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y "T- MhK I he fmillHr imar of I I bundle Dr. Tulmage show in thin V sermon the flunr which KO to mafce np niuii'it earthly and heavenly life; tea. I. Hsmnel xir., 21), "The soul of my shall he bound in the hundle of life with the Lord thy God." Beantiful Abijrsil. i her rhyihmle plea for the row up of her inebriate husband, wha died within ten day, addresses Da rid the warrior in the words of the text. Rie miKKeHlg that hi life, physically and Intellectually and spiritually. I a valuable package or bundle, divinely bonnd up and to he divinely protected. Tlint phrase "lu'Tolle of life," I heard many time in my father's family prayers. Family pruver. you Know, have frequent repetition, because d:i. ty rlay they ac knowledge alsiut the smi.o Messing end deplore ahont the name fraiilos and sym- palhixe wilh about the Mine misfortune and I do not know why those who lead at household devotions should wk variety .111..,. ..-a,.,,.. l cjf i nniio.-i ' nm. j iiki iiiitiiiiui m oi-i ... cumin I he household lil ttriry. I w ould not give one of my old father' prayer for fifty elocutionary supplication. AkhIii and at-niii. in the morning and evening prayer, I heard the request that we might all lie hound up in the tniudle of life, hut I did not know until n few diijs ago that the phrae wn a Bible phrase. Now. the more I think of it the hctter 1 like It. Bundle of life! It in Kiich a aim- pie and unpretending, yet expressive com psirioii. There is nothing like grandilo quence in the Hcriptures. hile there are many suhliine passages in Holy Writ, there are more passnge homely and drawing- illustrations from common observa tion and everyday life. In Christ's great errnons you hear a hen clinking her chickens together and see the photographs of hypocrites with a sad countenance and hear of the gms of the Held, and the Mack crows which our heavenly father feeds, and the salt that worthless, and the precious stones flung under the feet of swine, and the sliifiing sand that lets down the house with a great crash and lieiir the comparison of the text, the most iinpoctical thing we can think of a bun dle. Ordinarily it is something tossed bout, something thrown under the table, aomething that suggests garrets or some thing on the Jioiilder of a poor wnlfarer. But there are hundle of great value, bun dles pot up with great caution, bundle the loss of which means consternation and despair, and there have been bundles rep resenting the worth of a kingdom. During the hist spell of cold weather there were bundles that attracted the at tention and the plaudit of the high heav en bundle of clothing on the way from comfortable homes to the door of the rnis ion room, and Christ stood in the snow bank and said as the bundle passed: "Naked, and ye clothed me. Inasmuch a ye have done It unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Those bundle are multiplying. Blessings on those who pack them! Bless ings on those who distribute them! Hle lugs nu those who receive them! It 1 a I'reeiou Hundle. With what beautiful aptitude did Abi gail, In my text, -ak of the bundle of life! Oh, what n precious bundle is life! Bundle of memories, bundle of hoies, bundle of ambitions, bundle of destinies! Once in a while a man writes his autobi ography, and It is of thrilling Interest. The tory of hi birthplace, the story of bit struggles, the story of hi suffering, the tory of his triumphs! But If the autobiography of the most eventful lift Were well written it would make many chapters of adventure, of tragedy, of comedy, and there would not lie an unin teresting tep from cradle to grave. Bundle of memories are you! Boyhood memories, with all It injustices from playmate, with all it game with ball and bat and kite and sled. Manhood meiu rlea, with all your struggle in starting obstacles, opiHisitions, accidents, misfor tune, losses, auceesse. Memories of the Brut marriage you ever saw solemnized, of the first grave you ever saw opened, of the first mighty wrong you ever suffered, of the first victory you ever gained. Mem ory f the hour when you were affianced, memory of the first advent in your home, memory of the roseate cheek faded and of blue eye eloed ill the Inst sleep, memory of anthem and of dirge, memory of great pain and of slow couvalecen-e. memory of time w hen all things were against yon, memory of prosiicritica that came In like the full tide of the sea, memories of a life time. What a bundle! I lift that bundle to-day and unloose the cord that hinds It, ami for a moment you look in and see tear and smile and laugh ter and groans and noonday and mid night of exiH-rienee, and then I tie again the bundle with heartstrings that have aome time vibrated with joy and anon been thrummed by linger of woe. Bundle of Iiom- and ambitions also I almost every man and woman, especially at the starling. What gain he will har vest, or what reputation he will achieve, or what bliss he will reach, Or what love lie will win. What make college com mencement day so