Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 52, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 June 1898 — Page 7

PATH OF POLITICAL PREFERMENT THROUGH SMOKE OF BATTLE.

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1 I [Special Correspondence.] Washington, June 20.—Now that Che whirl of war has left the halls of legislation and sought the tented field it may not be inappropriate to ask how many of the national senators have shown the courage of their convictions and gone to the front

There are no senators at the front notwithstanding Senator Allen wired the governor of his state that he was ready to go, and Senator Sewell might have been appointed a major general. I certainly thought, when I listened to their eloquent periods, that Senators Mason of Illinois and Thurston of Nebraska would be at the seat of war long before this time but, no The latter is still with us, and only day before yesterday I saw Senator Mason radiant in all the glories of a new summer suit and immaculate straw hat.

Still, it cannot be charged against them that our senators are lacking in courage, for, as we read over the rolls, we find that at least three dozen of them fought in the last war, and this, out of a total of about 90 members, is not a bad showing at alL Not to speak of the large number of representatives who have seen service in the war, these fig-

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ores, together with the fact that our honored executive himself and several members of his cabinet were graduates of the field, would seem to point to the other noteworthy fact, that the pathway to politioal preferment lies through the •moke of battle I N Taking the states alphabetically, let qs see what are represented today by veterans who were warriors a generalion and more ago. First in the list and one of the foremost in rank stands Morgan of Alabama, who was 74 years old

May 20 and who bears his weight of years with an ease that must be an inheritance from his father, who died at the age of 94, leaving a good presage for

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was a member of the secession convention of 1881 and served in the Confederate army first as a private, then as major, lieutenant colonel, colonel and brigadier general, in which latter capacity he was found at the end of the war. He was gallantly active in the great campaigns of the west, yet when tho war was over he quietly sought a living as a lawyer, being finally elected to tho national senate without asking for a voto. His record here is that of a well equipped statesman of wide information, able and fluent in debate.

His colleague, Senator Pettus, was also a soldier in tho Confederate ranks, and, though three years the senior, is still well preserved. He, too, ended at the close of the war as a brigadier general, and I find this said of him, among other things, by a historian: "Opposing Sherman's advance at Resaoa a sharp engagement was occurring at the same time on the crest of the mountain, where the Confederate right and center joined, botween Pettus' brigade holding that point and troops of the Fourth oorps attacking it,"

Arkansas has Iwo veterans in the senate, and both fought on the Confederate side, Senator J. JL Jones serving through tho war as a private and Senator J. H. Berry as second lieutenant, tho former born in 1839 and the latter in 1841. Senator Berry made a good fight at Pea Ridge and Iuka, and at the battle of Corinth in October, 1862, he lost his right leg in the bloody attaok made by Van Dorn upon Rosecrans.

Colorado has one senator who served a few months on the CJnion side in the person of Hon. E. O. Woloott, who was born in Massachusetts in 1848. Connecticut is honored by the gallant Joseph R. Hawley, now in his seventy-sec-ond year, who enlisted as a lieutenant in 1861 and fought his way up to a brevet major generalship before he was mustered out in 1806. He, too, bears his years well and carries himself quite jauntily, as a photograph I took of him shows as he was going one day last week to see tho president about war matters. One of his skirmishes took plaoo in Florida at tne battle of Olustee, of which he modestly says, "It was one of the side shows of the war, but the loss on tho CJnion side was proportionally about three times as great as at Bnona Vista, and I suppose it did help to whittle away the great rebellion a bit,"

Both of Florida's senators, Samuel Pasco and Stephen R. M.illoiy, the first born in England and the latter in this country, fought on the Confederate side, tho one as ft private on land and the other as a midshipman in the navy.

Georgia is represented by A. O. Bacon as war senator, who was on the southern ride and ended as captain of the "provisional army." Out in the wild at the same time was Idaho's future senator, George I* Sboup, scouting along the base of the Rocky mountains, of which experience he could, if he would, tell some hair lifting stories, vastly more exciting than those Iowa's senator, W. E? Allison,

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ie only war senator from ftwnwww, W. A. Harris, fought three years on the Confederate side, which seems rath er strange until it appears that he was born in Virginia and removed to Kansas later. Kentucky's senior senator, William Lindsay, was also born in Virginia, but went to the state of his adoption in time to fight four years on the Confederate side, while the junior senator, William J. Deboe, did not fight at all, though his great-great-grandfa-ther served seven years in the war of the Revolution.

Both senators from Louisiana, Done! son Caffery and Samuel D. McEnery, served as soldiers against the Union, but did not arrive at the grade of brigadier general and live to say so.

Neither Maine, Maryland nor Massachusetts has a wartime senator, but Michigan has one who fought on the Union side, Julius Caesar Burrows, who was two years an officer in the army. Both senators from Minnesota, Cushman K. Davis and Knute Nelson, were two years in service, the former as a lieutenant and the latter, who wai wounded and taken prisoner, as a pri vate. Both are quite wealthy now, so it seems that going to war does not un fit one for the enterprises of private life.

