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8 A CONFEDRA TE’S EXPERIENCE IN A FEDERAL PRISON I will tell you tn as brief way aa poa •ible wof a narrow escape from death I had while tn a Federal prison in 1863 and early part of I*l In thia I have two pur poses tn view; one to show that It actua lly requires more courage to meet auch an encounter as I was forced to meet than It did to face those met in the most dead ly contested battles, and to tell of some •f the most barbarous methods that were used tn that war by both aides; whether Oey could have been avoided by one or tne other. I cannot say. but do say they were seed tn a most un-Christian way. Thus I hope to warn all men to think ealmly before enteritis into war or doing anything that will provoke war. for sure ly Sherman was right when he said that "war is hell.” I also wish to And the Whereabouts of two army aergeante-one a Confederate from Mississippi; the other a Federal who was at Point Lookout the last of October, or the very first of No vember of 1!«S He seemed to be cn duty there at that time. The Confederate was there as a prisoner. I wish to find some men from Arkansas that I was placed In a tent with in the first division of that prison. They will remember the Incident as I will tell It; also three North Caroli nians that belonged to General Hoke s brigade. I wrish to know where Harry Myers, a Federal who was steward of ward 14. of Hyran: Gray's hospital in November of that year, and until it was broken up about the first of February of IMA or any of the nurses or Inmates of that ward who will remember me after I relate what happened to me individually. I also want to know if the books In which the names and diseases of the In mates of that ward were entered, is still tn existence and if I can have access to them, as I wish by all of these wit nesses to establish a claim that I have made for a pension from the state of Georgia. My case was diagnosed by a Federal surgeon by the name of Miller, who was In charge of ward 14 at the time, and was then just what I now say it to. I have been refused a pension because they aay if such had been so then 1 could not have nived until now: hence you see the necessity of inquiry and certainly the evi dence will be of the very best; it will come directly from esperts. if it can be obtained. Therefore I will ask you to print my story in such a manner that I may get the desired proof. Having been captured on the battle field at Gettysburg I was hurried to Fort Delaware, and incarcerated in the new barracks. It was a structure 25 feet wide and extended the full length of the sides of a square with two inside ells going three-quarters of the way across. The walls and roof ran up 2» feet high; the sides of the square were about 250 yards long, with no openings on the outside wall for ventilation, and comparatively few Inside. It become so crowded that there were men enough in It to have formed a col umn six ranks deep throughout the en tire building The supply of water was scant and of poor quality, being river wa ter from the Brandywine. Our food was scant and very poorly prepared, and con sisted mainly of pickled meats and hard tack. The changes of atmosphere was very sudden—from dead calm in the mid dle of the day. when one felt as though he was in an oven, to high winds at night when we would shiver with cold, caused by the rising and falling of the tide. The island was protected from flooding by a levee, the water on the outside was al ways. wncn the tide was in. from four to eight feet higher on the outside than the surface of the land inside, thus the surface Inside of tne levee was a thin. . drv turf underlaid by muck. A change from dry weather to rain caused it to be come as thoroughly muddy as a hog pen is In wet weather. The prison wai* always infedted with contagious diseases. I was attacked with mumps tn September. Having to climb up and down on clicks nailed to upright supports to the bunk to the third tier, I suffered terribly, and soon had a terrible rising in mv head, accompanied with fe ver. and was told by a Federal surgeon who treated me I had scurvy, too. I was put on soft bread rations. When I bit off a piece of bread It was streaked with blood marks from the sores on my gums. In this condition I was sent to a hospital outside of the barracks. I was well treated by a Confederate surgeon whose name was Mathews and was said to have lived in Tolbert county. Georgia, but O. my God’, how I suffered with my head for ten days, when the rising burs ted. Then the fever left me and I began to mend slowly. Just as I had gained Strength enough to sit up in bed and walk to a beater very near by. with a blanket drawn around me. there came an order for all that could sit up and get arcund to make ready. Their own clothes would be brought from the baggage room and they must change their hospital clothes for them: they were to be sent home in about an hour. I. with such great diffi culty that made me almost faint, had ■aeeeeded tn getting, with many others, on a transport, and cn an open deck. I was sent down the Delaware bay. reach ing the coast about nightfall. The cold, chilly sea breeses and the terrible day's exertion forced me to seek rest and pro tection by rolling up In my blanket and lying down. Seme time during the night I went to sleep and awoke next morning to And the transport at anchor a distance perhaps of a mile or more from shore. Some houses, a wharf and some other vessels were tn sight and I quickly saw that we were deceived. Instead of com ing home we were - simply transferred from the hospital at Fort Delaware to the stockade prison at Point Lookout. When I was being transferred from the transport to the wharf the Federal* searched mg. My blanket and the last vestige of bedding was taken from me. The reason assigned was It had U. 8. on it. I did not give It up without giving a history of my condition. I was promised another at the stockade. Aft ’r the search was over and the trans- Miscellaneous. FOR » cents. No trick Write today for plan. Cha*. E. 