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linrnl Free Delivery. The ai.naai report of the Fourth Assistant l'ormastor General DcKIrav,deals tiiU-:iy with the rural free delivery sorvi -mil the post.-; nppmpnatlon bill shows how that service developed in recent years under the Republican party. Nothing so well Illustrates, perhaps, the character of the two pretlominaut parties in the United Stotes as does the development of this rural free delivery syste:n. Year after year it was "turned down" by a Democratic administration a:; Leins impracticable', and yet under tlie operation of Republican administrations it has developed in every way sLn-essfuIly and most ndrantageously to the agriculturists of the country. Where only a few years so most of our farmers were able to yet their mail but once or twice a week it 13 now daily brought to their very doors, giving them the advantage of the daily paper and of market and weather reports, enhancing not only labor, but the pleasure of living The system itself need1- no defense. The result of its working Is its own vindication, and th4 farmers of the country are indebted" wholly to the Kepublican party, which had the eourajre as well as the sense to put the system Into practical operation ard constant developrn .'nr. During the year it will require an appropriation lu excess of $3ö,000,fX0 to carry on the service. There are nearly 40,000 routes in oieration, and some 5,000,0M people enjoy its benefits. On less than 3,0(X of the routes service is performed tri-weekly. On nearly all of the remainder the service is daily. There is jHThaps no Republican legislation of recent years that has carried so preat a benefit to so many of our people. Of course It is exceeded by the pension legislation, established and developed by the party, but that has been n matter covering over forty years, while the rural free delivery service has Leen In operation only ten years. There Is no doubt that it Trill be developed Btlll further as requ'rements demand, und so long as the Republican party remains In iower the rural districts of the country can be sure of having their mail delivered at their doors, and it is possible that In the ne?r future this mall, consisting of letters and papers, may be augmented by the delivery of parcels and miscellaneous matter, o that the farmer will not only have hi mail, but Lis purchases, brought to his liome. Let lb Tariff Alone. , The determination of the Republican leaders in Congress to permit no kind of tariff legislation at this session i t politically and economically wise. I The business conditions of the country call for quieting treatment, whereas tariff agitation, even, in the mild form of a commission of investigation, Is disturbing. ) The tariff needs some readjustment, but it should be readjusted to meet normal conditions. The time for this is when normal conditions prevail and not during a period of financial depression. The manufacturers of the country ere divided on the question of revising the present tariff. Many of them deny that thore is any demonstrated necessity for any revision. The country has prospered under the Dingley act. It has provwl Itself one of the best tariff acta. If not the very best, the country has ever had. Then why change It? Why disturb the business of the country by even agitating its change? Would the correction of the few Incongruities and imIcrfectlons which time has developed la the Dingley law pay for the disturbnuce incident to a protective tariff agitation? What puarantee Is there that the process of change would limit Itself to removing the defects in the present tariff and not destroy some of Its fundamental virtues? These are vital questions and present the gravity and danger of the revision movement. The delegation of manufacturers who have'been ia Washington In the past two days asking for the creation of a tariff commission deny that there Is any Uanper to protection or to the business of the country In an Investigation by an expert tariff commission. This delegation represents some twenty strong organizations and claims to speak Tor about 80 per cent of all the manufacturers of the country. The ways and means committee la the House- and the Senate finance committee are composed at the present time of exceedingly competent men, fully equal to the work of revising or re?t i.strutting the tariff when the necessity for It Is demonstrated. Xew Haven Leader. W3er Would He Get the SO Cent? "Don't you know." a Democratic autl protective tariff orator was arguing to an I rish-American whom he was endeavoring to eogvincc, "that you are paying too much for everything you buy? You have paid protective tariff prices for your coat and your shoes and everything you have on. How much did you pay for that cap?" "Six stilling" "With free trade you could get as good a ore for half a dollar." "That may all be," replied Pat, ''but I remember when we had free trade I was out of work. Sure, where would I pet the fifty cents?" This story Isn't an argument against tariff revision. It Is an argument against the kind of tariff revision which would diminish the demand for American labor. Rutland (Vt) Herald.

