Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 48, Plymouth, Marshall County, 3 September 1908 — Page 6

Opinions of RAILS 0 AD ACCIDENTS IN lO PERSON should -et

statement of the Interstate Commerce Commission that the number of deaths from railroad accidents m the first three months

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roads are exercising greater care of their patrons. Such is not the case, in the opinion of the commission, which attrihutes the decrease to the smaller number of trains operated and to the shorter hours of employes, due to business depression. During those three months. "US persons wore killed and 15.441 Injured in railroad accidents. Of the killed, G7 vrere passengers, VM were trainmen encased in the operation of trains and Co were trainmen who were killed in railroad yards. There have been 1,100 collisions, all of which might have been avoided by use of the block signal system. In these collisions Gil persons were killed and 1,337 Injured. There were also 1,442 derailments direat'y traceable to defects of roadbed or equipment. The neglect of operators, signalmen and trainmen caused 13 accidents, in which 3 persons were killed and i'3 Injured. This is a grewsome record, considering the ability that lias been shown, by Americans in other lines of business. Itailrouds appear to be an- exception to the rule that greater efficiency marks the conduct of corporations every year. Chicago Journal.

CONGEESS' GREAT SPENDING.

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by Congress this year reaches the abnormal sum of $l,0bS,$O4,S94, or more than $S3,000,000 hi cess of the budget of the previous year, notwithstanding the fact that the river and harbor bill, which last year carried an appropriation of $37,000,000,

was omitted. About one-half of the Increase Is chargeable to the army and navy, $23,000,000 for the latter and $1G,000,COO for the former. The nrmy and navy, by the way, are becoming expensive necessities, and annually cost nearly $100,000,000 each. In fact, so enormous were the appropriations that Represent stive Tawney, the chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, felt called upon to apologize for their excessive size, while the Democrats, through Representative Fitzgerald, of New York, presented comparative' figures that are almost as startling. Mr. Fitzgerald asserted, for instance, that the expenditure during the four ; Itoosevclt years, 190010A amounted to $3,42S,000,Or;, while during the civil war yearn,' 1.VG2-1S03, they reached only $3,1.000,000. According to. Mr. Fitzgerald, never but once in our history did the expenditures of our government reach the y thousand million dollar mark. During the fiscal year 1SC5, when the c-ountry was in the throes of the bloody and expensive civil war, the expenditures aggregated $l,a4.(Ä",0CO. of which $1.03O.G0VHX) were for the maintenance of the nrmy. To-day. in a time of profound

HIS REASONS. 3Iac Telia Why He Dofin't Bft w the Rarr. "1 -don't care what you're thinkin;, Mac. They're lovely, refined people." "Who said I was thinking anything;" Th? voices had come into the ball, and Mr. and Mrs. Wolcott, who were reading by the fire in the next room, glanced up at each other. 1 Perhaps Beth knew they were there. She was not given to secrets from her parents. Certainly she made no effort to lower her voice as she answered Mac Bantley In an Injured tone: , "No one needs to say so. D?n't you appose I understand your keeping so still? But I think It's Just a difference la family traditions. Mrs. Hamilton's uncle always owned fine horses, and she rays he used to give the children tips on the races ever since she can remember. And now she and her busband da this' betting together, jnst for fua. eer any large sums, you know, usually a dollar. Hut sometimes, if the odds are fifteen to cu say, they inak'e a little sometl.Ing. Why, they talk about it as Innocently as we'd speak of going to the matinee, and really, he's the ste.-.Jiest kind of a man, Mac. He's devoted to her and the baby home with them every night of his life and he has an unusual sense of honor In business, too, Cousin Gilbert says. That's why It surprised me. at first, till I got their point of view. They both say you can't possibly tmw tho fascination of a race until you've singled out one horse 'and put a little money on him." Silence, except for the found of Mac's getting Into his overcoat. "Why don't you say something? I'm curious to know whether you think there would be any harm in my going with them once betting a dollar, say Just for the experience?" "Well," Mac said slowly, "i can only ppcak for myself. I couldn't afford to bet even a dollar on the races, for two reasons, and the first one Is that it would break my mother's heart." The woman In the next room nodded, with eyes that were suddenly moist. Mac's .mother had died six years before. Iiut Beth's fr.tber still llsf.ncd expectantly. 'Tie second reason Is selfish, or at lea-t. practical," Mac's voice went on. BInct- I've been working up my own business I've had searchlights .turned on me when 1 1 didn't know It. The very men who have trusted me with their money began by sending agents round to the office to And out ' about me. They'd ask the fellows who knew me best. 'Does Bentley drink?' and the boys bad to say 'No. 'Drinks a little, doesn't he a glass now and then? 'No, not a Irop.' That's been worth thousands in cold cash to me, Beth, don't you sec? And It might be, 'Does he gamble?' No, doesn't gamble.' 'Never? 'Oh. well, maybe a dollar or bo on the races.' See? I might as well have risked a hundred, as far as the effect goes. J don't know how it is with Hamilton r bis wife, or you, bat for myself, I ean't afford to do it." The next minute came the sound of tne door closing after Mac and of Beta's step as she went upstairs. Then the man In the next room nodded with a satisfied smile. "Mac's all right," he pjurmured. "I'd trust him with anything even , my daughter." Youth's Companion. ELEVATOR SERVICE IN ROME. reaaat of Apartment Jlonae Mar RId Up, bat Mast Walk Down. Why, central heating, running water, electric lights and elevator service Is not Just as possible in Italy as anywhere else In the civilized world is a problem. Now, for Instance, a new apartment house here on Monte Pincio proudly proclaims Its "lift." Largely the apartment houses are devoid of this convenience, and one, mounts to the tlx or seven stories on his two feet, u best he may. But the workings of thia 'lift of

