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HONORS THE PAST ; REGULAR ARMY PAIS TRIBUTE TO RESTING HEROES OF v .? THE WAR OF SECESSION As Forty-Eight Guns Sound Over Gettysburg Professional Soldiers and Volunteer Alike Stand in Solemn Silence to Pay Token of Hespect to Fallen Warriors. ino regular army paid tribute 011 Friday, July 4, to the thousands who sleep under%the hills of Gettysburg. Somewhere down in the heart of the tentel c"\v a bugle sang out in silver sweet c: 11 that wandered over the Held where Leo and Meade made history. The big flag before the headquarters of Gen. Liggett flashing in sudden < urves of red, white and blue, glorious in the sunshine of a perfect July day, came slowly half way down the shaft. !:i front of the tent, shoulders sou ired, figure trim in summer uniform of white, face towards the flag, the general clicked heels together and stood at attention. Somewhere the guns of the Third battery burst in staccato salute, livery officer over the length and breadth of the wide field, every enlisted man, turned away from the duties of the moment and faced the flag, heels alight with the sentiment of the hour. As the last gun of the forty-eight sent the heroes clattering about Cemetery Ridge and Round Top there was solemn silence, the hush of peace. Old veterans who did not realize, perhops, exactly at the beginning what was going on stood silent under the spell of tin' universal feeling that seemed to sweep the field. Even the clatter of pots and pans in the mess tents was hushed, and the yells of cooks about to dish up the midday meal lowered to whispers. For live minutes the camp was quiet. Then the bugle spoke again in notes more joyous. The silken (lag leaped up the staff to its very pinnacle and the noises 40,000 men can make resumed their sway. The regular army's tribute to the dead and to the flag of a united nation was paid. Only a few minutes before President Wilson had spoken in the big tent to the veterans in blue and gray, ^ and only a short time afterwards thousands of those who were left began their preparations for departure. The president came into Gettysburg shortly before 1 1 o'clock from Baltimore. Through the narrow, crooked streets of this war-famed country town he motored out to camp, with Gov. Tenor of Pennsylvania and Representative Palmer of Pennsylvania by his side. His appearance at the station of Gettysburg was the signal for a cheer and from down in the Gettysburg college grounds came the customary twentyone guns salute. From the station to the camp over the village streets and gray roads the president was driven while the Pennsylvania consta binary, loosing business-like ana cmcient in their slate-like pray uniforms, guarded his automobile and kept the trafllc clear. At the entrance to the big tent the president paused for a moment tc let the cameras pop away as he stood with head uncovered between a veteran from either army. His entrance into the tent to the strains of "Hai to the Chief" brought the crowd which estimates say numbered 10, 000, from their chairs with a cheer The speakers' plaitform was ftllec with the staff officers of governors with men in Confederate gray and f few in blue, with women in gaj dresses and the president in his blacl frock coat was a qiilqt figure. Gov. Tener introduced him in i dozen words. As he rose to speal thero was another cheer. HOY KILLED MOTHER ? Young Man Arrested for Seriou Crime at Abbeville. On Wednesday at about 6 o'clocl in the afternoon one Ben Ashwortl at Calhoun Falls was accused of kill ing his mother and was arrested an< brought to the county jail at Abbe ville that night. The jail was wel guarded as a lynching was threaten ed. The boy is about 20 years of age Ashwortli himself asserts that h went home drunk and that his moth er asked, "Are you dfunk again? and that he replied "Yes." Then h claims that his mother remarked tha < < ~ ^ I i . in iuu u.i w 10 cause me 10 kii myself," and at once reached unde the bed, pulled out a pistol and trie to shoot herself in his effort to pre vent her the pistol was discharge and the bullet entered her brain. It is said that the boy and his fa thor have been on a drunk nearly year and that there is some doubt a to the truthfulness of the boy's stc ry. > ? ? ? City Huns Ice Houses. Seven non-union ice plants seize by order of Mayor Hunt, of Cincir nati, were operated Thursday by tb * ? board of health in an effort to reliev tho suffering caused by the strike < the ice workers. WHITE HOUSE ROMANCE / DAUGHTER OF PRESIDENT WILSON IS TO WED i Engagement of Miss .Jessie Wilson, Second Daughter of the President, Has Reen Announced. Thn