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IN THE GOOD TIME COMING
Said the theater girl I will wear a small
hat whenever I go to the play
Said the theater man Between all of the
acts in my seat I will quietly stay
Said the masculine star Ill let someone
else take
My place at the front of the stage
Said the female star I will play only
parts
That do not conflict with my age
The chorus girl said Ill give some of my
time
To music instead of my gown
Said the comedy man Ill endeavor to be
An actor instead of a clown
Said the playwright Ill write them a
sure enough play
Without barnyard or buzzsaw or
wheels
Said the public Well give a full house
to that play
Just to see how the company feels
I heard in my dream all these beautiful
things
And when will it happen said I
Said the bicycle maidc n who blooms in
the spring
Theyll occur in the sweet by and by
Washington Capital
KISS IN THE TUNNEL
Fraulein Martha a pretty blue eyed
blonde sat in a second class carriage in
a train which was hurry ing toward the
Rhine We had struck up an acquaint
ance as tourists often do As a rule I
dont care to have anything to do with
my fellow passengers but Fraulein
Martha had quite captivated me As
she eutered the compartment for non
smokers I had taken her traveling bag
from her hand and put it carefully on
the rack forher Then I had resigned
my corner seat to her and put up the
window so as to protect her from the
draught which she found too strong
As the train started we exchanged a
word in praise of the weather which
liad become much cooler after a heavy
aain and was very pleasant for travel
ing and we gradually got into a very
interesting conversation
Fraulein Martha chatted very nicely
-and made no pretension to superfine
education She could not be called
young but when she laughed she be
Ijuue a child Her laugh was clear
and silvery and her face lost its rather
serious expression This induced me
to make all kinds of jokes which evi
dently amused her immensely When
a girl laughs as Fraulein Martha did
the man who provokes the laughter be
comes a humorist in spite of himself
She was a capital listener too and it is
a rare thing to find a good listener
among the other sex As she listen
ed her face responded to all I said Be
sides being so charming mentally she
had a very pretty elegant figure which
the eye of a connoisseur my eye never
wearied of watching and discovering
new traits of beauty She was dressed
3n a very simple traveling gown which
displayed to perfection all the pretty
lines of her form
She was not alone In the next seats
of the compartment sat a married
couple and opposite them was their
daughter a pretty shy girl who had
just emerged from the bread-and-butter-miss
state These people were rela
tives of Fraulein Martha who when
I asked her to tell me something about
them said that the man was called
Fenchel that he was the wisest man
in Ghristendom He thought that he
could hear the grass grow if he tried
to though as a matter of fact he never
did try to and also that he possessed
the gift of prophecy To him coming
events always considerately cast their
shadows before If he did not happen
to have foretold an event before it hap
pened it was simply because it had
slipped his memory another time he
wouldnt forget Frau Fenchel ad
mired herhusbands extraordinary qual
ities and therefore did not dare to
contradict him when he asserted that
the young man who was sitting with
her daughter was no son-in-law for
him for it was easy to see that once
married the young rascal would turn
out a thorough Don Juan and would
cause unheard of misery in the house
hold The young man in question who
was called Taube Bernhard Taube did
not look likely to fulfill such a proph
ecy ne was as shy as Fraulein Ro
schen Fenchel with whom he was
deeply in love Both these facts were
quite evident The most daring deed
he had ever perpetrated was when
Herr Fenchel having informed him
that he intended to accompany his
wife and daughter to the Rhine on
the following Wednesday he Taube
had said that strange to say he too
was going to the Rhine on the same
day and with Herr Fenchels permis
sion would join them
This was not very agreeable to old
Fenchel In the first place as a proph
et he ought to have foreseen the young
mans intended journey and second
ly he was afraid that Taubes societj
would be more acceptable to Roschen
-than he approved of
In the latter assumption he was
right Roschen was as happy as Herr
Taube although the young people had
only ventured to bint as much to Frau
Fenchel who aware of her husbands
