The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, March 03, 1913, Image 8
A car of American Field Fence, all heights and all meshes Poultry netting, all heights, diamond mesh and square mesh VLOVE letters of general PICKETT AIE FINE ROMANCE I I El Missives Written Mid Roar Of Gannon In Bloody Civil War. He Tells of Battles and of Valor and High Ideals of Warriors. Rabbit and poultry fonce, barbwire, strap hinges, builders' hardware nails, U' Prices right p. IASTWOPP (Successor to John Bauer) 2J Local News Prom Thursday's Dally. (5. F. Hoihart of Louisvillo was in llio city today for a few hours visiting with his many friends here. Mrs. Frank Hoyd of Anaiuosa, Iowa, arrived this afternoon on No. 2 and will mako a short visit here with friends. Carry Stotler, A. L. Hammond and K. Morton of Union were in 1ho city last evening attending to Homo matters of business. Harry Crook of Lincoln, who hns been hero visiting his par ents, R F. Crook and wife, de parted this afternoon for his home. V. 11. Wherbein and wife and Kdwnrd Duffy, father of Mrs. Wohrbein, wore passengers this morning for Omaha to visit the aulo show. C. I.. lies was a passenger this morning on the narly Nur lington train for Omaha, where ho was called to look after some matters of business. VA Trilsch departed this morn ing for Omaha, when.! lie goes to visit his wife, who is improvin nice v nl. he hospital. Having oeen able to set up a little. I. J. Decker, who lias lieen here fur a short time visiting with the Tulene brothers, departed this innming for Ohiowa, Neb., where be will isil relatives for a lion In counly court llns morning a pel it ion was tiled for the proba of the eslale of Cyrus V. Hall, de ceased. The eslale is from 111 vie i 11 i I v of (Ireenwood and is only a small one. W illiam Wohlfarlh. one of the cood reliable farmers of neat' Hfvnard. was in the city yesterday and while here called at the Jour nal olllcn to renew his subscrip tion to the Semi-Weekly edition A. S. Will was a passenger this morning for Omaha, where he visited for a few hours. Mr. Will lias just returned from Mexico, and lofj. that country when the revolution was going on full blast in Mexico City. A. K. R Neligh of Neligh, Neb., who has been here for some few days looking after matters of business and visiting with his friends, departed this morning for Omaha, where he will visit for a nhorl time before returning to his home. Kiom Friday Dally. A. R Fornoff of Culloin was in (he city today attending to busi ness matters among the different merchants. II. C. Long of the vicinity of Murray was attending to some business matters in this city yes terday. Mrs. F. A. Uarrctt of Oiiha is in the city visiting at tin! home of County Surveyor Fred Patterson and wife. Will Hummell delled the storm i . 1 S - . J yesterday auernoon ana uroe in to look after some trading for a short lime. Henry Horn returned to his home at Cedar Creek yesterday, having been here attending to his jury services. II. C. Long of near Murray was in the city yesterday afternoon looking after some trading with the merchants. John Hair of University Place ... ... X came in inis morning on io. i, being called here to attend to some business matters. James Johnson and wife of (ireenwood were in the city today, being called here to look after matters at the court house. A. Alexander of San Francisco, who is visiting in the city for a short time, was a passenger this morning for Omaha to spend the day. v. 0. and I.. A. M isinger of near Cedar Creek were in the city today, coming in from their farms to look after some business mai lers. Mrs. Wesley Hair of near (ireenwood. came down this morn ing on No. i to look after some matters of business at the .onrl bon. e. A. A. Welenkamp of Mynard was a passenger this afternoon for Omaha, where he will attend the automobile show for a few bou rs. N. II. Meeker, the (ireenwood banker, was in the city today, be ing called here on the lloensliell case, which is on trial in the dis trict court. J. M. Hoover returned to his home at Louisville yesterday aft ernoon, having been here attend ing the Miller will content case, serving as juryman. Mrs. Kd S. Tutt came up last evening from her home at Mur ray and visited over night with friends in this city, going to Oma ha this morning to look some business matters. Joe Raw Is and wife of Three Forks, Montana, who have been visiting here, the guests of Mr. Hawls' parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Rawls, for