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Middletown transcript., 1917-05-26

"HE war proper may be said to
have opened on the twenty
fourth Of May, 1861. The en-
gagement was at Bethel
Church, where Gen. B. F. Butler was
in command, and in western Virginia,
Gen. George B. Mcclellan began to be
a conspicuous figure. In the latter
part of May General Morris won an
engagement at Philippi, and on the
eleventh Of July General Mcclellan
gained a victory at Rich mountain.
On the tenth Of August, General Rose
Grams drove out detachment Of the
enemy at Carnifax Ferry. On the
eleventh of June, Col. Lewis Wallace
made a successful onset at Romney.
These, and other minor engagements
occurred up to the sixteenth Of July,
when began the first battle of Bull
Run. On that day the Federal army
moved forward and an important en-
gagement took place between Center
Vile and Bull Run. They pressed for
ward and on the twenty-first day of
July found the enemy strongly posted
between Bull Run and Manassas juno
ton. General Mcdowell, successful at
first, was driven back by the re-en-
forcements.
Missouri now became battlefield
for the contending armies. Captain
Nathaniel Lyon acted promptly at
Camp jackson, near st. Louis, and
saved the arms and stores. Later,
General Lyon gained a decided ad-
vantage at Bonneville aAd on the fifth
of July the Federal troops under Col.
Franz Sigel were again successful at
Carthage. On the tenth of August
the hardest battle fought thus far in
the West occurred at Wilson's creek,
where General Lyon was killed. Gen.
John G. Fremont followed the enemy
as far as Springfield, ILL.,, and was
there superseded by General Hunter.
The enemy led strong detachment
into the state of Kentucky and cap
tured the town of Columbus, where
they planted batteries so as to COM
mand the Mississippi and the Missouri.
In order to dislodge them, Col. Ulysses
s. Grant was sent with a brigade of
three thousand Illinois troops, by way
Of Cairo into Missouri, where he made
vigorous and successful attack at
Belmont Thus closed military opera
tions in the West for 1861.
General Scott was unable to bear
longer the burden resting upon him
and Gen. George B. Mcclellan was
brought from West Virginia to take
command of the Army of the Potomac.
AS an organizer and disciplinarian the
young commander had no superior.
From the first 1t was seen by the Fed
eral government that the command of
the seacoast was an essential of sue
cess and close blockade was placed
upon all Southern ports.
At the beginning of 1862 the Federal
forces numbered about 100000 men.
General Mcclellan, commanding 20O-
600, and General Buell., who command
ed another army at Louisville, KY, be-
gan the first Of the colossal military
movements.
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Lesson Of the Dav.

If could hope without presumption
that any humble counsels of mine on
this hallowed anniversary could be re-
membered beyond the hour of their ut
terance and reach the ears of my coun-
trymen in future days, I could not omit
certainly to reiterate the solemn obli-
cations which rest on every citizen of
this republic to cherish and enforce the
great principles of our colonial and
Revolutionary fathers-the principles
of liberty and law, one and inseparable
the principles of the Constitution and
the Union.-From a Speech, July 4.
1876, In the City Of Boston, by the
Venerable Robert G. Winthrop of Mas
sachusetts.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-26

