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IIEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN,/ ATLANTA, C,A„ SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 19in.
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Alabama Congressman Sweeps
Vast Crowd With His Oratory at
Gettysburg Celebration.
Gray Army Leaves Scene of Strife and Reunion WALKER S FATE
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Veterans Rejoice Over Chattanooga Meeting
GENES at Confederate reunion at Chattanooga. Above is shown the car bearing the maids of honor to the Sponsor for the South. Seated, reading from
left to right, are Miss Bachman, Miss Todhunter and Miss Caldwell. Standing, reading from left to right, are Miss Armstrong, Mrs. R. W. McKinney. Miss
Murphy, Miss Brown and Miss Sholar. In the lower picture. General Bennett II. Young, commander-in-c'iief of the veterans, is shown at the dedication of the
Florida monument. In the group, reading from left to ri-rht. are General R. F. Lake, Colonel R, E. Burlington, General Young, Colonel Harold, General Hen- 0i , n , r n
ry C. Meyers and Colonel W. M. Epps. State Board of Health Prepares
Bulletin Telling of Dangers of
Having Bichloride in Home.
Minister’s Resignation Explained
When Relations With "Miss
Blank” Are Related by Wife.
GETTYSBURG, May 31.—Final ce-
menting of the broken ties between
the North and South is believed to
day to have received tremendous im
petus through the Memorial Day ad
dress of Representative J. Thomas
Heflin, of Alabama, delivered yester
day to hundreds of veterans of the
blue and thousands of loyal Pennsyl
vanians on the Gettysburg battlefield.
The speech of Mr. Heflin had a pe
culiar import. The young Alabama
Congressman has always been regard
ed as thoroughly unreconstructed.
Previous actions and utterances of his
led to more than considerable doubt in
both the North and South as to the
wisdom of his being invited to speak
at the most hallowed spot of the men
who wore the uniform of the Union in
the war between the States. %
Press criticism of the invitation
has been numerous. It was feared
that he would impetuously say things
that would offend the people of the
North and embarrass the people of the
South.
Patriotism Is Broad.
Instead, his address is considered
one of the broadest patriotism by the
old soldiers who heard it. His elo
quence swept his audience throughout
his address and the cheer9 that greet
ed him have rarely been accorded a
young orator.
Representative Heflin said:
My Countrymen: It was an im
portant day when our fathers for
conscience sake determined to leave
the Mother Country. It was a kind
ly light that led them frotn the
persecution and tyranny of the Old
World to the pleasing possibilities
of the New. Their dogged determi
nation to better their condition—
their love of religious liberty and
their willingness to do and dare for
the right was splendid material
with which to build a republic.
They seemed to hear the voice of
one crying in this wilderness of the
West saying, “This is the land and
here the opportunity for building
a genuine republic—prepare ye the
way.” The hardships and suffer
ing that they endured, their heroic
deeds and daring exploits, testify
how well and how faithfully they
prepared the way.
W T hen we look back over the path
that our liberty has come, we do
not see her winding through laby-
rinthian shades of ease and luxury,
but we behold her coming up
through human sacrifice and heroic
•suffering—through life to death.
King rule died in the thirteen colo
nies and this republic of the West
was born.
Civil War Had To Be.
But, my friends, there was an
other great battle to be fought be
fore the unmistakable status of the
Union was Anally flixed. It was
the conflict of internal ideas and
forces—the final and crucial test
of the republic’s strength and dura- *
bility. The combat took place on
the field of battle in the War Be
tween the States. The right of the
State to secede and the right of the
Union to prevent it—the status of
right and relationship between
State and Federal Government had
to be settled once and for all time.
This .question could not be de
termined in the councils of peace; it
had to be settled by the arbitra
ment of the sword.
Dr. Ellis, a Northern man. in his
history of our country, says truly
that the question of secession was
never authoritatively settled until
the war settled it.
“Hopes precious pearl in sorrow’s
cup,
Unmelted at the bottom lay.
To shine again when all drunk up,
And the bitterness should pass
away.”
So the republic once abounding
with conflicting opinions as to rights
and powers belonging to State and
Federal fGovernment is To-day har
monious household of sovereign
States—the home of a brave and
happy people. Here we bow with
solemn reverence in honor of our
nation’s dead; here we pay to their
blessed memory the tribute of our
united love. Heroism never had
truer representatives than those
who made the battlefield immortal.
