WOMAN SURVIVOR OF BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG That woman played a prominent part in the greatest battle of the Civil war that was fought just fifty years ago. is apt to be forgotten until a mute reminder such as is seen in the photograph is brought to our at tention. Fifty years back is a long time to remember, yet here one of those who fought under the stars and bars, five decades ago, is greeting one of the women nurses and one of the few remaining ones whose husband was the comrade in arms of the grizzled old veteran. SIDELIGHTS OF GETTYSBURG The great reunion of the blue and the gray on the battlefield of Gettys burg has passed Into history. It was In all respects the most unique gath ering of the soldiers of the 60's ever held. Men who fought each other fifty years ago this year fraternized as long-separated brothers. Naturally such a gathering would be productive of many incidents, both pathetic and humorous. As many stories were floating about as there were veterans at the reunion. The camp is full of unexpected meetings. Every day brings forth nu merous meetings between men who have not seen one another for many years. Many are commonplace, but some are extraordinary. For in stance, here is one: I. D. Munsee of Erie county. Penn sylvania. a soldier in the IX 1th Penn sylvania, was captured by the con federates at Peachtree Creek, Ga.. when he was one of Sherman’s army on the celebrated march to the sea. He was being conveyed to the rear by a confederate soldier when the union batteries opened fire upon the party among whom he was a pris oner. The man who was guarding Munsee was hit and fell, knocking Munsee down and lying on top of him. Seeing Ms chance of escape, Mnn see lay very still under the uncon scious confederate while Xhe battle raged around them. That night he slipped from under the body and es caped to the union lines. ”1 thought that fellow was dead," said Munsee, "but I saw him today. Poor fellow, hts mind’s bad, and he didn’t recognise mo. tut I was sure of him. I couldn’t eren get bis name, but I'm goin over later to the Georgia camp aDd try to find out who he is.” Here ia a story which was told by A. T. Dice, vice-president of the Read ing railway: Once irpon a time there were a vet eran in gray and a veteran 1n blue. They came to Gettysburg and in the course of events and visits to hotels they happened to meet. They looked over the sights of Gettysburg and the monuments of the field. But they found they must part. The one In blue lived in Oregon: the one In gray in New Orleans. They went weeping together to their sta tion and passed by train after train, deferring the parting that must come. Just what they said, just how they reached the final grand idea of the meeting. Mr. Dice did not know. But, however, yesterday they finally decided that the time for parting had come. The one from Oregon could not figure how to reach home via New' Orleans and his gray comrade, while willing to see the west, didn’t have the money for a ticket. They lined upon on the platform as their trains stood waiting and then before the crowd, they slowly stripped ofT their uniforms and exchanged them there while the curious flocked to see them. The Oregonian who came proudly to town with a coat of blue, w^ent as proudly away with one of gray and the veteran from Louisiana who boast ed the gray of the south sat with swelling chest in his new uniform of blue. ' Wearing a tattered uniform of gray, Alexander Hunt of Virginia was the central point of interest on the streets of the town. Mr. Hunter was wearing the Identical suit and hat which he wore at Gettysburg fifty years ago. The suit was in rags and has a bullet hole throiigh one of the sleeves. He carried all his accoutrements used at Gettysburg and wore a union belt taken from a foe here. Mr. Hunter was a member of the Black Horse cav alry. A striking contrast is seen in the j menu provided for the soldiers fifty , years ago and what they enjoyed this year: * • 1863—Breakfast—Hardtack, bacon, beans and coffee. Dinner—Bacon, beans, hardtack and coffee. Supper—Beans, hardtack, bacon , and coffee. 1913—Breakfast—Puffed rice, fried : eggs, fried bacon, cream potatoes. 1 fresh bread, hard bread, butter and coffee. Dinner—Fricassee chicken, peas, corn, ice cream, cake, cigars, fresh I bread, hard bread, butter, coffee, iced tea. 1 ! Supper — Salmon salad, macaroni ; and cheese, fresh bread, butter and coffee. Chief Clerk George G. Thorne of the state department at Harrisburg told of the call made by a Union vet eran early on the morning of the fif tieth anniversary- of the start of the battle, who related that his conscience , troubled him because of the fact that I on that fateful morning many years ago he had succumbed to temptation and stolen a quantity of onions from j the Thorne garden, which was located j near the historic Seminary ridge. He ■ told Thorne that he desired, at this ! late day to pay for the onions and ! thus relieve his conscience. Needless to say, his offer of money was refused, but the Thornes would like to learn the identity of the sol diers who upset eight beehives in the | dead cf night and appropriated all the honey they contained. ’ '' . - I