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THE WEEKLY RECORD: LAWRENCE. JUNE 5. 1891. 8 KUDOKA ITEMS. multitude that no man ca-n number, chil EICYCLIST E.

H. PAIGE. TABERNACLE PULPIT. REV. DR.

TALM AGE'S SERMON FOR MEMORIAL DAY. The rain of Sunday and Monday night caused the Wakarusa to come up with a rush. Several fields were inundated and much growing crops destroyed. The water is now reced He Has Defeated Terry Andrae and Woo Other Important Victories. Few riders are letter known, and ce.r-tainly none is more popular in cycling E.

H. Paige.a coming champion of Wisconsin, a picture of whom accompany- this article. Paige is not only one of il most promising riders in the country, but WASHIXGTOX LETTER. fFrom our Kegu ar Correspondent. Washington, June 1, 1S91.

The president was so interested in preventing Secretary Blaine from unnecessarily worrying himself over the business of tte state department that he sent Representative Hitt, of Illinois, a close personal friend of both himself and Mr. Blaine, to New York to tell Mr. Blaine that there was nothinsr here which required his ing. Work on the excavation for the A. O- U.

W. hall is progressing rapidly. Frequent rains necessitate stoppage, but as soon as possible excavating begins. If uninterrupted by rain that part of the work will have been completed by to-morrow night. Street Commissioner Albright is do ing excellent work grading Main personal attention, and to persuade him to take a long rest before again (resuming his arduous duties, and he is much pleased at the success which I Mr.

Hitt met with, and also with the good news he brought of Mr. Blaine-s I condition. Mr. Hitt told the presi-j dent that Mr. Blaine only needed a i rest to be all right, and lie has prom-j ised-to take that.

Secretaries Tracy and Proctor and i Postmaster General Wanamaker ac street. Roscoe and Eudora played ball last Saturday. Eudora beat, of course. Mrs. John Gilmore and daughter Mary spent Sunday and Monday with friends in Leavenworth.

Mrs. Ed Weible visited friends and relatives here last week. Henrv Conn has becrun shinnincr his companied the president to Philadelphia Memorial day. The party returned Saturday night. Secretary Noble is expected to return to Washington this week.

The ramor dispensers now have it that he is to succeed Robert Lincoln as min- I i. ister to England and that Lin- coin is to have the place he occupied Presidents uarneja ana Artnur -1 Will Say to the North, Give Up. and 4 to th South. Keep Not Back" Isaiah atllll, G. the Text A Notable Disco arse.

BiiOOELTX, May 31. Yesterday having 'been observed as Decoration Day, Dr. mage thi3 morning preached an appropriate sermon. It was a novel and unprecedented service, as in dilTerent part3 of the Audience were many of those who had be-Jonged to both Federal and Confederate armies, the subject having been previously announced, namely, "Two Garlands for Northern and Southern Graves." Over the pulpit were two wreaths of lowers, and they were linked together, so that they were an object lesson for the subject presented. Text: Isaiah xliii, 6 "I will say to the north.

Give up, and to the south, Keep not back." Just what my text meant by tho north nnd south I cannot say; but in the United States the two words are so point blank in their meaning that no one can doubt. They mean more than east and west, for although between those last two there been rivalries and disturbing ambitions and infelicities and silver bills and World's fair controversies, there have been "between them no batteries unlimbered, no lntrenchments dug, no long lines of sepulchral mounds thrown up. It has never been Massachusetts Fourteenth regiment against Wisconsin zouaves; it has never been Virginia artillery against Mississippi rifles. East and west are distinct words, and cometimes may mean diversity of interest, bat there is no blood on them. They can bo pronounced without any Intonation of wailing and death groan.

