Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1913 — Page 3

The CIVIL WAR FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

February 24, 1863. The United States steamer Indianola, under command of Lieut. George Brown, was captured in the Mississippi river near Grand Gulf, after an engagement lasting an hour and a half, by the Confederate ironclad steamers Queen of the West'and William H. Webb, and two armed steamers, ==- The steamer Hetty* Gilmore was captured and destroyed by Confederates under W. C. P. Breckinridge, near Woodbury, Tenn. The Savannah News said: “There seems to be now a great rage for investing in Confederate bonds. Everybody is buying bonds —that is, everybody who has treasury notes wherewith to buy. How great the contrast! 'Here our people are seeking Confederate paper. In Lineolndom everybody is avoiding government paper, and paying enormous prices for every article which will enable them to get rid of Yankee promises to pay! This is one of the best signs'of the times.” At Richmond, Va., Judge Meredith cf the circuit court decided in habeas corpus proceedings that every citizen in Maryland and every foreigner who had enlisted in the Confederate army, no matter for how short a period, had acquired a domicile, and therefore was liable to conscription between the ages of eighteen and forty-flve. ' Congress formed the territory of Arizona by dividing New Mexico. Commander Porter sent a “dummy” gunboat past the Vicksburg batteries, which so alarmed the Confederates that they destroyed the Queen of the West and the Indianola, which they :had lately taken from the Federate. February 25, 1863. The act for the enrolling and calling, out of the National forces, and for other purposes, passed the house of representatives by a vote of 115 to 59. It had already passed the senate. Stuart’s Confederate cavalry was defeated in a brush with the Union cavalry of General Averill near Hartwood church, Virginia. The Confederates, ignorant of the preponderating force of the Union cavalry, made the attack, but were driven off, and pursued as far at Kelly’s Ford. An expedition, consisting of a force of Union troops, under the command of General Rose, left Moon lake on board several steamers and proceeded up Yazoo Pass. The Confederates under Cluke, who bad been raiding in Kentucky, were overtaken and dispersed by a heavy Union force near Licktown. The British steamer Peterhoff was captured off St. Thomas, West Indies, by the United States gunboat Vanderbilt, and sent to Key West, Fla., for adjudication. The bakers in Charleston, S. C., advanced 1 the price of bread to twentyfive cents for a half pound loaf. Flour sold at sixty-five dollars a barrel. The National Bank bill became a law through the approval by President Lincoln. Filbusters in the house of representatives defeated the bill providing for compensated emancipation in Missouri. / February 26, 1863.

Two hundred men of the Thirteenth i Pennsylvania and First New York cavalry were captured near Wood* stock, Va. They were* part of a detachment that had gone in pursuit of a body of Confederate cavalry that came Inside the National pickets on the Strasburg road the day before, and captured twelve pickets, after a skirmish. The Union ca.valry, following, came up with the Confederate raiding party, and took many of them, but, proceeding too far, they were in turn attacked and overwhelmed. The National council of the Cherokee natloq rescinded Its ordinance of secession and declared loyalty to the United States. The yacht Anna was captured In the Suwanee river, Georgia, by the National steamer Fort Henry. A freight train on the Louisville & Nashville railroad, laden with merchandise belonging to individuals, a quantity of government stores, and two hundred and fifty mules, was captured near Woodburn, Tenn., by Confederate partisans. After driving off the mules and rifling the cars of their contents, they set fire to them and totally destroyed them. That done, they got up steam on the locomotive and started It at full speed up the track, hoping It would encounter the passenger train from Nashville. The locomotive passed a number of stations at high speed, but finally came to a stop, Its steam having become exhausted, without doing any harm. February 27, 1883. Jefferson Davis issued a proclamation to the people of the states in rebellion, appointing the twenty-sev-enth of March as a day of fasting and prayer. Gen. John Cochrane resigned his command In the United States army of the Potomac, and issued a farewell address to the soldiers of his brigade. A skirmish took place at a point fifteen miles from Newburn, N. C., between a detachment of Mix’s New York cavalry, under the command of

Captain Jacobs, and a strong reconnoitering party of Confederate infantry, in which the later were eventually driven off. ‘February 28, 1863. ’ . Gen. Robert E. Lee, commanding the Confederate army in Virginia, Issued an order reviewing its operations for the year 1862. The armed Confederate steamer Nashville, while aground under the guns of Fort McAllister, on the Great Ogeechee river, Georgia, was destroyed by the United States monitor Montauk, under the command of CapL J. L. Worden. March 1, 1863.