w YHEN Lawrence was first
AA/ sacked on May 21, 1856, by
MiSSOurianS and prOSlav-
cry men directed by terri
tOrial officials, David A. AtchisOn, at
one time United States senator from
Missouri, figured prominently in the
work of melting the mob to it's
rash deeds. Atchison had at one time
served as vice president Of the United
States, but during the Kansas trouble
he hovered about the border towns Of
Kansas and Missouri helping greatly
to incite the lower classes of Mis-
sourians to violence toward the free
state settlers, especially those in Law
renee.
When Sheriff Jones and his allies
came to Lawrence on May 21, 1856, to
abate the Free State hotel and the two
newspaper offices as nuisances-tech-
nically they were charged with "cOn-
structive treason"-Atchison was in
the front ranks, says the Lawrence
Journal-World, and incidentally slight
~ q
that day, to the effect that "By C.,
boys, I'm a Kickapoo ranger" and
among other things urged his men to
shoot down women and children If it
seemed at all necessary. 1t is mel
I-ancholy fact that many helpless per-
sons were slaughtered.
But it was not until the work Of de-
stroying the Free State hotel COM
menced that Atchison really did him
self justice. The offices of the Her
aid and Freedom and the Kansas Free
State had already been sacked and de-
molished, and then the mob turned
on the Free State hotel. First the
hotel was bombarded with cannon, but
with little success; the shot simply
made holes in the walls, and the
actual work of destruction was finally
accomplished by blowing the building
up with kegs Of powder and firing it
with paper from the newspaper Offices.
Not to be kept out Of the public eye,
Atchison insisted on firing the fist
shot at the hotel. A small hOwitzer
was dragged out into the street east.
of the hotel and slightly north-about
where the car track now turns east, or
possibly a few yards farther east
and Atchison went about aiming the
gun at the hotel. The howitzer used
was not loaded with the customary
round cannon ball, but with a shell
set in a brass jacket-the only one
of the kind the company had.
Atcnison sighted down the gun bar
rel. but his good right eye told him the
gun was not properly aimed.
"Lower her a little bit higher, boys;
lower her a little bit higher" he COM
manded.
That done, he touched the cannon
off-and completely missed the hotel!
The shell went screaming over into
the west of the town and was heard
distinctly by many people, who de-
scribed its passage as being accom-
panied by peculiar whistling sound
unlike that Of any other shot fired that
day.
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Something queerly like a laugh
broke his voice when he answered
"Oh, you darling! Yes. It's all right.
That isn't why I'm crying. It's just
because I'm so happy"
"But the baby!" she persisted.
"Why isn't it here?
Rodney turned and spoke to some
one else. "She wants to see," he
said. MAY she?"
And then q wOman's voice (why,
it was the nurse, Of course! Miss
Harris, who had come last night) said
in an indulgent, soothing tone: "Why.
surely she may. Wait just minute" J"
But the wait seemed hours. Why
didn't they bring the baby-her baby?
There! Miss Harris was coming at
last, with a queer, bulky, shapeless
bundle. Rodney stepped in between
and cut off the view, but only to slide
an arm under mattress and pillow
and raise her little so that she could
see.
And then, under her eyes. dark red
and hairy against the whiteness Of the
pillow, were two small heads-two
small, Shapeless masses leading away
from them, twitching, squirming. She
stared, bewildered.
"There were twins, Rose" she heard
Rodney explaining triumphantly, but
still with something that wasn't quite
a laugh, "a boy and a girl. They're
perfectly splendid. One weighs seven
pounds and the other six"
Her eyes widened and she looked
up into his face so that the pitiful
bewilderment in hers was revealed to
him.
But the baby" she said. Her wide
eyes filled with tears and her voice
broke weakly. Il wanted baby"
you've got a baby" he insisted,
and now laughed outright. "There are
two of them. Don't you understand,
dear?"
Her eyes dropped shut. but the
tears came yelling out along her
lashes. "Please take them away" she
begged And then, with q little sob,
she whispered: Il wanted baby
not those"
Rodney started to speak, but some
sort of admonitory signal from the
nurse silenced him.
The nurse went away with her bun
die, and Rodney stayed stroking
Roses limp hand.
In the dark, ever so much later
she awoke, stirred little restlessly
and the nurse, from her cot, came
quickly and stood beside her bed. She
had something in her hands for Rose
to drink and Rose drank it dutifully
'Is there anything else?" the nurse
asked.
II just want to know" Rose said
''have 1 been dreaming, or is it truei
Is there baby, or are there twins"
Twins, to be sure" said the nurse
cheerfully. "The loveliest, liveliest
little pair you ever saw"
"Thank you," said Rose. Il jus'
wanted to know"
She shut her eyes and pretended
to go to sleep. But she didn't. 1t was
true then. Her miracle, it seemed
somehow, had gone ludicrously awry
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CHAPTER XI-continued. J.

