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BRUTAL DIVORCE. ReyeUtkxu in tbe Trials That Outdo Fiction. . CHICAGO IN THE LEAD. Mabel Cooley, Afed Twdre, Wltaems lor Mother Agaiast Father, Who Droye Wife to Baak |t Petal at Revolver. Jadge Heara Case of OMdy Thiagi. The Wsahlngtoo Dover prodnood roveleiloa of tbe Courts, end morel la to and churchmen would And It herd to deny the Justice 4 and benefit of divorce In aome of tbe eaaaa. Hera la a lot that aaaaa ap to just one day: Mabel Oooley, tbe twelve-year-old daughter of Mm Clauds M. Oooley, of South Chicago, whose husband, 4. J Oooley, was arrested for threatnlng to shoot bar, told a story which resulted In tbe granting of a divorce to her mother. Tbe little girl took the stand after her mother had testified to long years of cruelty, “kept In the background and lived down for the children'i Mike," until fear of her life overcame bar. Mabel plainly was frightened by the unusual scene and the sharp questions of the lawyers. She said in her lisping little voice: "I remember when mamma was ehoaked by papa a long time ago He wanted her to go to town and she did not want to. He hit her and she was sick a long time.” “ Do you remember what took place on the night of February 27 last?” CHILD TULLS OF ATTACK. ( "Oh, yea,” answered the child, "Papa had gone to lodge and we sat up waiting for him. I went to sleep, and when 1 woke up papa was strlk ing mamma. He bit ber twice in the face and her face bled “That will do,” said Judge Front sharply. ' Tbe woman testified that she mar ried Oooley, a farmer, In 1892. There were four children, the oldest being Mabel. The first Incident of cruelty she told of was in 1899, when he threw a glass at ber, which shivered against the wall, flew back and cut her face. Again In 1900 she testified, ber husband drove her out into the snow with a revolver because she refused to ~ go to town with him. Of the last in ddent, on February 27, wife and daughter told tbe same story Neighbors testified, aaying that - they bad remonstrated often with the man over his treatment of his wife, and bis only excuse was: “How oonld 1 help it?” “Is be a man of violent temper?' asked Judge Frcst. “Well," said the witness, a neigh boring farmer, "he Is the kind of i man who would put out tbe eyes of his cattle if they did anything he did not like.” This clinched the case. Mrs. Oooley at present is teaching school and re siding with her mother. The couple seiarated two months ago. ''GIDDY THING” VUBStoS "cad. Mrs. Stella Brennan, In applying for a divorce from James J. Brennan, claimed that her husband had thrown "mystic powder” at ber on the street to induce her to return to him after their separation. Ju(*ge Kavannaugh decided she was a “frlvilous person” and ber husband a “cad.” As for the "mystic powder,” this was ascribed to her early reading of Anderson's fairytales. \ ’ The ill-assorted couple were,married last June. Brennan wax A widower, wl th four children. His girl wife tes tified that these children were the first cause of the trouble. ^ ~ ^ "I did not like them,” she said. James threw kerosene all over me one night, and on another occasion hit me with a wet toweL” This was the oc casion of ber leaving him. Sbejan away to Kalamasoo, Mieh., and was taken back by her husband. _ She left again a few weeks later. "I met James at State and Madison streets one night,” she said, “and he induced me to <ro home by throwing mystic powder at me. I could not see It, but I knew he did It. 1 felt strange and my will power was para lysed.” "She can have a divorce without alimony," said the Judge. "The girl is a giddy thing and xhe husband Is a cad. She should have had more sense than to marry a man with four chil dren. It takes a long-headed girl to do that.” HUSBAND HIS OWN LAWYBR. The unique .feature of a husband pleading his own case was witnessed in Judge Ffoet's Court room. The suit was that of Mrs. Mary against August Sohemmer. Tbe wo- mau took the stand with a three- months old baby In ber arms, a baby that laughed and crowed to the dis traction of lawyers and Judge, bliss fully Ignorant of the fact that it was losing Its father. Mrs Schemmer's main grounds for divorce appeared to be that her hus band, a motorman, had threatened ones to hit her with a picture, and on another occasion had pushed her over a trunk. "I was afraid of him," she reiterat ed constantly. "When he was sober ha was a perfectly elegant husband, hoi whan ha was drunk he was