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~ the orators who stood at the door,
FLOWING with enthusiasm and PATRIOTISM
and shaking hands effusively with those
who enlisted, said to me:
did you enlist?"
''No," said. Did your
mo; they won't take me. have got
q lame leg and widowed mother to
I remember another enthusiast who
was eager to enlist others. he declared
that the family OF no man who went
to the front should suffer. After the
war he was prominent among those VINO
at town meeting voted to refund the
money to such as had expended it to
procure substitutes. He has, moreover,
been fierce and incorporating toward
the ex-Confederates since the war.
From the first I did not believe the
trouble would blow over in Sixty days"
Mr.. Seward, speaking in New York two
DAYS after the secession of South Caro-
lima, said: 'tSixty days more suns will
give you a much brighter and more cheer
Jul atmosphere" Nor did 1 consider S11
Q month and the promised glory large pay
for the services of an able-bodied young
man.
II was the news that the 9th Massa-
chusetts Regiment had been mobbed by
roughs on their passage through Balti-
more which gave me the war fever
And yet when l read Gov. John a. An
drews' instructions to have the hero mar
tyrs preserved in ice and tenderly sent
forward somehow. though L felt the
pathos of Il, could not reconcile myself
20 the ice Ice in connection with pa
triotism did not give me agreeable i'm
pressions OF war, and when ! came to
think of IL. the stoning of the heroic
eth didn't suit me; 1t detracted from
my desire to die soldiers death.
/ lay awake all night thinking the
matter over. with the ice and brick
bats before my mind. However, the
fever eliminated that night, and / re-
solved to enlist
Cold chills' ran up and down my
hack as / got out OF bed after the sleep
less night and shaved, preparatory to
other desperate deeds of valor. / was
twenty years OF age. and when anything
unusual pas to be done like lighting or
counting, shaved
With a nervous tremor CONFUSING my
system and my heart humping like
mufied drum-beats, l stood before the
door OF the recruiting Office and, before
turning the knob to enter, read and re-
read the advertisement for recruits post
ed thereon until I knew all its pecu-
iiarities The promised chances for
"travel and promotion seemed good, and
] thought / might have made mistake
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Union" One speaker to whom / listened
declared that human life must be cheap
ened," but never learned that he helped
on the work experimentally. When men
by the hundred walked soberly to the
front and signed the enlistment papers
he was not one of them.
As 1 came out of the hall, with con-
nicting emotions, feeling as though 1
should have to 60 finally or forfeit my
birthrtght as an American citizen, one
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mud" until about o'clock in the after
noon, when We halted near Manassas
Junction. Who has not heard of the
Quaker guns at Manassas? We met
the logs mounted on wheels. around the
Notifications of Manassas, and can assure
you they were not SO formidable as the
mud.
After thoroughly inspecting our enemies.
the logs,--we reformed our ranks and
took the back track for Washington. The
rain soon began to fall, coming down lit
orally in sheets: it ran down our backs
in rivulets. and We should have run had
we met the enemy about that time-that
is, if the mud had permitted: for there
is nothing which will so take the courage
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"tailor's shop" spoken Of above, a Bible,
a small vohime of Shakespeare and writ
ing utensils To its top were strapped a
double wooden blanket and a rubber one
Many other things were left behind be-
cause OF lack of room in or about the
knapsack.
On our arrival in Boston we were
marched through the streetS-the first
march Of any consequence We had taken
with our knapsacks and equipments. Our
dress consisted of belt about the body,
which held a cartridge box and bayonet;
q cross-belt, also a haversack and tin
drinking cup, canteen and last, but not
least, the knapsack strapped to the back.
The straps ran over, around and about
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By Warren Lee Goss, Volunteer.

EFORE I reached
the point of en-
listing, 1 had read
and been "en-
Unused" by Gen.
Dix's e a m o u s
shoot him on the
spot" dispatch; I
had attended flag
raisings and had
heard orators de-
claim of "undying
devotion to the
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A NARRATIVE Typical
1 = of the Experiences That
Befell the Average Volunteer
Who Donned Either the Blue
or the Gray in the Early
Months of the War, Follow
ing the Attack on Sumter.
