Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 14, Plymouth, Marshall County, 9 January 1908 — Page 6

FIGHT FOR HONESTY TO GO ON, SAYS TAFT.

, War Secretary Defends Adminis tration's Policy Toward Corporations. JOINTS OUT FXTTRRY CAUSE. Declares Unrest Is Due to Chicanery of Certain Men and Not to Koosevelt.

Secretary of War William II. Taft, la his first public sieech since his tour of the world, discussed, before the, Poston Merchants' Association the other a ght, "The Pajic of 1907." Secretary Taft denied that the panic was caused by the iolicy of the national administration, and attributed it entirely to the contraction of loanable capital and the exposure of breaches f trust and corruption in the financial world which, he said, had destroyed confidence in the investor. His speech was read from manuscript, and not once did he deviate from it or make any extemporaneous comments upon his own opinions of government policy. lie declared that he is opposed to government ownership of railways and favors control and regulation by the national government of huge combinations of capital. After touching on the rapid expansion of business which changed loanable capital into investments less and less convertible, and thus caused financial stringency, he said: "The conclusion cannot be avoided th.it the revclatiDrs of irregularity, breaches of trust, stock jobbing, overissues of ?tockN fiolations of law, and lack of rigid State or national supervision in the management of . of our largest insurance companies, railroad companies, traction companies and financial corporations shocked ia?estcr3 and made them withhold what little loanable capital remained available." On the currency question the Secretary (taid : It is probable that the stringency which reached its height on that dark day of Oct. 24 might, in part, have been alleviated had we had a currency which could automatically enlarge itself to meet the tremeadous demand of a day or a week or a month while public confidence was being restored. The national administration, together with many of the large capitalists of New York and elsewhere, put their shoulder under the load and by various devices of an unusual character have brought about the present condition of gradually increasing confidence." Giant Strände with Traut. Secretary Taft then turned his attention to the criticisms of President Roosevelt in the recent depression. lie invited lis audience's attention to the history of "a giant struggle between the national administration and certain powerful combinations in the financial world." Continuing, he said: JThese combinations, for lack of a better name, are called 'trusts.' They engaged in different lines of manufacture and production, and by assembling large amounts of capital into one mass in a particular line of business managed by artful and skillfully devised, but illegal methods ' of duress, to exclude competition and monopolize the trade. "They became the dictators to great railroads, however powerful, and by threatening a withdrawal of patronage secured unlawful and discriminating rebates, greatly increasing their profits and tili more completely suppressing competition. "The basis of their original success and the maintenance of their power was the -violation of the Sherman anti-trust law and the interstate commerce law, and for a time -both laws were but dead letters upon the statute books of the United States. "The purpose of the administration of 'Sir. Roosevelt was to make those m n, however powerful and wealthy, to know that the laws upon the statute books were living things and. must be obeyed. Tne fight made by the administration aas been a noteworthy one. And now, after a victory has been won, after there has been introduced in-o the hearts of these trust managers and financial opponents of the administration, the -fear of the law the panic comes on. The agents and sympathizers and defenders of the trusts rush forward to place the blame of the present conditions upon the administration. "Let ns examine the specifications of our opponents now, made to show tnat the administration is responsible. "la the first place it is said that the policy of the administration has been directed for the last four years against organized capital, and that it has thereby frightened investors. Only Lav Violators Attacked. "I deny it. The course of the administration has been directed against such organized capital as was violating the statutes of the United States, and no others. "The President nas conwmned ih law breakers. lie has convinced tho.re who have unlawfully accumulated enormous powers and capital that they are not immune. He has put the fear of the law in their hearts. They have been cute enough to attempt to protect themselves by giving the Impression that his action has been directed against the whole business community. "Again, k is said that the rate bill, for which the administration is responsible, caused the present panic. Could anything be more absurd? The object of the rate bill was merely to bring the railroads under closer supervision of a tribunal which could aclj upon complaints of individuals Buffering from their injustice. "The business men in the past have sympathized with the effort to eradicate from the business system of this country the influence of those who have achieved Buccess by illegal methods. Is all this to be changed by the panic? "Is it proposed because of it to repeal the rate bill? Shall we dismiss the prosecutions for violations of the anti-trust low? Shall we permit and encourage rebates and discriminations by railways? Is this the condition of sanity to which we are invited to return? Shall we join in the sneer at the fight of the administration for honesty and legality in business as a youthful attempt at an alleged nvn-al regeneration of our business system? "No panic, however severe, can make wrong right. No man who sincerely !- lieved the administration right in its measures to punish violations of law can now be turned from the earnest support of that policy to-day. "If the abuses of monopoly and discrimination cannot be restrained ; if the concentration of power made possible by sich abases continues anc increases, and it is made manifest that under the system of Individualism and private property the tyranny and opposition of an oligarchy of wealth cannot be avoided, then socialism will triumph and the institution of private property will perish." The Secretary held that the administration in showing that the dangers from individualism can be successfully regulated has stayed the coming of socialism and cobclading, said: "Any one who seeks a retrograde step

