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u People of the Vnlted State. "It would be better to have no Federal Constitution at all If its terms are be strerched and Ignored by those ovorn to uphold it," said the Hon. Judical Hannon, former Attorney General, to the Kentucky liar Association on Thursday. On the same day the lion. Alton B. Parker, for many years a judge of the Idgbest court of the state of New York, declared before the North Carolina Bar Association against the idea that the Constitution of the United States shall fee altered In ary other way than by amendment at the hands cf the people. In this connection it is well to reSnembcr that Judson Harmon Is everywhere recognized as one of the foreawst of living Jurists, and that Alton B. Parker, despite his unfortunate adventures in party politics as a judge commanded the respect or courts and lawyers throughout the nation. And it Is also well to remember that tfee resistance voiced by these men against amending the Constitution by mere Intentation was recently declared right by the Supreme Court of the United States when it firmly rejected the doctrine uion which the national government sought to displace the States of Kansas and Colorado as the supreme authority over the waters f the Arkansas River, declaring that all power over national affairs not expressly delegated to the government at Washington was reserved by the people to themselves. Better, indeed, to have no Const itutJan than one which may be igtred by tts sworn servants. Bettor than have och a Constitution to be subject to an omnipotent Legislature, like the EngBah, or to an omnipotent executive, like the Russian. For then we would at least know what we might expect. We Lare not taken that way. Th; founders nf tkis nation, upon grave consideration, and that liberty might be real, took; another way. We, the people of the JJnlted States, not Presidents or Congresses, r mere appointive officials, made our fundamental law. Ve, the people, rcacrTcd to ourselves all governmental power we did not expressly confer on ar servants. "We, the people," provided means for changing that law when we saw fit And as Mr. Harmon said again: When the people wish the Constitution changed they will change It, as they have always done. But they do not need guardians!" Chicago Inter Ocean. A New Inheritance Tax Law. Among recent notable state legislation Is the direct inheritance tjx law that is now on the statute book of Massachusetts, a state that has given the subject long and careful study. The now law Is supplementary to the one taxing collateral Inheritances only. Tcm years ago a tax commission rec ommended a direct inheritance tax of 5 per cent with certain exemptions. Tbe Massachusetts Legislature that has Just adjourned practically accepted the report of a committee la favor of a graduated tax on direct inheritances. Collateral Inheritances, above $1,000, except bequests to charitable, religious or educational Institutions, will contlnre to pay 5 per cent Direct Inberitances by parents or children, with exemption for $10,000 or less, will pay 1 to, & per cent graduated according to amount Inheritrnces by brother, sister, nephew or niece, with $l,0CO exemption, will pay a tax of from 3 to o per cent the last-named rate for an amount exceeding $100,000. . This new Massachusetts law, it Is estimated, will add $100,000 to the rrerwiue of the state, in addition to $G00,C00 from the collateral inheritance tax, and will relieve taxpayers of Italf the sum now collected as a general state tax. Both real and personal property will be subject to these inheritance taxe.s. In his recent JamesJtown address President Ro-evelt made inheritance taxation one of his leading topics. Massachusetts has covered the oohject by Its statutes ard, on the wbote. has acted conservatively. Unier prolonged discussion liberal exemntioexs were Welded on and in no case is tbe tax on inheritances under $100,000 auitJ over $50,000 more than 3 or 4 per rent, the graduated scale for smaller axKHtnts being much less. St Louis Globe-Democrat. f , A I'Onjr Time. III tfto service of a certa-ln committee tbe Senate, the chairman of which is a Soatliern Senator, says Harper's Weekly, Is a certain capable young stecographcr and typewriter. In addition to tbe clerk of the committee. One 4ay the chairman, missing the very capable etenographer, inquired of the clerk where he was. He Is not here to-day, sir," responded tbe clerk. "Ills father is dead." ,. Came days later the chairman again ctaäed for the missing employe, only to receive the sarae reply from the clerk : He Is not here to-day, sir. ills father is dead." ' ; Tbe chairman said nothing, but looked Terr interested. t. A full week thereafter the head of the committee for the third time lnigalrod as to the whereabouts of the steaugrapher. In the reply the clerk began tbe usual announcement: ; -He i3 not here to-day. His " Will you kindly advise me,' inter mated the chairman with alarming avarity, "whether that young man in tends to stay away from his duties all tbe time bis father is dead?" f . Tbe Sky mad the Weather. Waether cljar or cloudy, a rosy sun set presages fine weather; a sickly greenish hue, wind and rain; Cart, or Indian, red, ridn ; a red sky 5a the morning, bad weather or much wtod, perhaps rain; a gray sky in the swralng, fine weather; a high dawn, fwfad; a low dawn, fair weather. Re pnarkablc clearness of atmosphere near ,the horizon, distant objects, stiel: as Sülls, usually visible or raised by refraction and what Is called a good ririmr day." may be mentioned fajuacg Bigns of wet. If not wind. ' Special Rate. T5je Preacher Have you special rates far riergrcnen? The Hotel Clerk Yes, Ir; we charge them a dollar extra Tbe Preacher Dollar extra! Why? Tbe Hotel Clerk They don't patronize :te tar. Brooklyn Eagle. Loo Vine Backward. "Wen, doctor, do you think It jaaythlng serious?" -Oh, not at oil! It is merely a boi torn tbe back c- your neck, but I would

