The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 05, 1908, Image 6
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| PAPER ^
? IIY I'lWF. WILlil
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The High School Situation? i
Counting tho increased facilities
added thin year, it is easily demonstrable
by tlgures that tho public
high schools of tho Stato, aided and
unaided, have increased in olUcieney
wore than tweniy-flv? per cent sinc^
January 1, 1907. in more than onefourth
of them the efficiency has
boon doubled within that time. The
chief inereuse is in the quantry
and quality of the teaching fore.',
thus giving longer recitation periods,
a wider range <?f studies, and
lengthened courses of study. The
1-Kate appropriation of $.r>0,000 has
been the chief instrument t>y which
t hi >se improvements have been
Wrought about, but it must be admitted
that even with this lever it
has been a tnsk of magnitude to recure
this increased eflicieney. It has
required oourage and watch fnines
n the part of tho State High School
Hoard to prevent the schools from
taking the State aid for tho high
school, then turning it into the common
school department without* one
article of increase of efliciencv ii.
the high school.
The introductory statement migh
le?,j the uninformed to think that
our high schools are now satisfactory.
Far from it. There are now not
far from 140 public high schoob
coming within the minimum definition
of a high school under the pros
ent high school law?one teach r
giving all his time to not fewer than
fifteen pupils a hove the seventh
grade or seventh school year. Of
these 140 schools, 25 have one
high school teacher each, SO schoo's
have two teachers each, and the remaining
ones more than two teach
ers each. Only six schools have earn
the. full teacu.ng time of live teach
ers or more.
In nearly all the one-teacher hian
schools the recitation periods have
hoen advanced to 20 minutes each,
othing less than 2 0 minutes being
accepted in the aided schools. In
those with two or more high schod
teachers, fully three-fourths have
40- and 4 5-minuto periods, while n
few have one hour periods. In an
COlirWhl nf iMa olucu nAlkinn
?*ava v\t uuiiv'Vl v/ I I I li O V/ I <1 ~ O UUtlll llf>
less than 8 0 minutes is accepted
The greatest single gain has been
this lengthening of the recitation
periods, and upon the whole the
situation in this respect is satisfactory.
Some noticeable Improvement in
the competency of the teachers has
been made, but in this respect conditions
are far from satisfactory. Many
places are willing to pay from $1,2oo
to $1,5 00 for a supervising principal,
but give him cheap assistants. It
is utterly useless to talk about getting
a competent and experienced
woman, fitted to do high school
teaching, at *4 0 a month, or a man
who has shown himself qualified,
at $G0. It is painful to mo to say
this, for among just such teachers
are some of my best personal friends.
Hut I know only too well that tne
standard of the high schools depend?
upon the standard of their teaching
force. Let me tell some thing1
have seen and hoard. 1 have se-i.i
more than one high school teacncr
wrestle a half-hour with an ordinary
problem in Wentworth's Practical
Arithmetic, a book usually completed
in the 8th grade. In Tarr's Physical
Geography, a book really Ux
dilfioult for the 8th grade where it
is usually found, I nave seen teachers
cover enough ground in one 8 0minute
recitation to havo given
profitable work for throe such periods.
In ono history recitation I
have seen the class read tho text
hku <i luurui reauer ior one-nan in*
time, then listened to the teachei
ask twenty to thirty wholly unrelated
questions each suggestive or tiu
answer expected. Day alter day ,
see teachers vainly attempting u
teach lOnglish grammar and punctu
ation from the rules and the fev
examples given in the textbook, am
seemingly oblivious to the fact tha
every textbook the child uses is ful
of the very illustrations needed
fjAtin is usually referred to as a dea,
language; it might with propriety In
called deadly in some instances
Not a few hig schools pupils aftei
two years of Latin study are unabn
to separate a word into its sylables
?r to determine the length of a sy?
lable. In translation It is no 1111
common thing to hear such as this:
"Gallia-Gaul, est-is, omnia-all, dlvlai
divided, in-in, partes-parts, tr^b
three," etc. As a specimen produci
of the vigor of tho Latin grafter
upon the flexibility of tho Kngllsh
note this: "Tho army having bee
drawn up more hb tho nature of th*
place and the slope of tho hill an?
the necessity of tho time than a;
the order and plan of military thing,
demanded, since the different legion,
some in one part and Homo anothm
were resisting tho enemy and tlx
thick hedges having been cant down.'
etc. (Sec Caesar's Gallic War, Hoo*
II, chapter 2 2.) The teacher win
accepted this jargon holds a col
lege diploma, and is exempt from ex
ami nation of fitness to tench Ot
Yes, Abram, ono can readily afford
to eet married on an in.-ome ol
$12 a week, IT he will ag-ee to turn
It over to his wife every week.
