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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 38.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 23, 189
WHOLE NUMBER 1,412.
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HY FA.NNV CROSBY.
The grand Old Year i dying.
His hour ha- .m? at !a-t;
His briHiam rHcn is ended.
Its golden da? are past.
He shakes the wreath that, v.iihered,
Lies rohi upon his brow;
His breath is quick and labored,
His eyes are closing no.v.
The grand old year is dying.
He bids the v.orld good night;
A starry veil is lifted
That parts him from our sight.
A sigh of deepest feeling.
A tear, and then a smile.
For scenes of rarest pleasure
Our lonely hearts beguile.
Behold, the New Year cometh!
His face is youns? and fair;
The merry bells a.e nnzing.
There's miisu eeryxvhere.
Oh. happy, happy greeting!
Oh. happy, happy day
That lights our t.ath before us
And laughs our cares away.
MR. BENJAMIN DOTTEN
1TTLE POLLY
itnt over to her
piandmother's
to
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-c-e Aunt mv.v.r.c
..nl j.ist come Horn
Wis ons;n.
"Your Aunt Vi
ne's tip-stairs un
p a c kin 5." said
grandma, "and it's
cold there. Stay
here till she comes
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down, lit-re are some peppermints for
you."
Grandma handed Polly a little paper
bag of peppermints. Thy were good
and strong. Polly liked them.
Ten minutes later in came Polly's
mother.
"Where's Yiny?" she asked, and
then she smelt peppermint. "Polly,
Polly!" she said, "come right here.
Was that bag full? You'll be sick :f
you ea: another one. Give them to
me:"
"Put them here." said crandma. 1
pointing to an old china tea-caddy on
the closet shelf. "That's where I drop
notions."
Polly did as grandma said, for some
how she trusted the caddy more than
her mother's pocket. Then her moth
er carried her off to find Aunt Yiny,
and after that they went home.
The caddy was a good place for no
tions. It already held some shoe but
tons. i bad quarter and a recipe for
mangoes; also a little pocketbook con
taining ten cents. That was Ben's. He
hid it there when he was going chest
nutting, because the clasp was broken.
Xow Polly's peppermints went in. and
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ing nutmegs, put them all into the i
caddy because Yiny was talking, an!
it confused her. j
'Xow, mother." said Yiny. "I've .
come home this winter to help you.
I'm going to regulate the closet so we !
shall kaow where everything is." '
"I know where everything is now,"
said the old lady.
But Yiny was already clearing the
shelves and putting on fresh papers.
Then she set things back methodical
ly. "This old caddy of nutmegs." she
said. "I'll put in the other closet where
the eggs are."
"It's handy for notions," said grand
ma. "Oh. well, this cracked sugar bowl
will answer for notions. I'll set it
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where the caddy was, and drop this
lump of alum in it."
So the sugar bowl took the place cf
the caddy, and when Ben looked for
his pocketbook it was net there, so be
thought he did not remember right. It
was disappointing, 10.- he wanted ten
cents to buy a ball. Still, that did not
matter, for aet, day j; waa kat.fc.1
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straps he wanted, and the next he had
a chance to buy another boy's knife
But he couldn't find the pocketbook.
Perhaps Polly took ccld the day she
I wcr.t where Aunt Yiny was unpacking.
I She hr.d a serf throat, and wore ilan
! u-i pro'ird hc-r nek lor two weeks,
j Th r".t time she went to her grand
ruthcrs it was Christum. There was
. reus; goose fcr dinner and all kinds
I cf pie. Den was there, lie had ntcr
; found his .en cents. If he had, he
would pernios have bought a sugar
, dove for Polly.
j While the folks sat around the fire
talking. Polly, perched in a tall chair
w uh nothing to do, had a sudden mem
ory. She got down, ran to the kitchen
closet, and saw the sugar bowl, it htJ
buttons and alum and a broken spcii
in it. but Poll;. v.a not to be imposed
u;ion.
"Caddy! caddy! caddy!" she crl" I,
running up and down.
