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OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS

Still a Nation of Fenn em.. HE recently published census report on "gain

ful pursuits' in the United States has evoked a discussion of the possible social and political effects of a continued cxift of the neoole awav

from agriculture. Have we 'nation of farmers," and are on growing at the expense of

.We do not need the poet to tell us that God made the country, and that man made the town. The larger cities furnish us daily with evidences that they are man-made In situations, and that In the making of most of them man did a rery bungling Job. That the wealth of the country comes from the soil, and that our national prosperity rests opon agriculture are propositions so self-evident as to require no demonstration by expert economists. The truth of these propositions will be generally recognized, no matter what the census figures may say. The census report on occupations would indicate to the superficial thinker that agriculture has ceased to be the leading industry of our people. The table showing the proportion engaged in the five principal classes of occupation tn 1SS0 and 1000 is as follows: 1SS0. 1900. Agricultural pursuits 45.29 83.79 Professional 3.40 .. 4.30 Domestic and personal 20.00 19.20 Trade and transportation 10.03 16.30 Manufacturing .....21.17 24.41 The table Indicates a decline in the relative Importance tt agriculture among the gainful pursuits. It shows a decrease of 9X0 per cent in the proportion of persons engaged in agriculture since 1SS0 and an increase of 9.46 in the proportion engaged in commerce and manufacturing. But those who are Inclined to grow pessimistic over the threatened "extinction" of agriculture will need to go deeper Into the figures. It is found that the number of persons actually engaged in agriculture increased between 18S0 and 1900 from 7.714,000 to 10,8S2,O00. It is to be remembered also that this number is likely to keep on increasing for Cany years, not only through the, opening of irrigable public lands to homesteaders, but because of the drift toward mailer farms and more Intensive farming. The scientific tsrlculturist of the future will get more out of a fifty-acre tract than the old-time "farmer" got out of a quarter sectionSpringfield Republican.

Success in Life.

TJCCESS in life Is relative. To no two minds does it mean the same. To no two conditions does can it be alike' applicable. The success of the farmer, for instance, who adds to his lands, . rears his family in righteousness and

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ing life, would not 6eem to the lawyer, the politician or the dty merchant to be a success at all. The crossroads storekeeper may be a success in life in bis own estimation and that of his neighborhood, though bis brother of the city, who thinks in millions, cannot help looking down upon him with scorn. There can be no material standard of success, for the reason that the outlook, the aspiration and the attainment f any man ere his elone. No two can occupy the same viewpoint No two can regard success from the same mind and- heart. The school-teacher, who ever gives, r may cut a sorry fgure In a biographical dictionary 'beside -the millionaire, who ever gets. But in the real building up of the intellect tad . morality and happiness of the world it is she who is the giant and he the pigmy. Tha poor underpaid preacher whose congregation is mall because he preaches religion undefiled may in the tommon estimate be e failure. But who can foretell the karrest to come from the pregnant seed thus sown in good ground? Another generation may see a mighty church arise, that sone rich man puts a gorgeous window in and tails his monument. Which is the more successful life the one that builds a great window or the one that stimulates the epirit which kfctkes a church? Possibly nine-tenths of-us have no other serious pur