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1AM H. KAMI. | j
m- mnwwMi m*m !?.*?* a
t
my desk are some specimens of spell- >
ing in the handwriting of high nchooi
teachers?all but one college grad- ^
nates: Ceaeur (thus by three toaoh- r
ers), latin, liturature, Knock Arden. t
Buckler's grammar has been in con- I
stant use In this Stato eight years,
and Myers* histories more than 1
fifteen years. Here are some of the i
variations: Myer'a. Meyers', l
Meyer's; Beuhler (live teachers), 1
lleulah (three teachers), Buela.i 1
(two teachers), Beuhlar (one teacher).
A fifteen hundred dollar pinci- t
pal can not make bricks without i
straw.
Only a few high schools are con- !
tent to offer a two-year course, although
one of the best in the Stanis
a two-year school. Nine-tenths 1
of the high schools offer a three- '
year course, no matter how mam 1
nor how few teachers. Last year
there were but four public high
schools in the Stale with a standai i <
four-year course, and enough teach- !
c rs to teach it. The report for 1908- 1
<>9 will show perhaps eight stnndarn '
four-year schools. To bo sure more 1
than four schools claim a four-yenr <
course. Several schools claiming a
four-year course were credited with '
fewer units of work than are required
for a standard three-year course,
and one school claiming four years 1
fell below the requirements for a
' standard two-year course. i be
standard applied to the filch achoo's
was that generally accepted by tne
colleges of the State, and is below
that used bv the Carnegie Foundation
Hoard. The error into which
most of these schools have fallen
*is to divide their pupils into four
[ -lasses with six- and seven-month
intervals of advancement between
each two, then call each division a
year in the course. That the reader
I may see the validity of some ol
these claims, some courses are hove
outlined. This is the fourui year's
I work in one school: fhe tirst ha'i
J of Myers' General history, Conime rial
Arithmetic live times a week,
three hooks of Plane Geometry, and
forty-live hours during the year to
Tappan's History of Literature.
Another four-year school gets
through the Second Hook of Caesar :
Gallic War, four hooks of Plane
Geometry, and Tappan's Literature.
Numbers of these courses show tn:r.
he third-year and the fourth-your
classes are together in more than
one study. One must not he misled
by the term literature in many of
those schools. It Is nothing more
than reading about the authors 01
literature?a little biography, if the
truth must be told.
The poverty of some of these four
yi:?u courses is more man ousel by
some of the plethoric *hree-year
courses, some of which are formidable
affairs. At random I take
one year's work from ond of these
courses: Arithmetic, Algebra, Rhetoric,
^Literature, Latin (reading,
. grammar and prose composition),
Physical Geography, History, an I
RusinesK Methods (an innocent lift' 1
text). In this year's work every
pupil takes everything proscribed,
, and each pupil is on recitation practically
every period during the day.
Several schools have Arithmetic.
Algebra and Geometry in the same
year's work, and a few have Physical
t Geography and Physics in the same
year, with practically no other science
in the entire course.
The majority of the one-teacher
high schools undertake the impossible?to
teach a full four-year
! course. One such school has classL
es in Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry,
. English Grammar, English Composition,
Literature, Physical GoogruI
phy, U. 8. History, 8. C. History,
. General History, Boglnner's Latin,
Caesar and Ovid. One teacher may
j teach a few subjects through a fouryear
course, and do it well, hut on
t buuii it cuuiHo no uiu oim just given
j a teacher is wasting his time and
t energy. The groatest evu is to tne
j pupil. HIh time and effort are divided
up among so many subjects
j that he pursues none of them long
j enough and far enough to get any
training or knowledge out of them.
r In even the better schools the aver,
age pupil gets but little out of such
subjects as Physical Geography,
. physics, and Civics, because they are
_ not studied long enough to benefit
the pupil.
The high schools, like the common
. schools, suffer from tho endless
i cnanging of teachers. A comparison
t of this year's schedule with that r f
last year shows that the whole
\ course hns been overhauled and re.
organized, and in somo cases tho new
i course seems to be given over to rei
viewing paHt work. Perhaps such
* course is necessary, but it shows a
3 fearful wast of energy somewhere,
i In at least two cases the now teach*
ers have taken the pupil out of last
' year's 8th and Oth grades, added
t a few recruits, and made a four>
year school. Presumably that *s
-1 progress.
