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The first time I saw General Grant ras through our headquarters field glasses from the Hewlett House line an the James river, opposite Dutch Gap canal. This line across to Swift Creek sod Fort Clifton on the Appomattox was held by Pickett's division after fae retaking of Bermuda Hundred, whxh capture so pleased General Lee that he sent Pickett a complimentary acknowledgment of his services. It was the summer of 1SG4. General Pickett and I were riding alom? the line, looking over at the Federal gunboats and monitors not more than t'CO yards from our headquarters, when suddenly I saw a pun of smoke drifting, scattering, becoming a mere shadow as it floated higher ami was lost agaiust the blue sky. "Look look. General !" I said. "Isn't that beautiful V "Dangero.isly beautiful. It's from a ihell. The enemy are firing over there. Come, dear; whip up your horse, and let me get you out of this as quick as I can." "No, indeed." I said. "I'm not a kit afraid, and If I were. General, do you think I would let Pickett's men see me run?" "Come, dear, please! You an? In danger, useless danger, and that is not bravery," he said. The General's soldiers did not seem to agree with 1dm, and Corse's brigade when we passed sent up cheer after eheer as I rode slowly along. Just then Captain Smith came across the field to greet us. "What is the cause of the filing. Captain?" asked the General. "The Federals are testing some guns, I think, for the entertainment of visitors. They are not firing at us. I learn that Mrs. Grant and some friends have come down from Washington this morning. They are over there to the right of that oak. Mrs. Grant, you see," he said, handing me the field glasses, "is standing between those two short, stout men. The one at the left with a cigar in his mouth is Grant. The shorter, stouter one on the right Is Ingalls. Grant's Quartermaster General, who, they say, is one of the brainiest men In the army." "Yes. that's old Rufus," said the General. "See him laugh, the old rascal! But come; let's ride on." "No." said Captain Smith, "It isn't safe here. I would take Mrs. Pickett away. Turn to the left there into that clump of trees." "Unfortunately, Captain, Mrs. Pickett outranks me. She will not go, and I can't Issue a military order, as In the case of an insubordinate." "Permit me, please, Mrs. Pickett, to add my entreaties to the General's. Ii really isn't safe here." "Let rne get down and try our gins, too, please, and then 111 go," I said. "Not for the world," replied the General. "The enemy are not 6booting j us. Mrs. Grant is a kind-hearted wo an, and would not even shoot this wa r If she thought it Interrupted our morning ride. Besides, she Is very crosseyed,' and doesn't know directions." The Captain saluted the General, lifted his cap to me, suggestively pointing to the beautiful grove on our left, and rode away. I was watching his graceful horsemanship. which the Southerner has by Inheritance tHrough long line of ancestors, and, becoming ashamed of my disobedience, was abort to turn Into the grove, when a rri3on ball swept across the field, and thci. I 3a w Captain Smith's horse dash madly on, bearing Lis headless body. As I looked it swtj d from side to fide, and fell a hundred yards In adTance of the handsome head. My heart stood still. It stands still even now as I faintly try to record the dread ight One of the aimless balls, alas! had found a mark. The memory of General Grant, as I saw him that day across the waters on the slope, quietly, peacefully smoking, always comes to me associated with the fearful sight that followed it On July 17, 18&4, when General Pickett was riding Into Richmond to velcome his first baby boy, the loving, loyal men of his division built bonfires all along their line in honor of the event. The Army of the Potomac, knowing that there had been no battle, were curious and anxious, accrediting the demonstration to the only plausible reason, foreign acknowledgment of our Independence. General Grant sent out scouts to reeonnoiter, and when he learned the cause of the celebration he turned to Ingalls, and asked: "Haven't we got some kindling wood over here on our side of the line? . Why don't we strike a light for the young Pickett?" The light was struck by Grant's orer, and bonfires burned aJong the Federal line as well to welcome General Pickett's beir. The next day this letter, marked Unofficial," came through the lines and was mysteriously delivered at Pickett's headquarters: "July 18, 1S4. To George E. Pickett: We 'arc sending our congratulations to you, the young mother and the young recruit. Grant, Ingalls, Suckley." This unofficial and "he following official letter from General Lee's headquarters are still sacredly preserved", and the ink and the sentiment expressed are alike unfaded: "Headquarters Army of Northern Virginia. Dear General: Accept through me the congratulations of the General commanding and the whole army. My best wishes In acMitlon. Yours truly, W. II. Taylor, Acting Adjutant General." Some days later there came through the Federal lines a beautiful silver cup engraved, "For George E. Pickett, Jr., from his father's friends." Grant was at West Point at the same time as Pickett, but in the class ahead of him. In the Mexican war, where they fought together under the same flag, and through the long contest of later years, when they were on opposite sides, the old friendship never dleu. After the "far, when the Gtucral and I were homiess exiles In Canada, our beautiful house on the James having been burned by Butler, and General Grant was Lieutenant General of the United States army, he wTot a. letter to General Pickett (In

