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Show Unlest Peace Doth Reign. Ktrive for wealth. He toll lor fame. We Joltnr after houih! and Mmw; We deem no earnlUe too 91 eat And stake a fortune on a throw. What splendid triumph ahull be ours. What wondrous iHpturo m naln! How soon we lnul the Kiumleur naught, l.'nlewa Hlthln sweet peaoe doth reign. eh How old the caution' Still we fret For sun and moon, for stars that gleam; We seek the citatum, spurn the near. And barter nulstanee lor a dream. What seM we what hills upcllrnb. O, roues in the Alpine rhutti! We find too soon tho ptizs fade. If in the heait no peace doth reign. And though our yeatu he humhly spent, No star of glory in our eky. No giandeur gleaming on our way, Hut dimple duty ever nigh When love Inspires us to each task, The roses in our path to train, How clear resounds the JoyhelN chlma. For in our heart glad peace doth reign. Hoston Ttansertpt, Truth About Barbara Freitchie. The house of Barbara Freltchie was not on the line of inarch, and It was, therefore, highly Improbable that any general, Union or Confederate, would advance against It for the purpose of shooting either Eer or her flag. War, in September, 18G2, was too serious an affair to waste shot on old ladles who lived on side streets. The real heroine of the flag Incident, was a young woman a Mrs. Mary Quan-trllle- , who lived on Patrick street. According to the testimony of reliable persons who lived In Frederick during the war, this Mary Quantrllle was ono of those young and ardent patriots who got out of their way to shake the That flag In the face of the enemy. they were crazy Mary Quantrllle, wont to say, will get us all killed yet, or sent over the line, for her flag When the Confederates waving." marched Into Frederick, In September, 18G2, and the wise ones drew In the starry banners, hiding them from lawless hands, Mary ran out on the porch, waving a small flag In the face of the passing troops. One of the soldiers jokingly called to her that he wanted the flag to give to Gen. Lee. Whereupon Mary stoutly answered that the flag was worthy of a better .cause than the one for which his Gen. Lee and himself were fighting. This seemed to amuse some of the men, and one of the officers ordered the band to' serenade the heroine. They played Dixie, "Maryland, My MaryBanland," and, The ner In front of her house. Mary still waved the flag, and one of the soldiers, who did not look gently upon her, as did his more gallant comrades, came up and struck the slender staff with The flag fell, and he his bayonet. trampled upon It. An officer stepped out of the line and reproved the man for what he had done, whereupon a comrade of Marys pulled a small silken flag out of her voluminous sleeve and handed it to her. This flag she waved vigorously as the men marched on. It seems that every one In Patrick street knew of this Incident; but there was no talk of shooting on the part of the Confederates, nor was Mary regarded as a heroine: Indeed, she was called silly." Era Magazine for August. , Larry's Bay Mare. When Larry came home from the war he brought the bay mare with him. She had done good service from the day he captured her from Buchanan, the Confederate spy. In Lar- rys life that was a day never to be forgotten. lie was serving In the 11th Illinois on detached duty, acting as scout for Grant and Sherman outside of Vicksburg. Buchanan, disguised as a woman, had entered the federal lines and gained valuable information. Making his way out, he found his mare hidden In a thicket, and started for the Confederate headquarters. Larry was sent to overtake and capture him. He rode a black stallion. The two men met on a yellow, windfired ing southern road. Buchanan twice at Larry and missed him, and then jumped the bay mare over a fence, Into a cornfield, and headed for a distant crib. Larry followed. Buchanan rode round and round the crib. Larry pursuing. Suddenly Larry whirled his horse about so as to come face to face with hts foe. They met on the corner. Larrys bullet killed Buchanan; the latters ended the life of the black stallion. Larry mounted the bay mare, put the dead mans body in front of him and rode Into camp. Thats how he won the mare. She was true to him. In all the wild riding that he did for three years, scouting for Grant, she never complained at any hardship put upon her. When he was shot down on Pearl river and tick almost to the death hung over her neck, she took the water and carried him to safety. On his return to duty she turned her soft eyes on him and welcomed him in true beast fashion. One night he left her in a corn brake with the one injunction: Stay here, girlie, until I whistle. hours and He was gone thirty-sithen came back hard pressed by cavalrymen. He whistled as he entered the brake and she came to him straight from the spot where he had left her. Now he was in the saddle and off for the fence on the far side. Twice he turned in the saddle and killed a near pursuer. Twice the mare was hit. But she took the fence and brought him out of dinger. With the war over. Larry and the hay maie came to Chicago and l.arry married. He drove the mare to a cart n w through the stockj arris district and Bhe was the pet of the family. As the children were born they were taken to the barn to make her acquaintance. Their earliest childhoood recollections wefe of playing in her stall and of watching her lift k?r delicate limbs so that