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: TRIUMPH. The thrush fiew_away from the elder bush, But its song throbbed on in the breathless hush; And the rose was guenched by the pelting rain, il v e But its sweet soul blossomed in scent again, Angd the sun sank down on the watching eye, i But the sunset stayed behind in the sky; Ang the shell from the wave was torn apart, : ' But it house@ the sea's song deep in.its heart,

Ang@ the wind was hushed in its skyey lair, But the echo roved in the upper air;_ ‘Angd the rill was lured from the peak afar, But it still reflected the midnight star.

Andi life is torn from the eyes and tne lips, But the man lives on in the last eclipse; Ana@ flesh is broken and cast on the sod, But the soul stands up like a God with

God! e = —Edward Wilbur Mason, in N. Y. Independent. S : -

The old Fort and a Passer By J»

By S. RHETT ROMAN.

IT STANDS back, the old fort, from the Atlantic shore. Its grassgrown walls towering up to an immense height,-in- unbroken -sweeps and angles of green, and it looks solitary and deserted. Only a small sentry box on the sea face indicates that the impregnable earthwork is again oceupied, while the occasional sound _uf_di'um beats, “and,bugle calls, show that a company of United States artillery is stationed there* to look after the row of sunken guns, q\& invisible from the outside, and which no intruder is ever allowed to investigate. . . _ /

The Old Fort, like an ancient coquette, has a history, a stormy history, and romance attached to it.

It once withstood assault after assault long years ago from a. vigorous and determined &nemy, and the sod of its bastions and outer wall, not then so lofty and imposing as it is to-day, was dyed red in many places, and the white sand road, winding around in front of two of its sides, ecovers the crumbling bones of most of a gallant line of blue, which surged up, was beaten back thinned and decimated, then swept up again to remain in queer misshapen heaps, and outstretched solitary figures, all along the escarpment of the walls from whose casements puffs of gray smoke oozed out, and were blown this way and that by the saltysea breezes. =

They were placed side by side; those silent figures, and given decent burial down in the white sand at the foot of the fort, where they had fallen, and to-day butcher carts and bakers’ wagons go plodding aleng above them, and pedestrians living in the pretty village, scattered over the island, tramp cheerily along narrow sidewalks skirting this forgotten cemetery, being quite ignorant that their careless footsteps ' are passing over the rémains of men who had tried fruitlessly, and heroically to sterm the " battlements of . the grass-grown fort. Conditions are changed to-day, but it still remains impregnable. A young man sat on the grassy edge of the road, and while smoking a cigar, glanced with idle interest at the towering slant of the fort’s walls behind him, crowned as they were by the sentry’'s watch tower. "And as he lounged he ruminated moodily on his' own private battle (between himself and a pretty girl), which had gone so decidedly against him during the summer just passed. So a feeling of friendly interest went out from his heart toward the ancient field ‘work which had held out so long and so well, but was now occupied by these against whom it had been gallantly and uselessly fought in the long past years. ’ *“lt was all to no purpose, old fort,” he said, lazily;, as his eye measured the noble proportions of the battery, and he noted the solitary sentry pacing back and forth on the rampart above, his figure dwarfed by the light but distinct against the yellow and crimson clouds ip the west where the sun was setting. “You held your own with splendid strength and tenacity, - and you thought you had won a great victory the day when your sides were redstained and the smoke of your cannon blew in the eyes of your gunners. But it was a useless struggle. To-day the men who man your guns are the brothers of those who perished attempting to scale your walls. You are a monument to the futility of desperate effort and the mutability of human affairs.”_ : A breeze swept over the walls of the fort and ruffled the short grass growing thick and rank this late summer month and sent an aromatic odor of field flowers in the face of the dejected tourist sitting on the edge of the sidewalk. 2 2 =

“It was not useless, young man. ‘Nol lesson of struggle and immortal prowess is useless,” said the walls, frowning down in disapproval on the athletic, good-looking young fellow idly smoking a choice Havana, his neatly turned-up trousers, patent leather shoes, polka-dotted socks, well-cared-for hands and handsome seal ring plainly showing that his were lines running smoothly along the easy road of prosperity, where bitter struggles, disappointments and defeats are not usual. ;

“What have you to complain of, young man?” asked the old fort. “What are you dejected and spiritless about? I've noted you often passing along here with a clever-looking, bright-eyed girl-—a spirited girl with a handsome face and erect carriage. What are you so moody about?”

Insisted on Her Rights.. Gertrude (the big sister)—Maud, I co wish you'd stop your chattering to that dog. Can’t you see I'm talking to Mr. Lovedale? Maud (aggrieved)—~Well, I've dot a right to talk to my puppy, too.—TitBits. ' 5 Fame, - Lives of great men all remind us That we will not be @espised If we only leave behind ug- : ‘Books that can be dramatized, —~N. Y. Sun. . s Ostend is to hold an international exhibition of fashions in 1904,

“I have not what I want, old fort.. What do I care about wealth? I have not the love of a brown-eyed girl, whose smile is the light olf heaven,and for whose sake I would scale your sombre old walls in.the face of all your cannon if I thought it would give me the hope of winning her.

