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THE ROCK ISLTAND ARGUS. MONDAY, JAXITAI1Y 2P. TTJT.
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BY THE J. W. POTTER CO.
TERMS Ten rrni per wk by rar
rlfr. in Rock Island; S3 per year by mall
In advanre.
."otntlmntii of delivery service should
made try the circulation department.
vlrh should nl-o Te notified In every
int.in.- -xher. it la d-stred to hurt oth(r Hectric equipment for serving
par-r d.rcontm-ied. a- carriers have njcj(wiil lunches on a large scale.
a irhoritr in the rren.i-es. Jn UlB f(.it.nce) laboratories electric
AI! rommuri. Ttl.ms of rcim'nUtlre ,,ot p!atM are provided for evapora
rharacter. r:itiral or reUelous. must , tion purpoes, ad each pupil will have
fcava rai r.ime atr.u-hed for publics- n iric appliance to take the place
t!on. No such arti-le will be printed j of Bunen burners.
ever f!-t!tio.,s sisna;.:r. j The electric lighting system includes
Telephones in all dct arfn-r,t. C"n- an audiorlum tet with itaice llghti and
tfal Vnior., Rock lol-.n t US. 114i
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Monday, January 26, 1914.
j i Radium seems to have fallen heir
.JO the -wealth of philanthropic pres
agantry once owned by
scrum.
se turtle
m
"While she is about it, why doesn't
New York demand that the territory
of Its regional bank shall include
Canada?
- - -
ieK muiis nave .reu iu . ...
That the revelations made by the
split skirt are sometimes cruel is
only too true.
- In spite of the efforts of Julian
Hawthorne, the Atlanta penitentiary
is aula id aiauiu uwu I ri ui u i L j
made as a sanitarium in the case of;
Banker Morse.
A recent miraee showed New York
upside down. It must have been
about the time the theatre crowds
reached the cafes.
''Anyhow, H Is difficult to perceive
what distinction Andrew Carnegie
hopes to win over most of the rest
.'Of us by dying poor.
"We shall drive out the crooks."
-declares Mayor Mitrhel of New York, j
But don't drive thern In this direction;
the Atlantic ocean is close by.
Mexico has decided not to exhibit at
the Panama exposition. Perhaps for
the good reason that there is nothing
creditable left to exhibit.
The doctors and the newspaper men
held a Joint banquet ia Waterloo.
They had a spk-ndid time, but it is
not recorded that eirher made any con
versions to the ethics of the other.
Yf s. it Is true, there are ethics In the
newst aper profetaion.
The fiinds. political and otherwise,
in Kock Island of William Iloeft are
rejoicing in hU appointment as post
master of Ceneseo. "Hilly" resided
here for a number of yeirs and during
that time took a ledir.R par: in the
re: nc! Is of the democrat!-- party local
ly and generally a-;d th- honor tha
has come to lilm is a Jitr regard for
Jong time and fd::iif'i'. t-rice. liocf:
will make a model ros'master.
The present i ri of radium exceeds i
by for;r times the actual cost of pro-'
ductlon, acrord'ng to IT. Richard H. :
Moore, goverriment rhfiuVt in charce :
of research work. Tise scientist who
discovered tb effpt t "f radium upon .
caacer ave the hnucdg of it f reo
to. the wcrid. nut before siifferl-ng hu-
iHn:ty can rroflt from it. It must pay
profit to business, which is not con-'
corned about humanity. The nation j
sho'iii require radi'im deposit and re-:
dure the or? and market the mineral'
at cost. 1
Judre Jelin W. Wescott of Camden,
wh-j made the speech p'acinj; Wood-
row Wilson In nomination for pres!-
,1-nt 1 the JlHl'Im. ' convention. ha
l.een ipinliiiitl attorney general of
New Jer-y ry governor Fielder. The
Philadelphia Uncord saya of him that
"be is a r'vseed democrat cf the cM
school who fully measures up to h's
new honors. He had l"ug before t!i
Helllnure convention earned a fin
reputation in his own t i:y ami Male as
an able lawy-r and a good Judge." Y'et
at 15 years of age J idije Wescott could i
neither read nor w rite, so poor w ere j
Jt!s aarent. who found it necessary to j
rerp him at work as a eliKsbluser.
