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Congress Asked to Preserve Battlefield of Civil War" ? ? ? By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN zv OKTH and Sooth, as all good Americana know, Dk whH fought side by side ander II |^%|fl Old Glory In the Span II Iklfl Ish-Amerlcan war, there IllJj by giving notice to all the |Hi||fl world that the anlmoal mBIHt ties of the Civil war had been forgotten. The World war tightened the bonda. And both aides are proud of the courage displayed In the Civil war and the feats of arms accomplished. This Is as It should be, for history can show no more thrilling valor, no more desperate conflict. This pride finds expression In a movement for the preservation of bat tlefields as national historical land marks. Chickamauga and Chatta nooga In Georgia and Tennessee; An tletam in Maryland ; Shlloh In Tennes see; Gettysburg In Pennsylvania, and VIcksburg In Mississippi have been made national military parks. Now congress is asked to add to the list the battlefields of Franklin In Ten nessee and Petersburg In Virginia. Representative W. C. Salmon of Ten nessee Introduced the Franklin bill, he said, at the request of representa tives from Ohio and citizens of his state and district Ohio was especial ly Interested because of the fact that the division of the Union army which suffered the greatest loss was largely from that state. Here are some of the things Representative Salmon said about the Battle of Franklin: It is known that the Battle of Frank lin was the moat bloody and the flerc ??t battle of lbs Civil war. It was in this battle that more men ware killed in proportion to the number engaged than in any other during the entire four years. Thirteen generala and more than forty colonela were killed or wounded. The southern army commanded by Gsneral Hood and his assisting com manders was composed of the braveat and beat Anglo-Saxon blood of the South, numbering among its officers who were wounded or alain auch men aa Generals Cleburne, Carter, Strahl Cockrell, Gordon, Granberry. Walthall, and John Adams. These men at the head of their commanda marched to their death at the command of their auperlor officer with a chlValrlc bravery unaurpaaaed In the annala of hlatory. It la aald that there were about sixty thousand men engaged In thia battle which lasted only four or five hours, and at ita close there lay dead on the battlefield, either killed or wounded, something like ten thousand men. One of our moat beloved members on the Democratic aide, Gen. Iaaac R. Sherwood, waa one of the chief actors in this battle. It waa at thta battle that the fortunes of the Confederacy turned. It waa the beginning of the surrender at Appomattox. Mr. Salmon got Into the Congres sional Record the following excerpt from General Sherwood's work, "Mem ories of tfce War": And what a night that was. After the battle the dead lay around the broaatworka from river to river, out aide the breastworks In a wider line from river to river ? a wider and thicker line ? lay the Confederate dead Amid the amoke and grime of battle and under the dun clouda of amoke almost hiding the atara, the Blue and the Gray looked .the aame. I. stood on the parapet just before midnight and saw all that could be seen; I aaw and heard all that my eyea could aee, or my rent aoul could contemplate in such an awful environment. It wr.s a spectaclo to appal the stoutest heart. The wounded, shivering in the chilled November air, the heart-rending cries of the desperately wounded, and the prayers of the dying filled me with Webster Visits Jefferson Mr. Webster of Massachusetts, witt one or two private friends, has gone on a visit to Mr. Jefferson at his seat in Virginia. Mr. Clay, It will be recol lected, has just been there. These visits to our venerable ex presldents have become a sort of pious pilgrimage to the abodes of vlr' toe and Intelligence. They have a no ble purpose, a better effect, than the mere gratification of natural curiosity, Sheep and Humanity We laugh heartily to see a whole flock of sheep Jump because one did ?o. Might not one Imagine that the auperlor beings do the Same and tor exactly the same reason.? -Fulke Ore tills. ?! , Remembering Wrong May 1 tell you why it seems to me a ????