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Political V am ASM 1U B Common $ene and Common Tnct. John Sharp Williams has lately expressed this conviction regarding the outlook for a rehabilitation of the shattered fortunes of the Democratic party: "We are upon the eve of carrying the IIouce of Representatives, If we only net together, shoulder to shoulder, and show common tact and common sense." To expect the Democratic party, which Ingersoll used to characterize as an organized appetite," to show common tact and common sense under any imaginable conditions, is as unreasonable as to expect tho leopard to change his spots. It Is difficult to recall a period of time within the past fifty years when the Democratic party failed to do the wrong thing at the right time. Total incapacity to correctly Judge the trend of things has been Its almost Invariable record. Clearer proof of that fact could not bo asked than is to be found In that party's mistaken adherence to free trade and Its foolish antagonism toward tbo policy of protection. Its single opportunity since 1SG0 of showing itself worthy of being entrusted with the care of the country's test interests occurred in 1S92, with the result of Inflicting a loss upon the country moderately estimated ac ten billion dollars. The total cost of DenioWHAT THE

I was pretty full that night and Was enjoying the beauties of the deep In the still hours, when black tragedy suddenly broke on my startled gaze far below. On the deck of a globe-circumnavigating ship 1 saw a dark form dart out of the shadows. 'Silv'ry moon," I said to myself, "what Is " Then I. shrieked In horror as I saw that the victim of the desperate deed was my cousin ioor, abandoned, but once lovely Free Silver. The dark man did not hesitate, but lifting the victim high In the air. with a mighty effort he cast it Into the sea. From Chronicles of the Moon, In Indlanaiwlls Sun.

eratic tariff legislation on free trade lines was probably greater than tluJt sum. It would seem that common sense might have discovered the effects of the blunder, and that comnon tact might have prevented Its recurrence. Nothing of the kind. The Bourbm fight against the accepted policy of the American pr-ople goy on forever. The party has learned nothing, forgetting nothing. For example, we find the everlasting dull, dense hatred of an established system cropping out in the speech of one of the leading orators in the last Fourth of July celebration of the Tammany Society of New York. On that occasion Bourke Cockran declared : "As only a small percentage of our people are employed In so-called protected industries which receive the benefits of the system, the great burden falls upon tVe balance who are employed In unprotected Industries, but receive none of the benefit of the system. So a large class Is taxed for the 'advantage of a small class, and therefore the equality of burdens which Jefferson planned for Is defeated by the Inequalities which Roosevelt stands for." And Congressman Henry of Texas followed with this Jubilant prediction: "When we nieet Tammany In the next National Convener Texas will be there holding up the banner of the greatest Democrat who has lived since Jefferson William J. Bryan." What an appeal Is here made for the confidence of the busintsa interest?, the Industrial producers and the wageearners of the couuiry! One demagogue Bhoutlng the shallow lie, disproved by the facts of the greatest prosperity ever witnessed or Imagined, that the benefits of protection are for the favored few, while Its Injuries are Yisited upon the general mass ; and another demagogue giving assurance that Texas and Tammany will be found shoulder to f boulder In the upbearing of the standard of Free Trader Bryan. That is the combination that Is expected to capture the Presidential prize of 190S Texas and TamiLany, Bryan and free trade. John Shaxp Williams may well plead for common sense and common tact. There Is need for them. America's Gilt-Edged Credit. The olds for the $30,000,000 of Panima Canal bonds which Lave Just been opened In Washington show a striking advance in the United States Government's credit within the recollection 5f millions of Americans who are not jet old. "What strength, what resources, what vitality, what energy," exclaimed the London Times, "there aiust be In a nation that Is able to ruin itself on a scale so transcendent and magnificent 1" That was In the early months of the rebellion, when the United States was borrowing money, or attempting to borrow It, at rates of Interest far above those paid by any f the othc great nations of the world. For the $30,000,000 of 2 per cent xmds for the construction of the Panama canal the Government has just received bids which averaged J03.O7 for each $100. And even at this figure the - mounts of money offered to the Government were several times the face value of the bonds. In thei neighborhood of $314100,000 will be realized by the government on this loan. The Interest which will accrue to the successful bidders w!il be around 1.21. Moreover, the bidders knew that before the construction work progresses far there will be further Issues of canal bonds. The aggregate cost of the waterway can not be estimated with any show of confidence at this time, trat. It will undoubtedly run Into the hundreds of millions of dollars. What would President Buchanan, who got