Mississippi had two war senators until recently, but by the death at Senator EL C. Walthall she lost the one who had been longest in the Confederate service, while Hernando De Soto Money, though he was on the same side, had to retire before the war was closed. The successor to Senator Walthall, Mr. Sul livan, was too young to take part.

Both senators from Missouri are old enough to have taken part in the "late unpleasantness," but only one, Senator Vest, was indirectly oomneoted with it, and he was a member of the Confederate house and senate for three years. Nebraska has one who was in the war, Senator Allen, the Populist, who was all through it as a private and graduated as a member of his general's staff. The father of Senator Thurston died in war harness, and he had a grandfather and great-grandfather in the Revolution, but thus far he has withstood the blandishments of the war goddess. The same may be sa?d of the senators from Nevada and New Hampshire, but New Jersey has one with a fine record, William J. Sewell, who was offered an appointment as major general, which he declined because he couldn't hold two offices at onoe. New York has nine representatives who have been to war, but not one senator. North Dakota has one senator, W. Roach, who was born in Washington and fought on the Union side in the quartermaster's depart ment,

Everybody knows the record of Ohio's popular son, J. B. Foraker, who enlisted as a private in 1862 and ended as brevet captain in 1865. Not so many know that Pennsylvania's senior senator, Matthew S. Quay, served all through the war in various capacities, at one time being lieutenant colonel and assistant commissary general. South Carolina's belligerent son, Senator Tillman, started out to fight, but an illness that eventually deprived him of the sight of one eye prevented him from gaining glory in the field.

One of the veterans of the Mexican war is the senior senator from Tennessee, William B. Bate, who also served on the Confederate side all thrdugh the last war. Though three times dangerously wounded, he yet bears himself quite well, but shows his disabilities somewhat. Senator Bate ended as a major general, but his junior oolleague, Thomas B. Turley, went through it all as a private. That bold, outspoken fighter in the Benate, Roger Q. Mills of Texas, though born in Kentucky, was colonel in the Tenth Texas and did gallant service according to his lights at that time for the Confederacy. The junior senator from Vermont, Hon. Redfield Proctor, prepared himself for becoming a millionaire marble cutter by going to war as a quartermaster and coming homo as a colonel.

In the armies of the south fought Virginia's two senators, John W. Daniel and T. S. Martin, the former being disabled by wounds and the latter serv-

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ing merely as a cadet. In this capacity also at first enlisted Senator C. J. Faulkner of West Virginia, but he ended at the close of the war as an aid on General Wise's staff.

The last on our list are three who served on the Union side, two from Wisconsin—Senators J. L. Mitchell and J. C. Spoon er—both gallant fighters, and Senator F. E. Warren, from Wyoming, who was private in a Massachusetts regiment till mustered out.

Of the three delegates from the territories none fought cm either side, though Ferguson of New Mexico had a lather in the Confederate army. Quite a history might be written of the adventures of our senatorial heroes if we could but go into details, but enough has been given to show that, though apparently hanging back now, there was a time when some of them hurried fee the front and staid there.

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MILITARY ASPECT OF THE SLEEPY FLORIDA TOWN.

Tii£nl»tlons That Beset Newspaper Correspondent*— Bub and Turn alt at the Doeks Where the Transports Are Loaded.

TJfa Not Devoid of Pleasure There.

[Special Correspondence.]

Kiev West, June 20.—Though the repose of this semi tropical town has been frequently disturbed by filibustering expeditions, the ebullition of feeling consequent upon these incidents has been almost invariably of temporary duration, and the easy going people soon relapsed into their usual lazy state of impassivity. Since the war with Spain began all this has been changed. The apathetic, indolent inhabitants have been aroused into a surprising de

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gree of activity, and not even the inviting repose of the siesta can lure them from the cafes and the dooks and the vicinity of the newspaper offices, where there is any possibility of getting news of the progress of the war

They get news, for there aire always plenty of rumors afloat, but the information is usually of an unreliable character. But, true or false, it satisfies a craving curiosity for the time being, and they are content. Unfortunately those whose business is newsgathering are pretty much in the same category

the strict censorship placed upon the press, government officials and naval or military offioers here are not communicative with newspaper men, and, though war vessels and transports are constantly entering and leaving the port, it is utterly impossible in most cases to ascertain the whence or whither of their movements.

Correspondents who are here, like Wilkins Micawber, waiting for some* thing to turn up, when nothing transpires or can be ascertained are liable to tire of patiently waiting and feel inolined to deal with events as Napoleon did with circumstances—make them to suit their own convenience. Of course I would not wish to have it Jnferjft that the difficulty of securijjgflJS'/" information palliates the species of newsmongering.

