The Courier-Journal, 1893-05-28

ol thousands In hepfy Ignorance dt war ana all Bo hurrors sport about gay ly waving their little flags aud proudly sprinkling the flowers they have picked This great day of national rr) dicing for the element of mooniing has all but pasted- away with the lapse of years it called Decoration Buy at' present bat wu originally known as Memorial Day Tlw people preferred the letter name beeaime it suggested flowers and flow-' era the pure emblem of aU that is most reverent and tender-on earth were Celt to be the beet memorial Tho origin : of this beautiful observation oomes from tlw custom of the women of the South a custom which started even before tlw Udte of tlie war of placing flowers dur dur-iug - iug dur-iug the bright days of springtime upon tiw graves of fallen soldiers Tliere were thousuikle of these soldicre a great army of unknown dead and tlie gentle Southern women reread their flowers tilth impartial hands upon tlw graves of ell- alike wither knowing nor car caring - ing caring whether tlw (lead beneath had fought fur hortii or South lliey were dead1 that was sufficient and the flowers fell in abundance and tiw tears fell with them Tlw women of tits North hearing of tills generous sympathy ol their South Southern - ern Southern aisiera were touched to the heart end wiwnever they could do so decked tiw grave of Southern soldier in their mid at os carefully us tiwy did those of Uicir own dear one And so boud strung os steel woe eotabiieiied between North aud South by the simple sprink sprinkling - ling sprinkling of fragile fragrant flowers The motiiers wive and da ugh ten were first won by tiiiv gentle practice But few years had pawed after the war waa ended when this feeling of gratitude end affection became so strong that the wlwle notion demanded that a day lie set apart wiiea the gravee of ell soldiers alike should lie decorated by common ob observance - servance observance aud wiiea tlw heroes of the war should be honored as was fitting It- was tlie Urand Army of tlw Kepublio nliioli took tlw must active part In ee ee-tubliaiiing - tubliaiiing ee-tubliaiiing tiw custom of observance uf a Memorial day Tlie date May 80 was anieuted by Geo John A Logan Unit' luiuuiauder-in-fJliief of tlw Grand Army tiwt day lioiug oliuoeii us the anniversary of tlw bottle of FWr Oaks and aim aa falling iu a period when flowent ere most plentiful biuor thou for about a quar quarter - ter quarter uf a century no year has pawed with without - out without prpi tributes fr-ing paid to tho iVVis wlio fell Kpedul ceremonies have become usual at tlie tonilw of tlw heroes of our war notably at that of Gen Grant in River Riverside - side Riverside Dark ou tlw Hudson Thither tiw wliole populace of Now York and aur aur-niuinliug - niuinliug aur-niuinliug cities nukes its way while tiw crack regiments of the city with tlw vet veterans - erans veterans of tlw Grand Army and tiw other military and naval bodies assemble there ill honor of tlw great General Gun Gunboats - boats Gunboats lire tlieir minute guns and m lutes from tlw river below while addreuwe uiv ttalfvcteS by able orators What New Yurk bus done in rids respect otlier cit cities - ies cities have done also according to 'their menu and opportunities and no one of our national heroes lias been fur gotten Hitherto tho Roman Catholic Church lias not officially recognised Decoration Day but will xuon do so A league of Catholic veterans has recently been form formed - ed formed and it ia their intention to have high and low uwf Celebrated in churches und uitlieilmja throughout tlw country Tlie most touching portion of tiw day ceremonies Is always tlw decking of tlw grave in tlw cemeteries Tlw country eoiitnius eighty-two National cemeteries where moat of tlie soldier dead are buried and it is here that tiw most impressive ceremonies tske place Each one of these National i-cmrteriua is eared for un uniter - iter uniter a special superintendent appointed by tlw Government and no expense to spared on Decoration Day to make them Is-autiful Tlw greatest number of sol soldier - dier soldier dead lie at Vicksburg which con contains - tains contains itttJI) bodies Tlw National ceme cemetery - tery cemetery at Nashville cornea next with 16 16-533 - 533 16-533 Tlie smallest of the National ecinetertee Is at Beverly N J where only 164 soldiers art buried 'Die National cemeteries are divided into six diitridtfr each with ite ' com