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I -.-T - x r- ri rr, I " ( r l i ll r i , . . , . , , . . t I -; v t ? -r -i mein itifi r t few takers for his per cent bonds, have thought could he have foreseen the scrambling for the 2 er cents In Roosevelt's days? "I would give $1.1)00.000 for a pi aw at the head of the lh.e at the subtreasury o:i redemption day," is what a leading financier of New York is reported to have said when (J rant, in 1S75, signed the greenback redemption bill, which was to go into effect on January 1, 1S70. Many persons thought it would be Impossible for the government to collect enough gold and silver in the interval to hand out to the holders of greenbacks who would be at the treasury window clamoring for the hard money which had been invisible for years. But there was no rush for the specie. Under the Impulse of the redemption law, the government's credit steadily Improved, greenbacks and the rest of the currency advanced, and par was reaehd by the beginning of l!S7l. The speculators, seeing that they ouId get gold for tlieir hoards of greenbacks, preferred to hang on to the greenbacks. Ever since that day the credit of the United States Government has been steadily advancing. The low interest bonds of every other government are below par. Ours are far above that line. Of course, one reason MOON SAW. why United States 2s are at a premium Is that they can be used as a basis for bank circulation. Private i: vesto? . however, seem to have bought much of the Panama bonds. St. Louis G'.obeDeniocrat ' Waie nil the Tariff. In a speech In Congress the other day Hon. John Sharp William- reviewed the coming of immigrants to th!s country, the swelling stream ever since colonial days. He said they came to better their condition; that there was a ailing off in panic years, but that the rule was a steady Inflow. He gave as one reason the higher wages paid in this country, and said : "There never was a period from the time the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Cock up to the adoption of the Consti tution of the United States when wages for the blacksmith, the carpenter, for the skilled artisan and the unskilled labor in the field, were not about dou ble what they were in Great .Britain. No tariff, high tariff, low tariff all sorts of tariff It made no difference what the tariff on our statute books was, they came." That Is very reckless talk for a lead er In Congress. Can Mr. Wllllann explain why there was always a falling off In immigration when free trad was the rule In our country? Without elaborating or going bark beyond the memories of middle-aged men, it Is enough to say that In 181)3, 1S04 and 1805 skilled laborers' wages fell 40 per cent; common laborers wages fell CO per ceat., and thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of laborers, skilled and unskilled, were unable to flud employment on any terms. This may not have applied to Mississippi, but It did apply tJ tlW entire Northeast, North and West. It Is Just tut plain that If the tariff wero struck down to-day a million of skilled laborers would bo without work in a month, and In two months Immi gration would be cut down 30 per cent Salt Lake City Telegram. Would Be Unpardonable. Staggering as it Is from the unwar ranted furore over tho packing indus try, for the cattle-growing busines.-i to be further crippled through a reduc tion of the tariff on hides would be un pardonable. It will at best be slow to recover from the publicity that has been given the one, and Congress owes it ail the counteracting encouragement it can give. 'After all. It is on the producer of live stock that the cost will fall. Such to-day are feeling themselves between the uper and nether grindstones of Congress and the packers. Denver Republican. If They Walt Loim Enough. German manufacturers have been warned that they mut prepare fcr a tariff war with the United States. If our German friends will postpone that war until after the next presidential election maybe It can be averted altogether, as a tariff for revenue only should obviate any friction now threatened. Knixvilie (Tenn.) Sentinel. Ardent Suitor You say that you are a good friend of mine, and yet you refuse to let me marry your daughter. Fond Father That's right; I know the lady who would be your mother-in-law better than you. Over 20,000,000 leeches were used annually twenty-five years ago, but now not 1,000,000 a year are ued. Stamps have been designed and printed In Greece to commemorate the Olympic games of 1900. One man In six In the American nary is a total abstainer.

