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JUNE 8,. If 10
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1 . At Eventide
"J Two little shoes, run-down and worn,
;'.. Tossed in the corner over there;
Two little stockings, soiled and torn,
Lying beneath the rocking chair.
' ...One little sweater, one little can, .
' ': Little- kfnee pants, a shirt once
' white f
1,A11 in a heap, and in my lap...
One little lad, hfs eyes shut tights
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K': Two little arms that' 'round me
k- ,,v twine;
. .' Two sturdy legs "worn out with
" - ' play; '
One little heart that beats 'gainst
- k( mine, ,
Full of joy at the close of day.
.One little nightie donned at last,
;' ReadV the lad for slumber dedp;
One more day with its joytimepast
. -One little moment then asleep.
: ;Sleep, little boy, till the morning
''- breaks;
"' Dreamless sleep till the stars shall
fade,
, And the rising sun ev'ry songbird
' wakes
-.'V ' And music rings in the leafy glade.
. -Sleep, little boy, and watch and
.ward
- 0er thy cot may thG ailsels keep.
'vfSafein .the arms of -the children's
dent Lincoln called. General Scott to
the White House and asked:
"General Scott, why is it that you
can not march into Richmond, a dis
tance of a very few miles, with a
hundred thousand men at your back,
when you were able to march thou
sands of miles with a few thousand
men &t your back and right into the
city:, of Mexico?'.'
''Mr. President' replied General
Scott, "the men who carried me into
the City of Mexico are the men who
are keeping me out of Richmond."
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$ Sleep, little laddie sleep, sleep,
- sleep!
'jL Recalled by Memorial Bay
.,M' Last Monday was Memorial Day
I'fi M jthe day Bet apart for paying renewed
tribute to the soldiers of the Repub
lic And from the Atlantic to the
'Pacific, from the lakes to the gulf,
in the islands of the sea and under
foreign skies, Americans gathered to
place above the graves of the soldier
.J. dead the sweetest blossoms of
spring. Time was when Memorial
'-Day was a sectional holiday, but that
" .time is happily past. Blue clad
soldiers sleeping in southern graves
, were paid the tribute of flowers
V '. "' scattered by the hands of men who
,'. . ' wore the gray, and gray clad soldiers
sleeping in southern graves received
" , -the same flowery tributes from the
hands of men who wore the blue.
r Brave men are always ready to
t pay a tribute of respect to brave
- -. -foes, and men who have -fought face
. v to face and up-standing are pretty
"apt to bo good friends after the
trouble, is settled. If you don't be-
lieve it just watch- what a good time
-the man with a G. A. R. button has
"' when he drops in on a rjeunfon of
r - Confederate Veterans, or the man
with the C. V. badge has when he
happens, to drop in on a Grand Army
of the Republic reunion. Perhaps
.V'a little story told of General Scott
" -will illustrate the point. It has been
told before in this department, but
T-will bear" repeating.
Curing the first months, of the
" civil war "On to Richmond" was
v the cry of the north. One day Presi-
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For yeaTs Captain Crouch was a
well-known citizen of Omaha. He
was-a captain In the Confederate ser
vice, serving in an Arkansas regi
ment. Shortly after the war he came
to Nebraska and took an active paTt
in the development of the young
state. He was never really "recon
structed" until the breaking out of
the Spanish-American war. The day
tho Omaha Guards and Thurston
Rifles started for camp to begin ac
tive service Captain Crouch was on
hand. The G. A. R. post of O'maha
was given the position of honor in
the big parade, and Oaptain Crouch
marched proudly by the side of the
men he had fought thirty-five years
before. After the soldiers had
boarded the train Captain Crouch
stood on the viaduct overlooking the
train sheds and remarked to the re
porter who stood by his side:
"If those young gentlemen put up
the -ame kind of a fight their fath
ers did, all I have to say, sir, is that
the Spaniards have got something
coming that they'll - get mighty
quick."
Then Captain Crouch stepped back
into the ranks of his former fdes and
marched back up town.
ao quick as you can, and don't, you
play 'Marching Through Georgia'
again until wo get back to Ne
braska!" Tho Nebraska band leader gavo
tho signal, and before tho first bar
had been played tho Georgia band
had joined in. Tho two band lead
ers met later in tho evening and
there is a faint suspicion in tho
minds of somo of tho boys that what
the governor -of North Carqlina said
to tho governor of South Carolina
played a part in tho conversation of
the two musicians. But "Marching
Through Georgia" was tabopOjbm
Camp Chlckamagua after thai day, Z.
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Where Shall I Spend the Summer?
During that little Yanko-Spanko
fracas the Second Nebraska and a
Georgia regiment were in the same
brigade at Chlckamagua. In the
Second Nebraska, a member of the
Falrbury "company, was a young fel
low who was Georgia born and the
son of a Georgian who was captain
in a Georgia company during the
civil war. One day the father visited
camp, only to find his son absent
on leave for the 'day. Major Harti
gan took the Georgian in tow and
entertained him until the son re
turned. "How do you think' it will strike
you to see your son in a blue uni
form?" asked Major Hartigan.
"How my boy will look in blue,
sah, is a mattah that does not worry
jne, sah," replied the Georgian. If
as a 'blue-coat ho acts his part as
well as my gray-clad comrades acted'
theirs, sah, I shall' be puffee'ly sat
isfied, sah."
And Major Hartigan says the
young Georgian reflected great credit
upon his soldier father;
Early in Chlckamagua camp life a
"little incident occurred that made an
impression. The Second Nebraska
band and the Georgia regimental
band gave concerts on . Ihe same
evening, alternating in playing?. The
regiments were camped side by side.
First ihe Nebra.skans would play and
the Georgia regiment would cheer
liko mad. Then the Georgia band
would play and the Nebraskans
would cheer likewise. Presently the
Nebraska "band played a tune, .that
brought no cheers, and. the band'
leader was nonplussed. But Major
Hartigan understood. He rushed
over to the. leader and exclaimed:
"Strike up 'Star Spangled Banner'
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