THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 28, 1912.
BATTLE OF FONTENOY
Victorious Charge of the Irih Brigade
11th May, 1745
BATTLE OF MARS-LA-TOUR
August 16, 1870
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mam: inspired- War!
These'
K I HEV have exalted the panoplythe romance," the frenzy,
j the.reckless impulsehefClamorand, the theatricality
of contending hosts.r But of the travail of the .weary
ing marches,4' the starvation V the f deprivations, thefexposu res 1
the drudgery, they, tell us nothing
The artist and the poet have turned away from the cruelty
and the bratalityjoftMars.rvThey do not "portray a the hospi-
theTstone-bruised,i ragged ? and f mud-1
w v'"w
tal? theyi do ! not showj
stained, battalions, Lbut '
Pictures Like This Will Stop War!,
Here, at last you
can learn for your
self, howf well-"
founded was Ver-estchagin'sSfobjec-'
'
tionSitof the so
called! war-paintings
as pictured
aboveJ
1 ' Weeks are spent in marching in blazing sun, in clouds of
dust, or in foiling through mud while the rains drench the
soldiers to the skin.
All these things' last for'days, for weeks, for months,
while the time that is passed in actual fighting is but a few
hours and then, the picture we do not see is one that shows
the wounded and dead on the fields of battle left alone, to
rot orstarveto freeze or die from exposure in other ways, ,
Looking fatf pictures like this we learn the truth about
war, we see how terrible war is; that , it is wasteful, destroys
the . virility, the strength, the youth, the hope of peoples.
It calls to its sacrifice the finest and the staunchest. It
drags budding manhood to the altar of hate. It devastates
homes, it widows, and orphans; ; it t is ; not be&utiful, it is
sordid; lit starves; lit blights.' ( '
No human pen has ever depicted, no brush has ever repro
duced war in its true.aspect, in its real colors and in full detail.
Of the price that was paid,or the type of men who paM
the price, we knew nothing until the discovery t)f te Long- .
. Lost i and Original , '; ' V f
.
rady Civil War .
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waiting worlda world anxious for facts, a world eager for a greater
civilization. ,
After you have seen them unbiased, unprejudiced, granting full
credit and full justice to North and South alike-rafter you have
turned back the pages of time fifty years and walked through the
trenches, through the hospitals, in the camps, yoa will realize what
the Civil War meant, what all war means. You owe it to yourself,
fou owe it to your children, to let them see all this and leam all this.
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Major-General George C. Jiflide
. and Staff.
Robert B.Lee In 1863.'
Mate Pleaders the Cause of ffeace
Men of the Irish Brigade. ,
The First Day's Toll McPheWon's
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Federal Dead at Getrvsbnrg, 3y 1,
1863 Seminary Ridge, Jtoyond
Gettysburg,'
In the Devil's Den.
The Vnguarded Link. (Littl Round
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The Height of the Battte-Tirfe. (Cem
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Pickett, the Marshall Ney of Getty,
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Armstead, C. S. A.
"The Man Who Held the Center,
Brigadier General . Alexander S.
Webb.
JlUior General George Armstrong
, Custer with General Pleasanton. ,
Where Shot and Shell Struck Sumter
Some of the 450 Shot a Day The
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The "Swamp, Angel," one of Ihe
Famous Guns of '63 After the 37th
Shot, the "Swamp Angel" burst.
In Charleston after the Bombardment.
Scene of the Night Attack on Sumter,
September 8, 1863, and
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'CRACKSMEN HIT UP. THE PACE
'How the Merry Bersiar Keep la
Toaek With Moderm
t ' Sait-Makta.
j The burglar of forty yaara asa carried
la jame," or crowbar,, with a set of
"twlrla.- or skelefbn keya. With these
.'he was ready to tackle any sate of the
;:old-faihloned sort
. Safe making- became a ecience and the
'Jimmy" useless,, e Bill Slkes, of the
next generation, provided himself with
dynamite cartridges or small charges of
"soup," or liquid nitroglycerin, which he
forced Into the crack under the sate door
and fired by means of a small pocket
battery.''.
The safe maker took a step In advance,
and. behold, the cracks were stopped and
no cranny or crevice left into which any
form of explosive could be injected.
But chemistry and electricity have both
come to hli aid. . Wherever a burglar can
manage to strip electric light wires he hag
at hand a simple method of producing a
aegree or heat sufficient to pierce the
hardest steeL He uses a carbon Dole.
safely Insulated, and produces an are
powerful enough to melt anything.
A few months ago an attempt was made
on a safe belonging to a firm of Birm
ingham jewelers, which contained M,00
worth of diamonds and other valuables.
A great hole had been melted through
two Inches of solid steel, and if the
thieves had not been disturbed at their
work they, would Infallibly have secured
the "swag." These men used the oxy hy
drogen blowpipe flame, which produces
the most Intense heat known to nan,
next to the electric furnace. . '
All that is necessary is a small cylinder
of compressed oxygen, such as doctors
use for patients suffering from pneu
monia, a length of India rubber tubing
and a blowpipe. The India rubber tube
is connected with the nearest gas Jet. and
the result Is a flame with a temperature
of over 2,000 degrees farenheit, which will
melt the Harveylsed steel of a battle shin.
Another dodge of the up-to-date safe
robber Is the use of a chemical com
pound known as thermit This consists of
a finely powdered mixture of aluminum
and oxide or rust of Iron. . ,,
At a certain temperature, well known
to Bill, the aluminum begins to com
bine with oxygen, all the latter Is taken
up from the iron, and the result Is oxide
of aluminum and metallic iron.
- The heat involved by thl ' chemical 1
rrticn Is so terrific that under its iin
lact steel runs Ilka melted sealing wax.
Fortunately for the puhMc at - large,
thermit has, from the burglars point of
view,, two formidable drawbacks. Mag
r.crium must be employed to light the
cartridge, and burning magnesium pro
uuces.a brilliant glare ot light. Again,
thermit sends off huge columns ot stifling
smokfe. London Tit-Bits.
..A False Alarm.
"You ought to have seen Mr. Marshall
when he called upon Dolly the other
night," remarked Johnny to his sister's
youag man, who was taking tea with te
family. "I ten you he looked fine sit
ting there alongside of her with his
arm"
"Johnny!" gasped his sister, her face
the color of a boiled lobster.
"Well, so he did," persisted Johnny.
"He had his arm"
"John!" screamed his mother franti
cally. "Why." whined the boy, "I was-"
"John," said his father sternly, "leave
the room!"
And Johnny left crying as he went:
"I was only going to say that he had his
army clothes on." Ladies' Home J our
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