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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 3.
0OLUMBU&. NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY. APBIL 27, 1808.
WHOLE NUMBER 1,459.
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CAMPFffiE SKETCHES.
GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR THE
VETERANS.
Row rat Oatwltted the Sentry A Sara
Irfeh Trick That Warae like
Charm How a General Waa Cared of
CaasbUaff.
Willie, We Hare Btteaed You.
Oh. Willie. I It you, dear.
Safe, safe at home?
They did not tell me true, dear;
They tald you would not come.
I heard you at the sate.
And It made my heart rejoice: t
For I knew that welcome footstep
And that dear, familiar voice.
Making music on my ear
In the lonely midnight doom:
Oh. Willie, we have miased you.
Welcome, welcome home.
UV longed to see you nightly.
But thl night of all;
Tiic lire was blazing brightly.
And the lights were In the hall:
The little ones were up. - m. V
TIK 'twas M o'clock and iat:- .
Then their eyes began to twinkle.
And they've gone to sleep at lat;
nut they listened for your voice.
Till they thought you'd never come;
Oil. Willie, we have missed you, ,
Welcome, welcome home. f
Th" days were sad without you.
The nights long and drear:
My dreams have been about you;
Oh. welcome. Willie, dear'
Last night I wept and watched.
By the moonlight's cheerless ray.
Till I thought I heard your footstep.
Then I wiped my tears away:
But my heart grew sad again.
When I found you had not come;
Oh. Willie, we have missed you.
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Welcome, welcome home. "-Ti
How l'at Outwitted the Sentry.
A funny little story comes down to
its with the history of the past; it il
ustrates the wit of an Irishman. A
certain town was under military guard
during a rebellious uprising which at
the time was sweeping through the
country, and all persons passing in or
out of the town were subject to the
annoyance of military surveillance.
The soldiers were not over-particular
in seizing goods, especially anything in
the way of eatables.
An Irishman who resided in the town
lcceived word that a friend had sent
him a little pig. which was being held
at the house of a relative some few
miles away. Some friends offered to
wager him It was impossible to pass
the sentry lines with such a dainty
morsel, and that it would certainly ba
seized. Pat thought a moment, then
agreed to take their bets, refusing to
tell how he intended to accomplish the
matter.
Early in the evening the sentry
walking up and down saw Pat coming
along with a bag over his shoulder, and
stopped him with a "Halt! Who goss
there?"
"Faith, my name is Patrick Rarigan,
and if ycz don't know it by this time,
begorra, I'll have it changed!"
"What's that you've got in the
bag?". .
"Shure that's me dog. I had to "car
ry him that way, for he wouldn't walk
with me."
"That's a very good story, Patrick,
hut I'll investigate the dog, neverthe
less." and suiting the action to the
word, he made Patrick untie the bag.
out of which the dog jumped, rnii
scampered away as fast as he could go
in the direction whence he had come.
"Faith, do ycz see that now. Why
couldn't ycz take my word for it. Now
I've got to travel all the way back after
that diril of a dog again."
"Sorry, Pat, but duty, you know."
"Yis; but ycr auld duty will cost me
a walk of some miles after my dog."
And away he went grumbling.
Some two hours after Pat cam?
trudging back with the bag slung over
his Ehouldcr. and again the sentry
called: "Halt!" adding. "Ah, it is you.
Pat. I see you caught the dog."
"I did that, and now I suppose ycz
want me to lose him again."
"Nccr mind, Pat, it's all right; you
can go ahead." And he entered the
town.
Now, Pat. when he reached his rela
tive's house that morning had bor
rowed his dog, knowing full well that
when released from confinement he
would immediately return to his mas
ter. Putting the dog in the bag he set
out, fully expecting the examination
by the sentry and the result When
he returned, as the sentry thought, to
catch the dog again, he put the pig in
the bag instead, and so successfully
passed the lines.
The next day the officers of the regi
ment were invited to partake cf the
savory mess, and the story was told
them, upon which all bad a hear.'y
laugh, voting Pat a genius. Harper's
Young Pcosle.
Holding by the Tall.
