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Show Molhera. Mothers arc llio i; i i..! thing,,' 'Member wh n J lm w.nt may All lint moth, rui i m I 1 1 i l WIiimi thi-v i il I ,t miiI '1)1 Hint day Bile Just lalkul m.l a em to be Not tho Hlmliti fit lilt tips t Was Hip mil) one who am lied" Others' eye were streaming wet. Hut when Jnlin mnif buck again Oil a furlough, saf nml Mi'inil, ! Willi a medal for Ma deeds, i Anil without a ftlngle wound, While the rest of us hurrahed, ! Laughed and Joked anil danced about .itothcr kissed him. (hen alio crlM Cried anil cried like nil Kit out' Edwin U Sabln In the Century, loliiiitU by Hi tanl. When the colonels of Oov Yates" staff were showing (iff their lirllllant tiew uniforms and their soldierly form to tho admiring cruwdti In tho Auditorium Audi-torium Annex prior tn their departure to the Inauguration a Chlcaguati who was watching them said "These rolonela remind me of the hut time t saw them or, ralher, their predecessors In full regalia It was at Fortress Monroe the da) after the launching of tho battleship Illlnola The colonel were parading up ami down tho pier lu front of the Chamberlain Cham-berlain hotel. Out on tho end of the i pier were a number of privates of the .Sixth artillery, then tatlonrd at the fortress, taking their caao In tho warm aun on boxes and Imlea, awaiting the arrival of the Newport boat. "A private, wiping tho peraplratlon from hta brow, Joined tho group and said: Tvo had a dlckcna of a tlmo .letting out here. I never aaw ao many colonels In my life. Evory ten atepa on tho way down tho atreet and out on the pier I ran Into a fellow with the caglea on hla ahouldcra, and I had to lino up and aaluto. Bomo of tbem jeemed to think I was out without a permit, for they would look at mo Instead In-stead ot recognizing my aalute. It was like running Into a succession of I picket lines. I wouldn't havo been surprised to havo been ordered under arrest. Who aro they, anyway?' "Them follows,' aald a corporal, with alowneaa of speech nnd a twang ;to hla voice 'them fellowa aro suit offlcers of Oorornor Tanner ot Illinois.' Illi-nois.' "Tho prlvato dropped full length on a truck and In a feeble, disgusted voire he aald: 'And hero I've been aalutlng colonels by the yard, sin ft colonels from Illinois, fellowa without regiments; regi-ments; no wonder somo of them didn't did-n't seem to underatand what I was doing. do-ing. " 'These governor's colonels ought to wear some kind of a badge. I've been fooling away fifteen minutes getting out to tho end of tho pier and a-thlnk-ln' all tho wMle these chapa wero tho roal article.' " (lav II I in llol Mint. Although an Irishman by birth, Senator Sen-ator William J. Sow ell of Now Jeraey la of a rather aerloua turn of mind and seldom indulgea In Jokes, although ho would not be an Irishman unleaa ho possessed a aenao of humor. He waa born In 1833, camo to this country nt on early age and waa engaged In busl-nets busl-nets at the outbreak of the civil war. He enlisted In the northern army, waa glvon a captalna'a commission, and at the close of tho war waa a major general. gen-eral. In 1872 he actively entered politic pol-itic and, after being for several terms a state aenator, he waa elected to the United States senate, lie was chairman chair-man of the New Jeraey delegation at I seven consecutive national conven- -ventlona, Including that of 1000. Otneral Bewell waa for aomo time actively Interested In railroad affairs juid once, whtn ho waa holding an Important Im-portant office la one ot tho large trunk Hoes a political enemy came to him 1n a somewhat shamefaced way and aald: "Oeneral, I ahould like to have transportation trans-portation for myself and family to Chi-M Chi-M ago." The two political enemlea eyed each M other for a moment, and then Otneral H Sewell called hta private secretary and j told him to make out the paasea to H Chicago. The politician accepted them, H expressed hla thanka and departed. Hut H tn a few ralnutea he returned, exclaim- H 'ntf: "Why, Oeneral, theao do not aay to I Chicago and return!" j "Of courso not," exclaimed the gen- H eral, "I want to get you out ot tho H state and I'm not .Interested In your H gottlng back!" Chicago Chronicle. J lletlr.il Nr fflrn. Hj Of the commissioned offlcers on tho H rotlred list of tho navy one was retlrod H after forty-flva years' service, twelve H after forty yeara' service 'and 112 on II reaching the age limit ot C2 years; H Bine were retired on their own appll- H cations for ordinary retirement, and H 208 for Incapacity, resulting from Incl- H dents of service; twenty-four wero re- H tired with the rank ot the next higher grado to that held on the active list Jnly one orrker hia been retired udder tho law providing for retirement for incapacity for further servKc nt wj Three