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GRANT AND PORTER.
the Latter's First Meeting with His Sub
sequent Chief.

the Latter's First Meeting with His Sub
sequent Chief.
While sitting in my quarters in the
little town of Chattanooga about an
hour after nightfall on the evening OF
Friday, Oct 23, 1868, an orderly
brought me message from General
George H. Thomas, commander OF the
Army of the Cumberland, on whose
staff was serving, summoning me to
headquarters. A storm had been raging
for two days, and chilling rain was
still falling. A few minutes walk
brought me to the plain wooden, one
story dwelling occupied by the COM
mander, which was situated on Walnut
street, near Fourth, and upon my ar
rival I found him in the front room on
the left side of the hall, with three
members of his staff and several strange
officers.
In an armchair facing the fireplace
was seated a general officer, slight in
figure and of medium stature, whose
face bore an expression of WEAKNESS.
He was carelessly dressed, and his uni
form coat was unbottoned and thrown
back from his chest. He held q lighted
cigar in his mouth and cat in stoop-
ing posture, with his head bent slightly
forward. His clothes were wet, and his
trousers and topboots were spattered
with mud. General Thomas approached
this officer, and, turning to me and
mentioning me by name. said, II want
to present you to General Grant. "
Thereupon the officer seated in the
chair, without changing his position.
glanced up, extended his arm to its full
length, shook hands and said in low
voice and speaking slowly, "How do
you do?'' This was my first meeting
with the man with whom | was des-
tined afterward to spend SO many of the
most interesting years of my life.
The strange officers present were
members of General Grants staff.
Charles A. Dana, assistant secretary OF
war, who had been for some time with
the Army of the Cumberland, had also
entered the room. The next morning he
sent dispatch to the war department,
beginning with the words, "Grant ar
rived last night, wet, dirty and well. "
campaigning With Grant, by Gen
eral Horace Porter, in Century.
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The scalx Ant Eater.

An animal made Of tin plate, of the
shape Of an elongated fir cone, about
three feet in length, which craokles and
rustles with every movement, is one Of
the latest acquisitions of the Geological
society of London. Its name is the PAN
COLIN, or scaly ant eater, and it belongs
to the same family group as the arma-
dillo and platypus. 1t has excited great
attention at the zoo, for it is--if we are
correctly informed--th the first animal Of
the kind which has been exhibited
there. Its home is where the termites,
or white ants, are found, for the animal
feeds on these destructive creatures and
possesses claws which are designed to
break down their strongholds. The
claws are also necessary for burrowing
in tho ground, for the pangolin exca-
Yates a cave for himself and his mate
eight feet or SO below the surface Of
the earth, and in this strange home one
or two young are produced every year.
The pangolin at present at the ZOO is
fed upon ants and their eggs. and also
exhibits Partially for cookroaohes
scalded in milk. The scales with which
its body is covered are hard and sharp
as steel, and it can give terribly cut
ting blow with its powerful tail. 1t can
roll its body up into ball like a hedge
hog when it SO Wills. Public Opinion.
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Tennyson was devoted to his wife,
but, like man of true taste, he wrote
very little about his feeling for her
That beautiful dedication beginning,
Dear, near and true," is that bit Of
his writing which will be most often
associated with her name. She was a
shrewd critic of her husbands work.
Tennyson has been accused of inability
to fuse tho different portions of long
poem, and the difference in style be-
tween 1.-THE Coming Of Arthur" and
1.-The Passing of Arthur" and the other
'Idylls of the King" has been cited in
illustration. Concerning this difference
Lady Tennyson said to her son only
two days before her death, "He said
The Coming of Arthur and THE Pass.
ing of Arthur are purposely simpler in
style than the other idylls as dealing
with the awfulness of birth and death, y
and she wished this statement of the
poet to be put on record in her son g
biography of his father New York
Tribune
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TOMMY CRUISE.
In Hard Luc, When He Struck Drum
Lummond and Bloomed Out.


