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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26
"A Civil War
Veteran Talks

See here, John and Mary, you and
Sue and viii and Bessie come over
here and let me talk to you. Yes, tell
all the rest to come, too, If they like.
There, now, stand around my chair
and listen.
l saw the most of you at the camp
fire last night. How you did laugh
when Comrade Phil Check told some
Of his funny war stories And then
STE and Bess both shed a few tears
when David James told something Of
the story Of his prison life-of his es-
cape and recapture and of his coming
home so weak and worn out with dis
ease and starvation that his mother
did not know him. The rest of you
looked pretty sober, too, and no won
der. And | thought when the ex-gover-
nor talked about the meaning of our
flag and the bravery of the men who
fought for it in wartimes that John
and Will and Harry almost wished for
another war that they might show to
the world that the boys of these days
are just as true and brave as those of
81. l am Of opinion, too, that when
you were told of the life, character
and hospital service of our good Mrs.
Governor Harvey and other women
like her you girls almost wished that
you, like them, might go to war and
care for sick and wounded soldiers.
While it does US old veterans good
to get together now and then in such
a campfire as we had last night, we
do not at all wish to have you get from
us love for war. We do wish you to
love your country as you love your
homes, but we hope that as you grow
into manhood and womanhood you will
set very high value on the blessings
of peace. We hope that when our ma
ton has hard questions to settle,
whether at home or abroad you and
others like you will find some other
way to do than fight over them. Don't
fight unless it seems certain that great
wrongs can be conquered and righted
in no other way Then fight for the
right and fight hard.
When we boys went to war in 81
we verify thought the only way to
save our country from disunion and
make it in truth the land Of the free
and the home of the brave was to
obey President Lincoln's call for men
to fight for the honor of our flag.
Many of us We're not much older than
you, John and Harry. There are thou
L., Ill ha@
fields Of the south and along our lines
of march where sixteen-year-old boys
were wrapped in their blankets and
laid away to rest, having given their
lives for the many blessings of our
free, united government of today.
think, boys and girls, there is
something better for you to do. There
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26
IN THE MEMORIAL DAY PARADE.

is just as great need for real patriotism
in times of peace as in war. Our coun.
try's welfare depends always upon
honest, intelligent citizens, women as
well as men, citizens who oppose all
kinds of wrOngdoing and who dare
vote for things that are right and men
that will do right. 1t takes bright,
honest, Industrious, intelligent boys
and girls to become such citizens. The
best thing you can do now is to fit
yourselves for such citizenship. Be
prompt at school and at work. Get ev.
cry lesson well. Do your very best
every day in study, in work and in
play. Do right because it is right, not
because your teacher, father or moth.
er is watching you. Have a high re-
spect for law. Obedience to law is the
safeguard of liberty. Don't even hunt
or fish contrary to law. Be respectful
to your parents, to every one who is
your superior, and especially so to the
aged.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26
Memorial Day,

With reclamation and with trumpet tone,
With prayer and praise and with tri-
umphal state
Of Wariike columns and the moving
weight
OF men whose flrmness, never overthrown
Proved itself steadfast, which did add to
fate
Speed, vision, certainty and ever grown
More terrible as more enduring shone
a fire of retribution and swift hate,
All visibly advancing-with these we keep
Unsullied in our breast and pure and
white
The spirit of gratitude that may not
sleep
nations safeguard against shame and
blight
since sacred memories and the tears men
weep
Alone can keep a nation at its height.
NLangdon Elwyn Mitchell in Century
Magazine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26
LAMP FROM THE M'nEAN HOUSE.

