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The IIth III. Cav.

This regiment was organized at
Peoria, Ill, Dec. 20. 1861, to serve
three years. On expiration of its
term the original members, except
veterans, were mustered out, and the
organization, composed of veterans
and recruits, retained in the service
until Sept. 30, 1865, when it was mus
tered out in accordance with orders
from the war department. The regi-
ment broke camp at Peoria on Feb. %
and marched to Benton Barracks,
Mo, where it arrived on March 3.
Landing on March 25. and was
shortly after followed by the re-
mainder of the regiment. The LIST
battalion landed Mt Crump's Landing
on April 1, and on the same day the
remainder landed ut Pittsburg Land
inp. 1t met with n severe loss at
Davis Bridge, and had number of
men killed at Iul>a and Corinth. At
Lexington, Tenn, on Dec. Is, 1852.
the commander, Colonel Robert G.
Ingersoll, Major Kerr. and number
of other commissioned officers, were
captured. Tho loss in killed an d
wounded, as we'll as prisoners was
very severe. The total loss while in
the service was 279. OF these "a
were killed in action, and the re-
mainder died from disease, accident
or in prison.
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Functions of Roots and Leaves.

A person who has no idea of the
enormous quantity of water used by
trees and plants can getmuch quaint
and curious information from Pro-
fessor Vines late lecture entitled;
The Leaf and Its Functions. In
it he tolls what an immense amount
OF water a single oak or even a sun
flower will extract from the earth in
a season Of five months. In his ex
pcriments he found that an average
suuhower would exhale one ounce of
water every hour during the time,
and that an oak one foot in diameter
at the ground and thirty-seven feet
high, with number of leaves esti.
mated at 700, 900. would, in the same
way, give off 700 tons OF water in
the same period of time.
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WORTH REMEMBERING.

Camphor should not be placed next
to furs, as it will make the color
lighter.
Silken fabrics should never be kept
folded in white paper. The chloride
of lime which is used to bleach the
paper causes chemical change in the
silk, and Injuries the color.
Catching cold is as easy as falling
off log, but IL is not necessary to
keep it caught. With the cold comes
the consciousness of possession. Then
is the time to begin the cure. The
first requisite is higher tempera-
ture. Turn on the heat, cover up
warmly, take lively walk, go
through n little exercise, drink cup
OF hot tea, milk, lemonade, chocolate
or anything but alcohol to promote
perspiration; If it is possible to get to
sleep in blanket or two the cold
will be gone In an hour. Another
cure is to take five or ten grains Of
Quiaiue aud \ hot drink on retiring
snd slsep In . woolsn eownI On rising
teks Anothu Ays gsain Pill evA enc
~ N AsM ts5svl messk
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MASCULINlTIES.

The fool is man who goes up to
blockhead and implores him to be
sensible.
DIR. Helbring, the German physician,
claims to have cured twenty cases of
frostbite by the use of electricity.
That which makes people dissatis-
fed with their condition is the Chin
erical idea they form of the happiness
of Others
Mrs. Hannah Bedell, who died at
Hampstead, Long Island, the other
day, in her Goth year, was survived
by 165 descendants.
Madame-Do my hair, Felice, while
/ am down to breakfast Felice-Yes,
madame; which color? Madame-The
black, please, am going to funeral.
Tho arrangement of the trees in
Blenheim park, the seat of the duke
OF Marlborough, is said to rep
resent the order of the battle which
gave name to the estate.
Provision is to be made for greatly
enlarging the British museum. Five
and q half acres will be added to the
nine acres already occupied, through
purchase from the duke of Bedford.
81 don't sec how you can tell which
is the daughter and which is the son
in this picture, they look so much
alike with their ulsters on" "Oh, no
trouble about that. The one that
looks as If it could speak is the daugh-
ter"
An interesting story is told of
wealthy collector named James Ellis
worth, who amuses himself by spend
ing thousands of dollars every year in
making additions to his various collec-
tions. Recently he came in posses
sion of an 1904 dollar that has an in.
teresting history, as its existence was
not known. 1t appears that negro
received the dollar from his dying
father, who had kept 1t IS means Of
ysmemhsyius the year he became Z
freSdnan, Ths xcgro kept thu COLI
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A Hidden Chapter

