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to broke it 1117 bare re-
kto falling on hard times.
grass widow will toon be
hy the newer "Klondike
the Chinese have no friends.
to eaty one way the powers are
part.
li to escape punishment In
at Ike United States can't Gn
aw haekliy; to cumins over
Wrappers of gam are out on a strike
If t&e chewera of cum
go sot on a sympathetic strike
mU wiM be forgiven.
The laventor of the telectroscope is
Mr. gcaacapanlk. The whole of hi
aasse to enough to give almost anyone
tow teat Ave letters of It
la practically Inviting Uncle Sam to
Jfcaocfc n chip off Its shoulder, Spain
ssaj be unaware of the proximity of
tne shoulder to the neck.
while thst of anthracite baa declined.
Brsdsrree-t's Mates that the total an
thracite marketed in 1S amounted to
43.177,485 tons, and ia 1807 to 41,037,.
844 tons. From this k would appear
that anthracite coal, while, perhaps.
not exf ftly disappearing, wss never
theless 1:0 ring short in quantity. One
reason for this may be found In the
fact that practically all of the antiira
cite mines in the country are now own
ed or controlled by a single monetary
mtereat or combination and as com
pletely aa though they were all open
tied under one name.
Around this season eggs are In such
waand en thus las tic farmers wouldn't
lad seeing the ben made the national
and egg-plants the national flower.
Originally the curfew meant the put
ting oat of lights. Nowadays when It
catches Its victim on the street at a
forbidden hour it signifies: Light out!
bfl ponding In the Ohio Legislature
tnrbioa the marriage of "insane per
son or parsons of unsound judgment."
Xos the Buckeye State Intend to pro
Mbat morrlage altogether?
Twenty Boston spinsters are en route
as the Klondike. Of coarse, they have
Omthlng to fear from the climate, since
othing that to colder than a Boston
ever has been discovered.
man who had been refused three
by his best girl In anger slapped
face. She Immediately collapsed
accepted him. It seems that men
oetnetimes waste lots of good time.
It is said that Brooklyn bridge to
ow losing about $1,500 per day. It la
eUflicust to understand bow this can be
aw. Greater New York should see to it
that the great enterprise Is made self-
, at least.
"Her march to o'er the mountain
wavea, her home is on the deep." John
Ml sings the same old song, and then
cheerfully dips into his pocket for
fU8.000.000 to keep up the "march"
aid the "home" for another year.
Japan seems likely to drive the
Swedes out of the match trade, and her
asportation, which was 8.000 gross of
Who In 1884, rose to 9,000,000 gross in
UK and 18,000.000 gross in 1S-.XS. The
Japs are getting to be a match for al
femet anything.
L Every advance in war engines is a
Vwlft advisee toward universal peace.
Ian 0000 as the mastery of mind over
force and matter becomes so complete
that annihilation can be speedily and
wanly visited upon hostile armies or
Posts the human race will be under an
toahreakable bond to keep the peace.
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verdict of guilty without punish
son to la the nature of an indorsement
ly the government of the general belief
.the the trial of Zola was a Judicial
fniMu It will simply deepen and widen
he conviction that Captain Dreyfus
. was the victim of a conspiracy, and that
vto disgrace and imprisonment on
!Dvra Inland to a great crime, for the
swan mission of which, sooner or latet,
Trance wml suffer.
UblMaAta liaa. a law 4a mmmmm
Ism planting. A bounty of $2.50 an
to offered, and at least one acre
be planted, while no person can
easts ct for more than ten acres in a
year or for more than six years. Any
ran bat the Mack loo net may he plant
ed. Last year bounties were paid to
twenty-five counties for planting 9,
84 acres. The law has been in oper
ttoa sixteen years. In that time more
1 100,000 acres have been planted in
One of the curious problems that baa
attracted specialists Is to ascertain In
what quarter of the globe men attain
the greatest age. The censuses of the
various nations give, with much exact
noes, the average of human life among
the people, but unfortunately all na
on no not make enumerations of
their population and so there remains
some doubt where men reach the great-
em age. me attempt has been maae
to find where the largest number of
men have pawed the century mark and
generally it bas been ascertained that
mild climates are more conducive to
longevity than those which have ex
tremes of either high or low tempera
tures. The last census of Germany
showed that in a population of 55,0tiO,
000 seventy-eight persons In that coun
try were more than 100 years of ace
France, with a population of 40,000,000,
bad 213 centenarians; England, with a
population of 27,490.000, had 140 cen
tenarians; Ireland had 578 among 4.