probably is to be desired than the one
written out in Colonel Lawrences
handwriting:
"The pens in this box, one a quill,
the other steel, marked with the date
April 10, 1865, are the ones used in
signing the General r. e. Lee surren-
der papers in the Colonel Wilmer Nc
Lean house, where the surrender took
place at Appomattox Court House. Va,
April 8, 1865, and We're given to me in
the Mclean house April 10, 1865, as
souvenirs with piece of the table ON
which General Lee signed the surren-
der dictated by General Grant. The
piece of table was given to me the next
day in my Office in the sheriff's room
of the courthouse by Colonel Wilmer
Mclean, with certificate of its his
tory. The sheriff was William Daniel
Xix, now of HiXburg, AppOmattoX,
Va, to whom | turned over the sur
plus surrender property for distribu-
ton amOnSsthe poor and deserving Of
the vicinity Of the surrender by verbal
order Of General Grant to me in the
presence of Major General John Glib
bon, president Of the commission left
by General Grant to close up surren-
der matters at the courthouse. The
tagged piece Of paper in which the
pens are wrapped was part of a larger
piece on the table on which the sur
render papers We're written and which
l took from the table to wrap the pens
i'm as they were handed to me by Cen
eral Potter, our Twenty-fourth army
corps chief of staff, for the valued
souvenirs they were.
These pens have never been but
once dipped with ink and then at the
soldiers fair in New York city for my
signature the evening General Grant
was there. A. B. LAWRENCE"
The lamp pictured herewith stood in
the Mclean house at the time of the
surrender and was undoubtedly used
to light up the drafting of documents
relating to the surrender, although the
first papers were written and signed
before dark. The lamp was sold re-
Gently in New York
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26
The Old Vets.

They march adown the dusty street,
A little squad, whose tagging feet
Heed not the drums loud rhythm
And, mark, cane supplants the gun!
Twas not like this in siXty-one
When youth and health were with 'em.
The squad was then regiment,
The forms were straight that now are
bent,
While Gettysburg, Antietam,
Were quite unknown and mimic ball
And gaunt disease and prison pail
Had not essayed to beat EN-.
The boys who wore the Union blue
Are now "old vets" and comrades true
Beneath the sod are lying.
But DER the living and the dead,
Ger crumbled skull and silvered head,
The stars and stripes are flying.
Edwin L. Sabin in Chicago Inter
Ocean.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26
The Union Soldiers PriviIsoe.

A peculiar privilege came to the men
who fought for the Union. There is
no other civil war in history the stings
bf which were removed before the men
who did the fighting passed from the
stage of life So that We owe those
men something more than a legal re-
Establishment of the Union. We owe
them the spiritual establishment Of
the Union, for they not only reunited
states, but they reunited the spirits of
men. That is their unique achieve
tnent, unexampled anywhere else in the
hnnals of mankind, that the very men
whom they overcame in battle join I'm
praise and gratitude that the Union
was saved.-PresiGent Wilson.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26
THE RETURN OF THE
COLORS.

The return of Confederate flags
captured by Union soldiers is an
other strand to bind together the
north and the south in an I'M
broken union. There were some
who thought that all the oppos-
ing regimental flags should have
been buried with the honors of
war at the close of the conflict.
nevermore to have a resurrec-
ton. But they have been kept,
and now the Union soldier thinks
fondly of his own colors, rent
and stained, hanging in shreds
and patches, but still the royal
emblems Of glory and ultimate
victory. Let him see them. and
he will press them to his lips
and rain tears of joy upon their
tattered folds. His heart inter-
prets the feelings of his Confed-
crate cOmrade who fought so
CALAMITY under the standards be
had surrendered in battle.-Bish-
Op Fallows.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26
Rows GRANDMA SoIdier.

/ brought blue violets from the dell
For grandpa's grave today.
For grandma says he loved them well
Before he marched away.
The other grandpas all are old,
With thin hair almost gray,
But he has curls that shine like gold
And blue eyes full Of play.
Grandma showed me his picture, hung
Upon a chain of gold:
How strange that he should be so young
And she should be so old
-Ninette n. Lowater in Wisconsin Me-
mortal Day Annual.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26

UNTO THE CHILDREN WE TELL THE
TALE"
And all through the hours the incense
of flowers,
OF prayers and of praise is swung
From censor of gold that the children
hold
While the storied past is sung.
The censor is memory's storied urn
That holdeth for love and rue
The ashes OF those whom each heart
knows
Fought for the gray or the blue.
Fewer each year as the end draws near,
When none will be left, not one,
Who saw the sorrowful sights of war
Or shared in the brave deeds done.
But unto the children we tell the tale,
And once in each tweIvemonth long
We honor the men who died for us
When the eoody land went wrong.
Selected.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26
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TWOSCORE AND TEN YEARS
AGO.

