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Crynn's Chaotic Finance. Most of the Democrats iu the House dodged when the vote was taken to substitute the currency bill introduced by their leader, Mr. Williams, for the Vreelaud bill. The Williams bill was understood to be the embodiment of Mr. Bryan's riews on currency reform, jet ninety-three Democratic members simply voted "present" when the ayes and nces were called for. Naturally, the Republicans had 'a prolonged laugh over this sort of party faith and harmony. With few exceptions the Democratic members declined to go on record in favor of a currency bill fathered by Mr. Bryan. He has put forward so many issues that broke down under Investigation, and when tested by the public judgment, that his fellow Democrats have grown circumspect in backing his fresh propositions. Mr. Bryan Is a greenbacker and unreconstructed. He has always held that the best plan to issue paper money is directly by the national government, and that its redemption in any metal is ujt a fundamental necessity. Any flnauciai policy that he might Ik? charge! with conducting would lead along that road. He voted for General Weaver In 1S02 and was fused with the Populists in 1S.J, accerting without a wcrd of dissent their outspoken greenback principles. His party in Nebraska to-day is composed chiefly of Populists and greenbackers. The Democrats iu Congress know his financial position too well to vote for a currency bill shaped : by him without looking out for perilous stuff. Therefore they voted "present" instead of "aye" when the BryanWillianis bill re me before the House.

Sunshine und Prosperity riatform. To keep the dinner pail full. To keep ;he pay car going. To keep the factory busy. To keep the workmen employed. To keep the present wages up. This is the platform suggested by the Business Men's League of Sr. Louis for adoption by the National Prosperity Association recently organized in that city. It could not be improved upon. In the next five weeks this platform should bo circulated by tens of millions in every city, town and farming community in the United States. Other millions of leaflets tearing this legend ehould Cood Chicago In the week of June 10. I-t no -delegate escape the deluge. Let the national Republican convention' pronounce for The full dinner pail. The perambulating pay car. The busy factory. The busy workmen. The unreduced wag rate. ; On such a platform the Republican party can win. Long live Sunshine und Prosierity! . Somrthinc to Think A boot. Those who will persist in croaking about "hard times" should study the oJEcLil statements issued from Washington, showing that in all probability the export trade of the United States would reach $2.000,000,000 In the fiscal year which will end June CO. If these phenomenal figures are reached it will have more than dounled In the vears that have elapsed since the beginning of the first McKinley administration. ' There seemed little doubt a month ago ''that the export iommeree of the country would reach the $.',000,000,000 mark the fiscal year, bnt there was an unexpected dcrease in outgoing cargoes in March. The export trade In that month was valued at $141,397,D7S. as against $1G1.GS5,22S in the same month of last year. , The grand total of foreign bound commerce for the first nine months of ' the fiscal year stands at $l,407,903,rJS5, but If the Increase in shipments during the next three months should be as large äs it was In the same months of last year. In comparison with those of 1D0C the grand total for the year would be close to $2.000 000,000.

Will Hear the Drnnt of Itevlalon. Our tariff schedule's are constructed on the plan of preserving the market for manufacturers to domestic industries, not only by a tariff on competing Imports but also by the absence of the tariff on one of the most important elements of expense f ntering into manufacturing In the folni of raw materials. For this reason the schedule of manufactured articles will boar the brtmt of revision, not only because it affects investments amounting to fully $15,000,COO.OOO In manufactures, but also bocause It bears directly upon the income of employes, including officers and wage earnings, amounting to fully $4,000,000.000 a year. Wall Street Journal. Light and Airy Meals. Mrs. Hashem I thought you were to take those tablets before meals Instead af after, Mr. Biffklns? Biffklns That's what the doctor told meto do, but I guess It doesn't r .3-any difference while I board -ith you. Alrra j" I)ampei.lB& Thing, To. Miss Coy I know, Oeorge, why you firemen are usually bachelors. tJeorge Why? Miss Coy Because you have so many .fames that you can't settle down with one, Boston Transcript. Not Fast Color. She Don't you think she has a reautlful complexion? He Why, I suppose so. "It runs in her family, you know." Oh, Is it the kind of complexion hat runs?" Yonkers Statesman. Room for One More. He was on trial for bigamy. "What," queried the judge, over in2uced you to marry fourteen wives?" -Superstition, your honor," replied the prisoner. "I consider thirteen an unlucky number." Explained. "Everyone speaks of your benevolence, madam, and that you provide so n.any needy ones with f ood. ' "Yes, yis; when one has three laughters learning to cook at the same time." Fliegende Blatter. Embarrassed. The Manager I'm sorry you've dr.--:Ued to quit the show. What's , the matter? The Actor I can't afford to Uxr. ur to the salary your press agent r.y i'stCharily. "Dar's enough c'iirity in di3 w-.. ter Liver a multilixl? or sinners." si'.d Brother Williaxs. "but ter do 'uja any good hereafter Ie kiverln should be Sreprc-of. AltAuta Constitution