"It's the old tea-eaddy that she
wants." said irrandma.
"That's in the other closet. We keep
nutmegs in it," said Aunt Yiny.
"Pep'mints! mine pep'mints!" clam
ored Polly.
The caddy was brought, and sure
enough when she thrust her little hand
under the nutmegs she found her pep
permints and pulled out the recipe for
mangoes.
"There Mrs. Gray wanted that!" ex
claimed grandma.
And now bin was putting his own
h?ud in. Yt-s. there i: was! hi- pock
et book and his ten cents!
"Well. I declare!" said Aunt Yiny.
Hen sat down to consider. It wa
now too late fcr Christmas, but h
might do something for New Year's.
He had heard Aunt Yiny talk about
calls and cards.
Only the day before a boy who had a
printing press had offered to print
'crds. twenty-five for ten cents, and
"trv rar.'l is tn Vim-a a niAtiin f -1
lion or or a bird upon it.
, 'ill buy cards." thought Ben, and he
went a 1 once to find the boy.
On New Year's Day Ben, clean and
shining, called Polly into the par-
lor.
j "I'm making calls." he said. "This
Is your call. Choose the card you like
best." 1 Polly was delighted. She picked out
the prettiest card, with ".Mr. Benja-
' min Dotten" and a pair of doves unon
'it.
, Then Pen went forth from neighbor
to neighbor impartially. He was very
sucecssiu!. He met with smik every
where, and in some places hr met with
apples and .sew Year's cakes,
body seemed glad to receive
Every
a caid
with "Mr. Benjamin Dotten" upon it,
, together with a picture.
When it came to the last he hesi
tated. He was tired and wanted to go
home. It seemed to him he would
rather see his gcod kind grandmamma
than anybody else in the world. The
last card had roses upon it.
"I'li call en grandma." he said, and
running home he made his best bow tr
the dear old lady, and handed her his
I card.
You never saw any one so pleased.
! Tor more than a wc-k she showed the
j card of "Mr. Benjamin Dotten' to
every neighbor that came in. and whn
j the excitement was entirely over, she
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MARY L. B. BRANCH.
New Year onr.
HEN the year is
nc-w. my dear.
Y.'hen the year Is
new.
Let us make a
promise here.
-isAJA'. Little I and you
iS-sVr Over every tiny
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Sn But sing and smile,
iT.:le and sing..
.'11 the giad year through.
As the : ear goes by. ray dear,
As the year goes by.
Let us keep our sky swept clear,
Little you and I.
Sweep up every cloudy scowl,
Every little thunder growl,
And live and laugh.
Laugh and live. .- .
"Xeath a cloudless sky.
When the year is old. my dear,
When the year is old.
Let us neer doubt or fear
Though the days grow cold.
Loving thoughts are always warm;
Merry hearts know ne'er a storm.
Come ice and snow, so love's dear glow
Turn all cur gray to gold!
Laura E. Richards.
Too Many People Wear-las: Ucccrjtlon.
There has been a growing complaint
m Paris that toreign decorations are
worn by many persons who are not en
titled to wear mem, anu tne irrenca
minister of justice has taken steps to '
stop the practice. He has issued a
strong edict against the illicit wear
ing of foreitra orders and decorations.
The chancellor of the Legion of Honor
recently discovered that the number
of persons exhibiting such insignia was
'n excess cf the r.s-ja! number of au
thorizations grant-cd from his depart-
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BY LOUEY JACKSON.
A pause in the dance what is it they
say,
Yv'ith a careless laugh as they glide
away
Without a regret or a passing sigh?
"Gocd-by, Old Year good-by, good-
by!"
But mine eyes are wet with a teardrop
bright;
The music grows faint I am tired to
night. And sad is my heart as I softly cry.
"Alas! Old Year, good-by good-by!
"You have brought me smiles, you
have brought me tears.
And a burden of joyous hopes and
fears;
So sweet you have been and so swift
to die
Happy Old Year, gcod-by good-by!
