Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 16, Plymouth, Marshall County, 21 January 1909 — Page 6

Ö-7T-Civil Wnr Revival. "One of t. most remarkable features of the Civil War." says an old exCoufederate, "was, the great revival of religion in the Confederate armies during the last eighteen months of the struggle. "While most of the Confederate soldiers were loath to admit it, after the fall of Yieksburg. which opened tha Mississippi and cut the Confederacy in two, and the awful defeat at Gettysburg, which proved the Impossibility of a successful invasion of the North, it tecanie clear to every thinking man Iii the South that the cause was lost- And yet, self-convinced that they were in the right, the soldiers could not persuade themselves but that in s?nie mysterious way they would win. They hoped that complications between the United States government and Great Kritain would take place, and when this hope was disappointed they looked confidently for trouble with France over the Mexican affair. Nothing came of It, however, and still the poor fellows clung to their hoie of help from some unexpected quarter until some of them actually came to believe that supernatural aid would be extended at the last moment. "The chaplains in tie Southern army were as a rule very earnest, devout men, and encouraged the hopes of the soldiers, until finally loth chaplains and men came to believe that earnest prayer and supplication would brins about divine intervention in their behalf. Kut the chaplains told the men hey must first, as they expressed it, 'get right with God themselves.' So the men proceeded at once 'to seek their own salvation.' The movement first began In the Tennessee army and among the regiments from the mountain districts f Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee. Most extraordinary scenes were witnessed in the camps. At night, after a long day's inarch, perhaps skirmishing or fighting from dawn till dark, the men would gather round the fires, -eat what little rations they had and the rations were often very unequal to their needs then pray and sing, often until long after midnight. "The preachers were everywhere. They went from one camp fire to another, enoo irasing those who were 'under conviction, praying with those who were groaning and crying, shouting with those who thought they had religion, clapping their hands, roaring 'Hallelujah. and in every way seeking to promote the excitement which had already passed beyond their control. Many men seemed actually crazed with religious enthusiasm. It seems paradoxical to say it, but whole groups .ould be seen in a sort of hysteria, crying and laughing at the same time, embracing one another anl performing antics that would have justified 1 lookeron In the belief that they were all Insane. Many cases of the jerks occurred, many of the soldiers went into trances, some had visions, and one member of a Tennessee regiment claimed to h&ve a revelation which foretold the coming of Jesus Christ, with twelve legions of angels to assist the Confederate cause. Of course the poor man was Insane; he afterwards died In an asylum. But there were many like him, and many, too, who believed in him and his prophecies. But no wonder can be felt at the numerous ?ases of insanity, both religious and otherwise, which occurred In the Confederate armies during the last year of the war. The commissary department went to pieces, during half the time the men were almost starving, their clothing was In rags, few had overcoats, and after a cold rain, such as often occurs during a Southern winter, tbelr condition was pitiful, and the more so because, in many divisions, there were no hospital tents and the doctors had neither medicines nor adequate facilities for caring for the sick or dressing the wounds of those brought in from the field. The religious excitement was a sort of last report. Every earthly hope had failed, and the poor men seemed to convince themselves that as they had no chr.nce n this wrld, help might come to them Jrom a supernatural source.' The Slain la Battle. Let us see how men killed each other jn the past when firearms were not (uodern or did not exist, anü when th? opportunity to kill in battle was much greater than it Is at the present time. Edward III. and Philip VI. tilted with each other at Crecy Aug. 20. 