A Song. " I want yon to pot me lw I <'*n wo the ocean." /'rrswie*' (t orjhl*i to thf Aifjow. A for from the lcei> Moo w, Afar from thy choral of wavoa, A child who hath roaniod by Uicc For thy murmnriug nineic cravca; Ft.r the laugh of thy billoae that bemud In play amid shells on Uio ahoro, (Ir dashing o'er rocka that nwound A troubled and stormy roar. Lot him for the greenwood sigh Whoao home ia ita leafy lower Whoeo hearth at the twilight hour Offer* emblems of peace to the aky. Hie may he the hreose Tliat ruetloe the forcat flower. Or atirretli a thonaand trees To an anthem of strsngth and power. But giro me the sea-girt htlo, My forefathera' home and graro, Tlint h*ek in the muUl.ll entile Of wculight and rippling wave. HH hiliowe neem all my own. And the skice more dear to mo. Whose arch reel* fondly down On tho breast of the heaving xca. Only a Private Secretary. " Both are handsome, and have equal ly accomplished manneis, I hear. They will make a most welcome acquisition to the limited society of this poor little village," remarked Claudia Thorne, with great animation, that was sadden It augmented by the appearance of an elegant equipage that she had just seen coming down the pleasant, shadowy stroet. " There they are now, Aggie, dear," she continued, excitedly; "and is not that carriage altogether too sty lish for this dreadfully unfasbionablo a d prosy place? and that prancing, peckled, reddish homo must be a price less 'flyer,' I think," she commented somewhat doubtfully, for abe was con scious of her utter deficiency in equine lore. Meanwhile the spirited, dappled roan —an animal neither extraordinarily fine nor fast—was trotting past the garden gate, the senescent blossoms of the lofty loenst trees falling in white show ers over gihled harness and glittering wheels. W " The gentleman—the one with that Baxon'and distinguished look and the tawny, cnrlinmhair and board—he who is driving, mutt be the millionaire who, lam informed, is the son of a noble man, but is too Americanized nr repub lican ized to assume bis illustrious title. The other, with the dark hair and stont ish figure, must be the private secretary or traveling complpion. One can al ways discern the difference between the patrician and plebeian, can one not 7" "Certainly I have nopuch subtle gift of discrimiuation—in tke sense you in fer. One whose soul i ignoble must be plebeian, I think, howevcy aristocrat ic tho birth or tout ensemble of that one may be," answered Agnes Rothsar, quietly. She and Claudia Thorno were cousins and ostensibly friends, together a life of genteel having jointly inherited a small legacy devised by an eccentric relative recently deceased whom neither had ever seen. In the picturesque and tiny hamlet of Boaebithe—a haven of roses—they had made their summer home. Agnes had been pleased and con tented with the small tranquil place, with its wide, grassy, umbrageous streets, and sparse clusters of quaint house* buildod abont tho obtnse, wooded angle of crags that jutted into the tumbling waters, just where a wild, narrow stream frothed into the surf of the sea. But Clandia had thought it all—the serene seclusion, tho isolated but im posing scenery, simple habitants with their hemely way—uninteresting and in- ' snfferably dull. They were very unlike— those two young ladies, who had yet all the bloom and brightness of fresh, sweet woman hood. Miss Ilothsay *u a UU and notably gramful blonde, with that rarely and peculiarly fair complexion that no care can wrinkle and no time can yellow. Her fine feature* were innch too mobile for the artiatio Grecian type, and her large eyee— splendid and indetcrilttble —were too paaaionfnl and tender to bo gray, and too discerning and imperious to be the ideal and poetic bine. Her magnificent maaeee of hair had the nnbtle and beautiful abadee of amber and ruddy anbnrn; and her attitude*, her action, her meaner of speaking, were dint ingnished by a majesty, a dig nity and a gentle graeioasnesi that were as natural as irresistible. Among in feriors she would bare been misunder stood and possibly hated, feared and tradnced. Among her peers she was loved and revered. Claudia Thome belonged to quite a dissimilar sphere of mind, feeling and volition. She had mors canning than intellect; she was more emotional than sympathetic; she liked only the excite ment that oould be made egotistically sensational, and she was inordinately ambitions for a very eminent social dis tinction. She bated the defeased legs or who had bequeathed ber a