Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 5, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 November 1909 — Page 6

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Not a Penny to Pay for the Fullest Medical Examination. If you are in doubt as to the cause of your disease, mail U9 a postal requesting a medical examination blank. Our doctors will carefully diagnose your case, and If you can be cured you will be told so; if you annot be cured you will be told so. You are not obligated to us in any way, for this advice Is absolutely free. You are at liberty to take our advice or not, as you see fit. Munyon's, 53d and Jefferson streets, Philadelphia, T Soldier True to T mining1. During the period of the "second empire" in France the "Cent Gardeswere one of its sight3 at the Tuillerlas. It was hard to distinguish them from statutes. Their commander, Col. Verly, once declared to Empress Eugenia that "nothing" could make one of his men move when on duty. The empress laid a wager that she would make one of the giants stir; so, with her charac teristic Impetuosity she went up to one of the guards and boxed his ears. Not a muscle moved. The empress then acknowledged that Col. Verly iad won the bet, and sent a solatium to the soldier, who, however, proudly, refused it, saying that he had been sufficiently compensated by the honoi of having had his sovereign lady'l Land laid on his cheek. HELPLESS WITH RHEUMATISM. The Experience of Many Who Do Xot Know the Kidneys Are Weak. Jacob C. Bahr, 18 Broadway, Lebanon, Ohio, says: "For three months I wa3 helpless in bed with muscular rheumatism and had to be fed. My feet swelled, my legs were rigid. ' fCK bIack spots flitted before my eyes and I was sore an over. Doctors didn't help me and I couldn't raise hand or foot. To please my wife I begin using Doan's Kidney Pill3. and In two weeks I was improving. Then by leaps and bounds I got better until well and back at work. After such mortal agony this seemed wonderful." Remember the name Ooan's. Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. FosterÄlilburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. Sounded Like an Crbo, "Some day," shrieked the militant lufTragette. "the women of th's country will rise In a body and seize the feins of power! Keep your eyes and firs open:" "'Kre'a 'opin'!" heartily exclaimed i. Slightly Inebriated man In the audiince. All Up-t-Da( floaaekeepera , Us Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes Ens clothes cleaa and tweet as wben new. AU Groera. More Information. Mrs. Chugwater Joslah. what is a swastika?" Mr. Chugwater (momentarily at a 'oss) Do you mean to say you don't snow what a swastika Is? A swastika ,s why, .blame it. Swastika is the pame of the Eskimo that helped Cook Jiscover the north pole I Chicago Tribune. . ALLE.VS LCXU K1UAM fhoa!l alwaja bo la the m edict a. clowtof themotb a hu children har croup, Its freedom from opium mkm 1 1 aa 14el children's remedy. Want Jury of Ills Ieers. "I have been engaged in the practice of law a good many years," said S. S. Urmy, police judge of Topeka, Kan., and about the most humorous thing I ever saw in a courtroom was in Topeka. "One day an old negro man was bexlng tried in the justice court that was before the oCce of police judge was created and he demanded a trial by a Jury of his peers. He could neither read nor write, and hi3 lawyer Insisted that the Jury, to be bis peers, as required by the law, must be unable to read or write, too. To avoid disputes I agreed to it, but we had a-ime finding twelve men In Topeka who could neither read nur write. But we did find them, and the case went to trial. "Before the Jury retired I took two pieces of paper and wrote 'guilty on one piece and 'not gu'lty' on the other and instructed the foreman! of the jury to destroy the one he did not wish to be used and to return the other to me when the jury had reached a verdict. The Jury was out only a few minutes, when it came in. The foreman handed me a piece of paper with the word 'guilty written on it. "'Well, gentlemen, you find him truilty, do you?' I asked. " 'No, sah, Jedge, no, sah, we done found him not guilty,' spoke up one of the Jurymen. Then he added with disgust: 'I tole that fool nigger he was tearin up the wrong piece of paper.' " Kansas City Star. A Good lleasca. "The man you see over yonder gets awfully on my nerves." "Why?" "He's my dentist." Baltimore American. THE DIFFERENCE. Coffee Usually Means Sickness, bat Postum Always Means Health. Those who have never tried the experiment of leaving off coffee and drinking Postum in its place and in this way regaining health and happiness can learn much from the experience of others who have made the trial. One who knows says: "I drank coffee for breakfast every morning until .1 had terrible attacks of indigestion producing daysof discomfort and nights of sleeplessness. I tried to give up the use of coffee entirely, but found it bard to go from hot coffee to a glass of water. Then I tried Po3tum. "It was good and the effect was so pleasant that 1 soon learned to love It and have used it for several year3. I Improved Immediately after I left off coffee and took on Postum and am now entirely cured of my Indigestion and othr troubles all of which were due to ceffee. I am now well and contented and all because I changed from coffee to Postum. "Postum is much easier to make right every time than coffee, for it Is eo even and always reliable. We never use coffee now In our family. We use Postum and are always well." "There's a reason" and it is proved by trial. Look in pkgs. for a copy of the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest.

