The reindeer is a failure in Alaska. How would the native Canada moose da? The London Lanest continues its wir on the dangerous habit of kissing the Buble in courts It habit “a comparatively moders cueleds innovation.” Ls J Son A Se and Aseording to an Oklshoma paper, a TI calls this | “Bill Walker stepped into the office of | the Osage Indian gzent on fast and drew biz kaka bawka” In. Thursday | stead of telling low bill hacked the ! agent with his Keon weapon the paper explains that ‘kali a-hawia™ is Onaze word for salary, RE IRS ee The Prussian Government owns and the : works seventesn collieries eit ignite | mines, fourteen iron mines, motalitferons mines other than sud three rock salt mines, five | iron | together | with five iron works and seven works | for smelting the other metals, six sal, works and five gaarries, whieh to- gether produced su output of a total : value daring the financial yhar 1500.4 of more than 830 000 H040, Tt is stated by an snthovity on Cen. | tral Aneriean trade thet a large pro portion of imports in those countries eonsists of English cotton cloths, should be a valualie suggestion to the This | ive business men of the south. | progressive business men of the south. | ern states, A market, approachable | by chesp water carriage, lies at their | wery doors, needing the prodaet their flelds and lboms, climate coarse fairies, of : For such a | easily woven | and of small cost, wonld be naturally | demanded These goods should bas made in the Unitad States and be the | basis of a profitable commercial inter. ‘ootirse on this hemisphere, doclares the Chicago-Times Herald. fossa goat Practical steps tor the enltivation of : sugar beets in Illinois have been taken The latest movement in this direction : is the offering of premiums by the | State Board of Agrienlture for the best | _ sainple of fifteen sugar beets raised on | a patch of not less than one-quarter acre, with certain restrictions, The | - importance of sugar in domestic con. | sumption can be readily realized by aselisat the stutement that nearly as mach sugar as flour is used by the average family, Any movement which looks toward the supplring of this constant | sad enormous demand grown erop is of the first importance. by a home- ~ Purther, in parts of Illinois it is most desirable to provide a crop which will | _ petiew soils exhausted by 8 saccession | sad Confederath prisoners of the same products. Sugar beets eoinbine many advantages in their enl- tare, and practicnl farmers will find it ; | garments designed for their sex. Boys | {too small fo 3 6 abi 4 3 montal crop within reasonable limits. |. small for severs isbor tugged at; logs in winter. . S paciianie venture to raise an experi jiteras The Atlanta Constitution remarks: : Acvording to the latest bulletins sent : [in the fields out from Washington onr South At | lautic and Gulf ports seem to be in. | bread-stafl exporters. The total in. | _eresse of bread-staff shipments for the | mine months ending March 81, 180%, over the record for the corresponding mouths of the preceding year, aggre | o gate 876, 087,449, and of this total in- ereswe §37,177,757, or forty-nine per een is eredited to four Southern ports, viz., Galveston, New Orleans, Newport Naws = and To go somewhat more into detail, is eredited with a net of $7,041,402, New Orleans with | ‘tlet gain of $10,102,650, N News vith a net gain of $4,741,089, and Baltimore with a net gain of 815, 202,616, These figures are gratifying An the extreme, nnd while they apply | aly to bread stuff exports, they serve | to show that our South Atlantic and | Gulf ports are steadily growing in aver vith American Shippers. The sdent but potable achieve. | ments of a Connecticut widow ons far bb to shame fhe SSmplaining in, Co seli the farmia which they worn oat, shandon them ‘and en: wd in the cities. This woman, story is told in the Hartford t, was left a widow twelve years ago, at the age of fifty. She re ceived from her husband a farm of 16 acres, having upon it one cow, heifer, two horses and a mortgage for $1750. She now has a herd of cows n three horses, aud has paid 81500 on the mortgage. In