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(ROM tb e battle of Gettysburg, ’i In July, 1863, to tbe battle of

tb e W ilderness, in May, 1864, ensued a long interval of blood­

less cam paigning and abortive m aneu­vering on the Potomac-Rappahannock line.’ A t G ettysburg 40,000 blue and gray b a d mingled their blood and bones in common dust, so w hat booted th e m inor encounters, spirited thoughth e y w ere , b e tw een Jeb S tu art’s V ir­g in ia h orsem en a n d th e troopers o f K ilp a tr ick , O uster a n d G regg, or th e b r illia n t d eed s o f W arren’s- m en a t B risto e Station , or S ed g w ick ’s braves b a r g in g th e R ap pahann ock redoubts ? A th ose d a y s o f fru it le ss m arches th a t

\ i e d now h ere in p articu lar an d ended,* ’jn a chan ce cam p o f r e s t th e so ld iers Of L ee an d M eade liv ed in . d a ily a n ­tic ip a tio n o f d esp erate com b ats and d ream ed n ig h tly o f fea r fu l stru gg leson the bloody field. Tjkie'cc*ifest theyW ell k n e w had y e t t o be fo u g h t ou t somewhere along the Potom ac or J a m es , som ew h ere b e tw e e n W a sh in g ­to n ad d -Richm ond.

B u t w a r is n o t a ll fighting , a n d in .th ose off d a y s o f sh ootin g and "saber­in g , w ith m ello w an tn m n a irs tp so fte n jthe h ard sh ip s o f l i f e in th e open, th e h u m a n s id e o f th e w arrior cam e in to p la y . C h a sin g a f te r a f ig h t a h d n ever ^catching up w ith in th e end "becomes -am using, a n d th e A m erican vo lu n teer w ith n o th in g m uch to d a and h is sen se o f h um or arou sed i s n ev e r a t a lo ssffor -relaxation . F or th e o n ly t im e in i t s h is­to ry th e A rm y o f th e P o to m a c h a d a ch a n ce d u rin g f ig h tin g m on th s o f th e y e a r to ta k e a p la y spell. B e in g en­ca m p ed a lon g th e R ap p ah an n ock an d R a p id a n in N ovem ber, there, w a s lit t le , to tem p t forag in g , fo r th e reg ion h ad b een scrap ed o f i t s prod u cts b y long occu p ation b y -a r m ie s . W ith T h an k s­g iv in g ap p roach in g th ere w a s n ot in s ig h t an apology fo r a su b stitu te fo r arm y ra tion s to v a r y th e m enu. W h a t l it t le th e n a tiv e s h a d h idden a w a y o f th e fr u it and v eg e ta b le h a r v e st W as ga th ered in b y th e ca v a lry scou ts, w h o n a tu ra lly g o t th e first chan ce a t th e prizes. W ild grapes an d persim m on s w e r e in season , b u t on ly th e daring

THE VEDETTE S STRANGE GUEST.

•fellow s w h o ven tu red b e tw e e n th e h os­t i l e lin es r e v e le d in th e se lu xu ries. [N ow an d th e n a p ile o f buried cab­b a g e s W as raided , and, a lth o u g h th ere [Was n o t en ou gh to d e lig h t th e p a la tes fo f th e w h o le cam p, th e a ir w a s laden w ith th e odor sen t up b y th e cam p k et­t le s o f th e lucky ones, a fra g ra n t re­m in d er o f hom e d ishes. A n in sta n c e o f (the th orou gh n ess w ith w h ich th e b oys •in b lu e c lea n ed up th e country i9 sh ow n Sby a n ep isod e in th e F ir s t M aine cav- talrj'. T h e re g im en t rode ou t on a scout ’b e tw e e n th e lin es , a n d a fte r tra v e lin g .Som e d ista n ce th e a d v a n ce s ig h ted a ■strange g a th er in g o f m en o n a d istan t e le v a tio n . T h e co lon el looked through h is fie ld g la ss , u n ab le to c lear up th e hn ystery . S a id he: “T h ere are som e sh e e p th ere—so m eth in g th a t looks like a b attery , a t le a s t one gun . A n y h o w I don’t th in k th e en em y can b e th ere , y e t i f th e y are our troop s I don’t under­s ta n d h o w it h a p p en s th a t th o se sheep are s till a liv e an d b row sin g .” L iv e •sheep a n d Y an k ees in p rox im ity seem ed incred ib le, e sp ec ia lly a t tb e T h anksg iv- b a g season .' One. of the chief diversions of the troops w as singing and spinning yarns [around the m am m oth camp fires kin­dled a t n ight to drive aw ay the au ­tum n coolness. Dull days were fol­lowed by a carnival of fun lasting {through the long evening hours. Good Ihumor not only softened the hard­sh ip s of war, bu t the sternness of the w arrior. A truce existed between the outpost pickets, and the blue and the [gray swapped coffee and tobacco, jack- knives and bread across the rivers Which separated them. 'One n ight the Federal officer on the rounds on the line of the F irs t Maine cavalry found one o f his vedettes on post by the b a n k o f the river in an anim ated dis- fcussion w ith a Confederate soldier as rto th e am ount of tobacco he ought to iget iu re tu rn for a jackknife ju s t from home. T he Confederate of course be­longed in Lee’s ranks across the river,