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Death lllotv to Protection. Those Republicans who are inclined to favor the income tax should bear this important fact in mind: If the proposed constitutional amendment authorizing the levying of an income tax should be adopted, and the Democratic party should ever come into power, it would at once proceed, as it always has done, to attack the protective tariff. Every free-trader would get in line. Under existing condK-ions a protective tariff is absolutely necessary as a source of revenue. If an income tax were constitutional, additional revenue could be provided without Imposing a customs duty on foreign made goods, and the Republican party would be responsible for having given the enemy such an opening. Authorize an income tax and, with the Democratic party in power, the first thing it would do would be to levy an income tax and reduce the tariff, on the ground that customs duties were not necessary for the support of the government. Thi3 is already announced as the program of the party's discredited, but not discarded, leader, William J. Bryan. If this program be carried out, as it surely will be with Democratic supremacy, the American people will pay the bill. The goods of the foreigner will come In free, or lightly taxed, American factories will close once more and the soup houses open. Let no workingman say, therefore, that he cares nothing about the income tax because it will be paid by the rich. When the protection tariff has been undermined and the income tax established, and when foreign goods supplant the products of home labor, either American wages must be reduced to the low level established abroad, or American industries must ihut down. Leslie's Weekly. Potatoes ns an Illustration. "Why are potatoes so high?" exclaimed one man the other day. "They were high last year." He was first inclined to blame the tariff; he had heard In a general way that tariff is to blame for all high prices. That i3 a sample of such complaint. Why are potatoes so high? Bles3 you. last year the United States from one end to the other did not grow potatoes enough to supply the demands. We ate more potatoes than were grown In the whole country. Last spring whole shiploads of potatoes were brought to New York from Ireland and from other European regions. Think of importing potatoes! Why should potatoes be cheap when we eat more than our farmers were able to grow? Potatoes are high, because we are a great consuming people. If our farmers were able to grow more potatoes, or, if some of the men who complained of high prices in the cities were willing to leave their tenements and go into the country and grow potatoes and other necessities, prices would not be so high. The tariff has nothing to do with high-priced potatoes and the tariff has little or nothing to do with many other high prices of which we hear complaints from time to time. Cedar Rapids Republican. In a Strong Position. A prominent New -York lawyer, who was formerly a high treasury official at Washington, has returned from a two months' tour of Europe, and states that merchants and others he met abroad said the United States put "itself In a strong position by the new tariff law. The gentleman also reported that there were no Indications of tariff retaliation, .3 foreign producers recognize the fact that attempts of that sort will result only In cutting them off from a market which is highly valuable. This will be sad news to freetraders and advocates of low tariff, who are constantly insisting that protection damages us abroad, but It 13 not surprising to those who believe that American interests have some claim to consideration, and that an adequate tariff is helpful and not hurtful to our industries. Troy Time3. Some Eniltarraaalnn- Questions. They are after Mr. Bryan In Texa3 for demanding tariff discriminations against the products of that State, especially wool, iron and lumber. The Dallas Times-Herald names more than forty Nebraska farm products which are well protected, and then puts it up to Mr. Bryan as follows: "Mr. Bryan demands wool shall be admitted free. Why -not wheat? He demand3 that iron shall be admitted free. Why not beans? He demand3 free hides. Why pot free bacon? All the people are consumers of bread and bacon. All the people are not consumers of lumber and Iron." rerhaps Mr. Bryan was not looking for trouble when he started out on his missionary trip to Texas, but he seems to have found plenty of It. