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TELL HER SO
Amid llie rares of married life
In spite of toil and business strife
If you value jour sweet wife
Tell her so
Prove to her you dont forget
Tin bond to which your seal is set
SheH of lifes sweets the sweetest yet
Tell her so
When days are dark aud deeply blue
She has her troubles same as you
Show her that your love is true
Tell her so
There was time you thought it bliss
To get the favor of one kiss
A dozen now wont come amiss
Tell her so
Your love for her is no mistake
You feel it dreaming or awake
Dont conceal it For her sake
Tell her so
Dont act if she has passed her prime
As though to please her were a crime
If eer you loved her nows the time
Tell her so
Shell return for each caress
An hundredfold of tenderness
Hearts like hers were made to blpss
Tell her so
You are hers and hers alone
Well you know shes all your own
Dont wait to carve it on a stone
Tell her so
Never let her heart grow cold
Richer beauties will unfqld
She is worth her weight In gold
Tell her so
Detroit Free Press
Dreyfus Wife
Madame Dreyfus wife of the exiled
French army officer is convinced of
her husbands innocence and said in
a recent interview As husband
MADAME DREYFUS
er soldier friend he has always been
above reproach Honorable gentle
kind his life moral his conduct up
right I cannot cannot understand it
I cannot understand why he of all
men should have been made a mark
for this frightful odious charge
Lives by Tuning Pianos
Traveling around the country tuning
pianos is the unique occupation fol
lowed by Miss Nellie Jay Hatch a
pretty and attractive young woman of
Seneca Kan On graduation from the
New England Conservatory of Music
in Boston Miss Hatch received a di
ploma in piano tuning and the course
she took in order to secure it was both
thorough and comprehensive She was
graduated in 18S9 and since them she
has traveled throughout the State of
Kansas actively engaged in her cho
sen profession
Harred Because She Married
Because she eloped and was mar
ried Mrs Sam Frazier of Crescent a
suburb of St Louis has been barred
from attendance at
the high school
Mrs Frazier was
Miss Gertrude W
Lewis She is 17
years old and would
have soon graduat
ed had she been al
lowtsd to finish As
it as she will only be
allqwed to continue
at jichool by special
ins fkazier permission of the
Bchool board The nea t day after inar
Tiage the bride went to school as us
fual Her secret was too big for her to
keep and the new Mrs Frazier told
several of her schoolmates under
pledge of secrecy of course of her
changed estate Young schoolgirls are
not expert secret keepers and the ro
mance soon became the gossip of the
school It came to the ears of Princi
pal Bryan He called the blushing
bride into his office and plumped the
question fairly at her She blushed
and stammered but she confessed that
it was true she was married
She Proved a Repeater
It is not a generally known fact that
the first place in this country where
women were permitted to vote was at
Newark N J This occurred in 1807
and is the facts chrondcled in Gordons
History and Chronhjles of New Jer
sey be true that experiment would not
lead a pessimist to believe in womans
efficacy as an agent to purify the bal
lot Here is what he says about that
famous event
An election in 1807 for de
the location of the couriho
remembered by the inhabita
most exciting recorded in thei
ining
Is still
as the
innols
The contest was between Newark and
Days Hill By a construction given
to the State constitution the women
were then suffered to vote and they
seem to have been so delighted with
this privilege of exercising their wills
that they were unwilling to circum
scribe it within the legal limit many
ladies voting we are told seven or
eight times under various disguises
New Footwear
These shoes are the latest novelties
The high shoe in the center is for
those who feel uncomfortable in a low
shoe It is cut out in scallops on either
side the lacing thereby revealing the
stocking The shoe at the top is an en
tirely novel cut but is becoming to the
foot especially when worn with a col
ored stocking to match the dress A
XOVKHTItS IK SHOES
glittering embroidery of jet outlines
all the openwork strappings of the
glace kid which radiate from a narrow
central strap also wrought with jet
The model at the left laces from the
toe right up to the ankle in such a
way that the charms of a pretty open
work stocking are displayed to excep
tional advantage At the left of the
circle is a dainty shoe in glace kid em
broidered with jet Note the pretty
arrangement of the strap at the side
Cost of a Wife in Fifty Years
On the occasion of his golden wed
ding a methodical English husband fig
ured up from his carefully kept ac
counts what his wife had cost him He
had an assured income of 2500 a year
throughout his life Winning his wife
what with presents engagement ring
and extra expenditure on his own per
sonal adornment cost him 500 her
share of the household expenses was
025 a year her clothing and linen cost
250 yearly presents medical attend
ance amusements and summer excur
sions axnminted for her share to 450
annually He therefore spent for her in
fifty years 66750 New York Sun
Petticoats
The petticoat next the gown is fre
quently as elaborate as the gown it
self It is made of taffeta silk and