'OHaeon. F*cerille. Ga. 10 OATS' TREATMENT FSEL T* H»re made Dropsy a&d iticoa- y plications a for twanjv ’ •. .- ».-.i tfs E.cst woEderfU X , I taccess. Have cured maar thoua- Bild CBICS. tX H. 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Q 8 Actaatßssinew traa start to fleiah'' Moat tborousk ■hortkand Dep't la Amenca. *lf grits uses CM fno Mention Stud-Weekly Journal. fer to the wharf was made we were forced to walk up to the stockade, though I was so feeble that it required three efforts for me to do it, having to rest on the way. The distance was about three-quarters of a mile. After I reached the prison I was placed in a tent with two Arkansans in about the ninth company of the first divis ion. They and all of that division were utter strangers. As far as I know there seemed to be some vacant space In that tent. The strangers seemed to have some fear of me. owing. I suppose, to my feeble and emaciated condition. I was refused the promised blanket at the prison office, also refused a transfer from the tent in the first division to a tent in the fifth di vision. where there was half a doxen members of my own company who were doing all they could to get me with them, upon the excuse that that would de range the camp and had to return to the tent in first division with the suspicious Arkansans. That night they refused me a share in their bedding and I had to rest on the ground without bedding or covers. This was about the last of October. 1863. I had a relapse and was attacked with a very severe spell of dysentery. The Mis sissippi surgeon was called in, but said he could do nothing, as he had no medi cine and could not get it from the Fed eral*. and also told me they were retaliat ing on the Confederate sick and that they said the Confederates had- failed to give their men who were in southern prisons medical attention. I grew worse daily and the Arkansans moved out of the tent. In a few days three men from Hoke's brigade were captured and placed in the tent with me. They were well supplied with bedding and were liberal, but I was growing worse. I asked the Mississippi surgeon to get a Federal surgeon to come to see me. He thought he would not come, as they were very mad with the Confederates, but went out and came back with a young-looking Federal sur geon. The Federal was very distant at first and told me that it was true that they were retaliating on the Confederate sick, and his orders were not to give me any medicine himself nor to give it to others for me, but after he and I talked he said while he could not help me as an officer he would do all he could as a man. He sent a beautiful ambulance, drawn by four white horses and had me taken to ward 16 of Hyram Gray’s hospital near the wtjarf that was according to the card at the head of my bed the 9th of November. This ward was in charge of Dr. Miller, a Federal surgeon, and he had my disease marked on the card—chronic dysentery. I soon became unconscious and remained so till about Christmas and it was a long time before I was able to sit up. The stewart, Harry Myers, was a Federal and had been raised in Phila delphia. The ward master was also a Federal and an Irishman and belonged to Cochran’® brigade. He had been bad- BENNINGS BRIGADE IN THE WILDERNESS AGAIN If Mcßae had been with us (Fifteenth Georgia, Bennings' brigade) he would have known for a certainty the flanking party on our left was the one that wore the blue. My friend George Mcßae does not do jus tice to the great battlfc of the Wilderness; neither can I do so. for it certainly was one of the greatest battles fought in Vir ginia. I have read with great interest the war stories of the old veterans In The Jour nal’s columns, and I would like to say something in regard to the battle of the Wilderness. As we all know. Longstreet's command, of which the Fifteenth Georgia was a part, was detached from Lee's army and sent to Bragg's command to fight the battle of Chickamauga; again detached and -sent in pursuit of Burnside, chasing him inside his fortifications at Knoxville, which was very strong. No use to try to catch Bumside on a run; we just couldn’t do it. Often we thought we had him and then we didn’t—like the Irishman’s flea. About this time Grant was making de monstrations. General Lee, with a gener al's eye. saw General Grant every time he put his foot on the move. So we were ordered back to Virginia in short order, and with short rations (maybe I will in the future tell how we lived on two ears of hard com for seven days). From the