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The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-01-29

RAIDS and Lanes soldiers and the Con-
federates was close and deadly Prison
ers and flags were gathered in, the guns
recovered and turned upon the Confed-
crates. and the works were retaken ana
held. Stanley's horse was killed under
him, and he himself, while swinging
his hat to cheer ON his men, received
most exasperating wound from bullet
which plowed a cash three inches III
length across the nape of his neck close
to the spine Ignoring this painful, not
to say dangerous, hurt, he remained on
the ground until the line was reorgan-
lied, Opdycke's brigade and the rallied
troops of Conrad and Lane in the recap
tured works with the guns in their pos
session, confidence restored all along the
line and victory in sight, if not already
complete
Next TO the personal bearing Of Stan
lev and Opdycke and the conduct of OPP
dycke's regiments, interest centers upon
the action of the troops under Conrad
and Lane after retiring from the ex-
treme front to the Twenty-third corps
breastworks
General Opdycke, in narrative
printed in 1881, said:
General Stanley added his effort to rally
under a very heavy fire Of musketry the scat
tered troops to the support OF the men at the
resained works. also LANE had held some
OF his men to the works "
General Thomas official report Of
the battle says that Stanley was ''se-
verely wounded while engaged in rally
ing portion of his command.
General J. D. Cox, commanding the
Twenty third corps. states in his Off
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-01-29

Wagner's Conrad and Lane's) mem"
"The most strenuous efforts. :" says the same
document, "were made by all the officers
along that part of the line {the broken line
near the pike) to rally the men and were so
far successful that the line was quickly re
stored the left Of the pike"
The works adjoining the pike on the
left were where Conrad's men crossed.
That officers report says that his troops
halted inside the works and would have
rallied, but the men Of the Twenty
third corps, stationed there, became
panic stricken aud commenced to leave.
Conrad's own men then became shaky
and commenced retiring, but soon rail-
lied and went back to the works and
fought until all was over. Conrad COM
manded six regiments The colonies
Of each Of these regiments reported in
detail that their men halted, formed and
fought at the main line.
Colonel Lane stated in his report that
delay and confusion were caused in get
ting his men into the works by the
abatis in front, but that five out of his
six regiments formed quickly behind
the works and fired volley at the Con-
federates closely pursuing. The colonel
of the Ninety seventh Ohio, of Lanes
ULlEdOSp LSpOINSu bld5 lu0 dDlSlS UTOh6
up his line, but that the men formed
inside the works, doubling upon the
Twenty third corpg ranks, and then oc-
cured confusion in the commands
IN support Of these statements the
colonel of the One Hundredth Ohio, a
Twenty corps regiment stationed
at the pike. says that Conrad's men
came over the works and filed and
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-01-29

The Rev. Libbie Van Horn has been
recently chosen pastor of the Nelson
Street Methodist Protestant church in
Syracuse.
The Old Soldier Tells OF His Going Away
and of His Home Coming.
my last recollection of the camp in
which we were mustered in, said the
old soldier, was of my mother. We
had been in camp for days, for weeks,
in fact, filling up the regiment and
drilling ana getting equipped, and get
ting ready generally. Finally we were
mustered in, and the next day after that
we started.
''It was nightfall when we fell in for
the last time III the company streets Of
our first camp and marched out and
formed on the color line, There was
great crowd there, relatives and friends
and sightseers come to see the regiment
off. IN front of my own company l
could see my father and mother, come
to see the last of their boy before he
went to war was the apple of my
mothers eye. l knew that, and had
expected to see her break down com
pletely when the regiment marched
away, but she stood as firm as a rock.
when the regiment came home, we
IuaTCQeO up through luS suI1le 5t1etb
that we had marched down years before
might again, it was, too-with band
of music, with fireworks flying every
where, and with crowds on the side
walk cheering, to the town hall, where
| there was banquet, with a speech from
| the mayor, and so on. When this was
| nearly over, my father and my brother,
| who had come to meet me, went homo
| to tell my mother / was coming.
Home was half a mile or more
| away. a bunch of Us, men of the regi-
ment, started from the hall together.
| They fell off one after another, until
| finally ! went on alone along the IA
| miliar street. 1t was bright moonlight.
Far ahead, at the corner of the street
| down which I must turn for home |
saw her. She was waiting.
| when / had come to her, she lifted
up her hands and pronounced my name,
that was all, and then her arms were
about my neck, and my old blue over
coat was wet with her falling tears.
Her son had come home. New York
| SnD
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-01-29