aversion to Taube because of his con
cealed Don Juan proclivities had hint
ed in return that Roschen was too
young to think of love and Herr
Taube was not old enough
Fraulein Martha told me this in a
manlier which showed that she was
licartily sorry for the young fojks it
was evident that she was on the side
of the lovers and was angry with
Fenchel for tyrannically trying to hold
them apart Although she was not
lull of that eager desire for match
making which is so strongly developed
in many ladies who have left youthful
follies and youthful wisdom behind
ihem still she loved Roschen dearly
and wanted her to be happy There
are some girls she said to whom
single life would mean misery and
ruiii and our Roschen is one of them
If she is not allowed to marry her life
will be spoibd
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By this time our train had approach
ed a series of tunnels We Avere occa
sionally plunged into deep darkness
in which nothing was heard beyond the
rumbling of the carriages and the oc
casional involuntary Ah of a pas
senger who Avas reading the news
paper or studying his guidebook and
Avho was suddenly disturbed at his
occupation Fraulein Martha Avanted
to find something in her hand bag and
in a tunnel took off her silk gloAe the
better to accomplish her object When
Ave again emerged into daylight I no
ticed that her ungloved hand Avas of
surpassing Avhiteness Its beauty it is
beyond me to describe for black let
ters are not adapted to the description
of such Avhiteness And Avhat an ele
gantly shaped hand it Avas I laid a
bet Avith myself that it Avould quite
disappear in my own baud if Frau
lein Martha vould be so accommodat
ing as to let me tr3r the experiment
But she Avas not inclined to be so ac
commodating Nevertheless I could
not think of losing my Avager The
courageous conquer the hand I said
to myself with all the obstinacy with
Avhich one sticks to a pet idea And
just at that very moment the whistle
shrieked and the train plunged into
a tunnel Noav or never I thought
to myself Darkness Avhich is no
mans enemy surrounded us and not
only the idea but with it courage
came to me I saw Fraulein Marthas
hand gleam in the darkness I seized
it and before the owner had time
to know what I Avas doing
What was that cried Herr ln
chel
A kiss replied his wife
The train left the tunnel and plunged
into the open daylight The passen
gers looked around as if they had
heard a shot rather than a kiss aud
expected to see a suicide weltering in
his blood
I imitated them and looked about
me Avith equal astonishment aud curi
osity From several I heard giggling
On the Avhole the silence Avas really
enibarrassug Fraulein Martha was
rummaging in her handbag and her
head AAas bent over it so that I could
not see Avhether she was angry or not
It may be that I murmured I beg
your pardon it may be that I did
not for it -will readily be undeistoad
that my lips Avere fully employed iu
what I have just described At any
rate I Avas glad that I had found such
a pleasure in such a short tunnel Add
ed to that I had Avon my bet Marthas
hand had really disappeared in mine
and I had to open my hand again in
order to imprint a kiss betAveen two
pretty dimples Fraulein Roschen aud
her admirer sat as if stupefied and
stared solemnly at the door A kiss
Avhich sounds like a real one fills lov
ers AAith mixed sensations euAv and
approbation Opposite them sat Herr
Fenchel who stared at them in aston
ishment and shook his bead Avarning
ly His foresight had deceived nim
for he had not knoAvn that Roschei
AAould be kissed It -was moreoA er
such a kiss so flagrant so resonant
Had he dared to speak which he did
not out of consideration for his daugh
terhe Avould have administered the
strongest rebuke that mortal ever re
ceived So he contented himself Avith
looking reproachfully and AAarningly
at the two culprits and occasionally
turning bis eyes on his Avife avIio was
intent on a neAVspaper which she Avas
holding upside dOAvn
The rest of the passengers gradually
recovered from the shock At the
next station there AAas a stop
and Ave got out of the train In doing
so I heard one passenger say to an
other Good gracious He Avas
speaking of the kiss Beautiful
said a lady to a gentleman who Avas
accompanying her She too was speak
ing ot it
1 knoAV exactly whats to be done
said Herr Fenchel to his Avife as they
got out on the platform Of course
youll understand too Martha that
that kiss in the tunnel
I knoAV all about it replied Martha
A man of your understanding cannot
fail to perceive the meaning of That
kiss And if you ignore it heavy re
