Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 41, Plymouth, Marshall County, 15 July 1909 — Page 6

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(rKiiIation Throash Taxation. President Taft is insistent regarding hla corporation-tax proposal. He wishes the enactment into law not to be delayed until next winter. It is obvious that he has further proposals for next winter. Nevertheless, the President, in hla insistence, is not dogmatic. While he has had the tax bill drawn up with care by the attorney general, he is prepared to submit to amendment in Senate and House, provided the principle be established. He will even accept a lower percentage as the tax rate, inasmuch as the 2 per cent rate would probably produce much more revenue than was at first estimated. While revenue i3 his direct object, his Indirect object, to obtain some supervision of the financing of corporations, he regards as Important. . The government has succeeded In establishing close scrutiny and nearsupervision of those businesses which are subject to the Internal revenue laws. Distilleries, breweries and tobacco factories are subjects to stringent regulations. Similar regulations as regards stringency are not contemplated by the government over corporations. A nearer precedent can be found in the case of the national banks, whose financial transactions are scrutinized by examinersf the treasury department. But even such a supervision Is not contemplated by the President and his advisers. What they desire Is the power to look over the books of corporations, to verify their reports and see that no evasions of the tax are being worked. The law will be framed a3 an excise measure, but the compulsion upon the corporations to live up to its regulations will operate to eliminate some of the abuses of corporation management. For example: the ordinary net receipts of a corporation, as subject to the federal tax. will not be allowed to be dissipated by the payment of enormous salaries or bonuses, or by the conversion of stock Into Interestbearing bonds or debentures. And. In general, the knowledge of corporation methods, earnings and the like, which will be incidentally divulged through the process of collection of the excise, will prevent many characteristic injuries to stockholders, will render Impossible many thlng3 now done in the dark .and wiU furnish data upon which to base further regulative legislation. If the later is shown to be desirable. President Taft, by the approach he has chosen as regards the corporation question, has shown instinctive statesmanship. Government best creates and attains regulation as an adjunct to the exercise of it3 power of taxation. Minneapolis Journal. The Income Tax. Not much, we take it, will come our fit the program to obtain a constitutional amendment permitting a direct tax upon Incomes. At best, the changing of the constitution Is to be achieved only with (the greatest difficulty. In addition to this popular reluctance to tamper with the fundamental law, a reluctance which "might almost be called a superstition, the people of the United States have a strong aversion to direct taxes. This national trait is manifested in all sorts of expedients, by State, munici pal and other lesser governments, to beat the taxation devil around the stump. As for ourselves, we cannot fee! any violent objection to an income tax, provided It be equable and enforceable. We have never been able to fool ourselves into thinking that we escape taxation by disguising the taste of the pill before swallowing It. A dollar of tax weighs pretty much the same to us, whether it 13 on a piece 0? land we own or in the rent charge of a piece of land somebody else owns and leases to us, whether it is on our Inccne or on something that we buy with our income, whether it 13 on the earnings or on the franchise rights or on the real property of a transportation company. Tb!e ultimate consumer pays just the same. We guess the further investigators Iook into this proposed tax on corporation earnings the more they will see that it is like the mosquito that pesters only the householder too poor to have screens to keep It out. Yet if It i3 to be, why, then, those who will fare the worst from it will have to stand it, however able they are to do so. New York Press. ChanKC of Southern Opinion. The South furnished for the antiprotection crusade of the eighties and nineties men like James B. Beck, George G. Vest, Zebulon B. Vance, James K. Jones, Jame3 G. Carlisle, Roger Q. Mills, Clifton Breckenridge, William C. P. Breckcnridge and William L. Wilson spokesmen with an Intellectual sagacity and a unity of purpose which made them formidable as the representatives of a section and the leaders of a party. They had a program which wa3 intelligible and positive, and they failed of writing their policies into legislation only because the Democratic majority cf the Senate in 1S93-06 was so narrow that Mr. Gorman and a few oiher survivors of the Randall school of protectionists were able to dictate the terms on which a tariff measure should pass that body. Compared with the anti-protectionist Southern' leaders of fifteen years ago, the South's present spokesmen in Congress certainly lack brilliance, energy and power. For that reason they seem to Mr. MIII3 and other members the disappearing "old guard" degen erate and Invertebrate. Yet the de generacy Is more apparent than real. Southern opinion ha3 changed, and tha, lenders of to-day merely reflect that change. They seem to be vacil latlng and uncertain of themselves because they have not yet become accus- . t Amen to the economic ideas which hive altered the South's attitude toward the policy of protection New York Tribune. SuSsted as a new stylo or per sonal for newspapers: "Mr3. John Smith has gone to St. Joe to ccile-jt what is dae to her from a frknd who her a month last summer. She will remain four weeks." Cincinnati Enquirer B:ll3 Powell isn't going to Atlantic r'it,r thi? summer: the doctor says he li; .1. T roust seek a dryer atmo.sphere. Will Tin he lung trouble? Bills No, an enlarged thirst. England's food Importations average