fron the policy of the administration on the theory that it would be a mil step toward conservatism is blind to every political sign of the times."

Currency Legislation. American financiers are a practical unit in recognizing the necessity for a more elastic currency system, but from that point there Is a wide divergence of opinion. ( President" Roosevelt, who, on most matters of public interest, entertains definite views, refrained from committing hlmsvdf in id last annual message I to any particular currency reform, although he declared with emphasis that reform was necessary. Secretary Cortelyou contented himself with showing the disadvantages under which this country is working, because our currency system falls tu meet conditions. Exp ts in the fhi.mcial world, men who lave made a study of finance and a sux-ess in business, have taken up the subject more practically and yet left the layman absolutely in the dark, for the reason that scarcely two of the;a agree as to the best method for affording relief. Comptroller Ridgeley favors the Incorporation of a mitral bank, and cites the exierieace of older couutries in support of his plan. Chairman Fowler, of the House committee on banking and currency, would convert credit notes into bank notes, and submit an elaborate argument against the central bank proposition. Kx-Gov. llerrick, at the head ol Ohio's largest financial institution, and Andrew Carnegie plead for a currency system based on assets, hurt the latter maintains that the evolution must be gradual, not immediate. While this discussion is going on out side, Congress is doing nothing and conditions are slowly righting themselves. Obviously, If any amendment to the o:vrency laws is passed, It will bo or.1; after an extended debate. Po sibly bei. e the lawmakers settle down to a consideration of the subject, the country will have entirely recovered from its monetary Indisposition, and then more pressing subjects will ba given the center cf the stage. Inasmuch as it appears to - bo the program of the majority In Congress to transact as little business as possible during the present session, prospects are not bright for currency reform. Toledo Blade. Government Evpene. Chairman Tawney of the appropriations committee is very emphatic in his conclusions that the government must pursue a policy of retrenchment or face a deficit. jOur expenses are catching up rapidly wit j the revenues, and the estimates for the next fiscal year 'are sc large that only a horizontal pruning process will leave any considerable margin. The estimates for the army and navy are $100,000,000 in excess of those for the preceding year, and these do not provide for additional battleships recommended by the President and Secretary of the Navy. The chairman's es, peeial reference to these estimates leads' to the conclusion that here, in his opin Ion the pruning knife should be most vigorously applied, a proposition In accord with popular opinion. If ther is any merit In the International peace propaganda, the United States, bettet than any European nation, can afford to take the initiative in placing mow reliance on arbitration and less on guns and battleships. Besides, we are all vitally concerned In the development of our inland waterways, which, according to conservative estimates, will Involve an annual out lay of $30,000,000 for the next ter years. Practically no argument ha been urged against this grand project, and If Congress does not tie its hands by committing itself to an expensive army and navy policy, there is no reason why we should not begin operation; at an early date. One thing is certain the government cannot maintain the navy and army or. a war basis and at the same tinie cany on a broad system of internal improvements unless it provides a greater revenue. Denver, July Seventh. After all, money talks. That feross of gold" is not so muct of a bugbear to the Bryauites as -il was a few years ago. Denver was awarded the Democratic national convention because she eame forward with a pile of the precious metal that none of the other contestants for the honor could or would match. Democrats may virtuously spurn th contributions of private corporations for campaign purposes, but it is another matter when a municipal corporation plunks $100,000 in gold before their v-jry eyes as the price It is willing to pay for the privilege of securing the great national powwow. The date July 7 is considerably later than was anticipated. Some members of the committee even advocated the plan of holding the convention early In June, before the Republican convention, but it developed that the question of time was considered unimportant, and the location probably determined the date. The Ilemt Place to Have a noil. If the Democrats were at this moment in control of the Presidency and both bouses of Congress they would not revise the tariff. They would not dare. Their idea as to tariff revision agree with Josh Billings remark that "the best place to have a boil is on some other fellow. So they stand off and urge tariff revision upon the Republican party. And a lot of Republicans are foolish enough to furnish political capital to the Democratic party by joining in the clamor for tariff revision. Ongbi ot t.o He I'ndertnten. Stand-patters, so-called, regard no particular tariff now as sacred, but theydo say Trat when conditions are such as they are now, and as they have been, that any movement which would injvitably disturb industrial condition, create doubt and uncertainty and co.iquont hard times, ought not to be undertaken except fur the gravest reasons. Unless it can be demonstrated tht more good than harm will ome out of such a thing It had better be postponed until such a time as we can bo sure that the good results will outweigh th bad effects. Gladstone (Mich.) Delta. Evidence 1'noujjh. "Tell me, brother, is it possible to let Robert know that I am an heiress? "Has b proposed to you?" "Yes." "Well, you may be sure he knowi It already." Fliegende Blaetter.