In Hard Luck When He Struck Drum
Lummond and Bloomed Out.
When / met Tommy first, his only
asset was serious danger, for his five
underfed and underbred ponies were
about to be seized for overdue taxes.
could not help Tommy with money, but
l tried to with advice. "Strike old Sam
Ashby for couple of hundred dollars,
suggested. Sam Ashby was one of the
rich men of Helena, Mon, at that pc
Rod and ran small savings bank. Tom
my Cruise "tried old Sam Ashby." All
he got, however. was some pretty free
talk, in which the banker assured Tom
my Cruise that he would rather throw
his money into the home of his satanic
majesty than loan it to such drunken.
shiftless fellow.
Tommy Cruise got the money, how
ever. Three weeks later he located the
great Drum Lummond gold mine. He
knew he had big thing, but somehow
he could make nobody believe in his
mine. For years he worked at it, how
ever, living at times dogs life.
Once, while talking to a friend of
mine, he fell forward unconscious. He
had not eaten mouthful of food for
SO hours, and yet, with dogged persist
ency, had worked on till he fell in his
tracks. At last his day came. He OPEN
ed up big vein and had $1,000, 900 to
his credit in good safe bank. Hard
times over, he decided to pose as ''sol-
id citizen" so he opened savings
bank in Helena. One of the first men
to apply to Tommy Cruise, banker, for
small loan was the one time banker,
old Sam Ashby, now less prosperous.
Then came to the old prospector the
happiest moment Of his life, one that
wiped out all memory Of starvation and
privation. For Tommy Cruise, showing
his would be customer to the door, as
sured that customer, in language too
emphatic and graphic for English ears,
that he would sooner throw his money
into the house OF his satanic majesty
than loan it to such drunken, shift
less fellow as Sam Ashby. -Cornhill
Magazine.
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Conl MIne worked br One MAN.

The smallest coal mine in tho world
is i'll the southern province of New Zea-
land, where, according to the reports OF
the inspectors of mines for the colony,
the Murray Creek colliery is worked by
one man, T. Bolitho, Chinaman, who
owns, manages and works this small
but to him valuable coal mine. There
is another small colliery in the same
province worked by one man with the
assistance Of donkey. The next small
est colliery is in England. in the village
of Nelson, in Lancashire. 1t is situated
near the Golfers Arms and affords
employment for two miners. father and
son, who combine in themselves the
positions of proprietors, managers,
miners and haulers of the undertaking.
The have the assistance Of n donkey,
and all the output of the mine is sold
to the householders who live in the vii.
lage or its immediate vicinity. --Ex'
change
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pEAE AND DUNE.
What 1t Means to Be Cut on From Speed
and Hearing.

What 1t Means to BE Cut on From Speech
and Hearing.
To be deaf is to be unable to hear,
and to be dumb is to be unable to talk.
The lack of hearing is remedied by
teaching the child to use his eyes and
understand either signs or the motions
of the lips, and the lack of speech is
remedied by teaching the child to use
his vocal organs or his hands to make
others understand, and, behold, the task
is accomplished, and he is ''just like
other folksp' Not one thought is given
to language, to the wonderful medium
Of exchange by means of which the bust
ness of life is carried on, that is sup
posed to come by nature, or instinct, or
miracle, but never by teaching.
A cultured lady, literary woman,
said to me once, after seeing some deaf
children and hearing them go through
certain vocal exercises which included
every elementary sound in the English
language: ''Now, if these children can
make all these sounds correctly, why
don't they go right on and talk? What
hinders themf" She was bright wom-
an, and when very short explanation
had been given her the reason flashed
upon her. and she said: why, what a
fool I ami seel They I'VE got something
to say, and the mechanical ability to
say it, but no language to say it in. "
And in that one sentence she expressed
the reason for being Of all the institu-
tions and schools for the deaf in the
country.
mo language to say it in," that ex-
presses the condition of o deaf ohild's
mind before he is taught very we'll, but
perhaps land no language to think it
inn should be added. Let the reader
try for himself and see how much con-
secutiye thought no can accomplish
without words, and if with his mind
trained by years of intelligent thinking
he can do little until the words come,
let him imagine, IL he can, the state OF
mind cut off from language. Mabel
E. Adams in Popular Science Monthly.
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THE WELL HAMMERED BOY.
He Is Simply Charming, but Altogether
Too Scarce.

