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devoted to home interests PROGRESS AND CULTURE, PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1902, SURRENDER OP GEN. R. E. LEE hollow square arouud Gen. John B. Gordon, whom Gen. Lee had select ed to deliver the farewell address to his army. The speech stressed three things: The valor of the army, the reasons for the surrender, and an exhortation to return to our homes and make good oitizens. We were astonished beyond measure when Gen. Gordon, in giving the reasons for the surrender, said that we only had eleven thousand stands of small arms, less than fifteen hundred cav alry, and less than one hundred pieces of artillery. Of course it was useless to keep up the struggle long er. Next day we received our pa roles, and Gen. Grant sent an army of wagons over with rations for us, allowed the officers to retain their swords and side arms, and allowed us to return to our homes and en gage in pursuits pertaning to peace. We had many experiences on the march home—two notable ones. At a small place above Knoxville, Tenn., when we marched in the train had just arrived from Nashville draped in mourning on account of Presi dent Lincoln’s assassination. So ex asperated were the Federal troops that wo~ feared they would do us 1 ' harm. • At Knoxville a regiment negroes w-ere quartered in the rail-1 road round house and as we maroh-j ed by they cursed us and abused ub terribly. Of course we had to take it. Our mess had a frying pan, and at Knoxville a Yankee offered ub Written for the Hqme Journal. The coming .of Gen. Gordon to Perry to delher his grand lecture, “The Last Days of the Codfederaoy,” brings up vividly to my mind the surrender of Gen. Lee’B army. Our lines around Richmond and Petersburg were broken on the morning of the 2nd of April, 1865, and we had been on the run for six days trying to put as much clear road as possible between us and Gen. Grant’s army. On the sixth night we were late getting into camps. We knew that the enemy were trying to head us off, but we did not dream that next day would put an end to the army of Gen. Lee. We were within about three miles of Appomattox Court House. Nezt morning we were ordered to cook three days’ rations, anji we had just got the biscuit on when the bugle blowed the assembly. We took up the cooked biscuit, put them in our haversacks and moved out on the road towards Appomattox We had heard heavy firing in our front, and soon learned that Gen. Grant had cut us off, and we natu rally expected a desperate battle. We learned that Gen. Gordon, with his corps, had engaged the enemy, and expected our corps (A. P. Hill’s) would come next. When we .arrived in sight of the enemy the firing had ceased, and wp formed a line of bat tle on a hill some three-fourths of a mile from the enemy’s line. Just as wo filed off to the right to take po sition we saw Gen. Gordon’s men falling back, and two of them came running excitedly up to the head of our column and said, “Gen. Lee has surrendered.” We had lost all our field officers when our lines were broken below Petersburg, and the senior captain of the survivors was in command. Ho ordered these two men put under guard, saying: “They shan’t come around here demoraliz ing men.” We formed line facing the enemy. Our artillery was com ing in behind. We could see their batteries taking position and expect ed every moment for them to open on us. Then their line moved to ward us, passing their field guns and moving down the slope of the hill right in our front. Neither side had put out skirmishers. Our own batteries had not unlimbered; theirs had not opened on us. We had no orders, to lay down nor to fire |on the advancing enemy, and standing there bewildered at the strangeness of conditions, at last we did receive a command, but not to fix bayonets and move forward, but a strange command, one we had never heard except in practice, “Ground arms.” How our hearts sank within us. What terrible thoughts we had of Federal prisons and ill treatment. We looked over on th9 other hill and those who were our foes a few moments ago had stacked their arms and were advancing on us with the olive branch of peace. Soon our camp was full of Yan kees in full uniform, and such trad ing I have never seen before nor since. A plug of tobacco would buy almost anything a Yankee had. Those of us who had valuables hid them, thinking they would be taken away from us. We had one lone sil ver coin and we put it in our coat collar. But our fears were ground less. We were treated nicely by all, from Gen, Grant (who told Gen. Lee, when he offered him his sword, “Put your sword back in its sheath and keep it”) down to the humblest private. It was not a great while before it was announced that Gen. Lee was returning from Gen. Grant’s head quarters. It seemed that 6very one of the twelve or fifteen thousand men composing the remnant of Lee’s army lined the road for half a mile, and as cheer after cheer rent the air, the old hero would raise his hat and bow his head. I saw more men weeping that day than I ever saw in my life, especially that even ing as we stood in ranks forming a