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OREGON CITY COURIER, EjSJ&AY, MAY 30 1913
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
Y FRANK MOORE, MEADS POST.
It was on a July morning in eighteen
nxty-three
That Lee's imnetuous warrior had
dreams of victory.
They had crossed the old Potomac full
a hundred thousand strong,
And they thought themselves resistless
as they pusnert their way along.
Hill's begriinmed forces were tht firs
Longstreet closely followed, with Ewell
in the rear.
Thev had soread devastation in the
naths thev left behind.
The blackened walls of Chauibersberg
beiue freshly in their mind.
New York and Philadelphia were now
to be their goal,
The sight of burning cities they were
eager to behold.
They could hear our booming cannon
and could see our marching men,
But they thought their efforts futile, as
tliey d drive tnem dck again.
On and on they pushed their forces,
heedine not the bursting shell,
God of battles would be with them in
the cause they loved so well.
Suddenly their columns halted, Rey
nold's corns was comine near.
They must now prepare for battle and
rebel yell they soon would hear.
Federal forces opened battle, filling air
with shot and shell,
Thev were forcing rebels backward
when their gallant leader fell.
Fast and furious waged the struggle,
hand to hand combatants fought,
Men by thousands had been slaughtered,
but their efforts came to naught.
Shrieks of wounded, moans of dying,
told of battle's terrible coBt,
, And when nightfall closed upon them
neither side had won or lost.
Faintly moaned the dying soldier, gent
ly borne from battle field,
Not a kindred face was near him when
life's struggle he did yield.
The second day the battle raged
A Union corps beaame dismayed.
Sickle's force had met defeat,
The rebs had forced them to retreat.
In some very mysterious way
This ga Uant corps was led astray,
But reinforcements came up in time
To send them back to firing line.
Round Top Hill was rebel goal,
That lofty peak they sought to hold.
Could they but gain that sightly spot
No force could stand their deadly shot.
When Hancock saw the rebel aim
He said that point the must not gain,
But when the rebs made fierce alUck
He had no force to drive them back.
Could he in some miraculous way
Bring force to hold the rebs at bay?
He wanted but a moment's time
To bring his men to firing line.
No sacrifice would be too great
To save our arms from terrible fate.
The nation's pulse was standing still
While struggle raged for Round lop
Hill.
Then Hancock saw quite close at hand
The bravest troop in all the land.
"What regiment is that?" the general
cried,
"First Minnesota !" the boys replied
"Charne that line!" the ecueral said.
And quick as lightning they onward
sped.
They knew full well what order meant
1 And uttered a prayer as they torward
went.
No braver men e'er shouldered gun,
No braver men e'er battle won.
The rebel line was filled with awe,
A bolder move they never saw.
At first they wavered, then fell back,
But soon returned their fierce attack.
Amidst the storm of tliot and shell
One by one our comrades fell,
But they stood firmly as a rock,
The reb advance thriy swore to block;
Could they a moment more hold out
They'd save our arms from terrible rout,
At last the sound of Union guns
Brought cheering news relief had come
And charging on in double time
Backward fell the rebel line.
When battle's smoke had cleared away
A ghastly sight before them lay,
But forty-two there did remain,
Five times their number had been slain
In historic lore there can't be found
A greater loss on battle eround.
For lve of country these men hud died,
Xhe'r names should now be denied,
They'd left a leincy behind
Tbe grandest they could leave mankind
When the night was stilled in darkness
both the armies held their place,
And another day of horror was the pros
pect they did tace.
Round Top Hill we still were holding,
rebel efforts had beon vain,
But w knew that on the morrow they
would try their strength again.
Comrade Hull was with the forces that
drove back invading foe,
Uod has spared him to be with us, on
him honors we bestow.
Thus far lu the struggle we had met
superior toe,
But now our force was eqnal we could
give them blow ior blow.
From the lofty ridge to westward did
the rebel guns resound,
From the ridge we held in eastwrd did
the Union guns respond.
Terrific was the cannonading, deafen
ina was the terrible sound.
'Twas tho moKt unearthly firing ever
heard on battle held.
Many miles the ground was shaken
many buildings toppled o'er.
Earthquake's shock could not do dam
ago that was done by (million's roar.
Suddenly our gum were silenced, reb
CIS thought we d (alien back.
And from breastworks they soon issued
lu our rear they would attack.
When within the reach of musket we
poured on them shot and shell.
They were filled with consternation, but
tneir ground they stoutly held.
