Loop City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
IX)UP CITY, - - NEBRASKA.
It Is moved and seconded that the
Osier juke be dropped.
We note that the standard of spring
poetry this season is quite as high as
tisuil.
The premier of Italy being ill, the
r« st of the cabinet has resigned. Sort
of a sympathetic strike.
Sir Hiram Maxim claims to have
Mil red the flying machine problem. All
that he has to do now is to fly.
Gaynor and Greene, who wept when
t ail was refused in their cases, have
a f' -w more weeps coming to them.
Having tak -n a good look at her,
Andrew Carnegie is positive that Mrs.
Chadwick is no long-lost daughter of
his.
A Connecticut woman killed herself
1 • oau.-e the weather was bad. She
j robabljr desired to \isit a warmer
< lime.
To appreciate rhinoceros steak pre
f• tnably one should have cultivated a
t •• ce for railway restaurant spring
chicken.
To the average person the furious
«'s;ute as to the correctness of “golf.”
"gowf.” or “goff” sounds a good deal
like “guff.**
Although th * strike of the house
servants in Warsaw lne- collapsed,
they may get even by breaking some
t xtra dishes.
Mrs. Stantori leaves $3/H¥),000 to
h* r relatives and $2o.«m*o to the serv
ants. Probleat: Which will try to
break the will?
c Tittonl has declined to form a
t * Italian cabinet. s*:g. Tittoni may
he a strong man, bat if he is, his
name belies him.
A Pennsylvania mar says that the
vorbi v ill last only three years more.
I*tit don't you try to run up any board
bills on that prediction.
Why <!o bachelors marry butterflies?
r -ks the N- w York Herald. Perhaps
- t ea . e the but:**rflies have a
habit of alighting on them.
A N«« York man who recently got
married sa>s he and his wife can't
- «• on |3.V«,o.i j a \«ar They ought
t » Lire a basin- ss manager.
11:shop McFattl of New Jersey says
so* .• ty is soaked in alcohol. Perhaps
so» i« ty feels the n< <t of doing some
tn.ne to keep itself from sj*>:!ing.
A Wt York man proposes to sue
a drug clerk for taking away his
*;ag/' The victim has not decided
«h- her to charge petit or grand lar
c.cy.
It has n .-hown in court that
Mrs, Chadwick once deposited money
in a hank She must have had reason
to suspect that there were burglars
around.
The line fence continues to be a
deadly thing Evidently the command
inert ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself
will never be taken as seriously as
It should be.
That fellow who made his wife atd
family the rrunficent allowance of
fifty rents a week seems to be a rare
specimen of an organism op. rating
without a heart.
A Ijocdon datly pap* r has opened a
joke deparnent 1* is accommodat
ing enough to explain that the para
graphs contained in the department
are all humorous.
Tt is suggested that the German
m oa of using fruit trees for shade
ir«es along 'he public highways
should l»e adopted over here. The
boys would like it.
A Baltimore policeman threw a jiu
jitsu professor without half trying.
And. by the way. it was the same
prof, saor who thought he could “sub
due" Col. Jim Jeffries.
If you w,1! look over your collection
of check* signed by Andrew Carnegie
you will di< over that the Camegie
O.adw • k t he. fc has the appearance
of being a clumsy forgery.
Russel! Saa.-'« secretary has gone
Into itankmptey with liabilities of
ITT 1«S and a.- *e** amounting to
It is evident that he has had some
valuable lessons in high finance.
B Is claimed by a woman who has
•rfed it that a man ran he fed for nine
«. tit* a day. Gentlemen whose wives
are ’sking in washing will row W
▼anting to know where the rest of the
MMf poe*.
Tee PriDcess of Wales is reported to
L.- >eakm* of her mother-in-law and
mad at the king Some people car.
newer get too high to exhibit these
little failing* that seem to be but
taiural parte of the human equip
ment
If jroe find your »if*. in th<> middle
of tltat tpr.tis feeling. o«-(jita*irelj
kaohiac «•*«**■ A«a underwear.
bat firmly base up in some !
pmaistst place (be mod *M motto.
gtirfc u» yowr ftarn*is till your fins
eels ftCirk u» yoe ~
IV Irtut* of * V’.f llade Man's
W.fe to Her Son” hare bot ketn pot
Ik uok font. Vest we shall hare
-TV Letters of a Self Made Man’s
HotVfVUv to Her Pacler and
ifrer that perhaps The Letters of a
■elMUde i Grandfather to the
Hired GtrT
rww. 97? *v =
Aitrms are the zaost id**' ttic
people oa eartlt- ITaforraaatety. bow
erer. there are a good many things
tita -sat* it pretty -feard fior as to
adtiere ocx ideals.
