The Pearsall Leader and The Pearsall News (Pearsall, Tex.), Vol. [19], No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, September 26, 1913 Page: 6 of 8
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Some of our relatives are about as
aseless to us as empty tomato cans.
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Shot,” Adv.
The strut of a turkey gobbler isn t
in it with that of the leading citizen m.
a village.
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Will cure your Rheumatism and a If
kinds of aches and pains Neuralg’a,
Cramps, Colic. Sprains, Bruises. Cuts,
Old Sores. Burns, etc. Antiseptic
Anodyne. Price 2oc. Adv.
Sure.
•‘What is your fortune, in round
numbers?” asked the assessor.
“000,000,000,” replied the capitalist.
“YOU WIN
ms to ha^e decreed that,
two great battles were to
i on the American conti-
)ne in the east and the
i the southeast,
her or not Fate decreed
banco, accident and neces-
y<M‘ elements that are pres-
all great military opera
combined to produce the
mrg and Chiekamauga.
; he military history of the
neither Meade nor Lee
,atf.ie that was to decide the
opposing forces of the
f i< racy in the east would
- burg, but chance and acci-
ite decreed that it should
tnd Gettysburg is a glbrious
all Americans are common
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,h after the flames of Get-
armies of Americans threw
r each other like thunder-
j' the banks of Chiekamauga
vest corner of the state of
south of the city of Chatta-
1 the battlefield of Chicka-
if ;1 but glorious testimonial
tier for all time to come.
of Gettysburg, the slaugh-
;ca was due largely, if not whol-
accident. Neither General
T,era! Bragg, commanding the
-■derate forces, respectively, un-
„rted that a battle would be
wooded plain.
ho-na campaign of the Union
rmessee, which ended July 4,
gg moved the army of Tennes-
:u: ■. General Kosecrans. about
o began moving the army of
3 i the western slopes of the
ins with the intention of
f : s across the Lookout range
anooga territory.
an3 had established headquar-
. r Tenn., for the purpose of di-
raw operations against Chatta-
r. under Crittenden, was at
■ mr fifty miles north of Winches*
same distance from the western
-erlands. The center of tils line
nder Gen. George H. Thomas,
n - d to glorify his name at 9n»d-
■ ook, commanding the 20th corps,
ter with Rosecrans. Minty’s
the left of Crittenden. E. M. Mo-
of Mitchell’s cavalry corps was on
n 20th corps. General Sheridan s
in the month of August was ad-
idgeport and Stevenson, Ala., on the
-i
when the appetite is
normal and you are
.able to eat without dis-
tress; but how quickly
you go “down to de-
feat" when the “inner
man" becomes weak.
Play safe, and at the
first sign of trouble
you had better take
Hostetler’s
Stomach Billers
It will help you con-
tinue to be a “winner.
Compromise.
“Can’t serve you with liquid re-
freshments, sir. This town is dry.”
“All right. Bring me a bottle of
something extra dry.”
McCook were sent through the
many miles south of Chattanooga,
■ valley about forty miles south of
rittenden .was dispatched to the vi-
tanooga, the purpose being to en-
„twritten of Bragg until Thomas and
uid cross the mountains and place
between Chattanooga and the Con-
tuse- of supplies to the south.
Bragg, however, was not to be
\ such a trap. On the night of Septem-
r orning of September 8 he quietly
Chattanooga, marching south to in-
• mas and McCook, as they came down
inountalns into the valley south of
ukm The Confederate plan of cam-
sriy revealed in this movement. Gen-
c saw an opportunity to engage the
or->s In detail and destroy them. Long-
coraing over from Ringgold, Ga .wvlth
enforcements, having just reached that
r .rtv burg. It was the golden oppoo-
rT the Confederates, but slipped through
hands by failure on the part of corps
;<1> r‘ to carry out his orders. ^
Grtttenden discovered that Bragg had
1 Chattanooga on the morning of Sep-
,nd immediately occupied the city.
unreliable information. Gen-
., -ns believed that Bragg was in full
c; Rome, Ga Acting upon this informa-
, r<Rred pur ait through the Pigeon moun-
/-ittenden’s corps, with the exception of
■ u force, was- sent after Bragg. They
nt Lee & Gordon’s mill, on ( hicka-
K preparing for battle.-with the
of Thomas and McCook.
