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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-12-03

her age, says a cynlc. Az slAVeeh sNe
wants a dude with toothpick shoes
and microscopic mustache at twenty
chief Justice snda pile of tin at TWEEN
ty-fve they'll be satisfied with 2 mem
Der of Congress at thirty country
doctor or a preacher will do; and at
thirty,fye anything in the male hne'
from an editor down.
Last Thursday was a remarkable
thanksgiving day for this latitude
The air was mild and balmy and both
Thursday and Friday were like sprlng
DAYS. Saturday and Sunday bad
weather set in, rain and sleet prevail
inc. and Sunday night couple Oh
inches of snow fell. The weather got
ouite cold, too, and ice has formed on
the ponds thick enough to bear skaters
Magistrate D. S. Rentch informs us
that he has had placed in his HANDS
for collection during the past month
more foreign claims than he ever be-
fore received during the same length
of time. An agent of one of the lead
inc AGRICULTURAL implement firms has
baen in this vicinity trying to collect
On notes held by his house, and ne Will
be obliged to bring number OF sui''
against fafMHiaff:s. Oh yes 000o ''D''
are coming fast
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NO. 2l5s-s-ALpH.Brr1cAL DIAMONDS

co. ]. A letter. 2. Scars (Stand) 5. A genus
oftroPical American plants. tStapd) 4 a south
American bird of the genus PterogiHSsus. s. To
blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the
eyes. 3. kind Of European carp. T. Kestrels.
3. A large order of nudihorous nonocaty1edonous
plants. tStandl. g. An ancient King OF Italy.
(LippJ 10. The bitter veeh. IL. A letter.
(D) |. letter. 2 A town Of Asia Minor. 3.
A large drinking bowI. 4. A town of France in
Hante. 5. Torment. s. plant, 80 called because
of the ashy- white coating OF its lenves T. Cotton
fabrics originally made in India. Cent? s. Japan
wax-trees Cent? 9. An Old prucipaIity Of Ger
many. 10. An obsolete form Of mess Cent? Ii.
letter. -EUGESE Cleveland o.
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NO. 2165-CHARADE

Mine is the horror that burns in the brain,
That burned in the soul of the murderer Cain
The horror that 5tares from the eyes of the slain,
As he Seesi as he sEEsi
And sleep, but my consciousness never is stilled.
For / dream, aud It's ever of he that killed
OF the man that murdered and soul that spilled
Into space, into space.
And his features before me- through FINAL, will
float
For he comes In the TOTAL to mock me and gloa,,
With the fear in his eyes aud the cash in his
throat
In his throat, in his throat.
Will she ever know the dark tale that is sped
That the hand which she cin-ped al the altar IL red
With the life of that other she promised TO wed?
Will she know? Will she know?
Will 7 rave in my dreaming and tell of the Fear,
OF the cash and the horrible. horrible leer
That lies on his lips as he cOmeth auear.
In the FIRST. in the FIRST?
II Is over and ended its finished and done,
For well the web of the man-spder spun;
But who was the winner. and what has he won?
Who has won7 / have wont
-IRoS Mask. Dayton. o.
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NOS. 2163-4-prAMoNDs.

l. letter. 2 An sam. (Sland.l 8. A Hebrew
dry measure. T. Incloses. ). Desire. g. A dis
trict of India. T. FOrsworn.s (Stand) 8. A viii
lGge of Wales. o. A fragments 10. A sea-eagle.
Ii. A letter.
!. letter. q An exclamation. 8. A genus Of
insects. f. Preliminary certificates issued to hold
ers of land claims (Stand.) 5. Desire. 6. A dis
trict of India. =. a continuance for letting off air
from water pipes. (Unab) 8. river of ManehOo-
ria. o. PeduncIes rising from the ground. 10.
Rather than. H. A letter.
REX FORD. Alplaus n. Y.
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NOS. 2l66-7-PENTAGoxs.

