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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

see boil weevii as big as chicken .
Would you like TO look in the face OF TINS
threatening enemy of the nations pros
perity that you may always kno" MN
on sight and therefore be ready TO deai
out summary death to him? The govern
ment has made many times magnihed
models of him for the very purpose oil
thus instructing you.
Would YOU like to see great storm
break high UP on the wooded mountain
tops and watch the progress of the waters
into the peaceful valleys below? Would
YOU like to know what would happen on
the same mountain sides If the timber
was gone The government will set up
in Your parlor these varieties of noun
tains and unleash the storms
X
The government will show you in a
minute how to build a bridge that will
resist the elements to the end of time
how to rotate your crops to make your
fields fertile: how TO give your flock of
sheep a medicated bath; how to care
for the meat supply of city: how the
locks of the Panama canal work. These
and At thousand other things are shown
in models that teach at glance. The
model differs from the real only in size.
1t serves its purpose in portraying the
real
There are great many winds in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16
An 0ver-Rough Gardener.

CHARLES TELLER, the inventor ~
- cold storage, is a Frenchman Of
eighty-tive years. and, having been dis
covered in a state of abject poverty. Mr..
Teller was recently decorated and PEN
stoned by the French government.
In the course of an interview with
New York correspondent, Mr.. Teller
talked with grim humor about poverty.
The advantages of poverty are over
rated" he said. The rich declare that
poverty brings out a mans good points.
Well so 1t does-by the roots
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16
These Modern Girls.

HTHE late Bradley Martin, said a
New York clubman, had very
polished and cynical wit
Bradley Martin. apropos of an aged
millionaire's marriage to a debutante,
once recounted to me a conversation be-
tween two girls.
The first girl, lunching with friend,
said:
=. I know he's rich. but isn't he too old
to be considered eligible?
.. My dear answered the other girl,
he's too eligible to be considered old.
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Mai. Hamilton of the 7th had both
been shot and taken to the rear. Maj
May of the 10Th Indiana was mortally
wounded. and Col. Meredith crushed by
I'd and 10Th lay dead or wounded on the
line. The loss of the 9th and 7th was the
33 per cent which Is said to mark the
breaking point of the best troops That
of Doubleday's regiments was severe
but not so great as these.
The Iron Brigade in it's first battle lost
1913 men killed and $50 wounded There
were also seventy-nine missing, most OF
whom were killed or mortally wounded.
for few prisoners were taken in this con-
fict. The other two regiments lost
enough to bring the total up to nearly
600
On the other side there was evidence
that these farmer boys from the west
possessed nerves more steady and an
aim more deadly sure than any with
whom the foot cavalry had as yet eX-
changed fire. Ewell lay out in front of
the railway embankment helpless and
bleeding, with a ball through the knee,
that was to make him cripple the re-
mainder of his days. Taliaferro was
wounded Col Bolts of the I'd Virginia
and Col. Neff of the 33d. were dead. The
colonel of the 9th and the majors of the
Cd and 4th were wounded. The losses in
the other two brigades We're appalling.
These were in Taliaferros division. The
two brigades of Ewell's division had 2l9
killed and $50 wounded. The total Con-
federate loss was considerably greater
than that of Gibbon and Doubleday. 1t
was a great day for promotion for such
as lived to reap its chance rewards.
When the firing finally died away, King
gathered his generals round a little hre
to decide what was to be done. All now
knew it was not one of Stuart's raiding
parties Details collected the wounded
and carried them back through the wood
to the roadside, where the surgeons had
established their rude hospital. Beyond
the wood along an old worm fence and
by the Douglas peach orchard, the dead
and wounded lay almost in continuous
line. BY gloomy path through the wood
some were dragging their manned bod
les while others lay beneath the trees.
bile to go farther. At the hospital, by
the dim light of a few candles, the sur
geons worked feverishly. for all knew
the position was dangerous. The regi-
ments were withdrawn to the road and
the men lay down to sleep for few
hours with arms in their hands. At mid
night the generals had decided. The
wounded. all that could bear transporta-
ton, We're loaded in the ambulances. the
men were aroused and sleepily fell in
line. the command was forward again,
and the division filed of into the woods
south Of the pike. Stiffness brooded over
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

