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The creditora of the estate of Daniel P
Johnson, deceased, Are - hereby notified
that a special proceeding has been institu
ted in said court before the clerk thereof,
by VV. L. Little and others, in behalf of all
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Grandchildren Visit lliin and
Have Happy Time They Wor
ried Him Some.
Yesterday was a long and happy day
at our house, for a lot of the grandchil
dren came early and some of the neigh
bors" little girls found out they were here.
They always find out, and so they came
over and joined the procession and it was
an unbroken frolic all the day long. The
little ones brought their dolls along, for
the maternal instinct begins early. They
made playhouses under the tree3 and
played raumblepeg with my two knives
and rode in the hall and veranda on the
tricycle and diessed up in all the fine old
clothes my wife could find in the trunks
and closets, and paraded upstairs - and
downstairs and outdoors with their trains
dragging after them, and they played go
ing to call and receiving calls. WTien the
dinner bell rang they all came running
and it took all my time to wait on them,
and their grandma got out every good
thing she had in the house, and about the
middle of the afternoon they wanted to
give a little party and had to have more
cake and crackers and pie.
Some of the little ones got hold of some
chalk and colored crayons and marked
all over the verandah and tried to make
pictures of dogs and horses and monkeys
on the wall3, ani then they called for
scissors and fashion boohs and .cut out
dolls and ladies and other pictures and
scattered them all over the room. They
e,ot hold of my mucilage bottle and pasted
things all about and even ventured to my
little table to write letters while I was
working in the garden, and all their
grandma said was, "You had better
watch out, your grandpa is coming." I'm
going to lick 'em sometime when she is
not about. But in due time they had to
go home, for --'
"The day was done and the darkness
Fell from the wings of night."
dur own girls went visiting after sup
per and my wife and I were alone and
not a sound was heard in all the house
save the ticking of the clock upon the
mantel. The contrast was so. great that
it was impressive and we felt lonesome
and almost sad. Each of us had our
corner and table and lamp and tried to
read the war news, but our old eyes were
tired and we gazed upon the fire and ru
minated. For sometime we had been in
silent, serious reverie about those little,
happy children and breathing a prayer
that they might always be happy and
that no calamity or affliction might be
fall them, and then our minds turned to
our absent boys, who aie scattered far
and wide, from New York to Mexico,
and we breathed another prayer for their
health aDd happiness and their return to
us some of these days yes, some of these
days before we die they will come, we
know, but it may be to a funeral instead
of a feast.
We were ruminating about all this in
silence, when suddenly my wife seemed
startled and whispered, "I heard a footfall
at the window. There is somebody
there." Before I could answer, the sweet,
sad strains of minstrel music began low
and soft and the violins and guitar play
ed to the fitting song of "Old Folks at
Home.". The minstrels had reconnoiter
ed and found that only we were at home.
They gave us but one song and were
gone but these little episodes sweeten
the passing hours and comfort us in our
golden age. Forty-nine years ago today
we were wedded. It is like reversing a
telescope to look back to that day and
that time, when the glow of youth and
health and beauty was upon my Creole
maiden's cheeks, when gems adorned her
raven hair, when the evening light was
on her brow and pearls upon her breast
as she stood beside me at the marriage al
tar. It is: like looking through a caleido-
scope to recall the days and weeks and
months and years that have intervened
since a kaleidoscope that at every turn
of the sands of time presents another
picture of life, its trials and its blessings.
What changes, what surprises, and in the
midst of it all a war a long and horrid
war that always looms up before our
memories and eclipses all that was before
or after. But on the whole the lines have
iallen to us in pleasant places and we
have had more joy than sorrow, more
comfort than distress God gave us five
children, before the war and five more
came after and we are thankful that only
we, the parents of them, shared and suf
fered all the long anxiety and they knew
it not. God grant that neither they nor
their children shall be so tried, so trou
bled, so strained in mind and in heart for
four long years, while' the days seemed
weeks and the week3 months. But we
enduied it all and thousands of others
endured and suffered more. What is it
that man and wife cannot endure when
their children are at stake? The poet
says: ..
"They who joy would win
Must share it. Happiness was born a
twin."