Dwarfs of Ox Family.
One of the greatest curiosities
among the domesticated animals of
Ceylon is a breed of cattle, known to
:he zoologist as the “sacred running
jxen.” They are the dwarfs of the
whole ox family, the largest specimens
jf the species never exceeding 30
inches in height.
Mad Dogs Held Sacred.
It is claimed that if a dog goes
nad among the Mokis. a special house
vs built for him. and there he is kept
*nd nursed in the greatest reverence
until he dies. Like the venomous rep
tile. the mad dog is sacred to this
eccentric Arizona redskin.
Wedding Anniversaries.
Wedding anniversaries follow:
First, cotton; second, paper: third,
leather: fifth, wooden: seventh, wool
en: 10th. tin; 12th. silk and fine linen;
15th, crystal; 20th, china; 25th, sil
ver: 30th. pearl; 40th, ruby; 50th,
golden; 75th, diamond.
Mosquito's “Usefulness” Lasting.
The old fashioned theory that a
mosquito bites but once and then dies
is a myth. Some varieties are ready
for all comers although it takes three
days to digest a full meal of blood.
What the Dentist Says.
Toledo. Ohio. March 27th—(Special.)
—Harry T. Lewis, the well known den
tist of 607 Suniit street, this city, ic
telling of his remarkable cure of Kid'
ney Disease by using Dodd's Kidney
Pills.
"1 was flat on my back and must
say I had almost given up all hope
of ever getting any help,” says Dr.
Lewis.
"My kidneys had troubled me for
years. The pains in my back were
severe and I had to get up several
times at night. I tried different medi
cines but kept on getting worse till
1 was laid up.
"Then a friend advised me to try
Dodd's Kidney Pills and in about two
wt-eks I started to improve. Now I
am glad to admit I am cured and 1
cannot praise Dodd's Kidney Pills too
highly.”
If you take Dodd’s Kidney Pills
when your kidneys first show signs of
being out of order you will never have
Bright's Disease. Diabetes, Dropsy,
Gravel or Rheumatism.
Loveliest Face in Art.
In the National museum of Naples
stands the statue of Psyche, which is
considered by nearly all connoisseurs
to have the loveliest face ever model
cd or painted. It was discovered in
the ruins of the amphitheater at
Capua.
A 4S0 ACRE FARM YIELDS
25 PER CENT PROFIT IN A YEAR.
Wnat a Mercer County (Chio) Farmer
Received from One Year's Crop.
Extracts lrcm an interesting letter
from P. H. Rynhard, of Starbuck,
Manitoba, Canada, gives an excellent
idea of the prosperity of those who
have gone from the United States tc
Canada. He says:
"I bought. August, 10**3. 4S0 acres
of land, paying $12,000 for it. We
threshed 2,973 bushels of wheat and
between 1,200 and 1.300 bushels of
oats and barley from 200 acres. But |
rart of the wheat went down beforo
lining and was not harvested except
for hay. The crop was worth at
threshing time. $3,000. Besides 120
acres laying idle except a timothy
meadow, which is not included in this
estimate. Counting the value of the
pioduct and the increase of value of
lend will pay me more than 25 per
cent on the investment. Two broth
ers in the same neighborhood bought
160 acres each six years ago. They
have not done a single thing to this
land except to fence it and break and
cultivate about one-half of it. Har
vested last year 28 bushels wheat per
acre. This year 27 bushels per acre.
They can get any day $25 per acre.
TLese are only a few of many hun
dreds of such chances. It looks like
boasting, but truth is justifiable and
the world ought to know it, especial
ly the home-seeker. I know of quite
a few farmers that have made for
tunes in from 10 to 2ft years, retired
with from $20,000 to $100,000.