~ “You talk of battles! It's easier to storm up in the wild craze of battle and wrest victory and possession against long odds than to dawdle through life and see the thing you ardently crave beyond your reach. To realize that you may have Dead sea fruit in abundance, but never the only joy which would make life worth having. You talk of ancient battles and forgotten struggles. Mine is a battle of to-day for my life's happiness, and I've lost it. I'll go out west and look after my mines, or I'll go cruising, and I'll play the same old bluff society game. . But, rain or shine, what do I care?”’

“Tut! tut!” said the old fort conteghptuously. “**You should have been born 40 years ago. You have all the capabilities of the soldier who led his men in a breathless rush up these walls, and you look like him. But his was g courage which would not admit of defeat. Yours—3! -

~ Again the breeze swept over the fort, flinging out the flag, which had been drooping at its staff, waiting for sunset, the turn of the tide and a wind from over the seas. : “You look like him,” continued the ~old fort. *“He was a dauntless fellow. " He made a superb charge, leading his | men up to scale these walls. He fell } just where you sit, and yon tuft of primroses blossoms above his head. The difference between you and Col. Meclver is that he was a product of the empestuous times in which he lived and you have spént your years after the manner of the wealthy idler. You accept defeat where he would have struggled to the end, whatever the end I may have been.” - .

Hugh Meclver glanced up at the slanting wall of the big earthwork, at the. tufted grass covering its sides and the sentinel passing to and from. *“Yes, Mclver was a great soldier. He fell leading on his men just where you are lounging, young man,” said the old fort.

*“To-day this is a very peaceful spot. Life among the small garrison is a quiet roufine of easy labors, and only the officers’ wives quarrel over small matters or play cards and have music. Some of them are pretty. The children laugh and romp on the sunny side of the parade ground, and the nurses sit together and talk of what they see and hear. : :

“But I can’t forget those other days, when cannon roared from these parapets and flame and smoke swept through the embrasures now closed up; when the sound of the clash of war rang out and assaulting columns dashed up against my walls, and the din of battle covered the groans of the wounded and dying. . : “To-day the bugle call and the sentry’s step are the only sounds which disturb the quietude of evening and night. o : :

~ "It does seem as if we are smaller men than our fathers,” mused the Young man stretched on the grass. “This old fort has seen heroic times —men dying for their convictions. - “Well, a man to-day is not called on to storm forts. ’

“I’ll go out to those silver mines and look after them. Not a bad idea to do a little mining myself. Perhaps she'll think a little better of me if she thinks at all” : . ;

“Why, hello!” called a gay voice imperiously, “mooning up at the stars, or at the walls of the fort? Aren’'t they formidable? Imagine your cotillon leaders of to-day leading a storm~ ing party up that slope. Maj. Thompson was telling me last night how the I'ortieth Pennsylvania stormed up and nearly took the work. The colonel and nearly all the officers fell. Perhaps we are standing on their graves now this minute. They were buried with military honors at the foot of the fort, so he said.” :

She had stopped and stood gazing up at'the great slope of the wall, the flagstaft overhead and the indistinct sentry pacing slowly along, while Hugh Mclver stood looking at the fine spirited face and graceful figure by his side. .

*The Fortieth. That was my father’s regiment. Then it was here he lost his life,” Hugh said slowly.

A pause followed, then she turned and held out both hands. -

“Forgive me. I did not know. How heroic!”

They turned silently from the grassgrown rampart. e

“I am. going to the post office. Walk with me,” she said, with a radiant smile, * and let us forget hostilities.”

It was a slow and rather silent ramble to the queer little post office in the center of the village. “A last fascinating recollection to take away with me,” Hugh said with lingering regret. :

-“Going? Where and when are you going, and to do what?” she asked breathlessly. :

“To €Colorado—to-morrow—to look after some mines,” he answered, looking steadily dt the lovely face before him. v : :

“To Colorado? When will you get back ?” ;

- “Never,” Hugh said, “unless—" *“Unless—?" ' she repeated softly, -turning toward him. :

Hugh Meclver stretched out his hand impulsively. : “Who is he?” said the old fort reflectively, as they sauntered slowly by later on. ‘“That young man reminds me strongly of Col. Mclver when he stormed these walls and the battle raged around. He was buried just where those yellow primroses are blooming.”—N. O. Times-Democrat. Competition Is Fierce. “But there’s plenty of money in politics,” said his friend. “Oh, yes,” said the politician, “but, like other remunerative lines, it’s overcrowded.”—Brooklyn Life. i A Philosopher, : - “He’s a philosopher, isn’t he?” “Yes. That is, he has found out how to be happy in every other condition but the nne he happens to be in.”’— N. Y. Tiines. : It costs £650,000 a year to feed the horses of the British army when on a peace footing.