tärt jou to keep your eye on It"

THE OUT-LOO

Notwithstanding tbe gloomy pralle tlons of Eastern bansers and a few despondent railway managers discouraged, as they well might ! by seeing the fruits of years of energy and sagacity in building groat transportation systems menaced with blight by shortsighted legislation it is pretty certain that the prosperity of the country 13 assured for another period of month3 if not of years. In spite of unfavorable weather during the early spring, and the ravages of green bug.4. seventeen-year locusts, and other agencies of destruction, the country's crops bid fair to average well with those of the prosperous past years ; thus assuring a solid foundation for the upbuildiug of all other industrial enterprises. The volume of trade, wholesale and retail. Is still large, and universal confidence reigns in business circles generally. The best barometer of industrial conditions, the Iron and steel industry. Is still forging ah?ad. with more orders than can be filled In a twelvemonth, and as Ion; as this condition prevails little danger need be feared of storms and disaster in the great American business of making money. The only drawback to the nation's prosperity and It continues a cloud a good deal larger than a man's hand Is the inability of the railroads to obtain sufficient funds to the necessary improvements in tracks and terminals ahd to buy the increased equipment In rolling stock needed to prevent the congestion of traffic which prevailed last year, and which promises to be worse next fall. If some assurance could le offered to European investors that the railways are not in danger of practical confiscation of their property by means of legislation' cutting down their earnings, a bountiful supply of foreign gold would be poured into this country to relieve the situation. Foreign investors have a strong tendency to invest In American railway securities, and this bent of mind would take Its regular course; as in past years, but for the fears and distrust w c have been aroused, more perhaps by the hostile tone of official utterances than by anything that has actually been done. In the same way, if I'resident Roosevelt and our public men generally could be prevailed upon to deprecate these fears and dispel this distrust by assurances that no radical steps are to be taken in future, and that the offices of the governments, state and national, will be confined to protecting the public against oppression and wrong on the part of the railroads, without interfering with their rates, already the lowest in the world, there would not be a cloud in our Industrial skies, and the country's transportation system could be developed in equal step with Its marvelous production. Unless this is done, however, and especially If the next Congress indulges in much demagogical threatenings, the- processes of business in the next two years will almost fcurely be in the nature of recession, or at least drawing in of resources, rather than of progression. Confidence is the keynote of credit and credit is the keystone of prosperity. Kansas City Journal. Cont Reduced by Protection. The tariff on plate glass has at least Dot prevented the reduction in price of hat article from $2..V) per square foot n 1870 to 30 and 35 ."ents per foot at the present time. Bjt the tariff on plate glass has permitted the develop ment of a very valuable Amcric&n industry, and the existence of this industry has had more to do with lowerng the cost of all plate glass to Aniercan consumers than any other factor n connection with that reduction!. Princlpally owing to the difference in wages paid, the cost of producing plate glass In this country Is very much .greater than in France or Germany or else where In Europe. These facts are respectfully referred to those jwrsons In the Fifth Congressional District of this State who for local reasons are asking for a revision of the tariff in behalf of plate glass. The protective tariff. has been a good friend to the American consumers of plate glass. Houghton Gazette. Those Unclfth Sllllera. Now look for the millers to agitate again for the removal of the tariff on the Importation of wheat. Just because our wheat producers have had unusual troubles with nature this spring. This is an outrage on farming Interests. Farmers are as much entitled to pro tection against foreign competition as are any other producers, and the tariff on grain is the principal protective tar iff affecting agriculture. Already thj South Dakota and Southwestern Minnesota Millers Club has resolved that the tariff on Canadian wheat (20c a bushel) should be removed. Northwestern Agriculturist. Really Worth Reading. At certain times in the year, and particularly a month or two before the Christmas holidays, new books come Into newspaper offices for review faster than any one man can possibly read and review them with Justice either to himself or the book. lie glinces through them hastily, unless they ar. by noted authors, gets a salieat point her and there and "writes them up" as best he can. Then he forgets all about them. "A friend came to me one day and expressed his gratification at the way I had written up a new novel by a comparatively unkno vn author,' said the literary editor of a Chicago paper. " 'You expressed my idea of it exact ly, he said. 'It Is one of the remarkable books of the year. The plot U absolutely unique, the treatment of It is bold and original and the dialogue crisp and delightful. It will make a great hit " 'Well,' I said, 'if it is as good as all that I'll read.it" Youtb's Companion. All Scrapper. Callahan Oi want to git a book to put t photographs av all me relatives in. Oi tiiink this wan will do. Clerk Rut that isn't a family album, sir; that is a scrapbook. Callahan Oh, that's all right, young man; all av me relatives are scrappers. Puck. Rather i?atlve. Father Well, Tommy, what did you learn at school to-day? Tommy I learned that two negatives are equivalent to an affirmative. Father And what's an affirmative? Tommy I don't know. We haven't got that far along jet. Chicago News. In the city 14,000 microbes are Inhaled hoarly; in the country only 1,500. The railway fares of Hungary average bus a third of a cettt a mile.

OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS

2TTL1T., A REMARKABLE

AI. IIKXKY DWIGIIT ClIAPIN gives some

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absorbingly interesting facts about milk, the article of d;et -with which everyone Is so familiar, "and about which so little Is generally known." To quote one passage: "Milk, as Is leaves the cow's udder, contains bacteria. If the cow is dirty or there

is loose hay around, dust from the cow's body and the bay settles In the milk pail, and this dust is swarming (with bacteria. As soon as they reach the v. arm milk they commence to multiply, and in a few hours they may have increased until there are millions to the.teaspoonful of milk. It Is thesa bacteria that causes milk to sour, but most of them are not only harmless but positively beneficial. According to Professor Conn, half a teaspoonful of cream which was sour enough to be churned for buttermaking contained 1.000,000,000 bacteria. If bacteria were as harmful as some Imagine, no one would be alive, for w-ho has not drunk buttermilk or eaten cottage cheese made from sour milk which contains so many bacteria that few could grasp the numbers contained In a pint Of it? "The bacteria are plants belonging to the same class as yeast and mushrooms. No one is afraid to use yeast In bread-making, or to eat mushrooms, so no one should be afraid to drink milk simply because it contains similar vegetable forms. Sometimes ioIsoiious bacteria get into milk, but the cases of poisoning resulting are, comparatively speaking, rare, and no one need give up drinking milk on this account" North American Review.

BUSINESS EDUCATION.

