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comes from d family of soldiers. his grand
father having fought IN me revolutionary
war and his father having distinguished
himself in the second war WIN England.
His brother, Ephram, was q soldier too,
He fell in leading a desperate assault OR
Mexican battery a Moline del Rcy. by one
of the painful cuncideu"c& oil the war,
son of his brother Ephrian was a coIon"!
in the federal army VINO might any day nave
met his uncle IN deadly combat. lie fell
at Coriuth IN lSG2 Edmund Kirby
Smith is now siXty-eight years old, and ser
we'd fifteen years in TIE .lit"d states army
before entering the service of the ronicder-
acy Ills rank, when he resigned mis- COM
mission in 1861, was that "i mayor and he
entered the confederate army as lieu
tenant colonel Of cavalry. lie was severe
" wounded IN the battle or Huli Kun, but
III the 1862 can paign, he Was again al the
front and did brilliant service IN Fast Ton
nessee and Kentucky. His most valuable
work, however was done while ne was com
mander of the traus-Mjssissippi department,
to which hr was appointed III g. cnfuat|,
1868 lhe department comprised lrAaH,
louisiana. Arkansas and ule illuian Ter
rit0ry. There he organized vigorous gov
er7ment and established hummer ~ enter
nrises the profits on which replenished the
confedpracy's treasury st une Of terrible
denlction Not only did he succeed ia get
ting cotton abroad IN sptte ot the blockade,
hut he Set up factories ANA furnaces, opened
stores exelhich there was M jhc time press
INC nnp'" General Smith was the lasr gem
cral to surrender his forces. After the 'Far
closed he became president Of the Atlantic
and Pacific Telegraph Company, but ia
1870 he found more con@enim occupation
as chancellor of the University OF Nashville,
which FIVE years after he resigned ior The
nrofcssorship he now holds.
Associated with General Beauregard Of
lat. wears in the management 81 the Louisi-
ana lottery is that other prominent soldier
of the south, General jubal \. Early. The
two men are cougenial associates. hay,"s
MANY characteristics in common. he
same dash and impetuosity, the same i'm
oatience of contradiction or control distin-
guished Flrly as they do Reauregard and
the sam fleets are seen in both their lives
in hume. ,Gs and bitter enemies. General
Early. who is seventy six years old, has
been u soldier since boyhood, though more
than once he has abandoned martial career
for law or business. He had a West Point
training and first smeed powder in the
Florida war Of 1897. He quilted the army
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at the close of that war and commenced
the practice of law; subsequently he sat in
the Vir~i-'H legislature for two years. The
outbreak of the Mexican war lured
him from the pursuits of peace.
He served as q major of volunteers and acted
rs governor of Monterey for the last two
months OF occupation. lie returned to the
practice of the law when the army was dis
banded and served for ten years as attorney
of the commonwealth. He was appointed
took part in the battle of Bull Run. Fred
cricksburg and Gettysburg. In 1864 he
was sent to the valley of the Shenandoah.
There after 81 few minor successes, he
fought the disastrous battle of Cedar
Creek, that famous battle in which Sheri-
dan arrived III time to change the fortunes
of the day and turn an ignomnious defeat
into a brilliant victory. Early's forces
suffered heavily that day and the loss in
artillery and baggage was as serious as the
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al Stewart, who is living quietly ut Oxford,
Miss, was recently appointed confederate
commissioner on the commission for the
construction of national cemetery on the
site of the old battlefield of Chicamausa
where so many of the sons of the confeder-
acy fell fighting for the stars and bars.
The animoSities of the war have long
since been buried and by none more com
pletely than by the men who fought most
brayely and sacrificed most in the struggle.
The north uuites heartily with the south
in recognizing the heroism of the men who
fought so gallantly for their convictions.
In the closing years of their lives, the chef
tains Of the old conlederacy enjoy the love
and honor that is accorded to true soldiers
and when they finally pass away from
the scenes Of their struggles, they will not
be among those who are soon forgotten
Reechams Pills enra bilious and nervous
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MAYOR NooEAN sNUBBED.
St. louis Chief Executive Not Invited tn a
&ant.uaf Tenl el,. d iLae Governor Elect.

