Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1913 — Page 3

The CIVIL WAR

FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

June 7, 1863. Colonel Wilder of the mounted infantry returned to Murfreesboro, Tenn,, after breaking up a band of guerillas at Liberty, capturing all their horses and 62 men. Federal troops pursued the Confederates to Spring Hill, Tenn., the Federal lotfs being 50 men. The position of the Federal army along the south side of the Rappahannock was considerably strengthened. Indiana and Michigan were formed into a military district and Gen. O. B. Wilcox placed in command. June 8, 1863. Leading editors of New York city met to consider the “right and duties of the press as affected by the existence of Civil war.” They decided there was justification tor the inciting or abetting of treason or rebellion against the constitution, government of laws, but that the rights of the press to criticise, censure or condemn the acts of those In power in order to render them more efficient and faithful was not suspended. They also declared the suspension by military edict of papers fax, from the seat of war was not necessary or justifiable. The Thirty-seventh , and Thirtyeighth New York volunteers returned home and were given a great reception and a banquet. All sutlers of the Army of the Potomac hurried to Washington to obtain licenses, in accordance with an order Issued by General Hooker. Surgeon W. S, Wright of the Confederate army was found concealed in to house in St. Louis with Confederate mail, morphine, quinine and gold lace in his possession, and was tried as a spy and sentenced to be shot. A weekly paper called the Black Hawk Chronicle was started on the Federal fleet on the Mississippi river.

June 9,1863. A bloody cavalry battle was fought at Beverley’s Ford, Va., between the Federal General Pleasonton, Buford and Greeg, and the Confederate Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, In which the latter was driven back and Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee was severely wounded. General Carter’s forces crossed the Cumberland and drove the Confederates under Pegram out of Monticello. There was a lively skirmish at Triune, Tenn., between the Sixth Kentucky cavalry and a force of 500 Confederates. Two Confederate officers, Lawrence A. Williams, formerly of the United States army, and Lieut. Walter G. Peter, were detected In the Federal camp at Franklin, Tenn., and hanged as spies. * John Ross, chief of the Cherokee Indiana; called on President Lincoln and gave? assurances of the renewed lloyalty of the tribe. Between 20 and 30 men were killed and as many injured by the explosion >of a powder magazine in Fort Lyon. The principle of general emancipation was indorsed at a great “Uncondltional Union” meeting at Dover, Del.

June 10, 1863.

Enrolling officers were fired on near I Manville, Ind., one being killed and one fatally wounded. Troops were isent to the locality. The Confederate General Pemberton isent word to Richmond that he could Ihold Vicksburg against General Grant, «nd Grant said he could take the city at any time, but that to do it then would mean the sacrifice of a great many men. General Brooks was assigned to the command of the Department of the 'Monongahela and Major General Hancock assumed command of the Second •rmy corps. Three hundred Confederate prisoners were sent to Fortress Monroe to be exchanged. Three hundred paroled Federal solidlers passed through Louisville on tbfelr way to join their regiments in General Rosemans’ army. June 11, 1863. _ C. L. Vallandinghamwas nominated ffor governor of Ohio by the Demotcratlo convention. General Lee was reported to be (moving up the Rappahannock with his (entire army for the invasion of Pennsylvania. Governor Curtain called inIto consultation Generals Couch, IBchenck and Brooks. ! Mosby’s band crossed the Potomac Itnto Maryland, attacked part of the IBixth Michigan cavalry, burned a lot lot military stores and retired. Colonel Montgomery began a Fedferal invasion of Georgia from St Simon’s island, burning the town of Darien and capturing the schooner Pet with a cargo of cotton. The blockade runner Calypso was tcaptured by the U. S. S. Florida off ,TWilmington, 8. C. ■ At a great union meeting In Chicago William Kellogg administered to the (people an oath that never should the Iwar cease “while a rebel lived or a (foot of treasonable soil was to be Itound.” The Richmond Enquirer declared (there was fierce exasperation and jeaL iousy among the states of the Confederacy, but that the army was sound |and would fight to the last Ninety-seven Confederate prisoners.

mostly officers, who were being transferred from Fortress Monroe to Fort Delaware on the steamer Maple Leaf took possession of the vessel, ran it ashore near Cape Henry Light and escaped. Among them was a son of Captain Semmea. June 12,