and ‘the Maine officer promptly told him he w as under arrest. B ut the Yankee soldier hotly protested against th e outrage. Said he: “No; I prom­ised him. if he would come over he should go back, and he is going. Yam to blame in this m atter and hot he, ahd I ’m the one to be p u n ish e d .” A ft­er hearing /the explanations the officer allowed the “Johnnie” to. go back to his camp, and the Maine trooper w as sent to H e a d q u a rte rs to g iv e a n ac­count of his strange conduct. “Well,” said lie, ‘T alw ays did w an t to shake the hand of a real live rebel before he had been famed. Now I ’ve done it and am satisfied.” 1

On th e eve of Thanksgiving the Army of the Potomac broke camp and crossed the Rapidan to seek battle w ith Lee. Meade intended to surprise Lee a t Orange Court House, -a point twenty miles from the place of cross-

'’Ing, bu t ra iny w eather came on, and parts of the field of operation were turned into impassable swamps. A t the end of two days the Federal s were lined up o n 'th e east bank of Mine run, a tribu tary of the Rapidan, w ith Lee on the w est bank in the shelter of

‘‘intrenchments. The works which the Confederates had hastily built seemed so s lig h t th a t Meade ordered an a t­tack all along the line the morning of Nov. 30 a t 8 o’clock. * * ,

Meanwhile General G. K . W arren had been sent out with a flanking col­um n 'to ascend Mine run, pass its head w aters and strike down the w est bank, rolling up the Confederate line like a scroll. Owing to the swamps formed by the heavy rains W arren’s march w as long delayed. W ithdraw ing from the position already taken up on the east bank of the stream, his troops marched east, then south, then turned west a t the head w aters of Mine run. All these delays gave Lee ample w arn­ing of w h a t'w as to come. H is active scouts had reported the Yankees cross­ing the Rapidan, and two divisions of infantry had promptly occupied the m ain roads over which the enemy would naturally advance. Two sharp engagements in which the Confeder­ates go t the w orst of i t showed th a t the Federal leader w as m arching a strong force into the angle between the Rapidan and Mine run. The movement of-Meade could have bu t one meaning, an attack in force upon Or­ange Court House, the junction of two fine wagon roads and a railroad leading from the Federal camps to Richmond. I t w as the exact problem which Lee and G rant w restled over six months later when G rant crossed the Rapidan.

W hen the sun w ent down on Nov. 29 the Federals on the original line east of Mine run looked for a speedy victo­ry on the morrow. They supposed th a t the Confederates on the w est bank were, only the straggling divisions which had vainly tried to stay the Fed­eral m arch up from the Rapidan and th a t the intrenchm ents seen from across the stream were bu t flimsy structures. Besides, the flank movement of W arren sweeping down the other side of the run would make the intrenchments useless, w hatever their strength. The troops on the m ain line were under command of General Sedgwick and General French and had taken p a rt in the desperate attack on Lee’s fortified position a t Fredericksburg one year before. They had failed a t Fredericks­burg, bu t were confident of winning a t Mine run, so confident th a t the soldiers of the different divisions boasted th a t they would be the first to enter the Confederate works and invited one an­other to eat there on Nov. 30 a belated Thanksgiving dinner of hard bread and raw pork.