way we marched back to Virginia we were certain the waters were being disturbed, and the nearer we ap proached the Wilderness the more we were convinced of a performance. And, let me tell you, we entertained and were entertained. Down the plank road we went with a quick step, and from the rat tle of musketry to our right we thought of victory and rations, for we had nearly starved on our march. Now. as we had got back to our home base, we were ready for business. As Mcßae says, we met a part of A. P. Hill's corps beating a hasty retreat (as to Wilcox's brigade no better soldiers ever trod the soil of Virginia). And when Longstreet’s corps got straight ened out in the battle of the Wilderness things got a hump on. We fought in line by division at a time, for our right was fighting some little time before our bri gade was engaged, and it looked as if our brigade was on the extreme left. We went into this battle in an open piece of ground. A swamp was just beyond, where the blue coats were in waiting for us, and they did not wait long before we swooped down on them. In the open as we dashed ahead we passed General Lee and his staff, and well do I remember how he looked sitting on his horse, looking as complacent as if he was at home dining. And as we rush- The Rebel Yell For Gen. A. R. Wright. Doubtless the survivors of the armies of Grant and Lee will recall, when men tioned. that the greatest yell turned loose during the four years’ war,, was on the night of the Sth of May, 1864. and I doubt if 100 men ever knew what gave rise to it. In order to make it intelligible to the reader (and harmonise Georgia and Alabama about the fighting on the plank road). I will step back a bit. Os course we all know that the fight opened on the left, down on the Rapidan. where Sewell’s corps was. on the st'h and extended along his whole front, and also along Heath and Wilcox’s divisions of Hill's corps, who covered the plank road. Anderson’s division of Hill's corps be longing on the right of corps, naturally came into action last, and arrived on the field at the same time with Longstreet's men. (we from winter quarters at Orange courthouse and Longstreet from the train, having Just returned from Knoxville) just in time to meet Wilcox's division, being pressed back by an overwhelming force, where the edge of the wilderness com menced. Now Anderson's division was composed of the following brigades: Mahone's Vir ginia, Perry’s Florida. Harris’ Mississippi, Wilcox's old brigade of Alabama, and Wright's Georgia. Just here let me mention one of the lit tle pleasantries that occurred. General Mahone being in command of the divis ion (senior brtgao,er), his brigade on the right and the first to arrive, the whole brigade with new uniforms and new En field rifles was halted alongside of the road, about two miles from urn battle- THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1901. ly shot in the leg and was called “Mick.” All will remember me as the sick man who had a difficulty with a man from Virginia and threw the spittoon at his head. He had acted as assistant to My ers. and was a Confederate, but took the oath immediately after I threw the spit toon at him. This happened early in 1864 just as I got able to walk from my bed and sit at the stove in my night clothes with a blanket drawn around cne, in the morning just before General Butler in spected the hospital. He inspected the table at which the convalescents ate because he said the cooks had been stealing the rations. After ward 16 was broken up I was transferred to ward 10, and after I became strong enough I was taken over to the diet cookroom and helped the sisters of charity to get up the numbers of dif ferent rations they cooked for those that were too sick to eat anything except del icacies. * I would like to hear from all that stayed in there at that time and especially the Federal soldiers that made me promise them the night before I left there on pa role, when we were telling each other good bye. that I would not shoot at them if I ever met them on a battlefield if I knew them, and they promised me the same. I parted with them on the night of the 16th of March in 1864. . I wish especially if this is printed and it shall fall under the notice of either or both of the surgeons referred to, that had to do with getting me out of the tent in first division in the prison and any or all that were in that tent, either those that were from Arkansas or North Caro lina, as well as those who stayed in ward 16 with me at that time, especially Harry Myers and old “Mick,” because they will all help to establish my Identity. The ward books will show that my disease was then as I have proven, and has been ever since. The two doctors that exam ined me in the prison know it was brought on as I have stated. This proof would be full and complete from medical author ity from then until now. I know that the pension commissioner has much of such to deal with, but I served in two compa nies and three regiments, and feel cer tain I can furnish a clean record as a soldier and as a citizen, and if I can find the nurse that I am looking for and those whose names I was too sick to get at the time, by reciting incidents, I will show all that I have said of my disease is true, and we will see that I have