entrancing to all of ua as we see the student receive 1 heir diplo ma and take up the garland thrown to their feet? They will lie I'araday In cl-em-e; they will lie Tennyson in poesy; they will lie Willard I'nrker in surgery; they'wi I be Alexander Hamilton In na tiopal finance; they will lie Horace Gree ley in editorial i liuir; they will be Web aler in the Senate. Orhc will Ik- a Mary 1.1 on in educational realms, or a France Willard on i-efoiinalory platform, or a Helen Could lii military hospital. Or she will make home life radiant with helpful am and self sacrifice ami magnificent v otiuitilioiid. Oh. what a bundle of ho' and iinibilloiis! i i n bundle of garland and scepiers fiftu which I would not lake mm sprig of iiiiguoucilv nor extinguish one spark of brilliance. Tbey who start life without bright hope and inspiring ambition might a well not start at all. for every step will be a failure. Rather would I add to the bundle, and if I open it now It will. not be because I wih to take anything from it, but that I may put Into it more coronets and bosanna. The Power to Think. Bundle of faeultiea in every man and every woman! Tower to think to think of the past and through all the future, to think upward and higher than the highest pinnacle of heaven, or to think downward until there ia no lower abysm to fathom. Power to think right, power to think wrong, power to think forever, for, once having begun to think, there shall be no terminus for that exercise, and eternity itself shall have no power to bid It halt. Faculties to love filial love, conjugal love, paternal love, maternal love, love of coun try, love of God. Faculty of judgment, with scale so delicate and yet so mighty they can weigh arguments, weigh emo tions, weigh words, weigh heaven and hell. Faculty of will, that can climb mountains or tunnel them, wade sea or bridge them, accepting eternal enthrone ment or choosing everlasting exile. Ob, what it is to lx- a man! Oh, what It Is to lie a woman! Sublime and infinite hundle of faculties! The thought of it staggers me, swamps me, stuns me, bewilders me. overwhelms me. Oh, what a hundle of life Abigail of my text saw in David, and which we ought to see in every human, yet immortal, being! Know, also, that thi bundle of life was put up with great care. Any merchant and almost any faithful householder will tell you how ninth depends on the way a bundle is bound. The cord or rope must he strong enough to hold, the knot must be well tied, ion know not what rough hands may toss that bundle. If not prop erly put together, though it may leave your hands in good order and symmetrical, before it reaches its proper destination it may lie loosened in fragments for the winds to aeatter or the rail train to lose. Now, I have to tell you that this bundle of life is well put together the body, the mind, the soul. Who but the omnipotent God could bind audi a bundle? Anato mists, physiologists, physicists, logicians, metaphysician, declare that we are fear fully and wonderfully made. That we are a bundle well put together I prove by the amount of journeying we can endure without damage, by the amount of rough handling we can survive, by the fact that the vast majority of us go through life without the loss of an eye, or the crippling of a limb, or the destruction of a single energy of Itody or faculty of mind. I sub poena for this trial that man in yonder view TO or SO years of age and ask him to testify that after all the storms and acci dents and vicissitudes of a long life he still keeps his five senses, and, though all the lighthouses ns old a he ia have been re constructed or new lanterns put in, he ha in under his forehead tile same two Inn terns wilh which God started him, and. though the locomotive of sixty years ago were long ago sold for old iron, he has the original power of locomotion in the limbs with which (iod started him, and. though all the electric wire that carried message twenty-five year ngo have been torn down, his nerves bring messages from all parts of his body a well as when God strung them seventy-five years ago. Was there ever such a complete bundle put to gether as the human being? What a fac tory! What an engine! What a mill race! What a lighthouse! What a loco motive! What an electric battery! What a furnace! What a masterpiece of the Mrd God Almighty! Or, to employ the auti-climax and use the figure of the text. what a bundle! I Properly Directed. I.' 1.... .I.;- - ... rvuow aiso inai iuis uunuie or lire la proierly directed. Many a bundle has missed it way and disapieared because the address has dropped and no one can find by examination for what city or town or neighborhood It wa intended. All great carrying companies have o many misdirected packages that they appoint day of vendue to dispose of them. All intelligent people know the Importance of having a valuable package plainly direct ed, the name of the one to whom it is to go plainly written. Baggage master and expressman ought to know at the first glance to whom to take it. Thi bundle of