humble com pot on oo in-dead of uu exliaustlesa income. It would seem that she whs pitifully uuappreeifttivo of small favors —that sbo sadly lacked tho sense of gratitude. Novertlioier>s, she was u witch ing little lady, with ever restless fairy feet and singularly pretty, elfish hands. She was dark and petite; her hair was jetty black, and her black eyes ware brilliant with mesmeric lines; alio had red, laughing lips, and a dainty scarlet color always wavering over her babyishly rounded cheeks. Bho affected tho nat'ttt with tho most tlattering sno- OOHS. And sho seemed very childishly in genuons, indeed, when sho llrst smiled beguilingly into tho admiring eyes of him whom she supposed to be wealthy and titled. Apparently iliat first mooting was en tirely accidental. The gentleman had been piseatorially busied in a dclicioualy cool nioho among tho willows, whoso foliage of topaz and emerald left dickering shadows along the margiu of a still pond whore a strata of wild rook had dammed the stream, and where a myriad of silvery fins glanced through tho clear, brown water. Ho had heard a lazy and irregular sound of oars, and had glanced with small in terest across tho high green reeds and low flower-de-luce, to see a gaudily gilded and very small skiff rocking dangerously among tho water-lilies just before him. Tho single occupant of the boat was a bmnotto far, wearing a fancy cos tume of some dark, ruddy-bronze stuff, with goldon-barted lily-bnds in her corsage and an aigrette tipped with white and gold in her jannty bronze velvet cap. Aa the young gentleman regarded her with a half-enchanted ga/.e, alio extended her dusky, jeweled hands toward a snowy blossom, dropping her oars with a pretty, careless gesture. The next in stant the oars were drifting slowly away on tho sluggish current; the next in stant thero was a splash and a musical cry for help. The light craft was capsized, and Claudia Thome was straggling and gasping among the lilies. How the spectator of the catastropho rcscncd her ho could never quite clear - Iv remember; however, ho might never forget the sensation of pleasurable tri umph he felt as she lay at last help lessly ia his arms—a saved, thankfnl nymph, so drenched and seemingly frightened that one much less gallant and susceptible than he must, perforce, have said to her something very flatter ing and agreeable. That episode was the beginning of a charming little romance. "If my mishap be known I shall only he ridiculed," declared pretty Claudia, diplomatically, whereas she had purposely caused the accident. " I have always l>een awkward with my oars. There is a standing prediction, I beiicvo, that I should )>e capsized some time. I must invent some neat Action to account for flounces and this poor spoiled hat!J Hbo was turning sionXy away, and her manner would to*express that her gratitude wastoedgroat to l>e uttered | in the ordinary phroJpology considered .! conventional on sneh n occasion. f The gentleman imagined that he un derstood that simulation of gracafal timidity. Ho thonght her tho hand somest, tho most and the most charming young lady whom bo had ever mot. "Shall I never 800 yon again ?" he queried, almoat beseechingly. " Perhaps you mar," she returned, with a coquettish ami bewildering ntnile. " I row or rido or walk every morning in this delightful place. lam absurdly fond of tho 1M idle path along the river bank, and of the cool promen ade among tho willows." " And so am I," he asserted, quickly and respectfully. " I aliall see yon of ten ; but perhapi yon will not think proper to recognise me, if we should meet 7" he snpplemented, uneasily. With seeming bashfniness she averted her bright fare and brilliant eyes; bnt, as she vanished among the golden green willow shadows, she mnrmtued " An remir," in encouraging accents. Claudia went slowly homeward. Her mood was thoughtful and speculative. " He is certainly interested, and per haps infatuated," she mnted, with great satisfaction. " I shall meet him often, and long before we shall be formally in troduced I shall le tho betrothed wife of my titled millionaire, whom, most fortunately for poor, ambitions, deceit ful me, I already adote." With all her nnwomanly faults, Claudia keenly comprehended that a marriage without reciprocal love is only an nnholy sham. The flirtation under the willows pro gressed as she had predicted, and aa favorably as she could desire. " I shall allow yon to tell me nothing about yourself at all. Practical details would spoil all the romance of our