Frank Riggs, the son of the famous
banker and his fathers successor in
the financial circles of Washington,
tells me an interesting story that cor
reefs false impression which many
good people have carried for years.
During the second term of President
sold to the government of the United
States the records of the executive de-
partments of the Southern confedcr-
acy. From these documents was OBJ
tanned much evidence that prevented
the payment of claims of Southern
citizens who pretended LOYALTY for
losses growing out of the war. In
single instance they saved several
millions by showing that the mail
contractors throughout the South had
| been paid from the Confederate treas
ury for services performed by them
for the post office department of the
United States before the outbreak of
the rebellion. They proved to be of
great value in many other directions,
and the price paid Mr.. Pickett for
them, which was something like $780,
900, proved to be one of the most prof
liable investments ever made by the
government.
Pickett had been chief clerk of the
Confederate state department, or held
some similar office which made him
custodian of the archives. Whom
President Davis and his cabinet fed
from Richmond Mr.. Pickett carted
the records away and hid them in
~ fLaf Io J.,
of the Union army, and the manner of
their disappearance was a mystery
until they were delivered to Secreta-
ry Fish. 1t was always believed that
Mr.. Pickett poclseted the money, and
he was universally condemned by
Southern people for betraying the se-
crets of the lost cause for price.
'.The facts have never been told"
said Mr.. Riggs, "for Mr.. Pickett ex-
acted the strictest pledges of secrecy
from my father in regard to the dis
position of the money. But both of
them are dead now, and there is no
reason why the truth should not be
known. Mr.. Pickett never had the
benefit of one penny of the money he
received from the government for
those records. He deposited the en-
tire amount as soon as he received it
in our bank to the credit of George
w. Riggs, trustee for and it was dis
tributed in small amounts among the
widows of Confederate officers. Mr..
Pickett made out the list of the peo-
pie to whom he wished it sent. The
checks were all signed by my father.
Each one was accompanied by let
ter, which he prepared and which my
father signed, saying that the en-
closure was forwarded at the request
of gentleman who felt an interest
in their welfare, but for reasons of
his own desired that his identity
should not be disclosed. The account
was carried for several years and all
the checks and vouchers are now
packed away in our bank"
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RtOuo River,

Tread at a reunion of the celebrated Loomis
battery at Coldwater, Mich, on May "a. 1894 |
Through vista bright of the ears long fed.
by the taz'deeked graves OF our comrades
dead;
BY the tints of summer and tho winters
white;
BY the sheen OF moon and the shades OF nigh
There hans%a scene of the oiden days,
With o warp OF blue and woof of gray
will cut the web from out the loom
And place 1t to day mid the May day bloom
Out from the cedars onward they come
Not with tho Hfc and the rolling drum;
But sweepinr swift with charging yell
Like a emon host from the depths OF hell
The taste of blood and the powdered air
Hath made them mad, as from their lair
They spring to rend our moving lines
Where the Parrot Hin o" the army binds
No bullet storm can stay that tide:
An unknown power on its pillows ride.
1t cares not for the bayonets fash,
The rifles crack or the saber's clash
Not man and man, but an army grand.
Circled around with wars red band
That can bind u hostin its terrible grasp
That one key, only, can unclasp
Who holds that key? On yonder field
Where the Tuebor crest on bloodstained shclt
Now waves defiance to the foe.
The telescopes of Mitchell glow,
Not sighted for the far on stars,
But the nearer-yaunting Stars and Bars;
A constellation that shall fall
Where the battle smoke shall wave Its pail.
The men beside those guns await
moment like statues OF fate
The battle front before them winds,
The breeze Just moves the lanyard lines
Bold Rosecrans has bid them stay
And hold till death that royal way;
And stay they must. and stay they will,
Alive or dead they hold that hill
Writes Cumberland In script OF fame,
moment and the bursting shell
Tells thnt the aim was true and we'll
The lines go down of veteran gray.
That have faced death for mauy dhy
And though they close their ranks agaii
The iron sweeps them from the plain
Three times amid the brake they form
Three times upon the guns they storm
Three times the army holds its breath
To sec those charges grand OF death
Three times they charge retreat but twice,
For LOOMS throws, this day. the dice
The game is lost by the Gray complete
A lifeless host cannot retreat.
Cheers for the men! Cheers for each gun
Who on that day victory wonl
And cheers for the foe who faced the breath
OF the iron monsters, to their DEATH
There are none more brave in Times review
Than those who wore the Gray and Blue
And DER them Fame has written bright
Each thought he battled for the right
Sherman d. Richardson
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SETTING A ROOSTER.
It Was . spurrsd Bird. But 1t Was De-
termined to do Housswork.