Ru Marian Lea Gnss Vnlnn&aar
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seemed unnecessary. Our colonel was a
strict disciplinarian. His efforts to drill
out of us the methods OF action and
thought common to citizens, and to sub
stitute in place thereof blind, unquestion-
ing obedience to military rules were not
always appreciated at their true value.
In my company there was an old drill
sergeant Qet us call him Sergt. HacketD
who was in sympathetic accord with the
colonel. He had occasion to reprove me
often, and. finally. to infiict blast of
profanity, at which my self-respect re-
belled. Knowing that swearing was
upon the colonel with the manner of one
gentleman calling upon another.
After the usual salute, L opened COM
plant by saying: Colonel, Mr.. Hackett
has"
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es and buttons. and cleaning up for in
spection. A day or two later We moved
to quarters not far from the armOry,
looking out on the broad Potomac, with
in sight Of Long bridge and the city of
Alexandria.
Here and there the sound of a gun
broke the serenity, but otherwise the
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1899. are republished as they remain in
force between the states which ratified
or adhered to them. but which have not
ratified or adhered to the conventions
relating to the same subjects adopted
by The Hague conference Of 1907
(a) From persons with or without pre-
vious naval service. when the candidate
is not less than twenty-one CID nor more
than thirty 600 years Of age: and from
persons with previous naval service (other
than as paymaster's clerk as provided In
the next following paragraph). when the
candidate il between thirty 900 and tl1ir-
ty-fve (S5b years of age. and has had not
less than five C) years service in the
navy.
Navy Department general order No. 90
OF January g. 1911 relating to the app
pointment of paymaster's clerks, Is here.
by amended as follows. with the approval
of the President OF the United States:
Strike out all of subparagraph (a) Of
paragraph ]. and substitute therefor the
following subparagraph:
The commanding oficer of the Marine
Brigade. Camp Elliott, Panama Canal
Zone, has been placed in charge OF the
wireless telegraph stations at Colon and
Porto Bello. All communications in re-
gard to those stations shall be forward.
ed through that officer.
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HON0RING GRANT.
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

Americans, and the association having
the work in charge was headed by Gen.
Horace Porter.
In many ways the story of Gen. Grant
is one of the most inspiring in American
history. Born in a log cabin, his appoint
ment to West Point came about by visit
to the house OF neighbor to buy some
butter. He was plodder in school and
worked hard for all he accomplished. His
first commission was signed by Jefferson
Davis, as then then Secretary of War.
Grant seemed to meet with little success
at whatever he attempted, and when he
wanted commission in the Federal army
at the beginning of the war he could get
1t only on condition that he recruit the
men he sought to command. He was not
considered much of a soldier, but he
stuck to his work faithfully, was per-
slstent drilimaster and improved every
his men. The difficulties he encountered
were many. but he surrounded them all,
and the stone which the builders OF the
army rejected afterward became the cor
ner stone of the military edifice.
Afer his retirement from the presidency
and his entrance into business the same
star of ill-luck
Savings of Lifetime pursued him. and
Swept Away. 1 1d1 s4t'mss VI %er "a
swept away in one financial crash. I'M
poverised and enfeebled by his great suf-
fering with cancer Of the throat. Gen.
Grant seemed destined to die almost as
poor as he was born and to leave his
family in poverty. At this crisis pub
fishing firm came to his rescue with an
offer for the publication of his memoirs.
Although he had never been a success as
writer, his memoirs were such a sim
pie, unvarnished, straightforward story
that the world was pleased with them.
In these latter days we hear of an ex-
President receiving dollar word for
what he writes and of an arctic explorer
getting more than that for his story, but
up to this time no authorship has met
with richer reward than Grants memoirs.
1t has placed the family of the author
again in the realm of affluence, and it is
said that the largest literary check ever
written was as a royalty on the work of
man who was generally considered "a
poor writer
TomOrrOw-THE ECLIPSE.
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duty as first lieutenant Michigan.

Lieut.. r. L. Evans, detached DUTY
naval training station. Newport. r. L..
to duty Michigan as ordnance officer.
Acting Assistant Surgeon j. HI.
Payne. appointed an acting assistant
surgeon in the Navy from April 20.
The several conventions adopted by the
second peace conference at The Hague.
