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WhatCOat N. {. Church.

Preaching Sunday at 1890 a. m. and
500 p. m. Sunday-school at 2.30 p. m.
John 7. Taylor's class at ll.30 a. m.
Epworth League at rs p. m. Monday.
Young Peoples Class at p. m. We'd
nesday. Prayer meeting at 500. Fri
day, Junior choir. 1880; Senior choir. s. Is
p. m.
Ladies' Aid Society the first Tuesday
night in each month. Young People s
Aid Society the second Monday night in
each month. Official meeting the first
Monday night in each month. Seats
free, all cordially invited.
c. w. PRETTYMAN, Pastor.
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LOCALS.

Mrs. r. ID. Jones and daughter
visited Philadelphia this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver D. Collins
spent the week in Philadelphia.
Miss Pauline Miller, of near Snow
Hill, is visiting Miss Beulah Mckee.
Senator and Mrs. John P. Moore and
Miss Helen, are visiting in Baltimore.
Mr.. j. E. Shockley. of Gray's Cor
ner, visited relatives in Snow Hill this
week.
Miss Edna Jones is visiting friends
and relatives in New York and Philadel-
phia.
The hour for evening service at the
M. p. Church has been changed to eight
o'clock.
See changes of time of services in
Whatcoat M. Z. Church announcements
in this paper.
Don't forget the mass meeting for
men in the Court house Sunday after
noon at $3.50 o'clock.
Mrs. William F. Johnson is visiting
at the home of her father, Mr.. F. A.
Davis, in Baltimore.
Mr.. Roy Landing of Pocomoke City,
spent part of last week with Mr.. and
Mrs. ID. C. Holloway.
The many friends of Mrs. Alex
Bradford, who has been quite sick, are
glad to see her out again.
Get your strawberry checks printed
at the Messenger Office promptly and
cheaply. $l.00 thousand.
Miss Hazel Jones entertained few
Of her friends Wednesday evening in
honor of her fourteenth birthday.
Mrs. Frank Stull. of Buffalo, N. Y.
returned home this week from visit to
her sister, Mrs. Thomas P. Selby.
Mr.. James 7. Young, of Pocomoke
City, will address meeting at Green
backville Sunday afternoon at O'Clock.
The Ladies' Aid Society Of Nassa-
wango M. p. Church will meet at the
home of Mr.. N. J. Pusey Saturday even
ing, May 9Th.
Mr.. Thomas Dunlap. who was oper-
ated upon at the Salisbury hospital the
first Of last week is getting along finely.
He had narrow escape.
Mrs. Commodore Powell, of Berlin,
visited her sister, Miss Elva Burbage,
and other relatives in Snow Hill the
latter part of last week.
Miss Mabel Irwin returned home
Wednesday night from an extended visit
TO friends and relatives in Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington.
Mrs. Emma Lewis left on Tuesday
morning for Parsonsburg to visit her
sister-in-law, Mrs. Parker. who is a
great sufferer from cancer.
The steamer Maryland is now being
overhauled and receiving her Spring coat
Of paint. In the meantime the officers
are taking holiday with their families.
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Safe Medicine for Children

Foley's Honey and Tar Compound is
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Diarrhoea should be cured without loss
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Chamberlain Collie, Cholera and Diar-
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II never fails and is pleasant and safe
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COLBOURNE.

Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Dickerson enter
tanned the following last Sunday: Mr.. and
Mrs. S. E. Shockley. of Wilton; Rev. and
Mrs. Joslin, Mr.. Ernest Esham. Mr..
w. o. Dickerson, Mr.. Elmer Godfrey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Dickerson, and
Miss Annie West. of Parsonsburg.
Mr.. ]. +. Dickerson purchased three
nice young mules of Mr.. Ernest Givans
recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Powell spent last Sum
day with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
Hailes.
Mrs. Elijah Halsier is visitirSH
uncle, Mr.. Elijah Pippin. III
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Good results always follow the use of
Foley Kidney Pills. They give prompt
relief in all cases of kidney and bladder
disorders. Try them. Sold by all
Druggists.