been as badly treated as Geenral Porter was treat ed by General Pope at the Second Man assas battle. Hence, I am forced to re sort to this method to vindicate myself, and ask that all who recollect me from the incidents related here, wIU let me hear from them. ELIAS D. HINES. Ex-Confenerate, Shiloh, Harris county, Georgia. ed hy I saw General Lee wave his hand to the right, and I heard him say to his staff: “We are driving them on our right.” We could tell from the firing that tjiis was so, and in less time than it takes to tell it we were hotly engaged. We pour ed a volley or two into them and then charg ed them In th* swamp, and they had bus iness somewhere else. But just before we charged them we saw a line of bayonets shining as bright as a new piece of money flanking us on our left (which seemed to be a gap; and why this gap was left open I have never known). The word was pass ed up the line that we were being flanked on the left. In a few seconds this flank movement sent a volley of bullets In our rear which brought many of our brave Johnnies down, and just then I saw Gen eral Benning on a big iron gray with Slye (Mat was gone) close by his side coming down the line just in our rear on a plank road at a 2.40 gait, his big spurs rat tling like so many tracechains, to see what was their business in the premises. The Yankees were somewhat hidden, but could be seen. General Benning and Slye were going so swiftly they ran quite close to the Yanks before they could take up and as they made a short circle to turn back I saw Slye grab General Ben ning by the arm and out they went. General Benning was shot, and the cap tain of our company said when the list of wounded was made out they put It down: “General Benning shot In the back.” And he replied: “Hell! You have here, ’General Benning shot In the back.’ No, by God! this won’t d«; they will say your general was running. Put it, ‘shot in the breast.’ ” As General Benning was shot our men fell dead and dying all arund us, a sight to behold. And, as I said. If George Mc- Rae had been just where we were he would know who it was on our left flank. Now comes a sickening sight to behold! When we charged the Yanks out of that ravine, just such a sight I never want to see again. Wilcox's brigade relieved us In the swamp. Saplings from the size of your wrist to the size of a man's thigh were literally torn into splinters, hardily a shrub or bush standing. And, oh, my! the dead Yankees! I was sent by Lieutenant Remson up the line with a message to Col onel Dußase. The firing had ceased. 1 went at least one mile up the line, and I think I can truthfully say I could have walked on dead Yankees the entire rout* without touching the ground, frequently there were three In a pile. J. H. GRESHAM, Company G, loth Ga. Lincolnton, Ga. field. Os course we jumped tp the con clusion that there were hot times ahead and that old Billy was keeping his boys out. One of our boys remarked (in a whisper). "Never mind, boys, when we get in camp we’ll have you some pretty little wooden guns made." Os course old Billy heard it, as the whole line took it up, and for the life of me to this day I can’t understand how they ever got back to tne head of the column, as we were on the plank road, going directly to the front in a long swinging gait; but they did, and made one of the aaraest fights of the war—almost a hand to hand fight, and oh, my! how they did kill the Yanks. Now whether Wilcox’s brigade was in the fight, I don't know positively, but doubt, it as I think their position was on the left, and we did not get in it at all that day; the enemy gave way before we got up. That, I think, caused the mis take of the Tenth Georgia In thinking the Alabamians gave way.. It was Wilcox’s division (formerly Pinder's) and not his old brigade. Os course the whole record of the war shows that wherever tried Wilcox's Alabama fought, there was none better than was old Tlge’s and Rocks’. On the morning of the 6th Harris’s Mis sissippi and Wright’s Georgia were ord ered to move down the plank road at double quick to join Longstreet’s intend ed advance; but just as we got to the front, Wright supporting. General Long street was wounded a.nd Major General Jenkins was killed, which stopped the movement. But some time during the day Harris’ brigade made a charge which drove everything in front fully a half a mile. There Major General Wordsworth, United States army, was killed. That ended the fighting on that part of the line. We were on a portion of the battle field of the day before, where the road was burned off which killed so many wounded Federals. Some of us walked over several hundred yards of the ground and counted fifty dead Federals to one Confederate. So much for the troops and fighting on the plank road to the night of the 6th, and that there was obliged to be a consid erable mixture of commands. Now comes the readjustment, and just after dark we began to move, our division going to the right, and the Forty-fourth Alabama (don’t know what brigade, they once be longed to our brigade and am sure they all loved General Wright.) We had halted as they passed, and as they did so (although quite dark) they looked up and recognized General Wright’s long hair and began that cheer that went like a mighty wave, clear to the