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Show 1UIX a mail who umtcmplatea Ik in? uuuriixl scrtmi-- h how lie shall "manage" his future wife, it,ma sahl he pnv iluted that thire is trotihle in store for lur. lhople who want to manage eaih other ouht not tomarrv. '1'he husband' duty is to low-- . ihtrish and proteit," the Ihhhu-- o eu r eminent wife's to "lore. honor and ohi. must lure a nominal head, the hii'hand, lioinjx phreualTrihe stronger of t! e two, is regarded a the n ponsihle liead of the to his wishes wliuh a wife family, lmt theTounjr -! -- obt-dma- owes her is in no way liuonipatible with perfect tween wife. and man equalitx If a woman dots nor look, up to her husband and m all things fitting defer to les judgment, it ii'iialh is the mau' uvurefanlt. ITom the das of live,-- sues, for the most jwit. have piovcd duunahle to the law laid down for the first woman: "d'fiT'devrrcr shall dw ho! mini-- . and he- - sliall, rule. ou'r .Any woman who loves a man will do all she an to please him ; it is hu-liji- ul lx 'to-tlv- v the joy of her lift- to make linn liappv. But when the rule is selfish and tinfeiHoittible, foolishly ludulgeut one day and tvrannieallv unjust the next day, what wonder that wives relal and fail to oln-- where they are unable to honor? There never yet was a woman, from palace to hovel, with wlioip praises and kisses were not more elfeetive than hums and blows. The xnan who is tenderly considerate of the wife who loves him. who recognises hereffort' toJpase him. who is patient with her may make of her pretty much what lie pleases, limited only bv her tapautv. In jutiee to the men, it must lie said that sea reel any of them are willfully unkind to the women whom tiny marry. They are thoughtless, preoccupied. ignorant of womens ways, and sometimes selfish. 'They do not think it worth while to hoflier with the trifles wliuh make up the 8um of a womans life. When husband and wife truly love cadi other there can be iio struggle for supremacy lietvvecn the two souls with but a single thought, whose greatest joy is found in each other. While husband aniwife each have separate duties which tlie other is unable to jxerform, their interests are identical, and together they must stand or fall. Whatever injuries the one necessarily in greater or less degree must hurt the other, and neither can wholly tlear their skirts of the consequences of the acts of the other. Neither can anything befit the one and not accrue to the advantage of the other. It is ill quarreling betweenHhe bark" and the tree, says the old proverb with reference to man and wife. mi-take- s, the middle of Com 1862, August, pany K of the One fifth hundred and votun--teerPennsylvania known as the . "Buck tall regiment, of which I wee a private, ,,, j a, wag -r of Prest- bodyguard dent Lincoln and continued In that ea , paclty until his assassination In the spring of 1865r During the three years of my stay In Washington, the most critical period of the nations history, 1. iK' saw and heard many things that have' never " found their way into the public -Some of the bodyguard were, prints. constantly with tha president and bla family, whether at fashionable levees, receptions to foreign legation- - or private Interviews. At all such functions, wewere silent spectators of all that, took place. We were always treated with the high- eat-- respect by -- the Lincoln- - family,. wb - re gar ded us as a part of the household. Every private of the guard received the same attentions of courtesy, as the most famous stole man or diplomat at the capital We all formed a strong personal attachment for the president and when the grand old man laid down bla life In behalf of the cauee that had been hla life work we felt ae if we had losMhe dearest friend we ever had t During the. first twoy ears of our term ..of., service the most rigid discipline was enforced Sometime we would be ordered to use extraordinary vigilance and to let no one enter the grounds of the White House without the proper passes and to be very particular as to wbo approached the president. Often the order would come for the guards on duty to be doubled It was seldom that be knew the direct cause of these extra precautions, but we supposed that the officers of the secret service were in possession of Information 'of some plot that brooded harm to the pres' ident Up to 1864, owing to our vigilance and the protecting band of Providence, our beloved chief had escaped the hand of violence The back of the confederacy was broken, a good feeling pervaded all Washington and consequently the' strict watchfulness that had pre- vailed grew Into