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spunky. but that goat seemed to have a
grudge against Pa from the first. If
there were any places on Pas manly
form that the goat did not explore with
his head. Pa don't know where the
places are.
"Oh, 1t damned him, and when LATED
Pa got mad. told him every man ought
TO furnish his own goats when he had a
baby, and | let go the rope and started
Off, and Pa said he knew how il was. I
wanted him to get killed. 1t wasn't that.
but saw the Nirish woman that owned
the goat coming around the corner of the
house with a cistern pole. just as Pa
was getting the goat out of tho gate the
goat got crossways of the gate. and Pa
yanked and doubled the goat right I'm.
and l thought he had broke the goats
neck, and the woman thought so, too, for
she jabbed Pa with the cistern pole lust
below the belt, and she tried toget hold
on Pas hair, but he had her there. Nc
woman can get the advantage of Pa that
way, cause Ma has tried it. Well. Pa
explained ii to the woman, and she LET
Pa OFT If he would pay her g. for dam
ages to her goat, aud he paid it, and then
we took the nannygoat, aud it went
right along with us. But have got my
opinion Of baby that will drink goats
milk. Gosh, it is like this stuff that
comes i'm a spoiled cocoanut.
Tho baby hasn't done anything but
blat since the nurse coupled It onto the
goat hydrant. had to take ali nv play-
things out Of the basement to keen the
goat from eating them. Iguess the mill,
will tasteo Of powder and singed hair now.
The goat got TO eating some roman can
dies me and my chum had laid away in
the coal bin and chewed them around the
furnace, and the powder leaked out. and
coal fell out Of the furnace on the
hearth, and you'd "a died to zee Pa and
tho hired girl aud the goat. You see. Pa
can't milk nothing but n milk wagon.
and he got the hired girl 10 milk tho
goat, and they were just hunting around
the basement for the goat with q tim Gun
when the fireworks went of. Well
there was balls = green and red and blue
IRE and spilled powder blazed Mp. and
the goat just looked astohshed and
looked on as though It was sorry 20 much
good fodder was spoiled. but when it's
hair began to burn the goat gave one
snort and went between Pa and the hired
glfl like II was shot out Of a cannon, and
1t Knocked Pa Oyera wash boiler into the
coal bin and tho hired girl IN among the
hndling wood, and she crossed herself
and repeated the catckisin, aud the goat
jumped up on the brick furnace, and
they couldn'f get 10 down.
II heard the celebration and went
down and TOOK ~ rs She pants ami
pulled him out d the coal bin. and ne
said be wOui1 surrender and plead
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CHAPTER XIV.
THE BABY AND THE GOAT.


"Wcll, how is the babyy' asked the
grocery man Of the bad boy as he came
into the grocery smelling very "horsyn
and sat down on the chair with the back
gone and looked very tired.
''Oh. darn the baby! Everybody asks
me about the baby. as though it was
mine. don't pay no attention to the
darn thing, except to notice tho foolish
ness going on around the house. Say. /
guess that baby will grow up to be n
IRE engine. The nurse coupled the baby
onto section of rubber hose that runs
down into n bottle of milk, and il began
to get mp steam, and pretty soon the
milk began to disappear, just like tho
water does when fire engine couples
OIL to "A hydrant. Pa calls the baby old
No. g. lam No. /, and If Pa had n hook
and ladder truck and hose cart and a
fire gong he would imagine he was chief
engineer of the fire department. But the
baby kicks OH this milk wagon milk and
howls like dog that's got lost.