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Prompt relief in all cases Of throat
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Mrs. r. J. Shovel was the guest of
the senior editor of the Messenger while
in Snow Hill.
Misses Handy and Dilworth were en-
tertained during the Sunday School Con-
vention by Mrs. White.
Arbor Day was duly celebrated. and
tree planted as usual on the school
grounds.
DIR. Kindley stopped to see Berlin be-
tween trains, and took dinner with Mrs.
X. j. Shovel.
MIR. Wilmer Bodley has enlisted in
the Army, and reported for duty at Fort
Slocum, New York. Several of our
young men are thus working for Uncle
Sam.
Mr.. Laban CULLEN attended the con-
vention of Red Men held in Frederick.
He is a State officer. Mr.. Raymond
Boston attended as delegate from
White Eagle Tribe.
Rev. w. II. Bancroft preached Sun
day night on the commemoration of the
300th anniversary of the King James
Edition of the English Bible.
Mrs. Fred Selby has been i'll with pneu-
monia.
Mrs. Littleton has illness in her family.
Miss Lilias Cropper is at home for the
summer.
The Odd Fellows banquet was held
Wednesday night, TO celebrate the 92nd
anniversary.
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Brie.-Gen. G. r. 5eauregard.

is proposed to erect monuments at the
spots where these warriors fell.
A dramatic result of this battle was
the court-martial of General Porter
on charges made by General Pope. On
the 10th of January, 1868, Porter was
found guilty of having disobeyed three
of Pope's orders and the sentence was
that he be cashiered and be forever
disqualified from holding any office
under the government. During the
next Is years Porter continually ap-
piled for re-hearing, in the light OF
evidence newly discovered or not
available at the time of his trial. In
1873 President Hayes appointed
board to examine the new evidence,
and the conclusion of its findings
read: What General Porter actually
did do now seems to nave
been only the simple necessary action
which an intelligent soldier had no
choice but to take. 1t is not possible
that any court-mart:al could have
condemned such conduct If it had
been correctly understood. On the
contrary that conduct was obedient,
subordinate, faithful and judicious. 1t
saved the Union army from disaster
on the 10Th of August.
Accordingly, President Arthur in
1882 relieved General Porter from the
continuing disqualification to hold Of
fee, and in July, 1886, President Cleve-
land approved an act of congress by
which Porter was once more commits
stoned as colonel of infantry. In the
following August he was placed on
! the retired list
Ii a national park is created at Bull
! Run it will probably be placed under
| the Jurisdiction of the commissioners
of the Fredericksburg and adjacent
! battlefields An important incidental
! feature of the project is the plan for
| a great boulevard from Manassas to
/ the national capital, possibly along
| the line of that highway which was
/ the scene of such picturesque happen
| ings half century ago. This proposed
highway, together with road-building
on the battlefield such as has been
done at Gettysburg, would render 1t
possible for future generations to In
| spect and study this historic field sat
| isfactorily, something that is difficult,
not to say impossible, with the pres
ent wretched condition of many of the
roads. Road building would be facili-
tated by surveys of this whole field
made within the past few years by
members of the United States army
engineer corps.
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cas- General Fry. Mcdowell was SO
tired that while sitting on the ground
writing a dispatch he fell asleep.
pencil in hand, in the middle of SEN
tence. His adjutant general aroused
him; the dispatch was finished, and
the weary ride to the Potomac re-
sumed. When the unfortunate COM
mander dismounted at Arlington next
forenoon In a soaking rain, after 80
hours in the saddle, his disastrous
campaign of six days was closed. The
first martial effervescence of the
country was over. The three-months
men went home. and the three-months
chapter of the war ended, with the
south triumphant and confident, the
north disappointed but determined.
In his detailed description of the
battle, General Beauregard says the
Federal attack failed for two reasons:
Their forces were not handled with
concert of masses Ga fault often made
later on both sides). and the individ-
ual action of the Confederate troops
was superior, and for very palpable
reason. That one army was fighting
for union and the other for disunion
is a political expression: the actual
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showed apprehension Of evil; but men
generally were confident and jovial.