1907 which have been ratified or adhered
to by the United States and proclaimed
by the President, will shortly be published
in asbound volume. entitled Hague and
Geneva Conventions" for the information
and guidance of the naval service. This
publication will not be issued to all OFF,
GERS of the service, but will be- placed in
all ships libraries and other places for
convenient reference.
General order No. 151 February 10,
1904, paragraphs tap and tb), general or
der No. 10. July 1G. 1907, and general
order No. "a, September 1, 1907. being
superseded by the present publication Of
the four conventions last named, are here
by Cancelled.
The convention with respect to the
laws and customs of war on land and
the convention for the adaptation to
maritime war of the principles of the
Geneva convention of August %, 1864,
both signed at The Hague July 20.
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A notice to mariners regarding buoyage
and aids to navigation in Chesapeake bay
and waters Of the fifth district has been
issued. as follows:
Virg1nIa-Chesapeake bay entrance
Tail of the Horseshoe light vessel, No.
40. replaced in correct position April Is:
was found to have dragged about 325
yards to eastward of correct position.
Maryland bay. main chan
mel Summer buOyage)-Buoys replaced
and winter spars withdrawn April -
as follows: Thomas Point shoal buoy.
shoal buoy. No. 81, second-class can;
Hackett Point shoal buoy, No. 33, sec
ond-class can.
Observation-Disclosures sound (summer buoy
age)-Buoys replaced and winter spars
withdrawn April II. as follows: Great
Fox Island shoal buoy, No. =, second
class nun; James Island shoal buoy No.
4, second-class nun.
Observation-Disclosures sound. channel to
southwark of Little Island-Old House
Point shoal buoy. No. /. spar. replaced
April 80; found missing; Piney Island
swash buoy, No. ), spar. replaced April
10; found missing.
Virginia - Hampton Roads - Fairway
lower buoy. PS first-class can. replaced
April IS: found dragged out of position.
Newport News Middle Ground thirty
foot channel gas buoy. No. 4, reported
extinguished April 20. will be relighted
as soon as practicable.
Virginia-Elizabeth river - Buoys re-
placed April II and Is: Channel buoy
No. s, spar: found adrift Channel buoy
No. 10, spar; found missing. Channel
buoy No. II. spar; found adrift. Lam
bert Point channel upper junction buoy,
HIS spar; found adrift.
Maryland - Summer buoyage - Buoys
replaced and winter spars Withdrawn
April 21-22 as follows: Annapolis har-
Dor, thirty-foot dredged channel; dredged
! channel buoy, No. ., first-class nun;
dredged channel buoy, No 10. second
class nun: dredged channel buoy No. IL
second-class nun: dredged channel buoy
No. IT, secondclass nun. Annapolis har-
Dor: Greenbury Point shoaI outer buoy
No. :. second-class nun; Chink Point
shoal buoy No. /. second-class can;
Horn Point shoal buoy No. 3, second
class can; Sycamore Point fiat buoy No.
), second-class can.
North Carolna-Seacoast-Fa Cape
gas and whistling buoy No. 4. relighted
April IS: reported extinguished April 13
North Carolina-Pamlico sOund-Stand-
ard Point buoy No. IL. second-clas5 can,
found in correct position April 10; was
reported adrift April I.
North Carolina-Scuppernong river-ln-
ner buoy No. , third-class nun, replaced
April II; reported adrift April 4.
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HEARS OF FATHERS DEATH.
Albert Haislip Goes to Attend Flu.
neral of Charles County Sheriff.

Albert Haislip. employed in the Agri-
cultural Department received word
yesterday of IT,, sudden death of his
father. Alexander Haislip. sheriff of
Charles county. Md. Sheriff Haislip
was well known here. He was APP
parently well and hearty early yes
tsrda when he arose and went to
breakfast After breakfast he returned
TO his bedroom and was preparing to
leave home to serve court papers when
h fell across the bed and died. HIS
body was found by one OF his daugh-
tsrs.
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Romance in the Balkans.

AS the end Of The Sovereign Power"
approaches lit will be finished in the
issue OF May 2D the scene is shifting to
the Balkans. where Ann and her enslaved
prince are TO work out their remarkable
destiny together. In the next number OF
our Sunday Maya zine. indeed, they have
jnst planned to- visit the princes castle
i'm the VERY, heart OF that tragic land.
where the. torch is to be fiared that Is to
inflame all Europe. Ann Is now the openly
avowed fiancee of Rodpslav after their
apparently loyer-like kiss given for the
purpose. of fooling the astute Saecarello
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Corns General Hospital. Fort Bayard, n
NJ, will be discharged from the army by
purchase.
