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- E"00:iD BE0TI01T. ... secoiu) r;.:.;c;:. ' ui' Social f BY RflDBI SffllUEI. Pastor. Temple EmaaueL Fovertj Its Necessity and Perma- nence in Society. . '-.r-'; ' N ; .-'J; "For; the poor shall not cease ! out of th land; therefor I command thee asying, thou ahalt open ; widely' thy 4 ian4 to thy brother, thy poor and to thy needy in? thy land."; CDeuteron- my, 15, 11.) "And If thy brother b waxen poor with thee and his han4 fallen Idle by hla aide thou shall take hold of him and strengthen him, i fce. he .stranger or, sojourner, that thy ; brother may . live f 1th thee." Levitl- inou pursue,., tnat thou mayest live, and Inherit the land which the Lord thy God glveth thee.'',. (Deuteronomy, 1 80.) . ; .- f.::.; ? ; a - ' These axe prosperous times, we are ,; ioloV In which w are Jiving. Never Cor such a Sustained . succession of , years, at least in this country, has na 'tux lavished her favors more bountl- fully or more generously upon the ; children - of men. ' The crops' have " never been more plentiful; . employ .'tnent never more abundant; commerce and Industry -never more busily and (vigorously active. - ' " t would . seem amazing,", fairly ln . credible then that amidst such fold en . prosperity, poverty should stalk abroad wasted and gaunt piteous and Imploring of mien, showing an aching -sreld 'of destitution as wretched and miserable as has ever appealed te the sjympathles of feeling men. A strange anomaly it Is that wealth should be heaped up In such fabulous fortunes as It Is to-day, and a new race of Croesi be born to the purple, and yet sum of human Indigence be as great and grevlous, aye! greater and more grevloaa to-day than It has ever. been. ' And yet such Is the melancholy fact.' Statistics which deal with the hard facts of poverty, tell us a sad story. More than a half million people, one out of each hundred and ' fifty of the population of the country, it has been computed, were living In in stitutions of a more or less eleemosy nary; character at the beginning of last year, a number largely In excess of any befere similarly housed by pub Ik) or private benevolence. But these far from represent the sum total of the poor of the land. Added to these must be the countless many more thousands of men, women, and child ren charges, outside ef Institutions, In every city, town and hamlet, upon the charities of relief organizations; and added to them again, must be the vast majority of the working class as. In the Stat of Massachusetts, ft has been calculated that eight hun dred thousand men are working fpr their living, and that the average' of their earnings per man is loss than 4600 a year,' $568.08 to b exact The most of these men moreover are men of family, with an average of tour to Ave persons (4.4 per cent persons) dependent upon each for their sup port; and so It is readily reckonable In this era of high prioes particularly, how much of the ease and comforts of life they can expect on eudh recom pense to command far themselves and theirs. Such a wage can scarcely mnlttfut tn mmilr tha barest nar.ftsal- tiea of existence! And what is true of Massachusetts, where oondltlens of la bor are no less favorable than else where, It is apparent, must be no less true of -the tolling masses In the oth er States of the Union. Then as an additional Item toward the total of poverty, account must be taken of that large army of young re tcrults, drafted, In what should be the free and glad play time of tnetr lite, lnt the ranks of toll, the obild workers whom Mrs. Browning had In aubh tender regard when she so touch- Ingly beseeches us, Do ye hear children weeping, O my brothers. Ere the sorrow comes with years T (nay are leaning their heads against their mothers. And tat cannot atop their tears. ?he young lambs are bleating in the meadows; - The young birds are chirping in the nest; tlha young fawns are playing with the shadows; The young Sowers are blowing to ward the West But the young, young ohlldren, O, my brothers. They are weeping bitterly! Vhey are weeping in the play-time of ' the others, In the country of the free." John Sparge, in his "Bitter Cry of the Children," estimates that there are no less than two million and a , quarter of tttiese children here in this "country of the free," under the age of II, ranging thence to the tender age of six or seven, laboriously em ployed In eking out the sparse family wage, or bearing upon their frail shoulders, like that lad in this city of whom we read the other day, , the burden of the family support by the tense, injurious straining of their im mature energies. N. -' Nor must we overlook as a