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No other country ta the world can boast so pretentious • tribute to the heroes of any conflict Is Its history, r -*'••• • v.^'To honor by counterfeit present­ ments in marble and bfonte the sa- ".ajtors of the republic will cost the na- ..Hon, ultimately, millions' of dollars, tint unquestionably it will be worth an it cfeats as a lesson kt patriotism for coming genera­ tions- This labor of gratitude has been ia progress for some years past, and already a *>zes or more of the foremost warriors In the ®alon army have beer, thus honored Of lats /ears., however, the Importance has been em- jjhasked by tiw lacreasiagly elaborate charac­ ter of i the monuments erected. The climax Still come a year (or less) hence, with the t completion of that splendid memorial to Gea- " I£aI Gr*nt for which the congress of the Waited States has appropriated a quarter of a ftiiilion dollars, and for the foundation of which found has been set aside to the shadow of Jho United States capitol. " "" * * - . . . . . He®. In this country.' ' v . Next came the erectfon "$f k StiktMt' to James B. McPherson. This was erected through the efforts of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, and it was intended that the moH- uu:cu L buOUiu CuuBututc wCriiwsvu'S tCStbr. Beneath the statue is a vault designed to re­ ceive the body of the gaiiaht officer killed near Atlanta, but such interment was never made. The statue represents McPherson as he led ill battle. In Ms right hand he holds field glasses and is portrayed as gazing deliberately over a field of battle. Surpassingly intpMng snd magnificent is the resented reining in his horse in order that he iSptjly" obtain a better view of a field of battle. J. Q. A. Ward Is the sculptor of this master* Be, and every person who has seen It will idSly agree with the art critics that there is not in the whole range of the world's sculp­ ture so splendid & representation of a horse 4* the chargsr on which til* Virginlaoia : jfatedt; 'w,.. , %'•£* fine equestrian statue of General Hancocft ' unvell«(i In 1896. Alike to the Thomas statue, the pose is one of action, the hero of Qettysburg being portrayed as a commander watchful and aleit in the center of activities. The scene of this shrine is, appropriately enough, the na- capital--the city of Washing- which is coming year by year to ow tnore and more the character ' a beautiful creation in architecture sculpture and landscape garden? that is the property of the whol« The statues to the victors struggle between the north most advantageously located of . parks and circles with which thfc>';it$i ibat of government abounds--verdur#" ^•ad breathing spaces which seem provided as sites for Just such he|i or life-size figures. Some of th#^ are under the shadow of thf • others cluster about the and yet others are re they will kindle inspiration b| patriotic pilgrim to the capital. statue erected to Gen. George 11 Thomas by Tfce statue of General Logan, the first of the his comrades of the Army of the Cumberland "A't/iB 1874. The "Rock of Chickamauga" is rep- memorials to be unveiled during the present ceotury, is unique In many respects. Gen- ' • • • • • - ̂ •• ' ' ' ^ eral Logan is reprMenUd ae rUUsg alons the line of ) battle his sword drawii and carried! iow in his right hand. Tite horse Is represented In the attitude of moving at a slow trot. On ofte face of the pedestal of the monument is a group representing General Logan with other leading offi­ cers of the Army of the Tennessee, while opposite is a group representing General Logan taking the oath of of­ fice as United States senator, admin­ istered by Vice-President Arthur. All of these equestrian statues have cost consioeraoie sums. -*ii« Scott statue cost $20,000; and the ped­ estal $25,000 more. The bronze figure of McPherson cost $23,000, and the pedestal 125,000. The sum of $40,000 Was paid for Ward's matchless statue >f Thomas, and $25,000 for the ped­ estal. The statue of General Hancock Involved the expenditure of $49,000 all told, tmd the Logan- statue cost $65,- 000, of which sum congress appropri­ ated $60,000. As has been said, the maximum expenditure will be made In the case of the great memorial to General Grant, upon which at least $250,000 will be expended. Because no definite program was followed to honoring the heroes of the Civil war, it came about that some of the lesser leaders were c^mmemprated in bronze ere the greatest Union leaders received homage in this form. However, the past few years has the beginning of ^cotopensation In this direction. The first step was the provi­ sion of ft heroic equestrian