1340, an.J I he killed and wounded and prisoners amounted in all to 42.000 men. The English, although victorious, lost 12,IXX. This was right royal fighting and would have given war correspondents remarkable material for bloody dispatches. At Hohenlinden Dec. 3, 1S0O. the French loss was approximately a.OOO, while the Austrian In killed and wounded lost 8,000 and 12,000 prisoners were taken. Thus the killed and wounded of that one day equaled the total losses in the Transvaal war of both t Ides in 120 days. One might infer that the marksmanship of 1899 and 1900 was of poor quality. This Is not true. The fact Is that armies meet less In hand to hand conflicts to-day than ever before. At Marengo June 14, 1300, the French losss was 7,000 and 'he Austrian loss between 10,00 and 12,000, or 19,000 in all, while tiz ures for a single twenty-four hours of fighting make the battling at the Tu gela and Modder rivers seem like a skirmish. I5ut greater carnage than this has been recorded. At Chancel iorsville May 2, 3 and 4, lStlS, the Union loss was 10,030. The Confeder ate loss 124281. In other words, 28,300 men were put out of active service in three days. At Chlckamauga Sept 19 and 20, 18G3, the Union loss was 13,;51 and the Confederate loss 17,804, an average of abort 17,000 a day. Still a human life Is of more value in 190O 'vin It was In 1803. The work value of a man Is greater to-day than it was then, and It Is said to be a law of the Fates that as work value Increases the mortality wrought In warfare decreases. Which may. or may not be so. Jul 1, 2 and 3, 18(13, at Gettysburg the Union loss was, killed 2.S31. woundel 13,701), missing C.C43, and the Confederate loss 31,J21, so there was r.n average loss per day on that battlo field of 17,000 men. At Antietani Sept. 17, 1S62, the Union loss was 12,409, Confederate loss 9,000 to 12,000, or a

total of At least 21.500. The second Hull Run was fought Aug. 29 and CO, 1S02. The Union forces lost 13,000 men and the Confederates N.400. In tho battle of the Wilder? s May 3 and 0, 1S04, the Union sit was crippled by the loss of 1S.00O men and the Confederate by a loss of 11.000 men. The Germans and French did equally as well at Mars-Ia-Tour Aug. 10, 1870. The German loss in killexl and wounded was 10,000. The French loss In killed, wounded and prisoners was 17,00. One regiment lost forty-nine officers and 1,730 men, but this regimental loss does not compare with the Union loss at the time of the first discharge of the Confederate batteries and musketry at the battle of the Wilderness, when it is estimated that In five minutes 500 Union soldiers were wounded and killed. Gravelotte, Aug. 18, 1S70, vas a carnage to be remembered. The Germans left upon the field 20,139 dead or wounded men. The French lost between 12,000 and 13,000. lMevna, situated in the snows of Bulgarian mountains, was a battlefield in July, 1877, where the mountain side ran streams of blood and Turk and Muscovite died with their teeth fixed In each other's fles'i. The total Russian losses in ten daj s fighting were 32,000. The Turkish losses have never been accurately known. They have been estimated at 20,000. Last but not least of the fierce battles of the world where life was treated as a bauble comes Waterloo, June IS. 1S13. The loss of the English and Prussians was 22,000 and of the French 33.(X). Wellington's army could not have survived the ravages of the French guns but for the support of the allies, and England as an empire has never come so near annihilation cn the field of battle as it did at Waterloo. II. I. Cleveland, in Chicago Ilec-ord-IIerald.

Wnr Incident Itee.illed. It was years after the war. and some veferans of both sides were exehansin;; reminiscences at a banquet given by the board of trade of New York, says Lippincott's. It was presided over by the first president. Col. J. J Phillips, colonel of the Ninth Virginia regiment, Pickett's division. 'There Is nothing else so terrifying ns a night attack," "said Col. Phillips. "The Imagination vorks with intense activity In the darkness, and even Id peaceful times adds infinitely to the fear of perils, real or fancied. How much more are the horrors of warfare increased when the opposing forces are hidden from' sight, when the first announcement of hostile Intention is the thunder of guns, the crack of rifles, th? flash through darkness for it is the darkest possible night that is always stJected. "One of these night attacks In partic ular on the Bermuda hundred lines in 1804 I shall .never forget ; not because of its startling horrors, but because of a peculiar and sacred circumstance. almost resulting in the compulsory dis