!!!"#$%&'()(!*+,-+-&(./+*)(0,"-$.

Copyright Tom Tryniski 2005 www.fultonhistory.com

\ .
^ Vacations J& Sj
i Ey Elbert Hubbard f
HERE are three good redone why all employes should have
vacations. .,
One is so that the employer can see how easily any-
body's and everybody's i^lace can be filled; the n e x t t e j o
that when the employe returns he can see how well he can
be spared, since things go right along without him the
third is so the employe can show the employer and the
employer can understand that the employe is not manipu-
lating the accounts or engineering deals for his own benefit
Many a defalcation could have been avoided had the trusted man been
sent away two weeks each year, and an outsider put in his place. '
Beyond these, the vacation has little etcuse. As a matter of 4 ^ 3 *
the vacation does not recuperate, since, as a rule, no man needs a vacation so
much as the man who has just had one. The man who is so runJ^wn that
he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks, . wnat
he really needs is to retransform his life. .
i a l
,
f v
To work during the year at so rapid a pace that in August one s vitality
te exhausted, and a rest is demanded, .is. rank folly. What we a 1 need is
fenough vacation each day so that we can face each new morning with neaim
iufflcient to do our work in gladness. Ti at is to say, we need enough of a
play spell every day to Jteep us in good physical condition. -
The man who is done up and fagged out has not found his worK. Ana
Ihe man who lives during the year in anticipation of a vacation does not ^ de-
serve one, for he has not ascertained that it is work, and not vacations, that
makes life endurable. ,.
The only man who can really enjoy an outing is the man who aoesn t
oeed it. And the man who keeps his system so strong and well balanced that
he doesn't need a vacation is the one who eventually will marry the propri-
etor's daughter and have his name on the sign. Before you manage a busi-
ness, you better learn how to manage ydur cosmos. However, this does not
mean that I never take a vacation myselij-I do, otherwise how would I know
\he facts?New York American.
A Dinner to an Ele>
phant
By Lilian Bell
-i N what proved to be the coldest night of the year, a man,
^ ^ said to represent a brand of wine he is anxious to export, en-
# J i. gaged the largest stage in the world from midnight until the
^ ^ next noon and gave an entertainment in honor of an ele-
=*s phant to which were bidden the men and vjjomen whose
V JT^ lights shine mostly on the Great White Way.
^F"^L These people were requested to come dressed as ,
1 I "rubes," in the hope of making themselves as ridiculous as
possible. But that was unnecessary, as the report of their
Antics while? the wine, represented by their host, flowed with increasing free-
dom, did for them what no amount of caricature in dress could accomplish.
Out in the cold of this same freezing night there is a bread line. Station-
ed at various places in this city are municipal free lodging houses. To these
flocked the army of ttie hungry and homeless, seeking for food and shelter
from the bitter cold.
Of course, nobody blames a wine agent for advertising in any preposterous
way he can. Npr does one blame his guests, who can find no excitement so
suited to their taste as the sort given at an elephant dinnerwhere no dinner
wasfor going and giving themselves up an abandonment of vinous enjoy-
ment.
New York is a city of contrasts, and, in spite of the piteous tales of suf-
fering printed every day in the newspapers, the idle and the thoughtless con-
tinue to give parties, full of spirited and spirituous entertainment, where hun-
dreds, if not thousands, of dollars are spent for no good purpose and to no
worthy end.
l
Do you wonder that some shivering wretch with empty pockets and an
empty stomach, who hears of this waste and wanton extravagance, sometimes
loses his faith in God and man? '
Nobody objects to even expensive entertainments, which really entertain,
but to waste money and advertise that I waste when babies are dying of cold
and hunger on the coldest night of the year and men and women are driven
to desperate measures to find warmth and food, is little short of a crime.
New York American.
Self'help for Country
Women
By Maud Howe .
HAT "else besides assurance has the city woman that ithe
W
ii country woman lacks? I
II She has polish. Her manners are kept smooth by the
" continual friction witfi all sorts and conditions of men and
women. More polish,, more assurance, greater ease of man-
ner; the average city woman has more of all these than
the average country woman. She is usually quicker-
tongued, but not necessarily quicker-witted. Her speech
comes more readily than her sister's from the country, but
for all that it may not be better worth hearing.
What are the influences in city life that make for this finer polish, this
greater refinement, this urbanity? What are the refining- influneces in the
of Rustica's sister who lives in the city? ^
She learns something every day by watching her neighbors and the peo
pie in the streets. She has gone to the great school of the city. She can he^r
the best preachers, the famous lecturers, the formost actors und musicians.
They all come to the city to teach her jwhat they Jiave learned of religion, sci-
ence, music, art. The pulpit, the theatre, the art exhibition, ther
7
concert-
roomthese are the class-rooms of the city school of life. Cities civilize, pol-
ish, educate largely from the outside. I The dwellers in citiee improve by imi-
tation; they learn from one another.-^Harper's Bazar.
!
r a l l wa VB mi npf c
How Germany Saves
* By William H. Tolman
EGARDING the accidents in the United States/ i t is the opin-
ion of the engineering profession that one-half of them are
preventable. If so, the*next question is, how? A conserva-
tive estimate of the number of annual accidents which re-
sult fatally, or in partial or total incapacity for work, Is
500,000. Reckoning the wage earning capacity of the aver-
age workman at | 500 a year (this makes no allowance for
the professional men, railroad presidents, industrialists and
ready for the ballot. Their day will, come, but it must not
other high-salaried officials who are injured or killed by the
htiiklintr trades and other occupations), we have a social and
THE EMPTY SLEEVE.
BY PHILA BUTLER BOWMAN.
And why does .my sleeve hang empty?
And eo you are asking to know
Of the cloud that bent down
With its blackening frown
On our Nation, BO little ago.
And why does my sleeve hand empty?
And why, when 1 fold you so tight
Have I only one arm
That shall shield you. from harm?
One. was laid on the altar of Right.
You know what
M
^ly Country" means,
Lad,
Your grandfather's country and yours.
You will know, as life thickens,
Why all your blood quickens
At sight of the flag that endures.
You will learn what it means to be free,
Lad,
And to honor those sacrificed ones
In a country whose sod
At the altar of God
Was pledged free, in the blood of her sons.
You have learned to be glad in the colors
And swell, with your gay little shout,
The song that dead stones
Would cry out, should our tones
Wake not, when the flag flutters out. ,
4
The time is so little ago, Lad,
And the valleys grew sweet with corn,
And the grape and the grain;
Forgot hardship and .pain
For joy in God's country, new-born.
But a spirit awoke in the air, Lad,
And shadowed the light of the bars,
And threatened to tear :
From their regal place there
On the blue of our bannerthe stars. .
The story grows old in the telling,
Of the voice that went ringing afar
That the brave, loyal hand
Of each son of the land
Be pledged,for the life of a star.
And something, deep down in the breast,
Lad,
Leaped up at the voice of that call,
And the tread of a host
Rose, as marched to their post
Those heroes, to conquer or fall.

And War rode his terrible charger
Through the valleys that love had made
fair. ! *
But God, in His might
Helped the hand raised for right
Crush the spirit that rose in the air.
The story is sad to tell, dear,
Butthe stars are still shining on high.
Tho' the myriad graves
Where the summer grass waves
Are voices to answer us why.
So I know wjhat "the Union" cost, Lad,,
And the flag that no spirit can grieve;
And when it shakes out '
And I hear your glad shout.
I thank God,for the empty sleeve.
with a penciled word to "Sond Gener-
al Warren at least a division to hold
the position at Little Round Top."
On the summit where the signal
officer was the musket balls, were be-
ginning to fly. He folded up his
flags and was going to leave; but at
this moment Warren came back, and
Induced him to keep the flags wav-
ing. "It may puzzle those people,"
he said, meaning the enemy, "and
may keep them back for a few min-
utes. " So the two men waited, watch-
ing the puffs of smoke that appeared
at different distances. A thick cloud
showed where the action was already
raging at the Peach Orchard; in hot
haste the battle was spreading all
along the field; cannonade and mus-
ketry crashed and rattled at right,
left and centre of the long battle
lines. A movement of the mass of
infantry which Warren had detected
on the wooded ridge was plainly visi-
ble. Suppose Meade had delayed in
sending him an army corps!
The moments of suspense came
suddenly to an end with the arrival
of Hazlett's battery of rifled cannon
of the Fifth Artillery.
The young lieutenant spoke. "Gen-
eral, what's the matter?"
The deuce is to pay!" was the re-

he held w at <[ great importance tl*
t h o b a t t l e Kr l i La l l i i i ^hl Ii i ^ali the-
destruction oi'. an enui e cuips. It
was almost certain that supports
wo u l d be Sei i l h i m BoOuel or l a ^ e L
l i e was resuived never to yield.
Yet half the regiment were gone;
hardly mure tLan skirmish line was
left him. The soldiers, having fired
the tixty rounds of cartridges they
had carried into the fight, were emp-
tying the cartridge boxes of their
fallen comrades. A few minutes
longer and not a man would be left
alive.
"Colonel, let us charge them! \fre
will drive them off the hi l l !" shouted
a lieutenant in a hoarse voice.
Last Hope of the Defenders.
Chamberlain glanced at him in ad-
miration.
This was the heroic spirit of hi s
men.
;
Yes, why not charge them? he
thought. Suddenly, unexpectedly
even. to himself, he gave the order:
"Fix bayonets!"
Th* command, "Charge!" was lost
in the deep, long drawn shout of t he
desperate men; they leaped forward
and rushed down the hill. Stri ki ng
the enemy among the scattered trees
on the outskirt of the wopd, they
I
ii
1
WHEN MCKINLEY SERVED COFFEE IN BATTLE.
By Carl Hovey.
The war council of Federal gener- point, only one s ol di er/ an officer of
Us the night before the second day's the signal corps. He no sooner
oattle of Gettysburg became necessar-, looked abput hi m that It became in-
t
Bronze Tablet to McKinley E rected at Washington,,, D. C.
Exploit of Late President, Who as Commissary Sergeant of Twen-
ty-third Ohio Volunteers Gave Steaming Drinks and Hardtack
to Soldiers, to Be Perpetuated in Bronze.
(ly a frantic pretension of scanning
the unknown. Outside, on the length-
ening ridges and between the abrupt
hillsides of that intricate battle field,
lay the encampments of the two hos-
tile armies, ominous and solemn.
There were few camp fires. At ti mes
jeould be heard the voice of a sentry,
{challenging, or the drawn out clatter
of f horseman on the stone pavement
of the cemetery.
The night passed, and daybreak
found the cautious General Mea^le
stijl listening to the reports of hisj di-
vision commanders, to their stories
of misfortune, and plans for strength-
ening the line of battle. The unpro-
tected North lay at his back; in his
front a general whose resourceful-
ness was unfathomable ahd who
ranked as a military genius. To pic-
ture in hi s mind's eye the battle
ground that was now obscured and
dim, and to fdresee wjiat would be
i he thing wanted there, at the given
point, at the given moment, on the
morrow, was the well nigh insuper-w
able task of the Northern general.
The unexpected was certai n/ to be*
fall both officers and men, and they
must be roady to perform miracles if
need be. An instance of this kind
was the fight of the Twentieth Maine
on Little Round Top, in memory of
which the colonel of the regiment,
Josfeua L. Chamberlain, for his great
tenacity and his daring heroism,' re-
ceived the Medal of Honor.
Little Round Top had escaped the
vigilance of the Federal commanders.
This was the smaller of two rough
hills, strewn with boulders and bare,
slippery rock, rising sharply from a
wooded swamp, behind . which
stretched, the- Confederate battle line.
At the foot of Little Round Top a
body of Union troops had been posted.
Only One Mun For Defense.
It was now afternoon. Lee's at-
tack was expected momentarily, and
every man was Waiting intently, with
stantly clear to him that the top of
this. hill, where there were no troops,,
and which had been abandoned for a
signal station, was in reality the key
to the whole position. His astonish-
ment gav^ place to consternation.
"With Ms glass ne noted a thickly
wooded ridge beyond 4he swamp;
there* he surmised, the ene'my was
already forming his lines, to burst
suddenly [upon the Union troops at
ply. "I hope you can hold out until
the infantry come up." '
Stayed Until He Was Killed.
"I guess I can," answered Lieuten-
ant Hazlett. As a matter of fact, ne
stayed these until he was killed. The
passage of those six guns through
roadless woods and up among the
jutting boulders of t he. height was
marvelous; nothing but the dash and
eagerness of the men to get into ac-
tion, together with their incredibly
skilful driving, could have planted
those cannon on the very summit of
Little Round Top. /
The infantry were not far behind.
Among the regiments closing in to
seize the hilltop were the Forty-sev-
enth and the Fifteenth Alabama of
t he Confederate side; and of the
Union* army, the Twentieth Maine,
commanded by Colonel Chamberlain,
which was an usually small regiment,
numbering only about three hundred
men. /This little force had no sooner
reached the portion of the hillside
assigned to them, where they stood
panting from their exertions, than
they saw a dense iriass of Confeder-
ates coming toward them; for the
two strong Confederate regiments,
containing a thousand men, had been
ordered to turn the Union flank at ex-
actly that position. Discerning in a
flash the grave peril of his command,
the Maine colonel quickly ordered five
| companies to swing back until they
t h r b a s e j where in the screening .formed a line at a right angle to the
^^^^w>:'w:i:s^^c:^'<?i^^^:^^:^^::ft::::
KrfWSt:-:-;:-^:>:-:-::K-:-:-'-v r >> ; ::>: : ::.*:
WM
yy*
^^k^m
closed in upon them with bayonets^
and the butts of their guns.
Of the Confederates some fought
until they were killed; more, how-
ever, acted as if thrown into a panic-
by the wild charge, and they ran for
their lives. Undoubtedly they sup-
posed that a strong re-enforcement
had reached the Unio|i line, and that
this had caused the sjidden attack.
The brave Maine
h
regiment cap-
tured three hundred prisoners, ani L
returned with them to the old posi-*.
tion, where they stayed unty in the
last hours of that terrible summer's-
afternoon the victorious little com-
mand was thrust into the -struggle
for the adjoining hilL, Round Top.
Concerning their leader in this ex-
ploit, it may be added that, besides
receiving the Medal of Honor at Get-
tysburg, he was afterward promoted
in the field by General Grant; and he*
so distinguished himself as a briga-
dier that he was brevetted ra major
general in 18 65, "for conspicuous gal-
lantry in action." After the war he-
led, and is still leading, a highly i m-
portant public Career in his native-
State of Maine. *
GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD (BIG AND LITTLE ROUND TOl" FROM
ERJMETSBURG ROAD.)
woods nothing i oul d be known of the , rest. _ At this instant the Al abami au,
movements of the enemy until the
Confederates were upon them. To
verify this strong suspicion, General
Warren made his way as rapidly as
possible to a battery at the foot of the
hill.
"Captain,
M
he said, "fire a shot into
those woods. "
The Captain of the rifle battery
did so, and as the shot, whistling,
passed qver the wood, it must have
caused everyone of the concealed
Rebels to look in the direction of the
sound; If or a simultaneous flash of
^1 K o v n n o t r p Vf t Rl e d
1 ~ 1 A i
attacked them on front and flank,
opening with a murderous fire.
Colonel Chamberlain with drawn
sword moved up and down his lines.
The Rebel bullets whizzed incessantly
past him; his men were constantly
groaning and falling on every side.
Outnumbered more than three to one,
their position was terrible, and it was
apparently a hopeless one. Yet with
dripping faces the men loaded and
fired their muskets, displaying tne
cool expertness of true veterans.
Smoke walled them in and to sonu
extent concealed from the enemy th.
Our Patriot Dead.
Bring ye sweet fiuwers to deck their lowly .
graved,
The noble ones who shed their life-bloo<i
free
And, tigiiUng, fell in freedom's cause,
that we
Should hold it sacred, while the old flag
wavet>!
Bring flowers, the fairest, sweetest, for our
braves
Roses ana lilies. 'Twas for you and me
They died. Cover ea$h mound that they
may see
The living love that still a strong heart
craves.
O sainted dead! O ihusband, brother,.
friend. .
Known or unknown* we hold thy mem-
or> green
And scatter o'er thy resting place^ th
robe.
Th-' hij . J.an.\v, violei to blend
Then peiiunxe wi'm the tears that, oft
unseen,
Ledrw tlit.- ground 'neata which oui
lovt-"i re'i'^f.
Anna \x. S. liv..siiei, in Christian Reg-
is; ci.
/ \
S\ PDF compression, OCR, web-optimization with CVISION's PdfCompressor
Copyright Tom Tryniski 2005 www.fultonhistory.com
\ .
^ Vacations J& Sj
i Ey Elbert Hubbard f
HERE are three good redone why all employes should have
vacations. .,
One is so that the employer can see how easily any-
body's and everybody's i^lace can be filled; the n e x t t e j o
that when the employe returns he can see how well he can
be spared, since things go right along without him the
third is so the employe can show the employer and the
employer can understand that the employe is not manipu-
lating the accounts or engineering deals for his own benefit
Many a defalcation could have been avoided had the trusted man been
sent away two weeks each year, and an outsider put in his place. '
Beyond these, the vacation has little etcuse. As a matter of 4 ^ 3 *
the vacation does not recuperate, since, as a rule, no man needs a vacation so
much as the man who has just had one. The man who is so runJ^wn that
he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks, . wnat
he really needs is to retransform his life. .
i a l
,
f v
To work during the year at so rapid a pace that in August one s vitality
te exhausted, and a rest is demanded, .is. rank folly. What we a 1 need is
fenough vacation each day so that we can face each new morning with neaim
iufflcient to do our work in gladness. Ti at is to say, we need enough of a
play spell every day to Jteep us in good physical condition. -
The man who is done up and fagged out has not found his worK. Ana
Ihe man who lives during the year in anticipation of a vacation does not ^ de-
serve one, for he has not ascertained that it is work, and not vacations, that
makes life endurable. ,.
The only man who can really enjoy an outing is the man who aoesn t
oeed it. And the man who keeps his system so strong and well balanced that
he doesn't need a vacation is the one who eventually will marry the propri-
etor's daughter and have his name on the sign. Before you manage a busi-
ness, you better learn how to manage ydur cosmos. However, this does not
mean that I never take a vacation myselij-I do, otherwise how would I know
\he facts?New York American.
A Dinner to an Ele>
phant
By Lilian Bell
-i N what proved to be the coldest night of the year, a man,
^ ^ said to represent a brand of wine he is anxious to export, en-
# J i. gaged the largest stage in the world from midnight until the
^ ^ next noon and gave an entertainment in honor of an ele-
=*s phant to which were bidden the men and vjjomen whose
V JT^ lights shine mostly on the Great White Way.
^F"^L These people were requested to come dressed as ,
1 I "rubes," in the hope of making themselves as ridiculous as
possible. But that was unnecessary, as the report of their
Antics while? the wine, represented by their host, flowed with increasing free-
dom, did for them what no amount of caricature in dress could accomplish.
Out in the cold of this same freezing night there is a bread line. Station-
ed at various places in this city are municipal free lodging houses. To these
flocked the army of ttie hungry and homeless, seeking for food and shelter
from the bitter cold.
Of course, nobody blames a wine agent for advertising in any preposterous
way he can. Npr does one blame his guests, who can find no excitement so
suited to their taste as the sort given at an elephant dinnerwhere no dinner
wasfor going and giving themselves up an abandonment of vinous enjoy-
ment.
New York is a city of contrasts, and, in spite of the piteous tales of suf-
fering printed every day in the newspapers, the idle and the thoughtless con-
tinue to give parties, full of spirited and spirituous entertainment, where hun-
dreds, if not thousands, of dollars are spent for no good purpose and to no
worthy end.
l
Do you wonder that some shivering wretch with empty pockets and an
empty stomach, who hears of this waste and wanton extravagance, sometimes
loses his faith in God and man? '
Nobody objects to even expensive entertainments, which really entertain,
but to waste money and advertise that I waste when babies are dying of cold
and hunger on the coldest night of the year and men and women are driven
to desperate measures to find warmth and food, is little short of a crime.
New York American.
Self'help for Country
Women
By Maud Howe .
HAT "else besides assurance has the city woman that ithe
W
ii country woman lacks? I
II She has polish. Her manners are kept smooth by the
" continual friction witfi all sorts and conditions of men and
women. More polish,, more assurance, greater ease of man-
ner; the average city woman has more of all these than
the average country woman. She is usually quicker-
tongued, but not necessarily quicker-witted. Her speech
comes more readily than her sister's from the country, but
for all that it may not be better worth hearing.
What are the influences in city life that make for this finer polish, this
greater refinement, this urbanity? What are the refining- influneces in the
of Rustica's sister who lives in the city? ^
She learns something every day by watching her neighbors and the peo
pie in the streets. She has gone to the great school of the city. She can he^r
the best preachers, the famous lecturers, the formost actors und musicians.
They all come to the city to teach her jwhat they Jiave learned of religion, sci-
ence, music, art. The pulpit, the theatre, the art exhibition, ther
7
concert-
roomthese are the class-rooms of the city school of life. Cities civilize, pol-
ish, educate largely from the outside. I The dwellers in citiee improve by imi-
tation; they learn from one another.-^Harper's Bazar.
!
r a l l wa VB mi npf c
How Germany Saves
* By William H. Tolman
EGARDING the accidents in the United States/ i t is the opin-
ion of the engineering profession that one-half of them are
preventable. If so, the*next question is, how? A conserva-
tive estimate of the number of annual accidents which re-
sult fatally, or in partial or total incapacity for work, Is
500,000. Reckoning the wage earning capacity of the aver-
age workman at | 500 a year (this makes no allowance for
the professional men, railroad presidents, industrialists and
ready for the ballot. Their day will, come, but it must not
other high-salaried officials who are injured or killed by the
htiiklintr trades and other occupations), we have a social and
THE EMPTY SLEEVE.
BY PHILA BUTLER BOWMAN.
And why does .my sleeve hang empty?
And eo you are asking to know
Of the cloud that bent down
With its blackening frown
On our Nation, BO little ago.
And why does my sleeve hand empty?
And why, when 1 fold you so tight
Have I only one arm
That shall shield you. from harm?
One. was laid on the altar of Right.
You know what
M
^ly Country" means,
Lad,
Your grandfather's country and yours.
You will know, as life thickens,
Why all your blood quickens
At sight of the flag that endures.
You will learn what it means to be free,
Lad,
And to honor those sacrificed ones
In a country whose sod
At the altar of God
Was pledged free, in the blood of her sons.
You have learned to be glad in the colors
And swell, with your gay little shout,
The song that dead stones
Would cry out, should our tones
Wake not, when the flag flutters out. ,
4
The time is so little ago, Lad,
And the valleys grew sweet with corn,
And the grape and the grain;
Forgot hardship and .pain
For joy in God's country, new-born.
But a spirit awoke in the air, Lad,
And shadowed the light of the bars,
And threatened to tear :
From their regal place there
On the blue of our bannerthe stars. .
The story grows old in the telling,
Of the voice that went ringing afar
That the brave, loyal hand
Of each son of the land
Be pledged,for the life of a star.
And something, deep down in the breast,
Lad,
Leaped up at the voice of that call,
And the tread of a host
Rose, as marched to their post
Those heroes, to conquer or fall.

