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In my last. brigade was In sup
port of Anderson and Benning at Cold
Harbor, the battle, one of the bloodiest
of the war. and one which resulted most
grtevouslv to the morals of the Federal
army had ended the active fighting on
this fine, which Grant bad selected as the
most promising of results to his assaults.
No amount of threats, pleading or com
mands could Induce the Federal Infantry
to muster again to assail our Una On
the night of June 3d Wrights brigade
which had been on the front line all dur
ing that campaign without cessation, was
ordered back to a branch some 400 or S»
yards to rest up. wash up and patch their
teHered clothing, which the hard service
of the past few weeks rendered necessary.
Many of them were in a sad plight for
clothing. Some were minus ooat. some
without pants, some barefoot and not a
few bareheaded. So many of our men
had been killed by their own men mistak
ing them for Yankees who to cover their
nakedness were compelled to put on Yan
kee uniforms that General Lee in general
orders fJrbade the use by his men of any
article of clothing which would lead to
such mistakes- As a consequence, the
battlefield which formerly furnished
clothing, food and arms to many, was
now tobooed so far as clothing was con
cerned. and the men were put to other
shifts to got it During the day/of June
4th. we had cleaned up sufflclenjtJy to go
>wck this time further to the right at the
point known as Turkey Rldga It was at
thio place that Breckinridge had lost his
tines, to bo retaken by Finnegan. Wright s
brigade w» sent out to the first line of
works, overlooking the battlefield of the
honor'd The space In front was cleared
of everything but dead Yantdsea. who dot
ted K as far to the left as the eye could
see. looking for an the woijd like a flock
of black st.o-ep laying singly, tn couples
ar/ tn droves. The stanch was something
tiorxfbla
For three days the car?—see of the poor
araaturrs bad tain there In the boiling
sun. festering, rotting and decomposing.
wnffittns a auMQ offiemflve to God and
rwn On the afternoon of Juno 4th Grant
had jient tn a flag of trwe asking a cessa
tion of hostilities for M hours to bury
drts dead. General Lee granted the armis
tice. tart claimed the right to do the bury
ing as- he had won the field; but I believe
allowed the enemy to assist, as they were
provided with an abundance of entrench
ing tools of Which we had very few. The
job was a large one and It was not until
jete tn the forenoon of the Sth when it
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1 havtmoficed a phene mens on every bat
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an exifianation of at the hands of sci
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them (Yhnkeeo) would be killed, or would
die from his hurts, he would immediately
begin to turn black, swelling up to a size
♦hat would be often more than twice of
that he would measure tn life. Cold or
hot weather would seem to have the same
effect.as the same phenomena was seen on
Those killed during the freezing weather
at Fredericksburg, as at the Cold Har
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federates under the same conditions would
turn paler, shrivel up and seem to get
smaller. Os the many thousands I have
seen, I can call to mind no exception to
this universal rule. Why was it? On the
night of June 4th my company was sum
moned for duty on the picket line; as we
had come into the works after night with
no previous knowledge of that part of
the line, we had to grope for it. In one of
the blackest nights it hag ever been mine
to see.
Going over the works in single file
tumbling Into the ditch and scrambling
out again, without a leader to direct or
knowing where we would bring up. makes
one a little nervous, and I guess each in
dividual of Company C would rather have
been somewhere else that night. Orders
were given in whispers because he knew
the enemy was not far off. and a sound
of voices would Invite a volley. Feeling
our way along, without seeing, the ser
geant in front tumbled into a pit. In the
pit were a pair of pickets and the suppo
sition is they were both asleep, for when
the sergeant landed broadside on them,
his normal weight was 275 pounds, as soon
as they could recover breath both sung
out, "Mister, we surrender; we surren
der.” "What regiment do you belong to?”
asked the sergeant. "North Carolina,”
chimed in both. "Then get up. and hull
out of here back to your regiment, as we
are sent out to relieve you." "The h—l
you say. We thought youns were Yan
k-e-y-s,” and with this both lit out for
the rear. In this manner the picket line,
as far as our little command would go,
were relieved and sent to the rear. Those
whom we relieved could give us no intelli
gent idea of where the Federal pickets
were, but In anticipation of a warm time
the next day each picket went to work
to strengthen himself for the work which
we thought the day would bring. I sat up
the balance of the night, with a wooden
peg and a piece of twine for a needle and
thread, and succeeded tn making my oil
cloth into a passable bag. which was duly
filled with soil and hoisted up for use as
a ‘ head-log” when day should come and
open up the dally fire. Day finally came,
and peering out of my pit for a shot saw
quite a number of "Blue Coata" standing
around a fire not over 100 feet from me.
