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,. j HavP vMif nrufefc fnr Groceries and Meat filled at : y: : : The Royal: 102a STREET g BELL 224 8 'Phones: JS iiwiivo. AUTO 1224 & 3oaooooooooooffio r Just eturnea From St. Louis World's Fair , with a fine new line of new Roods. Carpets, Rugs. Fancy DLsIioh, World's FHir Souvenirs , and ho on. Will be 011 sale all next week. " , O'CONNOR 233 North loth 8t. .MAGES.. OOCXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX3QOO I always have a number for sale on good terms, ranging in price from $750.00 to $1,500.00 and up yxxxxxxxxxooooocooooo GEORGE W. HOLMES t 8. I Ith St. Phon.i tt-37 OOOOOOOOCXXXXX DCXXOOOOOOOO One of the best stocks Xmas presents in the city CALL I! AND KXAMINE UKFOKE BUYING. Cbas. W. Thmingt Jeweler 1311 O Strt. puonk Air!u bull. Auto. 1301. The care taken n the cultivation and the method of practical steri- VtnVn A ligation UDKU of the h.,,n. Selected nm coflce for nil the fa ml v. Tut un m 01m pound air tight tin only. .......... j l;,,, ( , Wt'lfil( ru li iirfiiiifi u...l n . .' - in-in, 11c iiavnr, jxsil USE Ubero Coffee FOR SALE ONLY BY The Corner Grocery Co. Eleventh and Q Street. Bkxr, Phonk (WO. Auto Phone 160 LEMING'S TlKALER IN Ice Cream, Oysters, MUK, Cream Confectionery and BaKed Goods. Prompt Attention Givtn to All Or.lera. 401 So. Ilth Street, LINCOLN, NEB. Lincoln Auction Co. 1325 O. Will give yon bargains the next thirty days iii Furniture, Stoves, etc. Wm. Walworth, Prop. COAL WOOD AND COKE Hutchins & Hyatt Co. There is no Ttoatch, clock or article of jewelry ive cannot rapair . . . . Clocks called for and delivered C. A. TUCKER, Jeweler 9 (I ttrppt PHONES: UU U JUtKl Bell 534 Auu 153 3 txpen ti3pairers ana h 8 -"Finishers- 8 Have your chairs recaned, your furniture upholster ed, umbrellas mended. We call for your goods and guar antee all work. 329 So. Ilth St., LINCOLN DoN Plume, L 1840. We Do Not Patronize The following named business tirms are unfriendly to organized labor and nave been placed upon the "unfair list." Watch the list carefully from week to week, as important changes may occur: " . Union workrngmen and wot king women and sympathizers Willi labor have refused to purchase articled pro duced by the following firinb Labor papers please note changes from month to month and copy: FOOD AND KINDRED PRODUCTS'. Bread. National Biscuit Company, Chicago, 111. Cigars. Carl Upman of New York city; Krebs, Wertheim & Schiller ot New York city; The Henry George and Tom Moore. Flour. Washburn, Crosby, Milling Co., Miueapolis, Minn.; Kelley Mill ing Co., Kansas City. Mo. Pipes Wm. Demuth & Co., New Yf.k. Tobacco American and Continental CLOTHING. Buttons Davenport Pearl Button com pany, Davenport, la.; Kremei us & Co., Newark, N. J. . Clothing N . Snellenberg & Co., Phil adelphia, Pa.; Clothiers' Exchange, Rochester. N. Y.; Strawbrie" & Clothier. Philadelphia Pa.; Biauncr " Bros., New York. Corsets Chicago Corset company. Hats J. B. Stetson compauy, Phila delphia. Pa.; E. M. Knox company, Brooklyn, N. Y. Shirts and Collars United Saiii and Collar company, Troy, N. Y.; Van Zandt, Jacobs & Co., Troj, N. Y.; Cluett, Peabody & Co., Troy, N. Y.; James R. Kaiser, New York city. Shoes. Wellman, Osborne & Co., Lynn, Mass.; Thomas, Taylor & Eon, Hudson, Mass.; Harney Bros., i.jnn, Mass. Suspenders. Russell Mfg. Co., Alirt- dletown. Conn. Textile Merrimac Mfg. Co. (punted goods), Lowell, Mass. Underwear. Oneita Knitting Mills, Utiea, N. Y. Woolens. Hartford Carpet Co , Thompsonville, Conn.; J. Ca;vs &, b'on, Jacksonville, 111. PRINTING AND PUBLICATIONS. Bookbinders. Geo. M. Hill Co., Chi cago, 111. Newspapers. Philadelphia Democrat, Philadelphia, Pa.; Hudson, Kimber Jy & Co., printers of Kansas City, Mo.; W. B. Conkey Co., publishers, Hammond, Ind.; Gazette, Terra Haute, Ind.; Times, Los Ang-des, Cal. MACHINERY AND BUILDING. General Hardware. Lanera, Fr.:r; & Clark, Aetna company. New Britain, Ccnu.r Davis Sewing Machine com pany, Dayton, Ohio; Computing Stale company, Dayton, Ohio; Iver Johnson Arms company, iitehburg, Mass.; Kelsey Furnace company, Sy racuse, N. Y.; Brown & Sharpe Tool company. Providence, R. 1., John Russell Cutlery company, Turner's