GRANDMOTHER'S CLOCKS. Long before the Western express had come within whistling distance of the Summerville station Uncle Charles declared he could hear the bells of grandmother's clocks. "Haven't heard em since I was a boy," he said, "but X know how they'll sound all going together and every one of 'em right. X tell you, Lettie, you ought to have mother's'sense of time. You can't even keep our mantel clock straight Why, toother has a hall clock seven feet felgh and over a century old. Then there's the 'banjo' clock in the diningroom, and the 'sun' in the kitchen we call in the 'sun because of a round tola in the door-picturt to see the pen dulum through. There are three or four others besides, and the way mother keeps them straight is a marTel. It must be the old wooden wheels, frothing like them made nowadays r Half an- hour later grandmother greeted her home-coming flock at the door of the neat white farmhouse, and sent them to their rooms to prepare for a waiting dinner. "Hellor aid Uncle Charles, as ha followed Alf.: Lettie into the east chamber. There's Uncle Hiram Doty's old 'bullfrog' clock. Has a Tolce like a frog when it's getting ready to strike." Mechanically he pulled out his watch and consulted it, then glanced again at the clock. He hesitated, then without comment stepped forward and set the clock half an hour ahead. Aunt Lettie smiled." but said nothing. A little later, entering the kitchen, he beheld the "sun' ticking merrily in its accustomed place. Uncle Charles compared it with his watch. Grandtoother was out of the room. Stealthily he opened the clock door and moved the hands back twenty minutes. Dinner had hardly begun when from cast chamber and kitchen came simultaneous wheezing and banging of bells. The "sun" counted six and etopped. The "bullfrog" did better and made it thirteen. Grandmother looked up in alarm and gazed at the 'banjo-clock" before her. It was, so Uncle Charles discovered, an hour and a half fast That alarmed her ctill more. '"Charles," said grandmother, Terely, "have you been sattin ' clocks r '' "Why. yes. mother. I fixed somy the 313' and the Tmllfrcj They teemed c Litis cff." "Well, mercy sates! How ever Cloll I till tia p3 n-T7r - cf CZZZZZl rj'ra rtz,-t

pose in life than to get the best living we can. We art absorbed in our own little affairs our wants and our enjoyments, ailments and ease,' Jealousies and envies, and hatreds and loves. The greater the degree -to which we sat isfy our wants and triumphs over our enemies the greater our success we think. But to gratify our wants is only to create new ones. Human longing is like a seathe more we pour into it the more it spreads., The millionaire longs for more as eagerly as does the poor man. Content does not lie In the direction of acquisition or Indulgence. Success in life consists in fitting one's 6elf to one's environment, and one thing more elevating the environ ment Chicago Journal.

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but neither they nor any other people are justified in destroying what the world needs as food, as fuel, as clothing, as medicine, and especially as ships. To empty a ship of its freight and then send her to the bottom, or, worse still, to send her down with her cargo, is barbarous. The coal supply is growing short Not a ton of it should be wasted. If it is necessary to prevent its falling into the hands of the Japanese, let It be landed and sold to the highest bidder of a neutral nation, provided that circumstances prevent the captors from using it to their own advantage. And the same with the captured ship. This is a work of skill and value, and is needed in facilitating the commerce of all countries. If it has made Itself liable to seizure by, trading in forbidden supplies, there is no reason why it should therefore be destroyed. It carries no fighting machinery, it is not a danger to the war fleet of the nation that makes the arrest. It may be carrying merely a few tons of contraband articles, and a deckful of supplies intended for neutrals or for people engaged in peaceful pursuits, and in such a case it is a wanton waste to sink it," if, indeed, it is not a defiance of international law. Powder and arms might be used by the captors, or might even be thrown overboard if there were no time to take them or room to stow, them; but not the textiles, fruit, meat and manufactured products that rations exchange with one another. Warships are fair prey. They are to be sunk by the enemy whenever possible, or converted to the uses of the winning side, but to scuttle a million-dollar ship because of the accident of her trade is to commit a crime against all humanity, whose needs that ship is capable of serving. Brooklyn Eagle.

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a matter of fact: Are our girls generally marrying at too early an age? Some light is thrown on this matter by City Registrar McGlenan. of Boston, in the Globe of that city. He shows that In the year 1902, out of 6,172 brides, only 120, or a little more than 2 per cent, were less than eighteen. While more than half the total number were under twentyfive, "yet 4.1S0, more than two-thirds of the whole number of brides, were married between the ages of twenty and twenty-nine." These figures, the Registrar thinks, "do not indicate that all girls are marrying at an abnormally early age Other writers on the subject testify that marriage Is entered into by both sexes at a later average age than in former generations in this country. There are many reasons for this. The growing independence of women, the more extensive fields for their employment, the Importance given to education, operate to defer marriage, as the Increased, cost of the wedded state deters many young men until they can "afford It New York WotW. '

