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PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1889.
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ADDRESS
OF MB. J^IES K. BrCE
Before the Survivors’ Association
of the 1st jjjjesS Ga, Yols., at
Perry, Ga., Aug. 7,1SS9.
Comrades: I think I am the
happiest man in the. First Ga.
Regiment. The place, the occa
sion, and the. people fill me with
>‘gladness and enthusiasm. ’ I know
whom I am called to represent and
whom I address. The host and
the guests are worthy of each oth
er, and it is therefore a most pleas
ing duty to welcome Confederate
veterans to the hospitality of this
good people.” And yet I am sen
sible of some embarrassment in
that my feelings cannot find' ade
quate expression. In some cir
cumstances of life all men have
this experience. An artist of rare
genius whgse. name I have forgot
ten, but whose work I remember,
being painfully conscious that, his
thoughts were “more than words
could wield the matter” determined
that his work should be wrought
in stone. His work stands in Cen
tral Park, New York—a group of
statuary, representing a chance
meeting or two wayworn Scotch
men; In boyhood and youth they
were Mends. In manhood they
were separated widely in the
world, and they were buffeted.
Now, unexpectedly, they meet
again, and with a bounding im
pulse of joy, one exclaims:
‘And here’s a hand, mv trusty friend,
And gie us a hand o’ thine, .
And we’ll drink a right good williwaugh
To ahkl lang syne.”
It is said that in some men there
is„a mysterious qual ity that is call
ed magnetism, and the.power of it'
is marvelous. It would scarcely
be extravagant to say that these
stone figures are endowed with this
wonderful attribute. The expres
sion on each face is a volume of
biography which unlettered men
may read. No matter about the,
mother tongue—it reads the same
in all languages. Thousands’ have'
read it, and have learned the signi
ficance of a meeting— a meeting
that awakes all the blest recollec
tions of life, all the sweet loves of
the heart.' If the meeting of these
good friends was so significant as
to require a genius for interpreter,'
what shall be said of' a meeting
like this? What are the influences
that bring us together? Why do
they hot operate alike on all men?
Let us study them somewhat. A
little more than twenty-eight years
ago the situation of affairs in Geor
gia was extraordinary. Indeed,
for a reason which we remember
well, the whole south was ablaze
with enthusiasm, and this enthu
siasm wa£ as sincerely patriotic as
the best sentiment of colonial
times. Startling events had al
ready transpired, and others would
rapidly follow. The time of their
coming and their importance were
matters of conjecture. In the
niidst of this almost chaotic uncer
tainty there seemed to be a dis
tinet probability of war. The mar
tial spirit of the people was thor
oughly aroused, and the first call
to arms was eagerly coveted by
every military organization in the
state. Tins honor was conferred
Upon the ten companies of the
First Ga. Regiment. Early in
April, 1861, their organization was
perfected. We were very proud
of our distinction, and intended to
be worthy of it; • The .patriotic
men and women who bade us God
speed—the radiant Georgia girls
whose smiles were /oil of inspira
tion, and the heroic boys who de
plored their minority, should nev
er be ashamed of us. We were
actuated by the same high pur
poses, the same, patriotic desires
and aspirations and hopes. We
were subject to the Same. discjfe:
pline, exposed to the same danger,
paa=
eoa»~
pete with any city.
Call and leek
at om* sample-sand get our* prices ,
and you will leave your orders.
NO; 32.
Cut.tlie Garment to tiie Measure,
Why Do they not Go North?
m ost sumptuous buttermilk colla
tion .of modern times. The man
who drank more was really no
•fuller than, the man who drank
1 ess. It was a matter of tonnage.
Gut of these and innumerable oth
er circumstances were evolved the
influences that bring us together;
Men who have- the same experience
•in life, and especially ib: .tumultu
ous times, become a close brother
hood,, the philosophy, of whose fel
lowship is too subtle for analysis.
When the term of our service ex
pired the regiment was disbanded,
but we know to-night that the
brotherhood was not dissolved.
