itetfr*-**.. - ' -(#s 4' t" < * , <• ', j»Sr ' / "V 'IK *1 ^3Ai__ <f*W < 'A '•> '-V'Vv^; ' * V « ^ ? :".V K f'V! 0T\*T I*, *»*W'--'>V / , 2BHL y^-jm. n 7X ^J^SlACY- ^ OWN the broad .#"% plke ,eadln8 into fifi J» SI Centervllle came, % Jf Jh all arrayed In rus ty blue, the bent, wizened figure of a little old man. An old-fashioned soldier's cap was perched Jauntily on his head and from beneath this fell a few scattering locks of gray. The aged veteran leaned heavily on his cane. Time bad robbed Gzra Hathway of much of his endurance. x The ears of the old warrior were no longer keen, and he did not hear the honk-honk of a motor behind him. The touring car that swept around the sharp curve thrust him aside so rough ly and suddenly that he was thrown unconscious to the ditch at the side of the road. With barely a perceptible swerve, the great machine kept to its mad way. The knocking down of the gray old soldier was but an irritating in cident to the pleasures of a record- breaking ride. The chauffeur was not one to flaunt the number of his car In the face at a victim. Fred Corliss, In his wheesy little runabout, came In the wake of the flier to the inert mass of mangled blue by the roadside. Esra Hathway, a thin stream trick ling from his temple, roused himself and suddenly made a wavering at tempt to regain his feet. His gaunt frame, balanced precariously on two totterly and emaciated legs, showed signs of sudden collapse as Corliss came to a sudden stop and leaped to the old man's assistance. "Why, Uncle Ezra!" he exclaimed, "what's the matter?" Uncle Ezra Hathway, as he was familiarly known to all residents of Centervllle, was a popular favorite. "Who'd a thought," came from the recovering octogenarian, testily, "that I'd a lived to come through th' hor rors an' evils of war to be downed at last by one of them pesky benzine buggies?" Young Corliss gave a relieved laugh. With his own handkerchief he care fully stanched the blood emanating from a slight cut in the old man's forehead and assisted the reluctant veteran toward his own little ma chine. "I'm all right, Fred," protested the injured man. "No use In my bother- tn' you to earry me Into town." But Corliss, a tall youth with a de termined eye and resolute jaw, per sisted. Uncle Ezra lived some miles out of Centervllle. On Memorial day he in variably arrayed himself in a well- worn suit of blue, and not only walked Assisted the Reluctant Veteran. into town, but marched with the oom- rades of his post to the little ceme tery a half mile beyond. This, as the years rolled on, was becoming more and mare difficult to the old sol dier, but he never acknowledged the encroaching infirmities of old age even to himself. "You shouldn't do this," remon strated Corliss, seating himself beside the old gentleman and starting the machine. "There is no sense in it. You have horses and a buggy, and the walk is too much for you--let alone the liability of accidents. The roads are not what they were ten years ago. These touring cars keep, a pedestri an's life in danger, unless his sense of hearing is wonderfully acute." "Hub," snorted Uncle Ezra. "1 Bee myself riding into town after walk- in' It all these years." The old man's seamed face was strangely pale. It was evident that the accident had jarred him more than his resolute old' lips would ac knowledge. In front of the Horton domicile, just skirting the town, Unole Ezra suc cumbed to a sudden fainting spell, and crumpled against his companion with closed eyes and pallid countenance. This was doubly unfortunate. The Hortons were the last people la the world of whom Corliss cared to ask favors. Since the engagement between vivacious Dolly Horton and Fred had been broken off by mutual consent--an engagement planned in the infancy of the two by their par ents--the youth bad felt a strange sense cf aggrievance, although, previ ous to this, he had believed that his future was spoiled by this prearranged match. No one could have causa to com plain of a lack of charms in the young woman in question. This was evident as she came tripping to the door in response to Horton's knock. "You!" she said, and the careless laugh in her voice was softened by the vivid touch of red dotting her cheeks. "Yes, it is I," he answered shortly, his proud head alert, and his strong jaw thrust out at a more determined angle. "I am not here, however, to call"--he could not resist the thrust-- "but to ask a favor. Uncle Ezra Hath