a tenia.” Just as bar case appeared to be won, the “perfectly elegant husband" ap pealed In the Court In person. See ing how I "Who was for my things?' an did i the day Tbe oaaeof Mia. Matll- os, seeking a divorce from j. OoiitesT la typical. She had been deserted after three The woanan did not answer, “Did I not order a certain man out of the bouse and say I'objaeted to the company you kopt?” His wife re torted angrily that she would not an swer any swob impertinent queettone. The lawyers objected agate, and Sohemmer said: "I do not objsot to this dlvoros at all lam perfectly willing to have It glinted. I am a yoor man, however, and I oannot afford to pay alimony attorney'■ feet. "I will waive all that,” said Mrs. Behemmer hurriedly. "Well," said Judge Frost, "as you tehave It settled, I will let it go at that.” DSHD WORDS, NOT A HATCHET. A surprisingly large hatchet of de serted wives appeared in the verljus Court rooms, da Collins, Thomas said aha had months. She was steed the reason for this. » ■' "I do not know,” she said, "I wss a good wife. He Just left me.” "‘Did be drink?" “Yes; sometlmss he drunk." * How did you express your disap proval of this?” asked Judge Heard "By a hatchet? ,r O, no; I Just talked." * ‘Call tbe next eaae,” «ald the Judge. DIVORCK AFTER 37 YEARS. John Mulvey, sixty-flva»years old, and a retired iron manufacturer, ap plied to Judge Fraat tor a divorce from Valenda J. Mulvey, slxty-two years old. He accused hi* wife of habitual drunkenness. "We were married In 1868,” said the husband. "We were happy for a number of years, until Mrs. Mulvey contracted tbe liquor habit." A settlement waa effected whereby Mrs. Mulvey la to receive 145 a mouth alimony. Tbe Mulveya have lived at 3,633 Wabash avenue. "She was too fast for me and I was too slow for her,” was the concise way ,ln which William Green, 633 West Superior street, told Judge Heard of hla troubles with Mrs. Eva line Green. "She left me a week after our marriage five years ago, continued Green, “and never returned. I am tired of waiting for her.” WOFFORD C0LLXG1. A PECULIAR CASK. A Mtasaohhattta Mas Tans Bis fldn Into Souvenir Punas. Oatiele a Umtomd Thirty- Thin Tear for Che time. Having abed hla akin from neck to foot two weeks ago, Sellg Goodman, of No. 23 Washington street, Worces ter, Maas., la undergoing a seoodd process of shedding his outlole like a black snake. Worcester physicians who have studied the peculiar case aaj~1t la the most remarkable they have heard of. Goodman says they are not more pussled than physicians In Philadelphia, Pittsburg and In Europe, whan be has made a ehai For thirty-two yean he has had a new set of skin each year and In yean two changes. This la the yean when he some one cf will have two new things wan going, he stopped **1 would Ilka to ate this woman a * bemud. The woman’! to this, and Judge m L»* of law, hot Thirty-three Young Men Given Their Diplomas This Year. Ool. J. E. Norment, writing to Tfie State says the fifty-lint annual com meuoement ex. roiaea of WoffoM col lege mark an event which links the vital, moving present to all the tradi tions of an honored, useful put. Fbr more than a half century tbe uplift ing work of this noble Institution has sent forth Its own meaning, Its own Influences. “Length of days Is In her rizbt hand and in ber left hand are riches and honor”—the wealth be ing more in what has been done than is usually Included In other considera tions. The graduates Tuesday morning, thirty-three in number, composed the seopnd largest class In the history of tbe college and Mr. B. a Robertson, Jr., aged 16 years, has the distlnotion of being the youngest student who ever graduated from Wofford. The auditorium was again filled to overflowing, prominent Carolinians fr5m all portions of tbe State being present in numbers and with these was a fine contribution of local repre sentative men. And u Wofford stu- dlhts do throng to similar exercises at Convene, even so also doth# fair mal dens gather themselves—and otben- together when Wofford senda forth Its graduates. ^ President Snyder beaded tbs pro cession to tbe stage, which was soon filled with the olaas of ’05, the faculty and others, and the exer Hies began by singing the hymn which has here been sung for yean, the gen tlemen "raising the tune” Tuesday morning having performed this office regularly for thirty-nine yean. After prayer by the Rev. Dr. T. H. Law, President Snyder arose amid expec tant silence for this lint