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country or abroad without finding a pic
turesque richly verdant rolling country
than is braced in the wonderful panorama
which spreads out at the feet OF the sightseer as
he gazes from the summit of Little Round Top
the commanding position of this whole great
battlefield.
of its historic background that serves as the
magnet which draws a great throng thither from
all sections Of the country on Memorial day
They come by train-although Gettysburg IS not
the most accessible of historic spots: they come
by carriage and wagon from wide radius of
the rich Pennsylvania farming region that sur
rounds the battlefield: and finally they come by
automobile. for. 1t is explained, Gettysburg
has become of late years most popular objective
with motor tourists who find in the great park
reservation which now perpetuates the battle
field network of the finest roads in America
highways which 1t is a sheer delight to motor
over even with no thought (f one could dismiss
the subjecD of the historic objects and localities
to be viewed by the waysde.
The Memorial day pilgrims who journey to the
average Civil war battlefield national GENE
terry for the annual strewing of flowers are one
day visitors who arrive after dawn and depart
before sunset But this is not wholly the
at Gettysburg although many heavy laden
sion trains do arrive during the Memorial day.
In addition to this throng. however, there is
almost numerous made up of persons who
spend from two days to a week at Gettysburg
and who have come at the Memorial day session
because there Is added touch of realism to
the scenes at that time when veterans in blue
tramping over the roads where counties.
thousands of their fellows advanced and retreated
during the memorable days of battle. These
visitors overflow the hotels of which Gettysburg
has an unusual number for small town, and
occupy all the available rooms in the private
houses of the little city. The situation would
swamp the liverymen did the conditions of a
decade ago still prevail, but happily the advent
of the automobile has helped matters in this
spect Many of the visitors ride over the battle
field in their touring cars. whereas the cars
for hire relieve the strain upon the fourhorse
and siX-horse coaches which continue of yore
the regulation mode of touring the battlefield.
Incidentally it may be added that the introduc
ton of the motor has greatly facilitated
things for the tourist who is desirous of seeing
Gettysburg battlefield in the limited time
for which Americans famous in
their sightseeing Indeed by keeping
continually on the road from morning
until night with only brief stop for lunch. a
moorist may obtain excellent Idea OF Gettvs
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porated by the legislature OF
4 this patriotic organization had
han 100000. had acquired 600
Il erected more than three hun
when in 1898 the congress OF
, provided for the establishment
.tional park and placed 1t under
The secretary of war.
park has now been constructed
he widest limits of the battle
rtion OF memorials and markers
n the soldiers cemetery alone
hundred memorial shafts and
. than one thousand markers
p at a cost aggregating several
When the present scheme OF
pleted there will be between 100
fine macadanliZed highway eX-
part of the battlefield. while five
towers on various parts OF the
lltseers to enjoy the birds-eye
so helpful in enabling one to
ovements of the opposing forces
:. far-nung battle line.
in dedicating which Abraham
! the immortal address familiar
II, originally contained the bodies
removed from all parts OF the
had been hastily buried. The
has been greatly increased since
ere is yet ample space for the
ay desire to rest at the scene
-truggle between the Union and
One of the features OF the
" Is the ivy-clad rostrum "a
for the dead who sleep around
sed for the exercises held each
Gettysburg is of such compara-
&, that vivid reminders of it are
all sides. The little dwellings.
quarters by Generals Meade and
are yet standing in an excellent
,tion: the earthworks on Gene
intact: Culp's hill still holds its
,'es and the bullet-marked boul-
zen on every hand at the Devil 3
e also been made for the arru-
of those portions OF the heid
uus peach orchard which figured
the battle. but were obliterated