,N no other field has education in the United

States made such marked advance within the last few years as in the direction of commercial knowledge and training. The last two decades were notable for progress In technical and mechanical education. They

were the era of the chemist, the electrician

and the civil and mechanical engineer. The era of the man of business has begun. Commercial schools and business colleges formerly contented themselves with teaching arithmetic, bookkeeping, banking, typewriting, stenography and commercial law. They have been obliged greatly to broaden their scope. In the larger cities the free commercial high schools, the evening schools and the Young Men's Christian Associations, most of which maintain educational departments, find themselves compelled, In deference to popular demand, to establish classes In advertising, salesmanship, real estate. Investments and other subjects which reflect the prevalent -Interest in business. Some of the colleges maintain postgraduate courses for the study of International traüe In Its broadest aspects, as well as in detail. In business life itself a change has been going on not unlike that which has taken place In agriculture a movement toward Intensive and systematic cultivation of sieclal fields. This has been fostered by, and In turn has fostered, the Invention of countless ingenious "systems" and appliances for filing correspondence, keeping accounts,

There are Innumerable stories of Revolutionary days In Charleston. South Carolina. The old ladies used to tell with glee how, when the British were supposed to be out of the way, the 3'oung fellows would come home to dance with them. A message would go to the nearest cousins and friends, and a supper be cooked. It might be only rice and bacon, but It was good to hungry men, declares Charleston's historian. Mrs. Ravenal. The dance and the feast would continue until the stars grew pale. Often these merrymakings were disturbed by the enemy; but there was always a negro or two on the watch, ind the harsh note of the screech-owl &r the cry of the whippo.irwill would rive the alarm. Then "partings In hot haste," a rush for the horses, a sharp leufBe, a hot pursuit, and perhaps a prisoner taken. The young men had odd adventures. One young fellow betrayed himself by als appetite. He was pursued and had taken shelter at Mrs. Motte's place, on South Santee. She rolled him up in a carpet, and pushing It against the wall, told him to keep quiet until the enemy had gone and she could release him. Unluckily, he heard through the open window his hostess giving directions to the cook about the chickens which ivere to be dressed for the t dragons' Unner. He could not bear to be left ut,. and thrust his head from the carpet cbr sails, and cried out, "Keep the Kiblets for me!" The soldiers heard, and he waa at Bce caught and carried off. to repent it leisure of his Indiscretion. LONG TRIP BY ALASKA WOMAN. Urs. Gtlrojr Ends 20,000-MlIe Journey from Almakn to Wnlrs. By her remarkable experience concluded by a 375-mile drive in a cutter from Valdez to Fairbanks, Mrs. (Illroy, l pioneer woman of the north, has in die past winter achieved a record for rravel that few women have equaled, lays the Seattle Times. She arrived a Fairbanks, meeting her husband, ivho had been looking after their interests on Little El Dorado Creek la ler absence. Going to Seattle and on !ier return trip she was accompanied by Willie, Ler 16-year-oId-son, Having made a success of her mercantile business on Fairbanks Creek, Urs. Gilroy last fall decided to visit Sier aged father in their old home at Slassford, North Wales. Accompanied y her son, she made the trip to Seattle iy way of St Michael. At Seattle the loy was put Into school and she continued her long journey over the continent and across the Atlantic slope. After a long visit with her relatives md considerable travel through Great Britain, Mrs. Gilroy returned to Seattle ind again Joined by her son started back north. Instead of taking the itage at Valdz she ventured forth in i conveyance of her own. The cutter was not large enough to iccommodate all the baggage, but with the ingenuity characteristic of Alaska Fomen, she soon overcame this. Tin? baggage was lashed on n double-enJer, ind the cutter was then coupled on behind. This plan worked successfully, lesplte the fact that some of the heaviest weather of the season and worst Srifts were encountered. A Grammarian. That horse thief over there Is a rreat stickler for correct English." "He Is?" "Tes. He always finds fault with the Judge's sentences." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Succeeded. "She married him to reform him." "Did she succeed?" "Sure! He used to be a spendthrift and now he has nothing to spend." Houston Post