706,000 people; but Scotland bad only
56, with a population a little leas than
that of Ireland. Sweden had only 10
among a people nominally like those of
Ireland and Scotland, while Spain
with a population of 17,550.000, had
401 persons over a century old. The
oldest person in the world is an African
residing in Rio de Janeiro, who is !
years old, and next to him Is a Russian
coachman living In Moscow, who U 140
years of age.
A study of the statistics of our for
eign trade for the past year shows that
while the united Kingdom is our
largest customer H does not take so
large a proportion of our exports as for
merly. Ten years ago the total value
of our exports to the United Kingdom
was $359,734,531, or over 50 per cent
of our total exports; whereas In lM.t7
the proportion had fallen to about 41
per cent. Though k bas decreased rel
atively, It stili reaches the great valua
oi s4sz,utM,u, an increase or over
$120,000,000 in the nine years umier
consideration. The total increas in
our exports to all countries during the
saji.e period bas been 50 per cent. Our
exports to Germany have risen from
about 8 per cent of tbe total to about
12 per cent.; our exports to France
have remained stationary at about i
per cent, while those to the Nether
lands have risen from 2 to S3 per cent.
Tbe large Increase In our exports,
amounting to $94,000,000 over tbe pre
vlous year was, of course, chiefly due
to the Increased demand for oar wheat
and corn, tbe increased export of all
cereals amounting In value to some
$70,000,000. Tbe increase In exports of
iron and steel was $14,000,000; In bi
cycles it was $3,000,000; in cop;er. f.1,
000,000; and in lumber and manu
factured articles In wood, $5,500,
000. The excess of our exports
over our Imports amounts to $1,
281,741,351 for the past five years;
and there to special significance In the
figures when wo bear In mind that tbe
period bas been marked by depression
and various Influences which h.nv
tended to disturb business confidence.
The treaty for tbe annexation of Ha
araH has been virtually abandoned In
Abo United State Senate. In its place
a joaat resolution na been Introduced
which to latsmded to effect tbe same re-
Tbo treaty required for ratlflca-
tho support of two-thirds of the
i; bat the joint resolution may
i law by the rote of a majority of
of Congress. There to a
st for this proceeding, as It was
' joint resolution that Texas was in
to Bin, after the treaty negotl-
fZXk cy Mr. Calhoun had bora summer-
Cy njaatos by the Senate.
loth booses
ty
la Oa eonouo year 17 the produc
er t sMmtrtto osal wm lSJTMOO
.Ttrai Co fndaadoa of bttamjaout coal
zi XZ7kin toon. Tea yean later
T trm won 3S72,100 tons and
(rr:Urj too. respectively. The aa
JJ c"3eal report of the AjMricsn
' 2 a m aooociatton a ubto
t 'f-rlatCSs of aatbfacMe trJ 12
n osal for each eatoe3r,ywr
H3 to Inclusive. Tht pro
ItfsCTncUa laerssa to 81.-
r ti T aa httominoua
1 L-trJ t aatk tergor
vf Ttt Cii year.-
In a recent address In New Tork Dr.
Iavld James Burrell very fittlnrlr
characterized tbe Spanish people and
pointed out the difference between
them and ourselves. "The effect," be
said, "of indolence upon a nation finds
an apt Illustration In Spain. No conn
try on earth bas a richer soil. They
say, 'If you tickle It with a boe It wU)
laugh with a harvest' But unfortun
ately for tbe Castllian race they have
a prejudice against tbe boe. They art
given to bun fighting and fan flirttnz
ana love making. Once there were 12.
000 villages along the Ouadalqulver;
now there are but 800. The land bas
fallen Into Innocuous desuetude. The
people are a race of beggars more or
less respectable. There Is no greatwM
In Spain. If the kingdom were to per
ibu iraa me earui ii wouia leave no
laws, no literature, nothing as a legacy
to posterity. The pride of the Span
lards to vast and ludicrous. Their
strength has been bluster for centuries.