"Thcueh merry and blithe may the
New Year be.
It ne'er can bring back, save in mem
ory. The love that you gave ere your death
drew nigh,
Happy Old Year, good-by good-by!"
NEW YEARS EVE LOVE CHARM.
Love charms are among the most j
interesting and ancient New Years eve
customs. Two beans are "named" for !
a couple who are supposed to bp court
ing and laid side by side on a flat place '
in the hot ashes. As the beans swell
with the heat they roll and bound in
the ashes, and if one springs from the
other it argurs ill for the couple. If
by chance they are consumed while ly- '
ing side by side th speedy marriage 1
of the couple is foretold. In cities
where fireplaces and ashes are not at
hand apple seeds are used in this
charm and they are laid side by side
en the lid of a stove.
The girls use apple seeds for another
charm, to discover which of two young
courtiers should be chosen. An apple
seed named for each is placed on the
cxIids and the girl closes her eyes
with a snap. If one seed remains thit
joung man is the favorite. Tradition
supplies no remedy when both fall !
down.
Another charm, which is religiously
followed by many young people, is
worked with three glasses. One is fill
ed with pure water, another with
clouded water, and the third is left
c-mptj. The youth who wants to know
hr.: fortune Las in store is b'inifo d
td and let into the room, where the
slasses are ranged upon the table. He
is led up and told to touch one. If
the clear water is touched, his bride
will be a maiden; if the clouded water,
a widow, and if he is lucky enough to
touch the empty glass he will escape
without marriage.
Midnight of New Years eve is, of
course, the time when the charms and
tokens are particularly efficacious, and
it is then that the girls get a tip on
whom they are to marry. Just at
midnight the girl who wants to know
goes down the cellar stairs backward,
carrying a lighted candle in one hand
and a mirror in the other. In the
farthest, darkest corner she looks in
the mirror and sees the face beside
her own of her future husband per
haps. Again at midnight she slowly
and carefully peels an apple so that
the paring does not break until she
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has finished, and then she tosses the
peeling over her left shoulder. If the
fates are kind it will fall on the floor
in the shape of the initials of the name
of her lover.
THE VESTAL AT THE GATE.
When today with vestal grace
She stood before your dwelling place,
Did you take her by the hand.
Bid her welcome to the land.
With the cordial love and greeting
That we owe a friend at meeting?
Fair and sweet to look upon
Was this lily maid at dawn.
With her dark locks flowing down,
And her saffron hood and gown
Set about with starry border,
Symbol of her priestly order.
And we owe to her. I hold.
Whether she be kind or cold,
Whether she being rue or myrrh
When we lift our gates to her,
Y,"ell and duly to receive her.
Lest our sad complaining grieve her.
Y.'hat she brings us, heaven sent,
Take your gift and be content.
Though it be not what you sought,
And your prayers seem set at naught.
He knows best, who ruled the giving,
V.'hat we need for holy living.
Do not vex her with dismay
At the pangs of yesterday,
Xor disturb her heart in vain
1 uh me mm 01 coming pain;
I For a fell, impending sorrow
May be God's best gift tomorrow.
Ola Moore.
I Gift of the Japanese Government.
1 The Japanese government instead of
presenting medals to the soldiers who
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THE STORY OF RAY.
BY U. V.
HEX I was a little
girl they passed a
law in Massachu
setts setting a 1 1
slaves free. My
Aunt Thankful
married a Richard
son, and Colonel
Richardson had a
whole slave family
that tad come
with him over
from England.
The man's name was Ray. He wa3
a young, bright-eyed mulatto, an3 his
wife's name was Ava. They had three
little children, born since they came
to America. My aunt told me the fol
lowing history:
The colonel had always been kind id
Ray, I think. He never whipped him:
Ray never needed it. Up to the tlae
Ray ran away I always thought my
husband a kind and just man.
Ray and his family were all the
slaves we had. They had always seem
ed contented with us. and when the
law was passed setting all slaves in
the state free I had no thought that
Ray would wish to leave us.
