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hopelessly overpowered, at last sur.
rendered.
The fury of rejoicing which followed
rivaled that of the charge. The strug-
gle had been so long and desperate,
the victory was so complete (not a
single one of the foe escaping) that
men lost all self-control, and some in
a frenzy of JOY even Rugged each other
and cried like women. T.
But the vanquished-God pity them.
The ground was strewn thick with
their dead and dying, with pools of
blood, with fragments of rent and scat
tered bodies. Some of their guns were
literally covered with the shattered re.
mains OF the poor, victims who had
persisted in handling them.
Amid the sitting stencil of human
gore, the survivors stood, some Ind.
died in little groups, dumb with ter.
ror; some upright, facing us in cool
defiance; others, blackened BY smoke
bareheaded, half naked, were on Their
knees in prayer.
And this is war!
1t was ~ years ago. Yet l instinc
lively listen, imagining l must still
hear the roar Of that conflict, or q
least its echo but no, the midda,
bears no cadence save the silklike muir
muir Of the zephyr whispering
Peace. ~ 5.a
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What sublime quietness!

what sublime QuletneSS!
Can it be possible that here-are
these memories, boundless deep, which
sweep across me like surging flood
merely the torturing dreams of q
fever-racked brain?
But no. All around me are abun
dant proofs. The outline of the old
fort is still visible, and in fact 1 won
der that time has wrought so little
change. now recognize many ia
miliar objects. The then solitary tree
is still standing, but wound made
in its trunk by vicious shell has
never healed, and is now fastening its
decay.
Yonder, half way down the SLOPE
nearly buried in earth, I also discern
huge, shapeless mass of iron. Dumb
witness of bloody past, it is all that
remains of monster gun whose voice
made the trees tremble. In the last
hour of horror, overworked, triple.
of men into eternity.
This memory, then, is no mere
dream. This panorama of peace be-
fore me has a dark background of
graves.
Through yonder field of waving
corn, from the mile-distant wood, with
pick and shovel, by ditch and trench,
inch by inch, we worked our tedious,
tortuous way. Day and night we were
logged by the messengers of death.
Each step was gained at the price of
some brave life. Yet the work was
pushed steadily on. We were there to
do, to dare, to endure, but not to fall
ter. In a nations redemption strug-
gle men can afford to die, but cannot
afford to be found wanting When
a comrade fell wounded, we cared for
him with such kindness as the circum-
stances permitted; if he was killed,
wrapped in his blanket we buried him,
while with the rough sleeve of a
soldiers coat we wiped the tears away
and pushed ever onward.
AS l gaze spellbound, I wonder-I
can never cease to wonder-that we
did not fail. 1t required men with
nerves of steel and hearts of oak, re-
enforced by the inspiration that back
of us was our country and above was
God. 1t required these, and all these,
to make victory possible.
Fer there, in the fort before US,
were Americans, and none but Ameri-
cans could have taken it. Our foes
were never tired, their vigilance never
relaxed, their courage was sublime.
And while we believed them entirely
and eternally wrong, they fought as
it is only possible for men to fight
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Out?
Well, that's about
The rottenest! Someone beat in his
head.
Kill him! Amt that the limit, on the
dead? 81
Say, what's the score?
Well, we can cinch 'em with couple
more.
- Il 8
Whoops, yeIIs
And groan and cheers admiring,
And scarlet bieachers ciappng,
Rapping,
footing,
Roofing and hooting;
A steady crunch Of brittle peanut
shells, .--~
A gurgIing Of the bottles
Inclined to thirsty throttIes,
A strewing, not Of flowers
From Ieafy bowers,
But Of discarded crusts and scraps OF
meat.
Sweet
odors Of cheap cigars and cigarettes,
| That's what one gets.
That's just one way
We have Of spending DECORATION
| - DAY. "N
"z~<
Well, such is life,
And memory Of death and fame;
A chiseIed name
Upon a slab Of perishable stone,
To one age with its recoIIections rife
And to the next, name, and that
I alone.
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m1nplt11p 6ruur attn 6uy
Some with Solemn with Joyous Sports Observe
the National Day Of Memory.