Ltttle Holland, with less than 3,000,000
of people, fought Spain, one generation
taking up tbe fight where tbe last had
left it until Philip III. begged for an
armistice. Tbey are unable even to
subdue Cuba. Poor, famished Cuba'
What a pathetic farce to this, that the
grandees of Spain, with their armies,
should be successfully resisted by a
few brave Islanders whose rank art
decimated by slaughter, famine and
plague! We, on tbe contrary, have
been derided aa a nettoa of shopkeep
ers and artisans.' Our glory Is In the
truth of that Imputation. Alas! for ns,
when wo consent to look on labor wKh
Bpaatota eyes! Lot as rejoice that a
call for volunteers would bo answered
as it was who Lmcoto made bis his
toric appeal for 'a hundred thousand
nsore. not by volunteer from the
street corners and the drawing-rooms,
bat from the fields and the workshops.
Her Is the source of oar greatness;
Iter Is the hope of oar perpetuity. Tn
trae American to neither tbe aim
taker nor to gentleman of leisure."
aHroagtaj of the ftpidrr.
Naturalists any that, In proportion of
their atot, aoiflors are seven times at
strong as
BONDS NOT REQUIRED
WAR FUNDS CAN BE OBTAINED
IN OTHER WAYS.
Actaal Workings of ths Villainous
War Bond Byateat Kixr(l - Whr
Not Pax in Greenbacks the Kipcom
Incnrrad in Carrying; on the Conflict,
Bonds and Bondage.
Secretary Gage bas been In Wall
street begging tbe bsnkocracy to ac
cept a 3 per cent mortgage upon the
industries of this and future genera
tions to the extent of a $.jUO,Umi,ooo
war loan, with more to follow wlieu the
contractors hare eaten up that vast
sum. And of course the bankers of
Wall street are willing to buy the
bonds, since under their manipulation
of the finance the three dollars which
they will receive as annual interest
upon each hundred dollar bond will
buy more labor and labor products
than ten dollars did thirty years ago.
The people must try to i-sialilisb a
blockade against the scheme, and ibt y
can succeed if they will show enough
energy in upholding the allied free
silver senators and representatives
who are fighting it and retiring those
who have connived at it. As long as
the war lasts this bond proposition
will come up again and again, and or
ganization In opposition to it should
be kept up by the I'opullsts and their
free silver allies.
The alternative propositions, an In
come tax, the free coinage of sliver,
and tbe Issuance of greenbacks, will
certainly rally a majority at the polls
next November. "We propose," says
Mr. Bailey, "to tax the rich men now
rather than mortgage the energies of
poor men for future generations."
That is .very well put. "Interest bear
lug bonds," said Thomas Jefferson, "are
a robbery of posterity." They rob tbe
present generation, also, to the extent
that Interest payments fall due, and
as tbe war can easily be conducted
without tbe payment of s dollar In In
terest It Is a crime to saddle an Interest
burden upon the people.
Tbe Cleveland Recorder says:
"The proper way for the government
of tbe United States to raise money is
to issue greenbacks. There has never
been a better plan than that which
was invented by Secretary Chase in the
last war. It is a crime for tbe United
States government to pay Interest on
Its loans from the people. It Is little
less than criminal for citizens to accept
Interest from the government In times
of Its necessity. The trouble with the
whole money problem in these latter
days comes from tbe bond business in
the time of the slaveholders' war. Tbe
bonds were bought at 40 cents on the
dollar and were bought with green
backs. Now It Is Insisted that thejt
made bankrupt and worthless by that
law of legal teuder. Positively, If peo
ple would study this subject In the light
of common sense, tbe system could not
eilst one day longer. It Is robbery,
piracy, fraud and tbe sum of all tbe vll
lalules enthroned by law and compel,
lug tbe admiration, wonder, worship
snd tribute of tbe whole world at the
beck of a few supernal urally avaricious
men."
- Am AtctJaoa
shotU m to
bottoveo that If bt
sag bo shot la the
kacft
shall be paid at par and with gold. Sti
ver is not good enough for your shark.
lie must buy with the poorest money
and must have bis febylock's pound of
flesh back In the best money. If tbe.
government needs money, let the print
ing presses be started. Iet the ex
penses be paid lu greenbacks."
