Show e 4 OF 50 1 1 1 s A k billy bine blue fou you have heard ot of tommy atkins in Ms ha uniform of red with his rakish little skull cap tilted aidem sideways a ys on his bead head but his transatlantic cousin brave and sturdy tiled and true Is the U S hegt regular lar soldier billy blue it may be before enlisting that he had another name but the maxim is his brother he wa was born to breathe its flame and his blood begins to tingle when he hears the loud datoo of the drum he loved to follow billy BI blie ie he may be a trifle cranky in the trenches wet or dry but he a never known to grumble when it cornea comes his hi turn to die he Is always up and ready when there s work for him to do and be te never his duty billy blue there is jack to man the mizzen there is jimmy legs below but its it s billy soldier billy on the shore who meets the foe whether clad in ragged khaki or a blouse and buttons new still he gialds giards g lards the starry banner billy blue when the sword Is sheathed forever and the gun Is in the rack and the endless ranks go marching to the last great bivouac if the angel picket stops them and should ask ethem who are youa every man of them will answer billy blue minna irving in lesliea profanity an 0 g soldier soldiers A grave charge that can be laid at the door of military life Is the use of profanity among soldiers writes wil ham liam T bills ellis to the wellspring the wide nude prevalence of the profane use of the name of the deity in the army la Is well known not all soldiers swear of course but one would think so were he to visit an encampment tor for as be he moves about the company streets cf tile average regiment he ft finds that this sin dulling as it does the spa its it s fine edge of reverence is shockingly common this is 18 one of the sore trials of the christian in camp H s ears are assailed on every side by a constant stream of vile language I 1 recall one day that I 1 was in the tent of a minnesota boy who lay on the ground ill he was cheerful and had no complaint to make as to the other hardships of a soldier I 1 te fe this is a hard thing to bear though he sa d uplifting his hand and paus ng rather dramatically in an attitude of attn anttn tion I 1 listened with him the flaps of his tent were m ere up on all sides and from every direction coald did be hoard the voices of men in conversation using words of coarseness and ity such as could not but be a trial to any christian christial spirit there was no special occasion tor for this it was tal 11 ordinary language of camp much of the swearing among sold ers Is thoughtless of course nen Neier er theles it Is a deeply rooted and widely preva lent tent habit which cannot easily ba be dropped wuen the suit of blue is laid laia aside nothing can be said here of th li 11 of life in a military camp it is unspeakable and appall whosoever at all acqua with soldier life needs not to be told that this is another blighting evil dl di erectly insulting lesul ting from service in the army there Is a saying current in the regular army that afar one enlistment a soldier Is likely to enlist again atter two enlistments he Is pre ty sure to take a third after the enlistment he is in the army for I 1 fe the reason is that army life unfits a man for anything else it I 1 Is a most difficult for a man who has spent any considerable time in the army to re turn to civil life and take up an or binary employment he has lost the power of application and of initiative as well as the spirit for steady em payment eight hours a day of 01 ne cassity there is much idleness in the army and when this Is continued for years it generally disqualifies one for more active life none one of these points need to be en barged upon to make apparent the great truth that one L ipe it action to war is its blighting effect up 1 the life of the soldier himself for the sake of the young men for the ake of the purity of our nation for the eake gale of the homes to which a young soldier purity is the dearest treas ire of earth we should persistently land wage war against the modern military spirit con coll pit i e i lee few defeated generals have been so revered as was robert E lee every southern man and woman admired him the of A girl girls s lie lite in virginia tells a little story that shows how much he was loved by children A year after the surrender ler general lee journeyed across the mountains on his old warhorse war borse traveler I 1 to pay a visit to the author s mother on he night of his ar arrival alval he said today an incident mccurr occurred ed which gratified me more than adyth anything ing that has happened for a long time As I 1 was riding over the desolate mountain degior I 1 was surprised to find on a sudden turn in the road two little girls playing oa or a large rock they were poorly clad and after looking at me a moment began to run away children said I 1 don t run away if i 3 ou knew who I 1 am you wouldn t run away anay aiom me we do know ou they answered you never siw me before I 1 said fir fr I 1 