The Billings News. (Billings, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, May 26, 1905 Page: 3 of 8
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To Keep Cake Fresh.
I have found that fresh bread In
slices about one inch thick (renewed
when it gets dry), of bulk about half
the cake to be kept ‘ ‘ fresh,' ’ put
In the tin with the cake causes the
cake to remain *' fresh. ’ ’—C. 1). Field
in Scientific American.
General Philip H. Sheridan, great cavalry leader, who lives in that fam-
ous ride at Winchester, turning defeat into victory.
that is honored with reverence by the
patriot, is of little or no interest to
tiie soldier. Here again Gettysburg
is fortunate in its attraction, in its
i aim to celebrity. It was the climax
i . Ihe offensive operations of Robert j
i;. ! ee, and where military tactics are
studied there will Lee's career be
conned alike by the expert, the gray-
haired tactician, the subaltern, anrbi-
l >ius of promotion and the cadet seek-
i-,» his shoulder-straps. Gettysburg,
like Waterloo, is impossible of repe-
tition at the dose rauges at which
both were fought. But the general
strategy of one field is still of as much
importance as the other—the flanking,
the massing of artillery, the protection
of line of communication, the use or
misuse of cavalry, the preparations
of means for retreat.
But Gettysburg also appeals with
I he same strength to the average vis-
itor who knows nothing of strategy,
and whose familiarity with history has
lapsed with the distance in years that
lies between him and the dogeared
pages of his school books. It is all so
plainly writ, In location, in naiural
outline of the mulling countryside, in
monuments and marking guns, that lie
who runs may read.
Roughly, Gettysburg is a letter H.
with opposing lines parallel ami the
course of Plckott’s charge on the third
day forming the crossbar. The
Round Tops and Gettysburg town are
at opposite ends. The Emmitslmrg
road, on which Buford with his caval-
ry came cautlonsly scouting along to-
ward tho town on the last day of
June, lies between tho bars of the
letter and parallel with them. The
Charabersburg road, along which tho
confederates were feeling their way at
the same time, bends around what
was afterward the confederate left to
eater Gettysburg. Because those col-
umns met there was a battle hero,
fur each side hurried up its strength
to meet the other when their leaders
learned that tho feeler columns had
met and touched.
Thl» was on July 1, and because
Gen. Lee's forces hurried up faster
t than did Gen. Meade's II was an tin-
fortunate dov for the Ualtn troops.
tysburg cemetery and the admission
to this field of the dead buried all
over what is now the battlefield park.
He explained that the soldiers who
fell had been buried in what was ara-
! hie farm land, and which would soon
be made use of again for tillage. He
pointed out, too, that the method of
burial in many cases had been hasty
and inefficient.
Pennsylvania therefore purchased
seventeen acres of ground and set it
aside for the burial of the Union dead.
Other slates whose soldiers had fought
at Gettysburg were invited to make
use of it. They responded cordially,
and also contributed toward the ex-
pense of preparing the cemetery.
Old Soldier Not Forgotten.
We do not think that our people al-
ways sufficiently consider how much
this nation lias cost In blood anil tears.
Measured thus, it Is precious beyond
words. We all love it, though we
sometimes fail to serve It unsellshly.
Tlie fact that we do Ihus fail makes it
necessary Hint we should constantly
recur to Hie examples of liiose who
counted no sacrifice too great to make
In behulf of their country. It Is
sometimes said that the Union soldier
Is forgotlen. tliut he lias done his
work, and that tlie people no longer
care about him. He has not been for-
gotten. People do still earn about
him. And Ills work will never he
(lone. That work. Indeed, grows In
Importance with the passing years.
For what is it but to preach constant-
ly righteousness, courugc. patriotism,
unselfish devotion to duly nml heroic
sacrifice? And tills work can he. and
Is, done by the dead as well as tho
living. There is abundant use yet to
be made of the old soldier. He Hands
and will ever stand for the Ideal In
life, for the doing of duty rather than
tho winning of personal success.
Milk Extinguishes Oil Flrts.
Milk Is suggested us a good extin-
guishing agent for burning petroleum
It forms an emulsion with tho oil
and by disturbing Its cohesion atten-
uates the combustible element nn wa-
ter can not.
More Flexible and Lasting,
won’t shake out or blow out; by using
Defiance Starch you obtain better re-
sults than possible with any other
brand and one-third more for same
money.
Wanted Half a Spool.
A small hoy asked the clerk for a
spool of cotton. The hoy had only 1
cent and the clerk informed him that
2 cents was the price for the cheap-
est cotton. ' • Can’t you sell me half a
spool? ’' asked the boy.
