Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 21, Plymouth, Marshall County, 27 February 1908 — Page 6

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Not far from the little town of Sharpi-burg, (n tlie summit of a slope t whose base the Potomac flows, ptands tbe old Maryland manor of the Douglas family. In that fateful year. 18G2, the two son of the proprietor were In the Confederate army "Uebs" of a pronounced type both. One served ia the cavalry; the other, Henry, then about twenty, formed olo of "Stonewall" Jackson's staff. We all know that after the fearful butchery of Antietam was over fearful because so useless, lec:iuse so wanting in result MeCIellan remained inactive during the whole of PepL IS, facing Loe's army, with more fresh troops under him than the whole rebel army amounted to. On the night of the, IStli-lOth Lee forded the Potomac without molestation and marched his weary troops hack Into Virginia. Jackfun went with him and, cf course. Col. I'otiglas alo. Lee remainrd near the ford for some time, little fearing the Federal army, to give the much-needed rest to his men. i Douglas determined to get at least a look at lih; home before the army moved southward.; so one day he rode, attended by a single orderly only, to the high ground opposite the old homestead. He was so near that he could see his father walking in the garden, but between the river and the house was scattered a force of about 50 cavalrymen, "Boys In Blue," guarding the ferry that, ia peaceful times, carried the farmer over to old "Virginny." But the temptation was stronger than tb cavalrymen, and down the hill strode Douglas until he stood at the edfce of the river. Ills uniform soon attracted the soldiers, and one of them called across to know what be wanted. That's my home up there, and I just came to take a last look at it." "Come across," cried the sergeant In rommand; "you needn't be afraid." But Douglas sense of military dutv prevail 1, and he hesitated. The ferryboat was, of course, on their side; bo one of the blue coats said, "We'll go over and get you.". The sergeant formed c part of the crew; on landing he said to Douglas: Tod want to see your father and mother again, do you?" "Of course I do." replied Douglas. "That's all right," added the soldier, Til give you my word of honor you shan't be tagen prisoner. I'm in command over there." "Why, where are all your officers?" asked Douglass In surprise. "Oh, they're up at Sharpsburg having a big dinner; it's not likely any of them will be about for a long time yet." It was too late to retreat, had he wished to, and Douglas saw no reason to doubt tie sincerity of his companions. Oa ihe way across the sergeant said : "The folks here told me okt Mr. Douglas had two sons with you fellows. One's In the cavalry and the other's on Stonewall Jackson's staff. I guess you're that one, ain't you?" Douglas acknowledged the correctness of hl3 surmise. The other members of the First New York cavalry, for that It turned out to tie, had gathered at the landing, and gave an amused greeting to the young "Reb." "Now you go right up to the house and see your folks," said the sergeant. "I guess no good cause could be hurt by a fellow going to see his father and mother." But Douglas hesitated at tempting lrovidence too far, and replied, "I think I had better not go up. Won't you send a man there and let my people know I am here?" Til do that" the serpen nr sifd "and I'll put a man on guard to warn you If any officer comes." The "lieb" and his Yankee entertainers chatted pleasantly enough until Mr. nd Mrs. Douglas apieared; then the soldiers, those deadly enemies of but ft yesterday's war, hardened and cruel In the crimson hour of battle, silently rose, one after another, and walked away, out of sight, out of hearing. When Douglas had said his last goodby, he called the sergeant and thanked him warmly for his unusual kindness, but the soldier only laughed, and said that It was nothing. Douglas took a piece of paper out of Ms note book, wrote a few words on It, and, handing It to the sergeant, said : "If ever you are captured by Gen. Jackson, jou got that paper to him or one of his staff aud I promise that yon will be liberated Inside of twen-ty-Your hours, for I shall tell them bow yon have treated me as soon as I get back." "Say, Colonel," remarked one of the po!d!ers, "write me the same kind of a paper, too." Douglas laughed, and soon each man bad an accident policy against the dreaded "Stonewall" Jackson. After Bhaklcg hands with his host, Douglas was ferried across again, and as he etepped ashore the "Yanks" gave the plucky young 'Reb" a hearty cheer that was heard by the old couple In the manor" hous-j and recognized as a signal, that all was well with !heir boy. The soldiers then strolled up to the bousi and asked Mr. Douglas to show them a photograph of her son. She banded them one in civil dress, but that was not what they wanted. "Why, madam," said one, "don't be afraid of us; you saw how we treated him." Then trusting them perfectly, she brought out from its hiding place her treasure- her boy In full uniform. The rough troopers passed It from hand to bard, delighted, and after a good look, returned It to the mother. When the affair was reported to the officer commanding the cavalry he laughed and remarked that, having gone this far. It would be better to finish the matter properly. So, calling on Mr. Douglas, he told him that a guard of six men would be placed In the house for bis protection, and would, while there, be absolutely under his orders, so that he was protected from friend and foe. The young aid-de-camp rode back to Jackson's headquarters and found the general standing in front of his tent. "WP-ere have you been off to?" was the fii.-st greeting. Douglas had noth

