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The National tribune., 1907-08-22
DEPARTMENT COMMANDER OF
IDAHO.
A. NJ. Rowe, Vc,rrns, Ss.o Artillery
mnn.

A. NJ. Rowe, a vct-rn.l Ss.o Artillery
man. IT no
Alexander NJ. Rowe, who was elected
June 26 Commander of the Department
of Idaho, G.. A. r.. enlisted April 20,
1861, from Randolph. Portage County,
O., in Co. G, 7th Ohio. but the enlist
ment only calling for three-months
service. he was mustered out Aug. Is.
Seven days later he enlisted in Co. A,
lst Ohio l.. A., and served until Dec. 81.
1863, securing discharge TO rc-erlist
as veteran volunteer. Jan. /, 1864,
he was enrolled in the same company
and regiment to serve three years more,
or until the close of the war. Com
mander Rowe participated in the fol-
lowing battles: Shiloh. Perryvilie. Stone
River, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga. Chat
tanooga. Rocky Face Ridge and Re-
SAGA. During the battle of Stone River,
his battery having been destroyed, he
attached himself to the Chicago Board
of Trade Battery for the remainder of
the engagement.
Commander Rowe was totally dis
abled at the battle of Resaca. Ga. May
Is, 1864, and was discharged at Cleve-
land. o.. Oct. 25 of fhe Same year
The National tribune., 1907-08-22
SECRETARY NlETCALF.
He May he Drafting New japanese
Immigration Treaty.

1t has been widely advertised that
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf will be
back at his desk in Washington Sept 9.
by which time ii is supposed there will
be interesting doings in naval affairs.
He has been a central figure in tho
Navy more than ever since his now
famous Fourth of July announcement
from his home in Oakland. Cal. that
the battleships were to be ordered to
the Pacific Ocean. and that their rem
devious at San Francisco would he as
fine spectacle for the people of OAK
land and vicinity as had ever been wit
messed.
The estimates of the various Bureaus
of the Department will be ready for him
on his return, and the Secretary will
have the immediate task of shaping
these up for the consideration of Con-
gress He will go to Oyster Bay for "a
talk with the President before the lat
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

incompetent operator might mean large
and irreparable loss. The arbitrage
business In stocks. which is a very large
business. depends solely upon the expe-
dition and accuracy of the operator s
transmission of messages. An operator
in New York, for instance, flashes to
Boston the figure offered there for a
given stock If il Is offered for sale in
Boston at that time for an eighth Of a
cent less a Boston operator buys 1t in
stantly and forthwith sells it in New
York. The whole transaction, covering
thousands of dollars. takes less time
than is required TO describe II. The
communication is almost instantaneous,
but dependent upon The accuracy of the
man at the key.
Much commercial business Is of less
importance and is handled by less ex-
perienced men. The messages that pass
between friends on social topics come
within the class But in every branch
of the work the hours are long, and un-
less an operator works much overtime
1t is not easy for him to make over SiG0
a month. Many of them work from IL
to Is hours a day. The rules are cx-
ceedingly strict about time off, There
are very few Sundays or holidays for
operators. Thousands of them toll al
most night and day. with little oppor-
tunity to see their families
The telegraphic business is very re-
munerative. The Western Union stock
is heavily watered. but pays a good divi-
dend on the inflated capitalization. The
rates for press work are fairly low. but
the rates for commercial and social
messages are very high. as compared
with other countries. The low press
rates. of course, are due TO the great
volume of business.
There is a feeling among the we'll
wishers of the teiegraphers that prob
ably they would have done better had
they struck at a buster time of year
august is a vacation month the country
over. 1t is easier for the telegra ph
companies to man their wires now than
it would be at any other month unless
il be July
The National tribune., 1907-08-22
First Member of die GA. r..

