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WOMAN IN \ Her Hecord is a I?roi TJpliol The Sunday So long has been the reign of peace . in this wide, happy land that those of us who are still on the sunny side of middle age know naught of the sacri fices and deep, deep heartaches that war brings in its train, save those that are now storied. "It was during the war," began the woman whose hair was silvery white, and at this all the girls sitting about her bent toward her eagerly to listen, for they knew it was a prelude to a story of times When sorrow and bra very and romance were all blended to gether. The silver-haired woman was a young mother "during the war." A husband, gallant and brave, she had bidden good-by and he rode away and came not back. Now her "boy" came to her, and though her heart beat faster, and she could hardly keep the tears back, she said, "Yes, my son, if your country needs you, go." And this is the part-the greatest part, that woman plays in war times. There is no national air that can . so stir a man's heart and oheer him on to dc? or die as can the "Go, and God bless you," said by the woman that the soldier knows loves him best on earth. In it he recognises the com plete putting aside of self, that only m ikes it possible to speak these words without a faltering voice. And he, foo, must.forget self for duty's sake. The woman with the silvery hair aed soft voice that unmistakably be fogged to a daughter of the Southland, wore a clinging light gown, with a diinty silk lining. There was a bit of lao? frill that peeped out from beneath the skirt of her gown, and altogether aa air of refinement that suggested to one that she had known nothing all her life but "purple and fine linen." There was not a girl in the group that wits more attractive in feminine daint iness. "My dears," she said, as she went os: with her story of "during the war," "we took our best linen underwear you know women wore linen nearly al ways in those days-and cut it into bandages, and raveled and scraped the soft pieces into lint for wounds. Then we wore the coarsest of un bleached muslin instead, and our gowns were homespun-yes, spun at home; I have made my own cloth, and then my own frocks." And the aris tocratic looking little hand of the wo - man strayed over her silken lap, and . the younger women who ?looked at it wondered how it could ever have ac complished .. such wonderfully hard things. "We did not count the parting with our jewels and fine olothes anything. Why, we even felt supremely selfish with such a luxury as a carpet on the ?nor. When ammunition was short, we melted our pewter kitchen spoons and made bullets from them, and we spent long days and nights in the hos pitals taking care of the wounded and shedding tears over the dead." Then the girls in chorus demanded stories about hospital nursing, and th? silvery haired woman told them ; until she came to one where she was sent for hurriedly, and, unde?. ??oort and guard, went to wait by a narrow sot one long, dark day. and a darker night, and then she could tell no more, for this day and night at hospital nursing had ended in a long good-by and a "God keep you," said in a tear choked voice. . This story, in spirit, if not in letter, is told by women of the North and South alike. The self-sacrifice and heroism of the women of 30 years ago is now often spoken of as a character istic that belonged to the women of the past. We have somehow got to thinking that women are so differ ent since "before the war" era, and thal in a great crisis the "new" wo man might display a splendid amount of physical strength, but little or none of the patience and ?self-forgetfuloess that made heroines out of the most commonplace little women "during the war." But the soldier's wife and mother and sister and sweetheart is brave to-day as she was in the years of battles gone by. The "new" woman has not written to headquarters that she "will carry a gun and wear bloomers, and face with out flinching, the enemy." Indeed, her letters have not been directed to the headquarters that are mustering up those to kill, if killing be necessa ry. They have gone to the headquar ters of the army whose mission it is to save-to save lives that are precious to other mothers, and wives, and sis ters and sweethearts, no matter wheth- j er of friend or foe. Indeed, she has, t without any display of noise, very j unselfishly offered too put aside all her pretty summer frocks that she was busy all winter planning, and don a plain little gown and apron, and risk her splendid health, if by so doing she can help a cause she believes to be right. Down in my heart I am j t glad, (though the pitiful misfortune that war must be I have not forgot ten,? that the new woman has had an VAR TIMES. r jd One, and She Still ds lt. Republic. opportunity to provo that to the best of things she haa still held fast, and ia