Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 41, Plymouth, Marshall County, 16 July 1908 — Page 2

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Swrffir Lake "Wright. President ilooseveit has appointed a southern I?mocrat to succeed Taft in the War Department. General Lukf Wright, of Memphis, who followed Mr. Taft at the Philippines, and was afterward sent to Tokio to repreent this government, is the lucky man. The general belongs to that class of Americans who do things. !Ie is popular with the army and Is well fitted to carry on the work laid down by the Republican candidate for President. The selection of General Wright will meet with approval. The only criticism, we venture to say, will come from the hide-lKHind partisans who regard it political treason for a public servant to choose subordinates from outside the ranks. Hut the President long since demonstrated hla utter Indifference to protests from that quarter. It is enough for him to know that he has found a4 man who will fill the bill and perform the duty required In a capable and patriotic manner. The party wall Is not so high in the President's mind that fie '.-annot scale It at a single bound, and find fragrant flowers en the other side Toledo Blade. The Moat Important Purponf. It is nlout time that some opinions hitherto maintained in this country respecting the operations of the tariff were considerably revised. There is a popular Impression that the lowering of duties would result in facilitating the entrance of British Iron products to this market, but it Is as fallacious as that which induced the temporary nbitement of the duty on coal a short time ago, and which did not result in the increased Importation of a single ton of mineral fuel. The reason Is pretty plain. In most things we are perfectly able to compete with the foreigner, and our own prices are low enough, with a little dropping, tö keep out the Imported product. If the only object of a protective tariff had been to create industries which would enable u? to compete successfully, it would le time to let go; but there is another purpose back of the policy and that Is to preserve the American standard of living by refusing to enter into 9 competition which would compel us to lower It to the foreign level. San Francisco Chronicle. Fnirlsn Trade a llroken Reed. Just now Japan is supplying an illustration of how poor a dependence foreign trade may be as a support for industries. The people of the southern part of China Inaugurated a boycott on Japanese goods in retaliation for the h imillation to which their country was subjected a short time ago by Jnpnn; and now comes the report that the Japanese Industries which formerly supplied the Southern China trade are about to shut down, because of the boycott and the subscquer.; inability to dispose of their products The home market is the best and the safest; and the country which does Its own work builds Its prosperity on the surest foundation. Break down the protection to our Industries which the tariff provides, and we would thereby throw open the rich field of American trade to the competil'on of Industries 'which glvv "uiploymcnt to other workmen and promote the wealth zz prosperity of other countries. Denvei liepublican. Wholly Acceptable. Itevision having been determined unm, it Is the part of wisdom to voice the party's purpose In unmistakable language. This is done In the first paragraph. The second paragraph attempts to outline the party's position upon the questka of protection. There is no radical departure from the ancient standards In this declaration. The last paragraph Is more In line with the jMlicy which Congress has pursued than could have leen expected almost, for the reason that Secretary Taft has favor, d practical free-trade with the Philippines. The tariff document as outlined" will be wholly acceptable to Republicans everywhere. Cedar RapIds Republican. If the Democrat! Should Win. The Seuate will remain Republican, regardless altogether of how the tlectiou on November 3 goes. In the Improbable event of the election of a Democratic President and House 'f Representatives this year there ,rlll be no tariff revision. A tariff bill framed by a Democratic House under Bryan would receive the same treatment from the Republlcaa Senate that the Mills bill got from that body in Cleveland's first term. It would be hung up there, and a new measure would bo framed by that chamber. That would be the end for that Congress. The two branches would not be able t get together, and Mr. Bryan would get no chance to sign or veto a tariff bill. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Needed It All. Old Gentleman Rastus, If you had tialf of that big watermelon would you be happy? Little Rastus No, sah. Old Gentleman What more would you want to complete your t happiness? Little Rastus De odder half oh that melon, sail. What Happened to Him. Gyer Windig had an athletic stroke yesterday. Myer Athletic stroke ! You mean paralytic stroke, dont you? Gyer No, I mean just what I said. He got mixed up with a professional boxer. , -r Lost Hl Title. Sinikins You say that litt'e man was formerly the lightweight champion? Timkins Yes. SImklns How did he lose the title? Timkins Oh, he didn't lose it. He merely sold his grocery and retired. A Good Goncr. ( Short I guess you couldn't let me hive $10 for a week, could you? Long Say, you ought to be able to make a fortune at the racetrack. Short Why? Long lou are such a good guesser. Not Much DllTerenee. Eva Harry saw you start on a fishing expedition this morning and said he wished he were a fish so you could catch him. Edna Oh, it amounts to the same. I'm always stringing him. Time to Move On. Just a tit of "moonshine," Just a bit of song. Just a big policeman and It's time to "move alorg." Chicago News.