trimmed with plaited flounces or
fles of the same It Is cut with an um
brella flounce which is faced and
bound like the dress skirt The small
er flounces are sewed to this To be
fashionable it must match the lining of
the gown though the all black silk pet
ticoats are always in good style Less
expensive skirts are of watered mo
reen and fine brilliant mohair lined
The latter will give far more service
than the silk skirts and may be made
very dressy with silk ruflles
Eye Cosmetic
Spanish women use a simple cosmetic
for their eyes which Lola Montez tells
of in her book on beauty They squeeze
the essential oil from the skin of an or
ange into their eyes The operation is
a little painful but very successful
only It must not be repeated too often
If rouge is put on the top of the cheek
bone it heightens the brilliancy of the
eye just as certain colors lend a glow
to the complexion
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The cutting of childrens toe nails ig
but little understood by nurses and
even mothers give but scant attention
to this most important point Neves
should a toe nail be rounded like a finger-nail
The nails must from earliest
infancy be trained to grow square and
never on any account be cut out at the
sides
Do not give a child too many play
things at one time Such a practice
tends to develop restlessness Rather
let her have but one and when signs of
discontent appear show her some new
way of playing with it Her ingenuity
and steadiness will thus be encouraged
A child should not of course be kept
too monotonously with one plaything
if she has a number variety is good for
all at times but rather that error than
the other and byi all means guard
against her having a number at the
same time Rather let her play with
one as long as she will Then before
the second one is taken up put the first
one entirely out of sight in order that
it may come forth at some future day
masquerading as a new toy
Sarah an Abstainer
Sarah Bernhardt is a total abstainer
from all alcoholic drinks and to thisi
she attributes much of her wonderful
energy and mental power Her fa
vorite beverages are milk and water
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RECITALS OF CAMP AND BAT
TLE INCIDENTS
Survivors of the Rebellion Relate
Many Amusing and Startline Inci
dents of Marches Camp Life Foras
inz Experiences and Battle Scenes
Conquest by Love
031 P A N Y H
had one soldier
who was the
terror of his
comrades H e
w a s disobedi
ent cruel quar
relsome and
vicious As a
result he was
often terribly
punished but
there w as no
reformation In
due time by the
fortunes of war
a captain from another regiment was
placed in command of that company
The very first day the orderly sergeant
informed the Captain of the terrible
character of this incorrigible soldier
That afternoon the man perpetrated
some misdemeanor was arrested by a
sergeant and brought before the Cap
tain He looked at him for a moment
and speaking to the sergeant said
Let him go to his quarters
Shall I keep him undr guard in
quired the sergeant
Oh no said the Captain quietly
That evening the Captain called his
sergeant and said
Go down to Mr Blanks quarters
and tell him to come up to my tent I
wish to see him
Shall I bring him up under guard
inquired the sergeant
Oh no said the Captain Just tell
him to come I guess hell come if you
tell him
Take a seat sir said the Captain
The soldier obeyed but all the time
looking defiance The Captain inquir
ed of his home his relations etc and
then said
I have heard all about you and
thought I would like to see you pri
vately and talk with you You have
been punished often most times no
doubt justly but perhaps sometimes
unjustly But I see in you the making
of a first class soldier just the kind
that I would like to have a whole com
pany of and now if you will obey or
ders and behave as a soldier should
and as I know you can I promise on
my honor as a soldier that I will be
your friend and stand by you I do
not want you to destroy yourself
With that the soldiers chin began
to quiver and the tears trickled doyn
his cheeks and he said
Captain you are the first man io
speak a kind word to me in two years
and for your sake Ill do it
Give me your hand on that my
brave fellow said the Captain Til
trust you
And from that day on there was not
a better or more exemplary soldier in
the Army of the Potomac Love con
quered him Rams Horn
Mr Moodys War Story
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ANGELIST
Moody occasional
ly tells some good
war stories In ouo
of his sermons in
Cincinnati the
other day he
brought in tie
story of the little
child visiting Pres
ident Lincoln aud
imploring him to save the life of a con
demned soldier
During the war he said I re
member a young man not 20 who
was court martialed down In front and
sentenced to be shot The young fel
low had enlisted He went off with
another young man They were what
we would call chums One night this
companion was ordered out on picket
duty and he asked the young man to
go for him The next night he was
ordered out himself Having been
awake two nights and not being used
to it he fell asleep at his post ami
for the offense he was tried and seij
tenced to death It was right aftcy
the order of the President that no in
terference would be allowed in cases
of this kind This sort of thing had
