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THE ELLIJAY TIMES
rUBIJSHED WEEKLY.
KLJJJAY. GEORGIA
Directory
CITY AND COUNTY.
BAPTIST— 4th Sunday, Dr. B,
,T, W. Graham pastor. Sunday
School 9:550, W. II. Warlick Supt.
Prayer meeting Thursday evening
Rev, C. U’, Hendprson, conductor.
M.E. CUURCII SOUTH—2nd
Sunday and 3rd Sunday evening,
Bev. Arthur Maness pastor, Sun¬
day School 9;30, B. S. Holden
Supt, Sunday School Lesson
Study Wednesday evening,
M. E. CHURCH—1st, 3rd and
5th Sundays, Rev. L. A. Wilsey,
pastor. Sunday School 9:30, VV.
C. Sawyer, Supt.
SECRET ORDERS.
OAK BOWERY LODGE NO,
SI F. & A. M.
1st Friday evening in each
month.
C. G. Cox, W. M.
.1. L. Hamby, S. W.
C. C. Poindexter, J, W,
Vi’. E. Itackley, Treasurer.
II. 0. Cole, Secretary.
E. T, Hudson, S. D,
Arthur Gates, J D,
J. E Frady, ) Stewards
Roy Cobb, )
Thos, T. Parks, Tyler.
EASTERN STAR—2ud Friday
evening in each month.
I. 0. O, F. No. 244—2nd and
4th Saturday evenings in each
moitah.
RED MEN—2nd and 4th Satur¬
day evenings in each month.
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS.
MAYOR—V. A Tiammell.
ALDERMEN—W, A. Kell,
J. P. Cobb S. 0. Penland
J. G. Cole J. W. Wimpey,
SUPT. PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
J. S, Hudson.
COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCA¬
TION.
N. L. Tankersley R. L, Ayers
W. B. Parks W, J. Miller
J, L. Watkins
1st Tuesday.
SUPERIOR COURT.
3rd Monday in May and 2nd
Monday in October; Judge—H.
L. Patterson, Cuinming, Ga, Solid
tor General—E. H. Clay, Mari¬
etta, Ga.
CITY SCHOOL BOARD.
N. L Tankersley H. C.Cole
W. A. Kell J, H. Ray
J. O. Crawford J. I. Teem.
D. T. Jarrett
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Representative — W. B. James.
Ordinary—W. A. Cox
Clerk S. Court—J. P. Cobb
Sheriff—J. H. Penland.
Tax Collector—W, E. Rackloy
Tax Receiver—J. H. Ray
Treasurer—J. L. Farks
Surveyor—P. G. Hyatt
Coroner—John Ilunnicutt
COURTS AND OFFICIALS
BY DISTRICTS.
Ellijay, S50 G. M—R. N. Hol¬
den J. P. J. W. Wimpev N. P.
1st Thursday.
Tickanetley 8G4 G M—J. B.
Weaver N. P, 1st Saturday.
Board town 907 G M—J • S
Smith J. P. W. L Plemmons N
P. 4th Friday.
Cartecay 932 G M—A. K. Mill
key J. P. W. E. McDarris N, P.
4fch Saturday.
Mountaintowu 958 G M—D. V.
Mi'ler J. P. I. L. Withrow N P.
4th Saturday.
Tails Creek 1009 G M—J. P.
Cook N. P. 2nd Saturday.
Leaches 1035 G. M—W. A.
Keener J P Gordon G ible N P
1st Saturday,
Ball Ground 1091 G M—A. R.
Long J P G. G. Wright N P.
2nd Saturday.
Town Creek 1135 G M—Olin
Griffith J P M. D. Kelley N. P.
3rd Saturday.
! Cherry Log 1136 G M—G. C.
Whitener J, P. G. C, Smith N. P.
1st Saturday,
Ridgeway 1274 G M—T. L
Chastain J P Noel Sanford N P.
1st Saturday.
Coosawattre 1302 G M—Robt,
Henderson N P 3rd Saturday.
Diamond 1341 G M—F. M
Stamey N. P. 3rd Saturday.
Alto 1355 G M—R. A, McClure
J P J. L. Kincaid N P 2nd
Saturday.