Banquet TEND ervd The Governor Elect
St Louis, Mo, December i7.-The dem
ocrats Of st. Louis gave q banquet tonight
to G0vernor-eIcct Stone, but the mayor OF
the city, the Hon. Il. *. Noonan, was not
present and there was no vacant chair. In
fact, his honor was not invited The head
of the city administration was deliberately
snubbed, and 10 say that his numerous fei-
lowers who constitute what Is locally
known as the hoodum element, are mad
is putting it very mildly. and the fur viii
lily between now and the municipal election
next spring
When the committee of invitation. com
posed of four leading business men, began
to send out the invitations they hesitatcd
when they got to the mayors na4ae and de-
cided not to invite HIM. Their intention
became known, and Governor Francis ami
lieutenant GoveTor-elcct John H. Omears
went to the several membcrs of the COM
mittee and tried 20 make them change
their minds, arguing th0t the mayor, as q
representative OF the city, should be pres
emit To this the members Of the commit
tee replied that they could not consider
any argument based on the mayors official
position. as the banquet was Il compliment
TO the goyernor-elert personally, and in no
sense an official one. But this argument
does not appease the wrath OF the mayor 5
a1berputS.
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suIar campaign at Seven Pines, where
Hampton himself was severely wounded ana
more than half his legion We're killed. At
ter that battle he was assigned to General
J. g. b. Stewards command, with the rank
of brigadier general of cavalry. lie was i'll
all the battles in which that army engaged,
and at Gettysburg he received three severe
wounds. His chief successes, however, were
when he was employed on detached service,
for which he was peculiarly fitted.He became
famous for his sudden and unexpected eX-
petitions, from which he would return bring
ing in prisoners and welcome booty in the
shape of cattle and provisions When Sher-
man was making his advance northward from
Savannah, Wade Hampton was placed in
chage Of General Joe Johnson's cavalry
and dispatched to arrest the invasion.
Though unsuccessful, he was perpetual
menace. giving the famous northern general
much anxiety by. his harassing attacks.
After the close of the war Wade Hampton
frankly accepted the situation, and for some
time incurred much unpopularty among his
comrades and friends by urging them to
forget the old animosties and make the
best of the position. Time. however, proved
time ago he wrote evidently with much
pleasure, THE wounds left by the conflict
are healing, and the animostips cngendered
by it are dying out; all that is left to the
survivors now is the memory of the heroic
deeds performed"
Now sitting III the United States senate
for his native state, Georgia, is another
brave officer of the southern army Gen
eral John Brown Gordon, who has just
passed his sixtieth birthday. He bears on
his body evidences of his valor in the shape
of eight wounds received in battle. He en-
tered the confederate army as captain of
infantry but before the close of the war
had risen 10 the rank of lieutenant gener-
al. He was one of the officers who surrend-
cred to Grant at Appomattox. He was
elected to the senate in 1873 and has been
reelected every term since that time.
Last but not least remembered of the old
chivalric guard Of the confederacy, come
those sturdy heroes Stephen D. Lee, and
Ambrose j. Stewart. General Lee now
holds position of responsibility in uni
versity at Starkville, Miss while Gener-
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he could have crushed Patter
son. liberated Maryland and captured Wash
ingtOn.' lie is firmly convinced that no
people ever fought for independence with
more relative advantage than the confed-
crates: and if, from IA military standpoint
they must have failed, then nc country need
hoPe for freedom by means of war. The
general. like his comrade, LOngstreet, is a
Mexican war veteran and at the time he
quilted the service of the United States 10
enter that of the confederaCy. held the rank
of captain Of engineers and was supernteud-
ent Of the military academy AT West Point.
Toward the close of the war bis relations
with Nr. CaN is became 80 strained that dur
ing a slight illness which ueces stated Il
change of air from that of his Headquarters,
he was summary depOscd from his com
mand by the president. General Beaure-
cards friends urged his reinstatement, but
Davis declared that he would not restore
him though the whole world should ask it
tfe WIS. however. too valuable an officer to
be dispensed with and after Il short time
ne was placed III command at Charleston,
which he defended for year and a half
against the formidable siege operations IN
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write with pungent rhetoric the series of
plumbers which, as he still believes, turned
triumph into defeat. That he was tbWarted
in his plans and that a lack of confidence
in him was manifested by jefferson Davis
and his cabinet, there is no doubt. Possibly
it is not So Seli-evidcnt that General Beaure-
guards plans would have averted the hDal
catastrophe had he been allowed TO execute
them and had he been properly supported
The general is convinced On that point and
even after the lapse of thirty years FROM
the initial ''bIunder,' he cannot bring himself
TO speak with GOODNESS Of the timid policy
which-lgnoring strategy as a science and
holiness of enterprise as ita aliy-couId
never be brought to view the whole theater
of war as one subject, of which all points
We're but integral parts" He still asserts
with vehemence which leaves no doubt
of his sincerity that had the war been con-
Quoted as it should have been. the moral
and matcri-l forces actually engaged made
our success a moral certainty"
The general has Il certain right TO speak
au;horitatively far as experience can
give the right. he having had the honor and
the responsibility of opening the ball, by
directing the attack on Fort Sumter and of
commanding in conjunction with Gen. j
f. Johnston at the battle of Bull Run.
