THE QUICKENING.
Bare anl glim tho mai-shCB are,
Yt one day, and that era lonr,
Flowers the sombre wastes will star,
And the silence pulse with
Gold will gleam and green
nt
"Where now glooms on uhen tint.
And the sky ah, how the sky
Tenderly will ovoiicnn
Such a softly sapphire dye,
80 ecstatic, so serene!
Cow behold It wanly brood
1 gray sullenness of mood!
OLD SOLDIERS.
How the Northerner and the Southerner Met and
Became Friends.
(W. H. Hose in Cleveland Plain Dealer.)
It was a mild spring day. The trees
were budding and there was a geuinl
warmth in the breeze that came across
the low range of hills to the south.
Jared Cross pulled open the gate in
the meadow fence and slowly crossed
the enclosure. He was a man well
advanced In years, a man of rather
heavy build who stooped a little and
carried a thick cane. His hair was
fray and he wore a stubby gray mus
tache. He was comfortably clad and
be had a well fed and well satisfied
look.
Jared particularly liked this path
cross the meadow because it gave
dm an excellent view of the sur
rounding view of the surrounding
ftrmland and more especially of the
road acres of that thriity farmer, Ja
red Cros3, the younger.
Aa the older Jared ncaied the fence
on the opposite side of the meadow he
noticed that a stranger was sitting on
stump Just beyond the stake-and-Wder
barrier. The fence was on tl'f)
dividing line between the Cross farm
and the Sedgewick farm, and the
tump that bore the stranger was a
Bedgewick stump.
Jared looked closely at the man on
the stump. He. was an old man, ra
tter tall and thin and very straight,
nd his chin was decorated with a
Mender tuft of white whisker.
"Mornin'," said Jared.
"Howdy?" replied the man on the
turnip.
Jared came a little nearer.
"Fine view," he suggested.
"It's a right smart farmin' coun
try," admitted the stranger, "but I
prefer my hills a little higher. 'Taint
o ways like home."
He talked with a peculiar drawling
accent that was quite the opposite of
J&red'a quick manner of speech.
"There's no better farmin' country
In th' state," said Jared, an' th' hills
are Just as Godiiuade 'em."
The strangers mild blue eyes were
turned Jared's way.
"I reckon that's true," he drawled.
"An' 'pears to me It's mighty lucky
He didn't always think alike when
tnakln' hills."
Jared leaned on the fence.
"I guess you're homesick," he said.
"I guess mebby I be," replied the
stranger. "But I'm goin' to get over
il"
"Course you are," said Jared. "Vis
ttin" hereabouts?"
"I'm vi'sitin' my daughter, Sally,
Mrs. Tom Bedgewick," the Btranger
drawled. "She an' Tom want me to
anake my home with them an' I dun
no but I will If I can get used to the
fcllls."
Jared overlooked this studied slight
to the landscape.
"I've always lived here," he said. "1
was born on this farm. Th' old house
stood where th' new one stands. I'm
living with my son. He runs th" farm,
My name Is Jared Cross, Major Jared
Cross."
He pushed out his chest a little as
ke uttered the title. It was his pet
'Weakness. This expansion brought his
O. A. R. badge Into greater promi
nence. The stranger nodded. s
"This Is only my second visit
so'th," he explained, "an' tjie first
ae -didn't count for much. My home
4s In no'thern Georgia where Qpd
Snakes the hills higher. I'm Cunnel
Henry Magrudder."
1 A frown gathered on the major's
trow.
"I understand you to say that you
once raid a visit to th North," he ex
flalmed. May I ask what part of th
Worth It was?"
The colonel's blue eyes opened a lit
tle -wider.
"It was a part of Pennsylvania, sir,"
lie slowly drawed. "The place was
called Gettysburg."
I The major suddenly snorted,
j "I iwas there, too, sir."
.. ! "I don't doubt It, sir," said the col
tenel calmly. "There suttenly was a
Mght smart lot of folks there at th'
time."
i "I was there with my regiment, sir,"
cried the major; "th" Ninth Michi
gan." "I was in good company, too," said
the colonel; "the Fo'teenth Georgia"
jrjis face suddenly clouded and he
Sooked away. "We left a right smart
ot of th' boys sleepin' on the hill
side," he softly added.
The major was angry. The strang
les coolness was exasperating.
"An' you fought against the old
Hag?" he bitterly said.
