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wiOMLCOKK g Nil .hv WILBUR. D. NE.PBIT «JomUAis Ah, here’s a public drinking cup— But pause, my child; endure your thirst And from Vs brim take not a sup, But listen to some statements first. *Tis here, perhaps, through charity— Some noble soul this fount endowed So that no thirst-parched throat might bo In all the shuffling, passing crowd. The water gurgles from the spout As pure and clear as from a spring— O, why should it pour freely out To be caught in this noisome thing? Wait just a moment, let us gaze Upon the folk who drink and go. Sometimes, my child, we find it pays To notice things, and then we’ll know. What? After what we've seen you think You’d rather go elsewhere to find A cup frc -n which to take a drink? The railway, then, if you don’t mind. Here in the station, free for all, A cup is hung, and water flows. Ugh! See the man who lets it fall, And sniff his breath, and note his nose! All right, then let’s get on the train— The day coach tincup let us pass; We know the germs that it must gain From off the lips of all the mass. The Pullman glass we’ll use—but wait. One takes it from the shelf beneath And rinses in it, sure as fate, The brush with which to cleanse his teeth! No Joke. “Sir,” said the Eminent Female Re former, enterir , the workroom of the Journeyman .lokewriter, “you w T rite entirely too many jokes about wom en.” The Journeyman Jokewriter made no reply to this assertion. “This thing,” she continued, “has got to stop. Take up any funny pa per—Funny. Bah! Take up any pa per and look at the jokes, and "what do you find? Alleged jokes about women who will not permit their husbands to go out evenings, or play poker, or smoke, or drink, or swear, or-or commit any such reprehensible act. It’s got to stop. Woman is no joke, young man.” Stupefied, he remained silent until she had gone, after giving his desk a farewell W'hack with her umbrella. “Woman is no joke,” lie mused, tearing up a page of manuscript w r hich set forth the misadventures of one Ilenpeck. “I guess she isn’t.” At 3 A. M. “This is terribly late,” said the wife, as they were nearing home after the after-the-theater dinner. “It is too late for us to be out.” “Well,” ventured the husband, “pos sibly one feature of the occasion that takes away a great deal of its pleas ure is that you cannot consistently scold me this time for coming home so late.” Says. I Bay that what a person “says” It isn’t right to say he “sez.’ Why, when at home or church he prays You never tell ycy*," friends he prez; And when his grocer bill be pays Yo do not mention that he pez; Or when a hen each morning lays You do not ever say it lez; And when a little toddler plays You don’t remark on how it plez: Or when from the front yard he strays You do not fret because he strez; And when at home he blithely stays You do not smile because he stez; Nor when a pear or peach decays Does any one say it dekez; Nor when some happening dismays Do people sigh that it dismez— So I am one who calmly SAYS It Is not right to say one SEZ. How He Did It. “I shall make a name for myself,” stated the studious Russian. “But how?” asked his friends. “I sha.. invent an alphabet without any vowels in It.” “And then?” “And then I shall make my name of the consonants.” Ingenious Spider Web. Spiders have a number of ingenious ways of alluring and catching their prey. A writer describes an American spider which haunts evergreen trees, and snares its dinner by means of a kind of lassoo. The web of the spider Is triangular in form. Two corners of the triangle are attached to twigs, but the other corner, which ends in a single thread, is held by the spider, perched on a neighboring twig. When a fly strikes the w r eb the spider loos ens his hold and the elastic threads Instantly entangle the victim. Word of Wise Man. “The true university of these days *8 a collection of books.”— Carlyle. ing Machinery in make big money making wells. This ie one of the few >f work that are not over crowded. The demand for wells greater than can be supplied by the machines now at work. Drillers command their own prices, We build the cele -1 Howell line of Well Machinery, for making deep or w wells of ail sizes, for all purposes and in all kinds of d. 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CCopyright by American Press Associa tion, 1911.] IT is a fitting suggestion that the fiftieth anniversary of the civil war should be a celebration of peace. It is to be hopod that none of the hatred or rancor of a half century ago will enter into the event. The nation has never been so firmly united as now. Out of the ashes of the old south a new south has sprung. Factories dot her pleasant lands; her cities are growing with the same mar velous swiftness as those of the north and west, and everywhere she is keep ing pace with the material, political and intellectual progress of the whole nation. The severity of the war itself was one of the contributing causes to this happy outcome. Each side tested the metal of the other and learned to re