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Show THE ONLY WAY. A gentle sense of humor was not incompatible with the dignified gravity gravi-ty of Gen. Robert E. Lee. When the Civil War was just beginning, be-ginning, says the Outlook, the commander com-mander of a volunteer military company com-pany reported to General Lee, in great agitation, that it would require some time for the old flintlock shooting-irons of his company to be changed and fitted for percussion-caps. percussion-caps. The general appeared to be pondering ponder-ing the matter. "The only way I can see," he said, "to get out of your dilemma is to telegraph to Mr. Lincoln to have th.- war put off for throe weeks." |