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THE, PANAMA CANAL.

3X the four years since the

"to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans" so many problems have arisen In relation to the Fanama Canal and so many persons have expressed opinions about them that some one has recently said,

"We are getting- on well with the Panama Canal our writers are steadily at work on it. Where to build the canal, what kind of canal to build, how long It ought to take, how much It ought to cost, whether the United States government Is competent to build it, whether this or that oflicial is doing his work properly all these things have been abundantly discussed. To the ordinary citizen one thing Is evident: the problems of business, of iolitics and of engineering in the construction of the canal are so great that only those who have full information and are expert in these and "iindred problems can form an opinion worth considering. The enterprise is tremendous, and the corporation that has undertaken to perform It, the American government, has never betöre attempted anything like it. The canal cannot be built without perplexities, delays and blunders seen to be blunders a good while after they are committed. The sane American, while he exercises his right to receive and deliver opinions with democratic freedom, will remember at the same time that those who are in the work know more 'about it than most of those who are not. The admiuistrators, legislators, engineers and others in authority are probably doing their part with skill and integrity, and the part of almost every one else is to trust them cheerfully and wish thein well in !i stupendous task. Youth's Companion.

A DEFINITION OF SUCCESS.

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advice is tendered the graduate and so many definitions are given the word "Success," it is worth whi.'e to quote the definition made by Richard Le Galllene: "Success consists in getting out of yourself all the good there Is in you, or out of life all of worth there Is

In it for you." That is comprehensive. Let us note where the emphasis Is placed : Success consists In getting out of yourself, not all that Is in you. but all the good that Is in you. It consists in getting out of life, not all there Is In It for you, but all of worth there Is in It for you. First, get out of yourself all tlie good there Is in you. That Is done by education. For the real meaning of education is in the meaning of the word from which It comes educate which means to draw out. ou are to drawout of jourself all the best that Is in you. You may be educate!, in a sense, and draw out of yourself all that Is bad within you. You can sharpen all the faculties of shrewdness Into rascality if you so desire. Trickery, hypocrisy, deceit may be helped by education. Or you may draw out of yourself the inherent goodness that 'abides in honesty, decency, sympathy. The education that Is merely mental may be a curse rather than a blessing. And so of the success that comes

of getting o it of life what there-is in which Is unworthy If you desire. exterior things which your real felf tn be fals and cheap. Those things

ship money, position, place may become, the most mis

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Kliere. What a glittering, fascinating word! What

r I A PERILOUS EXCURSION. "I know of no spot more beautiful than that which we must pass this morning. Hut our path Is no ordinary one. The Journey can be done only on foot," said I'adre Giulo. who wa3 the companion of Itegiuald Vyon In his Journey to the source of the Cierna, over the border from Montenegro. In The Balkans from Within" Mr. Wyon describes this perilous excursion. "Go carefully!" exclaims Fadre Giulo, as I come slipping and sliding after him. "Look!" and seizing me firmly by the hand, he bids me look feneath me. We are on the brink of a precipice the sight of which makes my blood run cold, so suddenly and abruptly does It sink from the curtain of bushes before us. Very carefully we proceed, sliding o the slippery grass and clutching at the bushes. No need to adjure me to caution after that terrible glance Into the ravine. The forest breaks off suddenly, and brings us face to face with the source of the Cierna. Out of the living rock i rush of creamy water plunges Into the steaming depths. A little higher a streak of silver comes down the precipitous mountain. Shelves of pine-clad rock rise in ridges, until the final barrier of native cliff cuts into the blue sky In a wild. Jagged outline. It is romantic and savage enough to characterize its mission as boundary between two nations who have lived in blood feud with one another for more than five centuries. For some hundred feet we descend steeply, and the gorge surrounds us like the walls of a prison. A thread, scarcely more than a foot wide, skirts the bare rock, and disappears round the bend of a cliff, the summit of which overhangs the base. At least we can walk upright This is no place to contemplate the roaring cascade. The corner Is passed, the cliff has receded somewhat from our path, which is, however, still upon a steeply slanting angle. "It was here that a vornan fell last rear," explains the padre, and scarcely have the words left his lips when we round a bend, and find an old woman and two young girls staggering under huge loads of wood. They are stand ing helplessly, and as we come up to them the woman and a girl lie down m the upper side of the path to let us pass, and we see the swoud girl In a terrible predicament. Her foot has slipped over the lower lide, and she is balancing between life and death. The load upon her back is too heavy to permit her to rise, and the loose earth on the shelving bank allows do foothold. t A grasp ot a nana, anu sue is up safely once more on the path, smiling fcayly, as It were a most common accl flent. BERLIN IS MACHINE MADE. English Writer Calls It Stiff, Rlicld, Rectilinear and Only a VlllaKe. Was Berlin made last year or the year before? It Is Imosslble to say from looking at it Some of the trees In the streets look nt least ten years old, but they must have been planted long before the city was thought of the houses and the streets and the lamp posts and the statues are all much too oeat and new to have endured the rains of more than one winter. It Is all, In fact, quite too new to be vifortable. One feels afraid to sleep In any of the bouses lest rheumatism should be lying