MODELS Shown in Order
AvA That All the World
Nav Get a Glance-Scientihc
Facts That Have Required
Years for Specialists to Work
Out-Stopping the Wind
Gullivers Among the Insects
Bridges That Last Forever,
and the Wonders of Modern
Irrigation.
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In the Hatchinq.

T ORD LEIGH in an interview in New
Il York praised the American business
man.
The American business man." he said,
dreams dreams, then he carries them
out.
1.-The men of other nations dream. and
that's the end of IL.
With a smile. the nobleman ended:
ANY fool can lay plans, but 1t ia kes q
wise man, you know. to hatch them"
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Counter ThruSt.

ga VERY good retort,' said Senator
"A Lodge in an argument in this
city over the immigration bill "A very
good retort indeed, 1t reminds me of
Weeks
Weeks and his wife We're quarreling.
The night you proposed said Mrs.
Weeks. with hard. scornful laugh, you
acted like fish out of water
Weeks sighed.
But very eleverly landed fish, he
said in a musing voice.
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40 ESN

wood is an old railway grade. in places
embankment. in places trench a
quarter mile UP from the pike, rear the
northwest corner of the wood, is house,
the Douglas. or Browner, house, the only
landmark in the whole area.
IL is almost shutdown. Hatchs advance
has passed Groveton and is rising the
ridge, where the Confederate monument
now stands Behind it marches bri-
sade not heard of then, but destined
within that solemn hour to win immortal
fame the Iron Brigade of the West,
commanded by Gen. John Gibbon. 1t was
Jhe one distinctive western brigade in the
eastern armies. made up of the I'd, 9th
and 18th Wisconsin and the 18th Indiana,
four regiments that were never separated
from October. 1861 until they We're mus
tered out of service. The I'd had been
through first Bull Run and staggered a
bit as veterans in consequence. They
rather patronized the others, put on vet
eran airs, swore by their own officers,
O'Connor. Fairchild and Tom Allen, but
had little use for any one else. The 9Th,
eth and 10Th had not had the IDS OPP
portunities, but were sure that when the
time came they could fight as we'll and
in a large measure for the stirring feat of
arms that followed. The I'd, having talk
ed so much. could not be the first TO fall
back. The others would not bulge while
the ID stayed.
The brigade was passing behind the
Gibbon wood, which partly hid 1t from
sight TO the north, the 9th Wisconsin
was just coming into view east of the
wood, and the 10Th Indiana was yet west
of 1t. Doubledays little brigade was
close behind. but Patrick was we'll back
toward Gainesville. At this hour of al
most sleepy calm when every one was
thinking of camp and rest beyond Bull
Kun, Bang, Bang, Bang. burst forth an
1ron-shotted salute from a deep-mouthed
battery on the wooded ridge to the north.
And the enemy had the range so accu-
rately that shells We're exploding direct
~ over the column, while others passed
close with terrifying Screech to burst in
the woods beyond the pike. For an in
slant the ranks paused If uncertain
what to do. Then sharp stern com
mands rang out, the rear was hurried
forward 20 the shelter of the wood. and
all dropped behind low bank that Dor
dered the fence. What was this that SO
suddenly plunged the lovely pastoral
landscape into rude war? Within that
screen of wood that closed the northern
horizon, less than a mile away, was
Stonewall Jackson with his 250O0 vet
Grams, watching this jaunty division as
Tiger watches its prey.
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the most dramatic and ded6&S.
Il battles of the civil war. yet one
almost unrecorded and unmark-
ed by public park or monumental stone.
Cross the Potomac and follow the War
renton pike, out past Annandale and Fair
fax, past Centerville and the Stone House
and just beyond the picturesque little
hamlet of Groveton, on a ridge to the
right of the road, is the prosaic ground OF
a battle as valorous. as deadly as any
that history records.
On that August day of the gloons.- sum
mer Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia.
was moving eastward from Warrenton to
Centerville. in a vain endeavor to bag
Stonewall Jackson. The blue-clad columns
were toiling along the Warrenton pike,
the railway and all possible roads lead
ing toward Centerville. where Jackson was
supposed to be and was not That willy
leader had disappeared in the woods about
Bull Run, and no one in the entire, MON
army knew where he and his o3,oOo lean
followers were concealed.
on the extreme left and rear of the
Union army. moving down the Warren
ton pike, was Kings division of Nc
Dowells corps. four hrigades. lfteen
regiments, some I 900 men in all. This
division left auckland Mills early. but was
delayed by Sigefs interminable wagon
trains, and again in the afternoon, near
Gainesville, by Popes orders. Now, late
in the evening the head of the column,
Hatch's brigade. was coming abreast OF
Groveton, while the rear. Patrick S
brigade was leaving Gainesville. Behind
Hatch was Gibborf'a brigade, and behind
Gibbon. was Doubleday with three small
regiments, mere battaliors. The evening
was calm and beautiful, the men had had
a good rest and coffee in the mldaa OF
the afternoon. and now, CHEEKY with pipe
and soldier talk, marched with easy.
swinging stride 10 cover the Few miles
that separated them from camp and sup
rer. As the dying sun sank behind the
western mountains it shone on the long.
sinuous column of men. and was renected
back by many a spear-tipped flag and
sloping rife along the old Warrenton
road. The bands played. and why not !!
No enemy was near; they had Pope
word for that.
mile west of Groveton the road dips
into swale, some tributary of founss
branch. All along the southern side OF
the pike are dense woods, but on the
to low rolling ridges save one wood.
which bordersAthe road in the swale. a
wood some 500 Nards long. and extending
as far up the sl6HS 10 the north. This
wood has received$tEGm Gen. Charles
King the name of tfSseaaa6aElas wood.
Beyond II is a long ridge. ait4SnsU back
OF that, further north. other WOODS that
extend all the way eastward to Su5ley
Ford. In the southern border of thfs>.4ag
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-16