pleasant summer dream," asseverated Claudia one morning. She spoke with a semblance of that blind and absolute faith that she well knew pleases and flatters and deceives even the shrewdest of lovers. And moreover, she presumed hcraelf to about become a modem Lady Rurloigh, althongh ono might doubt if she would ever bo very conaeionfiously porploxod " Willi the burden of an lienor , Unto which alio wax not born. ' " But our romance is no summer dream, darling," protested Herbert ! Saunders, earnestly. " Yon aro to bo i my wife, you know, and beforo wo aro married I should like you to thoroughly understand my social and financial rank." " I will listen to no prosy explana tions," alio peraistod, pressing her pretty hands over her ears. "I lovo you and will he a dutiful wife, trying always to make you happy and our homo pleasant. Is not that sufficient T' Claudia spoke with sincerity. For lovo was producing ono of those beauti ful and mysterious psychological phe nomena that occasionally redeem tho moat faulty souls. " la not that sufficient, Herbert?" alio iterated, with a smile, that the man who loved her thought superlatively artless. " Certainly it ought to bo so," he al lowed, half doubtfully, and unpleas- I antly conscious of an indefinable sense !of dissatisfn tion. " But still I think it ; best and wisest for any lady to know j thoroughly the prosy and practical par 4 I of lifo of tho man to whose keoping alio i consigns her freedom and happiness.'* Tint tho willful girl would not listen, j In her vain egotism she imagined that • she already know as much, or more, j than he could possibly tell lier. That night they met at a garden i party —e rather rcrherch* affair with an afternoon of crcqnct and tennis and an evening of dancing and ' under a round, opaline moon, among I magnificent old ireos of oak and elm. In tho midst of the festivity, while , Ulaudia was for a moment alone in a cool, arboreous nook fantastically il ' lumcd by the paly red light of a gorge i ons paper lantern swinging from an ! arch of thick ivy, she saw Agnes Roth | say approaching. Miss Rothsay wore a simple and cx- I piiaite costume of darkest, richest violet silk, with sprays of snowy, odor i ons eglantine in her hair and corsage. I Bhe looked very happy as she stopped beside her pretty cousin. "Claudia, dear, will yon congratulate me 7' she whispered, l*a>hfally. " I am . betrothed really affianced to the har- I onet. One day while you were rowing 1 after lilies, the pastor's wife brought my Jack for a forma! call. He was foolish enough to honor me with his : admiration, and he sent all those lovely flowers yon wondered at so much. Bnt I was never quite sure he loved mo nntil I to-day. But only a little while ago he met me down there among the willows and wild roses, and he told me how very dear I had become to him, and he ! kissed me, Claudia, and he kissed this ; ring before he put it on my linger." Hhc llnng nrido a hit of delicate lace | ■lrapery and presented a graceful hand : upon which glittered a magnificent ring |of diamonds and gold. "I am very happy, cousin dear, for I know that my Jack is one of the noblest of all men. I should revere him jnnt the same, if he were a bricklayer instead of being a %*t -net." I " Your Jack—the baronet! What do 'you mean, Agnes!" gasped Claudia. Miss Roth* ay for a moment regarded her cousin with much perplexity. Bnt just then two gentleman advanced through the vista of green branches hung with grotesque illuminations of gaudy irridesoence. " lfnah, dear, Mr. Rsmond is search ng for me, I think. Ho is coming this way, and Hubert Maunders bia private secretary -yon know, is with him." Claudia Thorno stood motionless and voiceless. Hho could not utter one word, not even when Agnes and the baronet had gone, leaving her alone with the lover who regarded her with a troubled, loving gaze. Poasihly he comprehended all, hut if he did, his affection was too loyal to be weakened by the fault of the handsome girl who he knew loved him. " Why are yon so white and mute, my darling V he inquired, tenderly. " Would yon he mom fond of me, dear, do you think, if I happened to have wealth and a title?" All that was womanly and redeeming in her ambitious and subtle nature con quered the sharp pang of her disap pointment. She was only conscious that he was dearer to her than rank or riches, and un speakably grateful that lieao generously forgave a folly that ahe was aware he more than suspected. * " No wealth and no title could ever make my respect and affection