Boldly on they pushed their forces, fear
ing not iiiipemlliii! fate.
Rapidly their rutiks were thinning, but
they did not hesitate.
With a dogged determination, worthy of
a better cause,
Rebel forces kept on firing not a sec
ond did they pause.
But their efforts soon proved fruitless,
their loss nad been too great,
And Pickett's far-famed fighters we did
annihilate.
Then backward to their trenches rebel
forces did retrest,
The much-vaunted southern chivalry
nere uau met a great detest.
On the fifth of July morning we weut
out on battle grouud,
Full expecting great resistance, but no
enemy could be tound.
Rebel dreams of burning cities, rebel
hopes of victories won
Had thus been rudely shattered by the
fire of Uuiou guns,
Lee bad come from Old Virginia with
a hundred thousand men,
But he'd lost near forty thousand when
he southward turned again.
In this battle Comrade Hayford received
a serious wound,
But his musket kept on smoking as long
as rebels could be found.
Comrade Ettera joined our forces midst
the rain of shot and shell,
And was in the thick of battle till the
rebel colors fell.
Among the nation's greattst heroes
stands the name of General Meade,
It was by his decisive action that our
army did succeed.
He took command oi army put two
days Delore tne ngm,
His men were widely scattered and a
piant foe in sight.
By a rapid concentration of the forces
ciose ai nanu
lee's command. "
To the gallant General Hancock our
success was trrcatlv due.
It was his commanding presence that
inspired the Boys in Blue
On the third day of the battle h. receiv-
But he neverlefThU saddle till the reb-
1b left the pround.
He received the thanks of Congress for
the heroism he displayed.
And the plaudits of the nation for the
record he had made.
The battle grouna at uyuiB,
Should ever be kept sacred to the mem-
nrv of our dead
That the victory we had gained mere
VimiM teach nations of our worth,
That a government by the people would
noi perwu i. .
QUIT TINKERING
Stop Wasting Money and Have a Sys-
tern to Road Building
The wooumirn inaepenuenv-anu
by the way a newspaper whose editor
has some eray matter and common
...nTint. t.'n articles from the
Aurora upserver aim uio wuu "
useless road expenditures in Marion
and Clackamas counties, and gives
the following advice so simple that it
. , , , i . .
is bound to sink in:
"The facts here stated by our con-
temporaries down the road serve well
to introduce something which we
v.. w wi it. in mind to sav in
regard to road work in this section.
infj i,,. f ot n
tT, r:; "a vT
Of education and experience from
- j ki ; fw nH
iiur uu uicv uciiiauu jr "wvii
tTN dsT qS7 rad
Bncinopr nnH a atate pood roads de-
ty thousand dollars a year to teach
the primary lessons of road work.
"Almost anywhere, it is possible to
find examples of road work done in a
way to waste money and accomplish
no lasting good. And still further is
it true that no pupil should ever get
beyond the most elementary grades
in our public schools without knowing
two or tnree uasic principles in roau
work of which most of the men who
mend and tinker our roads appear to
be entirely ignorant. In the first place
to shed water and Keep it irom be-
coming filled with ruts and mud
holes in the wet season, a road should
be well rounded in the center. And
yet at this late day there are still
some road menders who don't know
this, and who make ditches at the
road sides throwing the earth they
take out. inward but leaving the mid-
die of the road lower than the sides
and rendering a run-off impossible.
The second principle in road mak
ing is far more frequently ignored,
for we have seen plenty of cases
where the roads are nicely rounded
and smoothed, with good ditches at
the sides to receive the water as it
runs off the crown of the road, but
where the neglect to provide drain
age for these ditches render useless
all the work that has been done, when
the rainy season comes.
"All about the country one can find
low spots and hollows where the wa
ter collects in little ponds during!
wet weather. Suppose a road is built
through such a low spot. No matter
how well it is rounded off, nor how
carefully the ditches at the roadside
are constructed, if drains are not pro
water from
vided to carry off the
these low spots there will be ponds
there and the whole turnpike will be
soaked through and become a mud
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sort of thing works and will come to
the Independence office, we will be
glad to show them how the thing
works and it will take but a short
time to find a demonstration.
"Every low spot along the highway
for which no drainage ditch deep
enough to carry off the water is pro
vided, is bound to become a mud.
holo in wet weather, and the more
the travel the worse the road gets,
"Now it seems to us that this pn
mary problem in road engineering
ought to be understood by every man
and boy; but that it is not we have
abundant, painful and expensive evi
denee on every hand.