Maj. Epenetus W.. Mcintosh. who is
now living in Omaha. claims to be the
first member initiated into the first G.
A. r. Post, organized at Decatur. Ill.
April Z, 1865. He was for a time an
Office boy in the office of Abraham Lin
coin. and cherishes many pleasant men,
ories of that great man. He beat a
drum at the meetings during the fam
Gus debates between Lincoln and Doug
las. He enlisted at once in the l4th Ill.
and was taken prisoner at Ackworth,
Ga. After being released at Anderson
Vile he was on the :ll-fated Sultana
when she blew up. and was in the water
IA hours. He was still on crutches
when he was mustered into the Grand
Army at Decatur.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

Schools.
for the annual meeting of the auxiliary
organization was opened. Headquar
te:s are in charge of Mrs. Pentreath, of
Yonkers, President of the Department
of New York, and Mrs. Westcott, per-
Sonal representative of the National
President Their Headquarters are in
Convention Hall, in the Trustees Room,
directly below National Headquarters.
National Headquarters has been ex-
panded so that the entire row of offices
on the second floor are now occupied.
The State Committee in charge of the
expenditure of the $4,000 which has
been appropriated by the State for the
entertainment of the GAR. met the
local Executive Committee here last
Wednesday, and plans were talked
over and the seal of accomplishment
was set on many things. Assistant
Adjutant-General Bull of the Depart
ment of New York, was made the rep
resentative of the Committee and of the
New York Department to act with the
Executive Director in matters pertain
ing to the Encanpment arrangements.
The various local committees re-
ported to the State Committee. The
Chairrnen of the several committees are
are as follows:
Accommodations, r. S. Remington.
Badges, T. r. KneiI.
Auditing. w. H. Waterbury.
Decorations and Illuminations, r.
Newton Breeze.
Grand Stands. Harry Crocker.
Information. James n. crocker.
Music, William T. Moore.
Horses and Carriages, J. w. Lyman.
Invitations, Hon. James D. McNulty
Public Comfort and Medical Aid, G.:
Scott Towne. M. ID.
Parade. Col. James w. Lester.
Press. G. II. Benedict
Printing, George E. Adee.
Reception. James NJ. Snyder.
Entertainment. L. e. Griffith.
Halls and Reunions, II. B. Ormsbee
Transportation. A A Heard
Legislative, o. p. Clark
Souvenir Book, General Committee
Finance. ]. w. Lyman.
Accommodation.
The Accommodations work has been
greatly systematized. and supple
mental canvass to secure the names of
parties and Posts who have already Sc
cured accommodations has been under
taken, and will be pushed rapidly II
1s proposed to follow this with two
other canvasses, thus keeping close
track Of the assignment of quarters
Requests for free quarters are coming
in freely, and assignments are being
ma3e. Several comrades have already
been here in person to inspect the free
quarters offered. and have been allotted
the required space. All free quarters
will be in buildings. II is not intended
to use any tents whatever The State
Committee has taken the matter of free
accommodations under its special
charge, and will spare no expense to
make everything satisfactory.
The matter of badges has been set
tied, and those who have seen the de-
sign selected assert that the prospect
is that the badge Will be one of the
handsomest ever made for the GAR
The descriptions which have appeared
are greatly misleading. No official de-
Fcription of the badge has been given
out, and none will be. The first intima-
tion which the majority of the repre-
Bentatives will have of the style and
quality of the badge will be when they
open the box in which the badge is to
be placed. The contract for the badges
has been placed with the Whitehead G.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22
THE NATIONAL
ENCAMPMENT.
Preparations Going Ahead With
Wider Scope, Increased Activity
and Much Larger Forces at
Work.
Saratoga Springs. Aug. is.

saratoga Springs, Aug 10.
Matters at the Headquarters of the
41St National Encampment OF the
Grand Army of the Republic are fairly
boiling. Executive Director Sterre:t
and his assistants are busy perfectinS
the details for the entertainment of the
veterans. The office force has been
largely increased the last week to care
for the largely increased business
Tie Woman's Relief Corps opened
Hea2quarte,s s Wednesday, Aug. s. and
The National tribune., 1907-08-22
Free Quartefs.

Requests for free quarters are coming
in, and quarters for nearly 2.e00 have
been assigned. The bunks are all ready
for delivery, and will be put up in the
various school houses early next week.
The ticks for the hunks are being man
ufactured, and all Will be in abundant
readiness for this most Important
branch Of the entertainment Of the En-
campmeiit.
A canvass of the city has been made
the past week for the purpose of as
certaining who have located and where.
This will be embodied in a directory for
use at the Encampment. Representa-
tives of Massachusetts, Posts have been
in the city this week arranging for
quarters. and many requests are daily
receiving the attention Of headquarters.
The Railroads.
The attitude of the railroads is likely
to affect the attendance. They are show
ing no favors, and seem to be withhold
ing reasonable concessions. There seems
to be a disposition on the part of the
railroads to make the great and general
public wear the hair shirt" for awhile,
and to compel a popular uprising
against the Hepburn Rste bill and the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
KNEIL.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