Bucktown 1498 G M—A, E
Newberry N. P. 2nd Saturday.
Woman’s Missionary Meeting,
Baptist—Every other Tuesday.
Woman’s Missionary Meeting,
Methodist—Tuesday after 2nd
Sunday.
W, C. T. U.—Every other
Thursday. Mrs. J. O. Hipp.
President.
Woman’s Club—1st Thursday,
Mrs, F. E. Shippen. president.
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EXCEPTIONS, HOWEVER, MADE IN
WOOL AND SUGAR SCHED¬
ULES BY COMMITTEE.
MORE REVENUE PROVIDED
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Tax on Spuirious Wines Was Provided
for by Levying 25 Per Cent. Ad
Valorem Tax.
Washington.—Majority members of
the senate finance committee decided
that all schedules of the new tariff bill
except sugar and wool should become
effective immediately after the enact
ment of tiie measure into law.
Sugar, with the approval of the Beni
ocratic caucus, will be subject to the
Payne-Aldrich rates until March 1,
1914. The committee tentatively
agreed upon a date for the wool sched
ule, but did not announce it, because
of a promise to confer with Senators
Walsh and Thomas, who could not be
reached. The committee will confer
with them before the final session of
tiie caucus.
Additional revenue was provided for
by the committee when it decided, iu
view of the revenue tax on brandies
used in fortifying sweet wines, to
levy a revenue tax of 25 per cent, ad
valorem on what are known as “spu¬
rious wines,” wines made from pum
mis and fortified with chemicals.
Containers of such wines must bear
a label, showing what materials enter
into the product. Just how much reve¬
nue will be derived from this the com¬
mittee could not estimate, because the
tax probably wall curtail the present
output considerably.
Another change proposed relates to
the clause prohibiting importation of
convict goods. It was amended so
as to read that such goods be exclud¬
ed from countries which do not “pro¬
hibit” convict labor. Originally the
clause read from countries which did
“restrict” convict labor.
Chairman Simmons said tha\t he ex¬
pected general debate on the bill to
begin soon. He will report the meas¬
ure soon, and it is his opinion that
the debate will be limited to five
weeks.
WAVED THE AMERICAN FLAG
Riot Ensued and Americans Tram
Pled and Others Injured.
Winnipeg, Man.—The waving of the
American flag here while thousands of
provincial soldiers were parading, pre¬
cipitated a riot during which the flag
was tram pled and a number of persons
received minor injuries.
In the fight which followed a num¬
ber of civilians were hurt, but none
seriously. The American whose name
could not be Ascertained escaped
without -serious hania, tyifl with the
aid of the police eluded the crowd.
The soldiers took no part In the dem¬
onstration.
The incident occurred when thou¬
sands of soldiers from Winnipeg and
Manitoba were marching through the
city on their return from annual camp
at Sowell, where they had been man¬
euvering under Sir Ian Hamilton, fa¬
mous British South African war gen¬
eral.
When the One Hundredth regiment
was passing a local bank, an American
appeared on the curbing, waving an
American flag and shouting “Hurrah
for the American flag.” J. B. Mitchell,
colonel in command of the regiment,
ordered one of his men to request the
American to put away the flag, but
before the soldier could reach the
American angry civilians pounced up¬
on him, tore the flag from his grasp
and hurled it into the street. Before
it could be reached the flag was torn.
Two Killed in Auto Race.
Columbus, Ohio.—Harry C. Knight,
known as the “Hero of the Indianapo¬
lis Speedway,” was almost instantly
killed and his mechanician, Milton
Michaelis, both of Atlanta, was fatal¬
ly injured here when Knight’s front
wheel drive car blew a right tire and
turned turtle on the 110th lap of the
200-mile automobile race contested
under the auspices of the Columbus
Automobile association. He was said
to have been running at 75 miles an
hour when the accident occurred.
Fierce Fighting in Macedonia.
London. — Evidence that serious
fighting is occurring in Macedonia is
found in the arrival of large numbers
of wounded and prisoners at the vari¬
ous Balkan capitals, but, owing to si¬
lence at Sofia and to the conflicting
and probably biased stories from Ser
via and Greek sources, it is impos¬
sible to form an accurate idea of the
struggle. There has been no formal
declaration of war and although it is
reported the Bulgarian minister to
Greece has been recalled, he has not
departed from Athens.
