SULLIVAN JBHA EEPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY. Publisher.
VOL. XII.
Tho population of tho almshouses
of tho United States is estimated at
74,000.
The Germans published 23,000
books last year- -as many as England,
the United States, France and Italy
combined.
The Bail way Age says that though
times are hard, there will be more
than 22,000 miles of railroad built in
this country during 1894.
Tho Hessian fly is gradually extend
ing its ravages in Europe, as, in tho
summer of 1893, it was rocorded, ac
cording to Nature, as occurring in
Norway, and injuring barley.
Russia has few stranded actors.
When a manager takes a troupe on
tho road he must make a deposit with
the Government to pay the way homo
for the members in case they becomo
stranded.
Tho New York Sun contends that all
papers printed and intended for circu
lation in this country should be in the
English language. It says that foreign
ers in the United States aro seriously
hampered every way by their ignor
ance of tho vernacular of the country,
and that they should set themselves at
once to the task of mastering it.
Since the lull in the silver mining
business has emphasized hard times in
Colorado tho New York Recorder avers
that tho good people of Morrison, in
that State, have found their principal
industry in tho catching or killing oi
coyotes, which are unusually common
around there. The coyoto is good
enough as a distraction. He isn't
good for anything else.
Tho Bussian Government, in its
efforts to suppress tho Polish national
spirit, recently ordered tho police of
Warsaw to visit all tho stores and
studios and destroy all the busts of
tho Polish heroes, Kosciuszko and
Powniatowski, which they could find.
All sculptors in tho city were obliged
to send a written communication to
tho city officials, promising not to
make busts or statues of the two men
in the future.
Tho railways tho* havo boon estab
lished in Australian colonies, and in
deed, in practically all new countries,
havo not, in the estimation of tho Rail
way Review, yielded results as a rule
that were sufficiently satisfactory to
encourage capital, considered merely
at an investment. Take Australia as
a case in point. In Victoria the Gov
ernment railways only return 2. til per
cent, in the form of net revenue on
the invested capital; in (Queensland
the return is 2.65 per cent; in New
South Wales 3.07 percent; while in
South Australia tho ainuunt rises to
4.85 per cent.
Tho export of cottonseed oil to tho
Netherlands for adulteration of butter
has rapidly increased. In 1889 we
furnished the Dutch huttcr-inakcrs
with 1,789,-341 gallons. In 1893 it was
8,736,155 gallons, and during the first
eight months of the present fiscal year
it was 2,227,631 gallons. Our imports
of olive oil from Spuiu have decreased
very rapidly owing to tho increased
uso of cottonseed oil on the tables of
tho United States—in lHiln,
gallons; in 1891, 11,252 gallons, and
in 1893, only 320 gallons. A similar
decrease is shown in our imports from
Italy. Our exports of cottonseed nil
to Italy loot year were much smaller
than usual, for in 18' JO we #cut 2,197,-
311 gallous and took ouly 448,964
gallons of olive oil. In IMO I we sent
1,159,163 gallons of cottonseed till
and took 326,74* gallous of olive oil.
In 1K92 we seut 1,004,200 gallous o<
cottoustrd oil and took t'11,32'4 gal
lons of olive oil.
A St. Louts drummer says tlmt thu
typewriter ho* uuat huu a good mum
Ouatoiuera iu Ike backwoods districts
of Ark ansaa and the Iu liaii Territory,
Ho tells oi a visit thai In ut .I.in tin
country s»mu tlnrlv uul. > from N> *
port, ifk., to a customer, alio bad
always reevtvud tutu gladly, aud « uUi
tainud hlui loyally. l'hl» lime, relate*
tfc« Atlanta Constitution, tin att reksut
fulfil hardly sp> 4k to hint, an I In
•tin and >WutfUtu*s imuo t ii» u !«*.*>
and walked om d th« »i»im «u,I,
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SOLDIERS' GRAVES.
HOW THE NATION CARES FOR
ITS IIKKOIC OKAI).
