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Emblem 81 the War

mountain life that he had no desire
to seek further for . congenial home.
when dying the old boatman
said, he made me promise W to
part with the flag. the diary OF the
picture l told the boatman that l
had some knowledge Of the people
mentioned in the book and that l knew
that it would give great p%leaseur If he
would present the same to the Con
federate Association of Kentucky. So
great was my anxiety to be the means
of returning the flag to the survivors
of the gallant Fourth that l offered a
substantial sun of none for it. But
he seemed SO grieved at the sugges-
ton that it was not repeated. At sun
set he led me down the slope to
where, beneath a great cocoanut tree,
his friend was laid to rest. On q rude
board at his head was cut in letters
the inscription: "A Confederate Sol.
der: a Kentuckian.' He said that the
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The Law of Rehabilitation.

The baby e%pitomizes in the fou or
five years before he grows into a
normal child the whole history of the
human race and is therefore an in.
teresting object OF anthropolosical
study.
Before he is born he passes through
q stage in which he is a fish with sill
Sits, then through the dog stage.
then through the monkey stage, in
which he has a perfectly apparent
tail. After his birth he represents
man in his rudest stage, speechless
and without a glimmer Of intelligence.
Then he passes through the stone
age, through all the phases of the de
velopment of the barbaric man, until
at last he reaches the upper plane OF
civilization. Biologists call this the
law of reorganization.
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One Of the Census Girls.

very l~ackadaisical fellow, noted
chiefly for his languid listlessness
whenever he walks along the street
or is not rushing to get to his office
in time.
The subject of promotion" is an
endless source OF conversation. 1t
bobs into every question VI for dis
cussion no matter how remotely from
it the main proposition began. Hand
in hand with the topic promotion"
goes that of Influence"
There was a time, long ago.. say in
the seventies or early eighties, when
the word promotion" was synony-
nous with Influence" The relation
to-day, specifically, is very distant,
but if investigation could be had, it
would be discovered that the words
are still united in a secret and power
full alliance.
Under such conditions it is scarce
ly to be wondered that the clerks
resort to all manner of subterfuges
to keep their anne on the payrolls
of the United States. Between pay
days they contrive to do their work,
which in most instances is little
enough, and on the first and fifteenth
of every month they line up outside
the disbursing officers room and
await their turn at the loot.
This is the time when you see the
government clerk with a smile spread
over his dull c~ountenance. At other
times he bemoans his fate-but
would not exchange his position for
the same money in civil life. because
he knows what it means-three hours
more every day. and work twice as
great, without the long summer vaca.
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Paul's PRAYER.

Paul is a beautiful, chubby, black
eyed boy, all boy, and his father is a
Methodist minister. The other day
Paul had been quite fractions. and
was duly taken to account by the
stern parent.
On that same day the question of
the efficacy of prayer was being dis
cussed by the minister with one of
his flock in his study, Paul being a
silent listener. That night. when he
knelt to repeat his accustomed prayer.
his father suggested he ask for power
to overcome his temper and that he
might be made a better boy.
This was the closing sentence of
the prayer: "Oh, God, l ask you to
make me a better boy" then he stop
ped short, sighed and continued, If
you think you can do it."
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Archie's Contribution.

Some years ago one OF the most
familiar figures in the streets of Dun
fermline was a harmless, half-witted
man, simply known as Archie" Like
most of his class, however, he had a
good deal of sense n humor, n he
was also a great stickler for what was
proper. Consequently he made a point
of going to church. One Sunday he
proposed to attend st. Anne's U. p.
Kirk, but learned that a special col
lection was to be taken. He had no
money, so what could he give? He
took a walk up and down the street
considering the matter. At last he
saw a potato lying unheeded in the
roadway. He picked it up and went to
the church. Going forward to the
plate" which stood at the door, he
placed in it the potato. saying to the
elder in charge. SILVER and gold have
/ none, but such as l have give
thee"
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Wouldn't Do So in America.