way has met with an accident, and seems to be seriously hurt--how seri ously I don't know. He fell into a faint, or stupor, Just as we were op posite this bouse, and so I must ask you to care for him while I go for a doctor." As the explanation progressed, the expression on the girl's face under- l tiiiii.lltlli "Why, I--I Thought You Wished It 8o." went a change. The coquetry died from her eyes to give a chance to a womanly look of grave concern. "Father," she called, suddenly. "Come here." An elderly man came leisurely out of the house, and. In a second, the situation was made clear to him. The unconscious veteran was lifted care fully from the runabout and taken in to the house. From afar came the stirring rhythm of drum and fife. The comrades ol*the old man were gather ing to do honor to their hero dead. On his way to the nearest doctor's the brain of Corliss was a mad Jum ble of riotous thoughts, all thinly veil ing the keen sorrow he felt at Uncle Ezra's predicament. It had suddenly come to him--and with startling em phasis--that this fluffy, furbelowed girl with the gold In her hair was vitally essential to his future happi ness. His black eyes took unto them selves a tender light hitherto unaBSo- ciated with thoughts of the maid, but his knowledge of her would not allow him to believe that she would come back to him without a struggle. In fact, he was sure that she did not love him at all. It was she who had suggested that the life-long engage ment be broken. The doctor, a fussy little person with straggly mutton-chop whiskers, steel-bowed glasses and a double chin, hurriedly entered the machine and the return trip was made In record time. From behind came onto them the music of muffled drums, and the plaintive minor of the fifes. The march to the cemetery had begun. "He is badly shaken up," diagnosed the little doctor. "He wants rest and quiet, otherwise there Is nothing more serious the matter with him--no frao> tures, nor anything in the nature of bruised bones. However, he must not be moved for several days." "An' to think," complained the oc togenarian, who had now recovered consciousness, "thet, after all this trouble I'm a-goin' to miss the dolns' today for the first time since the war." "Don't feel bad," soothed Dolly, a tender note in her voice, as she placed a cool, soft little hand on the brow of the old soldier. He was now in bed in the Horton home. Corliss gazed at the girl wistfully. Every moment it was being brought home to him that he had lost a JeweL "Darn such luck!" grumbled the discontented Uncle Ezra. The eyes of the repentant lover sped a telegraphic message to the brain of the maid and, responding to this, she turned her head and looked at him and--blushed. Oh the broad veranda, as the young man was taking his leave, he sud denly turned to the pretty girl who had accompanied him. "Must the engagement remain broken?" he asked plaintively. "Why, I--I thought yon wished It so," she replied, eyes cast down, "but if you don't, why, of--of course--" To the ears of the Jubilant Corliss, speeding homeward some momenta later, came the stirring notes of "The Girl I Left Behind Me." The vet erans were coming back. : Epic of the CivilJWar Prose ancT Poetry of March and Meeting of Veteran Legion By E. W. LIGHTNER ocs L 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4*4"?* ^- ^O fighter of all the A 'A1-J i ages ever knew better than the men of the Union Veterans' Legion the tragic truth of the epigram of -- General Tecumseh Sherman that "War Is Hell." This must not be accepted as mean ing that war is always Inspired by the devil, though the wars of history, most of them, have plainly had their origin In Impulses of hate, rivalry, un- laudable ambition, lust for mere con quest. The Civil war in which these veter ans fought, and in which hundreds of thousands who are not living to march and meet today played their part of sacrifice, must be said to have had Divine Inspiration if war ever had such spiritual Impulse. Even to those who were mere chil dren in those terrible years the spec tacle of these grizzled ones marching recalls the period of Intense anti-slav ery agitation; sacrifice and bravery of pioneers in that grand writing and ora tory which even in the north led to mobbing of platform speakers, sack ing of newspaper offices and assassina tion of editors, such as Elijah Love- Joy, at Alton, 111.; the Fugitive Slave Law and the Infamous Dred Scott de cision