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plans for English . preference for colonial goods. This, proposal Is for an independent service between England and Australia and New Zealand via Canada. The scheme is chiefly the work of Lord Strathcona and the Honorable Clifford Siftou, and contemplates a highway of .empire which would make Canada a halfway house between the motherland and her principal colonies, excepting South Africa. As outlined In the. proIusals submitted lu the last stages of the conference by Premier Lauiier, with the concurrence of the governments of Australia and Xew Zealand, it Is proposed to establish v.ith adequate state aid'a fast service between English po-ts and Canada by means of three twenty-flve-knot steamers, which will bring England within four diys of Halifax an 1 eight days of Vancouver. From the latter port an elghteen-kr.ot service Is to be established to Australia and New Zealand, and also to China and Japan. The project will involve, it is estimated, a state subsidy cf one million pounds sterling annually for ten years. The Outlook.

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MARK TWAIN'S LATEST PHOTOGRAPH. TAKEN IN ENGLAND. Here is exactly how Mark Twain, America's greatest humorist, looks today In his seventy-second year. This photograph was taken in England after his arrival there on his recent Joky, king-entertaintng visit The hair is three-score-and-twelve, the face 50, the eyes CO, and the spirit, as we all know, boyish.

THE FIRST IUEGLARY. v Ilotrr a Klua- of Eierpt, the Rockefeller of Ills Time, Was Robbed. Robberies of treasure reach back Into antiquity, nd the latest achievement of the twentieth century cracksman is paralleled In the time of the Paraohs. Erer since civilization has been and wealth measured In precious dollars. Jewels, and metals, man's cupidity has been aroused and thieves striven to gain ease and luxury by stealing the treasure of others. The first burglary of treasury vaults so far as known to history occurred when Rhampslnitus was King of Egypt. He possessed so much mo ley that none of the Kings reigning .ifter him In Egypt were able to rival lira In riches. He was the Rockefeller of his time! Thinking to have his treasure safely kept he had constructed the best burglar-proof vault that the builders of that day knew how to make a solid chamber of stone. The builder fitted one of the stones so that It might be easily removed by two men, or by one exceptionally strong. Atter the completion of this chamber the king laid his treasures In It, thinking them safe from designing hands. But when the builder carae to die he called his two sons and directed them how they might get the king's riches. After his death the sons went to the palace, quickly removed the stone In the wall, and almost depleted the , king's vessels of their money and treasure. When the kirvs opened the vault ho found It nearly empty; yet the seals on the i entrance door were unbroken and the chamber apparently swure. He determined to set a trap. He sealed It as before. Again and again he broke the seals, each time finding the precious treasure diminished; end then he had traps put about the treasure receptacles. One day the trap caught its victim, and, the man being unable to free himself, he ordered his brother to cut off and carry away his head, that both should not be ruined by the disaster. This was done by one .stroke of the other's sword. The next Jay the king came and found the headless body of a man In the trap, while the chamber was still

ascertaining costs and attracting customers. It Is easiet to study business now than ever before, because business Is more nearly reduced to a science. The new education has one great attraction : It fits the young man quickly for a "Job," and helps him to get It. This in itself Is good. The only danger Is that the "job" may come to look like the end to be attained rather than the means oy which to attain It The end Is not making a living, but living. One must know business to succeed In It, but one must also know something more than business to make a real success of life. Youth's Companion.

A HIGHWAY OF EMPIRE. VXADA naturally was disappointed in the outcome of the recent Imperial Conference of Colonial Premiers in London, but she has already found in a proposal made in the closing days of the conference partial consolation for the failure of her cherished

SANITATION OP SMALL TOWNS.

much of the reduction In the death.

rate of large cities in recent years, but very little about the improvements of the health of small towns. It Is well known that all ; the infectious diseases claim many less victims in city life than they did twenty-five years ago, and the reason for it Is not far

to seek. Cities established departments of health, gave to them ample powers, and then Insisted on their being effective if their appropriations were to be fcontlnued. The consequence ha been that not only has much suffering been spared, but thousands ua3 even hundreds of thousands of people are now alive who, in the words of one prominent sanitarian, have no business being alive they would have been dead If the death rate that prevailed twenty years ago still obtained. Had they died their death would have been considered as from the hand of God. We know that their living is the result of the taking of some very simple measures for the prevention of disease. The Independent.