March, 1SGG). In It he said: "I am sorry, Pickett, your wise advisers up by the throne there in Washington should have forced upon you the necessity of going away. It was not at all necessary ; for, had It required another war, the cartel between General Lee and myself should have beeil carried out, and you ought to have known It" The first time I ever spoke to General Grant was at the Washington railway station. Not long after he became President of the United States ho sent an invitation to me and the baby and an order to General Pickett to come and visit him. "Hello, Pickett ! Up to your old war tricks, coming in ahead of the traiH!" he said, as we came upon him sitting In his carriage at the station, innocently waiting, not knowing that the traic had arrived. He referred to an incl dent during the war. My first sight of Washington wai from the President's carriage. Mrs Grant was a beautiful hostess, and aL went well till night came, when I wa so afraid that my baby would cry &n( disturb our hosts that I could hardl; sleep. The next day, upon speakinj of my uneasiness, thö President said: "Let the baby do Just what h pleases. The whole place belongs t him." One evening when we were reininis clng I told Mrs. Grant of having see) her before, when General Pickett, wh loved to tease me, repeated, much to my dismay, my belligerent remarks on that occasion and the argument which he had used to curb my anxiety. "And do you know, Pickett," Grant Interrupted, relieving my embarrassment, "that once we were foolish enough to think seriously of having an oieration for that? We had consul ted the best surgeons and been assured that It was a very simple thing and not at all dangerous, and so we had decided to have it done. But I got tc worrying about it more and more, and the more I thought of It the more I didn't want my wife"s eyes changed even the least little bit from what they had always been. Well, all the arrangements had been made; the hour for the operation was almost at hand. We were alone. I stood watching her put the last little odds and ends into her handbag. All was ready, and we started to go. My hand was on the knob of the door, when I stopped, turned, and, looking around at her, said: "'My dear, I know that I am very selfish and ought not to say what I

am going to; but I don't want to Lave 4 your eyes fooled with. They are all righc as they are. They look just as they did the very first time I ever saw them the same eyes I looked into when I fell in love with you the same eyes that looked up to mine and told me that my love was returned. I have feit and seen that expression in them through all the years, since then, and I don't want It changed now. This operation might make you look better to other people; but to me you are prettier as you are as you were when I first saw you. No, my dear, I should miss the way you've always looked, and I don't want any changes.' So, If you don't mind, please let's keep your dear eyes just as they always have bc-cn. "She looked up with a surprised joy and said: 'Why, It was only for your sake that I was even thinking of having anything done, and If you feel that way about It, I I "Well, Pickett, I was glad, and she was glad. I untied the bonnet strings I had watched her tying so carefully, threw the bonnet on the floor, I believe, and took her by the hand, and we turned and walked back Into the room, as light-hearted as a pair of children. The veil of uncertainty had been parted, and a heavy load had been lifted from our hearts." Grant reached over and patted Her hand, and the President of the United States looked into the same eyes that had looked their love into those of the young Captain In the years agone and had become more beautiful to him in all the changes of time. La Salle Corbell rickett '-he Biff Knapsack. We were marching from Frederick City, Md., to Gettysburg in the summer of '03. Sergeant Jordan, of Company G, Nineteenth Maine Volunteers, carried a very large knapsack Now this knapsack had for a long time, and during many a long and weary march, been the cause of much comment and the target of many Impertinent and laughable jokes, remarks, and friendly observations until Jordan had wearl nl of them, and yet he carried that knapsack. Upon this particular day he was plodding doggedly along In the heat and dust with his hat pulled down over his eyes, when a mounted man rode alongside and asked In a friendly way : "Sergeant, how far are you going to carry that knapsack?" Jordan, without looking up, replied: "Farther than you can drive your old horse If you swap three times." The horseman raised Jordan's hat rim with his sword scabbard, and pleasantly looking him In the face, said: "Well, you are grit, by thunder." What was the surprise of Jordan to see that he was talking with Gen. Hancock. The quiet laugh which ran along that rank of dusty-coated, tramping men made the march lighter foY many a mile after. It broke out again and again like a ripple on a quiet lake, and sprend and spread a Joy without a pang a laugh ripple. Worth It radios-. A bee can fly faster than a pigeon? American window glass is sent all over the world. The song of the bird was originally a cry of alarm. The Paris to London telephone rate Is to be cut in half. Handel used, when traveling, to order dinner for three, or, if hungry, for five, and then eat the whole himself. The growth of public spirit in China is evidenced by the great number of newspapers which have sprung up since the closo of the war with Japan. The total value of the stone product of the country in 1007 was $G0,373,71H, an increase of $2,570,010 over that of 1905, and an Increase of $42,413,503 over that of 1800. According to the police census Just taken, the population of Washington is 339,-!03, an increase of 0,812 over last year. There are 241,020 whites and 07,433 negroes. - WhCe taking up the floor of an empty- house at Patrocinia, Brazil, a poor woman found imbedded in tha earth beneath a diamond of the first water and perfect shape, weighing 220 karats. It Is the second largest diamond ever found In South America,