Come, tread ss4
With solemn step and slow to where
they rest,
The honored and the bIest, @.
The Nations valiant dead,
Let hymn and prayer
Sound through the perfumed air
As little children springtide blossoms
bear: a.
VioIets, lilies and the lilac bloom,
Daisies from grassy Ieas
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In Memory and in Hope.

Forty-two years ago the appalling
campaign Of the Wilderness, with all
It's magnificent devotion on both sides.
was but two-thirds over, its guns slow.
" wheeling southwark day by day.
opposed with a brilliancy and daring
the annals of war have rarely seen
equaled, while around the heart Of the
confederacy Sherman was drawing :
girdle Of fire.
Now, on May 80, all over the land.
south as well as north. wherever the
grave Of national soldier who fought
In the great war Is known, his old
comrades on and his descendants will lay
an Offering Of the flowers which are
the perpetual rebirth t earth's beauty.
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And then man must toll
And play,
And playtimes are too rare to let him
spoil
A springtide holiday.
So here, with solemn ceremonies tread
The mourners of the dead,
And here, with frenzied shouts, the
fans acclaim
THE GAME. ..,.'
KENNETH HARRIS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-29
Politics and Politicians.

The Portland Oregouan finds something
to criticise in the address of Mayor NC
Cieian at Union College. In which he dis
tinguished between politics as trade ana
politics as a profession. 1t says:
.'There is nothing inherently low and vile
about a trade; there is nothing essentially
high and good about a profession. He can,
not be permitted to group together the baa
elements in politics and designate them by
the word trade The great reform
which our politicians, high and low, need Is
a heartfelt realization that they are the
servants of the voters who elect them
Unfortunately for Mr.. Mcclellan. he de-
cried In his address the very element in
politics which had made him. But for those
who in New York not only make of poll
tics q trade. but the most disreputable OF
trades-corrupting the ballot-box. and when
in power footing the public treasury
through means of contracts bestowed upon
favorites-he would never have received the
invitation which thus enabled him to talk
in so virtuous a key He owes his position
In politics to Tammany Hall, which,
whether under one leadership or another,
has long been an agency for evil and de-
moralization. Mr.. Mcclellan is. the protege
of Richard Croker. and. until they quar-
relied over patronage. the political chum OF
words may be about character in politics.
they butter no parsnips. A stream cannot
rise higher than it's source. Mr.. Mcclellan
as the flower of the Tammany muck heap
wastes his sweetness on worse than the
desert air. His company does not warrant
his language.
To certain extent Gov. Folk Of Missouri
labors under the same difficulty. He, too.
though personally an honest man of high
aspirations, Ia the product politically Of "a
most corrupt machine. He has made his
reputation Furnishing the men most in
fuential In putting him In office. Nor can
it be denied that he knew their character
when he accepted their support. He was
we'll advised that to be true to his oath Of
office he would be obliged to destroy the
bridge that had carried him over.
1t is in this that the position of William
Travers Jerome Is go strong. He owes
nothing to corrupt bosses. He is not
product of their favor and activity. He
challenged them to contest, and defeated
them in open field. His duty is wholly to
that portion of the community committed
to clean administration of the public bust
ness. When he speaks for pure politics he
does not berate his friends When he jals
a plunderer of the public he cannot be &C.
cused Of ingratitude He is the captain of
his own official soul
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-29
Toys.
Won1en's Hosiery
and Underwear.

