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Show r perhaps three times if his or her phy- sical coodition warrants it. should hare Siuger plenty of sleep, good ap-petite nothing to make them nervous, and. if possible, a more or less phlegm-atic disposition. The latter thej rare-ly possess to any great degree. Over-work is death to a voice. A singer will not notice at first the inroads that gradually undermiue a voice mid leavo it an echo of its former sweetness. Campunini, in Ladies' Home JoumaL How to Preserve the Voice. How to preserve tho voice and keep it presumably fresh is almost like ask-ing how to keep from growing old. Some people grow faster than others because they are imprudent and do uot take care of themselves. Tho voice should not be imposed upon, and of growing husky in a decade it should remain comparatively fresh for two and even four decades. Patti's voice is a fine example of one that has never been imposed upon, never been forced to sing six nights in a week and onoo at a matinee. A grand opera siuger should sing only ouce a week TO PREVENT AND CURE DIPHTHERIA. Dr. C. U. B. Klophal of Chicago Tails of Ills Treatment. An interesting essay on the preven-tion and cure of diphtheria by Dr. C. (i. B. Klophel of Chicago has appeared iu the Toronto Mail. It proceeds up-on the lines of the germ theory of dis-ease iu which Pasteur aud Koch soem to have met with signal success. Tho essay derives unusual interest at the preseut time from the fact that Dr. Koch after completing his experiments in the treatment of consumption de-clares bis intention of experimenting in the same manner with diphtheria and the terms that cause it. Dr. Klophel in his essay reviews sanitary precautious iu ancient times and the ravages of diphtheria in vari-ous countries. Ho pronounces it aa acute, infectious, parasitic disease. 'Where thorough modern scientific disiufection is carried out iu connec-tion with the treatment of such dis-eases," he says, "ive find they are fast becoming a rarity." He claims that it is possible to eonlino the disease not ouly to one family, but to one child nmong several. The success ot this lies mainly in tho faithful application of thorough antiseptic precautions. Dr. Klophel's idea is that disiufection should bo employed to destroy the germs or their spores before they can settle aud develop iu the system. With this end iu view ho gives the following outline of the treatment: "I will not consider tho treatment beyond that which 1 think the parents or nurse may easily and legitimately employ. First, strips of linen or cot-lo- u fabric about eight inches wide, folded se.eral times and long enough to reach from ear to ear, should be wrung out of if in winter, and if iu summer put directly upon ice. and then applied externally" to tho throat, and as fast as one cloth gets warm another should bo ready to take its place. If the child complains of being cold its feet and hands should be bathed in as hot water as it can stand. When the tdiild is very young it may bo readily ascertained if it be cold or not by feeling its hands and head. Under no circumstances should hot applications be made to the throat. If the child is old enough it is 'iven broken ice to suck constautlr; even if the water is spit out the cold applica-tions inhibit the growth of tho microbes. Instead of usintr handker-chiefs pieces of old linen or cotton should be used. They should only bo of stillicient size, to wipe the nioutli ouce or blow tho nose once, then straightway put into tho lire and burned. If wearing apparel, clothing or bcddiur becomes soiled with the dis-charges from the patient's nose or throat they should, if valuable, bo boiled for a"t least half an hour before being used again. If the articles are valueless thev should be burned. The patient's hands should he washed fre-quently, aud here let me say, so should those of the attendant, and" the vessel for the purpose should not be used bv any one else. The patient's clothing needs protection in frout. This muv be done by pinning back of the neck a larg pietsB of linen or cotton fabric which will cover the whole front of the child and reach as far as the knees. A material should be used which can easily be boiled or burned when soiled. The child should be supplied with a clean one every day. The little pa-tient, if old enough, "will want to spit, and for a spittoon a small wooden box with an inch of sawdust on the bottom is capital. Fresh sawdust should be supplied at least once a day three times a day would be tetter and that which lias been used should be emp-tied upon a good hot tiro, and thus burned at the time thechauge is made. If there are any Hies about tho box should be kopt covered, aud as a mat-ter