nrncirlont n?.i ** ?? ? K.vu,u?.it aiiu m.iB. VV 11UUI1, RI1nouacod Wednesday night tho engagement of their second daughter, Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson, to Francis Bowes Sayre of Lancaster, Pa. The wedding is expected to take place next November at the White 11 ou80. Mr. Sayre is at present an attorney in the ofllce of District Attorney Whitman of New York. While close friends of both families have known of the engagement for some time, announcement was withheld until Wednesday, the first anniversary of Mr. Wilson's nomination at the Baltimore convention. White House officials accompanied the brief announcement with a biography of Mr. Sayre. He is 2 8 years of age and after preparing at the Hill school at Pottstown, Pa., and the Lawrenceville, N. J., graduated from Williams college in 1909. He was maager of tho football team there, valedictorian of his class and interested in'Y. M. C. A. work. He spent two summers with Dr. Alfred T. Grenfell in his missionary work on (lie coast of Labrador and studied law at Harvard low school where he graduated last year "cum laude." He has travelled extensively during his vacations, spending summers in Alaska and northern Siberia. Mr. Sayre comes from a collegiate family. His father was the late Robert H. Sayre, for a long time president of tho board of trustees of Lehigh university and builder of the Lehigh Valley railroad. His mother was Martha Finley Nevin, a daughter of John Williamson Nevin, theologian and president of Franklin and Marshall college at Lancaster, Pa. She is aosoenaed irom Hugh Williamson of North Carolina, one of the framers of tlie constitution. She is a sister of Robert J. Nevln head of the Am(^ican church of Rome, Italy, and* a first cousin of Ethelbert Nevin, the composer. Miss Wilson is 2 4 years of age. She was educated at Goucher college, Raltimore and has specialized in political science. She has done much settlement work in Philadelphia and has been actively identified with the Y. W. C. A., having recently made many speeches in its behalf. While Mr. Sayre is not known to Washingtonians, he has made several quiet visits to the White House in recent months and was a frequent visitor at the Wilson home at Princeton, N. J. The announcement was received with keen interest in capita! social circles as the wedding starts the winter season with an important social function. Not since Miss Alice Roosevelt and former Representative Longworth of Ohio were married has , there been a wedding at the White House. ? i ENCASED IN CONCRETE. 1 , I Irak email in Wreck I^amls in Sand, Cement and Water. 1 During the heavy downpour of rain at Magnolia, W. Va., on the Ralti, more and Ohio railroad, several cars I of a freight train were derailed. Two cars one containing sand and the , other cement, were crushed together, I and in the midst of the wreckage, Brakeman Henry Blogge was pinned . by the mass of cement, sand and broken cars. Blogge had been rid1 ing on top of the car of cement when the accident occurren. t It was several hours after the acci7 dent before Blogge regained conc sclousness. Then he found that he was incased in wet cement and sand, t which formed concrete. c Blogge's head, shoulders and arms were clear of the solid mass, but he could not extricate himself because of the wreckage piled on him. After several attempts the imprisoned man attracted the attention of members s of the wrecking crew clearing away the debris and they made an attempt to relieve him. { It was many hours before they ^ were able to get to him. By this time the concrete had set and Blogge was encased tightly in the solid mass. After several efforts to break up \ the immense mass of concrete two _ heavy cranes on the wreck train lift, ed it aboard a car. The incased man e was taken to the Martinsburg shop, _ where the concrete was broken under ? a steam hammer and Blogge rescued 0 from his peculiar position. t v ? ? [j Tjeft Fortune to Work r Utter weariness of being merely a d millionare is the reason John O'Brien, ) of New York, Wednesday advanced d in explination of his long absence from the ken of his old friends. i- He notoriously vanished at the end a of his college year in 1910. Ho was s found yesterday in Van Buren, Ark., >- where he is working as an assistant engineer for a railraad. Kills Wife and Commits Suicide d Henry Dodd, a farmer of Oreenl vale, Tenn., shot and killed his wife e with a rifle Monday and then come mitted suicide. Eleven children sur>f vive. The cause of the tragedy Is not known. WILSON'S SPEECH PRESIDENT DELIVERS INSPIRING ADDRESS TO VETERANS ASKS NATION TO SERVE ? ?? Shows Tliut the Present