extreme left of our army, up hill and down dale, zigzagging in and out, show ing the position of the line like a worm fence; then it came back, and past on by use like a tornado on the extreme right and thus it rolled back and forth three times. I don’t think, from the sound, that even our cooks failed to hol ler. The effect on the enemy was tremen dous, judging from what we heard and saw next morning. We sent out a line of skirmishers nearly a mile in front. First we picked up a couple of hundred mounted men that simply stayed till we took them without firing a gun. The woods was full of all sorts of plunder.guns, cartridge boxes, knapsacks, haversacks and all; and citizens back there told us that If we had advanced they thought they would have taken to the river. But Grant’s army was on the move, driving Lee back to Richmond (so-called.) Well, we followed on at any rate and met them next at Spottsylvanla. Some years ago I was up In the Black Hills, where I met quite a number of Billy's boys. One of them. James Toner, (we called him Sankey, as he was always singing), said to me one day: “Johnnie, (that was my name there, being the only Reb around), what the h made fellows holler so much like wild Indians. Said I: "To scare you.” “Yes, and d If you didn’t do It, too, he answered. If Sankey Is living and sees this, I hope he will write to me. ~ a C. W. REYNOLDS, Company K, 3d. Ga., Reg. 421 Pulliam St. Hood’s Sarsaparilla cures radically—that Is, it removes the roots of disease. That s better than lopping the branches. WATCH And Seml’We.kly Journal On. Year for 12.00. We have at last found a watch which we can deliver postpaid to the subscriber* for The Semi Weekly Journal (in connec tion with the paper on* year) for 82.00. We have a good guarantee that this watch will keep correct time for one year, provided it to not misused. If it does' not. it can be returned at our ex pense. This it th* watch we have long b*cn looking for ana just found. it to a ct*n. winder and stem s*tt*r. ts nickel plated and nandsom*. This watch to offered only to direct subscrlb era, as we sell at factory pric*» from which we buy by th* thousand. Send your nam* and 82.00 and you will get c. splendid watch and the nest news paper m th* south. Addr*** THE JOURNAL, Atlanta. Oa I I !♦♦*< »< f»<’4-4“»<’«"fr*i l ♦ THE FLOWER OF ♦ + THE HOLY GHOST. ♦ A ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+l I !'♦♦♦♦♦♦ I"l I- One of the rarest* and most wonderful orchids known Is a native of the Isthmus of Panama. The early Spanish settlers there named it Flor del Espiritu Santo (Flower of the Holy Ghost), and those who have seen It reKdlly understand why. It grows in marshy places from a de cayed log, or sometimes from the crev ice in a rock. The leaf stalk reaches sev eral feet In height, and the flower stalk, which grows from the bulb, bears 12 or 15 buds. The flower is pure white, and Is shaped Something like our jack-ln-the-pulplt. In side the flower, right in the heart of It, Is a perfect Image of a dove, with droop ing wings, snowy breast, gold-tinted head and crimson beak. No effort of the imag ination is necessary to see the resem blance. It is a perfect image, exquisitely beautiful in tints and giving off an odor that no perfumer could Imitate. The Spaniards named It the “Flower of the Holy Ghost,” and regarded It with su perstitious awe, but the native Indians, more superstitious still, worshiped it like an Idol, and would not let the ground on which It grew be touched. A Useful Invention. A novel apparatus has been specially designed for stout and Indolent .persons It is fashioned of Iron, and consists of a support, to which are attached three steps, one above the other. Its object is to provide a resting place for a person’s foot when he wishes to lace, unlace, but ton or unbutton a shoe. Hitherto a chair or sofa ha£ been generally used* for this purpose, and according to thrifty house keepers many a piece of furniture has been more or less tarnished thereby. An oak tree of average size, with 700,- 000 leaves, lifts from the earth about 123 tons of water during the five months It is in leaf. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. It’s no sin to kiss a girl If you don’t tell her you are going to do it. What a woman calls temper In her sisters she calls sparkling vivacity in herself. It’s funny that a woman can’t lace shape into fatness yet she can lace fatness into shape. KNOWLEDGE OF FOOD. Proper Selection of Great Importance In Summer. The feeding of Infants Is a very serious proposition, as all mothers know. Food must be used that will easily digest, or the undigested parts will be thrown into the intestines and cause sickness. It is Important to know that a food can be obtained that is always safe; that Is Grape-Nuts. A mother writes: “My baby took the first premium at a baby show on the Bth Inst., and Is in every way a prize baby. I have fed him on Grape-Nuts since he was five months old. I also use your Postum Food Coffee for myself.” Mrs. L. F. Fishback. Alvin, Tex. Grape Nuts food Is not made solely for a baby food by any means, but is manu factured for all human beings who have trifling or serious difficulties in the stom ach and bowels. One especial point of value is that the food is predigested in the process of