Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1896)
I ft' THE S10LX COUNTY JOURN AL. L J. SIMMONS, ri. HARBISO-V. XEBRAKA. eCripple Creek shouldn't over.Jo the matter Id trying to live up to its came. The Bourgeois uiiiiistry ban fallen. Fram-e Is changing her make-up, not pieing ber form tit geeverniuent. A Philadelphia paper says "it takes great moral murage to as( a success- ful warfare against tLe sugar trust. Yes, it ta.es sand. If New York's ice trust l-i-conics too graaping and overlx-sring, every trans atlantic liner from Europe may tow home an Iceberg or two. The heirs of the late Mr. Bogus, of Washington. I4. C, are contesting h:s will. What's the matter': Wasn't it a Jiogus document after ail': Rev. I it. Hcusou asserts that lr. Harper isn't orthodox, and Ir. Harder insinuates that Ir. Henson is hetero dox, yueer leairo' "dis." A late fashion note from Gotham says that in dismounting from a bicycle j it is no longer considered good form ( to use the hack of the nn-k for a buffer. Congressman Hail has stamped him self indelibly urion at least one col league. And, strange as it may appear, this is about the only blot on his public career. A Boston paper remarks that "the American Indian always has l-en com paratively a quiet fellow." Not always he used to indulge in hair-raising per formances quite frequently. The kii.g of Servla, who evide ntly does ins thinking below his diaphragm, savs he "will not marry an American girl." And we true he is right; Ameri can giris are't'co sensible for that. Sugar King Havemeyer has given t-sKi,(ccp to Columbia College. Of cmirse, the people who eat sugar are assessed to ui::ke up this donation, but still l! was a very sweet thing to do. Now some imaginative correspondent asserts that "Jack the Kip-r" w as elec trocuted in Sing Sing the other day. If that is true there is some reason to hope that Jack's last ailment may prove fatal. A Washington paper says that "Con gress will not Improve the present post age stamps, having decided to stick to the old Issue." If Congress sticks to the old stamps it will have to furnish its ow n mucilage. If Secretary Chamberlain really wants to see Ooro Baul Kruger. why doesn't he take a run down to South Africa? Kruger has figured it all out, and concluded that it isn't farther from England to the Transvaal than it is from the Transvaal to England. P. T. Barnum's widow has found her second marriage a failure, and is re turning to her old home in Bridge port, Conn. The millions which her new husbnnd was supposed to own proved to be purely mythical. Let's see. who was it that said "the Ameri cans like to be humbugged?" The Shah of Persia, Xasir Ed-din, was assassinated by a revolutionary fanatic as he was entering the inner court of one of his temples near Tehe ran. The "King of Kings" was shot, and it appears from the reports the murderer was disguised as a woman. Persia has lieen free front any open hostility to tiie ruling dytmsty for many years, and the violent "taking off" of the Slinh is Icelieved to be due .to a plot that has lteen slumbering in some of the remote provinces. The assassin was captured at once, but he has not divulged the names of his accomplices nor asaigned any cause for his net The tragedy aroused considerable excite ment, but nothing that resembled a rev olutionary movement. Nasir Ed-din had reigned sine? ims ami was 07 years old. He was the fourth in succession of the Kajars, who took possession of the crown after a civil war extending over fifteen years, from 1770 to 17'M. The royal family is of Immense size. and tLe heir, selected by the Shall ac cording to the Persian custom, is his eldest son, Musafer Ed-din, who has been sojourning in Tabriz and is now on his way to the capital in response to the notification of the Shah's death. He is 43 years old and is reported to le conservative in tendency. He should And abundant assistance In tiding over difficult places In the advice of 140 uncles who are recorded in the Persian (ifflcial year book and the few hundred others who were not granted that dis tinction. It Is now an Imperative duty of the friends of the officials of the expired World's Fair to take those personages in hand and help tbeui out of their present difficulty. If something Isn't lone those World's Fair reports will not be reported in time for exposition at the fair of lf03. President Palmer wants the reports addressed to him, an other offiHsl wanta to address hit re port to Congress, another wants to d drews bis to the President