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The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1905-10-04
Like Ma Made for Pa.

"Our Johns wife" said Johns IA
Their. rs too easy with him. She's too
ready to make excuses for him"
We'll" remarked Johns mother
significantly, John can't say truthful
ly that they're not like mother used
to make"
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1905-10-04
chanoed His Mind.

crittlcl--I saw Nuritch looking at
one OF your paintings the other day.
D'Auber-Ah! I'm glad OF that. He
intimated to me that he might have
something for me TO do
Crittick-Yes. while he was looking
at It he told me he had intended to
let you paint his back fence. but he
didn't think he would now.
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1905-10-04
ExplaIned.

This paper says there are a, least
10000 stray dogs on the streets of
Constantinople
"fes. so I've heard You see the
Mohammedan religion does not allow
It's d~votees TO eat sausage
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1905-10-04

viii fly as far as the strip Of wood
which arrests its upward motion and
prevents II from losing power by IN
twisting the rubber band figure ~,
The missile will be hurled some diS
lance away.
Try this experiment and see how
good a catapult you can consu9ct.
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1905-10-04
The Liberated Rope.

Take q stout rope about twenty feet
iong, and hand It to your audience for
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1905-10-04

Tender.
They famed the chieftain with a
palm branch. for the day was hot, and
he had eaten heavily
what kind OF minister" he
asked. was that we had, for dinner?'
The court fool. jingling with his
bells. replied:
prime miniSter, sire."-Philadel-
phia Bulletin.
Placing Him.
"Yes. he's a quarterback in col
iege."
That's football. isn't it,"
yes. quarterback ia football"
what is he in his studies?"
ooh. he's away back in them
Houston Post.
The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1905-10-04
Born Of Experience.

"sam, do you believe there's luck
in a rabbltg foot7"
No. ee's-o; doesn't"
.-.4uiBam?"
- q ,c,ried one when dun got
Akers Statesman.
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ever be written save in reyerence?,
IL have come to you because
night long since you left-I could
think of nothing else. l have not
slept. have been pacing the floor un-
til l could stand it no longer. You
came to me last night in your sorrow.
and treated you like a dog. For
give me, colonel. Take her back to
your children, and when you have laid
her away and comforted them-then
return to us. Go, sir-it is my order"
and. wringing the soldiers hands, the
president turns again to the cares and
trials, the cruel anxieties of another
day, but the deep-lined face, uplifted
to the glory of the dawn, shines trans
figured with radiance indescribable-
with who can say what infinite cheer
and comfort and blessing from on high.
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ON

MY brother man, unknown or Of high
birth,
Dost think position greatest boon on
earth?
And social favor seems It more to thee
Than heavenly gift bestowed by Deity?
On pearl, unbound in Lies brief little
span,
4 grateful, willing and obelient man.
my place appointed by Divine decree
That aids thy efforts and directs for thee.
Oh places obstacles to bar thy way,
Roroids thy progress and commands thy
stay;
Divine decree awards the prize for worth,
And grants a recomperse-six feet Of
earth
Mark well the sculptor, he the marble
eyes,
His mind has formed the image where it
Untouched, unbroken, waiting but the
spell
OF maui and chisel and deft hand as well,
To chip unsightliness to forms of grace,
And bring from nought the perfect hu-
man face.
The architect with pencil print and rule
Can plan palace or can shape school,
In plies of brick and mortar, wood and
stone.
He sees the finished temple stand alone.
Fer yet a nail is driven, a timber laid,
A nortise fashioned, or a joint is made.
30 God the sculptor, mystic and sublime,
Who was and is, and shall be, after time
Has fled on winged feet beyond the
spheres,
Where deep oblivion swallows up the
years;
He notes the possibilities in man,
AE he
plaR.
His love would WOO: yet mortal can with
stand
Divine persuasion, and with impious hand
1dft in rebellion gainst high heavens
decree
The standard of his own infirmity.
God looks in pity, waits with patience
vast,
Woo's with unending love- and wins at
last.
e. II. Foss, in United Presbyterian.
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RrASS BOlfa.

