Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 December 1899 — Page 6

Mill 10 i®. The Dedication of the Illinois Monuments and Markers on Southern Battlefields. CEREMONIES HELD AT ORCHARD KNOB. The Monument* Received by Gov. Tanner From the Illinois Coumili•loners and Turned Over to the Government—Accepted by Gen. Ilenry V. Boynton. Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 24.—At 10 a. m. the exercises dedicating the 107 monuments and markers of the state _^of Illinois on the battlefield surrounding the city were held at Orchard KnoL, the site of one of the principal memorial shafts,and famousduring the civil war as the headquarters of Gen. Grant. It is estimated that more than 1.000 residents of Illinois, and at least 3.000 Chattanooga people attepxl^d the exercises. f Mora. Dlstinnalxhctl Vial Among the distinguished visitors was Senator Cullom, Gov. Tanner and staff of Illinois, Commissioner of Pensions H. Clay Evans, Gen. H. V. Boynton, representing the secretary of war, and a large delegation from the confederate camp of this city. Maj. Cljarles A. Connelly delivered the speech presenting the monuments to the governor of Illinois on behalf of the Jllineis commissioners. Received by Gov. Tanner. Gcv. Tanner of minors received the monuments, delivering an eloquent speech of acceptance, and in turn presented them to the government. Gen. Henry V. Boynton, president of the Chickamauga park commission, received the monuments in behalf of the secretary of vyar. Informal Address. Brief informal addresses were made by others of the visitors, among them Senator Shelby M. Cullom, of Illinois. Gov. Tanner held a formal reception at the Read house at night, and the Grgnd Army veterans held a symposium

The Monnmentti Described. The Illinois monuments and the markers at Chickamauga are 107 in ntimber, and were erected out of an appropriation of $65,000 by the Illinois legislature. Of the markers there are 30 in Chickamauga park, and 19 in Chattanooga and vicinity. The small monuments are distributed so as to give 37 to Chickamauga park, and 18 to Chattanooga and vicinity. The markers are of Quincy granite, live feet long and 2% feet wide, with polished shields, and inscribed with the word “Illinois” and the name of the regiment engaged at the location of the marker. All the markers and the small monuments are built ou plans of striking similarity. The two great monuments of Illinois, which are among the most attractive on the battlefield, are located, one at Orchard Knob, and the other at Bragg’s Iiill, Missionary Ridge. The Brasig’a Hll| Monument. The monument on Bragg’s Hill is erected in honor of the brigades of Generals Gross, Sherman, Jaquess, Wagner, Barker, Willich, Carlan, Moore end Wood. It is a tall shaft of New England granite, surmounted by a bronze figure. The base is of Georgia granite, fou^ additional figures at the base of the monument, and the flags, shields, etc., are of standard bronze, as is also the great seal of Illinois which appears on it. This monument is elaborately inscribed. The Orchard Knob Monument. The monument at Orchard Knob was erected to the memory of the brigades of Generals Morgan, Starkweather, Beatty, Hecker, McCook, Whittaker, Tindale, Wilder, Long and Engart, the First end Second Illinois light batteries, Gogswell’s battery, and the Chiecago Board of Trade battery. In architectural design it is a canopy with tall polished shaft, on the top of which is a bronze figure of a standard bearer. It is built of New England granite, with base of southern granite. The polished work* is very elaborate, the name “Illinois” standing out in bold relief. Among the other pieces on the modumei^ are four balls on the corners of the dome, eight columns on the corners and the main column.

