Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1903 — Page 2

MEANING OF MEMORIAL DAY. Dc job know what It means, yon boys and Ctrl* Who hall from the North and the Booth 1 Do you know what It means. This twining of greens Bound the silent cannon's month. This strewing with flowers the grass grown This decking with garlands the statues brave. This planting of flags [All in tatters and rags, ■This marching and singing, ■ - " jThsse bells all a-rlnglng, {These faces grave and these faces gay, [This talk of the blue and the talk of the I gray ’■ - Vh the North and the South, Memorial Day* ilfat simply a show time, boys and girls, » Is this flay of failing flowers, . {lot « pageant or play Koc a holiday flf flags and floral bowers; It Is something more than the day that starts. War memories a-throb in veteran hearts; Tw scross the years To the hopes and the fears, To the days of battle, Of roar and rattle. To the past that now seems so far away. To the sons at the blue and the sons of the gray flsst, hand clasping hand. Memorial Day. Ter the wreck and the wrong of it, boys and girls. Ter the terror and loss as well, ©nr hearts must hold ▲ regret untold As we think of those who fell. Bet their blood, on whichever aide they fought, Bonsde the' nation and progress wrought. Wo forget the woe. Tor we live and know That the fighting and sighing. The falling and dying. Were but steps toward the future, the -martyr's way, Adown which the sons of the blue and the gray Look with love and with pride. Memorial Day. —Boston Transcript.

A MEMORIAL DAY SURPRISE.

HI wai the week before Memorial Day. Everyone in Thornvilje was excited, and why not? Were they lot going to celebrate, when “every one would be sure to turn out?” remarked an •14 veteran. Thomville hml never celebrated before, although the little cemetery was dotted with mounds which narked the last resting place of soldiers, whe had so gallantly defended their country, A meeting of the Citizens had been •ailed at which Tt was decided that it was time they did something in honor of these dead heroes. Each was willing to Ms best, and when the president of tike~<xih4nittee went to Zcch Spergen, or “Unde itske,” ae he wae better known, a*d eaid, “01-course you will give us a speech, being a veteran yourself,” Zechariah answered, “Wall, 1 reckon the •alebrath?’ won’t be kept back because ' ffSl Dill ijl ii iTT Tj~ ■ Wncle Zeke was busy the next week. Ha really liked the fun. He was 83 ■>•— si I tlm oldest veteran in the country—and be was rather proud of the diathsctlon At 43 he had enlisted, and he had a son who also went into battle With the “coat of blue.” Memorial Day dawned bright and alter. Everything seemed In its glory, •■i no one wore a brighter smile than Ad* Zeke Bpergen. When his name was called with quick, nervous steps he leek his place on the stage and read the fokrwing oration: . „ “It k two score years ago or more daw I enlisted for the war, and went sway down South. Wa did some pretty

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smart tussling with the rebels of that land. I was acting as a sentinel on a dark and stormy night, when suddenly I peered into the darkness and saw a man’s figure. “ ‘Halt,’ I demanded. ‘Come no farther till you give the countersign!’ “‘Oh, father! don’t you know me?’ cried the man. “ ‘Why, Tom! How came you here?’ I asked, and he fell as if almost dead. “I quickly lifted him in my arms and Carried him to the tent. “The next day there was a battle, a long, fierce one, and death went with the exploding of the soldiers’ awful guns. I caught a glimpse of my brave boy, after the thickest of the fray. He was bending over a comrade with a whispered word of cheer, and a promise to write for him, to the friends who were so dear. The soldier’s breath grew quicker, and on Tom he leaned, till his life candle flickered and went out. “One day I was wounded by a shot, and In a few days I came here to my home on the hill, . As I was reading of the dead, suddenly there arose a miat, sort of swimming in my head, for my Tom’s name was on the list. He had died for his country’s sake.” Tears were in the listeners’ eyes as Zeke slowly took his seat, amid cheers that echoed and re-echoed. Nor was that all. While he was reading, a tall, bearded man of about GO years entered and took a front seat. Apparently he was a stranger, but after the shouts had ceased he arose and faced the audience. “Friends,” he said, “no doubt you think I am a stranger, but I am not. I am he that used, to be called Tommie Spergen, and am no other than Zechariah Spergen’s son, for which I am justly proud.” In an instant Uncle Zeke was at his side, but only tears told his gratitude. He was too moved to speak. Yes, there were the same eyes, and the same mark on the forehead. After the excitement had calmed Tom continued, “There was a mistake in the names. ’Twas another Tom that died and the news was rent to the wrong parents. I have been west all these years, have made my fortune and have returned to take care of my mother and father in their declining days.” As he finished speaking, three cheers were given to welcome him back to his home. And that Memorial Day in Thornville was one long to be remembered. —Detroit Free Press.

