ARP WRITES OF LEt
2e Met flie"! Central on Two Occa
I sions Burins the War
'e
WfiESSED WITH BIS GRANDEUR.
irmy Did Not Know What a Great
I Alan Wa Their Leader Hardships
I 4i war.
A -4
""Dirty is .the sublimest .word In our
jignsLge," That is what General Lee
rote to his son soon alter General
sott offered him the supreme cpmmand
I the northern army. Virginia had
jst seceded and 'Lee saw on one side
iat there were no honors to which he
light not aspire. On the other side, if
:e -cast 'his destiny with that . of his
tatie, he saw, or he thought he saw,
at' miseries '.and trials awaited him
Tithout number Butto seek his duty
ind, having found it, it was ever the
brineiple of his actions, j These strong
Ind 'beautiful words about duty were
lot original with General Le, and in
lis letter he has them In quotation
narks. The expression came from Rev.
fohn Davenport, a famous Puritan
preacher of ,New England the man
who gave shelter to the three regicides
vho condemned Charles the First to
Icath and after the restoration, fled
or their lives to New England and
7ere hidden by John Davenport in his
arns. When this act of treason became
nown among his people he neither
fuailed nor relented, but preached a
,ermon the next Sabbath from that
iassage in Isaiah which says: '.'Hide
the outcasts. Betray not him that-wan-dereth.
Let my" outcasts dwell with
thee and be thou covert unto them from
the spoiler." It was in that sermon that
he made use of this notable expression:
"It is my duty to shield them, and duty
is tho sublimest word in our language."
I During the war it was my privilege
to see General Lee quite often, but
'never did I meet him face to face and
Chave a brief conversation with him but
twice. Even then we did not know how
truth and preserving it. The poet jaith
that "Truth crushed to earth will rise
again," and it has risen and will; con
tinue to rise. Ever that, popular maga
zine, Frank Munsy's .Monthly, in its
last number, has forever blotted out
the malignant anc fanatical . story of
Barbara Freithie, and only the last
week the ladies of Lexington, Ky., put
under the ban the drama of "Uncle
Tom's Cabin." It was the Daughters of
the Confederacy who did it and to their
widespread" and influential organization
the south must look for the mainten
ance of the truth. Just think of " it.
grand comes in,, for all who came this
way . were low. Dutch and hungry Irish .
oo ieareq nor, uon nor, regarded wo
men. well, it is all over now, and
we are at peace; that blessed peace that
hath her victories more renowned than
war. And thrlc blessed Is the woman
whom the dark ages kept subdued for
centuries, but- has come to tho frnnr
and now stands side by side with mail
auu is aiways nrsi in every good word
and work. For two thousand years she
was called byname but twice in the
lible. Mother. Eve, and next came
arah, the wife of Abraham, and for
anorner two thousand years was men
Within the pastnipe years twentytwo I tioned by name only, a few times, but
states have been charterea as grand di
visions, including California, New
York, the District J of Columbia, Okla
homa and the Indian Territory. In all
these there have been, chartered an
aggregate of over three hundred chap
ters with a membership of 26,000 good,
loyal southern worsen. The largest fed
eration of women in the world. Of this
membership -Texas has the largest
number, 3,435: Georgia comes. next with'
1,750 members. But my friends; this
great army of Alaughters had mothers
who, - whether aliv) ornow dead,m
irtalled this love'of truth an4 unstained
confederate honor in tho hearts of their
Ychlldren. They are the oaes who sac
rificed suffered and still ' were
strong. Fr more than fif tee nyears I
have observed a trait in woman's na
ture that is lacking in most men. She
never gives up. Th sad results of the
war that wrecked the fortune cf south
ern men hastened
thousands of them
to untimely graves, but their widows
still dot the land Irom Virginia to Tex
as. The mothers of
these daughters en-
!rro?)f n man "Via woe flon cvro 1 TnTi"jf rr
fhad been -wounded at Seven Pines and
General Lee came from West Virginia
to take his place. He was almost a
stranger to the Army of Northern Vlr
ginla. He had been in command but a
week cr two when General Black, of
Rome, cam to see his boys of tho
Eighth Georgia and asked me to ride
with him to General Lee's headquarters
and Introduce him, for he was very de
sirous of meeting him before he re
tnrnea to ueorgia. ui course 1 com-
I plied, for" General Black was a man of
yio small consequence at home. He was
old ana gray ana or commanding pres
ence and military bearing Introducing
myself first, I presented General Black,
and after we were seated I said noth
