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Eremely tantalizing, "Nice fresh oranges,
ten for a quarter!" A stoical warrior with
out cent could repel that but the music
al throat of one young girl in the crowd
had decided charm. There was a rush
to the spot by all who were able to use
crutches, although there was not a dime
in the entire party.
Some one called out, "Do you take
stampsf' OF course the answer was
'EYes" as soon as the money panic was
known to the hawkers Some of the live
LEST of the crippled ones then hustled into
the barrack, and one by one they returned
and counted out their last fiscal symbols
and sat down on the grass to enjoy their
fruit. Those who could not join certainly
felt no better for looking on. Among the
latter was famishing lad whose wits had
been turned by his suffering, and when he
saw some of the men eating oranges he
reached out and seized one from a basket
and began to devour it, and that without
question or bargain or pay The girl with
the musical throat looked startled at the
bold act, but soon smiled and continued
her cry, mice fresh oranges" But the
girl was only helper of the real owner,
and now swarthy, hard looking Hun
stepped forward and held his hand out to
geo 1he proceeos Oh ohe SAFES. ne couneeu
shc inosey anu oiien one oroilses ~ pAo
itlas VI eile ie anu as iie saw Uiielo ssels
the girl in jargon we could not inter
pret. The girl began to weep, and just
then the famished boy, unconscious of ev-
erything but his desperate craving for
loou' reacheu lor ano.ner orange, ne So
cured one, but the old Hun grabbed the
Jac tbn ri CHI III
pAsAeV' gave enc siri q rou5ii sns'hils5 = anu
eneI' alter pacing ms gooos peyohu refaTh
Oh the soluiers' returheu anu aCOs'cheo elie
poy. Inc iau was coo wea,h 10 s.anu' pu'
ne clui9 70 MS prlze' anu Vnc uru.ti nav n
ef "ruhs tiie sicnuer WrisVs " iii''Ae nm
ieI g 20,
nere Mere soiiiss sorons' 0ooi iieii gnSle ,l
s VINO roulu nov enuure ehls slsn1' anu ,, Va
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into battle after battle, and our marching
and fighting postponed all letter writing.
We shouldered our way to Richmond, and
was one of the 10, 900 who crawled away
from Cold Harbor, manned and bleeding,
with a stinging hurt to carry for life We
were soon en- route to Washington, and the
river and railway conveyances were weight
ed with crushed and groaning humanity.
About three days after left the field
received from the sanitary people two Bos-
ton crackers and gill of milk punch.
When I saw Washington at the end of a
week, l was burning and thirsting and
longing madly for something to cool the
fever of lip and head and coursing veins.
All about the wharfs where our steamer
put in there were hucksters of every sort of
repulsive trash--pies, black cakes, fat tsoak-
ed doughnuts-just the sights to derange
still more the famished stomach and unfit
it for the coarse hospital fare which was
now to follow. When we reached the new
diet, it was rough, raw and tasteless and in
every way unsuited to the palates of suffer-
ing men. Finally, within two or three
days, we were put on board box freight
cars on bare floors and hauled, with much
jolting and spasmodic shakings, to Balti-
more.
The arrival of new detachment of men
from the front attracted the basket ped
dlers of the streets, and they quickly sur
rounded the parade ground, crying out
their stock with a glibness that was ex-
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kept, but away fvom the lines men came
and went pretty much at pleasure. One
circumstance favored me and controlled all
my subsequent experiences. Although ]
was an old caBpaigner, l was beardless
10y, with fair skin, and actually appeared
like schoolbos rather than a soldier IL
the field. Weather bronze and battle grilne
had not taken hold in my case, and this cld
man raised my hopes many degrees whes
he declared eontelnptuously at our leave
taking, Nobody gwine to bother wiv sica
baby trash like yo'.''
In ten days made the circuit of the
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A TORN STAMP.
Copyright, 1897. by the Author.l
BY CAPTAIN KENNETH GILMER.