life that Abigail, in my text, speak of is plainly addressed. By divine pcnmaiiMnip it i directed heaven ward. However long may he the earthly distance it travel, it destination i the eternal city of God on high. Kvery mile it goe away from that direction ia by aome human or infernal fraud practiced agaiuat it. There are thoae who put it on some other track, who misplace it in some wrong conveyance, who oend it off or end it back by ome diabolic miscarriage. The value of that bundle i o well known all up and down the universe that there are a million dishonest band which are trying to delain or divert It. or to forever atop It progress In the right direction. There are so many influence abroad lo ruin your body, mind mid soul that my wonder is not that so many are destroyed for thi world and the next, but that there are not inure who go down IrremediaMy. 10 very human being I assailed at the start. Within an hour of the time when thi bundle of life ia made up the assault begin. First of all, there are the Infan tile disorders that threaten the body Just launched iikiu earthly existence. Starlet fever and pneumonia, and diphtheria and Inlliienzns, and the whole pack of epi demic surround the cradle and threaten it occupant, and infant Moses iu the ark of bulrushes wa not more imperiled by the monster of the Nile than every cradle I imperiled by ailment all devouring. In after year there are foe within and foe without. Evil appetite joined by outside allurement. Tempt a I Ion that have ut terly destroyed more people than now In habit the earth, (lunbling saloons and riimmcricN, and place where dissolute ness reign upreme, enough in number lo go round and round and round the earth. DIcourgeinent, jealousies, re venges, malevolences, disappointments, swindle, arsons, conflagration nlll cruel tie which make continued existence of the human race a wonderment. W any valuable bundle ever o imperiled a thi bundle of life? Oh, look t the addre and get that bundle going In the right way! "Thou shall love the l-ord thy Hod wilh nil thy heart and soul, and mind and strength," Heaven with ita twelve galea alaudiuf wide open with invitatlou. All the force of the Godhead pledged for onr heavenly arrival if we will do the right tiling. All augeldom ready for our ad vance and guidance. All the lightning of heaven so many drawn words for our protection. What a pity, what an ever lasting pity, if thi bundle of life, so well bound and so plainly directed, doe not come out at the right station, but becomes a lost bundle, cast out amid the rubbish of the universe! Value of the Bnndle. Know also that a bundle may have in It more than one invaluable. There may be in it a photograph of a loved one and a jewel for a carcanet. It may contain an embroidered robe and a Dore's illustrated Bible. A bundle may have two treasures. Abigail, in my text, recognized this when she said to David, "The soul of my lord ia bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God," and Abigail wa right. We may be bound up with a loving and sym pathetic God. We may be as near to him a ever were emerald and ruby united In one ring, a ever were two deed in one package, a ever were two vases on the same shelf, a ever were two valuables in the lamp bundle. Together in time of sor row. Together in time of joy. Together on earth. Together in heaven. Close companionship of God. Hear him, "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee." "For the mountains shall depart and the bills be removed, but my kindness shall not de part from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Iiord that hath mercy on thee." And when those Bible author compared God's friendship to the mountains for height and firmness they knew what they were writ ing about, for they well knew wbnt moun tains are. All those lands are mountain ous. Mount Hermon, Mount Oilboa, Mount Gerizim, Mount Engedl, Mount Horeb, Mount Nebo, Mount Pisgiih, Mount Olivet, Mount Zlon, Mount Mo rinh,' Mount Lebanon, Mount Sanai, Mount Golgotha, Yea, we have the di vine promise that all those mountains shall weigh their anchorage of rocks and move away from the earth before a loving and sympathetic God will move away from us if we love and trust him. Oh, if we could realize that according to my text we may be bound up with that God, how independent it would make us of things that now harass and annoy and discompose and torment us. Instead of a grasshopper being a burden a world of care would be as light as a feather, and tombstones would be marble stairs to the king's palace, nml all the giants of opposi tion we would smite down hip and thigh with great slaughter. A God away up in the heavens is not much consolation to us when we get Into life' struggle. It is a God close by, as near to ua as any two articles of apparel were near to each other in that bundle that you sent the other day to that shiver ing home, through whose roof the snow sifted and through whose broken window pane the night winds howled. It was sanctified ii-ony and holy Rarcasm that Klijah