But the north and the south are words that have been surcharged with tragedies. They are words which suggest that for forty years the cloud3 had been gathering for a four years' tempest, which thirty years ago burst in a fury that shook this planet as it lias never been shaken since it swung out at tho first world building. I thank God that the words have lost some of the intensity which they possessed three decades ago: that a vast multitude of northern people have moved south, and a vast multitude of southern people have moved north, and there have been intermarriages by the ten thousand, and northern colonels have married the daughters of southern captains, and Texas rangers have united for life with the daughters of" New York abolitionists, and their children are half northern and half southern and altogether patriotic. But north and south are words that need to be brought into still closer harmonization. I thought that now, when we are half way between presidential elections, and sectional animosities are at the lowest ebb; and now, just after a presidential journey, when our chief magistrate, who was chiefly elected by the north, has been cordially received at the south; and now, just after two Memorial Days, one of them a month ago, strewing flowers on southern irraves, and the other yesterday, strewing ucjrxitra.

The Kickapoo Indian medicice show is exhibiting in town. Hesper wants a hotel. The colored people will have a baptizing in the river Sunday providence and the river permitting. The German school starts oat with an enrollment of twenty-eight scholars. Miss Mabel Richards is confined in doors with a severe case of ivy poisoning, contracted while fishing.

John Ogden who has for the past twelve months had charge of this section on the Santa Fe, has been appointed to a responsible position in the Kansas City yards. His brother George takes chaage here. Decoration Day was becomingly observed by our citizens last Saturday. of Osage the orator of the day. A large crowd was out.

H. Oberholtzer is home from Chilli-cothe, Mo. OVKKBllOOIt ITKMS. ern and southern graves shall not be put upon the grass of the tomb until they have first encircled the foreheads of the living. I will let the front of the wreath come down over the scar of a scalp wound made by the sward of a cavalryman at Atlanta, and droop a little over the eye that lost its luster in the mine explosion at Petersburg.

Huzza for the living! Calla lilies and camellias and amaranths and palm branches for the living! THE DEAD KNOW. But we must not detain the two garlands any longer from the pillows of those who for a quarter of a century have been prostrate in dreamless slumber, never oppressed by summer heats or chilled by winter's cold Both garlands are fragrant. Both have in them the sunshine and the shower of this springtime. The colors of both were mixed by him who mixed tae blue of the sky, and the gold of the sunset, and the green of the grass, and the whiteness of the snow crystal. And I do not care which you put over the northern grave and which over the southern grave.

Does any one say, "What is the use? None of them will know it. Your Decoration Days both sides Mason and Dixon's line are a great waste of flowers." Ah I I see you have carried too far my idea that praise for the living is better than praise for the departed. Who says that the dead do not know of the flowers? I think they do. The dead are not dead. The body sleeps, but the soul lives and is unhindered.

No two cities on earth are in such rapid and constant communication as earth and heaven, and the two great Decoration Days of north and south are better known in realms celestial than terrestrial. With what interest we visit the place of our birth and of our boyhood or girlhood days! And have the departed no interest in this world where they were born and ransomed, and where they suffered and triumphed? My Bible does not positively say so, nor does my catechism teach it, but my common sense declares it. The departed do know, and the bannered procession that marched the earth yesterday to northern graves, and the bannered procession that marched a month ago to southern graves, were accompanied by two grander though invisible processions that walked the air processions of the ascended, processions of the martyred, processions of the sainted and they heard the anthems of the churches, and the salvo of the batteries, and they stooped down to breathe the incense of the flowers." These august throngs gathered this morning in these pews and aisles and corridors and galleries are insignificant compared with the mightier throngs of heaven who mingle in this service which we render to God and our country while we twist the two garlands. Hail spirits multitudinous! Hail spirits blest! Hail martyred one3 come down from the King's palaces! How glad are we that you have come tack againl Take this kiss of welcome and these garlands of reminiscence, ye who languished in hospitals or went down under the thunders and the lightnings of Fredericksburg and Cold Harbor and Murfreesboro and Corinth and Yorktown and above the clouds on Lookout Mountain. A UNIQUE SERVICE.

