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The Glenwood post., 1907-01-19
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1t was after noon when word was
finally passed along the lines that the
enemy had begun to make a general
advance.
Up to this time there had been
few spasmodic movements on the part
of the detached bodies, designed no
doubt, simply to aggravate the Fed
erals and keep their attention from an.
other quarter.
Colonel Ridgeway knew what was
coming now, and encouraged his brave
fellows to render good account of
themselves.
The silence was at length broken
by the discharge of gun far upon
the right.
1t was the signal
Along the line OF entrenchments
ran a zig-zag fire and the rattle of
guns almost continuous.
While the first rank fell back to re-
load, the second pushed forward and
took their places.
Evidently the affair was to be de.
cided hand to hand, and no one could
foretell the result.
Every moment Colonel John had
| hopes of hearing the encouraging cries
that would proclaim the coming of re,
Inducements from Sherman, but un.
less they come very soon it would be
too late, since his handful of men
could not long hold their own against
| such overwhelming odds.
This was only one of numerous
small battles which history had re-
corded merely in the aggregate as a
series of engagements around At.
lanta, in which many men were lost
on both sides, and little save glory
won.
Fortune favored the Federals in this
case, for when everything looked the
blackest the column from Sherman
came upon the scene.
Then the tables were turned
1t was the Confederates now who
The Glenwood post., 1907-01-19
CHAPTER XIV.
Between Life and Death.


1t was a glorious morning when
Colonel John received orders from
headquarters that the last train laden
with stores had safely reached At
lanta, and giving him explicit orders
to destroy the road utterly as he hast
ened to join Sherman by a certain
time
His men caught the enthusiasm of
the hour.
They had fought desperately to de-
fend the road so long as it was use
full to Sherman, and now that he de-
sired to prevent it being used b. the
enemy at any future time they would
be just as ready to destroy.
The orders went forth.
Fires began to arise.
Every building connected with the
station was in flames.
Men tore up the tracks and twisted
the rails.
The reign of destruction had begun,
that was not to end until their eyes
rested on the blue sea.
The tables had been turned.
1t was for the Confederates to en-
deavor to defend the road, but they
were not present in numbers to do
this with much hope of success.
While he thus burned and destroyed
the cavalry colonel made his way
southeast. intending to join Sherman
at Atlanta.
There were foes between, however,
foes that had gathered from time to
time until they made formidable
aggregate.
When the true state of affairs be.
came known to these men, their lead.
ers set a trap in the hope that Colonel
John and his command would fall into
It..
They counted without their host, for
the federal colonel anticipated some
The Glenwood post., 1907-01-19
THE SCIENTIFIC SPIRIT.
Some Consolation for the Patient
Afflicted with a New Fa-
ral Malady.

Andrew Carnegie admires the sci
entiflc spirit-his generous gifts to sci
ence are a proof of that. Nevertheless
to his keen humor this spirit offers
itself as good prey, and Mr.. Carnegie
often rails wittily at scientists and
their peculiar ways, says the New
York Tribune.
THE late-the late-but 1 won't
mention the poor fellows name" said
Mr.. Carnegie at scientists supper
"The late Blank, as he lay on his death
bed, was greeted very joyously one
morning by his physician.
Poor Blanks eyes lit up with hope
at sight of the physicians beaming
face. There had been a consultation
on his case the day before. Perhaps
at last, the remedy to cure him, had
been found.
my dear Mr.. Blank, said the ply
sian. L congratulate you
BLANK smiled.
"I shall recover?' he asked, in a
weak voice, tremulous with hope.
'Well-er-not exactly said the
physician. But we beliNge your dis
ease to be entirely new, and if the au.
topsy demonstrates this to be true,
we have decided to name the malady
after you"
The Glenwood post., 1907-01-19
Col. John Was Down.