for you greater," abe assured him with simple earnestness. He was ploasod and satisfied with the frank answer. "My pretty Claudia," ho said; "I shall make your wifehood so happy that you will never regret metrying only a private secretary." "If I was as bald as yon," said Gas De Smith to one of the most prominent citixens of Austin, "I would wear a wig." "I don't see why you should ' ever wear a wig," was the quiet response j "en emptv barn don't need any roof," I'REHIDENTIA 1< M'L'CF.SNOKS. Ilatv iYice-l'ic-litrntn Tiler, flllrtiore and Johnson Took the O.ul. ol (lllire of I'rrnl •tent. Since the day on which Wnslungton took tlio outh of ofllco ntul entered upon his duties as President of the United Stales, on the 30th of April, 1780, until now—a period of mora than ninety three years—only three Vice •Presidents (exclusive of General Arthur) have suc ceeded to the presidency: John Tyler in 1811, Millard Fillmore in 18of), and An drew Johnaon in ISGS. The oflicial proceedings nnder which each qualified have a peculiar interest at this time, and as comparatively few people now living can recall them, they are given precisely as they appear in tlio written minntes of tho proceedings of the Senate of tho United The min utes are as follows: TUESDAY, April fi, 1811. Immediately after the draMw of tlio Pr<-*i dent, Mr. Webster, Jr., chief clerk of the de partment of H! ate, accumpaidcd by Sir. Iteail, an officer of the Senate, i-t out for tlio roi dnnca of the Vico-Premdent, in Virginia, bear ing to him the following letter: WtwitNomx, April 1. 1841. To John TyUr, Yiet-l'rtMiUnt of the United S'ntee. 8ii!: It lu* heroine our most painful duly lo inform you that William Henry Harris-ill, hit* Prcnnli-ut of tho United Stale*. baa departed tliix life. Tin* distressing tvi nt to >k pUea Uu - day. at tho I'riwident'a mansion, in tlii* city, at thirty minute* I* fur" 1 in the inoroing. Wo loan no time in dixpatching the chief elerk Ui th* state department, a* a special m< *- wnger. to Ix-ar yon tho*. melancholy tiding*. We hare the honor to 1*;, Willi the higiici-t regard, your obedient servant*. Basin. WrnsiTH. Secretary of Stat*. THOMAS KWJXO, Secretary of the Treasury. Jon* liixi. Secretary of War. JORXJ. UnrrrmwE*. Attorney-tieneral. Faatacts tiittX'ii.it, I'ostmaster-iieiu-ral. Cm or WAMUXMTOX, It. C., W'*ln-*lav, April 7, 1841. By the < atraorliriary dispatch uJ in send ilift th* offi*ial intelligence to th* Vice-Presi dent at Williamsburg, anil similar di*|iatcb by liim in repairing to the seat of government, John Tyler, now Pr*"t lent of the United Stat'-*, arrived in Oita city yesterday morning at 5 o'cl x k, and took lodging* at Brown'a bot*L At 12o'cA>rk all th* hear!* of dejs-tm< nt*. except til* secretary of th* navy (who ha* not yet returned to th* city fmm bU visit to hi* family), waited u)>n hltn to pay him their official and penaona! r•**,"*■!*. Tli'-y wi-r* re ceived with all the pohteueaM and kindn * which rUaracterir* tho new President. He signified hi* deep feeling of th* public calam ity *ii*Umed by the death of Proiirs:iv oi Coi.t-Kiitt. Cirr xxn Corvrv <>r Wumixnioj, • I, William (.'ranch. Chief Judge of thet'irciiit Court of the I>l'rict of ('dniotiis, nrtify that the above-named John Tjler tM-rsooally appeared t lore roe thl* day, ai.d alUxsigh h* deem* hiui**lf qualific.l t r-*rforai th* duties an I *x*m*c tli* J-IW. r* and office p r .--ideal on the death of William Henry Harrison, laU> Presidciit of the Untied States, without any oth r alh than that w hich li* h taken as Vice-l'ns-dutit, nt, as drmt ' may ari-", aid for gr-so r caution, took and mtl*vnM th* foregoing oath IM-for* n.e. Aran. o.l*ll. W. CBAXOI. TAVUM H DEATH. The record of Zschary Taylor's death | snd the succession of Millard Fillmore i is as follows: I Zschary Taylor, President of tho United I Sinto*. having deceased on Tnrdy, the !>lh of I July, IMS, snd Csongre* l>cingthen In K*ion: I> mr. Sr.IAIF. or TUT. UxrrrnHr ATIW, \V'.!>>F-L>T, J'DY 1<, I*so. The following commiinii-siion received by the secretary of tho tie lisle was road: j 7b the Smite of the f *■ iieit Slnlrt: 111 <"ot)pe.