they should not be trampled upon. Every family event entertaining the parson, having relatives come, birthday parties, christenings the bay mare took part in. Freed frofn her stall she would stand at a front window and he fed with dainties by all the guests. Yet she kept her nerve and strength, answering to every cal) for work l.arry put upon her, just a; she had In the old war days. Decoration day was the proudest one of the year to her because then, gayly caparisoned, she moved In the parade with Larry, heard the' bugles call, saw the gleaming bayonets again, familiar- uniforms. To recognized horsps that had not lived what she had she seemed to say: 'Tve lived the real thii g. I was a companion of war to m- - belongs as much honor as to the deal. One day Larry was taksn sick and he realized that "lights out would soon he sounded for him. He went to his end as a man of soldierly spirit should, his affairs arranged, himself unafraid. But as he weakeneH he had the mare brought out each day to a window by the side of which stood his bed and she would stand there by the hour to take his feeble caresses, her eyes mutely questioning as to what he suffered. So one morning while he ran hla white, knotted fingers through her mane, he said to her: Girlie, the bugles are calling from the other side; Ive got to leave you. But I'll be watching for your coming. The wife came In later and found him asleep at last, the mares bony head close to his stilled lips. Now l.arry and his wife had made a love match and through the years they had kept tender one to the other, so with his going, although she gave to the children all the great good In her, she clung most to the bay mare. It was pathetic of an evening to see her go to the stall where the shadows were already deep and talk to the bay mare of Larry. We miss him, don't we, girlie? she would whisper. We want him back badly, dont we?" To which the mare gave quick assent in her own way. It's hard for a woman to be without. her man, girlie, after she's walked With ihtm many years. The children are good, the home Is fair, but, oh, girlie, I want him back again." The years have been many since the bay mare, too, went her appointed way. They came one morning to the stall to find her dead through old age. She was decently buried and until time and weather obliterated the board there marked the spot on the old Vincennes road where she lay a slab bearing the Inscription: Larrys Girlie., H. I. C. In Chicago Post. - It is the size of a little childs fat hand, but I am told that the Inventor who made it worked seventeen years and spent $30,000 on hts experiments. He, may never make much money out of it, and yet he may become wealthy from the sale of the machine of which It is a main part. If he fails he will be called by some a fool. If he succeeds .these same people will call him a genius. Do such seekers after new Ideas work for years for the money there may be in the discovery? There must be a love for the work rather than a love for the wealth which may come from success, though a hope of wealth or glory may start many on this path. How can Inventive people become more successful financially? One man told me that his father invented many good things, any one of which would have made him wealthy If marketed correctly, but he kept all of them on the shelf for fear of getting cheated, and never profited by his originality. One thinker was in jail for debt while studying out a chemical compound, but later became a national success. He had a marketable product when It was ready, and he put all his time on It when he once got It Yesterday a good business man told me about a man who had a good article but he got rid of his partners and then found that he did not know how to market his own good article. Sales fell to a small figure, and he was forced to hitch up with a man that knew how to put things on the market and kep them there. It Is easy to find good thing to push, and difficult to find men who can successfully push them. Why? Well, to market an article requires a steady energy and ready resourcefulness few people possess. You cqn walk ten miles In ten hours, but can you run ten miles in one hour? Competition may require the business nian to think ten days in ten minutes or to work twenty hours a day for a month. I was told about a wealthy American who marketed an article successfully but who had nevei recovered physically from two weeks of work done at a critical period iritis business. Down In the heart of Indiana a year ago I sat in the office of an energetic and resourceful man who had forced the world to stop and think, and purchase his goods. As he finished his days work and turned to me he said, This work is something fierce these people who come in and tell me how to rio things make me tired they know about as much about it as then he got off some special remarks which were characteristic of the man. He was right and he was wrong. Outsiders knew little about the hard work he had to do to make his big money, but as great men as he have been ruined by not -- recognizing the telescopic wisdom in the suggestions of some caller or agent. Everyone needs to know more, and everyone knows something useful. A barber does not cut his own hair. Paul Point DEERS DOG started. THE CONSTITUTION. As the appeared when towed out of. Boston harbor in the war of 1812. If the Navy Department consents to the plan Brooklyn school children will get an opportunity