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Show of . the purity of our nation, for the take of the homes to which a young soldier s purity is the dearest treasure of earth, we should persistently and aggressively wage war against, .the modern military spirit . Complimenting Gen. Lee. i Few Defeated generals have been so revered as was Robert Ei Lee. Every southern (-man and woman admiued ! : bim;- The author of "A Girl's Life in "Virginia" tells a little story that shows how much he was loved by children. 'A year -alter the. surrender .General Lee journeyed across the . mountains on his old war-horse, "Traveler," to pay a-visit to the author's mother. On the night of his arrival he said: ' Today an. incident occurred which gratified me more than anything that has happened for a long time. As I was riding over the desolate mountain region, I was surprised to find, on a sudden turn in' the road, two little girls playing on a large rock. They were poorly clad, and after looking at me a moment began to rim away. . ' " 'Children,' said I, 'don't run away! If you knew who I am you wouldn't run away from me.' " 'We do know you,' they answered. " 'You never saw me before,' I saidt 'for I never passed along here.' " 'But we know you,' said the children. chil-dren. 'We've got your picture in our' house. You're General Lee! We ain't dressed 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, recognizing him, stopped, and throwing up his hat in the air, exclaimed: "General, please let me cheer you!" and then he hurrahed as loudly as he could. 1 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, sBut he was touched by the compliment which the two little girls of the mountain paid him: ''We ain't dressed clean enough to see you!" Youth's Companion. , . . .i i- jr ftmyBtnev ; . Younave beaW 'oraemimy -Atkins? . .In. his uniform of-red ' I V t With his rakish little skull cap "Tilled sideways on his headi ffluf his transatlantic cousin; jr.. a? ; 4 -i-Brawe-atid' sturdy ,' trted and true, Is itae-li. S. reeulap soldier, JJilly Biue tt may be before enlisting .. . That he hart another name, . But the Maxim is his brother. He was born to breathe its flame; And his blood begins to tingle When he hears the loud tatoo ') Of the drum he loved to follow -" Billy' Blue. ' He may be a trifle cranky . In the trenches wet or dry, ' But he's never knows to grumble When It come3 his turn to die. He is always up and ready When there's work for him to do, And he never shirks his duty, Billy Blue. There is Jack to man the mizzen. There is Jimmy Legs below. But 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 guards 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 shouldask them"Who are you?" Every man of them will answer, i "Billy Blue." -Mlnna Irving in Leslie's. Profanity Amonjr Soldiers. - T., A grave charge that can be laitl- at the door of military life is the use of profanity among soldiers, writes William Wil-liam T.. Ellis to the Wellspring! The wide, prevalence of the profane use of the name of the Deity in the army is well known. Not all soldiers swear, of course, but one would think so were he to visit an encampment, for as he moves about the company streets cf tiie average regiment, he finds that this sin, dulling as. it does the spirit's fine edge of reverence, is shockingly common. This is one of the sore trials of the Christian in camp. H e ears are assailed on every side by a constant stream of vile language. I recall one day that I 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 life. "This is a hard thing to bear, though," he sa d, uplifting his hand and pausing racher dramatically, in an attitude of attention. atten-tion. I listened with him. The flaps of his tent were up on all sides, and from every direction could be heard the voices of men in conversation using words of coarseness and profanity, profan-ity, such as could not but be a trial to any Christian spirit. There was no special occasion for this; it was the ordinary language of camp. Much of the swear'ng among scUers is-thoughtless, is-thoughtless, of course. Nevertheless, it is a deeply rooted and widely prevalent preva-lent habit which cannot easily bs dropped wuen the suit of blue is laid aside. Thi Swift Viper. The new torpedo destroyer Viper of the British navy is just now the marine ma-rine wonder of the world. The Viper is 210 feet long, 21 feet wide, and has 7 feet draft. In a recent trial at, Newcastle New-castle it steamed over a measured mile at the rate of 43 miles an hour, or ,37 knots, as officially recorded. No other power in the world has a flyer of this sort France and the United States have been content with 30 knots, Germany Ger-many and Russia with boats capable of making 28 and 29 knots respectively, respective-ly, while little Japan has one which is expected to make 33 knots. The Viper, flying through the water at a rate above the average of railroad speed, would be a terror indeed.- A half dozen such Vipers tearing along at a speed of nearly a mile a minute would be ugly customers for any fleet to deal with. The torpedo boat lost some of its reputation at Santiago, but a torpedo boat in the hands of Spain, and one like the Viper, well handled and armed, are two different things. It may yet prove a formidable fighting machine, and when reinforced with the submarine torpedo terror prove an auxiliary of the highest fighting power. Gon. Gordon Sent Regrets. General John C. Black, chairman of the committee on invitations to the Grand Army encampment, received many happy responses from prominent people throughout the south to whom these invitations had been forwarded. It was with considerable regret, however, how-ever, he learned that Major General John B. Gordon, commanding the United Confederate Veterans, would be unable to attend. General Black received a personal reply from General Gener-al Gordon and also a copy of the letter replying to Commander-in-Chief Shaw's invitation.. General Gordon wrote that the great pleasure he experienced ex-perienced on former occasions, when it was his good fortune to be present at the national encampments, increased, in-creased, his regret that he will be unable un-able to again meet the hrave remnants of the Union army at their gathering in Chicago. Engagements, however, of the most peremptory nat ire forbade his acceptance. Another letter, bearing bear-ing the good will of the south to the north, came from J. T. Lawless, secretary sec-retary of the commonwealth of Virginia. Vir-ginia. Chicago Tribune. Collected Doable Bouuty It is the law in Maine that the bounty for bears shall be paid when the animal's nose is shown. In New Hampshire the ears must be exhibited. Some enterprising sportsmen living near the borders of the two states get a double bounty by collecting on the noses in one state and on the ep.rs in th other. Nothing can be said here of the licentiousness li-centiousness of life in a military camp. It is unspeakable and appalling. appall-ing. Whosoever is at all acquainted with soldier life needs not to be told that this is another blighting evil directly di-rectly resulting from service in the army. There is a saying current in the regular army that alt;r one enlistment a soldier is likely to enlist again. After two enlistments he is p;e:ty sure to take a third. After the third enlistment he is in the army for. life. The reason is that army life unfits, a man for anything else. It is most difficult for a man wtio has spent any considerable time 1n the army to re-, turn to civil life and take up an ordinary or-dinary employment. He has lost the power of application and of initiative, as well a the spirit for steady employment em-ployment eight hours a day. Of necessity ne-cessity there is much idleness in the army, and when this is continued for years it generally disqualifies one for more active life. None of these points need to be enlarged en-larged upon to make apparent the great truth that one chief objection to wr is its blighting effect upon the hie of the soldier himself. For the sake of the young men, for the aaiia |