Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 45, Plymouth, Marshall County, 15 August 1907 — Page 6

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Truti In Great Britain. Inte!! ist we of a most terrifying and astounding character comes from Ensland. John Hull is not given to sensation, but in this respect he seems to hare cutdone some of his much-derided trade competitors. The news is that there is about to te organized in Great Britain a mammoth steel trust, composed of nine large fii-ms and boast im a capitalization of $1.10,000.000. Tin avowed intention of the merger, it Is declared, is to fight German and American comietition, which is Increasing year by j-ear. The largest company in the merger has already absorbed thirty-six Independent connis, and the deal, when put through, will control, it Is estimated, fully 00 per cent of the steel produced In Great Britain. While the details of the combination are not yet completed. It is Usely that It will be based upon the principle of the German trust, involving the regulation f prices, adjustment of the output to the demand and equal distribution of e-rders. Now, all this would be alarming in protection America, where the people are chained to the chariot wheels of the trusts and are rapidly being reduced to serfdom, but in free trade Great Britain, where competition Is supposed to be as unrestrained as the air, it becomes positively horrifying. Certain azniable gentlemen, In campaigns past, have taught us to believe that so long as our Industries and labor are protected by tariff duties on foreign imports, just so long will we remain under the domination of the trusts and monopolies. "Reiuove or reduce the tariff," they have cried, "and competition will take the place f monopoly." Xow ccnues word of the formation of a monstrous trust In steel by capitalists of a country which Is not cursed by a tariff, but where every inanmust, by nature of that country's conomic system, be able to buy and ell in the open market. What does this mean? Aha, we have It! It Is another diabolical conspiracy on the part of the American Protective Tariff League, headed by Wilbur F. Wakeman, arch conspirator, the dark and Moody .purpose of which Is to mislead and confu.sr a trusting public and draw attention away fnxn the mi might deeds of the League and Its emissaries. This is the only rational explanation f an outrage so iniruitous as this. Des Moines Capital. Hare Pursaed m Practical Coarse. The fact remains that tt Republlean party la the only one which has shown any ability to solve the problem of tariff legislation in harmony with the industrial growth of the country. The Democrats have tried upon several occasions to reach a solution, but their failure is easily accounted for by the fact that, as President Harrlman said, they are "students of maxima rather than of markets." Tariff reform cannot be successfully achieved in a student's closet It Is not the doctrinaire teacher of political economy in colleges or essay writer who Is to blaze the way of revision along lines that will berieflt Instead of ttarcn our Industries. Before a solution of the right kind can be obtained the ltislness c H-n must be consulted, and whenever they are brought Into the discussion the Democrats are compelled to retire. The success of the Republicans in dealing with these matters is due to the fi'ft that they have pursued a practlal course. They have consulted the fpreat commercial and manufacturing Interests, and thereby they have promoted the welfare of the whole country. Denver Republican. What Canned the Hard Timen. The Lewlston Sun solemnly declares that It was not the tariff but currency that "caused the hard times of 1S9.T." The year 1803. was a period of apprehension and consequent depression among business mn who were not disposed to take chances In the face of the declared Intentions of a new Democratic administration controlling both branches of Congress, and outspoken In Its hostility to the long established IoIiey of protection. Panic conditions, however, and universal hard times did not "Cime until the latter part of 1S04, following the passage of the Infamous free trade Wilson bill, which closed our m'dls and factories all over the land by puttting theaa ln'f competition with the mills of Europe operated by cheaf) labor. These- hard times continued, getting worse and worse, until after the, passage of tlie Dingley law July 2i, 1900. since when the country lias enjoyed an era of uninterrupted fcnd unexampled prosperity. Augusta Jofrrnal. Where? If the German agreement does not promote undervaluatlm and fraud, then the German negotiators belong In an Institution for the feeble-minded. If the agreement does promote underTaluation raid fraud, -where do the American negotiators belong? Simply Couldn't Suppose It. ; Scottish folk art proverbially canny and prudent In money matters, and the following shows that the younger generation Is no exception to the rule. A teacher in a lowland school was taking mental arithmetic with a class f boyä. She asked one urchin: "How much would your mother give jou to buy four pounds of tea at one and six a pound?" MWe na'er get sae much at once as that, mum." "Never mind that. Fore pounds at one and six?" "But we anna afford the one and eix. mum. We always ihae the one and twa." "Answer the question. What would she give you to pay for four pounds of tea at" "Nawthln, mum." "What do you mean by 'nothing? " "She'd na gie me only havlees. She'd tell me tae ask the mon tae pit It doon." "Oh, dear! Oh, dear! But, supposing he did?" With a pitying smile came the reply, "A can see y're ne'er met ma mither, juam." Philadelphia Public Ixnlger. Hadn't Reached That Stage. Miss Gushli g So you are an author? Mr. Wright Ye-es. . Miss Gushing Oh, how delightful It mast be to earn cue's living by wleldjlng the pen. Mr. Wright Ye-es, I always Imaglloed It would be.

