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Show THE "EOYS" IN AUTOMOBILES. They were "soldier boys" half a century ago, they are boys in spirit still, but yesterday the old veterans of the war, which made the negroes free and held united the greatest country on earth, rode in automobile. And what are automobiles? They are a means of conveyance that not one soldier in all that mighty army which went out to the battlefields of fifty years ago ever dreamed, in the fond and fanciful thoughts of home, would be at his service at any time before the final summons. Grizzled veteran in the tonneau of a machine ! That was a sight eloquent of the past and of Time's mutations. And yesterday, when the aged soldier, the guest of the younger soldiers, and the citizens of Ogden, was thus seated on the journey to the City of Surcease, the spectators doffed their hats, because they were reminded that the days of the heroes of the war of '61-'65 were limited on this side and that by far the greater army, keeping step to the rhythmic song they sang when young, "Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching," was hidden behind the vale, where Grant and Hancock and Sher- man and Sheridan, and all the other great generals, were holding a review such as stirred the heartstrings of the "boys' when those glorious, triumphant, quick-stepping, unconquerable brigades proud- j Jy marched down Pennsylvania avenue at the close of the Civil War. |