"The presence of senators, con-
gressmen and other civilians upon the
field on the 21st gave rise to extrava-
CANT and absurd stories, in which al
legged forethought and valor among
them are contrasted with lack of
these qualities In the troops. The
plain truth is that the non-combat-
ants and their vehicles merely in
creased the confusion and demoraliza-
ton of the retreat"
Several days were consumed in
the preliminary skirmishes, during
which time the Confederates were re-
inforced by 5000 men under Gen. Jo-
seph E. Johnston, whom the Federals
supposed to have been safely bottled
up" at Winchester in the Shenandoah
valley. On that hot Sunday after
noon when the clash of arms finally
came it looked for time as though
the expected Union victory was GER
tainty, but just at the juncture when
the outlook was darkest for the Con-
federates, Gen. Kirby Smith arrived
with 1000 fresh troops and defeat for
the Confederates was turned into vic
tory, while the retreat of the Federals
was turned into a wild rout in which
troops and spectators joined in a mad
struggle to get back to Washington.
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man and Miles against General Beau
regards Confederate forces was
looked upon as holiday, SO sanguine
OF victory was northern sentiment,
and many congressman and civilians
and not few ladies drove out from
Washington to witness the spectacle
of whose outcome they had never a
doubt.
Gen. James B. Fry, who was on Nc
DoWell's staff at that time, in writing
of this, says:
During the 18th and Goth the biy-
ouacs of McDowell's army at Centre
vile, almost with in cannon range CT
the enemy, were thronged by visitors,
official and unofficial, who came from
Washington, bringing their own sup
plies. They were under no military
restraint, and passed to and fro among
the troops as they pleased, giving the
scene the appearance of a monster
military picnic. Among others, the
venerable secretary of war, Cameron,
called upon Mcdowell. Whether due
to a sense of responsibility, to pre-
monition of the fate of his brother
who fell upon the field on the 21st, or
to other cause, his countenance
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The present summer will see the
beginning of long list Of semi-cen-
tenaries of the notable battles of our
great Civil war which will extend
over the coming five years and will
serve to keep the public constantly
and wildly reminded of the stirring
events of the greatest civil war in all
history. The first of these anniversa-
ries will be that of the Battle of Bull
Run, or Manassas, as 1t was called
by the Confederates, the first notable
conflict of the war between the north
and the south. Bull Run battlefield,
fifty years after, is surprisingly little
changed from what 1t was in the ex-
citing days of 81 and will be made
the scene of what will doubtless prove
the first of long series of reunions
of the blue and the gray on the fields
where these men met in deadly COM
bat half a century ago.
In arranging for these gatherings,
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fact on the battlefield, In the face of
cannon and musket, was that the Fed
eral troops came as invaders, and the
southern troops stood as defenders OF
their homes, and further than this we
need not go. The armies were vastly
greater than had ever before fought
on this continent, and were the lar
gest volunteer armies ever assembled
since the era of regular armies. The
personal material on both sides was
of exceptionally good character, and
collectively superior to that OF any
subsequent period of the war. The
Confederate army was filled with
generous youths who had answered
the first call to arms. For certain
kinds of field duty they were not as
yet adapted, many of them having at
first come with their baggage and
servants; they had come to fight, and
not to handle the pick and shovel,
and their fighting well redeemed their
shortcomings as intrenchers."
The battle was noteworthy for the
number of participants whose names
were afterward prominently associ
ated with the war On the Confeder
ate side, besides Generals Johnston
and Beauregard, were Gems. Stonewal
| Jackson, Longstreet, Ewell, Early, j
E.. B. Stuart, Kirby Smith, Wade
Hampton. Fitzhugh Lee, Thomas Jor
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Brig Gen. irwin Mcdowell.

