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Show entitled 'Biography of Benedict Arnold.' In these there was not a single idea or fact that I had about Arnold s Why Ono of Benedict Arnold Met Pre wife and her connection with the sale mature Destruction. of West Point that was not set forth, "It's not an unusual thing for a niua and to be forestalled." said a man wh( bad done very well, too; apparently he had resources that had been closed writes, "but when a subject that ha to me. . 1 , never been adequately treated occurt "A month later a retired army offito nim and ho creates an Interesting cer published a brochure ion The Aspressing for some previously unknowt sault on Quebec from a Military facts and then seeg fabric aaj Standpoint.' This was followed by a ticlpated by half a dezea other jnen, I similar volume on The Tactical Skill think he may be Justified In losing bis of Gen. Benedict Arnold.' A 400 page patience. I know I lost mine. 'Defence of Gen. Arnold.' came next, About two years sgo my little and finally the magasines took It up nephew asked mo questions about the and essays appeared all over the counreason of Benedict Arnold for a com try. .josltlon his teacher wanted. The Idea "I gave It up In despair and pigeou-holetruck me that for a man who was so my manuscript. In the faint hope .neffaceably Identified with the Revo that enough of what toad been printed lution there was very, little of his his would be forgotten after a few years to tory known, and If I I could secur allow me to make , short article or enougu macenai ana aiscover any two. , slight palliation of his offence It migh "I pitched the whole thing away be favorably passed by the publisher's when Jones came la last week. Jones literary adviser. makes pictures for the weeklies. He '1 knew there was at least one biog had been up the state for a few months raphy, that In Sparks' 'Lives, written and he burst In on me, vibrant with about 1S30. but It was so scanty that t enthusiasm. By the way, I don't think hardly deserved the name. he ever reads anything but hlstorica' "I lookd over the fieVd to make sure novels and Isn't much in touch witii that it was clear and found that besio current literature. " 'By Jove,' he said, all out of Sparks work the only other book writ ten was a rambling relation of Arnold's breath. 'I've got one of the most orlg career by a collateral relative, printed Inal Ideas for a little book I'm going to and published by the author dn Chicago write you ever heard! I've been up It about 1SS5. As far as I could learn it Lake Champlaln, near where Benedict had a very small sale. Arnold was In 1775. I always thought "In time I raised Quite a structure. that there was something more to that dug up information that Arnold's wife West Point business than was ever rewas more than friendly to Major And re vealed. After he won the naval battle before her marriage, that she was on the lake I've discovered that G;n. frenzied Tory, that she had oontro.lin Schuyler became furiously jealous of Influence over her husband and that hira and TTis enmity and Mrs. Arnold s the beginning of his weakening loyalty sympathy with the English.' could be traced to his acquaintance " 'Hold on.' said L 'Walt until I gt with her. rid of this pile of paper.' I threw it "Well, I had collected all this when Info the grate. There It goes,' I went I chanced on a reviewer's criticism d on 'your Inspiration, too.' Then I an Arnold book. Then I got my first told him about the other fellows." throb. However, this wasn't so Lad, New York Sun. as I found on inspecting It that it only treated of an episode In Arnold's life. Old Nell Balked at Jerry' Overalls. "It was" called 'An Account ct the Nell, an old plough horse, recently Montgomery and Arnold Expedition to came to this city to see her son, alio Quebec,' and described the movements was 'beginning his career as the of the force from Newburyport to Can main motive power of a delivery wagad a, dwelling on the labor and ability on. The Journey was a hot one, but cf the commanders, and generally desire to see how this offspring was handling Arnold pretty fairly. This getting along In his young horsebood had never been done In the hundred made ber persevere in her endeavor. odd years that bad elapsed, and it She found him standing in front cf woke me to all the activity I could the grocery to which ho was attached muster. This book also deprived me nervously fighting Cies. of fruitful territory, as the Canadiau "Jerry!" exclaimed the horriCod Invasion had never before been fully mother. covered by the historians. "Why. mother,"' answered Jerry In "' put in as much more work as a whinny. "What's the