sponsibility rests on your shoulders
continued she energetically Tt
a perfect kiss the meaning of Avhich
cannot be explained away There aie
kisses Avhich are serious deols and
that in the tunnel AAas one of them
nAV could young and inexperienced
lips produce such a kiss Its riugng
in my ears yet
So you noticed it did you Martha
said Herr Fenchel although you were
so far aAvay My Avife didnt notice it
of course Hoav often have I Avarned
her that that young Taube AA7as a Don
Juan But its no use repeating that
now What is is and what must be
must be Whereupon Herr Fenchel
took his Avifes arm and signed to Lis
daughter and young Taube to folloAv
The quartette went into the first class
AAaiting room Avhich Avas empty
But fraulein I said to Martha
avIio having looked on smilingly while
the four disappeared came to my sidt
I made the best of use of the kiss
said Fraulein Martha A hand kiss
means nothing but I am trying to
make something good out of it I am
encouraging Herr Fenchel ii his con
ceited idea that he foresees and under
stands everything and I am getting
Roschen a husband whom she loves
Is that a bad stroke of business
But that kiss Avas my property I
said
Dont be nonsensical she answer
ed Ir AAas a simple act of politeness
I accepted it as such and Arou meant
it as nothing more Do you Icuoav niv
father used to call me Stupid--Little
Stupid I Avas often very Avild and
so he called me Little Stupid for
a pet name I am no longer a child
but I often have fits of wildness Avhen
I can cany an intrigue through which
hurts nobody and does some goon
One day my father ceased to call me
Little Stupid aud he never used the
name again He was terribly strict
and as he saw one of my boy frienda
kiss my hand he called him to account
for it so roughly that the boy avoided
the house ever after As he avjs ho
hero of romance I AAas left alone and
remain alone Now Ive had had nv
revenge on Fate for through a hand
kiss two young folks have been made
happy Wasnt that a noble revenge V
You are an angel Fraulein Martha
I cried as loudly as it is fitting on a
raihAay platform
AVhen a girl is hung on to an angel
he is pretty harmless said she laugh
ingly My father meant angel when
he called me Stupid but he didnt
make love to me
At this point the quartette reappear
ed nerr Fenchel came Avith his daugh
ter and Frau Fenchel was conducted
by Taube
Martha said Herr Fenchel didi t
I ahvays tell you that they would
make a fine couple Theyve been en
gaged for five minutes
Fraulein Martha embraced Roschen
but Herr Taube immediately approach
ed his fiancee and kissed her It wasnt
the sort of thing to do on the platform
that must be acknowledged Herr
Fenchel said half jestingly half ear
nestly You dont need to Avait till
you come to a tunnel noAV do you
Herr Taube seemed to Avish to pro
test but it Avas of no use When Ave
Avere all ensconced in the carriage Frau
Fenchel said to Fraulein Martha Be
lieve me Martha those children wers
quite innocent of that kiss You should
have seen Iioav they tried to exouerntG
themselves from the suspicion but it
AAas of no use Fenchel absolutely
forbade them to speak for he kuo w all
about it already I am glad they are
engaged though
In any case said Martha we
don t need to trouble about that Its
all the same uoav Alls Avell that endj
well
So it is replied Frau Fenchel and
she looked contentedly over at Ro
schen Avho had only ears and eyes foi
Taube
At the next station I left the train
I AA as very glad to do so although
sorry to leave Fraulein Martha for
nothing is more tedious than to be
with two lovers I said good by to
Martha Avith sincere regret and kissed
the hand Avhich she gave me heartily
Where is she now Perhaps she Avill
remember me if these lines fall under
her blue eyes Philadelphia Bulletin
NEVER TOO LATE
Woman Sues for Alimony After Her
Former Husbands Death
A case Avas started in Common Pleas
Court in Avhich there is Avoven a cer
tain romance Avhich makes it interest
ing says a RaA enna correspondent in
the Cleveland Plain Dealer Sarah G
Collins is the plaintiff She is an in
mate of the Portage County infirmary
and thereby hangs the tale For a num
ber of years prior to 1SG0 the plaintiff
was the Avife of the late Robert John
ston At that time she secured a di
vorce At the time the divorce AAas
granted her husband sot forth a claim
that he Avas AAorth 5000 and on that
basis she AAas given 1500 alimony
Several months ago Robert Johnston
a resident of Palmyra came to Raven
na on a business trip and was taken
ill He AAras attended at the Etna
House until his death When the af