and some body else has sent his to a fellow ofBelaJ connected with the exnoritlon, and still another declines to report at nil. Nobody will eylve In, and hence a sertons disturbance and a delay. There . no authority on "How to Address a WarM'o Fair Report," and so the re furta remain undelivered. In order to solve this difficult problem It Is ug geated that tbe officials ts up s retii tn End nut who gets the honor. Or if i tbl will not do let them address tin? ' report to Kaiw-r Willi. lm or the man MATTER OF INTEREST TO PU In the moou. Or, ltter still, let each j PlL AND TEACHER. official get out several reirts and a J-' dtvs one ecb to all the other officials, 'ri M.M t ,. tUo1 B,.,.. to Congress, ib Presnlent. the men,., Uactl tXmr mtmd tbma Th iter 01 ine csniuec aua uimseii. iuii would answer every purpose and dis-j pe of tee trouble with the greatest ease. And it would have the highly de sirable effect of bringing the tmsitieM of the World's Pair to an end before the fair Itself has passed out of human ( memory pedagogical or professional Hues, with There is an enemy to the farmel ,pecl reference to technical theories abnecad today far more dangerous tc 0f teaching. The recent convention at his interests than any 'soulless corpor- Elgin, however, was an exception. By atioit" or "grasping trust," bowevei reason of the presence of practical men closely resembling an CMfopu. or even on the executive committee the asso-ia the sordid plutocrats. These may 1 tion managed tostumbleoutoa live wire, fought with some degree of success, hut t Belflrld and one or two others eon tile enemy here complained of is fat trlved to stir up tbe latent Yankee coot-m.-re potent in iu wide range of tins- hativeuess that is ever present in a chief. This foe to the agriculturist it eouveutlou of teachers. We fear they know n to everytiody in the land un i- l - in &trry they spoke, the comprehensive but unscientific cog-j direct casus belli which preelpt- nomeu of "hug." and he Is getting in hit tated the clash of rhetoricul swords work with his usual exed,tIon at this wa, ,ue declaration that the public time of year, when the forage is succu-' iL-hejol systems of England, Frances lent ard tender and Just suited! as it 8rj(j Germany were so much more thor- were to his milk teeth. All through t lie w inter he "lays low," like Bre'r Rabbit, but as soon as the first sign of spring were to 1? seen he came forth, con-iuer-ing and to eouquer. With saw ami augur and cutting tools of various shape, but all admirably suited to tht j wcrk in hand, the bug sample the va- rious prociuctiotis of the farmer and glaringly sui-erflcial. It is hardly pos flnds them all to hi liking. The curcu- gi,,! that such an asseveration could lioaula host of Isjo nc atta k the fruit prc,e.-dc-d from extended experi- trees, the cutworm and the Messinn By look after grains and grasses, the grasshopper indeed becomes a burden, and Uic air Is tilled with the hum of mil lions of little pests in infinite variety, all demoting their attention to securing the crops lefor the farmer has an op portunity of harvesting them. Mctu- .OUntry on the globe. The education is ods of fighting these creatures secur broader and more practical. Young ludicrously inadequate. Even the eariy ' U1(?n wljo wt,rt educated iu foreign bird fails to catch the worm unttl It 1 gc-hesds may secure clerkships and josl everhistingty too late. The loss to farm. : tif)U!j ag iKM,wit.,(.rs n our batiks, but ers from insect depredations each yem lue j,ttI)k presidents and the cashiers is something enormous. I.st year the Rre generally men who were trained iu figures were conservatively placed at our American public schools. Nearly $4.0n.i.ii,eiiKj fur agricultural prodii-t au tie executive tcosltious in every eloiie. In one year (Ist'rJi in Illinoix $73. ,! worth of com and wheut were destroyed by the chinch bug a bug in his Isolated personality not much bigger than a flea, but when combined in armies of billions nothing can with -i stand his appalling ravages. To tht above figures should be added large j sums caused by damage to milt and BrrjnKS fr(1II1 a mls-oueeptl..ii of the shad? trees from Insect pests and te true function of our common schools, grain stored in bins. Every year the jt u nt tlie business of our public horn fly, by its attacks upon cattle. Vhools to fit men for any specific trade causes great decrease in the milk sup- 'or profession. If it is the design of our ply, and horses and sheep often sue- puWic gchool system