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Show "Life's Brief Candle" I AFTER Appomattox and the settlements of the I succeeding few weeks, the Union soldiers of fl Grant's and Sherman's armies held a grand review ? in Washington. " A hundred and fifty thousand of them in close ; ranks passed before the then president and the fl great soldiers who had led them to victory. fl An English "military expert watched the re- - view and .some weeks later expressed tho belief H that it was the most superb army on earth. He said the armies of Europe were hotter dressed and in motion made a more perfect machine, but there was a litheness, a careless solf-confidence, an apparent indifference to whatever might come, which ho had never seen represented by massed soldiers before and which ho did not believe any J other soldiers could imitate. Two weeks ago thero was a review at the same place of most of all' the remnants of all the i Union soldiers who have survived tho friction of i fifty years of peace. All told they represent but - - j II J 33 per cent of those who xMdp up that others U ( army, and the tigorstep andfjpyous faces of the r formercolumnJhave changed To the limp oftho , old andlhe dulled eyes and snowy, hair that come H with the vearsr 1 &JP H' p And theleaders, where are they? Grant has ' , been asleep bn the heights above theHudson for H I thirty years; 'Sherman in a cemetery atsffc. Louis, H ' Sheridan at Arlington, with Porter .and Grook j' near by in their narrow couches of all not one Hi remains save Miles. H' Only fifty years, but all those Illustrious names i I aio ajready but dim memories to a majority of H ' their countrymen. Hi The president who lived then and all the H 1 great souls who surrounded him with five presi- H dents who have succeeded to the high office since, H have vanished. HL- Contemplating it all men should be impressed H with thevthought that this life is about the frail- H est of earthly things and what man has to do H should be done at once, for to each one there may H be no tomorrow. H s "Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, H That struts and frets his hour upon the stage m And then is heard no more." H ' |