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Show THE SMITH FAMILY. Great, and truly great, was the Smith family in the Tar. It can lay just claim to having been by long odds the most numerous clan with which the kaiser had to contend. There were 51,-000 51,-000 Smiths in the American army, and no doubt many other thousands in the British army also. A Smith- Robert Lee Smith of Richmond Rich-mond has delved into the records, and he professes to have proof that the Smiths in the war did, indeed, num- ber more than 50,000. Even with that astonishing number of Smiths with the colors there was no noticeable scarcity of Smiths at large. "We could have furnished many times that number' says the Richmond Smith, "and never missed 'em at home. I haven Jt the . least doubt that when the kaiser heard that the Smiths had joined in against him ho hastened on to Holland and told Yon Hindenburg that the dream of world empire was blasted." Next to the Smiths, the Johnsons were the most numerously enlisted. There were 29,000 Johnsons. The Jones family was there 25,000 strong, and they ran a neck-and-neck race with tho descendants of the original Mr. Green and his wife. The Browns mustered 9000, and there were 4500 Cohens. The records show that there was only one Woodrow Wilson in the ranks. There were seventy-four George Wash-ingtons, Wash-ingtons, two Abraham Lincolns, two Ulysses S. , Grants and five Ulysses Grauts without the " S. " Seventy-nine Seventy-nine Robert E. Lees answered the roll call. There were four Bismarcks and two Ccesars in the army. |