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Talked Kansas Lananaa-e. When President Taft declared that "the Payne tariff Is the best one ver written," and that those insurgents who voted against the majority of the party, and with the Bryanltes, "were deserters," he fired a center shot. That Winona speech wa3 an opening gun of the campaign of 1910 fired by the leader of the Republican party. Republicans will rally round their standardbearer, and the free-traders and tariff for revenue will rally to Bryan. But, note this, there will be no monkeying with the tariff for six years, and possibly none for twelve years. Independence (Kan.) Tribune. ' One Redeeming Virtue. Loafer Can yer spare up 'a'penny, nate? Workingman Wotcher 'ant a 'a'penny for? loafer 'Cos I got one, and I wants another for the price of 'arf a pint. Workingman Ever done a day's work in yer lifff? Loafer No, guv'nor, (wn't say as I 'ave. Workingman Well, yer never done a pore bloke out of a job, any way. 'ere's yer 'a'penny. Punch. , Keeping a Secret. She She told me you told her that secret I told you not to tell her. He The mean thing! I told her not to tell you I told her. She I promised her I wouldn't tell you she told me, so don't tell her I told you. Boston Transcript. About one-third of the human race lives on rice.

BRYAN'S PLATFORM.

Principle for Future Campaign ns Outlined by The Commoner." In a recent issue of "The Commoner" Mr. Bryan announces his platform for future campaigns, as follows: 1. A platform is a pledge, given by the candidate to the voter3, and when ratified at the polls becomes a contract between the official and his constituents. To violate it, in letter or in spirit is not only undemocratic, but repugnant to the principles of representative government, and constitutes an embezzlement of power. 2. We denounce the despotism known as Oannonism and favor such an amendment to the rules of the National IIous? of Representatives as will restore popular government on that body and insure the rule of the majority on every question. 3. We Indorse the tariff plank of tha last National Democratic platform and believe that the measure carrying out the promise of that platform should, among other things, provide for: Free wool, the abolition of the compensatory duties on woolens and a substantial reduction in the ad valorem rates on woolens. Free lumber, free wood pulp and free paper. Free hides, leather, harness, boots and shoes. Free oil and products of oil. Free iron ore. free coal and low duties on all manufactures of iron and steel. Free binding twine, cotton ties and cotton bagging. Material reductions in the cotton schedules and In the tariff upon all other necessaries of life, especially upon articles sold abroad more cheaply than at home, the aim being to put the lowest duty on articles of necessity and the highest duty on articles of luxury. Articles coming Into competition with trust-made articles should be placed on the free list. No tariff rate should be above 50 per cent ad valorem, except upon liquor and tobacco, and all rates above 25 per cent excepting those upon liquor and tobacco, should be reduced one-twentieth each year until a 23 per cent rate is reached, the purpose being to reduce the tariff gradually to a revenue bas?s and thereafter to collect tariff for revenue only. It is hardly necessary to say that the Democratic party could never win on any such platform. By the time the next Presidential election comes round it will be exactly twenty years since the Democratic party elected a President. In that twenty years the American people have learned by experience much that they did not know in 1S92. They have learned ths folly, the blight and the cune of free-trade, as contrasted 'with the wisdom, the benefits and the blessings of Protection. That is a lesion not easily unlearned by the mass of the people. A few politicians of the adventurous and ambitious sort seem to have unlearned it. Perhaps they will be attracted by the Bryan platform. If so, well and good. There will be enough Protectionist Democrats to take their places and their absence will not be felt. As for Mr. Bryan, he neither learns nor unlearns. He is always the same Bryan, the same Peerless Defeated. The country has three times rejected him and his policies. It will reject him again if the Democratic party ventures another experiment in Bryanism. Of this, however, there 13 small probability. - Bryan has figured in the game too long already. His future place is in the discard. American Economist. Farmers Interested In the Tariff. The Indianapolis News thinks that a movement can be started in the "Middle West" to oust the RooseveltTaft school of tariff thinkers. But It will be found, ultimately, that the "Middle West" will have the largest kind of an interest In the