GOOD COMRADESHIP,
ft may have been only a cheerful word,
A grasp of the hand in meeting,
But if hope at the
heard,
Or courage came from the greeting,
How fine think of soul waxed
strong,
Of a burden lighter growing,
Because vou happened to come nloug
When life made its dreariest showing!
revived message
tO i
For this Is the true good comradeship
ta the life
That holds
grip
The
That sings to gladden the hearts of all,
Til, with the echoes blending,
The tranquil shadows of twilight fall,
we live together,
to a friend with a firmer
rougher the way or weather;
And the road has reached its ending,
Ripley D in St. Louis
Republic.
Saunders,
A Soldier's Battle &
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2
5
a
AMARA
By JEXXY WREN a
x
REPRE RE RRRE RE ERRRRRY ERROR
Wide-open, blue fs.aged with
jetty lashes—a little, slender
month fit for Queen
wooed by the iKng of
low, white which
rings of gold, in a
disorder—a cheek exquisitely
the tint upon it of the
Hitle, soft, jittle,
slippered feet--and the pic-
ture before Roydon Howard's gaze, and
the inventory successively dotted down
by him in his mental diary.
“Awftully
verdict rendered, “and absolutely good
for nothing life were all
summer, such women would make per.
Aaanaa
eyes,
NoRe-—a
Titania, when
the Falries—a
brow, on clustered
very
with
two
fair,
seashell
helpless hands—two
you have
pretty!” was the silent
else, Ah,
fect wives!”
An audible
thought of this most grave philosopher
a sigh so deep, so profound, that it
startled her r
“A penny for your thoughts
said, in low,
sigh followed the latter
over
the girl from e.
major!”
musical tones.
her:
she
“$s
1
ae
voice sulted it was like all
else about Fay Richings—in perfec
tune.
“You bid
man; “and yet too high
npon a subject
must be consclous.
spending the last
my thoughts could not wander far.”
“But Must 1
self responsible for the sigh
“y
furlough is rapidly
that wit 1
regiment
many
companion of
still bid a pe
so fleeting
The
beautiful
“His ct
morning™
her—-this
pres a |
him, Fay
akin to her
A little, har ab
1 .
uut
too low.” answered
Sinee ¥ on
of whose
You
iny
renly
reply
forget
hour ur
BOC
you sighed hold
LOO
fear so—in remember
slipg
I
hin a month
on ti
Ae
riends, leas
3 -
colo
of pan
she smiled
throug her
bravely.
“All that w: 11
from you,”
who go
most keenly the parting,
those who, left behind,
familiar surroundings
he sat here ‘Yesterday we heard
bis laugh,’ or perchance find a glove
that be has dropped, or a half-
smoked them [it folt,
something tangible.”
“Po you think it
oly worth a
“lt
SONOS
sigh
she said, ig never those
who feel
but rather
amid the old
say. ‘Yesterday
ri ied
amiq
new
or
cigar
to is something
s0? Does the sand
ready one oncoming claims its wel.
come? I should indeed be glad to feel
that Miss Fay sometimes gave me a
thought among the many new aspirants
for the hour she occasionally has be-
stowed on me. A soldier's life has
and there is something fascinating, in
spite of its pain, In the long. solitary
musings he holds sitting at the door of
his tent, when Instead of the plain
stretching before him, he
Can you guess whose, Miss Fay?"
There was an iostant’'s pause
Impulse to ery out, “Whe but yours?
Make imagination reality! Come with
me! Bhare a soldier's life, and let our
mutual love smooth the rough places!”
But scarcely was it born, than he
strangled it.
pose that this girl cared for him; but,
even 80, at best it was but a passing
fancy.
And in time of real danger where
would she be? How would she fit him
to ride forth to meet a foe? Either
with hysterical weeping, or a swoon.
No, no! Here under the trees, in a
hall-room, at the head of a luxurious
dinner-table, such women were charm.
ing enough to turn a man's brain, but
in moments of peril, when Death, no
longer clothed in the poet's rhythm,
stalked before them, bare and ungain-
ly, it was little wonder that they fled
shrieking from his grim presence,
Therefore, the pause lasted an Instant
only, then Roydon answered his own
question wih a laugh.
“1 declare 1 am almost growing sen-
yours, Miss Fay, 1 should apologize for
| 80 unwonted a mood. But you are whol
{ly responsible for it, and it must be
with you so old a story to inspire it
that I will not waste the words. By
the way, there Is my horse. 1 had no
idea it was so late. Aun revoir! Re-
member, I have the first and last
! waltzes this evening.”