Member OF EXECUTIVE Committee.
Hoag Co., of New York, n. Y, with
whom an iron-clad contract has been
made.
The contract for the badges Of the
various auxiliary organizations has been
placed with Jos. h. Davison's Sons, bf
Philadelphia, and each badge will be
appropriate TO the organization fol
which # is made. There will be 2,000
- these badges.
H Decorations.
The decorations and Examinations
ore, some of them, already in place.
The large electric badge. which Was 90
oreatly admired at Minneapolis last
The National tribune., 1907-08-22
Another Comrade for President.

Z. W. Brown, 112th ILL.,. wants COM
rades TO have a chance to vote for an
other veteran before they pass away.
There are several fine veterans in pub
lie life from whom comrades could
make choice. and whoever it may be
he should receive their enthusiastic
support
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

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free coupon below and mail to-day.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

forthe arrangement Of affairs for our
guests to National Convention at Sara
toga for the week of Sept. 9, 1907. we
would impress upon the Corps of our
Department the urgent necessity for
Individual action in raising funds for
this purpose. Corps Presidents are
asked to bring before their Corps this
subject at the first meeting, and for
ward to the Department Treasurer all
amounts contributed. Corps are urged
to be liberal as their funds will permit.
We wish the active cooperation of
every member of our Department In
making this entertainment of our
guests second to no other National
Encampment.
Sarah E. Fulton, Chairman; Flor
ence NJ. Westcott, Emeline NJ.
Chaffee, Lucinda Carpenter, Com
mittee.
"Approved: Ida Shots Pentreath. De-
partment President; Regina Demar-
est, Department Secretary"
Official Directory No. 1 has been is
sued, and is being sent out in large
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

Official Directory No. 1 has been is
sued. and is being sent out in large
numbers. The railroads thruout the
country are issuing circulars giving in
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

During the week a memorial service
will be held in honor of Lizabeth A.
Turner, life Chairman of the Ander-
sonville Prison Board and Past Presi-
dent Of the w. r.. c. The service will
be held !n the First Methodist Episco-
pal Church on Sept. 10, and all veterans
are invited to attend.
The National tribune., 1907-08-22

The strike of telegraphers. inaugural
ed a week ago. has not materially af-
fected Washington. altho it is the great
est telegraphic news center in the coun-
try. The Government now does an
enormous telegraphic business. which
costs hundreds of thousands of dollars
annually. But Government business is
almost always given the right of way
over telegraph lines, and there has been
no disposition on the part of the strik-
ers to prevent the sending of Govern
ment messages, except in so far as their
refusal to work has that effect.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-28

