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Show i back upon our lino. These works wero not over 300 feet apart and tho lirock roud lay bctweun them. The rebels planted their colors on the fir.- -t line. Wo wero ordered to charge over our works, and did so. Tho troops there rallied, and together we drove tho rebels back ut tho point of tho bayonet, hardly giving them time to got their colors. An attempt was nutdo to capture them, but tliu roiads got them and retreated. Thu works to the left of us were on tire at the time, but not in our front. When the old Third 'orps gave way in confusion it was time fur Carrolls or any other troops to lie looking for a line of retreat. Our men that fell on that afternoon aro buried on the eust side of the HiiM-roud near the plunk road. Wo held this position until wo marched to the left to Todd's Tavern, and I think the history made by Hancock's and Sickles old corps, united under one command, was as brilliant and full of fight us that scored by any other organization of the Army of the 1'oloiuae. I remained with tho hoys until sc. vercly wounded ut the charge a on Taylor's llridgo ut the crossing of tho North Anna, and though the old division with the red diamond was badly used up hy that time It was still in tlio ring when I left to go home on a stretcher, F. E. Hunk, in Nat. Tribune. THE CAMP FIRE. tlPEEIEXCES OF ROLBIECS DIKING THE LITE REBELLION. Vatsrsas Keeominc Inwaa Wlra la lha Wildrraa. Irav-T- ka Ala-Mi- art linns. Kir. Tbe Milwaukee National Ilnno contain. at thie writing probably 3,01)0 members, all of whom, with very low exceptions, were pronounced sane men by the examining surgeon when admitted. As the years rolled and mure became insane. Musi are harmless, but some are vicious. Cvery year a butch of these unfortunates are sunt to the asylum at Washington, in order to make room here, and for boiler treatment at tliu capital. Still, they multiply at an alarming rate, till tho number of cranks is something fearful to understand. even by a close observer. The causes are said to bi broken health, brokun hearts, broken forand failtunes. family troubles For ure in obtaining pensions. the benefit of, and as a timely warning to all comrades, and wives, sons und daughters of veterans who are now inmutes of this or any other Home. I wish logivo iny own reuson for this increase of insanity among tbe old soldiers. In a majority of eases 1 honestly believe that the cause can pluinly be traced to aa entirely different source than the above mentioned reason. Friends, you have neglected the veteran by considering thut he has already been wall provided for by a grateful people. und consequently you have almost entirely forgotten him you never (or hurdly ever) correspond, his him local never send not cheer you do newspapers; him up. and never throw a ray of sunshine across his lonely, wearlsomu way. Days, weeks, mouths and years pass by, but he never receives a single token of love or ruiiiemhranro. Ifciy after day our feeble old friend of former happy days wanders to his ptKloIll.ie and calls for letters that never conn. Week after week ho aeuds messages to loved ones, or friends of his schoolboy days, but nover receives an answer. Mowly, with feeble steps and bowed head, lie tlio llnmo grounds; his walks 4X)inrudes that pass by he nover knows, Life is u drudge, and hope is gone, mid how it ends you cull well imagine. Some day liis roommates read his funeral notice on the bulletin bourd"ii) the tniiiii halls, or ait informed that ho lias been sent over to tho crazy wad. Tho governor of tho Homo is a kind and just man. Tho surgeons do all they rnu to ease tho old sufferer, but, alas! they cannot return youth to them: they cannot replace friends, wives,, sons and daughters, and above nil. tho National Home is not the Home, Sweet Homo, that tho soldier dreamed and sang of during and before the war. Please remember your otd friends at me if I have tnt spoken rashly or wrong. Fred Itogge, 38th Ohio InfL, in Toledo Blade. ed woll-muan- L, . Hors Tliau Two Thouwad lrsrlrr. In his message the Secretary of War says: Tho number of desertions front tho army for the twelve mouths 80 wore S.twti. us ending against S,77it for tho sumo period last your, a derreuso of 31 per cent. This result is iluo to such InqirorcinciiiM in the sorvlco us could ho accomplished under existing legislation. Although desertions are already greatly so long ns they coiiliinir ia any considerable number tin y iini:sl have a bail effect upon the morale of lh army null entail a large and neeilb-expense. The practical solution ol this somewhat vexed qiiu'diiin assumes three phases: First, how to make tho service more desirable: second, how to remove tho