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Political ISk I1 1 i i 1 1 1 i iü-ik li i i i i i .i A Tale of Two Partien. In the past two or three days the outrast between the conditions In the Democratic and the Republican parties has beeu brought out in a clear light The country sees Illinois giving a louLle setback to the principal presidential aspirant of the national democracy. The same aspirant, Mr. Bryan, hai just met a defeat in the Democratic convention In Ohio. Torn L. Johnson, who stands close to Bryan, and whs, it is Itel'eved, was working not only in Bryan's Interest but at his Instigation, tried to deise Harvy C. Garber, chairman of the Ohio Democratic State Committee. Garber, for so-.ue rea.ou, lias become obnoxious to Bryan and Johnson, and Johnson falle! as bad'y lu attempting to turn Lim down ns Bryan did when he tried to get the Illinois" Democrats to force Roger C. Sullivan off the national committee. In Indiana a fight is impending when Bryan lands, for he will be compelled to declare for or against Tom Tiggart as chairman of the national committee. Just as some exuberant seers were predicting that a Democrat would be the next Governor of New York, and that the next Governor of New York would be the next President of the TTnited States, comes a fight which has torn the New York democracy wide open,, and has insured the continuance of Republican sway in that State. Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany chief, ha declared for William It. Hearst for Governor of New York. District Attorney Jerome his announced that he (Jerome) will accept the Democratic nomination for Governor if it Is offeree to him without conditions, and Incidentally he remarks that the political sitoatiou in that State is "shameful." This epithet Is directed against Hearse, who responds immediately by saying that he repudiates Murphy and despifes Jerome. Jerome assails Hearst, calling him intellectually sterile, socially vulgar and morally obtuse," and says he is not surprised that Murphy favors Hearst Probably Murphy will support Hearst, notwithstanding Hearst's claim that he does not want and will not accept any votes from Murphy or his element of the Democracy. Tammany is pretty sure to support Hearst in the State convention, and if the nomination goes to him, even through t Tammany votes, Hearst will accept it. . Incidentally Hearst intimates that If he should be elected Governor he would find some way to remove Jerome and Mayor McClellan. ! Compared with the Bryan-Sullivan und. the Bryan-Garber feuds in the ."West and the Jerome-Hearst-Murphy -rendettas in the East, the Odell-IIIg-glns jar Is only a chllds quarrel. An adjustment can easily be reached between the wrangling Republicans. In fact. Hlgglns sees that the Democratic split has simplified matters so much for the Republicans that he announ.'es himself as a candidate for a second term. There are Indications, however, that the Republicans ivi'.l . nominate Hughes, the insurance inquisitor, for Governor of New York. He would get thousands of Democratic votes, even if the Democracy were united, as It is not, tnd as it cannot be until at the earliest, after the close ot the canvass of 19 W. In the national field there is not a cloud on the Republican sky. All the leaders are fulling together. The Democrats hoptd that Cummins of Iowa would start a row in the party which would extend through the nation. Nothing of the kind took place. Cummins' platform turned out to be an orthodox Republican deliverance, on which every true Republican, from President Roosevelt and Speaker Cannon down to the privates In the ranks can stand. Roosevelt, Cannon, Sherman and the rest of the Republican chieftains are working harmoniously and enthusiastically for the success of the. Congressional ticket. Nobody doubts that the Republicans will renin their control of Congress. The new Congress will continue the good work begun by the present body, but which cannot be finished In the three months' session beginning in December of this year. This work will strengthen the hold of the Republican party on the Affections of the American people. There Is not the faintest chance for a Democratic victory this year. The stock market and the general business conditions show that the solid, sane elements of the American people are confident that the Republican party will continue for many years longer to dispense Republican - prosperity to the country. St. Louis Glole-Democrat. nevlalon Sentiment. The sentiment for tariff revision Is growing In the Republican party. The triumph of Cummins, in Iowa, a pronounced revisionist, wrs followed by the declaration of Senator CulJoin, of Illinois. In favor of a change In the Dingley schedules. Yesterday Illinois Republicans, in State convention, endorsed Culloni for another term la the Senate and in their platform boldly declared for tariff revision whenever the change is advantageous to the country. Tr-day Nebraska Republicans went on record as revisionists and even in Massachusetts the party Is turning Its face to the front under a revisionist candidate for Governor. fKven President Roosevelt ' Is not the hard and fast standpatter the extreme protectionists would have the country believe. In the Watson letter it will be remembered he said: "Whenever a given rate or schedule Incomes evidently disadvantageous to the nation, iecau.e of the changes which go on from year to y-ar in our conditions, that rate or s 'hit Jule will 1 changed, while a general n vision of the rates and schedules w-Ii 1,0 undertaken whenever It shall f!'.o.ir to the sober business sene of our people that the' revision will do more g)od than 'harm." rhc. sentiment is making itself ft-lt throughout the country. " Republicans rialize certain changes are necessary and -that these changes should be made by the Republican party rather than endanger the system of protection by turning the work over to Its enemies.