of course only uncovered when the liHtient desires to spit; otherwise flies lighting upon this spittle would carry the germs of disease with them, and. then alighting upon the family's food and drink, necessarily infect them, and tiiU3 indirectly infect the whole family. This is by no means chimer-ical, but a fact. "Here let mo say what is truo of them in connection with the dissemi-nation of this disease is also true con-cerning their relations to tho spread of some others, and chiefly tuberculosis or consumption they likewise carry the germs of this disease from tho spittle; and, by the way, spittle of consumptives should be treated the same as that in diphtheria burned. If one of the children in an infected household should be a baby (say a few months old) and free from the disease its hands should be frequently washed, for they are constantly putting their fingers in their mouth. The sick child should sleep by itself, and if there are two windows in he room they should be down at the top, or if there is but one it should be down at the top and raised at the bottom. The amount of opening will depend on the stato of the weather." The remaining directions arc for cleaning the floors, walls and wood-wor- k of the sick chamler during ana after the disease, using corrosive sub-limate for washing the floor, which should either be covered with oilcloth or remain bare. Dr. Klophel con-demns disinfection by burn-ing sulphur as being ineffectual in that it does not destroy the germs of dis-ease. FOXY OLD SITTING BULL. now n riara tha Knla or Prophet anil t'raetleo Itrpnotliui. Many and wierd are the tales told about Sitting Bull, but the most un-canny yarns of all are 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 become widespread that Sittiug Bull began to convert it to his own use, but since then he has been work-ing it r its total value. The cunuing old ro;,'ue was not so foolhardy as to attempt the role of the Messiah, but has found it more convenient and just as much to his purpose to play tho part of prophet. He tells a long and rather pretty story of haviug been im-pelled by some strange iufluence, while wandering in the woods one night, to follow a star which was moving west-ward through the sky. All night tho star guided him. and in tho morning ho came upon the Messiah clad in a while robe. He had long waving hair and beard, and manifested a desire to speak to Sitting Bull. Then follows the familiar story of the promised return of the buffalo and the restoration of dead Indians to life. But the manner in which Sitting 15ull makes converts aud maintains his in-fluence is tho remarkable part of the whole affair, says the Minneapolis Tribune,. A Carlisle boy educated and intelligent testifies that when ho approached Sitting Bull the latter be-r- an singing aud incidentally seized liim by the left foot. He felt" as if a charge of electricity had been passed through his system and all the lights shone bhio or purple. Sitting Bull then blew upon tho crown of his head and ho became cold. He asked tho young man to put his arms about him, but lie was unable to move them. Dozens of other instances of the big chief's mesmeric or hypnotic power are cited, and he has employed it freely and with convincing utTect among bis people. Sitting Bull has evidently been read-ing the Scriptures or listening to the missionaries quito attentively, as his story of being led by a star is evident-ly plagiarized from the Biblical account of the star of Bethlehem. That he is also a newspaper reader, or iu somo other manner keeps up with the fads of the times, is evidenced by his experi-ments in hypnotism. If he and his peo-ple were not so hemmed in by civil-ization and 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 prophet have been merely amusing. back upon our line. These works were not over 200 feet apart and the Brock road lay between them. Tho rebels planted thole colors on the first line. ' AVe were ordered to charge over our works. . and did so. Tho troops there rallied, and together we drove the rebels buck ut the point of the bayonet, hardly giving them timo to get their colors. An attempt was made tn capture them, but the rebels got them and rotreated. Tho works to the left of us were on fire at tho time, but not in our front When tho old Third Corps gave way in confu-sion it was time for Carroll's or any other troops to be looking for a line of retreat. Our men that fell on that afternoon are buried on the east side of the Brock road near the plank road. W'o held this position until we marched to the left to Todd's Tavern, and I think the history made by Han-cock's nnd Sickle's old corps, united under one command, was us brilliant nnd full of fight as that scored