RIVAL FOR GIRARD COLLEGE A College for Girls to be ESutablUlied ' In Philadelphia by William L. Elkin*. Philadelphia, Nov. 24.—college foir girls that will rival Girard college in beneficence and scope is to be established here by Win. L. Elkins, the traction magnate of this city. The idea of a girls’ college is aid to be an old one with Mr. Elkins, and his friends assert that he has been considering the main features of such a project for several years. It is pointed out that girl orphans have no such advantages as are enjoyed hy boys under the Girard will, and it is the chance to supply this badly needed institution that Mr. Elkins has embraced. Demand for Higher Wage*. Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 24.—The meeting of the protective board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen held here during the past two days lias developed into a demand for higher Wages. A committee from the board called on General Manager L. F. Loree, of the Pennsylvania lines west, and proposed a higher rate of wages for the firemen. The demand was taken Into consideration, but no answer w»>s given, and until the railroad officials are beard from th$ men will not say what they may da ' *

GENERAL FUNSTON DENIES, laya the Damnviax Report* Citea> la ted are Mallelooa and De«> pliable Idea. Kansas City, Mo., Not. 34.—A Star special from San Francisco, says: Gen. Fnnitun Denies. “Before sailing for Man! la,yesterday; Gen. Frederick Funston took occasiorto make definite denial of the truth 03 recent stories regarding himself, Coh Wilder S. Metcalf and Maj. Bishop, in which Lieut. Callahan, a former officer of the Twentieth Kansas and others of that regiment are credited with charging these officers with many sips of commission and ammission, including the charges against Metcalf and Bishop oi! shooting defenseless Filipino prisoners. Dlsplcable and Malicious Ides. “But 1 am not through with this affair yet,” added the general. “I know the charges against Metcalf and Bishop are despicable and malicious lies, and I intend to prove them such.” Gen. Funston’s denials make inter esting reading when, in his statement, he touches on some of the incidents in, the Philippine campaign which helped to make himself and staff famous. Lrtux Down Under Fire. “At no time at the battle of Guiguinto,” said he, “did I lie down, except for ten seconds under an especially furious fire from the enemy. Then I was careful to see that every other officer and man was under cover before I dropped. Swam the Marllao River. “Hardy, Drysdale and Willey did swim the Marilao river, and I never claimed credit for it. “Callahan’s statement as to the llio Grande affair is absurd. White and Trembly did swim the river and hitched the rope by which the raft was handled. I crossed with eight men first, a'hd in all 40 men were taken over. We drove out 2,500 insurgents, using 200 rounds of ammunition to a man during the half hour’s fighting. Under the General*’ Uyex. “Gen. MacArthur and Gen. Wheaton were eyewitnesses to that fight. They were standing at a freight house 500 yaids away on the south bank of the river. It was upon their report of that affair that I was made a brigadier general.

Swam the Bagbas River. “At Bagbag river Lieut. Ball, myself and four enlisted men swam the river under a fierce fire, and we took the intren&hments. Gen. Wheaton saw that, and every man who took part was recommended for a medal of honor. » An Emphatic Dental. “I defy anyone to prove that I have ever used money or any other means to influence any newspaper man to advertise me. I have never had one in my employ, either directly or indirectly. The newspaper correspondents in the Philippines were men of honesty and great personal courage, and took as many risks as^any .soldier on the firing line. Gen. MacArthur had great trouble in trying to keep them back. A Regrettable Occurrence. “I regret exceedingly^ that this controversy should hhve come up, but I do not see how I can keep silent under unjust accusations.” DEWEY HAS SOMeTdEFENDERS. The Admiral in Receipt-of Hundred* of Sympathetic betters—An Invitation Accepted. Washington, Nov. 24.—A delegation from Wheeling, W. Va., called on Admiral Dewey and extended an invitation to him to visit that city on February 22 next. The admiral accepted the imitation. He was presented by the committee with a superb Sevres jardinier. - Lieut. Crawford has given out the following statement on behalf of the admiral: “Admiral Dewey has received many hundreds of letters and telegrams from persons in all walks of life, and in every section of the country from Maine to Texas/ assuring him that he is not without defenders, and expressing their sincere sympathy with him in connection with the recent attack upon him. These letters and telegrams are far too numerous to receive personal acknowledgment, but xhe admiral is deeply grateful to their senders, and desires to assure them of his hearty appreciation of their kind consideration for him.”