Sttll riaylnc Pnlltlr. The fourth trial of (Jaleb Powers In Kentucky ended before it fairly began, the Judge vacating the bench following the charge of prejudice, and as the attorneys could not agree on a judge the trial must await the appointment of a new judge by Governor Beckham, whose party in all the trials for the assassination of fioe'iel has schemed entirely for political effect. Democratic politicians have avoided the identification of the assassin or assassins in order to smirch the Republican State otRcials who were driven from ofFn-o after that event, and who would have been expelled anyway under the workings of the Goebel election law that reduced returns to a sure thing for the Democratic ring manipulators. Recently they lost 2.0fi0 offices in Louisville and Jefferson County on account of similar frauds on the ballot, the State courts deciding that they vitiated the election. Powers, the State attorney general, has been in jail seven years. Taylor, the Governor, has leen a resident of Indiana for the same period. Indiana's governors have refused to comply with the demand that he be returned to Kentucky on the ground, which is self-evident, that he could not get a fair trial there. The- Supreme Court of the United States denied Powers a hearing asked, but remarked in its decision that "the trials of the accused make an exhibition of misi-onduct on the part of administrative officers connected with these trials which may well shock all who love justice and recognize the right of every human being accused of crime to be tried according to law." What are called the assassination trials in Kentucky have been merely a venomous political pursuit of Republican State officials and an attempted arraignment for murder of the whole Republican party of Kentucky. But for this Democratic policy the assassin of Goebel would have been singled out and punished long ago. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

The Crop frr 1007. Translated Into terms which ' the wayfaring man understands, the government's report of crop acreage and condition, which has Just been made, means this: The aggregate yield of wheat, winter and spring, will be about 034,000,000 bushels, as compared with 7..000,000 for 1!. Corn will furnish us with 2,51)0,000,000 bushels this year, as against 2.D27.0ÜO.OOO last year. There will be 073,000,000 bushels of oats, while IDOtf gave us 0d4.000.000. and barley will furnish us lti.3,000,000 bushels, as against 173.000,000 last year. This is the outlook for 1907, as figured from the code published by the Department of Agriculture at Wash1 igton. . Therefore, there is a falling off in i II the Important cereal crops except vats, which will show a slight increase. It is altogether possible that the present forecast may be different from what the actual harvest , will show. Changes may occur between now and the gathering of the crops which will make the present estimates too high or too low. Guesses about the corn crop which are made at the opening of July are especially liable to diverge from the aggregate revealed at the general round-up of the reapers In October. The weather of the next two or three months may plan fantastic tricks with the estimates of Secretary Wilson's experts. There are chances, however, that the harvest will b better than the present outlook; and these give the country some hope. . In case the present forecast turns j out to be correct, the wheat crop of 1007 will be below those of 1S08, 1901 and every year since then except 1904. The corn yield will exceed any previous crop except for 1905 and 1900. Oats will beat all the records except for 1002, and larley will break all the records save that of llXXJ. The situation at the end of th harvest will, consequently, be better than was foreshadowed a month ago. As the general average of prices Is somewliat higher than It was last year at this time, the grain growers are likely to lose little In the aggregate, but the consumer will be compelled to pay somewhat more for his food. On th4 whole, the outlook Is favorable for the continuation of the country's prosperity, for a large part of th.? good times still depends on the record which the farms make. Wonld Be Suicidal. To build a new tariff law would be the most difficult task the next Con gress could isslbly undertake. It would invite the opposition of every section of the country- New England wants certain schedules lowered, while the West wants the same schedules left as they are. The South ar.d West will naturally want other schedules lowered to which the E;Tst will strenu ously object. It Is obvious, therefore, that no general revision can be had without a long struggle and only after a multitude of compromises, the result of which no one can foretell. Why, then, should the party enter upon a proceeding of so doubtful propriety. when there Is no general demand for It? When business conditions warrant a change of certain schedules there will be no objection to chansing them, but, until that time arrives. It would be suicidal for Republicans to rush headlong into a laborious and prolonged effort to do something for which there Is no demand. St Joseph (Mo.) Gazette. Can Cut Oar Dutlen In Two. If all the German exporters can arrange to do their own valuing at our custom houses they can not only secure a reduction In duty amountmg to 20 per tent, but they cau cut our ad valorem duties In two by merely cutting In two th actual value of their Eoods. Not only can the German exj)orters do this, but all Earopean exIorters can do It, for, of course, it Is our punose to n.ply the ev customs regulation to l:niorts from all favored nations. If this is the situation which actually confronts our customs department it is quite In order to suggest that CVmsrress shall take some action to prevent such wholesale nullification of the tariff duties enumerated In the Dingley law. Sioux City Journal. Seizin; an Ojior nnltrEmployer You wish to lie married next Friday, da you. Thomas? Haven't you some misgivings about marrying on Friday? Assistant Bookkeeper No, sir; the only thing that troubles me Is that I'm marrying on $15 a week. Improvements made surgery have been the means of reducing the mortality of amputation operations to 0 per cent. The Mohaininedj ns of the world are estimated at 200,000,000.

