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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-07-14

and confined until next day. Orders
have been issued against firing guns in
the city, except in case of emergency
Beating of drums after sunset is also
prohibited.
"Active preparations continue TO be
made here for the accommodation OF
troops yet to arrive. The government
is now erecting four large buildings on
the wharves for the storage of provi-
sions Many wagons have been received
from the north.
THE As graduated West Point cadets
who arrived here recently have been
ordered to drill duty"
A dispatch of May referred to a re-
ception held at the White House in hon
or of the officers and men of the army
1.-THE marine band played splendidly. The
president looked well. A more joyous,
happy, patriotic gathering probably never
convened before at the presidential man
SION"
The correspondent noted that Mrs. Lin
coin wore a very elegant blue SILK,
richly embroidered, and with long
train also point lace cape. and fun
set of pearl ornaments"
CONFUSION IN DEPA ATMENTs.
The gigantic task of organizing $4,000
raw recruits into a semblance of an
army had thrown every department of
the public service into almost hopeless
confusion.
Everybody was new to the business.
There had been almost a clean sweep
of government employees when the Lin
coin administration came in, and the
new appointees had to learn their BUSH
ness as they worked under the greatest
pressure.
The department on which the strain
fell most heavily was perhaps the least
fitted to stand it. The secretary of war,
simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania, hac
mo special aptitude for military affairs
and the throng of political friends who
looked to him for contracts and otner
favors were of no help at such time.
General Scott head of the army, was
barely able to be out of his bed.
Some hint of the hurry and confusion
In the various Departments is contained
in this extract from Nicolay and Hays
life of Lincoln:
president cabinet and military and
naval officers were busy day and night
lit is scarcely possible to enumerate the
elements of perplexity and unavoidable
CONFUSION suddenly thrown together
Conflicting questions and acquisitions
from is different state executives, four
different grades of military service
regulars, three months volunteers, state
militia and three years volunteers,
still further complicated by Independent
organiza tions in border states whose
governors refused cooperation, and all
amidst a quasi-field campaign about
Washington-it was bedlam compared to
the dignified and deliberate red Tape
and pigeon-hoIe methods of quiet times.
Confusion even grew out of good
natured wInIngness to cooperate and
zeal IN assist Impatient governors and
state agents and irrepressible colonels
and captains went to whatever fountain
head of authority they could reach-to
Seward (secretary of state) for bat
terry of guns. or to Chase 4secretary of
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-07-14
EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION
MEETS AT SAN FRANCISCO
Forty-Ninth Annual Gathering
Called Together in Univer-
Sity of California Theater

SAN FRANCISCO, July 10.-In sur
roundings IMPLYING the best of the civ
ilization and education of ancient Greece
the 18th convention OF the National Ed
ucation association opened this after
noon in the Greek theater of the Universe
ty of California at Berkeley. The educa-
tors were welcomed to California by Gov
Hiram w. Johnson. Mayor p. H, Nc
earthly, Of San Francisco; G. c. Moore,
president of the Panama-Pacific exposi-
ton. and President Benjamine Wheeler,
Of the University of California. Response
was made on behalf of the delegates by
Robert ]. Alley. president of the Univer-
sity OF Maine.
The trustees report on the permanent
fund does not carry the signature OF
President Ella Flagg Young, ex-otflcio
member of the board. Mrs. Young has
criticised the method of managing the
fund several times since she took ONCE.
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wHAr pERsFYERANcE AocoMPLIsHEs

