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MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 16
THE COI/ORS PASS
HATS off! The colors pass!
The veterans of a hundred gory
fields are marching beneath
their folds for the last time to
day. The loyal hearts that bore them
proudly away from old Camp Curtin to
a baptism of tire and death, who car
ried them through shot and shell over
the ramparts of the enemy and who
brought them back victorious at the
close of the conflict, are bravely bear
ing aloft their tattered, gory remnants
for the last time. When they set the
old flags down in the rotunda of the
great new Capitol to-day, to occupy
the place of honor the Commonwealth
lias rightfully accorded them, it will be
to bid them flnal adieu. The veterans
of '6l responded to the tinal call to
the colors.
They have had their brief day of
trial and of triumph. Their race is
almost run. And one is tempted to
the thought of the. apparent futility of
it all—this brief reward for the years
of sacrifice, the all too fleeting days of
youth and the swift passage of the
years, with their inevitable end. Yet,
looking beyond, from the present and
into the future, where dwell their chil
dren and their children's children, on
down to the end of time, we see that
the great war which they fought has
led "to one flag, one land, one heart,
one hand, one nation ever more."
And it is a good old flag beneath
which they fought, a flag—
" —of the free heart's hope and
home!
By angel hands to valour given;
The stars have lit the welkin dome,
And all thy hues were born in heaven.
Forever float that standard sheet!
AVhere breathes the foe but falls be
fore us,
With freedom's soil 'beneath our
feet.
And freedom's banner streaming o'er
us?"
What has become of Harrisburg's
River Front symphony of scents Blnce
tho Interceptor has been working?
NOT PSYCHOLOGICAL
PRESIDENT WILSON may find
some food for thought in the
fact that reports from hosiery
manufacturers in the possession
of C. H. Brown, chairman of the
hosiery manufacturers' legislative com
mittee, show that many hosiery mills
are working on short time and many
more will be compelled to follow suit,
owing to the fact that orders formerly
placed with our home mills are now
going to Germany.
The total imports of hosiery in April,
1914, were valued at $353,825, as com
pored with $239,674 in April, 1913
an increase of 47 per cent.—at prices
so low that anything like competition
is absolutely impossible, with no re
duction at all in retail prices.
April import figures show a heavy
increase compared with April, 1913,
in merchandise competing with heavy
lines of home production. For in
stance, the value of first-class wool
Increases from $1,658,168 to $6,581,569,
or 296 per cent.; second-class wool
shows an increase from $215,504 to
$445,869, or 106 percent., while third
class wool Increases from $969,440 to
$1,799,657, or 85 per cent. In manu
factures of wool, cloths increase from
$257,533 to $1,282,786, or 398 per
cent.; dress goods from $226,871 to
$321,661, or 42 per cent. All other
manufactures of wool show an in
crease from $416,294 to $1,616,989, or
288 per cent. Total imports of wool
and manufactures of wool show an in
crease from $3,834,494 to $12,173,527,
or 217 per cent.
Increases of other lines of manufac
ture are as follows: Automobiles, parts
of, 279 per cent.; cotton cloths, 45 per
cent.; lace and lace articles, 104 per
cent.; knit goods, not including stock
ings, 716 per cent.; linen yarns, 57 per
cent.; cutlery, 92 per cent.; leather and
tanned skins, 114 per cent.; leather
gloves. 25 per cent.; linoleum, 59 per
cent.; seeds, 103 percent.
Silks and manufactures of show a
very heavy increase—from $2,212,941
to $11,094,793, or 40 per cent.
In twenty-one articles of production
the increase in April, 1914, over April.
1913, is,from $17,691,945 to $40,563,1
585, or 129 per cent., making more
*iian..good the prediction, iu March im-,
" "« . v. -• ' . y > •* ' - v ■-
MONDAY EVENING. r HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JUNE 15, 1914,
port results that April figures would
reach an Increase of 100 per cent.