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Hammer Holila Xall. A hammer which is especially useful In facilitating the application of nails in inaccessible places, such as a corner, ror instance, has been recently patented by a New York man. As shown In the illustration, the hammer Is similar to the ordinary hammer used by ca rpenters, etc., with an attachment for holding the nail so ns to start it In HOLDS THE NAIL. the wood without the necessity of holding the nail In the fingers when the first blows of the hammer are struck. On the inner side of the hammer head is a groove,' for the reception of a nail. The latter is held In position by a wire spring, the head of tho nail resting against a projection on the hammer head With the nail in position, a Hgh blow is struck with the hammer, so as to seat the point of the nail In the wood By an upward movement of the hammer the nail quickly disengages Itself fiS-m the spring -atch, the hammer being then used to drive the nail !n the wood. Trank and Wardrobe. The first trunk was made In the time of Coesar, the students of archeology tell os. It was a leather affair similar In many respects to the typical trunk of the present day or yesterday, to be more accurate for the trunk has Just' undergone some radical changes. Up to a few decades ago this convenient ar ticle retained the waruboce tku.nk. same general shape and appearance of Its forbears, but of more recent years the Improvements mad In the transportation methods have iermltted the Innovations referred to whkh were impossible before. To-day there is a vast örrny of people who practically live in a trunk. In the large cities there are hordes of people whoso earthly possessions are stored away in a trunk. They pack up their trunks and move from place TTTT TATTTKT T A T VT tJTTTJTTP About S o'clock on an evening In haying time the church bill began to clang noisily ; and as all the town came out on its respective porches, little Jimmy Griggs sprinted up th road, shouting to every household, "It's the tao-.vn barn! It's the taown barn!" The town barn ! Young and old, rich and poor, sick and well, every one within the corporate limits, and within hearing distance of Jimmy and the bell, turned out Instantly. When it Is only a man's house burning, his neighbors are relied on to help put the fire out, but every family In town pays taxes to build and keep up the town barn, and every one of them Is going to see to It that not a piece of wood that can bo saved is left to burn. So it was In Pinckneyville that night In hay time. Worst luck of all, the town hay had just been cured and hoisted in, and It was all In the loft of the barn. The Griggs family, living nearest, was there first; but the tire, in the Bhed where the wagons stood, had hardly got fairly ablaze lofore the taxpayers were all there, rolling out the hose cart and the ladder truck, pulling out the old hand pump, and throwing hand extinguishers out of the window to save them from the fire. "Get the hose, boys!" shouted Si Plummer; and suiting his own action to the word, he grabbed a flity-foot roll ami ran for the nearest hydrant. Man after man came behind him, each with a section. At the hydrant Si tugged vainly at the cap which coveted tho pipe. "Git a spanner!" he roared at every one. "Git a spanner!" roared every one else back toward thebarn. "Can't ye turn It with your hands, SI?" asked old Billy Parsons. "Saw. Think I'm an elephant? Try

THEN AND NOW.