1.-THE doctor told Pa the best thing he
could do was TO get goat, but Pa said
since we Insulated him into the Masons
with the goat he wouldn't have a goat
around no how. The doc told Pa the
other kind of goat think it was a
Samantha goat he said--wouldn't kick
with its head. and Pa sent me up into
the Polack settlement to see il couldn't
oorry milk goat for few weeks.
got woman TO lend us her goat till the
baby got big enough to chew beef for
81 week AND paid 81 in advance, and
Pa went up in the evening to help me
get the goat. Well, it was the darndest
mistake you ever see There was two
goats so near alike you could not tell
which was the goat we leased, and the
other goat was the chum of our goat.
but it belonged to Nirish woman. We
got bed cord hitched around the Nirish
goat, and that goat didn't recognize the
lease, and when we tried to jerk it along
1t rared right up and made things real
qnick for Pa. don't know what there
Is about goat that makes it get SO
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guilty Of being tho biggest fool in MIL
waukee. pulled the kindling wood off
tho hired girl. and then she got mad and
said she would milk the goat or die. Oh,
that girl has got sand. She used to work
In the glass factory. Well, sir, it was
sight worth shillings admission to see
that hired girl get upon stepladder to
milk that goat on top OF the furnace,
with Pa sitting on a barrel Of potatoes
bossing the job. They are going to fix
a gangplank to get the goat down OF
the furnace. The baby kicked on the
milk last night. guess besides tasting
of powder and burnt hair the milk was
too. warm on account of the furnace.
PA has got to grow new lot Of hair on
that goat or the woman won't take it
back. She don't want no bald goat.
Well, they can run the baby and goat to
suit themselves, cause have resigned.
have gone into business. Don't you
smell anything that would lead you to
surinise that | had gone into business?
No drug store this time," and the boy
got up and put his thumbs in the arm
holes of his vest and looked proud
''Oh, don't know as smell anything
What you gone into anyway" and the
grocery man put the wrapping paper un-
der the counter and put the red chalk in
his pocket SO the boy couldn't write any
sign to hang up outside.
You hit it tho first time. have ac-
copied situation of teller in livery
stable" said the boy as he searched
around for the barrel OF cut sugar which
had been removed.
Teller in livery stablel Well, that
is new one on mo. What is a teller in
livery stabbed" and the grocery man
looked pleased and pointed the boy to u
barrel of 7-cent sugar.
Don't you know what teller is in a
livery stable2 1t is the same as teller
in bank. have to grease the harness.
oil the buggies and curry off the horses,
and when man comes in to hire horse
l have to go down to the saloon and tell
the livery man. That's what a teller is.
1 like the teller part of it, but greasing
harness is u little too rich for my blood;
but the livery man says if l stick to it |
will be governor some day. cause most
all the great men have begun life taking
care of horses. ltall depends OH my girl
whether stick or not. If she likes the
smell OF horses. l shall be statesman,
but il she objects TO it and sticks up her
nose shall not yearn to be governor at
the expense of my girl. 1t beats all,
don't it, that wimmen settle every great
question. Everybody does everything to
please wimmen, and if they kick on any
thing that settles it. But must 20 and
umpire that game between Pa and the
hired girl and the goat. Say, can't you
come over and see the baby? 'Tain't big
ger than small satchel." and the boy
waited till the grocery man went to draw
some vinegar. when he slipped out and
put mp u sign written on Single with
white chalk:
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The National tribune., 1894-09-13
MEXICAN PENSION ROLL.

One Which is Not "Purged,' and in Which
There Are No Suspensions.
On the Mexican Pension Roll
there are the names of 1928
survivors and 7.2S2 widows, and
something over 1000 cases were
pending ;st latest reports. This
makes "A total of "a. 497. or sew
eraI thousand more men than
fhe United States had i'm Mexico
at any o me time during the war.
These all receive either IS or
sig a month.
Among the names are those
Of the widow Of Gen. Samuel
Cooper. "a New Yorker by birth.
who was Acknowledgement OF
1he United States Army at the
outbreak of the war. and used
hfs position to aid the rebels i'm
preparing for the struggle. He
resigned his position 10 become
Acknowledgement Of the South
ern CeHfederacy. and 0fiiciated
as such until the rebellion col
Iapsed. Mrs. Cooper has been
drawing "a pension since June
@. 1857.