The National Cemeteries Show the
Republic's Gratitude—History
of Their Establishment
mid Maintenance.
OUR national cemeteries,eighty
three in number, contain
330,700 honored dead. Every
individual grave is marked
by a stone tablet of granite or marble.
Treasure has been spont without stint
to make them what they should be
and are—tho simplost and yet the
grandest and loveliest God's acres in
the world, lavishly adorned by nature,
perfected by art and guarded over by
the starry flag. There the sun shines
softest, the grass grows greenest, tho
flowers bloom brightest, tho trees
spiead most luxuriantly. No weeds
or brambles or thistles are suffered to
enter in. The very atmosphere around
them is sacred, and the sympathetic
visitor may fancy a halo hovering over
them, for there rests exclusively the
heroes who died in tho causo of free
dom.
In all this the American republic
sets an examplo altogether unap
proached by any other nation under
the sun. All civilizod nations havo
taken pains to inter tho bones of their
military loaders and high officers, but
have been content to allot only the
hasty ditch or trench to the remains
of tho common soldiers. The ancient
republic of Athens, it is true, decreed
by law that the obsequies of all its
citizens who fell in battle should be
performed at the public expense. But
first of all modern Governments the
United States Government has shown
during and einco the Civil War that it
knows how to reciprocate the senti
ment of patriotism by interring the
remains of its soldiers and sailors, and
further, unlike any other Government,
ancient or modern, by securing anil
watching over those remains ever
afterward, regardless of whether death
came in actual battle or from the re
sult of hardship, wounds, disease or
confinement.
This showing was only rendered
possible by the exercise of wise fore
thought almost from the very outset
of the war. In September, 1861, the
Secretary of War by a general order
directed that accurate and permanent
records bo kept of deceased soldiers
md their places of burial. To this
and the Quartermaster-General's de
partment, which previously had charge
burials in a general way, was re
juired to print and place in every
hospital blank books and forms, very
minute and specific, for the purpose
jf classifying <>ud preserving these
records ; and in order to guard against
their loss or destruction, tho hospitals
(vere required to transmit copies at
once to the Adjutant-General's office
in Washington for filing. In additiou
the Quartermaster-General's depart
ment was charged with the duty of
providing means for a registered head
board, to be placed over each soldier's
grave for future identification. These
orders were afterward embodied in the
permanent regulations of the Army.
In obedience thereto surgeons of regi
ments nud hospitals immediately be
gan to take pride in keeping a perfect
record.
On tho battlefields where tho Union
nrtuies were victorious the interments
were so conscientiously made that over
ninety per cent, of the dead were
afterward identified. Where tinio
permitted the Confederate dead were
also religiously buried and their
graves marked as carefully as those of
their Federal antagonists. Ou tho
fields where the Union armies were
defeated and driven off the enemy
cared little for the fallen except to
get them out of the way and uuder
ground with the least expenditure of
time and trouble. Iu most of the
Southern prisons the I'uion dead were
buried and their graves marked by
their living comrades, often under the
most adverse and trying circum
stances. The rekiilt of that admirable
system has lieen that the mortuary
record of the I'liion armies iu the
War of the Rebellion excels iu com
pleteness, by loug odds, all similar
records ever liefure known.
Many tUotis.tuds of bodies w.'rc re
nio\e I from the places of their first
int. rim lit and brought together iu the
Uew cemeteries. In luost ca-M'S some
part of a battlefield was chosen as a
cemetery site. Much bodies its hu I
been burl. I iu tli<- ucar vicinity were
interred there first and then those
collected from the iieighlioriug terri
tory, within a ra.iius of from twenty
to forty miles. Removals were also
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larly true of many remains found on
the battlefields that were most disas
trous to the North, and notably so at
the prison pen at Salisbury, N. G.,
where records of the interments, if
any existed, had been destroyed.