Among the thousands of gatherings at the north and at the south for Decoration Bays I am conscious that thi3 service is unique, and that it is the only one in which there has been twisted two garlands, one for the grave of the northern dead and the other for the grave of the southern dead. Lord God of the Union, is it not time that we bury forever our old grudges? My! My! Can we not be at peace on earth when this mo dren without fatherly help and protection? Under all the advantages which we had of fatherly guidance, what a struggle life has been to the most of us! But what of the children, two and five and ten years of age, who stood at their mother's lap with great, round, wondering eyes, hearing her read of those who perished in the Battleof the Wilderness, their fathers gone down among the dead host? Come, young men and women, who by such disaster have had to make your own way in life, and I will put the garland on your young and un wrinkled brow. Yes; you have had your own Malvern rtill, and your own South Mountain, and your own Gettysburg all along these twenty years. Cornel And, if 1 cannot spare a whole garland for your brow, I will twist in your locks at least two flowers, one crimson and one white, the crimson for the struggle of your life, which has almost amounted to carnage, and the white for the victory you have gained. FOIi LIVING SOLDIERS.

Before I put the two garlands I am twisting upon the northern and southern tombs, I detain the garlands a little while that I may put them upon the brow of the living soldiers and sailors of the north and south, who, though at variance for a long while, are now at peace and in hearty loyalty to the United States government, and ready, if need be, to march shoulder to shoulder against any foreign foe. The twenty-six winters that have passed since the war, 1 think, have sufficiently cooled the hatreds that once burned northward and southward to allow the remark that they who fought in that conflict were honest on both sides. The chaplains on both armies were honest in their prayers. The faces that went into battle, whether they marched toward the Gulf of Mexico or marched toward the north star, were honest faces. It is too much to ask either side to believe that those who came out from their homes, forsaking father and mother and wife and child, many of them never to turn, were not in earnest when they pi their life into awful exigency.

Witness the last scene at family prayers up among the Green mountains or down by the fields of cotton and sugar cane. Men do not sacrifice their all for fun. Men do not eat moldy bread or go without bread at all for fun. Men do not sleep unsheltered in equinoctial storms for fun. There were some, no doubt, on both sides who enlisted for soldiers' pay, or expecting opportunity for violence and pillage, or burning with revenge and thirst for human blood, but such cases were so rare many of you who were in the war four years never confronted such an instance of depravity.

As chaplain of a Pennsylvania regiment, and as a representative of the United States Christian commission, I was for a while at the front, and in those hospitals at Hagers-town and Williamsburg and up and down the Potomac, where all the churches and farmhouses were filled with wounded and dying Federals and Confederates, I forgot amid the horrors to ask on which side they fought, when with what little aid I could' take them for their suffering bodies, and the mightier aid I could pray for their souls, I passed the days and months amid scenes that in my memory seem like a ghastly dream rather than a possible reality. When a New Orleans boy, unable to answer my question as to where he was hurt, took out from the folds of the only garment that had not been torn off him in the battle a New Testament, marked with his own life blood, and I saw the leaf turned down at the passage, "My peace I give untc you, not as the world giveth give I unto you," it read just as though it had been a E. H. PAIGE, he is also an all round athlete of no mean ability. He made his initial appearance in a bicycle race in the spring of 18S7, and in the fall of that year he finished fifth in the Whitefish bay mad race.

In 1SSS, in addition to placing numerous minor events to his credit, he made the best time in the Whitefish bay (ten miles) and Waukesha (five miles) road races. In the following year he made third best time in the above named races against the picked riders of the Badger State. Last year (1890) Paige showed greatly improved form. He began the season by winning the championship of Waukesha county at all distances. He obtained second place from the scratch in a two mile handicap, and he also finished second to the "Flying Badger," Terry Andrae, in the three mile race for the state championship.

He next won a one mile handicap at Milwaukee, beating Terry Andrae and Howard Tuttle, of Chieago, in the final heat. He surprised the talent by winning the Waukesha-Milwaukee road race, seventeen miles, doing the distance in 59 minutes. At the Green Bay (Wis.) tournament last September, wherein he met some of the fastest riders in the country, he did very welL winning first prize in the two mile race (6:30 class); was first in the two mile handicap, second in the one mile race, and a close second in the five mile race for the championship of Wisconsin. cabinets secretary of war, in place of Secretary Proctor, who is to succeed Senator Edmunds. All of which is interesting and of course possible, but the most diligent inquiry among those who ought to know something about such important changes failed to authenticate the rumors, and it is known that when Secretary Noble left here a short time ago he had no idea of retiring from the cabinet before the 4th day of March, 1S93.

