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THE BEE: OMAHA. MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1918.
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THE BEE'S SERVICE FLAG
Kill
minim
Notice ' how much better Farnam street looks
now?
The kaiser't butchers must be fed, therefore
the Austrian people are to starve.
No list of casualties published so far has con
tained the name of Hohenzollern.
St. Joe's business will now take a slump,
jince the chief of the bootleggers has been over
hauled. '
c Candidates are sprouting at a rate that indi
:atcs no office will go by default in Nebraska
'.his year.
Austria- has plenty of "canned" cabinet minis
ters in store, but the trouble is they are not
good to eat.
"Taxes flow to the north appropriations to
the south," is the tidal maxim according to
Claude Kitchin. .
Money in circulation fell off six bits a head in
May, but it is good guess that few people no
ticed the difference.
Saxony is joining Bavaria in criticism of the
kaiser. Harmony is almost Wagnerian in the
German Confederaton just now.
Randall of California is allowing the rum
demon no rest and is also providing congress
something to fret about while waiting for the
new revenue bill to appear.
General if arch's modest statement that the
American army has made good justifies the en
thusiasm of the French generals over Yankee
soldiers. . It is merely the difference in tempera
ment that measures the expression.
It will probably be as well if we do not brag
too much about the big guns we are going to
build, but if they shoot up to expectations, it will
be a sorry day for the Hun when they get into
the firing line.
A correspondent calls attention to the un
paved road between Omaha and Fort Crook. That
has been unfinished business for a long time, but
it will be accomplished some day, when the
Sarpy county people can be made to see it in the
right light..
. Nebraska Agricultural Wealth.
The Kansas booster who says that 20 years
go Nebraska agricultural and live stock output
was worth but $100,000,000 does not know what
- ie is talking about. Wheat and corn alone, even
it the then low prices, amounted to that much,
with all the other crops, produce and live stock
untouched. "Tama Jim" Wilson, who was then
secretary of agriculture, gave Nebraska credit
with producing annually half a billion of wealth
Irom its farms. , As a matter of fact, Nebraska for
many years has produced at a rate even its own
people do not comprehend. The state has been
deprived of the services of a systematic booster,
iuch as the late Fred Coburn, who put Kansas so
high on the map, but its prosperity and its service
;o the world, has been none the less marked.
Whether we would have been any better off be
cause of incessant boasting is not easy to decide,
but Nebraska has been content to attend quietly
to the business of raising crops and meat animals,
tnd letting its neighbors make the hullabaloo.
GOOD FOR MAYOR SMITHl
"Good for Mayor Smith!" say we for his
prompt and unmistakable pronouncement for di
vorce of the city hall from partisan politics. Pre
cisely as The Bee demanded, the mayor declares
no salary-drawing city employe may with his
consent make use of a nonpartisan job to corral
votes for a party nomination for some political
office.
The mayor has the right idea. He sees clearly
that the principle of the commission plan of city
government, with commissioners chosen at large
without reference to party affiliations and by
voters of all parties, is flagrantly violated when
ever its machinery is converted into political
capital to put some pay-roller on a party ticket.
He realizes that there is no stopping place, if
the partisan political activities are given free
rein, short of setting up another political machine
in the city hall, or possibly two political machines,
for the purpose of capturing the power and. pa
tronage of the strictly political county and state
offices or, in other words, a backsliding to the
identical abuses that the people voted to rid
themselves of when they elected the present city
commission.
We would rather have the notice that a city hall
employe filing for a party nomination carries with
it a resignation come from the commission as a
whole, but we have no doubt the mayor voices
the sentiments of his colleagues and can make
the rule effective. In so doing he will be mark
ing a real step forward for reform in our munici
pal government.
Levying the New Taxes.
The ways and means committee of the house,
under leadership of Claude Kitchin is busy
formulating plans whereby to comply with the
requisition made by the secretary of the treasury
for a revenue law to produce $8,000,000,000 in
taxes for 1919. This entails not alone close
scrutiny, for the purpose of readjustment, of all
existing tax schedules, but also involves the dis
covery of new sources of revenue. First, because
most accessible, will come further imposts on
incomes. The exemption will be lowered and the
rates in the upper brackets increased, so that a
considerable portion of the additional $4,000,000,
000 may be derived from this expedient.
