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fDld I tell you 0 friend of a proud sad day
When my beautiful boy went marching away
To a far away battle fleld
When our countrys call was heard by me
And all mothers whose sons were needed to
fight
3Tor God and our country and the cause of
right
But my heart stood still and It seemed that
a pall
Wrapped me as the world is wrapped by the
night
And I thought as I wrought while the days
went by
And I prayed to my God whose throne Is on
high
Andwho careth for me to care for my boy -to
bless our land and give us joy
n the light of libertys sun
then victory came but twas purchased dear
The bells pealed oyt from far and near
And I heard loud shouts ring in the air
And the feet of men rush here and there
I called aloud Is there news for me What
news for me
My tear dlmnied eyes can scarcely see
And I heard for answer so like a knell
It is well with your boy It Is well
And then I knew my child no more
Would come to me as in days of yore
And thus the Father had answered my
prayer
By taking from earth to the home over there
My darling child so brave so dear
His sweet My mother Ill never more hear
And yet twas a glorious death and he
Died for tlie life of our dear country
And your childrens children will peace enjoy
Bought with the life of my precious boy
WHERE THE BAT
TLE WAS EOUGHT
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band my man
The witness held
up his left hand and
the judge believing
that he was defiant
said with a show of
anger
Hold up your
right hand and take
the oath
Again the left naud was raised and the
judge turning to a deputy shouted
Arrest that man for contempt of court
He refuses to hold up his right hand
Judge said the man a dilapidated
specimen of humanity I cant hold up
my right hand I left it at Gettysburg a
good many years ago But I can swear all
right Svith my loft hand
Therejvas a sensation in court No
one had noticed that the artificially stuff
ed sleeve was tucked into the coat pocket
at the wrist giving the figure that defiant
air that haa aroused the anger of -the-pre-siding
officer Now when they knew that
no hand was there a thrill of sympathy
ran through the crowd and the judge was
visibly agitated and even apologized
I did not know that you had been a
soldier he said gently as if that fact
were excuse enough for any lapse of duty
on the present occasion
I am a soldier yet said the man in
the witness box once a soldier always
a soldier is my creed Im under march
ing orders and likely to join my regiment
any time Its many years since I first
went soldiering j was a likely chap
then judge
Yes yes said the judge who had
been staring fixedly at the man while his
face flushed and paled with some secret
emotion but this is hardly the tiihe or
place for reminiscences Your testimony
in the case on hand is all that is required
now 4Counsol for the defense will exam
ine this witness and the judge turned
to other business as if the subject no
longer interested him
But he had not done with it When he
went out of the court house on his way
home the oue armel soldier was waiting
for him and he stopped with an impatient
air to hear what he had to say It was
evident that the man had been drinking
and his general appearance was more
down at the heels than before
Judge he asked with tipsy gravity
might your name be Shields
Yes my name is Shields Have you
any further business with me I am in
something of a hurry
Soni I Judge Shields Ive been wait
ing over thirty years to ask you a ques
tion and get an answer You dont hap
pen to know me judge
Xo came the low answer as the judge
looked into the face of the soldier with a
shifting earnestness taking in the whole
figure in that uncertain way I dont
tlsk I ever saw you before
hiuk again my friend you are my
-friend aint you did you ever know a
young man a robust strapping fellow
named Leonard Hurst
My God man Leonard Hurst died
during the war he was killed in the bat
tle of Gettysburg and is buried up in yon
der cemetery
Is he Thats news to me Hiram
Shields and its a lie He had a friend
a young man like himself no not like
him for Leonard Hurst would have given
his life for that friend and thought it no
sacrifice but the friend didnt enlist He
staid at home and while Hurst was fight
ing the enemy at the front Shields his
f riend won his promised wife away from
him married the girl Leonard Hurst had
loved all his life
Ill hear the story at another time
said Shields who was in a panic of nerv
ousness over this strange recital
Youll hear it now retorted the other
man swaying back and forth yet speak-
ing with the utmost distinctness Leon
ard Hurst went away with drums beat
ing and flags flying and he was gone
three years One of those years he spent
in a Southern prison the fortune of war
He came home a wreck to be nursed back
to life and strength by those for whose
sake he had suffered he came home to
find himself a dead man
The dry lips of the judge worked con
vulsively but he said no word
His friend had buried him A stone
dit the foot of his grave had his name and
number gathered from the prison hos
pital He was dead and buried and his
friend had married his sweetheart