Dangerous, Anyway.
It's dangerous not to notice a new
dress your wife has, because she
thinks you are not interested and it’s
dangerous to notice because it may
be a new one you forgot to notice be-
fore.—New York Pr.ess.
CHIP'S UGLY SEQUEL
KNEES STIFF, HANDS HELPLESS,
RHEUMATISM NEAR HEART.
Ur*. Van Scot Experience* Dangerous
After-Effect* from Grip an<l Learnt
Value «•( a lilood Ilemcdy.
The grip leaves behind it weakened
vital powers, thin blood, impaired di-
gestion and over-sensitive nerves—a
condition that makes the system an easy
prey to pneumonia, bronchitis, rheuma-
tism, nervous prostration, and oven con-
sumption.
The story told by scores of victims ol
the grip is substantially the same. One
was tortured by terrible pains at the
baso of the skull; another was left tired,
faint aud in exfcry way wretched from
anaemia or scantiness of blood; auothec
had horrible headaches, was nervous aud
couldn’t sleep; another was left with
weak lungs, difficulty in breathing and
acute neuralgia. In every case relief
was sought iu vain until the great blood-
builder and nerve-tonic, Dr. Williams’
Pink Pills, was used. l>’or quickness aud
thoroughness of action nothing is known
that will nppronch it.
Mrs. Van Sony makes a statement that
supports tliis claim. She says:
“I had a severe attack of grip and, be-
fore I hail fully recovered, rheumatism
set in and tormented mo for thnja
months, I wns in a badly run-down
state. Soon after it began I was so himo
for n week that I could hardly walk. It
ke|>t growing steadily worse aud at last
I hurl to give np completely aud for
three weeks I was obliged to keep my
bed. My knees were so stiff I couldn't
bend them, and my hands were perfectly
helpless. Then the pains began to
tlireatelf my heart aud thoroughly
alarmed me.
" While I was suffering In this way I
chanced to run across n littl* book that
tolil about the merits of Dr. Williams’
Pink Pills. Tho Ntalements in it im-
pressed me nnd led me to buy a bos. These
pills proved the very thing I needed,
improvement set iu as soon as I began
to take them, nnd it was very marked by
the time I bad lluisbed the first bos.
Fqur boxes made me a well woman."
Mrs. Lanra M. Van Scoy lives at No.
30 Thorpe street, Danbury, Conn. Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills are equally well
adapted for any other of tbs diseases that
follow tu the train of grip, The/ an
•old by all druggists.
grapes.
DR. STEPHENSON.
Founder of the Grand Army of the Republic.
friends to succor him in sickness and
misfortune and who would follow him
to the grave when lie was finally mus-
tered out. The ritual appealed so
strongly to them that to-day, forty
years after the war, the Grand Army
of the Republic is many thousands
strong.
It has home upon its rolls more than
300,000 cx-Union soldiers. It has ex-
pended thousands of dollars in charity
for its members and their families. To
tho Grand Army of the Republic more
than to any other order do the unfor-
tunate look for aid. If a comrade is
sick he sends to hk post for sympathy
and help, If he seeks employment ho
can rely upon his comrades to vouch
for him. He knows when the end comes
ttiat he will be laid to rest by the
members of his post, and that a stone
will mark his last resting place, and
that It will never be reared In a pot-
ter’s field, and that each recurring
30th of May flowers will bo strewn
above the low green mounds where
sleep the loyal dead.
It Is a curious fact that tho genius
who was the author of so magnificent
an organization should liavo been in
his last days one of tho very un-
fortunates for whom he was so solic-
itous in his halcyon days.
Overtaken by misfortunes and an
Ill-starred fate, Dr. Stephenson, after
years of discouragement, died nnd was
Imried at Rock Creek, Menard county,
111., Aug. 30, 1871, though scarcely at
the zenith of Ills manhood. Aug. 29.
1882, Eat 111 Post 71, O. A. R.. Depart-
ment of Illinois, removed Dr. Stephen-
son’s remains to Petersburg, 111., and
reinterred them among tho soldiers of
Roso Hill ccmotory with impressive
roremonies, thus rescuing him from
the oblivion of an unmarked grave.
Judge James A. Mathcny, of Spring-
field, In delivering the eulogy at the
grave, alluded to Dr. Stephenson’s au-
thorship of the Grand Army of the Re-
public In tho following eloquent lan-
xuaget
rado reposes, all unconscious that his
hour of triumph has come.
