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IVerr Preachment of Old Xith. Mr. Hoot's sieecli n Albany con cerced Itself with themes of fundanien tal Interest at a time In which Borne fundamental principles of our Ameri can systems are challenged. Flippant ly challenged, we believe, by superfl clal thinkers and too zealous reformers wlo expect some mechanical contrl vauce. If adopted, to furnish adequate substitute for political energy and sin cerity. Mr. Itoot pronounced himself "a convinced and uncompromising nationalist of the school of Alexander Hamilton." lie declared his belief In the exercise of the "powers of the national government to the full limit "of the constitutional grants, as those grants were construed by John Marshall." Nevertheless, Mr. Hoot pleaded for State rower within the limits of constitutional authority. He said: I believe that the founders of the republic builded more wisely than they knew when they act the limits between The exercise of that national power and the exercise of fie local powers by too States." That is the truth. The United States, which la yet a nation, has become a nation tnd escaped becoming, first, a centralized bureaucracy and, second, a warring mass of separate sections, because our system has included the contradiction of active States ami sovereign nation, because Washington has exercised all hir constitutional towers without intrudiug on the functions of the States, and the latter have preserved their respective individualities and various virilities without emasculating the powers of the central government. That is an old story, many times retold. But the benefit this duality has conferred upon our people cannot be too much emphasized. Contrastingly, Europe has suffered always, either from centralization so developed that it has become tyrannous or inadequate for local needs, or from disintegration into local units that jealously forbade the stablishing of any national government worthy of the name. America Is the one great example of a successful federation, a federation that ueeeeds in being a nation with out sacrifice oi local community life, that succeeds in promoting vitality in its units without reducing the central authority to a shadow. The fortuitous chance or the providential inspiration that Induced the fathers to adjust this nice balance in the beginning of our national life has conferred upon us an invaluable Inheritance. Let us not, as Esau, traffic lightly with that heritage. Let us preserve it as the most priceless privilege ver confided to a people's cart-. For the truth Is that on last analysis the troubles of most peoples may 1 reduced to a wrong adjustment between local and general government. What Is the British empire to-day but a confederation blindly striving to develop into a fed. ration? What were the pains of Germany lefore 1S71, but those of too much i local government, and what are those to-day Dut of too much central government For us this whote trouble has been discounted in advance. v All that is required of us is to preserve the nice adjustment that we have Inherited, to be Hamiltonlans nationally, to be JofferBonlan3 locally. For Hamilton would not have exceeded the powers of the nation as defined In the constitution. And Jefferson, remember, was as President a great eiemplar of true nationalism. All that is required of us is to preserve In vigor :xth our States and the nation; but al" of that Is required of us. So we shall avoid those twin dangers which Mr. Root perceives to menace, us: the breaking down of the selfgovernment of the States, the breaking down of the government at Washington by casting upon It burdens the States should not shift from therar elves. The States are units, living political organisms, sovereign personalities as auch they must be realized, uiiwt be continued- State pride, State consciousness must be revived. The people of each State must learn to rise seriously to the disposition of State matters, as they do to t je disposition of national matters. States as States must retain their representation at Washington. This matter of national OState representation is. as Mr. Root declares, vital, Minneaimlis Journal. The Willett Incident. It was an exhibition of wretched tate on the part of Representative Willett of New York when he engaged In a bitter and senseless excoriation of President Roosevelt on the fioor of the House. And it is gratifying to note that many Democrats as well as Republicans united to cut short his intemperate remarks, which were not apropos of any subject under debate. CritldwiS of Mr. Roosevelt as a public official have been plentiful. No man In pufblic