MEMORIAL DAY AT GETTY33-Z0
Memorial Day Is the day uion which we look hack into
the bloody 'OOs, and bring our meed of tribute not only to
the living, but also to the quiet dead.
It is uulque, this memorial day. Other nations have
Lad their wars and heroes, but there Is nothing rise In the
world like this day of ours, when! year after year and
decade after decade, we reuse from active business life,
when we send our school children out with fluttering
flags and martial Bongs; when we bring roses and wreaths
to lay upon shaded graves, and .when we cheer with a
lump In our throats at the ever-dwindling, ever-more
tottering column in parade.
It is au indissoluble part of our national life. It
makes one the nation and its history; it teaches our
children the compact glory of an undivided union ; It
makes us better patriots because It has stirred our patri
otism for over 40 years, and better men and women be
cause it never yet has failed to touch our hearts.
Aimti't: the profound and beautiful thing's Abraham
Lincoln uttered In his Gettysburg address was the re
mark that It wns out of the power of the patriotic dtl
sens there nssemblod to const wrote that battlefield. On
the contrary, they had assembled that the battlefield
might consecrate them.
What a beautiful sentiment that was, and how true!
The heroism of the men who had fallen in that blood
stained arena could netpiire no added brilliance from the
tears and plaudits of mni who had made no such ssvrl
flce, but these men themselves perhaps might be stimu
lated there to a higher devotion tp the principles which
were snatched from extinction on that over-memorable
Held.
'There is a somewhat similar feeling appropriate on
Decoration Day. ;The noble dead whose last resting
places will be visited and adorned with lovely flowers
are far beyond the reach of human praise.- In the opin
ion of some they are in an eternal sleep. Others think
THE GRAND ARMY.
Day by day their ranks are thinning, one
by one they disappear,
And at each succeeding roll call fewer
voices answer
"Here."
Still their regiments
are marching
many march with
noiseless tread.
And the bugles
sound "assembly"
in the bivouac of
the dead.
r
Glorious tales of
gallant service
echo still on ev
ery hand ;
Charse and siege
and bitter hard
shin comrade
lost on sea and land.
Now a reunited nation joins to bless the
honored dead.
Thoueh forgetful of the living who have
likewise fought and bled.
Hats, are reverently lifted to the heroes
lying here:
Lii them to the living heroes hnil them
all with cheer on cheer.
Not fur long will tliey be with us; soon
each regiment will be
Tented here hcucath the blossoms of the
land it helped to free.
Hut to-day the drums are muffled and
the flag at half mast waves,
Keeping green tlead heroes' memories as
the grass above their gravits.
Still another weary winter shrouded in
the snow they lay ;
Now we bring them crowns and garlands
of the loveliest blooms of May.
Let them rest' in honored slumber, while
their praise, from shore to shore,
Eighty million throats are swelling we
are free forevermore !
Elsie Florence Fay in Success.
FEEDING CONFEDERATES.
Lee' Soldier Drew Three Day'
Nations from Sheridan.
There having been some controversy
as to the Incidents connected with Gen
eral Grant's issue of rations to Lee's
troops at Appomattox, General Michael
It. Morgan writes to the Washington
Post as follows:
I was General Grant's chief com
missary and was present in the room
during the interview between him nntl
General Lee. After the terms of the
urrender had been agreed upon, Gen
eral Lee said to General Grant:
"Gentval, I would like my army fed."
General Grant turned to me, as his
thief commissary, and said:
"Colonel, feed the Confederate army."
I asked: "How niauy men are
there?"
General Grant asked: "How ninny
men have you. General Ice?"
Genera! Lee replied: "Our hooks are
lost; our organizations are broken up;
the companies are mostly commanded
by non-commissioned oflieers; we have
nothing but what we have on our
backs"
Interrupting him In this train of
thought, I suggested, interrogatively:
"Say l'.".,(KK nun."
He replied : "Yes, say .Vxk) men."
