The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 18, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 27 August 1908 — Page 6

“In the earW months of the Civil War,” said the Colonel, “many girls attempted to pljay the part of soldier. It may seem incredible to the men and women of this*day that young women could enter the military service, escape detection by the mustering officers, and associate with worldly wise men, without the Connivance of confederates. But it must be remembered (hat in the first year of the war there were in everj’ company many fresh-faced,/beardless young men, diffident in manner and hesitant in speech, among whom a boyishfaced young woman, playing a boy s part, did not seem out of place. ! “It was a time, too, when few questions were asked, and when mustering, officers were not overparticular- a dime when men frtfm different .neighborhoods, counties and States were thrown together to form in a day unexplainable and romantic attachments; a time when, in the strangeness of environment and in homesickness, the reserve of individuals jwas common, and, when all sorts of eccentricities were excused. At such a time it was easy for a highspirited girl of rugged build to dress in the Garibaldi shirt and loose blouSe and trousers, and join sotne squad of eager irecruits on their way to camp, and it is indisputable- that many escaped detection for months, and did good service as soldiers. “I cannot remember now a single ease in our division of the army where a girl who had worn soldier clothes through Hkirnjd&h or battle was not on discovery treated with the greatest respect even by the roughest men. "I cannot remember a case in which scandal was associated witii a young woman who hail Ibeeu carried into the army, through ipatriotism, and in sheer forgetfulness •of self and sex. Men who had them eelvesrbeen overwhelmed and mastered by a newly discovered. passionate devotion to flag and eoun|try seemed to uu- : derstaud the young women who risked everything to follow the (lag. and Wiere |.was little pritieism or censure. f “On one bccasion a rumor flew through camp that a woman had beenin. one of the companies, |There was excitement at once, but when n frolicsome young fellow in Company LB was marched up to headquarters unk der guard no one suspected that the taerson under arrest was a woman. Men Ju (he same mess were as unsuspicious as any. and they were greatly scam dalized when it was declared that for pix months they had been culling and swearing at a woman. But the whole regiment was lined up her taken out of camp, {and. much to the surprise i of the officers, there was nothing said that had the slightest flavor of ribaldry. On every hand it was ‘Good-by, Joe: better luck next time.' And from the woman camel,_ ‘Good-by, boys; whatever else you do, remember that 1 did my duty with the best of you.' ‘And ye did that, me boy.’ shouted an Irishman, ‘and 1- will lick the.man that says ye didn't.’ “What became of her? she was tak en in charge by the colonel's wife, and led as honest a as any one, though possibly not a very comfortable one. And. by the way. I do not believe that any of these soldipr girls turned out badly. I have in mind a girl who served in another regiment. She was thA only child of our village 'B boy's training. .She drove, rode, hunted, and fished with her father,, who ' called her his boy. At tlie very beginning of the war the-doctor volunteered, and in a speech urging young men 4o enlist expressed his regret that his girl was not *a boy. as it would give him inexpressible pride to have a son wearing the army blue. llis daughter took a resolve then and there, and she car- - .vied it out. . “Before many weeks she was seeing hard service in a Union regiment, and was associated with three young lows of slighter figure and fairer complexion than herself. One day one of these young men tweaked her. nose, and she boxed his ears. Quick as a flash the man struck back,' and there was a lively scrap. The orderly sergeant interfered, and was surprised to find the young fellow who had got the best of the skirmish despondent and penitent. The next day the young man told the orderly that in the midst of the fight he divined his antagonist was a woman. She didn't strike—she slapped and .scratched—and in her anger and excitement betrayed herself The two cori- ‘ suited with the colonel, and the girl was quietly detailed for nurse’s dut> in the hospital.. Then she was sent to a distant hospital, at which she appeared -in woman’s dress, and from that shy was sent to her father, with whom she remained the greater part of the war." “There are in Chicago," said the major. “probably a score of Southern women who, married Union officers. There is a romance tn nearly every such marriage. but I cannot enter that field. There is one story, however, that may be given in outline. While we were in camp in West Virginia there lived on a hill within the guard line a minister in whose family was a girl of 17, shy as a bird, but pretty as a picture. She was seen in camp only when her father • '