URGED TO VISIT CHICAGO, Admiral Dew ey Asked to Name the Anniversary of the Battle of Manila Bay. Chicago, Nov. 24.—-The Chicago Dewsy committee, owing to the recent criticism of Admiral Dewey in tfonneetion with the transfer of his home, decided to urge an early acceptance of Chicago ’s invitation to the admiral to visit this city. The date for the visit is named as May first, of next year, and in the committee comm unicat ion to the admiral, he is assured that Chicago citizens do not approve of the storm of criticism recently raised. Mayor Harrison supplemented the committee's communication .by a personal telegram, in which he urged the admiral to accept the invitation. Money for Mary Mueller. Chicago, Nov. 24.—A. Hollinger, Swiss consul at Chicago, has asked the police department to search for Mary Mueller, for whom there is a large amount of money waiting in a bank at Neuchatel, Switzerland. Miss Mueller deposited the money in 1863 and shortly afterwards came to the United States. Birmingham, Ala., Selected. Boston, Nov. 24.—The Knights of Labor have selected Birmingham, Ala., as the place for holding their next general assembly.

GOD SENT THE WHEEL The Theme for Dr. Talmage’s Thanksgiving Sermon. The Wheel » Symbol of Prosperity —Some Reaeons for Rational Gratitude—Benefits of Invemtlve Genius. [Copyright. 1899, by Louis Klopsch] Washington, Nov. 26. This discourse of Dr. Talmage is & sermon of preparation for the national observance of this week and in an unusual way calls for the gratitude of the people; the text, Ezekiah 10:13: “As for the wheels, it was cried unto them In ray hearing, O wheel!” Next Thursday will, by proclamation of president and governors, be observed 4n thanksgiving for temporal mercies. With what spirit shall we enter upon it? For nearly a year and a half this nation has been celebrating the triumph of sword and gun and battery. We have sung martial airs and cheered returning heroes and sounded the requiem for the slain in battle. Alethinks it will be a healthful change if this Thanksgiving week, in church and homestead, we celebrate the victories of peace, for nothing was done at Santiago or Manila that was of more importance than that which in the last year has been done in farmer’s field and mechanic’s shop and author’s study by those who never wore an epaulet or shot a Spaniard or went a hundred miles from their own doorsill. And now I call your attention to the wheel of the text. f Man, a small speck in the universe, was set down ih a big world, high mountains rising before him, deep seas arresting his pathway and wild beasts capable of his destruction, yet he was to conquer. It could not be by physical force, for compare his arm with the ox’s horn anil the elephant’s tusk, and how weak he is! It could not be by physical speed, for eompare him to the antelope’s? foot and ptarmigan’s wing, and howjslow he is! It could not be by physical capacity to soar or plunge, for the/condor beats him in one direction and the porpoise in the other. Yet he was lto conquer the world. Two eyes, two hands, and two feet were insufficient./ He must be reenfqpced, sa-God sent the wheel. VL. wL

j.weniy-'two tames is the wheel men- | tioQcd in the Bible, sometimes, as in Ezekiel, illustrating providential movej ment; sometimes, as in the Psalms, i crushing the bad; sometimes, as in Judges, representing God’s eharioted progress. The wheel that started in Exodus rolls on through Proverbs, through Isaiah, through Jeremiah, through Danielr through Xahum, through the centuries, all the time B (momentum and splendor, ng what it has dope for the rogress and happiness,, we ands in thanksgivingand empostrophe of the text, crying: ” i you in this Thanksgiving . raise God for the triumphs of machinery, which have revolutionized the $vorld and multiplied its attractions.'; Even Paradise, though very picturesque, must have been comparativelyvoull, hardly anything going on, no Agriculture needed, for the harvest was spontaneous; no architecture required, for they slept under the trees; no manufacturer’s loom necessary for the weaving of apparel, for the fashions were exceedingly simple. To dress the garden would not have required ten minutes a day. Having nothing to do, they got into,mischief and ruined themselves and the^ race. It was a sad thing to be turned out of Paradise, but, once turned out, a beneficent thing to be compelled to work. To help man up and on God sent the wheel. It turned ahead, the race advances; if turned back, the race retreats. To arouse your gratitude and exalt your praise I would show you what the wheel has done for the domestic world, for the agricultural world, for the traveling world, for the literary