words Dr. Snyder said he was not responsible for tbe request which bad been sent to him, which request ins something about the ladlee bats I There was soft rustling heard at onoe, hats cams off and whits hands were busy fastening waving, stray tresses. Then came the fint event of this crowning day of tbe year when Presi dent Snyder announced the first of the senior speakers. These young gentlemen and their subjects were an nounced in the following order: A. D. Betts, "Turning Points In History;” J. P. Kllgo, “A Political Idealist*,” M. K. Meadors, “A‘Friend of Conservative Freedom;” R. 0. Oli ver, “Greek Literature and Modern Life;" G. J. Patterson, “Modern Knighthood;” W. D. Roberta, “Self Knowledge;” J. G. Stabler, “Glimpse of the Future;” C. P. Wofford, “The Double Mission of the South's;” M. A; Connally, “Class Prophet;” J. Ml ding was complete, Goodman noticed another layer of akin, under tbe outer outlole, which began to harden a few days after the old skin was removed He has given stripe of bide to his ao- quaintenoes. When they heard that he was to have another change of skin he was besieged wlth'riqueeta for eon venlr patches. "The second shedding which I am undergoing he said Wedneaday, "Is tbe first I have had that Is not pain ful. All I ate Is relief from pain. 1 have given up hope of being cured. “The pain I suffer Is what annoys me. Otherwise I do not mind It. Af ter getting a new skin I feel like a sixteen-year-old boy. In the seven weeks sines the first shedding began I have lost 25 pounda I weighed 165 pounds and now tip the scale at 140 I am beginning to feel strong again. The second change Is not weakening half so much as the first one. "I have peeled the skin from my body, legs and arms. I am letting It harden on my hands and feet. It Is the second prooeas this year, and It is the first that I have undergone that Is not painful. Before the skin be gins to harden I suffer with a rash which la torturous. "I expect In two days time to fin Ish the second round. By Sunday 1 will be all right, for at leaatone year.' Mr. Goodman showed two patches la Male- Gagged, ohloro eirly Wedneaday chloroforaaad and robbed evening in his own Philadelphia, at ms boarding home, this it the knowledge ef the other in the tidaae, la ttia teiiiltSBir mini of Hollend’s navy, and his grand Incident that befell Reuben M. Sparks, 24 yean old, a stenographer of the N. O, and St L., railroad, who resides at 88 South Pryor street. Tbe was done Wednaaday night assn who dona It made their When Spates recovered an hour later and reported Aha matter, it waa disco vend that a poeketbook had aiao been taken from a room down stairs. Tbe polios an now Investigat ing tbe affair. According to Sparks, be went to bis room about 9 o’clock to retire. When he entered be heard a nolae but thought It wee hie roommate He spoke and received a reply, and still thinking that It was bM roommate, walked fur ther into the room. Suddenly he was aeised in front and behind by two men, who took him to the bed, throw him Before the proee— of the flist ehed-lcnlt, and gaged him with tJewel. He of skin, eaoh three by four inches taken from the palms of bis hands at [Mabel M6rgan, a niece of the first shedding. The lines are plainly vldble. Tbe skin is herd, am by tanning they will make a covering for a real hand made handbag, he says. “I have been offered 125 for these,” be continued, “but do not oaro to make capital out of It. I give them to acquaintances. I will have these two patches made Into a souvenir poeketbook. I have quit trying tJ learn the Oiuae or a euro for Ik Every physician whom I have seen admits that it puuleahlm.” Goodman was born in Tilsit, Pros sla, Germany, June 26, 1864. He was , and gaged him with a to lopt' consciousness than, a nd did not awake until 10 o’clock. "When I first entered tbs room and Started to undress, and heard tbe men in them in the dark,” said Sparks, “I thought it was a practical toke being played, on tee by some of the fellows In thcTOuse. When they clutched my throat, though, I knew it was no joke. I wanted to give tbe alarm then, but they held me ao dose 1 oould’nt. They bon me to the bed, ramed a doth Into my mouth, and spread a towel over my face. I knew no more until Mrs Steele, mother of Miss Steele, came Into the room and loosened the towel She had heard my loud breathing. "Tbe doth had nothing on It, bat the towel was covered with some dark substance, with a sickening odor. This nauseated me and I was