Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1899 — Page 2

| Double Significance of This Memorial Day.,* J M' EMORIAL DAY has a doable significance this rear that wUI be given S expression in every section of the country, and this very fact will tend jj to-draw more closely together than ever before the bloc and the gray. From Maine and Mississippi, from far Oregon and Florida, from erery t HHaaBVjM State and Territory of the land, unselfish and ralorous volunteers J W enlisted for the Spanish war. It was Freedom’s own fight, and color f 111 IJbwli-w and nationality cut no figure, sectional prejudice had no part. The I MW result is that a new bond of union is cemented, and in its freshness and " true, deep meaning it is with ns this Memorial Day riridly. W ■ There are many new graves to decorate, and the heroes of the Caban S campaign will not be neglected. In many instances the son will sleep not far from ths last resting place of hie honored sire—in others, the | I surviving comrade of last year wUI this year bare joined that vast army of patriots whoso f bravery this country la proud and ardent to honor. The mother of some worthy son of one rof these chivalrous souls who gave his life righteously, he believed, for the Southland, will j clasp hands and mingle tears with the widow of some strict, hardy old New-Englander, to whom liberty was dear wherever it was deserved. In a common cause each fell. The memories of the dead soldiers of the war of 1861-5 have come to be a solemn, sacred [influence— -those of any later dead will be more vivid, more poignant. Alike, they sleep, | however, honored, regretted, myrtle-crowned. Every fond flower strewn, while bedewed with .. j the tears of sorrow, smiles up into the face of the giver a benison. Beneath the sod is one | who helped to strike the shackles from groaning slavery and persecution! I Half a sigh, half a cheer, the soft, humid Cuban breezes waft westward the prayers and r the praise of unusual devotees at places where some of our brave boys fell. To these, our |j new neighbors, as each Decoration Day comes around, although there'appears to them the I merest shadow of its general celebration in this country, the holy sentiment of sympathy cannot fail to exist snd find expression. There is an object lesson for the rising youth in the double presentation of this Decoration Day; tbe garlanded grave of the Union soldier snd the garlgnded grave of the hero of ■ the Bpani»h war. We are not a nation of warriors, bnt we are patriots, steadfast and true, | and as from the grand old stock of the days of Washington'there descended the brave, impetuous spirit of ’6l, so these noble sonls seem to have left to their children and grandchildren n the spark divine of courage and devotion, that responds magically quick to the call of distress ] I and the clarion-note of liberty tbe world over. I■ - I

MEMORIAL DAY.

TJMBAD softly I A hero | Is sleeping below, bwl down hew beside him. Ho never will know. Which flag did he flight for? Will recks It 16-day? fhojr ore sleeping together, The Blue snd the Gray. Hy papa oft tells me When soft falls the dew, mt “Basnebody’s HarUng," A hero In blue, , • Who laid down his life On the red field of Mars Pso the sake of the “old flag,” All studded with stars. And down where the cypress Beads low o'er the way, Whore the moss from the lire oaks Haags ghostly aad gray.

Who kaows but at twilight Some story Is told Of a soldier who (lied For the "Lost Cause” of old? They were brothers, these two la aaem’ry to-day, Wo can see them again, The Blue *Bd the Gray. ■Me by aide Sow they sleep Beneath the green sod. The pride of two armies Both taken by God. Bring (rat the wild blossoms. * The darlings of May, Tho budding June rosea, For Bluo and fc* Gray, nio high the white lilies (For each hero's breast; Levre God and His angels To watch o’er their rest.

Which Shall Enlist?

A A c?O<?ELI'. Ed, I’ve enlisted!” XfN/ “Hare you though, Tom?” •414 “Yes, sir! I’m one of them!" “I declare, I wish I was, too.” “Falks won’t let you?” “Na.” “Urn's only sixteen more wanted to M «• A* company and I’ve just met three MDaws that said they were going up to gat their names down,” and then Thomas Warn* eighteen years old, lithe-llmbed and ialehjiired, enumerated to his chum of the Mast Me, Edward Wilkinson, who “the IsMhars” were who said that they were griog up to enlist. “■Award, mother wants you to come in to Auer. How do you do, Tom?” and a ga>M light-footed girl of fourteen ran out grass the farm house opposite to which the tare hays had fronted, and looked halfaamaeetly, half-laughingly. Into the eyes es the young man, her neighbor, and her Brother's Inseparable companion, Thomas “Tans has enlisted, Nellie. Now isn’t it «aa had that my folks won't let me enlist •ad gate the war?” “You’re enlisted, Tom? Really?" “Yaf,i Nellie, and I wish Edward would, Are we coaid be always together. Sleep A the same tent, march together and ” “Fight together!” said the girl, her eyes “Yea, Nellie, fight together!" the young ■saa proudly added. A tall woman with slightly gray hair, who had been standing at the side door of the long white porch of the farm house, “sHae to dinner, children, and you, too, ■ ThSanaa Hines, come in and eat dinner with as. Yhe hoy would hare hesitated, but a Baud at either side bidding each of his, there waa nothing for the young volunteer

