Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1913 — Page 3

The CIVIL WAR

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

April 20, 1863. - The Union forces tinder General Banks occupied Opelousas, La., and Col. Thomas El. Chickering of the Forty-third Massachusetts was appointed military governor and provost marshal. A brisk cavalry Skirmish took place near Helena, Ky. An engagement took place at Patterson, Mo., in which the National troops were badly worsted and driven from Reeve’c station to a point seven miles east of Patterson, with a heavy lobs in killed, wounded, and missing. Bute a la Rose, La., was captured by the National gunboats Estrella, Clifton, Arizona and Calhoun, after a spirited engagement. The gunboats, approaching in the river, were out of sight of the fort behind a bend until they had arrived within a quarter of a mile of it. The fire that burst from both sides as soon as they came around the bend was terrific. Added to that of the fort and the National gunboats was a heavy cross fire from Confederate gunboats across the river. Preponderance of gun weight on the Union vessels, combined with better ammunition and better practice, drove the Confederates from their fort after a brief interchange, and the gunbdats slipped up the river out of harm’s way. April 21,1863. Captain Laypool, with seven men of the Fifth and Sixth Virginia Confederate cavalry, were captured near Berryville, Va„ by a party of the Second Virginia National infantry and New York First cavalry. Gen. R. B. Mitchell, commanding the Union forces in Nashville, Tenn., issued an order that all white persons over the age of eighteen years residing within his command must either subscribe to the oath of allegiahce or non-combatant’s parole, or go south. April 22, 1863. * Tompkinsville, Ky., was visited by t party of Confederate partisans, who buftied the courthouse and killed five Union men. Two regimentß of the First Corps of the Army of the Potomac, crossing the river to Port Royal on pontoonß, captured a Confederate mall and severa! prisoners. ..... _ _ The Confederate Bteamer Ellen was captured by a party of Union troops In a small bayou near Courtableau, La. The cargo of the steamer Wave, destroyed by the Confederates to prevent her from falling into the hands of the Nationals, was captured in the vicinity of Bayou Cocodue, Louisiana, by an expeditionary force under Genreat DWight. A portion of General Mcßeynold’s National forces occupied McMinnville, Tenn. Three hundred Confederates made a gallant stand against a force of Union cavalry consisting of the Third Virginia, with detachments of Rowan’s, Utt’B and White’s cavalry, near Strasburg, Va. * Six gunboats and twelve barges succeeded in passing the Confederate batteries at Vicksburg during the night. April 23, 1863. Lieutenant Cushing, with a party of men belonging to the National gunboat Commodore Barney, with a small howitzer, vlßlted' Chuckatuck, Va., where he encountered and defeated forty Confederate cavalrymen, killing two, and capturing three of their horses, fully equipped. Lieutenant Cushing lost one man killed. The British schooner St. George was captured off New inlet, North Carolina, by the National steamer Mount. Vernon. The sloop Justlna was captured off the Little Bahama bank by the gunboat Tioga. Aoril 24, 1863. Tuscumbia, Ala., was occupied by the National forces under General Dodge, who drove the Confederates under Colonel Chalmers from the place. Four Confederate schooners were captured off Mobile by the De Soto, and two were taken by the State of Georgia off New inlet, North Carolina. Colonel Phillips encountered and defeated a party of Confederates at Weber Fallß, Ark. The ship Oneida was captured, and destroyed on the high se&B by the Confederate privateer Florida, under the command of Captain Mafflt. One thousand Virginia tories, guarding the town of Beverly, Va., one of the extreme outposts of General Robert’s position in Tygert valley, east of Rich mountain, were badly whipped by a body of Confederates under Imboden and Jackson. They were brought safely off under cover of night, after being severely punished from two o’clock in the afternoon until dusk. The Federals were defeated. In a skirmish at Beverly, Va. ’ The Confederates were defeated the Iron Mountain road, near St. Urals. April 25, 1863. l4>e United States gunboat Lexington and the ram Monarch defeated the Confederate shore batteries at Duck River shoals, on the Tennessee river, after a heavy engagement last-