*? remember wrong that That wa may for anguish that no language can describe. From that hour to this I have hated war. Mr. Salmon also got Into the Record an excerpt from a novel bj Trot wood Moore, a southern author. It's title Is The Bishop of Cottontown." The excerpt : It was the middle of the afternoon of the last day of November ( 1 8#4 ) ? and alao the last day of many a gal lant life ? when Hood's tired army marched over the brow of the high ridge of hills that looked down on the town of Franklin, In front of which, from railroad to river, behind a long semicircular breastwork, lay Schofleld's determined army? the men In gray on the hill and the men- In blue in the valley listened to the band playing "Just Before the Battle, Mother." Gen eral Hood said to General Stuart, "We will make the fight"? the battle was now raging all around the line. There was a succession of yells, a rattle, a shock, and a roar as brigade after brigade struck the breastworks, only to be hurled back again or melt and die away In the trenches amid abatis. Clear around the line of breastworks it rode at Intervals like a magaslne of powder flashing before It explodes, then the roar and upheaval, followed and anon by another ? the ground was soon shingled with dead men In grayuwhlle down in the dltchee or hugging the bloody sides of the breastworks right under the guns, thousands more fortun ate or daring than their comrades lay. thrusting and being thrust, shooting and being shot ? the sun had not set; yet the black smoke of battle had set it before tie time ? again and again and again from 4 till midnight eight butchering hours ? the heart of the South was hurled against those bas tions of steeL and flame, only to be pierced with ball and bayonet. The beautiful town of Franklin Is In the historic bluegrass section of mid dle Tennessee, on the Jackson high way, about midway between the home of President Polk at Columbia, and the historic home of President Andrew Jackson at Hermitage. The Jackson highway Is the main road between Nashville, the capital of Tennessee, and the now fsmous Muscle Shoals government hydroelectric power plant The cross In white In the picture shows the exact location of the fierc est fighting. The view Is to the north of Cheatham's headquarters. The Battle of Franklin was fought November 90, 1864. And here Is where It fits In: General Sherman, preparing for his "March to the Sea" ? only Grant knew of his plans ? led Union forces through Tennessee Into Georgia. General Johnson, In command of the Confederate forces, made a spirited resistance and battles were fought at Dalton (May 7) ; Resaca (May 12), and at Kenesaw Mountain (June 14-27). General Hood, replac ing Johnson, marched Into Tennessee, threatening the Northwest with In vasion and hoping to divert Sherman, who had occupied Atlanta (September 2). Hood fought at Franklin and then went on to Nashville, where General Thomas defeated him (December 15). Sherman In the meantime was "Marcb lng through Georgia" and captured Savannah (December 21). The advance guard of the Union forces under General Cox arrived at Franklin in the morning after a night march from Spring Hill and immedi ately threw up slight breastworks. The Columbia pike bisected the works. The says the Charleston Courier, December 18, 1824. A wise American stateu man, Invested with despotic authority for tills purpose only, would exact that every youth (and we almost said ev ery female) in the east, west and south, should spend one year of the period of adolescence in' each quar ter of the country of which he is not a native. We should thus perceive. In some degree, the bomogeneousness of the people, and educate men for fu ture public life who would know bow to appreciate the peculiarities of all Oldest Hawaiian Island . Geologists bold Kauai to be the old est of the Islands In the Hawatlan group. This is Indicated by the fact that while, lA common with the others, It Is of volcanic origin, all traces of the great . cones and ' craters so con spicuous throughout the group, have, with few exceptions, been obliterated by the tremendous erosion wrought by the storms and raltis of the ages. The island Is compact and almost round In Trr? j ground in front wm ffMW# About 2 o'clock In the afternoon the Confederatea com* ? on {n hattla array. Thay awooped down on two ?expoaed brl* emit* of Wftfner'a d J v I ? I o n. o n I n? > t r ? n c li e ?1, over, whelmed them nnd took 