And War rode his terrible charger
Through the valleys that love had made
fair. ! *
But God, in His might
Helped the hand raised for right
Crush the spirit that rose in the air.
The story is sad to tell, dear,
Butthe stars are still shining on high.
Tho' the myriad graves
Where the summer grass waves
Are voices to answer us why.
So I know wjhat "the Union" cost, Lad,,
And the flag that no spirit can grieve;
And when it shakes out '
And I hear your glad shout.
I thank God,for the empty sleeve.
with a penciled word to "Sond Gener-
al Warren at least a division to hold
the position at Little Round Top."
On the summit where the signal
officer was the musket balls, were be-
ginning to fly. He folded up his
flags and was going to leave; but at
this moment Warren came back, and
Induced him to keep the flags wav-
ing. "It may puzzle those people,"
he said, meaning the enemy, "and
may keep them back for a few min-
utes. " So the two men waited, watch-
ing the puffs of smoke that appeared
at different distances. A thick cloud
showed where the action was already
raging at the Peach Orchard; in hot
haste the battle was spreading all
along the field; cannonade and mus-
ketry crashed and rattled at right,
left and centre of the long battle
lines. A movement of the mass of
infantry which Warren had detected
on the wooded ridge was plainly visi-
ble. Suppose Meade had delayed in
sending him an army corps!
The moments of suspense came
suddenly to an end with the arrival
of Hazlett's battery of rifled cannon
of the Fifth Artillery.
The young lieutenant spoke. "Gen-
eral, what's the matter?"
The deuce is to pay!" was the re-

he held w at <[ great importance tl*
t h o b a t t l e Kr l i La l l i i i ^hl Ii i ^ali the-
destruction oi'. an enui e cuips. It
was almost certain that supports
wo u l d be Sei i l h i m BoOuel or l a ^ e L
l i e was resuived never to yield.
Yet half the regiment were gone;
hardly mure tLan skirmish line was
left him. The soldiers, having fired
the tixty rounds of cartridges they
had carried into the fight, were emp-
tying the cartridge boxes of their
fallen comrades. A few minutes
longer and not a man would be left
alive.
"Colonel, let us charge them! \fre
will drive them off the hi l l !" shouted
a lieutenant in a hoarse voice.
Last Hope of the Defenders.
Chamberlain glanced at him in ad-
miration.
This was the heroic spirit of hi s
men.
;
Yes, why not charge them? he
thought. Suddenly, unexpectedly
even. to himself, he gave the order:
"Fix bayonets!"
Th* command, "Charge!" was lost
in the deep, long drawn shout of t he
desperate men; they leaped forward
and rushed down the hill. Stri ki ng
the enemy among the scattered trees
on the outskirt of the wopd, they
I
ii
1
WHEN MCKINLEY SERVED COFFEE IN BATTLE.
By Carl Hovey.
The war council of Federal gener- point, only one s ol di er/ an officer of
Us the night before the second day's the signal corps. He no sooner
oattle of Gettysburg became necessar-, looked abput hi m that It became in-
t
Bronze Tablet to McKinley E rected at Washington,,, D. C.
Exploit of Late President, Who as Commissary Sergeant of Twen-
ty-third Ohio Volunteers Gave Steaming Drinks and Hardtack
to Soldiers, to Be Perpetuated in Bronze.
(ly a frantic pretension of scanning
the unknown. Outside, on the length-
ening ridges and between the abrupt
hillsides of that intricate battle field,
lay the encampments of the two hos-
tile armies, ominous and solemn.
There were few camp fires. At ti mes
jeould be heard the voice of a sentry,
{challenging, or the drawn out clatter
of f horseman on the stone pavement
of the cemetery.
The night passed, and daybreak
found the cautious General Mea^le
stijl listening to the reports of hisj di-
vision commanders, to their stories
of misfortune, and plans for strength-
ening the line of battle. The unpro-
tected North lay at his back; in his
front a general whose resourceful-
ness was unfathomable ahd who
ranked as a military genius. To pic-
ture in hi s mind's eye the battle
ground that was now obscured and
dim, and to fdresee wjiat would be
i he thing wanted there, at the given
point, at the given moment, on the
morrow, was the well nigh insuper-w
able task of the Northern general.
The unexpected was certai n/ to be*
fall both officers and men, and they
must be roady to perform miracles if
need be. An instance of this kind
was the fight of the Twentieth Maine
on Little Round Top, in memory of
which the colonel of the regiment,
Josfeua L. Chamberlain, for his great
tenacity and his daring heroism,' re-
ceived the Medal of Honor.
Little Round Top had escaped the
vigilance of the Federal commanders.
This was the smaller of two rough
hills, strewn with boulders and bare,
slippery rock, rising sharply from a
wooded swamp, behind . which
stretched, the- Confederate battle line.
At the foot of Little Round Top a
body of Union troops had been posted.
Only One Mun For Defense.
It was now afternoon. Lee's at-
tack was expected momentarily, and
every man was Waiting intently, with
stantly clear to him that the top of
this. hill, where there were no troops,,
and which had been abandoned for a
signal station, was in reality the key
to the whole position. His astonish-
ment gav^ place to consternation.
"With Ms glass ne noted a thickly
wooded ridge beyond 4he swamp;
there* he surmised, the ene'my was
already forming his lines, to burst
suddenly [upon the Union troops at
ply. "I hope you can hold out until
the infantry come up." '
Stayed Until He Was Killed.
"I guess I can," answered Lieuten-
ant Hazlett. As a matter of fact, ne
stayed these until he was killed. The
passage of those six guns through
roadless woods and up among the
jutting boulders of t he. height was
marvelous; nothing but the dash and
eagerness of the men to get into ac-
tion, together with their incredibly
skilful driving, could have planted
those cannon on the very summit of
Little Round Top. /
The infantry were not far behind.
Among the regiments closing in to
seize the hilltop were the Forty-sev-
enth and the Fifteenth Alabama of
t he Confederate side; and of the
Union* army, the Twentieth Maine,
commanded by Colonel Chamberlain,
which was an usually small regiment,
numbering only about three hundred
men. /This little force had no sooner
reached the portion of the hillside
assigned to them, where they stood
panting from their exertions, than
they saw a dense iriass of Confeder-
ates coming toward them; for the
two strong Confederate regiments,
containing a thousand men, had been
ordered to turn the Union flank at ex-
actly that position. Discerning in a
flash the grave peril of his command,
the Maine colonel quickly ordered five
| companies to swing back until they
t h r b a s e j where in the screening .formed a line at a right angle to the
^^^^w>:'w:i:s^^c:^'<?i^^^:^^:^^::ft::::
KrfWSt:-:-;:-^:>:-:-::K-:-:-'-v r >> ; ::>: : ::.*:
WM
yy*
^^k^m
closed in upon them with bayonets^
and the butts of their guns.
Of the Confederates some fought
until they were killed; more, how-
ever, acted as if thrown into a panic-
by the wild charge, and they ran for
their lives. Undoubtedly they sup-
posed that a strong re-enforcement
had reached the Unio|i line, and that
this had caused the sjidden attack.
The brave Maine
h
regiment cap-
tured three hundred prisoners, ani L
returned with them to the old posi-*.
tion, where they stayed unty in the
last hours of that terrible summer's-
afternoon the victorious little com-
mand was thrust into the -struggle
for the adjoining hilL, Round Top.
Concerning their leader in this ex-
ploit, it may be added that, besides
receiving the Medal of Honor at Get-
tysburg, he was afterward promoted
in the field by General Grant; and he*
so distinguished himself as a briga-
dier that he was brevetted ra major
general in 18 65, "for conspicuous gal-
lantry in action." After the war he-
led, and is still leading, a highly i m-
portant public Career in his native-
State of Maine. *
GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD (BIG AND LITTLE ROUND TOl" FROM
ERJMETSBURG ROAD.)
woods nothing i oul d be known of the , rest. _ At this instant the Al abami au,
movements of the enemy until the
Confederates were upon them. To
verify this strong suspicion, General
Warren made his way as rapidly as
possible to a battery at the foot of the
hill.
"Captain,
M
he said, "fire a shot into
those woods. "
The Captain of the rifle battery
did so, and as the shot, whistling,
passed qver the wood, it must have
caused everyone of the concealed
Rebels to look in the direction of the
sound; If or a simultaneous flash of
^1 K o v n n o t r p Vf t Rl e d
1 ~ 1 A i
attacked them on front and flank,
opening with a murderous fire.
Colonel Chamberlain with drawn
sword moved up and down his lines.
The Rebel bullets whizzed incessantly
past him; his men were constantly
groaning and falling on every side.
Outnumbered more than three to one,
their position was terrible, and it was
apparently a hopeless one. Yet with
dripping faces the men loaded and
fired their muskets, displaying tne
cool expertness of true veterans.
Smoke walled them in and to sonu
extent concealed from the enemy th.
Our Patriot Dead.
Bring ye sweet fiuwers to deck their lowly .
graved,
The noble ones who shed their life-bloo<i
free
And, tigiiUng, fell in freedom's cause,
that we
Should hold it sacred, while the old flag
wavet>!
Bring flowers, the fairest, sweetest, for our
braves
Roses ana lilies. 'Twas for you and me
They died. Cover ea$h mound that they
may see
The living love that still a strong heart
craves.
O sainted dead! O ihusband, brother,.
friend. .
Known or unknown* we hold thy mem-
or> green
And scatter o'er thy resting place^ th
robe.
Th-' hij . J.an.\v, violei to blend
Then peiiunxe wi'm the tears that, oft
unseen,
Ledrw tlit.- ground 'neata which oui
lovt-"i re'i'^f.
Anna \x. S. liv..siiei, in Christian Reg-
is; ci.
/ \
S\
!!!"#$%&'()(!*+,-+-&(./+*)(0,"-$.
Only One Man For Defense.
It was now afternoon. Lees attack was
expected momentarily, and every man was
waiting intently, with his eyes fixed upon the
open space that separated the two armies.
Just at this time, by a fortunate chance, it
occurred to General Mead to order General
Warren to ride over the field in the direction
of the Round Tops. Warren did so, and when
he came to the foot of Little Round Top he
left his horse and climbed to the summit.
What was his surprise to find at this


passed over the wood, it must have caused
everyone of the concealed Rebels to look in
the direction of the sound; for a
simultaneous flash of musket barrel and
bayonet revealed to the Northern general the
presence of a long line of the enemy far
outflanking the position of the Union
troops. The fact thrilled him: it was almost
appalling. A strong force should have been
intrenched long ago high up on this hill;
perhaps even now it was not too late. He
rushed off a messenger to General Meade

Copyright Tom Tryniski 2005 www.fultonhistory.com
\ .
^ Vacations J& Sj
i Ey Elbert Hubbard f
HERE are three good redone why all employes should have
vacations. .,
One is so that the employer can see how easily any-
body's and everybody's i^lace can be filled; the n e x t t e j o
that when the employe returns he can see how well he can
be spared, since things go right along without him the
third is so the employe can show the employer and the
employer can understand that the employe is not manipu-
lating the accounts or engineering deals for his own benefit
Many a defalcation could have been avoided had the trusted man been
sent away two weeks each year, and an outsider put in his place. '
Beyond these, the vacation has little etcuse. As a matter of 4 ^ 3 *
the vacation does not recuperate, since, as a rule, no man needs a vacation so
much as the man who has just had one. The man who is so runJ^wn that
he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks, . wnat
he really needs is to retransform his life. .
i a l
,
f v
To work during the year at so rapid a pace that in August one s vitality
te exhausted, and a rest is demanded, .is. rank folly. What we a 1 need is
fenough vacation each day so that we can face each new morning with neaim
iufflcient to do our work in gladness. Ti at is to say, we need enough of a
play spell every day to Jteep us in good physical condition. -
The man who is done up and fagged out has not found his worK. Ana
Ihe man who lives during the year in anticipation of a vacation does not ^ de-
serve one, for he has not ascertained that it is work, and not vacations, that
makes life endurable. ,.
The only man who can really enjoy an outing is the man who aoesn t
oeed it. And the man who keeps his system so strong and well balanced that
he doesn't need a vacation is the one who eventually will marry the propri-
etor's daughter and have his name on the sign. Before you manage a busi-
ness, you better learn how to manage ydur cosmos. However, this does not
mean that I never take a vacation myselij-I do, otherwise how would I know
\he facts?New York American.
A Dinner to an Ele>
phant
By Lilian Bell
-i N what proved to be the coldest night of the year, a man,
^ ^ said to represent a brand of wine he is anxious to export, en-
# J i. gaged the largest stage in the world from midnight until the
^ ^ next noon and gave an entertainment in honor of an ele-
=*s phant to which were bidden the men and vjjomen whose
V JT^ lights shine mostly on the Great White Way.
^F"^L These people were requested to come dressed as ,
1 I "rubes," in the hope of making themselves as ridiculous as
possible. But that was unnecessary, as the report of their
Antics while? the wine, represented by their host, flowed with increasing free-
dom, did for them what no amount of caricature in dress could accomplish.
Out in the cold of this same freezing night there is a bread line. Station-
ed at various places in this city are municipal free lodging houses. To these
flocked the army of ttie hungry and homeless, seeking for food and shelter
from the bitter cold.
Of course, nobody blames a wine agent for advertising in any preposterous
way he can. Npr does one blame his guests, who can find no excitement so
suited to their taste as the sort given at an elephant dinnerwhere no dinner
wasfor going and giving themselves up an abandonment of vinous enjoy-
ment.
New York is a city of contrasts, and, in spite of the piteous tales of suf-
fering printed every day in the newspapers, the idle and the thoughtless con-
tinue to give parties, full of spirited and spirituous entertainment, where hun-
dreds, if not thousands, of dollars are spent for no good purpose and to no
worthy end.
l
Do you wonder that some shivering wretch with empty pockets and an
empty stomach, who hears of this waste and wanton extravagance, sometimes
loses his faith in God and man? '
Nobody objects to even expensive entertainments, which really entertain,
but to waste money and advertise that I waste when babies are dying of cold
and hunger on the coldest night of the year and men and women are driven
to desperate measures to find warmth and food, is little short of a crime.
New York American.
Self'help for Country
Women
By Maud Howe .
HAT "else besides assurance has the city woman that ithe
W
ii country woman lacks? I
II She has polish. Her manners are kept smooth by the
" continual friction witfi all sorts and conditions of men and
women. More polish,, more assurance, greater ease of man-
ner; the average city woman has more of all these than
the average country woman. She is usually quicker-
tongued, but not necessarily quicker-witted. Her speech
comes more readily than her sister's from the country, but
for all that it may not be better worth hearing.
What are the influences in city life that make for this finer polish, this
greater refinement, this urbanity? What are the refining- influneces in the
of Rustica's sister who lives in the city? ^
She learns something every day by watching her neighbors and the peo
pie in the streets. She has gone to the great school of the city. She can he^r
the best preachers, the famous lecturers, the formost actors und musicians.
They all come to the city to teach her jwhat they Jiave learned of religion, sci-
ence, music, art. The pulpit, the theatre, the art exhibition, ther
7
concert-
roomthese are the class-rooms of the city school of life. Cities civilize, pol-
ish, educate largely from the outside. I The dwellers in citiee improve by imi-
tation; they learn from one another.-^Harper's Bazar.
!
r a l l wa VB mi npf c
How Germany Saves
* By William H. Tolman
EGARDING the accidents in the United States/ i t is the opin-
ion of the engineering profession that one-half of them are
preventable. If so, the*next question is, how? A conserva-
tive estimate of the number of annual accidents which re-
sult fatally, or in partial or total incapacity for work, Is
500,000. Reckoning the wage earning capacity of the aver-
age workman at | 500 a year (this makes no allowance for
the professional men, railroad presidents, industrialists and
ready for the ballot. Their day will, come, but it must not
other high-salaried officials who are injured or killed by the
htiiklintr trades and other occupations), we have a social and
THE EMPTY SLEEVE.
BY PHILA BUTLER BOWMAN.
And why does .my sleeve hang empty?
And eo you are asking to know
Of the cloud that bent down
With its blackening frown
On our Nation, BO little ago.
And why does my sleeve hand empty?
And why, when 1 fold you so tight
Have I only one arm
That shall shield you. from harm?
One. was laid on the altar of Right.
You know what
M
^ly Country" means,
Lad,
Your grandfather's country and yours.
You will know, as life thickens,
Why all your blood quickens
At sight of the flag that endures.
You will learn what it means to be free,
Lad,
And to honor those sacrificed ones
In a country whose sod
At the altar of God
Was pledged free, in the blood of her sons.
You have learned to be glad in the colors
And swell, with your gay little shout,
The song that dead stones
Would cry out, should our tones
Wake not, when the flag flutters out. ,
4
The time is so little ago, Lad,
And the valleys grew sweet with corn,
And the grape and the grain;
Forgot hardship and .pain
For joy in God's country, new-born.
But a spirit awoke in the air, Lad,
And shadowed the light of the bars,
And threatened to tear :
From their regal place there
On the blue of our bannerthe stars. .
The story grows old in the telling,
Of the voice that went ringing afar
That the brave, loyal hand
Of each son of the land
Be pledged,for the life of a star.
And something, deep down in the breast,
Lad,
Leaped up at the voice of that call,
And the tread of a host
Rose, as marched to their post
Those heroes, to conquer or fall.

And War rode his terrible charger
Through the valleys that love had made
fair. ! *
But God, in His might
Helped the hand raised for right
Crush the spirit that rose in the air.
The story is sad to tell, dear,
Butthe stars are still shining on high.
Tho' the myriad graves
Where the summer grass waves
Are voices to answer us why.
So I know wjhat "the Union" cost, Lad,,
And the flag that no spirit can grieve;
And when it shakes out '
And I hear your glad shout.
I thank God,for the empty sleeve.
with a penciled word to "Sond Gener-
al Warren at least a division to hold
the position at Little Round Top."
On the summit where the signal
officer was the musket balls, were be-
ginning to fly. He folded up his
flags and was going to leave; but at
this moment Warren came back, and
Induced him to keep the flags wav-
ing. "It may puzzle those people,"
he said, meaning the enemy, "and
may keep them back for a few min-
utes. " So the two men waited, watch-
ing the puffs of smoke that appeared
at different distances. A thick cloud
showed where the action was already
raging at the Peach Orchard; in hot
haste the battle was spreading all
along the field; cannonade and mus-
ketry crashed and rattled at right,
left and centre of the long battle
lines. A movement of the mass of
infantry which Warren had detected
on the wooded ridge was plainly visi-
ble. Suppose Meade had delayed in
sending him an army corps!
The moments of suspense came
suddenly to an end with the arrival
of Hazlett's battery of rifled cannon
of the Fifth Artillery.
The young lieutenant spoke. "Gen-
eral, what's the matter?"
The deuce is to pay!" was the re-