The percentage of increase In Im
ports represented by this group of
products was, In December, 1913, 54
per cent.; January, I>l4, 58 per cent.;
February, 1914, 64 per cent.; March,
1914, 71 per cent.; April, 1914, 129 per
cent., showing conclusively that the
Underwood tariff law is slowly but
surely strangling American industries;
and it is safe to predict now that May
imports will show 150 per cent, in
crease.
"If manufacturers of the above
mentioned products will give these fig
ures careful study, they will discover
conditions that are not psychological,"
concludes Mr. Brown in commenting
on these conditions.
Phrase making, the Philadelphia
North American thinks, is a perilous
for men in public life. Presi
dent Wilson's "the prevailing business
depression is merely psychological," his
"watchful watting" and "our platform
Is not molasses to catch flies," have
already caused much discussion, and
Collier's Weekly suggests that "he tries
to make words take the place of facts."
But the facts are the stubborn things
which now confront the Doctor In the
White House.
KCERTA RECOGNIZED
AFTER all the watchful waiting
of the Washington Administra
tion In Its attitude toward Mex
ico, the ABC mediators have
forced Washington to accept a proviso
agreeing that no successor as provis
ional president be chosen without
Huerta's approval.
A list of candidates has been pre
pared which includes none but men
whom the Mexican delegates believe
to be acceptable to the present head
of the Government at Mexico City.
1 After a candidate believed to be ac
ceptable has been agreed upon the
Mexican delegates will transmit his
name to General Huerta, and not be
fore the choice has been sanctioned
by the provisional President will It be
adopted at the conference.
This is the point which was most bit
terly opposed by the American dele
gates. They yielded only after the
Washington government was Informed
by its representatives at Niagara Falls
that the mediators had taken a step
which indicated that they were pre
pared to put an end to the conference
rather than impair the dignity of their
government and their personal feel
ings.
But how about the feelings of the
man in the White House, who precipi
tated all the trouble because he would
not recognize Huerta and who now is
forced to agree to Huerta's O. K.?
Who has won?
Has anybody heard of an I. W. W.
rushing to the wheat fields in the Mid
dle West, where farmers are clamoring
for eighty thousand men?
OUTPUT OF ANTHRACITE
THIS Topographic and Geologic
Survey, working in co-operation
with the United States Geolog-
ical Survey, reports that the
production of anthracite coal In 1913
was 6.395,825 gross tons in excess of
the output of 1912, an increase of 8 V»
per cent. Part of this increase is un
doubtedly due to the closing of the
mines in 1912 pending the settlement
of the mining scale, yet it is almost
1,000,000 gross tons in excess of the
production of 1911, which was the pre
vious high record year. This marked
increase again brings up the question
of the ultimate maximum output of
anthracite coal. While it is well
known that the output of bitumi
nous coal doubles each decade
yet the increase in the output of
Pennsylvania anthracite shows no
such change. This is, at least in
great part,, due to the fact that an
thracite is no longer a manufacturing
fuel, but essentially a domestic one.
It has been thought by some that the
present output will not be greatly in
creased; others seem to think that
100,000,000 gross tons per year will
be the maximum amount ever mined.
According to the Survey's estimates,
it is evident that so far as can now
be seen the increase will be small from
year to year, the ever increasing cost
of production being one of the factors
which will retard the growth of the
output.
First we surrender the Canal to Eng
land and now the polo championship.
STEEL AM) GOLD
ALL the business men of the coun
try are afflicted by the same
psychological malady that pre-
vents them from seeing, with
President Wilson and those who look
at things through the schoolmaster's
spectacles, that the country is enjoy
ing prosperous times. This deplorable
state of affairs is shown by the attitude
of steel experts all over the United
States, who continue to insist that
trade conditions are bad. The report
of unfilled tonnage by United States
Steel indicates another big monthly de
crease of 278,000 tons. For eighteen
months, or ever since the end of 1912,
there hns been a steady decline in the
steel trade. According to a financial
authority, In December, 1912, the un
filled orders on the books of the cor
poration were 7,900,000 tons, and at
the first of this month they were only
3,900,000 tons. These figures show the
lack of confidence in the future, for
these orders future business.