obedience of orders, the obeying, as It were, of a higher than earthly command. "The point of attack had been care fully selected, the awaited dark night had r.rrl:ed and my command was tc fire when Gen. Pickett should signal the order. There was that dread. Indescrib able stillness that weird, ominous silence that always settles over everything Just before a fight. It was sc thick you could cut it with a knife; so heavy It weighed you down as if words were piled upon you ; so all pervasive that it filled creation for you. You felt that nowhere in the universe was there any voice or motion. "Suddenly that awesome silence was broken by the sound of a deep, full voice rolling over the black void like the billows of a great sea, directly in line with our guns. It was singing the old hymn, 'Jesus, Lover of My Soul!" I have heard that grand old music many times in circumstances which In tensified its impresslveness, but never ! had it seemetl so solemn as when it broke tb stillness in which we waited for the order to fire. Just as it was t given there rang through the night the words : ' 'Cover my defenseless head With the shadow of thy win. " 'Ready ai m fire to the left, boys,' I said. "The guns were, shifted, the volley that blazed out swerved aside, and that defenseless head was covered with the shadow of His wing." A federal veteran who had I?en list ening looked up suddenly, and, clasp ing the colonel's hand, said: "I remember that night, colonel, and that midnight attack which carried off so many of my comrades. I was the singer." There was a second of silence; then "Jesus, Lover of My Soul," rang across the lines of Bermuda Hundred. No Flicht No Prayers & m-niin vf liiiTir rifflfPrS WT( I n 1 11 1 IT- 4 Ing in reminiscences of th"?' war, when , one of them told the following yarn: "Early on the morning of Dec. 24, 1SC4," he said. "Admiral Porter sig- j naled to the fleet before Fort Fisher : ; 'Get under way and follow me!' The j ship to which I belonged was assigned, j in the program, to the position between j two ironclads close under the fort. We anticipated hot and terrible work. The flagship led the way, and was approaching within range, when Lieut. Commander B , of my ship, ordered all hands to muster. The brawny tars gathered aft on the quarter-deck, with the oflicert in their usual places, and our commander began to read from the prayer book the 'Prayer before Battle. It was a solemn moment, none knew who or how many among us ml-ht suddenly be ushered Into the presence ;f the God of battles. Our commander read as though he felt it; the whole ship's company were awed and hushed, and the throbbing of the engines and wash of the water along the ide seemetl prematurely loud. When about half through a signal was reported from the flagship: 'Come to anchor In your positions.' When it was rend to mir com mander a sudden revulsion f feeling came over him. Throwing down the prayer book upon the hatch, he exclaimed: 'Well, 111 be 1 d if I'm going to pray If we ain't a-golng to light.' " Army Navy Union Worth Headline. The United States mnks third In the production of barley. Light, heat and oil nre the worst enemies of the rubber tire. A French army otlicer has 'nventtnl eyeglasses which enable the wearer to see on all sides and the rear. For calling a telephone g!rl a "for ward minx" over the wire, a Viennese subscriber has been sentenced to fortyeight hours' imprisonment and one day's fast

OPPORTUNITY.

They do me wrong who say I come no more When once I knock and fail to find you in; For every day I f-tand outside your door And bid you wake, and rise and fight and win. Wall not for precious chances passed away, Weep not for golden ages on the wane! Each night I burn the records of the day At sunrise every soul is Lorn agaiu! Dost thou behold thy lost youth all aghast? Dost reel from lighteous Retribution's blow? Then turn from blotted archives of the past And find the future's pages white as snow. . Art thou a mourner? Rouse thee from thy spell; Art thou a sinner? Sins may be forgiven; Each morning gives thee wings to flee from hell, Each night a star to guide thy feet to heaven. Laugh like a boy at splendors that have sped. To vanished Joys bo Mind and ;"eaf and dumb; My judgments seal the dead past with its dead. But never bind a moment yet to come. Though d?pp in mire, wring not your hands and weep; I lend my arm to all who say "I can!" No shame-faced outcast ever sank so deep But yet mi?ht rise and be again a man! -Walter Malone.