An amusing story tells how a belated
hunter dropped into a hollow tree, in
tending to "bunk" there for the night,
but fell so many feet that he became
"alarmed. Rearing he should never get
out. Toward morning a bear began de
scending the hollow trunk, stern fore
most. The hunter grasped the bear's
tail, and the frightened animal, scram
bling out. drew the man after him to
the exit. In Colonel Inman's descrip
tion of "The Old Santa Fe Trail" there
is a story which illustrates the fact that
a tail hold is a safe hold.
One of the Kansas pioneers, the Hon.
R. SL Dodge, started out one day with
a stage driver named Harris to hunt
tor buffalo. They were hungry for
fresh meat, but buffalo was scarce, and
after hunting all day they were return
ing without having seen one.
Suddenly an old buffalo bull jumped
up from a sand hollow, and both hunt
ers emptied their revolvers into his
body. The bull, though bleeding and
staggering, stood on his legs, defiantly,
as if waiting attack. Harris dismount
ed, that be might hamstring the ani
mal, which had finally lain down. The
cut of his knife brought the bull to
his feet, and with lowered head, he
went round the sand hill.
Harris, a tall, lank fellow, had caught
hold of the bull's tail as he rose, and
in a moment his legs were flying high
er than his head. He did not dare lsi
go his hold on the bull's tail. Round
and round they went. Finally the old
bull weakened. Slower and slower he
circled round, and Harris succeeded in
cutting the bison's hamstrings.
"I feared." said Harris, when the
beast went down, "that his taipwould
pull out Then I knew should be a
goner."
Hew A Geaerai Wae Cared ef GaaaMlaa;.
In Acstria and Germany the army
laws against gaming were, and still are
very strict. When the Duchy of Pa
den was ocenpied by Prussian troops
after their suppressing the insurrec
tion of 1849 the oCcers quartered at
Rastadt were warned against playing
at Baden Baden. One summer evening
King (then prince) Wilhelm strolled
into the gaming rooms and noticed an
officer in civilian's clothes sitting at
play. He had won twee on the red,
and was about to pick up the money,
when he caught sight of the prince
watching him. Terror stricken, he sat
quiet, not daring" to .reach out for his
winnings. The red turned up a third
and a fourth time. As the maximum
was quickly reached, the prince touch
ed the officer on the shoulder and said,
gently, "Take up yonr money and go,
lest one of the chiefs should find you
here. Of course the soldier did not
require to be told twice. He 'got out
immediately.
Two days later there was a review at
sighted the culprit and sent for him.
"Lieutenant ," he tald. "after you
went away the red turned up four
times more. I prevented you from
winning four times the maximum
which you would certainly have staked.
Tou will draw op me for that amount.
But take my advice, do not gamble
again." The memoirs of an old Ger
man general who lived to see his last
victory at Sedan have stated as fol
lows: "It was the kindness of the les
son that cured me of gaming. For me
It was better than a year's Imprison'
ment." New York Tribune.
Where He Drew The Line.
With more or less of humorous in
tention, perhaps. Col. William M. Olin.
secretary of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, attributes to Col. T. W.
Higginson an anecdotical jibe at mili
tary titles. The secretary tells the
Boston Times that Col. Higginson was
traveling in the south a few years after
the war, and chanced to fall into talk
with a farmer who bad engaged a num
ber of old soldiers to help in the hay
ing. "You see over there where those four
men arc working?" asked the farmer.
"Well, all of 'em fought in the war.
One of 'em was a private, one of 'cm
was a corporal, one was a major, and
that man 'way over in the corner was a
colonel."
"Are they good men?" asked Higgin
son. "Well," said the farmer, "that pri
vate's a first-class man, and the cor
poral's pretty good, too."
"But how about the major and the
colonel?"
"The major's so-so," said the far
mer. "But the colonel?'
"Well. I don't want to say nothin'
against any man who was a colonel in
the war," said the farmer, "but I've
made up my mind I won't hiro no brigadier-generals!"
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X Bays Use la War.
The employment of the X ray appar
atus in connection with photography,
and the probing for bullets to save the
lives of soldiers wounded in battle, is
the latest thing in warfare.