th ground (or mure then User week at a time For fliU ma m It la not often neoesriry to feed cattle during tlie win winter - ter winter and the busimwa la aimed altogether onn of blear proBt The climate h ao' mild that at Osooyoi Lake all aorta of rruita and vegetable grown in- Ken Ken-turky - turky Ken-turky may he produced and ita banka are lined with peach orcharda and melon patches My Him vlxit to tliia faction waa in tlie 'mouth of August 181 and ae I the n plec wild mountain feenery unfolded in tlie evening us ever the eye of man belwld Before mil all around were green bunch bunch-gnus - gnus bunch-gnus hills dotted here and tliere with lino and fu groves among wliich roamed steak hones anil cattle almost ns wild aa tiia mountain deer and mount-sin goats with which the country abounded lie lie-low - low lie-low wi a lliq placid Jake reflecting the slanting rays of the setting sun Making behind tiia snow-capped mountains against tlie far-awry huriron ust beyond tip luke vriwea ranged range of green mount mountains - ains mountains fl eclced with darg-brown clilfa of hamlt mek and groves of trees clinging to the steep sides Directly scrota tho lake a monster mountain arlws steep and grand After a steep ascent of several tlious-iud feci tlie -liouutaiu recedes to tlie westward expusiog to view an Alpine valley thousands of sere in extent aa green aa emerald and with sides aris arising - ing arising with tlie symmetry of in immense howl In the center of which is a patch of everlasting snow of darxling wlilto wlilto-ncw - ncw wlilto-ncw Beyond tills topers tho mountain peak While looking on this piece of aeencry it occurred to me thut u mean man could not live amid enoh grand surrounding that lie would either shrivel up aud pus away or elm become a better man Palmer mountain where tlie rich strike of gold lias been reported war named for a miner who in 18b 3 was working a claim high up on ita steel -side lfy an explosion die was thrown down the steep declivity aiuLeustaincd a Iraetiire of tlie log from which he died When it was found that his Injuries were rvioua a honmnua was sent to Colville Valley 150 miles away fbr Dr Edwin R Morgan the only physician then in Kortliensteru Washington lie - eatablislied relays of homes along (lie mountain trail and reaching tlie trading post where tlie doe doe-tor - tor doe-tor lived started 'back nccoiiipunicd by tlie physician wifli hie surgical Instru Instruments - ments Instruments before him on liis hone Tlie doc doctor - tor doctor made time at the rale of aeventy-Hve miles a day bat arrived too late He amputated the tag hut poor Plilm-r died and wne buried iu the shade of the moun mountain - tain mountain which waa named for him Several year ago Dr Morgan who wan u young Virginian returned to tlie East and ia now I believe dracticing medicine in Waalilngton D C t A word or two ahont tho two iikf Indian chief who once lieid away over tliia Mtirf would nut 1 trust he de devoid - void devoid of lutciest Alter engaging at various times in h 'stlltttas against tlie whites notubly the Moses war soma twenty years ago they havo accepted the inevitable and now pursue tlie paths of peace Tho reservation was thrown open to settlement during PVeridenC Cleve Cleveland's - land's Cleveland's Unit Administration and (lie writer waa called on to survey land in severalty ler tlie Indian wliu remained on the raoervntlon Two thousand live hundred and sixty aorea were set at ari for the use of old Burrarptlkln almost within night of Palmer mountain Tbe old fellow took up a berry patch a mile square on Toad coulee where he could got berries in the summer and have them dried by bis squaws fur winter's use Do then took three squire miles in a little valley hedged in an each stele by inaccessible mountains so that by making a ffeneo half a nule long across the ends he coulda have a posture fur Ini horses und cattle lie said to us ono day while wo were at work that ha wanted to employ a white man to wind np hi estate - fur he wee quite wealthy - and convert it nil into eesli so that lie euuld give it away to his wives end relatives before lie died He said had observed that when a rich Indian died tliere was a great scramble and muon lli-lecllng engendered and tliat in hie ease he wanted this avoided He said he liked the surveying party and the army oflieen who were a Jung and pro

