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Show MEMORIAL DAY. Alododlo mat "tale. n wf F5VT4 1- A 3. 4. And In 5. - L. r f r .l KroOi 'v 1. 2. tll Arranged by Faso F. I'. Dufpv. Composer! Isy Rev 3- - -- Po- for the weep! vaunt! Death's peace!" said the out sang bonds to Weep, oh, a vaunt! Peace, sweet voi ces friend . sliip's gal An An from THE TOURIST'S FAVORITE ROUTE geth SALT THROUGH CUT ADD SCENIC LAKE COLORAH TO THE WORLD'S FAIR brave! war Lifes An in which truth, hope, cents full ex - am thee ac kind gel they and of pies f T rap said; died; light; love; give; Weep for Bleed An - ing ger To homes of A right the and and to mmm. tur moil hate, man - gled, gasp for strife ev both, the Gray think, to act, m- ing for er shall and the to In the Time of Prosperous Peace Let Us Remember Make It Possible. Those Who Died to - GENERAL SHERMAN-T- MAN HE By Major General O. O. Howard, MISSOURI PACIFIC Ell (United States Army, Retired.) ar- -r strife, Oh, weepl said the An gel breath, Theyre mine!" said the An gel broth er meet broth er cease, And broth er Blue, Here's a mes - 6age O And lieav'n and lead pray, point to . a. of of in for the JS-- Copyrlght, 1904. by Dr. F, P. Duffy. Mr. Ryder is the author of the Fourth of July waltzes which appeared In the July number of the Ladlea Home Journal, "Hear Ye the Voices, "The Celestial City," etc. BILLY, THE BLOCKADE RUNNER. Gen. Sherman and myself each commanded a brigade In the first battle of Bull Run. I had heard much about Capt. Sherman, formerly of the artillery In the regular service, but I had with him only a passing acquaintance while vve were in the East. When he first came to Washington from Louisiana he could not understand the apparent apathy of the War department. He knew that secession was a reality and that a terrible war was upon us. In the West my first meeting with Sherman was at Chattanooga, in a large upper room of a private house, where, before his coming, Gen. Grant bad brought together a bevy of Western generals, among them Thomas, Palmer, Gordon Granger and myself. We were talking In a social way when Sherman, who had come up from Bridgeport, Ala., a distance of twenty miles from his head of column, to report progress to Grant, burst in upon ns. His tall, sinewy figure, never for a moment still, his high head and band-som- e brow, with a few wrinkles at the corners of his eyes and across his forehead, his keen, bright, searching look and his deep toned, melodious voice, presented a man once seen never to be forgotten. After Grant went east to command the armies of the United States, Sherman, having the three armies of the West called the Military Division of the Mississippi, which embraced all the troops from Cincinnati to Mobile, was always moving forward with would have been a ver He ha (ostly one to our troops. hardly spoken to me before he turne-awato prepare a dispatch for th President. Here i3 the message h sent; "I beg to present to you as a Chrlsl mas present the city of Savannah with one hundred and fifty heavy gun and plenty of ammunition, and alsi about twenty-fivhundred bales 0 cotton." The armies under Sherman had very refreshing rest for a few days On January 1, 1863, when I was pay ing my respects to Gen. Frank Blai: at Blairs headquarters, Shermai came In In his usual brisk style, and sitting down beside me with som memoranda in his hand, he said quiet ly, Howard, I want you to transpor your Army of the Tennessee by wate; over to Beaufort, S. C.; march north ward, cross to the main land and b at Pocataligo by the 15th of thh month. Can you do it? I did not take time to make mon than a rough calculation, but said "The time is rather short, but we wll be there If it can be done. He added that Slocum would marcl up the Savannah, cross at Sisters Ferry, and be at Robertsville aboui the same time that I should read I may remark that sit Pocataligo. divisions of the Army of the Tennes see were at Pocataligo at the re qulred time. The other division wenl with General Slocum, who was verj much delayed by the high water al Sisters Ferry, so that we had to wail several days for the left wing to gel into position. Thus began the memorable march through the Carolina.?. After that difficult march, with all its skirmishing, accidents and battles. Sherman sen! us a congratulatory order which covered the whole field of operations. It seems now a little boastful, but It expresses the simple truth: "So complete a success in military operations, extending over half a continent, Is an ac hievement that entitles It to a plare in the military history ol the world." At a later period he wrote; "I consider this march as a means to an end and not an essential act of war. The Important move from Atlanta to Savannah Is one step in the direction of Richmond. Were I to my measure of the relative Importance of the march