fairs of his estate Avere brought into
Probate Court many surprises were
sprung He was found to be Avorth
nearly 100000 He had been paying
taxes on a much smaller amount and
the county received a big haul
After the diAorce he continued to
hoard up his money like a true miser
she gradually going the other road tc
poverty The case started to day sets
up the claim that at the time the di
vorce Avas granted the deceased Avas
worth 25000 instead of 5000 as the
original settlement AAas made betAveen
the contracting parties She asks foi
S500 additional together Avith inter
est for thirty two years The plaintiff
alleges that she gave her husband the
money which furnished the basis of his
large fortune and that she helped him
economize and saAe u during all the
years that she AAas his wife During
the past ten years she has been in des
litute circumstances
Emperor Williams Rose
A pretty story is told of the first meet
ing of the German imperial pair The
German Emperor then a young man ol
20 Avas shooting at Prinkemau One
day he lost his Avay in the park and
came upon a rustic rose covered sum
mer house where a pretty girl of hi
own age was sleeping in a hammock
He did not disturb her but went on
his AA ay thinking of a little German
poem known as the Brier Rose Latei
in the day he met the girl in the castle
and saying Here is my brier rosu
again he introduced himself and fell
in love offhand
They Avere married on his 22d birth
day Since that time she has set her
self to realize the German ideal of a
devoted hausfrau
Liittln Things
Louis Pasteur once said that there
Avere forms of bacteria and microbes
that Avere so small that a bundle of
them containing 1000000000 specimens
could be put through the eye of a com
mon sewing needle
Can This Be True
It is reported in an English literary
journal that the Board of Education
in Philadelphia has excluded the Avorks
of Mr Kipling and Mr Du Maurier
from the public library shelves of that
city
Popper the little boy asked AAhat
kind of a horse is it that they call a
plug A balky one my son They
call him that because he is a stopper
Cincinnati Enquirer
This is the season Avhen your neigh
bor buys a hoe and a rake and a feAV
garden seeds and pretends to be better
than you are
THE BATTLE FIELDS
OLD SOLDIERS TALK OVER
ARMY EXPERIENCES
The Blue and the Gray Kevioir Incidents
of tho Late War and in a Graphic and
Interesting Manner TeU ol Camp March
and Battlo ThrUllnc Incidents
Grant and the Private
I have been very much interested
m your stories in the Chicago Times
lerald said George B Merrick a vet
eran soldier and editor Particularly is
jnything relating to our great leader
Grant interesting and eagerly sought
or by soldiers avIio followed him and
by the younger Americans Avho are at
this time more than ever before study
ing his life as the shadoAV of a AAar
cloud passes by
Continuing he said Before the war
E ran the river as steamboating AAas
knoAvn in the early days My first ac
quaintance Avith the greatest military
genius of modern times began while
engaged in that business betAveen 1S57
and 1S01 During one season I AAas
running as second clerk on the steamer
Fanny Harris We ran into Galena
seven miles up Fever River then a nav
igable stream Galena AAas at that time
a distributing point as Avell as the cen
ter of the lead industry Among its
Avholesale firms AAas that of Grant
Son leather saddlery and harness deal
ers and among their employes Avas the
future general of our armies He AAas
then shipping clerk As mud clerk it
Avas my duty to check up all shipments
as the goods AAere hauled to the leAees
on drays and receipt for the same to
the shipper I S Grant Avas the clerk
to Avhom the boy clerk receipted for
Grant Sons shipments Remember
ing him as I do now as only one of
many business men with whom I came
in contact my impression is not as dis
tinct as it is of the General aaIioiu I
last met at Washington in 1SGG My
impression is that the last time I saw
him in Galena he had a mustache not
the full beard familiar to the men of
Vicksburg Chattanooga and Peters
burg
When the AAar opened we all Avent
our ways and the name of Grant at
Belmont awakened no response in the
mind of the cub pilot on the Mississippi
connecting the fighting Colonel Avith
the saddlery business at Galena Our
chief pilot Tom Burns bad raised a
company at Galena composed princi
pally of river men pilots engineers
mates and roustabouts and his name
AA as greater than Grants among the
river men AAho had not yet caught the
Avar fever
In February 1SG4 I was detailed
from the West to the War Department