further Item in fflie sum, the young girls obliged to to work for a pittance that : yields them but a seajkt cheerless sub sistence, and scarcely that, and of ' whom, oft beset by sore temptation, sve have that, painfully, tearfully graphic portrait of the poet: "A motherless girl whose Angers thin, Push from her faintly want and sin.? now many 01 mesa poor 'unrorra nates there are, .whose honor goes down under the" stress of a hard, heavy anguish of existence, 'we can not ten; but we do know that there 'are thousands and thousands of young f girl operatives and clerks in our h stores, work shops, and factories, re 'pcelvlng a weekly pay of from 11.00 to 45.10, out of which they are expected w jsavvaww wot a ssvaaw vuiUB, KlL IV olothe themselves as to present a neat and agreeable appearance, not te- men tion the defraying of other Incidentals . of existence. Hoar 'they-do it, as we ' 1 know the most of them heroically, do to the everlasting honor of woman hood, la Indeed a profound marvel to Citations then such oath, which we could multiply by . still others, iiHn vtvldlv bftfnra na unu nl th vast proportions of the poverty which still obtains In our day., . , , But vast as these proportion are, Taster even perhaps, as ha been Bug gested, than aver before,, are we to . tak from . this the conclusion that they must ver remain so; that there- Is no cur ana no neip, out that we must vernav poverty in the equal measur as now with usT.i , ; In a certain sens I know; It Is and ' lamentably - must , remain lastingly . true, a our text word has It, that The poof will not cesle out of the land." Thar will always be those who . ty th uaeatrUabl and anprerent Problems RIRSIIDEBQ . Milwaukee, Wis. able mlsfortunea and 'mischances of life must look to other for their main tenance and support. .There will al-, ways be, 1 the incapacitated from dl verse causes, the Infirm and aged, the blind, the deaf, the. halt, the .crippled, the . incurably aiseasea, the meijtaiiy defective, .the widowed and , the or phaned, who of their own ' unaided powers and . 'exertions, V could never hope to gain a sufficient livelihood for themselves. Not until all sickness and disease and death then shall be abol ished,: and the possibilities of casual ties, of men being helplessly maimed and crippled,' shall be colncldentally removed, can we look to see an end of poverty and the occasions it offers for the exertion ; of the offices of a sympathetic 'and helpful: charity, v But true as It thus is, that poverty with, its attendant charity can never wholly disappear; from among -men, yet it Is equally true that the amount of it can-be reduced, untu tnat irreau cable sum which, must' remain, the result of the unavoidable of life, be comes by. contrast a quite, negligible quantity...;;;';" -.?. t ' poverty, is after all nothing else than a disease,, and as a- disease, Is curable. It : owes ' Its presenc to'a pathological .condition, either within the Individual himself, or the eootety of which he Is a part A man la poor either from causes within himself or from causes without In other men, hut both of these classes of causes of which, the latter are by far the greater and the more frequent, can be remedied ' and removed; Indolence, ahlftleisness, lack of thrift are psollflo causes of poverty. Bat these can be overcome .by train ing and by discipline. The stern with drawal of all alms; the Insistence, firmly , and " relentlessly adhered to, that each man, able of .body, must meet a "work-test," most labor or else go hungry and selterless, can scarcely, fall to act a a powerful rea gent' and stimulant to sluggish and slumbering energies. Incompetence, the misplacement of men; the election and assignment oi them to tasks and callings for which they were never Intended or fitted by nature, are again responsible for much poverty. But these, too, can be corrected by education. A little more and careful training of the minds and powers of Judgment of men, a little more encouragement of the habits of self -study and discovery of personal aptitudes and limitations, a little more of developed skill and thoughtfulness in the ohoice of an occupation, and many a man who la now a sad misfit and failure in his vocation would doubtlessly be a glad and a notable success. Vices of various kinds. Intemper ance, licentiousness, cruelty of nature, leading, to desertion of wives and abandonment of children, to faithless ness of every kind to conjugal and pa rental duty, are further provoking agents of a -considerable measure of poverty. But here again the evil con dltion is not resnedyless. No man is o utterly a slave of his appetites and passions, no man so absolutely