The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 31, 1909, Page 4

tHE STAR-—-MON DAY, MAY 31, 1909. MEMORIAL DAY osm Momber of the Unlted Proms. 1 out of ott the Fourth of H TLE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE P rier a allel "x ae | lished dally by The Star Vintered : EXT to the } atte of July, Memorial day has tee Oa I E SEATTL oftlee, an legal holidays, ‘This is true because of the fact a that on every recurrence of that day busine ie mane. it, In his chareeterts HIST t i ] ¢ manner and pleasures are f ally laid aside while just happened that the mayor ‘ ev satriotic addr es are ma and ten { thou sued his speech, as the procession —_——— M < 3 , arrived A Word From Josh Wise. ay Gihiee 4 Serene sands of graves of the brave boys in blue, who gave their lives} KERMIT WITH HI6 NEW PETS, THE Pi TS, THE PIGMY PACHYDERM TEAM The reporters rushed for Hirst NBEANS, he co! nigh e, are covered h beautiful flowers (Lefiselowa Photo by Powwow, Nairobi.) | Sergeant Bill Jenk that the country might live, ar Ww f a ho y wow air PerWnat ta this about?” asked Bit and wet with the tears of those who ean never for tal | ' , | yd yun over w Another Memorial day is here, with all its tender memories Just thought we'd ruin o | | lead the cemetery to put some Mere a8 and all its loving service. It has been well said by a leading on the graves, before the ball “Th' umpire official of the Grand Army of the Repiblic that “in Memorial) game.” said Bt ee don't talk as eons hing | The reporters saw that each ball | much as th’ m day the American people have given the most touching and] playeh curring towers. ‘Thay wore | pinaay Sle " on beautiful service ever offered to a nation’s heroes,” and that} sobortnced, quiet boys. ‘The spirit | vate Hy! mf, lol he da had fallen on them vm pt “in itself it would justify the existence of the Grand Army of} namie ie phe a dha-orowd | goes. ‘one the Republic, which instituted it.” | "Make way, please,” he adld os } ! rt of the early “Here are some flowers yy, Memorial day had i igin in and is a pa { the early} ale te oetinaes Gat. Dows hy history of the G. A. R., and the two are so closely ertwined | /th lane of the crowd, which made } } ory of the! way for-him, proudly marched Hill, | Ah Fe that they cannot be separated; therefore a short history of the jand behind him e&me the boys Though you vat with organization so much beloved by the old Idiers, and of the day Over the graves they scattered |@ fork \, 4 y r okens of schoolboy love, |" nee Os 5 made so sacred by the former, may be timely Tale haan deg poe I in! ow p id Toward the close of the civil war Major B, F, Stephenson, torent of boyhood, There was no | jor f : fir Hinois infant nd Chaplain Wm arief here; fresh from their pla John—1 Surgeon of the Forty-first Hlinois infantry, and Chaplai ral thar’ ariedt isiveas at| i J. Rutledge, of the same regiment, often talked of re - ! of the honor ie aa tal shand bio | A that wad around IT bs : ) breaking 0 eat after the hoped-for} merten, giving Kory because glory |, 200 4 war and of the breaking up of the armies after ny eh hata = ie ypimacag 4 hip set: peace should be declared. Major yenson wanted SOME SOFU) Aiosenaga, May 31.<(Very Bpe-;phanta, but the natives promptly | base ball players passed #llently | Phe friends of our friends ere our of an organization that would perpetuate the { iendships -and otal, by runner from Natrobl.)—The| pronounced them full grown, Ker | When they finioh rae frionda.—Fren ! oe 1 pis } vers 1 that {ttle rivalry between Col, Roose] mit rigged up an express wayon| passed outside the cirele of the : j the memories of their common trials and dangers, and t A elt and his son was stimulated yes-|and now they drag him © the| crowd ‘ we train-| | 1 nemor vf those oO hae rda ¢ t sted veldt and through the Jungle path Walt a minute,” rang out a 1 hould aid in doing honor to the memory of those who had/|terday when Kermit captured a dt and through the Jun patha » At the same ane id ‘ caek Rutledge |e" Of Plxmy pachydorms in the! they boing very powerful for anl-| strong voloe, “There's one word)... "muAiiMey hom at ine mum) laid down their lives. In all these ideas Chaplain Rutledge |)", i su.ta, | aks aavenisorelinnlo beanies tee | more t want to way.” fine eee cee eet pee betes | aad heartily concurred not only afforded Kermit the ; In ing these animals Kermit} It was the young mayor speaking Loulaville Courler-Journal tel ‘ — more [HMt Matinfaction, bat his fat? added evidence to that secured by That was the mont splendid thing one Van Peace came in April, 1865, at which time there were Ci ned } n the back and his camera the other night, when|{ have seen today, { know my] Princtpal—Johnnie, I'm