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home. However, he had not fairly left before she gave rein to her inclination, donned a uniform, and, crossing the Ms sissppi from Memphis, the place of sep aration from her husband, raised bat tallion of 236 men in the neighborhood or Hurlbut Station, Ark, which she christ ened the Arkansas Grays. She assumed tine name of Lieutenant Harry T. Blu ford. She marched her battalion through the streets of Mobile, on her way to join her husband at Pensacola, amid cheers and when she arrived at Pensacola turned it over to her husband with a proud heart He did not recognize her in her disguise but when she made herself known, gratefully accepted her addition to his force, and praised her pluck and remanded her to her woman's attire. He was unfortunately killed by the explosion of a carbine he was explaining at drill, and the company his wife had raised was afterwards under the command of Capt Thomas C. DeCaulp, a native of Edinburg, Scotland. of French extraction, who came to America in 1857, travelled about the country until 1859 and then joined the United States army, only to leave it in few years to fight for the Confederacy.
 The lady's husband being dead she was free to pursue the ambition of her
  She did not connect herself with any or ganization, but became an independent Confederate.
 From Pensacola she went to Montgom- cry, where she had at the Exchange ho- tel "very pleasant conversation with Leroy P. Walker, secretary of war, on the prospect of the conflict with the north, the political situation and other matters" She did independent service at Manassas, attaching herself to her favor ite commander, Ball, who led the ad- vance of the Fourth Alabama and lm- boden's artillery to the Henry House, and thence across the valley to the sup port of Evans, who was in great peril Fighting Mere with the Fourth Alabama and the Seventh Georgia, which was fear fully cut up, and won the title from some of the best soldiers as ''the plucky little devil" At Balls Bluff, too, she won compliments while leading company
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PREFERME ENT.

By Saumel Johnson. Unnumberd suppliants crowd Prefer
 ments gate, Athirst-for wealth, and burning to be
 great Deluslve Fortune hears the incessant call, They mount, they shine, evaporate, and
 fall. On every stage the foes of peace attend. Hate dogs their flight, and insult mocks
 their end. Love ends with hope. the sinking states
 man door Pours in the morning worshippers no
 more: For growing names the weekly scribbler
 lies, To growing wealth the dedicator flies; From every room descends the painted
 face, That hung the bright Palladium of the
 place. And smok'd in kitchens. or in auctions
 sold, To better features yields the frame of
 gold For now no more we trace in every line Heroic worth, benevolence divine; The form distorted justifles the fall, And detestation rids tn indignant wall.
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POEWS YOU OUGHT 70 READ

Who hath desired the Sea? Her menaces swift as her mercies. The in-rolling walls of the fog, and the silver -winger breeze that disperses? The unstable mined berg going south, and the calvlngs and groans that declare 1t;
 White water half-guesssd overside and the moon breaking timely to bear it; His Sea as his father have dared-his Sea as his children shall dare st-
 His Sea as she serves him or kills? So and no otherwise so and no otherwise hllmen desire their Hills, Who hath desired the Sea? Her excellent loneliness rather
 Than forecourts of Kings and her outer most pits than the streets where men gather Inland. among dust under trees-inland where the slayer may slay him; Inland. out of reach of her arms, and the bosom whereon he must lay him His Sea at the first that betrayed-at the last that shall never betray him
 His Sea that his being fulhlls? So and no otherwise-so and no otherwise hillmen desire their Hills.
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BY SAVOYARD.

