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More Than One Hundred Thousand
Veterans Expected to be in
Line.
drizzled Old Generals, Heroes Ono
and All, Who Win be
Present
Famous Women win A,.q be rhers-p.-
rades, Banquets, Music, Csmr Fires.
Reunions, E8e

BosToN, Aug. Z, 1s9O.-Ihe city is wild
with excitement. Not in Smany day has
there been such stir ink this old town.
The veterans of the G. A. q are coming by
every train. There are thd lands Of them.
They are coming from all directions and
the city is filed with itrangers. The
national encampment Of the g. A. II.
opens on Tuesday, August ~. and
an army of men who wore the blue,
numbering at least hundred
thousand are expected here. The process
sion of old soldiers will afford the most i'm
pressive spectacle of the sort that has been
witnessed in this country since the grand
review of the armies of Grant and Sherman
in Washington at the close of the war. Bos-
ton is in gala attire. Although the encamp-
ment does not open until Tuesday, for days
previous the old fellows began to enter
our hospitable gates, and are now safely
encamped in this city. Flags are fly
ing in all directions. Shops, buildings
and private houses are gay with bunting.
Mechanie's building, where many of the
old soldiers are quartered, Faneuil hall, the
cradle of liberty, Music hall, fremont
Temple, Horticultural hall. the City hall
and the state house are appropriately deco
rated. There are triumphRl arches here
and there, and it promises to be one of, the
greatest meetings ever held by the old vet
Grams.
1t is the Grand Army's week, and what
week! Old fellows. who have not met in
many year, will swap stories of the war
days, the bands will play the patriotic airs
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The Press and Reform.

Philadelphia Public Ledger: There is no
reformer who will not be obliged by the
truth to recognize and concede that no
great or necessary reform, political or social,
has not been heartily. and effectively helped
to its contamination BY the press. The
most efficient work done by the newspapers,
that Of exposing, dragging into the fierce
light of public opinion, public wrongs and
abuses, is not at all appreciated at it's rea!
value. It is not understood, as it should
be, that such wrong or abuse exposed, held
up to the scorn and hatred of the moral
sense of the public, has been fatally assailed
and that its long continued survival is i'm
possible. 4 Il ia only the wrongs
which lurk unperceived in obscure places,
that are hidden by darkness and silence,
which live and flourish in pernicious activ-
ity. II uncovered, pointed out, the light
turned upon them, and publicly Condemned,
their tenure of existence is certain to be
brief.
This work Of exposing and oondemning
public wrong and abuses, not only political,
but of all sorts, the newspapers are doing
all the time, and IL the uncOnsidering and
mass of their readers do not
see and know the good and useful service
they are doing the country, the men of
thought and perception, like Justice Har-
Ian, do perceive and appreciate it. The
recognition of the truth by one such OBJ
server and critic compensates for the lack
of the recognition of the many carpers who
see nothing in the newspapers but sensa-
tionalism, partisanship and selfish devotion
to mercenary interests.
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Hses, sis, - seur haad. "a fsllovs ~ ~.lls
Tbe viies besn ssyin' that, latsly yoa'vs hesn %
TO your gloomy tzickss
We cannot allow thas. koses "a : po1 "
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az wasn't S' III iii - know. tAat - -
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To siss y ss e si.ee e e xssds. r., =
blooms that IN menaoEy0 ~
Your hair, who shall - Il = whits. Rossri N
eilky and black 9 CROW 80.
And nature has rubbed On your caeek, Rog0s -
kcsiese r sent that ~ lAt, 4.
And my .unken cheeks are ysllow. nd r. ss ~
thing morethan gray!
SEQ al the winter SHOWS, Rossr, vA1n ~ =
field flowers are scar, go.
And the red Leaf falls from the oak rees ~ -
old mans deathbed tear. ~.
zee, deserted and mosssfown' the asle - g sIs
For the pslson over the hill. Roger. has = slii
road to God.
The railway runs throush the meadows whsse q
blsckberries used to grow; q.
The ball field isn't the dear old spot Of Afty yg1
And I'd like to lay on the rascal whip vith
Az made q eus cherished school ground adss
But you--you fortunate fellow can sit IN ~
That fslis on your spirits vision from ths o..