He Is simply charming, Out AAtOSeth0F
Too Scarce.
Is there anything more charming in
this world than a nice, we'll hammered
boy? don't want to be hypercritical,
but must add, as am strictly vera
cious woman, that they are, alas, as
rare as they are charming.
Such boy, the well hammered gen.
ius, thank heavens. met not long
ago, and my instant thought was, What
a fine mother his must be. l know her
by reputation, q celebrated actress, who
has carefully shielded her private life
from the public, and my estimation of
that woman Immediately rose 80 de-
grees None but woman of culture,
refinement and true nobility of charao-
ter could rear son whose every light
est word showed respect for women, in
nate good breeding, and, best of all, in
this day of affected skepticism among
the jeunesse doree, an honest belief in
the existence of good among men and
women in general.
And | couldn't help thinking sorrow
fully as l ehatted with this delightful
boy how few mothers really understand
their meter. It's tho most responsible
work in the world, that Of motherhood,
and is entered into with the least train
ing and preparation. Women are pro-
verbally proud, vain, their masculine
critics say, and wonder whether they
realize how they are reflected in their
children? If they did, would they not
make greater effort to have reflected
only their good points, their gentleness,
breeding. and, above all, their faith in
human nature. -Philadelphia Record.
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AMERICANS AS MUSICIANS.
Mime. Calve Says They Have the Charac-
teristics of the Conquering Race.

Nine. CaIve Says They Have the charao-
teristics of the Conqucring Race.
Mime. Emma Calve contributes pa
per on the "Conquering Race In Music"
to The Ladies' Home Journal, in which
she specially addresses students of vocal
music. She tells of the training re-
quired for the operatic and the concert
stage, the impersonation of character,
the value of suggestions, etc., and pays
this tribute to Americans: 1.-THE Amer
leans have, it seems to me. in the field
of music, and especially in the field Of
vocal music, all of the characteristics
of the conquering race. They are pos
sessed naturally Of the most exquisite
voices, which, when properly cultivated
and trained, are almost unrivaled. They
have indomitable energy, perseverance
and pluck. They stop at nothing and are
deferred by no trouble and prevented
by no obstacle.
Poverty, WEAKNESS, exertion. hard
work-none of these living specters
which alright and terrify the average
art worker has terrors for them. Their
physique and their temperament seem
made for toll and to surmount discour-
agement, and the success which they
are daily achieving, in the field of both
operatio and concert singing, Is testimo-
ny to their natural fitness for accom-
plishment and to their ability to excel.
They seem, in fact, TO be most lavishly
fitted by nature for the parts they are
assuming. To these gifts of voice, ener-
gy, pluck and perseverance, they fire.
qucntly add beauty of face and grace
of form and movement which the pub
lilo recognizes as most important factors
in the success Of the singers career.
They have, too, the temperament which
makes great artists and great actresses,
the artistic feeling which has for its
standard perfection and which is sat
isfled with nothing less.
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An Unexpected Greeting.

