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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-04
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Only II of our % presidents had a col
lege education.
The number of churches in Chicago
has grown from 157 in 1870 TO 633.
The $500 members of DR.. John Halls
church gave $1O6, 900 last year.
The Methodist Episcopal church has
built 50 church editices in Chicago in
the last sever years.
At Mainz, Germany, instruction in
cooking is obligatory for girls in public
schools.
In n civil service examination in Eng
land there were 1,SG6 failures in a class
of 1872.
The University of Chicago expended
mCre rhan $l,G6G.0O0 in the year 1897.
Of this $780, COO was in the salaries of
the faculty.
The property owned by the fraterni-
ties at Cornell IS valued at $475,OO0: at
Williams, $35O.0O0: Yale, $500. 600; Ann
herst. 100000; Wesleyan, $4,000; Har-
ward, $l25,0 0O.
In 1897 the millionaires of the United
States gave more than $32,OOO.O 900 TO va
rious benevolent and charitable i~nstitu-
tions; no gift considered here being less
than $1,000.
Whereas in England only II per cent.
of the population are illiterates, in
Italy the proportion is - in a hundred.
In Sardinia only IS per cent. can read
and write.
Switzerland is the land OF UNIVERSE
ties. 1t has seven. or one to every 49,
$40 inhabitants, while Germany has %,
or one to every 2.SS6,&G0. Russia has
university for eyerX 1n.nnn.n 900 only.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-04

Mary-I think you were very foolish
to break your engagement TO William,
who will remain at home, and engage
yourself to Reginald, who has enlisted.
Dolly-Why, think how romantic it
will be ten years hence to show this ring
to Williams children and tell them Of
the dead hero who gave it to Sleir
mother.-Jeweler's Weekly.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-04
REMEMBERED The MAINE

Dewey! Dewey! Dewey,
Is the hero of the day,
AND the Maine has been remembered
In the good, o~ld-fashioned way
The way of Hull and Perry,
Decatur, and the rest,
Nhen old Europe felt the clutches
or the eagle of the west;
That's how Dewey smashed the Snanior,
In Manila's crooked bay,
And the Maine has been remembered
In the good, old-fashioned way.
Dewey! Dewey Dewey,
\ Nermonter wins the day,
And the Maine has been remembered
In the good, old-fashioned way,
BY one who cared not whether
The wind was high or low
AS he stripped his ships for battle
And sailed forth to find the foe.
And he found the naughty Spaniard
In Manila's crooked bay,
And the Maine has been remembered
In the good, old-fashiOned wayI
Dewey! Dewey! Dewey,
He has met the Dons' array,
And the Maine has been remembered
In the good, old-fashioned way
A way Of fire and carnage,
But carnage let it be,
When the forces of the tyrant
Blocked the pathway of the freel
So the Spanish ships are missing
From Manila's crooked bay,
And the Maine has been remembered
In the good, old-fashiCnod way.
Dewey! Dewey! Dewey,
Crown with victor wreaths of May:
For the Maine has been remembered
In the good, Oid-fashioEed way;
And flags that wave triumphant
In the far-off tropic seas,
With their code of symboled color,
Fling this message TO the breeze:
We have routed all the S~paniards
From Manila's crooked bay.
And the Maine has been remembered
In the good, olG-fashioned way"
Edward +. Burns, in Boston Globe.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-04

