Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-12-06
would a Mexican bull fight. 1t was
in this memorable battle that Jack

Stonewall. In this battle our forces
lost 1000 killed, wounded and miss
ing while the federal forces lost
5000. Small things sometimes turn
the tide of great events. 1t is claim
| ed that had one single order been
delivered and executed as was ex-
pected the whole of the federal
forces would have been captured
and Washington invaded, and the
war ended before break FAST as
the volunteers were made to believe.
Washington
If you should walk, into the
average school: room and ask the
children where is Washington many
of them would answer in Virginia.
The original district of Columbia
in 1890 embraced small section OF
country on both sides of the Poto-
mac river, but in '46 that portion
which had belonged to Virginia was
ceeded back to the state, so that
now the district of Columbia 10
miles square lies north of the Po-
tomac and is in the state of Mary
land. The location Of the city as
every school boy should know was
selected by our old uncle &eorge
and in his honor it was named
Washington. The city with its sub
urbs covers considerable territory.
1t is neither a commercial nor a
manufacturing place and its activi-
ties and population is supported al
most entirely by the millions of
dollars spent annually by our ma
tional government in carrying on
its immense business-that of pro-
tecting the lives and property of
these United States and her terri
tories, securing to them the bless
ings of liberty (?) etc.
TO go into detail of even one of
the public buildings would consume
several columns and then would give
the reader no intelligent nor ade-
quste sidea .;of its immensity.
We will therefore only generalize a
few of the sights we saw in the
-four or Eve hours there. The Bo-
tanical gardens, fisheries, the mu-
seums, Smithsonian Institute. the
White House. tbs treasury, the Sar
and navy and agricultural depart
ment, the Washington monument
and down the beautiful and placid
waters of the Potomac to the old
plantation of the father of his coun-
try. OF Mt. Vernon, if time per-
,mits, we may say something at an
other time. However, we will pause
here to say the buildings and the
surroundings are kept better and
brighter, cleaner and more antisep-
tic than they were by Washington
and his little army of slaves. You
don't dare throw a crumb of bread
on the grounds. You may drink
from the old we'll, but you must
frs throw penny in the slot the
gravity of which brings out the an
tiseptic individual cup.
The Museums
And the treasury department con-
sumed most of our time. Of the
many sights to be seen there are but
few that cling to the memory of the
casual visitor. Ferguson's old flint
and steel musket and the first rail
road engine run in the United
States claimed some of our hurried
moments. With modern armaments
one man could easily shoot down
100 men while they were loading
their guns. The old locomotive
which was first run over the Balti-
more and Ohio from Washing
ton to Baltimore about 1881
(This first run we were told was
made over the Pennsylvania road as
the B. & o. was not finished at the
time) is enclosed in wood like a
barrel and hooped with iron bands
to keep it from bursting.
The appendix, that little bit of a
thing that hangs on to mans intes-
tines and is bringing terror to the
people and mony 70 the surgeons
you will find in the medical muse
um occupying its natural position
and relations to the viscera-just
about big enough and long
enough to make couple of bats
for a fish hook.
Here, too, you have the opportu-
nifty of measuring with your eyes
only the brains of man from an
idiot to that of the profoundest
thinker and most gigantic brain
ever produced.
If the anti-tuberculosis societies
of the country would visit this mu-