-I WILLIAM H. HA^I).
i TJnlvorfdty of South Cardtfna.
Landlady: "What's the matter
with that plo? Hoarder: "It Isn't
fit for a pig, and I'm not going to
eat it."
HOTTIJS TKLIiH STOItV.
'ounK Womxui at Atldrcss tilvcn
Much AITwlt'd by Kud of KotnaiMc. ^
Tho discovery of a message two
roars old in a l>ottle that washed
isliore at Palm Beach, Fla., points!
0 tho tragic death of a husban I
vhose last thoughts was his wife. . "
Investigation by the American
ast night, however, indicated th* t j
he inessage concealed a shattered
omance, and that the writer of j
his message was voluntarily seek- ,
ng death as a disappointed wooer. ; A
The botlle was picked up at i n
Pleam Heach by Aid; rson McKenna, h
1 resident there. In it he found tho s
following message, which he for- u
warded to Tho American oliico, 0
where it arrived last evening. ]<
"May 12, 1906.?If found, please I h
tell my wife, Mrs. Kitti:- Welsce, p
Mo. 100 Hay Sixteenth street, Hath i ]<
Heach, N. Y., Clood ship Sunbeam n
going down. v
"JAM 10 S WKLSCil." t
At tlie address given in Hath t
Heach, la. t night, a pretty young woman
cf twenty-one, who said she was s
Katherine Walsh, finally a Imitt. d c
that her family name was really t
Welsch and that she probably w;.s v
the person referred to In the mes- j
sage, though the had novel b en I )]
married. It was not until after she I j
had seen a copy of the message, | f]
which appeared to afTocl her deeply, h
that she. made; thiH admission.
"1 presume that this message was ]
written by Thomas llrophy. of i
rudgefiold, N. J.," s?id Miss \\ olsoh. I
"Ho paid a great deal of attention t
lo me three years ago and asked
ho to marry him. Hut I did not car? v
enough for him to he his \vire, and 1
so I had to tell him. 1 lilted him but i
1 did not love him. I
"When ho realized that my mini t
was made up on this point he threat- t
ened that he won 1 ' drown hlmsrdf, i
and it may bo that he has carried out. g
his resolve. r
"I urged aginst such a course, t
and (Hd not really believe at the time (
that he would do so. Hut he insis - l
od that he woul 1 carry out his pur- i
pose unless I consented to become <
his wife. This 1 could not do \
This Is more than two years since r
I have seen Mr. Hrophy, and i- r
possible that be went down to the i
Hahnmas and drowned himself. The j.
bottle may have floated across to g
the Florida shore. More than this
I cannot toll you.' 1
Neighbors say the fnm.iy is known i
by the name of Welsch.
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Til 111 IjIjIN<* HRSOIKS. t
t
Police niul Firemen Perforin CJreut
1
Service ut Fire. i
Policemen and firemen made a (
numfier of thrilling rescues in a f
tenament house fire in Hrooklyn {
Thursday night. From an adjoining
nouse Policeman Zcrwick reached
the roof of the burning house and
attempted to rescue a half-doze 1
frightened people through a scuttle.
There was no ladder, however, and
the one he obtained from the next
house was three feet short.
Lowering the short ladder through
the iscuttle the policeman hung down
by his arms and steadied the ladder
with his feet, allowing a woman an-.l
several children to climb up, steeping
on his face as they got out onto
the roof.
Soveral firemen swung themselves
across from an adjoining building
and saved women and children o
the lire escapes of the burning building.
*
MOW F10RTILIZKR COMPANY
With Large Capital Recently Organized
at Richmond, Va.
With a maximum capital of $20,000,000,
the State corporation commission
of Vlrcrtntu >ma itphiUo/I ?.
charter to the industrial Chomlcul
Company, of Richmond, whose pur- *
pose, it is Hftid, is to run in opposition
to the monopoly now held by
the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company.
The backers of ,.?c new con- j
corn are among Richhond's leading
business mon, headed by Charles R.
Brenner, as president. The charter
stipulates the purpose of the concern
to be those of dealing and manufacturing
chemicals, engaging in the
mining business and such other
things as will not be contrary to the
laws of the State. The company is
allowed the right of constructing
railronds and other accessories to
Illl) DUBinCHH. "
Watch Your Tongue. |
Somo times a person's tongue ge'a ]
thorn Into trouble, watch the tongue.