become too frequent and it must be
stopped When the news reached this
father and mother in Vermont it al
most broke their hearts The thought
that their son was to be shot was to
great for them They had no hope
that he would be saved by anything
that they could do But they had a
little daughter who had read the life
of Abraham Lincoln and knew how
he loved his own children and said
If Abraham Lincoln knew how my
father and mother loved my brother
he wouldnt let him be shot That
little girl thought this matter over and
made up her mind to see the President
She went to the White House and
the sentinel when he saw her implor
ing looks passed her in and when she
came to the door and told the private
secretary that she wanted to see the
President he could not refuse her She
came into the chamber and found
Abraham Lincoln surrounded by his
generals and counselors and when he
saw the little country girl he asked
her what she wanted The little maid
told her plain simple story how her
brother whom her father and mother
loved very dearly had been sentenced
to be shot how they were mourning
for him and if he were to die in that
way it would break their hearts The
Presidents heart was touched with
compassion and he Immediately sent
a dispatch canceling the sentence and
giving the boy a furlough so that he
could come home and see that father
H9aCHSH4S3SSeK
I and mother I just tell you this to
show you how Abraham Lincolns
heart was moved by compassion for
the sorrow of that mother and father
and if he showed so much do you think
the Son of God will not have compas
sion upon you sinner if jou only take
that crushed bruised heart to him
Orville HStewart in Chicago Times
Herald
Made the Yankee a Slave
Most of the Missourians who attend
ed the ex Confederate reunion at Nash
ville Tenn have returned They have
all brought back new stories and rem
iniscences of the war Frank Tames
entertained a crowd at the Laclede
with a recital of several new stories he
heard
I visited the battlefield of Franklin
where was fought one of the bloodiest
and most terrible battles in the whole
history of the worlds wars great and
small said the survivor of Quantrells
night raiding dare devils I met there
a lady who played a conspicuous part
in that awful drama She is Mrs Mc
Gavock A colonel from Alabama
whose name I cant recall told me that
he was under Mrs McGavocks com
mand during most of the battle Her
magnificent home situated close to the
heavy fighting was converted into a
hospital soon after the battle opened
This colonel says that when he applied
to Gen Forrest for orders that dash
ing cavalryman told him to report to
Mrs McGavock He did as directed
and when he reached the house found
its fail mistress ministering to the
Wounded and washing the blood from
the dead Her skirts were splashed
with blood and her bare arras were as
bloody as though she had stuck them
into buckets of the crimson fluid Go
get me a Yankee was the imperious
command she gave to the Alabama col
onel when he told her he had been
ordered by Gen Forrest to report to
her
Alive or dead laconically inquired
the colonel
Alive of course was the quick re
sponse What use have I for a dead
Yankee
Without further ado the colonel gal
loped back to our lines and in a jirfy all
that remained of the army were made
acquainted with Mrs McGavocks or
der for a live Yankee The colonel soon
succeeded in capturing one and maivh
ed him to the McGavock mansion with
out the least idea to what use his trem
bling prisoner was going to be put Mrs
McGavock eyed him closely for an in
stant when he was ushered into her
presence and then broke the silence
and relieved everybodys feelings by
inquiring of him Can you peel pota
toes The Yankee gleefully told her
he could Then come to the kitchen
with me was her next command Your
people are tring to kill all of our boys
and those who survive the day will
want something to eat to night My
cellar is full of potatoes and you can
begin now and peel on them until night
comes Then you can help me cook
them You have freed all our negroes
and now that you are in my power I
will make you do the work my slaves
would do but for the conduct of your
sort of people
And the colonel says the way that
Yankee shed his coat and got down to
peeling potatoes would have distanced
the modern machine used for that pur
pose St Louis Republic
Swapping Horses
General Horace Porter in hu Cam
paigning with Grant in the Century
tells the following anecdote of his chief
during a ride from Petersburg to vity
Point
Owing to the heat and dust the long
ride was exceedingly uncomfortable
My best horse had been hurt and I
was mounted on a bay cob that had a
trot which necessitated no end of saddle-pounding
on the part of the rider
and if distances are to be measured
by the amount of fatigue endured this
exertion added many miles to the trip
The general was riding his bluck pony
Jeff Davis This smooth little pacar
I along at a gait which was too
fast for a walk and not fast enough for
1 gallop so that all the other horses
had to move at a brisk trot to keep up
with him
When we were about five miles from
headquarters the general said to me
in a joking way You dont look com
fortable on that horse Now 1 feel
about as fresh as when we started
out
I replied It makes all the differ
ence in the world general what kind
of horse one rides