Private First Class Benjamine +. Hen
dirk. Hospital Corps, Army ana NJ. Nay
sas will be discharged from the army by
purchase.
in the stations and duties OF omcerS Oh
the quartermasters department. are vi
dered:
Cant. Frederick G. Stritzinger, jr. quar-
terma ster. will proceed to Galveston,
Tex, and assume charge OF the uuai
termaster's depot at that place, relieving
Cant. John l.. Jordan. quartermaSter'
will nroceed to Galveston. Tex, and re-
mort 10 the list Separate Brigade for duty
as chief quartermaster renewing MAJ
Bertram T. Clayton. auarternaster.
Mai Clayton will proceed to West
POINT. n. y, and report to the. United
states Military Academy for duty as
nuartermaster and disbursins quarter
master, relieving Lieut.. Col, John NJ,
Carson, jr, deputy guartermasteI gen,
eral Of that duty, and also of his duty in
charge of construction in connection with
the new buildings and other improve
ments at West Point.
Lieut.. Col Carson will proceed to San
Francisco. Cal, and take the transport
70 sail from that place on Or about July
: 1911. for the Philippine Islands, and
mon arrival at Manila will report in per
son TO the commanding general. Philip
mines Division. for assignment to duty I'M
der his direction. in charge of all con-
struction work pertaining to the quarter
masters department on Corregidor Is
land. relieving Col. John B. Bellinger, as
sistant quartermaster general or that
duty. ,;oa
will proceed by the first available trans
mort sailing from Manila to San Fran
cisco. Cal, and upon arrival VIII report
by telegraph to the adjutant general OF
the army for further orders.
Col. Isaac w. Littell. assistant quarter
chief uuartermaster. Department of the
East. and will proceed to San Francisco,
cal and take the transport on or about
July ). 1911 for the Philippine Islands,
and upon arrival at Manila will report
for duty as chief quartermaster of that
division relieving Col. Frederick G. Hods-
son. assistant quartermaster general.
Cant Briant II. Wells, quartermaster,
after the relief of Col Lttelt VIII assume
Temporary charge of the office Oh chief
uuartermaster. Department CT the East
pending the assignment OF an oihcef as
chief quartermaster.
Col. Hodgson will proceed by the first
available transport sailing from Manila
to San Francisco. and Will report By
telegraph TO the adjutant general OF the
army.
Cant. William d. Chitty, quartermaster
will proceed to San Antonio Tex, and re-
mort in person to Capt James r. Nor
movie infantry, i'll charge of the quarter
masters depot at that place, for duty as
his assistant. renewing Iapt' Lann'nS
Parsons, quarteTmaSter. f
Capt Parsons will repair to this city
and report to the quartermas:er general
of the army for temporary duty in his
Office.
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KILLS CHILD AND SELF.
Tragic Termination of a Grand Rap.
ids Mothers Delusion.

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich. April 27-Mrs.
Catherine Lutz, aged thirty-seven. killed
herself and child. Elmer, aged five, here
last. night. The chflds throat was cut
with a razor and the mother fired a bull
let into her own head. The husband
found the bodies.
II Is said that Mrs. Lutz has been suf-
ferinS for some time with a delusion that
some one was trying TO steal her child
and wreck her home.
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ter having been here yesterday visit
ing friends, went to Charles county
last night to attend the funeral. which
will probably take place tomorrow
from the family home near Pisgah.
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Naval Orders.

Lieut.. Commander G. w. Williams.
detached duty command Atlantic tor
pedo fleet, to duty as inspector Of ord
nance in charge, naval torpedo station,
Newport, X. i.
Lieut.. Commander c. S. kempff. to
duty as navigator Michigan.