he held w at <[ great importance tl*
t h o b a t t l e Kr l i La l l i i i ^hl Ii i ^ali the-
destruction oi'. an enui e cuips. It
was almost certain that supports
wo u l d be Sei i l h i m BoOuel or l a ^ e L
l i e was resuived never to yield.
Yet half the regiment were gone;
hardly mure tLan skirmish line was
left him. The soldiers, having fired
the tixty rounds of cartridges they
had carried into the fight, were emp-
tying the cartridge boxes of their
fallen comrades. A few minutes
longer and not a man would be left
alive.
"Colonel, let us charge them! \fre
will drive them off the hi l l !" shouted
a lieutenant in a hoarse voice.
Last Hope of the Defenders.
Chamberlain glanced at him in ad-
miration.
This was the heroic spirit of hi s
men.
;
Yes, why not charge them? he
thought. Suddenly, unexpectedly
even. to himself, he gave the order:
"Fix bayonets!"
Th* command, "Charge!" was lost
in the deep, long drawn shout of t he
desperate men; they leaped forward
and rushed down the hill. Stri ki ng
the enemy among the scattered trees
on the outskirt of the wopd, they
I
ii
1
WHEN MCKINLEY SERVED COFFEE IN BATTLE.
By Carl Hovey.
The war council of Federal gener- point, only one s ol di er/ an officer of
Us the night before the second day's the signal corps. He no sooner
oattle of Gettysburg became necessar-, looked abput hi m that It became in-
t
Bronze Tablet to McKinley E rected at Washington,,, D. C.
Exploit of Late President, Who as Commissary Sergeant of Twen-
ty-third Ohio Volunteers Gave Steaming Drinks and Hardtack
to Soldiers, to Be Perpetuated in Bronze.
(ly a frantic pretension of scanning
the unknown. Outside, on the length-
ening ridges and between the abrupt
hillsides of that intricate battle field,
lay the encampments of the two hos-
tile armies, ominous and solemn.
There were few camp fires. At ti mes
jeould be heard the voice of a sentry,
{challenging, or the drawn out clatter
of f horseman on the stone pavement
of the cemetery.
The night passed, and daybreak
found the cautious General Mea^le
stijl listening to the reports of hisj di-
vision commanders, to their stories
of misfortune, and plans for strength-
ening the line of battle. The unpro-
tected North lay at his back; in his
front a general whose resourceful-
ness was unfathomable ahd who
ranked as a military genius. To pic-
ture in hi s mind's eye the battle
ground that was now obscured and
dim, and to fdresee wjiat would be
i he thing wanted there, at the given
point, at the given moment, on the
morrow, was the well nigh insuper-w
able task of the Northern general.
The unexpected was certai n/ to be*
fall both officers and men, and they
must be roady to perform miracles if
need be. An instance of this kind
was the fight of the Twentieth Maine
on Little Round Top, in memory of
which the colonel of the regiment,
Josfeua L. Chamberlain, for his great
tenacity and his daring heroism,' re-
ceived the Medal of Honor.
Little Round Top had escaped the
vigilance of the Federal commanders.
This was the smaller of two rough
hills, strewn with boulders and bare,
slippery rock, rising sharply from a
wooded swamp, behind . which
stretched, the- Confederate battle line.
At the foot of Little Round Top a
body of Union troops had been posted.
Only One Mun For Defense.
It was now afternoon. Lee's at-
tack was expected momentarily, and
every man was Waiting intently, with
stantly clear to him that the top of
this. hill, where there were no troops,,
and which had been abandoned for a
signal station, was in reality the key
to the whole position. His astonish-
ment gav^ place to consternation.
"With Ms glass ne noted a thickly
wooded ridge beyond 4he swamp;
there* he surmised, the ene'my was
already forming his lines, to burst
suddenly [upon the Union troops at
ply. "I hope you can hold out until
the infantry come up." '
Stayed Until He Was Killed.
"I guess I can," answered Lieuten-
ant Hazlett. As a matter of fact, ne
stayed these until he was killed. The
passage of those six guns through
roadless woods and up among the
jutting boulders of t he. height was
marvelous; nothing but the dash and
eagerness of the men to get into ac-
tion, together with their incredibly
skilful driving, could have planted
those cannon on the very summit of
Little Round Top. /
The infantry were not far behind.
Among the regiments closing in to
seize the hilltop were the Forty-sev-
enth and the Fifteenth Alabama of
t he Confederate side; and of the
Union* army, the Twentieth Maine,
commanded by Colonel Chamberlain,
which was an usually small regiment,
numbering only about three hundred
men. /This little force had no sooner
reached the portion of the hillside
assigned to them, where they stood
panting from their exertions, than
they saw a dense iriass of Confeder-
ates coming toward them; for the
two strong Confederate regiments,
containing a thousand men, had been
ordered to turn the Union flank at ex-
actly that position. Discerning in a
flash the grave peril of his command,
the Maine colonel quickly ordered five
| companies to swing back until they
t h r b a s e j where in the screening .formed a line at a right angle to the
^^^^w>:'w:i:s^^c:^'<?i^^^:^^:^^::ft::::
KrfWSt:-:-;:-^:>:-:-::K-:-:-'-v r >> ; ::>: : ::.*:
WM
yy*
^^k^m
closed in upon them with bayonets^
and the butts of their guns.
Of the Confederates some fought
until they were killed; more, how-
ever, acted as if thrown into a panic-
by the wild charge, and they ran for
their lives. Undoubtedly they sup-
posed that a strong re-enforcement
had reached the Unio|i line, and that
this had caused the sjidden attack.
The brave Maine
h
regiment cap-
tured three hundred prisoners, ani L
returned with them to the old posi-*.
tion, where they stayed unty in the
last hours of that terrible summer's-
afternoon the victorious little com-
mand was thrust into the -struggle
for the adjoining hilL, Round Top.
Concerning their leader in this ex-
ploit, it may be added that, besides
receiving the Medal of Honor at Get-
tysburg, he was afterward promoted
in the field by General Grant; and he*
so distinguished himself as a briga-
dier that he was brevetted ra major
general in 18 65, "for conspicuous gal-
lantry in action." After the war he-
led, and is still leading, a highly i m-
portant public Career in his native-
State of Maine. *
GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD (BIG AND LITTLE ROUND TOl" FROM
ERJMETSBURG ROAD.)
woods nothing i oul d be known of the , rest. _ At this instant the Al abami au,
movements of the enemy until the
Confederates were upon them. To
verify this strong suspicion, General
Warren made his way as rapidly as
possible to a battery at the foot of the
hill.
"Captain,
M
he said, "fire a shot into
those woods. "
The Captain of the rifle battery
did so, and as the shot, whistling,
passed qver the wood, it must have
caused everyone of the concealed
Rebels to look in the direction of the
sound; If or a simultaneous flash of
^1 K o v n n o t r p Vf t Rl e d
1 ~ 1 A i
attacked them on front and flank,
opening with a murderous fire.
Colonel Chamberlain with drawn
sword moved up and down his lines.
The Rebel bullets whizzed incessantly
past him; his men were constantly
groaning and falling on every side.
Outnumbered more than three to one,
their position was terrible, and it was
apparently a hopeless one. Yet with
dripping faces the men loaded and
fired their muskets, displaying tne
cool expertness of true veterans.
Smoke walled them in and to sonu
extent concealed from the enemy th.
Our Patriot Dead.
Bring ye sweet fiuwers to deck their lowly .
graved,
The noble ones who shed their life-bloo<i
free
And, tigiiUng, fell in freedom's cause,
that we
Should hold it sacred, while the old flag
wavet>!
Bring flowers, the fairest, sweetest, for our
braves
Roses ana lilies. 'Twas for you and me
They died. Cover ea$h mound that they
may see
The living love that still a strong heart
craves.
O sainted dead! O ihusband, brother,.
friend. .
Known or unknown* we hold thy mem-
or> green
And scatter o'er thy resting place^ th
robe.
Th-' hij . J.an.\v, violei to blend
Then peiiunxe wi'm the tears that, oft
unseen,
Ledrw tlit.- ground 'neata which oui
lovt-"i re'i'^f.
Anna \x. S. liv..siiei, in Christian Reg-
is; ci.
/ \
S\
Copyright Tom Tryniski 2005 www.fultonhistory.com
\ .
^ Vacations J& Sj
i Ey Elbert Hubbard f
HERE are three good redone why all employes should have
vacations. .,
One is so that the employer can see how easily any-
body's and everybody's i^lace can be filled; the n e x t t e j o
that when the employe returns he can see how well he can
be spared, since things go right along without him the
third is so the employe can show the employer and the
employer can understand that the employe is not manipu-
lating the accounts or engineering deals for his own benefit
Many a defalcation could have been avoided had the trusted man been
sent away two weeks each year, and an outsider put in his place. '
Beyond these, the vacation has little etcuse. As a matter of 4 ^ 3 *
the vacation does not recuperate, since, as a rule, no man needs a vacation so
much as the man who has just had one. The man who is so runJ^wn that
he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks, . wnat
he really needs is to retransform his life. .
i a l
,
f v
To work during the year at so rapid a pace that in August one s vitality
te exhausted, and a rest is demanded, .is. rank folly. What we a 1 need is
fenough vacation each day so that we can face each new morning with neaim
iufflcient to do our work in gladness. Ti at is to say, we need enough of a
play spell every day to Jteep us in good physical condition. -
The man who is done up and fagged out has not found his worK. Ana
Ihe man who lives during the year in anticipation of a vacation does not ^ de-
serve one, for he has not ascertained that it is work, and not vacations, that
makes life endurable. ,.
The only man who can really enjoy an outing is the man who aoesn t
oeed it. And the man who keeps his system so strong and well balanced that
he doesn't need a vacation is the one who eventually will marry the propri-
etor's daughter and have his name on the sign. Before you manage a busi-
ness, you better learn how to manage ydur cosmos. However, this does not
mean that I never take a vacation myselij-I do, otherwise how would I know
\he facts?New York American.
A Dinner to an Ele>
phant
By Lilian Bell
-i N what proved to be the coldest night of the year, a man,
^ ^ said to represent a brand of wine he is anxious to export, en-
# J i. gaged the largest stage in the world from midnight until the
^ ^ next noon and gave an entertainment in honor of an ele-
=*s phant to which were bidden the men and vjjomen whose
V JT^ lights shine mostly on the Great White Way.
^F"^L These people were requested to come dressed as ,
1 I "rubes," in the hope of making themselves as ridiculous as
possible. But that was unnecessary, as the report of their
Antics while? the wine, represented by their host, flowed with increasing free-
dom, did for them what no amount of caricature in dress could accomplish.
Out in the cold of this same freezing night there is a bread line. Station-
ed at various places in this city are municipal free lodging houses. To these
flocked the army of ttie hungry and homeless, seeking for food and shelter
from the bitter cold.
Of course, nobody blames a wine agent for advertising in any preposterous
way he can. Npr does one blame his guests, who can find no excitement so
suited to their taste as the sort given at an elephant dinnerwhere no dinner
wasfor going and giving themselves up an abandonment of vinous enjoy-
ment.
New York is a city of contrasts, and, in spite of the piteous tales of suf-
fering printed every day in the newspapers, the idle and the thoughtless con-
tinue to give parties, full of spirited and spirituous entertainment, where hun-
dreds, if not thousands, of dollars are spent for no good purpose and to no
worthy end.
l
Do you wonder that some shivering wretch with empty pockets and an
empty stomach, who hears of this waste and wanton extravagance, sometimes
loses his faith in God and man? '
Nobody objects to even expensive entertainments, which really entertain,
but to waste money and advertise that I waste when babies are dying of cold
and hunger on the coldest night of the year and men and women are driven
to desperate measures to find warmth and food, is little short of a crime.
New York American.
Self'help for Country
Women
By Maud Howe .
HAT "else besides assurance has the city woman that ithe
W
ii country woman lacks? I
II She has polish. Her manners are kept smooth by the
" continual friction witfi all sorts and conditions of men and
women. More polish,, more assurance, greater ease of man-
ner; the average city woman has more of all these than
the average country woman. She is usually quicker-
tongued, but not necessarily quicker-witted. Her speech
comes more readily than her sister's from the country, but
for all that it may not be better worth hearing.
What are the influences in city life that make for this finer polish, this
greater refinement, this urbanity? What are the refining- influneces in the
of Rustica's sister who lives in the city? ^
She learns something every day by watching her neighbors and the peo
pie in the streets. She has gone to the great school of the city. She can he^r
the best preachers, the famous lecturers, the formost actors und musicians.
They all come to the city to teach her jwhat they Jiave learned of religion, sci-
ence, music, art. The pulpit, the theatre, the art exhibition, ther
7
concert-
roomthese are the class-rooms of the city school of life. Cities civilize, pol-
ish, educate largely from the outside. I The dwellers in citiee improve by imi-
tation; they learn from one another.-^Harper's Bazar.
!
r a l l wa VB mi npf c
How Germany Saves
* By William H. Tolman
EGARDING the accidents in the United States/ i t is the opin-
ion of the engineering profession that one-half of them are
preventable. If so, the*next question is, how? A conserva-
tive estimate of the number of annual accidents which re-
sult fatally, or in partial or total incapacity for work, Is
500,000. Reckoning the wage earning capacity of the aver-
age workman at | 500 a year (this makes no allowance for
the professional men, railroad presidents, industrialists and
ready for the ballot. Their day will, come, but it must not
other high-salaried officials who are injured or killed by the
htiiklintr trades and other occupations), we have a social and
THE EMPTY SLEEVE.
BY PHILA BUTLER BOWMAN.
And why does .my sleeve hang empty?
And eo you are asking to know
Of the cloud that bent down
With its blackening frown
On our Nation, BO little ago.
And why does my sleeve hand empty?
And why, when 1 fold you so tight
Have I only one arm
That shall shield you. from harm?
One. was laid on the altar of Right.
You know what
M
^ly Country" means,
Lad,
Your grandfather's country and yours.
You will know, as life thickens,
Why all your blood quickens
At sight of the flag that endures.
You will learn what it means to be free,
Lad,
And to honor those sacrificed ones
In a country whose sod
At the altar of God
Was pledged free, in the blood of her sons.
You have learned to be glad in the colors
And swell, with your gay little shout,
The song that dead stones
Would cry out, should our tones
Wake not, when the flag flutters out. ,
4
The time is so little ago, Lad,
And the valleys grew sweet with corn,
And the grape and the grain;
Forgot hardship and .pain
For joy in God's country, new-born.
But a spirit awoke in the air, Lad,
And shadowed the light of the bars,
And threatened to tear :
From their regal place there
On the blue of our bannerthe stars. .
The story grows old in the telling,
Of the voice that went ringing afar
That the brave, loyal hand
Of each son of the land
Be pledged,for the life of a star.
And something, deep down in the breast,
Lad,
Leaped up at the voice of that call,
And the tread of a host
Rose, as marched to their post
Those heroes, to conquer or fall.

And War rode his terrible charger
Through the valleys that love had made
fair. ! *
But God, in His might
Helped the hand raised for right
Crush the spirit that rose in the air.
The story is sad to tell, dear,
Butthe stars are still shining on high.
Tho' the myriad graves
Where the summer grass waves
Are voices to answer us why.
So I know wjhat "the Union" cost, Lad,,
And the flag that no spirit can grieve;
And when it shakes out '
And I hear your glad shout.
I thank God,for the empty sleeve.
with a penciled word to "Sond Gener-
al Warren at least a division to hold
the position at Little Round Top."
On the summit where the signal
officer was the musket balls, were be-
ginning to fly. He folded up his
flags and was going to leave; but at
this moment Warren came back, and
Induced him to keep the flags wav-
ing. "It may puzzle those people,"
he said, meaning the enemy, "and
may keep them back for a few min-
utes. " So the two men waited, watch-
ing the puffs of smoke that appeared
at different distances. A thick cloud
showed where the action was already
raging at the Peach Orchard; in hot
haste the battle was spreading all
along the field; cannonade and mus-
ketry crashed and rattled at right,
left and centre of the long battle
lines. A movement of the mass of
infantry which Warren had detected
on the wooded ridge was plainly visi-
ble. Suppose Meade had delayed in
sending him an army corps!
The moments of suspense came
suddenly to an end with the arrival
of Hazlett's battery of rifled cannon
of the Fifth Artillery.
The young lieutenant spoke. "Gen-
eral, what's the matter?"
The deuce is to pay!" was the re-

he held w at <[ great importance tl*
t h o b a t t l e Kr l i La l l i i i ^hl Ii i ^ali the-
destruction oi'. an enui e cuips. It
was almost certain that supports
wo u l d be Sei i l h i m BoOuel or l a ^ e L
l i e was resuived never to yield.
Yet half the regiment were gone;
hardly mure tLan skirmish line was
left him. The soldiers, having fired
the tixty rounds of cartridges they
had carried into the fight, were emp-
tying the cartridge boxes of their
fallen comrades. A few minutes
longer and not a man would be left
alive.
"Colonel, let us charge them! \fre
will drive them off the hi l l !" shouted
a lieutenant in a hoarse voice.
Last Hope of the Defenders.
Chamberlain glanced at him in ad-
miration.
This was the heroic spirit of hi s
men.
;
Yes, why not charge them? he
thought. Suddenly, unexpectedly
even. to himself, he gave the order:
"Fix bayonets!"
Th* command, "Charge!" was lost
in the deep, long drawn shout of t he
desperate men; they leaped forward
and rushed down the hill. Stri ki ng
the enemy among the scattered trees
on the outskirt of the wopd, they
I
ii
1
WHEN MCKINLEY SERVED COFFEE IN BATTLE.
By Carl Hovey.
The war council of Federal gener- point, only one s ol di er/ an officer of
Us the night before the second day's the signal corps. He no sooner
oattle of Gettysburg became necessar-, looked abput hi m that It became in-
t
Bronze Tablet to McKinley E rected at Washington,,, D. C.
Exploit of Late President, Who as Commissary Sergeant of Twen-
ty-third Ohio Volunteers Gave Steaming Drinks and Hardtack
to Soldiers, to Be Perpetuated in Bronze.
(ly a frantic pretension of scanning
the unknown. Outside, on the length-
ening ridges and between the abrupt
hillsides of that intricate battle field,
lay the encampments of the two hos-
tile armies, ominous and solemn.
There were few camp fires. At ti mes
jeould be heard the voice of a sentry,
{challenging, or the drawn out clatter
of f horseman on the stone pavement
of the cemetery.
The night passed, and daybreak
found the cautious General Mea^le
stijl listening to the reports of hisj di-
vision commanders, to their stories
of misfortune, and plans for strength-
ening the line of battle. The unpro-
tected North lay at his back; in his
front a general whose resourceful-
ness was unfathomable ahd who
ranked as a military genius. To pic-
ture in hi s mind's eye the battle
ground that was now obscured and
dim, and to fdresee wjiat would be
i he thing wanted there, at the given
point, at the given moment, on the
morrow, was the well nigh insuper-w
able task of the Northern general.
The unexpected was certai n/ to be*
fall both officers and men, and they
must be roady to perform miracles if
need be. An instance of this kind
was the fight of the Twentieth Maine
on Little Round Top, in memory of
which the colonel of the regiment,
Josfeua L. Chamberlain, for his great
tenacity and his daring heroism,' re-
ceived the Medal of Honor.
Little Round Top had escaped the
vigilance of the Federal commanders.
This was the smaller of two rough
hills, strewn with boulders and bare,
slippery rock, rising sharply from a
wooded swamp, behind . which
stretched, the- Confederate battle line.
At the foot of Little Round Top a
body of Union troops had been posted.
Only One Mun For Defense.
It was now afternoon. Lee's at-
tack was expected momentarily, and
every man was Waiting intently, with
stantly clear to him that the top of
this. hill, where there were no troops,,
and which had been abandoned for a
signal station, was in reality the key
to the whole position. His astonish-
ment gav^ place to consternation.
"With Ms glass ne noted a thickly
wooded ridge beyond 4he swamp;
there* he surmised, the ene'my was
already forming his lines, to burst
suddenly [upon the Union troops at
ply. "I hope you can hold out until
the infantry come up." '
Stayed Until He Was Killed.
"I guess I can," answered Lieuten-
ant Hazlett. As a matter of fact, ne
stayed these until he was killed. The
passage of those six guns through
roadless woods and up among the
jutting boulders of t he. height was
marvelous; nothing but the dash and
eagerness of the men to get into ac-
tion, together with their incredibly
skilful driving, could have planted
those cannon on the very summit of
Little Round Top. /
The infantry were not far behind.
Among the regiments closing in to
seize the hilltop were the Forty-sev-
enth and the Fifteenth Alabama of
t he Confederate side; and of the
Union* army, the Twentieth Maine,
commanded by Colonel Chamberlain,
which was an usually small regiment,
numbering only about three hundred
men. /This little force had no sooner
reached the portion of the hillside
assigned to them, where they stood
panting from their exertions, than
they saw a dense iriass of Confeder-
ates coming toward them; for the
two strong Confederate regiments,
containing a thousand men, had been
ordered to turn the Union flank at ex-
actly that position. Discerning in a
flash the grave peril of his command,
the Maine colonel quickly ordered five
| companies to swing back until they
t h r b a s e j where in the screening .formed a line at a right angle to the
^^^^w>:'w:i:s^^c:^'<?i^^^:^^:^^::ft::::
KrfWSt:-:-;:-^:>:-:-::K-:-:-'-v r >> ; ::>: : ::.*:
WM
yy*
^^k^m
closed in upon them with bayonets^
and the butts of their guns.
Of the Confederates some fought
until they were killed; more, how-
ever, acted as if thrown into a panic-
by the wild charge, and they ran for
their lives. Undoubtedly they sup-
posed that a strong re-enforcement
had reached the Unio|i line, and that
this had caused the sjidden attack.
The brave Maine
h
regiment cap-
tured three hundred prisoners, ani L
returned with them to the old posi-*.
tion, where they stayed unty in the
last hours of that terrible summer's-
afternoon the victorious little com-
mand was thrust into the -struggle
for the adjoining hilL, Round Top.
Concerning their leader in this ex-
ploit, it may be added that, besides
receiving the Medal of Honor at Get-
tysburg, he was afterward promoted
in the field by General Grant; and he*
so distinguished himself as a briga-
dier that he was brevetted ra major
general in 18 65, "for conspicuous gal-
lantry in action." After the war he-
led, and is still leading, a highly i m-
portant public Career in his native-
State of Maine. *
GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD (BIG AND LITTLE ROUND TOl" FROM
ERJMETSBURG ROAD.)
woods nothing i oul d be known of the , rest. _ At this instant the Al abami au,
movements of the enemy until the
Confederates were upon them. To
verify this strong suspicion, General
Warren made his way as rapidly as
possible to a battery at the foot of the
hill.
"Captain,
M
he said, "fire a shot into
those woods. "
The Captain of the rifle battery
did so, and as the shot, whistling,
passed qver the wood, it must have
caused everyone of the concealed
Rebels to look in the direction of the
sound; If or a simultaneous flash of
^1 K o v n n o t r p Vf t Rl e d
1 ~ 1 A i
attacked them on front and flank,
opening with a murderous fire.
Colonel Chamberlain with drawn
sword moved up and down his lines.
The Rebel bullets whizzed incessantly
past him; his men were constantly
groaning and falling on every side.
Outnumbered more than three to one,
their position was terrible, and it was
apparently a hopeless one. Yet with
dripping faces the men loaded and
fired their muskets, displaying tne
cool expertness of true veterans.
Smoke walled them in and to sonu
extent concealed from the enemy th.
Our Patriot Dead.
Bring ye sweet fiuwers to deck their lowly .
graved,
The noble ones who shed their life-bloo<i
free
And, tigiiUng, fell in freedom's cause,
that we
Should hold it sacred, while the old flag
wavet>!
Bring flowers, the fairest, sweetest, for our
braves
Roses ana lilies. 'Twas for you and me
They died. Cover ea$h mound that they
may see
The living love that still a strong heart
craves.
O sainted dead! O ihusband, brother,.
friend. .
Known or unknown* we hold thy mem-
or> green
And scatter o'er thy resting place^ th
robe.
Th-' hij . J.an.\v, violei to blend
Then peiiunxe wi'm the tears that, oft
unseen,
Ledrw tlit.- ground 'neata which oui
lovt-"i re'i'^f.
Anna \x. S. liv..siiei, in Christian Reg-
is; ci.
/ \
S\
Copyright Tom Tryniski 2005 www.fultonhistory.com
\ .
^ Vacations J& Sj
i Ey Elbert Hubbard f
HERE are three good redone why all employes should have
vacations. .,
One is so that the employer can see how easily any-
body's and everybody's i^lace can be filled; the n e x t t e j o
that when the employe returns he can see how well he can
be spared, since things go right along without him the
third is so the employe can show the employer and the
employer can understand that the employe is not manipu-
lating the accounts or engineering deals for his own benefit
Many a defalcation could have been avoided had the trusted man been
sent away two weeks each year, and an outsider put in his place. '
Beyond these, the vacation has little etcuse. As a matter of 4 ^ 3 *
the vacation does not recuperate, since, as a rule, no man needs a vacation so
much as the man who has just had one. The man who is so runJ^wn that
he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks, . wnat
he really needs is to retransform his life. .
i a l
,
f v
To work during the year at so rapid a pace that in August one s vitality
te exhausted, and a rest is demanded, .is. rank folly. What we a 1 need is
fenough vacation each day so that we can face each new morning with neaim
iufflcient to do our work in gladness. Ti at is to say, we need enough of a
play spell every day to Jteep us in good physical condition. -
The man who is done up and fagged out has not found his worK. Ana
Ihe man who lives during the year in anticipation of a vacation does not ^ de-
serve one, for he has not ascertained that it is work, and not vacations, that
makes life endurable. ,.
The only man who can really enjoy an outing is the man who aoesn t
oeed it. And the man who keeps his system so strong and well balanced that
he doesn't need a vacation is the one who eventually will marry the propri-
etor's daughter and have his name on the sign. Before you manage a busi-
ness, you better learn how to manage ydur cosmos. However, this does not
mean that I never take a vacation myselij-I do, otherwise how would I know
\he facts?New York American.
A Dinner to an Ele>
phant
By Lilian Bell
-i N what proved to be the coldest night of the year, a man,
^ ^ said to represent a brand of wine he is anxious to export, en-
# J i. gaged the largest stage in the world from midnight until the
^ ^ next noon and gave an entertainment in honor of an ele-
=*s phant to which were bidden the men and vjjomen whose
V JT^ lights shine mostly on the Great White Way.
^F"^L These people were requested to come dressed as ,
1 I "rubes," in the hope of making themselves as ridiculous as
possible. But that was unnecessary, as the report of their
Antics while? the wine, represented by their host, flowed with increasing free-
dom, did for them what no amount of caricature in dress could accomplish.
Out in the cold of this same freezing night there is a bread line. Station-
ed at various places in this city are municipal free lodging houses. To these
flocked the army of ttie hungry and homeless, seeking for food and shelter
from the bitter cold.
Of course, nobody blames a wine agent for advertising in any preposterous
way he can. Npr does one blame his guests, who can find no excitement so
suited to their taste as the sort given at an elephant dinnerwhere no dinner
wasfor going and giving themselves up an abandonment of vinous enjoy-
ment.
New York is a city of contrasts, and, in spite of the piteous tales of suf-
fering printed every day in the newspapers, the idle and the thoughtless con-
tinue to give parties, full of spirited and spirituous entertainment, where hun-
dreds, if not thousands, of dollars are spent for no good purpose and to no
worthy end.
l
Do you wonder that some shivering wretch with empty pockets and an
empty stomach, who hears of this waste and wanton extravagance, sometimes
loses his faith in God and man? '
Nobody objects to even expensive entertainments, which really entertain,
but to waste money and advertise that I waste when babies are dying of cold
and hunger on the coldest night of the year and men and women are driven
to desperate measures to find warmth and food, is little short of a crime.
New York American.
Self'help for Country
Women
By Maud Howe .
HAT "else besides assurance has the city woman that ithe
W
ii country woman lacks? I
II She has polish. Her manners are kept smooth by the
" continual friction witfi all sorts and conditions of men and
women. More polish,, more assurance, greater ease of man-
ner; the average city woman has more of all these than
the average country woman. She is usually quicker-
tongued, but not necessarily quicker-witted. Her speech
comes more readily than her sister's from the country, but
for all that it may not be better worth hearing.
What are the influences in city life that make for this finer polish, this
greater refinement, this urbanity? What are the refining- influneces in the
of Rustica's sister who lives in the city? ^
She learns something every day by watching her neighbors and the peo
pie in the streets. She has gone to the great school of the city. She can he^r
the best preachers, the famous lecturers, the formost actors und musicians.
They all come to the city to teach her jwhat they Jiave learned of religion, sci-
ence, music, art. The pulpit, the theatre, the art exhibition, ther
7
concert-
roomthese are the class-rooms of the city school of life. Cities civilize, pol-
ish, educate largely from the outside. I The dwellers in citiee improve by imi-
tation; they learn from one another.-^Harper's Bazar.
!
r a l l wa VB mi npf c
How Germany Saves
* By William H. Tolman
EGARDING the accidents in the United States/ i t is the opin-
ion of the engineering profession that one-half of them are
preventable. If so, the*next question is, how? A conserva-
tive estimate of the number of annual accidents which re-
sult fatally, or in partial or total incapacity for work, Is
500,000. Reckoning the wage earning capacity of the aver-
age workman at | 500 a year (this makes no allowance for
the professional men, railroad presidents, industrialists and
ready for the ballot. Their day will, come, but it must not
other high-salaried officials who are injured or killed by the
htiiklintr trades and other occupations), we have a social and
THE EMPTY SLEEVE.
BY PHILA BUTLER BOWMAN.
And why does .my sleeve hang empty?
And eo you are asking to know
Of the cloud that bent down
With its blackening frown
On our Nation, BO little ago.
And why does my sleeve hand empty?
And why, when 1 fold you so tight
Have I only one arm
That shall shield you. from harm?
One. was laid on the altar of Right.
You know what
M
^ly Country" means,
Lad,
Your grandfather's country and yours.
You will know, as life thickens,
Why all your blood quickens
At sight of the flag that endures.
You will learn what it means to be free,
Lad,
And to honor those sacrificed ones
In a country whose sod
At the altar of God
Was pledged free, in the blood of her sons.
You have learned to be glad in the colors
And swell, with your gay little shout,
The song that dead stones
Would cry out, should our tones
Wake not, when the flag flutters out. ,
4
The time is so little ago, Lad,
And the valleys grew sweet with corn,
And the grape and the grain;
Forgot hardship and .pain
For joy in God's country, new-born.
But a spirit awoke in the air, Lad,
And shadowed the light of the bars,
And threatened to tear :
From their regal place there
On the blue of our bannerthe stars. .
The story grows old in the telling,
Of the voice that went ringing afar
That the brave, loyal hand
Of each son of the land
Be pledged,for the life of a star.
And something, deep down in the breast,
Lad,
Leaped up at the voice of that call,
And the tread of a host
Rose, as marched to their post
Those heroes, to conquer or fall.