"What we want to especially insist
on is that no more money shall be
appropriated for road work in Marion
county or Clackamas county or any
other county to be spent by men who
do not know the first principles of
road making.
"And before leaving this subject
we want to say that one has to go
no further thBn the stage rond on the
east side of this city to find a road
built as it should be, and one over
which a heavy load can be readily
drawn during the worst weather of
tho winter.
"To begin to get a good roud sys
tem in Oregon it is not necsesary to
voto twenty millions of bonds for
roads. The place to begin is in the dis
trict schools, where every pupil
should be tuught at least the first two
commandments of good road making
on which all the rest must hang
to have the driveways crowned and
neave no undrained spots in the road
side ditches,
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Fell languid, weak, run down ?
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THE MARKETS
Price8 of Farm Products in Clacka-
County
raas ounty
Owinir to the heavv rains recently.
th(J strawberry crop if Oregon is is
, somewhat late this year, but the
Krwers P0). worrying m the leas
as from all indications the yield will
be suitable this year, and there is
no doubt but the demand and prices
w;n j,e suitable. The first Clackamas
County berries were marketed in this
city Tuesday of this week, these com-
lnf? trom Willamette, and were of lus-
cious flavor. The warm sun of Friday
Saturday and Sunday, was of great
benefit to the growing crops, and the
berry growers are now wishing for
more weaLher of such kind.
The apple yield is now encouraging
LO 1,1113 uiciittiuiau. A-xever uexure were
the trees covered with more blossoms
than t Vt !a vphtv art A unload fVit lioouw
hail storms do not occurj th(J yie,d of
, h d th orchard.
ist as the yield of berries to the
strawberry grower.
During the past week the prices of
meat have slightly advanced. There
into ueeii nun a, veui, auvauce un an
hams.
Gooseberries are now in the market
and are ranging from five to eight
cents per pound,
ever oeiore nas the rnubarb mar-
I Irot ViaAn rwnrci-rnmA no it- kno Vii
von, th or in nUn,.. f
thig year was jmrnense) and many of
the growers were discourage dover
the prices paid that they have failed
iw uiiiiif it w me max net, at wie urice.
, .. , ...
"P1""1"" , & snipped
here r California peas arrived here a
few day- aS and found a Sood mar-
ket- There 18 a1.?od f? J
paragus, very little of this now be
PP from California. There is
, . ,
uemanu ior me nome grown as,
paragus. California potatoes are ar
but many are taking advan-
vl V"
tatoes, that the demand for the early
croP la not There are plenty of
""g?1" fr the
markets daily by the truck gardeners
and farmers so that it does not nec
essitate to depend upon California
markets for this line,
EGGS Oregon rancn, 20c.
FEED Se ncr) Shorts. J2B.K0:
bran $23.50; process barley $28 per
ton.
FLOUR $4.40 to $5.20
HAY (buying.) Clover at S10 and
$12; oat hay, best $14 and $16, mix-
ed $10 and $12; alfalfa, $13
OATS $28 at $45; wheat $1.00
bushl., oil meal selling about $45,
Live Stock Meats
Beef (live wt.) Steers 6 and
7c; cows 5 and 5 , 1-2; bulls 4 1-2
MUTTON Sheep three to five
shown31$2alfalfa,;
and a half cents,
Veal Fancy, 12 c to 13c; medium
12 c and 13 cents.
Pork 10c and 11 cents.
Poultry (buying) . Hens 15c;
springs 20c; roosters 8 cents, ducks
lb c; geese 12c and 13c; turkeys
18c.
MOHAIR 33o to 35e
Sheep pelts 40 to 90c.
Hides 10 and 9c.
Fruits
Apples 60c to .90.
DRIED FRUITS (buvinar) Or.
egon prunes on basis 6c to 8o.
Dried pears ,07c.
.Butter
Ranch Butter 45c; Creamery 58c.
There has been very little change in
the market reports this week in this
city. Butter and eggs are ofund to be
Plentiful. in the ,ocal markets with the
The strawberry growers are en
couraged over the bright prospects of
their strawberry crop. The vines are
viuj. ..c y
covered with blossoms and if no late
fr08ts or heavy rains come there wil,
be a bumper crop. Some growers are
already engaging their pickers.
Asparagus is now three pounds for
a quarter and the demand for the lo
cal product is much greater than re
ceived here by the local dealers from
California.
APHORISMS.
Let us live with our children.
So sbnll their lives bring pence
and Joy to us; so shall we be
gin to be niul to become wise.