Opinions of THE H0PELHSS BANK

IRECTORS of banks are notoriously parsimonious in respect to salaries. There are a lot of young men who go Into a bank looking upon It as affording a genteel position likely to lead to something good very rapidly. As a fact, there is perhaps no class of expert" workers so poorly paid

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and none where the responsibilities are greater. A young man works at a meager salary which is slowly Increased until he gets grcy-halred. He handles millions in money or accounts and absolute accuracy Is demanded. Banks are usually profitable Institutions, espfcially national banks. They pay uo Interest on deposits and pile up large surplus accounts as a guarantee against trouble after paying handsome dividends It would be a much better guarantee If the employes were given living wages, If they were awarded Increases according to ability and length of service. No man wants to steal unless ho be a degenerate but the temptation is great where poverty dwells, and the opportunities are large in most cases. There is no excuse for dishonesty, and there is no excuse for parsimonious greed on the part of bank directors. It is time for a reform all around. Philadelphia Inquirer.

MATRIMONY BY MA TL. MINING CAMP in a Western desert re-

J I cently witnessed the loathsome end of a I woman who, a few years ago, was the chief

ui a i Ui.iiiiuiwiii.il sjunnaic uicu iu Eastern cities fooled many credulous seekers of wealthy wives. On the same day that her death was reported the country

was horrified by revelations of the doings of a woman In the Central West who, after advertising for "well-to-do bachelor" husbands, not only robbed but murdered the strangers who sought her hand. Both women found their victims through "matrimonial agencies," most of which agencies publish papers containing what purport to be descriptions of a "young man of 25, salesman, good salary, seeks blonde wife, with social gifts," and ofa "widow, comfortably situated, aged 35, who would like to find congenial life companion," and others, to suit all tastes. Some of the cases are genuine. They embody natural hopes and longings that grow up In lonely surroundings, or that are not easily exrressed by shy natures outside the shelter of a false name; and many responses to the appeals are equally genuine. But the fact that a man has honest intentions, and therefore credits them to others, makes him the easier dupe of an adventuress, and the trustful good faith of a friendless we'man by no means Insures her against the vlles of a scoundrel. Young girjs sometimes answer such advertisements "for fun;" but the very freedom with which girls write Increases the danger that they will be entrapped and blackmailed by scoundrels who batten on innocent indiscretion. A man who stands high in public esteem once declared

'It was just too sad for anything," said the woman la brown. "I don't know when I ever had anything affect me so." "It must have been sad," said the tailor-made friend. I meant to have gone up there myself, but that was the day I went to the Keuyons' luncheon. I had to go; but it was aa awfully stupid affair. Was Mrs. Brent there?" "All the family were there except Mr. Brent. I don't see how they could bring themselves to do It, but they did. I'm sure It was sadder than a funeral. I could have cried, though of course I didn't know them very well. Yes, Mrs. Brent and Dora and Edith and the two boys what are their names? I always forget. I thought at first they we.e Intending to bid In some of the things, but they didn't." 'Did they sell everything?" "Everything. Wasn't it too bad? Just imagine how you would feel seeing all the things you owned going away to strangers' You know I'm so attached to everything I have that I can't bear to throw away so much as a chair when it gets broken. It's foolish, but I'm afraid I always hall be a little sentimental. I send everything up to the garret as fast as It gets worn out and sometimes I go up there and sit for hours just thinking about the happy days they are associated with. Mr. Dlmsy laughs at me and says he's roing to throw them all out Into the alley, some day." "Wasn't It too bad?" murmured the iailor-made friend. "I Just wanted to weep, I felt so jilserable," said the one in brown. "Poor, poor things! I Just know how :hey felt, exactly. A lot of strangers joining In and fingering over all your possessions and the auctioneer making jokes about them and all! As I say, it's worse than a death. They've had Aose things, or a great many of them, ner since they were married. When 1 thought of the memories that must aave been connected with some of them "She was very, very brave about It, ind the girls wer?, too, but once or twice I could see th?y pretty nearly broke down. I wonder what they will io now." "They're going away to the Pacific wast I heard." "Oh, of course. I knew that. 1 xieant I wondered how on earth they svould get aloug. Everything will be jo different for them after being in luch comfortable circumstances. I feel go much pity for any one who meets with misfortune of that kind. It really hurts me. I suppose they will have to jo Into some poky little house In a poor neighborhood and the girls will have to go out and work at something. Mr. Brent's salary won't amount to anything, my husband tells me not enoii;;li to support them even In the most nodfst way. ' All they have In the world is what they got out of the sale. "Did the things bring much?" "Mercy, no! The didn't bring anything hardly. Not half what they were worth. That lovely colonial bedstead old for $ii." "You don't tell me!" "Y'es, my dear, that's all It brought If I could have found room for it I should have bid $2 or $3 more ou It, and I think I should have got lt. I know you couldn't buy a bed new like that for less than $45 or $50. I'm sorry now that I didn't bid more, for I couid have disposed of one of mine. I did buy the Daghcstan rug that was in the library and four pairs of curtains. I bought that dainty little Doulton tea set, too. Nobody bid against .me, so I really got the mat my own price. Wasn't I perfectly lucky?" "I told Mr. Dlmsy that I wouldn't tell my bargains for fire times what I