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a cruel farce it sometimes plays In the hearts of men. If success be fairly won it may be known by the peace It brings; if unfairly won it becomes like dead ashes to the lips. When one gets a large measure of good out of himself and of worth out of life he is hero conqueror; when one gets a large measure of bad out of himself and of unworthlness out of life lie Is cheated in the end. Gallieue puts the standard high uecessarib but not too high. None of us gets all the good out of himself, or out of life, but the nearer we come up to the standard the more nearly do we come to success. Indianapolis Sun.

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upon them and they fly in dismay. Modern civilization has also its searchlight: The press. The limelight of publicity is the great discoverer and the great deterrent of evil. The old scriptures are true today as thousands of years ago "Men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil." And when the searchlight of the newspaper is thrown upon their devds what a scatterment and a terror I Especially within the past two years has the searchlight been efficient. It has been turned on evil In high places and has, sent guilty wretches to suicide and exile. It has condemned the mighty to wither In the sight of men or die In shame.. The searchlight Is turned upon the predatory raid of the millionaire and he quails betöre it It Haslies Into the light of public scorn the looters of great insurance companies and "blasts and ruins whole families. It throws its beams upon the people's representatives and each man stands revealed. And now It is turned upon the corporations that are monopolies and now upon the graft and corruption of the railroads. All hail the searchlight I No danger of excesses so long as the press confines Itself to facts. Let the truth apear though the heavens fall. And let the potential wrongdoer who contemplates new robberies stand In terror of the light More power to the rays of the searchlightSt. Louis Chronicle.

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expenditure of money Is rigltly accounted one of the piaster virtues. The secret of the rise of many in worldly estate is to be found In the umlevlating practice of spending less than Is earned. This may Involve Spartan sacrifices In some Instances, but It comprises the art of getting on In the world. The maxim. "Spend less than you earn," Is easily understood, yet the majority of persons, heads of families, are so constituted that, no matter what the earnings may be, the standard of living rises with the financial resources of, the family, and at the end of the year the debit and credit sides of the domestic account balance, or, perhaps, the household is grievously in debt. The piling up of debt for domestic expenses Is inexcusable, save In cases where no amount of prudence will keep the wolf from th? door. Philadelphia Ledger.