The girl sat motionless, watching him
as he strode away-—watching him vault
upon his horse, his tall, superb figure,
showing to such splendid advantage
cantered out signt, the latter turn
ing first to
with his whip.
“So, in
out of my life”
self with white lips.
of
give her a farewell
scarce a month will he ride
“Oh,
share the peril and privation of a sol
dier's life, or that it would give you no
pleasure to have me share it?
with a heart full of gratitude fer ker
wonderful escape, awaiting him who
had penned the words,
How well she knew the qilek, impa-
tient step which heralded his coming!
Her cheeks flushed he im
petuously into the room,
“I could not sleep before seeing you,”
he! “My brave girl! How little
I knew you! 1 thought because you
were beautiful, that there conld be no
courage in your soul; that because your
hands were small, and soft, and white,
| they could have no strength, Dear It
tle hands!” taking them tenderly in his
“They helped to save our lives
Fay, will you give them to me
darling? Will you be a soldier's wife,
and teach him, my own
some of the bravery only such women
#8 vou can teach to men?”
A great light shone in the bes
as strode
gald,
| own,
{| today.
sweet love,
waiirul
eves upralsed to his,
lf
wi)
“I owe my life,” she whisperad
| a debt will recel
| poor, Roydon,
i Night
ve
it
so rich
take
Saturday
payment
is yours:
Miss
week
asked
“it looks
keep
home, if the
Fay?’
later
afternoon,
Howard, a
little squally, but
i
we will close
in to shore, to run
clouds thicken.”
“Of course 1 will
Fay: “and as to the clouds, don’t watch
RO
as
come,” assented
them too closely.
“What a perfect picture she
thought Roydon, as promptly at
I rather like storms.”
assisted her
had
hting dress of dark blue,
pointed time, he
little
honor
fitted closely to the exquisitely outlined
sail-boat he nated
the yat
figure, and on the golden braids nestled
hat. Fifteen min
hreeze
a coquettish sailor
utes later, a
ried them far
“The storm
itself in our
don, glancing
perhaps they
should be too severely tried, as sailors.
Which is it, Miss Fay?’
“Do appeal to me
It i
me.”
splendi had ear
out on the lake,
has concluded to postpone
Roy
special favor,” said
up at the blue sky; “or
don't think soldiers
as the spirit
call
you
of the storm cloud? shall
upon it
He answered her simply
but it
to avengy
by
caused her eves to droop
She stretched one little, white hand
oh
down to the water's edge, watching the
current resist 1s the boat sped on
ward.
I resisting the
to
mused, “am
must 1
he
heart-—so resist
my
They spoke but Jittle Fhey were
alone and together—aroumd them
wate ahaove them the hwneath
them a grave And both Te YOUDg,
and in each heart the same voice
wis
4 2
speaking wir lips were sealed
Thus
vet tf
an he
wir passed when suddenly
Hoydon tacked
“What ars
! she does not realize the dan-
hold
" handing her a rope as he spoke
next moment
The little yacht lay fully
side, then righted itself,
he sald, mentally, "Can you
The
k
on its
the squall struc
$
hem.
' no sound escaped them, only
held so tightly that it al
ready bad cut into the tender flesh,
The storm was now fully upon them.
It was flerce as it was sudden. They
were drenched with water. They
could no longer see each other for the
spray.
she had
to the rope
“Fay,” cried Roydon, “you are fright.
ened 7
“With you?’
and her tone was firmer than his.
The next moment, the boat, struck
by a sharper blast than the first, went
over, Both found themselves clinging
to its sides,
“Fay, tell me” said, “that
forgive me for this! Oh, must
when life holds so much sweetness?”
“The storm won't long. We
may yet be saved,” she answered, “but,
Roydon, if 1 slip, don’t try to save me,
she answered, “No!
he yon
Inst
not worth #0 much ax yours.”
“My God! without you, what would
mine be?’
The words escaped him ere he real
ized their meaning.
“Live it, then, for my sake, dear!”
i replied the girl, “and remember, always
i had I my choice, I would have chosen
to have died thus with you rather than
to have lived on without you. My
love, good-by!"'