Looking further I saw my pit was not
over 30 feet from the Federal works, as
it was In the apex of the salient project
ing farthest out against the Federal line,
which, until daylight revealed to us, we
did not think was nearer than 100 yards.
As from my position it was Impossible to
do any effective work, as I was exposed
at short range from both right and left, I
concluded, tn view of the situation, to
keep the peace and say nothing, unless
they should run into us. As the truce by
its terms did not expire until the after
noon advantage was taken of it by many
men from either side to get together and
swap tobacco, coffee, etc., between the
lines. Os my own company very few en
gaged th it, but numbers came out from
the lines in our rear, and for awhile “Bil
lies” and "Johnnies" were as thick as
flies around a syrup barrel. Not being a
trader myself nor caring to trade under
the circumstances, I took no part in it,
but it was a matter of astonishment to me
to see the men from the two hostile ar
mies fraternize as they did. General Lee,
from his headquarters, saw it, and sent
orders by aid and courier for the men to
return to their commands, warning the
enemy he would open fire if they did not
return to their lines. Even then it seemed
neither party was willing to quit, necessi
tating the firing of a blank cartridge as a
warning that the truce was ended and
hostilities were to begin. In a few min
utes the guns were cracking as lively as
usual My command was In a manner
shut off from taking a hand to any great
extent from the circumstances I have
mentioned. Guns wens firing in a circle
around us, to wbich we could not reply.
Never did a day hang so heavily. Night
came at last, when we were looking for
the enemy to rush our works, but they did
not. Toward midnight a relieving force
came out and we gained our works man at
a time. The enemy fired a few shots as
the last men were leaving.
We were put back in the fifth or re
serve line, and continued to strengthen
our works day and night. While occupy
ing this position a circumstance occurred
wbich. promptly turned to account, might
have had great weight in determining fu
ture events. Grant had assailed the army
of Lee at the Wilderness, Spottsylvania,
North and South Anna, Cold Harbor and
Turkey Ridge, tn which a loss'had been
entailed upon him equal to the entire force
Lee commanded. In order to force Lee to
split up his army and thus be beat in de
tail, two other federal armies were or
ganized. one under General Butler, called
the "Beast," to assail Richmond from the
Appomattox or Petersburg side, the other
under General Hunter, to move up the
valley and assail Staunton and Lynch
burg. To meet the first column under*
Butler General G. T. Beauregard, who had
distinguished himself wherever he had
commanded, was called up from Charles
ton, which he had defended with such sig
nal ability, and placed in charge of the
little force gathered from Charleston, Wil
mington and other North Carolina and
eastern Virginia points for this particular
service. The entire force did not amount
to more than 15,000 men of all arms. Some
had seen service In the i.eld. others had
not. In the early days of June Butler
landed at Bermuda Hundred, a point on
James river 30 miles below Richmond,
feinted upon Petersburg, while his main
efforts were directed upon the Richmond
and Petersburg railroad. Though reaching
that road and inflicting some damage,
through failure, it is said, of General
Whiting to co-operate by turning a move
ment from Petersburg, he was met at
Swift creek and defeated by the small
force under Beauregard. This check placed
Butler In a cut-throat position, from
which he could not have extricated him
self had the Richmond author! lies acted
promptly. As it was, General Beauregard
addressed a note to Mr. Davis indicating
the position of affairs, asking to be re
inforced by at least two divisions from
Lee's army, which was then standing with
hands down on the defensive at Turkey
Ridge. With this reinforcement it was
possible to cut off Butler and force his
surrender, then recombine the detachment
sent him with his own force, join Lee and
make a combined assault upon the army
under Grant. The conception was worthy
that great soldier, and gave the only ray
of hope left to the brave old army of Lee
to extricate themselves from the net
which was surely entangling them. Mr.
Davis read and reread the note, made no
reply for 48 hours, giving it ample time
to seep through to the regular . . . .
Van Lew wrote to Grant’s headquarters,
then replied, asking General Beauregard
for further details of his plan. As Grant
had seen the snarl in which Butler was
tangled, he was directed to rectify his
position. Therefore, upon the receipt of
Mr. Davis' note General Beauregard cour
teously but curtly replied that the enemy
having made changes in his dispositions,
an attack then was not advisable. It is a
pity that General Beauregard could not
have conferred directly with General Lee.