Different Kld of Reformer. it Is worth luting that the English "tariff reformer" is the man who would put a duty on Imported soods In orJcr to keep them out of the home market : vvbile the American self-styled 'tari:T reformer" is the man who would rzjaove the duty on foreign goods, or ri'ze U. I or(pr to Iet tLera lnto tlie hnn market to compete with domestic products to the injury of boUi AmeriJ. m manufacturers and American wageworkers. rand Kaplds Herald. AVbt Ther ln What the American iieople ar more in reed of just now than anything else I n ret from unnecessary anxiety. A'vr the distressful crisis through ch they have lately passed they Lit a chance to recuperate, to r-ruit J ir energies, to consolidate their In- ;. f;, and ft is precisely of this 'uwv that the inception of tariff rjuiering agitation would deprive them. Allentown (Pa.)

The Nation's Sore Spot. The repeated attack :i President Roosevelt in the nanv of corporate wealth is no honest protest, but a well organ ternl campaign to place the national administration before the people, in a false light. The men who have bwn chosen to lead in this campaign are. with few exceptions, oajable, intelligent attorneys, who are Skilled in specious argument ard seem to renrd success as justification for the mean.'? employed. These advocates contend that the President Is destroying confidence, and thereby crippling industry ami checking prosperity. They hold him up to view as one who is an enemy cf all organized capital, and therefore of progress. The essem-e of the Indictment is contained in the following extract from a rpeeeh dellvennl recently in the Senate o; the United States by Senator Rayner of Maryland, Roosevelt being under discussion : "From the violent fervor of his utterances there is an idea running through the public mind that he has come to the conclusion that every man engaged In a large business enterprise is a malefactor, and that every good citizen of the land night to spend at least one term In the penitentiaryNow, as a matter of fact, no such Idea is "running throng- the public mind," but it is an Wea that the conspirators are seeking to lodge in the public mind, an altogether different proposition. Not even the men who have discovered, because President Roosevelt has impressed it on them, that they, like other people, are amenable to the law, believe any suen nonsense, but they realize that unless popular sentiment can be turned against the President they must cease their illegal practices and conduct their business in a legitimate manner. Inasmuch as this reform means a horizontal reduction in their profits, they are playing a desperate game for high stakes. Obviously the fight must be conducted under cover for the truth would only emphasize that their interests are diametrically opposed to the people's interests. It would not do to tell the people that the motive underlying this criticism of the President is purely selfish and mercenary, and' so they affect to stand as the champions of general prosperity in which we are all interested. P.ut even as the President has not assailed all capital, so all capital is not arrayed against him. Many corporations have not been under the ban of suspicion. It is to their advantage, just as it is to the advantage of the leople as a whole, that the wicked corporations are brought within the operation of the law. Other corporations that had gone wrong by association promptly rev I soil their methods In conformity with the law, at the behest of the administration, and these recognize the justice and necessity cf the crusade. And there are likewise many individuals prominent In the industrial and financial world who are at heart honest, and who therefore approve of a campaign that has for its purpose the setting of a higher moral standard in business life. Andrew Carnegie, most of whose vast wealth is ia corporate properties, and who, therefore, cannot be charged with prejudice against corlorations, sees no cause for alarm la the administration's attitude. In.'a recent issue of the Century he relates his experience with the railroads In the rebating business, which began innocently enough, but grew to become a monstrous evil. His view of the national reform is expressed in these words: The creation of the commission is the most important addition that has been made in our day to the machinery of government. It should be proclaimed by the administration and leading statesmen pf both parties and kept clearly before the people that no radical action has either ben taken or is contemplated. Ou the contrary, all that is desired is ouly what other nations already possess, and is in the truest sense conservative end preservative to the highest degree. The ease and rapidity with which the commission was established which has already abolished demoralizing rebates, and is rapidly giving to corporate investments the security they possess in other lands by bringing them undr supervision, is a great triumph for our governmental system in all departments, legislative, executive and judicial, and gives to all the assurance that no emergency can arise in our country which will not be promptly and successfully met an intelligent, just and fair-minded people at the base cordially approving the salutary measures of their representatives, with the President, a great reforming force at the head, leading the way. This is the expression of a patriotic citizen who has followed closely the program of the administration, and who understands the lofty and unselfish motive that Inspires the President If all corporatlonlsts were like Carnegie, the revolution which the enforcement of the law entails, would be accomplished with scarcely a ripple on the sea of industry. But, unfortunately, there is a class of financiers grown so arrogant In long Immunity, that they resent any effort to revise their illegitimate methods. And these iron are responsible for the present disturbance. Toledo Blade.