sought safety in flight, leaving many
of their heroic dead and wounded in
and around the breastworks, for the
possession of which they had fought
so long
Colonel John was down.
In the last stirring encounter he had
| fallen, while leading his men into the
thick of the fight.
They carried him to the city.
Here in the hospital he was taken
in charge by experienced surgeons,
and when all had been done that was
possible they pronounced their ver-
dict.
Colonel John had fighting chance
for his life.
That was ALL
To move him at that stage would
be madness, since it must result in
his death.
This meant that whether the colonel
got well or not depended upon the en-
emy, since he must be left to their
| tender mercies.
| Thus there came a day when the
Federal forces rode or marched out
of the city and headed in an easterly
direction.
Those who knew and loved Colonel
John had gone to the hospital to bid
him adieu.
He was in deep sleep at the time
and the surgeon would not arouse him.
for the crisis in his condition had just
passed, and any excitement might
prove fatal.
The iegions in blue marched away,
and the sound of their drums and flies
had hardly died out before the streets
swarmed with the veterans of Johns
ton. Hood being up in Tennessee
eager to see those they loved, to dis
cover what damage had been done dur
ing the occupation.
So Colonel John became a prisoner
again.
When he regained his consciousness,
his case had improved somewhat.
With careful nursing he might live
in spite of the severe shock his sys-
TEN had received
or course the wounded soldier
thought of Mollie.
God knew he needed her assistance
while his life hung thus in the bal
ance.
But how should be let her know?
A Confederate officer walking
through the sickroom stopped at
Johns cot. and looking up the wound
ed Federal beheld his cousin.
Crockett Ridgeway no longer
scowled as his eyes fell upon the face
OF the man toward whom he had en-
tertained such hostile feeling.
The Glenwood post., 1907-01-19
The Beet-Sugar Industry.

The census of 1905 shows much
of the United States, showing 81 es-
adjustments, against four in IS ri.
says the Baltimore Sun. At present
$55, 5,923,459 is invested in beet-sugar
production, and the annual product is
worth s24,393,794. Most of the in
crease of plant and product has taken
place since 1900, when the output
was worth but s7,323.S57. OF the
2,175,417 tons of beets grown in the
census year on 240,757 acres and cost
Ing $11 1,345, 7S5, four-fifths were grown
by contract by independent farmers.
The sugar factories do not grow their
supply of beets to any large extent.
Granulated beet sugar was produced
to the extent of 496,61S,314 pounds,
worth $23,493,373. Other products
were raw sugar, II 1,223.607 pounds;
molasses, 9,6O9,642 gallons, and pulp,
worth $202,07O. The leading states in
beet sugar are Colorado, Michigan and
California, the first producing $685.
9S2 worth of beet sugar, the second
$5,37S, O04 worth and the third s4,415,-
172 worth. California and Colorado
irrigate the land used to produce
beets. In Utah a system of pipelines
connects slicing stations with the
central factories. The beets from the
neighboring country are received at
these slicing stations, where the juice
is extracted and treated with COM
position of lime, after which it is
forced through the pipes to the fac
tories
The Glenwood post., 1907-01-19
such movement. and was constantly on

such movement, and was constantly on
the watch.
The city was within a days ride
and Colonel John already anticipated
short period of happiness at seeing
Mollie ere the army started on its
long eastern march.
Little was to be done in this quar-
ter, for the road had already been
destroyed by parties from Atlanta
pushing out certain distance.
In the city itself all was activity
cotton and stores that could not be
taken along were being daily burned
buildings of public character were
blown up, all railroad property de.
stroyed, and save for the private
houses of the citizens, the once fair
Gate City of the South had become
heap of ruins.
1t was in the morning that Colonel
John and his command came upon the
foe.
Seeing the Confederates were in
force, the Federal leader ordered a
charge, and away the cavalrymen
went, pell-mell.
sued.
Unable to force way through, and
with no good opportunity for a flank
movement, the Federals were hurled
back.
As last resource they occupied
some old entertainments long since de-
serted, and dismounting awaited the
coming of the foe.
Ridgeway knew the sounds of battle
would reach Sherman in Atlanta, and
that sooner or later if he could only
hold his own a column would be sent
to his relief
Crouching behind the breastworks
they awaited the assault of the foe.
1t was indeed sight to look upon
the superb disdain with which these
veteran fighters awaited the coming
Of their enemies.
Some were sitting close together
laughing and joking in quiet way
others had crawled to more exposed
positions where they might have a
chance to pick sharpshooter of, and
sprawled there they had the appear
ance Of human pancakes.
The Confederates did not seem in
any great haste to make the assault
Perhaps they were waiting to con-
centrate their forces.
Colonel John feared there might be
some way known to them, a secret
path by means of which they might
get around his little fort and spring a
surprise upon their rear.
He endeavored to prevent tAis to the
best Of his ability
The Glenwood post., 1907-01-19
Hereditary Divorce.