used when he told the idolaters of Baal to pray louder, saying that their god might be asleep, or talking, or on a Journey, or gone a hunting, but our God is always wide awake, anil always hears, and is always close by, and to him a whis per of prayer is as loud as an archangel's trumpet, and a child's "Now I lay me dowu to sleep" is as easily heard by him as the prayer of the great Scotchman amid the highlands when pursued by Lord Clnve rhouse's miscreants. The Covenant er said, "O Iord, cast the lap of thy cloak about these children of the covenant." and a mountain fog instantly hid the pursued from their bloodthirsty pursuer. I pro claim him a GimI close by. When we are tempted to do wrong, when we luive ques tion of livelihiKd too much for ns, when we put our darlings into the last sleep, when we are overwhelmed with physical distress, when we are perplexed about what next to do, when we come into com bat with the king of terrors, we want a God close' by. How do you like the doc trine of the text, "Bound in Ihe bundle of life with the Ixrd fhy (iod?" Tliauk you, Abigail, kneeling there at the foot of the mountain uttering consolation for all ages, while addressing David. No wonder Unit in after time he invited her to the palace and put her upon the tbione of his heart as well as upon the throne of Judah. Will He Welcomed in Heaven. Know also that this bundle of life will be gladly received when it come to the door of the mansion for which it was bound and plainly directed. With what alacrity and glee we await some package that has been foretold by letter; some holi day presentation; something that will en rich and ornament our home; some testi mony of admiration and affection! With what glow of expectation we untie the knot and lake off the cord that holds it to gether in safety, and with what glad ex clamation we unroll the covering and see the gift or purchase In all Its beauty of color and proportion. Well, what a day It will Is? when your precious bundle of life shall be opened in the "house of many mansions" amid saintly and angelic and divine inspection! The bundle may be spotted with the marks of much exposure. It may hear inscription after inscription to tell through what ordeal it ha passed. I'erhupa splashed of wave and scorched of flame, but all it ba within undamaged of the journey. And with what hout of joy thp bundle of life will be greeted by all the voices of the heavenly home circle! Oh! I cannot tell you how I feel about It, the thought i so glorious. Bound up with God. Bound up with infinite mercy. Bound up with infinite joy. Bound up with infinite purity. Bound up with in finite might. That thought I more beau tiful and glorious than wa the heroic Abi gail, who at the foot of the crag uttered It "Bound in the bundle of life with the Ixird thy God!" Now, my hearer and reader, appreciate the value of that bundle. See that it is bound up with nothing mean, but with the unsullied and Immaculate. Not with a pebble of the shifting beach, hut with the kohinoor of Ihe palace, not with some fading regalia of earthly pomp, but with the robe washed and made white In the blood of the Iianih. Pray as you never prayed before, thai by divine rbirography written nil over your nature, you may be properly addrced for a glorious destina tion. Copyright. INtW. Charity. The eburrh la not n cbat lta ble Instil uilon. Charity I Incidental, Dot fimdiiiiicntal, Id the cliurcb. Ha business I lo help people to help them nclve by developing la them the beat; working out their salvation, I. e., tlialr Character, according to the law of de Tdoptnent, and saving; them and their world, not from anything oeceaarl!y, tint ti all that I itiwm! anil trwm Rav I Wm Rndor flolUfreSfatlonallsl Hmm Francisco, OaJ. SOLDIERS AT HOME. THEY TELL SOME INTERESTING ANECDOTES OF THE WAR. Bow th Bora of Both Araale Whlled Awav Life la taaap-Foraaxiaiai Ks perlcace, Tlreaone Marchea Thril ling t-cenea on the Battlefield. sOL. CHARLES MARSHALL, Uwho was chief of staff to General Robert K. Ie, contributes to the Sunday Inter Ocean the following ver sion of the famous surrender to Grant ou April 9, lHtJ5, which he calls 'The True Story of Appomattox." It Is the first authoritative account of the his toric event written by a Confederate officer of high rank having confidential relations with Lee: There Is one very Important matter I wlah settled at the outset. It la this; General Lee did not meet General Grant In the McLean house on the morning of April 9, 18!I5, for the pur pose of then and there effecting a sur render of his army. On the contrary, It was simply for the purpose of bear ing Grant's terms. As a matter of fact, if they had not suited General Lee he would not have accepted them, but Grant's offer was so liberal, so mag nanimous, and so chivalrous that It was accepted forthwith. I wish to have another matter under stood before beginning a consecutive narrative of the surrender. This is In regard to General Horace I'orter'B statement, made repeatedly, orally and In writing, that General