to place like the Arab, who folded his tent and stole away, the modern often ns silently ns the aforesaid Arab was reputed to have done. There Is also the stream of traveling people to whom the trunk Is an Invaluable bit of Impedimenta. To any of these the value of an attachment which will make the trunk into a wardrobe will Instantly appeal. This forms into the subject of a recent patent granted to a Racine man. It xnsists of a metal rod bent at a right angle and secured at either end of the rod to tho interior of the trunk at one end of the trunk. The rod acts as a traveling way for hangers, adapted to hold the garments, and when the trunk Is stood up on end it is, by this new invention, iossible to shift the different garments around so that the desired piece can be reached with little difficulty. Under ordinary circumstances It would be necessary to completely unpack the trunk to get at its contents. AVelarhtlean Dalanee Scale. A weighing device constructed on entirely new lines, yet withal on the old principle, Is shown herewith, the In vention of a resident of Rose Farm, Ohio. The extreme simplicity of the device will be apparent to all. It will be seen that the apparatus is capable of the finest adjustment, and at the same time has no weights. With the yO WEIGHTS. finer scales these weights are often so tiny that they can become lost in plte of the greatest caution. In the new device two standards rising from, a suitable base supports a disk, the latter moving in journals at the top of the standards. In a normal position the disk is balanced In a horizontal position. One of the free sides of the disk contains a graduated scale around its edge and also a bar plvotally mounted at the center of the disk and traveling over the graduations marked ca the edge. The opposite edge contains a scoop receptacle for receiving the material to be weighed. The material Is balanced by the moving rod and which indicates the weight While It can be built for all kinds of commodities, this scale is best adapted for fine weighing.

it yourself, you idiot! GJt a spanner, somebody." "By this time a small boy had darted away for a spanner, and while he was gone Si ad his critics argued vainly the general question of opening fire plugs with the right sort of a twist of the hands. "Play away hose! Turn on the water!" came a bellowing wall from the far distance, where a group of townsmen were standing in very hot proximity to the fire, holding a nozzle that grew hotter and hotter. "Git a spanner!" roared Si, In reply. Just then one was: thrust Into his hands, and la a moment the plug was open, the ho.'e coupled and tho water turnod on. Half way down the line there was a sudden commotion, a sizzle, and then a roar and a chorus of shrieks cs a fcroup of women and girls seatteivd from the neighborhood of tho hose. Some one had forgoiten to couple a joint there. 'Turn her off, Si," and Si turned "her" off till th? Joint was made, and then sent the stream spurting straight Into the blazing hay loft. The next line went cn easier, and as the ladders were up by this time, the roof of the barn over the hay was drenched, th? fire in the gable attacked, and the hay reduced to sullen smoking. But the wagon shed still blazed unchecked. "Git more hose!" roared SI, now thoroughly Installed as firo marshal of c occasion. A dozen younger men ran to lay a lead and couple on. But at the hydrant down the road stood Squire Terwilllger, as steadfast as a rock. "Xo, ye don't,, either!" he shouted, as they came up with hoso and spanner. "There are two streams of water onto that barn now, and that's all there's going to be. Every drop of that water has to be paid for out o' the taxes, and I ain't going to see any of it wasted. Tho squire was adamant "Sil Si!" went up the loud shout

"Come here and git this hydrant open !" The squire wagged his beard. "So, 'n' he can't do it, either," he said. And then all of a sudden the lifmt went out. A well directed stream had put out the blaze in the shed, and tho barn was saved. "'N', yes," fald the squire. " 'N' those fellers'd have spent more waler'n they'd have saved barn if I hadn't stood up to 'em.'