700 prlaoner*. Then they awarined on to the Intrench* twenta wltli yella of. victory. J , Time nftor time they came on to the 'vary works. More than ona color beer or was iihot down on the parapet. Soma of the Union office? j M-* Ifoj.Sm. l&trick X Ctedurnc, CSA. r 1 reported u many aa thirteen .aaaanlta. The flerceat fighting waa close to the Colombia pike. Here fell moat of the Confederate general a, owing to the fact that Stewart's and Cheatham's command! became Intermingled. Hare Adams of Stewart's corps waa killed and Cockrell and Qnarlea wounded. Close bj were killed Cleburne, Cran berry, Strahl and Qlat of Cheatham's corps, and Brown waa wounded. Gen. G. W. Gordon waa made prisoner In -J side the works. Colonel Stewart of the Sixty-fifth Dllnoia tried to sare the life of Gen. John Adama of Mlaalaalppl. Stewart j called to hla men not to fire on him, but It waa too late. Adama rode hla | horse over the ditch to the top of the parapet, undertook to grasp the Flag from the hands of the color-sergeant, and fell, borae and all, ahot by the color-guard. < On the Union aide the Forty-fourth Missouri sustained the heaviest loaa ? 34 killed and 129 wounded and mleeing. In the 8eventy-aecond Illlnola, adjoin ing, every field officer waa wounded and the entire color guard of nine waa ahot down. Thirty-three Confederate colors were captured ; the Confederatea J also carried off many Union colors when they withdrew toward evening. During the night General Scbofleld, under orders from General Thomas, withdrew to Nashville. General Sherwood, who was In hla seat in the house as representative from the Ninth Ohio district, waa col onel of the Eleventh Ohio infantry in the Battle of Franklin. He waai breveted brigadier general of voltm teera February 27, 1866, "for gallant and meritorious services" at Resaca, Franklin and Nashville. The only other Civil war veteran In congreaa la MaJ. Charles Manly Stedman of North Caro lina. Hla regiment waa. the Forty fourth North Carolina Infantry, C. 8. A. General Sherwood was born in New York state Auguat IS, 1885. He haa served nine terms In congress and has been editor, lawyer, secretary of state, probate Judge and soldier? en listing as a private three days, after the fall of Fort Sumter, while mayor of Toledo. H Eaay Thing to Work A traveler staying at a small hotel wished to catch an early morning train* and aaked the proprietress fop the loan of an alarm clock. She produced the : clock and remarked: "We don't often use It, sir, and sometimes it sticks a bit, but If it doesn't go-off Just touch that little hammer and it'll ring all right." parts of the country to request the excellence of each and to make allow ances for their defects. Sandog When other combinations of reflec tions from snow crystals occur so aa to double or treble the brlghtneaa of apota In the parheilc circle la the reflection of the sunlight forming a band of white light aronnd the. horison at the apparent angular altitude of the sun and usually ptfsalng through it, it la known aa a sundog. ? ? | shape. The central mountain man la surmounted by Mount ?Walaleale, 5,170 feet high, declared by Hawaiian mem-, bera of the United Statea weather bu reau to be the wettest spot In the world. The Incessant ralna have cut deep gorges into the mountain mass and left tremendous cliffs and sport radiating down* to the sea from the central peak. Kauai, accordingly, has many mountain streams, some qf then the largest In the territory. Nature's rules have no exceptions. t " '.V v ) v V. J '"l !l The Drab Mia# Spence jt Kjffc By M. R< M, TERRELL I ?& I Ml. WMttrn N?w?p#i??^ Union.) '0\V,> whut," wondered Laura Hpence,. mm ska answered hie, ,1'ititxer unU prepared to take dictation, "wee troubling Tom Woodworth today." Not that she hud an/ right to wonder about her employer's recent wprrles, Mity more than she had a right to ihlnk of him a? Torn. Todi Woodworth trumped about the oHIce, out down and bounded up again half a dozen times, growled, flushed, clourwl his throat and acted like a Minull boy nbcut to recite. "I'm In the deuce of a tlx I" he burat out at last. "Yeg7" Raid Lnunt. "Fact Is, Miss Spence, I got an uncle," he suld, scowling at the floor and (lushing. "Uncle Woody; nutty <>ld purty, lives In Australia. I've a Rood chance of his backing me In that, big water meter proposition." Laura brightened. ^'Isn't that f!neP* ?die excln lined, "N '?Yes," he nfisented; "but there's a string to it. He's come all the way from Brisbane to talk It over. He's crackejd on . the marriage question. . Thinks <lf everybody got married It would save -the world for democracy or something. Never expected him to come over, so I wrote him I was mar ried* He's here and has to be shown I" "I suppose, Mr. Wood worth, you want me tohelpyou pick a girl to pose hs your wife until he goes ? one war ranted not to blackmail you after wards, " Laura chirped. 