The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-17
A ROSE AND A TEAR.

The guns and the swords and the cavalry
with the adjutant,s sash and his gay
And his buckles and buttons of gold,
And the veterans come at the tap of the
drum
To the graves in the shadows and dew.
WIN a tear and rose for the gray
And rose and a tear for the blue.
BY the heroes that areen in tbe long
grasses deep
:, With their colors eternally furled,
iheir for weapons IONS all rust and their uni
Let us pray for the peace of the world.
one banner is Ger US. one future before
To Liberty still we are true.
So tear and rose for the graycoat's
Mr. ARd a rose 3ss,a and a tear for the blue.
TattoOing Out of Style.
One of the customs of the past
ages. which is now going out of use
almost entirely, is that of tattooing. or
marking the skin indelibly by pune
turing 1t and inserting a coloring mat
ter. The practice of tattooing arose
among primitive people in MANY diff
iefent ways. With some it was a
mark which served to signify subor-
dination to chief, very much as
farmers at this day brand their cattle.
Gated the district in which the person
nved. With many. others it had a re-
ilg1ouS significance, and sacred en-
plems were marked upon the body
Some superstitious service of the
dead was evidently indicated in early
Bible times by tattooing, for the book
of Leviticus contains this command:
"Ye shall not make any cuttings on
your flesh for the dead, nor print any
| marks upon you"
been resorted to from sheer vanity,
and the practice, so far as it has sur
vlved in modern times, has been the
result OF mixture of vanity and sn-
perst1t1on. Occasionally the = dime
shows and the ''side shows. contain
| a tattooed man. some of whom were
willingly marked over their whole
bodies, while others were tatooed by
their captors when they were taken
| prisoners in savage wars.
| AT the present day it is sailors and
| soldiers. among civilized people, who
practice it chiefly, and their arms and
| the backs of their hands are often
decorated with anchors, shields, and
all sorts of fantastic devices, or with
religious embIems.
In Europe workingmen frequently
decorated their arms with entire sem
fences. Some one of the great iron
| works at Neuilly. France, has been
observing the tattooed arms of the
| WOIhIl0II anu HAS IOuuQ upon Ll6n
the following sentences. the first three
being very common among French
Workingmen:
mo luck" Child of misfortune -
Thin for life Death to the unfaith-
full Born under an unlucky star
"Glory, honor, fatherland," and "All
| for the fair
Many representations of cIasped
| hands and emblems of occupations.
such as hammers, squares, compasses,
or anchors were also found.
Some extraordinary tattooing has
oruits for the French service in AL
geria. One soldier had tattooed upon
| his breast an elaborate picture of a
| lion hunt, while his back was orna-
mented with a representation of a
cavalry charge. AS the process of tat
| tooing Is painful, the man who bore
| these works of art must have suffered
greatly.
Many men who have had the backs
| of their hands tattooed in youth, and
| have at that time regarded the decor
| tons as something to be very proud
| Of or who, as workmen. have been
proud to bear the emblem of their
| trade have very earnestly wished, in
| reaching maturity or in working their
| way to wealth social position, that
| they might be rid of the marks which
| they took such pains to get but the
marks remain tenaciously and indicate
with almost perfect certainty that he
| who bears them was either a very
| foolish boy or that his early life was
passed among bad associates or in a
| mental occupation.
| There are, however, fewer and few
| er men who bear such decorations,
and it is probable that tattooing will
| before many generations, disappear
among enlightened people.-Pittsburg
| Gazette-Times.