XH K M EW BEH G G R APH IC Everybody knows it is the Standard. What more can be said? Newberg Auto Co., Agt. “ I « « 0 b y Review of Reviews ouuumu » Youthful Musicians "Q Heroic Lads 6f the CivU War GEORGE L. KILMER. U. S. V W hen battle round each warlike band And carnage loud her trumpet blow Young E d w in left bis native land A drummer boy for Waterloo. OT W IT H S T A N D IN G tbe crude­ ness of tbe w riters art. the versee from whlcb tbe above tine* were taken Immediately became a fireside classic. They were given to the public while Waterloo was fresh In mind as tbs greatest battle o f modern times. All tbe. civilised world was then interested In Waterloo Just aa the tactics and military prac­ tice o f tbe French and English were copied by tbe regular soldiers of the United States, so tbe Ideas and -trad! tions clustering around some famous name, as of a Napoleon or Wellington, or a battle like Austerlito or Waterloo, warmed tbe Imagination o f the Amert can massifs > A dreaming boy of 1881 dreamed of Waterloo If bla age permitted be be- came a soldier to Imitate the Old Guard of Napoleon or the Royal Scots o f Wellington His tender years could not bold him beck from the recruiting camps, for. If oot old enough to take up arms as a soldier, be could be a drummer perhaps There had been drummer boys at Waterloo; why should oot tbe drummers In tbe Amer­ ican camps also be boys7 I f tbe recruiting sergeant did not think so and refused to enroll the lad 4 . d an s enlisted fur each com pany o f in fantry. Usually one was a dfer and one a drummer If a boy could a bow murnelf very skillful at tbe rub-a-dub-dub or tootls te-toot be would be taken, eveu If be lacked a couple ot yearn, a couple ot Inches aud a »«-ore of pounds to bring him up to tbe regulation size, age and weight This accounts for Willie Johnson, aged thirteen, wbo was awarded a medal of bonot for some gallant act performed tbs second year of tbs war while be was a drummer In tbe Third Vermont; for tbe boy M no- eon of tbe Twenty-third Massachu­ setts. wbo was mortally wounded at the battle ot Roanoke while only thir­ teen; of Garduer. tbe drummer of tbe Eighth Michigan, brought home to hie anxious, waiting mother, dead from a wound received In battle when be was bat little over thirteen Blue or gray. It made no difference. There were A. K Clerk, a drummer of the Fifth .Georgia regiment, wbo went through the campaign weighing but ninety-live pounds, and little U Iff an of Tennessee, tbe Oero of a classic war lytic, who was nursed back to life i from an aw ful wound only to go forth again to battle sod never be beard from more The life sod drum corps of an in­ fantry regiment formed a unit In It­ self The members were detached from tbe companies m which they had enlisted and attached to re^roeutai headquarters, tbe same aa the color guard. Under a chief they occupied separate quarters and were subject to tbe direction* of tbe colonel * staff of fleers. In battle the flfent and drum mere, especially during tbe early days of the War. assisted tbe surgeons In the care of the wounded. Often they were with strangers, administering to the fallen, and errands of mercy called them to distant parts of tbe field In 1863 the Federal ambulance corps was organized, and tbe work or glvlug drat aid and removing tbe wounded wae done thereafter by ambulance at tendsnts This arrangement relieved the musicians of tbe duty of removing wounded In stretchers and left them free to roam the field In search of suffering victims Unlike the regimental band, tbe rag- (mental life and drum corps, whlcb which Includes the reximental bugler, baa has a e practical duty to perform In the rou tine of camp and march. Tbe band la a luxury and an ornament. Oon- green discovered that early in lbttt and Ictrls'lsted hundreds of bands out of existence Tbe 700 then in service employed : 17,000 men and bad already cost 35, 000.000 in addition to tbe pay of tbe men. tbetr rood and the expense of transporting them It was plain at that date that tbe w ar w as to be a long and coatly one The musicians were regularly enlist­ ed soldiers, who could not be forced to take up arms and fight unless they chose. The only way to abolish the bands was to muster them out ot service But music was not totally banished from the