. wa* now no lingering doubt,that a great
, t0 he fought on the banks of the
On September 18.
., Friday General Braxton Bragg, reallz-
■ H p5a!; to engage his antagonists In de-
,,, IT.i. ^arrie<l ordered a movement of his
. th . chickamaoga to effect crossings
',‘i r of bridges and fords Late on the
I .f isth a sharp engagement occurred
srnmm
could tell would turn Into sickly romance the best
pages ot heroic history. The struggle lor pos-
session ot this now historic highway was no less
heroic and deadly than the numerous assaulta and
repulses at Snodgrass Hill. The flame of battle
swept the forest on each side ot the road with a
furv^that no pen can describe. ,
Practically all of the first day of the battle of
Chiekamauga was a contest for the Possession ol
Lafayette road. The sun went down and dark
ness enveloped the field, leaving the ^htyhosts
still contending for the highway. Thj
erates had been driving west all day in an effort
to break the Union lines and Lafayette road be-
came the “bloody lane” of Chiekamauga.
Tbe blood of the two armies still towed when
night threw its shadows over the field. Neither
had been victorious. No moreindescribablyop-
pressive spectacle can well be imagined tha^
night brought to the two armies. They were so
close together than the groans of the wounded
and dying of both armies could be plainly h®ard’
The field was strewn with the unburied dead.
By the close of the first day’s fighting the Con-
federates had become the aggressors. Their pur-
pose was plainly apparent, to break across La-
fayette road and pierce the Union Unes cutting
the army in two sections, hopelessly dividing it,
and annihilating each section in detail.
Not until church bells In ^ar
calling the people to divine worship did roar
of battle again resound throughout the plai
PutTcLe* with a mere deadly roar than any
which had swept through the forest on Saturday.
The Union forces were steadily driven bac
Lafavetto road, but doggedly held their position
in Dyer and Kelley* fields against even* assault,
inflicting heavy damage on the Confederate c_
mnns Through a jumbling of field orders, the
Kelley field line of the Union t0«*" w“ ^
ened and Longstreet drove, three divisions
against the weakened point. It was the opportu-
X that had been the. hope of the Confederates
^ Rosecrnu,. Crittenden and McCtmk wer,
caught in the break, separated from Thomas
win" and retired to Chattanooga.
‘ R is not surprising that the break in the lines
and departure of Rosecrans forChattanoogadis-
heartened the Union forces and inspirted the C<on-
federates However, the Confederates had a
git commander to contend with InttoP™
of Oen. George H. Thomas, now th® Rock of
Chlckamauna” As the roar of battle swept
through Kelley field, It seethed that the I nion
tnrougu .11 J QTvrtHtrrnss Hill rises some
forces were doomed. Snodgrass nm
three hundred feet high Immediately west of Kel-
ley field. Its eastern ^>de is precipitous and in
some places rough. , x
General Thomas rallied bis men on Snodg-
of battle swept through Kelley field. Then there
came one of those mysterious and unexpect^
lulls In the storm, but it was mere g
force for the climax of a hurricane that had
raged in the forest along Chiekamauga creek tor
To days. It was soon to break again. and its
lightnings were next to flash aro^n th ad.
summit, where I was standing. I sa^ th*
vancing Confederate legions sweeping all before
them across the open plain in my 5°^' ^nion
street had driven his brigades through
lines and swept the right ^ng of Rosecrans
army from the field in wild disorder. M heeling
his forces he started for ThomasTXuTTa vie
the left wing. If Thomas could be routed a *c
tort for Confederate arms was assured
would shake the nation to its foundations Next
I beheld the brave General Brannan rally^g^the
remnants of a half dozen brigades» S??f^
Hill General Thomas was marshalling his sha
tered forces for a resistance that placed his name
high in the esteem of the nation. . .
