The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-11-01

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 At this peint his lissenss thought tAe old pipe had been forgotten in the moss absorbing topic of n old army tale, bat the major slowly smoked on, and vitA another cAEess ef the vell-browned mer- schaum continued:
 Before we ever vent into that 6ghs, friends l had voeed and won . dear gizi ! who was only waiting for the var b be over to be claimed by nc as my hside. Not long sfler the battle have spoken of, peace was dsrlared and the welcome news found me in New Orleans My promised vie came to ne there and we were married On the noning of the day of our wedding l received . notice from Adams Express company that . package awaited me st their ofdce. Ex- pecting wedding present vent tee it. Here it vas ouly . small box, way from Berlin, in Germany, coosaining this pipe- bowl" and the major patted it lovingly. "Then it vas wholly vhiss and as pure as was the love my waiting bride had for me. Knowing my fondness for . good pipe my old comrade had sent it to me, and chance or good fortune brought it to me that day. As said, ve were married and the first smoke ever took from this nov old and battered pipe, vas taken on our bridal tour (you know, boys, an army fellow in those days couldn't go far or tor long time) and she filled it for that first smoke.'
 Here again the major looked a. his pipe as if it were something human, whose heart beat in unison with his own. No, word was spoken by the listening crowd for they all knew that more was to come.
 "Yes, friends" continued the major, that was twenty years ago, and the old pipe has been with us ever since. Could it speak, it would tell of twenty years of experience such as few, if any, could du- plicate. It would tell you of many a pleasant, cheery day in army garrison life afterwards, and of much Of hard and unthankful history of army life on the plains. It would speak of bright and bril- liant successes for its owner, and it would tell of Eeverses which made his past successes an Arabian Nights Dream"
 Then the major paused and thought a moment, but no one broke the silence. He refilled the old bowl, and did no, light it, but looked at it as if a memory of centuries was condensed into that oi twenty years. At last, and slowly, he kept on, and said: Comrades, there are other memories clustering around this old pipe now which are almost too sacred to touch. There are only left oi us, in all those twenty years, two little ones, and three gone beyond. l always smoked the old pipe round the house, and all those baby hands have brough, papa his pipe. Wife and are older now, and yet both to her and me, home would have row if the old burned bowl wasn't there. We sit by the fire of an evening, and the little boy and girl we now have left nestle costly by us, while smoke the old pipe, and ve talk of the past and about the future, while the blue, curling wreashs go up from its open mouth" Did you always love your pipe % wellr says my goldeo-haired girl to me sometimes, and is that story true, papa, about the man who saved your life and cent you that piper asks the boy On my knee. A glance across into the eyes of the mother then often gives an additional emphasis to my reply, Yes, darling, it is all true and as the little ones go to their innocent slumber, while the wreaths of smoke still curl out of this old pipe, not word more may be spoken: yet imagine that both vie and l sec, in that smoke, visions of the past, and prophecies for the future, for our selves and our loved ones, that could only arise around the old pipe which has been oor companion 90 many years in the journey of life"
 It vas getting late, and when the old major put his pipe in his pocket, no one spoke. yet more than one eye vas dimmed by the honest, manly teArs arising from sympathetic hearts as they realized how dear to him was that old pipe"
 The Contents of an Ohio Mound.
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 An Ohio mound was recently explored It is located near the centre of Morgan