Here the 9old-ier in Blue and the
solider rn Gray read in each other’s
eyes courage born of conviction—
devotion to principle—and a will
ingness to do and to die for what
they believed was right. Here the
soldier in Gray met a foeman
worthy of his steel, and here the
soldier in Blue met as brave a
warrior as ever shouldered a gun
or drew a battle blade.
A Tribute to Valor.
Here Union and Confederate sol
diers. by their daring sacrifice and
heroism, challenged the admiration
of the world. Here Northen valor
drew up in battle line the bravest
of her brave, the noblest specimens
of her patriotic manhood, and here
Southern chivalry marshaled the
flower of her army—the noblest
types of her splendid citizenship.
Here the brave Union soldier check
ed the march of the hitherto ir
resistible Confederate soldier—here
the tide of war was turned, and
here many contend the decisive bat
tle was fought.
Here fought and fell the heroic
representatives of the two bravest
armies that ever crossed the fields
of carnage, or battled for what they
believed to be right. Here both
armies fought for .the right as God
gave them power to see it. Here in
the red glare of destructive battle
fire two mighty lessons were taught,
one that the Union should be pre
served and tbe other that the
Union should be ever mindful and
considerate of the rights of the
States.
So, my friends, the soldiers of the
two armies who baptized this soil
with their blood did not die in
vain. Here with their blood they
started the work of cementing the
bonds of an everlasting Union, for
it seems that the fates decreed after
this battle that the bonds thus ce
mented with the mingled blood of
brothers. North and South, should
never be torn a^-sunder.
Fifty years have come and gone
since Gettysburg received her bap-
Gem of blood. Here death claimed
a fearful toll from the ranks of
both armies; here Mother Earth
drank alike the blood of the victor
and the vanquished, and here in
this hallowed battleground sleep
the knightly warriors of the Blue
and the Gray, while above their
dreamless durt floats the Stars and
Stripes, the loved flag of a reunited
people.
No fair-minded American can lis
ten to the story of the battle of
Gettysburg without a deep feeling
of reverence and admiration for
the heroes of both armies who
fought or died here. I bring to
you a message of good will and
fellowship from the people of the
South. We honor the memory of
the soldier who wore the Gray and
we honor with you the memory of
the soldier who wore the Blue. As
an evidence of our recognition and
appreciation of the valor and hero
ism of both Union and Confederate
soldiers, and as a token of fraternal
love now permeating the hearts of
our people, I bring these floral of
ferings from the flower gardens of
Dixie, one for the grave of the
soldier fn Blue and the other for
the grave of the soldier in Gray.
When I recall the deeds of dar
ing done here—the acts of undaunt
ed courage and heroism—I declare
to you that the sublime valor of
the heroes of both armies is the
priceless heritage of all. In the
month of July the survivors of the
two armies who battled at Gettys
burg will meet in friendly reunion
here
No More Hostile Camps.
These war-tested veterans are no
more divided into hostile • camps—
no longer arrayed on opposing sides.
Their guns have been beaten into
the implements of peace, and
against each other they shall know
war no more. My friends, what a
glorious reunion that will be. The
angels will smile upon that gather
ing. and the God of our fathers will
bless and approve it.
When bleeding Cuba was smitten,
sore with the rod of Spanish tyran
ny. and lifted her pitiful pleading
eyes in hope to the Stars and
Stripes. I saw the old soldier of the
Blue and the old soldier of the
Gray, and their sons, bivouacked
around the same camp fire and
marshaled beneath the same flag.
I saw Fighting Joe Wheeler, of
Confederate fame, and General
Shafter, of the Union army—Fiu-
hugh Lee, the cousin of Robert E.
The death of B. Sanders Walker,
the prominent young Macon capital
ist who came to his end through ac
cidental poisoning, is the inspiration
of a health bulletin soon to be issued
by the Georgia State Board of Health,
warning the public against the dan
ger which lurks in even the innocent
use of bichloride of mercury' in the
home.
Walker swallowed a bichloride tab
let by mistake, thinking that he had
taken a grain of aspirin. The strug
gle of the young man against death
aroused the sympathy of the entire
nation. This story will be used as the
text of the warning by the State
Board.
Beginning with an explanation of
the deadly nature of bichloride of
mercury, the bulletin will discuss
means of keeping it without danger
to those in the home where it is used.
More pointed probably will be a dis
cussion of likely measures to restrict
the sales of the drug, or to provide
for its sale only upon prescription and
for an avowed useful purpose.
Home Treatment Suggested.
Home treatment of mercury poison
ing will be considered fully’. Dis
cussing the subject yesterday. Dr. E.