tails, Mass.; Atlas Tack company, Fairhavon, Mass.; Hohmanu & Maurer .Manufacturing company, Rochester, N. Y.; Henry Disston & Co., Philadelphia. Pa. iron and Steal. Illinois Iron and Boll, company of Carpentersviiie, 111.; Carborundum company, Niagara Falls, N. Y.; David Maydole Ham mer Co., Norwich, N. Y.; Singer Sewing Machine Co., Elizabeth, N. J. b'oves. Gerruer S'tova company, Erie, Pa ; "Radiant Home" Stove, Ranges aud Hot Air Cast, Erie, Pa. pany, fc'ag Harbor. MISCELLANEOUS. Advertising Novelties. Novelty Ad vertising company, Coshocton, Ohio. renography. Western Union Tele graph company, WOOD AND FURNITURE. Ba;js. (Jidf Bag company. New Or leans, La., branch Bemis Brcs., St. IxmiU, Mo. brooms and Dusters. The Lto Broom and Duster company of Davenport, la.; M. Goeller's Sons, Circieviile, Ohio. China.--Wick China company, Kiltan ning. Pa. Furniture. American Billiard Table company, Cincinnati, Ohio; Biumby Chair company, Marietta, da.; O. Winner Piano company, Lmokiyu, N. Y.; Krell Piano company, Cincin nati. Ohio; N. Drucker & Co., Cin cinnati. Ohio, trunks; St. Johns Ta ble company, St. Johns, Midi. Leather. Kullman, Salz & Co., Ben icla, Cal.; A. B. Patrick & Co.. San Francisco, Cal.; Columbus Buggy and Harness company, Columbus, O. Rubber. Kokomo Rubber company, Kokomo, Ind.; B. F. Goodrich Rub her company, Akron, Ohio: Diamond Rubber, company, Akron. Ohio. fJon;s. 1.. E. Waterman & Co., New York city. Paper Boxes. E. N. Rowell & Co., Batavia, N. Y. Paper. Remington-Martin Papoi Co., Norfolk, N. Y. Typewriters. Underwood Typewriter company, Haitl'ord, Conn. Watches. Keystone Watch Caso com pany of Philadelphia, Pa.; Crescent Courvoiseer Wilcox company; Jos. Fahy, Brooklyn Watch Case com ix M. Parry, Indianapolis, Ind. Small s Grocery C O JV P A N Y 301 So. Ilth St. Staple and fancy ...GROCER.. PHONESi Bel 949 Auto 3949 WHITE HOUSE Grocery and 7Verl.?t DKAI.KKS IV Fancy Croceries, fresn and Cured; Meats 1 43(1 O HTRKKT 1'IIONKM Auto 1435, Hell 2I3." OrdiTB Promptly AttMJ.i to by Phone. YOUR CHRISTMAS PHOTOS Go To 1 A Pretty Girl She's not particularly bright. At school they i-hIHiI her dull. A boy In siu-h case w.uld bemoan The thickness of 1uh skull. But now. when young men look at her. Their brains are in a whirl. She's -no Minerva what of that? She's .such a pretty girl? She hasn't very -much to say, And doesn't say it well. And yet, men readily admit. She weaves a wondrous spoil. No man denies her facile charm. Unless he is a churl. She's slow and stupid what of that? She's such a pretty girl! Somerviiie Journal. 9 (Copyiight. 1904. by A carriage rolled by the Harp com ing from the sea. Captain Stover lay down his pot of beer and looked at a very commonplace countenance peer ing with a wistful expression at the inn. Mr. Twitehett had no pot to lay down, hut he looked and so did the landlord. "That's 'im," said the landlord, "nev er notices nobody." "He's rich," explained the captain, "he could put down a pith for every farden in Portham. He's above poor people." "Why do they call im, 'onorable?" inquired Mr, Twitehett. winking at the landlord as if he had propounded a poser to the captain. "Because he's made his money clean," replied the skipper," when a man's rich and didn't steal his money the king lets 'im call hisself honor able." Dazed at this sudden solution of the problem Mr. Twitehett subsided. '"E's a stuck up, nasty haristocrat," snapped the landlord. "I'm goin'," announced the skipper. "I sail on the ebb and I've lots to do. Next Monday week Elizy gets mar ried." And the captain gulping down his beer, hastened toward the wharf. Mr. Adolphus Walker had leased Penn Lodge for an indefinite time. Portham at once dubbed him "Honor able," and bowed clown to him. The nearest approach the town had had, hitherto, of talking about its aristo cratic citizens was to allude vaguely to a marquis who lived thirty miles inland and who had carefully avoided setting his foot in the town. But- Mr. Walker was exclusive. He spake to no man and naturally no man in Port ham dared to speak to him. Portham boasted of him and, in its heart hated him for the haughtiness of which it boasted. Very little was known of Mr. Walker. The servants, brought