to start men to cumb .n large numbers to the attacks of j war,i tac professions; then the artisan insects. Nothing seems immune from who help support the school have a' the bug. and while the farmers' eropt right to demand that every school lie do not grow as rapidly as Jonah's fa ! equipped with carjeenter shops, lathes, nious gourd, yet they frequently wither j forger, dynamos, looms ami printing in a night from the effects of hemipter i presses. The tendency towanl manual ous. coleopterous or lepidopterous plain training In our public schools is doubt killers. . The Importance of this subject j,, ascribable to a constantly growing is demonstrated by the fact that tin demand that the schools shall teach general government and many Stato j t)ie dijruity and power of skilled lalor are devoting much study and money tc instead of yearly augmenting the con devlsc means to check the ravages of ; gention of ta!.ut in the professions. Insects. It is an economical problem The true function of our public of the greatest importance and 1 seheds is to develop and draw out the worthy all the efforts that have been made. But somehow the average? fanner considers the study of "bugs" to be beneath the dignity of his high calling as an agriculturist, and the In sects go on eating his crops when fre quently" timply efforts would tend tc j check their ravages In a great degree. What Cathode Means. Let us first see w hat we mean by t lie term cathode. If we should break the tiny tilame-nt of an Edison incandescent lamp at the mid lie of the glow ing lcx.p the light would go ouL If, now, we j connect the two ends of a broken i;!a-l merit to the Doles of a batterv of a i gr.-at many thousand voltaic cells, sm-li aummer. and were probably duplicated as are commonly used to ring license- 1" spirit and Intent In scores of Amerl bells, we should 1e able to light the ran homes. The names only are ncti- lamp again, not by incandescence, but , by a fee.ue glow which pervaileg tin) whole bulb. The ends of the bro'ieii filament would glow mid the glow at one end of the filanx-iit would bs eiif ferent In appearance from that of the other. The broken filament, by means of which the electrical energy entcm the bulb, is ratted the anode, and the fil ament by means of w hich. In ordinary language. It leaves the bulb, la called the cathode. Now, the great peculiarity of the cn-' thode rays is thisthey seem to 1 In- dependent of theonositlon of the anode. ' and they itrenm out from the cathode ' like the beam of a aearCh light, striking the w alia of the inclosing! ypwl. Scrib ncr's Magazine. -.i "St. Elmo's Fire" at Sea. "St. Elmo's .ire" alighted on about twenty-five different parts of the John ston line steamer Rossmore while she was off the capes Sunday night It was blowing a blizzard from the north aud snowing when a steel rope, drawn taut between the foretopmaat and the niain topmast, lit up with a white phosphor eMKremiea. The long leTel line of un broken whiteness stood out distinctly In the darkness a hundred feet above the vessel's deck. Tiny white lights appeared lit on the fifteen upright bars of Iron that hold the rail around the ! bridge. The tops of the twelve davits holding the boats aft of the funnel ! "Ton would make your daughter rl wera also lit up, and one light appeared ' dlculous to dress her as for a lall In at the foremost head like a lantern. : The lights continued without Interrup tion for half an hour, when they dis appeared. They reappeared later, but only spluttering along the wire aloft Baltimore American. When a man's wife glvw a pan, Its gets nothing but the yolks of eggs to mX for a week. NOTES ON EDUCATION. Arcs ics Any Couatrr oa tba Uloba Cacleaa span oa DricMoo. Aatarlcaa School A rc Heat. The average teachers' convention Is Bl VT ' ll.-u--lnM thai t are lu- (TBI tru m 1 1 u 1 f j u . i tuin t i . 