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Show THE NONCOMBATANT BONE. "At Hale's Ford In Virginia." said Booker T. Washington, "I used to know in my boyhood an old colored intn called Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam during the Civil war took a great interest in the conflict, but he did not fight himself. him-self. A white man took him to task about this one day. " 'Look here. Uncle Sam,' ne said, "here are the men of the North and the men of the South killing one another oft like sixty on your account Why don't you pitch in and Join them? "Uncle Sam looked at his Interlocutor with a pleasant smile. " 'Mah frlen'.' he said, 'has yo' evah seen two dawgs a-fightln over a bone? " 'Of course, I have,' said the white man. - - " 'Did you evah see de bone fight?" said Uncle Sam." Pittsburg Dispatch. i |