Can iangh & the mighty hammers that -
smashing our gods Of clay,
For AL that 10 dearest and best, Rogsn you've
-Thomas Frost in New York Herald.
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An ingenious gentleman of Seattle has
patented kind Of squirt gun for driving
cattle from railroad tracks. A nozzle is at
tached to the front end of locomotive
boiler, with handle leading back to the
cab. Through this nozzle stream of hot
water and steam is thrown at will, and by
means of a handle the runner can direct
the stream toward any part of the track in
front Of the locomotive. Our viRilant con-
temporary, the Scientific American, shows
the apparatus in operation. A malignant
looking engine driver is aiming squirt
gun, from q cab which looks like the end of
q damaged freight car, and stream of hot
water is scalding the hide of from drove
of Texas steers. We are sorry that our art
department cannot do justice to the pic
ture.
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Old Deakin Brown lives out FUN town
About four mile CT SO,
An drives q epankin' team o lays
Wen he goes to an fro;
An allus " j he oyerhauls
Some Teller walk n on the ground,
He stops his team an cramps around,
An calls:
Git in an hev a lift"
Yo1'll sec i'm sit an chew an spit
An saw upon tie lines,
His jolly face so red with pride
It reg lar giows an shines.
Them NOSES step so gay an high.
You'd scurcely think their ownsr'd v.it
Git in an hev lift"
T. see OIL Brown . saggin' down
On one e'end o. the seat.
An leaning sideways now'n'aein
To watch 'em pick their feet,
You'd think: Here Gomez rnor.l sv.l,
INT my! how quick your mind nd flop,
Wen Deakin'd make them hosses stop
"Hullo,
Climb IN an hev lift!'
Thsys folks who ride In all their pride
In Fortunes rig on life's hi1hvSy.
Us folks who trudge along Moot
Ken toe EN- drive past VERY dav.
Iney ha'nt like Deakin Brown ct all:
i makes No odds how tired We I'll
feu never see them wait . bit
An call:
Climb in an Lsv ift!"
-Gsorss Horton.
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that stirred these men to patriotic action
the old flag will float in the breeze and the
new one with the forty-fOur stars will be
there too. The old generals. who led the
men to victory. will be here, and there will
be meetings and reunions of the old posts
famous soldiers will speak, and there will
be toasts drank in silence for heroes who
have gone aloft.
In brief the programme includes grand
parade on Tuesday. In the evening the
Grand Army and Woman's Relief Corps ID
to have reception in Mechanics Hall.
On Wednesday the meeting of the national
encampment in Music Hall, also meeting
of the Woman's Relief Corps. and in the
Mechanics Hall. Thursday, continued
sessions of the national encampment
and in the evening great banquet. On
Friday there will be an excursion to Ply
mouth and clam bake that will be reve-
lation to most of the delegates. On Satur-
ern shore to Cape Ann, passing Nahant,
Salem and Marblehead to Thatcher's Isle,
with fish dinner on the boat. A, reunion
or many veterans will also be held, and
reunions of many other organizations at
such times as may be agreed upon.
OF the distinguished men and women
who will be present, President Harrison
W.
1t is not quite certain that the president
will be here during the entire week, but it
is his intention to be here on the day of the
great parade. He will be the guest of the
state, and upon his arriyal'will be escorted
from the station to the Hotel Vendome by
two troops of cavalry. He will review
the procession from one OF the grand
stands. There will be other men here, how
ever, who will dwarf even the president in
the estimation of the veterans. Gfizzled
old General Sherman in the sunset of a
glorious life says he would not miss it. He
will undoubtedly be the hero Of the week.
General Sickles. General Alger, General
Slocum, General Deyens, General Butter
field, General Doubleday. General Wood,
General Cogswell General Corse and others
not so well known. Besides these. ex-Gov-
ernor Foraker, of Ohio. Governor Hovey
of Indiana, Governor Fifer, of Illinois, Cow
ernor Buckley, Senator Ingalls,, Corporal
Tanner and scores Of other men, bright
stars in the galaxy of the g. A. 3. 6rma-
ment. They will come, they. will see and
they will conquer, as they did in the old
days, and q glorious time they will have of
it, too. pledRing anew their Lives, their for
tunes and their sacred honors to the flag.
There will be some famous women pres
emit, too, many of them to attend the
national encampment OF the Woman's Re-
lief corps. who will attract attention. Mrs.