Great Papers on Important Subjects.

AMERICA.

peace, the nation is spending more money than it did in the time of civil war. Very few people appreciate the fact that while Great Britain's navy in 1907 cost $140,000,000, the United States navy in 108 will cost $122,000,000, a sum as great as the expense of the French and German navj' combined. The maintenance of the army Is also reaching a figure which places this country on a par with the military nations of Europe. Henry L. West, in the Forum.

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green trees, the shaded ponds and streams, the peace and restfulnes of the countryside. Those suffering from the monotony and ennui of rural life it brings to the city, to the kale Idoscoplc changes and excitements of the streets, to the mart, the theater, the church and the lecture room. Thus It gives the recreation which is found In change to the urban as well as to the rural dweller and increases the enjoyment of life for both. There are today nearly 40,000 miles of electric railways in the United States, and the network of connecting lines is extending with wonderful rapidity. Millions arc invested In the business, which has become In many quarters a sharp competitor with the steam cars in passenger transportation. A considerable express"and freight business Is springing up on many lines, and soon the trolley will have problems for solution just the same as the steam railroads. In rural sections the trolley is working a revolution in values. It is developing hamlets and towns and villages and building up recreation places for both the urban and rural dweller, By bringing the former from the heated, crowded streets Into the pure and Invigorating atmosphere of the country it Is performing the part of a physician, which is not the least among Its blesslugs. Utica Globe.

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1 I - .... 'j "i fftSrf?! to the mark, and Is providing as at Iiosyth dockyard and naval bases ample In equipment and convenient In location. Tremendous as Is the display of iower In the number of fchlps In the North Sea, her demonstration of readiness to use them all efficiently Is even more impressive. ' To have sent out this mighty fleet with scratch crews might have been better than nothing. To send it out with ample and amply trained complements Is an achievement fit to command the admiration of the world. New York Tribune. '

BUDDHIST PRAYING WHEEL.

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The arrangement consists usually of a little box of prayers printed on paper, which is whirled around by tho hand, the pious one believing that with every revolution he is laying up as great a store of merit as though he had recited all the prayers with which the box is filled. Sometimes the praying wheel consists of a cylinder, set upright and revolving on an axis. In this cylinder are arrauged, one on top of the other, sheets of paper upon which the prayers are written. The sheets must be wound on the axis from left to right and the wheel when set in motion must revolve In the opiKsite direction, so that the writing pusses In front of the person turning the wheel In the way 1 n which it Is read, from ltft to right. If made to revolve from right to left it is held sacrilegious. The picture of the Japanese Buddhist priest and praying wheel reproduced herewith was taken at the great temple of Zenkojl, at Nakano, Japan, where there are two of them. They are comparatively rare In Japau. only the Tendal and Shlngon sects of Buddhists using them.