"The best I knew how," the etrang
ar replied. "Just th' same as I'd fight
for It now."
I The major's face grew red.
' "You are talking to a man, sir, wtho
fwpre th' blue an' imperiled his life
jfor that flag, eir," he hoarsely cried.
The colonel acknowledged this
statement ' with a courteous wave of
Jcisr hand.
And there shall be rnptuici too
In the wind that now makes moanj
It will play the gamut through
Upon pipes of mellow tone:
And the wntors glee will run
Through their greetings to the sunl
Haste, O wonder working hour!
We are spent with chill delay;
We would Imp. had we the power,
Sheer Into the heart of May,
Feeliisf, hearing, feeling all
Its communicable thrall!
Clinton Scollard, in the New York Sun.
"If you had been th' only one, sir,"
he mildly Bald, "things might have
been different. But there suttenly
were too many of you."
"Bah!" cried the major and turned
abruptly away. He was hot with an
ger at this cool southerner who had
no shame.
He stalked along the meadow path
in the direction of the house. As he
hurried homeward a shrill sound
reached his e&rs.
His face grew scarlet.
The colonel was whistling "Dixie."
The major increased his speed.
He would keep away from that dis
loyal fence corner hereafter.
But tho next morning found him
taking the meadow path again. ' It
was his favorite walk and he didn't
mean to be deprived of it by any lank
and lean Georgian. Besides the col
onel might not be there.
But he was there on the selfsame
stump.
"Howdy, major," he pleasantly
called.
"Mornin'," responded the major a
little gruffly.
He leaned on the fence and stared at
the man from Georgia. There was a
smile in the mild blue eyes.
"I trust you slept well, major?"
"I always sleep well. I've nothln'
on my conscience to disturb me, sir."
The colonel smiled.
"My conscience Is well broke," he
said. "It nevah Interferes with my
rest. I have an idea, sir, that some
folks mistake nightmares for con
science." The major made a queer noise In
hi3 throat.
"My digestion is as sound as my
conscience," he remarked with some
sharpness.
"You are a fortunate man, sir," the
colonel politely observed. "I might
have added that the only thing that
ever keeps me awake 13 this game leg
of mine. It stiffens up a little now an'
then. It's a souvenir of Five BYirks,
sir."
The major nodded. He looked at
the colonel's leg3 with some Interest.
Perhaps the interest was Increased by
the fact that the colonel's discomfort
was due to a union bullet.
"I have a little trouble myself," he
said, "with 7T"3 right shoulder of
mine. It gets a rheumatic twinge once
In a while. That's a souvenir of An
tletam. The colonel gravely bowed.
"You have my sympathy, sir."
The major was moved by
touch of humanity.
"Thank you, colonel," he said.
thls
glad to say that this was the only
wound I received."
"I have five," blandly remarked the
colonel.
The major was much Irritated by
the numerical superiority.
"I participated in seventeen pitched
battles, sir," he hotly announced.
"You have the advantage of me
there, sir," said the colonel. "Disabil-
VWHY WE ARE TO HAVE NO MORE WHITE
FLOUR.
American housewives will oon find that the flour which they
order from their grocer Is of a golden color instead of the familiar
, white. This la on account of a ban which has been put on bleached
flour by Secretary Wilson of the United States Department of Ag
riculture, because of which the flour mills are preparing to dis
continue the manufacture of white flour in favor of the golden
hued kind.
Prof. Harvey W. Wiley, the government's pure food export,
said: "Bleached flour should bear a label indicating to the pur-.
chaser the character of the manipulations to which it has been
subjected." He also said that there was extensive bleaching of
flour for the purpose of making an Inferior article resemble a su
perior one, that by this means a greater percentage of the flour
produced could be rated as of first quality.
Warnings such. as these have often been uttered, but with little
or no effect. Housewives have been willing to disregard the warn
ings by food specialists in the past, so now the matter has been
taken out of the hands of the public and the Department of Ag
riculture has. stepped in with the hand of reform.