I Fifty years ago the great strug-
gle for our national existence, to
T which so many heroes gave
! their lives and those who died
T later their best days, was ended
! in victory.
T We do not rejoice because of
the victory of the north over the
south, but because of the vie
tory which marked the last step
in the governmental progress OF
/ the human race and demonstrate
ed that men can govern them
selves.
We meet on Memorial day at
the graves of those who died In
the days of strife and of those
who survived that struggle and
vet have reached their last rest
7 ing place, the bivouac of the
! dead.
Upon them the government
leaned as upon pillars of safety.
In the days when they might
have been preparing for the flu
ture struggles of life they were
serving their country; they were
fighting her battles; they were
: doing their duty as patriots in
: striving for the advance of the
; human race.
Amid the roar of artillery, the
crashing of shells, the malicious
whisperings of the little MIME,
the cleaning bayonets and flash
ing sabers they bore the shock
of battle in defense of their
country. Aye, more than that,
their heroism and the heroism
of their comrades through four
years of bloody strife lifted their
country high among the nations
of the earth, where she stands
today, the sovereign Of them all.
Twoscore and ten years ago
the tramp of armed hosts home
ward bound was heard through
out the length and breadth of
our land. Guns were stacked,
ranks were broken and then be-
gan another march, the march of
citizens who had left behind
them the tented field, to their
homes and the boundless, unpeo-
pied west, where they and their
descendants yet live and add to
the strength and patriotism of
our great commonwealth.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26
Flowers For the Brave.

Here bring your purple and gold,
Glory of color and scent,
Scarlet of tulips bold,
Buds blue as the armament.
flushed as the sound of the fife
And the bugle piping clear,
The vivid and delicate life
In the soul of the youthful year.
We bring to the quiet dead,
With a gentle and tempered grief,
Ger the mounds so mute we shed
The beauty of blossom and leaf.
The flashing swords that were drawn.
No rust shall their fame destroy,
Boughs rosy as riffs of dawn.
Like the blush on the cheek of Joy.
Rich fires of the gardens and meads
We hindle, these hearts above.
What splendor can match their deeds
What sweetness can match our lover
Celia Thaxter.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26
HUNGARYS WAR SONG.

Lord of heaven, bless our land,
JOY and plenty here bestow;
In our need lift thine hand,
Strong to shield us from the
foe.
Hungary in days of old,
Proud and fearless, stanch and
free
Call'd her sons from field and
fold
To die for liberty;
Call'd her sons from field and
fold
To die for liberty.
Hail. ell hail, holy land!
Crown'd with lonely mothers
tears;
Onward lead, hero band,
Onward ever through the
years.
Peace shall follow after pain,
Love shall garner in her store,
Freedom rises once again.
Shall live for evermore:
Freedom rises once again.
Shall live for evermore.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26
M. p. MAURICE, LAWYER.
BROWNE BLOCK. MoRRfsvILLE.
Estate of Mary L. Button
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.

The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the District of
LamOille, Commissioners, to receive examine,
Hyde Park, in said District deceased, and all
claims exhibited in Offset thereto, hereby give
norce that we will meet for the purposes afore-
said at the home of j. ID. Button, in the town of
I'll de Park, in said Dist, on the lst day of June
and 2Sth day OF October next, from ten o'clock
a. m. until O'Clock p. m. each of said days, and
1915, is the time limited by said Court Tor said
creditors to present their claims to us Tor exam
nation and allowance.
Dated at Hyde Park, this 2sth day Of April,
A. ID. 1915. w. W. BARNES,
+. b. CROWELL,
80 Commissioners.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26

health before using
your medicine. | had
falling, infamma-
ton and congestion,
f e m lie weakness,
pains in both sides,
backaches and bear
ing down pains, was
short of memory,
nervous, impatient,
passed S e e pl e s s
n gh is, a n d h a.
neither STRENGTH nor
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26
Copyright, 1909. BY W. n. %

TRADE M0RAL-The quality OF
what you have to sell is known
to some people all Of the tins
and all Of the people some OF
the time, but advertise regu-
larry with US and you'll reach
all of the people all Of the time.
n
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26
A~~~ W~d~>s/
EVILS OF IGNORANCE.
Nothing is more terrible than
active ignorance.-Goethe.

