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FRESH INSPIRATION. Napoleon and Hi» Attitude Toward the Common Soldier. Napoleon understood human nature. He recognized the great truth, "As a man thinketh In his heart so is he,” and knew how to apply it not only to himself and his own ambitious projects, but to other men ns well. Moreover, he knew precisely the right moment to apply It to quicken the spark of divine energy which smolders in every man, although the ashes of fatigue and failure may cover its light temporarily. A French soldier carried a dispatch to Napoleon. Just as he delivered it Into the hands of the emperor his spent horse dropped dead. Napoleon wrote au answer to the dispatch, then, dismounting from his own horse, he handed the bridle to the soldier. “Take tills horse and ride back, comrade,'’ he said. “Nay, sire,” stammered the soldier, gazing at the blooded horse and its trappings. "It is too magnificent and grand forme, a common soldier.” “Take it!” commanded Napoleon. “There is nothing too grand and magnificent for a soldier of France.” The soldier mounted and rode away on his perilous business, ready and willing, and Napoleon’s words, repeated through the ranks and columns of his army, gave to his tired troops fresh inspiration and energy. “Nothing too grand and magnificent for a soldier of France!” they said, and the thought that they were worthy of the best inspired them to the mighty deeds which followed.

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Two Men Obeyed Them,'tut the Third Man Balked. “Three men sat rather late at the club one night,” said the man who is responsible for the story. "As they were separating they discussed n little nervously the receptions that awaited them at their wives’ hands and agreed that he who didn’t do what his wife told him on getting borne should have to treat the others to a turkey dinner. The first man after reaching ids house stumbled about the dark bedroom till he kicked the eat. The cat squalled, and the man’s wife, raising her head from the pillow, moaned, ‘Well, go on; kill the poor cat and have done with It.’ The man frowned and muttered to himself, ‘It is a case of kill the cat or pay for the dinner.’ So he killed the cat. “The second man on his arrival could not find any matches. As lie looked for some In the drawing room lie bumped against the piano, and ids wife complained, ‘Why don’t you break the piano, careless?’ Determined not to lose ids bet, I lie man got a hnU-liet, and the sound of crashing blows soon filled the house. “The third man, getting home, stumbled on the way upstairs. His wife screamed angrily, ‘Go on, fall downstairs and break your neck, do!’ ‘Not me,’ said the third man after a moment’s thought. ‘I’ll pay for the turkey dinner.’ ’’—Chicago News.

A Merchant’s Memory. Among the characteristics which made for the success of Mr. A. T. Stewart, (he groat New York merchant, says Richard Lathers in Ids “Reminiscences,” was au extraordinary memory for the details of Ids vast business. One day ns Mr. and Mrs. Lathers were leaving the store Mr. Stewart accosted them at the door. “I hope, Mrs. Lathers, you have found what you want,” he said. “No, Mr. Stewart,” she replied. "I want a very plain brussels Carpet for a small library, a light color with a small blue figure. You have a great variety, but nothing just like that.” “I am quite sure we have that exact description," he said, and, turning to a clerk, added: “Go to the third floor and get out from the last Invoice of carpets No. 2206. I think the style and pattern will just suit Mrs. Lathers.” To the amazement of the shopper It proved to be the very thing she was looking for.