lng several hours. The poor powder of the Confederates, making good practice impossible, and depriving the shot of any punch, again decided the day. Two schooners from New York, with cargoes of clothing and medicihe, were captured in Mobjack bay, Virginia, by the Union steamers Samuel Rotan and Western World. The ship Dictator was captured and burned by the Confederate steamer Georgia on the high seas. A detachment of Union troops made a desperate- resistance against a force of Confederates at Greenland Gap, Va., holding them off for nearly two hours and repulsing three savage • charges, with heavy loss, it was reported in the north that the Con federate killed and wounded outnumbered the entire Union force. An important debate took place in the English parliament in reference to the seizure of British vessels bj American cruisers, and other subjects growing out of the rebellion in America. In the house of lords, Earl Rut? sell made an elaborate speech, and in the house of commons Mr. Roebuck a very declamatory one. April 26, 1863. The schooner Clarita, from Havana to Matamoras, Tex., was captured by the steamer De Soto. She proved to be the old revenue cutter John Y. Mason, taken by the Confederates at the outbreak of the war. At Louiville, Ky., during the sale of a lot of negroes at the courthouse, the provost marshal notified the buyers that four of these put up for Bale were free under the provisions of the president’s Proclamation. The sale continuing, the matter of the four “contrabands” was turned over to the district judge. The Seventy-sixth Ohio, Col. R. ti. Woods, returned to Milliken’s Bend, La., from ah expedition into Mississippi. They visited the regions bordering on Deer creek, and destroyed 350,000 bushels of corn, and thirty cotton gins and grist mills in use by the Confederates. The town of Cape Ciradeau, garrisoned by a force of National troops under the command of Gen. John McNeil, was attacked by a strong body of Confederates, under General. Marmaduke. The Confederates were repulsed, after a heavy engagement last* ing several hours. (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.)

STORIES THAT ARE POPULAR

English Serial Writers Bay One Class Prefers to Read the Chronicles of Another. — Do persons of limited means like reading stories about the rich better than those about persons no better off than themselves? The question is raised by a correspondent who writes from Winchelsea. “Many thousands of your readers would be glad,” he says, “if you could bring out a serial about ordinary middle class people by way of a change from the eternal scenes among aristocrats with no interest in life except sport and flirtation. After all, such persons must -be rare, even among your own readers, and it would be delightful to read about life in our own class. And let the characters live in some other town than London, say Leicester, or Birmingham, and dine, not ‘lunch,’ at noon.” Some wisely known serial writers were asked their opinions on the matter, with the following result: Mrs. Yorke Miller: “Perhaps the poor serial writers do like best to write about people with plenty of money, letting their mind dwell upon the things they desire and have not got. But I am inclined to think that most readers who dine in the middle of the day are like that, and most enjoy reading about people with motor cars who dine at smart restaurants.” Heath Hosken: “Really popular serials give both sides of life. Readers are extremely critical of descriptions of their own manner of life, and the more realistic it is the more likely they are to resent it.” Miss L. Mitchell, secretary of the Writers’ club: “I think that, on the whole, people enjoy most reading about a class of life different from any they have ever known." The question is: Are the Berlal writers mistaken in thinking that people do prefer to read about the rich and prosperous?—London Mirror.

Gallo-Roman Villa Unearthed.

A Gallo-Roman villa has been unearthed in Paris in connection with the .works for the underground railway near the Luxembourg. Traces of Roman are being discovered in Paris pore numerously every year, and the remains of the villa just discovered might, we are told, rival those of some of the finest brought to light at Pompeii. It la not the first time that this villa is spoken of, as parts of the walls and atrium were uncovered years ago, when the works Vere in progress for the Luxembourg station, but now the entire villa has been laid bare, and it 1b found to have consisted of twenty rooms, with a large antrium and a piscina. It faced in the direction of the Rue Gay Lussac and the Boulevard Saint Michel, and according to all appearances it wsb the most sumptuous private residence built in Paris during the GalloRoman period.—Paris Correspondence -London Telegraph.

Hadn’t Thought of That.

“Marriage bring* Its awakenings." "Yes.” sighed the other lady. *1 remember that I, as a bride, was thun* derstruok to find that my husband, after a limited amount of going to pink teas and matinees, had to go back to work and support the pair of us.”—Washington Herald.