A travelling salesman from New
York found himself obliged to stop
over for the night in a certain Ala
bama town, in which there was no ho-
tel. The best accommodations that
the salesman could secure were in the
house of farmer on the outskirts OF
the town; and even then he could not
obtain a room. He occupied a cot in
the hall, and to screen him from OBJ
servation a sheet was hung across
the passageway. During the night
the salesman awoke to find himself in
a terrible draft. The wind was flap
ping the curtain about in most alarm
ing way. Naturally enough, he began
to grumble. In the words of his host,
''He set up drefful racket" When
the master of the house asked what
was the trouble, the man from New
York said: Look here! There's a
dreadful draft here, you know You
might at least furnish me with pa
per of pins to lock my door! Youth
Companion.
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flfeside and the family group by the
simple method Of the scrap-book.
Cartoon and caricaturs.

Cartoon and CaricatUre.
The cartoon, as weapon Ct war, or
an adjunct to peace, has reached con-
spicuOus prominence. With few rap
id strokes, by an ingenious and simple
composition, by few strong contrasts
aad vivid effects, the cartoonist tells a
story in picture.
He makes men laugh.
He makes men furious.
His pictures are battles or sermons
He is like the kings jester in motley.
whose sallieS were yelled truths, that
masquerades as folly, but strikes home
The fun, the wit, the cleverness, the
guile. the art of the noted cartoonists
and caricaturists are patent to the
most ignorant amateur and delightful
to any unprecedented critic.
Twenty years hence, scrap-book
devoted to to-day's cartoons will pos
sess an interest and value not to be es-
timated by the men of the present.
Reader. whoever and wherever you
are. begin your art scrap-book to-mor-
row morning.
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discrimination as to friend or foe,
and Benton's general, broken down by
illness and exhaustion, is borne by am
bulance to the capital, and bids Fred
go in search of his prisoner friend.
How the tables of war have turned!
Four months ago that young Virginian
lay in clover at Charlottesville, petted
and soothed by the prettiest girls to
be found in the court of Queen Rosalie,
while Benton, a prisoner patient, moped
in huffy dignity and merited semi-ne-
glect. Now the Virginian lies in splints
and stuffy room in parbofled Wash
ington, far from the pretty girls of
Albemarle, yet assiduously cared for
one vast hospital, whose walls echo
night and day the moan Of fevered
sufferer, the dull thunder of distant
guns, the rumble of rolling cannon,
the tramp of soldier hosts, for Lee
has leaped the Potomac and gone ca
reering northward toward the Pennsyl-
vania line. Pope, Mcdowell and Sigel
have retired in favor of Mcclellan,
Hooker and Porter, the little chief
again called to the fore, while the
manager of the sack campaign sits
down to figure out the twistings, turn
ings and doublings of the hare that
wouldn't be caught until there were
hares enough to smother the hounds. 1t
is fortnight of fruitless recrimination,
OF pushing for place and not for the
foe, of intrigue and SANDER. of loyal
victims and disloyal triumph. 1t is a
fortnight in which the fortunes of the
union seem drifting to the lowest ebb,
with all the mud and slime and wreck
age and putrescence hitherto hidden in
the surging tide CT the campaign, now
revealed to public gaze, a stencil to
public nostrils. 1t is a fortnight of
funerals. All, what hundreds of gallant
boys have we to mourn, what scores
Of noble names on both sides! Wrung
to the uttermost is the great, lonely.
plying heart of him now day and night
striving to bring order out of chaos,
hope out of the slough of despond,
victory from dire and persistent de-
feat. Small wonder is it that in the
contemplation of the tremendous peril
that confronts the nation, Lincoln can
find little time to listen to innumerable
personal appeals, to individual claims
presented by insistent senators, to the
stories of self-seeking, self-sufficient
patriots demanding the doing of this,
the undoing of that. 1t is a fortnight
in which Stanton, at the war Office,
is overwhelmed with work and worry,
and grows-even more testy and imper-
ious. 1t is fortnight in which, despite
orders and precautions, swarms Of
officers who should be with their COM
mands are buzzing about congress and
the caravanserais, when every man is
needed at the front and thousands are
sulking at the rear, when the regiments
of the Army of the Potomac and of
Virginia that marched forth in the
springtide in such splendid array, with
such crowded ranks, are silently, shah
billy slipping through the outskirts,
mere ragged shadows of their former
selves, yet to their everlasting credit
be it said, loyal and subordinate still,
and confident in their faith that they
can yet whip Lee. 1t is fortnight in
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which many and many a sad-faced SOL
d1er comes away from the war depart
ment, even from the white house, de-
MED a favor that at any other time
would have been accorded as by right,
and one September evening, Benton
and the squire, summoned to accom-
pany their senator to the president,
are witnesses to a scene that wrings
their very hearts.
The squire has been long enough
near Washington to become an ardent
administration man. Only twice in the
past has he seen the plain, unassum-
ing western lawyer, the humorous NJ
c. who had not reputation enough to
command an audience when in SO he
came to speak at the squire's home
city, but later, when they met at the
fremont. in Chicago, was the rival of
the little giant, Douglas, in joint de-
bate. Now, just as Douglas had held
the hat of the victorious Lincoln dur
ing his inaugural address, so would
Squire Benton go to any length to back
this inspired. and, as Benton is now
beginning to believe, God-given leader.
More troops must be had without de-
lay is the burden of what the senator
says. Will Benton go west at once
and use his utmost influence? Benton
Will. He has only come, he says, to
assure himself that Fred is safe-to see
Eilnor, now scorning the sea breezes
OF Cape May and insisting on her right
10 De useful as nurse among the hos
pltals. Then the squire will start
within the day. Meantime, says the
senator, we must see the president.
and then there is a further muttered
conversation that Fred cannot hear.
nor does he care to. His one thought.
after seeing that Jack Chiffon lacks
nothing-after one little word, per-
maps, with Jacks no longer imperious
sister-is to rejoin the division as it
comes through with the now reorgan-
izing corps. But meanwhile, it is the
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Copyright. 1902. by G. W. Dillingham; Co.
CHAPTER XVu.-CoNTINUED.

