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Show CAMPFIKE SKKTCIILs7j SOME SHORT STORIES FOR j THE VETERANS. , j A Girl Tail of th. of liar ' Brother by 4eo.rol (trant America ' Admiral Kra.nr lflailf la fflrtnc a Kalalo. Th. I nit., I Sum ri.f Flag of the 1th.. ' thy fol Ls .halt fly. The Fi.n of hope and triumph high: When speaks the s'c-.iai-trumi-ei tone, : And the loin: in-s erne gleaming on. Ere yet the I . r : . 1 1. warm and wet, j Has dimnie 1 the glistening bayonet, Ea h soldi, r s eye ha!l t r i k li 1 1 turn To where thy sky-lxirii glories burn. And an his sprinting st ps ailvance. Catch war and Vengeance from the glance. 1 And when the cannon-monthlngs loud j JUave in wild br.-ti'lis the tattle shroud. I of Portaroouth. errand. According to . international etiquette, the saluting guns were unllml.Te.j on board thai visiting vess.-l for the usual salute of II g ins. win. h are ivn In hor.or of the nation in who3' harbor a for- 1 eign warship enters Hy m Dim- take of the it inner on this occasion Admiral Fyff. 9 fiat-hp thundered out 22 guns. A r-firn ;ilule of :i j guns was fired f-o:a shore, arid when j the commandant of IV navy yard ashore male Ins of!.. :..! 's.t to ti.e ' American f!....-'.ip !' "'a.-. on to mention the fa. t f.ut .'- gun h.v l been fire.! f :! th- a...-! "I ny, admiral." sunt the Ki .-nmn. loi:!.-ly. loi:!.-ly. "I no-!,! th it ..-i t 1 vp us full measure of Run.- in yo n ; ilure today. What was the .Via R.;r. for Well, sir," returned the a m. nil. w.thout turnins a hair. fir. 1 :'l K .t.s f..r Que. n Victoria and one lor Joe' Fyffe. by gad." Vlffor Of Ke.lr.il lldlron. l.leut.-Cen. Siholield wrote one of And gory sahers ri.-ie and fall ' Like shoots of fame on midnight' pall. : Then shall thy meteor glances glow, i And cowering foes shall shrink be- j neath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely m.-sseng'T of death. J Flag of the ras! on ocean wave. Thy star shall glitter o'er the brave; ; When death careering on the ga'e. j Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail, j And frightened wave.s rush wildly i back. P.efore the broadsides' reeling rack. Each dying wanderer of the sea Shall look at once to heaven and thee, And smile to see thy splendors fly In triumph o'er his closing eye. Flag of the free heart's hope and home. By angel hands to valor given. Thy stars have lit the welkin dome. And all thy hues were born In heaven '. Forever float that standard sheet. Where breathes the foe but falls before be-fore us. With Freedom's soil beneath our feet. And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us! Joseph Rodman Drake. the mod luminous and interesting autobiographies au-tobiographies ext-uit after his retirement retire-ment in IS'.'.", and at Tu he is still a phy.-lcally vmo-o is and ni.Ttaily capable ca-pable man. Major (1 11. Howard a in every way nioie a'- le to command an army at his rtl: n.ent for age in 1n94 than In l'.l w'i-ti he marched to the sea with Sherman. At Tl he is still an active and us ful citizen of the republic. re-public. Major Cen. W1 y Merritt retired re-tired last year at 64 With the exception excep-tion of his gray hair and experience Merritt is not much less a boy and far more fit to exercise command than when he fought so effectively with Fheridan thirty-six years ago. C.en. Richard C. Drum, who retired eleven years ao. is apparently as capable at 73 of directing the Adjutant General's Gen-eral's department as he was in 1Ss9, when the inexorable law operated to compel him to step out. Mentally and physical'y vigorous, he still keeps step with the times. H-re in Washington where the retfred army officers are seen In greatest numbers, of all ranks and degrees of deterioration from advancing ad-vancing years, the observer requires no further evidence than his eyes that nine of every ten are retired long before be-fore their powers are exhausted. It is undeniable, however, that the be.st Intere.-ts of the service require that in some manner the mot-sbacks be slde- . 1 1 I ,1... r.l comnillsorT A Cllrl' Talk Aboal (.rant. The following summer I went to Annapolis An-napolis to see my brother receive his diploma from the hands of the President, Presi-dent, with the rest of the graduating mld.-hlpmen. It was a glorious June day. and I wa furtuni' in having a friendly recognition from Mr. Grant, as I Btooil near him under the trees during the morning exercises. Hut better bet-ter was to come. In the afternoon a race was to be rowed, and my brother was In one of the crews. With other ladies. I was in Commodore Sk. rrett launch looking on. and troubled by the remarks of many that the river was far too rouirh for rowing. Hut the j president and Cabinet could not stay ! for another day; the race mu.