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tell his story about being Col. Paimer's
slave. but then. feeling that he was
doomed, he would not die with a lie on
his lips. He recalled himself, and an
swered calmly:
"Capn, I'm from Newton County,
What air you doin' down hyahT'
us wild de Yankee army
The Captain sprang to his feet and
looked at him. "A spy exclaimed the
men, cooking their guns. XIII him. Kill
the damned Niger"
Hold on a minute, men," said the Cap
tain. raising his hand. What air you
dom with the Yankees, boy?'
"Whatebber dey tells me- said Uncle
Ephraim, calmly. He was going TO die
now, and the plain truth was the best
They come along and took you away
from your master. and made you go into
their army. did they?"
No, sab. | run away from my mas
ter an jined they ns.'
What, you Internal scoundrel,' roared
the Captain. Did you run away to join
the Yankees
Yes. sab: me an my ole woman"
The Captain roared again, and the men
waited for him to give the order to shoot.
"Whar do you come from now! Whar
air the Yankees you've just been WITH
he asked, as soon as he cooled down Il
little.
Il reckon I've done talked enough"
said Uncle Ephraim, composedly.
Come, now, hoy said the Captain, a
little coaxingly, for he was anxious to
know where the Yankees were from
whom or to whom Uncle Ephraim was
going. Tell me whar the Yankees is
that you was gHvine tor
Il reckin I've done talked enough" re-
marked Uncle Ephraim, resignedly.
You blasted, fool, runaway niger, If
You don't tell me whar you've bin. an
whar you wuz a-gwine, III blow yer head
often you"
Il reckon I've done talked enough" an
svered Uncle Ephraim.
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1T must come as a shock to all Chris
tan people the announcement that vaIua-
bic mineral deposits have been discovered
in Palestine, including salt and phos-
pilates about the Dead Sea, and that prob
ably concessions will be obtained for work
ing them. 1t would seem as if there could
be enough minerals, salt and phosphates
found elsewhere, without disturbing the
sacred peace Of that land with the turmoil
Of modern works" The railroad from
Jaffa to Jerusalem was bad enough, but
it seems like proclamation to have furnaces,
smeIters, reducers, and the CRIME, hurry,
and MOL of everyday manufacturing
thrust upon Il land over which has reigned
for 1000 years the Oriental Ianguor of the
days when the Savior walked the earth.
There is about Palestines sterility and
stagnation something worth million times
more TO the world than all the minerals
that can be digged from her soil, though
the diggers go e the center of the earth
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Personal.