man ufacture, not by any drugs or chemicals whatsoever, but simply by the action of heat, moisture and time, which permits the diastase to grow and change the starch into grape-sugar. This presents food to the system ready for immediate assimilation. Its especial valve as a food, beyond the fact that it is easily digested, is that it supplies the needed elements to quickly rebuild the cells in thte brain and nerve centers throughout the body. JOURNAL’S SATURDAY SERMON When we say “universe,” of course every sphere is Included—the material, mental and moral. Throughout the whole and in the minutest detail these are forces which In their resultants, are what they are and exist in their multiform modes because of the operation of coun ter-forces. The “reign of law” is su preme everywhere. The worlds that re volve In space are held in an even bal ance by laws suited to invest matter. The old idea that an invisible spirit held each star and planet in its place has long since given way to this “reign of law.” If It were not for centripetal force the earth and every star In the solar sys tem would plunge Into the sun. This force or law attracts to a common center and holds the multitudes of the heavenly hosts each evenly balanced In Its place. Were It not for centrifugal force which balances the centripetal, not only would our earth refuse to revolve upon Its own axis but it w’ould not and could not move In its revolutions around th* sun, there by producing day and night in the one case and a change of seasons in the other. And yet some people say mis just hap pens that way. As well might a man un dertake to prove that the “girders” that span the Whitehall street crossing with every exact measurement .of each piece in the whole structure “just happened” be cause he did not see the Iron ore formed in and dug out of the earth, worked into “pig” and "pudlled,” rolled and changed into steel, shaped and drilled and riveted, shipped to Atlanta and placed. Whhe law was behind every stage and change there was also an intelligence there —a “purposiveness.” As the multitudes look ed upon those enormous beams of steel, weighing thirty-flve tons each, perhaps not one thought of the fact that, when each one swung, poised in midair, there was an illustration of force and counter force that holds the universe together and in shape. Gravitation drew eheb mas sive piece to the center of the earth, while two locomotives furnished the counter-force that held them evenly bal anced in the air. But let us take another look at what we call nature, and we will see that the very chemicals that support vegetable and ani mal life and enter Into the composition of each—say grass or wood and flesh and blood, are counter to and balance each other as the rule—alkali and acids. And yet this “just happened," or “nature,” "blind nature” does It! And so it may be said that everything In the universe is evenly and safely balanced either natu rally or artificially; moreover, there would be no safety anywhere but for this great fact. For instance the whole city of Atlanta might be deprived of human life In one moment If the exact chemical balance of the atoms of oxygen and hy drogen that make air, were to become dis arranged. The Empire building or Pru dential or Equitable with their hundreds of occupants ,might fly Into the “blue etherial sky"* or sink into the heart of the earth If the ev«n balance of forces were disturbed. ’ I spoke of "artificial balances” by which we mean the application of force and forces by man, as for instance the air brake on a train of cars. No train would be safe without a counter-force artificially applied at will when needed. And I may add again, just here, that that train that makes forty miles an hour safely up and down grade does not "just hap pen” to do It. When the hissing air-brake hugs the huge drivers It does not "just happen” that way. If, now, we come up a step higher we will find that this exact balance obtains also in the mental sphere. We find It in the grouping of faculties, in the human mind, and their classifica tion into the "constructive” and into the “destructive” faculties. This is the rule —the basis or the plan of every human mind. I need not dwell at length on this phase of the subject. I mention it merely to make the chain complete. And yet what kind of a human world would we have if all minds belonged to the analytical or destructive class? One man can tear down much faster than a dozen can build ordinarily. What for instance would be come of us if all men and women were possessed of only the athletic faculties? Indeed the world would be a bedlam, but for the even balance of the mental fac ulties of the race in correspondence to the environment and possibilities all around us. For instance, the world needs newspapers, but what a calamity if all men were editors! It needs railroads, but suppose we had no men with the talent to do anything else? Indeed art, science and literature owe their existence to the fine adjustment of mental faculties, so grouped and balanced that each acts and reacts, checking and counter-checking in a manner and degree that makes the limit to variety In the world almost In finite. Out of balance, and the whole world may become raving maniacs. No rational being can take this view of the