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VIII Use "GOt" Hereafter.

There is long standing dispute
whether got or gotten" is the
preferable participle, and the recent
experience of college professor may
throw some light on the subject. He
telegraphed to his wife: II have got
ten tickets for the opera tonight. Meet
me there" The telegraph operator
rendered this into "lIave got ten tick
cts" etc. Mrs. Professor was delighted
with the opportunity of entertaining
her friends, and accordingly made up
a party of eight beside herself, and
they all met the professor in front of
the opera house that evening. We may
imagine the feelings OF the unfortunate
man, and no one knows how he ex-
planned matters, but we may be sure
that he will not use gotten" again in
n telegram
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enormous strength, and the few cap
tured have had TO be kept in close con-
tinement. Sally seems to have been
born with better temper than most OF
her kind, for so far she has shown none
of the wicked traits that have distin-
pushed other orang-outangs.
She is an educated animal and eats
her meals with knife and fork, sitting
at the table with napkin tied under
her chin, looking TO near-sighted per-
son for all the world like and ugly and
very hirsute old man with large head
and an intelligent habit Of bending too
far over his te.--Philadelphia Press.
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the real situation, and presently he
said:
GA good many of your men have been
coming to our lines during the past
two weeks"
'Mebbe so,' was the reply. Thar
are critters in both armies who are too
low down fur any use. I reckon we
don't need SIGH folks. What did yo'r
Gen. Grant say to them?"
ooh, he treated them WE'LL
did, Ell? Say, Yank, jest fell into
fit O. thinllin' to-day. It's only nat
eral that l stick to Gineral Lee and yo'
stick to Gineral Grant, but that amt no
reason why we can't talk squar'. What
yo' goin' to do anyway"
"I'll tell YOU" soberly replied the
federal, who had left clerkship to
shoulder musket. We've got three
men to your one in the field. We can
make it five or six TO one. We have got
your ports blockaded, your armies
cooped up, and though you fight like
the devil we shall win. 1t can't be 9TH
erwise. In year or less there will be
no more southern confederacy."
''That's big talk said the confed-
crate, as he looked away into the
bushes.
"But it's also true talk. You ought
to be able to figure it out for yourself.
Grant is gaining every Gay, while Lee
is losing. Where we have hundred
men killed we bring down two hundred
to replace them. Where you lose a
hundred men it's dead loss. You
must get to the end by and by"
"And when yo've whopped us-then
what?"
"Oh, l suppose We'll go back home
and the old union will 60 on as before"
"What'll git fur all I've done?"
"Your discharge"
but durn my hide if l hain't fit and
marched and starved fur two y'ars!"
"Yes, but you won't get anything out
of it. There will be nothing to get.
You'll lay down your arms with the
rest and GO back to your homes"
tiff it's goin' to be that way" said
the confederate as he glanced about,
whats the use of my hangin' on any
longer. Why not cut sticks right
away?"
"You mean why not DESERT" an
swered the other. That's for you to
decide. The confederates who have
come in have been well treated. Some
have enlisted to fight the Indians, and
some have been sent home. If you want
to surrender to me I'll send you into
camp"
But what's yo'r idea o. this deser-
ton bizness?"
''Fll tell you squarely. The more of
you that come in the sooner the war
will end. but look upon a common dog
as WAY above a deseTter.
al CiUD PAGE ITO.
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ANIMALS CAN COUNT.
The Horse, However, Is the best CAL
cuIatOr Among Them, According
to an Old Observer.

An ornithologist, after many expert
ments on parrots, holds that they can
count up to four. A Russian physician,
DR.. Timohetf, extended these expert
ments to birds, dogs, cats and horses.
He concludes that crows can count up
to ten, dogs to "a, cats only to six, but
horses carry off the palm as calculators.
In village of the government of Po-
kow, DR.. 1imohetf studied a horse be-
longing to peasant, ana ioNnd that the
borse always stopred at the end of its
twentieth furrow. 1t did not stop when
tired, but only after every 20 burrows.
1t was so exact about this that its mas
ter reckoned the number of burrows
that Ne had made by the number of
times that the horse halted The ami
NAL counted for the man. In another
village DR.. Timoheff saw horse that
calculated the versts (Russian miles,
by the number of posts on the road, and
the time by the striking of the clock
One day this physician was going to
Valdni, when at the twenty-second
verst one of the horses hitched to the
trOlFl Ia tDrcc-nOTSeu CdTTluSt) supp
ped suddenly. The driver got down
from his seat, gave some proven
der TO the horse and drove on. The
horse had been trained by its master
when very young to get food at every
25 versts. There can be no doubt that
the horse kept count by the posts along
the road. 1t had made mistake this
time of three versts, but it was not its
fault. Along the road there were three
other posts besides the telegraph posts
which looked very much like them.
Hence the error of three versts.
This same horse was accustomed to
get its food in stable near which the
town clock rang at noon. DIR. Timofieff
himself saw the horse prick up its ears
and listen, but droop its head dissatis-
fled when less than IL strokes sounded.
On the contrary, it manifested all kinds
of satisfaction when it heard the
twelfth stroke of the bell, neighing for
its provender.
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She Guessed the Answer.