There are a lot of mad Democrats in the town. A scheme which has for some time been whispered among the faithful of that party has been exposed, and its friends fear defeated by a sensational publication. The article in question set forth the fact that the national association of Democratic clubs, the executive committee of which was at the time in session in New York, is engaged in laying the wires for the nomination next year of Senator Gorman. It is well known here that such a movement, managed by some of the shrewdest men in the Democratic party, has been quietly going on since last winter, and that its managers did not wish it to get out because they were not fully prepared to antagonize the Hill and Cleveland people. The original program, as outlined by a prominent Democrat who was very much disgusted at the publication named, was to allow the Cleveland and Hill men to carry their fight to such an extent as to make the nomination of either impossible, and then to spring the name or Gorman backed Miss OUie Sn3der went to Topeka Tuesday.

Ad Eckard has retired from the Grange store. John Hout and wife went to Wa-verly Saturday. Mrs. A. G.

Coffey and Mrs. E. G. Kay were shopping in Topeka Wednesday. E.

G. Kay has sold out his stock of jewelry and himself and wife are visiting in Oskaloosa. The Little Svrayback's Misfortune. Lovers of good running races recently heard with deep regret the news that Ten ny, the celebrated race horse, was so badly crippled by an old leg trouble that his turf career was probably ended. In 18S7 Tenny was a scraggy, ugly looking yearling, and W.

L. Scott took such a dislike to him that he was sold for a song. He got into Colonel Pulsifer's hands, and soon developed into a veritable wonder. Hi remarkable con- I by the machinery of the Democratic clubs, on the party as that of a man whose nomination would be acceptable to all wings of the party. Whether this exposure will result in making or killing the Gorman boom remains to be seen; but it will in either event make the other candidates look with suspicion upon the association of Democratic clubs.

No more elaborate and general observance of the ceremonies of Memorial day was ever held here than those of this year. After more than a week of rainy, disagreeable weather the 30th, was ushered in with glorious sunshine, and not a soldier's grave was left undecorated and Arlington cemetery never looked more beautiful. It seems to be the general opinion here that England will eventually agree to Secretary Blaine's proposition for a closed season in Behring Sea this year; but there are a few who believe that it is alieady too late to stop the killing of seals this season, and some think that Lord Salisbury, in croins: to Parliament for authority A washout at Levis delayed the freight train three hours Monday. Mrs. John Kinney, of Ridgeway, visited in this town Saturday.

Jas. G. Kirkwood had business in Topeka Friday. G. B.

Jones mounted the train, grip in hand, for Vinland Friday. i A. F. Graham and O. J.

Gauger, of Carbondale, visited in this city Wednesday. John Stroup, wife and four children of Union, took the train at this station for Sedalia, Friday. Rev. Frank Holland, of Valley Falls, visited his brother-in-law, G. W.

limes, and J. E. Green, and while here called at the Herald office. Married, at the Congregational parsonage, Carbondale, May 26, 1S91, by Rev. J.

II. B. Smith, Mr. Andrew L. Farrol, of Rossville, Kansas, to Miss Ida ReiIlyT, of Overbrook, Kansas.

They took their departure for Rossville Monday. One more big rain Sunday and Sunday night. J. M. Huston and II.

W. Cole went to Lyndon Monday to attend court as jurymen. T. L. Heberling, county commissioner, went to Lyndon Monday on county business.

Jeremiah King, of Waverly, visited-, his son Al and grand-son Lee a few days in Overbrook and returned Mon- day. TENNY. tests with Sal va tor, the king of the turf, are still fresh in memory. Tenny came out second best, it is true, but he won the profound respect of Prince Charlie's peerless son and the public despite that fact. Tenny was out of Rayon d'Or Belle of Maywood.

The injury Tenny is suffering from was received while he was being speeded. During a two-minute clip he broke down in the coronet of his off hind foot. Even if Tenny is not permanently disabled, he probably is out of the Suburban and Brooklyn handicaps this year. ment in heaven dwell, in perfect love, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E.