Following are some reflections by
uoit on tne workings or tne war
bond system:
"Tbe debts of nations are alwut thlr-
ty-flve billion dollars. Tbey are all
payable In gold alone. Their interest
also Is payable In gold alone.
"The gold stock of the world is about
four billion dollars. Notwithstanding
tbe increased product of gold It Is un
likely the stock will ever increase very
much above five billions, if so much.
as It is a perishable metal, easily wast
ed in tbe handling and has to be care
fully boarded to prevent this waste.
Yearly the arts demand more of the
product ip wasteful ways. Tt.e debts
of the world, especially national debts,
are Increasing as never liefore, and
without some fearful revolution, under
present methods of administration,
tbey must continue to increase, if
banks or Individuals had their awn
obligations out In the same proposition,
all payable In gold only, and It wa
known that they had but one ninth of
their promised gold, and that It would
he impossible to procure enough gold
to pay them, what would that condition
be called? Bankruptcy, total and irre
trievable. "But here is something worse. Cer
tainly some of these national Itouds
must be good for their entire principal
In the very nature of things. Some of
them, like mortgages, nre older tbsn
others. Some are eveu older than are
several of the most hopelessly Indebted
governments. When the tlrst bonds
were Issued, tbe gold was delivered for
them, and that gold has all been return
ed as Interest Tbe owner of some of
these oldest bonds bold all tbe gold
stock of tbe world. Tbey have tbe
bonds, and time has delivered back to
them, through usury, tbe gold also.
Tbey bsve taken care that the gold
shall never be found In tbe possession
of those who own tbe thirty billions
or so of later bonds. Suppose aa Im
possibility. Suppose that tbe old bonds
of tbe British government should be
redeemed. Then by a natural proces
tne next best secured bonds would
take tbelr place and fall Into tbe
bands of this one bouse of Rothschilds.
What an absurd system Is this which
really bankrupts all tbe bonds but
those held as first lien on all the gold.
and which cornels tbe financial sys
tem of all nations to revolve around
that British national debt aa the golden
sun of tbe wbole. and virtually compels
tbe labor, and toll, and gen I as of the
world to pay Infinite tribute to that
one house! It Is the outcome of the
golden basis system by which all the
real money of the nations, the paper
and silver, to declared no money and
gold to msde tbe sole legal teador-gold
that never docs any work aa money,
hat effects It through Its ao-csiled ropre-(oataares-all
of which are la roaKtv
Levy an Income Tax.
Congressman Benton McMlllln. oi
Tennessee. In advocating an Incora"
tax as a means of raislug revenue, said,
we are resorting to that method of tax
which Is extensively adopted by most
of the leading nations of the world.
England hns an Income tax of 7 pence
in the pound. The exemption Is a bun
died and fifty pounds. She bas bad an
Income tax all the time for fifty years,
and most of the time for a hundred
years. There Is no power In the British
Kmplre to break down this tax.
Most of the states constituting tbe
ijerniaii empire have an income tax.
Tbe exemption in Prussia is WW marks.
The income tax Is 1 per cent, on all
Incomes between WW and 1.200 marks;
2 per cent, on incomes over 1.200 and
under 3.(W0 marks; 3 per cent, on all In
comes from 3.x tu to 10.000 marks, and
on Incomes above lOO.Ouu marks, 4 per
cent
Itavaria imitoges an Income tax of 1
per cent, and collected, in 12. there
from 2.U0.(j(i0 marks.
Baden has an Income tax of 2 per
cent
Bremen has an Income tax of 4 per
cent
Austria has a graduated Income tax
ranging front to 20 per cent, and
collects a l...'ye part of her taxes from
this source.
Italy in "i s an Income tax of from
13 to 20 i,..- cent, and collects there
from $45,000,000.
Switzerland Imposes an Income tat
also.
Iu all of the countries Imposing an
Income tax. so far as I know, perma
nent resident foreigners hsve to pay
tbe tax; and It Is said that In England
not even permanent residence of citi
zens of other countries is required to
lay the foundation for the tax, but so
journers, after a certain amy, are as
sessed their Incomes.
