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The age-herald., 1898-02-20

hoped to have been spared, but a righteous God has ordered :t otherwise, and I feel prepared to trust my case in His hands. Farewell to you all! Pray God may receive my soul. Your affectionate son,
 In his last moments he had thought of the old mother and the loved ones at home and with a soul burning with patri- otic fire that death could only extinguish, and with love of the cause for which he gave up his life, John Moseley died
 John Moseley, Jim Rankin, Jim Smith and I went into that battle, the survivors of a large mess. When the battle was over John was dead, and Jim Smith and I were left terribly wounded on the battlefield to fall into the hands of the enemy. His captors, when his brave spirit went up to his God, wrapped John in his blanket and gave him a soldiers grave where he fell. He had rejoined his company while the battle was fiercely raging, when by sulking he might have saved his life.
 The government of the United States honoring the memory of the soldiers of the union who gave up their lives in defense of their country's flag, has marked the graves of each dead soldier by marble head and foot stones, and each year a grateful peo- pie covers their graves with flowers. The grave of brave John Moseley is unmarked unknown. The cause for which he gave up his life is "The Lost Cause" and will know no resurrection. We are made to feel that 1t is reproach to have followed the south ern cross; to have fought and lost was to have been criminally wrong. Only the survivors, who are now like the flag they followed-worn and battle riven-talk of the fearful ordeal through which we passed, It is even considered bad history for our children to learn. But, comrades build high the camp fires; tell over your brave deeds. and keep green while you live the memory of the brave fellows who fell at your side. 9.
 I sometimes feel that in valhaia, when at the roll call of the long line of heroes unknown to fame on earth, "the name of John w. Moseley is reached and his he- role spirit steps forth and salutes, it will be answered for him, "He died on the field of battle," believing his cause just and trusting in his God. Comradel Brave comradel Rest in peace! It does not mat ter that your country has forgotten you: you fought and died for ''The Lost Cause"
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;ense fires and hissing steam they pre- tent at first view Just imagine twen- ,ne acres of such a bewildering scene that is what the great plant is And 75 per cent of the twenty-one acres Is cov- hred with buildings. All the acres are covered with buildings, tracks, or piles of materials. There are four miles of stand ard gauge track in the grounds, and the company owns two locomotives and ten flat cars, besides a travelling steam crane that is a marvel of strength and adapta- bility
 The Wrought Iron
 so largely consumed in these mills, Is made under two great roofs, each S20 feet long and 90 feet wide. These are called Forge Mo- r and Forge No. g." In these great buildings are eleven double and twenty four single pudding furnaces, into which pig iron-plaan pig iron-is Ted direct from fiat cars, together with the needful amount of coal and other material. In the myste- rious depths of those furnaces, the pig iron is transformed into an excellent quail tty of wrought iron, and is then taken by great cranes to rolls that fashion 1t into preliminary shape The capacty of these hours.
 In one of the pudding departments is an extra stand of rolls and a new gas fur mace for the heating of steel and other material. Tlnis extra stand of rolls Is used 10 reduce steel dngoTtS and iron piles to sheet or tin bar or to billets for
 The Finishing Departments which stand between the F'orges, and are perhaps larger and busder than the latter. Here we find a 16-inch bar mill, with nec-
The age-herald., 1898-02-20

essary egine, and two large gas furnaces; two S-inch guide mdlls, each having an en- zine and a furnace; one high plate mfll equipped with 72-inch finishing rools driven direct by "a large engine, and also two gas furnaces; one high firebed mill, and gas furnace and two sheet mills for making stove pipe, roofing and like thin material. These finishing mills are each and all of modern construction, and they are suffi- ciently strong to roll steel as we'll as iron. The sheet and firebed mills are equipped with annealng devices, both box and open fire, together with mighty shears for shear ing up the product. These various mills are crowded with rolls that squeeze the metal as it is passed through them into the thousand and one forms that a com plex covilization calls for. Some of the rolls turn out sheets not much thicker than writing paper Oftentimes plates are called for thirty feet long, and of all widths up to sixty or seventy inches. The ca- pacity of the finishing mills is 250 gross tons every twenty-four hours, or about 60,000 tons a year. And thesie mlls roll not only a wide range of shapes and sizes in iron. but they also turn out many forms in sheet-many that could not be made in iron. Here, too, is seen a complete
 Machine Shop,
 for the repair or reproduction of any part of the intricate machinery we have been inspecting. The lathes and planers and
The age-herald., 1898-02-20
MTHE GREAT STEEL PLANT AND ROLLING MILL x
 One of the Greatest of Birmingham Industries.