of the Supreme Court of the United States, two Justices dissenting, which declared the negro, virtually, to be an animal and that he had no rights which a white man was bound to re spect; the Kansas-Missouri warfare; the exploit of John Brown and his as sociates at Harper's Ferry to arouse the negroes to fight for their freedom, and the hanging of Brown and others; these Incidents and affairs, and far more, with the final election of Lin coln to the presidency, are vividly re called by the presence of the veterans of the war, most of whom volunteered In answer to the first and second call for volunteers when a declaration of war followed the secession of one southern state after another and when the south began hostilities by the cap ture of Fort Sumter. Then came the terror of battle; the alternation of victory and rout; the dark days following Bull Run when the capture of Washington by the rebels was imminent; the horrible slaughter of succeeding battles in the region of Washington, In west and southwest; the marine and semi-ma rine battles on the Mississippi, Gulf and Atlantic coast; the succession of commanding generals as one after an other failed; the coming of Grant; the great march of the troops of Sher man from the interior to the Atlantic; at Savannah and Charleston; Vlcks- burg, Fort Donelson, New Orleans, Antietam, Fredricksburg, Gettysburg. Winchester, Richmond, Appomattox, Grant, Sherman, Farragut, McClellan, Halleck, Hooker and the rest of them; the brave, grand body of lesser offi cers, privates, who did the actual fight ing, hundreds of thousands of them piled dead and wounded on hundreds of battle fields; their deadly suffering In mud and rain and snow; their hun ger and thirst and fever; hospitals al ways crowded; the agony of relatives at home; last act of all. amid the ac claim of victory with the surrender of Lee, the assassination of the captain of all the captains, "Captain! my Cap tain!" Great God! What a ghastly and glorious succession of rfovlng pictures passes before the eye with ev ery foot-fall of the gray and wrinkled ones wno march through the streets. It has Just been said by some one that with the passing of the remain ing comparatively small group of vet erans the grand army will become a ghostly memory Not so. After the last man has been dead for an age, and for ages, the army, its privates and its captains; their forbears who fanned the embers of human freedom to a living flame; the dead of the battle fields and the dead who were fortunate enough to live for years after the last battle was won. will remain, yes, remain forever, as vividly in the memory of future peo ples as though the patriotic war for freedom and unity were a thing of yesterday. Compared to this Civil war the war of the Great Revolution was sordid. ttffr It had its inception in rebellion against the payment of a money trib ute to a foreign potentate This one WT€ for a grander purpose, the restor ation and perpetuation of the govern- mttit built upon the small foundation r«*u!ting immediately from the Revo lution and a declaration of independ ence for the Individual, that hence- foftb and fofever no man, woman or cbfld, no matter whKt the color of th«t akin, should be heifi as property arv4 sold from the auction block to be defeased and prosti tuted lower even tha*» the four-foot ed r-nlmals. Greatest Issues at Stake. Greater even than the var for inde pendence was that for the restoration and preservation of the United States. Baot of that which led to disunion was the cause of humanity, agitation for the freeing of men. women and children held in bondage; the declar ation of great ones that In America, which had fought to a successful fin ish the battle of freedom from mon archic tyranny, should not continue a system which permitted the buying and selling of hoznans at auction like dumb animals, the rending bt hus bands and wives and children from each other. f crepe upon our bannas And tnu reversed, we meet la memory of the toldien Sepulchred at out feel. They are the voiceleat he roe* Who (poke where the field was Spoke when the captain ordered: "Fire (ram behind die dead." 9STbey came from farm and village. From crowded city and plain; They marched in the sultry sunshine. And pillowed their heads iu rain. They heard the blast of the bugle. And quickly answered the caiii "Form in lino of battle-- Infantry, troopers, all."