"Yes, but they won't be to-morrow. You see, Lettie" (this apologetically to her daughter-in-law), "they're all clocks that Just won't go right. I know about how much each gains or' loses in a day, so when I hear one strike I .can tell about what time it Is. For instance, this morning when the big hall clock struck three, I knew the hand said quarter to eight The 'banjo' is an hour slower, so it said quarter to seven, and would strike ten in fifteen minutes. When that struck ten the 'sun' would say ten minutes to six, and would be almost ready to strike twelve. The 'sun Is fifty minutes ahead of the 'bullfrog,' which said quarter to five, and in twenty minute would strlk j three, and that is twenty-five minutes behind Sarah Petti? s alarm-clock with the brass I works that she set by the town clock last week, and isn't more than five minutes out; so it was about quarter after five nd time to get up. She looked at Uncle Charles reproachfully. "I do declare, Charles,'' she said, "you've gone and mixed me up so now I d'now's I ever shall get it figured cut again." Youth's Companion. CURIOUS 8NUFF BOXES. They Were Made in Many to Suit Fände of Ui In the days when a snuff box was considered a necessary attribute to the perquisites of a beau or a belle, for that matter much v ingenuity was brought to bear upon the manufacture of these dainty trifles. The results were often very novel, and even the most captious and exacting snunTtaker found something suited to his wants. Those with a taste for the morbid could buy boxes made from the wood of scaffolds, chairs that murderers had sat upon or parts of their houses. Sporting men could find pleasure in the little miniatures depicting scenes in the chase. Sailors had their boxes made from the timbers of some historical ship the hull of the Royal George was turned to this purpose more than once. Soldiers had battle scenes in miniature upon their boxes, and these were often executed with the finest workmanship and great attention was given to detail. The Scotch, always great snuff takers, were very fond of manufacturing their snuff boxes from a crumpled horn. The end of ihe horn was hollowed out to hold the snuff and a little mallet was attached by which to tip the duff from the sides if it adhered. Sometimes a brush was added to flick away particles from the hccl Tha crlinary Ccctchman bed a rLi nil I tnu2 tor, but these belong-: to tla wcro cften cicrr:3 wltZi cUrc?

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iOÜB International oact should be achieved that

will compel respect for ships and goods at ob

economic value in the whole world's whether subject toseizure as contra war or otherwise. The Russians are

warranted in arresting those trading steamers that are carrying supplies to. their enemies,

The Marrying Age. HE dictum of Gov. Warfield that girls 6hould not marry until they ore twenty-six has naturally caused considerable discussion among those most interested the girls themselves, their parents, and the young men who do not want to wait for a bride until she Is verging on old-maidhood. The first question of Interest Is

mountings and precious stones, making them valuable as well as picturesque. One of the most popular and wel known snuff boxes was that given to Napoleon by Pope Pius VI. When Na poleon died he left the box as a keepsake to Lady Holland, who had been very kind to him during his Imprisonment on St Helena. Lord Carlisle, who urged the lady to reject the gift suggested that every time the box was opened horror and murder would leap out The box was bequeathed by Lady Holland at her death to the museum. London Daily Mall. DISLIKE THE TITLE "DOC." Physicians Condemn the Abbreviation mm Beins Deficient in Dignity. "The St Louis physicians who are making a crusade on the abbreviation 'Doc' now in such common use, are doing a good thing," said an old physician, "and I hope the thing will spread to other sections of the country. 'Doc' for doctor, has been In use a good long time and has enjoyed a good run In the popular estimate. It is much easier to say 'doc' than 'doctor and I suppose In this age, when time counts for so much, the difference in the time required to roll the two expressions from the tongue amounts to something, though I am not advised that the St Louis physicians have objected to the use of 'doc on the ground of the time wasted in saying 'doctor. "Tha main objection seems to be on the idea that 'doc' is lacking in dignity. 'Doctor is more dignified than 'doc from the standpoint of the professional man. Besides, 'doctor Is the correct word Why thtrald men call a 'doctor 'doer We might as well speak of the professor as prof.' or say prea' for pyesldent 'sec for 'seciatary,' and so on In an Indefinite number of other Instances. Physicians do not like to be addressed as 'doc They have objected to the word from tbsrj very belnnlig of its use, and they win continue to object to it as long as Its usa is continued. "The crusade begun .In St Louis against 'doe is a good one, and it ought to spread to every section cf the country where physicians exist. We are 'doctors' If anything, and tha term 'doc la not onlj a misfit but it la offensive. I rincerely hope Its usa will soon be discontinued. , A Correction. Papa Tommy, you must go to bed this Instant Tommy (aged 5 No I . Papa What? Don't you cay "2:0 to me! Tommy (determinedly) Excusa ca No, dri Philadelphia Press. ' 13 pro - uiatsriil tj Trtrrcl cat fcr u:

