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■WHERE SOLDIERS FELL THE •GOVERNMENT’S THREE GREAT MILITARY PARKS. Mmw SO* TUtUeOeia* *f CkkkuoM(a, «*l BhUoK Will to «fcO «MOtBC <l«*****l*a*-S«»W* Os tJh. CbaneSartetlo Mowurtii Knew*. Tk# Government has created three elaborate National military parks on the three greatest battlefield of the Civil War—-Chickamauga, Gettysburg and Shiloh. It ie intended that they ■kali Berra a» permanent object lessons of American courage and valor, and ••oh of them will he oonatruotad on a •cala of magnificence not to he seen elsewhere in the whole world. None of these park* will he merely ernamentak pleasure grounds. The prime idea is to restore those historic fields to substantially the condition they were in at the times of the battles, and, In harmony with that idea, the parks to be creatod on their sites will be devoted strictly to the illustration of tile supreme straggles which ren dered them famous for tho benefit of future generations rather than of sur viving participants. In these parks every incident of the battles wilt be treated from the impartial standpoint Os history, without sectional animosity or bias, and in all the markings and monuments rigid justice will be shown alike to the vanquished and victors. CThickamauga and Shiloh were the most memorable contests of the war in the West, and Gettysburg was the most momentous conflict in the Bast, and in all three the most distinguished Gen erals, Union and Confederate, com manded, and troops from typical sec tions fought, so that by securing and preserving those fields intact as repre sentative examples of the greatest battles of the Civil War the Govern ment will be able to perpetuate their history in a concrete physical form for all time to come. Each of those three battles, however, was in a measure representative of the whole oonntry. Twenty-nine of the thirty-three States east of the Rocky Mountains, which comprised the Union at the outbreak of the war, had troop* in the Ohiokamauga and Chat GENERAL VIEW OF THE GEITCKBURO BATTLE-FIELD FROM KUiIMIT Ol UTILS BOUND TOP. SEHINABI JUDGE IN THE DISTANCE. tanooga campaigns, and five of thorn States Kontnoky, Tennessee, Mis souri, Wut Virginia and Maryland— had troops on both aidat. Nearly* vary Northern State, and likewise nearly every Southern, waa engaged at Gettys burg, and at Shiloh were troops from twenty different States, North and South. The Battle of Obickamanga (September 19 and 90, 1968). is re garded by military expert* as the beat demonstration of the plack, endurance, prowess and strategy of the American soldier ever given. Measured by per centages of Tosses and the duration of the fighting, it was the deadliest battle of modern times. Its sequel and com panion piece, Chattanooga (November 94 and 25,1868) , is oonsidesed the grand eat speetaenlar engagement. So Gettys bnrg (/vly 1, 9 and 8, 1868), oorre sponding with Chiokamaaga for East “ V "■ ■ ■■■■«■ ■ ■■ ■' am operations, and surpassing it in TffilwUs renown, registered the Mdhwslar mark of Aaseriean courage iAiiTMnditi la imi and fttinaa bitttiiUld of th/wsetesn Continent., As to Shiloh, peculiar shaTsatsriefase of tha Ameri am aotdfar and Mai adaptability fa and constitutes a fitting third in the trio of our greatest battlefields. Whan completed the park will be the moat comprehensive an<l extended military object lesson in the world. It oontains 7600 acres, and the central MI or THU STOUT UUaAXOXUKXNT* VABX -ISO SPOTS WRRKS B&IOAXIE ooauussssa VUE lILUD, CUrCItKACOA. driveway, passing through and over looking all the heavy fighting ground, is twenty miles long. The old roads of the battles have been reopened and new roads dosed. Over forty miles of the main roads of the field have been rebuilt in a substantial manner. The details of the six battles—Chicka meuga, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Orchard Knob, Wauhatchie and Brown’s Ferry—are set forth upon historical tablets within the park. These tablets, numbering about 2000 in all, are cast iron plates, four feet by three feet, with embossed letters. After easting, the plates were glazed black and the embossed letters whitened, making the inscriptions dis tinct at a distance. Each plate con tains from 200 to 400 words of his torical text, and is fastened to an iron post, set in concrete. They mark the Smitions of army headquarters, oorps, visions and brigades, both Union and Confederate, and tike parts taken by each organisation are concisely stated. It is left to the States having troops in the battles to erect monuments to regiments and batteries, and to the military societies and the larger or- Sanitations, such as corps, divisions and brigades, to erect their own mon uments. Nine handsome granite mon uments, all different, to the United States regulars, have been set up by the Government, at a cost of SISOO each. Eight pyramidal monuments, each ten feet high, constructed of eight-inch shells, have been erected to mark the spots where brigade com manders on each side were killed. Each battery engaged is to be marked in its most important fighting position by gun* and carriages of the patterns used in the battle. There ere thirty five of these