Lee, William T. Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, and tens of thousands of northern and southern men who, though they once looked askanco at each other from the opposite bauks Jf the Potomac and the Chickahorniny and the James and the Tennessee, now are on the same side of the river, keeping jubilee with some of those old angels who near nineteen centuries ago came down one Christmas night to chant over Bethlehem, "Glory to God in the highest; on earth peace, good will to men!" I have been waiting for some years for some one else to twist the two garlands that I today twist, but, no one doing it, in the love of God and my country I put now my hand to the work, and next spring about this time, if I am living and well, I will twist two more garlands for northern and southern graves, and every springtime until some mau or woman whom I may have cheered a little in the struggle of this life shall -me out and put a pansy or two on my ov ive. But if the time should ever come nea this land shall be given 1 Howers on northern graves, it might be appropriate and useful for me to preach a Bermon which would twist two garlands, one for the northern dead and the other for the southern dead, and have the two Interlocked in a chain of flowers that shall bind forever the two sections into one; and who knows but that this may be the day when the prophecy of the text made in regard to the ancients may be fulfilled in regard to this country, and the north give np its prejudices and the south keep not back its confidence? "1 will say to the north. Give up, and to the south. Keep not back." GARLANDS ON LIVING Br.OWS.

But before 1 put these garlands on the graves I mean to put them thi3 morning a little while on the brows of the living men and women of the north and south who lost husbands and sons and brothers during the civil strife. There is nothing more soothing to a wound than a cool bandage, and these two garlands are cool from tho night dew. What a morning that was on the bauks of the Hudson and the Savannah when the son was to start for the wart What fatherly and motherly counscll What tears! What heartbreaks! What charges to write home often! What little keepsakes put away in the knapsack, or the bundle that was to be exchanged for tho knapsaclc! The crowd around the depot or the steamboat landing shouted, but father and mother and sister cried. And how lonely the house seemed after they went home, and what an awfully vacant chair there was at the Christmas and Thanksgiving table! And after the battle, what waiting for news! What suspense till tho long lists of the killed and wounded were made outl All along the Penobscot, and the Connecticut, and the St. Iawrence, and the Ohio, and the Oregon, and the James, and the Albemarle, and the Alabama, and the Mississippi, and the Sacra meuto there were lamentatiou and mourn ing and great woe, llachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they were not.

The world has for gotten it, but father and mother have not forgotten it. They may be now in the eighties or tho nineties, but it i3 a fresh wound, and will always remain a fresh wound. Coming down the steep of years the hands that would have steadied those tottering steps have been twenty-eight A Famous English IJaritone. i What a hjirvest field America is rettin? sat down and took from a South Carolinian dying in a barn at Boonesville his last message to his wife and mother and child, it sounded Just like a message that a northern man dying far from home would send to his wife and mother and child. And when 1 picked up from the battle field of Antietam the fragment of a letter which I have somewhere yet, for the name and the address were torn off, I saw it was the words of a wife to her husband telliug him how the little child prayed for their father every night that he might not get hurt in the battle and might come home sound and come home well, but that if anything happened to them they might all meet again in the world where there are no partings, it read just as a northern wife would write to a husband away from home and in peril conveying the mes sages of little children.

Oh, yes; they were honest on both sides. And those who lived to get home and are living yet were just as honest, and ought they not for the suffering they endured have a coronal of some kind? COCIIAGE ON BOTH SIDES. Yea, there was courage on both sides. They who were at the front know that. When the war opened the south called the northern men "mudsills," and the north called the southern men "braggarts" and "pompous nothings," but after a few battles nothing more was said about northern "mudsills" and southern "braggarts." It was an army of lions against an army of lions.

It was a flock of eagles mid-sky with iron beak against another flock of eagles iron beaked. It was thunderbolt against thunderbolt. It was archangel of wrath against archangel of wrath. It was Hancock against Longstreet. It was Kilpatrick against Wade Hampton.

It was Slocum against IlilL It was O. O. Howard against Hood. It was Sherman to be for professionals from abroad! The Kendals and Bernhardt showed how quickly Yankee dollars will flow into the purses of foreign actors, and the experiences of Scharwenka, Friedheim, Charles Sant- to ogree so Mr. Blaine's proposition's only intentionally killing time so as to make it too late to interfere with the Canadian vessels which are already illegally taking seals.