Dear Household. I've been wanting 70 zee
mountafne all my life. I have looked az pic
tures and read about mountains. but never
have / seen one until this summer aoh
suppose this good luck would have been mine
this year but / had a calf given me two
years ago. a measly little thing that the
owner was sure would die; IL was ABOUT
year old. would have been called rant u
il had been pig. l don't know what suen
calves are called Anyway. ] nursed i like
ID was priceless and finally got Il through
thar second spring and sy the end so,S Of su 9nr
$40 and with that capital did all sorts
Of things. The money doubled In year
the money and my hard WORK 80 iast N sufs
Carolina / meant TO 20. Twenty dollars
would not take me there and keep me very
to pay ms board bin. Fortunes favors the
brave. and just about the time l was ready
TO so, a lady who had been sick all the
when she did and look after her. Maybe I
didn't jump at the ehancei i earned my
passage, for she had all sorts Of medicine ana
packages and l had 70 prepare her matted
milk and other foods but / was sweet under
some pretty hot flres-wasn't ! on my way 10
see the mountains with my precious $50 In
when i reached tho first sight Of the
mountains ] was speechless. When got to
Snartanburg i couldn't help the tears coming
and from there on there wasn't thing could
unset me. Mrs. Jonas was the sort to appre-
ciate my feelings and let me look my I'll.
When we reached our destination / went to
the hotel with her and made her comfort
able The doctor had said for her to throw
physic TO the dogs and get out OF doors
ali she could. She wasn't able to keep me
and I knew Il; the hotel was too expensive
for my $50, / found a nice, quiet place In
the suburbs, too far from town for some, but
on the side Of a mountain. and there per
suaded her TO try II the three weeks that 1
would be there. She did and we got TO be
right ehummy One day we walked too far
for her, and sat beside the road TO rest.
To tell the truth. were lost. man
came along with some milk for town and
we bought some. He told us that the near
est inn was five miles. Mrs. Jonas gave
gasp. He saw that she could never walk
H. and kindly offered her a seat I'm his milk
wagon he and / trudged along together and
learned a lot about things. We spent the
day az the inn ard late that evening went
bone No. we didn't walk home. there was
hack that took US.
Il takes an ADLER pen than mine 10 tell
you OF those mountains. The heart feels most
when the lips move not" and ! am here 10
tell you that my life is broader and better
for the change ! may never see that coun-
try again, / don't think l shall. but on
memory's walls are some beautiful pictures
and among my friends are some made dur
ing my days Of service" as scornful and
somewhat enyious neighbor termed my trip.
/ am not going to sink Into laziness ana
bask IN the light Of that vacation am
going to keep my eyes open and Dm ever
have another chance, you may be sure tnat
will take Il, or help some other girl to
do 50.
MURIEL WHITE.
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gao OlQs IoT IL mas cured me.
Il know of so many cases where wo-
men have been cured by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound that / can
say TO every suffering woman if that
medicine does not help her, there is
nothing that williams. JANETZKI.
2o0S Arch St, Chicago, Ill.
This is the age of substitution. and
women who want cure should insist
upon Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound just as this woman did, and
not accept something else on which the
druggist can make little more profit.
Women who are passing through this
critical period or who are suffering
from any of those distressing ills pc
culiar 70 their sex should not lose sight
of the fact that for thirty years Lydia
L. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
which is made from roots and herbs,
has been the standard remedy for fe-
male ills. In almost every community
you viii lind women who have been
restored to health by Lydia Z. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound
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the treasury for horse contract
-
PERPLtxITIEs.


mount a regiment"
LINCOLN'S PERPLEXITIES.
Amidst this disorder President Lin
coin was the working head of the army.
Unschooled in military affairs, he found
himself under the necessity OF study
ing the problem of how to feed, ciothe,
care for and arm the men VINO had re-
sponded to his call.
It was a mighty problem. Many OF
the regiments had come only parity
armed The types Of guns carried by
others varied greatly, and bullets for
one kind would not fit another.
How to get guns for the men was one
of the most serious of Lincoln's per-
plexities. He took a great personal In
terest, therefore, in the many inventors
who came to Washington with a hope
of selling the government some new
type of arm.
life of Lincoln of a clerk in the navy
department who one evening. after
everybody else mad gone, heard man
in the hall
1t proved to be Mr. Lincoln. He said:
II was Just looking for that man, who
goes shooting with me sometimes" He
referred to a certain messenger in the
ordnance department who had been ac-
customed to go with him TO test new
weapons.
The man had gone home. and the
navy clerk offered his services. The
two went to the lawn of the White
House, where Mr.. Lincoln hs.d new
gun he wanted to test. The president
fixed up a target cut from sheet Of
notepaper. At this he fired seven shots.
one striking the center.
II believe I can make that gun shoot
better" was his comment. He then took
from his vest pocket a small wooden
target he had white out Of pine
stick and adjusted 1t over the sight OF
the gun He then fired II shots, nearly
dozen of which hit the paper.
In these days the president CROPPED
his way, almost in the dark. amid the
maze of strange subjects he was daily
forced to study. in connection with
handling the great force that he had
called to the capital.
Meanwhile 1.-THE boys" as Lincoln
often called his soldiers. were getting
taste of some of the discomfoIts OF sol
diering.
Yet It was all strictly martial, and
they were eager TO join tho advances
into Virginia for which the north was
now clamoring.
That advance was to come within
week, and with it was TO end the first
stage of the war; the hurry and hurrah
of responding to the call of the presi-
dent was to give way 10 hard service IN
camp and field. to danger and TO blood
shed
Copyright, 1911. by Associated Literary
Press)
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GAY SCENES AND CoLoRs.