The next instant the waters had
caught ber, and torn ber blesding
| hands, all cut by the rope, from their
slight hold; but Major Howard had
spoken words with no idle meaning
when he had asked her what his life
would be without her,
Quick as the current, in its angry
greed for its beautiful prey, he threw
about her his protecting arm, Then,
as though heaven smiled, the winds
ceased as suddenly as they had risen,
and the sun burst forth from its hiding
place, showing the rescue which was
bearing down upon them.
“May I see you, if but for five min-
utes?’ were the words scrawled on
the card Fay held, a few hours later,
In her bandaged hands, as she lay upon
her couch, very pale and exhausted. but
EMIGRANTS WARNED.
| Julian Ralph Advises Fortune Hunters to
Avoid South Africa.
Julian Ralph contributes to the Lon
don Dally
who
Mall some warnings to those
Af
intend to emigrate to South
rica. He says
I fear
gret
Ii
that most of these men will re
asked even the bares
Africa. Al
i most popular sayings about that
having ever
ving of South though the
una
tractive such as to deter
region are
imagination, the ideathat fortunes are
to be made there by men without cap
ital
minds,
Where the jand ¥
remains firmly rooted in many
jelds best
ly used for
¥
horses
the hreeding
and ostrich
and
where water is
goals
only abundan
see crops bein raised, and
{ grown
South Afric
a
cur
To be sir
’ ietly just, there ix a 1 on
ably rich region in that part of Cape
| Colony called the Hex River
Wheat and fruit and the vine
and
which ix
country
flourish in that
is good, genuine farming Is carried on
there, ang
But the
immigrants
anid
t hose
sec lion, pasturage
oe peable Are prosperous
region offers chance
The land ix all
held at a very high
who own it, especially ¢
Drateh, not
want ACTes, #YeD
no for
taken
pr
3
y
up
‘ rnd
domi
ae
nant will well Instead,
they
they cannot
& a land-lo
who estim
nore
though
Il what they have; for the
land proud mu
social
i
position
be market
any man thinks to
diamond mines he
$1
tiie «
wnees of that
of
Money
the
utilized
Are
3
isely equal to his chances h
disposal
Aving
and
great
have in
at his the
time,
expert nowledge which
mining corporations
studying the entire country and in tak
lng liens or paving yearly premiums
| for the first right to work soils
{| when they peed or desire to do so.
The thing to a gold mine
that remalng open to newcomers in the
greater part of these colonies [8 the os
| trich: at least, so 1 was informed by a
| great many shrewd and suceessful men
who live in Natal, the Orange River
Colony and the Transvaal. But breed
ing ostriches requires money-—for the
land and the birds—to start with. And
| one must know or learn the methods
{ by which a profit is to be had in that
indnetry. You cannot raise ostriches
las you take a snapshot photograph
|sUCn
nearest
| by pressing a button amd letting nature
do the rest. :
In the army I found =o many yonng
men, especially among the Australlans
and Canadians, who talked of remain.
ing in South Africa, that I made it my
{ business while 1 was in Cape Town,
Kimberley and Bloemfontein to ask the
leading men for their knowledge and
opinions as to the joducements the
country offers to immigrants, It may
have merely happened so, bat I did
not meet a man who favored the com:
ing of a large number of new settlers,
All who were of British blood wished
for more men of their own race there
in numbers sufficient to ontvote the
Duteh-but they could not promise
the newcomers a living.
It is as true as when Mr. Bryce wrote
it that Bouth Africa is a “vast soll
tude with a few oases of population,”
and that this Is due to its scanty means
of sustaining life and its few openings
for industry unaided by capital,
SBA WA SAAN
Bees Kill a Dog.
Benjamin Machamer's English set
ter dog gave battle to a swarm of bees
and in two hours was stung to death.
The bees were so enraged that no one
could rescue the dog at any stage of
the fight, Soon after the battle start
od he was blinded and unable to run,
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
THE JOKER'S BUDGET.
Alleged Political Orations.
Constituent—You don't make
speeches emphatic enough.
Candidate 1 don't? Well, must I
hrash my arms around more, or holler
indianapolis Journal
your
touder?
Particulars Desired.
Treetop-—A dollar for pulling
ooth?
Dentist
Treetop
one
Yes, you took gas,
How much a thousand
vou charge for that?--Harlem Life
do
He Knew
Pastor-—-1 vou know where
ihe bad little boys go?
Johnny (who has been told to stay in
tie house)— Yes, I do. They go skatin’
ind sleddin’, and have a jolly
time, Philadelphia Press.