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OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS

THE END OF THE LOTTERY.

EATII-beds are not usually places for rejoicing, nor it Is often that the old rule about speaking noting but good of the dead

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United States District Court for the fcoutnern District of Alabama gave a fitting oppor

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rules. It was the death-bed of the old Louisiana Lottery, and the decfdent Is believed to have left no lulrs, few mourners, ard a memory that it is most charitable to forget. The end came through the acceptance of . a plea of guilty offered by thirty-seven defendants, from several different States, to the charge of conspiring to cause the Interstate carriage of lottery advertising. This is the culmination of a legal fight which the government has carried on for forty years, and a moral fight which the American people have carried on for a much longer time. The mails were closed to lotteries In 1SGG. The companies turned at once to transportation by express, and it wa3 not until 1S95 that a law was 6ecured which forbade Interstate transportation of lottery tickets or advertisements. This drove the Louisiana company from the United States to Honduras, and caused a chaDge in its name. The constitutionality of the law was at once attacked, and was fought through the courts until 1003, when the Supreme Court decided against the lottery company. Since then the business of distributing tickets and advertisements has been by messenger, but agents of the governmert were able to present so strong a case of conspiracy to use the express companies, too, that the recent conviction resulted. The lottery, then, Is dead. Let us hope that it will stay dead. It was conceived in the falsehood that a few should profit at the expense of the many. It robbed the widow and the orphan, and fattened on the workman's slender wages. It bred falsa hopes, broke down self-reliance and steadiness, of character, and furnished a convenient cloak for dishonesty. Youth's Companion.

ADVISING THE GRADUATES.

HE baccalaureate addresses to college crad-

& "V I nates were attuced to one key that the II I ff 1 .iftXAtl IL . . t

young men going iorin to oauie in me worm should find It Imperative to take part In and elevate the standards of political life. There Is too much laxity In cilice-holding ; there is some dishonesty, and there Is too

much Indifference among the people. From these causes scandals arise which are a reproach to our system of government, and which are costly to those levied upou for Its support. ' The youths who have devoted four years to acquiring a classical education have by this very training fitted themselves to became leaders In the parties to which they elect themselves. They can be of marked service In making these agencies serve the people what they

"Cheer up," advised the goodnatured man. "You look as If you didn't havo a dollar or a friend on earth. What's the matter with you?" "Oh, nothing much," replied the lugubrious Individual. "I've got a little neuralgia that's kept me In agony for the last few days and it's just coming on again. That's all." "Well, well." said the good-natured man, sympathetically. "Too bad! Intermittent, eh? It's a good thing It Isn't troubling you all the time. That would be even worse, en? Lucky it Isn't toothache, too. I generally find that neuralgia yields to treatment, but there's no cure for toothache. Don't encourage It by looking dismal, anyway. It may pass off. I thought when I saw you that something bad been going wrong with your business,' . "Something's been going wrong with It for a time," said the lugubrious Individual- "It's going to the dickens. Where we sold a carload abort ten years ago we aren't selling a couple of crates today." MYou save on freight then, don't you?" said the good-natured man, Jocularly. "I guess you're? making !t out a little worse ihan it Is. But you know what goes up comes down and you may be doing business on a carload basis again in a month or two." "There wouldn't be much in it If we were," said the lugubrious Indi vidual. "Competition's too keen. It's cutthroat, by Jinks! But we've got to meet It If we don't make expenses. Talk about competition being the life of business! It's going to be the death of mine." "Anybody In your line's doing mighty well If he does pay expenses," said the good-natured man. "I know two or three aren't doing that and Wicks has gone Into the hands of a receiver. Ilow'd you like that? I guess you'd have some excuse for kicking If you had got into that shape. Brace up, old man. Sell your crates and be thankful. How's your family?" "Wife's sick," replied the lugubrious Individual. She's been threatened with nervous prostration for the last year and she's killing herself now nursing our little girl through the whooping cough." "There's scarlet fever In our neighborhood," said the good-natured man. "You're fortunate that the little ine hasn't got that. Yes, sir. I met our doctor this morning and he told me of three eases he had. That's a bad thing, scarlet fever. Whooping cough isn't pleasant, I know, but It's something all children have some time." "And our cook has left right in the middle of It," said the lugubrious individual. "Didn't give us a word 'of warning. Packed her trunk and then came down stairs with her hat and Jacket on ami said that her family wanted her back and would we please pay her wages and let the expressman take her baggage when ho called." "We had a girl played us. a wor.?e trick than that," said the good-natured man. "Then don't tell me about it," trapped the lugubrious Individual. "I don't want to hear It." "I didn't mean to be unsympathetic," said the good-natured man. "I was only trying to fhow you that things might be a great deal worse." "But you don't seem to realize that they might be a darned sight letter," , said the lugubrious Individual. "That's

