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LONELINESS OF A GREAT CITY.
| F you live in a large city you are lost You
are swallowed up by the ocean of people
around you. You go down into the deep and
that's the last of you , except perhaps an oc
casional bubble that may come to the sur
face near where -you were last seen. There
are so many people you can't escape drown
ing. You can't make friendships as you do in a smaller
place , where the individual Isn't entirely effaced by the
mass. Society is not what it Is in the smaller place ,
where the human element enters In altogether. In the
larger place your comings and goings are not noted by
your friends even , and never by the newspapers unless
you are one of the high financiers or packing house bunch.
The births and weddings in you ? family are of no more
Interest outside of your own flat than are the wreaths
of smoke curling up into the empyrean ; no merry crowd
of interested neighbors with their warm congratulations.
The deaths bring little sympathy from the rumbling ,
rattling world outside ; no sorrowing acquaintances who-
have stood by you through the long sickness ; there is lit
tle or none of that evidence of loving kindness that comes
irom neighbors and real friends In a small city or town ,
where the dollar mark Is not written so large and so in
delibly on everything. It is a paradoxical law that where
there are so many people there are fewer friends , and
when you diminish the number to a frontier community
where neighbors are miles apart your friends are ready
to take their lives in their hands for you. Utlca Globe.
PINE FOS THE WIFE ; HOW ABOUT THE WIDOWP
R. MARRIED MAN , did you ever give much
thought to what might happen when you
died ? Did you ever spend much thought
upon the fact that you were going to die ?
Did you ever realize that your wife would
cease to be your wife and become a widow ?
Did you comprehend that your children
would no longer be your children but would be known
&a your orhpans ?
If you did grasp these facts , which many men try to
'lodge , did you ever carry your speculation a little fur-
Cher , thus wise : "Will my widow wear as good clothes
as my wife ? " "Wnere will the bread come from when
the breadwinner passes away ? " "Will my orphans have
the advantages of my children ? "
It Is rather a grim subject this Idea of death. Not
dinner table conversation at all. It's a pleasant thing to
.forget Many men do successfully dodge the subject all
ttheir lives. But there is no dodging Death itself. It
aiever forgets. It never skips. Rich or poor mighty or
Jowly no matter.
It's a fine thing to live. It makes a married man proud
to have a home , to dress his wife , to give his children
educational advantages and to keep his family In the front
Tank. It takes money , yes but if s fine for the children ,
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
A GOOD CATCH.
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It was a pleasant afternoon in a Til
lage In western Nevada. A group of
young men were playing a rough game
-of ball in the middle of the wide , sandy
/street , but the sidewalks were Almost
deserted. This rendered every passer-
t by conspicuous to the motley crowds of
Indians , Chinamen , cowboys , miners
- and other adventurers that lounged in
r front of the shops and barrooms of the
i main thoroughfare.
A tall young man and a dainty , sweet-
t faced girl came out of the hotel and
took their way along the sidewalk ,
' ttheir dress and manner plainly pro-
elaiining them to be Easterners and
"tenderfoots , " for the young fellow
svore a silk hat , and a long "Prince
.Albert" coat with all the innocence im-
. aglnable , and his very small mustache
vwas distinctly curled up at the' ends.
'The pair walked unconcernedly along
'the street , the target of every eye , but
all unconscious of creating a sensation ,
for the crowd , on account of the sweet-
faced girl , endeavored to suppress
somewhat its deep and heartfelt dis
approval of her companion's dress and
.appearance.
Suddenly one of the players in the
. street , a husky young cowboy , gave the
jball a tremendous swinjr. it accidental-
; ! y slipped from his f -p and went
straight for the pretty ' .i-i's face.
Tlie player gave a .ry of horror , the
crowd gasped and caught its.breath.
In an instant all would be over with
the pretty girl. But quick as thought
Jier escort sprang forward , threw out
his left hand , deftly caught the "red-
Hot" ball not a foot from her face , and
-lightly tossed it back to the player.
