Show UNCLE SAM at last the grave of the original uncle sam who rests in a cemetery at troy new york has been marked this nickname which for many years has been used as a personification of the states government is said to have been derived from samuel wilson of troy who during the war of 1812 furnished meat to the army he was known as uncle sam in the neighborhood so his boxes were marked U S the remark was commonly made that uncle sam was feeding the army As uncle sam and the united states have the same initials uncle sam isam finally became a nickname for the whole country the old gentleman with the striped trousers is pictured as a go good od natured tolerant old gentleman awkward in appearance having little style as far as clothes go ungainly in physical makeup make up yet you vou feel that he has a kind heart you feel that he will stand much trifling and bad conduct but if people presume too far on his good nature he will take a very firm stand A cartoonist who attempts to make a picture of uncle sam conforms as closely to these imaginary traits as he would if he were drawing a picture of the president pies ident or some other famous public man so instead of having all kinds of uncle sams some tall and some short some som efat fat and some lean jean the uncle sams of aalthe all the different a artists sti look the same this strict conformity to type suggests that the characteristics acte which seem to belong mythical character are actually the characteristics odthe of the american people like uncle sam of the pictures they are good natured and tolerant sometimes too much so they have a real heart and suffering meets with more more generous help here than anywhere else they stand many wrongs but when finally roused the will fight very hard the old gentlemen with the striped trousers looks as if he be would be forni formidable dable when roused and our folks certainly are |