ICopyright, 1897, by the Author.1
When the Army of the Potomac started
on the Wilderness campaign in the spring
of 1864, there was hasty rally of scatter
ed commands, and men of all ranks and
stations who We're on furloughs, detached
service and the like turned from their tenn
porary occupations or pastimes, as do bor
der settlers in time of Indian alarm, and
rushed to the field of danger. / reached the
Wilderness battle-ground after an air line
run to Washington and forced march
across Virginia, and that, too without an
ounce of personal baggage, without mon
ey, with nothing but a soldiers regulation
equipments and a scribblers inevitable
portfolio. / was veteran campaigner, and
after that fight the myriad dead whose
dumb, cold forms would never again utter
love messages reminded me that the dear
ones left behind me would anxiously await
tidings by every northern mail. A volun-
teer soon learned that patriot fire must be
fed by dear home ties; that in order to fight
well the soldier must love WELL and so
mother and sister and cousin and sweet
heart must share the warriors thought
and affection. / wrote the usual home let
ters and hastily put On stamps, letting the
other remain so that l might use every sec
ond of time before. the lag would close
When the call sounded and the mail courier
was gathering his burden, i added 'just
another word. = closed it and reached for Il
stamp, but found nothing but d fragment
of cent issue. Has any one a spare
stamp?' | called out. The answer from all
over camp BY mocking laughs and catcalls
told me that had echoed query already
ancient
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A SOLDIERS Battlefield
LETTER TO HIS SWEETHEART.


