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The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-14
PRESIDENT MAKES A
SPEECH IN KANSAS
IaIks in the Early Morning to
5000 People at Station in
Town Of Parsons.
ON GOOD CITIZENSHIP
Says the Same Qualities Are Required
20 Be Useful in Public as in Private
Life, and Promises to Do His
Best for Country.

Ninita. l. r.. April 7.-President
R1osevelt's train arrived here a few
minutes late and departed for the south
at $40. The train passed through
Parsons, Kan, at 7;35. There We're
5000 persons at the station. The presi-
dent appeared on the rear platform Of
the car and made q brief speech. He
said:
Il am so glad to be again in the
Sunt!OWer state. From the beginning
/ have believed in YOUR people, and l
am more than grateful for the way
your people showed your belief in me
last November. 1t is not possible for
any man in any position to promise
that things will seem right. All that
he can promise is that so far as in
him lies he will do his part towards
making them right.
Qualities of Good Citizenship.
This l can promise, and do It is in
one stage of life as it is in another.
Right here | see one of the men who
fought in the great war. All that he
could do in that war was to do his
part We'll; to do all that lay in him
We'll. And that is what each one of
us can do, in whatever position he is
called to be.
1T is because of what you and the
average man and woman of Kansas
have done that Kansas is so great Il
state. And it is what every man, from
the president right through, has got to
do If our country is what it should be.
There is nothing peculiar in the
qualities YOU need in government that
ditterentiates those qualities from the
qualities you need to have in a private
citizen. If Il man is to be an advantage
to the community in which he lives he
must be q decent, square dealing man,
who does fairly by his neighbor, and
who takes care of his family. The
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-14

found here. 1 am glad, as say of the
spirit that makes you wish to dedicate
statues like this of Jefferson and like
the great statue of Clay inside this
court house. 1t is a fine thing to keep
to Il sense of historic continuity with
the past
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30
Surviving Fighting ChapIains.

Here AMI there among the preachers
who will take part i'm Memorial day
services will stand gray-haired man
of the cloth who in the COS was uni
versally referred to rs fighting chap
lain So-andSo. Such one is A-ch-
bishop Ireland of st. Paul.
AS Father John Ireland he was chap
lair of the 9TH Minnesota for three
years, seeing service with the regiment
at Corint;,. Vicksburg, Red River,
Nashville and elsewhere where the
fighting was severeSt. 1t was at Cor
NTH that he particularly distinguished
and endeared himself to the men of the
regiment.
At the critical stage of the battle tie
enemy preached the Union line. cap
tured several batteries and gained tie
streets of the town. 1t fell to the lot of
the fifth Mime sofa to drive the confej-
crates back. whit n they did by falling
on the right flank of the penetrating
cOl:lmn and sLbjecting it to a pitiless
fire. The batteries were retaken. the
line re-established, but the confeder-
ates were still full of fight. ard could be
seen forming for another attack.
At this juncture the Minnesota boys
discovered that only round or two of
cartridges remained in their boxes.
TIE situation was desperate-already
the enemy was charging toward TIE
blue line. Hastily the boxes of the
dead were riHed of the few cartridges
remaining in them, the firing begar.
closer swept the enemy. when sudden
ly, above the din of battle. rose the
piercing cry. Here are cartridges for
you. boys" and the next moment
Chaplain Ireland began distributing
handfuls of bullets from the heavy am
munition case which ne mad secured
and carried - the firing line. to the
salvation undoubtedly of the regiment.
All through the battle he stuck on the
firing line feeding out ammunition. and
when the smoke of the guns had
cleared away he hac the satisfaction of
knowing that the enemy had beer re-
pulsed and the 5th Minnesota held. IN
disputed. the line ana the batteries.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30
IN menorism.