his stunt until complaining time next year. There is tradition that he is a regular Napoleon of politics, and that veterans stood aghast at some of the strateges he successfully practiced when chief of staff of the party In 1904. He has been head of the department of com merce and labor and knows the corpora ttons from skin to core; he has been head of the postoffice department that has most of the bread and butter. He is now head of the treasury department that has qualifications in every community from ocean to ocean. He planned and executed the victorious campaign of 1904. If he is endowed with the genius for politics he Is suspected of possessing 1t will make monkeys of the rest of 'em at the con Yentlon.
 I.aFollete is tho radical candidate. Roosevelt is not half the octopus chaser I.aFollette would be- Bryan himself is not so> bit more digging. The rate bill got LaFollette's vote. but 1t was not half baked in his opinion. He claims to be a tariff reformer, too, this man who sat at the feet of Pig Iron" Kelley and absorbed the political economy Of Henry c. Carey, that is the mother of every trust that expresses the people There is no economic evil now existing that Is not directly traceable to paternal- ism in government. and a protective tariff is the upper crust and butt cut of all paternalsm. Here we are on the brink of socialism, and by 1924 this republic will have to fight for it's very existence against socialism. which can point to the paternasm of the republican party, chiefly the tariff, as precedent for It's frenzy. MT. Bryans "ultimate' govern ment ownership and operation of rail roads is but the legitimate fruit of the paternaism we have had for forty years. The Beveridge child-labor bill which Mir Bryan indorses. is pure paternalism and a total annihilation of states rights.
 LaFolette purposes to reform the tariff by the friends of protection. As D. ". Carmack pertinently said. there will be no reform of the tariff until It Is accomplished by the friends of the tax payers When the republicans reform the tariff Nelson ". Aldrich will boss the job in the Senate, and John Dalzell will superintend 1t in the House. They will reform it up as Mckinley did In 1890 When rowdy negroes carry safety razors the republicans will reform the tariff
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ing along the line she spied the company of Arkansans she had raised, and Gen. eral IIardee gove her permission to hght with it. Dismounting when she ap- preached the Arkansas Grays, she was recognized by Captain DeCaulp as Lieu tenant Buford, and was shaken cordially by the hand. Think of it. The be- trothed couples meeting on the battle field, the lover ignorant that he clasped the hand of his lady love. This was the height of romance. Joan of Arc was not in it. The Arkansas boys were glad to meet their old friend. Bob carried tho horses to the rear. Captain DeCaulp all lowed the lieutenant to accompany him on the advance which was then ordered. Inspired with a consuming desire to dis tinguish herself before the eyes, and fight al the side of her future husband, the brave Cuban woman fought well. She says no thought of danger to herself or her lover entered her mind. She only panted for his approval. She says: Tt was grander fighting than l had ever witnessed before, surpassing even the great sortie at Fort Donelson in desper- ateness and inspirational qualities. Ihe bullets whistled through the air thick and fast, cutting the trees and making the branches snap and fly, spllntering the fence rails, striking the wagons or senN- ing some poor soldier suddenly to the earth. A corporal, who was by my side, was shot through the heart by minnie ball. He fell heavily against me, and all my clothing was reddened by his blood. His only words were. Damn the Yankees they have killed me- He was very handsome young man, only twenty-two years of age, and his death perfectly in- furiated me, as it did his other com rades."
 Such was the feeling in battle of the only woman who bore arms for tho Con federacy. The enemy, as every one knows, was driven back towards the landing, and their total defeat seemed a certainty. But Albert Sidney Johnston was killed shortly before o'clock ana though his death was carefully concealed from the soldiers, the head of the army, the only officer who knew the plan or the battle, was gone. The enemy was at the mercy of the Confederates at that
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BY R. M. RAWLS