from London, were creatures of tlgid stateiiness and never came to the Harp. Portham, as a dire necessity, wrote the history of Mr. Walker to suit itself. "I'm goin' to have Ned Butts to the weddin'," remarked the skipper, as the schooner dropped down Portham Bay, bound for London. '"Ow, when your people won't 'ave 'im?" inquired the mate, who had been addressed. "He's comin'," retorted the skipper, resolutely, "I've a printed invite in my pocket to send him." '"E'll get drunk and 'owl," expostu lated the mate. "Let him," replied the skipper, "a weddin's a place for enjoyment." Eliza Jane, the pretty daughter of Captain Stover, was to be married on the next Monday a week, and the startling innovation had been made of inviting Portham to the ceremony by printed invitations. The family, however, made a stand at Mr. Butts, but the skipper secretly resolved that he should grace the occasion. When the schooner was discharging in London the skipper dropped into the owner's office one afternoon. "I'm sending a letter to your town, captain," said the clerk. "Who to?" asked the skipper, with out interest. "Mr. Adophus Walker. He has Mr. Walker was exclusive. some i&ares in our steamship line," answered the clerk. "Bless me," exclaimed the Captain, "I've been carryin' a letter for two days. Give me an envelope, that's a good fellow." "Sit down at the desk and write all you've a mind to," replied the, clerk. The desk was covered with -addressed envelopes which' had not yet received their inclosures and the skipper went laboriously to work superscribing an envelope to Mr. Butts. Then his mate rushed in with the news that a vessel had fouled the schooner, doing some damage. The skipper snatched up the envelope, jammed the invitation in it, seized the stamp the clerk profferf n Daily Story Pub. Co.) and rushed to his ci-aft, dropping the missive in a post box as he ran. o "Hif I could see people like Mr. Wal ker at my daughter's weddin' I'd die 'appy," said Mrs. Stover to her hus band, as the guests gathered. Captain Stover was watching for Mr. Butts and preparing to weather the family storm which would follow, so he said noth ing. A timorous knock sounded at the door. "It's Ned." muttered the skipper, and he opened the portal guardedly. But he started back, petrified, for Mr. Adolphus Walker stepped in. He was most fashionably attired, but grasped the skipper's hand with unction. "Many thanks for your in vitation, Captain," said he. "all my folks. are in London, so I came alone." In a dense cerebral fog the skipper gasped, "Come in." Portham assembled, turned green with jealousy. ' The wealthy aristo crat of Portham, refusing to notice even the landlord, at the skipper's house a guest. Was Stover a traitor, or had he discovered a troe of r.obil- "He's comin'," retorted the skipper. ity? Trembling with exultation, the skipper and his wife introduced the aristocrat to the assembled guests. He shook each hand heartily and showed no trace of haughtiness. "Try a glass of punch," said the em boldened skipper, "i brer.-cd U my self and it has green tea in it." Not only one, but five glasses did Mr. Walker quaff with relish, then a most remarkable change came over his speech. "Hi've never been so 'appy for six months." he said to the skipper, "you see, Hi'd a green grocery shop hover Pcntonville way in Lunnon, and Hi 'ad my friends in hafter supper to a pot o' beer and a game o' checkers. Then my brother in Hamerica dies and leaves me a lot of money and Hi've never been 'appy since. My wife and daughter make me stick in the 'ouse lest Hi'd talk common." It was a fall of tho idol from its pedestal but then only a few heard him and the skipper and his wife guarded him closely until Captain Sto ver carried home a very drunken aris tocrat at a dreary hour in the morn ing. "A fellow named Butts came in here with some shares of steamship stock belonging to Mr. Walker," said the clerk to the skipper on his next visit to London, "he was a saucy devil, too. He said he'd stock in the Cunard line and didn't want any second class stock. He was in rags, too." "Bless me," murmured the skipper, "I picked up the wrong envelope in my hurry and sent the invite to Wal