General Forrest with 5,000 Confederate cavalry and two batteries made another attack on General Mitchell’s forces at Triune, Tenn. A grand review of Union troops was held in Nashville, Tenn. The enrolling commissioners were driven -out of White River township, Indiana, and Governor Morton issued a warning proclamation to the opponents of the draft A Confederate report said Vallindinghatn had gone to a southern port to get to Nassau, N. P. Gov. Richard Yates prorogued the Illinois legislature because of its sympathy with the Confederate cause. , General Couch took command of the department of the Susquehanna and summoned all men between the ages of eighteen and sixty to tom an army corps for the defense of Pennsylvania. The commissioner of pen sic is at Washington estimated that if th s war lasted another year the pensions would draw $7,000,000 a year from the national treasury. June 13, 1863.

General Hooker began the movement of his army northward fron the Rappahannock. Confederate Gen. N. B. Forrest was shot and severely wounded by Confederate Lieutenant Gould in a quarrel. Confederate cavalry captmed a trainload of Federal cavalry horses and lobted an express safe at Elizar bethtown, Ky. Federal Captain Hare of the mounted provost guard attacked Hine’s guerillas at Wilson's creek, Ky., killing four and capturing their equipment. Private John P. Woods of the Nineteenth Indiana volunteers was shot as a deserter. The Federal government received word of the capture and burning of a number of vessels off the Atlantic coast by the Confederate Privateer Clarence and others, and sewn war ships were sent in pursuit The Richmond Enquirer stated that all exchanges of prisoners had been stopped because of breech of the cartel by the Federal government The paper claimed an excess of prisoners In favor of the Confederate of 17,000. (Copyright 1913, by W. G. Chapman.)

UNHOLY HORROR OF POVERTY

Simple Duty of Every Man Is to Get Away From Baneful Thought of His Necessities. The mental attitude determines the tendency of the life. According to this law, there is everything in Seeling rich, rich in everything that is good for us, everything that will help us to become what we intend to become. Many people have so long felt poor Ahd imagined that their lives must necessarily be dry and barren of comforts and luxuries which others enjoy that they have encouraged such conditions. The habit of feeling that you are poor and unfortunate, that the good, things of life are for others but not for you, that there is something in the universe which permits such conditions, is deadening to all the noble impulses, all that makes character, all that makes life beautiful, Orison Sweet Marden writes in Nautilus.

The way to make the idea the real is persistenly to hold the thought of their identity. The way to demonstrate abundance is to hold it constantly in the mind, frequently to say to yourself: “All that my father hath is mine,” “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want” If this is true (and you know that it is), any want or lack in your life is abnormal. If you would same effort and energy to see prosperity and to picture plenty as you do poverty you would not long be poor. You would very soon get away from these distressing conditions. But somehow the whole human race has such a horror of poverty that they concentrate upon it and attract it The man who thinks he is going to be unlucky in everything he attempts, is infinitely more likely to be so than the man who is filled with confidence, assurance and expectancy of success, because a failure atmosphere creates a negative, unproducing mentality, while a hopeful, expectant assurance, confidence, creates a productive mentality which does things, achieves.

The earth is fairly overflowing with abundance; the universe is loaded with marvelous resources of supply of which wo have not yet dreamed. Nature has no preference for the giving of her secrets, she does not give up her wealth any easier to a Rockefeller or a Carnegie, than to you or me.

Ridiculous!

“You should take exercise every day,” said the physical cuturist “You make me laugh,” answered the seeker after health. “I work so hard that I get too tired to take any exercise." “And you should take a bath every day." "What for?" “What for? Why it will make you feel better.” “Take a bath every day just because it makes me feel better! Say, what do you think 1 am —an epicu..*e?"— Cleveland Plgin Dealer.

HAS STEPLESS MS

Will Save Gothamites 125,000 Miles a Year in Steps. Governor of New York Expected to Sign Bill Doing Away With the ~ Ancient Type—Old Horse Cars Are Doomed. » *- New York.—By the introduction of a new style of street car the New York Railways company is about to save the good people of this city an annual climb from the level of the street of 125,000 miles a year, and a descent to the street of exactly the same length. It has come about through its engineers recognizing that it was ridiculous to make their passengers continue every time they boarded a street car to climb above all the machinery and that a little ingenuity would enable them to design a car with practically no climbing at all.