it you can get that You can get those will one day declare are unthinking wor stilled its ache. in wait in rooms where the plaster has not had time to harden. I drove from the station in a "droshkl" with a monstrously old horse. Time had bent his forelegs Into a very good imitation of a switchback railway ;ind as we plodded solemnly along the trand-new asphalt roadway, with the brand-new houses on either side and an occasional brand-new electric car, with a brand-new driver In a brand-new uni form, I found myself wondering what that old horse must think of It all. One day he may have been grazing In an open field and when he passed that way a week or so later he found a new broad boulevard, with hotels and shop nd churches and great blocks of flats, all sprung up like mushrooms. Berlin, then. Is a great deal too perfect to be satisfactory. It Is the ma chine-made, not the hand-made article -It was very decidedly made, not born. There U no spontaneity 1" it, no life; compared to, say, Loudon; it is like a beautiful marble statute to a living woman. Berlin Is, In fact, an awful objectlesson to emperors and others who try to make a capital city out of a respectable village. It Is easy to put up Im posing buildings If you have the money and to cut out broad tree-lined reads and have everything neat and nice and fine but you only make your village bigrer and finer without making It any the more a capital city. There Is no getting away from the feeling that Berlin Is a village a big village a beautiful, rectilinear, new-out-of-the-bandbox village, but a village all the same. London Chronicle. WHAT MEXICO OWES DIAZ. Altnont Inrrrdlble Improvement Effecte! Daring III Lonir Itule. For 300 years Spain ruled Mexico in the same manner that she ruled her other colonial possessions, for the bene fit of Spain and Spaniards. Spain's colonies were regarded only as tribu taries to the mother country and the conquered eople became little less than slaves to the conquerors. Yet with It all there was among the people an upward development which culminated in revolt and the overthrow of Spanish authority. The flag of revolt was raised on Sept. 16, 1810, but Independ ence was not proclaimed until Feb. 24, 1821. On Sept. 27 of that year Iturbide made hi striumphal entry Into the capital. ' The next sixty years marked a period of almost Incessant domestic warfare, during which the lend was dreuhed In blood and comparatively little progress was made. Then came Mexico's strong man, Porfirlo Diaz. Under the rule of this large-minded statesman Mexico has become a newland. He Introduced sweeping and practical reform measures, Increased revenues without st.ously increasing the burden of taxation and set on foot plans for the development of national resources. He maintained ieaee at home and established friendly relations with foreign iowers. The results of the new policy weie soon apparent. Diaz saw that political peace and Industrial prosperity were alike dependent upon railway communication. In lS7o, two years before the first election of General Diaz, Mexico had only about 360 miles of railway. Twenty years later she had neacjy 7,000 miles rand she has to-day approximately 10,000 miles. Much of this work has oeen done by a costly system of subsidies, but there can be no question of the wisdom of the investment Aside from the effete of the railways on the Industrial growth of Mexico, without them it would have been practically impossible

'3? w THE MODERN SEARCHLIGHT.

iIIE English army, which for centuries has

fisrhtlnz inferior races, has a new

II I weapon against the savages. In fighting I f7iitio Ifr V o j tsiTi fiMitiil li n f t ri A Ci)i ft'i-

light comes in handy. When the light is turned onto their camps in the night the frightened natives fancy the eye of God is

RUNNING INTO DEBT. been said that next to death or serious

illness the most distressing thing' in the household Is debt. The general thrift of the members of one of our most highly respected religious societies is doubtless due to the fact that they are enjoined to live withlu their means. With this sect prudence In the