Tho roar of battle sinks to summer
Ana ynscs heaped in high sweet mounds.
our .er sacr~d dead are slumbering. From
palm An, .;. North
r,-o,n err Golden West to where the savage
Breaks on the Eastern shore. we raise the
or unforgetting. lay upon each tear-wet
R.n,cmbrant wreaths. Across chasm
With hand -clasps-nay. across line that
No more, that Lee and Wheeler blotted
We hymn the glory of the Blue and them
That battled for the cause that was to
lose,
And here about a common altar kneel
And drape it with the standard that is red
With ali the hero-blood that ran down to
AS blue rs Southern skies. and stainless
white,
AS Iincoln's soul-an ensign that doth
One sword. one land. one starward course.
And field, one vast. puissant. fine desire
Great God of Battles. may we learn
The lessons OF Thy Peace!-that Peace is
red
With blood if monumental columns point
Like fingers to a nations shame if Law
And Justice. Thy Divine Equality.
Fold not their degis wings about the weak
As well as high, the low as well rs strong
Ii any traitor heart Is not attuned
Unto the marching drum-beats of the
Right:
And if on every hill we shall not see
Again the camp-fireS of our hero dead.
Great God of Peace, teach us Thy mes
sage writ
In Wars red letters.-that the sword is
stained
That sleeps within its scabbard when the
Strong
Oprresscs; that the banner shall be vile
That waves not over every battlefield
Where Freedom calls, storms not the bat
tlcmentS
OF Wrong, but idly floats while one sad
slave
Doth reach his chains up toward its star
ry folds.
Thus shall we cOnsccrate the heritage
These sacred slccpers left. Thus shall We
show
That we are worthy of the blood they
shed.
Thus shall we make the dead more deadly
brave
Thus shall their death make freemen of
US all.
Maurice Smiley.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30
The Patriot Flowers.

oh. tell me. gay Carnation. why do you
blush so red?
why. red is in our country's fag," the
spicy blossom said.
my color will be needed on Decoration
Day.
To lay upon our soldier graves, and that
is why" they say.
Oh, Lilies of the Valley. SO very pure and
white. :
Are you extremely delicate? You have no
color bright.
''The white Is in our country's flag" the
dainty blossoms said
"And so We grow above their graves, our
country's hOnored dead"
Tell me. little Violet why are YOU dressed
in blue:
Why do you never change your gown? Is
that the way you grew?
why. blue is in our country's flag, and I
am blue, they said,
To pIoom above the soldier graves on
Decoration Day.
Oh, jolly little Buttercup, why do you
look so gay?
You are not red. nor white, nor blue, and
yet you laugh away
You re always dressed in yellow. Now.
tell me why, pray.
"Oh. on, the yellow flowers laughed,
we re patriots. too. they say.
We heip IN" sun to make things bright on
Jecoration Day"
Elizabeth Hunt.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30
Japan's Victory on the Sea.

Tho long awaited naval battle in the
far Eastern seas has been fought at
last and the generally expected Japa-
nese victorysis the result. The early
reports are tncoMplete end the full
story Of the battle IL awaited with the
keenest interest In VII PARTS Of the
civilized world4 1t is Not uSrkely that
when the full stery gets to ,sssthe Japa-
nese victory wifi be seen I'd be even
more scqmplete than was Indicated in
the earlier bulletins. Russia took des-
perate chances in sending a second
fleet to the far East after its first one
there had been demolished by the Japa-
nese. From an outside point Of view
it did not appear to have the slightest
chance Of victory. The feet was far
from any base, though it doubtless pro.
fitted from Frances fragrant violation Of
neutrality laws: the Bottoms were very
foul from long voyage: the officers
and crews were worn out from the
strain of q long voyage and long walt
for the battle. and the general Russian
efficiency and unpreparedness were
fatal haaaicaps when the feet was face
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30
The Day Dedicated to the Soldier Dead.
Three Generals Of the Same M;nd

