The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-07-16
GU Cannon.

the country were disposed to take ad-
vantage OF an offer made at the last ses-
sion of congress, they might materially
increase the warlike spirit supposed to
peryade every patriotic family, says the
Washington Post. The offer was to sup.
ply warlike implements, which, if they
have outlived their usefulness, will
serve as ornaments for post headquar-
ters and might inspire the rising gener.
alton with muclI patriotic fervor. This
could be accomplished by accepting the
tender of several hundred abandoned
cannon and shot and shell which con-
gress has decided to give to any Grand
Army post that may apply for them
and which are now lying useless and
neglected at the navy yards.
These cannon are mostly old style
models Of engines of war, which might
have been considered just the proper
thing 80 years or more ago, but which,
with the march Of progress and the ad.
vance Of invention, have been placed
upon the retired list. Their places have
been filled by guns and munitions OF
war Of more improved type, and as the
abandoned articles are valuable only as
old metal the government decided that
1t could put them to no better purpose
than to give them to the veterans of the
late war, who fought on the Union side
with these same guns.
But it is surprising to count up just
how few posts of the immense Grand
Army have taken advantage Of this Of
fer. Since the passage of the joint reso.
luton last winter the records in the Of
dce OF the secretary Of the navy, where
such applications have to be filed, show
less than 100 from the entire country.
There are still guns on hand for about
700 more posts, yet, strangely enough,
the Grand Army has made no effort to
provide itself with an armament
which, although it would be Of little
service in time of war, is valuable from
an artistic standpoint in time of peace
The Fat Man.
"Does any one know wherefore the
heart of woman clings to fat man?'
asks waiter in transatlantic paper
In an article on the "Fat Mans Apoth.
costs. - mature scarcely offers any
object III the whole range of her at.
fractions less heart stirring than he,
And yet have seen wives, sweethearts
and sisters-mothers, of course, do moi
count-who became the most abieci
slaves, mere odalisques, in the presence
ct ..an whose 2G0 pounds Of adipose
tissue was all compressed into paltry
o feet o inches, heels inclusive. And
these were not i'll favored women Il
point OF culture either; far from 1t. ]
can recall quite readily score or so Of
such amiable and devoted spouses who
we're among the shrewdest, most pol.
Tito and brainiest women I ever met,
and who certainly knew what they
liked and were we'll fitted by nature te
get it.
1T is time to idealize the fat man
to stop ridiculing him. The artist who
caricatures him in the comic weeklies,
the paragrapher who pokes sly fun al
him in his daily column. the dude who
puts up his monocle at him with 8
smile, are not in it with the fat man
where the women are concerned. He
may not be their Adonis. nor yet thei,
Apollo. But he is their beau ideal OF
ponderous and gentle magnanimity.
And he never stays single-he cannot.
He is not allowed to. If he-from mis-.
taken public policy-tries to be an old
bachelor, some devoted woman will sin.
gle him out in his oleaginous obscurity
and fall to worshiping him in wistful
way that his comfort loving heart can.
not Withstand. And he marries her.
And she straightway puts him up on q
pedestal and worships him to the end.
And from this height he can afford tc
look down benignly on Adonis and
Apollo, unwedded and unworshiped.
The Etruscans.
The Etruscans were civilized neo.
Die ages hafOra tho fou,,l,k;... % ~