Before I could grasp the meaning o e
and the rush of the regiments, Snodgrass Hill
had been converted into a citadel of defense from
which the thunderbolts of iron could be hurled
against the advancing foe. I lookedaga R
saw Longstreet’s Confederates scaling the ^
of the hill with majestic tread. Then I saw a
sheet of flame burst from the Union lines on he
crest of the hill, full in the faces of the advancing
Confederates. No troops could stand .ln_
storm of lead. They halted, dazed and deadened
by The awful carnage. Their lines gave way,
only to be re-formed at the foot of fhe rl ®
another charge. I saw the flags of M^sisslppi.
Alabama and Georgia, South Carolina a
ginia. and the lone star of Texas flash.lng d -
fiance at the foe on the summit of the hill. An
other charge Into the face of a d^dlyvolley and
another retreat to the foot of the r.dg
thev never desist in their mad attempt to scal^
the ridge’ Now, I saw some of the Confederate
Btandard. on the ereet of the hill, and men n
hand-to-hand combat. They piled the dead n
the trenches and fought over their bodies. But
again I saw Gordon. Granger and Steedman come
ttg u _ - __dnfonHorn with fresh
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
Examine carefully every uuuic ui
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the
Signature of . ^ „ ^
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castona
Evening Things Up.
“Mamma,” said four-year-old Thel-
ma, “Harry wants the biggest piece of
pie’ and I think 1 ought to have it.”
“Why, dear?” queried the mother.
“ ’Cause,” replied Thelma, "be was
eating pie two years before I was
born.”—National Food Magazine.
Wail From French Jurymen.
In France, as well as ln England,
jurvmen have their grievances. The
latest can easily be remedied. The
French minister of justice has re-
ceived an address signed by citizens
figuring on the Paris jury Wats. Pro*
testing against the bare appearance
of the courts where they have to sit.
Thev point out that if—tired of look-
ing at the judges, counsel, witnesses
and other parties to a suit they turn
their eyes upon the walls, nothing but
an inartistic paper meets their gaze.
In order to relieve this deadly mo-
notony they beg that a print of Prud-
hon’s famous picture. “Justice in Pur-
suit of Crime,” may be hung in each
court.
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down he asked:
“Is you de gentlemans what fearea
he’d miss de train ?
“Yes,” Was the reply.
“Well, you needn’t be feared ob dat,
sah, no mo’.”
“Good’. Is it late?” the traveler in-
quired.
“No, sah, it's done gone, was the
waiter’s affable and reassuring re-
THE DOCTOR'S GIFT
Food Worth Its Weight in Gold.
HlTTndbere occurred the heaviest fighting of
the entire engagement.
'■hiokammiga was a densely
, occasional elevation from
It of war could be hurled
, today'to the field of priickamauga
• f c ?he Lafayette road, an old hlgb-
cH improved bv the government, that
■ r the vvar fi>r country folk
The bests regiments of the southern armies
werP sent against Thomas at Snodgrass H.ll, t
be shot to pieces on the very breastworks of the
enemy. Some of the Confederate reg meats lost
, ,'h ;n per rent, of their In their at-
TemX to flXlge Thomas, while the Union
regiments suffered almost as heavily. The shouts
of the living, mingled with the groans of the
dying and wails of the wounded, made Snodgrass
IHH n veritable inferno of death
N0t long ago I stood on horseshoe summit, the
rrX of Snodgrass Hill. As far as the eye
ccnld reach along the crest of the ridge ! saw
handsome monuments of marble and bronze,
tributes of a grateful people to the valor of their
sons. But these memorials, emblemed v 1th the
d,.ods of the living and the dead, carved into
them bv the chisel of an artist, did not Impress
me so profoundly as what I saw through the gra>
mists of fifty years. I a lowed my mind to go
back and 1 saw as heroic a display of human
courage as the world ever witnessed The roar
Haste Unnecessary.
