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I'MO'tlAL DAY UiIb year will wit
ncss tho perfecting of tho nation's
plans for. honoring nor military
dead. It will sou tho final fruiting
of a national, official sympathy with
tho boroavod who havo lout boiih,
brothers and BweetheartB In their
country's norvlco. It will witness tho final results
of-tho nation's attempts to do all things possible
for thoso boreaved and, for tho memory of tho
dead. It Is a big task, and tho manner of Its
accomplishment 1b tho story of a trlbuto paid to
ono of tho nobleot sentiments that hns over boon
lodged In tho breasts of a peoplo.
In that attempt, slnco 1900, for itiBtanco, the
United States government has Hupplled freo of
chargo IGO.OOO headstones to mark tho graves of
soldiers and sailors who havo done her service
To tho cemeteries of tho great cities, to thoso
of tho quiet hnmlot, to thoso on tho borderlands
of civilization, thoso headstones havo gone.
This Memorial day they offer themselves to a
scattered multitude as fitting places for tho be
stowal of floral wreaths. Tho unmarked graves,
through tho offortB of tho govornment, are grow
ing fowcr.
In tho national cemeteries nlono thcro are the
remains of 1GI.000 unknown heroes who have mot
death In tho dofenno of their country, and who
must, because or tho loss of their Identity, be
denied Individual recognition. Yet the nation has
exhausted ovory resource In attempting to find
the names of these heroic dead. The very futil
ity of these deaths, from tho standpoint of the
crodlt received by tho men as Individuals, calls
forth a sentimental appreciation of their service
that overshadows that accorded tho men with the
handsomest monuments.' The unknown aro being
relntorred In sacred ground, their graves are
being kopt green and great monuments are bolng
erected to them, collectively.
Every effort Is being mado to prevent tho re
currence In tho future of tho tragedy of tho "un
known" grave. At tho war department army
regulations havo been drafted and put Into execu
tion that are so rigid that In tho futuro It will bo
Imposslblo for tho Boldter who fights for his coun
try to fall of Identification wherever ho may fall.
Abovo all this, tho government has developed
a system of careful and genorous disposition of
tho remains of tho dead soldier or sailor that
offers tho greatest possible recompense to tho
aggrieved and the best posslblo chanco for the
perpetuation c-f tho memory or tho gloriously
dead, for tho remains of any man who dies In
tho service, wherever his end may come, aro
transported to any other spot on tho globo that
bo designated by his family and thoro given bur
ial with military honors. All this Is at tho ox
penao of tho govornment, for tho glory of tho
dead and tho consolation of his family.
Finally, tho govornment la mnrklng tho graves
and placing monumonts over tho remains of tho
Confederate soldiers who died In tho northern
prisons and hospitals during tho Civil war.
Whorever any man dies for whom It can be
shown that ho evor served In tho United States
army or navy, the Federal government stands
ready to furnish for his grave a headstone of
marblo nently Inscribed with his narao and Indi
cating his military Borvlco. Tho government has
a large contract with a firm In Massachusetts to
furnish these headstones. Under the contract
20,000 such headRtones wore delivered last year.
An averago of 15,000 a year havo been so deliv
ered for the last score of years. Slnco this pol
Icy of marking tho graveH of tho military dead
was Inaugurated In 1873 thoro havo probably
been 500,000 stones that havo gono forth and
which are today standing over tho graves of
men who onco fought for their country. The na
tion Is willing and anxious to continue, tholr dis
tribution of monuments free of chargo, with
freight paid to any point. It Is hopod that event
unlly every grave of every soldier will bo marked
with a Btono that will survlvo forovor.
Tho graves of all Boldlors nud Bailors who are
burled In national cemeteries aro bo marked
when tho Identity of tho Individual Is known.
There are some 80 such cemotorlcB with a total
of 300,000 mon burled In them. Hut of this great
aggregate of assembled dead of the military there
aro 154,000 burled beneath tho slab, of tho "un
known." There aro acres and acres of these
white headstones that mark tho graves of soldiers
whoso Identity was never established. At Fred
ericksburg. Va., thero Is another 12,000 graves of
men whose mothers nover knew whoro they rest
ed. Thoro are 0,000 of thorn at Memphis; 12,000
at Salisbury, N. C; 5,000 at Richmond; 4,000 at
Nashville, and similar and smaller numbors scat
tered over tho country as a whole. At tho great
eat of tho national cemeteries, that at Arlington,
j opposite Washington. D. C thero Is a Blnglo great
monument that marks the burying placo of 3,111
unknown soldiers whoso remains were gathered
from the battlefields of Virginia.