very like the "old" woman, after all. Have you thought that this war-it may be war ere this that I write is in cold type-calls for a very deep devo tion to country and fellowmen? I was about to write deeper devotion than any other war has ever made de mands upon, and perhaps I may safe ly do so. There is not thc inspiring thought that immediate action means defense against invaded homes, that we stand right on the very spot that must be protected and among familiar sights. Men quit their homes to go afar off, maybe, as au invading army, where death, perhaps, awaits them in more forms than shot and shell. Wo men have said they would go-and some are already gone-to lessen, as best they may, ithe tenors of war. Woman has given the soldier to land, woman has bade him go, and woman prays God to help keep America's first invading army-if such this is to be-and woman with tender hand helps back to health and strength the wounded. All this is woman's part in war. Would she change it for a chance to fight and show that in every respect she is man's equal? I think not. Ask the newest "new" woman you know and I believe she will tell you that I have not without good rea son believed that her part in war would be the same as that played by her mother, and the great-great-grand mother, whose picture, in colonial garb, is a treasured family heir loom. But there is still another part that women play in war. This part be longs to the woman who may neither go as nurse nor make great sacrifices for her country's name and glory. It ia the part that is played by the quiet little home woman whose duty seems to be in the direction of keeping home ? cheery place in spite of the gloom of war. She may have sent no one to the field, but she knows how to cheer those that have. She practices a thousand economies, and the men that are left at home-not only do the men in the army feel the scars of war-are assured in a thousand silent ways that if times are "hard" she will not mind so much after all whether her summer gowns are brand new or her hats Pa risian. To a man, a home where there is contentment in spite of misfortune is the most encouraging thing in the world. Whether stocks are up or down there is always the thought that all is not lost, that true happiness may flourish on a very small amount of riches. In days of strife, directly or indi rectly, we are bound to face the stress at home. Often, too, it is the harder part to stay quietly at home. Out where all is activity, and. necessities and emergencies press quickly against one another, there is not the conscious ness of the long, anxious "wait" that intervenes between the end, of the time of peace and peace renewed. It is but a natural thing that a woman should hesitate when it comes to the giving ny cf those she loves to battle, and it is but right that those upon whom she lavishes her devotion should wait until it is quite plain that it is duty and not the excitement of the moment that bids them go forth. Once of this they arc sure, then the women of the present -say as bravely as ever their mothers did, "Go." And they smile and wave adieux as cheerily as they can. so the last the soldier sees of the woman he loves shall return to his memory encourag ingly when he is far away. Someone has recently said, and tru ly, that "the endurance and unselfish ness of women in their homos are imong tho strongest sinews of war." If woman wants to play a stronger 3r more important part in the "affairs )f the Nation" I am certain I don't know where she will find it. Do you? MARGARET HANNIS. At the Theatre. (Indignant old gentleman, to young lady, who has been jabbering at the ;op of her voice:) "This talking is ibominable. Nobody can bear a nord." Young lady-'That's what I was .elling Miss Smith here. Those ac .ors keep up such a racket on the Jtage that you can't hear yourself ?peak." Katie Wondered. Katie was being told thc story of ,he lifo of\Gcneral Washington. Her nanima related the chief incidents of lis remarkable career and Katie , was luly impressed. When the story was inished, she observed, with much Fonderment: "And bc could do all those hard lungs and couldn't do such an easy hing as tell a lie." - We didn't "Dewey'" a thing to the panish fleet at Manilla, did wc? HOW SOLDIERS ARE CARED FOR Volunteers Will be Treated Like Sol diers in the Regular Array. Richmond Times. Since war between the United States and Spain is no longer a possibility, but a fact, the manner in which the United States will take care of the men who are ready to risk their lives for the country's welfare has become a matter of general interest. What the pay of the'men in the regular aimy shall be. how they are to be sus tained and what other emoluments they are to receive has all been laid down in the military regulations that have been issued from time to time. The hundred thousand volunteers from the various States of thc