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Rrmncratx Take It Ont by Hertln Their Traditional lNItIon. For years many Republicans and Democrat.-? have been anxious to "take the t.-itiu' out of politics." Nobody, however, expected to livs to see that done. Yet the Democrats have done it in the past few weeks in Con? res.-. They have done it by Userting th?ir traditional position on that issue and voting for high duties. On the propositions to put iron ore. lumber, hides and other raw materials on the free list, a majority of the Democrats who voted in the Senate voted fib. The Democrats changed the House bill, which reduced nearly all the duties that it touched, and gave the changes an upward direction. Under the leadership of Mr. Aldrich. the Democratic Senators tore up the Denver platform and repudiated Cleveland. Bryan and every other leader of their party from the days of Robert J. Walker down. Samuel J. Randall's protectionist leanings surprised Republicans as well as Democrats in hi3 day. but Randall was a free trader compared with McEnery, Daniel, Bacon, Foster. Bailey and other Democrats who have always been In good standing in their party, and all of whom supported Bryan In all of his campaigns. This will prevent the Democrats from saying anything on the tariff in the Congressional campaign of 1910 or In th3 Presidential canvass two years later. As Senator Aldrich's auxiliaries the Democrats have given the tariff bill the ultra-protectionist bent which many of the duties show. On only one important proposition has Mr. AHrich been beaten in the present session, and that was on pineapples. He was beaten because his Democratic allies deserted him and placed the duty higher than he wanted to put It. The sight of Aldrich on one side and the bulk of the Democratic Senators on the other was an odd spectacle, but the country has just seen it.. An amendment by Taliaferro, of Florida, increasing the duty on pineapples to 128 per cent above the Dingley rate was opposed by Aldrich. and most of the other upward fevisers among the Republicans, but the Democrats carried the advanced duty, and it will stay in the bill unless the House conferees knock It out. More than half of the Democrats voted for a duty higher than Aldrich thought was needed. Chamberlain, Simmons and many other Democrats abandoned their eld leader, Aldrich. because they thought he was getting to be a free trader. And the Democrats defeated him and the Finance Committee on that issue. Senator Root declared against what he called "the enormous and altogether unwarranted increase in the duty on pineapples." Senator Aldrich protested against it as being unjust and unnecessary. But as the Rhode Islander's Democratic allies broke away from him on this division they were able to defeat him. Whatever kind of a bill the tariff measure turns out to be . when the Conference Committee gets tfirough with it, the Republican party will be responsible for it. But as all the advances in duties which will be in the bill have been placed there by Democratic votes, the Democrats will be prevented from making an Issue out r.f it. They will be forced to keep silent about the measure. "No Dem ocrat dare vote for a duty higher than the Senator from Rhode Island, the most extreme protectionist In the country, thinks is desirable." said Senator Rayner. of Maryland, to hl3 Democratic colleagues when the division on pineapples came. Yet a majority of Rayner's Democratic friend3 went right ahead and did this very thing Probably Rayner thinks now there Is no longer a Democratic party, and perhaps he is correct. But men who still call themselves Democrats have. in the present session, gone farther in the way of imposing high duties than the most stalwart Republican. Despite the blame which will attach to Mr. .Aldrich and his particular ele ment of the Republicans for such ad ranees in duties as may remain in the bill when it gets on the statute book, the Democrats dare not assail the bill or assail Aldrich. They assisted him in making them. The only fault which they can find with him is that, in sending duties upward, he did not. In all cases, go far enough to please them. For this reason it is hard to see how a party issue can be made out of the tariff again, unless the Dem ocrats take the high protectionist side, and attempt to make the Republicans declare for free trade. No Democratic national convention will ever be able to frame any tariff plank again like that of 1908 and of all the preceding Presidential years. As a tenet in the Democratic creed free raw materials and free trade are as dead as slavery and secession. At last the tariir has been taken out of politics. St. I.ouis Globe-Democrat. The President Glvet n Hint. While the President stands firmly on the constitutional divisions of the government, he recognizes that it is a government operated by parties, und that operation involves responsibility. At Yale he gave a hint of this, when he said that If the Republican party does not live up to Its promises. It will be relegated to the rear as an opposition party. Thi3 statement may indicate an awakening sense of leadership In the President. He must have been hear ing of the widespread dissatisfaction with the Aldrich program. He cannot be oblivious of the fact that people are going to hold him partly responsible If Aldrich has hl3 way. He must be aware that the party Is not living un to what Is expected of it In the matter of the tariff. The President has an unpleasant task ahead of him. He must either bring about modifications of some o the monstrous schedules, or veto the bill. The veto would be more spectac ular. but a good bill would be better for the country. The President is evl dently thinking It over. Minneapolis Journal. Everything yields before tha strong and earnest will. It grows by excr else. It excites coniider.ee 1:1 o::icrs. while it takes to Itself the lead. Difficulties before which nur? clrvcrnrss fails, and which lenve the irresolute prostrate and helpless, vanish Lcfcr"; it. They not only do not ir.pclo it 0 progress, but it often mriV.es t:u;n stepping stone3 to a higher and more enduring triumph. Tullcch. Benners I understand that Jones is the leading citizen of his town. Jenners Vw, he is always the mar.-.hal of the civic parades. The 'hoes worn by lountaineers when climbing the Alps have steel solea, with eight points projecting.