It Ih your tongue, It belongs to you, ,
and Is the only one for which you are ,
responsible. Your neighbor's tongue \
may need care also, but that Is his 1
business; this is yours, to see t >
Watch your tongue; it needs watching.
It Is a fire?watch It. It Is
the helm which guides the vessel.
I.ot the helmsmen keep wide awake. (
It can bless or It can curse, it can '
poison or heal; It can pierce hear's
or blights hopes; it can sow discord i
or separate chief friends. Watch i
your tongue, no one but you can i
take care of that tongue. Your <
neighbors may wish too, but they
can't do It.
i
Ho who abandons the farm will
find too late that good fortune has i
abandoned him. '
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GIVES HIS VIEWS
KNATOR TILLMAN ON THIS
LIQUOll QUKSTION.
ays Ho Cannot Hoe Where Prohi
bition Stands Any Chance in tho
Coining Legislature.
The Columbia correspondent of the
aigusta Chronicle says Senator Till tan
does not endorse tho movement
eaded by Representatives M. L.
mlth, C. \V. Uarris, John (J. Richids,
Jr., State Senator Barle and
thers of the old State dispensary
waders to join forces with the proibltionlsts
and push a State-wide
inhibition bill through the coming
legislature, as was attempted withut
success in the last legislature
dirn the county option scheme tool:
he place of the State dispensary sysem.
"I cannot see that prohibition
tands any chance of success in th
oming legislature," said the Sena
or la answer to a question from
our correspondent. "With a ma-1
oritv cf tin; counties in the State j
lolding on to the county dispensaries, i
sn't it natural to suppose that th
lelegations from those counties win
tand hy the present system?"
The Senator added that so far a*
le was concerned it was a matter of
ndlfforence whether a prohibition
?i!I was enacted or tbe present sysem
was continued.
Two hundred years from now folks
rill be wrangling over this same
inuor question," said lie, "and it ts
die to talk of settling the problem
have been seeing the same old
ussel over in Kurope. The countries
hat have boon longest at It have
eached a solu'ion that seems most
mtlsfactory to them in tho adoption
f l?eers and light wines. During a'l
nv travels through Italy, France ami
jormnnv 1 never saw a drunken man.
>ut plenty of drinking men. Ov".*
11 London. where a l>ig fight is on
>v?'i i in* nuuii'r i saw ninny uruiiKs
-Vlien I was governor I recommended
tliis same substitution of light
ilcoholic drinks. i wanted to seiner
given a chance. If wo eouM
five the hoor privilege to a big, reiponsible
concern that would he
?., imnw bond, snv something
ike a half million dollars, to se
jeer throughout the State under ce'.
in detini ely stipulated conditions,
vo woul t do much for ino cause of
ernpt ranee, and get big revenue fot
he State besides."
Senator Tillman occupies a uniqin
lositlon iti the present situation regarding
whiskey in this S'ate. ll<
s not with the State dispensary lea 1*rs
in their efforts to join forces wlt'i
he prohibitionists. He is not wl4h
he prohibitionists, and he is not an
inqualifled endorser of the county
jption scheme. lie thinks every
ounty in the State would be bette*
>ff having dispensaries.
i vi ii 111 i t io sav, saia ne in
inswer to a question, "that oountlec
ike Orangeburg, Sumter and Flor>1100,
which are retnining the dispen
laries, are in a much better state
norally than such counties as (Jreon,-illo,
Spartanburg and others which
uwe voted out their dispensaries,
md where blind tigers are doing th?
msiness."
When he was reminded that It
ippeared to have been proven that
he police records of the dry counties
md materially improved the senator
mtd this was only temporary, that
t would only be a short time In a
lounty going dry before it was in a
vorse state morally than it had been
m voting out its dispensaries.
On the whole the Senator did not
ippcar to be much interested in th *
situation and answered questions
guardedly.
KILLED HY KLIZZAKD.
Many Sheep and Herder* Perish In
New Mexico.
Six herders and 20,000 sheep grasng
on the Cumbers mountain range
n Rio Arriba county. Now Mexico,
ire reported to have perished in the
>lizzard which raged in that section
rho storm waa the worat In year a.
ind tho anow 1h from five to ton feat
ieep.
Donald Cameron, a sheep herder,
ind two others, were caught in tho
dorm. They had to leave theli
iheep to perlah. Cameron becam*
?xhauated, and died. After beini
ilxty hours without sleep or nonT
ishment, the other two reached a
ranch In safety.
