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SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER
Facts of Interest to War Veterans and Others.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla.,
Sept. 10.—I see that the Blue and
Brown soldiers in the Third Manassas
Battle are to make believe they are
-wounded, and are to be carefully tak
en off the bloody (?) field and tenderly
nursed in the hospital. I only wish
that plan had been adopted at Black
burn’s Ford and the first Manassas,
in which event I would probably be a
sound and well man to-day. I lay on
the field at Blackburn's Ford, uncared
for, until Col. Burnside and Gov.
Hprague happened to ride along and
discover me. They at once sent for
aa ambulance and had me carried to
camp. Then, on Sunday, at Manassas,
or Bull Run, after my horse was shot
from under me and I was really not
able to walk. I had to "hoof It,” as
the boys said, like the rest of them.
AYe old battle-scarred soldiers don't
"take much stock" in the fancy ma
neuvers of the Blue and the Brown.
There is as much difference between
sham battles and the real fighting us
there is between daylight and dark.
A battle in which "nobody is to be
hurt" smacks too much of the States
boro bloodless campaign. The court
of inquiry ought to have Lieut. Mc-
Intire and the two soldiers court-mar
tialed for trying to hurt some of the
lynchers, or else give them medals of
honor.
The New York World refers to
"Gen. Alden R. Chaffee, commander
in-chief of the I'nited States army."
This is an old "bull" and one that
ought to be laid on the shelf. There
never has in the United States
army any such office as commander
in-chief, or general-in-chief, or com
manding genera!. Congress, in viola
tion of the constitution, once appoint
ed Lieut. Gen. George Washington as
"commander-in-chief" of the armies
for a short time. Virginia, in viola
tion of her constitution, appointed
Maj. Gen. Robert E. Lee as “convman
der-in-chief” of her forces for a very
brief period, and he was also a "gen
eral-in-chief” of the Confederate army.
The titles above named, all of them,
are used, and have been used in the
United States army and were used
and are yet mentioned in connection
with the C. S. A., but none of them
are official, simply used by courtesy.
The President has always had it in
his power to appoint the commanding
officer of the army by and with the
consent of the Senate. Still there has
been no such permanent office.
A cartoon representing Bishop Potter
and the Archbishop of Canterbury
standing at the bar of the Subway sa
loon, is not correct. The Bishop has
his trousers turned up at the bottom—
English you know—while the Archbish
op's trousers are in the American style.
Both are wrong, as the Bishop does
not thus turn up his trousers, and the
Archbishop landed in New York wear
ing neither trousers nor pants, nor
even pantaloons, but knee breeches,
showing a small and crooked pair of
legs. This item is for the benefit of
my highly esteemed old friend, Judge
Norwood. Burton says that when
women usurp the authority of their
husbands, they “wear the breeches,”
or briches. * * * A modern critic
thinks Shakespeare was misquoted in
' a sea of troubles." that it should be
"a seige of troubles,” a mtjre warlike
idea. But if we adopted the latter, as
suggested, what becomes of Shakes
peare’s grammar?" Was he also mis
quoted in "end them.” which should
be "end it,” to conform to "a seige.”
There is a wide difference, grammati
cally. between "a sea of troubles” and
'a seige of troubles." The Russians,
however, have been given both by the
wonderful military and naval skill of
the Japs, who seem determined, “by
opposing,” to end both “it" and "them"
in the speediest manner possible. Rus
sia iron will now be Japanned to or
der.
Maj. A. W. Wills has printed a
sketch of Gen. George H. Thomas, U.
S. A. (familiarly called "Old Pap”
Thomas by his loving soldiers) in
which he says: "A graduate of West
Point and a classmate of Gen. Robert
K. Lee. This is a grave error, as
Gen. Lee graduated No. 2 in the class
of 1829 and Gen. Thomas No. 12 in the
class of 1840. He was a classmate of
Gen. William T. Sherman (N<4 6).
Gen. Stewart Van Vliet and Gen. Geo.