I - OMPLETE lines of Summer
Il Hosiery in white, tan and
NJ the wanted colors, for wenl-
en- and children.
Summer Underwear-vests pants,
drawers and combination suits, in
the very thin and medium weights,
to suit individual preference.
Some new lots specially priced
are:
Hose. with double soies. high spiiced heels and
garter tops. All sizes.
25c. pair. Value, CSC.
women's white Lasle Thread Hose in seversi
broidered ankle. plain gsuss and medium weights
All sizes and special value.
soc. the pair.
Boys Ribbed Ironclad Hose with double knees,
toes and heels These this suznnsf weight and
wear. sises 10 l0H. The price aiways remains
the same. and there Is nothing better made in boys
hosiery at the price.
25c. the pair.
Also
Wsmens Swiss Ribbed Summer Vests. low neck
snd no sIesyss plain and crochet fronts All sizes
25c. each.
neck and no sleeves Al sIsss special ssia.
soc. each.
Main 6aasr r xf
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tragedy of this character inevitably brings
every detail of the lives of all who are in
volved into the bright light of publicity.
There can be no safe condoning of the
crime of the jealous man. He cannot be
trusted to serve as Judge. jury and exc
cutioner. He Is the least qualified of
all people to pass judgment upon cir
cumstances and conduct that may seem to
him to warrant suspicion. Unbalanced by
his rage he strikes blindly. without rea-
son, often without cause. The "unwrit-
ten law is responsible for much evil In
this world. and for vicious attitude OF
mind toward the statutory law on the part
of many people
1t Is dangerous to substitute hexiDle
law Of custom and prejud &C for that which
is enacted after deliberation and supposed
Iy executed without discrimination against
all offenders In the crude days OF the
frontier posse justice was often neces-
sity. to cope with the evils incidental to
the breaking out of a new land. But posse
justice was based upon roughly equitable
principles. Proof was always required.
but there was no red tape. Men leaped to
their judgments by instinct, and they were
seldom wrong 1t is altogether likely that
as small a percentage OF guilty men went
free and as few innocent men were pun
ished in those days as at present without
an elaborate system Of police courts, grand
juries, trial juries. courts of Appeals, re-
hearings and writs. But trial by posse is
nevertheless dangerous. With Its merit or
speed 1t has the overwhelming de ect OF
irregularity. 1t teaches contempt for the
orderly processes AS soon as those Or
derby processes are established and MAIN
tanned then there is no room for the rule
of the mob The vigilance committee loses
its warrant when courts are organized
1t is this distinction between the two
processes of punishment which denotes CIV
lization. and just so 1t is the treatment
of the private avenger that marks the al
vance of Individual members of society. or
their lapse into the crude, dangerous doc-
trines of the past.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-29
Cummins of Iowa.

Don't accept the proposition. governor
that comes from your rival, Mr.. Perkins
that the dispute over the convention or
ganization be referred for settlement to a
committee to be named by the republican
national chairman. You have made
your fight. and have won, and you
should hold fast ell that good for
tune and the merit of your cause have
given you. The republican national COM
mittee is all right. but 1t has no proper
place IN the local affairs of the Iowa re-
publicans. They should settle their own
differences in their own way. What If
those differences are sharp. and some heat
has been engendered? That should insure
the larger vote after everything has been
arranged. And then. governor, you stand
not only for yourself but for the cause
of tariff revision. The standpatters said
that you could not carry the delegates on
that issue. Now that you have done so
they seek to set aside, or confuse the YER
diet. Don't let them do it, Iowa Is not
only republican state. but is in favor of
tariff revision on protection lines She has
spoken through your candidacy. Mr.. Per-
kins is unhappy. but 1t Is not your place to
console him Leave him to time and tide
and ask for his support at the polls
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-29
Luncheon Needs
for the Fourth.

- HOICE, large. juicy Fancy
n Palermo Lemons; especially
W desirable fruit at the price
usually asked for inferior
qualities dozen. .2oc.
Ginger Aie Gosmans, 500 dozen: Giquot
Club, $1.2o dozen; c. c. Imported Belfast,
oozen $i %
Rebate Of loc. dozen for empty bottles.
Grape Juice: Colonial Premier" abso-
lutely pure and delicious; pint, Pc; quart Zoe
Selected Queen and ''Manzanilla" Olives. plain
Choice French and ItaiIaa olive Oils, ABSOLUTELY
pure, glass ana inns lOc to - 10
Pure Fruit Jams, imported and domestic; all
! naNoIst klaAs Jafs loc TO JUc.
Walter Bakers Cocoa, can lie.
Homemade Cakes. sunshine gold loaf ginger
angel devil, pound. rasin and layer cakes OF many
Bastow's Cocoanut Biscuits, made from fresh Sc
iected cocoanats In pckg. DC.
Rose & Hamilton Lime juice bottle. .-.... SIC.
MeLaren's Imperial Cream and Roquefort Cheese.
III Wuiie Jhtb. i0e. ana Zoc.
Pickles, sour and sweet. gherkins and mixed,
uosLe loc TO oOc.
Choice Sardines carefully packed from rejected
fish, In pure olive oil, key-opentng cans, each
10c. to use.
blue Label Boned Chicken from 4 sanitary
1aefory), can. soc. ana DOC
Fifth floor, Tenth st.
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The Slump in Wall Street.