to the sea and of that from Savannah northward. I would place the former 1 and the lat- Don-niHo- n ST. LOUIS FAIR 3 and - Points East e It waa close and sultry; no breath the soul of devotion, I shall be delight of air stirred the pines, and the ed any afternoon in the future to go beside the roadway were through the Inquisition again for the sake of the reward of a similar note, drooped fiat to earth. Even Lieutenant Thomas Morley telling me you are riding with tbli latest arrival In town. Gray, as he sat smoking very methodiTHOMAS M. GRAY. cally as be did all things upon the The next afternoon, as Gray was top rider of a rickety rail fence beside the roadway, appeared as utterly Ig- getting bis men in order for a threat norant that two great armies In blue ened attack of the "rebs," Billy agalL and gray were doggedly facing each came trotting up with the violet en other In serried ranks not more than velope attached to his collar. In the three miles away, notwithstanding shade of some sumach bushes Gray that he himself wore a uniform whose snatched time to read the contents. color belted hla namb. "Your latest outburst duly received, When an hour had passed a long, per Billy, Mr. Tommy GreenEyes. dragging hour, during which he had Pray don't subject yourself 10 heat alternately fanned himself with his and mosquitoes on my account. hat and waged unequal combat with , The note Billy carried back read as the mosquitoes, which, despite the follows: ceaseless activity. Our spring campaign of 18G4. by moke, had declared hostilities Gray I had no intention of Thanks. these movemepts, under the untiring. put on his hat with a determined air doing so. x. M. G. and slid down from the fence. As be Then for a week there was silence Indefatigable General, was continued did so h saw a cloud of dust moving between them. for 113 days, during which we were Gray in hla anger under fire of artillery or musketry along the roadway in his direction. cursed the Confederates for on lying Then out of the dust-clouday except three. These three emerged a their arms Instead of making every things so were occasioned yellow dog, trotting along heavily with lively that he would havo a chance by Gen. Joe Johnston, to his tongue lolling from his mouth. cool bis rage on them In battle. But the Confederate commander, passing Billy, said Gray, stooping to pat Instead be was suddenly and unexpectedly below the to sit Inactive the panting beast, "good old Billy. In camp and obliged Etowah River. dally watch Helen What what the he broke off sudThe night before Sherman entered and Hammett, the foppish civilAtlanta In person ho was near my denly In surprise, for tied to the dog's ian, go trotting along the Confederate In the vd Inity of Jonescollar was a violet envelope of small front on horsebaik. No wonder he headquarters dimensions and the superscription on fumed. boro. Ga. lie was ton restless to sleep. It was his own name. Gray snatched But one evening when the whole About midnight he heard from the the envelope and tore It open. town was in a fcrtucnt'nvcr the well north "sounds of shells exploding and "Dear old Tommy," he read. other sounds like that of musketry." authenticated rumor of impendHe walked over to a farm house and Humph," he Interpolated. "I know ing battle io come ou long the morrow. called these dear old Tommies' trouble." Gray heard a the farmer out "to listen to the mighty jelplng and He again turned to the note, reverberations which time from AtIn the road as he was skirting lanta." I cant read Chaucer beneath the the The distance was twenty camp on a final round of inspecmiles. big pine tree with you this afternoon tion. He turned hack to find Billy because I'm going out riding with Mr. and a brlndle bull Sherman asked the farmer If he had terrier hard at it. Bennett Excuse haste and brevity, N Ith Judicious kicks he managed to lived there for any length of time. He bet be is waiting ror me now. I shall get them and then his heart answered that he had, and that these how Billy your gauntlets here and came into apart, his throat, for attached to sounds were like those of a battle ter 10. tell him to find you, which I'm sure he Billys collar was a After these reverberations there was My estimate of Gen. Shermaa vs bit of violet will do. Now dont be sngry and till about dawn, when Sherman high. Ills Intellect furnished a quiet snatched It eagerly. It Gray mine make me call you Tommy Green-Eye- had been a renewal of the explo- rich In pearls, heard with diasadly mutilated in the fray. sions. again sparkling He could not determine In his monds. yet again. I'm in terror over what completed after Nature's might hapTrusUng Billy may find you soon, pen tomorrow. I was Just trying to nilnd whether or not there was a real own order, lie was ever at home in battle. "IIKI.EN srlence or commerce or art, and