SCXGS OUR MOTHERS SUNG. In (be Majority of These the Heroine Always Paed Away. It may not be generaly known that Fanny Crosby, now spoken of only as a hymn writer, used to drop Into weekday verse, supplying words for songs more popular in their day than are any of the new things heard by music lovers of these later times, says the New York Post, i The matron who Is now being "courted again in her girls" will, if she has a good memory, recall a doleful song that her Charlie and his rivals used to ask for when she wore ringlets and broad-brimmed gypsy hats: "In the Hazel Dell My Nellie's Sleeping," the words of which were written by Fannie Crosby, under a pen name. This same matron had not been married Ion?; enough to give up her music when "Rosalie, the Prairie Flower" '(words by the same author) had all sentimental young people weeping because "she" was "gone." It was the fashion In those days for song heroines, to die young, and Miss Crosby wasn't any more murderously inclined than other song writers. At that time "Sweet Alice," under her slab of granite so gray, was still popular, and listeners were informed that "Gentle Annie" wouldn't come any more because she was "gone, too," though "Fair Eulalle" appeared sometimes as a spirit robed in white. We had not long glvn up weeping at ( "Little Blossom's" tomb when "Sweet Belle Mahone" went to wait for her lover (captious criftcs had it that she waited In vain) at heaven's gate. While "Katie Darling" was still being mourned for the angels began to cleat the way for "Nollle Gray's" faithful aflWinced to jkln her up above. "Kate Darling has probably a longer season of heirship than any other dead girl, but -she was closely followed by Miss Crosby's "Rosalie." The little beauty, "Belle Brandon," w;as another young person of the "Prairie Flower genius, but in spite of her early grave she was never so. popular as were some of her rivals. To be sure, the old songs were somewhat niminy-piminy and they were doleful to a degree, but nevertheless they werö what the young people cried for in those days and they were doubtless unobjectionable. The words were all more or less of the "Mary in Hearen" order of verse, and surely Burns was at his best when he lay on the grass, watching "yon lingering star" and. dreaming of one without the memory of whom he had, perhaps, never been a true poet. Why the Actor Wan Sore. An actor without funds managed Iz some way to get a second class ticket on a line of steamers running between Seattle and San Francisco. The voyage betwen tnese tvro points consumed the better part of three days, and In view of the fact that his finances were at low ebb he solved the question In this way. Tho first day out he slept oil day to keep from eating and remained up all night to keep from sleeping. The second day he took physical culture exercises. On the third day hp could not stand the strain any longer and went down In the dining room and or dered the best meal on oard the boat. While eating this meal he could see in his mind's ce a picture of a cell In the bastile in San Francisco. After finishing h's meal he said to the waiter, "How much do I owe you?" "Nothing," replied the waiter, "your meals are Included in your ticket" San Francisco Argonaut. A Secret. Little Mary was devotedly attached to a neighbor's cat and went every day to play with it. One day she returned home, her eyes big with excitement. "Why, mother," she exclaimed, "pussy has kittens, and I didn't even know she was married." Llppiuoott's. Siandi that Way. Yeast This paper says there are 4-1,000 total abstainers in the English army. Crlmsonbeak Oh, well, that means In the Salvation Army. Yonkcrs Statesman. Treat everyone as though you expected him to become your enemy In time. Th's course will save you many a humiliation. We all have our troubles, yours? What's