positions for each army on the Chiokamhuga field alone. Five observation towers of iron and steel, seventy feet high, have been built* two on Missionary Ridge and three on Chickamauga field, from whioh the whole landscape below appears deer and recognizable with it# markings. All designs and inscriptions for mon ument* and tablets have to be submit ted first to the Ohiokamauga National Park Commission and receive approv al by the Secretary of War in order to insure reasonable uniformity and har mony, as well as artistic propriety and hittorioal accuracy. All monuments mast be either of durable stone or bronze, end all inscriptions must con form to the official reports end be pure ly historical. Under the law establishing a Na tional park at Gettysburg, introduced by General Daniel E. Sickles, the Government at once proceeded to ac quire the 800 scores and rights of way over avenues owned by tits Gettysburg Battle Field Memorial Association, and also to acquire other lands on the bat tle field by purchase or condemnation. Additional roads will be opened and tablets will be sot up definitely mark inn the Unas of tho troops oft both sides. Tbs rights, however, of States sad military organisations to piste of ground on whioh markers and monu ments have already been pleoed, will la nowise be prejudiced. The Gettys burg National Perk Commission, like tost of the Chickamauga Park, will co operate with State commissions in flk- that *rs not yet determ- A special and noteworthy feature of the Gettysburg Park, authorised in the Sieklae law, is a huge bronze tablet on apodsetal bearing a medallion likeness of Preeideut Lincoln and the whole of his immortal address on the occasion of the National Cemetery dedication at Gettysburg on November 18, 1868. There are now nearly $2,000,000 worth of monuments on tho Gettysburg field erected by Htates and regimental organisations and military societies. But until a few years ago there were no lines of battle marked, and a visitor to the field, noticing the absence of monument* on the Confederate side, would be prompted to ask: "Against whom wore the Union troop* fighting?” This leek has been supplied, and the lines of; ell troops cuftmlly indicated by tablets, as at Ohiokamauga, without censure and without praise, and, above all, with historical accuracy. The Shiloh Military Park for whioh Congress passed an authorizing act un der the lead of Representative David B. Henderson, of lowa, comprises about 3000 acres, woods and farming lands. Over 4000 Confederates lie bturied on that hard-fought field (April 6 and 7, 1862), and in the National cemetery are 3000 Union dead. A commission like those of Ghickemenga and Gettysburg has located the battle lines end sites for tablets and monu ment* for the 258 organizations en gaged in the battle. The arrangement of road a and brigade sections has been i placed under tho supervision of the best landscape architects procurable by the War Department. The regula tions as to tablets and monuments will be uniform for all three parks—Chicka mauga, Gettysburg and Shiloh. A PNEUMATIC BOAT/ Constructed of RuMwr and Inflated by Means of Ah Tubes. Boats and pueumatio tires are now manufactured on tho same principle. The latest craft of this sort construct ed can be deflated and packed in one ooraor of a trunk, together with the jointed oars used to propel it. It is oapahle of oanying comfortably from three to six persons. It is durable and absolutely safe, being non-capsisable. If filled with water it would still fleet several hundred pounds. These rubber boats are totally un like anything ever before constructed, except that rubber has in tho past been used for pontoons. There are two kinds. One is of rubber doth, with a continuous air chamber around the top, which is made in two separate compartments. On each side the oar locks are bnokled. The oars slip in and out of these little rowlocks, but arc not fastened by thole pins. There is also an air tube running lengthwise under tho oentre of the boat. This serves as a keel and also as a bumppr. The other style is, perhaps, the most notable. It is given full form and rigidity in. inflated tubes running lengthwise. The oarlocks are bnokled on to the aides of the top roll. When being transported these boats are placed in a email case, something like a valise, and can be either carried in that farm, or, as stated, in e trunk. Both boats are made in four separate compartments, and ere fitted with either pnenmatie seats or seats of plank, as may be desired. It is not only in calm waters that the boat has been tested, but it has * ;ll . . tto rnroitano boat. ’ been given an ample trial inNewffark harbor, well down toward Bandy Hook, on several occasions when a rather heavy sea was running. The result has been to show that the oraft pos sesses any amount of buoyancy, and rides cither a heavy swell or a consid erable sea and ships very little water. One boat of this description, with six persons aboard, made the journey to Forth Amboy on a day when it was al most hazardous for small sailboats in the open without meeting disaster of any sort and hardly wetting the olothea of its pasflcnfirers. The method of inflating or deflating the oraft differs with the size. The arrangement for holding the air is such that it is hard to conceive an accident that would disable it so that the sir would escape. While it is not an un common matter for the tire of a bicycle to be punctured, the material of the rubber boat is so much heavier and so carefully prepared to resist the irapdet of even a sharp painted instrument that the danger of s puncture is hardly among, the possibilities. In any event, it would withstand a muon heavier shook than the ordinary boat, and for that reason alone promises to be of value.