Arizona republican., 1897-12-05

Dhessed. "I got into Atlant&s GN lpne [ summer afternoon, some years as. he said, ''hot and dirty from a iog | dusty ride, and enquired of the ht tel clerk if there was such a thing as a Turkish bath establishment in the town. He assured me that there was, and directed me how to find it. It was a funny little place, with one slab and one attendant. (After I had taken the steam I reclined upon my back on the slab to be rubbed down. After time the attendant told me to turn over. 1 had no sooner changed my position than my eyes were attracted by some lettering carved upon the surface of the slab. I raised myself up and saw it was an inscription which read: Sacred to the memory of Mary Jane Hawkins. Born Septem- Der IF, 1850, died August 3, 1874 I told the man I didn't think there was any necessity for his finishing the job, and got out as soon as I could l afterwards found that the slab had been originally a tombstone, and had also served as a receptacle for dead bodies in the morgue. Some time ago they built nsw morgue, and the proprietor of the bath establish ment got it cheap"
 The appointment of General James Longstreet to succeed General Wade Hampton-both confederate warriors as United States railroad commis- sioner, and his redent marital bring ing of May into the lap of December. summons before the minds eye the figure of one of the most picturesque characters in American life. Recent newspaper portraftures depict him as man of stalwart carriage, with his head thrown high in air, his eyes shining fiercely from beneath shaggy covered with a heavy hirsute growth and mass of hair waving upward from a broad and high forehead, the picture of a warrior bold. A writer in the Philadelphia Times says the last time he saw Longstreet was in September. 1895, when he was enter tained at a private luncheon given n the house of the Union League, the host being John Russell Young At that time he presented himself as man once tall of form, but with stoop of many years in his shoulders
 
 fire. His hair and scanty beard were of snowy whiteness. His attire black. without a touch of color, loosely fit ting, suggested thle dress of country preacher. When he walked up the brown stone steps of the famous club house on Broad street there was atop his head black silk hat almost as lusterless as the coat he wore. Yet hn. nd d0ca ari'h 'hnh air about him that suggested human force. This was the picture then pre- scented Of one of the greatest living soldiers of his time. He looked then as if he had one foot in the grave Yet the other day he took young bride to his embrace, and now a re- publican president has placed this one time confederate warrior in one of the greatest positions in ithe gift of the government. Therein is con tained a story of wondrous vitality.
 
 Ever since the suppression of the rebellion historians have differed as to whether Lee or Longstreet was re- sponsible for the disaster at Gettys- burg, the friends of each claiming the other was to blame. A few years ago, when the great soldiers, both Union and confederate, who had min gled in that bloody fray met there again for the first time since the memorable events of .Ihii1ty years bs- fore. Longstreet made little conceal ment tlhen regarding his contention that it was Lee who ordered the dis astrous Pickett charge and lost the day. On that occasion many erro S of history were recorded. The guide who directed the movement of the distinguished party adopted bold move to surprise Longstreet into a declaration of his feelings on the sub jedd. Said he, standing beside the confederate leader, who held sound gathering hand to his dulled ear: When the flower of Virginia's chiv- airy, Pickett's division, arrived on the night of the second day General Lee determined to employ these fresh troops to make an assault the next day on Cemetery Hill under cover oi a terrific cannonading by General Alexander's guns, while an assault in the rear was to be made at the same time by General Stuart's caval- ry, who had been sent around to the left for that purpose. It is generally DelleVeQ, General OOngStreet, that he ordered this in the face of your pro- test; that he commanded Pickett tc take this commanding position occu- pied by the Union troops"
 Longstreek's face glowed with sup pressed excitement. In a voice thai l showed no quaver of age, and at the same time striking forth wii.h his right arm as though he would smi t a foe, he cried out: ''Ee said, fWeI strike them right here. We'll s|t ike them right here.'" And with a rep etition of Lees words the arm agair shot forth. The guide told how Pick. ett's men had marched to their deatf across the wheat field.
 What is the distance from here tc where they emerged from the woods?' asked Longstreet, abruptly
 Exactly one. mile and quar. CT, , was the response.
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