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THE MAKING OF A SOLDIER
Joe Terry hoed In a stony field
Under a sweltering sun
The boy and the rock and the native
weed
Fought for the life in a battered seed
And the struggle was just begun
Get out of the mud and follow me
Said the man with the better clothes
Against you are vermin and drought
and frost
You will aiiger nature with labor lost
Come whero a fair wind blows
But the boy digged on in the stony
field
With the struggle barely begun
I put the seed in this ground said
he
I think 1 had better stay and see
Whatever may be done
Joe Jerry quarried and placed the
stones
And fitted the timbers true
jLuen his neighbors came with fevered
eyes
Gold pans of gold just where it
lies
Shall we wait a day for you
A soft voice rifted the evening calm
Singing the death of day
A tired child came and went with a
kiss
I have a wife and a home and this
I -think I had better stay
War On to war and the cry came
near
There is honor or fame for all
I have a dying wife and these
I shall stay with them if God so
please
But he went at the second call
Come on they cried Its death to
wait
His face was bleeding and grim
He picked a rifle out of the dirt
And answered simply The Captains
hurt
I think Ill stay with him
Frederick Brush in New York Sun
TOe Gold of Silence
An Army Tragedy
More harm has been wrought in this
world by the gold of silence than by
the silver of speech Especially is
this true of matters of the heart
Farland came to realize it in the
end but as he left the commanding
ofiicer arid walked in his deliberate
way across the hop room to where Miss
Cameron stood he was priding him
self upon his ability to hold his tongue
and with a wretched sort of vain
glory nerving himself to hold it for
seven hours longer
Miss Cameron was talking to the
regimental quartermaster and when
she caught sight of Farland she grew
radiant The regimental quarter
master observed this and was of
course annoyed He went away and
left her with the lieutenant
It is the fate of a woman to be for
ever smiling Few men have learned
to distinguish that eternal smile Those
who have have observed the subtlest
tragedies of life
Farland was not one of them He
was too distinctly manly to under
stand women He was therefore
strengthened in his resolve to keep
silence when Miss Camerons expres
sion in nowise changed as he told her
that she must excuse him from the
next dance
I have just seen the colonel and he
has been pleased to inform me that I
must leave at reveille
For what portion of the globe
She gazed over his shoulder in ap
parent absorption in something at the
other side of the room If Farland
had been a student of the sex he
would have known that this was over
acting It was one of the many of
Miss Camerons charms that she us
ually fixed her entire attention upon
theierson at hand
Where are you going she re
peated
To join Blakes command After
that wherever the will of heaven and
the craft of the Apache may lead me
Fon just one instant her expression
changed But Farland was not acute
TJpon a scout then she asked
Upon a scout yes And as I have
to leave before reveille and as it is
now eleven oclock there is no time
to be lost
Miss Cameron was smiling again
You will not sleep much to night
Things must be serious
Tney are he told her
Tnere was a pause one of those in
tervals when the gods benumb our
mental powers that instinct may have
fair play But we defeat their ends
We have trained instinct to lie quiet
The lieutenant moved uneasily Miss
Cameron with the delicate much sung
discernment of woman thought him
restless to be gone She drew herself
up to her full height determined that
she was indifferent and hard and his
resolution was enforced
You must not let me keep you she
said
Farland was too well trained to al
low his anger and unhappiness to appear-in
more than an exaggerated un
concern He took her extended hand
Shall you be here when I return
he asked His resolution was near to
breaking If her tawny eyes had
- grown aver so little soft he would
Have flung his golden wealth of silence
to the winds But her pride was
mighty it was aroused
tMy vlait cornea to an end this
ireek fc said
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I We shall probably meet again he
ventured
She shrugged her shoulders negli
gently
Probably One can never be sure
that one has seen the last of anybody
in the army And then she added
Good by
She would have been glad to bow
her head upon her arms and to have
kept her heartache in silence In
stead she gave the dance which was
to have been Farlands to a married
captain and succeeded perfectly in
her effort to appear to enjoy it
And Farland went out morally and
bodily into ttoe night His was the
code of honor which considers not the
woman that holds that if a man may
not ask a woman to marry him then
and there neither may he tell her of
his love He thought he was doing