surprised | \S\\ than a million men in the army and navy, while a still larger |detighte ity, “Mully, my bey, bully!” | he secured @ flashlight pty of «lapeech wasn't good, But now | bev § dopey _e h ie Thay re oy aa by enrolied { discharged. ‘To th at] The plamy pachyderme are exact. number of strange beasts that were| know why, It was because | was What - wen Maines ‘ehnete “ee NN number had been previously enrolled and discharge: jly like elephanta, but very diminu: routed from hie father's tent. One| trying to feel as the old soldiers| Dis) foe your : =? number must be added a roll which at the time numbered over tye. They are also angularly docile, of them was a plgmy pachyderm,| feel, But I eannot do that. No one Johnnie—His job, sir—Tit-Bite 1 land entirel harmless One le > but h emalio nd ter” Uw of « ww hot in that Grand “ef @ $50,000, which has since been most appropriately entitled “The en ean in nee two tnehow| thone Kermit aueured allen tte nit “fe ge fly Pat vend Eee MES ee abi cha Grand Army of the Dead.” Statistics show that there had eek shorter. Kermit carried them tnto| hopes to run across ft before hel what memories those old soldiers | his home and in hin ¥ wr katy oie the " ey wore baby 6 « this ol E © t seen ot feat individual.—Florida Times killed in battle 67,058; that 43,032 had died of wounds and other r|"* amp, thinking they were baby ole best wt part of Atripe eH pea tall neniae M3 te katie, Union = MARY AND HER LAMB. « . ’ eee = lias te wm a he . Injuries; that 224,586 had died of disease; and that 24,852 had fe ings on Decoration day must oo | gineings ove THE HEART OF A BOY (oir sein, Bel) tteste 20, set nant] gute thin tae of bse een ta i calnse assifie ‘otal ¢ r be hundred timed deeper than! sooke the truth when he told a wo ' died from causes not classified—a total enlistment for the wa poet Wicpre. tna 1, wis 40 tot tt ‘he told @ woe se calle at Gel tecueoek eran of tender aa pi probably 2,320,000, | know about the war, may have our wd Py 4 amons her Le Re eB + =a we . 4 i ‘ feoltings also, With us there je| He—Wwe believe Adam| dowed with a coat o woolly texture Immaculate The army had taken part in more than 2,000 engagements A MEMORIAL DAY MM WRITTEN FOR late ap re thas fedneins more | led about tt to Boston Trans-| as the crystalline moisture preelpitated from the clouds tn the may The navy, with 122,000 men employed, had also borne an im- THE STA glory than joss. These old soldiers | ‘ied rigorous season of the year. come hore filled with remembrance Mo Mies Masessetia| In this connection {t Is clted that the immateure agime oo Mian aon argaretta j naka Geetant, part.» : BY W, G. SHEPHERD. after years of thinking over battl| suai {call you Margaretta’ ‘That| Ut #0 excessively @ well known Instinct of its kind to an The armies disbanded and Major Stephenson returned to times, We ought to como here, a#|name so full of love and romancet| ® Jeader, that it formed the habit of following Miss ‘ - I srested ot his Firat Sergeant Bil Jonks walked | he couldn't gage as long and 88 BO! 414 theme tine boys today, fresh| so whatever point of the compass her inclination directed her his home in Decatur, Ill. There he soon interested some of his), cross the lawn at the Soldiers’ |cusingly at the shame-covered BU trom oy Jo Voice (from above)—Mag! When it {8 considered highly possible tbat its rom our play and work, to pay ale V from a < former comrades in his plans and hopes, until, on April 6, 1866,)home, carrying # kite, Six boys/as he thought ho ought to, because |i ribute to the ten who made it}¥ a-g! Tell that young man] have at times accelerated her locomotion with the asslstane: “Post No. 1, Grand Army of the Republic,” was organized in that little city with a small membership, and the grand order ‘was a reality and was here to stay. The membership of the G. A. R but the commander-in-chief reported at the last general en campment that on December 31, 1907, the members in good standing numbered 225,157 Something like 200,000 men, the pathetic remnant of the} original 2,000,000, are marching through the streets of our vil- lages and cities today. Honor these men; brighten their last days; it was their spirit which gave you your purple robe of Tiberty and your boy his wonderful life opportunity. | | is not definitely known, | While it may be a erude, un) with our dishes unwashed, but patriotic way of looking at it, still| we're just as glad to see them, even you can't get around the fact that If we weren't ready. there Is about $30,000,000 worth of | warships in the harbor. That Tezan town of Zephyr, de- stroyed by cyclone, certainly lived up to its name for a few tumultu ous seconds, It is @ noticeable fact that when- ever one country sends warships to visit another, the visitee always has | about three times as many on hand | to receive them. While tomorrow isn't the first of May, you might Just aa well leave ‘There have been a good many to | orders for mother to call you early. Morrows in the past and there will —— be a good many in the futare, but} The hand that presses the key —well, tomorrow is the Tomorrow, | (Morrow Is going to put it all over the hand that slays the rhinoceros. Come now, Mr. Weather Man./ Remember the fourth of March last.