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SAFETY HE has what makes me sore." Chicago Dally News. BRIDE IN A QUANDARY. Problem In Wedding: Preaenta that The Jeweler Couldn't Solve. "We have some funny experience in June right when the weddings are the thickest," remarked a Jeweler to a Cleveland Plalndealer man, "but I never had anything quite like that one nothing exactly like It," as he Jerked his head In the direction of an alarmeyed little woman who had Just flitted out the front door. "She came In with four packages, one large salad fork, cut-glass bowl, soup ladle and silver bread boat, for me to Identify. Of course, she could tell , where they were bought by ' the boxes. She said she had got-all mixed up on who gave them to her lost their cards, or something and unless I could remember who bought them she would be up against It wouldn't know who to thank for the things. "It happened that I knw the woman who bought the salad fork and I remembered selling the bread boat to a man whose name I didn't know. I gave her a description of him and after a while she gurgled: Oh, yes, I know now So that fixed two of them for her. The clerks that sold the other two things couldn't remember them and she'll Just have to write to the, most likely people and thank them, without mentioning Just what for. I've had people come in to Inquire the price of things, but that s the first request for identification of that sort." EECEETS OF SAVAGES. Some Thing Tht Balk the Ingennltr of Civilised Man. The head was no bigger than an orange, the black, bearded head, perfectly preserved, of a man of forty or so. "The Dyaka alone,' 'said the ethnologist, "have the secret of taking an iidult human head and reducing it, like this, to less than half Its size. Their houses are ornamented profusely with these reduced heads of enemies slain lu battle. No one knows how the reduction is accomplished. It is a marvelous secret that the Dyaks refuse to give up. "Savages, degraded as they are best tie us, iossess a number of marvelous and unfathomable secrets. One I the making of fire, by the rubbing of dry twigs. Only a savage can do that. "Another Is the construction of fishskin suits. The natives of the Siberian coast make suits of fishskln that are softer, finer and far more waterproof than any fabric known to us. What could be so waterproof as fishskln? "A third Ik the secret of arrested life. There are aborigines in India who can die temporarily, can be burled a week or more and on being dug up come to life again. "Tle lest blankets, the best baskets, the best canoes and the best dyes .re all made by savages." New Orleans Ti mes-Democrat. Blunt Dr. Doueal. Dr. Dougal, of Keith, who was made an honorary member of the Aberdeen Society In 171)3, had a reputation for bluntness. A talkative woman went to him one day and said to him : "'Doctor, what Is the matter with my tongue?" "Just needln' a rest," he replied, shortly.. On another day a patient went to him and complained: "I have a deal to suffer with my eyes, doctor," whereupon he answered : "Better suffer with them than without."

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were called Into being for instead of being perverted t base ends to become the tool of selfish politicians in advancing personal interests and thereby preying upon the people. The university or college graduate knows that honesty In politics Is quite as necessary as In the other walks of life. The dead-beat Is here as he Is in trade. To get a living without paying for it, which means possessing a sinecure, Is the role of the worthless hanger-on In politics. His presence is proof that graft holds a strong hand In the game and that the taxpayers are being fleeced by dishonest guardians of the public funds. To drive out these cormorants ought to appeal to the well-educated man leaving his books to make a record before men. By voice and pen ,he can aid In the overthrow of conscienceless officials. It Is a nut?? work to engage in. To do good in the community ought to- be the aim of every man and woman. In the sterner field of politics there Is need for all the watchfulness and energy possible to prevent Incompetent and dlshouest . office-holding. After finding a place In the community where he can be assured of an honorable living, the next step In the career -of the educated man Is to dedicate himself to the -cause of the people and see to it that, as far as his influence extends, the taxpayers are not imposed upon by oflicials intent solely upon their own enrichment. Utica Globe.