THE BOOMING CANNON

RECITALS OF CAflP AND BATTLE INCIDENTS. 5nrTlrora at the Rebellion Relate Blany Amnnlns and Starlllne Incidents of Marches, Camp Life, ForBfflnff experience and Datties. "In 1801 Andrew Johnson was Un'Jttd States Senator from Tennessee," said the Doctor, "He stood with the Unionists and used the harshest language In criticism of the secessionists, lie returned with his family to Tennessee and caused more commotion than any other man in the State. The people of Tennessee had voted strongly igainst secession, and Johnson believed that the State could be saved to the Union. But the fact that he was well known and popular and a fighter caused him to be made the object of bitter attack on the part of those engaged In the Intrigue to take Tennessee out of the Union. "lie was abused in the newspapers, attacked by mobs, and hanged in effigy, lie knew every man In public life in the State, and he did not hesitate to deal in the most pointed personalities. It was Decessary to silence him, and all sorts of schemes and influences were resorted to. But Johnson went to his old home in East Tennessee, mado strong Union addresses at the conventions held In that part of the State, and was so active and aggressive that force was resorted to, and he was Irlven from his home. Defending hlmlelf on one occasion, pistol in hand, he told the mob that he would go, but that he would come back. "In March, 1SG2, he went back as military Governor of the State, and he remembered every word said against him and every indignity heaped upon him in 1SC1. lie remembered the wrongs of his neighbors driven from East Tennessee, and the persecution of his own family, and he acted up to the demands of the hour. I was in Nashville at the time, and I retain rlvid Impressions of the events of each lay. When the Union troops occupied the city a number of the leading generals called formally on Mrs. Polk, and jvere courteously received. A few days later General Nelson took one of his brigades out to the Hermitage and marched it in stately ceremony around the tomb of Jackson. Some of the Union officers from Ohio and Kentucky renewed their acquaintance with Nashville's aristocracy, but Johnson held aloof. "His family was in the hands of the Confederates, but his first orders meant war to the knife. He spoke contemptnously of Governor Isham G. Harris, and yet when Mrs. Johnson was ordered, from her home In Greenville by General KIrby Smith, Harris Interceded In her behalf and secured an order from Richmond passing lier through the lines to Nashville. Bluff old Nelson, In his march southward from Nashville, turned his division from the road to let the widow of General Zollikoffer pass. But Johnson paid no honors to his old enemies, or the enemies ot the Union. "The families of several of the Confederate Generals remained in Nash-' vllle when the rebels moved South, and pome of them presumed upon their position and upon old acquaintance. Johnson would have none of It. On one occasion in the summer after Shiloh, when Forrest was only a few miles from the city, the leading Confederates families were jubilant and the Unionists in dismay. Johnson called a public meeting at the capltol and Invited citizens of all parties to be present. This, it was rumored on the streets, was the beginning of the end. "A friend and myself went ovr to the meeting. When we arrived at the statehouse we found no crowd outside, oot a single individual in the halls and corridors. We thought we had made a mistake as to the time or that the people had been afraid to come. At last we saw a group of excited, scared men looking Into the Assembly hall. We went toward them, but there was no noise none of the confusion Incident to a public meeting. But Inside the large hall was packed with men and women, all listening In a dazed way to a man who was speaking from the platform in a low, Incisive tone. That man was Andrew Johnson. "Not a foot or a hand In all that audience moved. Unionists and Confederates were listening In silence, amazed or awed by the manner of tho speaker and the grave Import of his utterances. Johnson, with his flnv pointing at a group of stylishly dressed women, was saying: 'I know you every one, and I know of your plans. Send this word out to your friends this evening. A crisis has come, but Andrew Johnson will not sneak away as did your Governor, Isham O. Harris. Tell your friends ready to attack the city to attack. , They will find me here. But tell them also tha the minute they cross the city's line I will turn these batteries on Capitol hill look at them as you go out on the city, on your homes. Tell them that, and let them come at their peril and yours.' "This was received in dead silence. The Confederates present knew that Johnson was not talking for effect. They knew their man nnd they felt he would do what he said. In the quiet that followed his threat Johnson turned to the Union men to say some encouraging words. He told them of threats made to kill him, to intimidate them, and to precipitate a panic in the city. He asked all of them to show their hands, to stand by the flag, to proclaim to the spies and traitors in their midst that they were not afraid. Ho then proposed that a procession be formed at omv and that the Union men march through the streets of the city. "Men shook their heads at this. Those in business were reluctant at such a time to make themselves conspicuous. But wtr.i they reached the stret Johnson called the flag bearer to his side, placed himself at the head of the half-formed procession, ordered the band to play a national air, and started. This turned the scale and the great crowd on the street fell In behind him, and ii grew larger and larger as It marched. It was Johnson's answer to Forrest The city was not attacked." Chicago Inter Ocean. The First Colored Soldier. The severest trial in our regiment," said the Doctor, "came when the government decided to enlist and organize negroes into regiments. People of this day have violent racial prejudices, but they cannot understand the unreasoning prejudice of the soldiers against arming the blacks. Our colonel was a hard-headed pro-slavery man, and at a poker game he made the remark that