|Uenre of the lamented desth of Zaetiary Taylor, late President of the United Hi ales, I shall no longer occuny tie rhsir of the Kenale; snd 1 have tlmiight that s formal enm | munieation to the iWiate. to that effect, through i your secretary. might enable jni the more I promptly to proreed to the ehoieo of presiding officer. MM. l. tab FIM-WOSK. WASHlsorns, July 10, I*s#. The foliosiog naeeaage was received from the President of the United HLatos by Mr. Fiaher: Fr'l-itc ' 'i/fwn.v if the .Srno/s and Montr of Hrprrtenia! Fttutoia WJASKUMTO*. July Iff, I*so. A similar message having been enmmnnieaiad to tha House of llepressntatives, and tbe neces sary arrangements made bstweon the two houses; At 13 o'clock meridian. Th# President Of the United Sistm, tho heads of departmsnta, the chlsf judge of tho circuit court of the District of Columbia ami the Henate of tbe United States having entered tho hall of th# House of IlcpreecntaUvss, Hi# oath of office was administered to the President by ths Honorable William Craneh, chief judge of the circuit court of lbs United Slates for tbe District or Colombia. DHATU or v*mwm*T uwcoidt. Ths death of President Lincoln and th taking of tbe ooth bp Andrew John son are thus recorded: Vtxtnmrron, D. C,, April 15, IMS. SIB: Abraham Lincoln, President of the United Htates, was shot by an aasiMtn last evening at Ford's theater, in this'-ity, aii'l died at the hf mr nt twenty-tiro minutes after 7 o'cltwk tltiv morning. About tho same tuno at which ttin President shot an a* r—in altered tlio *i< k ehktnlior of the Hon. William H. Howard. *■ cretsry of state. ami stabbed him to m-veral places in tin- thrust, neck ami lc- s-iori-lv. if not liint taliy, wounding him. Other members of tho seorotary'* family wore danger-mslr wounds! l>y tin- as-rii—>n while making hi* to* a)*. By tlio death of President l.innoln. the office of IVe*blent ha devolved, timlcr the ConsUtn- Hon, ni>ori you. The emergency of tic- govern ment d- mands that you sli-mfd immediately qualify according to the rer|llireni< iiU o! tb anain or weariness, etc. Most know that the glare from a plain white snrfaee is very trying, and that the eye is relieved by a tint. Recent experiments in Ger many are reported to indicate some yel lowish tint as the easiest for the eye*. Dark papers, inks that show light color on first writing, faint pencil marks that ran he read only by straining the eyes, are fruitful sources of mischief. Ho is hail writing. Tlio liad paper, ink and ]>enciU most cf our reader* will have too good sense to nse.— Liter try Jour nal. •• The Way of a Serj"*nl on a Kock.*' The movement of a snake in climbing ! a perpendicular surface, as I have ob ! -wired it, ia a vermicular, undulating motion, not spiral, but straight up the | face of the surface. 1 have seen a black ! snake thua glide up a beech tree with that easy, careless grace of movement : which ia characteristic of that anake ! when moving over horizontal anrfacca. i The bark of the beech afford* no in - i equalities into which the edges of the gastrnslagal bands conld le throat claw fashion, and I have no donbt that at mospheric pressure is the force that holds the snake against such surfaces in i climbing, sncker fashion, as the ltoj lift* the brick with the piece of wet leather. I once knew a black snake to aacond a stttcco-wall to tho second story window, and another I saw go up to the eaves of a carriage house to the swallowa' nest, straight up the up-and-down boards. I havo seen them glide from tree to tree and leap down from near the top of large trees, but never Raw one doer end by climbing down a smooth, perpendicular surface. I have no donbt of their abil ity to do so, however. Ido not believe that this power is enjoyed by tbe cop perhead or rmttleanake, or any venom - ous sort with which I am familiar, they being heavy and sluggish in their move ments. 1 have seen them go up on ieening trees and crawl into the foliage of bushes, however.—/hretf ami Strmim. Valuable Suggestions. Always tell tbe truth ; you will find it easier than lying. Always do a kind act in a kind way ; to do H otherwise destroys lie value. Do a in nan act in a mean way ; ao it will have a keener sting— for your own breast. Hut better not do it. Whatever you dislike in another cor rect in yourself. Better be upright with poverty than wicked with plenty. Time never rests heavily upon ns when it is well employed. Do yoar duty ia that station of life in which God ia His provdence has placed yon. Mind your own business. Carrying I'ure Air in a Knapsack. Buccesi-ftil experiments have Ixsn carried on by Mr. Warrington Hmvtbe, at the Now Heahatn colliery, near New castle, England, with what is termed the Fionas breathing apparatus. The importance of this invention will at once be apparent to those who are in any way acquainted with the risks from nffocation rftn by firemen and those employed under ground, where |e subject to them. With the aid of the Fleus* machine men can work without danger under all these mimical conditions. The apparatus has the size and shape of a soldier's knapsaei:, its principal portion being a cose of sheet copper, twelve inches long, twelve inches wide, and two and a half inches deep. The ease is internally divided into four lon gitudinal cooqiartmerits, fitted up so as to securo the complete circulation , through them ol the air that lias been robbed of its oxygen by passage through the lungs. Each compartment is fitted with small cubesof india rubber upon go, coated with specially prepxred caustic soda. The air that passes from the lungs of the man fitted with the tp> par at us past-os through one side of a mouthpiece and down the correspond ing short length of pipe over his left shoulder to the first compartment of the case. There it goes through a finely-bal anced \alve, which gives way to the I softest breath jrossing from the mouth, hut is immovable to anything from the inside of theeae. The partition of the firs', rcmjjartmtnt fits closely up to the top of the case, but is about one inch I open at the botton. This arrangement | thus pel raits the respired air to pass down the first chamber and to enter the j second at the bottom. Here it circu i late* to the top, where an inch opening in the next partition gives it passage into tho third compartment, which it descends to find a similar outlet at the bottom into the fourth chamber. Ris ing to the heat! of this compartment, the air thus purified from the deleterious matter that it has carried from the lungs passes through a valve info a pipe laid over the right shoulder of the oi>er ator. Oxygen is added by means of a small pipe that runs from the cylinder st the bottom of the case, and finds its , opening close to the junction of tho clean air-pipe and the before mentioned india rubber bag. Th s latter performs the part of a reservoir of pure said properly oxygen ated air, and by its presence the act of breathing is rendered easy and natural. In fact, the only limit to the space of time during which the apparatus enable* the man to move about in the midat of poiaonons gases is the capacity of the oxygen cylinder and the indi ! vidnal's physical ability to carry the copper knapsack about with him. The i capacity of the cylinders at present in * use is one-fourth of a cubic foot, and as the oxygen is pumped in under pres ' sure of sixteen atmospheres, they hold four cabic feet of gss. The supply, which can be regulated through the medium of a valve, is calculated to last for a four hours' shift of work, although no man employed under such conditions of danger a* require its use ia kept at I lalvr more than three hours. An essential portion of the apparatus ia the mask, to which is attached a mouthpiece screwed on one side to the pnro-air pipe and india rubber bag, and on the other to the pipe conveying the expired air hack to the compartment in the knapsack case.— RtMer Era. A Soldier's Presence ef .Mind. It was daring the aiege of Wagner, and the Union parallels were but a few hnndred yards away from the grim black tnbea that ever and anon " en bowled with outrageous noise and air disgorging foul their horrid glntof iron globes." A line of abattis was to be built across a clear space in point blank range of the Confederate gunners and sharjMhootcr* in front. " Sergeant," says the officer in charge, " go pace that opening and give rue the distance as near as possible." Says the sergeant (for we will let him tell the reel of the story) : " I started right oft When 1 got to the opening I put 'or like a ship in a gale of wind. What with grape, canis ter, round shot, shell and a regular bees'neat of rifle balls, I just think there must hare been a fearful drain of am munition on the Confederate army atont that time. I don't know how it waa, bnt I didn't get so much aa a scratch, bnt 1 did get powerfully soared. When I got under cover I couldn't er told for the life er tne whether it waa a hundred or a thousand paces. I should sooner er guessed a hundred thousand. " Says the captain : Well, sergeant, what do you make it P " Soon's I could get my wind, says L, • Give a guess, captain.* " Ft# looks across the opening a second or two and then says: • A hundred and seventy-five paces, say.' Thunder, captain,' rays I, • you've mades prstty close guess. It% junta hundred and seventy-one.' " And," concluded' the sergeant, after the laugh had subsided, " that's how I got my shoulder-straps,"'