Written lr Ilepablleans. The truth of history demonstrates that the great organization, the great lower that saved the Union, was the Republican organization. I remember a few years ago when my genial friend from Ohio, James K. Campbell, was a member of the House he took the floor to prove that there was no Republican party In 1SC1, when Lincoln was reelected, and he brought In a copy of the Tribune Almanac which showed taat the votes for Lincoln were given under the caption of "Union Republicans" and, he claimed, showed there was no Republican party. The argument of my colleague the other day brought back the fanciful argument of James L Campbell, I think, way back In the Forty-ninth Congress. The Republican party in behalf of Abraham Lincoln appealed to the Union to strike down that party, which In their platform declared tho war a failure. Mr. Chairman, from the sixties down who can name an important pie;e of legislation for the good of the people of the United States that was not written on the statute books by the Republican party ? Congressman Payne. lie Got Plenty. HI Tragedy Whew I Ranter must have found food for thought ia the dramatic editor's article this morning. Lowe Comedy Pood? I should say a full meal. He got a roast a::d all his cesstrts. Philadelphia Press. Alivny MriMiK. Church The- say the human voice Is stronger in the morning than it Is at night. Gotham I can't see any difference In baby's Yonkers Statesman. Blußhinjj is virtue's color. French.

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Kiimeni went on over me proposed consntullonal amendment to strike out the limiting word "male" from the provision re

garding the right to vote. A nmnler of equal suffragists were present, but there was also a strong delegation of women from all parts of the State opposing them, and these women were Just as voluble, fluent and argumentative as the suffragists. Their presence there lent io!nt to Cov. Hughes' remarks when he said that the decision of the question of fems'e suffrage rets with women themselves. What the women of Xew York really want they will have, for men will not dare to deny them. Rut so long as the women ere divided on the subject, men cannot be blamed for taking no action. Some women want the right to vote; but, on the other hand, as many women, perhaps more, do not wish the right, and say so emphatically. Before suffragists ask the voters to give them the suffrage they should go out and convert their own sex. When that is done they will have no more trouble. Kansas City World.

A3 TO A HUSBAND'S POCKETS.

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I granted a divorce because he averred his I wife interfered with his personal liberty by

sea renin s nis pociicts wmie ue was asleep. The wisdom of the' court's decision may have been perfectly proper in that Instance. But probably the husband should have had

his pockets searched. He may have been a husband who compiled his wife to beg for every penny given her. and the poor voman may have been driven to desperation in her necessity for money to buy articles for the home or for herself. There are husbands so mean that their wives are just! tied In not only searching their pockets, but In using a club to coinpol them to disgorge. Or it may be that the wife hasreason for believing her husband's pocket contained certain letters of which he desired to keep her In ignorance, and that she is being made the victim of a domestic tragedy in which her life's happiness Is at stake. In such an event she Is justified In going to any extreme, and every court in the land should stand back of her. The average wife will not object to her husband searching her pocket at any time. She knows she Is safe, because she. has no pocket. Should she have one she is equally safe, for no man could Und it, even with the assistance cf a search warrant. Neither do we believe the average husband objocts'to a search of his pockets by his wife, for we are eonstrained to believe the average man is such a good husband that he supplies his wife with money without the necessity of her going to such extremes to secure it. Also he Is so true that he dics not fear she will find any Incriminating letters. Of course, we suppose there are wives who are so suspicious of their husbands and so mean and lll-temiered that they search their husbands' pockets for no otlier rea