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4 4 4 4 4 4 Opinions of

CUBA'S DANGER FROM LOTTERIES.

HE country could not regard bankruptcy lu Cuba more favorably than Insurrection.

jl I Precisely what its lawful last; :a uuuri nie x lau gCajfcfi;J ered. as it doubtless

care. That amendment Dind3 tne uuDan government not to "assume or contract any public debt to pay the interest upon which aud to make reasonable sinking fund provision for the ultimate discharge of which the ordinary revenues of the island, after defraying the current expenses of the government, shall be inadequate." Surely in that there is implied our right to restrain Cuba from rushing into bankruptcy or from incurring embarrassing indebtedness. Whether the proceeds from a lottery are properly to be reckoned rmong "the ordinary revenues of the Island" Is also an Interesting question. Certainly they are a form of revenue which the United States cannot afford to encourage. Indeed, it will be the duty of this country to seek to limit such revenue to the lowest possible figure; for the promoters of the Cuban lottery probably look for their chief patronage in the United States, and it is certain that our government will employ all legitimate means to rrevent such patronage. On the whole, Cuban statesmen would do well to consider whether It would not be best to abandon the lottery scheme, to seek such legitimate and businesslike Increase of revenue as may be practicable, tnd then to adapt their expenditures to their income. New York Tribune.

WHAT WOMEN" NEED MORE

address of Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin at the Illinois Coreress of Mothers contains

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waste of money by spendthrift housewives, and this applies with even more force to the wageworker's wife than to the wife of

the lawyer, doctor or merchant, is a large cause of marital misery. This waste Is most prevalent in the department of provender, and there is crying need for general distribution of knowledge concerning foods and how to cook them. The tenement-house cooking class is a greater step tcward social progress than almost a?.y other one sign of the times. The dangers which beset the country girl who seeks to earn her living m the metropolis Mr3. Henrotin rightly considers an imperative demand upon that section of womankind which by concerted effort can mitigate them. A suffragette reader of the Journal takes us to task for lukcv.armness on the proposition to enfranchise women. There is not one useful accomplishment which can honestly le claimed as the sole v.crk of women in the four States in which rliey enjoy full privileges ol

THE KAISER A PLAIN DRESSER. When William Doff Kutl I,nce nntl ApiK'Hr.i n I'rlvnte Gentleman. When the German Emperor quits hla imperial palace at Potsdam, in Berlin, he clothes himself in democratic attire and goes about much the same as any gentleman in private life. Gold bul lion, heavy, formidable uniforms and ;reat eagle-topped helmets belong to the army maneuvers in Berlin and other centers of the German empire, but when the Emperor Is released

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from attendance upon formal functions he dresses plainly. He recently va.i seen at hi3 ease wh-.n at his home on the Island of Corfu, to which he was accompanied by the Empress, their son, Prince Oscar; Miss von Veltheim, Countess Keller. Chief Marshal Count iu Eulenburg and others high in royal favor. There are. now in Eng!and and France several establishments where butterflies are bred. There are at present In the medical schools of France 7,320 Fren.h and S10 foreign students. In ror.'.e Norwegian schools cooking I is taught, and not only to girls, but to boys, on the ground that many occasions may arise in a man's life when such knowledge is useful. It is proposed in Germany to have an organization for providing-ld age i and disability pensions for bank offi cers and bank clerks, annuities for their widows, and education for their orphans. Just forty years had elapsed on May 10 since the rails of the Union Pacific moving westward met the rails of the Control Pacific, near Ogden, Utah, and the first transcontinental railway was 1 completed. As Mongolia is rich in minerals and