other words, upon a 165-acre farm the woman seems to have made a living and saved about $150 » year, berides current interest on the mortgaye In addition, it must be faferred that the industry snd business sense which accom: _ plished this mnr¢h also improved the farm and thus ioereased iis cash value. Few women of fifty years could do more in any cecupation. | stantly expecting in the night. creasing steadily in pooularity with Hades, the warily of men do less, the wall ee mg end Iwas worn Hy a ga vee Sav sip 1 waw [nod Wihakine tw war was “1 teiried Bim thers bis prays, Oh, stranger my oh] 3 brave ’ “PER RE ride oi ¥ i > va Pag i patiar 4 wo waveld I care sed if Grant has Tam an Lcerican val oh won ita | ered 4 Es r G wi is ath Bd her wen for fein a ALY 2 Eh lntrwe Loew megds ei ” # % ner vesr Gesid, bmg mhers the rand winds Aver th d resting a mither's grayer. - matting slow, saded—aal SETEP We R's anys | By 1008 WOW BE FS pRAN POG C30 Ase Iwasa comfort baths herr 11 was trae frog dowrnwart nxer hee goad Tarn A dcgoy wx ¥ ge ¥ > » 3 Mince SWAY Irum the opel § pmo, 4 ria the the willy # Bomar Lo fey wey Ag Pl NAN II bri i pg dps ANS oF Nu Wi Ny Neto SA Py By Bob Ne Fat of jodie teint ro @ pores A Velleeiie eel elle reo my 8209 THE SOLDIE SOCIO OEE Celene elie eel ari fsity lett Min the day, fuk Fri the to heip decorate ths grave Absa. jom Fox, Mayle | hotter teil you rome thang abot Sin, and Absalom, and bow Lis HAD from athe ny a SAM fey 33 of grave, ail alone °° ont there song | the sugar trees, eoines to be dee orated, Nearly all wy recollections ran parallel congested with the war There was strife in the air; the senses | were set to martial measure, the | mnsio was that whieh dram and fife | emld interpret; the postry was of the stridiont order; orations dealt in “war | civads,” “armed hosts’ and herdics | generally, The treight trains carried | cannon and recrnits to the Bath, to the There was a zearcity of men Women often followed the horses, wearing the blue jackets that were cheaper and warmer than | er with events North. RS RA A Si summer sod sawed | There were a good | nd & god many enp- | But { harvest work in many old men ples ail over the neighborhond, everybody was busy at work in (pe daytime, ‘aad intently listening, con- 1 i i i My father was away there some arrest him there was a perfect union ao: Z| AXD BYHRY RS RETUR N. } Cl er § ai Rl Ln oF YA ; Fat oat, ole! CR GIL Oa Moat & Tin im 3 HE ele wr before his ¢mlictmant af tha i 30 oGur ned ware pither shoskad at h lgw! IRTIOr. ofr eRo¥ ol Yin i ke CER whan ets Cd a 3 . 1% perfeatiy Pe wy gi sha Tom ’ % 3 a Lo DRenIY In airy Fido ponte Bis races Gorse A485 4 5 realy Fi 5 matar ny Hah, sloagside Deacon Craw. the dall team he 2 $F ¥ Li fron MN iawn Lown pit: Manny ford ® tarket wagon Hii ran away, that som people thon Be should, in the name of pablio de eency, be ran out of the memighbor And when he broke up the meeting" at Ehwgrove Chareh sed the ronstanie who came ts’ Xi ns hes whipped af rotees sgasnst him, They accepted his enlistment with H promoss of forriveness. Bat when Captain Kendall wrote bome| AND THE STRANGEST MAN that Boh Elliott ow like = tigerat where, but since the battle of Look. Shiloh and defended a gan all alonest ont Mounisin we had not heard from | him, snd that awful wailing whieh | was almost worse than the certainty of death tortured our home every mo | ment of the terribly long day. There | | were threa bors of uw, and the oldest | was not strong enongh for the work we | had to do, while the younger ones, condemned to labor in summer to ese | | eape want in winter, would have been | Baltimore, | i time. P wearing her frame aud seaming hee | better engaged with toys snd piay- Mother was oat early and late, | face with labor never intended for her, | And we did all we could to lielp her | in the house and in the elds; bmt it was a ornel burden, And added to it was that dragmog wait from day to as it approached, hoping till the last mament it might be the one whose | coming meant release from trouble, And then came Sin, Sin wasa Swede young woman, large, fair and strong, capable of any amonnt