NO RELIEF FROM COAL TRUST.

The Republican Administration Responsible for the Present. State of Things. .

There is no more reason for a tariff tax on coal than for one on ice, and the latter necessity—and it almost is a necessity—is on the free list of the Dingley tariff act. Coal is taxed 67 cents a ton to protect she coal barons and allow them to charge that much more profit—in fact the duty was intended as a subsidy. The coal barons are important people. They control United States senators and congressmen from- a number of strong republican states, and when the subsidies have been, dealt out in the tariff bill they demanded that coal should be protected from competition.. This, of course, was conceded by the republican majority that passed the bill and the republican president that signed it. So there is no escape from the fact that the republican party is responsible for at least 67 cents a ton of the extortionate prices for coal which the ‘trust is now charging. -

It is also not difficult to prove that the republican party is also responsible for the coal strike, and, until election day was near, made no serious- attempt to stop it. There is a community of interests between the trusts and the republican party leaders. A wireless telegraph keeps them in constant touch with each other and when important elections ara about to occur the contact becomes closer, like the embrace of lovers. %

The party in power is responsible for the execution of the federal laws and, in times of stress, at least, when the anti-trust law was notoriously being nullified, the same party should enforce it. When the beef trust began to hold-up the American people,

8 it did last winter, if the adminisration had begun proceedings

against the beef barons under the eriminal section of the Sherman law, there would have been but liftle doubt of their conviction. Mr. Armour or Mr. Swift convicted and in jail for combining to fleece " the people, would have at once stopped

theéir extortions and would have been a warning to other monopolists, especially to the coal trust magnates, when combination to restrict the out-

put of coal and keep up prices was notorious. The fear of an impartial enforcement of the law would have made the coal barons think twice before they declined to make a small advance.in the wages of the miners. Ten cents a_ ton advance in wages would have settled the coal strike, ten dayg after it began. A threat,

at that time, of prosecution, by President Roosevelt, or his' attorney general even—if the beef trust had not been dealt - with, would have brought the haughty barons to time. No such effort, or even attempt, was made. The trusts are still in the saddle, booted and spurred, riding the long-suffering people to their undoing. The presidens has 4vashed his hands of the wretched business and his “commission” drags aldng without much prospect of either miners or people being helped by its deliberations. = The only relief in sight is balmy spring, which nature fortunately will provide in due course of time. :

INFLUENCES CORRUPT. Protection a System That Is Based on Fallacies and Is Un- : : sound. : Mr. William Lloyd Garrison has a most excellent article in the Free Trade Almanac for 1903, from: which the following is a part: “A system built on fallacies has its root in corruption, and its fruit bears evidence of its parentage. From untruths to misuse and misappropriation of revenues to grants of privileges for favors received and expected, to corruption of public and private morals, the step is easy and inevitable. To comprehend the demoralized state which public sentiment has reached, one has only to observe the indifference and derision which meet the reformer who preaches ethics in polities. It is tacitly taken for granted that politics to be practical, must be impure. KExpediency is the gospel of the hour, and principles are considered academic and irrelevant. . . .

“Corruption, having exploited the people through the tariff, next seeks to_ tax them further by domesite monopoly. Trusts are the instruments. The tariff enables them to escape foreffn competitiom ‘and more easily to throttle competition at home. ‘The machinery of selfish government becomes at length subordinated to the representatives of selfish combinations. They dictate laws, hold in subjection university, pr'éss and pulpit, instigate foreign aggression, encourage war, and put imperialism and militarism in the place of a “government of the people, for the people, and by the peopie.” The protective tariff is a viper’s nest. Unless it is destroyed, the United States will be a democracy only in name.” ’ !

——Thomas C. Platt, of New York, has again “consented” to be a candidate from, his state for the United States senate. - The situation reminds us of that in a Boston engine company in the old volunteer days when the members annually elected their foreman. In this particular company the foreman who belonged to the old school of ‘“vets” would say to his men a few days before the date for making a choice: “It won't be necessary to hold an election, boys; I am willing to serve you for another year.”—Boston Transcript (Rep.). _

——Mr. Littlefield’s anti-trust bill contains all the suggested medsures for the harassment and subjugation of the trusts, but there is no sign of a collapse on the part of the trusts upon receipt of the news that the bill has obtained a favorable report from a sub-committee.—Mobile Register. .

——Gov. Cummins expounded the Towa idea before the reciprocity convention in Detroit the other day. He took the precaution, however, to say that he spoke for himself alone. —Chicago Chronicle. :

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

l.esson In the International Serles for January 11, 1903—Chris~ timn Living.

THE LESSON TEXT. (Phil. 4:1-13.)

1. Therefore, my brethren, dearly beloved and longea@d for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved. 2. I beseech Euodias. and beseech SynE‘Qhe. that they be of the same mind in the ord. .