Throughout the State of Virginia,
which had been tho great theatre of
the war in the East, it was found nec
essary to lay out not less than seven
teen national cemeteries at the most
convenient points. In Tennessee and
Kentucky, the chief battle grounds of
the war in the West, thirteen more
were established, seven in Tennessee
and six in Kentucky. Four more were
placod in North Carolina, four in
Louisiana, three in Mississippi, threo
in Maryland, two in South Carolina
and two in Georgia. In tho North
and West four were established in Il
linois, threo in Missouri, two in In
diana, one in lowa, two in Pennsyl
vania, two in New York and two in
New Jersey. These latter, except
those in Missouri and that at Gettys
burg, far removed as they are from the
scenes of battle, were established main
ly for the reception of tho remains of
unfortunates, who had died in tho
Federal hospitals, and in some in
stances of Confederate prisoners of
\ W'ith myrtle and rue their tombs we strew, J
X 2 "^ n( * our ove our sorrow * 8 v yi n £» ill-y
xh '/Ji/Mm °' er their dear graves that old flag waves jfjjmmSk
112 \ :/| Which they hallowed forever by dying. fll
w 'Neath pansies and roses the soldier reposes, j 112 \M\ J
V/ / l r breams battle alarm at the morn; ''III / I
Wi/ A Nation is keeping fond watch o'er bis sleeping, llj 'I I
vi r^u^ea most I°*. memor y adorn. Mjf, /jj M
W With balsam and pine their wreaths entwine, |||[ I, J/ J/J
/ W/fMffi&kf I And full of affections each token, \vvlr yJ]
frVl Yet feeble best thanks o'er their hushed ranks,-
v Their P ral - se cannot fully be spoken.
Unfading their story and garlands of glory; _
id M/wz/Wv 1 1 Their name t^ie^r ame t ' ie^r reat ' l not ccase \i
1r w^fWrffffll)/} When to the immortals they swept through the portals,
r0aI " coa^ct ecame P er f ect peace.
war who had succumbed to wounds
and disease. In many places else
where throughout the country, espe
cially iu New England and in the State
of Illinois, tho Government purchased
burial places of limited extent, where
both Union and Confederate dead were
interred. For instance, in the ceme
tery near Alton, 111., thero is a Gov
ernment plot in which are buried 163
white Union soldiers, and near by are
buried 1304 Confederate prisoners. Iu
Oakwooila Cemetery, Chicago, the
Government also owns lots in which
are graves of twelve Union soldiers
nnil 4039 Confederate prisoners who
died in confinement at Camp Douglas.
Likewise at Bock Island there is a lot
of threo acres iu which 192S dead Con
federate prisoners repose.
By tho end of tho year 1868 seventy
two of these national cemeteries had
been founded, at great expense, and
iu tliem, in connection with 320 local
cemeteries in various places, the Gov
ernment assumed charge of 316,233
graves. Of these the uaiues of 175,-
761 had been preserved aud were in
dicated ou the headntoues. Concern
ing the reiuaiuiug 140,469, it is ouly
known I hat llicy died fighting iu the
I'uiou armies, and the ouly inscrip
tion that could lie placed over thciu
"Unknown I'nited States Hol
diers," Of the whole number then
gathered iuto these cemeteries less
than out fifth reposed iu their orig
inal grave*, aud these lay ou battle
fields where I'uiou victory wade it
possible to iutcr Ilieiu carefully and
which .»(!• rward happened to become
thu >it> s of 111.- ceiiu terics. Morethau
four-tilths were removed from the
rule trcueltua of the batllctiebla at
some dialmeo or from their roadside
litsvas or froiu hospital burial plat..