Lee offered bis sword to General Grant. I take ex ception to this statement. Lee never offered Ills sword to Grant and the lat ter never refused It. I was with the great Southern chieftain from the time he greeted Grant In the McLean bouse uutll he rode away, and the only time tuo mention of a sword was made was when Grant njKlogIzcd to Lee for his dress, explaining that it was not pos sible for Itlin to get access to his bag gage and at the same time keep the appointment. The terms of capitula tion expressly excepted side arms, and In view of that fact It would have been a most unusual procedure for General Lee to have offered his sword to Grant. These matters are unimportant in them selves, but It is well for tlio sake of history to have them cleared up. After the disaster of Sailor's creek In April. lSfiTi, tlio army, reduced to two ;-orps under the command of General Lotigstreet and General Gordon, moved through Fannvllle, where rations were issued to some of the starving troops A close pursuit by the overwhelming army of General Grant made it nes sary to remove the wagon trains liefore all the men could lx; supplied, and the re lima nt of the great army of ."southern Virginia, exhausted by light and star vation, moved In the road to Appo mattox courthouse. Ou I lie afternoon of April 7, lSti. General Grant wrote to General Loe stating that the hopelessness of further resistance was apparent, and asking a surrender of the army of Northern Vir ginia. When this letter was received there was some difference of opinion among the general officers as to the na ture of the reply to lie made lo General Grants letter, some thinking It. was yet sssllile to save fho remnant of the army. Finally, however. General Lee decided to meet Grant, and I was di rected to draw up a communication to that effect. This Is the letter General Lee signed: "April i, ISthi. General: I have re ceived your note of this date, though not etitertjiiiilng the opinion roil ex press of the hopelessness of further re sistance on the part of the Army of Northern Virginia: I reciprocate your desire to avoid useless effusion of blood, and therefore, before considering your proposition, ask the terms you will of fer on condition of surrender. Very re spectfully, your obedient servant. R. K. LKE, Genernl." It was not until the next day that a n ply w as received to this lttl er. Grant siaied flint he would Insist upon but one condition; this was that tiie men and officers surrendered should be dis qualified to take up anus against the United Slates, until properly ex changed. Even after this rorr-sMmlcnce Gen eral Lee did not abandon Iioks of suc cessfully extricating himself from the dilemma. The army had been In straits almost as deplorable. The march was continued April 8. with little inter ruption from the enemy. n the even ing we halted near Appomattox court house, General Lee intending to march, by way of Campbell courthouse, through Pittsylvania county, toward Danville, with a view of opening com munication with the army of General Joseph E. Johnston, then retreating be fore Oenerul Sherman through North Carolina. General Lee's nirxse waa lo unite with General Johnston lo at tack Shornum or call Johnston to his aid lu resisting Grain, whichever might la- found the better. The ex hausted troops were helled for rest near Appomattox courthouse, and the march was resumed at 1 a, m. We made our simple toilet, consisting mainly of putting on our caps and sad dling our horses. Somelaxly had a little i-or ii iiii-n 1. and somebody else had a tin can, such ns Is used lo hold watisr for shaving. A lire was kindled and each man in his turn, according to rank and seniority, mnilc a can of oatmeal gruel mid was allowed to keep the can until the gruel became cool enough to drink, General Loe, who reposed as we had done, not far from us, did not, an I remember, luivo even such re freshments as I have described. As soon ns wo all had our turn at the shaving can we rode toward Appo mattox courthouse, when the sound of guns announce! that Gordon had al ready begun lo attempt to open the wajr. He forced hla war through the caval ry of the enemy, only to encounter a force of Infantry far superior to his own wearied and starving command. He informed General Lee that It waa lmpoHMible to advance further, and it became evident that the end waa at band. General Lee bad written Grant, atat- lng that be would meet him at 10 o'clock the morulng of April 9, on the ; old stage road to Richmond. Attended - by myself and one orderly, Lee pro ceeded down this road to meet General Grant. General Lee, with an orderly In front bearing a flag of truce, had proceeded but a short distance after passing through our rear guard, when) be came upon the advancing enemy. I rode forward to meet a Federal officer, who turned out to be Lieutenant Col onel Whlttier of General Humphrey's staff, and who delivered to me General Grant's reply to General Lee's letter, declining to discuss terms of a general pacification. I took this letter to Gen eral