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. * VETERANS HEAR tuc DDCCinruT int. rntoiuLm Mr. Wilson Delivers Address at Gettysburg Celebration. DRAWS LESSON FROM BATTLE Declares Great Army of the People Must Fight Peacefully to Perfect the Nation All Love. Gettysburg, Pa., ljuly 4.?National day in the semi-centennial celebration of the Battle of Gettysburg was made especially notable by an address delivered by President Woodrow Wilson. In his audience were many thousands of the veterans who fought in the great battle, as well as a great throng of other visitors. The president's address followe: Fr'ends and Fellow Citizens: I need not tell you what the battle of Gettysburg meant. These gallant men in bluo and gray sit all about us here. Many of them met here upon this ground in grim and deadly Btruggle. Upon these famous fields and hillsides their comrades died about them. In their presence it were an impertinence to discourse upon how the battle went, how it ended, what it signified! But SO years have gone by since then and I crave the privilege of speaking to you for a few minutes of what those 60 years have meant. What have they meant? They have meant peace and union and vigor, and the maturity and might of a great natlnn 11^... 1 ? ' ' "* k.v/n. nun n uuirrwun" tt.HU Ut'clIlUR lll?' peace has been! We have found one another again as brothers and comrades in arms, enemieB no longer, generous friends rather, our battles long past, the quarrel forgotten?except that we shall not forget the splendid valor, the manly devotion of the men then arrayed against one another, now grasping bands and smiling into each other's eyes. How complete the union has become and how dear to all of us, how unquestioned, how benign and majestic, as state after state has been added to this great family of free men! How handsome the vigor, the matiCltv, the might of the great nation we love with undivided hearts; how full of large and contldent promise t.iat a life will be wrought out that will crown its strength with gracious justice and a happy welfare that will touch all alike with deep contentment! We are debtors to those BO crowded years; they have made us heirs to a mighty heritage. Nation Not Finished. I3ut do we deem the' nation comv plete and linlslied? These venerable men crowding here to this famous field have set us a great example of devotion and utter sacrifice. They were willing to die that the people might live. Hut their task is done. Their day is turned into evening. They look to us to perfect what they established. Their work is handed on to us, to be done in another way but not in another spirit. Our day is not over; It is upon us in full tide. Have afTatrs paused? Does the nation stand still? Is it what the 50 years have wrought since those days of battle finished, rounded out, and completed? Here is a great people, great with every force that has ever beaten in the life blood of raaukind. And it is secure. There is no one within its borders, there is no power among the nations of the earth, to make it afraid. Itut has It yet squared lfself with its own great standards set up at its birth, when it made that first noble, naive appeal to the moral judgment of mankind to take notice that a government had now at last been established whicn was to serve men, not masters? It is secure in everything except the satisfaction that its life is right, adjusted to the uttermost to the standards of righteousness and humanity. The days of sacrifice and cleansing are not closed. Wo have harder things to do than were done in the heroic days of war, because harder to see clearly, requiring more vision, more calm balance of judgment, a more candid searching of the very springs of right. Tribute to Their Valor. Ix>ok around you upon the field of nr>??v Dl~? vv^ouu.is. i iwuiu me army, mo fierce heat? and agony of battle, column hurled against column, battery bellowing to battery! Valor? Yes! Greater no mail shall see In war; and self-sacrifice, and loss to the uttermost; the high recklessness of exalted devotion which does not count the cost. We are made by these tragic, epic things to know what it costs to make a nation?the blood and sacrifice of multitudes of unknown men lifted to a great stature in the view of all generations by knowing no limit to their manly willingness to serve. In armies thus marshaled from the ranks of free men you will Bee, as It were, a nation embattled, the leaders and the led, and may know, if you will, how little except In form Its action differs In days of peace from Its action In days of war. May we break camp now and be at ease? Are the forces that fight for the Nation dispersed, disbanded, gone to their homes forgetful of the common cause? Are our forces disorganized, without constituted leaders and the might of men consciously united be, cause we contend, not with armies, but with principalities and powers and wickedness In high places. Are we content to lie still? Does our union mean sympathy, our peace contentment, our vigor right action, our maturity self comprehension and a clear ' A ? confidence !n choosing what we shall do? War fitted us for action, and ac tion never ceases. Our Laws the Orders of the Day. I havo been chosen the leader ol the Nation. 