by any other organization of tho Army of the Potomac. I remained with tho boys until se-verely wounded tit the charge on Taylor's Bridge at tho crossing of the North Anna, and though the old di-vision with the red diamond was budly used up by that time it was still in the ring when I left to go home on a stretcher 1". K. Doak. in Nat. Tribune. Mora Tliun Two Thousand Deixrtem. In his message tho Secretary of War says: Tho number of desertions from the army for the twelve months onding September 'M were "J.ONli, us against 2,761 for tho same period last your, a decrease of '2i per cent. This result is due to such improvements in tho service as could be accomplished under existing legislation. Although desertions tiro already greatly re-duced, so long as they continue in any considerable numbers they must, havo a bud effect upon tho morale of tho army and entail a largo aud needless expense. Tho practical solution ot this somewhat vexed question assumes throo phases: First, bow to make the service more desirable; second, how to remove the artificial restraints which, by binding a man inllexibly to a long service which has become dis-tasteful to him, naturally drives him to desperate means; third, how to make the puuishmont for the crime so certain Unit if more worthy motives fail men, may bo warned by its fear. As to the second and third thore is legislation onough, at least with our present experience. With respect to tho fiist thore is, I think, need of more. A I'anMon IWIilon. Assistant Secretary Bussey has ren- - THE CAMP FIRE. EXPERIENCES OP SOLDIERS DURING TilE LATE REBELLION. Vaterans Heeommg Inana Wirat In tha AruivTha Wilrinrnas Again hhort Item, Ktc. The Milwaukee National Homo con-tains at this writing probably 2,500 members, all of whom, with very fow exceptions, were pronounced sane men by the examining surgeon when admitted. As tho years rolled by more and more became insane. Most are harmless, but some are vicious. Every year a batch of these unfortu-nates are sent to the asylum at Wash-ington, in order to make room here, and for better treatment at the cap-ital. Still, they multiply at an alarm-ing rate, till the number of cranks" is something fearful to un-derstand, even by a close observor. The causes are said to bo broken health, broken hearts, broken for-tunes, family troubles and fail-ure in obtaining pensions. For the benefit of, and as a well-mean- t, timely warning to all com-rades, and wives, sons and daughters of veterans who are now inmates of this or any other Home, I wish to give my own reason for this inereaso of in-sanity among the old soldiers. In a majority of cases I honestly believe that the cause can plainly bo traced to an entirely different source than the above mentioned reason. Friends, you have neglected the veteran by considering that ho has already been well provided for by a grateful peo-ple, and consequently you have al-most entirely forgotten him you never (or hardly ever) correspond, never send him his local newspupers; you do not cheer liim up, and never throw a ray of sun-shine across his lonely, wearisome way. Days, weeks, months and years pass by, but he never receives a sin-gi- e token of love, or reinembrunco. Day after day our feeble old friend of former happy days wanders to his postotli.ie, nnd calls for letters that never come. Week after week ho Bonds messages to loved ones, or friends of his schoolboy days, but nover receives tin answer. Slowly, with feeble steps and bowed head, he walks about the Home grounds; his comrades that pass by he never knows. Life is a drudge, and hope is gone, and how it ends you can well imagine. Somo day his room-mates read his funeral notice on the "bulletin board" In the main halls, or are informed that he has been sent over to the "crazy" ward. Tho gov-ernor of tho Homo is n kind and just man. The surgeons do all thoy can to ease the old sufferer, but, alas! they cannot return youth to them; they cannot replace friends, wives,, sons and daughters, and above nil, the Na-tional Home is not the "Homo, Sweet Home," that the soldier dreamed and Wi sang of during and before tho war. , " FJoase remember your old friends at low. th Bawa.