SOUITD TARIFF PRINCIPLES.

American People Should Confirm Plat f 051 by Their Vote. One of the best things In the Republican platform, as plain as a pike-staff and as honest is Government coin Is the tariff plank: The Republican parry declares unequivocally for a revision of the tariff ny a special session of Congress immediately following the inauguration of tbe next President, and commends the steps already taken to this end in the work assigned to the appropriate committees of Congress which are now investigating the operation and effect of existing schedules. In all tariff legislation the ti-ue . principle of protection is V's: l-umtaincil hj the im;ition of such duties as will equal the difference between) the cost of production at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to American industries, i We favor the establishment of maximum and minimum rate to be administered by the President under limitations fixed in the law, the maximum to be available to meet discrimiaa Joes by foreign countries against American goods entering their markets, and the miniumn: to represent the normal measure of protection at home, the aim and purpose of the Republican iolicy being not only to preserve, without excessive duties, that security against foreign competition to which American manufactures, farmers and producers are entitled, but also to maintain the high standard of living of the wage earners of this country, who are the most direct beneficiaries of the Protective system. Between the I'nited States and the Philippines we lIieve in a free interchange of products with such limitations as to sugar and tobacco as will afford adequate protection to domestic interests. Here Is a declaration that means something, and always the same something to everybody. We shall have revision, whether rates are so high that they permit abuses In the matter of ex tortionate prices by monopolies which are immune from rivalry at home through agreement and combination, and from competition by foreigners through their exclusion from the American market under any and all circumstances, or whether rates are too low to enable home industries to maintain themselves against the attacks here of alien capital and labor. And the most ardent Protectionist who is sincere in his support of the American Tariff System in its true lines cannot object to provision for freeing, the pubIk from the clutches of greed and extortion which are exercised under the shelter of the tariff or of anything else. The whole theory of that system is that it must benefit the people at large first by giving them work and wages which otherwise would go to foreign labor, and. secondly, by building up vigorous industries which, under natural laws and conditions, will compete vigorously among themselves for the trade of the home market, thus assuring fair prices in the rivalry to gain. and hold customers. Under thl3 tariff policy of the Republican party, not only have the greatest Industries in the world been established, but prices to consumers have fallen below the levels which obtained before there was such production by home mills and factories. Rut if there Is no revision the Republican party does not projwse anything that will sacrifice the employwent of American labor or the legitimate profits of American capital. No language could be clearer and stronger than this: "In all tariff legislation the true principle of protection Is best maintained by the Imposition of such duties as will' equal the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to American Industries." Undoubtedly this is the conviction of the American ieople. They know What wealth aud blessings they have enjoyed under a tariff which has enabled Amer icans to earn their livings and better livings by 'far than any foreigner has ever earned by making for themselves whatever they consume when It Is possible for them to make it. They must appreciate that the worsf disaster ;vli!eh could fall upon this country would be for a stream of fore gu commerce to come flooding over our market, wiping out American industries, destroying the material wealth In the factories and mills and the potential wealth of the employment of the American wage-earners. No war ever devastated a country or wrought the havoc to a people that would be suffered In the United States if a commercial invasion by foreigners should be allowed to exterminate our home Industries 'and strip our wage-earners. The whole or any part of such -invasion that could overwhelm our producing agencies would be absolutely prohibited by the continued enforcement of the policy which is reiterated In that tariff plank. This will never satisfy those who have made the loudest noise over the tariff revision, which always means with them reduction, whatever the result to our labor and Investments. But It cannot fall to be confirmed by the votes of the nation. New York Press. The Main Quetion. "Just this way, sir, said the courteous clerk in the railroad office. "Let me show you some summer guides entitled 4Where to go and 'When to Go. " The man with the modest Income shook his head. They don't Interest me," he sighed. "Wnat I want to know Is 'How to Go. " Cupid at the Hat. Pearl Yes, our college had a fern lie baseball team. Ruby Did you have any good catchers? Pearl I should say so. Five of them caught husbands the first season and broke up the team. The Horrid Thlnie. Clarence I told the minister he mustn't kiss you' Cordelia And hat did he say? Clarence thanked me, and said under the circumstances he would only charge me half the usual fee. Thnt Did It. Youngster Well. 1 made sister thnrn- herself into George's arms last night! Mother P.Jess you, my child Hut how did you manage it? Youngster Just peeped round th door and jelled "Rats I" tit Poetic. I cannot, to a lleecy cloud. Pour out rhymed offerings of my soul ; Put often I have said aloud, I'd like to lie in you and roll. Jud?e. Great Oh, that some Burbank of the West Would patent, rnnke and sell An onion with an ouion taste But with a violet smell. Judge.