over any other steel made in this country. In one of the steel furnaces no scrap Iron is used; in the other 40 per cent. or scrap is used; and one furnace turns out as good steel as the other. The basic pig at pres ent used in the steel mill comes from Alice furnace. Basic pig differs from common pig in several important respects. It con tains very little phosphorus or silicon, ana scarcely a trace of sulphur Near the steel plant is located
 The Laboratory,
 in charge of Dr. w. B. Phillips, chemist. Among other things in this department or the works is a Reihle testing machine-a powerful machine that takes a piece or steel and determines what its tensile strength is, what its ductility is, and Its elongation, and its reduction of area By means of this machine the steel made Ill these mills is kept rigidly up to standard. Birmingham steel will soon be as favorabiy known as Birmingham iron is. These mills
 Are Run Day and Night.
 In most of the departments only two shifts of men are employed, but in the more exacting departments the work Is done by three shifts, each serving eight hours This is the case in the pudding de- partment and the light sheet finishing mills Thirteen hundred men are em- ployed. These men represent about 6cOO people, or about one-tenth of the citys en-
The age-herald., 1898-02-20
NEW FIND OF HUGO LETTERS.
Interesting Pictures of His Economy in Early
 Life.

Paris Letter to the Philadelphia Ledger.
 Some interesting letters written from Victor Hugo to his wife during his exile in Brussels in 1s51-52 have just been published here for the first time. They show the great poet in a very human light, for he writes, as it were, in his dressing gown and slippers in the most unaffected and chatty manner possible. Thus in one of the earliest of the letters he urges his wife to be economical, and to take pains to carefully eke out the money that he has left her. He himself, he says, has enough to go on with for some time, for 100 francs will amply suffice him for months ex- penses. His lodging cost him but one franc a day, his breakfast half franc, his din- ner franc and @ quarter and his fire 25 centimes. The remaining 10 francs, he de- cares, will suffice to pay his laundress and to defray his little out-of-pocket ex- penses. His son, Charles, was living on the same scale This is how the poet spent his day: T rise at o'clock in the morn- ing and call Charles, who, nevertheless
 stays in bed. I then work, keeping on till noon, the breakfast hour. At sit down again to work and stay writing till din- ner; then until 10 strolling about or mak- ing calls. From 10 to midnight work. At midnight make my bed and lie down. The sheets are hardly bigger than table napkins, and the blankets are the size of a small table cloth. I have invented a mode of knitting them together so as to have my feet covered and will unravel the knitting before I give up the room. have the bed to air every day, and make it every evening. Charles sleeps like top" In another letter he describes his call on M. Rogier, the minister of the interior, to whom he was very frank concerning his intentions. Hugo told him that he consid- cred it was his duty to write the history of the events he had just witnessed in Paris while they were fresh in his memory He
The age-herald., 1898-02-20