Col. Henry Clay Condo died at Ballston
Spa, n. Y, Aug. 8. in his 6Sth year. He
was born in Charleston, n. Y. and after
acquiring an education removed to Arkan-
sas. At the outbreak of the civil war
he went to Kentucky and enlisted in the
18th U. S. Afterward he served as
Colonel on the staff of Gen. Nelson. At
the close of the war Col Condo resumed
the practice of law in Memphis, Tenn,
and later moved to st. Louis. He became
blind about u year ago, and had since
made his home in Ballstou Spa. In 1888
he was nominated rs Chief Justice Of
Alaska, but declined the appointment be-
cause of his failing eyesight.
The appointment of Inspector Gentgal
Breckinridge's second son to q Second
Lieutenantcy makes the fifth of the
family to enter the service. Gen.
Breckinridge's eldest son, Ensign Joseph
Cabell Breckenridge, completed the course
at the Naval Academy in June. 1895. He
lost his life Feb. II, 1898, by being washed
overheard from the torpedo boat Gushing,
while that vessel was on its way from
Key West with orders from the battleship
Maine, then in Havana harbor. The ac-
cident occurred only few days before the
Maine was blown up. Another one OF
Gen. Breekinridges sons is Lieut.. e. L.
D. Breckenridge, of the 10th, and still an
other is cadet at the Military Academy.
Jerry Simpson will settle In Lawtol,
Okla, and practice law, and probably en-
ter politics.
Comrade William Smith, who served
through the war in the I'd Wis, one Of
the Iron Brigade regiments, was killed at
Beuthem, Germany, in collision between
the second and third sections of Barnum
& Bailey's circus train. He was Il native
of New York, but went to Deliver, Wis,
at the age of Is, where he afterwards
made his residence. He leaves a widow
and daughter.
The delicate condition of Rcar-A;lrufrai
SIMPSONS health may compel his early
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THERE is continual amazement at the
fribbles with which such solid, clear-head-
ed people as the English will allow them
selves to become excited. Now it is the
style of the Kings title that actually
threatens the Government party with de
feat in the House of Lords. Australia OBJ
jects to Canada being mentioned first in
the title, both colonies have some feeling
against King being placed over them,
but all of the countries, except Ireland, in
sist on the retention OF Defender of the
Faith meaning the Protestant faith
though the title was originally given as a
defender of Roman Catholicism against
Lutheranism. After a struggle, the
coronation oath, in which the King ayows
and promises some very unkind things
about the Pope, has been retained IN
altered.
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TUX him wild him. Dey put Docsy's fad
der in de army. an left Doesy widdout
any home, an widdout anyone fer take
care o. him, an ter root round wild de
dogs in de street, fer what he got ter
eat 1t was orful hard rubbin' fer me
mudder, cause de nigger-wenches down
here do de work she's useter, but she
took Docsy in. Wee got place ter stay
in an old warehouse, an lived on what
we've could pick up, most generally fish
that me and Docsy sneuked away from
de boats. or de men give us. Me an
Docsy's eft fish till we've couldn't pull off
our clothes. Dey'd ketch on de bones
stickin' ont o. we've. Den dey was scrap
in round to put everybody in de army,
an dey ketched me an Docsy. Neider OF
we've WIZ big enough ter carry gun, but
dey made a powder-monkey of Docsy, an
put me on Il horse, ter carry dispatches.
Holy Jeei If | could only git me mudder
and Docsy away, an back ter old N'York,
an see de kids on Water street, an git
a good meal, | wouldn't trade wild Aston.
When they finally caught up with 81,
he took the dispatch, and he and Shorty
entered a dense thicket of magnofas,
where they read by the light Of matches:
Maj.-Gen. Lafayette McLaws.
Sir: have just repulsed an attack by
boats, supported by the fire of the Fed
cra ship lying off the fort. The attack
was made with spirit, and WAS probably
intended to throw a landing party ashore
and communicate with the enemy. But
all the boats were driven back. and none
succeeded in landing. The enemS's navy
seems to have become aware Of the pres
ence of their army i'll rear of Savannah.
If possible, more men should be sent me,
to reinforce my patrols and effectually
prevent communication.
Very respectfully,
Geo. w. Anderson,
Major, Commanding Fort McAllister.
ssNIore Iocl,ino tho stJbIe aftnr the horse
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SOME time ago an alarm was raised
about the way that the alligators were
being exterminated in Florida and Lou
isiana, and the consequent high price Of
bags, pocket-hooks, etc. But the alligator
is not going the way Of the buffalo, by a
long shot. There are several million
square miles to the south of us where
alligators are the principal crop, and In
dams can be got for 10 cents a day to
harvest them. Alligator skins could be
readily gotten to give every man in the
world nice bag and still be more ALI
gators left than anybody needs.
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REFORM BY ADVERTISEMENT.