ing for It but to report his whole Adventure. The general was very angry, aud burst out : "IK you mean to say that you went into the enemy's lines? Why. you would have been hanged as a spy if they had 'caught you." "I was in full uniform. General, and told them my rank and who I was." "I never heard of such a thing." said Jackson, growing still more a.gry. "No ofiicer of mine has a right t run sih-h a risk." Douglas looked .at him a moment, aud then demurely remarked: "If (Jenoral Jackson had been that near his home, I wouldn't have trusted him for a moment, for he would have done just the same thing." The great warrior for once was beaten. He hesitated, laughed, turned on his heel and walked back into his tent. None of the gallant First New York cavalry was captured by Jacksou's ir en . IIa gers town ( 1 1 obe.

Indiana Dny n War Hero. Employed in the medical division of the United States pension office in Washington, Is a husky young man who was the youngest regularly enlisted and mustered soldier in the Union army during the civil war, writes Oilson Gardner, in the Indianapolis Sun. He Is Abram F. Springsteen, of Indianapolis, Ind. Bum in Brooklyn, X. Y.. July 5, 1S."0, young Springsteen was taken when a baby to Indianapolis. He early showed unusual talents at making a noise with a stick. His beat upon tin pins, wash boilers and other household utensils until at the age of C, be was an accota plished drummer and It was the custom of Lis parents and neighbors to exhibit him as an infant phenomenon at church entertainments and Fourth of July celeb rat 'ons. Tho first call for troops after the war was declared was la April, lSol. In May, 1SG1. Springsteen was a boy of 11 and full of enthusiasm to go soldiering. He accordingly ran away from school and-hired out to a recruiting officer In Indianapolis, where ho was employed to ninke a noise la front of the recruiting oifice and attract the farmers vhen they came In from the country. His parents dragged him home once or twice, but in October, IS'51, he ran away again, and was mustered in as private In Company A, Thirty-Fifth Indiana Volunteers, being then 11 years and 2 months old. lie served until Dec. 23, lStJl, when his parents, learning that the regiment was ordered to the front, kidnaped him and took him home and locked him up. ' He ran away repeatedly, but was always caught and brought back. Finally, when, he was 12 -years and 21 days old, his elders gave In and he went to war. He served until July 2, 1S0T, when his regiment was discharged at Greensboro, Ind., and oa July 22 he was mustered out and presented with a war drum by his company. This drum is among his prized possessions. At the battle of Reseda, Ga., Springsteen was ordered oa the field by Gen. Manson, but boylike, he hung around and when a few moments later the general was knocked from his horse by a shell Springsteen was the first to reach his side. On one occasion the officer In command made use of the boy to carry cn Important message to a skirmish line, which was holding a dangerous advance position. The boy was told to crawl on his hands and knees through the cotton stalks until the enemy noticed him and fired on him, when he was to get up and make a run for the rifle pits. He was quickly discovered, but half a dozen balls sped over his head and hp made the run in safety and delivered the dispatches. On the night of Nov. 29, 1SG4, the night before the battle of Franklin, Tenn., he was captured at Spring II ill, fifteen miles away, but half an hour later he slipped his guards, minus his hat, drum and knapsack, and at 5 o'clock in the morning was back in camp. How Clem Entered tbe Ileitalar Army An Interesting story is told of the way that John iu Clem, the famous "Drummer Boy of Shiloh," and now assistant quartermaster general, got Into the regular army. In the early days of Gen. Grant's first term as President, Clem, without aid, secured an audience. The President said: "What can I do for you?" Clem said: "Mr. President, I wish to ask you for an order to admit me to West Point." "But why," said the President, "do you rot take the examinations?" "I did, Mr. President, but I failed to pass." "That was unfortunate," said the President; "how was that?" "Why. Mr. lresident, you see, I was in the war, and while I .was there these other boys of my age were In school." "What!" said the President, amazed, "you were In the war?" (Clem was then scarcely 18, and boyish looking.) "Yes, Mr. President; I was in the war four years," and he related his experience. The President then wrote something, sealed It, and, handing It to Clem, said, "Take this to the Secretary of War; I guess it will fix you all right." Clem went to the Secretary, to whom ho had already applied, and was received somewhat coldly. He delivered the note. The Secretary read it and said, "Do you know what this Is?" "No," said Clem; "but I supposed It was an order to admit me to West Point." "Well, It Isn't," said the Secretary; "it's an order to commissloa you second lieutenant in the regular army." Grant, the Unassuming;. Grant and Sherman were the only officers of high rank I ever met who did not charge the atmosphere about them with military consequence. While at City Point I frequently Joined my friends of (Jeuerai Grant's staff. Porter, Babcock, Billy Dunn and others, at his headquarters. The general, In undress uniform, always neat, but not fastidious in appointment, would sit at the door of his tent or sometimes on one of the long settees that faced each other under the tent fly, smoke, Msten and sometimes talk, and not a soul of us from the youngest to the oldest ever had a thought of rank. Without lowering his manner to the level of familiarity, he put ever one at his ease by his natural simplicity. He had none of tbe caprices of moods or vanity. Quiet in his presence and natural in his manner, gentle In voice, of absolute purity In speech, of unaffected, simple dignity, Grant threw a charm over his campfire. West Point never graduated a man who added so little austerity or pretense to the peak of fame. General Morris Schaff, In Atlantic. The coal consumption per head is greater In England than any other country.