Kiiioo I*6* thirlo.ii additional na
ttuna! cemeteries have baeit eitali
Us hi I, with IM't'J more graves, unk
ini to dale eighty-three, with an ag
gat* »1« , pinu population, by actual
count, uf i to, «i.» j. l' ,nr of th. c m
t lilt the remain* of soldi, rs othuf thtu
thoMt Mhrtaa'd in Ibi. war for tha
I ntwtt «n« !■> in ; that lw>«l«J k««i
tin, t'lty ol Vletieo, vatabluhed l>a»'W
in lad for tha iut.rniu d> *d from
ilt.- war with M> >iiM, and three other#
Item* ua»d suKly aa attachments to
f|.. m» U.lliltty piMts in the Wt >t
Om* of tit.is of *%t'« ptionnlly in
U't> *1 that on th< i'nst' l I'sttlulM i
>1 Ml.. I .. .. 1.. 11.
oi u|« | jwUm. murtrt■ lo lt> I
t 1..4 lau l his tampant *iou* In (•.
the friends of clecoased are constantly
having bodies removed from tho
cemeteries to privato burial places, so
that the total number of graves under
the care of the Government changes
but little from year to year.
Tho most beautiful of all tho na
tional cemeteries, and tho greatest as
regards the number of identified dead,
is that on Arlington Heights, near
Washington. It contains 16,565 in
terments—l2,2l6 known and 4349 un
known. Its location, overlooking tho
Potomac and directly facing the Capi
tal, is, perhaps, the finest in tho world.
Interments of soldiers were first mado
in it on May 13, 1864, and the first
soldier placed beneath its sod was a
Confederate. Provious to that time
most of the intorments in and about
Washington woromade in the Soldiers'
Home Cemetery, northeast of the city.
Eight thousand soldiers who hud died
in the innumerable hospitals around
the Capital had been buried thero.
Further room was becoming scarce,
and Quartermaster-General Meigs,
glancing over the magnificent Arling
ton estate one evening in company
with President Lincoln, suddenly con
ceived tho idea of devoting it to tho
needs of the hour, and the order was
soon given by Secretary Stanton. Tho
property was owned by General Robert
E. Lee and his wife, the latter having
inherited it from her father, George
Washington Park Curtis, the protege
of George Washington. The popular
impression is that tho Government
violently took and confiscated it as an
act of retributive justice, but that
<no iou is misleading. It had in fact
been soized by the Federal troops
soon after the departure of General
and Mrs. Lee for the Confederate
j Capital, and its gently sloping acros
I were used as afield hospital; but in
January, 1864, the Government bought
iu the property at a tax salo for #26,-
000, and subsequently, after prolonged
litigation, extending from 1577, when
George Washington Custis Loo, the
sou to wdioiu Mrs. Lee willed it at her
death, begau suit for its recovery,
j down to 1882, when the Government
appealed to the Supreme Court from
tho verdict of the Virginia court,
secured a valid title to it upou the
paviuent of 8150,000 to the vouugor
Lee.
Krunt tki> iir>t iut irtu ut down to
th> eh* ■ of the war \fiin4toU U > t >t<
(font all the WwihlUglen hospitals, and
aa suuu as Inu war was « ud> d th>< re
i Covered bodle# Itoiu all the baltb ll> Ida
IU the vicinity and uotth of tho lUp
pahauu..,k. U"UMy Hill Mun and
t'hautilly, w. iv i I into it
the 44, atJ unknown «Uat !be|« 111
old Lee mansion on the oast side is
tho "Temple of Fame"—a circular
structure composed of eight columns,
surmounted by a dome, the pillars
bearing the names of Washington,
Lincoln, Grant, Farragut, McPherson,
Sedgwick, Reynolds, Humphreys, Gar
field, Mansfield, Thomas and Moadc.
Among the prominent Generals bur
ricd there are Ricketts, Baxter and
Crook.
On a par with Arlington in public
regard, although comparatively insig
nificant as regards the number of
their dead, are the national cemetories
at Shiloh and Gettysburg, the former
marking the scene of the most impor
tant contest iu tho West, and the lat
ter tho most jpomcntous in tho East,
tho turning .'point? u f tho war. Tho
Shiloh nooropolis contains only 3597
tablets in all its rows and aisles and
avenues—l23s for tho known, and
2362 for the unknown—and that of
Gettysburg just five headstones less—
-3592; but their situation and tho
deathless memories attaching to them
the goal of countless pilgrimages.
The bodies that sleep thero are almost
exclusively those who fell in action.