several days, de parted this morning on Hie early lUirlinglon train for their home. L. II. Young of Nehawka, who is serving on the jury during this term of the district court, called at this office and ordered a copy of the Semi-Weekly sent to his daughter, Mrs. John E. Perry, at Chin, Alberta, Canada, for a year. Alfred and Ryan Williams of Norfolk, Neb., who have been visiting at the home of their uncle, C. Hengen, sr., near My nard, for a short time, departed this afternoon for their home. Frank Gorton, the. old re liable, has accepted a position as bartender at the saloon of Lew llussel in the Hotel Riley, hafing taken the. place of Claus Speck, who is to remove shortly to his farm, and the many friends of Frank can find his smiling coun tenance at the Riley bar in the future. 11. H. Weideman of Greenwood was in the city today for a few hours, being called here on the Hoenshell case, and while here bad his name entered on the Semi-Weekly Journal list tor a year's subscription and will here after receive that household ne cessity. We were greatly pleased to meet Mr. Weideman, as he is a very pleasant, whole-souled gentleman. NDEIt the secrecy preserving caption of "The Love Letters a Confederate General"' a re markable series of comiuuni cations sent by a soldier to his beloved, under the most dangerous and des perate cireuinstuuces letters written from the thick of war. ringing of lovo and of valor-has been running in the Pictorial Kevlow. The letters have stirred up a controversy that has run with particular zest through the south ern states, and now that the last of them Is about to be printed the woman to whom they were written has con- i sented that the anonymity be destroy l ed. They were written by General I George Pickett to the girl who was first Lasalle Corbell, afterwnrd Mrs. IMckett. Mrs. Pickett Is now living in Wash ington and bus been the lender of tho southern coterie there for many years. The "little general" to whom the let ters refer came In after years to be a major In the United States army and died a year and a half ago. returning from service in the Philippines. Ills two little sons now live with their dis tinguished grandmother In Washing ton. Allegiance to the South. In the first one of the series Gen eral IMckett tells why his allegiance went to the Confederacy. He writes: No. my child, I had no conception of fie Intensity of feeling, the bitterness and hatred toward those who were so lately our friends and are now our ene mies. 1. of course, have always strenu ously opposed disunion, not as doubting the right of secession, which was taught In our textbooks at West Point, but as gravely questioning Its expediency. I be lieved that the revolutionary spirit which Infected both north and south was but a passing phase of fanaticism which would perish under the rebuke of all good cltl- i- r.jl;;',l...l and it ! :n come I caA't belter' It. As I t'.:.il, of It I fftl the stir of para dise In my fruso, nnd my spirit goes up III thankfulness to God (or this, his high est ani best, the one perfect flower In ta garden of life love. Minding tears roiit.l down my cheek iny Nwceth-art. ;;s I rcjad the glad tid ings, and a f-ding so new. so strange, came over that 1 asked of the angdt what it could b and whence came ttw strains of celestial music which rilled m soul, and what were the jjt'.it. grand stirring hosannas und the soft, tender. I sweet adagios that circle around un'l around, warmed my every vein, boat my every pulse. And, O little mother of my boy, tae echoing answer came, "A little baby has been born to you, and he ana tho new made mother live." Following the failure of t lie peace conference which preceded General Lee's surrender General IMckett wrote On every side gloom, dissatisfaction anl disappointment seem to have settled over all, men and officers alike, because of the unsuccessful termination of the peace cea ferenee on board the River Queen on ttiu fatal 3d. The anxious, despairing faces i see everywhere bespeak heavy hearts, our commissioners knew that we wen gasping our last gasp and that the peuo conference was a forlorn hopo. Becauan of tho Informality of Iho conference and my knowledge of Mr. Lincoln, his human ity, his broad nature, his warm heart, 1 did believe he would take advantage of this very Informality and spring some wise, superhuman surprise which weulft somehow restore peace and In time insure unity. Now, heaven help us, it