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I Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.

THE EBBDIG TIDE. UCII has been written about the enormous number of immigrants who sought the hospitable shores of the United States in 1907. Much less has been made of the number of aliens who returned to their native land, yet this is in many respects the more interesting fact of the two. During last year

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more than half a million returned to Europe from United States and Canadian ports; and in tue last ten years the number reaches the astonishing total of two and a half millions, or nearly one-third as many as the number of immigrants in the same time. Much has been discovered by the national commission appointed last year, even during its one year of service, as to the influence of this returning tide on European life. Nearly all of it Is of a sort to stir the hearts of Americans with sympathy and pride. Not only have families been raised to a higher plane of comfort by the labor of certain members in the great "land of promise," but whole villages have felt the impetus and enjoyed the benefits. The United states is thus becoming a world power In a new sense, and a loader among nations by ways which involve no military oppression and no diploma tie selfishness. No man need grudge to the returning immigrant the money he carries w ith him as something lost to the United States. It has been earned, in most cases doubly earned, by the hardest kind of labor, of which this country has had the benefit. The more becoming attitude is that of the man toward the garment which had served him for fifteen years. Well," he said, as he finally relinquished It to the ragman, "it doesn't owe me anything for board." Youth's Companion.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.

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can icvple If the courts here were to close their doors occasionally and shut out the public when gross details of Immoral relations or of crime are required to elucidate the issues involved in celebrated cases! As long as the doors remain open publicity is

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The better class of newspapers prune and

trim down their reports a? far as they can, and even yet there will remain at times a residue which offends the finer sensibilities. The less considerate press treats Its readers to the full dish of nauseating stuff. Meanwhile the courtroom is packed with a morbid crowd of sensation seekers, gloating over the spectacle of shamed womanhood or wretched manhood and carrying away the most demoralizing Impressions to be scattered broadcast by word of mouth. Washington (D. C.) Star.

IXTEItNATIOXAL KAMTAL

LAIN people sigh when they read of a new Intematioml marriage between an American heiress and a European of title. What the title may be. or what they may happen to know about the contracting parties, signifies little. They distrust these marriages and are apt. when they hear of a new one.

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to think that another American girl is about to make a bad bargain. We must remember, however, that the International alliances that turn out disastrously aud end in the divorce court are those that make the most noise, and also that our own divorce courts at home aro kept pretty busy

