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MORGAN'S RIFLEMEN.
warriors Who Won the Respect and
Admiration of the Great
Warrington.

When Washington, one day riding
along his lines, saw the fringed hunt
ing-shirts of the Virginians approach
ing, the reserve Of his naturally unde-
monstrative nature broke down. al
the sight he stopped; the riflemen drew
nearer, and their commander, steppir g
i'll front, made the military salute, ex-
claiming: General, from the banks
of the Potomac! Washington dis
mounted, came to meet the battalion,
and going down the line with both
arms extended, shook hands with the
ritiemen one by one, tears rolling down
his cheeks as he did so. He then mount
ed, saluted, and silently rode on
The ritlenen were at once employed
as sharpshooters, and kept the enemy
continually in hot water. Hitherto the
British outposts had been safe enough
within stone's-throw of the American
lines, but they now found, to their cost,
that it was almost certain death to en-
pose their heads within 200 yards of a
rifielnan. So frequent became the re-
turns of officers, pickets and artillery
men shot at long range that Edmund
Burke exclaimed in parliament: ''Your
officers are swept off by the rifles if
they show their noses!" In the Brit
ish camp the rifemen were called
''shirt-tail men, with their cursed twist
ed guns; the most fatal widow and or
phan makers in the world" -Harper's
Magazine.
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A LAME CT Reason.

Prof. Morse, who invented the tele.
graph, once had queer lapse of reason.
He wanted to get the Baltimore & Ohio
railway to try his invention, which no.
body then believed in. The president Of
the road handed him over to a subor-
dinate, a man of brains, who saw at
once the greatness of the idea, and sat
up half the night discussing it with the
inventor. At length Morse confessed
that there was one thing that baff1ed
him "As long as the railroads run
where poles may be erected" he said,
''it is easy enough, but when we come
to the big bridges, what is to be done
then? We can't erect poles across the
stream, and without them the wire
would sag and perhaps break down of
it's own weight. I confess don't know
what to do. Can you suggest way out
of the ditficulty?" ''Why don't you
fasten the wires to the bridge?" asked
his companion, without an instant's
hesitation. For moment Morse gazed
at him with open mouth, and then ex-
claimed: "Why not, indeed? Why,
never thought of that way!"-Golden
DAYS.
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Miss Susan Wymar, teacher in the Rich.
mond school, Chicago, H., writes the follow
ing letter regarding Pe-ru:na. She. says:
"Only those who have suffered as I have,
:an know what blessing it is to be able to
ind relief in Pe-ru-na. This has been my
experience. A friend in need is friend in.
deed, and every bottle of Pc-ru-na I ever
bought proved good friend to me."-Susan
Wymar.
Mrs. Margaretha Dauben, 1914 North Su-
perior ST., Racine City, Wis, writes: Il feel
so we'll and good and happy now that pen can.
not describe it. Pe-ru-na is everything to
me. l have taken several bottles of Peru
ma for female complaint. l am in the
change of life and it does me good" Peru.
ma has no equal in all of the Irregularities and
emergencies peculiar to women caused by
pelvic catarrh.
Address DR.. Hartman, Columbus, O., for
free book for women Gully.
Remember that cholera morbus, cholera
infantum, summer complaint, bilious collie,
diarrhoea and dysentery are each and all
,atarrh of the bowels. Catarrh is the only
correct name for these affections. Pe-ru.na
is an absolute specific for these ailments,
which are so common in summer. Dr. Hart.
man, in practice of over forty years, never
lost single case of cholera infantum, dysen-
terry, diarrhoea, or cholera morbus, and his
only remedy was Pe-ru-na. Those desiring
further particulars should send for free
copy of Summer Catarrh." Address Dr..
Hartman, Columbus, 0.
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IN sHADowLAhp.

sit alone beside the fire and dream,
And watch the Pickering shadows on the
wall
Make weird. fantastic shapes. which rise
and fall
As flames and sinks the pine logs fitful
CLEAN.
It seems but yesterday. we sat here hand
in hand.
Though years have passed. hear her
voice so low
Murmuring the lullabies of long ago,
Mother and I, alone in Shadowland.
want her so, I long to hear her say:
IF you are sad, a cry will do you good
, Then clasp me close. All, how she I'M
S derstood
And healed the heartache in her tender
way!
Does she not know the longing? need tell
How 1 would take from off my brow this
crown
OF golden fame, which seems to weigh
me down,
II she could kiss the hurt and make it
well.
Friends pass me by. they do not under
stand,
Nor could they give that magic, healing
touch
That mothers know, and which we need
SO much,
And so we weep alone in Shadowland
Annie Grier Calender, in Chicago In
terror.
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Fee Strangely Earned.