never passed along here but we know you said the chil dien then weve we ve got your picture in our house you re general lee we ain sin t dresen clean enough to see you and they scampered off to a hut on the mountainside then the general told of another adventure that he had had the same day while riding through thick woods he met a man who n zing him stopped and throwing up hia his bat hat in the air exclaimed general please let me cheer you and then he hurrahed as loudly as he could general lee was too great a man to be excited by ordinary applause on the contrary he was annoyed by a compliment to his valor or skill as a general but he was touched by the compliment which the two little g als 1 of the mountain paid him we ain sin t dressed clean enough to see you youth s companion lougi t with grant an old resident of 0 wood county wisconsin claims to be the only liv ing man who ever had a rough and tumble fight with ulysses S grant his name Is dana and he lives on a farm in the town of rudolph it is said that forty years ago a contro versy alose between the two men which by mutual consent was settled on the banks of the mississippi near nea r galena III in the summer of 1869 dan kazin guiding his raft of lumber into the mouth of the fever river leading to galena encountered giant in a flatboat the channel being a narrow one a dispute arose after exchanging epithets it was decided to have it out on the bank whither they repa lied accompanied by several men to see the sport and make certain of fair play was taller and weighed less than his stocky antagonist he ile was descended from hardy irish stock in his year and a clever man in a wrestling match selecting a level green spot the men opened the battle at one stage it looked as it if would be pounded into insensibility and then grant would be forced un berneath der neath to receive his share of pun ashment for an hour the contest aged raged t fast and furious until both men were forced to desist from sheer ex ha they shook hands over the result and were good friends from that time forward today is three score and ten years of age possessed of all his fac unties and going about his farm duties with the suppleness ss of a man one halt half his years he is fond of story telling and of his long list there are none he takes more pleast re in lnig than I 1 Is fight with the great american gen eral U S grant the swift I 1 aper the new torpedo destroyer viper of the british navy Is just now the ma rine wonder of the world the viper is feet long 21 feet wide and has 7 feet draft in a recent trial at new castle it steamed over a measured mile at a t the rate of 43 miles an hour or knof as officially recorded no other oth er power in the world has a flyer of this sort ii I ranee rance and the united states have been content with 30 knots ger many and russia with boats capable of making 28 and 29 knots respective ly while little japan has one which Is expected to make 33 knots the viper flying through the water at a late above aboe the average of railroad speed zoild a ild be a terror indeed A half dozen sich vipers tearing along at a speed ot of nearly a mile a minute would be ugly customers for any fleet to deal with the torpedo boat lost ome come of its reputation at santiago but a torpedo boat la in the hands ol 01 spain and one like the viper well handled and armed are two different things it may yet prove a forbid ble fighting machine and when reinforced reed with the submarine sul marine torpedo terron prove a an n auxiliary of the higl highest kesi fighting po ver gen gordon sc seit it regrets general john C 3 black chairman oi of the committee on invitations to the grand army encampment received many happy responses from pr people gho it t the he south to whom thee invitations had been forwar forwarded ded it was with considerable regret how ev ever er he learned that major general john D B gordon commanding the united confederate veterans would be unable to attend gen general eral blach black received a personal reply from ge gener n er al gordon and also a copy of the letter replying to commander in chief sha shaw w s invitation general gordon wrote that the great pleasure he ex perien ced on former occasions when it was his good fortune to be present at the national encampments in creased his regret t that hat he will be un able to again meet the brave remnants of the union army at their gathering in chicago engagements however of the most peremptory ns n ure tare forbade his acceptance another letter bearing the good will of the south to the north came from J T lawless secretary of the commonwealth ot of vir ganja chicago tribune the postmaster general has as received a comm communication uni cation from F W valle di 11 rector of post posts in the philippines showing that there will be a surplus 0 of receipts over expenditures up to june of 19 the war department has been in formed of the arrival of the transport garrone at manila on the ath dinst with wit h eight troop troops 0 of tho the first cavalry on board |