A reconnoitering party of Union troops, under the command of Adjutant Poole, made a dash into Bloom* field,"Mor, early in the-morning, killed the Confederate recruiting officer, Lieutenant BrazeSu, captured the provost-marshal and twenty Confederate irregulars, a number of firearms, and a quantity of ammunition. The English steamer Queen of the Wave Stranded while endeavoring to elude* the blockading squadron in front of Georgestown, S. C. She was seized by a crew from the United States steamer Conemaugh. Fifty men of the First Vermont cavalry were surrounded and surprised by a party of Confederates at Aldie, Va. 1 A Union expeditionary force under General Stanley, out on the day’s work near Pradyville, Tenn., fell in with a body of Confederate partisans under Colonel Duke. There followed, a stubborn fight of twenty minutes, before the Confederates gave way before superior forces. March 2, 1863. <

The United States regulars in Rosecruis’s division of the Federal army asMurfreesboro had a chance to show what they were worth. Moving from their position at Murfreesboro on a foraging expedition, they encountered the enemy in considerable force near Eaglesville. The Confederates advanced through the regulars’ skirmish line, not being familiar with the rules of tactics, but were driven back by a galling fire. Making a second stand, the Southerners 7 were dislodged by technical work on the part of Colonel Shepard, commanding the regulars, and withdrew. The party brought back no forage. A party of Confederate cavalry, augmented by a band of irregulars, had an encounter with a force of loyal Tennesseeans under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Brownlow, near Petersburg, Tenn. The Confederates were persuaded to withdraw with much difficulty. Thirty of Mosby’s partisan fighters were surprised and routed by a Union cavalry force near Aldie, Va. Thirty of the Confederates were captured. Thirty-three commissioned officers were dismissed from the United States army for various offenses, charges against them having been proven in courtmartial. (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.)

No Place to Fasten 'Em.

A woman who could not decide what to give her husband for Christmas was bent on making the most of the suggestions she might obtain from the clerk in a local department store. The clerk desired to help her, but their ideas concerning gifts were far from coinciding. “How do you think he would like one of these new art brass cuspidors?” suggested the engaging saleslady. “I’m afraid he wouldn’t have any use for it. He doesn’t chew tobacco,” replied the prospective customer. “We have some very nice* smoking sets," remarked the girl. “Oh, my, John doesn’t smoke," exclaimed the woman. “And here is a lovely decanter, with a beautiful set of wine glasses," the Clerk ventured, desperately but iy“I hardly think that would do,” faltered the good wife. “You see, we never have any wine about the house.” < “Well, I might suggest a card table and some bridge decks.” “Oh, no, my husband never plays cards.” “Then you’d better take the elevator to the third floor, millinery department I think your husband need* a pair of wings.”—lndianapolis News.

Surprised the Captain.

Captain Stlggins, of H. M. 8. Doubtful, was extremely fond of potatoes served up whole, and this fact led to an amusing Incident the other day. The captain, it appears, whilst at |ils dinner, rang his bell for the cabinboy sentry, a* he wished to send him with a written message to the ship’s carpenter. At the moment of the sentry’s entry the captain’s mouth chanced to be full of good things, and he was then prevented from giving hl* orders with that organ, so he pointed to the note on the sidebord with hi* fork, on the end of which was a beautiful floury potato. The gallant marine, while Inwardly wondering at his skipper** great liberality, quickly marched up to the table, and with a “Thank you, *lrt” seized the mealy one and slid out through the door again. What the captain said when hl* mouth admitted of speech would not. Improve the story.—London Tit-Bits.

Tick Talk.