The Party that Deliberate. For more than ten years the Kepuhlican party has been trusted by tha people with authority in all departments of the government. By virtue of the popular judgment it still retains this control, but the time is drawing near when more than lS.Ooo.OCO votes will decide whether this responsibility shall continue for another period of years, or be curled after March 4 next, when a new president will be inaugurated and a few Congress will come into existence. In a certain sense it is unfortunate that the defection In the Democratic party four years ago was so great as to give the impression that the Republican p.trty had be-iome 2.500,000 stronger than the opposition. Such an idea is calculated to engender a false view of personal popularity and to lead the weak or designing to lower the tone of the party by the adulation of individuals. The Republican party is not millions stronger than the forces arrayed against it unless they are divided to an unusual extent. No Republican Is as great as the party, or ever can be until Its character and purposes are materially Impaired. The convention about to meet at Chicago, like its preceding national gatherings, has occasion to think carefully and deeply upon the welfare of the country. It has vital duties to perform in connection with the best Interests of the people and a record to preserve in this respect that Is im measurably more imiortant than any personal vanities. A little less than four years ago, on July C, 1004, a notable meeting was held at Jackson. Mich., to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the Republican party, for jt was there that the first State convention acting under the name was held. The leading speaker was Secretary of State John Hay, and It was a powerful address he gave the country. Its breadth, elevatkn and calmness were never more striking than now, when so much that is merely fretful is trying to pass for revelation. 'The Republican party, iu the mass and in detail." said Mr. Hay, "has shown the capacity to govern." It has been the party of deliberate action. In President Lincoln Mr. Hay haw a man who "never for a moment was tempted by the vast power he wielded to any action not Justified by the moral and the organic law." Familiar with the history of the Republican party from the start. Mr. Hay could speak of its great achievements In every branch of national advancement and statesmanship, and "Yet it has not abated one jot or tittle of the ancient law imposed uiou t:s by our God-fearing ancestors. We have fought a good fight, but also we have kept the faith. The constitution of our fathers ha been the light to our feet; our path 'is, and will ever remain, that of ordered progress, of liberty under the law." Anything at Chicago that could reduce the horizon of the Republican party from that of the highest national advantage to that of personal aggrandizement would be a falling off to le profoundly deplored. To cbcajwa the party In any way, or degrade Its standards, would be a blow to its power' of usefulness from which recovery would not be easy. The supreme party obligation Is to the government of the United States and its SO.OGO.oOO people. Infinitely wiser is the party than ?.uy of its members. Men come and go, but a party moves onward to new fields of effort and new obligations, if it is worthy to survive. It is a pleasure to hear that the convention ball at Chi-ago Is not to be a picture gallery of aspirants