Harrison has promised TO BE- present and
10 have Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Sheridan, Mrs.
Logan, Mrs. Hancock, Mrs. Alger and last,
but not least, Miss Clara Barton, the presi-
dent of the Red Gross society.
What memories are recalled By these
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veterans should quicken little as their
eyes light on the representation Of Hheri-
dams ride and az the bands play stirring
war songs. Another arch on Washington
paintings will represent the signal corps in
the act of Tagging signals and Grant recon-
motoring on the North Anna, with 6heri-
dams march to the sea and scene repre-
sentinR peace with the army at rest. and q
scroll, bearing these words: "Welcome,
Grand Army of the Republic"
The third arch will be at the Common
wealth avenue entrance to the public gar
den. The front will be adorned with a
picture of the Monitor and Merrimac fight.
aud ! may say that this arch surpasses in
architectural beauty. magnificence of pro-
portion and artistic treatment anything Of
similar nature ever shown in this country.
Ihere Will be numerous grand stands and
plenty OF accommodations for'visitors to see
the parade.
The banquet will be great affair. II ia
to be held in Mechanics building. It will
not De 80 great perhaps from Rastronomic
point OF view as other banquets that have
been held in this town, but it will neverthe-
less be very substantial meal, and the
speakers, such as Sherman, Alger, Tanner,
sickles, Slocum, Foraker and others may
be depended upon to recall the days of war
and peace with vividness of descrip-
ton that will make the old soldiers for
get for the time at least their wounds and
troubles. At the meeting ON Wednesday
Gener al Alger will deliver his annual ad-
dress. He may not be very great orator
but he can be depended upon to hold the
attention of the soldiers, and az he is talked
OF somewhat AZ presidential candidate.
every utterance will be listened to with In
tsrest.
One of the most interesting features of
the week will be the sessions in in Music
hall of the Woman's National Relief Corps. |
This splendid auxiliary to the Grand Army
will represent membership of ninety |
thousand, distributed in all the states and |
territories except Alabama, Louisiana and |
South Carolina. Mrs. Logan, Mrs. Sheridan, |
Mrs. Harrison, Miss Barton and perhaps |
Mrs. Grant may speak. The Grand |
Army campfire in Mechanics build |
ing will be an event to de-
light the hearts of the visitors, for
there will be speaking and smoking galore
and in an adjoining room bubbling spring |
Of some cooling draught to slack the thirst |
OF the old warriors.
The Kansas delegates have arranged for a |
mammoth camp fire in Music hall. OF |
course the principal speaker will be Senator |
ingalls,. and Marshall's celebrated band of |
nfty pieces Will render patriotic selections. |
ingalls, has always been q favorite of the G. |
A. q. men and 10 may be depended upon to |
make speech that will be worth listening |
to.
The eighteenth annual convention of the |
Animal Association of Union Ex-Prisoners |
OF War will be held in the hall Of the house |
OF Representatives st the etate hoase. Il |
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names, and how the old fellows will glow
with excitexneht - they sec again their old
leaders or shake the hands of their widows!
Not In many years have 90 many dis
tinguishod men and women, 20 identt-
fed with the late unpleasantnees, been
intend TO make the event one long to be re-
membered. While the distinguished visit
ofs will be largely the guests Of the state or
city, there will be many private entertain
ments given in their honor.
Interest centers, of course, in the great
parade and The banquet. It 10 hoped to get
ono hundred thousand veterans in line,
preparatory to the command Forward. .
"March," which Gen. Alger will give About
10 O'Clock in the morning. The line Of
march will be up Commonwealth avenue,
and the departments will fail in in the or
dor of their seniority, with the exception
that the departments of Massachusetts,.
the left OF the procession, according to a
custom OF the G. A. II. The fifteen thous-
and veterans of the Bay state will be
massed on Boston common. Gen. Alger
with staff of six hundred men will review
the procession. All the notable men and
women that have mentioned above will
have seats OF honor upon the grand stand.
The march will commence through the
Back Bay streets, West Chester park and
down Washington street to Adams Square.