'Ta<t Is, r thought? well, I kind of wished ? wouldn't you do It yourself? You're In the office and I can trust?" stammered Tom. "Mel" Laura exclaimed. "Why, I'm not the .type of a wife you want." "You suit me? uncle," he exclaimed hurriedly. "Ideal ? er ? lots of charac ter and so Infernally ? " "J couldn't possibly !" she exclaimed, rising Jn alarm. "Yba'reso ? so domestic looking I* "No!" "Uncle Worthy's craxy about real women. Old fashioned. No, I mean uncle. No lime for the Jazzy sort. He's qp at She Ambassador. He won't stay more than a couple of days, and it would just be a question of a dinner or two and a show of so," Tom plead ed. "I told him we were moving, so there wouldn't be any question of our having to pretend to keep house." Miss S pence hesitated. "I know marriage'd be the last thing you'd think of," he continued. "I haven't any clothes," she de murred. "Get whatever yon need and charge It to? to typewriter supplies. Please, Miss S pence ; I'm In a deuce of a pickle P r "If I should agree ? ** she began. ' ? ?????? r ; sat In the foyer of the Ambas sador that night waiting for the make belfyve Mrs. Tom. Presently he 'saw a stranger approach him, a lovely, golden girl ? slim, rounded form In a clinging cloth of gold dress, misty gold hair drifting around the pure oval of a cameo-like face, blue eyes, deep and shining, a bare, rounded throat, slen der, tapering hands, rosy tipped. t "Will I do 7" she asked timidly, and with a start he realized that this un believable fairy was, or rather had been, drab Miss Spence. The approach of Uncle Woody smoothed over their embarrassment The two evenings fled by and on Che third, the last of Uncle Woody's stay, Tom' met iter tftth troubled face. Uncle Woody!" he stormed. "Can you beat that: suspicious old kan garoo? He insisted upon seeing our marriage certificate before he'll come through for the? -er? .water meters 1" ? "Couldn't you fake one?" she asked, ?'or borrow one somewhere?" . i. "Not a chance," he cried. "It has to be the real things You don't know uncle I I won't bold you to It. You could get a divorce." His eyes plead ed, he mopped his forehead. Oil, Lbl lie, If I could only say?" he stam mered. Perhaps that "Lollie" had aomethlng to do with Miss 8pence's answer. "We could charge the divorce to ? to type writer supplies." she suggested, shyly. . "You're a brick I" cried Tom. "There's a little church around the corner. I'll keep my thumb over the date when I show uncle the certifi cate."^ ' At thp train next day Tom wrung his uncle's hand repeatedly. Lollie was down the platform speaking to _sorae friends. "I can never thank you 'enough," Tom exclaimed. "If it hadn't been for that scheme of yours, I would never have had the courage nor the chance to do It. I'm so shy?" "You are ? a lot," agreed his uncle. "And you say Lollie has worked in your office for years?" "Doggone It, yes; and every time I tried to propose to her, she'd look me straight in the eye and my courage look a vacation. But I put It over on her." "Maybe," his uncle chuckled. "Here's Lollie. Ask her the particu lars. Tom. By-by, kid; look me up when you come down to? to Austra lia I" He clambered aboard the train. Tom turned to find Laura standing beside him, her face suspiciously inno cent as she waved her handkerchief to uncle. "Lollie, did you? you hear ail he, said?" Tom stammered. , "I didn't need to, Tommy,'* she con fessed. "Dear goose, what do yon suppose women have intuition for, anyway V . * ' - * V .';. . : j, ?: I | fi ?& Allegias ' 1 Robert Tootnbs, Confederate secre tary of state In 1861, and general in the Confederate service, went abroad after the war to live, [rat returned in 1867 and refused to swear allegiance to the United States government.