ker instead of Butts." But the Stovers' social position was now assured in Portham. Heroic Devotion to Duty. The story of the Lewiston wreck of last month is adorned with many a touching incident, but the story of mail clerk Merrimau's devotion to duty is worth recording in any book of heroic deeds. Drawn from the tangled mass of wreckage in a condi tion of little short of uttr uncon sciousness, his lips were seen to move in attempts to make clear something which he lacked the strength to speak. When one of his rescuers finally caught the sound, he heard these words: "Telephone to Lewiston post office to come and look after the mail." Boston Globe. Predicts Defeat for Lawson. James R: Keene, the veteran specu lator, was asked his opinion regarding recent 'performances of Thomas W. Lawsou,,. .the Boston sensationalist. Said Mrf Keene: "It does not pay to hunt game in Wall street with a brass band, and whenever a man gets up on the fence and crows he makes a target of himself, and you can bet your last dollar he will end in the ditch " . Girl Philosopher Gives Good Advice to Her Chum. From 8 to 10 p. m. the tall girl wrote letters. The next morning immedi ately after breakfast she announced that her time up to 12 o'clock would be devoted to correspondence. "Surely you are not going to write more letters," said the top-floor girl; "You wrote a dozen last night." "I know I did," was the reply, "but I am not going to send them. I never mail a letter that I write at night; It isn't safe. I say too many idiotic things. I only write them as a kind of safety valve. There are certain things that I must say to relieve my mind. After I get these surging thoughts put down on paper I feel bet ter, but you couldn't hire me to mail tho letters. "I used to, but that was before they got me into so much trouble. We let our emotions run away with us when writing at night. We get entirely too confidential. Under the witchery of a shaded gas jet we tell things that wild horses couldn't drag from us by the light, of day. Hopes, aspirations and the history of deeils accomplished are described in tropical language. Next morning we realize what geese we have made of ourselves, but if the letters have been mailed it is too late to do anything, and we just have to sit down and wait for the ava'anche to strike us. It has; struck nie so many times (bat it. has endowed mc with a little caution. "I still write letters at night, bur only as a relief to my surcharged heart. This morning I shall write to the same persons I wrote to last right, but the letters will not be even first cousins to those emotional lucubrica tions. These will be safe and sane and warranted innocuous enough to be read aloud in the best-regulated family without producing a ripple. I can't say the same for Use ones I toro up before going io bed." The lop-floor girl looked uneasy. "I wrote a letter myself last night," -Ghe said. -"Better read it." the tall girl adv-fs Jh ed. "You'll be pretty sure rot to send it if you do." '- The top-floor girl opened the env&. lope and perused her letter slowly. "I think," she said, "that I will gc upstairs and write another." THE WRONG KIND OF LOVE. Youngster's Recitation of Text Showed Eent cf Thought. William H. Maxwell, the superin tendent of the public schools of New York, believes Hhat free meals should he provided for such school children as get insufficient nourish men t at home, on I he ground that a child suf fering from hunger cannot learn its lessons. Mr. Maxwell was describing the oth day the free-meal system of the Paris schools. Suddenly be paused and smiled. "When this systeru was introduced in Paris," he said, "a teacher at an English Sunday school explained it to her pupils, aim told them that love had caused the system's adoption, and without love the world would be a poor place for children and for all helpless and infirm persons. " 'Next Sunday,' site said, 'I v.