GAY SCENES AND COIORS.
In the city itself there was a moving
picture of gay military scenes and a med
ley of colors. Almost as many kinds of
uniforms were worn by the volunteers as
there were regiments. Some of these
were extremely bright, notably the uni
forms of the zouave nents, with bag
gy blue trousers. 81. gray jackets
braided in red and blue and red shirts-a
fine costume for parade, but not well
adapted to war.
There was scarcely an hour in the
day when some regiment was not march
ing up or down Pennsylvania avenue
swinging along at a fine pace, going to
the White House ito see the president,
moving from one camp to another, or
headed for the drill ground near the
capitol to be put through their PAGES
by martinent drill masters from the reg
ular army.
The hotels were filled with officers
drinking strong liquor, many of them.
and telling how easy it would be to drive
the Confederates out of Virginia.
Contractors, politicians, place hunt
ers, women, all the human drift that
follows an army, were gathered here.
all night for work or pleasure in the
crowded city, and all the while the
sleepy sentries-a month ago at the
bench or pillow by day and in their beds
at night-paced their beats in the out
skirts
ITO all intents and purposes the city is
under martial law" wrote CORE
spondent. THE provost guard goes on
duty at O'clock No gathering is per-
mitted on any corner. and soldiers out
after hours without passes are arrested
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THOSE SHEEP AND THE BOYS.

am the only boy the place and that old
maid sister Of mine has about worn me TO
Trs-Ie she keeps me 80 busy at owrk that
never have time 90 write 20 my best girl. but
N i had typewriter and some one TO manipu-
late IL / might do some debating on the quiet.
A. I think about Il l believe IL would do about
the same for hest girl" to come here and
We could dispense with the machine. and while
she Is about IL she might be a good cook
suppose you would like to know how my
old maid sister manages 90 keep me 30 busy.
we have been doing pretty well for several
years raising chickens and ducks. The eggs
have been put under the faithful hen. but this
sister ~ mine decided that II took many hens
and nothing but Incubator would satisfy her.
got some and right there is where | made
big mistake 7 thought II would lessen my
work as we'll az Bddy's 7 found when Il was
TOO late that II doubled my share. The eata-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-07-14

and i went TO the
store to get a bottle
of Lydia E. Pink
hams Vege table
Compound, but the
clerk did not want
TO let me have it.
he said it was no
good and wanted me
to try something
else, but knowing
all about it l in
sisted and finally
got ii, and / am so
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-07-14
RaraGas Name Officers

DALTON Ca, July 1.-THE Baraca class
OF the First Baptist church has sust entered
upon new year. the following Officers beIns
named: F. F. Farrar. president J. c. Os-
born. vice president; W. j. Reeder. secrefnryi
E. r. Arnett assistant secretary; W. b. Far
rar treasurer; Henry Smith. assistant treas
urer; Foster Seebold. scribe.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-07-14
May 10, 186l-Washngton Was the Scene of Confusion
and Enthusiasm as the Organization of Thousands OF
Volunteers Into an Army Slowly Made Roadway Against
Many Obstacles

ted with the Virginia shore. guards were
stationed to scrutinize everybody who at
tempted to come into the capital With
out military pass no one from Virginia
could enter Washington, either by way
of Georgetown or over the Long bridge,
which linked the city itself with the Vir-
ginia shore.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-07-14

