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SOME PAGES ERO Pl TIE SCRAP BOOK LEE AT SHARPSBURG. After the longest, bloodiest, and most dreadful baitle had been fought during the war, at Sharpsburg, Mary land, in 1862; after the sun had gone down and hid its rays from one of the most bloody scenes known to history, and all had gotten quiet, the two great line of battle still con fronting each ether, resting from their awful butcheries of the day, General Lee look his stand in the center and rear of his lines on ‘ 'Traveler” at about 10 p. m., and sent for all of his division command ers. As each one would come up General Lee would ask him, “How is it along your line, General?” They would say, “Bad enough,” and their • losses had been terrible, and would wind up by advising that the army had best cross iLe river before morn ing. Finally General Hood rode up and when asked the same question by General Lee, General Hood could hardly talk he was so much aggrieved at his terrible losses. General Lee straightened himself up on the back of “Traveler” and said, “Why, Gen eral Hood, where is that splendid di vision I saw you in command of this morning?” General Hood replied, “General Lee, they lie upon the field yonder where you sent them today,” pointing toward the field. After tbe consultation was over General Lee straightened himself in his saddle and said, “Gentlemen, go to your com mands; if Geneial McClellan wants battle tomorrow, we will give it to him.” / C. J. JACKSON. Belton, Texas. THE FIERY CROSS. “Like heath-bird the hawks pursue, A barge Loch Kathrine flew; High stood the henchman on the prow, So rapidly the bargemen row, The bubbles, where they launched the boat, Were all unbroken and afloat, Dancing in foam and ripple still, When it had near’d the main-land hill.” “When,” says Sir Walter Scott, “a chieftain designed to cummon his clan upon any sudden or important emergency, he slew a goat, and, mak ing a cross of any light wood, seared its extremities in the fire, and en tinguished them in the blood of the animal. This vas called the Fiery Cross; also Crean Taisgh, or the Cross of Shame, because disobedience to what the symbol implied inferred infamy. It was delivered to a swift and trusty messenger, who ran full speed with it to the next hamlet, where he presented it to the princi pal person with a single word, im plying the place of rendezvous. He who received the symbol was bound to send it forward with equal dis patch to the next village; and thus it passed with* incredible celerity through all th? district which owed allegiance to the chief, and also among his allies and neighbors if the danger was common to them. At sight of the Fiery Cross every man from sixteen years old to sixty, cap able of bearing arms, was obliged in stantly to repair in his best arms and accoutrements to the place of ren dezvous. We who failed to appear suffered the extremities of fire and sword, which werr- emblematically de nounced to the disobedient by the bloody and burned marks upon this warlike signal.” As a remarkable instance of the rapidity with which this system of telegraphy—once com mon to the Scandinavian, as well as the Celtic, nation —was earned out, Scott adds that during the Civil War of 1745-46, when the Fiery Cross of ten made its circuit, it upon one oc casion passed through the whole dis trict of Bradalbane, a tract of thirty two miles, in three hours. “THE BATTLESHIP GEORGIA.” On the battleship “Georgia” there is a silver service presented by the people of this state which was made possible by the indefatigable work of Miss Louise Dußose, of this city. For months this young lady wrote letters and organized a campaign of educa tion on the line of patriotism on the part of our people to donate a sum sufficient for the purchase of a silver service which would be in keeping with the occasion, and at the same time a credit to the state for which the battleship was named. The amount, ten thousand dollars, was subscribed and the service purchased; the Service was presented on Georgia Day at the Jamestown Exposition in the presence of thousands of Geor gians and citizens from all sections of the world. President Roosevelt was present and participated in the exercises; army and navy officers, representing all the foreign countries, were present; the gift of the service from the people of Georgia was her alded from one section of the country to the otheY by associated news ser vice; and the many towns and cities which have their names engraved on the service are today receiving the honor and attention of the people of this country, and in every country where this ship is anchored, for their liberality in donating the amount sufficient for its purchase. After all the honor, after all the patriotism shown by our citizens, there are quite a number of towns and cities which are enjoying the distinction of having their names appear on the service and not one cent of their subscrip tions has been paid. Is it right for these places to receive the benefits without paying their part? We think not, and feel that when the matter is brought to their attention through the press of the state each town and city which has subscribed will cheer fully make up the amount which has been credited to them and forward a remittance to Miss Dußose, at Ath ens. Surely Miss Dußose will not be expected to pay the balance, which is due the jeweler, $906.25, while the va rious places which, are due the THE JEFFERSONIAN. amounts sufficient to pay in full the jeweler’s bill sit idly by and do not make an effort to raise the amount of the obligations made by their citizens. The promise-to-pay-notes have been made; will the people of these towns repudiate them? The Atlanta Constitution, comment ing editorially on the subject, has the following to say: “A balance of $906.25 is still due on the silver service presented by the people of this state to the battleship ‘Georgia.’ The deficiency is divided among several towns and cities which guaranteed Miss Louise Dußose, of Athens, the sponsor for the move ment, specified contributions towaid the total. The names of these towns and cities are already engraved on the service, so that wherever the bat tleship goes they are receiving credit in common with the communities which have fully discharged their ob ligations. “This is nolf fair to the prompter towns and cities, to Miss Dußose or to the firm that supplied the service. “it is the routine practice in clubs and other co-operative organizations to ‘post’ in a conspicuous place the names of delinquent members, side by side with the amount involved. The method generally brings results, since few men desire that their friends or the public should know that they have not met obligations to which they voluntarily bound themselves. “The Constitution mentions no names and it is not the desire of the sponsor for the ‘Georgia’ fund to have recourse to the plan of making public the names of the delinquent towns, and the amounts unsettled. “If, however, litigation for the un paid balance or other development should be the means of such ex posure, quite sure that none of these progressive, well-to-do towns or cities woqjd relish this form of advertising. “They are amply able, by appro priation or public subscription, to make up the amount to which they pledged themselves. “We are convinced that the towns and cities, which shall be nameless for the present, are too commendably proud of their financial and civic standing to accept credit before the world for a patriotic distinction to which they are not yet entitled.” — Editorials from the Athens Banner and Atlanta Constitution. WHERE THE PRESIDENTS ARE BURIED. George Washington’s body is rest ing in a brick vault at Mount Ver non, in a marble coffin. John Adams was buried in a vault beneath the Unitarian church at Quincy. The tomb is walled in with large blocks of rough-faced granite. John Quincey Adams lies in the same vault by the side of his fa ther. In the church above, on either side of the pulpit, are tablets of PAGE THREE clouded marble, each surmounted by a bust, and inscribed with the famil iar epitaphs of the only father and son that ever held the highest office in the gift of the American people. Thomas Jefferson lies in a small, unpretentious private cemetery of one hundred feet quare, at Monti cello. James Madison’s remains rest at a beautiful spot on the old Madison estate, near Orange, Virginia. James Monroe’s body reposes in Hollywood Cenetery, Virginia, on an eminence commanding a beautiful view of Richmond and the James River. Above the bqdy is a huge block of polished .Virginia marble, supporting a coffin-shaped block of granite, on which are brass plates suitably inscribed. The whole is Sur rounded by a sort of Gothic temple -—four pillars supporting a peaked roof, to which something of the ap pearance of a bird cage is imparted by filling in the interstices with iron gratings. Andrew Jackson was buried in the corner of the garden of the Hermit age, eleven miles from Nashville. The tomb is about eighteen feet in diam eter, surrounded by fluted columns and surmounted by an urn. It is also inclosed by magnolia trees. Martin Van Buren was buried at Kinderhook. The monument is a plain granite shaft fifteen feet high. John Tyler’s body lies within ten yards of that of James Monroe, in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond. His grave is marked by no monument, but is surrounded by magnolias and flowers. James K. Polk lies in the private grounds of the family, in Nashville, Tenn. The spot is marked by a lime stone monument, with Doric columns. Zachary Taylor was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville. The body was subsequently removed to Frank fort, where a suitable monument was to be erected commemorat ive of his distinguished services. Millard Fillmore’s remains lie in the beautiful Forest Lawn Cemetery, at Buffalo, and his grave is surmount ed by a lofty shaft of Scotch granite. Franklin Pierce was buried in Con cord, New Hampshire, cemetery, and bis grave is marked by a marble mon, ument. James Buchanan’s remains lie in the Woodward Hill Cemetery, at Lan caster, Pennsylvania, in a vault of masonry. The monument is com posed of a single block of Italian marble. Abraham Lincoln rests in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois, inclosed in a sarcophagus of white marble. The monument is a great pile of marble, granite and bronze. Andrew Johnson’s grave is on a cone-shaped eminence, half a mile from Greenville, Tennessee. The monument is of marble, beautifully ornamented. The body of James A. Garfield has been placed in a tomb at Cleveland, Ohio.