The' Country' Iroperlty. Statistics recently published by the Bureau of Labor at Washington sjeak eloquently of the widespread prosierity of the country. The "slack" In the labor market is ail taken up and the supply of laborers Is not evial to the demand. If men are idle it is from choice and i:ot because of lack of employment. Two years ago the people of the coun

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I (To OMMENT i it Igj.; i,,i,4.,i i i ,i iJalQ in u h ! try were busy and yet more than 0 per cent more men are employed now than at that time and the average wages are more than 2 per cent higher than twenty-four months ago. Wages per hour last year were ID ier cent higher than 'they were ten years ago. Of course, food supplies cost more, for the tendency is always for an advance in foods during eras of great prosperity. Last year more than a mlllior Europeau iMborers came to this country, and another million are coming this year. They arv quickly assimilated, and the cry Is for more laborers. Employment agencies all over the country are asking for more and there is a shortage in every section. Even Canada is trying to divert the emigrants to the Northwest and every man willing und able to work has no difficulty in finding it. This year the farmers again have buiniKT crops. Perhaps never before in the history of the country have the agriculturists been blessed with such a degree of material wealth. This gives a substantial foundation to the -country's prosperity, and unless there should come a period of wild speculation there is not a cloud In the financial skies. The "square deal" policy of the national administration gives a feeling of security; there are no Internal or International complications, and from whatever standpoint the situation Is viewed, it fives promise of a peaceful and fruitful future. The Democratic Keynote. Mr Bryan's address in New York was not very Imprespive. Its importance "des, of course, in the fact that Mr. Bryan, as the probable choice of his party for the presidency two years hence, took occasion to formulate, or to restate, his political creed, which expresses the floating and not very logically related opinions and purposes, convictions and prejudices finally becoming coherent as his party's policy. The address was not free from the taint of petty partisanship, as whre he ascribed to the Republican party solely and under the eyes of Tammany at that! all the evils of that corrupt alliance of Itosslsm and business which Republicans are fighting a sincerely and more effectually to-day than Democrats. This reminds us that Mr. Bryan is a politician at all times. So far as his political proposals are concerned, the most ralical Is his reference to government ownership of railroads,-a problem so enormous, so com-, plicated, and, so far from critical that Mr. Bryan's views upon it may well be deemed as academic as Mr. Bryan's sentimental friendliness for theoretic Socialism. The tariff passage was expected, and nil the generalizations on liberty, plutocracy and democracy. The address was Protestant throughout, but it was singularly lacking In practical assurance and defmlteness. Its Ideas are familiar, some of them worn with much use, aud. spread before the reader m columns of print, they must seem innutritions and dlsapiolutIng, even to his sympathetic followers. Xo wonder those who were standing during Its delivery wandered away long before Its close. Chicago Tost. What Did Tfaer Kxpeetf The present lamentable plight of conservative Democrats who up to a short while ago were shouting for Bryan would melt a heart of stone. They had deluded themselves into thinking that this Bryan who was sailing home from his tour around the world was some other Bryan instead of the man who had advocated in the past government ownership of railroads, an income tax and other policies which they detest. So they eagerly awaited his return In order that he might sound the keynote for the party. The returned Bryan, welcomed 'x gladly by the conservatives as one of themselves, arose Iwfore the throng in Madison Square Garden and spoke his views. To the amazement and horror of those who were looking for a great conservative force to tie to, he proved the same Bryan whom they had known In other years! Xow they are groping helplessly and hopelessly amid the ruins of the airtVastles which they had built. Chicago Record-Herald. Iteallatlc. The book agent was showing the old farmer one of the "six best sellers." "A wonderful book." said the agent, as he turned to tlie first chapter. "Just listen to this plot : There's an ominous cloud on the sire's brow when he sees the lightning fiash in the determined eyes of his beautiful daughter. " "Great shoals!" ejaculated the old farmer, his Jaw dropping. Then comes the shower of tears. 'But hark ! The hero is thundering' n The old farmer jumped down from thf fonce and held up his hand. "One minute, mister," he drawled. "One minute till I put the chickens up and get my umbrella. I swan, tha thar book Is so stormy 1 feel like I am getting wet now." Coluir.bus Dispatch. I.axjr Man, "Josh Drone is the laziest man In seven states." drawled the storekeeper at Bacon Ridge. "What's he been doing now?" asked the cheese counter loafers. "Wa-al, you know he was always so lazy he waited for the lightning to split his kindling wood?" "Yep." "And theTood to wash his windows?" "Yep." "Wa-al. now he's read somewhertthat in the eist IiaiHtoiies thrashed a farmer's wheat nml ever since he has been sitting In an easy chair praying for a hailstorm." Mottest. "Rimer had a ixem accepted by Scribbler' Magazine " "Yes. and he's taken to the backwood O "What for?" "He s.tys he hates like thunder to be lionized." Philadelphia Press. .One Kind of In vestlisntlon. -You are taking a great deal of Interest In this investigation." "Yes," answered the statesman. "1 have to give It close personal attention. I want to make sure It doesn't develop Anything I don't care to have known." Washington Star. Sir Andrew Eraser, Governor of Bengal, virtual ruler of SO.000.ono people, is the active president of the Calcutta Y. M. C. A. M. DIcasse, cx-MInistcr of Foreign Affairs vf France, Intends to visit thla country for a short trip.