matter?" could give, but I was additionally hamOld Nell merely gazed at the parapered by the heavy nature o the re phernalia in whieh her son was rigsearch For instance, the easiest pa' ged out. He had over his back a net Fore? of leather straps. Nell did not mind pers I hau to go over were Archives, collected by Teter Force, that so much, because she heard of father of Gen. Manning F. Force, and them, and knew they were worn these coitipriecd twenty thick to tru-- cf a good deal by city bores, which ) seemed to think they keep the flier nearly fillet u hundred pages of each. This, as I bay, was com from biting. She could even stand paratively easy, for the government the straw hat, neatly bound with a had printed most of them. Everything green tape, because she had heard of else was manuscript, widely scattered them being advocated for country and very often hard to obtain horses, though she held herself above 1 was In "At last the auch folly. But Jerry's front less swinging along were completely ensooase ln.bl.ie and bad brought him to LI nvrative. 1 t ml overalls. when notice T.y iiary exploits, "Dot mother," protested the youth a title In one of the big magazines ful Jerry, "you don't understand. It There was some more Arnold. 'This was called The prologu? to Is considered much more humane for the American Revolution,' and in four our owners to clothe us thus. You are and don't realize tha or five issues went over the tam? In conditions. This light difference as the but other book, going ground Is from the reflected was that a It pavement Is little further. written by proIn fact, our bard beeyes. upon and very fessor cf Dartmouth College, wear to some us 1 are of compelled sides embodying everything hai men. same as We the man simply in I'm glasses afraid the found that epoch, have to have our hide protected, bewrote better. "I resolved to kill all about the ex- cause, being hitched to wagons th pedition in my biography, although t way we are, we cannot go dashing across the fields to get rid of the un bad cherished that part fondly. On of these an'SofS had gone over the pleasant sensation pt bdtcsr Do .it feel bad this Is merely civilization." line of march la m canoe, so I co:i 4 "I wouldn't mind the rest of It ? I have so bern aecurace, unless bardiy stele the description bodily. I reca: ouch.' ' responded the old plouxb horse, "but those overalls break ir.y wtrat I bad written and went on Quiet. heart, Jerry. They are making a seere-llyand ly "Within two months came another slave of you." With a dejected hang of her head. blow. This tM a book on the ba'.tlc of Saratoga, claiming the victory tor the old plough horse turned and went Arnold SLd proving that Oen. Gates, tack to tho old home. Washington who was botiilnaLy in command, was Post entitled to cone of the glory. A life of Andrea Is to be Issued by "Thl man had collected a number the Geographical Society of Stock of letters that testified to the intent of of which he was a prominent Gates to slander and humiliate Arnold. holm, He was well known not member. He also Introduced some correspondas an aeronaut, but as a meteor ence of the Conway clique that showed only and his personal qualities enthat they inc.uded Arnold with Wash-ingto- ologist, eared blni to a number of friends. In their purpose. fcl s letters to whom are to be embod- "All Ibis ! had imagined my exclu le d In the biography. slve domain. I was compelled again to ,. . M . Mr. Married "WTiat will wo do. cumec. naa vy original wnai i dearest, with the money I save by before. cutting off my cigars?" Mrs. Married "We will buy Ice "Still, I thought I had enough lo fela till some with cream with It love." novelty stamp It 1. low brought out two tig books frank'? SHE SLEEPS OUT OF DOORS. A LOST BIOGRAPHY. . . his-whol- d - a ixr.-parte- - n WALKAWAY Mrs. Crowe Passes Every Night In Sleeping Bag on a Porch. Tucked snugly away In an eider- down bag, fanned by the chill winds of Lake Michigan, caressed by the moonbeams an winked at by the stars a little woman out in Evanston sleeps every night out of doors. She is Mrs. Martha Foote Crowe, dean of women at iNorthwsstern University and head Willard Hall at that Institution. "I am no convert to outdoor living," said Mrs. Crowe, "because I have always been a believer in It. Why should not one sleep out of doors in Evanston as well as when one camps out West?" "My sleeping bag? It Is not extraordinary. It Is denim lined with an eiderdown quilt. It is really a bed that folds around the sleeper. There is a head covering that will protect the eyes of the late sleeper from the morning sun. "1 have spent the summer In the upper Sitrras. Up In tho Sierras the atmosphere is always dry. Consequent-ueveryone lu camp sleeps out doors, right on the ground. You simply put on your sleeping bag and He down If you want to sleep in the morning after the sun has risen you protect your eyes by the flap &at comes over your head." "Hera Is the porch my sleeping place," she said as she came out on the broad veianda. "and I assure you It Is delightful. Afraid of porch climbers? Why no A vetteran of the Sierras should be fearless in Svans-ton- . 