When this is exhausted, however, will come
the true test of the committee's ingenuity and pa
triotism. One proposal already set forth will try
Mr. Kitchin and the majority members of the
body severely. It is that a direct tax be laid on
cotton. Before determining the justice of such a
plan, keep in mind that while a basic price has
been set for wheat, corn, meats and other produce
of the northern farms, cotton has been al
lowed to continue its glorious course unrestricted
by federal regulation in any degree. The staple
that dropped to 7 cents a pound at the opening
of the war has touched 50 cents, and generally
sells around 35 to 40. Dogs will get considera
tion, heavier import duties are suggested, and
other devices more or less obvious.
As the committee's sessions go on we may
learn of more ingenious methods of raising the
wind, but whatever plan is finally adopted, it is
devoutly to be hoped that the revenue law of 1918
will not contain the perplexing and contradictory
provisions thai marked the measure of 1917.
Law Works Both Ways.
A former Nebraskan of national prominence
was fond of declaring in his stump speeches that
"the gates of Castle Garden never swing out
wards." Recent developments have determined
that not only can those gates swing outward, but
that the government is disposed to use them in
just that way. At Seattle a naturalized citizen of
the United States was formally stripped of his
citizenship by the federal court and ordered in
terned as an alien enemy for the duration of the
war. When hostilities are over he will find him
self once more a subject of the German govern
ment, undesirable in the United States, and may
rest during his confinement assured of certain ex
pulsion when his native country is again acces
sible to receive him. And Attorney General
Gregory, passing briefly on the case, ominously
concludes: "Other similar cases will follow."
The justice of the course will not be questioned
American citizenship is too precious to be wasted
on any who docs not fully appreciate its
privileges. Not only should the boon be withheld
from the unworthy, but the disloyal should be
stripped of the rank they have dishonored. In
ternment and subsequent return to whatever land
they come from is the only treatment we can
give these, but a very short time in the kaiser's
dominions under present conditions will convince
even the most obdurate of these of his mistake
in monkeying with Uncle Sam when the old gen
tleman is in a serious mood.
The kaiser observed the thirtieth anniversary
of his accession to the throne by issuing a procla
mation telling the Germans how strong and
great they have become under him. He might
have added a postscript advising them of the
awful bump they are about to get, also under
him.
Austria is now worried over the presence of
Czecho-Slavs in the Italian army. Those fellows
will bother the Hapsburg, wherever they turn up.
The Awesomeness of France
Indomitable Fighting Spirit the Admiration oj Friends
and Enemy
St. Louis Globe Democrat.
A correspondent of the Globe-Democrat,
writing from France in regard to statements
made by German prisoners captured by
Americans, says the French have aroused
the awe of Germany by their wonderful re
sistance. "Awe" is a word full of meaning
in this connection. It denotes something
more than fear, something more than admi
ration, yet somewhat of both, with an added
sense of a mysterious and unaccountable
strength that suggests the superhuman. And
that feeling is but natural. When one re
calls the arrogant egotism with which Ger
many began the war, and the complacent
confidence with which it entered upon its
march to Paris as a mere holiday journey of
a few weeks' duration, and reviews the four
years of terrific warfare that have cost Ger
many millions of its men and brought it no
nearer to Paris than it was in 1914. When
one finds the French nation after all these
years of continuous battering by the mighty
arm of Thor still cheerful, still determined,
still unafraid, still inspired by an indomitable
righting spirit, there is little wonder that the
Germans should feel that these French are
something more than men.
In the halcyon days of yore it was the
custom of Germany to speik contemptuously
of France as a decadent nation, a frivolous
people, without system, without efficiency,
mere children in comparison with the serious
and solid intellectuals of the Vaterland. It
was assumed that a mere wave of the Ger
man hand, a mere puff of Teutonc breath,
would dispose of France when the time
came for showing it its proper place at the
feet of Germany. But somehow the theory
rt overwhelming superiority and might
failed in its application. Somehow the pyg
mies became giants, prodigious and invul
nerable. Somehow a race of Rolands emerged
from an unsuspected Roncesvalles, and the
waves of German might broke into futile
spray upon the living wall of heroes that
protected France. Four years of unceasing
battle, waged on a scale and with a brutal
fury never known by man before, yet France,
bleeding at every vein, still lives and laughs
and fights, unweakened and undismayed.
Little wonder, we say, that the Germans
look upon this phenomenon with awe
It seems a miracle, but it is not. If they
could but see it, the explanation is before
them. The difference is not a matter of
might, but of sul. France has a soul, Ger
many has none. Germany has erected a
soulless state, and deliberately it has labored
to eradicate the soul from its people. It has
made of life a material thing, a thing of di
mensions, ponderable and measureable.