Out on Thirteenth street and Avenue B is great factory. By means of the mills own switches it is really located on every railroad that enters Birmingham. It is the Birmingham rolling mill and steel plant, established in 1880. In all the southern country there is no other steel mill, and in all the country there are only two jobbing mills that exceed in size Bir- mingham's great factory. One is located in Pittsburg and one in Youngstown, O. The Birmingham mill comes next in the
 Tobbing Mills.
 A jobbing mill is a mill that makes from iron and steel nearly everything the people want It is not confined to two or three forms. It makes hundreds of different sizes of merchant, bar, band, hoop, angle and shafting iron, round edge tire, sheet plate tank and boiler iron, firebox, flanges, bridge, car, blow and wagon iron, T rails from eight to thirty pounds per yard, tram and strap rails, angle and plain Fish bars coal screens, small channels-anything in fact, that can be made from the best pud- died iron or steel. In order to promptly meet any wants that may arise, the com pany carries at all times an assortment of these articles amounting to fully 2,OOO tons
 The Mills Themselves.
 What tangle of tracks and stacks, in-
The age-herald., 1898-02-20
HOW JOHN ". M0SELY DIED.
 ON THE FIELD OF GETTYSBURG
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 rades passed over his body. After a few minutes my attention was called to man who wearily and painfully lay down a few feet away I recognized him as my com- rade and messmate, John Moseley, and asked him why he was there. He replied that sick and exhausted he had been un- able to keep up with the charging line or battle, and wanted to know if he could assist me, as he saw me lying in a pool of my own blood. Upon being told that our comrades had, as he could hear, already struck the main line of the enemy, al- though bullets were then tearing through the forest and falling like hail all about us, he rose and went forward. l never saw him again. From comrade Of the same regiment who was captured with him. I learned short time after the battle, that John fell mortally wounded on the top of the mountain just in front of the ene- mys line, and in few hours died. rms comrade stated that before dying John had written a letter to his old mother in Buck ingham. During the fall of 1863 that letter found its way into the newspapers or the country and awakened the deepest sym- pathy. Only few days ago was think ing of John and how could get copy or the letter. Yesterday in an "old DOCK store'' I picked up an old book Of songs' anecdotes and incidents of the civil war, and strange to say found this long lost let ter which instantly recognized. Trusting that 1t may awaken memories in the bos- oms of the old soldiers and furnish les- son of heroism to our young men, here give the letter:
 Battlefield, Gettysburg, July 4, 1Ses
 Dear Mother-I am here prisoner or war and mortally wounded can live put few hours at farthest. I was shot fifty yards from the enemy's line. They have been exceedingly kind to me. I have no doubt as to the final result of this battle, and I hope may live long enough to hear the shouts of victory before die. am very weak. Do not mourn my loss, I had
The age-herald., 1898-02-20
BY w. c. WARD.

The neglect of the old soldiers of "the lost cause" the absence of sympathy for them and the admiration of all that is re- cent persuasive that the spirit of heroism md the chivalrous love of the heroic are dying out in the south. In a materialistic age. when only the present seems to have any value. it may be pardonable in one who belongs to the past to exhume from the grave of memory an incident singular In US pathos and grand in heroism. Men like Lee and Jackson belong to no country or age, and stand out prominently as the heritage of all the world for all time. But the nameless heroes who sleep in unmarked graves deserve to be set before the young pople of this time and country, that the godlike in man be not extingulsneo. Alter the lapse of thirty-fve years may be ai- lowed to bring to view an instance of de- voted, heroic patriotism that outlives "the razure of time and the tooth of oblivion"
 In April. 1861, John w. Moseley, young man, the son of g widow who lived in Buck ingham county, Va, and himself prosper ous book merchant in Marion, Ala, gave up his business and enlisted as private in Company G, Fourth Alabama regiment. He was always present for duty-was al- ways in the march to meet the foe and never missed a battle. On the 1st of July, 1863, Laws brigade, then at Chambers burgh, Penn, was thrown off to the right and south to New Guilford, as corps of observation. About 2 a. m. July the brt- gade was aroused and began the march over the mountain to Gettysburg. There was no halt until, after march of twen- ty-five miles or more, we. came to front in line of battle before Little Round Top mountain. Immediately we were ordered to charge. The enemy had been driven from the stone fence far back up the wood covered slope of the mountain, when the writer fell badly wounded, and his com-
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tire population The monthly pay rolls foot up $40, ,O0O-about $5O0,000 year. These figures not only show the immensity of the plant, but they also show what an ele- ment of strength they are in this indus trial city.
 The Products of the Mill
 are sold all the way from the South At lantic coast to the Pacific, the trade In California being very satisfactory. St. Louis is connected with the mills by the Louisville and Nashville, there being a switch from its main line into the com panys property. The company's goods are also freely sent into Mexico, and the hope is that a trade in the West Indies and South America can soon be built up.
 The Management.
 The men upon whom the task falls or keeping this complicated establishment in continuous operation are President James G. Caldwell, General Manager Thomas Ward, General Superintendent John D. Dwyer and Secretary w. w. Hite Upon their shoulders rests the task of securing each week to a small army of people their pay, of making month in and month out articles as good, perhaps little better, than their competitors make, of finding markets for all the goods they can make, and of securing men, machines and mate rial at all times and under all circum- stances to feed nearly fifty voracious fur naces. It is enough to give one a headache to even suggest the work done In the com pany's offices, and yet it is done so sys- tematically and quietly that to an outsider 1t scarcely seems task at all
The age-herald., 1898-02-20
STEEL PENS.
The Demand Is Increasing Steadily All the
 Time.