Fifty years ago today William Te-
cumseh Sherman, destined to become
one OF the great figures of the war;
was prearing to leave st. Louis, where
he had been president of street car
line, and 60 to washington to accept
command of the 18th regular infantry.
With Sherman's entrance into the
service the north gained man who was
to become beyond all question one of
her greatest generals, Grants colleague
and friend. the famous leader of THE
march to the sea-"
Sherman was Al years old. After his
graduation from West Point in lS4O, a
classmate of George II. Thomas, he had
had 1S years of military service-as an
ARTILLERY lieutenant at Fort Moultrie and
in California. as q captain of commits
sary in st. Louis and New Orleans
which. while making apparent his solid
liabilities. had given him small oppor-
tunity to distinguish himself in action.
The seven years following his resigna-
ton from the army had brought him
neither fame nor fortune, a fate which
he shared with Grant. After army
service in California, in the boom times
of gold hunting he had been a banker in
San Francisco and New York, and a
lawyer in Leavenworth, Kan,-admitted
to the bar ION the ground Of general
intelligence" and 1850 had seen him SUI
perintendent of the newly founded Lou
isiana seminary of learning and mill
tary academy at Alexandria, La. as
also of the local arsenal.
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SHE GOT
WHAT SHE
WANTED
This Woman Had to Insist
Strongly, but it Paid

Chicago. Ill.-"I suffered from fe-
male weakness and stomach trouble.
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TTE
civil, WAR
FIf1Y YEARS AGO TO-DAY
May II, 1861-Wilam Tecumseh Sherman Was Prepar-
ing to Enter the Union Army as Colonel of Regulars,
Having Once Decided Not to Volunteer = His Meeting
With Lincoln

and believing that prompt resort to the
regular army was the only way out of
the situation, could not understand the
point of view of the man in the White
House, who, told of what the south
was doing. put it off with a casual Il
guess Wen manage to keep house."
Installed in ST. Louis as president of
the Fifth street railroad, his indigna-
ton still simmered. He was, he wrote,
waiting for the time when profession
al knowledge will be appreciated" You
know he reminds his brother else
where. that Mr.. Lincoln said to you
and me that he did not think he wanted
military men,
On April came a dispatch from Post
master General Montgomery Blair, Of
fering Sherman the chief clerkship of
the war department. and promising to
make him assistant secretary of war,
that he had incurred other obligations
but Sherman refused 1t. on the ground
and was not at liberty to change Actu-
ally he wanted command in the field
and not a clerks duties.
Meanwhile John Sherman. who thought
more highly of his brothers abilities
than did that brother himself, was ur-
gent that he should return to the serv-
ice of his country.
There is an earnest desire that you
go into the war department" he wrote
April H. Chase is especially anxious
that you accept saying that you would
be virtually secretary of war and could
easily step into any position. BY all
means take advantage of the present
disturbance to get into the army, where
you will at once put yourself in a high
position for life. You are a favorite in
the army and have great strength in po-
litical circles"
Later John promised him that he could
choose his own place, and urged him to
come to Ohio and raise a regiment.
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SHERMAN Leaves LOUISIANA.

