The Forrest City times., 1912-05-24

Cnlon forces Of the Civil war will rC member alike the graves of northern and southern soldiers. One week later, however, there will be another Observance at Arlington when the confederate veterans and Daughters | oi the Confederacy will hold speciai memorial services of their own in honor of the southern dead
 Great Chiefs Lie There
 Grant and sherman, the greatest two of the northern war chtefta.ns sleep elsewhere. one on the shore of the Hudson and the other Ill beau tiilI cemetery in the city of St Loms
 Their place Is in Arlington. Genera.s. eo!oheIs, sergeants, corporals and prl. yates are side by side in this eucamp. ment Of the dead The silent tents ot thionlsts and Confederates are pitched not far apart and no guard stands between. Sehofied tFederaD and Wheeler tConfederate1 sleep al. most side by side They were friends. then enemies In war, and then friends again, serving under the same flag. both dying while in service of the United States.
 There are soldiers Of many wars resting in Arlington Revolutionary veterans lie under the same trees that shelter their descendants killed III the Philippine Islands. Soldiers wno were the victims of the Seminole and Sioux sleep side by side, and with them are the men who fell at Moline eel Key and Buena Vista Sailors who served on the Constitution and on the Maine are Il port in Arlington.
 General Sheridan rests under a no ble monument not far from the Cur tis mansion on the brow Of hill over looking the Potomac. Near him are Crook, and Gresham. and Gibbon. and Schotieid and Wheeler and Harney For seyenty-eae years Harney was commissioned officer of the United States army-a veteran of the olG Second Dragons He fought ID the Rlack Hawk and Seminole wars, in Mexico, aad en the plains. and In the northern army in the Civil war lie was q soldier after a soldiers own heart
 Time and again attention has been called to the lact that General Law. ton, who was killed at the head of his troops in the Philippines. lies in ArI. inston without fitting memorial Of his services to his country There Is a government marker above the grave bearing the Indiana soldiers name and rank. and that Is ala little gov ernment reminder rising nearly SIX inches aboye the turf On Memorial day there will be memorial of few CTS on General LaWtous grave. but 1 the flowers will fade within a week | IL should be said that there Is a laa- possibly an unWritten law-R-z.s I makes 1t impossible Tor the goye~a ment to erect monument oye: tbels | graves in Arlington. The generals 1 family is prevented from doing It bv the terms Of his will
 Fish Bill Arouses Congress.
 It was fish bill" which i caused congress to pass joint resolution to direct the president to an endeavor to bring about an under standing among the great powers which would result in incorporating in he permanent law the principles of l exemption of all private property at sea from capture unless it were known 10 be contra band of war
 Nowadays with The Hague tribunal i in occasional operation and with at tempts being made for general arbi- | traitor treaties the efforts of the l government are toward eliminating from the field Of spoliation private property whether at sea or on land Cn der an agreement which 1t Is thought has been given the effect of interna tional law unfortilied cities on the sea coasts hereafter are to be immune from bombardment Various other ar raneenenfs have been made looking 70 the introduction of the humanities into warfare"
 l. has been said that it was a fish bill which ed 10 agitation of tho ques tion Of the exemption from seizure of war Doubtless iy was a pure aecideB: in the matter of date line circGm stance but II was on the last day c. one Lenten season that the atto-neE general sent TO congress a huge fresh fish till which was promptly referred l 'o the committee on approrriations This fish bill or rather collection of l fish bills was simply a list of judg nents rendered against the Uaifed l States by the Supreme court.
 Paid by Uncle Sam.
 Uncle sam paid for eleven boatloads l Of fresh fish. simply because the huge 1 navy which he collected in me West Indian waters thought fer the first ! month or twc that the chief end and 1 aim Of it's guns was to seize Spanish | fishing smacks and their loads oi | smelts and other things finny. If the fish had been pickled smoked or 1 salted | would not have been SC had | for Uncle Sam. or so good for the