It Is this kind of men thai democracy :
'derekps and recognize. J
f AN'ELECTRIC HIGH SCHOOL.
t -i t . fl e ,n a .A.uninii'Pt fknwor I
J,u.e furn she. best for he new h ah
,rool at Kupert Idaho In the center
. -the Minidoka irr:ga ion project. a-j
".e mt-m:DtiU;,1 "J?!
This i said lo be tha first rase on rec-
J m larva l.uilHitie- I'll lieffl
heated entirely by electricity. The use-
, , . . , , - , , . -
a variety of other purposes in the new j
building has caused it to be knowa as
The Klectric High School."
I ard.
. The system of electric heating ln
rtalled in the Rupert h!;h school Is
remarkable for Its simplicity. The
tiaual arrangement of hot air pipes,
nates, eta, has been adhered to. but in-
ajiewu UL mrsacea vr a iui. m usi j
tary of electric heat units, similar to
tacxe used la electric baking oven,
provide the beet. Twenty 18-K- W. I
volts are Installed In pairs, each pair j
wka av separate control of the current j
from a switch board ia the principal's
pOce. Thoe the principal ran regulate J
absolutely the amount of current used i
A emergency switch In the principal's i - ice
may also be ased to cat oat all 1
current from tha entire building heat,
light, power, etc
Klectricity 1 put to work every
where la the Rupert l-ulldlng. A 10
horse power motor, besides driving the
ventilating fan, supplies ail the power
needed for the lathes and saws In the
manual training department. An elec
tric water heater supplies the hot
water for the domestic science depart
ment, for the shower baths, for the var
ious lavatories, and for the science
rooms. In the domestic science room
each girl of a clas or 20 has her indl
vHual electric disk stove and all nec
essarv cooking utensils. This room
' i. . i..ti- ran re and
i ,itch control equal to those of the
! bocf ihoitrei T-he llehtln and ether
equipment have been placed with the
id-a of making the high school build
ing a model "community center."
The entire electric equipment was
planned by local electricians with the
assistance of United States govern
ment engineers on the Minidoka pro
ject. The government supplies surplus
current from its own power house 14
miles above Rupert, ca a cost low
enough to compete with coal. It Is es
timatrd that the cost of heating the
new high school by electricity will be
$1,760 per year. Coal might have been
( USfMj at a cr),t or about $1,000, but
; ,he of eectricity saves the w ages
: of a nr,,nian at 75 per month, and the
cost of Installing the electric system
j was $3,000 less than for any other
i fyf.tt.m of heat the interest on this
Jnvtment beis av.d annually. It
. Js thereforo believed that the use of
; elw.tr1c heat Jn tn RUpert high school.
I besides being a great convenience,
' wli prove a real economy.
UNSCRAMBLING SCRAM
BLED EGGS.
President Wilson's message On the
I trusts greatly pleases all sections of
. the country. The comment of the east
Is especially, significant, as the press of
that section is most sensitive on this
j subject and hardest to please. The
i New Y ork World is so pleased It takes
; issue with those who have argued that
! scrambled eggs cannot be unscrani
! bled. Says the Wor:d:
Mr. Wilson's message is the
final answer to the late J. Pler
pont Morgan's cynical remark
that "you can't unscramble eggs.
The eggs are going to be unscram
bled. Some of them have already
been unscrambled. The eggs
could never have been unscram
bled by a president ho fried
campaign fat out of Wall street
and talked about "the great Mor
gan interests which have been so
friendly to us." They could never
have been unscrambled by a presi
dent whose party organization
was in the pay of Big Business.
They never could have been un
scrambled by a demagogue intent
on keeping the Issues alive for him
own political aggrandisement.