or supposed favorites. Presidents and candidates may be conspicuous in an era, but the mission of tha party Is not to be subservient to them. A national party worthy of resect towers above any individualities. Its business Is momentous to the nation, and a wcrsMp of persons is a sorry show of ?m ä?al demoralization. fee iom iT obe-Democrat. Xot at One Stroke. Representative Leake of New Jersey has fcindly outlined a plan for tariff revision. He says: "The Democratic party will not wipe out the tariff with one stroke of legislation." Which certainly is very considerate of Congressman Leake. Rut It hufl a suspicious sound, as suggesting the lH-mreratic scheme of horizontal reduction proposed a generation ago, and which seemed based on tiie principle that cutting off a dog's tail a little at a time would not hurt as much as though the amputation of the member were rerformei at one fell swoop. That motion wjH never carried out, although It did conduce to national hilarity. Congressman Leake should have more originality or a keener sense of humor. Troy Times. Of More Importance. "I see by this paper," remarked the tj-pewriter boarder, "that a society woman In St. Louis has started a converse tion class for the purpose of t- i?i ;:g young men how to talk." A class for the punose of teaching young women how to listen would he of far more importance," growled the fussy bachelor at the pedal extremity of the mahogany. Uullr Idea. ' Pat (planning a burglary) Sure, now, Mick, an' how shall we know If we're xth there at the -Ight toime? Mlci Re uisy, Pat; Oi've the viry jewel av an Idea. If you git there first, put a chalk mark on the gate; and if Oi git there first Oi'll rub it out. The Sketch. Goftaip Set to Muxlc. "I went to the oiera last night." "What did you hear?" "That Mrs. Drowning is going to get a divorce, Mrs. Riggs has the dearest dog and a new baby, and the Iluttom are going to live in India." Sot Worth .Mach. "Oh! you've heard of her, then? She certainly has the gift of song." "Well. I hope that's what it is. I should hate to think she paid anything for It." Philadelphia Press. Lnxnrli" vu. Accewlllci". "'Mrs. Pawn's husband lias bor.it he. a lovely automobile," said Mrs. (Jreen the other evening. "Huh! That's no sign that he won't be over here to borrow icy lawn mower as usual.'" Detroit Free Press. They Io. "What do you do in c.-ipo of fire?" "Call up the village lire department nd notify them the house lias burned own. They do so enjoy playing en . i!ns." Life. The winner is lie who gives hirmi-If to his work, body and mind. Chas. Ruxton. , The man without a purpose live, but enjoys not life Herbert

I inions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.

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may fairly be said to be the most picturesque and most expressive in the world, and it does not need the verbiage of the

sluini or even the catch words and catch phrases of the street, to add to its vigor and variety. As a rule, the use of slang is indicative more of paucity of thought and idea than of a susceptibility to the humorous and. the graphic. If we tell our friend to "get onto his job," "to get onto himself," "to get busy," "to et a move on," or any one of a hundred other things, we certainly reveal our tendency to move with the tide of the hour, but at the sanii time we clearly show that we are more Imitative than original. Wc speak slang frequently through sheer laziness. It was the last word in the mouth of a companion, and it becomes the next word in ours. It is echoed by the speaker, by the teacher, by the lecturer, by the writer, but with rare exceptions It never becomes anything but slang. After all. it is only the best of slang that survives, but even then we need not excuse ourselves for becoming proficient in its use. We should think of the present as ell as of the future. Why use slang when we can speak the speech of our heritage equally well? Why become the blind leaders of the blind? Roston Transcript.

M0VIN3-PICTUSE EXHIBITIONS.

ITIIIN a comparatively short time an entirely new form of public amusement has arisen and grown to astonishing magnitude. The vita scope is doing for the common ieople, and especially for the children, what only the theater has done heretofore, and is doing It for a tenth of the cost, and in

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towns too small for the theater to invade. Whatf arc tbo subjects which call forth such shouts of laughter and such exclamations of delight from the children? The father who does not know would do well to find out by personal investigation. He will discover a man on the railroad track, and see an express train rush by and toss and mangle him. Men and women leap from the windows of burning buildings. Policemen arrest "toughs" ' after a severe fight. Russian peasants are stripied to the waist and leaten insensible by cruel Cossacks, while the Tsar's cflieers applaud. The antics of a drunken man delight a street crowd, and a domestic tragedy involves a double murder and ends In suicide. Of course the scenes from which these pictures are made are "fakes" compositions carefuly i prepared for the purpose for when such scenes are enacting In real life the photographer Is not there to record them. The result, at. least upon the mind of receptive childhood, is the same as if the scenes were real. Indeed, they are real in the effect of excitement created and sympathies