"The demand for steel pens," said large wholesale dealer in this line of trade in New York to a writer for the Star, lis annually increasing, despite the enormous use of typewriting machines throughout the world. It is estimated that no less 6OOO, 900 gross or S64, 900 900 steel pens were sold in the United States last year. Of these about 4S2, ,OOO, ,OOO, or just half the to- tai number of pens consumed here, were manufactured in this country and the rest came from Germany, France and Eng land. Prior to the civil war only a small number of steel pens were produced In America, but in 1860 pen factory was es- tablished by an Englishman in Camden, N. J. For two or three years this manufac- turer only employed ten or twelve hands. Today the works give steady occupation to over 500 people, wno turn out about 1,SoO,oOo gross of pens yearly.
 '.The first metallic pen Is said to have been made by a man named Harrison in Birmingham England, in 17S0 These pens were made by hand for over quarter or century. They were punched out of thin sheet of steel and then rounded into par rel shape. The place where the slit was to be was marked with a sharp chisel and be- fore tempering this was tapped with small hammer until 1t cracked, which mark formed the slit. From such crude beginnings has our modern steel pen evolved.
 ITO such a state of perfection has pen making machinery been brought coupled with the division of labor and keen compe- tition of trade, that several firms now have an output of from 20 0,000 to 30,000 gross per week. The total production in Birming- ham, the greatest center in the world for pen making, is reckoned at 100000 gross, or 23,O00,OOO pens per week. The number and variety of patterns now made In this country and in England is hardly credible. One of the prominent American manufact- urers turns out as many as 2,O00 different styles of pens, and a leading maker in Bir- mingham has catalogue of 5000 varieties, which he keeps in stock, while many other patterns are made to order
 After taking Hoods Sarsaparilla all ,I1,a
The age-herald., 1898-02-20

After taking Hoods Sarsaparilla all symptoms of rheumatism soon disappear. Get only Hoods.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-06-17

co. Watkins and f. G. Hansell OF
the Webb Ridge country were circu-
Iating petition for aid in building a
county road from their country to con-
d IT with the main Tammany road at
the G ,cdnight ranch. They were
aided literally by the merchants aud
desire to express thanks for the con,
tribu ,ions received Webb ridge has
5000 acres of grain to be marketed IN
! Lewiston.
Geo. J. Johnson, OF Lewiston and
Miss Lucille Bunnell, of Joseph, Ore
gon, were united in marriage Wednes-
dav evening at the home of Fred
Kroutinger. Rev. T. f. Sherman Off
ciating. The couple have host of
friends here who extend congratula-
! tions.
! Geo. Kester returned from Julia.
/ eta Sunday, where for the past ten
days he has been engaged in shipping
out the grain stored at that point in
the ware houses of Kester x ketten-
bach.
| Mrs. +. Baumistar, of Asotin, re
/ turned yesterday from Waila Walla
accompanied 10y her daughter, Mrs.
DR.. Williams, of Durango, Cal.
MIR. and Mrs. Jas. T. Babb have
moved their apartments aud are now
located with Mrs. Davis in the Mallory
property on Main street.
Prof. Mathes and Miss Carl will leave
at once for Pendleton where they are
to work two weeks In summer
! normal.
On June 18th by a vote of POI t0 81
the house adopted Newland's resolu-
ton providing for the anne xation OF
Hawaii.
+ d. w. Hannah and James McGrane
Sr. started for the reservation today t.
resume their appraisment of school
lands.
Jno. p. Vollmer and daughters are
now enroute from New York to Lewis.
ton. They started home yesterday.
Miss Nellie Pope will arrive Mon.
day from Chicago to remain during
the summer.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-06-17
NOAMAL COMMENCEMENT.
A Successful Year of Normal Work
Closed with this Weeks
Exercises.
Graduation Last Night
The Class of 1895 Entertained a Great Crowd
at the Auditorium Last Night