statue, with .: ap attendant group of symbolic figures of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. Next after the Sherman statue came the statue to McClellan, which shows "Little Mac" seated upon a splendid charger, and portrays the great organizer of the Union army wearing the service cap which became familiar to all the boys in blue who followed him. Now the nation has added to its open-air gallery of fame a statue of Gen. Pl^il Sheridan. Much of the lmpressiveness of the sltatues to the military heroes of wederal armies is doubtless due to the Jfact that almost all of them are eque% , irian. It is customary in all countries portray as "men on horseback^^ ^ the so-called royal personages, Of-* who were actual commanders of or enjoyed the title of r. The first equestrian status ' 5 *ver erected in the Western Hen* Jfephere, was the one of George III. of ^/••••itogland, which stood in Bowling v? <Sreen at the foot of Broadway, New ork city, and which during the war independence was melted up ^r« Of ' ^41- The mow standing in the New World Is ft , 's glossal statue of Charles IV. of Spal#:- ; * =# the City of Mexico. The initial uestrian statue in the United States the renowned one of Gen, Andrew n. which stands in the park db in front of the White House at ashington. It is estimated that there e 400 equestrian statues in the id, of which number the city ait* Potomac will have, with the com- tiou of the Grant memorial, a totafc .12, most of them,, representations of vil warhferoes. •-•••- y (-•'/' ¥,, The first statae arranged for 'to honor of a warrior identified with 1 % MONUMENT ITE MAKING of ibatUe- Qeld monumentis and memorials has devel­ oped into an important industry in the United* States during the papt few years. Thj#.}s dqe, first' of all, to the in­ crease In the number and size of our battle­ field national parks. It is »ow the policy of tVr national government, seconded by most of the state governments, to convert into national parks the tracts of lrfnd in the southern and middle states which were the scenes of the great battles of the Civil war. JSaeh year sees new reservations of this kind ac­ quired by purchase of congress or through^ other however ̂ have been erected by organisations made up of the survivors of companies, troops, .batteries, regiments or other minor divisions of « contesting army and who take this means of tes­ tifying to their regard for theii* fallen comrades.; Perhaps the best evidence of the extent to s and set aside as permanent testimonials of - which modem sculpture Is being relied upon to, the.nation's gratitude to the men who fought and died there. Keeping pace with the creation of unveil a monument within a few months after the money for it has been appro­ priated. Many of the present-day bat­ tlefield memorials ere in bronze and In the cast of Such a monument it is only necessary to model the figure in plaster. Molds are taken from thls and when forwarded to the foundry enable the casting of the figure in bronze--a replica or exact duplicate of the origi­ nal design which the sculptor fashioned to the clay or plaster. The correspondingly rapid creation of ||ranite or marble statues presented for a long time snore of a problem, but it has been solved and largely by the Invention of some wonderful new tools apd appliances which make the long-dreamed- Of "sculpture by machinery" a reality. The ma­ chines, or rather tools, which now perform in min­ utes what the old-time hand chiseler required hours to accomplish, are all operated by means of com- 'carrxjsKT jsor Mwzgftwr XAyrcKTT the Civil war was that in which Cei. K "Winfield Scott is depicted mounted on •a charger at rest. This monument >a« ordered in 1867, and was erected seven years later. General Scott is "In the uniform of lieutenant general. The material for the figures of horse twJen and rider was derived from cannon captured during the Mexican war to which General Scott won his greatest fame The pedestal for this statue le made up of five "uuge pieces of granite til in Gape Ann quarries, and at the they were obtained, the s of granite ever cut from parks is the policy of extension being purt with reference to the older established bat» Hffleld parks which have not included at the outset--as few of. them have--the entire areas embraced in the battle which they commemorate. A second and even more direct influence in fos­ tering the present activity in the creation of memorials in marble and bronze is the custom which has grown up ' h the development of the battlefield park fclan dY suitably marking every historic spot at the scene of a great struggle be* the Union and Confederate