Man is but a biological mechanism, and the
spirit a childish and archaic fancy. Yet a
Germany with a soul would never have
done what Germany has done; would
never have attempted what Germany has at
tempted. And trance without a soul would
have perished ignominously in the summer
of 1914. France is showing Germany an
old thing that is ever. new. Its awe is the
sign of an awakening of the dawning of at
realization mat mere is sometning greater
than matter, and it is a something they lack.
They are beginning to learn that mere men
and guns and system, multipleid and raised
to any degree of force, are still but dust,
without a soul to inspire, to impel and to
uphold. "Not by might, nor by power, hut
by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts." The
awesomeness of France is due to a thing
that cannot be taken in the hands, that can
not be weighed upon the scales, that cannot
be dissected or analyzed, but which is im
perishable and unconquerable.
American Troops in France
The Close-up Touch of Sammies with
British Tommies
Raymond G. Carroll in London Times.
The vanguard of a new United States
army has reached France, and at the moment
of writing has passed for final training
within the folds of the great British army
guarding the roads to the channel ports. It
was my good luck to be the first accredited
correspondent of the American expeditonary
forces to greet these citizen soldiers. France
has already seen samples of our army picked
for overseas duty, but it was not until re
cently that the man-power promises of the
United States took the color of reality.
Fortune arranged it. In the same sea
port where our khaki-clads unwound the
kinks from their sealegs and stretched out
into long clay-colored lines on the piers
there was going on the simultaneous demarca
tion of British regiments passing to France
from England; the initial contact in France
between American soldiers in any consider
able number and British Tommies. Previ
ous units to arrive, with the possible excep
tion of a few engineers, had been welded into
the French army for instruction and last
stage preparation for battle. Always there
had been the chasm of language to span,
and the need for shoals of interpreters.
"Hello! Tommy," yelled a lithe young
American at a British soldier.
"Cheerio! Lads," shouted back half a
dozen of the Essex regiment.
An hour later, when loth organizations
had broken ranks for a brief rest before
starting upon the inland march, the water
front was filled with the gabble of soldier
talk; our boys from the long water jump
eagerly gulping down ah the war lore that
those of the short water jump had to im
part. Only two years back and the most
experienced of the Tommies had been six
months' soldiers in the same state of feeling
as the cousins from across the Atlantic.
They, too, had left civil life and gone into
the open air to build up physically. They,
too, had not been professional soldiers, nor
army-trained even in a rudimentary fashion.
So they had a deep understanding with our
new soldiers, and almost as soon as an ac
quaintance struck up Tommy was hard at it
sharing from his most precious store of per
sonal war experience. They spoke our
tongue; one common language and one
common purpose.
"You must never leave off the bloomin'
gas mask," I heard one say. "It'll save you
the wooden cross."
"Take my word, laddie, and stick by the
old rifle," said another. "I see you has the
same as ours. We has plenty of ammo' for
you."
"When Fritz calls 'Kamerad' just you
waich out," admoniihed a hird. "Ees up to
tricks, and we has to watch out or get
clicked."
No big brother ever exhibited finer in
stincts toward a ward than has Tommy since
he got a real chance to get up close to his
tongue-mate from America He had known
all along that we were coming to help him.
He was hungry to see the Americans, and
when we did come to him for instruction
such a soldier's welcome as you never
dreamed of was there. .The welcome is con
tinuous. Wherever one of our men finds an
Englishman there he find3 a real pal.
I watched the British soldiers fall in, lift
their packs to their backs and swing off the
quay with the air of men having confidence
in their strength and fitness. They looked
smart and clean. I watched our boys un
stack their rifles and, shouldering their equip
ment, tramp, tramp, tramp toward the heart
of battle with backs to the sea that washed
the shores of distant homes. They were as
fine-looking soldiers as I have seen anywhere
in France.
Down parallel roads niarched the soldiers
of the British empire and those of the Amer
ican republic. I looked upon the whole
scene as one of the. big moments of the great
war, for these inarching men wer. kinsmen
reunited after many long years.
Probably what most amazed our men go
ing to the British for training was the won
derful order existing at tha back of the lines.
Guns were parked along the roadside with
the neatness of tidy houeswife's pots and
pans. Lorries most carefully driven on the
right side of the road a concession of the
British to the French method and laden
with supplies, moved along the main high
way. System is written upon everything
Lnglish. Therein is the great lesson for us
from the British method order and classi
fication. No army in Europe is organized
better behind the lines than the British.