Time Nee<lfj Sacrifice and Valor in as True a Sense as Was Needed Fifty Years Ago?Appeals to All Might-Minded Men for Aid. A call to service for the reunited mniuii iuui I'Tiuay through Its regular army paid tribute to iho fallen heroes of Gettysburg, blue and gray, was the dominant note of the speech of Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States, at tht semi-centennial reunion on the field where fifty years ago the North and South strove for the mastery. The struggle for supremacy, said the president was forgotten, except for the priceless memories of heroism. Still, said the nation's head, there exist opportunity and need for service to the nation which produced the men who faced death and pain on the stricken field fifty years ago. The president said: "Friends and Fellow Citizens: 1 need not tell you what the battle of Gettysburg meant. These gallant men in blue and gray sit all about us bere. Many of them met here upon this ground in grim and deadly struggle. Upon these famous fields and hillsides their comrades died about them. In their presence it were an impertinence to discourse upon how the battle went, how it ended, what it signified! Hut fifty years have gone by since then, and 1 crave the privilego of speaking to you for a few minutes of what those fifty years have meant. "What havo they meant? They have meant peace and union and vigor and the maturity and might of a great, nation. How wholesome and healing the peace has been! We have found one another again as brothers and comrades in arms, enemies no longer, generous friends rather, our battles long past, the quarrel forgotten?except that we shall not fotget the splendid valor, the manly devotion of the men then arrayed against one another, now grasping hands and smiling into each other's eyes. How complete the union has become and how dear to all of us, how unquestioned, how benign and majestic, as State after State has been added to this our great family of free men! How handsomo the vigor, the maturity, the might of the great nation we love with undivided hearts; how full of largo and confident promise that a life will be wrought out that will crown its strength with gracious justice and with a happy welfare that will touch all alike with deep contentment! We are debtors to those fifty crowded years; they have made us heirs to a mighty heritage. "Hut do we deem the nation complete and finished? These venerable men crowding here to this famous field have set us a great example of devotion and utter sacrifice. They were willing to die that the people might live. Hut their task is done, Their day is turned into evening, They look to us to perfect what they established. Their work is handed on to us, to be done in another way but not in another spirit. Our day is not over; it is upon us in full tide "Have affairs naused? Does the nation stand still? Is what flftj years have wrought since those dayi of battlefield finished, rounded out and completed? Here is a great peo pie great with every force that has ever beaten in the Hfeblood of man kind. And it is secure. There is nc one within its borders, there is nc power among the nations of the earth, to make it afraid. Hut has i yet squared itself with its own grea standards set up at its birth, whei it made that first noble, naive appea to the moral judgment of mankinc to take notice that a government ha< now at last been established whlel was to serve men, not matters? It i secure in everything except the satis faction that its life is right, adjustec to the uttermost to the standards o righeousness and humanity. Th days of sacrifice and cleansing ar not closed. We have harder thing to do than were done in the heroi days of war, because harder to se clearly, requiring more vision, mor calm balance of judgment, a mor candid searching of the very spring of right. "Look around you upon the fiel of Gettysburg! Picture the arraj the fierce heats and agony of battle column hurled against column, bal tery bellowing to battery! Valor Yes! Greater no man shall see i war; and self-sacrifice, and loss t the uttermost; the high recklessncE a..aUa J -1 ^ii I. f . K .1 ui KXiiiuMi (invoiioH which noes nc count the cost. We are made b these tragic, epic things to kno' what it costs to make a nation?th blood and sacrifice of multitudes r unknown men lifted to a great sta' . ure in the view of all generations b . knowing no limit to their manly wil . ingness to serve. In armies thi . marshalled from the ranks of frc [Jmen you will see, as it were, a natio embattled, the leaders and the lei r-vrv^. UIJ WALLED UP IN HOUSE YOl'NCi (illUi KKAIjKD AIJVK IX