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"Yos, stranger, thatn .TLin. Ho was only a tramp
Jnst a rovln an' roaniln' an' worthless acarnp
An' that on tlx Blab's all that's loft o' him,
An' all Uiat they know 1b, his name was Jim;
But I kinder suspect on th'o olhor shore
Thoy'vo recorded his name, an' a hull lot moro.
"It seems that th' feller was stealln' a ride
On Number four's cowcatcher, there outside,
When tli engineer saw In th' dusty whirl,
Th' atoopln' form of a tiny girl
Who was plckln' up coal with might an' main,
Hor mind on her work an' her back t' th train.
" 'Clod help mol' he cried, as he threw bin weight
rP reverse th' lever but all too late,
For a form wan struck, an' a feeble cry
Reached Ui' engineer as th' train went by,
'I've killed th' gal' an his eyes wore dim
With tears, as th' train went back f'r Jim
"Th' tramp was llvln', but good as dead.
I saved tit' gal I'm Jim!' he said;
T pushed hor away fr'm th' track, an' say,
I must 'a' sllppe'd an' ho passed away;
An' that on th' slab's all that's left o' him
Ho was only u tramp Just a
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rp HEY were Damon and Pythias
yJI In their friendship wero Nate
ho old company."
"Tho boys," said their old captain,
'were born In the same neighborhood,
'"grow up there, went to tho same
chool, wore In tho sanio classes, and
.TV-hen they were young men chose for
sweethearts a pair of sisters, so that
they might bo la close loucli with one
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They wero twenty when tho big
far came, and promptly enlisted In the
,nie company.
"They lived In the same tent and
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f Sw ate with Mm nnmo hiojjh.
5 , i "When one was ordered on picket.
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iiy oon, man, this is j.iv katiiek's
I1AIH1E."
the other volunteered to go for some
one else, lost they separate.
"If there was a game of cards, they
wore always partner?; If one was
given a pass, the other sought one.
"I never saw two better friends.
"In 18G4, after wo h id been through
all sorts of hardships and some of the
greatest battles of the war, Including
Antietam, Fredericksburg and Gettys
burg, our company re-enllsted for
'three years more, the Siamese twins
being among the first to put down their
names.
"It may be remembered that thoy
avo us boys a furlough of a month's
duration when wo re-enlisted for three
years more, or during the war.
"I need not tell you that our lads
had a nice time at home that month.
"I think about half of the boys were
engaged when they went back to tho
rmy. Morgan and Dolllver were of
tho number. They had captured tho
two sisters.
"On the way back to Virginia we got
into a terrible railway accident. Wo
wero making a curve on the Pennsyl
vania where tho Juniata river was on
on one side and a high mountain point
ed with rocks on the other. Our
twelve cara flew the track. Some of
them upset, one stood on end and one
started for the Juniata river. It was
headed off by a prortudlng rock. Three
wore killed, and among the In
jured was Nate .Morgan. Ho received
blow on tho head that stunned him,
out when ho recovered he thought that
he was not sufficiently harmed to stay
back with tiie more seriously wounded,
nnd went on with tho regiment. Hut
he wag never the same Nate Morgan.
Ills lifetime partner was ever trying
to ehoor him up, but he grew more and
more gloomy, said but little, and
aeemed to have lost all Interest In the
world and everybody 1- iu
"The night wo left Culpepper, Va.,
to enter upon tho campaign that wus
not to end uutll Appomattox, Morgan
appeared. Twenty minuted after ho
tramp called Jim."
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left tho tent Dolllver went In search
,ind did not give up until the signal
was given for the regiment to fall in
"When we went into camp near the
Wilderness that night the disconsolate
soldier resumed his search for his
friend, this time among other troops.
Then came the great battles of the
Wilderness, Spottsylvanla, North Ann,
Cold Harbor, and the slego of Peters
burg. "No tidings ever came to the regi
ment from or about poor Nate Mor
gan. We came to believe that he had
wandered away and died.
"Dolllver was broken-hearted, yet he
continued to be a brave, manly sol
dier to the end of the war. Tho day
wo were mustered out ho said to sev
eral of his frjends:
" 'During the balance of my life I
shall ever be on tho watch for my
chum, or Information that will tell of
his fate.'
"Two or threo years after the war
there was a wedding, In which one
of the sisters became Mrs. Dolllver.
"Their first boy was named Nathan
.Morgan Dolllver.
"When a boy of 15 his father told
him the story of Nate Morgan and
their friendship. 'You wero named
after him,' said Dolllver. Taking from
his pocket a corps badge bearing the
name, the company and the regiment
in which his friend Morgan had served,
he gave it to tho young man, with a
request that lie never part with It.
explaining that when he and his
young friend were in tho army Un
exchanged badges, ho taking Morgan's
and Morgan taking his.