their old-time semblance in the
re war and before the launching
n perpetuating the battlefield az
interesting object lessons OF
/ by present-day visitors to Get
be sadly missed by those sight
generation hence is the pres
efeld as guides of veterans who
e thick of the lighting. TO hear
1t their personal experiences and
aid of undimmcd memory every
red in the crucial battle OF the
an impression more vivid ana
N be hoped for by those who
heir knowledge of this military
1t they may have read in the
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their regiments. without any chahce
of assistance. perhaps literally sur
rounded by the enemy. And when the
end came for one OF them he must
die alone. and in time he would be
marked missing" on the books and
every trace OF him would be lost. G.
| II. Guinand. Il famous shot in his day
past commander OF the Berdan
| ShurpshoOters. was the hero of many
stirring adventures OF the fighting be
fore Fredericksburg.
Few civilians or soldiers either.
| for that matter. can realize what 1t
meant to be sharpshootcr In such a
battle as Fredericksburg" said Mr..
| Guinand. in recalling his experiences
| Il never knew what It was TO fight be
side any one. had to follow my de-
tail practically alone.
! During the battle Of Fredercks-
| burg | with two other sharpshooters
was detailed to pick of a negro sharp
shooter. Confederate. who had been
| working havoc among our men. We
| got Il glimpse of him now and then,
| but nothing more. He was crack
shot and had brough, down many Of
fccrs and privates. In order to get
within range Of him we had to go far
! beyond our picket lines and beyond
any chance OF assistance. This gen
eral region was well within range of
| the enemy, n position much too dan.
gerous for the regiment to venture on.
| THE three OF us waited for night
and then crept with the greatest eau
| ton toward the enemys lines BY
morning we had hidden ourselves I'm
| trees well apart where We awaited
| developments. We were well enough
| hidden. but the bullets whistlrd
through the trees and occasionally
| dropped showers of leaves on us. but
! that was to be expected. Well, il took
| us all day to locate that negro huf
we got him finally He had hidden
! himself in an old chimney which
| made a pretty good defense lie would
! fire and then duck behind the bricks
/ and our bullets would glance of Dur.
ing that long wait huth my com.
! panions We're eil"uced by the cross
! fire. 1t was two lives for one but ""
never hesifatcd when such a cali
! came"
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burg battlefield in
a single day. or
course on such a
schedule he can
not really study
the ge crap h Y
with relation to
the complex move
ments OF the op.
posing forces and
there will be some
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And no banners Ger them arc waving.
No marehers como and pause
With cheers for tho land OF their savlnl
Or tears for their lost cause:
Yet tho twilight stars intermlngle
With tho hues when ends the day.
And the striving flags now are single
Ger the men OF blue and grey.
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association inC'
Pennsylvania a
expended more
acres OF land a
dred monument
the United Stat
of Gettysburg \
the direction u'
A magnifccn'
which enclOses
field and the e.
still goes on.
more than fOu
tablets and ms
have been set
million dollars
roadways Is cor
and $50 miles
tending to ever
iron observatiu'
field enable -
views which a
understand the
that made up {
he cenetti
Lincoln delivel'
to every Amer,
of 3,555 Soldi"'
field. where Il 3
number of graz
that date and
veterans who
of the supren"
the Confedera'
national Cen"'
memorial shrlll'
it and which i
Memorial day
The battle q,
lively recent d.
to be found on
occupied as III.
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bullet-scarred I
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such as the lai
conspiCuously
or lost much q
days follOwinr
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seerS who con.
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point out by Il
locality that f
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must depend /"
drama upon T.
histories
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Are Rapidly
Marching
Into the
Unknown
has become,