tariff. South American exporters are getting ready to Invade our meat markets under the slight reduction afforded them In the recent tariff revision. They have figured out how they can lay their meat on the Atlantic seaboard for 5 Vi to 6 cents a pound, prices that would be ruinous to our own cattle growers. The farmers of the "Middle West" will, eventually, have the largest and the deepest kind of an Interest in the protective tariff the tariff as Interpreted by President Taft, and as it was interpreted by President Roosevelt. Cedar Rapld3 Republican. The Wild Hour. The wild boar never loses his head or his heart. Such courage I have never beheld in any four footed creature. He has all the cunning commonly accredited to his Santanlc majesty and in his rage is a demon that will charge anything of any size. I have seen a small boar work his way through a pack of dogs and his smaller brother, the peccary, In Brazil, send a man up a tree and keep him there. The boar looks ungainly, but the Indian species is as fleet as a horse for about three-quarters of a mile. lie begins with flight, shifts to cunning and finally stands to the fight with magnificent courage, facing any odds. As, riding upon him. you are about to plant your spear, he will dart "jink," as they call It In India to one side, repeating the performance several times, until he finds he cannot shake you, when, turning suddenly, with ears cocked and eyes glittering, he will charge furiously. If not squarely met with a well aimed and firmly held spear, he will upset horse and rider. Hurling himself again and again against the surrounding spears, he will keep up his charge until killed, when he dios without a groan. Outing. A Uuestfoa of Feet. "How can a boy with only two feet make all that noise?" said the impatient father, as Johnny clattered down the stairs. "Never mind," said the mother. "Let us be thankful he isn't a centipede." Washington Sar. Human Unrest. "Everybody has more or less trouble?" "Yes," answered the observant woman. "If a man can't find anything else to worry him he goes to a ball game and gets highly indignant at the umpire." Milwaukee Sentinel. Unstable Wenllh. "If you had as much money as that great captain of industry what would you do?" "I'd probably hand it over to him as soon as he got ready to organize business and freeze me out." Washington Star. During: the Siren Yell. First Laborer How do you like them college boys' cheers? Second Ditto I got docked for an hour yesterday, taking it for the quit whistle. University of Pennsylvania Punch BowL

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The unaccountable allurement which the rushing waters of Niagara Falls hold for persons having suicidal Inclinations, has raised a controversy between the United States and Canada. Enough of these suicides take place ever year to make the matter one that needs to ?e dealt with. A large number of those taking their own lives are identified by clothing or by letters, but the plunge 13 so great. the rock3 so numerous and the churn ing, obliterating effect of the countless tons of water in motion at terrific speed so great, that in most cases It Is very difficult to assure a true identification. It Is a somewhat curious fact that the bodies of those who have performed the act of combined bravery and cowardice follow a sort of beaten track. When the authorities learn of a suicide they first go to the landing where the little boat, the Maid of the Mist, comes in and goes out on its trips, and in almost every case the battered, swollen body will be found there. Those which do not stop then go on through the rapids and bring up further down the stream In the vortex of tha whirlpool. Both o fthese points, the Maid of the Mist landing and the whirlpool, are o nthe Canadian side. Hence the Queen Victoria Park commission, which controls the river front all the way from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. ha3 been In the habit of bringing these melancholy derelicts to the top o fthe bank at an expense to itself of ?C0 or $70 apiece and of interring lliem separately In Fairview Cemetery In a site that has been set apart for such cases. The Canadian officials have addressed a request to the American park commissioners to pay at least a proportionate share of the expense. There is one very good argument advanced in favor of this position. Most of the suicides take the plunge on the American side. It Is only the action of the current that carries to the shores of the Dominion the legacy of death. The American park commissioners concede the Justice of the Canadian A motor-driven sleigh, developed during last winter, was