for President Diaz to put Into effect those political reforms which have converted the country from a land of al most uninterrupted domestic war into a land of peace and law and order. A quarter of a century of good government has effected an almost lncr?d ible change in Mexico. There are 700,- ()) scholars enrolled In the public Bcliools and 12r,000 more enrolled In private schools. Education Is compul sory, although the law cannot be rigidly enforced. There were in VMS thirtyseven museums, 123 libraries and 477 newspapers. Telegraph lines run to all parts of the country. Waterworks and sewer systems are In operation, and in process of Installation. "A quarter ol a century ago," says Frederic It. Guernsey in the Atlantic Monthly. "Mexiec was a congeries of Jealous aud Isolated provinces. The work of Porfirlo Diaz has been the creation of a strong, solvent and efficient nation. Tru'y a great man In a country of great possibilities." New Tork Sun. WON BRIDE AND FORTUNE. Dertha Kropp' Betrothed a Com In if Man In Germany. Dr. Gustiv Von Bohlen und Ilaibach who has won the heart of the world's richest heiress, Bertha Krupp, is one ol the coming men of the German empire He Is now T6 years old 13 years old er than his prospective bride and has seen much of the world. He studied at Strasburg. Heidelberg and Lau saune, and witli a doctor's diploma In his pocket entered the State service of PH. VOX DOHLEN. the" Grand Duchy of Baden, where hi qualified for military service and became an ofheer in the reserve. Sevec years ago he entered the diplomatic ser v:ce, spending a year at Washington ns attache to the German legation and going thence to Pekln. where he remained uatll 1903. The following yea he became secretary of legation to the Prussian minister at the Vatican. From his early youth he and Hertha Krupp were friends, but had lost close t,uch with each other during the early years of his diplomatic career. In Home they renewed their acquaintance and this acquaintance; rapidly developed iLto love. Von Hohlen during his studies and travels has acquired an Intimate knowledge of French, English, Italian and Spanish and a working knowledge ol literary Chinese. He has developed a-nllity a an antiquarian and It was while escorting Bertha through the Eternal City and telling of the formet glories of ancient Rome that he woe the girl's affection. He will now become by his marriage the head of the great Krupp works, for tills arrangement i according to her father's -will. These works were worth at the t'm of Herr Krupp's death $40,000,000 amj nre now worth ?43,000,00O. Bertha's iDeome last year was $3,000,000 and in addition she Is said to have $30,000,00 worth of property. A 1 1 u sorer. Ella Fred says that he Is a bull In Wall street Stella Well, he may be, but he Is a bear In the parlor. New York Times. A big head Is often the result of 2 few small Ideas. It Is sometimes easier to figure tht other man's profits than your own,