A little girl, who had just entered
school, jubilantly announced to her
father that she had beaten all the girls
above her in the arithmetic class and
gone to the top. THAT was clever of
YOU" said he, encouragingly. How
was ito" "Well, you see, the teacher
asked the girl at the head how much
was and 5, and she didn't know, and
said IL, and the next girl said 8, and
the next one said II, and the next one
said IA. Such silly answers! Then the
teacher asked me, and | said -, and
she told me to go to the top. Course
it was 49," THAT was NICE" said the
father II didn't think you could add
so well. How did you know it was
l3?' why, guessed it. Nobody said
l3."
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ORANG-OUTANG SALLY.
Simian Pet Who Lives in More COM
fort Than Most of Her Human
Neishbors.

Residents of the eastern town of Ban
galore are daily treated to the extraor-
binary spectacle of an enormous
ourang-outang being wheeled through
the streets like baby. The accom-
panying picture, from a photograph,
shows the big brute, whose name il
Sally, comfortably seated in her car
riage of state, with look of wooden
contentment on her face.
Sally is about five feet in height and
weighs about 100 pounds. She is high
ly intelligent animal and has always
shown the greatest affection for her
dusky attendant, whom she allows oc-
casionally to take her place in the wag-
on while she does the pushing. The
orang-outang was reared from a baby
by government elephant catcher
named Sanderson, and is one of the very
few of the species that have proved
tamable.
The orangs are usually ferocioUs
brutes, possessing in their long arms
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-06
SNAKES CATCH RATS.
Reptiles Are Made to Serve Very
Useful Purpose in Some of the
Philippine Islands.

As the writer was sitting out under
the broad piazza at the restaurant, taxi
ING coffee after dinner, his eyes hap
pened to be turned upward About ten
feet above his head there was broad
beam, probably 10 inches square, the
horizontal support of the second story.
Directly above, looking down at the
group below, was the head of an i'm
mense snake, ten feet away. The end
of his tail was carelessly hanging over
the beams side.
The writer gave one jump, landing
six feet away, exclaiming: Good heav-
ems, PARTRIDGE" (our consul then at
Manila, temporarily in charge of Amer
lean matters at lloilo).
"Where is ito" he asked not moving
from his comfortable American cane
seated rocker.
"Why, just over your head
'Sit down here" he said to me. THAT
snake came here when this house was
put here. There are three or four 9TH
ers of his kind here besides. Without
these snakes this low-lying town would
be about uninhabitable. They keep the
house absolutely clear and free from
rats, mice, reaches, waterbugs, an &C.
casional tarantua or scorpion. He
scents a stranger as quickly as would
detective. He knows you are one
But as you are with me it will be all
right. He and ! are acquainted"
And then Partridge called up some
thing to him in Tagalese and in few
moments he moved away.
"Bitc? Oh, yes, and viciously, too,
if fooled with. He can inflict serious
wounds with his fine, sharp teeth. But
he has no poison fangs.'
Two or three evenings after that l
witnessed how he operated. A great
coal-black rat was coming along on q
beam just below the one occupied by
his snakeship. AS he came opposite to
me big serpent's black and yellow
spotted head shot out four or five feet
away. He seized that rat as a cat would
between his teeth. Next day as 1
passed this snake fast asleep in the hot
sun / noticed a ratlike enlargement or
expansion on his diaphragm. / knew
where that rat was.-lloilo Letter in
Washington Post.
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CUBAN CAMPAIGN STORY.
A Native Cook who Obeyed His Amer
lean Masters Orders Too
Literally.