The gentle Elsie sat drearily in the
cleaning in the front room.
She was very miserable, for ON the
previous night she had had words with
her own, and now she fears her naughty
Harold will not call.
She hears step, ring, a voice she
knows, and some one speaking to the
servants in the hall.
She will not wait until light is
brought, but gently calls, Come in.
The visitor enters, and. with u sigh
of awful volume the fair Elsie casts her.
self into his arms and softly murmurs /;
"Oh, my darling, am SO glad you
have come. / have SO wanted to make
it up and settle :"
And he of the embrace remarked:
"Well, miss, it's very nice of you,
and I'm very glad, too, that you're go.
ing to settle up at last. -
1t was the gas collector. Spare Mo-
ments.
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Robert Chambers told me he was once
talking with man of real, rugged gen.
ius, who came to sorrowful end. He
said to the genius: "The population of
this world is about 1900. 600, 900 hui
man beings The little religious body
to which you belong contains perhaps
800, 900. OF that number not 800 could
give an intelligent account Of its creed.
Yet you think its creed sets out vital
matters Is it consistent with your be-
lief that God Almighty would permit
just 500 Of his creatures to know those
things and keep all the millions igno-
rant Of themY' The genius considered
for q minutes space, then replied,
Eyes, I think 1t quite right that God
should do that" Whereupon the good
Robert Chambers said very resolutely,
"Then I'm tremendously sorry for you. !"
And he never spoke to the genius save
ON transient incidents any more. Long
mans Magazine.
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Leave Lambertvllle Tor Manunka Chunk s.sS
1920 m. 1877. 567 and s.25 m. Sunday. 1925 ~.
For Phillipsburg and Easton only 6..s p N week
days.
8.54 m week days. 81 Sundays. For Phl-
lpsburg and Easton only. 7.02 m
Arrive at Phillipsburg 40 and fi.22 a. M, . 10,
5.5s, 7.36 and 9.31 p. IN. Sunday 9.8I p. N.
Leave Pbillipsburg 1925, 945 and II q IN 2s'0,
Goa aud 9.35 p m. Sunday. 8 80 pm.
Arrive Belvidere 7.5S. 1922 and ll.53 m, -
G.S2, 1902 m. Sunday, 1902 p m
Arrive Manunka Chunk S.0h, 1870 and il-59 u.
3 81, 6 IS and 10. 10 M Sunday, i0.lU M.
Additional trains leave Beividere for Manunka
Chunk 10 and $50 IN, and 80 p M. Sunday,
700 IN. Returning, leave Manunka hunk Tor
Belyidere s.25. 1913 m, 4.2O, $40 and lOi5 p m
Sunday. 1918 pm.
Freight or mixed trains leaving Manunka
Chunk at 600 m, Beividere SIS IN, Martins
Greek 6 .35 NJ, arriving Lehigh Junction 30 III.
will carry passengers aud make stops at Tag sta
lions north of Phillipsburg.
Passengers for Broad Street Station. Phtiadel-
phia, by trains leaving Manunks Chunk LIS NJ
daily. and 1925, 5.2i N weekdays, and leaving
Phillipsburg SEQ m daily, 100 aud h.5H p III
weekdays go through without change at Tren.
ton. through car for Manunka Chunk IL al.
taehed to trains leaving Broad Street Station at
$50, 800 m, 1900 noon, and b3. pm. by all
other trains passengers to or from Broad street
change ears at Trenton.
eonueetionis made at MuDunka Chunk with
Delaware, Laekawanna Western Railroad; La
high Junction with Lehigh Valley .Lehieh & Sua.
euehADna Morris d Essex, and New Jersoy Centre
Railroads. AtLambeftville With Fiesnington Rail
road AtFrenton with trains 10 and from Mex
York, Camden. &c.
FoTfurtbeT Information SOC tlms-tabies, which
San be obtaiBed al the ticket 0faces
T. WOOD
Genersi Passenger Agent,
{. NJ. PROVOST
Gem raj Manager
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WEDNESDAY. NOV. IS, 1896.
A VALEDlCTioN.
FLOR nusic.1

For music
Past falls the night but not for thee
Twill fade like that of yesterday.
When once again along the lea
The timorous glints of morning stray,
Thou wilt have passed to fields unseen,
To meadows OF perennial May,
Where never veers the vernal green
Nor feet the vernal flowers away.
If e'er think Of thee as gone,
If e'er l dream Of thee as sped,
Twill only be In winter wan.
When leaves lie lorn and flowers have He'd
But when anew the sun has shone
Its welcome to the world of spring
Still by my side thou'lt wander on
As though thou ne'er hadst taken wing.
Still beneath days dilating beams
Greet each new flower that May unfurls,
Still mix thy murmur with the streams
And blend thy music with the merle's.
Then, as in vespertinal dreams,
The SUMS tired rays receding slant,
Seek, as of old, the wood where teens
The nightingale's awaking chant.
Fast falls the night. will not weep.
All, mol Not tears shall be thy dover
To carry through the folds OF sleep
Into the cline of leaf and fowerl
Fast falls the night. More dark, more deep,
Each instant grows its eerfe sway.
Farewell, farewell. viii not weep,
But smile thee ON thy journeys wayl
William Toynbee in Gentleman's Magazine.
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SLAUGHTER OF DEER.