nrlilieial restraints which, by binding a man Inllcxihly a long service which lias become distasteful to him, naiiirully drives him to dcspcrulo means; third, how to for the crime so make tho certain that if more worthy motives fait nu-n- , may lie warned by its four, As to the second and third there is legislation enough, at least with our experience. With ross-c- l to tlio fust there is, I think, need of more. punl-hnio- i A nt Psnlm MANUSCRIPTS Star Hsgsstas Csstrlbsllsss sra KaturaaA. Thera U not much encouragement for meu ami women who desirs to win fains aud furtuns hy contributing to the monthly magazines in tha eonvere istion which the writer of this articla has bad with the editor of one of tha widely circulated moutlilius published iu this city. It will bo remembered that the voluntary contributor has s wonderfully small chance of getting s hearing unless he offers something of remarkable merit or originality. The editor of a magazine or newspaper is supposed to keep his finger continually oil the pulse of what he calls bis audience, aud to know what they will like aud be eager to read better than anybody clue, it is doubtless true that he sometimes makes mistakes, but on Ihe whule the chances are strongly in favor of his being right. To come, however, to what the edYou ask what itor in question said. opportunity au unknown writer has of securing I lie acceptance of any article that he war offer to u," is the way he Well, I suppose the best anbeguu. swer would lie that it depends upon the article itself. Most of the articles submitted to us do not repuy the trouble of reading, but out of a grout muss of chaff we do occasionally get a grain or two of wheat. It is tiresome and protitless gleaning, thouali, as a whole. Just look at the situation we are in. If writers would only stop to consider it, they would see more clearly tliau they often do why what they offer is n frequently unavailable? I know it is the fasbiun to laugh st this word, hill the fact is that it expresses the exact truth in very many cases. A thing may be good iu itself, but yet uot suitable for our eoluiuu. We uever go into muiirniug because a mauuscripL which we have rejected is accepted somewhere else, aud it is easily possible that the fact our rejection of it might not have influenced the oilier editor in the least if the author hail bceu frank enough to let it liut it is hardly necessary lie kuowu. to say that authors do not have that habit. Not availahlu' tils the case better than any other expression that I know of. and, though the rejected may demur at it. I ain conlidcni that editors will eouliuuu to use it. I asked you a moment ago to lcok at tho situation in which wo editors timl onisclves; and from oue iiia'ra-ziu- e oflice it is easy to kunw all. We print twelve numbers iu each year. In each number we print on an average say twelve or fifteen articles or so. Now. how many manuscript do you suppose aro offered to us in the course ol a war? Something over 4.000. If we efiose to make up the entire iiiuga-sin- e from year's beginning to vesr's end out of tlio voluntary contributions we should still perforce havo to reject 3,800 or 3.9U0 articles. Thera is no esenpefrom this arithmetic, as every would-b-e contributor can see for himAs Cditur Tails Why So i ul-o- f"-.. REJECTED Hwrlslim. Assistant Secretary Hussey lias rendered a derision in tbe pension rust of the mother of laireiizo (I. ISuhrock. N. Y.. which ininto of Co. K, volves tlio question of line of duly. It appears from the tvcoiil that liabcoek served iu the army from August, lsti3, until May, Kbit, and ww, regarded us' an efficient anil faithful soldier. During t he st rugglc in the wilderness, early in May, IKtM. lie underwent extraordinary fatigue, prolonged exposure to lire, arduous exertions, and loss of sleep. After several days of service of this character. he committed suicide by shooting himself through the breast, ihe department is convinced from tho testimony that he liad become mentally deranged, and that tho whole aberration of mind was developed in the servico long after enlisttherefore rement. verse the former decision of the Commissioner of Tensions, and accepts It ns a fact that this man, through no possible fault of his own, was irresponsible for the futul act, and died in line of duty. T-.ith self. Everybody knows, or ought to know if she undertakes to write fur the magazine, that of the contributions which are written in pursuauue of contracts made with the editor, that they are arranged for long in advance and that rtho majority are furnished by men who are skilled writers or recognized authorities in some field of activity. Suppose that we find ourselves able to use oue voluntary contribution