Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1912 — Page 3

The CIVIL WAR FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

3555 ed the place. General Franklin's division of the May of the Potomac left Yorktown to proceed up the York river la transports to Wept Point %%::i The Fifth New York cavalry got into trouble with two hundred of Ashby's cavalry when on a reconnolssance train New Market toward Harrisonburgh, Va. The Federal horsemen, heavily outnumbering the enemy, extricated themselvea, and inflicted-con-siderable damage to the enepy in % pursuit of them that lasted to within two miles of Harrisonburgh. The Confederate schooner C. C. Pinckney from Charlestown, S. C., for Nassau, N. P., was captured by the United States gunboat Ottawa. - May 7, 1862. ~ - The Confederate pickets about. Colombian Bridge, on: the east bank of the Shenandoah river, Virginia, having been, driven from their posts by a Union detachment under Colonel Foster, rallied in the woods, ambuscaded their enemy, and inflicted a serioua damage upon him before he could extricate himself. One company of Vermont cavalry saved itself- only by swimming the river. General Franklin's division, Army of the Potomac, was attacked by the Confederates when it attempted to land at West Point. After a brisk engagement the landing was effected. With heavy loss to the Federal forces. Report was received from Algeeiras, Spain, that the Confederate privateer, Bnmpter, which had been blockaded in Gibraltar for two months by the U. S. 8. S. Tuscarora, had been sold by her captain, who had become hopeless of getting to sea in the face of the blockade. General Cox's Union advance occupied Giles Courthouse and the Narrows of the New river, surprising and driving out the small company of Confederates left to watch the enemy's movements. The Confederates were prevented from burning the town, -as they had Intended to do if the Federate appeared, by the element of surprise in the attack

May 8, 1862. ’ i A Gens. Mllroy and Schenck, commanding nine Federal regiments, fought off a heavy force of Confederates under Gens. Jackson and Edward Johnson in Virginia, retiring in good order upon the town of Franklin. Gen. Johnson was killed. president Lincoln and Secretary Stanton were entertained by the bombardment of the Confederate batteries on Sewell’s Point and Creney island by the Monitor and Saugatuck and other vessels of the Union fleet. 1 The Merrlmac appeared and made a demonstration, but no engagement was sought by either side. No one was reported as injured on either side by the^pknbardment. Major Arlington ot the Seventh Illinois cavalry was killed leading a charge against two companies-of Confederate -infantry that had ambuscaded the cavalry bn a reconnaissance near Corinth, Mississippi. The United States senate passed a bill establishing Beaufort, S. C., as a port of entry. Three brigades of Gen. Buell’s division seized and destroyed the railroad between Corinth and Grand Junction. Gov. Clark of North Carolina, in answer to a demand by the Confederate government for more troops, informed the government that had ,“re- - ceived all the aid from North Carolina that it could expect, and that no more troops would be permitted to leave the Hate.” - '. - -7 Gen. Stonewall Jackson began his famous campaign in the Shenandoah valley, which tied up 70,000 Federal troops In the defense of panic-stricken Washington. May #,186*.--. ’ The Confederates evacuated Pensacola, Fla., during the night, bum-

Ing and destroying the forts, navy yards, marine hospital and two vessels. Gen. Arnold began a bombardment when the destruction of property was begun, hoping to Interfere With tt, but only the barracks and blacksmith shop were saved. . A company of Confederate cavalry made a bold dash on Washington, N. C., In an attempt to capture the Federal officers In the town. The dating of the attempt neatly brought It success. Gen. Hunter of the Federal army declared “the persons of the three states, Georgia, Florida and* South Carolina, heretofore held as slaves, to be forever free.” Capt Connet and his command, stationed at a bridge near Klkton station, Alabama, were captured by a force of Confederates after a heavy fight in which five Federal* were killed and thirteen Confederates. Gen. Paine of the Army of the Southwest'was' attacked in position near Farmington, Miss., by Confederates under Gen. Bragg add forced to withdraw after holding the enemy in check five hours. .The town of Burning Springs, W. was homed by a company*of partisan fighters known as the Moccasin * rangers. T"'"". • Gen. Butler announced that 100,000 barrels beef and auger, found in