Opinions of

TOO MANY HOLIDAYS? HE Governor's veto of the bill making Oct.

if A I 12 n legal holiday, to II I Oar. was no blow nt iL

1 - . " bus. Were the discoverer of America to come back and see, for Instance, how far and how generally Memorial Day Is observed to the honor of our dead soldiers

and sailors, he would not ask for a holiday in his own honor. lie is sure of respectful remembrance as it Is. Were he to have a day to himself early In October, it would be a case of football first, Christopher Columbus nowhere. Auother objection to the proposed holiday Is the fact that the date is too clese to those of other holidays. Our holidaj's are too badly bunched. Against the creation of any more holidays, too, Is the argument that business is troubled enough by the holidays that we have already Rut the best argument of ail against such a holiday 14 the truth that a holiday created In honor of a man should be celebrated to the memory of that man. Let us have no more holidays, which should mean affectionate remembrance, and do mean contemptuous disregard. Buffalo Express.

THE VALUE OF A GENTLEMAN. 1

ANY people love to use beautiful aud hlgllsoundlng words like "love," "comradeship" and "fraternity," but are unable to make such words seem ral through the grandeur of their own conduct. We never shall see an era of brotherhood in the world until we have a race of gentlemen. Good man

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ners Is not characteristic of any body of howling reformers. When one reformer calls another a liar, or refers to the argument of another as "rot," he is very far from that kingdom of fraternity which Is said to be the goal of the Socialist It is often said to the discredit of the Englishman that "he dearly loves a lord. Thomas Weutworth Iligginson, one of the most acute critics among us. has asserted that no matter how radical a Britisher may be in the days of his youth, he is certain to accept dukes at last. Rut this acceptance of the nobility is, after all, nothing more than the homage paid to good manners. The members of the British nobility are usually gentlemen. ' In all the hundreds of years that the House of Lords has existed. It is asserted that never yet has there been one unseemly episode in the discussions of that body. The remarkable character of this fact will be most clearly seen when it Is recalled that the lords have no presiding officer. If two, or a dozen or a hundred peers

Lanndrrmnn' Mffrktnir Pin. The proprietors of laundries are often at a loss to provide a satisfactory method of marking some of the articles to be cleaned, especially those of value. In the latter case a mark cannot be affixed permanently in Indelible Ink to the goods, but must be done by means of "marking p i n s." These are so called identified bt MAi.Son account of their being used In laundries, dye works and anywhere It is desired to Identify any given article. An Improved "marking pin" of recent invention Is very similar to a safety pin, patented by a Connecticut man. It is shown in the accompanying Illustration, consisting of a safety pin having a large disc at one end. This disc is of sheet metal and is amply large to receive the, identifying characters. When desired the disc can be removed from the pin and another substituted. The. ease with which this marking pin can be attached and detached from the goods is obvious. BIuslo Rack In the Piano. The piano student is not long in accumulating a great amount of music and the disposition of this material Is always a problem In the household of ordinary proportions. Of course, it Is possible to secure by purchase, music racks and cabinets In a variety of forms and back inside. sizes, and among the devices of this character there is the combination stool and cabinet. In which a moderate amount of music may be readily stored. But an exceedingly unique scheme fcr meeting this problem Is shown in the accompanying cut, which has been recently embodied in a patent granted to a Chicago woman. In this, the panelled end of the piano case is made in the shape of an unobtrusive door. When this Is opened a number of shallow receptacles of such shape and dimensions as to receive the sheets, which are usually of standard size, are revealed. The proportions of this swinging shelf are men as to accommodate four pockets, each of which will hold sixty or seventy pieces of music. Headlight for PhrIHni.. A unique novelty recently Invented by a Maryland man is a headlight designed for use by physicians and surgeons. The light is carried on the head of the wearer, the rays being obscured from the eye, but are thrown on the object under examination, such, for instance, as the larynx of a patient. The head FOB THE suae EON. light Is attached to a spring clip adapted to fit the head of the wearer. At the back of the head is an enlarged plate, to which connection can be made to a convenient electric light socket to obtain the necessary electrical current. In the headlight Is a lens for magnifying the rays and by which the light from the lamp can be focused on any desired spot. A reflector is also placed In the headlight. This simple and effective headlight ran be readily applied and removed and does not interfere In any way with the movements of the wearer. Machine Cover nnd Chnlr. A unique device recently patented by a New York man is an attachment