When the Hindu editor wishes to
rest for a time from his labors, says
the Los Angeles Herald, he calmly
and confidently announces the fact in
these, or similar, words: LAS we are
beginning to feel the physical and
mental effects of a years unremitting
devotion to the interests of u read
ers, we fee it our due to them that
we should take the rest which our
labors in their behalf demand and de-
serve, and as a natural consequence
beg to notify hat this paper will a
II appear for the space OF four
weeks"
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Lieutenant Munro,
UNITING for either the rhi-
noceros or elephant is sup
posed to be the most exciting
form OF sport known. But

in a thick piece OF jungle in the cen
ter of the marsh.
AS the hunters crept towards him
the rhino gave a low grunt, indicat-
ing that ne was aware of the pres
ence of enemies. The lieutenant
rushed forward until he was within
ten yards of the animal. The rh1no
lurched toward him, and the hunter,
clapping his gun to his shoulder, sent
a bullet into the rAilo's left shoulder.
The animal turned ard numbered
away with the hunter following.
Suddenly the rhino turned n at a
distance of about twenty yards lower
ed his great. hideous head and pre-
pared to charge. The lieutenant i'm
mediately fired again and put a bullet
into the rhino's chest well down.
The animal turned with a shrek of
pain and made off through the jungle,
clearing a road by sheer force OF
weight through the dense underbrush.
The hunters followed, expecting by
the blood and foam which the rhino
left in his trail soon to overtake him.
At last the trail led into a thick
Jungle, and, as by this time it was
4 o'clock in the afternoon, the hunt
ers decided to return to camp and
take up the pursuit again in the morn
ing.
AS the hunters were going back
through a range of hills densely COW
cred by bamboos, Pee Nee suddenly
stopped, and, pointing forward, whis-
pered, Chan, chan
The lienteTant looked and, sure
enough, through the bamboos he saw
standing on the other side OF the
stream they nae followed in the
morning a large bull elephant, his
tusks clustering in the last rays OF
the sun. The lieutenant stalked up
the right bank of the stream. and
when opposite the elephant and about
twenty yards away drew a bead on
the projection at the base of the Gle
phant's trunk, figuring that the bullet
would strike somewhere near the
brain. He fired, but when the smoke
Of his gun had cleared away he saw
the elephant still stood where he had
been before and was looking wickedly
for the hunter.
The hunter aimed a little higher
ND next time and fired again, and the
elephant turned and mad Off up the
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Came of Famous Family.

Rev. DR.. Henry M. Field survives
from that family of Fields which in
cluded David Dudley. the codifier of
laws; Stephen j., a justice of the SUI
preme court of the United States, and
Cyrus. who laid the Atlantic cable.
DR.. Field was born at Stockbridge.
Mass, on April 3. 1922, the same day
and year as Edward Everett Hale. AS
a Presbyterian minister he won a
position in the church as pronounced
as did his famous brothers in their
chosen walks of life. The New York
Evangelist under his editorship and
ownership grew to be II of the most
widely read UNCONVENTIONAL publica-
tons in this country. He has travelled
many times to Europe, twice to the
orient and once around the world.
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PLAY Chess by Mail.

S. Kaiser, an employee of a rolling
mill in Canton. O., is playing a game
of chess with H. Bloch, a wealthy
merchant of Warsaw, Russia, the
moves being made by mail. 1t re-
quires fourteen days for a letter to
pass between the players. and it is
expected that the game will last for
three years. The contest was ar
ranged by Charles Rosenblum, a rel
ative of both players, who has put up
a purse of 10000 rubles (about s., 0O0)
for the game, ~three-fourths to go TO
the winner.
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Government Clerk in Action.