r 4 n K L I n
fought Nov. 80,
1869 was, for its
proportions, the
grandest battle
of the war. ;"
This is the esti-
mate Of the his
torian of the Ar
my of the Cum
berland and biog-
rapher Of its
great command
er, Thomas B,
Van Horne. Van
Horne wrote his
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-01-29

~-E8 Horne wrote his
h fory Of the Army of the Cumberland
a. the request of General Thomas from
T omas private journal and other doc
III ents furnished by him.
In concluding his summary of Frank
liz Van Horne says: 1.-The salient fea-
lures Of this battle were the position
and action Of the two bTigades posted
in front al the main line and the gal
lantry Of the Third after the enemy had
carried the iutrenchments ON Carriers
Hill. " The brigades referred to We're
Conrad's, Lanes and Opdycke's, con-
shutting Wagner division of Stanley's
Fourth corps, and the trenches on Car
ter's Hill, carried by the enemy and re-
covered through the activity of OPP
dycke's brigade, were in the Twenty
third corps line. Opdycke's brigade, in
charging forward, recaptured eight guns
seized by the Confederates in the bro
ken Twenty third corps line.
General Thomas said that the battle
Of Franklin saved Nashville and that
the battle of Franklin itself was saved
by Opdycke's brigade of SANKEY'S
Fourth corps. Using the same course of
reasoning. General Stanley saved the
battle of Franklin by his activity and
firmness during the preceding "a hours.
The forces engaged at Franklin, the
Fourth and Twenty third corps, be-
longed to the army Of General Thomas,
who was at Nashville. The two corps
were acting as one body, and General
Schofield, commander of the Twenty
third corps was in command Thomas
had ordered Schofield to march in retro
grade before Hoods army of Confeder-
ates from the banks of the Duck river
along the Columbia pike, past Franklin
and across the Harpeth river at that
point, with all possible haste toward
Nashville. But Hood nearly spoiled the
game the evening before Franklin was
TO ght by throwing Forests cavalry
an the advance of two corps of infantry
ar md Schofield's column on each flank
an interoepting the retreat at Spring
HI several hours march south OF
Franklin.
Stanley and his corps had the lead of
Schofield s column, and with an energy
al 100 rare in the war he drove Forrest
away from Spring Hill. bluffed Hood s
corps and division commanders, and kept
the Confederates at arms length, while
Schotield's wagon trains and artillery
and infantry of the Twenty third corps
marched through under cover of the
darkness on the retreat toward Frank.
liz AT daylight on the 3Oth Hood
again pushed forward, and Stanley
troops bringing up the rear, kept the
Ccufederatcs in check all the way tc
Franklin
Sohnfeld had no intention of making
3nklin, but in order tC
CO. the ing Of Harpeth river sta.
tic i, bl twenty third corps upon
a e alo 1e village from bank tc
balE on fhc south side.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-01-29
STANLEYS RIDE.
STIRRING EPISODE OF THE BATTLE
OF FRANKLIN. NOV. 80, 1864.