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Great Papers on Important Subjects.

all wanted to speak at once, there would be no power to prevent them. However, there" has never been a debate In Great Britain's upper legislative chamber where perfect decorum has not been preserved. Chicago Journal.

be called Columbus Christonher ColumT

youth. It is not good for society aud not good for the individuals. In every family and in every school it is desirable to have some stringent regulations, If for no other reason than having them complied with. The best foundation for character Is the habit of submission to authority, and the time to acquire that habit is in childhood and youth. None can ever become so competent to wisely direct as those who have first learned to obey. The looseness and instability in American character Has its beginning in the looseness and instability of fanltly discipline end in the insistence of silly. Inefficient parents that the same looseness of discipline shall be carried Into the schools, from which It easily extends Into the colleges. The fledgling In college will turn out a much more useful member of society if he is made to behave himself or clear out. San Francisco Chronicle.

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he provides au entertainment consisting of moving pictures, stcreoptieon views and singing by professionals. During the entire proceedings even the sermon the men present are permitted to smoke, cigars and pipes being furnished by the preacher. Naturally the meetings are so well attended that a larger hall may soon be necessary. Mr. Goodman Is the assistant pastor of a regular church, and he has had to undergo criticism for what savors too much, In the opinion of many of his parishioners, of Srjvatlou Array ways. But some conservative church members who at first strongly opposed Mr. Goodman's methods are said now to have been won over to them. Leslie's Weekly.

for use in covering the operating parts of a sewing machine and having combined therewith means whereby the base of the cover serves as a support for a chair, which can be used by the oierator of the machine when the cover is removed. cover and chair The cover incloses the machine when the latter is not In use, the scat and the back of the chair folding in front The cover thus occupies but a minimum space and as the chair portions extend downward behind the machine they do not detract from the apearance of the machine or interfere with Its free movement from place to place. When it is desired to use the sewing machine the cover Is removed and the parts folded to form the chair. The base of the cover forms a support for the chair, hooks holding the back In a vertical position. Retoucher's Cabinet. Photographers, both amateur and professional, will be interested in the retouching cabinet shown here, the In vention of an Iowa man. It has been designed especially to provide a convenient method by which the retoucher can handle photographic negatives expeditiously and Intelligently. The cabinet consists of the CAUiNET. a canvas hood, which Is supported to an iron frame. The cabinet is pivoted at the sides to the frame and can be adjusted at any height desired to suit the convenience of the retoucher. Being very light, the cabinet and frame can readily be mved around the room and stationed wher the light is greatest True Business Instinct. Ed was a mighty bright negro belonging to a family in Columbia, Tenn. He had been a faithful servant for many years, and by saving and carefully Investing his wages he had belied the usual thrlftlessness attributed with more or less Justice to the majority of his race. Ills master was an attorney, and one morning before he had arisen the lawyer was called upon by Ed, who said : "Say, boss, Ah wants yo ter draw me up a mawkgidge." "A mortgage?" asked his master. "What do you want a mortgage for?" "Well, Ah's done lent Unc Llsha Uve dollahs, an' Ah wants a mawkgidgo 011 ills cow an' caff." "For how long have you lent th? money?" "Fo' one monf." "One month! Why, the Interest on that amount for f'it time wouldn't pay for the paper a mortgage Is Witten on." "Boss," said Ed, scratching his head, "Ah ain't carin' nullin' fo' dat intrust. Ah jes' wants dat niggah's cow an' cuff." Judge. Too Hot. Meaumann It seems a shame, after slaving for It for all these years, to think that I can't take a blessed sovereign with me. Grabbe My dear sir, what would be the use? It would only melt. The Bvstander. When a woman withf a big family of little children maken up her mind to go somewhere, and not take a child with her, ehe has that reckless air a inan nas wnen ue starts out on a spree,

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THE CURSE OF AMERICA. HE curse of America is its lack of discipline. In the family, the school and the college youngsters grow up to do as they please. There Is a mawkish sentiment which is evidence of degeneracy and which prevents the old-fashloued, wholesome enforcemeut of authority aracng children and

A NOVEL LURE TO CHURCH.

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AI llgious services on Sunday has been dev I vised by the ltev. Sydney Goodman, of AtI At., nü 1

ranne city, wuose example pastors in general are not likely to follow. Mr. Goodman tus established what he calls the "Men's Church," and besides preaching a sermon.