right and he was not one to rail at
Fate A little tempest of temptation
had ruffled the deep waters of his
conscience for a time But they were
calm again He remembered with re
sentment the haughtily poised head
and the placid smile and the last
glimpse he had caught of her through
the hop room window a yellow
gowned figure swaying to the music
in full enjoyment of life
Well she would have gone back to
Bayard by the time of his return and
one could never be sure one would not
forget after years He went into the
barracks and gave his orders
When the brass mouths of the bugles
pealed their reveille welcomo to the
sun as it shown above the mountains
far across the prairie Farland and his
command were trotting toward Mount
Graham and Miss Cameron still in
the yellow gown stood at her win
dow with her hands clasped before
her and watched the line of the re
ceding column
Farland stopped - at Bayard two
months later The scout was over
and he was taking his command back
to Fort Grant They were to strike
the railroad at Silver City nine miles
away upon the following day
He meant to see Miss Cameron
There was no longer a reason for si
lence He waited with impatience
while the commandant arranged for
the disposition of the men Then he
walked with him across the parade
The primroses of the evening were
opening a great pale flower bursting
out here and there in the grass until
even as he went all the ground was
starred with them and the children
from the officers line and the laun
dresses row were running laughing
and screaming and calling out to
gather the handfuls of fragile bloom
that would be wilted before tattoo
Upon occasions of necessity the com
mandants long lank body could be
stir itself but there was no such oc
casion now and Major Cameron re
sented Farlands haste
I say Farland he protested slow
up What is your hurry You will
not get dinner before retreat any
way
Little the lieutenant recked of din
ner But he obliged himself to walk
more reasonably Major Cameron
talked of the scout and its outcome
Farland tried to listen and to answer
In his joyful anticipation he forgot
that he was a sorry looking sight to
go a wooing that his face was burned
liis nose peeling and his hair half cut
and his clothes ragged and dusty Self
consciousness was not one of his
faults The major broke off suddenly
in the midst of a tirade against In
dian agents those pet aversions of the
line
I suppose you are about worn out
he said
No said Farland not in the least
Why
You appear not to be able to keep
your mind upon anything You have
no notion of what I said last
You said Mescaleros last
But you have no idea whatever
what I said about the Mescaleros
I am afraid thats so Farland ad
mitted
And over there at the coral you
answered three questions that I hadnt
asked
Farland apologized civilly But he
had seen through the window Miss
Cameron standing with clasped hands
and head thrown back before the
open fire It was a favorite pose with
her and it recalled so much The
major might as well have addressed
his concluding remarks to the flag
staff
They went into the hall and the
commandant opened the door There
is Clare he said I believe you know
each other I will go and get Mrs
Cameron He went away and closed
the door again
Farland was not demonstrative But
neither was he one to delay in carry
ing out a resolve He took the hand
that the girl held out to him and then
went to the fire place and rested his
arm upon the mantel and looked at
her speculatively
I am going to be very rash he
said and very precipitate
She smiled Incredulously How
unlike you she said
Perhaps but it is not unlike me to
go straight to the point I think
She vouchsafed no encouragement
-It is not was all she answered She
had long since determined that he was
an unscrupulous flirt worse than that
indeed because he made more preten
sions than most men Now when she
looked into his keen gray eyes that
consoling fiction vanished She won
dered why he did not speak at once of
the one tiling that might reasonably
be expected to be of interest to her
self at least But she- folded er
hands in front of her again and stood
very erect
When I saw you last In the hop room
at Grant he said I was to all In
tents and purposes upon half pay My
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mother was alive then and I was sup
porting her
Sh looked at him puzzled Why
should he tell her this now While
there had yet been time he had been
chary enough of his confidences
While tnere had yet been time
She looked at him as he stood there
before the fire young and strong with
his pistol belt showing beneatli his
faded blouse the kerchief knotted
around his neck the dusty boots with
their spurred heels his face so ab
surdly sun and wind burned glowing
with blonde redness in the fire light
While there had yet beeu time
She checked an inclination to throw