world. as ior me wuecis, u was nicu unto them in my hearing-: 0 wheel!” In domestic life the wheel has wrought revolution. Behold the sewing machine. It has shattered the housewife’s bondage and prolonged woman’s life and added immeasurable advantages. The needle for ages had puno* tured the eyes and pierced the side and made terrible massacre. To foe pane the garments of a whole househoWHK^he spring for summer and in the autumnfor winter tfras an exhausting process. “Stitch, stitch, stitch!” Thomas Hood set it to poetry, but millions of persons have found it agonizing prose. • Slain by the sword, we buried the hero with “Dead March” in “Saul” and flags at half mast. Slain by the needle, no one knew it but the household that watched her health giving way. The winter after that the children were ragged and cold and hungry or in the -almshouse. The hand that wielded the needle had forgotten its cunning. Soul and body had parted at the seam. The thimble had. dropped from the palsied finger. The thread of life had snapped and let a suffering human drop into the grave. The spool was all unwound. Her sepulcher was digged not with sexton’s spade, but with a sharper and shorter implement—a needle. Federal and confederate dead have ornamented graves at Arlington Heights and Richmond and Gettysburg, thousands by thousands, but it wiU take the archangel’s trumpet to find the million graves of the vaster army of women needle slain. Besides all the sewing done for the household at home, there are hundreds of thousands of sewing women. The tragedy of the needle is the tragedy of hunger and cold and insult and homesickness and suicide—five acts. But I hear the rush of a wheel. Woman puts on the band and adjusts the instrument pets her foot on the treadle

and begins. Before the whir and rattle pleurisies, consumptions, headaches, backaches, heartaches, are routed. The needle, once an oppressive tyrant, becomes a cheerful slave—roll and rumble'8 and roar until the family wardrobe is gathered, and winter is defied, and summer is welcomed, and the ardors and severities of the season are overcome; winding the bobbin, threading the shuttle, tucking, quilting, ruffling, cording, embroidering, underbraiding, set to music; lock stitch, twisted loop stitch, crochet stitch, a fascinating ingenuity. All honor to the memory of Alsop and Duncan and Greenough and Singer and Wilson and Grover and Wilcox for their efforts to emancipate woman from the slavery of toil! But, more than that, let there be monumental commemoration of Elias Howe, the inventor of the first complete sewing machine. What it has saved of sweat and tears God ouly can estimate. In the making of men’s and boys’ clothing in New York city in one year it saved $7,500,000, and in Massachusetts, in the making of boots and shoes, in one year it saved $7,000,000. Secondly, I look into the agricultural world to see what the wheel has accomplished. Look at the stalks of wheat and oats, the one bread for man, the other bread for horses. Coat off and with a cradle made out of five or six fingers of wood and one of sharp steel, th'e harvester went across the field, stroke after stroke, perspiration rolling down forehead and cheek and chesft head blistered by the consuming sun and lip parched by the merciless August air, at noon the workmen lying half dead under the trees. One of my most painful boyhood memories is that of my father in harvest time reeling from exhaustion over the doorstep, too tired to eat, pale and fainting as he sat down. The grain brought to the barn, the sheaves were unbound and spread on a thrashing floor, and two men with flails stood opposite each other, hour after hour abd day after day, pounding the wheat out of the stalk. Two strokes^ and then a cessation of sound. Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump! Pounded once, and then turned ot-er to be pounded again, slow, very slow. The hens cackled and clucked by the door and picked up the loose grains and the horses half asleep and dozing over the mangers where the hay had been.