sick from tbs effects of it at midnight.” According to Sparks, the robbery must have been committed by some one familiar with the house. He nys that a friend of his, a collector, at the house earlier In the day. At dinner the friend handed him a roll of bills containing about 960. This he flourishes before the other boarders, but latter returned 1* to bis friend He says also that early Ig the even ing a negro was seen in-the rear of the houee. He thinks that this negro might have given a tip to the robbers. When the exdtement had quieted down, it was discovered that Miss las Steele, who conducts tbe house, had lost poeketbook from ber room. It is pos sible that the tbeivee went on to Sparks' room, and being caught then robbed him also. They escaped by i rear stairway. When teen Thursday, Miss Steele declared that at 9 o’clock a boarder in the boose told her that bp heard nolae in Sparks' room. She listened and also heard a nolae; it sounded like someone wss being strangled. She thought, though, that It was next door, especially as she could get no response from anybody in the room. Sbb.jthen returned downstairs and of Amy MdL tec I* the Uattcd Btatee. Tbs anasetota of Edward K. Bok, « editor af tbs Ladies' Home Jour nal and tbe Saturday Evsnlng Fostof for a long grandfather of Bdwaid aristocratic Dutch- time. ThTlgrcat chief ad- reared across on the Russian borddr, fcliswnothlng more about the matter Arlail, Ave Atque Vale.” At the conclusion of those addressee President Snyder conferred the de grees upon the graduates aa named below: L. Q Crum and J. E Edwards, A. M.; D. 0. Anderson, J. M. Arlail, A. D. Betts, J. W. Boyd, M. W Brab ham, J. B. Oantey, W. B. Carnes, V. Cleveland, M. A. Cotmally, L. A. Duncan, E. C. Dye, W. L. Glass, Jr., J. H. Hamell, Jas. Kllgo, R O Law- ton, L. A. Manning, M. K. Meadors, R. C. Oliver, G. P. Patterson, 0. 0. Robbins, H. W. Robbins, H. 0. Rob ertson, J. A. Roland, W. D. Roberta, W. fl. Smith, J. G. Stabler, J. P. Stockman, F. P. Tatum, L. P. Walker, Jr M C. P. Wofford, all A. B. gradu ates. A certificate was then awarded to Mr. E. F. Brig man, and President Snyder next addwed the graduates. Killed Himself. Edward Roberts, one of the oldest and most skillful shoplifters in San Frandsoo, whan detected stealing goods la BL 8. Crocker & Co.'s station ary store, took poison and died before the hospital was reached. Roberts was assn slipping a package of twolts of jiaylag cards Into a ed ante bis arm. V-v when his parents still live. His grand father on bis father’s aide and grand mother's side are living, and each h nearly 100 years old. He has four brothers, three of them In tbe Uuited States, and one sister. None of them is affected the way he is. His father la a grain merchant and well to-do. “I waa eight years old when I first shed my skin," he said. “I was taken to Koenlgtbefg, while Dr. Kaburok, a specialist of skin diseases, said he bad never heard of a similar case. Of all tbe different treatments I have un dergone, none of them cured. Dr. Bradford treated me fifteen years ago, In Philadelphia, and I waa in bed twenty-alx weeks. Last yete Dr. John Moffatt, of Philadelphia, was my attending physician. He advised buttermilk and a light diet. Dr. Nightingale Indorsed this advloe, and adds salve. Usually It takes from six to ten weeks for one shedding. This year I will go through with two in seven weeks. - - - - "The skin on . my feet Istwloe as thick as that on my hand. I am sav ing it for an acquaintance, who wants the patches for a wallet.'' Killed By a Fall. - John W. Arnold, a white well dig ger, fell from bis seat in s large bucket which was being hauled up from the bottom of a well, and was Instantly killed Tuesday. Arnold and several workmen were employed to deepen a well of tbe I?. E Converse company, near the Glendale mills, Spartanburg county, and be was lowered to the bot- tom to Inspect the undertaking. As be was being towed back to tbe top, and about the time he had nearly com pleted the trip, he suddenly lost his perch and fell headforemost to the bottom. His neck was broken by the fall. Arnold had oomplained of being unwell prior to beginlng the work. The accident was in no monner due to the workmen woo assisted him. Heart Disease Epidemic. The fact that a hundred and twen ty-five persons died last week in New Tork city from organic heart disease, when tbe death rate the oorrespand log week in 1904, was only fifty-six, has given rise to tbe belief among phyalolans