What boys and girls piny In
earliest childhood will become
by and by a beautiful reality of
serious life, for they erpnud Into
stronger and lovelier youthful
noss by seeking on every side
appropriate objects to verify the
thoughts of their Inmost souls.
This earliest age Is the most
Important one for education, be
cause the begluultig decides the
manner of progress and tho end.
If nntionnl order Is to be recog
nized lu later years ns a benefit,
childhood must first be accus
tomed to law and order and
therein find the means of free
dom. Lawlessness and caprice
must rulo In no period of life,
not even lu that of the nursling.
The kindergarten Is tho free
republic of childhood.
Man must be able to fail In or
der to bo good and virtulous, and
he must be able to become
sliive In order to be truly free.
My .teachers are the children
themselves, with all their purity,
tholr innocence, their uncon
sciousness and their Irresistible
claims, and I follow them like a
faithful, trustful acholnr.
I wish to cultivate men who
stand rooted In nature, with their
feet in God's earth; whose heads
reach toward aud look into the
heavens: whose hearts unite the
richly funned life of earth nnd
nature Ith the purity and peace
of heaven God's earth and God's
heaven -Kroebel.
TWILIGHT
Progressiveness is being exempli
fied by a man in this neighborhood,
who proves himself the greatest
booster Oregon ever produced, and is
especially enthusiastic over this par
ticular spot. He is organizing a com
pany with a million dollar capital for
the manufacture of a meter to be at
tached to all settlers, measuring the
air they breathe at so much per cub.
ic foot. In justice to Marshall Lazelle
our heretofore greatest enthusiast, I
wish to state that he is not connect
ed with his new enterprise.
Warner Grange gives an envelope
social at their hall in New Era Satur.
day night. Everybody Invited.
Church service for the second time
was again conducted at the hall at 11
A. M. Sunday, by Mr. Purcell, a lay
man, of Oregon City and was very
much appreciated by an increased at
tendance.
Both the cherry and currant yield
will be greatly decreased in this vi
cinity compared to last year's crop.
This will also be true of both plums
and prunes and possibly pears. The
bloom on all these fruits were profuse
and the frequent rains, in my opinion,
being responsible for the poor show
ing. The organization of a young peop
les' Christian Endeavor is contempla
ted for the community in the near fu
ture. An auto truck with five tons of
sand moving from Portland to New
Era on a wager of two hundred dol
lars, broke an axle on Judge Beatie's
South End road, causing its loss to
its owner.
Corn is coming up nicely with an
unusually good stand and color, some
fields having already been cultivated.
Of -this cereal, this district will grow
upwards of 25 acres, an unusually
large acreage compared with previous
years.
To be placed in a small assemb
lage with strangers present, accom
panied by friends, unintroduced, is a
nerve strainer, and is frequently met
with in country neighborhoods.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. McDQdds,
May 22nd, a daughter, especially wel
comed by a little brother who has al
ready accused his sister of talking in
her sleep. We are pleased to note
that the mother is making rapid re
covery and extend congratulations.
Mrs. L. E. Bently's mother, Mrs.
tsiacicaiy, returned to her home in
Oak Groce Tuesday after an extend
ed visit with her daughter.
The public school closed Thursday
after a very successful year.
Mr. and Mrs. Ramsley of Molalla,
were guests of their daughter, Miss
Alta, at the home of Mrs. G. M. La,
zelle last Saturday and Sunday.
J. M. Jack is installing a bath and
labratory in their home recently pur
chased by Carl Schmeidecke.
It would seem that the hardware
dealers of Oregon City, as well as
the grocers, are exhorbitant in their
profits and evince but little desire for
the people's trade. Two dozen four
inch carriage belt? and a gross of
number seven screws cost eighty
cents on our home market and forty
two cents plus eight cent postage, in
Portland. These little differences are
worth looking after and the people
are doing it.
Mr. L. J. Hylton celebrates his
seventy sixth birthday Saturday en
joys good health, resorts not to the
use of glasses and does more or less
physical labor every day. His neigh
bors wish him many returns of the
same festivity.
Tom Kelland has a large force of
carpenters at work on his new barn,
and is rushing it to completion.
Miss Marie Harvey will arrive
home Monday from Seattle for an ex
tended visit with her parents at To
tem Pole Ranch.
CITATION
In the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Clackamas County.
In the matter of the estate of Wil
liam Wild, deceased.