Both being soldiers and intensely inter
ested in the military success of the south,
as the sole basis of its political Independ
ence, would doubtless have made the
move, and even if not as entirely success
ful as its projector hoped, it would have
given these two great leaders a fighting
chance for their men. On the 15th or 16th
of June Beauregard attacked Butler in
front of Drury’s bluff, drove him with a
less into Dutch gap, where he was bottled
up and for the time entirely eliminated
from the field. Hunter’s move against
Lynchburg was more successful. Lee was
forced to detach the Second corps, with
its complement of artillery and cavalry,
to which General Jubal A. Early was giv
en the command.
There has been many criticisms upon
this appointment of Early and after his
maladroit handling of his division In
front of Sedgwick after the taking of
THE bEMi- w bEikij t jvukjnalm, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, 'IriUKbbAY, MARCH 13, 1902.
BY E. A. SHIVER,
Co. C, 2d Bat. Georgia Vols.,
Wright’s Brigade, A. N. V.
Marie Hill, the adverse criticisms would
seem to be just. Early arrived in time
to seize Lynchburg; Hunter, who was not
much of a soldier, made for est Irginla.
leaving the lower valley defenseless and
the gate to Washington wide open. As to
the successes and reverses of this valley
campaign. It is not my object to speak
more than its bearing upon Lee’s cam
paign about Richmond. At a later part
of the campaign. Kershaw's division was
also sent to Early, and perhaps other
troops which I do not now call to mind.
On June 10th definite Information showed
Grant to be on the move towards the
lower Chlckahominy, his works in our
front were deserted and crossing that
stream ourselves at the "Grapevine”
bridge, we took post in the White Oak
swamp to defend that route to Richmond.
We ran into a hornet’s nest of artillery,
which was posted beyond our reach, and
It was In this affair that we lost our di
vision adjutant. Major Mills, who, un
aware of our proximity to the enemy,
rode, it is supposed, into their lines, and
was either killed or captured, we never
learned which. The "boys” grieved at his
loss very much, because there was no one
left for them to guy. From White Oak
swamp we took post at Malvern Hill; re
mained here till the morning of June 18th,
when a hurry order came to move at once.
Taking the Newmarket or river road to
wards Richmond, we marched without
halt,, reached the pontoon bridge at
Drewry’s Bluff, crossed the James and
across the battlefield of Beauregard and
Butler of a. few before, turned into
the pike to Petersburg. The day was one
of the hottest I ever saw; my health had
been failing for some time. I was scarce
ly able to drag, but continued to march
with my command. Soon after entering
the Petersburg Pike, I was stricken with
sun stroke, which came near ending my
career. When sufficiently recovered from
this mishap, I resumed the march, finally
overtaking the command at the outskirts
of Petersburg, and going Into the lines
with them to the right of the Jerusalem
plank road. What transpired for the next
few days some other chronicler will have
to narrate. I have a diqn. recollection of a
combat near a well in which the enemy
were repulsed, of moving further to the
left through a hot fusilade. I had been
advised by the surgeon of our command,
also by our major, C. J. Moffitt, himself
a skilled physician, to go to the hospital,
at least until I should recover strength to
return, but having seen and heard so
much of the brutality practiced In those
institutions, my choice would have been to
be shot, rather than enter one, for this
was to be my first experience in a Con
federate hospital. On the afternoon of the
20th Major Moffitt ordered me to go to the
hospital or he would call up a file of men
and send me under guard. That night on
the return of the ambulance from the
lines, found me a passenger en route to
the field hospital.
Remaining' there some five weeks with
no benefit. I was retired by order of the
examining medical board by reason of dis
ability from wounds, with orders to report
to the surgeon general for assignment to
duty. Through this office, I was soon af
ter assigned by requisition, as chief clerk
in the senior surgeon’s office at Macon,
then outside of Richmond, perhaps, the
largest centre of hospitals in what re
mained of the Confederacy. This office,
like everything else Confederate, was in
dire confusion and demoralization. It took
some weeks of close application to get it
in shape, for besides the six or eight large
hospitals inside the city there were per
haps a dozen or more in towns outside
which made their reports to and received
their instructions through that office. It
did not require the aid of spectacles to
the eye of an observer, to read the signs
alas! too plentiful on every side, that the
days of the Confederacy were numbered.
People no longer talked of defending
•home and country; patriotism had oozed
out, the question was how to drop the
conscript office and to make money. The
government was in ths hands of bureaus,
who were a law unto themselveA Acts
of spoliation and robbery were committed
which would have produced a revolt in
Turkey whose subjects so long used to
exactions had forgotten hgw to rebel.