for special service Grant had made a
great name as a fighter and a Avinner of
battles There Avas much discussion
among the detailed men as to his prob
able success in handling the Army of
the Potomac It Avas claimed by the
Eastern men that he bad fought only
second rate military nven in the West
Avhen he met Lee he would fail as oth
er promising generals had failed We
Western men in the War Department
maintained that he Avould Avhip Lee as
he had Johnston Beauregard Bragg
and Pemberton or failing it would
be because he did not have his Western
troops to back him
I saw Grant at City Point in 1864
after the repulse at Petersburg and
once or twice at Washington during the
months following It was not until af
ter the fall of Richmond and the sur
render of Johnston that I met the Ga
lena man to speak with him
It Avill be remembered that after the
assassination of President Lincoln men
held their breath Avondering what
Avould be the outcome All eyes Avere
turned upon Grant The volunteers es
timate of the loyalty and patriotism of
Andy Johnson in that crisis AAas not
high Had the threatened differences
come to a choice between Johnson and
Grant the army would assuredly have
followed Grant and no one aaHI question
that Grant would have done Avhat he
deemed best for the Union It AAas at
this time that I resumed my acquaint
ance with Grant
Many War Department employes
lunched at a little oyster house on G
street just off SeA enteenth We dined
in a very democratic manner standing
at a tall counter and eating half a dozen
raAV and drinking a cup of coffee Ig
noring the high priced and high toned
restaurants Gen Grant sauntered over
from his headquarters in the Wiusor
Building and standing at the counter
finished his half dozen like the rest of
us took a cigar and Avalked around the
block for exercise I Avas dressed in a
priA ates uniform and knew the tar
apartness of a boy in the ranks and a
lieutenant general but presuming on
the fact that the Avar AAas over and
upon the common interest Ave had in
old times in Galena I one day took my
stand alongside the General and dur
ng a pause in the lunch introduced my
self At once General Grant AA as a
shipping clerk in Galena and as eager
o knoAV the fate of river captains
lerks and pilots mutual acquaint
ances as I Avas willing to communicate
what I kueAV of them We chatted for
fully half an hour discussing the
changes that the war had made in the
circle of our acquaintances and the
changes that had already come or
would come to the West and to the
commerce of the Mississippi
I saw the General often after that
during the two years of my stay in
Washington but never again spoke
Avith him The fact of his democratic
style of living and dressing for he neAr
er wore his uniform buttoned and laced
as the regulations required and his
condescension as it might be deemed
in conversing with a priAate in a public
place all indicated a character uninflu
enced by changed conditions and un
tainted by success The political and
scholastic biography of Grant Avill de
ilineate huu as a great general planning
campaigns and winning battles the
popular history Avhich Avill take bold
on the lives as Avell as the imaginations
of the young men of the nation as well
as upon the interest of the old men who
folloAved him aaHI sIioav him to haAe
been a plain man hard Avorking some
times unfortunate in business deter
mined persistent courteous interested
in common affairs as Avell as in great
doing his Avhole duty in many and Aa
ried conditions of life and dying
Avorthy to rank Avith our other great
men Washington and Lincoln J A
Watrous in Chicago Times Herald
An Ansel of Mercy
Since the wonderful Red Cross jour
ney has been undertaken to Armenia
old friends are filled with reminiscences
and stories of Clara Bartons early
Avork in our civil Avar In September
1SG2 Miss Barton left Washington for
the Blue Ridge Avith Avagon loads of
supplies for the sick and AAOunded She
had already ministered to the wound
ed and dying from the battles of Bull
Run Cedar Mountain and Chantilly
When she reached Burnsides corps
after days of dusty traAeling sleeping
in her AAagon at night she found the
two armies lying face to face along
the ridges of hills that bounded the
A alley of Antietam She ordered her
mule teams to folloAv the lines of ar
tillery and through smoke and fog of
camp fire and the dark air of battle be
gun she turned into a tall cornfield and
unloaded her supplies in an old barn
Confederate shot and shell fleAV over
her In the barnyard and field men
Avere bleeding torn and dying The
surgeons had used their last bandages