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You are excited said Shields finding
his voice come home with me and
You havent heard it all yet Maybe
you thins it was hard to stand in front of
a fire of shot and shell and be torn
asunder by cannon balls Why man that
was nothing to tliD soldier to what he
suffered when he came home and found
himself shut out of the ranks of living
men read his own name on a gravestone
and heard his friends talk of his death
And thatwas nothing to the fact that the
girl who swore fealty to him had married
his false friend When he knew that the
-bitterness of death had passed It was
there his first anu last real battle was
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THE SOLDIER LIFTED niS SHABBY CAP
WITH KEVEKEXCE
fought when he conquered himself and
let the man live who had made earth a
hell for him y
Have youno pension asked the
judge suddenly
Pension Do they pension dead men
The judge was trembling violently As
the effects of tli2 liquor wore off the sol
dier became more excitable and erratic
lights flashed from his sunken eyes His
whole expression was a menace to the
man who stood trembling before him But
when his strange companion with a sud
den swjift motion caught him by the
throat Shields made no resistance and
the other holding him thus a moment
threw him off contemptuously
Tell me to my face I am dead sneer
ed the soldier with livid lips you who
robbed me of the dearest thing I had in
life and of life itself Assassin She
too is dead perhaps you killed her
Hurst said Shields wiping the drops
of ghastly fear from his pallid face if
you are indeed a living man listen to me
It may be some satisfaction to you to
know that Mabel never loved me al
though she was my wife She died with
your name on her lips She believed you
dead and kept your grave green with her
tears
Say that again cried the soldier Oh
my God it pays to have been dead and
buried all these years to know that after
all she was true I had it in my mind to
kill you yes I meant it when I had my
hand at your throat but those words
have saved you God will settle the ac
count between us
He has settled it answered Shields
solemnly He closed the account when
he refused me Mabels love when He
took her from me as the worst punish
ment He could inflict But I honestly be
lieved that you were dead that it was
your shattered form I brought from the
battlefield and ouried up yonder
That gave you a right to love Mabel
Xo Shields hung his head in bitter
grief and shame I I had tried to win
her before that but she would not listen
to me she never would have listened but
for your death and Hurst that knowl
edge killed her She was my wife in
name but her heart was with you
The soldier lifted his shabby cap with
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reverence lie raised his eyes to the blue
canopy of heaven and his lips moved in
prayer
I have fought my last battle he said
extending his one poor hand to Shields
we are friends from this hour comrade
You have called me comrade said
Shields his eyes filling with tears I am
no soldier but I know what that word
means We are comrades for the rest of
the march we will part no more From
this hour my home is your home
Thus it came about that these two be
came to each other even as David and
Jonathan united by a friendship surpass
ing the love of woman Nor is the un
known soldier who sleeps far from home
and friends forgotten On each Memorial
day flags wave and flowers blobm over his
dust and a white haired man and a one
armed soldier sit there to talk over the
strange enigma of his last resting place
Enough if on the page of war and glory
Some hand has writ his name
THEY ARE BROTHERS NOW
The Spirit that Exists Between
Veterans of Both Sides
Although the horrors of war are the
more conspicuous where the conflict is
between brothers and the struggle is a
long and desperate one the evidences are
numerous that underneath the passion
and bitterness ol our civil war there were
counter currents of kindly feeling a spirit
of genuine friendliness pervading the op
posing camps This friendliness was
something deeper than the expression of
more human instinct the combatants felt
that they were indeed brothers Acts of
kindness to wounded enemies began to
be noted at Bull Run while in every cam
paign useless picket firing was almost uni
formly discountenanced and the men
shook hands at the outposts and talked
confidingly of their private affairs and
their trials and hardships in the army
This feeling confined perhaps to men on
the very front line culminated at Appo
mattox where the victors shared rations
with their late antagonists and gener
ously offered them help in repairing the
Avastes of battle
When the Union veteran returned to the
North he did not disguise his faith in the
good intentions of the Southern fighting
man
The spirit that moved Lincoln to say in
his last inaugural With malice toward
none has continued its holy influence
That which must appear to the world at
largo a startling anomaly is in truth the
simple principle of good will unfolding
itself under favorable conditions The
war that is the actual encounter on the
field taught the participants the dignity
of American character