of work, socnstonred to toil in the flelde as in the kitchen, willing always and always with a song on her lips and a smile on the clieeks that wonld not cover their pink aad white bowever tie hot sun shone. Her father and brothers came with a colony of immigrants, and they set- tied up there in the maple and walony woods above our farm and began the eutting of timber. They esnld not speak our language &s she could, and they kuew nothing of our laws. They neglected enlistment and missed the draft, and lived there io their eabin | and bewed the forest aw ay around | them. No one visited thew, of course, and they mipgledl very little among the older families. There was noth ing against them, of course. Tue oid man may have drank a little too mach now and then, but when they left their chopping for a day's work .at a neigh- bor's they were indastrious and faith. | ful, and when they traded it seemed | they were honest. Bat they were foreign, and lacked a little of adjust. ment to the status that environed | them. Bob Elliatt came home along harvest tine came homes with ahont aye 4, § Lion. Donelson and slashed bis way with the flag wrapped sbont him through | ‘8 line of confedersies at Resesaw there wasn't a man it my whole conn (try who could remember anything ‘bad about him. And now that he ‘came home wounded, silent as to the | | past—.not boastful, vimply quiet—-be bind 8 welcome everywhere He was at our hease a good deal, Mor he had soldisred with father, and | [it was something to have him explain ithe possibilities that life aad not { death might still be Lis portion. Sit. | ting there, often in pain, he watched Hin at her work, snd, sa he grew | stronger, tried to help her. And she liked him, She knew nothing of his | before his days of battle. She did | door. AN pA Pr A. A SA AE a io ahs Cnet, and she waved st nx CIE RIAD WP SAPP EAP x — came Nome from town in a meighbor’s | tant grave and send as reminders ot] wagon and banded the yellow envel- {he SIDING seasons. She gave it to me tered these years. | Ops Li met Gey, while she read the letier Mother 8% tas edge of 4 | was trambling. {did not oe for I knew she was erviag acd bar. ] « wi et he LY written i ade an by #3 spre and ried 8% ber, | printed it the porper, | 4% Gorn Hines, 3 32% forward * Her Lier I ES Khe rathered un attr fans 18. Bin put tame aver, stooped se abet per. bes stamblad on the potats turned and harried sway, shines reached the Bouse Err sem ged RYT 5 | hills bat be ” 13 & ‘a wien Hh or wo ren VE © mouse moth el shape sawp can’ - i, yr w TEAR TEE? FEAYE. a Nin tried to read th & letter but conld at Bob, call I can see} eailed wheney 3 Es Tene &n fT i au or fra f » SHWE it ou Led foie ter. Father was glive Abagiomy Fox was a the had written to tal) An exehany XE WAS eX $ ete DW De ¢ promised How we ihessad the name of Abas bom For. Mother was si ik, for tha iret tite since father went away, and we hove dug potatoes wll 1 owas ton dark to sea I was so tired that after sapper | lay down on the Soar behind | ‘the stove and went ta sleap, : the night Sin took me np in her ronad strong arms and carried me te bed, Tata in singing s Swedish song of happisen. | That was our cold winter, you know. # a - 4 < A AX 5 REAR M— ” 3 ry - Lg x} x NG A Too. Z . — # 5 THIRE Was OUR FATHERS ‘The sucw cama aly, i and it grew deeper Gill madwinter. The anld in- ereased till warmth Jess near impos. sible. Christmas was so severe if drove all merriment away, Stcek shiversd at the point of starvation, and fires seemed to have lost their powers of heating. We had beard no more from South, bay we watched the papers | whenever those lists of ex. changes ap- | pesrad. And st last we saw, while evergreans wers marking yule ‘happy homes, that ours—still Nappier —wonld soon be blest, Holiday week was the lowest deep of cold, ‘eoated windows day after day the snow choked road to the town. Bag the year went out and oar shadow had | : day, that watching each distant figure soldier career and, of eourse, nothing not lifted. ‘of the adverse sentiment against kim | Jost at midnight T heard voices in the house. Mother and Sin were up | and