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Great Papers on Important Subjects.

the ballot. The Journal is not opposed to suffrage for women. It believes that whenever the majority of women desire to vote, voting privileges will be accorded without delay. But as long as the demand for the ballot comes from such a very small percentage of the sex, the suffragette missionary work should be done among women, Instead of interfering with public affairs. The Hne3 of work suggested by Mrs. Henrotin offer far more opportunity for immediate results than the soiled and unsexing game of politics. Chicago Journal.

authority In the auicuuiuiru . iu will be, with much

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height of this tide of religious enthusiasm we are told that thousands have been converted, but, unless one took part, can he say that he ever met a revival convert? We are Informed that revivals purge the communities In which they have been held Is Boston today a purged city? Does that peculiar form of religious fervor have a last'::g effect upon many of those who come under its Infi leiice, or is its effect but a transitory one upon the few? As Brooklyn is promised In the near future a revival upon a huge scale, these questions are timely, and if there be statistics bearing upon the ultimate results of revivals we should be grateful to anyone who can put them within our reach. Brooklyn Life.

THAN VOTES. advice that should SEES HE

short of the obliteration of the Panama canal and the transformation of the isthmus. The thunderbolts of shipping, water, steel, masonry and other wreckage launched from the first lock down upon the next would sweep it away like paper. Here the awful power would be multiplied Infinitely by the new forces released, and hurled along with the first great battering ram. There would be no earthly power to stop the gigantic instrument of destruction, swelling as it swept along, until it had leaped into the ocean's vast mass, after brushing the Isthmus of Panama off the map in a destruction by uncontrollable waters that has never been known since the flood of Noah's day. New York Press.

foreigners have been casting longing glances on it, the Chinese ministry of agriculture, Industry and commerce contemplates forming a joint stock mining company from subscriptions by Chinese merchants In China and abroad, so as to retain profitable enterprises in Chinese hands. Epidemic cerebro-splnal meningitis used to be rare In France, occurring chiefly in military centers. Now a doctor Is likely to meet with It in general practice. If the antimenlngotT-, t - -V?J cocelc serum of Dr. Gopter or Wassermann Is used at an early stage the disease generally stops short and clears up in two or three days without leaving any traces. That the earth must shine on the moon even as the moon shines on the earth is obvious. To detect this light from the earth on the lunar surface r.nd scientifically prove Its existence is another matter. It is Interesting to find that a recent number of a French j.stronomical paper contains two photographs of parts of the moon illuminated by earth light. They were taken by M. Quenisset at the Juvisy observatory. Th3 I:orrigan3, superstitious peasants believe, are the black dwarfs of ISrittany who dwell In the sacred Druidic circles cf the menhirs ar.d count their cash in the moonshine. When mere mortals encounter them by night the korrlgans force their visitors to dance with them around and around, singing monotonously the names of the days of the week from Mondav to Sunday. This is the theme cf the best known tradition dealing with them, tho story of Lao and the korrigans. Lord Kitchener will hand over his command in India to General Sir O'Moore Creagh early In August and at once proceed to Ja nan. He proposes to make a long stay in that country and will closely examine the military system and army organization in time of peace. From Japan he proposes to go to China, and he will tra-

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A CALL FOR STATISTICS. E ask in all soberness. Is a "revival wave" such as that which swept over Boston some months ago a good thing for the cause of religion? What are the ultimate results of a movement which, from Its very nature, must appeal more to the feelings than to the reason? During the

MENACE IN LOCKS. immeasurable danzer which n man

T engineers see impending in the scheme of I locks in the flight at Gatun on the Panama 1 .nn.nl I Anl.. I 4 1 111.. A A J 1 AI , I

i ia uui laiuiij iiiusiiaiuu in me uasaster to one of the locks of the Soo canal. Such an ace'dent at the top of the ladder of locks at Gatun could have no ending