st<>m:-k\( ia)si:i> tomii. i ? After Tearing OIV Blindfold Mason W as Compelled at Point of Pistol to Complete the Job. The identity and fate of a young girl who was walled up and left to ' die in a building near Barcelona, Spain, has caused the Spanish authorities to institute a rigid investigation. Tho affair was made public through i k/. .. ? - - ? m?j> oitviuiumii oittae oy usteban Gutierrez, a stone-mason, who tolls a thrilling story of how he was compelled, at the point of a revolver, to do the work. Gueierrcz declares that, after he had advertised in a newspaper for work, two well-dressed men called at his address and asked him to accompany them in a motor car into the country a short distance to make some urgent repairs. Reaching a dense woods on the outskirts of the city, the two men and a chauffeur seized, hound and blindfolded the stonemason, and a few minutes later the car stopped in front of a lonselv house. The mason declares he was led inside and ordered to wall up a narrow aperture the stone and mortar being in readiness. Gutierrez says he heard some one sobbing, and, tearing the bandage from his eyes, he saw a young girl, bound with ropes and wedged in the aperture. Ho was promptly knocked down by his captors, and when he arose, was ordered to build a wall so as to enclose the girl, and when he refused was threatened with revolvers. The mason declares that, at the points of the guns, he was compelled to wall up the young girl after which the car conveyed him to a woods several miles away, where he was unbound, given $'J0 in silver and warned not to speak of the Incident. Lost, he wandered several hours before he was discovered by a woodsman, and, reacning Barcelona, tu> went, at once to the police. j and may know, if you will how little except in form its action differs in days of peace from its action in days , of war. "May we break camp now and be at ease? Are the forces that fight for the nation dispersed, disbanded, gone to their homes forgetful of the com- , mon cause? Aro out forces disorganized, without constituted leaders and the might of men consciously united .because we contend, not with armies, but with principalities and powers and wickedness in high places. Are we content to lie still? Does our union mean sympathy, our peaco contentment, our vigor right action, our maturity self-comprehension and a clear confidence in choosing what we shall do? War fitted us for action, and action never ceases. "I have been chosen the leader of the nation. I can not justify the choice by any qualities of my own, but so it has come about and here I stand. Whom do I command? The ghostly hosts who fought upon these 1 battlefields long ago and are gone? These gallant gentlemen stricken in years whose fighting days are over, ! their glory won? What are the orders for them, and who rallies them? I have in my mind another host, whom these set freo of civil strife in ' order that they might work out in days of peaco and setled order the life of a great nation. That host is the people themselves, the great and ? ii ?in 1 -i? me Hiiiiiu, wuiiout ciass or mnerence of kind or race or origin; and un* divided in interest, if we have but the * vision to guide and direct them and order their lives aright in what we * do. Our constitutions are their articles of enlistment. The orders of the } day are the laws upon our statute } books. What we strive for is their freedom, their right to lift themselves 1 from day to day and behold the t things they have hoped for, and so 1 make way for still better days for 1 those whom they love who are to 1 come after them. The recruits are 1 the little children crowding in. The 1 quartermaster's stores are in the 8 mines and factories. Every day something must be done to push the * campaign forward; and it must be ^ done by plan and with an eye to 0 some great destiny. 0 "How shall we bold such thoughts in our hearts and not bo moved. I 0 would not have you live even to-day e wholly in the past, but would wish to 0 stand with you in the light that streams upon us now out of that great day gone by. Here is the nation God has builded by our, hands. What shall wo do with it? Who r> stands to act again and always in the 5? spirit of this day of reunion and hope ...... ~ ? anu patriotic rervorr Tne <iay or our ' country's life lias but broadened into 11 morning. Do not put uniforms by. ? Put the harness of tlie present day 13 on. Lift your eyes to the great tracts ^ of life yet to he conquered in the in? terest of righteous peace, of that vv prosperity which lies in a people's 0 hearts and outlasts all wars and errors of men. Come let us he comrades and soldiers yet to servo our y fellow men in quiet counsel, where the blare of trumpets is neither 13 heard nor heeded and where the !e things are done which make blessed n the nations of the world in peace and righteousness and love." PICKETT'S CHARGE REENACTED BY CONFEDERATES ON CEMETERY RIDGE. RECEIVED WITH CHEERS Ity the 01<1 Defenders, a Philadelphia llriKiulei When They Heach the Stone Wall?