planting, and took his seat at the head of the table. “Well, Thomas,” he added after a moment's silence, “somebody’s got to do it, I s'pose! But you’re rather young yet, Tom!” “Can’t Edward go with him, father?" at length asked, in pleading voice, the girl, breaking the alienee. Edward Wilkinson looked up at his sister, a feeling of deep gratitude in his heart, and followed the attack with, “Yes, father, you said once that you’d give your consent, if anybody from right around home here was going that would look out for me.” ‘ “But Tom is only a boy himself. I meant some older person.” “And do you want your only brother to go to the war, Nellie?” asked the girl's mother. “Yes, as he wants to go himself, and besidea when it is every one’s duty to go who can,” aaid the girl spiritedly. “Besides, too, when his best friend and chum, Tom Hines, is going!” The three young faces looked earnestly at the head of the table. As they did so a tall, thin-faeed woman came and stood in the open door. Invited in, Mrs. Hines would not take off her things, and said, all breathless, that she had come to know if they had made up their mind to let Edward enlist. She had given her consent to her own son feeling sure that his friend was going also. “No, Mrs. Hines," replied at length in slow, measured voice, Amos Wilkinson, “Edward has never been very well, and, besides, I must have his help this summer. We must both work out for the neighbors, by day work on their farms when we can get time, to meet the bills that’s due.” “But did you hear about the town meeting this morning, what they did?” “No, what?” “Voted to give every man in the new company a bounty of two hundred dollars in advance.” At the words the face of the hardfeatnred farmer flushed. Looking at him hia hand could be seen to tremble. He was not an avaricious, grasping man, but the sterile little rocky New England farm lie tilled made him think, in a practical way, in order that both ends should meet. This had been one of the weightiest reasons against his son’s enlistment, bnt he had not mentioned it before. The other was the frailty of the yonng man. Bnt now, as he sat there, he thought of the mortgage of two hundred dollars upon the little place, and a note coming due in the snmmer. * The color came and went to the man’s face, but no, he would not sell his boy's life, or the risk of that life. Rising, as all sat and looked upon him in the silence, watching the struggle, he said, a determined look upon his face, and with flashing eyes, in a low tone: "Edward is not gojng to enlist, but I am. I will go myself!” V As a thunderbolt the words came upon the devoted family. ”7 “Edward, you can take care of the

MARCHING AWAY TO WAR.

farm,” he said, and then turning to Mrs. Hines, “perhaps I can look ont for your boy better at the front than another boy of the same age could.” The next day the Allentown company, enliaWd to its full compliment of one hundred and one men, marched proudly down the street of the old town, and at its head, beneath the flag upon Its staff No captain that had ever stepped before

for hia place than did Amos Wilkinson, the old State militia captain, the com pany's choice. A modest, retiring mu, he had no thought of the place he was elected to fill, when, the day before, he had enlisted. So it was that the Allentown company reported at the State camp, and after, with its regiment, reported at the Heights of Alexandria, and in all the marches and battles of the Army of the Potomac, beneath Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania skies, the fanner, citizen, soldier of Allentown did his whole part in cheering on and leading his men. First, as captain, then secondly as major aigl again lieutenant colonel, to finally fall when, upon that awful Jflne morning of 1804, in the fiery fatal loop of Lee. the division of Martindale fell as a tiring wall at Cold Harbor. “I was to watch over yon. Sergeant,” he said, as, dying, his orderly. Sergeant Hines, beat over him —Col. Wilkinson. “Tell—tell—tell your " bnt the death rattle sounded, the eyea pat on a vacant stare, and another brave ofllecr of tho Army of the Potomac was no fioore. The remains of Col. Wilkinson rest in his own village cemetery at Allentown. There, each year, as sad Memorial day comes round, the widow of Captain Hines, he who died a year later from a gunshot wound received among the last fired before Itichmond, and the daughter of the town’s brave hero. Col. Wilkinson, with her little one, trims the flowers above these graves. And with them, too, another grave, for Edward Wilkinson, the frail yonth, could not stand the work he tried to do at home, and died even before the war ended. Bnt the bravery and determination of a father at the front strengthened snd disciplined a regiment.—The Bouquet.

