Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 29, Number 1, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 July 1898 — Page 6

MEN WELL UP ON WAE

NINETY VETERANS IN THE NATIONAL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Two-third* of Them Wore the Blue, Onethird the Or»7—Adverse Criticism at the Members Deprecated—The Patriotic

Unanimity Th*t Prevail* Among Them.

[Special Correspondence.]

WASHINGTON, June 27.—Within six weeks after the call of the president for volunteers we had 125,000 men under arms and mustered into the service of Uncle Sam. Had the Mil been for half a million we should have responded satisfactorily, yet there are captious critics who are even now finding fault with the alleged slowness of operations against the enemy. Doubtless there has been delay, but when we reflect that an eighth of a million men have been called to camp, have been provided with tents, blankets, uniforms, arms, clothing, even to undershirts, stockings and shoes,

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that three groat expeditions have been sent to Manila, a fleet of transports to Cuba, and all this without much of a call upon tho vast reserve resources of our country, wo must admit that it was a gigantic task.

Tho most caustio criticism comes from those who never saw service at the front and not from tho old veterans, who know tho actualities of war—as, for instance, Poultney Bigelow's severe arraignment of tho administration at Tainpa, ex-Senator Ingalls' charge against President McKinley of "military nepotism," etc.

Said a nonentity of a doorkeeper in tho house tho other day, "I never think we have paid hirelings here to do the thinking, and they are sometimes almighty poor at that." This remark perhaps indicates tho popular opinion of our national representatives, but as theso representatives aro selected from the general run of tho people I take it as reflection upon tho peoplo thomselves.

Now, wo know pretty well the caliber of our congressmen, but thore is one thing wo should not loso sight of, and that is that of tho total number eoated in tho houso one in every four took part in tho last groat war and most of thom wero active participants. It is a noteworthy fact that while most of our great military leaders have passed away, the oldest of them going in his seventies, there aro still about 90 in tho house who saw servioo in the civil war. It doesn't matter which side they were on —they fought, and they battled for their convictions that suffices.

From Alabama wo have Congressmen Taylor, Brewer, Bankhead and Wheeler, tho last named being now in command as a major general. All these wero on the Confederate side, as were their senators. California sends but one old soldier, in Mr. Loud, chairman of tho house postofflco committee, who was on tho Union side from Florida one representative, Mr. Davis, a Confederate three of the same, also, from Georgia—Lester, Livingstoue and Maddox—while from Idaho we have Jarnee Gunn, a Populist, who went off in the war on tho side of the north, as did five representatives from Illinois—Messrs. Mills, White, Warner, Marsh and Connolly. Indiana sends one Union soldier, Mr. Steele, and Iowa six—General Henderson, Clark, Lacey, Hull, Hepburn and Perkins.

Kansas sends one senator who was on the southern side and three representatives—Broderick, Ridgely and Simpson, one Republican nud two Demo-Popu-lists, including the redoubtable Jerry Simpson, who enlisted, but did not get as much fighting as ho wanted in the field.

Kentucky had a senator fighting for the south and a representative, Mr. Evans, on the Union side, and as erne is a Democrat and the other a Republican things in Kentucky are evenly balanced. Front Louisiana come two senators and two representatives, tho latter Messrs. Meyer and Ogden, who fought on the losing side.

The war records of Speaker Reed, who wna acting assistant paymaster, and Congressman Burleigh, who was in the adjutant general's office, have been criticised by their enemies, but nothing has been said against that of Maine's other warlike eon, Boutelle, who saw actual service. He was acting master on board the tT. & & Sassacus when she rammed the Albemarle, which event, as it was the prelude to her destruction by the lamented Cashing, is worth quoting here. Says tho record: "The

Union'ships were now on both sides the of war. They may have their faults, and nun, with engines stopped. Commander in an aggregation of such a body of men, Roe shouted to Uie engineer: 'Crowd representing ©v«y section of oar conn waste and oil in the fires and back slowly. Give her all the steam she can carry To Acting Master Bontelle he said! 'Lay her course for the junction of tho camn&h Mid the hull* Then came four bell*. and with full steam and open throttle the ship sprang forward like a liviug thing. It was a moment of intense strain and anxiety. The guns ceased firing, the smoke lifted from the ram, and we saw that every

effort was being made to avoid the shock. Straight as an arrow we shot forward to the designated spot. Then came the order, 'All hands lie down,' followed by a crash that shook the ship like an earthquake as we struck full and square on the iron hull, careening it over and tearing away our own bows, ripping and straining our timbers at the water line. At dusk the ram steamed into the Roanoke river, never again to emerge for battle, and her ultimate destruction was reserved for the gallant Lieutenant Cushing of glorious memory." It is well worth while to recall such deeds of heroism as this, which may be ranked with that more recent sinking of the Merrimac by the brave Hobson, a son of the south.