buried In; and thls shelllng may have done much to check the onrush of the Confederates toward night After dark the shells could not do much damage. and the heavy rainstorm which came about midnight did more to interrupt the rest of the tired Confederates than did the gunboats, though they kept firing all night
 It was while crouching fin the bushes on the river bank making observations upon the movements at the landing that this female volunteer recognized General Grant as he an another general passed close to her in a small boat. She could have killed him with her pistol and re- gardless of the risk she would have run of capture, grasped her pistol, but did not fire, and soon the boat was out Of reach, and she saw the two generals go aboard 8 gunboat. The shot would have given her immortality. but honor to the spy that 1t was not fired. This cour- ageous woman crept back to camp and was eager to impart her observations to tho Confederate general, but her future husband dissuaded her, as officers rather resent than appreciate advice from their interiors.
 The result of tho battle at Shiloh Is known to the world The woman soldier made her way after the battle, to Cor inth Her boy pretended to lose his way and deserted to the federals. She did not sec Captain DeCaulp again until lS63. when he and she were both in hospital at Atlanta then q disclosure of her identity was made to him and marriage solemnized but the latter was also fol- lowed by tho death of the gallant cap tain The widow contented herself with doing valuable work for the Confederacy during the remainder of the war a. secret service agent and spy. She vived the war, but was several wounded. So changed the flashing ban girls romantic dreams into dr camp hardshlps. hard work In tren obscure feats of vaor on the field. bitter defeat as her portion at
 board. And still the incident at the of Shiloh remains one of the mos markable situations of the civil war.
 Athens. Ala, September I. 1907.
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victory any party ever achieved in the United States. One of the consequences of that victory was a solid democratic delegation in the Fifty-second Congress from Wisconsin. La Toilette himself fell in the action, badly crippled, fighting in the ranks of monopoly, of greed, and of graft, for of these is a protective tariff composed.
 And now La Toilette turned octopus chaser and has a certificate of pure pa triotism and able statesmanship from Lin coin Steffens, Ray Stanard Baker. and that set This MT. Baker Is now down south Investigating the race problem. He sees everything and observes nothing. He will go back home more hopelessly, if not quite so densely ignorant of the subject than when he started. It seems that old man Philetus Sawyer was boss of Wfscon- sin. He was a sawmil1 man, very rich and dealt in politics as well as pine logs. He had taken a fancy to La Toilette and aided to further the young man's political fortunes. It came about, however, that
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K To voice so sweet as is the voice of
 N nature to him whose heart Is at l tuned in sympathy with 1t. That voice may speak in thunder or in the rGstling of the leaves, the ripping brook. the signing wind, the roar of the lion, the song of the lark The perfume of flowers and the waving of the grass are forms of speech lntelligible to the child of nature. The ocean Is an orator surpassing De- mosthenes in eloquence. and the starry skies grander poem than the master : pieces of Homer Every note of nature Is melody and the chorus the most sublime harmony to those who have hearts to listen, not ears to hear.
 Natures home is far removed from the haunts of men. Not in the busy mart where the shouts of the victors mlngle with the groans of the victims; not in the halls of revelry nor in the chambers of idle luxury; not in the congested cities nor in clamorous assemblies Is the voice of nature to be heard nor her presence felt These she shuns. and with alluring tones invites her worshippers to the si- lent forest, to the lofty mountain, to the yellow strand Nature calls, and those who hear and hearken to her summons
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<<E Ew of the Confederate veterans
 " of Northern Alabama, Ten
 ! nessee ana Mississippi, who served in that fierce struggle at shi- loh, to infict a decisive blow on the victorious Federal army after the fall of Fort Donaldson, and retrieve the losses they sustained, knew that on that bloody field a woman in the uniform of Confederate soldier, led a company in the battle under the eye of her affanced lover, nerved to extraordinary exertlon by the divine passion, but unknown in her mans garb to her lover, who was also a Confederate captain. participating fin the battle" said to your correspond ent today one who delights to relate whatever of a romantic character over spreads the historic spot of the new southland. And then he told briefly, from his own biography, the experiences and situations of Madame Loretta Janet Vel azquez, who figured at Shiloh as L1euten- ant Harry T. Buford.
 This woman according to her story, was a Cuban by birth, descended from the celebrated Spanish artist and the Cu- ban governor, whose name she bore Tn maidenhood. who was educated In New Orleans, and there clandestinely married a young army officer In the latter hftles of the last century. This young woman was from her childhood filled with a de- sire for martial glory, read with absorb ing interest the lives of Deborah, Semi ramis, Spain's nun lieutenant Monja All ferez, Joan of Arc and other warlike wo- men who have distinguished themselves. in battle, and ever delighted to don male attire in private and pose before the mlr- TOT as a man. In short, she confesses 10 a pure hearted desire to belong to the male sex. When the war between the states broke out she secretedly felt that the time had come for her to rival those battle heroines of history, and being ln- tensely southern in her sentiments, urged her husband to take that side in the war When he went to the front she insisted on going with him, but his opposition was so strong she reluctantly remained at
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IF In the political world the expected
 should happen and It should become ! AS disreputable to be an octopus chaser and trust buster as 1t now IS to De a corporation lawyer this man Will De a statesman out of a job. He Is the Bryan of the republican party and radical or the radicals. He was a reform goVer- nor. and did not fall downstairs misfor- tune that frequently overtakes reformers in office. As an octopus chaser in the Senate he separated from the republican mack. and even got ahead of the demo- cratic pack He Is a candidate for presi- dent and will be an also ran In the republican national convention or lyoS Except as to 16 to 1 and the degree or revision that should be injected into the tariff, LaFollette and Bryan are in per feet accord, and I have not one particle of doubt that each of these two eminent statesmen is the second choice of the other for the office of president of the United States
 When I first saw LaFollette he was a slender man of youthful appearance, with more voice in proportion to avoirdupois than any other man l ever saw. He was then nlempeT Ol the OTly -illHlH kOi- gress, thirty years old, and his speciality was the tariff, question that he treated with lungs only. Carlisle was Speaker and Cleveland was President There was an enormous surplus in the treasury that was swelled daily by the customs receipts and the collections of internal taxes. William R. Morrison was trying to curtail the revenues by reducing taxes, hut Randall led revolt in the demo- cratic camp and defeated the project. Pig Iron Kelley was the titular leader of the republicans, but Reed and McKin- lev were the real commanders, seconded Inv Burrows and Cannon. Lar Toilette was a fancy orator on the republican side, almost as frenzed in his eloquence as Dave Henderson who then had the bloody shirt in his keeping l shall never fo-get the vehment ana patriotic elo- dgence of the Hon. Hendersol-a native of .>otland-when. to rc5uke southern treason. he exclaimed in an ecstasy of hvperbole: From highland pass to low land moor. treason never found lodgment fin Scottish breast" The rebel brigadters yelled "whoopee'' in derision. and the
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-LAFOLLETTE, OCTOPUS CHASER