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apparently without means of exit. Much mystified, he iiad the headlesa body suspended from a gallows in full view of the populace, thinking that possibly the dead man's relatives would betray themselves by their agitation at the spectacle. Then a new difficulty arose for the remaining son. His mother commanded him to cut down the body ani bring It to her, else Fhe would expose him to the king. After a little time he succeeded in giving the king's sentries "knock-out drops," and took his brother's corpse to his mother. The king was angrier than ever, not only because of the theft of his treasure, but because of the disappea ranee of the body of one of the villains. Then his daughter was set to catch the thief. She was to seize him by the arm, yelling furiously when he should reveal himself. The young man heard of the plot, however, and circumvented it He took -with him an arm cut from the corpse, and when she seized blm he placed It In her hand and escaped. This last Incident made the king think some. He wisely concluded that a clever thief like this would be a better ally than an enemy. So he Issued a proclamation, offering the robber pardon and his daughter for a wife if he would reveal himself. This offer was shortly after accepted and the robber became the king's son. Such Is the story of the first known burglary of history. Cincinnati Enquirer. How Clouds and Fogs Differ. Clouds are bodies of moisture evaporated from the earth and again partially condensed In the upper regions of the air. Fogs differ from clouds only In one resiect they come in contact with the surface of the earth while clouds are elevated above our heads. When the surface of the earth Is w.mier than the lower air the vapor rf the earth, being eondensed by the el'Ul iilr, becomes mist or fog. lint when the lower air Is warmer than the earth the vajwr rises through the air and becomes cloud. Fog and mist differ In this respect that mist is a fine rain, wlilie fog Is vapor not sufficiently condensed to allow of Its precipitation In drops. ....

SOLDIERS' STORIES.