life in this country more freely Invited censure for hir fflcial acts, and when blows cane they usually found the recipient raiy to receive them, and to return th?m. But none of his political critics or vtn his Iraonal enemies up to the tim? of the Willett incident has reflected on the President's family antecedents, which, Tor all we know, have been wholly hon-M-abte and beyond reproach. , Representative Willett should have been muzzled. If he had sough f to create sympathy for the President he could not have hit upon a better way. Ills attack showed more rancor than judgment more bile than common sense. The President's family was not on trial. If the New York speaker had eliminated those absurd and manifestly extraneous personalities from his address and confined himself to legitimate criticism of the President's official acts, he would have stood un reproved by Congress cr the country, I nder the circumstances the Willett outbreak can only be set down as the swaggering diatribe of a sophomorlc M!ltician who sought to gain momentary attention by the audacity of his Impudence. Kansas City Journal. The Japanese Adjustment. The thoughtful, conservative element of the Californians Is asserting l.'self, and the objectionable measures which vre before the Legislature are to be defeated. All of tbe anti-Japaucse bills except the one to prohibit the own.'ng of real estate by aliens have

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-TV $ v been postpomnl, and it Is understood thpj they will either be unacted upon ort . defeated. It Is the opinion of Viwfulent Roosevelt. Governor Glllett and Speaker Stanton, of the Legislature, that as this measure Is broad in scope it can not assail any treaty which we have with Japan or any other country. There is a feeling among many Californians that a measure on the lines of the alien ownership bill Is needed for the State, and It probably will pass. Johnson, the author of moct of the objectionable measures, says he will press all of them, notwithstanding the opposition of Governor GUlett. who threatens to veto them If they i iould reach him, and also despite the hostility of Speaker Stanton, who has arrayed what appears to be a majority of his chamber against them. It Is evi dent, however, that, aside from the alien ownership bill, none of the meas ures can pass. In his message of remonstrance to the Legislature Governor Glllett told some needed truths. We must remem ber," he said, "that no law that this State can enact can stop Japanese Immigration. Congress alone is vested with authority to pa5 such legisla tion. We must also recognize the fact that the Japanese among us are the subjects of a friendly nation, and are entitled to the same treatment under our laws, and to the same privileges and Immunities, as are guaranteed to the subjects of the most favored na tions." St. Louis Globe-Democrat The President's Salary. No fair-minded citizen will object to the decision of the Senate to raise the pty of the President. It has been recognized for many years that the sum allowed to the chief executive was In nowise adequate for the ex penditures he is called upon to make. With possibly a few exceptions, every President of the United States Las de parted from ofnVe poorer than he was uion entering it. This Is a rich country, says the To ledo Blade. The material wealth "is far beyond that enjoyed in most of the countries of Euroiie. Yet, for purely political reasons, it has been thought t5 Oonress that $0.000 was sufficient for all the needs and dignities of the White House. Senator Bailey argued on the floor of the Senate that the pay was quite ample, and that It was an outrage to expect the country to pay for the entertainments given at the executive mansion. Let the . President cut out the entertainment, says Senator Bailey. Rut custom is a law no bs than are the statutes filed away in calf-bound volumes. It has always been the practice of the bends of governments to entertain lavishly. It Is one of the levers of diplomacy, these dinners and .dances. The peace of the world has many a time bwn determiner! by the viands served at the tables of those high i:i power. 