!. letter. q symbol representing two units
g. A leaf L. Tie thorax of an insect. ). An A u.s.
TRAN silver coin. 6. Plates which form the back
part of the heads of insects. . An iron hook or
button on the shaft of wagon. 8. Thiekly set
with bristles. 9. A Queen Princess.
KENNETH, Morton Park. III.
(Iarerted)
l. To line as q well, with brick, stone or other
hard material. 2. Made brown. 3. To prevail
upon by prayer solicit alton. A. Forms into
ridges s. The needle bearing recprocating bar in
a sewing. machine. (Stsnd) 6. An island in the
sen of Japan. T. A Hebrew month. (Stand9 8.
Rested. o. A letter.
"A. DASDY. Brooklyn, N. Y.
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Pntriotic Kentuekinns.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: w. FL.
Polk, OF Lexington, KY, teiegraphs Presi-
dent Cleveland that Kentucky will furnish
him 80, 900 men in case of war with England.
Pulaski County alone can and would fur
nish 5000, and Kentucky would certainly
furnish 100000 Kentuekians have not
forgotten the important part the Kentucky
riflemeu played at New Orleans, and they
have not yet lost any of their craftsmanship.
Somerset, KY.
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NO. 2161-2-sQuAREs.

]. Portuguese ecclesiastie aud music composer;
18th cent. 2. Sandy. g. Reached.* (Stand.) 4. To
surround, as with guards g. An island in the
Red Sea- g. d'is. (5tandD Z. cnpsule
l. Attached TO an Embassy. Q Venetian organ
builder; 1901 8. Protracted.* 4. A form of lamp
in which the voliaic il used the source Of
light. 5. stronghold. 6. A Greek or Latin
proper name. z. Movement endwise. room for
such movement.-PaIL Down. Brooklyn, y. Y.
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A NEW YEARS GREETING.
BIZ Ida boy.

Another year with its joys and sorrows. its
storms and Gains. has gone. III g New Year
stands ready to take its place; and look
back over the months that are past the ques-
tion arises: Have we improved those days
now gone forever. or have we let the hours
glide away without thought of the future?
Shakspero said: All the worlds stage
and all the people actors"
We play our part. The curtain drops Life's
drama is ended. 1t matters not whether we
have played leading role, 80 that we have
played it well.
u Honor and shame from no condition rise
Aci wei your part there ali the honor lies"
Each Of ms is best suited to certain work.
Joseph Jefferson plays best in RIP Van
Winkle"; Henry Irving is the star in the
" Merchant of Venice" and Mary Anderson
won her reputation as Juliet"
We have each part to play, however unim-
portant il may seem. We may not become
such statesmen az Clay or Webster and aston
ish the Nation with our wisdom and eloquemce
We may not prove TO be Patti or a Nilsson,
and by the power of song hold the world
captive at orr feet. We may not become such
philanthropists as Carnagie or Rockefeller and
immortalize our memories in the institutions
which we have founded and endowed
But we all do something. We can saw a
cheering word 10 the disheartened. and in the
dark hour Of encouragement it may sound
more eloquent than the jeweled utterances OF
Cicero. We can sing q hymn OF faith to the
dying, and the angels may deem it sweeter
F.. than the most melodious notes ever uttered by
the laurel-crowned prima donna.
Now that 1896 is here let us turn over a new
leaf ia LIES great volume. We cannot erase
the blots from the pages already written. but
we can try 10 make our future record moro un.
sullied than our past
Let ms head our New Years resolutions with
firm resolve TO DO some good each day" and
then pray 10 the Divine Father TO help Us keen
| this resolution.
ONE OF OUR PRIZE BOOKS
There are many books-books Of gold and
i books Of silver, books to be read for pleasure
! and books TO he read for profit helpful books
and books that had better be left unread: and
4 then there the books that are record oi
4 golden deeds, aud truly, think Under the
Guns may be classed among such books
One looks at the kindly pictured face with
4 lis flaming of wavy hair, that is the frontis-
| pierre Of the hook, ard looking, one does not
wonder that Mrs. Wittenmyer took sunshine
into many dreary hospital in those DAYS she
/ tells Us Of over 30 years ago. 1t is easy 10
/ picture her going about on her erFands of love
aud mercy making dark hours seem less dark
taking hope where no hope WAS, aronsing and
( encouraging faith when the task seemed we'll
4 nigh beyond human power. And when one has
/ read the little /" incidents and heart histories =
! she has related il seems and is in the natural
| order Of things that the soldier should look
upon her, and such as her, with reverence.
/ The stories aud "reminiscences in this book
are true to life, every one of them. They are
told just as they occurred. without any attempt
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NO. 2156-7-soUAREs.