Once the figures are given anyone can verify this calculation for himself. In the year ended June 30, 1912, the New York Railways company and its predecessor, the Metropolitan Street Railway company, carried just under 264,000,000 passengers. The height of the step of the so-called stepless car from the street is ten inches and the height of the old-style car, which It is to replace, is about 40 inches. Consequently there is a saving of 30 Inches every time a passenger gets on or off the car, and this works out at 125,000 miles a year for the entire system. The double-decked, stepless car, which bears so strong a family resemblance to the other new style of car, will continue, however, tor some time alone in its glory. It was only after considering carefully the many different brands of street car in use in other cities that the New York Railways company evolved the side-door, stepless, prepayment car. Montreal, for example, has a side-door, prepayment car, and Philadelphia prides itself on its “near-side car.” The latter was inspired by the desire to provide room sos more passengers and to enable them to enter and leave at such a point that they would encounter as little as possible of the mud of the street

While the newest thing in street cars Is . being installed in New York, the oldest is about to be abandoned. New York has for several years been the only one of the big cities to retain horse cars. In some instances this was necessary because of congested traffic, but new subways have relieved this to such an extent that electric power now is practical

Governor Sulzer now has under consideration a bill requiring all street car companies of the city to cease operating horse cars after January 1 next This measure has passed the legislature, and if accepted by the governor, will affect six lines in Manhattan, but even without this legislation it is probable that in a few months the last of the old horse cars will have been driven to the barns, never to run again. When the public service commission took office .on July 1, 1907, there were 16 horse-car lines in operation. Of these four have been abandoned and six are now wholly or partially operated by storage battery cars. The six still rt/nning are the Avenue C line, from the Desbrosses street ferry across town to East Twenty-fourth street; the Bleecker street line, from Bleecker street and Broadway to Fourteenth street and Ninth avenue; the Chambers street line, from Chambers street ferry to Grand street ferry; tn. Metropolitan cross-town line, from Desbrosses street ferry to Grand street ferry; the Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets line, from Broadway to the Twenty-third street ferry, and the Sixth avenue-Desbrosses street ferry line, from Sixth avenue and Third street to the Desbosses street ferry.

JUDGE AND JURY IN CLASH

Jurist Orders Verdict of Acquittal, but Jurors Are Obdurate, and Refuse to Sign. Memphis, Tenn-—Judge , and jury clashed in the second division of the criminal court here, and as a result, a verdict acquitting a man of a murder charge was made a part of the court’s record without the signature of the jurors. C. E. Murrell, railroad fireman, was charged with having murdered Moss Todd. Presiding Judge Palmer ruled that the evidence showed self-defense, and directed a verdict of not guilty. After c’/nsultation with members of the juiy. Foreman Cooney refused to write z ne verdict Judge Palmer explain/1 that he could permit no other verdict to stand, in view of the testimony. *You have a right to your opinion,” vitorted Cooney, still obdurate, "but 19U are not the keeper of 'my 4 insolence.” Finally, however, the verdict was vrritten, but the jurors carried their point to the extent of not affixing their signatures.

Chicago Woman Praises Press.

Boston, Mass.—The further extension of the juvenile courts system was urged by Mrs. Frederic Scheff of Philadelphia at the convention of - tfie national congress of Mothers' and Parent-Teachers' associations At a round table on "The press in extension work,” Mrs. Edgar A Hall of Chicago took the position that the newspaper is one of the chief educators of the day.

MR. DANIELS' SON LIKES SEA LIFE

Frank A. Daniels, the nine-year-old son of the secretary of the navy, has developed a strong liking for life on shipboard. The picture shows him sitting against the wheel of the Dolphin, his father’s official yacht

NEW TROUSERS LEAD TO WOE

Motorman Falls Downstairs In Hallway “Dressing Room" —Gets Damages of $125. Chicago.—A new shit of clothes almost led to the death of Martin F. Barry, 707 South Forty-fourth court Limping and bolding his hand to bls back, he appeared before Judge Martin.

