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Show j A War Song By Hay. ; n"e of the poems which Secretary : Hay wrote in the days when he held such humble rank that he could afford to gTatify his taste for writing verses has been translated into Dutch relates the New York Times, and the Boers ue it in the Transvaal war as a patriotic song. The song in question was writ-, ten during the civil war in honor of the I Lnion volunteers, and is entitled! When the Boys Come Home." One of' the secretary's acquaintances remarked1 the other day that the people in congress con-gress and elsewhere who are accusing Mr. Hay of not affording sufficient fa- ! cihties for the furnishing of relief tot the Boer prisoners ought to be mollified ', when this fact becomes known, "for."' said - "Hay has furnished the Boers' a good war song, and that has some-! times been known to be a better thin-'i I for an army to have even than food " |