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that he never wrote a letter which he would fear to have posted on a bulletin board in front of the city hall. He has, perhaps, established a standard above the reach of the average impulsive mortal. But persons of ordinary intelligence, vho read the newspapers, ought easily, henceforth, to resist the appeal of the "matrimonial" advertisement; for recent events have shown that it is frequently a lure to ruin. If not to death. Youth's Companion.

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tion askd for opinions from fifteen hundred teachers In the upper grades. Some of the answers are almost start! iu?. , Forty-five teachers report that they give no time at all to writing, and nearly 350 give less than fifty minutes weekly; 345 teachers give between twenty-five and fifty minutes weekly to spelling; nearly 500 said they make no effort to teach children words outside of their natural vocabulary. One teacher, a little bolder than the rest, writes that children should be drilled in rapid addition, or letterwriting, or spelling, -or cultivating a taste for good books, "instead of using precious time in making paper furniture." Other teachers complain that the courses are overcrowded. Nearly COO teachers express dissatisfaction with the result of the spelling courses. These comments are from those who should be abl to judge the results of their own work. They harmonize closely with the judgment of those in the outside world who are constantly confronted with glaring deficiencies of public school graduates in reading, writing and arithmetic. Even high school courses do not remedy tb.es fundamental deficiencies. Chicago Journal. t CAN APA SIFTS HER IMMIGRANTS.

the Influx of Southern and Eastern Europeans and Orientals; it Is making the English themselves pass a stiff examination to prove their d -slrablilty. Fifty prospective Immigrants whom, the Sal ration Army had arranged to send from London hovels to Canadian farms have been held back until the Canadian authorities have investigated each member of the party. It will be Interesting to see how long the government can continue this minute and scrupulous control in the face of a growing demand for unskilled labor. New York Tribune.

gave for them and he said, 'You'd be a fool if you did, and when Mr. Dimsy admits that anything Is cheap you may be sure it Is. I was awfully pleased. I believe if I'd bid less than I did I could have got them Just the same. That's always such an annoying thought Isn't it?" Chicago Dally News. TO-MORROWS BIRTHPLACE. Line In the Fad He Where It Shake Hand With Yeaterdajr. Most people who bavo read Jules Verne's "Around the World In 'Eighty Days" will remember how narrowly the traveler missed his bet, having forgotten that in following the sun from east to west he had gained one day. When one crosses the Atlantic from London to New York he gains rather more than half an hour each day. From New York to Chicago another hour is gained, another to Denver, another to San Francisco, which Is reckoning time eight hours later than London and of course the best part of a day later than Shanghai and Yokohama. In crossing the Pacific there comes a time when the day begins, where yesterday and to-morrow shake hands and where the traveler is cheated out of n day In his life. In mid-Pacific, going west, one skips from Sunday to Tuesday. Going east he has one day of the week repeated two Sundays or Tuesdays, as the case may be. ' The line of the changing day is not a straight one. The Islands in the Pacific take their time from the continent with which they trade and from which they were discovered. Thus the lire of the change zizzags down the Pacific from south to norlh, dodging between the islands. Hence It might easily happen that a ship which has already skipped a day would reach an island which cllrgs to San Francisco time. In such a case It would be Monday on shore and Tuesday on the ship. If the ship's Jolly boat were lying at a wharf. It would be Monday on the wharf and Tuesday on the boat And If a person lives somewhere near the line he can get a sailboat and visit yesterday and to-morrow in the most delightful fashion. Too Much Tolling:. There are times I have to hustle and get out and use my muscle ; It's a cinch because a feller has to eat; An I've found few wajs of gettin what I want except by sweatin'. For the game's a-growin' mighty hard to beat; But it seems a shame this spoilin' all our bright glad days by toilin' This exertin' through our life's allotted span As some people struggle through it. If I have to,j I will da it. But I like to take it easy when I can. When the boss is keepin' cases I have got to show my paces Make a bluff at doin' somethin' for my pay; I must keep the dirt a-fivln, though I find it mighty tryin', For there doesn't seem to be no other way. But I always feel like kickiu' when I'm shovelm' and piekin' And I wish that there was somethin' I could plan That w-jM keep my back from strainia, a id no cussin' nor coinnlainin', For I like to take il easy when I can. It would be all right supposin' I could jest lie Homwhere doziu' And n-smokin' where a bit of sunshine fell. With no big-mouthed drivin bosses and no other cares nor crosses I believe I'd like to try it for a spell. If they'd bring the grub and feed it to a feller when he'd need it-. And stand by to keep the flies off with a fan. With no call for any motion, that would be about my notion. For I like to take it easy when I can. Chicago News. What Is so comfortable as an old shoe or a a old friend?