- ' W ' oid Roman idea HSvery Roman household wan sup posed to be under the protection of one lare and several penates. Their symbols were kept in a special part ef the bouse called the "lararinm." '?j , r ? . v v TKeTGFea MM Question Ever By R BV. J, R. 8 ?ttp?rint?nd#nt of M?n Institute, ChlcMF' 7 MM* f Rsv. J. R. Schaffsr. TEXT-^haTthlnk y ot Christ*? M* tt 22:41. 1 J. - ? ? ? y I \ No greater question than that of tl?e text has ever been asked in the history of human Inves tigation/- Every thing, in the plan of : God revolves around Christ as the center. Our estimate of Him Is the deciding factor In life, present and eter nal. There can be only two answers to this question. The answer / of human reasoning or divine revelation. When the Son of Ood came to earth He laid aside the form of God and took upon Him the disguising likeness of sinful flesh. No wonder "He was In the world and the world knew Him not." He came unto His very own and they would not open the door to let Him In. How could they? A lovely baby ? a sturdy lad ? an apprentice In a peasant's carpenter shop in the despised village of Nazar et$?-a Jewish rabbi who gathered a dozen men around Him and traveled up and down the land teaching the people about God. Wlio could ever have discovered deity in such Incog nito, even though as man, be was ex ceptional and unique t One day He asked - His disciples who the people thought He was. They answered, some say EIIus, some Jere miah, some John the Baptist. He then asked,' "But who say ye that I am?" Peter, the spokesman- for the band, broke out in unqualified affirmation: "Tliou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus Immediately point ed out that Peter'a discernment waa not the result of psychological proc esses, but such knowledge was a direct revelation from God. Tears later, the apostle Paul wrote a confirmatory statement when he ?aid : "The world by wisdom' knew nor God." Thus we are given to under stand that God cannot be discovered ? He la not a subject for aclentlflc in vestigation ? creative genius of flesh and blood cannot know Him ? faith alone Bees and understands the Invisi ble. i ? phllip bad been most intimately as sociated with Chrlat for three year* but to his request to see God. the Father, betrayed hli failure to under stand Christ who had come to make the Father known. AU he ha0 ^seen was the fart* of hunmnlty ln which Jesus waa clothed dudng Hls eartWy life. Tenderly Jesus rebuked His dis ciple's leek of spiritual discernment? "Have I been so Ion* time with you, phllip, yet hasf thou not . known mer Real knowledge of Christ- mo# come from abnk Human reaiott^wlU aj* way? toll to understand Him. He will never be anything more to .the mind than a great good man, a beautiful example, a wonderful teacher, a tran scendent character. The only reason for any division of opinion about the person df Christ la the refusal to accept what God hae testified concerning Him. If any truth has been revealed In .dear, convincing and conclusive statements It la the character of Chrlat. Scripture usee the moat exquisite language to set forth His Infinite perfections. The de scription of the Son of God In Ephes I.n? is most comprehensive. The apoe tie sweeps his telescope of vision back ward to pre-creatlon days, then across the arch of lilstory, and pierces the un known future, revealing Christ glorified in the Church. In Phlllpplans, a few master strokes of the apostle's pen portray the Christ who was God, taking the form of a servant, then being exalted far above all the heavens, and before whom the , whole creation confesses^that He la Lord and Christ In Colosslans, He Is again described In the three tenses. Creator of -nil things In the beginning, holding all things together now, and In whom all things shall be gatltered together In the days to come. In Hebrews, His seven-fold perfec tions are described In the most sub lime language possible to command. In Revelation, He la still the Alpha and. Omega, the One who Is, and waa, and la to come. It seems as if the Spirit of God were jealous for the eternal Son and so de scribee Him lo all the Infinite outreach of language, far transcending any de scription ever accorded another. Re sides all tills, three time# during His earthly career the heavens opened and attested the supernatural character of the Man of Galilee to the words of God the Father: ' "This la my beloved Son In whom 1 am well