All depended upon W arren’s success in surprising the enemy's right flank. W arren had 20,000 infantry , w ith guns and wagons. A freezing rain fell dur­ing the whole march, and a t the head w aters of Mine run the enemy’s caval­ry harassed the column continually. W arren’s vanguard w as led by the in­trepid pioneer fighter, Colonel Nelson A. Miles, who plunged through am­bush, swamp and thicket up to the very intrenchm ents of the enemy, for there w ere intrenchm ents on thaf>, flank of Lee’s position as well as on his main front. ^

Lining up his brigades for the charge, W arren aw aited the hour fo r the grand attack. D aylight revea’led a heavy line of breastw orks and fortified batteries which had been finished in the n ig h t'a t right angles w ith the stream . In one battery alone fourteen cannon looked .down upon the field w here two of W ar­ren’s divM on were to s ta r t in the charge.

“I t is worse than the stone w all a t Fredericksburg,” w as the verdict of the inenv In anticipation of a fa te like th a t Which befell the heroes on the terraced slope of Marye’s heights, they pinned Strips, o f paper hearing their names up- ©a the lapels of their overcoats and lay on the frozen, icy ground aw aiting the word to go forward. But ju s t as the buglers rode out to sound the charge a dispatch came over the field w ire from headquarters, “Suspend the attack.”

On the m ain line Sedgwick’s batteries had opened fire in the m orning and were answ ered gun for gun by the Con­federates. Still confident, the soldiers Were ready to charge, bn t the leaders had a different mind, especially a fte r .hearing th a t W arren’s flank movement had been discovered by the enemy and S. Moody Welconie aw aited his advance. Thus the cam paigning of 1863 ended With Lee securely lodged upon the Rap­idan, a long distance barrier between the Army of the Potomac and Rich­mond. GEORGE! L. KILMER* ,

W H EN lie was campaigning re cently in Wellington, flu place of his birth, Govemoi

* Elect Herrick of Ohio tolc how years ago he and some oth§? boys combined mischief w ith study a1 the schoolhouse in Bull Hollow, neai Wellington. “We had a teacher named Lewis,” he said, “and I remember somt trouble we made the poor fellow merely because he wasi un­able to enforce dis­cipline. There w as a queer character in the neighborhood known as Ike the Skunk H unter. He made his living hunt­ing skunks and wild bees. The two things m raoS t . hebbiobdon’t seem to go together somehow, bu{ th a t’s w hat he did. We w ent to Ike for advice as to how to get even with the teacher for some petty tyranny. N aturally enough, Ike resorted to some­thing in his own line, and I still re­member the delight w ith which w e re­ceived from him a small package oi skunk essence, which w as certainly a little b it the strongest thing ever m an­ufactured in this world.

“Acting under the instructions of Ike the Skunk H unter, the essence w as in­s e r te d in the schoolroom stove ju s t be­fore the fire was lit. W hen th a t stove got down to business there, wag some­thing doing in the ‘schoolroom? I t took days to get over the effects of it, and. of course, in the meantime there were no lessons. The teacher left and was succeeded by a. mere girl, who ruled 'us all, big and little, w ith a rod of iron. How she did it no one knows, bu t she w as m aster of the situation, and she taugh t me something as to how a wo­m an can rule by tac t where m an fail? w ith force.”

MGR. JfERET DEL VAL.

Mgr. Merry del Val, whose appoint­m ent to the im portant position of papal secretary of sta te w as the surprise of the new adm inistration of Pope Pius X., is probably the only occupant of the post who has achieved distinction as a football player. The new prem ier of the Vatican was born and educated iu England, his early school days having beetfSpent a t Eton and Stoney hurst, and ^ ; th a t accounts

fo r his famili- ariiy w ith the pigskin sphe­roid and the strenuous life of the gridiron.

H is father, a Spanish 'noble­man, who was a m i) a s S a d o i from Spain ,tc the court of St Jam es, married an Irish wom­an, and thefi son w as bom

in London. A few years a fte r Raffaele Merry del Val bad been ordained a priest his fa th er w as appointed Span­ish ambassador to the Vatican, and Leo X I I I . , taking a liking to th e y o u n g priest, kept him fo r several years as one of his private secretaries.