dressing harriedly. Bob stumped | down aad shouted as he closed the | Above my steitement | remem | | bered I was cold. Sia heaped wood | { | STRONGER HE TRIED TO BELP HER. AS HEE OReW mach to help him tack to healthfal- | ness. There was a comradeship be tween them. Something 1a the sol. | dir contact which had inured him | | beyond the stage of mourning fitted ‘with her nature, not touched by this wow of « suffering but unknown na | to pay his debt A sympathy bore of that fellow- | ion the fire and then filowed mother! to the road. The night was very still and 1 conld hear thew presently. Thers were words | of encouragement, sontide of weeping | Sin's shrill falsetto and Bob's loud | langh of elicer, They came through the awful sold at | last our people and two strange men, And they propped them about the fire and warmed them with brought us children out-—-and the strangest man there was our father! And the other was Absakom Fox. How he managed to quit hip service Inever knew but quitit he dud. And he broaght his prisoner home through | that polar cold, keeping him. encour sing bio, | strength. And then, when his task ‘to my father for a service before eap- | tivity beyran, he had braved the winter And with it be paul his debt to mature For, as the spring enme, be tarned his face ta the | wall and cessed kis breathin They made him » grave i “the ma white face aul long thin fingers that ship which was almost indifference to; ple woods, where winter's ebill and gripped his crutches, {or he had lost a leg somewhere along the frout at Petersburg, and seemed 1 wildly sorry | his life had not gone with it. But he | got over that alter a time. He Lad beea a wild sud reckless ont vommon griefs made them the best | of friends. Along lates in October came a letter | signed Absalom Fox. I remember we (were digging potatoes one day, and | tho work was eraelly bard, when Bob | Pru oa tide Hike his SPTIDES MOS JeNerons Warming met noble service, anid | i hich told! his bead a stone which told | placed a Lis sol rite record Sin has the farm now-—Sin and Bob | Elliott, aad every year they decorate | fadal a He the 2. 5 We watched through frost food and lying to him a thousand | times to fil the failing limbe with | 4 Fo & and sn hoe Ft fed frig rhten Bios Ha yn ha meyryd Ie¥ ik ptley bmi lita Hi raidy, as | believe... re but never & May ] feet here ay * 2 RAY WES FREIND Wears seattered, Filed farmhe Tur t Pet we HEL fier’a ait ¥ or diva an sam ha seme The Nationa! {emieiorion L Hos expended 33 - the #izhty-thres national are buried S00. ae sitaated pid beasts (find ment of ios Cd Toh Wao wed 4 ay fer x Ts viny a hattiefiel ds EOE ery. was ihe war, RISB AN BTS the war, | T5e estaba bore rai vg 23 2457 SY Rien year ed to the ar auf Ware EE (erased mold uf borial, WER Aniline ized sronnds and places oon by Congress EE La ¥ £ LA EE pny par od ainrE av Wer HE in attiefeldns whera A the intlery wy made that 1 Avid Where time permitted, defense of the tountry, thar Uden % WEre wS ‘ira the Gent * TEs Yoh w pre Confederate dead wers ales sorap- | Zraves the Nomthery anh tvs of bmriacd tiimir in | wionsly i BaKy ana, i PrisGRS Cand ther vin eomrades, cand ieming cirenmstances, Northern prisons, as at Can las, Chicago: at Elairs, N Y Joanron Inland, Obie, internsents deceased Conlelergtos wore make snd the graves noted 4 In 1843 the na. Entel aries wera sstablishiead at rane gn, Bone Biver aa Fs. barge. asd the one ia Arling Ee Sed in 1864, and sue at An. The eat Peeantifal of 4 'E passes recorded by the ander sdverss 53 In YD Dong. and at § often wis i g SBP uy exrafuiiy : £ # $i ow gd aX; TTR oh 3 Crete x, 5 +3 Lie PE ¥ simerton Raown am Tal ceil aries &Y Shilo LiRk Ses lad He tatders and th gut Hee lone The . biz soeut na cemetary in point of population Vicksbarg, where 18,68 a aud Lied ee i ET 5% &% (setites nists $0 BET TRIE Sl 5 Boa x CREE J tional tha wkd He 15,000 Geroes les ? v SA —————— i ————— The Grand Army Bution, } ba hay hear], writes Gaorge F. Stone, that nr Foor d'9 prayer one Cxrdi i Ar mY hatha : hein distory of Grant and Sherman ad Li wood : Thomas Logan ated Custer and | Meade: srragat sud