ing, but paid modest and respectful at-
tention. J was1 soon; impressed with the
: grandeur of the man before me, and,
I of course, as he expanded, I very natu
f rally shrank up a little to keep the
I equilibrium. Not long after this the
j Seven Days' battles began and. endsd
j in McClellan's defeat and our army be-i
gan to realize how great a man Lee
I was. It was on the sixth day that I was
sent to his headquarters near Meadow
; Bridge- to receive orders, and there I
taet him again. He was standing un
covered and unarmed in front of his
tent, and "Stonewall" Jackson was
asleep inside upon the straw, and the
servant had set the dinner tables over
Iliim so as riot to disturb his rest, for,
fas General Lee said, "He needs it, and
(nothing but artillery will awake -him
I said that the army did not know, at
"first how great av&an-Lee was. Neither
old they know; f ally at the last, for he
rwas one of the Jew great characters
that develops and grows brighter and
f grander as the years roll onf For some
years after the War he received but llt
( tie praise at the north and a great na-
tional cyclopedia" gave more space and
r praise to Old John Brown than to Gen
1 ral Leejlwho arfested and.;, executed
f Trim. But 'now,;;inthe International of
fifteen volymes4ra standard work, edit-
d and comnlJed byOO.of rthe most dis
tingulshed scholars and professors of
tthe northern colleges the sketches of
General Lee. and . Stonewall Jackson
are all that we could ask for. v
I verny, om Father Time is a goodj
ooctor ana.jAnno, Domini the softening
solvent of li5 malignant passions; But
Vila Is enough from me concerning the
j great commander. It was the sublime
I Christian, faith of Lee and Jackson that
luauu iucii jiuttiaciers complete and
added luster to their ' ' military fame
They were men of prayer.
For a little while I would ask
I Mnd attention to those whomr Airire
1892 have called themselves the Daugh-
I ters of the Confederacy. Their mission
:iias been and still is and we trust long
I will be as declared in article 2 of their
k constitution :$ Educational, i memorial,
I social ana Benevolent to : collect . and
preserve the material for a truthful his
tory or the war, between the' states
to honor the memory of those who
served and those who fell in pur ser
vice and o record - the part' taken by
southern women during the' war and
its aftermath, their patient endurance
f hardship, their patriotic devotion
during the,Hstrug$le and to fulfill the du-
I ties of sacred charity .to tthe survivors.''
Ail of these are noble job jects but the
greatest of all is the establishing of the
dured more hardships and privations
than their husbands and sons who were
in the army, but they never complain-
ed.
Goldsmith wrote
N
"Man wants but little here below.
Nor wants that little long."
But some cynical old bachelor para
phrased it: i i
"Man wants but little here below,
' For so the poets say, '
1 . But woman wants it all, you know,
And wants it right away.
- Well, she does want all she can get,
and wants-it as soon as she can get it,
f not sooner, but if she can't have it
she surrenders cheerfully and accomo
dates herself to tte cituation. During
the war they, actually smiled at theiir.-
own pitiful and distressed condition.
They boiled down the dirt from the
smqke house, that had long been satur- J
ated with the drippings of the hanging
meat and made pretty good salt of and
divided with their
parched rye and gubbers for coffee and
sweentend it with sorghum and brag
ged how good it wis. They cut up their
old . garments and made clothes foe
their children. Indeed it is always an
amusing entertainment to listen to
these good " old mothers as they recite
at last she was honored as the mother
of our Savior and vwas "last at the
cross and earliest at the grave' ; '
: Within the last half, century she has
made more progress in establishing her
natural and God-given rights than in
all preceding time, She is the acknowl
edged hwurof all religious, missionary
and charitable institutions. She is th
phoo1 orhr t the world and in
these United States constitutes nir?.'
tenths of all the public school teachers
in the land. In several states she has
the right of suffrage and is eligible to
office on, the ; school boards. Time was,
wnen sne was almost a aead letter in
literature and hardly ever noticed in
the - press of. the -country, but now a
great metropolitan paper or magazine
could not exist without a larce SDace
being devoted to her service and her
fairy pictures made to adorn the col
umns of every issue. Woman in this
southland is a power and woe be to the
men who scorn it, for they are always
on the side'of religion and good morals
and purity In private life. Without
them., the church, the prayer meeting.