Angry Mothers Mob Chauffeur.
Pittsburg.—Angered mothers who
had seen an uncontrolled automobile
plunge through a throng of several
hundred children preparing for a pa¬
rade on the streets of West Pittsburg,
almost tore the clothes from the ma¬
chine’s chauffeur, Abe Y’uengling, be¬
fore he was turned over to the police.
One of the children in the throng was
killed and twelve others were hurt.
Yuengling declared brakes on his au¬
tomobile refused to work while he was
coming down a steep grade.
Train Strikes Load of Picnickers.
Philadelphia.—Five persons were
killed and three injured, one proba¬
bly fatally, when the “Scranton fly¬
er,” on the Pennsylvania and Reading
railroad, struck a wagon containing a
picnic party at a railroad crossing
near Quakertown, Pa. The party was
returning in a wagon from a Fourth
of July celebration. When news of
the accident reached Quakertown two
automobiles were rushed to the scene.
The dead and injured were found
buried beneath the ruins of the wagon.
THE ELLIJAY TIMES, ELLIJAY, GEORGIA.
HENRY BOND
Henry Bond of Brattleboro, Vt., was
re-elected president of the Northern
Baptist convention at its recent meet¬
ing in Detroit. The convention com¬
prises all the Baptist organizations In
the northern part of the United States.
AHEAD OVER $40,080,009
$40,083,229 SURPLUS FOR THE
UNITED STATES GOVERN¬
MENT REPORTED.
New Fiscal Year Begins With a Very
Large Balance on the Right
Side of Ledger.
Washington.—Uncle Sam closed the
fiscal year 1193 with a surplus of $40,
083,229, representing the excess of
receipts over expenditures, exclusive
of Panama canal and public debt
transactions. This exceeds last year's
surplus by $3,750,000. The Panama
canal expenditures and public debt
transactions, however, wiped out the
surplus of ordinary receipts over or¬
dinary expenditures and created a de¬
ficit for the year of $2,149,000.
Total receipts for the fiscal year
amounted to $725,782,921, while the
ordinary disbursements were $683699,,
692.
Corporation taxes yielded the gov¬
ernment $34,948,S70, or $5,365,766
more than during the fiscal year 1912.
Custom receipts for the fiscal year
reached $318,142,000, an increase of
nearly $7,000,000 over the previous
year.
The record drinking and smoking
of the American people in the past
twelve months brought the federal
government the enormous total of
$309,478,000 in internal revenue re¬
ceipts, which was $16,500,000 greater
than in 1912.
Under the first year’s operation of
the new pension law the government
paid veterans and widows $175,134,
000, an increase of $21,537,000. ;
The fiscal year closed with $164,-
704,000 in the general fund of the
treasury as compared with $167,152,
000 a year ago. The cash drawer of
the treasury contains $65,253,000 as
the working balance of the govern¬
ment. The trust funds of the treas¬
ury include $1,086,727,000 in gold coin
and bullion.
The government spent $41,741,000
on construction of the Panama canal
in the past year, making a total of
$318,229,000 spent on the canal to
date. The mints coined during the
year $37,147,000, of which $30,058,000
was in gold. The 7,492 national
banks now in existence have a total
outstanding circulation of national
bank notes of $737,065,050.
Tax on Futures Opposed.
New Orleans.—The proposition con¬
tained in the Clarke amendment to the
Underwood tariff bill to tax one-tenth
of a cent a pound all cotton futures
contracts has aroused aggressive op¬
position on the part of members of
the New Orleans Cotton Exchange and
many others interested heavily in cot¬
ton trade throughout the South. Hun¬
dreds of telegrams from cotton deal¬
ers in a dozen states have been re¬
ceived at the exchange asking that
its officers make every. effort to pre¬
vent the enactment of the amend¬
ment into law.
Flies Across Lake Michigan.