“Hurry up that order'. ' said a trav-
eler in a railroad eating house down
south. 'Tin afraid I’ll miss my train!”
-Yets, sah, boss!” the waiter an-
swered as he hurried off;
After what seemed an almost inter-
lllB _______ minable wait to the traveler, he re-
again I saw Gordon. Granger and Steedman come -turned with the food. As he set ft
to the relief of the Union defenders with fies, down he asked:
troops, and the Confederates were hurled malm- - -------
ed and shattered, from the vantage point they
had gained bv superhuman effort and undaun e
Murage The rifle ot (he ridge was strewn with
the dead and wounded. Bursting .shells had ig-
nited the dry leaves of the forest and bod e®^Pkr®
scorched .and blackened by .flanoe and amoke
At last, as the sun was sinking behind lookout
Mountain, throudng dark and *P®«ral eh|dow»
across the plain upon which one °f the greatest, e
tragedies of modern or ancient warfare had 3ust
been enacted, General Thomas ^* F u re^
forces under orders from Snodgrass Hill, leaving
the bloody field of Chiekamauga in possession of
he battered but ahoutlng Confederate legtona
a«er two days of fighting that has never heen
excelled In the history of wars. The Confeder
ates were the victors at Chiekamauga, but Rose-
brans and Thomas got their army to Chattanooga
jjn safety, a fact that has seemed to make honors
^ ' What followed the carnage at Snodgrass Hill ( ^digestion3and biliousness, being al-
ts history. General Bragg hesitated, he faltered^ , & lQ eat very few things. One day
he lost. ' Everv commander of a division under our !aniUy doctor brought me a small
hi nr on that, fateful field expected to hear every | package> saying he had found
minute an order to follow Thomwi and clinch ■ thin* Co.■ a food called Grape-
SSS k.,d soon 1 Ku, and even an Us go,den co.or
t^;~h wmch r
ers of war history are familiar, j
Chiekamauga was the Woodiest twoulay. bat-
bifstorv The forces were aboui equal u f0jjQest auu'->iiou''“ ---- • ,
numbers Much controversy haw from time to since then I have blessed the
time arisen over- Chiekamauga statistics, but from doCtor and the inventor of -
the best obtainable information the total strength Nuts,
of each army was a little to the rise of aO.OOO I i
men making the number actually engaged some-
thing more than 100.000. The casualties were
about as follows:
Confederate: Killed, 2,268: wounded, 13.61,,,
missing. aggregate. 16.971 ,
Union: Killed. 1,656; wounded, 9.<49, mi. sing,
4 774- aggregate, 16,179.
These deadly figures show that the agrgeaate
slaughter at Chiekamauga was 33.150, Including
dead, wounded and missing In both armies
We usually expect the doctor to put
u.s on some kind of penance and giv®
us bitter medicines.
A Penn, doctor brought a Patient
something entirely different and
results are truly interesting.
"Two years ago,” writes this pa
tient, “I was a frequent victim ot acute
„___.5— ond hilinnsnesE. being ai-
might suggests was worth its weight
n gold. 1 was sick and tired, trying
one thing after another to no aval, but
consented to try this new fowl.
‘Well’ It surpassed my aocior s
fondest' anticipation and every day
Grape-
Tnoticed improvement at cnee and
«n a month’s time my former spells of
indigestion hail disappeared, ln two
months I felt like a hew man. My
mind was much clearer aud keener,
my body took on the vitality of youth,
and this condition has continued.
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Evrr r«*nrt tl»»* above lettert A nf«
one ..ppear- from time to Mme. THej
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