The living man who does not
learn is dark. dark. like one
walking i'm the night.-From the
Chinese.
The most ignorant are the
most conceited. Unless a man
knows that there is something
more to be known his inference
is. of course. that he knows ev-
erything. But let a
man know that there are things
to be known of which he Is ig-
norant, and it is so much carv-
ed out of his domain of univer-
sal observation-disclosures Mann.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26
Z61aSEXKTt'CHEN
NoURIsHING POTATO SOUPS.

pOTATO is a good emergency soup
since most of them are prepared
with ingredients likely to be at
hand at all times in the ordinary
household, They are palatable if prop
erly favored and contain a reasonable
amount of nourishment.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26
Lee Surrender;
Relics
Used Fifty Years Ago. When
War Ended at Appomat-
tox Court House

"NIIE two pens that ended the
WI great civil war are now in
III Missouri. Only once have
they been dipped in ink since
the memorable day when Z. S. Grant
and Robert e. Lee made use of them
in the Virginia hamlet dignitied by the
name of Appomattox Court House. The
present owner, DR.. e. p. Cronkite, a
st. Joseph MOI dentist, would deem it
little short of sacrilege for the pens to
be touched by any drop of ink destined
to flow into ordinary sentences. The
pens repose securely in strong box
in DR.. Cronkite's st. Joseph home.
The pens came to DR.. Cronkite from
Mrs. A. b. Lawrence of Warsaw, n.
Y, after the death of her husband,
Colonel Lawrence, who in his lifetime
was an interchangeable collector Of rel
les. No better history of the pens
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26
On
Memorial
DAY

THERE'S 4 thrill and throb in the
i air today,
A throb and thrill ever new,
For pillows have broken Ger wall and
town
OF red and of white and of blue.
The blood runs swift and shriII huzza
Springs glad to the lips of youth,
While louder the silence speaks of those
Who fought, dear God, for thy truth.
II floats up the aisIes of the village
church;
1t springs from the statehouse dome;
It kisses the breeze wherever it please,
Set firm in the heart of the home.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26
Served With Croutons.


Potato Chowder. - Wash, pare anG
dice a quart of potatoes, put on to boi
with enough water to cover. Add three
tablespoonfuls of finely cut onion
When the potatoes are tender add a
cupful of milk a teaspoonful of salt, q
teaspoonful of butter mixed with q
tablespoonful of flour. Boil three min
utes and stir until smooth. Add lit,
tie chopped parsley. This can be serv-
ed with bread croutons.
Potato Soup With Croutons.-Take a
cupful and half of mashed potatoes,
four cupfuls of milk, tablespoonful
of grated onion, a teaspoOnful each of
flour, chopped parsley and butter, a
quarter teaspoonful of pepper Put
the mashed potatoes in the top of a
double boiler and add the hot milk
and onion. AS soon as this bOils add
the salt, pepper, butter and flour rub
bed together. Stir until creamy. Add
the parsley and a dash of paprika
Serve with two tablespoonfuls of bread
croutons in each dish.
With Diced Potatoes.
Cream Of Potato Soup.-Pare and cut
into dice from four to six potatoes,
add a tablespoonful of chopped onion
and cook in sailed water until tender
enough to mash. Have a pint of milk
boiling hot, mix tablespoonful of
flour and a pat of butter with the
mashed potatoes and gradually stir in
the hot milk. Simmer slowly until
slightly thickened and smooth. Sprin-
kle chopped parsley over the top when
serving
Brown Potato Soup.-Heat a table
spoonful of butter and brown carefully
in it three tablespoonfuls of sifted
-four; then add a quart and a half of
cold water, a good teaspoonful of salt
and two medium sized potatoes peeled
and sliced thin. Cook until the po
tatoes are done. 1t is delicate task
to brown the flour evenly and suf-
ficiently. but not difficult if a thick
bottomed frying pan is used and the
-four stirred constantly. Adding cold
water and butter to the -four insures
lack of Jumps in the soup.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26
REMARKABLE
CASE Of Mrs. HAM
Declares Lydia z. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Saved Her Life
and Sanity.