R. Park, of the Board of Health, of
fered the following suggestion as to
an antidote: “One of the best anti
dotes of mercury is the white of eggs
—the white of one egg to every two
grains of the chemical taken into the
stomach.”
It is explained that if too much al
bumen is introduced the chemical is
likely to dissolve it instead of coagu
lating it. However, while the phy
sician is on his way the introduction
°f and milk into the stomach is
the first step, and after that the
emetic or the stomach pump.
The bulletin will discuss the sub
ject fully. It will show that bichlo
ride of mercury’, rhich is commonly
known as corrosive sublimate, is one
of the most powerful poisons known.
It is used as a disinfectant and phy
sicians make free use of it in steriliz
ing their hands and their surgical In
struments. The common form in
which it is sold is in 7%-grain tablets.
The standard formula for antiseptic
solutions is one part of bichloride of
mercury to 1,000 of water.
The poison is colorless, usually, but
manufacturers, in order to prevent it
from being mistaken for water, add to
the tablet some mineral or vegetable
coloring matter, usually green or blue.
This gives a tinge to the solution and
serves to draw attention to the tablets
themselves and to impress upon the
customer that here is something un
usual in their composition.
Tablet Peculiarly Deadedly.
“The bichloride of mercury tablet, ’
said an Atlanta druggist yesterday,
“is peculiarly deadly, because it is
compounded with some other chemi- I
cal usually to Increase its solubility.
The bichloride is not readily’ dissolved
In water. The surgeon is usually in
i hurry and can not wait for the slow
process of making a solution. For that
reason the pharmaceutical chemists j
incorporate a little ammonia chloride, j
To hold the tablet together, a little |
inert binding material is used. This 1
makes a tablet containing the lV-> I
grains of bicholride weigh about 10
grains. It is a sizable enough lozenge,
and one which a man who had his j
mind on what he was doing would i
look at twice before swallowing.
“Many methods have been suggest
ed for protecting the public from in
jury from the bichloride and similar j
poisons. Occasionally advocates ap- j
pear of the spiked or corrugated bo T - |
ties. One of the appliances consisted .
of a small lead or wooden ball at-j
'.ached to a chain suspended from the I
neck of the bottle. There have been
bottles invented with peculiar stop-
pers. These appliances, however, will I
never take the place of continuous \
alertness and, indeed, many’ pharma- j
°ists think that they breed a con- |
tempt for danger or a familiarity
which may lead to serious conse- (
quences. The druggist must be con- !
tinually on the alert and the layman
can not be too careful as to the man
ner in which he uses poisonous sub
stances.”
NEW YORK, May 31.—The mys
tery that had surrounded the Rev.
Henry A. Buell’s resignation as pastor
of the First Baptist Church of Wash
ington, N. J., on May 4, was cleared
away yesterday by his wife. He had
given no hint of his reasons. Now
she announces that she is about to
sue for divorce, naming the daughter
of a Philadelphia clergyman. This
young woman’s friendship with Mr.
Buell was based, the two explained,
upon “religious enthusiasm.’’
“Miss Blank” Close Friend.
Withholding the name of the wom
an she accuses, and mentioning her as
"Miss Blank. ’ Mrs. Buell made the
following statement yesterday:
“She and I were the closest of
friends, both being interested In mis
sionary work in Philadelphia. It was
I who Introduced her to Mr. Buell.
My husband was instantly drawn to
the woman by her charming ways
and brilliant wit. During her visits
to Washington they were very inti
mate, and seemed greatly interested
in church work; at least, they made
me believe that this was the case.
He Quieted Her Fears.
“At various times certain things
happened that aroused my suspicions,
but when I referred to them my hus
band quieted my fears by assuring
me that the friendship w’as inspired
by religious enthusiasm.
Watched the Kissing.
“Thus the affair went on until
about February 13, Mr. Buell and the
woman being in each other’s company
a great deal. They were often to
gether in the study, excusing them
selves on the ground that they were
conferring upon religious subjects.
The evening of February 20, I came
upon my husband and ’Miss Blank’
in the hall of the parsonage. They
were kissing, or I thought so.”
Mrs. Buell says that she thereupon
ordered the other woman from the
parsonage and she and her husband
agreed to separate.
“This led to his sudden resignation
two weeks ago,” Mrs. Buell continued.
“When we parted, Monday of this
week, he cried; but of course I shall
never have anything further to do
with him.
