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Tie tn t-.TH of a ghostly i-urnpttrc'a kIov lb !('::. -d the pallid faces In iU light. Tor Iwro slain In battle 1jio: ago Were gathertd thcro to ulill uway th ; nicht; To Mtht iHini alKHH u.-aln as v t'runs will. In tabu whirl) to their cars were never borrs; Of hard won tldd and seai to tell their fill. Ard rteds of glory In our country's wars. Of hurtling arrows thudding In Htockades. A figure picturesque In buckpkln talked; Of pointed Ravages In ud don raids; Of single savages and the stalkers stalked. A soldier uniformed in buff and blue Told of the wilting redcoat columns massed, Mslting beneath the deadly fire and true, Poursd out from svsr covsr as they pmcd, TO MAKE BULL RUN BATTLEFIELD PARK Will Be Kept as Memorial to Soldiers Who Died In Conflicts There. FeelinQ Hai Long Been Strong That Scene' of Early Clash of Arms Should Be Preserved Close to National Capital. ! Hull Hun is to be made a battlefield park us a memorial to the soldiers who fought on that Held. The Lee highway, being developed as one of the great east und west automobile roads, pusses through the fields, that highway taking unto itself us one of Its sections the old Wurrentoii Civil wur roads of Virginia. Efforts have been made for 2 vears fit ll.'IVt tile L'VtMllllM!lf f'll. t llV IT tli.l fighting ground of Hull Hun and ca:e for It after the manner of the fields of Gettysburg and Antietaiti, or t buy the ground on which stand two simple little mouuinents that were et up on parlicularly tragic parts of the battlefields by Union troops in l.VWi. The proposal that the Hull Kun battlefields should be held by the initio us u battlefield park has been urged by organizations of Union and Confederate veterans und by many other patriotic associations, but there has always been sufficient indifference or hostility on the part of congress to thwart the plan. First Battle of Manassas It Is ubout -5 miles from Washington by wagon road to the eastern edge of the bloody zone of the battlefield of the first Hull Hun. or the first battle of Manassas. That is ubout the distance to the picturesque old red stone bridge which spuns the historic creek. It U this old Hull Hun done bridge that the YVushlngton to Wurrentou turnpike leuds. Along the bunks of the stream, ut the bridge und Jeluw and above It, began the fighting on Sunduy morning, July 21, lsl, jwülcü developed Into the buttle. Thej pike, after crossing the bridge, passes i fHeut, with the land rising grudually! ,to a ridge on each side of It. This Is j the land that was wet with the blood of men and sprinkled with corpes. .Two or three old houses can be seen on these rising slopes. A mile of travel westward from the bridge brings you to a crossroads. It Is the Junction of the "Warrenton pike and u dirt xoad which leads from the Potomac river and the town of Dumfries to leesburg and the mountains of the west. In the northeast angle of Cie loads, and close beside, them. Is an old stone house. In the annals of the Civil war that old house Is denomlnatd "the stone house." The other battlefield houses, are named for their owners, but this little house is often mentioned merely as "the stone house." It mifht have been without a tenant lit the time of the battle, or being a ctone house, and very conspicuous In the battle tone, the soldiers thought that stone house" was the most fitting name to cull it. L Bloody Fighting Ground. On the other side of the road and