THE BOOMING CANNON

RECITALS OF CAMP AND BATTLE INCIDENTS. Survivors of the Rebellion Relate Many Amuslnc and Startling Incidents of Marches, Camp Life, Forag in Kxperiences and Battle Scenes. "Major L. II. Drury," said the Colonel, "before the va- published a paper at Herlin, Wis., the Green Lake Democrat, and thereby hangs a story. Knowing Drury well, a good many printers enlisted in the Third Wisconsin or Badger battery. After Corinth Drury's battery was ordered to Iuka, - Miss. After the command had gone into camp some of the printer lnys strolled into town and were attracted by the sign 'Printing Otlice. They went in, to find only the devil, who sr. id he was in charge, and that the office force had gone into the Confederate army to get their rights. Thereupon the devil disappeared. "Major Drury was a good disciplin arian, and from force of habit the boys proceeded formally to elect an edi torial staff and to detach themselves for duty at the cases. They threw off their blouses, set to work to get out an issue of the Badger Bulletin, and kept at work until the new paper was replete with grapevine news from the front, special telegrams from home. spicy paragraphs, and comments on the doings of the battery and the regiments Uvnded with it Then the soldier printers detached themselves for special service as newsboys. "The brigade was electrified by the cry, 'Here's your Badger Bulletin! All the latest news for 10 cents!' The papers sold like extras on election night, but the story goes that the circulating department never accounted for tfie money received and that the treasurer never declared a dividend. Some of the printers of that day pretend to be lieve that the treasurer Is still looking for them to distribute the fund pro duced by the sale of the only issue of the Iuka Badger Bulletin." "There were many cases," said the Captain, "wherein men were charged with stealing . printing offices, but no case In which they were charged with carrying off type and presses. They gen erally left things as they found them, which caused Uncle Billy Sherman to wonder. One day after Missionary IUdge Captain Dunbar, quartermaster, heard Sherman say that he would like to have a sawmill in camp. "The Cantain knew lust where he could find a sawmill, and the next day he reported to Sherman that the boys wanted to present the General with a sawmill In camp, and in running order. Sherman was greatly surprised aud said: 'I have suspected that some of the boys would steal anything portable, but I never supposed they would have the nerve to tackle a sawmill. This con vinces me that the Confederacy isn't safe.' "Speaking of stealing, tnere was Colonel Archer of the Ninth Michigan Cavalry, who had a very unusual ex perlence. One day I was at his head quarters when a lady called. She said her best cow. a great pet In the family, had been stolen, and she was sorry to say had been traced to the camp of the Colonel's regiment. Archer explained that that was impossible his men were all church members, and, at all events, there were no cows In camp it was against the regulations she might read them and see for herself. "However, for her satisfaction he would send the officer of the day through camp with her, and If she found her cow she could take her home. Archer called the of.lcer of the day and explained the situation, and the. woman went away satisfied that the Colonel was an honest man and a gentlemen. In a few minutes the Colonel's cook came In and said: "We done lost our cow, Culnel.' The Colonel was outraged at such carelessness, and wanted to know how It happened. "The darky explained that a woman came around to the stable right from the Colonel's tent, said the cow was hers, and said that she had the Colonel's orders to take the cow home. 'I knowed she was tellin the trufe, because I knowed who stole the cow, but the otlicer of the day tole me what you said, and I let her go. Hut dat ain't business, Culnel.' The Colonel surveyed the crestfallen darky, and then said exhaustively: 'Well, I'll be blanked. Tha comes from trying to be polite In tills darned country. Get another cow, and get her quick.' "Things will hapien that way, however.' Shortly after the battle of Stone Illver my battery was ordered down the Cumberland toward Fort Donelson. As we were going Into camp after the first day's march I noticed a hundred ur more men cornering a big flock of sheep- The men were closing In on the sheep, driving them 'toward a corner of a plowed field. I knew what would happen, and Intimated to my men that, as the sheep were sure to break through the first line, it might be well to form a reserve line. "The expected happened. The sheep, pressed too closiy, turned and stampeded through the line, the men grabbing at them in the wild panic. Sheep and men went down In the mud In a scramble and rolled over and over In the soft black earth. It was tremendously exciting, and my men didn't catch a sheep. Later we traded a cow for a sheep carried off the field by a man plastered with mud. But we had no mutton for supper, for the man of mud returned In twenty minutes and stole the sheep. His messmates told him anybody could steal a cow. What they wanted was mutton, and he sneaked back, and as he explained It, replevined the sheep." Chicago Inter Ocean. Promoted on Battlefield. I was ordered to carry some ammunition to the boys at the very front The regiment lay against the hillside under a galling fire. One hardly dared lift his head above the ground, fearing to be killed. I got my bundles of cartridges to the men and sat down In a ilepression in the .hillside. I was safe as long as I did not move. Once more I had a chance to think, there, with the bullets whizzing within three feet jf me. We could go neither forward nor back. We were just sitting around and being killed. Still, the attack had not been given up. Sitting In that protected spot, a dozen soldiers, with heads bowed low, crept past me. Each carried a musket and a little ladder. They were to make the desperate attempt to try and place these ladders across the ditch,, when the regiment would climb over them and cross into the works. These laddermen passed so close I could look Into their eyes. For once, at least, I felt death to be hovering very near. These men had surely

volunteered to die. Few, or none of them, ever were seen again. Our assault failed. Our whole brlgaö crept down the gullies and ravines as best we could, and got away. Again we tried it another point, and there our leader. Col. Boomer, calling to the Iowa men to follow him, was shot dead. It was sundown and the storming of the city was abandoned. The siege began. Like beavers, we dug and dug till all the' hills in front of the forts were honeycombed with riflepits. Every soldier. at tiie front fired his hundred rounds a day, whether an enemy was seen or not. The men Inside the forts did the same with us, and at Intervals a hundred cannon