Writing corcerning another district
'n the Canadian West, S. D. Short
says:
“Dear Sir—I have to inform you
‘.hat 1 have just returned from the
Carrot River Country in Saskatche
wan, where I located land of the very
finest black vegetable loam, which I
itr. proud of, and will move in the
spring. Farmers are still plowing
there. A mihi climate and beautiful
; country to b. hold. Cattle are fat and
running outside. Wood and water
good. Saw oats weighing 42 pounds
to bushel. Potatoes large and well
ripened; also wheat that brought
there 82 cents. The country exceed
ed my expectations. Saw oats in
rtock, thicker on the ground than ap
pears in many of the illustrations
sent out in descriptive pamphlets. I
have been in many western states,
but the soil excels any 1 ever saw.”
The Canadian Government Agents
at different points report that the en
quiries for literature and railroad
rates, fee., to Western Canada are
the greatest in the history of their
| work.
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f.VT^S,4*.*. 'i "* <l f,,u «a* -uni <4
ONfc. M- HOLLARS tt each a^d eory
r““ 1 * *J be cured by i he u**e jf
B1- * 111 (KaM UtL
a. . «- a- FRANK J. CHENFV
£» *» t» W-r» me and td«nM ta
mrt: u..*tu> day «t Uecetu&c' A. I» l
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toy pre*
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H» * C*:*r-fc rar» 1* utrn tatrraal’▼ aad act*
£ 1 y °* *A* ! *-4 um4 Mirfacc* U.a
•faiea.- mm fur )»«:«» t «. ir-»
. __ . y J- * HENEl *CO,T«Maa
!•*» Ha a f rim 1
A mane the Australian aborigines.
Ji« new It married w ife, especially
where she Is attractive, is made con
fcioas of her charms by Timorous flog
fiitp from the other women nnti]
j some of her youth and beauty wear
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A r,riP*vrr»jD critr fob pn.**.
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ȣ: ref tad &*ey If 7\Zit ntmCEST
; Wij -i can r-"« alwu Jj»ya. Sac. _
The average cost of labor is the pro
taction and preparation of coflea is
t L 7 cents a pound.
Playhouses of the Past
An interesting picture of the stage
)f our forefathers was drawn by Sir
Henry Irving during an address deliv
ered in Bath, England, at the unveil
ng of a memorial tablet to James
Quin. After his retirement in 1751,
Quin lived in Bath for fifteen years.
He had been an actor for more than
thirty-five years. For more than half
that period he had held his own
against all competitors until the ad
vent of David Garrick, who reformed
the stilted style of declamation then in
vogue.
‘Theatrical audiences in those
lays,” said Mr. Irving, “must have
been rather ‘fearful wildfowl,’ and
often exacting more when they were
pleased than when they were angry.
There was always a danger that they
would tear up the benches, or that
some of them would rush upon the
stage and deliver a general assault
and battery. On one occasion, when
Rich was attacked by a drunken noble
man. Quin saved his life by some vig
orous swordplay.
‘‘The actor's vocation then was full
of stirring variety. Quin was a man
of the readiest wit, and he is said to
have employed it successfully in tell
ing stories to an audience to keep
them from rioting when the play was
waiting for some royal personage,
who had forgotten the time. Horace
Walpole tells us that Quin, when
pressed to play the part of the Ghost
in ‘Hamlet’—a part he considered be
neath him—would make no answer
but, ‘I won’t catch cold behind.’ ‘The
Ghost,’ says Walpole, Ms always ridicu
lously dressed, with a morsel of armor
before and only a “olock” waistcoat
and breech behind.’
“The story how Quin befriended
James Thomson, whom he found in
prison for a debt of £70, is a worthy
illustration of the actor's character.
He ordered supper and claret—a good
deal of claret-- and when the bottle
was going round he said with grim
humor, ‘It is time we should balance
accounts.’
“The unfortunate poet, who was
already alarmed at this burly visitor,
tool: him for another creditor.
** 'Mr. Thomson,’ said Quin, Mhe
pleasure—I have had—in reading your
—works—I cannot estimate—at less
than £100—and I insist on now
acquitting the debt.’ And then he put
down the money and walked out with
out another word.”
Broke the Riding Record
“You people who came here since
the railroads were built have an idea
that we used to have a b.\d time of it
in getting about Washington terri
tory,” said the old-timer the other
day. “That's where you are wrong.
Distances were no greater than they
are now. True, we didn't always go
so fast as you do now, but we made
speed that would astonish you.