"Apropos of the hardships of our boys
in Cuba said an officer who saw good
deal of duty on the island TN tell you
a bit of Il story. Shortly after our regi
ment went on duty near Santiago, at
the beginning of Woods administration
as governor, we began TO be able to take
Il little better care of ourselves than
we had done throughout the campaign.
One of our captains-1 won't mention
his name, for he's sore about this affair
was a great crank on the subject of
microbes, and took extraordinary pains
to avoid their society. He had picked
up a raw Cuban for a cook, and gave
him the most explicit orders to boil all
the water used in the mess, no matter
where he got it. Boil everything we
drink, he said, or I'll kick your back
bone through the top of your hat The
Cuban promised faithfully, and obeyed
the order to the letter.
"A week or so afterward the captain,
while foraging about town, was pre-
sented with a quart bottle of cham
payne from one of the ships. He was
oyerjoyed, and, securing a small lump
of ice, he hustled back to camp and
turned over his prizes to his cook. i
want you to get up something extra
good to-day, he said, for | am going to
ask a few friends to dinner to help
drink this wine At the appointed hour
the party assembled, and after serving
a repast of stewed beef and sweet po-
tatoes the cook stallled in, carrying
steaming saucepan half full of a mud.
dy-looking yellow liquid. What in
thunder is that?' asked the captain.
That's tn wine, senor,' replied the Gu.
ban, gravely. 4 boil i'm good deal
an e mos all go way. The guests
roared with laughter, and the captain
was so thunderstruck he couldn't say
word. He subsequently recovered him
self sufficiently to grab cleaning rod
and chase the Cuban nearly half mile.
After that all anybody had to do to
get a fight was to say boiled cham
payne When / left the wound still
rankled."-N O. Times-Democrat.
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the palm upward he brought his right
list down with a "swat!" and half
shouted:
tom Boyer, if you amt drafted
idiot then l never seen one! Yo' had
bag O. co'n-meal in the cabin, mo or
less whisky in the jug, and yo' could
hunt all day and sleep all night. Rab-
bits and squirrels was plentiful, and all
the hard work yo' had to do was to
kill 'skeeters and scratch yer own back.
Yo' left all that fur to cum to wah
and be bossed about like niger and
live like q mewl. If that amt bein' a
fule then dunno!"
The squirrel above him ratified down
bark and twigs on his head, and the
soldier removed his hat with impatient
hand and asked:
And when we've licked the Yankees,
then what? Anybody goin' to do any
thing for yo'? Not as yo' knows on!
Yo'll be turned out to go back home
and find things wuss than befo'. And
if the Yankees lick us-then what? /
don't allow they kin ever do it, but it
may happen. Then where will Tom
Boyer be? l don't like it, and l amt
feelin right about it. Pears to me
that suthiu' orter be did"
The soldiers back itched, and he
rubbed it up and down the rough bark
of the tree to the detriment of his thin
and ragged jacket.
Il didn't want to go to wah," he
unused, as he increased his motions, "but
Kurnel Ryder cam along and said had
to, and he didn't give me no time to
git into the woods. If they f'oced me
into it then it pears to me-then it
truly pears to me that it's my right to
walk off. When man with sense into
his head has had huff he quits. Reckon
I've had huff"
Tom Boyer bad been disgruntled for
long weeks, but this was the first time
he had gone into an argument with
himself to reach conclusion, The re-
suit frightened him. He glanced fur
lively about, walked over and seized his
gun, and his heart thumped as if peril
menaced him. Thus for a minute, then
he recovered his nerve and said.
Il amt goin' to be fule huff to start
fur home and run up agin thousand
men to send me back to be shot. I'm
a-goin'-I'm goin'-. Wall, dunno.
Sum of our boys hev gone over thar
and bin treated mighty squar'. If they
wasn't sent home they struck good
jobs. They call it dese-tin'. That's a
powerful hard word Don't reckon /
want II hitched on TO my name. Iwon-
der"
lie ffed and lighted his pipe and
went back to his log. and he had
smoked for couple of minutes before
he said:
Il won't desert, but I'll 60 over and
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tons show how very small the pony
really is. The carriage to which it is
yoked is child's mail cart, and it seems
big enough for it. The little lady who
holds the reins is Miss Rhoda Hunter
and the pony's name is also Rhoda.
This small yet perfectly formed speci.
men of the pony breed belongs to Mr.
Peter Anderson, Lerwick. 1t is three
years old, yet stands but 80 inches in
height. 1t is black in color and is in
the same shaggy condition in which it
came out of it's native hills. It's owner
has refused big price for this rarity
Brooklyn Eagle.
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a confederate soldier 40 years old, his
uniform stained and ragged and his
bearded face having an almost woHish
look, sat on a log in the depths OF
wood with his muskct resting beside
him. He was on picket post, but there
was no particular call for vigilance
with the afternoon sun beating down
on the fields and tacit truce existing
along the front. The man sat with his
face in his hands and his eyes on the
leaves at his feet, and for half an hour
he hardly moved. Then he slowly
Strengthened up and looked around and
growled
''Shuck my hide if I amt tired of this
we're fussin' around! Nuthin' has come
of it but heap o. walkin' and fightin'
and poor fodder, and I'm gettin' mighty
nigh the end!"
A squirrel in tree in front of him
whisked its tail and set up a great
chatter, and the soldier instinctively
reached for his gun.
mo, it won't do" he sighed, as he
drew back his arm. Heaps O fresh
meat in these woods, but it amt fur US.
Beans and bacon is the fodder for a
man as has got to march all night and
fight all day. And what am I marchin'
and fightin' fur? l was pore and
shaclelty before the war, and I'll be
pore and shackelty when it's over. No
body amt goin' to do nuthin' fur Tom
Boyer to gin him lift. Deed, but
had no business to mix up in it tall. I
was heap better off befo' they went to
fussin bout this yere union and
dragged me into it."
He stood up with his back to tree
ateS his feet braced and began to get
excited Holding out his left hand with
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-06
The Eternal Fitness
By M. QUAD
Copyright, 1898