Wall street has shown a decidedly soft"
tendency for some days. Many of the best
posted observers are of the opinion that the
cause OF the decline in standard stocks is
due to the administrators onslaught upon
the trusts and the possibility of fresh rev.
Citations to Congress by the President at
any time relative to some of the big cor
porations. The prosecution of the Stand
ard Oil. the inquiry into railroad methods
and other moves have undoubtedly caused
a decidedly weak feeling in financial circles
No one knows. In short. where the presi-
Dental lightning is going to strike next
and some of the investors and spectators
are breaking for cover and selling out
This selling movement has not yet reached
proportions suggestive OF panic, and there
IS no present fear that 1t will but 1t has
had the effect of carrying the market con-
siderably below the May level in some
cases trimming 10 per cent off the quota
tons
This slump cannot be otherwise than
beneficial In the end. 1t will serve as a
reminder to the public that Wall street is
a very sensitive organization and Is sub
ject to fluctuations and exposed to the In
fiuence of public sentiment expressed in
concentrated form. The street is in a
way gauge of national currents The man
VIM eVSS III 10 speculate on margin is
playing game of chance with enormous
forces that are far beyond his control and
reckoning. Few men beat the game, and
they do so usually by withdrawing when
they happen to be ahead and forever for
swearing all participation In the future
But there is a more pointedly satisfactory
aspect 20 this slump In the market and to
the cause assigned. II IL is true that the
managers of the big trusts are disturbed
by the Presidents exposures and aggressive
actions 1t becomes evident that a way to
curb their pernicious operations has at
length been found oNiany OF these gigantic
corporations. indeed the great majority of
them, are grossly inflated In their financial
composition. They are preposterously wa
tered and they are correspondingly sensi-
tive to market changes. Weaken public
confidence in their staying qualities and
the market for their securities is dimin-
ished, If not destroyed. They cannot float
their new issues without the faith OF the
people In their power. This falling off in
the price Of their issues. therefore may be
regarded as an object lesson in public edu-
cation. The people are learning the
crooked ways and means of corporation
promotion and prosperity and they are be-
ginning to realize the reaching force OF the
law when administered by an honest and
determined executive
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BRYAN and His Besiegers.

Pity the embarrassments of Mr.. Bryan as
respects his arrival in New York:
Three democrats will confer with Col.
Bryan in London to the proposed re-
ception. They are Mayor Mcclellan, Dr..
John w. Cox and Col. Moses c. Wetmore.
Mayor Mcclellan, it is said, will urge him to
insist on having the conservative element in
the party made prominent in the celebration.
DR.. Cox. in behalf of Hearst. will try to
induce him to veto the whole program Col.
Wetmore wants him to sidetrack the New
York jubilation in the interest Of a demon
stration in Lincoln, Neb.
Before any one of these gentlemen sees
Mr.. Bryan, however, Richard Croker, the
former Tammany leader, will have had a
talk with him..
Mayor Mcclellan will probably say some
thing like this: Mr., Bryan, the democracy
has made three races In a divided condition
and lost them all. Twice the sound money
democrats refused to support you. and once
the free silver democrats refused to sup
port Judge Parker. We must get together,
1908 will show another republican vic
tory. The democrats of the east are turn
ing to you. Give them word of cheer and
praise, and they are yours to command.
Let 1t be known that their prominence in
the New York demonstration will be pleas
ing to you. and you will receive such a
public man in that town.
Exit Mayor Mcclellan. and enter DIR. Cox:
Mr.. Bryan. be not deceived Beware of
that old Cleveland crowd harboring In Wall
street and playing the game of the trusts
They have never been for you. They are
not for you today. Their whole purpose In
these overtures Is to injure Hearst He Is
fighting them your lines, and has excel
lent prospects of success Don't imagine
for a moment that they are today any
nearer to approval of your policies than
they were ten years ago. AS a matter of
fact, they are not democrats, and never
will be. l speak from knowledge, and as
your friend"
Exit DR.. Cox, and enter Mr. Wetmore
The Missouri trust buster is a chum Of Mr.
Bryan's They have hunted and hshed to-
gether. and we may imagine Mr.. Wetmore
easy and familiar in the presence Of the
peerless leader. BILLY. my boy steer clear
of both squads. larry In New York only
long enough to buy your railroad ticket and
check your baggage for the west. Push on
TO Missouri or Nebraska, where the people
know and love you, There Is danger In
New York even for a man of your strength
and popularity. Never since the world be-
gan have factions been more bitter. You
cannot possibly please both, and In the
huilabaloo of a mixed crowd with both
= factions trying to play you. some effusive
fool might Burchardize you. Let them fight
1t out without you Take no chances in a
section which. so far as you are concerned.
Is still the enemy's country"
So what Is the poor man to dor What
Will the poor man do?
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Personal Avengers. /.