AS matter of fact, divorces run
in families. The children of di-
vorced mother are the likeliest them
selves to contract alliances which the
law will have to sever. There have
been numerous instances of families
of sisters or brothers who have gone
through the divorce courts in almost
unbroken succession. This phenom.
enon sheds some light on the true
causes of divorce and suggests that a
very large proportion of the separa-
tions which the law countenances are
due not to an initial fatal mistake"
nor to complete "incompatibility," nor
even to the actual misdeeds of either
party, but to mental and tempera-
mental pecuiliarities. Not the insti-
tuition of marriage is at fault, says
Chicago Sun, not the mistaken union
of antipathetic personalities, but the
human nature of one party or the
other to the compact. Divorces are
prevalent in certain families. So are
incorrigible levity, disagreeable dis.
positions, unwillingness to abide the
consequences Of a deliberate act, a
deficient philosophy.
The Glenwood post., 1907-01-19
Come, had no idea you were here.

Come, had no idea you were here,
cousin. I'm sorry to see 1t, aAd at
the same time glad of a chance to
ask your pardon for the share I had
in that ugly business"
John looked surprised-the other
laughed in hearty way.
You think the heavens will fall
next, since I've turned saint Well,
the truth of the matter is I've learned
recently that you acted very generous
ly toward my poor old mother up in
Louisville year or SO ago. Never
knew of it before, on my honor. 1t
made me ashamed of myself, and l
swore to turn over a new leaf. Let
me squeeze your well hand, cousin.
Tell me. is there anything l can do
for you?"
Where is the major?" asked John,
whose only source of uneasiness lay
in this quarter.
"You mean Worden-I helped give
him soldiers burial He was in that
mad, daredevil assault which came so
near demoralizing the Federal line. In
his glorious death he wiped out any
follies of which he may have been
guilty while living. Peace to his
ashes"
Amend" said John, relieved to
know this firebrand was removed from
his path, and yet ready to recognize
the bravery o, the hot-blooded South
ern warrior-his mad devotion toward
Mollie had swerved him from the
path of an honorable gentleman, but
John could forgive now.
Now that he was rid of this anxiety
Colonel John had only to do his best
to get well.
There was dearth of nurses in the
hospital.
Southern girls had enough to do to
take care of their own wounded.
Thus it happened that those of the
Federal sick who were in a precarious
position, lowering between life snd
death as it were, found themselves In
measure neglected.
Colonel John took downward
course-fever set in, and the old sur
geon in making his round shook his
head and said:
We'll have a vacancy here soon.
The colonel's crisis is approaching
and he has little show to live"
The Glenwood post., 1907-01-19
Geometrical LAYS.

Henri Allorge, young French
poet, has issued volume of poems
entitled 1.-THE Spirit of Geometry.
In 1t he sings the charms Of the sl.
lipse, the parallelopipedop aAA the
asymptote.
The Glenwood post., 1907-01-19

Seeing that she was a woman"
and that he did not wish to be hard
upon her" Rangoon magistrate re.
Gently fined Burmese prisoner
for being in Illicit possession Of four
balls of opium. s160, with the alterna-
tive of six months rigorous impris.
onment.
The Glenwood post., 1907-01-19

Damages of $4,000 because of An &C.
cident that incapac1tated her from
dancing should make a Milwaukee
belle satisfied just to think Of former
waxed floor triumphs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-14
MEDALS TO AMERICANS.
FfnIay. GOrgas and Smith Each
Awarded One.

Liverpool. Sept. 1.-THE Mary
Kingsley medal instituted by the
Liverpool school for the study of trop-
ical diseases to commemorate Miss
Mary Kingsley. the African traveller,
has been awarded among others to DR..
Charles Finlay. chief sanitary officer
of Cuba, who originated the theory
that yellow fever is carried by mos
Quitos: to Colonel w. c. GOrgas.
United States army. who as chief Sani-
tary inspector at Havana, gave prac-
teal effect in 1902 to the discovery of
DIR. Finlay and the American connec-
ton with the investigation of the cause
of yellow fever and succeeded in ban
ishing the disease from Havana, and TO
DR. Theobald Smith of Harvard. who
discovered a new kind of blood para
site in his Investigations of the So
called Texas cattle fever. Colonel
Gorgas is now chief sanitary officer of
the Panama canal zone
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-14
ALL FOR TAFT.
The Chicago Tribunes Poll OF
the Republican Editors.
Shows Secretary to Be in Lead
for Presidency.
HUGHES NEXT CHOICE
BallOting Has Extended to All
Parts of the Country.
Many New Englanders Not
Pleased With Roosevelt.

