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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1904)
. . eAMPf1RI . T4LES : 4..f"ilt ! ! . . j. . i. .ir 1' I ! ! ij ! ! i ! . ' . The Rocky Hills of Gettysburg. 'fhll ode Will written III the year 18111 ( , set to 1II11"lc "y .1. B. KevlllHltl , Illld published - IIlIhed with Il dedication to the olllecrl and soldiers or thc Army of the 1'otonutc. III the stone year also , It was sung III Il rent fair hcltl 1tho SOI'lcly uf l'a- trjul DIIIIRhtOI'H , o'r 1.1IIIC1IlcPa. . OI ! ! dark the day tool dark ! the hour When Treason , III her height uf power . " 'ILl , all her gathered ! legions came To \rWc ' the North with sword and "af\e ! Eight onward ) . swift , exultant , IJrOllll , With burning ! , wrath t and curses loud , Up to ) 011 chain of hili they crowd , 'l'he Hocty ! IIJItI uf UellYIJ1JUr AI occall-WIt come rolling high ! . Beneath the tl'IIIIIIII-lJlacltJlloll sky , And rush with fllr Oil lie shore , And rage and dash with awful roar , 1)0 i burst the foenicn Oil that IJIllld , The heroes : or the flltllCrlllllll , All brat ! Oil 1"reclloru'H dyke they stand , 'rhe itocky IIIlII of Gelt'Hhllrs In vain their utlllolll strength III hurled \Iltl thlllltlerH that IIIlghl shake the world ; Back from the adamantine wall Their broken ranks ! receding full , And slow ! retire with \ IlaUlIll'l1 mien , While slaughtered ! thousands strew the Hectic , 'l'ho'ale or death ( lint lies between Tile Rocky J Ills I of Gettysburg The Lord hilt ! heard Ills poope'll ! Player , And blessed the Stlll'l'Y 131111111)1' there ; For soon Ill 1"I'IH10m'H sail - was red With f/'I'Olllell'/1 blood I III battle shed II ) ' rebel foes , their doom wall IWllled ; 'lIn ) Hllcrlllce to Jlellvell appealed , The altar , that cm'/llIS'lIlncti / field , The ltoelcy JIIIII1 of Goll'shurg' In nameless grates the vanquished sleep , . 'Where few shall ever COIIIO to weep , But fur her martyred HUn , with tears A I/IOlllllnent the NllllulI rears , And age / 10 age IIhllll pass It down The story of their bright renown Arlll uVI'rl/llllhl't' ' fame tlhllll crown 'l'he Hoc ( ) ' IIIIH of Gettysburg . -'I'hemIlH Conrad Porter Criticism for West Pointers. It appears that your paper , writes - a correspondent or the New Yorlt Snn , has great f1\lth In the mllltnl'Y alJlllty of West Point graduates , bet a glance at the history oC their performances - formances during the civil war hardly justifies such confidence Look at. the cords ; McDowell ut Dull Run-with his left ] resting on the only road and his line oxtonde'.l In prolongation or that road thus severing two.thlrds or his army from Its communications before a shot was fired. When the fighting began his little hunch of artillery - tillery Will ! : too fur advanced , shoot- ing In the wrong direction ttIHI absolutely - lutely and entirely without support , I have never seen the fact stated In print , hut the first sign of discouragement - ment shown hy our infantry was when these artillerymen , led lJy the lend driver of the right pleco , galloped - cd to the rear , leaving their guns on the field. , Think or Rosecrans at Chlclmmau , ga-hls army lost In the woods , and to this day no man can tell what ho was trying to do with It. Sturgis nt Gun river-whipped In 11 minute 11) 0l'1'est , who had been n peaceful slave dealer ] till ho was pant 10 years at ago : mlth-looldng : at Petersburg and then retreating without even rellllzing the importance of occupying - Ing the town : the absurd Red River campaign-planned lIy one West Pointer and , to nil Intents and purposes - poses , conducted 11) nnother. Then look I1t Antletnm , It is not too much to say that any ana at Nupoleon's marshals could have taken either army and won It decisive victory In that Maryltuitl cllmpangn McClellan could have beaten Lee's divided force on the 15t11 or 16th , and then thrown his whole army on Jackson , who , good as ho was , coulll hardly hope to win against such odds. Tim worst of It Is the movement required - quired no display or originality \ on the part at the federal commander , for the trick had been done thou- sands or times and was hoary with ago when Hannibal was fighting the Romans. . . . . The other side : - U n squad of Can' federates bad pushed through the gap made lIy HIIl's artillery ] ) when It . \ 1 stopped the Ninth Army Corps , "LIt- lie Mue" would have had ] another chance to show the world how fast ho could retreat , for there was noth- Ing In the way or such an advance ex- copt four pieces belonging to u