that the New Yorkers an living too rapid livro. The strain of business and tbe cares attendant on fieroe oonopetion In the financial cen ter of tbe olty and tha-worry attend ant on the anxiety to gain wealth la given as the explaination by tbe physi cians of the condition which exists In the world's metropolis today. An Bteven-Ynar-OM Wills. New York's sensational partial case was brought Into tbs courts again Tuesday when the trial of Jacob Flne- Ute was continued baton Magistrate Finn. Flnellte is being prosecuted by Lena roelite, a child of eleven years, who claims that she was mar ried to the man In January and that he has abandoned her, refusing longer to contribute to bar support. Flos- lite ix about thirtr five and wealthy. He has denied that he married the child, but a certificate.and witnesses have been produced which sseas to bear out tbs truth of tbs child's until Sparks' loud breathing attracted her mothers attentiesv'*-Atlanta Journal. A Remarkable Mottier. Mrs. Edith Gillespie mother of 15 pairs of twins, is dead. This most notable motber passed away recently at the ranoh of her eon, John Gilles pie, 10 miles south of Denver. Mrs. Gillespie, after giving b rth to one of the most marvellous families on re cord, lived to reach the age of 84 and to see bar many children scattered far and wide over the country. Tula re markable mother came from a long- lived family and was 1 of 20 children herself. Many children seemed, It is said, only the natural course of events to her and her 15 pain of twins were not oonsldered at all romarkable by motber and father. It Is said that If her children, grandchildren and great grand children coull be gathered to gether a good sised village could easi ly be populated. Three Killed. Three persons wen killed and 29 Injured in the wreck of an east bound senger train on tbe Southern rail way at Golden Gate, 111., Tuesday of last week.- The train was a "Cotton Special,” carrying Confederate veter- rans to thB.’reuBton at Louisville, Ky. While running at a speed of 50 miles an hour, the engine etruok a spread rail on a trestle 20 feet Ijigh and the engine and tear coaches wen over turned and fell to the bottom of tbe ravine. The engine turned complete ly over. He Is All Right. An exchange asks: “What has be come of tbe boy In patches?” Why bless your soul, he Is out on the farm choppings clods 16 hours a day. He will come to town after a while to run the banks and scores, and be the suc cessful lawyers and preachers ana phy sicians. Don’t worry about the boy In patches. Its the slick-looking, store- clothed, nicely groomed lad you want to inquin about. He’i the fellow that’s going to drop through s crack In the sidewalk, out of sight one of these days. father was ohlsf justice of Holland's sapraaM court His father was a a minister to William III., whose daughter, Wllhelmlna, Is now queen of Tbe Netlftrlands. But tbs Boks lost their money, and William, the minister, came to America with his wife and two boys. Edward Bok left school when a lad, and went to work. He tolls this story of his strag gles upward: "We wan extremely poor, and I used to gather wood in tbe vacant lots for oar fire. 1 helped my mother wash dishes and do other household duties. But the first money I earned was In selling water. Persons In New York then went to Coney Island in street can which ran through Brook lyn, I carried a bucket of ice water on my arm and When the oars stopped I sold it to the passengers for a penny a glass. 'Then I put a lsmcn in my bucket and got two cents a glass. I added a little mon sugar and lemon juice and raised the prise to three cents. That is when I learned that tbe public will always pay the best price for the best thing. I sold mon three-cent lemonade than oue-oent water and made mon money. "In winter, when no one went to Coney Island, I carried a newspaper route on Saturdays and worked in a bakery, meaning windows, waiting on the counter, and running emnds, for fifty cents a week Wnen I waa thirteen yean old I left school forever, going to the Western Union Telegraph Company as an office boy. At night I studied stenography. 