universe without feeling emo tions of wonder at the great wisdom and foresight, to say nothing of the benevo lence of the great Creator. But we come next to ask what about the sphere of ethics or morals? If the great God, or, as the skeptic would say, the “great First Cause,” has shown such wisdom and benevolence In the con struction of every other part of the uni verse, Is It possible that He has left the sphere of morals without a balancing power? If He has not so marred His creation, where do we find this power? It Is not in gravitation or the natural law of attraction, cohesion, adhesion, etc. They do not apply to a moral being. Will some one say where? If he has placed that power anywhere In the universe Is It unreasonable to believe he will show It to this rational creature? Is It unreasonable to suppose he Is not able to manifest himself, his will, his na ture, his disposition toward us? If he built all the vast universe above and be neath and put their laws within reach of human knowledge, is it unreasonable to believe that, having made such knowl edge possible by implanting in him fac ulties capable of comprehending them, he will not also put not only the moral law within his reach, but also the facul ty of getting hold of it and of understand ing ij? He who denies these great truths con tained in His Word about which the text speaks, does more than he thinks. He first charges cruel neglect on him who made all things, or he lays himself under obligations to furnish such a balance. This Is exactly what Herbert Spencer and Ernest Hackle have presumed to do—pro vide this balance. Read Spencer on •’Ed ucation,” read his “First Principles” and then read "The Riddle of the Universe” by Hoeckle, and the most stupid man will be amazed, and at once ask himself the questions: “Moses or Ernest Hoeckle? Jesus Christ or Herbert Spencer? St. Paul or Bob Ingersoll?” But what do you mean by the term “moral balance?” To Illustrate: There Is a passion In the human breast, pure and holy, until It reaches the point of danger to another. Here the eternal question of “oughtness” comes in and moral law bal ances or counteracts and says: “Thou shalt not commit adultery!” There is a faculty or impulse within us that moves us to acquire property. Our hand reaches out and is about to touch the property of our neighbor and something above and within says: “Thou shalt not steal.” But I brood over it and desire It. Another law says: “Thou shalt not covet.” I grow angry with a man and moved by the impulse to kill him, another law, con templating the damage I may do him and his family, says: “Thou shalt not kill.” In other words, there is not a passion, appetite or propensity in the human be- | {Religion a cNecessary 'Balance. TEXT—"Thy word have I hid In my heart that I r ight not sin agalnat ••• Thee."—Psalms 119:11. BY REV. LUKE G. JOHNSON, Pastor of the Park Street Methodist Church. I®®* : 'X/ww ir ’ »Mu SlSlte ► - IHOf am* ■fc. l •’& "k'-' REV. LUKE G. JOHNSON. ing that is not virtuous when held in a balance, and not one that does not need a check or countercheck. Will gravitation meet the case? Centrtfical or centripetal? What about mathematics, knowledge of geology, civil engineering? None of these. There must be a moral force expressing it self In “God’s word” to move upon man’s heart by which reason and an enlightened conscience tell him it is best to shape and control his life and character. But Mr. Spencer says education will do a.i this. Right after him Mr. Huxly says that "to educated the intellect and leave the moral nature untouched is as likely to produce a race of astute scoundrels as anything else.” Haeckle says his "Religion of Monism will do it, and that in a few years all churches will leave “Thy word” and make a creed of "The Good, the True and the Beautiful,” and worship them! Now it never occurred to him that the libertine, the thief, the miser, the liar—all—every human being would have his own idea of what was good, true and beautiful. David has struck the truth in the words of the text: “Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against Thee.” But as to the other creed, alas! A dollar would be, as it is to some now, the best, the truest, the most beautiful thing in the universe. Wife, children, everybody are not half so good, so true, so beautiful. To another the worship of Venus might com mend itself. Where would it not lead to? History tells us that the highest religious Idea of Babylon made every married wo man as a religious act offer herself at least once a year to the public in the tem ple of that vile goddess. Yet Babylon had the greatest learning, the highest intel lectual culture. What has been may be again if man essays to lift himself, so to speak, “by his own boot straps over the barriers that stand between him and his highest good, without any higher law or power from above. That great philosophic historian, Froude, says: "Intellectual culture does not touch the conscience. It provides no motives to overcome the weakness of the will and with wider knowledge brings new GEN. MORGAN'S CAPTURE PLANNED BY A WOMAN Some one asked several weeks ago for a detailed account of Gen. John H. Mor gan’s death. Up to this time I have seen no response, so I will give my recollec tions of the lamentable tragedy