the Sabbath schools and even the home
would speedily decline into that state
that Grover Cleveland called an "in
nocuous desuetude' In truth, she is
the hope of the world and her progress
the best sign of the
As to her influence!
coming millennium.
for all that, is good
in educating and refining mankind, no
man ever wrote a more beautiful sen
tence than that of Sir Richard Steele,
when he penned that : "To look upon
and love a fair and virtuous woman
and-be loved by her is a liberal educa
tion." And so let me say -to the young
men, these sons of confederacy, don't
despair; don't grieye for a college edu
cation; don't lament your poverty;
but get married and your education
will begin. Sometimes the course is
f&ng, but it is happy. My own has been
running for nearly fifty-three years and
Is not completed, for f have not yet re
ceived a diploma nor taken the" fipst
hoifor. I am still a scfiooi boyvBin
Arx in AtTanta OonstitutXon.
neighbors. They HAD NEWSPAPER SENSE.
An Incident That Admirably Illustrates
' That Quality.
Walter B. Stevens, the secretary of
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
for which; St ! Louis is making great
their makeshifts and their trials after preparations, was for many years con-
Sherman had passed through on his nected with the Globe-Democrat and
march to the sea. Not long ago four I wis nn fisneHal favorite of Joe Mc-
or five of these natrons by chance met Cullagh, its chief editor.1 Since 1883
"llJ o" c"v-v i -.T cvana Vna QQ o Wach ntrtnn
at our house and it
between them as they told of the most
amusing experiences. Onev told how
her two boys and a little girl had worn
out their shoes until they would not
hold shucks much less feet and she
correspondent, and was recognized as
one of " the best of theorps. On one
occasion when Mr. Stevens was in St.
Louis Mr. McCullagh was entertain-
found an old ealf skin that ha;d long I ing some visitors in his office, when
been hanging in the barn and she soak
ed it in lime and red oak bark and got
about half the hair off and took It to
an old shoe cobbler, and he . made
three pair of shqes that would hold
shucks, and they fit the children pretty
well, but the red hair stuck out in lit
tle patches all over them, and she
laughed and laughed until the' children
did not Want to wear them, because
she laughed so much. That .was the
origin of tan shoes, though these were
made of untanned leather. Another
told how two of har children never saw
9 t m m ! m - m tm
the conversation turned upon the dif
ference between men of equal intelli
gence .in , the matter of seeing more
than appeared on the surface of com
mon things. ! . :
"Why, I have a man in this of
fice," Mr. McCullagh declared, "who
can heat the world at such a game. I'll
show you what f he can do.'
He called through the sneaking tube
and Mr. Stevens responded In person
'Mr. Stevens." said the editor. "I
a raisin until they were 5 and 7 years Ihave got to have something to fill
old. and were afraid to eat them, and
said they were pugs. Another told
how she and her boys built a fence
around the garden by boring holes In
the plank and the posts with an old
bnace and bit that her husband -left
when, he .went off. And they ; made
about a column and a quarter in to
morrow's paper. I wish you would go
out into the street and write up the
thing you come across. Don't
more than 30 minutes. I need
first
stay
pegs and drove them in for there wasn't rare - through with this.
you for another assignment after you
a nail in the county. nut gooa oia
Mother Akin, whom everybody loves.
and likes to . listen to. told how three'
of her "nedghbors got out of meal and
had somehow got hold of three bushels
of corn, and they rigged up a little
rikety wagon and a blind army mule
and alf three started to the nearest
mill, which was fr : miles away. They
started early and got to the creek, and
At the stroke of the half hour In
walked Stevens with a batch of copy
in his hand;
I haven't quite finished ' that arU-
cle." he remarked, "but It will tafce
me but a little while more."
"Oh, very well," said Mr. McCul-
laerh. wlnklnsr slvlv at his guests, "but
- j . a . -
be as quick as you can about it
the creek was up, but they drove in, It was not very long before Stevens
and sure enough
coupled right in
the wagon came un-
the middle of it and
let them all down where; it was knee
deep, and "let the corn down, i too,
and ' the mule . went on with, the fore
wneeis ana siopRe-u- wueu ue-gui uiw.
But they never gave up the ship nor
the corn. It took them about an . hour
tcrget the corn and the wagon together
returned, laid the finished manuscript
on his chief 's desk, took his further or
ders and retired, whereupon Mr. Mc-
Ciillaeh i and, v his , friends examined
what he had written.