ofllrera huo been retired, not recommended for promotion owing t I Ph)shal Inrapailty nnd seventeen' lnvc been retired for dlaablllt) not In -lilent to tne service, five nfflren have been tranaferreil from voltint.ir ter Men lo the retired list ThN rrcoi I shows how little ill spot Hun thi i- I lo apply the summary law onu Ulna retirement for the purlin i.f fu n Hie aitlvo list from H?omp tent olfli c Murder or m I lUHln. A ease that has amused considerable ro.ionicrU.lu nlllllnry and civil cl-cl i In llerlln Is the murder of a captain nt the Infantry b) n brother ofllier Tw onicera after mess had n tittle recont e, which must, arrordlng to mllltiry etiquette. eti-quette. hae termlnatetl In it duel Tj hinder this, l.leut linger, a brother ol one of tho disputants, went tn tho captain's cap-tain's rooms nnd naked to ace him On that gentleman entering I lie room the lieutenant drew a r-volvcr nnd shot him dead In the presence of two more olllrers The man's ixm e la that he wanted to pro rut the duel which would lui made tho family i unhappy linger la In his right mind, I nnd la considered by the public nt largo n clenr caae of premeditated murder, mur-der, for which n Chilian In Iltrlln would have lost hla head, thnl being tho form of capital punishment In Herman). Her-man). As It la. he haa lieen sentenced to twelve years' hard labor with, ot course, etcry prospect ot commutation. New tlrrrulK re tlrlllel, Colonel W. M Van Horn, the commanding com-manding officer of tho new Twenty-ninth Twenty-ninth Infantry regiment authorized by tho army reorganisation bill, has been nt Tort Sheridan, III . busy drilling hlr forcos and working tho raw material Into form. Nearly f00 recruits for the new regiment have already been secured, se-cured, nnd It la expected that tho quota will be filled beforo May 1 He reports that 93 per cent of tho men enlisted thua far are American born. This la qulto remarkable In view of tho fact that In the rrglmenta organized two yeara ago 75 per cent ot the men enlisted enlist-ed were of foreign birth. A band of thirty plecca will be organized and muslctana aro In'grcat demand at Fort Sheridan In consequence A number ot men who have enlisted after tho expiration of their first term of service aro being given appointment as noncommissioned non-commissioned offlcera ot the new regiment. regi-ment. Irnt Iy Army NtreatltlM. Tho government will havo to pay over iCOO.OOO to supply the soldlcra with little luxuries which were formerly form-erly provided fur from the profits of tho canteen. These ao-cnllcd luxuries havo principally becomo necessities, and Include, milk, apices nnd dried fruits among other things. A rearrangement re-arrangement of tho ration la therefore possible. It haa been generally supposed sup-posed that much meat In warm climates cli-mates la not a good thing, but ono of the ablest army aurgeona now declares that under tho hot aun tho carbon In a whlto man'a blood la speedily oxldlz-od oxldlz-od and burned up by the aun and n great deal ot meat must be eaten to supply tho waste. The meat component compon-ent of tho ration Is, accordingly, likely o be Increased. Th. (liiulKMl llrmilesletk Orders have been Issued for the repairs re-pairs necessary on tho gunboat Hen-nlngton Hen-nlngton to be mndo at Hongkong Instead In-stead of having tho veaael return to thla country, aa haa been tho custom when a slip on foreign station waa found In need of an overhauling. This policy ot repairing vessels of tho navy on tho Asiatic station at Hongkong la meeting with aomo opposition In tho construction corps of the navy. It Is argued that, although the repairs can bo made somewhat cheaper on account of tho little expense entailed by tho employment ot Chlneao labor, the ex-penao ex-penao In tho end will bo tar greater to tho government, because of the poor quality of the work. The lrn's Ailflr. On tho last night ot a aerlea ot "protracted meetings" In tho Metho-dlat Metho-dlat church of a little Now Jeraey village vil-lage a visiting evangelist waa making a special effort to obtain a showing ot anxloua soula. Hut nobody rcaponded to hla Invitation. They sang a hymn and then tho evangoltst rose again and called upon tho congregation to "enlist for tho service of tho Lord." A battle-scarred, wooden-leg veteran who had dropped Into the back aeat, watched the proceedlnga with Intereat. For tho third tlmo the perspiring evangelist evan-gelist rose and asked: "la there no ono willing to enlist In the Lord's army ar-my t" Then a response came from tho back aeat- "Draft 'em, paraon, d n It, draft 'emP' Exchange. Ilaril Vturklu ll NnlilUr. Oen. Joe Wheeler, In tho course ot a recent Interview, remarked that It was harder work being u soldier now than ot old, because there were not ao many autograph collectors In tho days of tho civil war. |