The hospitals were filled with “rats”—
men who would suffer anything, indignity
itself, rather than aid their comrades in
the field. New diseases multiplied which
the doctors did not or could not under
stand. Men with slight wounds continued
invalifi—their wounds would not heal.
Doctors were puzzled, nurses were mysti
fied, but the owners of the wounds seemed
happy. There used- to eat at our mess oc
casionally an individual, his name I have
now forgotten, who came there on invi
tation from some of the members of it.
He thummed a guitar, his little dit
ties, was or tried to be on familiar terms
with everybody, but, strange to say, no
body knew from whence he came or why
he was not the army. My own suspic
ions were aroused against him, why I
could not say. Immediately after the war
was over this same party joined the Re
publican ranks and made application, to
the federal government for. compensa
tion for the part he had taken in depleting
the Confederate ranks, by giving those
who were wounded powdered glass to keep
their wounds from heallHg. He received
no recognition that I remember from that
source, but while the Western and Atlan
tic railroad was being run as a political
hospital he was given a job, and in pass
ing under a bridge one night on top of his
train he bumped his head against it and—
vale! powdered glass fiend. Sherman,
who had not yet completed his arrange
ments for leaving Atlanta, had sent in
advance his secret agents. They were not
long in discovering congenial spirits, so
that when in November he turned his
columns toward the heart of Georgia he
knew when to strike and what it would
profit him quite as well as if he had been
there himself. It is not my purpose to
enter into details of his march to the sea,
which but for one or two minor happen
ings was unopposed and uneventful. Suf
fice it if for six months before then had
there been any so, blind as not to see the
end this display of military weakness on
the part of cur government ought to have
L". . . ■ ■ -4
WIFE’S INGENUITY
Saves Her Husband.
The author of the "Degeneration of
Dorothy.” Mr. Franklin Kinsella, 226 W.
25th St., New York City, was the victim
of a little by-play—but he can best tell
the story himself. “I must confess that I
have been the victim of an innocent de
ception ?hich turned out all for the best,
however.
I had been resting under the belief, for
some years, that coffee served as a lubri
cant to my cerebral convolutions, in oth
er words, 'made the wheels go round,’ and
I had an idea that I could not work with
out it as a stimulant.
I soon paid the penalty in neA
loss of flesh, insomnia and restlessness,
none of which troubles would yield to any
or all medicines. I finally got in rather
a bad way and my wife took a’ hand in
the affair all unknown to me. She pur
chased a package of Postum Coffee and
first gave me one-half Postum and one
half coffee. In a little time she had me
down to clear Postum, and I was none
the wiser. .
I noticed that I was getting better, my
nerves were steadier, and I began to gain
flesh and sleep nights. My work was per
formed far better than in by old condi
tion.
' Commenting upon my greatly improved
health one morning I was told the trutn.
’Tis to laugh.' so I submitted gracefully
and joined the Postum ranas. 1
Experience teaches tnat boiling is one
half the game. When the directions are
carried out the result will be as fine a cup
of rich, fragrant coffee as ever delighted
the senses without ruining the nerves."
made them see. With Lee's old army
penned in and tied down at Petersburg
and Richmond, the Army of Tennessee al
most eliminated from the field by its
slaughter around Atlanta and the disaster
at Nashville, if, with the scattered bands
of cavalry, assisted by such militia as
would muster to their aid, they were un
able tc down the raiding parties of
the ens-t-j jven, where was the force to
come from which could hold Sherman in
check or drive back Grant when from
sheer weakness Lee should be forced from
his lines? These were grave questions,
discussed under breath, but to the think
ing mind there could be but one answer.
Disgusted with the situation, hopeless of
any satisfactory outcome, in the early
days of April, '65, I made my arrange
ments to return to my command, but fully
persuaded in my own mind that the Ist
of May would find the southern Confed
eracy in existence only as a dream. I
was by no means fit for field service, yet
I preferred any fate, shared with my old
comrades in the field, rather than any po
sition away from the post of danger. By
foot and rail I reached Charlotte, N. C.,
on April 11, was detained there two days
for lack of transportation, when on the
13th General Wright with his staff and a
few men arrived, bringing authentic news
that Lee had surrendered, his men paroled
and allowed to go home. Reporting for
orders to Colonel Hoke, commandant of
the post, he ordered me to return to Geor
gia. While the news of Lee’s surrender
did not surprise me, it stunned me, for it
seemed hard to realize that the army
which had for four years successfully
held the enemy off, had in its career of
war killed, wounded and captured of the
enemy nearly twice its own number,
stculd be forced to lay down its arms in
surrender to the foe they had so uniform
ly beaten in the previous years. But when
the condition of the Army of Northern
Virginia is taken into consideration the
wonder is they held out so long. Never
supplied by the affair at Richmond called
the government with shoes or clothing,
h?\lf supplied after the first year of the
■war with rations, each individual was
forced to rely upon his own resources for
'those necessary adjuncts to compaignlng.