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OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS

HEAVY COST OF FUNERALS.

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costs people more to die than It does to live and the poorer you are the more It costs you to die. Funerals are expensive in Chicago. If a poor man does and his widow has four or five hundred dollars the undertaker gets all of it and the woman then is turned

adrift. Life insurance is a great thing because it enables the widow to have ready money. She can sustain herself until she gets her bearings and becomes confident of her own ability to. make a living. But if a man dies, leaving his widow a thousand dollars. It is more likely that five hundred dollars of that money will go for the funeral. A coflin that costs $23 to make Is sold for $120 and the embalming process entailing a cost of $1 or $2 Is charged up at $15 or $20. The expenses for hear3 and carriages are also doubled. Ppie are sensitive about the dead and they feel that a protest to the undertaker Is to show lack of respect for the piece of clay that is about to be put back In the. ground. It should not cost any man In good circumstances over $ 100 to be buried. A poor man should be bur'.ed for $30. Xow you who are too sensitive and jnor will immediately Bay your people ire entitled to as good a fimeral as your rich neighbor. That is true. But because your rich neighbor's people are foolish Is no reason why you should be foolish. There Is a reverence for the dead that one does not have for the living. It is ery beautiful, but it sometimes causes great hardships. -Chicago Examiner.

DREYFUS.

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must feel that a shameful Judicial wrong has been set right at last, the decision of the highest court in the matter of Captain Alfred Dreyfus Is even more gratifying as showing the return to faulty of the French authorities and tue French people. The Court of

Cassation does not merely declare the Innocence of the unfortunate officer and direct that amends be made; it declares that the crime of which he was accused never 'existed, a conclusion that wus reached long ago by mo.t disinterested foreign observers of the case. That the decision cuts off the opportunity for another ppectaeular trial, with Its recriminations, digressions into irrelevant matters and general hysteria. Is something to be thankful for. France has quieted down, and is likely to accept the decision without disturbance, though the? ellevers in the guilt of Dreyfus will be' unconvinced, as ibat is a matter of faith and not of evidence or reasoning. Like the Salem witchcraft -or the Popish plot, the Dreyfus case passes to the alienists of the future as a curiosity In popular delusions. It has taken courage on the part of the French Government to bring the case to n final settlement, and courage In the Judges to render the decision they have. For this they deserve all honor. New York Sun.

WOMEN AS EMPLOYES. NE Philadelphia corporation recently announced Its purpose to dismiss all the women In Its employ and engage no one of the gentler sex In the future. Some employers Interviewed declare that they understand and sympathize with the motives of this action, and one Eastern paper remarks that

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something of a "reaction" against the employment of women In Industry is undr lbtedly observable. We are told that wome; are not ambitious; that they think more of marriage a ; "way out" of Industry than of hard work and emula. on as a means of promotion, and that emplojers w?nt employes who expect to "grow

"You don't mean young onions, Eve-' Una?" said the grocery man reproachfully to the pretty cook, as he turned over a leaf In his order book. "Well, maybe I don't." said the cook. "Probably I mean cocoanuts or bath sponges, but you'd better put it down youns onions' on the chance that I know what I'm talkin' about." "It's for the boss, then?" pleaded the groceryman. "You wouldn't think or orderln 'em because you liked 'em? Don't tell me that" "I won't tell jou nothln', one way or another," said the cook. "If It's going to hurt your fecliii's I won't explain about what I'm g?in' to do with the groceries I order. Peck o new potatoes, an see that they are bigger than marbles this time, because I'm coin' to peel 'em." "Suthin atween a golf ball an a baseball," commented the groceryman. "All right I know the kind j-ou mean. Not that I in'rd. onions sieclally," ho observed, "kn onion is all right In Its place. So's soue other thlags I could mention. I'd Just as soon you'd eat onions as not on the days I don't call. Don't you mind . what I say." "If you say 'onion' to me again I'll show you the door, and I'll gee to It that you don't come back," said the cook. The grocery nan whistled. "What you been cookln', Evelina?" he asked. "None o' your business. Put me down five bars of laundry soap." "Laundry 6oap it Is," said the groceryman. "Wouldn't you like 'some cheese to go with them vegetables we was tnlkin about? You might as well have the cheese with It while you're about lt. I knew a girl once that was awful fond of these little green things that you eat when you don't care a continental anyway. She used to eat 'em green or sliced up In vinegar, with cucumber, till you couldn't rest, but she shut right off on 'em one day an' didn't eat one for six months. Theu she went for 'em. hard r than ever to make up for lost time. I seen her In a restaurant with her husband a few days after they was married nr.' she had a big dish of 'em before her an' about a dozen ends on the table. I knew another girl " "There's somethin I want" said the cook, musingly. "I'll bet I knojv what it is," said the groceryman. "You Just wait till It gets its wages raised an' you'll get it unless It changes Its mind." "I can't think of it now, so I guess I'll let it go," s..ld the cook. "It's going." said the groceryman, cheerfully. "Do you want it to bring up all this truck thfs mornln'?" "I'd try to have a little sense If I was you. I want everything over by 11 o'clock." "You shall have 'em If I bust a collar button, onions an all. Excuse me mentioning 'em. You're goin out right away after lunch, ain't you? Well, that's the way It Is with me. I want to meet you, too." "You don't ay ! said the cook. ' "I've got some money In my clothes right now that ain't goln to stay there after to-day. I thought you an' me