W hen the school question in Canada threatened serious consequences, Leo X III. sent his young secretary to Ot­taw a as apostolic delegate, and in a few months Mgr. M erry del Val had settled the question to the satisfaction of all concerned.

Senator John T. Morgan of Alabama, who is still fighting for the Nicaragua canal route across the isthm us of P an­ama, is one of the w its o f the senate. H e invented the once famous political term “cuckoo” and has a wonderful memory.“One of my teach­ers,” he said recent­ly, “was w ont to re­m ark: ‘Some people have memories like a ta r bucket—every­thing th a t touches sticks. Others have m e m o rie s like a joiin t . Morgan. duck’s back—everything th a t touches scoots off.’ ” The senator rose from private to brigadier general in th e Con­federate arm y and then voluntarily re ­signed as a brigadier to become a colonel. ?

I t is doubtful if any man bolding so humble a position in the government service pas a ttracted more attention from p ress . and public than has Wil­liam A- Miller, a nonunion m an hold­ing the post of assistan t forem an of the

book bindery in the government printing office a t W ashing­ton.

For some months Miller has been tbe central figure iu a contest in which the

HI forces of organized labor have been ar- j rayed in p r o t e s t ' against the action of the president Of the United States. Some

time ago Miller was expelled from the bookbinders’ brotherhood, and on com­plaint of the officers of th a t organiza­tion to Public P rin ter P alm er th a t it w as against the rules of the union to w ork w ith a nonunionist Miller was dismissed from the governm ent em-ploy.

Miller then appealed to the civil serv­ice commission, and his case finally got

W. A. MILLER.

GENERAL BOOTH,

before ‘ P resident 'Roosevelt, who promptly ordered th a t he be reinstat­ed. The president {took advantage of the occasion to announce th a t the gov- srnm ent’s shops would hereafter be Jpen to both union and’nonunion labor without prejudice, efficiency and char­acter to be the sole determ ining tests of employment. There the m atter rests a t >prosfent. '

I t is" said th a t m eat has not passed the lips o f General W illiam Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, since he w as twelve years of age. During his trip ’over this' coun­try last year he stop­ped, while in K ansas City, a t the Hotel Baltimore. . A col­ored w aiter in the hotel w as detailed to look a fte r the gen­eral’s w ants.

“The general had to have everything ju st so,” said the w aiter afterw ard in relating his experience. “H is meals w ere served in his room, and a t every meal he w ould raise his hands over Ills head and say, ‘Lord, bless the w aiter.’ The first time he said i t I S'rriiled and w aited for a tip, bu t a fte r the blfessirighe forgot me. A fter th a t whenever he blessed me I. ju s t looked the other way.”

- Justice D avid J . Brewer, wlfose re­cent expression in favor of abolishing the right of appeal in criminal cases as a means of checking lynching has a t­tracted w ide attention, has been a judge for nearly fprty years, fourteen of them *on the supreme bench of the United States. i(I Iy grahdchildren'have been in Vermont w ith me for the past tw o summers,” said the 'judge recently, “and one day I took them driving. The

road led by tbe poor- house, which I de­scribed to them as a place w here poor old people w ere kept. F inally one of the y o u n g s te r s s a id , ‘Grandpa, aren’t you old?’ “Yes,’ I answ er­ed, 4 ‘ Aren’ty ou poor ?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘When are they going to p u t you in

justice brewer, th a t house?” And then the judge laughed heartily.

Judge Brew er’s early years were spent in Kansas, and he tells w ith gusto an incident of a buffalo hun t in which he took p art in 1870. “The boys knew I w as not much of a shot and had considerable fun a t my expense telling me th a t I could not h it a buffalo if I bad th e muzzle of my gun against him. One evening I saw a jack rabbit ju m p / ‘H ere is a chance for you good riflemen,’ I said to them. They all be­gan popping away, bu t w ithout stop­ping poor Jack* Then I took up my rifle and plugged him righ t through the head. I t w as a lucky shot, h u t estab­lished my reputation as a m arksm an, and the boys made no more fun of me during th a t trip .”