Chicago.—Logan A. Vilas, an ama
ir aviator of Chicago, made the first
roplane flight across Lake Michi
n. His trip, made in a hydro-aero
ine from St. Joseph, Mich., to Chi
go, consumed one hour and 44 min¬
is. Vilas w r as accompanied by Wh¬
in Bastar of Benton, Harbor, Mich.,
d followed the steamship Lane from
Joseph to Chicago, the distance
tag about 58 miles. He said shift
; air currents compelled him fre
ently to change the level on which
was flvine:.
Land Grant Taken by Government.
Portland, Ore.—Federal / Judge
Charles S. Wolverton signed the de¬
cree in the Oregon and California
railroad grant case which forfeits to
the government 2,075,616 acres of land
in the Williamette valley held by the
Southern Pacific. The decree is based
on the failure and refusal of the Ore¬
gon and California Railroad company
and its sulicessor, the Southern Pa
hifid company, to sell to settlers the
land granted by congress in 1870 at a
stipulated price of $2.50 an acre.
Carter Head of Brotherhood.
Washington.—Denver was selected
for tl\e 1916 meeting and the follow¬
ing officers elected at the convention
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen: President,
.cfcfcffmllrTscllimr ..6 ..6 ..6..6..
W. F. Carter, Peoria: assistant pres¬
ident, Timothy Shea, Peoria, 111.; vice
presidents, C. V. McLaughlin, Omaha;
P. J. McNamara. Buffalo, N. Y\; G. K.
Wark, Toronto; D. B. Robertson,
Y'oungstown, Ohio, and Albert Phil¬
lips, Sacramento, Cal.
C1FESSE5 LIES
DAVID LAMAR ADMITS USING
NAMES OF LEGISLATORS TO
WALL STREET PEOPLE.
TELLS REMARKABLE STORY
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Organized Effort to Influence Wall
Street Financiers Is Admitted
on Stand.
Washington.—A story of misrepre¬
sentation, impersonation of public
men and organized effort to influence
Wall street financiers probably with¬
out parallel hr- the history of con¬
gressional investigation was unfolded
before the senate lobby committee.
A prosperous-looking, self-possessed
individual, calling himself David La¬
mar of New York, self-described as an
"operator in shocks” and admittedly
the bearer of several assumed names,
was the principal in the remarkable
session. /
With entire abandon, arousing the
committee to laughter at times by his
naive admissions, he told of his imper¬
sonations, his participation in attempts
to influence WallTtreet operations, and
his association with Edward Lauter
bacli, a New York lawyer, in efforts to
have Lauterbaeh retained by the Mor
gan firm, the Union Pacific and other
great interests to head off congres¬
sional activity in Washington.
He telephoned to financial men and
lawyers in the ntimes of Representa¬
tive Palmer and Representative Rior
dan. He assumed the guise of Chair¬
man McCombs, of the Democratic na¬
tional committee, to telephone to
Chairman Hilles, the Republican na¬
tional. committee.
Lewis Cass Letjvard of New York,
counsel for the Morgan firm, was one
of his attempted victims. Mr. Ledyard
came to the witness stand armed
with almost a verbatim account of all
the conversations Yield with Lamar,
who had represented himself as Con¬
gressman Palmer.
As.he read the record of the conver¬
sations, in themselves unusual in their
tones, Lamar, sitting nearby, laughed
and nodded, saying “That’s right,” and
slapping his leg with apparent enjoy¬
ment.
BRAVERY SAVES THE SHIP
Men Stick to Post When Accident Hap
peneflwto Ship.
Newport, R. I.—Bravery of the- en¬
gine room crew' of the battleship Lou¬
isiana helped the vessel out of a dan¬
gerous predicament when a valve bon¬
net blew off, flooding the starboard en¬
gine room. Incidentally the accident
gave Capt. Templin M. .Potts, who was
dismissed by the naval “plucking
board,” and retires, a memorable ex
ncrience The rush at-the,rin wRdr se through of hi^syyic the e.,.
or pas¬
sage opened by the displacement of
the bonnet carried men off their feet
and forced them against the machin¬
ery, but they stuck to their work.
Captain Potts sounded the call for
collision drill, bringing men to quar¬
ters, and automatically closing the
bulkhead doors. A collision mat was
put overboard, mattresses and blan¬
kets were brought into use, and waste
was jammed into the hole, but to no
avail. Finally the pump began gain¬
ing on the water and the battling en¬
gine room force was able to cram into
the hole a waste can. This was jack¬
ed securely, and the flow of the
threatening water was stopped.