-t be rowed at all h.uuid-i. The crews start-I start-I ed. and proud was I to my brother's broth-er's boat row Hying like a bir-" over I the tops of the ro.l-rs. now lo.-r in the ! hollows between. Hut sud 1- r.l' . cry retirement is doubtless the fairest method of accomplishing this end. Washington correspondence New York Sun. How Forte... Menreo Wa Built The manner of constructing the fort at Old Point Comfort Is interesting and throws some licht on customs and practices th.n in vogue. The work was almost wholly done by slaves, who were brought to the place by their masters and le..cd to the engineers in charge. The s av. -ow ner received 60 cents a day for en. h slave, and the government furnish. .1 each "laborer." as the slave a. r ll.-l. with two suits of working clothes, a pair or two of shoes, rations, qua-tera and occa-iou-ally a little tobacco. The "laborers" worked with v.-iy little clothes and generally without shoes. They lived i In barracks and were suhj. ct to a kind ; of dismay went from on- sp.ct.vor I to another: "She's swamped"- "A'o j wonder!" "I'erf. .t folly!" nn-1 'my (trained gire found hut one shell on the course, and that not Tom's! "Pnil"' tried kind Commodore Sk.-r-rett, and we fairly flew nv-r the wat.-r toward the goal and the t.irg-containing t.irg-containing Admiral Porter anl the President's party. More than that, he let me stand, for I was too short to lee otberw ise, and the la !i s si't me 0:1 each side of me held my hands to keep me steady. No one spoke. My eyes searched In vain for a red head among the dark ones of th- capsized crew. Just as my heart contracted wi'h the fear Mint he must have sunk, a quiet penetrating voice came across from v ..II..-. .tl .-...( t -i V '" 'of niiiita-y dis. 1: l.n-. 1 r,e owner I were regular In comms In to collect the hire for their slav-s, from whkh we may Infer that the constituents" of those days km how to appre. iato a pood thing to a decree worthy of the prc-.cn! generation - Leslie's Monthly. A Maeal Mrdal lctk S.-cretary Umg has d. ar.ite'.y selected select-ed a design for the medal to commemorate commem-orate the na.al campaign against Spain in the We t Indies. The obverse of the medal Is surrounded by a wreath of oak leaves. In the center of whbh Is a profile of Admiral Sampson and the inscription 'Tnited States Campaign In the West Indies. 1S.'8," and on the other side. "William Thom- 1 as r-ampson. oilliuanuei -i.i- ui. 1. j On the reverse is a representation of : the "Men Hchlnd the Guns." In the 1 dis'ance are seen the outlines of a war vessel. At the bottom Is the Inscription. Inscrip-tion. "Santiago. July 3. 1SS8. John Smith. I". S. S. Texas." the name of the recipient and of the vessel upon S each medal being different. Admiral i Sampson's picture was cboen because I he was commander-in-chief of the I r.-t. as Dewey's was placed on the j Manila medals Tol l or !! IMIOO. I The following Is tola of General t Iawton: "When Iwton started out ! to get anything, he hated to stop until ! it was In his grasp. Me was tireless I himself, and he couldn't understand I why other men couldn't keep up with 1 him. It always rather worried him j that it was necessary to stop and cook meals for the men. 'Yea. he would say, I 1 know an army fights on Its belly, j but 1 11 never be sitisfl.-d till I g.t hold I of a regiment that don't need to eat-' " j Springfield Republican. It was Grant s, and there behind him In the boat was my dripping, la ughing brother, kissing hU hand to me youth's Companion. Oae Unl for Mim.ir. One of the quaintest .haiaciers In the old American navy was Admiral Joseph Fyffe. as bluff and f.ailess an old sea dog as ever s;.nd upon the bridge In time of danger. There is bardly an officer or man in the ervtce to this day but can repeat ome of the nitty and original saylnics and doings of "Joe" Fyffe. Hesldes !.. ing as goc.d a seaman as ever trod wax, leu thips of war, the admiral had a tongue which was about as Impie.sive to tor-Ignera tor-Ignera as the guns which peered from the porthol.s of his vessel. "Joe F)ffe's Ideas of diplomacy were based on the primary principle that there was to be Do backing down or "beating about the bush" under any circunist-iii.es and that whatever mistake Arr.e ic n.; happened to make should be ' t.l by." Just as If they had been Intentional Inten-tional and psrt and parcel of elaborate elabo-rate plana This phase of "Joe'' F IT. s character was strikingly Illustrated about 10 year ago. when Admiral ryffe's Bsgshlp sa.lrd Into the harbor |