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who and Gray, Told of the cavalry headlong clash; Of rallies to the colors In the fray; Of crackling volleys and the cannon's flash. One's story was of fights among the cano With Igorrotes eager for his head, Who smoto with bolos ever and again. Till HputtiTlnif KAtllngs riddled them with lead. Then one stepped forward, one whose tales amazed. Of conflict In the air and under sea. Of cities swiftly by the big guns razed, Of gas and tanks and drumfire tierce told he. H 7 ßllence then reigned among the hero dead, Nons came to chronicle a newer war. "He then our sacrifice the last," they said. "Pray God the need may never be for more." P. D. D. In the Kansas City Star. on a wide "level" beyond the crest of the slope Is a gray frame house with a few broken locust trees around It. That is the Henry house, which stands on the Henry farm. The slope from the pike up to that house and the fiat field around It was the scene of the principal collision between the Union and Onf derate forces In the first battle of p.nll Run. and it was also fighting ground in the second battle, something s'uve than a year later, the bloodiest ;m! tnest deaMi-hlighted field of the second Intiie being; on the I i 1 1 1 farm, about .1 n.ile to a mile und a half west. Tin 01:110 tin.- if Ii.- 'of"l T!it' wrs on the Henry farm In the fighting of IV'Il and it was flu 1'.'. IM liest point of the Union ndvnn- e i:i t lud march westward l'ri":i tin ti bridge and south from "-'ry -;r!::;s. II wns that ii 1 ! t!.:ir ?'.e I":;! n lines wavered. bpij.v :ir.-l V -rar rbe retreat which soon developed into panic and a rout. It wns n that field that the sobriquet "Stonewall" was first applied to General Jackson. Very early after the fighting, which m-'Mn nt xh bridge and between t,ie I,lko 1,11,1 's"lH(,y. developed to the intensity and extent of a bat tle, a Union shell from HlckctN rojr.ilar battery pierced the Henry hmiM' and killed its owner, Mrs. Judith Henry, in her bed. She was old and bedridden at the time. Soon after that the house was In Haines, and its destruction was hastened by more cannon shot and shell. Mrs. Henry is burled in the fnmlly graveyard, with many of her kin, a few yards behind the house, (.'lose to their tombstones one might almost say among them stands a little brown-red stone monument built by soldiers and dedicated a few days after the grand review In Washington. The soldiers set up on and around the monument shells and cannon balls which they picked up on the fields, for then a part of the country was still littered with the debris of battle and the country pitted with sunken graves, which had been very shallow In the making, and in many places the skulls and skeletons of men. for the most part men who had been killed In the greater and heavier fighting of ISiVJ, were strewn over the ground. Along the Warrenton Pike. On the Warrenton pike, one mile west of the Henry arm. N tSrovet n. Four houses and a blacksmith sh.j were there in IV 1 and lsr.-j. The houses were destroyed In the secoml battle and three of them were rebuilt after the war. One of these was the Dogan house, and on the Iogan farm much of the killing of the battle was done. Itroveton was Jackson's rigid and th Confederate center when Longstreet Joined him. Hefore the war n railroad, called the Independent railroad, was projected to run from the Manassas Gap railroad at GaiusvlUe to Leesburg. The road was graded, hills were cut through and fills made over low ground and stone culverts built over the runs and larger creeks. No ties or rails hail been laid, and when the war came along all work stopped. It was along this graded way that Jackson formed his line for the second fight. The line of the unfinished raihvu i is preserved today, though the "ruts' are grown up In weeds and the fills" are generally overgrown with iils. s-"-1 -; 1 " I'll V"JV " "

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munition expended, fought with bayonets, clubbed muskets, and even Mones, Is about a thousand yard north of the Posran house. Dead Thick on the Field. Mrs. Pogan carao home after fighting ceased and the armies moved on to fight at Chantllly. "Dead ineli lay so thick over that field thut you couldn't walk without stepping ou them. They had not been burled. Men had gone about shoveling dirt over them where they lay, and the night before I came back with my children to where the house atood It ruined and the dirt that had been thrown over these men had been washed oft.n A reporter who Inspected the field ht the close of the war wrote the following description of it: "From Alexandria to the battlefield Is one wide area of desolation. Fences are utterly swept away. Here and there a dilapidated home shelters a few squalid Inmates. "Once a village of rare beauty, perched upon a gentle slope of a high ridge and commanding a view of fertile valleys for many miles war-swept. It and it ruins He about, Invested with all the saddening lntluences of perfect desolation. The first Hull Run field Is distinctly marked with traces of battle. Here tin' shot nnd shell are thickly strewn, the trees splintered and in ninny places the forest looks ns If having been visited by a terrific storm. "The bone of soldiers of both armies are scattered over the fields, and one may find skulis enough to build a monument." i0m NEW GRAVES AT 'ARLINGTON Memorial Day This Year, as it Did a Year Ago, Should Have Especial Significance. There Is additional solemnity In this Memorial day because of the number of new graves and the number of women and men whose grief Is fresh. It Is a beautiful custom that the government closes Its shops atid that business stands nearly still in order that millions of people may speak, sing and think of .the dead. It Is good that these millions should let their thoughts dwell a few moments on themes different from those which are called the practical affairs of life. Here at Washington Memorial day Is strikingly observed. The city more nearly suspends worldly activities than any other, because It Is the scat of govern ment, because government Is the principal Industry here, and because the other Industries are mainly dependent on the government's working force. There are more soldier graves In and In the immediate vicinity of Washington than any other like area In the United States, and the number of these graves Is Increasing far faster than elsewhere. Since the great war new graves by acres have been dug at Vrlington. Washington Star. Enshrined in French Hearts. The fatherless children of France have made it their duty to care for the graves of the American soldiers and sailors, distributing their flowers wherever an American lies. They will not forget and they will pass the story of "the American" on to their descendants, through history, tradition and legend. The value of leagues and agreements is not to be minimized, but France sees the greater cementing Influence of common ceremonies that keep noble friendships fresh and untouched by time. Still, the chances are If the fussy old world wen' to get back to normal, with peace, prosperity and everything, we wouldn't be satisfied with It. There is simply a whole lot of wolf and cat in human nature and it is going to manifest itself. F.x-Chancellor Schehlemann says the blame for the war must be placed on the Germans, which should be seriously considered by those ut his countrymen who seem to be laboring under the impression that they were deliberately attacked by Belgium. The number of women who have an nounced themselves as candidates fori seaTs in congress Indicates that while i they may think the office should seek ! the man they believe the women i should get out and work for It. A woman tells her sex that they should follow nature and go to the j birds and the animals for their style ! of dress, hearing which a bird of paradise and a seal looked at each other and exchanged grius. i Jim Jeffries has tried being an ' evangelist, but reports of his 'first ser-; mon do not Indicate that he Is likely to drive Billy Sunday into bank-;

