition to repro sent the State in the Unitedf Mate* Senate, John B. Lamb, of Terr* Haute, of corporation fame, and Thomas Taggart, gambling kins of West Baden, literally destroyed each other in the State convention here. The bitterness of their fight made it possible for the Democratic party to nominate John W. Kern, of Indian apolis, a candidate for the United States Senate. Kern was the party's candidate for Vice-President in 1908, The action jneans that Kern shonld be eleote^l to succeed Senator A. J, Beverldge. provided the Democrats have a majority in the next Stats Legislature and that maiorlty adheres to the indorsement. The opposition to the p)an of indorsing a candldats wanted a State primary to select ft nominee. KANSAS OUTS WHEAT ACREAGES. Nearly 2,000,000 Acre* Abandoned Otvlng to Winter Killing. ? Topeka, Kan.-?Nearly two million acres ot wheat have been abandoned I In Kansas this year and the crop con dition on the remaining 4,632,000 I acres to seventy-six per cent., due to "winter killing." These are the figures given by F. D? Coburn, Seo retary ot the 8tate Board of Agricul ture, in his first report ot the season, based on conditions April 107 . A Reports of correspondents indicate that the area sown towlptfr wheat la the fall of 19Q? approximated 6,478, 000 acres, or more by about 93,000 acres than In the' tall preceding. Ot the total -area it appears from the re ports that thirty per cent. Is such a failure that the grountkitfll be dc-kl ?oted to other crops, quite a consid erable portion ot It being already 1 oag^J^--f!fa^C;^^-- ' -1 Lent $000,000 on Clerk's Note. It was shown st the trial pf J\ A. Jl __*lu*e In New York City that the Mercantile tfsticnal ?ank. qtwhtch t?Tlt 0|0v0 to an employe ot the United Copper ' Co-nnany* the only security being bis