Three other years of eventful life
in the field did not obliterate the
impressions of the first. When
discouragements began to multiply
these impressions were forgotten
for a time. The Confederacy was
tpttering,..and our minds were fill
ed with forebodings. In the ap
palling final catastrophe our hopes
perished, but our memories re
mained. When the sup goes down
the lesser lights are glorious,
There is no cower in man to de
stroy the cherished memories of
life. We did hot know how dear
these memories were until we met
at New Holland Springs six years
ago. The experience of that first
re-union cannot be forgotten. I
am sorry that words cannot com
municate it to our friends. Rut
when strong men shed tears that
have no bitterness,. they are on
the “Delectable Mountains” of
sentiment, and dwellers in the val
ley cannot know the exquisite ten
derness of their emotions. Re
turning afterwards to the quiet
plains of life, it seemed to us that
here could not be another sach
day. Some truth was manifested
which pe$8s no f urther confirma
tion. Th ere had been twenty years
of.life under a new order of things.
Policy, expedienay, concession,
and the like had already been dis
cussed. Some had learned to be
lieve in the .universal efficacy of
pretense. Some had made discov
ery of a “New South.” They were
prospecting at the time for some
thing of advantage to themselves
and found q^state of affairs. There
upon with appropriate ceremony
they baptized the foundling with
gush.. This bantling should be
named the Utopian State of Eureka,
The extent of such defection we did
not know. We found abundant
assurance at’ New Holland Springs
that there'are many men who ac
cept the situation, obey the laws,
support the government, promote
universal ami£y and -fet' 'retain
their manhood^ Ajar brotherhood
grew stronger on that day. And
now let us continue in this, good
way, respecting ourselves and
deserving the respect -of all men;
Let hs adhere .to the principles
and sentiments which were never
betrayed or ’renounced by our
comrades who sleep. Then will
their spirits and ours have unbro
ken fellowship in two worlds.
Let us honor the . devotion and
constancy of the women of the
south. As long as they shall erect
monuments, and as long as they
shall spread memorial flowers on
mounds of clay, where sleep the
the dead who ^wore the gray, let
us implicitly believe that wbatso
ever they devoutly commemorate
is worthy of them and us. And.
when, on the ebb-tide of life we
shall be borne to the realms of
mystery and shade, lepus’go with
pure consciences. -. //
And when the archangel shall
sound reveille on resurrection
morn, let us inaugurate the final
re-union with a gl§d, shout—hail,
comrades! All hail!
HoIloo
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together. W eeonfronted the same
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He Saw the Corpse Move~
New York Herald.
“Grimly ludicrous events hap
pen occasion ally, even in such a
grave business, as that of burying
the dead,” said a Third avenue
undertaker with whom I was talk
ing the other day. “One of the
most amusing cases in my. expe
rience happened the other day,and
resulted in actually scaring, out of
the business a boy whom I had
taken as an apprentice.”
“Beginners are frequently re
quired to act as watchers during
the. night. One night last week I
sent my apprentice, a bright, , ac
tive lad, who seemed eager to learn,
to sit up all night in a death cham
ber at a Fifth avenue residence.
The body was supplied with what
we call a corpse preserver. This
is a hollow zinc case, fitting dose
over the chest and abdomen of the
dead person.. The body is put on
a cooling-board, and the preserver,
filled with ice, is placed upon it.
The supply of ice is renewed from
time ,to time by the watcher, and
as the ice melts the water runs off
through a rubber tube into a pail
on the floor. .The Body in the
Fifth avenue residence was sup
plied with a preserver of this kind.
“Several times before the boy
had sat up with corpses. kept in
exactly-the same way, had lieplen-
isbed the supply of ice id the pre
server properly, and seemed to
have no tiniidity about the work.
There was no intimation that he
was hot fulfilling his duty, in the.
usual matter of fact way on this
particular night until about. 2
m. -
“Then the whole house was
awakened by a series of yells from
the death chamber. A second la
ter the boy-rushed from the room,,
down the stairs and out of the
house without shopping to get his
hat. He was not seen. again that
night. As he did not appear at
my place the next day, I hunted
him np, and after much persuasion
got him to. tell me the story of his
experience in the death cham
ber. ~
He had been frightened nearly
out of his wits, and even when
talking to me was still suffering
from the experience "that he
could hardly state the facts con
nectedly. He said that he had
fallen asleep for a - few minutes,
and just as he woke lie heard a
gargling souhd, for all the world
like a person'struggling for breath.