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My Revenge. •j--H*-t--k-t-F-t -t-++-i-+? [Original ) I remember my mother as always weeping. Why she did so I could never guess, and she would never tell me. We lived In a cottage which had once stood on a corner of the Gcssuer estate. 1 believe when we went there a deed for (he house and lot was givvpi to my mother. We drew it very small Income, which was paid us by the agent for the Gessner property. Our name was Cowles. My mother was the daughter of an English gentleman who came to America Impoverished and left her at his death without a penny. When she was eighteen Charles Gessner fell in love with her, but his father forbade his marriage with the penniless Agnes Cowles. Charles went to the civil war and was killed. Six months after his death I was born. Our cottage and the income were at tills time settled on my mother by old Gessner. Before I was old enough to remember them the Gessners had gone to the city to live. Charles - Gessner s yojmgor brother Henry was the only living child. When Charles Gessner was two years old an aunt had left him most of what there was in the Gessner estate, hut afterward was persuaded to alter the will to read “to his oldest sou.” This property Henry Gessner was now enjoying. My mother on the last day of her life gave me the key to a box which, she said, contained a secret she had pledged herself not to reveal and which would now descend to me. When I opened the box and came upon the revelation l found there, ! was filled with but one Idea revenge. As soon ns I could got away, taki.ig the name Walworth, I went to the < ity and was lucky In securing a situation and In making friends, who introduced me into the best society. This 1 wished In order to gain access to the Gessners. One of tlie most attractive young girls just “out" the season of my entry Into society was Lucia Gessner, Henry’s only child. Through her I resolved to revenge my mother. She was not only at an age when conquest is easy, hut she seemed to he drawn to me from the first. Before spring came she consented that 1 should go to her father to ask for her hand, hut as sured me the case was hopeless. The next day 1 asked fuKLucla and was refused. It took me six months to Induce her to consent to a clandestine marriage, but I had a devil’s tongue In my heart and never for a moment lost sight of my mother’s wrong. Soon after our marriage, without a word of warning to any human being, I disappeared. 1 sailed for Europe. Thus far I had been so lilinded by the spirit of vengeance that I had no thought for anything else. A revulsion came the first night out on the ocean. I was sitting on deck when, casting my eyes up at the stars, they seemed to say, "Villain.” A sudden realization of what I had done rushed upon me, and I was overcome with remorse, shame and beyond all the thought that I loved my wife and had made n barrier between her and me that would never be passed. The days that remained to the end of my Journey, the days I spent on the return trip, wore not days to me, hut mouths. As soon as I reached home l sent word to my wife to he ready to receive mo In secret and late at night was Introduced to her chamber. I was appalled at her appearance. Throwing myself at her feet, "near me,” 1 said, "then you are free to condemn me as I deserve to he condemned.” And, still on my knees, with my head bared, 1 told her of my mother’s wrong- how a woman’s life had been made one of suffering when It might have been made happy, then confessed my plot, ending with the discovery that had come to me so suddenly that my wife’s love was, after nil, far stronger than a revenge that 1 had conceived to lie a sacred duty. During the hysterical scene that followed 1 found hut one source of comfort. My wife clung to me as if I laid not treated her despicably and when I offered her her freedom only cried, "No, no, no!” The next day I made the best explanation I could Invent to my friends as to my singular vanishment and one evening soon after stood in Henry Gessner’s private study and confessed that I was married to ids daughter. “Who are you?" lie asked ns soon ns he could master Ids voice. “From my birth I have been called Charles Cowles, but 1 am Charles Gessner, your brother's son and your nephew’. My wife Is my cousin.” I threw on a table beside which he sat a eertifleate of my mother's marriage with Ids brother and an agreement she had made with his father soon after her husband’s death to keep the marriage a secret and remain under her maiden name on condition of a home and an income. She had chosen between starvation for her and her babe and disgrace. If my unde had been pale before, he was paler now. “Y’ou are the rightful heir to this property,” lie said. “I shall never claim it. Use It as long as you live, and at your death It will go to your daughter.” He looked at me steadily for a long while, then suddenly put out Ids hand. “It was my father's sin.” he said. “I was In complete ignorance of it. I forgive you the [min you have caused mj daughter.”. “For that I shall never forgive myself.” By a mutual arrangement the Gessner property that belonged to me was settled on my wife and her heirs. LESTER DILLON.

NATURE’S MYSTERIES.

And the Little That Man Really Knows About Them. 1 seized the opportunity some little while ago on finding myself sitting next to a great physicist of asking him a series of fumbling questions on the subject of modern theories of matter. For an hour I stumbled like a child, supported by a strong hand, in a dim and unfamiliar world, among the mysterious essences of tilings. 1 should like to try to reproduce it here, hut I have no doubt 1 should reproduce it all wrong. Still, it was deeply Inspiring to look out into chaos, to hear the rush and motion of atoms moving in vast vortices, to learn that Inside the hardest and most Impenetrable of substances there was probably a feverish intensity of inner motion. I do not know that 1 acquired any precise knowledge, hut I drank deep drafts of wonder nud awe. The great man, with his amused and weary smile, was infinitely gentle and left me, I will say, far more conscious of the ^beauty and the holiness of knowledge. 1 said something to him about the sense of power that such knowledge must give. "Ah,” he said, “much of what I have told you is not proved: it is only suspected. We are very much in the dark about these things yet. Probably if a physicist of a hundred years lienee could overhear me lie would be amazed to think that a sensible man could make such puerile statements. Power—no, It Is not that! It rather makes one realize one s feebleness in being so uncertain about tilings that are absolutely certain and precise In themselves, if we could but see the truth. It Is much more like the apostle who said: ‘Lord, i believe. Help thou my unbelief.’ The tiling one wonders at is the courage of the men who dure to think they know.”—Putnam’s. POWER OF WEALTH. Money, Says a Physician, is Able to Purchase Even Life. The aged mlHtou iire sighed. “I’d give all my money,” lie said, “if I could buy twenty-live more years of

life.”

