Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1913 — Page 3

CIVIL WAR FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

April 13, 1863. i The National transport Bteamer Escort, with re-enforcements, ammunition, and supplies for General bottled up at Washington, N. C., ran the Confederate batteries on the Pamlico river and succeeded in reaching her destination. ■} A detachment of National troops, under command of Colonel Speal, Eleventh Pennsylvania cavalry, attached a body of Confederate troops in the vicinity of Suffolk, Va. After a sharp skirmish the Unionists were compelled to withdraw behind breastworks. In thq afternoon the same party, heavily, re-enforced, sallied forth again and drove the enemy with considerable loss. General Burnside, in command of the department of the Ohio, issued an order threatening with death any who should be convicted of aiding, within hiß lines, the enemy. The order aroused the bitter antagonism of Clement L. Vallandigham, and did much to make many people dissatisfied with the extra constitutional methods adopted by the administration or its a&ents. April 14, 1863.

The Confederate works on the Bayou Teche; Louisiana, were attacked by the National forces under Generals Banks and Emory, and the Confeden ates driven out, after a desperate resistance of several hours. The Confederate gunboats Diana, Hart and Queen of 'the West were also destroyed. The two former were burned by their crew to prevent them falling into the hands of the Federals, and the last was attacked and set afire the United States gunboats Calhoun, Estralla and Arizona. The United States gunboat West End, lying in the Nansemond river, four miles below Suffolk, Va., was attacked by a Confederate battery and badly damaged. Seven of her crew were killed or wounded. General Foster escaped from Washington, N. C., where he had been surrounded by Confederates, in the steamer Escort, which ran the Confederate blockade of batteries on the Pamlico river. ::: The United States gunboats Commodore Barney, Mount Washington and Stepping Stones, attacked and silenced a heavy Confederate battery on the Nansemond river, Virginia. The fight lasted four hours. April 15, 1863. Franklin, St. Mary’s parish, Louisiana, was occupied by* the National forces under General Banks. The siege of Washington, N. C., was raised. The Confederate forces, which had invested the town for three weeks, left suddenly. General Foster, who had been hemmed up in the place, and who escaped the night before on the steamer Escort, was in Newbern organizing an expedition for the relief of the place when the newß of the Confederates withdrawal reached him. A detachment of two hundred of the Thirty-ninth Mounted Kentucky infantry, Colonel Dills, made a forced march on Pikesvllle, Ky., and, after a sharp fight, captured seventeen Confederate officers and Bixty-one privates. At the same time eight scouts from the command of Gen. Julian White captured a captain and twelve privates in Breathitt county. Fighting was continued on the Nansemond river and its vicinity, where two engagements between Confederate batteries and Union gunboats had taken place the previous day. A battalion of cavalry arrived in New Tork City from San Francisco, Cal Colonel Evans, with a force of National troops, attacked and defeated a war party pf Indians sevehty miles south of Great Salt lake, Utah, killing thirty of them. April 16, 1863. A fleet of eight National gunboats and several transports under the command of Admiral Porter passed the Confederate batteries at Vicksburg at night, without any material damage, except the loss by fire of one of the transports, laden with commissary stores and forage, and joined Grant's army at Bruinsburg. A party of Indians attacked eight soldiers at Medalia, thirty miles from Mankato, Minn., killing one and wounding two, besides killing a boy and two men belonging to the settlement. The British steamer Gertrude was captured off Harbor island by the National gunboat Vanderbilt, while on her way from Nassau to the blockaded coast of the Confederate States. April 17, 1863. Brig. Gen. Daniel A. Donelson, a nephew of Andrew Jackson, and commander of tbs Confederate department of Bast Tennessee, died near Knoxville. The Confederate schooner Alabama was captured off Mobile by the National steamer Sunquehanna while endeavoring to run the blockade. A large detachment of the Ninetyninth and One Hundred and Thirtieth New Tork had a successful skirmish wtth Confederates at South Quay road, near Suffolk, Va«, succeeding in killing and wounding a considerable number. The Nationals had two killed and three wounded. Col H. B. Grierson, in command of