AN AMATEUE HEADER. Learned How to "Elocnte" bnt Mai Forgotten How to Head. "Wasn't she fine? Wasn't she dra matlc?" one woman eagerly asked another, as they left the hall. "Th things she did with her voice the waj she made. It sob and quiver In the pathetic parts, and get deep and Jerkj as If It fairly tore her heart in the tragic ones, and then soar up high and ring out like a clarion at the end! Ellen Allcrtou's little Bessy! Shouldn't j-ou think her mother'd be proud of her?" "Umph!" muttered the other, doubt fully. "HowVEllen? Bookish as ever and her eyes as bad? Does Bessy read alond to her as she used ' "Oh, no! Bessy's style is hardly suited to a sick-room, and Ellen's practically an Invalid now," wa3.the reply. "It's rather a pity but you wouldn't want the girl's abilities repressed." "I shouldn't I should want them educated," retorted her friend. "Why, Bessy has been taking lessons In the city" began the other. . "I know; aud she's learned the use of her voice nd unlearned how to read. At present Oh, my dear, she merely elocutes ! She doesn't mean any thing. She's concerned with separate effects, not with consecutive interpre tation. When she has really mastered her art, her stylo will suit a sick-room as well as an assembly-room. "A convalescent friend of mine and her sister, who read to her daily for hours, were once staying In the same hotel with a famous actress. One day the tired reader's voice gave out sud denly, and the actress, who was passing by along the veranda, saw the Invalid's disappointment, and volunteered to go on with the etory. 1 "It was one of Jane Austen's novels. She read It delightfully, but just as any other person of good taste, voice and intelligence might have done. Net ther the author, the audience nor the occasion called for strong effects, and she intruded none. She rendered with quiet sympathy a quiet tale. "Once I heard Sir Henry Irving deliver a scholarly address upon the drama. In the course of which he Md occasion to quote several dramatic pas sages In which, upon the stage, he al ways achieved a tremendous effect. He quoted them as any other scholar might. They were, at the moment, 11 lustrative points, not acted scenes ; and the proper rendering was therefore to speak them Intelligently, and no more, "The two arts of reading aloud and declamation need not and should not conflict, nor bar each other; at bottom they are one. But If I had to choose between them, it Is the fine ait of read leg alond that I should choose. As for a 'reader who has grown so greaf she has forgotten how to read but there! Bessy is young yet. Another year, and she'll know better, maybe." Tloat Time fo S ninL. It is quite certain that much may be done to diminish the risk of tobacco amblyopia by paying attention to certain poinis 01 personal nygiene, ii.i says iiospuai. For instance, a rule snouiu be made never to smoke upon an empty stomach, but as far as possible only after meals, it is aosoiuteiy iau to smoke before dinner, and equally bad to smoke late at night to keep awake at one s worn. It should also be forbidJen to chew the cigar between the teeth, as many 1 A . . . . .1,. If you want to learn something easily, open the dictionary at any page. You will see so many things you do not know that jou should have known, that it will take a great deal of conceit out of you, and do you a world of good. When you were a child, you fre quently went to "stay all night" with some of the relghborhood children And did you ever "stay all night" in neighboring family without finding out a family f,ecret you didn't know be fore? It must be very discouraging to a man to be very gallant to his wffe in public, and have her look as If she wasn't used to lu