It is feared that many other herders
have nerlshod. Three thousand
*heep were driven by the storm in
:o Many Islands Lake, and only U00
ivere saved.
Shot to Death.
While sitting in the hack roonj
5f her home at Pooler, ten miles
from Savannah, Wednesday morning.
Mrs. W. E. Torrence, the wife of
in englneor, was fired upon from the
rear by Solomon Uiley, a negro boy,
and instantly killed. The boy was
captured and is now in jail.
Tonoher: "You have named all
domestic animals save one. It has
bristly hair, it is grimy, likes dirt
and Is fond of mud. Well, Tom?
rom (shamefacedly): "That's me."
A SWINDLED VICTIMIZED
Many Good Peopl? in Anderson Ia*st
Month.
The Mail says another shrewd
swindler is abroad in the land, and
the citizens of Anderson have innocently
contributed about $100 to
his maintenance. The man, who
guve his name as S. H. McCollough,
spent September 11 In this city offering
a year's subscription to the
Uncle Hem us Homo Magazine and
an accident policy for $1,000, pai-.i
ui> for the same length of time
in the North American Accident Insurance
Company of Chicago, all for
$1.
The offer was an attractive one
and there were many who went into
the .scheme. The policies were issued
on the spot and a receipt given
for the payment of the subscription
to the magazine. The receipt blanks
were printed in regular form Hinnounciug
the combination offer,
A short time ago Mr. Charles Provost.
one of the holders of the above
receipt, wrote the Uncle Remus Company
at Atlanta, and asked why the
magazine had not been received. A
letter came back by return mail say
lug they had no knowledge of such
a person as MeCollough and that not
a cent of money had been turtle t
over by him for the subscriptions
taken. McCollough was a shrewd
agent, a young man of good address,
dark skin, hetgnt about 5 feet 9
inches and would weigh about 13r?
pounds. His age was about 2o. *
STONES HI/OWN
Through n ..tan's Hotly at Fire i:i
a Mine.
One man is dead, one missing, on-*
dying and four others injured hv u
dynamite explosion at Hammond
mines near Gadsden, Ala., at nine
o'clock Thursday night. Almost o ery
plate glass window in Gadsden
was broken and twenty-four miners
nouses in the vicinity of the explosion
were razed to the ground and
many others damaged. The fire department
had responded to the alarm
of a house burning, being near a
magazine. Hundreds of spectators
standing near the scene when tin
explosion occurred and every om
within a wide radious were hurled
to the ground. Stones were blown
entirely through the body of Henrj
Kell, and no trace can he found cn
Arthur Hood. *
What Home Should He.
There is no happiness in life, there
is no misery like that growing out
of the disposition which consecrate
or desecrate the home. Home should
he so truly home that the weary,
'eirpted heart could turn to it ,mvwhere
on the highway of life and
receive light and strength . What a
blessing it is when weary with care
and burdened with care and .01 row
to have a home to which we can
ffn *?i? 1 f hritvi in ' n i/?ct r* f pl.xn/lr
we love, forget our troubles and
dwell in peace and quietness. Home
is the chief school of human' virtue.
Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows,
smiles, tears, hopes and solicitudes
form tho chief interest of human
life.
Charged With Murder.
Ferris Simpson, a barber, was arrested
at Harroldsburg, Ky., Thursad.v,
charged with tire murder of
Sclpio Noble. A body found ne. r
Covington with the head severed is
thought to bo that of Noble, of
Jackson, Ky., who had served three
years in the United States army and
left home three weeks ago, saying
ne would re-enlist. When he le*t
homo ho carried $4 00 in cash and
$900 in notes. Nothing was found
on the body of the inun found near
Covington. *
lU\|oets Dispensary.
Union county by vote on last Tuesday
refused to re-establish the dispensary
in her borders. Hast December
tho dispensary was voted ' t
Kt? o *% irv.U .. ~ C i ^
i/i a uiujui ujr ui umvcii, um mo election
was set aside on account of
irregularities. The majority against
the dispensary in the recent election
was nearly three hundred.
Another Milliner A created.
At Sparatnburg Monday Mr. James
Henry Itico, Jr., secretary of the
Audubon Society, swore out a warrant
against J. M. Goodlet, proprietor
of a well kr^own millinery establishment
on Bast Main street, In the
fashionable shopping district of the
city, charging him with displaying
two hats with feathers from the
snowy egret, the most famouns bird
of plumage in the world.