which the domicile Is so proud are like the ways of Providence, past finding out. It docs not stop at all on the first floor. Of course, any one, from the Roman point of view, would walk up one flight! But It actually ds stop at the second, third, fourth und fifth floors; then it skips the sixth floor, but stops on the roof. On that eminence you emerge from your "lift" walk across It to the other side of the lioue, walk down a flight of cold stone stairs in a dark passage and. presto! you have "arrived" at last! You are at the entrance to the apartment on the sixth floor. When yon again descend to the street you go out in the dark, cold corridor and walk down the entire six flights of stone stairs. The wildest Roman dream would not conceive the Idea of one's being so extravagant and exacting as to think of going down in the elevator! This is 'by no means an extreme example of tho curious mechanical clumsiness of Italy. They have absolutely no .mechanical genius and they will not allow foreigners to eoine In and exercise theirs. I am told that If an American or an English capitalist wished to erect apartment houses or any other buildings in Rome he would find th'at he would not be allowed to buy materials or hire workmen, and that his way would be blocked by every sort of obstacle. The Italian Is extremely Jealous of his own country. New Orleans Times-Democrat. A girl seldom maps out a career until after she Las been disappointed In lore.

THE TH0LLEY. NE of the greatest adjuncts to modern civilization itf the trolley. It brings the city to the country, the country to the city, and binds each together with a closer community of interest than ever was possible before. The tired workers of the city it brings to the enjojment of the cool air,

ENGLAND'S NAVY EVER READY.

BEAT IlIHTAIN is not only building enough sl ips to keep herself in numbers and tonuage equal to any two rival powers; she Is ilsn k-piiini' the itersorinol of hpr n.ivv im

V, among t!ie l'uddldst! of t!i' Orient. Son of the Sea.' When the British ' armored cruiser Gladiator was rammed y the liner Sr. I'aul at Southampton during a spring blizzard the warship gradually lu-cNd over with the Inrush of water through the great hole In, her hull. Her crew lined up on deck calmly walling to b taken off by the rescuing boats, :iTif; the angle became so great the sailor could no longer keep the'r feet. They then climbed over the rail to the outside of the sinking ship, now lifted far out of the sea and slowly turning turtle. In that dangerous iKsitlon they struck up an old patriotic song: ' Sons of the sea, all British born. Sail ever free, lau -hing fear to scorn : OthiTi can buiM ships, and think t!i. know the game. But they -au't rna till the boys of ;hr bulldog fame Who've made Old England's name. As one by one the men passed do. J. to the boats voice after voice dropped out of the song until from a ro-.r :. chorus, swelling high above the the;. tier of wiud and wave, nud the hiss of es caplug steam from the engine! of the doomed vessel. It dwindled down to a single voice sounding bravely alone through the swirling snow until that, too, fell sil?nt, either in safety or tin: sea. HI Lead. Hawkins How's Ilenpeck getting on since his marriage? He ued to vow that no woman could ever get ahead ol him. Hagg Oh, .he's still leading, I suppose, but she's behind holding the reins. London Tit-Bits.

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2Vo 'evolution" In Sight. The head of Mr. Bryan's literary bureau says: "A political revolution is ! at hand. All signs point to a change of party control of the government In 1908." If there are any such slgirs that personage ought to point them out. Mr. Bryan has 'not yet mentioned any of them, and he would be likely to see them If anybody could. And If he saw any of them he would quickly tell his countrymen about them. One of the indications of a revolution In the presidency comes in the congressional elections two years ahead. This premonitory symptom always comes. When the Republicans carried the House of Representatives in 1SÖS the victory of 1SX) in the presidency was foreshadowed. In 1S74 the Democrats won the House of Representatives for the first time since 18oG and the drop in the Republican vote for the presidency two years later was so steep that Hayes obtained a majority of only one vote in the electoral college. The Republican setback in the congressional canvass of 1SK2 presaged the victory for Cleveland two years later, just as the cutting of the Democratic margin in the House close to the vanishing point !n ISSO foretold the victory which Harrison won In 1SSX. The Republican reverse in the congressional canvass of lSfM) and the Democratic overthrow in a like canvass In 1S'4 presaged a big defeat TARIFF REVISION TO MEET

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( UNLIMITED? FARMERS, NERC HANTS