ENTERTAINING REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR. Graphic Account of Stirring Scenes Witnessed on tbe Battlefield and in Camp Veteran of the Rebellion Recite Experiences of Thrilling Nature. Frank L. Stanton, the popular Georgia poet always speaks up for General Sherman when he hears any severe Criticism o'f that famous commander's methods. The story told bv Stanton has nover found Its way Into print, but it de serves a place among the minor incidents and reminiscences of the war period. "When Savannah fell," said Stanton, "I was a little chap about 8 years old.The confusion and tumult in the streets frightened me, and I was afraid to go very far from the house. "Young as L was, I understood that something very serious had occurred. Instead of seeing Confederate soldiers parading the streets with a few Federal prisoners, I saw thousands of Federals swarming through the town, and they had a great many Confederates under guard. "The situation had been reversed; that was plain, even to a child. "My father was very ill, in the last stages of consumption, and my mother was worn out with anxiety and the cares of tbe household. Our neighbors were panic-stricken and everybody semed to be expecting some awful calamity. "Penned up there as we had been for a long time, without supplies and without any money except worthless Confederate currency, the outlook was gloomy enough. How was niy m sick father to pet the things he needed? That was the problem with my mother. "Somebody told General Sherman about my father, and mentioned the fact that he was a kinsman of a very distinguished and powerful officer on the Union side. "One day when I entered my father's room I found three Federal officers Bittingthere In , pleasant conversation with the invalid and my mother. "I was scared and started to run, but one of the strangers, a middle-aged man with a roughly trimmet! brown beard, called me back. He asked my name, and before I knew It had me on his knee, and he said so many nice things to me that I took quite a fancy to him. "He was General Sherman, and ho had called with two of his staff officers to see my father. When the visitors left the general told my mother at' the door that he knew all about the Incon veniences of a siege, and the difficulty of purchasing supplies, und Insisted unon sending from the army stores something that would sv'.t a sick man. "Under the circumstances such an offer could not be declined. It was a picnic for the children of the family, 1 can tell you. "After that while the general was In the city, something was sent to the house every day. D randy, wine, loaf sugar, lemons, beef, chickens, coffee, vegetables, and I don't know what else, came In generous quantities. We had a plenty for the family and for our nearest neighbors. "Xor was that all. The general sent one of the best physicians in the hospital service, and the last days of my father were made far more "comfortable than we "had hoped for under the adverse conditions of those dark days. "General Sherman came to the house once more before he left Savannah. I cannot remember what he said, but he was sympathetic, and he said something about the pleasure It gave him to aid a relative of his distinguished friend at Washington. "At that time I was very fond of a showy uniform, and It vexed my childish mind to see my friend the general always dressed so shabbily. ' Ills staff officers presented a better appearance, and some of them were really gorgeous in their spectacular rig. "The other boys and the negroes agreed with me that the commander must be in very hard luck, or he would certainly dress better. Still, I was then convinced that he was a wonderfully wise man. With my pockets full of his loaf sugar, which I had surreptitiously abstracted from the pantry, I would have been ungrateful if I had formed any other opinion. "Sherman left the city and marched onward through the Carolinas, and that ended the war. . "No, I never saw him again. My father died, and I lived In different places; my work keeping me so busy that I bad no time to think of the general or anybody else not connected with my immediate business. I wish now that I had seen him before he passed away. As It is, I can only recall him as he appeared to my boyish and wondering eyes, under circumstances which did not give me an opportunity to study him. XO matter what may be said of his conduct In war, I cannot help liking him. He was a -?od friend Just when we most needed one." Chicago Herald. A Pathetic War Letter. Of all relics of the Civil War the ones which most toudh me are the faded, yellow letters from soldiers at the front or In hospitals, and those other Utters from home to the soldiers, showing the marks and creases caused by being carried long in pocket and knapsack, until by some chance they drifted i back home again across the lines of faction and war. One of the most pathetic and yet nobly strong letter I remember to have read. Is one from Mrs. Wallace, widow of the gallant Gen. William II. L. Wallace, who met death at Shlloh, after helping Prentiss to hold the center all of that terrible first day, when the whole Union army was erurupled up and crowded almost Into the Tennessee River, only escaping by holding Pittsburg Landing until morning came, with Puell's advance on the field, and the dispirited troops of the day before ready for a new trial before the grim gods of war. Mrs. Wallace, worried and anxious at home, had started to visit her husband in the camp at Shlloh, and she arrived at Pittsburg Landing on the steamer Minnehaha before daylight Sunday norning, April b 1802. The letter I am describing was written by Mrs. Wallace some ten days after the battle .to a near relation. She describes her arrival the visit was to be .a complete surprise to her husband and she remained on board of the river steamer, after Mending word to him that she was there, and as she awaited him, as the sun rose over the spring landscape, she heard firing, but thought nothing of it there, near the great war camp, where thousands