“1 remember one trip an old friend 1
of mine made, a big cattleman from
Kittitas county, afterward the owner
of considerable property in Seattle. His
divorced wife was living here, and she
tc-ok it into her head to go after him
through the courts for nonpayment of
alimony. There were a number of j
reasons why he shouldn’t pay. but he
didn't care to stay here and argue it
cut with the courts, so getting a tip |
on what was doing he decided to go ’
back to the cattle in Kittitas.
“About ti o’clock one evening, ac- j
ccmpanied by his horse wrangler, who
happened to be here with him, he
strurk out horseback for Ellensburg.
The two rode all night—it was in mid
summer and at the full of the moon—■
and the next morning they ate break
fast in Ellensburg—110 miles away.
And they didn't think it was much of
a ride at that.
“At that time nearly all the Indians
on the reservation had a half-breed or
at least one pretty good horse in his
riding string. This particular young
half-breed boy had an extra good one,
ami he was selected to carry the dis
patches, being a reliable and faithful
fellow. Well, he rode through to Wal
la Walla in ton hours, a distance of
120 miles, and during the ride he nev
er slowed down from a gallop. That
was in midsummer, and if you ever
have been in that Snake river region
at this season oi the year you can im
agine that was some riding.”—Seattle
Post-Intelligence.
Captured School of Fish
One day in November several years
ago the good people living on the Mas- i
sachusetts bay shore at the end of
Cape Cod were wrought to the highest
pitch of excitement by the arrival of i
an immense school of blackfish which
were on the flats chasing bait, as the
small fish they feed on are called, and
gradually working inshore. The news
spread like wildfire; village stores
were hastily closed, schoolboys desert
ed school rooms, and even women
flocked to the shore. The flats along
the coast make out from half to a mile
and a half practically level and almost
dry at low tide, where at high tide is
four to eight feet of water. No school
of blackfish so large as this had ever
been heard of. And by good luck the
tide was ebbing.
Hastily the boats were launched,
each taking a half a dozen men and
boys, those not rowing being armed
with sticks and pieces of board. In
a quarter of an hour they were in
position, in half circle and to leeward
of the fish.
“Close in row.” came from th«
“commodore,” “and make all the noise
you can!” And they did, fairly churn
ing the water with boards and sticks.
The thousands of squid ami herring
on which the blackfish were feeding
assisted in this movement by getting
into shoal water as far as possible so
that the blackfish could not follow
them. The result was inevitable, the
fast ebbing tide soon began to leave
the big fish in such shoal water that it
was difficult for the larger ones to
swim. Gradually the circle of boats
drew nearer and nearer, and in two
hours 90 per cent of the entire school
was stranded on the flats. For weeks
after the villagers were engaged in
cutting up and trying out the oil. The
otal catch netted some $25,000, many
of the fish weighing two tons apiece.—
Outing.
Whale Fought Ocean Liner
The Pacific Mail Company's liner
Acapulco, which arrived early yester
day morning from Panama and way
ports, had an exciting experience with
a whale off San Bias. The leviathan,
floating high out of the water, was
er.joytng a morning nap and giving
its tough hide a sunbath, when the
Acapulco came along.
The lookout sighted the whale and
called the attention of the man at the
wheel to the slumbering mountain of
fit sh that floated directly in the liner's
path. The quartermaster, who was
steering, gave the spokes of the wheel
a twist and the Acapulco's head sheer
ed off a little. A collision was avoid
ed, but the Acapulco's side grazed the
starboard shoulder of the big fish and
jarred the whale from slumberland.
The whale was fully awake before
the liner had entirely passed. He
awoke in a bad temper and made a
furious rush at the Acapulco's stern.
The whale found the disturber of his
diearns a pretty solid sort of fish, but,
undaunted by his failure to ram his
head through the steel plates, gather
ed himself for another charge.
He struck the steamer under the
stern, and as he bounced off. slashed
at the retreating hull with his tail.
Then one more rush. This time the
whale found his match, for the rap
idly revolving propeller landed a be
wildering succession of uppercuts on
bis lower jaw. With a splash of de
tiance, the leviathan dived and dis
! appeared and the people of the Aca
pulco saw him no more. Chief Officer
Hailey interviewed the quartermaster,
who had avoided the whale by such
a narrow margin, and concluded a
heart-to-heart sailor talk by advising
the steersman in future to “let sleep
ing whales li<‘ ”—San Francisco Call.
