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renee Oliphant, in whose diary we find
| some interesting matter that makes rather
| lively reading. He says:
We arrived in Washington on the day
which was pregnant with fate To the deStI-
MES OF the Republic The same night the
celebrated Nebraska bill wdS passed IN
Congress, the effect of which was 10 open
an extensive territory To slavery, the solu-
ton Of which was To Culmlnate seven
years after in civil war.
"a few nights later, at a dinner given in
Lord llgin = name, by a prominent member
of Congress, who has since filled the Office
of Secretary of State, | met Senator
Toombs. 1t was a grand banquet. at which
all the guests were men, with the eXcep
ton of the wife Of our host; he, himself,
was n Wing, and the situation, politically,
was freely discussed.
Senator ToombS, large. splendid1y
developed specimen Of manhood had Il
tendency to crate rather than converse III
society. He waited for a pause and then
! addressed Lord Elgin thus:
yes, my Lord. we are about TO relume
the torch of liberty upon the altar OF
slavery.
Upon which our hostess, with a win
ming smile, and in the most silvery accents
imaginable, said;
"Oh, | am so glad to hear you say that
again, Senator, for | told my husband that
you had made use of exactly the same
expression To me yesterday, and he sad
you would not have talked such nonsense
10 anybody but Il woman.
The shout of laughter which greeted
this sally abashed even the worthy
Senator
Later on he says: IL am getting perfectly
stunned with harangucs upon political
questions. don't understand or compre-
bend the nomenclature of each--Whlgs,
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LlNc0LN'S Birthday.
Selections From the Words OF the Martyy
President.

Selections From the Words OF the Martyy
President.
Feb. - 1898, will be the seth anniversary
of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, which
will be widely observed the country over.
At numerous patriotic celebrations of that
day it Is customary to give quotations from
Lincoln. BY request q number have been
selected and are given below:
Gold is good in its place; but living patri-
otic men are better than gold.
No men living are more worthy to be
trusted than those who toll up from poverty.
God must like common people, or he would
not have made so many of them.
The country with its institutions belongs
to the people who inhabit it.
In giving freedom to the slaves, we insure
freedom to the free; honorable alike in what
we give and what we deserve
The reasonable man has long since agreed
that intemperance is one of the greatest, IL
not the greatest, of all evils among mankind.
If this country cannot be saved without
giving up the principle of liberty, / was
ahont to say, | would rather be assassinated
on this spot than surrender it.
The purposes of the Almighty are perfect
and must prevail, though we erring mortals
may fail to accurately perceive them in adj
vance.
Do not worry; eat thee square meals a day;
say your prayers; be courteous to your credi-
tors; keep your digestion good; steer clear Of
biliOusness; exercise; go slow and go easy.
Maybe there are other things that your
special case requires to make you happy, but,
my friend, these, / reckon, will give you q
lift.
l appeal to you to constantly bear In mind
that with you, the people, and not with poll
ticians, not with Presidents, not with office
seekers, but with you, is the question, ,Shall
the Union and shall the liberties of the coun-
try be preserved to the latest generation?
If all that has been said since the creation
in praise of women were applied to the wo-
men of America it would not do them justice.
As / understand the spirit of our institu-
tiOns, it is designed to promote the elevation
of men. am, therefore, hostile to anything
that tends to their debasement.
1t is well known that deplore the de-
pressed condition of the blacks, and it would
be very inconsistent for me to look with ap-
prevail on any measure that infringes upon
the inalienaDle rights of white men, whether
or not they are born in the mother land or
speak different language from our own.
The world will not long remember what
we say here lat Gettysburgl, but it can
never forget what they did here. 1t is for
US, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to
the unfinished work that they have thus far
so nObly carried out. 1t is rather for US to
be here dedicated TO the great task remain
ing before us; that from these honored dead
we take increased devotion to the cause for
which they here gave the last full measure
of devotion; that we here highly resolve that
these dead shall not have died in vain; that
the Nation shall under God have new birth
of freedom; and that the Government of the
people, by the people, and for the people
shall not perish from the earth.
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| Medical books are not always interesting
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person in ten is perfectly healthy, and even
| with such, sooner or later sickness must
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1t gives valuable suggestions rs to diet, and
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falsely; Of pension attorneys, who labor for
very small fees considering the labor fire.
quentiy entailed, and are under the penalties
OF disbarment and States prison for violation
of legal restrictions. All this presupposes q
social condition which would tax 10 the ut.
most limit the most elastic credulity.
Miscellaneous.