I started to withdraw fur the pur
pose of giving the necessary orders, and
at the door met Colonel Kellogg, the
chief commissary of General Sheridan's
command. I asked him If lie could feed
the Army of Northern Virginia. He ex
pressed his inability, having something
very Important to do for General Sheri
dan. I then found Colonel M V. Small, tin
chief commissary of General Ord's
army, and asked him. as I had asked
General Sheridan's chief commissary.
If he could feed the Army of Northern
Virginia.' Ho replied, with a mushier
able degree of confidence: "I guess so."
I then told him to do. it, and directed
Lira to give the men three days' ra
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of them as disembodied spirits, but hardly as looking
down on what takes place over their mortal dust They
have all passed away.
Even if they were consciously present they could not
In any strict sense receive additional honor from the
leople of the present day, who have done nothing and
may never do anything for humanity. Decoration Day,
therefore, Is for the living. Its exercises are intended to
sanctify and ennoble a generation of people who are .
wholly employed In enjoying the good things which are
the dear-bought purchase of those who are sleeping
Buskin has said: '-Io not thluk it WHSted time to sub
mit yourself to any influence which may bring uou you
any noble feeling."
Decoration Day, then, is not wasted time, unless it be
spent hi gayety and sport; It Is uplifting to any man to
visit a beautiful church and to have n hush of solemnity
come over his spirit for an hour. It Is equally ennobling
for him to stand over the decorated grave of n soldier
of the republic and ruminate on the nobility of soul that
Is necessary to constitute a good soldier.
It has been many years sluee the surrender of Lee,
and sometimes it may seem as if that was long enough
to hallow the memory of the soldiers Of the civil war,
but It is not.
That war was the most dreadful war ever waged, and
its results were more momentous than those of any other
war in history. When every other soldier's grave In the
world Jles forgotten the graves of these heroes ought to
thrill men's hearts as they garland them With flowers.
A round century is a short enough time for the ob
servance of Decoration Day, and it would be a reproach
to the people of this country not -only to discontinue Its
solemn and loving observances altogether, but to devote
the day principally to hilarity and selfish enjoyment
On Memorial Day the colors ought to be at half-mast
In every patriotic heart.
A MEMORIAL DAY
tions of fresh beef, salt, hard bread,
coffee and sugar. He mounted his horse
Immediately and proceeded to carry out
his order.
Itnth Colonels Kellogg and Small are
now dead.
That we had any rations on the spot
to spare may be wondered at when the
swiftness and extent of the pursuit are
considered, but we had, and we soon
found sulllcieiit to supply the famishing
army.
BOOK THAT SAVED A LIFE.
A fleet Inn Meeting: Met ween Two Old
I'ntoa Muldlera.
When Andrew French was a mere
youth ho resolved to become a soldier
In the Union army. He thought that
mayhap, as he was only nineteen, the
parental authority might intervene,
and so, In common with thousands of
others, as it has turned out, he went
in under another name, that of An
drew Page, lie enlisted In Company
D, Third Maryland Infantry, and prov
ed himself n gallant soldier, says t!
Itnltlmore American. He was wounded
at Chaucellorsvtlle on May 3, 1853, and
subsequently received an honorable
discharge. Some time after the war be
applied for ami secured a pension of $0
a month, and under, of -course, his
army name. The special pension exam
iners found, among other things, that
no one knew of any Andrew Page at
the address given, but did know An
drew French. The "alias" made an
Identification requisite under the rules
of the department, and French was
Identified as Pnge by Colonel J. M.
Ludsburg and two comrades. Here is
where a story comes in.
Previous to Ctianeellorsvllle Page, or
French, had given a comrade named
George Wnnnull a diary, and, as it
turned mt, it was a lucky gift for
George. At Chancellorsvlllo Wannall
had the book 111 a side pocket, and
stuffed in with It was a towel. A Con
federate bullet struck him in the
breast and penetrated through eight
thicknesses of he towel and part way
through the diary and then stopped.
When French wanted witnesses to the
fact that he wns Page in the army, lie
bunted up William II. Walter, whom
he knew 11s a comrade, and the latter
brought with hhu Mr. Wannall also.
whom French had not see since the
war. French didn't recognize Wtinnull
until the latter culled to mind the diary
given him and which had saved his
life. Then the meeting became effect
ing between the two old soldiers.
f'burlea Suinuer on War.