the Union forces on Major General
Fitz-John Porter, who commanded the
Fifth corps Had Porter done his
duty, according to Pope, he would
have prevented Longstreet from
forming on Jackson's right until he
had dislodged Porter, which would
have occupied him too long to have
permitted the advance which he sub
sequently made against the Federal
left. But the Confederates had de.
liberately given Porter a false i'm
preston of the forces in front of him.
and he remained idle. General Pope
says:
'If mere impression that the en-
envy is in heavy force and that an at
tack or further advance might be
hazardous is a sufficient reason for a
corps commander to keep out of a
battle, raging in his hearing, especial
ly when he thinks his friends are be-
ing defeated, it is extremely difficult
to see how any corps commander
would venture to engage in battle at
all, unless he could ascertain in adj
vance and keep himself acquainted
during the day with the impression OF
his corps commanders about the pro-
priety of going into the battle. /.
When the battle ceased on the 18th
of August, we were in possession OF
the field on our right and occupied on
our left the position held early In
the day, and had every right to claim
a decided success. What that success
might have been, II corps of 10000
men who had not been In battle that
day had been thrown against Long
streets right while engaged In the
severe fight that afternoon, / need
not indicate. To say that General
Porter's nonaction during this whole
day was wholly unexpected and disap
pointing, and that it provoked severe
comment on all hands, is to state the
facts mildly"
General Longstreet wrote concern
| ing this:
Had Porter attacked me between
noon and night on the 10Th. should
have received his 5000 with about
double that number. The re
suit would have been Porter's retreat
n confusion, and might possibly
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the stream which for six or eight
miles formed the dividing line of the
two armies as originally drawn up in
battle formation. There are eight
fords and stone bridge within the
limits of the battle territory, all Of
which were conspicuous in the move
ments of the opposing forces. A num-
Der of houses are yet standing which
bear marks Of battle; there is the old
stone building which was used as
hospital; and there are many bullet
SCARED trees in dense pine woods
where the Confederate sharpshooters
were posted. Most interesting of all,
however, is the position where stood
Gen. Thomas J. Jackson when he re-
ceived his immortal nickname of
tStonewall." 1t was Gen. B. E. Bee
who, appealing to his men to resist
the Union charge, pointed to Jackson
and cried out: Look! There stands
Jackson like a stone wall"
The second battle of Bull Run,
which took place in the latter part of
August, 1862, may be similarly fol-
lowed with ease along the course of
Bull Run creek, in SO far as concerns
the furious all-day fight which marked
the climax of the campaign, but if the
visitor wishes to visit the scenes of
the exciting campaign of which the
second battle was the climax he will
need to traverse an area of many
square miles and include visits to Cen
terville, which was a bitterly contest
ed point, and to Thoroughfare Gap,
the picturesque cleft in the mountains
through which poured Longstreet's
corps of Confederates, reinforcing the
sorely-pressed Jackson and, for the
second time on this field, turning de-
feat into victory for the forces op.
posed to the Union.
Major General John Pope was then
in command of the Federal Army OF
Virginia, and in his published de-
scription of the battle he has laid
most of the blame for the defeat Of
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which will be inaugurated at Bull Run,
the leaders among the survivors OF
the Union and Confederate armies
are following, in a measure, the old
Mosaic custom whereby once every
fifty years all members of a commu-
nifty met and wiped out their debts
and grievances. 1t is planned to
make the inaugural event at Bull Run
battlefield a genuine love feast" Adj
dresses will be made by leaders on
both sides; there will be memorial
exercises at the monuments on the
field, and the boys of 81" will again
march up and down the red Virginia
roads as they did on that memorable
July day five decades ago, when they
were the actors in the combat that
awakened the country to the grim
seriousness of the impending conflict
for a united nation.
1t is expected that one important
outcome of this return of the legions
to the old fighting ground will be
definite progress in the project to
convert Bull Run battlefield into a
national park. 1t ought to have been
done years ago, as was done with
Gettysburg and certain other Civil
war battlefields, most of which have
less significance than this sweep OF
country under the shadow of the Bull
Run mountains-one of the few fields
in the United States which has been
the scene of two important battles.
Yet another reason why Bull Run bat
tlefield is especially worthy Of the
fostering care of our national gov
eminent is that it contains two monu-
ments erected by troops before the
close of the war-the first monuments
erected to the memory of the men
who died In that great conflict.