The Bishop and the Hen
tthe
Suppose
4 odd
The clergyman's hoy was
the
bishop's children,
“At the rectory,”
a hen that lays an egg every day.”
“Pooh! sald Master Bishop, “my
father lays a foundation stone once a
week."
spending afternoon with the
he said, “we've got
London Glabw,
Just What She Said.
Mamma Why did you let
you?
Danghter -Well, he was 20 nice
asked me
Mamma
learn
jut haven't |
to say “No?’
That's what 1
ir I'd very
Philadelphia
told you you
must
did
an
Dan
He
ghiter LS
erry if
sked me be gry
d me P'ross,
Modern Warfare,
were trained,
ts
thundered the
have
’
ol
( perators
chine = out
« Colonel.
galled off!
rest of L
rest of Uh
Then the battle Is Order
day
we To spend the
She Felt Sure.
gsband has a heap
the
said the neighbor
fo
run,
tnkes
“NY out
how
KnYy
ounty shall be
MM
hisself fur a purty smart man.”
“1 reckon he does,” sald Mra, (
“But 1 don't “low
in' to set the world on fire”
“NO. not if
an’ chop the wood fur kindlin’
the Washi
about
reckon he
orn
t ossel he's ever go
be has to git out
blage.' ngton Star
Measuring a Villain,
‘ .
long”
Demonstrated His Abit
0 Be
{| guess J aid the officeosceler
ularly |
for a month
considerabl«
3 1. ogy *
Lhifeis T'eg ¥
who had
th
the ants Gin every day
LE man of
i
sa 1
ribune,
Just His Luck
“Ax you know.” she sald, “my hus
band is naturally a quiet man; but he
talked too much yesterday.”
“How was that?”
“We were at his cousin
George took her little boy on his knees
|
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE EMINENT DIVINES
DISCOURSE,
BUNDAY
wn Active Principle Which Warks
Constantly For sne Welfare of Hody
and Mind and Boul~HMopes For Sinncrs.
{Copyright wou |
Wasmixorox, D. C~Dr. Talmage is
now traveling in Norway, where he has
been deeply interested in the natural phe
nomena and the quaint social life of that
wonderful land. In this sermon he
gues, contrary to the opinion many
that religion is an active principle
works constantly for the weliare of bod
and mind and soul. Mis text is Luke xiv
34, “Salt i» good.”
The Bible is a MAry the
similes, It employs among living eo
ures storks and eagles and doves and
corns and sheep and esttle; Jong
sveamores and terebinths
ates and almonds and apples L
cls, pearls and jacinths
and chrysoprases Christ u » I
illustrations, The lilies tha «plu
His discourse are dewy | rn
in His discourses are
ny
ol
y
diet of
um
ny {recs
snd pom
amethyets
not
and the pump were worked, and the crys
tals were gathered. Bo the grace of God is
abundant. It is for all lands, for all ages,
for all conditions. It seems to undergirt
everything —pardon for the worst sin, com-
fort for the sharpest suffering, brightest
light for the thickest darkness.
Around about the salt lakes of Saratov
there are 10.000 men toiling day and night,
And if the 1.600.000.0006 of our race
should now ery out to God for His mercy
there would be enough for all—for those
furthest gone in sin, for the murderer
standing on the drop of the gallows, It is
ocean of mercy, and if Europe and
Afrien, North and South America,
the wlande of the sea went down
they would have room enough
come up clean
fet no man think that his case ix too
ugl God to act upon. Though
be deep and raging, let me
God's grace 8 a bridge not
but 3 wprende d and
vour guilt,
of eternal
foundations
robe so in
wat no one after him
3ut our King, Jesus,
» of His righteousness, »
i impearied,
wretch in
Wear
to-day
tough a one for
#1 may
vot that
on © pers,
f CAN
the
Epanning of
end roe k
on Lhe
wore a
and
to the
neaven
worst
ut that on!
to wing tip; the fish He points to are not
dull sbout the gills,
tured, but asquirm in the wet net
brought up on the beach of Tiberias
His sermons, He picks up
bolds it before His congregat a8 &1
tration of divine grace heart
He says what we all know by experimen
“Salt is good.”