'The President of France draws a salary of $120,000 a year and Is allowed a like sum for expenses. Here : re a few figures showing the civil lists of a few monarchs of Europe: AustriaHungary, $3,873.000: Belgium. $000,XX; Denmark. $227.000; Greece, $20O,000; Great Rrltain, the- king and queen receive $2,3Ti0.000 and the remainder of the royal family are allowed $300,000; Italy, $3,010.000; Portugal, $307.000; Prussia. $..84U21 ; Saxony, $5452,OOO; Servla, $204.000; Spain. $1,703,000, besides $000,000 annually for the royal family. While it is to be hoped that the magnificence of the courts of Europe may never be adopted in Washington, the Incomes of the minor ' sovereigns and of the President of the United States might be brought closer together without straining the credit of the ration and without creating the belief that our executives are treated too liberally. Working- the Opportunity. There are S8S members of the Six tieth Congress, all of them, so far as known, endowed with limber arms, with wrists capable of eloquent projection and with trained lungs. Now some score or two or three of those members have taken advantage of the fact that Theodore Roosevelt retires from the executive chair on March 4 and thereafter can do them no hurt or cause them worry. They have leaped to their feet and delivered outbursts of righteous anger because their prerogatives have been selzeL their dignity wounded and their footsteps dogged, the leaping coming after the votes were all counted at the last general election. One of these fiery patriots had the floor the other day, mounting to magnificent heights of racket and splashing great splashes of ditch water. It was his turn and he made the best of it, and according to his lights and his mental caliber. Here are some typical flowers from his rose garden: , "The beneficiary of assassination. "The mammoth jocularity." "The gargoyle." The scion of a family of trading Dutch." "A solecism, sui generis, a mixed metaphor vlvant, an Impossibility." "The President showed his teeth at all real heroes because real heroes are gall and wormwood to bogus ones." Let everyone have his turn, tlie entire 288. It Is so pleasant to the country to know that It Las a Congress of which every member is brave enough to ppeak his mind after all danger is over. Toledo Blade. Silly Uttle Nevada. The rambling and ungrammatical bit of l'uneombe which the Nevada legislatuie offers as its contribution to the Japanese question on the Pacific coast would pass unnoticed In ordinary times. For we are not accustomed to pay much attention to the State that has never had a population larger than that of an average congressional district. Yet Japan ds not know this. In her eyes a State Is a State, and It may well add danger to the present delicate situation to have California's aggressive selfishness backed up by a second commonwealth. At the time of the last mining strike Theodore Itoosevelt was compelled to take Nevada by the back of 'the neck and make it play the man. Tetty revenge for this service rather than race hatred is probably the motive for the present outbreak at Carson City. Chicago Post

The dearest girl in all the towa! I "My Valentine." I name her; Tor, though she's never really glrea I In words the right to claim her.

rue glances Dolly bend on me. Her smites could not be sweeter ' sometimes fancy, though, I see The same bestowed on Peter. Tor many a day I've lonjjed to say : 'I lore you, Dolly, dearest ; 8ut never can I speak the words That to my heart are nearest ; Tor such a bashful man am I. That when, by chance together, I always stammer, blush and sigh And talk about the weather ! TU strange that mäkln? love should be So dread an undertaking. rh.it Just the very thought of It Should set my knees a shaking ; .ud when I try my very best To turn a sentence neatly. The few Ideas with which I'm blest Should Hy away completely '. ( sit beside her In the choir. We share one book together, ind after service I slip In Rome trite remarks on weather While walking with her to the door But waiting there to meet her (a sure to be that tiresome bore. That same persistent Peter ! . 5ut yesterday. In gentlest wey, She smiled at me demurely, ( clasped her little hand In mineShe knew I loved her surely. (d desperate haste I racked my brain Some happy phrase to borrow. Then fondly said : "We shall have rain, I fear, before to-morrow." This day of all the year I hoped The rates might be propitious Ind help my tongue to frame my thoughts la language more judicious ; 9r If my words, despite my care. Should touch upon the weather. They might suggest that we could share Life's storm and shine together. Th sweetest girl in all the tonn! An hour ago I met her She looked a vision of delight Ah! how can I forget her? Enraptured, at her side I walked. And really, for a wonder. Of wind and storm I never talked. Nor mentioned rain and thunder. My bashfulness forsook me quite The hour for which I'd waited Had come at last, and ardent words Would soon my case have stated; But when I urged my eager plea And tenderly would greet her. She said : "I've Just agreed to be A valentine to