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Colonel Mushy rode beck
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RETURNING TH E COMPLIMENT.
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Cotonai John s. Mosby. the southern
«avalry leader in the war betweea the
•ta^es, accumulated many mementos
that long add bloody struggle, but
n# which be treasured more Jetton»
than a lock o f dark hair wrapped In a
•adad yellow acrap o f newspaper. Tbe
bajr was cut from tbe hand o f Atom
ham Lincoln. It was Lincoln’s own
hand which cut it, end the gn at war
president himself who sent it
la tbe spring o f IMS the Army o f thè
Potomac lay along the north beak o f
«ha Rappahannock^ about fifty ndJea
South o f Washington. The intervening
country was, o f course. la the posarn
Si on o f the Inton troops. Off In the
lUfeaa— o f the Blue Ridge mountains,
about thirty miles westward, «ras
Cotonai MoSby. with a body o f picked
southern cavalrymen, «caking to do
what Injury he could to the Federal
outposts and linea o f communication.
About the middle o f March there en
camped at Fairfax-Court Bouse, a vil
lage of about 600 Inhabitants, halfway
between Washington and tbe army on
the Rappahannock, a force o f several
thousand Union troops under General
Stoughton.
From a military point o f view, his
camp at Fairfax was nearly as safe as
Boston. Between bis own forge and
tbe southern army, under General Lee.
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IT S
SLU M P
IN . POPULATION.
"Here Isa a lock of
Lincoln’s hntr.” sha aahL
to say to you that be hat
vould not còme ofer to at
that ha send it to you by a
toar’—Tooth’s Companion.
Ite Charm and Hospitality and the
Matte It U tod Up Te.
Many frequenters bare tried to as.
prato the charm o f Maifc (Twain’s
household. Few have succeeded, for It
la/ not to the hopes Itself nor to Its
furnishings, beautiful as these things
were, but to the peteunaMty o f its oc
cupants ' the da(ly round o f their Urda,
the atmosphere which «Sa/ uncon
sciously created. From .Us wide an-
trenca hall and tiny jeweUlke con-
mrvatory below to the billiard room at
the top o f tbe bouse U seemed perfect
ly appointed, serenely ordered end full
o f welcome.
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The home of, one or tbe most un
usual and unaccountable personalities
In tbe world was filled with gentleness
and peace. It was Mrs. Clemens who
was chiefly responsible. 8be wee no
louger the half timid. Inexperienced
xlrl he had married.
Association,
study and travel had brought her
knowledge end confidence. When the
greet ones of the world came to Visit
America’s mosf picturesque literary
figure, she gave welcome to them and
filled her place at his side wltoTsaeb
sweet grace that those who came tb
pay tbetr duties to him often returned
to |iay still greater devotion to Us
• oui [Minion.
small force leas than a hundred
—was thirty miles sway.
Nevertheless. Colonel Mosby deter
mined to capture General Stoughton.
Selecting twenty o f Us boot troopers,
he started one drtxsly March afternoon
for Stoughton’s camp. It was after
midnight when be ran tote the first
picket, who was eaaBy captured to the
darkness. And thus, taking pickat aft
er picket to the. black night, Colooto
Mosby made Us way without alarm
into the village, until be entered Gam
ers! Stoughton's tmdehamber.
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William Dean Howells, so often a
visitor there, once said to the writer:
. "Words cannot express Mrs. Clem
en*—her fineness; her delicate, wonder
ful ta ct’* And again. -She wee net
only n beautiful aouL but e women o f
singular Intellectual power.’'
There w ort always visitors In the
Clemen« house. Above the mantel to
the library wee written. -The orna
ment of e boose to the friends that
frequent I t ' and tbe Clemens borne
never lacked e f timer ornaments. and
they were o f the world’s beat No dle-
ttagutohed person came to America
that did not pay a visit to Hartford
sad Mark Twain. Generally ft was
as dense. In comparison with the
srnlng country it Is three-fifths as I
as England and Weiss, with oee-s
the population. The Island to an
the very few sections o f tbe d v t
world where the population has sh
a marked decrease daring the lest
The first census o f the Island, taken
to 1821, recorded a population atoMht
30 per cent larger than at tbe present
time, while the census o f 1841 showed
tb« Ugh water merit o f more toga
8,000.000. nearly twice the present pop
ulation. This remarkable decrease, doe
largely to emigration, began after the
famine brought about by tbe destrde-
tlve dism al which attacked the potato
crop or 1848. This calamity resulted
to the withdrawal o f more than a mil
lion acres from cultivation within tarn
The defect o f American edoration Is
ditrtiseness. The children are bothered
and confused by being dragged across
the surfaces o f too many studies In a
<lay. All of our schools, both public
und private, and all our universities
and ceOacea suffer from this same na
tional rice, which Is s vice la the
American character, a weakness In
our temperament It ought to be met
and corrected In every field o f life.
What we need Is depth- Depth can
be Imparted through the teaching of
anything. It can be Imparted through
Latin grammar, through handwriting,
through carpenter work, through arith
metic or history. The one element re
quired la time. Depth cannot be »
parted quickly or In many subjects
at once. Leisure la necessary—« stow
ing down, a taking o f things, not
easily, but slowly^ determinedly, pa
tiently. ae If there were plenty of
time and nothing else counted.
This to the road to rapid and hrll
liant work, and there to no other. The
smallest children should be set on this
road and guided and governed and
helped and slaved over by the beat of
yoor masters. One subject understood
means the world mastered. My friend
Frederick Mather o f .Tale put« the
thing as follows:
“ If- one o f our smalj colleges should
after the manner of tbe English col
leges, devote Itself to a few old fash
toued subjects, such as Latte and
Greek, end some kind o f' history end
philosophy, and should really teacb
these things, its gradoates wonJd soon
be so famous end so eminent that
banks and railroads would be clamor
lng for them at tbe college doom.**
Tbe epigram summarises the present
needs In American education.—John J
Chapman to Atlantic Monthly.