pleasant, sensible person, who Is S;s-
engaged at present, and could come at
once.
Mrs. Mortimer (frmly and virtuous-
ly)-Tkank you very much, DR.. Weldon,
but l shall not require her. 1 consider
it every mothers duty and privilege to
tend her own little ones in sickness,
and 10 let them enjoy the tranquilizing
effect of a mothers love.
DR.. Yeames Weldon Gnwardly chuck
ling, ~outwardly grave)-Yes. 1 quite
understand your point of view. Still,
should you change your opinion at any
time, just let me know. Good-morning.
1915 a. Inpatient enjoys light re
freshment of oranges and grapes and
demands various toys-which have to
be uncarthed from divers corners of the
house-to play with.
1890 a. m.-Medicine arrives. Pa
tent declines to consider it. Mother
urges him to reconsider his decision.
1910 a. IMPATIENT still decided.
Mother firm.
1850 a. m.-StrUggle continued. Pa
tent resolved. Mother wavering.
II a. m.-Bribery and corruption re.
sorted to. Does swallowed reluctantly.
11:1O a. m.-Patient's strength sus,
stained by small snack consisting Of
Savoy biscuits ard lemonade.
1880 n. m.-GargIe intending.
11:4j a. m.-Gargle still impending
1850 a. m.-Gargle administered, but
with difficulty. and Intellectually.
Il Toon.-Inauguration Of vinegar
and water ~sponging. which proceeds
but slowly against the determined OPP
position of patient.
12:31 p. m.-Irvalid demands refec-
ton Of certain dessert sweets as COM
pensation for having undergone spong-
ing. Mother demurs.
1910 p. m.-Ar@unrcnt ensue
1910 p. m.-Muthcr succumbs. In
valid becomes triumphantly sticky and
happy.
1 p. Inpatient. rejecting previously
ordered wholesome arrOwroot, insists
upon having inGigestible Clipped po-
tatoes and m]eringues for lunch.
l TO 1:45 p. m.-Usual controversy,
which ends in invalid's favor.
, p. Inpatient lunches triumphant
ly off Clipped potatoes and ~meringues.
Mother too exhausted to eat anything,
2:3O p. m.-Mcdicine taken peaceably,
patient being paid his w price-one
box of soldiers at Is. Cd, and two half.
penny comic papers.
2:45 p. m.-Gargle in prospect.
1905 p. INPATIENT agrees TO admin
istration of gargle on mother pledging
herself to take immediate steps towards
the purchase Of Tom Sawyer.
$40 p. m.-Invalid Graves entertain
ment. Mother tells stories till
$40 p. m.-What time patient So
licits toasted mullins for tea. Mullins
denied emphatically.
4p. m.-Accustomed contention takes
place.
40 p. m.-TnvaIid victor.
4:3O p. m.-Mother too weary even to
take tea but patient rcgales himself or
hot mullins.
5 p. m.-Vinegar bath leaves patient
greatly refreshed. Mother dead tired.
$50 p. m.-Medicine poured out
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-04
Four Men Drowned.

DETROIT, Mich, May 31.-A special
TO the Tribune from Manistique says:
"a sailboat with Is men on board
capsized yesterday near Seoul Croix
Point. -Four men were drowned.
Their names are unknown. The wind
came from the northwest and was
blowing a gale.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-04

Yeast-Did you notice who umpired
The game to-day?
Crimsonbeak-No, I couidn': see;
when I left the ground there were
about 90 men on top of him.-Yonkers
Statesman.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-04
Impressive Burial of the Ratchet.

LEXINGTON, KY, May 31.-For the
6rst time since the war the confeder,
ate veterans joined with the e.. A. r
in observing Memorial day and deco
rating the graves of the Union soldiers
The ceremonies at the cemetery were
most impressive.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-04
Denied by Way of Paris.

CAPE HAYTIEN, May 31.-No news
from Cuba or the fleet has been re-
ceceived here to-day. The report that
q battle had taken place off santiago
is denied By way of Paris.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-04
4 Youthful Patriot.

Mamma-You should not say Eve
shall get the best of Spain" Say I'VE
shall get the better of Spain"
Johnny-But we ought to get the best
Of everything.-Puck.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-04

Scene IL: Second-floor landing, ten
minutes later.
Mrs. Mortimer "a wreck OF her former
self, to maid)-Hodgetts, go at once
this moment, to DR.. Weldon, and ask
him to send me the nurse he spoke of,
instantly. I find I shall require her
after all.-M. s. B.. in Black & White.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-04
Mnrringe Inv in Greece.

In ancient Greece a law provided that
if a mar divorced his wife he could not
subsequently marry a woman younger
than his discarded partner.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-04
PRESIDENTIAL regrets.
Letter From President Mckinley ia
the Gettysburg Memorial
Day Committee.
OBLIGED TO FOREGO PARTICIPATION,
While Rcgretting His Enforced Absence the
President Takes Occasion to Pay the
Tribute of a Citizen Soldier to Those
Who Served as Well as to Those Who
Fell In Their COuntry's Cause.

