Show shameless i shams thirty years ago the sharp pen pea of charles dickens pricked the bubble of Am american erivan titles and made our militia generals corner grocery 11 judges and town council honorable 3 aia ridic ulous as our spittoons spit anil and our oar dollar aristocracy but bat before the tha title nul I 1 sance can could id lie be anito laughed out it t of 0 existence the war transformed all our oar people eople into soldiers soldier we va know horn from be off leial records that a million milli ot of high figh privates enlisted on both p ainoa during the war but tho the slaughter was terrible anil and not a dinglo soldier vi in alive all tho the survivors era oell oali cers cars and although perhaps lew leiv of 0 f to them in could show their commissions I 1 hey take every possible opportunity of air airing aloir rank in chuu tries their titles titled aro are hereditary but in this countey they are infections abroad tho the son 0 of A lord jord Loco nien a lordship lorde hip when his father ill dies 0 a but I 1 in I 1 n this thin free 00 oo republic ono one tit niilo to generates another as last as flies in tho the sun run when tho the head of a family beco raus a judge or general at I 1 tile boys are ara dubbed dabbed colonels col onola or majors or commO JOrlis so as to keep keel up with the old gentleman tit a base brothers unil and law straightway straight way confer on themi thema olvea olve S titles title of honor or distinction in ia order that the original judge or general may not colicho them by the tha brilliancy of his bis pr prena efie thus it happens that this democratic republic is ia now inhibited almost exclusively by men icea ol of title generals 11 colonels col onela and majors major tire are as plentiful as cranberries craD berrien and everybody V out of 0 i jail ail ana an it a majority inside a is considered lia an I 1 I 1 llon lion tho the proposition that only dhosi who have love earned their titles should wear them Is self evident but bat while we wa may discover real soldiers cont contented coston anted toJ to be plain mr bic now that they ore are nm terail out of service we see thon sanda ol of men who aro are in war and soldiers in ia penco strutting about with the military handles to their names these soda boda water colonels til all ilal aud and cork manage our theaters direct our a p oras and aad rna ann our oar cure cureto oo england bond ua a a 13 colonel to give giva us italian opera and wo WB cate with an american colonel ot of negro minstrels military tire are the landlords of our hotels a major minoa our drinks and a aquire squi Equi ra re at to to abo boot blacking department all AIL tho the who are an not mot colonels Col onola are alons to somo some americans americana you yon may be hold bold brough to deny dany a preliminary title but bat to address anybody letter latter without the tha affel affil ol of EBI would lio bO regarded as a personal pers oual insult tho smaller the florial of tho this per nir son addressed tiie the tho the insult ul of course thus titles which honestly won and honestly hon oatly worn would do equal honor to those who benr bear aud and aboa w he respect thorn them aro are by bogus imitations au aal become ludi oroli ift of distinguished As I 1 regular gular to uro are mot mast to gut got out of uniform and into multi us as soon floon as they thay are off arity so oo those who have a right to titles uro are beginning to discard them whilo while the bogus flou flourian flo uriab more mora obtrusively liko the raw militia rui litia captain on tho the first arni i day d a y IV ya observe ob Berve also an organized organ izod of self eok promotion among theno sham aham aristocrats ono one personage I 1 whose curd card boro bore tho the proud but modean title of major fire are j r ri 7 I 1 I 1 i I 1 i I 1 t I 1 0 I 1 I 1 4 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 p i I 1 I 1 6 I 1 I 1 I 1 i I 1 4 I 1 1 11 d w i 1 I I 1 b 1 0 t I 1 lv V i 7 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 4 1 i I 1 1 t 1 1 1 ap pp i 11 I 1 r i y f I 1 ia I 1 d I 1 i t i I 1 1 1 f j I 1 I 1 I 1 i t 11 1 J 11 I 1 i 1 I 1 I 1 0 iii o i 7 f 1 I 1 I 1 1 1117 ill ail 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 it I 1 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 4 li I 1 a I 1 i 10 v I 1 r jp I 1 41 li r I 1 1 m 1 11 v I 1 1 1 1 4 h 1 I 1 I 1 i I 1 1 16 N 4 j y I 1 |