All admit that it will be extremely difficult, even if both countries earnestly try, to prevent illegal sealing, after waiting until so late in the season. It is semi-oflicially announced that Hon. Charles E. Mitchell, commision-er of patents, has tendered his resignation, preferring to return to the practice of his profession. There is a general feeling of regret as his administration of the office has been an excellent one.

Notice calling in the 4 percent, bonds which mature in September are being mailed to the holders of those bonds by the Treasury Department. These notices are sent out in compliance with law; but it has not yet been fully decided whether the holders of these bonds will be given the option of continuing them at a reduced rate of interest. Attorne'-General Miller said to-day that he expected the appointments of the judges of the new land Court to be made this week. i ley and many oth-j show that good musicians I from across he sea are quite as cer- tain of recognition here, if they ue-! serve it, as are act- ors. Charles Sant- ley is said to be the i greatest English I baritone singer.

He was born in Liverpool in 1S3-L and studied under over to sectional rancor and demagogism, and north and south, or east and west shall forget what the good God built this nation for, and it shall halt on its high career of righteousness and liberty and peace, and Ijecome the agent of tyranny and wrong and oppressiou, then let some young man whom I have baptized in infancy at these altars go out to Greenwood and scoop up my dust and scatter it to the four winds of heaven, for I do not want to sleep, and I will not sleep in a land accursed with sectionalism or oppression. And now I hand over the two garlands, both of which are wet with many tears tears of widowhood and orphauage and childlessness, tears of suffering and tears of gratitude; and as the ceremony must be performed in symbol, there not being enough flowers to cover all the graves, take the one garland to the tomb of some northern soldier who may yesterday have been omitted in the distribution of the sacra-meut of flowers, and the other garland to the tomb of some southern soldier who may a month ago have been omitted in the distribution of the sacrameut of the flowers, and put both the wreaths gently down overtthe hearts that have ceased to beat. God bless the two garlands! God save the United States of America! CLINTON. J. W.

Christian and family moved last Monday to Council Grove. A newcomer arrived on last Saturday evening at the home of Charles Cunningham. W. L. Payne has made application for the Clinton postoffice, J.

Christian having resigned. Farmers are becoming discouraged over the long continued rains. A number are not through planting yet, some have to replant and what corn is up is making but very little headway. Decoration day was observed here. The people met at the M.

E. church about 10 o'clock and marched to the cemetery and decorated the graves of all the soldiers buried confederate as well as union. In tho evening a memorial service was held at the school house. Quite a number were present and several took part in the exercises. LUCK VAS WITH THEM.

against Stonewall Jackson. It was Grant against Lee, and the men wiio were under them were just as gallant, and some of them are here, and I detain the two garlands The or years folded into the last sleep, childishness, the widowhood, the i the greatest CHARLES santlet. French and Italian masters before he made his debut in 1S0L. His greatest triumph is said to have been won wlu-n he created the part of the Dutchman in the first Wagner-: ian production in England. lie is particu-: larly fond of sacred music, probably be-i cause he is a devout churchman.

Near home in St. John's Wood, London, is a church which he regularly attends whenever he is near enough. When there he i invariably places himself in the loft, and adds his magnificent-voice to those of the choir boys. For this he receives no pay. The present is his second American tour.

phanage, who has a measuring line Jong enough to tell the height of it, the depth of it, the Infinity of it? What a mountain, what an Alps, wlutt a Hiraa lay a of piled up agony of bereavement in tho simple statement that three hundred thousand men of the north were slain and BASEBALL NOTES. A Nehkaska competitor in a guessing contest came within one of the exact population of that state as given in the census reports. A citizen' of Ci'dar Bluffs, had the novel experience, the other morning, of shooting a wolf in his dooryard before breakfast. A Lancaster (Pa.) man recently received fifty dollars through the mail, with a letter stating that it was stolen from him forty years ago. A resident of Jasper, killed a hawk a few days ago of great size.