"Well," said the family friend, r.s Ehe glanced around the library, "I niu.-t say the room looks a little more orderly than It usually does at this time in the evening." The mLstress of the household sighed. "Yes," she said, "it does," Tsn't It a comfort?" asked the family friend. "No," replied the mistress of the household, rather, shortly. It Isn't." T should think it would be," said the family friend. "John Rickerson Is a good man. I'm not saying anything against your husband, my dear." "You'd better not." ' "Of course I wouldn't,' said the family frlemL "But I've heard you complain a thousand times of his careless habits. I know they'd drive me to distraction." V "He's a man," explained tue ndstress af the household. "Oh, of course, but a man might be a little neat and pick things up after bim. I think I've got my husband educated to that. He was Just as careless rs John was when we wre first married." "You've told me that before." "I know I have, and j-ou've alwava laid you wished I could take John In hand. When did you hear from hlra last?" "On Thursday," replied the mistress f the household. "lie's at Kansas City now and he'll be home Monday. The oext time he takes a trip like that I'm polng with him. I'm not going 'to stay ill alone In this poky louse." "Poky!" "Yes, poky. If It doesn't look poky low I don't know what does. If I rould smoke without Its strangling me ind making me sick I'd smoke." "My dear!" "Yes, I would, and I'd throw the ishes all over the carpet. Look nt those cushions on the lounge, all smooth and plumped out. and all the looks In the bookcases. Instead of half of them icattered over the floor, and not a burnd match anywhere. It makes'me want to cry." The friend of the family looked mocked. "Well," she said at last, "if rou feel like that why don't you burn lome; matches and throw them around? i'ou could have Berth i bring up some lsbes from the furnace and sift them an the rug, too." "I was thinking of doing something like that when you came In," said the Distress of the household, "only it wouldn't be quite the same thing." "You mean you wouldn't have anybody to scold for it?" "I'm not going to scold any more. I know I do scold about it, but I don't believe I ought to. It may be a little aggravating sometimes to have him put his hat on the china cabinet Instead of hanging It In tlie hall on the rack and put his gloves on the mantel and kick jff his rubliers In the reception noni ind things like that, but it doesn't seem worth while making a great fuss about." "If you don't think It 13 why do you 3o it?" asked the friend of the family. "Why not encourage him to be careless?" "He Isn't careless," protested the mistress of the household. "He's just a little forgetful. He means to put things in their places, and he does sometimes when he thinks of it And he's al6ays as tsorry as he can Im?. Anyway, t don't like to see things too prim. I'd sooner tlie place was a litte untidy. It's homey, anyway." The family friend laughed. "I don't care," said the mistress of the household. MI wish hla hat was

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I the E l... mm husband hi been BUILDING HE 'ti j I over on the cabinet this minute and his rul!ers on the on the mantelpiece. I shouldn't mind if the room was blue with smoke, if lie was making It, and there was a Dead Sea of ashes all over the Morris chair." The mistress of the household went over nnd rumpled up one ofthe smooth pillows on the lounge with her face. "Oh. tnt'i tut!" said the friend of the family. "You mustn't bo foolish!" Chicago Daily News. FORTUNE IN CTtOXCS. l'nclp Jonhua IIa a 3lill!an In II In Wood Lot Worth 25o Much. "Gosh all hemlocks, but It's a fine thing to be rich!" exclaimed Uncle Joshua Vanderhoof of Pine Brook, N. J. "I've just been to the city and ordered a piano for my daughter Lizzie, and one' of them buzz wagons for my wife, to be sent up to the farm. Hut I did tell the old woman she was putting on a good deal of style at her age." "You must have got rich quick. Uncle Josh," said Ambrose, who keeps the hotel on Bloomfield avenue, Montclalr, where the farmer was refreshing himself. "No, it's taken more than a dozen years," ald Uncle Josh, "but the result cone mighty sudden. I'll tvdl you all about it, "You know that 40-acre wood lot up on my farm, don't j'ou?" 'Brose allowed that he did! "Well," Uncle Josh went on, sipping his applejack, "before mother died she made me promise not to sell that lot nor cut the timber off it "There'll be a fortune In Uiat let some day,' said mother. "I kept my promise, and the crorvs -they're mighty wise, 'Brose got to know they were perfectly safe In the trees on that lot So thousands of 'em went there, until, by jimlnetty, the trees are as black as black as the inside of an empty black bottle. "Yesterday Eliza sharp girl jhe Is, too read in the newspapers that 1,000 women belonging to women's clubs in Chicago have sworn off using any but crows' feathers in their bonnets. And Eliza read, too, that these good women are going to get thousands of other women all over the country to take the same swear-off. "So Eliza put her arms around my noyk and kissed me and told me what she read and said she bright girl, Lize Is: "'Granny was right, par. There's a fortune In that wood lot, but the crows Is- the fortune.' . "Llze and her mother went to the lot and counted the crows afore dusk yesterday. They say there's more than a million of 'em. We calc'late that a million crows at I;3 cents apiece Is $250,000, and that's what your Uncle Joshua Is wurth this minute." New York World. MISS ALTHEA'S EXPERIMENTS. Her Subject Were Sometime Store Probata than Sbe Wished. If there Is one thing that pleases .Miss Althea Durand more than another it Is to surprise a bit of exquisite sentiment or high feeling from a human being whose uncouth exterior promises nothing. But there are two notable instances of her experiments in this line which she wishes her fun-loving family would allow her to forget. One Is the case of an old woodsman I guide whaso analytic descriptions of his own experiences nud sensations had impressed Miss Althea as savoring of genius so much so that she was eager to display his talents to her ircredulou.s friends. Accordingly, one day, she lured him Into telling the story of a bear fight before an audience, and just as fee had reached the point where the great furious grizzly was towering over him