And War rode his terrible charger
Through the valleys that love had made
fair. ! *
But God, in His might
Helped the hand raised for right
Crush the spirit that rose in the air.
The story is sad to tell, dear,
Butthe stars are still shining on high.
Tho' the myriad graves
Where the summer grass waves
Are voices to answer us why.
So I know wjhat "the Union" cost, Lad,,
And the flag that no spirit can grieve;
And when it shakes out '
And I hear your glad shout.
I thank God,for the empty sleeve.
with a penciled word to "Sond Gener-
al Warren at least a division to hold
the position at Little Round Top."
On the summit where the signal
officer was the musket balls, were be-
ginning to fly. He folded up his
flags and was going to leave; but at
this moment Warren came back, and
Induced him to keep the flags wav-
ing. "It may puzzle those people,"
he said, meaning the enemy, "and
may keep them back for a few min-
utes. " So the two men waited, watch-
ing the puffs of smoke that appeared
at different distances. A thick cloud
showed where the action was already
raging at the Peach Orchard; in hot
haste the battle was spreading all
along the field; cannonade and mus-
ketry crashed and rattled at right,
left and centre of the long battle
lines. A movement of the mass of
infantry which Warren had detected
on the wooded ridge was plainly visi-
ble. Suppose Meade had delayed in
sending him an army corps!
The moments of suspense came
suddenly to an end with the arrival
of Hazlett's battery of rifled cannon
of the Fifth Artillery.
The young lieutenant spoke. "Gen-
eral, what's the matter?"
The deuce is to pay!" was the re-

he held w at <[ great importance tl*
t h o b a t t l e Kr l i La l l i i i ^hl Ii i ^ali the-
destruction oi'. an enui e cuips. It
was almost certain that supports
wo u l d be Sei i l h i m BoOuel or l a ^ e L
l i e was resuived never to yield.
Yet half the regiment were gone;
hardly mure tLan skirmish line was
left him. The soldiers, having fired
the tixty rounds of cartridges they
had carried into the fight, were emp-
tying the cartridge boxes of their
fallen comrades. A few minutes
longer and not a man would be left
alive.
"Colonel, let us charge them! \fre
will drive them off the hi l l !" shouted
a lieutenant in a hoarse voice.
Last Hope of the Defenders.
Chamberlain glanced at him in ad-
miration.
This was the heroic spirit of hi s
men.
;
Yes, why not charge them? he
thought. Suddenly, unexpectedly
even. to himself, he gave the order:
"Fix bayonets!"
Th* command, "Charge!" was lost
in the deep, long drawn shout of t he
desperate men; they leaped forward
and rushed down the hill. Stri ki ng
the enemy among the scattered trees
on the outskirt of the wopd, they
I
ii
1
WHEN MCKINLEY SERVED COFFEE IN BATTLE.
By Carl Hovey.
The war council of Federal gener- point, only one s ol di er/ an officer of
Us the night before the second day's the signal corps. He no sooner
oattle of Gettysburg became necessar-, looked abput hi m that It became in-
t
Bronze Tablet to McKinley E rected at Washington,,, D. C.
Exploit of Late President, Who as Commissary Sergeant of Twen-
ty-third Ohio Volunteers Gave Steaming Drinks and Hardtack
to Soldiers, to Be Perpetuated in Bronze.
(ly a frantic pretension of scanning
the unknown. Outside, on the length-
ening ridges and between the abrupt
hillsides of that intricate battle field,
lay the encampments of the two hos-
tile armies, ominous and solemn.
There were few camp fires. At ti mes
jeould be heard the voice of a sentry,
{challenging, or the drawn out clatter
of f horseman on the stone pavement
of the cemetery.
The night passed, and daybreak
found the cautious General Mea^le
stijl listening to the reports of hisj di-
vision commanders, to their stories
of misfortune, and plans for strength-
ening the line of battle. The unpro-
tected North lay at his back; in his
front a general whose resourceful-
ness was unfathomable ahd who
ranked as a military genius. To pic-
ture in hi s mind's eye the battle
ground that was now obscured and
dim, and to fdresee wjiat would be
i he thing wanted there, at the given
point, at the given moment, on the
morrow, was the well nigh insuper-w
able task of the Northern general.
The unexpected was certai n/ to be*
fall both officers and men, and they
must be roady to perform miracles if
need be. An instance of this kind
was the fight of the Twentieth Maine
on Little Round Top, in memory of
which the colonel of the regiment,
Josfeua L. Chamberlain, for his great
tenacity and his daring heroism,' re-
ceived the Medal of Honor.
Little Round Top had escaped the
vigilance of the Federal commanders.
This was the smaller of two rough
hills, strewn with boulders and bare,
slippery rock, rising sharply from a
wooded swamp, behind . which
stretched, the- Confederate battle line.
At the foot of Little Round Top a
body of Union troops had been posted.
Only One Mun For Defense.
It was now afternoon. Lee's at-
tack was expected momentarily, and
every man was Waiting intently, with
stantly clear to him that the top of
this. hill, where there were no troops,,
and which had been abandoned for a
signal station, was in reality the key
to the whole position. His astonish-
ment gav^ place to consternation.
"With Ms glass ne noted a thickly
wooded ridge beyond 4he swamp;
there* he surmised, the ene'my was
already forming his lines, to burst
suddenly [upon the Union troops at
ply. "I hope you can hold out until
the infantry come up." '
Stayed Until He Was Killed.
"I guess I can," answered Lieuten-
ant Hazlett. As a matter of fact, ne
stayed these until he was killed. The
passage of those six guns through
roadless woods and up among the
jutting boulders of t he. height was
marvelous; nothing but the dash and
eagerness of the men to get into ac-
tion, together with their incredibly
skilful driving, could have planted
those cannon on the very summit of
Little Round Top. /
The infantry were not far behind.
Among the regiments closing in to
seize the hilltop were the Forty-sev-
enth and the Fifteenth Alabama of
t he Confederate side; and of the
Union* army, the Twentieth Maine,
commanded by Colonel Chamberlain,
which was an usually small regiment,
numbering only about three hundred
men. /This little force had no sooner
reached the portion of the hillside
assigned to them, where they stood
panting from their exertions, than
they saw a dense iriass of Confeder-
ates coming toward them; for the
two strong Confederate regiments,
containing a thousand men, had been
ordered to turn the Union flank at ex-
actly that position. Discerning in a
flash the grave peril of his command,
the Maine colonel quickly ordered five
| companies to swing back until they
t h r b a s e j where in the screening .formed a line at a right angle to the
^^^^w>:'w:i:s^^c:^'<?i^^^:^^:^^::ft::::
KrfWSt:-:-;:-^:>:-:-::K-:-:-'-v r >> ; ::>: : ::.*:
WM
yy*
^^k^m
closed in upon them with bayonets^
and the butts of their guns.
Of the Confederates some fought
until they were killed; more, how-
ever, acted as if thrown into a panic-
by the wild charge, and they ran for
their lives. Undoubtedly they sup-
posed that a strong re-enforcement
had reached the Unio|i line, and that
this had caused the sjidden attack.
The brave Maine
h
regiment cap-
tured three hundred prisoners, ani L
returned with them to the old posi-*.
tion, where they stayed unty in the
last hours of that terrible summer's-
afternoon the victorious little com-
mand was thrust into the -struggle
for the adjoining hilL, Round Top.
Concerning their leader in this ex-
ploit, it may be added that, besides
receiving the Medal of Honor at Get-
tysburg, he was afterward promoted
in the field by General Grant; and he*
so distinguished himself as a briga-
dier that he was brevetted ra major
general in 18 65, "for conspicuous gal-
lantry in action." After the war he-
led, and is still leading, a highly i m-
portant public Career in his native-
State of Maine. *
GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD (BIG AND LITTLE ROUND TOl" FROM
ERJMETSBURG ROAD.)
woods nothing i oul d be known of the , rest. _ At this instant the Al abami au,
movements of the enemy until the
Confederates were upon them. To
verify this strong suspicion, General
Warren made his way as rapidly as
possible to a battery at the foot of the
hill.
"Captain,
M
he said, "fire a shot into
those woods. "
The Captain of the rifle battery
did so, and as the shot, whistling,
passed qver the wood, it must have
caused everyone of the concealed
Rebels to look in the direction of the
sound; If or a simultaneous flash of
^1 K o v n n o t r p Vf t Rl e d
1 ~ 1 A i
attacked them on front and flank,
opening with a murderous fire.
Colonel Chamberlain with drawn
sword moved up and down his lines.
The Rebel bullets whizzed incessantly
past him; his men were constantly
groaning and falling on every side.
Outnumbered more than three to one,
their position was terrible, and it was
apparently a hopeless one. Yet with
dripping faces the men loaded and
fired their muskets, displaying tne
cool expertness of true veterans.
Smoke walled them in and to sonu
extent concealed from the enemy th.
Our Patriot Dead.
Bring ye sweet fiuwers to deck their lowly .
graved,
The noble ones who shed their life-bloo<i
free
And, tigiiUng, fell in freedom's cause,
that we
Should hold it sacred, while the old flag
wavet>!
Bring flowers, the fairest, sweetest, for our
braves
Roses ana lilies. 'Twas for you and me
They died. Cover ea$h mound that they
may see
The living love that still a strong heart
craves.
O sainted dead! O ihusband, brother,.
friend. .
Known or unknown* we hold thy mem-
or> green
And scatter o'er thy resting place^ th
robe.
Th-' hij . J.an.\v, violei to blend
Then peiiunxe wi'm the tears that, oft
unseen,
Ledrw tlit.- ground 'neata which oui
lovt-"i re'i'^f.
Anna \x. S. liv..siiei, in Christian Reg-
is; ci.
/ \
S\
!!!"#$%&'()(!*+,-+-&(./+*)(0,"-$.




Copyright Tom Tryniski 2005 www.fultonhistory.com
\ .
^ Vacations J& Sj
i Ey Elbert Hubbard f
HERE are three good redone why all employes should have
vacations. .,
One is so that the employer can see how easily any-
body's and everybody's i^lace can be filled; the n e x t t e j o
that when the employe returns he can see how well he can
be spared, since things go right along without him the
third is so the employe can show the employer and the
employer can understand that the employe is not manipu-
lating the accounts or engineering deals for his own benefit
Many a defalcation could have been avoided had the trusted man been
sent away two weeks each year, and an outsider put in his place. '
Beyond these, the vacation has little etcuse. As a matter of 4 ^ 3 *
the vacation does not recuperate, since, as a rule, no man needs a vacation so
much as the man who has just had one. The man who is so runJ^wn that
he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks, . wnat
he really needs is to retransform his life. .
i a l
,
f v
To work during the year at so rapid a pace that in August one s vitality
te exhausted, and a rest is demanded, .is. rank folly. What we a 1 need is
fenough vacation each day so that we can face each new morning with neaim
iufflcient to do our work in gladness. Ti at is to say, we need enough of a
play spell every day to Jteep us in good physical condition. -
The man who is done up and fagged out has not found his worK. Ana
Ihe man who lives during the year in anticipation of a vacation does not ^ de-
serve one, for he has not ascertained that it is work, and not vacations, that
makes life endurable. ,.
The only man who can really enjoy an outing is the man who aoesn t
oeed it. And the man who keeps his system so strong and well balanced that
he doesn't need a vacation is the one who eventually will marry the propri-
etor's daughter and have his name on the sign. Before you manage a busi-
ness, you better learn how to manage ydur cosmos. However, this does not
mean that I never take a vacation myselij-I do, otherwise how would I know
\he facts?New York American.
A Dinner to an Ele>
phant
By Lilian Bell
-i N what proved to be the coldest night of the year, a man,
^ ^ said to represent a brand of wine he is anxious to export, en-
# J i. gaged the largest stage in the world from midnight until the
^ ^ next noon and gave an entertainment in honor of an ele-
=*s phant to which were bidden the men and vjjomen whose
V JT^ lights shine mostly on the Great White Way.
^F"^L These people were requested to come dressed as ,
1 I "rubes," in the hope of making themselves as ridiculous as
possible. But that was unnecessary, as the report of their
Antics while? the wine, represented by their host, flowed with increasing free-
dom, did for them what no amount of caricature in dress could accomplish.
Out in the cold of this same freezing night there is a bread line. Station-
ed at various places in this city are municipal free lodging houses. To these
flocked the army of ttie hungry and homeless, seeking for food and shelter
from the bitter cold.
Of course, nobody blames a wine agent for advertising in any preposterous
way he can. Npr does one blame his guests, who can find no excitement so
suited to their taste as the sort given at an elephant dinnerwhere no dinner
wasfor going and giving themselves up an abandonment of vinous enjoy-
ment.
New York is a city of contrasts, and, in spite of the piteous tales of suf-
fering printed every day in the newspapers, the idle and the thoughtless con-
tinue to give parties, full of spirited and spirituous entertainment, where hun-
dreds, if not thousands, of dollars are spent for no good purpose and to no
worthy end.
l
Do you wonder that some shivering wretch with empty pockets and an
empty stomach, who hears of this waste and wanton extravagance, sometimes
loses his faith in God and man? '
Nobody objects to even expensive entertainments, which really entertain,
but to waste money and advertise that I waste when babies are dying of cold
and hunger on the coldest night of the year and men and women are driven
to desperate measures to find warmth and food, is little short of a crime.
New York American.
Self'help for Country
Women
By Maud Howe .
HAT "else besides assurance has the city woman that ithe
W
ii country woman lacks? I
II She has polish. Her manners are kept smooth by the
" continual friction witfi all sorts and conditions of men and
women. More polish,, more assurance, greater ease of man-
ner; the average city woman has more of all these than
the average country woman. She is usually quicker-
tongued, but not necessarily quicker-witted. Her speech
comes more readily than her sister's from the country, but
for all that it may not be better worth hearing.
What are the influences in city life that make for this finer polish, this
greater refinement, this urbanity? What are the refining- influneces in the
of Rustica's sister who lives in the city? ^
She learns something every day by watching her neighbors and the peo
pie in the streets. She has gone to the great school of the city. She can he^r
the best preachers, the famous lecturers, the formost actors und musicians.
They all come to the city to teach her jwhat they Jiave learned of religion, sci-
ence, music, art. The pulpit, the theatre, the art exhibition, ther
7
concert-
roomthese are the class-rooms of the city school of life. Cities civilize, pol-
ish, educate largely from the outside. I The dwellers in citiee improve by imi-
tation; they learn from one another.-^Harper's Bazar.
!
r a l l wa VB mi npf c
How Germany Saves
* By William H. Tolman
EGARDING the accidents in the United States/ i t is the opin-
ion of the engineering profession that one-half of them are
preventable. If so, the*next question is, how? A conserva-
tive estimate of the number of annual accidents which re-
sult fatally, or in partial or total incapacity for work, Is
500,000. Reckoning the wage earning capacity of the aver-
age workman at | 500 a year (this makes no allowance for
the professional men, railroad presidents, industrialists and
ready for the ballot. Their day will, come, but it must not
other high-salaried officials who are injured or killed by the
htiiklintr trades and other occupations), we have a social and
THE EMPTY SLEEVE.
BY PHILA BUTLER BOWMAN.
And why does .my sleeve hang empty?
And eo you are asking to know
Of the cloud that bent down
With its blackening frown
On our Nation, BO little ago.
And why does my sleeve hand empty?
And why, when 1 fold you so tight
Have I only one arm
That shall shield you. from harm?
One. was laid on the altar of Right.
You know what
M
^ly Country" means,
Lad,
Your grandfather's country and yours.
You will know, as life thickens,
Why all your blood quickens
At sight of the flag that endures.
You will learn what it means to be free,
Lad,
And to honor those sacrificed ones
In a country whose sod
At the altar of God
Was pledged free, in the blood of her sons.
You have learned to be glad in the colors
And swell, with your gay little shout,
The song that dead stones
Would cry out, should our tones
Wake not, when the flag flutters out. ,
4
The time is so little ago, Lad,
And the valleys grew sweet with corn,
And the grape and the grain;
Forgot hardship and .pain
For joy in God's country, new-born.
But a spirit awoke in the air, Lad,
And shadowed the light of the bars,
And threatened to tear :
From their regal place there
On the blue of our bannerthe stars. .
The story grows old in the telling,
Of the voice that went ringing afar
That the brave, loyal hand
Of each son of the land
Be pledged,for the life of a star.
And something, deep down in the breast,
Lad,
Leaped up at the voice of that call,
And the tread of a host
Rose, as marched to their post
Those heroes, to conquer or fall.

