Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-02
RETRlBUTIoN.
Twinona Independent.1


Because Captain Williams of the Iowa
foot ball team played game of base
ball under an assumed name In North
Dakota last summer. he was protested
by the Minnesota university, and as a
result Of the protest was barred from
further playing. This seems to have
started the ball rolling, and the best
man in the Minnesota eleven, Mueller.
was the next victim, then one of the
Wisconsin eleven was found tainted"
with professionalism. Mueller had par
ticipated in fat mems race on the
Fourth Of July down in La Crosse and
pocketed S. of ill-gotten gains. The
management OF the Minnesota eleven
started out to make foot ball pure, and
succeeded in making 1t SO pure that
they did not have enough steam left to
win the game at Madison last Satur-
day. It looks like retribution.
1t is plain to see from the remarks
sofa faculty looks at 1t in about this
light, and his expressed hope that there
will be no more barring OF players for
mere trivialities will be echoed by all
lovers Of the game. Neither Williams, OF
Iowa, Mueller of Minnesota, nor Schrei-
Der OF Wisconsin was guilty of any seri-
ous offense against the amateur rule,
and all were victims OF boyish ardor in
athletic sport. 1t has done more harm
than good to bar the three players
named, has caused i'll feeling among
the colleges and has resulted In an un-
satisfactory settlement OF the cham
pionship between Minnesota and Wis
consln. There will certainly remain a
general feeling that the outcome might
have been different II Mueller had
played When he was barred 1t not only
took the best man from the eleven, but
gave the rect Of the players an attack
OF the blues and when that feeling
prevails just before a game the effect
is demoralizing.
But the Minnesota university started
the absurd craze for purity and
while it lie dissatisfied with the result 1t
should not overlook the lesson taught.
THE DEAD OF THE CIVIL WAR.
IGen. r. ". Greene in Scribner's.]
The campaigns and battles of the
civil war were on a scale Of surprising
magnitude There were more than a
score Of single battles, sometimes ex-
tending over several days, in each Of
which the losses in killed and wounded
on The federal side were greater than
the aggregate of all our losses in all our
other wars combined. How paltry seem
the 5000 killed and wounded in the war
of 1872, or the war in Mexico, or the war
with Spain, compared with the $4,000 at
Shiloh, $1,000 at the Chickahominy, 49,
600 at Antietam, the same at Freder-
icksburg, 1900 at Charlottesville, 23,-
600 at Gettysburg, $4,000 at Chickamau-
ga, 81, 600 in the Wilderness and $4,000 at
Spottsylvania! The grand aggregate OF
destruction fairly staggers the imagina-
ton, accustomed as we have been for
more than generation to the figures
SO 600 killed by bullets, $4,000 killed by
dieease, $4,000 dead from other causes
a grand total of 100000. about one in
nine OF every man who wore the uni
form.
In no other war In all time has such
respect been paid to the dead. 1mmedi-
ately after It's close the secretary of war
was directed by congress ito secure
suitable burial places. and to have these
grounds enclosed, so that resting places
of the honored dead may be kept sacred
forever" In seventy nine separate and
distinct national cemeteries, the bodies
of nearly 100000 soldiers who died dur
ing the civil war are inferred and the
decoration of their graves with flowers
on a fixed day has become national
custom. Some of the cemeteries contain
each silent army of over 10000 SOL
diers. in serted ranks marked by the
white headstones, on nearly half OF
which Is inscribed Unknown" The
world may be searched in vain for any
thing similar or kindred; there is no
other such impressive sight.
Faith Cure.
Fogg-Did ever tell you OF the won
derful case up at our house?