W. Getty, all of the Union
army. But the class was remarkable
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for its Confederate generals—being
Paul O. Hebert (No. 1) and McCown.
R. S. Ewell, Martin. Bushrod R.
Johnson, Maclay and Jordon. Maclay
was from Pennsylvania and Johnson
from Ohio. There were three Con
federate generals with Lee in the class
of 1829 —Joseph E. Johnston. Theophi
lus H. Holmes and Albert G. Blanch
ard of Massachusetts. Many classes
gave some ten or twelve graduates to
the C. S. A., but not all generafs. I
think the class of 1850 was the banner
class, as it put seventeen in the Con
federate service, seven of whom be
came generals. Gen. L. M. Walker
was killed in a duel by Gen. J. S. Mar
maduke and Col. William R. Calhoun
was killed in a duel by Maj. Alfred
Rhett of the same (First South Caro
lina regular) artillery command. Gen.
Mouton and Gen. Winder were killed
in battle.
Florida is interested in the late skir
mish runs at Fort Riley. Kan., as Capt.
W ,H. Hay of the Tenth United States
Cavalry, is a Floridian, graduating
from West Point in 1886 and from In
fantry and Cavalry School in 1891. His
record at Fort Riley was 96 points out
of a possible 100. Capt. Hay has a
brother and two sisters living in Jack
twin ville. Capt. Herbert Deakyue,
United States Corps Engineers, (of
Delaware), another prize winner, now
at Fort Leavenworth. Kan., was re
cently in charge of engineer work at
Tatppa. Fla., and a reader of the Morn
ing News. *** "A Graduate" give3
the American Boy, (September issue)
of Detroit, Mich., an excellent illustrat
ed article on "My Four Years at West
Point.” Every boy who aspires to be
come a cadet in any military school,
high or low, should read what this dis
tinguished West Pointer has to say. He
was an alternate, the regular appoin
tee, having failed to "hold his own.”
and for this reason the advice as to
how to “stick” is worth a great deal
to a boy with military aspirations. * •
* Women colonels on Governors' staffs
in this country are bad enough, and
women honorary colonels of regiments
in Europe are little better; but the
baby boy business “caps the climax."
The son of the late Shah of Persia, who
is a dozen years old. is a full general
in the Persian army, with
a full staff. ‘And now the
infant son of the Czar of Russia, is
given high military titles. It makes a
war veteran sick.
Coi. Ben. F. Hawkes of Washington.
D. C., the bushy-headed "comrade of
Gen. Grant at West Point,” yet who
was in fact no "comrade,” now claims
to be one of the pioneer founders of the
Grand Army of the Republic, and yet
lie lacks considerable of "getting thar.”
It is true that he was one of the early
Ohio men to join the new organization,
and help on the movement, but he was
not a "founder.” simply a "promoter.”
** * Sunday's Atlanta Constitution
contains a picture and sketch of the
old house in Louisville, Ky., in which
Jefferson Davis married "Miss Knox
Taylor." But he was not “at that time
a young soldier," having resigned frpm
the army. Nor did his bride “almost
as soon as she had reached” his home
in Mississippi, “fall ill." Jefferson Da
vis did not elope with Sarah Knox Tay
lfcr. and while Col. Taylor opposed the
match, they were married quietly at
I Col. Taylor's sister's home in Louis-
I ville. This was in June, 1835, and it
I was not until September, while they
| were visiting Mr. Davis' sister, near
| Bayou Sara, In Louisiana, that his
j bride was stricken with malarial, which
| finally caused her death soon after.
Mr. Davis was also quite ill, but re
covered. As this marriage was one of
pure love and devotion, the early death
of Mrs. Davis proved a severe blow to
her husband, who did not marry again
until 1845.