Sonndlns Their Only Retreat. The following article, showing the apid decrease of the members of the Grand Army of the Republic, we take from the Minneapolis Journal Sunday Magazine : The Grand Army of the Republic is passing In final review. The total number of survivors is now C20.000. This figure is obtained as follows : The last official enrollment, made by the pension authorities at Washington, June 30, 1007, was C4L35S. Deducting 2,o00 a month, for nine intervening months, there were 22.000 doaths. The Old Guard Is dying eff at the rate of 00 a day; but the death losses for each month are often üigher. In 190G, Grand Army survlvers died to the number of 29.20S ; and in 1907 the loss was 31,201 ; for the year that closes June 1, 100S, the death rate will be unquestionably between 33,000 nnd 37,000, if not higher. For the old soldiers of the Republic now have reached-the average age of 63. At that rate, the deaths will come faster and faster still ; and within ten years the noble army will te all but a memory. Had the soldiers of the Civil war not been mere lads In their teens, the Grand Army would long ere this perished from the earth. But the Union was saved literally by boys boys In their teens; and many had not even reached their teens. Startling as this statement seems, It Is indisputably born out by the official records: There were 2,773,309 enlistments, as follows : At the ige of 10 und under 23 At the age of 12 and under 223 At the age of 14 and under 1.523 At the age of 16 and under 844.1 At the age of 18 and under 1.151.438 At the ago of 2t and under 2,159,793 Twenty-two years of age and over 018,511 Adding the number under 21 and over 22 that Is, 2,159.793 and G1S.511 the total enrollment was 2,77S,309. But' there are. some very old men in the Grand Army of the RepulMc; and that Is all the more reason why tne death losses will be exceedingly high In the years near at hand. There win come a time when the last call will be responded to each month by nu . ess than 5,000 of the brave heroes or t)l for already that figure has been touched by one-half and over, and Is growing with alarming rapidity. Here are startling official figures pointing to the rapid vanishing of the Grand Army : Number and age of survivors passed on by Commissioner of Pensions War ner, to June 30, 1007. Age. 62 . C3 . 64 . 65 . Survivors. Age. 1 . . . 13.US1 81 . Survivors, .... 1.2S7 11,663 '2 . 11.2S2 S3 . . . . . 1,1 29 . . . . 753 9.4S5 ft 636 6 9,248 83 430 67 0,819 Krt 378 68 , . 5.-J09 87 230 C9 3,109 88 l: 70 8,302 89 , 71 o.SSl DO , 72 5,11:: 91 , 73 4,409 02 . 74 2,901 93 , CO 36 25 24 11 75 4,253 04 76 ,. 3,328 95 77 2,496 96 78 2,099 97 79 1,786 9S 80 2.031 108 8 5 1 5 1 Never in the world's history, before our day, was a nation saved by youths in their terus. In the stirring years of Father Abraham, these boys came for ward by the tens of thousands, in re sponso to tbe call to arms. War expenditures reached $0,000,000,000. ' During the war 7,000 were killed In battle. The records also show that 43,012 lied of wounds. Disease claimed 224XJ8G And 24,772 perished from other causes. There "were 2S0.0O0 wounded in bat tie. Petween all these dread disasters, it is a wonder that even a remnant of the Grand Army of the Republic survives ; and 4t should ever be. the pride and pleasure of this American Republic to remember the debt owed to" the boy of 01. 1 Happily, all soldiers who have sur vived "forty years after the close of the war" (to quote the language of the law) are now entitled to a service pension. Her Flrat Speech. It wes the first appearance In public of Ada C. Sweet of Chicago, United States commissioner of pensions, under President Grant and one' of the first women In the movement for equal political rights for the sexes. When the civil war broke out she was living with her parents in the village of Lombard, now a suburb of Chicago, and was chosen to present to the boys of the Lombard company a silk flag which the women of the place had made with their own fair hands. The literary woman of the Tillage had written for the occasion a beautl ful presentation speech, In which the soldiers were adjured to "take the fair flag into which your wives, daughters and sweethearts have sewed fond hopes and tearful prayers for your safe re turn, carry it through the smoke and shell of battle free from the stain of dishonor and the rents of defeat and bear it home victorious at the end of the war." "I thought." says Miss Sweet, "that I had learned that piece up and down. backward and forward, Inside and out, but on the great day Itself, when the band ceased playing and an awful hush fell upon the crowd and every face was turned expectantly up to mine, it was different. I opened my mouth and paused. The literary lady creaked forward In her chair and whispered loudly, 'Soldiers of Lombard' "That whisper went through me like 1 knife, but left me still speechless. I ect my teeth, stepped decisively forward and pushed the flag into the hands of the nearest soldier. Then I spoke. Every word of that speech had loft me, but I knew what It meant. " 'Soldiers of Lombard, I said In a desperate, voice that must have been heard to the utmost confines of the crowd, 'here's your flag. Don't get it dirty! Don't tear It I And be sure to bring it back!' "A shout rose from that crowd such as no orator before or since has ever evoked from a crowd in those parts. The first thing I knew I was riding on the shoulders of two soldiers, while the whole company pressed about me, with waving hats, and my father was leaning over toward me from the back of his big horse and calling me his 'own original girl.' while the tears rolled down his cheeks with laughter. "As long as I lived In the village of Lombard I never dared to meet squarely the vengeful eyes of the literary lady