lost to all sense of a decent manhood, that some trace of a sound manliness is not left -within,, which, eusceptlble to wise influence t wisely applied, may not bring hlm to a chastened realization of his blatoeful conduct, and the de termination to live It down and to re deem it through the discharge of the obligations Incumbent upon hlra as a man of recovered honor and right sentiment. But when all this is said, trace as wo thus may, poverty in no small part to the direct personal responsi bility of the Individual himself, there remain the causes for a much, much larger share of poverty, as has been suggested, that are to be assigned else where than to the individual. Self produced as much poverty doubtlessly Is, there is much more that la so cially produced. , "Thy brother shall live with thee," is the bidding of the ancient earnest word of Leviticus. "He shall know and esjoy a life which la really life, such a life as thou wouldst recognize and choose for thyself to be life." But how little Is this bidding observed f the practical dealings of man with man to-day? How much of the poverty In this world is due to an Inhumane fail ure to pay a "living wageT" A life to be life presupposes above all else Just this, a living wage. But here are the vast cohorts of men in every pursuit obliged by the rigid Iron law of sup ply and demand, another name for the hard hearties selfishness and ra pacity of other men, to drag out a mean, miserable existence On the min imum pittance, not to what their toll Is worth, but of what the extreme necessities arid exigencies of their Uvea force them to take. Were men and wo men more fairly -and honestly com pensated for their labors; were their interests as Justly and considerately regarded by their employers as the letters' own Interests are, there would be less, much, much less of the accus ing cry of the impoverished ascend ing to the skies. Were there the prop er living wage paid, ther would be no occasion, as there is to-day, a criminal blot upon our humanity, tS employ Children In our mines, our mills, our factories, on wearing, dwarf ing, hazardous occupations, that the pay .of their elders might, be supple mented by the little,- yet so necessary little!, ..which they may add to It, Were ther the honorable Irving wag paid, there were none of those hapless young women driven to sell themselves to lives -of sham and pitiless social ostracism,-in order that their wretch ea earnings ; might be still mora wretchedly enlarged to admit of a few comforts otherwise denied them. Were there the humane living-wages paid, there' weretnone of the aged worn out worker, struggling all their days to get Juat a little ahead In the world to lay by a little for the day of need,1, but finding rt ever Impossible, and so for ced; when now they can work no long er and at the useless hulk of men, Into the poor house to spend the sor rowful remainder, of tehlr days.- Let the right, the Justly -earned compen sation, the full measure of the worth of men's .work and service "be render ed them, and how largely, how quick ly, would the rank oK the .poor to day b dkninlshodl JV" - ! Then ther' 1st th poverty; ' which primarily the ' outcome of th causa juat named, th lack of living wag, Is primarily th outcome of the cause There ; Is that poverty, which, un able, by reason of the scant wage glv en, to afford better quarters, I obliged to hous Innolf In nnhealtlful and un wholesome dwelling places, and abid ing In some illy-ventilated, nnllghted end noisome hovel for which It must pay an xcmdw rnt, find Itself posed to diaeu, soon wasted anl bro- ken in health, and precipitated from one abject stage of want Into a low er and more abjoct stage. There Is that ' poverty again, which, through lack of means unable to purchase real nutritious food, attracted by the cheapness ( of ..adulterated substitutes, feeds upon Cheser or else replaces the food which It cannot buy, with stim ulants of, the poorest sort which It can,- and thus poisoning th system, undermining the health all the while. Increases only the more, the hopeless and the helpless misery of Its indi gence, ' Were there her again th spirit of a right humanity within men, by .what a measure might poverty here once more be reduced! Wer there men, who Instead of seeking to enrich thmselves to the. utmost by ex cuse of (homes,- were Hhesp men to take . the money they have, and ' not without- the expectation of a Just re turn upon their investment ; at that, to build sanitary . dwellings ' for the poor, where some of the comforts, de cencies and refinements of life the hu man beting Is entitled to, could bo known; how much the better and stronger