Peter." Ellen Manly, in Sunday Magazine. r mm ti iviary tuen s f rai.a.w T uiviiuuv 'I t t X t The last winds of February were howling around the little brick school house and the pupils in the back s?ats shivered with cold. Mary Ellon sat in the second row because she was only seven years old, and the direct rays from the glowing stove made her cheeks burn. This gave an excuse for turning her face aside, and then she could exchange smiles with her dearly loved friend Arabella, who sat at the next desk on her right. Novelty always possessed great charm for little Mary Ellen, and by turning to the left she could feast her eyes in looking at Rufus Bally, a new boy. He was ten years old and sat in the third row. He had tow-colored hair and a A CIGGLE RAX BOUND THE SCHOOL big nose, but Mary Ellen made herself believe that she was deeply In love yvith him. A new slate was her most cherished possession, and on it she printed the name of Ilufus over and over again. Three days before the day of good St. Valentino poetry came all unexpected to little Mary Ellen. I think Of thee dea Rufus, When the storm Goes round my bed ; I lie there In wonder And think Perhaps he's dead." She printed them upon her slate, and then came a yearning for fame. She could hardly wait for recess time, that Bhe might ,proudly display the lines to her little chum. Arabella'.- wonder and admiratlou tvere as Incense in the nostrils of the child poet, but she was somewhat disturbed when Arabella asked: "Do you really lie awake nights? And nbat makes you think Huf us may be Jead?" Not being able ti explain It, Mary Ellen compromised by putting her s'iate on the woodpile and saying: "Come, let's go and play, quick before the bell rings." All too soon that summons came, and they lingered till the last minute, and hen, quite forgetful of the slate In the woodshed, they ran in Just as the boys fame trooping out for their turn at recreation. Soon a great shouting, with Jeering jails at "dear Rufus," were htard outjdde, and Mary Ellen turned pale at the recollection of her beloved rlate. As soon as the boys were called in she begged permission to go out A giggle ran around the school room when she returned with the slate clasped In her arms. An angry gleam shot from the pale gray eyes of Rufus, who was destined for many a day to hear the lines repeated with all manner of variations. Mary Ellen, however, expeiienced a thrill of tremulous joy In thinking that ilufus must now be aware of her tender regard. It was a blissful thought! On opening her desk one morning she found a strip of paper tightly rolled. When she had smoothed it out, her astonished eyes read these heartless words : 44 You are the biggest old boby ever went to school. You think I like you, but I don't." Laagbed at Ilia Own Stories. The world has read "Lincoln stories" and enjoyed them. The testimony of all who heard Lincoln tell his stories is that they sounded even better than they read. Lincoln, those w'io knew him well say. smiled and chuckled and laughed outright as he proceeded with his narrative. Sometimes he . topped and laughed aloud before he reached his climax. He gave loealities and arsons to his stories. He Hvn1 over tht Incidents he described if they were personal reminiscences. He was not the professional entertainer. He enjoyed the story as much as the listener. lie told the story to Illustrate rather than for the mere sport of telling. Lincoln was a great Joker i.nd was

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LINCOLN AND HIS LOVE OF CHILDREN

LINCOLN AND IIILE Lincoln was still TT A T I frequent visitor at the Jj I wno lived four luIles V V I n.rlad v r. w.ilrlrt In

kind he was to children of the family. "Abe would come out to our house, drink milk, eat mush, cornbread and butter, bring the children candy and rock the cradle while I got him

something to eat He would tell stories and joke with the girls and boys at parties. He would nurse babies do anything to accommodate anybody." After Lincoln had children of his own he would go out into the woods and fields with tliein on Sundays. He was an Ideal playmate and compaulou. He would patiently answer their innumerable questions about everything in sight, explaining with unwearying good nature from his own limited knowledge of natural phenomena what everything meant, what this and that was for. If he thought however, that "Bob" or "Tad" deserved rebuke he was prompt and firm in his reproof. In the closing days of the war as the Union troops homeward-bound were marching by the White House, "Old Glory" was unfurled to the breeze from a balcony by the President himfe-'f. Put the irrepressible