The roar of a lion, hunting, U a never-to-be-forgotten sound, declares Miss Agnes Herbert in 'Two Dianas in Somaliland." She describes hearing the lions, following them up through lo Jungle, and the nearly fatal results to herself In their capture. In one tense second I realized that I had seen two monstrous moving beasts, yellowish and majestic. They were very close, and moved at a slow pace from the bush ahead Into a patch of still thicker cover to the left. 1 remember that though the great moment for which we had planne! and longed and striven was really at hand, all my excitement left me, and there was nothing but a cold, tingling sensation running about my veins. The Jungle cover parted, and with lithe, stretched shoulders a lioness shook herself half-free of the density, then crouched low again. Down, until onlj the flat of her skull showed, and her small twitching ears. In one moment more she would be on us. Sighting as low as I could on that balf-arc or yellow I pulled the trigger, and Cecily's rifle cracked simultaneously. The head of the lioness pressed lower, and nothing showed above the ridge of grass and thorn. . The lioness must be dead. And yet, could one kill to great a foe so quickly? Then I did an Inanely stupid thing. It -vas my first lion-hunt, and my Ignorance and enthusiasm carried me away. I ran forward to investigate, with my rifle at the trail. I had forgotten that the bush contained another enemy. A snarling road, and almost before I could do anything but bring up my rifle and fire without the sights, a lloa broke from the side of the brake. My nerves seemed to relax, and I tried to hurl myself to one side. There was no power of hurling left in me, and I simply fell sideways, and that saved me. For the great cat had not bargained for a victim slightly to the right or left. III? weight fell on my legs merely, and his claws stuck in. IJefore he had time to turn and rend me, almost Instantaneously my cousin Bred. The top of the lion's head was blown to smithereens, and tbe heavy body sank. The whole world seemed to me to be bounded north, south, east and n est by Hon. The men pulled the heavy carcass away. I sat up, feeling Indescribably shaky. I don't remember anything ele until I found myself In my tent, with ny cousin rendering "first aid." Unconacloo Irony. A New England man says that one night last winter when the thermometer f4I below zero his wife expressed her concern for the new Swedish maid who had an unheated room. "Eliza," said she to the girl, remembering the good old custom of her youth, "as It is bitterly cold to-clght, you'd better take a flatlron to bed with you." "Yes, m'm," said Eliza, In mild and expressionless assent. In tbe mortilng the girl was asked bow she passed the night. With a sigh, the replied; "Wall, m'm, I gat the irron most farm before morning." Harper's Weekly. Iolltenes nnl Chllvary. '08 Who's that awful old frump over there? '09 That, sir, is my mother. 08 Er ah oh, yes urn. Well ahem you Just ought to see mine! Harvard Lampoon,

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MOUHNEES ON SKATES; STRANGE FUNERAL CORTEGE.

Among the Wends, a remnant of the ancient Slavonic race inhabiting the Spreewald, a region enclosed by nn arm of the Spree about fifty miles south of IJerlln, Germany, all the traffic is carried oh waterways. In winter funeral processions pass along ihe Ice. The coffin Is carried on a sledge, and is drawn by six mourners, who wear long black streamers on their hats. The whole company goes on skates, and the women wear the ancient uatioual costume.

THE CHORUS GERL. Her I.lfe ft Hard One bat She IIa the SInnnera of a "Grande Dame.' There are lots of chorus girls, says Rose Stahl, struggling,' plucky, spunky, straight and good-hearted. They ae funny, but they are pathetic, too, and they have a hard life. I studied the chorus "lady" on and off the stage for years. It's a sight for the gods and humorists to see her at a lunch counter on the road. She falls off the train and rushes into the station to get a sandwich and a glass of milk, or a doughnut and a piece of pie. She gives her orders as King Richard might call for hi'j horses, or Cleopatra her barge, and heaven help the poor attendants if they do not fly to do her biddings. She is disdainful of her food and scathing In her comments on the service. She pays her check with the air of an injured queen and stalks out, leaving the lunchroom menials under the Impression that they have failed to please Mme. Duse or Sarah Bernhardt. Then she goes back to the train and will sit up half the night sewing frills on her costumes, to make a brave showing on the opening night In the next town, and then, after a night of work, she trudges out of the station in ihe chilly dawn to search for a cheap lodging. These girls have a long Idle summer to get through on their savings of the winter, and many of them have . a younger Kister to look after or a mother at home to help, and they manage somehow to do It. And most of them run straight and turn down the Johnnies who think, like the villain In the play, that they can pay for the havoc they cause. Where does the chorus lady come from and what becomes of her? Why not ask, what becomes of the pins? She comes from the country as a rule. The mirror over the washstand in her farmhouse bedroom told her that the country was no place for her, so she packed her carpetbag, bought some high heel shoes and a big hat, and came to town to show it what real youth and beauty are. Dartmouth Tale Ilevlved. A while ago an Item started the rounds of the college papers, beginning, it appeared, with the Dally Iiiini, at the University of Illinois, and working like a soft-nosed bullet both ways through the college publications.

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separating the mismated in whose antipathies race differences have no part. Furthermore, some of our girls who have married titles have accepted with them men of such demonstrated wordlessness that there was no chance of living happily with them. Such women had not sense enough to make good marriages anywhere. Harper's Weekly. ,

THE SEA ON COXCHETE.