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The Cry of Extravagance. In his speech to the Democratic editors Judge Parker did not suggest that they expound for the enlightenment of their readers the "fundamental principles" and the "vital articles of faith" of the Democratic party to which he repeatedly alluded, but not one of which did he venture to state. So far from that he in effect intimated that the best thing thay could do was to dodge all the principles and articles, in imitation of his example, and train all their guns on Republican extravagance. In fact he warned them to avoid principles and articles of faith because there were "divergences of opinion" and "differences of view" as to these, and any discussion of them would "drive away voters" who were willing to help oust the Republicans. But he exhorted them earnestly to pitch into Republican extravagance. That was not only the main thing but practically the only thing he could think of for the editors to do. That would be safe, he seemed to think, while to attack any Republican policy would be dangerous because it would be sure to drive away voters by hitting some vital article of their faith. Mr. Parker kindly showed the editors how to do it by comparing the annual expenditures during Mr. Cleveland's first term with those of the last three years. His strong point was that the average for Mr. Cleveland's first term was only $209,000,000, while the expenditure last1 year "mounted up to 55S2.000.000," or more than twice as much. Mr. Parker set the editors an example which unfair and dishonest partiWITH ALL HIS FAULTS sans will appreciate by omitting to state that Mr. Cleveland's first term ended more than fifteen years ago, and that a good many things have happened since then to make larger expenditures necessary. In particular, the omission to state that the expenditures last year were swelled by the extraordinary payment of $50,000,000 on account of the Panama canal will be appreciated by partisan statisticians, though it was not original with Mr. Parker. It Is easy to make out a case of extravagance by comparing present expenditures with those in the remote past or by omitting to state what the expenditures were for during tue periods compared, or by ignoring the fact that some expenditures, though large, may be profitable, while others, though comparatively small, may be wasteful. The reader will find an excellent corrective for this misleading work of the party politician in Mr. Roosevelt's letter of acceptance. Chicago Chronicle. Jast Think It Over. In 1S93-4-5-C our country was producing Immense quantities of wheat cattle, wool, fish, hops and metals, but there were no prices. People were not buying, and wages went down to anything the workman could get when ne could get work at all. Nature was Just as bountiful as ever; but the Democratic policy was not favorable to the welfare of the country. Does the country wish to return to that policy? Hardly. There will be a bit of thought and reflection about it For it is known, for it has been proved, that the policy of a party has much to do with the public welfare, with the tides of business, with markets, with employment of labor, 'with financial confidence, with the whole system of affairs on which Industrial and commercial prosperity depends. lour Democratic orator or newspaper will tell you that the policy of a party doesn't cause wheat to grow nor mines to yield; that crops and seasons are Independent of party policy, and so on. Only a haii truth, and hardly a half truth; for the worst times this country has known within living memory was that season of nightmare and despair, from 1893 10 1S97, when the seasons were as favorable as ever and the crops never better when wool fell to 5 cents a pound, wheat to 25 cents a bushel and wages were practically annihilated. . It was the policy o.' a rarty that did it. And Just so soon as that party was completely defeated, its policy arrested und assurance of stability, on rational conditions, restored, an unexampled tide of prosperity set in, which has continued to this. day. "Is not the country now sufficiently prosperous? Does it wish to change its- policy and bring back the conditions of 1S03-97? It if. a perfnent inquiry. It is cheap enough to say that crops, production, movements of btrsincsa and general prosperity are independent of party policy and of party action. It is