There was a moment of dazed si
lence ; then from every motley group
.all up and down the street came a
'burst ' of hearty , spontaneous applause.
Xxrad and long it continued. The young
man lifted his hat , the pretty girl , the
color rushing back to her cheeks , smiled
and waved her handkerchief , and as
tbey disappeared from view down the
dusty roadway , the tall hat and the
Tong-tailed coat were freely forgiven.
Carious XcsliiiKT Hulilt.x.
Many birds in their nesting subits
'have accommodated themselves to tlie
advance of civilization. Thus the barn
and cliff swallows , which once built
under overhanging cliffs and in caves ,
< mow place their nests on the rafters
-.aoid beneath the eaves of our barns.
The chimney swift , which originally
-placed its nest on the Inside of hollow
trees , now uses our chimneys for that
purpose. The purple martin , once nest
ing exclusively in holes in trees , will
now in many sections of the country
use nothing b'u't the bird boxes which
* & ! nd-htarted men have
delightful for the wife , satisfying to the man. But
when you've run your length , Mr. Married Man , what
then ? Some day your friends will lay a lily on your
chest , heap the praise , the reverence , the kindly tributes
that should have been yours through life , upon what is
left of you , lay you away , and proceed to forget you.
But the widow won't forget- The orphans won't for
get When you go to the cemetery wall the widow go
to the poor house ? When you pass into the Unknown
will your orphans pass into the asylum ? There is no
time to decade this but , now. Prune a few luxuries.
Start a bank account Save ! Leave nn Income !
If you left your wife while alive the law would put
you in jail. Death relieves you of tne law'but not of
responsibility ! Then again , Mr. Man , your saving may
not be for merely your widow or your orphans. It may
be yourself. There are such things as paralysis , blind
ness , insanity. Think It over. Indianapolis Sun.
THE FOREST BESEBVE.
HEN the President , by proclamation a few
weeks ago , added seventeen million acres of
land to the national forest reserve he raised
the total amount of land withdrawn from
settlement to one hundred and forty-five mil
lion acres an area almost equivalent to that
of Minnesota and the two Dakotas. ,
These lands are held primarily for the protection of
the water supply of the country , particularly that of the
great West Forest reserves in the East are not national
but state property. In some of these States there are
movements to purchase mountain land In order to pre
vent lumber companies from denuding It.
The power to withdraw forest lands from settlement
by proclamation was conferred on the President by act
of Congress in March , 1891. Immediately aixerward
President Harrison issued the first proclamation under
the new law , and began the national forest reserve. By
1899 forty-six million acres had been put in the reserve ,
and the amount had been increased to a hundred and
twenty-eight million acres in February , before President
Roosevejt's last proclamation.
The last Congress repealed the law giving the
President power to add public lands to the forest reserve ,
and ordered that hereafter no land should be withdrawn
from settlement without the approval of Congvess.
It is less than twenty years since the scientific study
of forestry was begun in the United States. So much
has been learned of the subject that the protection of
the water supply is not now urged as the sole reason for
preserving tlie forests. A properly managed forest will
not only protect the water sources , but will yield a profit
able amountof , lumber without injury to the forest area.
The government is selling lumber from its reserves , and
it is said by those in charge that within a short time
the Forestry Bureau will be self-supporting , if not a
money-making branch of the government Youth's Com
panion.
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Miss Gladys Moore Vanderbilt has attained her legal age .and comes into t (
her inheritance from the estate of her father , the late Cornelius Vanderbilt ed (
This Inheritance amounts to $13,00(5,000 ( , and It makes her America's rich- n'
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girl. i
When Cornelius Vanderbilt died In 1899 he C
, bequeathed $7,500,000 to each
of the five children , except Cornelius , Jr. . the money to be paid each heir S
upon reaching legal age. Cornelius , Jr. , was cut off with a mere $1,500,000 , ai
because he married contrary to his father's wishes. Alfred was designated S (
head of the family and f/was provided that the bulk of the estate should be K
given to him in installments. Certain funds were placed in trust with the r (
provision that they should be distributed when the youngest child , Miss Gladys ,
reached her legal age. w
Under careful management her bequest of $7,000,000 has , grown to $10- a
500,000 in the seven years since the death of her father. She receives in k (
addition $2,500,000 from other funds of the estate , the total of $13,000,000 di
making her one of the richest unmarried young women in the countrj' . * °
WITCHES AND PLANTS.