He remarked Oh all horses are
pretty much alike as far as the com
fort of their gait is concerned
In the present instance I an
swered I dont think you would like
to swap with me general
He said at once Why yes Id just
as lief swap with you as not and
threw himself off his pony and mount
ed my uncomfortable beast while I put
myself astride of Jeff The general
had always been a famous rider even
when a cadet at West Point When ue
rode or drove a strange horse not
many minutes elapsed before he and
the animal seemed to understand
each other perfectly In my experi
ence I have never seen a better rider or
one who had a more steady seat no mat
ter what sort of horse he rode but on
this occasion it soon became evident
that his body and that of the animal
were not always in touch and he saw
that all the party were considerably
amused at the jogging to which he was
subjected In the mantime Jef
Davis was pacing along with a
smoothness which made me feel as if
I were seated in a rocking chair
When we reached headquarters the
general dismounted in a manner which
showed that he was pretty stiff from
the ride As he touched the ground he
turned and said with a quizzical look
Well I must acknowledge that ani
maJ Is pretty rough
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BATTLE WITH RATS
Pennsylvania Farmer Terribly Muti
lated by the Rodents
Attacked by several hundred fierce
rats which swarmed upon him while
he was imprisoned in a narrow space
from which he could not escape Rob
ert Crook of Wilkesbarre Pa fought
them until his strength failed and then
unable to beat them off fell senseless
He had been terribly mutilated when
rescued and his sight had been de
stroyed
Crook who is a wealthy farmer had
suffered considerable loss from rats
which infested his barns At length he
hit upon the idea of constructing a
monster rat trap in the loft of one of
his barns This trap was like a big
box some ten feet square and about
four feet high Mr Crook completed
it baited it and then left it to do its
work
When he visited it again he found
that its captives numbered several
hundreds The farmer called his rat
terrier Spot and thrust the dog into
the trap in the belief that he would
make short work of the enemy The
dog sprang fiercely to the task but
the rats leaped upon him by the score
from all sides and he was soon stretch
ed lifeless in the trap
Angered at the fate of his pet Mr
Crook armed himself with two stout
cudgels opened the door of the cage
and crawled in The rats flew at him
as they had at the dog He beat them
down by the dozen but they swarmed
upon every part of his body The far
mer flung himself at the door of the
FIGHT WITH RATS
cage in a frantic effort to escape He
Icould not open it He had sprung the
Jlock on entering the trap and made
himself a prisoner He threw his
weight against the door but it did not
yield He next tried to force his way
through the wire netting putting his
back against it and raising himself
with all his might It resisted his
strength His strength failed and at
length the horror of his situation over
icarae his senses and he dropped uncon
scious in the trap
Farm hands found him in that condi
tion a quarter of an hour later They
had climbed to the loft in the expecta
tion of seeing the terrier Spot extermi
nate the rats and were horrified on
looking into the trap to see the dog
dead and mangled his master muti
lated and apparently lifeless and rats
gnawing at them The men opened the
door and drove out the rats then drag
ged forth the farmer and carried him
to the house His nose and ears were
gone his face frightfully bitten his
hands torn to the bone and his eyes so
scratched that the sight was destroyed
The Cycle Path of Life
Let me moralize and dont interrupt
me unless you want to lend me money
To day we are an infant on the
wheel held up by some friendly hand
progressing slowly filled with vague
fears and soothing syrup
To morrow we can wobble a little
though we suffer many falls
The next day our line is straighter
we call ourself a Wheelman join the
L A W and own the sidewalk
Then comes our rapid youth We
scorch and sooner or later are laid up
for repairs
Afterward we learn to ride more se
dately and we think seriously of life
Now we begin to eschew the solitary
path and seek the broad road where
two may ride abreast We try and dis
cover to our delight that we can ride
with one hand while the other encom
passes the slender waist of a pretty
girl
Then we enter the holy state of tan
dem riding In a sense we have to
learn to ride over again There is an
other period of wobbling but eventual
ly we do as well as the rest
Now comes the period of caring ten
derly for smaller wheels
Finally we become so expert that we
can ride the strait and narrow path
And then we croak The Yellow
Book
Did Lots of Chirping
Two headed animals are common
enough but a two headed bird has
never come to light till recently The
freak a two headed English sparrow
well developed and about a year old
was shot by the son of W L Morris of
Columbus Ohio The boy went out to
shoot sparrows for a sparrow pie and
the ornithological freak was among
AN ORNITHOLOGICAL FREAK
the bag It was placed in the hands of
a taxidermist who pronounced it the
flrst two headed sparrow on record
Parisian Lady Wears Mens Glotbes
Mme Dieulafoy is one of the best