All successful reforners are quick to
catch hold of popular methods of impress
ing the truths they wish to teach The-
men who are keenly alive TO the terrible
evils of drunkenness in France have no
ticed the value of constant iteration i'll
advertisements, and they have borrowed
and improved upon the Salvation Army's
ways. They are printing on everything
fans, lamp shades, toy balloons, calendars,
paper haIldlierchiefs, napkins, etc, terse.
striking statements of the evils of aico-
hoiism, and particularly those forms of
cohsisin-absinthe and appetizers-tu
which the Frenchmen are most 2[Licted
For example:
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LOUISVILLE lays claim to distinction as
being the only city which has entertained
both the G. A. r. National Encampment
and the United Confederate Veterans
Now she is going to receive the knights
Templar. The real fighters of a thousand
battles followed by the plumed knights of
4 thousand parades! Louisville likes va
riety.
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'FIGHTISG Bob" Evans WAS prudent
eneugh to wait until after Chandler had
been defeated for the Senate before issu-
ing his book. He didn't imagine Chaad-
Ter would be Just as pugnacious as pri-
Yate citizen.
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WHEN Admiral Dewey goes to repre-
sent US at King Edwards coronation, the
English will have an opportunity to see
a commander who understood his job and
performed it with neatncss and dispatch
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They are talking about sending a man
who is not a lord to manage the war in
South Africa, and this probably alarms
the Beers worse than anything they have
heard from England for long time.
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SENATOR TILLMAN is now abusing
Booker Washington for trying to make
the negro as valuable a citizen as a white
man. This is one Of the best testimonials
that Booker has yet received.
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TITE &nti-Imperialists build their pres
ent hopes OH the fact that Justice Brown
vas the only member of the Supreme
Court who planted himself squarely Oh
the ground that the Constitution was
made by the Is States for themselves, and
such other States as might be admitted,
and has no necessary extension beyond
State lines. Ex.-GOY. Boutwell, Analyses
the attitude of the other Justices, and
comes to the opinion that seven of them
are of the belief that the Constitution
applies to Territories, whenever they
shall become regularly organized. Ex-Seu-
ator Edmunds arrives at much the same
conclusion. No matter how plausibIy and
Unfortunately these gentlemen may argue,
however, they can rest assured of the fol-
lowing certainties:
1. None of the islands will be given up;
2. Not within time so near as to he
worth while considering will they be
given Statehood, or their people unre
stricted American citizenship.
3. The decisions of the Supreme Court
will be in accordance with this, no matter
what logical routes the Justices may take
to reach their conclusions.
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THE men behind the guns, who really
sunk Ceryera's feet, have neither been
writing books, fool letters, nor asking for
Courts of Inquiry. They did all their
talking then-uHder rife-sights-and did
it SO conyincingly as to silence dispute.
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Soon there will be a bIoodless revolu-
ton in Germany, like there was in Eng
land % years ago, when the manufacture
ers and operatives viii rise and demand a
free breakfast table.
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TIE Socialists of the Debs variety have
now acquired fitting leader in Prof Her
ron, whose philanthropic views were SO
Advanced that he abandoned his wife
and children TO work for humanity" and
incidentally to live with another woman.
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ANYHOW, Gen Shafter has not any
loop to explain, and nobody was II miles
away when the surrender at Santiago
took place.
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EDGAR STANTON MAcE.fY's pay in the
Navy Department is S249 day. What
sort of a history can they expect from
carpenters wages?
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MANY men if they had to work in
steel mill such weather as this would
want not merely better wages, but the.
earth.
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THE latest addition to the navy is
called 'the Adder Probably because
she intended to run up the columns of
the enemy and set down the total as loss
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WE may hide our wounded spirits CALLED
ness,
But never desperate love or our badness.
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PROBABLY having gotten all that it
wants, or can expect, the Southern Pacific
Railroad announces that it has definitely
retired from politics, and its employees are
forbidden to enter into campaigns. This
means q good deal Of money in the treas
ury, and much less for hungry politicians
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A GEORGIA man who shot at one negro
and hit another is to be tried for it.
Georgia craftsmanship must not be al
lowed to degenerate.
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IT has taken Sehley's friends long
time to come UP to the point of praisinS
the loop as u beautiful tactical manuyer.
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THE Pittsburg Dispatch wonders what
kind of gold bricks Senator Scott sent out
in the 1850 letters he wrote to other peo-
pie than Gen. Sickles.
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IT seems to be the persistent ill-luck
of the veterans that those who are densely
ignorant of history have vastly the most
to say. This has been freshly illustrated
by the wall which has gone up over the
proposed destruction of the infectiOn-ladeu
old receiving ship Vermont. These noisy
sentiTngntalsts, who can see an old sol
dier starving for want of his rightful pen
sion, and jeer Mt him, have been weep
ing over the obstruction of u ship from
which a hostile gun newer WAS fired, and
whose only memories to the sailors who
trod her decks are those of the rawness
unrest and discomfort of a receiyings ship.
Probably not another vessel in tine navy
has as few pleasant memories for the sail
0Ts of the war Of the rebellion as the Yer
mont. Her only cruise was when she
broke adrift with LOGO men on board, and
came HeaG drowning them on Ndltucl;Pt
shoals. LIZ it were put TO vote of the
surviving sailors of the war, il would 6e
unanimous for burning her at once, with
expressions of wonder that it WAS nos
done long ago. If they had their way
they would have burned her the first
night they were aboard.
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AFIELD WITH cRocKER's BRIGADE.
By David M. Strain. Co. B. 18th Iowa.

By UdVIu M sIIdlH, CO. D, IolII IU"d'
This is a simple narrative of the every
day doings of this famous brigade, which
was composed of some OF the best fight
ing regiments in the magnificent Army Of
the Tennessee.
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DEATH OF GEN JAS. $. NEGLEY.

