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Show Kill of tb war will re Unlpa forces of tVe-Glmember alike tbe graves of northern and wiutbem soldiers. One week later, uowever, there will be onotbet observants at Arlington when tbt Coutederale veterans and Oaugntert of the Confederacy will hold special memorial services ot their own ill honor of the southern dead Greet Chiefs Lie There. (rant and Hhermau, the greatest two of the northern war tiittam sleep elsewheie, one on the shore Ol the Hudson and tbe other in a beau Mful cemetery in the city of rit I heli plsie I In Arlington. Ueueial colonel, sergeant, corporal and prl vafe are side by sole In till encamp no-n- t of the dead The silent tent ol I trionlst ar t'onlederale and pit had not tar apart and no guaid stand between. Schofield (Federal) and Wheeler (t'onlederale) Bleep al most side by side They were friends then euemie In war, and then frteudv again, nerving under tbe same flag Itoth dying while In service of the regular army and veterans THESES WELL Two Senators on Titanic Inves- tigating Committee Are Former Sailors. SMITH MAKES FUNNY BREAKS Ckairman Amuses Spectator by Lack I Ssamanship Knowledge and Bourn Know Ship From Stem to Stern. Per-kin- a By GEORGE CLINTON UlUm Al Washington. Senator deaSiuith. olio ta chairman ol the committee on Inquiry Into the titanic disaster, waa given the chairmanship ol the body aa a recognition of (he tact that he wai the Oral aeuator to offer in the senate a resolution of inquiry Uite the cauaea of the wreck. Mr. Smith la from Michigan and be ia a newspaper proprietor and a lawyer When naked about the newspaper bul-eeathe senator always ways that he went Into It when be wan a mere child, and so he did. When the Michigan senator waa a Utile boy his lather died, leaving the widow and son virtually without any means of support. William Aldeo Smith, a mere boy, went to work to In those day support his tuolbur transportation was nut as rapid a it of ts today and the news dealer young Smiths town vied with each other to gel the first copies of the The pres Chit ago morning paper. cot senator at the age of eleven used to wait at the railroad elation at an tarly hour In the morning on the ebauee that the Chicago paper would couie la on a tralu on which they oo caaionally came In advance of the saual hour of tbelr arrival Sometime the boy would get the papers earlier than anybody else and consequently he would sell a good many of them belie nude fore others got started quite a little money In tnls way Bourns Knows the Bee. Senator Jonalann Bourne, Jr., who la also a member-o- f the Tltanir die aster Investigating committee, recently was defeated for tbe senaie in the primaries of bis date, Oregon Mr. lor years has been an advocate ol the prltnury system, and hi deleat l home was unexpected In Mashing It te said here that be owcn it Ion In over confidence In tbe result, (or he did not go to Oregon to plead bis own a cause. Senator Bourne has not taken an questioning part In the Investigation, because that work la left almost entirely to tbe committee's chair-- . mao. Senator Smith. - Thore ar maw ta Washington who wish that Mr. Hoorn would ask more questions, for be Is eminently qualified to .deal with questions of the soa. Ilia father waq aoe of the great whalers of New Kng land, a man who knew ablps from atcra to atera and from topmast to keel, and be Imparted hie knowledge to hie son. hot only In lessons, but by sending him to sea. Senator Bourne este waa shipwrecked and went through many dangers like those which attended the rescue of the passengers of the Titanic. Perkins Was a Seaman. Senator Perkins of California, who also la on the Titanic Investigating committee, apent several years as an able teaman, lie knows tbe sea and stupe, and while- - be haa not asked aiaay questions during the course or the Investigation, he made many notes, and bla Judgment will be rendered oa the case at Its end Tbe tallora who have In the Tttaale case bare shown omeihlng eery much like amusement, and possibly savoring ol contempt, of the lack ef seamanship knowledge as shown by some of tbe questions which they are asked. It, Is needless to say that eott of these questions were asked by the two members of the committee who wprd formerly sailors Senator Smith iad an Idea that the watertight compartments were place o( refuge for women and children, nor knowing that they were depended up oa to keep tbe ship afloat, and If tbe doors bad been opened to admit anybody oa anything tho water would have rushed In snd everybody would have gone to the bottom. The ship's eIPcer who was asked If any women and children were put into the waterwas emnpletely tight