]. To decorsie.s 2. Moral conditions 2 French
economist; l710-lsSO 4. Thin. brownish, ehRfTy
scales upon the leaves or vouug shoots OF some
plants. 3. Owing To-. 6. Windy. Z. courier
who conveys messages to another courier.
]. An island and French colony off the N. w.
coast of MadRgascHr. ?. a town Of Baden 81
Luminous appearances. T. Makes fast. 5. To
commit. 6. French litterateur; b. 1914 Z. A
spieuIe with equal slender rays radiaiing from a
common center. (Slandl
&C. SAW, New York City
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MYSTERY

Every reader il invited TO send solutions and
original contributions and to compete for prizes
offered. Definitions followed by a-teri-k -
are of obsolete words. Address MI communica-
tons TO Puzzle Editor. The NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
Washington, ID. CT
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NO. 216O-NUMERIcAL.

Three. 2. 5. 10. /. 4 will name
A formist worthy of his fame.
We hope that 6 to may never
Disturb the peace Of one so clever.
The TOTAL, in the Chinese Hongs.
Are, by the merchants called paekfongs
-MAUDE, st. Joseph, Mo-
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ORJTCTS,

Trog-esS-Pcrtaiuing TO all that tends 10 develop
a,,,aricen intellipence on topics Of the day, and
The adoption of ways and means TO secure thls
end. - !,
Patriotism Historical study Of our country, ana
discussion thereon, which keeps alive the spirit
~ American independence and Loyalty.
Chuyffa-providing for The relief OF The suffer-
ing and afflicted a.
moro practically enforce the principles OF the
J.o,ol Home Workers has bpen formed, OF which
Kate il. Sherwood is President, and 10 wheii III
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city. Next day they went to the Temple.
There no was holding serious discussions with
Rabbis. SITS. Mary and Joseph realized the
youth was not wholly theirs He had rela-
ton to Deity. He had individuality. We
have reports of the first recorded words of
Christ. Compare them in spirit with his last.
Acts, 1:7,S
Christ and the Doctors in Church Kalendar.
The Roman Catholic Church, the Church of
England. and the Episcopal Church OF the
United States read this paragraph for the Cos
pei Selection the First Sunday after the
Epiphany. This year that Sunday will be Jan.
IL So the lesson appointed for said Sunday by
the International Committee agrees with the
Gospel for a very large part of the Christian
world. Ii is pleasant to think on that Sunday
of what n vast unauimity OF study will be given
to this particular paragraph. May such con-
formity often happen in our Sunday school
| lessons. Why not?
Christ and the Doctors IN Art.
Holman Hunt painted Tho Finding of
Christ in the Temple" Ii was a belief of that
artist that the brush can help tho pulpit: that
the studio can issue canvas commentaries on
many Of the great incidents of the Holy Bible.
In order to paint Christ in tho Temple" Mr..
Hunt went 70 Jerusalem and spent six years,
so as to get into tone and sympathy with the
environments of the incident which he wanted
to represent. Cautiously, Mr.. Hunt could not
in Palestine find any face which met his ideal
of the Child Jesus. For that he waited till he
returned to London where he found young
jewish boy in a school just out of the city,
whose face served the artistic purpose.
Adolphe Menzel. the Berlin artist. selected
the same subject as did Mr. Hunt bat did not
90 to Jerusalem either for subject or surround
ings.
professor in the Academy Of Dresden Ger
many, Hoffman, painted Christ Before the
Doctors" There is n beautiful photogravure
of this in the Churchman IN. ", Feb 8, 1890.
See, also, April Is.
Suggestions.
1. Attend church services. Take the chill
dren. Al, az.
9. Youths should be at home evenings. "A.
3. Make business of religion. 40.
d. Become COMMITMENTS early in life ~
5. Teach by question and answer. Use the
catechism or similar book Of instruction. 46
6. Parents should be profoundly anxious for
their sons and daughters. AZ.
Z. Children should, by prOpriety as such, re-
lieve fathers aud mothers from sorrow 4S.
3. In special be present at the celebration of
the Holy Communion. Al.
''Don't TObacco-Spit or smoke Your Life
Away"
Name of the little book just received-tels
about Notobac, the wonderful, harmless,
nomical cure for chewing, smoking cigsret, or
snuff habit. You run physical or financial
risk, for N0tobac is absolutely guaranteed to
cure or money refunded. Your druggists got
it or will get il. Write for the book-mailed
free. The STERLING REMEDY Co, Box 3. In
diana Mineral Springs, Ind Agents wanted.
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SUNDAY MEDITATION.
A Study of The International Sunday
School Lesson Appointed for Jan.
IL, 1896.
Subject; Jesus ut Twelve Years of Age Con-
versinE With the Doctors in the Temple.
st. Luke, 2: 11-52..
INTRODUCTION.