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OMMEAJT 4.4. IDffll'HiH-lIql cheap enough and flippant enough, but It isn't true. Confidence is necessary to business, markets are necessary to labor and to production. If you wish to form a Judgment as to whether Democratic policy will produce these results, indulge a little retrospect And recall how quickly everything revived when Democratic policy was so decisively overthrown, by the election ol the year 1890. Look at our history, review our experience, to see whether the policy of a party makes any difference. Would It have been well had the Democratic party won in 1S9G-1900? Incredulity here must be tolerated and excused. Portland Oregonlan. Grapehot and Canister. Under the caption Grapeshot and Canister," by J. Sloat Fassett, the New York Herald prints the following epigrams from the Republican orator's speech at the State convention: "Our greatest party asset is the record of what we have done. "Republican prosperities, like the Lord's rain, fall alike on the Just and unjust "Providence seems to have retired from business whenever the Democrat' Ic party has come Into power. "If Providence is willing to co-operate solely with the Republican party, it would seem wise for the American people never to' seek to dissolve tha partnership. "All that is necessary to make a liv American a hero in American history to-day is to be a dead Republican. "The Democrats are always seem, ingly divinely inspired to formulate false doctrines at Just the critical time. SHE, LOVES HIM STILL "The distinguished Democratic can didate proposes slow death to our pros perity by strangulation and starvation instead of instant death by assassina tion. "Government without the consent of the governed is an appalling crime in the islands of the Pacific, but it is tha acme of civic virtue In the black belt of the United States. "When you have called a man a Democrat you have not described him. "The Democratic party has forgotten how to lead and how to produce leaders, who know how to lead. "An able and safe and sane and patriotic opposition party has its place and its uses." Any Issue Will Do. One Democratic newspaper says that the paramount Issue this year Is the "robber tariff." Another Demo cratic newspaper says It is v constitutionalism vs. imperialism. Still another declares that trusts are the issue. And so it goes. The organs of the Democracy agree that there Is a paramount issue, but "they cannot decide among themselves, for public pur poses, which it is. Privately they agree that anything which will get the par ty Into power is "a good enough Morgan till after election." Kingston (N. Y.) Freeman. Political Potpourri. Probably the Democratic critics are honest when they say they don't like the President's letter. , What is the Democratic party stand ing for? It occurs to some observers that the party Is lying down. "Maine went" not exactly as de scribed in the old Jingle, but near enough to it for all practical purposes. One of the latest utterances of Editor Bryan Is that he "loves peace more than" either gold or silver." This, we fear, will displease both wings of the party. Cahlrman Taggart has done nothing so far but to elect his man. Old man Jones, in the same position, would by this time have had the actual majori ties figured out There appear? to be a very general agreement that Colonel Wattersca does rather better at chastening the society degenerates than In booming the Dem ocratic ticket Chairman Taggart continues to en tertain strong hopes of carrying Indi ana. Still, he is not entirely certain of being able to keep Orator Bourke Cockran out of the State. The esteemed Montgomery (Ala.) Ad vertiser thinks it sees the flue Italian hand of the Hon. Tom Watson In Pres ident Roosevelt's letter of acceptance. It ought to copyright that discovery. The Democrats who hope to capture Wisconsin for Parker and Davis will find themselves in the predicament cf the peacemaker who meddiss in family cuarrels and gets a double trcunclng for his pains.