OULD YOU like to
stop the wind from
blowing The gov
eminent know s
how to do it. Fur
Their than this,
Uncle Sam has
made a model of
his method that all
the world may see
and understand at
a glance.
Would you like to
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MONUMENT DRAMATIC BATTLE OF CIVIL WAR
CIVIL, WAR

these men had been steadfast even unto
death to the laws of their native land.
The courage and devotion of the Iron
Brigade has its lesson that will still be ap-
plicable when the war drum throhs no
longer and the battle flags are forever
furled.
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an idea When the Grecians of old erect
ed a monument to the dead heroes of
Thermopylae they placed on it this in
scription: Stranger who passes, go and
tell the Lacadae mop We obeyed her laws
and here lie We" No laudation of war
or mortal courage, but only praise that
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as though bidding the men in gray come
on, and then began a fire more swift
had yet encountered. And now the other
regiments came hurrying forward in sup
port; Indiana 10th on the left near the
Douglas House; wisconsin 7th moving
coolly into alignment to the right; the
9Th right-obliquing to their place on the
flank. the Incompatible Adjutant Frank
Haskell pointing the line. Now all were
in full view of the coming gray host.
and with a crash that awoke the twilight
woods the Iron Brigade opened saw
agely upon it's foe. Ewell and Taliaferro,
who had thought to sweep the field, were
compelled to halt and open fire. and that
halt lost them a victory.
Now ensued combat worthy OF the
10th Legion or the Grenadiers of the
Old Guard. The opposing lines looked
into one another's eyes at deadly range.
less than a hundred yards There was
cover of woods in rear of Doth, but no
one sought it. Out in the dying daylight
they stood, the volleys reddenng the
darkness that gradually settled over the
scene The stars came out and still they
stood, firing in one another's faces. They
could not advance, they would not re-
treat.
tics. 1t was a contest of endurance. and
III.
ance in numbers. not an inch could jack
son drive these western men. three
fourths of whom had never before faced
Are in battle. obstinate determination,
said Jackson, schooled by past success
to see the foe break before the onslaught
Of his men. Nor was the battery behind
the infantry ineffective. For though
opposed by three, 1t poured heavy and
accurate fire, forcing our batteries to
select another position as Jackson said
in his report. Taliaferro said: AT one
time | thought the humiliation of our
batteries certain"
Meanwhile, King had hurried his aids
to bring up support. None came save
Doubleday. He had three small regi-
ments. some two hundred men in each.
But before the order reached him. at the
first fire, he rushed his men to the cover
of the wood Shall we go in?" asked
the colonies of the 56th Pennsylvania and
10th New York, eager for the fray
OF Pennsylvania and New York pushed
forward through the wood to the aid of
their comrades from Wisconsin and In
diana The other regiment the 9oth New
York, was held to support the battery
No other help came. These six regiments
withstood Jackson's twenty: smaller, it
is true. but much greater in total number,
and far more experienced
But the price paid was dear one.
When extreme darkness ended the fruit
away in the night. one-third of the Iron
Brigade lay dead or wounded on the
ground Col. O'Connel of the I'd
had met his death. Col. Cutler of the
9th had been shot through the leg and