will be war to the knife with a knife no louger keen, the thrust of an arm no longer strong, the certainty that when peace comes It will follow the tread of the con queror. Again in the same strain he wrltesj Ah, Chullta mla, the triumphs of might are transient, but the sufferings and oru clfixlons for the right can never be for gotten. The sorrow and song of my gly ry crowned divisions neara Its doxology. May God pity those who wait at home tut the soldier who has reported to the Qreat Commander. God pity them as the dnw go by and the sad nights follow. The sol dier Is done with tears and time, and to htm a thousand years are as one. The End In Sight. The final letter of the series was written a few hours before the surren der of General Lee at Appomattox. It follows In part: Tomorrow, my darling, may see our flog furled forever. Jackerle, our faithful oCl mall carrier, sobs behind me as I write. He bears tonight this his last message from me as "Our Cupid." First be ifl ttful dream, and. while its glory still over shadows the waking and Alls my soul with radiance, I write to make an earnest request entreating, praying, that you will grant It. You know, my darling, we have no prophets In theso days to tell us how near or how far Is the end of this awful struggle. If the "battlo is not to the strong" then we may win, but when all our ports aro closed and the world Is against us, when for ua a man killed Is a man lost, while Grant may have twenty-five of every nation to replace one of his. It seems that the battle Is to the strong. So often already has hope been dashed to the winds. As you know. It Is Imperative that I re main at my post and absolutely Impossi ble for me to go to you. So you will have to como to mo, Wtll you, dear? Will you come? Can't your beautiful eyes see beyond tho mist of my eagerness and anxiety that in the bewilderment of my worship worshiping, as I do, one so divinely right and feeling that my love Is returned how hard It Is for me to ask you to overlook old time customs, remem bering only that you are to be a soldier's wife? A week, a day, an hour, as your husband would engulf In Its great Joy all my past woes and ameliorate all future fears! So, my Chullta, don't let's wait Send me a linn by Jackerle saying you will come eorae at once, my darling, Into this valley of the shadow of uncertainty and make certain the comfort that If I fall I shall fall as your husband; that you vlll bear my name, will have been my wife and will have all the rights of a wife. You know that I love you with a devo tion that envelops, absorbs nil else a de votion so divine that when In dreams 1 see you It Is as something too pure and sacred for mortal touch. And If you only knew the heavenly life that thrills through me when 1 make It real to myself that you love me you would understand. Think, my dear little one, of the uncertainty and dnnvnrM nf evnn n rinv ftf ftnrmrnttnn And don't let tho time come when either of us I commissioned with three orders, whlato I will look back and sav. "It might have 1 klw as fearlessly as Uia been." If I am spared all my life Bhall be de voted to making you happy, to keeping all that would hurt you far from you, to making all that Is good come near you. Heaven will help me to be ever helpful to you and will b'ess me to bless you. If 7.ens. who would surely unite In upholding. yu knf h(,w bur J kncel at ou Sell your property through little ad In the Journal. ANOTHER NEW ADDITION TO THE LAUNDRY FORCEi From Friday's Dally. The Plaltsmoulh laundry, which has been greatly improved under the management of Mr. William Hare lay, has received an other addition to its force, in Mrs. James Ulaha, who comes to this city from South Omaha, -where she has had seven years' ex perience in the laundries in that city. Mrs. Hlaha will have full charge of the ironing room, look ing after the handling and llnishing of the shirts and col lars and all flat work, while Mr. Hunch will oversee the work in the wash room, giving the new company two excellent workmen to assist them in furnishing the urtor public with first-class laundry work, which win be a great renei to the patrons of the laundry, who have been compelled to put up with very poor service in the past, but the new company is determin ed to furnish the best of service, regardless of expense, and in se curing this lady to have charge of the ironing department they have secured one who is lltted to give the best results. $30 To $25Toi