S. J. McMillen, Co. X, LIST u. s., Clark
City, Mo, writes: % The 1st u. s was mus
tered in at Norfolk, Va, in June, 1864, and
was composed of men who had previously
served III the rebel army, service there in
most instances having been compulsory and
voluntary. Arriving at Fort Rice, Oak,
Oct 10, 1864, We were put to work ut re-
building the fort. About Jan. /, 1855, an
epidemic of scurvy broke out. and there was
great suffering and many deaths At times
men would lie in the dead-house for DAYS be-
cause OF the intense cold and the inability Of
the few who were fit for duty to bury them.
our duty was rigorous in the extreme L
think abont 100 out of six companies died.
quite number were killed by the Indians.
IN November, 1863, we were mustered out
We were promised $500 bounty, and never re-
celved cent. Under the act of 1890 Wa
were allowed pension if suffering from dis
ability Under Mr.. Cleveland we were
dropped on account of alleged disloyaltY.
We did our duty faithfully"
Thomas A. Shepherd, Co. l., 18th No. Cav,
Russeiiville, Mo-, believes that the prisoners
OF war have not received fair treatment from
the Government. He would have each given
~ per day for every day he was confined in
rebel prisons. Hardly one of these men is as
we'll to-day as his more fortunate comrades
who escaped capture.
Daniel Spencer, Co. G., 18th Iowa, Cres-
well, Ore, writes in defense of the pensioners.
Comrade Spencer served over three years and
SIX months, and was with Sherman on his
march to the sea. His pension was granted
at - per month, but under the last Admins
tration was reduced one-t third. He has been
unable to work for nearly eight years.
Mrs. A. G. Sparks. Lee, Mass, thinks that
had those who are attacking the pensioners
fallen into the hands of Wirz for month or
two there would be less kicking about the
large pension roll Those who are crying
loudest against the veterans have never stood
by the monument to the unknown dead at
Arlington or scraped lint for the wounded
soldiers from 1861 to 1869
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nine months accumulation of pitch, pine
tar, rosin-soot, and South Carolina sand.
that we did not think we had better
start in upon it until we either had the
shock cut of, or had whole ocean and
q vat of soap to wash it out with.
After scrubbing until we were ex-
hausted we got off the first few outer
layers-the post tertiary formation, a
geologist would term it-and the smell
of many breakfasts cooking, coming
down over the hill, set our stomachs in
q mutiny against any longer fasting.
We went back, rosy, painting, glow
ing, but happy, to get ourselves some
breakfast.
Should Providence. for some inscrut-
able reason, vouchsafe me the years of
Methusaleh, one Of the pleasantest recol-
lections that will abide with me to the
close of the nine hundredth and sixty
| ninth year, will be of that delightful
odor of cooking food which RECALLED our
senses as we came back. From the
! boiling coffee and the meat frying in
| the pan rose an incense sweeter to the
senses thousand times than all the per-
fumes of far Arabia. 1t differed from
the loathsome odor of cooking cornmeal
as much as it did from the effiuvia of a
sewer.
| Our noses were the first of our senses
to bear testimony that we had passed
from the land of starvation to that of
plenty. Andrews and l fastened off to
get our own breakfast, and soon had a
mitigation of strong coffee and frying
pan full of meat cooking over the fire
not one of the beggarly skimped little
fires we had crouched over during our
months of imprisonment, but royal.
generous fire, fed with logs instead of
shavings and splinters, and giving out
heat enough to warm a regiment.
Having eaten positively all that We
could swallow, those of us who could
walk we're ordered to fall in and march
over to Wilmington. We crossed the
branch of the river on pontoon bridge,
and took the road that led across the
narrow sandy island between the two
branches, Wilmington being situated on
the opposite bank of the farther one.
When about half way shout from
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C.pyright. 1897, by Mary s. Lock wood.
CHAPTER NIv-(eOn,irmed).

CHATTER Alt-ic0nfindCdt
The Diplomatic Corps in Society Minister
Genet and Why He was Recalled-The
Residences of Foreign Legations
The members of the different Legations
Contribute largely 10 the social enjoyment
of Washington, and many Of the most
brilliant entertainments ever given have
been by the Diplomatic Corps.
Through all the years that make up the
past century there have been very few
Interruptions Ia this social good feeling;
and very few occasions have been given IA
merit a demand for recall of a Diplomatic
representative.