There was no living-thihg in the
room with him, and still probably
half asleep as lie strained his eyes
toward the stretcher,, he declared
solemnly to me, and stuck to the
statement doggedly, that he dis
tinctly saw the corpse move. Just
at that moment he heard the grue
some gilrgle again from the direc
tion of the stretcuer, and—that
settled it! He yMied and rushed
from the house.
“The whole thing is easy of ex
planation, even if all the boy said
is true, The noise was made by
the water from the ice rushing
through the rubber discharge tube.
I have frequently heard it make,
such a gurgling sound. As fd the
movement of the corps el that was
.probably, the work of the Boy’s im
agination, though the relaxation of
muscle some hour's after death
cauld easily have, produced such a
movement. Anyhow,. the boy was.
badly scared, and notwithstanding
my explanations* of what had
caused his fright, he decided to re
tire perm an ently from the- under
taking business.”
All the great franscontinenjral
Forsyth Advertiser.
.Of late.years there seems to be
a predisposition in parents, as Well
as in their sons, to cut the boys
garment larger than his measure.
This is noticeable in parents when
planning for their boys ip setting
the mark too high; • in placing it
beyond the boy’s reach. 'It is no
ticeable in’boys by their maturing
aspirations that look far above
their natural fitness. This neces
sarily results in a terrible mixing
of things by getting men into
wrong positions, in-life; positions
to which they are entirely unsuit
ed, and for which they are utterly,
by nature, unfitted. The very prev
alent idea that, because the father
is a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, a
preacher, a machinist, a mechanic,
or a farmer, the son must be the
same, is a mistaken idea ‘Again,
because my neighbor’s son is mak
ing a success in a certain avocation,
my son must enter upon that
same avocation is also a mistake.
From this very source has result
ed untold failures in all the - pro
fessions and avocations. Indeed
there-are men in ell the profes
sions, and in what are usually de
nominated the higher callings,
who have neither talent or love for
the avocation in which, they are en
gaged, who have not cut their life
garment to their measure, and who,
by reason thereof, can but fail of
success. We do not say it to the
disparagement of any, but. there
are numbers of professional men
throughout this land who are far
better 'suited to mechanical and
agricultural pursuits,*- and who
would be of much .more worth to
themselves and to the world'in
those positions. And. much of this,
if .not well nigh all, has grown out
of the parent’s misconception of
the boy’s capacity and fitness and
the boy’s strained aspirations coup
led with a false pride. • .
Shese are plain statements, but
we measure our words,-and we
make'’ them because we believe
them to be solid facts. Hence our
advice to every young man and
boy, when mapping oat a life pro
gramme, is to cut the garment to
fit his measure, .and-n.ot to'.cut-it’by
the measure of another.
The first baby horn in Oklahoma
City, a wee girl, was ham?d Okla
homa by the highest bidder.. . a,t an
auction for the privilege of nam
ing the first baby born in the new
'territory. The auctioneer was . a
'gambler, and -the' bids Were offered'
by a company of boomers, cOw-
boys and land speculators. $58
was paid to secure to the baby her
remarkable name, and tlie money
was at once handed oyer to her
poverty-stricken parents, who re
ceived it with tears of gratitude.
The frail little visitor had already
proved to be their mascotta
Macau Telegraph. » ...^ •:
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Tt is said that the name-3 of
78,000 negroes in North Garolina
: Have. been: taken who wish to emi
grate ;to the southwest—to Louis
iana, Arkansas and Texas- This
statement is jmadq} by the New
York Mail and- Express, which has
hysterics every day about the
gross wrongs done the black peo T
pie. of the. three last states named,
by their white fellow citizens.