verse many of the battlefields of Manchuria, with the advantage of goln;i over much of the ground with officerj who took part in the Russo-Japanese war and who have been placed at his disposal by the Mikado and the Japanese government. CUNNING FRENCH SWINDLES. Poed ai a Xaval Oflleer and Commanded Veaael for Two Montha. The French "tribunal correctlcnnel has just sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment a young man 23 years old named Gabriel Doquet, who was charged with swindling. A magistrate, M. Bonjean, gave th court an extraordinary outline of the prisoner's history, the London Westminster Gazette 6ays. After being convicted of swindling at Cherbourg, he said, he was sent to the penal colony of Orgevilla; and on leaving there he made his way in July. 1907, to Havre, where he passed as a naval lieutenant and the son of Admiral de Cuvervllle By sheer "bluff" he succeeded, with out apparent difficulty, In assuming command of torpedo boat 228 and in retaining It for two months. The crew were only too glad to serve under him, for he doubled their rations and remitted all punishments. He was found out notwithstanding that he had the crest of Admiral de Cuvervllla embossed on his notepaper, embrold ered on his clothes and even stamped inside the soles of his boots and waa sent to the lunatic asylum . at Pont l'Abbe. There the magistrate, M. Bon jean, interested himself in him, procured his release from the asylum and Fent him to an establishment under his own supervision in the Pa3 de Calais. M. Bonjean contemplated 0 career of usefulness for him in the navy, but Boquet had other views, and disappeared, to come into prominence again as the "secretary" of his bene factor, whose signature he forged sc successfully that he obtained posses sion of four sums, amounting to 403 40 of which he generously paid in again to the bank, as he found that he had overdrawn tho account and, op a fifth occasion, on Feb. G last, of several thousand francs more. With this money ho Installed him self in a magnificent suite of apart, ments In the Rue de Hambourg and began a career of extravagance, Ib which he provided himself with horses, carriages and a motor car, and even gave considerable sums in charity. At this time he was known ai the Comte do Coligny; but the money disappeared ro rapidly that at the end of a week he found himself in need oi fresh supplies, and an attempt to cash a forged check for 2,400 brought about his downfall. Tlie (ilr 1m of I-oiiK Ago. WliPre nn the sirls tli;it v usod to know? The pink-frocked girh of th ion? apo? The littl lass with the cyrs of blue. And wind-tn--ed hair of a go'd'Mi hue? Have the fates been kind to her, tell me pray. That maid I loved in the bygone day? Where is the mall en that stainrnrreJ so The little lady called "pigoon-toe"? The plain little miss with the pigtail braid. The shy little girl who was half-afraid To speak to the boy that she didn't know: Where are the sweethearts of long ajo? I can see them all in my dreams to-day, Jcmiie and Marion. Ruth .Mid May, ( And I wonder often as I look h.iek. Has the world been kind to that merry pack? Come, tell me. seer, for I want to IcnoT. Where are the sweethearts of long ago? Detroit Free Press. livened I' p. The Dominie I'm glad to hear you say you weren't angry with your father for punishing you for something you hadn't done. Freddie Oh, I got square with him all right. I did it afterward. Puck. Defective Sluht. "Here 13 a minister who says there is no such thing as love at first Eight." "Why doesn't ho consult an oculist?" Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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- 1 M'hn Your Father Went to War. 1. When your father went to war, Jennie, you were but a child, A romping little rowdy, running riotous and wild In the raaple-s-haded pasture, where our cottage used to stand, And we owned a timbered forty of the richest river land Yes, owned it every inch of it by labor's hard decree, And none, we thought, in all the world were happier than we. Our cattle browsed the summer hills, amid the blue-grass deep, And all the shady bottom-lands were snowy with our sheep ; Twas like a tale of fairy lore, the life that we lived then, When I was bandy twenty-six and you were only ten ; Love hrought us peace and comfort, till there rose an evil 6tar, In' the summertime of plenty, when your father went to war. . II. Ah, Jennie, I remember well the day 'twas late in June, Your father