It Is sometimes urged that It will not
be wise to impose an Income tax. be
cause some American ciiizens would
leave their country and settle abroad
to escape it. carrying their wealth with
them, and we would thereby lose. This
is not probable, because they would
most likely subject themselves to simi
lar or heavier Impositions in the coun
try of their adoption. But even If they
did, those citizens who would give up
tbe free institutions of their own coun
try and deliberately become the sub
jects of monarchy rather tlxtn contrib
ute their fair share to support the gov
ernment whose freedom nnd fertility
have enabled them to accumulate their
fortunes would not be au irreparable
loss to any country.
The Empty Meev.
The empty sleeve of a veteran old
Little Brii-ht Kyea was peeoitir in,
Seeking In vsin through Its every fold,
And wondering ever the void withis.
Moat strange coincidence, far away
The thoughts of the veteran sadly bong
Over events of s memoried dsy
When heads bent low and hearts were
wrong.
Once again he feels the patriot fire
Which a Lincoln stirred snd a Grant
upbore.
To throttle the power of relwllious ire
Bred from a "cause" which is cause no
more.
Only he and his comrades know
(Like a never-to-be-forgotten dirge)
Of the horrors of war and tbe seed tbey
ww
Of tbe prison pen and its lasting
scourge.
Once again In danger, bis nstire land,
Oppression braves snd its baneful
harm
Now crippled sod old, yet he'd raise bis
hand
And for liberty's sake she the other
arm!
Cleveland Leader.
Bight and Wrong- Methods,
When you want to convert a neighbor
to Populism, don't go to him and shake
your fist under his nose and call him a
! lop-carwl. gimlet-eyed, whopper-Jawed
sou or sin.
The average of all parties la an hon
est man. He believes that be Is right
and that you are wrong. Tbe beat way
to convince a Republican is to place
Populist literature in his bands, and
ask of him as a personal favor to your
self that he should open your eyes to
the truth or falsity of your political
principles, and when be comes to you
after reading, and enters a protest do
not then try to argue with him; let blm
have bis say, but Just keep loading blm
up with tbe truth as you see It, and if
he Is not too narrow between tbe eyes
you may expect results inside of a year.
Your victim cannot get up a wordy war
with a Populist paper; he may at first
curse tbe Infernal rag as an anarchist
publication, but right down In bis gls
zard be will be digesting the solid
truths of Populism, sgalust wblcb bo
can bring no logical argument to prove
their falsity. Just baudle the convert
gently, and he will aoon become (ac
cording to his temperament) a holy
white-eyed terror to his former party
aasocla tes. Exchange.
Reanlta of Class I-catalatlon.
Is It not strange that a free countn
like the United States bas more tenant
farmers than England, Ireland, Scot
land and Wales? Texas alone bas 80,-
245, while the remainder of tbe States
combined have 6.0CO.75S. Class legis
lation and tbe rule of the money power
have produced these results In nbe past
J 00 years. How long will K be till
the people will sll be slaves? South
ern Mercury.
Herein Lie tbe lllffrrencs.
Bimetalllsts believe that In a wa
emergency the government should sav
every dollar pwllle and use paper
money. The gold lies believe that war
Is their field for plunder, and are doing
all In their jxtwer to burden the coun
try with $4HW.O00.(XW of bonds, upon
which they can feast while tbe common
people fight the enemy.
IXaboneaty la Kvldcnt.
It shows that this administration Is
dishonest wheu It uses sll Its Influ
ence to get authority to Issue Interest
bearing bonds and put the nation ia
debt when United state treasury
notes would answer all purpose and
cost nothlng.-Sllver Kuigbt-Watch.
man.
Printed for Kick Loafer.
The metropolitan dallies have become
to voluminous, so stuffed and Inflated
with wind and wortblesaness, that
none bat professional loafers have time
to wad through them. Bodto Miner-Index.
Bonds Are Mill with Da.
Booms are past, bonds
fn'nr. Man KraavUn atar
Cnpld in War Tlmea.
SUPPOSE tbls gen
eration thinks that
war was grim-vls-aged
all of tbe time.
Not so.
More love letters
were exchanged
during those four
years, it Is safe to
say, than during
any previous four
years of the country's history. At least
tbree-fourtus of both armies blue and
gray were composed of unmarried
men. Probably nine-tenths of them
had best girls up North and down
South; maybe some of them had more
than one. Showers of love letters were
scattered from the armies erery week
while the men were In camp. Thou
sands of matches were concluded by
these going and coming messages of
lovexof brave boys and hopeful, hap
py girls'.