IN RAILWAY TRAVEL. National Union of -Railway Trackmen filed conmlalnts hpfort thf r.niltwul mm.

jl I missioners of various States in regard to

uüiiöauus i-vuuiuoiis lue iracKmen sometimes contend with. This ouestion has recently become more urgent on account of the serious Increase in railroad fatalities.

In the last three months of 1900 there were In the United States, according to reports published by the Interstate Commission, 1,730 derailments, with a list of 140 persons killed and 1.517 injured. Recently the average of derailments and casualties has been far be3'ond the forn er figures. In four years, the derailments and tragic Use have grown beyond the expansion of railroad systems and the population. Proportionately, there are more accidents and greater resulting damage to life and property. It is represented by the trackmen that In some cases , the rails and roadbeds are defective, and that the force maintained to watch and repair them 13 Insufficient They state that more rails are broken on account of improper support by ties than by faulty manufacture In the steel mills. It Is further claimed that the patrol of tracks by day and night is not enforced as thoroughly as in former years, and that government or State Inspection of tracks has become a necessity. As the trackmen are In close touch with roadbeds physically, their statement, It may be assumed, will be carefuly weighed by railroad officials, who desire, as much as any class, that tracks, and all branches of the service, shall be safe and efficient. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

USES OF EEDWOOD. California Com at Product a Strong; Competitor of Cyprem. In scorching for a substitute for ordinary voods employed In construction work, the supply of many of which Is rapidly decreasing, it has been found that the coast redwood forests of California offer a product which can be put to excellent commercial use. California redwood is durable and its fine working qualities make it a strong competitor of cypress, and also adaptable to many of the uses to which white and yellow pine are put. Redwood as sold on the market may be the product either of the giant .sequoias or "big trees," the commercial utilization of which has called forth great protest, or of the coast redwood. Cutting the big trees would mean the speedy extinction of this unique and wonderful species, which Is found only In Isolated groves and which reproduces only with difficulty, says the Boston Transcript. The coast redwood Is much more plentiful, and reproduces abundantly, so that It Is a good tree for the forester to utilize for successive timber crops. It Is likely that the lumber trade will encourage the use of redwood more and more In the future, as comparatively little practical use has been made of the producta of these extensive forests of California up to the present time. The use. of redwood Is now about 1 per 'cent of the total consumption of lumber. It is estimated that the forests of California have about 75,000,000,000 feet of standing redwood timber' and the wise use of these products by conservative lumbering will In a "degree make up for the greatly lessened supply of other useful woods. The Redwood Association has recently requested tho forest service of the United States Department of Agriculture to make a complete study of the physical and mechanical properties of redwood lumber in order to obtain reliable information concerning its properties. The forest service has decided to comply with this request and will conduct a series of experiments in cooperation with the University of California at the testing laboratory at Berkeley. Redwood timber for a long time has had extensive use In California, but not until recently has entered the eastern markets. Its use In the east, thus far, has been for shingles, finishing, flooring, siding and laths. It Is probable that In the near future Its usefulness as a structural material will extend because of the rising price of the commoner eastern woods, and because of Its durability and strength In comparison with Its weight. Its fire-resisting quality is another argument for its use which has caused It to find favor In the west. Citizens of San Francisco have always held that the fire risk in that city was less than in other cities, with an equal number of wooden structures, because of this quality of redwood. The Hygiene of Underwear. The average person wearing two sets ! of underclothing a week, says the Youth's Companion, will make the change In the middle of the week, but It would be far better if the two sets were kept going the entire week on alternate days. With the bi-weekly change, the clothes worn during the day are aired only for seven or eight hours in the twenty-four and never have the purifying process of a sunning. With two sets going on alternate days, one set can be aired two nights and one day, and, If possible, should be hung up where they can receive the direct rays of the sun for some Jiours. They should not be kept In a dark closet. A Woman Furniture 3Iover. At Ilanwell, Kngland, lives a woman furniture mover. She lias printed on her vans the following appeal to the public: "Don't worry get married and keep on moving." Indianapolis News. Don't be stingy with kind words; they are worth a lot more than they cost . ,