I did not thiak they would wish to
leave us, but I told the colonel thit
they knew they were free. He looked
concerned.
"I don't think Ray will go away,"
said I.
"He'd better not." said the colonel,
looking threatening.
I never knew exactly what Ray d'.d
the next day. It is likely that the col
onel fancied he meant to be disobe
dient and impertinent because he
knew he was no longer a slave; but he
knocked him down and horsewhipped
him.
1 ran out. 1 ue coionei nau just ami;, f
down the cowhide and gone out by an
other door, and Ray was crawling up
from the door.
"Ray," said I, "what is the matter?"
And then, as he turned and looked at
me without speaking, his eyes full of
anguish, his lips quivering, his poor
faithful face all swollen. I burst out:
"Oh, Ray, I'm so sorry for this. I
don't want Ava to see you this way.
You must bathe your face and shoul
ders and lie down here on the hay."
I ran for a pail of water. His shirt
was soaked with blood. With my own
hands I tore it down the back and
bathed his poor, torn shoulders. They
had been protected only by thin cot
ton, and every stroke of the rawhida
had cut into the ilesh. He seemed stu
pid-like to what I was doing for him,
but he obeyed me and crept into the
hay and lay there all day. The calonel
had gone to the village.
I wouldn't tell Ava where Ray was;
but toward night I know she found
him, for she came in from the barn
half blind with crying.
Before dark Ray came out and did
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the evening chores. The colonel
hadn't come. I thought that he felt ,
ashamed o: wnat ne naa done and
dreaded to face us again.
When it became dark I went to
speak to Ray. He had lain down on
the hay again and looked dreadfully.
I had carried him a clean shirt and a
blanket, and I had seme liniment to
bathe his shoulders.
"Ray," I said.
He was lying on his breast, because
he couldn't bear anything to touch his
back, I suppose. He turned his face
toward the light, and I noticed that he
didn't call me "missis," but said:
"Well. Mrs. Richardson?"
"Ray," said I, sitting down on the
hay beside him, "I hope you'll forgive '
this in the colonel. He never struck
you before."
"Why should he?" he asked.
I was silent.
"Mrs. Richardson." said he, kneeling
on the hay, the torn shirt falling apart
and showing his shoulders, a sickening
sight, "I have given your husband the
faithful workings cf my hands and mv
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wfr'f- lit 1 ' ? V j I ' t-n' a11 hinds of money that we won
V2Lt f?- l Vi'n -4-CSv 4 i score, him and me bein' partners. .
j,J fer" ' '-U'iP 'lo ' the people in four counties was the
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mind for five years. Here I am, 'most m a series or letters to her sister, tna
20 years old, and I've no: a roof to cal! first of which appears in the December
my own. nor a dollar in the world. ' Ladies' Home Journal. "She is the
Why should he beat me?" ' central figure for gossips, not only cf
"It was wrong it was wicked. Ray; one city, but of the whole L'nited
but I hope you'll forgive him," was all States. If a woman were not circum
I could say. 1 spect in this position social conditions
"If I fosgive him it will be for ycur would scon become more topsy-turvy
sake. You are a good, kind woman, than they are at present at the capital,
He shall come to no harm through jt seems" to me. She must throw her
me-" vouth behind her or lock it up in her
He had iain down again, for he seem- j heart while she inhabits the white
ed weak and sick, as well as sore. His , bouse. Of course thev do entertain one
poor, disfigured face looked haggard; j or two esls a. a tIme at dinner cr
but there was a steady, smoldering fire j luncheon vcrv often bu. tbe great din
in his eyes that made me watch him j are agairs at which the
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"He shall come to no harm through
me."
"Ray," said I. "remember what the
Bible says, 'Forgive your enemies." "
He did not answer.
"The colonel will be sorry for this.
and you will show yourself a man in I
fn-"ir lnc him
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"I told you I would forgive him for
your sake," he answered.