When {he accident occurred the bat¬
tleship was withftut steam, only one
boiler being in use for minor purposes
How Daniels Keeps Cool.
Washington.—Secretary Daniels has
discovered how to keep cool. His pre¬
scription is: Think of cotton and for¬
get about the warm weather. The sec¬
retary made known his discovery
when some one tl^Bot the navy depart¬
ment deplored weather in his
presence. this “Do is the yc^B’ealize,” posisble he weath¬ asked,
“that miest
er for raising cotton? Don’t you know
that on days and nights like we have
been having you can almost see the
cotton growing? ,And do you realize
that it is the cotton export crop of
this country that keeps the balance
of trade in favor of America?”
North Carolina Lawyers.
Asheville. N. C—With about 150
judges and lawyers present the fif¬
teenth annual contention of the North
Carolina Bar association met here in
a three days’ session. The principal
address of the first session was that
of Judge James S. Mannin, of Ral¬
eigh, the president of the association,
which was in of a message to
the lawyers of the state. Reference
was made by him to the legislative
issues pending in North Carolina at
this time, but no recommendations
were offered.
Old Lady With Gun Runs Off Officers
Griffin, Ga.—A fifty gallon still was
captured eight milese south of Grif¬
fin by Deputy Collector Emmett Hin¬
ton and deputy. The still was lo¬
cated about fifty, yards from the home
of Mrs. Sarah Baugh, an old lady of
82 years, who gave two of the officers
a lively race for a short time. Believ¬
ing the officers to be robbers. Mrs.
Baugh drew a gun on them and made
them leave t.he place and would have
nothing to do, with them until Deputy
Collector Hinton assured her of their
mission.
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Grieving, He Hangs Himself in Jail.
Douglasville. Ga.—J. L. Dempsy, a
prominent farmer of Douglas county,
committed suicide by hanging himself
with a blanket in the county jail here.
Dempsy had become temporarily de¬
ranged and -haiT been placed in jail
for safekeeping. There was no oth¬
er occupant of the jail and Dempsy
had been dead several hours when
found. Dempsy ar.d his wife became
separated ar.d worry over this and
possession of his children, it is pre
| sumed, caused his derangement.
LEVI P. MORTON
Levi P. Morton, vice-president of the
United States from 1890 to 1893 and
governor of New York in 1895 and
1896, who has been so gravely ill that
his life was often despaired of, cele¬
brated his eighty-ninth birthday anni¬
versary in a better condition than he
had been for some time.
BLUE AND GRAY IN REUNION
ADDRESSES BY SECRETARY GAR¬
RISON, GOV. TENER AND GEN.
BENNETT YOUNG.
Every Reference to Reunited Nation
Draws Cheer—Veterans Suffer
From the Heat.
Gettysburg, Pa.—In the pitiless
glare of a sun that sent the mercury
bubbling over the 100 mark and made
clothes a burden and a bath only a de¬
lusion, the armies of the North and
the South began the formal exercises
set to mark the semi-centennial of
Gettysburg.
Veterans to the number of 15,000,
the army officers estimated, filed into
the big tent set apart for the exer¬
cises, sat in the haze of heat for two
hours and shook the camp with their
cheers when the speakers made ref¬
erence to a reunited nation. Every seat
under the canvas was taken long be¬
fore Secretary of War Garrison and
Governor Tener, the orators of the
day, came chugging up in their au¬
tomobiles.
Although the men in gray were far
outnumbered by those in blue, there
were possibly a thousand Southern¬
ers in the amphitheater and what they
lacked in numbers they made up in
lung power.
When Governor Tener finished his
speech Gen. Bennett H. Young, com¬
mander-in-chief of the Confederate
veterans, rose slowly and bowed to
him. “I can give you something that
no one else can give you,” he said.
“We will now give you the rebel yell.”
Nine famous Confederate generals
and a thousand veterans of the South
gave it so loudly that it was heard
in the camp toward! *
burg.
When General Young stepped for¬
ward to deliver his address he was
greeted with wild enthusiasm, the
Union veterans, led by Commander-in
Chief Beers, giving him three lusty
cheers and a “tiger.”