And War rode his terrible charger
Through the valleys that love had made
fair. ! *
But God, in His might
Helped the hand raised for right
Crush the spirit that rose in the air.
The story is sad to tell, dear,
Butthe stars are still shining on high.
Tho' the myriad graves
Where the summer grass waves
Are voices to answer us why.
So I know wjhat "the Union" cost, Lad,,
And the flag that no spirit can grieve;
And when it shakes out '
And I hear your glad shout.
I thank God,for the empty sleeve.
with a penciled word to "Sond Gener-
al Warren at least a division to hold
the position at Little Round Top."
On the summit where the signal
officer was the musket balls, were be-
ginning to fly. He folded up his
flags and was going to leave; but at
this moment Warren came back, and
Induced him to keep the flags wav-
ing. "It may puzzle those people,"
he said, meaning the enemy, "and
may keep them back for a few min-
utes. " So the two men waited, watch-
ing the puffs of smoke that appeared
at different distances. A thick cloud
showed where the action was already
raging at the Peach Orchard; in hot
haste the battle was spreading all
along the field; cannonade and mus-
ketry crashed and rattled at right,
left and centre of the long battle
lines. A movement of the mass of
infantry which Warren had detected
on the wooded ridge was plainly visi-
ble. Suppose Meade had delayed in
sending him an army corps!
The moments of suspense came
suddenly to an end with the arrival
of Hazlett's battery of rifled cannon
of the Fifth Artillery.
The young lieutenant spoke. "Gen-
eral, what's the matter?"
The deuce is to pay!" was the re-

he held w at <[ great importance tl*
t h o b a t t l e Kr l i La l l i i i ^hl Ii i ^ali the-
destruction oi'. an enui e cuips. It
was almost certain that supports
wo u l d be Sei i l h i m BoOuel or l a ^ e L
l i e was resuived never to yield.
Yet half the regiment were gone;
hardly mure tLan skirmish line was
left him. The soldiers, having fired
the tixty rounds of cartridges they
had carried into the fight, were emp-
tying the cartridge boxes of their
fallen comrades. A few minutes
longer and not a man would be left
alive.
"Colonel, let us charge them! \fre
will drive them off the hi l l !" shouted
a lieutenant in a hoarse voice.
Last Hope of the Defenders.
Chamberlain glanced at him in ad-
miration.
This was the heroic spirit of hi s
men.
;
Yes, why not charge them? he
thought. Suddenly, unexpectedly
even. to himself, he gave the order:
"Fix bayonets!"
Th* command, "Charge!" was lost
in the deep, long drawn shout of t he
desperate men; they leaped forward
and rushed down the hill. Stri ki ng
the enemy among the scattered trees
on the outskirt of the wopd, they
I
ii
1
WHEN MCKINLEY SERVED COFFEE IN BATTLE.
By Carl Hovey.
The war council of Federal gener- point, only one s ol di er/ an officer of
Us the night before the second day's the signal corps. He no sooner
oattle of Gettysburg became necessar-, looked abput hi m that It became in-
t
Bronze Tablet to McKinley E rected at Washington,,, D. C.
Exploit of Late President, Who as Commissary Sergeant of Twen-
ty-third Ohio Volunteers Gave Steaming Drinks and Hardtack
to Soldiers, to Be Perpetuated in Bronze.
(ly a frantic pretension of scanning
the unknown. Outside, on the length-
ening ridges and between the abrupt
hillsides of that intricate battle field,
lay the encampments of the two hos-
tile armies, ominous and solemn.
There were few camp fires. At ti mes
jeould be heard the voice of a sentry,
{challenging, or the drawn out clatter
of f horseman on the stone pavement
of the cemetery.
The night passed, and daybreak
found the cautious General Mea^le
stijl listening to the reports of hisj di-
vision commanders, to their stories
of misfortune, and plans for strength-
ening the line of battle. The unpro-
tected North lay at his back; in his
front a general whose resourceful-
ness was unfathomable ahd who
ranked as a military genius. To pic-
ture in hi s mind's eye the battle
ground that was now obscured and
dim, and to fdresee wjiat would be
i he thing wanted there, at the given
point, at the given moment, on the
morrow, was the well nigh insuper-w
able task of the Northern general.
The unexpected was certai n/ to be*
fall both officers and men, and they
must be roady to perform miracles if
need be. An instance of this kind
was the fight of the Twentieth Maine
on Little Round Top, in memory of
which the colonel of the regiment,
Josfeua L. Chamberlain, for his great
tenacity and his daring heroism,' re-
ceived the Medal of Honor.
Little Round Top had escaped the
vigilance of the Federal commanders.
This was the smaller of two rough
hills, strewn with boulders and bare,
slippery rock, rising sharply from a
wooded swamp, behind . which
stretched, the- Confederate battle line.
At the foot of Little Round Top a
body of Union troops had been posted.
Only One Mun For Defense.
It was now afternoon. Lee's at-
tack was expected momentarily, and
every man was Waiting intently, with
stantly clear to him that the top of
this. hill, where there were no troops,,
and which had been abandoned for a
signal station, was in reality the key
to the whole position. His astonish-
ment gav^ place to consternation.
"With Ms glass ne noted a thickly
wooded ridge beyond 4he swamp;
there* he surmised, the ene'my was
already forming his lines, to burst
suddenly [upon the Union troops at
ply. "I hope you can hold out until
the infantry come up." '
Stayed Until He Was Killed.
"I guess I can," answered Lieuten-
ant Hazlett. As a matter of fact, ne
stayed these until he was killed. The
passage of those six guns through
roadless woods and up among the
jutting boulders of t he. height was
marvelous; nothing but the dash and
eagerness of the men to get into ac-
tion, together with their incredibly
skilful driving, could have planted
those cannon on the very summit of
Little Round Top. /
The infantry were not far behind.
Among the regiments closing in to
seize the hilltop were the Forty-sev-
enth and the Fifteenth Alabama of
t he Confederate side; and of the
Union* army, the Twentieth Maine,
commanded by Colonel Chamberlain,
which was an usually small regiment,
numbering only about three hundred
men. /This little force had no sooner
reached the portion of the hillside
assigned to them, where they stood
panting from their exertions, than
they saw a dense iriass of Confeder-
ates coming toward them; for the
two strong Confederate regiments,
containing a thousand men, had been
ordered to turn the Union flank at ex-
actly that position. Discerning in a
flash the grave peril of his command,
the Maine colonel quickly ordered five
| companies to swing back until they
t h r b a s e j where in the screening .formed a line at a right angle to the
^^^^w>:'w:i:s^^c:^'<?i^^^:^^:^^::ft::::
KrfWSt:-:-;:-^:>:-:-::K-:-:-'-v r >> ; ::>: : ::.*:
WM
yy*
^^k^m
closed in upon them with bayonets^
and the butts of their guns.
Of the Confederates some fought
until they were killed; more, how-
ever, acted as if thrown into a panic-
by the wild charge, and they ran for
their lives. Undoubtedly they sup-
posed that a strong re-enforcement
had reached the Unio|i line, and that
this had caused the sjidden attack.
The brave Maine
h
regiment cap-
tured three hundred prisoners, ani L
returned with them to the old posi-*.
tion, where they stayed unty in the
last hours of that terrible summer's-
afternoon the victorious little com-
mand was thrust into the -struggle
for the adjoining hilL, Round Top.
Concerning their leader in this ex-
ploit, it may be added that, besides
receiving the Medal of Honor at Get-
tysburg, he was afterward promoted
in the field by General Grant; and he*
so distinguished himself as a briga-
dier that he was brevetted ra major
general in 18 65, "for conspicuous gal-
lantry in action." After the war he-
led, and is still leading, a highly i m-
portant public Career in his native-
State of Maine. *
GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD (BIG AND LITTLE ROUND TOl" FROM
ERJMETSBURG ROAD.)
woods nothing i oul d be known of the , rest. _ At this instant the Al abami au,
movements of the enemy until the
Confederates were upon them. To
verify this strong suspicion, General
Warren made his way as rapidly as
possible to a battery at the foot of the
hill.
"Captain,
M
he said, "fire a shot into
those woods. "
The Captain of the rifle battery
did so, and as the shot, whistling,
passed qver the wood, it must have
caused everyone of the concealed
Rebels to look in the direction of the
sound; If or a simultaneous flash of
^1 K o v n n o t r p Vf t Rl e d
1 ~ 1 A i
attacked them on front and flank,
opening with a murderous fire.
Colonel Chamberlain with drawn
sword moved up and down his lines.
The Rebel bullets whizzed incessantly
past him; his men were constantly
groaning and falling on every side.
Outnumbered more than three to one,
their position was terrible, and it was
apparently a hopeless one. Yet with
dripping faces the men loaded and
fired their muskets, displaying tne
cool expertness of true veterans.
Smoke walled them in and to sonu
extent concealed from the enemy th.
Our Patriot Dead.
Bring ye sweet fiuwers to deck their lowly .
graved,
The noble ones who shed their life-bloo<i
free
And, tigiiUng, fell in freedom's cause,
that we
Should hold it sacred, while the old flag
wavet>!
Bring flowers, the fairest, sweetest, for our
braves
Roses ana lilies. 'Twas for you and me
They died. Cover ea$h mound that they
may see
The living love that still a strong heart
craves.
O sainted dead! O ihusband, brother,.
friend. .
Known or unknown* we hold thy mem-
or> green
And scatter o'er thy resting place^ th
robe.
Th-' hij . J.an.\v, violei to blend
Then peiiunxe wi'm the tears that, oft
unseen,
Ledrw tlit.- ground 'neata which oui
lovt-"i re'i'^f.
Anna \x. S. liv..siiei, in Christian Reg-
is; ci.
/ \
S\
Copyright Tom Tryniski 2005 www.fultonhistory.com
\ .
^ Vacations J& Sj
i Ey Elbert Hubbard f
HERE are three good redone why all employes should have
vacations. .,
One is so that the employer can see how easily any-
body's and everybody's i^lace can be filled; the n e x t t e j o
that when the employe returns he can see how well he can
be spared, since things go right along without him the
third is so the employe can show the employer and the
employer can understand that the employe is not manipu-
lating the accounts or engineering deals for his own benefit
Many a defalcation could have been avoided had the trusted man been
sent away two weeks each year, and an outsider put in his place. '
Beyond these, the vacation has little etcuse. As a matter of 4 ^ 3 *
the vacation does not recuperate, since, as a rule, no man needs a vacation so
much as the man who has just had one. The man who is so runJ^wn that
he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks, . wnat
he really needs is to retransform his life. .
i a l
,
f v
To work during the year at so rapid a pace that in August one s vitality
te exhausted, and a rest is demanded, .is. rank folly. What we a 1 need is
fenough vacation each day so that we can face each new morning with neaim
iufflcient to do our work in gladness. Ti at is to say, we need enough of a
play spell every day to Jteep us in good physical condition. -
The man who is done up and fagged out has not found his worK. Ana
Ihe man who lives during the year in anticipation of a vacation does not ^ de-
serve one, for he has not ascertained that it is work, and not vacations, that
makes life endurable. ,.
The only man who can really enjoy an outing is the man who aoesn t
oeed it. And the man who keeps his system so strong and well balanced that
he doesn't need a vacation is the one who eventually will marry the propri-
etor's daughter and have his name on the sign. Before you manage a busi-
ness, you better learn how to manage ydur cosmos. However, this does not
mean that I never take a vacation myselij-I do, otherwise how would I know
\he facts?New York American.
A Dinner to an Ele>
phant
By Lilian Bell
-i N what proved to be the coldest night of the year, a man,
^ ^ said to represent a brand of wine he is anxious to export, en-
# J i. gaged the largest stage in the world from midnight until the
^ ^ next noon and gave an entertainment in honor of an ele-
=*s phant to which were bidden the men and vjjomen whose
V JT^ lights shine mostly on the Great White Way.
^F"^L These people were requested to come dressed as ,
1 I "rubes," in the hope of making themselves as ridiculous as
possible. But that was unnecessary, as the report of their
Antics while? the wine, represented by their host, flowed with increasing free-
dom, did for them what no amount of caricature in dress could accomplish.
Out in the cold of this same freezing night there is a bread line. Station-
ed at various places in this city are municipal free lodging houses. To these
flocked the army of ttie hungry and homeless, seeking for food and shelter
from the bitter cold.
Of course, nobody blames a wine agent for advertising in any preposterous
way he can. Npr does one blame his guests, who can find no excitement so
suited to their taste as the sort given at an elephant dinnerwhere no dinner
wasfor going and giving themselves up an abandonment of vinous enjoy-
ment.
New York is a city of contrasts, and, in spite of the piteous tales of suf-
fering printed every day in the newspapers, the idle and the thoughtless con-
tinue to give parties, full of spirited and spirituous entertainment, where hun-
dreds, if not thousands, of dollars are spent for no good purpose and to no
worthy end.
l
Do you wonder that some shivering wretch with empty pockets and an
empty stomach, who hears of this waste and wanton extravagance, sometimes
loses his faith in God and man? '
Nobody objects to even expensive entertainments, which really entertain,
but to waste money and advertise that I waste when babies are dying of cold
and hunger on the coldest night of the year and men and women are driven
to desperate measures to find warmth and food, is little short of a crime.
New York American.
Self'help for Country
Women
By Maud Howe .
HAT "else besides assurance has the city woman that ithe
W
ii country woman lacks? I
II She has polish. Her manners are kept smooth by the
" continual friction witfi all sorts and conditions of men and
women. More polish,, more assurance, greater ease of man-
ner; the average city woman has more of all these than
the average country woman. She is usually quicker-
tongued, but not necessarily quicker-witted. Her speech
comes more readily than her sister's from the country, but
for all that it may not be better worth hearing.
What are the influences in city life that make for this finer polish, this
greater refinement, this urbanity? What are the refining- influneces in the
of Rustica's sister who lives in the city? ^
She learns something every day by watching her neighbors and the peo
pie in the streets. She has gone to the great school of the city. She can he^r
the best preachers, the famous lecturers, the formost actors und musicians.
They all come to the city to teach her jwhat they Jiave learned of religion, sci-
ence, music, art. The pulpit, the theatre, the art exhibition, ther
7
concert-
roomthese are the class-rooms of the city school of life. Cities civilize, pol-
ish, educate largely from the outside. I The dwellers in citiee improve by imi-
tation; they learn from one another.-^Harper's Bazar.
!
r a l l wa VB mi npf c
How Germany Saves
* By William H. Tolman
EGARDING the accidents in the United States/ i t is the opin-
ion of the engineering profession that one-half of them are
preventable. If so, the*next question is, how? A conserva-
tive estimate of the number of annual accidents which re-
sult fatally, or in partial or total incapacity for work, Is
500,000. Reckoning the wage earning capacity of the aver-
age workman at | 500 a year (this makes no allowance for
the professional men, railroad presidents, industrialists and
ready for the ballot. Their day will, come, but it must not
other high-salaried officials who are injured or killed by the
htiiklintr trades and other occupations), we have a social and
THE EMPTY SLEEVE.
BY PHILA BUTLER BOWMAN.
And why does .my sleeve hang empty?
And eo you are asking to know
Of the cloud that bent down
With its blackening frown
On our Nation, BO little ago.
And why does my sleeve hand empty?
And why, when 1 fold you so tight
Have I only one arm
That shall shield you. from harm?
One. was laid on the altar of Right.
You know what
M
^ly Country" means,
Lad,
Your grandfather's country and yours.
You will know, as life thickens,
Why all your blood quickens
At sight of the flag that endures.
You will learn what it means to be free,
Lad,
And to honor those sacrificed ones
In a country whose sod
At the altar of God
Was pledged free, in the blood of her sons.
You have learned to be glad in the colors
And swell, with your gay little shout,
The song that dead stones
Would cry out, should our tones
Wake not, when the flag flutters out. ,
4
The time is so little ago, Lad,
And the valleys grew sweet with corn,
And the grape and the grain;
Forgot hardship and .pain
For joy in God's country, new-born.
But a spirit awoke in the air, Lad,
And shadowed the light of the bars,
And threatened to tear :
From their regal place there
On the blue of our bannerthe stars. .
The story grows old in the telling,
Of the voice that went ringing afar
That the brave, loyal hand
Of each son of the land
Be pledged,for the life of a star.
And something, deep down in the breast,
Lad,
Leaped up at the voice of that call,
And the tread of a host
Rose, as marched to their post
Those heroes, to conquer or fall.

And War rode his terrible charger
Through the valleys that love had made
fair. ! *
But God, in His might
Helped the hand raised for right
Crush the spirit that rose in the air.
The story is sad to tell, dear,
Butthe stars are still shining on high.
Tho' the myriad graves
Where the summer grass waves
Are voices to answer us why.
So I know wjhat "the Union" cost, Lad,,
And the flag that no spirit can grieve;
And when it shakes out '
And I hear your glad shout.
I thank God,for the empty sleeve.
with a penciled word to "Sond Gener-
al Warren at least a division to hold
the position at Little Round Top."
On the summit where the signal
officer was the musket balls, were be-
ginning to fly. He folded up his
flags and was going to leave; but at
this moment Warren came back, and
Induced him to keep the flags wav-
ing. "It may puzzle those people,"
he said, meaning the enemy, "and
may keep them back for a few min-
utes. " So the two men waited, watch-
ing the puffs of smoke that appeared
at different distances. A thick cloud
showed where the action was already
raging at the Peach Orchard; in hot
haste the battle was spreading all
along the field; cannonade and mus-
ketry crashed and rattled at right,
left and centre of the long battle
lines. A movement of the mass of
infantry which Warren had detected
on the wooded ridge was plainly visi-
ble. Suppose Meade had delayed in
sending him an army corps!
The moments of suspense came
suddenly to an end with the arrival
of Hazlett's battery of rifled cannon
of the Fifth Artillery.
The young lieutenant spoke. "Gen-
eral, what's the matter?"
The deuce is to pay!" was the re-