Lee, who at once dictated to me a letter to Grant, asking an Interview for the purpose of discussing terms of surrender. Colonel Whlttier took this letter to Grant. General Lee then returned to the front, and with General Longstreet pro ceeded to a small orchard and there waited for Grant's reply. As he was much fatigued, a rude couch was pre pared under an apple tree, upon which he reclined until the appearance of a flag of truce and Grant's affirmative reply. Colonel Babeock, who brought the reply, told General Iee that he hud been sent to make any arrangements for the meeting that General Lee de sired within the Federal or Confederate lines. General Iee directed me to accom pany him with one orderly, and, imme diately mounting his horse, rode with Colouel Babeock toward Appomattox courthouse. We passed through an in fantry force In front of the village, and General Lee directed me to find a suitable place for the meeting. I rode forward and asked the first citizen I met fo direct me to a house suitable for the purpose. I learned afterward that the citizen was Mr. McLean, who had lived on the battlefield of Bull Run. but had removed lo ApHmattox court house to get out of the way of the war. McLean conducted me to a room in his own house, and I sent back the orderly who hud accompanied me to dl.ect Gen eral Lee and Colonel Balx-ock to the house. They came in presently, and Colonel Babeock said that, as General Grant was approaching on the road in front of the house, H would only be necessary for him to leave an orderly to direct him to the place of meeting. General Ixe, Colonel Babeock, and myself sat In the parlor for about half an hour, when a large party of mounted men arrived, and In a few minutes General Grant came into the room, ac companied byhls staff and a numlier of Federal officers of rank, among whom were General Ord and General Sheridan. General Grant greeted General Lee very civilly, and they engaged In a conversation for a short time about their former acquaintance during the Mexican war. Some other Federal of ficers took Mirt In the conversation, which was terminated by General Lee saying to General Grant that he had come to discuss the terms of the sur render of his army, as indicated In his note of fhat morning, and he suggest ed lo General Grant to reduce his p opo sitlou to writing, General Grant assented, and Colonel Parker of his staff moved a small table from the opposite side of the room and placed it by General Grant, who sat facing (Jeneral Lee. When General Grant had written his letter in pencil he took It to General Lee, who renin til ed scaled. General I-e read the letter and called General Grant's attention to the fact that he required the surrender of the cavalry as if tbey were public horses, lie told General Grant that Confederate cavalrymen owned their horses, and they would need them for planting a spring crop. General Grunt at once accepted Ihe suggestion. The terms of the letter having been agreed to, General Grant directed Colo nel Parker lo make a copy of It iu ink; and General Lev directed me to write Its acceptance. Colonel Parker took the table upon which General Grant had becu writing fo the other side of the room, and I accompanied him, and after he had finished copying the letter I sat down at Ihe same tnble and wrote General Ijce's Hcceptunce. When General Grant had signed the copy of his letter made by Colonel Parker and General Lee had signed the answer. Colonel Parker handed to mo General Grant's letter and I handed to htm General Lee's reply, and the work was done. When General Lee returned to his lines a large number of men gathered around lilin, to whom he announced what had taken place and the causes that had rendered the surrender neces sary. Great emotion was manifested by officers and men alike, but Lee main tained admirably bis self-control. Al though the surrender was a fearful blow to him, he did not wince. Mark Twaln'B Search for a Word. A little story nbout Mark Twain. The humorist gives exceeding care to coniMisltion. He sometimes rewrites an article a dawn or more times, study ing the whole range of syntax to give precision and lucidity to a thought, says M. A. P. For some fourteen rum mer lie lived at Quarry Farm, near F.lmlra (he home of bis sister-ln law Mrs. Crane. One day be disappeared and no truce of htm was found until at dinner-time be reappeared at the house. "Where In the world have you been all day?" lie was asked. "I have Ihm'U hunting - for a word," re plied Mr. Clemens In that drawl pe culiar to him. "And wbnl's more, I've found It, too," he added. WHEN AN AXLE BREAKS Bow Dasaaaasa VahUUa Oat to tfca Repair Shop. The common way of getting " i tele to the repair shop when as Mria breaks close to the bob, aa It vmmBj does, la in the case of a rear axle, to fat a piece of jolat or other timber frota the nearest convenient place, mako fcto forward end of It fast to the front axle, and lot the other end mill under th broken axle, whicili rests upon M, tba end of the Joist drugging on the pave