The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1913-06-27
July, 1S63-and July, 1913


Some 10000 veterans, heroes of great Civil war
of halfeenturv ago, gathering at Gettysburg battle
field great reunion of the blue and the Hans
and IohunieS who fought each other in their youth Such
sentiments as patriotism and good fellowship will rule the
meeting will be great demonstration of the fact
that the union is and undivided.
But what will really be great object lesson of this
unusual assemblage and the spirit which will move ~
A ha-eentury ago-which might call yesterday,
when consider time and the apdy OF its passage-yes
Yesterday these thousands of trying to slaughter
one another They were killing manning making widows
and orphans putting much gloom and suffering into
human lives they could
Their ragged with the bloodlust They took one
another by and and slew until the valleys
ran blood the trenches that hid the eopses were like
burrows in a plowed field Mercy they not for hate
blinded The cheers of the successful ssughterers
drowned groans of the dying and the screams OF the
thousands The aber opened the threats OF young
boys shell off the heads OF veteran planters
Bullets pierced the young those in their prime
the loved by and lost thousands OF wives
mothers and little children back home Hate. passion to
kill malice black sentiments known the demons OF
hell ragged Adams county. Pennsylvania, among
these veterans of today-yesterday.
Today saugherers OF yesterday clasp hands in COM
radeshp They speak Of their united country. They arc
glad that they brothers. They bit for each
others unknown who beneath the little unmarked
slabs in national cemeteries.
a toast toastl There is no North There IS no
South Brothers ar Up with your eups Drink-not the
cool wine OF peace hearty good will Drink glorious
10000,
Gettysburg ls63iei3i Hell Of hate-reunon OF friends
Carnage-good fellowship! Blood, death hoFror-peaee
sympathy. affection! Raging rebcion-uny! Picke.ts
heroic charging with scythehe blue
and gray marching in arm Yesterday. hell-today
harmony
WHAT IS REALLY THE GREAT OBJECT LESSON
BEFORE uS2
What's the matter with Mileage Grabber Humphrey in
the forestry bureau least for the purposes
the reactionary press Has he shut up like clam simply
land bill which was responsible for the big timber graf,
which he attempted to shoulder onto Pineho''
After months operation. England's national health
insurance law for working folks pronounced St. success
serving free medicines the patent medicine men
are likely to starve.
Council refused provide stenographer and one
motorcycle COP to .as sr ,, psaq n oovd
for 50 to rs extra cops to handle the Pota'e
crowds.
Senator Wesley Lorimer Jones i: exceedingly peeved
ator Maybe you won't need any clerk when we get al
whack at this direct election OF senators next year
Perhaps the same which allows judges months
vacation while iiremen get none at all the one when
caused the legislature to exempt them from the recall law
And that's a bum reason. whatever it IS
Case of Gompers Mitchell and Morrison again in Unit
supreme The chances Of the labor leaders dy
ing OF old before imprisonment arc bright the court goes
at its usual gait.
First lazy under the law gets six months
plenty OF work do This town IS place Tor weary
Wine not il Mrs. W. W. complains to Squire Brown
That recall opinion constituting prosecuting
auditor judges OF the sucency OF charges ought
TO be speedily recalled.
So far national administration is concerned, Cali
fornia banner for offering banety blank thing
after another
Gas rates are higher any city its size
But unlike the Smith building we're not Dragging about
that.
Another join the long list. S. Foster Kelley
couldn't back, either.
/ Grand
CANAL
On the and Magnifcently Appointed