out her ai ms and cry aloud
That is why he went on I did
not feel justified in telling you
though you might I should think have
seen that I loved you
She went up to him and put her
hand upon his shoulder and tried to
speak
Well what he asked He was
submitting dully to some blow which
he saw in her hardening eyes was
going to fall
I she was forcing the words from
her throat with a harsh dry sound
I married Captain Whitcomb three
weeks ago because I did not know-
Farland turned away and drew a
chair near to the fire The movement
was quite natural quite free from any
gesture of tragedy He was too stun i
ned to feel the pain at once Thai
would come afterward and stay
through many years He sat down in
the chair and watched the flaming
mesquite root It was a little hard for
him to draw his breath and the pain
was beginning now too
Clare stood upon the other side of
the hearth and looked dully ahead of
her Then she draw her hand slowly
across her eyes
I must go home she said
Farland did not answer her and she
went out and closed the door Gwen
dolen Overton in the Argonant
Rioters Become Soldiers
Colonel Anderson commanding the
Second Tennessee Regiment which is
stationed at Camp Alger was talking
with a group of gentlemen from his
own State recently
This gallant officer has already gone
through as interesting an experience
as lie will ever be likely to figure in
whether he joins the Spaniards in
deadly combat on the soil of Cuba or
in the far off Philippines He com
manded a force of State troops in the
famous Coal Creek strike in East Ten
nessee six or seven years ago and it
is almost a miracle that he is alive
now to tell about it The rioting
strikers it will be remembered burned
tne stockade and freed a lot of con
victs who had been employed in the
coal mines Their desperate conduct
necessitated calling out the militia
and Colonel Anderson went to Hie
front to help put a quietus on the riot
ing
In some way lie became separated
from his men and was captured by the
strikers who imprisoned him and
came very near shooting him He was
in no wise daunted by his captors
and when tiiey spoke of killing him he
defied them to fire A peremptory de
mand for his release accompanied
with a threat of wholesale hanging
caused his liberation
The most curious part of the whole
affair is that there are now in the
regiment which Colonel Anderson
leads a half dozen of the very men
who participated in the Coal Creek
strike and who were present when he
was captured They are now how
ever on the best of terms with their
commander and are willing to follow
him wherever he leads They are
great big fellows fine specimens of
physical manhood and are eager for
a chance to spill Spanish gore Wash
ington Post
Original Way of Testing Gold
The ordinary practice of taking a
bath solved for Archimedes the ques
tion of how to test the purity of the
gold in Hieros crown He observed
that when he stepped into a full bath
the quantity of water which over
flowed was equal to the bulk of his
body and it occurred to him that the
worth of the crown might be tested bj
such means He thereupon made two
masses of the same weight as th
crown one of gold the other of sil
ver and immersed them separately in
a vessel filled to the brim measuring
exactly the quantity of water that
overflowed in each case Having
found by this means what measure of
the fluid answered to the quantity of
each metal less in the case of the
gold than of the silver the bulk of the
former being less weight for weight
he next immersed the crow itself
and found that it caused more water
to overflow than the gold but less
than the silver Having found the dif
ference between the two masses of
pure gold and silver in certain known
proportions he was able to compute
the real quantity of each metal in the
crown and thus discovered the fraud
that had been practised on the king
to whom he hurried exclaiming
Eureka Eureka I have found it
I have found it an exclamation that
has ever since been used to express
exultation over a discovery Cham
bers Journal
An Old Apple Tree
The original greening apple tree is
still standing on the farm of Solomon
Drowne at Mount Hygeia in North
Feter R I The tree was a very old
one when the farm was sold in 1801
The city of Santiago was the scene
of the shooting of Captain Fry and
of a number of the crew and passen
gers of the Virginius in 1873
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NEW IDEAS ON TEIAL
NOVELTIES THAT MAY BE POPU
LAR NEXT WINTER
Sensible Garments Are More Gener
ally Worn than They Used to Be
Five Very Fetching Costumes of
the Vintage of 1808
Fashion Notes from Gotham
New York correspondence
Kit
ENSE is much
more a p parent
than it used to be
in summer outside
wear Indeed
there has been a
change in this re
spect since with
early s u mmer
there was present
ed to view a lot of
fanciful capes
These h i g h ly
w r o u ght affairs
are still in sight