WASHINGTON, May 31.-The presi.
dent wrote the following letter express
ing his regrets that he could not take
part in Che Memorial Day exercises at
Gettysburg:
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-04
EXECUTIVE MANSION.
WASHINGTON. May 20. 1873.

Mr.. Louis D. ZINE. Of Committee Memorial Day
Exercises. Gettysburg, 1875:
My EAR IR-Engagements here, the ma
ture OF which l is well understood, Will prevent
my taking part in the Memorial Day ceremo-
MES at Gettysburg this year, attendance upon
which, under other circumstances, would have
afforded me an especial qualification.
Smyrna times., 1898-03-16
Sunday School Missionary Celebration.

Sunday night was no exception to
the preceding missionary celebration of
the NJ. f. Sunday School, large
attendance and successful per
fOrmance. The Primary school with
the orchestra, violins aud cornet. Oc-
cupied with the Organist the organ
loft, W. o. HOffecker acting as musi-
cal director. Potted flowers occupied
the place of the pulpit, fanked at
either end of the chancel by palms.
While the organist was performing
au attractive voluntary, at the hour of
commencing, the school came up from
the lower to the upper room by classes
and were seated in the two middle
blocks of the audience room. This
caused many of the adults to 90 the
galleries, thus presenting with the an
diences above and below, an animated
scene. While some of the speakers.
from having better subject perhaps.
excelled they all did well. The SUPER
intendent John HI. Hoffecker, called off
the following program:
Chorus by School ITO Work. To Work.
Prayer bv Pastor
Church Collection,
Chorus. Observation-Disclosures. Primary School
96th Psalm Superintendent and School
Introductory address. =. II. Allison Start
Chorus. .........' Rally at the Bugle CALI
Somebody Else ....
...................... Gertrude Bell
RecitatiOn-'Not Wenan,' or Our Father,
................ .Offlley Windford
Hymn 919-"Jesus Shall Reign" -.
School and Congration
Recitation-'Th Whole Wide World
for Jesus" :......... Julia Weldon
Recitation-"M Missionary Gleanings''
.................... Norman Taylor
Chorus by Primary School.
Recitation Observation-Disclosures. Cairl Price
Recitation Beauty for Ashes" ......
semi-Chorus by Primary School. 0''"
Recitation-'He Could not Fogret"
Recitation Little Kindnesses3 .o ..... 0'0"
Chorus "DOst thou Care 4"
Recitation-"G Giving and Getting"
.:.......;...: Katie Smithers
Recitation Kings Message
...:;..:....:....... Mary W. Moore.
Duet-"The Waiting Time" .........
Misses Hettie Richards and Bertha
Stengle.
Report of Sunday School Missionary Treas |
urer, w. B. Start. Secretary Starts |
report showed the total amount to he |
$235.61, which is an increase S13 61 |
over last year.
Missionary Collection.
ChOrus-"There is Joyn
Smyrna times., 1898-03-16
A FAMILY REUNION.
MIR. aud Mrs. c. G. Ross Given a Surprise
BY Their Children.