4 uc y i v- grauis are generally arrauged along ough and complete than the public school system of America that young men educated by the foreigners are given the preference over the Ameri can boys In the positions of resieoiisl bllity and trust. The knowledge upon which this coa- teutlon was based appears to have bee3 euce In educational affairs or from actual information as to the present status of the American bojs in the big mercantile, industrial or banking insti tutions. The masses in this country are mush better educated than they are lu any g-i-at establishment which require tact, knowledge of human nature ami abil ity to organize forces for the accom plishment of a sH-clflc pursse, are filled to-day by men who received nothing but an American ftimmou school education. The whole controversy, however. mental faculties of the pupil until he becoinf acquainted with his power. Then will follow in natural sequence the discernment of temperamental tastes and a selection of a life occupa tion. If our educators Insist, however. In aeljusting the common .school curricula so that the schools will turn out gradu ates who will select what are known as the "polite callings," It Is only fair that the schools also teach the me chanical trades to pupils who de-sire to learn them. Chicago Time's He-raid. Scboollrl' rr(?a. The facts given below took place last tlous: Mrs. Paul", who had spent several aumniers in a large New England town, was especially interested In a poor wid ow who wflsheil for her. The woman worked early and late. Her Kttle home was always ntat, and her children clean aud well-fed; but the mother, lean and overworked, was fast breaking down Into old age. "Why does not your oldest girl help you?" her friends askwL (-'n- ls fi""'"K her education, fill? graduates next mouth," was the rn'lj-- Tu(ire wa n academy In the town. and the pupils were most of them the ilaughtera of the ordinary, well-to-do people of the village. The next week the poor washerwom an looked anxious and d 'stressed when she brought her weekly bundle of clothes to Mrs. Paull. "It Is a trifle," she said, when questioned as to her trouble. "But Hetty Is very wretched, and I cannot help her, AJ1 of the girls have fine dresses for the commence ment, and she has none." . "I have seen bcr wear a pretty white muslin gown with blue ribbons," said Mra. Paull. "Yes. But the others will wear silk and white slippers and wreaths of artificial flowers. I cannot afford to buy them. The tears stood In her the morning." said Mrs. Paull. But the mother looked at the matter through her daughter's eyes, and was miserable with her. The day of commencement Mrs. Paul saw Hetty walking to the acade my with a beaming face. 8be was at tired In a soiled white satin trained gown, over which an overdress of white ( chiffon was looped with artificial pink i Be re were rt also on bar I LfiiJ sail on bet wh.tar S era and chlffoa aud ruaea deal oru and soiled. A boarder at the bote had given Hetty a cast-off ball- dreaa, and the girl complacently sat ou thai platform with her comrade lu their obtrusive finery, uucouih-Ious that thry were ridiculous la the rjc of the educated spectators. The CongregaUoaallst recently made an earnest appeal to teachers to curtail the needless expense of graduation day by prohibiting costly gowns to claaaes, Uiiur of the Uiembera of W hit-h are iioor aud striirirlifiir to ftt tlu-m ' 'A iwero aritten bv J. K. Martin, anj o-jmI t are poor aua struggling to nt tliem- fof-tlwii. a. . Ku ai.ujii ,! h.id..i erive-a to earn ineir living, tven if they were the daughters of wealth- u;cu; u '"-mp.. at ,ctgar uispiay wouiu unseemly auj lu bad taste. T- On nritin(. i. , ....... .k . j. , Any teacher who has used d ctation exrrciae. every day Iu her language work has surely found that the children now readily master the mechanics of written work, that their mauuarlpts Contain fewer errors, aud that she Is saved much of the drudgery that was formerly occasioned by their composi tions. Complaint comes from the teacll era lu the higher institutions of h-aruing that most students are unable to punc tuate a paragraph correctly, and that In the later yeans of school life It seems almout impossible to teach them to do so. It Is much easier to te-ach a child of ten to capitalize ami punctuate than to all the students of twenty to form the habit. Persistence and perseverance alone will enable a child to master the me chanics of written work, and he should have dally practice lu such work from the first year of his school life. He should use capitals, commas and per iods in their proper plai-rs. Just as he would cross his t's or dot his I's. The work of reading and correcting manuse-rlpt Isdreary and iiiliotis at best, Bin! after It Is all done who hss ever felt that the child w beiiellte-d in a measure commeUKiiratc with the teach er's toll? tif course, the children's comtoltloDS must be loe ked over, but much of the drudgery connected with such work may be oblati'd by dicta tion exercises. Ten minutes each day devoted to this work will be a most profitable investment of time. The exercises are eusily managed by sending one or two children to