—New York Herald. There ere thirty-seven newspapers nod periodicals published in (hurts’ mala, aooordiag to a recent eoanulsr report Os this number seven an A-tii*. fourteen weeklies and twelve it nw « CYCLES AND CYCLISTS TMI SUB JECTS 0V SOLILOQUY. AN ENJOYABLE TRIP TO CfIROLINfI. rtw muesonhor Maks* a Swift Joutaey Homeward to Be Present st HU Help meets’* Birthday. The bicycle has come to stay—at least until there is something better. Prejudice is passing away. I confess that I had it, but I am cautious now-a days and made no fuss about it. Some how I don't favtrf things that I can’t do myself. I don’t like to be left be hind. One of our school board re fused to vote for our superintendent. "I believe he is the best man of nil," he said, "but he rides a bicyole. ” I was in South Carolina last week and! found them everywhere. There were > eighty-seven registered in the town of Blaekville and nearly half of them were used by girls and matrons. It is a beautiful town, os level as a floor sad the streets look like theyj have been fare planed and sand papered. The tight, sandy surface is | not mnch in the way of the wheels! and the pretty girls wheel to school \ and to tire postoffice and tho stores j and go visiting and take their evening excursions. They rido with grace and | modesty and nobody ohjeota or is sur prised. There is a first-class repair shop there, where every broken or damaged part is mended and even plating in silver and brass is done. From this skilled mechanic I learned that it oo«t a titan about $5 a year to keep hia wheel in order and cost a woman about $1.50. "You ace,” said ho, "the young men take more risks and ride over the cross ties on the railroad track, but the girls are more prudent and careful. Oh, no, it does not cost one-tenth as much to keep a wheel in order as it doe* to feed a horse. With careful ausgee a good wheel ought to lest ten years, but the improvements come so quick and fast that the old style soon becomes a second-hand and is sold for half price and a new one bought. Like the sewing machines, the price will soon oome down os the patents run out and then a good wheel can be bought for SBO or $40.” My next stop was at Bamberg, a live town on the Booth Carolina road, and the first thing that greotod me was a bicycle dross parade and then a tour nament. Riders and wheels were all decorated. Borne of the men wore in fantastic array; the wheels were adorned with gay colors of ribbon and fancy paper. The company was forty strong and had its officers, who gave command, "Bight wheel, forward roll, evolute, speed well, round the bend, wheels ahoy, slow up, dis mount, salute your queen,” etc. There were some young ladies in the procession and some men in fe male garb, but it took no Solomon to divine their sex. Bamberg is an old town made over, renewed and invigo rated by the wheels and spindles and looms that hum day and night in a large cotton mill near by. This mill has brought good schools and artesian wells and new hotels and churohes and many beautiful new residences. A cotton mill does as much or more for a town as a pension agency. The latter pours free money in to a commu nity, and free money goes as easy as it oomos, but a mill distributes money that is earned. I saw more mills at Orangeburg and that oifcy is on a boom. More mills are being built— built from the dividends of the first mills. The town is stretohing out and putting on oity airs. I wish it would stretch to that Coast Line depot* for it is an awful long mile for a man of my age to walk and carry a valise. I waa told that a hack would oome for me at. half past' S o’clock, but as it did nut come, I walked, for fear of being left It was a little after daybreak by that eastern time and I had hardly got rested in the depot before the street car came rolling down without a passenger. What an idiot I was, but nobody told me how to do and I wonldent have been left for $lO. But just think of it, I left at 6 o’clock and reached At lanta at 12 o’olook—2(11 miles in six hours, 43 miles an hour, including stoppages. This was the fastest trav eling 1 evar did in my life. I visited ■Bother town that ie just taking on its second growth. St George is a lovely little village that baa recently been made a oounty seat and the people are mood, very proud. They are prepar ing to build a oourthouse and expect that factories and street oars and wa terworks and gas lights will soon fol low. "But right now,” sold my friend, "we have a town foil of the prettiest girls in the state.” Yes. His wife it m Europe and every girl looks sweet to him. I learned that the town was named for a ulever old settler by. the