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CIRCULAR grass
covered plot It
was, on the outer
edge of the ceme
tery, and the low
stone wall sur
rounding it wag
defaced and sunk
en in many places.
An oblong tablet,
supporting two
monumental nrns,
rested in the cen
tre, and it was
heaped high with
wreaths and blos
soms, the tribute of a nation to its
honored dead. The inscription bore the
name of one of the most famous gen
mls of the Civil War, but Lncinda
Randall, sitting idly on top of the
rough coping, surveyed the memorial
stone with gloomy eyes. At that mo
ment she was wondering, as she had
wondered many times before in her
twenty-five yearsff life were all that
she haQ ,4reen led to believe that she
would find it In spite of her fixed
belief in the general correctness of the
scheme of the universe, she could not
refrain from thinking that there were
tome things that she' would have ar
ranged differently. That very morn
ing, In a despondent mood, she had
confronted her cares and troubles,
drawn up before her in formidable ar
ray, and, after a severe struggle with
her common sense, had finally owned
herself defeated. Usually, Lncinda
was a person on whom the perplexities
of life sat lightly; but about every six
weeks, as she put it, Elie was obliged
to think, and the result was always
disastrous. It was in this mood that,
sitting there, the fresh, strong wind,
straight from the ocean, whipping loose
strands of her black hair from their
fastenings, and buffeting her slight
figure like a live thing, she withdrew
her gaze from the wave-washed hori
zon, and looked again fit the stone.
"Killed, while gallantly leading a
forlorn charge," she said, aloud. "That
I can understand. The heroism of the
moment, the wild charge In the glory
and blaze of battle; sudden, swift ex
tinction, exulting in the face of death,
that is a glorious way to die; but to
wear out one's life in the tragedy of
the commonplace, one's worst foe one
self, that is dying by inches; it is
worse it is a living death."
Her eyes suddenly widened as she
perceived a figure on the other side of
the mound silhoutted against the sky.
lt'was that of an old man, bent and
shrunken with age, but Lncinda no
ticed the square set of the shoulders,
the attempt at carrying them well set
back, and a general nir of alert brisk
ness, which, to her observant eyes,
proclaimed him to be an cx-soldier.
He climbed the wall stidiy, his eyes
fixed upon the sunken grave, with the
flowers piled high above it, and the
fluttering flags at either end. Wheel
ing sharply, as he reached the spot, he
stood erect, and gave a smart military
salute, with a precision evidently born
of long training; then, stooping, he
placed on the grave a small bunch of
dandelions that be carried.
"The Day We Made That Charge.'
Then be turned to Lueiudu, smiling
cordially.
"I reckon you think this kind of
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(7 BEAUTIFUL; MY COUNTRY;
Z3f v a noifwr care
Than ell thy vOealth of commerces
Thy hanSe;tj x)aSing fair:
Be it thy pride to lift up ; .
N,. 77k manhood of the poor
Be thou to the oppressed
fair freedom) open daorfy
for thee our fathers juffetvdr
. TSr fw they toiled and prayed:
Upon, thy holy altar
Their Willing lVej they laid.
Thou hajt no common birthright:
Grand memories on thee shine;
v The blood of pilgrim nation)
Commingled flov)y in thine.
0 Beautiful, our country.'
'Round thee in loJe v)e drau):
Thine i) the grace of freedom.
The majesty of lav),
lie righteousness thy sceptre
, Justice thy diadem;
And on thy shining forehead
Be peace Jhe crooning gems
Q1 - DecoraHor) Day
strange," he said, speaking with a
Western accent, and laying one hand
tenderly on the stone, "but I've saluted
the general every Memorial Day for
twenty years, miss; I've followed him In
many a battle, and I don't forget; and
somehow I can't think that the general
does, either." His shining eyes looked
across the tablet at the girl. "Maybe
be did you a kindness, too, miss?" he
asked, sympathetically. "He did many
a one In his day, I'll be bound."