conducted services on Sunday, or at an occasional dress parade, when she came down to the colonel’s quarters with her father and mother. “Os course, a score of men in the regiment were in love with her. and all sorts of plans were laid to have a talk with her. Most of these miscarried through the vigilance of the colonel and the girl’s father, but a lieutenant and a sergeant in our company managed in some way to let the girl know they were her devoted slaves. While' the girl was rarely seen or heard during the day, nearly every night,, just before taps, the boys could hear her laugh. She had a clear, rippling laugh, which came down to the men in their tents to make many of them hdmekick. They could nbt understand why' she should be so quiet during the day, and laugh so heartily at night, until the guards explained that just before bedtime the old colored auntie who served as maid of all work related to the young lady the gossip of the camp as to the doings of her several adorers. “Then the laughs in the dark were not quite pleasant to the men who felt that they were being talked over, and attempts to interpret the laughs led to a quarrel between oar lieutenant and sergeant, in which tile latter resented a light remark of the former by a blow. In the end the sergeant was worsted, and the colonel put both under arrest. While under guard the sergeant was taken seriously ill, and was sent to the hospital. While, there he had no more, devoted friend than the lieutenant, but when he recovered the girl whose laugh in the dark had caused the trouble was gone. Sergeant and lieutenant became close friends, both were promoted, and at Shiloh the latter was killed and the (ormer lost an arm, and came in time to command the company. “On his return home at the close of the war' the one-armed captain was lionized in his native village, and there were many gatherings in his honor. Going to one of these one evening, he and his sister stopped for the minister’s daughter, who called to them not to come, into the yard, as she would meet them at the gate. Coining down the walk she stumbled and almost fell. liegaining, her footing she laughed, and the officer, startled and dazed, went toward her. They met in the dark, and he offered his arm. He asked at once if she remembered old Camp .Riverfalls, and the girl was as agitated as the man. The lieutenant of the old time had told the father of the girl the sergeant's story, and here at last they had met. They were married, of course,; and their youngest -daughter, now a woman, has a laugh like her mother."— Chicago Inter Ocean. ■ Mosby's Namesake, General John S. Mosby, the Confederate cavalryman, used to tell of a comic incident which happened in tlie Shenandoah Valley in 1864. Near fillwood a regiment of cavalry halted one night and went into camp. One of the men, who was hungry, slipped away and went off in the neighborhood to get something to eat. He rode up to a cabin on a farm iu| the dark, and called for the person insipe to come out. . A negro woman-/known at that time as an intelligent contraband, opened the door and asked him what lie-wanted. The soldier wished to be assured of his safety before dismounting and while eating his supper, so he Inquired of the woman if any one but herself was there. She replied, “Yes, Mosby is here” “What !” said he, in a whisper. “Is Mosby here?"’ I -, “Yes,” she said, “he is in--the ’house." The soldier put spurs to his horse and daslied off to his company to carry the news. When Ihe got there he informed the colonel that Mosby was in a house not far away. The regiment was soon mounted, and went at a fast trot, thinking they had Mosby in a trap. ■ When they arrived at the negro woman’s house the colonel ordered his men to surround it, to prevent Mosby’s es--’eape, while he went in with a few to take him, dead or alive. The woman again came to the door of the cabin. The colonel inquired, “Ist Mosby here?” . . She innocently| replied, “Yes/’ so he! walked in. After the colonel got inside he looked round: But the woman seemed to be all alone and utterly unconscious of having so important a person for a guest. In a Idud voice the colonel demander, “Where is Mosby?” 4, “’Ere he is,” answered the terrified negress, at the same time pointing,to 1 cradle on the floor. The colonel looked into the cradle and saw a little African pickaninny & ■ _—— How McKinley Became a Mason. The building where McKinley was made a Mason is still intact and tie Winchester folk—even, the most juvenile of them—have on their tongue’s e. id the .story of how McKinley, wounded at .Antietam, lay pn a cot next to a Confederate officer who seemingly was given greater care and more attentilor than he. One day he inquired, and found that the ward attendant and the Confederate officer were fraternal brothers. McKinley then made knojvr his desire to associate himself with [at order in which brotherhood was such a paramount tenet. His convalescent enemy endorsed his application at fht nearest lodge, which, through the eW staut maneuvering of the army, chanced to be Winchester, It was here, at the hands of his country’s fojes that the man destined to be the loVed President of* a reunited country ire ceived his Masonic degrees.—Frpir “The Scars of War in the Shenan doah,” by John D. Weils, in the Metro polltan Magazine.

