Show AHOUTTJIBCAJIITIRE THE NATIONAL CAPITAL DUn INO TUB WAR tctlltnl Xoipllen of Roar 0 Intllnc U I the < < < 111A llfmmr llrllhtl lit lie IlitbraMlo > UJ TI flag Ike 1131 Ohio U Mniton In ttirTIm Noah llrooks who won a newspaper rorreipondenl athlnfftondurlnir tho wartime and who n u admitted to an unusual degree of Intimacy with Mncoln last a chapter of r era In iKencee In the Century Mr Brooks says tayiU la I Impossible In these days ao remold re-mold from the ticIteinenU of the civil war to give reader of the later generation any adequate Idea of the untiolnM that pertaJcJ Washington or of the morbid sensationalism that characterized the conversation and conduct of the loyalists who were conitantlyliauntnil by suspicious of secret plotting all about them One evening while I wait illllnff with the rrrildent In his cabinet professor Henry then In I charge of the SmIth onion lo tltullouc uio In for a social chat with the rrll < lent The convert aatlon ran upon various unimportant themes and presently a card wa brought In by the doorkeeper who aid that the man In waiting was extremely ex-tremely urgent to nee the president na he had letters of pruning Importance Import-ance to communicate Ho wa brought Into the room and proved to be a model Shopkeeper whose homn WB not far from the Smithsonian Institution Institu-tion Glancing unealljr nt the prctl tents two rUllora whom he erlilont ly did not know he laid kill builneM wao very Important and Should be kept lecret The president assured him that 1rofowir Henry and myself wore to bo United with any builneu of state however Secret It might be and genially encouraged hili rltltor to speak out without fear of being betrayed rate the weighty matter which carried Oil file mind was uf an explotlre character The man went on to lay that ho mil frequently fre-quently observed lights shown from one of tho letters of the Smithsonian Initltutlon late at night Ilo hail noticed no-ticed that these lights Invariably made their appearanca nlwiit tho Aetna time at midnight final he Ivan Confident that tho peOn illtplaylng them was carrying on a contraband corrcipomlence with the rebeU by means of Signals The president with great gravity closely examined the wllneta but elicited nothing more from him than the fact that the llghU vera actually atiown The president I aaldi I it Dei you Sun pect anybody In the Hmlthionlan In atltutlonr No replied the wltnea lit ilo not Vhdi anyboIy Inside of that Inlltu lion Hut I hare heard that Professor Henry la a southern man and a rebel ayiupathUer With that the preildent turned to IVofcuor Henry and with admirable command of countenance laid h Thla Irofemor Henry ptrhapi he will be able to answer for lilmielf Tho look of 1I may on the countenance of the vltltlng witness was ao grotoiquo that the president could not reatraln laughter Irofomor lloury who waaaomewhatilliturbed by thU ox prituiou suspicion on the part of the well meaning but mistaken unionist very briefly dlipoted of 11111 tale Ito explained that tha clontlllc Initrumenta used aicerlaln tho direction di-rection and force of tho wind torn IlrAlllr eta ware examined at use gain hours of the day and night for the purpoio of tailing their rveord and that tho auppoied alginlllght In thn Smithsonian tower lUll the lantern lan-tern curried to the observatory nt midnight by the attendants who made those observations Komewhat crestfallen crest-fallen the vliltor withdrew Iho fire Idenl thanking him for hla vigilance and wellmeant iroinpturm In reporting re-porting this Not delit and aildlng na the man departed Ill you alunild 1 lee any Indications of n rebel conspiracy con-spiracy In Washington you will do the country real icrrlea br Aiortlng at mica to headquarter Tho frequent appearance In Iuh Inplnn of parolted rebel onicera who ummlly wore their own unlforiii with evident prlda and pleaiura and mime tlinci with n iwaggcr ifcneriilly threw lojulUU Into a fever of excitement excite-ment Mora than once I invv ultra loyal nowiiboya or bootblacks throw a lump of mud or u brickbat at the 1 > a > ilnir Confederate One ot them officers a Lieutenant larnett liolng on parole tent In loll card to Iteprc aenlatlva Ickllffe Kentucky und was by htui Introduced upon tho lloor of tho honto where he uttraotctl attention at-tention na well at Indignation from lip raembera present 1rencntly a wave of excltemeiu loomed to sweep over tha galleries the spectators being vlilbly affected by the appear anca of an oftlcer In full Confederate uniform lilting mi ono of tho sofas 01 tint house of rcprvtentatlvca Tills was Intenilfled when a doorkeeper Ilto to tho visitors who rOle from his teat gave a profound and wool Ing bow and withdraw to tho outer corridor It appear that the doorkeeper door-keeper had told tho Confederate that It wait contrary to the rules