Uncle Sam I suppose we've got to have tariff revision, but we should ake mighty good care to hav the right kind of revision. What with diminish revenues, manufactures reduced TO ier cent, wholesale and retail business cut In two in the middle, idle locomotives and freight cars, and L0(X,000 wage-earners out of work, we certainly don't want tariff reduction.

for the party In each care in the presidential canvass two years later. Nobody has detected any such symptom of coming Republican disaster. In the congressional campaign of Y.W the Republicans won a majority of fiftyeight in the House of Representatives. Overconlidenee prevented . th"m from making it larger, but It Is large enough for practical purpose. Every Democrat, as well as every Republican, on reading tho returns In November, 10O'. t;aw that all the signs were favorable for another big Republican triumph i:i r.Ms. If there were any reason to supjn.se that the people were tired of Republican domination the evidence of It would have appeared In the congressional campaign two years ago. Nothing of the sort came to hand. Neither Bryan nor any other sensible Democrat has any hope of Democratic sucivss in 100S. In order to preserve the party organization a ticket had to be put up. The man tit the head of the ticket, however, will not exhibit the faintest surprise when he learns, on the night of November 3, that the third battle turned out just as the first and the second battles did. St. Ituls (ilo!e-Iemocrat. I The liryan Accrntance. The character of Mr. Bryan's speech of acceptance Is best described as Bryanesque. He has never delivered any address which was more typical of the man. Ills most earnest advocates will find difficulty In discovering cither anything new or anything expressod In a fresh manner. The clue to the speech Is the want of policy. He lias nothing to shout for except the awful things of which the opposing party Is guilty. It gives his aovptance a tone of gray: It Is as colorless as llthla water. It suggests a flabby handshake. Bryan has strength and vim and eloquence and j'oetrj when he has something vital to advocate, but this year he is lacking entirely in the material with which to :o gnoit dancing. When Mr. Bryan prepared his acceptance, he took the easiest path of those which stretched before him. He might have chosen to confine himself to an clabotato approbation of his party's platform. He might have presented, with the acknowledged skill which Is his. the plans for which he has pledged his support. He might have plead, indeed, for an opportunity to oisplay his statecraft, since this speech will probably be read more than any other he will make during the campaign. But he chose the way which, to hint, is the easiest way, an attack upon Mr. Taft for allying himse,f with the Republican party. "Shall the reprerentntlve of predatory wealth prey upon r defenseless public, while the offenders secure Immunity from subservient officials whom they raise to power by unscrupulous methods?" he asks. Memory goes back to the summer of 'Mi: vl.n Mr. Bryan stood uin a platform and waved his arms and stainIcded a convention to him by declaring that the "people shall not be crucified upon. a cross of gold." It is the same bad metaphor translated to pull la the catch phrases of this period, the sanio

apieal to prejudice and with as little justice to bolster It. To read tho speech at Fairview is to renew acquaintance with the days when the free and unlimlrel coinage of silver was the paramount issue, when the crushing of imperialism and militarism were of foreoiot .Importance In the view of the Nehraskan. lie has no more than resurreeleO. 18tHI and 1900 and togged them out In the motley garments his party has managed to piece together for the present contest. With all due respect to Mr. Bryan as a man and a good citizen, he but clinches the conviction that he Is unfit for the office his heart pants for. He represents nothing except an opposition. He is no more than a symbol of negation. Toledo Blade.

