TC ROEST on. Rest on, "embalmed ‘and sainted dead) _ Dear: was the blood you gave; Ao impious footsteps here shall tread \She herbage of your, grave.” WHEN Uncle John For- sythe sold his little farm and came to live with his widowed sister in Cedar- ville, Olive, the latter’s daughter, was not partic- ularly pleased. He was a tall, thin old man, with faded, kindly eyes and a shy manner that ought to have touched her young heart. But Olive was fond of style and full of foolish pride, and the worn old man, sitting in the easy chair day by day, did not, to her mind, improve the appearance of the family circle. He liked old-fashioned things to eat, too, which Mrs. Stanley, his sister, took pleasure in providing, but which were not to Olive’s taste. She did not take pdins either to entertain her uncle or to be agreeable, and if a certain pair of dim, old eyes regarded her many times wistfuly, she gave them small heed. Once, as the strains of her violin floated out upon the air, Uncle John tiptoed in. He had been sitting alone in the twilight, so full of memories. “QOlive,” he said, gently, “did you ever play, ‘Tenting on the Old Camp Ground?’ ” Olive looked up. shortly. , “Or, ‘Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching?’ ’’ went on the wistful tone. “No,” replied Olive, impatiently. “I don’t know any of those old songs, or care to.” “It’s a pity,” replied Uncle John, gently; “you would, perhaps, if you realized what those old songs meant. I always remember how they helped us over the long, hard marches and the still watches of the night. Many and many a time we've sung ’em, not knowing whether another day’s sun would set for us or not. It did not for a good many of my brave com- rades—poor, poor fellows!” There was a G. A. R. post in the little town, and it was not long be- fore Uncle John found his way to it. He never missed a meeting, never for- got the evening it occurred, and by and by the old soldiers of the town fell into the habit of occasionally droppiug in to visit with Uncle John at his sister’s home. “Mother, there are old Captain Pol- lock and Mr. Gage coming up the steps,” Olive irritably announced one evening. “Well, what of it?” smilingly asked her mother. “Why, they're so old and shabby looking,” cried Olive. “Olive!” Mrs. Stanley’s voice had “No,” she replied Aged Woman Reading Words of Con- | solation at the Flower-Strewn Grave of a Cherished Soldier. What the lation { most owes in it a note of pain. “Olive, do you know, dear, I'm afraid you're sadly lacking in patriotism and apprecia- tion. Uncle John finds his pleasure now in looking back; ‘Thinking back,’ is what James Whitcomb Riley called it, I believe. He takes pleasure in talking over old times with these friends he has found. The battles of ’61 to ’65 are as fresh to him as if they had occurred but yesterday. I cannot expect you to realize this, or have sympathy with him; but, dear, tender him at least common courtesy. These brave men—nearing so rapidly, their Father's house—to them, you younger generation owe a large debt. Their valor, their courage their brav- ery! Who does not know of it? And ——- . — . Sa -ae. After the singing and the re- peating of Lincoln's speech at Gettys- burg, the speaker arose, an erect man with a keealy intellectual face full of force and strength. He began with a tribute to the grayshaired veterans before him; told how, when a small boy, he first became a patriot by lis- tening to a one-armed soldier in the city hall of Boston give the history of the different flags gathered there and the battles they had been in. He spoke of Lincoln, that tall, plain, an- gular man, who, at the firing of the guns at Fort Sumter, took the posi- tion" he did. ‘‘Has it ever occurred to you,” he went on, ‘that Lincoln might have acted a little too hastily or a littie too late? But no; . the Dsychological moment, came. He seized it, and the war went on, to a victorious close.” He spoke of Grant, Sheridan, Sherman—and then he paused a moment. ‘May I ask,” he added, ‘if there is anyone here who was in that march to the sea—that famous, memorable march, now passed into history?” Olive sat still. She wished some one of those old veterans sitting near had been there. And then, in the hush and stillness, someone arose. It was Uncle John, old and bent and feeble, but with a faint flush upon his withered cheeks. ‘““Ah!” cried the speaker. gratulate this Post.” And then in the twinkling of an eye, handkerchiefs waved and hands clapped enthusiastically. It was all over in a minute, but how everyone enjoyed it! And as Uncle John sat down, lo! the years had rolled back. He heard again the martial music, “I con- the tramp of many feet, the gleam- ing of the old campfires. He saw again Sherman—Sherman the indom- itable—Sherman the patriot—Sher- man the leader. Ah, it was good to have lived in days like that. It was all over at last, but Olive at the close did a new thing. She walked straight up to Uncle John. “Uncle John,” she said, suddenly, “I want to beg your pardon. I did not realize what real patriotism meant until to-day, or real bravery. Neither had I understood just how much the country owes to such men as you.”