"A weelc later this patriot father
died, and his family and friends be
lieved that his life was shortened by
ids ceaseless mourning, a sorrow that
was keen for a quarter of a century.
"One of the things that made a
deep impression on my mind, as well
as my heart, at the beginning of the
Spanish-American war was the
promptness with which the sous and
grandsons of the men who fought In
the civil war, on both sides, offered
their services and their lives, If need
be. in that new war.
"Among the first to enlist in the
Wisconsin city where he lived was
the first-born of Patriot Tom Dolllver.
"His command reached the Philip
pines in time to get Into the hottest
of the fighting in ISO!), and remained
there until tho hard fighting was over.
Private Dolliver became a sergeant on
tho way to the far-off Islands, and
when the regiment was mustered out
he was captain of his company, an
honor won by conspicuous bravery.
"Tho summer of 1902 he was a first
lieutenant of regulars and quartermas
ter of his battalion.
"In the performance of his duties
he was called upon to mako occasional
visits to various points on the island
ol' Panay, department of the Vlsayas.
'J he trips were made on a small trans
port, which got along very nicely
when the weather was good, but did
all sorts of dancing and capering
when tho water was rough.
"lie was going up on the east Bide
of the Island in September of that
year when a sudden storm, a veritable
typhoon, put In an appearance, ren
dering It hazardous to continue. With
great dlfilculty they reached tho har
bor of refuge, near Capez. Most of
the stores on tho transport and two
of the natives wore washed overboard
and lost.
"As the little transport made hor
way Into the quiet waters of the har
bor all sorts of craft hurried to her
side. Tho head man of the first banca
that reached tho storm-beaten trans
port, a handsomo fellow, asked, in
very good English, if there was any
thing be could do for tho officer and
crew.
"Lieut. Dolllver expressed a desire
to go ashore. When thoy reached land
tho newly-fouud friend Invited the lieu
tonant to rido with him to Capez.
On the way to the city the lieutenant
discovered that his friend was the
presldente of a neighboring city. He
had been on a visit In that part or
tho pjjjvlnce. Upon discovering the
trnnaifort In its perilous position he
had gone out to offer assistance.
"My father,' said tho presldente,
'often told me of an experience ho had
when he first came to the Islands,
many years ago. He was caught, as
you were, In a typhoon, and his ves
sel was wrecked. For a day and a
night he was on the ocean, clinging to
n spar, and was then rescued by na
tives, as I feared wo might have to
rescue some of your crew. He landed
Just where you landed, and found his
way to Cape, with one or two others of
the wrecked passengers. He had
come from London with an exploring
expedition, in the wreck he lost all
he had; was penniless. The people
of Cupoz took a fancy to him, gave
him a home, and encouraged him to re
main, ami he did remain. He married
the daughter of the presldente of the
city which he became presldente of
later on.
" 'Early one morning he woke tne.
handed me a small box, and said:
"'"Keep It, my boy; keep It al
ways." and while I was examining
the contents of the box he placed a
revolver to his temple and dropped
dead at my feet.
" 'This Is what he gave me. I shall
always keep It.'
"The lieutenant took It in his hand
and exclaimed: 'My God! man, this
Is my father's badgol'
"Then, taking from r pocket over
his heart a package, he said: 'And
this Is your father's badge!" J. A.
Watrous, in Milwaukee Wisconsin.
LTIIICS Or JAPANESE SAILORS.
There are two characteristics of
Japanese naval olllcers which they
share almost to a man with the sailors
under them, and which quickly Impress
the foreign visitor, says tho author of
"The Imperial Japanese Navy.' These
are dignity and courtesy. Seldom. In
deed, circumstances overturn the one
or Induce them to violate the other.
Underneath their politeness they are
a very sensitive people, so that 'even
quite unwittingly one is apt to tread
upon a "touchy" spotespecially by
some infraction of the laws of eti
quette, which they themselves observe
most punctiliously. An otucer will
often mispronounce tho names of tho
ships of his own navy when a foreign
er with whom he is speaking has al
ready done so, rather than subject the
guest to Hie slightest suspicion of ridi
cule by pronouncing them correctly;
and his brother olllcers will pass by
the ml.spronouiicinUon without a smile.
In perfect understanding. So it is that
to see themselves represented as speak
ing In broken English, as limy often
are in Occidental papers, gives them
the greatest offense.
Among the sailors as among the of
ficers the rendering of d-worti-ec seems
to give pleasure, and to offer payment
for it. especially If It is in tho line of
the sailor's duty, Is an Insult. No Japa
nese sailor will accept a tip for show
ing visitors round his ship, or for
ferrying him to or from the shore.
Should a man do so his shipmates
would render his life on board the ves
sel almost unbearable.