"You-you wanted to see me?" said
the business man, as he turned in his
Office chair at the entrance of a
stranger.
Yes, SIR" was the reply from the
well-dressed, sperous-looking caller.
Il left your house half an hour ago"
Him. One of my wife's relatives
brother or something's"
mo, sir. l am a tramp. / called
there to ask for an old coat, and she
hunted me up this outfit-overcoat-
business uit-hat-shoes-ev
These things must have cost you at
least $50
Nearer $780," growled the business
man.
Don't doubt it, but you see the fix
/ am in. There is such thing as the
eternal fitness of things. / can't go
around striking folks for a nickel in no
such rig-out as this"
Mo-"
"And no one would think OF asking
Inc to carry out ashes or shovel snow"
"Well?"
''Well, you'll have to give me a job
or i shall have to return the clothes"
The merchant scratched his head,
sighed heavily, and ringing his bell he
said to the boy who answered it:
Joseph, tell Mr.. Markham to put
this gentleman to work at SIS per week,
and advance him as fast as his talents
and attention to my interests seem to
deserved"
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Neosho, Mo-. has named it's new pub
lie school in honor of Eugene Field.
The alumni of the University of Geor-
gia are to raise an endowment fund OF
Sl00,GoG.
Slams crown prince is student at
Harrow, England. He is popular with
his school-fellows.
Within the German empire there arr
JIG Baptist churches, $4,000 members
761 stations, 162 preachers and elders
65 missionaries and colporters, 367 Sun.
day schools, with 400 teachers and IT,.
076 scholars.
Senator Depew, though himself
graduate of Yale, does not think a col
lege education necessary. In these
days" he says, sit is well to know much,
but it is imperative to know some one
thing WELL"
Diplomas issued by the dental col
leges of Harvard, Pennsylvania. Michi-
gan and Vanderbilt universities are
recognized in the Netherlands, royal
order to that effect having been pub
lished in the Official Gazette at The
Hague on April s.
They have a new name for Assistant
Professor Walter A. Wyckoff, of Prince
ton university. Since he had his re-
markable experience as laborer, which
led to his epoch-making book THE
Workers." he has been called Weary"
'Wyckoff, after Weary Waggles, of the
comic weeklies.
Miss Lille j. Martin, who has just
been appointed professor of psychol-
ogy in Leland Stanford university,
studied for four years with Prof. Null
Ter in Germany, and was the first wom-
an ever admitted to that scientists la.
boratory. The professor thought so
much of her ability that he requested
her aid in preparing one of his books.
The Madison Avenue and the Phil.
lips Presbyterian churches of New
York city have decided to unite. 1t il
proposed to sell the Madison Avenue
church for 100000. OF this sum $780,
| 900 will be used for rebuilding the Phil
lips church, and 100000 set aside as IN
endowment. Both pastors will rems in
with the united church.
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The Confederate Who Went Back
Bv CHARLES B. LEWIS
Copyright, 1873