1t has long been an axiom that tvo
generals cannot be OF the same mInd
But here ia a story 10 Gisprove II
story told for the first time last Ms-
mortal day by the aid upon whose oar,
the coincidental words Of three general,
fell.
The battle Of South Mountain wa,
raging. Gen. o. b. Wilcox was with
his brigade on the firing line OPPOSITE
q battery on a knoll which was bother
| ing the Union forces 4 great deal. vii.
cox made up his mind to flank the bat.
| terry, despite the fact that the nankfn>
force would have a tough time Of i,
since the ground over which il wouId
have to march went dow:I then turned
and inclined up toward the battery
McClellan's headquarters were on /,
plateau some distance below the bri-
gade. Wishing to inform the com.
mander of the impending move, Wilno.
dispatched one of the aids to headouar-
ters.
Good" exclaimed Mcclellan. when
the aid had presented him with vii.
cox's compliments and message "Ru,
| tell him to send in one of those west
ern regiments. They're raw men AMI
won't know the danger
On the way back to the firing line the
aid fell in with Gen. burnside, the corn,
commander. He was made acquainted
with the purpose Of Gen. Wilcox.
Very good" said Burnside but tell
Wilcox to send in one of those new regi-
ments just from the West. They can
shoot like fury"
Possibly ten minutes later the aid was
on the point of delivering his message
to Gen. Wilcox. when he beheld a raw
regiment from Michigan Starting out on
the hanking movement.
Thus not two, but three. generals
proved to be of the same mind. And il
is fair to add that the raw fighters.
partly because they knew rot the dan
ger, partly because they were lion
hearted, and partly because they were
dead shots. executed the movement sue
cessfuIly. and the position was taken
after the confederates had been moved
down almost to a man.
Gen. Wilcox. who lives in Washing
ton, was the man who broke up the
Knights of the Golden Circle. He was
wounded and captured at the first Bull
Run, where he commanded brigade:
was drafted as one Of the hostages for
privateersmen, and was 'he first presi-
dent Of the Libby Prison Association,
where he was held for eleven months.
Memorial >day-what host Of
thoughts it calls to mind! And CHIEF
among them should be the one that tbs
nation really owes the day it spends in
decorating the graves of its heroes
known and unknown leader and he'd to
the tcnder-hearted women of the South
of the days Immediately following the
close of the bitter struggle.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30
to face with the sea fighters Of the

to face with the sea fighters Of the
Mikado.
1t does not seem possible that the war
can much longer be continued. After
it's crushing and continuous series OF
defeats on land. it woyli rot have sur
prised the world il Russia had sued for
peace. 1t was beaten and must have
realized it. Now for a second time it is
overwhelmingly beaten en- the sea. Its
armies are In retreat. its fleets sunk, its
territory occupied by Japan and its
troubles at home are almost as serious
as those at the seat of war. Japan has
won the war and shown itself world
power to be reckoncil with in the
future. Whatever the details Of the
terms Of peace. the prestige and the
advantage so to Japan. Such a result.
as We view it here in America, is in the
interests Of civilization and humanity
in Asia.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30
MuffIe the Drums.

Muff,e the drums! Let the bugles blow
Softly their music this hillOwed day!
March with reverent step ,dn ahd hsSS SLOW ,
Homage to wars martyreu heroes pay.
Over the graves
OF our fallen braves
Low droops the flag. while a nation Is
Blow. busles. blow.
Softly and low.
Over the fields where our blest dead are
sleeping!
Muffle the drums. 'Tis sacred day;
HallOwcd and hOnOred it's memCry keep
Naught but Loves tokens we bring to
lay
Over the graves where our fallen sleep.
Blow. bugles. blow.
Softly and low
While fairest flowers Loves hand is here
over the graves
OF Il nations braves.
Over the sod which our tears are bedew-
ing
Mmfie the drums! See. the flag is furled!
Shouts of the battle have died away:
Over the fields where wars dust-clOud
whirled
Peace and tranquility reign today.
ClaShing of arms,
Wild bugle alarms.
Ne'er shall be heard where our heroes
Rest, soldier rest.
While DER thy breast
Gods sacred watch-fires their vigil are
keeping!
Muffle the drums! On steep mountain
heights,
Down in the valleys. on land. Oer sea.
Thundered the guns through wild days
and nights.
Spilling the life blood for you and me.
Charging brigades
Met flashing blades;
Stern was the contest on battleficlds CORY.
Sleep. heroes. sleep!
Ger land and deep.
Thine was the contest. and thine be the
glory!
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30

Here are people signing for the old
decoration days, when, as they relate,
Everybody participated In the tribute to
the soldier dead. Just as il there had
been a decline in sentiment, On the
contrary moro people take part in the
Memorial Day exercises now than ever.
and the observance. instead Of being
limited to one day. is now extended
over two. Few were the Boston
churches which did not have a special
service for the veterans yesterday: few
were the old soldiers who did not at
tend. So it was. all over New England
at least. So will it continue There
VIII be the Sunday religious services,
and then the formal exercises with
parade and decoration Of the soldiers
graves on the Memorial lay proper
double standardization Advertiser.
Thi1dp full of food for reflection for
thos4 No lament the decline" Of rever-
ence FOR the true spirit of Memorial day
The day has a stronger and stronger
hold on the hearts Of the American peo-
pie, and the number participating in its
exercises and ceremonies grows larger
each year. Whether or not Memorial
day is ever changed to fall on Sunday
lit is certain that the Sunday before
Memorial day is now very generally
given over to Memorial services in the
churches. and this too without interfer-
ing with the program Of Memorial day
itself
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30
A Typical Memorial Day Story.

