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Show volley fired this time, of course, at close range and the formation is once more deranged. This maneuver is continued con-tinued until, familiarity having bred contempt, the horses advance as iead-ily iead-ily in the face of musketry (both volleys vol-leys and "straggling" fire) as when faced by nothing at all. They are then taught in precisely the same way to disregard the boom of cannon. Once properly trained, a horse faces the deadly fire of an enemy on the field of battle with an absolute fearlessness, of which man, be he brave as a lion, is incapable. This, however, is only natural. nat-ural. Tho horse has been taught to believe be-lieve the din of battle to be quite meaningless and without results. When in actual warfare he sees horses and men around him shattered and lifeless, life-less, there is nothing to suggest to him that that same din of battle and death are in any way connected, and the report of firearms, consequently. CAMPFIRE SKETCHES' SOME SHORT STORIES FOR THE VETERANS. Plans Employed to Teach War-Horses to Stand Fire Some Can Not Be Taught to Ignore the .Rattle of Musketry Mus-ketry Grand Army Fading: Away. I'IX HANG MY HARP. I'll hang my harp on a willow tree, I'll off to the wars again; My peaceful home has no charm for me, The battle-field no pain. The lady I love will soon be a bride With a diadem on her brow; Oh! why did she flatter my youthful pride? She's going to leave me now! for him has no terrors whatever. The whistling of bullets and the screaming of shells unknown, of course, at the maneuvers at home while insignificant insig-nificant details to the horse, are sadly full of meaning to the man, and often enough do our soldiers envy the ignorance ignor-ance of the horse the "ignorance .which is bliss." Philadelphia Times. GRAND ARMY FADING AWAY. Death is making sad inroads in tha ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic. Re-public. The report of the adjutant-general adjutant-general at the recent encampment at Cleveland shows that the number lost She took me away from my warlike lord. And gave me a silken suit; I thought no more of my master's sword, , When I played on my master's lute. She seemed to think me a boy above Her pages of low degree; Oh! had I but loved with a boyish love, It would have been better for me. Then I'll hide in my breast every selfish sel-fish care, I'll flush my. pale cheek with wine; When smiles awake the bridal pair, I'll hasten to give thee mine. by death during the year ending June 30, 1901, was 8,166, and the total membership mem-bership of the order is now placed at 269,507. This is the smallest membership member-ship given in any annual report since the early years of the organization. The death and suspension of members is partly made good by restorations to good standing and the addition of new members. But notwithstanding these the gap grows steadily wider. In ten years past the membership of the Grand Army has dropped from 398,067 to 269,507, a loss of 128,560. The annual loss In each of the seven past years is I'll laugh and I'll sing though my heart may bleed, And I'll walk in the festive train, And, if I survive it, I'll mount my steed, And '11 off to the wars again. But one golden tress of her hair I'll twine In my helmet's sable plume, And then on the fields of Palestine I'll seek an early doom. And if by the Saracen's hand I fall, 'Mid the noble and the brave, A tear from my lady-love is all given in the following table: Loss from Member- previous ship. year. June 30, 1895 357,630 34,031 June 30, 1896 340,610 17,029 June 30, 1897 319,456 21,154 June 30, 1898 305,603 13,853 June 30, 1899. 287,981 17,622 June 30, 1900 276,662 11,219 June 30, 1901 269,507 7,055 Since 1895 the Grand Army has lost a little over 88,000 in numbers. This, however, measures only approximately the loss by death among the members of the order, and it does not take into account the deaths among those who never joined the Grand Army. Frob- ' " I ask for the warrior's grave. There is considerable doubt as to the authorship of the above song, once Very popular, and still occasionally Bung. Andrew Lang, in an amusing article on T. Haynes Bayley, the song writer, credits him with it, but in this he appears to have made a mistake. The common story told as to its origin is that it was suggested by Lord El-phinstone's El-phinstone's unfortunate attachment to the Princess Victoria. Elphlnstone, who is said to have been a very handsome hand-some young man of good abilities, aspired as-pired to the hand of the heiress to the throne; and report says was grievously disappointed when after her accession to the throne the queen became en- ably not more than one-third of those who fought in the war have been enrolled en-rolled among the boys in blue. The deaths among the latter have been in as large, if not