to raise a fund for the preservation of the old Moved by the frigate Constitution. news that Old Ironsides was rapidly going to pieces in the Navy Yard at Boston, James Matthews sent the fol lowing telegram to the Secretary, of the Navy: Will you consider an offer to buy frigate, Old Ironsides, through a fund raised by Brooklyn school children? Mr. Matthews 'idea, is to have tho historic craft brought to Brooklyn and preserved in some suitable place. SHIPS GLORIOUS CAREER MARKETS WORTH STRIVING ENDS. Famous FONDNESS FOR TURNIPS. SAVED LITTLE MISTRESS Have an Irresistible Liking Example of Reasoning on Part of for the Juicy Roots. Household Pet. The intelligence and faithfulness of Turnips taste better to a deer than whisky does to an Indian, and the a dog probably saved the life of Bei-thanimal will run as great risks to ten years old, by its the vegetable as the red man will to strange actions before the child': get the liquor, said Otto Wilke of mother, says the Chicago Chronicle. The child had gone in the fields International Falls at St. Louis. I know men who make It theic around her home to gather blackberannual custom to plant turnips In the ries, accompanied by her pet dog spring In some secluded spot In a Nero, and had wandered several game country, just so they will be blocks from home. She was about to assured of easy venison in the fall, or cross the street at Harvard and avenues, when she stepped into during the summer months, if they happen to live In the woods them- the opening of a catch basin which had been completely covered with selves. weeds. If a turnip patch Is located in any The rains had filled the bottom with district where there are deer, every to the depth of a foot, and this water It will deer within that district visit several times a week, the time of day probably saved her from severe injuNero whined .around the edge they make their visits dependli?jv ,reSof the basin and barked frantically, upon the wariness of the animals and but the child had strayed so far away the nearness of settlers. from any houses that neither the dogs snow falls these visits Evefi after are continued, as long as any of the bark nor the childs screams were heard. vegetables are left in the ground. At last the dog started on a run for Until the snow gets too deep you can see where It is pawed away after home, and reaching there, ran up to night in search after the succulent the childs mother, who was on the back . porch, and barking at her, roots. Through the more sparsely settled turned around and ran In the direction districts they are actually pests to the of the accident. When Mrs. Lackmer homesteader who has a garden, for did not follow it returned and repeated nothing but an eight foot tence will its actions a number of times. Finally the actions of the dog keep them from eating the growing Civilians Part in the War. caused the mother to fear that someWhat man who served as officer or things and trampling the ground all thing was the matter with her daughsoldier will say that he would not up, like a flock of sheep. It does not ter, and she followed It to the basin, are near the vegetables rather go into a battle like Shiloh. matter how where little Bertha was crying from will deer into to the the get house, Chickamauga, Antietam or Gettysburg the cold. differthem the same, thj only just or any great contest than' to run r.n will come ence around that they being load with a of train soldiers The Reformed Bartender. engine Them Chinks, said the reformed through a country where any moment, later in the evening, when the darkDuis a tricky lot. Its hard through the liftng of rails or a weak- ness covers their movements. bartender, ened bridge, he and a greater or less luth Herald. to keep up with em. No sooner do number of his passengers might be you think youve learnt all their Dimensions of Crystal Palace. hurled to eternity? Both In the eastbiff! they spring a new dodges The dimensions of the Crystal Pal- one on than, . ern and western armies there were you. When I was tending bar qut Wesj large numbers of these men who ace, the building for the great exthrough four years offered their lives hibition in Hyde Park, London, in a Chink come' in one day, and took In their countiya service just as much 1851, were as follows: It was 1,851 a bottle out of his wide sleeve. as any man in the army offered hts. feet in length and 456 feet in breath Gimme, he says, blandy. Half a and scores of them gave their lives. at the widest part. It covered 18 dolla. Have any of them been recognized? acres. The total cubic contents were Half a dollars worth o brandy? We know too well that they have not. 33,000,000 feet. The length of sash Is that what you mean, John? bar used was about 205 miles, and I can lift my hat to any of those old Yes, yes, yes. war time engineers and it would do the quality of glass about 900,000 So I filled the bottle for him and square feet, weighing upward of 400 he put it in his sleeve again and fell my heart good to call them comrades tons. The total area of the ground in his and companions. pocket for money. All of a I presume there are others. The floor was equal to 772,784 square feet, sudden he frowned. nation concedes that the patriotic men and that of. the galleries to 217,100 No got money, he says. You and women who remained at home square feet The width of the main, wait. Hold bottle. Me fetchee money. performed a service of boundless avenue