Those Whose Graves We Decorate, and Likewise, the Survivors. In every cemetery in the land on Memorial Day flowers are placed on the graves of the soldier dead. The flag, the potted plant and the bouquet are the tributes of young and old to the men who fonght valiantly in the wars of the Union. The great majority, of course, of the graves decorated are those of men who took part in the great Civil War. In commenting on Memorial Day and those rwhonr -it-ie- lntended primarily to honor, a writer says: “The like of that day st Appomattox has never been known in history. Not a guerrilla band survived the vanquished. Not a vindictive blow was struck by the victorious host. By the speediest roads of travel the men in blue marched back to their own abodes. They surrendered their arms to the keeping of their government; their flags they hung up in memorial halls; their fame they bequeathed to their country and to the world. “What have these men done since the bloody straggle ended? They have been building railroads, opening mines and making the wilderness blossom like the rose. They have been extending the »

WORTHY OF HONOR.

blessings of self-government to wide and remote regions. They have become prosperous farmers, merchants, leaders in finance, captains of industry. Their blue uniforms have been replaced by uniforms of toil. They have brought to the sacred desk the devout service of consecrated powers and eloquent tongues. They who learned th'e weaknesses of human nature amid the horrors of the hospital have administered with the gentle skill of healing knowledge to the sick and afflicted, and in high tribunals of justice they have inscribed with the pen on the tablets of the law what they strove for with the sword. They have been making history. They have become Representatives, Senators, Governors, Presidents. In foreign rands they have illustrate<L.tlip dignity and glory of the republic, both in public and private stations. That some have fallen by the way is trne, but the uncountable majority have been worthy of American citizenship, and in the fields of labor, thought, purpose, invention, enterprise, daring and genius they have ranked with the foremost of this glorious country. They have inwrought the things for which they strove with the very fiber of the government and the fabric of old age. They have shaped constitutions and laws to the purposes of liberty, the unions of the States and the high destinies of the republic. Let the veterans all pass as the great leaders already have —those that bore rank and the undistinguished many. But what they did lives on and grows and brightens the passing years.” »

To the Unknown Dead.

“Their remains could not be identified, but their names and deaths are recorded in the archives of their country, and its grateful citizens honor them as their noble army of martyrs.” Thus reads, in

part, the inscription on a massive monument to the “Unknown Dead” in the national soldiers’ cemetery at Arlington, overlooking the national capital. There is something peculiarly pathetic in the memorials to the unknown dead both in Union and in Confederate cemeteries throughout the region of the great battlefields of the country. More properly their designation should be the “unidentified dead.” It is only question of time when the names of theindividual participants who were known will have almost as little meaning to those who read their headstones as the plain Arabic figures with which the graves of the unkno’wn are often marked. It is now fortg years since the Civil War was at its height. When another forty years shall have passed, the identified and the unidentified martyrs of that struggle will stand on a practical equality, so far as the memory of the living is concerned. Kinsmen and friends will find their satisfaction in the thought of what they did rather than in the recollection of who they were. It is peculiarly fortunate that the surviving participants of both sides in the Civil War should now rejoice that ita essential results are what they are. The South to-day, although she honors with passionate devotion those of her sons who fell, believes in the Union and rejoices that slavery is forever ended. This is the aspect of the great conflict, as now seen in historical review, which couid not have been anticipated by the soMlers of either side who died in that struggle. Thds time, as well as the battlefield, has its secrets. —Youth’s Companion.

nope is always liberal, and they that trust her promises make little scruples of reveling to-day on the profits of tomorrow.—J ohnson.

MEMORIES.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY TOLD. Attempt to Blow Up Factory at Linonier—Man’s Body Found in Box in Hittr-Jouble £niclde AttemptedTrolley Car Overturned.