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son than from pure eussednoss. It may be this Massachusetts woman belongs to that class. In that event, the court acted wisely in granting the divorce, but it would not to judicious for other courts to use this case to establish a precedent. Toledo Blade.

IMMIGRANT LABOR'S COST. HERE are two powerful streams, quite reeiirrw"i1 In tvitnro tho nna flmvlntr truvnrd

other away from, this country that i 1 e i i

uue eieuieu üt luurs ju uur ecuuuuuo life, while changing the whole current of events in parts of Europe. Both are to-day at high-water mark. Every year from 1.000,-

000 to 1,2."0,000 aliens are admitted to American ports. Some come to work and save and found new homes; others to work and sweat and save so that, finally, they may relapse into a life of ease In the land cf their nativity. They form the westward-flowing stream. Out of this stream there Is 'created that other one whose current is eastward. Hut, whereas the first is of humanity, the second is of gold. Out of the savings of the foreignborn in America $"0,000,000 a year Is now going abroad. The annual increase is.alout 10 per cent. If this money were retained here, it would be sufficient, every year, to liquidate our interest-bearing xdebt. It cannot be controlled. It is the quid pro quo, the International credit balance, to which the immigrant laborer is entitled if Cie is worthy of his hire. The annual distribution of this great sum of money throughout Europe Is in the following proportion: Italy, $70,000,000; ' Austria-Hungary, $m,000.000; Great Britain, $L.000,r,00 ; Norway and Sweden, ?25.(X,0 0 ; Russia $?5.(.Mj0,0UQ ; Germany, $10,000.000; Greece. .5.000.000; ah others, including France, Switzerland, Belgium and Denmark, $ 10,000,000. North American He view.

ASSOCIATIONS PE03PER. man who Invests his savings in a buildfttiil tonn jissnet:it!nTi Ii ;i a rmr !iilvnntn" the man who buy? stocks or goes in!

ouMuess. ue j.;iiiih are i:ui iiKety 10 va swept away in times of panic. Last year, while banks were falling on every side, while stocks were tumbling.

while business was unsettled and far from profitable, the building and loan associations of the United States increased their assets by $77,000,0C0. They now care for $728,000,000 of the people's savings. Not a single association was affected by the financial Hurry of last autumn, even to the extent of a run by Investors, much less to the point of closing Its doors. All flourished throughout the country. Investors In building and loan associations deserve tills immunity, for they are benefiting the country as well as themselves. They are erecting their own homes, and thus Improving their citizenship, because the man who owns his own home Is not likely to be unpatriotic. lie regards the country's interests as well as his private leierest s. A nation of home owners can defy any fate, and building and loan associations arc doiog much to put the United States Into that position. Chicago Journal.