A remarkable coincidence of the camp was the meeting of two men of exactly the same name, coming from towns of tho same name, but in differ ent state*. One fought on the union | side in the battle of Gettysburg, and j the other with the confederates. These two tnen are John Carson of Burlington. N. J., and John Carson of I Burlington, X. C. They met by the merest chance. The Jersey Carson was walking along one of the streets, and saw a man in ; gray. Just to be friendly, the Jersey i man stopped him and gave him a 1 greeting. It was not until they had talked for several minutes that they discovered their names were identical, j as well aa the names of their towns. A grandson of Francis Scott Key. composer1 of "The Star-Spangled Ban ner,” Is here. He is John Francis Key. age* eighty-two, of Pikeville. Md.. and he is a veteran of the Second Mary land infantry of the confederate army. Wearing a suit of gray. Key came j into town, weak and almost dropping. He has been in failing health, but de clared he was “going to see Gettys burg on this occasion or die.” — One of the oldest veterans in the ■ big camp is Captain W. H. Fleig of Houston. Texas, who was ninety years of age on his last birthday, February ' 23. During the war he served with 1 distinction in the marine department ! of the confederate navy. Captain Fleig is one of the best preserved men in camp and is more active than many of the other veterans a score of years less advanced. Gen. "Tom” Stewart of Pennsylva nia is telling an amusing story of a “runaway vet” he came across in the big camp. The veteran is eighty-five years old. and his son at home an nounced that under no circumstances should his aged parent go to Gettys burg. The desire to be here and meet j his termer comrades was so strong in the heart of the old gentleman that he climbed out of a window of his home :-.nd ran away, turning up here In good shape. He is now happy and well cared tor. . ..— ■ - ■ _ Fifty years to the hoar fro» the time when the first shot preceding the battle was fired a reunion meeting of the blue and the gray was held in the big tent- Tbe gray cavalry men who fought the skirmishes that led up to the threa days’ fight pledged them selves in the shadows of the stars and stripes to ' forget" and their brother, in blue swore by the stars and bars that the fight was over for all time. There were several-women from tta^ village in the tent and six one-time schoolgirls, gray-haired and aged now. sang "Rally ’Round the Flag, Boys," w hile the veterans wept like boys, but with pride. The six women who sang the battle song were amoug those who thronged the streets of Gettysburg after the advance guard of the south ern army left it 50 years ago. On the night when Buford’s men came rid ing into the village on the heals of Wheeler's men in gray, maidens strew ed flowers along the streets and bells in the churches pealed out the news of the coming of the blue and the town went wild. Of all the scores of girls who wel comed the vanguard of Meade, only a half dozen could be found, and they stood, white-haired with tears in their eyes on a platform in the big tent and sang to the weeping soldiers in the seats below. "I'm afraid we* can’t sing like we sang 50 years ago." said the ma tronly woman who acted as leader as she led the way up the steps to the platform. "We don't care; just sing again,” shouted the veterans. As the first notes of the war-time melody came from them in quavering tones, the vet erans both of the north and of the ;ou'h sat quiet with eyes fixed upon the singers. The hum of the chorus came from every side, and the old men wt.pl openly. Aside- from the old roldiers them selves, an interesting figure is Mrs. Longstreet, widow of the commander at the from of the Confederate lines in the third day's battle. Mrs. Long street walked a mile through the broiling sun out to the old Rogers house to interview General Sickles. Some time ago Mrs. Longstreet sent a long telegram as representing the southern veterans in protest against the old Union veteran being thrown in jail in New York because of some financial affairs. It was said that Sickles misunderstood the spirit and his pride was so hurt that their meet ing today would not be cordial. • General, I have written an article about yon for publication,” said Mrs. Ixmgstreet at the meeting, and she read several pages of the highest trib ute to the old corps leader, whom she characterized as having come hack and beitag once again in the saddle. Half a hundred old Sickles' men gath ered on the lawn and the reading be came dramatic. General Sickles lean ed back in his big chair, closed his eyes, and looked back to meeting with Longstreet. Here his widow was praising to the world the valor which she claimed had gone unrecognized by the government. Tears flowed down the Sickles cheeks now tanned by his ninety-third sum mer. and his old followers doffed their hats and mingled their tears with those of their old leader, wetting the ground upon which long ago had been soaked by their blood. James H. Lansberry of St. Louis, Mo., who enlisted in the Third Indiana cavalry from Madison, Ind., recited to his comrades the details of his cap ture in the town of