The girl flashed a pleased look at
blui.
"General Eastwood was my uncle,"
she said, simply.
The old soldier's face beamed.
"Your vincle, miss?" he said, earnest
ly. "Well, I've wondered many a day
if I should ever be lucky enough to
run across any of the general's kin;
but my time IS' getting so short now
that I'd about given up hope." He
reached bis hand impulsively across
the grave to the girl.
She took It, smiling In comprehen
sion. "I am always glad to meet anyone
who served under my uncle." she said,
winningly. "I have often heard my
mother tell how much be thought of
his men."
"That's right, too," said the soldier,
eagerly. "Why, miss, the day we made
that charge at , It was hotter than
blazes, and the general was In the
thick of it, and always at the front,
miss, always at the front." He shook
his bony forefinger warningly "Dou't
you forget that. The bullets were
flying like hall, and the general was
sitting his horse like an iron man, and
we were plunging after him, when
Dick Fallon's horse was .shot nnder
him, and he tumbled on the ground
right alongside of the general. Dick
expected it to be the last of him, for
the cavalry was sweeping solid over
tie field. Was it? No, indeed! The
general Just swooped down on him
sideways, and lifted him across his
saddle bow, and led the charge just
the same. Dick never forgot that.
I've heard him tell it over and over,
and not ow of those who saw It ever
forgot it, either, (fix, I tell you, miss,"
the old man chuckled, carried out of
himself by the memory of brave war
days, and becoming loquacious Jp
praise of his hero "there never was
anything could daunt the old general.
He had the real blood in him the fight
ing blood, we called It. Nothing ever
beat it yet." He turned to the girl,
his eyes luminous with feeling, and
his white hair blowing In the wind.
Her gaze was fastened on the vanish
ing Hue of smoke from an ocean steam
er, and the old soldier looked disap
pointed. "I think." Lncinda said, slowly, her
hands unconsciously destroying the
daisies thnt she bad, "that there are,
perhaps, force things which, if the
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general had had them to endure, might
have conquered even the fighting
blood."
"Don't you believe It, miss," began
the old soldier, stoutly, but a glance at
her downcast face checked him. "Yes,
miss?" be said, Interrogatively.
"Yes, I do," she said, more firmly.
There are forms of battle of which the
general had no conception. It Is so
different with a man! His life was
one of actlnn, vivid, stirring action,
and encb act was applauded by a na
tion. He stood high In the estimation
of men. He had wealth, power and
fnme. Did he ever know" she went
on, stormily "what It means simply to
exist, to spend one's life In waiting, till
your youth and strength and hope are
gone? Did he ever know the humiliat
ing sensation of failure? Did he ever
mean well, and try hard, and have it
all end In defeat? No! he never knew
these things.- Even his courage might
have given way before such over
whelming odds as these."
The soldier's stiff features melted
Into sympathetic lines at the glrl's'out
burst, but his faith In his hero was
not to be shaken.
"No, miss," he said, patiently. "Beg
ging your pardon, for I can see that
you must have had a hard battle your
self, to talk like this, but even all you
say wouldn't have made the general
give In." His eyes met hers. "It's
harder for a woman," he said, gently.
The girl's eyes filled at the words,
but she kept her head defiantly high.
"I have lost all I cared for In the
world," she said, steadily, "and there's
only left me a big, empty, starving
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Arlington Cemetery.
heart, that gnaws at me night and
day." She looked at the brave old face
wistfully. "Do you think that the gen
eral could have borne that?" she
asked.
The old soldier felt a sudden queer
tightening of his throat. He looked
at the girlish figure In Its rough blue
serge, then hastily rose, striking his
stick firmly Into the gravel path. All
the old martial fire and vigor were In
Ills bearing as he stood In front of her.
He felt intuitively thnt It was a case
where action of some kind was needed.