in each number; that would be a large proporWive. It. (hi Arinr. tion, but how staude it theu with tho w In the army, as else hero, tho man voluntary contributors? On the basis, who Kquanders his money will bo alof I per as 1 figure it. about one-thicent of the manuscript offered would ways jHor and wretched. On the be used; but as a matter of fact the contrary. If ho is industrious and magazino does not contain, on the thrifty tlu-r- is no walk of life in which an ignorant, unlettei-t-man, lacking average, one unsolicited article in of 1 per cent every Issue. tho education nrrosaury to enable him wouid perhaps pretty accurately repreto aspire to anything better than duily sent tbe number of voluntary contrilabor for daily broad, can do. better. butions that are accepted. Any one Though only officers aro now perfamiliar with tha law of chances can mitted to have their wives with them, figure out the probabilities in his own I soldier when a in 1(03 yet case when he sends an article. Always and for many years afterward a cerhowever, what I said at the remember, tain number of women wero allowed to of our conversation. Much beginning each company in a regiment a laundepends on the srtiele itself. If it posdresses. These women worn thowivus sesses special merit of any sort, the Not fa Vpfnn. According 1 of tho private soldiers, and as was so writer may be pretty certain thut it Ill the early days of the war a cer- will be found out. Nothing delights fortunate ns to secure one of these positions for my wifo I was nblo to tain Mai ue regiment on it way to the the heart of an editor so much as to have bur with mu until tlio breaking aunt of war held a dress parade in make a valuable find such a one, for out of llie Into civil win-- . This pino- I'nion Square. Now York. This Instance, as the Atlantic Monthly made the woman who rlioo to call herle e is still observed in all the armies parade was preliminary to a flag pre- when self Charles Egbert Craddock began to and her colonies, and sentation by citizens of Maine residof Crest I think our government made a great ing in New York City. Tho WriteDoforyonit.wonder, then, that I said it mistake in abandoning it. Married men looked their best. Everynays us for the time and trouble us .men with wife and children by their thing moved merry hardly along of handling the large number of manns you please till our Colonel desired tilde mnke the best soldiers. which we receive? Fortunateto give an order of some nature uscripts The presence of those dear ones ly the great majority of them do not Where our to ntako anil a man and tends to Adjutant Adjutant. have to be read iu full. Apageortwo, keep him over sober, faithful and Fiile was just at tho moment, never or a few pagns at the furthest, are ut in must case. Authors somebrave in the discharge of his duty. In mind. Old Jack couldn't find him. the editor by pasttime of buttle lie ha a more direct in- Hero was a dilemma, and tho clarion times try to terest in winning the light ihun the yes, somewhat voice of the Colonel ing the pages together or bytrying Jim! llo, Jim! some other trick so as to determine, in heurd, thnsly: aingle man, or he w hose wife and chil- was Jim!It is needles to say case he gets his manuscript back, dren aro in perfect safety hundreds, Ye-oit has been read or nut. Such prrhups thousands of miles away. lie Jim soon appeared, and saluting whether fuels that he is battling for a personal the Colonel received his order sotlo devices are useless, even stupid. Ed' st Maine!' flora read every manuscript sufficient take, and accordingly puts forth his race, and "Attention. to know what its quality is, whether highest, best efforts. In this respect etc. We were soon by company front ity requires the reading of one or a British soldier has a marked advant- on our way down Broadway, but hundred pages. I believe this is conin evour Jim! in resounds Jim! Ilo. tlio American, though age over done in every office. us we think of those days scientiously ery other way the condition of the car Hut do aspiring writers ever ask d war held themselves what former is not so good ns that of tho of yore when right they hare to in F. soldier is not so sway. Prescott, in (liiriigo pose such a burden on defenseless edilatter. The well puid nor so well fed. and his Ledger. tors? I think it would be an excellent chances for promotion are not nearly tiling for magazine editors to cuter insnd Ilraran Earth. to have to au agreement not to read any man' no good, hut to be ullowi-Mrs. Fangio You used to rail mo nseripta that aro not typewritten; and wife and children with him more ihnn compensates him for all his other dis- your tinge!. Henry, but you never say if 1 could have my owu way I would insist on charging an cntraiico fee for so now. advantages. James Whalen, iu ( 'll Mr. Fangio No. my dear; I linve every manuscript so much per thou News. found out the difference. Angels, sand words. That wouid tend apTli Wildarnass. von know, dont rare anything about preciably to lessen the labors of editors, j who get no sympathy, while I am eon' Ward's brigade, of Bire drosses. West Shore. ineed that a good ileal is wasted on formerSecond Division, (,orps. ambition but tinucce.