Forty-three departments will be repre-.
sented in tkis order:
Washington. Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio
New York. Connecticut, Maine, New Jersey
Virginia, California, Rhode Island, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Potomac, Col
orado and Wyoming, Maryland. Ne
braska. Michigan, Iowa. Indiana, Kan
sas, Minnesota, Delaware, Missouri
Oregon, Kentucky, West Virginia, Wash
inRton and Alaska, Arkansas, New Mexico
Utah, Tennessee, Louisiana and Mississip
pi, Florida. Montana, Texas, Idaho, Ari
IONA, Georgia, Alabama, North Dakota
South Dakota and Massachusetts,.
Following these will come the naval or
ganizations of the county regimental and
other organizations. with the Sons of Vet
Grams IN theleft. The naval veterans will
probably be one Of the most interesting
features of the great host. It ia thought
that about 1900 Of the old tars will parade.
The city has taken on martial aspect.
Even the boys on the street are whistling
the old familiar airs and the whole town
has given itself up to week Of enjoyable
celebration. Three triumphal arches have
been erected. The most imposing of these
is on Washington street near Newton. It is
fifty-five feet high and eighty feet from
curb to curb. The battle scenes represent
ed will be Pickett's charge and sheridan's
ride. The four panels will represent caval-
~. artillery, infantry and the navy. II
would not be surprising il the pu lses of the
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will probably Be the largest meeting Of me
kind yet held.
It would bs impossible to give pro-
gramme OF the various reunions q 5eG.-
to be held. Il may be said that every noor
will be utilized to good purpose. and before
the excursion the real work OF the convon-
ton vii! have been accomplished. Com;
mittees have been formed to provide for all
necessary contingencies.
One feature of the meeting is the hoepital
department in charge of Mai. Otis 8. Mari.
on. The emergency hospital: fully equipped
with 100 beds, will be open day and night
during the encampment for the exclusive
use of the veterans. There will be in requi.
sition two other hospitals for use in case OF
lances. < large corps of physicians
have volunteered their services in
caring for the sick and injured, it
such there should be during. the week. On
the dav of the great parade there will be
established along the line Of march numer-
GUS emergency stations designated by the
Red Cross flags, in direct communication
by telephone with the various hospitals and
ambulance stations.
AT each STATION there win be a member Of
the ambulance corps and policeman,
equipped with astretcher, bandages, splints,
Of any one sick or injured, till an ambu.
lance arrives. On every official excursion
going out Of Boston during the week there
will be in attendance surgeons with squad
from the ambulance corps. All halls and
hotels where veterans are quartered
will be connected by telephone with the
various hospitals, SO that physician
or ambulance can be called at any time.
The veteran army surgeons are invited to
visit the various hospitals during the week.
There will also be reception for them by
the physicians and surgeons of Boston.
All the trains running into Boston have
made favorable arrangements 80 that there
will be a very large number Of visitors
from nearly all the states in addition to
the veterans. Besides this large sum Of
money has been raised to properly enter
tain the old heroes and they are to have q
never to- be-forgotten week of it. The city
will be given over entirely to them.
Once again the military will be in con-
troll. but 1t will he an army of peace, with
its arms beaten into plough-shares and
pruning hooks, a verifcation of Millions
splendid truth that Peace hath its victor
les no less renowned than war"
Copyright.
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gray together and made him hobble some
how, and we Get OF for the tomb, while the
storm went laundering down to Umbalie
and a few big drops Of warm rain fell. |
found out that abe had been standing close
to 6aumarex whom no proposed to her sister,
and had wanted to 60 home to cry In peace.
AZ an English girl should. She daubed her
eyes with her pocket handkerchief a. she
went along. and babbled to me out of sheer
liRhtness of heart and hysteria. That was
perfectly unnatural; and yet, it seemed all
right at the time and in the place. All the
world was only the two Copleigh girls,
Saumarez and !, ringed in with the light
ming and the dark; and the guidance of this
misguided world seemed to lie in my hands.
When We returned to the tomb in the
deep. deep stiffness that followed the storm.
Rone away. They were waiting for our re-
turn. Saumarez most of all. His face was
white and drawn. As Miss Copleigh and |
limped up he came forward to meet us, and.
whom he helped her down from her saddle.
he kissed her before the picnic. It was like
scene in theatre, and the likeness was
heightened by all the dust-white, ghostly
looking men and women under the orange
trees clapping their hands-as if they were
Watching a play-at Saumarez' choice.
never knew anything SO un-English in my
life.