White: Houap, <® the Pam unkey the Union troops, who seized a quiS tity of wheat and com stored there The Confederate schooner Maria Theresa was captured by the United* of Paducah, Tenn., to the Confederates trsssFSßs a^jssiwwf ftjscoverea tnrougn tae revewtions of one of the conspirators. • . New Kent Court House, Virginia, was occupied by National troopa under General Stoueman. The Confederates, withdrawing, destroyed tvfd buildings containing quartermaster and commissary stores. v V* Va., a hamlet on too Pamunkey, changed hands, being evacuated by toe Confederates and occupied by toe National forces. Capt. H. C. Davis, commanding tits Union gunboat fleet in toe operations about Fort Pillow, defeated a flotilla of Confederate gunboats In a severe engagement In which .two of the Confederate vessels were blown up and one sunk. ' . General Wool received toe surrender of Norfolk, Va., from the hands of a committee of citizens who came dot to meet him as he was marching on toe town from Fort Willoughby's point g Sporadic expressions df Union sentiment were reported to toe northern papers from North Carolina. May 11, 1862. rv-: The partisan fighter, Cleveland, who had been making things, lively to northern Kansas, was captured by an officer and ten men of toe United States regulars from Fort ~ Leavenworth, and subsequently killed in an attempt to make his escape. . Craney Island, Virginia, was'abandoned by the Confederates, and thdUnlted States flag was hoisted over the dismantled works by Union soldiers. . . i -i, - A squad of Morgan’s cavalry captured and burned a freight and passenger train near Cave City, Ky. The train wag believed by the Confederates to have been carrying some prisoners oh their way to Federal prison# In the nortjh. A few National officers and men were riding on the train when It was captured. ’ The Merrimac was blown up by order of her, commander off Craney Island, to prevent her falling into the hands of;the Federal fleet. The Texans who marched lxito New Mexico and were defeated ..by; United States Regulars near Fort Craig, wefe reported from Albuquerque to have returned to El Paso on their complete retreat. The regiment of “Pike’s Peakers’’ that had come from Colorado on forced matches and saved the victory were still near Fort Craig. - ■ The First Wisconsin cavalry, sent from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, toclqar the vicinilty from Confederates who were impressing the inhabitants and makltfg off with cattle and horses, surprised and routed one -band of the enemy near Bloomfield. The people were in a state of complete terror. - The United Stales gunboats Freeborn and Island Belle * captured an empty schooner and one laden with whisky in the Piankatank river, Virginia. ' l May 12, - . President Lincoln .Issued* a • mation removing toe blockades from New Orleans, Beaufort and Port Royal to a degree that -would all commerce to pass through excepting that involving Confederates. C. Commander Palmer of the U. S. S. S. Iroquois demanded toe surrender of the city of Natchez, Miss., to the naval forces of the United States. The demand was not acceded to. The United Stateß senate passed toe Doolittle bill relating the collection of taxation in insurrectionary district#. During the debate bn a motion to fig the time of adjournment Mr. Wilson called Mr. Davis of Kentucky to order ’for uttering sentiments. After some explanation the point of order was withdrawn. A party under'Ueutenant Flusser of the Commodore Perry ltfnded at Elizabeth City, N. C., went three mises Into the country and recovered the White Point lighthouse apparatua, removed by the Confederates.

General McClellan reported from* Roper’s Church, Va., as follows: “Commander Rodgers writes me today that he went with the gunboats yesterday past little Brandon. Everything quiet and no signs of troops passing the lifer. He found two batteries of ted or twelve guns each on the south side of the James river, bfle opposite the mouth of the Warwick and the other about southwest from Mulberry Point . . V He silenced one battery and passed the other.” . (Copyright, MUjr W. a Chapman.) 83j# 1, -‘ The Reason. « 'Tour wife is a great talker, Jolttby." “Yes,'but she hadn’t as much to say last month as usual.” .V , “Indeed? How do you account for thpt?” ‘ “tt was the shortest month In the year." Inappropriate. . v“What was the matter with, the society belle you were called to treat, doctor?” . . “She was of a feeling" * • .yy *r “That’s an odd feeling for anybody who to in the swim.”