BY Their Children.
Special ColTc>p0ndence L, tie Times
KENToN, Mar. 15:-NIr. and Mrs. c.
q. Ross, of near Blackiston's. was
given what was intended to be a de-
hShtful surprise on Wednesday last,
but unfortunately some one had in
formed Mr.. Ross of the prospective
entertainment a day before. This
however did not effect its success in
the bringing together of family and
friends. The ''old folks" enioved the
occasion as heartily as though the sur
prise had overwhelmed them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ross have eight chill
dren, all married and it was the first
time since leaving the homestead that
they and their families had been brought
together as whole. 1t was a dav
OF close family association and We
doubt not that this family greeting
was enough to melt with fervor the
hearts of the ''old folks" as children
and grandchildren met around the
festive board in one large family re-
union.
All preparation had been made
toward furnishing a big dinner before
they walked III at the homestead and
what they sat down to in the way
Of oysters, salad, etc, when the din
ner hour arrived, would have done
justice to a seaside hotel. 1t was dav
Of much enjoyment to all. Those
present were: Mrs. Jefferson Ford.
and son, Lewes, Del; Mrs. Perry
Price, son and daughter, Chester
town, Nd; Mrs. Benz. Duling
and son, MillinptOn. Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Ross and Mr.. and Mrs.
Hiram Ross, Cheswold; Mr.. and
Mrs. b. Hazel Ross and two oldest
daughters, Lizzie and Julia, near
Brenford; Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Attix.
kenton; Mr.. and Mrs. Abel Numbers.
son and daughter, Ross and Bessie,
and Mr.. Ross's sister, Miss Annie
Ross, of Matthews, Nd.
Smyrna times., 1898-03-16
Band of Hope Entertainment.

The Band of Hope will give an en-
tertainment in the Opera House, next
Monday evening, March 21, 1898.
From the program given below. we
think the little folks are preparing
quite a pleasant evenings entertain
ment, and they hope the parents and
friends will encourage them, by filling
the Opera House:
"TremJle King Alcohol, ,ce Shall Gro,o Up."
PROGRAMME.
Chorus Ring the Temperance Bells"
Beatitudes-The Lords Prayer.
Chorus-"When We are Old Enough to
Vote"
Pledge.
Chorus-"TheM Mill by the Rivulet."
Recitation Don't, y Howard Arpot
Recltatlon-'The Song of the Corn"
...................... Helen Prettyman
6ecltatlon. ..:............L Laura Gray
Song-"The Bells" "........ Chorus of Girls
When Papa Was a Boy. .....
.:.......:......W Sherman COrkran
Recitation-"Tu About, ut,'................ -
........... Margaret Klementzer,' y
Ten Little Temperance Boys.
Murmurs Of Complaint
Duet-''The Captains Daughter. >" ........
James Dirickson Cummins
and Lewis Cairl Price.
Recltatlon--"Dead IL Doorway, ,".........
.......;.. ........... Mary Crow
The Wood Choppers.
When Mamma Makes Bread, {"
:....-......... Julia HUM
Autoharp Solo,. Delaney r. Moore
Song-'"Ihe Apple Song. Chorus of Girls
Recitation-"In Indiana, Fanny C. WiIds
Solo" "Katydid, B." ".............. Edith Start
Chorus-"Top Turvey."
Doors open at o'clock, entertainment
begins at 7.3O. Admission 10 cents. No
reserved seats.
Smyrna times., 1898-03-16
TRADING STAMPS.

There IS a very decided fe4,ir.,
Wilmington against the T.aI;. ID
Stamp business in that city and q 'iI.','', I,.,
delegation went to Dover last .'.ll 'pl .
urge the passage Of bill TO I..r.' Il
business illegal. A Wilmin.,o,. r.,. We
says: l'Ie.
when six hundred stor.l....
doing business III the city Of WIt,ii's''' is''
ton say that they do not want tr'.-tr,'-7 r'.'.'-'-
ing stamp companies to be aII.g..jj .r
conduct their business in Dc,a,.a., Z, .
IS time for the Legislature to a.., I
give them the relief they petition a. tD
The law if passed would be c.n.,i.,.
tlonal. These stores sell r,,l;'r
They exchange their good, in. a+-
pons which they sell for la,f , c2,. 2r
each to the merchants who gi.,. -L.,
away on every ten cents worth af l..-
chandise. These stamp com.a..;- ',;
have branch stores all over th. r-ri,,-
States where they have been for-rra.
enough not to have been prohibited I-
laws passed against such Lr.i,a.
Numerous states have already p3..a,
such laws and others are FOLLOWING ~.
fast as the Legislatures meet +, fap.
action. ''A1
Smyrna times., 1898-03-16
KENTON.
Short Crop Expected in Tomatoes Wedding
Announcement and
Personal.
Special Correspondence to the Times.