Gettysburg by Confederates 50 years ago. Following the skirmish just outside of town which marked the opening of what was to be a world-famed engagement he had been detailed to assist in car rying a wounded officer to the old seminary in Gettysburg. While In town frantic women flocked about him and begged that he tell of the battle. He remained to tell the story, with the result that he had to spend several days In following the Confederate army as a prisoner. After tramping 50 miles over rough country without shoes he succeeded in escaping and finally made his way back to Gettys burg, where he remained till August in assisting in the care of the wound ed. which were housed in the semln nary, churches, barns and public build ings One of the unadvertised reunions of the celebration occured in the con federate section of the camp. A fife and drum corps of men in blue tramp ed up and down the streets of the con federate part of the city of tents. They stopped before the tents, play ed such a fanfare as only drums and fifes can make, summoned forth the occupants and shook hands, threw their aim* about the gray shoulders and in a dozen other ways showed their feelings of friendship. They kept it up for hours and vis ited practically every “reb” tent Their reception was as warm as their greeting. One of the most interesting places in camp was the lost and found bu reau. located under the benches in the big tent. Everything found on the grounds was brought there and thou sands applied every day for missing articles. There were at least 100 crutches piled up in the bureau, dozen or so ap plicants having called for them. Those who come to redeem their lost crutches seldom can recognize them and most of them go away with some body else’s. There was one wooden leg also ly ing unclaimed. It was brought in by. a Boy Scout, who had found it under a tree. Several sets of false teeth were found. I One of the big events was the “charge” of the survivors of Picketts' division on the “bloody angle.” Under the hot sun the men in gray inarched across the fldld that had not seen anything more warlike than a tlacksnake in 50 years, up to the walls that form the angle. The "enemy” in blue was waiting with weapons ready, and when they met across the wail they shook hands. Afterward they looked over the ground for the site of a $250,000 monument they hope to have congress erect there. p More than once I have heard a tired boy exclaim: "Gee whiz! I didn't think that it was that much work to sharpen an ax.”. Few city boys know the names of the common trees at sight, much less are they able to distinguish between pine, spruce and hemlock boards. Un less they see the fruit on the trees ■ HKN a boy has spent a sea son at a good summer camp it leaves an impression on his mind that time will not eradicate. At the close of the season he has had the fun that he wanted to hq,ve. he has taken his part in the games and contests, he has climbed mountains and sailed on lakes and Streams, he has cruised with the fellows and shared their pleasures and hardships, and he has returned home filled with the memories of gorgeous feasts, of midnight pranks, of adven tures on sea and on land, of encoun ters with friend and with foe, and of moments when the success or failure of a battle depended solely on his strength, his skill and his valor. The influence left on a child’s char acter by a summer thus spent cannot but be important. In the first place the child is away from his parents, away from those to whom he is accus tomed to go for sympathy and advice. He is placed on his own resources in a manner quite new and strange. A camp is not at all like a boarding school, where there arc regular duties and a fixed routine for each activity of the day. The summer camp means fun, freedom, frolic and a chance to do nothing if one wishes. The bearding school means order, discipline, re straint and hard work at all times. Therefore, when a boy finds himself at a camp for the first time in his life he is often at a loss to know what to do, because he Is often left to his own choice. lie has many new problems which must be thought out alone. He has come to camp to have a barrel of fun, and he means to have It. His first im pulse is to make friends with every body, atid ^especially with the coun sellors. It is quite right that he should do this. And it is the especial duty of the counsellors to have a watchful eye out for the new boys, to see that they do not get homesick or tire of the camp because of inactivity. Ten weks of camp life cannot but have its effect on the character of lads who arp just beginning to feel the first impulses to do things that they have read about in books. There are no boys so bad that there is not some good in them, and there are no boys in camp so good that there is no bad in them, and some -of it is pretty sure to crop out before summer is over In many boys this ..adness has been lurk ing for years. It lias not shown itself because of lack of opportunity.' The boys’ camp is one of the places where the inherent badness in a lad has an opportunity to unbottle itself without serious injury to the boy. But camp life is of such a nature that these unbottlings are not of fre> quent