The British in the Tirah valley, on
the Indian frontier, have utilized Herr
Roentgen's invention with excellent re
sults. The surgeons who operated the
X ray machine did so under great diffi
culties. The illustration here given shows a
British soldier-surgeon taking an X
ray photo of a wounded man's chest,
the sensitive plate being placed direct
ly under the body, below the wound.
Many lives have been saved by the
wonderful machine, and its general use
in the English army and navy is as
sured. Looking Unto Tcsn.
No experience is more sweet than to
waken in the night with thoughts of
Jesus. The Psalmist speaks of it:
"In the night his song shall be with
me.7
A poor woman lay ill of a lingering
and fatal disease in a hospital. She was
homeless and unknown; a cancer was
gnawing its way slowly to her vitaLi,
'jut she was radiantly happy, her face
shone.
"I suppose you think of the heaven
to which you are so soon to go," said
the minister who had called to see her.
"No, I don't think of that"
"You feel great consolation in read
ing your Bible, I suppose," the minis
ter suggested.
"I can't read." 4
"What is it. then? What do you
dor
"I think of Jesus."
"Read the chapter about his feath
ers." said another invalid, a beautiful
young lady who had a long illness,
bedridden and fatal. She always want
ed her pastor to read the Ninety-first
Psalm.
"Read it again, the same one yoa
read the last time. I ache so. and It
rests me. the feathers arc so soft. I
am so sore, and everything hurts me.
but that is such a tender, soft place
under his wings."
For Cleaning Stave Pines.
Soot, cannot accumulate in the elbows
of stovepipes to clog the pipe if a new
arrangement is used, which is attached
to the section of the pipe nearest the el
bow, and has perforations to admit air.
which it discharges into the elbow :
change the current of the smoke Inside
the pipe and drive it around the elbow.
EATING IN NEW ORLEANS.
Dellcloa This Which Are Served la
That City.
The day is begun with a cup of coffee
and a roll an egg, if one wishes It.
Then breakfast at 10 or 11 o'clock.
It is a city of restaurants, and he who
has only lodgings lives at the chef's
taste, at the epicure's board, says a
writer in the Philadelphia Press.
The flavor and taste of their coffee
is different from that gotten north or
vest of Lake Ponchartrain, unless in
the hostelries with French chefs. I
watched the most famed cook In the
city make it one morning and this is
how it was done: It had been partial!?
roasted. at the market; hut she p'ui
about two cupfuls la a pan with a lid
and roasted it a Wt more. Heat brings
out the flavor. Into the coffee mill it
went and the fresh grounds were put
into a tin dripper. This dripper she
laid over a brown-stone jar, which was
entirely warm, and then poured the
boiling .water into the dripper., She
placed-taw-stoerTsi 'fronrbfTnot'
on, the stove. Only a little water at a
time was poured over it, and two or
three times the whole contents of the
jar were poured through the dripper
for extra strength. The result was a
coffee that was rich, brown and frag
rant. The cup was poured only half
full, the rest made up with hot milk.
It was nectar! Liver is a freqaent
dish, cut very thick 'and served very
hot Very little, it aay hot bread is
seen. The bread is delicious. It Is
broken, never cut. The crust is thick,
the bread is porous and one can eat
the most inexcusable amount of it The
concoction of dishes is entirely difer
ent. Garlic has touched everything
that can be improved by the flavor
and mushrooms or truffles are con
stantly used. Omelets are rarely
served plain. Omelet .souffle is the
favored way of cooking, and sweet'
lireads, truffleB, oysters and brains are
often used. Their omelets are made
exceedingly thick and quite brown.
Roast beef and mutton are not so fa
vored with them as chicken, turkey,
venison and squirrel. These meats are
made into a composition dish oftener
than served as plain roast. And with
everything one drinks claret. Not in
a wine glass! Dear me! No! But
in a large water tumbler, half filled
with ice and diluted with water. Your
good Frenchman never gets drunk, but
he drinks always!
A Carloas Start In LUe.