a strong force of Union cavalry, left La Grange, Tenrn, on a raid through the State of Mississippi. A skirmish tok place on Bear creek, Tennessee, between a party of Nationals under General Dodge and Confederates, resulting in the withdrawal of -the latter. Captain Cameron of the Ninth Illinois cavalry was killed. A detachment of National troops under General Grover encountered a large force of Confederates at Bayou Vermilion, La., and drove them from their position with artillery fire. April 18, 1863. The Confederate side wheel steamer St. John was captured while endeavoring to run the blockade into Cape Romaine inlet, by the National steamer Stettin. A reconnoissance of Sabine Pass, Tex., was made by a party from the National gunboats Cayuga and New London. On landing near the light house they were fired on by concealed Confederates, Captain McDermont.of the Cayuga being killed and his crew of five men being captured. Captain Reed of the New London was wounded, together with four of his men. Fayetteville, Ark., garrisoned by a force of National troops under Colonel Harrison, was attacked by a strong body of Confederates. For six hours the fight raged in front of the town. The Confederates were compelled eventually to withdraw, being able to do no more than wear themselves out against the National forces.

April 19, 1863. A force of Nationals, consisting of three regiments of infantry and one of cavalry, from Memphis, Tenn., on a reconnoitering expedition, see-sawed for two days with a detachment of Blythe’s Confederate cavalry about Nonconnah, Tenn. The first fight occurred on the 18th. On the morning of the 19th the Confederates were driven across the Coldwater river. Being re-enforced, the Confederates advanced, and the Unionists fell back to Hernando, whdlre they were in turn re-enforced, and moved out again. The last fight, continuing until sundown, resulted in a draw. Major General Dix, in a dispatch to the war department, said: “I deem it due to the forces at Suffolk to notice briefly their gallant conduct during the last six days. On Tuesday General Peck’s right was attacked, and the enemy’s advance was gallantly met by Colonel Foster’s light troops, driving him back to the line of his pickets. Anderson’s division was engaged at the same time on the waterfront with four gunboats and batteries, and suffered materially. On Wednesday a Confederate battery of twenty pounder rifled guns was effectually silenced, and on the Smith Briggs, an armed quartermaster’s boat, was repulsed. Repeated attempts have been made on our lines, but have all been foiled. The storming of. the enemy’s battery near the mouth of the Nansemond by General Getty and the gunboats, under Lieutenant Lamson of the navy, and the capture of six guns and two hundred prisoners, closes the operations of six days against the enemy’s large force very satisfactorily.’’ The Eightyninth New York and Eighth Connecticut were the storming party. (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.)

PROPER STATUS OF INDUSTRY

Question That Is to Call Louder and Louder for the Consideration of Mankind. Was industry made for man or was man made for industry? If man was made for Industry, then It is just that industry should be made the master and man the slave. It is just that 500,000 men and women should be killed and injured annually while they minister to the Industrial deity; it Is fair that women toil long hours for a pittance; it is right that humanity writhe in agony under the goad of the Industrial taskmaster. If, on'the other hand, industry was made for man, then it is just that maifshould be the master and Industry the slave. It is fair that any calling which crushes men’s bodies, the souls of women and little children, or takes a toll of life and joy greater than its contribution to the happiness of the community, should be reformed or abolished. Two thousand years ago Jesus rebuked the Pharisees and justified his disciples—who had picked corn on the Sabbath day—ln these words: "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.” The world listens for the modern prophet who shall proclaim: "Industry was made for man, and not man for industry.”— Scott Neeriug in Everybody’s Magazine.

"Fraud of the Label."