The Resignation of Alicia

As I walked Into the dining room Fldo and Peter striding behind me and pietending not to see each other I noticed with growing alarm that Alicia's air of preoccupation grew ar:d grew, until at last, not being able to stand it any longer, I suddenly asked, "Everybody well?" "Why, George!" exclaim-d Alicia. "Why, George, what a strange question !" And Alicia looked at me reprovingly, while I noted with new alarm that she had discarded the little white frill that fche usually wears round her feck, and that Instead of her customary pompadour, her hair was combed back and parted on one side! Whereupon, not knowing what else to do, I sought to cover my confusion by giving Fido a bit of meat, which he piocecded to eat with such an air of superiority and disdain at our other pet, that Peter, looking Inexpressibly piratical, snatched Fldo's morsel, and made his exultant way to safety behind our kitchen range. "Whatever Is the matter with Fido and Teter?" I cried, quite aghast at such scandalous behavior. Tay no attention to them, George," said Alicia. "They have been that way ever since I returned." "Returned?" I asked. 'Returned, Alicia?" "Yes," said Alicia. "From the society." "From the society?" "Yes, the society. And I was elected secretary!" Peter, having finished' Ms meat behind the range, came out from his retUE NEXT MOMENT ALICIA CAME BUNNINO FCBWARD WITH HEB BANK. treat, and sitting on the threshold of the dining room. In plain view of us all, fixed a bland look on Fido, and began to make his toilet with every appearance of a happy cat who has had his dinner and Is thankful. Fido, seeing this hateful sight, wrinkled his nose and worked himself Into a temper, punctuating the rumbling of his thunder by a smart clap of barking every time Peter lengthened his arm and drew his paw round the back of his neck. Peter, seeing that this .'em of his toilet was particularly irritating to Fido, broke forth into his loudest song, and gave all his time and attention to washing the back of his neck. And the more Peter washed, the louder Fido barked; and the louder Fido barked, the more violently did Peter wash ; until I reached down at last to take Peter by the scruff, as a preparatory step to dropping him out into the night, at the same time giving Fido a sympathetic and reassuring glance. I had immediate cause for regretting that glance, because the moment I took my eyes off Peter he ceased his ablutions, stood up like a boar, reached for my descending and unconscious hand, tlaved it. waved his tail, circled the pom, feinted at Fido, ami slipped through the door and up the stairs with such an Insulting case that I could not help lr.it remark: "Drat that cat!" "Why, George!" cried Alicia. "Why, George !" 1 hung my head in shame. "And didn't I hear you use that same slangy word this morning when you cut yourself?" continued Alicia, with a touch of her old-time spirit. I hid my face lhln i the table fern, and could only preserve silence until aroused at last by a gesture over the fern dish. I looked up. and followed Alicia's linger ns it pointed to her little windmill bank that stands upon the corner of our sideboard. "Every time you use that word again you must put a quarter In the bank," said Alicia. "And I will keep It for the society; we're out of funds.' A week passed, and Alicia still comb ed her hair back, and was so strict and dignified with the pets that Fido spent his evenings in sighs and mournfulness. As for Peter, that indc'tendfiif cat stayed away altogether, and his history became fragmentary, lie was heard one day as fighting a strange dog, and seen a few days later limping along rakishly on three legs, and caring not for any man. -Why, George!" said Alicia one

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night, pausing at the bank to shake it. "You haven't put a single quarter in it yet!" "No," I answered proudly, "not one!" "Yl.ercupon Alicia, looking somewhat dubious, rattled the empty bank again, while I went out into the night and rattled a knife against a pbie. repeating Peter's name in fond and coaxing accents. Returning into the house, I caught my foot in the door mat, and exclaimed: "Oh, that mat!" "What was that, George?" asked Alicia, unexpectedly putting her dear face, all rosy nnd expectant, round our sitting room door. "What was that you said?" "I said. Oh, that mat!'" "Oh;" said Alicia, looking openly disappointed. .She went back Into the sitting room, while I stayed in the kitchen and treated myself to a long and happy smile. "If there's one thing I like," said Alicia, the next morning, "it's a man who speaks his mind!" So saying, she dusted her windmill bank with spirit and put it back upon its shelf, shaking It surreptitiously as she did so, and sighing at the silence that ensued. That night I hit my elbow against the hall rack, immediately giving utterance