THE THREE "R'S"

HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX teach

er? from the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades In Chicago public schools have formally advocated more time for reading, writing, arithmetic and spelling In those grades. A con.mlttee of the Board of Eduea-

t Canada selects an ner citizens as cautiously as her Immigration commissioner In London, England, is now doing, the Northern Empire may some day be what Its natives often dream of the Utopia of the Anglo-Saxon race. The Canadian government is not only opposing most effectively

0OOCX30O0CXDO0OCXXXX)O0000CXM I A LAST LESSON. OOOCXXXXXXXXXXXXTOOOOTOOOOO Putting the finishing touche to a bronco's education Is sometimes excit ing business. "Bronc" was a big black beauty of a colt, but as mean as he was handsome. He had never been properly broken by his first owner, and his second master put him Into the hands of the bet horse-breaker in camp, hoping for an improvement. How his education was completed is described In Out West "They called this ;-pony an outlaw afore I took a-holt df him," remarked the "bronco-buster," when the training of the black beast was well along. "Shucks! Nowadays If a boss bucks his saddle-blankets offu him the boys say, 'Outlaw! Bad bronco! Guess I'll ride that ol' boss over yonder.' "I've sweated most o the ugliness oirfen him a'ready," continued the trainer. "He ain't got but one mean habit left, an' to-day I'm a-gomg to Tarn him to fergit It." The mean habit referred to was this : When Bronc decided to go straight ahead, he'd go. Over rocks and down the steep banks or a wash, through cactus and the well-named .-als claw; and if the chollas pricked him or the curved claws of the brush snatched at his flanks, he would throw In some fancy bucking for good measure as he tore aloug. But turn? Nevtr! The trainer took his riatä from the saddle-horn, tied one end to the rope bridle, or hackamore, and fastened it securely under the Jaw. Then he petted the colt, working toward Its flanks, until the animal allowed him to reach the tail and fasten a loop of rope in Its heavy strands. The free end of the riata was passed through the loop In a way which would bring the horse's head and tall together when tightened, and by pasing the rlata once more through both hackamore and loop It was prevented from slipping when released. "Now for the grand merry-go-round!" announced the trainer; and standing away from the colt's heels, he pulled the riata taut till the animal was bent nearly double. "Keep turning till I say ye can stop!" he commanded; and In fact the bewildered creature was revolving like a top, slowly learning; the old lesson of his race that mr.n's will Is law for the horse. At the end of twenty minutes or so the trainer decided that the stiff neck was sufficiently limber. When ha mounted he discovered his error; the frightened horse pranced and bucked with him, and finally tried to roll over the rider, who sprang from the saddle just in time. But his patience was by no means exhausted. Vllere's a sure way to make 'em limber," he announced ; and picking up a large flat stone, he tapped the horse's neck for a few minutes steadily, but not with sufficient force to hurt him. "He'll feel that pretty soon, an find it easier to turn than brace his tender neck against the reins." When the iony had been reversed that is, tied head rind tail on the opposite side and allowed to rotate another half-hour, he was dripping with sweat, and completely subdued. The trainer mounted, and the colt allowed himself to be ridden about the flat until he tangled In his trailing riata and fell, the rider still on top. "Now we'll turn him loose an see how he behaves himself," remarked the trainer; and unslinglng the ropes, he again mounted and rode the now tractable horse In circles and figure eights, turning and wheeling at will. "I'd a heap sooner twist this critter's neck with a rope," the trainer concluded, "than have him break his back an' mine, too, over yonder cliff." This was the Justification of Drone's hard lesson.