—From the Home Herald. For Our Dead. Flowers for our dead! The delicate wild roses faintly red; The valley lily bells as purely white As shines their honor in the vernal light; All blooms that be As fragrant as their fadeless memory! By tender hands entwined and garlanded, Flowers for Our Dead! , Praise for our dead! For those that followed, and for those that led, Whether they felt Death’s burning ac- colade When brothers drew the fatricidal blade, Or closed undaunted eyes : Beneath the Cuban or Philippine skies, While waves our brave bright banner over- ead Praise for Our Dead! ; GTA LATER. 8 CENERATION ® | “By Edith, De Dlgis Laskey ’ pt - w QRWN We stand beside the road and wait, Expectant for a sign, Till round the distant bend they come, A proud though faltering line. We linger in the wayside grass, Drenched with the early dew, To watch the closing of the march, The start we never knew. And so, ‘mid bent and halting forms, "Midst battle-flags of yore, We catch no vision of the lads Who went+—and same no more. These that we see are aged men, Not strong and debonair. ~ As when intr pressed to bloody fields And left their boyhod there. We young review with careless eyes A great and moving sight; Within our souls their bugle wakes An echo all too light. Ah, we should come with prayerful mien, With hushed and reverent feet! They strewed the blossoms of their yough To make our Maytime sweet. 5 —Youth’s Companion. YOUNGEST OF SOLDIERS. According to Lossing, the histor- ian, the distinction of having been the youngest soldier that ever bore arms in battle probably belongs to COLONEL JOHN L. CLEM, U.S. A, As He Appeared When Made a Sergeant in the Union Army at the Age of Twelve—Givens. Colonel John Lincoln Clem, assistant quartermaster-general, United States San Francisco. Colonel Clem en- listed in the: Union Army as a drum- SHAW MEMORIAL, BOSTON. —By St. Gaudens. Olive, in the face of all this, will you not feel more kindly toward Uncle John? It is indeed pathetic to see how he loves you, and yet you pay him so little attention.” Decoration Day was drawing near, and a celebration was being planned to take place at the town hall. There were to be speeches and singing, and a famous speaker was coming up from the nearby city to address the old soldiers. © Uncle John was up early that morning. He was to march in the parade with the rest of the Post, and seats were to be reserved for them in the haf. “Olive, you must go,” urged her mother at the last moment, and final- ly, reluctantly enough, Olive.consent- ed. But as she took a seat with her mother in the hall, festooned with its flags, its bunting, its flowers, a little quiver of patriotism swept over her for the first time. Memorial Day did mean something, and when, in a few moments, the old soldiers filed in, Love for our dead! Oh, hearts that droop and mourn, be com- forted! The darksome path through the abyss of pain, The final hour of travail not in vain! For Freedom’s morning smile S Broadens across the seas ffom isle to isle, By reverent lips let this fond word be said— Love for Our Dead! —Clinton Scolfard, in Collier’s Weekly. | mer boy in May, 1861, before he had reached the age of ten years. He served thereafter to the end of the Civil War, under Generals Grant, Rosecrans and Thomas, and took an active part in many important battles. ‘When only twelve years old He was made a sergeant of Company C, Twenty-second Michigan Regiment, on the battlefield of Chickamauga rnard, Long Island , I Leslie s le tt rel) fry. CE ie 2X0 Y Wine YG [7 In NuHit : Wiig « 5 X= 2 -~., i 590-7, te Army, who is at present stationed at eT —e PENNSYLVANIA STATE NEWS QUARRYMEN KILLED Defective Fuse Given as Cause of Accident in Which Two Lose Lives. Washington.