In physical and moral health would these poor be,' the more vigor ously and likely equipped to raise themselves out of their conditions of poverty! Were there again men, who, instead of planning and plotting to corner th market in food products and advance their prices to the top most limit, of further taxing their in genuity to invent cheap, but poisonous substitutes, or what is worst, sham injurious imitations of genuine foods to sell at the equal cost of tine gen uinewere these men to give the service of their thought and energies placing within the easy purchasing power of buyers even of the most lim ited means, good, substantial, nourish ing foods, as they might still do with advantage and profit to themselves, The Astronomer of the Fig. 3. Showing the shape and position of the Zodiacal light after sunset In March. The sun In his slow eastward Jour ney around the akjr la drawing ever nearer to the brilliant winter star. Already he ha so nearly overtaken the magnificent Taurus and Orion that these constellations are low in the West In the early evening, while the beautiful Dog-stars have passed the meridian and are Just beginning to move downward out of the evening sky. The one bright spring group Leo. or the Sickle, with the brilliant King star Regulus, Is high up In the South, while east of this Virgo, the first of the faint summer constel lations, Is Just beginning to appear. Above Leo the Great Dipper fills up almost the whole of the Northeastern sky. Below this la seen Bootes, who with upraised arm Is driving the Bear before him. Below Leo there Is the Watersnake which Just emerged from the ground three months ago and of which even now but little more than half Is visible. Not until next May will the whole of tms very long constellation be seen In the early fT vsmhwisw aBacsa ' 1 pum Fig. 1. The) Constellations levealng. r m t . i 1- A . .L . .-. A aim uriai .ir in in ovainweii present a fine contrast in color. Even the untrained eye can see a de cided difference between the bluish whit color of-Slrlus and Rlgel (R) and th orange red star at A. Th smaller dog-star at B I neither steely whit nor orange, but of a yellowish ting. When the light from Slrtus I analyzed It Is found that thla star, which Is more brilliant than our sun, I surrounded by an Immense atmos phere of hydrogen gaa Th yellow ish stars , Ilk Porcyon ar .more nearly In the condition of our sun, while th reddish stars Ilk th on at A ar surrounded by heavy me talllo vapor and may be approaching extinction. . Th star Rlgel at R ha a ml nut companion which I Itself, doubla Th star Regulus at t also- ha a double companion, which Is of a deep blue color and Is easily visible In a small telescope. In striking con trast to thla ar th red star In Leo and th deep crimson star In Lepus, both of which the observer can read ily find in a small telescope from th charts of. Fig. X . TWO REMARKABLE VARlABLtt mm..r&vrm STARS), ,AsiMMnfj .;, Thss ar both . remarkable tart- how much again would Vtho poor know the powers of a stronger and more vigorous manhood, and be once more the sturdier prepared to battle theU way out f their" Impoverished estate! ,"'"' ' '',.'',!'.;. ; ''. Poverty then, this Is the substance of my thought, while It cannot be entirely abolished, still can be reduced to an approximately negligible, an ap proximately vanishing point. And this can be done only by following the method and spirit of that kind action, bearing a nam in the old Hebrew, which for the lack, of a better English equivalent we are-accuitomed to desig nate charity, (The ancient; Hebrew, we are aware; had no term for what, precisely defined, we know as charity, .The only, term it had any ay near suggesting '? this, was "Zedakah," TJeeds . of . Justice,".. "Acts of Right eousness.'!; Let then .charity in this sense, let, but" 'Zedakah," 'Justice" be done between matt and man;; let khem but, deal- ln .Righteousness" on with, the "other, and how near would mankind come to the blessed realization of a time when, despite th contrary statement bf the 'ancient world, "the poor should cease In the land!" V.- ;., ;: .-h:'-r: Letter Walt Seventeen Years for ., -v Traveler. Louisville Courier Journal. VI often had- heard other people telf how It felt to receive a message from the dead," said C. M. Browning, a Cleveland traveling man, "but never experienced , It myself until about three , month ago. ""One day about three months ago I walked up to - the desk In the old Warner House.