The general explains with graphic force
how, if the battle had been fought as he
planned it. and if he Lad been
permitted. even after the battle had
taken place, to adopt his later plans
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r,suaIfias in " ~}tnp,

Winston, n c.. December 1G.-(Special)-
H Montague had desperate fight last night
with his big Newfoundland, Fritz. The dog
seemed aihng for two days. Last night he
refused to be put out OF the house, and be
came enraged. Montague put a chair between
himself and the dog Ind slowly fought it out
into the yard. The encounter lasted twenty
minutes and the chair was broken in numer-
GUS fragments Once Montague slipped and
tell to his knees but the chair saved him. PO-
lice came to his aid finally and shot the dog
which was foaming at the mouth, and is be-
lieved, was going mad.
Harrison Evans a young white man. acct
dentaIly shot and killed himself here late
This afternoon. after returning from a hunt.
II is thought he forgot to lower the hammer
Of the qua, which u jar caused to fall The
load went in the neck.
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shot and shell on the field and cheerfully
bearing private and hardship in the camp
IT on the march. In those times, in the
titles of the east and the farInhouses and
homes of the west their names were eX.
ecratcd; and on the hotly-conteSted border
land their approach was dreaded with sink
Ing heart The new generation, which has
grown up TO manhood since that time, has
learned To look at them in a more kindly
light Their valor and their devotion are
come into recognition; their disappointment
and their failure plead for them, and we re-
member that they, too, are Amer
leans whose pr0weSs does honor 10 our race.
Husiiy occupied with business affairs in
New Orleans the last surviving general OF
the confederacv-( General Pierre GuStaye
T. Beauregard still exhibits the uutrins,
indomitablc energy which characterized him
during the four years of the war. In spite
of his seventy-four years, he retains the old
pugnacity Of his youth and middle age. lie
does not WELD tire old weapons, but the man
yho has the har1ihOOd to cross the Old gen
eral $ path and oppose his plans speedily
learns that he has an antagonist who can
adapt himself to any mode of warfare and
has lost none of his strategic skill Perhaps
10 man who entered the service of the
oonfederacy witnessed the collapse with so
much chagrin as he. The general will de
scribe now to an intelligent listener, or will
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the mountain and seaside resorts, and live
the summer long in idle and happy past
time, these darkeyed senoritas know but
the few pleasures--thelr 'novlos
and their sicial meeting in the plazas, an
occasional ball guarded closely by chaper-
ones. This is the custom of tho country
and knowing no different modus vivendi
they pass their young ladyhood in simple
happiness enhanced often by love affair
that makes it sweeter III its quaint and
mantle style. / never realized before the
beauty and reality of that little song, 1.-THE
Spanish Cavalier Stood in His Retreat" etc.
Frequently in the evenings, on passing the
street that leads from our delightful little
Hotel del Jardn, | have noticed pretty
but anxious face appear in the balcony
above crowned by wealth of black hair,
this Mexican beauty leaned over the rail-
ing. | have lived III the republic long
enough to know why she was there and
turned to see her "Novio." There he
stood in his retreat
This method of love-making may appear
very strange to those of our own country
but custom has made it law, and the
young lover must serve his term watching
his sweetheart night after night until his
devotion is recognized and he is admitted
in the family circle and accepted by the
young womans parents. / think the
Flrian song must have been written es-
pecially for these Spanish cavaliers whose
whole soul is mapped UP in the balcony
above his retreat.
The Mexican has sublime originality
borrowed from the foreign ideas that have
been brought over from many years
back, yet that whicn IS Mexican, that has
it's fascinat ion-its charm that can't be
denied even by the tourist who has not
entered into the spirit of his party and to
whom all things have lost its beauty.
Pueblo has it's pententiary where order
and discipline regns supreme. Articles
made by the prisoners here are wholly made
by hand and no machinery is employed,
therefore, the mind is always active which
affords the education in the free activity
of the brain.
have written a long letter. Pueblo and
its picturesque grandeur have made me
forget space and / only fear / would in
fringe on patience to say more in its be-
half.