It measured five feet and seven inches from tip to tip of its wings. A was out looking for some lost sheep in a canyon near Sespe, Ventura county, on Wednesday, when he ran against a large brown bear. He had no firearms, but he lassoed the bear and dragged it to death. It weighed eight hundred pounds. that I have twisted for the departed, and in recognition of honesty and prowess put the coronals upon these living Federals and Confederates.

North and south, wo will make a great fuss about them when they are dead. There will not be room on their tombstones to tell how much we appreciate them. We shall call out the military and explode three volleys over their graves, making all tho cemetery ring under our command of "Fire!" We will have long obituaries in newspapers telling in what battles they fought, what sacrifices they endured, what flags they captured, in what prisons they suffered, but all that will come too late. One word in the living ear of praise for their honesty and courage will be worth to them more than a military funeral two miles long, or a pile of flowers half a mile high, and ten bands of music playing over the grave "Star Spangled Banner" or Way Down South in Dixie." fjw, while they are in their declining years, and their right knee refuses to work because of the rheumatism they got sleeping on the wet ground on the banks of the Chickamauga, or their digestive organs are off on furlough because of the six months of prison life in which their rations were big slices of nothing, and their ears have never been alert since the cannonade in which they heard so much they have been able to hear but little since in these cases I'or Sale at OrcTiarl Hill. I will sell the fruit on 75 cherry trees.

The trees are loaded and the cherries are fine. Easy of nccess, branches low down. Come out and have a picnic. N. P.

Deming. J. P. Ross says the Chicago Alton always lead but never follow, so out for the two cent rate. She runs a daily train and is getting the busi- ness.

You can see her every after- noon at 3:40 at the Union Pacific de- pot, and is the first train to arrive in Chicago. Always on time. five hundred thousand men of the south were slain, and, hundreds of thousands long afterward, through the exhaustions there suffered, going down to death! CNrnOTECTED CHILDREN. I detain from the top of the tomb these two garlands that I am twisting for a lit tie while that 1 may with thorn soothe the brow of the living. Over the fallen the people said.

"Poor fellow! What a pity that he should have been struck "We did not, however, often enough say. "Poor fathtrl Poor mother! Poor wife! Toor child!" and so 1 say it now. Have you realized that by that wholesale massa era hundreds of thousands of young people at the north and the south have never had any chance? We who are fathers stand between our children and the world. We light their battles, we plan for their wel we achieve their livelihood, we give them the advice of our superior years. the richest blessings of my life 1 thank God that my father lived to fight jay battles until 1 was old enough to fight for myself.

Have you realized the fact that our civil Trr pitched out upon the farcnnelds of the rrrta cud tha plantations of the south a Catching: Kats by Faith. A clergyman in Bath purchased a rat trap of a Front street merchant, but some days after, with a sad countenance, entered the merchant's store and complained that he could not catch a rat in it. "You don't bait it right," explained the storekeeper. "What should I bait it with?" inquired the reverend gentleman. "With faith," replied the dealer.

Whether or not the recipe was good the minister departed, and a few days later smilingly informed the merchant that the previous night he had captured three rodents in his trap. Bath (Me.) Independent. The Great Safegnard. There is no safeguard like a newspaper. Nothing can do more to keep up a town and help business.

The town that supports a good local paper is the town that is successful and growing, and the newspaper that keeps up with and a little in advance of the town's growth is the one that will live long and prosper. Denny is credited with being the slowest runner on the New York team. He is said to be too fat. Captain Anson recently gave the Denver team quite a compliment when he said it was the strongest team he had ever seen outside the National league. It is said that a new lease of life is to be given the Southern league.

Baseball seems to be coming up serenely all over the country, despite 'wars and rumors of wars. Tim Keefe, the famous New York twirler, is an expert stenographer. Kansas City is sailing pretty close to the wind on salaries. The team only carries twelve men. George S.

Haddock i3 looked upon as one of the best pitchers in the American association. The most eloquent "coach" in the National league is Tucker, the Boston first baseman. When he is allowed to get near third base and pilot a man home he never fails to talk the shingles off the jtrand stand. The Canning Co. is now taking all that can be ob- the strawberries tained.

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