Added to this-$»0,000,000 of
gold has gone to Europe, and earlier
this year $16,000,000 more was sent
abroad. A good part of this gold is
needed to pay for the American se
curities which Europe threw upon our
hands.
It is too bad that these practical
business men, who might be supposed
to know so much more about business
than our theoretical President, con
tinue their mistaken attitude. Mills
are closed and gold is going abroad,
but times are good. The President
himself admits the truth of this. Oh
ye perverse souls!
AN EVENING THOUGHT
For to cast away a virtuous
friend, I call as bad as to cast
away one's own life, which one
loves best.—Sophocles.
rEVENiNG CHATI
Contrary to the general opinion the
battle flags which are to-day being
made the object of a unique ceremony
on Capitol Hill do not contain any
captured standards. They are the na
tional and State ensigns which have
headed Pennsylvania troops, those
which figure in the exercises of to-day
being solely those of Civil and Spanish
War organizations. The flags of ear
lier wars and of other character than
numbered State organizations of in
fantry, cavalry and artillery will be
moved later, some of them being in
such condition or of such nature that
Chey could hardly be included in the
program of to-day. Years ago the
State, to erase the feeling of the war
for the suppression of the Rebellion,
returned the flags captured from the
Confederacy and there are none here
to wound the sensibilities of our neigh
bors. While the collection of flags is
large, larger, perhaps, than that of any
other State, it is not complete. There
are some flags of historic organizations
which are possessed by their com
manders or officers, or even men of the
commands, and others which are held
by organizations of survivors or his
torical societies, or which, like those
of the First City Troop, are treasured
with the standards of other events of
national history. Every now and then
one of these flags is presented to the
State, it being recognized that while In
possession of the Commonwealth the
standards will be well taken care of
and placed where they belong. In
deed, quite a number of flags have
been added In this way since 1866,
when the standards were handed back
to the Governor. Only recently the
Schuylkill County Historical Society
sent its Interesting flags to the collec
tion and the ceremony of to-day will
probably stimulate other organiza
tions and individuals to donate their
relics of days of strife. The State has
been left by the will of Miss Maria
Craig, of New Alexandria, the famous
"rattlesnake flag" of Colonel John
Proctor's Regiment in the Revolution,
and S. M. Slieller, of Duncannon, a
few weeks ago, presented the Hag cap
tured from the Mexicans. With ex
ception of the flags of the First City
Troop and Battery A, the collection of
Spanish War flags is complete. The
flags tell a wonderful story. Each
one has been marked with the names
of the engagements and campaigns in
which it took part. In some cases the
white and red stripes are lettered in
gold, but in many instances so little
of the banner is left that strips of silk
have been provided which tell the
story.
When the flags are taken from the
big room in the State Muaeuiu it will
become a repository of many objects
of historic interest. The flags are but
a portion of the relics which are con
tained in the big room, whose space
has been so occupied with the flag
cases that no opportunity was given
for display. The plans will soon be
announced for this part of the State
Museum, which is already attaining a
prominence In educational work that
makes more room imperative.
William Hertaier, Deputy Secretary
of the Commonwealth, has just com
pleted his annual task of presiding
at the drawing of the ties of votes
cast at the primaries. Under the law
the men for whom a tie vote Is cast,
no matter whether it be 1 or 100,
must draw lots. At least they are sent
a notice to appear, and if they do not
the Deputy Secretary holds what on
the "Hill" they term "his court."