THE FIELD OF BATTLE

INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES OF THE WAR. The Veterans of the Rebellion Tell of Whistling Ballets, Bright Bayonet, Bursting Bombs, Bloody Battles, . Camp Fire, Festive Bnga, Etc., Etc .D. L. Ambrose, a lieutenant in Company II, Seventh Illinois Infantry, now of Canton, III., was in the battle of Alia toona Pass. Besides giving interesting points on that contest he has something interesting to say about the famous "Hold the fort" dispatch sent from Kenesa w to General Corse. Like everyone I have ever heard speak of It, Mr. Ambrose Is strongly opposed to shattering that particular idol, and yet he says that "Hold the fort, for I am coming," were not the exact words used by General Sherman. He says: "The exact words were 'Hold Allatoona and I will assist you.' This has substantially the same meaning as 'Hold the fort, for I am coming,' though It Is not s poetical, not as tuneful. As stated by Colonel Watrous, the dispatch was not signaled early in the morning ; It came through the smoke and flame that enveloped the hill between 1 and 2 o'clock, about the time that General Corse was wounded. Not long after Its receipt, as If to repeat General Sherman's order, Corse, who was prostrated by 'his wounds, every now and then would lift his head, stained with blood, and cry out, frantically: 'Hold Allatoona! Hold Allatoona!'" .That reminds me of the story recently told In the Times-Herald, In which General Iiragg, while wounded on the field, rose on his elbow as his brigadie commander came along and In a dazed condition cried out: "They are flanking the brigade and charging the battery!" For some time after he was wounded General Corse was so stunned that he seemed to be out of his mind. It was while In this condition that he frequently lifted his head and cried out, "Hold Allatoona ! Hold Allatoona!" Though half crazed by his hurts he remembered his orders and 1 realized the disaster a defeat meant. Mr. Ambrose says that the communication which General Sherniau had with Allatoona Pass early In the morning had no connection whatever with the famous "Hold the fort, for I am coming" dispatch. "The signal which General Sherman received from Allatoona the morning of the 4th, and of which he spoke when he said to his stafiT officers: "Gentlemen, we are all right. Corse has reached there and the rebels are unable to take the place,' was received before the battle commenced, before General Sherman knew that 0,000 of the enemy were to storm the pass defended by 1,500. He knew that 'there would be a terrible battle, but he was confident tha the outcome would be favorable. He knew General Corse and the troops under his command knew the men of Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin. He knew that our regiment, the Seventh Illinois, had armed themselves at their own expense, with slxteen-shooters. Knowing Corse and the men under him and about the slxteen-shooters enabled him to say, 'Gentlemen, we are all right. The Rebels are4 unable to take the pass. "It was in the midst of the great battle," says Ambrose, "when lead, shot, shell and canister were pouring In upon us as If driven by a mighty tornado, taat Sherman's other dispatch came: Hold Allatoona and I will assist you, or, as the genius with a pen said, and Bald to the delight, and profit of the world, 'Hold the fort, for I am coming. Without the promised assistance, without Sherman's coming, Allatoona wes held and a great victory was won; 1,000 men, nearly half of whose number had been killed or wounded, held at bay 0,000 picked veterans of the South. General Sherman, In speaking of the battle, said: 'For the number of troops engaged the battle of Allatoonx Pass was the most hotly contested ever fought on the American continent.' " W. G. Whitefield, first sergeant of Company D, Thirty-fifth Alabama, Scott's brigade, Loring's division, Stewart's corps, of the army of the Tennessee, C. S. A., writing from Paducah, Ky., talks on the same subject Ills regiment was between Kenesaw Mountain and Allatoona Pass, and there was with that part of the Confederate army a signal officer who had discovered the key to the union signals and read the dispatches that were sent from Allatoona to Kenesaw and from Kenesaw to Allatoona. Between 10 and 11 the Confederates saw the message from Allatoona to General Sherman : "We hold out General Corse here. Tourtelotte, lieutenant colonel commanding." Later another dispatch was sent: "We still hold out. . General Corse is wounded." One of the dispatches sent from Kenesaw t Allatoona Pass was: "Tell Allatoona to hold on ; General Sherman is working hard for you." Whitefield agrees with Lieutenant Ambrose as to the language of the dispatch General Sherman sent to General Corse which was converted Into "Hold the fort, for I am coming." In the language of General Dlx, let us all say, "If any man attempts to pull down 'Hold the fort, for I am coming, shoot him on the spot" There Is much else of interest in the letter of my Confederate comrade. One thing that catches my attention and tickles my fancy appears at the beginning of the letter. "Please regard me as one of the truest Americans now on top of the earth. We are all Americans and can safely defy any set of men of whate. nationality to put a foot on our gr::L--. If the President were to call men to defend the country there would be raised In Paducah and the country close to it, In a few days, 5,000 soldiers, mostly Confederate veterans and their sons, and no soldiers would fight better for our flag, the stars and stripes." That has the true ring to it. Continuing, he says: "I was in a fighting regiment from 1SG1. I was at Shiloh, Corinth, liaton Rouge, Port Hudson, Champion Hill, Yicksburg, Jackson, lüg Black, and on the eGorgla campaign as far as Peach Tree Creek, where, July 20, 1SÖ4, I got mixed up with the Twenty-third Xew York and some other New York and Pennsylvania regiments and passed throtigh them and got Bundy's battery. I didn't carry It off, for they shot me as I started to pass between the guns. I returned, however, in time for the evacuation of Atlanta ; w-Mit with General Hood to Decatur, Columbia, Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville; then south to Bentonvllle, where we ran up against Sherman's army again and hung around it until they gave us per-