was described as being nearly Excuse. worth, but for forty years we have double that of thd nave of St. Pauls, And he handed back the bottle to been recognizing them and praising while Its length was four times as me and hurried off, full of apologies. them for what they did, and the whole great. The following comparisons A polite heathen, thinks I to mynation has recognized and praised the were made: "The walls of St. Pauls self. as I stood the bottle on the shelf soldiers and sailors, and I suppose are 4 feet thick, while those of the behind the bar. they will go on recognizing and prais- Crystal Palace are only 8 inches. St This Chink, though, never returned years In so the next day I started to pour his ing them for years to come. I know, Paul's occupied thirty-fiv- e and you know, that much of this rec- building while the Hyde Park edifice brandy back Into the demijohn again. ognition. that much of this praise, has was finished in less than eighteen There was a strange smell around come because of the organization All months. the dimensions are mul- somewhere. I put the bottle to my ' among the soldier element. I am sor- tiples of 8. nose. . ry. very sorry, that telegraphers, war By crinns, I said; the Chink commanders of army English Women Keen Polo Players. shifted flasks on me. . correspondents, Life apparently has no value these transports and military engineers id The bottle he had handed back not vigorously organize long ago and days to the woman polo player, who contained nothin but cold tea. New . Heut.-ColJ. cheerfully risks it in pursuit of the York Herald. thus secure recognition. A. Watrous, U. S. A. all absorbing pastime. English women are wildly enthusiastic about the Snake Coiled In Bed. Mrs. Dewey Gives Flag. sport, and at a nolo match recently When Mr., and Mrs. Mord Lincoln Dr. Thomas M. Owen, director of played between two teams of .women awakened at their the department of archives and his- the Queen herself was among the in- home In Friday morning on the Southern, Milltown, tory of Alabama, has received from terested spectators. Persons tastes twenty-fivmiles west of New Albany, Mrs. Mildred Dewey, wife of Admiral vary, however, when it comes to recwere startled to find a huge they Dewey, a letter relinquishing her ownreation, and few American girls have blacksnake coiled at the foot of the ership of the battle flag of the 2Sth cared to enter the lists against their bed. Alabama regiment, captured by Gen. English cousins. Lincoln kicked the reptile to the William B. Hazen. the first husband of Although they are fond of variety floor, and afrer a lively fight managed Mrs. Dewey, at Orchard Knob. The in their existences, the danger court- to kill It by hitting it on the head with flag, which is in the National Museum ed in this game is such that It Is dif- a chair. Mrs. Lincoln was so badly at Washington, win be returned to ficult for those who like to feel a she has since beea sufthat frightened Mrs. Aabama by Dewey. sense of security in their pleasures to fering from nervous prostratior. see where the fun comes in. Women The door of the housp had been left Great Was Meeting. The annual encampment at Denver . are seldom seen at a more decided dis- jbpen on account of the heat, and It was cue of the greatest meetings of advantage than when polo playing, ' is supposed the snake glided in from the G. A. U. About forty special trains and the costumes worn are generally the yard. and. that the foot of ugly enough to cause attractive Ameri- the bed afforded were used to trarspert these quarters can women to give it the cold shoul- coiled itself there I ouisv;' Courier der. If for no other reason. , Journal. Animals gt Sco-vlll- e - - 1 e I Constitution Declared Worn Out Beyond Repair. The Constitution is worn out beyond repair. Not the written or unwritten constitution, but Old Ironsides, the frigate which bore Hull and Seventy-fiv- e Balnbridge to victory. years ago the spirited lines of Dr. Holmes saved it from the wreckers, but now the end has come. The Constitution was launched in 1797, a sister ship of the United States and the President. The latter, under Admiral Decatur, was captured by the English in 1815, after a treaty of peace had been concluded, but there were no cables In those days. If there had been Jackson would not have fought and defeated Pakenham at New Orleans. It is now an English training ship and carries Sir Charles Beres-ford- s The Constitution was flag. equipped with thirty-tw- o long foup pounders and twenty , thirty-tw- o carronaaes. Under 'pound Capt. Preble it took part in the bombardment of Tripoli in 1804, its sailors winning the admiration of the world by taking it and making sail under fire as coolly as if on exhibition. In the war of 1812, under Capt. Isaac Hull It sank the Guerriere In thirty minutes; under Capt Bainbridge it riddled the Java in sixty-fiv- e minutes; under Capt. Charles Stewart it captured the Cyane and the Levant It was in 1830 that it was first proposed to dismantle the Constitution. Now, In 1905, it is reported that the frigate is sinking where it lies, and if put in dry dock would fail apart of Its own weight. Is it due to lack of care or to initial differences in construction that it cannot reach the age of Nelsons battleship, the Victory? The Victory was already forty years old In October, 1805, when it aided in destroying the Spanish and French fleets off Trafalgar. It had taken part in the