A handsome young fellow In a little
Mississippi town was devotlnu Sunday
evenings to an equally handsome young
lady. Their Joyful hours were Inter
rupted by the call for troops. The
young man wanted to volunteer, and
the young lady said volunteer the day
the message reached tbelr town. A
week later he was In a camp of Instruc
tion. His regiment went to Virginia
and became a part of Bea ureirard's
force at Manassas. It played a promi
nent part In the first great battle of the
war. (It was called great then, but
was only a skirmish compared with
many that followed.) The Mlsslsslpplan
was slightly wounded, but lu getting
the scar bad shown such bravery that
be was promoted to lieutenant. At the
end of the Peninsula campaign, in 1802,
at Malvern Hill, be was In command of
bis company, a captain. At Antletam
be was again wounded, and this time
fell Into tbe bands of tbe Federals, re
maining a prisoner until be was well
enough to return to duty. One night,
when the nurses and guards were not
very watchful, be slipped away from
the hospital at Frederick City, Md.,
found bia way to tbe Potomac River!
broke tbe lock of a boat and rowed to
the Virginia side, and two days later
was with his regiment
After Chsncellorsvllle and Gettys
burg be was called borne to accept a
commission as lieutenant colonel of an
other regiment and given a five-day
leave of absence.
I supjiose that the young folks who
read this story will be disappointed be-
cause I do not go Into details In describ
ing the meeting between these two
Mississippi lovers. I can Imagine about
how matters went with tbem and might
tell a pretty story, but that Is not al
lowable in a strictly matter of fact a
true story. It can be said that tbe
three or four days were all too few of
hours to suit these young people, and
that the parting was more difficult than
that of over two years before. Then, m
Hepterber, ly, they and the civilized
world knew that a war between Amer
bans was no play-spell; knew that It
meant better fighting than bad ever
before been seen on battlefields; knew
tbe chances of life were few. With
this knowledge stsring them In tbe
face the young Isdy realized that her
soldier lover might be parting with her
for the last time, and be felt that be
might be looking into ber lustrous
brown eyes as he would never do again.
But they parted, sbe waving ber
handkerchief and smiling through
tears; be looking tbe love be felt and
the dauntless soldier that he was.
If (Sod spares ray life until St Vsl-
ptitlne'a day I shall be with you and we
will lie married," wrote tbe roune- col.
onH the week that Qea. Hood's army
started bsck from Atlanta and Sher
man started for tbe son.
The Mississippi's command was In
the actions from Atlanta to Nashville.
At rrsngnn one or tbe most remarka
ble battles of tbe whole war, where
thirteen Confederate generals were
klljed or wounded lx of them killed),
Including that Intrepid soldier and lead
er, r( Cleburne, the colonel was
placed ia command of a brigade, tmi a
rew nays later rommaaosd It at ths
battle of Nashville. la too mtmsrsMi
retreat from Nashville he was agafat
slightly wounded and made a prisoner.
A few days before bis capture be hsd
received a commission as brigadier
general. ,
Tbe General with other prisoners,
wss taken to Nashville. Gen. John O.
Parkhurst, who bad commanded t he
Ninth Michigan and won promotion by
getting close enough to tbe Oonfeder-1'
ates to see and feel tbelr fighting quail-'
ties, was provost marshal at that thaw,;
and consequently bad charge of the4
prisoners. Some of tbe Confederate!
officers wbo were taken before him bei
bad met In battle, lie desired to makef
It as pleasnt for tbem as possible; did
not want to confine them-between the)
walls. Tbe second dsy the prisoners
were there Gen. Parkhurst Informed
tbe general and field officers that ho
would parole tbem give tbem an op-j
portunlty to enjoy themselves wlthlai
the city limits. All be wsnted la fJ
turn wss that they report to blm every)
evening. Each evening after that (lea..