Here ne had been SucceSSful IN spite
of the fact that his brother, John
Sherman. had become a leader of the
black Republicans in the national
house of representatives, until January.
1861. brought the seizure of the Baton
Rouge arsenal by the Louisiana ,mll-
itia.
No extremist. Sherman had deprecated
the excesses alike of northern abolition
lists and southern fire eater 1T would
be the heighth of folly to drive the
south to desperation" he had written
his brother. "Disunion would be civn
war"
Yeti if war there was to be he intend.
ed to throw in his lot with the Federal
government, If not the army When
therefore, as superintendent of the ar.
senal at Alexandria, he was asked to re-
ceive and account for a consignment OF
arms and ammunition from Baton Rouge
he could only resign.
IF Louisiana withdrew from the fed
eral union" he wrote to Governor Moore.
Il prefer to maintain my allegiance to
the constitution as long as a fragment
of its survives, and my longer stay here
would be wrong in every sense of the
word"
Winding up his affairs as rapidly as
he could, he had gone. first to New Or
leans, where he found the pelican flag
of the state over everything and the
people rapidly organizing for action,
and had then started north. March 10
had found him in Washington, and a
day or two later had come his first
meeting with resident Lincoln.
WE'LL MANAGE TO KEEP. HOUSE,"
He has gone to the White House with
his brother, about to succeed Salmon
p. Chase as senator from Ohio. John
Sherman had himself been received
some weeks before by Lincoln with the
unconventional greeting, $50 you are
John Sherman! Well, I'm taller than
you; let's MEASURE Now he presented
to the president the ex-army captain
with these words: This is my brother,
who is just up from Louisiana; he may
give you some information you want
"Ah," asked Lincoln, ''how are they
getting along down there?'
''They think they're getting along
swimmingly,' replied Sherman ironical-
ly. "They are preparing for, war
"Oh, wen,' said Lincoln, II guess
we'll manage to keep house"
"I was silenced, writes Sherman,
said no more to him, and we soon left.
was sadly disappointed, and remem-
Der that 1 broke out on John, damning
the politicians generally. saying. You
have got things in - of a fix and
you may beat them out as you best cant
Adding that the country was sleeping
on volcano that might burst forth at
any minute but that / was off to St.
Louis to take care of my family. and
would have no more to do with it,
DECLINES HIGH POSITION.
Sherman, thorough soldier, despis-
ing all politicians as trouble makers,
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HIS IDEAS ON THE WAR.

Il
During April, however. Sherman de-
clined all his brothers invitations AT
present" he wrote, Il will not volun-
teer as a soldier or anything else"
He totally disapproved of Lincoln's call
for $1,000 volunteers, for to him regu-
lars were the only troops Volunteers
and militia" he told his brother, never
were and never will be fit for invasion.
and, when tried, will be defeated and
dropped by Lincoln like hot potato.
With regulars only, he held. was it pos
sible to $50 conquer as to impress upon
the real men of the south a respect for
their conquerors."
Yet, old soldier that he was, he could
not but follow the course of the war
with the greatest interest. and filed his
letters to his brothers with military sug-
gestions, which John in turn showed to
Cameron, the secretar yof war.
In his letters Sherman proved himself
a true military prophet. The MISSISSIPPI
pi," he wrote lis the hardest and most
important task of the war. and 1 know
of no one competent, unless it be McClel-
Ian. But as soon as real war begins new
men, heretofore unheard of. will emerge
from. obscurity, equal to- any occasion. I"
He little thought he was to be one of
those thus to come forward.
MADE COLONEL OF REGULARS.
1t was the call of May 8, for regulars
and three-year volunteers, that reused
him from his Information, and on May
8 he wrote to Secretary Cameron. Of
fering his services.
ST hold myself now, as always" he
said, prepared to serve my country in
the capacity for which I was trained
did not and will not volunteer for three
months, because 1 cannot throw my fam
lily on the cold charity of the world. But
for the three-years' call made by the
president an officer can prepare his COM
mand and do good service.
II will not volunteer as a soldier, be-
cause rightfully or wrongfully I feel I'M
willing to take private's place, and hav-
ing for many years lived in California
and Louisiana, the men are not well
enough acquainted with me to elect me
to my appropriate place.
should my services be needed, the
records of the war department win en-
able you to designate the station In which
can render most service
six days later came a dispatch from
washington announcing that he had been
appointed colonel of the 18th regular
infantry, and bidding him come on at
once. II prefer this to a brigadier' $
rank in the militia" he wrote, and inn
mediately set about preparing to take his
command.
Copyright. 1911. by Associated Literary
Press)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-07-14

An. happy day that shall refuse to 80
Hang in the. heavens forever so.
Forever let thy tender mist
Lie like dissoiving amethyst
Dep in the distant dales. and shed
Thy mellow glory overhead,
Harriet Prescott Spofford