Address to Japanese Dead
At a Shinto service recently per- j
formed In honor of the spirits of the j
dead who fell in the siege of Port
Arthur the task of speaking the in
vocation tsaimon) was performed by
Gen. Nogi. He read the following:
"This day, the 14th of the first month
of the thirty-eighth year of Meiji. I.
Nogi Kiten. commander of the third
army, with these my comrades, ob
serving due ceremony, offer reverence
tc you, spirits of officers and soldiers
f of the third army who have died for
i your country. More than 210 days
have passed since the army landed
on the Kwantuug peninsula, and
throughout all that time you bravely
and stoutiy fbueht. You gave your
lives to the points of the enemy's
weapons. Many a one of you per
ished amid raging tfaves and buffet
ing storms. But your valiant deeds
were not in vain.
"If we have seen the enemy’s war
ships completely destroyed in the har
bors of Port Arthur, if we have seen
his fortresses fall, it has been in
truth through the might you left be
hind you. We. your comrades, who
should have shared your fate, are the
recipients of a most gracious mes
sage from his majesty the command
ci-in-chief.
"Here, entering Port Arthur, we
stand on places overlooking the hills,
the rivers, the fortifications that your
loyal blood has dyed. Nobio spirits,
with due rites of purification and of
fering we invoke your presence. Come
among us. we pray you. and receive
our reverence.”
Landing of the Pilgrims
The hrr«kin< *«v« dashed high
On a »trrn and pw-k-bourd eoML
And tlK «oad< against a stormy sky
Their giant branches ««awd
And the heary fci*bt hur.« dark
The Hills and water* o'er.
When a hand of exiles moored their
bark
On tie* wOd New England shore.
Nvr as tbs ^n itier-.r fames
Tk- th* true-hearted .- ;
— S
— \aJ the t-tKTip-f trial sirr^s »i tame; j
tTot as the ttyirr came.
n silence and fas fear
They 3d*o*ik the depths a* the desert
gloom »
Amidst the storm they sang.
And the stars hoard, and the sew;
And the sounding aisles of the dim woods
ran*
To the antlf-m of the free:
The ocean eagle soared
From bis nest by the white wave's
foam.
And the reeking pines of the forest
roared—
This was their welcome home!
What sought they ;hes afar*
Erfebt jewels iif th- mi
■ - mm. =
• ♦***.
Thev soogbt a faith's pure riumt:
Aye. can it holy ground.
The soil where first they trod!
They have left unstained what there they
focad.
Freedom ta worship 5od.
—airs, lleman.
V <u
A Song of Cheer.
Sing me a sens from the noon of the
day,
Wake a refrain from its glory;
Bring me the fiow'rets that bloom on the
way;
Make life a beautiful story;
Swell the sweet anthems that ring with
a hope
Born not on eailh and its sorrow;
Tell me of gates that are waiting to ope
For us on the “perfect to-morrow”!
Sing to me never of night or of gloom—
Life holds enough of such sadness—
Chill and decay let us hide in the tomb;
Death gives no echo of gladness.
Cast not a shadow; encourage no strife;
Time to its close is fast speeding;
Harvest the Joy and the sunshine of iife;
And follow where conscience is leading.
—Amadeus, O. S. F.. in Donahue's.
Returning Battle Flags.
Now that Congress has passed the
joint resolution that authorizes the
Secretary of War to return to the dif
ferent states the bhttle flags that
were captured by the federal troops
during the civil war, it is probable
that the 544 confederate flags that
were taken in battle by the federal
troops and the E3G United States flags
that were recaptured after they had
once been won by the confederates
will soon be transferred from the War
department in Washington to the
state capitols from which they orig
inally went forth into service.
Veterans of the civil war who re
member the devotion generally felt
for the regimental colors will appre
ciate the gratification that will be felt
by the former soldiers on both sides
in that great struggle on receiving
back the flags under which they
fought. There were many instances
in which when surrender or rout
seemed inevitable, owing to the pres
sure of superior forces, officers or
men would try to hide the flag, so that
it should not fall into the hands of the
victorious enemy.