The "fraud of the label” to, I believe, a phase familiar, and your readers may be Interested to hear how we deal with it here. A "coiiSommateur” recently asked at a cate to he served with a particular kind of drink, which he specified by name, and was given instead an aperitif of another brand, without beint Informed of the substitution. The Cour de Cassation has now given judgment in the matter, and holde' that snch substitution-constitutes an illegal action, the illegality being toward the proprietor of the brand asked for by the customer. This decision ifoes much further than this, however, for the court has held that in-such circumstances the prejudice to the interests of the proprietor of the brand in question Is such as to entitle him to bring an action for damages against the owner of the case. This decision appears to open up somewhat farreaching possibilities.—Paris Corre spondence London Globe.

GERMAN ROYAL FAMILY GROUP

This is the latest photograph of Prince August Wilhelm, fourth son of the emperor of Germany; his wife, who was Princess Victoria of SchleswigHolstein. and their little child.

PRINCESS IS A “FAN”

Marie of Sweden Roots for Husband’s Team. Becond Son of King and His Wife Introduced Great American Game of Baseball as a Summer Sport in the North.

Stockholm. —Prince Wilhelm of Sweden and his charming wife. Princess Marie, a daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrewich, uncle of the czar, have become baseball "fans,” with the intention of interesting the officers of the capital and their wives in the sport. For many years the prince has been rated a keen football player, making his fellow countrymen realize that the spring and autumn months should be utilized with games, as well as the Winter days, when sking, snowshoeIng and skating are the pastimes. Buts with the advent of the last Olympic games in the capital came the great American game of baseball. Daily the prince and his wife could be seen in the midst of an interested group of nobility watching the American athletes play. As the prince watched Thorpe and his colleagues pitching and batting the ball he would grow greatly excit-

Princess Marie of Sweden.

ed, picking up the American "fan” phrases and urging on the men. The princess, too, would follow the intricacies of the game, now and then questioning her royal husband on the meaning of certain plays. So when Prince Wilhelm started a baseball club his wife at once began to Interest her friends. Every day at the practice of her husband’s team, whlcn was one of the four organized in the capital, the princess, dressed in a manner that has won her the title of the “most smartly gowned woman" of Norway, Bweden and Denmark, would be in the bleachers learning the fine points of the game. The entire coqntry then grew Interested in baseball, since it had, as it were, received royal sanction, and soon Maltno. that qnalnt and cburchly town, was ringing with the enthusiasm of the new sport and a team was at once formed. Upsala, too, ventured into tbls recently learned game, and

the rivalry of the two towns became most Intense. With the sanction of the prince, a league has been formed and baseball Is bound to become as popular in Sweden as it has in America. The princess delights especially in having with her at all the games the wives and daughters of the American minister and the attaches of the legation in Strandvagen. Her pretty English is becoming charmingly studded with phrases such as one bears at every game of baseball in America, and her knowledge of the game 18 very neatly as great as that of Prince Wilhelm. ■*

HERE’S CURE FOR BRAIN FAG

Kenyon Painter Returns From Wilds of Africa With Trophies and a Remedy for Racked Nerves. New York. —Kenyon Painter, big game hunter, sportsman and naturalist, of Cleveland, Ohio, has returned from an eight months’ big game hunt in central East Africa. In addition to a great number of trophies and birds, he brings with him a bit of first-hand advice and a "cure" for racked nerves. “I tell you,” he said, for bringing a man back to a natural state of health —for clearing the cobwebs from a city man’s brain and the mist from his eyes—there is nothing like a stay in the forests of Erst Africa. “The climate is superb and after you have tramped a montb or two, or ridden a mule until you feel you have become part of bim, and, above all, have enjoyed life In the open, day and night—lt Is then you begin to feel that you are really living and you revert to a state of natural, primitive health."