Special Correspondence to the Times
KENToN, Mar. 15;-Mr. E. O. Bavles
was in town again Thursday, looking
after his interests in the tomato bust
ness. He will not get as large acreage
planted as he wanted, by fifty acres,
Owing to light crops the past two or
three years, farmers believe after
counting all expenses and trouble,
corn pays equally as we'll
Invitations are out announcing the
marriage of Miss Kate Good to Mr..
Frank Jewel, Wednesday evening,
Mar 16.
Bryn Zion Baptist church is being
decorated with a new coat of paint.
The Ladies Aid Society will meet at
Mrs. Eben Wright's, Wednesday
evening.
There will be an auction of ladies
held at d. X. Knots, near Blackis-
tons, Wednesday evening. Refresh
ments free. Proceeds for the benefit
of the church. If stormy it will be
held Thursday evening.
Personal: Miss Margaret Arthurs is
visiting friends IN Middletown. Miss
Eta Bailey and E. NJ. Noble spent
Saturday and Sunday with Miss Mat
tie Baxter, Church Hill, Nd. John
Grady, of Wilmington, came home
Saturday to see his father who is very
lll.-Mrs. j. H. Carter, Downs Chapel,
is dangerously i'll with pneumonia and
her children have been summoned to
her beside
Smyrna times., 1898-03-16
The NJ. E. Conference.

At the NJ. E. Conference. which
meets at Lewes this day week. Rev
A; Stengle willie be domiciled at the
Virden House; Rev. w. F. Corkran
with Miss Emily McElvaine: Rev w
Il. Laytield with VIM. H. Morris: Rev
L. ii. Haynes with Mrs. Eliza Harri.
son; Rev. G. l. Stengle with Mrs
Eliza Truxton; Rev. j. w. Fogle with
Reyy. W. d. Wilson; Rev. Robert Roe
with j.. ii: McColley; Rev. A. Cband.
Ter with VIM. I. Manning. Risbon
Newman and most of the official yisip
tors are put down for the M. ID. mar
sonage. The homes are not SO obnnd-
ant as in larger towns, and most of the
laymen, only a few of them beino
named, are put down at the hotels.
AT the last session the membersbin
OF the church numbered 81. .Ogs: nreacbp
ers; llS; Sabbath Schools, 391 officers
and teachers, GAO; scholars "A 54s,
churches, 800; value of church DroD,
erty., Sl,57S, 800; parsonages. las. The
conference is divided into Wilmiston
Easston, Dover, and Salisbury districts
ana embracing all the Methodist Fnis'
eeopal Churches in Delaware and tba
Eastern shore of Maryland and Vir-
Smyrna times., 1898-03-16

A Reform party composed of men
who had got tired of the domination of
the machine methods of the Republi-
can party in Camden, y. j., to their
surprise routed the regulars and cleo
ted last week their Mayor. In Penn
sylvania there is a similar revolt
against the personal domination of
Quay, and the business, independent
Republicans intend to lead a similar
revolt against Quayism, with John
Wanamaker at their head. We seem
not TO reach the degree of ''reform in
the party in Delaware. The more in
tent a man seems to be in interfering
with the personal and political rights
Of others, the more popular it makes
him IN his party and the surer he feels
his claims for office The wonder is
not that the Office seekers and hench-
men go for unscrupulous leaders, but
that they and their methods are endor-
sed by the yeomanry of the party when
It Is in their power to have things
different.
Smyrna times., 1898-03-16
OBITUARY.
James I. Carrnw
correspondence to the Times.

