Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — Sherman Had His Fun. [ARTICLE]

Sherman Had His Fun.

In 1886, General Sherman, then retired, visited a military post and was present while the class was at signal drill. The instruction was with the heliograph—an instrument invented since the Civil War. The General seemed interested, but affected not to understand its use, and wanted it explained, at the same time he stood so as carefully to intercept with his person the sun’s rays from the mirror, so the signaling ceased. “Go on with your work, boys! Don't stop/or me, I’m a back number!" called the General. “We can’t, General. You are cutting off the light," replied the operator at the screen. The General jumped back quickly, apologizing as he did so: “Yes, yes, the world is marching on and we old men have had our day and are straggling behind. Why, in my time we did this sort of thing by shaking flags, and we called it ‘wig-wag.’” Then he laughed and walked away across the green parade. A deal of sympathy is wasted on the American woman who marries a foreign title, and finds that she has made a bad trade. The woman who marries for a title is not entitled to sympathy, and the man who marries that kind of a woman is as much to be pitied as she is. It is a swindle on both sides. Aik is a meal of which we are con stantly partaking—hence it should always be pure.