Lieut.. Commander u. +. Sellers, to
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While the people of hundreds of cities
and towns in the United States are today
honoring the eighty-ninth birthday ami
versary of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, great
sculptor is at work on an image of him
which will surmount what proba bly, will
be the second most costly statue to a
public man ever erected in Amerfca-the
Grant memorial in the Botanic Garden
in this city. Completed, it will represent
an outlay of $2JOOOO, and a full decade
will be required from the date OF its be-
ginning to the hour of it's unveiling. With
the exception of the Washington Monu-
ment, it will probably overshadOw every
other structure of its kind for several
years to come. 1t may be that the con-
templated Lincoln memorial will excel 1t,
but whether that is to be monument or
a great memorial like magnificent peace
bridge across the river that separated the
Confederacy from the Union has not been
determined. 1t may even take the form
of great national highway from Wash
ington to Gettysburg, sort OF App.an
Way of America.
The pedestal of the Grant Monument in
the Botanic Garden is completed, even
down to the four
Memorial Pedestal huge bronze
Already Completed. guard the ap-
proaches. The work remaining to be done
is the completion Of the statue OF Gen.
Grant, the two great bas-reliefs that Will
adorn the sides Of the pedestal, and the
two great groups-one of cavalry and one
of artillery-which will be imposed upon
the pedestals at the two ends of the large
monument platform The quarter-size
models of the bas-reliefs and the models
of the artillery group have been approved.
1t is not known definitely when the
monument will be ready for unwilling.
Under the contract as revised and ex-
tended from time to time, the memorial
is scheduled for completion on the tenth
day of next August, but it is believed
that 1t will not be ready for some time
after that date. 1t is barely possible
that it may be ready to unveil year
from today, which would be just ninety
years after the birth of the man whose
memory 1t is to commemorate.
The occasion Of the unwilling of the
monument will likely be the browning
military display Of American commence
rative history. Having commanded both
the armies Of the Tennessee and of the
Potomac In the field. and having reached
the rank of general, to which but few
men have attained in American military
history, 1t is certain that the fitness of
things will bring to Washington a vast
military spectacle. AS the Society Of the
Army of the Tennessee was instrumental
in bringing about the legislation which
has made the monument possible. it will
hold the post of honor in the celebration,
although it was the Army of the Potomac
which Grant led to victory at Appomat-
tOx.
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High Iron Fence
Slated for Removal.

Slated for Removal. , oeauty: when
mortal is ready for unwilling this relic
of the past will be removed and the
people who visit Washington in the fu-
ture will regard the transformed Botan-
ical Gardens as one Of the beauty spots
of the Capital city. There is one OBJ
lection which has been urged against the
site chosen for the monument 1t Is
about the lowest ground in downtown
Washington. and Is at the foot of Capt
tol Hill. dwarfed by the domination OF
the landso ape of the Capitol. But II
stands directly between the Peace Mon.
ument at the foot of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and the Garfield monument at the
foot of Maryland avenue
The architect Of the Grant memorial is
Edward Pearce Casey. and the sculptor is
Henry Merwin Shrady. The platform will
cover about 1900 square feet of ground,
being $50 feet long by 20 feet wide 1t
will be the thirty-third monument in
Washington under the care of the gov
eminent. and there are at least six more
in OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Of Jefferson
Hamilton, Barry. Columbus. John Paul
Jones and Lincoln.
The Library of Congress has prepared
a list of the equestrian statues OF the
world, which shows that there are PIC
Sucn STATUES III eAIStcHCe tOOdy. some re-
gard the Marcus Aurelius statue in Rome
as the finest, and the one of Charles ".
dominating the entrance to the famous
Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City, is
certainly the largest. About one-fifth OF
all the worlds equestrian statues are in
the United States. and almost half of
them are in the city of Washington.
George Washington has twice as many
equestrian statues to his memory as any
other American. He is followed as a IA
vorite by Andrew Jackson and the one
now under construction will place Grant
third in the list
The first equestrian statue to Gen.
Grant was unveiled in Lincoln Park,
Chicago, in 1891 just
First Statue prior to the Chicago
in Chicago. ond one is tina, stand
ing in Paramount Park Philadelphia,
which was unveiled in 1899. Next to the
Washington memorial. Grants tomb over
looking the Hudson river in the north
ern part of New York city is the finest
memorial erected to the memory of the
conqueror of Appomattox. The corne,
stone of this imposing tomb was laid in
1892 by william Mckinley. The edifice is
of white marble and granite 150 feet
high. The sarcophagus is of Wisconsin
porphyry. The tomb was erected with
the free will offerings of $4,000 patriotic