The:grounds on .which the food specialists have been waging
their war against white flour are strong. White flour, besides be
ing bleached,' as stated by Prof. Wiley, is lacking in proper nutri
ment, indigestible and destructive to the teeth. ,
On the degree of white flour's injuriousness to health experts
do not agree. That it is injurious to the teeth has long been held as
true, for which reason many people will not eat wheat bread, but
prefer the rye loaf. There is another reason for preferring the
"golden" flour to the white, and this is the latter contains the
wheat kernels, which, though they discolor the flour, contain the
largest proportion of nutriment
In China flours of 50 kinds are made and In popular use, and
of these the least used, according to one authority, Is the wheat
flour. Some of the favorite flours in China are those made of rice,
peanuts, beans, potatoes, peas, cocoanuts, millet, oats and bananas.
Many of these' might appeal ,to American tastes, and In fact the
Chinese rice cakes have. become popular. There are also In New
York.several Chinese bakeries in which the pastries of the Celes
tial Empire may be had.
In Italy arid France a flour made from chestnuts Is in almost
universal use. This also has found lta way to America anil la
liked because of its pleasant taste.
fM
ltles prevented me from eogagln tn
more than eleven."
The major felt better. Els face
showeU it
"Th' fortunes of war, sir, are very
unequally distributed," he remarked
with much magnanimity.
The colonel bowed In his courtly
manner as if admitting the gross In
equality of belligerent chances.
"You are quite right, major," he
said. "And one proof of your state
ment a very Important proof Is
found In th' final result of th' great
struggle."
The major shook his head.
"It was the result that we of the
North had foreseen from th' first,
sir."
The colonel faintly smiled.
"I think," he slowly eald, "that if
we of the South had foreseen th' re
sult as you forsaw it, sir, we would
have fought you Just the same."
There was a little silence.
The major stared at the colonel and
the colonel stared across tn alley.
The northerner's heart warmed. This
was a foe worth fighting.
"But you admit you were ralrly
beaten?" he demanded.
"We admitted that forty-five years
ago," said the coTonel sadly. Then he
suddenly smiled. "An' I admitted It
again twenty years ago when I gave
my Salty to a no'therner."
The major nodded.
"You gave her to a good man," he
said. "There ain't a finer fellow for
miles around than Tom Sedgewick."
The colonel stroked his long chin
whisker.
"You natter my Judgment, sir," he
said. "An' you confirm my daughter's
good taste. We are both undah ob
ligations to your courteous nature,
sir."
He said this with such a fineaTr
that the major was much impressed.
"I am told that our grandson, now
in college, Is a particularly fine young
ster," he added as to give good meas
ure In return for the colonel's liberal
praises.
The colonel gravely admitted the
truth of the rumor.
"How could he help being a fine
lad," he eald, "when he comes of such
line stock?"
"It's what a man does an' not who
his grandfather Is that counts up here
in th' North," he sharply said.
The colonel looked at him medita
tively. He seemed much Interest In
hie features.
"Pardon me, major," he said, "but
were you at Chancellorsville?"
The major's face flamed. Chancel
lorsville was a sore place In his memo
ry. The surprise and defeat of the fed
eral forces had been to him a per
sonal humiliation.
Did the Georgia colonel know thisT
Was his question intended as an In
sult? He looked Into the mild blue eyes.
"It was at Chancellorsville," he
snapped. "We were whipped, sliv
surprised, betrayed, stampeded. I ad
mit It, sir."
"You don't have to admit it," eald
the colonel mildly. "I was there."
The major glared at him.
"You you don't claim you saw me,
do you, sir?" he hoarsely demanded.
The colonel shook his head.
"There was such a right smart lot
of dust an" confusion that I couldn't
rightly make out much of anything,"
ho said. "I couldn't even make out th'
man who clipped off lock c my hair
an' maybe it was one of my own
Georgians. There was a mlghtly lot
of keerless shootln' gain' on."
The major's face still 'wore Its un
pleasant frown.
"Yes," he said, "I was at Chancel
lorsville," and he quickly added, "I
was close by, too, when Stonewall
Jackson was shot down."
The colonel turned quickly.
"I was near him when he fell," he
cried. He drew his breath sharply.
"He was my old commander. I I
i
helped to carry him to the rear. Ha
knew ma"
The man from Georgia stopped sud
denly and turned his face away. He
seemed to have grown old suddenly.
"It was forty-six years ago," he
murmured, "and yet the scene comes
right back to me as vividly as If It
wore yesterday." He put his hand to
his eyes. "He knew me," he softly
murmured, "IffS knew me."
The major stirred uneasily.
"Stonewall' was a good fighter all
right," he said.
The colonel looked around suddenly.
There was a steely glare In the blue
eyes.
"He was a great general," he slowly
said.