<Jrays Climb Over to Shake Hands ami llalk of the Days That Were. A handful of men in gray re-enicted Thursday the charge of Plckott icross the held of Gettysburg. Up ho slope of Cemetery ridge, where loath kept step with them in '03, I f?0 veterans of the Virginia reglnents of that immortal brigade nado thoir slow parade. Under the brow of the ridge in the )loody angle, where the Philadelphia >ridge was a handful in blue, scarcey larger waited to meet the onslaught of peace. There were no lashing sabres, no belching guns, 011y eyes that dimmed fast and kindly aces behind the stone wall that narks the angle. At the end, in place of wound or prison or death, .vero handshakes, speeches and ininging cheers. The veterans in gray marched for 1 quarter of a mile over the ground hat they traversed during the harge. They came up the slope in jolumn of fours, irregular but responsive to the commands of Ma J. W. A', llentlev of the Twenty-four Virginia, one of the few oillcors of either Pickett's or the Philadelphia brigades present. Ahead of them marched .a band and well down the column was a faded Confederate flag, its reel Held pierced with many holes, Its ^ross bars dim and its shaft rolnrrwi with tho swoat of many a man who :1ied that it might fly high in tho last lesporate offort to pierce tho Union lines. Its progress was slow and painful ("or the timothy in the field was high and its plowed surface was not easy for weady feet. Up to the very edge of tho stone wall, covered now with tangled vines, shaded by trees and peaceful as a summer lane, they marched in the hot sun while the hand played "Dixie". There they stood for half an hour whilo their comrades in blue peered across at them. The blue line formed behind the wall. Overhead floated a faded standard of the Second army corps. Behind them were the statutes of the Philadelphia brigade and the Fourth United States battery where Gen. Armistead died. As the men in gray formed in a long line facing tho wall, the Stars and Bars and tho flag of the Second corps were crossed in amity; the Stars and Stripes were unfurled and the crowd that camo to watch burst into a cheer. Rejresentative J. Hampton Moore, of Pennsylvania, mado a long speech and Maj. Bentley answered him on behalf of the South. The veterans in gray were given a medal provided by John Wannamaker. They crowded over the stone wal, shook *ands and the charge was over. There was many a picturesque figure in the lino that came up the slope. W. H. Turpin of the Fifty-third Virginia appeared in the uniform he wore on the day of the charge. His feet were bound in cloth, ho had an army blanket strapped to his back and he calmly smoked a long stemmed corn cob pipe. There were fifteen regiments in Pickett's division that day in 'G3, and the histories say that 5,000 men charged across the field. Every field officer was killed or wounded except one lieutenant colonel and two-thirds of the line officers met the same fate Of the 5,000 who charged, only about I 2 000 returned to the Confederate position. The Philadelphia brigade numbered about 1,2 00 men and lost 4 53 In killed and wounded. ? Democrats Economical. Uncle Sam closed the fiscal yeai 1912 with a surplus of $40,082,229 representing the excess of receiptt over expenditures, exclusive of Pan ama canal and public debt transac tions. This exceeds last year's sur plus by $2,750,000. The Pananu canal expenditures and public debi transactions, however, wiped out th< surplus of ordinary receipts over or dinary expenditures and created i deficit for the year of $2,1 49,000. Confesses Through Keniorse. Tortured into sleeplessness by th< knowledge that he had forged hii employer's name to a check, H. D llendle, a sixteen-year-old youth o Cullman, Ala., surrendered himsol at the Pulton county tower Wednes day morning, with the request tha he be locked up. His guilty con science would not let him sleep, sai< the boy. (Jets Largo Damages. Two hundred and fifty thousam dollars and all the coats of the suit 1 the price the Marquis of Northamp ton has agreed to pay to settle th suit for breach of promise brough against him by the London actresf Miss Daisy Markham, whose rea name is Violet Moes. 1 AN UNUSUAL CASE i MISTAKEN' IDENTITY CAUSED BY TWO MISSING