In an address delivered in P ittsburg the other day Judge Petfer S. Grosseup paid his respects to “T he Moral Side of Our Present Corporation Policy.” “I t has come to the point,” he said,“Where three or five gentlemen can as­semble in a room, lay a silver dollar on a table, call it assets, capitalize a t a million dollars, get a sta te seal on a charter, pocket the dollar and go on w ith the enterprise, fetebs .grossctjp A few weeks ago the country learned th a t corporations w ere capitalized a t fifty times above their real value. I t has come about th a t no m an knows w hat corporate investm ent to trust. The government, states, cities and schools dispose of bonds to individuals, the dividends are paid regularly and the principal a t m aturity. This is teaching bondholders to -favor govern­m ent ownership. P rivate bonds of cor­porations which cease paym ent of div­idends and in the end default paym ent are potent factors against private own­ership. I hope to live to see some polit­ical party get into power th a t will' compel corporations to protect stock­holders as the banks and insurance companies now are regulated.”

W ith contracts in his pockets assur­ing luxury for him self while he lives and a fortune for those he remembers in his will, M ark Tw ain recently sailed w ith his invalid w ife and two daugh­ters fo r Italy, where he Will pass the winter.

Packing up w as no joke, and as he rested .his w eaiy back a fte r the last day’s labors the hum orist said: “Get­

ting ready to sail for a trip abroad re­quires a vast deal of trouble. I ’v e ’always felt Sorry for Noah; he had such an aw ­fu l lo t of worry get­tin g a ll his animals on. the ark. Does Dowie resemble ‘the king’ whom I de­scribed in ‘Huckle­

berry F inn’ as being "painted w ith a leopard’s spots and exhibited in the town hall for monetary purposes? I can’t answ er that. I ’ve never DOwie w ith his clothes off.

“I don’t know John Alexander Dowie, bu t I have a premonition and an aw ful' presentim ent th a t I shall meet him in the nex t world. - I f I do, however, in c ither one place or the other, T aim go­ing to leave th a t place, no matter* lioW. delightful. I simply' Woff’t be la the sam e p(ace With Dowie, even if th e a t ­mosphere in the place td which I go is intensified 1,006 degrees.”4

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HEW USE FOR FOOTBALLYale Instructor Applies the

. Sport to Greek Yerse.

8-AME WITH HARVARD THE T0PJ0.

D r . " H , B . W r i g h t ’ s T h e o r y f t T h a t F o o t b a l l A r o a s e s t h e S a m e E n t l i u - s l a s m l a M o d e r n Y o u t h T h a t E v e n t * D e s c r i b e d I n t h e “ I l i a d ” a n d “ O d ­y s s e y ” I n s p i r e d I n M e n o f O t h e r D a y s — H e a r t y R e s p o n s e M a d e t o H i s P l a n .

Football and the classics are being Combined in the course o f .G reek a t Tale, says a New H aven dispatch to the Philadelphia Press. Nearly a hun­dred poems recently w ritten in Homer­ic verse on the subject of the Yale- H arvard football game w ere presented by members of Dr. H . B. W right’s Greek1 classes.

The poems are closely modeled on the “Iliad,” and special' attention to the iise of Homeric epithet Was required of the students. Instead, however, of references to “sw ift footed Achilles” and “Ajax, who bore his shield like a tower,” lit w as “Roraback w ith his back sloped like a m ountain” and “long headed, red headed Rockwell.”■ The poems w ere the result bf a plan of ‘ Dr. H. B. W riglit, instructor in Greek, to ardtise the in terest of the students’ and to fam iliarize them w ith the construction of the.epic yerse. H is theory is th a t the game of football arouses the same feeling of intense enthusiasm in the modern youth th a t the events described in the “Iliad’’ and the “Odyssey” Inspired in the men bf form er times. Accordingly he 'made an offer of 'ex tra credit to members of his classes Who would present poems along the lines laid down. The general .and enthusiastic response, he says, con­firms him in his theory.