'of y -- "Everyone In California sleeps on doors as much as he can. Sleeping bags are common articles of trade. "Shall I do it In cold weather? An altitude of 10,000 feet in the Sierras And I slept brings cold weather. there. But my bag Is not waterproof end I couKln't do It In damp weath er." Chicago Journal. Rat Story From South Africa. There were a lot of rats In the .storage room of my 6table, and we bad great difficulty In getting at them. Tbay were 6hy of all traps, and did a tremendous lot of damage at night. lying quiet all day. At length I put in the room a square tin lined box, about two feet deep, and in it placed some burned cheese. The rats Immediately got interested In the cheese, climbed up the side of the box. and having got inside, could not ascend the slippery tin lining. In that way we killed a great many. One morning my children took a cat, who was a very good ratter, and placed it In the box, where there was already a good sized rat. The cat Instead of tackling the rat, appeared to make friends with it. They put noses together and frisked round, but no barm was done and eventually the cat Jumped oiit. refusing to tackle the rat The children then put In a keen dachshund, who Immediately snapped at tbe rat and missed it. Tbe rat ran around the box two or three times, dodging cleverly, and eventually, by climbing on the dog's back, adroitly Jumped out cf the box and escaped. Johannesburg Letter in the Field. r $300 Perquisite Thet .Makes the Circus Ticket Seller's Place Profitable. "Tho best snap with any show Is that of ticket seller," said, tha veteran circus man. "Give me the walkaway money or any good sized show, and I caro not who gets the llg salaries. "The walkaway money Is the varying pile of coin that is left behind by the hasty men who forget about having change coming to them, and it amounts to many dollars in the course of a month. With even the smallest shows It amounts to considerable, and with the big ones It will go as high as $25 a performance. "On neary every occasion when a show 'is In town some fellow will go home sore and charge that be was when the fact Is he was at fault himself. Thero is always a rush at the wagon, and when a man sticks a dollar inside the window he is In a hurry to get Inside the big tent and sec the animals. He will either grab the change at the same time he gets his ticket or he will walk away and leave it beblnt If ho doesn't return and holler tho money Is shoved to one side in the walkaway pile, and goes into tho ticket man's pocket after the sale Is over. "The rake off is a perquisite of the ticket seller, because when there Is any shortage, when the tickets at tho door do not correspond with the cash on hand ho makes good. "The west is the rich field for the ticket seller. Out in Cripple Creek twenty dollar gold pieces are more plentiful than Hollars, and thera have been times in that region when tho walkaway money amounted to aa much as $150 a day. "The miners all turn out to a show and they all pay In gold. A man will come up, flap down a twenty dollar gold piece and walk away without his chango, because his attention Is attracted to something else. One or two come back to make a yelp, and their, money is promptly handed out to them. "With, the tig show tho rake c' from this source will run up to an average of nearly $50 a day. if a man comes around and puts up a kick about being he canntt get vp an argument with the ticket seller. Ills orders are that as Ions as ho has any walkaway money In sight he is to shell out "Of course. If there has been none left behind at that prtlcular performance the kicker gets turned down, because he is known to be a liar, but as a general proposition a man wco wants to lie for half a dollar can make It pay by backing up to the ticket seller after a lively rush for r New York Sun. PRIt Paid for Fashions 1 In lap Idly. Nono ble photographs i Ity, although Ei-- i through a decac they are expecA enough to make Even allowing public taste aud th tographed by the J style, It is surprf number of new nJ cn Fifth avenue, contains ono or who have gone intt Aj recently. The newcomers aru' case recruited from j amateurs. They us ' laKing pictures as .5 creased skill and pra