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He said he should not come into the
house to sleep; it was cooler there in
the h3y. He called gently: "Good
night, Mrs. Richardson," when I went
away.
The colonel did not come home till
late. My heart sank. For the first time
in my life I saw ray husband dntnk.
He didn't ask for Pvay, but went to bed
without; a word, --
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In the morning he got up with blood
shot eyes and a frightful temper.
The colonel usually went among the
jtcck before breakfast. He didn't go
that morning. I suspected that he
flreaded seeing poof faithful Ray, .Jat
'after breakfast he went out.
I was bathing and dressing the '4by
when hS came in again, his face 11 k a
thunder-cloud, the bottle of linimet't in
liis hand.
"Thankful," said he. "have ycu lean
coaxing up that cursed nigcer?"
"I did all I could for him." ssid I,
quietly pinning the baby's blanket.
'"Well," said he, "he's gone now, as
I expected, and I'm gding after him."
I laid the baby in its cradle and har
.ried to Ava.
"Do you know where Ray is?" said I.
"Yes, missus," said she, dropping
her face into her arms upon the kitch
en table. "He's gone to Groton."
The next thing we saw was the col
pnel on his great gray horse galloping
Jotit of the stable-yard. Thefe was a
coll of rope on theTiorn of his saddle.
Late in the afternoon I heard a
scream from Ava. 1 sprang up and ran
out as horses' feet came into the yard.
It was the colonel's horse, dark with
j perspiration and trembling. There was
' a rope tied to the horn of the saddle.
j sn(1 something attached to it that
' dragged on the ground. The colonel
J jumped down and untied the rope. I
v-'ent out a few paces and turned death-
ly sick. Ray's insensible face was
turned up to me from the ground. He
hardly looked like anything human,
for he had been dragged four miles
over the road at the end of that rope.
He lived just an hour.
The colonel had found him at Gro
ton finally; had got possession of him
somehow; had bound his hands be
hind him, tied the rope around his
breast and made him run at his horse's
side for two miles. At last the poor
fellow dropped. The colonel whipped
his horse into a gallop and reached
home in an hour.
I helped poor Ava watch over her
husband to the last; but he never
knew her. I gave her money to have
him decently buried. When I could be
no more help to her I took my child
and went back to my father's house.
I prayed to the Lord to show me my
duty; but I never could make up nly
mind to sit down at table with a mur
derer. The colonel never came near me. I
don't know whether or not he ever re
pented that dreadful deed. After I left
him he went down South and bough't a
plantation and spent the rest of his
life there.
This was my Aunt Thankful's story.
DRIVEN TO IT BY NECESSITY.
Two of the Men Who l'layed Football
Were Charged with Electricity.
"Bein' a little short of money," said
an old sport to the Detroit Free Press
man, "and the chances of makiu an
honest dollar without workin' for it,
way up there in Wisconsin, bein slim,
I was put to my taps. But you know
how necessity is the mother of inven
tion, and my landlady had put a time
limit of just one more week on me.
They only had cue regular fooijai!
team
:p there
it was a pea
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husky fellows that would go through
a stone wall. They had a standin' of
:er at big odds that no team in that
part of the state could score agin' 'em.
"After doin a lot of thinkin', day
and night, I had a talk wita a young
feller that was a crank on 'lectricity
and we got up an eleven. We just
trained 'em enough to take the curse
off and keep up appearances. But we
kept up an awful noise through the
and my crank friend was bet-
Id
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and
j for twenty of the second half they
I scored about a3 fast as they could
1 count. Our boys didn't know any
. thing about signals and each one seem
j ed to think that all he had to do was
to make a single-handed dash for the
coal. They got there half a dozen
linios but didn't happen to have the
hr,n with 'em. Then our two half-
lacks took sick sudden, don't you see,
and they let us put in Big Dick an
Zim Hemp. Both of 'em looked like
he had swallowed a barrel and couldn't
have kept up with an ice wagon to
save him. But they made a touch
down without tryin'. Any one as
touched 'em went down like he was
shot. Twouldn't have made no dif
ference if they had walked. My part
ner had put 'em in a cork undersuit,
wire caze and battery. He was the
cutest cuss I ever hooked to."