It Means Prosperity. ( Champ Clark of Missouri, In shaking of the Denver convention, said he would give any man present the best suit of clothes or any lady present the largest "Merry Widow" hat in the city If they would tell him what the tariff plank In the Republican platform moans. The clothing and millinery stores to-day must be doing a big business at Denver if Mr. Clark is able to back up his offer, and from all reports he Is not enjoying the financial strigency that the Democratic party would have ieople believe Is still with us. The tariff plank of all Republican conventions has always meant protection to American labor, the payment of the highest wages on the face of the earth to the largest numler of people, and the greatest business expansion that has ever been enjoyed by any country, at any time, slnco the beginPRESENT CONDITIONS. Ä: nhig of time. That Is what the .tariff plunk has always meant. That is what it still means, and if the language In which the present tariff plank is couched is not plain to Mr. Clark he should know by long established precedent and laws as enacted by Congress what that plank means, although every letter and every syllable should be blot-t-d out and made wholly Illegible. It means Piosperity. Fairmont -West Virginian." ltubbc-r-TonifUf l Orator)-. All this fuss about Bryan's accepting $1,000 from phonograph companies for talking campaign speeches for their records amounts to nothing. If a candidate for the presidency of the United States wants to cheaien himself to that extent the voters of the country will have an opportunity next November to piun-i in u uiaoer mai win ie cnecfIve. Mr. Bryan says he turned the money over to the state campaign committee ns a personal contribution. But no one has heard of his disposing in that manner of his enormous profits from his' newspaper, The Commoner, which he has used with great success during the iuist four years in booming his candidacy and Incidentally Increasing his bank account. With Bryan and Hearst both printing newsij6pers during the campaign the voters will doubtless get a pretty good Ihne on the rival candidates, for each editor will occasionally say something that will give food for reflection. Meanwhile Mr. Taft will go smilingly on his way, his hosts of friends all over the country boosting him all the time. Taft and his cause need neither hired phonographs nor personally owned newspapers. Importance of the Wage Hate. Believing that it would Ik- an economic blunder and a business blunder to reduce wages, James .1. 1 1 III heartily supports the proposition to increase freight rates as a means of enabling the railroads to get back to a dividendpaying basis. Rightly Mr. 11 ill regards the American wage rate and the American standard of living as the basis of proqerlty In all lines of business activity. This Is sound protection doctriue. Mr. 1111 was formerly a Democrat. We have not heard of his formal crossing over to Republicanism, but, holding the view that he does concerning the prime Importance of the American wage rate, we are quite prepared to see him voting with the arty of protection. American Economist. I. ............. it. ... til 4W . . Enough for J I Im. A surgeon was explaining a very uncommon case to his students, and finished up as follows : "This, gentlemen, Is a very rare tumor, Indeed. In all my thirty years experience I have never come across one like this, and you will see me remove it to-morrow." ":;o, you won't," said the patient. "If that's all the experience you've had of this sort of thing I'm going home." Time tu Smoke Up. He I've money to burn. ShetrThen I'm your match.

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TRUSTS AND PROTECTION.