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RECITALS OF CAMP AND BATTLE INCIDENTS.' Survivor of the Rebellion Belat filany Amusing and Startling Incident of Marches, Canvp Life Foraar ine experiences and Battle Scenes Although thA ninAn hv whVh ! tte flag became a national standard 1 vas not officially promulgated by the , secretary of Congress until Sept S, ' 1777, it seems well authenticated that the regulation stars and stripes was fought Sept 11, 1777. This shows, says the Philadelphia Record, that the contract entered by Betsy Ross must hr.ve been carried out with great expedition, and that the flags had been distributed among the line regiments of the revolutionary army early in September. The flag first displayed in battle at Brandywlne Creek had thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, and as a union thirteen white stars were displayed on a blue field. The flag which was carried by the men in blue and buff during the battles of the revolution remained unchanged until the first day of May, 1705, when, by a previous act of Con gress, two additional stripes were add ed to the body of the standard and two stars to the union. These additions were made to represent the States of Vermont and Kentucky, which had Just been admitted to the Federal union. As no further changes were made in the national flag until 1818, it follows that the regimental colors carried during the war of 1812 were of this design. Thus the Ameri can flag surrendered by General Hull, at Detroft, and those captured by the British at Bladenburg and Washing ton, must all have displayed fifteen alternate red and white stripes, as well as the fifteen stars in the union. In 1S18, by an act of Congress, the stripes of the national flag were again reduced to thirteen, and it was declared that the addition of a star to the union should henceforth represent each n$ w State. A newspaper of the time, still kept in the government archives, said: "By this regulation the thirteen stripes will represent the number of States whose valor and resources originally effected American Independence, and additional stars will mark the increase of the States since the present constitution." From this time on the increase of stars in the constitution which formed the union was steady, and during the war with Mexico, In 1S40, twenty-nine white stars were displayed in the blue field. The flags borne by the regiments of the Northern army during the four years of the Civil War had thirty-five stars in the union. This was the full number of States then forming the national federation, as the United States government had refused to recognize the constitutional right of a State - to secede from the union. The retention of the stars representing the Southern States was regarded as a serious breach of military etiquette by the more punctilious of' the Confederate leaders, and the capture of standards was always rewarded by the authorities at Richmond. The regimental flags carried by the regular and volunteer regiments during the Spanish war of 1898 displayed forty-five stars in the blue field of the union, ten new States having been added to the feleration since the great Civil War which so nearly severed the republic. This was also the first foreign war in which State trops of the reunited country appeared in the field together, and it was the first occasion on which former Confederate officers of high rank resumed the uniform of the United States service. The great garrison flag which was hoisted over Santiago after the surrender of the city by the Spanish commandant measured twenty feet In width by thirty feet In length, the forty-five 'white stars which formed the union showing distinctly against the bright blue of the field. American Tribune. Bnildins a Cotton Bridge. The death of Gen. Andrew nickenloper recalled to his old comrades many Interesting reminiscences Illustrative of his efficiency as an engineer. One of these stories embodies an adventure of his during the Civil War. The Boston Transcript retells It In his own language as nearly as that can be remembered. ' "One evening with McPherson on the Tennessee River I shall never forget There was no enemy in sight tnd none expected. About an hour before sundown I was suddenly summoned to the General's tent, and informed that our whole army of thirty thousand men must be across the river and started after the Confederates by daylight the next morning. . 'But General,' I protested, there isn't within forty miles a stick of timber big enough to carry an empty caison, and the wagons with the ponies are ten miles back.' ' " 1 can't help that, said McPherson. The bridge must be built and, the army on the move before 4 o'clock. Good-night, Colonel Hlckenlooper.' Tn my despair I went down to the riverside and paced the bank for an hour, trying to think out a key to the problem. As chief of the engineer corps I knew what was expected of me, "and that if I failed my career, both in military and civil life, was at an end. Wanderng back about a halfmile, I came upon an old gin filled with cotton. I suppose it must have held from two to three thousand bales. Ilere was my - sal ration. Why not build a bridge of the cotton and use the old boards as a roadway? ' - "Inside of a half-hour I had a largo detail of men on the ground. We sank the bales with large stones, laying two tiers of our bales each clear across the river, and holding them in place by two big cables stretched across on the lower side. The boards of the gin made a tolerable roadway, but at the best it was an awfully scaly Job. "At 3 o'clock I walked up1 to Mcpherson's tent and routed him out of bed. 'General, the bridge is ready,' I said. "Tctj .well, Colonel,' was the raana 1 had not waisea trca

rods before boots and saddles' sounded, and the camp became a bedlam. T crossed the bridge and stood at the edge of the wafer, expecting and dreading to see the cables part under the terrtflc atraln; but they stood the test, and at half-past eleven the last wagon had made safe passage, and we signaled ahead to McPherson, A11 over.' Tn a little while I was called to tho General, who was five miles ahead.