I shall try to
idea in this text ang
a crystal
on
the
in
3 ’
carry out the Kaviour's
in the Lirst place
In Gallicia there are mines of salt with ex
cavatious and underground passages reach
ing, I am told, 280 miles
there are chapels and halls
the columns
salt
fo Yimit Lhess
03
the
Hivminat and the glory of
and ervetsl ceilings and erystal floors and
erystal columns, under the glare of
torches and the lamns, needs words of ery
tal to descr:
far as that to find the beauty of salt,
live in a land which produces millions of
bushels of
the morning rail train and in a few hours
get to the salt mines and salt springs
you have rticle morning,
night on your Salt has
beauty of the
with durability as d. If
the naked eye
the stars, and the diamonds, and the white
tree branches, an
bridges of fire
There is more
these crystals
nuity has ever demo
bra or Bt. Peter's
It would take all
ment upon eternity, for an angel! of Ged
to tell one-half the glories in a salt ervstal
Bo with the grace of God; it is perfectly
beautiful
kles of care from the )
make an aged man alm
egnin: I have it lift
shoulders and put sms
Solomon dis
ties when he
ones It he
to purify the blo
and
dall's prayer test o
ting a man in a phi
experimented
#0 well that
for as an
healt}
jon th
stone
Among
pers
speak «
mines,
De 1
snd
the
Li
this Boon
all
inte them
itectural skill
than human
strated in an A
A
:
e} nd
ie he sun 2
arch
{
of =ait
i}
1 wt TOUng
BOOED the stooping
into the dull
wered
said. “It
ips io d
te therapeutic
If MmArrow
gest he
and to calm 11
the wie T and inste
quiet
Laan
ie
fi}
oenia
David calls
extir
unclean
and rid}
chained and
Jesus throws upon ti
of a summer garden
ing, “I am the Rowse
submerges it with the glory of
morning, 2% He says, “I am the §
Ob, how much that did for the
three Johns! It took John Busvan,
foul mouthed, and made him John Bun.
van. the immortal dreamer; it took John
pates evers hin 4 ww hateful
if IR IOUEY and ries sed ust
abouy, they art
“rm 3
the
EOTDOR
fiave swWeer
fragrance
1 Eas
*”
on,
STTInE
grace
day after to-morrow,’ the child said
Now we've got to go and buy him a
birthday present!” Chicago Times,
One Warning Sufficient.
“Now, madam.” sald the crotchety
Judge who had been annoyed by the
digressions of previous female wit
nesses, ‘we want no hearsay evidence
fell only what you know. Your name
please”
“Mary Jones,” replied the witness.
“Your age?’
“Well-er—1 only have hearsay evi
dence on that point, so [ wont nu
gwer."— Philadelphia Press,
A Suspicion,
‘We Are Seven,” asked the ...erary
“You mean the one in which the lit
tle girl keeps repeating that phras:
quired the young man with wide ears
“Yes.”
“Well, to tell you the trath, I never
could quite understand it. Bat I wil
gay this much: That little girl wasn’)
frank and iagennons in aer statements
She was too wise, Khe was more tuan
sevels- Washington Star,
Not Allowed to Escape.
“Professor, are you ready?’ asked
his friend, opening the door of his
study and putting his head Inside the
room,
“Ileady 7" echoed the absent-minded
man at the desk, “Ready for what?’
“Your wedding, of course! Have
you forgotten you are to be married
at 8 o'clock this evening?”
“1 knew,” muttered the professor,
struggling with his reverie and look.
ing in the pigeonholes before him for
hig hai and overcoat, “I knew 1 had
an engagement of some kind for 8
o'clock, I'l be ready in a moment.”
of the hurricane made him cory out, “Ms
mother's God, have mercy upon me!” Ii
and by the hand of a Christian maker of
Jesus whom He once despised.
autiful or beautifying as the grace of
God!