larger, proportion, and it is consequently within the truth to say that during the last seven years 100,000 veterans have joined the grand army in the beyond. The next seven years is likely to see still greater inroads. in-roads. The Increasing age of those who remain and their growing inurnai-ties inurnai-ties must make great gaps in. th Grand Army membership, and among the unenrolled veterans. The fading' of the army is steady and sure, and soon only a remnant of those who gaged to Prince Albert. Lord Elphlnstone Elphln-stone went to India, where he had a brilliant career as soldier and ruler, dying unmarried in 1860. The authorship author-ship of the song has even been imputed to Lord Elphinstone but on no probable prob-able grounds. Montreal Herald and Btar. TRAINING WAR-HORSES. The main difficulty in training a war horse is to accustom the animal to the thunder of firearms. A horse that can be quickly trained to the roar of cannon and musketry is an acquisition which instructors know how to aDnre- fought to save the union will be left to tell the story. i AMERICAN HERO WORSHIP. Perhaps the hero is no mean idol for worship, but we 'Americans are apt to carry the thing too far. While I believe be-lieve in giving the hero all praise and honor due him, yet when a man has only done his duty only done what was in his power to do and what was expected of him, there Is no reason why he should be worshiped at all. In behalf of the h date. You hear people talk glibly enough nowadays of supplying our troops in the east with plenty of remounts, re-mounts, and it's quite evident from the remarks they make that they imagine they need only to lasso a few thousand wild horses in Texas," ship them off to Manila and voilo! our soldiers sol-diers are remounted. Although most horses can be quickly trained to face the most withering fire, many are very difficult to convince that a tremendous noise is not necessarily a signal of danger, while some . never can be taught to ignore the rattle of m,, behalf of the heroes of our army and navy, perhaps it would be well to take a little of the praise from the officers, who are well, paid for their services and suffer little of privation, and give it to "the men bdhind the guns," es-pecially es-pecially those who could make no greater sacrifice than to lay down their lives for their country's sake. How much praise and honor is given to those men on our battleships who, during dur-ing the giory of the battle, toil without with-out ceasing at the hot furnaces below, without even knowing the turn of the battle, and who are in the most immediate im-mediate danger of their lives, should the vessel be destroyed by torpedoes Laugnt to ignore the rattle of musketry. mus-ketry. Your correspondent has had th pleasure of visiting the farm of a trainer train-er of war horses, situated in the wilds of Texas. In a field adjoining the stables sta-bles I found, ranged in a circle ready for instruction, some three dozen fine horses, including a few splendid chestnuts. chest-nuts. The instructor stood in (he cen ter of the circle, with the horses facing him gave the signal to the attendants to be in readiness and fired three chambers of a revolver in rapid succession. suc-cession. Instantly there was a great commotion. Most of the horses reared and plunged, and it was only with the greatest difficulty that some of them or meet disaster in any other way Some of the heroes of old and some modern ones, who suffered undue privations pri-vations and succeeded where it seemed seem-ed impossible, well deserve the name of hero, but in a great many cases today, to-day, heroism has almost become a profession. Some are so well paid in honor and money for one good achievement achieve-ment that they feel their cup of glory is full and they need never try to accomplish ac-complish another. In some instances thousands of dollars have been spent to bestow honors where they were not even appreciated. After all, true heroism hero-ism hes not in what end is reached or aim accomplished, but in what sacrifice sacri-fice is made to reach that end or ae complish that aim.-Mrs. L. A Shrin niaGrifWberne N" " ,n were prevented from breaking away and racing madly about the field a 11 th6 er band' did "king more than prick up their ears and toss their heads, and these were promptly taken away for test. The more restive ones of course, were subjected to the revolver shots until they could face them unflinchingly. The second testis much more severe. The horses are galloped up to a supposed company of infantry, who fire simultaneously as soon as the animals have got propel into swing. The first volley usua y plays havoc with the formation of the advancing cavalry, and some of the horses rear so wildly that their riders have considerable difficulty ia keening their saddles. In a few moments how ever, the charge is continued, another |