A VALLEY OF DEATH. tn Horrors More Terrible than Thune of Dante' Imagination. Only thirty-five miles long and about ei giit miles wide, yet nobody can pass through it and retain both life and reason. Such is Death Valley, on the borders of California and Nevada, says a writer. It is undoubtedlv the deadliest place in the whole wide world. I have looked down upon this valley several times from the mountain heights which Inclose It the Tel escope range on the west, and the Fuh aeral range on the east. Rut I was never foolish enough to court certain death, as so many others have done, by searching the valley for the rich 3epusits of gold and silver ft is reputed to contain. Death valley is the bed of a vanished lake, now a desert of sand, salt and alkali. There are several streams and pools or water in it, but they are all Impregnated with alkali, auc therefore, jwlsonous. Glittering fields Df salt alternate with miles of white sand, which Is driwn in places Intol high mounds by tl s whirling! hot winds that sweep through the gorge. The surface of the salt earth In places Is very brittle, and a few Inches beneath it there Is a .slimy, salt mud, of unmeasured depth, from which rescue Is impossible. There were forty emigrant In the Srst wagon train that tried to pass through Death Valley In 1SC0. Two men got through, and both were Insane. Many other bands of emigrants joing to California perished, and the jlace was avoided, until gold was found there, and then party after party of reckless men were lured to death. Over äfty Mexicans succumbed in one batch. Death Valley has been the scene of ijme of the worst traged'es of torture in human history. A lieutenant Df the United States army, on an exploring trip with two soldiers, forced Uis guide at the ioint of the rifie to take him into the valley on foot. Within two hours one of the soldiers staggered back into the camp of the main body, demented, and hardly able to walk. The others had become Insane and wandered away to tiie. If a man is not quickly killed ty !iont and thirst or by falling into the juIcksniM's, he gf,cs mad and raves of rrecn fields and bubbling streams. In1 parts of the valley there are innu- j mcrable pinnacles of salt earth, ns lharp as a jie-dle, and as dangerous j 13 bayonet points. Many a man has '

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unnecessarily and falsely stimulated and right standards of thought destroyed. On the other hand, many of these exhibitions are not only unobjectionable, but instructive and wholesomely amusing. There are also others which contain features too objectionable to be mentioned here. All are open to the public, young or old. on payment of a dime or a nickel. The duty of parents does not end with the production of the price of admission. Youth's Companion.

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fIWl station, has a depth when the entrance is I aG J passed of sixty feet upon the average and an area of ten square miles. There is no warrant for viewing the fortification of this outpost as conveying a menace to any Asiatic power. It Is a precautionary measure, justified upon the same reasons that have inspired our coastal defenses, fronting along both oceans. Pearl Harbor, from the geographic position which it occupies, is an outlying challenge port, along the great ocean highway leading to our shores. Thought turns to Japan in connection with Hawaii as a defense outjwst only because Japan is, besides the United States, the only power maintaining a powerful naval outfit In the Pad 3c. Rut this may not be the situation thirty years from now. China lias entered upon the same modernizing transformation which has been iu progress-In the Japanese empire for more than a quarter of a century. The Mongolian empire has a population which is believed to be three times as large as that of the nationality next greatest In that respect, and, moreover, an undeveloped wealth of mine and field generally estimated as being of an aggregate importance exceeding the latent resources of any other equal area du the globe. Ultimately, there Is abundant reason for elieving China, and not Japan, is to be the predominant Asiatic power. Raltlmore Americau.

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resource Is to get rid of him entirely. All careful housekeepers have their windows and doors screened, but this is valuable largely as a matter of comfort; It does not go to tho root of tho trouble. The flies Infest butcher shops and grocery stores, and we shall never be immune until we attack the fly as an enemy of society. Philadelphia Inquirer.

been lamed by them, and fallen down to die of del;rium. Even the gloomy Imagination of Dante could not have conjured up one-half of the horrors of this real valley of death. Town Deantr Scheme. The first move In the plan to make Vork, Pa., the "city beautiful" was made recently, when, under the auspices of the York Assembly of the Dauphin Institute, assisted by publicspirited citizens. Prof. Zueblln, of Chicago University, delivered his lecture on "The Twentieth Century City, or

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the City York Ought to Re," says the Municipal Journal and Engineer. Prof. Zueblln would have the city by its regularly constituted bodies or through Its public-spirited citizens lay out a definite plan of action, a plan that would provide for parks, sewers, the elimination of poles, the beautifying of the laws, fhe prevention of corioratlons from doing as they please In tearing up streets, street car congestion In the public square, and a hundred and ono everyday common sense remedies that most citizens have long been aware of. yet fail to get at the foundation of, for lack of a general plan of action. Prof. Zueblln would have the city fathers, oti'cial or real, decide on what they want In the years to come, and then "go after It," so that the future generations may take up the work that has been started and carry It to completion. TERRAPIN IS INTELLIGENT. He Can Walk a Chalk Line nt Coinmanl and Do Other Thins. Pinkey. so called because of the color of his shell, is one of the most interesting exhibits at the aquarium, but one not often viewed by the public, says the New York Times. Pinkey Is an albino terapin, one so rare that L. R. Fpenccr, iu charge, of fresh water fish, always brings him out for those who are "behind tho scenes." Those In charge of the exhibit speak of him as a freak. At present Pinkey Is living a contented life hi a tin-lined box under a Klfiss tank containing sea anemonos In Mr. Spencer's 'domain. lie Is exhibited as another argument In supHrt of his custodian's belief that the lowest forms of animal life have a ct-rtaLi amount of reasoning power. Pinkey can walk a chalk line at the command of Mr. Spencer, and he ctn

