The mirror., 1920-11-04
1T HAPPENED IN NOVEMBER

ne birds have ceased their callng
But let me tell you, my child,
Though day by day, as it closes,
Doth darker and colder grow,
The roots of the bright red roses,
Will keep alive in the snow."
The World War ended on the 11th,
1918. Armistice between the Allied Powers
and Germany signed and fighting ceased
along the whole front at II o'clock a. m.,
Paris time.
Between November % and IS, 1868, the
battle of Chattanooga, one of the decisive
battles of the War of Secession took place.
In reality it consisted of three engage
ments. The Federals had been defeated
at Chicamauga by General Bragg, who,
with Confederate army of 10000 had
then encamped before Chattanooga, his
lines extending from Lookout Mountain
along Missionary Ridge for about twelve
miles. General Thomas had succeeded,
General Rosencrans on the Federal side,
and Grant had been put in supreme COM
mand of an army of $4,000 in that locality,
and the following campaign was mapped
out.
Confederates on the extreme right, and to
advance along Missionary Ridge toward
their center; Thomas was to attack in the
center, and Hooker to strike at the extreme
left driving them from Lookout Noun
tain.
On November %, Thomas drove back
Braggs advance guards and the following
day Sherman was partly successful When
Hooker attacked on Lookout Mountain the
Battle above the Clouds" took place, and
the Confederates were driven from their
position.
On November 18th Thomas troops
rushed up Missionary Ridge, and under
heavy fire drove the Confederates from
the summit. The Federal losses were
about $500; the Confederates about $500.
Thanksgiving Day is as of old, day
of family reunion, on which we eat as
did the Puritans, turkey and pumpkin pie,
instead of boars' heads and plum pud-
dings. Thanksgiving Day was long in
getting down to its present fxity of sea-
son; it is even on record that one New
England town postponed its celebration of
the day, for week, in order to get molas-
ses to sweeten the pumpkin pies!
FAMOUS NOVEMBER BIRTHDAYS
One of the greatest reformers of the
present generation, Judge Benjamin Barr
Lindsey, was born at Jackson, Tennessee,
November IS, 1869. When he was but
young lad his father died, and as the
eldest son of a poor widow with four
children he had many of the trials that
come to a poverty stricken youth. He was
was proud and ambitious, however, and
worked as messenger and newsboy, at
tending night school the while. He kept
on and in due time he won his bachelors
degree in Western university, later pre-
pared for the profession of law and was
admitted to the bar in 1894. In 1901 he
was made Judge of the Juvenile Court of
Denver, in which position he gained inter-
national reputation as authority upon
juvenile delinquency and has originated
and developed many of the features of
the juvenile court system. 1t WAS he who
succeeded in having the first law holding
negligent parents and employers account
able for contributing to youthful delin-
quency.
John Philip Sousa, the world-famed
band leader, was born November 6, 1854,
at Washington, the son of Antonio and
Elizabeth Trinkhaus Sousa. From child
hood be was devoted to music, and at the
age of fifteen years was teacher, and at
seventeen, conductor. From 1880-1892
he was band leader of the United States
Marine Corps, and since then has toured
the world with his famous "Sousas Band"