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VOL, XIX. OTfV COT TO Hr WiLLIS IF. PRICE, COTTOI FAC MACON, G-A. S3 m ri © xsi © (ft- 5*4- m g"4. 0 b ©. 5*4 e*' s ■ , © - % & © ,P - C3. m ■<& O' H o • © . 2- © m © m xn • a © t: p © b e4- 0 1 •h-i ■:SS: £ 53 S3 n •H- ■ PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1889. • -vo 'HpavH nojuOYA MOii( -use 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 ■ ■ Hi together. W eeonfronted the same .-'-A’;*/’---'.-- Yy.. : eneni * another v-L .. 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. » ...^ •: *•:.' f? 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. 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