to the penalized word and beaming in the darkness ns I did so. A glad, answering cry responded from the kitchen, and the next moment Alicia came running forward with her bank in her hand. I dropped the quarter in It, and as she made merry over my discomfiture her dear little face all rosy and eager I gave her the first good one that we had enjoyed for many a, day, and soon after marched upon the dining room like a giant refreshed. I grew even more Indulgent, spurred on to greater efforts by the sight of Alicia's rosy little fao as she waited for the word to drop, and by Allcia-'s joyful cry whenever she came running forward with the ban'L All the time her severity of dress gradually lessened, until one night I came home and found her In her fluffiest dress, with her hair done as Alicia knows how to do It, and in such a state of distraction thnt only after dinner was over, and when Alicia was feeding the pets, did I notice, with a blinking of mj eyes, that Peter had come home again. lie was eating off the same plate with Fido, and looking like a repentant cat who would never more Irritate dogs by stealing their meat and then washing himself behind the ears. "Ab-h-h!" sighed Alicia. The pots, still at their plate, dropped their tails a degree or two In sympathy, but went on with their dinner. "Club day to-morrow," said Alicia. With a motion of despair, be took her bank from the shelf, emptied it on the cloth, and counted eight dollars and eighty-eight cents. "Thirty-five words at a quarter each," murmured Alicia, distractedly, "and thirteen cents for the one you checked In the middle.' She arranged the money with a listless hand, and "Ah-h-h!" she sighed, again. "I saw the loveliest bat at the milliner's today! It was nine dollars. And here it is all but twelve cents !" Whereat I hogged myself In secret, but outwardly maintained that gravity of demeanor which seemed appropriate to Alicia's sad state of mind. She rearranged the money In neat little piles, while Fido lay down at his ease and smiled at the company, and Peter, springing up on his chair and tucking Iiis paws beneath his breast, closed his eyes and started his evening song. "I don't know what t do!" whisper ed Alicia. And as for me, I said nothing In a grand manner. , "Of course," she mused, "of course I could resign." And musing still, she breathed, "It was an awfully pretty hat!" And as for me, I crossed my slip pered feet. "George." exclaimed Alicia, taking my movement as a suggestion, "I've a good mind to resign! Shall I, George? George, shall I?" "Resign from what?" I asked, all innocence. "From the Society for the Suppression of Slang," confessed Alicia, suddenly looking guilty. And there we were; and the louder I laughed, the guiltier Alicia looked; ami the guiltier Alicia looked, the louder I laughed; and the louder I laughed, tlu; more contentedly did Fido smile at the company and the tighter did Peter close his eyes as he sang his evening song; until Alicia, seeking to stifle my mirth, brought one of her heels down accidentally upon my foot. Whereat I tried, although in the most gentle of voices : "Ouch !" "Did I step on your foot, George?" asked Alicia. "Did I?" And hiding her rosy little face again, she murmured: "Of course, George If you want to check another one in the middle ' Youth's Companion. When a woman goes to the depot to meet a visitor she doesn't care much

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CURED GREEN CORN.

Maine II nnt er Sample an Earlj natch Idea and Like It. Because fiteen acres of sweet corn which James Ayer, a farmer of Unity, Me., had planted for filling the farm silo was permitted to stand until the ears were in the milk before cutting. Miss Mildred Ayer, the farmer's ld-year-old daughter, was able to earn $22.") by husking and boiling the unripe ears and curing them for winter use after a method practiced by the early Dutch settlers of New York. Having husked her corn and boiled it in the ear, she cut away the fat kernels with a thin knife and placed the shelled green corn on screens covered with mosquito bar netting above the family cook stove, where It remained until the kernels became hard and had shrunk more than one-half , in bulk from drying. All that remained to do was to tie the dried corn in stout cotton bags and find a market. Owing to the fact that the Maine corn canners use much sugar in putting up their corn harvest hunters nnd tourists who go Into the woods are n verso to canned corn as a regular diet, to say nothing about the extra weight and bulk of the tin cans nnd the watery Ingredients. The old-time hunters preferred the dried corn because it was not only light and water proof ami easy to handle in toting, but it weighed about 70 per cent less than the same amount of corn in cans. To prepare canned corn for eating required a can opener and other fixings, while a handful