victory of Cape St. Vincent, which gave Jervis his title as earl, when nearly the age at which the Constitution was first condemned. It carried 100 guns, eighteen, twenty-iou- r and thirty-tw- o pounders. Its tonnage was 2,162 Its oak sides above the water line were two feet thick, and are still stanch. The steel batis in five tleship of years, obsolete in fifteen, but this veteran, after forty years service, won Its greatest battle, the greatest sea fight of the Napoleonic wars. Against a modern fighting machine a whole fleet like the Constitution and the Victory in their best days would be useless. One of the new twelve inch guns will fire two shots a minute capable of penetrating fifty-oninehes of wrought iron. The twenty-fou- r pound balls of the Constitution would rattle harmlessly against the steel armor of the Colorado. But progress is only relative. Offensive and defensive armaments have developed equally. According to Sir Philip Watts, director of naval construction In England, the present relation between guns and armor is about what it was In the days of the cast iron smooth bore and the oak sides. In 1906, as in 1805 or 1812, it is the man behind the gun that makes the difference. No nation can afford to fall behind the others in equipment, but precision, courage, loyalty must always be the deciding factors where other things are equal. 22-9- to-da- y e Lawyers Skillful Use of Words. Black of New York, besides being an accomplished orator, generally comes vat ahead in a personal argument Not long ago while he was pleading for the defendant in a damage suit case in the Albany courts he applied the word Impertinent to the plaintiff s lawyer and was promptly All recalled to order by the court. marks, your honor, replied Mr. Black, with perfect coolness, must be either pertinent or impertinent, and I submit that the remarks of the opposing counsel are most Impertinent. Ex-Go- FOR- - Commerce of the Orient Worlds Greatest Commercial Prize. , Three thousand millions of dollars! That is the arithmetical measure of the commerce of the Orient. Thus it is summed up by the official statistician of the governments department of statistics. And that commerce is said to bo yet small as compared with tho worlds commerce. The population of Asia and Oceanica is 850,000,000, while that of all other parts of the world combined is only about 750,000,000. Its land area Is 18.000.- 000 square miles, while that of other parts of the world is 34,000,000, yet the commerce of the Orient is but a paltry $3,000,000,000, while that of other parts of the world is $19,000,000,-000. So it is seen that the average per capita commerce in the Orient is $3 a year, while the average per capita for the rest of the world is $27 a yeaf -The foreign commerce of Chrna, ' with 400,000,000 industrious people and no railways, has grown but $160, 0o0,-00- 0 since 1870; that of India, with 300.000.- 000 people and a system of railways, has grown $258,000,000, and that of Japan, with only 45,000,000 and a system of railways, has grown $215,000,000. And how does the United States stand to share in this commercial prize of the Orient? At present the United States sells to the Orient about $100,000,000 worth of goods a year, while Europe sells But the records of tho $600,000,000. past ten years show that we are gaining much more rapidly in this trade than any other nation. The imports of China, Japan and Australia Loin all European countries combined showed an increase in 1903 of but $45,000,000 as compared with 1900, while the increase in importations by those countries from the United States alone in the same period was $49,000,000, thus showing that our gain in their export trade was actually greater than the grain of all Europe combined. Our purchases, too, from the Oricrt have grown since 1870 from less than $32,000,000 to $190,000,000 in 1904. We have taken from them large quantifies of raw silk, tea, hemp, jute, tin, goat-skinetc., and we send them raw and manufactured cotton, mineral oils, manufactured Iron and steel, flour, meats and rice. No country has the natural advantages which are possessed by the United States for securing this Oriental trade, in the command which American merchants have of the Pacific ocean. Our national frontage of the Pacific is 12,500 nautical miles, while that of the United Kingdom is 10.000, of Russia 6,000, Japan 5,000 and China about 3,000. In addition to this we are about beginning the construction of the Isthmian canal, which, when completed, will furnish direct water communication between the Orient and our producing and manufacturing sections of the east and south. Cotton, Iron and breadstuffs will go by this route to the Orient, touching at the ports of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tacoma and Seattle. By this means alone the United States should increase her Oriental exports from $100,000,000 to $500,000,000 per annum. s, Daring Woman Explorer. Mrs. French Sheldon, the famous woman explorer, believes that her greatest triumph was her descent to the shores of Lake Chala in Africa. The lake lies deep down in the crater of an extinct volcano. No less authority than Sir Harry Johnson declared that nobody, unless possessed of the holding capacity of an ape or the wings of a bird, could ever descend the almost perpendicular and smooth cliffs to the water far below But Mrs. French Sheldon got down to the lake, ahd sailed across and around iL |