Zone reading these notes should first carefully
study the paragraph from the Holy Scriptures as
indicated above.I
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BRONCHITIS. Sudden changes OF the weather
causes Bronchial Trouble. "Bro,cn's Bronchial
Iroches" viii give effective relief.
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TAKE NOTICE.

The time approaches for renewal OF your nieii IN,
hersl,i,, Zee which is so nominal that every OLD
neml,er whose dues expire Dec. 81, lsgo, shoula
renew at once, and send application along WITH
their renewal. The Secretary VIII lncose WIN
cool, membership card q neat book-mark. which
he has negotiated for Members tins year " VII also
be supplied with interesting matter along me lihe
N Progress and Pairiotism, and in our readings
will he sunpled every thing at q good discount
Amos l.. Seaman. Secretary. 5l6l Minerva ave-
nna ST. lnnis. Mo.
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NO. 2O55-AYaeRAN

NEW PUZZLES.-NO. 223
NO. 20oo-ANAGRAM
Sirl The races ridden att lie Wins
A twenty mile ride sieed so feet.
Brought victory out OF sure defeat.
--TEEPEEKAY. Rochester, o.
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CONVERSATION CLUB.
Ida Mays New Years Greetng-One of
Our Prize Books-The Five-PoinIed star.

Rules offhe Club Il Write briefly . Write only
tide OF iie pape- 8. Write 10 slIc point. 4.
Write subject. 5. Write your best. 6. Each
week tic OF those writing the best letters
style. CONS ostiGn. spelling. penmanshp ami gen.
erd merit consdered-will be named at the head
Of this column the Honor Roll. First honor
viii incindc all OF these requirements Second
honor viii include 81 deficiency in point
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That the Stripes and Stars May Lead Cni'eo
America-Let Old Glory Wave over Every
SchooI-house-Flag Papers from the Conn
lnfttee on Progress, J.. III. w.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-25
THE BARBECUE.