Dynamiters attempted to blow up the plant of the Ligonier Carriage Company. Their effort was-partly successful. The town was aroused by an explosion which shook buildings and shattered glass. Investigation revealed the plot to wreck the factory. A big bomb had teen placed inside the plant. It was discharged by a time fuse. Heavy doors were wrenched from their fastenings and shattered. Windows were torn out and a section of wall was leveled. Buggies were smashed into splinters. Mr. 'Graham, president of the company, recently received anonymous letters demanding mouey and making threats to destroy the plant if-the demands were not complied with. Man’s B°dy in Box in River. While fishing in the Tippecanoe river Clyde Kyle and Frank Miller found the mutilated and partly naked bo4y of a man. The trunk and the legs ■were in a wooden box, from which part of the cover had been washed away. The head and tTTe -nrms-wcxe found in the water near the box. The box' "was- ijish alio w water near the shore at a seclude cl "~pLacfi. north of Warsaw. No one has been able to identify, the body. The police and coroner are inclined to think the body was sent to Warsaw from some big city and hastily placed in the river. Man and Girl Seek Death. ■ ■At. Connorsville 'Van Moore. 33 years of age, a carriage maker.,. went walking with Miss Clara Sherwood,'-aged 23 years and the daughter of John Sherwood, a saloonkeeper. About 2 o’clock in the afternoon- Miss Sherwood was found by some boys in a grove, suffer* ing from the effects of carbolic acid poisoning. She said they had takeu poison together and told the boys where Moore could be found dead. The woman was removed to her home and will live.'Moore leaves a wife and a 2-weeks-old baby.

Car Overturns* 21 Are Htart. Twenty-one persons were injured by the overturning of a car on the Union Traction line while running at a high rate of speed in Marion. The air brake failed to work. The passengers were thrown into a heap and many were bruised and cut by broken glass. The most seriously injured was Dr. 11. A. Woodruff. Ilis arm was broken and he was severely cut. “ Murdered in Her Own tome, Mrs. Huack Stewart was assaulted and murdered in her home aloAg the Big Four Railroad three miles east of Lena. The carpet in the room was torn and several chairs were broken, showing that there was a terrible struggle. Her husband was plowing in a neighboring field. It is believed three foreigners committed the crime. Incendiaries Threaten City. Six fires were discovered in the business section of Terre Haute between midnight and 1:30 o’clock the other morning. The fire department succeeded in controlling all before any great damage was done. The fires were evidently of incendiary origin and pointed to an effort to burn the city. 0 1 All Over the State. Clinton Masons have dedicated a new temple. Loganaport is thinking- of building a new city hall. Vincennes will have three paved streets this year. TT About 100 employes of the < Howard Shipbuilding Company, Jeffersonville, struck for higher'wages, Hilton Hayden, former treasurer of West Lafayette, who was found to be short in his accounts has disappeared. ♦

A liquor license was refused tp a Crawfordsville man because he had published the notice of his application in a Sunday paper. A statement issued at Waterloo by the receiver of the McClellan and DeKalb banks shows liabilities of ?1G9,000 and assets of $G2,000. 4 Raymond Dixon, 9-year-old son of John Dixon, West Baden, was killed by falling upon the drive belt of an engine in thg ice plant of the Springs Hotel. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, patterned after the Eddy school of faith, has been incorporated in Vincennes. The membership is limited, but select. Two valuable residences in Whitley were destroyed by fire, and a third was damaged. Origin of the fire a mystery. Within a few daysr-six'fesidences ip that suburb have burned. The section men on the Michigan City division of the Lake Erie and Western Railway went on strike and threaten to have the section men of the entire system called out. Ora Coppenhnver, wife murderer at Indianapolis, must hang. The Supreme Coart affirmed the Marion County Criminal Court, refusing a new trial. Coppenhaver’s execution is eet for June 10 in the Michigan City penitentiary. Coppenhaver shot his wife in cold blood.

Abraham J. Perry and Gabriel Brown were arrested on the chnrge of arson. Perry is one of the best knowu lumber dealers of Evansville and came from Chiengo six years ago, where he was employed by the Pullman Car Company. Brown is n negro hostler and in bis confession to the police said that Perry agreed last March to pay him $l5O if he would destroy the lumber yard of the J, L. McCutehon Company, for which concern Perry Is the local agent. He says after he had set fire to the yards Perry paid him S3O. In a~colllHton between a work train oil the Pennsylvania road and a Lake Erie and Western freight at Plymouth, B. Volkee, section hand, was instantly killed and Daniel Haage and Edith Sebel fatally injured. The train crew escaped by jumping. Henry D. Maacher, a well-known German farmer, southwest of Seymohr, fired a load of birdriiot into his stomach, inflicting fata! i-ijfcry. Mr. Maacher was despondent because.of deaths ia his family. Four or five year* ago four children died of diphtheria, and Nest year he lost his #lfe and another child-

OUT OF THE WRONG BOTTLE.

