OCR Text |
Show g prosperity. Trickery and may win for a season ; .malice may hamper and falsehood may cripple for just a little while, hut the right shall triumph; the eternal and unchangeable laws of equity and Justice will ultimately prevail, and the wrong must and will retreat before the advance of the truth, which Is Cod and of God, and Is therefore able to defy all of the powers of darkness and the malignity of the Prince of Evil himself. children grow into reliable and dependable citizens, and there is no occupation that pays such large dividends as , instructing thi young in all that belongs to good government and the conduct of the affalri of a prosperous people. How many young men who will Join In the memorial services of the present year could give a clear, concise and comprehensive account of the conditions and causes that led to the war of the rebellion, or the status of the country at the time immediately before the war broke out? How many young men who cast their first ballot at the last election can tell Just what they voted for, and why they voted? How many can tell what is the Monroe Docirlne, or how It applies to the present state of public affairs? The tariff is a mystery unsolvable by the average citizen. He knows that there Is something in it about duties and taxes, but any attempt to fix its actual polntB in his mind results In total failure. The single-ta- x theory Is beyond him, tax for revenue only is a poser," and all talk about unearned increment Is as sounding brass and tinkling cymbal. No man should lx permitted to cast a vote until he Is able to state understandingly what are the foundation principles of the government under which he lives, and which confers upon him that great privilege. To this end the children must be educated and made to understand what government means, and what are its gifts and demands. Memorial Day la a great day for this purpose. Assemblies of the best citizens should be the order of the afternoon, and here should be found the very best and ablest speakers and thinkers in the land. Instruction should be made attractive and the exercises interesting. If this were added to the work of Deeoratlon Day the generation next following this would have a much more comprehensive idea of what the day really means. Mrs. Logan Suggested the Day. In the spring of 1868 General Logan and I were invited to visit th battle grounds of the South with a party of friends. As certain important matters kept him from joining the party, however, I went alone, and the trip proved a most interesting and impressive one. The South had been desolated by the war. Everywhere signs of privation and devastation were constantly presenting themselves to us. The graves of the soldiers, however, seemed as far as possible the objects of the greatest care and attention. One graveyard that struck me gp being especially pathetic was in Richmond. The graves were new, and just before our visit there had been a Memorial Day" observance, and upon each grave there had been placed a small Confederate flag and wreaths of beautiful flowers. The scene seemed most Impressive to me, and when 1 returned to Washington I spoke of It to the general and said I wished there could be a concerted action of this kind all over the North for the decoration of the graves of our own soldiers. Ths general thought it a capital Idea, and with enthusiasm set out to secure its adoption. At that time he was commander-in-chie- f of the Grand Army. The next he sent for Adjutant General Chip-maday and they sonferred as to the best means of beginning a general observance. On the fifth day of May in that year the historic order was put out Ceneral Logan often spoke of tne issuing of this order as the proudest act of his life. It was marvellous how popular ths idea became at once. The papers all double-dealin- Well-train- but they also knew Anderson, and felt that he would hang on to the last gasp. In IDDEN away Every little while Major Anderson the vault of a safe deposit company is gave orders to dip the flag to the fleet a memento of that to show that everything was all right struggle of thirty During one of these salutes, and when odd years ago the flag was being hoisteda back into which no wearer of place after the third dip, shell burst the blue or gray near the staff, cutting the halliard. The could look upon flag started to come down with a run. without peculiar but a piece of the cut rope got jammed emotions. Just now, In a section of the shivered staff and when the remnant the flag was morn Becure than ever. of the host that donned the blue nearly It was this that caused Major Anderour decades back is preparing to pay son to utter the historic words above referred to. Its yearly tribute to its dead throughAfter the evacuation of Sumter Maout the length and breadth of the Andereon journeyed to New York, jor land, this memento a flag bo worn he made the usual garrison ln- where Its Interest of and ragged Is strange history is the history of the war. This flag flew high In the air over the battlements of Fort Sumter on that tventful morning of April 12, 1861, f v Confederate vhen the newly organized forces began the bombardment which started the greatest conflict of modern ifmi 4 times. -' UfcTi There were two garrison flags in the tort; one was the fine weather flag and d tu. the other the stormy weather flag. Like rfn the elements the chaos In mens hearts threatened on that historic day, so the storm flag was run up and in short time l ?' yrzr became the target of. the Confederate 'i shot. Before that it was not a fine flag, beA hj ing made of coarse meshed, strong bunting, tough enough to withstand the J 'if AJ lashing of the winds of the coast. Ten dm'itm? feet one way and fifteen the other it ryr1i f stood out like a board and more than one wild shot, aimed by the inexpet-rienced gunners on Bhore, went so high over the fort that big gaps were torn In the flutering emblem. Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson, widow of T.RRS wihewttt.t. Brevet Major General Anderson, commander of Fort Sumter, now owns the voice to the War Department, includflag, and she treasures it so carefully ing flag and the fair weaththat it is rarely removed from the er the famous In the returns. The Secretary flag box safe in vaults. the strong deposit The ravages of time have had little of War promptly ordered the return of effect upon its color. The red, white the flags to the major, accompanying and blue arc alm-- t as bright today as them with a letter in which he said that they could not be in better keepthey were thirty-si- x years ago, and were it not for the rips and tears it ing than in the hands of the man who so gallantly defended them. would make a gallant appearance toMajor Anderson had the flags placed day flying in the bright sunlight. Seven times during the first day of In the vaults of the Metropolitan Bank New York, and there they remained the bombardment the flagstaff wa3 in until it was evident that General Sherof a series but struck, by strange ils- - 1: cuiitiiiued to fly at the man would wring FortT Sunitor from the dying grasp of the Confederacy. The peak. After one of these accidents MaGod Al flag was again sent South, and on the jor Anderson exclaimed: the Confederates surrendered the mighty nailed that flag to the staff and day fort it was again hoisted to the peak could not lower it if I tried. This paiticular accident happened in of the flag pule by Major Anderson this way. Outside the bar marking himself. This happened on April 14, 1865, exactly four years to the day from the evacuation. A salute of 100 guns was fired at the fort In honor of the flag, and the guns of the surrounding batteries and ships joined in the uproar. After that the old flag was returned to the bank vaults, not to be seen again until death called its owner. Then It was used as a pall at the soldiers funeral at West Point, and with each succeeding generation its unique historical value will inertase. SUMTERS OLD FLAG. ''$' t -- .. ic-..- I g.a, X-- , I Mm L. - its . CHAIRMAN HEAD OF MILITARY COMMIT- Is On of tha Moat Important CIGARETTE M Letter.) ONGRE88 CRITICS MISTAKES. Pereen-- In Congress Just Now no Made Kaoord for Hiniaelf During tha Civil War Leader lu Politic! In loir a. (Washington IT IS NOT NICOTINE. PROFESSOR MALLET CORRECTS TEE IN HOUSE. ed n, J. A. T. HULL Commnnleatloa In the Seleatlile inrrl can" an Matter of Popelar MUep pr.heu.lou (itkloed Handkerchief Teat I He Teat At AIL t MAN J. W. Mallet, professor of chemistry John A. T. Hull of as In the University of Virginia, in a comIowa, who, chairman of the munication to the current number of committee on mil- the Scientific American, says with refmanerence itary affaire, is ufacture:to cigarettes of American looking after the Ignorance of eaeily ascertainable army affaire in congress, Is now serv- scientific facts is, however, common ing his fourth term. enough, as Is often Illustrated by the At present the com- brown, oily material formed in the mittee of which he smoking of tobacco being pointed out as nicotine, though in reality this is one is the head is of the most important organizations in congress, and the merely the tar produced by the action Iowa statesman will be prominent un- of heat on the woody fiber of the leaf. til the Cuban question is settled defin- ) Nicotine when pure is a colorless fluid of somewhat oily consistence and Mr. Hull Is the most picturitely. esque member of the Iowa delegation. strong, peculiar, penetrating odor, but For the past decade he has been the It darkens on exposure to air and light, center of the fiercest political battles becoming first yellow and then brown, ;in the state, and has come out of all so that It looks, in this darkened conHe Is a ready dition, something like the tarry matter of them victoriously. and eloquent talker, ripe In experi- which soils a smokers fingers or a ence, and one of the most popular men handkerchief through which tobacco ion the floor of the bouse. Mr. Hull ) smoke is exhaled, or Is often noticed a good man to have at the head of the as deposited In the stem of a pipe. committee on military affairs. He has This tarry deposit has nothing eshad no small experience in actual war- sential in common with nicotine, and fare. When the war broke out he enContains but traces of this alkaloid, Iowa infan- when any at alL listed in the Twenty-thir- d try, and was promoted to a captaincy ( A part, but only a small part (about before he retired, which he did only In the experiments of after having received a desperate Melsens), of the real nicotine of toHe has been prominent in bacco, la volatilized without decompojwound. ,Iowa politics for twenty-fiv- e years, and sition; the remainder Is burned and jwas secretary of state in that commondestroyed in the process of smoking. one-seven- wealth In 1878. In 1887 he was elected th The simple facts are, that such cigarettes as I have examined, representing a large part of those In general use throughout the United States, are tobacco jnade from pure, of the high grade produced on certain special sells, prominently In certain of the southern counties of Virginia and the adjacent portion of North Carolina, with wrappers of the best quality of harmless vegetable fiber paper, and are entirely free from the adulterants (which It has been asserted are present (with no evidence in favor of such as- -' sertion, and In absolute contradiction of the scientific evidence actually avails able. light-yello- w LoaeUeeaa. CHAIRMAN HULL. lieutenant governor. Mr. Hull is now 57 years old, strong, patriotic and able. PHILATELISTS WIN A FIGHT. They Hey Keep, Buy. or Sell Newspaper or Periodical 8 tamps. The controversy between the government and the philatelists and stamp dealers as to whether newspaper and periodical stamps may be kept In collections and bought and sold was decided by United States Circuit Judge Lacombe. The government asserted that no newspaper or periodical