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speech." St Louis Republic Veterans In Dang-rr. "The old soldier, when he is a bach elor or widower, is running into gravt danger these days of financial distress among the feminine portion of human ity," remarked Treasurer Bigler at th subtreasury to-day. He was speaking of the recent reforms adopted in paying pensions to the surviving defenders of the nation during the somewhtt lati unpleasantness, whereby checks an sent to the veterans, Instead of there crowding into the pension office one every three months, thereby creating nc end of trouble and annoyance for thi agent and his assistants. "It Is not generally known among th gentler sex that the United States gov ernment is bound to pay a pension tc the widow of a soldier. Now, a mix need not to have been married before he donned the blue and shouldered a musket for -his country's cause and the protection of his home. He has the right to marry any time, whether he 12 twenty-five or seventy-five, provided al ways that he has no such responsibility as a wife living. "One can see, therefore, where the danger to the old soldier lies. He ought to have some protection from the wiles of those who will seek to marry hin: against his stubborn will. No retreat will be sacred from the adventurous maid who seeks a husband, or the widow who desires to have hev marital relations renewed, with the prospects of a pension for life In the somewhat dim and distant future. Let hiLi recure for himself such seclusion as he may desire, he will be found out by the persistency -women apply when looking foi what they want , "I know of certain cases where women have courted aged and infirm men whose only source of getting money fcr a livelihood comes through the pension agency solely for the purpose of securing for herself his pension when death, which appears near, takes him to th grave. This has been so fully demonstrated by the figures obtained at the War Department that it 'needs little comment, for, if I ain not mistaken, there are still about half a dasen wid-. ows of pensioners whose husbands fought in the war of the revolution. "Under the present laws this thing is likely to go on indefinitely. ' No one knows how many widows the government will have to support through thi9 arrangement. Some, of course, will Ik worthy cases ; the most of them will be of this class, perhaps, , but it is a no torious fact "that some men of ninety have married girls of eighteen and nine teen years. The girls, ierhaps, are not to blame for this, but those who have an eye for the future have seen it, and very frequently have urged such unions. Now, if this were generally known among the women of the unscrupulous kind they would not hesitate to become legally bound to some man, very old. who is a pensioner, and who draws any where from $24 to $72 each quarter from Uncle Sam's treasure box. I do not see how the system could be Im proved, but I think that there is some way of modifying it Philadelphia Telegraph, 'Tbe Old Flannel Qnllt. On the morning of Aug. S, 18I2, at a Methodist camp meeting In Perry County, Ohio, there might have been seen a group of several loys, all yet In their teens, arranging to volunteer that evening for the war. The excite ment being very high and recruiting ofliers having, sprung up all over the land, and all of the boys being eager to get their name down first, quite a large number enlisted that afternoon, think Ing they would all get In one company or at least one regiment, the Ninetieth O. V. I. But as this regiment was nearly completed. It soon had all the men necessary, and the remaining men were recruited for the One Hundred and Fourteenth O. V. I., which was soon fitted out, and in a few days was sent to a camp at Circleville, Ohio, to prepare for the front. On leaving, home the writer and his boy chum, Stephen S. Connor, agreed to stick together and share each other's fate as long as there was a chance to do so. On leaving, Steve's mother In sisted on him taking a large old-fash ioned flannel quilt that weighed some where between ten and twenty pounds. aud he came to me and asked my ad vice about taking it. He did not want to displease his mother. I said, ."Steve, let's take it and sticH to It as long as we can, and then try and put it where Jt will do some one else good." It was agreed and we hung on to It through all various marches and counter marches, until we reached VIcksburg, or Sherman's attack in the rear of Vicksburg, on the twenty-eighth of November, when we were compelled to give It up. I never will forget the look on Steve's face when he said to me, Joe, what will we do with the quilt? It is too heavy to carry any longer." 6ald. "'Let us take and cover it over some of those poor fellows who are wounded." So we went abroad the steamer City of Memphis, and on the hurricane deck we found some of our company wounded and shivering in the cold night air, and we quietly covered It over them, and I remember bearing one of them say as we walked away, Thank God, God bless you." Steve choked up and did not speak for some time after vre went ashore. This was late at night. It was hard to give up the old quilt that had been such a comfort to us, but we had disposed of it as we had agreed to on leaving home. - An Anecdote of Illavorth. There was a characteristic incident in the early life of Colonel tllsworth, the brilliant young lawyer who was one of the first notable victims of the civil war. His struggles to gain a foothold In his profession were attended by many hardships and humiliating privations. Once, finding the man he was looking for on a matter of business In a restaurant he was Invited to partake of the luncheon to which his acquaintance was Just sitting down, in Is worth was ravenously hungry, almost starving, In fact, but he declined courteously, but firmly, asking permission to talk over the business that had brought him thither while the other went on with the meal. The brave young fellow In telling the story in after years confessed that he suffered positive agony at the sight and smell of the tempting food. . "I could not in honor acev.pt hospitality I could not reciprocate," was hla simple explanation of his refusal. "1 might starve, tut I could not sponge. Marion Harland's "Complete Etiquette." The criminal class of London numbers Tocr.ooa

