New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-29
SOME WAYS OF THE WORLD.
MEMORIES CONNECTED WITH SPRING
FLOWERS AND WAR TINES

MAICoNrFNTs AMONG MAIDENs AND MEN WHO
WOULD OR wouI.p,;I ! co TO THE WAR
They also serve who only stand and wait said
Milton the divine. many years ago 10 "ai' Is ii
lesson which young hearts, hot and restless are
oblig, I'd to learn. nolens volens now even as then
At this iuncture especially, many n young reno" u
chatting ard fretting the restrictions or cicni
stances which prevent him from marching sour
with the army OF liberation 1t IS hard indeed for
him to feel that II he does what Is plainly MS
duty even IL tina, duty calls him 10 the unheroic
walks Of life he is serving his country as well as
and in many cases better than those who go TO me
front and are applauded by their friends ana ac-
Quaintances patriots.
Il call 1t pretty hard lines" complained one OF
these malcontents TO stay in an ONCE all sum
mer doing double duty fer those fellows Whhe
they get the pay and the credit. besides the yum
and excitement Of active service. There are three
men from our office who have gone 10 the wal ANU
OF course our patriotic CHIEFS SAID thr'r p'acc'
would be kept and salaries paid all the same. De
sides which they get their Government pay aS wei
That is all as IL should be. and do not complain
~ II. I'M, IN the mean while it IL who have 10 do
their work One fellow is in the Naval Reserve
and the two others are In the State camps anu
when they get leave OF absence they come into the
Office In full regimentals. and every one cro"u'
around them and treats them like heroes
"They are no Drawer more gallant than inc
roe, NJ us and there is nothing l would have liked
better than 10 have Joined them: but | promised
my mother ! would not GO and some one mao 10
stay al home: but no one gives me any creol' io'
II and as for the girls the only men for them now
adays the soldiers!
so here I've got 10 toll and MOL all summer IN
the hot Office without a word OF thanks from any
one"
Mi,tons words are little consolation TO this young
r,ar and host OF others IKE him. Just at present.
lockwood BLOSSOMS AND WAR TIMES.
.On a lovely DAY In May, just thirty-seven years
aeo" said n mother whose son was on tn the war
81 stood as a child at the wide dusty entrance VI
Long Bridge watching the regiments CROSS mo
Virginia TO Join McDowelrs army. and my boy
marches to-day across the Same bridge. INTO inc
- oo,,,.rv and once more the cloud has
se.,lad black and heavy over the land. HOW MS
tory repeats itself
Speeding through the woods OF Long ls.aiu '"''
other day on the train bound for camp blac" INC
brieb, glimmer OF the dogwood blossoms thfousn
tho spring foliage recalled wildly the woods along
.,o po,omac surrounding the camps OF bysone
years and one gray day IN particular. when the
white g,isten!ng layers OF Towering branches III
IN the dark forests like actual light. taxing the
place OF sunshine. as one OF the party auainuy
and apty expressed g. And then. after the Iohg
tourney. came the visit TO McClellan's headouar-
,ers where the Count OF Paris then young stan
officer did the honors in his CHIEFS absence for
q Frenchman was a friend In those days. anc al
though Louis Napoleon. with his restless strategy
,rou,d bave been glad enough 70 recognize the Con-
federacy personally. the nation was with US in our
:"rTe Prince commented upon the beauty OF the
lockwood that day. II fact that was recaIieo 10 me
years later. when saw IN an Englst paper una,
The Count OF Paris had ordered hundreds or young
dogwood trees from America 10 plant in the Eng
li.h forests on his estate. in memory the arscle
went on 10 say of the woods Of Virginia, and OF
his old war days in America
CLOTHES VERSUS BELLIGERENCY.
II IS Interesting to note the attitude OF the great
French sartorial artists In tho present Crisis De-
tween Spain and America. and IT might wen De-
nox,va the fashionable DANES who feel that they
must have Partisan clothes whether or not to al
least discriminate between those whose sympathes
are evidently for the Spanish and others who
Americans Those who call themselves neutral
iitA Meesrs Worth IAferriere and others, would