MANY WOMEN KILL SELVES
Alleged That Forty Women Have
Taken Their Lives in Durango.
Mexico City.—Forty women, mostly
of the better class, have committed
suicide in tfie Durango since its occupa¬
tion by rebels after a long seige,
according to a private letter received
here. The women, said the letter, be¬
came desperate because of their treat¬
ment by victorious rebels.
Consular advices say rebels who en¬
tered Durango conducted themselves
like bandits, burning a large part of
the business section after looting it,
and joining in the wildest excesses.
The report says foreign flags were
not respected.
Private advices from other sources
says several German women in Du¬
rango were forced to submit to indig¬
nities from rebel adherents.
El Paso, Texas.—Rifle pits and
trenches were being dug by federal
soldiers on the western outskirts of
Juarez and barbed wire is being
stretched as an additional defense
against attek by- time Constitutionl
ists. ,
State Senator Accepts a Bribe.
Webster Springs, W. Va.—State
Senator Ben. A. Smith was convicted
of bribery in connection with accept¬
ing $2,200 to vote for Colonel Wil¬
liam Seymour Edwards as a candidate
for the United States senate. After
a prolonged trial the case went to
the jury, and a verdict of guilty re¬
turned. Senator Smith is the first
member of the West Virginia legisla¬
ture ever convicted of such a charge.
Senator Smith and his wife were over¬
come when the verdict was announc¬
ed by the jury.
Saloons Closed in the Mohave Desert.
San Bernardino, Cal.—The Mohave
desert has gone dry. For the first
time in its history the desert is minus
the saloons which dotted the sandy
stretch for a distance of 200 miles.
These “wet” spots were squeezed out.
Needles is the only desert town still
supporting saloons. Licenses for Nee¬
dles were renewed before the county
supervisors suddenly decided to “dry
up” the Mohave country. The hot¬
test day of the year marked the ad¬
vent 1 1 the "dry rule,” some of the
desert towns reporting 120 degrees.
400 Miners Rescued by Engineer.
Duquoin, 111.—Four hundred coal
miners, were rescued from the Para¬
dise mine, which caught fire. Charles
Matthis, chief engineer, stood at his
post, a few feet from the burning coal
chutes, and worked the hoist that
brought the men up the shaft in
spite of the heat that blistered his
hands and singed his hair. When the
! ast man was rescued Matthis fell un¬
conscious. He was taken to his home
in a serious condition.
SPEECH BY WILSON
PRESIDENT ADDRESSES GREAT
THRONG ON THE GETTYS¬
BURG BATTLEFIELD.
PAYS TRIBUTE TO VETERANS
Nation Does Not Stand Still, He Says,
and Orders of the Day for the
People Are Laws on Statute
Books.
Gettysburg, Pa., July 4.—President
Wilson’s address today was the chief
feature of National day in the celebra¬
tion of the semi-centennial of the Bat¬
tle of Gettysburg. It was heard by a
vast crowd of old soldiers and others
and was warmly applauded.
The president’s address follows:
Friends and Fellow Citizens: I need
not tell you what the battle of Gettys¬
burg meant. These gallant men In
blue and gray sit all about us here.
Many of them met here upon this
ground in grim and deadly struggle.
Upon these famous fields and hillsides
their comrades died about them. In
their presence it were an impertinence
to discourse upon how the battle went,
how It ended, what it signified! But
50 years have gone by since then and
I crave the privilege of speaking to
you for a few minutes of what those
50 years have meant.
What have they meant? They have
meant peace and union and vigor, and
the maturity and might of a great na¬
tion. How wholesome and healing the
peace has been! We have found one
another again as brothers and com¬
rades in arms, enemies no longer, gen¬
erous friends rather, our battles long
past, the quarrel forgotten—except
that we shall not forget the splendid
valor, the manly devotion of the men
then arrayed against one another, now
grasping hands and smiling into each
other’s eyes. How complete the union
has become and how dear to all of us,
how unquestioned, how- benign and
majestic, as state after state has been
added to this great family of free
men! How handsome the vigor, the
maturity, the might of the great na¬
tion we love with undivided hearts;
how full of large and confident prom¬
ise that a life will be w-rought out
that will crown its strength with gra¬
cious justice and a happy welfare that
will touch all alike with deep content¬
ment! We are debtors to those 50
crowded years; they have made us
heirs to a mighty heritage.