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Caleb Power' Liberation. After an incarceration In the Jails of Kentucky for eight years and three aionths, during which time he was once sentenced to life imprisonment and twice to the gallows under repeated convictions of complicity in the assassination of William Goebel, In still another trial the Jury having disagreed, Caleb Powers has been pardoned by the Governor of Kentucky. This act of executive clemency closes one of the darkest chapters In the political history of the Blue Grass region. For while the crime of murder really lay at the root of the long controversy which raged around the unfortunate Powers, the dramatic taking off of Goebel on the eve of the success of his manceuvrlngs to set aside the verdJct of the people at the polls and to seat himself in the executive chair was universally regarded In Kentucky as an act of political partisanship rather than as a violation of the laws against man-killing, and it was the intensify of taat bitter partisanship, through all the years that have intervened, which has thrown the veil of suspicion over the administration of Justice in the local courts. The repeated action of the higher courts in setting aside the successive convictions of Powers has strengthened the Impression, which has deepened into a conviction, that there was no Justice for Powers as It was administered in Kentucky by his political op ponents. Juries and courts were so imbued with the spirit of the feud, with the unreasoning demand, for vengeance for the killing of one of their clan, that In the trials In the lower courts hard ly a pretense was made of weighing evidence, and tlvi result each time was a foregone conclusion. Against these fearful odd3 Powers fought with a courage and persistence which won even the admiration of his foes, and which .Tradually so changed public opinion that the pardon Just granted through the gift of a Republican Gov ernor will be regarded with general approval. Outside of Kentucky there will be but one judgment. Goebel will never fill the role of Kaiartyr except In the es timation of his own narrow partisans He was an unscrupulous politician, engaged In an evil cause, and while the provocation was no justification for the crime of his assassination, he brought his own fate upon himself, by means which he had not himself hesitated to employ. There was no direct evidence connecting Powers with the shooting, but even were it true that he was cognizant of the plans of the reckless mountaineers who are supposed fo have encompassed the death of Goebel, it Is clear that he has already suffered enough. Whither this pardon wfll really end the long war and pave the way for the return of the expatriated Governor, Taylor, or whether It will add fuel to the flames of faetion, time alone will show, but there are many Indications that Kentucky Is tired and ashamed of the case and will be glad to let it sink Into oblivion. Chicago Tribune. Hamper Crop In Sight. When the dark days of last October came upon this country the people offered up thanks for the bountiful crops of 1907, for here was the unshaken foundation of prosperity.. When the crisis began to lift, those wise in finance told us that the rapidity of our return to prosperity hung upon the size of the crops this fall. Bear these things In mind and consider the government crop report made public yesterday. Of winter wheat there is estimated a yield of 440,000,000 bushels, an in crease of Gl.000.000 over the esti mate made at this time a year ago, and its present condition is placed at SC. a figured points In excess of the average for ten years. Of spring wheat the crop In sight Is put at 290,000,000 bush els, the total for the nation being approximately 734,000,000, an increase of about 100,000,000 bushels over 1907, with an Improvement In growing con dltions over last year In every wheat state In the Union. Of oats our first "billion-bushel" crop Is promised, the estimate being placed at 1,050,000,000 bushels, the Indications on June 1 of last year being for but 924,000,000. The condition of the oat crop, too, Is excellent, figuring up to 92.5, an increase of almost 10 points over 1907. Prospects for heavier yields In rye, barley and hay also are held forth by the experts of the Agricultural Department Public confidence, that most mysterious of all our financial possessions, cannot long escape figures like these. The land, the original source of our real wealth, Is to come to our rescue more effective than the currency ' bill or any other man-made help, and every farmer and business man knows It Here Is where confidence will be manufactured as quickly as it was destroyed when Morse and Heioze started trouble last fall. The value of this extraordinarily good crop report is enhanced a hundred fold by the psychological moment at which It is presented to the country. In the railroad, commercial and banking worlds the word has been for months: "Business will pick up after July 1." A bumper crop forecast just now ought to furnish the last ounce of steam with which to start the ready wheels to moving. Chicago Post Oat With Yoar Bioner There is no panic. There is no reason to expect one. If such a contingency were imminent, the best and surest way to avoid it would be to patronize the banks Instead of the broken teapots, holes in the wall, old stockings, or even safety deposit boxis. Deposits enable the banks to loan, and such, loans moan the upholding of all busircss, the moving of crops Included. Depositors have It within thMr power to kill bankin credit, but to do so is very liko suicide. Detroit Free Press. Held a drudge. White What's the trouble between vou and Green? Brown Oh, there's no trouble, only he refuses to speak to me. Claims I did him a mean trick about a year ago. White flow's that? Brown We were both courting the same girl and I withdrew from the race and let him marry her. A Difference. "Does he know It all?" "No. He only thinks he -does, but evidently he's Just as happy as L' he did." Detroit Press.