Maryland has here an old Union soldier, Mr. McDonald, who was born in Ireland Massachusetts has two veterans, Barrows and Lovering, and Michigan has two also, Spalding and Bishop. Mississippi has three Confederate boys, Allen, Catchings and Henry, the first named the redoubtable "Private" John Allen, whose reputation for saying humorous things is only exceeded by his patriotism—for instance, as evidenced in one of his latest speeches, "I desire to say for the people represent and for the southern section of the country that there never was a time when all were not ready to give an administration all the money it needed to preserve the honor, the dignity and the general welfare of the country, to say nothing of fair play and justice." Isn't that the kind of war talk we want? If it is not, then I don't know where we shall find it.

Missouri and Nebraska each has a Union soldier, the former Mr. Pearoe, the latter Mr. Strode, to represent it here, while New Jersey has two veterans, Gardner and Howell. New York sends nine soldiers, Cummings, Vehslage, Shannon, Low, Ketcham, Ray, Gillet, Wadsworth and Alexander, and has also the son of a famous general, McClellan. Seven of these are Republicans, as is also the only representative from North Carolina who was in the war, Mr. Linney. Ohio has the same number of veterans as New York if we include Senator Foraker, and their names are Shattuo, Meekison, Brown, Ly brand, Fen ton, Grosvenor, Norton and Danford. Pennsylvania has seven, Messrs. Bingham, Young, Brosius, Bmmm, Hicks, Mahon and Stone, while the venerable Galusha A. Grow was a wartime speaker of this same bouse. "Little Rhody" sends one veteran, Mr. Capron South Carolina four ex-Con-federates, Messrs. Elliott, Talbert, Strait and Norton South Dakota one Union soldier, Mr. Knowles Tennessee three ex-Confederates, Messrs. Richardson, Cox and Pierce, and one Union, Mr. Gibson. Texas has four soldiers who were on the southern side, Messrs. Burke, Lanham, Sayers and Kleberg, and Vermont one, who was opposed to them, Mr. Grout. Virginia has four exConfederate soldiers, Messrs. Jones, Lamb, Otey and Walker, and West Virginia has one Union veteran, Mr. Dovener. Both senators from Wisconsin were in the Union army, as woll as three of her representatives, Messrs. Griffin, Minor and Jenkins.

Of the total number in the house of representatives who fought in the last war about one-third wore the gray and two-thirds wore the blue. Some rose to eminence, but most of them were mustered out without having achieved anything beyond a reputation for bravery. It should not be forgotten that many, if not most, of our men in the national congress were too young to go to war when that war was on, else the list, particularly on the southern side, would be larger.

Some were prevented from disabilities or business from going to the front. New Hampshire, for instanoe, has no representative of wartime here, but the unique and humorous Cy Sulloway enlisted and would have been a soldier had not the examining physicians pre-

"PRIVATE" JOHN ALLRN OF MISSISSIPPI.

vented because of a complaint that incapacitated him. But of his courage no tme who knows him has the least doubt.

Then there is Terry of Arkansas, who, while not in the war between the states, was an officer in command of the Hal lie rifles at the time of the Brooks-Baxter troubles in 1874 and did good service in that capacity.

Such is the bare, bald statement of the war material which our house of representatives contains. Let us not speak or think slightingly of those men who the past months have so nobly come to the aid of our country in its needs for revenue®, for soldiers, for all the sinews

try, there are grave differences of opinion. But within the past few weeks I have known men of radically opposite beliefs and settled opinions cm vital subjects to sink all difference in their deSire to serve the common weal It is idle to say there is no north, no south, no east, no west for there always will be sectional differences so long as we exist, but this is the time for mutual •elf abnegation. F.A. Obsr.

THE WAR FASHIONS^

Pimm and Sktrt Watota Are How Decorated With Patriotic Devices.

[Special Correspondence.]