The "Bishop Potter Cocktail," which
has already reached Florida saloons,
reminds me of another bishop and the
famous "Cordial" made by the holy
monks of Saint Bernard. This bishop
invited Pat into his house one day to
take some of the Benedictine in the
diminutive glasses in which it Is serv
ed. Handing Pat the glass the bishop
&aid: “Now, this is a very delicate
and beautiful cordial, and you must
sip it slowly and get the benefit of
its aromatic flavor.” Pat did as he
was told, and when he had emptied
the little glass, the Bishop asked him
how he liked it. “Like it, your rever
ence, its fine; God's blessing on the
holy monks that brewed the punch,
but to hell with the man that made
the glasses.” *• • In the Cosmo-
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polltan Magazine for October, 1900,
nearly four years ago, can be found
a valuable and fully illustrated ar
ticle on "The Organization of the Rus
sian Army,” by then Lieut. Wm. C.
Rivers, now Capt. Rivers of he general
staff, U. S. A. A Tennesseean, a
graduate of West Point, where he was
a most efficient adjutant to Gen. Mills,
he writes on a subject with which
he is perfectly familiar, and this ar
ticle of four years ago should be re
published now that the Japs are giv
ing the Russians an opportunity to
display their skill in retreating. Capt.
Rivers is now on duty at headquar
ters in the Philippines and 'too busy
no doubt to give the public anew
'article on the same subject.
Mr. Wm. P. Lamb of Rochester, N.
Y., who reads my letters weekly,
through the courtesy of Mr. W. F.
Prendergast of Savannah, writes me
as follows* "Your Aug. 21, reference
to Maiine and a presidential election,
quite overpowered me, and I sent it
to an old gentleman friend of mine
of many years standing, and his reply
seems to me, one that will touch
‘chords’ in your anatomy. So I for
ward it to you.” The old gentleman
—Mr. John M'arr—says of the Maine
paragraph in my letter: "It opened
up reminiscences of presidential cam
paigns as long age as 1828, when Jack
son ran for h'is first term. I remem
ber the old deacon of the Baptist
Church, as he sat before the huge fire
place in the old house, where I was
born. As he quaffed the cider from
the brown mug with the broken nose,"
he said, "he should not vote for any
military chieftan, but would cast his
ballot for Adams, much to the delight
of my father, who immediately sent
me down cellar to replenish with
cider the old brown mug, I fell a
couple of years short of voting for
Harrison, but was an active cam
paigner. I cast my first presidential
vote for Henry Clay, ‘the mill boy
of the slashes.’ I have the original
campaign poster of the old ‘Tippecanoe
and Tyler Too 1 race. I could write a
very fair article on the campaign of
Jackson for first and second term.
The music of the Fremont song was
from the Compton Races, a darkey
song of forty or more years ago:"
Ise bound to run all night,
Ise bound to run all day;
I bets my money on de hob, tall nag,
Whose gwiine to bet on de bay?
X>u da du da dah.
Col. William C. Gorges, IT. S. A., Is
not the "Surgeon general of the At
lantic Division of the U. S. A.” There
is but one surgeon general in the army,
Brig. Gen. Robert M. O’Reilly, who
has assistant surgeons general, one of
whom is Col. Gorgas; but he is now in
charge of the medical department of
the Isthmian Canal Commission, with
headquarters at Washington, D. C.
The assistant surgeons general of di
visions are called "chief surgeons,” not
"surgeons general." • • • Lieut.
Gen. Miles suggests that the Japs are
getting away from their base of sup
plies and their naval vessels. That
is one, but the Russians seem to be
getting away from the Japs as fast
and ns far as possible, and as for
supplies, they prefer to destroy them
rather than let the Japs get them.
Miles need not worry about the "yel
low peril'’ soldiers, as they are not
yet In “peril," and appear to be doing
"pretty well, I thank you.” • *
Gen. Horatio C. King, president of our
society thtnks I mixed the Society of
the Army of the Potomac and the Con
nectl'Mt G. A. R„ in regard to the pro
posed Blue and Gray reunion. The
society passed the resolutions favor
ing It, but the G. A. B. tabled them.