of tho homo for him to be present xdotla Fiat A I one of thu brigade of tho re servo corps which came up to the lev one of Ueneral Thomas at Chlclia manga was marching through llio town of Athens a bright riyed girl of I four aumiuon was looking Intently nt the sturdy felloiva M they trAm po by When aha Saw tho suit glanolng through the atrlpe of daullng ril 1 end on the golden atari of the flag I she exclaimed clapping lie rOil handi r-Oil papal God made that flagl aie the Ilarellt lodt flag A bout deep and loud went up from that column col-umn and many a Wonted veteran lifted his hat aa he patted that tunny haired child of bright and happy thought resolving If his good right arm availed anything Gods Bag ahould coniner What II tweet and happy chrlitenlng the glorlou emlgn received from those artless lip Ooda flagl and ao It was That little nation Von ask DM why upon raj breast My army bad > e I wear And deem II Ml a Worthless thing I pronOlf fulea that Yet that small button In mr toil Wilson you 10 lIbll plI to hostors emblem 04 the OIIIb And sacre I in my eyea To me II speaks all lent Ion friend Who OHM ii > < Me an trod An who 0 Free < J mi saaetog CIa < e Utre up their touli to Ivl When Duty tilled dated not then Distance Ibo time Ibora Hot left the peaceful lOll of home To bear the cannons roar And cif1thfalbleous sworl 10 hid I stood In IWo4oms win And 10Ulbi tAth the starvy flag With Urinl tnJ Hb < rldti OfUo beneath Ib winter sky answered 64 hlapl Or Ibroub lb 4 Irk ad stormy nlbl My 1 dreary 1111 klpl AM wbea IIu oar cbtulnr line Tb roar of battle ran I to the raloo of lifiiih ajar And proved 1 myself a mom I boas the worst that war can bring WI olin or Ofailly Cheer Hut never one rrplntil oar deemed The tierlOM too debt Then scoff aol it thl simple India I Wear upon mr Lreaal ItibouUboptn lout to rout sillit AIM not a theme for < il 11416 I 44 Is lit II tar outstalneq The puml bit thtest Kin AM bold 1M foremost place 01 ill 10 glorys dlt4 in Commander nt Ih Korfo Arm It In l not generally known that the present commander of the Korean army Is I Major Win Mcli Dye who went to Korea on the recommendation recommenda-tion of leneral Phil Sheridan to train tho native army In Western tactic Major Dye wars born In Ohio In 1S11 still graduated from Melt Point In the claM with HlnrllaD 8choOol and Hood Who ho WAr brolio out he atatloned In Texas as a second lieutenant In the Bill Infantry at Han Antonio and to avoid 1 being Included In-cluded In tho Twlgg surrender he went Into Mexico While on his way to the capital tho Coach was attacked by brigand and he and another American paMongor beat off tho robber rob-ber with revolver killing several of them In company with Tom Corwin American mlnUtor ho tailed from Vent Cruz to Havana and afterward after-ward took command of tho 0th Iowa In ISO lie aonrod through the remainder re-mainder of tho war commanded a brigade III the Wont and wits bro vetted a brigadier In IBM after II varied career he went to ICorcV A Drummer ellA ell-A fair and uprightly girl of but twelve dimple aummera and giving tho name ol Charles Martin inlltted In one of the Pennsylvania rerlmenta In the early period of the war al a drummer boy slid had evidently l enjoyed tho advantage of education could write a good hAn and even composed very well Hhe uade her IOU useful to ofllceraof tho regiment In tho capacity of a clerk Ani though Involved the scouts and dance of no lea than five battle the oicaped unwounded unharmed The ofll cert never dreamed of any hitch a to her sex After a while the was taken down lick with the typhoid favor dltoate then quite prevalent In Philadelphia and was removed to Pennsylvania lionpUaL It was while there that the worthy matron of the Initltiitlon dltciivered tho drummer boy who had 1 pasiod through to many f fatigue peril anti rough nxporl once to be no more nor let than a girl out yet In her teem American Tribune 7140 lOll loot Till regiment Ivan orgnnlied at Clinton Iowa In Augutt ISo to serve three jcar It Ins imutorod out Juno n Tills Colonel Mllo builth tha Ural common lor resigned January 33 18113 110 was Succeeded by llout Colonel John Lubber who wat In command when tha regiment wan mustered out During the early part of fill service the regiment was stationed sta-tioned nt Helena Ark Dlteaia wa prevalent among the men and many died At tho vaptura ot Arkansas 1nU tho men of tha regiment ill plnvnd grcut gallantry It took part In I tho Vicksburg camptlgn and taw much hard cnrUo In that great move talent It wall vngiiged In the battles of talks Chattanooga lookout Mountain Mount-ain Minion lildge Illu gold Hanson Dallas anti Ixncjoyi station It was with Sherman on hl march to the tea MX olllcor ant I seventy men were lilllcd In action or died from wound received therein The loss by disease na very heavy u |