But she went steadily on. "You
were always so dear about it. But
tonight-oh, Rodney ]! Her
silly, ragged voice choked there and
stopped, and the tears brimmed up
and spilled down her cheeks. But
she kept her face steadfastly turned
to his.
"That's what 1 said about being
married and not sowing wild oats, l
suppose" he said glumly. 1T was
joke. Do you suppose I'd have said 1t
If 1 meant it?"
1T wasn't only tha!," she managed
to 20 on. "It was the way they looked
at the house; the way you apologized
for my dress; the way you looked
when you tried to get out of answer
ing Barry Lakes questions about
what you were doing. Oh, how l
despised myself! And how 1 knew
you and they must be despising me y
"The one thing felt about you ali
the evening"" he said, with the pa
tience that marks the last stage of
evaporation, twas pride. l was rath-
er crafty proud Of you"
"As my lover you were proud OF
me-" she said. "But the other man
the man that's more truly you-was
ashamed, as 1 was ashamed. Oh, it
doesn't matter! Being ashamed won't
accomplish anything. But what We'll
do is going to accomplish something y
"What do you mean to do?" he
asked.
II want you to tell me first" she
said, chow much money we have, and
how much we've been spending"
81 don't know" he said stubbornly
II don't know exactly"
"You've got enough, haven't you
of your own :. l mean, there's
enough that comes in every year, tc
live on, if you didn't earn a cent by
practicing law? Well, what I want
to co, is to live on that. I want tt
live, however and wherever we have
to-to live on that-out in the suburbs
somewhere, or in O fiat, so that yOr
will be free; and can work-be some
sort Of help"
"You can wash the dishes and scruf
the floors," he supplemented, "and
can carry my lunch to the office witt
me in little tin box" He looked a
his watch. "And now that the thing:
reduced to an absurdity, let's 60 tt
bed. It's getting along toward twt
o'clock"
"You don't have to get to the offic'
till nine tomorrow morning." salt
Rose. "And 1 want to talk it ou
now. And / don't think I said any
thing that was absurd"
Il shouldn't have called it absurd,
he admitted after a rather long 81
lence "But it's exaggerated and un
necessary. Next October, when tn
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One Great. United People,