he came riding home from town one afternoon, Acd his face was pale and haggard as he reached the door and threw One arm around me, daughter, while he laid one hand on you ; And as my senses faltered, and I reeled in his en'br&ce, I read the fearful meaning that was written in his face I felt it in the bounding blood that beat against my breast, I needed not a spoken word too well I knew the rest ; And all that night In dreams I heard . the tramp of marching feet. And far away I saw the flags grow dimmer down the street; Twas long ago ! but O, my heart has not outgrown the scar God's finger put upon it, when your father went to war. III. Then you and I were left alone. We tried a year or so, By hiring help, to scrimp along, but couldn't make it go; The spring-floods swept away the corn, the drouth of summer dried The grasses on the uplands, and we had no crops beside ; So wa parted with the cattle that' we could no longer keep, We sold the only team we had, and traded off the sheep; And when the winds of autumn shook the pipes about the eaves, ä And in the woodland hollows piled . the brown October leaves. When the hazel-nuts were ripening in tüe old familiar copse. And the wild reese wedging southward, far above the maple-tops, ; We locked the dear old farm-house up, and closed the pasture-bar. And moved into the village, when your father went to war. IV. Then winter came a dreary time a night of hopes and fears. On every hand the widows wept, and fell the mothers tears A' reign of blood and ruin I Every diy some passing train Drought back a load of mangled men brought back the coffined slain ; And Jennie, O, my Jennie, ere the snows . of winter passed, They bore your father back to us they brought him home at last; They sent him from the frozen hills, beside the Tennessee, Borne down amidst the battle, where the bravest love, to be; They sent him back a ruined man for life, tilas, my child! I turned away in agony, I raved as one grown wild. But why recall the story now? The years have drifted far, And we've got used to trouble, since your father went to war. The timw have changed. We, too, have changed. To-night the blue and gray Sit round their fires, with lighted pipes, and puff their hates away Sit spinning yarns about their camps, until tho drowsy stars Put out their light and wage "goodnight" across the twilight's bars. Although my heart be broken, and although my hair bo white, And though the years have brought me but disaster in their flight, I am wicked in my weakness, I am cruel to complain. When yonder patient sufferer sits smiling at his pain Sits crooning in the Autumn moon the ballads made to praise The luster of his daring in the old heroic days Sits dreaming, Jennie, dreaming of the battle-fields that are The glory of the ages, since your father went to war. VI. A little while it won't be long until the soldiers come And hoar away their comrade to the deadmarch of a drum, To the green hills over yonder, where eternal tents are spread, And no rension bills are vetoed, in the domains of the dead. Whore justice Is no jester, and where glory countersigns The muster-roll of freedom as the century declines; i'es, ehild. to that Itepublic where no partisan is found. Where the private is pronoted and the potentate discrowned, Our loved one now is journeying; and as for you and me It matters not the pottersfield our heritage may be ; The future frowns and threatens, but thank (Jod, it cannot mar The glory that we garnered when your father went to war. National Tribune. The Joy of tlie Hesnrrectlon. Early one morning In 1862, while at Farmington, near Corinth, Miss., a3 Brigadier (now Major) General Palmer was riding along his lines to inspect some breastworks that had been thrown up during the previous night, he came suddenly upon some of the boys of Company I, Twenty-seventh Illinois Volunteers, engaged in the very absorbingly interesting process of skinning a two-hundred-pound porker. To say we were startled would be putting it mild; we were scared badly scared. The Cerjeral looked astonished; then, with a sorrowful countenance, he rode up, doffed his hat reverently, and solemnly saying: "Oh! a body; a corpse; some poor fellow has paid the last debt. Well, he must be buiied with honors militaire. Sergeant, call the officer of the guard." Speedily the ofTicer was at hand, and received orders to have a grave dug and the body interred forthwith. Soon, all being In readiness, the company was mustered, pall-bearers

