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Show THE BEE r in romi-natioplace a representative If they fail, their ticket will not be any stronger by merely reversing the order of the Democrats and making it top heavy with wage-earne- non-Mormon- n. s. Winnie Davis, The Daughter of the Confederacy, died Sunday away lip North at Naragansett Pier, Rhode Island. Thirty-fiv- e years ago we of the North used to sing " Well hang Jeff Davis to the sour apple tree; we said many hard things of Horace Greeley for signing the bail bond which liberated the president of the from prison. We stopped singing the song shortly after the war, then we began to see that Greeley was right, and by and by to know that there was something about that man Davis which we did not understand; we had been harsh and unfair to him in the bitterness which the war had engendered. Hut lie died before we could tell him. Then we began to hear of his daughter, born in the Confederate executive mansion at Richmond during the war. She came North, and we liked her for herself and because she was the daughter of a dead man whom we had judged harshly. We tried to be good and kind to her because there was no other way of telling the dead man that we wanted to be friends with him. Every courtesy extended to the daughter had back of it a thought of the father who died before the North really understood him that man who owed his highest allegiance to his State and wrho paid that allegiance where he thought it was due, he, too, fought for the right as god gave him to see the right. Now the daughter is dead, and the flowers we drop on her grave will not all be for her; some of them will be for Jefferson Davis, and Winnie, who loved and admired her father even more than the Southern people loved and admired him, will be pleased to have it that way. While most of the hard fighting in our recent wrar was done by the regular soldiers, the volunteers at Manila and wherever they have been engaged have stood the fire like tried This is remarkable when it is veterans. taken into consideration that many of the volunteers are mere boys without military training or experience. Of course the training of the regulars gives them an advantage over the volunteers, but in no other way can they claim any superiority. They all did their duty wherever they were placed. The volunteer goes to war from a spontaneous impulse of fine enthusiasm. The regular is animated by like emotions and, in addition, by a professional interest in fighting, for with him it is very much a matter of business. If it seems strange to volunteers ! to drop the ordinary routine of life ami go into warfare, it would seem still stranger to the regular not to go. How thoroughly he is accustomed to the habit of obedience has been shown in the contests before Santiago, where the regulars went into action in the same methodical fashion in widen they go to guard mount or parade. So far as has been recorded.it seems never to have occurred to one of the regular regiments in Cuba that there could have been any other possible course than to go ahead and win battles in accordance with their commanders arrangements. If the war has proved anything concerning these forces, it is that the American soldier is likely to prove a steadier, cooler, more persistent fighter than the soldier of Europe. Implicit obedience the subjugation of one will to another is not a trait that ordinarily would be expected to be highly developed in a people rather conspicous for independence and a pride in attending to their own affairs. Hut the regular has shown that he is not only obedient, but that, so far from letting his obdicncc make a blind automation of him, he couples it with active will power and intelligent purpose to attend very thoroughly to the business of winning battles. There is something almost matter-of-fac- t in the way in which the regulars won their Cuban engagements. That they do not seen to have regarded the ' performance as especially exciting or glorious is all the more reason why the people are glad to put glory upon them. al-rea- 0 dv 9 As an Qof and out-do- or sport for evc- - rybody golf seems to be the coming game. Hase ball and foot ball do very well for men, but they are not adapted for women. Golf is a sport that can be indulged in by both sexes, and enthusiasts claim there it nothing equal to ii exercise. for good, wholesome, open-ai- r This sport has been growing in popularity in this country the past few years until now its devotees are numbered by the thouIt is said that there are over six sands. hundred golf clubs in the United States, and that during the last year something like fifteen million dollars have been expended in this game. This is doing pretty well when it. is considered that golf was only introduced into this country a few years ago. It is the rage East at the present time, and the wave of enthusiasm is coming this way. An eastern Golf has paper speaks of it as follows: taken so a firm hold upon the American lover of sports, golf clubs have sprung up with such marvelous rapidity from the Atlantic to the Pacific, so many million dollars have been invested in the game and links, outside of those of the richly endowed clubs, have multipled so incredibly here, Qoif piayers. out-do- there ami evervwhere that it tn.iv be said to luve become alreadv oue of the favorite sports of the country. Croquet, tennis and any one of a dozen other games have had their enthusiasts, but the height of their populaiity has been reached quickly, and then the traction set in. Not so with golf. Its piogress in popularity here was comparatively slow at first, but it steadily gained in impetus until it has swept over the country. What is it that makes the game so popular? It can be played by everybody. It is as delightful a recreation fora woman as It has enough leisure about it for a man. to command it to the player, yet it possesses sufficient excitement to keep one constantly interested. It is not like tennis. that is essentially a game of youth, in which one may be a champion at the age of twenty, but is sure to be defeated in a short time by the younger player who faces the net, for some of the finest golfers living are It commends itself to women, graybeard.s for it requires more skill than strength, and is not a violent game like tennis. It induces one to walk miles over the links, and has done away with that bete noire of the health scaker, the monotonous constitutional walk.' And there is no game that is more conductive to soc lability. These are some of the attractive characteristics of golf that have made its popularity lasting, and if you doubt that it has 'come to stay as a glorious outdoor sport, look about you among your friends who play the game and notice the truth of the saying Once a golfer, always a golfer.' The game is a very old one, coming from Scotland, the land of Hums and Harrie, and it promises to become as world-wid- e as the songs of the peasant poet or the thoughts of that man from whose Window' in Thrums all English speaking people have looked, laughed and urept. It is odd, is it not? that this small country in the extreme northern part of a little island should reach out and touch the big round world, so ftly, lightly, beautifully, like the floating down of its own thistle. non-athlet- ! ic In justice to the former owners of The Hee and order that there may be no wrong impression regarding it, we desire to state that when Col. Warrum retired from the editorial management last May there was a complete change in the control and owenership of The Bee, all the former owners retiring. The Hee has fully established itself and is now on a sound business in or Jerry Simpson feels almost like a soldier. He has been threatened with typhoid fever. New York Press. Good enough; but we wonder if the sockless soldiers feel that Kansas Congressman. |