Many I < epreml.s nnd Traditions that
Link Them Together.
In all countries in which the witch
craft delusion now exists or in which
it prevailed in former times we fifrd
folklore stories connecting those mys
terious bogies with the plants of those
particular regions. Even the great
Shakspeare causes his witches to dis
course learnedly on the diabolical prop
erties of "hemlock digg'd I' dark" and
of "slips of yew slivered in the moon's
eclipse. " They are supposed to have
had their favorite flowers as well as
plants , and In England at the present
time foxglove Is spoken of as "witch
bells'J/ and harebells as "witches' thim
bles. " The common ragwort Is well
known as the "witches' horse , " the tra
dition being that they mounted rank
growths of that species of weed and
"rode the skies , " just as the dame with
the Dolnted bat rides the broom In the
to
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familiar picture. In Germany and ,
throughout northern Europe It is the
belief that witches float from place to
place on beds of hay , composed largely
of witches' blossoms and "devil spikes , "
this last being a species of dwarfed
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slough grass. St. John's wort , which
Is now so popular for shoulder and f8
buttonhole bouquets on St. John's eve ,
W'
was formerly worn for the express
purpose of averting the crafts and
the
subtleties of the witches , bogies , ghosts CM
and spirits which the European peas
antry believed walked abroad on "that"
night of witching mysteries."c London I
Spectator. e
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"Well Meant Prayers. _
Sydney Smith declared that the chil
dren of Bishop Phlllpotts used to end Ie
their usual prayers by praying for Earl ft
Grey , explaining that "papa'tells us It $ l <
is our duty to pray for our- greatest n !
enemies. " London Spectator. M
THE FIELD OF BATTLE
INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES OF
THE WAR.
The Veterans of the Rebellion Tell of
Whistling ; Ballets , Bright Bayoneta ,
Bursting Bombs , Bloody Battles ,
Camp Fire , Festive HUES , Etc. , Etc.
D. L. Ambrose , a lieutenant in Company -
pany H , Seventh Illinois Infantry , now
of Canton , 111. , twas in the battle of Al1
latoona Pass. Besides giving interestI
Ing points on that contest he has something -
thing Interesting to say about the famous -
mous "Hold the fort" dispatch sent
from Kenesaw to General Corse. Like
everyone I have ever heard speak of it ,
Mr. Ambrose is strongly opposed to
shattering that particular idol , and yet
he says that "Hold the fort , for I am
coming , " were not the exact 'words
used by General Sherman. He says :
"The exact words were 'Hold Allatooua
and I 'Will assist you. ' . This has' subI
Btantially the same meaning as 'Hold
the fort , for I am coming , ' though it is
not as poetical , not as tuneful. As
stated by Colonel Watrous , the dispatch -
patch was not signaled early in the
morning ; it came through the smoke
and flame that enveloped the hill between -
tween 1 and 2 o'clock , about the time
that General Corse was wounded. Xot
long after its receipt , as if to repeat
General Sherman's order , Corse , who
was prostrated by his wounds , every
now and then would lift his head ,
Btainecl with blood , and cry out , fran
tically : 'Hold Allatoona ! Hold Alla
toona ! ' " That reminds me of the
story recently told in the Times-Her
ald , In which General Bragg , while
wounded _ on he field , rose on his elbow
fi ? Hs brigadie commander cjuno along
nnd in a dazed condition cried out :
They are Sinking the brigade a"n3 {
charging the battery ! " For some time
after he was wounded General Corse
was so stunned that ne seemed to be
out of his mind. It was while in this
condition that he frequently lifted his
head and cried out , "Hold Allatoona !
