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Show Tlia eil.nl Arm. Along the Avenue of Fame bulldcd to honor them Bo pure, ornate, and )ct, so tlmple In IU majesty That, Initlncttlvely, one could but feci Tor luch a letting, rare muit the Jewel ho; While yet tho un wan high o'erhead, Ollntlng with Its ran the burnlihcd teel; Krewhllo tho thousand! lined the war Whoie every voice rang out a welcoming, welcom-ing, I law them pass; a glorious pageantry. pageant-ry. Ghosts? Aye, apectres they; Borne In rags, with tattered flags Cherished, and followed, In many a fray, With municd drum, sco how they cornel Armed cap-a-plc, with musket, and sabre, "Ohosta of tho Red-hand from over the border." Dcathloss heron. Do yo seek a namoT Mayhap 'lit 'scribed on the roll of fame. Or mayhap, they sleep beneath somo atono Whereon Is graved n holy legend "Unknown." Lost In the mate of tho war blasted track, Dome are "Tho Doya who did not como back," Beel How they go charging: To the trumpet's shrill bounding, The deep-mouthed guns pounding, Up, up; now, nwayl Now, shattered and broken, spreading dismay. Musketry flashing; aabrea slashing, Wielded by loyal bands, hearts cvor truo; Hark! Now, tho shot and shell; Wide ope the gates of bell lhe hell of war's pasalon; Beethlng and surging, writhing and turning Until, at last, the "Old Flag" triumphant; trium-phant; Forgotten the cost, then, In auch glo- -, Bpectrcs from Spcctreland. Shadowy phantomi Dooted and spurred, and riding apace; Carblnea unsllnglng, bugle blasts ringing; Musketeers; cannoneers, give them a place. The prison pen opens, Thousand! on thousand!. Hollow-eyed, famine- crazed. OodI what a light. Wero they from among us theses tatterdemalions? tat-terdemalions? Can these be our boyi, went forth In their might? Soldiers? Heroes? These, In rags? aiorlfled rags! and hallowed flags. Bpectrei from Deadland, ghosts of the redhand, OhosU of the redhand from over the border. Who could not honor them? Who would not cheer for them? Who darci now to gibe at them Tailing away In tho shades of the night? -Thomas M. Kenny In Baltimore American, Am-erican, Vol Bo Many Daurtlam. A Washington special to the Indianapolis Indian-apolis Newi aaya that In one of tho bureaus bu-reaus of the War Department may bo Men a record of the desertions from tho army, carefully prepared, for a great many years. It la made up by roonthi. rerbapi Its most astonishing astonish-ing featuro is the evidence It affords that In the spring tho soldier's fancies turn to thought! of private llfo, for In March, April and May desertions are at their hlght. Very few men desort In Novomber or December, and tbe lummer as a whole Is much moro favorable fa-vorable to desertions than the winter. Correspondingly, it Is alwayi easier to lecuro enlistment! In the autumn month!. Of course this li explained by the condition of the labor market, particularly among agricultural laborers la-borers who are, after all, tbe great body of American worklngmen. Re-itralnt Re-itralnt Is much more oppressive In summer than In winter, and the companionship com-panionship of the post less enticing "Desertions In the army now are nothing noth-ing to what they used to be," aald a War Department official. "Ilefore tho civil war I knew one regiment from which CSO men went out In a tingle month, That li what ou would call going out on itrlko, Instead of desertion, de-sertion, and In those days the punish-tnenti punish-tnenti were much more severe than now, Every one of those men waa liable to have bli head shaved and to have fifty lashes on the bare back. Only a small part of thoie who desert are over recovered. Escape Is comparatively com-paratively oasy. Many repent of their (oily and reattach themselves to tho service, and so our figures as to 'Joined 'Join-ed from desertion' are considerably In xcesi of the figures of thoie who art captured. Desertions In the Philippines Philip-pines are much fewer than it army post! In tbli country. The opportunity opportun-ity to get away Is less, and the allure- ii ins or outside life are perhaps less. Our desertions now umount to not more than from 1 to I per cent of the forio whllo In 1872 It was as high oi 30 per cent The penalty now Imposed for desertion deser-tion varies greatly with the clrcum-itanres, clrcum-itanres, A man may bo sentenced to four or five yean In the penitentiary, or simply dishonorably discharged. Sometimes he Is restored to his regiment regi-ment with nothing more than a reprimand, repri-mand, when the circumstance! aro particularly extenuating." lUMleor on O. A. Ik Work. Peoria, 