Hut the unknown population or the national
cemeteries Is to be prevented from largely In
creasing. Today when a man Is Inspected for active duty
a metal tag of identification is a part of his
Gxmzf of Ggn. piw, timbuDjur
equipment. When men go into the field of active
servlco each wears about his nock a piece of
tape, and hung upon that tape there is a metal
tag which contains his name, tho branch of the
service to which ho belongs and his particular
regiment and company. This tag is mado of
aluminum and the lettering Is Btamped into it.
It Is practically Indestructible If a man is killed
In battlo ho may always be Identified.
When tho ldontlty of tho individual has been
established the department will communicate
with his relatives. If they desire his remains,
theso will be prepared for transportation to the
old homo. They will bo brought back to his own
peoplo to bo burled as they wish. All expenses
will bo borno by the federal government. If the
relatives or the dead soldier or sailor prefer
that ho bo burled In a national cemetery they
may so order, and tho orders will be carried out
to tho letter.
There are the men who havo died In the Phlllp
pines, for Instance. None of theso are left to rest
In this foreign, tropic land. All are eventually
Bent back to the states. Relatives are Informed
of their coming. Th.oy may order the disposition
of the remnlns as they see fit. In case there is
no call for tho remains of the Philippine vet-'
eran, his body Is Interred in the national ceme-
But everywhere under the Stars and Stripes on
Memorial day thero is an outpouring of those
who pay homage to the soldier dead. Every
where Is evidenced the thoroughness and effi
ciency of tho nation's attempt to tako care of Its
dead and assuro tho perpetuation of the name
and the credit of the martial hero.
Twelve freight trains of 25 cars each would
be required to haul the money In 20-dollar gold
pieces that this nation has paid out In pensions
to the veterans of the Civil war. Ten freight
cars would be required to haul the money in gold
that the nation pays to its veterans in a single
year. These amounts promise to be greatly aug
mented by legislation now pending before con
gress. The pension office in Washington Is tho pri
mary monument fn honor of the old soldier. 'It
was built with the particular Idea In mind of
furnishing a clearing house for the gratuities
which the government extends to him. It is the
largest building ever erected by the federal gov
ernment. The maintenance of the pension service
alone In Its handling of the sums that go to tho
pensioners cost the government $2,050,000 last
year. The net sums paid out In pensions has
during the last few years amounted around
$160,000,000 annually.
This appropriation would mean a couple of
dollars to every man, woman and child in the
nation. Indirectly every man, woman and child
contributes a' couple of dollars to It
The government has expended in pensions to
date for all tho wars of the past a little over
$4,000,000,000. Of this $3,000,000,000 was received
by Civil war veterans. Four billion dollars is an
enormous amount of money. There is at present
in the United States, including all the gold, silver
and paper money In all the treasuries, banks,
wallets and old socks, but $3,556,000,000. This
is to say, there is not enough money in the
United States today to pay, at a single time, the
pensions that the Civil war veterans have re
ceived. So, in tho course of drawing their
stipends It Is evident that the pensions have at
one time or another had all tho money there is.
There is but $1,750,000,000 In gold coin In the
united States. Thero Is not half enough gold coin
GOOD TIMES AWAIT EDITORS.
Omaha, Neb. Luncheons, a banquet
and dance following, an automobile
ride, and a special Initiation at Ak Sar
Ben, are some of the entertainment
features which are being arranged
for the mombcrs of tho Nebraska
Press Association on June 1 to 4,
Committees havo been appointed 1)y
tho Bureau of Publicity, which will
havo chargo of tho details of the en
tertainment. Ono notablo feature of this meeting
will occur on Sunday, tho day before
its official convening, when about
forty of tho visiting odltorB will oc
cupy tho puplts of the various
churches of the city and will talk up
on tho subject of what the preHs Is
doing to ralso tho standard of morali
ty of Nobraska, and will give the
church-going folks of Omaha an idea
of what tho country newspapor stands
for and how tho country press Is
dally and weekly influencing for the
better.