THE ZEPPELIN AIRSHIP ABOVE THE TOWN OF ZURICH. • ■ > ’ ■_ ■ ■ ■ ... Overwhelmed with disaster in his hour of triumph, Count Zeppelin saw the giant ilrship in which he had wrested the supremacy of the air from a score of coimpetifors catch tire, explode and drift away a mass of wreckage <l>n the wings pf a resistless storm. Four men of the aeronaut's crew were badly burned, bijt Zeppelin himself escaped injury. The end of machine —the fourth he has constructed—came at the village of near Stuttgart, and only sixty-five miles from the, finishing point of the 522mile aerial journey which the count was aiming to complete; where tens !of ' thousands of persons were gathered to greet him as conqueror of the air. Orders have been given by the count for the construction of another airship. I'

JTATCJr. ©y { The Creeks. If Andrew Jackson were alive and could gaze upon the Creek Indians of to-day he would shake his head at the decadence | and retrogression of a once mighty trjbe. The Creek is civilized, ’it least oijtwardly, and!an active member of the body politic, but he compares most .(.sadly with his forefathers as a racial type and as an individual man. ■ The Crieek, or Muskogee, inhabifed large sections of Alabaitia at least 400 years ago, and gave the army of De Soto a vigorous tigh 1 while the great ■Spaniard-' was march to the Mississippi. They formed a strong cofifederacy with several tribes on an. equal basis and others as subordinate members, and took part In wars against the whites and against other Indian tribes,- their military operations extending from South Carolina to Louisiana and from Tennessee to Florida. , « In 1813, charmed by the oratory andfascinating address of the great Tecumseh, they obeyed his request to join in a general war against the whife man. Headed by Weatherford, a halfbreed chief of great valor and wisdom, they, massacred the garrison at Fort Mims, and then found themselves, opposed to no less an adversary than Aiidrew Jackson. Jackson defeated the Creeks in several fierce battles, and finally broke their power at Horseshoe'’ Bend. For. twenty years after this they kept quiet and made no trouble, butuurMutbreak during the time of the Seminole war forced their removal to Indian territory. Some 17.000 of the Creeks were taken they settled down quietly and made good progress in civilization. Unlike the , other civilized tribes, however, the Creeks mixed and intermarried with their negro slaves, and the tribe is now almost as much black as red. There are some 11,000 Creeks at present’, fullblood and mixed, and about 5,000 negro citizens of the nation. Old tribal factions have been obliterated by the abolition of tribal government, and the Creeks are fast losing all identity. Previous to the opening of the reservation the old tribes of 400 years ago still maintained their Individuality — Muskogi, Alabama, Uchi, of- the most interesting tribes being the Uchi, who dwelt apart from the rest of the Creeks and maintained curious religious and national •ustoms. 1 ■ , , i ' The Tender Thought. Harry is G years old. “Pa,” he asked one day, “if I get married will I have a wife like ma!” “Very likely,” replied his father. “And if I don’t get married, will I have tb be an old bachelor like Unde Tom?”“Very likely.” “Well, pa,” he said, after a moment of deep thought, “it’s a mighty tough world for us men, ain’t it?”—Success Magazine. Just a Few Minutes. Vooveel Actress No. I—Will you go shopping with me this morning? Vooveel Actress No. 2 —l will If you will wait a few minutes. “Want to change your dress?” “No, I’m going to get a divorce from my husband this morning!—Yonkers Statesman. -

NOTABLE AIRSHIP PLIGHTS AND RECORDS; Wright Brothers’ 'aeroplane. 48 miles an hour, for short flights, Kill Devil Hill, •N. C„ May 31. Count Zeppelin’s airship, 39 miles an hour, in seven-hour flight, Jane 29.1 Alexander Graham Bell’s aeroplane White Wings, short flights, at Himmfindsport, N. Y.. May 18. Henry Farman, aeroplane airship circular kilometer at Paris in one minute and twenty-eight seconds, winning Deutsch-Archdeacon prize of slo,oop. Leo Stevens. 130 miles in non-dirigible balloon, in three hours, Hampton Falls, N. 11.. March 10. I Leo Stevens, jn non-dirigible balloon Centaur, 126 miles in two and one-half hours, Nov. 3. 1906 ; gas balloon record. Santos Dumont, in Butterfly aeroplane, 150 meters in Paris, Nov. 10, 1907. - Santos Dumont, in balloon airship,/ Santos Dumont No. 10, 35 miles, ijn one hour and forty-five minutes,’ Paris, Nov. 14. 1902. I Pierre Lebaudy’s balloon airship La Dirigible, from Paris to Moisson, thirtyfive miles, in one hour and thirty minutes, Nov. 10, 1902. / .’ Count Zeppelin, twelve-hour trip in his balloon airship at an average of 34 miles an hour, Friederichshafen, July l.| .VERANDA &g<~~, ,/\g zn — r I The illustration shows a fewl pieces of furniture which would add much to the comfort of the summer piazlza, the wicker swing ami the comfortable easy chair both 4>eiiig very desirable models. The swing is shown in thej sketch without cushions, but a, comfortable mattress, cushion covered with cretonne and .several pillows is i great addition. When the wicker is istained -green a cushion pad of bright 1 red is very picturesque, or else the. pad can he of green, with bright flowered ere-, tonne cushions. The chafr pictured is broad and has wide arms, and is an excellent shape for a comfortable lounging or reading-chair. A cushion car. also be fitted To the back, if .desired, although only 'the chair seat of cretonne is shown in the drawing. The Bribe that Failed, Among Father Dempsey’s I steady was a fellow named Delaney, lie was drunk as often as he could get that wjjy. Father Dempsey tried all manner of means to get Delaney to quit drinking. At last he said to him : “Delaney, my man, if, you’ll stop drinking, for six months/I’ll give -you a cheek at the end of that rime for $50.” . “Indeed. i.f I stopped for six months I. eould write you a check fit- $100,” answered Delaney, and Father Dempsey in telling of it later added: “And indeed he could, too, for he’s a No. 1 mechanic.”; —St. Loijls PostDispatch. Not Up in Art. ‘Did you ever see the Venus of Milb?” - “Eh?” “The Venus without arms, you know?” | “Oh, the armless wonder? Yes, I seen her In th 1 side show when I was a boy. She was goin’ under another name then, but I s’pose it’s th’ same one.”— Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Some Phenomena of Nature. They were talking it over in the Pullman of an overland train. “We had a severe storm In our country,” said the Texan, “in which it rained tadpoles.” “Huh,” snorted the Missouri man, “up our way it frequently raius mud turtles” The flLird man sat silent, indicating that he had something up his sleeve. “Probably you’ve heard of something more remarkable,” they said to him. “Yes,” he answered, “when It tains Ln Alabama it invariably rains just rain. Ours is now a prohibition State.” Not « Kiss. ‘T heard him behind the door pleading for just one. They must be engaged.” “Naw, .they're married. It was a dollar he was pleading for." —Washington Herald. . Evidence Failure. WWwi 0 “Is the patient failing, doctor?” “Yes, he hasn’t made a single reference so far, to-day, to- the score of yesterday’s game.” Prudence. Theater Visitor (at box office) —-I don’t know how I shall like the new play. Can’t I in the meantime have part of a ticket for the first act? — Kleine Witzblatt. When She Cooks. Young this is the new sbup . which tastes so good, but what is that floating on the top? Wife—O-=-that is the—cooking recipe. —Klyine Witzblatt. A Moderate Request. Lady (to doctor)—These are the same pills as you lately prescribed for bur cook. 1 would ask at least that you treat me a little differently from my servants. All for Him. “Your fiancee seems to have a will of her own.” “Yes, and sometimes I half regret that I’m sole beneficiary.”^—Philadelphia Press. Hard to Tell. . Millions—Do you think you will learn ■to like your titled son-in-law? Billions—l don’t know; I can’t tell | where to place him in my expense account: He is neither a recreation nor an investment. ; Spared the Necessity. “I hope,” said the rich man, “that you will never appropriate to your own use that which belongs to another c\r tell a lie.” “As you have; made my fortune for me, father, I won’t need to.” —Houston Post. Small ■VarieJtx——- . The inquisitive stranger stopped in front of the cottage by the roadside. • “Who lives here, children?’-’ asked the inquisitive stranger. “Mr. and Mrs. Stone,” responded the youngsters in the yard. “Indeed! And who are you?” “Oh, we are the little pebbles, sir.” A Winder. Percy—What is the best record you ever made at golf? Kitty—Well, I had three proposals in four game’s one day. Exact. “How old are you, Fraulein?” “I was 29 —last year.”—Figaro. • Smooth Business. Lady (about 40)—I want to see some quite new hats. Saleswoman —For yourself, mftdam? Lady—Yes. Saleswoman-r-Marie, go and get out of the window the three new hats Tor ladies from IS to 25. (Lady bought all three.)—Wiener Salonwitzblatt. A Shade of Regret. “Are you happier now that you own your own home?” asked the solicitous friend. “Os course,” answered Mr. Meekton, “there is a proud satisfaction in having my own place. But occasionally I can’t help longing for the time when my wife kicked to the landlord for repairs Instead of coming to me.”:—Washington Star.