111., was recently filled with delegates and visitors to the thirty-fifth thirty-fifth annual encampment of the Illinois Illi-nois Department of the Grand Army of the Republic, and the annual conventions con-ventions of five kindred organizations. The town veritably belonged to the men who wore the brown button and to their wires and sons and daughters, There were several meetings of a preliminary pre-liminary nature, Including a icsilon ot the council of administration of the Orand Army, at which Department Commander Longncckcr presided. Tho executive board of the Woman's Relief Corps also met and tho Sons ot Veteran! Vet-eran! of Illinois division opened their encampment. Camp Dustln, a little city of tents, was opened at sunrise and at night 100 tenta were occupied. The Bona were on dress parade. The council of the Indies ot the 0, A. It. met at the National Hotel and at Odd Fellows' building, a reception was extended ex-tended to Commander-in-Chief R. A. Alexander and atari of the Son! ot Veterans, One hundred survivors of tbe 47th regiment ot Illinois Volunteer Infantry met In reunion In Olen Oak I'ark pavilion. There was also a reunion re-union of the 17th Illinois Cavalry. Blx thousand people filled the new Coliseum, Coli-seum, the occasion being a Joint camp-fire. camp-fire. The acene waa one of splendor, and the distinguished visitors were given an ovation m they appeared on the stage. Commander Longtnecker presided. Mayor William F. Dryan welcomed the visitor! to tho city, and Gen. John C. Illnck responded to tho welcome. Short addresses of courtesy were delivered by Mrs. Florence McClelland, Mc-Clelland, department president of the Ladles of 'he 0. A. It.; Colonel William Wil-liam E. Hill, commander ot the Illinois Illi-nois division, Sons of Veteran!, and representatives of other kindred organisations. Commander-ln-chlet Rassleur delivered an address, reviewing review-ing the work ot the Grand Army and picturing tbe blessings now enjoyed throuaWout lh rapnblla aa raaull of tne civil way, 'The civil war baa made this country what It Is." said Rsislcur, "and today the world standi aghast at tho prosperity nod never-ceasing never-ceasing progress and happlncsi ot this reunited nation, welded by the bond! of love and spirit of freedom." On Ilia I'lekat Una. A Loulivllle boy, an officer In the Philippines, tells a story on one of his brother officers which will bear repeating. repeat-ing. Tho officer In question, a captain, stutteri badly. He had been on recruiting re-cruiting duty In the states, and while at hli work had enlisted for bla regiment regi-ment n man who stuttered ai badly ai, It not wono, than the captain hlmiolf. Some time later be wai ordered back to his company, and a few days afterward after-ward waa on duty as officer of the day. Ai it happened, tbe itutterer that ho had enlisted waa without hli knowledge put on guard duty that night When the captain went around to Inspect the guard he came to the now aontry and was challenged. "Huh-huh-h-halt, who-who-who c-c-comei there?" Tho captain answered: "O-o-o-of-of-f-of-flcer of tho dld-dad-day." Then tho lentry laid: "A-a-a-adrance, of-t-of-of-offlcer of the d-d-day, to b-blb-bab-be recognised." Dy thli time the captain wai mad all over for he thought the man wai mocking him. Ho did not know the recruit, although al-though the recruit knew blm. The captain went bouncing up to the sentry sen-try and yelled at him: "W-w-wh-wh-what d-d-d-d n f-fool enlisted y-y-yu-yu-you?" and the icntry laid: "Y-y-yu-yu-you did, air." Ixulsvl1te Courier Cour-ier Journal. Had Soldierly rorlltada. Commenting on the recent death St Fort Sheridan of Abraham Haarscher, a soldier In tbe United Statea army, one of the commanding officers saya he wai In a way a remarl.ablo man. Horn In Alsace, after the Francq-l'ruislan war, he came to America and enllatod In the army. One night at n far northwestern north-western garrison he wai walking post ai a lentlnel upon a frail temporary bridge thrown across a stream that wai being undermined by a storm. The tlmben were creaking under hli feet and the water wai boglnnlng to creep over the planking, when the officer of-ficer of the day appeared at the end ol the bridge, He law the sentinel and his peril. "Come off that bridge, No. 6," he yelled above the alarm. Haarscher walked calmly oft tbe bridge and came to an "arms port" "Haarscher. you d d fool, didn't you know the bridge waa going?" Even as ho ipoko tbe frail structure wai whirling away. "That was my post, lieutenant, laid Private Haarscher, "and you forget that I am a Frenchman." |