Not all of those who fell are there, to
bo sure, but all those that are there
nil went down in the glory of battle.
No grounds are finer or better
kept than the seventeen acres at Get
tysburg Cemetery. There are 1980
labeled graves and 1612 nameless, yet
each bears a marble headstone at the
end. There Lincolu participated in
the ceremonies attending the formal
consecration of the place on Novem
ber, 19, 1863, and there his immortal
words, uttered on that supremo occa
sion, are cut on the pedestal of the
Government niouuiueut in imperisha
ble granite:
"Let us here highly resolve that
these dead shall not have died iu vain ;
that the nation shall, under God, have
a uew birth of freedom, aud that ttie
government of the people, by the peo
ple, and for the people shull not per
ish from tho earth."
Other noble uiouumeiits abound,
but none are more highly admired.
lint the biggest national cemetery
of all in point of populutiou is the
Vicksburg (Miss) Cemetery, where
16,633 heroes sleep, gathered from
the scattered graves all about the
I'uiou lines at Vicksburg and from
neighboring fields and hospitals. Of
these the known uuutber 3913 aud the
unkuowu 12,720. The Nashville
I'euu.) Cemetery comes close to it in
number of dead, having 16,M6
sleepers, takeu from hospitals aud
outlying battlefield*, with a much
smaller proportion of uukuowu, Hut
the Fredericksburg (Va. 1 Cemetery,
which rankn next to Nashville luiiuiu
Iter of dead, is the greatest of all iu
the UUntber of Its uukuowu. Of the
1 'til! Ift, 474 soldiers butted there.
12, Tail au euormoita proportion -arc
unkuowu. I'lie cemetery occupies
Marse's Heights, the celebrated iu
trenched position held by l.ee when
tbiiitside's troops charged and re
char) . I it iu tain with dread
lui mortality. I'ulei tho*.- ctrcitm
lances til. I'ttiuU de>. I relunlUed
wli> ro they Ivll aud ideutilicaliou aud
individual burial wen uupowilde
llithui al > wwi 1 ■ 1 tunny Isslh *
Iroiu the WlltUtneas and I'haucvllor#
I'he Vtcksburit t eiuel. tj «laU>l» mm)
unl to Ir'ludetlck.hlMrf 111 thu It until! 1
of It* unkituwn ale tip. fs, aud Uukl to
it 1a th< mournful inelwaufe al ifadi*
but > N »' , tit. it..l thu 'ld t'..n
ft in*l.-prison, wh.tv, out ol a t»lal
.it 11,1 If int. luteula, all but I'M at-
Ultkii at. Wit'll tb< putee catue lltlo
the halt I* ol tb < I 1.1 Hit*, ill the
'u iM, kt> attl Uu-M I law I V' If, Ivt
Terms---SI.OO in Advance ; 51.25 after Three Months.
Pillow and otlie* places. Tho Ander
son ville (Ga.) Cemetery, tho com
panion institution to that of Salis
bury, contains the bones of 13,702
prison victims, whose names, happily,
are all known savo 923. Fortunately
the Union prisoners there wore per
mitted to bury their comrades and to
keop careful record of interments.
In the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Ceme
tery sleep 13,058 of the fallen from
the gory fields of Chattanooga, Chick
amauga and Resacu. Next to it in
populousness is tho Chalmetto ceme
terv, near New Orleans, La., on the
site of part of the old New Orleans
battlefield. Thero lie the bodies of
12,640 Union soldiers and sailors,
brought thither from all parts of the
State.
The Jefferson Barracks National
Cemetery—once an old military post,
but enlarged—contains tho bones of
11,682 soldiers, including 1106 Con
federate prisoners, taken iu tho early
battles of the war in Missouri. At the
Marietta (Ga.) Cemetery repose tho
remains of 10,160 Union soldiers, col
lected from various parts of Georgia,
and at tho Beaufort (S. C.) Cemetery
rest 9279 bodies of soldiers and sail
ors who died on tho seaboard of South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Half
of these are unknown.