In that war. while nearly all the
northern regiments were supplied
with double sets of standards—the
flag of the state in which they were
recruited and the flag of the United
States—it was the national colors
that held out until the close of the
conflict; and the loyalty of the men
was chiefly manifested in their pride
in and care of the national emblem.
In the South—as was natural, consid
ering the tendency of the seceding
states to maintain state sovereignty—
the state banners held the first place
in the men's affections.
In the closing weeks of the civil
war, when the Union troops were rap
idly advancing through northwestern
Virginia, a number of the men of the
sixth corps made a practice of getting
out a newspaper whenever tney cap
tured a printing office. Of course, the
writing, editing and printing were
done by the high privates; the type,
presses and paper were furnished by
foraging on the enemy. Inasmuch as
the confederacy was in sore straits
for such common necessaries of life
as ink and paper, some of the editions
of the Sixth Corps—the name given
to the migratory journal—were rather
odd-looking specimens of typography.
One of the copies sent me by an offi
cer of the sixth corps was printed on
common yellow wrapping paper, but
I remember that it had a good deal
of clever work in it. Among the con
tributions were some verses dedicat
ed: “To the battle flags, which will
hang suspended in the state capitols
in memory of the nation's glory." Al
though the war was not yet finished,
the writer had evidently taken it for
granted that the result would be fa
vorable to the Union forces, as was
shown by the ideas contained in these
stanzas, which I recall as follows:
OUR BATTUE FLAGS.
Nothin*! but flags, but simple flags.
Tattered and tmn and hanging in rags:
And wo pass beneath them with careless
tread.
\or think of the hosts of the mighty dead
Who have marched beneath them in days
gone by
With a burning cheek and a kindling eve.
And have bathed their folds in their
voung life's tide.
And. dving. blessed them, and. blessing,
died.
Nothing but flags, yet methinks at night
They tell each other their tales of fright;
And dim specters come, and their thin
arms twine
'Round each standard torn, as they stand
in line.
As the word is given, they charge, they
form.
And the dim hall rings with the battle's
storm. , * ,
And. once again, through smoke and
strife.
Those colors lead to a nation s life.
Nothing hut flags, but they're bathed in
tears:
They tell of triumphs, of hopes, of fears;
Of a mother's prayers, of a boy away;
Of a serpent crushed, of the coining day.
Nothing but flags, yet the tears will start
As we stand beneath them with thiebbing
heart
And think <>f those who are ne’er forgot—
Their flags come home, why come they
not?
Nothing but flags, but we ho’d our breath
And gaze with awe at those types of i
death.
Nothing but flags, yet the thought will
come:
••The heart must pray, though the lips
be dumb.”
They are sacred, pure, and we see no
stain
On those dear, loved flags, come home
a gai n:
Baptized in blood, our purest, best.
Tattered ami torn, they're now at rest.
Nowadays the prevailing tendency
of military custom is to dispense al
together with every kind of flag ex
cept such as may be necessary for
signaling purposes. The celebrated
method of signaling invented by Gen.
Albert J. Myer called for the use cf
a small flag which was dipped to the
right to indicate the figure 1 and to
the left for the figure 2; and letters
were formed by the combination of
these two figures, just as dots and
dashes are used in the Morse tele
graph code. The Myer code came In
to general use during the civil war.
and it has since been introduced into
ali armies and navies.
Occasionally a signal officer in a
tight place would find himself sepa
rated from his signal flags, an experi
ence that happened on that hot twen
ty-second day of July. 1864. when Gen.
Hood suddenly attacked Gen. Sher
man's left flank before Atlanta, rolled
up the Fifteenth Corps like tissue pa
per and came up against the Seven
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gin. at the base of a bare topped til.,
around which Logan had changed j
frtnt to the left with marvelous rapid- j
ity. My brother. Lieut. Clifford Stick- .
ney, signal officer of the corps, found
that ammunition was running low at
the point where a Louisiana regiment
was making a terrific attack upon the
Eighth Ohio regiment. Having no sig
nal flag left, he used the regimental
colors with which to signal the re
serve for an additional supply of car
tridges, just fn time to prevent a dis
aster; for the Louisiana “tigers,” dis
covering that the Ohio men were do
ing very little firing, made a rush up
on the rail fence behind which the
Union force was lying and almost car
ried the key of the position in a hand
to-hand fight before the ammunition
could be brought up and distributed.