Each recurring Memorial day brings
to the fore it's own story. or stories, of
the war. Some are rathetic some
amusing. all throw interesting side
lights on the period.
When Major Eugene Gordon, the
brother of Gen. John B. Gordon was in
Washington on Memorial day. 1898, he
accompanied the members of the local
Confederate Veterans Association to
cemetery in the suburb Of Woodside, six
miles out. where We're the graves OF
seventeen unknown confederate dead
who fell in Early's rail on Washington
in 1864. Much to their delight they
found that Union soldiers had already
decorated the graves.
After the services an old friend in
vited the major to the home of Mrs.
Laura Wilson. He was graciously re-
ceived: the talk, Of course. was largely
about the war. when Mrs. Wilson, sud-
denly turning to the major. asked:
Were you not wounded near this
place during the war?''
Yes. madame" was The reply, "and
l would give anything in the world TO
find the house to which I was taken.
] came out to Woodside this afternoon
with the faint hope that 1 might get
some trace Of the house. but have not
been successful"
You have been successful without
knowing it," replied Mrs. Wilson. for
you are in that house now. Come into
the dining-room and l will show you
where you lay. And l have the vest
you left here at that time" she added
Il have long wished that the soldier
who wore it would come again and get
it. I was about to send /. as relic to
the Confederate Abbey in Richmond"
Then the story cama out. While still
a lieutenant, Mrs. Wilson's guest had
been wounded in the battle OF
Monocacy, July 9, 1864, when the con-
federate forces under Gen. c. A. Evans
drove back the Unionists under Gen.
Wallace. Carrying their wounded with
them. the confederates pursued the
enemy to Woodside. where the guns OF
the Union dcfenses Of Washington
halted them. Here Lieut.. Gordon was
taken In by some kind-hearted women
and sheltered until he was able to join
his command. Before the confederates
fell back their commander and several
other officers called ut the house to see
the wounded man and to thank his
nurses for their hospitality. At this
time Gen. Evans informed the family
that the soldier in their charge was the
brother of Gen. John b. Gordon. When
Mrs. Wilson found herself entertaining
southerner Of the name Of Gordon
who had fought i'm the war. all the cir
cumstances surrounding the care OF tho
wounded lieutenant came to mind ana
she broached her question, with sur
prising results. "a
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30
Old Glory is Passing Along the Street.

Sohbing drums. solemn and slow.
Beating time where the old men go,
Withered skies. faltering feet,
Glory is passing along the street,
Family and afar. Hear the muttering of
war!
A grumblng I'm the distance there
That scarcely shakes the summer air.
Beat on beat.
A-throb as If a giant pulse
Were sick with fever heat.
Faded blue shabby and old
DimIning eyes. that once were bold;
waning life; that was SO sweet:
Glory is passing along the street.
The trample of a thousand horse is roar
ing in their ears
The wrath of great artillery peals down
the vanished years.
The tattcred flags above their heads are
floating full and bright,
Youthful and beautiful. they are going
forth to fight.
Bent and gray, that rode so straight.
Old and sere, that fronted Fate
Sorrowful. hear the drum beat.
Glory is passing along the street,
We are coming. We are coming. Io. The
cannon rage is vain,
Though our blue lines melt before us. still
we form blue lines again!
Like storm m-fioOd. rising higher as its
rollers crash on shore,
We are rushing. God Of Battles. Flame
eyed. shouting. young once more.
Sobblng drums. solemn and slow.
Beating time where the old men 20.
Withered skins. faltering feet.
Glory is passing along the street,
Family and afar. Dies the muttering of
war,
From the gulf to the sweet waters there
Is peace.
Lord. we bless Thee for Thy day. Cid
and feeble. worn and gray,
Ihou great Captain that hast made our
battles cease.
my green grass Is over all: kpeeling
numbly at Thy seat,
Sialn and slayer. one in worship, kiss Thy
feet '
10. We thank Thee. South and North,
ror Thy lilies that spring forth
from the bitter graves to make them
sweet.
Listen: There is glory passing along the
JULIUS MULLER.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30
Memorial Day.