To Mabel Foster, Frank Wild, John
Wild, Peter Wild or R. P. Wild, Mer-
tie Smidt, Hattie Wild, Harry Wild,
legatees and next of kin of the above
named deceased, and to all others in
terested in the above entitled estate:
You and each of you are hereby
cited to appear in this court on or
before the 14th day of July, 1913, at
the time of 10 o'clock A. M., in the
County Court House at Oregon City,
Oregon, to show cause, if any, why
an order should not be grnated to the
executor of the last will and testa
ment of the above named deceased,
to sell the real property or so much
thereof as shall be necessary, to pay
the claims and legacies against said
estate, said property being described
as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at a point N 43 deg. 18
min. E. 31.86 ft. & S. 27 deg. 4 min. E
325 and one-half feet from the North
westerly corner of the Donation Land
Claim of Fendal C. Cason and wife
T. 2. S. R. 2. E. of the W. M.; thence
N. 43 deg. 18 minutes E. 380.06 feet
paralell with the Northerly line of
said claim to a point in the Easterly
line of a tract, of land described at
page 106 Book 101, Deed Records for
Clackamas County; thence S. 43 deg,
18 minutes E. 177.5 feet to the South
easterly corner of said tract thence
S. 43 deg. 18 minutes W. parallel to
the Northerly line of said claim 434.
66 ft.; thence N. 27 deg. 04 minutes
W. leaving a thirty foot street along
the boundary line of said claim 187.5
feet to the place of beginning, con
taining one and one half acres more
or less.
It is hereby understood and agreed
that a strip of land of uniform width
of fifteen feet long the entrie South
erly side of the tract hereby conveyed
is to be used as a street in connection
with fifteen feet southerly adjacent
thereto and in case said street is va
cated the fifteen foot strip above
mentioned to revert to and become
the absolute property of said Ellen
Grant.
This citation is issued by order of
Robert B. Beatie, Judge of said
Court, and entered on the 27th day of
May 1913.
ROBERT B. BEATIE
Judge.
(Seal of County Court.)
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Attest: W. L. Mulvey, Clerk of
said Court.
By I. M. Harrington Deputy.
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1913.
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1913.
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Do you want to sell your
property for cash or part cash
and trade for City property?
We have a large list of trades.
List your property with
the Realty Men who do things.
DILLMAN &
HOWLAND
Opposite Court House
Oregon City, Oregon
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A trial will prove it. '
We have sold other remedies for skin
trouble hut none that we could guaran
tee as e can the D.D.D. remedy. If
the first regular elre 11.00 fcottle does
I iwi ug tMcur a we say, u win not
1 cost you a cent
Jones Drug Co, Oregon City.
PATTERNS, ALL THE LATEST
Entire Stock
$19.50
CALIBAN IN THE COAL MINES.
God, we don't like to complain.
We know that the mines are
no Inrk,
But there's the pools from the
rain.
But there's the cold and the
dark.
God, you don't know what It is
You, In your well lighted sky,
Watching a meteor whiz,
Warm, with tbe sun always by.
God. If you had but the moon
Stuck in your cap for a lamp
Even you'd tire of It soon
Down in the dark and the
damp.
Nothing but blackness above
And nothing that moves but
the cars
God, in return for our love
Fling us a handful of stars!
Louis Untermeyer.
SELF RESTRAINT.
A number of countries have
copied our constitution with a
provision that the constitutional
guuruntees may be suspended In
case of necessity. We are all
familial with the result. The
guarantees of liberty, justice and
order have been forgotten. The
government is a dictatorship, and
the popular will is expressed only
by revolution. Religion, the phi
losophy of morals, the teaching
of blstory, the experience of ev
ery human life, point to the same
conclusion that in the practical
conduct of life the most difficult
nnd the most necessary virtue
is self restraint It is needed
more by men acting in mass than
by individuals, because men in
the mass are more Irresponsible
and difficult of control than in
dividuals. The makers of our
constitution, wise nnd earnest
students of history nnd of life,,
discerned the great truth that
self restraint is the supreme ne
cessity and the supreme virtue
of democracy. The people of the
United States have exercised
that virtue by the establishment
of rules of action in what we
call the limitations of the con
stitution, nnd until this day they
have rijddly observed these rules.
-Elihu Root.
Money to Loan.
Oregon City Abstract Co., 617
Main street.
SAY!
Why not get
.your
Lumber
from the MILL, direct and
save money? Let me figure
on your lumber bill.
1000 loads of WOOD for
sale or trade.
George Lammers
Beaver Creek, Route 3
Styl