A correspondent writes to the Fam
ily Herald and Weekly Star from Mac
leod, N. W. T., as follows: A slip of
your paper (I am unable to give the
date), recently fell into my hands, in
which was an account of an unique
hat, constructed entirely of corn. In
this connection the following may not
he deemed altogether inappropriate:
in the early days of the Soho Works,
Birmingham, Eng., a workman called
on Messrs. Boulton (k Watt requesting
to see Matthew Boulton, from whom he
unsuccessfully solicited employment
As he was turning away, Boulton, who
was a very sharp-sighted man where
anything mechanical was about, called
him back, and, asking him whence he
procured his hat, was told he had made
it himself. "What 1b it made of?"
"Wood." "How did you make it?"
"Turned it in a lathe." replied the
man. "But, man," ?aid Boulton, "that
thing is round; you could not turn
that in a lathe." He had hit upon the
expedient, now well enough known,
of causing the lathe spindle to rise and
fail once for every revolution it made,
as is done today in the invention
known as the elliptical chuck. This
man was Murdoch, who became the
manager of the works, and who was
instrumental, above all other men, in
giving to the Soho Works the prcud
position it for so many years enjoyed
among mechanics. In another place
you mention as a modern invention a
fall-down lazy man's b3dstead, actu
ated by the alarum of a clock. This,
was exhibited at a workman's exhibi
tion held at the Lambeth Baths, Lon
don, England, in the year 1864 or 1SC5.
Coaldn't Stand It.
A countryman walked into a news
paper office to advertise the deatli of
a relative. "What is your charge?" he
asked of the clerk. "We charge two
dollars an inch." "Oh!" said the coun
tryman, "I can't afford that My friend
was six feet three inches."
ODDS AND ENDS.
Projectiles used by the United States
army for its great modern guns cost as
follows: Solid shot, 8-inch, $69.S0 each;
10-Inch, 1144.50 each; 12-inch, $212
each; 12-Inch mortar shells, weighing
800 pounds, $114 each; 12-inch mortar
shells, weighing 1,000 pounds, $195
each.
In the royal family of England the
order of precedence among men is
thus: The sovereign, the prince of
Wales, the other sons of the sovereign
in the order of their age, the sov
ereign's grandsons, the brothers of the
sovereign, the sovereign's uncle and
finally the eons of the brothers or sis
ters of the sovereign.
Ah inventive genins in Media, Pa.,
has rigged up a device which he con
fidently predicts will put an end to
street-car hold-ups. He is a conductor
on an electric line and has lined the
Interior of his car with wires charged
with electricity. Along these wires
runs a small trolley device, which is
intended to be kept in bis hand con
stantly, no matter where he may be
in the car. It terminates in a fork
shaped metallic rod. and with this rod
it is proposed to'electrocute any darlns
footpad who attacks the car.
The nickel-steel ingot, weighing over
ninety-nine tons, for the tube of the
sixieen-racn Dreecn-ioaaing Hue gun
lately designed by the army bureau of
ordnance, has been cast at South Beth
lehem, Pa. This ingot is seventy-four
inches in diameter, and its total length,
including the sinkhead. is 199 inches.
The gun. which, when completed, will
be mounted on the Romer shoal. In
New York bay, is the most powerful in
the world. Its total cost, including car
riage and emplacement, is estimated
at $54.M. The following figures will
give some Idea of the power and
dimensions of this stupendous en
gine of war: Weight of completed
gam, 12f tons; length, forty-nine feet;
weight of projectile. 2,35 pounds; pow
der charge, l,f pounds; range, 15 to
IS miles,
SOLDIERS OF CHRIST J
OUR ARMY CHAPLAINS ON THE
iATTLiFiELdi
They Have Been In the Thick t the,
fight and Fravrtl Use and Brave
SeMlere ChMwick and Ireland
Btohen Fallows,
Chaplains in our army and navy al
ways hav had the incorrigible habit
of keeping anywhere but In the rem
They have been among the first on the
field C? battle and the last to leave.
Chaplain Chidwick's devotion and self
sacrifice in remaining day and nighft
now, for more than a month, beside the
wreck of the Maine in an unceasing
effort to identify the bodies of the blue
jackets and marines, has been applaud
ed all over the nation. On the days oa
hich no bodies could be found, tat
thaplaia was at the hospitals, cheering,,
r BSOTerea-saiiorsr-wnea tne - pupy
mass which once was part of the life
and soul of the battleship was brought
to the surface, the chaplain accom
panied It to the graveyard, and 'saw
that the grave was marked in such a
way as to facilitate removal ill the fu
ture to American soil.
