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II I ench year at least of the sacrifice
or me snmicrs wno maeio up mat
Grand Army of the Republic,
whoHO deeds nro bln7.onod upon
mnny pages of American history. As their
lay recedes In the vlstn of years, the per
spective, growing stondlly longer, may ren
der them nnd thilr cause smaller, and th
haze of passim? events may obscure the
maKnltudn of their dceHls, yet when we
stand face to face beside the low green
mounds, decked for the day with wreath
and bunches of blossoms, all the mist of
years Is swept away and again the
grandeur of theso men and the principle
they supported comes to us no distinctly
that we are not amazed that It outshines
nil else. "The wcrld will ll'tle hcd nor
long remember what we say here," said
Lincoln at Gettysburg, Inn ago, "but It
can never forget what they did here."
Prophetic words, Indeed, and finding their
fulfillment annually In the offering of
flowers and team at the graven of the
dead brave In whose memory the cherished
chleflain gave them utterance. Each year
iiees the list of soldier (lend grow longer,
ench Memorial day finds new tents spread
on fame's eternal cnmplng grounds, each
year the march ng line of vternns Is
shorter and Its ranks thinner, but the wort
which Ihey began has fallen Into loving
hands, nnd the nnllon will turn nslele for
one dny at least each year so long as the
light of liberty burns clear and bright
throughout the land to pay a tribute of
loving gratitude to those whose watchword
vaa "Liberty nnd union ono country, one
fag!"
And while the graven of (ho soldier dead,
whose laBt sleep Is beneath the sod of th"
Innd they loved so well, are covered wi'h
onr'h's brightest flowers, those "who went
down to the sea In ships" and who gave
up thnlr lives for liberty on the watr
aro to be remembered. Beautiful flowers
are scattered on the waters, to be drifted
by wind and tide, and finally lost on "old
ocean's melancholy gray expanse." In this
way loving henrts w ill manifest their senti
ment toward the dead whose resting place
Is not known beyond the fact Mint thoy
sank to pence at sea. It Is the Idea of Mrs.
Armltage Forbes of Charleston, 8. C, wh'j
lUST discharged from the hospital,
where he had been ep rated upn
for RDPendlelt is. renorts the New
tofcifca York Times, a young man met a
friend the other day.
"Congratulate me," said the fr end. "Har
vard has made me M. A."
"That's nothing," answered th" ex-patient.
"I've been made M. A., too."
"By whom?" asked the friend In aston
ishment. "By Dr. McBurney," was the reply. "I'm
Minus an Appendix."
"The station at Savannah." says a traveler
through the south, "Is surrounded In all
directions with a lot of sa'oons and cheap
restaurants. In great Illuminated letters
over one of thesn saloons was the sign:
" 'Open all night.
"Next to It was a restaurant bearing with
equal prominence the legend, 'We never
close.'
"Third In order was a Chinese laundry
In a little tumbledown hovel, and upn the
front of this building was the sign la gr at
scrawling letters: 'Me wakee, too.'"
Flippant people sometimes refer to that
sedate and proper member of Yale's austere
corporation. Rev. Joseph Hopkins Twlchell,
M. A., of Hartford, Conn., as "Joe" Twlch
ell, reports the New York Times. This, his
latest story, told by him at a St. Patrick's
day dinner, may perhaps l'lustrate why
people speak so familiarly of this loved and
very lovable apostle of the Congregational
faith:
"I became very much Interested in a
chance companion on railway train," sail
Mr. Tw: 'ell. "He was plainly of Italian
birth or extraction, and I so remarked to
him.
"Where were you born?" I asked.
"In Genoa." replied the young man.
"And what Is your name?"
"Patrick Murphy."
"How In the world did you get that
osme?" I asked Instinctively.
"I took It," replied the young man.
"Why did you choose such a nam?"
"Because I wanted people to think I was
an American," was his reply.
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A married woman living out at Lakesldo
has been having the greatest difficulty of
late In Inducing her husband to remember
to order certain things for the househo'd
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M US. ARM1TAOE S. C FORTIES.
WHO PAYS A TRIBUTE TO THE
SAILOR DEAD.
has succeeded in lire resting a sufficient
number of women, nnrth nnd south, to
make sure that the sailor dead will be re
membered even as are thir brothers who
f ught on the land. It was right they
cc ntended for, the one on land, the other
on sea, and alike shall they share In the
gratitude of the whole people of a united
country.