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This Monument In fne National Cemetery In Arlington, Va., Was Erected to ths Unknown Dead of the Civil War.

ALL BELOVED BY GRATEFUL NATION Tributes of Memorial Day Shared by Each Defender of the Country. Reverence Alike for Those Who Began land Thoie Who Completed the Work of Freedom Graves j in France Cared For. Tliear 1018 brought the significance of Memorial day directly home to the present generation. The heroism of the sacrifices of 1SC3 had not been forgotten, but to the great majority of Americans It was merely a tale, not an experience. After 1018 there were few Americans who had not suffered personal loss or bereavement. The real meaning of "dying for one's country" was Impressed on the consciousness of the people.. The succeeding Memorial days have found the nation honoring the memory of the young men who gave their lives In France and Flanders, and revering, with new sincerity, the men who, more than half a century ago, died that America might live. America's Part in the War. Two outstanding facts of the World war are universally conceded. America's participation and America's sacrifice were small In comparison with the labor and sacrifice of the nations which fought through all the bloody years of the struggle. Yet, during the brief period of American participation, America fought as hard as any other belligerent nation, bore her full share of responsibility and burdens, and thus, coming to the front when the other nations were weary, actually won the war. It Is generally believed that but for the American army the German offensives of March-June. r.18, would have carried I'russianlsm to victory. America, therefore, without boasting, and with full realization that her sacrifice was small in comparison with the sacrifices of France and Fngland and Belgium and Serbia and Itoumanla, and even of Kussla, can cherish the gratification of having actually won the war by Intervention ut the most critical moment. Belgium's immortal heroism saved civilization In 1914; American altruism and devotion saved democracy In 191 S. But the story was not begun at Chateau-Thierry; It was not even begun more than a year before, when the United States, driven beyond the extreme limit of patience, formally declared the existence of a state of war. It was begun more than fifty years before, when tke young manhood of the North marched forth at Lincoln's call. What was done in 1 SGI -05 made! possible the culmination of 191 S. It is, really, all a part of the same glorious story. Without Chickamauga there would have been no Cantigny; the campaign in the Wilderness was paving the way for the Argonno. In Honored Graves. All over the United States the graves of true American men. graves new and still unclaimed by nature,! and graves of long ago, leveled, er-! haps, by time's mercy and strewn with flowers by nature's own hand, are honored today by those whose lives have been made livable by the nobility of those who have died. They gave their all, and today we give our very little. LJite s as precious to tliem ji It is