ilcoows immen in Paris and one of th
most famous archaeologists In th
world She discovered the superb ruins
of the Temple of Darius now in the
Louvre at Paris and for this notable
achievement the French gave her the
decoration of the Legion of Honor and
the privilege of wearing mens clothes
at all times She avails herself of this
freedom and is said to wear the most
stylish trousers coats and hats in Par
is She and her husband have the same
tailor The couple are thoroughly con
genial and have a most beautiful home
and salon where the savants assemble
and many brilliant discussions take
place Mme Dieulafoy wears short
hair and conducts herself like a man
though showing many little feminine
ways
ENGLISH GHOST STORY
A Grewaome Discovery and the Ap
parition that Polio wed
From Halton Holegate a village near
Spilsby Lincolnshire comes a most
mysterious story which one can easily
imagine is causing the utmost sensa
tion among the simple country folk in
the neighborhod For some time
rumors of human bones having been
discovered under a brick floor of a
farm house near the village of strange
unearthly tapping and the like having
been heard and of a ghost having been
seen have been afloat and it was with
the intention if possible of sifting the
mystery to the bottom that a Lincoln
reporter has just visited the scene
The farmstead where the weird sounds
are said to have been heard and the
ghost seen stands back some distance
from the high road and is occupied by
a Mr and Mrs Wilson and their man
servant Mrs Wilson narrated the fol
lowing story
We came here on lady day last The
first night or so we heard very strange
noises about midnight as though some
one was knocking at the doors and
walls Once it seemed as though some
one was moving all the things about In
a hurry downstairs Another time the
noise was like a heavy picture falling
from the wall but in the morning I
found everything as right as it was
the night before The servant man
left saying that he dare not stop and
we had to get another Then about six
weeks ago I saw something Before
getting into bed my husband having
retired before me thought I would go
downstairs and see if the cow was all
right as it was about to calve I did
so and when at the foot of the stairs
just as I was about to go up again I
saw an old man standing at the top and
looking at me He was standing as
though he was very round shouldered
How I got past I cant say but I darted
past him into the bedroom and
slammed the door Here I went to get
some water from the dressing table
but feeling that someone was behind
me I turned round sharply and there
again stood the same old man He
quickly vanished but I am quite cer
tain I had seen him I have also seen
him several times since though not
quite so distinctly
Mrs Wilson next conducted her in
terviewer to the sitting room where it
appeared a grewsome discovery had
been made The floor in one corner it
seems had been very uneven and a
day or two ago Mrs Wilson took up
the bricks with the intention of relay
ing them No sooner had she done this
however than a most disagreeable odor
was omitted Her suspicions being
aroused she called her husband and
the two commenced a minute examina
tion Three or four bones were soon
turned over together with a gold ring
and several pieces of old black silk
All these had evidently been buried in
quicklime the bones and silk being ob
viously burnt therewith The search
after this was no further prosecuted
but a quantity of sand introduced and
the floor quickly leveled again
Asked what her own opinion was on
the mysteries Mrs Wilson confidently
asserted her belief at some time or
other foul play had taken place She
was fully persuaded in her own mind
with regard to the apparition for
though it was suggested she might
have been mistaken she disdained the
idea as being beneath notice Dr
Gray to whom the bones were submit
ted stated that they might be those of
a dog or pig
Writing later the correspondent
says Dr Gray on further examination
states the bones are undoubtedly hu
man but he believes them to be nearly
100 years old London Daily News
German Bulls
The Germans are about as brilliant in
the use of the metaphors which occa
sionally crop up in parliamentary as
semblies as the French Here are some
sentences reported by a German paper
which seems to show that forensic elo
quence is much the same in all coun
tries With closed eyes you have
watched the flood rising The peri
odical sanitary reports are submitted
to us after a decade of three years
We do not bury the battle ax On
the contrary we shall give it renewed
life I speak not as a deputy but
as the person sent by my electors
The Weaker Sex
Despite the fragility with which their
sex is credited the number of Pritish
female centenarians greatly exceeds
that of the men 225 women out of ev
every 1000000 reaching the century
mark while only SO men of the same
number round out 100 years
Not an Ideal Place
Xo said Wheeler thoughtfully I
cant cotton to the idea that heaven is
a place where the streets are paved
with gold I dont believe a fellows
tires would stick worth a cent to a
street of that kind Indianapolis
Journal
A husband is like a turkey in that he
has to be roasted before he gives r
Christmas present
Base ball players are always looking
for a change of basts
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