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The Man of the Musket
Soldiers pass on from this rage of renown
This ant hill commotion and strife
Tass by where the marbles and brouzes looi
down
With their fast frozen gestures of life
Oh out to the nameless who lie neath the
gloom
Of the pitying cypress and pine
Your man is the man of the sword and the
plume
But the man of the musket is mine
I knew him By all that Is noble I knew
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This commonplace I ero I name
Ive camped with him marched with him
fought with him too
In the swirl of the fierce battle flame
Laughed with him cried with him taken a
part
Of his canteen and blanket and known
That the throb of this chivalrous prairio
boys heart
Was an answering stroke of my own
I knew him I tell you And also I knew
When he fell on the battle swept ridge
That the poor battered body that lay there in
blue
Was only a plank in the bridge
Over which some should pass to a fame
That shall shine while the high stars shall
shine
Your hero is known by an echoing name
But the man of the musket is mine
I knew him All through him the good and
the bad
Ran together and equally free
But I judge as I trust Christ will judge tho
brave lad
For death made him noble to me
In the cyclone of war in the battles eclipse
Life shook out its lingering sands
And he died with the names that he loved
on his lips
His musket still grasped in his hands
Up close to the flag my soldier went down
In the salient front of the line
You may take for your heroes the men of
renown
But the man of the musket is mine
The Bourbons in Spain
In none of their many sovereignties
had the incapacity of the Bourbons
beeii niore completely demonstrated
than in Spain With intermittent flick
erings the light of that famous land
had been steadily growing dimmer
ever since Louis XIY exultingly de
clared that the Pyrenees had ceased
to exist Stripped of her colonial su
premacy shattered in naval power re
duced to pay tribute to France she
looked silently on while Napoleon traf
ficked with her lands mourning that
even the memory of her former glories
was fading out in foreign countries
The proud people themselves had how
ever never forgotten their past with
each successive humiliation their irri
tation grew more extreme and soon
after Trafalgar they made an effort to
organize under the crown prince
against the scandalous regime of Go
doy Both parties sought French sup
port and the quarrel was fomented
from Paris until the whole country
was torn by the most serious dissen
sions Century
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FOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT
frjanizinr and Carrying Out a Move
ment for the Betterment of Towns
John Gilmer Speed writes upon how
to organize and conduct a Village Im
provement Society in the Ladies Home
Journal He prefaces his paper with
the assertion that the -future prosper
ity of the country village depends in
a great measure upon its suitability
for the summer residence of those who
prefer at that season to leave the hot
and crowded cities and argues fur
ther that a Village Improvement So
ciety should be a pure democracy and
within its membership it should em
brace every man and woman of good
repute in the neighborhood and be
sides this there should be established
an auxiliary league of children This
league should be asked and urged and
instructed to assist the main society
Such societies are usually supported by
fees and dues This is very well in a
village where the majority of the peo
ple are quite prosperous and usually
have a store of ready money at their
disposal But even in such places I pre
fer the method of supporting the so
ciety by purely voluntary subscriptions
of money labor and material Labor
is just as good as money and is given
much more freely by all save those
who are rich
After canvassing the matter Mr
Speed suggests a public meeting to be
addressed by some one familiar with
the details of the work preceding pre
liminary organization and the adoption
of a constitution Permanent officers
and committees should be named at
the first meeting and preceding the
second one the first labor day should
be observed On that day all the men
and teams in the village should congre
gate to work under the direction of the
executive committee and the ladies of
the society should provide a picnic
luncheon for the workers that day In
some untidy villages the whole of the
first labor day might be given to clean
ing up in others the sidewalks might
be put in better order or pieces of new
sidewalk constructed in nearly every
village it would be a good thing to put
the grounds and fences of the public
schoolhouse in order But there are
always very obvious needs everywhere
before the advent of the village
er But what is done that day should
be done with some thoroughness and
the noonday luncheon is apt to invest
the day with some of the characteristics
of a festival What is done will be dis
cussed in every house of the village
and the achievements will inspire con
fidence or provoke criticism
Or Simple Tastes
By means of frugality the Turkish
farmer is able to eke out what we
should consider a miserable existence