When dread disease inftamed the house
of life
IT, which o,e dcarer than our beng
dwelt;
And in our terror We afar had kneit
While loving skill net natures hidden
strife;
Put hravest of the sons of men is he
Who .rcets the savage look of clear. cold
hate,
Nor hates the hater, nor does hesitate
An instant in his own sculs loyalty.
The day Of others d ubt is overcast;
Heavens SILENT blessings on the home
descend
The table and the fireside and the friend,
And days of trusty comradcship at last.
How quick to share the thought but half
expressed,
To fly around the earth on fancy's wings
And see the marriage of the Thoughts
The instant's birth of Divine unrest.
If Thou have joined in us the hearing
ear,
The seeing soul, the life that dwells
The universe beats with the beating
heart,
The music of the atom and the sphere
We, too, may hear the never-ending
May suffer with the hopeful souls that
rise
To the thunder of the heavenly harmo-
For through all worlds Thy great poet
rose.
The II sd mighty soul dwells infinitely far
She comes to us we know not how nor
when. ~
And in the seeming shows the tbi,rs .b,+
are ~
She recks not though our cry be low or
loud. Va
She needs not all the folly of our deeds.
She WorShlps in the service of our needs,
10 which the heaven once was bowed.
What though we draw more near with
meaSuring-rod
Ana dare the holy stiffness to rrofane
Or shatter every earthly shrine5 In yaii,
IN VAIN, for we are blinded by the God
HIS Prophet. unaprroachable. Divina,
by s.,t OF grace, beholds the world we
tie lives within the world, and lives to
Immortal gold in his new-minted dine
And when the line is ours. ard tho
Is hidden in the. splcndo- Of That Dav
we pause an instant, wondering. and
God speed thee ever to thy cloricus so,,,
inc next speaker was President
ME OF Colby and though he spoke
orieny ne mad something to say and
SAID II well. He declared that LongfeI-
low was the richest single contribution
that Maine had made to the life of the
nation He gave special praise to Long.
fellows four prose works and to the in.
fuences of the poets pure life. He
dweit IN closing upon Longfellow az
the teacher, seer and prophet of the
uniong and as the poet of optimism
consolation and hope.
The last speaker was Prof. W. 3
Mitchell Of Bowdoin and his talk on
Longfellow's connection of IA wears
with the college as student and pro-
fessor was the chief feature of the even
ing's interesting program. He held the
closest attention Of the great audience
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No human eye fnresaw
When Ills reSiStleSS law
Should add another name
To the great scroll of fame:
And 10: the child of light
Emerged from out the night
Beneath this northern sky:
20 bright, new earth, It's l..
Strong. happy youth, whose fancies
In laughing song and echoeing word.
Matching the wonders of the time,
When life's new melody is heard;
When still we grasp at sun and moon,
And look unawed at starry skies,
Asking of heaven no dearer boon
Than endless childhood's paradise.
Unbihden comes the strange intruder,
DEATH:
flushed is the noisy play, checked Is the
breath.
And all the world is hidden in the mist.
For he has chilled the loving lips We
kissed.
In vain we ask. we cannot understand
The silent sleep the INCREASING hand:
Sweet music is grown sad, the sweetest
flowers
Seem burdened with speeches. pain
like ours.
Strong nature rises. and the playing
child
Exults TO play the man;
joys in the storm, and knows the wind
less wild
Than the deep surgts of the beating
Unresting till the magic wan of art
in the good Mothers plan
Gives the right rhythm, and the spirits
dance
Obedient to Loves imperious glance.
Thou great Creator of Thy humankind.
What JOY TO search for what Thou veils't
from sight.
To wake in US the eager appetite;
We bring Thee worship of the knowing
We see the tiny fragment of Thy law
Within the ken of eyes that Thou hast
given;
We strive with courage where the great
have striven:
Not yet for us the inner temples awe.
But still beyond the truth of outward
things
Thou yearnest to reveal the inward
And shinest through the beauty of
And we behold. and all creation sings.
For two. Cor two alone. the whole world
the dream grows real with pain and
happy tears.
While Thou dost teach the lesson of our
years.
That he alone is rich who richly gives.
Thrice happy he whose heart could still
When open foes assailed in open feds,
And honor net the sword that honor
yields,
And took the strokes that worthy foe
When came the day of tickle fortunes
fight.
Rearing with her the fools gold of our
thrift
But imrotent to take away her gift
OF Eear-long courage and the clearer
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Eighty-five years ago last autumn
tenry w. Longfellow and his olde,
prother stephen. having been prepared
at Portland Academy, passed their en-
trance examinations to Bowdoin College
AT THIS time the boy Henry was but
Icufseen years old. and it was probably
because of his youth that he ard his
brother did not become resident stu
dents in Brunswick until the beginning
OF his Sophomore year.
1t is OF interest for us who know well
the college and its surroundings today
70 go back in imagination to that fall
OF le22 and see young Longfellow at the
door OF the young college. To outward
view the college then was not the COL
lege that we know today. Many of
the halls and walks that we have come
10 love were not here then. There was
not the grateful shade of elm and
maple; there was no chapel with its
stately spires; no granite hall memorial
| OF war and sacrifice; no Searles Science
building witnessing that natures laws
are Gods thoughts; no Walker Art