LIFE OF A PRESIDENT'S WIFE.
She I Atrray on Gu:irl anil Must Weigh
Kvcry Word. Look or Action.
"The President's wife can not for on
moment relax the vigilant eye she is
compelled to keep on her every word,
look and action, except when she Is
asleep," writes a cabinet member's wire
(the administration not being stated)
cedence of individuals seems to be the
foremost consideration, and the occa
sions are formal almost to the extent
of being stiff and uncomfortable to an
easy-going person like me. Mrs. Pres
ident suffers from some of the same
trammels of etiquette and convention-
,. endured by the crowned heads of
T- it, rlior mo;for nil nmmin
eat ;.ate officials and their families
Iose lheir per50nal freedom somewhat
soon as iney take office.
Imagine
Mrs. President walking down town for
a morning's shopping, or dropping in"
on a friend to visit, to 'set a spell,' as
Aunt Jin used to say! I miss my
friends more than anything else in
Washington. There is not a single
place in the city where I can go in
formally." The camphor trees of Japan, China
ani Formoia are begiunjng w faij.
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CAMPFIRE SKETCHES.
OOOD SHORT STORIES FORTHE
VETERANS.
Coafederat Dead to Bj Honored by
the State et JeorKl T!ie Ijst Ito'.l
Call Given a Solalcrs Mwrial The
Victor of Antletanw
The VIctcr of Antictam;
HEX tempest tr1"
nowed gria irom
bran.
And n-n were look
ins for it m!n
Authority called yu
to the van.
JKClellan:
Aloni t1 line the
plaudit rail.
As later when An
tietam's cheers be
gan. Through storm-cloutt
end eclipse must move
Each Cause and Man, lsar to the stars
and Joyc:
Xor always can fie wisest tell
Deferred fulfillment from th hopeless
knell
The strussler from the flour.derinjr ne'er-do-well.
A pall of cloth on the Seven Daya fell,
Mci'MIan
t'nprosperously herov.aH
Who could Anuetam's wreath foretell?
Authority called you; then In mist
And loom of Jtopardy d smissed.
But staring peril soon appalled;
You. the Discarded, she recalled
Recalled ycu. nor endured delay:
And forth rou rode upon a blasted way.
Arrayed Pope's rout, and routed Lee's
array,
McCIellan:
Your tent was choked with captured flags
that dav.
"McCIellan.
Antiotam was a telling fray.
Recallfl you; and she heard yoUP drum
Advancing through the ghastly s'.oont.
You man'sed the wall, you popped the
Dome.
You stormed the powerful stormer home,
McCIellan:
Antletam's cannon luns shall boom.
At Alexandria, left alone.
McCltJIan
Your veterans sef't from you. and thrcvn
To fie!d and fortunes ail unknown
What thoughts were yours, rerealed to
none.
While faithful still you labored en
Herin; the far Manassas sun-
ICMlan.
Only Antietam could pto"f
You fought in the front (an evil d.-.V,
McCMIan)
The fore-front of the first assay:
The Caue wnt souriuln?. croped its way;
The leadsmen quarreled in tn b?r;
Quills thwarted swords: divided sway;
The rebel J'.ushed in hi lusty May;
Ymj did your bt-st. as in you lay,
JicClpllan.
Antletam's sun-burst she-is a ray.
Your mcdaled soldiers !ovo you well.
YoYur medalled ssWlrs love you well.
McCtelian:
Name your name, their true hears swell:
With you thy shook dread Stonewall's
spell.
With you thoy braved the blended yell
Of rebel and ntniigncr fell:
With vou in sham or fame hy dwell,
McCIellan:
Antictair.-b-avcs a brave can tell.
And when your cuSr?-! (now so few,
McCIellan
Such ravac in dc-p tilts they rue)
Men rcurd th board anl adly view
The empty places: tribute due
They retid-r to the dead and you!
