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THE FARMER AND MECHANIC.
PATHETIC TRIBUTES MARK LINE OF
RETREAT OF RUSSIAN SOLDIERS
Rude Verses In Memory of Fallen "Soldiers, Written By
Comrades Epitaphs Breathe Vengeance and Hope of
Victory While Some Express Affection
STEERING CROWDS FROM OFFICE
OF MAYOR OF GREATER NEW YORK
Ability of William Kennel To Get Rid of Suspicious L,i-
ing Individuals Mas Uone ar lo Protect Lives f
Executives of Metropolis
In the wake of the Czar's retreating
legions there fol?ow a number ot'
Ioets. who inscribe crosses on rocks,
trunks of trees, or fence posts of ruin
ed homes, little tributes to the dead,
according to an article in the New
York paper. Unadorned by any fine
styte or metaphor, this untutored
muse visits the trench or battlefield,
expressing the simple emotion with
whichc the Russian soldier in a few
lines of an epitaph, often washed
away by the rrext day's rain, seeks to
'perpetuate the memory of a fallen
comrade.-
These writings appear to one search
ing for curious mementoes of the bat
tlefield in nooks and corners of a
roadside, along forest edges, or
wherever a favorite comrade may
have been buried. And they are
buried in the strangest spots, for war
makes beggars even of the dead, and
they cannot choose their resting
places. Sometimes, when the exigen
cies of battle require haste, the slain
are heaped into huge ditches, and
over the mound is erected a rude
birchwood cross, with a single line,
such as "Here lie men who died for
the Czar," and nothing more.
But, for the most part, the Rus
slans try not to neglect their dead.
Sometimes, with the hope that hu
man hand may return to care for the
graves, they bury them near a
peasant's hovel, now desolate and
shattered by cannon, or on the banks journeyed all the way from a flower
of some quiet stneam, where the dead less land to die on Polish soil, are as
may listen to the perpetual solace or follows:
murmuring waters. Or they range a
Over the grave of a soldier, who
spent many a homesick night in the
trenches and whose longing for wife
and child was finally ended by a bullet
through the heart, is written:
They need no longer expect you, dear
comrade,
Yet, in your sleep of death be not so
sad.
The Czar "will guard all whom you
cherished
Your wife, your child. We, too, shall
watch them
In memory of you who perished.
But bitterness and hatred find ex
pression in a bit of verse written over
the grave of an officer who was killed
in a hard-fought battle which result
ed in defeat for the Russians:
Gathered about thee after the heat of
battle,
We offer eternal tribute to thy
memory:
And, standing upon the graves of
brothers,
Vengeance we swear upon our enemy,
Thn let us rush once more into the
conflict with all our might:
And either as conquerors we return or
we perish all in the fight.
Four lines written on the bark of a
tree around which were buried some
officers of a Siberian regiment, who
William Kennel, the mayor's guard,
celebrated two anniversaries this year.
On August 3 "Husky Bill" noted the
twenty-fifth anniversary of his ap
pointment to the police force, while
on February 28 he celebrated the
twentieth annivarsary as official guar
dian of the mayor of New York. Since
his appointment he has guarded seven
mayors Strong, Van Wyck, Low, Mc
Clellan (two terms), Gaynor, Kline
and Mitchel. He also has served
many acting mayors, including Charles
V. Fornes, Little Tim Sullivan and
Patrick H- McGowan.
Although brought up to be a butch
er. Kennel preferred to be a police
man and was appointed August 3,
1890. After patrolling the East Side
for four years, Supt. Byrnes took him
into the detective bureau, whence he
was transferred to the mayor's office
in 1895. He was made a sergeant in
1897, and when the grade was changed
in 1907, he became a lieutenant. Ac
cording to the rules of the department
Kennel could have retired on a pen
sion five years ago, but he is so spry
that he would rather earn his salary
- In the time that Kennel has been
stationed outside the mayor's office he
has met cranks of all varieties and
celebrities from many lands. In this
respect Kennel's linguistic ability has
served him in good stead, for the
white haired lieutenant speaks Ger
man, Yiddish, Italian and knows a lit
tle of French. Kennel has ushered in
to see the mayor Li Hung Chang, the
Duke of Veragua, Prince Louis of Bat
Bring flowers, sweet Polish children.
Flowers to strew where we lie slain.
1M .a 1 1
f lowers mat oioom wnen May is
golden;
Else we have come far to die in
vain.