I mission to return to the United State?

government I expect to s-: another Grand Army encampment dovn South. 1)3 not let your people get the notion that we cannot give them proper care when they come. Didn't we receive you with open arms and extend hospitality to you those four years of war? We are better prepared now, and want to see you, besides. Keep hammering and the boys of the two old armies will meet together, fraternize and hold their national gatherings in each other's sections. It will be good for both." Men in both armies who saw such service as Whitefield did discovered long ago that the war Is over.' J. A. Watrous ia Chicago. Times-Herald. Opponent' Tribute to Grant. Lieutenant General Lougstreet, the famous Confederate leader, a few years ago was the orator at a celebration in Boston of the birthday anniversary oi General Grant. He said in part: "Of all the Union commanders he was the great leader, who accurately surveyed the great field of war, the elements of strength and points of error, and considered the vast mea'is so necessary to solve the problem. He realized the importance of covering the granaries of the South, and applied his early energies and talents to holding Kentucky and Tennessee, moving swiftly to the "capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. "The soldier had the comprehensive mind of the statesman. He knew that the South had neglected factories and only applied its energies and labor to Improve agriculture ; and hMit his mind and power to the same blockade of our seaboard cities. "I knew Grant as a cadet, and from loyhood to Mount McGregor, served in the Fourth United States Regiment of Infantry with him on his entrance Into active army life, and we were together in Worth's division of Scott's army in Mexico, where he was known and esteemed as one of its most gallant and promising young lieutenants. He was on the staff of General Garland, my father-in-law. Our first meeting in combat during the internecine war was in the Wilderness May C, 1SG4, where I received his mark that must go with me to the resurrection morn, but our personal feelings and relations were never changed. The first notice we had of him In the late war was his affair at Belmont In the autumn of 1801, when I remarked of him that he was the man of the North, who, If he came to be known, was most likely to conquer, and to-day, I may say, that no one but the subtle Lincoln could have found him. . "If he could have been In Chicago n May of last year and witnessed the unveiling of a monument over the dead Confederate prisoners of war and could have been with us at the dedication of the national park at Chickamauga In September last to witness the assembling of the blue and the gray in cordial, fraternal greetings, he could have known that his prophecy of pea.e was not a delusive hope, but a happy fruition, mirrored In the expressions of all his countrymen. God grant the peace prayed for In his generous heart may spread her gentle wings to rest lightly upon bis happily united countrymen, and may their devout supplications ascend like Incense for peace for the faithful soul departed! Alleluia I" The Little Bronte Button. George F. Stone, the scholarly secretary of the Chicago Board of Trade, Is a. man with a deep-seated kve of country In his composition. He is a steadfast admirer of the boys In blue, and lnthls wise discourses of the little bronze button worn by the veteraa : "I have heard that our lord's Prayer has bene inscribed on a dls.? the size of a dime, but on the Grand Army button Is recorded in Ineffaceable and living characters the (history of Grant and Sherman and Lincoln, of Sheridan and Thomas and Logan, of Custer and Meade, of Farragut and Porter. The hstory of the campaign of the Army of the Potomac, of the Cumberland and of the West of the march to the sea, of Shiloh. of VIcksburg. of Forts Henly and Donelson, of Atlanta, of the Wilderness, of Winchester, of Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, of sieges and battles and skirmish lines, of days of daring and nights of waking, of weary marches by day and by night. In cold and storm and heat of partings of lovers and maidens, of farewells of husbands and wives, of prayers and blessings from fireside and camp, ascending high as a divine Incense of agony and death in prison and hosptal, of great captains and heroic toldlers, of valor on sea and on land, of the proclamatioii of Abraham Lincoln, giving freedom to 4,000,000 of a persecuted race and wiping forever from the national escutcheon human slavery, of Gettysburg and Appomattox, of the downfall of the Relellion, wicked as hell Itself, of the reunited country and of the perpetuity of the Unon; with Its countless and unspeakable and eternal blessings a, priceless gift from the Great Dispenser of good things unto men. This record shall never fade away; it sha'.l grow brighter as the years go by, scattering sparks of Inspiration among the generatons as they come and go! And when time shall be no more when nil things transitory shall have passed away when all the sounds of earth have been stISed, in commemoration of American patriotism and the undying fame of the American soldier!" Worth Knowing-. The average weight of a full-grown elephant Is 0,000 pounds. Paris derives a huge revenue from the sale of dolls' dresses. Thfe tide of emigration In England has turned from South Africa to Canada. At last accounts the total number of women In this country over the age of 10 were 23,483,559. Three-quarters of the Englishman's bread comes from abroo'!, and also two-flfths of his meat. The Austrian salt mine at Wieliczka has COO miles of galleries and 9,000 miners. It has been worked for six centuries. The Korean government has decided to grant the right to work gold mines to citizens of England, Germany, France, the United States and Italy. Visiting cards of Iron are popular on the continent of Europe, the name being printed in sliver. The thickness of the cards Is one four-hundredth cf an Inch. Deer are relatively numerous In various parts t Japan, and In such show places aä Maru and MlyaJIma are held as sacred, becoming so tame as to eat from the hands o? visitors. They are generally smaller Ia size than the American deer.