he held w at <[ great importance tl*
t h o b a t t l e Kr l i La l l i i i ^hl Ii i ^ali the-
destruction oi'. an enui e cuips. It
was almost certain that supports
wo u l d be Sei i l h i m BoOuel or l a ^ e L
l i e was resuived never to yield.
Yet half the regiment were gone;
hardly mure tLan skirmish line was
left him. The soldiers, having fired
the tixty rounds of cartridges they
had carried into the fight, were emp-
tying the cartridge boxes of their
fallen comrades. A few minutes
longer and not a man would be left
alive.
"Colonel, let us charge them! \fre
will drive them off the hi l l !" shouted
a lieutenant in a hoarse voice.
Last Hope of the Defenders.
Chamberlain glanced at him in ad-
miration.
This was the heroic spirit of hi s
men.
;
Yes, why not charge them? he
thought. Suddenly, unexpectedly
even. to himself, he gave the order:
"Fix bayonets!"
Th* command, "Charge!" was lost
in the deep, long drawn shout of t he
desperate men; they leaped forward
and rushed down the hill. Stri ki ng
the enemy among the scattered trees
on the outskirt of the wopd, they
I
ii
1
WHEN MCKINLEY SERVED COFFEE IN BATTLE.
By Carl Hovey.
The war council of Federal gener- point, only one s ol di er/ an officer of
Us the night before the second day's the signal corps. He no sooner
oattle of Gettysburg became necessar-, looked abput hi m that It became in-
t
Bronze Tablet to McKinley E rected at Washington,,, D. C.
Exploit of Late President, Who as Commissary Sergeant of Twen-
ty-third Ohio Volunteers Gave Steaming Drinks and Hardtack
to Soldiers, to Be Perpetuated in Bronze.
(ly a frantic pretension of scanning
the unknown. Outside, on the length-
ening ridges and between the abrupt
hillsides of that intricate battle field,
lay the encampments of the two hos-
tile armies, ominous and solemn.
There were few camp fires. At ti mes
jeould be heard the voice of a sentry,
{challenging, or the drawn out clatter
of f horseman on the stone pavement
of the cemetery.
The night passed, and daybreak
found the cautious General Mea^le
stijl listening to the reports of hisj di-
vision commanders, to their stories
of misfortune, and plans for strength-
ening the line of battle. The unpro-
tected North lay at his back; in his
front a general whose resourceful-
ness was unfathomable ahd who
ranked as a military genius. To pic-
ture in hi s mind's eye the battle
ground that was now obscured and
dim, and to fdresee wjiat would be
i he thing wanted there, at the given
point, at the given moment, on the
morrow, was the well nigh insuper-w
able task of the Northern general.
The unexpected was certai n/ to be*
fall both officers and men, and they
must be roady to perform miracles if
need be. An instance of this kind
was the fight of the Twentieth Maine
on Little Round Top, in memory of
which the colonel of the regiment,
Josfeua L. Chamberlain, for his great
tenacity and his daring heroism,' re-
ceived the Medal of Honor.
Little Round Top had escaped the
vigilance of the Federal commanders.
This was the smaller of two rough
hills, strewn with boulders and bare,
slippery rock, rising sharply from a
wooded swamp, behind . which
stretched, the- Confederate battle line.
At the foot of Little Round Top a
body of Union troops had been posted.
Only One Mun For Defense.
It was now afternoon. Lee's at-
tack was expected momentarily, and
every man was Waiting intently, with
stantly clear to him that the top of
this. hill, where there were no troops,,
and which had been abandoned for a
signal station, was in reality the key
to the whole position. His astonish-
ment gav^ place to consternation.
"With Ms glass ne noted a thickly
wooded ridge beyond 4he swamp;
there* he surmised, the ene'my was
already forming his lines, to burst
suddenly [upon the Union troops at
ply. "I hope you can hold out until
the infantry come up." '
Stayed Until He Was Killed.
"I guess I can," answered Lieuten-
ant Hazlett. As a matter of fact, ne
stayed these until he was killed. The
passage of those six guns through
roadless woods and up among the
jutting boulders of t he. height was
marvelous; nothing but the dash and
eagerness of the men to get into ac-
tion, together with their incredibly
skilful driving, could have planted
those cannon on the very summit of
Little Round Top. /
The infantry were not far behind.
Among the regiments closing in to
seize the hilltop were the Forty-sev-
enth and the Fifteenth Alabama of
t he Confederate side; and of the
Union* army, the Twentieth Maine,
commanded by Colonel Chamberlain,
which was an usually small regiment,
numbering only about three hundred
men. /This little force had no sooner
reached the portion of the hillside
assigned to them, where they stood
panting from their exertions, than
they saw a dense iriass of Confeder-
ates coming toward them; for the
two strong Confederate regiments,
containing a thousand men, had been
ordered to turn the Union flank at ex-
actly that position. Discerning in a
flash the grave peril of his command,
the Maine colonel quickly ordered five
| companies to swing back until they
t h r b a s e j where in the screening .formed a line at a right angle to the
^^^^w>:'w:i:s^^c:^'<?i^^^:^^:^^::ft::::
KrfWSt:-:-;:-^:>:-:-::K-:-:-'-v r >> ; ::>: : ::.*:
WM
yy*
^^k^m
closed in upon them with bayonets^
and the butts of their guns.
Of the Confederates some fought
until they were killed; more, how-
ever, acted as if thrown into a panic-
by the wild charge, and they ran for
their lives. Undoubtedly they sup-
posed that a strong re-enforcement
had reached the Unio|i line, and that
this had caused the sjidden attack.
The brave Maine
h
regiment cap-
tured three hundred prisoners, ani L
returned with them to the old posi-*.
tion, where they stayed unty in the
last hours of that terrible summer's-
afternoon the victorious little com-
mand was thrust into the -struggle
for the adjoining hilL, Round Top.
Concerning their leader in this ex-
ploit, it may be added that, besides
receiving the Medal of Honor at Get-
tysburg, he was afterward promoted
in the field by General Grant; and he*
so distinguished himself as a briga-
dier that he was brevetted ra major
general in 18 65, "for conspicuous gal-
lantry in action." After the war he-
led, and is still leading, a highly i m-
portant public Career in his native-
State of Maine. *
GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD (BIG AND LITTLE ROUND TOl" FROM
ERJMETSBURG ROAD.)
woods nothing i oul d be known of the , rest. _ At this instant the Al abami au,
movements of the enemy until the
Confederates were upon them. To
verify this strong suspicion, General
Warren made his way as rapidly as
possible to a battery at the foot of the
hill.
"Captain,
M
he said, "fire a shot into
those woods. "
The Captain of the rifle battery
did so, and as the shot, whistling,
passed qver the wood, it must have
caused everyone of the concealed
Rebels to look in the direction of the
sound; If or a simultaneous flash of
^1 K o v n n o t r p Vf t Rl e d
1 ~ 1 A i
attacked them on front and flank,
opening with a murderous fire.
Colonel Chamberlain with drawn
sword moved up and down his lines.
The Rebel bullets whizzed incessantly
past him; his men were constantly
groaning and falling on every side.
Outnumbered more than three to one,
their position was terrible, and it was
apparently a hopeless one. Yet with
dripping faces the men loaded and
fired their muskets, displaying tne
cool expertness of true veterans.
Smoke walled them in and to sonu
extent concealed from the enemy th.
Our Patriot Dead.
Bring ye sweet fiuwers to deck their lowly .
graved,
The noble ones who shed their life-bloo<i
free
And, tigiiUng, fell in freedom's cause,
that we
Should hold it sacred, while the old flag
wavet>!
Bring flowers, the fairest, sweetest, for our
braves
Roses ana lilies. 'Twas for you and me
They died. Cover ea$h mound that they
may see
The living love that still a strong heart
craves.
O sainted dead! O ihusband, brother,.
friend. .
Known or unknown* we hold thy mem-
or> green
And scatter o'er thy resting place^ th
robe.
Th-' hij . J.an.\v, violei to blend
Then peiiunxe wi'm the tears that, oft
unseen,
Ledrw tlit.- ground 'neata which oui
lovt-"i re'i'^f.
Anna \x. S. liv..siiei, in Christian Reg-
is; ci.
/ \
S\
Copyright Tom Tryniski 2005 www.fultonhistory.com
\ .
^ Vacations J& Sj
i Ey Elbert Hubbard f
HERE are three good redone why all employes should have
vacations. .,
One is so that the employer can see how easily any-
body's and everybody's i^lace can be filled; the n e x t t e j o
that when the employe returns he can see how well he can
be spared, since things go right along without him the
third is so the employe can show the employer and the
employer can understand that the employe is not manipu-
lating the accounts or engineering deals for his own benefit
Many a defalcation could have been avoided had the trusted man been
sent away two weeks each year, and an outsider put in his place. '
Beyond these, the vacation has little etcuse. As a matter of 4 ^ 3 *
the vacation does not recuperate, since, as a rule, no man needs a vacation so
much as the man who has just had one. The man who is so runJ^wn that
he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks, . wnat
he really needs is to retransform his life. .
i a l
,
f v
To work during the year at so rapid a pace that in August one s vitality
te exhausted, and a rest is demanded, .is. rank folly. What we a 1 need is
fenough vacation each day so that we can face each new morning with neaim
iufflcient to do our work in gladness. Ti at is to say, we need enough of a
play spell every day to Jteep us in good physical condition. -
The man who is done up and fagged out has not found his worK. Ana
Ihe man who lives during the year in anticipation of a vacation does not ^ de-
serve one, for he has not ascertained that it is work, and not vacations, that
makes life endurable. ,.
The only man who can really enjoy an outing is the man who aoesn t
oeed it. And the man who keeps his system so strong and well balanced that
he doesn't need a vacation is the one who eventually will marry the propri-
etor's daughter and have his name on the sign. Before you manage a busi-
ness, you better learn how to manage ydur cosmos. However, this does not
mean that I never take a vacation myselij-I do, otherwise how would I know
\he facts?New York American.
A Dinner to an Ele>
phant
By Lilian Bell
-i N what proved to be the coldest night of the year, a man,
^ ^ said to represent a brand of wine he is anxious to export, en-
# J i. gaged the largest stage in the world from midnight until the
^ ^ next noon and gave an entertainment in honor of an ele-
=*s phant to which were bidden the men and vjjomen whose
V JT^ lights shine mostly on the Great White Way.
^F"^L These people were requested to come dressed as ,
1 I "rubes," in the hope of making themselves as ridiculous as
possible. But that was unnecessary, as the report of their
Antics while? the wine, represented by their host, flowed with increasing free-
dom, did for them what no amount of caricature in dress could accomplish.
Out in the cold of this same freezing night there is a bread line. Station-
ed at various places in this city are municipal free lodging houses. To these
flocked the army of ttie hungry and homeless, seeking for food and shelter
from the bitter cold.
Of course, nobody blames a wine agent for advertising in any preposterous
way he can. Npr does one blame his guests, who can find no excitement so
suited to their taste as the sort given at an elephant dinnerwhere no dinner
wasfor going and giving themselves up an abandonment of vinous enjoy-
ment.
New York is a city of contrasts, and, in spite of the piteous tales of suf-
fering printed every day in the newspapers, the idle and the thoughtless con-
tinue to give parties, full of spirited and spirituous entertainment, where hun-
dreds, if not thousands, of dollars are spent for no good purpose and to no
worthy end.
l
Do you wonder that some shivering wretch with empty pockets and an
empty stomach, who hears of this waste and wanton extravagance, sometimes
loses his faith in God and man? '
Nobody objects to even expensive entertainments, which really entertain,
but to waste money and advertise that I waste when babies are dying of cold
and hunger on the coldest night of the year and men and women are driven
to desperate measures to find warmth and food, is little short of a crime.
New York American.
Self'help for Country
Women
By Maud Howe .
HAT "else besides assurance has the city woman that ithe
W
ii country woman lacks? I
II She has polish. Her manners are kept smooth by the
" continual friction witfi all sorts and conditions of men and
women. More polish,, more assurance, greater ease of man-
ner; the average city woman has more of all these than
the average country woman. She is usually quicker-
tongued, but not necessarily quicker-witted. Her speech
comes more readily than her sister's from the country, but
for all that it may not be better worth hearing.
What are the influences in city life that make for this finer polish, this
greater refinement, this urbanity? What are the refining- influneces in the
of Rustica's sister who lives in the city? ^
She learns something every day by watching her neighbors and the peo
pie in the streets. She has gone to the great school of the city. She can he^r
the best preachers, the famous lecturers, the formost actors und musicians.
They all come to the city to teach her jwhat they Jiave learned of religion, sci-
ence, music, art. The pulpit, the theatre, the art exhibition, ther
7
concert-
roomthese are the class-rooms of the city school of life. Cities civilize, pol-
ish, educate largely from the outside. I The dwellers in citiee improve by imi-
tation; they learn from one another.-^Harper's Bazar.
!
r a l l wa VB mi npf c
How Germany Saves
* By William H. Tolman
EGARDING the accidents in the United States/ i t is the opin-
ion of the engineering profession that one-half of them are
preventable. If so, the*next question is, how? A conserva-
tive estimate of the number of annual accidents which re-
sult fatally, or in partial or total incapacity for work, Is
500,000. Reckoning the wage earning capacity of the aver-
age workman at | 500 a year (this makes no allowance for
the professional men, railroad presidents, industrialists and
ready for the ballot. Their day will, come, but it must not
other high-salaried officials who are injured or killed by the
htiiklintr trades and other occupations), we have a social and
THE EMPTY SLEEVE.
BY PHILA BUTLER BOWMAN.
And why does .my sleeve hang empty?
And eo you are asking to know
Of the cloud that bent down
With its blackening frown
On our Nation, BO little ago.
And why does my sleeve hand empty?
And why, when 1 fold you so tight
Have I only one arm
That shall shield you. from harm?
One. was laid on the altar of Right.
You know what
M
^ly Country" means,
Lad,
Your grandfather's country and yours.
You will know, as life thickens,
Why all your blood quickens
At sight of the flag that endures.
You will learn what it means to be free,
Lad,
And to honor those sacrificed ones
In a country whose sod
At the altar of God
Was pledged free, in the blood of her sons.
You have learned to be glad in the colors
And swell, with your gay little shout,
The song that dead stones
Would cry out, should our tones
Wake not, when the flag flutters out. ,
4
The time is so little ago, Lad,
And the valleys grew sweet with corn,
And the grape and the grain;
Forgot hardship and .pain
For joy in God's country, new-born.
But a spirit awoke in the air, Lad,
And shadowed the light of the bars,
And threatened to tear :
From their regal place there
On the blue of our bannerthe stars. .
The story grows old in the telling,
Of the voice that went ringing afar
That the brave, loyal hand
Of each son of the land
Be pledged,for the life of a star.
And something, deep down in the breast,
Lad,
Leaped up at the voice of that call,
And the tread of a host
Rose, as marched to their post
Those heroes, to conquer or fall.

And War rode his terrible charger
Through the valleys that love had made
fair. ! *
But God, in His might
Helped the hand raised for right
Crush the spirit that rose in the air.
The story is sad to tell, dear,
Butthe stars are still shining on high.
Tho' the myriad graves
Where the summer grass waves
Are voices to answer us why.
So I know wjhat "the Union" cost, Lad,,
And the flag that no spirit can grieve;
And when it shakes out '
And I hear your glad shout.
I thank God,for the empty sleeve.
with a penciled word to "Sond Gener-
al Warren at least a division to hold
the position at Little Round Top."
On the summit where the signal
officer was the musket balls, were be-
ginning to fly. He folded up his
flags and was going to leave; but at
this moment Warren came back, and
Induced him to keep the flags wav-
ing. "It may puzzle those people,"
he said, meaning the enemy, "and
may keep them back for a few min-
utes. " So the two men waited, watch-
ing the puffs of smoke that appeared
at different distances. A thick cloud
showed where the action was already
raging at the Peach Orchard; in hot
haste the battle was spreading all
along the field; cannonade and mus-
ketry crashed and rattled at right,
left and centre of the long battle
lines. A movement of the mass of
infantry which Warren had detected
on the wooded ridge was plainly visi-
ble. Suppose Meade had delayed in
sending him an army corps!
The moments of suspense came
suddenly to an end with the arrival
of Hazlett's battery of rifled cannon
of the Fifth Artillery.
The young lieutenant spoke. "Gen-
eral, what's the matter?"
The deuce is to pay!" was the re-

he held w at <[ great importance tl*
t h o b a t t l e Kr l i La l l i i i ^hl Ii i ^ali the-
destruction oi'. an enui e cuips. It
was almost certain that supports
wo u l d be Sei i l h i m BoOuel or l a ^ e L
l i e was resuived never to yield.
Yet half the regiment were gone;
hardly mure tLan skirmish line was
left him. The soldiers, having fired
the tixty rounds of cartridges they
had carried into the fight, were emp-
tying the cartridge boxes of their
fallen comrades. A few minutes
longer and not a man would be left
alive.
"Colonel, let us charge them! \fre
will drive them off the hi l l !" shouted
a lieutenant in a hoarse voice.
Last Hope of the Defenders.
Chamberlain glanced at him in ad-
miration.
This was the heroic spirit of hi s
men.
;
Yes, why not charge them? he
thought. Suddenly, unexpectedly
even. to himself, he gave the order:
"Fix bayonets!"
Th* command, "Charge!" was lost
in the deep, long drawn shout of t he
desperate men; they leaped forward
and rushed down the hill. Stri ki ng
the enemy among the scattered trees
on the outskirt of the wopd, they
I
ii
1
WHEN MCKINLEY SERVED COFFEE IN BATTLE.
By Carl Hovey.
The war council of Federal gener- point, only one s ol di er/ an officer of
Us the night before the second day's the signal corps. He no sooner
oattle of Gettysburg became necessar-, looked abput hi m that It became in-
t
Bronze Tablet to McKinley E rected at Washington,,, D. C.
Exploit of Late President, Who as Commissary Sergeant of Twen-
ty-third Ohio Volunteers Gave Steaming Drinks and Hardtack
to Soldiers, to Be Perpetuated in Bronze.
(ly a frantic pretension of scanning
the unknown. Outside, on the length-
ening ridges and between the abrupt
hillsides of that intricate battle field,
lay the encampments of the two hos-
tile armies, ominous and solemn.
There were few camp fires. At ti mes
jeould be heard the voice of a sentry,
{challenging, or the drawn out clatter
of f horseman on the stone pavement
of the cemetery.
The night passed, and daybreak
found the cautious General Mea^le
stijl listening to the reports of hisj di-
vision commanders, to their stories
of misfortune, and plans for strength-
ening the line of battle. The unpro-
tected North lay at his back; in his
front a general whose resourceful-
ness was unfathomable ahd who
ranked as a military genius. To pic-
ture in hi s mind's eye the battle
ground that was now obscured and
dim, and to fdresee wjiat would be
i he thing wanted there, at the given
point, at the given moment, on the
morrow, was the well nigh insuper-w
able task of the Northern general.
The unexpected was certai n/ to be*
fall both officers and men, and they
must be roady to perform miracles if
need be. An instance of this kind
was the fight of the Twentieth Maine
on Little Round Top, in memory of
which the colonel of the regiment,
Josfeua L. Chamberlain, for his great
tenacity and his daring heroism,' re-
ceived the Medal of Honor.
Little Round Top had escaped the
vigilance of the Federal commanders.
This was the smaller of two rough
hills, strewn with boulders and bare,
slippery rock, rising sharply from a
wooded swamp, behind . which
stretched, the- Confederate battle line.
At the foot of Little Round Top a
body of Union troops had been posted.
Only One Mun For Defense.
It was now afternoon. Lee's at-
tack was expected momentarily, and
every man was Waiting intently, with
stantly clear to him that the top of
this. hill, where there were no troops,,
and which had been abandoned for a
signal station, was in reality the key
to the whole position. His astonish-
ment gav^ place to consternation.
"With Ms glass ne noted a thickly
wooded ridge beyond 4he swamp;
there* he surmised, the ene'my was
already forming his lines, to burst
suddenly [upon the Union troops at
ply. "I hope you can hold out until
the infantry come up." '
Stayed Until He Was Killed.
"I guess I can," answered Lieuten-
ant Hazlett. As a matter of fact, ne
stayed these until he was killed. The
passage of those six guns through
roadless woods and up among the
jutting boulders of t he. height was
marvelous; nothing but the dash and
eagerness of the men to get into ac-
tion, together with their incredibly
skilful driving, could have planted
those cannon on the very summit of
Little Round Top. /
The infantry were not far behind.
Among the regiments closing in to
seize the hilltop were the Forty-sev-
enth and the Fifteenth Alabama of
t he Confederate side; and of the
Union* army, the Twentieth Maine,
commanded by Colonel Chamberlain,
which was an usually small regiment,
numbering only about three hundred
men. /This little force had no sooner
reached the portion of the hillside
assigned to them, where they stood
panting from their exertions, than
they saw a dense iriass of Confeder-
ates coming toward them; for the
two strong Confederate regiments,
containing a thousand men, had been
ordered to turn the Union flank at ex-
actly that position. Discerning in a
flash the grave peril of his command,
the Maine colonel quickly ordered five
| companies to swing back until they
t h r b a s e j where in the screening .formed a line at a right angle to the
^^^^w>:'w:i:s^^c:^'<?i^^^:^^:^^::ft::::
KrfWSt:-:-;:-^:>:-:-::K-:-:-'-v r >> ; ::>: : ::.*:
WM
yy*
^^k^m
closed in upon them with bayonets^
and the butts of their guns.
Of the Confederates some fought
until they were killed; more, how-
ever, acted as if thrown into a panic-
by the wild charge, and they ran for
their lives. Undoubtedly they sup-
posed that a strong re-enforcement
had reached the Unio|i line, and that
this had caused the sjidden attack.
The brave Maine
h
regiment cap-
tured three hundred prisoners, ani L
returned with them to the old posi-*.
tion, where they stayed unty in the
last hours of that terrible summer's-
afternoon the victorious little com-
mand was thrust into the -struggle
for the adjoining hilL, Round Top.
Concerning their leader in this ex-
ploit, it may be added that, besides
receiving the Medal of Honor at Get-
tysburg, he was afterward promoted
in the field by General Grant; and he*
so distinguished himself as a briga-
dier that he was brevetted ra major
general in 18 65, "for conspicuous gal-
lantry in action." After the war he-
led, and is still leading, a highly i m-
portant public Career in his native-
State of Maine. *
GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD (BIG AND LITTLE ROUND TOl" FROM
ERJMETSBURG ROAD.)
woods nothing i oul d be known of the , rest. _ At this instant the Al abami au,
movements of the enemy until the
Confederates were upon them. To
verify this strong suspicion, General
Warren made his way as rapidly as
possible to a battery at the foot of the
hill.
"Captain,
M
he said, "fire a shot into
those woods. "
The Captain of the rifle battery
did so, and as the shot, whistling,
passed qver the wood, it must have
caused everyone of the concealed
Rebels to look in the direction of the
sound; If or a simultaneous flash of
^1 K o v n n o t r p Vf t Rl e d
1 ~ 1 A i
attacked them on front and flank,
opening with a murderous fire.
Colonel Chamberlain with drawn
sword moved up and down his lines.
The Rebel bullets whizzed incessantly
past him; his men were constantly
groaning and falling on every side.
Outnumbered more than three to one,
their position was terrible, and it was
apparently a hopeless one. Yet with
dripping faces the men loaded and
fired their muskets, displaying tne
cool expertness of true veterans.
Smoke walled them in and to sonu
extent concealed from the enemy th.
Our Patriot Dead.
Bring ye sweet fiuwers to deck their lowly .
graved,
The noble ones who shed their life-bloo<i
free
And, tigiiUng, fell in freedom's cause,
that we
Should hold it sacred, while the old flag
wavet>!
Bring flowers, the fairest, sweetest, for our
braves
Roses ana lilies. 'Twas for you and me
They died. Cover ea$h mound that they
may see
The living love that still a strong heart
craves.
O sainted dead! O ihusband, brother,.
friend. .
Known or unknown* we hold thy mem-
or> green
And scatter o'er thy resting place^ th
robe.
Th-' hij . J.an.\v, violei to blend
Then peiiunxe wi'm the tears that, oft
unseen,
Ledrw tlit.- ground 'neata which oui
lovt-"i re'i'^f.
Anna \x. S. liv..siiei, in Christian Reg-
is; ci.
/ \
S\
!!!"#$%&'()(!*+,-+-&(./+*)(0,"-$.
Smoke walled them in and to some extent
concealed from the enemy the terrible
execution they were making upon their thin,
gaping battle front.
However, their Colonel never thought of
retreating. In the dense smoke, the deafening
and confusing volleys, in the face of the
rapidly approaching annihilation of his
command, Colonel Chamberlain thought
only of one thing, that the position he held
was of great importance in the battle. Retreat
might mean the destruction of an entire
corps. It was almost certain hat supports
would be sent him sooner or later. He was
resolved never to yield.
Yet half the regiment were gone; hardly
more than skirmish line was left him. The
soldiers having fired the sixty rounds of
cartridges they had carried into the fight,
were emptying the cartridge boxes of their
fallen comrades. A few minutes longer and
not a man would be left alive.




Copyright Tom Tryniski 2005 www.fultonhistory.com
\ .
^ Vacations J& Sj
i Ey Elbert Hubbard f
HERE are three good redone why all employes should have
vacations. .,
One is so that the employer can see how easily any-
body's and everybody's i^lace can be filled; the n e x t t e j o
that when the employe returns he can see how well he can
be spared, since things go right along without him the
third is so the employe can show the employer and the
employer can understand that the employe is not manipu-
lating the accounts or engineering deals for his own benefit
Many a defalcation could have been avoided had the trusted man been
sent away two weeks each year, and an outsider put in his place. '
Beyond these, the vacation has little etcuse. As a matter of 4 ^ 3 *
the vacation does not recuperate, since, as a rule, no man needs a vacation so
much as the man who has just had one. The man who is so runJ^wn that
he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks, . wnat
he really needs is to retransform his life. .
i a l
,
f v
To work during the year at so rapid a pace that in August one s vitality
te exhausted, and a rest is demanded, .is. rank folly. What we a 1 need is
fenough vacation each day so that we can face each new morning with neaim
iufflcient to do our work in gladness. Ti at is to say, we need enough of a
play spell every day to Jteep us in good physical condition. -
The man who is done up and fagged out has not found his worK. Ana
Ihe man who lives during the year in anticipation of a vacation does not ^ de-
serve one, for he has not ascertained that it is work, and not vacations, that
makes life endurable. ,.
The only man who can really enjoy an outing is the man who aoesn t
oeed it. And the man who keeps his system so strong and well balanced that
he doesn't need a vacation is the one who eventually will marry the propri-
etor's daughter and have his name on the sign. Before you manage a busi-
ness, you better learn how to manage ydur cosmos. However, this does not
mean that I never take a vacation myselij-I do, otherwise how would I know
\he facts?New York American.
A Dinner to an Ele>
phant
By Lilian Bell
-i N what proved to be the coldest night of the year, a man,
^ ^ said to represent a brand of wine he is anxious to export, en-
# J i. gaged the largest stage in the world from midnight until the
^ ^ next noon and gave an entertainment in honor of an ele-
=*s phant to which were bidden the men and vjjomen whose
V JT^ lights shine mostly on the Great White Way.
^F"^L These people were requested to come dressed as ,
1 I "rubes," in the hope of making themselves as ridiculous as
possible. But that was unnecessary, as the report of their
Antics while? the wine, represented by their host, flowed with increasing free-
dom, did for them what no amount of caricature in dress could accomplish.
Out in the cold of this same freezing night there is a bread line. Station-
ed at various places in this city are municipal free lodging houses. To these
flocked the army of ttie hungry and homeless, seeking for food and shelter
from the bitter cold.
Of course, nobody blames a wine agent for advertising in any preposterous
way he can. Npr does one blame his guests, who can find no excitement so
suited to their taste as the sort given at an elephant dinnerwhere no dinner
wasfor going and giving themselves up an abandonment of vinous enjoy-
ment.
New York is a city of contrasts, and, in spite of the piteous tales of suf-
fering printed every day in the newspapers, the idle and the thoughtless con-
tinue to give parties, full of spirited and spirituous entertainment, where hun-
dreds, if not thousands, of dollars are spent for no good purpose and to no
worthy end.
l
Do you wonder that some shivering wretch with empty pockets and an
empty stomach, who hears of this waste and wanton extravagance, sometimes
loses his faith in God and man? '
Nobody objects to even expensive entertainments, which really entertain,
but to waste money and advertise that I waste when babies are dying of cold
and hunger on the coldest night of the year and men and women are driven
to desperate measures to find warmth and food, is little short of a crime.
New York American.
Self'help for Country
Women
By Maud Howe .
HAT "else besides assurance has the city woman that ithe
W
ii country woman lacks? I
II She has polish. Her manners are kept smooth by the
" continual friction witfi all sorts and conditions of men and
women. More polish,, more assurance, greater ease of man-
ner; the average city woman has more of all these than
the average country woman. She is usually quicker-
tongued, but not necessarily quicker-witted. Her speech
comes more readily than her sister's from the country, but
for all that it may not be better worth hearing.
What are the influences in city life that make for this finer polish, this
greater refinement, this urbanity? What are the refining- influneces in the
of Rustica's sister who lives in the city? ^
She learns something every day by watching her neighbors and the peo
pie in the streets. She has gone to the great school of the city. She can he^r
the best preachers, the famous lecturers, the formost actors und musicians.
They all come to the city to teach her jwhat they Jiave learned of religion, sci-
ence, music, art. The pulpit, the theatre, the art exhibition, ther
7
concert-
roomthese are the class-rooms of the city school of life. Cities civilize, pol-
ish, educate largely from the outside. I The dwellers in citiee improve by imi-
tation; they learn from one another.-^Harper's Bazar.
!
r a l l wa VB mi npf c
How Germany Saves
* By William H. Tolman
EGARDING the accidents in the United States/ i t is the opin-
ion of the engineering profession that one-half of them are
preventable. If so, the*next question is, how? A conserva-
tive estimate of the number of annual accidents which re-
sult fatally, or in partial or total incapacity for work, Is
500,000. Reckoning the wage earning capacity of the aver-
age workman at | 500 a year (this makes no allowance for
the professional men, railroad presidents, industrialists and
ready for the ballot. Their day will, come, but it must not
other high-salaried officials who are injured or killed by the
htiiklintr trades and other occupations), we have a social and
THE EMPTY SLEEVE.
BY PHILA BUTLER BOWMAN.
And why does .my sleeve hang empty?
And eo you are asking to know
Of the cloud that bent down
With its blackening frown
On our Nation, BO little ago.
And why does my sleeve hand empty?
And why, when 1 fold you so tight
Have I only one arm
That shall shield you. from harm?
One. was laid on the altar of Right.
You know what
M
^ly Country" means,
Lad,
Your grandfather's country and yours.
You will know, as life thickens,
Why all your blood quickens
At sight of the flag that endures.
You will learn what it means to be free,
Lad,
And to honor those sacrificed ones
In a country whose sod
At the altar of God
Was pledged free, in the blood of her sons.
You have learned to be glad in the colors
And swell, with your gay little shout,
The song that dead stones
Would cry out, should our tones
Wake not, when the flag flutters out. ,
4
The time is so little ago, Lad,
And the valleys grew sweet with corn,
And the grape and the grain;
Forgot hardship and .pain
For joy in God's country, new-born.
But a spirit awoke in the air, Lad,
And shadowed the light of the bars,
And threatened to tear :
From their regal place there
On the blue of our bannerthe stars. .
The story grows old in the telling,
Of the voice that went ringing afar
That the brave, loyal hand
Of each son of the land
Be pledged,for the life of a star.
And something, deep down in the breast,
Lad,
Leaped up at the voice of that call,
And the tread of a host
Rose, as marched to their post
Those heroes, to conquer or fall.