The offer w as . made a fte r he had tried vainly to 'in te re s t his classes in Greek. The language and lofty senti­m ents of Homer had no effect on the m ajority bf the students, who seemed Unable 'to get the spirit of the poetry-. In try ing to find a contemporaneous ex­ample of the feeling w hich inspired p a rt of. the w orld’s greatest literature he thought of the game of football.

“Football is real and vivid tp every one. of these men,” he said in explain­ing his idea. “I t arouses the same in­tense adm iration th a t is m anifest in Homer. ’Rafferty, Hogan and Shevlinocpupy positions almost like demigods of old in the estim ation of the under­graduates, They are not unfitting sub­jects for heroic poetry; they have m any of the qualifications—strength, courage, daring and brains. The battle is one in Which the strong of body, the quick of eye and th e ’sw ift of foot will tri-

-umpli. . The poetry w hich I have read is Very satisfactory and shows th a t the men have caught the spirit I desired. Many o f the epithets' are tru ly Homer­ic.” 7 . ..- - The following is a p a r t o f one of the poems handed in: .ThisMs -the noble array which Rafferty,

m ig h ty in ba ttle ,L ed td th e glorious conflict, u n d e r th e

bonny blue ban n er;F a rm er, . th e m ig h ty line h itte r , low

sm ashing , firm a s a m oun ta in , G uarded th e cen te r b a c k field; M etcalf, th e

speedy, s tood n e x t h im H olding th e line a t h is r ig h t hand , an d

M itchell stood h a rd b y his le f t hand .

Shevlinf whom Hermes, they say, hadg iv e n h is w o n d e r fu l s a n d a ls ,

G uarded th e ‘f a r r ig h t w ing, s tro n g in offense or defensive;

Rockwell, th e c ra fty , w as there , close behind R oraback , center,

W hom Bloom er, th e m igh ty line sm asher, a n d B atchelder, s tro n g a s a bullock,

A ided'em e ith e r s id e : '

PA SSE S FOR H EAVEN .Dr, Dowie Claims H is In fluence W ill

Open 'Gates t«i W orthy .The riglit to issue free passes to heav­

en to those he m ay recommend w as claimed by John Alexander Dowie in his address at' Zion City th e other a f t­ernoon, says the Chicago Record-Her- ald. The speaker dw elt a t length on his claim of being sent to command the world. H e said:

“I t m atters not w h a t people say of me, b u t i t does and will m atter w hat I say of them a t /the day of judgm ent. A m an ’s power in lieaven is to be meas­ured by his w ork on earth, and as mine

one of the greatest m y Word a t th e judgm ent day will be w orth something. I t will count {jiuch What I recom­mend.” ______ ■ ~.

New M ask F o r Autom obiles.'The difficulty automobilists find in

protecting 'their faces has a t last been satisfactorily solved, says a B aris-ca­ble dispatch to -the New York Herald. Ugly masks -and goggles -ate now like­ly tp be cast aside for a new mask, which is strong and transparen t and modifies in no w ay the appearance, o f fa ir complexions/ I t . is constructed'Of tra n sp a fe it horn-; w ith the' UsUahspec- tacie ''glasses, and thus obviates the danger of fire so much feared w ith in­flammable celluloid masks.

The F ash io n ab le F low er. ..,Flqwers have their day hi the' fash­

io n a b le w o r ld as well as other modes, says the W ashington Star. The expen­sive and beautiful orchid is the blos­som of th e moment sm art women are w earing as a Corsage adornment. /This rare exotic has superseded even the violet, which will be only used in con­junction w ith it. J u s t over the heart is the Spot la mode has selected fo r cor­sage flowers’ resting place, T h e Amer­ican Beauty will be the rose b ar excel­lence fo r decoration, and as an offering a t beauty’s shrine. Nothing in the flo- * ra l k ingdom ' seems -able to take- the place giveh fhis magnificent rose. v-’- -White chrysanthem um s ftre theftoW - ers used for the autum n and early w in­te r weddings until Christmas brings in the mistletoe *and holly.

*Y "A POET OF IRELAND.

W illiam Butler Yeats and Hi* Visit to A m erica,

“William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet, whose visit to America is a t the in ­stance of the Irish Literary Society o f New York, has aroused considerable attention in this country by his two latest works, a volume of essays,- “Ideas of Good and Evil,” and a new book of poems, “In the Seven Woods.” Ip,addition to the poems the la tter vol­ume also contains a new play, “Un

■WILLIAM BUTLER TEATS.