Events of the last three years have
It: wight Memorial day muc h nearer to the
homes and hearts of the people. Many of
tho new graves that will be strewn witii
flowe'is on Friday are those or young men,
born in moi-t cases since the close of the
tiagedy that gave birth to the clay. These
boyes, like the others, gave their lives In
liberty's came, and their comrades, kin
dred nnd friends will romp to their graves
with th" same fresh sorrow that found Its
expression thirty-five years ago when the
comia'es, klrdied and friends of the dead
of the great war for the union knelt in
mournful reunion at the cemeteries and
consecrated u bright May day to the end
that the soldier will not be forgotten In
hl narrcw he me. Si 111 will the sold er's
be dy bo quietly lowered Into the grave,
still will the little fipurt of flame and i-harp
report of the rifle announce the fact. st'II
will the bugle sigh "go to sleep" in t tit'
sadly sweet tides cf "taps," and still will
posterity lovingly lay wreaths on the rest
ing p!nces of the soldier dead.
This cleterminat Ic n to forever fittingly
honor th soldier received a significant ex
emplification at Coun:-II ItlufTs, when th
monument to Colonel W. II. Kinsman wn
didieatcd on May 17. Colonel Kinsman went
o it fr-m Conn?'.! RlufTi In 1861 In the com-
Gleanings from the Story Tellers' Pack
while down town, relates the Duluth News.
Every day there was something forgotten
and the meals wero growing more scanty
us a result.
A few days ago she handed her husband
a letter as he made a run for his car, say
ing that It was not to be opened until the
nfternoon. He remembered It Just as he
finished his luncheon that day and opening
It he read:
"I am forced to tell you snmethlng that I
know will trouble you, but have thought of
it for some time. I feel that It Is my duty
to do so. My mother has been taken Into
the secret and she. too, John, declare thut
it Is best that you should know. I cannot
keep this to myself any longer."
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A. It. ANDERSON, M. I)., PAWNEE
CITY NEWLY ELECTED PRESI
DENT NEBRASKA STATE MEDI
CAL SOCIETY.
pany of which (Jeneral (. M. Dodge wm
captain. He was a lawyer, Just beginning
his career as a practitioner, but he became
a soldier of unusual excellence, as Is at
tested by his rise through all the various
grades from private In lstit to colonel in
command of the Twenty-third Iowa In
fantry In 1863. He lost his life at the head
of his regiment during the battle of Black
Rayou in that year. When the Iowa com
mission to locate the positions of the Hawk
eye regiments about Vloksiurg during the
operations of that great campaign began l's
work, the grave of Colonel Kinsman was
located and marked. The exhumation of
tho remnlns nnd the reinterment at the
foot of nn enduring monument was a labor
of love on the part of the people of Council
Bluffs. Tho ocinslon was made the means
of publicly expressing the feeling of grat
itude and honor for a brave man nearly
forty years after ho had made his great
sacrifice for his country. A shaft of en
during granite will hand the name of Kins
man down to generations yet to come, it
tribute from those who know him when he
went to war.
Doctors rf medicine realize that on the
interchange e;f experience depends the ad
vance of their profession In science. No
ether means afT ids such cpportunlty for
this comparison of cxp -rience and Ideas as
d.:es the meeting of the medical society.
Here they report eases, giving in detail
treatment and result, and listen to criti
cism cr suggestion from their fellow prao
titirners. Recently the Nebraska State
Medical society met in Omaha for one of
these scientific sessions, interspersed with
such relaxations as theater parties, seven
course dinners and the like afford. Before?
the adjournment officers for another year
Hubble's face grew ashen and his hair
was taking an upright position when h?
turned over the page and read:
"We have not a pound of butter In the
house. Send me some this afternoon."
The request was compiled with.
After a large wedding In Washington
the "best man" started at hardly an hour's
notice for South Africa, relates the Wash
ington Times. On his return to Washing
ton, after an absence of some eighteen
months, he received the warmest sort ot
welcome from his old associates. A din
ner given In his honor afforded the first oc
casion since the wedding for donning even
ing dreos and In the midst of the evening.
WHERE THE TERRORS OF VOLCANIC
E. II. FINNEY, M. D., LINCOLN
NKWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF
NnnilASKA HOMEOPATHIC MEDI
CAL SOCIETY
were h sen, Dr. A. B. Anderson of Pawnee
City being selected for president. Dr. An
derson is a native of Illinois, fil years old,
and has practiced medicine twenty-five
years at his present home. He is a mem
ber of the American Medical association
and has 1 ec n before honored by his brothc r.s
In the profession.
At the Same time the Nebraska Homeo
pathic Medical association held its annual
session In Omaha, for the same purpo es as
actuated their brethren of "the old soho: 1."