"But your money lias already bought you that,” said the physician coldly. “What rot are you talking now?” the millionaire asked peevishly. “No rot at all, for it is a fact, a dreadful fact,” said the physician, “that the rich live, on the average, twenty-five years longer than the poor. Born rich, you are assured of a quarter century more life than would lie your allotment were you horn poor. Wealth buys you all that. And yet they say that there is nothing in money. Why, man, money hoys life.” “How do you mean?* 1 said the millionaire. “This sounds rather like nonsense to me.” “Oh, wealth protects one from so many ills. Rich babies nearly always live, but poor ones die of a hundred complaints Induced by poverty. Poor babies die off shockingly. And so with boys and girls, with men and women— if they are rich. They live healthily and therefore long, while if they are poot they live unhealthily, and disease, accident, contagion, privationall sorts of preventable things—carry them off. “Yes. money buys life, and reliable statistics show that if two children are horn today, one rich and the other poor, the rich one will outlive the other by the tidy margin of twenty-five years.”—Philadelphia Record. The Origin of "Parson.” “Parson” is from the Latin “persona.” a person, and the parson Is the persona eccleslac, or representative, of the church. The forms parson and person hear the same relation to each other as dark and clerk. From being pronounced parson the word has come to be so written. Blackstone in his “Commentaries” says: “He Is called ‘parson’ (persona) because by ids person the church, which Is an invisible body, is represented, and he is himself a body corporate In order to protect and defend the rights of the church which he represents.” “To parse n sentence" Is to resolve it Into Its grammatical parts, and the verb Is declared to have arisen from the Interrogation "Pars?” —that is, “Quae pars oratlonls?” (What part of speech?) used by schoolmasters. Too Broad a Hint. “You’ve got a fellow In there that won’t wait on me again, not much," said an Irate customer, as lie emerged from the dining room and slapped his money down on the pay desk. “I’m not stingy,” continued the customer, "and don't mind giving tips, hut when a waiter hangs round till a fellow has nearly finished eating and whistles ‘Do not forget me,’ I think it Is about time something was done."—London Mail.

All He Said. Officer—How is this, Murphy? Sergeant complains that you called him names. Private Murphy—Plaze, sur, I never called-him ony names at all. All I said was, “Sergeant,” says I, “some of us ought to he in a nieuagerle.”—London Tit-Bits.

Inevitable. “So Nelson is dead. What killed him?” “Y'nu know he had one foot in the grave?” “Yes.” "Well, some one pulled Ids leg.”— Harper's Weekly.

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4’F++-t- -:- f •<* v f -kv 4- f -t- -t-d- *:• v <• +f I AN AFFAIR ON | THE BOSPORUS. | ++++++++-:-+*+*•;•*+•»•-m-m.* +* * (Original.] Mahdeshin was a kavass in the service of the sultan of Turkey. He was assigned to the American legation and more especially to the secretary, Robert Babcock, appointed by one of the first presidents of the United States. At that time the harass was held accountable for the safety <>f the man lie attended, and if any accident happened to his charge the kavass, whether in fault or not. forfeited Ids life. Mahdesinn's position was no sinecure. Babcock had been a captain of rangers in the American Revolution and was only happy when in danger. The kavass. who found dUticuty in get ting his master's name, was advised by the secretary to call him Boh. This tlie servant did, much to the surprise and wonder of those who heard him. One day Babcock was walking on a street in Constantinople when a paljinquin passed him in which was a Turkish lady, who, as the American gazed upon her, removed the covering to tier face and gave him a very sweet smile. “Mahdeslnn,” said Baltcoek to the kavass, who was walking behind him. “there’s an adventure. A lady does me an honor. If 1 do not follow her up 1 will Ik' a poltroon and a coward.” “O most excellent and exalted Boh," protested the servant, "that lady is from the harem of tlie sultan. I recognized tier tlie moment she lifted tier

veil.”

“You don’t nie.in it!” declared the secretary, considerably staggered. One evening a few days later Baitcock set out from the legation to take ! a walk. Malidesian. who handed him i Ids hat and cane, proposed to accoui | pany him, but Babcock demurred. Babcock was disporting Ids handsome figure on the street, got up in a claret colored coat, knee breeches, with white silk stockings, and glistening shoo buckles, when he was approached by a man, who said in broken English, “If you wish to meet a lady, follow

me.”