manding officer Idea tenon I Colonel Z B DwMiy ut Washington D C ia in charge of Vsvntq'-eight ' on( cries twenty-tiro being in Virginia and Mary Maryland - land Maryland rinse in adjoining blows-earw onf too Oustea bafUefieid In Moo-oca and one in the City-of- Mexico A-VamJ district Including twenty-six emete 1m' is in charge of Mai: J W Noully of A Haute tie tiwee being in State east of tlw Mississippi end south of Kentucky end Virginia and including Texas and Jaiuitiena jAnq finer dtetriot is -under' Col J M Moore of Sti Louis This in-f chides ten went of the Mississippi river and north of Louisiana and- Texas anil four in IlllnoliL Col H'lL DodgivTor le Tnd ha -tlw supervision! Jeffersonville of a -dial viof Including -eighteen ctonr-S Juries in : Kentucky ana Indiana Lieut -Col O IS Sawtefle of Pliiladelliia has charge of several ometorlee eking the Delaware river Tbe cemeteries in Now York State are under Col A J Merry of ftesv York city One eenrtry in Son Tranciseo is under tlw direction of Mai James H Lard of llutf rity - Twenty-one of thene ecmeteric hits over live thou send intertnenta tlw total number of intcnunotg in nil tlw national remetarim amountlnr to neariv HM)h(K ' The rlentfty of most of the soldiers buried iu them eemetiTtee ia unknown In tM cenwterie of Vicksburg and Corinth rally utont one-fourth ol the bodies were ever ddentined In the Fredericksburg Cein Cein-'terr - 'terr Cein-'terr le ti-in one-II ft b of the entire number ore known In the Richmond Cemetery only seven-eiphtiis are known In the cemetery at Salisbury N C only mnety-apven are Known in n total of 1213? On the other hand in the ceme ceme-Icries - Icries ceme-Icries at Anderronvilla Ga and Hampton Vi over nine-ten tlu of liw dead are known and at the Solo ter' Home at Washington D O even a larger number have l icon identiited Of tlw total num number - ber number of interment in there national eemh eemh-teiies - teiies eemh-teiies the greater number are Nortlwru soldiers only about 101100 being i on on-ireqqntes - ireqqntes on-ireqqntes These latter are mainly hur hurled - led hurled at Camp Butler 111: Cyprus Hills N Y Fen's Hiint N I : -rrat Smith Ark: Hampton Va and Jeffenon Bur Bur-rack - rack Bur-rack Mo Tiw following are sentiment which have been spoken by dixtiugutelwl Deiu Deiu-ration - ration Deiu-ration Day orators who have made td-4 diesels at various places: The war i over but today vs mine with umovered brad to reverently thank (As beroos lying here - (R ti Ingsi'snU - We meet today aa the survKtua of Uie gtorlnna and sueranful stnigjde in behalf of liberty and todspendenea for all men - (Gen John A Logon i'jwer aisy destroy the forma tipt mt the principle of Justice these (ill live hi sidle even of tlw sword - (Gen winMd tk-ott Hancock Ws know that all ovar this brood lontt Neniiirlal Day has been -dedicated to Ik beautiful custom of deromttng with earth's purest and fresuest flower the graves of the untitut men who died tlwt wa wight ooms-ss m fca-c the united country and a tiurern tiurern-msnt - msnt tiurern-msnt worth having - (Gen Sherman We slould never cease to remember the grant and loyal eueouraKenient we iwrirwl from tlie brave peopls of our country who did everything to Mislaln and enroni-ese us while we were In tho field - (Gen ltiimriite The one thing I want to Impress js that wo have a country to ba proud hf to fight for end to die for If necessary U 4 Grant We shall ever be eomndei In supporting tbs Constitution of nor country msl the nationality t if Its people - (Gen George H McClellan Go bless the Uni on I It b dearer to ua for the blood of bravo men