'pSCial NOiIe>lhlnOence 10 The lines.
James I. Carrow was born in Kent Co.
Delaware, near Leipsic Oct 8, 1882. and
died at his residence on New street. Dover.
March 9Th 1898, aged IS. Was married to
Miss Elizabeth NanWlnkle. a lady of mucb
genuine worth, June 2Sth 1855 Lived in
the vicinity Of his birthplace until the re-
bellIOn of the Southern States.
On the l4th OF August, 1862, he enlisted
IN the 4th Delaware Regiment of Volun-
teers' under Captain Daniel H. Kent. Dis
charged from the service of the United
States the 3lst day of May. 1865, from the
U. ). A. General Hospital. Chester pa
having lost his left leg at the battle of Pc
tersburg, June 18th, 1864. A soldier in de-
tense OF his country, demonstrating his pa
trotlsm by practical herOism, his motto was
One and Inseparable"
Returning home and being unfit for work
he was awarded a liberal pension bv the
U. >. government, which lasted through his
natural life.
Under the ministry Of Rev. J.H. Geoo-
hegan, Pastor of Armory NJ. Z. Church
1884, Dover, he was converted Bro Car
row eXemphtied his religious life in his daily
walk and conversation. His life was marked
with honesty and integrity of purpose. His
love to God manifested itself in his love for
the church
His benevolence and hospitality We're
N-AN A-Aoot PROMINENT OL Ills Iell4lOllS
affections. The poor and hungry were
never turned away from his door without
small act of his kindness.
As husband and father, he was watcbful
and devoted. He left four children. Mary.
Benjamin, Wilmer and Lena. Bro. Carrow
was not called upon in his last illness. to pass
through weeks of suffering, but with ewes
OF understanding, in the possession of ali
his faculties, he went home.
His Christian life is left as a legacy of i,
spiration to his family, church and friends
while the wonderful sweep of his GOOD
influence, eternity alone will reveal. His
funeral was preached by Rev. Howard
Smith, pastor of the Armory NJ. L. church
Text, the 14th chapter Rev, 18th verse
And l heard voice from Heaven saving
unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which
die IN the Lord hencforth etc, etc.
Torbert Post, No. 3, G. A. r., the de-
ceased being member attended the fun
eral in a body and were the pall bearers
The Red, White and Blue stars and
stripes" shropded his coffin. A good man
ma has left us Our loss his gain. Interment
Glenw0od Cemetery, Smyrna.
March 10, 1898. A FR1END
Smyrna times., 1898-03-16

Az old soldier who takes exception
to the statement in the TINES and
other papers about the pensions says
that thousands of them were of the
age Of IS or younger, and now after
the lapse Of 33years are feeling sharply
the relentless clutch of age. This he
gives as the reason why the pensions
have increased so of late years-the
hardships caused by exposures, long
forced marches, the encampment in
miasmatic iungles, starvation in prIs-
sons, etc, for four long weary years
A copy Of the National Tribune
handed US quotes from the Surgeon
Generals report which says
One man out of every six who mt
on the blue was dead before he took il
of. Nearly 100000 wounds and seri-
ous injuries were treated in the hos
pItals. The miasmatic swamps of the
South sent $3.50. 900 cases to the hos
pitals, and resulted in 1Os. .Gs7 deaths
Diseases Of the uery... ..-tem sent
1913, 996 cases 70 tha .e.us and
caused j,2j7 deaths. Diseases of the
eye alone were responsible for no less
than 96, 200 cases, aud of the ear 81 600
cases. Diseases of helungs, throat and
other respiratory organs were response
bic for the appalling number of 5O4. =
lib cases, and "a, 100 immediate deaths
This CHASTITY record is even exceeded
by that of diseases of the digestive
organs, caused by improper food and
impure water, which sent 617. $40 men
TO the hospitals. Typhoid fever killed
% 336 men; various forms of dvsenterv
killed A, 55S. In addition to this. "a
2O9 men were so badly mangled bv
gunshots as to be discharged as incaD-
able Of further service; 20, ,935 were dis
charged for consumption. 16.4S7 for
dlarrhea, 1000 for general ability. 12. :
653 for heart disease, etc. Altogether
20, ,53j men were so badly broken
down by their service as to be of no
further use. These are terrific figures.
70 which the sOlider-hater, who is so
fond Of commenting on the figures of
the pension roll, never alludes.
II we add this gross total of 223, 535
men who were bodily wrecked to the
total Of 304, 1853 deaths which the Sur
geon-General reported in 1904 sum
lar too small, by the way, since there
are over 300, ,O00 graves in the National
cemeteries alone-we have an appall-
ing total Of 527, ,904 men actually de-
stroyed during the war, an army far
larger than the world had ever before
seen placed in the field.