The South does not celebrate the
same Memorial day with the North; !;
1t has it's own days for paying tribute
to its soldier dead. Yet the South has
no reason after the lapse of fifty years
to regret the triumph Of that cause for
which so many Union soldiers per-
ished. South and North, we are one
people; our interests are mutual and
common, and could only thrive so long
as we remained one nation. That Abra-
hom Lincoln's vision was true the peo-
pie of the South are today willing to
conce(le.
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You're getting on perfectly splendid
ly. But if you pull up and go to live in
barn somewhere and stop seeing any
body-people that count, 1 mean
Rodney grunted. you're beyond
your depth, sis," he said. Come back
where you don't have to swim. The
expense isn't capital consideration
I'll admit that. Now 60 on from
there"
That's like old times" she OBJ
served with a not ill-humored grim
ace. Il wonder if you talk to Rose
like that. Oh, l know the house is
rather solemn and absurd. It's Flor
ence herself all over, that's the size
Of it. But what does that matter for
six months more?"
He pocketed his pipe and got up
out of his chair.
There's something in it," he ad
mitted. "I'll think 1t over"
Better cable Florence as soon az
you can," she advised.
Rose protested when the plan fol
living six months more in Florence
McCrea's house was broached to her
She made the best fight she could
But Harriet's arguments, re-stated
now by Rodney with full conviction
were too much for her. When she
broke down and cried, as she couldn't
help doing, Rodney soothed and com.
forted her, assured her that this no.
tion of hers about the expensiveness
of it all, was just notion, which
she must struggle against as best
she could. She'd see things in a truer
proportion afterward.
Very fine and small and weak, Rose
Stanton, lying in a bed with people
about her, let her eyes fall heavily
shut lest they should want her to speak
or think. Then, for long time,
nothing. Then presently, a hand, a
firm, powerful hand, that picked up
her heavy, limp wrist and two sensi-
tive fnger-tips that rested lightly on
the upper surface of it. After that,
an even, measured voice-a voice of
authority, whose words no doubt made
sense, only Rose was too tired to think
what the sense was:
That's a splendid pulse. She's do
ing the best thing she can, sleeping
like that"
And then another voice, utterly un-
like Rodney's and yet Enthusiastically
hi: "a ragged voice that tried to talk
in 4 whisper but couldn't manage it
-broke queerly.
"That's all right" it said. "But I'll
find it easier to believe when"
She must see him-must know
what it meant that he should talk
like that With q strong physical eff
fort, she opened her eyes and tried
to speak his name. She couldn't; but
someone must have been watching and
have seen, because a woman's voice
said quickly and quietly "Mr. Aldrich." ;"
And the next moment, vast and tow
ering and very blurred in outline, but,
like his voice, unmistakably, was
Rodney-her own big, strong Rodney.
She tried to hold her arms up to him,
but of course she couldn't,
And then he shortened suddenly.
He had knelt down beside her bed,
that was 1t. And she felt upon her
palm the pressure of his lips, and his
unshaven cheek, and on her wrist a
warm wetness that must be-tears.
And then she knew. The urgency
of a sudden terror gave her her voice.
"Roddy," she said, there was 60
ing to be a-baby. Isn't there7"
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his pipe was properly lighted, wheth-
er he altogether liked this method OF
approach or not.
Common sense always was a sort
of speciality of yours, SIS" he said at
last. "and Strengthening out. You
were always pretty good at it." Then
out of a cloud Of his own smoke,
"Fire away"
"Well, in the first place." she said,
'.if you had your house today you'd be
lucky if the paint was dry and the
thing was fit to move into by the first
of September"
"But we've got to get out of here,
anyway, in October. And that means
we've got to have some sort of place
to get into. 1t is an awkward time,
I'll admit"
"No, you haven't" she said. "You
can stay right here another six
months, if you like. I've heard from
Florence. When l found how things
stood here, wrote and asked her II
she'd lease for six. months more II
she got the chance, and she wrote back
and simply grabbed at it,"
Rodney smoked half way through
his pipe before he made any comment
on this suggestion. 'This house isn't
Just what we want" he said. "1n the
first place, it's expensive"
Harriet shrugged her shoulders,
picked up one of Florence's poetry
books and eyed the heavily fooled bind
ing with a satirical smile before she
replied.
'I'd an idea there was that in It,"
she said at last. FREDDY said some
thing. Rose had been talking
to her" Then, after another little
silence and with a sudden access of
vehemence: "You don't want to 60
and do a regular fool thing, Roddy.
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Remember Source of Blessings.

Through all our consideration Of
great national and international ques-
tions this Memorial day, we will re-
member him who in mercy watches
over us as a people, realizing that the
blessings that are ours as nation
will come the strength to permit us to
play our part among the nations of the
earth in behalf Of the highest in
terests of humanity. We are the
friend of man in proportion as we are
the friend of God.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-26

lease on this house runs out, we can
manage, perhaps, to change the scale
a little. There you are! Now do stop
worrying about it and let's 60 to bed"
But she sat there just as she was,
staring at the dying fire, her hands
lying slack in her lap, all as If she
hadn't heard. The long silence irked
him. He pulled out his watch, looked
at it, and began winding it. He mend
ed the fire so that it would be safe
for the night; bolted a window. Ev-
cry minute or two he stole a look at
her, but she was always just the
same. Except for the faint rise and
fall of her bosom, she might have
been a picture not woman.
At last he said again, "Come along.
Rose DEAR"
It'll be too late in October" she
said That's why I wanted to de-
ude things tonight. Because we must
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-26
Rains Uncover Gold Nuooefe

The days of 40 have been revived
here to q certain extent, says the Sac
ramento (Cal) Bee, several Auburn
men having brought nuggets worth
from 81 to 800 which were found in
the ravines and streams since heavy
rains have washed the dirt from the
gravel. One nugget, which, it Is said.
Il worth $50. was found
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-26

begin right away" Then she looked
up into his face. 1T will be too late In
October" she repeated, unless we be-
gin now."
The deep, tense seriousness of her
voice and her look arrested his full
attention.
"Why?" he asked. And then, 'Rose,
what do you mean?"
"We're going to have a baby in
October" she said.
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Debt Never Can Be EulIx Paid