flame of Georgs, but how he came to be canonised into a saint I did sot learn. I met a Howell there—a oousin of Evan. He is editor, postmaster and general factotum and a rebel to the core. Our own D, B. Freeman of oartersville,another editor, has proved his claim to the youngest soldier of the confederacy, but Howell pushes him very dose, for he ran away when he was fifteen years old and fought at Vicksburg and Ohiokamauga and then Sit into a hospital at Rome and -Dr. tiler took pity on the beardless sick boy and oorod for him two months at hia own home and then sent him homo to his mother. But Barnwell, old time-honored Barnwell, quiet, peaceful BaruwalL, gave me the moat royal wel come. Thcv<e good people are not in a hurry about anything except once a year, and that is on tho raoe track. They trot arjund that and talk politics and discuss Ttilmanism and tho dls- - ponstuy on the way. What fine old geutlemeu f met Ariper scholar than Colonel Simons, a son of William Gil mer Simons, can hardly be found. A handsome man and a pleasant and earnest talker. Then there was ex- Gove r nor Haygood—General Hay good, the hero of Petersburg. His •olid, massive, bsnevolaut face made an impression on me that will endure as long as I endure. But wbo wonld have thought of finding there a brother of Mrs. Lincoln —Dr. Todd, a leading physician and surgeon, a friend to the south, a life-long Democrat. He has domiciled there ever since the war and commands the reapeot of that people. I knew his younger brother, who was an unterriiied rebel and waa an aide de-camp on Joe Johnston’s staff. Is it not singular that *ll of Mrs. Lincoln's kindred were loyal to the south, during the struggle? I remember that one of bar nieces presented a flag to the Hol ms Guards when they started to Vir ginia. I wonder if Mrs. Lincoln’s kin dred were all traitors and gnflty of treason. But lam home again and happy— not that T waa unhappy while away, but a fooling of rest and repose comes ever me here that I cannot find abroad. I would never leave' home if there was not a pressure of necessity, and I count the (lays and the hours when I shall return. There has been another birthday in the famtiyand I waa hound to bo here. My wife, Mrs. Arp, shall not dose her sixty-fifth year without my presence. It is is all over now—the morning kiss and a ten-dollsr bill slipped under the breakfast plate was the best I could do, and I don't know yet which was most appreciated. She will spend that money on some of the children or grandchildren. Strange to tell, but it is true, one of our neighbors has the same birthday and is the same age and invited my wife to dino. Os < course she accepted and found there a goodly company of matrons. There were nine of them and they were over 000 years old. No, I don’t mem that; I neon that the sum of their several ages was 600. Same of their ages had to be guessed at, for they were widows. They talked prin cipally about ante-bellum days and the times "when niggers was” and about the falling of the stars and when matches and steel pens and cooking stoves and kerosene oil first came and about the old high swung carriages their fathers owned and how the steps folded up in the door and were lot down like a staircase and a little nig stood up behind and a big nig set up before ou a diokey and waa proud of belonging to "quality folks.” Then one of the moat ancient of these ma trons said that kind of riding was all right and ladylike, but as for her, she never intended to ride a bicycle, no in deed—not unless they invent aside saddle arrangement, said another. It waa a goodly company and no rude man need apply. They diaensa ed no gossip and had kind words for everybody and dosed the happy com munion with prayer—a good, humble, grateful prayar by one of their number. My wife Bays it was a day to be re membered and the has invited them all to meet at our house on her next. birthday and spend another centennial.' Amen and amen, my I» and may the good Lord take none of them away.— Bibb Ara in Atlarta Constitution. - The Englishman is looked on In Scot* land, and regards himself, as a for eigner. Though the literary language of both countries Is one and the flame, many of the roost common Scottish ex pressions are quite unintelligible to him, while the laws and Institutions of the country are entirely unfamiliar. "How,” in this connection remarked the Edinburgh pr**a—“how Is It that, after living one thousand yean Aide by side, after three centuries of union, and In spite of the yearly visit to Scot land of tons of thousands of English, there are still among them people, even writer*, who know less about our coun try than about Patagonia l*" ao*m thlm«h boVs oi;obt t# ksow. That good health U better than Wealth. That honest, Industrious habits or* better tt.ao money. That manly boys lore and obey lh*b parents. That to speak or even think disrespect fully of womeo is to dishonor their ot|f» sweet mothers sod sisters. That a clear conscience to worth m> more than the 01 nwl - An Arkansas preacher declsrsfl that be “has just discovered that tie dbvlt Is a lawyer.” If be to living In Arkan sas h« J• getting his just deserts.
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