stamps had ever lawfully come into the possession of stamp collectors or dealers. The stamp collectors and dealers said that the postofflee department had offered the newspaper and periodical stamps for sale on several occasions. Judge Lacombe finds this assertion to be true, and In his decision says: In 1875, under the signature of the third assistant a circular was Issued stating that the department was prepared to furnish postmaster-genera- l, specimen sets of newspaper and periodical stamps at their face value, back to the Issue of 1847. Now the government claims that these stamps were stolen, purloined, ,and embezzled, because some years after an order was Issued to postmasters forbidding the sale of newspaper and periodical stamps. The claim is preposterous. The records show that more than 700 sets of these stamps have been sold openly to the public. New York Sun. flow Herve Begun HU Career. Herve, the celebrated French composer, began his musical career as an organist When a boy he strolled Into a church one day and persuaded the blower to let him try the organ after service. He then improvised something wonderfully sweet and strange. The priest happened to come In, heard it and was amazed. Where did yon learn to play the organ? he asked, and the boy truthfully replied that he had never played It before. Well, said the priest. In amazement, there Is a Mrmorlitl Day. vacancy in tbe post of organist here and you had better apply for it. We do It Is suggested as Memorial Day Is not want any one more eklllful than one likely to be observed for many The boy applied and wae acyou. years to come, that a certain portion of t T FLAG OF FOItT SUMTER. It be set apart for the instruction of cepted. Hie success was Immediate. MRS. GEN. LOGAN. the entrance to the harbor were several the children and young people of the over the land copied the order, and thr Tbe little church was crowded, and Federal vessels. This fleet could not country in the purest principles of observance was a general one. The strangers became frequent visitors, and Inter the harbor without being sunk by patriotism. In every church, school memorial ceremony that took place at he eoon received offers to complete his the cannon of the land batteries, and house and assembly room in the land Arlington that year was perfectly In- musical education. ill It could do was to anchor out of tbe children ought to be gathered to- spiring to all the old soldiers. General tange and observe the bombardment Knnrhpi! Kim Out. gether and instructed in the vital prin- Grant, Generals Shorman and Sheridan, tt Is needless to say with what anx- ciples of truth, Integrity, sincereity and Ilojack "Who was the best man at many of those who have since pasiety the men on these ships watched and all righteousness, which alone can sed away attended the first solemn obtbe wedding of Mr. Meeker and the (he flag flying over Sumter. They knew furnish foundation on which to build servance of widow Swnybaclt ? Tomdlk Mrs. John A. The the day. hat sooner or later it must corns down. a permanent and perpeual national widow Swayiiack. Judge. Loneliness there are times when we all have to go Into it; there are chambers In the soul where no foot can fall, no dearest friend can There are circumstances that reveal to us 'this loneliness and Intensify our sense of it Who will how us any goo9 at such times? There'is nobody, there Is nothing, that promises any hope. Life is a thing empty and forsaken, With no hand that can lead ns, no voice that can speak to us, no light that can break through the haunting gloom. There Is but one answer to that cry ef the heart: Lord, lift Thou up the light of Thy Rev. Mark countenance upon us! Guy Pearse. One of the great troubles that railroad companies have had to contend with in the past with both the old style and ths new M. C. B. couplers was the falling of drawheads on the tracks, resulting many times in disastrous wrecks. A year or two ago the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad adopted a device to prevent just such occurrences, and has since attached It to all its passenger equipment. The devloo is quite simple, consisting merely of a steel hook, which is placed Immediately beneath the coupler on the draw-heawith a horizontal arm projecting slightly at am aaglc to the direction of the track.' When the draw-hea- d falls the safety hooks not only assist in jamming the draw-heatogether but absolutely preveit their swaying from side to side, and thus becoming disengaged. The steel heok is placed In such a position that It cannot be jammed or broken off in the coupling of cars. In actual practice this device has proved exceedingly satisfactory, and has not failed in a single Instance. right-angl- ed d, ds One inch of rain falling upon one square mile is equivalent to 17.500,000 gallons of water. Mr. WlnleWI (toothing Im far rhlldm tectblng.Mftaai th. ram. tvd.m l.fl.ie .Hu., allay, pain, nm wild calk). U Matas bottle Prof.IIamy says the black race embraces individuals. 150,000,000 Educate Toar Bow.U With Cascaret. Candy Cathartic, 10c.i!3a. If CL C. Cl cure constipation forever fall.drugglsts rotund money Alexandria possesses the largest art Dial harbor in the world. Dont Tobacco Slt and Smoko Tour Life Away. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be of life, nerve end visor, take No-actio, fullwonder-worker, that makes weak naea Dae. the All druggists, Mo. or Si. Cure guaranstrung. teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Uemody Co.. Chicago or New York. T. The steamship Britannia has crossed the Atlantic 500 times, having traveled 1, 000 miles in her 34 yearn service. We will forfait 81,000 if say of our published testimonials arc proven to be net genuine. Tss Pi so O., "Warren, Pa. You cant temper a criticism partners whist-playin- g of your enough to keep it from hurting. To Car Oea.Mpatlon F orevar. Take QMmarets Cfeady Cathartic. lie or SB If C. C OL falls to euro, druggists refund money i i I s t J |