John CMdwick is not an 6id hand in
the navy. He was ctimraiisibned by
President Cleveland only three years
ago. He 16 one of the three Catholic
chaplains in that arm of the service,
which contains among its enlisted men
over 40 per cent of Catholics. But de
nominations have made no difference
to him. He wrote the most touching
letter regarding one of tho lost sailors
who was a member of the Society of
Christian Endeavor. Father Chldwiek
is a New York boy by birth, fthd lie
came honestly enough by his fighting
blood, tor bis father served in the civil
war in both the army and the navy.
Archbishop Ireland is perhaps the
most celebrated chaplain of the civil
war. He went out with the Fifth
Minnesota, and the first thing he did
after the regiment took the field, and
before the first battle, was to substitute
chess for chuck-a-luck among the sol
diers. This was in 18??. In October
of that year the young chaplain had a
chance to show the stuff that was in
him. At a critical point In a battle
the Fifth Minnesota was called Upon to
fill a gap through Which the enemy had
pressed capturing, as they surged into
our tines, one of our batteries. The
Fifth went in with a yell, and poured
volley after volley almost point blank
into the faces of the Confederates. This
was not the first appearance of the
Fifth in the day's fight, and it wa3 not
long before the cry went down the line:
"We're out of ammunition!"
He Had Cartridges,
The men stooped over and tbok the
cartridges from the boxes of their dead
comrades, and tried to hold their
ground. It was not many minutes be
fore a stout, smooth-faced young man
appeared with a box on his shoulder;;
and called out:
"Here's cartridges for you, boys!" He
passed quickly in along the rear of
the ranks, throwing the cartridges into
the soldiers' haversacks a more con
venient receptacle than the cartridge
box, with its separate compartments.
"Bully for you. Father!" "You're
the stuff!" and similar expressions were
heard, and the men turned to their
work with redoubled vigor.
That night when the battle was over,
and the fragments of the regiment had
been gathered together. Chaplain Ire
land was missing. After long and
anxious search he was found on the
very front, in an improvised hospital
close to the enemy's pickets.
In a speech recently to the students
of the Notre Dame university. Arch
bishop Ireland said: "Should there be
a war. I will take it upon myself to
say that the response of Notre Dame
would be so quick to save America that
she would send out all her priests as
chaplains and all her students, as far
as age will permit, as soldiers.
Some Holy Regiments.
This is the university In which is
organized a Grand Army post which is
composed exclusively of priests. The
Rev. Father Corby, who was chaplain
of the Forty-eighth New York Volun
teers, is post commander. Father Cor
by is the author of "Memoirs of an Ar
my Chaplain's Life." The Forty-eighth
New York was called "Perry's Saints,"
much as another New York regiment
was called the "Die-no-Mores," because
they sang so often lhe gospel hymn,
"We're Going Home to Die No More."
The Seventy-third Illinois was the
"Preacher Regiment," and the Fortieth
Wisconsin the "God and Morality Regi
ment." At least one chaplain in the army
became a general. He was Samuel
BISHOP FALLOWS
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luor problem by founding the home
church saloon; fiisbon Fallows was
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in In 1848, graduating from the TJni-
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the outbreak of the rebellion. In
be became chaplain of the Thlr-
-second Wisconsin Infantry; but his
tlth gave out temporarily and he
Iras obliged to return home. After a
rhile he organized the Fortieth Wis-
sin, returned to the field as its
Is-ienei, and won the stars of a bfiga-
ier general. The "Preacher Regi
lent" before referred to was organized
f James F. Jaquess, who bad gone in-
9 the service as chaplain of the Sixth
linois Cavalry.
Regiment or Mct'.iodUts.
"By God. chaplain." said his colonel
the day, to the alarm of the good man.