Give me the money that has been
sjient in war, and I will purchase ev
cry foot of land on the globe.
I will clothe every man, woman and
child In an attire of which kings and
queens would be proud.
I will build a school house 00 avary
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RESTROSPECT.
hillside and In every valley over ths
whole earth.
I will build an academy and endow
It, and a college In every State, and
fill It with able professors.
I will crown every hillside with a
place of worship consecrated to the
gospel ' of peace.
I will support In every pulpit an able
teacher of righteousness, so that every
Sabbath morning the chime on one hill
will answer to the chime on another
around the earth's wide circumference,
and the voice of prayer and the song
of pralso should ascend like a uulveiv
sal holocaust to heaven.
The Man Behind the Gnn.
Soon after the close of the Spanish
war Admiral Schley visited Bangor,
Me. General Joseph Smith tendered
him a reception, to which many of the
townspeople were Invited. The people
guthered from far and near, and the
streets were filled wit those who wish
ed to get a glimpse at the admiral.
Mrs. Pearsons lives directly opposite
General Smith's house, and the piazza
and the stei8 of her house were crowd
ed when up the steps came Mrs. Ca
sey, a comely Irish woman, clutching
something tightly In her hand. Coming:
up to Mrs. D., who was seated on the
piazza, she held out her hand, and In
the palm lay a bronze medal, which
was given to her son for services ren
dered at Manila.
"If ye please, will ye read what It
says?" she asked, and Mrs. D. read:
"To the Man Behind the Gun."
"That's him," exclaimed Mrs.
sey; "that's hlra; that's my son!
got there for safety, and could
blame him, now?" Boston Globe.
Ca
lls The II I bio on the Battlefield.
Among the dead of one of the battle,
fields beforo Richmond was a youna,
Confederate soldier who lay miburied
several days after the conflict. Al
ready the flesh had been eaten by
worms from his fingers, but underneath
one skeleton hand lay an open Bible,
the fingers pressed upon these words
of the Twenty-third Psalm: "Thy rod
and thy staff they comfort rue."
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Sf War t Cateh Cockroaches.
A florist lias discovered by accident
,1 new way to catih cockroaches. A
pint fruit Jar containing a scrap of
bacon hapiiened to be left over night
In one of his greenhouses. Next morn
ing a dozen or more cockroaches were
vainly trying to climb the slipper sides
of the glass Jar. The florist has suc
ceeded in ridding Ms establishment of
these repulsive creatures, which form
erly ate such high-priced plants as
orchids and gardenias. It is necessary
to paste n piece of paiH-r on the out
side of the Jar, st that the insects can
get sulllelent foothold to climb up Into
the trap. Iu the original case the
label of the manufacturer supplied
his need.
How to Fill tp llolra In Wood.
It sometimes laconics necessary to
(111 up cracks or dents in lino wood
work, furniture, floors, etc. The fol
lowing Is the best way of doing it.
White tissue jmper is steeped and Jt-r-fectly
softened in water and, by thor
ough kneading with glue, transformed
into n paste, and by means of ochres
(earth colors) colored as nearly as
jsisslble to tin? shade of the wood. To
tlie paste calcined magnesia is then
added, and It is forced into the cracks
or holes. This cement attaches Itself
very firmly to the wotnl. and nftcr dry
ing retains its smooth surface.
steamed Hatter Pulllni(.
Kent two eggs light, add one cup of
milk, three and one half cups of flour
sifted twice with one-half level tea
spoonful of salt, one level ttihlcspoon
ful of sugar, four level teaspoonfuls of
linking powder and three tablesiwion
fuls of melted butter. Beat and stir
in throe-quarters cup of stoned dates
cut in pieces, or seeded and cut rais
ins. Tour into a well-greased pudding
mold, cover tightly, and steam two and
one-half hours. Serve with a creamy
sauce.
Fried steak.