1t was . spurrsd Bird, But 1t Was De-
t~rminsd to do Homework.
Acitizen OF Rumford had canvassed
the town in vain from end to end in
search OF "a hen to set," when he
heard that an old darkey on the
Boston, Providence and Newport road
had great deal of setting stock. !"
As this was just what he wanted, he
host no time in hunting him up. He
found the old man building a hen
coop in the rear OF his residence
Approaching. he asked, by way OF
broaching the subject, how many
hens he had setting.
Three hens and a rooster, boss.
"And which," inquired the
poultry man, thinking he had not
heard straight
"a rooster" replied tho darkey.
Seeing the look of distrust on his
visitors face he took him into low
building, and sure enough there sat
hugo Brahms rooster calmly COW
ering twenty eggs. On one side OF
him sat two hons and on the other a
third hon. Tho visitor, seeing how
stately the rooster sat, secretly re-
solved to get some of the darkey's
eggs and hatch out special lot OF
roosters. On being asked what he
did when the rooster wouldn't sit
any longer. the darkey replied, "dat
ar rooster done bound to set," point
ing underneath the box.
Looking under the box tho visitor
was surprised to find both OF the
rooster's legs sticking through holes
In the box. The black rascal had
actually bored holes through tho
box and tied the rooster's legs un-
derneath, so. as he said, the rooster
was "done bound to set"
Inquiring into the matter the
Rumford man found that the darkey
had four hens and one rooster. Three
OF the hens wcre setting and the
other was laying. The darkey. find
ing the eggs of the hen accumulat-
ing quite fast, decided to let up on
feeding the rooster corn and make
him hatch flock OF chickens.
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The lest ShIns.

The cruiser Minneapolis which beat Nil
speed records OF her class is compared with
foreign ships 10 their disadvantage. Cramps
superintendent says: There are no foreign
ships of her size and pattern. The nearest IN
the English navy are the Blake and the Blen-
helm, the cracks OF the quccns great fleet,
but the Columbia or Minneapolis could run
around either of them easily, and the New
York could whip them in an hour. The New
York has more Armor, more guns and NOR
speed, although the EnCllshnen have more
tonnage They were built for twenty-five
knots, but have never made more than nine,
teen. The kaiserln Augusta is the best chip
OF the German navy, but has never shown Il
better gait than the Blake. The Italians have
a small gunboat of 1000 tons that has devcl-
oped n remarkable speed, but she lie only one
fourth the size of the Minneapolis and at
least two knots an hour slower
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Mighty is TIL, Truth.

And 1t will prevail Against nnderhnnd eompcti
tion and spurious imitation, tho genuine efficacy
OF the great national tonic Ilostettcr's Stomach
Bitters always has and always will prevail The
public recognize it everywhere as the chief pre-
ventative of malaria, and reliable specific for
dyspepsia, constipation, nervousness, rheumatism,
kidney trouble, biliousness and loss Of appetite
Efforts made by irresponsible dealers to compete
with It by indirect means have and will continue
to fall upon the heads, and 1t may be added, the
pockets of those making them. Through the length
and breadth of the American continent it is the ac,
knowlcdged household remedy reliable and
prompt 1t relies upon facts, upon public cx-
perience, and upon the emphatic commt ndation
of the medical fraternity.
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went over to thS young man and,
after throwing off my coat, took his
pick from him and told him | would
do his work. While we dug away the
boy sat off at distance and wept
most bitterly When we had placed
his father in his last resting place and
had finished our work he took me by
the hand and as the tears rolled down
from his cheeks, expressed his thank
fulness for the service had done him.
Never have / seen such gratitude.
That incident made an impression
upon me that l have never been able
to efface."
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Ihe nunte Gnlt.