Baile’s Strand.” Special in terest at- tacheS^tQ the {volume because i t has been 'p rin ted in red and black Ink by the author’s sister, Miss Elizabeth C. Yeats, a t .her own Dun Enter Press in Dublin.

H is first volume of poems, “The W an­derings of Ossian,” published in 1889, w as based,' as the title suggests, on th e Ossianic legends and won him recogni­t io n 'a s a poet of strength and versatil­ity . This volume w as followed three years later by the play. “The Countess Kathleen.”.

Other works o f 'M r, Yeats’ are “A Book of Irish Verse,” “The Secret Rose,” “Wind Among the Reeds,” “The Shadow W afers” and “Cathleen hiH oo- lihan.”

W illiam B utler Yeats w as born in Dublin in 1803, the son of J. B. Yeats, th e "artist: H e was educated a t Haffi- mersmith and Dublin, spending three years in an a r t school, b u t left a r t for literature a t the age of twenty-one.- H a suggested and took part in the founda­tion of the Irish L ite ra ry ' society ahd the National L iterary society of Dub­lin. During his visit to th is coftiifry M r: ■ Yeats' will have th e pleasure *hf seeing some of his plays acted under the auspices of the Irish L iterary soci­ety of New York.

A WILY RED :MAN.la m e s . .ToIihsoti, C aptain o f tb e In ­

d ian F o o tb a ll Team.Captain Jam es Johnson, the hustling

little quarter back and shrewd captain of the Carlisle* Indian' school football eleven, -is considered by students of the game to be the equal of the best quar­ter backs oh the gridiron this y e a r . . ’ *

Johnson is a snappy, heady player, q u ic k to see W eakness in a n opp o sin g team and ju s t as ready to take advan­tage of i t . . In the tricks of the gridiron he is second to none; as w as evidenced In the recent rem arkable contest With the H arvard giants, In 'w hich the Indi­ans, although averaging tw enty pounds lighter per man than their bulky oppo­nents, were only defeated by . one ,point.

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Gohducted by/J. W, DARROWtPress Correspondent Hew York State

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F a c t Som etim es O verlooked,, The Order -of Patrons of H usbandry is prim arily and chiefly an organiza­tion o f 'fa rm ers and tbeir families. I t is intended to be helpful to them in their practical, everyday farm life and to m ake them, as’well as all who m ay be members of the Order, intelligent, useful citizens.

And yet by a liberal interpretation of the constitution of tlie O rder many be­sides practical farm ers are adm itted into membership, w here -it is believed their presence and influence -will strengthen the grange and in no w ay be antagonistic to its purposes. How­ever, we believe the charter member­ship should be made up wholly -of farm ers, tillers of the soil or landown­ers, This makes the organization strictly . an agricultural organization, I f then it be deemed best for those notfa rm ers to be ad m itted to m em ber- *ship the farm ers have th e r ig h t to say who shall or shall n o t,,b e allowed “w ithin the gates.” One of the m ost recently organized granges in New York sta te had a charter membership of 103, and every one W as a farm er or member of a farm er’s family, aud i t is their purpose to continue as they have begun. The example I s Worthy im ita-

CAPTAIN JAMES JOHNSON.

I t w as in th a t game th a t Johnson en­gineered the most sensational play of the football year. He caught a kick off b n his own five yard line and, hiding, behind the entire Indian team, ̂ stuffed the pigskin up under the back of Left G uard Dillon’s jersey. Dillon, started off down the field like a wild maii, with both hands upraised, and* had passed th e whole H arvard team before th e ; hump oil his badk betrayed the where­abouts of th e ball, bu t i t was then too late, and lie -scored -a touchdown, the H arvards in the meantime haying tac ­k led -every, otherCaptain Johnson also made thq only other score of Ms team by kicking a" goal from the field. ; 1 ' . „'