NEW YOBK, June 27.—We had heard tight sleeves cried so often that we began to lose all belief in the possibility of them, but suddenly I awakened to the fact that sleeves are tight, all except the sleeves to the wash blouses, and even to many of them. A few have very •mall caps trimmed with lace, and few more have small puffs at the tops, but all the rest are cut to fit the arm closely. The most of them are cut in two pieces, curved sharply at the elbow. The shoulders of the waists are cut shorter if anything than they have been, and the upper part of the sleeve is rounded to fit the shoulder like a man's coat sleeve. A few of the new sleeves are made in three pieces. I have yet to learn why, for they are not pret ty or stylish, nor do they add in any way to the grace or utility or comfort of the wearer. The tailor suits have the sleeves cut straight around at the wrists, with a simulated cuff of soutache. Fine dresses have trimmings of arabesques of frilled or puffed narrow ribbon down the whole sleeve in some cases. In others the lower portion ex tends down in the flaring points, these faced with' silk and ruffled with fine lace or chiffon or some other diaphanous material

One very dainty fancy for gowns for summer wear is to have the bodice cut away at the neck, leaving a guimpe of lace or plaited n^uU to reach to the neck, where it is finished with a high stock collar of thin material over a ribbon. At the shoulders there are epaulet caps of the dress material edged with white lace and made in fanciful shapes. The sleeves are most often of the thin stuff, puffed and shirred to the wrists. Dotted swiss is often employed for these guimpes and sleeves.

Dotted swisses and the new barred organdies are very much liked for summer gowns, and they are indeed beautiful. The barred organdies have one delicate color, say like forgetmenot blue, with satin stripe barring in a faint pearly pink. Made over bright pink lining, the prevailing color becomes a delicate lilac, changing with every movement of the wearer to a darker or lighter shade as the folds fall right.

I notice that not half the thin dresses are made over an all silk lining. There are certainly a dozen kinds of new cottons woven so as to imitate silk closely

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LATEST DESIGNS IN WAISTS AND SILK SKIRTS,

enough for all purposes of lining, and they are washable, so that they are doubly valuable. Some of them are made crisp and rustling and others are soft and pliable like india and foulard silks. There are stripes, checks, plaids and moire, also damask and satin effects in these linings. It is little short of marvelous to see what a variety of effects, can be evolved from a cotton ball. Some of these linings are quite pretty enough to be worn as dress material. They follow the designs in the lighter silks with wonderful fidelity.

Among the new fall silks I see dozens on dozens of designs in printed foularda These will be ohiefly in demand for home wear, particularly tea gowns. These will be trimmed with quantities of white lace in form of jabots and cascades, each turn holding a bunch of loops and flsh tail ends in narrow ribbon, containing all the colors in the foulard. Damask silks will alao be worn or offered.

Plaid taffetas in such designs as have proved most popular are among the new fall silks, but in considerably heavier qualities, hairline stripes and pinhead checks are also seen among them, one very pretty check being in green and white. Plaid silks will be used for petticoats and blouses. A favorite design in plaid silk waists had a dark blue foundation, with clan plaid norfolk plaits. A skirt of unusual beauty had a sprung flounce of the plaid silk, like the rest of it, mostly in green, crimson and white. At tho bottom was a deep green silk ruffle that was arranged in three puffs and three shirrings having the ruffle at the edge but two inches deep. Another new design in ma underpettiooat has an accordion plaited flounce set to the edge. This is about 18 inches deep in the hack and 12 in front

The shirtwaists are to be with us another summer, it is said, but they are now made over a snug lining so that they do not look so untidy as they did. Narrow tucks and loose bishop sleeves are the best kind for the washable waists, and of them we see mote now as the season advances. Many are now made to wear outside the skirt

The blouse and'shirt waists give such good opportunity for showing one's pa* triotic fervor by having button belts or flag belts or medallion belts with photographs of the heroes that they area real, genuine boon, and thtjy fill a "King felt want" Ouv* Hakpkb. ir

A J«in Jimea Hold Dp*

A. M. McCoy of Horsecave, Ky., is famous throughout the Blue Grass State. For about twoscore years he owned the stagecoach lines between Horsecave and Mammoth cave and Glasgow and Mammoth cave. He operated these lines all through the troublous times of the civil war. Of course he met with many harrowing experiences during the time, and which he likes to tell.