By the Old Gate. “When the old farmer asked you where you were last night I heard you tell him you were playing with two farm hands,” remarked the first boarder from the city. “You bet I was,” laughed the second boarder from the city. “What were you playing? “No, just playing Cupid’s game of hands. You see, these farm hands belonged to the pretty daughter of the old farmer.” 1 Yea, Indeed. “This article on diet pays the onion has many virtues.” “They are strong ones, too.”—Houston Post. No Room for Doubt. Miss wonder if Mr. Wiley knows that I’m an heiress? Miss Peachley—Was he attentive to you? Miss DePlayne—Unusually So. Miss Peachley—Then he knows. Why He Never Spoke, There was a man in our town, and he was wondrous wise; he never spoke unto his wife of his mother’s cakes and pies. The secret of liis wisdom—guess it if you can; but if you can’t, behold it—he’ was a bachelor man. Modern Miracles. Tom—Mrs. Potter tells me her hair turned gray in a single night. Jack—Nothing remarkable about that. I know a girl whose hair turned yellow in less than an hour. On the Cardis. She—Do you believe in fortune telling by cards? "XHe —No; but I know a man who lost a fortune that way. Not for Him. “You are ail run down,” the physician said. “I advise you to.go to Pazzazza Springs to recuperate.” “That is impossible,” answered the patient. “Why?" , w | '/ “I run the hotel at Pazzqzza Springs.-” ! i ■ Speculative. : Seppel—Gee-whiz ! It’s 7 o’clock ;we must run home. Fritz—No, if I come home, now, I shall only be (Whipped for staying out so long; now I shall stay out until 9, and then I shall get bonbons afid kisses because I am not drowned. —Wiener Salonwitzblatt. Only One. Mr.. Slicer—l was reading the other day that there are SOO Ways of cooking potatoes. Mrs. Slicer —Yes? Mr. Slicer—Well, my dear, don’t you think if you tried hard you could .learn one of tihem? ' „ O! the Relief of It! “I had a ' friend,” said the patient listener, finally, “who used to talk and talk- —” “I see what you mean,” interrupted Borem. “I’m just like him, eh?” “Not quite, but I wish you were. He’s dead.”—Philadelphia Press. Early Dissipation. “I wonder. Maria, you let the chil-> dren go to parties so young. That wasn’t the way you were brought up.”, “I don’t know ■ about that, ma. I wasn’t more than a day old when I gave my first bawl.”—Baltimore American. ' . y s Philosophy*; • “Papa, can you tell me what *an optimist is?” “Yes, my dear child. An optimist is a man who is married, and In spite of it declares that he Is Where, Away! - Cholly—Yes, I have turned many a woman’s head. • Freddie —The other way?Side Stepping as an Art. “What did the eminent virtuoso say when he was asked to play?” . “Said he hadn’t brought his music along.” ‘Did you provide him with music?” “Jes; and then he said he couldn’t play, after all.” “What was his excuse?” “Said he hadn’t brought his piano along.” Evidences o/ Wealth. “Father seems impressed with your talks abouticoupons,” said the maiden. “Have you really any?” . 4 “Sure,” answered the guileful youth “Got 500 saved up toward a piano for our little flat.”—Exchange. Sister Won. “Well, 'Bobby, how is your sister?’ asked the parson. “Oh, she's sick In bed; hurt herself terrible,” replied the youth. < “I’m sorry to hear that. How did it happen?” “We were playin’ who could lean farthest. out of the window—and she won!” —Lippincott’s. Strictly Consistent. Conservative Wife—l see where a woman has constructed a flying machine. Do you believe a woman could make a success of such an idea? Cynical Husband —Why not? Most of women’s Ideas incline to the flighty. —Baltimore American.

