The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-10
PRICE PAID BY SOLDIER
 OF CIVIL WAR FOR ONE
 CHARGE OF INTOxICATI0N
Punishment Far More Severe Than That Meed Out to Criminals
 of Most Desperate Nature.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
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 Washington, May 1O.-"General Stew arts daughter Martha. called Patsie. first married United States Senator John Elliott, and after his death she married James s. Bulloch. Hattie, daughter of this alliance. married Theodore Roosevelt, ST.. whose son. Theodore Roosevelt, was President of the United States"
 This is a paragraph from the report of a House committee recommending g the erection of a monument. at a cost of $2,500 to the memory of Generals Daniel Stewart and James Scheven. They were members of what the re- port calls "a little band of cultured and pious men who, with their fanil- ies. settled in Georgia about 15o years ago." They called themselves 'The Midway Society" Screven, who had a record as a. brave and daring pa triet, was killed in one of the battles of the Revolution.
 Roosevelt's grandfather was 15 years old when he shouldered a rifle bigger than himself and went forth to shoot daylight into the British invader. He was wounded by saber at Pocatalogo. South Carolina, captured. and confined in prison ship at Charleston. On stormy night he and eight others slipped through port holes and swan through mighty waves to shore. Stew art entered the service again and fought to the end of the war, much of the time with Sumter and Mar ion.
 Soon after the close of the war he was at the head of a regiment chasing Indians along the coast of Georgia The trouble was that the Indians were robbing the settlers of cattle and horses, pillag1ng houses and murdering frl T11fI To nrI6 6OY1f JoI nIn tor and voted for Madison.
 When Stewart returned home after the revolutionary war he found that his tranquil plantation. near Riceboro, had been occupied by General Provost, commanding the British troops in the South. On the wall of the sitting room he found branded on the boards: ''This house was the home of a nest of rebelS.'' This historic home was destroyed by federal troops during the Civil War and now only the chimneys remain.
 In the second war with Great Brit ain in 1S12 General Stewart again took the field and the office of brigadier of calvary was created and given to him.
 Both Stewart and Screven were bur jed in the cemetery beside Midway Church and there the memorial is to be erected if the bill becomes a law.
 A remarkable statement by Repre- sentative Thomas Oem., Ky.). in the House, a few days ago, led to the inn mediate adoption of a resolution to wipe out a charge of desertion stand ing against Joseph Dobson in the War Department records.
 ''In 1875" said Thomas 'Dobson had served over F months in the regular army with good record. He obtain ed "a leave of absence. as he states in his affidavit. to go and see a girl of his acquaintance. He went to see the girl, and, like many young men-and for that matter, old men. too-he got drunk. He started back. but got thirsty and went out into the foothills to look for some water. and he got lost and made his way finally back to his post. As the report of the Adiutant- General says, he was absent a part of one day beyond his leave of absence. He was arrested as the proof shows and the recital of this case. MT. Speak CT, is more like a romance or the ac- count of some Russian atrocity. He was arrested, carried to a blackSrnith shop and irons put around his ankles, a heavy chain was attached to them, and he was kept in that condition for three months. until the irons around his ankles had worn the flesh nearly to the bone before Dobson got the irons removed from his ankles. He was then tried by a court-martial and was sentenced to imprisonment for dOur. years, and given a diShOnOrable discharge. After that the irons were put back upon his ankles and he was sent back to prison. and remained, as I remember, something over a year, and appealed the case to the War De- partment. The Adjutant General in his report states that the punishment was unaccountably severe; that this man was absent from the post only a part of the day; and that there was lacking in his conduct that animus to show assertion. am personally ac- euainted with Dobson. He had made a good soldier. There is nothing against his record He is a good citi- zen, and this stain should be removed from his record. He has already had a pretty lengthy punishment for one little drunk. If other men got that severe character of punishment for one little drunk, I expect that there would be some more of them in prison.''
 The turpentine industry of the South. which has been threatened with total destruction, by reason of the injurious old-fashioned methods of cutting and duct, has received a boon in the new system of cup and gutter tapping, tested by the Department of Agricul- ture.
 The producing forests have become so depleted of thrifty trees as to have
 
 southward of the center of greatest production has been like the progress of consuming forest fire. raising the question as to how long the staple species of virgin timber will last The former Georgia operators, now in Flor ida, are producing heavily but how long this crop will last can only be guessed at if the old methods of pro- ducing prevail.
 'They are inconsistent with the per manent development of one of. the South's greatest resources and the most conservative methods such as would seem to be the sole salvation said the Department of Agriculture
 The Department has established, by experiments that the cup and gutter system yields 30 per cent more pro- duct. does not weaken the trees phy- sically and leaves them in a thrifty condition.
 Moving pictures showing the opera tions of the government. departments at Washington will soon be on view in New York, and the films that are be- ing made will probably become avail able for use in other cities later.
 Dr. Henry I1eipZieger of the New York Board of Education is responsible for the idea as we'll as for it's prac- tical application. It is the purpose of the board to entertain, on two nights of every week the parents of the children attending the public schools of that city. by illustrated lec- lures on current topics. The scheme has worked well so far as it has been developed. By it's means the fathers and mothers of the poorer, and gener-