As the miles unwound behind our march
ing lads the country began to change. There
were fewer women and children to be ob
served now; here and there are roofless
houses, more dwellings doorless and win
dowless, and more walls with shell-gashed
wills. All this had been done by bombs
from aeroplanes before the British wrested
thf. supremacy of the air from the Germans.
But the fields were still well plowed and
tilled; the grass green and the trees budding
and blossoming. Soon the Americans had
arrived at a cluster of villages in a rolling
country billets formerly occupied by the
British and reserved for the newcomers.
Some go to this town and some to that
town. The general and his staff entered a
modest chateau, and immediately thereafter
began the work of final drill for both officers
and men under the tutelage of the British.
On the afternoon when I arrived at this
chateau tea was in progress. The company
vas distributed around a iong table. At its
head was the American general. At his
right and left respectively were two British
generals, chosen to direct the final training
of our troops. Next at the table came two
American officers, and after them two bish
ops. And so on.
"How many different races have you in
your unit?" asked one of the British generals.
"Eleven different races, but all good
Americans and loyal to our common cause,"
replied the American general. "I might add,
for the benefit of the bishops present, that
we have 42 creeds represented."
"My word," said one of the bishops. "You
do come from a strangely great country."
"Besides, two of our soldiers are Chinese
Americans and out-and-out pagans," chipped
in an American colonel, with a grin.
"Bless me." said the other bishop, "how
very extraordinary."
"Have you the race percentages in mind?"
questioned the other British general.
"Yes," replied the American commander,
'Roughly speaking, 45 per cent are Anglo
Saxons, which includes those of Scotch and
Irish descent, as well as English. About 35
per cent are Slavonic, 10 per cent Germanic
and 10 per cent Latin, which includes men
of Italian, French . nd Spanish ancestry. In
cluded in the Slavonic classification are a
large number of Jews, either born in Russia
or children of parents born there."
"And what were their vocations before
their country needed them?" was the next
question from the same source.
y0reprcsent in the aggregate a scatter
ing of 78 occupations," came the answer from
the top of the table. "Ten per cent of the
whole were connected with the automobile
industry before being called, 15 per cent held
clerical positions and 10 per cent were team
sters. Then comes a miscellaneous classified
list of 60 per cent for machinists, carpenters,
blacksmiths, shoemakers, barbers, tailors,
cooks, electricians, wiremen and others.
Lastly, about 5 per cent represents a scatter
ing of embryo lawyers, doctors, dentists and
teachers."
"Their discipline?" asked the other Brit
ish general.
"Excellent," said the American general.
One Year Ago Today In the War.
Rome reported renewal of fierce
. lighting In Trentino.
Provisional ministry formed in
Austria with Dr. von Sevdler as
premier.
Belgian and Russian war missions
. visited tomb of Washington at Mount
Vernon.
The Day We Celebrate.
Stanley M. Rose water, attorn ey-at-aw,
born 1885.
Charles D. Armstrong of Arm
strong, Walsh company, real estate,
born 1876.
Brig.-Gen. Edwin St John Greble,
United States army, born in New
York, 69 -years ago.
Gustave Charpentler, French com
poser, born, in Alsace-Lorraine, 68
years ago.
Prof. Marshall Howard Savllle of
Columbia university, explorer and
archaeologist, born at Rockport,
Mass (1 years ago.
Thin Day in History.
1848 French government troops,
with immense loss, drove the Red Re
publicans from the left bank of the
Eetne.
188 J-Confederate force under
General Taylor captured the federal
post at Berwick Bay, La,, with valu
able stores. .
1898 Gen. Nelson A. Miles, com
manding general of the army, sub
mitted a plan of campaign for Cuba
in our war with Spain,
Just 80 Years Ago Today
Miss Jessie Schriver of Villlsca,
la., is the guest of the family of Wil
liam Woods, 87JO Franklin street
Coroner John Drexel returned from
the supreme lodge meeting of
Knights of Pythias at St. Louis. He
stopped four days in Chicago and
took in the republican national con
vention. Mrs. John D. Shield has returned
from a trip to St. Louis.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians
met and elected the following offi
cers: President, J. P. Maloney: vice
president. Thomas Hoctor; secretary,
Thomas Dawllng.
Reliable Method.
"I wonder how Bllfflns comes to be
to accurate in his prediction of rain
and storm."