Normal auditorium was filled to
overtlowing last night with citizens
and visitors who assembled to hear the
exercises OF the graduating class.
Standing room was at a premium by
eight O'Clock, and many were turned
away after that hour, being unable to
get into the room.
About $50 the distinguished visitors
took their place upon the rostrum.
Governor Steunenberg, Secretary
Lewis and Regents Forney, Truit and
Martin accompanying the Normal
Board OF Trustees. Then to the music
of an inspIrating march the Normal
faculty and members OF the graduating
class took their places. Seventeen
young ladies make up the class af 1898.
No gentleman applied. The popular
ratio of Is to was eclipsed 10y the
newer ratio Of II too. AS the class Of
1898 faced the audience last night the
consenses of opinion, if taken, would
have been that we could challenge
Idaho, or the Northwest, to produce
its superior.
a glance at the program Of the even
ing showed quite a formidable
list of subjects, all Of a nature purely
scientific, being the unfolding of their
work in psychology, but from the OPP
ening essay on "Education,' to the
valedictory on Couture" their was
neither drag, delay nor cul!ness. The
mind readily followed the unfolding
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-06-17

thought of which each essay was a
part, and each speaker gave to the idea
in band new turn aud expression, a
grace of speech or characteristic em-
phssis that was, on the whole, very
pleasing. The musical selections that
interspersod the program were delight.
fully rendered. Below is the
PROGRAM.
Music. Miss Wlldenthaller.
Invocotion. Rev. }. d. McConkey
Salutat Ida May
Wagner.
The Mind. Bertha Belle r der.
| The Intellect. Ella Crawford.
| Sense Perception. Berna Sadie
Johnson.
Object Lessons Lillian Rogers.
The Memory. Iuez Herbert.
| Vocpl Solo. Cora Coburn.
The Imagination. Lillian Clemans
Thinking. Eula Christina Ward.
Reasoning. Bernice Mccoy.
Science Teaching. Emma Louise
! Gregory.
The Sen,ibilty. Laura Patton.
The Fine Arts. Emma Louise
GriiiithS.
NtcaI Solo Mrs. Thompson.
Wait. Florence May Stevenson.
Freedom of VIII. Hannah Spack
man.
Conscience. Hest r NJ. Spackman
| Course of Study. Laura May
Knepper.
Naicdictoly-Culture. Jennie Ma,
Harrington.
| Vocal Solo. Claire Monteith.
After the valcdictory President
Knepper, in Il few well chosen re
marks, presented the class to the boart
of trustees for graduation, and Jas. w
Reid as chairman of the board present
Ell them their diplomas, commendin,
them for meritorious work, and tn
facnlty for the success OF the Institu
tions first commencement.
BACCALAUREATE SERMON.
The exercises OF the week begal
Sunday evening when DIR. A. p. Cool
of Spokane, delivered the baccalaureat
sermon at the normal auditorium
A fine audience gathered to hear tb
: noted pulpit orator and the discours
was one worthy of the highest CON
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-06-17
Terrific Hail Storm.

Jas. f. Robnett, of Patal,a, writes to
his father here that on Monday eve
ming violent storm of rain and hail
visited h,s place 81 miles this side oi
Pataha and totally destroyed has entire
crop of wheat, 400 acres in all splen'
did crop just heading out. The storm
also stripped all of his vines and trees
of fruit and killed 100 chickens. Hail.
stones fell to the depth of eight inches
and ranged III sizes from small marble.
to hens eggs. The damage was con
fined almost wholly to the small striI
included in Mr.. Rohnett's 6GO acre
farm. Grain on either side Of this il
not damaged preceptabIy.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-06-17

Word has been received from Jerome
creek that d. w. Eaves has made d
new strike on the Daisy mine, uncov-
ering ledge two feet in width of fine
appearing ore. All recent tests OF
Daisy ore show 1t to be u valuable pro-
perty aud increasing depth discovers
additional richne IS.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-06-17

J. H. Bethel, jeweler and optician,
has opened a store IN the Eichent,erger
property, lately occupied by Judge
Thompson. His advertise ment ap-
pears IN this issue and the lublic IL
cordially invited to call aud inspect
the fine line of watches jewelry, clocks,
siIverwa-e and optical goods, and Il
share of patronage is solicited
Rev. A. NJ. Allyn, the Baptist mis-.
sionary, from Spokane, will preach H.
Lewiston next Sunday morning and
evening, at the Christian church, al
the usual hours. The public is cor
daily invited to be present.
The Ladies of the w. &. r. y. ex
press thanks to all who 40 kindl,
helped make their convention a sue
cess, 10y press work. fruit, flowers an,
entertaining delegates.