First watch out of order—We’ll have to ditch that jeweler pretty soon. Second ditto—Why? First—He’* watching our movements too carefully.—Stanford Chap-

DIVORCE IN DECLINE

Lqs Angeles Plan Lowers Records in Court 50 Per Cent Homes Are Not Broken Up and City Enforces Payments of AHmbny, and Soon Husbands and Wives Make Up. u Los Angeles, Cal.—That SDr per cent of the cases of trouble between man and wife, which formerly would have ended in divorce and the breaking up of a home, now end'in reconciliation under the system of "divorceless” alimony, is the statement of Hugh C. Gibson; chief -probatfon officer; and that a much larger percentage could be saved from divorce if a larger staff and more means were obtainable .is the opinion he advances as a result of trying this system for two years. The “dlvorceless" alimony consists in the payment of alimony without divorce proceedings, and has been in effect since January 1, 1911, when it became a law that failure to provide is a felony. Before that time the only redress a woman had on this ground was divorce. Now she may apply to the courts or the probation department, if there are children, on the ground of felony—and “hubby” must pay up, the alternative being the rock pile. And if he goes on the rock pile at 31.50 a day—more than the average man makes, according to Gibson —the court collects the entire amount and pays it to his wife and children. “I believe fully half our cases are saved from divorce now,” said Mr. Gibson. ‘Tn a year we must average 500 cases where there is failure to provide; we easily save 250 out of that number from divorce. Unless the trouble is very real and hard a man’s heart is apt to soften toward his wife and babies within a few months, and in five per cent of the cases, within sixty or ninety days he makes overtures of peace and effects a reconciliation. Of course we continue to keep supervision over the families —particularly if there are children. And sometimes the peace business doesn’t go, and they are back on our hands; but usually it sticks, and instead of a divorce a ruined home and children without a father, there is a happy home with everything as it should be. “In the last year we have handled approximately 315,000 in this divorceless alimony money. We cannot take more than sixty per cent of a man’s earnings, and we have no set ratio. The amount is fixed in accordance not only with what he makes but with his wife’s condition, the number of children, and other matters affecting their needs. - L' ~ ' “Could we handle other specific divorce charges, such as drunkenness, or ‘affinities,* and save fifty per cent.? I don’t know, about the fifty per cent, because we haven’t experimented, but we certainly could prevent many cases of divorce —many cases.”

COST IS ' $300,000,000

Subway Planned for Gotham Will Rival Canal in Price. Bore by Which New York City Will Be Undermined Will Be Three Hundred and Thirty-four Miles In Length. New York.—This is the story of the biggest chore ever undertaken by a city. In writing of New York’s new subway system one may as well dip into the pot of superlatives at once. It will cost approximately $300,000,000 — which is almost dollar for dollar what the actual digging of the Panama canal will cost the, nation. It will be 334 miles long, cobwebbed through 316 square miles of the city’s five boroughs. The largest bond issue ever made upon a single corporate undertaking has been financed by J. P. Morgan—

J. Pierpont Morgan.

this country’s greatest banker—and 280 Invited associates, to provide for Its building and equipment This is the greatest group of bankers, both in mere numbers and in golden billions, ever assembled under a single leadership for a private purpose. The $170,000,000 bond Issue which they will handle only covers a little more than one-half —speaking in millions—of the total cost of the undertaking. At the end of fifty years the new subway system may pay an enormous profit to the city of New York or may have

REAL “MADONNA IN THE OAK TREE”

>’_. . . z This newly discovered masterpiece from the brush of Raphael, called “The Madonna in the Oak Tree,” was smuggled into London from Italy. Hitherto the painting of the same subject in the Prado at Madrid has been regarded as Raphael’s, but now it has been found to be the work of one of his favorite pupils.