"The general would never have given
up, miss," he almost shouted, all tlie
more sturdily because conscious of an
unwonted tremor In his tones, which
he wanted to conceal. "Never! There
wasn't anything that he couldn't have
borne, and nnyone with fighting blood
In his veins ought to feel that way,
too. Anyone belonging to the general
Is .lust bound to stand by his colors!"
The girl looked up quickly, her lips
parted, and her face was suffused with
an inward glow.
He met her look directly.
"And you his blood, miss!" he said,
reproachfully "the lighting blood!"
The words stirred the girl's senses,
like a call to arms. She sprang quickly
to her feet, sweeping her long skirts
aside, and drawing her lithe figure to
Its full height.
"You're right" she said, abruptly.
"The fighting blood does not give in.
What Is your name? 'Macallon?' Now
Mr. Macallon, we're ready for the en
emy. Hurrah for the banner of the
fighting blood!" She smiled brightly
at the old man, who, instantly divining
her changed mood, and catching the
spirit of excitement, swung involun
tarily around. Together they saluted
the grave, the old and the young eyes
flashing in unison. The clear note of a
departing bngie lent color and reality
to the scene. The old man's voice
quavered on the air.
" 'Tention!" be piped, shrilly. "Eyes
front! Forward, inarch!" Lucy Bnker
Jerome, in Success.
Chronicle of the Flag.
Ne'er waved beneath the golden gun
A lovelier banner for tlie brave
Than that our bleeding father! won
And proudly to their children gave.
Il glorious stars in azure shine,
The radiant heraldry of heaven;
Its stripes in beauteous order twiue.
The emblems of our Union given.
Around the globe, through every rlime.
Where commYrce waits or man hulb
trod,
it floats aloft, unntninrd with crime.
But ballu.ved by heroic uloud.
STANDARD OIL'S METHODS
Man of Slaughtered Competitors
Testify Against Oil Trust.
6MALL DEALERS HAD TO QUIT
An Old Agent of the Standard Makes
, Full Confession of Its
Methods.
A total of 19 witnesses was called
by Inter-Slate Commerce commis
sioners Prouty and Clements in the
Standard Oil Inquiry at Cleveland,
O., in one day.
Testimony bordrrlng on the sensa
tional was obtained from several wit
nesses. That of Genree L. Lane, ot
Mansfield, 0., a former employe ot
the (Standard Oil Company, was re
garded as particularly important.
According to his evidence Lane was
for about 14 months, in 1901 and 190. ,
employed by tne Standard Oil Com
pany for the express purpose of driv
ing all the Independent oil peddlers
in a dozen or inure of the principal
cities and towns of Northern Ohio out
of business. He said he was em
ployed by G. E. Lyons, of the Cleve
land office of the Standard Oil Com
pany, to go tq, designated places and
use every means, fair or foul, to force
independents to quit. He described
the methods pursued In detail.
''My instructions,"' he said, . "were
to kill them, and I was told that if 1
could not do the job somebody else
would be sent to take my place. 1
worked in Youngstown and Burround
Jng small towns, Canton, GIrard, War
ren, Ravenna, Masslllon, Mansfield,
Iilyrla, Oberlin and other places.
"In all the towns, with the excep
tion of Youngstcwn, the independent
pedleis were toned to abandon their
business. In Youngstown a man
named William H. Yahey was en
countered, and despite everything we
conld do he held nis trade. We gave
oil away by the barrel and tank load,
but It did no good. Vahey's custom
ers! threw It out."
MIkb Elizabeth Protzman. a steno
grapher and bookkeeper In the Dayton
(O.) oflle of the Standard, testified
that information concerning the oil
Bhipment of rivals was brought Into
the office by draymen and that she
made careful record of them and gave
them to her superior.
W. J. Cram, who was engaged in
the oil business at Marietta from 1885
to 1897, testified that the Standard
Company for years used coercive
nrethnds, and the Standard was so
persistent in its efforts that his com
pany was finally compelled to sell out
to the Galena Oil Company, a Stand
eird branch, at a lower figure than
might otherwise have been obtained.