Now York battery , Without n round of am- mUllltlon , The chests had been emptied shoot- lug nt nothing before crossing the creole , and the corps ! commander , 11 West Pointer , had been within ten ynl'll ! of the guns most of the time , apparently not seeing any absurdity In the cannonading. When BUl'llslde , early In the fight , reported to his superior that n force should ho sent to protect his left ] , the commander replied that ho md ] no troops to place there , well ] ) knowing that neither the Fifth Corps nor the cavalry hal ] fIred Il shot that day . It woulll he Interesting to discover why that commander was always lisle- lug for more cavalry , for ho never used any except for escort duty A COUlllo oC hundred dismounted troopers , with their breech loaders , could have kept that cornfield so full of flying lead that nothing could live In Il , and the confederate artlllery would have been compelled to do their fighting from H respectful dls- tnllce Another graduate , Meade , at Gottys- hni"g-with " n large part of his army so situated that it could not be brought into I1ctlon AllY one who served during our domestic disturbance must acknowledge - edge that most of the West Pointers on both sides , were too fond of unnecessarily - necessarily and clumsily assaulting fortified positions , and that all or them except wslllly } : : ! Sheridan and Hazen , were continually wasting ammunition - munition In long range artillery fir- Ing , as if , like the Chinese tomtom beaters , they imagined that noise won hattles. un _ _ _ _ The academy on the Hudson has given us thousands of brave , good looking officers , but not one of them for soldierly ability and knowledge of the art of war has como within hail- Ing distance oC Oliver Cromwell , who gmduatell front nn English brewery Boys of the Blue and the Gray. As the ranks of the Blue and the Clay grow thinner the occasions for giving expression to their common fealty to the Union grow more fre- Iluent and more impressive. In these days of n reunited country , forty years after the great civil conlllct the command to "ClORO runlts" finds the confederate veterans touching elbows - haws with Union veterans under the one flag of the l'epullJlc The Blue and the Gray came together - gether at St. James' Methodist [ Episcopal - copal Church on Sunday In patrIotic exercises of a most Inspiring char- nctel" On the platform there were veterans or 1\I0811)"S guerrillas , of l\Iol'gan's raiders , and of the Grand Army of the RelHlllllc The spirit of the survivors of that great 'army that came up from the southland walt happily voiced 11) Co1. Forrester of Morgan's command when ho said ; "Nevel' mind whether I wn 111 the confederate army because 1 was n single man and loved war or because I was a married man and loved peace I(1 there But the fact was : : ! , Important now Is that I am n reconstructed rebel - el , and so thoroughly reconstructed that there Is no better Union man In the United States " Death Is now malting heavy Inroads t1ron : the ranks of the bravo fellows who followed Lee and of those others who fought under the leadership at Gmnt. At the last reunion ot the United Confederate Veterans held ] at New Orleans In May of last year the number of members wa : : ! reported to IlIemller5 of the Grand Army of the Republic on June ao , 1903 , was reported - ported as 256,510 On each side there Is a rapidly diminishing host , and It Is very pleasant to see the cultivation of a fraternal spirit between them. -Chicago Record-Herald. I cnnnot do great things. I can do small things In a great wa-James Freeman Clarlte - 7j79 The Bear and the Monkey. A bear with whom 11 Plelhnolltcse Joined company to earn their bread , Essayed 611 half ! his legs to please I The public , where his muster ! led With looks that boldly claimed applause , I ' He asked the ape , "Sir , what thllll you ? " ' 'rho lIJ1e was skilled In dancing laws And answered , t'll will neVer do " "You JUdge the matter wrong , my friend ( , " Bruin reJoined : "Vou are not civil ! Were these legs given for you to mend The eUI'elIItJ grace ! with which they swivel ! " It 'hullced 11 pig was standing by ; "Bravo ? ustonlshlng ? encore ! " Exclallned the critic or the sty ; "Such dancing we shall see no more ! " Poor Bruin , when he heard the sentence , Begun un inward calculation ; ' 1'hell. with a face that spoke repentance - unce , Expressed aloud Isis meditation ; "Whon the sly monkey called me dunce , 1 entertained servo slight misgiving ; But Pig thy praise has proved at once 1'hnt dancing will not earn 1I. 1l\'lng " Let every candidate for fame Rely upon this wholesome rule ; Your work Is bad , If wise men blame ; But worse , If lauded by a fool , ! -Thomas De Yriarte - - - Can You Do This ? Do you remember the story of how "Detsy" Ross folded 11 piece of paper and with one clip or the shears convinced , vlnced the committee from the continental , nontal congress that n. star should 110 flve-polntod Instead of six-pointed ? There are two methods of arrivIng at r't 'I 1 LJ . . . . . . . . . . 