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EDITORIAL PAGE
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSAIIY
Fifty years aeo the victorious
Union armies, fa-sh from the bat
tlefields of the civil war and the
surrender at Apponuitox, marched
down Pennsylvania avenue iu Wash
ington. •
It was a grand review of the
war-scarred legions of Grant and
Sherman, of -Meade and Sheridan,
aud the other famous commanders
whose "boys in blue" had preserved
the Union. President Johnson and
General Grant were in the review
ing stand as the veterans swung
proudly past to the exulting music
of tueir bands, while the battle
fla^s that had flown on a hundred
bloody fields, waved over the tri
umphant host.
T.iis thrilling pageant, of na
tional interest, will be reproduced
as far as possible during the forty
ninth annual encampment of the |
Graud Army of the Republic, which
will be held in Washington, Sep
tember 27 to October 3, next, ae
coidiag to the auuouncement made
he:e today.
It will be the fiftieth anniversary
o;' tlie Grand Review. Thousands of
the same veterans who inarched in
that review a half century ago nni- 1
formed in the Union blue, will
again keep step to martial music
down Pennsylvania avenue, aud
pass in \iarade before President Wil
son and members of his cabinet. It
will be the last time the veterans
will march in Washington, and the
last time that hundreds of them
w'U evL-r again atteud an encamp
rc. ;nl, as the aged men are fast
passing away.
7 ho Grand Army, which survived
Jn>n yonrs of campaigns and never
surrendered, will soon have to
towei its standards, defeated by
Time, the only enemy able to
vanoMish the veterans. Because of
the increasing death rate and the
feebleness of the survivors of the
grrt>t war, it is probable that the
Gran,! Army will never again hold
a great encampment after the Wash
ton event. As this gathering is the
last i.i which many of them will par
tiiiuate, and as the anniversary of
the Grind Review is of such his
toric significance to them and the
-.ou.itry, they will make great ef
forts to be iu Washinton in
September. The encampment will
therefore be th largest and most
DIVERGENT
PATHS
By DONALD CHAMBERL1N
Having business In a small town in
the west I found within its limits a
Terr pretty ;>nrk bounded by substan
tial Improvements. In its center was a
bronze statue of a man In civilian's
dress, in oue hand a roll of parchment.
I fancied that the original was either
a distinguished public man or u phllaa- !
throplst—(juite likely the latter. Meet
ing a man who appeared to occupy un
average position In the town I accosted
him and asked lilm whom the statue
represented.
"There's a story connected with It," !
he replied, "aud If you will sit beside
me on one of these lienches I will tell
It to you."
We seated ourselves, and he told me I
the following story:
"This Is Rogers' park, and that Is a '
statue of Ben Itogers, who founded It j
More than fifty years ago Ben nnd Sam
Rogers were boys, somewhat ragged,
playing marbles and ball and such otu
er boys' games right here where this
park Is now located. It was then a
vacant tract and considered worthless.
Now the property bordering on it is
worth millions.
"Sam Rogers, the younger brother,
was picked out for a failure in life be
cause he couldn't hold on to his money.
He was what was called chicken heart
ed, and whenever he saw any one in
trouble for want of money down went
his hand Into his pocket: Ben, on the
successful ever held by the organiza
tion.
Washington Is malting elaborate
preparations to receive the veter
ans, and the nation's capital will bo
en fete during the week that the
famous soldiers are within her
gates.
Government officials and the
aeop'.e of the capital are a unit iu
otxending invitations, through the
press of the country, to the nation
to visit Washington during G. A. R.
week. Plans are being perfected to
make the encompmnt and the Grand
Revi>.«v an event of *uiiional import
ance. '
An elaborate program of enter
tainment for the veterans and citi
zens who visit the capital at that
time ii being prepared. The war
department and the navy depart
ment P"e co-operating in the pro
gram.
The former has arranged for ex
i'ib'ticn drills of U. S. troops, cav
alry, art'llery, and infantry, at
Fort Myer, which is a suburb of
Washington. Some of the best
so!.!'its in the army are stationed
at Fu-t Myer, particularly the cav
ulr\, which numbers among the en
listed men many of the. greatest
rii!crs iu the world. Crack Tjat
't-ries of light artillery are also
stationc-d at Fort Myer. Aeroplane
exhibitions are to bo given by the
signal corps. The Wright brothers
demonstrated in public their first
aerojvine at Fort Myer. •
T:ie navy department will have a
f;c.t c? torpedo boat destroyers,
submarines, gunboats, and a cruiser
detached from the Atlantic fleet
and sent up the Potomac river to
Washington, where the ships will
remain 'luring the encampment. A
big ff»i;ure ••ill be camp fires, at
"hich will be held re-unions of the
v irious Corps of the Union armies.
Jurt belcw Washington, on the
I'otonac. i3 leci'ted Indian Head
proving ground, where big guns for
the navy and fortifications are test
ed before being placed on battle
ship? or in our coast defenses. The
v.-terai.s and visitor will have an
ooi'ortnnity to se° the operations at
Indian Head, as well as scores of
other nlaces of interest iu or around
WasM.;gton. '
Turing encampment week oppor
tunity will be afforded the veterans
to retisit Bull Hun, Antietam, Ap
pomi'ttox, and other celebrated bat
tlefields.
contrary, -was marked Tor a rich mall,
lie looked out for himself and rolled
up money In a small way from the time
he was ten years old.