And War rode his terrible charger
Through the valleys that love had made
fair. ! *
But God, in His might
Helped the hand raised for right
Crush the spirit that rose in the air.
The story is sad to tell, dear,
Butthe stars are still shining on high.
Tho' the myriad graves
Where the summer grass waves
Are voices to answer us why.
So I know wjhat "the Union" cost, Lad,,
And the flag that no spirit can grieve;
And when it shakes out '
And I hear your glad shout.
I thank God,for the empty sleeve.
with a penciled word to "Sond Gener-
al Warren at least a division to hold
the position at Little Round Top."
On the summit where the signal
officer was the musket balls, were be-
ginning to fly. He folded up his
flags and was going to leave; but at
this moment Warren came back, and
Induced him to keep the flags wav-
ing. "It may puzzle those people,"
he said, meaning the enemy, "and
may keep them back for a few min-
utes. " So the two men waited, watch-
ing the puffs of smoke that appeared
at different distances. A thick cloud
showed where the action was already
raging at the Peach Orchard; in hot
haste the battle was spreading all
along the field; cannonade and mus-
ketry crashed and rattled at right,
left and centre of the long battle
lines. A movement of the mass of
infantry which Warren had detected
on the wooded ridge was plainly visi-
ble. Suppose Meade had delayed in
sending him an army corps!
The moments of suspense came
suddenly to an end with the arrival
of Hazlett's battery of rifled cannon
of the Fifth Artillery.
The young lieutenant spoke. "Gen-
eral, what's the matter?"
The deuce is to pay!" was the re-

he held w at <[ great importance tl*
t h o b a t t l e Kr l i La l l i i i ^hl Ii i ^ali the-
destruction oi'. an enui e cuips. It
was almost certain that supports
wo u l d be Sei i l h i m BoOuel or l a ^ e L
l i e was resuived never to yield.
Yet half the regiment were gone;
hardly mure tLan skirmish line was
left him. The soldiers, having fired
the tixty rounds of cartridges they
had carried into the fight, were emp-
tying the cartridge boxes of their
fallen comrades. A few minutes
longer and not a man would be left
alive.
"Colonel, let us charge them! \fre
will drive them off the hi l l !" shouted
a lieutenant in a hoarse voice.
Last Hope of the Defenders.
Chamberlain glanced at him in ad-
miration.
This was the heroic spirit of hi s
men.
;
Yes, why not charge them? he
thought. Suddenly, unexpectedly
even. to himself, he gave the order:
"Fix bayonets!"
Th* command, "Charge!" was lost
in the deep, long drawn shout of t he
desperate men; they leaped forward
and rushed down the hill. Stri ki ng
the enemy among the scattered trees
on the outskirt of the wopd, they
I
ii
1
WHEN MCKINLEY SERVED COFFEE IN BATTLE.
By Carl Hovey.
The war council of Federal gener- point, only one s ol di er/ an officer of
Us the night before the second day's the signal corps. He no sooner
oattle of Gettysburg became necessar-, looked abput hi m that It became in-
t
Bronze Tablet to McKinley E rected at Washington,,, D. C.
Exploit of Late President, Who as Commissary Sergeant of Twen-
ty-third Ohio Volunteers Gave Steaming Drinks and Hardtack
to Soldiers, to Be Perpetuated in Bronze.
(ly a frantic pretension of scanning
the unknown. Outside, on the length-
ening ridges and between the abrupt
hillsides of that intricate battle field,
lay the encampments of the two hos-
tile armies, ominous and solemn.
There were few camp fires. At ti mes
jeould be heard the voice of a sentry,
{challenging, or the drawn out clatter
of f horseman on the stone pavement
of the cemetery.
The night passed, and daybreak
found the cautious General Mea^le
stijl listening to the reports of hisj di-
vision commanders, to their stories
of misfortune, and plans for strength-
ening the line of battle. The unpro-
tected North lay at his back; in his
front a general whose resourceful-
ness was unfathomable ahd who
ranked as a military genius. To pic-
ture in hi s mind's eye the battle
ground that was now obscured and
dim, and to fdresee wjiat would be
i he thing wanted there, at the given
point, at the given moment, on the
morrow, was the well nigh insuper-w
able task of the Northern general.
The unexpected was certai n/ to be*
fall both officers and men, and they
must be roady to perform miracles if
need be. An instance of this kind
was the fight of the Twentieth Maine
on Little Round Top, in memory of
which the colonel of the regiment,
Josfeua L. Chamberlain, for his great
tenacity and his daring heroism,' re-
ceived the Medal of Honor.
Little Round Top had escaped the
vigilance of the Federal commanders.
This was the smaller of two rough
hills, strewn with boulders and bare,
slippery rock, rising sharply from a
wooded swamp, behind . which
stretched, the- Confederate battle line.
At the foot of Little Round Top a
body of Union troops had been posted.
Only One Mun For Defense.
It was now afternoon. Lee's at-
tack was expected momentarily, and
every man was Waiting intently, with
stantly clear to him that the top of
this. hill, where there were no troops,,
and which had been abandoned for a
signal station, was in reality the key
to the whole position. His astonish-
ment gav^ place to consternation.
"With Ms glass ne noted a thickly
wooded ridge beyond 4he swamp;
there* he surmised, the ene'my was
already forming his lines, to burst
suddenly [upon the Union troops at
ply. "I hope you can hold out until
the infantry come up." '
Stayed Until He Was Killed.
"I guess I can," answered Lieuten-
ant Hazlett. As a matter of fact, ne
stayed these until he was killed. The
passage of those six guns through
roadless woods and up among the
jutting boulders of t he. height was
marvelous; nothing but the dash and
eagerness of the men to get into ac-
tion, together with their incredibly
skilful driving, could have planted
those cannon on the very summit of
Little Round Top. /
The infantry were not far behind.
Among the regiments closing in to
seize the hilltop were the Forty-sev-
enth and the Fifteenth Alabama of
t he Confederate side; and of the
Union* army, the Twentieth Maine,
commanded by Colonel Chamberlain,
which was an usually small regiment,
numbering only about three hundred
men. /This little force had no sooner
reached the portion of the hillside
assigned to them, where they stood
panting from their exertions, than
they saw a dense iriass of Confeder-
ates coming toward them; for the
two strong Confederate regiments,
containing a thousand men, had been
ordered to turn the Union flank at ex-
actly that position. Discerning in a
flash the grave peril of his command,
the Maine colonel quickly ordered five
| companies to swing back until they
t h r b a s e j where in the screening .formed a line at a right angle to the
^^^^w>:'w:i:s^^c:^'<?i^^^:^^:^^::ft::::
KrfWSt:-:-;:-^:>:-:-::K-:-:-'-v r >> ; ::>: : ::.*:
WM
yy*
^^k^m
closed in upon them with bayonets^
and the butts of their guns.
Of the Confederates some fought
until they were killed; more, how-
ever, acted as if thrown into a panic-
by the wild charge, and they ran for
their lives. Undoubtedly they sup-
posed that a strong re-enforcement
had reached the Unio|i line, and that
this had caused the sjidden attack.
The brave Maine
h
regiment cap-
tured three hundred prisoners, ani L
returned with them to the old posi-*.
tion, where they stayed unty in the
last hours of that terrible summer's-
afternoon the victorious little com-
mand was thrust into the -struggle
for the adjoining hilL, Round Top.
Concerning their leader in this ex-
ploit, it may be added that, besides
receiving the Medal of Honor at Get-
tysburg, he was afterward promoted
in the field by General Grant; and he*
so distinguished himself as a briga-
dier that he was brevetted ra major
general in 18 65, "for conspicuous gal-
lantry in action." After the war he-
led, and is still leading, a highly i m-
portant public Career in his native-
State of Maine. *
GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD (BIG AND LITTLE ROUND TOl" FROM
ERJMETSBURG ROAD.)
woods nothing i oul d be known of the , rest. _ At this instant the Al abami au,
movements of the enemy until the
Confederates were upon them. To
verify this strong suspicion, General
Warren made his way as rapidly as
possible to a battery at the foot of the
hill.
"Captain,
M
he said, "fire a shot into
those woods. "
The Captain of the rifle battery
did so, and as the shot, whistling,
passed qver the wood, it must have
caused everyone of the concealed
Rebels to look in the direction of the
sound; If or a simultaneous flash of
^1 K o v n n o t r p Vf t Rl e d
1 ~ 1 A i
attacked them on front and flank,
opening with a murderous fire.
Colonel Chamberlain with drawn
sword moved up and down his lines.
The Rebel bullets whizzed incessantly
past him; his men were constantly
groaning and falling on every side.
Outnumbered more than three to one,
their position was terrible, and it was
apparently a hopeless one. Yet with
dripping faces the men loaded and
fired their muskets, displaying tne
cool expertness of true veterans.
Smoke walled them in and to sonu
extent concealed from the enemy th.
Our Patriot Dead.
Bring ye sweet fiuwers to deck their lowly .
graved,
The noble ones who shed their life-bloo<i
free
And, tigiiUng, fell in freedom's cause,
that we
Should hold it sacred, while the old flag
wavet>!
Bring flowers, the fairest, sweetest, for our
braves
Roses ana lilies. 'Twas for you and me
They died. Cover ea$h mound that they
may see
The living love that still a strong heart
craves.
O sainted dead! O ihusband, brother,.
friend. .
Known or unknown* we hold thy mem-
or> green
And scatter o'er thy resting place^ th
robe.
Th-' hij . J.an.\v, violei to blend
Then peiiunxe wi'm the tears that, oft
unseen,
Ledrw tlit.- ground 'neata which oui
lovt-"i re'i'^f.
Anna \x. S. liv..siiei, in Christian Reg-
is; ci.
/ \
S\
Copyright Tom Tryniski 2005 www.fultonhistory.com
\ .
^ Vacations J& Sj
i Ey Elbert Hubbard f
HERE are three good redone why all employes should have
vacations. .,
One is so that the employer can see how easily any-
body's and everybody's i^lace can be filled; the n e x t t e j o
that when the employe returns he can see how well he can
be spared, since things go right along without him the
third is so the employe can show the employer and the
employer can understand that the employe is not manipu-
lating the accounts or engineering deals for his own benefit
Many a defalcation could have been avoided had the trusted man been
sent away two weeks each year, and an outsider put in his place. '
Beyond these, the vacation has little etcuse. As a matter of 4 ^ 3 *
the vacation does not recuperate, since, as a rule, no man needs a vacation so
much as the man who has just had one. The man who is so runJ^wn that
he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks, . wnat
he really needs is to retransform his life. .
i a l
,
f v
To work during the year at so rapid a pace that in August one s vitality
te exhausted, and a rest is demanded, .is. rank folly. What we a 1 need is
fenough vacation each day so that we can face each new morning with neaim
iufflcient to do our work in gladness. Ti at is to say, we need enough of a
play spell every day to Jteep us in good physical condition. -
The man who is done up and fagged out has not found his worK. Ana
Ihe man who lives during the year in anticipation of a vacation does not ^ de-
serve one, for he has not ascertained that it is work, and not vacations, that
makes life endurable. ,.
The only man who can really enjoy an outing is the man who aoesn t
oeed it. And the man who keeps his system so strong and well balanced that
he doesn't need a vacation is the one who eventually will marry the propri-
etor's daughter and have his name on the sign. Before you manage a busi-
ness, you better learn how to manage ydur cosmos. However, this does not
mean that I never take a vacation myselij-I do, otherwise how would I know
\he facts?New York American.
A Dinner to an Ele>
phant
By Lilian Bell
-i N what proved to be the coldest night of the year, a man,
^ ^ said to represent a brand of wine he is anxious to export, en-
# J i. gaged the largest stage in the world from midnight until the
^ ^ next noon and gave an entertainment in honor of an ele-
=*s phant to which were bidden the men and vjjomen whose
V JT^ lights shine mostly on the Great White Way.
^F"^L These people were requested to come dressed as ,
1 I "rubes," in the hope of making themselves as ridiculous as
possible. But that was unnecessary, as the report of their
Antics while? the wine, represented by their host, flowed with increasing free-
dom, did for them what no amount of caricature in dress could accomplish.
Out in the cold of this same freezing night there is a bread line. Station-
ed at various places in this city are municipal free lodging houses. To these
flocked the army of ttie hungry and homeless, seeking for food and shelter
from the bitter cold.
Of course, nobody blames a wine agent for advertising in any preposterous
way he can. Npr does one blame his guests, who can find no excitement so
suited to their taste as the sort given at an elephant dinnerwhere no dinner
wasfor going and giving themselves up an abandonment of vinous enjoy-
ment.
New York is a city of contrasts, and, in spite of the piteous tales of suf-
fering printed every day in the newspapers, the idle and the thoughtless con-
tinue to give parties, full of spirited and spirituous entertainment, where hun-
dreds, if not thousands, of dollars are spent for no good purpose and to no
worthy end.
l
Do you wonder that some shivering wretch with empty pockets and an
empty stomach, who hears of this waste and wanton extravagance, sometimes
loses his faith in God and man? '
Nobody objects to even expensive entertainments, which really entertain,
but to waste money and advertise that I waste when babies are dying of cold
and hunger on the coldest night of the year and men and women are driven
to desperate measures to find warmth and food, is little short of a crime.
New York American.
Self'help for Country
Women
By Maud Howe .
HAT "else besides assurance has the city woman that ithe
W
ii country woman lacks? I
II She has polish. Her manners are kept smooth by the
" continual friction witfi all sorts and conditions of men and
women. More polish,, more assurance, greater ease of man-
ner; the average city woman has more of all these than
the average country woman. She is usually quicker-
tongued, but not necessarily quicker-witted. Her speech
comes more readily than her sister's from the country, but
for all that it may not be better worth hearing.
What are the influences in city life that make for this finer polish, this
greater refinement, this urbanity? What are the refining- influneces in the
of Rustica's sister who lives in the city? ^
She learns something every day by watching her neighbors and the peo
pie in the streets. She has gone to the great school of the city. She can he^r
the best preachers, the famous lecturers, the formost actors und musicians.
They all come to the city to teach her jwhat they Jiave learned of religion, sci-
ence, music, art. The pulpit, the theatre, the art exhibition, ther
7
concert-
roomthese are the class-rooms of the city school of life. Cities civilize, pol-
ish, educate largely from the outside. I The dwellers in citiee improve by imi-
tation; they learn from one another.-^Harper's Bazar.
!
r a l l wa VB mi npf c
How Germany Saves
* By William H. Tolman
EGARDING the accidents in the United States/ i t is the opin-
ion of the engineering profession that one-half of them are
preventable. If so, the*next question is, how? A conserva-
tive estimate of the number of annual accidents which re-
sult fatally, or in partial or total incapacity for work, Is
500,000. Reckoning the wage earning capacity of the aver-
age workman at | 500 a year (this makes no allowance for
the professional men, railroad presidents, industrialists and
ready for the ballot. Their day will, come, but it must not
other high-salaried officials who are injured or killed by the
htiiklintr trades and other occupations), we have a social and
THE EMPTY SLEEVE.
BY PHILA BUTLER BOWMAN.
And why does .my sleeve hang empty?
And eo you are asking to know
Of the cloud that bent down
With its blackening frown
On our Nation, BO little ago.
And why does my sleeve hand empty?
And why, when 1 fold you so tight
Have I only one arm
That shall shield you. from harm?
One. was laid on the altar of Right.
You know what
M
^ly Country" means,
Lad,
Your grandfather's country and yours.
You will know, as life thickens,
Why all your blood quickens
At sight of the flag that endures.
You will learn what it means to be free,
Lad,
And to honor those sacrificed ones
In a country whose sod
At the altar of God
Was pledged free, in the blood of her sons.
You have learned to be glad in the colors
And swell, with your gay little shout,
The song that dead stones
Would cry out, should our tones
Wake not, when the flag flutters out. ,
4
The time is so little ago, Lad,
And the valleys grew sweet with corn,
And the grape and the grain;
Forgot hardship and .pain
For joy in God's country, new-born.
But a spirit awoke in the air, Lad,
And shadowed the light of the bars,
And threatened to tear :
From their regal place there
On the blue of our bannerthe stars. .
The story grows old in the telling,
Of the voice that went ringing afar
That the brave, loyal hand
Of each son of the land
Be pledged,for the life of a star.
And something, deep down in the breast,
Lad,
Leaped up at the voice of that call,
And the tread of a host
Rose, as marched to their post
Those heroes, to conquer or fall.

And War rode his terrible charger
Through the valleys that love had made
fair. ! *
But God, in His might
Helped the hand raised for right
Crush the spirit that rose in the air.
The story is sad to tell, dear,
Butthe stars are still shining on high.
Tho' the myriad graves
Where the summer grass waves
Are voices to answer us why.
So I know wjhat "the Union" cost, Lad,,
And the flag that no spirit can grieve;
And when it shakes out '
And I hear your glad shout.
I thank God,for the empty sleeve.
with a penciled word to "Sond Gener-
al Warren at least a division to hold
the position at Little Round Top."
On the summit where the signal
officer was the musket balls, were be-
ginning to fly. He folded up his
flags and was going to leave; but at
this moment Warren came back, and
Induced him to keep the flags wav-
ing. "It may puzzle those people,"
he said, meaning the enemy, "and
may keep them back for a few min-
utes. " So the two men waited, watch-
ing the puffs of smoke that appeared
at different distances. A thick cloud
showed where the action was already
raging at the Peach Orchard; in hot
haste the battle was spreading all
along the field; cannonade and mus-
ketry crashed and rattled at right,
left and centre of the long battle
lines. A movement of the mass of
infantry which Warren had detected
on the wooded ridge was plainly visi-
ble. Suppose Meade had delayed in
sending him an army corps!
The moments of suspense came
suddenly to an end with the arrival
of Hazlett's battery of rifled cannon
of the Fifth Artillery.
The young lieutenant spoke. "Gen-
eral, what's the matter?"
The deuce is to pay!" was the re-