and Avere binding up Avounds Avith corn
husks The army supplies bad not yet
arrived All day long Miss Barton
Avorked unceasingly She fed the faint
ing and dying all the bread dipped in
AAine that she had moved them to the
best possible places found in the barn
meal flour and salt hidden there by tho
Confederates
Then began the gruel making in old
kettles and before night Miss Barton
had twenty fiAe men at work witb her
They carried buckets of hot gruel from
the barn and an old farm house near
by and across fields until the darkness
fell over the Aalley The porches of the
house were used for operating tables
All day long under a fierce battle
Clara Barton and the surgeons worked
over the dying men One of the doc
tors noAV an old man in the West says
Never shall I forget the terror AAhich
seized me as I looked about for can
dles The supplies had not come The
armies had stopped their firing Dark
ness crept over the hills and the Aal
ley A surgeon near me said hurriedly
This bit of candle is all the light Ave
have for to night A thousand suffer
ing dying wounded men They will
perish before the day daAvns
Miss Barton replied joyously Why
doctor I brought thirty lanterns and
hundreds of candles I learned a les
son at Bull Run We had a small sup
ply I said after that light must be
my first thought
Both armies had laid down to rest
The dead were moAed to one side that
the Avounded might have care and
night settled doAvn on the dreadful
scene The lanterns Avere quickly
lighted and hung in the bare old rooms
on the porches the fences and AAagons
Candles Avere flickering in all possible
places and the work of surgeons doe
tors and helpers Avent steadily on alj
througb the night
Stood by the Flacr in Peril
Nineveh S McKeen late First Lieu
tenant of Company H Twenty first
Illinois Volunteer Infantry AAas one
of the leaders of the desperate charg6
made by Carters brigade at the battle
of Stone River The brigade Avas or
dered to assail the famous Washington
Artillery of the Confederates They
Avent to the assault Avith great bravery
and might have been successful bad
not a diAision of rebel infantry come tc
the artillerys assistance The fire ot
the Confederates AAas terribly destruc
tive The TAventy first Illinois had 303
men killed and AAounded out of GGG en
gaged
Lieut McKeen AAho Avas in the lead
of his troops received no less than three
severe wounds one in the head one in
the side and an injury to his spine from
a sliAer struck from a cedar tree by a
cannon ball He AAas carried off the
field
At the battle of Liberty Gap Lieiu
Mclveen was in the charge made by
Carters brigade on tho Confederates
Aho were defending the gap The fire
of Company H Avas concentrated on the
color guard of the rebel regiment The
brave Confederates who were guard
ing the colors Avere all either killed or
AAounded Lieut McKeen who had
been leading his men directly in front
of the flag at the supreme moment
sprang out and caught the flag just as
it Avas falling to the ground and waved
it in triumph filling his own troops
with enthusiasm and the hearts of the
rebels witb dismay
In the battle of Chickamauga Lieut
McKeen Avas captured with a large
number of the members of his regi
ment and he was one of the fifteen
Union officers who planned and exe
cuted the famous Little Tunnel at
Andersonville Prison He made good
his escape to the Union lines and served
until July 4 1SG5
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Carbolic acid paper which is now
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the purpose of preserving them is
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thoroughly tAVO parts of carbolic acid
after which five parts of melted paraf
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after Avhich it is melted and applied
Avith a brush to the paper in the same
way as in preparing the waxed paper
so much in use for wrapping various
articles
PRENTICES PEN PICTURE
What the Great Journalist Thonshfc
of George Francis Train
Some thousands of people more or
less asked me for a copy of
George D Prentices pen picture of
George Francis Train To fill a long
felt Avant the famous sketch is here
AAith given in the American Commer
cial TraAeler
During the last forty years of Pren
tices life and editorship of the old
Louisville Journal he AAas afflicted
Avith corea scriptorum or scriAeners
cramp better knoAvn as writers paral
ysis and that being before the inven
tion of type writing machines he Avas
forced to do all of his writing by the
hand of another
At the time thirty odd years ago