but newer and
more attractive
are capes that are
less elaborate It Is in coats and jack
ets however that the greatest improve
ment has been made Now there are
no tight jackets and no delicate easily
soiled and useless coverings unless it
be some wrap meant only to lay about
the shoulders of an evening gown Of
all the new outer garments the latest
for traveling country walking or driv
ing is the very prettiest To days first
picture shows it To some tastes it is
a little pronounced for traveling but it
is just right for the other uses This
was in a loose wool material plaided
by crossing lines of color in silk The
color of such is always bright Blue
lines crossed brilliant red in this case
bright green went over a golden brown
in another and so on The jacket was
very boxy in front was loose and com
fortable everywhere and fastened se
curely with straps of the material
which are a characteristic of the gar
ment Though so solid looking a cov
ering the material is so soft that the
edge of the jacket fronts which were
finished in frill fashion and swept un
broken from shoulders to foot of jack
et Here was the suggestion of princess
The skirt opened wide to show a petti
coat of the lawn beautifully embroi
dered with white It seemed a bit odd
that the petticoat did not match the
bodice front but that is part of the
new idea
Lawns and muslins are always pret
ty but were never prettier than this
year Though made more simply than
last year there is a touch about this
seasons costume that is unmistakable
Linen colored lawns and linen batistes
ifill
Jill
QUITE AS NOVEL AS NEED BE
are in great favor Usually they are
figured lightly with some bright color
In some cases this figure done in silk
is so cleverly managed that only the
closest inspection convinces you that
the dress material is not open work
and that the color of the figure is not
the color of silk over which the open
work material was made The illu
sion is further assisted by making the
finishings of the gown exactly match
the figure Such a gown of linen
batiste figured with apple green silk
is beside the one just described Its
silken figuring seemed to shine from
PUT FORWARD FOR THE TRIAL SEASON
jacket will roll up and take little room
in packing
This is but one of the new fashions
that are having a midsummer begin
ning Midsummer trial is perhaps
more accurate for novelties are now
put forward experimentally They are
not offered with the idea that they will
take especially for summer but if they
arouse any interest at all in these lan
guid dog day weeks they will be repro
duced in the winter fashions In conse
quence these ideas are often very bi
zarre and but barely suited to summer
use There are women who do not feel
their summer wear to be complete
without leaving an order to have speci
mens of any such idea sent to them I
is these women who are potent in di
recting the changes in styles and or
dinary folk follow them near to or far
from the pace set as their purses
in taffetas newest weave
tate Sketched as thus presented to a
swagger woman was the gown put af
the left In the next picture It indi
cates that designers have not yet given
over trying to get women to accept the
princess cut though they have strug
gled in this direction for over six
months with but indifferent success
Jacket and open skirt of this dress
-were a soft silk poplin The jacket
opened over a soft front of tucked pink
lawn and was belted by a wide band
of- velvet This band passed under the
under instead of being applied Tho
bodice was prettily slashed just about
whero the darts would come showing
apple silk through the opening A grass
green straw hat wound with loose
white with an emerald quill saucilj to
one side completed a very simple but
a delightfully pretty summer rig
which may be used this fall at home
In the city too
Scarlet lawns are very stylish They
are often barred with black lines and
made over black silk and sometimes
you are fooled for the lawn isnt a
scarlet but a black very thin grena
dine with black bars worn over a scar
let silk lining It is a question which
vay of getting at the effect is more
satisfactory The black over perhaps
serves more general purpose The gown
remaining in the illustration was of
film like black grenadine barred with
black and over red silk The sash and
its odd bow were red silk and the
ruchings that trimmed skirt and bodice
were black chiffon Above all was a
deep yoke of white dotted lawn
This trick of putting a white yoke
of lawn lace or chiffon on a dress no
matter whether white appears in the
rest of the gown or not is a this sea
sons trick Offered as a next seasons
trick is the pictured belt arrangement
The boat shaped hat still holds favor
It certainly is with its dipped curved
front becoming to the woman with an
oval outline Then there is a romantic
air about the softly laid plumes with
which such hats are trimmed and a