-rMiwwf i www . -. - to" us; nothing that we can give can be even a weak beginning of their stupendous gift. Nor do they demand great recompense: gratitude and homage, and a moment's pause In the mad whirl of life to bestow a thought and u flower on the graves of those whose lives were the price of our happiness. In France, too; and on the dike-cut fields of Flanders, onr heroes rest. Fear not that these hoys of ours, who are so far from us today, will be neglected or forgotten. France, saved from utter destrm Hon, Is still dumbly grateful for the miracle, and generation after generation will weep at the graves of the men who came from afar and stayed In France forever. There, where they made their high sacrifice, they are surely at peace; and not even the sorrow of the loved ones over there whose gratitude, though Impersonal, is greater than we who had no glimpse of war's horrible presence can comprehend. In America there Is one Memorial day for the boys in blue and gray and the boys In khaki, and there is common reverence for those who began and those who completed the work of freedom. Imt the day has cme to have more than an American significance. Far beyond the Atlantic it means as much as it. means right here at home, and it has become, far more truly than our nation's birthday, an observation of worldwide gratitude to the strong-sinewed and strong-hearted republic of the gleaming West. Ih Loving Memory' The lilies of France are blooming Hy the little white crosses today. Where America's sons are sleeping The years of their manhood away. They died on the altar of Freedom For liberty, right and truth; They slep In fflory immortal In the beauty and sfdendor of youth. The soldiers of France are marching By the fields where our loved ones lie Each one lifts a hand, saluting. As he silently passes by. The children of France are singing, Whllt the bvgles softly play. And the lilies of France droop lower O'er the little white crosses today. The women of France are kneeling By the graves they lovingly tend. And the breezes murmur gently As the Pxars with their Tricolor b!?nd. The women of France are kneeling 'Mid th engraves so far away. And our hearts are kneeling with them By the little white crosses to.'.ay. Anna Ileald Clayton In the Rocky Mountain News. While some of our economic trouble Is due to lack of work, a great deal Is also due to the refusal of people to take work they do not like.

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PSYCHOLOGY IN GRADING But efficiency Is not the whole of life, and It Is time that serious thought were given to something that goes fur beyond the question of the trustworthiness of the tests or the immediate advantage gained by their use, says the New York Independent. If we are entering upon a regime in which children are going to be labeled and graded, not according to what they know, but according to what, by the Inexorable pronouncement of a selfregistering machine, they Inherently are, what Is going to be the effect of all this upon those children's outlook on life? It is true that, even as things are, every sensible child has a pretty sure consciousness of his own Inferiority to his more gifted comrades; but It is one thing to know this in a general way and quite another to have that knowledge burned Into bis consciousness as a scientific and Incontestable fact, to say nothing of Its being stamped upon him as a fatal brand to be carried through life. Whatever precautions are taken to disguise or cotuval the verdict, we may he quite sure that if, as now promises to be the case, the scheme of psychological tests is to be made a fundamental part of our educational system, its results will be no secret to the individual child most concerned, nor to those with whom he is most closely associated.

Governor Edwards has vetoed the anti-cat bill, and there Is said to be a doubt whether It can be repassed over the veto. There are honest differences of opinion as to the value of the cat, says the Trenton Times. While It Is undoubtedly true that thousands of birds and small game animals are killed every year by vagrant and pet eats, It Is equally true that Tom and Tabby also kill thousands of rats, mice, moles and other vermin that would destroy millions of dollars' worth of farm crops. In the cities the cat is a groat nuisance to many persons, but even there they render an important service, as many a merchant nnd family will testify. IVrbaps the toll he takes in song birds, English sparrows and squirrels is no more than his duo, and there are men and women who object to the presence of the bird. Since rats and mice aro known to be disease carriers, the evidence appears to be in favor of the cat. Nearly six hundred banks In the United States suspended payment, and there were sixteen thousand commercial bankruptcies. Greece was in "the abyss of insolvency" nnd Italy was on the brink. In Russia, famine and pestilence prevailed, und in Australia nearly every batik of consequence had dosed its doors. American farmers were so hard pressed that they could hardly buy smoking tobacco. Such were the conditions In ISM, as revealed In newspapers and magazines of that time, says the Nation's Business. Looking back on them, the period from which the world is now emerging seems not so gloomy, after all. John P. Rockefeller gets as many as H.CMMl begging letters a day. To go through all of these, he would have to read five a minute, working a tenhour shift daily. Secretaries do the reading. The only bothersome thin:about having money is the swarm of schemers that try to get It away fron you as soon as you have it. They always show up. whether jou have a million or only five cents. James Gamble Rogers, architect of Ilarkness Memorial quadrangle at Yale university, has been explaining howbeautiful the college will be a hundred years hence. The proposed building developments provide for a series of large buildings of Gothic type set In surroundings where long and beautiful vistas will form the approach to every principal piece of architecture. But Mr. j Rogers forgot to note the beauties that jage will give to Yale. Bart of the charm of Oxford Is its antiquity, and as American colleges mellow they will take on that dignity that only useful years may give. Youth does not change. It Is the same today as yesterday. It Is the parents, trainers of youth, who have changed. Hence we have Jazz-life youngsters. This Is the theory of Alfred E. Stearns, principal of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. His reasoning is sound. Father In his youth would have been the same as son Is today If the old-fashioned home had been put on a 1922 basis. We are the products of early training and environment, regardless of which generation we live ia.