/ has become. per-
hapS, too common as
Memorial day ap-
proaches to remind the
public and the surviv-
ing heroes OF the COS
how fast the army of
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By WILBUR D. NESBIT

There are unknown graves in the valleys
Where the buges sounded for rallies
And TT. 'ns oSn.sin. Sntsss 'sSs sod soGs number
49, Hidden from wars mad day
In their shrouds Of blue and
And will rumble and rattle
And no flies blow sharp and shil
In the valleys that knew the battle.
Nor atop the lone high hill;
Bends and whispers low Of their glory
Of blue and
And no banners ser them waving.
No marehes come and pause
Or tears for their lost
Yet tho twilight interningle
With the hues when ends the day
A'e On tn' Il. i.'Ts m.s a1S Sius now snd 1s "'
There unknown graves in the thckets
onthe hillside and the plain
OF the missing scouts and the pickets.
.Ye fall n
Though their names may not DO enEravsn
In our hearts each finds haven
who the blue and
For tho God Of battles is kindly
With Of mankinds hate
That Is cherished ever too ,y bhndly1, ,
H.x. A"d s. ae;s ,ss pswo Of nature. spnda iaf'
Each set forth in proud array
'' though they wore the blue and gray
everett guns wraneled
Sound the peace the thrush.
And the roses and vines are Tangled
Whcre the day would hurtle
missiles in fray
Grow the ruea myrtle
graves of blue gray
They hands
is Gods beau,l doing
That each unknown found
Where the
w Where peaks lit through the day
OF the unknown blue and gray
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Last night Ireamed | was dead
TT was Il .ldfully warm night wasn't it2"
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seems to take yet deeper meaning
And yet to 1t clothed In the fresh green OF
. twentieth century spring one would never suspect
for the reminders OF the hundreds OF memorials
in marble and granite bronze that this placid land
scape a scant half century ago the locale OF
OF the fifteen decisive battles In the worlds his
tory 1t seems today though 1t might have merely
been chosen as site for Memorial day services
because of its natural beauty. Similarly would the
thousands Of patriotic pilgrims who wend their way
thither every Decoration day be well justified In the
Journey were there historic attractions whatever
to them. for might travel for days In this
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HERE Ia perhaps no other spot In the
country where the observance OF
Memorial day is characterized by the
signifcance OF Gettysburg. No visitor
can traverse. at any season Of the year.
the scene of the greatest struggle In
the most momentuous civil war OF all
history and not gain . new conception
OF tho titanic forces which here enacted
the climax Of ive-year war drama.
but at Memorial day the lessons and the
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Sharpshooter
in the
Civil War

+ no class of soldiers
is so little actually
known as OF the sharp
shooters. At best theirs
WAS desperate work.
They were Obliged
often to fight from
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They are natures hands that are strewini
The flowers on each mound
1t is Gods S own beautiful doing
That each unknown grave is found
Where the cypress leaves are aQuiver
Where peaks lit through the dag.
Where the forest sighs to the river
OF the unknown blue and gray.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-26
Omaha's City Taxes.

Again the season has arrived for the
fixing of the tax levy, and again the
several bodies that make up the
budget for Omaha have determined to
increase the amount to be raised by
direct taxation.
The city council proposes to raise
$f,000,000 for general purposes,
which is but slight increase over the
figures for the current year. 1t asks
for an increase of 100000 in the
sinking fund and makes request for
additional increases in other direc-
tons. The Water board asks for an
increase of 100000 and the school
board for an increase of $4,000. The
explanations given as to why these in
creases are necessary are not on their
face sufficient. The council has al
ready questioned the Water board as
to the necessity for its demand. Just
why the school board should ask for
larger sum is not stated. This
board has reduced its levy by 1 mill,
but the increased valuation of city
property will produce with the lower
levy a greater sum by $4,000 than
was raised for the current year. The
council partially explains that It ex-
poets to retire 100000 of bonds dur
ing the coming year, and to do this it
asks for $250.OOO for the sinking
fund. Other similar inconsistencies
appear in the prospectus for the
budget.
1t might not be out of place for the
civic affairs committee of the Com
mercial club, or some Of the other
quasi-public organizations, to step in
and require definite information from
these tax-levying bodies as to the
reason for the increases demanded
from property owners.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-26
Getting Back at a Law,

Press reports have It that cafe and
restaurant owners in Chicago who en-
ploy women are getting around the
new law limiting a woman's work to
ten hours a day by hiring men TO do
their work. This work consists of
washing dishes and other such odd
jobs as ordinarily go with the culinary
department Of an eating house. OF
course, men as well as women have
always been employed as walters, and
II men are to displaee the women in
that sphere of service, too, IL will be
no innovation.
This way of getting back at the law
may AFFORD some satisfaction to the
employer who thinks ten hours a day
is not enough for a Woodworking
woman to put In, but the law will op-
crate Just the same and the woman
will get all the work she can do. OF
that there can be no doubt, for the
demand for feminine help these days
is far too great to wait upon such a
caprice. Business is business, and
the employer has to do the best he
can, but Just the same, he should not
wish to work his women longer than
ten hours a day. II men find eight
hours their limit, why should women
be made to work tenH
Here is another pat illustration of
the states necessity In the regulation
OF the problem Of labor. II cannot be
left entirely to the private employer,
for human nature is too prone to as
sert itself in the outwelghing Of sell
fsh interest against any other. It
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-26
The Lords Disgrace.