of dried corn put In a dry pan with a pinch of salt and a dab of pepper, and perhaps a little butter or oleomargarine, with hot water enough added to give the mass the consistency of canned corn, made a meal ready to serve upon the camp table In a few minutes. Then the bag of dried corn was tied up and ready to be taken in canoe or by pack horse to any place that could be reached by man. A year ago a party of hunters from tNew York came to Maine after moose and brought a bag of home-cured corn along, and the ancient method proved to be so valuable In saving the bulk and weight that other hunters resolved to add dry corn to their supplies on future hunting trips. Green corn that has I -ecu boiled and dried cannot be purchased at any of the supply stores In the hunting districts of Maine, so the contribution from the .Ayer farm proved a godsend. Miss Ayer selling out her entire stock for 8 cents a pound, or double the rates charged for canned corn and four times the price received for the ordinary hrosetooth corn from the west. Meantime the earless cornstalks went Into the Ayer silo to be eaten by the iairy cows, rs was planned when the Qeld was planted In May. SCARED THE ROBBERS. Odd Incident In EnRland In the FJuhlcenth Century. For a time during the eighteenth century in England there was a lull in the robbery industry owing to an odd incident Shortly after the execution of an English burglar named Elllstoa a curious communication purporting to have been written by him was put into circulation. "Now, as I am a dying man," it ran, "I have done something which may be of good use fo the public. I have left with an honest man the only honest man I was ever acquainted withthe names of all my wicked brethren, the places of their abode, with a short account of the chief crimes they have committed. In many of which I have been the accomplice and heard the rest from their own mouths. I have likewise set down the names of those we call our setters, of the houses we frequent and all of those who receive and buy our stolen goods. I have solemnly charged this honest man and have received his promise upon oath that whenever he hears of any rogue to be tried for robbery or housebreaking he will look into his list and if he finds there the name of the thief concerned to send the whole paper to the government. Of this I here give my companions fair and public warning and hope they will take it" It is said the hint was so effectual that for a long time pickpockets and burglars in that part of England went Into panic stricken- retirement. And, this being so, it is Just as well they did not know that the letter was a clever forgery, the work of that prince of wits and humorists, Deun SwiftNew York Tribune. OCEAN LINER'S CARGO. Fonr Hundred Hanky TLongrahorenien to Load One- Ship. Do;rn on the wharf the rush was at its height. Under tin? sputtering bluish arc lights, amid endless clang and rumble,' the produce of America came in. From the prairies, the mines and the mills, from tlw forests, the cotton plantations, tobacco fields, orchards and vineyards, from the oil fields ancl meat packing houses, from the grimy factories, large and small, ponderous" engines of steel, harvesters, reapers, automobiles, bars of silver and yellow bricks of gold, bales of cotton and wool ami hides and tobaceoy meats, barrels of flour and boxes of fruit, hogsheads of oil and casls of wine tens of thousands of things and machines to make t!;)ngs--piled up on the wharf by ibe acre. And still all night the teams clattered In and the tugs puffed up with the barges, and from hundred i of nilej away the ira.M were jrudilnfe hither, bringing more boxes ard barrels nnd bags to be packed In at the l ist moment In gangs nt every hatchway the too men were trundling, heaving, straining. a rough crowd, cursing nnd Joking at the hoarse shouts of the foremen, while from the darkness outside heavy black rope nets dropped down to gather gigantic handfuls of cargo, swing them back u to the deck of the shli and then dovn into her hold. So ail through the night and right up to he hour of sailing the rush went on, for the great ocean liner's work Is worth hundreds of thousands of dollar a month. And the ship must sail on t irae. Everybody's. Ills Favorite tianie-lllrd. At a dinner one day, says a writer In the Philadelphia Iedgcr, some men were discussing the merits of different kinds of gamebirds. One preferred canvasback duck, another, woodcock, and still another thought a quail the most delicious article of food. The discussion and the dinner ended at about the same time. "Now, Frank," said one of the men to the waiter at his elbow, "what kind of game do you like best?" "Well, suh, to tell the truf, almost any kind of gome suits me, but what I like bes' Is an American eagle served on a sillier dollar." The things that would make a woman happy look foolish to a mau.