occurrence. Before a bad habit ha3 been fixed on the boy he is brought to a halt and having been shown that he has been doing wrong he learns a valuable lesson. The average summer camp Is not a Sunday school. It is not intended for such. On the other hand the directors of these camps are for the most part Christian gentlemen, having high ideals. A proper respect for the Sab bath day is required not only for the good of the boys, but also out oj re- j spect for the felings of the people who live in the neighborhood. Where pos sible the children are invited to go to church, after which they take walks, go in bathing, read, tell stories, etc. Usually a song servioe of a more or less religious nature Is held in the evening. Often one of the directors delivers an address in the main hall of the camp. Some of the influences that are brought forcibly to bear upon the youths are those which put a premium on honor, truth, patience, generosity, forgiveness, usefulness, politeness, sturdiness, pluck and the like. A camper who is lacking in any of these qualities is soon made to feel the need of them, greatly to his benefit It does a boy a world of good to mix with a lot oj other boys of his own age, observing, as he usually will, their good traits and bad traits. j ne eaucauonai advantages 01 camp life are only less important than are the moral advantages. For the most part the school books are closed, but nature iB wide open. Book knowledge is of great value, but practical knowl edge is often of more value. In camp boys often get their first practical knowledge of money values. Here first they manage their own al lowances and learn what it is to go broke till the next allowance is dis tributed. They aften compete with the native boys of the village in their efforts to earn small sums of money to tide them over or to enable them to buy coveted treasures. This is a very good experience for any boy. I have noticed, that during the sec ond year at camp a boy takes better care of his things than he does daring the first year. This may be due to the fact that near the end of the first season his clothes; especially his trousers, were in bad condition, due to carelessness, and as no new ones were forthcoming, the lad became more or less self-conscious about his appearance, greatly to the delight of his companions. Sometimes a boy’s shoes go wrong, and the parent, know ing where the fault Is, makes him get on the best he can till he reaches home. At camp children learn from neces sity to mend, sew on buttons, sharpen tools, and best of all they learn how important it is to keep tools sharp by practice in turning the grindstone. ^oxaT Zhr OS4S/P j they do not know the difference be ! | tween a pear and an apple tree. In ; I moat camps boys learn to make these j ! distinctions. In camp boys and girl learn to wash dishes, to be economical with food and to like food that they would not previously eat at home. I have known camp life to change a boy’s appetite completely, so that on going home he was glad to eat such wholesome foods : as boiled rice and Indian meal mush, I which he would not touch before. Camping life will not make a child expert at any particular trade or oc cupation, but it serves to show'him how much skill is required in doing much of the work usually performed by the laboring classes. Whenever a boy tries to perform any manual la bor his respect for It increases. He has a try at rowring, swimming, sail ing, fishing, running an engine, re pairing a boat and sometimes in build ing 6mall boats. He learns the use of tools common to country people, who are more independent of plumbers, carpenters, masons, etc., than city people are. Perhaps one of tne most important lessons for a child to learn is respect for labor. When a boy has hoed a few hills of horn he instinctively re marks that he would hate to keep that up all day. If he follows the hay cart for an hour he realizes that “rak j ing after" is not all sport. When he takes a shovel and attempts to assist 1 in digging a trench or drain he sud denly realizes why those laborers whom he has seen in the city at the same kind of work seemed to take their time about it. After five min utes of that work he learns just where his backbone is located. There are many other educational advantages which are incidental to camp life, such as practice in singing, speech making, editorial work on the camp paper, literary entertainments, etc. The camp paper though, seldom more than a simple manuscript, is often a very ingenious production, in which the editor, together with the ] camp artist, succeeds in bringing home to the lads some wonderful bits of news as well as some healthful truths. , The social advantages of camp life are^many and varied. The close rela tion in which boys live at camp in variably results in the formation of permanent friendships. HAVE NO POWER OF FLIGHT; “Flying Fishes,” So-Called. Said to 3e ! Only Capable of Maintaining Them selves in the Air. This much-debated question ia dis cussed by William Allingham in the English Nautical Magazine. The or thodox scientific opinion is that the “wings'' of the flying fish merely serve as a parachute, to sustain the fish for a brief period in