“I have letters in my possession
which Mr. Buell received from ‘Miss
Blank.’ They are of the most endear
ing nature, and I shall use them in
divorce proceedings. She sent him
candy kisses too. Once I opened a
letter he had ready for mailing to her.
In it he addressed her as ‘My own
precious baby girl.’ ”
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Lee. and Frederick Grant, the son
of the Union general to whom Gen
eral Lee surrendered at Appomat
tox, all grouped beneath Old Glory’s
sacred folds in the war with Spain,
and I said in my heart, land of our
fathers through thy length and
breadth a tremor passes—look, the
dark is done and on thy proud form
shines the splendor of the sun:
thine own children with heads erect
and light on all their faces are
happy in the blessings and benefits
of a reunited country.
Rallies Living to Flag.
With love for our living and tears
for our dead, we put behind us the
things that divided us once and
glory in the beauty and strength of
the Union ties that bind us together
now. This, thank God, is our coun
try—ours to love “and cherish—ours
to guard against evils from within,
and ours to defend from dangers
from without. Let the heroic dead
of the War Between the States—the
Blue and the Gray, sleep each in
the mellow moonlight of his own
proud memories. Let the living
join hands and hearts about a com
mon center for the good of the re
public. Let North and South ana
East and West all work together
for the good of each and each for
the good of alL
Here on this battlefield, incar
nadined with the blood of patriots
North and patriots South, let us
in the language spoken by the im
mortal Lincoln at Gettysburg. 50
years ago, resolve that this Gov
ernment of the people, by the peo
ple, and for the people, shall not
perish from the earth. Let us here
declare anew that the welfare of
the citizen is the highest end and
aim of constitutional government.
Let us strive to make our Govern
ment so good and pure and just that
every heart will love it. and every
hand will defend it-
Let me in conclusion employ the
language of the loved and lamented
Grady of Georgia: “Let us resolve
to crown the miracles of our past
with the spectacle of a republic,
compact, united, indissoluble in the
bonds of love—loving from the
Lakes to the Gulf—the wounds of
war healed in every heart as on
every hill—serene and resplendent
at the summit of human achieve
ment and earthly glory, blazing out j
the path and making clear the way
up which all the nations of the |
earth must come in God’s appointed
time.”
Opportunity for Old Soldiers to Visit Famous
Battle Grounds of Civil War Drew
Record Crowd.
CHATTANOOGA. May 31.—The
last of the old soldiers and visitors
who attended the twenty-third an
nual reunion of the United Confed
erate Veterans here this week left
to-day for their homes scattered
throughout Dixie. The exodus, which
began Thursday afternoon, following
the veterans’ parade, continued with
every outbound train of the last two
days crowded to the guards.
This year’s reunion from some
viewpoints was fraught with more
interest than any heretofore held by
the heroes of the gray. Coming in
the semi-centennial year of the great
battles of Lookout Mountain, Orchard
Knob, Missionary Ridge, Rossville
Gap, Chiekamauga and the campaign
from Chattanooga to Atlanta, an his
toric setting was afforded that has
never before marked such a gather
ing.
Thousands of the veterans attend
ing the reunion had participated in
these battles of 1863, but hundreds
of them had not been back to the
scene of conflict since that time, ex
cept, perhaps to pass through with
out stopping, while en route to re
unions elsewhere in the South.
Go Over Old Battlefields.
This year’s gathering gave these
old soldiers an opportunity to again
go over the battlefields and recall
where this division, that brigade or
some regiment made a spectacular
charge or valiant defense.
It is true that one reunion had been
held here before—23 years ago when
the United Confederate Veterans w’ere
organized—but then only a handful
of the veterans attended and the bat
tlefields did not have the attractions |
that they have to-day. Since that
first reunion the United States Gov
ernment has created the Chattanooga
and Chiekamauga National Military
parks and has preserved the strate
gic points of conflict for future gen
erations.
Thousands of descriptive markers,
giving accurate information of the
commands occupying the positions
and the losses in dead and wounded
by each side, are posted over the
city and suburbs.
Cannon Mark Artillery Positions.
Hundreds of cannon, mounted on
gun carriages that went through the
war, designate the important artil
lery positions. Many State monu
ments commemorating the bravery of
th’e soldiers from those respective
States stand on commanding emi
nences. Magnificent boulevards and
automobile roads connect all these
historic points and make them easily
accessible and interesting. Observa
tion towers, 70 and 80 feet high, sur
mount the highest points around the
Chattanooga Valley, giving opportu
nity for bird’s-eye views of the bat
tlefields.