Nation Not Finished.
But do we deem the nation com¬
plete and finished? , These venerable
men crowding here to this famous
field have set us a great example of
devotion and utter sacrifice. They
were willing to die that the people
might live. But their task is done.
Their day is turned Into evening. They
look to us to perfect what they estab¬
lished. Their work is handed on to
us, to be done in another way but not
in another spirit. Our day is not over;
it is upon us in full tide.
Have affairs paused? Does the
nation staml stiff? Isl it what’the 50'
years have wrought since those days
of battle finished, rounded out, and
completed? Here Is a great people,
great with every force that has ever
beaten In the lifeblood of mankind.
And it Is secure. There is no one
within its borders, there Is no
power among the nations of the earth,
to make it afraid. But has it yet
squared itself with its own great
standards set up at its birth, when it
made that first noble, naive appeal to
the moral judgment of mankind to
take notice that a government had
now at last been established which
was to serve men, not masters? It is
secure in everything except the satis¬
faction that its life is right, adjusted
to the uttermost to the standards of
righteousness and humanity. The
days of sacrifice and cleansing are
not closed. We have harder things
to do than were done in the heroic
days of war, because harder to see
clearly, requiring more vision, more
calm balance of judgment, a more
candid searching of the very springs
of right.
Tribute to Their Valor.
Look around you upon the field of
Gettysburg! Picture the array, the
fierce heats and agony of battle, col¬
umn hurled against column, battery
bellowing to battery! Valor? Yes!
Greater no man shall see In war; and
self-sacrifice, and loss to the utter¬
most; the high recklessness of exalt¬
ed devotion which does not count the
cost. We are made by these tragic,
epic things to know what it costs to
make a nation—the blood and sacri¬
fice of multitudes of unknown men
lifted to a great stature in the view
of all generations by knowing no limit
to their manly willingness to serve.
In armies thus marshaled from the
ranks of free men you w-ill see, as It
were, a nation embattled, the leaders
and the led, and may know, If you
will, how little except in form its
action differs in days of peace from
its action In days of war.
May we break camp now and be at
ease? Are the forces that fight for the
Smashing Force of the Sea.
“The great gales which have re¬
cently swept the Atlantic have dem¬
onstrated in a most emphatic manner
the force of the sea. as represented
by the buckling, bending and tearing
away of iron and steel plates from
vessels,” says the Times Engineering
Supplement. "Within the last few
years, also, engineers have had to
witness the destruction of seawalls
and half completed harbor works by
the storms which have directed the
battering forces of the breakers
Was Yelling for Both.
It was at a southern ball game, and
the visiting northerner was much
amused by a little darkey who sang,
persistently, half under his breath:
“Dey’s gwine ter win! Dey's gwine
ter win! Don’ I done tole yer, dey’s
gwine ter win?”
The home team was making good
when the chant began, but it contin¬
ued steadily, quite undeterred by the
changing vicissitudes of play through¬
out the game. When, at last, the
home team was beaten, the visitor no¬
Nation dispersed, disbanded, gone to
their homes forgetful of the common
cause? Are our forces disorganized,
without constituted leaders and the
might of men consciously united be¬
cause we contend, not with armies, but
with principalities and powers and
wickedness in high places. Are we
content to lie still? Does our union
mean sympathy, our peace content¬
ment, our vigor right action, our ma¬
turity self-comprehension an.l a clear
confidence in chcosing what we shall
do? War fitted us for action, and ac¬
tion never ceases.
Our Laws the Orders of the Day.
I have been chosen the leader of
the Nation. I cannot justify the choice
by any qualities of nty own, but so it
has come about, and here I stand.
Whom do I command? The ghostly
hosts who fought upon these battle¬
fields long ago and are gone? These
gallant gentlemen stricken in years
whose fighting da>s are over, their
glory won? What are the orders for
them, who rallies them? I have in my
mind another host, whom these set
free of civil strife in order that they
might work out in days of peace and
settled order the life of a great na¬
tion. That host Is the people them
selve’s, the great and the small, with¬
out class or difference of kind or
race or origin; and undivided in inter¬
est, if we have but the vision to guide
and direct them and order their lives
aright in what we do. Our constitu¬
tions are their articles of enlistment.