A visiting English lieutenant who
had kept a Japanese boat's crow wait
ing n long lime on a bitterly cold day,
and who wished to compensate thorn
for their trouble nnd kindness, ran
afoul of this characteristic. It was a
long row to tho ship against a strong
tide, In which the men were soon wet
through. Arrived at the ship. Hie En
glishman at once attempted to tip tho
coaxswnin. Tho latter shook ids head.
Thinking he misunderstood him, the
Englishman repeated the attempt.
"No, no! Go away!" said tho cox
swain, In a most Indignant tone, and
his expression was that of a man on
whom had been put a deadly Insult.
Theft Is almost unknown among the
sailors. One guilty of it becomes a
complete outcast. Not only is he sent
to Coventry on his own ship, but tho
story of his crime Is passed on If he is
sent to another ship.
Iti'jiutll'ol Poems with Lonir Hair.
The following remarks on Tenny
son were recently handed In on an
examination paper by n schoolboy In
an English literary class: "Lord Al
fred Tennyson was a celebrated poet,
and he wrote a lot of beautiful pomes
with long hair. Ills greatest pome
Is called 'The hlle King. no was
made a lord, but ho was a good man
and wrote many otitis." Harper's
Weekly.
Whon a man gets Into a bad kin
complication, yon can do nothing for
him. Of course you can sympathize
with him, but that doesn't help.
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Tim Wntpr Mill.
Oil! listen to the water-mill through the
livelong dny,
As the clicking of the wheels wears tho
hours away;
How languidly the autumn wind dotli
stir tho withered leaven,
As on tho fields the reapers sing, while
binding up their sheaves!
A solemn proverb strikes my mind, and
is a spelt Is cast,
"The mill will never grind again with
water that Is pnst."
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Tho
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summer winds revive no more
leaves strewn o'er earth nnd main,
sickle never more will reap the. yel
low garnered grain;
rippling stream Hows ever on, aye
tranquil, deep and still,
never glldeth back again to busy
water-mill.
solemn proverb speaks to all, with
meaning deep and vast,
"Tli
e mill will never grind again with
water that is past."
Oh! clasp the proverb to thy soul, dear
loving hunrt and trim,
For golden years are fleeting by, and
youth Is passing, too;
Ah! learn to make the most of life, nor
loso one happy day,
For tlmo will ne'er return sweet joys
neglected, thrown away;
Nor leave one tender word unsaid, thy
kindness sow broadcast
"The mill wilt never grind again with
water that is pnst."
Oil! tho wasted hours of life, tlint hare
swiftly drifted by,
Alns! tho good wo might hare done, all
gone without a sigh,
Love that we might once have saved by
a single kindly word,
Thoughts conceived but ne'er expressed,
perishing unpenned, unheard.
Oh! tako the lesson to thy soul, forever
clasp It fast,
"The mill will never grind again with
waU tfiat Is past."
Work on wTilIe yet tho sun doth shine,
thou man of strength and will,
The streamlet ne'er doth useless glide by
clicking water-mill;
Nor wait until to-morrow's light beams
brightly on thy way.
For all that thou canst call thine own,
lies In tho phraso "to-day,"
Posseasion, power and blooming health,
must all bo lost at last
"Tho mill will never grind ngnln with
water that Is past."
Oh! lovo thy God and fellow man, thy
self consider last;
For come It will when thou must scan
dark errors of tho pnst;
Soon will this fight of life bo o'er nnd
eartii recede from view,
And heaven In all its glory shine whore
all is pure and true,
Ah! then thou'lt see more clearly still
the proverb deep and vast,
"The mill will never grind again with
water that is pnst."
D. 0. McCnlluni.
MINING SALT IN KANSAS.
Stuff Handled and Sold Like Ant lira
cite Coal at the Mines.
In 1887 a party of Ohio people, led
by J. S. Crowell of Cleveland, settled
on the Kansas and Pacific land grant
and founded the town of Kanopolls,
on the exact spot where they supposed
tho geographical center of the uni
verse to bo, writes Win. E. Curtis In
tho Chicago Record-Herald. While
they wore mistaken In their latitude
and longitude, they hit it off In great
shape In other directions, discovering
an enormous deposit of rock salt,
which lies like anthracite coal In a bed
l.TO miles long and six miles wide,
nearly across the state. Crowell, with
E. II. Phelps and S. E. Raker, organ
ized the Royal Salt Company and
have been mining It like coal. Thoy
havo a shaft 000 feet deep at Kan
opolls and send the miners down, who
dislodge tho salt rock with dynamite,
shovel It Into cars just as they would
handle coal In Pennsylvania, hoist It
to tho surface and ship It by car load
lots to every part of the country. It
costs about as much to mine It as it
does coal, and sells for about the same
price as anthracite that Is, an aver
age of a ton on cars at the mines.