Oregon, British Columbia, California and Washington Utah, Central Montana and . Southern Idaho March 15th to April 15th One Way Rates THROUGH TOURIST SLEEPERS: Every day to Los Angeles und San Francisco, with daylight ride through scenic Colorado. Every day via Northern Pacific and Great Northern to nil princi pal northwest destinations. HOMESEEKERS' EXCURSION TICKETS from Eastern Nebraska to the Big Horn Basin and other localities West and Northwest. W. C. CLEMENT, Agent W. WAKELEY, General Passenger Agent, Omaha, Neb. x Better than Spanking! Spanking will not cure children of wetting tho bed, because it is not a babit but a dangerous disease. The C. II. Rowan Drug Co., Dept. B 1003, Chicago, 111., have discovered a strictly harmless remedy for this distressing disease and to make known its merits they will send a 5)c package securely wrepped and prepaid Absolutely Free to any ready of the Journal. This remedy also cures frequent desire to urinate and inability to control mine during the night or day In old or young. The C. II. Rowan Drug Co. is an Old Reliable. House. Write to them today for tho free medicine. Cure the afflicted members of your family, then tell your neghbors and friends about this remedy the constitution, but when that great as aembly, composed of ministers, lawyers, Judges, chancellors, statesmen, mostly white haired men of thought, met In South Carolina, and when their districts were called crept noiselessly to the table In the center of the room and aftlxed their sig natures to the parchment on which the ordinance of secession was Inscribed, and when In deathly silence. In spite of the gathered multitude. General Jamison nrose nnd without preamble read, "The ordi nance of secession has been signed and rntllled; 1 proclaim the state of South Car olina an Independent sovereignty," and, lastly when my old boyhood friend called for an Invasion, It was evident that both, tho advocates and opponents of secession had lead fie portents aright. You know, my little lady, some of those cross stitched mottoes on the cardboard 1 samplers which used to hang on my nurs ery wall, siifFli ns "He who provides not for his own household is worse than an ) Infidel." "Charity begins at home." etc., I made lasllrm Impression upon me. and. while 1 love my neighbor that is, my country-1 love my household that Is. my state mop, and 1 could not be an Infidel and llfi. my sword against my own kith and klri even thoufth 1 do believe, my most wise little counselor nnd confidant, that the measure of American greatness can bo achieved only under ono Hag, and 1 fear, alaB, there can never again reign for I either of us the true spirit of national unity, whether divided nnd under two flags or united under one. The subject Is pursued In a later let ter, whlrh runs: Why. Chullta mla. all that we ask Is a separation from people of contending In terests, who love us as a nation as little ns we love them: the dissolution of a un ion that has lost Its holiness, to be let alone and permitted to sit under our own Vine and fig tree and eat our figs peeled or dried or fresh or pickled. Just aa we choose The enemy la our enemy be- cauao he neither knows nor understands us and yet will not let us part In peace and be neighbors, but Insists on fighting us to make us one with him. forgetting that both slavery and secession were his own Institutions. Tho north Is fighting for the Union and we for home and fireside All the men I know and love In the world comrades and friends, both north and south are exposed to hardships and dan gers and are lighting on one side or the other and ench for that which he knowa to be right. Will you come, my darling, and have some coffee with your soldier? It Is some we captured, and It la real cofTee. Come! The tin cup Is clenn and shining, but the corn brend Is greasy and smoked. And the bacon that Is greasy, too, but It Is good and tastes nil right If It will only hold out till our stnrs and bars wave over our land of the free and our home of the brave and we have our own home. Nev ermore we'll hear of wars, but only love and life with Its eternal Joya. On the night before General Tlckett was wounded at Clnlues Mills he wrote the following note: This was never contemplated In earnest. I believe that If either the north or the south had expected that Its dif ferences would result In this obstinate, cruel war the cold blooded Puritan and the cock hntted Huguenot and cavalier would have made a