-fu- l literary A I Snd M;a. ly First- Division, Third torps (the old A1 F. Tribune aspirants. l'liil. Kearny Division), of which our John-siu-Sign Fainter Now. Missus How to Preserve the Yoloa. regiment, tlio I'.lt Me., was a part, what docs you want put on dis tinbreastlow of line second hold I to preserve the voice and keep Ilow J1 works ailing tlio Brook rond, with cur Missus Joiinslng (after n moment of It presumably fresh is almost like askthe time, of dei-right on the 1 bin's roud. at thought) I guess goiu out ing how to keep from growing ohL Tie- - nssauit ; 4 p. m., May . I'hil. MTiibhin done in bora. will do. Am. Some people grow faster than others was made hy l.nug' ii-- t on our front (.Tiltivutor. bemuse they are imprudent anil do not take care of themselves. Tlio vniee line of works. These work wero low j should not lie imposed upon, ami in of log-- , dirt, brush j an. What ttorlded ' lead of growing husky in a decade it to could find j handy pile g iinylhil Mu nd - Which have you elected to should remain comparatively fresh for Hu The front up us u eov. two and even four decades. Patti's study -- French or (icrmun? wus held by the Second Divi-Tlivoice is a tiuu example of oue that lias Ethel French. d Corps, theu a lo;: of the old Mu ml - Do you like French better never been imposed upon, never been llnn.'ock. 'Hid. S' under tin of purl forced to ting six nights in a week aud Th . Ji'tli 1ml.. w! i.'h is ni'HilioTic.l. tliun you (lii C.enuun? onee at a matinee. A grand oiera I like Ihe French inti No. K!li,,l The of coinnuind. t wus a pin tint singer should sing only wuce a week. better. Yankee Hindu. first line profe.-io- r rebels drove them from ma "tm-glv- a n! One-four- th us suf-liee- h. to-d- grim-visngo- iu-j-- s g. ! i.' i ' perhaps three times f his or her physical condition warrants it. Stager should bava plenty of sleep, good appetite, nothing to make them nervous, sod, if possible, a more or less phlegm- TO PREVENT AND CURE DIPHTHERIA. l Cbln Tells at HU TmtiHMl An interesting essay on the proven-tiu- u and cure of diphtheria by Dr. C. (j. B. Klopliel of I'hicajro has apM)nreil iu tlie Toronto Moil. It proceeds u lion the iiues of tliu germ theory of disease iu which Tasleur and Koch sonin to have met w ith signal success. Tho essay derives unusual interest at the preseut time from thn fact that Dr. Koch after completing liis ixieriiueiil in the treatment of consumption declares his intention of experimenting in the same rnunucr with diphtheria and the germ that cause it. Dr. Klnphci in liis essay reviews anilary precautions in ancient limes and tlie ravages of diphtheria iu various countries, lie pronounces it an acute, infectious, parasitic disease. Where tlmrnugli modern scientific disiufcctiuu is carried out iu cunuce-tio- u with the treatment of such diseases. lie says, we find they are fast He claims that it becoming a rarity. is possible to coiiliuo tlie disease not mily to one family, but to one child ninong several. The success ol this lies maiulv iu tlie faithful application of thorough antiseptic precautions. Dr. Klupiiel's idea is that disinfection should be employed to destroy tlm germs or their spores lieforc they cun settle and develop iu Ihe system. With this cud in view im gives the following outline of the treatment: 1 will not consider tho treatment iicyond thut which I think the iareuls or nurse may easily and legitimately u First, strips of linen or employ. fabric alio lit eight inches wide, folded se.eral times ami long enough to reach from car to ear, should lie if in winter, wrung out of mid if in summer put directly Uxiu ice, ami then applied externally to tliu throat, and as fast as one cloth gels warm another should Iw ready to take its place. If the child emu plains of being cold its feet and bauds slinuhl be bathed in as hut water as it can slanil. When tliu child is very voting it limy lie readily ascertained if it lie cold or not hy feeling iLs hands und Ir. atic disposition. Tha latter they rarely jmisspss to any great degree. Overwork is death to a voice. A singer will not notice at first the inroads that gradually umleruiiue a voice and leave ao echo of ita former sweetness. Caiapnnini, in hadin' Ilom. Journal. FOXT OLD SITTING BULL. now Ilo Ploys tho ltolo of 1ropliot Proerlooo Hypnotism. Many and wienl are the talcs told about Sitting Hull, but the most uncanny yarns of all lire those that have been related of him since the red men have been looking for an Indian Messiah. It was not until the craze had liccome widespread that Sittiug Hull began to convert it to hi own use, but since then tie lias been workThe cunning s' it gor its total value. old rnur was not so foolhardy as to attempt the role of the Messiah, but lias found it more convenient and just as much to his purpose to play tlio part of prophet. 