Hold Allatoona ! " Though half crazed
by his hurts he remembered his orders
and realized the disaster a defeat
meant
Mr. Ambrose says that the commu
nication which General Sherman had
with Allatoona Pass early in the morn
ing had * no connection whatever with
the famous "Hold the fort , for I am
coming" dispatch. "The signal which
General Sherman received from Alla
toona the morning of the 4th , and of
which he spoke wnen he said to his
staff officers : "Gentlemen , we are all
right Corse has reached there and the
rebels are unable to take the place , '
was received before the battle com
menced , before General Sherman knew
that 6,000 of the enemy were to storm
the pass defended by 1,500. He knew
that there would be a terrible battle ,
but he was confident that the outcome
would be favorable. He knew Gen
eral Corse and the troops under his
command knew the men of Iowa , Min
nesota , Illinois and Wisconsin. He }
knew that our regiment , the Seventh
Illinois , had armed themselves at their
own expense , with slxteen-shooters.
Knowing Corse and the men under him fa
and about the sixteen-shooters enabled cc
him to say , 'Gentlemen , we are all in
right The Rebels are unable to take reP
the pass. ' rem
"It was in the midst of the great bat P
tle1 says Ambrose , "when lead , shot , n
shell and canister were pouring in upon
us as If driven by a mighty tornado , oiat
that Sherman's other dispatch came : atw
'Hold Allatoona and I will assist you , ' th
or , as the genius with a pen said , and to
said to the delight and profit of the qi
world , 'Hold the fort , for I am coming. ' or
Without the promised assistance , with fo
out Sherman's coming , Allatoonawas feM
held and a great victory was won ; M
1,500 men , nearly half of whose num
ber had been killed or wounded , held veC
bay 6,000 picked veterans of the he
South. General Sherman , in speaking th
: the battle , said : 'For the number
of troops engaged the battle oT-Alla bl
toona Pass was the most hotly contest
ever fought on the American conti- _
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W. G. Whitefield , first sergeant of tZ
Company D , Thirty-fifth Alabama ,
his
Scott's brigade , Loriug's division , Stew hipr
pr
art's corps , of the army of the Tennessee
sp
see , 0. S. A. , writing from Paducah ,
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Ky. , talks on .the same subject His
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regiment was between Kenesaw Moun
tain and Allatoona Pass , and there was
fa
with that part of the Confederate army
signal officer who had discovered the
key to the union signals and read the
dispatches that were sent from AlRi- ele
toona to Kenesaw and from Kenesaw
Allatooua. Between 10 and 11 the the
Confederates saw the message'from ' Al
latoona to General Sherman : "We hold has
out General Corse here. Tourtelotte , ad
lieutenant colonel commanding. " Later
another dispatch was sent : "We still we
hold out1 General Corse is wounded. " 1C
One of the dispatches sent from Kene-
to Allatoona Pass was : "Tell Al
br
latoona to hold on ; General Sherman is
working ' hard for you. " Whitefield
agrees with Lieutenant Ambrose as to
has
language of the dispatch General
Sherman sent to General Corse which m
was converted into "Hold the fort , for ce
am coming. " In the language of Gen
eral DIx , let us all say , "If any man tote
attempts to pull down 'Hold the fort , to
I am coming , ' shoot him on the
spot"
There Is much else of Interest In the rk
letter of my Confederate comrade. One pi !
thing that catches my attention and as
tickles my fancy appears at the begin fr <
ning of the letter. "Please regard me ge
one of the truest Americans now on Ic :
top of the earth. We are all
and can safely defy any set of men of
whatever nationality to put a foot on
our grass. If the President were to
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call for men to defend the country
thqre t would be raised in Paducah ami
tlie ! country close to it , In a few day
5,000 soldiers , mostly Confederate ve
crais and their sons , and no soldle.
would fight better for our flag , tht
stars and stripes. " That has the true
ring to it Continuing , he says : "I
was in a fighting regiment from 1861.