As I rode up he saluted and said, That as we" dnf: Colonel Now yon go back cut toe bridge loose, and I'll telegraph the gunboats down the river to Pick "P cotton for and our assistant engineer. ward, and of course performed my part of the work." As a matter of fact he received noreward for this extraordinary pvece of work except his satisfaction In having: accomplished what seemed like the Impossible. Army Calls. First Call At six a. m. first call is blown . For a roll call not for drill And if you're absent from th call You're marched off to the milL Mess Call At half past 6ix the bell does ring To call you in to grub; A half hour after, if you're cot there You'll miss it ah I there's the rub. Sick Call At half past 6even is blown Sick Call, For those who need a doctor's care, And as an army surgeon is a government man. The cases excused are rare. Fatigue Call At eight o'clock Fatigue Call's blown. And out to work you'll go. And work away as bard as you like Till at 'Ieven they recall blow. Dinner Call At twelve o'clock the dinner is served, From which there are few absentees. And then the men can rest themselves. And till one o'clock take their ttam. Fatigue Call At one o'clock fatigue again. For those who this day must spin; Until at four their work is o'er. And at sound of the bugle turn in. Supper At half past five supper time comes, The last meal ol the day; And those that are hungry go in and eat The rest of course, stay away I Retreat At six p. m. first call again. For retreat we'll fall in line. To answer our names as we did at six And the Fame we'll do at nine. Taps At half past nine Taps is blown. Then all of the lights are put out; The men go to bed sleep the sleep o4 the just And swear like a fool with the gout American Tribune. Old Guns on a Missouri Farm. W. D. Short, who lives near .Bm ledge, has recently dug up on his farm sixty-four old muskets which havt been buried since the spring of 1S63. The farm where Mr. Short lives wai owned by his father in the time ol the civil war, and the story of tin guns Is an interesting one. Cokmel Glover, with a force ol Union soldiers, had camped near tin Short homestead and was preparing supper when a troop of Confederati cavalry dashed upon them and cap tured the company. ' Colonel Gloverl soldiers were equipped with "fuse guns, an army musket superseded throughout the army by more modern weapons long before the war closed. The Confederate troopers took the guns, but finding they had no ammunition for the old-style weapons, left them on the farm of Mr. Short. The possession of so formidable a display of arms at that period, when even a squirrel rifle was on the prohibited list, very much alarmed Mr, Short and his family, and that night trench was dug, the guns piled in and covered over. There the weapons havt rested until one day last week, when W. D. Short by accident found ths resting place of the old firelocks and brought them to light. The stocks are all rotted off and tilt iron barrels, rods and bayonets eaten with rust, but they show plainly th style of the gun, and locks ard bands are all intact. Since his find has become, known Mr. Short has been be sieged by relic hunters for the old guns and he has given them out to all applicants as souvenirs until. all but two or three of the guns are gone Salisbury (Mo.) Press-Spectator. To Keep .YounR. Expect a good long, useful life. Hold young thoughts persistently. Refrain from all kinds of stimulants and sedatives; they will shorten youj life. Keep In the sunlight; nothing bean tiful or sweet grows or ripens In the darkness. One of the beet preventives of agt la enthusiasm and Interest in affairs cf the day. Nature Is the great rejuveoator; ha spirit Is ever young. Live with her; study her; love her. Avoid excesses of all kinds; they art injurious. The long life must be a temperate, regular life. Dont allow youself to think, on your birthday, that you are a year old er, and so much nearer the end. Never look on the dark side; tak sunny views of everything; a sunny thought drives away the shadows. , Associate a great deal with youna people; take a lively interest In their hopes and ambitions, and enter lata their sports with enthusiasm. Avoid fear In all its varied forma ol expression; it Is the greatest enemy of the human race. . Contemplate beauty In aJ its forma and you will drive everything that la ugly out of your life. Keep mental cobwebs, dust, and brain ashes brushed off by frequszJ trips to the country, or by travel. Cultivate. the spirit of contentment; all discontent and dissatisfaction trln3 Age-furrows prematurely to the face. Avarice 13 always poor, but peer Its cwn fault Johnson. C