Chicago. Sept. 1.-THE Chicago
Tribune began during the summer
the collection of reliable statis-
ties from Republican editors all over
the United States in regard to their
probable choice for the presidency
next year. August Is there was pub
iished in tabu1ated form a recapitula-
ton OF the ballot in the middle western
states as far as the returns had then
Deen received. Since then the ballots
nave been coming in daily and it is a
remarkable fact that practically the
same condition of public sentiment is
indicated in the north and south, and
east and west.
Taking up the replies from New
England. there are many who say they
approve of the progressive policy of
president Roosevelt to some extent.
Others condemn him openly and a
number from the smaller towns and
manufacturing centers of Connecticut,
Massachusetts and way UP into the
Maine coast appear to believe that the
president is a little too enthusiastic in
England as a whole sustains the find
ings reached in the central western
states to a remarkable degree.
Taft leads and Hughes follows him
in about the proportion of two to one
on the first choice. Hughes is second
choice on many ballots and has q
tactical position. should Taft, by some
chance. be eliminated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-14
KILL CRAFTERS.
Member of the Naval Committee
FavOrs Death Penalty
For Those Guilty of LOOting the
Treasury.
A SECONDARY CRIME.
To This Is Murder He Says in
a Letter.
SECONDARY CRIME.
Refers to Men Who Provide
- Jobs for Constituents.

Waterbury, Conn, Sept. 14.-Repre-
sentative George L. Lilley, a member
of the house naval affairs COM
mittee who has been criticised be-
cause of his outspoken attitude on
the Charleston harbor, has written an
open letter, in which he says:
.If I had the supreme law-making
power of this country, the only crime
punishable with death would be that
of grating. Murder would receive
secondary consideration.
ANY man who sits as a member OF
the committee on naval affairs and
uses his efforts to. obtain an appropria-
ton for some tumble down navy yard
in his district to the end that he may
provide Well paid jobs for his consti-
tuents is guilty of grating. Not
single dollar may touch his hands,
but just the same he is grating out
of the United States government
which he is paid to serve and sworn
L
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-14
MORE IRISH THAN EVER.
Upton to Have Challenger Built in the
Belfast Yards.

Glasgow, Scotland. Sept. 14.-Wil-
liam Fife. to whom the commission
for designing Sir Thomas Liptons new
challenger for the Americas cup has
Professionally been given. worked on
plans and models nearly all the sum
mer. but it was impossible for him to
complete them. as no decision had
been arrived at as to what rule would
govern the contest 1t is understood.
however. that all Mr.. Flies expert
ments were in the direction of pro-
ducing such a boat as would be built
for racing under the new international
rule now accepted by the yacht racing
associations of the European countries.
Therefore it is believed that the
challenge sent through the Royal
Yacht club stiDulates this rule or the
rules favored by the New York Yacht
club for it's home racing. which gets
the same results by different method.
1t was at first proposed to build the
challenger at the Fairlie yards, but
this is now doubtful. Sir Thomas. in
challenging through the Royal Irish
Yacht club. desires to have his yacht
more Irish than ever. and negotiations
will be opened with a Belfast firm to
build the Shamrock ". f-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-14
MRS. EARLE LANDS.
Discarded Wife Has Reached Shores
of Her Native Country.

New York, Sept. IA special dis
patch from Boulogne, France. in re-
porting the arrival there of Mrs.
Frederick Phinney Earle, wife of
the American artist, who has volun-
tarily relinquished her husband to an
other "affinity" states that during the
voyage Mrs. Earle faced her strange
situation with singular generosity
toward both her husband and her ri
val The depression (which she ad-
mitted had almost overcome her at
the outset of the voyage, is described
as having completely disappeared. To
the reporters who awaited her at the
landing stage she recited the story of
her matrimonial life with simple d.
rectness devoid of bitterness.
81 am convin ced,' she said, that
this is the only solution. I have
neither jealousy of Miss Kuttner nor
feeling against Mr.. Earle. 1t is or
dained by fate.5 She is a woman of
excellent character, and am con-
WINGED my husband will be happy with
her.
my future, All that remains to be
talked over with my father. My life
is wrapped up in my boy. He asks
after his father now, but he will soon
forget. I hope to make him, first, a
good man"
Mrs. Earle will resume her maiden
name after the divorce and live as
if Earle had never existed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-14
CONSIDER STRIKE OVER.
Postal Manager Says Old Employees
Can Still Get Jobs Back.