-'RBf-. giro me If I havo . spoken rashly or wrong. Fred ttozgc, SSth Ohio Inft., in Toledo Blado. Wl in tla Army. In the army, as elsewhere, tho man who squanders his money will bo al-ways poor and wretched. On the contrary, if he is industrious and thrifty there is no walk of life in which an ignorant, unlettered man. lucking the education necessary to enable him to aspire to anything better than daily labor for daily bread, can do. hotter. Though only officers are now per- - mitted to. have their wives with them. yet when I becume a soldier in 18 12 and for many years afterward a cer-tain number of women wero allowed to each company in a regiment as laun-dresses. These women werethowives of the private soldiers, and as I was so fortuuato as to secure one of these positions for my wife I was able to have her with mo until tho breaking out of the late civil war. This prac-tice is still obsorved In all the armies of Croat Britain aud her colonies, and I think our government made a great mistake in abandoning it. Married irnen with wife and children by .their thde make the best soldiers. The presence of those dear ones re-strains a man and tends to make and keep him ever sober, faithful and brave in the discharge of his duty. In time of battle he has a more direct in-terest in winning the fight than tho single man, or he whose wife and chil-dren are in perfect safety hundreds, perhaps thousands of miles away. He feels that he is battling for a personal slake, and accordingly puts forth his highest, best efforts. In this respect a British soldier has a marked advant-age over the American, though in ev-or- y other way the condition of the , (former is not so good as that of the latter. The British soldier is not so t)--- well paid nor so well fed, and his ' chances for promotion are not nearly so good, but to be allowed to have wife and children with hiin moro than compensates him for all his other dis- - i advantages James Whalen, in Chi- - cngo News. Tha Wildorne, Ward's Brigade, of Bir-ney- 's Division, Second Corps, former-ly First Division, Third Corps (tho old .Phil. Kearny Division), of which our regiment, the 4th Me., was a part, held the second line of low breast-works along the Brock road, with our right on the Plank road, at tho time, p. m., May 6, 18S4. Tho assault was made by Longstreot on our front line of works. These works wore low :and composed of logs, dirt, brush .anything wo could find handy to pile up as a cover. Tho front liuo was held by the Second Divis-ion of the old Third Corps, then a part of the Second, under Hancock. The --0th Ind.. which is mentioned, was a part of that command. The rebels drove them from the first line the mother of Lorenzo G. JSabcock. late of Co. E, 12oth N. Y., which in-volves tho question of line of duty. It appears from the record that Babcoek served in the army from August, 1MG2, until May,., 1801. and was regarded ufc' an efficient and faUhful soldier. Dur-- I ing thostrnggle in tho wilderness, early in May, 1864, he underwent extraor-dinary fatigue, prolongod exposure to fire, arduous exertions, and loss of steep. After several days of service of this character, he committed suicide by shooting himself through the breast 'lhe department is convincbd from the testimony that he had be-come mentally deranged, and that tho whole aberration of mind was devel-oped in the servieo long after enlist-ment. therefore re-verses the former decision of tho Com-missioner of Pensions, and accepts it as a fact that this man, through no possiblo fault of his own, was irre-sponsible for the fatal act, and died in line of duty. Not Accordlns to Upton. In the oarly days of the war a cer-tain Maine regiment on its way to the seat of war held a dross parade in Union Square, New York. This parade was preliminary to a Hag pre-sentation by citizens of Maine resid-ing in New York City. The men looked their best. Every-thing moved along as merry as you please till our Colonel desired to give an order of Borne nature to our Adjutant. Where Adjutant Fille'1 was just ut tho moment, never mind. Old "Jack" couldn't find him. Here was a dilemma, and the clarion yes, somewhat voice of the Colonel was heard, thusly: "Jim! Ho, Jim! Ye-o- h, Jim!" It is needless to say "Jim" soon appeared, and saluting the Colonel received his orders sotto voce, and "Attention, st Maine!" etc. We were soon by company front on our way down Broadway, but "Jim! Ho, Jim!" resounds in our ears y ns we think of those days of yore when grim-visage- d war held sway. F. Preseott, in Chicago Ledger. I REJECTED MANUSCRIPTS- - Aa Editor TolU Why So 'Many Mafaalaa Coatrlbatlnaa ara Ksturnad. There is not much encouragement for men aud women who desire to win fame and fortune by contributing to the monthly magazines in the conver-sation which the writer of this article has had with the editor of one of the widely circulated monthlies published iu this city. It will be remembered that the voluntary contributor has a wonderfully small chance of gettiav a hearing unless he offers something of remarkable merit or originality. The editor of a magazine or newspaper is supposed to keep his finger continual-ly on the pulso of what ho calls his audience, aud to know what they will like and be eager to read better than anybody else. Jt