0 ; : t- ; . & 6 , 4 ( ) . \ 1 A- . ! J. , " \ t ' , o } . . " , _ \i "V , . . . . - the same result I1S did : " Betsy , " as the accompanying illustrations ex- plain. ' Game of Turtle. Here's a game for boys and girls who have good , strong muscles. Il is called "Turtle. " Any number mar play , and no one player Is "It , " for all are "It" togeUI- er The game begins lIy each choos- Ing the kind of turtle he Intends to lie One perhaps Is a land tortoise , another a snapper , another n. mud turtle , and so on. Then they aU sit In a row resting their chins on their knees , and each holding his left ankle with his right hand , and his right an- tIe ! with his left hand This Is a very difficult position to ceep. At a given signal the turtles start for 11 goal 11 short distance away. It Is the object of the game for the turtles to waddle to the goal and back to the starting point without removing - movIng their hands from their teet. Many 1c.t go before the proper mo ment , the others shout "dead turtle , " and leeep on , leaving their unfortu- nate companion In the lIacltground. The rules oC the game demand that he walt there until the first successful racer reaches him on his way hack , And touches him with his elbow ] , 11) which he i8 supposed to instill new life into the poor dead turtle The . latter Immediately starts out again , and finishes In the best style he can. As there are always several dead tur tics , ho Is never lonely In his effort to succeed . . . The winner Is , of course , the one who returns to the starting place first. - Tree That Commits Murder. The CUIO is one of the most curious - ous trees In the West Indian Islands The seeds are borne on the wings of the wind , and deposited on the branches or other trees , when they burst Into roots , which arc dropped towards the ground all around the 'mll'so' tree. In time these roots reach the ground and strike into the soil. Front this moment the roots grow stronger and stronger , until , i I J , , I . . Cupey Tree. " they resemule n lot of rope ladders ] thrown over the tree. Next , the para- site sends down a great curd , which twines round the trunk of the supporting - porting tree , at first I1S though In lov- Ing embrace , but It grows tighter and tighter , eventually strangling Its benefactor out of elstence. The "nurso" tree , thus killed , rots to decay - cay , and from the Immenl fibrous roots of the destroyer now springs a great trunk , which rises high Into the all' The cord-lIlcc roots rise often to fifty or sixty feet In helght.-Pear son's 'Veeltly The Baby Turtle. Turtles , you lulow , lay their eggs _ In the sand. and let the sun hatch them Zr out. They tlo not lay them aU In one place , prollallly because they think It safe to scatter them. Then , even though one lie stolen or broken , the others may escnpe The mother tur- tle covers them aU carefully up , one after another , with a thin sprInkling of sand , and then apparently never gives them another thought , considering - iring her maternal duty donor Cer- tain It Is that she has never been dis covered going near these egg lIallles again , and when they hatch ut last the tiny , soCl- uclCd creatures at once be- gin crawling aroud in search of files and other food as independently as It there were no such tllng ) as a mother In the world. A little girl who found one of these odd , oblong eggs on n sandy river harsh in Louisiana took It home and put It In a teacup on the \ . table for snfeleeeplng A few hours later a slight noise was noticed in that direction , and on looking In the cup she found a baby turtle , "tuJl fledged , " but tiny , scrambling about among the bits of Its broken eggshell cradle Flowering Ice Cream. Line a clean flowerpot having a two and one.haH Inch diameter at top r I \Jj { sJ4 with paraffino paper , fiB with Ice cream amid sprinkle with grated vanil' la chocolate to represent earth Wash weB the stems of a few daisies and ' I Insert them In the eater of the cream. Lay one or two daisies in the \ . . saucer.