V
nel a set of pearl mounted
tons, with cuff btittfin
- r (ll , i .
Before accepting the gift K r.r
Commander Bmgham K. nr.- v '
also received two other critic v ' 7
he prizes highly. Roth
Christmas in 1913. Mrs. Uavn ..
card case inscribed "In rtcorrr;v
his devotion to Mayor WiihV
Gaynor." The other c-airu v
Mayor Gaynor's two sisters it;
It was a silver handled urnbrn
in the letter which Miss Mary yt
services to her brother. tti
Mayor William James Gaynor.'"
most of the biographies of iho m
printed at the time of his
was spoken of as "William J,tv'i
nor.
Kennel has probably made r:...r
fiiends than any other man m Yh
city similarly placed- He is a tv; .
New Yorker, big, broad should. r..,j
white haired, but still active. .- Vis
haS. less than fifty days off on ac .unt
of illness, which is a creditable r.-c.r'l
when it is considered that N.n.l.
having numerous encounters uith
cranks he has to be ready to ac.-tri-pany
the mayor at night a-s w.-n .A
uuuiig me ua-jr ouu -iiiuM maK- tr,
round of the many dinners whi h
mayors attend. Because of this .. 1-
ble duty he sometimes calls
hours a day's work.
The number of mysterious lo.,K:rit
individuals mat tne lieutenant
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dozen or more fallen soldiers around
the foot of a tree, which, swaying and
sighing In the wind, becomes, in
the superstition of the mujik, in
spired with the breath of the sorls
whose bodies lie beneath.
Thus the Russian surrenders his
dead comrade to tha communion of
nature. His farewell tribute will be
contained in a few lines of verse writ
ten on a cross, on the white bark of
a tree, on a stone, or on anything near
the grave that will carry the tracings
of a pencil.
Some of them ring with hope in ul
timate victory and proclaim in naive
bombastic terms the almighty power
of the Czar to vanquish the enemy.
Some of them even threaten the Ger
mans with retribution for invading
the sacred soil of Russia. But most
of the epitaphs, avoiding harsh notes
of vengeance and hatred, breathe Need Fop Such Organizations Is Opin
notmng out aiiecuon ior a ueau com- 1 ion of This Writer
rade.
A young Russian officer who linger- T- h Editor: In a recent edi
ed like a truant along the line of torial entitled, I think, "The Voice of
L.-i
tenberg, Prince Henry of Prussia, Ad- steered away from the Mayor s .,;?!.
mirai Togo of the Japanese Navy, Ad- is too great to be estimated, bm th.-r
miral Kosta of the German Navy, is no doubt that Kennel s al.ilit to U'-t
Prince Fushima of Japan and Count rid of these susp-icious persons .ijj.i .,-
Szechenyi, who went to the City Hall matically, without having to resort
with Miss Gladys Vanderbilt to get a force, has gone far to protect the n-.-
marriage license. of the mayors. lie specializes ;n
Several months after their wedding handling suspected gun carriers
the Count and Countess sent to Ken- bomb throwers, getting rja ,,f lh,.rn
without excitement. Men have c;i!!e,i
with pistols and big sticks. Kenn-l
still talks of one instance in whi.-h 1
crank visited the City Hall ur.i -n
being advised to leave attempts t
force his way into the mayor s uih. .
Kennel tried to persuade the mar. t
leave quietly, but the latter insist ,
on seeing the mayor. As a last r-s .rt
the lieutenant was forced to check th
intruder bodily and a rumpus followi-i
The man was finally overpowers. i a:: I
arrested. He wTas hurried to I.ell' vu
The Forum of the People
(Brief communications, signed by the real name of
the writer, will be welcomed for this department).
DEFENDS SECURITY LEAGUE
Hospital, where his sanity was test. 1-
real welfare of this Nation as their! Ho was found to be insane and h dU-1
object.
Respectfully,
CHAS. C. LOUGHLIN.
Wilmington, N. C.
"White Side" Again.
To the Editor: I have a genuine
march picked up many of these verses the State," you commended Governor
Tx noroi'or tnov wr orft Men n 1 a ani cent I
thpm n tb vm-no Vrprrv. ' tv, Locke Craig for declining to appoint affection for Mr. Powell, of Smithfield,
in? newsnaner in Petroerad. with a twenty delegates to represent North th brave soldier that he is. If he
reauest that they be printed. And. Molina in ia Natinnai snritv iH"8 hit.e slAe" bv a11 means let
not having a D'Annunzio or a Kinling U .. i 1 enJy it. There is no accounUngr
at the fronL the Novo Vremva nrint. rca6UC' I or uuie. -ossiDiy tnere are veterans
in the institution in less than a month.