forces. This commemorate the deeds and tli* heroes of the' greatest of civty wars is afforded by a tour of jessed air, utilized in much the same way that the Gettysburg National park. Here, lining more. At each one of these modern monument making than 100 miles of carefully prepared roadway and" institutions the air Is compressed at a central marking every significant point in the three days' j 'fjower plant and is led by means of pipes and hose battle, are a total of more than 400 monuments*^ to the various localities, where the mechanical chis- memorial shafts and tablets and more than l,OO0* eling is to be done. The designs for a statue or explains the dozens and even hundreds of statues, monuments and markers that are now to be found in the average important battlefield park. Some of the monuments are erected by appropri­ ation of congress or by funds set aside by the legislatures of states that desire to thus honor their sons who fought in defense of the flag. An <iven greater number of these enduring tributes^ markers. Many of these testimonials in marble* granite and bronze are elaborate and costly and the aggregate cost amounts to several million dollars. And yet on this battlefield as elsewhere' the labor of love Is bnl>- partially completed. 1 Nu­ merous other monuments are definitely projected and yet others are in contemplation. V , The provision of monuments in ever-increasing jkumbers *#or the battlefields (of which Gettysburg-' is only one) would indeed be an appalling task' were it necessary to laboriously chisel (Hit of monument are first prepared by draftsmen and are then outlined on the stones to be cut. With these markings as a guide a workman manipula- ' ting one of the portable pneumatic tools can carve gut quickly and with great accuracy the intended design. The principle of the superiority of the mechanical carver is that it rains hundreds of blows a. minute, whereas the artisan with mallet and chisel woald not deliver more than one or two blows. It can be appreciated that the surface to Youth a Financial Genius, marble by hand all the statues and carved fig-- \ be cut is covered much more rapidly by the ma- ires. However, modern ingenuity has provided Ohine method, and moreover the air-driven chisel means for effective "skort cuts" in battlefield 1 will cut more accurately and with greater uniform- sculpture---expedients that make it possible to_J ity than any save the most expert sculptor unaided. rr^-55 II , " , 1 ' i 1 " gES^gggS.'n 1 Who 8eems Ufcefy to a Great Wall 8treet Magnate/. •. At> Sweetwater he had * cbanoe to ^<aee how luck sometimes works for a J , oompsny or barnstormers. The hotel Siit V*^jr fam n«<> pie about. As 1 recall the situatlon, this was a farming section, and we to stay over night at the expense of $22. The son of the proprietor asked if we would "put up a show." We demurred. We had counted hard­ ly a dozen noses, and thought it not worth while to unpack our trunks. Hs took up to the top floor and showed us a dsscs hisH iisariy •a feet square. "Now," he said, "I'll givs you $25 and a good time to put up a I their money bacfr What show for some of my friends. do you say?" It was enough to cover expenses and we agreed. We aling some portieres on wires and gavo vaudeville sketches and skits ad libitum to an attdieneeotf a hundred of more. The Ti * lator had hitched up two, rigs and scoured the country* audience. Hg charged th'i couple and returned them vagens. The uulel yeu{/te goi • uy ft supper at 25 cents a p^ate and thus gnt We had the time of our lives, for after our little performance we mil* gled with the natives and joined the merry dance. /The young man lived far away from the madding crowd, but he was up to date, and made at least a hundred dollars b^ his little venture, and every one was satisfied^-* Wide World Ma^alae.- * True Definition of Conceit. vSSCv'i is vanity uiiTvu Spssa' other shifts and forced to appeal to' itself for admiration--Hasiltt. ' Onion Hard to Trw The onion has been so long to culti­ vation that its original form is not definitely known. There are so- called wild ttnione that grow In the woods. Nobody ever tastes them bat once, and there Is about the taste m suggestion that cultivation oi any­ thing else could ever make them grat* fol to the human palate. In aU prob­ ability the onion Is a native ,'cif VWest- era Asia and adjacent parts oi Afrits?, since it is mentioaeA to old Egyptian writings and the Pentateuch. mm TherefoN Caller CmM wis#,.? Who Had Twi^it VeiiiMiiUr to •'i-v ii»n4 on NM Heid. Watseka.