pleased." Never before had prophet, priest, or king been so acknowledged by the God of Israel;. this revelation from heaven waa reserved for the Son. Such lan guage seems to leave ho possible mls apprehensipn, no room for divided opinion, no ground of controversy. Yet to the face of all this accumulated evidence, men dare to speculate, rea son out, and- deny the deity of Jesus Chrlat .v ' The inference qf the context would exhort (is to recognize that, after all opinions about Christ are of Uttla value. It Is rather the personal evalu ation and attitude that counts? "what think ye of Christ!" & wrfil Filling One's Place In an address to student^ Dean 8tanley once said : M Wery1 position, 1 great or small, may be made aimoit as great or little as we desire to make It, according aa we make the moat of It or the leakt of it To <to\the necessary duties of afiy station, that to easy enough, bu to gather up all lta out lying opportunities *to fill,' as we say, 'our place to lite,' Instead of leaving it half empty, to he entirely to our work for the time being, thajt la what makee I all the difference." >n Celebration 0pe ASfflNGTON. ? An Intention L / to invite the nations of the world to Join the United State* in observance of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington to 19:52 is announced by President CooH^teej^ behalf of the commission- recentiyai^ pointed to arrange for the celebration of the event. Setting forth the purposes for which the commission was created the Pres ident in his statement suld that "for the present it is impossible more spe cifically to suggest the purposes and character of the commehioration which It is proposed to arrange. "The two hundredth anniversary of General Washington's birth will be an occasion of such significance not only 10 our own country, but to the entire world that it is manifestly fitting that tiie American nation should appropri ately observe it. "But beyond this it is telt that as the life, the career and the achieve ments of Washington belong, not to a single nation, but to all humanity, It is proper the nation founded under his leader! lions ;t j., j servjirir,. character nieiiH ,,f linpivss|? found ;,s course (f the I i \ i ? ? world. "Kwry pride in | tilde | . ,| broiii-lii sat is:;(. tj, lion u . , ? i I" lli< I : ; J 1 tllis in! Slieli ii |,rn make if:,, occasion i, "As it y to ^i\i- s,,, so it i< i|. Insure tin and ?*!???? exatni ? tol ?2 * ,"n .. w! tri i ti.. '?) i !, ? a t\ ?']!-! "'?""rVljj ,lM? Vjw, ;i" I!Mt $y] ,,7 Campaign for OceaVi Memorial THE ambition of men in the navy and marine corps for erection of a great navy and marine me morial on the Potomac river, in Washington, was brought a step near er completion in New York city ut a dinner given by the Navy and Marine Memorial association at the Army and Navy club of New York. Pointing, to the seaman, the man who pilots ancT directs ships of the modern day, and the generations of seamen who halve made his accom plishments possible, as one of the greatest single forces In the progress of modern civilization, Itear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, U. S. N., retired, told the Navy and Marine Memorial association that the proposed memo rial must be built to "let the seaman ?know that the day of his unrequited service has gone by and that he Is coming Into the honor which he merits." ' "Build a memorial In Washington that shall stand before the nations," Admiral Fiske said, "not only as a belated recognition of his work through all the dim and distant past, but also ?s an assurance of a near and brilliant future." ?Sev"R LitjJ officers at!. :id?-.l the {11 tho progress ?f ,he J raising funds f.,r the J Trid tn the fyJ rial was reviewed ing s;icc,s read from nearly prominent in nati< several governors morial, to crnst (MX), will stand on j toniac, surrounded bj ^ sides, near the site of j memorial bridge. reu<K- lieeu i>rei>are?l jj Piatta, sculptor, and Hi Corhett, an architect ef5| Secretary of the \'m chairman of the h<>ioJ committee, which also (lore Roosevelt, former d retarv of t he navy; am W. Kberle. Admiral RotJ Admiral Leigh Palmer. Ity A. Lejeuiie, commandant^ corps; Rear Admiml F.| chairman T. V. O'Cunnw* ping board and Hear A<bi S. Benson. Many mea i prominent in public lilt i national committee.
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