"Weak neu of the Democratic Plat form Antl-Trunt Proposition. , The Democratic party's promise to remove the tariff from trust made goods is one it would not undertake to redeem If given power. Take sugar for example. We have what is called the Sugar Trust. But the Democratic states of the South and the sugar beet growing states of the West demand protection for their sugar, and a Demcratic majority in Congress would not think of denying It. And what Is true of sugar is true of tobacco any many other articles. It Is also proiosed to deny protection to industries whose products are sold abroad at less than domestic prices. This is equally impracticable if protection is to be continued as a system. There are so many reasons why products may on occasion be sold abroad at ltss than domestic prices that the fact of such sales is not at all conclusive as to the existence of a domestic monopoly, or as to any particular Industry's independence of protection. The true principle is protection limited to the needs of the Industries adapted to the resources of our country. The question of whether the domestic industry is monopolized or dominated by one or two large concerns Is not material. The professed puriose of the law is to protect labor, and therefore the material question is the needs of the Industry, free or mouoiolized, which employs the labor. It is the question of what protection, if any, the domestic industry needs to , control the home market against foreigu competition. If a sale Is made abroad at a discount on domestic prices the fact is material only ns it may bear on the question of whether protection. is needed to enable the home Industry to dominate the home market. It should not be accepted as conclusive evidence on this point. Otherwise, a sale of packing house products or of American tobacco abroad at a discount on domestic prices would be warrant for withdrawing protection from our producers of live stock and tobacco. The duty of Congress Is to ascertain the actual needs of the Industry through the best evidence obtainable and then Tmlt its protection to these needs. liibuqne Times. Bryan and Wool. In his speech at Des Moines the other day Bryan had something to say about the tariff on wool, but just what his point was had not been made clear when the engine bell sounded and he was obliged to hurry hack to his car. Rut as far as he had gone Mr. Bryan apjteared to be trying to make out tiut the farmers of Iowa, and, Inferentlally, those of the whole country, don't know beans when the bag is cqen, and are easily deluded into applauding coutradjctory propositions in the same speech. That matter Is respectfully referred to the aforesaid farmers, with glance Novemberward. But Mr. Bryan mentioned wool, and the tariff thereon. Mr. Bryan's platform, adopted by Mr. Bryan's convention at Denver, promises 'a reduction of the tariff upon the necessities of life." That means, among other things, "free wKl." The wool Industry In Iowa Is not large, but there is a big production of wioI In sections of the country where Mr. Bryan would like to get votes. And what then? "Did not," asks rhe New York Times, "the census of sheep show a falling off of 10,000,000 during the last Democratic administration, and has the iMr farmer yet recovered from that massacre erf the Innocent sheep, like that now prepared for himself to make a Bryan holiday? Has cot the price of 'territory, best line staple, clean.' risen from UO cents to CO cents under Republican administration, and shall the hands of the clock be turned backward? In other words, will tho farmer chip in for Bryan and free wool? We trow not. Bryan and ruin look alike to the Western rancher, and he would rather vote for the Old Boy himself." Next time Bryan feels like being facetious about tlie tariff at tho expense of the farmer, whose perception he seems to think eculiarly dull, he would lietter at least avoid wool. Council Bluffs Nonpareil. Coualruetl ve and Destructive. The Republican party promises a revision of the tariff; revision upward as well as revision downward. That Is a constructive policy. The Democratic party promises a reduction of the tariff, "toward a revenue basis." That is a destructive policy. One party upholds protection as indispensable to the maintenance of high wages and a high standard of living and as Insuring "a reasonable profit" alike to wage payers and wage earners. The other party disregards the interests of wage payers aud wage earners, aud, by promising Immediate free tradd in all Imports competing with trustmade articles, promises immediate free trade in practically all competing articles. Never was the issue more sharply defined than now: Protection versus Ureo Trade. lutcruatlonal Trust. The International trust appears to be growing In favor. Tho American concern which manufactures a largo part of the steel consumed In the United States is reaching out for plants in Canada, and If the sign are not misleading the Dominion government instead of "shooing" it away is actually ready to welcome its appearance on Canadian soil. The Canadians are after manufactures and they do not bother much about the method of their introduction. All they ask is to see them established in their territory. San Francisco Chronicle. IIclpiiiM: Hjrnien. "So women hold olHce down here? interrogated the stranger at the rural county seat. "There's one in the clerk's office," responded the proud citizen. "Has she proved any advantage to the community?" "Well, I should say so. As soon ts she got In otliee she reduced the marriage license fee from M to U9 cents and there has been a rush ever since." A Cllmatlo Dttooarifrment, "Do you think there Is any reliable way of foretelling the weather?" "Yep." answered Farmer Corntassel. "Jes' think of the kind you don't want and then prophesy It" Washington Star. A Soft Heart. Mrs. Ilashburn Delia, have you pitted the prunes? Delia No, but I've pitied the poor boarders many's the tiine. Chicago Dally Journal.