-ant each of you to come prepared to re cite a scriptural verse about love.' "The next Sunday duly arrived and" the children had all prepared their verses. One had 'Love your enemies;' another, 'Little children, love one an other,' and so on. "Finally a small hoy with red hair arose. He began in a loud, shrill voice: " 'Song of Solomn, second chapter, fifth verse.' '"And then he recited: " -Stay with me. flagons, comfort me with apples; for I am sick of love.' ' In Choate. When Ambassador Choate was le-id-e:- of the New York bar many a fledge ling lawyer had a fiirg at him. There was scarcely an attorney who was not afraid of him in open court, but else where an occasional display of cour age and impudence would be made. One day in the Lawyers' club a bud ding pundit, now a highly successful practitioner, observing Mr. Choate at a neighboring table, asked in a voice meant for others to hear: "Ah, counsellor, why was your luncheon so rudimentary?" "Perhaps you can explain," said the legal light, dryly. "Because it's in Choate." was the reply. "Your play upon my name," return ed Choate, drawing out the words with keen emphasis, "painfully exposes the profoundness of your ignorance. The luncheon, sir may he in Choate, but your right to address me is IN-ko-ate." There was a general laugh as the offender departed with a bad case of Vy grins. Rcndel. That love is dead 1 know not who to name For censure now, I sometimes think, in stead Of my own self, you are the one to blame . , That love is dead. The rose for me will never be as red. . Now that we sepaiate; no more the same The pomp ' of summer on the hills be spread. That love Is dead. And grie-f above enjoyment now will elnim The noon of night, when dimmer over heael The silver crescent hides in mist, for shame That love is dead. Alonzo Rice, in Lee's Magazine. Execution Checks Outrages. The execution of two of their lead ers lias put a temporary check to the machinations of a new Chinese sect named Tsai-Yuau, in Honan, whose program was to destroy all railways and. all-foreigners on a day to be announced. They hate the pres ent ruler of China, declaring that (he real emperor is now residing on the "Mountain of Nine Dragons," and will make his appearance in due time. Referred to Authority. Congressman Cooper of Texas tells about a distinguished army officer who on one occasion offered prayer before a regiment. He summed up the causes and objects of the war the war with Mexico and asserted that it was no war of conquest, but annexation only, concluding his supplication to the throne of grace with: "I refer you, good Lord, to Polk's message on this pnliipet " Tl-.e B. enze Euttcn. There's a little hronzQ r.utton, that's dearer bv f:i; Than dinmnvd. or ruby, or jewel, or Rtnr; To heroes who wcar it, 'tis worth ino:e than co'd. It linkd together thowe comrades of old. What memories it brings of boys living time to eat. sleep or rest. Mrs. Ham-: -and dead; ; ilton, suffered greatly with blistered aud'Sb.ed1 b,0,lurs who 8t,u,edv foet, but her labors were unrem-ttmg. To kiep us a nation: they're veterans j. nimnv ths I i'Q who f.tttht. . . They're known by the button they wear on ttitir coat. - That littlo bronze button, haim Of siay-heardrd soldiers, up their arms; They're mu.-stci ing' heroes taeh d.iv. the favorite who've piled by hundi eds Those veteinns who battled gainst the gray. the blue Hut sftti they are ready for country to; ngnr, -'Til dm... .-e,tmi".s (he taps, and they bid us sooel night; Let's ho'mr these heroes, as proudly we note The blue hronze -button that's worn on their ooat. That little bronze button, still keep it in view; And honor the wearers once biave boys iii blue. They all ttte their hard-tack, and march ed side by side. Tis the Uiand Aimy button they wea: with such pride. Some Enlisted Men. "I remember," sSid the majcr, "sev eral men with histories who enlisted in the first three months cf the war i i to carry muskets. There were a full hundred men in my company in the tnree months' service, but I didn t know the antecedents? of more than ? twenty of them: ' Air' were ; well ap pearing men, and. a few-seemed to mo rollicking daredevils looking for trou ble" or adventure. I noticed in the first week's drill- in the mud of camp pne man who' was disregardful of in jury to a very fine pair of trousers. .'Which he ' wore every day. ' These Would- be .crusted with mud halt, way to the knees some days and yet the Wearer was never disturbed. '""'Every garment