carried from the field. Col Robinson and
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An aid galloped swiftly 10 the rear and
with crack of whip and clatter of hoofs
six guns come bounding up the stony
pike and wheel into battery front. 1t is
Gibbons old battery. B of the 4th Regu-
lars. And on that ridge above eighteen
barking guns provide an animated target.
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The whole corps was not confronting
them, but five. of the fourteen brigades
that made that wonderful campaign.
There were Tahaferro's, the Stopewall
and the louisiana brigades. of Jackson's
old division; the brigades of Lawton and
Trimble. of Ewelrs division; twenty-five
regiments, with the batteries Of Wooding.
Poague and Carpenter besides two guns
of the boy artillerist, Pelham
Taliaferro's men came forward first.
Few of his or Ewelfs regiments now
numbered more than go men, but they
advanced in three and sometimes four
lines, with the colors foremost, as though
each battalion had formed double col
uinn on the center" Never vet, save pos
sibly al Malvern hill, had these veterans
been long denied. and not for a second
did they doubt their power to scatter and
sma sh the regiment in their front But
to their amazement the Black Hats did
not even fall back to the shelter OF the
friendly wood, but kept in their tracks,
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The young soldiers, sprawling behind the
bank and fence. watch with eager eyes
the sudden unfolding of this starting
drama. It's Stuart scouting" said Glib.
bon Just one of his horse batteries.
and, calling Col. O'Connell with the ID
to follow. marched straight into the wood
with the Bull Run veterans at his heels,
while the 18th and 10Th looked envlousiy
on and complained of their luck little
dreaming that instant opportunity for
glory and death awaited them all. 1t
was Gibbons plan to steal within mus
ket range of these impudent Confeder-
ate guns. overwhelm them with a volley,
then while men and horses were in con-
fusion, to pcunce on them and score the
first capture for his fiery brigade. But,
he emerged from the northern border
OF the wood another surprise awaited
him. Half way across the grassy field
long line of gray skirmshers rose to
their feet. and their volley, not his,
crashed the opening salute OF the blood
Jest battle vet fought in that war.
Companies \ and B as skirmishers,
was the command, as the I'd swung
to the right to meet this apparition, and
out danced the right and left flank COM
panies, their little colonel at their heels.
speeding buoyantly to his death. Fair
child has told how OConnor waved some
signal to him. then stumbled and pitched
headlong forward in the grass. Now
rank after rank of gray-clad soldiers
came pouring from out their leafy lair.
and as the sun dipped behind the west
ern mountains it glinted on many red
field and blue St Andrews cross, as
battalion after battalion and brigade
after brigade of the divisions OF EWell
and Talaferro sprang forward to the
attack. Gibbon in amaze saw the peri,
and darted back TO bring up the remain
ing regiments. The BLACK Hats left to
their fate. recalled how they had told
the 9th and eth what it meant to stand
fire, and if fifty brigades instead of five
had burst upon them there were men in
those stubborn ranks who would never
yield an inch. Down went the skirmish-
ers. while the lightning leaped from be-
hind them. the DDS challenge to Jack
sons whole corps.
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EW.WA