ton or the months sick leave with
pay in case of illness.
The government clerk is of all
sorts and conditions. just as his pro-
totype in the commercial world, but
after he has been in the service for
a number of years there attaches to
him a peculiar characteristic which
O find nowhere else in men.
His facial expression assume a
WEAKNESS, his clothes, his shoes, his
hats q slouchiness which is unwar-
ranted in the light of his occupation.
His whole nature e blighted, and
as one with some incurable ailment,
he on the years with stole
Indifference, being content to SLOUGH
along II the powers that be will but
him to drag his frightening
chain until the day shall come when
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tai and labor-both have their proper
stations in the community, but the
lady clerk" forgets ina oil will not
mix with water.
Among these clerks there is the
eternal striving after the unattainable,
the continuous effort to produce
impressions that must vanish as the
breath from a mirror. This leads to
interminable contests in dress, finery
of all kinds, and prolonged debates
upon the topic, my influence"
Women usually get into office
either by reason of their pretty faces
or engaging There is a
goodly contingent of widows who have
been given places in the public SER
vice because their husbands nave
met death while engaged in military
or naval operations or duties. Com
paratively a very small percentage of
the women in Office have obtained
their places on competitive eXamina-
ton under the civil service.
All in all, these clerks, female and
male, regulars and contemporaries,
are accomplished and similar in one
Respectfully know how to kill time
during Office hours, and that time is
killed lot by doing government work.
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A Modern Cincinnatus.

The Cincinnatus of Denmark is the
minister of agriculture. familiarly
known as "Old Hansen" He is a
small tenant farmer. who, upon TAX
ing up his ministerial appointment,
made the smallest possible change in
his manner Of living. When the du-
ties of his high office permit he re-
turns to his pillow and the fodderins
of his beasts and the other cares of
his small farm. His son remains on
the farm and works for the same
salary, in spite of the rich post 70
which his father has been called.
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a Natural Curiosity.

1t is not TO be wondered at that
a pearl necklace COLLECTED by a de-
ceased noblenan" sold in London for
$4,000. The thought of a deceased
nobleman wandering about collecting
jewels lends a vivacious interest to
the most ordinary transaction and
completely disposes of the theory that
our period of usefulness ceases with
death. Perhaps VIZ should dispute the
story had we not read it in a Sab
bath newspaper-that vast repository
of useful and diverting knowledge.
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French Soldier and Writer,

Hilaire Belloc, whose peculiarly
vivid method of presenting history
has made his "~Robespierre" so talked
about this spring, was once a French
artilleryman. He belonged to the
Eighth regiment, and his post of duty
was the drivers seat of a gun car
riage, where he is said to have han
died the reins with conspicuous abil-
ity. What this means in point OF
nerve and skill will be apparent to
everyone who has seen rapid artillery
m~aneuVerS.
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- - 1UNIING lot 0lCner tu0 IHA'
noceros or elephant is sup
s1HEz posed to be the most exciting
eRHsa4k1 form OF sport. known. But
10 combine the two and hunt at n
same time for both an elephant and
rh~inoceros, and to bag both OF the
big creatures after being seriously
wounded by one of them is the kind
of a hunt that ought to give the ordi.
nary sportsman enough thrills to iast
him for a time at least.
Lieut.. ID. j. Munro OF the British
ship Skipjack started out early in the
morning one day in last February Tor
a rhinoceros hunt in upper Burma
He was accompanied by a native
hunter, Pee Nee. a tall, Gaunt, deter,
mined-looking Siamese, and a corps
of native servants. Pee Nee made q
business CT hunting the "rhino." He
sold the horns of the animals to the
Chinese for a hundred rupees eacA,
and the skin and other parts OF the
body bring a large price from the Chi
nese who use them for medicine. For.
as Pee Nee quantity said: Anything
that is hard to get is the Chinaman's
medicine"
Lieut.. Munro and Pee Nee camped
for three days at the foot of a long
range of hills which here form the
boundary between Burmah and Siam.
The country is covered by an i'm
mense forest of trees so dense that at
no time OF the day is a hat or head
covering necessary. in these dense
forest the sun is neve seen except
where some great giant tree has been
leveled by the lightning.
After following a small stream
high up into the hills, where 1t mad a
source in a wide marsh, the tracks OF
a big rhino were founa. Following
tracks the hunters soon came upon
the rhino, taking his MONDAY sleep
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N in the city OF
Washington, standing at the
intersection Of Pennsylvania