Many -other witnesses gave similar
testimony.
CHURCHES UNITED.
Cumberland Presbyterians Absorbed
by Presbyterians Only Two
Dissenting Votes.
Union between the Presbyterian
and the Cumberland Presbyterian
Churches was consummated at Des
Moines, It., when the general assem
bly of the former church adopted the
report of the committee on church
co-operation and union. But two
commissioners voted against the
union of the denominations, one be
Ing the Rev. Dr. William Iaurie of
Bellefunte, Pa., who asked his vote be
recorded In the negative, and Dr. R.
F. Oessy of -Jacksonville, III. Dr.
Lamrie said his conscience compelled
him to belong to a small minority.
The report of the committee on
union was presented by the chairman
the Rev. Dr. William H. Roherts, and
the Rev. Dr. James H. Roberts of
Washington, Pa., moved the adoption
of the report. Immediately follow
ing the vote the commissioners sang,
"Praise God from Whom All Bless
ings Flo" and "Blest Be the Tie
That Binds.'' Moderator Hunter
Coibett then stated: ''I do sol
emnly declare and here solmenly an
nounce the basis cf reunion and union
Is now in full force and effect and the
Cumberland Presbyterian church Is
now mmiled with the, Presbyterian
church in the United States of Amer
ica a.s one church."
Hcary applause followed the con
summation of the overtures w'hich
have been in negotiation for several
years. The stated clerk then wired a
menage to the general assembly of
the Cumberland Presbyterian church
at Decatur, 111., announcing the union
hnd been effeited.
PROHIBITION TICKET
Pennsylvania State Convention Meets
at Harrisburg.
The Pennsylvania State Prohibition
convention met at Harrisburg and
nominated the following ticktf:
Governor State Treasurer W. H.
Berry, Democrat, Delaware.
Lieutenant Governor Homer I
CaMle. Prohibitionist. Allegheny.
Auditor General William T. Crea
sy, Dcmociat, Columbia.
Secretary of Internal Affairs E. A.
Coray, Independent- Republican, Lu
zerne. The platform provides for the en
actment of laws providing for the Im
prisonment of officers, and employes
of corporations, whether railroad,
pipe lines, industrial. Insurance oi
otherwise, who take part or assist in
any art of discrimination personally
or on the part of their company.
Pneumatic Tube Service.
The Senate Committee on Postofft
ces and Post Roads, agreed upon an
amendment to the appropriation bill,
adding $88,785 to the amount to be ex
pended for the extension of the pnue
matic tubo servie, making the total
npproiTiaitlon $1.2.T,00i. The new
service was confined by the House
provision to Pittsburg. Brooklyn,
Cincinnati and Kansas City, and the
Senate has added Baltimore and San
Francisco.
AMPLE RAINS HELP TRADE
Good Crop Weather Proves Import
ant Factor; Building Opera
tions Are Heavy.
R. O. Dun & Co.'s weekly review ol
trade says:
Ample rains throughout the farm.'
lng regions proved the most Import
ant commercial factor of the pas)
week, large crops being essential t
a mnlntpnnnpp rf Nntlnn nmonprliv o
thn ninvltiilim liiultf.in pananlln of.
lajiieu. iii'tuu imtiH reNiMinfipn rn in
stimulus of warm weather, light
weight wearing apparel going freelj
Into consumption, and there is an un
usually liberal volume- of wholesali
business for this time of the year.
"Mercantile collections are stil
somewhat Irregular, but at most citlei
payments are improving, and the fl
nanclal situation Is more encouragini
now that tho San Francisco banki
have resumed business witnont anj
disturbance.
"Manufacturing plants are well oo
cupled and bulldimj operations art
heavy, but there are Indications of l
loweir level for commodity quntatloni
for the month of May. CustomaTj
summer quiet Is noted in some do
partments, although there is less thai
the usual Interruption, and prepara
tluns are already In progress for i
very heavy fall season.