which oc curred at Greenville, Tenn., in the early part of September, 1864. After General Morgan’s escape from a northern prison, he came south and re organized his old command which had become scattered during his confinement in prison, and during the summer of 1864 was occupying East Tennessee watching the movements of the enemy and pounc ing upon them whenever an opportunity was offered. The Yankees held Knoxville and occu pied the country as far up as Bulls Gap, which was about 15 miles below Green ville, and very frequently made cavalry raids still farther north, but taking special care never to come in contact with the invincible Morgan. On this oc casion the enemy had made a raid on Greenville which at that time was unoc cupied. Morgan at this time was resting some 20 miles above Greenville, with a detachment of the Sixteenth Georgia cav alry and a portion of his Kentucky regi ment. He learned of the presence of the enemy at Greenville, and decided to sur prise and capture the entire force as he had done. In perhaps scores of Instances before. So we broke camp about dark and made a dash on Greenville, but when we arrived In the vicinity, much to our re gret, we learned that the enemy had be come apprehensive and had withdrawn, inside their own lines at Bull* Gap. So at that late hour at night, knowing that the enemy was not in 15 miles of us, it was natural for us to feel pretty secure. After giving orders to post pickets on every road leading into Greenville and sending his men Into camp, Morgan with his staff secured sleeping quarters at a private house, perhaps that of a friend, and all, both officers and men. except the pickets, were lying in sweet sleep un conscious of all that was transpiring without; so the drama which followed was to be enacted or at least planned, and led by the craft and cunning of a young Tennessee woman. If my memory is not treacherous, her name was Wilson the daughter of a man who had command of a regiment of mountaineers scattered through the mountains, who made it tneir business to rob and murder when neces sary those people in East Tennessee, who espoused the southern cause. After locating Morgan s quarter*, she had a horse saddled, mounted It and J”de out a byway that was not guarded to Bulls Gap, through the dark night, repor ted the situation to the enemy, procured a strong force of his cavalry, led them back through the same dark alley through which she had made her exit and sur rounded the house in which Morgan and his staff were sleeping. _ It was reported by one of his staff woo escaped with his life that when Morgan realized the situation, he addressed his comrades thus: “To arms boys; they have got us, but we'll sell our lives as dearly as possi ble." t And thus died one of the grandest knights and most chivalrous cavaliers that the world ever produced. Peace to his ashes, and honor to his memory, to the sentiment of every patriotic heart. If I remember correctly all of Morgan’s temptations.” He says the Greeks knew nothing but intellectual culture, and went down; that Rome at the summit of its intellectual culture lost what moral re straint she had in her heathen religion when she became atheistic and went to pieces morally. Brann, late of The Iconoclast, says the same thing, and yet. right here in our city there are scores of people who for no other reason than to follow their “own sweet will” are dally Ignoring what Gib bon himself called the religion of Christ— “a pure religion." We positively assert I from the Bible and from observation that It is only a question of time and of sus-i ceptibllity to bad Influences when all such will become bad at heart! A man made under and subject to Go<t Almighty’s moral law can no mor* per-* vert it and fly in its face and succeed in becoming or remaining a god and pure man or woman, than the “girders” on yon viaduct can b* moved without an applies* tion of God’s laws in mechanics! It Is un reasonable to the point of lunacy, and yet men will persist. Oh, how we need a mor al balance! The path of time to strewed with wrecked individual and national character and high civilization becaus* th* application of this moral balance was n*g-’ lected. Witness Babylon, Assyria, Greece and Rome! What was th* matt*rf Sim-! ply this, the moral nature was not haul anced or cultivated past passu with the. animal and intellectual nature»-that la, the whole story! Are we in danger? The ‘’4oo" of every* city, of every civilization that is rich and I idle, with no nobler alm than mar* pleas- i ure, are engaged in cultivating this aide.; of their natures and neglecting th* high-! er, th* spiritual side, and, as when, "Ephriam grow fat he kicked," so will IK be of them, so has It ever been* and. alastl so It to now! i With the tongue of an angel we wouliyi sound It today—th* necessity of th* text: “Thy word have I hid in my heart that I : might not sin against Thee. ’ David wad . cultured, David was rich, David was qt king, David needed it—religion—th* bal ance for the moral universe. ; staff was killed but one, and the treat ment to which the general’s body «M, subjected after death as reported by the, citisene of Greenville, was a disgrace ta ( a savage tribe, much less a civilised pao-» pie. —. 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