able to compete wl als. ' ' The naturalness an. amateur photography' f, with the work of nrofe, a voe-iifor thA nrtltu Most of these Dhoto tho opportunity to leav Ion, and even to makjve out of It while engagev t One man who earns trout t thousand dollars a year wl" era, spends most of his t f short-change- . A . - , dozen for pictures which 8r $35 In tho Fifth avenue sT, takea bis 'camera to tbe h sitter, ho has no office r.eaW and does all his work, lniaUdf room of his apartment But the larger part of hi yy comes from .orders for id purposes. Ono commission 1 recently delivered was for tL tures of wild flowers cf differ sons to be used by an !nsur pany in u i.aicuuar. of These photographs' "took rer little work, although it was jng ti.1 ary for them to be skillfully for three sty, Tbe price paid . a . a , wiia roses, xomea roa ana 'yel , .ndl tnemums was if Juo. . .... t mm nconer i sui ,"AA ivu, .yel grapber, with another occupant. nis reai dusucs, "Tor hix stu.ini animals. They are to te.usedAt buuvemr, nnu.iue ccmpany n vl young calves, pigs, colts and , domestic animals Just as thet(j seen in tne country. hl "That work was like a vacatlct-- , I had to do was tc travel over u country aro ind New York locking my animals. I walked most cf u day for a week, and by the that tlmo I bad Just the grouf. wanted and had enjoyed myself V I was gcttia- - them. And tho pay w.v I I oorl for !ha nt.mnnl nf urnt-l- r In. Maxims by Lord Bulwer. put It la this kind of amateur puatflf The maxims of wisdom are the of pieces glass in a kaleidoscope; laphy that generally passes over f remain forever unchanged ani in tho professlonil stage aTler a while they the same case; but every age shakos Tbe change I? made easy by th them Into a now combination of col- ebility to get work while In the perors. iod of transition. In nine cases out of ten a man who "While the established photocannot explain his Ideas Is the dup-- cf graphers who were in tho tulnens his Imagination In thinking he hai before all these men and women with r tbclr so called Ideas, of art photograany. To say to a man when you ask Lira phy broke It' said one of the men a favor, "Don't do it if it Inconvco-ience- whoso nimo "'as for years ever a f you," Is a mean way of sav- Fifth avenue thop, "pretend to have ing jtursclf from an obligation, and a contempt for the amateurs as they, depriving another of tbe merit i,f call themselves, their Influence on thefi La been very positive. conferring one. Tho flattery of one's friends Is re- Those who have refused to accept the' quired as a dram to keep up one' new methods have found It hard work spirits against the Injustice of one's to get along. n em lea. 'Customcra want the new pictures. Do not trust to your railroads, nor Tbcy liko the r.aturalness of ifce pose, your telegraphs, nor your schools, as which often Is really an atfectatkn; a test of civilization; the real refine- tbey like the u mj of the colored priati ment of a nation Is to be found sa and the entire absence of the eld the Justice of Its ideas and the cour- fashionel look pleasant' Idea wt'.h tesy of Its manners. your head all the time In the gTas? Tho knowledge of the most value of an Iron frame. to us Is that which we gain so Inaon "If It had not teen for the amv slbty and gradually as not to teur photographers this' kind of thing we have acquired It until lt would have JaMel longer than It did. effect becomes visible In our con- It was bound to go, of course In ths duct end, tut the amateurs hastened tot You win never be trusted if you do change. more to gain an enemy than to serve The woman artists among the grada friend. uates from the amatfur class ar You are not obliged to give yo-i- r just as successful as the men la sevhand to anyone; but never give eral cases triads reputations for finger. Nineteenth Century. - f 1 short-change- d tick-ttw- h-- i s old-timer- ??r-cefr- Office Boy "The boss It busy and you'll have to wait In the Mr. Cornstalk "Waal 1 dont mind a little game, tut dont have the ante too high." ante-room- ." yo-.'- The treasurer of the United States cn May 6, 1903, redeemed two half-cen- t pieces. This Is the first time In the history of the country that any such coins have teen presented for redemption. m yt-a- HIGH MONEY. Dogs art: allowed to enter tramway cars In Berlin, but must be held in their mas'er's Icps nd pall s o f lxft deaf and dumb after a severe with IheM effects of light attack of scarlet fever when she wa like cngr.jvisss and ii a cMJ cf 12, Miss Eliza A'iams ha made firj. coixrriP" .v passed .42 years In the Louisville Ci!y J Hospital In complete ignorance who her parents were. cf ana cm teen tame ?;??' II r si ' ' v- - J |