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tfo&l ers. South ; ould have a good time" this afternoon .11 this evenin'." Te can," agreed the cook. "Tout's fine an' dandy," said the groceryn n. happily. "Su. " iald the cook. "You can go an' have a good time all you want to, an I'll have a good time, too. I'm goIn shoppln this afternoon an then I'm goin to see my sister In Austin." "You ain't honest are you?" "I am." ' 'There's a picnic at Bunderbaugh's Purk." "That ain't uncommon." "Say, won't you come? You ain't goIn' to turn me down that way?" "It's too i;ad," said the cook, "but when you make an appointment with me you've got to make It a little ahead of time. If you want to ask me for this day next year, an I feel more like It than I do now, which ain't likely, I'll go with you with pleasure." The groceryman put his order book In his pocket. "I don't care whether you eat any of thm onions or tot,' he said. Chicago Dally News. COLD AIR ON TAP. Natural System of Coollnar Uae4 by 3Iontana Town. The town of Thompson Foil9, In Missoula county, has a strange system of cold storage, says the New York Sun. In the hottest days In summer It is possible to keep living rooms at a temperature of r3 degrees, and butter, eggs, and meat are kept cool and fresh without the least trouble. The best part of the cold-storage system Is that it costs absolutely nothing after the lant has been Installed. Thompson Falls has a large number of wells that furnish cold, fresh air, which rushes upward all sum.oer long. The wells are dug for water but the supply of cold air Is as fully Important The wells of Thompson Palls are a little more than GO feet In depth. The water veins are found in a gravel formation, and are doubtless fed by the mountain snows at some distant place. The gravel Is porous enough, to admit of a freely-moving current of air, which during the summer time rushes upward In currents strong enough to snuff out a match held over the wells. The utility of the cold-air currents was first observed In 1SSI, when the Thompson Falls Mercantile company used the cool air to keep butter, eggs and meat In largo quantities. The air can be piped In summer to rooms of houses. Th wells are covered over tightly at the top, and large pljcs tap th current a few feet below the surface of the ground. These pipes conduct the air to different rooms In nearby buildings. For cold-storage plants, a house Is built above the well and the air rushes upward continuously, keeping the temperature at an unvarying point. 111 Fatal rrenldentlnl Vote. Owing to the fact that the only presidents he ever had an opportunity of voting for met with tragic deaths, Major J. N. Morgan, a retired officer of the United States army, and at present

up with the establishment." Some accuse girls in offices and factories of flirting, of carelessness, of declining to take their duties seriously. Recorder Davis of this county referring to the latter charges, says that "segregation" has happily solved the problem. Where women work by themselves, he explains, there Is nothing to distract them, and there's little marrying or flirting. We do not think the "reaction" is or Is likely to become serious. Women are in Industry to stay, and while their position in it Is fundamentally different from that of men, owing to their hope to leave the "wage-earning" class by marrying, that difference is only reflected In pay and in the matter of promotions. It does not threaten now, any more than It did when women first "invaded" the office and factory to compete with men, any general, tacit agreement among employers to dispense with their services. Chicago Record-Herald.

MAN'S MANIA FOR SPEED. PEKIj madness is nothing, new, but It shows novel development. The automoblllst goes at a frightful rate In the hope of getting

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at the finish regards his own survival as a triumph. Years ago the Mississippi steamboats used to race, not because anybody was in a legitimate hurry, and never gave up until the bursting boiler hurled passengers and crew to drown in the river, if they did not perish of scalds on the way. This particular form of folly died out when steamboatlng ceased to be a method of transportation for anything but freight On an English railroad old. conservative, safeguarded a train essays to beat the. record of a rival mere speed madness. The train Is dashed to fragments and in the wreckage more than a score of lives go out miserably. There is Investigation, of course, but the record of the competitor still stands and taat will never do. Now ocean lines are racing. To the average man with leisure to cross the Atlantic a few hours difference can be of no moment. When Is this perilous contest to end? There i. a limit to the endurance even of machinery. The pressure, can be made too great for any Integrity of equipment The ship with hundreds aboard would seem to be an excellent thing to protect against this insidious mania, which already must be charged with countless lives and property value beyond all estimate. Philadelphia Iiedger.