It was on the night of the Jeffries-Fitz.
simmons prize fight, and man reached the
West side apartment house in which be
lived about two o;S.ock. A search of all his
pockets failed to Dring forth his bunch Of
keys. He rang the bell repeatedly for the
janitor, but could get no response. He was
exceedingly tired, there was no hotel in the
neighborhood, and, besides, there were fam.
lily reasons why it was inadvisable for him
to spend the rest of the night away from
home, The sight of physicians night bell
gave him an idea. He pushed the button
hard for 30 seconds or more. In due sea.
son the physician came to the door and
opened it.
:, "What is your fee for night calIs?" asked
the locked-out individual.
-Four dollars" was the astonished reply.
"All right, here you are. was locked out
and couldn't gel, in Sorry to trouble YOU"
happy in the thought of the evils he had es.
caped.-N. Y. Tribune.
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The Battle Field Route.

The Veterans of sixty-one and five and
their friends, who are going to attend the
BIRD G. A. r. Annual Encampment at Phila-
delphia in September, could not select bet.
ter nor more historic route than the Big
Four, Chesapeake & Ohio, with splendid
service from Chicago, Peoria and St; Louis
apoGs or Cincinnati and thence over the
Picturesque Chesapeake & Ohio along the
Ohio river to Huntington, West Va, thence
through the foot hills of the Alleghanies,
over the Mountains, through the famous
Springs Region Of Virginia to Staunton,
Va, between which point and Washington
are many of the most prominent Battle
fields: Waynesboro, Gordonsyille,, Cedar
Mountain, Rappahannock, Kettle Run,
Manassas, Bull Run, Fairfax, and a score Of
others nearly as prominent. Washington is
next, and thence via the Pennsylvania Line
direct to Philadelphia. There will be three
rates in effect for this business: LIST. Contin-
uous passage, with no stop-over privilege;
2nd Going and coming same route with one
stop-over in each direction; Sd. Circuitous
route, going one way and back another with
one stop-over in each direction. For full
information as to Routes, Rates, ETC., adj
dress j. c. Tucker, G. N. A., 234 Clark St.,
Chicago,
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athy - in short, everything pathic.
The patience of her husband was final
ly exhausted and he consented to enter
into a conspiracy with the doctor to
play upon his wife's jealousy. 1t was
arranged that he should seem deeply
smitten with a young widow, healthy,
rosy and jolly, who is secretly engaged
to be married to Los Angeleno.
There was no question about the I'M
happy hypochondriac's jealousy. 1t
blazed out in hysterical declaration
that the pretty widow was waiting for
her old shoes, but she vowed that she
would get better just to spite her sup
posed rival and to be avenged upon her
faithless husband.
She has kept her word and is now GER
tainly fair, fat and 40. But her doctor
says she is an example of the jealousy
cure,
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be regularly brought to her room every
morning to see her and to be fed by
her own hands, and allowed to take
short walk about her room.
Another member of the feminine
gender actually made pet of turkey,
and declared it should never be
eaten, but die in its own good time, y
which it did of old age.
A much more extraordinary in
stance of a strange pet, for woman
at any rate, was where an old lady SO
far overcame the natural repugnance
Of her sex as to tame mouse which
had been caught in her store cupboard
So successful was her treatment that
at last the tiny animal would take
crumbs from it's mistress fingers.
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woMEN's ODD PETS.
PiRs, Frogs, Turkeys and Even Mice
Have Found Favor with
the Ladies'.

Some minds are strikingly original,
even in the choice Of pets. Certainly
this was the case with the wife of a
gentleman farmer who made pet of
a pig. The animal lost its mother
early, and the lady, taking pity on the
little orphan, bore it off to the kitchen,
where she succeeded, by the aid OF a
feeding bottle, in rearing it.
The pig became great pet, and used
to follow it's owner like dog. 1t
could hardly have been it's outward
attraction that won her heart; it must
have been its qualities which endeared
it to her.
Another very singular pet was a
frog, which was tanned by young
girl in the country and would come out
from under the leaves at her approach
to be fed with a strawberry.
A lady who was confined to her room
had fowl which, before her illness,
was a constant companion. 1t used to
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is a brunette. She is an exceptionally
pretty woman, easily the fairest of the
players. She is almost as big draw
ing card as the whole orchestra.
The other evening two men seeking
pleasure dropped into the garden, and
Immediately fell under the spell of the
young woman. To be as near as posi-
BILE to the musician they moved to the
table nearest the orchestra.
The belle of the aggregation was
operating her trombone industriously.
The young men sat entranced. Finally
across the face of one came curious
expression. He edged closer to the or
chestra, and listened more intently.
''Say, Jack, she's dummy" said
the listener, in a whisper, to his friend.
"a dummy Who?"
"Why, the brunette. Not note come
from her trombone"
Nonsense"
Fact; listen"
And the two listened again, and
found it was even so. The young wom-
an probably drew her salary for her
good looks.
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NAVIGATION SUGGESTION.
Captain Should Not Lay Out His Yes
sells Course without AS
Sixtance.