Gallant Action OF stanIey's Fourth Corps
On the Wa-ch to Fraulzliu-z2isaster to
EIis outpost BriEades-Hi= Dash to the
zrrons-w wounded In the Fight.
TCo1yright 1897. by American Press Asso-
ci-tL-r Eo0ll rights reserNeo.l
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-01-29

cial report that Stanley arrived on the
scene at Carriers Hill Sin time to take
an active part in the effort to rally
Wagner's (Conrad's and Lane's) men,"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-16
INTERNATIONAL BIMErALLIsM

There is much of adverse criticism
found in the papers of the country dur
ing the last few days. over Senator
on the currency question. The opposi-
ton organs set it down that the New
Hampshire senator, who is free silver
Republican, received no encouragement
whatever, but that, upon the other
hand. the president minated to him
quite strongly that the Gage program
of a gold standard and the retirement
of the greenback was to be the policy
OF the administration. This is the Dem
ocratic and Populstic side of the story.
Upon the other hand, the Republican
papers assert that the president most
emphatically professed his belief in a
bimetaIlic currency currency and stout
IL asserted his determination TO stand
squarely upon the 81. Louis platform.
Senator Chandler is convinced himself
international bimetallism as he ever
stood. and nearly if not quite as hope
full. 1t would probably be better to
quote the presidents own words. as ne
is reported having uttered them he
said that he stands firmly in favor Of
international bimetalIism. as promised
by the St Louis convention: that he
considers the negotiations with the Eu-
ropean powers only temporarily sus-
pended on account OF the peculiar con-
dition OF affairs in India and that he
intends 10 send his ENJOYS back 10 Eu-
rope as soon as the conditions are fav-
orable for continuing the negotiations
To this declaration Senator Chandler
added MS Own cc<yiction that in his
opinion the president IL Just as much
and just as earnestly in favor OF the
use Of both metals as standard money
as he himself. That ought TO settle the
controversy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-16
LIKE ROCKET STICKS.

The people Of the country at large,
for the past week, have been reading of
men of whom they never had heard.
They are the men who engineered the
fight against Hanna in Ohio. They
have been heard from, but will be
heard of no more. That Hanna and
his backing will wipe the earth with
this ambitious crew there is not the
least doubt. They were but a small
contingent who attempted to take ad-
vantage of political contingency to lay
Hanna out, snub President Mckinley,
and foist themselves into power. Their
failure means political extinction not
only for themselves but for a number
Of bigger fellows who backed and
banked upon them, including Governor
Bushnell. Even Foraker, as the senior
senator from that state, must play sec
ond fiddle, if he plays any fiddle at all
during the present administration. The
man Kurtz, who engineered the failing
coalition, was formerly Governor Fora
ker's private secretary, by which he
came to after recognition as a political
factor and central committeeman. He
being small potatoes will be readily dis
posed of and buried. The man who it
was expected would be elected instead
of Hanna, is young McKisson, the
mayor of Hannas own city, Cleveland.
He is bright but unprincipled, and in
his attempt to go up like a rocket he
falls a very dead stick. He is only 81
years old and his political career has
Kurtz- Mclean Bushnell combine be-
cause of his free silver prOclivities. 1t
was not McKisson's craftsmanship,
however. that made him the choice Of
the plotters, but because of the readi-
ness with which he agreed to swallow
the Chicago platform, and his availa-
bility on that account with the Demo-
Gratis. He will not only be repudiated
by his own party but annihilated by
the Hanna forces. The treachery Of
Bushnell ct al seems a political mex
plicability. They all cast their chances
for the future on a single throw and in
throwing, lost. They deserve no SYM
pathy. Their acts cannot be condoned.
BY their treachery they threatened the
permanency of our great political in
stitutions and organizations in that
they defied the will of the people as ex-
pressed at the polls by majority, and
their fate is deserved
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-16
Along the ksnsa5 Nib