AN ANCHOR TO WESTWARD. "i, II ! Hawaiian Isl.mds constitute the strar I tegic situation commanding the eastern half II I of the Pacific. Pearl Harbor, which the I r n-fn .1111 I c n 1 f trr I nei n nnT.nl

THE HOUSE FLY. transmit tvnhnM through Ita fact carry thousands of bacilli on each

foot, and If It lights on ood and the food is eaten disease Is apt to follow. The fly does not wipe his feet, and there Is no use in trying to train him to do so. The only

also wave his head to signify tha' feeding time has arrived. The terrdpln came from Texas som five years ago. His color at once at tracted attention, and the director, be lievlng that he would add to the at tractions, turned him out In. a largt tank with others of his species. II did not thrive, and, apparently dis gusted with his surroundings, refused to eat. When he was too weak to valk hi was turned over to Mr. Spencer and christened Pinkey. Mr. Spencer be PERISH. gan feeding him by prying his mouth ojKjn with a slick and shoving killle fish down his throat. After several days of this Pinkey's Interest In life revived. Then he began to show 8 fondness for Mr. Spencer, and persisted in following him about the room He began to know when it was dinner time. Now Mr. Spencer will stand halfway across the room and call to him Out of his den will come Pinkey, and with many a thump of his hard shell on the lloor crawl to Mr. Siencer's feet. Rut his greatest stuut Is walklns the chalk line. ' "Pinkey, you have been drinking," says Mr. Spencer. "Show me," he says, and Pinkey stars off down the line. "That's not so much," said one vlsi tor after such an exhibition. "The least Just kept on going after you put him down." From the marks about the edge of his shell Mr. Spencer believes that Pinkey Is reaching the old-age limit. He Is perhaps 70 years old, and rheumatism Is getting Into his left leg, which Is already stiff at the joint. When you go to the aquarium again ask to see Mr. Spencer's real albino terrapin. His' acquaintance is worth making, even if it Is only to see him scratch his head and brighten up when Mr. Spencer speaks to him. luntlufi Onion. Persons with dropsical tendencies should eat onions frequently. This simple cure has proved effective In many cases. In one Instance the patient had been given up by several physicians and only tried the onions to please a friend. She was completely restored to health and, though that was five years ago, has never had a return of Uil trouble. She ate the. onions Just ns sho would nn apple, taking a great many during the day. The butcher should be careful how he fcteaks his reputation.