--State's Attorney John H. Pallissrd hm *md«taken to solve the mystery surrou^ing the burial of Delvlna Nichols ii the cos­ tume of a ballet danger at Iroquois, nine miles east of here, a week ago. i f x s a H I r r iS A O i n i u ; w a w » * » * - -- -- Youngstewra* €)., by a woman who said she was .the jaotoe?. When the R«v. Cruw««cfcer, a Methodist mlWs- ter, the ^y-colored ^hroocl was ex­ posed. It wsS" low necked and reached the knees. Silk stockings and satin /slippers were .on .the .ttodfc woman, who was the sole mourner, got off the. sajme tiain, say tog she came from Houston, Tex. She left the next day. There was no under* taker and no hearse at the |oneiy, ili- neral, only the minister and a ifew curious bystanders. Peoria.---With 60 days of idle* ness already passed since April 1 and with a prospect of a pr^longe*! period of Idleness in the future, thf coal situation in Illinois has reaciseft a serious point, both for the miner®, aiid operators. The large mountain® of coal iudustriaP establiehmenta b.s4 on hand prior to the joint convention are diminishing rapidly. The 75,00d miners who, are Idle can obtain no re­ lief from their funds until the expira­ tion of 30 days under the laws of the United Mine Workers of Americg, There is said to. be actual want in f Hies In several 'communities. strike fund at the present time said to be about $75^,000, op ^$10 per man. President Walker of the ̂ union declares that the men are "until the snow flies." vvatseKa.--»tates Attorney Joha P. PalMssard notified the chief of police at Youngstown, O., in a let­ ter sent that Miss Delvlna Nichols, th^ ballet girl In the death mystery at Iroquois, died probably as the result of an operation at Youngstown. This opinion was based on an investigation made. Examination of the-certificate of death and shipment permit revealed that death came as the ..result of an operation, preceded by a sickness of f 11 days. The girl*# mother told con­ victing stories about the expensive casket. v At one time she said it was worth $16^, but she had bought it for $60. On another occasion she said % was bought by the theatrical troupe to which her daughter belonged. Joliet.--Barnes Ryan, alias Kelly, serving a second term to the : Joliet penitentiary for attempted burglary in Chicago, hanged himself from a pipe In the prison boiler room. His bo^y was cut down by keeper E P. Howley. Ryan broke the parole granted to him last August and was resentenced in the winter. He was re­ ceived February 10 and became such a model prisoner that he waf^=^aade "runner." This gayo him freedom of the grounds and enabled him to be ab­ sent for an hour without being missed. Joliet.--Sylvester Lally, aged nine­ teen, was trampled to death by his horses, which had been fright­ ened by an automobile driven by P. E. Carhardt, 6053 Monroe avenue, {Chi­ cago. Lally was going home up the Incline two miles west of Lockport when the automobile was coming down at a lively clip. The horses up-, set the wagon and Lally Was thrown under their feet. Mr. Carhardt, who Was accompanied by his son, William» picked Lally up and took him to Lock- port, where he died an hour later. Chicago.--Owen McGoorty, forty- five years old, sneezed himself to death in the "is" Ireighthouse of the Illinois Central railroad *t the foot of South Water street After he had sneezed continuously for several min­ utes, he fell unconscious and died be­ fore medical aid could reach him. Dr. C. D. Wall of the Harrison Street Emergency hospital, made an exam­ ination and said the sneezing spell may have burst a blood vessel, causing death. \ - Champaign.--Horace B. Wild Ghicago had a narrow esc while making a flight in a Curtiss ^bi­ plane. The aviator was making a pre­ liminary test before a scheduled flight After he had sailed about 1,500 feet a strong gust of wind was encountered, which drove the plane to the ground on the university south campus. Wild was 30 feet in the air at the time, but was uninjured. .The machine was bad­ ly damaged, but is being repaired. Bloomington.---The eleventh an­ nual debate between teams from Oshkosh, Wis., and the state normal school here was won by Oshkosh, ma­ king four victories for Oshkosh to ztsvm for the normal. Oshkosh took the negative side of the subject that graduated income ta* is a .desirable modification of the federal eastern of taxation > • j ' ' Peoria - Attorney Louis I Green- berg of Chicago, acting fofc. New- ton C. Dougherty) former superintend pat of schools of Peorls^iounty, serv­ ing £, sentence at Joliet,.filed a petition for a writ of supersedeas from the sur preme court for Dougherty's release, based on the recent ruling > declaring the parole law unconstitutional. Cairo.