KENTUCKY’S WAR MONUMENT.

Erected to tlie Memory of Cains aol Confederate Soldiers. The fact that bitterness no longer exists between the North and South was celebrated recently by the erection of the first

monument ever raised to the joint memory of Federal and Confederate soldiers. II is. appropriately, the work of the State at Kentucky and stands on the battlefield of Chickamauga.' Kentucky had seventeen Union and nine Confederate organizations at Chickamauga. The monument stands at the spot where the Fourth Kentucky regiment of the Union

KENTUCKY’S SHAFT.

army met and fonght the Fifteenth Kentucky regiment of the rebel forces. (lor. Bradley, on behalf of the State, turned over the monument to the United States Government. This is the inscription on the stone: .

ERECTED BY XHE BTATE OF KENTUCKY IN HONOR OF HER SONS WHO FOUGHT AND FELL ON THU FIELD. Aa are are united in life, arnLUty united In death, let one monument perpetuate their deeds, and one people; forgetful of all asperities, forever hold la grateful remembrance ail the glories of Chat terrible conflict which made all man free and retained every star on the nation's flag.

The Greatest National Feast.

No more purely national feast than Decoration Day could be possible. To the rest of the world May 80 is merely a day at the close of the last spring month. To the patriotic dweller in the land of Undo Sam how much more! It is caetomary to call Americans, as a nation, laughterloving and fickle yet who, viewing the vast throngs assembled in every city and hamlet to do honor to the glorious dead, can believe this true? Rather weald the stranger on our shores be impressed by the fact that patriotism is strong within us. For in the national holidays may surely be read the character of the peopM as it can be read ia no other way. Croakers there will always be. hat we can afford to disregard JCk rotm® of o jUuioxi is its*MMepdat“ Mto °* l * T **" W * Remember the hsrseawho yuan ago bthvso

ROUTE WHICH ADMIRAL DEWEY WILL TAKE ON HIS RETURN TRIP PROM MANILA.

DM IRA I. DEWEY sailed on his way to the United States it 4 o'clock; Saturday afternoon. Gen. Otis and Ad/M miral Dewey exchanged farewell calls during the morning. All of the warships fired an admiral’s salute and manned «*«»the aides, the bands playing “Home, Sweet Home” and “Auld Lang Syne” aa the admiral’s flagship sailed away. As Dewey comes sailing home his voyage through the Indian ocean. Bed sea and Mediterranean will offer to the powers an opportunity to honor the American sailor with naval reviews, parades and banquets on akore. His route takes him first of all to Hong Kong, whence he sailed a trifle over a year ago to smash the don. Dewey will sail la the Olympia -from Hong Kong to Singapore, thence to Aden and Fort Said, Alexandria, Malta, Algiers, Gibraltar into the Atlantic. This will enable France, Italy and Great Britain to assemble fleets to act as escorts or otherwise pay tribnteto the American admiral. While it is not known officially that the Olympia will put into any of tbe porta named, it is-certain that if she does the nations in power will sec that the Tisits are memorable ones. France has already prepared to make a demonstration in Algiers. The admiral may cruise up the western coast of Europe, as semi-official dispatehes indicate that the British wish him to visit the island kingdom. In case he decides to run up to Portsmouth it ip probable a fleet will be assembled in the Mediterranean under some admiral higb in rank to escort the American flagship to her anchorage. The same fleet will also likely attend the Olympia a few leagues to ses on the homeward trip out of Portsmouth. If the admits! sees fit to drop anchor in any of the ports named he will receive attentions not only from the naval hut the civil and military authorities. The Governors of Malta and Gibraltar, while no specific instructions have been made public, will certainly exchange offldal calls and also extend to Admiral Dewey and the officers of his ship the freedom of the port, with a state banquet Similar courtesies will be extended in the French ports where stops can properly be made. Admiral Dewey will be absolutely free to extend his trip over as much time as he feels will be necessary to respond properly to friendly manifestations. He is not under hurry orders, although he will not delay his return to a home port beyond a reasonable time. Still, he can exercise his own judgment in the matter. The officers of the bureau of navigation estimate that Admiral Dewey will reach New York about July 30. They figured out that the OlympiaSvill take seventy days in making tbe voyage, including twenty days for docking, coaling and othei; stops, These are the outside figures, and it is possible that tbe admiral may reach New York a week sooner.