As rifle balls cut the colors in many
places while the signaling was going
on. that is one set of flags that will
long be cherished in Ohio.
The Spaniards seven years ago
were very greatly addicted to flour
ishing their flags in battle, but United
States regiments were generally con
tented with one United States flag.
In the Boer war the battlefields were
absolutely barren of fighting colors.
Indeed, except tor the brigade stand
ards over the tents of general officers,
not a piece of bunting could be found
flying in the whole British army,
though sometimes the artillery quar
ters were designated by red flags in
camp. It would now be practically im
possible to perform such maneuvers
as the old-time “rally round the col
ors,” because the firing line of regi
ments is so spread out as to place a
considerable part of both flanks whol
ly out of sight of what was formerly
the color position—namely, the left
center company. As it is more and
more probable, therefore, that regi
mental standards will not again ap
pear with our men in the field, the in
terest of the colors that have already
braven the storm of war will be all
the greater. And a patriotic appre
ciation of the great deeds done in the
| shadow of these waving flags will
make them always dear to the Amer
ican heart.—.Joseph L. Stickney in
Chicago Post.
Battle Museum for Maryland.
In 1900 the legislature of Maryland
passed an act authorizing a battle
field commission, which was to create
a museum in the statehouse. wherein
shall be placed all the battle flag?
and other relics of Maryland troops
in the revolutionary, Mexican, civil
and Spanish-American wars. A com
mission has been formed consisting
of Capt. John R. King, Sixth Mary
land, and Capt. George W. Johnson,
representing the union army, and
Spencer C. Jones and James R.
Wheeler, representing the confederate
army. They met recently and organ
ized, with Capt. King as chairman,
Capt. Johnson as secretary and Mr.
Wheeler as treasurer. Adjt. Gen.
John Clinton L. Riggs of Maryland
was present by invitation and will
take an active part in the work. A
number of the union battle flags have
been for years in the custody of Wil
son post. G. A. R.. of Baltimore, while
a number of the confederate flags are
in the Soldiers' home at Pikesville.
The narrow escape of the union flags
in the great fire last February has
aroused a strong desire to have these
precious relics placed in a more se
cure place. It is proposed to invite
relics of all kinds for safe keeping in
the museum.
Relic of the Civil War.
A battle worn and tattered Ameri
can flap that during the civil war
flew from the staff at the headquar
: ters tent of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant,
was recently hung in the senate
chamber at the statehouse. The ban
ner was presented by Gen. Grant tc
Col. Amos Webster of Massachusetts
a member of the famous commander's
staff, who was with the general dur
ing his campaign in the vicinity ol
Richmond, and also when the confed
erate general. Robert E. Lee, surren
dered at Appomattox.
The flag was presented to the com
monwealth of Massachusetts through
Capt. John G. B. Adams, a former ser
geant at arms at the statehouse. It
measures twenty-six by sixteen feet
The relic is placed on the south wall
of the senate chamber, directly oppo
site President Dana's desk, between
two firearms that were in service dur
ing the revolutionary war.—Boston
Transcript.
Battle Monument at West Point.
Tlic inscription on the battle monu j
ment at West Point is as follows:
“In memory of tile officers and men ol
the regnlar army of the United State?
who fell in battle during the war ol
the rebellion, this monument is erect
ed by their surviving comrades.” On
the pedestal of the monument ap
pears the names of all the officers ol
the regular army who were killed in
action in the civil war or who died
as a result of wounds received in j
action. The names of all enlisted men [
who were killed in action or who died
as a result of wounds appear on
bronie girdles surrounding granite
spheres which form a part of the base
of the monument. The shaft is sur
mounted by a figure of victory de
signed by Frederick Macmonnies.
Visits of Commander-in-Chief.
The commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic made the
following official visits during Febru
ary:
Fclvuary 7 and S—Annual Encamp
ment Depart ment of the Potomac,
Washington. D. O.
February 14 and 15—Annual En
campment Department of Massachu
setts. Boston. Mass.
February 16—Annual Encampment
Department of Maine. Lewiston. Me.
February 2b—Annual Encampment
Department of Rtode Island. Provi
dence. R I
Febru a rv -22—annual Encamp
iner t * ;.artme*-.- v. rmont. Brarle>
boro. Vr
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