--The fifth ennual cctavea- tion of the Illinois Mayors" sociation closed its business meeting here by the election of the following officers: P/^sident, Joseph E. Padea, vice-president, W. P- Mar- eneva; secretary, George H. Elgin; statistician, Hugo S. hicago. Directors, E. S. Mc- Decatur; George Parsons; Cairo; Albert Fehrman, Kigirtt George S. Schnepp, Springfield; E. N. Wood­ ruff. Peoria; John H. Howard, Lake Blulf; Silas Cocit, East St. Louis; George W. McCwkrin, Rock Island; A. R. Hendricks, ^Sterling. Springfield.--'The Iiliaols State Dental association closed a fous* day session here and elected officers for the coming year as follows: Pjesl* ~ «• aessi, imnasu m* president, George McCann secretary, J. F. Walts, Decatur; treas­ urer, Charles P. Prttln, Chicago. t Chicago.---Because a dog belong­ ing to R. Sidney Fraser, 141$ West Monroe street,' btt Wugene Reynolds;" eight years old, the latter'® parents are suing fYaser to the circuit coan for $10,000 damages, iae ooy we* bfdma to the Ml am and shoulder to venerable countess of Cardli* gan, authcH*, you k«ow,\of that winced hook of < membirs, tlae^k the modem girl is too «th!etk? mi hoy ̂ denish. ' said an English visitor bp New York. , 1 "The coraatess of Cardigan ©fte# tells OJ'^a young unu wuo WW drlukif; tag tea with a bfautifal girl fsrfeca hs^ Uttie b««ther slli»pe4 Into the: foom -• il»» hoy asltedi "caa' yon stand on your beadf „ . ? "'No, said the visiter, <j don't l can/ T'f;* *Wea. | cas.' ssM^tmJbof. "Look h e r e . ' ; ' . , " • "And he stood on .his head very iM»tly In the eoftier. " 'Ha, haJ' laughed Mr. Msnnertng, 'And who taught you thatf "The urchin firow**& ^ \ ^ " " "Sister,' he said, told toi l ^LONE. ALL ALOK*. -•7 ̂ ; '<e3fc Mi I Mrs. Proudmap--I ten my that her voice is a gold mine! Professor Schnlckelfrits Ach, zah, vat you call an aind't it? Evanstot steller, Anderse Grosser, Donald, Danville; A 80LDIER'S EXPERIENCE Hardship* of Army Life Brought On a Severe Case of Kidney Trouble. EL. N. Camp, 1356 Delaware St, Den* ver, Colo., says: "Dur­ ing the Spanish-Amer- lcan war, I contract* , ed a severe kidney irouuie. .'After re­ turning hmm, 1 was under a physician's care for months, but grew gradually worse. Finally I got so bad I could not hold the urine at eU. I also had intense suffer­ ing from back pains.' Doan's Kidney Pills m&4e Improvement from the first, and soon 1 was well and strong." Remember the hame--I)oan's. ; For sale by all dealers. .$0 cents a fovr, jPsster-Milburn Co.,Buffalor& T. Redding Fe? Counterfeit. " A well-dressed stranger entered the office of Justice William B. Williams, Montelair, N. X, and after shaking hands astonished the justice by say­ ing: "I'm here to redeem that coun­ terfeit $10 bill T passed on you. Twer - years ago I called on yoiji with my . girl and two witnesses and you mair^i- rled us. I handed you a $10 bill. 1%, had a counterfeit in my pocketbook; thjat I'd carried for several years. Iv* never missed It until yesterday. Then# I 'remembered that I'd accidentally handed you the bill." The caller pro- 1 duced a good $10 bill, but the justice refused to take it. "Don't let that, worry you, my dear fellow," he laughed. "I never knew it was a counterfeit No kind of money sticks to me over night. I'm married* my­ self." ;• • Willing to Pay for Rammer. When the British square at the bat" tl® of Abu Klpa, in the Nubian dee ert, was penetrated by' the dervishes, one of them attempted to spe&r a gun­ ner who was in the act of ramming home a charge. The Briton brained the Sudanese, but the jammer b jad split on the man's hard^kull. Next day the gunner was sent/for. Miataktas' the reason, and knowing from eltoeri^ ence that soldiers ere charged i\Sor government property which 7they break, he led off with: "Please, sir. I'm very sorry I broke the rammer,# but I never thought the fellow's head could be > po hard. I'll pay for the •rammer m- as to- heai» no» more ,of' the case.",' . . <••:'• A..... ' " • Shameful. " x /jMktiwet (rh» a young lady's litter from Venice: "Last night I lay to a gondcrii in the Grand canal, drinking it au In, and life never seemed so fore."--LiMincott's^ ^ IT i i',n: . There's no reason why1 a woman shouldn't take boarders if she wants/ t6, but she shouldn't try to board a moving train. ; ; There is a reason ; Why Grape-Nut* does oscrect A w«ak» physic^ or a ^ , Sluggish niciit^l condltKm^ ' The food isyhighly nutrition And Is partially pre-digested, So that it helps the otgans of the stomach, T6 digest otheriood. ft is also rich in th« 'v * Vital phos îates thatĵ Directly to make up The delicate gray matter of brain and nerve centz^p* Read "The Road to WcBville* In nlrtv* • " i nrnw's a toonroac cmsmu. oompawt.