propelled hy a pair of legs resembling In their operation those of a grasshopper. An alloy of 70 per cent of cerium and 30 per cent of Iron has the remarkable property of giving off a shower of sparks when struck by steel. At the woman suffrage bazaar, recently held at the Hotel Martha Washington, in New York City, the receipts for the two days and evenlng3 were over $900. French walnut growers in the neighborhood of Grenoble have formed an association to maintain the reputation and guarantee the quality of the walnuts commonl known as "Grenobles." There are 157.000 models In the Patent Office which are about to be lodged In the National Museum. Many of them are of historic interest. They will be under the care of the Commissioner of Patents. Telephone companies are endeavoring to collect part of the telegraph tolls where the messages are delivered by telephone. The telegraph companies claim that they are entitled to make this use of the Instruments and resist payment. Consul Julean H. Arnold, of Amoy. reports that a native company at that port, capitalized at $800,000, is getting ready to operate coal and Iron mines, which are said to be valuable. In the An Chll district, 100 mlle3 from Amoy, for which it has held a concession for some years. Since there is no tide In the Mediterranean, the inhabitants of Marseilles were greatly astonished on June 15, when the water of the harbor began suddenly to oscillate, and continued in movement for a quarter of an hour. Some observers say that the first waves wereabouttwo and a half feet In height, but others put. their height at half that amount. Many thought that the cau3e was an earthquake, but Möns. LouU Fabry, after a study of the phenomena, ascribes It to a sudden Increase of the barometric pressure of the air cn the surface of the sea In the neighborhood of Marseiiles. The puzzling question remains. What produced the sudden increase of barometric pres sure? At Koutchlno, near Moscow, Russia possesses the most complete laboratory for researches pertaining to aviation now In existence. The work Is under the direction of Mr. Rlabouchlnsky, and the money was furnished by a wealthy Muscovite. It ha3 become the center of much Interest since the recent achievements In aerial navigation. Here investigations are made of all questions relating to aerodynamics, and tome remarkable results have been obtained, especially In regard to what is called the "autorotatlon" of bodie3 of certain shapes when placed In currents of air. It has already been made evident that there are many phenomena of an unexpected character which, when they have been thoroughly Investigated, may materially aid inventors and engineers In the construction of more effective flying machines. CHILD WANTED TO KNOW. If Conductor Called Tonn for Fun of It, What Was the Fan? It was refreshing, too, when a young bild traveling eastward from the far

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BUS SHOWS argument, but declare that without some justification from Congress they have not the power to spend the money of the nation in this fashion, and ins'st that the bodies ought to be buried wherever the yare found. As a result o fthe argument a great er effort is being made to watch close ly those who make the visit to the falls. It has long been one of the charms of the manner In which the two nations have guarded Niagara that it is possible to get to the very elge of the falls, and standing within three or four feet of the edge to marvel at the onrushlng flood3 as they take their descent for the 200-foot Jump to the gully below. Although it may possess the suicide mania for a small percentage of 'unfortunates, to the great majority Niagara is lulling, it gives comfort, it is a temporary surcease from troubles that seem small when brought into the presence of this wonderful work of nature. To put the average visitor farther away from the points where Tu 1 '7; Ii,:'- - V . ' V: sJt v ' elm .. : : o MAG AUA t'AIXS. he can get the best view would be a hardship. Uncle Sr.m and the Dominion of Canada dwell too happily as neighbors to have any serious row over the question. But it must be settled, for a3 long as Niagara's roar attracts and its dancing waters appeal, there will be suicides to dispose of. West held a conversation close beside me with an utterly pallid and exhausted mother, which perhaps deserves narrating more fully. I never saw a woman more utterly exhausted, while the child seemed as fresh at sunset as at dawn. It was when the through trains on the Boston and Albany still stopped at West Newton, and the conductor had Just called with vigorous confidence the name of that station. After a pause, the child exclaimed as vigorously, "Mother," to which the mother responded, perhap3 for the two hundredth time that day. In a feeble voice. "What, dear?" when the following conversation ensued: "What did that man say, mother?" 