the leotird, while the others write at their se-ats. The sentences should be short, ami the teacher shouhl read the w hole sentence before the pupils are allowed to write. After all the scnte-ucee are written, the work on the lionrd may lee criticised ami correcieel. and then the children In their seats should correct their own exercises. Five or six sentences a day will suf fice, but it Is Imieortant to have one definite point in view when selecting them. One exercise, for example, lmu'd consist of seutet ces lu hu h the apostrophe Is iu the possesedve singu lar; another should have for Its aim. drill In writing contradictious; a third, quotations, and so on. With the little children, too much variety would lead to confusion. If one exercise consist ing of the five or six sentences. Includ ed quotations, contractions and pos. sesesives, there wouM be no one fact Impressed on the pupils' minds. 'Mis cellaneous exercise are profitable only after each principle Is thoroughly mas tered. Primary Education. Glrla Were Tlieo Unedncated. In Massachusetts, schools for girls only date back to lVj;. Among the early Puritans and their first four generations of descendants, no special account was taken of girls. The law required the Instructl-m of "all chil dren," and the support of schools for children, but girls were not mentioned. Neither In this seveiito-nth nor In the eighteenth century did girls ordinarily attend public schools. Their attend ance was not thought necessary. At home, or In private schools kept by ladles, they were taught to rend and sew. Some learned to writp, but wo men in common life had little use for the pen. All that girls were supposed to know In the way of ed neat lob was how .to rend the Bible and the cate chism. For a ge'iieraticm and more be fore the revolutieenary war there were people of pretension and Influence throughout New England. In New York, in Virginia and in Pennsylvania who could not write. At the close of the war of Independence, there were ladies of high standing in Boston who -ould not read. Kiodcrgartaer'a Salaries. Home of the Philadelphia kinder gartners hare lieen Investigating the average salary paid to members of the guild in different parls of the country by corresponding with various school superintendents. After tabulating re sult they publish this list: Hartford, f lsio; Providence, $750; Boston, $7(.h; Eaporte, 7xi; New York and Hoebes ter, f-i'M; Ies Moines and Huff a In, feK); New Haven, $o.V); Cambridge, ,.; Alltany, $500; Philadelphia. $475. With such a showing the sisters In the City of Brotherly Love propose to peti. tion the City '.iouucil for better pay. They ask that an assistant may re ceive for the first year $400. with an addition of $30 per annum, till the tiiai I in uin of $.150 ls reached, and that prin ciples having one class shall be paid $-l.Vl, which shall be Increased to $'!00 at the same rate, while those who are assigned an assistant shall receive H73 la the beginning and ultimately get fiZffl.-Ex. Cut old socks and stockings down the , ack seam right to the toe. Place a pair 1 facing each other, opened out, right side. In. Machine round, except the toje. j about half an Inch from the edge. Turn ' inside out, and machine across Id ig-; .1,1,, .i.e. i... I Bag iveei iieeue neuej lu ion. u leoe-ll . . ... M ... sock and to kings treated in this way,1 ,)n'n M v,fou',,1"l rheumatic make excellent scrubbing cloth, and Comn'luh iu mi.or.blo. horrible clutch. Ilk ones .re very useful for rubbing Aud wnilDd, mt ,hflt ,,; ""' grates, etc. i the crutch Honey Is wholesome, strengthening. 1 ot th wor', of oMipr' cleansing, healing and nourishing. eonirade though scattered and THE FIELD OF BATTLE I . j INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES OF THE WAR. tVs Tata-ih ( tfca KabaUioa TaU at Waiallf Bulla la. Bright ItajonaUv BmrattBs Bom-tea, Blaorff BatUaa, Vmmp fin, Faaitva Seed, Etc- But ' Greettn. Comrades, we greet yuu ith outstretched band. Aj .,1 vou , our l,au, j We meet to renew the ties that bind 1 Comrade to comraiie, aud here to tin I , , . ., . , r reh memories of that long ao; In. . , , ; , : T1)Jll Ula,!e up t!ir ,un, f our arill, ilfe, ; u, u, ,,, tKltt ,iiat the "At-gel of lvev" ! Ha iiii-J the edict "1e-t aiiger o'e. Ana uau a fr;e-sid yjur olj-liiiee feee. As e nit sud nuife ou tieiM- dy of strife. What jiii-t ii r srieM? of our army life; lbiw each tiiriiliug i-neM,je comes to uiind, Till we turn ilh a iih from the lirenui to bud We're but fighting our battles