army camps Bri­ gade bands were formed, and some regimen to or tbdlr officer* or patrons at home paid the expense« and retain ed tbe mnslc 4ex*ae- The, bugle and the fife and drum are essential In an army to sound tbe va­ U Z D I R O THX OHAROB. rious calls, which, swiftly, a * well as V o f ten or twelve, the boy coaid Still musically, signal the orders of the follow tbe army to tbe front as a voi-' commander to tbe troops. These In­ unteer and trust to luck. The sergeant clude the familiar ones of getting might relent when the boy showed tbe “ ’em ap In the mornln’ ” and “go stuff that waa In him by facing the bat­ Bleep, go to sleep, go to sleep.” reveille and taps In camp certain calls are tle aa bravely aa bla seniors This la tbe way It tfhppened that la sounded periodically day In and day the romance and poetry of tbe war may out. but on a campaign many of them be found tbe tobriqneto “Tbe drummer are signals .to sadden change of ac boy of 8blk>tr and “Tbe drummer boy tion. of Cbtckamaugs.’’ They were the same With the army strung out for miles, boy. little Johnny Clem, wbo couldn’t the bugle or drum at headquarters be a soldier because be waa only eleven starts the signal rolling. Tbe nearest years of age But be could drum, and drums or buglss repeat It, the notes tbe kind hearted soldiers humored his often mingling in emergencies the ambition and took him to tbe fron t first signal may be overtaken before It where be “made good.” first at Shiloh reaches the end of tbe line by another afid then at Cbtckamaugs. sent ont to supersede it. The “long When tbe w ar broke out In 1881 tbe roll” beaten on the dram or the bugle rule concerning musicians In the U n it calls “To arms!’’ and T o horseP an­ ed States army was about the same aa nounce tbe sudden appearance of tbe In the Rrltlsb army, after which It waa enemy. The armies of fifty years ago bad no modeled. > After tbe Crlmeao war England telephone or megaphone and only an adopted the rule of enlisting the mu­ Imperfectly developed telegraph and sicians as soldiers and then forming flag signal system Practically then them into mnslcal corps or bands the bogle or drum, even la tbe hands This became tbe practice of the regu­ of a schoolboy, was an official mouth­ lar army of tbe United States, and the piece whlcb might order men “Into volunteer ermy. of course, followed the Jaws of death,“ also recall them tbe same custom. 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He m * talking after having uaad Studebeker vehicles since be was a lad, and be told aw bis father before Kim said, ‘Be safe—get e Studebeker.’ * ‘V ehicle builders can’t bold that sort of reputation n a v e . days without delivering tbe goods. A Studebeker wagon has tbe bat in it. That*» why a men gels tbe awtt oat o f it—why it's always an economy." “ Dealer* may aey to yon something else is “just as good.* But when yon boy a every time " Sa* < STUDEBAKER NXW YORK MINNXAPOUS Help Fight the Great Red Plague Citizens o f the state are urged to inform themselves regarding this plague which is causing great suffering among boys and young men, and especially among the innocent girla and women o f the state. Parents are urged to protect their children, and provide clean, wholesome infor­ mation in place o f the unclean misinformation they cannot now help getting. Send for any o f the following Free Circulars • W W W e U w lad, you have your uniform. mm I CQhcn l put on tba blue V \ l My ►>«*•* was young, my hopes were high. 1 was a boy like to w . I thought that tt was great to don Che bright and brave array. But dads Sam’s regatta then Meant something more than play. It meant long years from Butt Run’s field, COhcrc raw troops felt the breath O f leaden storms, whose lightnings flashed Hnd thunders spohe of death, Co Hppomatto*. where beneath Her famous apple tree Che sun went down upon the hopes O f those who fought with Lee. It meant lonfc marches and a bed Clpon the frozen ground, •> Che open shy our only tents, C hr elements around. It meant scant clothing, slimmer fare Had Insect teeming dens. It meant disease and fever camps Uul m U m ----- It meant tbe flcrceet fighting CMe eld world bee ever emu from felt Oehe to the antdgmeoe Red ell the way between, *«56? 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