placed the body upon stretchers, th order was given to march, and, with reversed arms and funeral tread, the solemn procession of sixty men followed the body to the grave. The ceremony over, the General and his staff waved their adieu and were soon lost In the distance. The scientific reasoning of the aver age soldier was usually equal to th occasion. In this emergency he forcibly realized that "all flesh is as th gras3," and that life is but a shadow, But at the thought of the resurreo tion his soul Is aroused to the altitude of a bright hope. The futur holds ou cheering prospects. With such thoughts :'n their minds, .the boys considered It a religious duty tc resolve themselves into a resurrectios committee and performed their duty well, and ere the General was seated at his own table, his olfactory sense

was greeted with the savory odor of pork steak. A Friend at Court. As a scout for the Confederate army, William L. Royall had many narrow escapes. lie describes one adventure in his "Reminiscences." Although he was only 19 year3 old at the time, he had been a soldier for two years. "On March 20, 1864, I got into a brush with some Federal cavalry and was shot through the left hand and taken prisoner. The headquarters of the command, un-ler Lieut. Col. Timothy O'Brien, was at "The Grove,' la the lower end of Fauquier County, Virginia, where the regiments had been stationed for several weeks. . "At The Grove there were two churches, and nothing else; one was a Presbyterian church, on the north side of the public road, the other a Baptist church, on the south side. My mother's home was distant only two miles from The Grove. My father, a Presbyterian minister, had built the Presbyterian church at The Grove, and preached in it for twenty years. He was burled at the back of the church. "The officer in charge of the party that had captured me was a lieutenant in the Second New York Cavalry. He had frequently ridden over to my mother's house, and had made the acquaintance of the family. They treated him courteously, and he had promised my mother that if I ever fell Into his hands he would see that I was properly treated. "When we got to The Grove I was put in to the Baptist church. After a while I was sent for and taken over to the Presbyterian chnrch. When I entered I saw a table, round which were seated five or six officers, with a Bible on the table. I was ordered to be seated, and then Colonel O'Brien read an order. It was about like this: "'Colonel O'Brien The first bush whacker j'ou catch, j-ou will try by court-martial and have hung. " 'General Kllpatrick.' "Colonel O'Brien told me I was about to be tried by court-martial on th-5 charge of being a bushwhacker. Tho situation was about as terrible as a boy of 19 could be confronted with By degrees I recovered possession of my faculties, and pleaded my cause more earnestly than I have ever sines pleaded one. Finally I was sent out "In the course of an hour Colonel O'Brien came to me and told me the court had acquitted me. I doubt if in all my career my life has been In as much danger as it was that day. "After the trial I was put in r.R am bulance, to be carried to Gtneral Meade's headquarters. My friend, the second lieutenant, came to the ambu lance with some loaves of bread for me. I asked him bow it was I es caped. . s "He told me he had promised my mother to look out for me if I ever fell into his hands, and that he had Just taken the stand In the court that I 6hould not be hanged, and had finally brought a majority of the officers over to hl3 side." They "Were Shoollnff nt Illin. Ti3 wonderful, the narrow escapes that often were made by soldiers In places of extraordinary danger. A story of that kind was related to us by E. H. Turk, of the Thirty-first WI consln Infantry Volunteers. During the progress of the battle of some of the troops were erecting breastworks for their protection, the enemy's fire cutting down many of the brave men while they worked, often turning to pour a volley of leaden hail Into the enemy's ranks. Some of the boys were carrying rails; among the number was Turk, who was known by the nime of Dick. Once when he had a rail on his shoulder the enemy was crowding them pretty close, and the order was given to "fire;" without throwing down his rail he turned and fired. Being a tall man. he was a somewhat ccnsplcuous mark, bearing the rail on hi3 shoulder. Some of the boys noticed splinters fly from his rail and looked to see him fall; but he stood erect and calm as If he were only shooting at squirrels In the woods at his home in Crawford County. Some of the boys hallooed at him: "Dick, don't you know they are shooting at you?" Taking the rail off his shoulder and looking at it, he found several places w here the rail had been struck by the enemy's bullet3. He very coolly remarked: "Well, I guer, they are." On examination it was found that not a ball had touched his clothes. I have heard some of hi3 comrades relate the same. Tallest of Old Soldiers. H. C. Thurston, of Mount Verncn, Texas, was among the veteran visitors In Memphis, and was the tallest oi the thousands of old soldiers who there lived over the days of 'Gl-'eö, the Memphis Commercial Appeal says. He i3 7 feet 7 inches in height, weight 223 pounds and is 77 years of age. Mr. Thurston was born in South Carolina, reared in Missouri, where he enlisted in company 1, Price's command of Burbridge's regiment of Marmaduke's brigade of Missouri cavalry, serving as a private. He was wounded in one engagement in the right side and now wears the cross oi honor. The lengthy veteran is a widower ! and, despite his age, Is still in the matrimonial market. His only son is O.feet 52 Inches tall and from pres ent indications his grandson will be as tall as the grandfather. Powerful headlights on locomotives have been made compulsory by the Legislature of South Dakota, but before complying the railroads will take advantage cf the law which permlta them to submit tho matter to a public vote at the next e'ection. National pawnshops aro maintained by the French and Italian govern menta.