Tad the ; Archie Roosevelt of the Executive Mansion had somehow, somewhere found a Confederate flag and promptly displayed It at the same time that his father waved in air the star-spangled banner. Mr. Lincoln could not help laughing, and the crowd, following his example, Jaughed and cheered vociferously. Lincoln's j,ffectionate tenderness toward other people's children paralleled his loving kindness toward his own. One little girl who went hand-ln-hand with her futher to the White Ilousr to see the President had been told be was very ugly. Lincoln took the child upon his knee and beamed upon her, as he asked affectionately after her doll's health, and told her a funny story. Presently she turned to her father in a transport of delight, and exclaimed: "Why, papa, he isn't ugly nt all; he's just beautiful!" On the occasion of his visit to the National cemetery at Gettysburg to deliver his preat address, a little girl was lifted to the open window of his car to give him a bunch of roses. Overwhelmed at finding herself face to face with Mr. Lincoln, the child could only lisp the words, "Floweth for the President." He stooped and kissed her wee, fair face and delighted her by saylug even if she did not wholly understand his words: "You are a sweet little rosebud yourself. I hope your life will open Into perpetual beauty and goodness." ' One day Mr. Lincoln noticed among the throng of office seekers and visitors in the anteroom a little boy of ft ail and sickly appearance. Encouraged by the President's kindness, the lad told him falterlngly that he had been a drummer boy for two years, and then his colonel in a fit of passion dismissed him. Most of the time since he had t-pent In the hospital. His father and mother were not living and he had no family to whom h might appeal. Lincoln's eyes filled with tsars and he gave prompt orders that the proper authorities were "to care for this poor boy." The few still living who knew Lincoln In the Springfield days reiaeiaW the sight of a man. inordinately tall, with an old gray shawl in a loose roll like a boa round his neck and a little boy trotting along beside him on the way to market. One long, prehensile bony hand held the plump fist of Lincoln's first-born and the other clutched the handle of a great market bask?L The man In his mind would be miles away from the childish prattle of the boy beside him, deeply meditating some problem of state, some crux of polltics, though the walk would often be interrupted with a "Howd'y!" of recognition to a friend, and the Invariable story to be told, dispersing the characteristic melancholy of Lincoln's features. The picture appeals to the imagination. Wordsworth said of Milton tbat his soul "the humblest burdens on herself did lay;" and whether the burden was a market basket or a nation's manifest destiny, the man Lincoln was ready to carry It

always telling funny stories, making them apply to something that was said or done In his presence," is the way Lyman Lacey, Sr., of Havana (111.) puts It Mr. Lacey began to practice law in Havana In 1So7 and met Lincoln at court In the litigation of that period. "Lincoln was always being 'reminded of something,' as he would say, that had been said or done by some one. And he would name the person. Even when he lived In Menard County, as It Is known now, he had his .wn peculiar way of telling his stories. When he came to the point where the merriment should come in Lincoln would laugh very heartily, and then nlsh the story. The auditors would then laugh. Ry this habit he informed them where the laugh came In, If there was any doubt about it. Every one liked 401d Abe. as they called him." Columbia' Valentine. Uncle Sam came down the street, Twas long and long ago, lie bore a bulky letter-bag Through flakes of falling snow. And at the eagle-jruarded door Of Liberty's design, lie left for Mlsa Columbia A matchleas valentine. It shone with all the tints of mora And all the start of night. The ripples of Its silken folds Were striped with red and whits. The azure of a cloudless nkj Had lent Its hue divine In fadeless blue to glorify That peerless valentine. A rainbow to the world's oppressed It spans the western skies. Prom sea to sea around the globe Its deathless glory flies. And brighter still from year to 7 sir Its magic colors shine. The chosen symbol of the free, The nation's valentine. -By Minna Irving. Clever at It. . I'ronson Yes, my youngsters are both busy at home making valentines. Woodson Ah! That's a great deal better than letting them buy the comic atrocities thaKpre sola in the stores. IJronson I don't know. You haven't seen the atrocities my boys can, make.