Ilig Tobacco Pira.
The Imperial Tobacco Company'r
plant at Mnllins, containing two anil
one-half million pounds of leaf tobacco,
was entirely destroyed by fire
at 1 1 o'clock Monday morning. Other
large industrial plants were saved
through the heroic efforts of private
citizens. The loss is estimate 1
from $25,000 to $30,000, presumed
to be covered by Insurance.
Why is a pig In a parlor like a
house on fire? Because tke sooner
it Is put out the better.
When a man's half-backed ke may
still bo undone when he goes home
and gets roasted.
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NORTH VS. SOUTH
5 t
INTERESTING STATISTICS ON
THE CIVIL WAR.
The Number of Troon* in I lie Fwli
oral Arniy Over Four 1
Many as in the Confederate.
Editor The Atlanta Journal.
Dear Sir: Thinking that it. w ?
bo of interest to the many Ce*
federate soldiers, now gathered in
your hoppitat?'0 city, I enclose statistics
which Bhojfr' that tli<* Sou'h
with (100,000 Boldlfers withstood an
invasion of 2.77S.304 men for fwu,
years.
Casserave O. Loo, a r. cognixed
authority on civil war statistics perpnrod
and published in a Yirgiuia
paper the following Interesting tab! s
showing the numerous superiority <
the northern army over that of t.b
South during the civil war.
11 is figures show that the tola!
enlistemtnts in the northern ar*>
were 2,778,304, as aginst GOO.ftoin
the Confederate army.
The foreign; rM-and negroes in tb'
northern army aggregated 080,817
or 80,917 more than the t?t.?i
strength of the Confederate.
There w ere 316,421 men of soul it
ern birth in tire northern army.
Mr. Lee's figures are as follows:
Northern Army.
Whites from the north. . . .2.272,88::
Whites from the south.... 3 I (>,117
Negroes lS0.lt .
Indians 3,631
Total 2,778,31 *
Southern Army.
Southern army G00.#
North's numerical superiority
2.1 78.39 4
In the northern army tliero wore
Germans 17 0.890
British-Americans 5:1,890
Irish IB.iM
English 4 5.091
Other nationalities 74,99<?
Negroes 180,017
Total 680,817
Total of southern army.. 600,110
Southern men in northern
army 1116,42 1
Foreigners 4 94,91*1
Negroes 18 6,017
Total 9 98,6111
Aggregate federal army,
May 1, 186 5 l.OOO.&JH
Aggregate Confederate army
May 1, 1865 18?,,4*35
Number in battle:
Con federates. Ft*deral
Seven days fight. 80,855 I 15,249
Antietuni ?,5.2 5a 8 7 lAi
Chancellorsville . 57,212 IP. 1,6# I
Fredericksburg ..78,110 110,090
Gettysburg .. ..82,000 00,09*
Chickninauga . .4 4,000 G , 01 o
Wilderness .. ..68,087 lll.ilV
Federal prisoners in Confederate
pi irons 270,090
Confederate prisoners in
Federal prisons 220,099
Confederate died in Federal
prisons 2 t. B3 SFederals
died in Confederate.
prisons 22,57 9
Hoping that these figures will fce
of interest to you and the Confer
orate soldier, I am, Yours very truly.
It. C. GRMGOItY.
A Maiden of Ia>ng Ago.
'Twas in the gladsome days of long,
ago,
That I loved a maiden fair;
And no changes of time or place
ha,fe wrought
Any change in my heart for hei
image there.
I have seen other faces as fair asv
hers;
Other forms with as much of airy
grace,
But no other girl in the whole \vld?*
world,
Have I found who could take her
place.
I have found other friends who jusfc
an true,
Other heaVta which wore good a**
khy*i
But no other heart which could mova
me ho,
Or soul so attuied to mine.
I have paused ot.hor days which w?ri
full of joy,
'Mid scenes which wero free frohx
care,
But none to compare witli the day*
A f X7 A rA
w i j \t i v *
The days when her form whs near.
How bright were thoso days, but
fleeting!
Those hours how Joyous free;
When even the (ones of her goat'*
voice
Were sweeter than mualc to ?ie.
But gonQ^nre the friends wlio knew
her,
And passed are the golden dreams
But her presence still nhldcti),
And her face, with its sunlit
beams.
I ran see her pass before mo
Like the form or oho departed;
But the thought which cheers maonward
Is the thought of our soul:- uniteiV
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