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Show Ballade tor t Good masters cf tb I pray you cease' -J near. A pilgrim's messag. From holy lands .-our ear. Nay. pass not so, " air cavalier Nor thou, my la y in thy pride-No pride-No alms I ask bey nd a tear For such as ye a ..Savior died. Tea, pause and he! ie, woman frail Whose jewels ha- ae gleam of shame, Thou, crone in rag, ar thee my ale- And thee, poor fd ling without name, And unto ye.- proud iests. the same. Halt, clown and j irtier! ere you ride I pray ye answer as it blame For such as ye i, Savior died .' What? Tears before the minster gate, Ye blind, ye aged, and ye sore .' Nay, 'tis your festival of state, So get ye in the eacred door. And ioin mv cry until it roar, . and John Lambert, Jr. A great number num-ber of the Connecticut troops were I coming home on furlough and the people peo-ple in the town where the Lamberts lived were making great preparations fcr giving the soldiers a "welcome home." Louis was the pcet of his class at Yale and was asked to furnish fur-nish a poem for the occasion. He wrote When Johnny Comes Marching Home with the reception committee considered too undignified for so important im-portant an occasion, and the song was rejected. Not to be outdone, young Lambert came from New Haven to his native village with every member of his By every strand -ind mountain siae, From turret unto dungeon's core, For such as ye -jjy Savior d.ed. Prince-from thy l5alleries look down, I prithee on oui'ritnld tae- . And hear me-spile thy haughty frown-For frown-For such as ye -Tiy Savior died. -Thomas Walsh in the Independent. The Death of "Stonewall" Jackson. I had been with my new command but a short time when the great battle of- Chancellorsville occurred. It was just before this bloody engagament that my young brother had so accurately accur-ately and firmly predicted his own death, and it was here the immortal Jackson fell. I never write or pronounce pro-nounce this name without an impulse to pause in veneration for that American Amer-ican phenomenon. The young men of this country cannot study the character char-acter of Gen. . ackson without benefit class to attend the reception given the troops on their home coming. The students had memorized Lambert's new song. When Johnny Comes Marching March-ing Home. They had set it to the mu- j sic of one of their rollicking college drinking songs. What tne song lacked in dignity and patriotic spirit it made up in life and action. ,As the soldiers were passing under the triumphal arch the students struck up tne song. When Johnny Comes Marching Home wasn't on the program, but it made such an instantaneous instan-taneous hit that the multitude soldiers sol-diers and all took up tne joyous strain and kept singing it to the exclusion ex-clusion cf all the rest of the fine ceremony that had been arranged. When Johnny Comes Marching Home woo oil tiv wanted. Louis Lambert, to their manhoed, and tor tnose wuu are not familiar with his characteristics characteris-tics I make this descriptive allusion to him: . As to whether he fell by the fire of his own men, or from that of the Union men in his front, will perhaps Qe- er be definitely determined. The general, the almost universal belief t the South is that he was killed by H volley from the Confederate lines; but I have had grave doubts of this raised in my own mind by conversation conversa-tion with thoughtful Union officers who were at the time in his front and near the point where he was killed. It seems to me quite possible that the fatal ball might have come from either eith-er army. This much-mooted question as to the manner of his death is. however how-ever of less consequence than the manner of his life. Any life of such nobility and strength must always be a mattere"-vit .import and. interest. the smart Yankee lad, had won his point and was the biggest man - in New Britain. News of the episode spread rapidly all over the country and requests for the song commenced to pour in from all parts of the north. It became one of the most popular of all the wartime war-time songs and is to-day frequently sung and played. The Little Wounds in Battle. . "It was often the case," said the : major, who was in a reminiscent mood, "that the wound which seemed trifling trif-ling at the time proved more serious than the wound that received the attention at-tention of surgeons. In one battle I was shot through my sword arm, and about the same time was struck on the shoulder by a falling branch of a tree. The wound in the arm healed rapidlybut J.heh.ojil.drsJame-to |