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necall Thing; Taft Han Done, and Ills War of Doing Them. Too many people look uion one of the few truly great Americans as mere ly a good, typical, average citiien, genial and well meaning; without unusual Intellect or force of character, and content to take orders as the follower and understudy of a bigger, stronger man. It is because it is possible for even a small number of people to accept this misguided estimate of Taft that we call him the best knownfnnknown. 9 How many people think to-day of what within a month, might have set the country ablaze with excitement and sent regiments and warships hurrying to the isthmus? Just a few lines In the newspaper told how Taft had forsaken his campaign and, at risk of health and against the wishes of the President himself, had sailed to Panama. There, In a day, he settled a quarrel with Colombia that had grown acute. Teople here were not much interested. Fighting and burning and dead men In American khaki along the canal zone would have been "big news." But the spoiling of just such news is Taft's specialty. Ask the names of the ablest American diplomats, and the answers range from Ben Franklin to John Hay. But a different reply comes from the chancelleries of Europe. There you hear that one of the most notable examples of skillful statecraft in our history was the settlement of the question, of the friars' land? In the Philippines. Even there they do not appreciate that diplomacy fully, for Europeans do not understand the complex prejudices of our varying religious denominations. Yet more than Taft's own countrymen do they admire the statesman who, coming from a couiJry where the Protestants are In the majority, made himself a welcome guest In the Vatican, and by his tact, his mastery of lay and ecclesiastical law, and, above all, by his sense of right and justice, was able, within a week, to settle a question of extreme intricacy, so that never since has there come a murmur from either Catholic or Protestant. Taft went to the Philippines first to face a problem that would have taxed the genius of a Washington or a Lincoln. Here at home men do not talk much of the work he did there. But the "savage peoples, half devil and half child," call him "Father." And a few months ago one speech from him made peace replace a bloody insurrection that had been planned. It was Just 1'aft's 'way. More news spoiled. More damage to his fame from the unthinking. More quiet, unfailing efficiency. - j So it was In Cuba, so in Japan, bo everywhere that the passage of the "Secretary of Peace" has left a trail of peace, good will and good work. Always the "pure joy of service;" never the thought of self-aggrandizement Always the big-brained, blg-bodled, bighearted, human, manly man, doing the day's work for the love of the work and love of the country he was working for. And always the "things that are worth doing" done so quietly, so speedily and so thoroughly that few recognize the magnitude of the achievement Thrice 'called to take the place on the Supreme bench that always was his life's ambition. And thrice refusing because the work he had at hand was not done. As Judge, as department chief, as envoy extraordinary in the Islands of the sea, always the story has run the same master of men, yet man among men; dominating and forceful as he 's human and lovable; Intolerant or au wrong, yet sympatnetic witn au weakness ; great diplomat great admin lstrator and great, broad-gauge Ameri can. . All these he has been in the past. Great President-that-is-to-be Is our hope and belief In his future. Philadelphia North American. Inalncere and Inconsistent. The Indianapolis "Star" charges that the Republican press has "joined in the demand for free wood pulp in a fashion that suggests cowardice, insincerity and inconsistency. A few Republican papers are amenable to the charge, but the most of them have the good sense to recognize that the reduction of the tariff on wood pulp will not cnuse a reduction In the price of white paper or help the. situation in any fashion. The price of paper In the United States Is no more affected by the tariff than that of coal. Tha Immense output of our paper mills makes the possibility of the market being invaded by foreigners about as remote os the invasion of our coal market. Taking the duty off of wood pulp will simply result in making a present to the Importer, who in this case Is also the manufacturer and has full control of the dtuatlon and is quite ready to take adva itage of any little thing the Free-Trader may be Inclined to throw in his way. San Francisco Chronicle. Roosevelt's Pollelea Coantr?' Saver. Policies, like producers, are usually good through and through If they are really good at all. The croakers who were reedy to load the responsibility for the slump In the country's prosperity upon the shoulders of the President are no longer rslng this as a weapon of attack. It Is impossible vo do so In the light of fact It Is seen that had It not been for his policies the country would have suffered most grievously from the situation that brought on the panic. This is conceded by some of the leading financiers and business experts. Baltimore American. The Detter Stand. The Republican party can well afford to stand as the champion of the twin sisters of American prosperity; American Business and American Labor. It can well afford to let the Democratic party stand as the champion of the Importing Trust A Proviso. "Of course you won't object to me as a candidate because I'm a poor man." "So" answered the cautious eonstitueut; "not if ycu'll consent not to get rich quick after you get the oSce." Washington Star. Let Ulm Off Easy. I,ola Last night young Hörem declared he would willingly go to the ends of the earth for me. Grace And what did you say? Lola I finally got him to make a start for home, and let it go at that Condensed. PLer real name was Catherine; Her mother shortens that; Her husband calls her "Kitty," Her neighbors call her "Cat I Boston Transcript u