An opposition company has been
formed by James Cowlo of Columbus,
Kan., and his associates. Cowlo was
formerly general superintendent of the
Royal Salt Company and had a falling
out with his employers. The opposi
tion company has been unable to buy
salt lands, hence thoy secured permis
sion from tho authorities at Kanopolls
to sink shafts In tho streets and alleys,
and are getting ready to undermlno
the town. This, as you will Imagine,
Involves some perplexing questions.
It is not settled whether tho author
ities have a right to grant such a con
cession, even to mine tho streets and
alleys, and their right to grant author
ity to mine salt under tho residence
property is strongly disputed. Tho
town lies on top of an enormous do
post of salt Every lot owner claims
ownership to everything under as well
as above the surface of his land. If
lu wishes to sink a shaft In his back
yard down to the salt bed no one can
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prevent him from doing so, but tho
majority of the pcoplo do not admit
tho right of tho city authorities to
dispose of Anything within the bowels
of tho earth.
The salt comes out In chunks, very
much like anthracite coal, and is grad
ed in the same way. It Is shipped In
sacks and barrels for use In packing
meats, curing hides and for other pur
poses. Very little table salt Is made
there, but at Ellsworth, a neighboring
town, three or four hundred carloads
of table salt are shipped every year.
The water from the mines Is pumped
up to the surface, exposed to tho sun
In shallow vats nnd allowed to evap
orate. The bottom of every vat, aftor
the moisture Is exhaused, will bo cov
ered with an Inch or so of pure, fine
crystals of salt.
The town Victoria was settled
twenty-five years ago by a colony of
Englishmen, who named It In honor of
their queen. They bought largo tracts
of land, came over in a body, and pre
served their home customs as long as
they lived there. Rut they, after two
or three crop failures, abandoned their
farms and disappeared, and tho land
Is now occupied by Russian Mention
ltes, who are growing macaroni wheat
on dry farms with great success.
TAG FOR LAUNDRY USE.
DtnnciiNcti vrltli tho KcccHnlty for Mnrk
liiK tho Ctotlicn.
There are circumstances under
which a housowlfo protests against
what many fastidious ones consider
the marring of their household linens
by Indiscriminate indelible Ink laun
dry marking.
As the laundry Is inevitable, a com
promise Is made on tho detachable
laundry tag, and some laundries use
these exclusively for all napery, bed
linen and towels. All these devices
partake of tho nature of a llexlblo met
allic holder adapted to bo bout over
tho edge of the article and carrying a
piece of marking tape or linen. One
particular form of recent Invention is
illustrated herewith, Its chief merits
being Its simplicity and effectiveness.
FLAT
FOLDLD
over garment.
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DKTAOH A11I.K LAUNDItY TAG,
It consists of a plate over which a
piece of tape Is folded, the ends of tho
plate being bent upon Itself to securo
tho ends of the tape through tholx en
tire width. In order to present a per
fectly flat surface on one side for
which a piece of tnpo Is folded, tho
ends bent out of the plane of tho body
of the tag to bring their surfaces on
the tape side flush with the surfaces of
the tape. A slot is cut out of tho body
piece to establish a bending line. On
one side of tho plate tangs are struck
up from the Inner face and at tho other
side cups or sockets are also struck up
lu such position as to receive and cover
tho points of tangs when tho two sides
of the plato aro pressed together over
the edge of an article. As tho cloth
lies over tho sockets the points of tho
tangs must necessarily pass through
the cloth to enter the sockets. If It
Is desired to remove the tag this can
be done by prying it open, but tho con
struction Is such that the tugs whon re
moved do not tear the cloth.
Proven Honesty.
Woonsocket hod for a long time a
chief of police, one A If Church, noted
for his bluntness nnd straightforward
ness. One day a grocer went to Alt
for Information about a certain Joo
White, who had applied for credit and
a book at his store, and the following
dialogue ensued:
"Good mornln, Mr. Church."
"Mornln'." f
"Do you know Joe White?" "M
"Yes. '
"What kind of a feller Is he?"
"Putty fair."
"Is he honest?"
"Honest? I should say so. Been ar
rested twice for stealing and acquitted
both times." New York Tribune.
Norway's Opportunity.
Norway has shown poor Judgment in
offering the kingship to an impecuni
ous Danish princeling when so mnny
American millionaires would have
been glad of tho Job. Mr. Carnegie,
who, like most Scotchmen, almost cer
tainly has Viking blood, would have
showered libraries, museums, pension
funds and golf courses on the whoU
country from Bergen to tho Cnpe.
Boston Transcript.
Luu tch.
Dey ain't no uso ter grumble an ter hol
ler an' complain.
Do rosy-tinted rainbow means good-bj
ter all do rain,
An' dey ain't no use er slghln' when oV
sorrow strikes dc path,
Caze her sister, joy, is drowndin All hwr
weepln' wld er laugh.
Detroit Tribune.
"I am tlrod of hearing of lazy people
who masquerade as the poor," Par
on Twine.
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