—Two Italian men were killed and a when a dozen sticks of dynamtte ex- ploded on the Rogersville road five miles west of Waynesburg. The Dead—Angelo Mancuso, 45 years old, of Wayneshurg, married. Frank Donato, 22 years oid, of Pitts- burg, single. : The Injured—Antonio Barata, of ‘Waynesburg, painfully cut. Mancuso, who was boss of the quarry- quarrymen, was testing dynamite caps, preparatory to setting off a blast. The fuse he used was defec- tive and burned so rapidly that a cap exploded before he could throw it away. Simultaneously the box of caps and 12 sticks of dynamite let geo. BANK REORGANIZED Clean Sweep Made in First National at Washington. Washington.—The First National bank, the oldest financial institution in the county, reorganized its govern- ing board. Nota former officer was re-elected and the directors were changed. W. C. McBride was made president in place of S. M. Templeton. Rob- ert L. McCarrell, former assistant cashier, .was elected vice president, succeeding D. M. Donehoo and John W. Seaman. Joseph C. Baird was named cashier in place of Charles S. Ritchie. Joseph Zelt was retained as: assistant cashier. The following board of directors was elected: Adex- ander M. Templeton, R. H. McClay, W. C. McBride, R. W. Knox, William Paul, Joseph C. Baird, Owen Murphy, W. H. Davis, Robert IL. McCarrell, Alexander Reed and John C. Clark. WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY Efght-Year Sentence fori Murdering Husband—Confessed to Her Cellmate. During the triaj of Mrs. Fred Dah- ringer, accused of murdering her hus- band to get his life insurance, the woman asked leave to withdraw her plea of not guilty and enter a plea of guilty, the court to fix the degree of her crime. Her request was granted and Judge Williams made it second degree mur- der, sentencing her to eight years in the Western penitentiary. It was de- cided to change the plea after the Commonwealth put on the stand Miss Ida Owens a Pittsburg detective, who had been a cell mate and confidante of the prisoner. Mrs: Dahringer made a confession to Miss Owen of her guilt and the detective also overheard her confes- sion to an attorney. GOES OVER TRESTLE Dinkey Engine Runs Away and In- jures Engineer. Greensburg.—Robert Wilson, an en- gineer employed by the Frick Coke Company, sustained serious injuries through the runaway of a dinkey en- gine at the Morewood plant in Mt. Pleasant. The locomotive was push- ing two larries along the battery of ovens when a steam pipe burst, envel- oping the cab in a cloud of steam. to escape and was unable to shut off Wilson pulled the throttle wide open to escape and was unble to shut off the power. Engine and cars went over the end of a trestle, falling 15 feet. ‘When extricated from the wreck Wilson was found to be suffer- ing severely from scalds and bruises. UPHCLDS SUNDAY WORK Judge at Uniontown Orders Discharge of Railrcad Men. Uniontowp. — Judge J. Q. Van Swearingen handed down an opinion in which he ordered the discharge of 45 men arrested several months ago for putting in an emergency switch on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, near Dunbar, on Sunday. The testimony showed the ‘work had to be done on that day as a pro- tection to life and property, and the court held that ynder these circum- stances it was not a violation of the law. The suit was a result of the Sunday crusade here. DIES AT AGE OF 102 Mrs. Gormley Attributed Long Life to Rising at 5 A. M. . Franklin.—Mrs. Mary Gormley, died near Franklin, aged 102 years. She was born in Franklin and lived in New York and Pittsburg before she came back here. She lived on one farm for 60 years. She assisted in household work up to within a week of her death. Mrs. Gormley attributed her long life to inherited vigor and the fact that 5 o’clock in the. morning never found her in bed. Ban on Dancing. Kittanning.—A strict ban has been placed on dancing by the First Bap- tist church here of which the Rev. P. S. Calvin igs pastor. A resolution adopted says that any member of the church who continues to dance after due admonition will be dropped from | action was | the church roll. The taken by the official board and indors- ed hy the congregation. Huff Buys Coal Land. Greensburg.—Ceongressman George F. Huff has purchased 23 acres of land adjoining the Sis ward from Harriet C. Zellers for $30,000. It underlaid with coal and is part of tract owned by the Zellers family for 100 years. Mrs 0 wn third hurts .HEAD-ON COLLISINO Fifteen Injured and Engines Are Wrecked Through Misunder- standing of Orders. Lewisburg.