compromise. Poor old Virginia came oftener than Noah's dove with her olive branch. Though she de sired to be loyal to the union of states, she did not believe In the right of coer cion, and when called upon to furnish troops to restrain her sister states she re fused and would not even permit the pas sage of an armed force through her do main for that purpose. With no thought of cost, no consideration of disparity of relatlvo strength or condition, she rolled up her sleeves, ready to risk all In defense of a prlnrlplo consecrated by tho blood ot her fathers And now. alas. It Is to late! We must carry through this bitter task unto the end May the end be soon. Begged For Immediate Marriage. In April. I.Httt. General IMckett, so distraught with the fenr that death In battle would overtnko him before he could mnlte "Little Miss Snlllo" his wife, wrote her to como to him n tones and be married. If need be, by a road side. In this letter be says: "to morning I awakened from a beau- altar, If you could hear tho prayers I of fer to you and to our Heavenly Father for you. II you knew the Incessant thought and longing and desire to make you blessed, you would know how much yonr answer will mean to mo and how, while I plead. I am held back by a revor ence and a sensitive adoration for you, for, Chullta mla, you are my goddess, and I am only your devoted, loving SOLDIER. On Road to Gettysburg.- The following exquisitely lyrical nnd spiritual passage wns written on the rond to Gettysburg: Our whole army Is now In rcnnsylvunla, north of the river. There were rumors that Richmond was threatened from nil sides Dlx from Old Point, Getty from Hanover. Kevcs from Rottom's Ridge, and bo on nnd that we might be recalled. It turned out to be a Munchausen, and we are still to march forward. Every tramp, tramp, tramp la a thought, thought, thought of my darling, every halt a bless ing invoked, every command a loving ca ress, and the thought of you nnd prayer for you make me strong, make mo better, give mo courage, give me faith. Now, my Carlssima. let my soul speak to yours. Listen listen -listen! You hear J am an swered! This wns written the night lefore the charge of Gettysburg: Well, my sweetheart, ot 1 o'clock the awful silence was broken by a cannon shot and then another, and then more than 100 guns shook the bills from crest to base, answered by more than another 100 the whole world a blazing volcano, the whole of heaven a thunderbolt, then dark ness and absoluto alienee, then the grim and grewsomo, low spoken commands, then the forming of the attacking col umns, the hurrying of the men to the po sition assigned to them My brave Vir ginians are to attack in front Oh, may Ood In mercy help me aa ho never helped me before! I have ridden up to report to old Peter. I shall give him this letter to mall U yeu and a package to give you If Oh, ray darling, do you feel the love of my heart, the prayer, aa I write that fatal word "Ifr Now, my darllns;, 1 go, but remember always that 1 love you with all my heart and soul, with every fiber of my being; that now and forever I am yours-yours, my beloved. It la almost 3 o'clock. My aoul reaches out to yours my prayers. The following Is part of the dramatic narrative of the battle of Gettysburg: Ah. If I had only had my other two bri gades a different story would have been flashed to ths world! Poor old Dick Qar nett did not dismount, as did the others of us, and he was killed Instantly, falling from his horse. Kemper waa desperate ly wounded, was brought from the field and subsequently taken prisoner. Poor old Lewis Armlsteijd Ood bless him! was mortally wounded at the head of his com mand after planting tho Hag of Virginia within the encmy'a llnea. Seven of my colonels were killed, and one waa mortal- y wounded. Nine or my lieutenant colo nels were wounded, nnd three lieutenant colonels were killed. Only one field ofllccr of my whole command, Colonel Cabel, waa unhurt, and the Ioes of my company offi cers was In proportion. 