ove-r if 'iu; ltut we'll try to jiaint in our feeble way, Seeiue of the acem-s when "lliue met .'ray," Aud the world stared aghast at the hlieody fray, Ai the war cluude) lowered iu the lilit of clay. And the night wind obhed over man gled men. We will not stte-mjit to paint the strife. Or the awful carnage that withered life; Too dark is the picture, you know it well. How your heart waa wrung an your com rades fell. Anil you wept to see them die; Hut we'll try to recall once neere to view. Some brighter picture of liray and IJiue, Showiiitf dear through the sulphurous cteeuds of war, Thut chord of brotherhood reaching afar From earth, to liod's luminous aky. There were lone-noine hour on the pie-ket-'oet. When we watched with the Mara our sleeping hott. And the minutes seemed hours a we strained our eyes. That our oimradea mijilit miffer no sur prise Through any m-glect of ours; There the eile-ne'e Itself, seemed fraught with sound, And the fall of a twig caused our hearts to belUIIll, While we strained our eyes tee pierce the gloom That seemed tee chew as the walls of a darkened roeiin, A wearily dragged the hours. You remember it, comrades, a gruesome place. Where the darkness seemed only to hide the face Of a deadly foe. and you almejst thought You could hear the click, that precedes a shot. And you fairly held your breath; And it sccuicd that the very be at of jour heart Must lee heard by the enemy in the dark, And serve as a guide to mark the spot That he might me,re surely speed the shot That might lay you cold iu death. Yes. we've been there, comrades, and know that while We were not afraid (?) that a peaceful smile Would break through the camp fire smoke on our face-s, And we never objected to yielding our places To the sentinels who came to relieve ns. And, heaving a sigh of perfect content. Woiihl shojlder our carbine and se-ek our tent, (A dogtetit generally), there to repose, And dreaming of loved ones, forget the Woe's Of our lot, if the foe would let us. You may talk eef the battle-field, and te-11 Of the terrible havoc that bullet and shell Made in our ranks; but tln-n, you know. I bat was "give ami take," and we had the foe Iu front, and our comrades around; Hut that lonely vigil, with no one near; Those long two hemrs, whe n eye and ear Were strained to their utmost to see and hear And even the trees and hushes appear Like au enemy sprung from the ground. Will try the nerve of the bravest man That ever cooked meat In a frying pan, Or boiled his coffee in au old tin can That once held fruit, hut now second hand, Serves him a a coffee pot. Oh, that cau cost money, for the sutler, wen, e Ixik at his features, the-y will t-U , That he knew how to buy, and where to sell. And still, even he sometimes canght When times got too awfully hot. But then you know, on the other baud, How we often feasted on Southern ham, And "slapjacks" that would kill any other man Than one who was fighting for t'ue-le ian.. And wearing the Federal blue. And the chickens? Oh, hush! they seemed to know That when we appeared they Why, had no more snow Than the annual Thanksgiving dinner would give To aught hut the oldest and toughest to live And they were not safe to get through. Ah, well, you'll remember, we had our fun, And when Johnny wouldn't, why, we couleirun: ' Yes, and get over ground st a rattlin- rate, That we couldn't match now, were our lives at stake, For we r ,,'ir'1 " century older; But- "etimes, while limping along with my cane. niany. alsa! Have aUcel their but f.U .el. vci-ItH tbeir litest !., ! A pass that e trust nd t-lieve U-.d. ' a lore. Where tbe only countersign sske.1 lor is )' l"re And each one is bailed s friend. ; It us close op our ranks as our com rades fall out, And keep nubrokea line till t length, mitb a shieeit, We receive the "ls,t oeder," your march ings are Ar"if, The warfare i oier. the victory ole. And g'uery ami pact- is the eud. The Flerpeiis ecntiort. A Washington Star rejH.rrer had an army officer as a listener, and he was expatiating on the way he wouhl shoul-de-ra musket nu I light, bl.-ed and die for his leehevcel i-ooiitry. iu caw there was war with Engl-ind or any other effe-te monarchy loitering "U a tumbling throne, eer words to that effect. "Ieiel je.it e-nr do gnat el duty on a nasty night in the enemy' country V iliqllire-il I lie- otlo e r. "We-ll. lice," h. Ml.lte-d the reeoIter. "Then de'ii'l say what ou would d until )oii Imve tri.il it. It reads nlivly In the'piipcis. and lots of men de-light In Imagining the hith stepping style that thev would trot along the crimson path that l.