On Tuesday of convention week,
tho members of tho Association and
their wives will bo tho gueBts or the
Union Stock Yards company and the
business men of South Omaha at at
luncheon, which, will precede the
aftornoon meeting, which will bo held
In tho South Omaha metropolis. An
auto ride through South Omaha and
Omaha, tho latter Including a trip
through tho tornado district will fol
low, after which the visitors will be
the guests of the dally newspapers at
a banquet and dance at ono of the
country clubs.
If the members of the association
do not have an enjoyable time It will
bo because Omaha and her citizens
Will bo unable to provide it Judge
ment will be left to tho distinguished
visitors.
While the above arrangements have
been mode to cover tho social enter
tainment of tho visiting editors, the
program for the business sessions has
not been by any means neglected.
Only a tentative program has beenr
given out'us yet, but as now outlined
It gives promise or being one of the
best evor arranged. Pertinent topics,
covering every phase of newspaper
work havo been placod In competent
hands, and will no doubt provo to be
entertaining and instructive to all who
hear them.
tery at San Francisco and duly marked
During the Civil war there wero great numbers ln exI.tence to have paid these pensions had the
call come all at once. The government has paid
out altogether 250 carloads of gold coin in pen
sions. All its gold might havo been used two
and one-half times over in the process. If this
of Confederate soldiers take" prisoners and held
in northern prison. Many of theso died in these
prisons, and many others, suffering from wounds
and dlscaso, dtcd In tho hospitals of-tho Union
forces. Two years ago the federal government
appropriated $200,000 to mark the graves of
these Confederate soldiers. That money Is now
being expended. The task Is practically com
pleted. The Confederate dead are thus being
honored ln tho land from which camo their one
mlcH in tho monster conflict.
At many of tho prisons tho dend Confederates
wero burled joparately, and tholr graves were
marked with their names. Tn these cases the
graves nro being permanently .marked with head
stones of a design different from thoso used for
the Union troops, but in no way ldss Imposing.
Thero ts tho cometvy at Elmlra, N. Y., for
Instance. Tho rostlng placo of the Confederate
dead at that point Is no less beautiful nor well
cared for than are any of the national ceme
teries, nut tn most instances it was found that the
dead had been burled In trenches, as were most
of the dead on both sides in that war. Here it
Is Imposslblo to Identify the individual remains,
but the names of all tho men buried ln given
trenches arc to be found In the n.cords of tho
prison. In Buch cases ono Imposing monument
Ih erected over tho spot and the names of all the
dead resting thero nro Inscribed upon It. Such
n monument has been erected at Camp Douglas,
Chicago, nnd upon It nro names of 4,275 Confed
erates. At Point Lookout aro tho remains ot
3,300 prisoners who died, and their rostlng place
. has beon marked by a similar monumont. The
Bamo course Is being followed at Finns Point,
N. J.; at Alton, HI.; at Camp Morton, Ind., and at
Camp Chase, Columbus, O. All Buch burying
grounds wero marked by Jan. 1, 1012, and tho
commission appointed for that purpose disbanded.
Tho federal government has taken no action
toward marking the graves of Conrodorate sol
diers othor than thoso who died In northern pris
ons and hospitals, nut throughout the south the
various organization, Buch a the United Con
federate Veterans and the Daughters of the Con
federacy, have given ample recognition to tho
mon who died for the southern cause. Their
bodies havo boon gathered In special cemeteries,
monuments have been built In their honor and
their graves havo beon appropriately marked.
In the Bouth on Memorial day there are often
enacted scenes that aro oven moro touching than
thoso In other sections, for thero the veterans or
both causes, those who wore tho blue and those
who wore tho gray, join hands In honoring the
military dead. Oftentimes the uniforms of the
two causes, worn by mon In tho vory eventide
or lire, are In evidence and old animosities are
burled In a realization of tho valor of beth com
batants and the fact that each fought for a cause
he deemed the right.
twelve tralnloads of gold wore loaded at once It
would require but nine additional tralnloads to
haul the balance of the gold coin of the world.
Theso pensions are paid quite cheerfully. Thero
is hardly a dissenting volco In congress when a
proposal to Increase pensions is introduced. The
people approve of the action. They worship at
tho shrine or tho martial hero and nro willing at
all times to be taxed that he may be glvon
further pittances.