"Ben Rogers stayed right here In
this town and accumulated money
slowly till the man who owned the land
on which we are sitting died, and It
was sold out for a song. Ben bought
it and conceived the Idea of making a
park of it. lie secured options on all
the bordering property, then gave his
original purchase to the town on con
dition they would make a park of. It
"Sam Rogers when about twenty-flve
years old left the town, regretted by
every impecunious person in it The
more successful citizens said, "A good
riddance." At the end of a dozeu
years Sam came back and surprised
every one by bringing a fortune with
him. When asked how he got it he
said it was by pure luck. This was
all they could get out of him, but I
learned the truth long after his death,
lie had loaned a man a hundred dol
lars to save a piece of property he
owned, the property afterward be
came very valuable, and when the
owner died, having no one else to
leave It to, he left It to Sam Rogers.
"Sam on his return resumed his giv
ing to needy persons, only he now gave
?10 where formerly he had given 10
cents. Ills brother, Ben, had been sav
ing his money and had got enough to
gether to begin to think about making
an investment on a larger scale. It was
soon after Sam's return that the orig
inal owner of this property died. Ben
not having enough money to carry out
his enterprise called on his brother
to go In with him. Sam said that he
didn't want to make any more money
than he had already, but ho would
loan Ben all he wanted.
"I was then studying law with Ben
Rogers' attorney and know whereof
I'm going to tell you. Sam paid no
attention to the securities his brother
gave him and one 3ay "wolut up To
learn that ho had been swindled out
of all ho possessed. lie never told
any one how ho lost his fortune and
enjoined secrecy on his brother's at
torneys. By this time ho was too old
to make another fortune and lived a
precarious life till he finally died from
want of i>roi>er sustenance and medi
cal attendance. A number of persons
whom he had befriended bought a lot
In the cemetery and buried him there.
"Ben Rogers became the most influ
ential man in the town, and when any
important town matter was to be de
cided he was called upon for his opin
ion. lie built a church on a worthless
tract of laud lie owned and sold off the
rest of the tract for another fortune,
lie established other institutions, con
triving to make money out of all of
them.
"When he died he left money for a
suitable monument, desiring that he
should be burled in the park that boro
his name and which it had given him
so much pleasure to have provided for
the enjoyment of the people of his na
tive town. Ills executors had been In
structed by him before his death to
provide that statue, for -which and Its
pedestal $50,000 had been provided In
the will."
When the narrator had finished his
story I expressed a desire to visit the
grave of Samuel Rogers. He told mo
that the cemetery was not half a mile
away, and I determined to take a
stroll In that direction. He also told
me where to find the grave in among
the less desirable lots. I thanked him
for his story and passed on.
When I reached the cemetery I ask
ed a well to do looking person I Baw
there if ho could direct me to the
grave of Samuel Rogers. He looked at
me doubtfully, then said:
"I reckon you're looking for the mon
ument of Benjamin Rogers, the philan
thropist and founder of Rogers park.
It's in tho center of the town."
I passed on and presently at a little
distance saw a grave covered with
flowers. Approaching it, I read on a
cheap headstone the name "Samoel
Rogers, the friend of the poor."
A D^Ws Stratagem.
"Yes," said tho business man, "I
have given up trying to collect that lit
tle bill from Bilklns. \'ou see, he Is a
pretty big fellow, and ho used to throw
my collectors out every time they
called."
"Then why didn't you employ a wo
man collector? Ho couldn't do that to
a woman."
"That's what I thought, so I got one
and sent her around, but she never
came back."
"Why not?"
"He married her."—London Tit-Bits.
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A Lawyer's Right to Defend a Prisoner
He Knows to Bo Guilty.
Ought an advocate to defend a pris
oner whom ho believes to be guilty?
Mr. Justice Darling in a case In which
a solicitor was the plaintiff made some
observations on this familiar problem
which ought not to go unrecorded. lie
protested, says the London Globe,
against the notion that a lawyer,
whether barrister or solicitor, was un
der an obligation to cease to conduct a
caso which he realizes to be bad.
"If an advocate in the course of a
trial for murder comes to recognize
that his client is guilty is he," asked
tho learned Judge, "to say to the court,
'Hang my client?'" Judges have sel
dom asked about the ethics of advo
cacy in open court. It was, however,
in a considered Judgment in the court
of exchequer that Baron Bramwell
made his famous contribution to tho
discussion.
"A man's rights," said the baron,
"are to be determined by the court, not
by his advocate or counsel. It is for
want of remembering this that foolish
[ people object to lawyers that they will
advocate a case against their own
[ opinions. A client is entitled to say to
his counsel: 'I want your advocacy, not
your Judgment I prefer that of the
Court'" Mr. Justlco Darling, in tho
Jargon of ttw courts, concurs.
Laymen have usually been readier
than lawyers to discuss the ethics of
advocacy. "What do you think of sup
porting a cause you know to be bad?"
Everybody knows Dr. Johnson's reply
when Boswell asked him this question.
"Sir, you do not know it to be good or
bad till the Judge determines it"
Less generally known 13 Sydney
| Bmlth's contribution to the discussion.
"Justice is found experimentally to be
most effectually promoted by the oppo
site efforts of practiced and ingenious
men presenting to the selection of an
impartial Judge the best arguments
for the establishment or explanation
of truth. It becomes, then, under such
an arrangement the decided duty of
an advocate to use all the arguments
in his power to defend the cause he
has adopted and to leave tho effects of
those arguments to the Judgment of
others." This was said in an assize
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York in 1834.
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