Porter, history of the SRT; san of the ar the Pot waa, of Caml nd wad oft fiom irs ts the ses tof Forte Hens Arlanta: of the . of Pishor's Bleges age, va That the Al ox 3 § : the ti BY off ww tH wd 5 2 va gaat o of 3 od YVieksl : and Paomald BOS idergess of Wi Hill andl Calas Creek: pion nod sSirmasky i an i mghte 1 bw ¥ ia Ee ut of mo inate aff of snd darn waking of by marly of paring # boa Fraan of i a Kd 5 a ¢ af dan | weary sisrel day and aiid aad storm and heat very and mardens of farewells of F haaband asd wives, of prayers and blessings from Gress de wad eam D BROT Ning on high as divine igoense of agony and death un prison a hospital; of great capimns and Retor 8 soldiers: of vaior on sea aid on land of the proclamation of Abraham Lis (soln pivisg freedom wo ony muilions of ® persectited race and wiping forever | from the national esenledeny, humans Dsiavery, of (setivsburr and Appomat- tox; of the downfall of a rebellion, & rel anited eountry anid of the perpet. wily of toe Union with 3s countiess | and anapmakast e and ternal blessing 8 priceless oft from the great Dis | penxer of goed things toy mien! This record shall never fade away; Lit shall grow hetghter and brighter as the years go by, scattering sparks of inspiration smong the genémlions as they come and go! And whan time whiall be me more, when all things tran- sitory shall have passed away, when ail the sounds of earth have been stilled, then the belin of heaven shall ring is commemoratiin of American | patriotions, and the uadriag fame of ! the American soldier’ Foo sn * fod if 3a #03 wy Bn Rn i i AA AD RO ANNI E55 ASN A. Veterans Without Decoritions Save Pride. Among the veterans who wear nao F Jesnration®, for whose thers is peither uniform por regaiia, are the aged i persistence of pride: I guve my two | boys to the war” amid they produce faded daguerrootypes of brave soldier boys in thew sew uniforms posel In fm itary precision to look hike real fssidiers. Ab! how many of them died ‘of that dreaded disease of the bow pital, that bo sargeon’s kaife could curs or diwtor’s potion charm away — | bomesickiuess for the dear wother at honie and for “Lette ™ An interesting feature of the porte oles muvenm at Washington is the +3 i want of mafliment postage or from in- saBeient address went to the dead i letter office and were never claimed. | Almost every vear some Visitor sees a ‘face that reminds him of [OLAS Ole, and on learniar the nme is able to send word to surviving relatives, | Reveral times most pathetic scenes have been witoessesd in that room where a mother bad fmnd of her « id acl rest Nha ier ok AT the Gathers Mik, ‘nui dentidmd” i ; batt! them, Father has gone | it kad a to» an ary whieh alvravs clavmed him, fred fag and bias erowsed cannon abiti boned fieid snd £ &% Ler, ne his way thrizh as fos that with that of the sa who bore het burdens and his | the awe and plane & wreath ou the Rel © 3 ad of thesp | avy | ring securste records to be kept | i ors and ther A andl President lan. | fin Baye them pre- sx cemeteries for sol. | Grer Simety - afterward the Unio dead were buried, | Nie or fatare of meres and of | 5 was in New York ig 1882. fathers amd mothers who say with 1he | | was done, he showed how utterly it number of soldiers’ pwtares wineh fur : had spent him. Native of a warmer clime, grateful | a portrast mg boy, loag since sad to or perhaps | dend of the ciel. Those pictares gre al-! wars given bo the friends who claim | ployes, The Bugle. of diamond dew, Wasps the tail w = headetones gioam 89 8 row, | By the vied churel, Memorial Day, ih ehegle of Hew the moursens go, AH bat ane and she sits gions A ssdeved woman with oes of gray, And kesra mn treet of the vanbibied years With the dens. dead lover wio marched BWEY. | er whitened £ panes were brown and bright Her shoal was tidak ss a damask poss Wren he tlasped Sersioss in a (ast smbesos Wiis about them Buttered the orshard’s EZ Tm fm fhe gentile mars. SATA R Ziinteonat and 2 “ASE wera ay, Turusd Lo ware her 8 load adhe MEE ver wio marched Wir hg prone sie As a bs “ 5 $i 4 wt wad Bn ele & ~ariy head they pass, Sha 1 rth # wreath ot ios ey And