that he wore was "of . fine material, . and he started in every morning clean as to person and ::piarel. However, he trotted around with the most awkward of men, mak ing' no remarks, until . some visitors identified him one day as the son of an old army officer who had run away from school and enlisted. For years I watched with interest his steady promotion in the regular army. An other man puzzled me not a little. He was a fair skinned, pink cheeked, slender young fellow, very choice in his speech, and gracious in manner. One day there was a scrap in his mess and he handled himself so well that I asked, 'Where did you learn to use your fists?' Taken off his guard. I ho said, 'At Eton, sir,' and in a. few weeks I learned that, he was a young Englishman who, traveling in this country, had bolted his tutor and en listed. He served a year and was sent home by the British minister. "In one of the early drills I noticed a man who seemed to regard the drill officer with smiling wonder, but who was stupidly or perversely awkward in executing commands. One clay I ordered him to the front and said gcod humoredly, 'The awkward squad will give an exhibition drill for the benefit of officers and men.' Without more ado I put him through tho French zouave drill,, and, much to the amazement of the men, he , executed, every movement with marvelous . dis patch and precision. I then put him through our own manual, and he did as well as in the zouave drill. He had been having lots of fun, but the. next day took up without protest tho work of drill master for several companies. 'In a few days he complained of a - 'darned Dutchman' in one of the com- In 1863 he re-enlisted, serving in al panies, given, he thought, to deriding four, years and eight , months, At Um his methods. I sent for the quiet I time of his re-enlistment, Mrs. Wor German and asked him what he had I rail decided to enter the service ai to say for himself. He said at once, ! an' army nurse; having- been commis That Frenchman is not a man to drill sioned by Miss Dix. : , -others for practical work. He is too j Mrsrcrrall's first assignment wa ,,i ii en i n j-. 1 i ii ( il tn frills and showv : : ... ; , v. , n.inhiAn tr,. movements when you are not watch-i ing him, and he has no character whatever, but I never meant to make any complaint, because all this is none of my business.' A few ques tions brought out the fact that I had in the company half a dozen men who had received military training in Eu rope, and most of them were service able in a larger field later in the war." Chicago Inter Ocean. Army Nurse for Three Years. Mrs. Margaret Hamilton, whose ex perience as an army nurse is one of the most interesting, is secretary of the Massachusetts State association. She was born in Rochester, N. Y. Her family .were Roman Catholics, and, being religiously, inclined, she desired to become a sister of charity. Her wishes met with great opposi tion from her father, but finally, in 1860 she was allowed to enter an or phan asylum of the order as an as pirant. After three months' probation she was sent to the mother house ' Emmitsburg, Md., where she months under instruction. as she was qualified, she wast the habit of the order, and was s to the orphan asylum at Albany"" to-'. teach. This was during the autumn oi isol. ; - . ' ;, The war having broken out, Mrs. . Lincoln to Grant.' !: Hamilton who, of course, was not i "My Dear General: I do not, e then married, began to regret that ! member that you and. I, ver -ia ,. ip she was unable to go as a nurse. But" sonally. I write this npw; as 3 JrJf" in the early spring of 18G2, ah -order ful acknowledgment . tor j. the pti-jirt ' . came from the mother house for ! inestimable serviceou. have doi $ "tje. ' three sisters and herself to go to the i country. I wislvto sa a .woTJ. fbr-. - ; Satterlee U. S. military hospital, j ther. When yoifi first reached i;ivv : West Philadelphia. '-' J cinity ' of -' Vic&urg,' : I thbujt ; ' Arriving there, she found a few sh6ttld :do what you -final!,' f'J't" other sisters, among them being a . niece of Gen. Beauregard who had i connected herself with the sisters greatly against the wishes of her fam ily, they being much opposed to her acting as nurse to northern men. She herself evidently did not relish her task, for after eight weeks of such service she was missed, and it was not known what became of her. Dr. I. I. Hayes, the Arctic explorer, was the surgeon in charge of the Satterlee hospital. This hospital, which was built to accommodate c; nnn nation) was niwiwil m.u i 1809.