Babcock at once surmised that this meant an invitation from the lady lie had met and admired and, with the recklessness natural to him, followed the Turk. Me was conducted to tlie hank of the Bosporus. Out in the stream, across which he remembered Leander had swum to ids Ho.o. a Unit ed States man of war Hying the Amcr lean flag was lying at anchor. Presently the conductor stopped at n wall inclosing u garden at (he rear of a dwelling. At a knock the door was opened from within, and the man pushed Babcock through. Sitting on a bench was a lady, who rose, lifting her veil the while her pretty face was covered with blushes and smiles. I’.altcoeU stopped forward, sei.ie.l her hand and kissed it. The lady, the same he had met before, Informed him that she was a wife of the sultan, one of hundreds who had the name of wife without the reality. She had arranged tills meeting at the dwelling of a friend on whom she could rely implicitly. They had spent a happy hour together when suddenly half a dozen men came over the wall—the door was locked—nud made them prisoners. At first they thought they had been betrayed to the sultan’s bodyguard, but the lender of the men told them that they would be held for ransom. The robbers knew well that one was connected with the United States embassy while tlie other was of the imperial harem, and they demanded an enormous sum to keep the secret and let them go their way. Now, this was a very unpleasant predicament unpleasant for Babcock, for he was without fortune and unable to produce the ransom; unpleasant for the Turkish lady, who was in like financial condition, and unpleasant for the absent Malidesian, who was responsible for Ids charge. Indeed, if there was no means of a settlement forthcoming all were sure to lose their lives. Babcock, who had been caught many a time by British soldiers in various trajis without being held, was now really frightened, not for himself, but for tlie lady. He cursed ids foolhardiness and especially regretted not permitting Malidesian to come with him If Babcock never returned to tlie legation the kavass would lose his head. If Babcock found no means of escape both he and the lady would lie murdered. Babcock kept the roblters waiting ns long as possible, hoping for some solution. It was growing dark when he had entered the garden, and when the hour of midnight was approaching lie had come to no conclusjpn. Suddenly, when he was meditating sending a message to the American minister, which was a last resort and a hopeless solution, a head appeared above tlie wall—the head of Mahdeslnn. lie whistled, and immediately a dozen sailor caps appeared on the wall, and in another moment twelve American Jackies, with drawn cutlasses, dropped into tiie garden. Well, the robbers were left hound and gagged, and Babcock, tlie lady and Mahdeshin were put b a cutter and rowed aboard the man-of-war. As soon as they had arrived Mahdeshin explained as follows: "O most mighty Bob, knowing that if you got Into difficulty 1 would lose my head, I followed you, saw the rob hers attack you and Informed tlie cap tain of this ship, who sent the men to save you." There was nothing to do hut for Babcock, the Turkish Indy and the kavass to remain concealed on the ship, and when she sailed the next morning they sailed with her and were transferred at Naples to a vessel bound for the United States. Mennwhilo Babcock married the Turkish Indy. MONTGOMERY MOORE.

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NOTICE OF DEMOCRAT PRIMAR’

Notice is hereby given to th. Democratic voters of Putnam county that there will be a primary election held In the different townships of said county on Friday the 10th day of January, 1908 to nominate ^ candidate for each of the following offices, to-wit: Representative, Treas urer, Sheriff, Cornoner, Surveyor, ! Commissioner 2nd District, and Commissioner for 3rd District. Wm. B. VESTAL, Chairman. J AS. P. HUGHES, Sec.

STOPPED THE YELPING.

Rostand’s Peasant Who Had Great Power Over Animals. "When Edmond Rostand had completed ids beautiful villa at Bayonne, he was on the verge of a nervous breakdown because of Ids inability to sleep,” says a Paris paper. "The restfulness of the plaee. however, and the charming surroundings worked wonders, and after a few days had passed tlie weary writer was able to sleep, and ids friends looked for his speedy return to good health. But a dog blocked the progress of the cure. One night tlie dog begun to bark, and in a short time dogs In all directions answered, and the concert kept up until day broke. All efforts to locate the mischief making animal failed. Every night at the same time the harking began, and no one could suggest a remedy. One day one of the servants told about a ne'er-do-well in a nearby village who had great power over dumb animals—possibly be might help. Ho was called, a large reward was promised. and the harking ceased. A few weeks after the reward had been collected Rostand was again disturbed by tlie dogs under the leadership of the same unknown barker. The peasant was again culled, and Rostand said, 'You must be well acquainted with tlie ways of animals to have such (lower over them.' The man beamed under the influence of the diplomatic tlnttery and proudly showed how lie could linltifte the whistling of birds and the noises made by animals In woods, ham or poultry yard. ‘And how about dogs?' said Rostand. Then the man began to hark, nud Immediately the voice of (lie arch disturber was recognized. ‘That’s enough,’ said Rostand. ‘Here Is a twenty franc piece. If we should hear tlie dogs bark agaiu, the police will be called.’ Tlie peasant saw that he had fallen into a trap, the dogs were heard no more, ‘and that,’ says tlie writer, ‘Is my dog story without a dog.’ ’’

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