—Through a misunder- standing of orders two Reading pas- senger. trains collided at a curve just north of here. Both engines were wrecked and a number of passengers and the crew of the south bound train were injured. Both trains were due here at 2 o'clock, and orders had been issued to the south bound passenger train to lay at a cut-off a mile above town to allow the north bound train, known as the “Cannon Ball” express, to go up the south bound track around the . freight. In response to a signal from the flagman of the freight crew, it is said, the south bound passenger train came beyond the cutoff and col- lided with the express. The injured are: George Haupt, fireman, Shamokin, ribs broken, hip dislocated; O. G. Neudorfer, express messenger, Reading, arm and ribs in- jured; Harry Anthony, baggage mas- ter, Port Clinton] hip and leg injured; Charles Smith, conductor, Shamokin, back wrenched; G. O. Roper, district ticket agent, Williamsport, head cut; Walter F. Beishline, Williamsport, in- ternally injured, head badly cut; G. Sommer, Williamsport, head and knee injured; Mrs. Roger Williams and 15- months’-0ld baby, Williamsport, body bruises; Mrs. William Waterhouse, Sunbury, knee, hip and arm injured, nose broken; Mrs. Johnson, Baugh, Mill Hall, leg and back injured; Mrs. E. C. Yeagel, Milton, face bruised; J. A. Statts, New York City, arms and leg injured; C. K. Sober, Lewisburg, body badly injured; Harry Bond, Lew- isburg, head cut; Miss Edna D. Schoch, Lewisburg, face cut. QUIT IN DISGUST Two State Troopers Get Tired of Job in Chester. t Greensburg.— Unable to stand being ostracized by Chester residents and the exposure to sleeping in shake- downs in street cars, Thomas Jones and Charles Hutton, members of Trecop A, state police, returned to Greensburg, surrendered their ac- countments and resigned from the service. They were sent with a squad of 30 - men to Chester during the rioting in- cident to the street car strike. Jones and Hutton say people of the town would have absclutely nothing to do with them, and that it was impossi- ble for the troopers to even purchase tobacco from some business places. To Resume Operations. Uniontown.—The River mine of the H. C. Frick Coke Company at South Brownsville, which has been idle since April 1, 1906, will resume operations as soon as the plant can be put in shape to start. No coke has ever been made at this plant, but the Frick company has engineers staking out a string of 500 coke ovens that will be constructed at once. Ten Pass for Mine Foremen. Washington.— Of the 28 persons who took the examination for mine fore- man in the Sixteenth district nine got first grade certificates and one, James A. Conway, a second grade. The nine are William J. Burns, George A. Millward, Harry O. Millward, Thomas D. Rose, Ralph M. Kenney, Butler, John A. Morrison, John N. Brewer and Patrick J. Boyle. Entirely New Industry. The immense cement plant of the United States Steel Corporation, near Homestead, with an annual production of about 3,000,000 barrels, has been completed and placed in operation. The Universal Portland Cement Com- pany has been organized to operate the plant in connection with the big cement plant of the Iliinois Steel Com- pany. Road Work in Armstrong County. Kittanning.-—Hundreds of men will get work on new roads to be built in" Armstrong county. Manor township has awarded a contract to P. F. Mec- Cann of Greensburg at $43,549.43. The bid of H. C. Hinkle of Altoona, $40, 446.20, for reconstruction of the road in South Buffalo township has been accepted. Quashes Indictment. Washington.— When Thomas Huff- man of California was called for trial in criminal court here on a charge of embezzling $1,200 from the Coal Min- ers’ union of that place the court quashed the indictment on the ground that the information sent up by (he justice of the peace was not sufficient. Wup Asks to Change Name. A petition was filed in common pleas court at Pittsburg by S. B. Lin- hart, secretary of the board of trus- tees of the Western University of Pennsylvania, asking that the name of the institution be changed tc the University of Pittsburg. New Dairy Reforms. Harrisburg.—In his annual report, Dairy and Food Commissioner Foust recommends a number of new laws including better sanitary methods sur- | 1 rounding the manufacture of ice cream; the fixing of a standard for cream; regulations for alcoholic and other liquors, and the storage of eggs | and poultry. Barrel Ran Off With Itseif. sh ton.—Nathan Dommir inas ch he was was ¢l of cider Dommir 1 down a Charles ~ . ll oc . A vd * fron text tern not ings of 1 life, isol: ing fulf dail twe frui is tl mor wea con self *t¢0] mal mer the <hil 7 tor dea sec dea or ¢ the can The Tract mel bec
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