Hut nark to the buzz of wheels in the ] distance. The farmer has taken his throne on a reader. He once walked; now he rides; once worked with arm of flesh* now with arm of iron. He starts at the end of the wheatfield, heads liis horses to the opposite end of the field, rides on. At the stroke of his iron chariot the gold of the grain is surrendered, the machine rolling this way and rolling that, this way and that, until the work which would have been accomplished in many days is accomplished in a few hours, the grainfield prostrate before the harvesters. Thirdly,I look to see what the wheel has done for the traveling world. No one can tell how many noble and selfsacrificing inventors have been crushed between the coaeh wheel and the modern locomotive, between’the paddle and the ocean steamer. I will not enter into the controversy as to whether John Fitch or Robert Fulton or Thomas Somerset was the inventor of the steamboat. They all suffered and were martyrs- ‘ of the wheel, and they shall be honored. John Fitch wrote: The 21st of January, 1713, was the fatal time of bringing me into existence. I know of nothing so perplexing and vexatious to a man of feeling as a turbulent wife and steamboat building. I experienced the former and quit in season, and had I been in my right senses I should undoubtedly have treated the latter in the same manner; but for one man to be teased with both, he must be looked upon as the most unfortunate man in the w-orld. Surely, John Fitch was in a bad vpredicament. If the steamboat boiler did not blow him up, liis wife would. Inwall-ages there are those to prophesy the failure of any useful invention. You do not know what the inventors of the day suffer. When it was proposed to light London with gas. Sir Humphry Davy, the great philosopher, said that he should as soon think of cutting a slice from the moon

and setting it upon a pole to light the city. Through all abuse and caricature Fitch #nd Fulton went until yorw der the wheel is in motion, and the Clermont, the first steamboat, is going up the North river, running the .distance—hold your breath while I tell .you—from New York to Albany in 32. hours. But the steamboat wheel multiplied its velocities until the Lucania, of the Cunard, and the Majestic, of the White Star line, and the New York, of the American line, and 'the Kaiser Wilhelm, of the North German Lloyd line, cross the Atlantic ocean in six days or less, communication Wtween the two countries so rapid and so constant that whereas once those who had been to Europe took on airs for the rest of their mortal lives—and to me for many years the most disagreeable man I could meet was the man who had been to Europe, despising all American pictures and American music and American society because they had seen European pictures and heard European music and mingled in European society—now a trans-Atlantic voyage is so common that a sensible man would no more boast of it than if he had been to New York or Boston. ' All the rivers and lakes and seas have turned white with rage under the smiting of the steamboat wheel. In the phosphorescent wake of it sail the world’s commercial prosperities. Through the axle of that wheel nations join hands, and America says to Venice: “Give me youp pictures,” and to France: “Give me your graceful apparel,” and to England: “Give me yoUr Sheffield knives and Nottingham laces and Manchester goods, apd 1 will give you bread stuffs, corn and rye and rice. I will give you cotton for your mills. I will give you cattle for your slaughter houses. Give me all you havej to spare, and 1 will give you alt 1 have to spare.” And trans-Atlantic and cis

At|antie nations grasp each other's hands in brotherhood. While this has been doing on the wa ter James Watt’s wheel has dane a* much on the land. How well 1 remember Sanderson's stagecoach, running from New Brunswick to Easton, as be drove through Somerville, N. J„ turning up to the post office and dropping the mail bags with ten letters and two or three newspapers, Sanderson himself on the box, six feet two inches and -well proportioned, long lash whip in his hand* the reins of six horses in the other, the “leaders" lathered along the line of the traces, foam-dripping from the bits! It was the event bf the day when the stage came. It was our highest ambition to become a stage driver. Some of the boys climbed on the great leathern boot of the stage, and those of us who could nA get on shouted: “Cut behind!” I saw the old stage driver not long ago, and ’ I expressed to him my surprise that one arouml whose head 1 had see* a halo of glory in my boyhood time was only a tnan like the rest of us. Between Sanderson’s stagecoach and a Chicago express train what a difference, all the great cities of the nation strung ojn an iron thread of railways! At Doncaster. England, I saw George j Stephenson’s first locomotive. If in ! good repair it could run yet, but because of its make and size it would be the burlesque of all railroaders. Between that rude machine, crawling down the iron track, followed by a clumsy and bouncing train, and one r* our Rocky mountain locomotives, with a village of palace cars, becoming drawing rooms by day and princely dormitories by night, what bewitching progress! See the train move out of one of our great depots for a thousand-mile journey! All aboard! Tickets clipped and baggage checked and porters attentive to every want, under tunnels dripping with dampness that never saw the light, along ledges where an inch off the traek would be the difference between a hundred men living and a hundred dead, full head of steam and two men in the locomotive charged with all the responsibility of whistle and Westings house brake. Clank! clank! go the wheels. Clank! clank! echo the rocks. Small villages only hear the thunder and see the whirlwind as the train shoots past, a city on the wing. Thrilling, startling, sublime, magnificent spectacle—a rail train in lightning procession. /