HIS SON "TAD." living in New Salem, III., he was a Louse of a certalu "Jack" Armstrong, out in the country- Mrs Armstrong, tho I'hllrnlelnlil.i I.plirer has told how THE CASE ThovelßEtbo cf pictured wit cu always ndbce makes a. rut When lor acroo other mntis laeK3 lifterer,when it come 5 to yocr. OOOÜ I aAn Incident of Lincoln. When Lincoln was on his way to assume the office of President, the train was delayed at Freedom, Pa., by an accident to a freight train that was a little way ahead, and, while he was there, I saw hiru again. Some things happened that I have never seen ia print He was accompanied by Major Sumner, whom I knew as commander of the United States troops in Kansas, In 1S.0, and Col. Elmer Ellsworth of the celebrated regiment of zouaves. Neither Major Sumner nor Col. Ellsworth was tall, and, as they stood beside Lincoln on tbe rear platform, while he made hid address, they looked shorter than they really were. At the close of Lincoln's short sjMech, a coal heaver called out: 'Abe, they say you are the tallest man iu the United State, but I don't believe you are an taller than I ant." Lincoln replied : "Come up here and let us measure." The coal beaver pressed his way through the crowd and climbed on the platform, where Lincoln and be stood back to back. Turning to Col. Ellsworth, Lincoln said: "Which i the taller?" Col. Elbsworth, bin? so much shorter, cculd not tell, so he climbed on the guard rail, and. putting bis hand across the top. of the heads of the two men, said: "I believe lliy are exactly the same height." Then Lincoln and the al beaver turned around and faced eaeh other. Tbe crowd shouted loudly when Lincoln took the b!ak, sooty hand of the coal beaver in his and gave y hearty handshake to th n an who whs .his oijual in height. Thomas II. Tibbies iu Success Magazine. "How very wild-eyed I red Lings Is getting." "Yes; he's dead in love with old Kicker's daughter, you know, and when In? calls on her he Invariably keeps one eye on tl'e clock and the other on the dwr i if the old man's riK.ni." When worthy men fail out, only cne of them may be faulty at iirst; but If strife continue Ion?, commonly both become guilty. ruUer.

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How a Great Dattle Waa Fought. Cne of the splendid battles of the war was that of Chattanooga. In the Century Gen. Fullerton tells the story of the firing of the signal guns to take the rifle pits at the base of the ridse occupied by Bragg, and the rush of 20,000 men. The General says: "The enemy were thrown into confusion, and took precipitate flight up the ridge." He adds: "Many prisoners and a lar?number of small arms were captured." And now follows a clear statement of what the soldiers did for themselves a most Instructive and brilliant passage : "The order of the commanding General had now been fully and most successfully carried out Hut It did not ft) far enough to satisfy these , brave men. who thought the time had come to finish the battle of Chickamaugua. There was a halt of but a few minutes, to take breath and to reform lines; then, with a sudden impulse, all started up the side of the ridge. Not a commanding officer had given the order to advance. The men who carried the muskets had taken the mat ter into their own hands, had moved" of their own accord. Officers, catching their spirit first followed, then led. There was no thought of protecting flanks, though the enemy's line could be seen stretching beyond on either side; there was no thought of support or reserves. "As soon as this movement was seen fromOrchaTd Knob Grant quickly turned to Thomas, who stood by his side, and' I heard him angrily say: Thomas, who ordered those men. up the ridge?' Thomas replied in his usual slow, quiet manner: I don't know; I did not" Then, addressing Gen. Gordon Granger, he tald: 'Did you order them up, Granger? Xo,' said Granger ; they started up without orders. When those fellows get started all hsll can't top them.' Gen. Grant said something to the effect that somebody would suffer If It did not turn out well, and then, turning round, stoically watched the ridge. He save no further orders. "As soon as Granger had replied to Thomas he turned to me, his chlef-of-staff, and said : 'Ride at once to Wood and then to Sheridan and ask them If they ordered their men up the ridge, and tell them, if they can take It, to push, ahead.' As I was mounting Granger added: 'It is hot over there, and you may not get through. I shall send Capt Avery to Sheridan, and other ofllcers after both of you.' As fast as my horse could carry me I rode first to Gen. Wood and delivered the message. I didn't order them up,' said Wood; 'tlicy started up on their own account and they are going up. too? Tell Granger, if we are supported, we will take and hold the ridge!' As soon as I reached Gen. Wood, CapK Avery got to Gen. Sheridan and delivered his message. 