At nine o'clock, as the last scattering
shots are fired out to the northwest,
where some of Stuart's fellows have
stumbled on the Hoosier pickets in the
darkness, the division general sends
an aide with brief note to Ricketts,,
telling him of the battle, and saying
he means to hold the ground despite
the fact that prisoners report old
Stonewall 10000 strong. He sends
ether staff officers in search of Nc
Dowell, his corps commander, with
similar report and the request that
Ricl etts be ordered to close in and
support him. McDowell's own engineer
officer is with him, deeply interested
witness coming up with Hatchs bril-
gade, which hurriedly recalled, had
faced about and marched eagerly back,
hoping to be of use, but reaching the
hHld only as darkness settled on the
line. SO the engineer stays to hear
ihe reports and views of the various
commanders before going himself in
search OF his chief, stays long enough
10 give his opinion that the division
suffer demolition at dawn, and this.
too, is the opinion of Hatch and Glib
bon, sitting with their division COM
Mander and it is urgently given by both
There is nothing for it then, urge the
brigadiers, but slip off southeastward
in hopes OF support, and Fred Ben
ton, riding out to the left front with
tn hrin in no MIC
those venturesome Hoosiers crawling
forward on hands and knees, beyond
the original line.
There was horse battery came out
there just before DUSK" explains a
young sergeant, land it just rained
shrapnel on us. Some of Stuarts fell
lows galloped down to slice off our left.
We gave 'em a hot volley and they
sheered away, but tried it twice again
after dark. We've sent in all our
wounded, but our boys swear they hear
faint cries for help out yonder."
They are right! Presently they come
drifting in, four wearied soldiers. bear
ing wounded trooper on a blanket.
Benton is busy giving orders to the
subaltern in charge and does not hear
ut first the words of the sergeant. HE
says he was carrying orders and his
Morse fell and rolled on him. His legs
broken, ] think, but he'd never have
vhimpered only he thought we were
friends
''Whatll we do with him if I'm to
fall back?" asks the lieutenant. Hes
an officer"
Benton turns to the dim group, slow
" bearing their burden with them.
Better carry him to the grove" he
says. Take him where your wounded
officers are" Whereupon he in the
blanket feebly pipes, Hello, Benton!
Got mouthful of drink"
Good God. Chiffon! Have we
caught you-again?"
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Not Understandable.

There is well known story told
by Dean Ramsay year1 ago of two old
ladies of his church. "Was it mo- a
wonderful thing said one of them,
that the Breetish were aye victori-
Gus over the French in battle?" Not
a Bit" said the other, "dinna We ken
the Breetish say their prayers before
gaen into battle?" aye" returned the
first, "but Gamma the Frenchmen say
their prayers as weel?" The reply
was: ''Hoot! Jabberin' bodies! VIVA
could understan' them?"
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CHAPTER XIX.