3. And I entreat thee, also, true yokefellow, help those women which labored with me in the Gospel, with Clement, also, and with other my fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.

4. Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, rejoice.

5. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

6. Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer an@ supplication with tranksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. i

7. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Chnist Jesus. 8. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. 9. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do; ana the God of peace shall be with you. ® 10. But I rejoice@ in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity. 11. Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state 1 am, therewith to be content. 12. T know both how to be abashed, and I know how to abound: everywhere andiin al} things I am instructed both to be full and to be gungry, both to abound angd to suffer need.

13" I can @o all things through Ckrist, which strengtheneth me. : GOLDEN TEXT.—Rejoice in the Lord alway.~Phil, 4:4,

ANALYSIS OF SCRIPTURE SECTION. Individual exhortations ...,.....Phil. 4:1-7. General exhortationg ............Phil. 4:8,9. Personal references ..............Phil. 4:10-20. TIME.—63 A. D. PLACE.—Rome.

An Uplifting Message.—Bear in mind that the epistle to the Philippians was written during Paul’s imprisonment at Rome, and yet note how cheery and inspiring it is! - There 'is nothing in it to show that the apostle is downcast. Indeed, he declares that the things that have happened unto him have turned out to be for the progress of the Gospel (1;12). He hopes that he will be delivered, but is ready to die; and for his own sake alone, that he would be glad to do, for then he would be with Christ (1:21-23). Paul had a special affection for the Philippian church, and his love is plainly evidenced in this letter. It should be read, all of it, at one sitting. ¢

Last Sunday the lesson was the story of the end of Paul’s work in Philippi. This simple personal letter from the apostle, now perhaps nearing the end of his life, to his old friends at Philippi, was-written from a Roman prison, and apparently after Paul's affairs had taken a decided turn for the worse. He is still cheerful and hopes for release and to see his friends again, but his cause for hope and joy is not in his circumstances, but in the fact that he is superior to them. The crisis which should mean life or death to him was near (1:20-24). He was ready for either. He promises to send Timothy to them “forthwith, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.” Kead the whole letter and more than {nce if possible, and let the courage and contentment and humility and affectionateness of the man whose life is revealed in it teach theif own lessons. “Wherefore:” Referring to what he has just said. Paul is counseling his friends from his own experience to let their faith in future glory be an inspiration to every-day living. “Euodia . +« . Syntyche:” Two women, both of them Christians (‘“whose names are in -the Book of Life”), and yet who were hurting the cause by their unpleasant- disagreement. “True yokefellow:” There has been much discussion as to who was meant, but probably the word translated yokefellow was the name of one of the Philippian disciples, and we should read, “I beseech thee also, Synzygus (yokefellow), rightly so named (true).” ‘ “Rejoice in the Lord:” This letter comes from Paul’s own life experiences. His advice has been tested and tried. If we are to rejoice always we must look from the small facts of life to the great ones,—and the greatest is God and His love. “The Lord is at hand:” The reference is to an early reappearance of Christ on earth, which seems to have been generally looked for by the Christians. “In nothing be anxious:” The distressing anxiety of those who are depending entirely upon themselves. The Christian may take all his troubles and cares to God, and so find the ‘‘peace of God.” *“Whatsoever things are true, . . . thinkon these things:” Take account of them, let the mind dwell on them, learn to appreciate them wherever they are found, and then, Paul goes on to say, “these things do.” ,

“Revived your thought:” They had wanted to send Paul aid before but had lacked opportunity. In the next verses Paul speaks of the secret of Christian contentment. He had learned how to abound and how to be in want, and both with a thankful heart; but the strength which enabled him to do the hard things was his only as a result of his vital uniom with Christ Jesus his Lord.

TOWN TALK.

Spencer Trask, of New York, and George Foster Peabody, of Brooklyn, have -a force of workmen employed in remodeling Crosbyside, a hotel on Lake George; where they will establish a vacation home for the young women toilers of New York city.

There were in New York at the date of the federal census of two years ago 1,239 American citizens born in foreign countries during the residence of their- parents abroad. One of the members of the New York city delegation to the next house of representatives, George B. McClellan, was born abroad. :

Mary Gallagher, 65 years old and worth $40,000, was found starving in a hotel at Englewood, N. J., the other day, and taken to a hospital. She had several thousands dollars in money on her person, but declared she could not afford to buy food. After being sent to the hospital a man about half her age and claiming to be her husband appeared upon the scene and tried to get possession of her hoard, but was forestalled by the public administrator.

CONDITION IS WOEFUL.

Porto Rico Is. Worse Off' Now Than Under Spain, Says a Native at Cornell.