And it is the same with grief and afflic
tion. I have had some most delicious reading
lately. It is the address delivered by
Dr. Hunter McGuire on January 22nd
last past at the Ht. Denis hotel, in New
York, at the eighth annual banquet of the
confederate veterans' camp of New York
city. It must be, I know, the most beau
tiful and thrilliDg tribute to Stonewall
Jackson ever written or spoken by any
man. Dr. McGuire was Jackson's medi
cal director and most confidential friend
and has told in thi3 address more touch
ing incidents connected with the great
general's military career than I have ever
found and they are beautifully, charm
ingly told. v Every page of this little
booklet is adorned with them. It is not
often that medical men indulge in bio
graphical literature, but Dr. McGuire is
certainly a man of rare culture. I read
this address aloud to my wife and daugh
ters last evening and at times I could not
read. I had to pause and wait for my
heart to be still and my voice to. come
back to me. These always tell me -when
what I read is inspired. How did our
heart9 burn within us as I read and how
was our; patriotism revived and set
aglow wi:h a new fire. Even on the
first page he awakens us from that leth
argy which time and current event3 bring
over the best of patriots for he says:
"It was with a swelling heart that I re
cently heard some of the first' soldiers
and military students of England de
clare that within the past 2C0 years the
English speaking race has produced but
five soldiers of the first rank Marlbor
ough, Washington, Wellington, Robert
E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. I heard
them declare that Jackson's campaign in
the Shenandoah valley was the finest
specimen of strategy and tactics of which
the world has any record; that in this
series of marches and battles there was.
never a blunder and that this campaign
was superior to either uf those made by
Napoleon in Italy. One British officer
who teaches strategy in a great European
ollege t old me that he used this cam
paign as a model and dwelt upon it for
months in his lectures and that it was
taught in all military schools of Germany
and Von Moltke declared it was without
a rival in the world's history. "Indeed,"
he added, "Jackson seetm to me to have
been inspired." Another British soldier
of high rank and a trained student of
war tod me that fot its numbers the army
of Northern Virginia had more force and
power than any other army that ever
existed.
Well, that is enough for a starter a
starter of the blood in the patriot's veins.
Sometimes I teel like I would be proud to
have been born a Virginian, where these
great soldiers lived Washidgton, Lee and
Jackson and where Jefferson and Madi
son and Monroe and Patrick Henry and
John Marshall lived. I wish that every
young man in this southern land could
read this splendid address. I fear that it j
is too long for a single issue of The Con
stitution, for it is near 7,000 words, hut J
nothing better could occupy it columns- j
It reads like a romance and if there are
any youn? men in Georgia who are in
clined to make sport of the war the peru
sal of this address will make them feel
ashamed that they ever entertained such
unpatriotic feelings. We have heard of
a "young man's party" as hostile to any
further political honor to the veterans,
but surely this cannot be true, for what
young man can be found who would so
dishonbr the mother who bore him or the
father or uncle. or kinsman who fought or
fell in the late war? No. Rather let every
young Georgian echo the sentiment of
Henry Grady when he said at the New
England banquet: "The south has noth
ing to take back. In my native town is a
monument that crowns its central hill a
white shaft. Deep cut into its shining side
is a name dear to me above the names of
men that of a brave and simple man
who died in brave and simple faith. Not
for all the glories of New England would
I exchange the heritage he left me in his
soldier death. To the foot of that monu
ment I shall send my children's children
to reverence him wno enobled their
name with his heroic blood." '
That is patriotism pure and simple.
Bili, Arp.
. Spain.
According to the last government cen
sus the population of Spain aggregated
only 17,565,632 or less than one-half the
population of France. Says a well
informed writer in the Chicago Times
Herald: "Spain has an area of 197,670
square miles. The area of .France is
only a few thousand square miles great
er, ani yet France has a population of
very nearly 40,000,000. Texas has an
area of 274,356 square miles. Spain
could be laid on Texas and Texas would
have 7 6,686 square miles left over. The
State of Pennsylvania, New York, Illi
nois and Alabama have more population
together than has Spain, and are im
mensely more wealthy. These States
could borrow enough money, with their
whole field of commodities, men and
capital behind the loan, to pay off at
one coup the whole national debt of
Spain. They could raise, pay and main
tain a bigger army than Spaiu could.
Their natural resources could ont last
Spain's ten to one. Their steam power
is infinitely greater, and as man power
can always be gauged by steam power
you can imagine the difference. These
four states could exist if they were seques
trated from all the rest of the world. Spain
could hardly live a day. Spain was once
the greatest nation on the face of the
the globe. Say, rather, she was twice so,
First as a centre of learning and science
under the Saracenic rule, when the City
of Cordova had a mile gas-lit streets and
fountains of quicksilver played in the
palace yard of the caliph. Second when
she was the greatest military power in
Europe If you look at the names of
countries, cities and places in the western
hemisphere you will realize what a grand
empire Spain once was and what a power
she wielded over men. But Spain could
not stand the march of modern inven
tion. She has steadily shrunk and shriv'
eled and lost her possessions, until now
all she has left worth speaking of is Cuba.