Wishing to visit his mother in lowa in some of the glory ascribed to Solomon, he first joined a “suit club.” He drew a suit and went to the tailor shop. Later he made a second visit to the shop to try on his new suit. , The coat and the vest caused no difficulty. He could see they had the correct lines without inconvenience. But he wished to try on the trousers. There was no vacant room for the accommodation of particular customers. So the tailor shoved Barry into a dark hallway to disrobe. No sooner had Barry thrust his right foot into the right leg of his new trousers than he lost his balance. He fell down stairs leading to a cellar and lay a bruised, crumpled heap on a hard cement floor, one foot in his new trousers and one in the old. Fifty-six days passed before Barry could take up his work as a motorman, and his visit to his mother in lowa was postponed. He nursed his back and his grievance until he appeared in court craving SI,OOO in damages from the tailor. . The jury returned a verdict awarding Barry $125.

JOHN D. ALMOST A PAUPER

Oil Magnate’s Cleveland Property, Was 83,000 More Valuable 1 in 1912 Than at Present. Cleveland, O. —John D. Rockefeller is rapidly losing his wealth and is becoming practically a poor man, according to the report of John T. Fisher, tax assessor for Cleveland Heights, in which place the Forest Hill estate of the oil king is situated. The figures show that a year ago Mr. Rockefeller returned his personal

John D. Rockefeller.

property as worth 87,190. This year Mr. Rockefeller is poorer by 82,905 than he was a year ago, his return of personal property being 14,285. The figures show that John D. has nine horses worth 855 each, ten head of cattle worth |4O each, and furniture worth 83,300. He has no automobiles here at this time of the year the assessments are made, so none is returned for taxation.

Bride’s Room In Church.

* New York. —Plans for alterations to the Church of Incarnation, on Madison avenue, of which Rev. Howard Robbins is rector, provide for a bride’s room, which* is believed to be an innovation in church arrangements The organ loft in the rear of the church will be removed, and in its place a beautifully equipped room will be built. Here the bride may arrange her attire after the drive from home and assure herself that she Is in readiness for the march to the altar.

CITY GETS MODEL CHARTER

Cleveland, O M Is to Abolish All Party Elections and Have Recall System. Cleveland, O. —Non-partisan elections, with the absolute abolition of political parties, as far as municipal affairs, are concerned, is assured to Cleveland in the terms of the new city charter, which has been completed Experts declare the proposed charter is a model.

Nominations by petition Instead of by primaries and the preferential system of voting in elections are to be leading features of the new governmental, system of the city. It is aimed to simplify election machinery and give the greatest possible expression to the will of the voters, who not only are to have their first choice for each office counted, but their second and other choices aa well. -

The mayor and twenty-six members of the council are the only city officials who are to be elected under the new charter. All the others are appointive. Candidates for the elective positions are to certify their names backed by the signatures of vdters to the board of elections and be placed upon a non-partisan ballot, carrying no party designations of any kind, and on which the names are to be rotated.

There are to be three columns in which cross marks indicating the will of the voter may be made. These will be headed. "First choice,” “Second choice" and "other choices.” Each voter may mark his first and second choice for each office, and then may designate as many ‘other choices” ae he sees fit If no candidate for office receives a majority of the first choice votes, then the second choices are to be counted with the first choices. If no one has a majority of both first and second choices, the "other choices” are to be added, and a majority of all reckoned in determining the victor.

The recall is to apply to all elective officials. The mayor may be recalled upon the petition of 15,000 voters, and a councilman may be recalled upon the petition of 600 of his voting constituents. The mayor and councilman are elected for two-year terms. The mayor is to have the veto, but it is to be nullified to a large extent by the provision that any measure may be passed by the council over the veto by a majority vote. Ordinances may be Initiated by petitions which contain the names of 5,000 voters.

LEAD DONKEY TO THE COAST.

Election Leser Is Walking From Port* land, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, In Payment. Newburg, N. Y.—Paying an election bet. Benjamin H. Anderson, formerly general secretary of the chamber of commerce, and now secretary of the Butler Ad-men’s club of Butler. Pa., is walking from Portland. Me., to Portland, Oregon, leading a donkey. Ho passed through Newburg. Anderson is a strong admirer of Theodore Roosevelt, and was so certain that the colonel would be elected president that he made a wager with James Gillespie, a Democrat of Pittsburg, that Roosevelt would beat Wilson. The loser must walk from Portland. Me., to Portland, Oregon, leading behind him the animal emblematic of the victorious party. The wager -also includes the stipulation that the loser must call on the president of the United States. Anderson started from Portlands Me., March 4. He does not have to finish until March 4. 1914.

Sovereigns Are Always Hosts.