- at Chlllloothe, Ohio, the first time that I had been In the hotel for- nineteen years. The mo ment I scratched - my name on the Heavens in March By Prof. Eric Doolittle ' tjnlversity of Pennsylvania able stars. ' The first varies from the tenth to the fifth magnitude In a period of 144- days. When It Is brightest It Is easily visible to the eye, but when faintest it can only be seen with a moderately large telescope. At present the star is growing rapid ly brighter; it will reach Its greatest brilliance on March 12, and will well repay examination. The variation of the star in Lepus la far less, for this varies only from the eighth to the sixth magnitude and occupies 424 days in the change. It will attain its greatest brightness on March 2, and It Is remarkable that when brightest the star Is least red. At present It is only of an orange color, but If the observer will examine it from time to time as It fades away he will Bee It change to the deepest red. These stars are suns, surrounded by dense metalllo vapors. For some cause, as yet unexplained, there is at regular - intervals so violent an agitation in the central sun that it eruptions of luminous gases burst through the heavy envelop, rrheir th qfar flashes out with unusual brilliancy, only to dte slowly away again. THE ZODIACAL LIGHT. This is the best time of the year for observing that strange phenom enon known as the Zodiacal Light. The night must be very clear and the moon absent, when . Just sky. It will be seen as a faint pryamld of light whose base rests on the western horizon where the sun has set and which extends up along the ecliptic almost to the Pleiades. Its light Is nearly as Intense as that of the Milky Way, but of a far more uni form radiance. It Is brightest near- eat the sun and fades gradually away as We approach? the blunted apex of the pyramid, until It becomes too faint to be seen. Peculiar flashes resembling the aurora have been In It when the air was unusually clear. Its bane Is sometimes of a red dish color, and sometimes it is so March t, 1:00 p. m. bright as to efface the. fainter stars, though usually the stars appear to shine through It with undiminished brilliancy. It Is not yet surely knewn what th cause of this strange light Is. It Is certain that the light surrounds th sun, because its base l always at th sun and It la carried continually east ward a th sun advances amons the stara It Is known also that it shines by reflected sunlight,, Th por- Fig. 4. Tha most probable cans of 'from tha an ar bent downward by luminal th dust of apnea at X - i ; register I became aware that the clerks behind the counter wer eye ing m with Interest. ... . ."After closely scrutinizing my sig nature on the register one of them Inquired: ; 'Are you th C M. Brown ing who stopped at this hotel In 1887 T I scratched my head - a mo ment -and replied that I believed ' I had been a guest ther about that time. " 'Well, if you're the same man,' the clerk said, 'there's a letter that's been awaiting you her for . some time I asked for- the ' letter, v and after about an hour search In '- the attio of. the hotel they found a letter yellow with) age and covered.- with dust, i quickly ( recognized the hand wrltlng on the, envelope as that of my father, who died fifteen years ago. "I opened the envelope. The : en closed letter contained nothing but information regarding family matters. It was written two years before my father's Heath. Of course, I saw- my father many times between the time of his wrltlnr the letter and bis death. rbut he nver mentioned having sent it to me, and you can see, .therefore, why the receipt of it seemed to ma like, a message from the dead." Oxen Against Railroads. Rhodesia Herald. In the Cape of Oood Hope Colony many 6f the short railroad branches and extensions do not pay on account of ox wagon competition. In the report for the year 1905, recently Issued, the traffic manager of one of the lines reports in regard to a new nineteen mile branch that as there waea very plentiful supply of wagons and an abundant supply of grass. during the season ox wagon rates ruled low and the railroad se cured little general traffic. tlon below the llneA B, Fig. 8, cannot now be scon In the early evening. This portion, however, rises before the sun and may be seen In the early morning. In mid-summer at about midnight; the apices of sunlight reflected from a great swarm of meteoric particles which surround the sun In a lense-shaped figure, stretching out at both pyra mids have been seen at once, one In the west and the other In the esat THE COUNTER-GLOW. If the cause of the Zodiacal Light is not positively known that of the counter-glow Is far more obscure. This Is a faint little patch of light ORIOM f gk i Nv LEO Fig. 2. The Rfd Stars in Loo and Lepus These are shown at A and I respectively. which may always be seen In the sky