The Phillippines are insignificant pos
sessions.
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WATERvrLET, N. Y., . Feb. 25. The
great gun factory at the Watervilet Ar
senal is humming with activity in these
days. On every side and in every de
partment one hears the whirr of ponder
ous wheels, the creaking of giant cranes,
the rattling pf colossal chains, the rum
bling of heavy conveyances, arid the
clang of many hammers. Hundreds of
men are at work at huge pieces 01 ordi
nance. It is here that the Government is
building the great 16-inch gun which,
when finished, will be the largest in the
world, and herei too, guns are being
made for seacoast defence ani field
service.
The great ordinance, factory is beauti
fully situated on the west side of the
Hudson river, and commands an inspir
ing view of that picturesque, stream. In
summer time the ground3 are splendidly
cared for, and 0.1 all sides give ample ev
idence of the skill f the garrison's land
scape gardner.
The length of the gun factory is about
1,000 feet. It contains machinery of the
latest type. The three electric cranes in
the shop are marvels of mechanical inge
nuity. The smallest has a capacity of 30
tons, the second of 75 tons, and the third
of 130 tons. These canes pick up pon
derous cannon wnh marvelous ease and j
convey them the full length of the shop, j
It is a remarkable sight to see the largest
crane carry a gun weighing thousands of j
p und3 as easily as though it weighed j
only a few hundreds. Another wonder
ful machine in the main room of the j
gunshop is the compositor. This is a
very accurate measuring machine and
takes account of the one-thousandth part I
of an inch.
Many guns are seen in yarious stages
of construction in this department. One
of the most interesting is a gun designed
to throw a 1,000 pound steel or iron pro
jectile about twelve miles. It weighs 52
gross tons, or abont 116,200 pounds; 450
pounds of brown prismatic powder will
be used at each discharge. It is a breech-
loading gun, and it is possible to fire a
shell from it about every two minutes.
To look through this gun from the breech
end is like peering through a long nar
row tunnell. The discharge is most de
ceptive, one imagining it to be much
longer than it really is.
It is announced that the War Depart
ment intends to mount the great 16 inch
gun on Romer Shoal3. The protection
for this gun will be a turret whieh will
entirely enclose the crew and the greater
part of ihe gun. From the position the
gun will have a full sweep of the cnan
nels leading into New York harbor. Ac
cording to former Lieut. John F. Meighs
of the United States Navy, who is super
intending the construction of this mon
ster rifle, a shot from this new gun will
have a striking energy equal to that of a
20,000 ton ship running at full speed.
There is no known armor of sufficient
strength to resist its terrible force. The
calibre of the new-gun will be 16 inches.
The length, from breech to muzzle, will
be 49 feet 2 inches. The gun will tneas
ure exactly five feet 1 h ough the breech
in a vertical line. The powder charge
will weigh nearly 1,00 pounds.
The first ingot for this monster gun
was cast in October last at Bethlehem
and was ; for the tube forging. It
weighed 82,800 pounds. The jacket
forging weighed 90,000 pound. The
tempering and annealing processes are
also done at the Bethlehem shops. Every
ounce of the metal used in this monster
gunns fluid; compressed. The -speiSca-tious
demand the most exacting iests.
Specimen pieces from all the forgings are
carefully subjected to elongation, break
ing and bending tests. The hammer
which pounds the tube into rough shape
is capable of delivering a blow of 120
ton3 , or ten times more than the celebra
ted Krupp hammer. " When finished the
gun will weigh-126 tons. This is six tons
more than the monster gun which Krupp
exhibited at the World's Fair. Before
the American gun is finally accepted it
must withstand charges of powder which
when fired, will develop pressure of at
least 38,000 pounds to the square inch.
The gun will have ho trunnions, but will
be secured by steel straps to its carriage.
Thi3 is the first modern gun built by this
government in which trunnions have
been ommitted.
The gun when completed will, cost
about $390,000. The velocity of ita pro
jectile will be, it is estimated, 2,000 feet a
second. Its extreme range will be fifteen
miles.
One of the most interesting features in
connection with the construction of one
, of these big destroyers is the shrinking
on of the jacket. The jacket, so called,
is a coat of iron fitted around the por
tion of the cannon most likely to be
come weak. This means that the j at ket
is fitted over the larger steel cylinder at
the breech end ot tl e gun. The gun
proptr consists ol a long central steel
cylinder, technically known as the tube.
Over the tube a number pf steel hoops
are shrunk. Some of the jackets weigh
as much as 35,000 pounds. The greatest
care must be taken in fitting the hoops
and jackets. The slightest mistake in
calculation often means the loss of thou
sands of dollars.