Still it does not warn^tije devoted
78,000 of the miseries; into which
they are about to ’plunge therm-
selves, non invite them,.if they ace
determined to leave North Caroli-
na, co come to the rich, and peace*
fal north,, where, they could be
happy in the enjoyment of all their
civil and political rights, and make
themselves very useful to the 1 re r
publican party in the close states.
There is every reason why .thd
Mail and Express should extend
the invitation, if it believes what it
so frequently says of the south and
the negro, but even if it were ex-i
tended there is no probability tha^
it would be accepted. The drift
of negro . emigration is into the
very,southern states which the.
Mail and Express and other ultra
partisan papers select,as those in
which southern whites most sys-s
fematieally and ferociously oppress
the negroes.. -“The Mail alid Ex
press may be ajble to . explain why
this is true. Is it possible that
the negro grew so in love with the
Conditions of slavery that he in-i
stinctitely seeks the regions -in
which- they are most nearly re
peated? This does not seem rea-»
sonable. Is it not much more
probable that, he goes to Louisian^
and'Arkansas because he knows-
that the tales, of barbarous oppress
sion told by ; the. republican papers
are intended strictly for campaign
purposes, and have in them noth*
ing of - truth ? The people least
terrified by the - alleged soqtherrt
atrocities are those who • are said
to be their victims. Instead, ofc
leaving the regions where these
atrocities aresaid to be most prac
ticed, they crowd Into them. The.
Meil and Express should think o£
these things before entering into,
another bloody shirt campaign in
the name of the Lord and the re
publican party.
Slowly the. falls pf the great Ni
agara, liver aie,.cliangir.g in shape,
through the eating away of the
shale rock which' underlies the
harS'rock that forms the bed of
the rapids. If it almost a misno- *
mer now to speak of the Oanadiap.
portion of the great cataract as the.
“Horseshoe Falls,” and within a
week this designation has become
more than ever- .misplaced in con
sequence of tlie fall of a large
section of the bed rock in the. very,
e.snier of the falls. So much rook
fell..that an eddy below the falls on.
the Canadian side of the river iias
been narrowed more than half, and
the little steamer Maid of the
'Mist hasies3 difficulty than before
in running into the • curve of the
falls.
, ThereArere a number of burgla
ries at Tulare City, Cal., and Tom.
forest leaves,
to wood fibre, it- Will be a great
The suggestion that the rain wa
ter in the greasfc west shculd.be
stored; to be used in time of
droughts is steadily gaining favor.'
The government has begun..sur
veys in Idaho for storage reser
voirs with, a complete system of ir
rigation, covering millions of acres
of arid lands* No sooner had the.
engineers started out than they
were followed by surveyors in the[ The next night the
employ of Speculators; Who file on*
lands and water rights along
streams and gulches. Such mo
nopoly by speculators promises to
defeat the plans of the govei
meat.
... 3 Li having of timber, for the pulpers
rsiiwsys Iiefb S6curt3u sp&CBvEt lxig r ■ ,, ■ ■ *?? - . ,
- have been running a close race
Detroit exposition, and will exhib
it the /products of the regions
thfough which" their lines pass,
inrmigra-
with. the. lumbermen i,n deforest
ing the-honest face of this good
earth.
Tin
have found a rival
ial for kerosene
rill
_ ■ . ■ , pi .. jtiy mairnis r.-onia-De lynchers
City while plowing near the spot ; r5 i Gn ted, took i, : _ck to jail
jand 1 in in again. .
1 Q f?n ;
Mas Walton of Mon on galena
° - t vent!v r.nftl;
is now made from
If it proves equal where Cel. Crawford was burne
at the stake by Indians . in.
unearthed a sword; The blade
was rusted away,* but the handle
and guard, being of gold, wer.v
preserved. On the handle is eh-,
graved the name of William Craw
ford.
door of the-
door of the . jail was opened and he,
was.fold to come out, He did so,
and was* confronted -by .twelve
masked men, who took- him, to a
=, put a rope around his neck?
Id 1dm fo pray before he
n he wanted do." Eagan fell-
es ana prayed so rer-
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