Previous to the opening of the campaign
•f 1864 the army was in a precarious posi
tion for lack of food. There never was at
any time over two days’ rations on hand,
sometimes not one day’s, and upon one
occasion the train upon which supplies
were expected wag ditched and upon that
day no rations were cooked. After the
opening of the campaign at the Wilder
ness in which we locked horns with the
Federal army and kept them locked till
the final ending at Appomattlx, no cook
ing could be done on the lines, but by
men detailed in rear for this duty. The
the ration day in and day out consisted
of a square of corn meal bread an inch
thick by three inches quare, about as
hard as a pine knot, with a quarter to a
half pound of blue beef or occasionally in
lieu of the latter a quarter of a pound of
rancid Nassau bacon. As we neared Rich
mond this grew smaller and meaner.
There was no lack of supplies in Rich
mond of shoes, clothing or rations, as
was well attested after the fall, but it
took a man with a pull to get it. When
our division defiled through Petersburg
scores of men were not only barefooted
but had not enough clothes on them to
cover their nakedness. Throughout the
fall and winter this continued and the sur
prise is not that tijey succumbed when
finally overpowered, but that they fought
at all. Yet some of the most brilliant pages
in Confederate history were written in
this siege of Petersburg and Richmond.
Where were more brilliant achievements
than the routing of the Second and Fifth
Federal corps from their works on the
right of Petersburg by the three brigades
of Wright, Finnegan and Saunders on the
22d of June? The battle at Reams station
by Mahone’s (Anderson’s divison)? The
destruction of Wilson’s cavalry division
near the Weldon road by Wright and
Saunders* infantry brigades, assisted by
Hampton and Fitzhugh Lee with the cav
alry? The retaking of the crater by the
origades of Weisegef (Mahone’s), Wright
and Saunders? The defense of Fort Har
rison by Benning's brigade? The defense
of Deep Bottom by Gifardle (Wright’s)
brigade against two.dlvlsons of the ene
my, where we lost the gallant Girardie?
The assault and capture of Hares Hill by
that prodigy of valor, John B. Gordon, and
his divison? The long series of combats
on Hatcher’s Run and about Dinwiddle?
The defense of Fort Gregg by a little
remnant of braves, 360 In all, composed
of the horseholders of Cutt’s Georgia
battalion artillery and the Twelfth Missis
sippi Horn brigade, in which they held an
entire Federal division at bay, killing
more than three times their numbers, the
most remarkable exploit, circumstances
considered, of aqcient or modern history.
When the end came at Appomattox Grant
who was both a man of head and heart,
accorded them terms which to my knowl
edge axe unexcelled by any ever offered
a defeated foe. Homeward tolled these
war-worn heroes to begin life anew, for
with the most of them they could say with
Francis the First of Padua: “All is lost
save honor.” As to the political devilment
which succeeded that of a military char
acter whose ending I have just noted, it
is needless to speak here. Suffice it, the
Confederate soldier who did his duty to
the south in her extremity when living
is still In the line of duty; few have wan
dered or been tempted from the paths of
rectitude, but with his face set to the
rising sun, his soul serene with the knowl
edge of duty ( done, he calmly waits the
last "tattoo” which blds him cease from
earthly toil and with the multitudes which
have gone before to find rest and reward
In the great bivouac beyond Theirs will
be a glorious memory.
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Z POEM BY LIEUT. S. D. HARRIS
WRITTEN-WHILE IN PRISON
I hope some of mj’ old comrades In arms
may be able to recall a poem written by
Lieutenant S. D. Harris, Company I,
Fourth Florida regiment. The poem was
printed several times during and after the
war and was written while the author lay
In prison in Nashville, Tenn. He was
killed in 1864. Colonel Ives, of Florida, in
a letter published some time ago in The
Journal, mentioned having seen it printed
in The Sunny South several years ago. I
do not know the title of the poem.
Anyone who can throw any light on the
subject will please communicate with A.
G. Harris, postmaster Flippen, Ga.
HE SNUBBED THE KING.