Next to the abovo in point of size
aro the cemeterios at Hampton, Vs.,
with 6656 interments ; Richmond, Va.,
with 6545 ; the Soldiers' Home, Dis
trict of Columbia, with 6424; Stono
River, Tenn., with 6146; Poplar
Grove, Va., with 6199 ; Corinth, Miss.,
with 5724; Little Rock, Ark., with
5158; Mound City, 111., with 5253;
Cypress Hills, New York, near Brook
lyn, with 5100 ; Antietam, Md., with
4736; Winchester, Va., 4482, Flor
ence, S. C., with 3013; Woodlawn,
near Elmira, N. Y., with 3075, of
which 2968 were Confederates; Finns
Toint, N. J., with 2645, of which
1434 were Confederates. Over nine
thousand Confederates are buried in
the national cemeteries, all told, prin
cipally, however, at Woodlawn and
Finns Point and at Jefferson Barracks,
Cainp Butler, City Point and Loudon
Park.
Found on Decoration Day.
Among the boys who ran away from
home and enlisted in the army in
1863 was one from Central New York,
whom all his comrades called "Sonny,"
on account of his youthful appear
ance. But no truer soldier or more
devoted patriot wore the blue than
this brave boy. He had been little
away from home, and his gentle man
ners soon made him the pet of the
regiment. Every possible comfort
was given "Sonny," and great pains
taken by the soldiers to lighten his
load.
His mother had died soon anei hio
fil ing upon Sumter and his army life
was never brightened by a mother's
loviug epistle, so cheering to a sol
dier. His sister wrote to him, but it
was only to convey the local gossip
and inquire after army news, closing
with tho sentence that if John lived to
return they would bo married and
"Sonny" could live with them after
the cruel war was over.
But after the next engagement tho
sad intelligence reached "Sonny" that
he who was to boconie moro than a
brother-in-law to hiin was among tho
killed iu battle. This was a terrible
blow to the sister in the far-away
home, amid the hills made sacred by
the death of General Herkimer, at
Oriskanv, audit well-nigh destroyed
her reason, but poor "Sonny," whilo
he was not numbered with the killed
iu battle, soon found himself a pris
oner and among the dead and dying
iu the prison pen at Andersonville.
Hut having a strong constitution
for a boy he bravely fought his daily
battle with disease and the living
death of the prison. Time rolled on;
his sister's life was very sad and lone
lv. Her brother, whom she thought
dead, had been discharged, but with
rcasou so dethroned that he could not
locate his early home.
Years passed and 011 one Memorial
l>ay a regimental monument was to bo
dedicated at Gettysburg. It occurred
to "SonnyV sister that perhaps she
might secure some :dew from the hun
dreds in attendance; so she undertook
the journey. The ceremonies were
about to begin when she saw a man,
small of stature, step forward to hold
the horse of the marshal of tho day,
aud by au old-time smile his sinter
recoguizetl ".Souuy."
The restoration, the loug journey
home aud the thought of uo more
separation made this Memorial Oay
the happiest iu their lives.
"Souuy V in lud hiuu recovered its
healthful vigor uuder the influence of
his old home aud the kiud care of hla
lielove.l sister. -Mall aud I'lkpruaa.
Subtler* Asleep.
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NO. 34.
THE WOMAN ACROSS THE WAIK
My windows open to southward,
And the sun shines In all the day |
Wor windows all look northward,
My neighbor's across the way.
My windows are draped with curtains
Of lace, like a filmy spray;
She has only shades of linen,
The lady across the way.
There are diamond rings on my fingers
That over the casement stray;
I hav« never noticed any
On my neighbor's across tho way.
But what oares she for sunlight,
This lady over the wav,
When a baby face illumines the place
Like the light of a summer's day.
What need has she for curtains
Of rare and costly laco
When the light shines through a golden
mesh
Of curls round a baby's face.
Jewels are plenty for money,
But cold to the light that lies
Reflecting the image of souls that meet
In tho heaven of baby's eyes.