"In the early months of the Civil War," said the Colonel, "many girls attempted to play the part of soldier. It may seem Incredible to themeu and women of this day that young women could enter the military service, escape detection by the mustering officers, aud associate with worldly wise men, with-, out the connivance of confederates. But It must be remembered that In the first year of the war there were in every conjpauy luauy fresh-faced, beardless young men. diffident in manner and hesitant in speech, among whom a boyishfaced young woman, playing a boy's part, did not seem out of place. 'it was a time, too, when few questions were asked, and when mustering officers were not overparticular; a time when men from different neighborhoods, counties and States were thrown together to form in a day unexplainable and romantic attachments; a time when, In the strangeness of environment and in homesickness, the reserve of individuals was common, and when ail sorts of eccentricities were excused. At such a time it was easy for a highspirited girl of rugged build to dress in the Garibaldi shirt and loose blouse and trousers, and join some squad of eager recruits on their way to camp, and it Is Indisputable that many escaped detection for months, and did good service as soldiers. "I cannot remember now a single caso In our division of the army where a girl who had worn soldier clothes through skirmish or battle was not on discovery treated with the greatest respect even by the roughest men. I cannot remember a case la which scandal was associated with a young woman who had been carried Into the army, through patriotism, and in sheer forgetfulness of self aud sex. Men who had themselves been overwhelmed and mastered by a newly discovered, passionate devotion to flag and country seemed to understand the young women who risked everything to follow the flag, and there was little criticism or censure. "On one occasion a rumor flow through camp that a woman had been discovered in one of the companies. There was excitement at once, but when a frolicsome young fellow In Company B was marched up to headquarters under guard no one suspected that the person under arrest was a woman. Men in the same mess were as unsuspicious as any, and they were greatly scandalized when it was declared, that for six months they had been cuffing and swearing at a woman. But the whole regiment was lined irp to see her taken oul of camp, and, much to Ahe surprise of the officers, there was nothing said that had the slightest flavor of ribaldry. On every hand it was Good-by, Jo; better luck next time.' And from th. woman came, 'Good-by, boys; whatever else 30U do, remember that I did my duty with the best of you.' 'And ye did that, me boy,' shouted an. Irishman, 'and I will lick the man that says ye didn't.' , "What became of her? iShe was taken In charge by the colonel's wife, and led as honest a life as any one, though possibly not a very comfortable on'. And, by the way, 1 do not believe that any of these soldier girls turned out badly. I have In mind a girl who served In another regiment. She was the only child of our village physician, and had a hoy's training. She drove, rodei hunted, and fisled with her father, who called her his boy. At the very beginning of the war the doctor volunteered, and in a speech urging young men to enlist expressed his regret that his girl was not a boy, as It would give him Inexpressible pride to have a son wearing the army blue. His daughter took a resolve then and there, and she carried it out. "Before many weeks she was seeing hard service in a Union regiment, and was associated with three young fellows of slighter figure aud fairer comlixIou than herself. One day one of these young men tweaked her nose, and she boxed his ears. Quick as a flash the man struck back, and there was a lively scrap. The orderly sergeant interfered, and was surprised to find the young fallow who had got the best of the skirmish despondent and penitent The next day the young man told tha orderly that In the midst of the fight he divined his antagonist was a woman. She didn't strike she slapfied and scratched and In her anger and excitement betrayed herself. The two consulted with the colonel, and the girl was quietly detailed for nurse's duty in the hospital. Then she was sent to a distant hospital, at which she appeared In woman's dress, and from t.at she was sent to her father, with 'v'iom she remained the greater part of che, war." "There are in Chicago," said the major, "probably a scow of Southern women who married Union officers. There is a romance in nearly every such marriage, but I cannot enter that field. There is one story, however, that may be giveu in outline. While we were In camp in West Virginia there lived on a hid within the guard line a minister In whose family was a girl of 17, shy as a bird, but pretty as a picture. She was seen in camp only when her father conducted services on Sunday, or at an occasional dress parade, when she came down to the colonel's quarters with her father and mother. "Of course, a score of men In the regiment were In love with her, and all sorts of plans were laid to have a talk with her. Most of these miscarried through the vigilance of the colonel and the girl's father, but a lieutenant and a . sergeant in our company managed In some way to let the girl know they were her devoted slaves. While the girl was rarely seen or heard dnrlng the day, nearly every night. Just before taps, the hoys could hear her laugh. She had a clear, rippling laugh, which came down to the men in their tents to make many of them homesick. They could not understand why she should be so quiet during the day, and laugh so heartily at night, until the guards explained that just before bedtime the old colored auntie who served as maid of all work related to the young lady the gossip of the camp as to the doings of her several adorers. "Then the laughs iu the dark were not quite pleasant to the men who felt that they were being talked over, and attempts to Interpret the laughs led to quarrel between our lle"enant and

serfeant, la which the latter resented a light remark of the former by a blow. In the end the sergeant was worsted, and the colonel put both under arrest While under guard the Eergeapt was taken seriously 111, and was sent to tho hoepital. While there he had no more devoted friend than the lieutenant hut when he recovered the girl whose laugh In the. dark had caused the trouble was gone. Sergeant and lieutenant became close friends, both were promoted, and. at Shiloh the latter was killed and the former lost an arm, and came la time to command the company. "On his return home at the close of the war the one-armed captain was lionized in his native village, and there were many gatherings In his honor. Going to one of these one evening, he nnJ his sister stopped for the minister's daughter, who called to thein not to con? Into the yard, as she would meet them at the gate. Coming down the walk she stumbled and almost fell. Regaining her footing she laughed, and the officer, startled and dazed, went to-, ward her. They met in the dark, and he offered his arm. lit asked at once if she remembered old C mp Itiverfalls, and the girl was as agitated as the man. The lieutenant of the old tlma had told the father of the girl the sergeant's story, and here at last they had met "They were married, of course, and their youngest daughter, now a woman, has a laugh like her mother." Chicago Inter Ocean. '