The Duke of Richmond, Who Holds
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and holder of four distinct dukedoms, not
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titles. He is one of the few men who
ever snubbed the present King of Eng
land. .
This well-preserved personage is one of
the most Interesting personalities in Eu
rope. The English "man in the street”
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wood, to the name of which the brilliance
of the races held there annually has added
the adjective ’’glorious,” but' he is most
interesting to Americans as one of the
last of the old English nobility, a stickler
for the maintenance of class distinctions,
clinging steadfastly to the creed that rank
imposes its obligations, and with no us 6
for the gambling, betting, slangy type
of British nobleman with whom the Unit
i ed States has had some slight acquaint
ance. He was brought up as a courier,
began his life as a member of the Duke
of Wellington s staff, and later on was
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land; one of his ducal ancestors fought at
Culloden, and his grandmother was the
Duchess of Richmond, who gave the
famous ball on the eve of the battle of
Waterloo, at which the duke’s aunt,
Lady Louisa Tighe, was present.
The first Duke of Richmond was the son
of King Charles and Louise de Kerouallle.
the Frenchwoman who was Nell Gwyn’s
bitter rival, and whom the king made
Duchess of Portsmouth. Louis XIV»,
who sent her over for the express purpose
of winning his brother monarch, made
her Duchess d’Aublgny in the French
peerage. The royal blood of the Jameses
was brought Into the Richmond family
by the marriage of the fourth duke of
that name with Lady Charlotte Gordon,
the giver of Waterloo ball, for she was (
one of the four daughters of James Max
well, the beautiful wife*of the Duke of
Gordon, who traced his descent direct
from the assassinated Scotch king.
The ducheqs was the worthy child of
her clever mdther, who succeeded in mar
rylng three of her daughters to I
those of Bedford, Manchester and Rich- i
mond. When Lady Charlotte married the |
fourth duke of Richmond, then plain Lieu
tenant Colonel Charles Lennox, she did so
secretly, for Colonel Lennox was then un
der a cloud through having come within
an ace of killing the duke of York in a duel
on Wimbledon Common. The duchess was
a merry soul, and there w T ere rare pranks
at her great house in Pall Mall, in which
the most famous men in the land felt
themselves not too dignified to take part.
William Pitt, the prime minister, was no
exception to this rule. One of the duch
ess’s footmen, who, after retiring* from
••service," was so indiscreet as to write a
book, related therein how Pitt, who was
a frequent visitor to the duchess, once
made him bring up the stairs and an
nounce in the drawing room a Shetland
pony. After parading the animal around
the room, to the great glee of all the titled
folk, including the duchess, the prime
minister finished his joke by tying his
handkerchief to the bridle and leading
him down stairs with his own hand.
The present duke has been a widower
for years. His only daughter. Lady Caro
line, however, is his constant companion.'
His heir, Lord March, is a colonel in the
British army, and all of the latter’s three
sons, now men grown, have been fighting
with the forces in South Africa. One of
them has three children, making the duke
a great-grandfather.
The duke will be the oldest one of his
rank at the coming coronation, to which
he is looking forward eagerly, and in
which he Intends to play the active part
to which his rank entitles him. Next to
him in point of age will come the Duke
of Rutland, who is ten months younger
than his Grace of Richmond, while the
youngest wearer of the strawberry leaves
will be the little Duke of Leinster, who is
just 15.
The King, when Prince of Wales, used
to like to be invited to the Duke of Rich
mond’s home for the Goodwood races, but
on one memorable occasion the invitation
was not forthcoming. The story goes
that among the list of desirable guests
sent as usual by the prince to his pro
spective host was the name of a lovely
woman who had the reputation of being
rather frisky. The duke said he wouldn’t
have her in the house. The prince is
said to have declared he wouldn’t come
unless she was Invited. Whereupon the
duke said the prince might stay away
and welcome There was hard feeling be
tween them for several years, but peace
has been restored now.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
Ite Kind Yon Hate Always Bough!
Bearc the
Signaturo of
A CHILD’S REMORSE.
Youngster Added Six Cents to Uncle
Sam’s Conscience Fund.
Ainslie's Magazine.
"Sometimes the remorse of those who
have cheated the United States is in in
verse ratio to the sum of the fraud. Pres
ident Cleveland once received a letter
from a child that must have moVed him
deeply, for, doubtless, it was laid before
him as a curiosity.