'yoa are the best soldier in or out of
regiment aad I want you, to take
-4m" Jaaaeas- .fsaaised the
Seventy-third Illinois from among his
Methodist brethren, and ho led the regi
ment through eleven pitched battles In
the West. Its record for saving grace
Isn't on file In the war department, but
its record for dare-devil fighting Is,
and all Americans cjh. read and glory
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ARCHBISHOP IRELAND OF ST. PAUL.
(An Army Chaplain Who Brought Up Cartridges While Under Fire.)
gave up their lives, not by reason of
being hit by chance shots, but in actual
hand-to-hand fighting. Chaplain Ful
ler of the Sixteenth Massachusetts
volunteered for a forlorn hope, which
he saw was getting ready to cross the
Rappahannock in paddle boats to drive
off the Confederate sharpshooters, who
were on top of Marye's Heights in the
bloody and futile charges at Fred
ericksburg. He was one of the first to
'reach the shore and was killed, rifle in
hand. In the streets of Fredericksburg.
Chaplain O. N. Benton was killed while
encouraging the Shepard Rifles, the
Fifty-first Netv York, at Newberne, N.
C Chaplain J. M. Springer of the
Third Wisconsin took up a musket in
his first battle, Rcseca, and was mor
tally wounded after a four-hour fight.
Chaplain Francis Butler of the Twenty-fifth
New Jersey was killed while
carrying water to the wounded men
of his regiment at the battle of Suffolk.
Chaplain John I Waltkcr Was killed
while fighting with his regiment, the
Forty-third Illinois, at Shiloh. Chap
lain Levi W. Sanders was killed with
his command, the One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth Illinois, at Caldwell's
Ferry. The Seventy-second Indiana,
mounted, made a desperate charge at
Hoover's Gap, Tenn. Chaplain John
W. Eddy went with it to his death.
Chaplain H. S. Howell of the Ninetieth
Pennsylvania was wounded the first
day at Gettysburg, and died on the
steps of a church. The First Maine
cavalry charged up a hill at Cold Har
bor into the muzzles of several bat-
OF CHICAGO.
Became a General.
teries. Its ckaplinl; $eerg6 W. Bart- I
lett went with It. aad waf e W tw
by a solid shot at the first ire. tad
Texas Rangers made a sadden charga
upon the First Wisconsin caValm?
L'Aagaille Ferry, Ark. la the de
fease the ehaplala of the First. G. W.
Duamore. was kifiett while fighting
splendidly. Not all of t"ffe .wsjy
chaplains who went Into the thick of
the fight were killed. There was H.
Clay Trumbull of the Tenth Connecti
cut, who, when the men gave way, went
among them brandishing his revolver
for he did not carry a sword aad
rallied the regimeat to victory. For this
deed of gallantry, he was recommended
for promotion. But there fe no bish
ops in the army, and promotion w'oftid
take him out of his religious work;
He Fenght aji Dnr.
Father Peter Tlssot of the Thirty
seventh New York took part in the bat
tles of Williamsburg and Seven Pines.
In the latter battle his horse was shot
fromaa4er aim. CjMtaUia.pwl.
theSlxtyHEarlew "York was" where
the battle waged 'fiercest at Antietam.
and Chaplain Rennet of the Thirty
seventh Ohio fought all day with a gun
at Bald Hill before Atlanta.
The regulars remember Mainor C.
Blaine, post chaplain at Fort Ring
gold, f &: Od thanksgiving night,
1896, the upper part of his quarters,
where his wife and daughter were
sleeping, took fire. He rushed up
stairs, found his wife, and, wrapping
a blanket about her, got her out in
safety. Then, in spite of warnings, he
went back after his daughter. The
stairs then were ablaze, but he made
his way to her room, and the last seen
of him he had her covered with a
blanket, standing at the head of the
stairs. Just then there was a crash,
sparks flew in all directions, and fath
er and daughter were plunged through
tb the cellaF. there they WeM foUnd
when the fire had been put out He
was horribly burned, but on the dead
body of his daughter was not a mark
of fire or smoke. He had fought the
flames from her successfully, though
he could not save her life.
A recHlIar Epitaph.
the following epitaph is copied from
a tomb in the vicinity of Port Royal,
Jamaica: "Here lieth the body of
Louis Caldy, Esq., a native of Mont
pellier, in France, which country he
left on account of the revocation. He
was swallowed up by the earthquake
which occurred at that place in 1692,
but by the great providence of God was
by a second shock, flung into the sea,
where he continued swimming till res
cued by a boat, and lived forty years
afterward."