Martin Traviesco, Jr., of San Juan, Porto Rico, now a senior in the Cornell law school, declares that conditions in Porto Rico are far worse than they were under the rule of Spain, and that the government party is carrying on with a high hand, favoring a minority which consists of worthless politicians, while the best and honest people suffer. These statements, says the Chicago Chronicle, made in a speech which was delivered at one of the meetings of the Cornell class in oratory, made a profound impression, for Traviesco is well liked by the students, who admire his devotion to his country’s cause. In part he said:

‘““When the flag of Spain was pulled down from évery piace intheisland of Porto Rico end that of the sta®s and stripes supplanted in its stead the great heart of the Porto Rican people was glad, for we thougkt that liberty, had for thg first time made its appearance on our dear island. We had read and hearcdt of Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and othertmmortal Americans and had also learned to love and admire them; we knew that in the American nation all men.were free and equal, and we had read the American constitution and therefore we hoped that the blessings of liberty guaranteed in that-document would be extendegd to us. ° :

“Have our hopes been realized? Nay, they have been dissipated and blasted. The supreme court has held that the constitution does not extend to Porto Rico. And instead of autonomy which had been conceded to us by Spain we now have a government which gives the governor more despotic powers than any Spanish governor ever had. “The election of Novembér was thegreatest political crime of: the century. All means were used from fraud to murcer to give the victory to the governmental party. The insular police instead of preserving order were used by the government to intimidiate the opposing party and to prevent the honest citizens from casting their ballotst and the criminals wiil remain unpunished because the ministers in the temple of justice are politicians. ““We have gone back to the dark days-of Spanish administration of 1887, when our mothers and sisters were in constant fear that their sons and brothers might be arrested by the Spanish soldiers to be thrown into a dungeon and suffer torture for the solet crime of being'a patriot. To-day uncer the present government they are in constant dread lest their loved ones may be brought back to them maimed or murdered for the sole crime of being opposed to the party protected by.the governor. *‘But only the official reports reach this country, and in them Porto Rico is represented as being a happy and prosp<rous country. But these reports are false and 1 so denounce them. Porto Rico is passing through the greatest crisis of its history ‘and the island is prostréted. “1 believe that my country is entitled to have a governm‘é'm founded on the same principles that have made this nation the greatest nation in the world, and I believe we are at least entitled, as civilized and Christian people, to have our natural rights guaranteed by the government to which we owe allegiance. Iln heaven's name we want instead of profligacy, honesty; instead of extravagance, economy; instead eof rioting, peace. So that everyone from our beautiful shores to our evergreen mountains may learn to love and respect the flag which floats overhead and be willing to die in its defense.” :

NOT HARD TO EXPLAIN.

Why There Was Such an Increase in the Socialistic Vote at Recent Election.

The repubiicans- are looking for an explanation of the great increase in the socialist vote at the recent election, The party of “stand-patters” in special privileges and distributor of vested wrongs need not look far for the explanation. Henry Fawcett gave At when he said:

“It has repeatedly shown that the friends of revolutionary changes derive their motive power from the bigotted opponents of progress, and from the stubborn upholders of unwise laws and unjust privileges. It might as well be supposed that the railway engine would move if it were deprived of steam, that wheat’ could grow without . soil, or that man could live without food, as to imagine that a revolutionary *propagandism could be maintained if it were not kept alive by the recollection of some wrong inflicted, and by the continuance of some evil unredressed.” :

Not only will socialism continue to increase rapidly, but it will soon be the law of the land if effective measures are not taken to curb the power of the trusts. The people may do some foolish' things and jump in wrong directions when they see danger ahead, but they will not much longer stand still while. the trusts plunder them. Possibly Herbert Spencer was right when,in 1894, he said: “The movement toward dissolution of existing social forms and reorganization on a socialistic basis.l believe to be irresistible.” He then prophesied ‘‘civil war, immense bloodshed, and eventually military despotism of the severest type.”

DRIFT OF OPINION.

——Well, the democrats won’t be abke to e‘lect‘ a man in 1904 who is suitable to the republicans.—Rochester Herald. ! ;

——There was an organization in Ohio 25 years or more ago based on the proposition that the.democratic party had outlived its usefulness; but it has lived to fight many a battle since, and it is now prancing into the arena for victory in 1904. Those who think the Monroe doctrine is “in the sere and yellow” might find a lesson in this.—Cincinnati Enquirer. ——Representative Grosvenor, of Ohio; had begun to tell about the trusts which the republican party has destroyed. He mentioned the whisky trust. “Was the whisky trust broken up by federal or state laws?” inquired Representative Cochran. “I deo not know,” confessed Grosvenor. “Name one trust that was broken up by the Sherman law,” challenged Cocliran. ‘I decline to be interrupted,” answered Grosvenor, who knows when he has said enough.—Albany Argus. ; ——Free coal, both anthracite and bituminous, is an immediate necessity to everyone, and yet congress delays to pass this most necessary legislation. For partisan reasons the republicans have decided that the tariff issue must not be opened for discussion. This may ke *“letting well enough alone” from the standpoint of Senator Hanna, who is a mine owner and who is piling up riches by charging exorbitant prices for his coal, but it is cruel and inhuman to the suffering poor and is robbery of those in better circumstances.—Johnstown Democrat.