MONUMENT TO PAUL JONES

THIS photograph of the monument to John Paul Jones, the first admiral of the American navy, was taken Immediately after it bad been unveiled by Admiral Dewey: The monument stands to Potomac park. Washington, not far from the Washington monument i

FORM CLUBS FOR OLD MEN

Members Gather to- Hear Phonograph Reproductions of Ballads Departed s£ Friend* Used to Sing. Lob Angeles-—The founder of the Borrowed Time club of Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, Philander W, Bar'clay; to in Los Angeles. His idea in starting the club, which was to bring: a little' more radiance into the life of men past three-score years and ten, wa*an innovation and has been copied in many places. gg : ;'. Mr. Barclay is living with his sister, St the Pierce apartment* for a few weeks, and already he has stirred np -sufficient interest among men of Los Angeles to start one of the unique clubs to which none but- those jnore than seventy may belong. He is npt, himself, an aged man, but a young One who took his tip from the conversations of men around the stoves of the grocery stores, in the little shops and wherever they congregated. “These men were interesting because oftentimes they threw new light on subjects of history, on the lives of famous men or on old celebrities of a local character," said Mr. Barclay. “As a rule they seemed to have no place to go and were seldoih welcome to the places they ..went. It gave me the idea that If I could find them a place to meet, give them an opportunity of getting together among themselves, they might be made happier." *' * Among the novelties of the club la

CALLS MEN OF U. S. FEMININE

Critic SSys American Husband la Mere Money Earner —Society Wife Is the Boss. ' Berlin. —According to an article by penry F. Urban, who Is recognised in Germany as akeen, good natured social critic, freedom of action by American society women, especially In New York, hr possible because American society men are feminine and the women masculine. . “A smart New York woman,” Herr Urban aaya, “Is not taerely a complete aristocrat, but she has something queenly In her disposition, and at the same time la Qur more natural and unaffected than her European sisters.' >. “The explanation is that from youth onward she is taught to consider herself a sort of higher species before whom mere man must bow the knee. She expects her male rela- , tions, including her grandfather, and all other men must find her charm* tag. * “She takes the greatest can of her person. She is pious; she is devoted to sport The result of her edtacation Is n slim, healthy, amiable, highly independent exacting, well informed young lady.” " „ . ■*?: All Amrican women, Herr Urban contends, have one passion hi common—love of shopping—which la undertaken without any intent to purchase but solely as a pastime. As for the American society husband, he, according to Herr. Urban, "Is • mere money earner, who must tfecustom himself to nolle obligingly, talk nothings, and look like a gentle-

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a system of preserving tha memories of its members by means of phonograph records of their voices. Now and again an evening is given to the stories told by departed comrades. The men sit and listen almost in awe to voices out of the past, recounting fond memories. and slngjng well known, ballads. A ’ , From this device the Chicago Historical society has adopted a plan of making imperishable the speeches of some of the noted persons of that City, reproducing them with the aid of the phonograph for the benefit of future generations. The same idea is being used In other cities for perpetuation of the memory of great men. The name of the Borrowed Time club cable from the idea that threescore'years and ten is the allotted time of'life and that men who have lived beyond this mark are living on borrowed time. “In our club several are ninety years old,” Mr. Barclay said.

Sang Herself to Death.

Leavenworth, Kan.—Anna Self, a negro, died from cerebral hemorrhage resulting from singing in the negro mission choir laat night Overexertion in a fervor of religious enthusiasm caused an artery in her forehead to burst and she became unconscious almost immediately. She was thirtynine years old. I „ -

BOY SCOUTS FIGHT FLAMES

Bravery and Training of Youths Bave County Almshouse and * Asylum. Mew Lisbon, N. J. —Fighting the blaze until the local fire department arrived, two Boy Scouts saved the Burlington comity almshouse and barns on the county farm from de-l a traction, after lightning had ignited the big sheep barn during a terrific electrical shower. The young scouts, to whose bravery and knowledge of firefighting as taught in their organization, the highest praise Is given today by Superintendent Charles A. Bowse, axe Robert Taylor, leader, and S. Roger Oliver of the Fax patrol of the First Burlington Troop. -7 - A hundred inmates of the almshouse, most of them aged and enfeebled, and patients in the asylum adjoining were thrown into panic by the flames that followed the lightning. The biaxe seemed to menace the entire institution. The burning sheep barn, filled with hay, was joined by a row of sheds to other frame structure* sad within 30 yards was- the new $3,000 barn, one of the finest ta the county.' The scouts, while on a cycling trip, had stopped to spend the night with Superintendent Bowne, a relative of one of the lads. Taught the science of firefighting in their scout work, both boys.got into action at the first alarm. While many of the inmates stood about too dazed to act, the scoots aided the superintendent In unreeling the fire hose, an<f Oliver, with one line, scaled the roof of an adjoining barn and directed a stream on the 1 flames from shove, while Taylor, with