'Labor conditions have improved
the only new disturbance of note be
lng locally among the painters, whlli
the steel Industry surfers less delaj
from old disputes. Hallway earning!
thus far reported for May exceed las
year's by 11 per cent and foreign con
merce at New York for the last weel
showed gains of $1,934,259 In cxporti
and $l,134,ti(Ji in Imports over th
movement of 1905.
"Absence of Interest Is the featur
of tne primary market for cottol
goods, the lethargic attitude of pur
chasers being assumed In antlclpatlo
of obtaining concessions.
"No cheapening of cost Is noted it
the hide market, but there are tnorrf
evidences of uncertainty and increas
lng efforts to restrict purchases on tb
part of tanners. Failures this week
were 188 in the United States, against;
211 last year and 8 in Canada, com
pared with 19 a year ago."
BURTON MUST GO-TO PRISON
Supreme Court Decides Against
Senator From Kansas.
The supreme court of the United
States rendered a decision in the casr
of United States Senator Joseph R
Burton of Kansas. The decision wat
against Button, affirming the declslor
of the United States circuit court foi
the eastern district of Missouri, bj
which Burton was sentenced to sii
months' Imprisonment In the jail of
Iron county, Mo., required to pay 8"
fine of $2,500 and deprived of the
right to hereafter hold office unde
the Government.
Senator Burton was prosecuted orr
the charge of violating section 178?
of the revised statutes, which pro
hibits senators and representJlive
from receiving compensation for ser
vices rendered before any govern
mental department, in any matter iir
which the Government may be Inter
ested. He was specifically ehargerf
w:th accepting a fee of $500 per
month for five months from the Rial
to Grain and Securities Company, ot
St. Louis, for services rendered thai
company. In an effort to prevent th
Issuance of an order by the post
office department prohibiting the us
of tho malls by- tho company.
This was Senator Burton's second
appeal to the supreme court.
DEATH OF HENDRIK IBSEN
Was Great Poet and Dramatist o
Norway.
Hcnrik Ibsen, the Norwegian poet
and dramatist, died at Christiania.
Norway, May 23.
Hpnrik Ihsrn was born In Sklen
j Norway, March 20, 1828. and was d
mixed Scottish and German descent
I At 10 he bPoame apprenticed to ai
apothecary at Grimstad and there h
composed his first works, "Hosten,"
! n psem and "Catllina," a play, pub-
j liKhed In ISSO, under the name ot
Brynjolf Bjarne.
! After a few months' work at th
i University of Christiania in 1850, h
wrote "The Viking's tlrave," and be
came manager of the new National
theater at Bergen, after which b(
turned his whole attention to dramatif
composition.
RAISED 10 PER CENT.
i Increase of Cotton Mill Employes' Pay
In Connecticut.
A voluntary wage increase of lfj
i per cent has been granted all cotto
I mill employes In the Danlelson.
Conn., district, notices to that effeel
having been posted In Moosup, Jewetl
! City, Waaregan and many other placei
! In Windham and New London coun
' ties.
The action of the mill owners af
fects 20,000 persons.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS
Dr. J. K. McClurkin, pastor of th
Shadyside Church of Pittsburg, wai
elected Moderator by the United
Presbyterian General Assembly at
Richmond, Ind.
Emperor Nicholas accepted the
resignation of Admiral Rojestvensky,
which was tendered on the ground ol
111 health, following wounds, received
in the war with Japan.
Pension Law Defect Fixed.
The House passed an amendment
to the present pension laws, curing
a defect by joint resolution of Sec
tion 2 of the resolution annroved
! July 1, 1A02, construing the act ol
June 27, 18!io. The resolution makes
! the section harmonious and equit
' able In its application to any en
! listed man of the army, including
j regulars, volunteers and militia, wbd
i was honorably discharged from thn
' last contract of service entered intd
, by him during the Civil War.