DECREASE IN LYNCHING S.

T is a hopeful sign of the ultimate suppression of lynching in the South, or at least of Its virtual suppression, that many of the Southern executives are manifesting extraordinary activity In the prosecution of lynch-

In Irglnia, West Virzin a. North and Carolina, '.ynchlng has been almost

entirely suppressed, owln to the strenuous efforts of the Governors and law authorities., the absence of delays in the courts, the convening of special grand juries, speedy trials following Indictments and ?ieody ienaltles following convictions. In the five States Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas which In the past have been the worst offenders, largely owing to the congested black population in those States, which In some counties outnumber ti:e white population, the number, of lynchings steadily deccaws, and the courts are mor? and more called upon to administer justice in all cases of crime, whether committed by blacks or whites. The activity of the authorities In securing ludlctments of lynchers has been notable. Chicago Tribut e.

military sujervisor at the Western Military Academy, has decided that he will cast no more votes for president for fear the fate of the three he did vote fot mightv overtake the fourth. He voted for Lincoln, Garfield and Me Klnley, his duties In the army preventing blm votlug for other presidents. PROTECT IT IN TIME. lidiT to Stop Alteration of "Stai Spanieled Dan iter' Needed. The continued carping at "The Stai Spangled Banner," words and music as a national hymn, has evidently Im pressed some minds with the Idea thai the text of the anthem Is entitled to uc rt spect whatever, and that any one whe can write rhyme is at liberty to gar ble it to suit himself. I'ecently one of the leading mush publishers of the country Issued an edition of 'The Star Spangled Banner in which the author's original thlrc stanza has been radically and consider ably "amended" by some unknown bard The amendment, though plainly ana chronlstlc, will probably be accepted bj the public and In the course of time supersede the correct version. If this sort of thing keeps on there will sooc Ik? nothing left of the original poem. There is no law to prevent any oiu who pleases from rewriting the words of "The Star Spangled Banner" to suii himself, but no one has the right to pre sent his own alterations as If they were the original words written by Francis Scott Key and first published In tht Baltimore American In September 1814. Laws to protect the national flaj have been found necessary. Then seems, to be need, too, of a law to pro tect the national hymn. Itochestet Democrat and Chronicle. The Itetort Itnniorona. "You don't seem to understand blustered the man who was trying t make his iolnt with a university pro fessor. "I tell you, sir, I ought tc know. I'm an alumni of this institution myself." "Are jou? That's nothing singular," was the witty rejoinder, uttered so quietly that the blustering man never knew what had happened. On another occasion the same pro fessor, having ordered from a music publishing house a copy of a "Valst Impromptu" by a certain French com poser, received an "Impromptu Waltz' by another man. The publishers, whon called to account for their mistake, replied rather insolently that they had been In the music publishing business s long time, and had yet to discover th difference, between a "Valse Impromp tu" and an "Impromptu Waltz." Woulc Dr. Smith kindly state to them thai difference? "Gentlemen," wrote the genial pro fessor, in answer, "I have not, lik yourselves, been ?n the music publish ing business, and am therefore nr fully qualified to inform you. but since in your extremity, you have appellee to me, I would venture to suggest thai th? difference between a 'Valse Im promptu and an 'Impromptu Waltz may be similar to the difference be tween a blind Venetian and a Venetlat blind. "Yours very truly," and so forth. Perfectly AVlllIn;?. The Heavy Father (violently) Now see here, Molly, don't let me catch yot and young Dovecot flirting together k the conservatory again. Guileless Daughter (demurely) Xo father, you shan't The Bystander. I.nMIng Carpet. Carpets made from elephant hide an said never to wear out