Trouble In tfte Thompkine Family When Medicines Got Mixed. ■Here's « story John W. Gates tellsi “Did you hear about Thompkins and his wife? No? Well, Thump kina* wife had a cough, so she told him to get her a bottle of cough mediclna. When he was buying It the druggist remarked incidentally that he had some of the best' hair restorer that ever gladdened the heart of a baldheaded man. Thompkins is baldheaded, but he pretended he didn't hear. Ha bought a cigar and talked polities^with two or three cf the boys for a while and just before he left for home he said to the druggist: “Say, old, man, got any stluff that’s good for the hair —make It—cr-—sort 6f grow, you know?” “Oh, yes,” said the druggist. “Well,” said Tompkins, “guess 11l take a bottle. My brother-in-law is regular (dude and likes such things.” two bottles were about the same size, hut that wasn’t the druggist’s fault Thompkins opened them both when he got home. That night after he had undressed he happened to think that it might be a good thing to try] a little of the hair restorer. In the dark he got hold of his wife’s cough medicine and he plastered it all over his bald bead. It was good and sticky and It hung right on. Mrs. Thompkins had a violent fit of coughing dur-Tfirgrtbe-nlght and. Jo_ feel ing around the closet for her medleine goFTTOId of-tbeL hair restorer. She took a big dose and then hollered: “Fire!” Thompkins awoke with a yell. There had been a little slit in the pillow case and he had rolled around with his stick head until he had made a great hole in the -case jind had all the feathers worth mentioning flaring out Trom his cranium so that he looked like the banshee in an Irish folklore tale He came rushing to Mrs. Thompkins’ assistance. She thought It ; was the evil one taking a half-holiday and again hollered, this time louder than ever: “Fire! Police! Fire!” The hired girl ran out into the night with nothing on but a sweater and a pair of rubber boots and turned in a general alarm. It cost Thofnpkins 516.50 to make It all right with the fipejpen, but he says the experience was cheap at the price, as the cough mixture started his hair to growing again. Incidentally his wife’s cough has disappeared.—New York Press,

A Sensational Case.

Alston, Mich., May 25.—Houghton County has never witnessed a more striking medical case than that of Mr. James Culet of this place. Mr. Culet had spent a small fortune with the best physicians In the county and in addition to this he has tried every medicine he could hear of. He had ft very bad case of Rheumatism and Kidney Trouble, from whleh he had suffered for twenty years. Noticing he could get seemed to do him any good, and he was gradually growing worse. He has no Rheumatism now and explains It thus: “One day I happened to see an advertisement of Dodd’s Kidney Pill* and decided to try them. “I made up my mind to give them a good, fair trial, as my case was a very bad one and was of bver twenty yeara* standing. “I used altogether 42 boxes and I can truthfully say that they have driven out every trace of the Rheumatism. “I feel like a new man, and I can and do most heaftily recommend Dodd’s Kidney Pills for Rheumatism and Kidney Trouble.”

The Horrid Man.

She —No, thank you; I don’t care t« know him. He is a most detestable person. He—There must be some mistake. Everybody speaks well of him. She—l don’t care. He was one of the Judges at the dog show, and he wouldn’t live poor little Fido a prize.

Millions of Trunks.

The New York Central forwarded In baggage cars during the calendar year of 1902, 3,159,545 pieces of checked baggage. There were received at stations 3,121,974 pieces of checked baggage. *The number-of bicycles forwarded and received by baggage car was 411,014; and baby cabs forwarded and received 20,654.

Distinctly in Their Favor.

American —You have noticed, I suppose, that the balance of trade, so far as yoqr country and ours is concerned, is still in our favor? Englishman—Nothing of the sort, sir. We exchange a worn out title for a beautiful American heiress almost every day in the year.

Just Another Chance

for cheap rates to California: $30.00 from St. Louir, $25.00 from Kansas City. These rates will be withdrawn June 15. Don’t neglect this opportunity. Tourist car through to San Francisco, without change, leaves St. Louis every Tuesday, 8:32 p. m., on the “Knty Flyer.” Ask for information.. Address “Katy,” 504 Wainwright, St. Louis, Mo.

Willie Sympathized.

Guest —What a splendid dinner. It isn’t often I get as good a meal as this. Little Willie (son of the host)—We don't either.

Do Your Feet Ache and Burn?

Shake into your rhoes Allen’s B’ootEtae, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Caros Coins, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At all Druggist* and Shoe Store*, 25c. Sample seat FREE. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Leltoy, N. y.

One Woman’S Idea.

Viola (reading)—What ia the “pale of civilization,” anyway? Frances—Oh, It’s some pew fangled brand of face powder, I suppose. “The Klein, KooJ Kitchen Kind” of stoves make no smoke, smell, soot, ashes or excessive heat Always look for trade mark. The Swiss Lake Dwellers made more use of spelt than of wheat. i. MM Fruit acids will not stain go- • ' with PUTNAM FADEjt**^'