the air, after hd has launched himself out of the water by a powerful /'screw-like movement of his tail. According to this view, the flsh has no power of directing his flight after he has left the water. However, Mr. Allingham, who is a nautical expert attached to the Brit ish meteorological office, and is in con stant intercourse with seamen, reports many observations that tend to con trovert this opinion. Certain observ ers claim that the wing-fins are in con stant rapid vibration, and seem actu ally to serve the purpose of flight. One vessel master watched a flsh that had attained an altitude of 20 feet above, the water and was flying toward the mizzen rigging of hie ship, when, apparently noticing the ob struction, it changed its course about 60 degrees, crossing the vessel’s stern to regain the water. Many other sim ilar observations are mentioned. A series of cinematograph pictures might solve this question once for all. Minnesota’s new prison at Stillwater will cost $2,000,000. It is a "daylight” prison. A Tower of Gold. * According to a law promulgated in Germany in 1871, the $30,000,000 which France paid in indemnity to the Prus sians the previous year was guarded in the ’‘Tower of July” at Spandau, the famous fortress situated eight miles from Berlin. Besides this amount of money, definitely set aside, is a quantity of gold in reserve for commercial panics. In order to safeguard such a massive store great precautions have been taken for the last 42 years. The money Is kept on two floors of the fortress and is packed in 1,200 oaken chests. Each chest contains $25,000 in gold. The inviolability of these chambers , is secured in the following manner: They have triple doors with various locks whose keys are held by certain officials of the ministry or war, and these keys each open only one door, so that no one official is ever able to enter alone. The clamps of the chests are sealed and stamped in such a way that it is not possible for them to be tampered without danger of almost instant discovery. Moreover, the weight of each sack and chest is registered.— Harper's Weekly. Search That Never Ends. Ignorance may find a,truth on its doorstep that erudition vdinly seeks in the stars. Never Even Tepid. “Have you hot water in your house?" “Have I? My dear boy, 1 am never out ot it" CROP CONDITIONS IN WESTERN CANADA ARE THE MOST PROMISING FOR MANY YEARS. The deepest interest is attached to the conditiou of the grain crops in Western Canada, especially among the thousands in the United States who are financially interested in lands in that country. This interest is fully as great among those who have friends there following farming and the growing of grain. The reports from Canadian govern ment officials convey the Information that the area under crop this year in the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatche wan and Alberta will probably be no greater than that of last year. Last fall the weather was such that there was not as much fall plowing as had been hoped for. The getting ready of land this spring made a considerable portion of the grain late in seeding. Notwithstanding this, wheat, oats, barley and flax were got in in good shape, although from a week to ten days later than last year. On the 27th of June the reports regarding crop conditions generally in Western Canada were: “Abundant sunshine with timely and copious rain through out Western Canada gives every as surance of generous harvest. Climatic conditions in recent weeks have been absolutely ideal. Western correspon dents agree in predicting every indi cation of a bumper crop under favor able' conditions. Wheat should be headed out in Manitoba between July 10th and 12th, and in Saskatchewan and Alberta from loth to 17th. The oat crop is looking well, although late and rather short in straw.” This is followed by a report July 5th: “Crop conditions continue in same satisfactory condition as last week. Plenteous rains have fallen all over prairie provinces, followed by general warm and splendid growing weather. Experts agree sufficient moisture for many weeks, while crop is ten to fifteen days late, prospects are extremely favorable and condi tional upon reasonable weather for next four weeks. Splendid western crop is assured." There is, therefore, the best reason to anticipate most magnificent crops throughout Western Canada in 1913.— Advertisemert. Where the Calculator Scores. The best tradition requires that whenever a lightning calculator tells how many seconds there were in the life of Methuselah some one - must shout: “Wrong! You've muffed it this time. I’ve figured the whole thing out, and here are the figures.” Whereupon the lightning calculator re ceives an armful of papers, glances at the first few sheets, looks up, grin ning and chuckles: “Just as I thought. You've forgotten the leap years.” Not Always. “There's always room at the top," said the Sphinx. “Take a look at us and guesa again.” repHed the Pyramids. Red Cross Rail Blue gives double value for vour money, goes twice as far as any other. Ask your grocer. Adv. /There are only two kinds of women I am afraid of—the married one and the single ones. 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