THOSE WHO GO TO LAW.

The English Are More Given to Settling Disputes in Court Than Any Other Nationality.

Deep is the confidence of the Briton in the law. 1t settles his quarrels, and he settles its charges, or as much as he can defray, states a London paper. )

A parliamentary return issued recently, and dealing with the judicial work of 1900, shows that during the year mentioned there was, compared with ‘the preceding year, a slight increase iu appeals entered and an increase in proceedings begun. . Compared with the average of the preceding four years the total of cases begun and heard shows an increase. '

It appears that of all the cases begun considerably less than half come to trial. The total of cases entered in all courts was 1,310,680, and the number heard and determined 429,418. This means that one case was begun for every 25 members of the population, while one for every 75 was heard. Seeing that there are a plaintift and defendant in each case, it follows that one person out of every 12Y, began a legal action and one in every 37 brought an acticn to trial. : :

The judicial committee heard 350 appeals from India, 33 from the colonies and 16 from Australia. The average cost of these appeals is estimated at £250 each.

The average cost of an appeal to the house of lords is nearly twice. as much, senior counsel in theSe cases receiving from 50 to 75 guineas a day, and their juniors twwo-thirds of their fees.

.Of 803 cases in the court of appeal no fewer than 122 were cases under the workmen’s compensation acts. The average cost to each party of these appeals is put at £5O.

It is instructive as to the nature of lawyers charges to know that some bills of costs of appeal before the lords have had as much as 62 per cent. taxed off, and the average re~duction by taxation was 29.06. In one case the bill of costs was £2,336, but the hearing extended over *ll days. - The records show that there is no decline in the public liking for trial by jury, and that there is an “increasing preference for special juries—generally at the request of the defendants. I . Of actions entered in London and Middlesex and on circuit, 926 were for personal injuries, 685 for slander, and 103 for breach of promise of - marriage. -

Limited and other companies are responsible for more litigation than individuals. Of 638 actions in January, 1901, 45 per cent. were by companies. Many persons will be surprised to learn that divorce and judicial separation cases, while showing a decrease for both countries, are proportionately more numerous in Scotland than England. For the three years ending 1900 they were, in Scotland, 4.16, 5.18 and 4.52, respectively, for every hundred thousand of the population. In England the corresponding figures were 2.39; 2.29 and 2.17: . THERE IS PROFIT IN WEEDS. Provided That the Right Varieties Are Cultivated—Some Illustrative Instances. A garden of weeds is not the unprofitable thing usually imagined—that is, if the right sort of weeds are permitted to grow therein. We know of a gardener who actually encourages groundsel, devoting a great piece of ground to its cultivation. Of all weeds this is the gardener’s pest, but our present subject has an eye to business, relates London Tit-Bits. His groundsel crop—there are several during the season—is constantly hawked in the streets as food for birds. He declares that there is more money in a field of groundsel than in a field of beans or a cabbage plot. It is said that.a certain farmer in the midlands grows the troublesome weed known as lady’s mantel by the acre. Horses and sheep are fond of the lady’s mantel, but few think-to raise crops of it. As a fodder plant it might very profitably be cultivated, growing luxuriantly’'on any soil and practically taking care of itself until ready for the scythe.

A Yorkshire farmer cultivates the common vetch in great. abundance on ground formerly devoted to turnips and oats. Not only is the vetch good food for animals, but it possesses medicdinal properties as well. Horses will eat heartily of the cool, sticculent herb when everything else is refused. Nettles are greatly in favor among poor people in the north of England during the early spring months. Boiled as spinach they are agreeable and wholesome—a fact which an elderly lady turns to ‘ account. One-half of her big garden in Lancashire is overgrown with the 1 weeds, which she sells readily to the cottagers at a penny per big bundle. Common as is the nettle, it is tedious work picking a quantity, but in this garden it grows in such abundance that an armful may be torn up in a few minutes. Gladly then the penny is given to save a morning's tramp over the commons. The same lady grows chickweed, for larks and linnets, easily disposing of it -As it springs up quickly fresh supplies are ever ready. Another energetic woman culty vates blackberries for the market, and makes them pay, too. The carefully tended berries are far superior in size and flavor to those of the wild variety, the crop is more certain, and there is no expense in their cultivation. She wonders why gardeners do not grow blackberries as a general thing. *“They are more profitable than raspberries,” she says, “and far more delicious. Everybody likes blackberries, and no matter how heavy the crop they are never left on one’s. hands. Several persons, acting on my advice, have introduced brambles in their gardens, and express themselves delighted with the results. In a couple of years the berries grow so large that they seem like a distinct species altogether.” The Best Way. When you can honorably do so the best way to conquer your enemy is to concur with him.—Ram’s Horn, ;