1 cannot Justify the cholct by any qualities of my own. but so It has come about, and here I stand Whom do 1 command? Tho ghostly hosts who fought upon these battle fields long ago and are gone? These gallant gentlemen stricken In years whose fighting days are over, their glory won? What are the orders for them, who rallies them? I have In my mind another host, whom these Bet free of civil strife In order that they might work out In days of Deace and settled order the life of a great nation. That host Is the people themselves, the great and the small, without class or difference of kind or race or origin; and undivided in interest. if we have but the vision to guide and direct them and order their lives aright in what we do. Our constitutions are their articles of enlistment. The orders of the day are the laws upon our statute books. What we strive for is their freedom, their right to lift themselves from day to day ami behold the things they have hoped for. and so make way for still better days for those whom they love who are to come after them. The recruits are the little children crowding in. The quartermaster's stores are in the mines and forests and fields, in the shops and factories. Every day eomothing must be done to push the campaign forward; and It must be done by plan and with an eye to some great destiny. How shall we hold such thoughts in our hearts and not be moved? I would not have you live even today wholly in the past, but would wish to Btand with you in the light th'ajt streams upon us now out of that great day gone by. Here is the nation God has builded by our hands. What shall we do with it? Who stands ready to act again and always in the spirit of this day of reunion and hopo and patriotic fervor? The day of our country's life has but broadened into morning. I)o not put uniforms by. Put the harness of the present on. Lilt your eyes to the great tracts of life yet to be conquered In the interest of righteous peace, of that prosperity which lies in a people's hearts and outlasts all wars and errors of men. Come, let us be comrades and soldiers yet to serve our fellow men in quiet counsel, where the blare of trumpets is neither heard nor heeded and where the tliIntra sire ilnnn whlrm make blessed the nations of tho world in peace and righteousness and love. LOOK TO RUSSIAN OIL FIELDS Are Certain to Play an Important Part In Furnishing Power for Battleships. In discussing tho fact that the use of oil Instead of coal as fuel In the English navy Is under consideration It is time Russia should pay -serious attention to this question. If England Is replacing its own cheap coal by the more expensive foreign product, there must he Important advantages on the side of naphtha, and In the future Russian fleet the part to be played by this fuel will be a most important one, the Novoe Vremya says. Many mills and factories have gone over to naphtha as fuel and the consumption Is Increasing every year. Russia owns Immense oil fields and It could be tho chief supplier of the world. The need of organization In the business Is recognized by the government and a number of special meetings have been held for discussing the subject. New conditions have been Inid down for tho exploitation ot government territories, and the regulations for Investigations have been changed. Some territories known as being rich In oil have been closed to private enterprise, such as the Ap sheron peninsula, near Baku, and varl ous Islands of the Caspian sea. as well AR RnmA t #?rrl f f In tlin Trnna/vaa. plan I'ral and Gerghana districts, and others in the north of Russia and St berla, amounting to millions of acres The reason for this action is the wish to preserve these districts from exhaustion. Another question concerns the matter of investigation. It is quite neces sary that the right of investigation be granted on a large scale, and not only for comparatively small lots of ground, where the investigation might not pay The government is aware of this fact and, according to the new regulations the plots of ground allotted for Investigation are to be increased tenfold. The most advisable Bystem is tc grant concessions that would induce capitalists to place their money ir such undertakings. Under the new regulations regarding the investigation of naphtha districts, the government proposes to publish geological descriptions of the various districts. Ready Wit Saved Situation. A very laughable Incident once oe curred in the houRe of commons. An Irish member having risen was as sailed by loud cries of "Spoke! Spoke!" meaning that having spoken once already he had no right to do so a second time. He had evidently a second speech struggling In his breast for an Introduction Into the world, when seeing after remaining for some time on his legs, that there was not the slightest chance of being suffered to deliver a sentence of it he observed with Imperturbable grav lty and In rich Tlpperary brogue: "II the honorable glntlemln suppose that I was going to spake again they are quite mistaken. 