CANNIBALS LIVED IN BOSTON

Professor Harvey W. Shlmer Finds Actual FI rat Bettlera Relished Human Beinga. Boston. —That New England’s prehistoric man—who antedates the oldest inhabitants from 3,000 to 10,000 years, was a cannibal and of the orang-outang type, Is the contention of Harvey W. Shimmer, assistant professor of palentology at the Massar chusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Shlmer has unearthed strange utensils and remains In a shell mound at Ipswich which Bhow that the sarllest type thute dwelt from 3,000 to 5,000,* and perhaps 10,000 years ago, less than 40 miles from the heart of Boston. At Ipswich also pieces of broken bones of a human victim that. Professor Shlmer declares, was undoubtedly being sacrificed tc gratify a cannibal appetite were found. Professor Shlmer said: "There were a number of bones broken Into shorter pieces—human bones—which indicate that the earliest type of m»n was a cannibal. “At ancther kitchen-midden, which I explored at Gardner’s Island, off the Long Island shore. I found that the remains of a great auk. a bird now extinct. and pottery utensils made in the most primitive fashion, wholly unlike the European prehistoric pottery. Indicating that these early people lived here before the invasion of the European- types."

Mother Rescues Own Boy.

Worcester, Mass.—Mrs. Karl Hillson rescued from drowning her eight-year-old son, Roy, who had broken through a spring hole In the Ice In a pond near his home. She had been In town shopping and returned past the pond.

MONEY IS DESPISED TRASH

Love, Kindness, Baseball and “Movie*" Make Isle of Guam a ParadiseSays Captain Brackett

Chicago.—There is a tiny speck oa the map of the South Seas. It la found by drawing a line due east 1,500 miles from Manila. At the end of the line is the world's only Utopia. 320 square miles in extent where money is not needed, used or desired. It is the Island of Guam. Capt W. Brackett, United States marine corps, vice-governor and chief justice of the little island, visited the marine headquarters of Chicago and smiled a bored smile at the mention of money. "Money is Just so much metal or paper,” he said, and waved his hand in repudiation of everything that can be purchased. “Over in Guam everybody is happy and no one wishes for money. Guam is the one spot of complete content in all the world because it has no money Bystem." Not even a By stem of exchange or barter obtains among the 13.000 brown-skinned men who up the island’s population. “Nature. has given the inhabitants everything they can wish." the captain explained. "Their good food grows on tree*, before their doors. They build theh own huts antVoccasionally weave garments for themselves. That ends their work. They are not lazy, but they do not work Every one is happy there. Kindness and love and baseball and moving pictures are ail there is to life. And what more could be wished? "We established a moving picture show,” Captain Brackett said, "and the natives are wild over it. It gives them the only motive they have for doing work, and now every woman on the island has taken to raising chickens, as ten hen’s eggs will secure admission to the show. The baseball games are free." Captain Brackett obtained leave of absence to go to his home in Peoria, 111.

EARL AN ARDENT SUFFRAGIST

London’s Political Clubs Certain That Beauchamp Will Be Canada’* Next Governor-General. London.—lt is now definitely stated ln v political clubs that Earl Beauchamp, pronounced Beecham, will succeed the Duke of Connaught as governor general of Canada. Lord Beauchamp married Lady Lattice Grosvenor, a sister of the Duke of Westminster, in 1902. They have two sons and four Beauchamp commenced bis public career at the age of twenty-three by becom-

Lady Beauchamp.

ing mayor, of the City of Woscester; at twenty-five he was made a member of the old London school board and surprised England by receiving the governorship of New South Wales wheat he was just over twenty-seven. He / was extremely popular in New South Wales. Beauchamp la an ardent suffragist and once received a deputation from the suffragettes. Lady Beauchamp to musical as well as sporting and is a first rate organist, a good whip and a very keen gardener. She defies superstition by wearing a magnificent set of opals at every function.

FIND RECORD OF FORTUNE

Bottle Discovered Beside. Bkeleton Contains Inventory of Wealth Belonging to Empress Eugenic. Perpignan. France—Soldiers have discovered near the old fortifications at Montlouls a buried bottle containing what purport* to be an inventory of jewels and money intrusted to Manuel Perez for conveyance to the mother of Empress Eugenie at Madrid. The document to stamped with the seals of the second empire, and is dated Sept 4, 1870. It places the value of the jewels, which were presents from European sovereigns to Empress Eugenie. at 4,600.000 francs and the money at 200,000 francs. Close to the bottle a. skeleton waa unearthed.