Without the brave defenders of this
nations honor when it's honor was as.
sailed; without their undaunted cour-
age when national crisis had to be
resolutely faced; without their prompt
ness and willingness to offer up on
their country's bloody altar all that
they held dear. 1t is not at all unlikely
that this nation would have perished
from the goodly company of sovereipn
states.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-26

Every year that day draws nearer.
Every year the truth seems clearer
That the men who saved the nation from
the fatal severing sword,
Soon must pass away forever
From the scene Of their endeavor,
Soon must answer to the roll call Of the
angel Of the Lord.
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Knowing that they have plenty
Of money to raise twins properly,
why should Rose resent the fact
that she has been presented with
two babies instead of one?
EASY TO TELL REAL DIAMOND

CTO BE CONTINUED.)
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Smep
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COMES THE PROSPECT OF BABY AND
SHE REALIZES W0MANs PROFESSION MOTHERHOOD BUT
PLANS AWRY
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FIRST ENGAGEMENT OF
CIVIL WAR WAS ON
MAY "a, 1861

OHE war proper may be said to
have opened on the twenty
fourth Of May, 1861. The en-
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-26
WAS OPENING SHOT OF
WAR that FIRED AT
LAWRENCE, KAN.2

w YHEN Lawrence was first
M sacked on May 21, 1856, by
w Missourians and proslav-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-09
AN Old RECIPE
TO DARKEN HAIR
Common Garden Sage and Sui: hnr
Makes Streaked, Faded or Gray
Hair Dark and Youthful
At Once.

Almost everyone knows that Sage
Tea and sulphur, properly compound
ed, brings back the natural color and
lustre to the hair when faded, streaked
or gray. Years ago the only way to
get this mixture was to make it at
home, which is mussy and trouble
some.
Nowadays we imply ask at any drug
store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
Compound" You will get large bot
tie Of this old time recipe improved by
the addition of other ingredients for
about so cents. Everybody uses this
preparation now, because no one can
possibly tell that you darkened your
hair, as it does it so naturally and
evenly. You dampen a sponge or
soft brush with it and draw this
through your hair. taking one small
strand at a time; by morning the
gray hair disappears, and after another
application or two. your hair becomes
beautifully dark. thick and glossy and
you look years younger. Wyeth's
Sage and Sulphur Compound is de-
lightful toilet requisite It is not in
tended for the cure mitigation or pre-
yention of disease. advt. :
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-09
MARINE CORPS IN NEED OF
MANY TECHNICAL WORKMEN

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 9.-The
marine corps is especially in need OF
technical men-men experienced In
electrical, mechanical, civil and auto
mobile engineering and aviation, and Is
Offering special inducements to men OF
this kind who want to be first to
eebt" according to an announcement
made from their headquarters today.
Tn insure a completely uniform and
trained body all marine corps recruits
mus, first undergo preliminary mill
tarv and naval training, but upon its
oomn,etion those so desiring are avail
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-09
BOYS ARE WANTED FOR
THE MERCHANT MARINE

NEW YORK, May accomplishing
for a membership of more than 100000
boys before September /, the U. S.
Junior Reserve today began big
drive for the establishment of U. S.
J N R. post in every inland and coast
clay in the United States.
Impressing upon boys ready to en-
roll that they are not compelled to go
into the regular navy unless they so
desire, and that upon the request of
his parents any one can withdraw
from the reserve, the reserve has
adopted the slogan "The Nays the
Thing" and is trying to create merch-
ant marine and navy consciousness In
every part of the nation.
Lads who become members Of the
L. s. Junior Naval Reserve are train
ed for the merchant marine as well as
for the navy, because when the pres
emf world wide war is over there will
be an unprecedented demand for
thousands of young seamen to man the
hundreds Of merchant vessels now
under construction for use in the
worldwide commercial war" says a
bulletin issued by the reserve today.
That Germany at the outbreak Of the
war had a marine league Of 100000
members, supporting 50 trained ships
and training thousands Of young men
for the sea, was pointed out THE
citizens OF Germany forced their gov
eminent to give them proper shipping
laws" avs the bulletin. because they
were interested"
The reserve now has membership