“The law of compensation pervade*
ali nuture. A pew thought proclaimed,
a good deed done or heroic act per*
formed will sooner or later meet its
proper reward. It may tarry long; It
may linger In Its coming, but come It
will, with unfailing certainty. In obe-
dience to that law we have come even
at this late day to do honor to our de-
parted comrade and friend. Let us
not stop here let us by some fitting
testimonial proclaim to all coming
our appreciation of the grand work ac-
complished by our departed friend
and companion. Let us
"Sock no further his merits to disclose;
Nor d> uw ills frailties from their dread
abode.
There they alike In trembling hope re-
ThePbosom of his Father and ills God.”
—Mrs. John A. Logan in Cincinnati
Enquirer. a - ,
Theirs the Memory That Endures.
The highest honor of which they
dreamed in life is theirs whose graves
are strewn to-day with the flowers of
spring. The proud young nation
which they helped to save holds
them, and will ever hold them in grate-
ful remembrance. They made the su-
premo sacrifice and they reaped the
supreme reward. Theirs it is to he
cherished forever Iu the nation's
heart.
And wtiat of tho men who march
to-day? Their wavering footsteps, as
they follow the music of drum and fife,
their thinning ranks remind us that
they, too, soon will be the recipients,
not the Instruments, of the honors of
Memorial day. Their place is secure.
The Inspiration of their deeds will
live when their dust lias mingled with
tbolr comrades' and their very names
are forgotten
Ay, the boys of '01 will live forever.
The lessons ot self-sacrifice, devotion
and patriotism which they have taught
cannot perish so long as God's sun
shines and God's world endures.
FIRST MEMORIAL EXERCISES
Ceremonies on Gettysburg Field Marked Begin-
ning of Beautiful Custom * '
< MfiV1 M*/b’ •• 1 •• •• Vlr'sqdr**"
On the field of Gettysburg there is
• spot between tho original cemetery
laid out for Union dead and Round
Top. marked with many monuments
and mounted cannon, which is known
as the "high water mark" of the bat-
tle. It is also appropriately known as
the "high water mark of the rebel-
lion." Here a few of Pickett’s soldiers
reached the Union line and pierced it.
There they fell while their comrades
or those left of them, slowly retreat-
ed through a fire which it was be-
yond human power to face and with-
stand. Back with them went the hope
of the confederacy.
The news from Gettysburg and
Vicksburg reached the country, North
and South, on the same day, July 4,
14113, was to the North and South
v hat that pause is to two wrestlers
when one has secured the fatal hold
which the other knows he cannot
h’-eak. When Vicksburg fell and Lee
set out on his bitter retreat from his
second unsuccessful invasion of the
North, the outcome ot the civil war
was decided. For this alone the
stretch of fields and hills and wood-
land that lies beyond the sleepy little
Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg will
lie memorable to the eyes of Ameri-
cans for all time to come. It interests
the student of history for the same
reason. Gettysburg will have its place
oa the page with Marathon, Tours,
Orleans, Lutzen, Yorktown and Wa-
terloo, when Shiloh and Bull Run and
Malvern Hill shall have been forgot-
ten.
Many a battlefield that is of su-
p-eme importance to the historian,
They had first occupied Seminary
R|dge, which afterwards became tho
confederate position, and they retreat-
ed across the valley to Cemetery hill
and a line parallel with It. which
they continued to hold. Gen. Reynolds
was killed in this first day's fighting,
and was blamed for its failure until
the circumstances were better under-
stood. Gen. Hancock hurried forward
tor that purpose, took command on
Reynolds’ death, and rallied the re-
treating Union troops. During the
night, while Meade's army was com-
ing up, corps by corps, Gen. Warren,
the engineer officer, from Little Round
Top, laid out the line of defence for
the Union forces that won the battle
for them. In bronze Gen. Warren
stands to-day overlooking, from Little
Round Top, the scene of the great
success for his plans ami his planting
of artillery.
Gettysburg can claim a place in
every Memorial day observation, for
it witnessed the first of them, the very
fall of the year in which the battle
took place. David Wills of Gettysburg
originated the idea of the first battle-
field national cemetery, out of which
has grown the movement that pro-
serves Antietam, Chickamauga and
Missionary Ridge, and that will end
in the parking of the Bull Run battle-
field.
Gov. Curtin, soon after the fighting
at Gettysburg, visited the field to
make arrangements for the suitable
burial of Pennsylvania’s dead. He left
the matter, when he left, in the hands
ot Wills. The latter soon suggested
the purchase of ground adjoining Get-
WORTH REMEMBERING.