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Now Uncle Sam is a good roads en-
thusiast He holds that the prosperity
of the nation largely depends on the
ability of the farmer to get his
produce to market, and that he cannot
haul loads over broken bridges. And
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-10-23
AROSE TO THE EMERGENCY
How Engineer Proved Worthy Of HIs
Position When the Occasion
Came to Try Him.

The engineer Of Chicago suburban
train showed the other day that cool
and experienced head is equal toalmost
any emergency. A side rod had brok-
en-, and with every revolution Of the
wheels, was demolishing the cab and
the mechanism by which the engine Is
operated. He was able to shut off the
power, but the airbrake control had
been destroyed, and the train went
dashing on. Having done all that
mortal could do with the apparatus
that was left intact, he left the cab.
climbed over the coal In the tender
and swung down on the platform OF
the first car. There, reaching for the
air cord, he brought the train to a
stop in few hundred feet. II he had
whistled for brakes the train crew
might not have responded in as little
time as 1t took him to do the thing
himself.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-10-23
WHAT CAUSED THE AGONY
voiuminous Telegram From wife
Worse to Merchant Than a Break
In the Market.

The merchant uttered a sharp ex.
clamation and sank back into his
chair. A telegram fell from his shax.
ing hand. His eyes we're wide, his
face white, beads of perspiration stood
on his brow.
The men in the outer Office whis-
pered among themselves.
Touch Of heart disease?" asked one
mo; the old man can't take up q
note" said another.
1--WE heard rumors of that kind. We
fellows will have to be looking for
another place."
Get to work; he's coming to again"
The merchant wiped his brow,
fetched a despairing sigh, picked up
the paper from the floor, frowned and
stamped his foot, as if to summon all
his resolution, placed the telegram on
his desk and forced himself to read
the bitter message. This was it:
Dearest James: Please send the
waist for my gros grain suit at once.
You will remember the one, as it has
revers on the frontage and chained
stitched bases ON the back. 1t is in
the lower trunk in the closet beside
the hall room, under your winter over
coat. If not there, 1t must be in the
sealed box on the third shelf in the
front room closet II you don't find
it there, it must be somewhere else,
The trunk keys are in the second bu-
reau drawer unless they were put in
the chiffonier, and l think the closet
keys are in vase on one of the man.
| tells. Pack the waist SO as not to
wrinkle it, and, oh! James, please do
not swear!
"Your loving wife" .
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ond attack, with fankers out. and Skin.
mishers in advance, the cavalrymen
rode straight down the valley toward
the retreating hostiles. 1t was bold
and desperate move. the commanders
object being to impress upon the In
dian chiefs the thought of his utter
fearlessness, and to create the impress
sion that the Seventh would never
dare such thing if they did not have
larger force behind. With flags I'M
furled, and the band playing. the
troopers swept on. The very mad au-
dacity of the movement struck terror
into the hearts of the warriors, and
they broke and fled. AS darkness fell
the survivors of the Seventh rode
alone, amid the silent desolation of
the plains.
Hating a moment for rest under
shelter Of the river bank. Custer