Sterue has named the first deputy mar
shall Don Willis of Fredonla.
Like the geese cyclones travel south TIA
winter and north In summer The visit
20 Kansas Is scheduled ln the late spring
IL ~ now believed that - r.. sipes. che
rich business man of Arkansas city whp
was found IN his room dead. committed
suicide.
Think OF Colonel Carter n CarterHville
denying that he lived at CaFte-syi.Ie. HUt
Colonel Toier % Toieryilio has luat done
that thing.
Fred Funston VA iu Cuba so long that
not only were bis two ieEr broken. his
hip and bis lungs broken. bHt the English
be speaks is broken.
Two young fellows ar Fort Scott dress
ed up ia yomens clothes. went 90 a SAL
/ walton Army meeting and firted Win tie
boys They were arreafrd.
More licenses 60 seu liquor were ISSUED
in Kansas Iaa: ye4r than ever iasaed et-
thcr ll Ala1a1aa. Arkarras pT hflasauTl
The number of lig4or .ieenFez .ar4rl ia
Kansas was Z-ss
Public oyuioH in Kansas haa arrirsa
az the analytical STAGE where every slime
auv one ls mentioned f1r Office a crowd
done f5r the party
State C0aI c8 iurgect0T Wharton Pc
fuses 10 file au ifemlzcd statement re- his
expense srd dlsbufrsEns Eff although
ordered 20 De- 30 bg State Auditor Morris.
Morris says h. viu compel wharton %
o. b.
Some day q terrih.le homes man u1ii sg-
pear fra Kansas poilf4cs NtH fhe calm
THAT be nae never done anything foF ths
parry ana HeFsr irtsn6a 20 O. aagfhiaz
fort lie NiH azs fsr oe.,e IN thls ..laf-
fora ard tbe people wiLi iriampuanflT
eIect him.
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see II IL artrIe - saF ftat nau -
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-16
JAPAN NOT INSIGNIFICANT,

The world has considered Japan of
small Importance as power, incapable
of influencing civilization and as a gov
ernmental factor among the powers of
no consequence. But a change has
come over the dream of the world. ia
Pan is but an island of the sea. But
only so is Great Britain. Japan II
found to have a population and wealth
far in excess of the worlds former es-
Inmates. The census of Japan was
taken December 81. 1896, and the re-
turns are now partially aggregated.
The population of the empire, exclusive
of the island of Formosa, acquired since
the war with China. is AZ, 70S, 264. This
makes a respectable aggregate and
demonstrates the power of Japan pref
ty we'll The nation has benefited so
fast in all that modern civilization can
offer. and has added so much to it's
military and naval equipment, and ex-
tended it's resources so much by for
eign trade, that, despite the fact that
China outnumbers it in population 10
to l, Japan is the principal power in
Asiatic seas. It's insular situation COM
peis it to depend largely on it's navy,
and in that respect it is fast becoming
the England of the Orient.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-16

Things that fifty years ago would have
been considered belonging to the realm
of the supernatural, if not TO the i'm
possible, are now matter of fact things.
| Not long ago the newspapers had ac-
counts of Chicago alchemist who had
really and truly discovered the long
sought secret of transmitting baser
metals into gold. There was king of
Saxony $50 years ago who believed that
one of his subjects had found the phil
osopher's stone and he put UP money
| literally to bring about the golden sue
cess which sanguine workers in alem-
bics told him was near at hand. The
king was fooled, which does not so
the beginning of history have usually
been the tools of sharper men. Gold
bricks have, as old tradition avouches,
never failed to find occasional grasping
purchasers, but who would have
thought so large a company of capable
Chicago business men would have put
up the funds for a furnace to produce
gold from anthony as the collapse of
Chicago alchemists revealed? Another
of these capable men stands revealed
in New Jersey. He is not an alchemist
but diviner An instrument in the
form of a box, filled with a mysterious
glittering powder, and having handles
of whalebone is the means used for dis
covering treasure under ground or I'M
der water. box, supposed to be OF
Capt Kids concealing, further sup
posed to contain many golden guineas,
was located by means of this New
Jersey device on the shores of Della
ware bay. Kidd's box of guineas was
found, but somehow it got away before
the discoverer could return with CRAP
ping hooks land SIGH to fish it up.
To test the merit of New Jersey divin-
alton a committee of wise Philadel-
phians was sent down. They buried
in a place known 70 themselves guam
tity of gold coin and a gold watch. The
diviner came and one of the Philadel-
phians assisting, the box incontinently
led both men, or rather twisted both
TO the exact spot where the gold lay in
the earth. A doctor next blindfolded
the diViner and conducted him in pres
ence of the committee to a spot where
the dial on the box turned and pointed
to the Mt Holly bank, and the box it
self twisted it's whalebOne handles.
There was gold for sure in this bank.
step in another direction and the
needle pointed to the Union bank, on
the opposite side of the street, also in
dubitably containing gold. There is
therefore no doubt in the minds of the
committee that the New Jersey divin-
ing box is better than the Kelley mo-
tor: also that it will be in demand by
Klondike explorers and others wher
ever their lot may be cast who are
after buried gold. A mandatory is
to be started and whatever demand
there may be for such instruments of
divination as will show the gold in the
earth or under water or in the vaults
of a bank, will be supplied. The mar
ket has not been fOrestalled by the
Chicago alchemist and his enterprise.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-16
The Decay OF English Humor.