The following telegram was received
from Vice President E. ]. Nally of
New. York, general manager of the
Postal Telegraph company: tE
The statemehtsA : which are being
made by strike leaders that there are
negotiations pending or Influences at
work or pressure being brought to bear
on the telegraph companies to bring
about a settlement of the strike
through compromise or otherwise are
untrue and their recurrence from day
to day in one shape. or another is simp-
ly for the purpose of misleading the
men and buoying them up with false
hopes which are never to be realized.
We consider the strike is over. Hence
what is the need for further negotia-
lions. 1 only repeat what 1 have re-
iterated before that we will have places
for them, and as we are adding to our
force by the employment of outsiders
every day, the longer our former en-
ployes delay putting in their applica-
lions the less show they will have of
getting back their old positions. 1 say
this sorrowfully too, because there are
many of the old men whom we have
highly priced, but we cannot with JUS
tiee to the men who have stood by US
discharge any of them in order to make
places for a striker
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-14
APPEALS TO The CHIEF.
japanese Consul Asks Him to Hold
Down tho. League.

Seattle. Wash, Sept 14.-Japanese
Consul S. Hisamidsu has appealed to
Chief of Police Wappenstein to prevent
the exclusion league from holding any
kind of a demonstration that might
lead to melting irresponsible elements
and causing race riots in Seattle. A
similar demand upon the chief of police
has been made by some of the news
papers and Chief Wappenstein assur-
ed the Japanese consul that whatever
happened. he would guarantee that the
Asiatic quarters are not invaded by
mob.
The Japanese consul declared that his
countrymen are not arming themselves
to resist an attack and he insisted the
Japanese would do nothing to incite
trouble and relied wholly on the police
for thtNr protection. Efforts of the ex-
clusion league to compel the chief of
police to dtsarm the japanese an6 Chi
nese will not have any effect upon the
officials.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-14
Big Mining Concerns Will Not
Make Bids
On the Governments PROPOSAL
for Supplying the Fleet.
SMALL STOCK ON HAND
Labor Situation Prevents an
Increase of Output.
Uncle Sam Is Told to Go to
England for Fuel.

New York, Sept 1.-THE situation
with regard to the proposals issued by
the bureau of equipment of the navy
department for supplying coal for the
battleship fleet on its voyage to the
Pacific. says the Journal of Commerce,
has assumed rather interesting shape
here by the statements of several
agents OF the larger coal mining CON
Germs that they would not present bids.
Their reasons are that they have not
the necessary quantity of coal ON hand
aside from the quantity demanded by
private contracts already entered into.
The companies claim that they have
no reserve stocks on hand amounting
to anything, and that the labor situa-
ton is such that they cannot increase
their mining capacity. ,.----
The coal, it was stated, can be OBJ
tanned in England If 1T is necessary to
go there, but the prices will undoubt-
fancy"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-14
REHEARING REFUSED.
Attorney General Jackson Loses in
Leavenworth Liquor Cases.

Leavenworth, Kan, Sept. IA
Judge Fitzpatrick in the district court
here today overruled the motion for a
renearing by Attorney General jack
son in the cases Wherein the property
and fixtures of the jointists in en-
Joined buildings were recently re-
turned to them.
Attorney General Jackson and as
sistant Attorney General Shukers
claimed that they had not been noti-
fed of the previous hearing in time
to put in an appearance and had asked
for new trial on this grounds.
Attorney Shukers went on the stand
as a witness and was questioned by
Attorney General Jackson as to the
prohibition situation in Leavenworth,
in general. often assuming wide
range of latitude. Frequently he was
cautioned by Judge fitzpatrick who
suggested that Mr.. Jackson confine
himself to the case in question.
The other injunction cases against
owners of buildings where it was
alleged that liquor was being or had
been sold were continued until Sep
TENDER IS.
A new injunction case against an
alleged jofntist and building owner
was filed by Attorney General jack
son today.