The spectacle of British prime
minister, appearing in the capacity Of
messenger from the king, lodging for
his bodily safety in the House of
Lords, bedims the most lurid sensa-
lions the French Chamber of Deputies
ever beheld and makes the American
congress, in the dizzy days of its Till
mans and McLaurins, seem peacefully
dull and dreary. The insults which
the Infatuated lords hurled at Premier
Asquith when he attempted to declare
to them the governments position on
the veto bill, went over him to the
king, himself. That is what makes
this tempestuous storm of Britain's
frenzied aristocracy so eventful. The
press dispatch said:
Again and again the prime minister tried
to speak, but his voice was drowned. He
spoke a few broken sentences, a word or
two OF which could be heard. Finally his
mouth hardened and he glared at his
tormentors like lion at bay--an impress
sive figure, with straight-cut features,
flushed with anger and heavy gray hair.
He closed his manuscript and cried, 81 am
not going to degrade myself; shall simply
state the conclusion at which the govern
ment has arrived"
The lords are not the good sports
other Englishmen claim to be. Their
sense of fair play is dulled to dead
ness. They did not accord the prime
minister, the kings representative, as
much honor as he could have got from
the coarsest mob of the streets. And
the lords say they have not surren-
dered. This demonstration shows they
have. They surrendered as effect
ually as IL they had actually unfurled
white flag in Mr.. Asquith's face
when they deserted reason for riot.
Their defeat is complete and impress
sive. The parliamentary revolution
has reached it's climax and 1t casts
dark pail of disgrace over the memory
of this historic house of plutocracy.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-26

Victor Herbert, composer, is generally
supposed to be a German, but he is as
Irish as a shamrock. He was born in
Dublin and can dispense blarney music
as copiously as Tom Kelly
After the extra session comes the annual
eonclave Of hoboes under the presidency
of ]. Eads How. The Washington date line
will stick to the newspaper map for some
weeks to come.
1t is said OF Mrs. E. H. Harriman's ex-
perience as a rich woman that within the
last year she received over 5000 begging
letters which asked for money aggregating
100000 This is one OF several penalties
of being rich.
There may be other causes for the ex-
traordinary fickleness OF the weather, but
one is a-plenty Chief Weather Clerk
Moore OF Washington Is threatened with
a congressional searching committee,
which provokes irritation before and after
taking.
The recommendation OF Municipal Expert
Bemis fixing the prices for local gas at rs
cents for the first year, 70 cents for the
second and third years and IS cents there
after, has been approved by the city coun-
ell or Chicago and enacted into law. When
time for enforcement comes the courts
will take hand in the case, but the gas
Jets opened there will pour out a much
eostlier product
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-26
POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS.

st. Louis Republic: The latest from
Lincoln Is to the effect that Mr.. Bryan is
still struggling vainly to forget the troub-
lous times Of 'ss.
ST. Louis Globe-D Democrat: Besides" said
Governor Folk at Omaha, 81 am not a
candidate" But he will reply to the
Bryan questions later-and the Bryan
questions are only for candidates.
New York Tribune: II is all right for
democratic presidential nomination, but
it is little rough on The public in these
midsummer days for him to insist on each
Of them answering about fifty dissenslon
breeding questions.
Boston Transcript: The democracy of
Pennsylvania is split into two hostile
camps, united only by their enthusiasm
for Woodrow Wilson for president, and
this enthusiasm while 1t may not be trans
latable Into actual electoral votes, is at
the same time an excellent thing for Mr..
Wilson to exhibit at this stage Of the
game
Philadelphia Record: William Jennings
Bryan's thirteen questions to be answered
by all democratic candidates for president
have not been treated in Washington so
seriously as Lincoln, Neb.. thinks they
suggests that II Mr.. Bryan would add ten
more interrogatories the total number
would indicate the comment flippant dem
ocrats in the house would be likely to
make.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-26
oMELETs FOR OMAHA.