; I W R N X TDA R ) A L O S d “1f TN T ,w'. iR K s =" 1230 £n § R MG 1] SRS TR RN N\ LU ys / . -(—\. v § N A N NN N NN NN NN NN NN NN NN NN GETTYSBURG FIELD. - When the waves of shadow sweep Northward on this meadow Qeep, 'Tis the charge of Pickett's hosts In the gambols of the ghosts; And when southwarad bendk the wheat, They are acting their retreat, . And the wraiths of men in blue, Riding on the breeze pursue. Yonder lowly wall of stone S Marks where War was overthrown; - - Dying mow ‘in fitful strife, e In a worl@ once battle-rife, : Groans the monster that his sight Never shall behold such fight, Nor such heroes see again ) Death defy on gory plain, o 7 Poetry! The roster call; e Crown the humblest of them all S With the wreath of honor's-'weave, . So that Wonder may perceive That the laurels here are due ’ Unto all and not a few— ’ Michael Cuddy, of New York! ) Franklin Doda, of Benford's Fork!

When the fiery Southron there Chargea his last in fierce despair, North ten paces from the.wall - Stood a color-bearer tall, Grasping in his hardly right, Foremost flag in all the fight, Banner of the Tammany sent - Forty-secon@ Regimeént. .

Rushing first of Pickett's men - Lanky Dodd espied him then Through the smoke of battle hell,. Through the roar of shot and shell; ‘““Boys, hurrah; we’'ve got their flag! Watch me git the Yankee rag!’ And before he jumped the wall .. Stopped and aimed angd sped the ball

Sergeant Cuddy forward fell, . Heard the cshrilling rebel yell, | Saw them half-way in his-fall, N Hundreds, thousands, clear the wall; To his knees he rose and raised @ Up his banner. *“God be praised!” =~ Moane@ he, as the rush and shout Told of counter charge and rout.

Michael Cuddy,. kneellng there With his banner floating fair, Died, while Dodd’s death-stiffening'hands Bounad his wrists like iron bangds. Side by side, and hanadin hand, In a gliding, ghostly band,- - Michael Cuddy, Franklin Dodd, Fell in line before their God. :

And a Voice of thunder rolled: ““Here My best, My bravest-bold Dwell, but may return at will To their fields of glory -still; - Gett’ys‘burg .on all will bind - High respect for human kind; So @o heroes work My plan For the brother-peace of man.” —P. J. Tansey, in N. Y. Sun,

TALES OF DESERTERS.

What Bec_a;me of Some of the Thou‘sands Who Decamped from . Both Armies. )

“I have often wondered,” said the colonel, in the Chicago Inter Ocean, “what became of the deserters from the union army. We had several in our regiment that were not apprehended during the war, and 1 have never met or heard of one of them since the close. of the war. I have heard of one man who left our regiment and enlisted in-another, and of another who mysteriously disappeared; but of downright deserters, not one. ) ’ i :

“Not including drafted men who failed to report and not including the ‘men who left the ranks after Lee's surrender, there were 112,000 deserters from the union army, and Gen. Preston reported fully as many in 1864 from the ¢onfederate army. Inducements were offered to deserters from the opposing army on both sides, and the confederate government was under pledge at one time to return union desérters through their lines on promise that they would remain at home during the war. But I never met a man, or heard of one, who had returned to his home in that way. . )

. “Hundreds of men who had seen service in the confederate regiments came to our lines in Kentucky and east Tennessee, and mahy .of them entered eagerly into union regiments. A few union soldiers taken prisoners probably enlisted in ..confederate regiments, but the mass of deserters from the union army were not that kind of men.. They left the union service because of 'their dislike for discipline or for military duty, and so far as their comrades were concerned or their friends at home, they dropped out of life. Now, what became of them? Where did those

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hundred thousand deserters’ go? What sort of a life did they live afterward?” i e “lI know what became of some of them,” said the captain. “I was on board a United States man-of-war in the harbor of Norfolk the last year of the war. We were doing harbor police duty and also guarding the supply boats that went to the Dismal Swamp for water for the warships. By the way, the water of the Dismal Swamp was then a bright wine color, ‘made so by the juniper tree and the foliage 'and roots of other trees. On one trip out we came upon a long, awkward confederate sitting on the bank of the Dismal Swamp canal. His appearance indicated that he " had not been well fed or groomed. - His hair was long and unkempt and his clothing was scant and the worse-for

wear, : - “He had evidently beén caught napping, and we covered him before he could make a break to get away. We took him aboard and fed him. After being .refreshed he warmed up and said his family lived within_the union lines; that he was a ‘deserter from

the confederate army, and was waiting for a chance to slip through our lines to his family. We assured him of our willingness to aid him in carrying out his plans, and he then saud there was a camp back in the swamp of his comrades in a like predicameat and a number of deserters frem the union army, wheo were waiting for an ‘opportunity to slip. through our lines to their homes in the north. ~