| Yesterday's rain was a relief In- aamuch as we were not compelled win another ball game. Our Japanese callers DECORATION DAY Hushed the cannon’s mocking sound, and hushed the clank of swords. I hear no shouts, no battle ery, from lusty soldier hordes; No inspiration comes from fife and drum npon the air, I see no gleam of bayonets and hear no trumpet’s blare. I see no marching columns, whh rhythmic swing of feet, And I hear no cry of “Charge,” nor do | hear the word “Retreat.” They march today, these soldiers gray, Who suffered, fought and bled, And go to lay a wreath or spray Of blossoms on their dead. us By Will F. Griffin 1 see no line of battle, with the shrieking shell and shot, And [ smell no fumes of powder where the combat waxes hot; No wounded lie upon the sod, their life blood ebbing rrom viackened mouths of hell no hurtling demons now are cast. | hear no cheers of victory, no wailing of defeat— No campfires burn on yonder hill, beyond the village street, Down the street, with feeble feet, I see the heroes come— A «ray array, they march today, With softened, muffied drum. I see no lines of cavalry get ready for the fray, I seo no sodden fields of red wien amoke has cleared away; There comes no clash of sabres ror the musket's rattling sound— I hear no ping of lead that lays its harvest to the ground, I see no cities desolate nor devastated farms— I hear no call for sturdy youth to answer war's alarms! They march today, these soldiers gray, With "Glory" at their head, And go to lay a wreath or spray Of blossome on their dead, —= renrananen HAIR OIL “HARRY | DISCOURSES _ ON THE MONEY SAVING SYSTEM BY FRED SCHAEFER, "Sticking anything away for ajto hit the sddenly we'd have | molst morning?” Pre-|to pass th or peddle #hog- neription Clerk, after he had piped |"tT198*. Yet tf we'd only tighten up| for a few wooks we'd have some the pharmacy cashier start out to velvet to fall back oa: When we gut inquired the make the daily bank deposit pushed. Maybe ail of $6. But we Not even an umbrella,” replied | don't.” the Boda Water expert. “Why was| “Six bones is a ptker’s pilo,” you asking?” mused the Prescription Clerk “Oh, 1 thought I'd find out how it There you are,” chirped Harry. was didnky,” said the P. C., moodily.| "We've got the Croesus spirit graft. “1 can't do it.” ed onto a nickel nuclous, Rather “That's where most of us pull up than be a twu-bit Ugntwad we spend fame,” returned Hair Ol! Harry.|the two bits, ilttle wismg that our “We can't get along without things; strongest plunge tun't be a real that we do get along without when |highfilers white chip, N if we | We can't get them to get along with. | play It the other way and make like Do you make that?” “You mean we try to stretch our income up to our outgo, verso vica?" Clerk, we're sitting in with the bank back of un, we'd feel grouchy at Jetting «0, We'd at loast want the percent age. instead of said the Prescription “Listens ike good medicine,” unid “You hit the head on the nail that|the Prescription Clerk “Tl pretend time,” approved Hair Oil that my wages t Harry or, anlary—in $400 @ You and I havo our next week »| month and I'm trying to freeze to an stipend spent before it's even in the | mite h of it ae T ean,” pay envelope, just by trying to play “Fine said Hair Ol} Harry, “Can ike we wore getting more than the | y spare me @ century of it tin bose knows we're worth. If we were | Siturday? | ment. fairly danced along beside him, be-| he remembered Bill at Antietam. cause he idn't walk as rapidly “Well, Hi,” he sald, “us old fel as they wanted to, and they couldn't) lows have been thinking that the walk as slowly ashe bad to. Under|young folke of these days don't his shaggy, hoary hair bis bive eyes|care enough for Decoration day beamed with expectation and excite | And here you go, humortng them.” The wind blew off his rough; “I know, I know,” said Mill, “but rider's hat-—Till had laid away his | it ain't so bad as you fellows think little cap of the days of 61 when | Young folks will be young folke, It} the Spanish-American war had set | ain't flowers that makes Decoration | the new vogue--and he shouted to/ day: {t's memories, recollections. one of the boys young folke ain't got those. But Git that hat, there, you. that's no sign they don't think of} never mind, 1 don't want it on.