STEAMER PARIS ON THE ROCKS.

Aaerlcaa Liner Goes on (be Manacles Of tbe Cornwall Const. The American line steamer Paris, formerly the United States auxiliary cruiser Yale, which went ashore while en route from Southampton for New York, stranded on Lowland point, inside the Maiiacie rocks, near the scene of the recent fatal wreck of tbe Atlantic transport line steamer Mohegan. The Paris left Southampton punctually at tbe time set for her sailing Saturday

CAPT. WATKINS.

There was much alarm among the passengers at first, but there was no disorder, and nothing that had the slightest semblance of a panic. AU made their way on deck aa quickly as possible, but before many of them had left their cabins the grating sound ceased. The Paris,had, apparently, gone over a ledge, and taken bottom almost immediately afterward, for by the time everybody was on deck the vessel was at a standstill. The place where the Paris stranded is in sight of tend, and is so close to the wreck of the Mohegan that the masts of the latter vessel, which are still standing, can be seen from the decks of the American liner. A few minutes after the ship struck distress signals were burned and rockets were sent up. These immediately attracted attention, and in a short time tugboats were racing for the scene of the accident. The lifeboat from Falmouth and lifeboats frOm other places were not long in reaching the stranded ship, but there was nothing for them to do bnt stand by. The passengers were quickly transferred to two tugs and taken to Falmouth, where all were safely landed. No explanation was given for the ship being so far off her course, but it is most likely that a heavy fog that was prevailing caused Captain Watkins to lose his bearings. Captain Watkins says, however, that he is unable to account for the unfortunate affair. The man who was acting as lookout forward says that he saw the loom of the land through the vapor and shouted, “Land ahead.” The engines were immediately reversed, and they were going foil speed astern when the ship strnck. The Paris carried 360 passengers and 115 bags of mail. The Manacles are among the most dangerous rocks in the English channel. They lie near the Lizard light, about twentyfive miles east of Land’s End. It was on the Manacles that the Atlantic transport liner Mohegan struck on the night of Oct. 14 last year, when two-thirds ot those on board perished. Only fifty-two

SCENE OF THE ACCIDENT.

persons of the passengers and crew escaped. The Mohegan struck the rocks on a clear night in fair weather, and how she got oat of her course far enough to throw her on the rocks has never been satisfactorily cleared up. The rocks themselves are connected by ledges. They lie about three-quarters of n mile from the shore, at Manacle point, and nil bat one are covered at high water. Pen win, the outermost rock, ia marked by ot TrMtGT cowertH tl. rock.

and her voyage was without incident until 2 o’clock Sunday morning. The passengers were suddenly aroused by a loud and peculiar sound, which denoted to those who had knowledge of maritime affairs that the vessel was scraping on a rock.

DEWEY IN THE ORIENT.

1998. April 18—Awaiting orders In Hongkong harbor to proceed to Manila. April 19—Conferred with (commanding officers and decided to attack Spanish fleet at CavKe or Bublf Bay. April 20—Painted his ships gray, the “war color.” April 23—Was officially notified that war existed. British Admiral notified Dewey to quit Hongkong harbor within forty-eight hours. April 24—Started to Philippines by order of Navy Department. April 20—Arrived at Mlrs Bay, a Chinese harbor. April 27—Sailed for Manila. April 30—Arrived off the coast of Luzon. Formed plans of engagement. May I—Destroyed Spanish fleet between 5:45 a. m. and 12:40 p. m. May 2—Effected surrender of Corregldor forts from Cttpt. Gen. Augustin. May 3—Landed forces at and destroyed fortifications of Cavite. May 4—Ordered all wounded Spaniards ttfhospttal at Manila. May s—Started first official news of victory to Hongkong. * Ordered Admiral Yon Dlederiebs of the German navy, who was procuring photographs of Spanish wrecks for Emperor William, to keep out of the way of American vessels. May 7—Official news of victory cabled at Hongkong to Washington. May B—Received congratulations from President McKinley. May 9—Received news of his promotion as rear admiral. Ang. 13—Demanded surrender of Manila, and, being refused, bombarded at 9:30 a. m. and secured surrender at 1 p. m. 1899. Jan. 15—Appointed member of. the Philippine commission by President MeKfiil<®r. March 4—Raises his flag as admiral. May 11—Cabled to return home when and bow he pleased. May 20—Balled from Manila for Hongkong on hia way to tbe United States.

FRONT STREET, DAWSON CITY, LOOKING WEST.

WEST 18 SURE TO WIN.