I was at Shiloh , Corinth , B ton Rouge ,
Port Hudson , Champion Hill , Vicksburg -
burg , Jackson , Big Black , and on the
eGorgla campaign as far as Peach Tree
Creek < , where , July 20 , 1SG4 , I got mix
ed up with the Twenty-third New York
and some other New York and Pennsyl
vania regiments and passed through
them t and got Buudy's battery. I didn't
carry It off , for they shot me as I start
ed to pass between the guns. I re
turned , however , In time for the evac
uation of Atlanta ; went with General
Hood to Decatur , . Columbia , Spring
Hill , Franklin and Nashville ; then
south to Bentonville , where we ran up
against Sherman's army again and
,1 huug around it until they gave us per
mission to return to the United States
government I expect to see another
Grand Army encampment down South.
Do not let your people get the notion
that we cannot give them proper care
when they come. Didn't we receive
you with open arms and extend hospi
tality to j-ou those four years of war ?
We are better prepared now , and want
to sel > you , besides. Keep hammering
and the boys of the t\vo old armies will
meet together , fraternize and hold their
national gatherings in each other's sec
tions. It will be good for both. " Men
in both armies who saw such service
as Whitefield did discovered long ago
that the war is over. J. A. Watious ,
In Chicago Times-HeraTdT
Tribute to Grant.
Lieutenant General Longstreet , the
famous Confederate leader , a few years
ago was the orator at a celebration in
Boston of the birthday anniversary of
General Grant He said in part : f I !
"Of all the Union coinniandera ha
was the great leader , who accurately
surveyed the great field of war , the
elements of strength and points of er
ror , and considered the vast means so
necessary to solve the , problem. He re
alized the importance of covering the
granaries of the South , and applied hra
early energies and talents to holding
Kentucky and Tennessee , moving swiftly - *
ly to the capture of Fort Henry ar.d
Fort Donelson.
"The soldier had the comprehensive
mind of the statesman. He knew that *
n
the South had neglected factories and
only applied its energies and labor to
improve agriculture ; and bent his mind
and power to the same blockade of our
seaboard cities.
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"I knew Grant as a cadet , and from
ed
boyhood to Mount McGregor , served in
the Fourth United States Regiment of
tlIi in
Infantry with him on his entrance into
Iiat ba
active army life , and we were together fu
in : Worth's division of Scott's army In
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Mexico , where he was known and esteemed
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teemed as one of its most gallant and
an
promising young lieutenants. He was pr
on the staff of General Garland , my no
father-in-law. Our first meeting in bu
combat during the internecine war was SU
the Wilderness May 6 , 1864 , where I th
received his mark that must go with th3
me to the resurrection morn , but our th3W
personal feelings and relations were
never changed. The first notice we had
oi him in the late war was his affair * Wi
Belinont in the autumn of 1861 , Hi
when I remarked of him that he was
the man of the North , who , if he came
be known , was most likely to conquer - .
quer , and to-day , I may say , that no
ed
one but the subtle Lincoln could have
found him.
jcn :
"If he could have been in Chicago in mei
May of last year and witnessed the un
veil iug of s. jw"ynent over the dead out
Confederate prisoners of war and could
have been with us at the dedication of eh
the national park at Chickamauga in am
September last to witness the assem
bling of the blue and the gray in cordial ou
.
dial , fraternal greetings , he could have sun
known that his prophecy of peace was
not a delusive hope , but a happy frui
tion' mirrored in the expressions of all A.
A.LDP ;
countrymen. God grant the peace
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prayed for in his generous heart may vho
spread her gentle wings to rest lightly
upon his happily united countrymen , boj
and may their devout supplications as yet
cend like incense for peace for the
faithful soul departed ! Alleluia ! " a
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sons
"Worth Knowing1.