If Lincoln accepted negro regiments, he would march his regiment out of camp, stack arms, and order the men to go home. Many of the boys believed he would do just as he said, and they discussed the matter In a way to make the President's ears burn. "There were all sorts of reports in camp. One was that one colored regiment was to be attached to each brigade to do the ditchirg and trenching and to load and unload wagons, and to build roads and bridges. This report was received seriously, and when a thousand colored men camped a few miles from us without arms, the boys thought Old Abe's head was level after all. It was all right for the darkles to relieve the fighters of the army of hard work, but the boys objected to men enlisted to work wearing the uniform. But on a certain day It was reported that guns and equipments had been Issued to the colored regiment, and our own men looked .to the colonel to be as good as his word. "A few days later the colonel sent a company of our regiment over to tht negro camp x show the darkles how tc drill. The men came back disinclined to talk. The next day another com pany was sent, and on their return tht men were less inclined to talk thai those of the first company. It was ad mitted, however, that the darkiei would make good soldiers.- 'By gumf said Happy Jack, who was a little giv en to dandyism in his clothes, 'thosi coons treat their blouses and trousen as though they were made of fine silk They won't even sit down m tht ground for fear they may soil tho armj blue. I actually saw one fellow put 1 handkerchief down on a log before h sat down. "But the coons, Jack declared, coul stand in a line as straight and couli take the position of the soldier as well as anybody. After they saw the company of white men go through tht manual of arms, they took their own rifles nnd went through the movement! very much as did the whites. Thej were In command of an old volunteei officer, to whom they were greatly attached, and the boys wondered what they would do if Morgan or Forrest should make a dash on their camp soma time when the darkies were asleep. "Not many weeks after that and before our own men were called upon for any formal expression of opinion, the negro regiment was in an engagement The men went In steadily, with their eyes on the colonel, and, although they met a furious Sre, they followed their colonel into the midst of one of the severest engagements of the war. Not a man faltered, and when the regiment came out It left a good many dead on the field. That night the question of negro troops was discussed in a new light, and Jbe boys who were going to desert changed their mind. Some one reproached the -colonel for what he had said about enlisting colored men, and asked him what he was going to do atout It He said shortly: 'I will obey orders, just as you will And in the end there was no trouble about arming the blacks."

A Tratcedr of the Civil War. Not all the sad stories of war-time come from the battle-field. Many a heart-break Is not recorded on the list of tho killed and wounded. The Civil War knew . no more tragic occurrence f than the following Incident, taken from the New York Sun. A soldier had enlisted from his home In Georgia, where his father remained undisturbed through the struggle. The young man fought through the war without a scratch, save a slight wound which left him a little deaf. This affliction he never mentioned in his letters. After the surrender he sent his father word that he would reach home about a certain date. Travel then was uncertain, and he could not! tell Just when he would arrive. His father prepared to receive him. He had brought out the best plate, which had been secreted for a long time, and w ith gold which had been exhumed he bought such substantial and delicacies as the Southern market at that time afforded. As many of the old-time neighbors as were living In the vicinity were invited to the homecoming. Tie young soldier arrived on the plantation the night before the earliest date he had mentioned. It was late and the family had retired, but the dog heard the noise and began to bark. The sound roused the father, who rose and got his shotgun. The country was overrun at the time with stragglers and sneak-thieves. The father, gun In hand, went to the door, saw the approaching figure and challenged it. The young man, being deaf, made no reply, but still advanced, whereupon the father raised his gun and fired. His son fell, shot through the heart. It was a pitiful sight to see that almost crazed father carrying his lifeless son into the home which had been made ready to welcome him. The next day the gr-ests arrived. Instead of Joyously greeting the returned soldier, they gazed at the still form, wrapped In the flag for which the young man had bravely fought. Every private bnrlalground had in It a grave made by the war, but no funeral like that ever took place In the vicinity, or, possibly, in the whole South A Saving Spirit. Most soldiers are only too glad of light burdens ou a march. Not so " Uncle Robert." III4 bump of acquisitiveness overbalanced all Inertia, and his muscles resionded readily to the call of possession. J. A. Munroe, in "Reminiscences of the Rebellion," tells how the old soldier's knapsack was lightened. The officers of the battery report ed to me that Uncle Robert had about a cart load of old trash, and that they were unable to make him get rid of any part of it. He had an Itching for picking up anything which h- thought might, under any circumstances, como Into play: I directed the sergeant to bring Uncle Robert up with his knapsack. He roiorted, carrying that article and a huge bundle of traps tied up in a blanket Never was such a miscellaneous lot of stuff put into small a space before or since. There was almost everthlng in the way of small notions: shoo strings, socks of all sizes, and old clothing of every description. Perhaps the funniest thing of all was an oli cast iron cook Ptove which ho had come across In some deserted house, taken to pieces and carefully packed among the clothing. I ordered most of the things thrown into the fire, a proceeding which nearly broke the old man's her.rt, but which greatly reduced the weight of his knapsack. Wifey Harry, I want ten dollars for pin money. Hubby Here it is, but I am darned glad that you don't want to buy spike.

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