188b
s There are three entirely different
kinds of ingredients used in making
the three different varieties of baking
•powders on the market, viz:—(1) Min-
eral-Acid or Alum, (2) Bone-Acid or
Phosphate, and (3) Cream of Tartar
made from grapes. It la Important,
from the standpoint of health, to
know something about these ingredi-
ents, and which kind is used In your
baking powder.
(1) Mineral-Acid, or Alum, Is made
from a kind of clay. This Is mixed
with diluted oil of vitriol and from
this solution a product is obtained
which is alum. Alum is cheap; costs
about two cents a pound, and baking
powder made with this Mineral-Acid
sells from 10 to 25r. a pound.
(2) Bone-Acid, or Phosphate, is the
basis of phosphate baking powders
and the process Is fully described in
the patents Issued to a large manufac-
turer of a phosphate powder. The U.
S. Patent Office Report gives a full
and exact description, Lut the follow-
ing extract is enough:
"Burned hones, after being ground,
are put into freshly diluted oil of vit-
riol and with continual stirring aud
in the following proportion,” etc.
From this Bone-Acid phosphate bak-
ing powders are made; such powders
sell from 20 to 30 cents a pound.
(3) Cream of Tartar exists in all
ripe grapes, and flows with the juice
from the press in the manufacture of
wine. After the wine is drawn off the
tartar is scraped from the cask, boil-
ed with water, and crystals of Cream
of Tartar, white and very pure, sepa-
rate and are collected. It differs in
no respect from the form in which it
originally existed in the grape. Cream
of Tartar, then, while the most expen-
sive, is the only ingredient that
should be used in a baking powder to
act upon the soda, us its wholesome-
ness is beyond question. Cream ol
Tartar baking powders sell at about
40 to 50 cents a pound.
Such are the facts, and every one,
careful ot the health of the family,
should remember this rule:—Baklug
powders selling from 10 to 25 cents a
pound are made of Mineral-Acids;
those selling from 20 to 30 cents ot
Bone Acid: and those from 40 to 60
cents ot' Cream of Tartar made from
NOBLE WORK DONE BY G. A. R.
Magnificent Organization Is First Among the
Brotherhoods of Men
The destinies ot the Grand Army
have been presided over by the truest
and the best. From its very Inception
the Grand Army of the Republic was
destined to a great and noble work,
and to supply a place in the desires
or patriotic men that no other had
been able to do. Tl^ provision es-
chewing politics and religion and pro-
viding for the banding together under
the most sacred obligations to work
together for the defense of their coun-
try, for the alleviation of each other's
woes, for the uplifting and betterment
of each other and those dependent
upon them, touched a responsive chord
in the heart of every soldier w ho know
by experience that every man who
signed such an obligation would he
true to it.
The plan for the organization of
posts in every hamlet, town aud city,
and to unite them in departments in
every state, and once a year to meet
in a grand national encampment,
woxld insure the perpetuity of their
comradeship, that the post would sup-
ply the place of the soldier's regiment,
the convention of the department of
the state his corps, and the national
encampment that of the army to
which ho belonged.
At tho campfires of these meetings
he could live over again scenes which
were burned Into his memory by the
heat of battle. He would have a re-
source In every dilemma that might
overtake him through life, and
“When this thought first came to
our comrade his whole soul was filled
with the grand conception Without
rest or weariness his every energy
was devoted to the accomplishment ot
the grand desire. With a patriotic
inspiration he saw clearly the great
goal to be attained. He felt that he
was erecting an altar upon which the
fire of love for the whole Union would
burn, and burn forever. He saw with
prophetic vision the Star Spangled
Banner of the nation—not a confeder-
ation of discredited states, hut a na-
tion's’ banner unfurled to the breeze;
and with fancy’s ear he heard tbe
tramp of millions of soldiers of the
Grand Army as they gathered beneath
it to shield and defend it from every
harm.
"My friends, how well he read the
future! His grand anticipations ar«
more than realized. The camp fires ol
the Grand Army are burning from
ocean to ocean. Thousands and lens
of thousands of Ills brotherhood ol
soldiers meet nightly In fraternal
greeting. Tbe banner that he so loved
is floating stainless and puro in God'*
bright sunshine, never again to b*
soiled and torn by traitor's hands. ;
"Though not here to witness it. th*
grand dream of his life has assumed
tho proportions of a bright reality:
Tho note that he struck single-handed;
is illuminating an entire land, and at{
the last is mingling its radiance over(
tho consecrated spot where our com-|
ANOTHER LIFE SAVED.