"He was a good fighter," repeated
the major.
"He was a great general," said the
colonel, and his face seemed to grow
cold and hard.
The major hesitated a moment.
"He was a great general," he quick
ly said, and turned and strode away.
He listened for the sound of "Dixie"
as he tramped along, but the colonel's
whistle was stilled.
The next morning the major crossed
the meadow as before and again the
colonel was there at the fence await
ing him.
"Howdy?" the Georgia man cried
while the major was still afar off.
"Mornin";" the major responded.
"Major," cried the colonel, "I want
to make a personal explanation to
you, sir. I spoke harshly yesterday I
was much wrought up at the moment,
I forgot myself, Sir. I hope you'll over
look it."
The major nodded.
"That's all right, colonel," n. said.
"I guess may be I know how you felt.
These old recallings are pretty hard
on a man. An' I'm willing to admit
that what you said 'bout Chancellors
ville worked me up a good deal, too.
Yes, sir. It seemed to me like a re
flection on the bravery of the union
men, sir. It really did. Yes, sir, I'm
sensitive about that. I ll admit we ran
away, but It was because dazed not
because we were cowards. It was the
surprise, the treachery the sudden
ness of It all. I don't want you to say
we were cowards, colonel."
The colonel waved his hand depre
catlngly. "My no'thern friend," he said, "I
have thrown 110 aspersion on your
personal courage."
The major stubbornly came back at
him.
"There was an Insinuation in your
allusion to the federal disaster that
reflected on the courage of - my com
rades in arms," he said with much
dignity.
He had thought this speech out as
he crossed the meadow. He was glad
to notice that it seemed to impress
the colonel.
"If there was In my words anything
offensive, sir, I will withdraw it," he
courteously remarked.
But the major shook his head. The
major was a stubborn man.
"You may withdraw it," he said,
"but the courage of my fellow soldiers
remains clouded. The cloud must be
removed."
The colonel looked at him mildly.
"An' how do you propose to remove
it, sir?"
"An' how do you propose to remove
it, sir?"
The major beckoned to tho colonel
and pointed to something that was ly
ing on the ground in the fence corner.
VWhen I was on th' Gettysburg bat
tlefield two years ago, I found that
shell," he said. "It looks like an old
hand grenade nnd I guess likely it was
of home manufacture. Your people
got jretty hard up for ammunition
about that time an' there's no doubt
that It came from your side. Do you
recognize It?"
The colonel craned his neck.
"No, I don't," he said.
The major frowned.
"Well, sir, I toted that shell home
from Gettysburg and I toted It over
here yesterday afternoon."
The colonel stared hard at the black
ball.
"It looks mighty harmless lyln
thar," he said.
"Mebby taln't so harmless as It
looks," remarked the major grimly.
"That shell still holds Its original
load, sir. I have taken out the old fuse
and put In a new one." He stared
hard at the eolonel.
"Go on," said the man from Georg
ia. The major's wrinkled face took on
.an unusually solemn expression.
"I am going to prove the courage of
the old boys In blue, Blr, by lighting
that fuse."
The. colonel opened his blue eyes a
little wider.
"Such a test is not at all necessary,
eir," he said in his mild way. "nut if
you insist let us make It a compara
tive test, sir a test of the courage of
the gray as well as the blue."
The major slowly nodded.
"Then you will remain?"
The colonel bowed.
"If you will permit me?"
The major drew forth a match and
kneeling by the shell touched the
name to the fuse.
Then he arose and stepped back be
side the colonel, the old men leaning
on the fence rail side by side.
A glowing spark ran down the fuse
whlsh! A puff of flame and white
smoke streamed from the harmless
sphere. 1
The major turned quickly.
"Colonel," he cried, "give me your
hand. We are two foolish old men.
Come over let me help you. You're
goin' up to h' house with me an'
we'll drink th' health of all grave men
In th' best cider you'ever tasted. Coma
along?'
And arm In arm .the wo old soldleri
went down the meadow' jpathwaj.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
China Is planning to spend eevea
vmrs in reorganizing its navy.
From 1880 to 1808 the heart death
rate of tho United States increased 67
percent. ,
Norway has 40 sardine factories.
During a good season 60,000,000 tins
of 20 to 24 fish each are packed.
A vegetable cheese Is being made Id
an experimental way In England from
the casein contained In soya beans.