On the question of fitness for- mem­bership the Grange B ulletin rem arks th a t the rule in the grange is th a t th e m aster o f the subordinate grange shall judge of the eligibility of candidates fo r membership, the members being le f t to 'determ ine by ballot their suit­ability. In other words, i t is 'th e rig h t and the duty o f the m aster to say w hether the occupation of the appli­cant shuts him out of the class fo r which the grange w as established, and i t is the right and the duty of the members to say w hether the character o f the .applicant is such as to Make him undesirable. I f Is righ t that'thO se should^ be kept out o f the grange whosefliusineSs has a decided ̂ tendency to make them antagonistic to its pur- poseg. I t is also right th a t evil, per­sons should not be perm itted to. use the organization as a cloak foi* their Wickedness. .. / /' Every organization h a s ' an undoubt­ed r ig h t to protect itself against " de­signing persOns. • The' rules off the grange give its members ample oppor­tu n ity to keep im proper persons from becoming members. B ut there seems to be danger th a t there is a goodMeal •pf laxity in some granges in regard to the eligibility of candidates and a great deal of severity in passing; on their fitness.' " :

T H E G R A N G E

A n I m p o r t a n t O t H e e a n d O n e o n W h i c h S u c c e s s D e p e n d s . *

T h ere are three offices in th e subor­d in a te 'grange th a t m u st -be filled b y com p eten t and' fa ith fu l officers "of t h e grange" w ill n o t a tta in th e h ig h e st su c­cess. T h ese offices are -master;- lectu r­er and secretary . ; ’ ' /

T h e m aster n eed s to b e a : good e x e c ­u t iv e officer, w ith th e fa c u lty o f keep­in g th in g s m o v in g • a ll a lon g th e dine. T h e lecturer shou ld b e ab ou t th e b e s t m an or w om an th e gran ge w ill afford. T h e efficient, w o rk in g g r a n g e is m ade such very la rg e ly b y its lecturer. T h e in terest and u se fu ln ess o f th e m eetin gs w ill depend a lm ost a ltogeth er on th is offieer. A nd you m u st h a v e 'another “b e st” person a s secretary .

W ith a good secretary • t lie m a ster ’s w ork is ligh ten ed m uch . ■ A careless, u n in terested secretary can k ill a n y gran ge in s ix m o n th s o’r g fea tiy 'h in d e r i t s efficiency. “T h e secretary w h o 'W ill' ribt a tte n d grange" m eetin gs and look a fter th e num erous 'd e ta ils o f-h is w ork ca refu lly a n d 1 d iligen tly* sh ou ld never be continued in-office. Iff he’ cafi b e-in - dueed to r e s ig n before h is te r m ’o f 'o f ­fice exp ires a ll th e b e tte r for .th e gran ge. H e m u st b e p resen t a t e v e r y m ee tin g u n less deta in ed b y illn e ss or som e o ili­er m ost im p ortan t reason; h e m u st bp puhetUal;' h e m u st 'think n o detitil o f h is official d u ties uffiinportaht; hb ffiiis't rep ly ^prom ptly-to- a ll officia l or b u si­n ess lfettei-s7 he‘ m u st'-m a k e hls^qufcrtof- ly rep orts tb e m o m e n t'th e y be m ade; h e m u st k eep -M s records fia good shape; h e m u st s e e th a t th e d u es are collected , and lie m u st do a h u n ­dred Other th in g s t h a t f a l l 'to' h iW lo t j u s t M s ahd ju s t w h en th e y shou ld b e done. U n less h e d oes-th is he i s n o t th e m an for secretary,;

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: -^The-the', farm §bd its im m ediate interests. The-farm er -has something more "todo than to sim ply till the. soil. - HO m ust be,an up to date business m an; he ujtist b e an active, not merely a passive, Citi­zen; he/mu&t liavh a live in terest in good government iff town; county, ’sta te and nation; be M ust be lu paoiiSps the extent th a t h e should insist, on hon­est government and be willing to.dp his p a r t to m ake.it so.

The defacing of fa rm buildings b y • huge paten t medicine^ advcrtiOemenfe- {should be th e subject of protestation in every grange, and no granger should ailow his premises" to' be thus disfig­ured .' " I ' f

- tMaple Grove grange ©f -E ast Trum ­bull, O,, Is rightly named, I ts ball is l o c a t e # b e a u t i l ^ m a p l * .

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