XoTtl Cuff Holder. Saving in small things makes folk rich, so the millionaires say, and the Michigan man who designed the cuff holder here described was a friend of the poor, for he has enabled them to save on their laundry bills. This device consists of a strip of metal doubled and with clasps at the free ends. The metal is CUFF IIOLDLR. slipped through the buttonhole of the cuff and two loops are passed over it One loop compresses the end to which the cuff is attached and the other compresses the clasps and holds the device in place on the wearer's shirt sleeve. When the cuff is soiled on one end it can readily be reversed and the clean end, which has been protected by the coat sleeve, can be turned out, thus getting as much wear out of one pair of cuffs as one would ordinarily get from two pair. By this device, cuffs may be put on and off and adjusted with ease and rapidity, and there is no breaking of finger nails in buttoning and adjusting them. p Support for Hammock. It is no longer necessary to have trees or a porch in order to swing a hammock. A Tennessee man has inVented a hammock support which not only has all the advantagesof the natural support but shade, but Includes many virtues of its ..... .ml. I . At iv, jt- unu. luis evil Ii ivssL ance consists of two bars, telescoping folds up. one on the other. At ne end of each bar is a pedestal on which stands uprights, shaped like the letter "A.' To the tops of these uprights the hammock is swung. The advantages of this support are that the two ends can be moved as far r.part or as close together as the telescoping bar will permit, and the uprights may be given any slant desired by means of brace rods, which fit Into holes bored at Intervals along the bottom. The whole thing can be taken apart and folded into a small space when not in use, or can be put up in Work on New York City new Catskills reservoir and aqueduct is employ ing 4 .",000 men. New York City has condemned and disposed of as waste 1G.000 tons of food during the last year. Austria's government has brought forward a bill In the Chamber of Dep uties making insurance against illness und old are eomnulsorv on all work men and domestics and those eniploy-M whose annual Income does not exceed $500. In order to prevent elder children being kept at home to look after baby," the London County Council is trying the experiment of appointing "babv-minders," who will take care of the babies in the school buildings during school hours. The Merchants and Manufacturers' Association of Baltimore is looking Into a project to build a great bridge across Chesapeake Kay, to connect directly the cltv and the eastern shore section of the State. The association has ap propriated funds for a survey. Bromine, useful in medicine, photography, the manufacture of dyes and In certain metallurgical operations. Is pro duced commercially in only four States of this country Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Last year's output was 1,379,490 pounds. The street traffic of Taris has beMme so dangerous since the introduction of motor car that underground passages are being made at several places where accidents have happened, notably in the Avenue des Champs Elysee and the Place de la Concorde. The Queen. On Dec 3 the State of Illinois was ninety years old. Already Chicago newspapers are talking of a bis centennial celebration in lblS. On Dec. 3, ISIS, as school children may learn from their history books, Illinois was admitted Into the Union as a State. Two years later the census gare her population as 55.211. Chicago, chief est among her daughters, was born in 1S33. J. Pierpont Morgan and Waldorf Astor are on the advisory committee of the Golden West, an American industries exhibition which is to be held n Karlscourt, London, next May, for which extensive preparations have already been made. Associated with them on the committee are about every one of note in Burke's peerage and other distinguished men, including Alfred Austin. WHEN WE HAD DEBTORS' JAILS. Men Hail to Serve Time for the Crime of Owlnc CO Cent. In 1S20 it was estimated that 75,XX persons were annually Imprisoned for debt In the United Sfates, and at that date the practice had been abolished In at least two States namely. Ohio and Kentucky, s:iy the Yale Keview. In 18.10 the estimated number of Individuals imprisoned on account of debt was: In Massachusetts, 3.00O; in New York, 10,000; in Pennsylvania, 7.000; in Maryland 3.0(H), or a total of 23,00 In four States. The average of the debts for which persons were deprived of their liberty were small under $5. In the jail at DiMlham. Norfolk County M.;s.. out of a total of fifty-two debtors confined within Its walls only nine owd more than $50 and sixteen owed $10 or less. A local society for the relief of debtors confined for smill debts procured the release of fiflcn persons whose debts added together amounted to only $132, an average of less than $0. In a Jail located at Hudson. N. Y.. in the course of tin? ye:ir ended Sept. 21), 18.10. a total of 10!) persons were committed for debts; of this number forty-nine were held for "rum debts." In Philadelphia forty cases were re7 curded in which the sua total of the

the house as well as outdoors. A canopy can be made to shield any person using the hammock from the sun.