Hats off! 'Tis here they make
Their last unbrokcn camp.
NO buglcs shall them wake.
For them no war-steeds champ
The Captain and his troop. it
The COrp'ral and his squad.
Form one all-eQual group
Beneath the peaceful sod.
Hats on. For here they come
Those others, still on guard,
who follow to the drum. r-sA-
BY time and tempest SCARED.
The private and his chief.
The blouse and chevroned sleeve
Together ranked in grief,
As comrades Joined to grieve.
Hats off! Unto the van. 80 u,
Hats Off Unto the rear.
They mingle. man and man.
In mcm'ry, and midst tear, ~
Now sadly sounds the taps!
Slow moves the guard away.
Again are drawn the flaps,
Until another May. ----.--
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30

Every year, when the plaintive notes
Of the whip -poor-will are first heard
o'nigtts and the cuckoo is beginning to
pipe it's lay while the sun shines,
''rumor has it" that something is going
to be done at BOnney Eagle-that the
water power at that place is to b"
utilized and that the Saco Valley rail
road will he well underway before the
harvest days are over writes
Standish correspondent. This year is
no exception the sweet harbinger of
the good times coming being an earnest
desire on the part of the Eastern Tim
ber Co. owners Of tn" water power and
other property along the Saco to have
their taxes reduced and kept at a small
figure for term Of years. Inasmuch
as the article i'm the warrant for the
town meeting to be held next Monday
mentions pulp mills and other things for
which we have been longing as among
the things possible i'm the future the
optimist will naturally sound his gew-
gaw and sing of the boom that is near
at hand.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30
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..,.xa .sSS{>fa.t Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30

An exchange notes with some show
of suspicion that future meetings of
convivial and social organizations have
been planned TO be held in towns which
lie very near the New Hampshire or
the New Brunswick lines. Is it possibl"
that the creation of the enforcement
commission had anything to do with
the locations?
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30

The Bangor News remarks that the
man who goes out with spade these
days and digs earthworms in his garder
and feeds them to his young ducks. in
stead of keeping them 20 take along OF
"a Sunday fishing trip. is a practical
Christian. As soon as tine average man
can find as much pleasure in securing
worms for ducks as he does i'm digging
them for fish. the reformation Of the
world is at hand.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30

The Frank Jones wound up her work
along the Maine coast by getting into
an accident as she was finishing her
last trip. Coming into Portland harhor
Thursday night, she struck floating
log outside the harbo- buoys. and thres
Of the floating buckets on one of her
side wheels were broken off their fas-
Jennings and the frame work of tn"
wheel was also slightly damaged. Re-
pairs are being made and the steamer
will leave for New York in a day or
two.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30

The unutterable pathos of the case d
that little Lewiston boy Who drownct
himself rather than lie punished fol
running away from school.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30

Musical Maine now breatheS more
freely. The list Of Festival artists Is
and the terrible suspense Is
ended.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30

The flags should be at half mast un-
til noon, today. hut no later than that.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30

Bangor is taking it's library site fight
very seriously, but from a distance ii
looks like opera bouffe.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30

The United States fisheries schooner
Grampus. which is such a frequent
visitor during the summer. is again in
Maine waters. Captain F.. 6. o. Hanson
having recently returned to this coast
from Massachusetts waters to resume
the collection of egg bearing Holsters
and to work in conjunction with the
United States fisheries station estab-
lished at Boothbay Harbor. in 1904.
During the past two weeks the Gram
pus and crew have been actively en-
gagged in transferring 500 egg bearing
Holsters from the government pound at
Pemauuid to the hatchery. where they
were deprived of their eggs, 60, ,OOO. 900 in
number. and the stripped or parent lob
sters liberated at various points along
the Maine coast. POO of these lobst ars
being thrown overheard as the Gram
pus passed through Two Bush channel
ard along the Western Vinalhayen
shores on her way east
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30

The past three days have aroused no
small degree of hope that summer is
really coming, after all. In a few days
it will be in order to brush the dust OF
a year off the quotation What is SO
rare etc.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30

More baseball games are schedules
for today than for any other day of thu
wear.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30

The Indian play, written by an In
dian, Big Thunder. of Oldt,wn. and per-
formed by company of Indians. will b,
one of the novelties at the State fair
at Lewiston.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-05-30

1t is pleasing to note that in soma
localities the oranges are to observe
Memorial day with Appropriate exer-
c:ses and will help the members OF the
Grand Army decorate the graves of
dcparted comrades.