in tlie nirrow path, she interrupted him with: "Now, wait a minute, Matt ' I want you to step and describe to us exactly how yoTi felt, ? tending there, unarm.xl, facing that lear." "Felt?" old Matt echoed, with fn.zhemphasis. 'I felt like " lie paused fbr a fitting comparison, and then astonished and disappointed his lady manager by finishing, briefly, "I f It like I'd ruther 'a paid fifty cents a seen that eritter at a show." The other memorable experiment took place one summer evening when she invited the little black housemaid to cpme out on the veranda and look M Ihe moon. "You may sit down, Nancy," she said, kindlj-, as the girl appeared, and then, leaning back in the hammock herself. Miss Althea ' struck slow, soft chords mi her guitar, and curiously watched the effect. j It was a dream night In the South balmy, perfume-laden, all silver glow and mysterious shadow. Nancy sat silent, her hands dropped Into her lap. and presently a soulful expression stole over her face. 1 There were unmistakable pathos and yearning In the soft eyes; her thoughts hr.J drifted far away. After a Ion? time Miss Althea said, softly: "Nancy, could you tell me Just what you are thinking?" ' "Law, Miss Althea me?" came the answer, with an embarrassed start. "Yes. Ikm't bo afraid. Stop, now. and try to recall exactly what you were thinking?" "Wan' me to tell jes' what I v.-uz thnkln'r "Yes." "Well" Nancy hesitated. "Go ou' "Well" slowly "I wuz thinkln' I wuz thinkln' how it 'ud be to be w.dfcln' 'long the road on a hot summer day 'thout yo clioes er stockln's on an jes' feel in' the wa'm dust comin' ralcht up 'tween yo' toes." Youth's Companion. For Waee Earneri ot Millionaire. In a grocery article Woman's Home Companion makes this point: "In a Now Jersey town, not mauy miles from a famous institution of learning, I found one of those groceries whose proprietors have not progressed. You could brush your skirt against a dripping molasses barrel ; you could dip your hand Into a cracker barrel and help yourself; you could pick out big pickles with your fingers if you wanted them of uniform size, because the clerk did the same thing; but you could not count the fly specks on the cheese box and coffee grinder, because life is too short for so stupendous a task. And oh, the dust! "The proprietor of that store could not sell me a certain brand of, gingersnaps in a moisture-proof box. Ho said lie did not believe In package goods. His customers could not afford such luxuries. "There are thousands of customers like his all over America. They declare that package goods are for millionaires, not wage earners. But, oh, if the wives of wage earners would only study such problems and not Jump at conclusions. How much farther the hard-earned wages would go and how much better food would be placed before the man who earns the wages I" Every boy should have a dog so that he can feel, when his father makes him go to school, and his mother makes him say "Please" at the table, that he has one True and Satisfied Friend in the world. What are neightors for? They are to notice things. If you ever did anyih'ng out of the way you are reminded that that was what your neighbor was there for.