As illustrative of the ting the path of a war co: may mention an incident that was lated to me recently by one of that seemingly ubiquitous class of mortala He visited a war vessel that was just upon the eve of leaving Key West in search of information. He was intimately acquainted with its commander and a number of the offioers, but after taxing his ingenuity to the utmost in devising ways and means for securing the desired news he failed utterly. But his troubles were not yet at an end. While climbing down the side of the warship the rope by which he held gave way, and he fell on the back of a Jack Tgr in tlje boat waiting below. The force of the impact causea him to rebound into the water, from which be was rescued with some difficulty by the sailor. When he recovered his breath, he showered a number of very emphatic and not overohoice expletives and epithets upon the head of Jackie, who, he said, took it all in good part and seemed to think it was the proper way to address him under the circumstances.

Even here, so near the seat of war, the wildest imaginable stories are afloat as to the doings and location of the fleet. None of these, however, will compare in strangeness with the story that comes from St. Thomas. One of the local editors there was lately informed by a newspaper correspondent whom he had wearied with his questions that the American fleet was at Kansas City. Tho editor rushed off to the office of his newspaper, and shortly the information that the American fleet was at TTnn«M City was displayed in large Danish letters upon the bulletin board.

In times of peace the population of this town is about 18,000, 6,000 of these being Cuban, of various shades of coloring, black predominating. Now the number of residents is doubled, and during the working hours, when the permanent population is employed, the casual visitor would imagine that naval and military men formed nearly the sole population. At the water front there is a continual rush and tumult transports trking on troops and supplies, war vessels coming and going, stevedores, sailors, soldiers, military and naval officers all forming a kaleidoscopic picture that defies description.

Hot as Key West is it is possible to pass the time pleasantly here in summer. There is less humidity in seacoast cities farther north, and there Is always a cool, refreshing breeze from the gulf. 1'he.re are also excellent facilities for bathing, and the soldiers awaiting transportation here enjoy fully this luxury after their experience?, at some of the camps.

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and under more favorable conditions of] government oonld not fail of attaining!

This is kept up for a great length of time, perhaps thousands of years, until the fissures of the pocket are filled up. Crannies permeating the stony mass in every direction may become filled with the metal, or occasionally a chamber may be stored full of it, as if a myriad hands were fetching the. treasure from all sides and hiding away a future bonanza for some lucky prosector to discover.—Pearson's Weekly. fp

Many of the conviots in French prisons are paid for their labor and earn about Is. 5d. a day. Half of

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ed at the public church, where visitors from the world are free to attend, writes Madeline S. Bridges of the Shakers of Mount Lebanon, N. Y., in The Ladies' Home Journal. "Four sisters and four brethren stand in the center of the room and form a double quartet. The Shaker dance, so miscalled, is in reality a more or less stately march, in which all the members join—the brethren in a procession, two by two, followed by the sisterhood in like order. They move in step to the hymns they are singing, either slowly or quickly, as the measure of the time demands. The ritjial is of the simplest—testimony of faith fervently uttered by those who feel impelled to speak, a few earnest words of exhortation from the elders* the march and the ringing of hymns. "Something curious in regard to these Shaker hymns is the fact that they are claimed to be largely inspirational—the music and words come together 'as gifts,' and frequently to those who are not musical. For instance, very often a tap will sound on the door of a musical sister and an unmusical sister will en ter with the announcement, 'Sister, song has just come to ma Can you take the words and note it for me?'

Irish Relations.

A curious peculiarity of the Irish nature is the wide limits to which relationship is extended. "Do you know Pat Meehan?" a peasant was asked. "Of course I do," was the answer. "Why, he's a near relative of mine. He wance proposed for my sisther Kate."

When faction fighting was rife in Ireland, it was a man's interest to "incr'ase his followin" by extending the number of his relatives by every possible device. Happily faction fighting is dead in Ireland, and a man has no need now to have behind him a long line not of "ancestors," as Sir Boyle Roche would say, but of "relations," as was imperatively necessary when the "bhoys" were accustomed to "hould dishcussion with sticks" at every fair It is after he is d«ad that his relatives "oome in handy" to the Irishman. They give him a "grand bUryin." "Well, Mary," said a friend of mine to a domestic who had been attending a "buryin," "had Mat Maloney a good funeral?" "Oh, he had a grate wan, sir," said Mary. "An why wouldn't he? Wasn't he related to the whole of the barony? Faith, it reminded me of a land l'ague meetiu."—-Letter in London Spectator.

Nature's Sliver Works.

The process by which nature forms snch accumulations of silver is very interesting.

It must be remembered that the earth's crust is full of water, which percolates everywhere through the rocks, making solutions of elements obtained from them. These chemical solutions take up small particles of the precious metal which they fiad,K»ttered here and there.

Sometimes the solutions in question are hot, the water having got so far down as to be set boiling by the internal heat of the globe. Then they rush upward, picking up the bits of metal as they go. Naturally heat assists the performance of this operation. Now then the streams thus formed, periig hither and thither be")ss through the cracjks or ^^.^S^rofeks,' where they deposeir loads of silver.

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