"nen years ago tne railroad men struck for XtagelL ou=r country was threatened with annihilation, and we realized what thJ railroad wheel had done for this coVntry — over 180,000 miles of railroad in the United States; in one year over $1,000,000,000 received from passengers and freight; White mountains, Alleghany mountains, Rocky mountains, Sierra Nevadas, bowing to the iron yoke; all the rolling stock of New York Central, Erie, Pennsylvania, Michigan Central, Georgia, Great Southern, Union Pacific and all the other wheels of the tens of thousands of freight cars, wrecking ears, cabooses, drawing room cars, sleepmg. cars, passenger cars, of all the accommodation, express and special trains, started by the wheel of the grotesque .locomotive that I saw at Doncaster. For what it has done l‘or all Christendom I ejaculate in the language of the text, “O wheel!” While the wojrld has been rollim on th# eight wheels of the rail car or the four wheels of the carriage or the two ^wheels of the gig it was not until 1876, at the Centennial exposition at Philadelphia, that the miracle of the nine1 teenth century rolled in—the bicycle. The world could not believe its own eye's, and not until quite far on in the eighties were the continents enchanted with’ the whirling, flashing, dominating spectacle of a machine that was to do so much for the pleasure, the business, the health and the profit of nations. The world had needed it for 6,000 years. Man’s slowness of locomotion? was a mystery. Was it of more importance that the reindeer or the eagle rapidly exchanged jungles hr crags than that man should get swiftly from place to place? Was the bnsiocssof the bifti of the roebuck more urgent than that of the incarnated immortal? No. At last

we have the obliteration of distances by pneumatic tire. At last we have wings. And what has this invention done for woman? The cynics and constitutional growlers would deny her this emancipation and say: “What better exercise can she have than a broom or a duster or a churn or rocking a cradle or running up and downstairs or a walk to church with a prayer book under her arm?” And they rather rejoice to find her disabled with broken pedal or punctured tire half way out to Chevy Chase or Coney Island. But all sensible people who know the tonic of fresh air and the health in deep respira;.v>n and the awakening of disused muscles and the exhilaration of velocity will rejoice that wife and mot her and daughter may have this new recreation. Indeed life to so many is so hard a grind that I am glad at the arrival bf arry new mode of -healthful recreation. We need have no anxiety about this invasion of the world’s stupidity by the vivacious and laughing and jubilant wheel, except that we always want it to roll in the right direction, toward place of business, toward good recreation, toward philanthropy, toward usefulness, toward places of divine worship, and never toward immorality or Sabbath desecration. My friend, Will Carleton, the poet, said what I like when he wrote: We claim a great utility that dally must Increase: We claim from Inactivity a sensible release: A constant mental, physical and moral help we feel. That bids us turn enthusiasts and cry Qod bless the wheel! Never yet having mounted one ot those roiling wonders, 1 stand by the wayside, far enough ofT to avoid being rfhun over, and in amazement and congratulation cry out, in Ezekiel's phraseology of th€ text: “O wheel*”

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