PLAYS BALL AT 65

Mrs. Martha Holland, a Grandma, Enjoys the Game. Declares It Is More. Fun Than Sitting Down With Cap and Glasses to . Do Knitting—Led by Doctor’s Slur. New York. —"Wear a cap and glasses and settle down to knitting just because I happened to be sixty-five and a grandmother? I don’t see why. Besides, baseball is more fun.” Bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked and full of life, little Mrs. Martha Holland drew off a heavy pair of gloves and stuffed them into the pocket of a gray sweater, which she then pulled off and tossed over the back of a chair. As she pulled a rocking chair up to the tea table a rocker struck something that fell to the floor. It was a baseball bat In the work basket on the table was a baseball. In fact, everything about Mrs. Holland’s little home at 384 Park avenue, in Weehawken, suggested a very active and sport-lov-ing young boy rather than a grandmother, Says the World. “Some people,” she Bald, “make fun of me for playing baseball with the children. Some say I am setting a bad example for the young women, and that if all grandmothers acted as Ido we would have a race of Tomboys’ for daughters. Others seem to see sense in it. “Why did I begin to play baseball? Because a man made me ashamed. Five years ago, when I was only sixty, I was certain that I was becoming a real old lady. I used to sit and crochet and have a footstool. I was a real tame sort of grandmother. Also I had my little ailments. If I couldn’t conjure up rheumatism it would be a headache or something else Then I began to think I was getting feeble and couldn’t go out of doors. “One day our old doctor was visiting me. He looked at me, shook his head and said, most snappishly: “ ‘I tell you, Martha Holland, what’s the matter with you. You are lazy—-

WILSON’S ONLY ‘SON’

Story of the Fourth-Member of President’s Family. Dr. George Howe, Child of Executive’s Blster, Was Raised and Educated by Nation’s Chief—Discovered at the Inauguration. Washington.—A tall, distinguished looking young man, closely resembling the pictures of Woodrow Wilson in early youth, was a prominent member of the president’s personal party during the inauguration in Washington. He was noticed by many, but besides the immediate family few knew that this was young Dr. George Howe, younger son of Mre. Annie Wilson Howe, the president’s only sißter, who is now a member of the White House family, and, who holds in the president’s heart the place of an only son, for he was brought up in Woodrow Wilson’s own home as an adopted son. George Howe graduated from Princeton a first honor man and was then sent by his uncle to the University of Halle in Germany, where he took his Ph. D. with highest honors. Before returning to America he took a year’s course of post-graduate work at Oxford, and immediately after his arrival in this country he was called to take charge of the department of Latin at the University of North Carolina, His earliest youth was spent in Columbia, S. C., and from his old home he chose in boyhood his future bride. Her mother, Janey Smyth of Charleston, S. C., and George Howe’s mother, Annie Wilson, were friends from childhood. The old families of Howe, Wil-

Mrs. George Howe.

son/ Smyth and Woodrow Inherited intimacy from one generation to another. So when it became understood that there was “an understanding” between young George Howe and little Margaret Smyth FUnn. the lovely

BALLOON WHICH MAY SAIL OVER ATLANTIC

This is the dirigible balloon Suchard, in which Joseph Brucker expects soon to attempt to cross the Atlantic, starting from the Canaries.

lazy; that’s all. When most women get to be your age they seem to think it smart to seem ill and make everyone miserable; What you women need is exercise, and plenty of it If I had my way I would put you to playing baseball with the younger ones. That’s the medicine I’d give you, and it would be all you'd need.’ “It did make me angry to be called lazy, but he didn’t care. “One day when at my daughter’s .1 saw my grandsons playing in a vacant lot with some friendß. I didn’t say a word, but Just went over to the ball game and asked them to show me how. What happened? Why, the entire family thought I had lost my mind. But ever Bince then I’ve been playing baseball with my grandsons and their little friends. “I believe that If women, especially those who begin to have fancies about being sick when they really are not, would get out and play baseball with the children they would live longer and be far happier. “Five years ago, sitting in the house and fretting about nothing, I grew thin and wrinkled. Of course, I have wrinkles now, but not like those of five years ago; they are at least happy wrinkles; those were cross on<-s just enough to make me languid twelve months in the year, and now I

young daughter of Janey Smyth and Dr. J. W. Flinn, a distinguished scholar of South Carolina and dean for many years of the University of

Virginia Peyton Howe.