which have bee if alwd in Ita delknce - IKdwawl Everett THE TURKISH BATH PARTY It Loosens th Tongas of tbo Gossip and Is tbs Delight of tho WelUt'ormrd Woman A popular M In New York now ix the Tnrftish bath party The lint step In tlie preparation fun the Turkish both party rays the New York Herald is tlie securing of the pise to bstlic The hostess proceeds to some elegant bath bathhouse - house bathhouse states her intention to entertain task her arrangements as to hour number of guests relreshmeutt snu maids that will be lequinite and per perhaps - haps perhaps incidentally asks the prior unless money is no object If tlie bradcs la rerv " swell" arol exclusive she nego negotiates - tiates negotiates for the entire me of the baths dur

posed in hi will to leave each a hone ae a alight testimonial uf hie regard I have never learned whether or not he bad aa he proposed an antemortem ad administration - ministration administration ( hie estate Muses the other old chief woe more sullen and vindictive than Sanarptkin and wiiea tlie reservation waa thrown open refused to take land In severalty Me said Und hudn't given It that way and he would not have it Ko lie gath gathered - ered gathered up hie belongings and left ter an another - other another reservation Tlie pride of his sav savage - age savage heart waa a wild athletic dare-devil sun mini when he left tlie yeung Indian went with him A few months later we were camped on the Columbia river at the mouth of the Spokane near where old Muses had made a temporary halt- One dark night a little before midnight a shrill pierc piercing - ing piercing sereain was heuid from the middle of the river " My son I" cried old Moses aa ho mail mailed - ed mailed from the wigwam toward tho swift cold river Ha had recognised the death cry of hit hoy A few minutes later a riderless horse climbed of the slippery embankment Old Muses' heart wus broken M B M AT THE P0TT0N OF THE MISSOURI Millions of Dollars and Distilleries of tt hisky Lost In River Wrecks Tim fact that a party of Texaa people recently located and dug into a wrecked stemuuY reaping a rieli harvest of gold and old whisky ilias caused a revival of talk of some old Missouri river wrecks There's millions in the bottom of the Missouri or somewhere near it accord according - ing according - to the Globe-Democrat but the trouble is to find 'it Seme of it may be found some time but that some time is very apt to be when preient genera generations - tions generations have passed away and the wrecks end content! of tho steamers exist only in tradition Exploring companies have been formed in this past a number of them' but they have all been witliout reword none of them ever having found oven a trace of the prizes sought Other companies ere now talked of end u num num-ber - ber num-ber of St Louisans stand ready to gamble n stake with any one wlui taken the teed in organising The whisky buried in the euud and bare if it in ever recovered will pruduoe a period of the rarest intoxication to tlie talitaspoon talitaspoon-ful - ful talitaspoon-ful There could he no better process of Icuring it tliau by burying ia in tbe dump saud id tho giver lied ur burs Then too tiia whisky of those days wus real wliis ky and raid age and body at the time it ana lust and if it was on ante now it would have a market all its own and it wouldn't be at twenty cents or twenty-five cents a drink either Ilw oliancro would be rattier that if would go into private cellars to be handed out only on rare occasions Ilia oiliest wreuK of which time 1s now any knowledge and It is at nearly traditional to anything enuld be b of a Spanish boat the was sunk at Rim mouth of tlie River Ilea PWres in Sooth St i widen it went down LouK Tlie year in the oliarautor of tlie boat tlie nature ol tlie eirgn ell is traditional Hut it lu said among tlie oldest of old river men that a boat did go down there " in tlie early yean" aud tint It wee laden with noli Npanidi goods and arms und gold of immense value Tlw exact spot at which aim aank Is not known " In tlw early yearn'' also it la said that efforts were mode to Incite the wreck but with without - out