men behind. Thus supported, aay the New York Sun, tihe broken end of the axle Is kept clear of the pavement, but not so high a it would be U io o der and with a wheel on ft, and so tba vehicle thus drawn off to the shop boo a decided sag. A better way of getting the vebtda with a broken axle to the shop, and oae often used on heavier vehicles, such aa coaches and large ' wagons, is to make fat to tihe liroken ajcle a short aectioti of axle with a wheel turning an it. such as rejiair wSiops keep ready for sin ue; wheels of different size, aa front wheels ami rear wheels, turning on a short lcugtih of axle, which is ae- crured to Ihe broken axle by meana of clips. This temixwury wheel may per haps be of a different color from tbe other three, but it holds the vehicle up to its usual level, keeps it from racking, and by this means ft is drawn easily and safely to the shop. It may be, however, that for Uie very largest vehicles such spare wheels and axles are not kept; and, In tbtit ca.se, this vehicle would be got to the shop In the same way as the lightest of vehicles, but with the use of rather heavier materials. Thus, when the rear axles of one of those long four wheel trucks, such as are now used for the transportation of ponderous iron beams, was broken off at Dtie wheel, the axle was mipported on a long, square, heavy stick of timber, the forward end of which was secured to the front axle, To raise the rear axle up to about Ms ordinary level, blocks were placed le twecn its under side and the top side of the timber. From the under side of the end of the timber, as it dragged over the paving stones, little smoke wreaths now and then floated out. Kven with no load at all the weight of the massive truck was so great fuid liore so heavily upon the snpiKH-tiiiig timber that the end of the tiinlver, where H dragged upon the ground, liad been worn down almost to a iwlnt and it was almost set afire by the friction as it was dragged uloiig. Mountain ltailroads. There has- been no State in the Union as fortunate in the matter of accidents as Colorado, so far as her passenger traffic is concerned. This is something marvelous, too when on; takes into consideration the fact that there is more crooked, winding roads In the State than, in any other in the Union. There are more up-grades and down grades and lapping over than on all the rest of the lines of the country com bined. Away back in the past, when the projectors and promoters of the Union Pacific suggested to Congress that It would be possible to climb over the mountains and band the continent with rails of steel, the members of Congress laughed and told in long sipoeches of the folly of such an undertaking. Not very fur back in the history of Colo rado, when the Klo Grande proposed to pierce the mountain fastnesses, many' of the citizens derided the Idea and suggested that others could ride in a train up over mountains If they wished to, "but not me." But the Union Pacific found its way safely through the mountains, and so did the R1o Grande, ami so have sev eral other roads. They carry the traf lic across the backbone of the conti nent and do not report as large a per cent, of loss of life as the air lines on the broad prairies. The secret of the safety of immntalii roads lies In the fart that the best equipment is used, mid the greatest care exercised in the running of ttiains. two facts which guarantee so fety. Denver Times. Flag- Hiat Flo ts Over Morro,, . Few American flags have a more In teresting history than attaches to the banner which was flung to the breeze over Morro castle, Havana, on New Year's lny. It first flew over the Coi n Kxchange National Hank, Philadel phia, when the famous Corn Exchange regiment of volunteers was organized for the war of the States. It flew over the bunk during nearly the whole of the war and was then secured by t lie late ex-Unllod Slates Senator Alexan der G. CattcJI, then an officer Of the bank. He took It to ills residence Hi Merchant vllle, N. J., and sion-d it away us a sacred thing. While President Grant was visiting Senator Cattell he raised the historic banner to a pole over the Senator's mansion an act that added materially to the historic value of the slurry emblem. After thnt the flag was again stored away as a prized relic. When cx-,Seiialor Cattell died It was practically forgot ten until George W. Algor procured It from the estate and presented It to the government for tbe purpose to which It was put at Havana. Unique Verdict of Coroner. A correspondent sends the London Chronicle the following unique certifi cate, given by n Welsh coroner on the deutli of n woman: "Fell Into the Glnmorgandilre canal, whereby she 'lied, and, being of unsound mind, did kill herself." This Is nearly as good ns the verdict once rendered by an old time HiifTnlo coroner, who found thai, his "subject" died "from Intemperance, chronic asthma and the visitation of God." It Is the experience of the women that It i easier lo have the grip twice limn to slay well, and nurat a man W ho uaa iloutth.