Absent and silent o'er the blue;
The one-armed lift the wine to you,
McCll!an.
And sreat Antietam's cheers renew.
Confederate Dc.nl to I!e Honored.
From Atlanta Constitution: Tho
Confederate dead who lie buried :n
this state may soon plve better care,
and their graves be tended and im
proved with Georgia's money. The
first move towards using the state's
money to mark and care for the
graves of the dead soldiers was made
by Representative Awtry. of Cobb, who
introduced a bill in the house yester
day providing for certain action oy
the State memorial board. Mr. Aw
try's bill does not provide for an im
mediate appropriation of money to be
used in putting the graves in good
order, but appropriates ?500 for the
use of the memorial board in making
an investigation of every Confederate
cemetery in the state. The bill requires
that the memorial board make the in
vestigation and report the number of
officers and private soldiers buried in
each place: submit estimates of th
cost of cleaning up, putting in cood or
der and maintaining in a respectaule
manner the cemeteries, and shail
further recommend legislation that
will prevent the desecration of the
graves or any trespass upon the ceme
teries. Mr. Awtry's bill is widely fav
ored in the house. For several years
there has been a growing sentiment in
favor of having the Confederate ceme
teries protected and maintained by the
state. At present the cemeteries are
kept up by the Ladies' Memorial asso
ciation, which have a hard struggle to
keep the graves decent with the small
amounts of money, which they succeed
in raising. At present the graves cf
the soldiers in Georgia are in a very
bad "condition. New headstones are
needed everywhere and much work is
needed to make the cemeteries present
able. Mr. Awtry is from Cobb, where
thousands lie buried. The conditions o
the graves of the Confederates at
Marrietta look all the more pitiable
when compared wih the magnificent
national cemetery there, where the
federal dead lie beneath green, will
kept graves and beautiful marble
headstones to mark their resting
places. The bill of Mr. Pierce of Hous
ton, providing for the appointment of
a committee of three surviving Confed
erate veterans in each county in the
state to prepare a complete list of the
Confederate veterans who entered the
war from the south, was passed. The
object of the bill is two-fold. As Mr.
Watkins of Gilmer, who spoke for the
bill, explained, it will be of immense
historical value, and its use as a check
on the pension rolls will be almost in
estimable. There is not now a com
plete list of the soldiers, and Mr. Wa
kins said we jus: couldn't afford to be
without one. Mr. Paae, from New
ton, spoke eloquently in favor of the
passage of the bill. He talked in
glowing terms of the services done by
the Confederates and asked if Georgia
was not willing to do the simple little
aci of putting their names into the ros
ter of her honored soldiers.
For Him It VVa; the tat Koll-fall.
Some three months since the 37th
Indiana regiment held its annual re
union at Lawrenceburg. at which time
the following letter from one of the
absent members was read: "My Dear
.Comrades. It 15 with deepest regret
Tf
that I am compelled to write yon that
I cannot come to a reunion on which I
had counted to have so much pleasure.
Rheumatism of the severest kind
has me In its grip. It is an inherit
ance Of soldier life. How I would
enjoy the handshakes, the greeting
und brotherly converse on the eld
camp ground, and. then, the camp
fire in the Gainings, wheri 3" of U3
coald talk over tho comedies n(
trag-.:is of cur soldier likJ the n?ud
and blac'kjaoka of Beacon Crk the
life in central Ttfnhaee. with its ccd.r
raU. its vines, peaches Sfirt corn. 2'1
the time2 o had at Huntsvills, Tus
cumbia and .eVsnon. NashviIIe.3tone
River. Chickamaug.1 and the Atlanta
campaign, and all that life in tent and
on tha march so well described in
Comrade Pameraey's book. But for
many of us the fcayle is blowing for
our 5sctbly across tint river; so,
boys old comrades farewell. I meet
you no more here. Trusting in the
matchless mercies of our cood loving
Father, we Jhall have a graader ie
union in the land where wars are cn
known; but. maybe, we "will seat our
selves on some hill in heaven and talk
07r '61 to 'Co. Remember me to ev
erybody of the dear old 37th. God
bless and keep jou. Yours loyally
and truly. Jacob H. MGullough, Co.