Hut they ran be unscrambled by
a president who Is hon-st. Just,
intelligent and sincere, and is
seeking only to promote the pub
lic welfare. This is a great lesson
that Woodrow Wilson has taught
the country. Wall s'reet Itself
responds to the program of such
a man. and finds in him a bulwark
arainst the assaults of demagogy,
passion and socialism.
The president has done his
work well. It remains now to be
seen how well congress will do
its share. The measures or leiis
laticn suggested by the president
reach Into all the complicated
machinery cf business, and they
are not to be drafted crudely or
carelessly. To turn these rer
ommendations into law Is a work
of care, patience and skill which
calls for the highest order of
statesmanship of which the con
gress pt the I'nited States Is cap-
ible.
TRAIN ROBBERY EPIDEMIC,
The epidemic of train robbery la on
the increase. Scarcely a day passes.
or more accurately, a night, that some
train is not litid up and passengers
compelled to disgorge their valuables,
The robberies are confined to no one
part of the country. They occur in the
effete east and the wild west. It seems
an easy matter to rob a train, as most
of the robberies are successful and the
j erpetra tors thereof escape.
If the holdups continue. It may be
necessary to furnish every passenger
with a gun when be buys his ticket, or
provide each coach with an armed
( gt:ard with orders to shoot on sight
any masked Invaders.
pex-uir vibratory or nonvibra.
p.rtIel, of cfin,:rete arw ,trV
, . of tbU M.
teri.1. A bell cast In concrete w&
r'.'-g almost lite a metal bell, but a
sM?1it touch of the hand serve lmme-
tf n,ti? TT
suiting sound. This la due to the lack
r "nogeneity tnm the standpoint of
On the Co.
"My husband is not borne two nlgbbs
a month."
"Yon should get the minister to see
him."
"lie is the minister always being
called away to see people. Kansas
City Journal.
In a Bad Way.
"Here Is a doctor wbo says yoo
mnstn't eat when you're worried."
"But suppose you're always worried
for fear you ain't goln' to get any -
thing to at I" Cleveland 1'lala Dealer.
Capital
BY CLYDE
Congressman frem
(Special Correspondence of The Arrus.)
Washington. Jan. 24. There Is a
lot of loose talk going the rounds in
Washington that the president has
"let up on special
privilege- and that
the administra
tion, having put
through the chief
measures to which
it was pledged, la
fiow prepared to
forgive and forget
past offenses by
the rich nalef ac
tors and s Intend
ing to let things
drift along much
as they have been
permitted to do in
the past.
Some of this
gossip Is being
spread by 'well-In-
tentioned persons
who are letting
CLYDE H.
TAVf-NNER
their wishes fath
er their thoughts.
They see that the tariff and currency
laws have not paralyzed the nation and
now- they are try'ng to whoop up the
stock market and inaugurate a busi
ness boom.
If this gossip were confined to
Washington it would do no particular
harm. But unfortunately it is picked
up by the newspapers and scattered
throughout the country. The result
is that the people who elected Presi
dent Wilson to end the economic In
justices which they have suffered and
are suffering, are likely to have the
feeling that they have been deserted.
In line with this sort of idle gos
sip were the recent newspaper articles
that there would be no trust legisla
tion during the present session. This
rumor was quite generally credited
here, for It arose when President Wil
son was out of the city. When he
returned the correspondents who had
telegraphed this "news" were ruefully
compelled to acknowledge that they
were mistaken.
There Is now another rumor of the
same sort going the rounds. It Is that
the president will use his Influence
ILLINOIS NEWS
II
Giant Negro Beaten.
Aurora, 111., Jan. 26. Charles Jordan,
a giant negro, who has been the terror
of Kane county for years, took his
first beating Saturday night at Batavia.
He got into an argument with James
Quinlivan, a young husky white with
pugilistic aspirations. The white man
gave him a terrific beating in the fight
that followed. The negro staggered
to his home a badly beaten man. but
returned a short time later armed with
a gun. He sought out Quinlivan and
found him surrounded by a host of ad
mirers. Without any warning Jordan
shot him. Today Jordan is in Jail and
Quinlivan is in a hospital badly in
jured. The white man will recover.