1 merely rose for the purpose of saying that I had nothing more to say on the subject." The house was convulsed with laughtei for a few seconds afterward at the ready wit of the Hibernian M. P ; WOMAN SURVIVOR OF I That woman played a promlnei Civil war that was fought Just fifty a mute reminder such us 1b seen In ! tentlon. Fifty years back is a long who fought under the stars and t of the women nurses and one of th? was the comrade In arms of tho gr! SIDELIGHTS OF G The great reunion of the blue an tho gray on tho battlefield of (letty: Durg has passed Into history. It ws in al! respects the most unique gatl ering of the soldiers of the 6U'a eve held. Men who fought each oth? fifty years ago this year fraternize t as long-separnted brothers. Natural! such a gathering would be productlv of many incidents, both pathetic an humorous. As many stories wei floating about as there were veterai; at the reunion. The camp is full of unexpecte meetings. Every day brings forth ni merous meetings between men wh have not seen one another for man years. Many are commonplace, hi some are extraordinary. For li stance, here is one: I. D. Munsee of Erie county. Peni sylvania. a Boldler in the 111th Peni sylvanla, was captured by the coi federates at Peachtree Creek. Gn when he was one of Sherman's arm on the celebrated march to the sej He was being conveyed to the ret by a confederate soldier when th union batteries opened lire upon th party among whom he was a pri oner. The man who was guardln Munsee was hit and fell, knockln 1 Munsee down and lying on top t him. Seeing his chance of escape, Mui see lay very still under the uncoi scious confederate while the battl raged around them That night li slipped from under the body nnd e caped to the union lines. "I thought that fellow was dead said Munsee, "but I saw him toda Poor fellow, his mind's bad. and h didn't recognize me. but I was sure < him. I couldn't even get his name, hi i'?. n..n. i.i>. ,a,,. t ; camp and try to find out who ho la Hern 1b a Btory which was told b A T. Dice, vice-president of the Rem ing railway: i ! Once upon a time there were a ve i eran In grny and a veteran In blu ! They came to Gettysburg and In tli , I course of events and visits to bote! , 1 they happened to meet. They look? ! i over the nights of Gettysburg and th monuments of the field. Rut the [ | found they must part. The one In blue lived In Oregon the one In grny in New Orleans The went weeping together to their st tlon and passed by train after trail deferring the pnrtlng that must com Just what they said, just how the reached the final grand idea of tli meeting. Mr. Dice did not know. But, however, yesterday they flnnll decided that the time for parting ha , come. The one from Oregon eoul . j not figure how to reach home via N'e ( Orleans and his gray comrade, whll , willing to see the west, didn't ha\ the money for a ticket. They lined upon on the platform f their trains stood waiting and the before the crowd, they slowly strlppe off their uniforms and exchange ' them there while the curious flockc to see them. ( The Oregonlan who came proudly l town with a coat of blue, went r proudly away with one of gray an . the veteran from Louisiana who boas ed the gray of the south sat wit . swelling chest In his new uniform < blue. \ BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG vv ^ ffy \ * , iikj ? 1 ******** , jtei C J ^ ' i i ^ </ it part In the greatest battle of the y ears ago. Is apt to bo forgotten until the photograph is brought to our attlino to remember, yet here one of those (are, live decades ago, Ib greeting one ? few remaining ones whose husband Izzled old veteran. ETTYSBURG REUNION d A striking contrnst Is seen In the | a- menu provided for the soldiers fifty is years ago and what they enjoyed this I- ! year: >r \ 1863?-Hreakfast?Hardtack, bncon. ?r j beans and coffee. d | Dinner?Hacon, beane, hardtack and y coffee. o Supper?Means, hardtack. bacon | d and coffee. e i 1913 Breakfast l'uffed rleo. fried is eggs, fried bacon, cream potatoes, fresh bread, hard bread, butter and d coffee. j- Dinner ? Fricassee chicken, peas, o corn. Ice cream, cake, cigars, fresh y bread, hard bread, butter, coffee, iced it tea. u- Supper ? Salmon salad, macaroni 1 and cheese, fresh bread, butter and [i- coffee. n- Chief Clerk George O. Thorne of t., the state department at Harrleburg ' y told of the call made by a Union veto,. eran early on tho morning of the flfir tleth anniversary of tho start of the to battle, who related that his conscience ie troubled him because of tho fact that ; s- on that fateful morning many years g ago lie had succumbed to temptation ,g and stolen a fjuantity of onions from | >f tho Thorne garden, which was located near the historic Seminary ridge. He ' a- told Thorne that ho desired, at this u- late day to pay for the onions and le thus relieve his conscience, ie Needless to say, his offer of money h was refused, but tho Thornes would like to learn the Identity of the sol- | diers who upset eight beehives In the I v dead of night and appropriated all the ie honey they contained. it A remarkable coincidence of tho la