"His method is very simple. He
merely gets the dates of Sunday
school picnics and excursions." Bal-
Umore American.
Round About the State
It Is the proud boast of the Al
bion Argus that it has no alien sym
pathizers on its mailing list "at
least they, so far, have not taken up
the Invitation extended to them to
discontinue the paper."
"A fine example of unselfishness,"
the Wayne Herald characterizes the
action of land buyers in declining to
bid against the tenant on a farm of
80 acres put up at forced sale. The
tenant offered a fair price for the
land, and rival buyers, believing him
entitled to it, let it go at his figure.
"When such fellowship becomes uni
versal;" comments the Herald, "hu
man hates and ugly wars will be no
more."
Up in Ravenna foreign languages
commonly spoken are brewing
trouble. Residents familiar with
United States only cannot easily dis
tinguish German from less objection
able tongues, and several personal
clashes, due to the mistake, were
narrowly averted. The situation there,
as in similar communities, maps one
safe course speak American and act
American.
A lively demand for municipal own
ership of the gas plant at Beatrice
has grown out of, the recent shut
down and consequent rate Increase.
Ugly feelings aroused by the arbitrary
action of the corporation, and the dis
comforts entailed, will not be ironed
out until the people own the plant A
physical valuation of the plant is
urged as the first step in that direction.
Peppery Points
Louisville Courier-Journal: Seven
thousand prisoners put to death in
Finnish camps. Onward German
kultur!
Minneapolis Tribune: The Germans
eventually will discover that mustard
gas merely puts more pep in the
Sammies.
Philadelphia Ledger: The news
that the Americans are fighting can
not be kept from the Germans much
longer.
Minneapolis Journal: Will King
George need a liaison officer to put him
wise when he attends the Fourth of
July base baM game in London?
Kansas City Times: A captured
German officer says Germany has
Just got to have peace. Well, well,
he needn't worr any more; we are
going to see that she gets it
Wall Street Journal: "I see the
German soldiers bleed and die for the
fatherland's greater honor," says the
kaiser. But his family doesn't being
somewhat short on "honor." ,
Baltimore American: Mr. Hoover's
request to the country to cut down i i
beef-eating comes at a time of the
year when the abstinence is as hy
gienic as It is patriotic.
New York World: No speculative
statement of German war aims can
possibly be as helpful to an enduring
peace as the present German prosecu
tion of actual war aims, with its con
sequences in the destruction of Ger
man man-power,
Twice Told Tales
Confusion.
Gen. Leonard Wood said at a
luncheon:
"There are so many rewards for
bravery and devotion on the other
s?de that a poor soldier naturally
gets confused among them.
"There's the V. C, or Victoria
Cross; the M. M.. or Medaille Mill
taire; the D. S. O., or Distinguished
Service Order; the C. q., or Croix de
Guerre, and so on almost indefinitely.
"A doughboy had a grudge against
his captain, who was a bit of a mar
tinet. Well, in the Y. M. C. A. one
night a waitress said to the dough
boy: " 'Did you know they'd given your
old captain the C. G?'
" 'Served him darn well right," he
said. 'How many days?' " Washing
ton Star.
Unexpected.
He was calling on the one and only
girl.
"William," she said, softly, expect
ing the usual answer: "William, dear,
have you any idea what heaven must
be like?"
"Well, I'll tell you, darling. Until to
day 1 had never given the matter a
thought, but now I believe I have a
very good Idea of what heaven is
like."
"Yes?" she murmured, brpathless-
ly. "Tell me what gave you this idea?"
"Well, it's this way," said dear Wil
liam, softly. "I was listening to a
recruiting officer's desrrintion nt life
In the army." Ha. per's Magazine.
"Truth About the University."
Omaha, June 21 To the Editor of
The Bee: May 1 take this opportunity
of heartily congratulating you on the
article I read in yesterday's Bee en
titled "The Truth About the Univer
sity"? As an alumnus, a former fel
low and instructor in that institution,
I know that you have stated the truth
only too mildly.
ANNA L. HINTERLONG,
5015 Davenport St.
Case of lrofessor Fling.
Omaha, June Z. To the Editor of
The Bee: I notice by the press re
ports the university regents couple
with their request for the resignation
of three professors a threat that Prof.
F. M. Fling will be asked to resign,
along with one other teacher. What
does this mean? So far as we have
been told, Profsssor Fling was not on
trial, was not before the board at all.
Professor Fling has been the one out
standing American landmark of the
institution. He didn't have to wait I
till the German proved himself a Hun.