- There were few of the horrors of war' that the nur"3e .who were ata . Uojied there were not made tr real j. ize. The corps was insufficient for. the demend, and they had scarcely " v-- i me oa.ienee hospital was always tilled with sic'.i and wounded iucd. After the battle of Gettysburg. ..the wards were overcrowded, tents beiDg erected ou' the grounds to accommo date 2,000 soldiers, the greater part of whom were colored troops. TU weather being warm, the condition of the wounds . became most ' repiri-" siye,-the hospital presenting a true' picture of the horrors of war. . But Mrs. Hamicn says that she has always beenr grateful that she could give three Jot the best years 61 her life to her country. Grant's Famous Lcttsr. This letter from President U'.vsses B. Grant is one of the most interest ing in the-collection of the, BrookiyD museum. ' It Is as follows:5"i w Headquarters An the ; Fielo-r ' ' Feb. .10, :3, Gen. S. B. Bucknerf Sir Yours cf this date fcroptsing " ' ; ii ,j 1 an armistice and the appointment el commissioners to settle en tr tunnr .of capitulation is justsereive No terms except tfneonditkmar but render can be accepted. - I propose to move imrou7i it)j against your works. .. I am, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, ' ' U. S. Grant." ' The Badge Money Cannot Buy 6'i ct wa ; .... . .JM, president of the Massaciiasetts araiS -l nurse association, is one of tccju? tims which . ill-health has claimelt among the army nurses, having beep for some time one of the:"8hut-ins." . When the war broke put Mrs. Wor rail resided with herbusband end twt children in the southwestern part o! Virginia. . Owing tofje feeling whicl existed against nof tfierners, Mr. ant Mrs. Worrall removed-to Boston. Business, however, called Mr. Wor rail back to Virginia, .where 'he was taken prisoner. He succeeded in mak' ing his escape when he returned t Boston and enlisted in the 24th Mast volunteer regiment. . - ,: I IJ V.. IJ1IU:V.I1VJI1 Y J l.IJ. 1 1 1 j,llIIUUJllu Mva Jjb i pjtal, Washington, D. C, where sn Sjr : immediately took charge of a wardjpt twenty-five cots. Just before entsflnf upon her duties Mrs. Worrall had i ; ... depressing experience that Ted her-t . say, "If I am to be of any use 1 rrusJ . learn to control myself, I am here .tjt ... . cheer, not to sadden, the lives of mi , patients." ' ' j . . , The, braqing effect of this resolutioi was observed by the matron of tbt hospital, who said to her, "Mrs. Wor t rail, of all the purses , we have had . ,r you are 'the :bnly' one ' who .i-has re frained from crying' .when eomjp through the ward .for -the. first timp . I know you "will make a good, true- .1 nurse. ' - At Fortress Monroe, Mrs. Worr4? was given charge of the wards, actinf i as a special nurse to the corfed$fe - Gen. Walker oi South Carolina, lalso . ' to Capt. Small and Capt. Babb, $oth , , Of whom were union; men.- Afterward, she went to the West BulMmg ' j. pitah Baltimore, where she remai-JTS - until the hospital closed. Just before the- elosing jot.; the. fcj- 4;e,;ear.anri'a: half. She lts lw breveted major. march the troops across tne Cf run t&e batteries. wita Jke xph - and thus go below; and I never rum any faith, except a general hop. , you knew better than' that - zoo Pass expedition Wd the -,-T could, succeed.. When yea got Ijtfo and took Port Gibsoni); GranT and vioinitv.' I thought;. JW Jr go down the iver Join.1 Banks and when you mruea.iro ward, east of the Big Black, I ffl, fedjN it was a mistake. I now., wish te i make the personal acKnowieawneov ,?- that vein were ffeht and I W-i " .'.- tr.. - '- " was six-piltal she contracted typhoid tes - j- s , As sooOts, worst form, barely survfvliif-, 6'. - gjyen ! the'attacnVr She has never !;ti ' ent r sincei . Mrs. Worrall was Sn-the st ' . i f ' I ? - i r -1 -a I) Si . f . jt-i, ri , it"