-ii.ls to gl-ry or the grave, but when the e riiniou I" mud. or the path is lu a lliick.-t, which at any moment may l.lu.e- up with a leell-y. it isn't half so idee to think ulneiit. The righting ia the least disagreeable thing iiUnit war, and the glory Is won at an amazingly high price." ff l wouldn't stand g'W." asserted the reporte-r; 'I weeiihl be an oihi-e-r ami have seeine-leody else do the guarding." "Well, 1 didn't begin my soldier ca-re-er that way." said the ollic-er. "1 was a private and not yet twenty, ami th amount of guard duty I lid see-mcd to me to be- enough to protec t nil the armies In the lb-id. Let me tell you a story of how 1 did It one night. It was a dark and dismal time down on the Potomac, and we had been wading aroiiml in the- mud unci col 1 until tbe heart uii entirely taken out of us. We bad move-el forwarel and were e ting an a stack of Hie enemy at any moment. I'nde-r Mie-h circ-uuistiiiiees se-ntinels are given extra orders to be watchful, ami f.-r a guard to sleep on his jsest means death at daylight, sure "I hail Im-c-ii plac eil In an evpoicd po sition, and my orile-rs were very strict, indeed. My beat lay ae-ross a narrow m-ck of la ml between two gorges, and I had a m epoly of It. and was en tirely alone, but I had a g'iod com mand of the ground In front of me, and with ordinary cure- no ein-iriy could ap proach without being se-.-n. I ktn-w that much ib-peiideel on my v Igdance, and I knew that if I bctniyeil my trust death wouhl Is- my portion at davlight. but I was only a leoy ami so dead tin-d that I eotili! hardly stiilnl up. I we-lit on duty, though, like a man. end I stood It for I clou t know bow lung. "But leoy nature can't stand every thing, ami I was ru-h-ly amuseil from a leeautlful dream of home by a violent shaking ami the hoarse whispers and curses of the oitie-er of tin' guard. In a minute I knew what luul happened, ami there flashed through my mind a picture of a blindfolde-d soldier sitting on his coilln with a tiring party stand ing iu front of him. I got to my fc-ot by the help of a Jerk or two by the of ficer, ami then I e-xpee-teil more abuse, ami got it and kept on getting It iinul 1 got back to the oilic-er's te nt. 'irtun ntely I ke pt my mouth shut until we reached the light of the U-nt. "There the officer got a good look at me and discovered that I was covered with blood. So did I, nnie-li to my sur prise, but I felt on the Instant that I was saved, for the ollieer iiske-e what the blood meant, and I told him I must have burst a small blood vessel and fallen In a faint on my beat. 1 was si -a red so badly !lial 1 was si. k, and I diiln't leave to argue long to prove my case, notwithstanding the very seticetis results that might have followe-1 my dereliction of duty. 1 bail , guard duty to perform a,ie-r th.-tt for a long time, and an offense that was punish able by death actually turn.il out to be a fine snap for me, wbb-h as a leoy I rather enjoyed." "Hut the blood?" Iii.iulr.il the w riter. "Simply a case f nose bleed, to Which two or three years Is-fore I had been subject. I prcKiiuie my weak ened condition brought It bav'k again, but why It should have resumed opera-tions-at such an opportune time I can not say. 1 can say, though, that I never slept on my post again," ami the officer chuckled to think of his li.trrow escape. One KreiHiin fr War, The Chic ago Ibvord quotes 'an ex governor of Wisconsin as telling a little Joke upon himself. H.. whs in the I'nlou army during she Civil War, It appears, and leaves iw i ,,.i,..' stand that he is "plain" In uls per sonal appearance, one summer I met an ex-rebd East, one of those lank Southerners with a face so long that he could eat oats out of a churn. He looked me over tip and down, two or three times eacli way, and then he. said: "1 that the gov'imr of Wisconsin" . "Yes." "Kit in the war, eh?" "Yes." "We el, if all the Yanks had been as homely as hols, we'd be a fighting 'em lne fortune of .Mile. AeJ.-Ie llUlf, tll0 laaue daughter of ,H, ,,, has been Increased by her guardians, until It now amount, to many millions of francs, Th(, ,,,. man's only pleasure Is the theater, and It Is always difficult to g her to leave the theater after the performance, at .ec Liouasuie piay never ends. There are now breweries lu all parts of the Argentine republic, and the pro duction Is large and the quality so good that It Is not poss;i, to InuKirt beer and ales nt a proOt. ?lll$iiltWa