1 got Into Henry Ward Beecher’s church and in toons of Its literary societies. We printed a little paper for the society, and I took It up and developed it Into tbe Brooklyn Magaxlne. My brother helped me. We published Mr. Beech er's sermons ,ln full, and then made arrangements tor tbs sermons of Dr. Til mage. Curiously enough, some of the beet writenof the day became our contributors. “I was nineteen years old, and in the meantime had been employed by tbe telegraph company as a stenogra pber. A man conspicuous In the Standard OH company wanted to buy our magasloe for his son, and, as it was not profitable, we sold It. This man told me that magazines and oi could be oarried along on tbe ssma trade prlnciplee—that tbe methods employed to prodnoe a gallon of refin ed oil would print and sell a single oopy of a magazine. I told him that was his belief he wooM lose a lot of money. I left tbe telegraph com pany and went to Henry Holt and Company, the publishers, also as stenographer. Heaven alone knows what else I did In my own time. ] started a syndicate and |upplied newr. papers with high-class matter of In ternet to the female sex, obtainiog what I called forty articles by forty famous women. Some of the women were foreigners. I kept oat of cook ery and needlework. Mo man should attempt to meddle with such things I might say that 1 am the father of tbe woman's page in the newspapers, but I am not proud of the relation ship. I am sot prond of the relation detest it now that It has grown up. “From-flolt's, I went to Charles Scribner’s Sons, with whom I re mained until I was employed by Mr. Curtis. I became advertising mana ger at Scribner’s and andertook to de velop the Book Buyer, one of their magazines. While thus employed I was persuaded to go to Philadelphia and the Ladies’ Home Journal. "When a boy I learned tbe secret of success, as I have told you—work like the devil To this I now add, and for the delight of It. Young men in this esta^Hshnu nt come to me and each one asks: ‘What art my ohanosb?’ And I reply: 'You are making your inquiry at the wrong place. It’s up to you, not to me; make yourself Invaluable and your fu tun will take can of itself.’"—N. Y. Commercial Returns His Pension. Commissioner of Pensions Warner Thursday reoelved a contribution of 11,924 to tbe conscience fund of the treasury. It oams from a pensioner and is tbs total uf pension money drawn by him since tbe civil war, be ginning at the rate of 12 and rising to •6 per month. The Identity of the pensioner is withheld at the latter's request. The name will be dropped from tbe roll. The reason for refund ing the money and declining to accept morels that the pensioner has Sol earned and does not deserve a pension. Pell Pour Stories At New York Ool. A. Clausen, a produce exchange broker waa Instant ly killed Tuesday by falling te juasp log from a window in his apartments on tbs fourth floor at lit West Sev enty Math street. Mrs. dausseo, who was in tbs room at tbs time, said ber husband waa asleep when be fell, hav- ' from bed suffering from s So far as is Row in s Georgia Town. A tragedy occurred at Chipley, Ga., at noon Thursday In wbioh Dr. John C. Hardy, a prominent physician of that town, was killed. Mayor S. A. Goodman was slightly wounded and Marshal White had two bullet holes shot through bis clothing. Dx.< Hardy had publicly hone-whipped an aged oitizen daring the morning, and he later appeared at the mayor’s office, when he and tbe mayor became In volved. In a difficulty concerning the amount of fine that was to be Impoeed upon him. Marshal White was'preeent. Dr. Hardy opened fire on the mayor and the marshal. The marshal re turned the fire. Dr. Hardy was she t twice, onoe In the head and onoe in the stomach, dying instantly. Mayor Goodman was shot in the arm by Dr. Hardy. Caught at Last. George G. Glenn, former cashier at Philadelphia for the Postal Telegraph company, was airestadJCnesday «ight on the arrival of the steamer Talla hassee, at Savannah, from Boston. He is wanted In Philadelphia for forg ing the name of a Postal official to a paper on which it is alleged he secured 19,000. He wss last seen m Phila delphia on April 28 last. On being arrested, Glenn attempted to shoot himself, bat the officers prevented him from doing so. Glenn will be held tor requisition. A Good Showing. ' It is stated that the farmers who compose 60 per cent of the country’s population, only commit two per oaot. of tbs Crimea This is prlma fade evidence that it is easier to deal justly and mercifuUr with men and to walk humbly before God in the pun atmos phere of tbe country than in tbe con gested eitiea Plunged to-Hie Death. While being banled op from a well at Glendale, S. 0., Tuesday afternoon J. W. Arnold, a- yoang white man, toll from the box and hie body shot downward a distance of