compartment "flabbergasted" by the question. M. I count, waa aware of tbe dignity of tbe oreaslo rvabut b had to gasp and then smile at the corners ot hi mouth when the question waa put to him. The audience was not as self contained a lb salloy witness. Its smile developed into a laugh. It probably was a slip of Senator Smith's tongue, but tbe question proved that he ta very much of a landsman. Memorial Day at Arlington. Preparations sre being Washington for the annual Memorial' day, ordinarily- - called Decora tioe day, exercises. In Arlington across tbs Potomac from Washington sleep 20.000 of the' country's deed. Federal officers and soldiers and Coated ermta officers and soldiers side by side. Arlington Is tbs camping gronsd of an army that nevsr again win bear arms. This national cemetery la perhaps the most beautiful burial ground In all Utn country. It lies upon a hilltop where grow mighty forest trees and '' where tbs visw la unbroken to a point far off down tbs road to tbs Potomac. Tbs caretaker at Arlington will tell yon that no soldier ever saw the place In life ' Without expressing the wish (bat bn might Us there after death. Os Memorial "day the soldiers of tho e fiidt'ir I i.wUHF0R j The careful mother, watching closephysical peculiarities of her cblldren.Aoon learns that health la in a great measure dependent upon normal, healthy, regular bo el action. When, the bowels are Inactive, loss of appetite, restlessness during sleep. Irritability and a dozen and one similar evidences of physical disoi derate soon J ly the National Ufemorial Air: STAR SPANGLED BANNER 'r O CHEDEfUCK JL MERES apparent Oh say can you see by the dawn of the day. The day et apart for the grave decoration. The remnant of those who in battle array Had offered their fives for the life of our Nation; That the shackle and chain no longer remain. Nor the slave block its honor our Nation profane ? Keep tbe bowels free and clear and At the first good health Is a sauted. qm CHORUS: Then gather the flowers that grow by the way. And strew on the graves of the Blue and the Gray. There ate soldiers of many war testing In Arlington, itevolutlonary veteran lie under the same trees that shelter their descendant killed in the .Soldiers who wre Philippine Island the vii thus oh the .Seminole and Sioux sleep ide by side, and with them ere the. men who fell at Mollno del Key and Buena Vista Sailors who served on the Constitution hud ou the Maine are In port In Arlington (tenoral Sheridan rests under a no Ido monument not far from the Cur n mansion on thp brow of a bill overNear him are looking (he Potomac Crook, and Gresham, and Gibbon, and S. hotleld, and Wheeler and Harney. For seventy one years Harney was a officer of the Oh the havoc of shell and the gloom of the pen. The ravage of fever, the pang of starvation. Are past ancj forgiven by this band of brave men ' Who honor the graves with love and elation. For the sword now is sheathed, they are resting beneath The sod and the wave for the freedom of slave. CHORUS 'j Then lovingly cast on the crest of the wave The tribute of love for the true and the brave. Then cast on the flowers, deck the monument fair, In church-yar- d and park with thy holy reflection ; With malice to none and in chanty share The principles held by the great of each section. And the flag of the free forever will be The emblem of peace and of true liberty. United a veteran of the old He fought In the Second Dragoons Black Hawk and Seminole wars, In Met ho, and ou the plains, and In the northern armv In the Civil war. He was a soldier after a soldiers own heart 'limn and again attention tins been , called to tbe tact that General who was killed at tbe bead of bis troops In the Philippines, Ilea In Arl mgton without fitting memorial of bis services to his country. There Is a government marker above tbe grave bearing tbe Indiana soldier's name and tank, and Hint ts all a little gov eintuenl reminder rising nearly six Inches above the turf On Memorial dav there will he a memorial of flow er on General i.aw tons grave, hut the (lower will fade within a week It should he said that there t a law law which ixvsslbly an unwritten makes It Imiuysslble tor tbe government to erect a monument over their graves In Arlington. Tbe general's family Is prevented from doing It by the (emu of bla will. Fish Bill Aroutet Congress, It waa a "Bah which bill" caused congress to pass a Joint resolution to direct the president to an endeavor to bring about an under standing among .the great powers which would result in Incorporating In tbe permanent law tbe principles' of exemption of all private property at aea from capture It were unless known to be contraband of war. Nowadays