8 uvii War Stories m mm w w . . m llotr Col. Mulligan Lost LeiloRton. I belonged to a company raised in Earlville, La Salle County, 111., which was ready for the first call, but not knowing how to secure attention we were too late in getting a place. Our disappointment was great,, for at that time patriotism was most intense. Tkz company selected Captain S. A. Simpson and myself to come to Chicago in the hope that we could find a vacancy. We had the good fortune to get an interview with Colonel James A. Mulligan the very day he received word from Washington that he was authorized to raise a regiment. Colonel Mulligan listened to us, and then said: "Gentlemen, are you sure you have a company of men?" I showed him the company roll. "That won't do," he said. "Too often the names are on. the roll for show only. I must be certain. If you can give a definite assurance I will give you a position." We told him we knew every man in the company and were confident that there would be no disappointment We pleaded hard for the honor and finally he said: "Gentlemen, I am inclined to give you a chance, and if you will have your company here In the barracks, the old Polk street brewery, Monday morning you may have the position." This was Friday afternoon. At once we sent a telegram: "Company accepted if in barracks Monday; spread the news quick." The company reached Chicago on time and was assigned to Company D quarters. I am anxious to tell your readers about the siege of Lexington, Mo. Lexington is situated in l bend on the south side of the Missouri River, and on a bluff 123 feet high. There was at that time no town at the base of the bluff just a ferry across the river to a Junction with the railroad to St Louis. Twenty-five miles west is Kansas City, with extensive railroad connections reaching far and. wide. I did not think that Lexington wa3 a strategic point because It was impossible to fortify It successfully. We were at Jefferson City, Mo., when orders came to make a forced march to relieve Lexington. We left Sept. 10, 1S01, early In the morning, each soldier carrying five days' rations, and reached Lexington in the dusk of the next evening, getting into the earth fortifications to the rattle of the rbcl infantry guns. We posted our guards and at once got to work strengthening the breastworks, working in reliefs all the night The garrison consisted of one regiment of Missouri "Home Guards," S00 strong; jie battery of six-inch guns and one battalion of the First Illinois Cavalry, 400 hordes and men. These men had no, sabers and were armed with only the old-fashioned horse pistols used In the Mexican war. The Home Guards had the old Springfield muskets. Our regiment had the Ira-" proved Springfield muskets, but not much ammunition, as it was a forced march and provisions, ammunition and re-enforcements were quickly to follow us. , Sept 12. 1S0I, reports Indicated five days' rations for the men. There was one well on College Hill, and for water we had to depend upon the river, but we expected relief would come soon. Dense, heavy timber Inclosed Lexington, making a veritable death trap for our men, as nearly all the trees in good range were used by the rebels' sharpshooters to pick off our men at every exposure, with no harm to the rebels. General Price was in command, and our scouts said he had fully 00,000 men and more coming every hour. On Sept 1G we took one of thecollege buildings for a hospital, and had the hospIAl flag hoisted or it There was yet no word from General Fremont. On Sept 17 the rebels charged our hospital and captured It, although the. hospital flag was plainly in sight Captain Montgomery of Company R was ordered to retake the hospital. He captured It but could not hold it. The enemy came upon him in such great numbers that he gave the order to retreat. Company R lost forty-two men in that charge. On Sept. 20 we were still without help from General Fremont, and had no food for the men an3 no water. The rebels made movable breastworks out of hemp bales and were gradually getting nearer to us. Sept. 21 we were again without food and water. It began to look as if we were forgotten and forsaken. Sept. 22 Company D was ordered out to the iHiint to relieve Company K. There had been no burial of the dead in the ten days we had been there; the corpses were swollen like mons'ers , and the dead horses looked like elephants. The hemp bales were within twenty-five feet of our works. If a hat was exposed a volley of bullets was fired luto It. All we could do was to sit still and watch the enemy sharply. I went forward and asked Captain Simpson to a conference. "It Is folly," I told him, "to prolong the misery. Colonel Mulligan ought to be told that our case Is hopeless." "Who will tell the colouel this?" he asked. "Will you?" "If you ask me to call on him I will go," I replied, and he said: "Go, lieutenant" I started toward headquarters, realizing that I had a delicate as well as a difficult task before me, and with no idea how Colonel Mulligan would receive the message. When I had nearly reached the building headquarters I met Colonel Mulligan coming around the corner. "Colonel," I said, "may I talk with you?" "Certainly, Lieutenant McCIure," he answered. Ry this time the sharpshooters had us In fairly good range and the bullets were spluttering in the ground or singing in the air. "Colonel." I said, iot us go back a few paces." Then I continued : "Colonel Mulligan, I hope you will not misjudge me, but I must scak now. There is no food or water in the camp; there has been none for four days. The dead of the past ten days are unburlcd ; for ten days we have been looking for re-enforcements, but none have come, and we feel that you can consistently and honorably surrender your forces." Ho looked at me a moment, and suddenly his ejes flooded with tears. After an Interval of f llcncc lie said : "Lieutenant MeA'l.ure, I accept j-our suggestion .".s the wisest thin to do. Go back to Captain Simpson and say that I will at one order, the adjutant to lower our ilag and I will ask for an armistice." Just as I got back to Company D I heard a gicit shout a rebel shout We

looked for the cause and saw cur flag being lowered. For the time being we forgot our hunger and thirst and weariness in the greater anguish of knowing that the flag our flag had to be lowered to its enemies. As a rule, the soldier delights to tell of his victories, but in the surrender of iiexington. Mo., there has been all these years a feeling of thankfulness in my -heart that I was the one to make the suggestion to Colonel Mulligan. Our men accepted parole at once, but Colonel Mulligan's officers declined parole, preferring to remain with him while a prisoner. Thirty days later General Price told us that he was going to break camp and that if we still declined the parole he would do the very best he could for us, but he felt it was a mistake on our part still to decline the parole. Colonel Mulligan advised us to accept the parole that a special cartel was being arranged by Price and Fremont whereby we could soon be exchanged. It was the latter part of October when we reached Sedalla. Mo., General Fremont's headquarters. He had 00,000 soldiers In camp, a camp of great pomp, but he never made a move to help Colonel Mulligan. Although Fremont had been one of the idols of my youth, with the siege of Lexington the halo that enveloped Fremont in my ardent admiration quickly faded away, and left him In my memory as simply a man too small for the duty Intrusted to him. Thomas D. McCIure, First Lieutenant Company D. Twenty-third Illinois Infantry, in