HE great ocean railway linking Florida's mainland with Key West and bringing Cuba UK) miles nearer the United States is nearing completion. The undertaking is doubtless the most remarkable piece of railway building now under construction. The distai.ee frcm Miami, the Florida ter

minal, to Key West is 1ÖG miles. Of this distance 101 miles will be constructed on land; counting, of course, the coral formation of the keys as land. The rest of the route, which will connect the string of keys, will be constructed over swamp and water, of which about twenty-five miles may be considered swamp and twentylive miles open water. Oa the entire route fifty keys must be crossed. Some of tLt?e are of considerable size tha is, they have on area of several square luilts, but the larger number can be measured In square yards. The distances npart vary considerably, and the depth of water between varies from a depth of thirty inches to thirty feet, the average being about six and one-half feet. Included in the 150 miles will be six miles of concrete viaduct and some eighty miles of embankment, which rises about thirty one feet above the water, this height being considered ample to protect the track from the action of the storms. Popular Mechanics.

AGRICULTURAL PEOSPERITY. ' lIIF! ttn vear m nrr.snorif v ihnf- IM rmin.

y Jj try has enjeyed since 1S97, and the revoM U tiou which Las been wrought in the agrin nltiivnl fniliictrir lino nlirwvl 4Kn AmaiL

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population of this or no other country has

ever known before. The fixed capital represented in the agricultural industry to-day is approximately $25,XO,0CO,0CO, or more than four times the capital Invested iu all of tho manufacturing Industries In the country. From the pos!tion the American farmer now occupies, no financial disturbances, no business failures In the outside world, no failure of any one or several crops, no hysteria or political agitation, can hope to dislodge him. Van Nordea Magazine.

OF COLLEGE EDUCATION. was the need of a college education all who would engage in professional more widely recognized. There has much running to the mechanical and

&5X3 technical fields of labor, but there has never been a time when a cood old-fash-

education was not the best prenara-

tion for the larger life. The college course should precede the technical and the professional course, and any omission of college work in the hope of a short cut to practical success Is a mistake. In the future professional men must be better equipped than ever before if they expect to hold their own and to rise to distinction. Indianapolis News.

The story was about what was called a recent happening at Dartmouth. It detailed how the tax assessor of the district of Hanover, X. H., decided recently that the students of Dartmouth College ought to pay taxes. Thereupon the students decided that if they could be taxed they also could vote. So at a town meeting the students, who far outnumbered the other residents, united in support of two projects. One was to have erected a shoolhouse 500 feet long and one foot wide, and the other to have laid a boardwalk from Hanover to Lebanon, about five miles away. Immediately thereafter the tax assessor made up his mind that the students need not be taxed. , "Well," said a Dartmouth 03 man, when he was told about the anecdote, "that used to be a favorite story when I was In college. I wonder who started that up again." Disaster Ahead. "In my school days," said a story teller who was trying to Illustrate the absurdity and futility of unfounded fears, "we used to have a lecture every Friday afternoon. One day the lecturer was a geologist, and chose Niagara Falls for his topic. "He told us about the geological formation of the falls, described the different periods to be traced In the gorge, and then went on to say that the falls were slowly wearing back toward Buffalo, and that in the course of some two hundred thousand years they would have worn back to Erie, Pennsylvania, and that town would be left high and dry. "Suddenly one of the girls In my, class began to sob convulsively. "What Is the matter?' asked the teacher, In alarm. "'Ob walled the girl, 'my sister lives In Erie!"' A Diplomat. "So you gave your husband a box of cigars?" Yes," answered young Mrs. Torkins. "Did he appreciate them?" "Indeed he did. He values them so highly that he is smoking a pipe, so as not to use them up too fast." Washington Star. A word that we dislike very much Is that word "natural," when used by women In describing the appearance