8 Civil War Stories 11 4 A Southerner sends a story of an adventure during the Civil War in which the heroes were two boys, the youngest only 10 years old. - A load of wheat was hidden under the floor of their uncle's barn, about twelve mile northeast from Richmond, and the boys volunteered to go and get it It was In August, 1SC3. They started with a wagon and two good muV, approached the farm from tlie southwest, and made a detour over ditches and through fences bemuse they did not dare to go by the regular road. Tlie Federals were encaiiqKxl . about two miles east We reached the lyn without having been seen, and driving into a shed attached to the building, succeeded jn loading the grain, and secured the sacks by crossing ropes tightly over the top, to the high sides of the wagon. To reach Richmond road we had to drive within sight of the Yankee camp. At this point the road tuned at right angles toward the south. We had put ropes round the axles next the shoulder, so as 'to stop the "chuck" of the wheifs, and'so reached this turn without being seen, but had traveled only a short distance on the old station road when we found that we had been discovered, and could see a party of horsemen coming after us at a rapid pace. My cousin, who was an expert driver, although so j'oung, told me to hold on tight while he mounted the near mule, and then commenced the race of our lives. For some distance the road was corduroy, and at the rae we were going. It was only by the most dexterous movements and tightest grip that I could stay on the sacks. Our pursuers were gaining on us. At first they fired only a few shots, but soon a shower of bullets punctured the sacks all round me, and sent the wheat flying Into my face. My coat and hat were struck several times. It seemed that a few moments would surely settle the matter. I shall never forget the yells of those Yankees, accompanied by the incessant thupl thup! of the bullets as they came faster and faster; but strange to say, not a bullet touched us or the horses. At a sharp turn in the road, a blind road led off into the woods, and as we were driving on the side of the road In the grass, Paul took this chance, and dashed into this road, where the highbush huckleberry (grew .rank and thick. We were now out of iange of the Federal guns, but we did not slacken our pace. Grazing a tree here and missing a tump there, we dashed over logs, through hollows and up hill until we were sure that our pursuers had kept to the main road. We were congratulating ourselves when "Halt!" brought us to a stop, and a soldier, with gun ready, demanded, "Who eom?s here?' I answered. "A friend." Then came the order, "Advance and give the countesign:" It was now dusk, and we could see the blue overcoat, and thought that this was a Federal picket; but as we came nearer, I saw gray trousers, so 1 told my cousin to risk the, words with which we had been furnished for the night "It E. Lee." "You can pass," the sentry said. Oh, what a relief! The sentry called the corporal of the guard, and we were conducted to headquarters. Just a short time before this we had heard a discharge of arms In the direction of the road that we had left, but we were surprised to see a dozen or more Yankees lined up as prisoners when we reached headquarters. One of them swore lustily at us for the trap which we had run them Into. We were glad Indeed to rest by the camp fire inside of our lines, and the next day about 10 o'clock arrived In Richmond, with a loss of comparatively little of the wheat Old Richmond never' looked more beautiful, nor could there have been two more thankful' boys. We enjoyed the fruits of our trip, too, for we had a change to wheat bread, which was a treat, after months of nothing but corn bread. Made Raid on Soap. Some of the incidents vf a war play now running In New York suggested to a civilian of the present generation that the playwright of to-day takes a while lot of license. A veteran with an empty sleeve took Issue with him. . 'The incidents you mention," he said to the young man, "may not have occurred as here presented. But the struggle had its comedy situations. It was not all grim, and it was a good thing it wasn't "There wasn't much time In the closing days of the war for farcical Incidents, but while the masters of the great trouble were formulating plans Falstaffs were plentiful In remote places. One of these whom I knew had got up to the title of major. He was a German. "Ills battalion consisted of the raw?st lot of recruits that were ever huddled under one command. The aggregation was mounted. It was assigned to duty at a post In close proximity to a settlement of bushwhackers. "These were not tlie bushwhackers of later days. They were for the most part young nietf who were banded together awaiting an opportunity of getting to the front Pending that soldiering with them was a frolic. "The big German major took his part with all the seriousness of a division commander on tlie eve of a battle. Once a week, sometimes oftener, the major sent hurry orders for the recruits to ration up for a two days' scout and then took them out solemnlj' into the country. "As often as the column went out cn äcout as often did it return, a day or two later, usually splashed with the mud of the country roads, the horses looking Jaded and uncurrled. If they ever brought back a prisoner that fact was kept concealed by tlie major. "On one of these scouts the column had an experience that was not down In the major's tactics. The bushwhackers, who always knew of the coming af the column and scattered, concluded to give him a surprise. 'The column had halted at the end af Its first day's ride and was bivouacking In a corn field. The camp fires had been lighted and the air was redolent with tlie odor of noodle' soup. Tlie bugles had sounded for the serving of rations. Even the pickets had come into camp for grub. "Without warning the bushwhackers rose up out of the fodder shocks and the fence corners; with one combined rush they swept down upon Major Jo

seph's soup line and captured It The i colonel of the bushwhackers, a former i school teacher, and his staff appeared simultaneously, as the major reported