I have seen so many recipes for
.... I. V A i . X-
I nti-niti cHi-iiiv 1 am lempieti 10 give
1 mine for fried steak, which always
j proves n success. Into two pounds
I of round or other cut, rub salt to
! taste and n light teaspoon of soda. Let
It He overnight for breakfast, then
before frying rlnsi' In two waters, dip
in flour and fry in boiling fat until
well done, Serve at once, either with
or without gravy poured over It.
Delicious Klee Wnfflca.
To one cupful of cold boiled rice add
about a tablespoonful of melted but
ter, two cupfuls of milk, n teuspoon
I ful of salt, two teaspoonfuls of linking
1 powtler. two eggs whipped light and
I Hour tt make thin batter. Iteut all
C10 ingredient well together and bake
11s you would other wnin.es, taking
pains to grease the Irois very thor
oughly, so that the rice may not stick.
Christine Terhune lierrlck.
Old-Time Spring- Bledlelnea.
Sulphur and molasses, taken Intern
ally, Is u blood purifier that undoubt
edly Is excellent. The two are mixed
to 11 thick paste, and about a toaspoon
ful of cream of tartar added to a cui
ful of the mixture. A big ton spoon
ful of this Is taken for throe mornings,
skipping the next three, resuming the
dose again, and continuing in this way
until nine doses have been taken.
HeiirnalNe .Sauce.
Heat the yolks of two eggs light, put
Into a round-bottoinetl saucepan and ret
in one of boiling water. Stir Into It,
a few drops at a time, three- table
cjioons salad oil, beating lis you stir,
then as gradually the same quantity
of boiling water, next one tablespoon
lemon Juice, n dash of cayenne and
salt.
Dale far Ilreiikfiin.
Separate the dates one from an
other with the fingers, cover them
with boiling water and stir about one
minute, then skim out of the water on
to an agate plate. Set Into n hot oven
from three to five minutes, then re
move to serving dish.
I'olllto 1'llddlnK.
Two cups cohl potatoes mashed fine
j two eggs well beaten, one-half cup
I sweet, milk salt and pepjter to taste;
j three tiiblespoonfuls melted butter.
Hake half an hour.
Short Susiteat Ion.
Tarnished silverware Is brightened It
placed In hutfcrrmllk for two hours and
washed In hot suds.
Do not pile left-over cooked imtatocs
together, as they will sour quickly.
Spread them out on a large dish.
if n,e upper edge of the saucepan
s Well buttered, the chocolate, milk,
,.,. or anything of the kind will not
boll over.
Heat a lemon thoroughly before
squeezing, nntl you will obtain nearly
double the quantity of Juliv that you
would if it had not been heated.
The pulverized washing powders last
much longer If used from a talcum
powder shaker. A baking-powder can
with holes punched through the lid may
be Utilized for tilt! pUI-ose.
It Is a mistake to lay scrubbing
brushes with the bristle side upward.
They should always be put with the
bristles down, otherwise the water will
Miak into the wootleii part mid the
bristles very soon become loose.
Buy a strii of asbestos cloth ami
use small squares to interline your
iloiilinblers. Keep a good sized piece
fastened to your Ironing hoard to savt
the shift, and lay a square under tin
table pad win re the meat platter rests,
When cleaning poultry it sometimes
happens that the gall gets broken by
accident. The unpleasant taste thin
given to the meat may l" removed by
stinking It for half un hour In cold
water, to which u tahlesjMioiiful of bak
lug soda bus been added.
In making porridge keep to these
proportions: Take one pint of water
and add to It half a tciispoonful of
suit. When the water boils add grad
ually a teacupful' of oatmeal, stirring
meanwhile. When all Is mixed, boll
slowly for half au hour, stirring at in
terval.
Thes irrftve, which show where Lino 1
wns shed.
These mounds, now strewn with roe
rrd.
Recall past dors of hitter strife.
When brother sought his hroihrr'ii life.
That hnte, which once hml un'.tnown
power,
Has turned to love in this glad hour;
No more slisll war, with thrent'nlng nir,
Arise to drive us to despair.