And I sit alone in the darkness
When night comes down, and pray
That Ood will keep her treasuro safo
For the woman across the way.
—Frances B. Haswln, In Boston Transoript.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
Girls mfty bo a little slower abont
talking, while infants, than boys, but
they make tip for it when they once
get started.—Hartford Journal.
Tom—"Are you sure you will never
forget that it -was I who gavo you that
locket?" Miss Bangles—"Sure I I'm
going to note it down in my memor
andum book."—Chicago Record.
Mrs. Earle —"Tour daughter has
been studying painting, has she not?"
Mrs. Lamoyn—"Tos; you should seo
some of the sunsets she paints. There
never was anything like them." —New
Tork Observer.
Wool—"That was a mean trick
Clarklet'e rival played on him." Van
Pelt—"What?" Wool—"Ho wrote
"Oh, maid of Athens, ere we part,"
etc., in the girl's album, and the rival
changed the "Oh" to "Old."—Harlem
Life.
"By Jove!" said Dawson, as he
glanced over a copy of tho Russian al
phabet. "What a terrible thing it
must be to be deaf and dumb in Rus
sia ! Think of having to make those
letters with your fingers 1" —Harper's
Bazar.
Ragged Richard (insinuatingly)
"Say, mister, have yer got eny sug
gestions ter make ter a feller w'at
ain't able ter raise er dime ter git
shaved with?" Grumple (passing on)
"Yes: ;-i——••
Courier.
"You can always depend on the
newspapers," remarkod the man who
was unpleasantly notorious. "What
do you mean?" "No matter how
naughty you may be, they will never
turn your picture to the wall."—Wash
ington Star.
p 0 gg—"Sometimes tho absolute
faith my boy has in my wisdom makes
me almost ashamed of myself." I'otts
"You need not worry. It will av
erage up all right. By tho time he is
twenty he will think you know nothing
at all."—Tid-Bits.
A stranger in Galveston asked an
old resident how malarial fever could
be distinguished from yellow fever.
"As a general thing," was the reply,
"you can't tell until you have it. If
you ain't alive, then it is most likely
yellow fever."—Texas Siftings.
A Woman's Wait: "Wait just half a
minute," said the lady to tho elevator
man,"and I'll ride down in your ear."
"All right, ma'am," said the saga
cious elevator man, as ho chucked his
lever over and began to sink below.
"The elevator will bo runing three
hours longer."—Chicago Record.
"Remember, witness," sharply ex
claimed the attorney for the defense,
"you are on oath !" "There ain't no
dauger of my furgottiu' it," replied
the witness, sulleuly. "I'm tellin' the
truth fur nuthin', when I could have
made jM by lyiu' fur your side of the
case, »n' you know it."—Chicago Tri
bune.
"Ah," remarked the man who wasn't
minding his own business to the man
digging a trench in the street, "my
friend, you surely earn your living by
the sweat of your brow." "I don't
kuow about that," replied the luau, as
he never stopped his digging, "1 git
the same pay whether 1 sweat or uot."
Detroit Free I'rew.
Little Hoy —"! stayed in the parlor
all last evening wheu Mr. Mt|Um)xeoi
was ualliu' on slater, just a-, you told
lue." Mother "That's a goo I ls>y ;
and here is the eaudy 1 promised you.
Uttl you get tired?" I.ittle Hoy "Oh,
uo. Wo played blind luau s hurt, -ml
It Would have been lot. of fun, only I
was 'it' nearly all the time."—Good
New*.
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•t Ilia last luoiuuul to wet as siihalllutu
for the w neralde man who *«* »eeii«
lotut'd to no to the Hi id. well Hun-lav
uioruiug and |>t sa< it to llw pfl*o<t«ra.
"U) flleuda," said lU«' elul>»ri*Mi> i
young man. as Im ium up and l«tusl
the mmiuiMv'l toughs «n I vagianta,
"it i«|ubia nil Unit to s» >- m many
of yuit tit-le tliia nt- imug I un'wtfo
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lntilu<*i to « ytMiug lady, and alter
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