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Tbe test Stomach . J t 1 m. rdla L-TiAirfl S"? r.nd a positive and epeedy cure for Coaetipailon, Inalsestlon. Jaundice. Biliousness, Sour Stomach. Ilesdacfce, aed all ailment arising from a disordered 6tomach or elugplsb liver. Tbey contain In concentrated form all the vir tues and rallies ot Munyon's Taw-Taw tonic and are made frnm 4fn 4n1ra fit thfl Taw-Paw frolt. I unhesitatingly recom mend tnese piui as Deing ine ursi inactive and cathartic ever compounded. Get a 23-cent bottle and If you ar not perfectly satisfied I wlU sefuad yolr money. -MUSYON. 53d and Jcllcrsoo Sis.. Philadelphia. Pa. Turn In fir to Mental Healing. Many of our best physicians, who only a few years ago ridiculed mental healing, are beginning to adopt the principle so far as they know how in 'their practice; especially the power of suggestion They are finding that their patients are often more affected by mental medicine, by their "calls," their encouragement and good cheer, than by their pills. They are finding, too, that the mental attitude of the patient has everything to do with the effect of the disease, that it often proves the turning-point In a critical crisis. The result of all this mental influence is a very marked falling off in the use of drugs. Many of onr leading physicians give but very little medicine, because they have very little faith In it It is now well known that scores of eminent physicians employ metaphysical healing in their own family and often for themselves. Even the regular medical schools are taking up the subject of mental medicine la their lecture courses. 1 Hampered as this great movement still is by the errors and extravagances cf over-zealous followers, and also by the fraud of charlatans, who take advantage of the opportunities it offers to Impose on the credulous and ignorant, there' Is no doubt that the basic principle of this metaphysical movement has opened up many possibilities of mind building, character building, and body building, wLich are destined to bring untold blessirgs to the world. Orison Swett Marden, in Success Magazine. ' Clear, wnlte clothe are a tlgn tnat tna housekeeper uses lied Cross Ball B.us. Lars 2ox. package,. R cents. Making1 fvcle Sain'a Word Good. General Tom Edgar, the first whita child born on Galveston Island (hli birthday was in June, 1S37), was returning to Galveston from Houston, vhere he had been an honored guest it the dedication of a tablet placed Dn the site of the first capitol of Texts, at Houston. We were seatmates n the smoking car. He told many imusing stories of the early days. mong others, he narrated his experience as a juror in the case of a legro on trial for stealing a mule. It uas in 1863. while United States solllers were still in charge at Galveston. The negro pleaded not guilty, but the estlmony was pretty clear against lim. His lawyer, ignoring the testlaiony, based his defense upon the as;ertion that the negro couhl not possibly be guilty. "Is it not a fact." he said, "that -he federal government promised to very freedman two mules and sixty acres of land? No man can deny it. secause It is a fact. My client has not eceived his promised sixty acres ot And. He has not received his promsed span of mules. He has, indeed, got but one mule, as these witnesses aave testified, and the United States till owe3 him another mule and sixty icres of land. I leave it t-y you, gen.lernen." ho said, turning to the Jury, 'if the facts do not prove conclusivey that' my client is not guilty of stealing this mule and cannot, under :he circumstances, have been guilty." "That argument," said General Edgar, "tickled us so that we actually returned a verdict of 'not guilty I don't believe the darky ever did get the other mule and the sixty acres, but we did all we could to make Uncle Sam's word good." Success Magazine. Scriptoral Itetenrrh. Tbe Kev. Paul 1. Hlckok was walk. Ing home from prayer-meeting, one Wednesday night, when he met ä aopelessly Intoxicated man trying to alk home. Thinking to play tha good Samaritan, he asked the man's iddres3 and helped him along. When they had reached the front steps tha nan turned and asked him who he as. Not wishing to give his real aame, the clergyman smiled and aniwered, "Paul." As he was going out )f the gate the man called him. "Shy," he called, "did you ever get in ansher (hie) to that letter (hie) fou sent to the Ephesians?" Success Magazine. OBIG ET Of a Famous Unman rood. The story of great discoveries or Inventions is always of interest. An active brain worker who found himself hampered by lack of bodily strength and vigor and could not carry out the plans and enterprises he knew how to conduct, waa led to study various foods and their effects upon the human system. In other words, before he could carry out his plans he had to find a food that would carry hira along and renew his physical and mental strength. He knew that a food which was' a brain and nerve builder (rather than a mere fat maker) was universally needed. He knew iliat meat with the average man docs net accomplish the desired res alts. Hs knew that the soft gray substance In brain and nerve centers is made from Albumen and Phosphate of Potash obtained from food. Then he started to solve tho problem. . Careful and. extensive experiments evolved Grape-Nuts, the now famous food. It contains the brain and nerve building food elements In condition for easy digestion. The result of eating GrapeNuts daily is easily seen in a marked sturdiness and activity of the brain and nervous system, making it a pleasure for one to carry on the daily duties without fatigue or exhaustion. Grape-Nuts food is in no sense a stimulant but is simply food which renews and replaces the dally wasto of brain and nerves. Its flavour is charming and being fully and thoroughly cooked at the factory it is served instantly with cream. The signature of the brain worker spoken of, C. W. Post, is to bo seen on each genuine package of GrapeNuts. Look In pkgs. for the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville." "There's a Reason."

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