11c tells a long and rather pretty story of having been impelled hy some strange influence, while wandering in tlm woods one uight. to follow a star which was moving westward through the skr. All uight tho star guided tiini. ami iu tlio morning ho came upon the Messiah clad in a white robe. lie had loug waring hair anil beard, and manifested a desire to apeak to Silting Bull. Then follows the familiar story of the promised return of the buffalo and the restoration of dead Indians to life. But the manner iu which Sitting Bull makes converts and maintains his influence is the remarkable iiart of the hole affair, says the Minneapolis A Carlisle boy educated Tribune. and intelligent testifies that when he approached .Sitting Hull the latter Imran singing and incidentally seized iim by tlm left font. lie felt ns if a charge of electricity hud been passed through hia system and all the light shone blue or purple. Silting Hull then blew upon the crown of his head and ho became rnld. lie asked tlio voung man to put hi arms about him, hut ho was unable to move them. Dozens of other instances of tlio big liicfs mesmeric or hypnotic power aro cited, and he has cmloyed it freely and with convincing effect among hie C. U- - H. Kluphal cot-lo- head. I'niler iio circunistnnco slimld hot applications lx: made to tlie liiroat. If tlie child is uid enough it is given broken ice to sunk euie tanlly; even if tlm water is spit mil liie cold appliea-liun- s inhibit tlie microbes. Instead growth of tlm of using huiuikcr-iiief- s pieces oi old linen or cotton people. Killing Hull has evidently been reading the Scriptures or listeuing to the missionaries quite attentively, as his story of being led by a star is evidently plagiarized from the Biblical account That he ia of the star of Bethlehem. also a ncwspajier reader, or iu somo other manner ketq up with ilia fade of the times, is evidenced by his expert ments in hypuntism. If he and his (mode were not so hemmed in by ctvil-zatiand so directly under the eye of the Government there is no telling what .mischief he might do. As it is, his capers in the role of prophrt havo been merely amusing. should lie used. They sliullid only be of sufficient size to wipe the liiouili ouce or blow the nose once, then atraigi.tway put into tlio lire mnl liunicil. If wearing apparel, clothing or bedding becomes soiled with the discharges from tlm patients nose or throat they should, if valuable. Im boiled for at least half an hour hefiiru lieiug used again, if tho articles aro able less lliev should lie burned. The patients hanits should he washed and here let ine say. so should those of the atteudaut. ami the vessel fur tlie purpose should not lie used by any oua else. The pntieut8 clothing ' needs protection in from. This nuiy lie done by pinning back of tliu neck a large piects of linen or cotton faliric which will cover tiie whole front of the child and reach as far as the knees. A material should be used which can easily lie boiled or liuriieil when soiled. The child should lie supplied with a clean one every day. Tim little patient. if old ciiii'iigh, will want to spit, mid for a snittnnn u small wooden box with an inch nf sawdust on thu bultimi is capital. Fresh sawdust should Ins supplied at least once a day three times a day would bo letter and that which has been used should be eiiii-tie- d upon a good hot lire, and thus burned at the time the change i made. If there are any flics about the box should lie kept cuvered, nuii as a matter of course ouly uncovered when the desires to spil; otherwise flies Iiatient upon this spittle would carry the germe of disease with them, and. then alighting upon the familys fond ud driuk. necessarily infect them, nd thus indirectly infect the whole family. This is hy no means chimerfaeL ical. fint a Here let me say what is true of them in connection with the dissemination of tlds disease is also true concerning their relations to thn spread of some others, and chieilv tuberculosis or consumption they iikewisu carry the germs of this disease from the spittle; and, by the way. spittle of consumptives should