came that La Toilette got to be gov ernor and Spooner got back his job as senator. There were but three first class men in the state-Vilas, Spooner and Bragg. La Toilette, as governor, chased the octupus, and would have been glad to put Spooner out Of Job ; but Wisconsin remembered how she had taken Carpenter out of the Senate. some twenty years earlier, and elected q Legislature that stood by her greatest living republican.
 But La Toilette had his eyes on the Senate and when another vacancy oc- cured he took it. after debating for long time in his mind whether octopus chasing at Washington was to be pre- ferred to octopus chasing at Madison. He decided for the national capital and entered the Senate In January, 1906, just as the grand octopus chase Of th Fifty ninth Congress was about to be- gin When the rate bill came on to be h card, the new senator participated. lie
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La Toilette discovered that old Sawyer was not the right sort of man and there was a big row. have forgotten whether tho quarrel came befor or after La Fol lette got to be governor. Be that as 1t may, the young reformer downed the old boss and became every man himself. Re- port has 1t that La Toilette did some in- furious things to tho corporations, that he wrought nightly and smote the Philis- tines hip and thigh. Railroads were dis cFpllned and grafters banished, and all that
 From 1890 till 1894 Wisconsin was democratic. Both senators-Vilas and Mitchell-were of that party, and there is not the slightest doubt that Wiscon- sin would have continued democratic 10 this day if the democratic party had remained Clevelandish. The same is true of numerous other northern states: but when the democratic party deposed Cleveland, Wisconsin deposed the democratic party. That Is how 1t
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"trooly loil'' applauded in rapture. La Toilette was rather abridged Hender- son in those days.
 As I said. Randall destroyed the Nor rison bill of the Forty-seventh Congress-, and Pittsburg sent out to Illinois and bought Morrison's seat in the Fiftieth Congress for old Jehu Baker, who became a silver republican ten years later and voted for Bryan: but the Fiftieth Con gress was also democratic, and Carlisle it's speaker. In December, 1887, President Cleveland sent his famous message to Congress that made the tariff absolutely paramount. It was followed by the Mills bill, which Randall was unable to defeat in the House. The debate on that meas ure was able and brilliant. LaFolette was then an advocate of a tariff for protection with incidental revenue a poll icy quite as dishonest as 1t Is unconsti- tutional. We have It now in all it's iniquity in tn Dingley law. under which the people pay the manufacturers s10 of protection for every dollar they pay into the treasury for revenue. Here is this octopus that does more mischief In twenty-four hours than the railroads do fin twenty-four days.
 The presidential campaign of 1888 was fought on the tariff. MT. Cleveland would have been reelected if a MT. Wan
 