Of course the society passed them, for
King Introduced them, and If he were
to Introduce a resolution to make him
self president of the Ignited States the
society would pass it unanimously, and
with cheers. Comrade Lowell, however,
of the Cotin. G. A. R„ could not carry
the resolutions In the department en
campment. There they utterly fulled
to win any kind of support at the
Boston encampment.
The Atlanta Journal cefer* to ChpL
Tracy Dixon, and I suppose it means
Capt. Tracy C. Dickson, It, s. A., of
the ordnance department at Washing
ton, D. l\, who married an Atlanta
young lady a few years ago. • • •
Col. O. N. Kaussy, It. C. V . In correct
ing a report of Gen. lei s (oases at
Gettysburg, says: "Klndtng the Poto
mac urifordable, Lee turned and faced
Meade, offering battle, but without at
tack, until the water subsided suffi
ciently, when the army returned to
Virginia'." 1 was at Geti. Meads's j
headquarters on the tisttlegeld of Get- I
tysburg on Hunday afternoon, as bear
er of dispatches from Mai Gen W||. j
liata r. t Laid/ I dutiUi, a. . V* ou j
whose staff I was then serving. Meade
was lying on a bed in one corner of
the room and 1 sat by the bed. Gen.
Warren was In the otehr corner ex
amining Confederate hattleflags. while
Gens. Dan Butterfield and Stoneman
sat around a circular table studying I
war map*. Suddenly the door opened ;
and a bearer of dispatches cajne in
from Maj. Gen. W. H. French. U. t>. i
A., who announced that he had de- '
stroyed the Potomac river bridge at j
Falling Waters. Gen. Meade jumped i
off the bed and exclaimed; "That’s the ,
best news of the war. Butterfield, send ;
word to Howard not to hurry about
the horses as Lee can't get away j
now." Our loss it. horses at Gettys
burg was simply awful, and anew sup
ply was needed in order to successfully
follow I>ee. As Col. Snussy says, no
attack was made on the retreating
army except to ha trass the rear guards
by cavalry skirmshes. in one of which,
on July’ S, Brig. Gen. E. J. Farnsworth,
of the cavalry, was killed. I was at
Carlisle. Pa., when Gen. Fits Lee
bombarded the city and the ravalry
barracks, and w s later wounded by
his troops near Gettysburg. This fact
put me in close quarters wtih Gen.
Farnsworth's dead body, as I laid
alongside of it in an ambulance, all
the way from Gettysburg to Frederick,
Md.; while Surgeon Steiner dressed
my wound and furnished me a pair of
crutches, and Dr. Miller, a cousin of
Gen. R. E. Lee. accompanied me to
Washington. Lee's retreat, as I have
before said, will live in history as a
marvel of military skill.
Sidney’ Herbert.
Purses and Bags
for (he Fall Suit
Chatelaines on Fashion's Horizon.
Flatter the Rag the Better.
When the leaves begin to turn, most
of the people who admire the beauty
of the woods then and say, “How
wonderful!" never wonder what it is
that changes the green into the splen
did, glowing tints of autumn.
Ask nine persons out of ten, and
if they hazard a guess at all, they
will probably say that the frost has
tinted the leaves. But the frost has
nothing to do with it. Leaves color
ed by a frost look quite different from
leaves colored in the due course of na
ture.
The coloring of the leaves is due to
a genuine preparation for winter
which goes on among the trees and
shrubs just as it does in the animal
world.
The leaves, as you know, are the
feeders of the trees. Now,as the autumn
arrives, and the time approaches
when the leaves must suspend their
functions, there is a great hurry in the
arteries and veins of the plants to ex
tract all the nourishment that is left,
and to store it away deep in the trunk
and branches, to stay there through
the time of frost and snow.
This Increased activity, which sets
all the tiny pumps of cells working
from root to crown, extracts the mat
ter from the leaves which is known as
chlorophyle, and which serves to give
the leaves their bright green colors.