We wonder II the habit Of humorous
thought which was $50 marked in SIR
Frank lockwood. who vas not exactly a
witty man. is decreasing among us. DO
certainly comes much less 60 the front.
perhaps from the fears 0f which We have
been speaking The almost entire disar-
nezrance 81 true humorfets from the
House Of Coumous-Mr wallace is nearly
the last. II not the fast. 81 the raee-i-
proof sufficient 81 that fact and there H
also the noteworthy decline go humorous
poatry and even - many kinds ~ hu-
norous prose % cpiEram there 81 pieuty.
n satire q llftle and tEe supply ~ bitter
sometime healthy. s0mctimes NOR
bi4-Scrue- endless. bot humor in its Sider
sense Is confined 10 the bo1s- - lords
Lord Salisbury dare jest and Lord Roaa-
berf5 smile.
A. the reputation Increases. and haH rot
changed iH its character iH which hsr1nr
has Away te,u % permanent eleneU-
there can no; De- iess r i- than therr wac.
and Ne are forced tD slppDsa that causes
arc AZ y.orS % hirh induce those wa1 p0r-
sess BE- 70 Keep Sc back They fancy u wii!
tell aga inst thcra 81 some way. and. ~ o.
ive- wendell Holmes said ir jest hardly
dare tY ue a- fu1ay aH t1ey could we
believe tH.s S. true and fhat ln au aFe
NOT innocent - frltolity she e1arEe - ies-
ity Is rreafiy dreaded by she sfroHz Bn-
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RAGS. too. ls no- fasgraJ.a - hun1r. fHe
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-16

McNalrs that the New York Mutual
Life nav a certain claim before it had
been adjudicated by the courts, to
which it had been appealed, resulted in
judicial mix which threatened clash
| between the Jurisdiction of Kansas as
state and the national government.
Had this occurred, the Pop party would
have been supremely happy. A decis-
ion was rendered, in a quo warranto
proceeding brought by Attorney Gen
eral Boyle. demanding Of the New York
Life TO show by what authority 1t was
doing business in Kansas without a IL
cense. which license had been withheld
by McNalI because the company would
not pay for the life of a fellow who
five juries had successfully failed to
find had been killed or to even agree
was dead. Judge Williams issued re-
straining order against Attorney Cen
eral Boyle of Kansas, and so the state
and federal authorities found them
selves in an unpleasant and seemingly
threatening attitude. The Pop supreme
court Of Kansas having now rendered
it's decision and in accordance with the
acts and wishes of the Pop administra-
ton, and the New York Life having
withdrawn it's business from the state,
there will probably be no more trouble
nor further appeal, but after all the
state has been damaged more than the
company in that the people Of the state
are denied the opportunity of doing
business with an undeniably solid COM
pany, and that the company will not
only not now invest any of it's funds in
the erection of a great building in some
city of the state but will make no more
loans on Kansas property. In other
words, Kansas, through a prejudiced
official and narrow policy, is money
ont