TOES. | ? Negro Almost Convicted at Ilennettaville When It Was Found That H? Wan Not the Mail Wanted. One of the most remarkable cases of mistaken identity, caused bv slm ilar peculiarities, happened at Hennettsvillo in the trial of Neal Davis, alias Tom High tower, for wife murder. In 1904 Tom liightower, a negro man, murdered his wife in a most brutal way, severing her arms and limbs from her body, cutting her throat and otherwise brutally cutting her. The different parts of the body were buried at different places in a bay. Tom liightower made his escape. Last February a negro who was raised in Marlboro county, was serving a sentence at Easley and he reported that another negro 011 the gang at that place and at that time was Tom liightower. The arrest was made and the negro who claimed to be Neal Davis was brought to Bennottsvillo. The resemblance was most striking. A striking feature of the resemblance was that Tom Hightower had lost a groat toe on the left foot, as had the prisoner. After being brought to Bonnettsville I10 gave his name as that of Neal Davis, stated that he was raised in Pulaski county, Georgia, gave names of citizens of that community. Several negroes in this county who had worked with Tom liightower and knew him intimately, swore posi- 1 tively that the defendant 011 trial was Tom liightower, one of them using the expression, "If that is not Tom liightower, ho is in Tom Hightower's Hide." Two white men who also knew liightower well, testified that the defendant was liightower. Two chaingang guards from Pickens county had been brought to Hennettsvllle by the State, and they testified that Davis had told them he had murderI ed his wife, that he had cut up her body and burled it in different places. The defence sought to weaken this testimony by showing that these two witnesses made no reference to the confession when the sheriff went to Easley for the prisoner, and that they said nothing about it until some | time afterwards, when all of the facts had been published in tlie daily papers. The State had also brought two witnesses from Georgia. These two men talked to Davis, and testified that they were satisfied beyond all doubt that the prisoner was not Tom Hightower, but that ho was Neal Davis; that ho worked under them on their plantation several years to 1 904 and left there in 1 904. Tom Hightower had been in that county and section several years prior to the killing of his wife in 1 904. The missing too of Hightower's foot was cut off irregularly and raggedly, and not smoothly. The statement of Dr. Crosland was that the toe on the negro's foot had been amputated by a skilled surgeon, and that It was as fine a piece of surgeary of the kind as ho had evor seen. Tt was altogether smooth. Two other witnesses testified positively that the defendant was not Tom Hightower. After being out a few minutes the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. - ? fUiOOl) SHED AT REUNION. * Union Veteran Stabs Men Who Abased Abraham Idncoln. Seven men wore stabbed Wednesday in a fight in the dining room of HlA f v'tlim rtr I I r> > n I no n onoi.u n v.. v/ vjvvvjumui h hwvvj1, (Wl U 1 CO Ull SJ L iV fight, which started when several i men aroused the anger of an old veteran in blue, by abusing Lincoln. , Several of the wounded men are in a . serious condition at the Pennsflvania State Hospital. The state constabul lary are making desperate efforts to find the men who did the stabbing. According to all the information the authorities could gather the fight started suddenly and was over in a , few minutes. It began shortly before ) seven o'clock, when the dining room - was full of people, and caused a - panic among the scores of guests. - The veteran who was unhurt and disi appeared in the melee was sitting t near David Farbor and Edward J. i Carroll, when he heard the slighting - remarks about Lincoln. He jumped i to his feet and began to defend the martyred president and berated his detractors. The men who were stabbed, ac3 cording to the information the surs geons gathered, jumped to the de. fence of the veteran when the others f In ly ? I i I- ~ 1 tiuoun 111. ixuivt?n Yvciw uui ill a f second and the room was thrown into - an uyroar. It was all over before t the rest of the men in the room - could get their breath and the men J responsible for it had fled. Auto Wreck Fatal. Samuel Stevens Sands, step-son of d William K. Vanderbilt, was killed in s an automobile accident near West ?- Hampton, H. T., Wednesday night, e The machine ho was driving overt turned when a tire burst. He lived ?, only long enough to tell who he was il and to request that his wife be notice*.