. “We persuaded him to guide us 1a what he called the bandit camp, fer the men were marauders and were living upon the result of their thiesing or their forays on the settlements on the outskirts of the swamp. The confederate guided us to ths camp. We deployed and stealthily

closed in. As we were about o aitack; we were attracted by the singing of an Irishman, whose brazoe and fine voice so charmed us that we stopped to listen. The mnight was ‘clear, the swamp quiet, and the silence was broken oanly by ihis Irishman's song. : :

- “He sang of the nighi béefors the battle and the dear ones st home, of mothers and sisters and daunghters, and the refrain to each werse was to the effect that honest! Patv Murphy, of Meagher's brigade, sung of the land of the shillalah. Oma verse was to the effect that it was a sin and a shame to see brothers fighting in such a queer manner, but Pat remarked or sang .at the top of his voice: ‘But I'll fight till I die 3f & should not be killed, for America's bright starry banner.” :

“In another verse Pat deciared that if he had Jeff Davis there he would give him a thrust of his baxonet, bedad, ‘for trying to burst up the good union, and the last verse left Pasz Murphy, lifeless and gory on the battle field far away from his home of the shillalah. When ths song was finished ' the campers clapped their hands, which showed that union and confederate deserters were in sympathy with the sentiment. Bejote the hand-clapping had = ended, the men in camp were looking down the barrels of our navy carbines and all were made prisoners. “I don’t know -what became of those we turned over to the auwthorities, but from them I gathered imformation that led me to believe that not a few of the deserters from ths union army hung between the lines guided by the spirit .of adventure into a species of outlawry. When the war was over, they found their way to the cities, to the mining camps, to the western ranches, to South America, to Cuba, but very few of them returned to their old homes™

How Grant Became a Smeker.

‘Gen. James Grant Wilson addressed the Historical Society of Pennsvivania . the othér night on the subject of “Personal Reminiscences of Lincolm and Grant.” Among many interesting yarns spun by the general was one setting forth how Grant became a great smoker. It seems that afier one of Grant's great victories he was seen riding down the line with a halismoked unlit cigar in his mouth. Im reporting the affair the war cerrespondents one and all mentioned the incident of the half-burnt cigar. It was not long after that evervr express from the north brought ths general packages of cigars, until there were 20,000 cigars received at camp. Up to that time Grant had 3 been in the habit of smoking but twe or three cigars a day. But with this unlimited supply, and feeling that as they were gifts he could not give them away, he started to smoke them wholesale, and thus acquired a tre- ' mendous appetite for tobacco.—Philadelphia Inquirer. S

An Offi-Hand Jeke

A sturdy sergeant of one of the Massachusetts regiments in the late war, - being obliged to’'submit to the ampa- — tation of his right hand, the surgeon’ offered to administer chioroform as usual, but the veteran refused. saying: “If the cutting is to be done om me I want to see it;” and, laying his arm on the table, submitted to_ the operation without a sign of pain except a firmer setting of his teeth as thé saw struck the marrow. The operator, as he finished, looked at his =~ victim with admiration and remarked: “You ought to have been a surgeon, my man.” : “] was the next thing tooneafore I enlisted,” said the hero. - “What was thai?” ask~d the docter, “A butcher!” responded the sergeant with a grim smile, which, despite the surroundings, communicated itself to the bystanders.—American Tribune. Individual Bravery. Gen. Miles says that the most reckless display of individual bravery he ever saw was during the civil wan, when a regiment was marching inte _ battle, led by its youngcolonel. Shells began to fall and four or five of the men would drop at a time. They ‘were comparatively raw troops and as the fire became more and more dead1y they showed just a symptom of hesitation. Suddenly their youthful leads er rode out in front, wannghisswo:J in the air and yelled: “Move up, move up. Do you want to live forewer?™ — Gen: Miles characterizes this as = 'specimen of utterly abandoned coupe — age.”—lndianapolis News. : Historie Woeod. : President Roosevelt has received from Rev. Dr. Thomas H. Haggerty, of St. Louis, a walking stick made from wood from a tree on the battlesround of Wilson creek, a tree on the Lookout mountain field, trees at Getiysburg, the frame of the Liberty bell, Grant’s log cabin, Sherman’s house, * the house in which Lee surrendered. the Springfield house of Lincoln, the Morre castle at Havana and the cruiser Christina Regina sunk in Manila bay. The ferrule was made of iron of cars dumped into a creek by Gen. Marmaduke. Rev. Mr. Haggerty was a chaplain in Sherman’s army.—Albany Argus. e : = What He Thought. “Busybody says it is the funniest thing how often he puts his hat om - backward,” remarked Smithers. - “That’s easily explained,” said Smithers. 3 “HO_W?” 4 : . B “By remembering the material outof which his neck is made. He usnally has it twisted thatway™ ... = And after five minutes of B Q{ uring Smithers caught on.—Ciltime nati Commercial-Tribune. @