is doubtless true that he sometimes makes mistakes, but on the whole the chances are strongly in favor of his being right. To come, however, to what the ed-itor in question said, "you nsk what opportunity an unknown writer has of securing the acceptance of any article that he may offer to us," is the way he begau. "Well, I suppose the best an-swer would be that it depends upon the article itself. Most of the articles submitted to us do not repay the trouble of reading, but out of a great mass of chaff we do occasionally net a grain or two of wheat. It is" tire-some and profitless gleaning, though, as a whole. Just look at the situation we are in. If writers would only stop to consider it, they would see more clearly than they often do why what they offer is so frequently 'unavaila-ble.' I know it is the fashion to laugh at this word, but the fact is that it ex-presses the exact truth in very manv cases. A thing may be good in itself, but yet not suitahlo for our columns. We never go into mourning because a mauuscript which we have rejected is accepted somewhere else, and it is easily possible that the fact our re-jection of it might not have inllueueed the other editor iu the least if the au-thor had been frank enough to let it be known. But it is hardly necessary to say that authors do not have that habit. 'Not available' tits the case better than any other expression that I know of, and, though the rejected may demur at it, I am confident that editors ill coutiuuo to use it. "I asked you a moment ago to lcok at tho situation iu which wo editors find ourselves; aud from oue maga-zine office it is easy to know all. ('e print twelve numbers iu each year. In each number wo print on au average say twelve or fifteen articles or so. Now, how many manuscripts do you suppose are offered to us in the course of a year? Something over 4,000. If we chose to make up the entire maga-zine from year's beginning to year's end out of the voluntary contributions we should still perforce have to reject 3,800 or 3,900 articles. There is no escape from this arithmetic as every would-b- e contributor can see for him-self. "Everybody knows, or ought to know if she undertakes to write for the mag. azine, that of the contributions which are written in pursuance of contracts made with the editor, that they are ar-ranged for long in advance "and that he majority are furnished by men who are skilled writers or recognized authorities in some field of activity. Supposo that we tiud ourselves able to use oue voluntary contribution in each number; that would be a large propor-tion, but how stands it then with the voluntary contributors? On the basis, as I figure it, about one-thir- d of 1 per cent of the manuscript offered would be used; but as a matter of fact the magazino does not coutaiu, on the average, one unsolicited article in every issue. One-fourt- h of 1 per cent would perhaps pretty accurately repre-sent the number of voluntary contri-butions that are accepted. Any one familiar with the law of chances can figure out the probabilities in his own case when he sends an article. Always remember, however, what I said at tho beginning of our conversation. Much depends on the article itself. If it pos-sesses special merit of any Bort, the writer may be pretty certain that it will be found out. "Nothing delights the heart of an editor so much as to make a valuable fiud such a one, for instance, as the Atlantic Monthly made when the woman who chose to call her-self Charles Egbert Craddock began to write for it. "Do you wonder, then, that I said it hardly pays us for the time aud trouble of handling the large number of man-uscripts which we receive? Fortunate-ly the great majority of them do not have to be read in full. A page or two, or a few pages at the furthest, are suf-lice- nt in most cases. Authors some-times try to 'catch the editor' by past-ing the pages together or by trying some other trick so as todetermiue, in case he gets his manuscript back, whether it has been read or not.. Such devices are useless, even stupid. Ed-itors read every manuscript sufficient-ly to know what its quality is, whether it requires the reading of one or a hundred pages. I believe this is con-scientiously done in every office. But do aspirins writers ever ask themselves what right they have to im-pose such a burden on defenseless edi-tors? I think it would be an excellent thing for magazine editors to enter in-to an agreement not to read any man-uscripts that are not typewritten; and if I could have my own way I would insist on charging" an entrance fee for every manuscript so much per thou-sand words. That would tend ap-preciably to lessen the labors of editors, who get no sympathy, while I am con-vinced that a good deal is wasted on ambitious but unsuccessful literary aspi ra nts." iV. Y. Tribune, WIT AND HUMOIt. Every dog has his day and the cat ieero to be quarreling over the nights. Lift. The best Christian is tho man who never meutious the fact that he is one. Atchison Globe. Mouev has some human character-istics. 