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‘““Aunt Fritchie, the troops are 
To the loyal old lady ‘‘the 
troops’? meant only one army, the 
Northern; and when she heard the 
sound of marching feet, she _ rose, 
and taking a small silk flag which 
she had removed from its staff and 
hidden in her Bible for safe keep- 
ing, she stepped out upon the porch 
and waved it at the passing men. 
Instantly a murmer arose, and an 
officer riding up to the porch said 
kindly : 
‘‘Granny, you had better take 
your flag in the house.’’ 
“T won’t do it! I won’t do it!’’ 
said the old lady, childishly; and 
then becoming aware for the first 
time that it was the men in gray 
that were passing, she defiantly 
shook the fiag at them. 
The excitement in the ranks now. 
increased, and threatening mur- 
murs arose, so that another officer 
left the line and said to her: 
“Old woman, put that flag away 
or you may get in trouble.’’ 
‘‘T won’t!’’ she replied, and re- 
peated her action. Angry shouts 
arose from the men, and a third of- 
ficer, approaching the porch, stern- 
ly said: 
“Tf you don’t stop that you'll 
have that flag shot out of your 
hand.”’ 
The first officer, who had _ re- 
mained throughout this scene, there- 
upon turned to the last speaker and 
exclaimed angrily: 
‘Tf you harm a hair of her head 
I’ll shoot you like a dog.’’ 
From another source I have an 
additional incident relating to the 
dame. When the Confederate troops 
were retreating, they were followed 
through Frederick by Federal regi- 
ments under command of General 
Reno, who was killed in the battle 
of South Mountain the next day. 
Upon arriving in Frederick, Gener- 
al Reno hearing of the incident of 
the flag, called on the old lady, who 
took from her Bible the silken 
trophy and gave it to him. It was 
found in his pocket after his death, 
and is now in the possession of his 
son, Mr. Conrad Reno, a_ Boston 
- lawyer. 
The incidents related by Mr. Pic- 
kard are of great interest and this 
clipping will be pasted within the 
eover of many home and library 
volumes of Whittier. Mr. Pickard 
has been faithful and untiring in 
his devotion to his work and this 
new light on the old poem is a valu- 
able accession to the already vol- 
uminous gleanings by Mr. Pickard 
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of facts concerning the works of 
John Greenleaf Whittier. 
The police at Beverly Farms did 
an excellent piece of work on Mon- 
day in capturing two wagon loads 
of intoxicating liquors. Such camps 
of vicious rum drinking men are 
a menace to a community. But 
the removal of the liquor was not 
a-eure for the trouble. There ought 
not to exist such hovels. The 
marked contrast of the mansions on 
the hills and the hovels in the hol- 
lows and in the woods are too great. 
Either such camps should be forbid- 
den or wages paid that will permit 
a decent and honorable mode of liv- 
ing. Someone is to blame! These 
men are attracted by labor oppor- 
tunities! The man who hires cheap- 
er labor to the detriment of higher 
elass labor is the ultimate cause of 
the menace in the woods at Bever- 
ly Farms. No one can shirk the 
consequences of social failings for 
society is so closely woven that the 
penalties are inevitable. It is not 
surprising that the police did their 
duty. It is not surprising that they 
found what they did, but it is sur- 
prising that public sentiment per- 
mits the continuance of such a so- 
When we from schools of time 
Shall graduated be, 
We then shall have the universe 
For university. 
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cial disgrace to exist by its careless 
administration of its work. 
Winslow Warren’s scholarly ad- 
dress at the Bunker Hill Monument 
Association at the Vendome was 
piercing in its historical penetra- 
tion. His masterly thrusts at ‘“‘re- 
actionary progressives’’? rediscus- 
sing the old problems that were set- 
tled by the Constitution Conven- 
tion were brilliant. 
The Ivy orator at the Stadium on 
Tuesday was not far off when he 
said, ‘‘The national prize ring is at 
Chicago, where Harvard and Yale 
are again demonstrating that the 
rules of the game need changing be- 
fore next season.”’ 
The ‘‘Strikers’’ on the L. in Bos- 
ton have a right to refrain from 
working, but they forget the priv- 
ileges of their brethren to work if 
they will. 
The man who hires a young lad 
fresh from school and deprives him 
of a fair opportunity for advance- 
ment is unworthy of respect. 
Now, Baltimore, Your turn, 