HOBOES THREW J. E. HOW OUT

They Didn't Like the Millionaire Leader's Ideas of Philanthropy—A “Philosophical Anarchist," How Says. New Orleans. —James Eads How of St. Louis, the self-styled "millionaire hobo leafier,” who first organized "the Casual, Unskilled and Migratory Workers of the World,” and called the first national hobo convention, was repudiated as a leader by the hoboes in convention here recently. How tried to inject socialism into the proceedings and was told to get out Tired of How and the fight between him and President Jeff Davis over the question of socialism, the hoboes broke up the convention of the “International Brotherhood Welfare Association,” threw How and his principles out and organized a "hobo mass meeting.” How said he was not a Socialist, but merely a “philosophical anarchist” and tried to tell the delegates that Jeff Davis was himself a dyed-in-the-

thrust that unfortunate municipality into a deficit of 3170,000,000. Both views—and every sort of intermediate view—are held violently and convulsively by men of equal sincerity, intelligence and conservatism. The only other undertaking financed by a city which comes within shouting distance of the subway plan for sheer, brazen immensity is the Catskill waterworks system, which New York city is building in a modest, depreeating sort of way, so that one hardly hears of it When this is completed, which will be in three years or so, it* chain of reservoirs will be fed by 646 miles of water shed. The 15 by 17 foot tunnel, which will deliver 500,000,000 gallon* of water a day to New York city, will be 92 miles long. Under Storm King and the Hudson fiver it will be 1,100 feet deep. For miles it will range between 700 and 800 feet below the city’s doorstep*. It will cost 1200,000,000 or thereabouts, and will supply the needs of the city for the next generation, just a* it is hoped that the new subway can be stretched to fit the straphangers' demands for half a century. The two enterprises, forced by conditions upon the city, will cost 1500,000,000. It should be noted that New York’s net funded debt is s794,949,4o4—assessed against 5,000,000 people—on which the annual interest is $35,473,685. The total debt of the nation is $1,027,575,000, on which interest amounting only to $22,787,000 t* paid, and which is shared by 96,000,000 people. Superlatives seem to be justified. The present subway was built to carry 400,000 people dally. It i* carrying two and one-half times that number, thanks to the straphanging genius of the New Yorker.

MORMON SHAFT FOR SEAGULL

Brigham Young’s Bclon Plane Memorial to Sacred Bird of Sect— Exterminated Grasshoppers. —; New York.—lt to learned that Mahorrl Young, a grandson of Brigham Young, leader of the Mormon church, is at work tn this city modeling a unique monument to the seagull. This bird is sacred to the Mormons because it saved the first immigrants to Utah from a plague of grasshoppers. It is said that the monument, which will be carved, will cost 140.000. It will be placed in the grounds of the Mormon temple at Salt Lake City. With such

wool Socialist. The hoboes, however, howled How down and stood by Davis. “Down with How and his postage stamp philanthropy, he has never given us any of his mythical millions," shouted Davis, and the hoboes yelled. "This ain’t no political hot air gang," shouted one of the delegates, "and we ain’t going to let you fellows spoil our convention.” President Davis said the convention had been called to consider the' welfare of the "boys who are up against IL” and he did not believe they should be “forced to listen to a lot of rot about socialism from those who have axes to grind.” After appropriating one dollar for the purchase of tobacco for hoboes in jail here the Convention Adjourned to meet in the open air on the river front the following afternoon.

Raise Price on Saturdays.

Pittsburg.—Pittsburg barbers will hereafter charge the man ten cents extra who waits until Saturday to get a hair cut.

a costly monument the seagull apparently has a greater tribute of this kind paid it than any other bird. At the base of the one side is to be devoted to an inscription and the remaining three will have idw relief sculptures depicting the arrival of the Mormons in Utah, the saving of their first crop by the seagull* and the first harvest

SAYS CONGRESS IS HONEST

Victor Berger, Socialist Representative, However, Assert* Only Capitalist* Are Represented. New York. —“I have lived among the congressmen long enough to know them. There may be crook* in the house of representatives, but there are very few of them. The great majority are honest men, representing their class—the capitalist class. The only trouble Is they won’t admit there

Victor Berger.

is any other class.” Congressman Victor Berger, the Socialist representative from Wisconsin, who is about to retire from the bouse, made this statement in addressing an audience at th* People’s Forum in Brooklyn. Berger praised Taft as a well-meaning man. “born with a gold spoon in his mouth.” ' " .

High Living Cost Hits Theaters.

London. —Theatrical managers here propose soon to advance the price of the best theater tickets from to |3 each because of the high cost of living. .