KFRAtlKSTROEBE

v ; : A Remarkable Recovery. Mrs. Frank Sfroebe, It. F. D. 1, Appleton, "Wis., writes : "I began using Perana a few months ago, when my health and strength were all gone, and I was nothing but a nervous wreck, could not sleep, eat or rest properly, and felt no desire to 1 1 ve. Pernna made me look at life in a different light, aa I began to regain my lost strength. ' "I certainly think Pernna Is without rival as a tonic and strength builder, ' A Tooth Folat. Dentists' children rarely have filled teeth for the reason that they are taught to use the toothbrush with a circular motion. The brush, , a J la the or dinary motion, goes back and forth, but it also goes round and round. Thus it finds out all the crannies. Dentists say that the circular motion, applied both to the front' and back of the teeth, will keep them absolutely clean and absolutely clean teeth cannot decay. The teeth should be brushed after each meal and especially at bedtime. The morning brush before breakfast which Is the only one commonly applied, does scarcely any good at all, since the teeth, immediately after, become clogged with food. When the Seorenera Paaa. The greatest sensation of the year Is to see a person In an automobile do a double somersault in the air," remarked the man who had been to the circus. "That may be," replied his friend," but it is nothing unusual to see a person in front of an automobile do a double somersault" HEALTH BRINGS HAPPXNE33. Invalid Onee, a Happr Woman Now. Mrs. C. R. Shelton, Tleasant street f m - yv w oviugion, xcniL says: ouce i bwiued a helpless invalid, but now I enV the best of health. Kidney disease brought me down terribly. Rheumatic aches and pains made every move painful. The secretions were disordered and my head ached to distraction. I was in a bad condition, but mediclaes failed to help. I lost ground daily until I began with Doan's Kidney Pills. They helped me at once and soon made me strong and well." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a bor. Foster-MUburn Co, Buffalo, N. Y. Two Uncomfortable Beda. An old mountain preacher used to teil of a lawyer a friend of his, who lived at the county seat of a mountain couriy. liack in the niiis somewnere lived one of his clients, whom he had occasionally entertained with the ready hospitality of Kentucky. When he left the client always Inited the lawyer to come to see him when In his neigh borhood. Business called the lawyer back Into the bills one winter day, anl late la the afternoon he found himself In thi vicinity of his client He decided to accept the often-repeated Invitation. After Inquiry, ne found the shackone of the poorest he had ever seeo. As there was no sign of barn or shed. In blanketed his horse and hitched him In the lee of the house. His warm welcome was genuine, but supper was In accord with, the surroundings, and at bedtime he was conducted to the loft, which he found bare of beds, but well filled wtlh partly dried cornstalks. lie was bidden to make his bed on the fodder. His overcoat furnished Inadequate protection. After a short nap, be wakened, stiff with cold. He remembered the big fireplace wlti the backlog, and decided to go downstairs and start tha Are. The coals brightened as he stirred! them and added kindling. The sparks tnd smoke began their, ascent when the guest noticed a strange commotion at the back of the fireplace. This stopped when the oldest son of the family, covered with soot and ashes, scrambled from the backlog, where he had fione to ßleep for the night WIFE WOU. amnmaaaanaama) Ttnsband Flnallr Convlaeed. Some men are wise enough to try new foods and beverages and then generous enough to give others the bencht of their experience. A very "conservative' Ills, man, how?ver, let his good wife fud out for her self what a blessing Postum U to those who are distressed In many ways, by Irinking coffee. The wife writes; "No slat e in chains. It seemed to me, was more helpless than I, a coffee captive. Yet there were Innumerable warnligs waking from a troubled sleep Ith a feeling of sufTocatlon, at tlmej llzzy and out of breath, attacks of palpitation of the heart that frightened tie. "Common sense, reason, and my bett judgment told me that coffee drinkng was the trouble. At last my nerfous system was so disarranged that "He knew he was right and he knew I knew it, too. I capitulated. Prior to this our family had tried Postum but li8liked It because, as we learned later, .t was not made right "Determined this time to give Postum i fair trial, I prepared It according to Sireetions on the pkg. that is, boiled It 15 minutes after boiling commenced, btaininc a dark brown liquid with a rich snappy, flavor similar to cofTee. When cream and sugar were adJed, it was not only good but delicious. "Noting Its beneficial effects In me the rest of the family adopted it all except my husband, who would not admit that coffee hurt him. Several weeks elapsed during which I drank Postum two or three tims a day, when, to my surprise, my husband said: 'I have decided to drink Postum. Your improvement Is so apparent you have such fine color that I propose to glre credit where credit Is due.' And now we are coffee-slaves no longer." Name given by Postum Co.. Batile Creek, MWl' Read "The Road to Weliville," in pkgs. "There's a Iason." Ever read the above letter? A' new one appears from timo; to tis They are genuine, true, and full cf henan interest. ,

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