The average weight of a full-grown
elephant is 6,000 pounds. lad
Paris derives a huge revenue from
sale of dolls' dresses.
The tide of emigration in England "
turned from South Africa to Can ha'
ada. Leg
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At last accounts the total number of "
women in this country over the age of lore
were 23,485,559.
Three-quarters of the Englishman's
bread comes from abroad , and also
two-fifths of his meat
The Austrian salt mine at Wieliczka
600 miles of galleries and 9,000
miners. ! It has been worked for six
centuries.
The Korean government has decided
grant the right to work gold mines
citizens of England , Germany ,
T.ie. the Un-.IeiT States and Ifaly.
are relatively numerous i ) : va *
rious parts of Japan , and in SUL-U show
places as Maru and Miyajima are held
sacred , becoming so tame as to eat
from the hands of visitors. They are
generally smaller in size than the Amer
ican deer.
MAN-A-LEN
Copyright 190C , tor Tlie Manilla Cd
MAN-A-UN Is An
Excellent Remedy
for Constipation.
There are many ailments
directly dependent upon con
stipation , such as biliousness ,
discolored and pimpled skin ,
inactive liver , dyspepsia , over
worked kidneys and headache.
Remove constipation and
all of these ailments dis
appear.
MAN-A-LIN can be relied up
on to produce a gentle action
of the bowels , making : pills
and drastic cathartics entirely
unnecessary.
A dose or two of Man-a-iin
is advisable in slight febrile
attacks , la grippe , colds and
J
influenza. I
THE MAN-A-LIN CO. ,
COLUMBUS , OHIO , U.S.A.
Slaughter of tfee Seals.
"It Is estimated that the number of
seals taken in Pribyloff Islands be
tween 1870 and 1900 was about 2,200.-
000 , and by pelagic hunting in Bering
Son during the same period about
700,000 more. Since 1S90 the eaten has
been much reduced through the seal
herds < j being depleted by killing them
with guns , spears and other weapons.
The total value of the1 seals taken
from these Alaskan waters in thirty
years by the Alaskan company and in
dependent operators must have exceed
$30.000,000 , and as the United States
paid only 87,000,000 for Alaska itself
n 1SG7 , it is easy to see what a good
bargain that transaction was for the
fur companies. At the annual sale of
seal skins in London in December ,
1905 ' , some 19,000 skins were sold at
average price of $100 a skin. The
prices show a high water mark , and
none but a millionaire can afford to
buy these garments in the future. The
supply ] has reached -its lowest level ,
there ( being only 40,000 fur seal skina
throughout the world. " The Technical
World Magazine.
Guns , Traps , Decoys , etc. Lowest prices.
SVrite for free catalog No. 1. N. W.
aide & Fur Co. , Minneapolis , Minn.
All the Same.
At one of the large north country
lurches recently a fashionably dress-
. . lady happened to go into one of the
trivate pews. The verger , who Is
nown to be a very stern old chap , Im-
aediately bustled up to her and said :
"I'm afraid , miss , you'll hae to cum
of that This is a paid pew. "
"SIrJ' said tne young lady , turning
harpi ? round , "do you' know who I
? I'm one of the Fifes. "
"I dinna care , " said the old man , "If
are the big drum. You'll ha'e ta'
out" Edinburgh Scotsman.
An Enemy of tlic Republic.
"Speaking of undesirable citizens , " said
boarder at the foot of the table , "did
notice that chap with the watery eyes
just went out ? " ' '
"Yes , " answered one of the other-
warders. "He's a newcomer. What do
know about him ? "
"He's a musician and an inventor , with'
grouch j against the human race. Ha
trying to build a piano that four per
can play at. "
Thereupon the boarders drew np a
ound robin , to be presented to the land-
ady.
Appropriate "Weapons.
"I see that Delegate Finnacus knifed
' measure he's so opposed to Inthe
legislature. "
"How did he do it ? "
"With few . * *
a cutting speeches. Balti
American.
DODOS
KIDNEY
, PILLS
KIDNEY