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RECITALS OF CAMP AND BATTLE INCIDENTS. Survivors of the Rebellion Relate Many Amusing and Startling Incidents of Marches, Camp Life, Foraging Experiences and Battle Scene. The late Gen. John B. Gordon, the last of the corps commanders of Gen. Lee's Confederate Army of northern Virginia, gave this story to the narrator only a few months before he died, says a writer in the Los Angeles Times. A few days before Christinas, 1SU3, when the army of Gen. Lee was suffering the greatest privations, there was a dramatic scene in the tent of the judge-advocate general. Edward Cooper, wearing the gray uiJfonu of a private soldier in the Confederate army, stood before the court-martial charged with desertion. The facts had been stated by the prosecution, and the prisoner was asked to produce any witnesses he might have for his defense. He calmly replied : "I have no witnesses." Astonished at the calmness and dignity of the soldier, and the indifference with which he seemed to have submitted to an inevitable fate. Gen. Battle said to him: "Have you no defense whatever? Is It possible that you abandoned your comrades and deserted your colors In the presence of the enemy and without reason?" "There was a reason," replied Cooper, "but It will not avail me efore a military tribunal." "Ferhaps you are mistaken," replied the general. "You are charged with the highest crime known to military law, and It is your duty to make known the cause or cause- which influenced your action." ' Thereupon Cooper approached the president of the court and presented a letter, saying as he did so: "There, general, is what led me to go." The letter yas proffered as the prisoner's defense. It was in these words: "Dear Edward: Since your connection with the Confederate army I have been prouder of you than ever before. I would not have you do anything wrong for the world ; but before God. Kdward, unless you come home we must die. Last night I was aroused by little Eddie crying. I called to him and said: 'What Is the matter, Eddie?' He said: Oh, mamma, I am so hungrey!' A.nd Lucy your darling Lucy she never complains, buts he is growing thinner and thinner every day. Before God, Edward, unless you come home we must die. YOUR MAItY." Turning to the prisoner Gen. Battle said: "What did no do when you received this letter?" Cooler replied: "I made application for a furlough. It was rejected. Again I made application, and was rejected. That night I wandered around our camp, thinking of my home, the wild eyes of Lucy looking up at me and the burning words of Mary seething In my brain. I was no longer the Confederate soldier I was the father of Lucy and the husband of Mary. If every gun in the battery had been fired at me, I would have crossed those lines. When 1 reached home Mary fiung her arms around my neck and sobbed: 'Oh, my Edward : I am so glad you got your furlough. She must have felt me shudder, for she turned pale as death, and catching her breath at every word jhe said : 'Have you come without your furlough? Go back, Kdward. Go back ! Let me aud the children go down to the grave, but for heaven's sake do not tarnish the honor of our name!'" Every officer in that court-martial was visibly affected by the defense, but each one in turn pronounced the verdict of "guilty." The proceedings of the court were reviewed by Gen;; Lee, and upon the records was written: "Headquarters A. X. V. The finding of the court Is approved. The prisoner Is pardoned and will return to his company. II. K. LEE, General." The court-martial could reach no other conclusion than to find him guilty of desertion. The commanding general could pardon him and did pardon him. Edward Cooper was afterward a brave Confederate soldier. The officers raised some money out of their slender means, and sent relief to the wife and children. A Plnckr Uanh. ' Gen. Bipley, whose recent death reaioves another well-known figure yfrom the rapidly thinning ranks of the Civil Wat- eterans, was one of the earliest among Vermont men to respond to the first call of President Lincoln. His company was the old Rutland Light Guard, and he afterward had a command in the First United Htates Sharpshooters. In "Vermont Klllemen" the general tells of a bold charge of that gallant company. A great sovereign once addressed the general of his army thus: "I send you against the enemy with sixty thousand men." "But" protested the general, "there are only fifty thousand." "Ah, but I count you as ten thousand," was the monarch's reply. ' In the same spirit each man of. Company F agreed to call his comrade equal to two. So while their numbers were not large, they counted themselves a strong body, and they dared to make a brave assault on the foe at the Rappahannock. The enemy, In strong force, was occupying rifle pits on the opposite banks, and the Union soldiers were sent out to attack them. The sharpshooters were front but It was soon found out the enemy couj.1 not le driven away by simple rifle work ; and the regiment was ordered to make a close attack. The skirmishers went first, followed by the sharpshooters and other companies. Tlu- men had to wade through the jpen stream, waist deep, exposed to the full, deliberate fire of the concealed foe. The lines were carefully formed, and at the sound of the bugle the regiment iasred forward Into the cold', rapid water and struggled to the opposite I lore. When the banic was reached, the lines kver? broken and the soldiers scattered in their efforts to escape the hot fire. But the sharpshooters pressed on, passing the skirmish line. The captain of Company F, just promoted to his command, led the way until he stood on the very edge of the works, overlooking the inemy within, of whom he demanded instant and complete surrender. He was far in advance of his me.n, and the enemy, at first taken aback by the very boldness of the demand, now seeing him, as thoy thought, unsupported, refused to surrender, but called to him to give himself up as prisoner. The captain, tot at all Inclined to yield his sword the very Crst time of Its wearing, called back : "Some of yoa men of Company F, with guns, come up here!"