|us old soldiers.” Carry it. It'll only blow off again.”| Bill waited. Peter was discon And the little fellow placed it on | certingly silent. Fill still waited. his own head. Behind him, in #in-| Peter still dectined to talk gle file, the other boys fell into line,| “Mut [ have to go to the ball and danced in @ procession. First| game,” said Bill at last, “These Sergeant BI Jenks walked along | two nines have been talking "gainet side contentedly, not noticing them, | each other and neither of “em would like & sergeant. | y unless | umpired. So finally It This procession seandalized First! cave in. | plumb fergot about Deo Sergeant James Whiteom, who hap | oration day, and I have to go. pened to be looking from hia win-| That's all” dow in the Soldiers’ home. It scan-| But Bis step, an he [eft the dalized hall a doton other old vet-| room, was not that of a guilty gan. erana, too, Tt had « boyfeh spring, like that of “That Bill Jonks is a regular dog-|a man going to a ball game, goned kid.” sald Piret Sergeant Whitcomb to several oid soldier companions who were In hia room. “Goin’ off to fly a new kite,” sald one of them. “Jest like a boy,” complained an other, “And tomorrow Decoration | day, too,” said another, “Ho's my roommate, and | know he ain't cleaned up his sult fer the parade.” The old cronies gathered at the Half a dozen reporters stood jabout the cemetery that aplondid May morning, while the ceréingiles were being held over the graves lof the brave boys in blue They were thrilled, as were all the be holders, with the thoughts of the men who had laid down thetr lives \for thejr country. Put to fel and to write are two different things. window to wateh Bill and his} The Decoration day story of one frienda. year ls about the same an the Deo “But, by ——, he could fight. 1! oration day story of the next year. seen him at Antietam shootin’ and swoartn’ at the same time. Acted/ may be different, Jost like a kid in a snowball fight.) are nearly always the same Always been a kid bis whole life,| tine, old lines of blue are al I reckon,” added another. | there; the flowers are a! Hut the Httle procession paneed | ana i of love. But t down behind oll in the marvel-| news, because ft happens every ous green lawn of the Soldiers’ | year home, just exactly as happy a if| The mayor was speaking now MMll's boyishness had been praised | He was a young fellow, but he tnatead of criticised by bis old sol-| was vainly doing his best to feel dier friends. And before long Bill's | the thrill of Decoration day, that “new patent kite,” as he called it,/ only an old soldier can feel; that was soaring above the hollow of/only a man “with memories,” at Minnehaha creek, a tiny speck. Old Bil had told Peter, could ox aueere! perience, “When you goin’ to the ceme! The reporters were doing their tery?" asked Bill's roommate, the best to plan a bright, new kind of next morning. & Decoration day story out of It all Bill's stubby, weaszened fingers} Suddenly they heard the shrill wandered to his shaggy gray mus |sound of a fife. it was playing tach, as they always did when he| The Girl | Left Behind Me.” was puzaled, “Well, look at that,” said Bit “Ry Jinks, I fergot,” said Hill, fins, one of the reporters. Down “Pargot Decoration day?” a lane of trees and monuments “I did, comrade,” sald Bill, sadly.| came the strangest procession that “Il was goln'-—goln’—or—to—or"— | had ever been seen In a cemetery, “Goin’ to what?" demanded his} At the head of it was First Ser friend. geant Hill Jenks, Behind him, tn “Well, Peter, maybe you'll under | single file, came two base ball stand and maybe you won't. Hut I} nines of boys, In thelr uniforms. was goin’ to umpire a ball game) Behind them came a long line of in the newspapers. The speakers but thetr tdba: vag of the kids.” stragglers, Bill was playing the First Peter looked shoe ined But | tite, and putting every pound of eee =o =~ ome seas “Iss Bummelmeier glat he iss ofer des mumps?” - “No “How so He iss mat becoss he wass fumickatet.” on “Dey burned perfumed pastilles in hiss room und dot:in censed him,” “Don'd you go to see Pauline Pfefferkuchen nod anysmore, Osgar?” “No, Adolf; her fadder hass a grouchiness mit me.” ‘ “Der answer, blease?” ‘> “Ven I vent dere last dime he shut der door in my fage.” “Ach, dot's yot you get for leafing der door in yout Niece open,” e 1 always ph | inn’t | possible for us to play and work In these United States “Old soldier boys, we love you.” There were tears in the mayor's leyes and voice as he stretched out j hie arm to the veterans, "We love ies Forgive us, won't you, if we don't seem