Lucy aimed to be reckoned in the New
England caste of We're de We're, and a ro-
mantle impulse born on the treacherous
field of death found no vulnerable place in
her armor of propriety. was confused, to
state it mildly, almost desperate, but when
the field of war was reached again devotion
to the fighting offered "a good antidote, and
the exciting work which followed helped to
turn that affection most speedily from an
object SO unworthy.
In this great campaign came the climax
of interest concerning this stamp. 1t had
now come to be priced with something of
that personal veneration we give to charms
A week before Richmond and Petersburg
fell into the Union hands I was aroused
from sleep on the outpost bivouac in front
of the latter city by rough shaking and
felt myself hurried off by force toward
Lees lines. Our men had been surprised.
1t was very dark, and the Confederases
found such heavy fighting ahead of them
when our forces received the alarm that
they had to disregard the handful of pris-
oners taken, and so before daylight found
opportunity to steal away from the pres
ence of the troops. Some greenbaeks con-
cealed on me purchased seclusion for the
time and also good suit of Confederate
clothing. An old negro in hut between
the forts and the city helped me to these,
and found him shrewd adviser besides.
He told me to go into the interior of Dixie.
He said that all about the army lines or
ders were strict and a close watch was
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whole army OF Lee and reached well known
ground ON the Rappahannock, near Fred
ericksburg. found that Federal cavalry
was posted on the north bank opposite,
and concluded to join it at once and trust
for welcome despite my suit of gray.
spied out my route in the morning. and
then went to sleep away the day in an iso
lated barn. AT dusk that day was de-
sermined to cross the stream to the cavalry
camp. But during the day, while ! slept,
the scouts of the camp raided the whole
region along that bank of the river, and
was made prisoner to my own men. Ev-
erything was against me, and my treat
iment was rough, for the story told was
declared a lie. 'sWe have too much of
that, - said the leader. 1t appeared that
some of the river patrol had been foully
murdered shortly before by treacherous
citizens or guerrillas, and the comrades of
the victims were bent on speedy revenge.
They had secured nine other stragglers
like myself, some in civilian and some in
Confederate army dress. These unfortu
mates were hidden in a wooded vale be-
yond reach of discovery and rescue, and
here they were pleading for a chance of
life by military trial under the authorities
at Washington. To their petitions | now
added mine. But the majority of the guard
advocated summary measures My situa-
tion was trying one. There was not
scrap of documentary evidence about me
for Identification. When taken by the enc
my, wore an overcoat, in the pocket of
which always rested my Bible The fly leaf
was missing, and hence bore no record. /
kept it wrapped in gum cover to preserve
it, and between its leaves, incased in g
<~f fhe forrt
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no right here We don t fight just to keep
up the country for themI'
Tho men were mad, and the rage must
work itself out More than one badly
wounded man had his hurt opened afresh
in the rough and tumble encounter, and
all of them retired shamefaced from their
ig1oble triumph.
/ said to my strange mate as I held out
the torn stamp, "Had this Eepn good /
would have paid for the boys orange and
prevented this trouble . Tears were in
his eyes, and l saw that he was a man of
sensibilities. He turned away, and the
figures on his cap, which had rot noticed
before, cleaned in the sunshine, and at
once branded themselves upon my vision
-s142nd Vols. y
left the scene with my companion, and,
the quicker to drop the unpleasant affair
from mind, proposed that we two exchange
one of our crutches. Such things are relics,
and mine had come from Washington s
old home, White House, Va, and my ac-
quaintance's from Winchester, in the val
ley. We tried them, and were both suited
but he had carved his very neatly with sew
eral designs and with his full name in old
English" Joseph Pennington. This, too
was transferred mystically to a place in
my memory and stood out boldly beside
those characters had seen on his cap, so
that the legend now fixed there was, .Jo
seph Pennington, 142nd Vols. That
evening my furlough reached me, and l
was en- route for my home in the Empire
State before midnight.
My first act upon reaching an abiding
place was to write to Lucy in New Eng
land and then began to count the hours
until time for reply. Days went by and
ran into weeks, yet none came. A second
letter was written to explain the Wilder
ness case and my inability to dispatch an
other until reached home. All this was
to no effect, and finally gossip reached me
in a roundabout way that Lucy had taken
up with a dashing young fellow, an adj
yenturer who had sent substitute to
battle to fight in his stead. The sequel to
this gossip came just before l left home
again for the front. This was a package
of letters returned-my glowing camp let
tiers of 1S61-3. And the first to meet my
sight, Intentionally so, was the Wilderness
letter, with heavy line traced about my
ingenious and ingenious frank, thus:
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y HUTCHINSON. j. H. WOOD
q usrsi Manager. Gan'lPa ssenger Agent.
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and gradually increased my weight from
one hundred aanl twenty live to two
Hundred pounds. Since tlcn. I and my
family have HScd tbs medicine when
needed, and we arc all in the best Of
hcalt,, ! fact w,sch we attribute to
Ayer's Sarsaparilla. believe my chill
lren would have hccn fatherless to-day
had it not been for AYERS Sarsaparilla,
of which preparation 7 cannot say too
much. y" II. 0. HINsoN, Postmaster and
Planter, Kinard's. s. e
Ayers aszz ~ Sarsapari|Ia
RECEIVING MEDAL AT WeHLD'S FAIR.
AYERS Pills Save Doctors Bills.
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~ There's grave Just
marked by plain gray stone
That's inscribed with name to fame unknown
But green is the grass
And fresh are the flowers
Which garnish this grave
That loves hand embowers.
kn6Sthe wind sighs DER it on summer ewes
It's plaintive lament through the shrubs and
leaves,
And with the refrain comes softer sign
From the heart of love that cannot die,
For true love survives
The lapse of the years.
Though of hope bereft,
Though it's fruit be tears.
And on summer days by this grave so green
In somber array may a form be seen,
Or. when DER it is cast shroud of snow,
There undying love by this grave moans low.
What does she wish for,
For what does she pray
In the garden of death
Both winter and May?
In sad communings her thoughts backward fly
Tothe day be bade her last goodby,
Tothatsad day when he, fighting fell
For the,cause he loved and she loved SO well.
She, Spartan bride,
Would not say him nay,
Though it broke her heart
When he went away.
Othersthere be in that garden of death
Who tKeloved ones recall with bated breath,
Who strew bright flowers DER their graves
with a sigh
For love that lived, for the love that could die.
But she, robed in black,
With the pale, sad face,
Defied the long years
Her love to erase.
Not welded TO death, though her love lies low
And her heart feels cold in the Maytime glow,
But welded to love which lives in the past,
Sustained by hope that they II meet at last
She and her lover,
He conqueror where
Death cannot enter
Nor partings be there.
NEIL MACDONALD.
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OvERWORK
INDUCED
Nervous PrOstratiOn
Complete Recovery by the Use of
Ayers SarsapariIIa
Complete Recovery by the Use of

Some years ago, as result Of too
close attention to business, my health
failed. became weak, nervous, was
unable to look after my interests, and
manifested all the symptoms Of de-
cline. I took three bottles of Ayers
sarsaparilla, began to improve at once,
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Rnllrpacs.
RAILROAD or NEW