Up rushed the undaunted sharpshooters, and the whole Confederate fere of some five hundred men surrendered without delay to the little company which, from Its daring, they supposed to be host

Two Sons of the Sooth. After the hardest fighting at the first Battle of Manassas, where "Stonewall" Jackson was wounded In the bind. Dr. Hunter McGuire, Jackson's medical director, was bandaging the wound. The scene of the operation was the porch of a little store at the crossing of a stream. From his knowledge of the battlefield, the Hon. John S. Wise, author of "Recollections of Thirteen Presidents," thinks It must have been wrjere the Sudley road crosses Young's Branch near the Warreutown pike. At any rate, the tide of the battle had turned in favor of the Confederates, and JackMn had taken time to have his wound dressed. About the place was a large number of men awaiting their turn, most of thea wounded, some of them stragglers, no doubt But Jackson knew the situation thoroughly, and was not alarmed at their presence. Just then a Norseman In civilian's dress, greatly excited, dashed up, and reining up his horse In the stream, rose In his stirrups and began in Impassioned appeal to -the men, begging them not to give up the fight ; assuring them that they were not whipped; that the enemy was In retreat, and that if they would not act like cowards and cravens victory wns assured. The horeseman, having arrived upon the field and hearing of the reverses of the morning, but not or the subsequent successes of his side, had dashed forward, and, seeing this throng of apparent stragglers, was seeking to rail? them and Induce them to return to battle. Neither Doctor McGuire nor General Jackson had ever seen him before, and they had no Idea who he was. Upon hearing this outburst Jackson literally flung aside the bandages Doetor McGuire was placing on his hand, and with more excitement than he was ever known to have shown before he acU v a need quickly toward the horseman, saying: "What Is all this fuss about? These men are not cowards., These men are. not deserters. These men are not stragglers. They are my incn, and are mostly wounded. We are not hard-pressed. We have whipped the Yankees and the fighting Is over. Who are you, sir?" "I am President Davis, sir. Who are you?" "I am General Jackson,' sir," said Jackson, now realizing the situation and saluting. Then he calmly returned to have his wound dressed, and Mr. Davis departed for some other part of the field. , Jackson was evidently very Indignant at the imputation cast upon his men, and Mr. "Davis evidently did not like the language or the manner of h'.s subordinate. Doctor McGuire said that In all their subsequent Intercourse Zm 'jlsou never alluded to this episode but once; but It was plain to him that the grim old Presbyterian fighter was not an admirer of Davis. Old Jakev'a Shot. One day during the selge of Corinth General Nelson came to the front to look after things, and especially to see how a favorite baitery of artillery was getting a!ong. A party of rebel sharpshooters had taken refuge in one old house about half i mi'n to the front of our force, and the artillerymen were directing their puns upon It. He grew very Impatient becau-e the house had not yet been struck and rode hastily up to the gunä. 'They will pick you off there, ; General," said our sergeant in a .vaniu voice.- j ;'; The general snapped out: "Go to h 1, sir; no, I mean to thank' you. sir." Just then came a long torn with a "zip." The general, hearing the wellknown sound, jumped off his horse la a rage, caught one of the guns, ran it forward by main strength and aimed it 'himself, remarking that would show them how to shoot at him. As he was aiming our captain said: "A little too high, general," but was met with the ever ready reply, "Go to h 1," and ordered to pull the string. The ball went crashing through the tree tops uot a hundred yards ahead of us, more in the direction of the sy than the house; but It happened that at the same Instant one of our other guns was fired, and the ball struck the chimney of the house. The general, seeing the chimney fait shouted: "By God, sir, I knew It; it takes me to knock things about them," and rode away, calling back, "Captain. 1 will call around In the mornlmr-and give you practice; I can hit e:n every time." He did not hear the laugh that followed, but old Jakey's shot was never foi gotten. American Tribune. Ilout of the Srooud Kansas. One fine day, as the Second Kansas Regiment was marching through southern Missouri, one of the men observed a lot of bees near a farm house, and was Immediately convinced of a call to forage. He was one of the reckless fellows, on such expeditions, who would go through any adventure that promised something good to eat. As if entirely unconscious of the presi.iee of the bees, he proceeded at once to help himself by turning over a gum and knocking the head out with the butt of his musket, cutting the honv loose with his bayonet. After securing a quantity of the sweet on the point of his bayonet le fell Into line and we fell out double quick, and more, for the lees came charging us worse than the relels ever did. and they certainly felt ns if they had tlulr bayonets fixed. The boys couldn't stand the charge of the little creatures, and soon we were the picture of an Inglorious rout. At last we forced the bee-general and his army Into the straggler's line, but he carried his booty safe into camp, and when we were feasting on flap-jacks and honey we felt almost like making a bee-line f;r another bee-route. The gold output In the Band district of South Africa has steadily Increased since the end of the Boer war, and Is now well above the highest volume reached before the 'war; nevertheless, the market prices of Band mine shares have fallen over one-half or by some $t'.50.000,a'(). No satisfactory explanation of this anomaly has been offered. Seventy coins, dating from the time of Edward VI. to James I., have been found by a grave digger at WoAlhorn churchyard, Northumberland, England Ih all 240.000 differem species of In sects are known to exist on the earth.

Verdict for Dr. Pierce AGAINST THE Ladies Home Journal.