'Tie said West Newton." A pause for reflection, then again, "Mother." "What?" "What did that man say West Newton for, mother?" To this the mother, with an evasiveness dictated by despair, could only murmur, "I don't know." This was too well tried an evasion, and the unflinching answer came, "Don't you know what he said West Newton for, mother?" Thus demanded, came the vague answer, "Said It for the fun of it. I guess." By this time all the occupants of the car were listening breathlessly to the cross-examination. Then came the inevitable "Mother." and the more and more hopeless "What?" "Did the man say West Newton for the fun of It. mother?" "Yes," said the poor sufferer, with an ever-lncreasJng audience listening to her vain evasion. The child paused au atom longer, and then continued, still Inexhaustible, but aa if she had forced her victim Into the very last corner, as she had, "What was the fun of it, mother?" Atlantic Monthly. Value of "Stooping." Always be civil. Try to treat rich and poor alike. Is not the poor man's 20 shillings as good as the rich man's pound? The working msn's wife, with her basket on her arm. says Sir Thomas Llpton in the Strand. Is entitled to as much respect as the lady who comes In her carriage. When Benjamin Franklin was ambassador at the French court, speaking to a young man. he said: "The last time I saw poor father he received me in his study. As I was leaving he showed me a short way out of the house through a narrow passage crossed by a beam overhead. Suddenly he cried: 'Stoop! Stoop!' I did not understand what he meant until I felt my head bump against the beam. He was a man who nevei failed to give good ad vice. 'You are going,' he said, 'and have got to go through the world Stoop as you go through It, and you will miss many hard thumps.' " I havo never failed to be Impressed by this lesson of humility. First Lore. It Is a popular fallacy that the first love Is the true one, unique In its excellence, says an exchange. As well y that the first picture of a painter is the best of all he will paint in the course of his life; that the flrstspeech, the first book, the first statue, the first composition, will be the best of th statesman, novelist, sculptor or musician, as the case may be. First works Ihave all the Imperfections of uncerAnd it is rather by chance than by anything inherent in the nature of Cupid's ways that the first love turns out to be the great one. Concise Miort Story. Angelina loved Edwin Jones. Edwin Jones was poor. Angelina Is Mr3. Robinson. Exchange.

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Personal Experience. I was a private in Colonel E. Mosby'a command, and early earned the title of a "hard case." How I got that undesirable, and In my case undeserved character, I will tell you. In May, 1S64, we were lying at Uppeiville, Va., and I started for Charlestown to see my girl. I found that town full of Yankees. Being well mounted, I resolved not to be captured. Such a race a3 ensued. I started for Smithfield with a whole brigade of Yankees In chase. In a couple of mlle3 Lieutenant Stone joined me, and In a couple of miles more two other graycoats, the younger of these being married but one hour before he had to fly. They pressed us so hard that we had to take to the woods. Soon after we encountered a deep ravine at full speed. I shut my eyes, felt my horse spring and sail through the air, and land on the other side. At least fifty horses and riders plied up In that ravine, my companions with the rest. I rode easy, resting my horse until I arrived at Goosetown, when I heard the Yanks yell within two hundred yards. What a horserace we had with them for a couple of miles. The greater part of the Yanks stopped In Goosetown, but two following. In a few moments I saw General Early's train moving from Winchester to Gordon's Springs. Now I concluded to capture my. Yankee pursuers, so ran my horse behind a blacksmith shop and waited.' In a moment they dashed by and I after them. I cannot explain nor understand how, but In some way I got mixed after the Yanks got to the train, and ordered the wrong trooper to surrender, and he In turn called a guard and captured me. He had on the blue, hence my mistake. Well. I told them my story, confident of immediate re lease, when to my surprise I was In formed that none of my cursed Yankee tricks would go down. Talk availed me not I was held a