The Picnic at Trueheart's Ranch Yes
terday Was Well Attended and Enjoyed
The barbecue of the Bexar Irri-
cation and Canal company took
place at the Trueheart ranch yes
terday and was attended by about
200 people. The gentlemen in
charge show ed their guests the
ditch and the work that has been
done, and they were all we'll
pleased with the enterprise. The
gentlemen who have so success
fully worked up this enterprise are
Messrs. b.. Dewitt, OK. Crawford
and Ed. Trueheart, through whose
land the ditch runs. The ditch is
Ill miles long and irrigates about
1,200 acres of land. 1t is expected
to extend the ditch so as to irri-
gate the land down to the mouth
of Mitchelfs lake, making a total
of 5000 acres that will be under
irrigation. The barbecue consisted
Of cooked beef, turkey and ham,
pickles, coffee, etc., and later in
the afternoon ice cream and cake
were served. Quite a number of
ladies were present, and a most de-
lightful time was spent, the party
returning late In the afternoon.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-25
5 Sores

In combination, proportion and
process Hoods Sarsaparilla is peculiar
to itself, and unequalled in true merit.
No other medicine ever possessed SO
much curative power, or reached such
enormous sales, or made such Won
derful cures, as Hoods Sarsaparilla.
1t is undoubtedly the best medicine
ever made to purify, vitalize and en-
rich the blood.
That is the secret of its success.
Read this statement:
"When my son was years of age, he
had rheumatic fever and acute rheuma-
tism, which settled in his left hip. He
was so sick that no one thought there was
any help for him. Five sores broke out
on his thigh, which the doctor said were
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-25
THE ANNUAL SHOOT.
San Antonio Boys Big Winners in The
Rife Shoot Yesterday.

San Antonio Boys Big Winners in The
Rife Shoot Yesterday.
The annual shoot of the San An.
tonic Schutzen Verein took place
yesterday on the River avenue
range and was complete success.
Marksmen were here from sur
rounding towns and they made
some good scores, but the San An
tonic boys excelled them and al
most made a clean sweep.
A band of music was on hand to
entertain the shooters and their
guests, among the latter bein z
many ladies.
The first prize in the rest shoot
was carried off by Albert Uhl, and
o. G. Guessaz was awarded the
first prize In the off-hand shoot.
Albert Stoves won the gold med
al as King shot and r. Neumann
was awarded the Knight medal, a
silver trophy.
The following Is q list of the
winners and scores and prizes:
INDIVIDUAL SHOOT.
Rest, 200 yards-Albert Uhl, LOG,
silver tea set; Gus. Altman, 100,
silver water pitcher and tray
Charles Hummel, SO, Marlin rifle
H. Vogtlsender, SO, center rug; E.
Seffel, 81, set of silver spoons; j.
Schnabel, 81, leather valise Albert
Stoves, SO, cane rocker; A. Guen-
Their, SO, silver center table; Gus.
Reininger, 95, dozen silver knives ;
G. Pape, 95, alarm clock; Adolph
Herff, SO, opera fan; AL. Alt
mann, 80, camping outfit, 40
pieces; o. G. Guessaz, 80, lap
robe; Ad. Altman, 92, cake dish !;
E. Teich, 81, hunting coat; Gus
Heye, 81, meat grin der.
Off-hand, $50 yards-O. G. Cues
SEE, IS, beer set; AID. Altman, 80,
ice cream set; E. Seffel, 81, umbrel.
la; Gus. Altman, ~, pair Of
statues; Ad. Herff, 70, dozen wine
glasses and tray; A. Guenther, n,
case Of fine candy; Chas. Hummel,
", punch bowl; Ernst Stoves, rs,
card receiver.
TEAM SHOOT.
Rest, 200 yards, three teams en-.
tered. Winning team Chas. Hum
mel, 96; E. Bosch, 90; Ernst
Stoves, SO; G. Pape, 80; E. Teich,
SO; total 476.
Off-hand, $50 yards, two teams
entered. Winning team: y. c,
Guessaz, So; E. Seffel, II; A. Guen-
ther, IT; Albert Stoves, "a; Gus.
Altman, rs; total, 400.
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The Usual British Cuff.

LONDON, May Accommodating
today on the published CORES
pondence between Baron Marshall
Won Bieberstein, German minister
for foreign affairs, and Baron Won
Thielman, German ambassador to
the United States, regarding the
case of Mr.. Louis Stern, of New
York, the Courier says: "Secre-
tary Olney has made himself so
notorious throughout the world by
the vigor, not to say rudeness of
his style in diplomatic circles that
Baron Marshall Won Bieberstein
seems to have thought 1t time to
give him severe snubbing."
The Globe says: "The Stern
incident is most useful and in
structive lesson, which will do
Americans a great deal of good II
only they are not too vain to profit
by it,"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-25
PERSONAL MENTION.