Lastly, Saumarez said we must all go
home, or the station would come out to look
for us, and would I be good enough to ride
home with Maud Copleigh? Nothing would
give me greater pleasure, said.
So, we formed up, six companies in all.
and went back two BY two; saumarez walk
ing at the side of Edith Copleigh, who was
riding his horse.
The air was cleared: and little by little,
as the sun rose, felt we were all dropping
back again into ordinary men and women.
and that the Great Pop Picnic was
never to happen again. 1t had gone
with the dust storm and the tingle in the
hot air.
felt tired and limp, and a good deal
ashamed of myself, as went in for a bath
and some sleep.
There is woman's version Of this story,
but it will never be written
unless Maud Copleigh care to try.
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The Status Of the Goat.

McCorkle (the newly-appointed real e.
tate Assessor on his rounds There, Mis-
thur O'Toole, Olive put in the primises d
80 phut front and the goat SO.
OToole-Phat the snakes hev yez to do
wild de goatf He isn't real estate.
McCorkle- Oh. he isn't, isn't he2 Don't
yes attempt to interfere with me dooties,
Mlsthur OT0ole. Oh hev the law. an Oh
know me business. Me INSTRUCTIONS is to
"asste at fair valuation al rale property
boundin' and abuttin' on both sides av the
etrate." Olive been watchin' the haste and
its many time hev Oh seen i'm boundin'
and . buttin, on both sides av the strate.
u will DO $40. Misthur O'Toole. Chicago
Times.
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KINGS WEIR.

The house is silent on the stair
My foot falls strangely. and there creeps
A chill about the morning air
That speeds me where the hamlet sleeps.
leave the sounding street and view
The crescent paling to her death.
And the broad meadows white with dew.
And heavy with the orchids breath.
Where bees protest drowsy tale,
and plaintive peewits fall and twist,
And in the mOwing-gra the rail
A strident-voiced ventriloquist-
Creeps silently Cts nest is near),
And the small bat eccentric tits
Taking the moth-and on the weir
A single yellow wagtail sits.
And, wakened by the Weakening morn,
The herald breeze begins to blow;
But now doubtful murmur born
OF shivering hillsit beech, and now
1t makes the silver poy lars gleam.
And fans the thislles into play,
And whitens ali the stiller stream,
And passing signs itself away.
But it had left the water glad,
And made the big trout plunge and hurl
His length among the foam, and add
breaking circle to the swirl.
Have we not seen sick man lie
With aimlees hand and vacant eye
To tell the light of reason fed?
He breathes, but dead to all the ills
And joys OF earth; and can we give
The name of life to breath that fills
mindless frame? LIS this to liv,?
But by-and-by the god-like Light
purpose dawning in his face,
Plays widening round, till all is bright
And life regAinS her perft @ ulace.
The cold distinctness Of the sc ne,
When st ars are dead and lands are gray,
Seems such rs this-tho time b.tWeen
The dawning and the perfect d y.
But now the god, arising, shakes
About the broadened canopy
His looks red-gold. goid-red, and makes
glory in the eastern sky.
And yelling in the fount of dawn
Grows the great lambent tide, the came
That lights the diamond ON the lawn,
Or RACES till the prairies fame.
rec thee draw the wresthed wool
OF yelling mist acrOes the plain;
see thee glinting ON the roof
And burning on tho Furnished vane;
Lighting the sedse- birds secret place,
Lifting the wind-tiower's tired head,
Blushing upon the brier's face,
And laughing In the iris-bed.
And the great soul Of earth. that moves
In all see or c-nnOt see,
Springs, radia Mt at tbs touch che lovep.
To lose itself in thes.
-Langman'e 49,
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Herbert Nicholson 4 Co., limited. sell the best
hay, grain and produce at the lowest prices, op-
posite Northern Pacific freight depot.
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The consolidated Milwaukee Beer Agency
wiah to give notice to their patrons, that
although severe los was sustained b. NE
6re, they have large supply still o. had
and can accommodate all their ou.tCmeres
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Milwaukee Beer.

Do not forest the special sale Of lace capes =
FOwles cash store
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DEAKlN BROWNS WAY.

The great microbe kiIler-the wonder of
the Mge--at Max Behrens' drug store.