be treated the same as llist in diphtheria burned. If one of the children in an infected household should lie a baby (sav a few months aid) aud free from tho disease its hands lioulil be frequently washed, Color And Cowardice. Colonel Mosby has & peppery temper and It was iny misfortune to excite it on the occasion of our first meeting, says a writer in the Ijs Angeles Express. Our talk nfler a time turned on the s abject of courage, and I repeated tlio old story of (ieuerai Custer and the recruit Custer is said to have been ono of those rare men who are lioru without the sense of fear, and never lost color in any moment of peril. Ilia troops were standing uuder fire, not permitted to return it. Kay. said thu quaking recruit to the Teteran next him. "when are we going to get tho order, to retreat? theres Well, tho old soldier said, Custer on his horse just before you. Keep your eye on him and the moment you see him turn pale yon must cut and ran. ' Fudge, snapped Colonel Mosbv, "n msn who turns pale has no business going into battle." Why not? Because he's a coward, sir. Then I treated him to tlm other chestnut about tho duke of Wellington, who pointed to a ghastly-face- d young officer marching past with head up Inward the field of Waterloo nnd said: There goes a bravo man. He knows I bis danger, but goes to meet it. also stated the fact that I hail seen men in mining camps go into shooting crapes white as sheets, but nevertheless light coolly aud like the very 1 deuce. Tull! was all Mosliy said, anil giving mu a look which might have meant that lie susiiected tliu color of mv own liver, he wheeled and left me. But he came back presently aud talked of other things to show that he forgave me. for they are constantly putting their fingers In their mouth. The sick child should sleep hr itself, and if there are two windows in he room they should be down at tlie top, or if there is but one it should lw down nt the lop aud One Trial Was Kribugh. raised Rt tho iMittom. Tlie amount of When the Kansas Pacific was first opening will depend on tho state of the weather." opened, said B. W. Vcddar, a locoThe remaining direct ions are for the Indian wero motive engineer, the floors, walls mid woodwas constant mid there cleaning hostile very fear tluit tiicv would wreck the trains. work of the sick chamlMir during amt after tbe disease, using corrosive That they did not is duo to their igno-raufor washing tlie floor, which of the iron hnrso nnd of the best should either he covered with oilcloth method of destroying it. coif Die of my firemen had an expe- or remain bare. Dr. Klopliel burniliiu fcciimi by rience with tlie Cheyennes that lie will demns never forget, lie was on the road ing sulphur a being ineffectual in that, near Fort Wallace when lie saw that it docs not destroy tlie germs of disthe Italians had cut tlio telegraph wire ease. and knew that he might look out for A Chapter of llcginnings. quails. They were never satisfied with simply cutting the wire, but Bicycles were first used in France chopped it into inch pieces with their tomahawks to effectually slop the my about ISIS. Tho first church bells were used iu As the train came toriuus messages. near a large natch of sunflowers which Franco about O.W. Susjietision bridges were the first grew on bulh sides of the track over 100 ludian rose up. stretched a strong form of bridges in use. Tho wheelbarrow was invented by rope across the track, braced themselves. and prepnred to receive tlio Leonardo da Vinci, Iho painter. Barrels were firt made a century or As was aftshock of tlio locomotive. o IL C. In tlio Alpine erward learned, they had taken raw-hiThe first tclesropc was used by latis stiips, braided them together, and, with a force nf fifty at each cud Lippershim of Holland in 1008." The first railway locomotive was of tho rope, thought tluit they would Thu iustiiiit patented by Trcvclliick, a Welshman lio aide to stop the train. the locomotive struck the roie tlio air iu 1803. The earliest known coins were issued was full of Indians. They were thrown in all direction. Sumo were jerked by the lirecks in tho seventh ceuturv clear across the train and wore than a IL C. The lint electric telegraph was condozen wero killed or seriously iujureiL This was (ho i.it attempt made for structed by Lesago of Heiicva ill 1774. ( houit It had a wire fur rich letter of the yean to stop the trains. alphabet. ce de Uiobe-lhnocr- snli-linia- te WIT AM) HUMOR. nnl the cti Every dog ban liix eem to be quarreling over the ulghU. Lift. The best Christian is tlie man who never mentions the fact that lie is one. Ir Atckiton Utobe. Money has some human characteristics. It talks aud it gets tight. Httihurg t'kronirlr. Somehow we never