on a dark night exactly opposite the sun. During thla month It will move along the ecliptic from the constel lations Leo to Virgo, It is very re markable that It changes Its form from month to month. In January It la small and elongated, In Febru ary and March very targe and round, etc., while In June and December .It has reached the Milky Way and la rendered Invisible by the brightness of the stars which surround it. Some have thought Its source Is to be look ed for In the shining of millions of little bodies revolving nbout the aun outside the orbit of Mars, each of which shlnea Just as a little full moon when opposite the sun. Others be lieve It due to sunlight which Is bent downward as It paseea through the air about the earth and so lights up the fine metenrlo dust with which space Is supposed to ho filled. While stilt others believe it to be a regular tall of tho earth formed of the light er gases which are constantly being repellod by the sun. Whatever Its cause may be, there Is scarcely any study for observers without telescopes which promises such valuable results at present as systematic observations of the couptcr glow. . THE PLANETS Mercury Is further from, the sun on March IV and may be seen for a few days before and after that tint. It shines out lown down in the west from ' 10 . minutes to an hour aftor sunset ' Jupiter, th most brilliant object In th heavens, 1 moving slowly east ward In the constellation Of mini. The position of Neptun I shown on Fig. 1. Th other planet ar morning stars and cannot be teen In th early evening. the) Counter-glow. The rays I fight the atmosphere of tha arth and tk- , , v ; The Captain's Stoiy DyO.II.Kand. "Ah, it-Is a story you want, la it?" said the old Captain, aroused from his reverie by the request of hi grandson, a youth of twelve. : : i, . . The old Captaini had been silent and thoughtful, during, the last half hAII. Ul. ll 1 1 . . '' . m payor jam nsiae no naa been gazing r at the fire, apparently without seeing anything.. And -When his little grandson asked for a story he was slow in coming out of his reverie. . ;.;: "What kind of a story do you want!" 'A war story, grandpa." eagerly replied th boy. The November wind walled mourn fully around the house and then went rushing away, seeming momentarily 10 sena a emu tnrougn the warm room, and causing the old man and his little grandson to draw nearer the fire. "Ah,that Is strange," said the old Captain. "I was Just reading In to day's paper an account of the death of the Colonel of my old regiment He was a fine man and all of us In his regiment were greatly attached to him. His death has recalled to my mind an incident behind which lies a sad story. Since you want one, I will tell you that story." "Yes do, grandpa," . urged the boy. impressed by his grandfather's thoughtful air. Assuming a more comfortable po sition in his easy chair the Captain began. "In September, 1861, while tha Twenty-Sixth North Carolina was sta tioned at Fort Macon, a young Ala bamlan named George Somers Joined our company. He was a fine looking yeung fellow, tall ana well built, with dark hair and flashing dark eyes. I took him to be a true Southerner of the old type. George made a good soldier. He was the best shot in our company, and was as brave as a lion, always setting the soldiers a good ex ample in battle. He and I soon be came fast friends. I was then a lieutenant. When not on duty we stayed together as much as possible. When I wasn't in his tent he was In mine. We played drafts, told stories, and read together. But notwith standing our friendship there was one thing I could never get out of George. He would never tell me anything about his past life. Try as hard as I might, he would always get around me with a Joke. One day I asked him how he came to Join a North Carolina regiment Instead of an Ala bama regiment. " 'Oh,' said he, his dark eyes twink ling mischievously, 'I got In trouble In Alabama and had to leave, so I thought It best not to Join an Ala bama regiment.' "I knew the rascal was lying, but I didn't say so. "The fact that Oeorge's past was unknown to me did not keep us from being great friends. We were almost inseparable. George had a guitar and knew some of the prettiest love songs I ever heard. Nearly every night after supper I would go to his tent or he would come to mine, and b I listened to him. while I didn't have a sweetheart, I wanted one mlKhty bad. "The first engagement In which we took part wos a severe one. The Twenty-Sixth waa detailed to capture a Federal battery which was giving some trouble. We captured tho bat tery but suffered heavily, our own company losing one-fourth of Its men In killed