with The Hague tribunal In occasional operation and with at tempi being made for general arbl (ration treaties the effort of the government are toward eliminating from tbe field of spoliation private property whether at sea or on land Under an agreement which It la thought has been given the effect of international law unfortified cities on the aea roasts hereafter are to be Immune from bombardment. Various other ar rangements have been made looking to the Introduction of the humanities Into warfare It has been said that It was a fish bill which led to agltallon of the ques tlon of the exemption from seizure of private property at sea In time of war Doubtless It was a pure accident In the matter of date fine clmum stance but It was on thejast day o' one Lenten season that the attorney general sent to congress a huge fresh fish bill which was promptly referred to the committee on appropriations Thl fish bill or rather collection of fish bills was simply a list of Judg tnentsrendered against the United Stales bv the Supreme court. Paid' byUncle Sam. Uncle Sam paid for eleven boatloads of fresh fish, simply because the huge navy which he collected In the West Indian water thought for the first month or two that the chief end and aim of Its guns was to seize Spanish fishing smacks and tbelr loads of smelts and other things finny. If the or fish had been pickled, smoked salted It would not have been so bad for Uncle Sam, or ao good for the Spaniard, but on the day of their capture the fish were very fresh. The day thereafter they were lesa so. the third day the American sailors convoying the prises had strorg smelling suspicion, the fourth day the smelt needed another word beginning with-an a" to do It Justice, and on the firth day tbe fish went overboard The Spaniard were good fishermen. Julian Bengochea and Francisco In a 10 by 12 smack, the Poder de Titos. had $1,425.74 worth of flab, for which Jncle Sant paid, besides giv-- , ing $4.ono for Injury to the olfactory nerves and to the feelings of Julian and Francisco Every one of tbe elev en smkrks when captured was loaded to the gunwales with flab. Nothing like the hauls that these Spaniards made haa been known In either sacred or profane flshipg history since that day twenty centuries ago when "the trots did break with the burden of the catch." The claimants got from Uncle Sams purse about $5,000 each. There aro eleven Spaniards who are firm be luck. tfevera In fisherman army CHORUS: Law-ton- Gon-tale- We will counsel our children to honor the day That ended the strife tween the Blue and the GrajL Copyright, 1W?. by rndarisk B. tta. W ANdMEHOm OT with the anguish of hearts that ar breaking Como we as mourn-r- s to weep for our dead; Grief In our breasts has grown weary of aching, Green la the turf where our tears we have shed. While oer their marbles the mosses are creep- ing. Stealing each name and the legend away. Give their proud story to memory's keeping, 8hrlned In the temple we hallow today. . Hushed are their battlefields, ended thalr marches. Deaf are their ears to the drum beat of morn. Rlsa from the sod. ye fair columna and arches! Tell their bright deeds to the agea unborn! Emblem and legend may fade from the portal. Keystone may crumble and portal may fall. Thfy were (he builders whose work M j Immortal. Crowned with the dome that la over ue all! WENDELL HOLMES, Poet of occasions, wrote this lyric for the ceremonies attending the laying of the corner stone of Harvards great Memorial hall, built In honor of her sons slain in the Civil war. Grandsons of the undergraduates who heard It when it waa first read have since been born, and have passed under tbe stately roof of the Memorial hall cn their way to th lofty, dining hall of the old college-Tthem and to their children.1 the grief which had ceased to be hhartbreaking when Holmes penned-bl- a poem, is no more than a reverential, idealized and ennobling sentiment Yet thirty-fou- r states will by flat of tbelr Respective legislatures observe Memorial day ns a day consecrated to memorial services for those who served In the wars of this country. And to most of us this means the of the Civil war, though In truth a recent visit to Arlington cemetery irTJl.LIVER o - aol-ale- ra brought home the truth that the war with Spain demanded it toll of the nation's manhood. But the custom- - of placing Cowers on the graves of soldiers on a certain Oxed day devoted to services , commemorative or their patriotism cn Into practice at the close of the Civil waf, and Memorial day ia tin moat Intimately associated with the me of that war. roost of whom have passed I f Into the land of memory, though a comparatively small number of Its veterans 6tlU survive to. march In tbe procession which la a part of tbe day's observance. The first Memorial or Decoration day which these veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic retail each year was not, as it i3 now in most ot the states and even ia Alaska and Porto Rico, a legal holiday. It camo as the result of an order issued by Gen. John A. Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, then a young organization. It waa in May, 1868, that Adjutant General N. P. Chysman conferred with General Logan concerning the matter ot having the Grand Army inaugurate the custom of placing flowers on the graves of Union soldiers at some uniform time. Following this conference General Logan Issued an order setting aside May 30, 1868, for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating tbe graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during tbe late rebellion and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village or hamlet churchyard in tbe land Chicago had the first celebration of a Decoration day under the auspices of the Grand Army organization in 1868. Two years before this. In a letter which was printed March 12, 1866, In the columns of thar- - Columbus Times, a southern woman, Mrs. Mary Ann Williams Howard, widow of a confederate officer, MaJ. John H. Howard of MlUedgeville, Ga., had suggest-tha- t April 26 of that year be set aside aa tbe date to wreathe graves of our The martyred dead with flowers. suggestion was followed and that date, April 26, is now observed as I Confederate Memorial day, and set' aside as a legal holiday, as Is May 30 in other state's, in 'four southern states, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. Mrs. Williams was greatly beloved in the south. During the war she was as active in doing all she could to serve the southern side as her husband and was the moving spirit In putting Into operation what were knoww as wayside houses. In which care was given soldiers et route to When she died at Cobattlefields. in Ga.,' 1874, she waa buried lumbus, with military honor. Two southern states. North Carolina and South Carolina, observe May 10 as their memorial day. In New Mexico it la left to the governor to appoint the day. Aa every state is independent in Its legislation, traditions and customs, every state has power to appoint Its own holidays, but, despite these variations, a spirit of centralization or the growth of national spirit. If you wish to call it that, has aided In bringing- about an approximate unidate for Memorial day In of formity states most of the states. Thirty-fou- r and Alaska, Porto Rico and the District of Columbia observe tbe 30th of May as a legal holiday dedicated to tho memory of soldier. Four southern states, as haa been said, observe tho day on April 26, two on May 10. - it la a Food custom this, which teaches each succeeding generation to honor the courage, patriotism and loyal sacrifice ot those who have preceded It. A nation which does this in rplrit every day a It does In special ceremonies one day each year may fearlessly face the future, confident that It will be worthy of the pasL 1 -- lags CCASIONALLY there comes to the writing man a atory ready made from actual happenings before his eyes. Or. there Is told to him some tale that does not require the slightest movement of literary machinery to weave it Into shape. The woof and warp are as straight and true and compact as If It had required hours of concentration to produce the fabric. Actual events follow In such dramatic sequence that it almost seems as If art had been brought to bear upon their presentation. The other day a magazine writer visited the new state house In Boston In order to see the decorations that had been recently placed on the walls. He was standing looking at the picture painted by Mr. Robert Reid, tbe picture of Otis delivering his fiery speech before the Judges, when suddenly a voice spoke at his elbow. Looking round, he saw standing beside him a short, slight man In a blue uniform. It did not take the little bronze button In the lapel of his coat to label him as an old soldier. He was stamed with it from the erect carriage of his head and shoulders to gthe glance of his keen gray eye. Ulted .State States the child. You have been through the building? he asked suddenly. And upon being told that It was the writers first visit, he politely offered his services as guide. They were accepted promptly. The little man In blue pointed out the old Hessian drum and sword, the first musket captured from the British, and the one that fired the shot at Lexington. He knew stories of the famous portraits on the walls, and after kaving examined the old senate and council