BUCK AT CAPITAL

Dr. Wo, Again Minister to Uidtod States, Is Welcomed. Three Times Representative of Celestials Arrives at Washington and fa Gladly Received by All—To Be Called Ambassador. Washington. The appointment of Dr. Wu Ting Fang, as minister iflp the United States from- the flew republic of China la a matter of satisfaction and. interest to Washington. Doctor Wu has twice before this represented his 'government in the American capital, and is probably toe best-known Chinaman in this country. While there is no official authority for toe statement, it is hinted that the post in Washington will be made an embassy Instead of a legation In the near future. Doctor Wu will then be promoted from minister to ambassador. Before the recent change of government to the Flowery Kingdom a new minister had been appointed to succeed Mr. Chang Tin Tang, the incumbent, but owing to toe exigencies of politics, the transfer was delayed until it was decided that Doctor Wu was the logical man for the place. On his last visit to Washington he announced that he would return again, as he intended to live far beyond the eentory mark.'— * . During one of his former sojourns in Washington he became interested to the work of Mrs. Henderson, wife of former Senator John B. Henderson of Missouri, and with her promulgated the doctrine of vegetarianism and total abstinence from alcoholio liquors. He insists that by living on a diet which Mb describes for himself anyone may live to any age he desires. When Doctor Wu was last to Washington he was as curious and active as at any time, but signs of age had appeared in his slightly bent figure and especially in the gray "hair which formed a good share of his queue. A gray-haired Chinaman is not a common sight to this country. This may be because emigration is confined to the young, or if gray hair does not -flourish in the Orient, it may be that Doctor Wu has made this concession to the newer civilization. But old or youn|K.Washington stands - ready to welcome the great questioner.

ATE EVERYTHING BUT CAT

Shipwrecked Grew Telle Story es Great Suffering Following Disaster. London.—A terrible story of the sufferings of a shipwrecked crew was told at Liverpool recently when the Booth liner, Denis, landed the captain and six men of the Schooner Hibernia, which became derelict in mid-Atlan-tic. The captain stated that for twentynine days the men drifted in their water-logged and dismasted vessel, anjl for fourteen days they had neither bread nor water. One tin of salmon bad to serve the seven men. To quench their thirst they resorted to chewing tea and their last meal was a turnip boiled in sea water. After that the only thing left was the ship’s eat.

LARGEST BOY IN THE STATE

Bouth Dakota Youth, 16 Years Old, Is 6 Feet 6 Inches and Tips ths Scales at 180 Pound*. Burke, S. D.—The Bntte Valley district in Gregory county lays claim to the largest boy in the state for his age in Jacob Schimmerhorn. The lad is 15 years of age, is 6 feet 6 inches in height afld weighs 180 pounds. He came to Dakota from Kansas with his parents. .. . ‘ -

another stream, fought them from below. The two streams checked the flames on the side adjoining the nearest barns until the arrival of the local department from the nearby village. Taylor then gave up his place to a regular fireman and calling together a few volunteers to aid him, worked his 1 way into the blazing barn, where the bleating of the imprisoned and suffocating sheep could be heard above-.the crackle of the flames. Creeping on hands and knees, the courageous lad seized sheep after sheep, dragged it to the door and passed it to the line of men behind him. So close were the flames that the wool was singed from the hacks eT several of the rescued sheep. Only six were left to perish In the fire, when the heat forced Taylor to retreat. ' '• “It was one of the finest acts of Jssroism I have ever wUmgmed,” said Superintendent Bowse. “Those boy scouts seemed to know Just what to do and they did it Their work undoubtedly saved the, county great loss.” Medal After 37 Years,. Teppealsh, Wash.—After tMrty-seV-en years of search the state of New Jersey located Frederick W. Schaeffer Ip Toppenlah during the past week and presented to him a beautiful bronze medal, ordered Issued to him shortly after the Civil war as a mark of splendid service In the state’s volunteers. The medal arrived by registered mall and to the pride of the rid -