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Rrjnn a Money Maker. William Jennings Bryan is a remarkable man. Twice defeated candidate for tho presidency he is to-day the biggest man in the Democratic party and one of the most prominent figures in the public eye. As a rule, a politician and ofliceseeker who never lands soön becomes a back number, and the public has little use for him. Not so with Bryan, lie is a drawing card wherever he goes, in this country or abroad. The people turn out to hear him and pay big money for the privilege, and yet they riddle him and his policies at the ballot box. Mr. IJryan Is one of the few .Americans who has made polities pay without being able to land an official prize. According to the lyceum bureau which manages his lecture tours, Mr. Bryan tilled 175 dates last year and his receipts for the season from this source alone were in excess of $00,000. Considering the size of his audiences and the box otlleo receipts, Bryan is without doubt at the head of the platform speakers of the day. Add to the big income from this source the receipts from his extensive farms and Lis newspaper, and it is nadily understood that Mr. Bryan is eligible to membership In the plutocratic class aud that the wolf will never hang about Lis door. People may not agree with what Mr. Bryan says, and history proves they do not, but if is evident they delight in hearing him. Successive defeats have not put him in the down-and-out class, and these who do not and cannot agree with him are compelled to admire the man who is great enough to turn continued political adversltj- into increasing material prosperity. Toledo Blade. Protection and Export. Ever since the Republican party regained control of the government and passed a protective tariff law our exports of manufactured articles have been growing by leaps and bounds. We were told that the McKinley bill would destroy our foreign trade, that the cost of manufacture here, under our high scale of wages, would be so heavy that competition with foreign factories, with their lower wage scales, would be entirely out of the question. The result, however, has been Just the opposite to what was predicted. Instead of falling off our exports have increased, while wage scales have been going higher and higher and largely increased numbers of American laborers have been finding continual employment in our mills and factories. There is a reason for this, and it is not difficult to find. It lies In the fact that America produces the very best quality of manufactured articles produced anywhere on earth, and the foreigner who wants the best, has become accustomed to demanding the American-made article. The skilled labor employed in our factories excels that of any other country. It Is paid better wages and is of a higher order of intelligence. The natural result follows; the goods produced are of letter quality and are sure to win in the markets of the world. St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette. Let It Alone. It is easy enough to find faults in the tariff. It is probable that no tariff schedule ever enp.tted was quite perfect, and if it were possible to make a perfect tariff in the . beginning it would begin to go bad as soon as it was put in operation. . Probably the worst tariff law ever passed In this country, the one with the greatest inequalities,, the one with the most Instances of injustice, the one moyt painfully devoid of consistency and a uniform plan, was the Wilson law, passed by. the Democratic Congress, which President Cleveland allowed to tecome a law without his signature. When any one brings to the front some fault In a tariff law, he is very far short of demonstrating that a new tariff bill should be enacted The points remain to be considered: First, what is the prospect that a new tariff bilf can be passed which would be better as a whole than the one now in existence? and. second, would the advantage gained by a revision of the tariff schedules be sufficient to compensate for the inevitable loss and disarrangement of business that comes from every tariff change. Trenton Gazette. An Enfourafflng Showing. While but eleven mouths' figures are available, Bradstreet's says that the foreign trade record for tbe year so far exceeds any corresponding period of earlier years as to Justify the statement that the total exports and imports will be far larger than In any preceding year In the history of our commerce. The growth in the export trade has been chiefly in finished produets, manufacturers' materials and manufactures, although the impression probably prevails that any increase has been largely in raw materials, cotton and cereals. The gain in imports of manufactures for further use in manufacturing has also been considerably greater than it should be. But It at least goes to prove that the tariff Is not prohibitive, as we are constantly hearing, and the showing tends to confirm the belief that the time Is not ripe for a protracted period of business depression. Providence Tribune. Good Ulatch. Mrs. Stubbs John, now that I have this beautiful blue hat I would like something to match It when I go out walking. Mr. Stubb Well, wait until the bill comes in, Maria, and then I will go with you. Mrs. Stubb You? Mr. Stubb Yes, I will be blue enough then. Continuous "Good Melif." Eva Pearl has such a bad cough. Edna Yes, that is a "vestibule cough." Eva And what in the world is a vestibule cough? Edna Oh, a cough contracted in a cold vestibule while saying 'good night.' Pearl has a beau now, jou know. A Picture to Admire. Artist What kind of pictures do you admire most? Friend Rare engravings. I particularly admire the landscape on the back of a $100 bill. The total area of Africa is estimated at about 11,500,000 square niile, of which Great Britain owns 2,713,013 square miles.

A Camper on JInsroej. Japan is facing a large assortment of troubles connected with revenues, expenditures and taxation. It is not a rich country. Its population is crowded, and while industrious and intelligent, is accustomed to small wages, and what western countries would consider limited fare. In its great and