Maude-That man Grinner has no
manners whatever. Last night at
the literary soiree, when Miss High
cult had been talking beautifully
about Dante's works for half an our,
he interrupted her to ask what were
the names OF Dante's works.
Ellen Well2
Maude-And before that he had
hidden the biographical dictionary
so that mono of US could find out
Chicago Record.
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Potatoes for a weok.

On Sunday have them mashed-not
pounded into sodden mass, but
whisked into a creamy substance.
To attain this they should be peeled,
steamed, broken with potato whip,
moistened with milk and butter, sea-
soned with salt and pepper and
beaten like batter until they are
very light.
On Monday bake them in their
skins. They should be washed clean.
baked in good oven and served at
once.
For Tuesday they may be peeled
and baked with roast. When the
meat is within half an hour or so of
being ready lay them in the gravy
under it and bake until they are COW
cred with crisp, brown skin.
On Wednesday serve them in Ken
tucky style. These are sliced thin as
for frying, soaked in cold water for
half an hour, put in q pudding dish
with salt, pepper and milk and baked
for one hour.
On Thursday serve them fried
whole. Peel and boil them. Roll in
beaten egg, then in cracker crumbs
and fry in butter
On Friday have potatoes la Paris
ienne. Wash and rub them with
COARSE cloth until they are skinned,
drop into boiling water and boil until
done. Have ready in a saucepan
some hot cream and butter, little
green parsley, pepper and salt. Pour
the water off the boiled potatoes,
cover with this and let it stand.
On Saturday boil the potatoes with
their skins on and serve with butter.
Times.
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Their Tactics.

81 remember a very funny incident
that happened few years ago down
in New Mexico" said retired army
officer. IAN old scout and an expert
enced Indian fighter enlisted com
pany of cowboys, and, marching them
to the army post at Santa Fe, reported
for duty to the colonel in charge of
the body of regular troops stationed
there.
1.-The colonel was dapper little
man, neat and nicely gloved, you
know, and he rather looked down
upon the rough company that was of
fered him. Turning to the captain of
the ragged crowd he said:
Ever seen service?'
"'Um,' replied the other.
"sNIen well drillcd?
".Um.'
"'Well, just order them over there
to camp, SO | can see how you would
go about it and how they'd obey said
the colonel.
"'Hey, you fellcrs.' called out the
captain, git over there to that fence,
git off your hosses and turn in; be -
quick about it, and, Bill, you onery
cuss, If you don't have coffee ready in
IN hour I'll split your ears
"The next day the entire command
began a campaign against the Indians.
Before taking up the march the colo
mel gave the most minute and special
orders in a long address to his regu-
lars, telling them what to do if at
tackled and what orders would then
be given. The captain, after the
colonel had finished, turned to his
men and cried out:
"'Hey, you fellers, - you, double
quick, and if them red sons of guns
git after you don't wait for no -
fool orders from me, but light onto
EN-
And if it hadn't been for this
crowd times would have gone hard
with the regulars that time when
they did meet the Indians"
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paael, IIe.

Line pie plate with rich pastry
and fill with peaches pared and cut in
halves, and literally sprinkled with
sugar in proportion to the sweetness
of the fruit. Chop three peach kerr
nels fine and add to the pie. Sift
over one tablespoonful of flour or less,
If the peaches are not juicy. Cover
with an upper crust and bake.
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An ancient elm, which stood in
City Hall park, New York, was cut
down recently, because it had be-
come dangerous. This elm shaded
the motley crowd that watched the
hanging of Nathan Hale. Little revo-
lutionary boys doubtless perched
upon it's limbs to watch the evacuation
of the British troops and to welcome
the arrival of Washington and the
Continentals when they came down
the Bowery into the city.
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The Water Lily.