1 wonder, my dear. If In the light of tha great eternity we shall any of us feel this was for the best and shall have learned to sny. "Thy will be done?" No castles todav. sweetheart. No: the bricks of hap piness and the mortar of love must He un touched In this lowering gloom. Pray, dear, for the sorrowing ones. Writes on Birth of Son. This letter wns written upon the news to Genernl rickctt of the birth of bis" son. "the Little General," ns ha wns known In tho wholo Confederate nrtny: Ood bless you, little mother of our boy bless and keep you! Heaven In all Its glory shine upon you I Eden's flowers bloom eternal for you! Almost with ev ery breath since the message came reliev ing my anxiety and telling me that my darling lived and that a little baby had been born to us I have been a baby my self. Though 1 have known all these months that from across love's enchanted land this little child was on Its way to our twta souls, now that God's premise bravest of your brother soldiers. Keep up a stout heart Believe that I shall ooma back to you and know that Qod reigns. After tonight you will be my whole com mandstaff, Meld officers, men all. Tn second commission Is only given as a pre caution lost 1 should not return or lest far some time I should not be with you. Leo'a surrender Is Imminent It Is flnUiho Through the suggestion of their command ing ofllcers as many of the men as doslr are permitted to cut through and Jutn Johnston's army. It la finished! Ah, my beloved division! Thousands of men have gone to their eternal home, having given up their live for the cuuse which they knew to be Jiwt. The others, alas, heartbroken, crushed iri spirit, are left to mourn Its loss! Well, It Is practically all over now. We have pour ed our our blood and suffered untold hard ships nnd privations, all in vain. And now well, i must not forget either that God reigns. Life Is given us for the per formance of duty, and duty performed It happlnV3. It Is finished the suffering, the horrous. the anguish of these, last hours of strug gle, of these men, baptized In battlo M. Hull Run, in tho lines at Vorktown, at Williamsburg, where they, with the Ma bama brlgndo of Wilcox, withstood thr advance of the whole of McClellan's arnit. driving them buck at Seven Pines, in Gaines' Mill, l'razicr's Farm, Second Mu nassus, Uoonsboro, Sharpsburg, Gettys burg, and the engagements In front ot Hermuda Hundred, Fort Garrison, Flvs Forks nnd P:iilors' Creek. ThA pli.iious iii ft of your love will hoiti ine to bear tho memory of these days. lf thla midnight hour 1 feel the caiwwUuv blessing of your pure spirit us It mlnglen with mine. Peace la born. The Battle of Seven Pines. There follows Part of n vivid tw4 stirring description of tho battle r Kevon I'lnes: A violent storm was raging, flooding Umi level ground, as I wrote you last, foUowe.'! the next day by ono of lire and blood WJ battle of Seven Plnea. I pray that you accepted tho InvHallujt of your nrauntaln lassie chum and tbilt your beautiful eyes and loving, tender heart have been spared 11 10 horrors of war which this battle muat have poured Into sad Richmond Three hundred and fUtv of your soldier's brlgndo, 1,700 strong, wore killed or wounded, and all fought as Vir ginians should, lighting as they did for lb light, for loe, honor, homo and stnar. principles which they had been taugtft from tho mothers' knees, the schoolrovn and the pulpit. Under orders from Old Peter (acnorui Longstreet) we marched at daylight and reported to U. U. Hill, near Seven Pliu Hill directed me to ride over and comma -nlcate with Hood. I started at once wlfti Charlie and Archer of my staff to obey thla order, but had gone only a short dis tance when we mot a part of tho I.oslni ana xouaves In panic. I managed to seksa and detain one fellow mounted on a rout that seomcd to hnvo Imbibed his rider's fear and haste. The man dropped hi plunder and, seizing his carbine, threat ened to kill me unless I released him at once, suylng that tha Yankees were upon his heels. HE PASSES WINTER IN BED. litilroad Man of Danbury, Conn., U Like Groundhog. Jouu Unit of Dnubury, Conn., a rail road man, hna gone to ImmI to hibernate for the remainder of the winter. Like some nuimuls, he believes tii winter should be devoted to continu ous rest. He will not leave bis be-i until spring conies, and theu whether he gets up will bo guided by the ground hog's example. Hart hn3 followed the practice for five winters. Ho Bays It does blm ft lot of good When he arises la Ui spring he U weak, but after a short time his streugth returns. Wireless Sent 4,400 Milts. The wireless station tit Nnuen, utur Berlin, reports that it wns In wlrelesi communication with New York recent ly. This, it U stated. Is the first time direct wireless coinmnnlentlon has been established between Germany aud America. The distance from New York, to tho knlser's capital In approximately 4,400 nillwi. Week of March 2 and 16