MISSOURI'S HADE OLD Veterans Upon When* the Years Rests Lightly. , Missouri is said to be a state or ,men there are more old mea actively engaged business and professional affairs in this state than in any other,-says the Kansas City Star. Visitors to Missouri always aro impressed with this fact and mere than one traveler has commented upon thn.) longevity of Missourians, 'and, as one facetious New Yorker expressed it, wondered why the Almighty gives Missourians a longer span of life than the three score and ten years which he lias aiotted to the rest of mankind. One of the raost noted old men in the state is former Governor Norman J. Coleman of St. Louis.' the first United States secretary of agriculture and tlie man who has done more than any one else to introduce scientific methods of agriculture into this country.. At 81 years of age Gov. Coleman edits and manages an agricultural journal and carries on experimental work in agriculture and horticulture with all his enthusiasm. Dr. W. T. Moore, 76 years did, resides M Columbia. He is yet l active as a writew preacher and educator and is one of the stalwarts of the Christian churchDr. Barlaud C. Brodhead, also of Columbia, is considerably past SO and is yet conspicuous for his geological work. . ■ Col. R. T. Van Horn, Joseph S. Chick and Judge Edward H; Stiles of . Kansas City are old men of great activity of mind and body. Col. Van Horn is° the oldest of the three, being ,ip his eighty-fifth year, find is still an industrious writer. Mr. Chick is 80 years of age. He is in the real estate business and never misses a day at the office if he is in Kansas City. Judge Stiles is the “boy” of the trio, being only 72: He is an active lawyer, Col. J. C. Crawley of Keytesville ia a’ practicing lawyer at'B3. He is one of the few Missourians who reffiember Thomas H. Beuton|s great speech at Boonville over sixty years ago. Col. John N. Southern of Independence, 70 years old. and former Judge Warwick Hough. 78 years old, and Judge Chester H. Krum. 76 years, old, of St. Louis, are three other members of the Missouri bar who contijmie “prominent in the affairs of the state in spite of their weight of years. The oldest member L the Missouri genera 1 assembly is Judge John E. Organ of of a'ge and an active and* powerful poll; tieian of southern Missoiiri. / . Dr. J. P. H. Gray of California Moniteau County, s practicing -cine at 78 years of-age and Dr. T. P.. Haley <>f Kansas pre.. hing the g.?spi ■ ■re The dean of this corps of Missourians, however, is Judge ElijW H. Norton of Plitte City. who. at r.W age of S 6. is vigorous in mind and body and continues to take an active part in the legal affairs of the state. Ask Vour Dealer for Allen’s Foot-Ease A powder to shake into your shoes. It rests - the feet. Cures Corns. Bunions. Swollen. Sore, Hot. Callous. -Aching-. Sweating feet and Ingrowing Nails. Alien’s Foot-Ease niakes new or tight shoes easy. Sold by ail Druggists and -Shoe Stores. 25c. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy’, N. Y. . 1 ’ Animal Life. The whale leads all animals in point Os longevity, his age being placed conservatively at 800 to L6§o years. The tortoise cpmes next, with an age limit extending from 100 tp 200 years.. The ekpha'nt. the camel, ijie eagle and the crocodile•.l’re^_eaclj_<redifed with 100 years and upw.ard.’ The carp is an elusive creature, its age having been figured at from 75 to 150 years. Tigers,leopards, jaguars and hyenas live some 25 years in confinement and probably much longer in the ivilderness. Swans, parrots and ravens live 200 years, pelicans 40 to 50 years, hawks 30 to 40, geese SO years, monkeys and baboons 16 to 18, squirrels and rabbits seven . years, queen bCes four years, working bees-six'months and drone four months. —Minneapolis Journal. Mrs. Winslow s Soothing Syrup tor Children teething; softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 26 cents a bottla. lie Knew. Gobsa Gold® has accepted the ywtmg earl’s proposal for his daughter Lotta’s hand. “And I trust, Lord Lapland"—so, with stiff, old world formality, the interview concluded—“l trust you know tile value of the prize you’re getting?” The other flushed, “Er —-seventeen millions, is.Jt riot?” he stammered. If yeu wish beautiful, clear, whlta elothea, ose Red Cross Ball Blua. aarge 2oz package, 5 cents - The Big Find. “How does it happen that Brown is treating everybody in sight? “Why, you see. years ago he presented his wife with a little toy bank in which, 1 the children could keep their pennies.” “I see. And now he finds himself th« head of a frugal, industrious family.” “No; now he finds the bank.”—Puck. .System. Mrs. Homer —Isn’t it terrible to have to cross the street at one of (he busy coiners?' 1 • . -■ Mrs. Storer —Yes, iifdeed. You never know when one <of those big policemen is going to grab you by the arm and scare r you half to death. —Chicago Tribune.

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