poured exploding shells into the city. "One morning when I was out at the ront rifle-pits I saw Gen. Matthies creeping along the galleries to the pit where I was firing. He had a package in his hand wrapped In brown paper. To my astonishment he unfolded the paper and gave me an officer's sash. No wonder it hangs above my table as write. "You are to be the adjutant of the regiment," he said. I do not jnow if the roar of the musketry then going on drowned my voice as I tried to thank him, or if in the circumstance of war he witnessed my delight Old Comrade Meet. About forty years ago on a spring morning. Abner Crull, of the Fourteenth Regiment Indiana Artillery, saw his army chum, Culeb Trees, thrown Into an ambulance and started for the pesthouse, a victim of smallpox in an advanced stage. Physicians staled there was no hope of recovery, and the Hoosler soldier mourned for the man who had fought shoulder to shoulder with him through three long j-ears, as for a lost brother. Recently the Alvln Hovey Vost, G. A. It., of Indianapolis, held its' jstallitlon of officers. Among the gray haired veterans who took part in 'he ceremonies was Abner Crull, 1302 Nordyke street He was standing In the rear of the hallway when suddenly friends noticed that his bronzed face paled. Ills eyes were fixed with an Intent look upon the face of a man whose hair was as gray as his own a portly stranger, however, who was gazing at him äs intently as he was being scrutinized. Close'.y the two men came together. Their hands were outstretched. Not a word did either utter until each w ith a gulp, has swallowed a lump which evidently would not down. "Ab," said one. "Cal," hoarsely ejaculated the other. Those who saw the meeting say that ! big tears rolled down the cheeks of the two old soldiers as they stood, regardless of surroundings, gazing without a word at one another. Many times since the close of the great civil war have' comrades ot bloody battle fields clasped hand after long separations, because of the ties which bind members of the Grand Army of the Republic. Members of the Hovey Post, however, who witnessed the meeting of thf two old artillerymen, state; that they never saw another which was so affecting. It was hours before the two badf one another good-night. They had fought over old battles; recalled old army tales both had all but forgotten. - . . "Ab" was a stalwart ISO-pound sol dier on that morning in 'Go when h( saw his comrade carted away. "Cal was a slender 10-year-old lwy. Now "Ah" Is a slender little man, a ecu ductor on the Belt Railway. "Car carries 250 pounds of avoirupois easi ly and has retired after years of prosperous farming. The smallpox did not kill hhn though for weeks he lay at death door, and when he rose from his led the war was over and he had heard that his comrade had been killed In a final scrimmage. After living In Wayne County for years, a few weeks ago Mr. Trees dtv cided to move to Indianapolis to lx with his children. The family residr at C31 Birch avenue. West Indlanajxv lis. As soon as he became settled It his new home the veteran sought out the G. A. R. gatherings, and tin meetings of the two old comrades resulted Only a few months Intervened between the two birthday anniversaries of the old soldiers, both being In iheii ('1st year. Their declining years wii; be cheered by the companionship 1k gau forty years ago on the battlefields of the Civil War. Saved III Ration. In the fall of 1SG4 we were In Wes: Tennesse on short rations. Our regiment had leen fighting hard. One" day Captain Cm and myself sat eatingonly beans and coffee when a shell lit dose to our tent door. We could see the blue smoke curling from Its fuse. The Captain at once clapied his ha1 over our coffee and beans, and went down under the table, while I went under our bunk. With a fearful lvjwrt that shell burst, covering everj-thing nbout us with sand. Jumping up, the Captain took th hat off from the beans, put It on his head, sat down, and finished his eating, remarking, "Kations are too scarce to loie any by foolishness." Several Subject. Those who throw bricks should noi expect bouquets In return. See that In avoiding cinders you step not on burning coals. From the Latin. The most active center of railroad work during recent years has been th Southern Gulf States. New York's cemeteries, with theii 3.155 acres of land, are sufliclent foi th burial of the city's dead, at the present rate, for 150 years. lljornson kept his pockets full of thi seeds of trees, scattering handfuli broadcast In his dally walks. He ever tried to persuade his associates to dc the same. Zola would pass whole weeks In th the belief that he was an Idiot Whilt In this state he wrote more than al any other time. He would never ae cept an invitation to dinner. In the turquoise the wearer has a talisman for self-possession. The pretty -e gem will enable her to think clearand keep her presence of mind under the most trying circumstance-?. John D. Long, ex-Secretary of tht Navy, is much opposed to the proposed new system of selling. He says: "To spell well Is the distinguished mark of a scholar, ai much as good manners art of a gentleman." The Countess of SutTolk, formerij Miss Daisy Leiter, promises to become an expert shot Until she was married 6he r as opposed to tho killing of wild birds. Now she has become so enthu siastic in practicing with her shotgun, It is said, that she will take a prominent part la next season's shoots.

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