of men wew lelng drilled and trained

In the uses of T.-ar. 1 Before very long she saw wounded soldiers being brought on board of her f teamer, and then came more and more, bleeding and panic-stricken, and they all told the same story of the early morning attack and the driving In of the outer lines, and occupation by the enemy, of the outer camps. Her husband, she was told, was on the field. In the very center of the- rag ing battle. Vainly she tried to get an other message to him. He was in the "Hornets' Nest," where no one could penetrate. Before noon 'the boat was (Towded with wounded, and Mrs. Wal lace tried to comfort and assuage their sufferings. In the afternoon the Minnehaha was used to ferry over Nelson's regiments, the advance of Buell's reinforcements. At last, when the boat landed on the rittsburg side, a message was brought to the anxious woman. Wallace's division, they told her, had been falling back, Wallace leading 'It, just having been flanked by the enemy. Just clear of the "Hornets' Nest," and as his command came Into the road to the Landing, the general had been shot and had fallen from his horse and ieft for dead. One of his soldiers, an orderly, "one who loved him," had carried the body more than a quarter of a mile, and then to avoid death and capture, had to lay him down out of the way of tramping feet, and leave him. All night Mrs. Wallace nursed the wounded on the steamer, and at 1C o'clock Monday morning word came to her that the general was still breathing, and that he was to be brought to her. Her dead iwas alive, and she rejoiced. She wa? allowed to take her husband to Savannah, a few miles away, on the river, and to nurse him for four days, before he breathed .his last Gratefully she tells In her letter ol the comfort It was to both that they could have these last days together. The general could not speak, but he showed to the last minute that he knew his wife, and by the faint pre sure of his hand that she held told him much it was to him to have her ty his side. Such Is the story told by the faded letter; to read it brings home to the heart and Imagination what the men and women of the country suffered and endured, more than a generation ago, that the Union might live. Reverently I refer to' this "old letter from one of the women If Illinois. The survivors cf ShPoh will hear of It with irournful Interest, I am sure. Ada C. Sweet in Chicago Journal. Llueol- at City Point. It was- generally believed that Gen. Grant was not particularly desirous .of Mr. Lincoln's presence at City Point, and It was. In fact, a somewhat embarrassing factor during those trying day. However that may hare been, GenGrant iiever for a moment manifested any impatience, but gave to the President every possible consideration due to his exalted position. That morning was passed at (Jen. Grant's headquarters on the bluff. His lo cabin was roomy, with one large room used as a meeting place and office. The tents of his staff were grouped atout it. Here, on tills and several otner occasions when I was present, would meet the general officers of divisions, Adilral Porter, staff officers. Senators, Congressmen and other visitors. There was no formality. The news of the day was discussed, and dispatches were read or referred to in the general con versation. All peemed confident that Petersburg must 3oon fall, and with It Richmond. Sherman would be coming up victoriously from the south an J uniting with Grant's army. The end of the rebellion was near. In the discussion that forenoon Gen. Grant took little part, listening In grim silence, .or only answering direct questions from Mr. Lincoln in short monosyllable utterances. The President and Admiral Porter took the main parts In conversation. Each related several anecdotes apropos of the discussion, those told by Mr. Lincoln being always very pertinent or illustrative. He seemed In very good spirits, and at his best when relating some of the war anecdotes that reached him In Washington. Admiral Portertold an old sea story, which navy men knew by heart, at which, I remember, Mr. Lincoln laughed heartily, and said, "Admiral, I like your sea stories; I never heard them before," and running his hands with an upward movement through his rumpled hair, his eyes glistening, his face expressing In every feature the keenest enjoyment he would ßtretch himself out and look at the listeners In turn, as though for sympathy and appreciation. Gen. Grant did not have much. If any, hu mor, or was too mueh oppressed witi his responsibilities; he smoked stead ily, and rarely did he even by the grimmest smile recognize the jlnts of the anecdotes. When I first met Mr. Lincoln I was singularly drawn to him, and brief as had been our Intercourse, It was at such meetings and In the privacy of his own family, to which he admitted me, that I came to feel an affection for him that none other has ever lusplred. Familiar as all are with his features through photographs, jwrtralts, statues and engravings, none do justice to him or enn represent the kindliest of the ex presslon which ever betrayed the sweet and gentle mind and heart of this na ture's nobleman. Appleton's Magazine. Lincoln Cn Word." On one occasion, Lincoln, when en terlng the telegraph office, was heard to remark to Secretary Sewarv "By Jlngs, governor, we are here at last!" Turning to him, in a reproving man ner, Mr. Seward said: "Mr. President, where did you learn that Inelegant ex presslon?" Without replying to the Secretary, Lincoln addressed the oper ators, saying: "Young gentlemen, excuse me for swearing liefore you. 'By jlngs' is swearing, for my good old mother taught me that anything that hail a 'by before it was swearing." Th only time, however, that Lincoln was ever heard really to swear was on the occasion of his receiving a telegram from Burnside, who had Ioen ordered a week before to go to the relief of Kosocrans, at Chattanooga, who was In great danger of an attack from IJrapg. On that day Burnside telegraphed from Jonesboro, farther away from Koso crans than he was when he received the order to hurry toward him. When Humside's telegram was placed In Lin coin's hands he said: "Damn Jonesboro." He then telegraphed Burnside as follows : "September 21, 1SC3. "If you are to do any good to Rosecrans It will not do to waste time at Jonesboro. , A LINCOLN' Century.

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