All the albumen and starches in the
leaves are changed into liquid at this
time and pumped busily into the stor
age houses under the bark, where they
are preserved, safe and sound, till the
following spring, when they furnish
food for new leaves and sprouts.
The most prominent color of an
autumn scene is yellow. This yel
low is caused by waste matter—stuff
that is left behind as useless when
the little pumps take in the material
that makes the green color; and crys
tals of lime that were left when the
chemical factories of the plant turned
the albumen into liquid so it could be
pumped, also help to make the yel
low.
To change the starchy matter into
sweet liquid, another chemical process
is used, and as it does not suooeed well
if the light 4s too strong, the plants
manufacture a curious substance
which turns red the moment it touches
any of the many acids that exist in
almost all leaves.
Thus, the red, yellow and orange
colors of the autumn woods are any
thing except mere tricks of nature, in
tended only to delight. As every
body knows, these tints are especially
powerful for resisting the passage of
the sun's rays. Furthermore, the
have the property of changing light
into heat. This heat, again, spurs ail
the plant’s cells to new activity, so
the autumn foliage of the woods is by
no means a sign of sleep. It is then
that the chemical laboratories are at
their most feverish toil.
THE AGE OF GASOLENE.
Fair Phyllis, in her dimpled hand.
Holds harnessed steam at her com
mand.
And, with the aid of ggsolene,
She drives her ponderous machine
Through trembling throngs, that in
dismav
Give her unquestioned right of way.
With hand upon the steering bar.
She bravely guides her panting car
Where angels would not dare to'
tread.
But Phyllts does not lose her head;
Ah, no, not she; her steady nerve
Was never known to fail or swerve.
She knows her cotter-pins and cranks;
She knows her gauges, coils and tanks;
She knows what awful risks she takes,
and when she should apply the brakes.
Her face betrays no sign of fear.
For Phyllis is an engineer.
I
And Percy puffs his cigarette.
And wipes aawy the grime and sweat
That cling to his patrician brow;
And, to behold him, one would vow
That Percy was expressly made
To toil at/ the mechanic's trade;
For far removed from his abode.
Upon a lonely country road.
His auto won't do as it ought;
His coaxing sadly turns to naught.
So Percy grovels in the dust;
A nut or bolt he must adjust;
He crawls beneath Ills big machine,
Inspects his tank of gasolene,
Drives tight a pin, jacks up a screw
As well as anyone could do.
And when again he mounts his car,
And calmly grips the steering bar,
No hitch retards the running-gear,
For Percy is an engineer.
Hut In the future glance with me;
Let us inspect posterity.
Let Phyllis look and Percy, too;
Behold what gasolene will do:
The suckling babe, with goggled eyes,
Will need no nurse to hush its cries;
Its Infant voice will drown, in srorn,
The blatant blare of auto-horn;
No mother's milk ita thirst will
quench;
'Twill sleep beside a monkey-wrench;
Its breath will blase; its blood will
boll;
'Twill take its baths In Standard Oil;
Its brain will whirl on cogs and
cranks;
Its ears will look like empty tanks,
And Phyllis, fair, will gaze upon
An Itnp that Satan's eyes would shun,
And Percy will be proud to speak
About this engineering freak
Such Mends as man ha* never seen
Will rule the age of gasolene.
- Lawrence Porcher llesl, in the
New York Press.
—An engine driver wm attending fn
the machinery at Hay’s wharf, Tooley
afreet. London, when the enda nt hie
nerkscarf were caught hy the shafting
and It* was drawn up thirteen feet
Mmb the Amm and sU angled.
We are on the fence as regards the season! It is warm right now and apt to
stay so for a few weeks! There is a little lot of Printed Lawns and Batistes
in a fine assortment of colors—the kind that sold the entire season from
12/4c up to 19c —just a couple of thousand yards, and we won’t put them
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the Hat Racks, the Enamel Beds, the Toilet Tables, the Flemish Oak
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These 15.00 Articles on Sale at 9.98.
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