softness that suits many faces too
The prudent vacationer secures her
home traveling dress early and then if
the weather does change horridly she
can skip away and astonish her friends
by not wearing the same dress in which
she arrived Poplin is a favorite ma
terial for the early traveling gown and
a bright tone of gray is used It seems
a little perishable but poplin is a ma
terial that sheds dust and dirt
A sensible model for its employ
ment in a traveling rig was the sub
ject of the last picture Its scheme of
a jacket cut short and open slightly
over a waistcoat was distinctly good
Copyrlcht IM1S
The old fa shioned idea that it was
bad taste to use two kinds of lace on
one gown has no weight in the fash
ions this season Two and soners
three different vrrioth s ara combined
on one bodice narrow Valenciennes be
ing very generously ucd with tin
heavier lacrsl
UNMMCWH
Worlds Yonngcst Cyclist
Kenosha Wis has the youngest bl
cyclist in the world in the person of
Frankie Van Der Vee He is only 2
years and 4 months old and small as
he is he rides from four to six mlls
on any kind of a road His bicycle is
almost as much of a curiosity as its
rider It has a 10 inch frame 14 incn
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FRANKIE VAN DER VEE
wheel and 3 inch cranks and weighs
seven pounds It was built by a prac t
tical mechanic Some people say that
he must have inherited the ability as
his mother was one of the best century
riders in the State Others say it is
due to the wheel but the little one
learned to ride just as naturaly as he
learned to walk
The Wheelmans Alphabet
A is the Amateur learning to ride
B is the Bicycle he gets astride
C is the Cropper he takes with a thud
D is the Ditch where lie lands in the mud
E is the Evening he selects to depart
F is the Friend who gives him a start
G is the Gearing lie talks for a week
If is the Hope that the record hell beat
I is the Injury he will receive
J is the Junkman who laughs in hia
sleeve
K is the Kicking he does at his fall
L is the Loss of his temper thats all
M is the Machine with world renowned
fame
N is the Name that indorses the same
T
O is the Opinion of all his friends
P is the Puncture that ill pleasure ends
Q is the Question of How did you do itl
II the Remark of his friend that ho
knew it
S is the Scorcher that he emulated
T is the Tack that the trouble created
U is the Uncertainty found on sharp
turns
V the Velocity for which lie yearns
W is the Wish that by this time is wan
ing
X is the Xyst where hell now do his
training
Y is the Year he goes for his spins
Z is for Zero the races he wins
Outing
Fat Men May Ride Wheels
Fat men who would like to ride a bi
cycle but think they are too heavy for
such sport on so frail looking a vehicle
will be interested to learn that Joseph
W Grimes a champion cyclist of Ken-tucks-
weighs 555 pounds and has been
riding a wheel constantly for five years
and his flesh is as firm as that of an
athlete and he Is not troubled with
shortness of breath The longest ride
he ever made at one time was eighty
four miles covering the distance in
ten hours with a stop of one hour for
dinner Owing to his great weight it Is
difficult for him to walk a square but
he rides a wheel with very little ex
ertion and he claims that he could rin
ten hours a day for a week or more
a time without serious inconvenience
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Novel Tombstone
According to a London newspaper a
young widow of Rio de Janeiro who V
was introduced to her late husband
while out wheeling ordered a sculptor
to depict the meeting bicycles and all
on the marble gravestone in relief The
effect is described as more novel than
artistic especially as the lady is chis
eled as attired in bloomer costume In
the inscription which is in Spanish Is
a sentence which may be translated
My dear soul had the tire of his life
prematurely punctured
Cycling Notes
Cycling is making great progress in
India which can now boast two jour
nals devoted to the pastime One is
published in Bombay the other in Cal
cutta
On tour a leaky valve may cause
much inconvenience Press it all
around with a piece of damp clay or
if that be unobtainable damp soap will
answer
In Berlin arrangements are being
wade to apportion off a narrow track
along the sides of the principal thor
oughfares Under these conditions the
risk of cycling even in the city would
bo minimized
In outlying districts it Is often diffi
cult to procure cord for relaclng a
gear case in which case it is worth re
membering that a couple of long boot
laces joined together will answer
eaually well
The Gretna Green race carried out at
a receat biqycle tournament consisted
in a lady And gentleman riding hand-in-hand
to a given point dismounting and
signing their names and addresses in a
register remounting and riding back
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