Mrs. G. W. Fooks, of Salisbury. Md..
wife of G. W. Fooks, Sheriff of Wico-
mico County,
says. "I suf-
fered with kid-
ney complaint
for eight
years. It came
on me gradu
ally. I felt
tired and
weak. was
short of breath
and was trou-
bled with
bloating after
Mtlng. and my limbs were badly
swollen. One doclor told me it would
Anally turn to Bright’s disease. I was
laid up at one time lor three week'*
1 bad not taken Doan's Kidney Pills
more than three days when the •' is-
trussing aching across my back disajs
peared. and I was soon entirely cured."
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Wear* purple Robe.
The lieutenant-governor of South
Carolina wears a purple robe of office
when presiding over tbe senate.
Tho** Who Hava Tried It
will use no other. Defiance Cold Wa-
ter Starch has no equal In Quantity
or Quality—16 oz. for 10 cents. Other
brands contain only 12 oz.
Modesty.
It Is modesty that places In the fee-
ble hand of beauty the scepter that
commands power.—Helvetlus.
RAILROADS AND PROGRESS.
In his testimony before the senate
committee on interstate commerce at
Washington on May 4, Prof. Hugo R.
Meyer of the Chicago university, an
expert on railroad management, made
this statement:
“Let us look at what might have
happened if we had heeded the pro
tests of the farmers of New York and
Ohio and Pennsylvania (In the 70’s,
when grain from the west began pour-
ing to the Atlantic seaboard), and
acted upon the doctrine which the In-
terstate commerce commission has
enunciated time and again, that no
man may be deprived of the ad-
vantages accruing to him by virtu*
of ills geographical position. We could
not have west of the Mississippi a
population of millions of people who
are prosperous and are great con-
sumers. We never should have seen
tho years when we built 10,000 and
12.000 miles of railway, for there
would have been no farmers west of
the Mississippi river who could have
used the land that would have been
opened up by the building of those
railways. And If wo had not seen the
years when wo could build 10,000 and
12.000 miles of railway a year, we
should not have today east of the
Mississippi a steel and iron produc-
ing center, which is at once the mar-
vel and tho despair of Europe, because
we could not have built up a steel and
iron industry if there had been no
market for its product.
We could not have in New England
a great boot and shoe industry; we
could not have In New England a
great cotton milling industry; we
could not have spread throughout New
York and Pennsylvania and Ohio man-
ufacturing industries of the most di-
versified kinds, because those indus-
tries would have* no market among
the farmers west of the Mississippi
river.
And while the progress of this
country, while the development of
the agricultural west of this country,
did mean the Impairment of the ag-
ricultural value east of the Mississippi
river, that ran up Into hundreds of
millions of dollars, It meant incident-
ally the building up of great manu-
facturing Industries that added to tho
value of this land by thousands of
millions of dollars. And. gentlemen,
those things were not foreseen In the
'70’s. The statesmen and the public
men of tills country did not see what
part the agricultural development of
the west was going to play in the in-
dustrial development of the east. And
you may read the decisions of the
Interstate commerce commission from
the first to the last, and what Is one
of the greatest characteristics of those
decisions? Tho continued Inability to
see the question in this largo way.
The Interstate commerce commis-
sion never can see anything more
than that the farm land of some farm-
er Is decreasing In value, or that some
man who has a flour mill with a pro-
duction of fifty barrels a day Is be-
ing crowded out. it never can see
that the destruction or Impairment of
farm values In this place means the
; building up of farm values In that
place, and that that shifting of value*
j Is a necessary Incident to the Indus
I rial and manufacturing development of
j ilila country. And If we shall give
to the Interstate commerce commis-
sion power to regulate rates, we shall
no longer have our rates regulated
on the statesmanlike basis on which
J they have been regulated In the past
i by the railway 'on. who really have
been greut statesmen, who really have
been great builders of empires, who
have had an Imagination that rivals
the imagination of the greatest poet
and of the gi cutest inventor, and who
have operated with n courage umt dar-
ing that rivals the courage and dar-
ing of the greatest military general.
But we shull have our rates regulated
by a body of civil servants, bureau
crat.:, whose besetting sin the world
over Is thut they never can grasp I
situation In a large way and with the
grasp of the statesman; that they
never can see tho (art that they are
confronted with a small *vlR that
that evil is relatively small, and that
It caanot be corrected except by the
creation of evils sad abuses which
ars Infinitely greater tbsn the on*
that la to be corrected."
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