prisoner. After a little General Early sent, at my request, for General Rhodes, and I was released. Meanwhile, I had learned that In losing my Yankee I had taken after Major General Harmon. General Rhodes and I started out together. On the way I told him about ' my race. He told me I was certainly mistaken about the Yan!;s being at Goosetown. as hi3 pickets were on that road and, to convince me. he. his brother and I rode back. Goosetown Is In a basin-like valley, and we let the General ride ahead as we approached the top of the hill. Xo sooner was he at the hill top than a shower of lead greeted him. There was a regiment camped there. The General decided at once to attack them from front and rear. He went for his men, but all but four hundred of the Yankees got away before the surround could be made. I. being one of Mosby's men. owned whatever plunder was captured by me, which was forty-six horses, saddles, and equipments. I had to get two of the prisoners to help me w'th my captures. When I arrived at Mosby's camp I found my regiment all ready for a move after a wagon train. I was in formed that I must take my prisoners to Winchester and turn them over. This I could not do and go with my regiment. It soon came dark. I told my prisoners that the best thing for them to do was to take a couple of halters, go over where General Imboden's horses were In pasture, get two good ones, and git. We shook hands. and they did so. When I rejoined my regiment the boys asked, "What did you do with your prisoners?" v"0h, I left-them out In the woods," was my response. They believed that I had killed them, and so believe yet. Could they have witnessed the reception which those same boys gave me June 5, 1SG3. In New York City, they would have thought differently. And that, Mr. Editor, Is how I came by my hard name. Masonry In the Civil War. E. E. Williams of Klrkwood, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, related to friends in the Masonic order In Washington, a remarkable story of the Civil War which demonstrates how seriously Masonry was regarded In those days. "I have just been on a visit to my father, L. J. Williams whose home is In Harvard. N. Y." he said. 'My fath er served In the Civil War as a mem ber cf the One Hundred and Fourteenth New York volunteers. He is a member of the Downsville blue lodge. No. 4C4. "When the war broke out the En tered Apprentice and Fellowcraft de grees had been conferred on him In New York. He went out In the de fense of his country, without having been- raised to the degree of a Master Mason. It wa3 his misfortune to be taken a prisoner of war while at or near SavannA. While he lay In the Southern prison he communicated with some of his friends in the North. "His lodge in New York, through the proper officials, got In touch with Zerubbabel Lodge In Savannah, and made the request that the Savannah lodge, as a favor to the brethren of the North, confer the third degree on Fellowcraft brother, L. J. Williams. "One night my father was taken from hl3 prison and conducted to the Savannah lodgeroom. It was a re markable occasion. He wore his be draggled blue uniform, token of his sympathy with the cause of the North He was surrounded by men who wore the gray. All the chairs were occu pied by Confederate officers. They were on opposite sides In a struggle to the death, but they were brethren Then and there he was raised to the ! sublime degree of a Master Mason and acclaimed a friend and brother by his enemies. "But the more significant feature of the story was yet to follow. For on the same night my father escaped from his prison and rejoined his comrades of the North. I have visited Savannah since then and I looked up the records of his raising. In red Ink, ' on the same page that record3 the fact that the degree was there conferred, Is the brief annotation: 'On this night Brother Williams escaped from prison.' "I have talked with my father about the matter a number of times. When nsked about his 'escape' he always mlles peculiarly. 'You may put it flown as an escape,' he told me, 'but It wasn't an escape, strictly speaking. For on that night some men came to uy prison. They put .me In a boat find carried me off some distance. Then they deposited me on neutral toil between the lines. From there 1

found my way back to my friends. Who my rescuers were I have never learned. It Is their own secret and it has never been disclosed. But In my own mind I know exactly to whom I may attribute the 'escape In question. His name is Hiram.'" The narrator of the story Is a member of Klrkwood blue lodge, 4S4. II has also taken the Royal Arch and the Scottish Rite degrees.