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He wanted to appear big, too. so he chose a low chair which brought his mouth Just to the top of the table. But he didn't xnind this, because it was on a line with his plate and he was not so likely to drop anything while eating. He at ravenously of everything, having nothing to say to the guests, as his mother had told him to remember that good children are seen, not heard. Fin ally, -.fter dessert, when there was a lull iti tbe conversation, he exclaimed: "Say, pop, you can't guess what I've got under the talft." "No, my son," said his father with an indulgent glnce; "what is it?' "Stomach-ache!" shouted Jimmy, gleefully. - PEOOP TOB TWO CXKT3, If Yon Suffer with Voir Kldmcri and Bnek Write to This Sinn. G. W. Winney, Medina. N. Y Invites kidney sufferers to write to him. ' To all who postage he will reply. ää; telling how Doan'a .7 Y Kidney Pills curtd rf- tored and had been H .A i'JA in two different hosniff?J r tals for eighteen kv fjt months, sufferlnff in tense pain in the back, lameness, twinV ges when stooping or tfiiiilJJlA lifting, languor, dizzy spells and rheumatism. "Before I used Doan's Kidney Pills," says Mr. Winney, "J weighed 143. After taking 10 or 12 boxes I weighed 1C2 and was completely cured. . Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Ml'bum Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. ReserTed for a Purpose. A certain Kentucky Justice of the peace was called upou to marry a runaway couple who drove up to his house. When the final words were said the bridegroom fumbled in his pockets, and finally fished out a silver dollar. "Jedge," said he, "this here's all the cash I've got in the world. If you wants it, you kin have It; but I don't mind tellin you that I set it aside for the honeymoon expenses." Woman's Home Companion. Don't Spoil Yoar Clothe. TJse Red Cross Ball Blue and kep thcn white snow. All grocers, 5 cents a packse. ' Working a Scarecrow. An American, writing from the Philippines, where he' has spent some years In the service cf the government, do serlbes a native contrivance for frightening birds off the rice-fields that might prove useful to farmers here. It would save the display of much unfashionable raiment on the corn-fields. On the way from Cervantes to Moncayan. Barron explained v.hat the little house set in one corner of each large rieWield is for. Over the field I strung a network of bejuco, or Indian cane, much the same as that of twine strung over our - corn-fields at home. But the Igorrote goes us one better." He pats his child up in the little house in the corner, and keeps his little fellow pulling at a strip of lejuco, which connects with those in the field, and so keeps them all in motion. It is a venturescme crow that flies into that We sav other places where the. network waj kept in motion by an Ingenious contr'vance. Under a little waterfall a block cf wood was suspended. The block was so shaped that the water on striking it drove it out away from the fall, and of course down, because of the weight of the water striking if This yanked the string conected with the network over the field, as tbe boy had yanked his. Then, of course, the block was, by the reaction, pulled up again to its former level and swung back into the waterfall, and was again driven downward and outward, once more yanking the ßtrlcg, and again was pulled back, and so on, indefinitely. It worked to perfection. DIFFEHEITT NOW. Athlete Finds Better Training; Food. It was formerly the belief that to become strong, athletes must eat plenty of meat ' This is all out of date now, and many trainers feed athletes on tbe we'iknown food, Grape-Nut, made of wheat and barley, and cut the meat down to a small portion, once a day. "Three years ago, writes a Mich, man, "having become Interested In athletics, I found I would have to stop eating pastry and tome other kinds of food. "I got some Grape-Nuts and was sooa eating the food , at every meal, for I found that when I went on the track I felt more lively and active. "Later, I begau also to drink Postum in place of coffee and the way I gain?! muscle and strength on this diet was certainly great. On the day of a field meet In June I weighed 121 lbs. On the opening of the football season In Sep I weighed 140. I attributed my fine condition and good work to the discontinuation of improper food and coffee, and the using of Graie-Nuts and Postum my principal diet during training season being Graie-Nuts. "Before I used Grape-Nuts I never felt right in the morning always kind of 'out of sorts' with my stomach. But now when I rise I feel good-, and after a breakfast largely of Grape-Nuts with cream, and a cup of Postum, I feel like a new man." "There's a Ileason." Name given by Postnm Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Bead "The Boad to WellTille," In pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full cf human interest.