He doesn't have to explain and apolo
gize endlessly. For years we have
known where to find him, and better
still he has knowi. where and how to
find himself. His talks have bristled
with American feeling, American
Judgment, American common sense.
No American has had to blush because
of his subserviency to German effront
ery and German pretense. He has
been right from choice not from com
pulsion.
But they say. Dr. Fling is a trouble
maker and must go unless he can ex
plain. Explain just what we are not
told. Nebraska is not going to pre
judge the matter but unless I miss my
guess, Nebraska ic going to want to
know before the one aggressive
American is fired. Maybe he ought
to be fired. If he has been injuring
the university, certainly he ought to
be fired". But if he has only been
hurting the feelings of a lot of feeble-
minded pacifists, people who knew we
could lick the kaiser before breakfast
if we wanted to and anyway the kaiser
was a mighty good fellow and ought
not to be licked, just as certainly he
ought to be promoted. This country
has been taught long enough by its
weak-minJed contingent, those who
are too weak or too lazy to meet facts
and find it easier to mouth over ready
made phrases of so-called socialists.
If they could have had their way, we'd
be where Russia is now. By all
means, let's look into this Dr. Fling
business. II. W. MORROW.
JANETTE'S HAI7.
Oh. loosen tha mood that you wear. Janetta
Let me tangla a hand In your hair, my pet.
For the world to me has no daintier sight
Than your brown hair vellng your shoulder!
white.
As I tangled a hand In your hair, my pet,
It was brown, with a golden gloss, Janette,
It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet;
'Twaa a beautiful mist, falling down to yy, u
wrist.
'Twaa a thing to be braided, and jewelled,
and kissed.
Twas tha loveliest hair in the world, my
pet.
Tour eyes had a swimming glory, Janetta, '
Bevealng the old dt-ar story, my pet,
They were gray, with that chastened thig
of the sky.
When the trout leaps quickest to snap lo
fly.
And they matched with your golden hair,
my pet.
Tour lips but I have no words, Janette,
They were fresh as the twitter of birds, mj
pet.
When the spring is young, and tha rose!
are wet
With dewdrops In each red bosom set
And ahey suited your goldbrown hair, mj
pet.
Toil tangled my life In your hair, Janetta
'Twas a silken and golden snare, my pet,
But so gentle the bondage, my soul did Im
plore .t
The right to continue thy slave evermore.
With my fingers enmeshed in your hair, m ,
pet,
Thus ever I dream what you were, Janette,
With your Hps, and your eyes, and yout
hair, my pet.
In the darkness of desolate years I moan
And my tears fall bitterly over the stone
That covers your beautiful hair, my pet.
CHARLES G. HAI.PINB. .
("Miles O'Reilly.")
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Bibles In Battle.
Glen wood, la., June zl. To the
Editor of The Bee: Some days ago a
writer spoke of a soldier who carried
a Bible and his life was saved by de
flecting a bullet. He said the bullet
would have had its course changed
just as well if the soldier had carried
a deck of cards and seemed to make
light of the fact it was a Bib,le. I am
an old soldier of the civil war and was
with the Army of the Cumberland
from Perryville, Ky., to Chicka
mauga and in all the battles around
Chattanooga, and we went to the re
lief of Knoxville with General Sher
man and on the Atlanta campaign to
its capture and with Sherman to the
sea and aorth to Washington. I saw
three years of hard service and was in
12 or 13 hard-fought battles. I car
ried my Bible and read it and re
ceived more comfort than the men
who carried a pack of cards. Many
men carried a Bible and those who
came home made good Christian men
and good citizens. Many soldiers car
ried a pack of cards and gambled
away all their wages. Some even sent
home for money that was lost at cards
or dice before 24 hours.
I have never been in a battle that I
have not seen cards thrown away as
we went in and once or twice I saw
the roads strewn with cards and dice
and even money that had been gam
bled for. At the battle of Benton
vllle, N. C, I saw a soldier of my
company pick up a roll of bills that
had $145. At that time Sherman's
army had not been paid for six
months, so no men had money but
the gamblers. I never saw a Bible
thrown away, so I would say to the
boys going into the service, "Throw
away the cards before you go and take
a Bible or Testament and read it.
You will come home a better man and
your life will be better."
J. W. BARTLETT.
The Finish.
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you had knocked the robber senseless
with your umbrella and stabbed him
with your hatpin?"
"I screamed for help."
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