'It talks nud it gets tight. Pittsburg Chronicle. Somehow we never notice what those people have on who come to us in our trouble. Atchison Globe. You must hustle to win. In the jack-pot of life the man who is shy is not in it. Indianapolis Journal. Jinks a blck eye you have! Been boxing?" Binks "No; getting boxad!" Boston Traveler. It seems to be easier to be a Napoleon of Finance than to pay, 100 cents on a dollar. Lcwislon Journal. "Those waves remind me of the ser-vants I had last year." "So green?" "No. Breakers." Figaro. Very few hearts are ever so badly broken that a little golden salve will not make them better than new. Boston Traveler. The days are "short" now because there is not so much time iu them as there was, and time is niouey. Bills-bu- rg Chronicle. Poet "I sent you some verses this morning." Editor "All right. Til see that you get them back rijrht awav." --A', Y. World. Shady "My reputation is very dear to me." Ontoit "Probably. Have to pay cash for everything, don't you?" Detroit Free Press. The earliest instance of gambling known tc history was when a pair-- o' dice was thrown up by Adam and Eve. St. Joseph Xews. Johnny "What is a theory, pa?" Pa "A theory, my son, is an impract-icable plan for doing something tnat is impossible." .fact. When a well-know- n prevaricator de-clared that ho was afraid to lie Foots replied that he had too mean an ouinion of his own courage. Life. "What is the solution of the negro problem?'' demanded the orator. replied a man in the audience. Ar. I', bun. Dashaway "I have' fallen into the bad habit of talking to myself lately." Clevertou "I wondered why vou were looking so bored." Harper's bazar. Singleton "Are all typewriters pretty?" Benedict "Well, every man's wife thinks that her husband's is, auyway!" Lawrence American. "Simpson is a curious fellow; I never knew him to laugh at a joke." "Then it's evident you never heard him tell one himself." A'. Y. Times. Alphonso "Do you know, Miss Maud, 1 weally had half a mind lahst nisrht " Miss Maud ' O, why didn't mi uu liiu last uigiH. teirVU Free tress. "I cau't imagine," said the lawyer, "how m plot like that can continue through live nets." "O, but you gee. in the second a suit at law ij begun." Fliegende Blatter. A wants to know if fits are hereditary." Any small boy compelled to wear out his father's old clothes could tell him they are not. Indianapolis Journal. Cooppie "It's very disagreeable when a fellah goes into society to meet one's tradespeople." Cynicus "Whv, they don't dun you before the company, do they?" N. Y. Sun. Teacher "You think sin is an ad- - j jective, do you? How would you com- - pare it?" Smart Boy "Positive, sinj comparative, sinner; superlative, cynic." Buffalo Express. I "Nature," says Scappleton, "never makes a mistake." "O, I don't know about that; look at the dude." "Yes; but she didn't waste any brains on f I him." Washington Bast. i A Canadian doctor has just been testifying that a murdered man's heart I stopped "right in the middle of a beat." That's nothing; policemen often do the ". same thing. Utica Herald. i j "Who is making all this talk?" asked ' t the viuegar bottle severely at. a social 3 repast. "I am," said the" champagne J bottle proudly from the head jf the , table. Hew Orleans Bicayune. I ! t Mr. Bingo "Here's a bill fcf gas." Mrs. Bingo "But tho gas Ins been ; ' turned off all summer." Mr. Jingo "Well, this is a bill for the Jis that I ? was turned off." N. Y. Heraij. j f Bloomer (to ragged urehini-"Yo- ur j parents left you somethior when I they died, did "they not?" Urchin I . " "O. yes, vdr." Bloomer "Vliat did I ' they leave you?" Urchin orphan. sir." Epoch. ( f Lawyer "Well, sir, we wq! the case, '1 but it was a pretty narrow) victory. v 3 Client "Yes, I thought thother side f had us until you showed fhat theii i f principal witness was a lisfcrmau." 'it Munsey's Weekly. 7 if Miss Porkington "I nndrstand that ' I Gilbert and Sullivan will ieet again J and settle their differeijes." Miss O Bostone "I'll bet a rib Silvan knocks him out inside of threi rouuds." H Washington Star. I it Sauso "Brown is a lit fellow, but M he has never been the sale since that if accident happened to n." Rodd Ef What accident?" huso "After if making his fortune he it mashed on m himself." A'. Y. Heraij I Caller "What do yoHhink of tin Berlin idea of uniform; reporters? g American Editor "P reporters i 1 uniform? Nonsense! Ilnifornied r f porters would be of ncfiore use in d 1 tect ing crime than so upy policemen f A'. Y. Weekly. 