/ |GENTRAL RAILROAD OF NEW
AjJEksEY tFreehoidauu Atlantic Highlands
Div. Time Table May 24th 1897.
Anthracite Coal used exclusively tnsurfne
Cleanliness ana comfort
Trains leave New York toot Li bertl street tor
Farmingdaie Lakewood Manchester 4.S1, s 80
A. NJ, 1.30. 4.3O.
TRAINS LEAVEFREEHOLD.
ForNewSork Newark Elizabeth &C. via allrai
routeat rs S.20,ll.l5A M. 2.05, 4.2O6.l0 Pm.
For Long BrAncn Ocean Grows &c. al 500 II 1t
NJ. J 05, 4.20 i. 10. p.
For AtiautIc HIGHLANDS at lis 20 / LIS. A. M
2.05, 1 90, 6.10 P m. =
RETURNING TRAINS
Leave New Yorktf tfooto Liberty street, at 4. 80
$3.50. 10. 10 a. NJ, l.30, A 80 5.3S P.
Leave Newark Broad street, at .5S. / D 55, M.
l .35, 40, h42P.M
Leave glizaDeth = .o5 il, 40. II .O5 A. M.i5o o4s
5.52P.M
Leave Cong BranchfN. Y.& L.B. r. Il station
via Matawanl al 8.I7. s.0c. II rs A. NJ, | 50,
4.l5 5.47 P. M.
Leave Atlantic Highlands at III, HIS A. D
1.14. sol. 6.15P M.
Through tickets to all points all lowest rates
may be hado appIicationt the ticketaeent al
he station
.P.BaLDwIN GeD'l Pass Agt
J. H OLHAUSEN, GEN. Supt
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Depew's Tardy nation.

Mr.. Depew was absolutely accurate in
his speech last night, says Holland in the
Philadelphia Press, in his statement or
motives which Influenced Mr.. Platt to
resign from the Senate. He said that
Mr.. Platt resigned because be could not
vote against confirmation of Judge Rob
ertson's nomination without breaking his
piedge, and he could not vote to confirm
that nomination without being unfaithful
to the regular organization party In New
York state And Mr.. Depew intlmated
that. instead OF being worthy OF re-
proaches and contempt Mr.. Platts act
was that OF an honorable man.
II did seem strange to some or those
who heard Depew that ne should hrst
make this explanation sixteen years AFTER
Mfr. Platt had had thatunhappy experience
In 1851. when Platt was in distress.
word of explanation like the statement
which Depew made last night would have
given him some comfort.
Depew's brief reference to this earlier
experience of Mr. Platt will be very likely
to revive discussion, and perhaps TO call
ont some facts regarding the disastrous
beginning of Gen Garfield's administration,
so far as New York state was concerned,
which have not yet been published.
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HAM AND BACON ,

While looking upon many things Ameri-
can with the eye OF insular prejudice, the
British heart warns when our bacon and
ham are me ntioned. PorCine products from
Belgium and Holland no longer corner
the appetite OF our English cousins. Their
taste has been educated TO just appre-
citation Of the Yankee breakfast bacon, for
merly regarded as too rich, while the
ham OF free Columbia at length has dis
placed its rival from Westphalia- Last
year our ham exports aggregated 49,
600 900 pounds, valued at SI2,ooo,oo0,
OF which Great Britain took 103, 100000
pounds We also shipped 450, 100000
pounds of bacon, valued at 5000, 900,
and rs per cent OF it went to the United
Kingdom. The same country absorbs the
greater part Of our oyster export, which
annually amounts 10 5000, 900 in value
England ate nearly all of the 225, 900 900
pounds Of fresh beef which we sent abroad
last year. These things may be taken as
strong arguments in favor Of arbitration.
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BOUND TO GET THERE.

If the next Administration does not keep
its weather eye open land we venture to
presume that it keeps q bell wether for that
purpose }, all the finesse Of our English over
lords will be futile to prevent this country
from getting a footIold in or adjacent to
the American Mediterranean. A bill has
passed the Senate, approprating $4,000
for tile construction of a lighthouse on Swan
Island, near tile Nicaragua Coast 1t is
said, practically, TO command the pro-
posed entrance to the canal. The island is
the property Of an American citizen who
has given the lighthouse concession to the
Government
This action, on the part of the Senate, is
taken TO be a clever castigation of the
Evil One around the stump of foreign re
preston and British vassalage. We can
put a flag on that lighthouse, and force on
the lot to guard it. Let US hope that this
last despairing effort to show Old Glory
in the Caribbean or the Gulf, may not meet
with Executive disaster.
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odd Items From Everywhere.