Chief Clerk George I). Thorn presents
the names and the tie votes. Then
the Deputy calls the names and if the
candidates do not appear he desig
nates some one (o act as proxy. Lots
are drawn and the freeman's will is
again recorded. Mr. has con
ducted this ceremony for several years
and has established a court with a pro
cedure unique on the "Hill."
A flag of a Pennsylvania Regiment
which was not borne in the procession
to-day, but which will be formally
given to the State within a few days,
is that of the Seventy-sixth Volun
teers, the command of the late Colonel
Frank I. Magee, of Wrightsville. His
flag, which is in the possession of the
State Librarian, was donated to the
State by his son, a resident of this
city, and the presentation was too late
for the flag to be included in the ar
rangements for the ceremonies, be
cause a place*for each Hag was long
ago marked out in the Capitol ro
tunda.
Yesterday was the first Sunday in
some time that the guides of the State
Capitol have not had to be on duty
owing to the numerous excursions
which have commenced to come this
way for the week-end. The guides
weer thankful for the respite, !>«cause
to-day will be a day when they will
come near a record. The Sunday ex
cursions have brought hundreds of
people here and many who would not
otherwise see the beauties of the
Statehouse have been able to enjoy it.
Among visitors to the city on Satur
day was the Rev. Joseph Stockton
Roddy, ex-pastor of Olivet Presbyte
rian Church and now minister of one
of the big Philadelphia churches. Mr.
Roddy is also a chaplain of the Na
tional Guard.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—Captain John P. Green addressed
the Sixth cavalry veterans at their an
nual reunion at the home| of John W.
Frazier.
—Lincoln Beachey, the aviator,
well-known here, fell with his ma
chine near Hartford, but was not hurt
much.
—Dwight R. Meigs, an Oxford grad
uate and son of the founder of Hill
school, was elected headmaster.
—C. T. Hess, South Bethlehem
banker, was presented with a silver
service in honor of twenty-flve years
in business and fifty years in life.
—Lieutenant Joseph Beale will pre
sent the famous French portrait of
Franklin to the University of Penn
sylvania to-morrow.
THE CRIME OF SUCCEEDING
[From the Philadelphia Public Ledger,]
If a man turns his brains to litera
ture—and succeeds—he is a genius! If
a man turns his brains to medicine—
and succeeds—he is a public benefactor!
If a man turns his brains to law and
statesmanship—and succeeds—he is an
ornament to the nation. The world ap
plauds success in any lino of endeavor
—excepting one. Let him turn his
brains to business—and succeed. At
once—he is a scheming rogue and a
robber of the poor! For is not the
expression of genius and initiative in
business—a CRIME? Is not the love
of money the root of all evil? It Is,
therefore, of utmost importance that
the President and his able lieutenants
toll mightily through the heat of sum
mer to crush out these offending roots—
that sustain the 'tree of prosperity.
What If the tree die also? Psychology
will no doubt revive it.
NOTHING TO ARBITRATE r
[From the Wilkes-Barre Record.]
It is estimated that the Colorado
strike has already cost $12,000,000 to
the men, the employers and the State.
It has resulted in the death of sixty
six persons and the wounding of forty
elKht. It has created a condition of
lawlessness that demanded the pres
ence of United States troops, and it has
paralyzed the governmental machinery
of a great State.
And the employers yet Insist that
there is nothing to arbitrate. Is it not
about time for that great third partv,
: the public, to have some say In BUch
business?
COMMITTEE WILL
BE CALLED SOON
Making of Platform Will Occupy
Attention of Men Just Selected
and Candidates
CHRISTY WILL BE LEADER
Allegheny County Republicans Sel
ect Newspaperman to Be
the County Chairman
The members of the Republican
State committee's committee on draft
ing the platform will be called to
gether within a short time for a pre
liminary discussion of the platform
and steps will be taken to have it
ready for the general committee about
the first week in July. The State com
mittee is to meet In Philadelphia a
month from to-day to hear the report.