Either Hopkins or Henderson Wilt Be the Next Fpe <ker. A Washington correspondent says that as time passes on the opinion grows that the speakership will go to the West. Old politicians assert that Sherman is becoming steadily weaker and that there is no longer the slightest Chance of his having a united East behind him. Between Hopkins and Henderson, this correspondent asserts, the chances at present seem slightly in favor of the latter. Hendersou’s election would be a continuation In power of the “Heed” element. Henderson is a joember of the Committee on Rules, which runs Congress. It makes orders of business under the rules or it refuses to make orders. It suggests changes in the rules and then steers them through. Of eonrse, if the House does not like the work of the Committee on Rules, it can reject it, but it seldom docs so. Many elements of popularity arc held by Henderson and some qualifications for the speakership are admitted to be his. Hia loyalty to the administration is not less thgn his loyalty to the rules of the Honse. Hopkins, it is claimed by many, would make: a better Speaker. As between Hopkins and Henderson, the East would be pretty evenly divided. Both have-warm personal friends among the Eastern members, and it will be as difficult for the managers to throw the Eastern vote as a whole to either as it would to combine them for an Eastern candidate. The seven Republican Congressmen from Kansas claim that they control the contest for speakership of the nations:! House of Representatives as between a Western and Eastern man. Four of the seven are for Henderson of lowa, ri*o for Hopkins of Illinois and one, Cjjrtis, for Sherman of New York. A caucus is to be held within ten days and if the majority ptfea Henderson irili have the sevea Kansas votoa. These votes, the Kansana claim, will be the balance of power between the East and West. Edwin McSortle, laborer, found dead to a St Louis tenement honse M *■ass.iasvaax uvuoci . -v. ■' ■ r^.’ 4 ,. -1

FIRE WIPES OUT DAWSON.

Klondike City Swept by Flames, Causing *4,000,000 Loss. Dawson City, the famous capital of ths Klondike, has been practically obliterated by fire that destroyed the entire business section and many of the residences and caused a loss in all of not less than $4,000,000. Nor is the financial loss the most serious consideration involved, for, save tbe American Camping Company’s and North American Trading and Transportation Company’s warehouses, no supply house is left to the district, snd more than three-quarters of the population of the mining townfin4 themselves without food or clothing supplies snd homeless, and with the opening of river navigation that will enable fresh stocks to be received yet more than a month away. News of the greet fire, the fourth of an expensive series In the Klondike this season, was brought out by three couriers— Thos. P. Reilley, Commissioner Ogilvie'a special messenger; L. F. Humes, n ton of ex-Mayor Humes of Seattle, aud Frank Tokales, a Russian scout. They took their lives in their bands to carry Dawson’s tale of misfortune to the outside world, and, with the assistance of the mounted police facilities and co-operation, got through without disaster. A veritable panic reigned in. Dawson the day after the fire, because hundreds of tons afcprovUiona were burned up and it w'UT wat fifast five Weeks before any conBMcuWe anfaant of provisions eon be obtaiiMsffrom the out side. 4 An .area of gronner three-g’ualters of a mile long and four blocks in width was eaten over by tbe flames, leaving absolutely nothing but

ashes. Martial law was declared by the mounted police and the men were patrolliug the bukaed district day and night. The owners of some of the ruins claimed that there was treasure beneath the ashes. Thieves were plentiful, and an improvised dungeon was repprted full of accused persons. The Bank of British North America was a heavy loser. The rather flimsy vault did not withstand the heat, and ths papers in it were destroyed. The bank also lost a large amount of goid.dust

STRIFE IN PEACE CONGRESS.

Secrecy of lhe Hague Peselons Cause. Dissatisfaction. Baron de Staal, president of the peace congress, on Sunday received final instructions from the Cur. These deal with tha

BARON DE STAAL.

The impenetrable secrecy of the proceedings of the conference has caused dissatisfaction. The press representatives complain that the methods adopted would be justifiable only if the press were the implacable enemy of peace arbitration.

Sparks from the Wires.

There will be no strike of miners at present in the Pittsburg district. Mrs. Matilda Nolan, 100. New York, died from injuries received in a fall. August Ault, 19, Bellaire, Ohio, was ground up in the cogs in the steel works. Stttton Sickles, New York, has been appointed secretary of the United States Commander Smith, London, will survey a route for a Pacific cable from Victoria, B| ng, Fiji Isi-

realiution of compulsory arbitration," whether by a supreme tribunal of several of the great powers or a private tribunal composed .by' the powers whose interests are .at stake, with tha subsequent friendly , mediation of a third’ power. : '