'I didn't order them up,' said Sheridan; 'but we are goin? to take the ridge.' He then asked Avery for his flask and waved it at a group of Confederate officers standing just in front of Bragg's headquarters with the salutation, 'Here's at you V At once two uns the Lady UrecHInrldge and the Lady Buckner In front of Bragg's headquarters were fired at Sheridan and the group of ofllcers about him. One shell struck no near as to throw dirt over Sheridan and Avery.- 'Ahl said the General, that Is ungenerous ; I shall take those guns for that, and he dIL and a good many more." Comparing Grant and Lee. The American Historical Association, meeting in Richmond, Ya during the holidays, discussed the Wilderness campaign in the Civil War and the genius of Grant General Alexander of the Confederate Army spoke on "Grant's Conduct of the Wilderness Campaign," and Colonel Livermore of the Federal Army spoke on Lee's conduct of the same campaign, while Major Eben Swift of the general staff of the United States Army closed the discussion. It is to be remarked that the Confederate was rather more Impressed by Grant's ability for war, while the Federal officer was disposed to award the palm to Lee. The member of tho general staff, however, Major Swift although giving the Virginian due credit, regarded Grant as the most dangerous opponent that a great soldier ever encountered. "Lee made five campaigns In a single year," said Major Swift "no other man and no other army ever did that much." But In Grant Lee, under the circumstances of the moment, met his match. Grant "was the modern embodiment of force In war," said Major Swift "lie cared not for ruse or strategy In Its accepted form. Strategy was reduced by him to a study of objectives, and objectives ere reduced to one the hostile army.' The more distant the perspective becomes, the clearer the truth stands out that Grant was the man for the work. He had numbers and resources at his command, and of those advantages he was the first Union commander in the east fully to avail himself. He perceived that his objective was not the capital of the Confederacy, but the army of Lee in the field, and accordingly he attacked Lee on all occasions, knowing that his own losses could be repaired, but that those of his opponent could not. Grant was great because he estimated his advantage to the full and employed them, because he perceived exactly what the nature of his task was. President Roosevelt In a recent adiress denominated Lee as the greatest commander of any age. That Is egregious exaggeration. Lee was a consummate master of defense. With limited resources and Inferior numbers he held the armies of the north off from Richmond for four long years. However, It Is to be considered that until Grant appeared, Lee was matched against such captains as McClelJau, who, when Richmond was in his grasp, decided that his peninsula campaign was a failure; as Burnslde, who might have turned Antletam Into Confederate rout but he refrained, and who was capable of assaulting the impregnable heights of Fredericksburg directly; as Hooker, a capable corps commander, capable, when placed in supremo command, of the muddle of Chancellorvllle. Whatever Lee was as a captain of defense, he assuredly was no gcnlu in offense, as the truly great commanders all have been, as was the first Duke of Marlborough, and Gustavus, the Swedish king, and Frederic

of Prussia, and Napoleon Bonaparte, who are the four original geniuses of modern war. Whenever Lee assumed tbe offensive, his deficiencies became at once apparent. At Antletam he allowed himself to be caught with his back to the Potomac, Into which a Grant would have pushed him. At Gettysburg he ordered the charge on Cemetery Hill, although Löngstreet with tears In his eyes endeavored to dissuade him. ' The truth Is that "Stonewall" Jackson was the Confederate man of genius. To Jackson he owed the victory of Chancellorsvllle. Lee listened to Jackson, as he would not to Longstreet Had Jackson lived, Gettysburg might not have been won, but It would not have been fought upon Lee's Impossible plan. Minneapolis Journal.