The State candidates will meet with
the committee in framing the platform
and it is said that there will be a
pronounced declaration on the liquor
question—either local option or State
wide prohibition.
It is expected that the committee
session will be the occasion of a nota
ble party gathering at which candi
dates for congress and the legislature
from all over the State will be pres
ent.
Walter J. Christy, of the Pittsburgh
Gagette-Times, was selected to run for
chairman of the Allegheny county Re
publican committee at a
well-attended meeting in
Christy Pittsburgh on
Elected Many men prominent in
Chairman Republican affairs took
a hand in the meeting
and things have started
for a vigorous campaign In Allegheny.
County Chairman D. B. Johns did not
run for re-election, but suggested
Alexander GUflllan. The name of ex-
Senator James L. Adams was also
suggested. Mr. Christy was then
named for chairman and Prothonotary
W. B. Kirker for vice-chairman. The
new chairman to be is well-known
to many residents of this city as he
has been coming here for twenty years
as legislative correspondent and as
representative of the big Pittsburgh
morning newspaper at conventions
and committee meetings.
Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, Republi
can candidate for Governor, made the
oration at the flag day ceremonies at
Valley Forge on Sat
urday afternoon, his
speech being a strong Brumbaugh
plea for the marking Speaks at
of historic places and Cereuiony
for growth of the spirit
of patriotism. The exer-
cises were under the auspices of the
P. O. S. of A. and Dr. Brumbaugh re
ceived the tablet'on behalf of the Val
ley Forge commission of which he is
the secretary. Senator Penrose, a
member of Philadelphia commandery,
was also a speaker, referring to the
favt that there are two great military
points in Pennsylvania—Valley Forge
and Gettysburg.
The Dauphin county Washington
party has determined not to pay any
attention to the Pinchot-Perkins im
broglio and to take the
position that the whole
Committee matter is one which
Not Eager the New York organi
to Battle zation must settle.
Perkins, for vari o us
reasons, has been
popular with the Dauphin county Bull
Moosers and it was with pain that
they heard of Brer Amos' attack on
him. It is said that if Amos Insists
on bringing up the matter of Perkins
when the conference is held at Pitts
burgh on June 30. that the Dauphin
county delegates will see Flinn about
the course to pursue. Tnis is a year
when the committee does not propose
to get in bad, at least until the
finances are straightened out.
Dr. J. P. Maclay, coroner of Frank
lin county, was elected Republican
county chairman of Franklin county
on Saturday at a live-
ly meeting of the coun
ty committee in Cham- Committees
bersburg. R. M. Ren- Hold the
frew was backed by Elections
the Long contingent,
but lost on the roll
call. While the Republicans were dis
cussing matters State Chairman Det
rich was staging the meeting of the
Washington party committee, his slate
going through without a whimper or
a whoop. A. J. W. Hutton was elect
ed chairman and then Detrich and the
legislative ca-ndidates sang their swan
songs. The Mifflin county Republican
committee elected A. S. Wagner chair
n.an and T. S. Johnston treasurer. The
State and congressional tickets and lo
cal option were endorsed unanimous
ly.
The national administration on Sat
urday made up its mind not to stand
for the man picked by the State ma
chine for the New
Freedom post office
New Freedom after the scandal about
(iets a New the office had broken
Postmaster and the appointment
of" Philip W. Miller,
not active in factional
politics was announced. The appoint
ment of J. H. Wheeler at Delta, held
up when the storm broke, is still in
the refrigerator at Washington. The
Luzerne Machine managed to land the
Nantlcoke office for Stanley Dropeskl,
who has been a follower off and (jp.
PRESIDENTS MEXICAN POLICY
[From Philadelphia Public Ledger.]