Faucet Prevents Splash. From time Immemorial the spiggots of faucets have been constructed so that they point directly downward, be ing at right angles to the sink or other receptacle above which they are placed. Naturally, water from such faucets will drop in a direct vertical line. According to a Conlecticut inventor, this principle is all wrong. His theory is that the spigot should point inwardly. If the flow of water from the ordinary vertical spigot be very great, the water Is sure to splash over both sides of the sink. This objection Is overcome with the Improved spigot. The discharge of water strikes the sink at an angle, and Is deflected to the back and bottom, practically none splashing to the front and sides. Whether this faucet v ould be serviceable in all cases is very questionable. Can't Clone the Lid. The importance of the dinner pail is not appreciated by most people. To hundreds of thousands, however. It is a live topic. The linner pail is the laboring man's lunch counter and its contents are usually more wholesome than the food at the regulation lunch counter, too. It was a wise New York man therefore, who devised a means by which the lid of the dinner lid is secure, pall cannot be lost In this device the handle of the pall is bent into a deep and narrow V at the top of the arch. In this V there hangs a long triangular piece of wire attached to the lid. which Is hinged at one side. The whole top of the pail may thus be opened freely to pennit of the filling or emptying of the receptacle, but it will always be at hand when wanted. It Is no uncommon thing for a working man to lose the lid to his pall and as this means the expense of a new dinner carrier. It is no joke. debts was only $3.406 an arerage of less than (U cents each. James Bell, keeper of the debtor's jail In New York, in a document submitted to the State Senate, stated that In 1S1G 720 persons were conSned In the Jail under his control for debts under $25 each. Nearly all cf these would, he asserted, have starved except for the bounty of the Humane Society. Bell himself was compelled to beg for fuel to keep them from freezing. He speciScally mentions the cases of Dins Lyman, Imprisoned for three years for a debt of less than $50, and of George Riley, Imprisoned for six years, also for a debt of less than $50. Both of the men were supportn! while imprisoned by charity. In other States, as Massachusetts and Khode Is'and, the creditor was required to provide for tt board of the imprisoned debtor. When this was not forthcoming the debtor was discharged. MOUNTAIN SLIDING. Hawaiian Sianll Boys Slmplr "Drop Down the Edge of the Scenery." Water sports are by no means the only vigorous athletics .'ndulged In by the boys of Hawaii. Mountain climbing is a favorite pastime, for there are Iieaks 4,DC0 feet high within easy walking distance of any part of Honolulu, and on the island of Hawaii there are two mountains fully 14,000 feet In height. Not infrequently the Honolulu schools give picnics on the mountain sides that the pupils may gather land shells. It is on these excursions In search of land shells that the Hawaiian schoolboys revel in the once national sport, mountain sliding. A very steep mountain side is selected, where the grass Is long and sloping downward. Every one gathers his own tl leaves. The ti leaf is something like- the banana leaf, but not nearly so long. With a buncti of tl leaves in his hand the first boy steps to- the etlge of the side, gTasps the leave by the stems in both hands, places the leafy part under him and sits down, gives himself a start and drops down the edge of the scenery like a flash. I was assured that it was an easy matter to regulate the speed of descent by merely grasping the ti stems firmly and lifting them upward, this acting -as a brake. I lougl for the thrill of dropping down over the edge of a mountain and upon my brief sled of ti leaves began the descent. I went like the wind. It seemed as though my breath would be taken away from me or that I would plunge head over heels, to be dashed to pieces among the trees below. I thought of my brake and drew up on the tl leaves with all my might and came up with a jerk that Jarred every bone In mv body. There I sat, looking downward almost perpendicularly, held in position only by a few leaves resting ou the smooth, slippery grass, but the sliding grass Is nearly a foot long, and it Is only öfter it has been repeatedly slidden over and beaten down that It approaches perfection In the eyes of the Hawaiian small boy and sometimes leads to accidents. When, for instance, the thin layer of ti leaves wears out benrath the slide a gentle tug at tits stalks parts the sled and sends the slider whizzing lownward in a uiot uncomfortable and ungraceful manner, all arms and legs. Lucky is the vic tim of such an accident If he is not stopped in his downward career by the trunk of a tree. .St. Nicholas. A lloltlup. De Heads Mister, I found the dorg your wife is advertisin a reward uv $." fer. Mr. Jaw ou did. eh? De ltoads Yes, and if you don't gimme $10 1 11 take it back to her. See? Philadeihla Inquirer. The world is growing neither better nor worse, but the ioople In It well, that's another story. And It sometimes happens that a man Is married. to his boss.

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