Deareth sven toe bugis o ay Pear wm Ee WIS rast Ba TE e meld Awrnd hand OF 1h gallant jover wi0 marched sway. The fowasrs bars fallen sbinut Ser feet Her fips are pais and her Snpers oil], Far above the Blue af the arrrtal xy Wer enivtt od Le $ Sie wityery mel Ay jonds her fm : 5 8 world of fodviess Muy, - ; tive froth of her youth again the Zasdsime lover ws mavehed There was sever a shot thet srenmed and fell And never 4 baeamed Lipa want throogh The dean ive breast 5f 8 soldier boy Bat it nieramd the Senet 8F 4 ow RRS, TO0, From sod to oud of Ce nnd thew sit Br desodnls begrths alone nnd prey, A way tow fiw 2mm ly ag “ad And Lay alder lover wha 8 urn Away. nue Irving. A K Guam LA, Tle Arvepted His Fare Without a Word ow a Tear HANGING hey Fred iway Leger i, Yer 5 0% ae we sotamn of resied smd wl had aw Nigl i i re alex =» Fae shot was enon Re Wa got the order Yo throw fence and ride through the was cantar ied at th a6 he was Al Fla was A and as ha : “Nall. wu hat Ph LLE oof Gaim wale Ia» 2 2 no 3 » Seid He « far end of it. jast Ki ti pain tae wows, wma LOY years old, grim aed witu even of Sulla "he quietly asked - § 7 Sil ners in down tear’ i 2 TRH an 3 Ag was regs ied Ta min v haired worsen and agirl and dasgeter——stood a. The o ; 10 of 1 the ape dod “"Wial is 2. Jin™ toe an stand belove * wine » i The ck % ! asked the wife : as fae | to Kitl me, 1 recion™ be haw ; hs th sree of & anes af 2 tlm the girl shand sbakes—so tears— 20 segti. “ER pitaden > Ten rods below the honse was 8 large shade vee Two arr three hulters were knotted together Cectize pope Baroown 3 limbs Cpoose slipped over the man's bead, and sex: t ha wax Jdanglag slesr of the sromad. He bad so ex- ERERE Ae plea-—asled 20 Derey, He worl to his death with the stop wint of an Jodian, Wife and daughter stow] 10 the doorsay and xaw sll; bat there werd no feareno ontharst., As we wera ready fo ride away the wo man came slowly down the spot, hsoked at the beady for hall a moment, and then tnrosd to ask: “is dim dem” “Yes,” auswerad the capitan, “Ha' And she walied siowly back ter the Bonse and entered it and abag sihe door, and we rode on and left the surpass hanging, Beryl oie BLoGeAn i Pe Wa The First Parmie, From the tine of the issaa of Gen. era. hogan's onder, it hax been ob served by the Grand Army veterans, but up to ISS] there is no record of any general parade The various posts ibbed togetier and parsded pretty much se they pleased, while sthers ' paraded mugly or in pairs. At the close of this impromptu parade the posts divided anid marched directly to some cemetery, whers the graves were decorated. At that time bot little ar nothing was done in the way of deco- ratios on the Samiay previous, as is sase sow. This mode of decorat- g enables the veterans to devote their time aad strength to the day i proper, which is alwaws May 30, ex- aT Dvd tide 5 * { cept when that date falls ou Sunday. The Zrat general thers is any official record parade af which ehiainable Neneral Henry A. Barnum was chairman of the Memorial Committee asd Captain Ed- ward Brown was graad marshal Nearly every post, the National Goard and many veteran organizations suited the parade, which was very succes ag Wi wha 1a fal Origin of the Duy. The orinn of Memorial Day lies with the orynno of the Grand Army of the Republic, 1a 15386, the vear fol- lowing the close of the war, Thefirm post thereof war organized at Deestar, ii., April 6, 1848 Ia May of thas Tear the ceremony of decorating the graves of the scldier dead was carried oat to al nite extent, bai the move ment was not given fall force anti! the musetingy of the frst national encamp- ment at Dasdianapoiis, November 20, 1854, Here Memorial Day may be 4 have been really given birth Oiserved nn a small way at frst, it bas graddaliv grown ia extant aad homor anti now re 1s but one day in the calendar whe! ranks equally witl mu patriotic m —Jul vi sd ————————— 0 a te * ® tis Ad bE sii hn bad 1% ik % 3 x3 Ras Alaskan demand has cased dealers in evaporsied fruit and vegetables at Portland, Oregon, to doable ther plunts axd the namber of thair eu
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