It is utter madness. That It has any
support at all only shows how easily a
people can be led Into an untenable
position. Mediation the hopelessness
and helpless state Into which the
Mexicans have been plunged, may
miraculously save this nation from
the consequences of the Administra
tion's mania. All good citizens hope
so. But there Is no longer any confi
dence In the Administration's reason
ing. Intelligent citizens are humiliat
ed by the sophomorlc conduct of our
foreign affairs. They are Indignant
that the nation should have been led
into a ridiculous position, at variance
with our whole history, without In
struction from the people. There will
be more crises, more grave incidents,
before we are through, and the suc
cess of mediation will be put the be
ginning of a long series of problems
which will attend pacification. Wo
are engaged in an adventure which Is
the more hazardous because it is so
unnecessary.
BUBtOAKTB&t rW 1
SHIRTS
SIDES * SIDES
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[ OUR DAILY LAUGH )
Her View Always thf Ca«e
Don't you think Tom seems to
you could grow to get along fine
love me? with his new
It seems to me wife,
you are the one He did the
that should grow same with his old
to love me. one when she was
nnv,
A* Usual Turned Around
Going to the Does your wife
seashore this ever let you out
summer? to see a ball
I think so, I've game?
told my wife I Gee! No! I have
was to go to the to tend the kids
mountains. , while she goes.
WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE!
By Wing Dinger
Since markets have been open
Both afternoon and night
The men have been quite busy
In setting themselves right.
<
They used to say that business
Required a clear head.
And they should stay as long as
They could, each morn, in bed.
For years, .with such excuses
They've shrewdly got away,
And slept while others got up
Before the break of day.
But now they're up against it.
They're trying hard to find
A good excuse to offer—
Especially the kind
Who take the afternoon off
Each Saturday to play
A game of golf .or tennis
And while the hours away.
If you have framed an answer
For wifey, dear, when she
Tells you to go to market.
Pray pass It on to me.
For lots of us are trying
To get ourselves in right
Since they've been holding market
Bgth afternoon and night.
ONE-TERM PLANK
[From the Philadelphia Press.]
The one-term plank in the last na
tional Democratic platform urged the
adoption of a constitutional amendment
making the President ineligible for re
election. Although the Democrats in the
present Congress were elected on that
platform not one has rushed forward
to propose such amendment, and the
President, who has ordered about every
thing else, has not taken up this great
subject. Even Secretary Bryan, who is
so well understood to be the author of
the resolution, has not followed it up
with the constitutional amendment it
urged. It does not matter, however;
when the people get the kind of term
they now have they are in favor of only
one of it, and can be depended upon
to see to it that there isn't any more.
SiifTrimrt Note
[From the Buffalo Courier.]-
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dorsing Tuxedo. They're real men, full of
life and the joy of life.
9Fu/xedo
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[From the Telegraph of June 16, 1861.]
Move Army Over Klver
Fortress Monroe, June 14.—Butler has
been very actively engaged for several
davs past in superintending the prepa
rations for tile movement of the army
across the James river, by laying pon
toons.
Maximilian at Vera Cru»
New York, June* 14. Maxlmilan
reached Vera Cruz on the 28th of May.
He stopped on the way at Martinique,
liberated and carried with him four
prisoners, condemned to hard labor h.v
Forey, and also eight others and paid
their passages to Vera Cruz.
THE STATE PRESS
Planning Town
I From the Reading Herald.)
When Cain went building a city he
doubtless did it helterskelter. There
was no town planning committee in his
program. Had his city been duly
planned, Cain might have turned into
a better nia,n, and'humanity might have
been so l\appv and so virtuous with its
parks an(J- its playgrounds and its
! swimming pools and its boulevards that
1 its original sin would have been chased
I out, and there never would have been
any need for Noah's ark.
Get Out anil <>et Over
[From the Altoona Gazette.]
The Gazette hopes a very large num
ber of the young people whose school
days ended last week will be able to
snend several weeks in the forests, 011
the mountains, by the riverside or at
the seashore. Nothing does young or
old more good than a somewhat pro-
I tracted sojourn close to the heart of
| nature. Our venerable but ever youth
ful mother, the Garth, is indeed one
lof our truest and most inspiring
I friends; we can never get to cloße
to her.
