People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1897 — Change. [ARTICLE]

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With a wardrobe that Is jaunty and a traveling bag, brand new, He is smiling in the station as he grants an Interview. Hts manner's very knowing and his every glance implies That his ship has Just been stghted, that hts star is on the rise. He instructs you in the management of government affairs. And you feel that he is worthy of an office and its cares. You wonder what exalted post 'twill be bis lot to gain. He is on his way to Canton, and he’s waiting for the train. A few days later be appears. He looks a little dazed. The traveling hag seems smaller than it was when last you gazed. ' When you strive for conversation, he has little more to say Than: “Young man, beware of politics. It really doesn't pay.” He’s not at all his jo rial self when stoutly be declares, “My time must be devoted to my personal affairs. ” There is something i 1 his manner that provokes a thrill of pain— This man who went’tc Canton and has Just got home again. —Washington Star. An Interesting Coincidence. It is a curious coincidence that tbe now battleship Alabama, which is now being constructed at Cramps’ shipyard, j Philadelphia, is No. 290 on their list of vessels constructed. The Confederate 1 cruiser Alabama, whioh created so much ! havoc with commerce daring the war, was No. 290 on the construction list of the Lairds of England, and for several months after her pnrehase by tbe Confederate government was known as No. 290, until she was ohristened Alabama. —Chicago Record