to fully appreciate all | your tuemortes; If we don't seem to feel as you do on Decoration day? ‘We are a new generation. But } OF & plenic; or & horse ra wherever there is an American | crowd gathered together you may | | be sure that every pleasure seeker | loves the memories of the boys in blue.” j Everybody cheered him thie time, They sald the mayor's apeoch was j food after all, And Bill and the) base ball nines walked away How did you get them to come vor to the cemotery?” Biffins asked First Sergeant Bill "Il told them if they didn't come over to the cemetery with me, I) wouldn't umpire thelr game,” sone | replied When the newspapers were ‘seal | at the Soldiers’ home that night, the | jold soldiers were delighted. The} j stories told all about Bill and the| strange, Inspiring scen at the; cametery. They even gave the score | jof the ball game. “Young mayor speech,” sald First | Whiteomb. “He wouldn't have, {been for Bill,” | roommate. “BU! te just ke a kid,” sald First Sergeant Whitcomb. “But I s’pose it takow a man like him to really understand what the young folks *\do think about us. I guess the mayor was right.” “HER TOES STRAIGHT? NO WIFE OF MINE.” made a Sergeant fine Jas if it hadn't sald Peter, Bill's ST, LOUIS, May 31.—Recause her toes were straight, a young woman, still unknown to the police, escaped going to jail. Goo, Schuta is a jealous husband. He found a man and a veiled wom anon the streot and accosted them. Volee, figure, manner, walk, drosa, everything about the woman, cor-| reaponded to his wife. Sohute got} excited and called a policeman. The woman protested. But she | wouldn't lower her veil, “It's none } of his business who I am,” she told | the sergeant, “but I'm sure I'm not |his wife.” Then Schutz proposed the feat test. “My wife's toes are | crooked,” he explained The Indy In question sald she'd rather bare her toes than her face. In the privacy room she slipped out of oxfords and | lisle howe, “It's not my wife,” said | Sehuts, after one look Se eee Hen nothing. tramp. rooster, len't my new hat a love! I'm so glad I didn't give your castoff tail feather to that it is time to go home Be . . The more succ attending to his raps wo business ful a man te in the larger and more ravenous will be the mob after him Dallas News. TONS OF wood AND ||| STEEL FALLING FROM GREAT ALTITUDE. PHOTO SHOWING TANK AS IT FELL. Ten tons of metal and wool, crumbling under its own weight and falling from a height of nearly half a block, was photographed at Lawton, who risked his life for the picture. The structure bore a water tank, which had been condemned for Its Vermillion, Ia, by W. H age. ‘Two seconds after this markable photograph was the tank and Its supports formed a and steel re taken ted, tangled mass of splinters You BUY A DRINK, THEN SELL SOME OF IT BACK TO THE BARKIC AGAIN, “Ey) Ces) | THEY'RE BOTH GUILTY. TROY, Ohio, easies” hay tives in Troy May 31.—"Speak-| got the beat of deteo When a man buys a drink, under a new system just put into operation, he pays 25 cents for! the drink, H Then the barten Sell me 10 © please. says to e pours a large drink child with you on the car, sible give it a juley orango; Jet it|car has started again, Tul lean over the ju behind. This will infi pr when with you {n a public grab ft roughly by the neck, shake | slowly descend the step, it wait till | get you home, then you'll |if you Ike, grin we him: | the liquor back into the bottle and {ves 10 cents in return. Then the customer is as blame of the Heutenant’s | Worthy as the bartender because he, without a I} ‘ worth of that,} The drinker pours some of | too, has sold liquor conse, It Is dangerous, after that, | to “squeal.” ECONOMY IN THE BARN YARD —__-_—_——- = And the trimming coat —=3 me ca be immediately replaced by a pleas- ant titter al) round. th bearing roller skates, there is presented an example of durance as well as singular devotion on the part of the infiat Whih'von bate hen you have your four-year-old , never leave the seat ta ty if pos- | ductor has rung two bells seat and drop the|be quite “infra dig” (to t ice on the laps of the passengers | fashioned expression), Atta ibly tend to else moment the car ‘omote friendly social intercourse. | leave your seat, oni If your child persista in howling | down the aisle, place,|has come to a ‘on foreibly, and say: “Drat you,!quite the latest style eo.” This mitigates the grouch | conductor and remark: used by the howling. and it will|silly of me.” This séé@ to the regard in bpncfen passengers will hold only be done whem crowded, Reply to Madge:—No, Madge, if e car has stopped at your street Dress Up for the special effort A.-Y.-P. best this summer. 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