and wounded. The captain of our company was among the killed, and George received a flesh wound In his left arm George distinguished himself by his bravory in tho charge and was pro moted to tho lieutenancy, I having been made captain. "Soon after this our regiment was Ordered to Newbern to re-en force- - the Confederate force stationed there, ai an attack on that place was apprehendod. "During the winter following a number of balls were given, In which the Confederate officers aoted aa part ners for the girls. That was one of the most pleasant winters I ever pent At those gatherings might be seen the flower of Southern beauty and Southern chivalry. Brilliant In deed was the scene when handsome young officers went careering over th floor with lovely Southern belles. And patriotism waa there too, for when the dancing waa over the band would play the war aongs of the South. The wave ef enthusiasm which surged through our young velds when the thrilling notes of The Mocking Bird' or the stirring strains of 'Dixie' rang through the hall makes my blood flow faster when I think of It. "But to hasten on with my story. It was at one of these balls that Oeorge. ever a great ladles' man, met beautiful young Evelyn Hadley. It was soon a hopeless case, for Georgo lost no time In falling desperately In love with her. She was a beauty and no mistake. Her slender figure, ex quisitely rounded form, dark hair and soft brown eyes with their long eye lashes, and her Uttlo mouth with its imperious curve, she waa a queen," aald the Captain, reflectively. The fire leaped up with a cheerful glow that sent a brightness through out th room, and the Captain went on with his story. "Tha long and short of it was that In less than six weeks, they were en gaged to 69 married. During this time George's nightly visits to my quarter wer rare. I knew where he waaj however, and sometimes teased htm about it He did not try to keep It from me, but made m his con fidant Th day for th marriage had been set and Oeorge was th happiest man in th regiment "Lat in February, list, word was received that General Burnsld with a larg fore was approaching New bern. General Branch, who com manded at Newbern, Immediately began making preparation for re ceiving him." Th old captain psusea at the guat of wind , walled . mournfully around th oorner of the house. The flam seemed to shrink at th sound of th gust and to los some of Its brightness.,,- - ., ., : - "Ammunition was served out to th men, guns wer burnlshsd until their barrels shone in th sunlight, ' and very morning and evening th troop war drilled. v-VV'.Vv. ' w';s v v "Two nlghtal before ,ourN engage ment with th enewy.'ion th tour taenth of March," continued the Cap tain.; "George called, on Evelyn. It was lat when h returned, and ho earn over to m before retiring. I noticed In. hi cap a very small Con federate flHff, perhaps, four inches long and three. Inohe wMo. It M held in position by th bnj of bis cap. George' .countenance bespoke great happiness. He looked splendid that night, v,-,,:.!;',,, ,',.,, .. " 'Frank, old bov.' ha said fa ma. , 'doubtless you are wondering where I gotmy flag. ;;r II tell vou. Evelvn gave It to me to wsar during th bat tle, xne memory of those dear eyes ,; and the thought of the tender little hands that made It shall be an in- spiration to me on the field of battle," ha'addedv hi dark eye iMtlng:-1;,. M couia not . refrain from emlllnar 1 at - hi enthusiasm and hi 'deteml nation, "'Frank, he continued earnestly. - -nrirn .... a .v. a , w.1,1-1 .... A ... c buvu vit ucinuii ua wb t;u , . - not-raii.v .-. ,v,.-(;a;';;;';y;:;. ,iit Willi;,, un Bttia HUB, X UeilGVO ..,,;-. 7- at that moment I caught soma of hi - : inspiration. . ; '"No, George,' I replied warmly. ." - WO IMMlUVk . I".;;,.!; "'.I'"; ';:;;i;; "It was on the morning of the four- ., teenth and the battle was on. . Th'JVJ.- Twenty-Sixth was entrenched on tha'S-CfS "S"i. "i me moieaeraie army, xn to an assault. The air was filled with smoke from the bursting of ; inrougn th air and burst . . witn deafening explosions above-s' -us. One huge shell burst iiirn. m (iii iihp ri i asm niinian nna nr maw ,v -v '-. be dreaded, aa Its moral effect on ' v;'. troops is great. Presently the artil lery Are slackened and the Federals , " feinted on the position held by the'n-1 Twenty-Sixth. Thv wa ,mtiv pulsed. It was evident that the main, attack was not to be here. . v i,' ' ; "Then It was that the colonel, , i ; ueorro. -. ana i. enmnen out or ma trenches 'and stood looking at tha FifS Yankee lines soma flvct hundred vards ea. The enemy seemed to be prepar- - . Ing for a general movement" . - Lower still shrunk the flame, and ; the little boy shivered slightly as a --.' in ha .rnnnlilii 1 .1 1 -, t V, c rnfl tyi '-i',y. '- "George was Impatient to charg the enemy, the old Captain went on. 