George Francis Train then a young
man AAas touring the country in com
pany Avith Susan B Anthony Eliza
beth Cady Stanton and other noted
womans fighters advocating Avoman
suffrage he called upon Mr Prentice
at the latters AAork room in the Jour
nal building The intervieAV betAveen
the tAVO AAas evidently very pleasant
and in that feAV minutes Mr Prentice
sized up the irrepressible Train very
minutely and as soon as Train had
gone Prentice began to walk the floor
in his slip shod way and soon said
to his amanuensis
Write I desire to dictate a para
graph concerning Mr Train
Mr Prentice ahvays began his para
graphs AAith what is knoAvn in printer
parlance as a fist properly an in
dex a little cut of a hand with tho
index finger pointing He also called
out his punctuation points as he Avent
AAhich made his manner of dictation
often veiy amusing FolloAving is the
pen picture as he delivered it
Fist A locomotiA e that has run
off the track comma turned upside
dOAA n comma Avith the coAA catcher
buried in a stump and the Avheels
making a thousand revolutions a min
ute full stop A kite iu the air that
has lost its tail dash a human novel
Avithout a hero dash a man avIio
climbs a tree for a birds nest comma
out on a limb comma and in order
to get it saAvs the limb off between
himself and the tree full stop A
ship without a rudder dash a clock
Avithout hands dash an arroAV shot
into the air dash a sermon that is
all text dash a pantomime of Avorda
dash the apotheosis of talk comma
the incarnation of gab full stop
Handsome comma Aivacious com
ma muscular comma as neat as a
cat comma clean to the marrow
comma a judge of the effect of
clothes comma frugal in food and
regular only in habits full stop A
noon day mjstery dash a solved con
nudrum dash a cypher hunting for
a figure to pass for something semi
colon AAith the brains of twenty men
in his head comma all pulling in dif
ferent directions semi colon not bad
as to heart comma but a man Avho
has shaken hands with reverence full
stop
Prentice has been in his graAe for a
quarter of a century Train is a white
haired old man ant yet he is the same
intellectual crazy quilt as AAhen this
pen picture was made thirty odd years
ago and the portrait is still faithful
in its likeness of him Commercial
TraAeler
Enjoyment at Home
Do not shut up your house lest the
sun should fade your carpets and
your hearts lest a merry laugh should
shake doAvn some of the old cdb
webs there If you want to ruin your
sons let them think that all mirth and
social enjoyment must be left on the
threshold Avithout AAhen they come
home at night When once a home is
regarded as only a place to eat drink
and sleep the Avork is begun that ends
in reckless degradation Young peo
ple must have fun and relaxation
someAvhere and if they do not haAe it
at their OAvn hearthstone it Avill be Av
sought at another and perhaps at less
profitable places Therefore let the
fire burn brightly at night and make
the homestead delightful with all those
little arts that parents so perfectly un
derstand
Do not repress the buoyant spirit of
your children half an hour of merri
ment around the lamp and firelight of
a home bolts out many a care and an
noyance during the day and the best
safeguard they can take with them in
to the AAorld is the unseen influence of
a bright little domestic circle Put
home first and foremost for there will
come a time AAhen the home circle will
be broken AAhen you Avill long for the
touch of a vanished hand and the
sound of a Aoice that is still and
Avhen your greatest pleasure will be in
remembering that you did all in your
poAver to put a song under every bur
den to make each other happjv Albany
Journal
To Prevent Hydrophobia
A correspondent writes that about six
years ago he saw an item in a newspa
per stating that a German physician
AA as going to die and he wished to
make known the discovery he had
made in relation to the treatment of a
mad dog bite The prescription he nev
er knew to fail and he had tried it
many times with men cattle and horses
It is this Simply Awash the wound as
soon as -possible in a little warm vine
gar and water and put a few drops ol
muriatic acid into the Avounds This
will neutralize the poison and prevent
the disease which usually proves fa
tal Boston Journal
XeAV Jerseys Inheritance Tax
NeAV Jersey has had a collateral in
heritance tax a little more than three
years but its State treasury has been
enriched to the amount of 3630S659
by the tax during the time
No boy can love his mother unless
she can make good pie
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