South Carolina—where Woodrow Wilson’s famous uncle. Dr. James Woodrow, was one time president—all the families were delighted. Margaret Flinn grew up to be the beauty of South Carolina and a famous belle throughout the south, and Woodrow Wilson, George’s adopted father, gave the engagement his heartiest blessing.

THIS CAT SWIMS AND BOXES

Feline Traveler Also Bwlngs by the Tall Without a Murmur of Protest New York.—Teddy came to New York city recently with all his feline fancies, and soon had nearly every one in the lobby of the Albert hotel taking notice that he was no ordinary cat. Teddy cam box, turn somersaults, hang by his tall and eat green peaß. He likes to perform, and after a busy afternoon showing almost anyone who came along his cunning tricks, he curled up on the hotel desk and slept as peacefully as a tramp in a box car. Teddy is traveling with his master, L. C. Breed, who is connected with a Chicago trade publication. The cat has been Mr. Breed’s constant companion for almost four years. He was adopted in the summer of 1909. Mr. Breed was in the Park hotel, in St Louis, and saw a forlorn kitten sneak Into the building and curl up in one corner. He petted the animal, and soon fbund him-unusually playful and Intelligent A mutual friendship began between the two, and Mr. Breed closed the matter by paying the hotel 25 cents for the kitten. As soon as Teddy became weed to two or three square ideals a day, he was put under the scrutiny of several cat fanciers, who discovered that

have muscles that I never knew of bofore. See this? “That is what catching and pitching and batting does for one. Yes, I do all three. You would have laughed when I began, for I couldn’t hit a ball. It took time for me to learn. How the boys used to shout when grandma first threw a ball! “Another thing—when women get to “my age they need the company of younger folk.”

GIVEN $12,000 FOR WINDPIPE

Massachusetts Jury Awards Large Sum for Injury In an Elevator Accident. Boston. —Peter Peterson of Roxbury, who was injured in a freight elevator in the Springfield Printing and Binding company, at Springfield, January 19, 1910, bo badly that he has to carry a tube in his windpipe in order to talk, will receive $12,500, according to an awsrd by a Jury before Judge Wait in the Suffolk superior court Dr. Hurley of Boston, operating on him, put a tube in his throat which enabled him to speak. He removes the tube each night and puts in another. Should he in changing tubes leave one out of his throat two minutes and a half he would die of strangulation.

But at the Inauguration their nearness to the White House family and their immediate plans could be kept private no longer; the favorite nephew of the president of the United States cannot remain an obscure personage. During the great inaugural parade Mr. and Mrs Howe and their little daughter, Virgins, stood with the president’s immediate family in the presidential box, and newspaper men in the rear, noticing the striking resemblance between nephew and uncle, did not rest until they had ferreted out who the young man was.

STUDENT, AGED 57, IS DEAD

Fails for Hundredth Time to Become Bwlss M. D. at University of Berne. Berne.—The oldest university student in Switzerland, Gottlieb Laederach, died here, at the age of fifty-sev-en, having studied at the University of Berne for 37 years without having taken his medical degree. Laederach entered the university when he was twenty years 'old. He studied assiduously, but, owing to a singular nervous temperament, he could never pass an examination. Under the written and oral tests he became so embarrassed that be always failed. Laederach, however, had an independent Income and tenacity. He determined to pass the examinations if it took a lifetime. * Many of his student friends became professors of medicine at Berne and Laederach attended their lecturee, although he knew as much as they did. Years went by, with the student still striving for his degree. Recently he went into the university examination room for the hundredth time. He was engaged in writing a series of answers to the questions of the examiners when he fell forward on his desk, dead from heart failure.

Teddy had all the points necessary to make him a show possibility In the short-haired Persian class. He is black, has a round head, long talk yellow eyes, glossy fur, small ears, and an alert bearing. The cat Is now four and one-half years old, and he has acquired many accomplishments. He sits up straight on his hind legs and, in more playful moods, will box. He can jump through one’s hands held shoulder high. He can leap from a table ten feet away to a man’s shoulder. He leads with a leash like s dog, and is a fine swimmer. . .