All theories about magnetic attrac-
ton and unknown currents will have
to be dismissed so far as the Paris acct
dent is concerned, says the Philadel-
phia Press. 1t demonstrates one weak
feature in the method now followed in
determining the course of a vessel at
sea. The captain of a vessel determines
the course without consultation with
the other navigating officers. If he
makes a mistake there is no check on
him, unless the man on the bridge dis
covers land or light that causes a
change.
The suggestion made some time ago,
that more than one officer should take
part in laying the course of vessel,
seems to be a wise one. The captain
could, for that matter, proceed as he
does now, but if another officer were re-
quired to make separate calculation
and give it to the captain, a mistake
such as that made by Capt. Watkins
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CURED BY JEALOUSY.
How One Woman Was Made Well
and Rosy by the Grcen-Eycd
Monster.

1t would never do to give any clew to
the identity of the physician who con-
ducts private hospital and who has
just successfully accomplished a new
departure in medicine, says the San
Francisco News Letter.
One of the patients is wealthy but
ignorant woman, who has been for
many years confirmed hypochondriac
and who had successfully tried allopa-
thy, homeopathy, hydropathy, osteop-
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THAT boy! You ought to have seen

THAT boy! You ought to have seen
him in those first pants! This town
warn't big enough to hold him, in 'em!
can look right over your head and see
him out there in the yard, strutting.
Little Tad was dreadful short and
broad-the pockets in those little bits
of short-legged pants came clean down
to his knees-'most. He learned to
whistle the same day-wearing pants
inspired him, guess. Before, he'd
only wheezed. Emmy didn't like
whistling-little Tad used to go down
behind the barn so she wouldn't
hear"
"And you went down behind the
barn to hear" Diana said, with low
laugh.
"Yes,' admitted Miss Senthrilla.
There was only one other verse to the
little poem" Diana put her gold
brown head down on the buttons in
Miss Senthrilla's lap and cried when
they came to it. And Miss Senthrilla's
light fingers wandered over the girls
head while she talked.
'"rhat one was on little Tad's soldier
clothes, my dear. It's furnished now,
but, dearie me, it was bright enough
then! There We're two rows of 'em
down the front of his coat, and some on
his sleeves. I sewed 'em all on stronger
they were on so fimsy when he
brought the blue suit home. Little
Tad was regular soldier in those brass
| h1% To h
and he was so proud of them!
II kissed him the last time when he
went marching away-Emmy didn't
mind. I went up on Blue mountain to
watch the boys go down the turn
pike. You can see great ways from
the top of Blue mountain, and had the
old spyglass, too. 1 was certain l
could tell which was little Tad till they
were clear out of sight.
"Once he saw me and waved his SOL
der cap. Then saw the sunshine shin
ing on his brass buttons. 1 never did
again. My dear, 1 lost my way coming
home that day! I couldn't see the
road"
The little dull brass button in Miss
Senthrilla's hand caught dim light
from the glow in the west where the
sun was going down. Miss Senthrilla' S
hand closed over it tightly.
II went to take care of him, when he
was shot, but I didn't get there soon
enough. This little button was all I
found Of my little soldier Tad. Some
body who was kind had cut it of for
me. Emmy let me keep it. For years,
my dear, I kept it in little box of pink
cotton, but / got afraid, by and by,
that folks would find it after died, and
think l was romantic. So put it in
here with the other buttons. L think
I had forgotten it-but l hadn't for
gotten little Tad.
81 never told anybody all this before
it just slipped out to you, my dear.
If any one remembers my little Tad
now, it's just as Em1ny's boy-not
mine. But he was mine."
When Diana got home the baby's
mother met her at the door curiously.
"'Sh! he's asleep!--well?"
Diana's eyes were Redeemed, and her
lively little face had a subdued softness
in it. The baby's mother regarded it
in surprise. .
swell? did you find Miss Senthrilla's
poetry?" she questioned, in whisper.
Her own face was unbelieving.
Diana caught the little woman's
hands in hers with an impetuous ges-
ture.
eyes, oh, yes, found it," she cried
softly. II found it in her button box"
Housewife.
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might easily be discovered in time to

might easily be discovered in time to
avert disaster.
Age and experience do not guarantee
freedom from error. Accidents more
often happen to the experienced cap
tains than to the inexperienced ones.
Perhaps in a long course of years they
are apt slightly to relax their vigilance,
and then comes the danger. The cap
tains of all the steamship lines lay out
the course of their vessels without
check of any kind from other officers.
There would appear to be need of a
change in that respect.
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Initiated His Mother,