When all is in readiness the jacket is
put in a vertical position in the centre of
a cylindrical fire-brick furnace. Here it
is expanded, being heated to a tempera
ture of 700 degrees Fahrenheit.' The
br'ck furnace is inclosed in an iron cylin
der, with a considerable space between
and a heavy iron cover over the top of
both. The jacket usually remains in the
cylinder about thirty hours. During that
time the greatest care is exercise to pre
vent any foreign particles of anr kind
fpm becoming amalgamated with the
metal. Meanwhile tne gun tube has been
put into the shrinking pit, muzzle down
Here, also, the nicest care must be ob
served, for should the gun expand a frac
tion of an inch the entire process might
be seriously affected. When all is in
readiness the jacket is quickly measured
an4 alhgned, and then taken up by one
of the big cranes and lowered over the
breech of the gun. - The operation is a
most delicate one. After the gun and its
jacket have remained in the pit for about
fifty .hours the tube and jacket ar placed
in one of the largest lathes and turned
down to receive the hoops. These hoops
are heated and expanded and shrunk on
while the unfinished gun is still in a hori
zoLtal position. All the work of hand
ling is done by the big crane- After the
gun is properly jacketed, hooped, and
turned down it is rifled. This is a slow
and delicate process. All of these pro
cesses require time, skill, and patience;
but when the gun at last is finished it is
a deadly thing of beauty.
FLAYED HIS CLIENT ANI WOS
HORRORS OF WAR.
Baltimore Sun.
A few years ago Camille Flam
marion worked out with care an
estimate of the cost of war, iu men
aud money, to civilized aud Cristian
countries during the last hundred
year.s. The total must seem con
siderable, even to those who seem al
ways ready to go to war'to satisfy a
spite against some foreign country.
The Franco-German war of 1870-71
caused the death, M. Flammarion
tells us, of 250,000 men. Iu the
Crimean war of 1754-55 785,000
lives were lost. The brief Italian
war of 1859 brought about the death
of 63,000 men in battle or in hos
pitals, aud even the "game of chess"
between Russia and Austria, in 1866,
deprived 46,000 men of their livts.
Our civil war of 1861-65 meant
death to 450,000 men au enormous
host. The wars waged by Na
polean during the First Empire
poured out the life blood;'bf 5,000,
000 persons. The total of the slain
during the last century in the civi
lized couutries of Europe and the
United States is found to have been
19,840,900, the slaughter to each
man costing, according to M. Flam
marion, as much as $7,000. Every
year Europe spends $1,200,000,000
upon the butchery of human beings,
or preparatiou for it, while Frauce
aloue spends $400,000 a day.
The cost which our civil war is at
this -day entailing upon us is esti
mated by a "Washington corres
pondent of the New York Evening
Post at $183,000,000 a year. This
was the amount of the appropriation
for the fiscal year 1898, the total"'
consisting chiefly of pensions and
interest on the public debt. This
constant burden, great as it is, does
not iuclude the whole present annual
cost, sinca many indirect charges on
the treasury are omitted,as are also the
sums paid out by the southern states'
to their own pensioners. The effect
of the war ou the federal debt was to
increase jt fram $65,000,000 to $2,
773,236,173. Several billions of
property besides were destroyed in
the South, and the paralysis of in
dustry consequent upon the civil
war destroyed billions more, delay
ing the full economic development
of that section by over thirty years,
But there are other evil effects of war
which are hardly less than the butch
ery and waste of wealth it causes.
Civillizatiou makes progress chiefly
along the line of industrial develop
ment. Ihe diversion of men aud
capital from industry to war arrests
wholesome progress. Not only so,
but it demoralizes. The vanquished
are set back by the loss of the means
of culture, the derangement of tueir
affairs and the discouragement which
comes of defeat and poerty. The
victor suffers in other ways.
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The latest fad of footgear fashion.
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hues. Ibe behuhmarkt (shoe mar
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nal magazine of Germany, in speak
ing of, the coming season's styles,
mentions the various patterns of
green shoes just brought out by large
manufacturers. The new color is
expected to afford a suitable relief
for russet wear, which still continues
to be a favorite style. Ladies' shoes
will remain pointed, the heels being
raised, while with gentlemen the
truncated point will be de rigueur.
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today is Col. D. R. Anthony. He has
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Kansas, if not elsewhere, and has caused
more trouble to others than any other
man in this State. He has shot and been
shot at. He has made politicians and
unmade them. There have been times
when he has had no friends in the town
where he ha lived since its infancy; and
on the other hand, at other times, he has
had more enemys than aay other man in
the town.