Probably no incident connected with his career is more thrilling than the hold up of one of his stages by Jesse James and three of his "pals" soin time back in the seventies. This incident is described in one of the stories of that notorious highwayman. It occurred early one morning. When the stage was about half way between Horsecave and Mammoth cave, four men sprang out from the side of the road and ordered the driver to halt One of the men caught the horses and the other three drew pistols and held them at the heads of the driver and passengers. The driver of course did as ordered, and the men proceeded to search the passengers. Everything of value was taken.

One of the men robbed was a man named Roundtree, who was well known at that time. He had a valuable gold watch, which James confiscated for his own use. The timepiece was held very dear by Roundtree, as it had been pre sen ted him by ex-Governor Knott, who was at that time a young man. The notorious Jesse carried this watch during the rest of his life —Louisville Dispatch.

She Was Well Posted.

In the Sunday school room of an Episcopal church in Brooklyn the other day a lecture was given for the benefit of some worthy object It was on a weekday, but on the hymn board in the front of tho room were what the regular members of the congregation said were the numbers of the hymns that had been sung on the Sunday before. But an outsider was struck with something peculiar about them. There were four numbers arranged in line one under the other, as is customary on the hymn boards, and they were, as they appeared to the audience gathered for a lecture, "4, 11, 44," and "7-11." "Why, it was the funniest thing," said a woman who was present. "I noticed it the minute I went in, and it must have been done on purpose, for there is no seven hundred and eleventh hymn in the hymnal six hundred and something is the last. The first three were policy numbers and the last crapa Wasn't it funy?" "Funny?" said the friend, who was listening to the joke. "I should say so. But not so much the numbers being there as that you should know what they meant. Now, confess, how in ever did you?"—New York Times.

Articles Made of Kelskin.

Aq eelskin leather factory is situated in a quiet street in the neighborhood of London bridge. Here are prepared and manufactured various articles from tho skin of tho common eel. The skins are manipulated by numerous complicated processes until they resemble and would easily be taken for leather, although of a more glutinous and pliablo nature. This strange commodity is cut into long, thin strips and plaited very closely together for whiplashes and to cover portions of the handles of more expensive whips. Certain kinds of lashes and harness laces are also made of eelskin. This leather is almost indispensable in articles of this description, where flexibility allied with an uncommon toughness is desired.—Invention.

Dully and His Poems.

Sir Charles Gavan Duffy relates that he once had put into his hands by a hostess a volume containing some of his own poems and was asked for his. opinion of them. /. "Dreadful drivel," replied the modest Sir Charles.

His hostess flashed. "I don't mind your laughing at me," she said, "but pray don't laugh at verses which came to me from the very heart of my husband when we first knew each other and which I will treasure to.my dying day."

THE WBDDINO RING.

Death lurks in every place in this vale of tears." There is no happiness, no joy, no gaiety, no success, no sorrow and no failure that may not secrete him.

A Minister's Trials.

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It affects all people in all walks of life. It baffles physicians of all schools. No one knows the horrors of such a condition better than Rev. J. N. McCready, of Elkton, Mich. For years he labored faithfully and well. He was progressive and aggressive a leader among men, a deep thinker and a hard worker.

In his zeal, he overworked overtaxed his mental and physical strength. The outlook was dark, with health shattered and recovery apparently hopeless.

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He says: "In April, 1896, the physidans said I must stop preaching or die.

I had overtaxed myself and was suffering from a complete breaking down of my nervous system and a persistent stomach trouble.

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ning," expresses it, for we talk by electricity, code by electricity, travel by electricity and so on.

Its a hurry, hurry, hurry from the cradle to the grave. We crowd too much crowd our work, crowd our eating, crowd our pleasure, crowd our sleeping.

A breaking down of the nervous system" is the way of expressing the result It means a depleting of the nerves induced by prolonged strain overtaxing of the nervous system a product of overhurry and bustle.

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Several p&ysidans treated me, but no permanent benefit was derived. Four times I was stricken with nervous prostration twice with gastritis.

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was toed up helpless, hopeless.

commenced to take Dr. Williams? Pink Pills for Pale People. One box was consumed and I felt no better. This discouraged "My

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continued to take them.

Since then, and it has been several months, I have enjoyed life.

Have preached all summer and held revival meetings for fifteen weeks.

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have had no muscular exercise for years, but recently, have done considerable hard work in my garden, my muscles standing this test remarkably well.

Every Sabbath I preach three times and now think I am good for another twenty years, if the Lord wills."

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