without success It is also said by tlw way that tlw Spanish vesrel had on hoard a goodly stock or liquors The' oldest wreck of which tliere is any xeeonl ur knowledge with people now living is that uf a Government steamer which sunk iu the early 'go's at Arrow Rock Inland near Houneville It was on its way un tlie river to pey off tlw told tars and liad on board a large amount of gold and a considerable quan quantity - tity quantity of whisky When it went down It was tc any Eftaris were nude at tlw time to recover a portion of the cargn but tlie condition of the river was such thet tills wu Imouaible It has been a laminating hidden treiaure for the people of Buonoville and doxent of eom-

down tlw Ogden found a looting place ou tlw bottom a few miles ubevr Jell croon City Tlie Ogden had on board a large amount of gold anil a considerable cargo ut good oli° whisky It was likewise found impossible to recover any of the eaigu end in the natural run of tilings keuroiung parties have found It iinpoaid iinpoaid-ble - ble iinpoaid-ble td reach It Tlw location at which the Ogden went down is said to be a and bar which would be very easily worked at low witter For this reason the Ogden ia laid to be the most promis promising - ing promising of all tiw old wreck for srorelu-rs after wealth earned down by tlie timfh timfh-eruua - eruua timfh-eruua Missouri There is understood to be a very fair working ospltul available for anybody who can suggest any feasi feasible - ble feasible plan of operations Another two yean went by and then tlw Twilight' a side-wheeler went down The Twi Twilight - light Twilight found bottom near Sihtay above Fishing river Kite had on board a cargo of between ZOO and S00 barrels of whisky bound for tie mountains Tlw point at which slw went down is amiw amiw-tliing - tliing amiw-tliing like a mile inland now and ia a very Inviting field for exploration - A number of cum ponies have been organ ixed to prospect for tlw buried wliiskyj but t lie Attempts made to locate it have 11 been futile Cnpt George Keith of the steamer Meson running between 9t Louis and Kansas City has been at the hoed of a oouple uf companies and hat not yet given up the idea of locating it Another attempt will prolmbly Isa made tliia coming summer Those 301 bancls of good old liourbon would pat a big dividend on any reasonable capi capital - tal capital employed In drilling and excavating Tho Literary Man la England J The contempt for tlw man of irtteis till survives -to no inconsiderable extent among tlw higher dances of England where tCe young man of wealth and fashion 1s usually a sportsman rat lit than a scholar In the " public aulioolid' in which the public men uf (he country are trained and molded tlw boy who ia over iiidmgriuus at Ida books and par participates - ticipates participates little in games ia ratlior luulu-d down upon Inf 'hie fellows end dubbed e " sap"-gllw term not being intended to suggest sspieul but rathor to imply e nut-to-bc-cuixx umded fondness fur mean' drudgery On the other hand the cap captain - tain captain of tiw boat or of the oriuket eiovuu is looked up to with reaped far uxoe-'duig that frit for tlw heed master end amount amounting - ing amounting almost to reverenoe Thro still lingers a A-ellng that tlw literary man like tlw artist is a sort of irresponsible creature not quite iro iro-proachable - proachable iro-proachable as' regards the out of hia gar garments - ments garments the deanness of his nails or Uw rpotlcmuess of his linen Tlw men uf ttwpalette and of the pep are auiqnawd to feel or to affect a Our la In disregard lot tiw conventionalities of society and to lie frequently ao hard prvssrd to procure tlie necemuriee of lire os to have little kit wherewith to supply ils ek-genetae In ell limes end cuunirica too tlw-man of action who Is in tiw thick of life's battle ia disfoised to think lightly of the uian who sits in his study und coven paper with words - Arthur Inkerytry in June Californian