camp was the meeting of two men of ." exactly the same name, coming from towns of the Raine name, but in differ-I iy ent states One fought on the union d- side In the battle of Gettysburg, and the other with the confederates, t- These two meti art* John Carson of e. Burlington. N. J., and John Carson of to Burlington. N. C. Is They met by the merest chance d The Jersey Cnrson was walking along to one of the streets, and saw a man In ty gray. Just to be friendly, the Jersey i . hiiii itiiii gave mm n i; greeting If was not until thi>y had iv talked for several minutes that they it- discovered their names were Identical, n, as well as the names of their towns e. y A grandson of Francis Scott Key. ie composer of "The Star-Spangled Han l.npr," is here He is John Francis Key. I> j aged eighty two. of I'lkeville. Md., and ,d i lie is a veteran of the Second MaryId j land infantry of the confederate army w 1 Wearing a suit of gray, Key came le into town, weak and almost dropping 'e He has been In falling health, but de- i clared he was "going to see (Jettysih burg on this occasion or die." sn d One of the oldest veterans In the d big camp Is Captain W. II. Flelg of >d Houston. Texas, who wn? ninety years c' age on his last birthday, February to 23. During the war he served with is distinction In the marine department j id of the confederate navy. Captain it- Flelg Is one of the best preserved h men In camp and Is more active than jf many of the other veterans a scoro of i years less advanced. i 1 Fifty years to the hour from the time when the first shot preceding the battle was fired a reunion meeting of the blue and the gray was held in the big tent. The gray cavalry men who fought the skirmishes that led up to j the three days' fight pledged them- ! selves in the shadows of the stars and ! stripes to "forget" and their brothers j in blue swore by the stars and bars that the fight was over for all time. There were several women from the ! village in the tent and six one-time ' schoolgirls, gray-haired and aged now, sang "Rally 'Round the Flag. Hoys," while the veterans wept like boys, but w ith pride. The six women who sang ! the buttle song were among those who 1 thronged tho streets of Gettysburg after the advance guard of the southern army left It 50 years ago. On the ; night when Ruford's men came rid- : Ing Into the village on the heels of ' Wheeler's men In gray, maidens Htrow- ! ed flowers along the streets and hells In the churcheB pealed out the news of the coming of the blue and the town went wild. Of all the scores of girls who welcomed the vanguard of Meade, only a half dozen could bo found, and they stood, white-haired with tears In their eyes on a platform In the big tent and sang to the weeping soldiers In the Beats below. "I'm afraid wo can't sing like we sang 50 years ago." said the matronly woman who acted aB leader as 1 she led tho way up the stepB to the platform. "We don't care; Just Blng again." ; shouted tho veterans. As the first j notes of tho war-time melody came from them In quavering tones, tho vet- ! erans both of the north and of tho Booth sat quiet with eyes fixed upon j the singers. The hum of the chorus came from every side, and the old men wept openly. Aside from the old soldiers them- j selves, an Interesting figure Is Mrs. Iongstrcet. widow of the commander j at the front of the Confederate lines In the third day's battle. Mrs. Long- i street walked a mile through the j broiling Bun out to tho old Rogers house to Interview General Sickles. Some time ago Mrs. Longstreet sent j a long telegram as representing the ' southern veterans In protest against ! the old Union veteran being thrown In I Jail In New York because of Borne j financial alTairs. It was said that Sickles misunderstood tho spirit and his pride was so hurt that their meeting today would not be cordial. "General. I have written an article about you for publication," said Mrs. longstreot at the meeting, and she read several pages of the highest tribute to the old corps leader, whom she j characterized as having come back j and being once again In the saddle. Half a hundred old Sickles' men gathered on the lawn and the reading became dramatic. General Sickles leaned back In his big chair, closed his eyes, and looked back to meeting with 1 longstreet. Hero his widow was praising to the world the valor which she claimed had gone unrecognized by the government, i Tears flowed down the Sickles cheeks now tanned by his ninety-third sum- j mer. and his old followers dofTed tholr hats and mingled their tears with 1 those of their old leader, wetting th* i ground upon which long ago had been ' soaked by their blood. James H. I.aiiBberry of St. Ixmts. I Mo., who enlisted In the Third Indiana cavalry from Madison. Ind., recited to ! his comrades the details of his cap- i ture In the town of Gettysburg by Confederates 50 years ago. Following ! tlio skirmish Just outside of town | which marked the opening of what : was to be a world-famed engagement, he hnd been detailed to assist In carrying a wounded officer to the old seminary In Gettysburg. While In town frantic women flocked about him and begged that he tell of the battle. He remained to tell the story, with the result that ho had to spend several days In following the Confederate army as a prisoner. After tramping 50 miles over rough country without (i V\/tr>a Ko I r* auau rvlm* *??