The most elaborate monument
erected is that to the Georgia sol
diers, standing in Chiekamauga
Park. Next in importance is the New
York monument on the pinnacle of
Lookout Mountain. Two Southern
monuments were unveiled and dedi
cated at this reunion—a tall shaft
for Alabama and a marble pergola
for Florida. Veterans and visitors
from these States conducted appro
priate dedicatory exercises. ,
But all the work of preserving
these battlegrounds has been done
since the first reunion. At no other
Southern city where a reunion has
been held have the fields of conflict
been so preserved. The work at Chat
tanooga and Chiekamauga is under
the direct supervision of veterans of
the North and South, who actually
participated in the Chattanooga
campaign. Major J. E. Cummings, of
Augusta, Ga., is one of the Confed
erate commissioners.
Florida Promises Entertainment.
Next year the veterans go to Flori
da, the Southern State that saw per
haps the least of the actual warfare.
But there will be other attractions to
interest the veterans, and the Jack
sonville veterans and business men
promise a most elaborate entertain
ment. Because it is so far South the
reunion of 1914 will likely take place
in April, before real warm weather
sets in.
General Bennett H. Young, who
presided at this reunion and was re
elected commander-in-chief to pre
side at the next, expressed himself as
more than pleased with the Chatta
nooga gathering. He particularly
commended the locaj committees for
the arrangements made to care for
the veterans—those provided with
quarters In the veterans’ camp, be
cause of their inability to pay both
railroad fare and hotel bills. In the
camp the veterans had nightly camp
tires and retold their experiences of
war times. General Young declared
this to have been the most successful
reunion yet held.
Four spectacular parades marked
the reunion festivities. There was a
full dress march through the city of
the Eleventh United States Cavalry,
stationed at Fort Oglethorpe, on the
edge of Chiekamauga Park; an au
tomobile pageant for the sponsors and
maids of honor, a parade of the Sons
of Confederate Veterans, and last, but
most important of all, the parade of
the veterans themselves, which for
mally closed the reunion.
Army of Sponsors Present.
The social side of the reunion wa«.
as is always the case, of particular
interest. With the army of sponsors
and maids from every State and city
of the South, the social life of re
union week has become a feature vie-
ing in interest with the assemblies ot
the veterans and sons. For these
young women the Chattanooga enter
tainment committee arranged an aft
ernoon garden party at one of the
city parks, a ball by the veterans at
the reunion pavilion, and another
dance under the auspices of the Sons
of Veterans. Besides there were
many private parties, receptions, teas,
etc., at which Chattanooga hostesses
entertained.
Decorations formed an attractive
feature of the reunion, the downtown
business thoroughfares and many res
idence streets being gaily bedecked
with the Stars and Bars and the Stars
and Stripes. At night the streets
were made attractive by white way
lights and thousands of incandescent
globes.
The central location of Chattanoo
ga, particularly for the Southeast,
coupled with the historic attractions,
made the attendance several thousand
larger than has been the case in re
cent years, since the old veterans
have been passing away so rapidly.
The attendance is said to have been
close around the 100.000 mark, includ
ing those who came in from nearby
sections for a single day.
Sad Incidents at Reunion.
At each reunion, though, there are
always saddening incidents—deaths,
accidents or sickness of veterans. This
year was no exception.
Three deaths occurred during the
three days of the gathering, two of
those who succumbed being veterans.
G. W. Mullenix, of Lindale, Ga., died
from heart failure in the dining room
of a local hotel while preparing to eat
lunch.
Robert Nolen, the other veteran to
die, broke his neck by falling down a
flight of stairs, fie was from Beau
mont, Texas, and made the trip alone.
W. L. Hurt, of Scottsboro, Ala.,
died after receiving a blow from Spe
cial Officer W. T. Yarnell at the ball
park Wednesday afternodn. A dis
pute over tickets began the encoun
ter. He was married and leaves, be
sides his wife, four children.
More than 200 cases of prostration
were handled, but the local medical
arrangements were so complete that
all were revived. Not a single acci
dent occurred from congested traffic.
One of the most touching scenes of
the reunion was staged Thursday aft
ernoon. when Miss Kate Daffln. of
Texas, sponsor for the South, was
presented with a beautiful diamond
brooch by tbe people of Chattanooga. I
W. E. Brock, chairman of the gen
eral committee, presented the gems.
The closing social feature of the re
union. the ball at the Bennett H.
Y< pavilion Thursday night, was
a brilliant function, practically all of I
the maids and sponsors attending. I
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