SALE 'PALMER'S MOUNTAIN The New Gold Field Recently Dis- covered In the State of Washington t Navel For a Miser Whe Lest Hie Life Werklig a Clala Scenery So Grand - That a Mean r Man Coaid Not Live' T Thera Two Old Indian Chieib Who Once Baled Onr Thin Kick Section ETEBLlSllXfi Wins AID GREEK (Written fur tfia Courier-Journal) I ace from n preaa diepatoh In the Courier-Journal tiia a fobuluus find of gold baa been reported on Palmer's Yfenintain jin the State of Washington and haring made aereral trips on horre horre-bock - bock horre-bock through thia section I thought a lew facte relative tlwreto wight be of interest to tlie public Miner's Mountain w situated in what is known aa tiip " Twenty-iniCs eut-ott" from tlie Moae reservation It extends from the summit of tho Cascade Moun Mountains - tains Mountains east to the Okanakane river and "As bounded on tiib north by Kritisii Columbia and' on tho aouth by what wus formerly tho Muaro Indian reservation Tho Osooyoa Lake so-called becauae oi ita resemblance to twin eggs eonneoted by a narrow atrip of water lice partly In British Columbia and partly in Wash Washington - ington Washington and from it issues tlie Okana Okana-kane - kane Okana-kane river which flown almost due aouth to the Columbia The eut-off has long been noted for Its rich mineral deposits and many years ago received the overflow of miners from the MoKensie river Cold creek and other placer mines in British America Ita wMament by the miners brought on trouble with tlie Indians aa it was lo located - cated located In the territory set apart for the tribes under the leadership of the war warlike - like warlike Monas and tiarsurptkin both of whom though now old men are still live and surrounded by a few faithful lol lower Tho trouble culminated in an act of Congress creating tin " cut-off" and making it a district apart from the iroervatiun But ita karoeemihility pre prevented - vented prevented its ratiid development und for yesrs it was only Inhabited by a few tenacious uiuen who held down their elainia Tim country la particularly wen adapted to cattle raising and produous Jl18 kn native horses in Aintr Aintr-lte - lte Aintr-lte Quite a number of the old miners (wk up laud and have since become wealthy by engaging In tho horse and cattle busmen Ilia finest herd of eut eut-H? - H? eut-H? ttw not excepting Hie thoiouklibreda of the bluegruss region of Kcaitueky wsa ouni posed of SUUU four four-tiiere - tiiere four-tiiere minervanelieni wet o driving to market lhi sounds If?!!!?7 frora native-born xssi&rf&rii trough through which in winter sweep the warm winds from the JsmSLTS rent to that the snow seldom lfe upon

In the matter of BOYS' CLOTHES we have started a stampede also Wo made the first general break in this department last week with two specials One of them is exhausted in the week's run the other is CONTINUED for ONE MORE WEEK at feast It's the "$4 Knee-Pants Suits" again Last week the women "gave us fits" about these $4 Suits - not that they didn't LIKE THE SUITS Oh no bless you I But because they couldn't get WAITED ON ALL AT ONCE Many went away a bit mad especially on Saturday afternoon and night We invited them back They will come So must go on Every ingle KNEE KNEE-PANTS - PANTS KNEE-PANTS Suit in the house hereto heretofore - fore heretofore sold for more money up to and including $6 Suits goes in this sale at $4 There are lots of 'em here - lots MORE THAN WE'D LIKE TO HAVE That's' WHY they were marked down to $4' And we don't need to say why thrifty folks should BUY these $4 Suita A sight of them will make that CLEAR to any any-iy - iy any-iy wbo can tell the difference between GOOD goods and "trash" Our whole stock of Boys' Clothing this season is INDISPUTABLY the finest that ever was brought to Louisville and the Suits - embraced in this sale are all of the BEST ' There from 98 statements as to the 'quality former prices eta that the good women of this city have grown a trifle weary of running after the alleged "bargains!' We are taking advantage of this general disgust in this sale Last week's experience shows that a sight of some REALLY FIRST-CLASS Boys' Suits at a "bargain ''price is very refreshing to the tired seekers So the ladies are giving us EXTENSIVE ADVERTISING of this sala Take your neighbor's advice and coma