Each soldier brave who now survives
Recounts the blessings he derives
From untold hard-doim he endured
And what to all bus been secured.
The (tray, the blue, their loves here .!:ov
For comrades resting still nnd low ;
Beneath these mounds their forms will lie
Till Gabriel cnlls them to the sky.
Soon all these living soldiers, bent
With yean that Father Time has lent.
Will rest within these hallowed grounds;
Stlli friends will strew with flowers tlvir
mounds.
Where once was hate, love reigns instead;
Lot rules the heart nnd guides the head ;
Dread civil war w no more fear.
Since' love growa strong from year to
year.
May peace throughout nil time be ours,
A pledge be thene expressive flowers.
And as each coming year they bloom,
May they adorn a soldier's tomb.
Here Meade, the hero of this field,
Canned Le, with all his hosts to yield
To force of arms ns well controlled
As those of Marathon of old.
Now two score years have passed, and
more,
Since those dark dnvs of wnr were o'er.
Yet time moves on, nnd on nnd on ;
Soon our last veteran will be gone.
Their ranks grow thin each passing year;
Ther'll soon lie none to answer "Here!"
Then all will be enrolled on high.
Where are no tenrs, nor e'eu a sigh.
F.till flonffS will lu fnrAVnl- tnnivlif
To tall of deeds through valor wrought
y those who fought and died to snvo
Our land from a dishonored grave.
THE 30TH OF MAY.
Uemnrlr Iterallril hy the Great Na
tional A nnl vpmiir),
The return of this national anniversary
has a testimony to offer you. Every lee-
oration Day witnesses a smaller numlwr
of northern and southern veterans. The
maximum Is passed; the minimum In
creases daily ami nnnually. The flowers
upon gravees and chaplets woven arouud
faded banners bear testimony that tha
republic cannot forget her old soldiers,
can never allow them to be visited with
social contempt. Mr. Lincoln, the great
est figure of the past tempest, declared
that the world "can never forget what
they did." Decoration nnd D I go to
gether. Some things niny cause contro
versy, hut when men have fought anil
bled and suffered, no wordy war can sup
plant their claims on our res ( .
Let two veterans meet who !o,.,;ht on
opposite sideR, and their stories are min
gled with their tears. No wanner com
radeship, no more fraternal intercourse
could be desired. There Is no more hon
orable feeling thnn that of one lirnvo ma a
for another equnlly brave. To-day the
feeling will predominate, and among the
reminiscences of strife will be the actual
over-brooding preseuce of peace, good will
and loving unity.
Decoration Day is the gift at the wom
anhood of our land thirty or less years
ago. . They gnve it not with triumphant
paeans of victorious rejoicing, hut amid
heartacltr and grief nnd tears were those
first graves decorated, the minte bestow
ed nnd the dnte perpetuated. If there
is a more sacred gift than that born of
a suffering woman's holy love, one do -s
not know it. And we nre eonviinvd that
the soldier's mother who prayed for him
In the closed room of intercession, mi l
his sweetheart nnd his wife who lov.'d
him as none other did or could, will de
mand t Int t Decorntiou Day shall ever rep
resent their hearts, nnd lis lowers their
hopes beyond the veil, and its tears and
joy, like ruin and sunshine in spring's
mingling of both, Tie indicative of the min
gled feelings with which they reconse
crated the places where lay the dead of
blue and of gray.
The Semites and Legislatures of federal
and State governments have decreed many
public occasions. Here is one orduined
by those whose common suffering and
charity and patience have ever redeemed
the credit of a people, whose silence en
hances their glory the women of ttiu
war, who gave us Decoration Day.
The lestons of patriotic value taught
by this day can bo discerned by all. Amid
chaos the country struggled into more
permanent being. Disasters enriched her.
In strife more than in lassitude she de
veloped her Intent forces, ami the red
rain of blood brought forth a harvest of
devotion immortal in our nnimls.