uotice what those come to us in our people havo on whoUlobe. trouble. Althitoti You must hustle to win. In the jackwho i shy is uot in pot of life the manJournal. lUIiuliaHiitolit Jiuks "What a black eye you have! getting Been boxing?" Bink-- Xo; boxwl!" Button Traveler. It seems to lie easier to be a Napoleon of Finance than to pay 100 cents on a dollar. LiKixton Journal. These waves remind me of the sere So greeu?" vauU I had last year. No. Breakers.'1 Figaro. Very few hearts arc ever so badly broken that a little golden salve will not make them heller than new. Motion Iraoeltr. now Iwcause The days are short there is not so much time in them as there was. and time is niouev. Chronicle. Tout I sent you some verses this FWfa-bu- rg All right. Fll Editor morning. sec that you get them back right uwav. --V. F. World. Sly reputation is very dear Ontuit Probably. Have to pay cash for everything, dont you? Itetroit Free Crest. The earliest iustance of gambling known tc history was when a pair-- o dico was thrown up by Adam and Eve. Shady tome. St. Joseph Sew. What is a theory, pa? Johnny Pa A theory, my son. is an impracticable plan fur doing something Inal ia impossible. When a 1uck. n prevaricator declared that lie was afraid to lie Toots replied that lie hud tuo nicaii an opinion of his own courage. Life. 'What is the solution of thn negro demanded the orator. problem?' a ivplh-man in the Hudicur.i1. .V. F. Sun. I have fallen into tlie Dashaway bad habit of talking to myself lately." I wondered why vou were Ciereriun lookiug so bored. Harpers haznr. Are ull typewriters Singleton Benedict Well, every pretty? man's wife thinks that her husband s Lawrence American. is, uuyway! Kiinpsou is a curious fellow; I never knew him to laugh at a joke. Then its evident you never heard Y. F. Times. hint tell one himself. Do Alphnimo yon know. Miss Maud, 1 weally had half a mind ialisl " Miss Maud D. why didut uight ou eall on me last night?" Detroit Free Cress. 'I cant iniagino," said the lawyer, how a plot like that can continue O. lint you seo. through five acts. in the second a suit at luw ia begun.'' wcil-kuuw- -- Flitgemle Blatter. A corrrespondent wants to know if tits are hereditary. Any small liny compelled to wear out liis father's olu clothes could tell him they ore uoL lwlianapolii Journal. Its very disagreeable Ceoppie when a fellah goes into society to meet ones tradespeople. Oynieas "Why, the company, they don't dim you A'. F. Sun. do they? Teacher Yon think ain is an do you? How would you comPositive, sin; pare it?" Stuart Boy siuner; comparative, superlative, cyme." Btijfalo Express. Nature. says Scappleton, never makes a mistake. O, I dont know about that; look at the duda." Yes; but she didn't waste any brains on e him. Washington Cost. A Canadian doctor hna just been testifying that a murdered man's heart topped Tight in tlie middle of a Beat." That's nothing; policemen often do the same thing. Utica llcrald. Who ia making all this talk? asked the viuegar bottle severely at a social I am, said the chaapagne repast. bottle proudly from the head jf the table. A'ew Orleans ticayune. j Mr. Bingo Here' a bill far gas. Mrs. Bingo But the gas liis been Mr. 3ingo turned off all summer. Well, this is a bill for the Au that was turned off. S. . 1cralj. Bloomer (to ragged urchinj Yonr parents left you aoniethiir when liter died, did "they not? IJrchin O. Bloomer "Vliat did vir. Ai they leave you?" Urchin orphan, ir. Epoch. j Lawyer Well, air, we wd the rase, but it was a pretty unrmw; victory. r Client Yes, I thought thiothiT side had us until you showed i.hut thuii principal witness waa a Usuriuaii. j Mnnsey's Weekly. Miss Porkington I nncjrstaud that Gilbert and Sullivan will fleet again and aettle their differeacs." Mii Bostone "I'll bet a rib Kievan knocks him out inside of thns round." I Washington Star. Sauso Brown is a fit fellow, hut he lias never I Mien tlie su'd since that accident hapiiened to tn." Kodd nnso "What accident?" After making his fortune he it mashed on A'. F. Jlcraia himself. i Caller "What do yotlhink of tin Berlin idea of uiiiforuirg reporters? American Editor "IJ reMirters i uniform? Nonsense! Uniformed r porter would liu of iiomni use in i tectingcrimethun so tfity policemen S. F. HVcki'i. j T never saw a mndint know .' Ho isn't very brilii.i. that's tru'j Whv. I rememlier is winter, wp I bait such a severe (1, he was 1 only man I met thut du't know tell mo a sure cure fc-- t right off' Chibulelphi.i limes. Tap i. said lilt f Jnlinnv deek. my hook say lint somiu p,i )il of ivory are iiiof ih cxieu,ir(l others. Which kitiAre llii-- i ? cr. O. yes The kind'. Jum costs ten. the reds 1 aud lim jik 1 Siudon Tru$er. tr. : W.r:' 1 ; f i I W |