H HSTRANGER in the city OF
A Washington, standing at the
~ intersection Of Pennsylvania
&Y& and New York n and
Fifteenth street, any morning ex-
cept on legal holidays. between
$3.50 and 9 o'clock will observe a
great many thousand people emerging
from numerous c~ongested trolley cars
and rushing hither and thither into
this and that public building near by.
If he should ask about them he
would be Informed that they are all
government clerks employed in the
various departments in the vicinity.
They live, many of them, as far away
as Baltimore, others have houses or
farms scattered through the pictur-
esque Maryland hills, while yet others
seek pastoral seclusions beyond
the historic Potomac in the rolling
uplands of Virginia. Chevy Chase,
the suburb that Cleveland made ia
nous, contributes its generous quota
Of government clerks.
The hour Of nine is signaled by
the hosting of the stars and stripes,
which are run UP over all government
buildings, a token to the initiated that
the United States government has
begun it's daily routine OF clerical
duties. and the administration OF
official business.
Like any private enterprise, the
government is obliged to conduct its
affairs on a systematic basis. 1t is
not all politics, nor congressional leg
islation, nor appointments abroad.
The enormous mass OF work that is
done daily consists mainly of he kind
that is done in the great commercial
houses.
To do this the government clerk is
appointed, either through influence
or from the civil service eligible list.
Nearly 90 900 clerks are necessary, it
would seem, to do the clerical work
of the government in the departments
at Washington. The work cannot be
described with accuracy. 1t compre-
bends every system of office work
known to civilized man, and a few
systems known only to barbarians.
The individual clerk is representa-
tive of the class. In a shor time
he has learned to keep his mouth
shut upon all topics political, and he
has little to say about anything at
fecting the service as a whole.
He will brag about the work of his
desk and work himself into a state
of pacific frenzy when promotions are
in order, but apart from this he is a
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A OF SAMOA.

seeing new scenes and Strange races.
won by stories told by Stevenson
of the Navigator islands, now called
Samoa, Land of the Lotus in the
South Pacific ocean, l concluded to
visit these, and did so, spending seven
of the most delightful months Of my
life. l was lettering one evening at
sunset on the sands of Savaii when |
saw approaching the shore, guided by
a native fisherman, a strange little
craft, at the helm Of which was flying
a flag that brought back to me those
stirring days Of the sixties when the
grand old Seventh Ohio was having
periodic jousts with Morgan's, Dukes
and Pegram's merry men.
THE boatman allowed me to exam
inc the colors, which he said an Am
erican friend had given him and which
l found tt be conventional regimental
of fine bunting, the hues of which
were miraculously preserved, although
for more than a quarter of a century
the flag has been almost constantly
exposed to the weather. ! doubt not if
those bronzed Sic war dogs OF the
Fourth Kentucky could behold their
historic colors on it's embellished staff
that they would at least find no cause
to despise its method of uplifting. l
was surprised and pleased the fol-
lowing morning to be invited to enter
his BOAT for the four-mile trip, which,
he said, it would require to reach his
island home. Strange. l thought, that
the time has come when l would fol
low the rebel flag instead of the union
standard.
About midafternoon my host pointed
out a little speck in the waters as our
destination. Passing splendid reefs of
coral, shady bays and crystal shadows
we made our way to the shore through
pictureque groves Of cocoanuts, tama-
rands and lines, to his small hut,
which, like all those OF that section,
was open on all sides. covered by a
matched root. He removed the flag
from the staff clutch in the boat and
carried it with him to the hut.
"The day after my arrival my host
laid in my hand a little diary, saying:
ing: Besides this my friend, who
here, LETT nothing but a picture show
ing an age-dimmed ambrotype OF a
llLCle gill, DlODdDlS - SSdIS vi dSS. VIZ
the eve side a written Leila
Giltner. Daughter Of the Regiment.
Carrollton, Ky 1t was difficult to de-
cipher the handwriting of the book,
as it had evidently been w~ater-soaked.
but by means of a magnifying glass |
was able to read disconnected parts,
which served to increase my desire
to learn the whole story it had to tell.
The diary was owned and kept by
Henry Clay Renfrew OF Midway, KY,
probably a member of the Fourth Ken
lucky cavalry. The writer, indeed,
seems t. have been a member of sew
eral regiments as he refers to My
Colonel, Basil Duke, and Capt. ]. B.
Castleman.' He mentions Col. Giltner
as his commanding officer and Capt.
Bart jenkins the captain of his com
pany. Ana he refers to Adjutant Cen
eral z. O. Guerrant and Lieut.. Free
man. He also records incidents con
corning Brainard d. Bayless of Gov
ington, KY, and George Musgrove of
Carrollton. He tells in vivid language
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THE PEOPLE OF ACRE.
Region in Dispute Between eoIIvla
and Brazil.

