The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-04-20

seated thereon, awaiting their for
tune. The shifting wind spared many
families.
1 recall one Jewish family and its
head who exclaimed, ''AlasI that we
should suffer so on account of our
rulers" I cared little for him, for if
there was a man on earth who could
escape military service by any sort
of device it was the Jew; they worm
ed their way through the South. in
spite of war, speculating in cotton,
few bales of which at war prices
would give the possessor a small for
tune. At the evacuation of Corinth
by Beauregard's army, following the
battle of Shiloh, a hook-nosed Jew,
carrying a peddlar's pack, crowded
out Of a brush heap and greeted our
avance as we entered the town!
To get back to Columbia-take
note of these gentry at the capitol of
South Carolina. I recall as it were
yesterday when they passed the
ordinance of secession-the frenzy
of excitement-the mad enthusiasm
to trample under foot and spit upon
the flag designed by Betsy Ross at the
instance of the authors of the Declar-
alton of independence and of the
Constitution of the U. S.
Mark you! for the young genera
ton of this day have little compre
hension of the enormity of that Of
Tense; the men guilty of that un-'
speakable crime against the South to
say nothing of the North, had not a
shirt upon their backs. nor shoe up
on the foot, nor a nail to fasten two
boards together, nor a stove for
warmth, nor a stationary or loco
motive engine, nor a family carriage
for the swell planter and his family,
nor a wheelharrow nor a frock for
the babe nor scarcely anything else /
that adds comfort to civilized life
that was not. obtained from the
Yankees whom they so roundly !
cursedl The "mud-sills" Of the North /
made these things in their factories, /
and they, were despised and feared +,
they were produced without
slave labor! Cotton was king, they
said and they were determined to !
crush what they could not compete
with. What came of it? All the
world knows. At one point in the
struggle jeff Davis came out to Jack
son, Miss, to hearten his discouraged
and wasting armies and the rich wo-
men (the women were more bitter
than the men) brought out their
silk shawls and spread them for
CARPET for the arch traitor to stand
upon, and the day was already dawn
ing when those women stood upon the
Threshold of their homes-such as
had homes after four years of de
vastation-to welcome home the
hungry, haggard men of Lees and
Johnson's armies-coming back !
across widespread ruin without
honey, home or decent breeches up
on their legs!
1t must be admitted, they fought
gaIlantly for a lost cause; but a right
eous government for which Abraham
Lincoln gave up his life, stood sted-
fast. and we have an undivided coun-
try, the glory of all the earth.
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Sheridan-the Irish Sheridan
member of the British parliament,
barrister and statesman, declared
that, ''He who destroys the faith of
another in the Christian religion,
an infamous outrage" yet
we have professors in some of our
higher institutions of learning and
teachers even in our lesser schools,
who have no respect for the faith up
on which our Republic was founded.
10000
Manna-the mamma of the forty
years pilgrimage of the Israelites
through the wilderness, is now OBJ
tanned in Upper MesOpotamia, Kurdi-
stan, and along the Persian frontier.
It is gathered on sheets under oak
trees and stored for the future; it Is
sweet and is used by the natives as
sugar or honey.
10000
Since the foundation of the city
library there has been a wonderful
in the quantity and
quality of the literature there stored
for reference. Mrs. Fulton presides
49, aocaD+ablv and Is always at