 of money from his wealth and copious streams of prayer from his religion to promote the republican cause. MT. Matt Quay took charge of the money and sent 1t, over to Brooklyn in charge of Dave Martin It was all over but the shout ing as soon as Martin crossed the bridge. Had Grover Cleveland been reelected in 1888 the tariff would have been reformed on constitutional and honest basis and the 16 to 1 frenzy would have been avoided.
 But Harrison was elected. The republic ans set about reduction of the surplus, and did 1t on republican liles-that is, they increased tariff duties to discourage importations and bestow additional graft on the tariff octopus. By this time La Policies lungs had talked him to a seat at the council board of the ways and means committee, where the Mckinley tariff of 1S90-and of odious memory was matched He took, a prominent part in the debate and was quite as astonlsh- ed man when the country got whack at his work in November. 1890, and gave the democrats the greatest and completest
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LL" EW of the Confederate veterans
 " of Northern Alabama, Ten \ nessee ana Mississippi, who
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14

We should do everything We can /.
others, if only to dissipate the thou,s
OF what they omit to do for u.
Madame SWetchine.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14
Made for Fat Men.

One Of the narrow arches IN the
gallery Of the chapel at Columbia uni,
yersity is not exactly symmetrical, al.
though the defect is not noticeable to
the casual observer, says the New
York Globe. The reason for the wild.
ening Of the arch after its original con.
struCtiOn had rise in a somewhat
humorous occurrence. One of the
early visitors was a remarkably fat
man. who found himself wedged into
the arch when he tried to squeeze
through and was extricated with diff.
Guilty. The builders, recognizing the
possibility of other fat people being
numbered among the future visitors,
decided to widen the arch, sacrificing
symmetry and harmony to practical
need, as the pier was so constructed
as to bear no loss of width On one OF
its sides.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-14

mighty rush? And why, why must 1t
! be so?
During the winter that now came
/ upon them, it became even greater
wonder to her; for it was common
sufferinS-a time Of dark days which
she felt they might have lightened for
each other, and time when she knew
that more than ever she drew him.
For hardly had the feast of the Har-
vest Home gone by when food once
more became scarce. The heaven
sent guIls had, after ALL saved but
half a crop. Drought and early frost
had diminished this; and those who
came in from the east came all too
trustingly with empty meal sacks.
BY the beginning of winter there
were 5000 people in the valley to be
fed with miraculous loaves and fishes.
Half Of these were without decent
shelter, dwelling under wagon covers
or IN iHmSy tents, and forced much
Of the time to be without fuel for
wood had to be hauled through the
snow from the distant canyons, and
so was precious stuff. For three
months the cutting winds came down
from the north, and the pitiless win
Ter SHOWS ragged about them. An in
Yentory was early taken Of the food.