" ‘Dear President,' it ran, ‘I am in a
dreadful state of mind, and I thought I
would write and tell you all. About two
years ago—as near as I can recollect, it
was two years ago—l used two postage
stamps that had been used on letters be
fore—perhaps more than two stamps, but
I can only remember doing It twice. I
did not realize what I had done until
lately. My mind is constantly turned on
that subject, and I think of it day and
night. Now. deir. .president, will you
please forgive me, and I promise you I
will never do it again. Enclosed find cost
of three stamps, and please forgive me,
for I was then but 13 years old and am
heartily sorry for what I have done.’
"The treasury department does r.at
know whether this letter was written by
a boy or girl, but the Internal evidence of
expression assures us It was a girl. Imag
ine a boy being ‘in a dreadful state of
mind’ about fooling Uncle Sam with a
couple of canceled stamps. The urchin
might regret he had wronged his country
and make amend, but the crime would not
oppress his mind and rack his conscience
with intolerable torments. Surely the
culprit was a girl. How she must have
tossed on her bed in the blackness of the
long, silent nights and gone about her
daylight tasks with the feeling of a moral
leper! Big. strong men at the same time
were acting on the Haytian principle that
it is not a crime to rob the government.
This the president knew, and that is why
he had a lump in his throat when he read
the confession of the little girl. It is the
most pathetic of all the letters on file in
the treasury department that have ac
companied contributions to the conscience
fund.”
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••• JOURNAL.
Rev. G. Campbell Morgan Is the famous (
English divine, formerly of London, who
has recently succeeded the late Dwight L w
Moody in his great work at Northfield,
Mass. Dr. Morgan is one of the best
known authorities on the Bible in the
country and his sermons and expositions
on the scriptures have a world-wide rep
utation. For several days he was
one of the principal speakers at
the Tabernacle Bible conference
In Atlanta, and thousands of persons have
listened to his able discourse. The fol
lowing synopsis of a sermon on the sub
ject of "Sanctification” was prepared ex
pressly for The Journal:
Sanctification is a great word often mis
understood and misinterpreted. What Is
the essential meaning? It means sim
ply separation. A sanctified person Is a
separated person. To think a man Is Jto
give up the ordinary vocations of life in
order to be sanctified is an utterly false
conception of what a saint is and what
the Bible teaches concerning sanctifica
tion The Roman Catholic idea of a saint
is false. But you say lam fighting
a dead thing. No. I am only making a
post-mortem examination. Have you not
heard men say, “Oh. yes. but you know I
can’t be a saint?” People still have the
idea of saintship and sanctification that
is utterly foreign to the New Testament.
I want to see what the New Testament
says about It. Sanctification is dealt with
In two aspects.
First, there is the sanctification that
comes to the believer in regeneration:
second, there \ is also the sancti
fication of experience. How far are these
true? That depends upon you. I hold
that in the purpose of God they are not
apart at all. In the past experience of
God s psople they are separate. Many a
man who is a saint has not entered into
the personal experience of sanctification.
We must be careful to distinguish and
see the difference. First, sanctification in
regeneration; seconu, sanctification In ex
perience.
Is there such a thing as sanctification
tn regeneration? 1 Cor. 1:2. Were th e Y
living in the experience of it? 1 Cor.
3. This is the same letter upon the same
subject for the same purpose. "I. breth
ren, could not speak unto you as spiritual,
but as unto carnal, as unto babes
in Christ.” " T am determine- to know
nothing save Jesus and Him crucified."
Men quote it as if it was all that we had
to preach It is because they are dead.
I will that ye rise again. The apostle
says to them in the same letter. "You
are sanctified.” This is a very strange
thought you have to face.- There is a
sanctification in regeneration, and yet
there is an experience of sanctification
into which a man may have not entered,
ihough he be bom again. I do not hold
that Scripture teaches that, regeneration
is the "First Blessing,” and sanctifica
tion, ‘"The Second.” I am quite sure it
is the average experience of the saint.
I want you to see that sanctification is
a dynamic and sanctification is yours in
Christ now. if you are born again. Let’s
see what sanctification is. Let us make
three statements:
1. God’s property.
2. God’s dwelling place.
3. God’s workmanship.
The difference between the regenerate
and unregenerate man is the difference
of sanctification. The regenerate man is
the property of Gpd. The unregenerate
man is the temple in ruins, created by
God. Never forget that. Every power of
your being is God created. Unregenerate
man, that temple of yours is a temple
in ruins with the Deity excluded. The
regenerate man is a temple of glory with
the Deity dwelling in man. Sbme think
you can’t live a naan into, the experience
of sanctification. God’s property. Do you
bellve that? Satan has mastered us: sin
has mastered us;- but now, now, we have
one owner, one Lord, one master, and
belong to God. ’ Do you know the differ
ence between the seeular and saintly? It
is the same difference as between the
Waldorf-Astoria in New York and the
White House.- The Waldorf-Astoria
is open to be hired, fqr. gny purpose.. Any
body can hire it if you can pay the price.