"Dry" Campa'ign On In Ottawa.
Ottawa, 111.. Jan. 26. Mayor W. W.
Bennett of Kockford addressed 1.500
persons at a theatre yesterday after
noon in the "dry" campaign. The
"Wets" flooded the city with newspa
pers showing the vacant stores in
Kockford.
Judge Guards Bank Meeting.
Ottawa. 111.. Jan. 26. Creditors of
the Tonica Kxchange private bank will
meet today to elect a trustee in bank
ruptcy. Trouble is feared. It will be
the first meeting between John E.
Hartenbower and George Hiltabrand,
"The Young Lady
-
s&JVi
I HP Is
We half humorously observed to th e young lady across the way that her
dog did not seem to have the slightest pulchritude about him end she aald
ha waa using a new kind of soap oahlm now and It was very affectlva.
Comment
H. TAVENNEB
tha Fourteenth District.
with the Interstate commerce commis
sion to have the five per cent Increase
in railroad freight rates granted
Some of the wiseacres studying the
president's trust miessage read hhs
comment on the- intimate connection
between railroad and general prosper
lty and, knowing that there has been
a considerable Influence brought to
bear on Mr. Wilson to have him sanc
tion the rate Increase, made the de
duction that he has yielded.
The fact Is that this rumor, like
Its predecessor. Is absolutely falsa.
The president has no intention of in
terfering In any way with the commis
slon. I cannot honorably reveal my
source of information as to Mr. Wil-
son's attitude, but the above assertion
Is the exact truth.
A number of democrats, and influ
ential democrats, I regret to say,
have been to see Mr. Wilson and have
urged him to take a stand in favor
of the Increased rates. But theJe men
put political expediency before patriot
ic statesmanship. Their argument is
that, whether Increased rates are Jus
tified or not, to grant therm will be
to bring about a business boom which
the democratic party In the campaign
next fall could attribute to the tariff
and currency.
But 'Woodrow Wilson Is not that
kind of a statesman. He has told his
callers plainly that his legislation must
stand on its own merits. As for the
railroads, they must Justify their re
quest for Increased rates before the
commission if they are to have their
request granted. There will be no
executive interference.
The president's position Is simply
this: If the facts are as the railroads
claim, then the increased rates should
be granted; but If the Investigation
shows that Increased rates are neces
sary simply to pay dividends on wa
tered stock, there Is no Justification
for the Increases. It Is a question of
fact for the commission. '
Another bit of moonshine Is the story
that if the railroads acV-ept the presi
dent's "program of having the commis
sion regulate railroad finances, he, in
return, will intercede for the increased
rates.
proprietors of the bank, and the de
positors. Judge Carpenter of Chicago
has ordered United States marshals
to attend and preserve order. The
bank's liabilities have been estimated
at $500,000.
Locates Son After 35 Years.
Du Quoin. 111., Jan. 26. After a sepa
ration of 25 years, Mrs. W. J- Weldner
of Oklahoma City yesterday learned
the whereabouts of her son, Charles
Dietrichs. The son Is living at Cen-
tralia. 111. He ran away from home
when he was S years old.
House Falls on Bridal Party.
Aurora, 111., Jan. 26. A bride and a
groom are in the hospital and 20 guests
at their wedding now- are nursing
broken fTbnes or bruises, the result of
an accident when the nuptial celebra
tion was at its height. The house col
lapsed while the bride and groom and
the guests were dancing the tango.
Mrs. Florence Bish, the bride,, received
internal Injury and a sprained arm.
Joseph Bish, the groom, has a broken
arm, sprained ankle, and probable In
ternal injuries. The attending physi
cian said the bride might die.
Washington Appeals of Frank M.
Ryan, president, and 23 other iron
workers, whose convictions In the
dynamiting case were affirmed by the
United States circuit court at Chicago,
will be filed soon in the supreme court
of the United State's.
Across the Way"
11
HENRY HOWLAND
USEFUL YET
My little boy has learned a lot since first
he started off to school ;
Much that I long ago forgot he has but.
lately learned by rule.