Do the Wicked Continue Sinning After Death?

BtREV. J. H. RALSTON. *—-—r ■* **—i—-*—- n f ■.

TEXT—"He that Is unrighteous, let htmj do unrighteousness still: and he that is. filthy, let him be made filthy still: and he that lit righteous, let him do righteous-' ness still: and he that is holy, let him b#< made holy still.' Rev. 22:11 A. R. V.

matter a little carefully? Our thoughts are presented from the dbkngelcal standpoint as to the nature, manifestation, and outcome of sin. The widely prevalent modem, though erroneous, view of sin makes It rather an advantage than a disadvantage, Adam’s fall being upward rather than downward. One of the first suggestions is that * sin is self-perpetuating. It is a common saying that one sin leads to another—that sin follows sin somewhat automatically. Bin, however, is not to be considered as consisting chiefly in outward transaction, hat in the motive that is behind it. When a man dies his personality with Its stamped character continues, and reason would say that his course of action with respect to the moral law is to continue. Professor Denney says: “The very conception of human freedom involves the possibility of Its permanent misuse, or what our -Lord himself calls ‘eternal sin.’" The punishment of sin is not today held up before the transgressor, but rather the sin itself. Is not the sin really the great evil? It may be said that if a man can cease from sin out wardly in this life, sin may not become permanent Bat this ceasing from sin is by almighty power alone, and this power is denied after death. If it is farther said that man by the mere force of bis own win can cease from sin, we reply that the ceasing I* only in the outward manifestation, and not in the real sinning, which belongs to the motive. Meager light Is thrown on the activity of the wicked after death, bat we> know the scripture teaches that men who die in sin go to dwell with the devil and his angels. What Is the employment of the devil? Does any one who believes in a personal devil believe that he does not continue to sin? Is he not intensely active, the instigsr tor of all the cruelty, oppression, wars, abominations, lies and wretchedness In the universe? If so, what about those whom scripture calls his children? Jesus said they do the deed* of their father, and are they any less children after death than before? There Is no evidence that after death there Is a cessation from sin if we consider the employment or expo riences of the inhabitants of the other world. As to heaven, about which w« know mnch more than about hell, we learn the employment of the righteous. There Is no intimation of sinning, there is consequently no gospel preaching, mission work; social regeneration, or anything of that kind, but the inhabitants of heaven are engaged in the praise of God, In worshiping him in his glorious majesty, and doing his behests whatever they may be. In the text we read that he that id righteous is to do righteousness still and he that Is holy, is to be made more holy. Some one might say, "If the conditions in this life have a tendency to perpetuate themselves, will not Christians who show Imperfection by sinning, continue to show their Imperfection in heaven in the same way?" We might admit that if we did not have the direct teaching of scripture that there is no sin in heav en, nothing that defiles, that works abomination or makes a lie. From analogy we would conclude from the employment of the inhabitants of heaven, the employment of the wicked will be unrighteous or sinful. The teaching of scripture, though not abundant, seems to be dear. Jesus said (Mark 3:29, A R. V.) that if a man sin against the Holy Groat he shall be guilty of an eternal sin. This certainly teaches that there Is at least one eternal sin,, a sin that cbntlnnes In action Revelation 22: It seems to leave the matter beyond dispute, and it is well to observe that tbls teaching comes at the very close of the Bible. "He that is unrighteous let. him do unrighteousness still and he that Is filthy, let him be made filthy still." The marginal reading suggests the phrase "yet more" tor the word "still" In each case. Here, certainly, the employment of the wicked to dearly presented. What a sad fate, doomed to eternal sinning! The only escape to to have the motive to stn removed by the indwelling life of Christ. Then the habit of doing righteousness will establish the character that does rightsourness, and the future is sale,

Do the wicked cease sinning when they die? Probably the vast majority of three who ever consider this question without deep thought say they certainly do, for men are to render account to God for the, deeds done in the flesh, and when * man dies his account is dosed. Is It not wise to