Love in tke Hospital. Here is a true story of love. It ha3 none of the vapid romance of the seaside, nor the sprightliness of the ballroom, but it shows and evidences that the human heart is susceptible to love under the most adverse conditions. Indeed, we are not sure but love true love Is a plant of more tender and healthful growth when removed from all selfish and narrowing surroundings. At the beginning of the war most of the Southern troop3 were sent to Vir ginia. Among ether regiments the Fifth Alabama, under Colonel R. E. Rodes, who wa3 afterward promoted to major general, moved from Montgomery to Richmond, and afterward to Manassas Junction, near Bull Run. After remaining there a short time a member of Company D. Fifth Alabama, was taken sick with camp fever and sent to the hospital at Culpeper Court House. The hospital was In charge of a lady from Hale County, Alabama, by the name of Miss Sally Anne Swope, a noble-hearted woman. but a perfect fire-eater toward the Yan kee soldiers. She would nurse a sick or wounded soldier either Yankee or rebel, as wel as if he was one of her own family, and at the same time it he were a Yankee she would tell him that she could cut off his head when he was well. After the young man came to the hospital, he continued to grow worse, and at times would be en tirely delirious. I was sick at the same time, and noticed a bright, pretty young woman, whose name I will not mention for fear it will recall sad memories to her dear friends and relatives, and whom they will remember with pride for the many noble traits of character she possessed. She would sit by the gallant soldier, during hi3 moments of delirium, for hours, and bathe his brow with her soft, pretty hands and soothe his restless spirit with cheering words. At times the sol dier would catch her hand and talk ofj the dear ones at home, thinking it was his loved sister. Again he would tell her how he loved her whispering words of love. It became well known by all the friends at the hospital that it was a case of true love. Although it was a labor of love and mercy that made the lady a nurse, yet she never neglected her many patients. At thesame time her lover, who was much sicker than any other, received all of her spare tima. But the poor fellow continued to grow worse from day to day. The poor girl watched with Intense sorrow and affection his sunken features, sweetening the long hours of watching with such loving looks and expressions as could not be mistaken. At last the end came. The dear creature who had watched his bed seemed to have wasted to a mere shadow. The doctors advised rest; but no, she con tinued to hover around the other pa tients like one in a dream, providing for their every want. Alas! her heart was broken, and in a short time s!e too was laid in the grace, having con tracted the fever from her lover. The First Xevrs from Gettrftburff. In these days, when the news ser vice of the world is so perfectly organized that the Battle of Manila In all Its essential details was described in the newspapers of America only a few hours after the echoes of the last gun had died away. It Is hard to real ize how slow and fragmentary was the diffusion of news in Civil War times. The three days' Battle of Gettysburg was over and Lee had begun his re treat before any inkling of the actual fighting reached Washington. Under date of Saturday, July 4, Gid eon Welles, Secretary of the Navy In Lincoln's Cabinet, wrote In his diary, which Is now being published in the Atlantic Monthly: "I was called up at midnight pre cisely by a messenger with telegram from Byington at Hanover Station, stating that the most terrific battle of the war was being fought at or near Gettysburg; that he left he field at half-past 6, and that everything look ed hopeful. The President was at the War Department where this dispatch. which is addressed to cne, was recelv edi It was the irst word of the great conTllct. Nothing had come to the War Depaitment. There seems to have been no system, no arrangement for prompt, constant and speedy in telllgence. I had remained at the War Department for news till about 11. Some half an hour later the dispatch from Byington came to me over th wires, but nothing for Stanton or Ilalleck. The operator In the War De partment gave the dispatch to the President, who remained. He asked. 'Who Is Byington? No one in the de partment knew anything about him. and the President telegraphed to Han over Station, 'Who is Byington?' The operator replied, 'Ask the Secretary of Navy.' I Informed the President that the telegram was reliable. Byington is the editor and proprietor of a week ly paper In Norwalk, Cinectlcut. ac tive and stirring, Is sometimes em ployed by the New York Tribune, and Is doubtless no employed now." Armed with a Saber Illlt. When William L. Royall of Fau quier County, Virginia, was 17 years old, he became a Confederate soldier In his "Reminiscences" he says that the feats performed by the Confeder ate cavalry In the early part of the war were remarkable, because not pne company In ten had any arms that were fit to fight with. When I joined my company, he writes, they gave me a saber ,which I think was used in the Revolution, and this was the only weapon I had. One day, while my regiment was standing in a road, I bantered a comrade to see which of us could cut the largest twig from a tree. I made a powerful cut. and the blade of my saber broke off at the hilt.. In a short time we were dismount ed and ordered to clear the Yankees out of a piece of woods in skirmish formation. We marched through the woods, but fortunately no Yankees were there. I have often wondered what I should have done, armed with that saber hilt, If I had met a Van kee armed with a Springfield musket. Before photography was applied to stars the highest number catalogued was 457.S47. The number of stars Cwe Mm era will show Is estimated at over 30,000,000.

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