never make you Jealous, he and in Not king after sunrise rumors came failed to interest a Gray suneyed the cloudless sky for another place he made read, Pm lonevotary In his own out, In that Hood hnd abandoned' his everal tumultuous moments. some for you, you fiMiliKh pos! field of research. tlon and was in retreat. At last as Now, wouldn't that he began. His perception was like a flash of The sentence died In an inane gurgle, the day wore on a dispatch enme from light. Stand him Miss Helen Dennison, upon a hilltop and sitting on the Gen. Slocum stating that Hood had while Grays face grew wrathfully broad veranda of he In took instantly the topography of the saw a gone and that th Twentieth cottage; red and great bends of perspiration strange outfit corps had the country. As the hills amt valleys across trotting sedately marched Into the city. As soon as and roads of stood on his forehead. Then he tore the lawn. .It was Georgia denionstratod, Itllly- -a wreath of a leaf from his notelsmk, hastily oak leaves about bis neck, and tied to this news was In his hand Slirman where he hnd mice mentally grasped mounted his horse and rode hack to tin- - situation, the scrawled a few words and tied It to bis tali u small silk map always rewhich flutAtlanta. Billys collar, whore the other note tered bravely in the flag mained photographed upon the tablet breeze. PromiThen he sent that memorable tele- of his had reposed. nent on the oak wreath was an enHe arose, and, followed by the dog. "Atlnnia ts ours and fairly had ome harm-d- . gram: He led his quartervelope addressed to In rself: won." stalked down the road When they ' Mv dear masters in their ami estimates plans she Helen," read, and To the administration at Washingcame to the fork Gray polnfitd down for his nrmv. He was quicker than laughed softly; hut received the ton and to the the left hand load and said, sternly, merest pie at large Gher Ills chief In figuring the fragments of your note, for Bilman had really burst from the clouds, rations forcommissary "Home, Billy. Home, sir." After lie ly tried conclusions with a month's supply. a bull terrier had watched the dog trot off dejected"Atlanta won!" was. indeed, a bow of I venture a word regarding Sherwlilt disastrous Nevertheless promise to Amerha ami the dust he himself went slow- enough remainedresults ly to the world man's moral nml spiritual makeup. to give me considthat right and Justice would soon pre- ! "in n long nml dose ly up the other road to snesk his way erable enlightenment. of Billy's appear-BUM- " and that the American Union ope who allowed me to observation back to his rntnimny's hlvotim, When he reaches you- - if hs vail, he his friend, would he restored I.at that evening Billy scrambled doesn't I am sine Sherman, while I knew Into other difficulties on Into the hatiimoi 1, win re his mistress the wav.getis Again on Du . him. Sherman, the result of my poor atpurposed to do a wrong who had been away- in Hie harlx-lay. She saw the note and In the tempt to express art Sudden Impulses state of sometimes my mind. dim light from the window Inside the admiral of the navy there In clouded Ills Judgment. her We'd better make It as early as e read these words; While he abominated quackery and amt spend our honeymoon before charge, atne hat k and Joined Gen. Slocum ami myself, who had enteied hy su risv. he "My dear Helen: 'rebs' had great admiration for your get me" "I trust yen'll have a pleasant after-nooSavannah a day before, tho next Ks"l men, for Christian especially morning after Hardees evueun'ion of men, lov alt v to t'ndouldedly it will tie much And Lieut, Thomas Morley family, loyalty to Gray, tho city. preferable to chauier beneath the who strode up the gravel walk at friends, loyalty to society about him, that was Sherman pine. Billy reni bed me utter 1 hnd moment. In lodd delighted that we loyalty to duty ami Hilly struggling from country he quickly waited scvcrnl hours for you, The the embrace of a young woman, who were not obliged to make a siege or observed in another, ami this was the time passed very pleasantly, thanks to blushed to attempt carry Savannah by pervading quality among the marked furiously ns she saw him A siege would have taken much the villainous heat and swarms of characteristics of his own great sout standing there.- - Barry Paine In Ban famine atriekon muoquitoes. tine, and an assault, owing to the few New Yolk Herald Being Francisco Call. leln-atalk- The Popular Route to the approaches, Pullman and Tourist Sleepers Salt Lake to St. Louia from Ogden and THROUGH SCENIC COLORADO WITHOUT CHANGE OP CARS. Dining Cara. Free Reclining-ChaiCars. Everything For berths, tickets, folders, etc address r First-clas- s H. C. TOWNSEND, G. P. & T. A., ST. LOUIS f ARE YOU GOING To the Worlds Fair? 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