KILLED IN FRONT OF THE GUNS.
How are the mighty fallen!" at
least in point of numbers. Still under
the leadership of sharp-eyed, sharp
tongued Gibbon, the brigade has
trudged away to South mountain, feel
ing not little cocl1y in it's new name.
Manfully again has it grasped the hot
end of the poker, being sent into
the very jaws of Turner's gap
with Colquitt and his Georgians
directly confronting it, and Evans
raking the doubled line from
the hill on the right. Again does
the Seventh catch it hard from this
flank, losing more than third of its
men. Again do the Black Hats sail in
with their accustomed saucy vim and
vigor, tieing the Hoosiers in the total
of losses. Again are the big "Napo-
leons," the pets of battery B. logged
into line, side by side with the Foot"
and nightly do they below and roar
in this resounding amphitheater-the
eastward slope Of the ridge. 1t is the
second fierce fight in which these pow
erful guns, manned by picked men
from the brigade, take their share of
hard knocks with the four battalions;
but fiercer fight is yet to follow-only
three days away-one which YIELDS the
battery still more firmly to it's sup
ports. On the far right flank, in front
of Sharpsburg, across the sleepy An
tietam, it comes in for its hardest
pounding of all the stirring campaign.
But by this time, mid September, as
Lees daring, determined followers halt
on the heights of the old Maryland
town, with the Potomac encircling
them from northwest to south, the
winding Antietam protecting their
front, how cruelty are they, too, re-
duced in numbers! Our old opponents,
the '.Stonewalls, in their entire array
can barely muster 500 men. Regiments
are commanded by captains, compa-
MES by sergeants, and as it is with
Jackson so it is with Longstreet,
whose brigades, like those of Kemper
and Pickett, are cut to shreds, while
some battalions are reduced to the
fellows, less than 10000 all told, who,
packed up to the great river, with all
their trains and all their wounded to
care for, still confidently look to Lee
and serenely face Mcclellan, whose
force in men and guns is more than
twice their own.
Doubleday it is who now takes the
lead and, crossing the Antietam on the
afternoon of the 18th, bears down from
tho oytromo fIoDL ,,pop tho ci1ont uoit
ing foe.
First in column as it circles the
front, the old division moves in to the
morning attack at the right of Hook
er's embattled line, and right of the
line of the old division is the doubled
rank of the old-the Iron-brigade. 1t
is the dawn of dreadful day.
ITO Be Continued.l
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Clothed About.

A story whose origin is attributed
to Oliver Herford, relates that a
friend, entering the Players club one
evening, saw the humorist surrounded
by the group of admirers who usually
gathered about him to enjoy his talk.
"Ah, Oliver" remarked the friend,
surrounded by your coterie. as
usual?" eyes," rejoined Mr.. Herford;
likewise by my panterie and my yes
terie."-Argonaut.
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CHAPTER XVIII.
THE HEART OF LINCOLN.

Solemn days are these that follow.
Losing over third ofits force engaged
IN this furious initial battle, the bril-
gade shares the lot of the rest of the
army and, after two days more of
fruitless fighting is ordered to fall back
on Washington. Many of the wounded
officers. have been sent ahead, without
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-12-20
A GOOD SCRAPBOOK
FOR PRACTICAL PURPOSES Or
BINARY BLANK-BooKs ARE
GOOD ENOUGH.

No Elaborate Outfit Necessary-The
Unsystematic Scrap Book Will
Amuse the Convalescent-Popu
Pastor Who Profited by a Scholarly
Scrap Book-Interesting Pictorial
History of Our Period-A Good Car
toon Collection Valuable, Posses
sion.
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A New Shoe.

Gunmetal calf is very new and
very practical idea. 1t takes the place
of the old calfskin admirably, for 1t
is soft and pretty and very much cas-
Ter to clean and keep clean. 1t is
usually made up into perfectly plain
shoe. with a Cuban heel.
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At q Wedding.

It is always the fathers place to
give the bride away. The groom and
best man enter with the minister and
are followed by the bridesmaid. VIA
walks alone, and she in turn Is fo4>
lowed by the bride on the arm Of hae
father.
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Disappointing.