The California board OF examiners has
recommended an appropriation Of $2S7 :
600 TO pay coyote-scalp claims.
Negro physicians have organized State
Medical Associations in six States of the
South-the two Carolinas, Georgia, Tennes-
see, Texas, and Florida.
The most valuable sword in England the
one presented by the Egyptians To Lord
wolseley The hit is set with brilliants,
and is valued at $4,000.
on the summit of Ben Lomond are the
smallest trees in Great Britain. They are
dwarf willows and when mature are only
about two inches in height.
Two miles from Milan, Italy is the most
remarkable echo in the world. 1t is at the
castle of Simonetta and repeats the shot OF
q pistol sixty times.
In some of the Hindoo temples OF South
India the collection is taken up by an ele-
phant that goes around with basket,
Everybody contributes.
1t is estimated that the present wealth of
the United States exceeds the wealth of
the whole world at any period prior to
the middle OF the eighteenth century.
In the fiords of the Norway coasts the
clearness of the water is wonderful. At a
depth OF thirty fathoms objects the size Of
a silver dollar may be clearly seen
The most valuable collection Of stampsin
Russia belong to Mr. Breitfuss, OF st.
Petersburg. 1t is arranged in over loo
volumes, and is valued at zoo, 900 rubles.
Five years ago there were two direct
steamship lines from Southern ports TO Eu-
rope. Now there are eleven cities. each
of which has one or more lines across the
Atlantic
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-29
Helping the Car Conductor

After a cable car conductor had passed
me several times without asking for my
fare, touched his arm and gave him
nickel A few minutes later, as 1 left
the car, found him on the rear platform
alone. Don't ever do that again." he
said. ''If conductor misses You don't
hunt him up He doesn't want you to do it.
IL miss passenger the chances areebout
even that no one will notice il except the
fellow himself. But when he PUSHES up
to pay q fare l have missed, everybody
notices the fact that have been negligent,
and. if there is a 'spOtter' aboard, lose
my Job. The next time save your nickel
1t may help me save my position -
Chicago Times Herald.
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lar interest, is She meat supply OF the En-
pire. Some time ago the japanese gov
eminent reached the conclusion that its
people were smaller and physically weaker
confined to rice and fish, and at once
preached meat as a patriotic duty As
consequence, the archipelago has been
nearly stripped OF its native live stock, the
demand is growing rapidly, and the z0,-
100000 japanese will buy enormously of
meat products from somebody, for several
years TO come at any rate. A handsomely
subsidized steam line has just been put on
between native ports and Australia, and,
if we do not lock out, the Australians Will
capture the trade in timed meats, and
refrigerated carcasses.
Japan has cavalry service of 10000
troops The japanese ponies are unfit for
tie purposes Of this force, while the tough,
wiry horses OF cur far Western States would
meet the requirements better than any ami
mails available elsewhere. II our Pacific
Coast people could be placed in position
10 compete with the Canadians in the de-
velopment of trade with Japan, here are
two important items which we could fur
nish beyond a doubt Major Mckinley
should keep an eye and an ear open in con
nection with this subject
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JAPANESE TRADE.

Although the Chinese exclusion tariff
policy, which fittingly has its temporary
Headquarters in Canton, is not conducive
10 foreign commercial relations, on terms
" open competition, it is possible that
the next administration may be able to do
something to extend our trade with far
eastern countries. Our principal COM
mercial rival, to be sure, has the advantage
of a free trade policy, which we need not
hope for at present, and of liberal sub
sides TO British steamer lines, which
latter fact has diverted about all of our
best Oriental trade from San Francisco 10
Vancouver. still the opportunity to de-
velop trade with Japan in speciallines, and
with China in others, is so good and plain
that perhaps we might secure some of it,
notwithstanding the heavy handicap we
carry.
The conditions of the new civilization in
Japan, are compelling that country reach
out in many directions to supply national
needs which did not exist formerly. One OF
these. In which we ought to take particu-
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Costs the Government s25.ooO.OoO.

IL costs the government eight cents a
pound, says the Philadelphia Record, to
carry second-class mail matter. 1t gets
less than one cent pound for the service.
The result is a loss OF $25,000,OO0 per
year. This is, in the briefeSt form, the
argument in favor of the Loud bill, which
proposes TO exact for the second-ciaEs
service something near the cost incurred
in rendering it. OF course, those who
profit by the negligent unthrift of the
government to the extent OF $4,000 900
a year petition and protest against any
change liz the deadhead system. They are
holding up the House bill in the Senate,
and have a powerful lobby pulling at the
Senatorial coat tails. But the lobby can
not successfully contend against the fact
that spending SIS in order to earn 81 is
an outra geous abuse of the postal service
and a robbery of the taxpayers.