spect the other. The contest was fought to such a complete finish that nothing like it can ever again occur in our history. The extraordinary ex ertion then called forth begot an en ergy that has since made for national progress. Thus was taught an im portant lesson in democracy. In that supreme conflict we had to depend upon ourselves, thus developing our own inherent powers, which when the war was over could be turned into the avenues of material advancement. A man admires a brave and honor able foe. Frequently when two manly men have a misunderstanding and fight it out they become the best of friends. They have tried each other, and hence forth their affection is founded on the rock of mutual esteem. It is even so with the north and south. The vet erans on both sides can meet, take each other by the hand and say. “Wool, it was a good fight.” After all. both armies were made up of Americans, and each of us can be loyal to the memory of his own side and yet fee! a glow in thinking of the bravery of the other. In the result the victor had no cause for undue pride or the van quished for shame. Today it is safe to say that not one southerner in ten thousand would have the result differ ent. “Let Us Have Peace.” Something of this spirit animated Lincoln in the beautiful second in augural address and stirred Grant when he said, “Let us have peace.” And we have peace as wide as the na tion and as deep as the hearts of the people, peace so profound that never again can we have conflict, at least of that kind. In this spirit let us remem ber the struggle and let no word fail that will wound the sensibilities of either side. This is the way big and brave men remember. Only weak or malignant natures seek to relight the ashes of a dead hate. The nation is one. As it was in the days of the Revolution and of 1812, so is it now. As a husband and wife, once estranged, are reunited over the grave of a dead child, so are we reunited over the graves of fifty years ago. Without abating one jot of our con victions as to the right or wrong of the conflict we ail of ns know that peace and concord are right for today. And in recalling the struggle let us include all that is brave and noble on both sides, now 7 the common heritage of a united country. Sorrow is dem ocratic. Grief is not factional. Let our verbal flowers be like the flowers of nature, knowing no section, ceas ing at no imaginary line. They banish our anger forever When they laurel the graves of our dead. That is the true spirit. In the broad er sense their dead are also our dead, and this is true in whichever section we happen to live, for this is a na tional celebration. On the Battlefield cf Nashville. Several years ago I attended the Nashville exposition and w T hile there accompanied a party of distinguished men to the scene of the battle fought near that city. In the party w r ere two United States senators, one from the north, the other from the south. Both had participated in the battle, the northerner as a private, the southerner as a general. During the trip each pointed out the ground that he had fought over and told of the struggle in a way to bring it to life before the eyes. The two were at the time vot ing on the same side in the senate and were warm friends. To my own mind the incident threw a revealing light upon the stupendous change that had come over the country. Such a scene w’ould scarcely be pos sible in any other land on earth. The beauty of it was that the incident typified a thousand others which have occurred ill meetings between the blue and the gray. There is no pretense in the reconciliation. These strong men General Review of the Four Years’ Struggle. First of a Series of Articles Which From Week to Week Will Tell the Story of the Great Conflict In Cele bration of the Semi- Centennial of Events as They Took Place who offered their lives in battling against each other would now as quickly face death to support each other. Indeed, they did as much in the Spanish war. The south was even more eager to enlist than the north. Sincerely and whole heatedly the two Sections are reunited. This fact alone is enough to inspire the heart with supreme faith in democ racy. The civil war began with the filing on Fort Sumter April 12, 18G1; it prac tically ended at Appomattox April 9, 18G5, just four years later lacking three days. More strangely still, Lin coln on the first day after he entered office was faced by an insistent call from Fort Sumter for the sending of supplies, the compliance with which brought on the war, and he died six days after Lee surrendered. lie wrote the call for the first 75,000 men on April 14 and issued it April 15, 18G1. He was shot on April 14 and died April 15, 1865. Three Events That Fired the North. The firing on Fort Sumter had the instant effect of electrifying and solid ifying the north and of causing Vir ginia to secede. Up to that time only the seven cotton states had gone out. Virginia passed the secession ordinance f - ' / xH j \ \ sr n>?■>•- o !