The orders of the day are the laws
upon cur statute books. What we
strive for is their freedom, their right
to lift themselves from day to day and
behold the things they have hoped
for, and so make way for still better
days for those whom they love who
are to come after them. The recruits
are the little children crowding in.
The quartermaster’s stores are In the
mines and forests and fields, in the
shops and factories. Every day some¬
thing must be done to push the cani
palgu forward; and it must be done
by plan and with an eye to some great
destiny.
How- shall we hold such thoughts $h
our hearts and not be moved? I
would not have you live even today
wholly In the past, but would wish to
stand with you in the light that
streams upon us now out of that
great day gone by. Here is the na¬
tion God has builded by our hands.
What shall we do with it? Who stands
ready to act again and always in the
spirit of this day of reunion and hope
and patriotic fervor? The day of our
country's life has but broadened into
morning. Do not put uniforms by.
Put the harness of the present on.
Lift your eyes to the great tracts of
life yet to be conquered in the Inter¬
est of righteous peace, of that pros¬
perity which lies In a people's hearts
and outlasts all w-ars and errors of
men. Come, let us be comrades and
soldiers yet to serve our fellow men
in quiet counsel, where the blare of
trumpets is neither heard nor heeded
and where the things are done which
imiki blessed the nations of the world
in peace and righteousness and love.
Properly Rebuked.
An, excursion party from a promi¬
nent! woman's club In Chicago had
gonerto a rural part of»the state, and
in dtVault of sufficient hotel aeoi\mmo
datiofis, some of the members were
obliged to seek quarters In a nearby
farmhouse.
Everything was simplicity itself, a I
though scrupulously clean ami home¬
like. But as would be expected, there
was- a natural abscence of some of
the luxuries of high-priced city hotels.
Iletiring time came and some of the
ladies discovered that there were no
keys In the locks of their rooms, and
consulted the farmer's wife.
That good woman was undisguisedly
surprised.
“Why,” she said, “we don't usually
lock our doors here, and there's no
one here but you. But then," scrutin¬
izing the ladies carefully. “I suppose
you know your own party best.”—Har¬
per's Magazine.
Not on Her List.
Mrs. Vaughn was out shopping one
morning, and upon her return home
she asked Annie, her maid, if there
had been any callers during her ab¬
sence.
“Yes, mum,” replied Annie.
“Who called?" inquired the mis¬
tress.
"Mrs. Cassidy, mum,” said the girl.
"Mrs. Cassidy?” repeated Mrs.
Vaughn, thoughtfully. “Why, I don't
know any Mrs. Cassidy."
"No, mum," answered Annie. “She
didn’t call to see you, mum; she came
to see me.”—Lippincott's.
Cause for Gratitude.
Mayor Gaynor, at a luncheon in
Brooklyn, praised New York’s abun¬
dance of amusements.
"New York furnishes the people,"
he said, “with more amusements of a
wholesome and uplifting kind than
any other city in the world except
Paris.
"Let us be thankful that we live In
New- Y'ork instead of In one of those
gloomy cities whereof the citizens
say:
" 'The only place our people have to
go to is back to work.’ ”
against vulnerable points in the struc¬
tures. There Is no uncertainty about
the results, but the precise nature of
the destructive action, and the quanta
tive measure of the foces involved,
can scarcely be said to have been
submitted to adequate examination,
even in cases where the facts were
favorable to such a research.”
The Isle of Man, which has juBt
defeated the workman's compensation
bill, Is one of the most backward por¬
tions of the British empire.
ticed that the chant was still In prog¬
ress.
"Say. bub,” he remarked, “isn't it
about time you quit singing? Which
team did you think was going to win,
anyway?”
“Didn't make no diffrence to me,
boss,” was the grinning answer. "I
was jus’ a yellin’ fer ’em both.”
• The bowery branch of the Young
Men’s Christian association in New
York city last year served meals to
2£S,2-18 men.