The spirit of those days was rude,
but she evoked treat men to control
them, and as one surveys the list of he
roes, the question forces itself: "When
hall we look upon their like again V"
Peace has dangers no less great than
those of strife, and sometimes the more
to be dreaded because the less to be dis
cerned. The rightH and privileges pur
chased for us during the past tvntury and
a half are ours to keep, increase and be
queath to those who coaie after us. Now,
shall we not net so as to earn, if not the
soldier's glorious wreath, at least a in. id
eat flower of remembrance for the main
tenance of riht V
For if Washington mid Lincoln could
ride at the head of every festal pro
cession in this mil ion on May '.',, they
Would cry aloud : '.Maintain ! Maintain !
Let your birthright, puivluised in blond,
be kept in iindetiled seeurity!"
Decora l ion Day Isars one last word of
testimony to our peaceful unity and soli
darity as a mi I ion. "Irrepressible" con
flicts are repressed, schisms lire lie.ilrd,
localities llllil fei- iouulislll lost si'llt of ill
the truer, sner view this day n Holds.
Fust and Wist, North nnd South are
as indivisible in Unit ci.uriion seiiliaient
of American patriotism which no parly
discussions can disturb as are llhode Isl
and a in Connecticut Express trains
huve ulsdished physical barriers ; mutual
depeiuleiii e in commerce f.v ililntes an
already natural intercourse. Between
oceun and ocean lives a miliiy race,
whose guiding forces and aspirations nre
a unit. One law. one element, one blood,
and, henceforth, one language.
And an the watchers of God look dowu
on hill and hamlet, on mighty sens, nnd
over treat shoulders of mountains, right
dawn on tha spots thirty years ago crime
aoned with btrife nud now fragrant with
spring's gifts, their thankfulness will be
that In this great land there is peace,
sweet peace. New York Ledger.
The Kit-Id oi Flower.
Yea, bring the falreat rosea
Carnations white and rad ' '
arade.
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hi tftou hear Ike.
"Of thy corrtras, wat -
Thou, oetenaer --y.
liiou. ulu never
thou.trte brave ?
inc I k a iif( nrv From
Ike reveille sang (ra 3onc;
Ak hnin "sCrr.'nri suiee r atul slronff Til"
it sound u.il'fi echoes lnrt.
la my heart. .
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National Tribune.
And iansies. royal blossoms
To deck each soldier's bed ;
But bring- the daiuty field flowers, too
Daisies nntl violets white and blue.
HANGING A GUERRILLA.
Ho
AcrciXril Ills Pate "Without
Word or Tear.
A shot had been fired at us as we
rode nlonjr the highway In column of
fours, nntl a trooper reeled nud pitched
from bis saddle, shot through the heart.
The shot was fired by a guerrilla hid
den In n corn field,1 nnd we got the
order to throw down the fence nnd rldo
through the field. He wns captured nt
the far end of it, just ns bo was about
to gain the woods. He was n man .TO
years old, grim and grizzly nnd with
eyes of delliinco.
"Wall, what Is It?" ho quietly naked
of his captors.
''l)o you live nhout liere?'
"In tlie cabin down thar."
"Cot n family?"
"Yes."
"Want to bid 'cm good-by?"
"I recUom"
"follie lllolie;'''
The cabin waa reached In five min
utes. A gray-haired woman and n girl
of l.T vlf,e nntl daughter stood in tins
open door.
"What is It, Jlni?". asked the wlfo ns
the nian stood before her.
'(iwluo to kill me, I reckon!" he r
piled.
"What rurV"
"Fur klllln' one of them."
"I In! good-by, Jim!"
"(iiHid-by, Daddy!" from the girl.
"(Jood-I.y !"
No hiiml shakes no tears no senti
ment no pleading. Ten rods below the
house was a largo shade tree. Two or
three Imlters were knotted together
;iio rope thrown over n limb u iuhiso
s!lcd over the man's bead, nnd nest
moment he was dangling clear of the
V round. lie had no excuses made no
plea tiskcd no mercy. He went to his
death with stoicism of nn Indian. Wile
nnd daughter stood in the doorway and,
mi v nil. but there were no tears no
outburst. As we were ready to ride
i:vay the woman came slowly down to
the spot, looked at the Ixxly for half n
moment, and then turned to ask:
"Is .Bin dead?" "
"Yes,'1 answered the captain.