chamber, he led the visitor rodown to the great octagon-shapetunda, where, behind their plates of glass, artfully grouped and festooned, were the battle flags of the Massachusetts regiments nothing but the bare flagstaff of some, others mere shreds of bunting hanging in pathetic festoons, only a few with the colors intact, pierced here and there with bullet holes. Stopping before the first corner he began in his low, voice to explain about them. There were two shafts, shattered and roughly spliced a few Inches below the gilded spear heads. Those two flags," he began, were given to the regiment by two Bisters, who were engaged to be married to two officers; one a captain, the other a lieutenant. Aa you see, the flags were both hit In almost Identically the same spot, and under them both officers were killed. Pointing to another flag he said, Beneath this flag seven men were killed and four were wounded. It was decorated with a medal of honor. So it went on. There was a atory to almost every one of the timeworn relics of tbe battlefields. At last the guide came to the case In the northwest corner of the hs. Immediately in front was a silken banner across whose faded red and white strips was a big blotch ot brown. It needed no second glance to tell what tbe blotch meant. d There Is a story here, remarked the visitor, and the little man in blue looked at him keenly. Yes. air, there is," he replied. Three men were killed carrying that flag at the battle of Appomattox; as one would fall another would snatch it up, and still they carried it forward. As they went on, ih the charge, a shell exploded over the head of the last man who had caught it, and a fragment struck him in the arm, between shoulder and elbow, cutting it off as by a surgeons knife. He clasped the flag to his breast with the bloody stump and staggered on. At last aa he felt himself weakening, he turned about, and, seeing near him a man in hia company who came from the same town, he cried, 'For Gods sake, take it, Frank, I cant carry it any longer. The visitor was breathless. Weir," he said, and then There is a strange ending to that," Teturned the guide. I waa telling this to some visitor only the other day, and had got as far as what I am telling you when a tall man with gray hair, who was standing about where you are now, spoke up. Comrade he. said, youre right! I was Frank." -A few minutes later, as they went down the corridor, the visitor asked another question. , "And what was the name of the sergeant whose blood we see there? he asked. Hi name waa Plunkett," waa th answer. There he ia! A soldierly looking man in the blue uniform of a messenger of the senate came walking down the corridor. The nfogarlne writer and his guide turnet) toward him. 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He will gladly send a trial bottle without any expense to you whatever. bed-tim- Mon-ticell- Looking to the Inevitable. years old, but with.no thought of dying for years, a South Brooklyn retired windmill dealer spent his recent birthday in Cleveland, O, looking tor a bargain in coffins. He said he never had cared much lor show and thought he would care less when dead, so he wanted something that would be durable, not fancy. "The undertakers wanted more than $l()u for good coffins, he told a friend, "none of which looked to be worth more than $.10. For $25 I found 1 could get one that looked as if it might have cost $2.60 to make. You dont suppose could get a good sec ond hand one anywhere, do you? The man did not Invest, but decided ha would wait awhile and see If the blgn cost of dying might not be reduced Seventy-nin- e 1 Jewel In a Flower-Bed- . The recovery of a quantity ot stolen was dejewelry from a flower-bescribed at Kingston-on-Thame- s police court the other day, when a general servant was charged with thelt from her mistress, a resident of lvjdene, Southborough-road- , Surbiton, Loudon The lady had missed a pearl pin and a pearT and diamond ring. Thinking she might have lost the jewels in tbe street, she Issued printed notices offering a reward for their recovery. When she lost a number of other things she placed the matter In tne hands of the police.' The detective said that from what the prisoner told him he searched the garden, and In one of tbe flower-bed- s found sotne ot the jewelry. The rest he found In the prisoner's bedroom. d Hia Veracity. Jim Slocum of Montgomery county, avers the Kansas City Journal, was called as a witness to. Impeach the testimony of a man In that county. Jim was asked If he was acquainted with the reputation of the witness for truth and veracity. Jim said that be guessed maybe be was. 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