remarkable effort tj defend Itself from the advance of Russia from the direction of Siberia, Japan developed the Idea that it would henceforth be one of the leading world-powers. But this role requires much more than a general spirit of courage and national devotion, or a genius for successful Imitation In military ar.d naval affairs. Among the things required are a great deal of money and high credit. These are not among Japan's possessions. Its public revenue is moderate, its taxes are high and increasing, and it finds borrowing difficult even at a comparatively high rate of Interest. Japan has some expensive responsibilities in Korea. Formosa and the Port Arthur region. To engage in a foreign war that could be honorably avoided would In? financially ruinous. A number of newspapers in Europe continue to insist that a war is surely approaching between the United States and Japan. Perhaps tha stock-jobbers are back of this idle clamor, for it is nothing more." What reason is there for such a conflict? The United States will defend its own In" the Pacific, but no country could reasonably object. We shall stand by the open door in the east, but this ttitude is not new, nor has Japan ever questioned it. As to immigration, each country will pursue, under a spirit of general friendliness, such domestic policies as may st-em to be necessary. Xo international custom requires the admittance of unrestricted immigration. Any irruption of foreigners held to be dangerous would be checked by any country. Xo occasion exists for war between the United States and Japan, and the chance Is remote that any will arise. SL Louis G lobe-DemocTa t. Protection for Encland. The old London Times has changed hands, which is an important event in Itself, the paper having been in the hancb of one family for four generations and being recognized as the greatest newspaper In Great Britain, If not in the world. For years It has been known at Lome and abroad as "the Thunderer," and when the Times spoke it was the business of the people of Great Britain, and more or less these of the whole world, to pay attention. But the most important fact In connection with the change of management Is that the Times, which has stood for free trade as steadfastly as It has for England, Is to be somewhat "American ized," and will hereafter have a definite j leaning toward protection. It is said J it will espouse the Chamberlain cause of tariff reform, which in- England means a step In the direction of protection. This Is significant at a time when so many of the people of this country are more or less charging up Its financial troubles to the tariff. Bet If England after her long period of free trade is verging toward protection of her home interests, as the change in the policy of the Times would indicate, the attempt to talk tbe tariff Into unpopularity In this country will be found an uphill task. North Adams (Mass.) Transcript. "Will Xot Dear Inapectlon. The tariff, wo are sometimes told, should be taken out of politics, and put into the hands of a business commission carefully selected. Changes when necessary should be made by men familiar with the subject, and with an eye single to business effects. It is a pleasing proposition on Its face, but does not lear Inspection. Such a commission would be the most powerful body In the country, holding at times great business iuterests in the hollow of its hand. Congress will never, and should never, consent to that; for, while some Congresses are abler than others in the transaction of the public business, ue Congress of the period is always the latest expression of the popular will, and Is tue proper body for safeguarding tbe public Interests for the time. No tariff law made by Congress is ever a perfect measure, but it is always possible to trace the Influences that entered into its preparation and enactment, and thus fix the responsibility for any errors committed. Washington Star. Shortsighted. Governor Folk declares in public addresses that the tariff is eating us up and must be repealed ; that the cost of living is too high and must come down; that we must no longer keep our labor employed at high wages at the expense of wage earners In foreign lands. The governor is to be commended for his courage, but hi must be shortsighted indeed if he Imagines that the great masses of the American people are moved with sympathy for the foreign laborer to that extent that will Induce theni to strike a blow at the wage earner at Lome. St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette. In the seven years 1900 to 1907, our yearly output of manufactures has grown from $13,000,000,000 to at least $10,500,000,000 another gain of $3,OOO.OOO.OOU. Many other gains might be chronicled, but enough are shown to justify the statement that the thing, the right thing, to do with the present Protective Tariff Is to let It alone. Walter J. Ballard in "The Protectionist' . Carionltr. Mr. Stubb Yes, Maria, twenty years Is supposed to elapse between the third and fourth acts. Mrs. Stubb Do tell ! Then we must certainly stay. Mr. Stubb Ah, you are interested in the play? Mrs. Stubb Yes, I want to see the change In the style of hat the heroine wears. Ilnrkliif? Hack. "I tell you," growled Mr. Crabbe, "your shopping Is too extravagant. You should never take anything just because it looks cheap." "You don't say?" sneered his wife. "Well, If I had followed that advice when you pressed to me I wouldn't be Mrs. Crabbe now." Loyalty. "So your husband lost all hi3 monoy on a race?" "Yes," answered young Mrs. Torklns. "Well, it was his own fault." "It wasn't anything of the sort. It was the horse's fault." Packing for Vacation. Madame A. Tbe worst is deciding what to take. Madame P.. That's easy I I take all v.y dresses and leave my husband I msatlantlc Tales.