I once knew how to parse, but now the
knack has somehow gone from me;
Ha fairly chews the grammar up; he
knows the whole thing to a T;
Sometimes he Is Inclined. I fear, to look
upon me with disdain.
But I still come In handy here I earn J
the pleasures that we gain.
I cannot name the boundaries of Burma
or Beloochistan:
He does It with the greatest ease, and
proudly shows me that he can;
He works out problems that I shun, al
though I could have solved them
once.
Sometimes I more than half suspect that.
he records roe as a dunce.
Perhaps I might go back and learn If I
had fewer dally cares.
But. after all. 'tis I that earns the food
he eats, the clothes he wears.
My little boy Is learning fast, while I
forget, year after year;
The records of the misty past, to me so
vague, to htm are clear;
He writes a better hand than I. his let
ters are more plainly made;
He spells words that I cannot spell with
out the dictionary's aid:
He Is Inclined sometimes. I fear, to think
my boyhood was misspent;
But I still corne In handy here; I foot tha
bills and pay the rent.
For Instance.
"The sphere," said the philosopher,
"is the first principle of nature. ' The
earth Is a sphere, the sun, the moon
and the stars are spheres. The rain
drop is a sphere; nearly all fruits
and seeds are spherical, and what is
it that a child learns to play with
first? A ball. Our eyes are spheres,
and our heads, by far the most im
portant parts of us, are round. In
fact, there's hardly anything of any
Importance that isn't round."
"Oh, yes there is," replied the Icon
oclast. "What, for Instance?"
"A sirloin steak."
Pulpit Philosophy.
"Do you ever notice while you are
preaching. Dr. Goodman, that peop'-i
are asleep?"
"Sometimes I do."
"Doesn't it bother you at all?"
"Not In the least. I always con
sole mvself bv remembering that i
they were awake they would prob- !
ably be coughing or blowing
their
noses."
Giving Man Credit.
"I don't believe any man is really
good," she said. "When you find on
who doesn't go wrong it is because he
Is afraid."
"Oh, it isn't always because they
are afraid." replied her friend, who
was married. "Very often it ia be
cause they haven't the price."
UNIQUE.
ao yours waa
the class of '90:
ices. it waa
a distinguished
class, too."
"In what way?'
There was no
body In it whom
we called Fatty.
Making Home Happy.
He never grumbles at his wife
N'or has to hook the waists she wears;
nm uvea a pencerui. nappy lire,
A solved from all domestic cares:
Whan he gets boms at one a. m.
No terror lingers In his heart:
Contentment dwells with both of them
They live a thousand miles apart.
On Condition.
"Well." said Mrs. Packenham.
"there's one consolation a woman who
Is growing , stout . may have, - any
how."
"What is thatr Mrs. Vandolyers
anxiously inquired.
ne can wear longer ropes of
pearls.
No Reason to Fear.
."And remember this, my boy," said
the man whose aon was starting to
college, "don't kil the goose that lays
the golden egg."
"AU right, dad. Ton needn't fear
that 111 ever be guilty of patricide."
"Hasn't that fflrl an ethereal looter
-Very."
"Let us ItsteiKto what abe is saying
to her companion. I'll wager it ia
something soulful."
"Tes." said the eeheresl one. "my sla
ter likes tripe, but I prefer Umburger."
cnicaffo journal.
The Daily Story
THE BABY DID IT BY F. A. MITCHEL.
Copyrighted. 191?, by Associated literary Bureau.
"Wfcat'a thatr
President Lincoln was sitting In bis
room at the White House dispatching
the enormous business Involved In the
great struggle that he was directing,
while bis anteroom was crowded with
those waiting their turn for all tbey
could expect few words with him.
The door between him. and these per
sons stood ajar, through which came
the cry of a baby. The president ceas
ed from bis labors and listened. Th.'
cry was repeated. The work of ad
ministering a government with 1.000,-
000 soldiers in the field, struggling for
its existence, was brought to a stand
still by the cry of an Infant.
Mr. Lincoln called an attendant.
charged with the Introduction of visi
tors, and asked him what it meant.