One of the men who has had a club
up his sleeve for Anthony for years is
John Atwood, a democrat. The two men
have never agreed about anything. The
other day a singular meeting between
the two occurred. Anthony and John
Douglass have been at war over a tax
title. Senator Lucien Baker was Antho
ny's attorney, but when the case was
called he was in Washington. Anthony
had to have a lawyer at once and he
went to his old enemy Atwood and
begged him to bury passed differences
and appear iu his behalf.
Atwood is as quick witted as he is in
tense in his hatred. He saw an oppor
tunity to serve Anthony and hit him at
the same time. He acceded to Anthony's
request. The case was called and after
testimony was in Atwood addressed the
court and won the case, although he
walloped his client as severely as he did
the other man. The Standard has the
following verbatim .repoi t of Atwood's
speech:
"May it please the court, I congratu
late myself upon the judicial frame of
mind in which I am enabled to approach
a consideration of this case. For my per
fected appreciation of the many virtues
that Judge Douglass possesses, and Col.
Anthony's failure to appreciate any of
my virtues, leaves me in a state delight
fully impartial. Ordinarily a lawyer's
zeal for his client's cause outruns judg
ment, but when that client has knocked
out the bung from the hogshead of his
wrath and deluged him with the coutents
until he wades up to his middle in trou
bled waters, a situation is presented that
teudsto neutralize the lawyer's zeal un
til it is reduced to a judicial calmness
that is without bias; and I am able to uu
dertake a discussion of this case without
prejudice, passion or any feeling.
"The one thing that is wrong aboui
the case is that your honor cannot fiud
against both the parties to this suit. From
the standpoint of personal merit neither
of them ought to win. Neither of them
came into court with clean hands, and I
have doubts about their feet. But An
thony has paid the taxes for many years
on the pi operty, and in so doing ha con
tributed to the revenue of the State and
county. This" is playing the part of the
good citizen, a part that is new to him,
that sets awkwardly upon him, and one
that startles the community with its nov.
elty. But since he is playing this part he
ought to be encouraged in it by being
permitted to win this f-uit. When you
find one doing right for the first time in
his life, the thought of discouraging him
revolts the juicial conscience. If it is
said that Anthonystole horses in Missou
ri, I reply that Douglas has stolen home
steads in Kansas; if it is said that An
thony has been a detriment to the coun
ty, I reply that Douglas has never paid
a debt he owed the county; if it xs said
that Anthony hasbeeh sued often, I reply
that Douglas has beeu sued twice as
often.
I will admit, your honor, that it is a
choice of evils; one of the evils has a
hooked nose and the other has a yeg leg;
but the hooked nose pays his taxes, and
the peg leg don't, and that is where my
side has got the best of it. If you fe 1
inclined to decide this case in favor of my
opponent because of the delightful sen
timents that cluster around his name,
and that through your mindshould float
the beautiful strains of 'Douglas, Doug
las, Tender and True," I ask you to
remember that my client claims a saint
among his ancestors. I will admit that
the claim has never been allowed, but
we make it all the same. Your honor
may think they are two old devils to
gether, but I submit that we are not
responsible for the age of Judge Doug
las' iniquities. To be sure, the great
age of my client is an evidence that they
who the g.-ds love die young, but that
does not alter the fact that he and he
alone of these men has paid the
taxes.
"So I ask your honor to overlook the
fact that my client has usually been
wrong, and remember now, for once in
his life, he is right. Let his wickedness
hide itself in a measure behind the
wickedness of Do.glas. I can see that your
honor is itchitng to hit them both, (and
ordinarily you could not hit either one
of them a lick amiss), but I pray your
honor to remember that you can't beat
them both, much as they both deserve
it, and since you must give the case to
one of them, I ask your Honor to shut
your eyes and give it to Anthony."
And the court did.
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Sitting quietly in the back grouDd
at the old soldier's meeting here last
Saturday, looking as quiet and tim
id as a man who had never witnessed
a more exciting scene thau a chicken
dispute in his own back yard, was
Mr. M. R. Finley, veteran, of this
county, but lately a member of Com
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horse through a body of Federal
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their pistol fire and sabre stroke.
It happened in this way, so his
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horse that had never been in action,
and was disposed to be wild. The
command was on the eve of making
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company warned Mr. Finley not to
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dangerous sequel. The soldiers
were ordered to ride up in pistol fire
of the enemy's lines, discharge their
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iu attempting to dismount after he
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Mr. Fiuley in less than two months
was back iu his company ready for
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