The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 06, 1910, Image 1
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.
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]THE NAMELESS GRAVE
t?Y WINIFRED LAURfcNS
With lis in tho South, Memorial
Day is an even more pathetic anni
versary than In tho North. Owing to
difference of latitude and climate,'too,
It is observed, in moat of the States,
earlier In the spring. In Oeorgia It
1b observed on April 26th, instead of
May 30th.
In the North the holiday arose from
the patriotic exertions of General
Logan; but In the South the observ
ance of the day was originally due
?o the personal efforts of a Mrs. Will
iams, of Columbus, Georgia, and be
gan earlier.
With us, however, little effort or
persuasion was required to Initiate
the holiday. 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
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*
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
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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