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Pattern Department UP-TO-DATE DESIGNS F0H THE HOME DRESSMAKER V V Dalntr School Frork. An ever-present problem with mothers Is how to keep the small daughters prettily and Iecomingly dressed every day. Materials need not be expensive, nor designs elaborate, for the simplest dressed children often look the best. The desired effect, then, must be gained through design and coloring Here is a charming little French, frock that Illustrates this beautifully. The material is an Inexpensive cashmere in a soft shade of red a bit of plaited silk filling in the square cut yoke. The jlouse and sfeirt are both box-plaited, sj TATTERX NO. 1752. Joined by a, stitched band of the same material that does not break tha lines, the plaits being seemingly continued from blouse to skirt in an unbroken line. The three-quarter length sleeves are finished with frills of lace. The above pattern will be mailed to your address, on receipt of 10 cents. Send all orders to the Pattern Department of this paier. Be sure to give loth the number and size of pattern wanted, and write very plainly. For convenience, write your order on the following coupon: Order Coupon. Xo. 1752. SIZE NAME ADDRESS Chle Summer Bleue X great many summer waists are made with yokes that give a chemisette ?fiect, yet that are all In one. Here Is a simple example that Is made of white longee with .'ace and pretty banding. The yoke and cuffs are oddly shaped, so giving an air of Individuality to the blouse. The cut is simple in the extreme and the making means very little labor. Washable materials are suitable, and when made from lawn, either linen or cotton, or any similar material, the waist can le combined with some pretty skirt to make a most satPATTERN NO. 1S50. isfactory tub gown. The blouse itself Is prettily tucked and Joined to the lower edge of the yoke. If the fulness of the waist Is held in place by taie run through a casing at the waist line It can be laundered with very little trouble indeed. The above pattern will be mailed to your address on receipt of 10 cents. Send all orders to the Pattern Department of this paper. Be sure to give lH)th the number and size of pattern wanted, and write very plainly. For convenience, write your order on the following coupon: Order Coupcru Xo. 1S50. SIZE NAME ADDRESS rnfamlltar Facta. The word "banquet" formerly meant dessert Bean cake Is the chief commercial fertilizer in China. -' California oranges are now sold extensively In London. Pottery is the oldest and most widely known of the human arts. The motto, ."In God We Trust," was not placed on American coins until 1SC3. The Irish lansu.ise is now being taught in 3,00 schools In Irvland. The Duchess of Newcastle Is a great driver, angler, shot and Judge of dogs. Glasgow, Scotland, spends on drink $1;.COO,000 a year, an average of $21.25 a head. Mosquitoes are found in mines 1,200 and even 1,000 feet below the earth's surface. In Iceland horses are :$& with sheep's horn; In the Soudan a kind of fock made of camel's skin is used for the purpose. The central markets of Paris use more than 00,000 worth of baskets every year. A large percentage of the people iu Brazil go barefoot except on Sundays and holidays. The dryest spot In the world Is Death Valley, with less than five Inches of rain annually. Grand Duke ConstaiUlne of Russia Is said to be the most cultured Romanoff new living. Famlna prevails aruong the natives of Germaa East Africa; many of them live like cuttle, on leaves and rooti

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