He criticised her pudding and he
didn't like her cake; she hadn't made
the biscuit like ''his mother used to
make" She didn't wash the dishes,
and she didn't make the stew; and she
didn't mend his stockings ''as his moth
err used to do" o, well, she wasn't
perfect, but she tried to do her best,
until at length her time had come to
have little rest; so when one day he
growled and whined the whole day
through and through, she turned him
up and famed his pants ''as mother
used to do.'-Glasgow Echo.
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A Sloppy AnnOuncem cnt i.

A Kansas printer in making up the forms
one day in hurry got marriage and gro.
GERS notice mixed up SO they read as fol-
lows: John Smith and Ida Quay were
will be sold by the quart or barrel. Mr..
Smith is an esteemed Goldfish at ten cents;
while the bride has nice pigs feet to dis
play"-Michigan Tyre.
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New DESIGN for GrfnS.

A new detachable grip for bicycle
handle bars has an expansible sleeve,
with a cone inside and cap at the
end, screw being set in the latter
to draw the cone into the sleeve and
grip the interior of the bar, while the.
outer portion of the grip is attached
to the rim of the cap.
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THEY ALWAYS GET THERE.

''The New York and Chicago cab
drivers ought to take a few lessons
from the French, and particularly the
Parisians," observed the Cincinnati
woman who had just returned from Eu-
rope. II had been shopping and took
a tiacre to return to the hotel. We had
scarcely gotten under way when we
knocked down a pedestrian and l pulled
the strap and said to the driver:
"'Did you not see that you ran over
a man?'
"'Very plainly, madame he replied,
but he should not have been in my
way
Five minutes later a hind wheel
came off, and 1 pulled the strap and
asked:
"'Nhy don't you stop? Can't you see
that you have lost wheel?'
81 see, madame he replied, but we
have three wheels left
1--WE went scraping along for few
minutes" said the lady, land then the
other wheel came off. thought the
man would stop then, but as he didn't
pulled the strap and said:
'''We have lost both hind Wheels
"'Ah! yes, madame he answered,
with smile; but we have not lost
FOUR
And he whipped up his horses and
dragged along for a quarter of mile
and brought me up to the hotel with a
great flourish. When got out asked
7
other two wheels had parted company,
and he waved his hand towards them
and shrugged his shoulders and re-
piled:
1T is impossible, madame. I never
lost but two wheels in carrying a beau
tiful lady!"
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Caller-I have here several bills which
are long overdue and
Harduppe (desperately)I am sorry to
say that our cash Ter is out to-day.
''Oh, well, it doesn't make much differ
ence; I'll call and pay them at some fu-
ture date. Good day, sir. philadelphia
Record
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Alternative hypothesis.

81 love you" he whispered.
Ernestine trembled, and regarded
him perplexedly.
DO my ears deceive me?" she asked
herself. ''Or does my complexion de-
ceive him?'
For it was her misfortune to lack
confidence in her..eif.-Detroit Journal.
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Work for All.

Thousands of men are making good wages
in the harvest fields of Minnesota, North
and South Dakota There is room for thou
sands more Half rates via the Great North
ern Railway from St. Paul. Write Max
Bass, 22O South Clark Street, Chicago, Ill.
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Porous Plaster.

"What are the holes for?" asked little
Edna, looking at the porous plaster that
her mother was preparing to adjust on
Willie's back. cts funny you don't know
that, SIS interposed Willie. They're to
let the pain out, of course. Boston Tray.
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We have often wondered that women do
not have their kitchen dresses made as low
necked as their party dresses. 1t would GER
tainly be cooler in working over hot stove.
-Atchison Globe.
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The Eye of Genius,

All men of genius are said to have
eyes clear, slow moving and bright.
This is the eye which indicates mental
ability of some kind, it doesn't matter
what.
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An Exception.

Mother Clearing Ethel say her
orayersJ-And let us all live to good
I'D age
Ethel-I'll not pray for aunty to live
to a old age.
Mother (astounded)-Why?
Ethel-'Cause she's ashamed of her
,ge now.-Puck.
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The Com mon Fate.

Like everybody else the sea waves arrive
at the shore in great style, but they so away
broke.-Philadelph Record.
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Some girls don't seem to think of much
but wearing good clothes, and we don't
blame them.-Washingto Qa.) Democrat.
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Power of . Woman.

In five minutes woman can clean up
mans room in such way that it will take
him five days to find out where she put
things-Berlin Herald.