kearney Hub: An Inspector OF the state
food department has been checking up the
bad eggs" In Omaha. But he does not
publish the names.
Fremont Tribune. Omaha BARRIERS made a
fight before the council for a Sunday clos
ing ordinance. Was It because Omaha bar
bers want to go to church?
Fremont Tribune: 1t is Just possible that
the unfortunate experiences of Omaha Joy
parties on the Fremont road has something
to do with omahR's favorable attitude to-
ward the south route.
Beatrice Express In addition to having
raised the price OF ice TO a point in excess
of that charged in any other nearby city,
Omaha is accusing its ice men of giving
short weights and produces witnesses TO
prove It, The ice men Of Omaha evidently
are reaping a harvest
Hastings Tribune: Omaha is the latest
city to set the commission form itch. and
as q result special election is TO be held
to let the people give their expression upon
the matter. In some cities the commission
form OF government has proven a splendid
success, while in other places Il has been
anything but what is was cracked up to be-
However, we are perfectly willing that Ne
braska's metropolis should try out the COM
mission system that others may gain by her
experience.
kearney Democrat: Omaha is preparing
to vote upon the proposition to change its
form OF government to the commission sys-
tenn and II is proposed to hold a special
election for that purpose. Under the sys-
TEN proposed in Omaha the mayor is to be
chosen by seven men elected as commits
sioners. The Omaha World-Herald appears
to be opposed to the change as proposed
claiming that It delegates entirely too much
power and authority along appointve lines
to the mayor and commission. The commits
sion system is, however, the coming form
of municipal government and it has already
been placed In operation in a large number
of cities with pronounced success.
Kearney Hub: The World Herald is will
ing to stand for the initiative and referen-
DUN, the recall, and everything known and
unknown in the guise of popular govern
ment until 1t gets to a commission form of
government for the city of Omaha. Com
mission government in that city would up
set several baskets of democratic eggs
and possibly this is the reason the World
Herald halts. Control OF the city govern
ment in Omaha has been a valuable demo-
cratic asset in the state but IL the COM
mission form should be substituted and the
municipal administration be taken out of
politics the situation would be quite diff
ferent, we imagine. With some people re-
forms Of government are very desirable so
long as they can be viewed in the distance
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-26
Antidote for DandeIions.

Our readers will bear us out that
early in the season we began casting
about to discover an effective antidote
for dandelions, so now it affords great
delight and satisfaction to be able to
announce that such a discovery has
been made. 1t is not, however, orig
inal with us. l
The remedy is guinea pigs. Strange
1t was not thought of long ago. Yet
Il has had to come, from far-off Not
tingham, England. The American
consul, Mr.. Taylor, in one of his re-
cent official reports, discloses this well
come bit of information. Only Con-
sui Taylor does not specify dandelions.
The way he puts it is that guinea pigs
will destroy and keep out of lawns all
kinds of weeds and coarse grass and,
of course, this includes dandelions.
This is happy discovery and ought
to be worth a great deal to Americans.
The thing to do is to run little wire
screening around your lawn and put
yOuA Pl6o' hCy Will uOI
only keep out all sorts of weeds, but
they will keep your grass moved, Mr..
Taylor says, better than human and
a machine can do it. They NOW it
smoothly and evenly and then when it
is desired to have the grass grow out
the little animals may be enclosed in
small pen in one corner of the lot.
Here is a panacea for the city man
or the suburbanite who is trying to
keep up big, pretty place. 1t ought,
in fact, to encourage larger places and
in all probability will have a direct
effect upon increasing the popularity
of suburban homes. This is not an
experiment, let 1t be remembered, for
Consul Taylor explicitly states that
the scheme has been tried and proved
thoroughly satisfactorily at Green
hithe, Kent, and If 1t works we'll there,
certainly IL will here.
So, hats of to the guinea and vale
to the dandelion.