K. 37th Indiana Volunteer?."
On the 11th day of October Comrade
McCullo'.igh died. The premonition
of death which he had experienced be
came a real!!?'. He had answered tc
the last roll-call.
The Confeilrr.it RTlvaI.
There seems to Le quite a Confeder
ate revival in gome parts of tho South.
In Atlanta a meeting was held on
Saturday to dci1 some plan where
by every Confederate survivor in
Georgia can attend the rKinion to b
held there next year. Texas expects to
send the larscst delegation ever seat
out of the state. Atlnnta has also sent
a large delegation of ladies to attend
the annual meeting of the Daughters
of the Confcdprncy. to be held in Bal
timore. It was only a few years ago
that the organization was formed, and
thn chapters existed in only one or
two states. Now they boast that
members of the association are if. even
large town In the United States, and
that the rapid growth of the body has
been more than marvelous.
Plans are on foot for extending the
membership, and the committee on or
ganization at Baltimore shows a great
increase during tlifr pm'. year. Prob
ably the most important matter at
Baltimore will be the prop-odttion for
the women of tl South to clothe
the old veterans in gray. It was
through them that the suggestion
ca;ne that nt the reunion to be held In
Atlanta nrxt year all old veterans
should wear the Cray once more. The
women have taken up the matter, and
some pi?" will be devised by which
funds can be raised to furnish the
uniforms. The sessions ot the con
vention will last several days. In
Virginia Confederate veterans are cir
culating petitions all over the state
asking the leg:s!ature to provide for
the raising of the state Hag over the
school nours while tl.e i.hooIs are
in session, and they are hing numer
ously signed. It is not believed, how
ever, that the public sentiment of the
state will endorse this movement, .ts
a very general sentiment now prevails
there that it is the Hag cf this great
nation that ought to ficat over them
At any rate, it v:lH.
Given a Soldier' Iturial.
The funeral of the late Kurman E.
Rook, whose death occurred in Phila.
THE LATE FURMAN E. ROOK,
delphia, took place from the family res
idence, Vv'illiamsport, Pa., the other
day. The services were conducted by
the Rev. J. B. Shaver, pastor of the
Pine Street Methodist church. There
was a profusion of beautiful flowers,
gifts from sorrowing friends. Com-
j pany D, Twelfth regiment, of which
the deceased had been a member, with
delegations from Companies B and G,
headed by Rr-pasz band, attended 'h
funeral in a body. As the casket was
brought from the house the military
, presented arm? while the band play""!
' a hymn. Comrade Rook was probab'y
tne younges
late war.
volunteer soldier in the
Chnmp-icn From AppT P.irlns:.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The practice of th economics in the
fruit-raising sections of the wst has
developed a new article of export. Un
til recently the orchard owners and
the evaporator managers did not thi'I:
of utilizing the cores and parings of ap
ples. Thy occasionally sold them to the
jelly-makers or fed them to the hogs,
but more generaly allowed them to a--cumulate
as refuse in great hean,
which slowly fermented and decayed.
This year in many places the parings
and cores are being saved. They are
spread rut in the hot sun and driid,
after which they are packed in Iarse
sacks and held for buyers, who gather
them up and send them away in car
lots. The destination of the drfel
parings and cores in these large quan
tities is France. It is no secret that
the refuse of the orchards of the Mis
souri valley and th Ozark country is
now Iaraely employed in the manufac
ture of champagne by the thrifty wine
makers of the vineclad slopes of
France.
L&dy (intervie ins housemaid)
Why did jon leave your last place
i Hcuscmaid Because the master kiss
ed ne mum. Lady And you didn't like
it. eh? Housemaid Oh. I didn't mind
it muni, but the mistress, didn't like
.It.
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