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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(.
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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 .
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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.
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