HOME NEEDS SUNLIGHT

DETAIL TOO OFTEN NEGLECTED* BY THE MEN OF THE HOUSE- ■ Living Rooms In Which the Women Spend Almost the Whole of Thslr Time Should Be Made as Pretty as Possible. ■ ■ ■ ■■ The wife is the mainstay of. the; entire family, but too often she is painfully neglected,and her natural* yearning for comfort and beauty in, her home life is never satisfied. All our troubles are unloaded upon mother and her hands are always strong* enough to sustain us and her heart big enough to takejn all our sorrows. The very least we can do is to let the sunlight of the sky Into her home, and the light of our love into her* heart. Too many of our homes In the country lack the sunlight—not the sunlight from the sky, perhaps, but' the sunlight of comfort and beauty. We put too much money into the barns, live stock and shiny red ma-> chinery and not enough in the home,, where mother and the girls must live, and provide for the wants of the entire family. The men and boys are out-of-doors all the time in the summer, except when eating and sleeping, and during, the evenings in winter, and may not! feet the absence of pictures and carpets and hangings and the little decorations that go to make a home restful and satisfying as much as do the. women-folks. Appreciation of these things is almost certainly a matter of education even in men and boys. If they are brought up in a home whole walls are bare of pictures, whose floors are uncovered and where* books and magazines and newspapers are unknown, they may in time become resigned in a way to its discomforts, knowing no better. But the lack of comfort and beauty in a home* is a distinct loss in the softening and purifying influence upon character.— Laura J. Van Benthuysen.

Spaghetti With Meat.

Put a .teaspoonful of butter into a frying pan and when hot put in a., sliced onion and a clove of garlic, cut fine, frying to a light brown. Next add one pound of chuck steak and two or three slices of bacon, cut into short lengths. Let this cook for about five minutes and then put in a cupful of canned tomatoes and a fewmushrooms. Season with a little salt and paprika and let all simmer for an hour and a half, or until the meat is soft. In the meantime cook spaghetti by putting into boiling salted water and cooking twenty minutes. Drain and lay half on a large platter. Pour over half thft contents of the' savory pot and sprinkle a little grated cheese over all. Add the remainder of the spaghetti, cover with the rest of the meat and gravy and serve very hot This quantity is sufficient tor eight persons.

Fruit Roly-Poly.

Make a biscuit dough, roll It out into a sheet about half an inch thick and spread it with fresh or canned, fruit, or evaporated fruit which has been, soaked into plumpness and flavor. Use your discretion about the amount of sugar you sprinkle over the fruit—the ripe, tart varieties, such a» oranges os apples, will require more than that which is canned. Dredge with flour and roll the dough up with the fruit Inside. When you have made it into a loose roll pinch the edges together, wrap in a piece of cheesecloth, and lay In a steamer. Cook one hour and serve with hard or soft sauce.

Woven Markings.

Marking tapes with the full name woven into the fabric in bright red are decidedly practical; there la no danger of the color being faded in the laundering. These tapes, of course, have to be made to order, but the shops keep a very complete line of similar tapes marked only with the given name, ready for thd purchaser. It is said that tn stock there are at least 1,000 names now to be had. When the laundry work is done at home, the given name 1* quite sufficient.

Honey Fudge.

801 l together a cupful each of sugar and milk until jt forms a soft ball if tested In cold water; add a cupful of honey and boll until the mixture can be tested as before; then add a nut of butter and a tablespoonful of vine-, gar; mix all together and pour into shallow tins to cool.

Sauce.

One teacup of pailk, one tablespoon of butter and one of cornstarch. Boil until thick. Beat one raw egg and beat in slowly, adding liquor of salmdh, one teaspoon at a time; one tea* spoonful of good tomato catsup. Thia is a delicious dish and will always find favor with the men of the family.

Under Baby's Plats.

Babies are babies and cannot help spilling things at the table. Place large sheets of waxed or oiled paper under the baby’s plate, beneath the tablecloth. This prevents wetting the table mat and saves much labor. -

Salmon Loaf.

Four eggs beaten separately, three tablespoons melted butter, half teacup bread crumbs, dash of red pepper, one can salmon without the liquor, a little chopped parsley, a pinch of mace Mix all well together and bake one hour,