'Hla avnm hart tn thorn fh llffht of battle. He was a fine type of th ' . Confederate sold er, aa he stood there ; ' . wun nis xan iorm, nis aara eye r, ft .1 . .1 I I, ... .. I , - a.iaiuc, aiiu in ma uiiiiuiiii ul kiy. ; , r, r The men cheered him when they saw ; his little flag waving In the breeze. '.-:p';j We were sneculatlnir on the next ;',U;:- iiiutv I .no VllVtllJ, .v. ... "'I believe that they are preparing s to nrTHPK our rontrfl bai n in i -ni. .;-.-; onel. ; -X'': ' "Plia, I. 4,af nVia, tli... m tfritna -"-' i-'v ,11.1 IB JUDb ,L lllJ n.v O v-' ' Q) -iV 10 ao, remaraeu ueorge. oee, mey j,.- .. . . . i . i -,- Y-i ; tie reeiea ana wouia nave lauen naa i noi caugnt mm ana let mm ;4: down gently to the ground. My heart X'Ss with rasre seized me. A bullet had- enterert: his mouth while he wa. speaking ana naa gone inrougn nia : j;: nnnlr An rtrrlarlv urn, tnfitnntlv rtla 'i'.A patched lor a surgeon, a iar pool -, of blood was forming under his neck if; morini. i icauea uver mm. " 'My dear George, are you much i hurt?' I cried, hardly knowing what V ; I was saying. ' v. "A fiilnt nmtln llsrhted un hla features. Ho clutched the flag with. V'- 1.1.. utlff..nlMtf n r, n.i-t ,.. a mitrmilFM. . , wore . . for . . her. The ami I dla- ;-Cv anr.Anvttrt n r A Vila fAflhira. l,ll.VArt shudder passed through his frame J- and ho was dead. t ; - aiv tiou. i criea. inai naa waa , ;-. the cause of nis death. A sharp- ;!'.' hnntor mw it in hla ran ana ainsiea h m out.' " - The flame flickered and went out ' , The old captain' eyes were moist , and a mist seemed to gather berora them as he ended his story.. i 1-'; lot to perform, my boy, was that of ; " rnrrviiia in iipwh ii ma ur.iii w n . .. w . L . L .W. t. . ' f. 'f l!,veiyn. i went 10 ner alter 1110 oi tie and told her how he met his death. . 'i 1 aia not iei ner iiibi i inunii in. . , little flag caused him to be singled fv nut hv a Tankee sharpshooter. I did ' not tell her this, for I was afraid It -would kill her. When she saw m ' coming with, the little flag she at;;', once divined what had happened. Sh - -. turned very white and trembled a little. r : '"Hp died like a soinier, t saia. . . -win nil mrH i inarii in. cii-7ii,t. .v.----: asked me to bring thla to you. and . said tell you he wore It for you.' .;,, "'I am glad,' she said, simply. , ' 'that when he died It was In the unl- .,.;. form of gray, and beneath the star - and nars. ; -. "With this she raised the little flag to her Hps and turned and went Into . the house. I was glad she did sn v. for I was afraid to trust myself with ', t another word. I, too, turned, and, f wont back to my regiment, resolved 1 never to reveal to her my terrlbl i ,i" nanli'lnn a mi-nli-lon whloh In mv -s mind amounted almost to a certain- ' ty." , Olvr College One) Hundred Cata.-V "-. Calorado Springs Dispatch' to Th v New York World. ': J Colorado College has been endowed with 100 pedigreed cats by Mayor ' Henry C. Hall, of this city. Theygra a all valuable declare Mayor Hall, and no Joke l intended, although soma of the friends of the city' chief execu tive do not look at It in a sober light. , Mayor Hall wants th cats used for propagation to keep up the supply, J the surplus to be turned over to the biological - department of th college , for dissection and . research work. ( Mayor Hall became interested tn tha ; feline family' several years ago, and, has added specimens to hi collection, '-; until It became th largest; In , th West Including specimen of. th Manx, the Angora, th Slatefur Mal test 1 th Cornish at and th Char. ' treus. i, ; i i '! ; . - -. l ' Queen ITclcna' Couraga Rom Correspondence. London Telegraph. A" little; hunting- ind.lent of which Queen Helena, of Italy, was the heroine hu leaked, out some, days after the event?- t ' - 8he accompanied, the Kin -to Cstl Poralano to shuot Tne wather was In tensely cold, so a big bontlre was built, around which th roal party gathnnM. Huddenly . the .Marquis Cnlnbrlnl. a roval equerry, a a JoAe Jump-t over the flaming pile. His armnl took fr. and all prtsent lost their hM. .xcr! t the Queen, who threw lifrwif en th Mnrqtila iore the birnlnr pnrts cf Id clothes nwar. nhee.ling the lnr, n clmkH the tlinis with hpr akirn Ity pec,Rl U'der of th Jueou thl w 1 kepi socret t't ono ,-rn. ptm--'; I h'r eotirece and tMn rmil i v ! f -,. ltt r futsifisr hla ailin;i.y,,ii, . tha IncUJout .Jt sut.
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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