Kennel has learned that Mo nil tys,
Wednesdays and Fridays ar- th
cranks favorito calling days. He .it
tributes this to the fact that on S un
days persons who imagine they h
grievances which the mayor shwM
hear about brood over them and they
get to the City Hall the first thini; -n
Mondays. Tuesday is comparativ- !y
quiet, but Wednesday finds the .rank
at the mayor's office in large mimirs-.
The average number of visitor
about fifty on this day.
There are many normal callers who
come to lodea nomnlaints aerainst th
ed them, not as literature, but as re- n the subject. I trust you wiu near ai tne &oiaiers" norae wno are not
v!ilin tttpr than n rv nflfirMJLl ronnrt with me in disagreeing with you both quite as omnivorous as Mr. Powell is.
from the battle front th.e morale of at some length. And it is quite likely that some of
. " . .1 I ,..1 - n ,1 iu tV.am :-Ui- n iv. J! UUIHC IU lUUKO JU111UIAIIIU3 rtan.o
the Russian soldier in the face of de- vvuai uuveruur LUC . ,t "si- way Arom different denartments Thev roini ) ;iia
feat, adversitv And death News and Observer were voicing the Big Sorrell Mountain to Wilmington. Tf1!!1? It?. f fl. tl. i
Here is an example. The scene is a sentiments of the State' in praising Some were wounded, some taken pris- swlDt" that the Health Departing
secluded comer of a Polish forest in the diplomacy of, and in expressing oners before they achieved an imper- ig ! doinr its ork Md that ths
t battle zone, where & number of j ; .4.3 rrv 1 1 . . , , . I Park Department -is not attending t?
soldiers nave been buried in craves on anu uis auinimsirauuu, yuu weiei vci,era,u who nas reacnea nis
carefully trimmed with sod. Each both, it seems to me, begging the seventy vears or nearly so, and who
grave bears a rough wooden cross, question. Suppose we "can well leave is compelled to dine on "white side"
and on oie or them the following lines maimers 01 prepareuness in me nanus turee nunarea ana twelve times a
were written. of the government at Washington" year, may the good Lord preserve him.
now. Should we have done so, say J. P. MEWBORN,
Sleep, dear brother. From all earthly in 1910? Shall we do so, say in 1918 LaGrange, R. F. D. No. 2, Sept. 27.
misfortunes thou art sped, or i -o my Knowieage you
For Russia, for the Czar, and for were not representing the whole. State wrHOU TOO BRUTUS."
truth thy blood thou hast shed, in iauing to recognize tne xNauonai To the Editor:
Department
the lawns. Kennel usually sik-'oj
in getting rid of these persons by re
ferring them to the heads of th-
partments.
So many persons pass in and oj
the City Hall in a year that it is 1:
cult for Kennel to remember aJi
cranks he has had to meet. H '
admit one thing, however, anil th:it n
Upon sacred records of the Church Se?u:uy i66 tnd tn tax assessors in nearly every town- minished In recent years. At rn - : t
euau u written my name, ' Z X . . T- snip in tne state, nas Deen with the I most of them have scnemes i r
And God shall receive you. dear D.oosters and ooomera and learned of redurtion ot the number oi an-;
brother, in His own holy name, "i? ZlSl tSf-SSS. ds of the ployed, while others think that
Bravely has thou sacrificed motherland Observer and his Excellency: Sf"1? '. ! yr:!ail.tney can
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children, and wife.
perish in the strife.