Shamrock, Mo- feel it my duty
to tell the public the condition of nv
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-05-26
BUSINESS CARDS,
ARLINGTON RESTAURANT

Serves meals and lunches at all hours from 700
=. m. until 500 p. m. We also have furnished
'ooms for dodgers. Grocery store in connection.
F. c. MEACHAM, Morrisville, VT
The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-15

ment of State College begin work
next week. Registration of new
and old students will be conduct
ed September Goth and 2lst.
All students are urged to arrive
early in order to make satisfac-
tory arrangements for rooms.
A great increase in student at
tendance is expected, in fact, an
attendance of more than 1900
students for the year would not
be surprising. Football men are
in camp on the college athletic
field getting ready for siren
uous season. The barns are be-
ing painted, while manv needed
improvements are b eing COM
pleted in several buildings. With
notable additions to the faculty
and increased facilities, the COM
ing year should see much effect
i've work done at State College.
The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-15

and assistant weigher in tn e
Custom Service. or in any posi-
ton in that service whose duties
are partly those Of inspector.
This examination is open to
all citizens of the United States
who meet the requirements.
This announcement contains
all information which is COM
municated to applicants regard
ing the scope of the examination.
the vacancy or vacancies TO be
filled, and the qualifications re-
quired.
For application blank form
l37D, address the secretary of
the board of examiners at the
custom house or post office at
any of the places named above,
or the district secretary in time
for him to arrange for the exam
ination.
Secretary Eighth u. s. Civil
Service District,
Location Post Office.
Place st. Paul, MINI.
The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-15

Twenty-one million of soldiers
are engaged in the unparalled
war now raging in Europe. what
will be our quota if weIare foolish
enough to enter into it?
More thantwo million men have
been killed thus far. What will
be our toll if we take part?
Over five millions wounded.
What will be our share if we be.
come a participant?
The nations at war are now
spending four hundred million
dollars per week-more than
twenty billions per year what
will our expenditures be?
Before we decide to go IN at
any cost let some of the advo-
Gates of war give US an estimate.
We are great nation and can not
be stingv with blood or money if
we cast in our lot with the bel.
ligerents.
And what is to be gained by
war? Protection of American
rights? No, that can be secured
without loss of life, money or
honor; it can be secured without
arousing hatred which would last
a century.
And what would we lose by en-.
tering into the war? Men? Yes,
no one knows how many. Money?
Yes, no one knows how much.
But more than that, we would lose
our place as the leader of the
neutral nations and the oppor-
tunity to mediate when the time
for mediation comes; we would
lose the priceless privilege of
using our good offices as a friend
to assist in laying the foundation
)f permanent peace.
There is no excuse for war.
Dur grievances we have them
against both sides do not justify
war land the treaty plan furnishes
he machinery for maintaining an
honorable peace. Those who talk
war misrepresent the wishes of
he people. You can no more
Measure by the troth of the
lingo press than you can meas
Ire the oceans silent depts by
he foam upon its waves. W. J.
Bryan.
The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-15
A LESSON FOR THE NURSE.
She Didn't Like II When She Was Paid
In ker Own Coin.

In Her Own Coin.
A mother overheard her nurse girl
talking to the child she was putting to
sleep, and among other legends OF the
nursery In which she was INDUCED was
this: "If you don't 60 to sleep this very
minute a great, big. awful, black bear.
with eyes like Goals Of fire and sharp,
white, cruel teeth, will come out from
under the bed and e-a-t-y Quail up!'
The poor little thing nestled down un.
der the clothes to dream Of horrid
bears eating her up.
composed herself In her own comfort
able bed and had put the light out
there came a sudden rap at the door.
and the voice Of the mistress called
loudly through the panels: Maggie.
Maggie! Get up as quick ~ you can!
There's burglar under your bedr' At
the word burglar" the girl sprang
screaming from the bed, tore open the
door and fell into Mysteries In the hall
The lesson was more instructive than
the mistress designed. but when the
girls fears had Gained she said to her:
You did not hesitate to tell my deli
cate child. who could not possibly
know that 1t was a lie. a cruel story
about q bear under her bed. Now,
when treat you to the same kind Of
story, you are nearly frightened TO
death. Tomorrow you can % into the
kitchen and work theFo. You are not
At to care for little chfl1non - Lon,
II Qlnfn,rannnexnh