otarly forty tost. His bead struck a rook, b Tbs latest contribution of British military writon to tbe literature of our civil war la a work, entitled "Tbe Crisis of tbs Oonfederaov," by Oapt. OecU Bsttine of the Fifteenth King’s Tbe book prooenta an estl of the mltttery abilities ofthe oommandiog officers of tbe two armies and this feature of tbe work is par ticularly Interesting and very |ratify ing to the people of tbe Sottth. In a revldw of tbe work Tbe Army and Navy Journal gives the following mm mary of Oapt Battlne's conclusion upon this subject: “Oapt Battlne’s estimates of tbe leaders of tbe opposing armies in tbe civil war will Interest even where they fail to oonvinee tbe studious reader. He maintains, tor example, that if In 1862 tbe North oould have •xebasged generals with tbe South, tbe Federal victory oould not have been long delayed. He declares that the Federal officer who mott distinguish ed himself both at Gettysburg and In tbe Wilderness battle of May 5, 1664, was Haaooek. — "Of Grant he says. 'No great man in history surpassed him in simple ness of purpose and freedom from sham and pretense of all sorts. He was wise, modest and brave. Tlat he was not a great master of taetioal science must be admitted, but remem bering how little inoeotive be had re ceived to think out Its problems unti he was of mature age and bad been tor six years a civilian. It was not to be expected that be would shine in tbe field which of all others requires many years of long and fruitful study. As a strategist he was Inferior to none ef the Amerlcu generals. His grim de termination to persevere In spite of a holocaust of victims has been ds nounoed as heartless disregard of bu man life, bat his chivalry to the van qulshed and his tender regard for the sick and wounded show hiui in a very different light. “Capt. Bsttine holds that McClel lan wss relieved of command 'with out any particular pretext,’ that his successor, Burnside, while not lacklrg in bravery, had shown at Antietam ‘bow little capacity be bad tor the moet difficult task of oontrolllOg a great army In the field,’ that Meade, though 'unlike tbe conventional type of a great warrior,’ in tbat be had ‘'more the appearance of aa engineer than of a troop leader,’ possessed valu able qualities as a chief, was person ally brave and had the moral courage which la so often lacking to men wnu never fear for their own safety. "For Lee, Oapt. Bsttine has the highest admiration, and says of him: 'In the tact and diplomatlo skill wltn which be softened the jealousies of his people and tightened tbe combine lion of the different States, he is only to be compared to the great Duke of Marlbarough. . In the boldness and sagacity of his strategy and in the affectionate devotion be inspired in his troops he resembled Napoleon himself. As leader of an army he bad one great fault; he was too modest, too lacking In the stern self-assertion which compels obedience and exacts tbe utmost efforts of subordinates. Such ss he fras, chivalrous, brave and conscientious to a fault, he will re main the most attractive personality among American heroes and one of the moet famous of tbe world's great generals ’ As for Stonewall Jackson, Oapt. Battine heartily accepts the high and almost extravagant estimate placed upon tbat remarkable soldier by another British writer, Lieut. Col. G F. R. Henderson, whose Stonewall Jackson and the American Otvil War’ la recognized in England as a master piece of military biography.” Tbe Charleston Best says whatever Judgments may be held in this ocua try upon the relative merits of tbe soldiers of that mighty struggle which rent the republic, it la dear enough, from the writings of suob students as Lord Wolseley, Col. Hen derson and Oapt Battine that impar tla! and critical history will award to the leaders of the Confederate armies a renown that even we of the South will admit to be fair recognition of their glorious achievements. Gets Ten Thousand. In the United States Court at Cba r leston on Wednesday a sealed verdict was opened awarding Sol Blank 110, 000 for the compound fracture of his left leg which may yet have to beam putated, having been hurt In the head-on collision of two trains of the Southern railway at Newmarket, Tenn., last summer. The suit was for 650,000. The verdict seems to have been satisfactory, for the counsel thanked the ]ury and no motion of ap peal waa made in either case. 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