London.—When the king and queen honor any of their subjects by being present at dinner the banquet differs from all others in one respect; the sovereigns, although actually guests, are Nominally the hosts of their entertainer. It is they who lead the conversation and keep it up. for when .royalty is disinclined for speech leas exalted mortals perforce remain quiet.

Women Police for Frisco.

Ban Francisco. —The board of supervisors here have decided that, of the twenty-five additional police officers to be appointed, three will be women.

The Divine Healer

By REV. PARLEY E. ZARTMANN, D. D. Stervtefy W EzMmmi DegMßtHMal Moody ftblo ludM** Odoqpß

TEXT—"Why marvel ye at thfesT . . . yea, the faith which is through him haflsl given him this perfect soundness in the. presence of you all" Acta 8:12, 14.

we must face two or three plain questions as to matters of fact. Is Christ the same as he was then? Is he able to do now what he did! then? Are we in the same condition, of need—difficulties, habits, eins? How far may I expect help from Jesus Ts It God’s word shows me what Jesus is; able to do, will I trust him for it, asi men and women did then? The studyi of♦the story and of the’ entire word! of God will give me an affirmative, answer to all these questions except the last one—that I must answer for myself; for it to still true that, although Jesus is able to save to the uttermost, he can save only those who come to God by him and who will, accept the healing power of the Great Physician, The gospels tell us of many varieties of sickness dealt with by Jesus; these are all types of sin and of Christ’s power to heal. Take tour typical illustrations: Leprosy, or the guilt and defilement of sin; palsy, or. the Impotence of sin; fever, or the passion of sin; demoniac possession, or the slavery of sin. Or, take three typical cases from the gospel according to St Luke: (1) 5:17, palsied limbs; (2) 6:6-10, the withered hands; (3) 18:10-13, the bowed-down woman. In all these cases Jesus not only healed the body, but he stands forth as able to heal the sin of which the bodily ailment to a type. No case to too hard for Jesus. His diagnosis to thorough and correct; his treatment to appropriate and adequate; his power to “unto the uttermost" There will be no need to come again. He cures in different ways, but always with perfect understanding and with satisfactory rasuits. ♦

The man at the Beautiful Gate of the temple expected only alms from Peter and John, but he got what was' of surpassing quality and value—healing, In the name and through the power of Jesus of Nazareth. “And they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.” That hour of prayer became an opportunity for the manifestation of the power of Jesus Christ, an unexpected blessing to the lame man, and the occasion of a great sermon by Peter. How graciously and generously God deals with us! "Exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think.” Not alms, but healing; not silver, but salvation; not gold, but grace and gladness; not outside, begging, but beyond the Beautiful Gate, inside the temple, “walking, and leaping, and praising God.” Is Christ the same today? Can hedo that work of forgiveness and sanctification now? And is he willing to do it? Thousands can testify and say "Yes." On which side of the gate are you? Are you outside, distressed, diseased, despairing, dying? Do you cry out In vain for help? There is no reason why you may not be on the other side, rejoicing in the sense of sins forgiven, righteousness Imputed, life imparted, joy planted. Only one reason—“ Wilt thou be made whole?” “Perfect soundness," and in a moment. “And Immediately.” He is the healer divine. As such he is able not only to make “better,” but to make well. “My case is too hard.” Ido not know how far your disease has gone, how dark the night may seem, how* deep the sin dwells, but I do know the power of this healer in each and every ease intrusted to him—nothing lo too hard for God. His ability is omnipotent and his love matches hie power. He may deal painfully, but it will also be effectively. In the days of his flesh he healed by a word, or. a touch: now by the Holy Spirit Still the Great Physician stands in the presence of sin-bur-dened ones saying, "Arise,” "stretch forth thine hand," “thou art loosed from thine infirmity,” “I will, be thou clean.” Put him to the test and find “Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, yes, and forever.” “Yea, the faith which is through him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you alt"

The origin of all men la the aamet and virtue la the only nobility.—Senoea. > —. The only way to have a friend ta.ta be one —Emerson. ——> No man la so great aa mankinds— Parker.

These two verse* are very important; they mark' the crisis In the story of the first! apostolic miracle; after Pentecost;' the story set* forth the type of the ministry, message and motive of the church; w» see that spiritual; work (even along - physical lines>. went hand I * hand with spir- . itual power, and