building teaching that beauty is truth
| and truth beauty; no Hubbard Hall,
3,
preserving for posterity the wealth Of
the wise" On the college yard not
more than one-fourth the size of the
| present broad campus there were only
five buildings-old Massachusetts Hail,
Of course. Winthrop, Maine, the Presi-
dents house, and a wooden chapel. But
though with small material equipment,
and with curriculum that seems
r1eagre indeed when compared with
that OF today with its many elective
courses, the college had a staff of in
structors of sound learning and strong
personality. There was the "impas-
sive, inflexible" President Allen; there
too. was the gentle Newman, who
taught to Longfellow whatever can be
taught of the art Of rhetoric; there was
the precise and polished" Packard;
and there was the magnificent and
, massive" Cleaveland. of whom Longfel-
low in later years wrote:
Among the many lives that 1 have
None 1 remember moro serene and sweet,
More rounded in itself and more complete
Than his
And more than anything else there
was a goodly group of able and ear
nest students A prominent man has re-
Gently said that if he were selecting
college for his son, he should not ex
anime the buildings and library and
curriculum and faculty so closely as
the student body. He is wise man; for
college ties are strong. The boys with
whom student eats and sleeps; those
with whom he solves the difficult prob
lens and picks out the tangles in Greek
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and Latin; with whom he strolls of an
evening to the Falls. or a Wednesday
afternoon to the shore, to whom he
tells his future plans. his love affairs
and his religious doubts, whose sympa-
thies mingle with his like "the inter-
lacing of green summer foliage" those
fellows are going to mould his ideals
and determine his character
And in this respect Longfellow was
: especially fortunate if we can at all
Judge by what his fellow students af-
: forwards accomplished. "a more re-
lnarkable class never gathered under
American college roof-tree than the
BowGoin class of 1926 wrote DR.. Ly-
man Abbott. some 20 years ago. 1 doubt
! if in the history of any American COL
lege could be found at any time Iarg-
er group Of students who have since
achieved a national reputation. Long
fellow had as fellow students in coll
lege Pitt Fessenden. Franklin Pierce,
Calvin Stowe. John S. c. Abbott, James
w. Bradbury, Horatio Bridge, George
Cheever, Jonathan Cilley, John p.
Hale, Seargent Prentiss and Nathaniel
! Hawthorne.
Into such surroundings and under the
influences of such teachers and fellow
students came the lad Of Is in the fall
of 1922. And if the recollections of his
associates are to be at all trusted,
Longfellow was at that time hand
some and attractive boy. Although
slight in physique. he was, we are told,
as straight as an arrow; his complex
ion was light and delicate as a maid
ems, with a slight bloom upon his
cheek; his eyes were deep blue and cit
seemed" says one, cas- if you could
look down into them as into a clear
spring" His well-formed head was
covered with a profusion Of brown
hair waving loosely. He was pure mind
ed, unselfish. hearted and con-
genial. with frank, amiable DISPOSE
ton and with refined courtesy
And his good locks. his gentlemanly
bearing. his aimable temperament, his
fine sense of honor. his scholarly tastes
were his, we may believe. both by
breeding and by hereditary right; for
he had to be bred in one'of Portland's
most cultured homes and had behind
him an ancestry of which he had no
reason to be ashamed. Go back as far
as we may on both sides and We find
good blood.
The Longfeliow from Yorkshire
settled in Byfienld, Massachusetts. and
lost his life in his country's service.
The second. Stephen, was a respected
village blacksmith. whose brow was
wet with honest sweet, and who could
look the whole world in the face, for h..
owed not any man. The third, Stephen.
was graduate Of Harvard and for
many years teacher in Portland. The
fourth. Stephen, who lived in Gorham.
was for IA years Judge OF the coura of
common pleas; the fifth, Stephen. the
poets father. was an honest and in
Continued on Page Eleven.)
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At CITY HALL, AUGUSTA.
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immortal ''Morituri Salutamus" at the
Both reunion of his class. He then
asked the audience to rise while the Dr.
vine blessing was invoked by Rev.
John Carroll Perkins, pastor Of the
First Baptist church in Portland, where
Longfellow and his ancestors worship
ed. At the conclusion Of the prayer
Judge Oliver G. Hall was introduced
as the first speaker Of the evening.
Judge Hall spoke in substance as fol-
lows:
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Jack Stevens succumbed to the in
eVitable while on visit to the city
Tuesday afternoon through over-in-
diligence in grip remedy and fell by the
wayside. where he was found BY
Oftcer Pomerleau and taken in. He
was still feeling the effects of the
treatment when brought into court
yesterday morning and was visited
with the usual fine, but as he was
temporarily without funds he was
given until the next pension day TO
produce the amount of the fine.
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The first of the two Legislative as
semblies to be given at the AususTa
House this winter came off last even
ing In the dining hall of that popular
hotel. ard was complete success.
The party was a large one and every
one was apparently there for the pur-
pose Of having a good time. Music
was furnished by Dennis and refresh
ments were served at intermission.