I A BASE SURRENDER
[From the Philadelphia Press.l
The Senate has followed, the House
in obeying the command of the Presi
dent and has surrendered American
rights In the Panama Canal. True the
pretense is made that we do not waive
our rights, but that means nothing
when we so emphatically refuse to as
sert them.
No wonder that Senators become
angry and belligerent as the hour for
making this most unpatriotic.surrender
arrived. They knew they were about
to take a cowardly step. The vote was
cast against the convictions of a major
ity of the Senate as heretofore ex
pressed. The President complains that
it was done grudgingly. If Senators
were less subservient to the orders of
the Executive and had regard only to
their convictions and the true interests
of the country this shameful repeal bill
would never have passed.
We have built the canal without for
eign assistance. It has cost us $400,-
000,000 in money and now when the
time comes to open it to the commerce
of the world the only world commerce
that promises to cut no figure at all in
the canal is that of the United States.
OH, JOY!
"So your wife has gone for a holi
day? «
"Yes, she's gone tc\ the Thousand
.Islands."
"How long will she be away?"
"I don't know exactly but I told her
to spend a day on each Island."
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph of June 15, 1884.J
New Tm Mt-nnurcii
Two very Important ordinances ap
pear In our columns to-day, relative to
taxing theatrical and other exhibitions,
and licensing nackney coaches, etc.
New Po'titoea In Market
New potatoes—"the tlrst of the sea-
Hon —were offered In market this
morning at fifteen cents per quarter. j
SECRET ARY BRYAN'S SUCCESS
(Prom the Now York Sun.l
Secretary Bryan scored another suc
cess as a humorist on Monday evening,
eliciting roars of laughter from the
pupils of a New Jersey school for girls
with such questions as "Why does a
red cow who eats green grass give
white milk that yields yellow butter?"
Ihe Secretary s professional success
was naturally gratifying to him, but
such a triumph is. of course, of com
parat vely little consequence to a man
who has for months kept the risibili
ties of the whole diplomatic world in a
constant state of inflammation.
THK FLAGS OF 'SIXTY ONE
B Captain John \V. Morrison
The flags are furled. -The faded tat
tered colors
That once waved proudly in the battle
breeze,
Cling to their time-worn staffs con
cealing
Rents from shot and shell—incarna
dined
With heroes blood—mute witnesses of
Fields of carnage, kgony and woe.
Through days of summer's fervid heat
and
Winter's chilling winds, they waxed
above
The hosts of marching men, and, like
a benediction,
Rested o'er their bivouac at night
They shared
With those who followed them the
victories
Achieved and seemed to droop in
times of
Anguish and defeat. They saw the
zenith of
The soldiers' hopes—the nadir of their
Despair and gloom. These treasured
relics of a
Tragic past wer borne aloft midst
battle-flame,
By youths who wore the "Badge of
Courage," and
Palling in their defense their last de
voted
Gaze was on the dear old flag for
which they
Bravely fought—for which they nob
ly died.
To-day with faltering steps and slow,
surviving
Veterans bowed with age, with throb
bing hearts
And kindling eyes, carry these stand
ards to their
Last abiding place, their silken fold-)
ne'er more in
Motion to he stirred, save by the
breeze of tender
Memories—ne'er more to he unfurled
in fractricial war,
For "Peace like a river," extends o'er
a united z z z z %
People and a glorious land. No long
er do they typify
The bitternesses and hate engendered
by a long and z z z
Sanguinary strife.
• » • • * * * ,
The veterans' work is done. Their sun
Is sinking •
n the western sky; fr them the ™
shadows lengthen:
For them the ev'ning's twilight soon
shall mingle
With the mists of night, and calmly
they await
The sounding of the bugle's last pa
thetic
Army calls —Taps! Lights Out!