Another long life Of the highest use
fulness has been closed by the death of
Gen. Jas. S. Negley, at Plainfield, n. j.,
Aug. I, after an illness of but four days.
Gen. Negley was born on the family
homestead at East Liberty, Pa, Dec. 26,
1S26. and was consequently nearly 10
years old He went into merchandising. but
left it at the beginning of the Mexican
War to enlist i'll the Duquesne Grays, Il
crack Pittsburs corps. He served in it
through the war; and OH his return home
embarked in the manufacture of railroad
and agricultural machinery. and also paid
much attention to- scientific agriculture
and horticulture, in which he made con-
siderable reputation. He kept up his in
terest in military matters, and organized
and commanded the Negley Zouaves.
lie fOresaw the coming of the war,
and as early as 1858 eudeavored to have
the State militia put On proper footing.
He became a BrigaGier-General of mill
tia, and on the firing on Fort Sumter Of
fercd the Governor of PENNSYLVANIA the
services of his brigade. He WIS put in
charge of the organization of Pennsylva-
mia troops, and organized in Pittsburg a
brigade for himself, consisting of the nth,
18th and 18th Pa, and Mueller's Battery.
He WIS ordered with these to join Gen.
Sherman, at Louisville. and his brigade
WAS subsequently made part of Gen. Nc
Cooks Division.
BY the time of the battle of Stone River
his command had been increased to di-
vision, and it did it's full share, of the ter
l.blr fighting on those mOmentous four
days. He was made Major General, to
date from Nov. -, 1852. lie commanded
his division ON the Tullaloma and Chat
tanooga Campaigns with great credit, but
was criticized for his conduct at Chicka>
manga. A Court of Inquiry exOnerated
him from blame.
He resigned from the army in January.
1850, and returned to Pittsburg and en-
gagged in manufacturing. He was quite
successful in this and accumulated much
wealth. He was elected to Congress, and
served from 1869 to 1919, and again from
1889 to 1881.
Gen. Negley' was a member of the
Board of Governors of the National Sol
diers' Home, Chairman of the Board of
Steam Navigation, President of the Ma
tional Veteran Union League Vice-Presi
dent of the Mexican Trust, and quite
prominent in Masonry. The remains were
buried in the family plot at Pittsburg.
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THAT reading McLaurin out of the
Democratic. party may become his rei-
letter day.
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LET the Court of Inquiry only probe
fearlessly for the facts. The American
people viii furnish the verdict.
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COMPTROLLER DAWES has host of en-
thusiastic friends in Illinois, end it looks
now as if the fight would settle down into
one between them and the regular party
machine, with him representing the rank
and file Of the Republicans of Illinois,
and his opponent the strongest man the
machine can put up against him. The
sympathy of the veterans and sons of vet
Grams will be with him. He is young,
brainy, courageous and aggressiVely hon
est. His father. Gen. r. r. Dawes, of
the 9th Wis, was a high type Of the
Union veterans.
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ENGLAND is having an Evans time Of
her own. The discharged soldiers from
the African war cannot get their pay, nor
any of the allowances promised them, and
the thing threatens to become a
National scandal The War Depart
ment has tried to appease the men
and make a furry OF gush to cover up
the matter, by offering the men cheap
medals, but a number of them have
scorned the medals, and demanded their
lawful pay instead. Presently some smart
Aleck will think of Evans's invention of
pension sharks" and use it as effectively
as he has done to aid in defrauding the
veterans.
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Start a "pyranaid" this ueek. For
expLcnati0n read "Hoae to get 600
Gaesses," on frst page.
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Start "pgran,id" this aceek. For
read "Hoao to get 600
Gttesses," on first page.
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KAISER WILHELM has been raising so
many various kinds of other things that
it comes as q relief to learn that he is
only raising whiskers now.
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WILL the horses insist upon new
style of bonnets next season?
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All Ippetizers
DIN nnDENNI

ARE POISONS.
France Alone Drinks as Much Absinthc
as All the Rest of the World This is
the reason why the Number of
CRIMES, INS.6NFTIES- AM
SUICIDES
Has Doubled Here.
o--o- <
ALCOHOL. CAUSES
Many Diseases, Especially
CONSUMPTION
In the Hospital, 100 Consamptives Include
II Alcoholics.
1t is proposed to extend this system in
definitely, by signs along the railroads,
and every other means of catching the
popular eye, and impressing the masses
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Adnd ~
CO:DShortty
On the fsareh to the Sea

The Return From the ship-Uncle Ephraim
Gets into Trouble, but Shows His Manhood.
The Camp of the 2o0th Ind is Reached at
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Major, Commanding Fort Me

'Norc locking the stable after the horse
is stolen chuckled Shorty. Let him