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acts eatly yet prompt: Won the bowels, cleanses me system eff ectually. . r . " assists one in overcoming katntual constipation permanently, lo go ; its beneficial effects buy tke öenume. f lanujacturcd by tho California Jig Co. Exonerated. "Mr. Gayboy, when I wpnt into a crowded car the other evening you appeared to be deeply absorbed in a newspaper, and I had to accept a seat offered aw by an entire stranger. You didn't see me, of course. . O, no !" "My dear Miss Pimmie, when a pretty girl enters a car where I am rittin; I never rise and offer her xay seat. I always inow that a lot of younger fellows vill do it at once and it won't be neeerary on my part." "O, welk Mr. Gayboy, there wai no aarm done and I have no doubt yon really were too buy with your newspaper o see me. I was just joiing." Rbramatlim. It has been said that to know what r.heumalism really is, one must Imagine oneself BQueezed In a jwwerful vise; one turn more and Neuralgia will be felt; and tbe few final twists will give an Idea of the condensed misery of Gout Be that as it may. Rheumatism is one of the most excruciatingly painful diseases which afHict humanity. It Is not always dangerous, unless it extends to the heart, and then the risk is greatly Increased. This disease, although not always immediately dangerous, as already observed, will. If not checked, gradually undermine the patient's health; while It wastes tbe muscles, disorganizes the Joints, and renders the sufferer a cripple. Innumerable remedies have been suggested for the relief and cure of this most painful disease; but the safest and surest application in the world Is St. Jacobs Oil, which never fails to cure Rheumatism, unless there be serious complications with established organic disease, and even then relief will be almost instantaneous. Fountain of uup babble. , A fountain of soap bubbles is proving a great attraction In England, saja Technical World Magazine. A machine is arranged so that 20,000 soap bubbles a minute may be blown with coal gas and sent up Into the al The beautiful effects In colors Nv hen the sua shines on this fountain may well be imagined. At night artificial lightin? and the use of colored fires add to the beauty and Interest. The soap bubble is also suggested as a substitute for pigeons or glass balls in marksmanship contests. Macaroni Wheat. Salzer's strain of Macaroni or Knbanka wheat is absolutely pare and is from seed obtained roai tbe Department of Agri culture. Our strain is Dakota grown which iaaghs at droughts and elements and positively mocks black rust that terrible scorch and would be ashamed of itself if it did not return from 4; to SO be. of the finest wheat the sun thine on rer acre in good 111., Ia., Mich., Wis., Ohio, Penn., Mo., Neb., Kan., and otber lands, and 40 to CO bu. per acre in arid lands. No rust, no insects, no failure. JUST SEND IOC AXD TniS NOT1CS to the John A. Salzer Seed Co- La Crosse, Wis., and they will send yoa the most origine.! seed book published, together with free samples of farm sedj such as Macaroni Wheat, Pillion Dollar Grass, Victoria Rape, Sainfoin, the dry soil luxuriator, Rromua Inermis, the desert grassifier. Emperor William Oats, more original than the Emperor himself, etc., etc.. etc. And if you send 14c they will mail in addition a package of farm seed never before seen by you. John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. C N. U. In eight years the population of Osaka, Japan, has increased from Sll.SOO.to over 1,020,000. The number of factoriej has increased by 1)91. Very Low One-Way Rates Via Nicke; Plate Road. West, Northwest, Southwest. March 1 to April 30. See local Agent or write J. C. Melenbacker, T. P. A., Fort Wayne, Ind. (2) In consequence of the Increasing abuse of opium, its sale in French harbor cities Las been forbidden. Nothing can be better than Nature's mild laxative, Garfield Tea. Made of Herbs, it overcomes constipation and Indigestion, puriüea the blood and eradicates disease. Wonder. Mike How foine th' polaeemln la tlx' nark look! Tat An phoy not? Don't alch wan hov a nurs? Judge. Meat Is high, fruit scarce, so buy Mrs. Austin's famous pancake flour. A good, hearty breakfast for little money. Earl Cromer is one of the most thorough students of tbe Bible whom the English public have among their prominent men. . WHAT CAUSES HEADACIIE. from Octoberto Ma, Colds are the most fr quentcaufteof Headache. IAXATIVE BROMQ QUIXJNEremoTes cause. E.W.(Jrove on box 2U Deadlr Et Indian Dnela. There are a good deal of savagery and stoical disregard of death left In the East yet despite the advance of civilization, and this extends' to 'the so-called sports of the people, 'Thus among the natives of Baroda there obtains still a kind of gladiatorial display In the shape of a fearful fist fight wherein the contestants wear a very formidable cestus of steel studded with murderous spikes. The dueUst usually b'g, brawny, athletic men who have been Infuriated for tbe occasion with copious drafts of opium In which hemp is infused enter the arena singing and set to with deliberate Intent to kill, one or both invariably soccumblng. (fi-üi;t . w nrr.vri' V - ' - . - M i m 'Guar?!