laxity. This was the fatal period, for It waaat this time that conspiracies were hatched and confederates overran the city, comparatively unmolested. The president and family spent the summer at the soldiers home, situated about three miles north of the city, and thither the bodyguard always . accompanied them. It waa in tha summer of 1864, while we were up at the borne, that an Incident happened that cams very near culminating In Just such an pwful tragedy as followed only a few months later at Fords theater ir'waa" the custom of tha president to remain late at the war department when anything of great importance waa happening In- - the army, con- -' suiting with tha secretary of war and transmitting and receiving dispatches, and after bla work waa finished be would ride put to the soldiers tome. That summer he had per slstently refused an escort, imagining himself ' , , perfectly secure One night about the middle of August f waa -- doing, sentry, duty at the large gate through which entrance waa had Into tha' grounds at the home. The place ia situated about a quarter of a mile p8 the Bladensburg road and la reached by a devious driveway. About one oclock I heard a rifle shot in the direction of the city and shortly afterward could hear approaching 'boofbeata. In two or three mlnutea the horae cama near enough so that in the dim moonlight I recognized the rider aa the belated president The horse, a BOUT a. we' all "call it that, "In dur office from the proprietor, who spends his odd ttmeriir looking' "tipr Scotch ancestry that he can in aome way annex as a family tree there ia a division manager whom we call the goddess, who has (or had) an idea that sue knows it all. . - This, in an office where tliere are some ten girls, all keenly plive to wbat is going on in the world outside and each having Mailing Mortal of The Goddess hpr own special hobby, is sometimes resented. One day at an office gahfest they one - r and all decided this same know-it-a- ll man- agershould hetaughfshedld not 'know itall. "Now tliisdnanagerseldoni left her office during the luncheon htyir, bringing her toothsome luncheon home-cookfrom a table, .while these girls for the most part ruled over no one thing except hope, in their hearts, but sat at a restaurant table and cooked appetizing dishes in their own rooms when they - well-fille- ed d, had time. -- Bright, sparkling eyes had the first girl who was to try the scheme epon the Goddess, as ,she came intone noon hour.- She made chance to talk with the Goddess and so had her beyond her depths in the discussion of some intricate problem. This w ise girl related her experience to the other girls and from ttat on about once a week some one of the girls would begin to talk sciencej'politicsarts, erlft, books, picture exhibits, and one tiling and another as their line of knowledge lay. It W8S not long until every girl in that office saw the gains she had made in her own favor, - Since that time the Goddess, has grown more tolerant of those girts, many of whom are her superiors (in many wavs) and now knows that office girls have some bther way of spending their time than' in mere chatter. - -- They have opened up a new world to the manager and shown her that she is not the only one who knows a thing or two. fVe mav be all right in our own line of knowledge, but the world's knowledge is of many sorts, as are its pleasures, but we, like the Goddess, are densely ignorant of that which the other fellow knows qnd because he does not know our own pet hobbies, or line of work, our interests, or butferflving, French call pleasuring, we must not condemn him as ignorant. as the "17 are seven out of ten grammar jjjid high school pupils poor writers? What is the remedy, if them is a remedy? Wc High School Pupils Poor Writers teacher. Yet I am not censuring the teacher. .She does the best she Lmfifr how. The fault lies with those in authority Systems of )enmanshiphave littleto dc with the result. What we rjeed not svr tem, but method. , Copy books do no particular harm, alt hough as they Tre generally nsed they certainly do little good Teachers will joeveriie .able to Tam ont good writers until the teachers themselvef 7 how to teach others fo .write, and this and how to writ& re first taught is not a difficult thing to do if it is gone about in the right way. Every teacher must knowand know that she knows, and this is the special work , of the specialists. ' t writing Is 'easily acquired if efforts now put forth are properly systematized. Too often the writing is neglected be cause hut little interest is shown in the subject by school authorities. Good,' plain,-practic- al - X! -- very spirited one, belonging to Lamon. the marshal-o- f --the District of Columbia, was Mr. Lincolns favorite saddle animal and when be waa In the White House he always sta-ble- a chosehlm Aa horse and rid- - er approached- - tha gate I noticed that the president waa bareheaded. After had aaaatted him In checking hla steed the presi-x dent said to me: "He came pretty near getting didnt he? He took the bit away with me, teeth before I could draw the reins " I then asked him where his hat was and he replied that somebody had fired a gun off down at the foot of the hill, which scared his horse, and the lurch of the animal toppled hla hat off I led the horse to the cottage where the president and his family was staying There he dismounted and went. in. Thinking the proceeding a little strange, a corporal and I started In the direction from which the report of the gun bad been heard, to Investigate When we came to the place where the driveway meets the main toad we found the presidents hat a plain silk hat and on examln- Ing It found a bullet hole through the corner of the crown The shot had been fired upward and It was evident that the person, who had fired It had secreted himself close to the roadside We listened and searched the locality thoroughly, but to no avail The next day I gave Ml Lincoln his hat and called his attention toJ2ie bullet hole He uncon- cernedly remarked that It was put there by some In hla said, however, that he wanted the matter kept quiet and admonished us to ray nothing about it The next fall, afteF we had taken up our winter quarters at the White House, a conspiracy to kidnap the president wag unknowingly frustrated by us. Hadthe, truth of the affair leaked out at the time It doubtless would have created -- reat excitement Our quarters were-- Immediately In front of the south porch of the Executive Mansion, a position which placed us at about equal distance from the treasury bulldfng on the east -- and the waFand navy building on the west. For reasons at the time unknown to u we were ordered to move our guard tent and place it at the west eDd of the gravel walk, directly In Ue-- , rear of the war department. While w Stayed there nothing occurred to arouse suspicion. Bhortly afterward we learned, however, that on the very night after we had moved th tent the confederates had a plan laid to capture the president The conspirators were to hid la tha shrubbery and when the president cam along ' the walk they were to seize, gag and carry him across the river into Virginia. Thence he was to he taken to Richmond or some other ronfea erate stronghold, where be waa to be .held aa a hostage. The members of tha bodyguard always supposed that the conspirators were' frightened away when they taw our guard tent and abandoned the plan of kidnapping. Not long after the attempted kidnapping another episode took place, which afterwardaa found to have been planned by a band of assassins who made their headquarter In the city. 'Bourke, the veteran coachman, who had served at the White House-throug- h Pierces and Buchan-anadministrations and thus far Into Lincolns, was taken sick and compelled to be off duty. Immediately a stranger, who represented himself as an experienced coachman from Baltimore, applied at the White House and was employed as coachman. From the first he wag domineering and after a few weeks became so Important that he was discharged and Bourke reinstated. One night shortly afterward. Just about dusk. the discharged coachman was seen sneaking around the stabler by some of the guard. The stables had been locked for the night and It was noMfopposed that be could do any damage and consequently the men who saw him did not go to the a t aides7 resent Iy Th ew h ole Interior of" the barns waa found to be on Are. The guard waa called out and b dint of great exertion we saved the presidents coach and team, but Tad Lincolns ponlea and Col 'Hays carriage team perished In the flames. The plan was id have ihla man fire the stables and thus to distract our attention. During tha excitement some of the conspirator were-ready to rush Into the White House and murder the president but Instead of remaining In the bouse Mr. Lincoln ran out among us and thua In all probability frustrated another attempt at' assassination. What makes this appear more likely now la tha fact that after the Incendiary was arrested he produced several witnesses, who later found employment at Ford's theater, to testify that ha waa down In the city during th whole of the evening. These were the persons who doubtless planned th final conspiracy that brought the great benefactor to the grave. a f 1 1x |