*#! t finally made his way hack to Gettysburg, where he remained till August In assisting In the care of the wound- j ed, which wero housed In the semln- ' nary, churches, barns und public build Ings. One of the unadvertlsed reunions of the celebration occured in the con- I federate section of the camp. A fife | and drum corps of men in blue tramp- i ed up nnd down the streets of the con- I federate part of the city of tents. They stopped before the tents, piny- i ed such a fanfare as only drums and I fifes can make, summoned forth the occupants and shook hands, threw | their arms about the gray shoulders and In a dozen other ways showed [ their feelings of friendship. They kept It up for hours and vis- I Ited practically every "reb" tent. Their reception was as warm as their ] greeting. One of the most Interesting places in camp was the lost and found bu- { reau, located under the benches In the I big tent. Everything found on the | grounds wna brought there and thou- j aanda applied every day for missing artlelea. There were at least 100 crutches piled up In the bureau, dozen or so ap- i pllcants having called for them. Those who come to redeem their lost crutches seldom can recognize them and most of them go away with somebody else's. There was one wooden leg also lying unclaimed.' It wan brought In by a Hoy Scout, who had found It under ' a tree. Several seta of false teeth vert i fourd. THIS CAT CAN TALK OVER THE TELEPHONE If You Don't Believe It Just Call Her Up at Navarre, Ohio. Masslllon. O.?Miss Polly Is a prei ty Maltese cat that talks over th? telephone. Don't believe it? Well, call her up. She makes her home with Miss Mary Schw&rzlose at Navarre, south of this city, although she is the property of Miss Margaret Day of 708 Wellman street, this city. Miss Polly preferred to remain with the caretaker of Miss Day's summer home during the winter to going to the city with her mistress. Miss PoMy Learned Fas*. Polly Is an expert "hello cat." She began her education by climbing up In the arms of her foster mistress every time Miss Schwarzlose would talk over the telephone. Soon Polly began to understand that the ring of the bell was for her mistress. On such occasions she would scamper around until she located Miss Schwarzlose and would then lead her to the telephone. After a while Miss Polly would crawl onto the table and tako down the receiver from the desk telephone and then go for her mistress. Finally one day Miss Schwarzlose found her pet holding the telephone receiver to her ear and moaning and meowing Into the mouthpiece. Polly would listen a while and then begin her chatter and half walls Into the telephone. Pleased at the ehow of Intelligence displayed by the cat. Miss Schwarzlose permitted her to tako down the telephone whenever the bell rang. Polly learned fast and now whenever the telephone bell rings she jumps onto the table, takes down the fAPplvnr tn I V? Kc* 1* ? * n . vu uuill |JUnO <uiu ueiuro her mistress is permitted to have the receiver Miss Polly makes a gurgle of sounds over the telephone to express her welcome. DREAMER WAKES UP IN RIVER 8omnambulist Never Asks How or Why, but Swims After Game Is Won. New York.?Several odd feats In somnambulism have been performed by Melville Haynes of Unlontown, Westchester, but ho never suffered much through them until ho got a ducking in the Hudson river. Haynes went to bed at his usual hour Saturday night. He floated ofT into the land of dreams and Into the Polo grounds. "Big Chief" Meyers lifted the ball over the center field fence with the bases full, three men on and four runs needed to win. Haynes leaped up and yowled in delight. Then he awoke to find himself swimming in the Hudson river. It was a shocking change from the warm bleachers, but the wetness of -the water was unmistakable, and Haynes did not stop to ask "Where am I?" and "How did I get here?" No; like a man of common sense, he simply swam ashore. There ho was. nt 2 a m n*on#n?? on u pier at Hastings, clad only in drenched pajamas, and Hnlontown a rnile away. A kind policeman lent him n suit of clothes. Haynes and his family are still trying to figure out how he walked the mile from house to river, fast asleep, and in pajamas, without being seen. ANGLER GETS EAGLE ON HOOK Farmer, With Oar, Kills Bird Which Swooped Down and Snatched His Catch. Ilarnwell, S. C.?Perry Illers, a farm er of Rosemary township, caught an oagle with a fish hook while angling near his homo the other evening. He was In his .boat Inspecting some "set lines" when he made hlB curious catch. The bird had been soaring high nbove him in circles as he raised the lines. The eagle dropped like a plummet and snatched a fish on one of the hooks nnd before It could liberate Itself liters dispatched It by a blow with an oar. He brought the eagle to town. It measured Ave feet nine inches be* tween the tips of its outstretched wings.