Fortunately, as has been said, the
historic battlefield is little changed.
so that the nation will lose little by
its neglect in not acquiring this field
long ago. 1t is something Of re-
proach that the two monuments above
mentioned-erected In 1855 by the
soldiers of CANDLES brigade-should
have been allowed to stand all these
years on private land, but luckily
they are in an excellent state of pres
ervation, which Is all the more re
markable In view Of the fact that
they were rudely constructed Of rough
hewn stone found In the neighbor
hood. These are by no means thu
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FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST
REAL BATTLEOF THE CIVIL WAR
Soldiers Of the Union and Confederate Armies
Who Fought at Bull Run Half Century
Ago Are to Meet Again on That
Famous Field.

only monuments on the field, although
the scene of the two battles of Bull
Run is not replete with markers and
memorials as are the field of Gettys-
burg and other scenes Of decisive
strife. During the past few years,
however, a number of tributes in mar
BILE and bronze have been erected, in
dicating the positions and memorial
izing the services of regiments that
took part.
One circumstance that, aside from
this years anniversary, is urging i'm
mediate action in the project for ma
tional park at Bull Run Is found in the
present opportunity to buy at mod
crate price the famous Henry farm"
the scene of the fiercest fighting in
both battles. The Henry farm con-
tains 1913 acres, and beside the Henry
house stands one of the monuments
above mentioned, pile of stone some
twenty feet high, which marks the
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spot where the Unionists, as undis-
ciplined recruits defending the cap
ital thirty miles away, met their first
defeat and where thirteen months
later under Sykes and Reynolds and
Reno they stood against the triumph
ing legions of Longstreet and Lee.
One thing that it is hoped national
jurisdiction may do for Bull Run bat
tlefield is to render the field more &C
cessible and to make it possible to
tour it In greater comfort. At present
no railroad extends to the scene Of
the two battles. The tourist leaves
the train at the little city of Manassas
and drives some half a dozen miles
over roads that are nothing to brag
of in the most favorable weather. Ar
rived on the battlefield, he finds the
roads no better and ill-suited, when
choked with the notorious mud
formed from sticky Virginia clay, to
travel by buggy, much less by auto
mobile. Yet 1t is a battlefield which
aside from its purely historic interest,
affords liberal education in strategic
value, as attested by the fact that de-
tails of United States army officers
are sent each year to make study
of the battlefield as part of their
military education.
The Federals and Confederates who
march shoulder to shoulder over the
hill and dale of this rolling country
this July will not attempt to traverse
more than fraction of the battlefield
In their reunion parade. To cover 1t
all would tax the strength Of young
men, for Bull Run Is mighty big
battlefield. 1t keeps a sightseer hur-
rying to get even a general idea Of 1t
In a one-day tour (Which Is all the
time the average visitor can spare
when making "side trip" from Wash
ington), and when the COMMANDMENTS
chief of the Grand Army OF the Re
public recently visited Bull Run he
spent three days going over the stage
Of the momentous war drama and fol-
lowing the movements Of both armies
in both battles.
The first battle of Bull Run was the
result of the ION to Richmond" clam
or which arose throughout the north
and which virtually forced the author
tiles at Washington to make some
move. The advance of the Union
army Of $4,000 men under Generals
Me0nwAll Tyler. Hunter. Heintzel'
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Auto Sensjtiveness.

Although automobiles are without
flesh and blood, they have individual
ity. They fret in the hands OF
nervous or reckless driver and jog
along good naturally when thought
full, kindly hand Is at the wheel.
1.-The man that Is forever clucking
to his horse, jerking nervously on tho
reins and shaking the whip in its
socket or swapping 1t on the animals
TANKS is the same kind of man that
distresses an automobile" said an ex-
perienced driver Machines are sem
sitive, like horses. A careless or
nervous driver will work horse into
a sweat In half an hour. The same
man will get car all het up"
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have reached Pope's left and rear in,
time to cut him off,"
All day long on the 30th the two
armies fought fercely, and on the
next morning General Pope found his
forces so worn out that he ordered a.
retreat
General Lee commanded the Con-
federate forces in person at the
second battle of Bull Run, and
some of the best known generals
in the Union army were likewise
engaged. A number of prominent
officers on both sides were killed
during the Bull Run campaign, and it