'Chicago Record Herald. Developing a Talent. Among the pleasant remembrances of a long stay at Natchez during the Civil War, writes Mrs. Ellen Riddle in her ."Reminiscences of d Soldier's Wife,", Is that of a beautiful blue-and-wlilte French organdy muslin. She had noticed It In a shop window and greatly admired It, and her husband urged its purchase. .Rut s!x had recently received a box of gowns from New Orleans, and felt that she did not need It Still he tempted tue, saying, "If you will make it yourself, I will not -only buy the material, but you can buy any Valenciennes lace you may want to trim It with." j He well know my weakness; there was nothing I loved so much as a bit of lace, real filmy, ieautlful old lace. I hesitated, however, renioinbering so well the time, when first married, he gave me- a twenty-dollar gold pl?'.e, when gold was scarce, if I would make a plain calico dress for myself. Unfortunately, I took the pay in advanceMany times I threw the thing down, declaring I would, try no more to finish it, when the colonel would quiet I j say, "Rut .you have Fpent the twentj dollars"; and I would go to woili again. ' He was anxious for roe to learn ta &J7T, knowing I might have it to dj game time when away .from civilization, as we were apt to be. The lace tempted me, and the muslin was bought -Fortunately for me, just at this time the beautiful Mrs. Marston canie.to visit us, and under her directions the gown was built, and was a thing of beauty for many years, and greatly admired. The making of It developed a latent talent, for afterward, when we lived on the frontier and I could not have sewing of any kind done, with the help of tle mirse I made everything that my children and I wore. So the colonel did not lose greatly la the end. and I was benefited. Grant Iteturn. While Major General Oliver Otis Howard was stationed at the headquarters of the Department of the Columbia at Vancouver Barracks, General Grant, with some of his family and friends, returning from his trip round theO'orld In 1S70, made' the commandant and his wife a call. They gave him and his party an evening receition. General Howard says In his recently published "Autobiography," having invited public men from the Territory of Washington and the State of Oregon to meet him. During the reception that evening Gov. Ferry of Washington Territory in an Informal address in bohajf of the citizens, welcomed the general and his friends to the Pacific coast The general, standing with his hand upon a chair, blushing like a young man making his first speech, answered the governor in a few simple, wellchosen words. He pointed out some of the changes that had taken place since he was stationed in that vicinity, and predicted a great future forWashington and Oregon. After his address General Howard said to him that he had been told he could not make a speech. "Oh," said Grant, "I have been practicing on my feet since I went abroad till I can manage to say a few words. The next morning the general and bis company went to Portland down the Columbia and up the Willamette. lie and Iiis wife were standing near tue rail of the steamer as they approached the city of Portland. The houses. Including the roofs, and the docks were thronged with ioople. Noticing them, General Grant turned to his wife. "Julia," he said, "look there; see those people. This turnout must be on your account, because when I came here before there-were not three people on the dock." What Was Deiired. The late Gen. Joseph Wheeler toid this story as illustrating the firm belief which prevailed In Tennessee during wartime as to the efficacy of prayer. There had been a summer religious meeting In one of the rural districts. No rain, it seems, had fallen in a long time; everything was about burned up. Consequently, the preacher concluded his prayer with tfiis appeal for rain: "Oh, Lord, we need a refreshing shower! Re pleased to send us the blessed rain, so that the drooping vegetation may be revived oh, Ixml! none of those light, drizzly rains, but a regular ground soaker! A heavy rain, oh. Lord! P.ut not heavy enough, good Ijord, to raise the Cumberland river fo that tho Yankee gunboats can come in and take Nashville!" China's mineral resources are to, be developed. The Chinese government has ordered the Immediate establishment of a department of mines In each of the seventeen provinces. Probably the owner of the largest number of dogs iu the world is a U jssian cattle king, who has T.000 shepherd dogs to look after 1,500,000 sheep. The Congo Free State has an area of 000,000 square ui'les, and an estimated population no less than 0,-000,000.

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