His home is a hovel constructed
sun dried mud bricks This one-roomed
hovel without any windows the
only light and air admitted comes
down the chimney serves him and his
family as their residence Adjoining
this we find a cellar like building
which serves to house his live stock
AH the surroundings are dirt and un
tidiness His food produced at little
cost consists for the greater part of
bread for which he grows the wheat
This is sometimes varied by a soup
made of sour milk and crushed wheat
boiled this is a most nourishing and
satisfying dish ne also cooks an
other dish equally good of crushed
wheat boiled and flavored with fresh
butter Sometimes he indulges in a
dish of fried eggs Coffee he drinks
occasionally This completes his diet
ary and simple as it is he is strong
and healthy and generally of fine phys
ique He thinks nothing of a twenty
or thirty mile walk or of doing a days
work of sixteen hours He would
fare badly with the eight hour sys
tem His clothing costs him even less
than his food He cultivates the cot
ton from which the women spin the
yarn and weave the calico for his
clothes He also allows himself a jack
et made of bright colored print Th
sheep finds him material for a warmer
covering he knits his own stockings
Boots are unknown to him he manu
factures out of a piece of untanned
cowhide a pair of sandals His cattle
find him fuel he collects all their ma
nure and dries it in the sun Tnis
warms his house it makes a good
bright fire and also serves to light his
room Lamps and candles are too
great a luxury Tobacco he sometimes
indulges in And yet in spite of all
this frugality he remains poor
How tue Brain Acts in Insomnia
Sir James Crichton Browne the ex
pert on brain diseases holds that in
somnia is not attended with such dis
astrous consequences as is commonly
supposed It is not as dangerous as the
solicitude of the sufferer He suggests
that the brains of literary men who
are the most frequent victims acquire
the trick of the heart which takes a
doze of a fraction of a second after
each beat and so manages to get six
hours rest in twenty four Some urains
in cases of insomnia sleep in sections
different brain centers going off duty
in turn
Marine and Land Engines
It is often a matter of wonder how
a marine engine attaining an efficiency
greater than those on land can be made
in so simple a form and contain only
one half as many pieces The answer
is found mainly in the fact that the
resistance to marine engines is con
stant and uniform or nearly so and
they can for this reason dispense with
speed regulating gearing which causes
most of the complications in land en
gines The governor trip gearing cush
ioning apparatus and so on is what
sails for so many pieces
Plants for Jail Birds
Prisoners in theBangor Me jail are
to be supplied with potted plants to
care for in their cells It is believed
the care of the plants will have an ele
va ting and reforming influence
Extreme tired feeling afflicts nearly every
body at this season The hustlers cease
to push the tirelers grow weary the en
ergetic become enervated Tou know just
what we mean Some men and women
endeavor temporarily to overcome that
Tired
Feeling by great force of will But this
js unsafe as it pulls powerfully npon the
nervous system which will not long stand
such strain Too many people work oa
their nerves and the result is seen in un
fortunate wrecks marled nervous pros
tration in every direction That tired
rrg is a positive proof of thin weak impure
i lo d for if the blood is rich red vitalized
and vigorous it imparts life and energy to
every nerv organ and tissue of the body
The necessity of taking Hoods Sarsaparilla
for that tirel feeling is therefore apparent
to every one and the gcod it will do you is
equally beyond question Kemember that
Gladness Comes
With a better understanding of the
transient nature of the many phys
ical ills which vanish before proper ef
forts gentle efforts pleasant efforts
rightly directed There is comfort in
tlie knowledge that so many forms of
sickness are not due to any actual dis
ease but simply to a constipated condi
tion of the system which the pleasant
family laxative Syrup of Figs prompt
ly removes That is why it is the only
remedy with millions of families and is
everywhere esteemed so highly by all
who value good health Its beneficial
effects are due to the fact that it is the
one remedy which promotes internal
cleanliness without debilitating the
organs on which it acts It is therefore
all important in order to get its bene
ficial effects to note when you pur
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which is manufactured by the California
Fig Syrup Co only and sold by all rep
utable druggists
If in the enjoyment of good health
snd the system is regular then laxa
tives or other remedies are not needed
If afflicted with any actual disease one
may be commended to the most skillful
physicians but if in need of a laxative
then one should have the best and with
the well informed everywhere Syrup of
Figs stands highest and is most largely
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used andgives most general satisf actior
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