The Confederate Flag. The flag of the Confederacy, or rather tha flags of the Confederacy, . had some curious bits of history attached to their brief existence. On March 5, 1801, the Provisional Confederate Congress, recommended that "the flag of the Confederate' Stp.tes of America Khali consist of a red field, with a white space extending horizontally through the center, and equal in width to one-third the width of the flag. The red spaces above and below to be of the same width as the white. The union, blue, extending down , through the white space, and stopping at the lower red space; in the center of the union a circle of white stars corresponding In , number with the states of the Confederacy." It was first displayed in public March 4, 18G1, the day of the Inauguration of Lincoln, and was unfurled over the stale house at Montgomery, Ala. On the battlefield the flag bore such a similarity to the union flag that in September, ISGi, for the army of the Potomac, Gens. Beauregarl and Johnston created what afterwards became known as the battle flag; a red ground with a blue diagonal cross emblazoned with white stars, one for each state. This form was adopted by all of the troops east of the Mississippi river. The first design !earlng the objection of resemblance to the stars and stripes, and the battle flag having r.o reverse, the Confederate Senate, la April, 1803, adopted a white flag, with a broad blue bar In Its center; amended by Inserting ihe bsttle-flag design as the union, with a piain white ground for the field. This arrangement afterwards proved faulty, as at a distance the large white field resembled a Cag of truce, also as combined with" the unloL, was similar to the English white ensign. On February 4, 18GÖ, the Confederate Senate adopted a third change "The width, two-thirds of Its length; with the union, now 'used as a battle flag, to be in width throe-fifths of the width of tLe flag, and so proportioned as to leave the length of the field on the side of the union twice the width below It; to have a ground of red, and broad blue saltier thereon, bordered with white and emblazoned with mullets or five-ioInted stars corresponding In number to that of the Confederate States. The field to be white except the outer half from the union, which shall Ik 1 red bar, extending the 1dlh of the flag." Moattr'a Xamritke. General John S. Mosby, the Confederate cavalryman, used to tell of a comic incident which happened in 'the Shenandoah Valley In 1SG4. Near Mlil-w-oif 11 regiment of civalry halted one night and went Into camp. One of the men, who was hungry, slipped away and went on In the neighborhood to get something to eat. He rode up to a cabin on a farm In the dark, and called for the person inside to come out A negro woman, known at that time as an intelligent contraband, opened the door and asked him what he wanted. The soldier wished to lo assured of his safety before dismounting and whilu eating his supper, so he Inquired of the woman If any one but herself was there. She replied, "Yes, Mosby Is here." "What !" said he, in a whisper. -Is Mosby here?" . "Yes," she said, "he Is lu the house." The soldier put spurs to his horso and dashed off to his company to carry the news. When he got there he Informed the colonel that Mosby was la a house not far away. The regiment was soon mounted, and went at a fast yot, thinking they had Mosby In a trap. When they arrived at the negro woman's house the colonel ordered his mn to surround it, to prevent 1 Mosby 's ecai while he went In with a few to take him, dead or alive. The woman again came to the dr of the cabin. The colonel Inquired, "Is Mosby here?" ; She innocently replied, "Yes," so he walked In. After tlie colonel got Inside he looked round. But the woman seemed to be all alone and utterly unconscious of having so important a person for a guest Ina loud voice the colonel demanded. "Where Is Mosby?" "Ere he is," answered the terrified ncgress, at the same time pointing to a cradle on tho floor. i 1 The colonel looked into the cradle and saw a little African pickaninny How McKinley Became m Masoa. The buihting where McKinley wai made a Masou Is still Intact and th Winchester folk ven the most Juvenile of them have on their tongue' eni the story of how McKinley, wounded at Antletam, lay on a cot next to Confederate officer who seemingly wai given greater care and more attentloi than he. One day he Inquired, an4 found that the ward attendant and tbt Confederate officer were fraternal brothers. McKinley then made knowi his desire to associate himself with ai ordtr In which brotherhood was sue! a paramount tenet His convalescent enemy endorsed his application at tbt nearest lodge, which, through, the coa stant maneuvering of the army, chanced to be Winchester. It wa here, at the hands of his country' foe that the man destined to be the love4 President of a reunited country re ceived his Masonic degrees. From "The Scars of War In the Shenandoah," by John D. Wells, la the Metr polltai Magazine.