1 I "I never saw a maiiat knows le' f "He isn't very briliij, that's tru" f "Why, I remember ll winter, wla I had such a severe Id, he Was ie only man I met thatilu't know 'dj tell me a sure cure ftit right off- -l Philadelphia Times. I I "Papa." said littf Johnny P.erf deck, "my book sai hat some pJ of ivory nre mo expensive ' others. Which kinjirc thev?" er. O, yes The li kind; J0uf costs ten, the redsK ami ti1H .iJu T Color And Cowardice. Colonel Mosby lias a peppery temper and ft was my misfortune to "excite it on the occasion of our first meeting, says a writer in the Los Angeles Ex-press. Our talk after a time turned on the subject of courage, and I repeated tho old story of General Custer and the recruit. Custer is said to have been one of those rare men who are born without the sense of fear, and never lost color in any moment of peril. His troops were standing uuder tire, not permitted to return it. "Say," said tho quaking recruit to the veteran next him, "when are we going to get tho order, to retreat?" "Well," the old soldier said, "there's Custer on his horse just before you. Keep your eye on him and the moment you see him turn pale you must cut and run." "Fudge," snapped Colonel Mosby, "a man who turns pale has no business going into battle." "Why not?" "Because he's a coward, sir." Then I treated him to the other ehestnut about tho duke of Wellington, who pointed to a ghastly-face- d young Ollicer marching past with head up toward the field of Waterloo nnd said: "There goes a brave man. He knows his danger, but goes to meet it." I also stated the fact that I had seen men in mining camps go into shooting scrapes white as sheets, but neverthe-less tight coolly aud like the very deuce. "Pah I" was all Mosby said, and giv-ing me a look which might have meant that he suspected the color of mv own liver, he wheeled aud left me. But he came back presently aud talked of other things to show that he forgave me. and Karth. Mrs. Fanglo You used to call me your angel, Henry, but you never say so now. Mr. Fangle No, my dear; I havo found out the difference. Angels, you know, don't care anything about dresses. West Shore. j One Trial Was KnSugb. "When the Kansas Pacific was first opened," said B. W. Veddar, a loco-motive engineer, "the Indians wero very hostile and there was constant fear that they would wreck the trains. That they did uot is due to their igno-rance of the irou horse and of the best methods of destroying it. "One of my firemen bad an expe-rience with the Chcyeunes that he will never forget. He was on the road near Fort Wallace when he saw that the Indians hail cut the telegraph wire and knew that he might look out for squalls. They wero never satisfied with simply cutting the wire, but chopped it into inch pieces with their tomahawks to effectually stop the mys-terious messages. As the train came near a large patch of sunflowers which grew on both sides of tho track over 100 Indians rose up, stretched a strong rope across the track, braced them-selves, and prepared to receivo tha shock of tho locomotive. As was aft-erward learned, they had taken raw-hide strips, braided them together, and, with n force of fifty at each end of the rope, thought that they would be able to stop the train. The instant the locomotive struck the rope the air was full of Indians. They were thrown in all directions. Somo were jerked clear across the train and more than a dozen wero killed or seriously injured. This was the last attempt made for years to stop the trains." SL Louis Uiobe-Htmocr-i .. A P.uil Sign. Sign Painter Now, Missus John-sin- g, what does you want put on dis yer sign? Missus Jolinsing (after a moment of Of. deep thought) I guess goin' out scrubbin' done in here," will do. Am. Cultivator. A Chapter of Beginnings. Bicycles were first used in France about' 1815. The first church bells were used in France about 650. Suspension bridges wero the first form of bridges in use. Tho wheelbarrow was invented bv Leonardo da Vinci, tho painter. Barrels were first made a century or so B. C. iu the Alpine valleys. The first telescope was used bv Hans Lipporshim of Holland iu 1G08." The first railway locomotive was patented by Trevethick, a Welshman in 1802. The Earliest known coins were issued by the Greeks in the seventh century B. C. The first electric telegraph was con-structed by Lesage of Geneva in 1774. It had a wire for ewli letter of the alphabet What Doclded Her. Maud Which have yon elected to study French or Gorman? Ethel French. Maud Do you like French better than you do German? Ethel No, but I like the French profossor better. Yankee Blade, |