"Hit!" And she, walked slowly back
to the house and cntentl it nnd shut the
door, nnd we rode on anil left the
eorpse banging. Detroit Free I'rews.
Kfr Slorr of lllsliop MeCnlie.
All Interesting incident of life la Llh
ly prison was recalled by Colonel C. E.
Bradsliaw addressing a meet lug of rep
rlnoiitativcs of the patriotic organiza
tions of Washington. Tbo name of
Bishop McCnbo was mentioned.
"I recall one of the darkest, stormiest,
rainiest nights at old Llbby," said
Colonel Bradsliaw. "Tlio Union pris
oners were huddled together on ono of
THE WAR TIME
At MtiVM f " $ : : VI
it &W$: w V V :
"My goodness, grau'pa, were you ever as young as that?"
"That .was takeu the day we inarched away forty-alx years
ago. I was tlie drummer boy. The men used to laugh at ma and
my big drum, and they called me the baby of the regiment."
"They dou't laugh at you row, do they, gnin'pat"
"Not many of them, ioor fellows. Why, my goodness, I'm Just
as young as that now, but, you see, I have to look older because I'm a gra4
pa, yon know. I Jut do it to keep up appearances." Cbk-ujo Tribune.
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the lower floors, nnd the rain waa coin
ing In on them In a perfect deluge.
Among the captives In blue wns Bishop
McCahe, then n chaplain. In his ex
cess of good nature he saw the h6
morons side of even such a situation as
I linve described. While our boys, hunj
gry nnd cold, were trying to keep warn?
nud dry, n voice wns rnlsed above the
howling of the tempest outside and
could lie heard In all parts of tha
prison :
" 'Hands on your pockctbooks I t
"The voice was that of Chaplain Mo
Cabe, who knew full well tnat thera
was not a single dollar In nil that great
crowd of shivering Yankee soldiers.
The sally caused nn outburst of laugh
ter, notwithstanding the uncomfortable
ness of the situation." Washington
Star. . .
The Nation's Ilrad.
"(Jlory guards with solemn round!
the resting place of thousands of gal
lant oflieers nnd soldiers In the great
National Cemetery at Arlington. The
sjHit had nn Interesting part In history
before It was adopted ns the burlaj
place of heroes. In old colonial days It
wns Included In a grnnt of 0,000 acres
inmle by (rovernor Berkeley to Robert
llowscn ns n reward for services In
bringing settlers Into the country. How
sen seems to hnve held tlie gift la small
value, for ho soon after traded the
whole trnct for six hogsheads of to
bacco. '
A little Inter It came Into nossesslon
of the Custls family, nnd descended to
"Jneky" Custls, the stepson of George
Wasliingtnn. His heir, George Wash
ington I'arke Custls, built the Impos
ing Arlington mansion with its benuti
ful Greek columns, and stocked It with
relics and treasures of the country's
father.
Among other things ho prized nn old
tent of Washington's which, ns a up;
elal distinction . for some vkdtor, he
would pitch on the lawn. At charitable
ba.anrs It was nlso exhibited, nnd thou
sands of people paid for the privilege
of sittliii under Its shelter.
A CiiHtl married Itobert E. Lee, nnd
lived In the stately mansion until the
general's conscience led him to take
arms on tlie Southern side In the Civil
War. As the estate was entailed, !t
could not le conllscatetl, but In 1S(U the
government bought It for taxes. Later
General Ix-e's heir entered a suit to re
cover the property, and the United
States, In recognition of the claim, ap
propriated $150,000 to purchase the es
tate. . ,
Two hundred acres now comprise the
first nnd largest of more than eighty
national cemeteries, F.lghteen thousand
soldiers are burled nt Arlington. The
gruves of General Sheridan and Ad
miral Torter ore there, and there Gen
eral Joseph Wheeler wns lately burled,
ruder one stone lie tlie bodies of over
2,000 unknown soldiers. Youth'a Com
panion. PHOTOGRAPH.