The Mikado Favorite Sport.
The favorite sport of the mikado is
horse-racing, but he allows no betting,
and the price of admission to the races
is placed so high that only the upper
classes can attend. The mikado's sta
bles accommodate about 3,000 animals.
HINTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE.
When sweeping the carpet, if you
have no tea leaves handy, try the effect
of sprinkling it with chopped cabbage.
This will prevent the dust flying about
much, and it has also the effect of
brightening the colors of the carpet.
Teacups, even when carefully kept,
sometimes have dark stains at the bot
tom, caused by the action of the tan
nin in the tea. Salt slightly mois
tened, will remove these, but in the
case of very fine china It sometimes
scratches it a little. Powdered whiting
will be found quite harmless and equal
ly good.
To restore the color of black lace
shake the lace free from dust, lay it on
a smooth, clean board or table, and
sponge It over with a bit of black siik
dipped in a solution of a teaspoonful
of borax in half a pint of warm water.
Iron the lace while still damp, covering
It first with a piece of black silk or
cloth.
To cut letters out of glass is not so
difficult an operation as the amateur
glazier may be led to think. To con
duct it successfully first, with a little
paint mark out the shape of the letters
upon the sheet of glass; then heat a
piece of thin iron wire until red hot.
and with It draw over all the outlines
of the letters. The concluding item,
should the glass letters not Immediate
y separate themselves from their sur
roundings, Is to carefully dip the sheet.
!n a wide bath of cold water; the let
ters will then detach themselves with.
cut splintering.
ME WINS A BATTLE.
WELL-KNOWN GUEST OF IN
DIANA MINERAL SPRINGS
HOTEL THE PROUD LIAR. '
Capt. m. 8. Cat C
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Indiana MMrhtSpriagavIai., April 1L
Special Cfcrrsfds) Warbks dis
patches in the moraiCa nawnaysf stirred
pageaeral dkcaaeioa aaVigahnlf aw r
gentlemen in a corner of thsissakaag
SfthelBdiaaaMiaeralSpriataHotaJteday.
Several veterans of the civil war wh hava
been fecauiag health hy
Magna Mad Baths aad Litaia Water hara
oc a Mvely inwrsat in ta diacsjadoa.
Many !nerestia ttstfas of the lata con
flict were iMd.- m ... ..
"la the cauraSig before Riehaead la
the last months of tbs war,' iaai Can. H.
8. Cola, of Fergaa Fall, Mhu.. "I was
guilty of a distortion of aa order that, had
the battle which it caoeed been a defeat far
as, woaM have had sad naalts for ma;
feOaaaliUmfahrtaMll
(rem a parOoas paatttoa aid wa wstfa
victory."
Capt Cola's regiment was the famous
First Maine Cavalry which by special
order of the War Department has seven
more battles on ita colors than any other
carried by any regiment in tha Union
army. Tha First Maine also has tha record
of having turned more of its troopers iate
preachers at the close of Lostilities Shan
any other regiment of tha northern army.,
ttbile several of tha men who have bean
governors of the Pine Tree state since 185
were at the front with tha First Maiae.
But it was while he was oatkestaSTof Gen.
Chas. F. Smith, who commanded a brigade
of the Second Cavalry corps, the head ef
which was Gen. D. McGregg, on of tha
best cavalry captains in the north or soath.
that the incident happened.
"Oar brigade was In a desperate condi
tion," said Capt. Cole, "when Geo. Smith
sent me to ask Gen. McGregg forre-inforce-ments.
1 found the Pennsylvania fighters
and delivered my message. He thought
fully stroked his beard.
" -Giro my compliments to Gen. Smith,
he said, 'and tell him ha can't have a
tefofercement., It was the first time I
eve beard Gen. McGregg swear, aad I waa
convinced that it was due to the serious
condition of his command. I was also con
vinced that our brigade should fight ita
way out, so when 1 galloped op to Gen.
Smith I determined to somewhat caaage
bis superior' orders.