>>?.A Genera! Winfield Bcott, com mander of army at outbreak of war, and General Robert E. Lee, who declined offer to succeed General Scott as com mander of United States army. on April 17, and Tennessee, Arkansas and North Carolina followed in May. On April 10 came the Baltimore mas sacre, practically the first bloodshed of the war. It was the anniversary of the battle of Lexington, and, strangely enough, the troops involved were from Massachusetts. Several soldiers were killed by the mob. and more were wounded. The troops after being at tacked fired back and inflicted more damage than they suffered. The third event that stirred northern excitement was the assassination of Colonel E. Elmer Ellsworth on May 24. At the head of his famous zouaves, Ellsworth was ordered to Alexandria, Va., where one of his first acts w T as to remove a Confederate flag from the roof of a hotel. The proprietor shot him and was promptly killed in turn by one of Ellsworth’s soldiers. The first battle of the war in which organized troops opposed each other was that at Big Bethel. Va., on June 10. Compared with later engagements it was a mere skirmish. Like the first Bull Bun, which started eleven day* later, Big Bethel was a Union defeat. Bull Run awakened the north to the realization that the war was to be no ninety day affair. It was the only considerable battle fought in 1801. The arrival of Johnston’s troops from the vicinity of Harpers Ferry saved the day for the Confederates. The only other engagement of note in the east during the first year was that at Ball’s Bluff, another Union defeat, in which Colonel Edward D. Baker was killed. The Border States. The stand of the border states was decided this year, and the struggle over them furnished altogether the most important part of the 1801 program. One week after the Baltimore mas sacre it seemed a certainty that Mary land was lost to the Union. The ex citement subsided, however. General Butler took military occupation of thc> city, and by vigorous measures from Washington the secession sympathiz ers were defeated. General Nathaniel Lyon was chiefly instrumental in holding Missouri for the Union. His first decisive act was the taking of Camp Jackson, in the outskirts of St. Louis. Afterward he led the Union forces in several suc cessful battles and finally lost his life at Wilson’s Creek in August. Missouri had an influence in keeping Kentucky in line. West Virginia was naturally pro- Union in sentiment and separated from the Old Dominion soon after the ordinance of secession. General George B. McClellan won his first spurs in driving the Confederates out of the new state. One other event of first class im portance in 18G1 was the Mason and; Slidell affair, which was distinctly hu miliating to the north for the reason that it occasioned a seeming back down on the part of the Union. From this distance it appears one of the? wisest acts Lincoln ever performed. The Coming of Grant. On Nov. 7 General Ulysses S. Grant won his first battle. Feb. 6, 18G2, he followed this up by the capture of Fort Henry and ten days later electn- llli^ 111 ' it If?** * > '■ ■ : j 4/ 4 ‘••I jig 4 ' : . ; ! > ' ! W ' ' 4 ■ 4 ' V ' I I\ 3 ■ I f p. 4 • y ..-I- • * \ v$ > ' •- <* ; " v 4.1 !4 ,• • ; *' ■ ■ * • ■ ••••'.; " . V' > ;-4 * : ' ' ; i■ ■ ; ■ ; . .... ' ! I-f;;v "f: •• . fled the north by his “unconditional surrender” message to the commander of Fort Donelson. The new year opened with distinctly favorable re sults for the Union. General Thomas and Colonel Garfield won successes in Kentucky, the Federal forces had a victory at Pea Ridge on March S; the little Monitor won its strange battle with the Merrimac on March 1); Grant and Buell gained the hard fought field at Shiloh on April 7. The nest day Island No. 10 was taken, followed one day later by the triumph at fort Pu laski and in the end of the month by Farragut’s brilliant capture ot New Orleans. In the east McClellan won the two battles of Williamsburg and Fair Oaks in May, only to shift his base and bring on the hard fighting of the Seven Days in the end of June. In August came the second disastrous defeat of the northern forces at Bull Run, but the gloom was partially dispelled one month later by the Union victory at Antieiam In its effects this was one of the most important battles of the war. First, it served no f ice on Lee that he could not invade the north, and, second, it came as the favorable occasion awaited by Lincoln to issue the emancipation proc lamation. From this time forward the Union successes were more marked. Barring the shifting of generals and the de feats at Fredericksburg and Chancel lorsville, the tide was now distinctly with the north. In less then se\en months after emancipation had been proclaimed the double victory at Get tysburg and Vicksburg on July 3 and 4 served notice on the world that the hope of the south was practically at an end. There yet remained the bril liant cam; aign of Sherman and the harder fought one of Grant, extending over more than a year of time, but Gettysburg and Vicksburg marked the turning of the tide against the Confed eracy. PAGE SEVEN