HAVE FOUND OLD MIRRORS

Discovery Made in Harbor of Syracuse Believed to Be of Historic Value. Rome. —What are believed by many to be the celebrated burning mirrors Invented by Archimeres for destroying an enemy's ships by focusing the sun’s rays on them have been discovered In the harbor of SyracuseThe find consists of two bronze concave disks more than three feet In diameter. Joined with a rotary apparatus. One of the disks la pierced with a circular central hole.

The Holy Spirit

Br REV. JAMES M. GRAY, D. D.

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TEXT—"Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed T’ Acts XIX, 2.

thing to “receive the Holy Ghost-" This brings up the whole question as to the relation of the Holy Spirit to the disciple, or the believer in Christ

1/ The personality of the Holy Spirit. We should keep in mind that the Holy Spirit is a divine person. Personality consists in self-conscious-ness and free will, and that the Holy Bpirit possesses personality in this tense is evident from three things: (a) He has the attributes of personality; (b) He does the works of a personality; (c) He has the names of a personality. Speaking of his attributes, there is one which, more than any other, helps to a realization of his personality. His attribute of love, which is referred to only in Romans 15:30. Do you know that the •Holy Spirit loves you, as a believer in Christ, with a love in some sense distinct from that either of the Father or tiie Son? How marvelously near that brings him to our hearts! The Father’s love manifested itself in the giving of his Son; the Son’s love in the offering of himself upon the cross, and the Holy SpiHt’s love in talking up his abode in us. 2. The indwelling of the Holy Spirit. This brings us to the second thought, viz., the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. That indwelling was promised in John 14:16-17. He had dwelt “with" the disciples therefore, but he was to dwell “in them” by and by. He had been as a power acting on them from without, but thereafter he was to influence them from within. The promise was renewed again in Acts 1:4-5, where the indwelling wan spoken of as the "baptism” of tlitt Holy Spirit. The realization came on> the day of Pentecost, when the disciples were indwelt, baptized and infilled with the Holy Spirit at one andi the same time. This transaction, however, as far as the first two terms are concerned, was not limited to the church ad-' sembled on that day, but applies to the whole church since. Such would seem to be suggested by 1. Corinthians, 12:12-14, where 20 years after Pentecost we are taught that aa believers "we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body.” What “body” is means if not the body of Christ, the church? And what “baptism” if not that "one baptism” on the day of Pentecost? 3. The filing of the Holy Spirit. But while the first two terms of that transaction On the day of Pentecost, the indwelling and the baptism (which are one) were for the whole church potentially, and for ail time, yet the same does not apply to the third, the filling of the Holy SplriL There la but one indwelling, but many fillings. We gather this from Acts 5:31, where the same persons who were “filled" on the day of Pentecost were refilled on a subsequent occasion. And Again, In Acts 6, when men are to be choeen to tbe office of deacon It must be by those who are “full of the Holy Spirit,” as if some were thus spiritually equipped while others were not. It is something corresponding to this, therefore, which Paul has in mind in our text, when he said: ”Have ye received the Holy Ghoet since ye believed?” The reception of the Holy Ghost on their part resulted in an enduement of power, but in other placea of the Acts, notably the fourth chapter, it is seen to have resulted not only in the spirit of power, but of unity and love. It Is this that we ministers, evangelists and Christian workers need and that the whole church needs In order to accomplish her mi» slon for Jesus Christ on earth. How may the fillings of the Holy Spirit be received by the believer on the Lord Jesus Christ? Prayer, obedience and faith seem to be the only conditions, if they may be called conditions. Speaking of faith, there is a sense In which the gift of the Holy SplriL L e., the filling of the Holy SplriL should be received by as definite an act on our part as that by which we laid hold of , salvation through Jesus Christ; but this faith Is not likely to be experienced where obedience is not presenL “God giveth the Holy Ghost to them that obey him,” Pter says (Acts V.), and this agrees perfectly with the teaching of the Old Testament in Proverbs I.: “Turn ye at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you." Nor is this obedience merely occasional with some great thing, but it Is to be usual and common in the little things.

Paul met contain disciples In Ephesus whom at first be supposed to be Christian disciples, but in whose testimony there was tbah which led to the Inquiry, “Have y« received the Holy Ghoet since yd believed?” It if evldenL therefore, from these Words and from the sequel that it Is one thing to he a disciple, and another