A precocious youth telegraphed to
his parents on their golden wedding
day: .Is marriage failure?"
The old couple laid their heads to-
gether and presently made answer:
mo. but its results sometimes are. -
Stray Stort
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Pictorial Scrap-Books.

The twentieth century has wit
messed immense strides in pictorial art.
Beautiful reproductions of great paint
ings are given in exquisite color and
tone Photography has reached
amazing and singular delicacy, and the
rlainest cottage in the land may be
adorned with pictures at the cost of an
outlay that the slenderest purse can
afford.
Whoever wishes may keep, for
friends and children, in scrap-books
that will fit into the shelves of the
home library, complete pictorial his
tory of our thrilling and absorbing
period. All the magnificent command
ers of the day, the men who have con-
Quoted the titanic struggle on sea and
land in the far east, the great diplo-
mats, the astute statesmen, the cap
tains, kings and queens; the repub-
lies modest men who take the helm.
stepping from civil life at the country's
call and quietly returning to the ranks
when their tasks are done; all the fore
most men and the foremost women,
too, of our country will be in a portrait
gallery cut from the weekly, monthly
or daily press.
Splendid buildings, too, triumphs of
modern architecture, enchanting gar
dens, foaming torrents, mountain
passes, picturesque ravines. scenes OF
battles and siege. are depicted in finest
art with deftest touch In the papers.
and may and should be saved for the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-12-20
BY MARARET = sANcsrrp

Copyright, 1905. by Joseph B. Bow,es)
MOI scrap-baskets into which we cast
away the worthless bits. and the fiot-
sam and jetsam of desk and library.
BASKETS That are filled and emptied
with incredible swiftness in a day or
week IN reading household. but scrap
BOOKS which preserve for future refer
ence the best in the newspapers and
magazines, are the theme of this bit
OF discussion.
Various devices of this kind are soio
at the stationer's: Envelopes that are
labeled for different clippings, book;
that are arranged with appropriate
meanings, and properly interleaved,
but, for practical purposes, an ordi-
nary hlank-book, and a pair of scis-
sors. with good supply of paste, p.us
brains, are all-sufIicient.
The most fascinating ScrapbOoks |
have ever seen are those of a
friend, who for years has never laid
aside newspaper without cutting out
the poems, the anecdotes, the reports
OF discoveries and inventions, the
qGIps and jests, and the serious arti-
cles that have interested her. With
out much method, this lady has daily
pasted her store of selections, culled
from many sources, on the pages Of
school-composition books, or occa-
sionally in a diary, with it's dates of
months and days and weeks. When
she has secured for herself the core
OF a paper, she throws it away, OR
leaves it for the cook to kindle the
kitchen fire. Her net result is a charm
ing miscellany. just the chance collec-
ton into which, like the immortal
Jack Horner, you put in your thumb,
and you pull out a plumb
For an idle afternoon, or the leis-
ure of convalescence, or rainy even
ing when you are at loss for amuse-
ment, this unsystematic and irregular
scrap-book is a real resource
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But It Is Not Scholarly.

For scholarship requires a predeter-
mined motive and certain skill and
carefully followed plan. Why are
you desirous of preserving from loss
the useful items and the entertaining
episodes that make up the current his
tory CT humanity in your time? Why
save from fOrgetfulness a chronicle of
life's passing show?
If you are by way Of taking part in
debates, or making speeches at politi-
cal meetings, it is needful for you tC
reinforce memory by seasonable illus
trations, the papers are full of them
Personal character was never so widely
exploited as now. Our great men stand
where a lime-light of publicity is for
ever flashed upon their smallest &C
lions. The world moves on at a pace
so rapid that electricity is it's only
parallel.
The scholarly and the convenient
way is to know what you want and to
pursue it according to routine. Under
separate captions, arranged either top
lcally or alphabetically, paste what
ever of value you sift from the daily
news. that is your wheat. For You.
the residue is chaff. Or it is your
gold, and the remainder, for your pur-
poses, is dross. Discriminate. decide
what fmpresses you, and why, and put
aside your material for future use.
Index your scrap-book, and then,
without a moments unnecessary delay,
you can turn to what you are searching
for.
Where does certain popular pastor
procure so many fitting stories, allus-
ions, and anecdotes? The question
was asked by person who seemed To
fancy that the clergyman evolved them
from his inner consciousness. / could
have replied that he had the useful
habit of the orderly pbook from
which on occasion he brought forth
things new and old.