. Sending truth after a lie. It Is an o!i xaaxim that "a lie will travel seven leagues while truth Is getting its booti on," and no doubt hundreds of thousands of good people read the unwarranted and malicious attack upon Dr. It V. Piere and hisTavorite Prescription "published In the May (1904) number of the Ladies Home Journal, with its great black display headings, who never saw the humble, groveling retraction, with Its inconspicuous heading, published two months later. It was boldly charged In the slanderous and libelous article that Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, for the cure of woman's weaknesses and aliments, contained alcohol and other harmful ingredients. Dr. Pierce promptly brought suit against the publishers of the Ladies' Home Journal, for tSJO.OOO.OO damages. Dr. Pierce alleged that Mr. Bok, the editor, maliciously published the article containing such false And defamatory matter witV the Intent of injuring his buslneyrfurthermore. that no alcohol, or Jurious. or habit-forming, drugs er ivere, contained In his "Falption"; that said medicine; i native 'medicinal roots and rno harmful ingredients whatid that Mr. look's malicious statepslt were wholly and absolutely lalse. I,. t.i . . ) .f 1 " M Iii Mi M thev were lorcea to acla'owjcde itniilic? obtäTneüanqTys -.f " K,i'irip? lJr nv ma cohoi oranvr yii ati.M harmtui drgf These fact were iuo pioven in the tfUi or the action In the Sun-me Court. But the business of Pi. Pierce wjn trreatlr Injured by the publicati n of the libelous article with Its kt at display headings, while hundred ot thousands who read the wickedlx defamatory article never saw the hun.ble srroTelin retraction, set In small type and miie as In conspicuous as possible. Tlie matter wju bo w ever brought before a Jury In th Saprem Court of New York State which promptl rendered a verdict in the Doctor's favor. Thus his traduce rs came to griet and their tase slanders were refuted. Soothing the Celebrity. "I am requested, ladies and gentle men,' suavely said Colonel Handy Polk, addressing the beauty and chivalry of Torpldville, In the grand old commonwealth of Arkansas, assembled to enJoy the third In the Lyceum course's series of entertainments, "to Introduce to you, in a er-h'm! few well-chosea words, the distinguished gentleman who will ah edify us u;on this occasion, a man whom we all know so well by reputation, whoso name Is a houehold word from one bound to this hro.id land to the other, whose delicate satire has amused and entertained the whole nation, whose wealth of humor Is th laughing link betwixt the north and the iouth,' and er-ah! well, I hare novr done so, and he will er-er now do so. Ladies aud gentlemen. I thank you for but, ah-hem (turning to tlie celebrity) by the way. what did you say your name was?" ru- k. There Are Others. "Say, Harker, I hoard you teüinj your wife the other morning that yoa were going fishing." "Sure, old chap. And I bagged somu of the finest trout you ever sav. "Bagged? How i:::;'.rop?r! The expression 'bagged' belongs to hunters "But it fits my case exactly. You see I didn't catch anything with my lines, so on my way home I bought a strinj 3f fish and put them In a paier bag." An Unreasonable Ileqnet. Mrs. C. was ordering the day's luncb oyer the telephone. Brains were on her menu and sb tried a number of butchers without success. "Is that 2GG?" anxiously. "Yes. "Have you any brcias? "What?" "Have you any brains to-day?" "No, no, no!" came the testy reply. "Madame, you have made a mistake this is Dr. Smith's telephone. Lipplneott's. ? I i I TTi "Xl I r V Aj I I I UJ IX '? 'KU 17. L. DOUGLAS c3.50 &.3.00 Shoco CC3T IN THE WORLD VLOoss $4 Gilt Eto lia. cannot 08 equalled at an) price To Shoe Otaltrt; W. U Douglas' JobUng H u t M moot ooaiyltt in tola country StnAor Caialjg SHOES FOE JV2YE0DY AT ALL tülChi. Mn's Sbo. (0 to f 1.50. Pora' tboa, f 3 tolLSS. Woman's ihoe. f 4 OO to tl.SO. Try IV. La ItoaglM Wuiiirii't, Mics an4 Children' thaoi; for tjle, fit aud wear they excel other make. If I could take you Into eiy larja factories at Brockton, Mass. .and show you how carefully W.L. Douglas hoes are made you would then understand why they hold their shape, fit better wear longer, and arc cf greater valua than any other make. Wherever you l.'ve, yoc can obtain W. L Dour Las shoes. Hl name and price if stamped on the bottom, which protects you against high prices and Interior shoe. Tak no tubttl tut. Ask your dealer for W. L. Douglas shosa and InaUt upon having; them. fatt Color f yeiets vsta ; theit will not Ufa' brass. Writ for Illustrated Catalog ol Fall Styles. W. L DOUGLAS, Dept. U. Brockton. Masa, THE PEST COUGH CURE In buying a cocgh medicine, remember the best cough cure, costs no more than any other kind. Remember, too, the kind that cures is the only kind worth amythlng. Every year thousands are saved from a consumptive's grave by taking Kemp's Balsam in time. Isitorth while to experiment with anything else ? Sold by all dealers at 25c. and 50c If tCHclsd ri'.iTh -jV p-M"-1;