Tho pension appropriation Is tho largest indl
vidua! item when, each year, congress makes up
tho list of governmental expenditures. Yet
scarcely a volco 'is raised in disclaimer. Admin
istrations may lay heavy stress upon the pre
gram or economy, but no suggestion is over made
that the pension roll be cut When measures
of pension increases are brought before congress
not even the Democrats vote against them. When
Investigating committees go roaming through
government departments In search of flnanclnl
leaks the pension office Is clear-listed and no
questions are asked. The veteran and his pen
sion are held sacred.
When tho question Is raised as to who shall
secure position under Uncle Sam, the veteran Is
again given tho advantage, In the civil service,
in the first placo, the age limit Ih removed from
tho old soldtor. Do his ago what It may, tho
positions are all open to htm, Tn tho examina
tions that must bo taken under civil service rules
tho veteran need secure an average ot but 65,
while the civilian must rato at least 70.
Job Printing and Ad-Settlng Contests
Feature of Meeting.
Last week there arrived ln Omaha
at tho store ot Fred Brodagoard, the
well known jeweler or that city,
the most expensive and handsomost
trophy cup ever brought west or the
Mississippi. This cup will bo given
to some Nebraska printer at the Oma
ha meeting or the Nebraska Press
Association and will be worth its
weight in gold to him, from an ad
vertising standpoint alone. Just think.
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No Escape.
"I got arrested again on account of that auto
mobile of mine," remarked Mr. Chugglns.
"Exceeding the speed limit?"
"No. On the contrary, It wouldn't move, and
a policeman overheard what I said about it"
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Gnarauteed by Fred Urodeeaard, of Omaha.
Trophy Cup
Answer te Query,
The act of uplifting tho hand during
the taking of an oath Is so ancient
that it would bo futllo to even attempt
to say when It started. Homer at
tempts to Bay when it started. Homer
mentions it as common among the
Greeks of his tlmo, and It Is also found
In tho earliest biblical timo. For In
stance, Abraham, the father of tho
Jewish peoplo, Bays: "I havo lifted
up my hand to Jehovah," showing that
even at that remote period tho prac
tlco was existent. It was from the
Jews, of course, that th'o practice
round its way Into Christendom, where
It has ever since held its placo In ju
dicial trials.
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Adv.
Uphill Road.
, At a poet's luncheon in Philadelphia
Alfred Noyes, the English writer, said:
"My success, such as It is, has been
due to perseverance and modesty. In
fact, in the beginning of my career,"
he said, "I used to tear up a poem ten
times before I felt satisfied to submit
it, and I used to submit it ten times
and then feel satisfied to tear it up."
Anyway, tho rolling stone never
was Interested in the moss trust.
Indefinitely Postponed.
"Pop, what's the millennium?"
"It's a tlmo coming, my son, when there will
be jobs enough In every administration to go
around among those who want 'em."
The Trouble.
"What was the matter with the old fellow who
was always arguing with everybody?"
"The doctors seemed to think It was discussion
on the brain."
Likes to Dine.
"Who is Gorgtt's favorite author?"
"I don't know what his narao Is, but he's the
man who makes out the carte de jour at Gorgtt's
favorite restaurant."
printers, what It would moan to come
homo from Omaha and exhibit that
cup to the business men of your city,
you the best prlntor in Nebraska.
It's Bomo honor. The cup is solid sil
ver, beautiful in design, fully guaran
teed by Mr. Brodegaard and cost the
donors the Bureau 'of Publicity ot
Omaha, over $150, It Is handsomely
engraved and ln ndditlon to the pres
ent engraving-will carry the name ot
the wlnuer and will bo his exclusive
property.
There will also be given $200 in
cash prizes to winners or the Ad-Set-tlug
contest Theso prizes are for
tlio neatest and most attractive ads
sot from copy furnished by the South
Omaha stock yardB company. The
donors or the prizes. Tho ad must
bo throe columns wide and ten Inchos
doop, and may not contain any special
cuts or ornaments.. Only such typo,
rules, borders, and ornamonts as ars
usually found ln type specimen books
may be used.
Newspaper Exhibition.
H. B. Allen, editor of the Crelghton
Liberal made a good suggestion to
the sectretary, recently when h
proposed that wo have a "newspa
per exhibition," at the coming Ne
braska FresB Association meeting,
and display tho country newspapers
ot Nebraska, at a prominent place
In the convention rom, whore com
parisons could be made and sugges
tions and new ideas gained. Thli
will be done, and the secretary will
see to it that every newspaper that
U brought or sent will be displayed.
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