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Incidentally tbe potato, which tuto,
played such an Important role In the
Uto o f Ireland during the last 800
GARRICK’S M O B ILE FACE.
yearn, to not Indigenous to the Island,
but was one o f the food gold minea¿
discovered by tbe Spaniards In tbelr Its Varying
eonqoeat o f Pom. The country Is ta~?
debted to Sir W alter Raleigh for fate. A t an entertainment at Which Gains
-Irish’ potatoes, as It was he w h o ] borough and tbe famous actor David'
them from whet to now North ' Garrick were present aa ardent ad
Carolina and planted them oa Us es mirer o f the great artist declared, ac
tate near Cork in 1888.
cording to "Bibik*bek der Gnterhal-
Ireland lies on the western rim of tong und des Wlssens." that Gain*
whet was ooce a pert o f continental
and get die S o f t Y e l l o w
Stoughton Included, to
Dewiest k > Strategy. -
Hunbend -I «in uot ready to fb oat
yet W ife—But I am. end we urast go
Immed^tely. Husband- Bat. my dear,
your bef la not oo straight W ife -
tary quartan. Stougbtou was roundly
Dear me! Isn't It 7 W elt 0 minute tin
«ensured tor silo wing himself thus to
I go ro my room sod pur It right
ha stolen from the midst o f his troops,
Exit wife for half an boar end her
although be was In nowise to hie me.
shrewd husband completes his work.
President Lincoln, whose sen«« of
humor nothing could quench, remark
Arpentlna-
ed. when told o f the affair, that ha did
If tbe country has tbe ram# average
not mind losing the general, but the
hundred boraee were a serious matter. potentiality for producing food as lend
“ I can moke e general with tbe similarly situated in North America or
scratch of e pen,” be said dryly, -but Europe. It would -eem that Argrattoa
can support lfin.ono.tmo people easily,
I can’t make bones.”
8hortly afterward Colonel Mosby, as only small parts of It Ue outside
with a few companions, was recon- the temperate cone
noltering In tbe vicinity of Washing
ton. On the road be encountered an
The Point ef View.
old Dutch. market women taking her
"The darkest cloud has a silver Ito
garden truck In her cart to peddle It tug.” remarked the optimist
through tbe Washington streets. Colo-
"But it Is a dark cloud. Just the
net Mosby stopped end questioned ber. same." Insisted tbe pessimist.—Ex-
Noticing a pair o f scissors at bar belt
end having beard o f President Lin
coln’s comments on General Stough
•illy Follow.
ton’s capture, be said:
-Tou are the only girl that can tm
-Do you know Mr. Lincoln?”
me happy ”
"Tkb." replied tbe old women. -Seen
“ Are you sure?”
him often. I have."
-Tea: I have tried all tba others.'
Taking tbe scissors. Colonel Moaby Philadelphia Record
cut off a lock o f bis hair, and wrap
ping It in a piece o f paper bended It
Fam Inina Architecture.
to tbe old woman, saying:
-My wife baa planned a gem o f a
- I’m Colonel Mosby. When you get place.”
to Washington go to tbe White House
“ What’s her idea?”
and tell tbe president that Colonel
-An eight room boose with 132 clos
Mosby went him this lock of hts hair ets.” —Louisville Courier-Journal
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Shannon, which flows for 280 mUaa.
Is the longest water course tn the U nit
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Although coal to found in moat o f the
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In a modest way to County Wicklow at
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source of~ibe metal bes nevar bean re
discovered.
Agriculture and stock raising are tbe
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A t one time the woolen manufactures
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English factories, bat boatíle legisla
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Irish have raised flax tor centuries,
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country. Irish whisky to an Important
article o f export, and one o f tbe largest
breweries tn tbe world to located at
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Shipbuilding In y>e great yards at
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Thanks to tbe temperate Influence of
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a summer day to 80 degrees.
At Torr Head on tbe north the d l*
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only thirteen end one-half miles. The
Giant’s Causeway, a short distance to
the east o f this point, to tbe outcrop
ping basaltic formation which In a
former age joined tbe two talands.-
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make several alterations In bis work.
At tba third sitting his displeasure be
came extreme when, on comparing tbe
half completed work with Garrick's
face. In- saw that tbe two bore so little
resemblance to each other that tbe
portrait bed almost to be repainted.
When Garrick appeared for the fourth
time, with tbe most innocent expres
sioo imaginable, and begged tbe paint
er to begin work Gainsborough, tbor
oughly angry, broke out:
“ I’Ve no use for you! Tou can ape
thousands o f faces end never have one
of your own!”
Sm|llng. Garrick left toe studio to
announce to tbe artist’s friends that be
bad won the wager.
Hunting the Elusive Spark.
To End** dead spark plug I take an
ordinary hammer-and'bold the wooden
handle to my band, says James Atcber-
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tbe toes on tbe cylinder bead. I bring
the claws slowly toward tbe bead of
the plug. I f tbe ping to alive tbe spark
will leap across when tbe right gap to
reached, i f no spark to made tbe plug
Is deed. This method does sway with
the danger o f receiving a shock, as you
are holding the wooden handle
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married woman to cut berself off from
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lowed to pronounce tbelr names even
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tinct dialect among Zulu women.—
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-M y . w ife's mad with me and has
boosting the Blame.
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Father ito daughter’s young tnan>—
My gaa bill la greatly Increased this comet to her senses Why sbonld you
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