Modern society does not as a rule in
dorse the ancient doctrine generally known
as the 'unwritten law" which warranted
an agrieved husband in staying the one
he believed 70 have 'wronged" him. 1t has
provided better method. based upon JUS
sice and equity and the principle OF giving
man accused OF a crime or a social or
Tense chance to prove his innocence The
crime OF passion or jealousy has often
found victim against whom no proof
could be brought and OF whose innocence
there was strong evidence. The chance OF
a mistake Is too great to be risked.
A silly pretense OF shielding" the woman
is often INDUCED In by pistol wielders who
fsel that their honor Ia aseailed The
poor woman is usually more grisvousiy
piiioried by reason Of crime than other
wise. Civil proceedings ara not as sensa-
tionai as rule as criminal trials, and q
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Louis.

Dot Louis. he's a rascal, sure;
He hit me init q rock.
1t took me several weeks to cure
My ailments from dot shock.
He borrows money, und don't pay
But dose dings I forget
Ven e'er T drinks abold der way
Dot Louis plays cornet.
My friends all said II dey was me
Dey'd hat him put in Jail;
. But If I did it. would be
De first to went his bail!
To all de cruel d:ngs dey say
OF Louis am deaf
Ven he stands up and starts to play
Dot melody in F!
Some people has to prison went
For less; to dis I'll swear.
But geniuses Is different
Und shouldn't need to care.
OF law-abiders dere's lot.
Dey're neffer hard to get;
But Louis-ach-his equals not
For playing der cornet.
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shampooed with condensed milk. and their
faces daubed with green paint Then they
were tied to trees and left to the mosqui-
toes. 1t was daybreak before they freed
themselves and walked home. "
This is supposed to be civilized country.
somewhat different in Its customs from the
depths OF Africa. Yet the proceedings at
Eastchester. n Y. were strongly suggestive
of the savage rites of which travellers have
told Indeed. the victims OF the African
ceremonies are usually deserving Of their
misfortunes, whereas these eleven young
men OF Mount Vernon were merely guilty
of graduating from the high school. A
heinous crime perhaps. but scarcely merit
ing torture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-29
Elect Emery!
ON the Philadelphia Ledger

rom The Ph1gAuelIhla Ledger.
The democrats of Pennsylvania deserve
and will receive. for their action at Harris
burg on Wednesday, the appreciative thanks
of the good people of the state without re-
spect of party. 1t is freely to be admitted
that the sacrifice of party advantage for
the sake of public good requires no small
degree of patriotism. In accepting Mr.
Emery as their candidate for governor.
Pennsylvania democrats gave an undeniab
demonstration of their devotion to the well
fare of the commonwealth. Even If 1t were
poor party politics. it was magnificent
act of loyalty to the high principles which
partisan zeal too seldom recognizes as
above and beyond It's own selfish interests
The way thus cleared for q straight con-
test between the corrupt organization and
the allied friends of reform, nothing re-
mains for the patriotic citizens of the
state but to march on to the victory which
awaits them.