he held w at <[ great importance tl*
t h o b a t t l e Kr l i La l l i i i ^hl Ii i ^ali the-
destruction oi'. an enui e cuips. It
was almost certain that supports
wo u l d be Sei i l h i m BoOuel or l a ^ e L
l i e was resuived never to yield.
Yet half the regiment were gone;
hardly mure tLan skirmish line was
left him. The soldiers, having fired
the tixty rounds of cartridges they
had carried into the fight, were emp-
tying the cartridge boxes of their
fallen comrades. A few minutes
longer and not a man would be left
alive.
"Colonel, let us charge them! \fre
will drive them off the hi l l !" shouted
a lieutenant in a hoarse voice.
Last Hope of the Defenders.
Chamberlain glanced at him in ad-
miration.
This was the heroic spirit of hi s
men.
;
Yes, why not charge them? he
thought. Suddenly, unexpectedly
even. to himself, he gave the order:
"Fix bayonets!"
Th* command, "Charge!" was lost
in the deep, long drawn shout of t he
desperate men; they leaped forward
and rushed down the hill. Stri ki ng
the enemy among the scattered trees
on the outskirt of the wopd, they
I
ii
1
WHEN MCKINLEY SERVED COFFEE IN BATTLE.
By Carl Hovey.
The war council of Federal gener- point, only one s ol di er/ an officer of
Us the night before the second day's the signal corps. He no sooner
oattle of Gettysburg became necessar-, looked abput hi m that It became in-
t
Bronze Tablet to McKinley E rected at Washington,,, D. C.
Exploit of Late President, Who as Commissary Sergeant of Twen-
ty-third Ohio Volunteers Gave Steaming Drinks and Hardtack
to Soldiers, to Be Perpetuated in Bronze.
(ly a frantic pretension of scanning
the unknown. Outside, on the length-
ening ridges and between the abrupt
hillsides of that intricate battle field,
lay the encampments of the two hos-
tile armies, ominous and solemn.
There were few camp fires. At ti mes
jeould be heard the voice of a sentry,
{challenging, or the drawn out clatter
of f horseman on the stone pavement
of the cemetery.
The night passed, and daybreak
found the cautious General Mea^le
stijl listening to the reports of hisj di-
vision commanders, to their stories
of misfortune, and plans for strength-
ening the line of battle. The unpro-
tected North lay at his back; in his
front a general whose resourceful-
ness was unfathomable ahd who
ranked as a military genius. To pic-
ture in hi s mind's eye the battle
ground that was now obscured and
dim, and to fdresee wjiat would be
i he thing wanted there, at the given
point, at the given moment, on the
morrow, was the well nigh insuper-w
able task of the Northern general.
The unexpected was certai n/ to be*
fall both officers and men, and they
must be roady to perform miracles if
need be. An instance of this kind
was the fight of the Twentieth Maine
on Little Round Top, in memory of
which the colonel of the regiment,
Josfeua L. Chamberlain, for his great
tenacity and his daring heroism,' re-
ceived the Medal of Honor.
Little Round Top had escaped the
vigilance of the Federal commanders.
This was the smaller of two rough
hills, strewn with boulders and bare,
slippery rock, rising sharply from a
wooded swamp, behind . which
stretched, the- Confederate battle line.
At the foot of Little Round Top a
body of Union troops had been posted.
Only One Mun For Defense.
It was now afternoon. Lee's at-
tack was expected momentarily, and
every man was Waiting intently, with
stantly clear to him that the top of
this. hill, where there were no troops,,
and which had been abandoned for a
signal station, was in reality the key
to the whole position. His astonish-
ment gav^ place to consternation.
"With Ms glass ne noted a thickly
wooded ridge beyond 4he swamp;
there* he surmised, the ene'my was
already forming his lines, to burst
suddenly [upon the Union troops at
ply. "I hope you can hold out until
the infantry come up." '
Stayed Until He Was Killed.
"I guess I can," answered Lieuten-
ant Hazlett. As a matter of fact, ne
stayed these until he was killed. The
passage of those six guns through
roadless woods and up among the
jutting boulders of t he. height was
marvelous; nothing but the dash and
eagerness of the men to get into ac-
tion, together with their incredibly
skilful driving, could have planted
those cannon on the very summit of
Little Round Top. /
The infantry were not far behind.
Among the regiments closing in to
seize the hilltop were the Forty-sev-
enth and the Fifteenth Alabama of
t he Confederate side; and of the
Union* army, the Twentieth Maine,
commanded by Colonel Chamberlain,
which was an usually small regiment,
numbering only about three hundred
men. /This little force had no sooner
reached the portion of the hillside
assigned to them, where they stood
panting from their exertions, than
they saw a dense iriass of Confeder-
ates coming toward them; for the
two strong Confederate regiments,
containing a thousand men, had been
ordered to turn the Union flank at ex-
actly that position. Discerning in a
flash the grave peril of his command,
the Maine colonel quickly ordered five
| companies to swing back until they
t h r b a s e j where in the screening .formed a line at a right angle to the
^^^^w>:'w:i:s^^c:^'<?i^^^:^^:^^::ft::::
KrfWSt:-:-;:-^:>:-:-::K-:-:-'-v r >> ; ::>: : ::.*:
WM
yy*
^^k^m
closed in upon them with bayonets^
and the butts of their guns.
Of the Confederates some fought
until they were killed; more, how-
ever, acted as if thrown into a panic-
by the wild charge, and they ran for
their lives. Undoubtedly they sup-
posed that a strong re-enforcement
had reached the Unio|i line, and that
this had caused the sjidden attack.
The brave Maine
h
regiment cap-
tured three hundred prisoners, ani L
returned with them to the old posi-*.
tion, where they stayed unty in the
last hours of that terrible summer's-
afternoon the victorious little com-
mand was thrust into the -struggle
for the adjoining hilL, Round Top.
Concerning their leader in this ex-
ploit, it may be added that, besides
receiving the Medal of Honor at Get-
tysburg, he was afterward promoted
in the field by General Grant; and he*
so distinguished himself as a briga-
dier that he was brevetted ra major
general in 18 65, "for conspicuous gal-
lantry in action." After the war he-
led, and is still leading, a highly i m-
portant public Career in his native-
State of Maine. *
GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD (BIG AND LITTLE ROUND TOl" FROM
ERJMETSBURG ROAD.)
woods nothing i oul d be known of the , rest. _ At this instant the Al abami au,
movements of the enemy until the
Confederates were upon them. To
verify this strong suspicion, General
Warren made his way as rapidly as
possible to a battery at the foot of the
hill.
"Captain,
M
he said, "fire a shot into
those woods. "
The Captain of the rifle battery
did so, and as the shot, whistling,
passed qver the wood, it must have
caused everyone of the concealed
Rebels to look in the direction of the
sound; If or a simultaneous flash of
^1 K o v n n o t r p Vf t Rl e d
1 ~ 1 A i
attacked them on front and flank,
opening with a murderous fire.
Colonel Chamberlain with drawn
sword moved up and down his lines.
The Rebel bullets whizzed incessantly
past him; his men were constantly
groaning and falling on every side.
Outnumbered more than three to one,
their position was terrible, and it was
apparently a hopeless one. Yet with
dripping faces the men loaded and
fired their muskets, displaying tne
cool expertness of true veterans.
Smoke walled them in and to sonu
extent concealed from the enemy th.
Our Patriot Dead.
Bring ye sweet fiuwers to deck their lowly .
graved,
The noble ones who shed their life-bloo<i
free
And, tigiiUng, fell in freedom's cause,
that we
Should hold it sacred, while the old flag
wavet>!
Bring flowers, the fairest, sweetest, for our
braves
Roses ana lilies. 'Twas for you and me
They died. Cover ea$h mound that they
may see
The living love that still a strong heart
craves.
O sainted dead! O ihusband, brother,.
friend. .
Known or unknown* we hold thy mem-
or> green
And scatter o'er thy resting place^ th
robe.
Th-' hij . J.an.\v, violei to blend
Then peiiunxe wi'm the tears that, oft
unseen,
Ledrw tlit.- ground 'neata which oui
lovt-"i re'i'^f.
Anna \x. S. liv..siiei, in Christian Reg-
is; ci.
/ \
S\ PDF compression, OCR, web-optimization with CVISION's PdfCompressor
!!!"#$%&'()(!*+,-+-&(./+*)(0,"-$.

From the:

The Herald
Clide, NY
May 19, 1909

And
The Cato Citizen
May 22, 1909



Copyright Tom Tryniski 2005 www.fultonhistory.com
\ .
^ Vacations J& Sj
i Ey Elbert Hubbard f
HERE are three good redone why all employes should have
vacations. .,
One is so that the employer can see how easily any-
body's and everybody's i^lace can be filled; the n e x t t e j o
that when the employe returns he can see how well he can
be spared, since things go right along without him the
third is so the employe can show the employer and the
employer can understand that the employe is not manipu-
lating the accounts or engineering deals for his own benefit
Many a defalcation could have been avoided had the trusted man been
sent away two weeks each year, and an outsider put in his place. '
Beyond these, the vacation has little etcuse. As a matter of 4 ^ 3 *
the vacation does not recuperate, since, as a rule, no man needs a vacation so
much as the man who has just had one. The man who is so runJ^wn that
he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks, . wnat
he really needs is to retransform his life. .
i a l
,
f v
To work during the year at so rapid a pace that in August one s vitality
te exhausted, and a rest is demanded, .is. rank folly. What we a 1 need is
fenough vacation each day so that we can face each new morning with neaim
iufflcient to do our work in gladness. Ti at is to say, we need enough of a
play spell every day to Jteep us in good physical condition. -
The man who is done up and fagged out has not found his worK. Ana
Ihe man who lives during the year in anticipation of a vacation does not ^ de-
serve one, for he has not ascertained that it is work, and not vacations, that
makes life endurable. ,.
The only man who can really enjoy an outing is the man who aoesn t
oeed it. And the man who keeps his system so strong and well balanced that
he doesn't need a vacation is the one who eventually will marry the propri-
etor's daughter and have his name on the sign. Before you manage a busi-
ness, you better learn how to manage ydur cosmos. However, this does not
mean that I never take a vacation myselij-I do, otherwise how would I know
\he facts?New York American.
A Dinner to an Ele>
phant
By Lilian Bell
-i N what proved to be the coldest night of the year, a man,
^ ^ said to represent a brand of wine he is anxious to export, en-
# J i. gaged the largest stage in the world from midnight until the
^ ^ next noon and gave an entertainment in honor of an ele-
=*s phant to which were bidden the men and vjjomen whose
V JT^ lights shine mostly on the Great White Way.
^F"^L These people were requested to come dressed as ,
1 I "rubes," in the hope of making themselves as ridiculous as
possible. But that was unnecessary, as the report of their
Antics while? the wine, represented by their host, flowed with increasing free-
dom, did for them what no amount of caricature in dress could accomplish.
Out in the cold of this same freezing night there is a bread line. Station-
ed at various places in this city are municipal free lodging houses. To these
flocked the army of ttie hungry and homeless, seeking for food and shelter
from the bitter cold.
Of course, nobody blames a wine agent for advertising in any preposterous
way he can. Npr does one blame his guests, who can find no excitement so
suited to their taste as the sort given at an elephant dinnerwhere no dinner
wasfor going and giving themselves up an abandonment of vinous enjoy-
ment.
New York is a city of contrasts, and, in spite of the piteous tales of suf-
fering printed every day in the newspapers, the idle and the thoughtless con-
tinue to give parties, full of spirited and spirituous entertainment, where hun-
dreds, if not thousands, of dollars are spent for no good purpose and to no
worthy end.
l
Do you wonder that some shivering wretch with empty pockets and an
empty stomach, who hears of this waste and wanton extravagance, sometimes
loses his faith in God and man? '
Nobody objects to even expensive entertainments, which really entertain,
but to waste money and advertise that I waste when babies are dying of cold
and hunger on the coldest night of the year and men and women are driven
to desperate measures to find warmth and food, is little short of a crime.
New York American.
Self'help for Country
Women
By Maud Howe .
HAT "else besides assurance has the city woman that ithe
W
ii country woman lacks? I
II She has polish. Her manners are kept smooth by the
" continual friction witfi all sorts and conditions of men and
women. More polish,, more assurance, greater ease of man-
ner; the average city woman has more of all these than
the average country woman. She is usually quicker-
tongued, but not necessarily quicker-witted. Her speech
comes more readily than her sister's from the country, but
for all that it may not be better worth hearing.
What are the influences in city life that make for this finer polish, this
greater refinement, this urbanity? What are the refining- influneces in the
of Rustica's sister who lives in the city? ^
She learns something every day by watching her neighbors and the peo
pie in the streets. She has gone to the great school of the city. She can he^r
the best preachers, the famous lecturers, the formost actors und musicians.
They all come to the city to teach her jwhat they Jiave learned of religion, sci-
ence, music, art. The pulpit, the theatre, the art exhibition, ther
7
concert-
roomthese are the class-rooms of the city school of life. Cities civilize, pol-
ish, educate largely from the outside. I The dwellers in citiee improve by imi-
tation; they learn from one another.-^Harper's Bazar.
!
r a l l wa VB mi npf c
How Germany Saves
* By William H. Tolman
EGARDING the accidents in the United States/ i t is the opin-
ion of the engineering profession that one-half of them are
preventable. If so, the*next question is, how? A conserva-
tive estimate of the number of annual accidents which re-
sult fatally, or in partial or total incapacity for work, Is
500,000. Reckoning the wage earning capacity of the aver-
age workman at | 500 a year (this makes no allowance for
the professional men, railroad presidents, industrialists and
ready for the ballot. Their day will, come, but it must not
other high-salaried officials who are injured or killed by the
htiiklintr trades and other occupations), we have a social and
THE EMPTY SLEEVE.
BY PHILA BUTLER BOWMAN.
And why does .my sleeve hang empty?
And eo you are asking to know
Of the cloud that bent down
With its blackening frown
On our Nation, BO little ago.
And why does my sleeve hand empty?
And why, when 1 fold you so tight
Have I only one arm
That shall shield you. from harm?
One. was laid on the altar of Right.
You know what
M
^ly Country" means,
Lad,
Your grandfather's country and yours.
You will know, as life thickens,
Why all your blood quickens
At sight of the flag that endures.
You will learn what it means to be free,
Lad,
And to honor those sacrificed ones
In a country whose sod
At the altar of God
Was pledged free, in the blood of her sons.
You have learned to be glad in the colors
And swell, with your gay little shout,
The song that dead stones
Would cry out, should our tones
Wake not, when the flag flutters out. ,
4
The time is so little ago, Lad,
And the valleys grew sweet with corn,
And the grape and the grain;
Forgot hardship and .pain
For joy in God's country, new-born.
But a spirit awoke in the air, Lad,
And shadowed the light of the bars,
And threatened to tear :
From their regal place there
On the blue of our bannerthe stars. .
The story grows old in the telling,
Of the voice that went ringing afar
That the brave, loyal hand
Of each son of the land
Be pledged,for the life of a star.
And something, deep down in the breast,
Lad,
Leaped up at the voice of that call,
And the tread of a host
Rose, as marched to their post
Those heroes, to conquer or fall.

And War rode his terrible charger
Through the valleys that love had made
fair. ! *
But God, in His might
Helped the hand raised for right
Crush the spirit that rose in the air.
The story is sad to tell, dear,
Butthe stars are still shining on high.
Tho' the myriad graves
Where the summer grass waves
Are voices to answer us why.
So I know wjhat "the Union" cost, Lad,,
And the flag that no spirit can grieve;
And when it shakes out '
And I hear your glad shout.
I thank God,for the empty sleeve.
with a penciled word to "Sond Gener-
al Warren at least a division to hold
the position at Little Round Top."
On the summit where the signal
officer was the musket balls, were be-
ginning to fly. He folded up his
flags and was going to leave; but at
this moment Warren came back, and
Induced him to keep the flags wav-
ing. "It may puzzle those people,"
he said, meaning the enemy, "and
may keep them back for a few min-
utes. " So the two men waited, watch-
ing the puffs of smoke that appeared
at different distances. A thick cloud
showed where the action was already
raging at the Peach Orchard; in hot
haste the battle was spreading all
along the field; cannonade and mus-
ketry crashed and rattled at right,
left and centre of the long battle
lines. A movement of the mass of
infantry which Warren had detected
on the wooded ridge was plainly visi-
ble. Suppose Meade had delayed in
sending him an army corps!
The moments of suspense came
suddenly to an end with the arrival
of Hazlett's battery of rifled cannon
of the Fifth Artillery.
The young lieutenant spoke. "Gen-
eral, what's the matter?"
The deuce is to pay!" was the re-

he held w at <[ great importance tl*
t h o b a t t l e Kr l i La l l i i i ^hl Ii i ^ali the-
destruction oi'. an enui e cuips. It
was almost certain that supports
wo u l d be Sei i l h i m BoOuel or l a ^ e L
l i e was resuived never to yield.
Yet half the regiment were gone;
hardly mure tLan skirmish line was
left him. The soldiers, having fired
the tixty rounds of cartridges they
had carried into the fight, were emp-
tying the cartridge boxes of their
fallen comrades. A few minutes
longer and not a man would be left
alive.
"Colonel, let us charge them! \fre
will drive them off the hi l l !" shouted
a lieutenant in a hoarse voice.
Last Hope of the Defenders.
Chamberlain glanced at him in ad-
miration.
This was the heroic spirit of hi s
men.
;
Yes, why not charge them? he
thought. Suddenly, unexpectedly
even. to himself, he gave the order:
"Fix bayonets!"
Th* command, "Charge!" was lost
in the deep, long drawn shout of t he
desperate men; they leaped forward
and rushed down the hill. Stri ki ng
the enemy among the scattered trees
on the outskirt of the wopd, they
I
ii
1
WHEN MCKINLEY SERVED COFFEE IN BATTLE.
By Carl Hovey.
The war council of Federal gener- point, only one s ol di er/ an officer of
Us the night before the second day's the signal corps. He no sooner
oattle of Gettysburg became necessar-, looked abput hi m that It became in-
t
Bronze Tablet to McKinley E rected at Washington,,, D. C.
Exploit of Late President, Who as Commissary Sergeant of Twen-
ty-third Ohio Volunteers Gave Steaming Drinks and Hardtack
to Soldiers, to Be Perpetuated in Bronze.
(ly a frantic pretension of scanning
the unknown. Outside, on the length-
ening ridges and between the abrupt
hillsides of that intricate battle field,
lay the encampments of the two hos-
tile armies, ominous and solemn.
There were few camp fires. At ti mes
jeould be heard the voice of a sentry,
{challenging, or the drawn out clatter
of f horseman on the stone pavement
of the cemetery.
The night passed, and daybreak
found the cautious General Mea^le
stijl listening to the reports of hisj di-
vision commanders, to their stories
of misfortune, and plans for strength-
ening the line of battle. The unpro-
tected North lay at his back; in his
front a general whose resourceful-
ness was unfathomable ahd who
ranked as a military genius. To pic-
ture in hi s mind's eye the battle
ground that was now obscured and
dim, and to fdresee wjiat would be
i he thing wanted there, at the given
point, at the given moment, on the
morrow, was the well nigh insuper-w
able task of the Northern general.
The unexpected was certai n/ to be*
fall both officers and men, and they
must be roady to perform miracles if
need be. An instance of this kind
was the fight of the Twentieth Maine
on Little Round Top, in memory of
which the colonel of the regiment,
Josfeua L. Chamberlain, for his great
tenacity and his daring heroism,' re-
ceived the Medal of Honor.
Little Round Top had escaped the
vigilance of the Federal commanders.
This was the smaller of two rough
hills, strewn with boulders and bare,
slippery rock, rising sharply from a
wooded swamp, behind . which
stretched, the- Confederate battle line.
At the foot of Little Round Top a
body of Union troops had been posted.
Only One Mun For Defense.
It was now afternoon. Lee's at-
tack was expected momentarily, and
every man was Waiting intently, with
stantly clear to him that the top of
this. hill, where there were no troops,,
and which had been abandoned for a
signal station, was in reality the key
to the whole position. His astonish-
ment gav^ place to consternation.
"With Ms glass ne noted a thickly
wooded ridge beyond 4he swamp;
there* he surmised, the ene'my was
already forming his lines, to burst
suddenly [upon the Union troops at
ply. "I hope you can hold out until
the infantry come up." '
Stayed Until He Was Killed.
"I guess I can," answered Lieuten-
ant Hazlett. As a matter of fact, ne
stayed these until he was killed. The
passage of those six guns through
roadless woods and up among the
jutting boulders of t he. height was
marvelous; nothing but the dash and
eagerness of the men to get into ac-
tion, together with their incredibly
skilful driving, could have planted
those cannon on the very summit of
Little Round Top. /
The infantry were not far behind.
Among the regiments closing in to
seize the hilltop were the Forty-sev-
enth and the Fifteenth Alabama of
t he Confederate side; and of the
Union* army, the Twentieth Maine,
commanded by Colonel Chamberlain,
which was an usually small regiment,
numbering only about three hundred
men. /This little force had no sooner
reached the portion of the hillside
assigned to them, where they stood
panting from their exertions, than
they saw a dense iriass of Confeder-
ates coming toward them; for the
two strong Confederate regiments,
containing a thousand men, had been
ordered to turn the Union flank at ex-
actly that position. Discerning in a
flash the grave peril of his command,
the Maine colonel quickly ordered five
| companies to swing back until they
t h r b a s e j where in the screening .formed a line at a right angle to the
^^^^w>:'w:i:s^^c:^'<?i^^^:^^:^^::ft::::
KrfWSt:-:-;:-^:>:-:-::K-:-:-'-v r >> ; ::>: : ::.*:
WM
yy*
^^k^m
closed in upon them with bayonets^
and the butts of their guns.
Of the Confederates some fought
until they were killed; more, how-
ever, acted as if thrown into a panic-
by the wild charge, and they ran for
their lives. Undoubtedly they sup-
posed that a strong re-enforcement
had reached the Unio|i line, and that
this had caused the sjidden attack.
The brave Maine
h
regiment cap-
tured three hundred prisoners, ani L
returned with them to the old posi-*.
tion, where they stayed unty in the
last hours of that terrible summer's-
afternoon the victorious little com-
mand was thrust into the -struggle
for the adjoining hilL, Round Top.
Concerning their leader in this ex-
ploit, it may be added that, besides
receiving the Medal of Honor at Get-
tysburg, he was afterward promoted
in the field by General Grant; and he*
so distinguished himself as a briga-
dier that he was brevetted ra major
general in 18 65, "for conspicuous gal-
lantry in action." After the war he-
led, and is still leading, a highly i m-
portant public Career in his native-
State of Maine. *
GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD (BIG AND LITTLE ROUND TOl" FROM
ERJMETSBURG ROAD.)
woods nothing i oul d be known of the , rest. _ At this instant the Al abami au,
movements of the enemy until the
Confederates were upon them. To
verify this strong suspicion, General
Warren made his way as rapidly as
possible to a battery at the foot of the
hill.
"Captain,
M
he said, "fire a shot into
those woods. "
The Captain of the rifle battery
did so, and as the shot, whistling,
passed qver the wood, it must have
caused everyone of the concealed
Rebels to look in the direction of the
sound; If or a simultaneous flash of
^1 K o v n n o t r p Vf t Rl e d
1 ~ 1 A i
attacked them on front and flank,
opening with a murderous fire.
Colonel Chamberlain with drawn
sword moved up and down his lines.
The Rebel bullets whizzed incessantly
past him; his men were constantly
groaning and falling on every side.
Outnumbered more than three to one,
their position was terrible, and it was
apparently a hopeless one. Yet with
dripping faces the men loaded and
fired their muskets, displaying tne
cool expertness of true veterans.
Smoke walled them in and to sonu
extent concealed from the enemy th.
Our Patriot Dead.
Bring ye sweet fiuwers to deck their lowly .
graved,
The noble ones who shed their life-bloo<i
free
And, tigiiUng, fell in freedom's cause,
that we
Should hold it sacred, while the old flag
wavet>!
Bring flowers, the fairest, sweetest, for our
braves
Roses ana lilies. 'Twas for you and me
They died. Cover ea$h mound that they
may see
The living love that still a strong heart
craves.
O sainted dead! O ihusband, brother,.
friend. .
Known or unknown* we hold thy mem-
or> green
And scatter o'er thy resting place^ th
robe.
Th-' hij . J.an.\v, violei to blend
Then peiiunxe wi'm the tears that, oft
unseen,
Ledrw tlit.- ground 'neata which oui
lovt-"i re'i'^f.
Anna \x. S. liv..siiei, in Christian Reg-
is; ci.
/ \
S\