From my travelling view of the cities and
scenery, customs and people ] say, "vive
In republique trujours" fos with me TO
other foreign "limes, / carry recollection
of this noble country-one that can never
be effaced. IDA DENT WRIGHT, Jr.
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He Has Millions.

Spokane, WASH, December I6-Arthur
S. Higgins, better known as Spokane
Monte Christie" sold an interest in his
Cascade property TO 5. 5. st. John, of
paid to him i'll $50 gold pieces. He claims
he has several properties in Cascade III
Guiding his big cave, which will net him over
s.. 900 900.
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town and Antetam. of Fredericksburg, Get
tvsIn,r., and Chickamauga, and on down
to the battle of the Wilderness WhefG
he was wounded almost TO death, the oh
general has an inexhaustihle store, m!iU'e
ana accurate in details after all the years
of no9cc. Foremost from the beginning,
among the brilliant captains VINO suppofteH
General Lee, he was one OF the last {"
qiy, I'M hone and yield to the lneNltab!e
Vet with nil his ardour and persistence ie
has the greatness OF maguanimity, TOT III
one of his latest public utteranceS lie S'ud;
THE greatest man OF rebellion JinHeN'
the one matchlees among forty million J'f
the peculiar difficulties of the period, wa"
Abraham Lincoln. 80
Few men after such an experience as MS
wonld have paid SO graceful a tFloa'e, o.
an enemy and no man would have pald IL
but one who himself possesse1 true gre"I-
ness. ..
An officer, whose namo is less prominent
in the records OF war; but Whose services 10
the c0nfedpracv We're exceptionally vam3hie,
As thew supplied its most pressing nHei.
is General Edmund Kirby Smita, VINO Is
now professor of mathematics IA the UNI
yprsity of the south, at f2eWauve' Tenn
lie is a man Of profound learning whose
Sir.eullry modest. quiet manner &lNtr %"
suggestion Of tine dashing cavalry Office
VIM won nj spurs i'll 1899 In conflict WIN
The Gamma ,chcs on the border under the
-tars and stripes and led thc 3dFtHr, U"-
der the stars 't'd lars with Bra 'o, brass
il the Koutu>..y campaign Oh l'u-. hA5
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loss in men. Six months later, in October
1868, a still more severe disaster befell INN
at WayneSboro where General Custer al
most annihilated his command. Lee, who
still retained his faith iii Early's capacity,
was unable to resist the popular feeling
in the army against the defeated general,
and felt himself obliged TO remove him from
his command In his letter relieving h'm
from duty, Lee with the delcacy OF true
gentleman, softcncd the blow by assuring
Early of his own regard, but reminded him
that the country and the army would nat
orally Judge by results and consequently
there could be 10 doubt that his influence
would he impaired and bis retention III
office would increase the already serious
difficulties accommodating in southwest Viz
GINA. Early at once quilted the army and
spent some time in Europe until the tr0ub-
les Of the conquered states were allayed.
A conspicuous figure among the survivors
Of the great struggle is General Simon
Bolivar Ruckncr. who a few years ago was
elected governor Of kentucky. He was one
of the pallbearers at the funeral of General
Grant, whom he always admired and honor
eli. lie was the general to whom Grant
sent The dispatch which stirred much en-
thusiasm ia TIE north early in Grant ca
reer and which history has lmmortaiized.
The north thought it had te right ring and
that the man who wrote was the man for
te hour. 1t insisted that the only basis for
capitulation was unconditional surrender
an osed with words, which soon became
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SOUTHERN HEROES.
THE GALLANT OLD GUARD OF TK e
CGNFEDERACY PASSING AWAY.
Reauregard. Longstreet, Hampton, Jubal
Early, Kirby smith arc Pursuing
Their Peaceful Ways.

Passing over one by one into the silent
land. the heroic leaders who struggled des-
perately to save 1.-The lost cause" have been
dropping out of mortal ken during the past
quarter of a century, until now a very small
group is left. Very interesting are the fig
ures which make up the little band. men of
hoary hair and faltering step they are now,
but their names recall memories OF the days
when they were active and alert, Drawing
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From my travelling view of the cities and
scenery, customs and people, ] say, "vive
In repubique trujours" fos with me TO
other foreign "limes, / carry recollection
of this noble country-one that can never
be eTaced IDA DENT WRIGHT. Jr.