Game Killed In Montana by sportsmep
just For the Fun of the Thing.
W. II. Wright tells i'll Recreation
where much of Montana's game has
gone. He says:
ct have known two self called sports
men to leave Spokane for two days, and
on returning tell of having killed So
deer, story the. ranehnen at whose
home they put up corroborated. That
was years ago. 1t would take long
hunt there now to kin So deer, once
knew man to go and make winter
camp and kill over 100 deer, which he
hung up. He tried to sell them where
they hung, but failed. He went east
somewhere, where he lived, and I've
never heard of him since. He claimed
to have killed 100. but counted 100
oarcasses in sight near his camp the fol-
lowing spring.
"While going from Palmer's lake, in
Washington, to the Salmon river pass
ed through Toatseoulee and stopped
overnight near small lake on which
was camped party of hunters, 1t
would have been easy to load four
horse wagon with the heads Of deer
alone that were piled up in one place.
There were deer carcasses all about the
camp.
81 could name more than 30 of such
hunters who have killed thousands of
deer and left them where they fell. On
ly last winter two men left Spokane
and killed 38 deer in Idaho not bring
Ing out pound of meat to show for it.
81 have seen many Indian hunts, one
of which resulted in the death of over
400 deer, but not one of the deer was
wasted. The Indians hunt and then eat
the meat before they hunt again. They
kill to eat. but the whites kill for fun.
Last spring one man in the Bitter Root
valley killed seven elk without stirring
from his track. Not one was saved,
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Clerical Ounces.

1t is to DO feared that clergymen who
have entered the church through theolo-
gical colleges are wretched scholars as a
rule The bishops have lately found it
necessary to insist on an entrance exam
ination on general subjects before ad-
mission to a theological coll 20 can be
granted, and the results lave been de-
cidedly startling. The requi.: ments are
almost ridiculously elemeL tary--a co.,
pie of books OF Xenophon's "Anaba-
sis, " some quite easy Latin, two books
of Euclid and SO forth, Nevertheless, Is
is stated that large number of candi-
dates for orders are so grossly ignorant
that they have been unable to get
through this exceedingly easy ordeal. -
London Truth
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A Queer Coin.

Fully half of the grown up people of
France believe the old story that Napo-
leon Bonaparte put a check for 100, 900
francs in a silver franc piece and that
the coin is yet in circulation. They say
that the people did not want the franc
piece. and that in order to create de-
mand for it Napoleon resorted to the
device mentioned. The check or treas
ury order, it is said, was written upon
asbestus paper and inolosed in the met
al at the time the coin was made. Thou
sands of franc pieces are annually
broken open and have been so inspected
since the story of the check was first cir
culated. New York Journal.
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LAMBBRTVILLE NATIONAL BANK
LAMBERTyILLE. N. ].

The Bank will be opened al O'Clock, a NJ. and
close at 8 O'Clock P. NJ. on all business days. ex-
cept Saturdays, when the closing time will be 1
O'Clock, P. NJ.
All legal holidays observed.
Stated meetings of the Directors every Monday.
at 10 O'Clock. A. M
SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES TO RENT at Eve and
seven dollars per year.
Coupons cashed and dividends aud interest col
lected.
WILLS, when enclosed in sealed envelopes and
accompanied with written instructions as to their
delivery, in case of death, will be receipted for
and kept, free of charge.
STOCKS AND SECURITIES PURCHASED for
patrons of the Bank, at market prices.
We respectfully solicit accounts, and offer every
accommodation consistent with conservative
ISAIAH p. SMITH,
Cashier
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'I haven't anything new to sing to
You tonight, George"
"Well, give me something old then. "
She broke into refrain that was "a
song Of the day II years before.
That's very, very old, Clara" he
remarked at the close
Eyes. George. ! sang that to you the
night we became engaged. Boston
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wien Llghtninr Rapldlty.

Wonderful eye that boy Of mines
got, 4" said the proud father,
THAT SOP" mechanically replied the
man who was trying to get away.
"You never saw such sense Of pro-
portion, !" cried the proud father. Pass
that boy the cake dish. and he'll spot
the biggest piece on 1t every time -
Rockland (Me. Tribune.
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Grasping nd a Straw.

Doctor-Don't be alarmed. I was
sicker than you are q year ago, and
with the Same trouble. Today / ana
well and hearty.
Patient (anxiously)-Oh doctor, tell
me, who was your Observation-Disclosures
bury.
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In the fifteenth century the beer gal
lon measure Of England was fourth
larger than the wine gallon, to allow
for the froth. The present legal yard
was instituted In England in 1863.