'.'A. woman is waiting without who
has been here two or three different
days. She comes from a long dis
tance and has to bring her child be-
eK
"TOU SHALL HATE TOUR HUSBASD,
SAID.
HE
cause she knows no one in Washing
ton and has no place1. where she can
leave it."
"Bring her In," the president di
rected. A young woman poorly dressed car
rying a child in her arms was ushered
Into the presence of the head of the
nntion not the "august presence" by
which we are accustomed to describe
those who wield governmental power,
but the presence of a long, thiu man
of large bone and a melancholy eye.
Mr. Lincoln directed the messenger to
band the mother a seat beside him and
asked:
"What can I do for you, my good
woman?"
The visitor told her story, not in the
words it is given here, for she would
not hare been able to give it as elabo
rately, and the government clock could
not have been stopped loug enough for
her thus to tell It. bnt her words, spo
ken in a tremulous voice, interrupted
occasionally by the fretting of her
child, were doubtless far more effec
tive than the following version:
In the spring of 1861. when the war
drum was calling from the Atlantic to
tCe raciflc for volunteers to fight for
the Union cause, a regiment was drawn
up in the state of. Pennsylvania in col
umn formation ready to march to the
railway station to entrain for Wash
Just before the order "For
ward!" was given a girl of twenty, car
rylng a small Dunaie. came running op
to one of the companies looking eager
ly for some one. Private Jack Wil
liams wavcu nis nana to her. nnu, ap
proaching him, she handed him the
bundle containing the last bit of food
she could hope to prepare for him in
many a month to come. There was
but time for an embrace when the
word "March!" rang" out, the band
struck up an inspiriting air, and the
'regiment moved away. , .
is that your sweetheart ?" asked
Williams' file closer of him as they
marched to the tune of "The Girl I
Ieft Behind Me."
"Sweetheart and wife," was the la
conic reply.
Jack Williams, though he had been
married but a few months, beard the
call of President Lincoln for the 75.000
volunteers that constituted the firsl
detachment of the great army for the
Union and enlisted at the nearest re
cruiting station. One night in Virginia
he was on picket duty, standing peer
ing into the darkness for an enemy.
Suddenly -he felt Jiis arms grasped
from behind and a hand clapped over
his mouth.. Ilis musket fell over in the
long grass without sound. He was
pushed forward until the picket line of
which he bad formed a part was left
behind. Then a irruff voice said:
"Move on, Yank, if you don't want
any lead in your noddle."
A very ffeat Job of picket capture
had been achieved by a single Confed
erate soldier.
Tha next morning, when the pickets
were relieved, the officer of the retiring
picket, pose wnere the capture had beeu
made asked:
"Where'a Williams?"
There was no reply to the question.
"Where's Williams?" the officer re-
pented, and. still receiving no answer,
asked where he had been posted.
.inira man to the east of the nike."
replied the sergeant, "between Rice
and Kimball.' ?
"Did either, of you men hear anv.
thing of Williams durincr the niehtr
asked the officer of t,he men mentioned.
ajoiu men replied tnat they bad not.
"How far apart were the men rost.
ed?" asked the officer of the sergeant.
wb me west side of the like 1 nut
them a hundred feet apart: on the east
jl IIP
side I fell Bhort;af mau and. made. U
about two hundred. The gTound- wj,
bad for a picket line;'acrubby trees m
bushes scattered Irregularly."
"Gone over to the enemy," said the
officer.
The name of Private John Wim,
was entered on the regimental rolls j
his regiment as a deserter.
Meanwhile Williams was huddled t.
with other prisoners of war In the rear
of the Confederate lines, await,
transportation to Libby prison at Rich
mond. He spent some months thert
when, the prison becoming crowded
detachment of prisoners was serjt'j
a stockade prison situated In Routi,
Carolina. Williams, with others la the
same car with him a freight or
is id a plan to escape. One of them big
concealed a caseknife on his pertni
and during the long hours of prison U;
had occupied bis mind inventing wj,
to make a saw of it by nicking tfc
edge. He had made poor headway
til a fellow prisoner lent him a file.