and Brazil.
The region Of Acre, in Northern
Bolivia, has been disputed territory
between that country and Brazil for
nearly fifty years. The little coun-
try has come into public notice re-
Gently because Bolivia leased a part
of the Acre region to an Anglo-Ameri-
al syndicate. Brazil objects to this
business arrangement, and has threat
ened to break of diplomatic relations
unless the contract is rescinded.
Except that the country is rich in
rubber, little is known about it, It
occupies a triangular space between
the boundaries of Brazil and Bolivia.
and Peru and Bolivia, with the Benz
river as the base. The position OF
the sides of this triangle as interpret
ed by the two countries is the cause
Of the dispute. A traveller recently
returned from Acre says of the ma
tives that they are in many respects
like the Bolivians, but that there are
among them many tribes Of a lower
class than can be found elsewhere in
that part of the world. Some of them
are said to be cannibals, and all are
shy and averse to the invasion of their
country by the whites. They are e.
perts in the art of using darts, spears
and javelins, and delight in practising
with these from the bush on intrud-
ers, whom they usually attack from
behind.
They wear no clothes, but have
a1a horota headdresSes made IF feath.
ers and beads, and the younger ones
wear strings of coins and metal
disks around their necks and wrists.
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from Pee Mee's rife rent thes
phant In full retreat again. - III
lieutenant, picking mp his oWn -
which was unfnjurcd. again tolloNrsgg
after his quarry. He came up wieAf
him once more, and this time Pit ~
two more bullets. just behind The -.
plants left fore leg. The beo4t
turned again and continued hie night,
and the lieutenant, being exhausted
from the effects of his collision VII
the elephant, had to give up pursuit
and be carried back to camp.
The next day the trails OF botn the,
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Work for Uncle Sam

his compatriots in Office may gaze at
his vacant desk and suggest that he
worked himself to death just like q
government drudge"
The women clerks, or as they pre-.
fer to be called, "lady" clerks, dress
we'll, and in many cases, deliberately.
They are different from the rest of
womankind, and the longer they re-
main in the public service the more
unique they become.
They, that is the large majority of
them, are presumptuous. impudent
and supercilious. Forgetting the
causes which gave them their posi-
tons, they Indignantly wonder why
Washington official society declines to
accept them.
The gulf between them and "soci.
ETY." is the same as that between CAPT.
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Election Methods in Kansas.

Out in Sumner county. Kansas. one
Thomas A. Hubbard is a candidate
for county treasurer. He has issued
a great many cards announcing that
he is in the field, but thriftily makes
use of the other side with an adver-
tisement that he is a breeder of fine
Logs, which he offers.fo r sale cheap.
All of which moves an opposition
editor to say: Vote for Tom Hub
bard and get a hog"
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AUR world il not SO vast, after
all, but that our personal ex-
periences may bound it," said

- ~ ~ - N~SS @esSs
lAy all, but that our personal ex-
SMM periences may bound it," said
Robert Louis Stevenson on
the sands Of the Apian port, Samoa. as
he met the unexpected clasp of Amer
lean hands and bade friends welcome
to Imalia. his mountain home.
AS an evidence of this act witness
the following story, strange as true,
that will find pathetic echo in the
breasts of many old comrades who
wore the gray in the years of the civil
war:
Col. Theodore Allen OF Cincinnati
was a member of the gallant Seventh
Ohio cavalry, and is the only Federal
soldier. with the exception of Col. Will
liam Iknauss, of Columbus, who has
been made a member of the Confeder-
ate Veterans Association of Ken
lucky. One of Col. Aliens comrades,
Capt. Martin Schuyler. of the same
regiment, who, though more than 60
years of age, was a commissioned Off
Ger in the Spanish-American val re-
lated to him the following:
He said that when his term of serv-
ice expired in the Philippines he drift
ed about the world bent merely upon