* jLone of these dropped by the wayside, ̂Some while on picket were shot-- Some fell in the skirmish line-- Some where the battle raged hot. But, alas, fot the youthful aoldiat, Ala*, for the veteran gray. Who languished in pitiless prison* Where the reaper. Death, held sway-- Sreaming of skies they could not »*a Hoping where hope wa* vain To break the guarded prison ban And breathe free air again. Yearning fat wife or mother- Yearning to be caressed. Or longing with broken spirit To be, like these, at part. /Am these dead nine hundred Fold the flag of the brave. While the marching column hah* to plant A flag at each soldier's grave. Violete, Roee* and lilies bring. When the apple tree* are in Momok. And the Lark and the linnet ting. tt Fir« MmmimlDtt liwisi In lit* BACKACHE AND ACHINQ JOINTS. Together TeU of Weak or Disordered Kidneys. Much pain that masks as rheuma tism Is due to weak kidneys--to their failure to drive off uric acid thorough ly. When you suffer achy, bad )ointa, backache, too, with a StiTTV ders, get Doan's Kidney Pills, which have cured thou sands. Anthony Ruf, 604 W. Elm St., Chip pewa Falls, Wis., says: "My limbs were still and sore and almost paralys- with rheuma- rS tlsm. My condition became so serious I was taken to the hospital but was not helped. Through the use of Doan's Kidney Pills, I gradually improved* however, until entirely cured." "When Your Back Is Lame, Remexn* ber the Name--DOAN'S." 50c all stores. Foster-Milburn C6., Buffalo, N. Y. ed ONLY ONE OF EACH. In ^ tmoriam •4&J* LESSON THAT ALL MAY LEARN To Be Drawn From the Patriotism and Tenderness That the Mem ories of the Day Evoke. Under the sod and the dew Waiting the Judgment day; Love and tears for the blue, Teara and love for the gray. -Finch. While we lay the wreaths of affec tionate remembrance over the mound ed graves in "God's acre" let us r^ solve anew to be more patient with the living, more kindly affectionate one with another, not waiting to break our alabaster boxes of fragrant ointment and strew our flowers over the silent clay when the heart they would have cheered has stopped its beating forever. If you love your sister or your neighbor, tell her so. If the children do little thoughtful things for your comfort tell them how much you appreciate it. If you think they are doing well In school let them know you are proud of them; and If the little son or daughter looks well, tell them so unless they are insuffer able little prigs and need holding down. Few people are injured by honest words of commendation. As a rule It calls them to do their best in order to live up to the standard you have set. Another thing, don't wait to have your good times together un til "by and by." Have them now. In the days to come the family circle may be broken and though you may have more time and money then, there will be aching hearts when you think how father or sister or brother "would have enjoyed this." Mak® more of the bblldays. Beautiful Qrsnd Army Habit. It is no Improper exposure of the "lodge" work of the Grand Army of the Republic to call attention to a most beautiful and effective method of the order in dispensing kindness and paying tribute to members. In each meeting of a post inquiry is made concerning the number and names of those incapacitated by sick ness from attending the gathering. When the list is completed formal or der is made that flowers be sent to the bedside of each sufferer. Further, if any of the sick are known to be in desperate financial cir cumstances, a five-dollar bill, or one of larger denomination, goes with the flowers. Thus do the defenders and saviors of the government and of the nation remember and pay tribute to their comrades in hours of suffering and want pleased Three Generations. In a Berlin newspaper there is a de scription of a benefit performance which took place at Munich in honor of the birthday of Josef Schmid, popu larly known as "Papa" Schmid. The beneflelarv has been the manager of a theater since 1848, on the stage of which only dolls appear "Through all the changes which have taken place on the e **e and in its management," writes the correspondent, "Schmid has remained truer to the puppet play, and children who laughed and wept over his Kasperl plays have seen thai* grandchildren do likewise." ^ Howell--I dont see wuy fom Wat son always has "of Boston" after his name. Powell--Neither do I; it is no more necessary than it was in the case of John L. Sullivan. 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