After that the matter was easy.
Williams and his friends la tb
freight car by means of the improvise
tool managed to saw through a board
In the floor of the car. When the train
stopped during the night they remorrf
the board and let themselves dos-D
through the aperture. Of three men
who made the attempt two succeeded
in getting away; the third was shot by
the guard. Williams was one of the
- men who got away, but he and. tlx
other ran in different directions and
did not come together again.
An account of the wanderings of Tri
rate Williams would be much the
same as other escaped prisoners of
war from '61 to 'C5. He traveled
at night and was hidden by the ne
groes during the day. His compast
was the north star. He suffered terri
bly from exposnre and lived on ber
ries, green corn and such other vegeta
ble food as he could find except when
some kind negro gave him a little corn
pone.
Williams in order to esoape detection
took often to swamp lands. There he
contracted fever, and when finally be
dragged himself into the Union linei
he was placed in a hospital.
It was about this time that the Unit-'
ed States government was beginning
to pay bounties to those who would
ehlist. This afforded an opportunity
for criminals to secure the bounty and
desert. Enough of this was done to
attract the attention of the generals,
and they sought to put a stop to it by
trying the bounty Jumpers for deser
tion and shooting them in presence ol
their comrades.
It was reported to the colonel of
John Williams' regimentthat a soldier
was in hospital who had given that
name on being received there. He be
came delirious, but was now better.
The colonel directed the surgeon in
charge of the hospital to send Wil
liams to him under guard as ' soon u
he was discharged.
What has been told here bavins been
briefly stated to the president, the wo
man handed him a soiled letter to read.
It had been dictated by her husband,
who was lying ill nt the time, to one
of those self sacrificing women both
of the north and the south who gave
so much comfort to the sick and wound
ed of the war. It recounted his cap
ture, his escape, his wandering and
privations, ending with a pititfnl re
quest for her to come to him.
"I was helped to go to him j
friends." she added, "and when I
found him he told me that as soon as
he was well enough he would be snot
for desertion." ,
The poor woman had been told what
was true. Her husband could at that
time get no proof of the story he bad
to tell. His witnesses were all cut off
from him by a bristling line of bayo
nets. And even If he could have been
free to go to them he would not haTe
been able to find the only witness wbo
could clear him. the man who had car
tured him. His wife h:id appealed to
his colonel for mercy, but he bad set
his teeth, resolved to stop desertion if
he bad to shoot every man in the army.
Such was the situation that was
brought before Mr. Lincolnby the cry
of a babe. And it would have beea
even more pathetic had the kind heart
ed president known when he heard 't
that the cry was an unconsr-ious plead
ing for its father's life. Mr. Lincoln
bad no proof that the woman's story
was true; he required no proof. H9
saw a woman pleading for her hus
band's life with his child in her arms,
and he bad no desire, no time, to inves
tigate. "You shall have your husband." h
said, "and he shall hnve his pay. with
leave of absence nnd transportation t
his home."
The end of the scene was to!d in
these words by the messenger wbo had
introduced the woman to the president
and was present during this iiitervie
of life and death:
"As "he turned to his desk to write
the order the poor womia absoIirt!J
lost consciousness of her surroundlns
in her Joy and gratitude. She stood by
the president's side, holding the baby
on one arm, while with her disenragvd
one she gently stroked the president !
ruffled hair, saying, God bless yooJ
God bless you. " 4 '
Jan. 26 in American
History.
1 (SO General Washington publicly
reprimanded General Benedict Ar
nold for trivial offenses, as direct
ed by a court martial. The repri
mand was in fact a eulocy ot ""J
of our most valued commanders-
!SC3-GeueraI Joseph Hooker was P
polnted commander of the Federal
Army of the I'otoniac. '
1907-Kev. Henry Martyn Field, e'er-
, syman and author, former ediwr
of the New York Evangelist, al'
born 1S2--'.
It la the hatred of narrow wind- A
liberal Ideas that fetters the tnsrc"
progress Victor Hugo.