My patrons Houston County are my references Ship me your Cotton. jINGHAM, Cotton Factor. Macon, O-oor^ia,. Personal Application, W. A. DAVIS GEO. H. LOWE, A truth is of no value unless per sonally applied and made a motive for action. The people read, and hear, and talk, and write of educa tion; the truths and ideas about bet* ter schools are cried aloud every where; the duty of each citizen to promote the educational interests of his children and his community is emphasized in the press and on the platform; the thousands listen, agree, applaud—but only the dozen act. Why not the thousands? Public ed ucation is no less dependent upon the individual because it is public, and the individual’s duty cannot be shirked on the principle that, every body’s business is nobody’s business, A community holds each man re sponsible for the payment of his taxes; so should each man bo held responsible for his personal efforts toward the betterment of public ed ucation. To his own children, to his neighbor’s children, to society as a whole he is accountable, and a neg lect of this duty is a parental and social breach of trust which no in difference of the community should allow to go unrecognized.—South ern Education Board, W. A. DAVIS & CO GOTTCN FACTORS 405-407 Poplar St MACONT, GEOKGIA BEST SALESMEN' IN THE CITY They are active, accommodating' and courteous. Send them your cotton; they are honest in tlnir dealings and wise in their judgement. 1 • “W., CO., ■ MACON, GEORGIA. the train at that place for home anc would not need itjauy more) and ‘ would not need ltjauy more) and m vest the money in bread and crack ers. We sent a man up in town t( invest it, and we were greatly as tonished to see him come back witl. a greajfcjarmful of bread and crack • took the cars for ers. We soon home, worn out in body and clothei. A large crowd met us at the train-- motbera, fathers, sisters, brothers, cousins, neighbors and sweetheartn. The seats of most of us were badlp out of repair and we were badly in need of frocktail coats, but we had nothing but jackets and blankets, and before we left the trail? we ad justed our blankets in frock-tail fashion, And could with grace and ease Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Dixon, of Pine Brook, N. J., celebrated their golden wedding a few days ago in the house they have lived in contin uously since they became husband and wife. They were married in the town of Caldwell, N. J., in the room in which Grover Cleveland was born. A pleasant feature in connec tion with the golden wedding was the statement that during the fifty years they have lived together nei ther has ever spoken an unkind word to the other. Bow around and scrape as we pleased. J. D. Martin, j Wit of the Blind, Father Joseph Stadelman of the Jesuit foundation of St. Francis Xa vier devotes himself to work among the blind and the deaf and dumb, says* the Minneapolis Journal. He says that, contrary to the general impression, the blind are peculiarly happy and fond of jokes. Illustrative of this, not long since a blind acquaintance of his, whose remaining senses, like those of all blind, are exceptionally keen, was in a room where were some lady visit ors. Finally, one of the ladies left. “What remarkably white and per fect teeth that lady has,” laughing ly remarked the blind man. “Why, how do you know?” asked Father Stadelman. “Because for the last half hour she has done nothing but laugh.” *-*-4 Asleep Amid Flames. Breaking into a blazing hoipe, some firemen lately dragged the sleeping inmates from death. Fan cied security and death near. It’s that way when you neglect coughs and colds. Don’t do it. Dr. King’s New Discovery for Con sumption gives perfect protection against all throat, chest and lung troubles. Keep it near and avoid There are more men in the pres ent House of Representatives who give 'farming as their occupation than any other vocation. Accord ing to the statistics gathered by Messenger Penn, there are sixty members who are farmers, fifty- three lawyers, twenty merchants, fifteen doctors and ten editors. The remainder of the total membership is divided between capitalists and, mechanics.—Cedartown Standard. Luck iu Thirteen. By sending IB miles Wm. Spi- rey, of Walton Furnace, Vt., got a box of Bucklen’s Arnica Salve that wholly cured a horrible Fe ver Sore on his leg. Positively cures bruises, felons, ulcers, erup tions, boils, burns, corns and piles. Guaranteed. Only 25c at Holtz- claw’s Drugstore. . . It is said that hundreds of horses and thousands of cattle in the mountains, of the Hawaiian Islands never take a drink of water. A joint grass known as manino is food and drink to them. TflllQi VOlf ^ithiei need m Stove or a Katige? If rfli w so, I can fill your order and guaran tee to do it satisfac'torily. I. carry a complete line of National Steel Rao^si Excelsior Stoves and Ranges, New Enterprise Stoves, i inch oven with full"l| 1X1 d/ Oil Udii W V pm ^ 1 i 3 t of furniture, $8.50. J My fall "stock of Crockery aiid Housefnrnisi,ingA is eYerj moie complete than it has been heretofore. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Tbiasuuj.ak Bi.ock @ MACON, GEORG