it to his superior officer, before the major's shack and demanded his rations. "T1k colonel saluted the major and begged his pardon for the intrusion. He said he and his men had not come to fight, but they were almighty hungry, and the odor of the noodle scup had i'a!e them furious. "If permitted to have their fill they would retire In good order and the major could do likewise. If the ma jo. wanted fight, he could have it, but they were jiot there with any hostile Intentions, other than those mentioned. "The major was visually a prisoner. He submitted Tacefully and asked the colonel and his staff to be his guests as long as the grab held out The colonel regretted to say that he and his staff would need all there was, and as the major could go back to town and get more, they would have to sweep the board. "They devoured every morsel. When the repast was finished the colonel's eye fell on the major's spyglass; he allowed that - as tlie government had plenty on hand and-the"1 article was scarce In the Confederacy he would have to take It Tlie major removed the field glass from his uniform and handed it over. 'The major was then politely requested to send word to his men In camp that they were to allow the visitors to depart in peace. This was done, and the bushwhackers scattered as only bushwhackers know how to do. "Major Joseph broke camp that night and returned to the city before daybreak. It was his last scouting expedition from that post He was ordered to the front soon after, and, I believe, under the watchful eye of his superior officer, who was an old West Pointer, he did some creditable fighting until he was mustered out The story of the bushwhackers' raid on Major Joseph's noodle soup get to the headquarters of many commanding officers, but I do not think it ever had general circulation." Detroit Free Press. How Sickles Got Ills Medal. The presentation to General Sickles by the War Department, after a long delay, of a medal for meritorious conduct at the battle of Gettysburg, recalled an interesting incident At the national G. A. R. encampment at Buffalo, General Ruggles of the regular army and General Sickles were two of the conspicuous old generals in attendance. Ex-Governor Upham of Wisconsin, together with E. A. Shores of tlie same State, were guests at the same hotel with General Ruggles. On the third day of the encampment Mr. Shores was presented to the general. The conversation turned upon the subject of tadges, several of which General Ruggles was wearing, when he remarked that It was unfortunate that General Sickles was unable to get a medal from the War Department "Sickles deserves the bade," said he, "for he commanded his regiment to tlie end of the engagement after he had lost his leg by the explosion of a shell; but unfortunately there Is no one living, so far as is known, who was an eye-witness of the general's action, and the testimony of an eye-witness is absolutely necessary before the medal can be awarded." When General Ruggles had ceased talking Mr. Shore3 said: "General, 1 think I can furnish the evidence that la desired. I was General BIraey's orderly in that battle, and was sent with a message to General Sickles to say that General Birney was ready to take command at any time. It was then well known among the Federal soldiers that General Sickles had lost a leg, and It was supposed he would be ta'kea from the field. When I found General Sickles he was on a stretcher with a clamp ou the stump of his leg to prevent loss of blood, and he was giving orders while sitting on the stretcher ou which he had been carried to the front 1 delivered General Birney's message, when with a vigorous adjective General Sickles said: 'You tell General Birney that when I want him to take command I will let him know." The next day at the suggestion ol General Ruggles, Mr. Shores called upou General Sickles, and repeated ihe statement made the day before, which evidently reached the War DenartmeDt for General Sickles afterward received the much-desired medal. Christians and Gentlemen. In General Morris SchafTs recent reminiscences, The Spirit of Old West Point," there is an Incident that coea to show that not even the first bitterness of the struggle between the North and the South could put out altogether the fires of friendship. It was the fate of Stephen D. Ram seur of North Carolina to fall In th Confederate service. His last hours had a close connection, with West Point, where he had been enrolled as a cadet. When, in the darkness, after the Battle of Cedar Creek, the Union cavalry charged the broken nnd fleeing remnants of a division of Early's corps, Custer, who was in the midst, heard one of his troopers who had seized the horses ask the driver whom he had ic his ambulance. "Do not tell him," commanded 8 weak, husky voice. Whereupon Custer, who recognizee the voice as one be had so often heard at West Point, exclaimed: "Is that you, Runseur?" Custer had him taken to Sheridans headquarters, where his old friends. Merritt, Custer and mhe gallant Pennington, gathered round him and showed him every tenderness to the last He died about 10 o'clock the next day Interesting Items. One ounce of egg will produce 30,XX fei Ik worms. One of the oldest known food plants is asparagus. The average amount of sickness ir human life, is nine days out of om year. The product of the British shipyards amounts to 20 or '20 ier cent of tlx whole. Special clocks, which need winding up only once in 400 days, are now manufactured in Munich. A "ten-penny" nail means that ont thousand nails weigh ten pounds. Tht word "penny" In this case Is a corruption of pound. The last season's seal catch Is tht smallest that there is any record of. It amounted to less than 0,000 about half that of tho previous year. It Is proposed to build a motor ap proach road to London, a distance ot fifteen miles, with a width of forty tc sixty feet The highest gradient Is 1 to 30. It will cost ?200,000 a mile.

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