The first was Minister Genet, OF France,
I'm 1893, for reasons already given. During
President JefferSon's second term differ
ence arose between Spain and the United
States on the boundary question. Mar
uuis d. Nruio, Minister Resident OF Spain,
was accused OF briDing a Federal news
paper 10 support Spanish interests.
This brought forth the Dill of John Quincy
Adams in the Senate, TO protect the
abuse of privileges of foreign Ministers p"
Minister d YTujo'S recall was asked and
complied with. Had Spain turned deaf
ear to the request, the bill would have
PASSED This was in the year 1907
jackson, of Great Britain, was recalled
in 1909. He succeeded ErSkine, but soon
became involved in quarrel with the
Secretary of State. His communications
were INDIGENOUS and insolent, and the
President directed the Secretary To receive
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Probably a majority Of the farmers and
gardeners Of the country know something
about the work OF Mr.. James j. ii. Gregory,
of Marb,ehead, Mass, and many of them
have been ga ners y his discove ries of new
varieties Of s4uashes, cabbages, potatoes,
and peas. Mr.. Gregory is the head of the
great seed house of James j. II. Gregory
q Son, and his strong CON mon sense and
careful experiments have done a great deal
TO make the Gregory "hOme grown" seeds
thoroughly relied upon wherever they are
sown, from the Atlantic To the Pacific, and
abroad. The most recent catalogue of tho
firm cOnta MS lengthy list Of improved
new varieties in vegetables, small fruits,
and flowers, and axast number of practical
farm and garden facts, acquired on the ex-
perimenta. farms at Maiblehead As tn s
book wi be sent free to anyone writing for
it, no one who plants seed, whether in a
very small garden or en- very large farm,
need lie without its. helpful Suggestions.
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persuaded the soldier aters, had they lived
in those bloody war-days, to stand up as a
target for rebel lead, much less paying for
the privilege"
"A Posts Strong Resolutions.
Lincoln Post, /, GAR, Topeka, Kan,
has adopted lengthy resolutions denouncing
the attack ON the pensioners by the soldier
hating press, and expressing the opinion that
while they, veterans of the war, would hail
with rejoicing the purging of the pension
rolls of frauds and unworthy persons, they
denounce those who would indiscriminately
condemn men who by deeds in the COS made
possible the peaceful conditions now enjoyed
by these penny-a-liners and cartoonists and
their employers"
The resolution rectes, among other things,
that the amount and kind of testimony re-
quired to secure n pension precludes the con-
cluson that fraudulent or unworthy claims
to any appreciate extent are allowed. The
opposite belief logically presupposes official
obliquity on the part OF Senators and Repre-
sentatiyes; on the part of scores of officers of
the Pension Department, to say nothing of
the perjury of applicants and thousands of
witnesses all over the country, subject to the
pains and penalties of perjury for swearing
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hold consisted OF three daughters. The
eldest, Victoria, was the presiding lady o.
the Legation; when she arrived in Wash
ington, in 1881, she was but II years O
age. In the superintendent Of the house
directing ceremonial dinners and social
entertainments, in fact in attending to al
the details of such an establishment, she
was supreme. But perhaps the need OF
praise given to this queen Of society was in
the close relation existing between the
father and daughter: to him she was al
ways wise counsellor, Il iudicious mana
ager, a living. tend daughter.
Flora, the second daughter, was married
To Gabriel SalansOn, Secretary Of the
French Legation during her fathers stay
in Washington. Amelia, the youngest
daughter, made her debut with great celia,
at the Legation. 1t was one Of the seasons
Of social glory.
Sir Lionel was succeeded by Sir Julian
Pauncefote, who afiixes the letters *. C.
b., {. NJ. e., to his name-a courageous
man, when one letter was sufficient Ia
immortalze his predecessor
Lady Pauncefotc was n Miss Cubett by
birth, and is a descendant of the famous
Lord Mayor Of that name.
Stewart Castle, ON Dupont Circle, was
built by Senator Stewart, OF Nevada, about
the time the British Legation was built by
Sir EDWARD Thornton. For Il time they
were lone sentinels, watching the course
OF empire take its way toward the West
Ind
The nglish Legation always wears ap-
parently a spick span new dress and as
sumes youthful appearance while Stew
art Castle puts on the air Of centuries, re-
sembiing some old knight watch of the
Rhine, with its towers, turrets and colored
windows.
The Chinese legation after many
L ,f lnII ii. n,
home, and many an evening, in the park
and grounds surrounding the house, could
have been seen Il Cotcric of celeStialS in
pigtaIls and petticOats, lOunging and
frOlicking in native abandonment. The
Minister gives literally toward the enter
tainment OF Washington society in the way
of dinner parties, balls etc. and the mem
berS Of the Legation are seen often wher-
ever society cOngrcgates.