show me anything so transcendently beau
hung in eternal erystals,
Again, grace is like salt in the fact that
it i= a necessity of life. Man and beast
perish without salt,
across the western prairie? Why, they
tell us that salt 1s a necessity of life. And
po with the grace of God; you must have it
or die. 1 know a great many speak of ib
as a mere adornment, a sort he shoulder
strap adorning a soldier, or a light, froth
ing dessert brought in after the greatest
work, but ordinarily a mere superfluity, a
he draws the load and in nowise helping
So far from that I declare
last necessity. It is food we must take or
y into an eternity of famine. It
clothing, without which we {reese to the
mast 4 infinite terror. It in the plank,
and the only plank, on which we can float
shoreward. It is the ladder, and the only
ladder, on which we ean climb up into the
light. It i= a postive ufity for the
I. You can tell very easily what the
effect would be if a person refused to take
salt into the body. The e ion would
fail, the lungs would struggle with the air,
slow fevers would crawl rough the brait
flutter, and life would
for the life of
of % mecerily
in
the
that
in almost 3
Rocks 3
the South American par and in India
but the miners go down through the
sfts and through the dark labyrinths and
by galleries of rock, and with
het and pickaxes, find their w under
ver ndations of the earth to where
sal lies that makes up the nation’s
wealth, To get to the best saline springs
rth huge machinery goes down,
depth below
which ineru the taine and
slong
tor
the
ay
§¢
the
below
1 from under the very roofs of
ing the saline waler supplies
aqueduct, Thm water is brought te
the surface and is exposed in tanks to the
r evaporatian. or it is put in boilers
ily heated and the water evaporates,
the t gathers st the bottom of the
The work is completed, and the for-
" ie
i denth
pth depth
tune
trouble to
reading of
Have you not been in enough
have that work go on? 1
Aristotle, d there was a field of
sweet that once a
hound, coming on the track of game, came
that field and was bewildered by the
ind so Jost the track. Oh, that
our souls might become like “a field which
the Lord hath blessed” and exhale so much
the sweetness Christian character
that the hounds of temptation, coming on
track, might Jose it and go Bowling
with disappointment!
ut I remark again that the grace of
i like the salt in its preservative
You know that malt absorbs she
if articles of food end infuses
ith brine, which preserves them for
side. Balt is the great antiputre.
the world. Experimenters, in
ring wood, have tried sugar and
and airdight jars and everything
t long as the world stands
words will be suggestive, and men
that as a grest preservative
that
was
who sal
in Scly so
to
perfumes
of
aR
or the grace of God the earth would
wine a stale carcass long before
grace is the only preservative
constitutions and Literatures
a government loses this
sce it perishes. The philo-
go far as it i» antagonis.
putrefies and stinks.
ur schools of learning
f we to-day is
muse nf reat enturrsd
) ETOR
y o ulation
ve within their souls this
" nt preserve
and sor
of eter.
you will
YOU are a
if you do your
will promise you a vough
march through an enemy's
y. and they will try to double up
you off from your
The war vou wage will
mean to say that
be
the contrary,
smooth
i'n
duty |}
time EE
«lian
spider
uni
to
the hilt, and spurring on your steed
over heaps of the slain. Bat I think that
God omnipotent will see you threugh. 1
He will. But why do I talk ike an
il?
wi
faith
Kept by the power of God through
unto complete salvation.”
When Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania,
He
impressed me mightily with the horrors of
war. In the eight hours that we rode to-
in the cars he recited to me the
civil war.
battle
He maid that there came one
hon which everything seemed to
‘elegrams from Washington sad
that the life of the nation depended om
that stroggle. He said to me: “] went into
that battle, sir, with my son. His mother
and 1 thought everything of him. You
know how a father will feel toward his
gon who is coming up manly and brave and
good. Well, the battle opened and con
centered], and it was awful. Horses and
riders bent and twisted and piled up to-
gether. It was awful, sir. We quit firing
and took to the point of the bayonet.
Well, mir. 1 didn’s feel like mywelf that day.
I had prayed to God for strength for that
particular battle, and I went nto it feel
mg that I had in my right arm the
strength of ten giants,” and as the Gov
ernor brought hi: arm down on the back
of the seat it fairly made the car tremble
“Well,” he said, “the battle was desperate,
but after awhile we gained a little, and we
marched on a little. | turned round to the
troops and shouted, ‘Come on, boys!" and
1 stepped scross a dead soldier, and lo, it
was my son! 1 saw st the first glance he
was dead, and yet 1 did not dare to stop a
minute, for the crisis had come in the bat-
tle, #0 I just got down on my knees, and [
threw my arms around him, and I gave
him one kiss and said, by,
dear.’ and sprang ap and shouted, ‘Come
on, bove!”™ Ro it is in the Christian con.
flict. It in a fierce fight. Heaven is wait-
ing for the bulleting to announce the tre.
mendovs issue. Hail of shot, gash of sa:
bre, fall of battleax, groaning on every side.
We cannot stop for loss or bereavemont
or anything else. With one ardent em.
brace and loving kiss we utter our fare.
elle and then cory: "Come on, boys!"
re are other heights to be captured
there are other {oes to be conquered,
are other crowns to be won”