At the close of two days of profitable In
tercourse the society elected Its officer for
the next year, choosing Dr. E. B. Finney
of Lincoln president. Dr. Finney is a y urg
man, being born at Weeping Water. Nrb.,
In May, 1867. He was educated in Phil
adelphia and New York, taklntj a thor ugh
course in medicine and suri,ery before h?
began his practice at his present hom
Rainn nkcrs nro not a new thing in tho
west. Catlin fc und them ami ng the Man
dan Indians when he vUited this country
in th?- early part cf the last century, search
ing for material for his great ethno
graphical and ethnological work. Anions
the Pueblo Indians the Spaniards found
(he custom of rffering prayers and sacrifices
to prepitiate angry ge ds who controlled the
precipitation, and the custom prevails today
among the Mexicans, Christians though they
bc Nebraska, Kansas and other western
states were much rdifted a few years ago
by the work of expert dreamers, who bom
barded the atmosphere through stovepipes
stuck thrcugh holes in the roof of sheds,
shacks or box cars, the sides rf tents and
the tops of covered wagons, all making
rain. This merely shows the Importance,
which the perple of this great graln-grow-
having occasion to feel in his waistcoat
poeket for something, he electrified the
party by drawing forth a $100 bank note.
Where had it come from? Who had put
it there? His fellow guests had all sorts
of suggestions to offer, none of which
seemed satisfactory.
Early the next morning the truth flashed
acrevis his mind. He called upon the
clergyman who hael performed the marriage
ceremony.
"You remember the fact, I suppose," said
the visitor, "of marrying Mr. H and
Miss G about a year and a half ago?"
"Oh, very well," answered the clergyman.
"1 see them constantly. They attend my
church."
DESTRUCTION HAVE LATELY REIGNED.
H. B. MCLENNON, WHO REPRE
SENTS YANKTON COLLEC.E IN
SOITH DAKOTA ORATORICAL
CONTEST AT II I' RON.
mg region attach to rain. The fact that
the trip of the Omaha Commercial club
members through the South Platte country
wo.i accompanied by rain brought to them
the appellation of "rainmakers" is a tribute
of respect and not of derision. That trip
Is prophetic of prosperity for the state and
all Its people.
One of the really Important convent Ions
held In Nebraska this year was the meeting
of the Z. C. B. J. at Wilber. This was
the national grand lodge session of a Bo
hemian benevolent society, which brought
together 164 delegates, representing 7,nnn
members In Colorado, North D:ikota, South
Dakota. Iowa, Kans:is. Michigan. Minnesota.
Nebraska. Oregon. Wisconsin and Okla
homa. Frank J. Sadilek of Wilber was
chosen for president. One of the Import
ant steps taken was the adoption of a by
law admitting women to membership In th?
order on equal footing with the men. Many
visitors accompanied tho delegates to Wll
brr and during their stay were entertained
with amateur dramatics, a banquet, nt
which over 400 sat down, and in other
ways.
Public interest has been attracted to the
group of American Islands known as tho
Lesser Antilles ly reason of the terrible
volcanic and seismic disturbances whieti
have recently recurred there and the fright
ful loss of human life and destruction of
property which have followed. The ac
tivity of the volcano Police continues, and
there Is no telling whv-re the end will be..
One of the pictures this week is of the
bountiful harbor of Kingston in the i.-i'and
rf St. Vincent, whore the people have beeii
'crrifird by the actle n of the volcano Sou-frlore.
"Then I hope you will pardon a rather
delicate question, asked in strict confi
dence. How much did you receive as your
fee on that occasion?"
"I will return frankness with frankness,"
and the clergyman smiled whimsically, "it
was the strangest fee that ever came my
way. After the ceremony the best man
with a profusion of thanks, slipped into my
hand a small sliver of plug tobacco wrapped
in a wad of paraffin paper!"
"I wanted the lnfliiene-e of the congress
man from my district in a certain matter."
("aid a Michigan man, quoted by the De
troit Free Press, "so I hied me down to
Washington to have an interview. He was
boarding at a private house and had a
room off the parlor. I was asked to sit
down and wait while a colored man took
in my card and, as the door was left ajar,
I heard the congressman say as he looked
nt my card:
" 'Blank? Blank? I think I know him.
Is he in liquor, James?'
" 'I don't think so, sir.'
" "Does he loe k shabby?'
" 'Well, you may call it shabby.'
" 'Seeirs to be hard up. does he?'
" "I think he does, sir.'
"'Yes, he is probably here to strike me
tor at least $10. James, did you tell him
that I was In?'
'"No, elr. I told him I'd see if you
were.'
" 'That's right. You may return to him
and say that you are sorry to announce
the fact that I left for Boston this morn
ing.' " 'And won't be back for ten days.'
" 'Yes, sir.'
" 'And meanwhile your advice to him is
to drop in and see one of the other repre
sentativos from my state'
" 'Yes, sir.'
"I was duly turned down and out,"
laughed the victim, "but I got even next
day, when I encountered the gentleman on
the street. He tried to dodge me, but 1
walked up and slapprd him on the back
and said:
"'Hello, old boy! I had a little matter
that would have put $l.-.,ic0 in cash into
your pocket, but, not finding ycu at home
yesterday. I turned it over to Representa
tive .'
" 'The you did!' gaspe d my dear old
friend, as he turned all sorts of colors,
and we have been as strangers since that
clay,"