'What success?' he asked. 'Gen.
McGregg can't send any re-inforceraents,
and desires you to attack.' I said. He waa
surprised, but the word was given. In
spired by onr peril we routed the enemy
and gained a safe place.
"Some time afterward I told Gen. Smith
what I had dene."
"What happened?" asked one of ths
other veterans.
"Drinks on the general," said the man
from Minnesota, who added that with a
few more MagnO Mnd Baths he would be
in a fit condition to fafce a band in the im
pending war with Spain.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Ob, should seme power the glftle gf
us
To see aurseycls as ithers see us.
'Twould do no good, for, spite of
blame.
We'd chase cur ollies just the same.
Chicago Itacrd.
He: 'Mlsa Beatrice, I love you
more than I can find word's to tell."
Miss Beatrice: "Why don't yon say
a dictionary?" Somervllle Journal.
"Here, how's this? In this article
on poets you speak of the .stepladder
of fame.'" "I wrote that one day
when my wife was cleaning house."
Chicago Record.
Husband (angrily, after somewhat
heated argument with his better half)
Do you take me for a fool? Wife
(soothingly) No John! But I may
be mistaken. Tid-Bits.
"Mr. Jabbles is a man of extensive
information." "Yes," replied Miss
Cayenne. "'Extensive' expresses it
precisely. I never saw a man who
could take a fact and stretch it as he
can." Washington Star.
Wife: "Horrors! Husband, I've just
heard there is a case of smallpox in
the flat above us." Husband: "Yes, I
know about it It's tho young man
who plays the flute." New York
Weekly.
"Did yon heflr how young Cad!ets
made love to afiss Dttckleta?" "No;
how did he?' "He sent his valet to
intercede for him." "Goodness! I
never heard of such a thing!" "Hot
I; but I suppose he thought it was
beneath him to press his own suit."
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
Ada: "Jack says he wouldn't marry
tle nicest girl living." Dolly;
"Pshaw! As if I'd have Jum." Phil
adelphia North Amerlcat.
Irwin McDowell Garfield, a son of
cs-Prcsident Garfield, tried his first
case in the municipal courts of Bos
ton last week and came out victorious.
He is 27 cars old and is said to be aa
unusually able lawyer.
Johnny: "How old was Methus-tleli
auntie?" Aunt: "Nine hundred years
old." "And how old are you auntie?"
"Thirty, my child." "Then papa reck
oned wrong by 870 years. He said
you were as old as Methusaleh." Tld
Bits. Choose butter by its fresh odor,
freedom from buttermilk and streaks
of color.
Time Required. "I wonder," said
said the artist, thoughtfully, "what
price that picture ought to command."
"O," replied the dealer, cheerfully,
there is no way of telling that. You're
not dead yet, you know." Washington
Star.
Incurable. Bing Yes, that's old
Spriggings. Half a dozen doctors have
given him up at various timc3 during
his life. Wing What was the trouble
with him- Bing He wouldn't pay his
bills. Boston Traveller. e
The richest institution of learning
in Maryland s now the Jacob Tome
institute, which receives 14,000.000 by
Mr. Tome's vill. The John Hopki33
nevr had so much wealth, even with
the Baltimore & Ohio stock lated aa
it was at Johns Hopkins' death.
Yeast I heard year neighbor call
his wife a giraffe. Crimsonltcak
Yes; did you ever hear such Ignor
ance? Yeast Ignorance, did you say?
Crimsonbeak Why, certainly, Ignor
ance. Don't you know that the giraffe
is the only animal that is really dumb?
It is unable to express itself by any
sound whatever. Youk'crs Statesman.
"And you swear that you will always
love.mer' she asked, eagerly. The
vouns circulation manager of the
Daily Scoop bent over the fair g
lovingly. "I shall draw up my aft!
davit to that effect at once," he said,
earnestly. Puck.
According to official statistics given
out April 1. there were 104 suicides
during the last three months in New
York. Thirty got a gun and forty
four went to the drue store, where
poison is plentiful. The majority were
persons between the azes of 2 and
45 vears. Of those who committed self
destruction, seventy-nine were main
and twenty-flye females.
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