Thomas County cat., 1889-11-14
C. A. R. NEWS.

Turn back the yesrs like picture leaves
And bring to view each day,
When carnage gathered ripened sheaves
OF death from blue and gray;
When Gettysburg was written thrice
Upon our banners fold,
And freedom offered sacrifice
OF twice five thousand souls.
Stand here upon this rocky dome
Where once you battled bold.
When treasOn's waves with crimson foam
So madly upward rolled
Against this rampant of the north
The adamantine wall
The nations Sinai thundered forth
A law from flame Lit pail.
Gaze down upon the valley deep,
Now bright with autumn bloom;
Awake the memories that sleep
Meath the canOpies of gloom.
Bring up the ghosts OF charging men,
The yell from demons breath,
When hell came crOss-lots from yOn den
In steeplechase with death.
Behold the field then rich with grain,
Where whirled the battle tides
In cyclone, as in lightning's chain
Along the tempest rides.
The majesty of battle grand,
That crowned the field that day,
Gave knighthoods in each valiant band
Tho wore they blue or gray.
The entire cost of the Milwaukee ma
tiOnal encampment was $4,000.
"Well, I'll be durned," remarked an
old farmer as he stood and watched the
electric cars move off.
What's the matter, old gentleman
queried a bystander.
why, | was just thinkIn' about them
there Yankee fellers. Only few years
ago they come down here and freed the
niggers. Now, dau burn 'em, they've
come down here to free the mules
Thu Gr,uI r,,n,, ,>f %l,n =.
the grandest civic organization the world
has ever seen. Its list of membership is
the nations roll of honor, containing the
most illustrious names i'm history. 1t Is
there that the general and private, the
merchant prince and the clerk. the mill
iOnaire and the labOrer, sit side by side
as comrades, bound each to the other by
ties. the tenderest, yet the most endur-
ing of any inthls world outside of the
family circle.
The government has daily income of
more than million dollars including
Sundays. If the service pension becomes
law this money paid to the government
by the diStillers, brewers and importers
would be paid out in small sums to more
than half million people, and be scat
tered all over the country. J. 1t would not
be manipulated to the detriment of the
business interests of the country. but
would pass into the proper channels of
trade in every part of the union.
General Grant was asked: did you
take Lees sword at Appomattoxy" He
replied: No did not Lee came there
wearing the magnificent sword which
the state of Virginia gave HIM; but did
want him to surrender it to me. l sat
down ut once and busted myself writing
the terms of the surrender. When had
finished handed them to Gen. Lee. He
read them and remarked: They certainly
are very generous terms, indeed He
then told me the cavalrymen owned
their horses, and if deprived of them
they could not put in the crops. Then I
gave the order: Take your horses home
with you, for you'll need them in the
spring plowing.' This is the simple story
of Lees surrender. Caesar would have
had that sword; Napoleon would have
demanded it; Wellington would not have
been satisfied without it, but U. s. Grant
was too great to take it.
General Hooker. a member of congress |
from the seventh Mississippi district was
one of the heroes of the late war against |
the union. He carries an empty sleeve |
as relic of his experience on the field. |
Major Powell. the chief of the geolOgi- |
cal survey, was in the union army, and |
he also carries an empty sleeve. Gen. |
Hooker s lost arm is on the right side and |
Major Powelfs on the left. Their remain
ing hands are of the same proportions.
and they have mutual agreement under
which they purchase gloves in common.
Major Powell uses all the rights and
General Hooker, the ''lefts." No diff
Guilty ever occurs between them about |
the selection of these gloves, for they
pay little attention to the perennial |
changes in modes and fashions.