Mr. Stevens; it seems; had walked
as far as the nearest ; corner, where , a
74UST LIKE CAnLYLEi
Savago tplstlo from the JJiocraphcr of
J-r;iv Ollrer CromweU. A 1 '
An unpublished and most character
istic letter of Carlyle's has recently
appeared in the London Times. - He had
been asked to subscribe toward i the
raising, at St. Ives, of a statue to; the
Protector, and his adherence was qual
ified with no little ferocity for the peo
ple who presumed to celebrate at the
same time; Cromwell and "King f Hud--son,"
- the great railroad ' speculatoiv
The project for the Cromwell monu
ment lapsed, and St Ives waited -runtil
the other day for a memorial of its
greatest citizen. The dedication; the
Times . correspondent ' assures 1 us,
passed off without the "ocean of Hum-,
mery and mere idle balderdash" which
Carlyle deprecated. The biographer of
Cromwell writes:
My private opinion, I I confess, is
that the present generation of English
menwho have filled their towns with
such a set of 'public statues' as were"
never before erected by any people,
ugly brazen images (to mere common
place adventurers with titles on them,
and even sometimes to mere paltry
scoundrels, worthy of immediate I ob
livion only) , and who have winded, up
their enterprises in the statue or me
morial line by subscribing, 25,000 to
a memorial for King Hudson-fare! not
likely to do themselves or anybody
much good by setting up statues ; to
Oliver Cromwell. I fear they have for
feited the right to pretend to remem
ber Cromwell in a - public mariner.
Cromwell's divine memory, sad, stern,
and earnest as the gods, says virtually
to them, 'Fprget me and pass on, ye
unhappy canaille; carry your offerings
to King Hudson and strive to emulate
him! ' Nevertheless, .1 have privately
resolved, if such a thing do go on, to
subscribe my little mite to it oc
casion, and to wish privately that it
may prosper much better than I can
With 1 any assurance hope. I think it
will be very difficult to avoid the in
troduction of such an ocean of flum
mery and mete idle balderdash into
the affair (if the 'public' are fairly
awoken to it) as will be very distress
ing to any one who feels how a Cromr
well ought tbe honored by the nation
that produced him." New York Even
ing Post
A movement is on. foot to have the
annual salary of members of congress
Increased from $5,000 to $10,000. Those
engaged in its claim that the present
salary is entirely insufficient, consider
ing the cost of living in Washington
and the heavy political expenses each
candidate for congress has to under
go. -This is a very touching plea; but
it is, to be noted that, in spite of the
hardships complained of, there f is
never any difficulty in keeping the
congressional quota full. Syracuse
Herald. . ' '-rr .:r-
V 5 Coaling Stations Next
l It is hinted at the Navy Department
that plans are being formulated for the,
acquirement' of coaling stations for the
use of our warships, which will defend!
the isthmian canal. Now that the?
treaty is signed and England has sub '
mitted to our demand that. we defend
the canal according vto pur wishes , it
hai become incumbent upon the Navy
Department to make such preparation
as are necessary for the maintenance
of a fleet Jin. the vicrnity, of, the pro
posed canal. - '
These stations will be established at
Almlrante Bay, the Chriqui lagoon, Co
lumbia, the Gulf of Dulce, Costa ;Itica;' ;
the 'Danish West Indies and Galla
pagos Island, off the coast of and be
longing to Ecuador. Admiral . Dewey
says the canal can be defended only
by the navy. - Rear-Admiral Bradford
chief of the bureau of equipment and
a member of the naval war board,
says the defense of the canal will ; be
the guns of the American' fleet, sind
in order that the fleet may operate
from near by bases it is necessary that
they be established without delayj
Army and Navy Journal. ; -. (s
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. . it ...u aM nn ihnl tn Vw eoan mnm tnnn ATITOTIA COUIQ
gray a oi me scene wuum sui v mo v -.
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war. The good miller gave them dry wa3 nrobably the only, passer-by who
meal for the wet corn, and by sundown stopped and watched proceedings, and
they were an at nomo agum-anu iu5"- h talked with the contractor on the
efl'ovpr it and everybody laughed who
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in Sherman's -belt have fireside stories
to tell that woutd fill a book; .They are
a curious medley pf the ad, the pa
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