A Brilliant Northern Soldier. The war career of Cant. Henry A. Baxnum of Company t, of the 12th New York Volunteers, afterwards colonel of the 149th New York Volunteers furnishes a story that is weird. At the battle of Malvern Hill, while leading on his men he was shot and It was supposed mortally wounded. In the evening, when a retreat was decided upon, Gen. Grlflin, who was a warm personal friend of the major, sent an ambulance to bring the major along, dead or alive The surgeons pointed out an unconscious major to the detail as Major Barnum, and, placing him on a stretcher they put him in the ambulance and started away. On the road to H.irrlson's Landing the wounded man died, and was burled as Major Barnum. A crude wooden monument was placed at the head of his grave, giving his name and rank. When the report of hia death reached Syracuse; N. Y his native place, the friends of Major Barnum were greatly grieved. Memorial services were held and Robert McCarthy, a friend of the major, delivered an eloquent eulogy. But the real Major Barnum not only recovered, but was yet to perform most brillant service. Shortly after the retreat of the Union troops the wounded man recovered consciousness. The rebels coming up took him prisoner. He succeeded In getting exchanged and rejoined his regiment In time for the battle of Gettysburg. After that engagement he was transferred with Gen. Hooker's army to Tennessee, and at Lookout Mountain he covered himself with glory. In a fierce charge by his regiment a bullet went clear through his uplifted sword arm, and split the visor of his cap, but he and his gallant troops dashed boldly on and five of the eleven flags taken In the battle were captured by them. For his vigorous conduct on tun occasion he and Major M. E. Bordsley, who also distinguished himself, were afterward selected to deliver to the Adjutant General all the flags captured by the Army of the Cumberland at Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga ani Missionary Ridge. Major Barnum was wounded again at Peach Tree Creek. When the Union troops had bombarded the rebels out of Atlanta Major Barnum and his men were the first to enter the city. They scaled the parapets of the outside rebel line and passed to the fortifications. The camp fires were still burning, but no soldiers were to be seen. They crept from eartiwork to earthwork and finally entered the city Just as the sun rose and by Its light revealed to them the forms of the Confederates, who were retreating across the marshes on the opposite side of tht river. Two SoMtera. ' Bitterness or resentment seemed to have no part In the nature of Gen. Roheit E. Lee. During the war, declares Charles Morris In "Tho Old South and the New," It was noticeable that he never spoke of the Union soldiers as "Yankees," the common expression In the Southern armmy. He r.lways called them "Federals," or "the enemy." A touching story of General Lee was told by a Union veteran who had been In the Battle of Gettysburg. He was a n bitter anti-South man, and had io . t the Confederates desperately. The last day of the fight I was badly wounded. A ball shattered my left leg. I lay on the ground not far from Cemetery Ridge, and as General Iee ordered his retreat, he and his oilicers rode near me. As they came along I recognized hlnj. and although faint and suffering, T raised up my hands and shouted as loud es I could, "Hurrah for thi Union !" , The general heard me, -looked, stopped his horse, dismounted, and cpvm toward ine. I confess that I at first thought he meant to kill me. But as be came up he looked down at me with such a sad expression upon his fac that all fear left me, and I wondered what he was about. lie extended his hand to me. and grasping mine firmly looked right into my eye, and said: "My son, I hope you will soon t well."' 1 Khali never forget the expression on General Lee's face. There he' was, defeateu, retiring from a field that bal "Oft him and his cause almost their last hope, and yet he stopped to say words like those to a Union roldier who had taunted him as hi passed by. As soon as the general left n:e I cried myself to sleep there upon the bloody ground. Honor Knnl. When Gen. George Sheridan was camping on the lower Mississippi his negro boy, Harry, was one day asked by a friend whether the general was not terribly annoyed by the mosquitoes. "No, sah!" said Harry; "In the evenln' Mars' George Is so 'toxleated he don't mind the skeeters and In the mornln' the akeeters is so 'toxleated that they don't mind Mars' George." Buffalo News. Sand blown from the Sahara desert 100 miles away, painted a steel steamer which recently arrived at Philadelphia a dull red, the particles adhering so tightly to the metal that they were removed only by the hardest work. One-fifth of our sugar consumption Is produced at home, one-fifth Is brought from our own Islands and the remaining three-fifths from foreign countries. A French inventor has produced a horseshoe of leather, which Is secured to the hoof with a mixture of cement and asphalt, to avoid the use -of nails. A good cigar will burn slowly and equally ; the weed that smoulders up one side Is of Inferior quality. l-.y.ecpt for a small area In Missouri and Kansas there are no hardwood trees west of the Mississippi. Out of 212,000 women In Australia qualiGed to vote, 174 exercise the right of franchise.

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