THE QUIET HOUR

Knowledge That Has Brought Man Nearer to God 1 ' l * u 11 "’Vrllgß THINKING IN MILLIONS * LET ns think a little to millions— ' not, my speculative friend, mtt- '■ lions of dollars, bat, to begin with, in millions of miles. Where were yon last year at this time? “Just where you are now and sighing for some experience of travel,” do yon say? Why, my dear sir, or madam, yon have traveled some hundreds of millions of miles to tola twelvemontbjand still are traveling. What Is Panama or Constantinople or Pekin to comparison with this great Journey of the sun and its attendant earth! While you have been longing to go from Boston to Lynn to vfsth friends, yon have in fact traversed an unlmaglnahle breadth of space. The difficulty of getting started is to your imagination. The veriest Lob-lie-by-the-flre, to the remotest hamlet—even that woman who lived for sixty year* within sight of the passing trains and never stepped on board of one of them—l# a for traveler. Yes, but you say, that cosmic travel is both unimaginable and unsatisfactory. Lynn and Boston are at least real places where bouses stand and tins are collected. One gets the excitement of the crowded station and may look out of the car window. But onr world-spiral round the hastening sun is like going from nowhlther to nowhere. There are neither stations nor stops nor scenery. • -v: v, :;

Two View* of Life's Journey. It Is quite true; of course, In one sense, that the pleasures of this prodigious journey are largely out of sight But do. not the world and your; fellow travelers take on a different aspect because you are not marooned! In some corner of the universe, hut travel In the midst of stars and sunsf These thoughts may not appeal to yon. Perhaps your Imagination la so rusty from disuse that you cannot make it work st all In this direction. Then yon are like the fly that buzzes In a moving railroad car. It is unaware that its car has moved from. Boston and will arrive In Montreal. So lon% as It finds food and occupation, the journey Is a matter of indifference. The fly is happy—let It buss, and find no fault with Its limitations. It will be quite as much at home la Canada as Massachusetts. And so are we, except that age draws on, In all the stages of our unimaginable journey. The vlyidest Imagination, like the exactest research, cannot grasp and picture the facts and Implications of this planetary and solar flight—a journey where to stop would be annihilation, and In which we have no hint of destination. Did we start from anywhere? We can only guess. Are we bound for anywhere? Wo can never know, gome of our friends, the astronomers, have reasoned that we .are bound from a collision and catastrophe to a collision and cata* trophe. Others incline to guess that —barring accidents—our journey may be endless. The first effect of this la millions of miles was to make man seem insignificant and God remote. The poet Young, who told us that "An undevout astronomer Is mad,” might come back to find astronomers of this degree of madness not uncommon. God, regarded as the artificer, must certainly seem far away when we consider the unthinkable'distances we travel and the greater spaces we dis--1 eera. Man seems puny In the limits tions of Ids being and his knowledge. How slow our steps beside the silent onrush of the earth. A mile a minute is fast traveling for train or flight But the sun flies, they estimate, some sixteen miles a second —well toward a thousand miles while our Chicago limited passes from inflepest to milepost on its Journey. And the speed of light from star to star Is much more than a hundred thousand tunes as great aa that of the rolling train. How slow is man in the midst of'the swift movements of the universe.-Mow little is inan, who thinks the BtUo earth so large.

Good In the New Knowledge. - Yet the second and the real effect of this new knowledge was different, tt helped displace the thought of God as the artificer, tt gave man real dignity and elose relations in a larger universe. Hew little and cramped the ancient maps of the earth in space! In fact, space, as we think of it, had no real eadstsnee for the ancients. They did not get outride, the closed , box In which ran, planets and stars went circling round the earth, ta sit good frith many of them believed that Jerusalem was the phyrical center of all tli"g» in place, of that conceit of our* htmutn importance, we have gained the thought of God as the soul of the universe and. made the old doctrine of bis presence everywhere ffrmartiing more, than a- cold dogmS.fl If we can no longer localize the New Jerusalem (there was a map, I re* member, who wrote * bos* to prove that tbe globe within the sun was our heaven), we are learning to tidal, that this earth is gives ns to make as mueb like heavqn as we ess. And ail these things the Good Bos* told u» | oratories ago.—Boston TrpnscrtpV. |