The widow Of Thomas J.
csStOnew3H'') Jackson. WHO
was next 10 Lee the most pOpsI-
lar commander Of the rebel
armies.
The widow of Maj .-Gen. George
II. Pickett. who commanded a
division i'm the rebel army.
The widow Of Mai .-Gen. Gideon
J.PiIIOW. who commanded "A di.
vision I'm the rebel army.
The widow Of LieUf.-EeD. A. H.
Hill. WIs0 commanded enc of
Ehe three corps Of lees army.
The widow Of Sidney Smith
Lee. WHO was disEn Used from
the Navy for "gOing over TO the
enemy and afterWard became
81 Commodore i'm the rebel navy.
Brighten. Jas. R. Chalmers.
Who was FORESTS chief lieu.
tenant.
Mai..GeH. Dabney III. Maury.
who commanded the rebel
troops at the battle of Chicka-
saw Bayou.
Hon. =. Ii. Maxey. late United
States Senator from Texas. who
has been drawing fiis pension
since May %. 1857. He was "A
MajOr-GeneraI liza the rebel
army.
Hon. Jas. Il. George. Senator
from Mississippi, and who
served in tie rebel arrny as a
Colonel. The number of his
certificate il I7.2I4.
The widows above mentioned
are of MEN who were educated
$et the GoveFnInentex expense. and
atterWard fought TO destroy the
Government. They went ON the
roll at once. while last April
uIere were pending the claims
Of I45. $50 widows of Union soE.
diers who had not yet been able
10 get OLE the roll.
The National tribune., 1894-09-13

tion of the Civil Service Commission to take
any action in the matter. Last week the Sec
rotary of State made application to the Supreme
Court for 9 writ Of msndsmus to compel Comp
troller Roberts to pay the salary.
The widow of Little Mae" as Gen. George
B. Mcclellan was often called by those with
whom he was popular, is less heard of than any
of the widows of the great Generals of the war.
When her husband commanded the Army of
the Potomac she was youthful, handsome, and
most attractive, and Just the woman for CON-
mander's wife. She now lives quietly in New
York. Her hair is now gray and her form gen.
erous in outline. She is medium in hight and
carries herself with grace and ease. and holds
her age splendidiy. In conversation her eoun-
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which gives one an idea of the beauty of her
girihood.
The National tribune., 1894-09-13
TYPICAL OF FREEDOM.
First Federal Soldier Monument Erected n
Len,

First Federal Soldier Monument Erected I'm
Foreign Country.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: On a recent
visit to Scotland / was assigned the pleasing
duty OF placing two Grand Army flags from
Gen. L. S. Grant Post, 5. of Philadelphia, upon
the statne Of Abraham Lincoln in the old CAL
ton Buryiug-ground, EdinbuTg
While yon have already noted the dedication
of this monument, it appeared to me that the
fact should be moro widely known to our COM
rades, that this magnificent monument, bear
ing the figure in bronze OF the martyred Presi-
dent. has been erected in memory Of the Scot
fish American soldiers and sailors who served
their adopted country daring the rebellion.
In the Summer of 1870. Mrs. MeEwan. the
widow of Union soldier, Ssrg't John McEwan,
Co. II, 65th H., called on the Hon. Wallace
Bruce, then United States Consul at Edin.
burg, TO aid her in procuring pension. Mrs
Bruce also became deeply interested in the
case, and after hearing the story and assuring
immediate assistance, desired to visit the sol
dier's grave. that she might there lay tribute
of flowers; but the grave had already been lev
eled, as they had been too poor to obtain
burial plot of their own.
Following this Mr.. Bruce determined to Sc
cure a burial place for any other Scottish
American soldiers dying in or near EdinburE.
that their graves might be thus specially
marked.
A request TO the Lord-Provost Magistrates,
Town Council for plot of ground for this pur-
pose was heartily granted, and then Mr. Bruce