In the Shiny bed OF sluggish mere
Its root had humble birth,
And the slender stem that upward grew
Was coarse of fiber. dull of hue.
With naught Of grace or worth
The goldfish that fioated near
Saw alone the vulgar stem
The clumsy turtle padded by,
The water snake with lidless eye
1t was only weed to them
But the butterfly and honey bee.
The sun and sky and air,
They marked its heart of virgin gold
In the satin leaves of spotless fold.
And Its odor rich and rare
Sothe fragrant soul in Its purity,
To sordid life tied down.
May bloom to heaven and no man know,
Seeing the coarse, vile item below.
How God hath seen the crown
james jeffrey Roche
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Green Pens,

Shell the peas but do not wash
them, as washing destroys the deli
cate flavor. Shake the peas in a col
nnder to remove the fine particles.
Boil twenty minutes or till tender.
Drain the peas, turn them into a hot
dish, season with salt. Place n pat or
two Of butter on top and set them into
the oven for three or four minutes.
Be sure and put the cover on the dish
before putting it in the oven.
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English Tea Drum rardn.

Tea drinking Is rapidly becoming Vice
among English working women, and 1t has
Just been shown by Miss Winifrcd Ellis that
the miserable condition of the workers in the
slate q1arries at Merioneth Is very largely
the men as we'll as tho women OF the district.
The teapot Ia in use all day long aud appears
~ every meal, and, although Miss Ellis has
herself held cookery classes In this mining
district, she found 1t impossible to wenn the
poor from fnccssant tea drinking or to per
suade them to use nutritious foods. There
Gao be NO doubt that tho indigestion and
nnacmlA from which workgirls and servants
Invariably suffer Is largely due to inordlnate
TEA consumption. In most workrooms and
Kitchens tho tcapot ia In constant rcquisltion,
tho beer can, arc hardly lcss dire upon tho
health.
In order 70 get tho wild oats out OF a boy
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oranges in half = pint of water for
half an hour, and add to 1t with eight
ounces of fine sugar; then pour over
them quart Of boiling water, cover.
and let the liquid stand to cool; then
run it through jelly bag and ice It
il YOU choose.
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Enew wha. He Wanted.

Drummer-I want pair OF con-
gress CATERS.
Dealer-Therc has been so little
demand for congress CATERS lately
that wo have ceased to keep them.
Drummcr-Hum! Then give me a
pair of button CATERS and Il fire
escape.
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Easily Made and Iscful.

To make convenient bag for paper
and twine double yard of creponne,
joining the edges with puff of cam
brio of solid and harmonizing color.
AT the top turn in each of the four
edges for several inches, so that the
two sides end in n point. Fasten these
together with button and buttonhole
and sew here ribbon loops and ends
by which to hung up the bag. To one
side sew rectangular outside pocket,
with box plcat in the middle of it.
for the twine. 1t forms very handy
receptacle for wrappings and one to
which the family will be apt to often
repair If hung in one accustomed
place.
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Tho Empress of Austria.

The empress of Austria is an en-
thusinstic Greek scholar, although she
did not learn the language of
Homer till she was nearly fifty. Her
majesty spends much of her time at a
palace she built for herself in the
beautiful island of Corfu. In token
of her Hellenic enthusiasm it is called
"Achilleion," and the palace is filled
with statues and pictures of famous
Grecians, while on the seashore her
majesty has n splendid Pompeiian
bath-housc. 1t is in these classical
studies that she has found consolation
for having had to give up, with ad-
vnncing age, her favoritc recrention-
riding.
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The "Gold Miner is the namc of new 10.
page monthly paper recently started in Dem
yer. 1t aims TO give condensed report and
summary of all the principal mining events
of the month devoting especial attention to
the new gold strikes. The subscription price
is but so cents a year. Sample copy furnished
for five cents in stamps. Address Gold Miner,
Denver,
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A TerrnpIn EARN.

A terrapin farm consists OF canals
with narrow ridges of land between.
The ends OF the canals are SO secured
that it is impossible for the terrapin
to escape, and the entire farm is sur
rounded by high fence.