The furnishing Of Stewart Castle was
much AS Mrs. Stewart left it, except as
oriental fancy dictated changes All the
armchairs had been collected in the large
drawing room, where row after row were
ranged in line until the room looked like q
parlor car Oh large scale.
The Offices Of the Legation were on the
ground floor; the upper stories were used
for domestic purposes.
The Legation is now settled in the house
occupying the southeast corner Of q and
1St.i streets WI Ting faEg, Envoy Extra
ordinary and Minister Plenipotcnt AIRY, is
! the present chef representative of Oh ma.
To be continued / -
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positively drunk, and fell helplessly int
some brush. / pulled him out ant
dragged him away to place where We
had made our rude bed.
| was dazed | could not compre
bend that thu l,1g-looked-for, often-de
spaired-of ev h d actually happened
| feared that sas one Of those tanta
lizing dreams mat had so often hanted
my sleep, only to be followed by &
wretched awakening.
Then / became seized with a sudden
fear lest the rebels attempted to retske
me. The line of guards around us
seemed very slight. 1t might be forced
in the night, and all Of us recaptured.
Shivering at this thought, absurd
though it was, / arose from our he'd, and
taking Andrews with me, crawled two
or three hundred yards into n dense
undergrowth, where, in the event of our
lines being forced, we would be over
looked.
After a sound sleep, Andrews and |
awoke to the enjoyment of our first day
of freedom and existence in Gods
country. The sun had already risen,
bright and warm, consonant with the
happiness of the new life now opening
for us.
But to nearly a score of our party his
beams brought 10 awakening gladness.
They fell upon stony, staring eyes, from
out of which the light Of life had now
faded, as the light of hope had done
long ago.
The dead lay there upon the rude beds
of fallen leaves, scnped together by
Thoughtful comrades the night before,
their clenchcd teeth showing through
parted lips, faces feshless and pinchel,
long, unkempt and ragged hair and
whiskers just stirred by the lazy breeze,
the rotting feet and limbs drawn up, and
skinny hands clenched in the last ago
MES. p'iH
Their fate seemed harder than that of
any who had died before them. 1t was
doubtful if many Of them knew that
they were at last inside Of our own lines.
Again the kind hearted boys of the
brigade crowdedIaround us with proffers
of service. OF an Ohio boy who directed
his kind tenders TO Andrews and me we
procured a chunk of coarse Iosin soap,
about as big asa pack of cards, and i,
towel. Never was there as great a
quantity of solid comfort got out Of that
much soap as we obtained. It was the
first that we had since that which stole
in Wirz's Headquarters in Junc-nine
months before. We felt that the dirt
which had accumulated upon us since
then would subject lis to assessment as
real estate if we we're in the North.
Hurrying off TO little creek, we began
our additions, and it was not long until
Andrews declared that there was per-
ceptble sandbar forming in the stream,
from what We washed off. Dirt deposits
of the pliocene era rolled off feet and
legs. Eocene incrustations let loose re-
luctantly from neck and ears; the hair
was mass Of tangled locks matted with
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ANDERSONVILLE.
Continued from first page.

rations, and they were dispensed to US
with what seemed reckless prodigality'
The lid of a box of bareback would be
knocked off, and the contents handed to
us as we filed past, with absolute disre-
gard as to quantity. If prisoner
looked wistful after receiving one hand
full of crackers, another was handed to
him; if his long furnished eyes still
fingered as if unclaimed by the rare
display of food, the men who were issu-
ing said:
Here, old fellow, there's plenty of
it; take just as much as YOU can carry
in your arms"
So it was also with the picked pork,
,, the coffee, the sugar, etc. We had been
stinted and starved so long that we could
not comprehend that there was anywhere
actually enough of anything.
The kind hearted boys who were act
ing as our hosts began preparing food
for the sick, but the Surgeons, who had
arrived in the meanwhile, were COM
PEELED to repress them, as it was plain
that while it was a dangerous expert
ment to give any of us all we could or
would eat, it would never do to give the
sick such temptation to kill themselves,
and only a limited amount of food was
allowed to he given those who were I'M
able to walk.
Andrews and l hungered for coffee,
the delightful fumes of which filled the
air and intoxicated our senses. Wepro-
cured enough to make our halfgallon
bucket full and very strong. We drank
so much of this that Andrews became