Pnrkburst's headquarters were visited
by a choice collection of .Southern gea-1
tlemen In uniform. When tbe provostj
marshal was not too busy there would
be an early day blue and gray camp-)
fire. On more than one occasion a num.,
ber of Federal officers were Invited laj
and the men wbo bad often tried to!
demolish each other In battle sat at,
card tables and enjoyed themselves la
perfect peace "and safety. Such was:
war sometimes. ,
After a pleasant game of cards onoj
night a young fellow wearing tbe unl-j
form of a Confederate brigadier gen
eral lingered after tbe others had goaoj
Gen. Parkhurst saw that something!
was on his mind thst be was In trooy
ble, and asked: "What's the matter.
General? Is there anything I can do
for your
then tbe Confederate told Gen. Part
hurst tbe story I have told you. i
"This Is tbe beginning of February.
General," said tbe Southerner. "St.
Valen!ne's day Is not fsr away. That
little woman at my home Is fondly loolw
lng forward to that day. So am I, and
wondering, all of tbe time, bow I can)
avoid disappointing her. Up to the!
present I bare not solved tbe problenu
Can you and will you help roe out?"
"Well, well, really I would delight to
do so, but can't Just now see bow It caa
be done without transgressing tbe rules;
and regulations. General, we will bothj
sleep over It to-night Call hero toj
morrow afternoon. In tbe meantime I
will bunt for a chance to prevent thai
little woman and a certain Confederato
general from a sorrowful disappoint
ment." . ,
The next afternoon tbe two generate)
had another meeting.
'I believe I can trust you implicitly.
General," said Parkburst
"You can, sir." v
Then be handed the Confederate two
passea. One read: "Pass Gen. Blank
through tbe Union lines." Tbe other1
read: "Permit (Jen. Blank and wife)
to pass the Union lines."
There was a quiet wedding at the
young lady's home on St. Valentine's
day. and a week later the Confederato'
and his bride came throngh the lines a
few miles from Nashville. Gen. Park-'
hurst gave the young couple a recep
tion. As Gen. Blank and wife entered)
the room tbe groom exclaimed:
"Here we are, Gen. Parkhurst oa'
time according to promise." t
"I congratulate both of you with all
my heart"
"And I thank you, Gen. Parkbursty
with all my heart ' said the bride, and:
then made tbe Michigan soldier a pris
oner long enough to plump a klca on his1
lips.
Gen. Blank has served bis district la
Congress several times. J. A. Watrooa,'
In Chicago Times-Herald.
Troabls Is His Specialty.
"I tblnk I will enlist even If I am
too old,," taM a Missouri man who wag,
In a crowd that was waiting for to a
Cuban news. "I never could keep out,
of trouble. As my wife used to aa if J
my specialty. When tbe dvU war broke
out I was a Constitutional Union many
until we came to the conclusion that
tbe Constitution wasn't worth a cent
Then I sidled over to tbe Confederato
side, put up some money for tbe boys '
and helped them to the front About a
year after, when we beard tbe South
was calling for men, my wife said an
reckoned I ought to go, and I got ready
The night before I was to go a squad of
Federals arrested me and I was taken'
to tbe guardhouse and kept there a'
week. I was finaly paroled, but In or-(
der to get my liberty I bad to furnish,
bonds and to take the oath of .11
glance, as well as ths Drake-Rodman
oath, which no man could take without
perjury.
"I Wed to attend to business, but
somehow I devoted more time reading
Pomeroy's Democrat and Pat Donan's
Caucasian than I did to my own af
fairs. "Along toward tbe close of the war'
tbe Government ordered a draft and
nearly every man in tbe town suddenly
became nearsighted or had some In-
capacitating ailment One day I rW
celved notification to call at the Cap
tarn's office, ami there I was Informed
that I bad been drafted and wan ro-f
quired to report for examination. Out
of six men In my end of tbe town I waa
tbe only one that pleased tbe examln-r
lng surgeon. He aald I was ths floss
specimen of physical manhood h
beheld. For the first Urns la my life
envied crosa-eyed men and bunohbacksj
"I explained that I was not sufflcleaM
ly loyal to make a good Union soldier..
But I waa Informed that I could And a
substitute who would be. Itwasa tlms
when substitutes were active and la
demand. And when I at last found otW
wbo waa acceptable It coat mo g800. i
"Aalde from wanting to fight, aari
way, I shall enlist If they wUl tako mtj
tor If I don't tb.yil gat mo later, if not
one aide, oa the other."
If man has hone
knew whsa to say