governor raig. misudon oWVi -rrrif v, 1 A i o uh m
. . ... i a . i -i j, ,. , .wvu mm c&uauiutuaijr I aiiuiuci ui uuau ' "
iow must we conquer or, like thee, I ask tne omcers oi tne isauonai powers by the Leature, comes Kennel has to deal is inventors ua
annua, aoout tne along and adds from 5 to 30 per cent one occasion one of them unfold i
need for national security leaerues, I tn thA Wni coomt. rn,5 t I t" , knives
tne need for intelligent Investigation ried out. is fixd on tvi tnTnavoro wm thA .-lining
m Wt w w mm wi , V W XT A. U I . - . . - I w Mr m-m. w rWjm.m. A. W K I n. I 111 I 1 f I r -1 nillllllC I 1 17 111 v
stream, is that of a certain Ivan, de- ana "ussion by tne Private citizen fOUr years From it there seems to tables of ocean steamers. Hi-
scribed as a "brave, jolly fellow, kill- of matters of national defense, the be no appeal. This is extremely to masmeti. the silverware ani
ed with a smile on his lips." His com- " rXTZ- i u X. burdensome on our people, owing to construct the tables of iron H, x
rades. who gathered over his body, tlment to stand behind and push for- depressed conditions caused bv low nlained that thfl nlan could b ' V-1 n
penciled the following tribute on a Trf?-ml , rr5 true promotion price of cotton last year, and a very operation for $100,000, and whon Km-
tree near by: "i i "I t- Ll ni "vaj snort crop this year, and nearly every- nel explained that the Mayor wa
"f va UA' H ooay already in debt, not much tn nnv at Affw that thf inventor
an1 nthar fI rvr-t n ravnlfniana -rrrVm r I iil - . j i
Tt la nnt lrmr dna v Mma o , " " . 4 . "y -- wun, ana ine ooom wearing off. With eested that Kennel contriDuip
.." " & tenaea tne trammg camp at i-iatts- a majority of the tainav I a v, rrnd- r
uo. uii. vuiill illir. v.,, a tt.. x t -r-v . m bwvu ouuuut aiiu riuuiu
Ar,,1 c : v,. UUIS;. uusepnua ijiuueia number Of Whom are ex-ConfftdprntP UwapV TTpnnal nt Hrl nf the rr
, 11C 411 luo and nis iamous advisory board. soldiers, this means roai "VT , -T i.ft his r
V6.r ever naa, Onr- ftwn Srotor,r f tV. XPQX7Tr q i tt LT 7 " ivxi,- tuuiaui5
Yet around vour crave we have nl- I i "n X v: i 1. . " . r:' I v e lougnt tour long years for book at home.
i" J v uic ttgura, posu- a CaUSe tne SOUth Still heliovoa -nroo
ready stood.
erected
of wood,
I wvu vnc vr;g
And erected thereon a simnle cross 7Za fTC rj" f"A u&?le was over
j - i o qw-juu mwuoisi" we went. t,o worK and hv hard Vtnnc
ent with that of Mr. Daniels; and toil bought a few acres of land and
an
An ikon, and an image lamp, all the uniform i nf th
- j o - - i . ivj. iu iiuuiure in oraer lo m n t
IvT r " r v """ uvmS ana now iz tne State
roughly made.
ou l"y,u mignt near ine wessea the advisory board shows- clearly for which we fm,eht -
from all take.
serenade.
Far have we buried you
wiioni you nom aear, Eeternal vigilance, tn the shape of
" c tuuuwies, nave i militarism, may be one price of safety
tt Ralepa neal", but that is a price which no one really
uuc buucr- Deueves tms aemocracy will ever pay.
25 Years For Burglary.
Asheville, Oct. 2. For entering
tent used as a residence by the
of A. L. Warren, in West Ash;
which side both the State and Nation land we feel like . ying lik? CaesaJ ?f bug!?IT. in
take. i a j mi s "Ke v-:aesar irree at veaterdav s session o-
of old, "And Thou Too
T B. L. BLACKMORE.
Warsaw, N. C, Sept. 27, 1915.
Certninlv not whlk thot "i. "ir Z X. v1"c Ui lL larra
To construct a birchwood cross upon can be so much nS? an ZIl ft es.
your grave or green. readily obtained through intelligent t si oonnnrt X-' u wnicn a
Hostile the sod under which you scientific oSStTAS V iSSr1 ifi fS?'-000'00,0 .mor.e tha" the total for
people and their
trree at yesterday's sessi(
Buncombe County. Superior 1
must serve a term of 25 year
State's prison. Ward's attorr.f-y.-ed
that the sentence be mad.
on account of the alleged w-i-of
the defendant's mind, but
Long was not inclined to sho
prisoner any mercy after he had
that Wop1 Inc II 1 0 IT C C '
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fiuuuiy lie. I nannia anil tkahi rv... i. xi I . . . vvui ua. A lie I InTftrmPn THAT VV am nas M unit, -
But in our memory. Vanya, your soul basic idea. I take it! uMT TiT IVJ.8,. mor.e -than duble the nal record, having served tw.
win r-ever die. "boards" and tho ." .Z" """" vaiue OI Iarm products 15 on the county roads for hous.ro
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