St. Petersburg will establish a large
ozone plane to purify the city's wa
ter supply, drawn from the germ-laden
Neva.
Denver's municipal theatre, occupy
ing a part of the great Auditorium, is
making money, according to Denver
Municipal Facts.
A translation of the Scriptures into
modern, idiomatic Spanish is being
prepared for use In Puerto Rico, Cuba,
Mexico and South America,
The coal production of France is In
sufficient for her needs, although In
the last 10 years it has increased from
30,000,000 to 36,000,000 tons.
Voting In pain is held to be a duty
to the community, not merely a privi
lege of the Individual, and neglect of
civic, obligations carries its own pen
alty. The Rittenhouse charts show for
Greater New York, from 1887 to 1907,
a fall in deaths from consumption
from 35 In every 10,000 of population
to 21 and a fraction.
Philippine Imports from the United
States In the first nine months of 1909
calendar year amounted to $8,792,000,
an Increase of $1,349,000 over the cor
responding period of 1908.
Textiles may be rendered fireproof,
according to the Paris Board of Fire
Commissioners, by steeping them In
a 10 percent solution of phosphate of
ammonia, then drying them in tue
open air.
The system of slavery was abolished
throughout all the British colonies by
act of Parliament in 1833, when a bill
was passed which gave freedom to all
classes, and indemnified their owners
with an award of $100,000,000.
No volcano Is better staged than the
peak of Tenerife. Fortunately for the
Islanders, this 12,000-foot high mon
ster usually employs the centuries in '
sleep, and his present furious out
bursts may be nothing but a drowsy
yawn.
Wages are not excessive In Japan.
Of skilled operatives, the highest paid
are spectacle and precious stone work
ers $1 a day. Shipbuilders receive 75
cents a day, masons 70 cents, fire
workers and carpenters 60 cents. Print
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Reginald Clarence, the well-known
bibliographer of dramatic data, has
been working for 20 years on a stage
cyclopedia which will contain a biblio
graphy of plays, of which it has been
possible to find any record, from B.
C. 600 to A. D. 1909.
The Eighteenth Infantry Is the first
regiment in the United States army to
complete a third tour of duty In the
Philippines. The regiment came first
to the Islands with the famous second
expedition which sailed from San
Francisco June 14, 1898. The regiment
took a very active part with other
troops in the occupation of Manila on
August 13, 1898. Of the officers who
marched into Manila only two are
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The First Aeroplane.
The earliest effort to construct a
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liam Henson, In 1842. Hensen, who was
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don, devised a machine wlhch resem
bled Tery closely the typo which has
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that is, having its supporting planes
practically forming a single deck as
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tail carrying additional horizontal sur
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Freaks of the Eyesight.
Many eye defects, of course, are du
to the had habits of their possessors.
Tobacco, for instance, Is generally
held to impair their vision, usually In
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silver become indistinguishable. Ao
cording to some medical authorities,
again, the connection between eye and)
tooth trouble is more than an old
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story of a boy who woke up one morn
ing to find himself blind. On exam
ination, his teeth were discovered to
be crowded together, and a few ol
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between light and darkness. Mor
teeth were removed, and In 11 day
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quently occupation has much to do
with one or other eye defects. Thus,
nystagmus is sometimes known as tho
miner's disease. Strand Magazine.
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cians here. I can
do my work and rest
well nt night. I believe there is noth
ing like the Pinkham remedies."
Mrs. Clara Pranks, B.F.D., No-8
Knoxville, Iowa.
The success of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, made from roots
and herbs, is unparalleled. It may be
nsed with perfect confidence by women
who suffer from displacements, inflam
mation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, ir
regularities, periodic pains, backache,
bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indi
gestion, dizziness, or nervous prostra
tion. For thirtyyears Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has been the
standard remedy for female ills, and .
suffering women owe it to themselves
to at least give this medicine a trial
Proof is abundant that it has cured
thousands of others, and why should it
not cure you?
If yon want special advice write
Mrs. Pinklinm, Lynn, Mass.,f or Its
It is free and always helpful.
BROWN'S
Bronchial Troches
Imtsntlr Kttm Sws Throat.
Cough. Unexcelled tor clearing th voles. Atss
Mely ires from oolites or anything: harmful.
Pries, 25 ccnte. SO cents sod SI.DO pes seat.
Sample sent on request.
JOHN 1. BROWN SON,
DOCTORS
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