You can t hire the White Hbuse. The mit
llohalres can’t' hire jt. Thank God that
is something they can't do. It stands
as the dwelling place of the executive
head of this nation -'
That is the exact difference between
the sinner and- the saint. Anything can
hire you that pays enough. Lust, drink
and cards, these can hire you. Saint of
God, nothing should hire you. You belong
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sText —2 Thessalonians; 1 Peter 1:1
X Synopsis of Sermon By
REV. G. CAMPBELL MORGAN, •:
Os Northfield, Mass. :•
to the King. Oh, the solemnity and aw
fulness of it. Some of the saints are al- '
lowing themselves to be hired, and that
which is bought with, blood is being pros
tituted. That Is the canker-worm that
prevents the revival. The message is
not about methods. It is about men. We
are facing the millennial fact of salntship.
We have trespassed upon the second fact.
The saint is a saint, because he is the dwell
ing place of God. "Know ye not that you
are not your own? You are bought with a
price.” "Your body is the temple of the
Holy Ghost.” Have you ever thought of,
the Divine dwelling place. Take your Bi
ble and go through.
“Bethel, house of God and heaven. The
splendid ritual of sanctuary, law. You 1
then find yourself at last in that room, j
where is the ark, and cherublms and the
light? It is all swept away. Where does
he dwell now? In His saints. Dwelling !
in His saints in order that he may oxhtb- ;
it His excellencies. You are the temple
of man. that is your saintship. Not be
cause you belong to Him, but because He
is in you. "Ye are the temple.”
Not that I am His property, not that I
am His dwelling place, but that I am His
workmanship. He is working in me to
ward finality. "Ye are created to good
works.” As God rested in Christ, He will
rest in us. We are not in trust. We are
in power. We are his dwelling place. We
are His workmanship. You are not made
God’s dwelling place by seeking the Holy
Ghost. You are not made. You are all.
that by the new birth. "You are sancti
fied in Christ Jesus." We are called
saints. But you say there Is something
more. Yes. there is something more in
the experience of man.
The experience of saints. How many
there are the property of God. using his
property for a wrong purpose. His work- .
manship is perfect. His dwelling place,
and yet we have Imprisoned God in his
own temple. Have you ever read how long
It took to cleanse the temple? We are his
temple, but shut him up In some small
part of our being. He has never been
known to fall. We cannot fall, because
we have claimed the Holy Spirit, because
“we are sealed until the day of redemp
tion.”
There is an experience into which you
may enter now, though you have never
done it before. There is 'a sanctification I
that is perfect. There is a sanctification
that will only be perfect, when I see him
as he Is, I believe that in. the purpose of
God the experience of sanctification as a
fact of life should be coincident with re
generation. The time is when are you •
ready to obey? The human side is dedi
cation. The divine side consecration.
You dedicate and God consecrates. It is
confidence in him that he will realize his.
purpose when I am yielded to him. The
Spirit' comes to cleanse, comes to empow
er comes to illuminate. We are' called
saints in Christ; shall we not become
saints In experience?
Let the saint who has never experienced
the rest of sanctification here and now ■
dedicate his whole being to God. who will
take and consecrate him, giving baqk a
blessed experience.
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Senator Frye Causes a Laugh.
Washington Times.
President Pro Tem. Frye, of the senate
made a slip yesterday that caused a smile on
the face of every senator on the floor at tha
time. He had left the chair temporarily to
make his speech on the ship subsidy bill ana
had been talking for some time when Mr. Clay,
bf Georgia, arose to make a motion.
"Mr. President.” Mr. Clay said.
"The senator from Georgia,' Mr. Frys an
swered quickly. ,
He stopped a moment while the general
smile appeared.
“I beg pardon.” he said. Then, turning to
Mr. Perkins, who was temporarily occupying
the chair: ”1 had forgotten that I waa not
in "the chair.” .
Mr. Clay went on with his motion.
The use of oil as fuel may become gen
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fuel oil on a Mississippi steamboat demon
strated th£t thirty-five barrels of oil is
equal to fifteen tons of coal. In New Or
leans a ton of coal is worth eight times
as much as a barrel of pll.