The evening times., 1902-07-11

Mr.. SeideH came to the department as /
a scientific aide but has achieved the /
position as assistant analyst
Mr.. Ronald Mcdonald, ofsNew York. I
has been promoted in the Office OF the /
record and pension office. War Depart /
ment.
4 Confederate veteran who has lately |
come to the city as department clerk /!
tells this story:
I have been living near where the /
Mason and Dixon line used 20 run. I
have received many patches OF circulars
in which the question: Do you want a
pension was displayed. These were /
sent out by numerous pension agents at |
Washington some time back. accom- /
panied each time by a series Of printed /
questions usually IN such literature /
They came so regularly that It struck
ne as being saving Of the raw ma
teTiaI to the industrious benefaCtOT Of
his race If I would take the trouble |
to answer his questions and give him my
command in the army.
Seeing that he had an o prefix 10 his /
name ! knew he was Irish sufficiently /
q 1
mailed him his category Of questions /
fully filed out with when and where
wounded and how. and fled an ac-
count for back pay from Gettysburg TO |
date. which ran up about SIS, 1913, /
but I generously said to him that as
there was nothing small about me but
my feet I would throw OF the odd dol |
lars and cents for the benefit OF these
worse stricken on the othe- side and
would make it even $15.000-then gave
my rank and regiment il the Confede-
Tate army
The prompt reply received assured
ne that By surmIse as TO an Irishman's 5 /
appreciating a joke was not misplaced |
Said he briefly: I regret to say Confede-
rate soldiers do not draw pensions at
this end Of the line No name, and I
viii rot give way my friend with the o.
before EIm by telling his name
Among the acquisitions to the folding
room force at the document section, De
partment Of Agriculture Is H. H. VIII
Jams, Of Iowa He is a highly inteIi-
gent colored man and has many friends
among the public men Of the West
The reports of the Kansas convention
of letter carriers shows that deter
mined effort was made to have the rural
carriers. under the free delivery ex-
pertinent made eligible to membership
IN the body Of letter carriers. The mo-
ion was lost after a spirited fight
4 department clerk who was old
enough at the close of the civil war TO
realize the horror of the situation in his
native State Of Alabama, has been tell
( the strongest men of the Confederacy.
/ General Forrest is the man who Is al
/ legged TO have said. when asked the best
tactics 10 Use: Cit thar fust with the
mostest men"
+ This Southern cIelk speaks Of the
time Just after the war. when General
Forrest, as president of P corporation.
undertook to build the Memphis and
Selma Railroad. It was n the evil days,
when negro labor. the main reliance,
was demoralized The carpetbaggers
from the North and the detestabIe
/ scaIIawaRs of the South joined hands
/ for revenue only. They had organized
I the negroes into loyal league camps
[ with midnight meetings. IN which con
fscatiCn OF the white mans belongings
and forty acres and a mule were the
slogans 70 infame the minds of these
children OF the cotton fields Mauy dark
deeds were being committed in the name
+ Of loyal leaguers. and the white popula-
I tion was so unsafe that a counter irri-
/ tant came as matter of course from
their side in the shape Of the KU KIUx
Khan. and General Forrest was every
where known as the grand cyclops OF
/ the gbOstly visitors. the Confederate
/ dead OF our late battlefields who rode
3 ~ g-1T- zv-g.v
winding sheets everywhere warning bad
F niggers and carpetbaggers and scala
wags 70 go slow around the curve for
( there was hen on and she was about
I 20 lay a bad egg
Forrest found his railroad plans al
mCst ruined. Foremost among the in
stTzments OF shame and confusion was
a scalawag who was one Of Forests
army surgeons, but who was enjoying
a huge practice as a physician a fine
salary as Judge, and large Slice OF
plunder as a leader OF the loyal leag-
ucrs. Thought and action @sere twins
with Forrest, and he determined to fix
/ this renegade. Selecting two pistols, he
went tC the Office Of the doctor Judge.
and asked him TO fight. The judge said
/ he was a peacemakeT. Then Forrest re
marked that If the judge would sign
I statement confessing all his speeches TO
t4tE tf-o 2Atot l4t " OhitA Dll21L Inc
/ killing. and he made the judge write the
/ statement. Tne judge refused TO sign.
and was told that it was a case Of
/ fight, sign. or die The judge hesi-
tated, and the general caressed the ju-
dicial brow with the cold muzzle OF the
Isix-shooter. The statement was signed.
and the Doctor Judge was undoDe, hav-
/ ing failed at the test. The railroad was
built
General Forrest died in 1877. He dis
missed suits he had made, saying he did
not want TO entail trouble He died a
/ devout member of the Cumberland Pres
1 byterian Church. He was one of the
most romantic characters in American
( history.
! An Agricultural Department en-
/ pIoye who has been IN New Mexico says
/ that he has seen a good farm that is a
+ gold mine for all practical purposes. a
I few years ago a Mrs Armour was left
a widow, penniless and with nine chill
/ dren. She undertook. almost in desper-
[ alton, to raise AngOra goats on shares.
up IN the mountains. The goats were
/ considered almost worthless, but the