VIM. Hansen, of Gonzales, is at
the Southern.
Ignacio Ward, OF Eagle Pass, is
at the Mahncke.
r. M. Boring, OF San Marcos, is
at the Mahncke.
T. ]. Bolleter, wife and child, of
Laredo, are at the Maverick.
s. III. Osmsnd and w. s. Shaw,
OF Dallas, are at the Maverick.
City Auditor Meyer went to
Sabinal today and will return to-
morrow.
Mr.. r. j. Parson, an insurance
man Of Luling, lie in the city with
his family.
Capt. w. G. Slight left yesterday
for Uvalde county, for a months
visit to friends.
Charles N. Thatcher, of New
Braunfels, is in the city, stopping
at the Mahncke.
Miss Estelle Mayer is visiting
her aunt Mrs. G.. B. Eppstein, at
81 South Presa street.
Mr.. H. D. Kampmann went out
to his ranch yesterday to spend a
few days in recreation.
Louis F. bullock, Of Phoenix,
Arizona, has arrived in our city
with a view to locating permanent.
ly.
Mrs. Thompson, wife of DR.. s. s,
Thompson, has gone to Denver,
Col, accompanied by her daugh'
ter, to spend the summer, but the
doctor remains in San Antonio.
Mr.. Dan. Marx, of the firm o.
Wolff & Marx, has returned to this
city after an absence of twelve
months in New York city. He Is
here to be in attendance at the
18th anniversary Of the organiza.
tion Of this big dry goods firm,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-25

Just received 1000 25s novels.
l0s, for 25s, Is for ST. at Louis
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ARMY NEWS.

REPORTED SPECIALLY For THE LIeHr
The Indian Bureau has sustained
Captain, Woodson, Fifth cavalry,
In his methods of civilizing the
Indians of the Cheyenne and Ara
pahoe Agency, in Oklahoma. 1t
will be remembered that some
time ago the Indians made kick
and hired lawyer to bring their
grievances before the commits
sioner.
Lieutenant Little, aide-de.cam p,
has been announced as inspector
of small arms practice In this de-
partment.
Lieutenant C. B. Gatewood,
Sixth cavalry, (retired) died at
Fort Monroe Saturday. He was one
Of the heroes of the Geronimo cam
paign and entered the camp OF
that notorious chief alone.
There will be an infantry dress
parade tomorrow evening on the up
per grounds, Immediately before
sunset.
The funeral of the late Private
Depoe, troop F, Fifth cavalry, took
place from the post hospital yes.
terday morning with full military
honors.
Sergeant Clarke and Privates
Mcdonald, Rhinehardt and Pago-
da, ell of troop HI, Fifth cavalry,
are here from Fort Ringgold as
witnesses before the United States
court.
There is scarcely any doubt but
the bill increasing the pay of nom
commissioned officers which passed
the senate will become law; il
not now, next winter.
The bill increasing the pay of
non.com missioned officers does not
allow an increase to those now on
the retired list and those men re-
firing now will not receive any
benefit therefrom; men who are
entitled to retire now would do
well to hold on until the bill be-
comes a law and thus reap sub
stantial benefit from increased re-
tirement pay. If the bill does not
pass this month it will lay over un-
til nextN ovemb Der, and If it becomes
law than the increased pay will
noe be available until the follow
ing July.
The question came up among
the men of the mess hall staff as
to who was the quickest second
cook, after contest, which Blythe
way, did not last very long.
Colonel Watts, Of Company E,
Eighteenth infantry, was unani-
mously declared to be the chain
lightning and the others only q
little bit.
The present quartsrmaster gen.
eral will retire on the 9th of next
month. He will be great loss to
the service.