hev talk with that Yankee picket. He
amt goin' to make me believe that Gen.
Grant kin ever whop Gen, Lee and bust
up this confederacy, but I'd kinder like
to talk with him. I've got an hour to
do it in, and he won't be on the shoot
if / yell at him. No, amt goin' to do
no desertin, but I'll hev talk"
The man started off at once, as if
fearful that delay would bring change
of heart, and five minutes later he was
hailing the federal picket from behind
the trunk of a tree. He was told to
come in, and after extracting the usual
promise that he would not be detained
he advanced with confident step.
''Hello, Johnny"
''Hello, Yank!"
81 thought you were coming in to
surrender
"Shoo! Don't reckon 1 look like de-
serter, though hain't got my Sunday
buds On. 70 see, / was sorter lonesome
over thar by myself, and bein' we
wasn't mad at each other thought we
might as well hev talk. How long yo'
folks goin' to keep fussln around
yere?"
Until we end the war;"
'Then yo'll never git back home.
Say, Yank, yo's got the most men and
all that, but Yves goin' to whop yo'
fur all that. Lees goin' to capture
Grants whole army in the next fight"
That's all stuff. Well hev you all
in bag before the next MONTH"
They chaffed away in the greatest
good-nature for few minutes, and
then the confederate fell silent. He
wanted to open the conversation on a
new line, but did not know how to be-
gin. The federal had a suspicion OF
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A WONDERFUL TREE.
Tropical Palm Growing In BRAZIL
That Supplies Nearly All OF
Mans Necessities.

Nature does some wonderful things
in the tropics toward supporting pop
ulation rendered lazy by her climatic
moods in those regions. For example,
there is carnauba palm growing in
Brazil which yields nutritious milk
from which flour is made. The same
tree produces edible nuts from which
a fair imitation of coffee may be eX-
tracted; its roots have medicinal prop
critics; its palmetto is eaten as a
vegetable; yields a sugar and sage,
both very nutritious, and from it wine
and vinegar are produced; the stem
contains n pith which can be used for
cork, is covered with Il straw that is
woven into hats, baskets, bJ ooms and
mats: the wood of the stem is used
in the manufacture of musical instru-
ments, for building material or ground
up for paper and cloth; with the pith
punched out it becomes available for
pump stock and tubes. And, finally,
this wonderful tree gives up a resin
Gus wax much used for making fine
candles.
The carnauba tree is naturally high
lv priced in Brazil, since it supplies
about all of mans necessities. But
what additional value it would have if
it could be grown in this temperate
zone, where humanity has been taught
by necessity to hustle for subsistence.
If the carnauba could be grown. by the
North American farmer there would
be vast amount of surplus energy to
be turned into other avenues or wasted.
Nature is wise distributor.-Pitts-
burgh Dispatch.
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THREE WORTHY WORDS.

My lad, three lessons would I write,
Three words upon your heart engrave.
Through all your life, to guide you right
Be true be kind be brave.
BE TRUE, whatever may betioc.
Speak. aci the truth at any cost;
or little worth is all beside,
II trust in you be lost.
Be KIND, another's feelings heed;
Slight no occasion you may find
For gentle word and loving deed;
IT'S noble to be kind
Ee BRAVE. with courage true and strong
Mind neither ridicule nor sneer;
To dare TO do the weak wrong
But proves the basest fear.
If you, my lad, these lessons three,
These simple words, your motto make,
Esteem and honor yours shall be,
With fortune in their wake.
Philip Burroughs Strong. in Golden Days
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German Telephone system.

The telephone service OF Germany In
controlled and managed by the de-
partment for posts and telegraphs.
The rates are low, the charge for To-
cal telephone being 1855 per annum,
including the rental of the instrument
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TINY SHETLAND PONY.
Although Three Years Old, Yet II
Stands But Thirty-rwO
Inches In Height.

Here is the smallest Shetland pony
living. At first sight one would mag
inc the man on the left of the picture to
be giant in stature, but it is only
"Willim," the park Keeper of the pub
lie park at Lerwick, who is of medium
height. His relatively huge proper
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-06
An Honest MINI.

Biggs-Does Dobbs ever bring any
thing back that he borrows?
Boggs-Oh, yes. He brought back
my snow shovel on the first of May
n. Y. Journal.
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CI.ar O,se of Swim die.

Il see you have glass eye, Pat"
"Yes, yer inner. but it's a swindle,
sir. | can't see nuthing out OF It."