Union, for which the President has called, will of course be treated in like man ner and will be subjected to the same regulations. The official Army Register for the year 1897, published by order of the Secretary of War, in compliance with existing laws, gives the pay of the of ficers of the regular army in active service, which will also apply to the officers of the volunteers, as follows: Lieutenant general, $11,000 per year, or $916.17 per month; major general, $7,500 per year, or $625 per month; brigadier general, $5,500 per year, or $458.33 per month. To the pay of these three officers 10 per cent is added after five years' service, 20 per cent, after ten years' service and 40 per cent, after twenty years' ser vice. The regimental officers receive the following pay: Colonel, $3,500 per year, or per month $291.67; after five years' ser vice, $320.83; after ten years' service, $350; after fifteen years' service, $375-which is the maximum amount allowed by law. Lieutenant colonel, $3,000 per year, or per month $250; after five years' service, $275; after ten years' service, $300; after fifteen years'service, $325; after twenty years' servioe, $323.33. which is the maximum amount allowed by law. Major, $2,500 per year, or per month $208.33; after five years' ser vice; $229.17; after Un years' service, I $250; after fifteen years' service, $270.83; after twenty years' service, $281.67. Captain, mounted, $2,000 per year or per month $166.67; after five years' servite, $183.33; after ten years' ser vice, $200; after fifteen years' service, $216.67; after twtnly years' service, $233.33. Captain, not mounted. $1,800 per year, or per month, $150; after five years' service, $165; after ten years' service, $180; after fifteen years" ser vice; $295; after twenty years" ser vice, $210. Regimental adjutant and regimental quartermaster receive the same pay as captain, not mounted. First lieutenant, mounted, $1,600 per year, or per month, $133.33; after five years' service, $146.67; after ten years' service, $160, after fifteen years' service, $173.33; after twenty years' service, $186.67. First lieutenant, not mounted, $1, 500 per year,?or par month, $125; after five years' service, $137.50; after ten years' servioe, $150; after fifteen years' service, $165.10; after twenty years service, $175. Second lieutenant, mounted, re ceives the. same pay as first lieutenant, not mounted. Second lieutenant, not mounted, $1,400 per year, or per month, $116.67; after five years' service, $128.33; after ten years' service, $140; after fifteen years' service, $151.67; after twenty years' servite, $163.33. Chaplain receives the same pay as a first lieutenant, not mounted, or a second lieutenant, mounted. The rank and service receive the followiog nay per month for the first and second years of their enlistment. Company, private, artillery, cavalry and infantry; private (second olass) engineers and ordnanee; musicians, engineers, artillery and infantry, trumpeter, cavalry, $13. Wagoner-Artillery, cavalry, in fantry, $14. Artificer-Artillery and infantry corporal, artillery, cava ly ami in fantry; blacksmith and fairier, caval ry; saddler, cavalry, $15. Sergeant-Artillery, cavalry, in fantry, $18. Private (first class)-Engineers and ordnance, $17. Corporal-Engineer and on.nanoo, $20. First Sttrueau?.- Artillery, cavalry. inf? i r\ , $25. Sergeant-Engineers, ordnance and signal corps, $34. Sergeants (first class)-Signal corps, $45. Regiment-Chief trumpeter, caval ry; principal musician, artillery and infantry; saddle sergeant, cavalry, $22. Chief Musician-Artillery, cavalry and infantry, $60. Sergeant Majo.-Artillery, cavalry j and infantry; quartermaster ?e.geant, artillery, cavalry an . infantry, $23. Sergeant Major and Ouartcrmaster Sergeant-Engine*..-. $36. I Hospital Corp. - Ho.-- ital steward: $45; acting hospital staward, $25, private, $18. Veterinary surgeon (senior) $100: veterinary surgoou, ruuior)$75; hos pital matron. $10. Military headquar.ers -Clerk, class 1, $1,000 per year; clerk, claes 2, $1, 100 per year; clerk, class 3, $1,200 per year; messenger, $60 per mouth. The enlisted men are paid off month ly by the paymasters, while the offi cers draw monthly in presenting their pay accounts to the nearest paymas ters. The enlisted men arc furnished by the government with clothing, equip ments, medical attendance and sup plies. The officers are furnished with quarters in garrisons or towns and in the field with tents, but. they iupply their own equipments, uniforms and food, though the latter may be pur chased from the commissary depart ment at cost price. The mounted officers, such as those of the cavalry, light artillery, field of ficers, staff officers, including the regi mental staff officers, are furnished forage for two Mr moro horses, according to rank, but they must ac tually possess said horses, which arc private property, and not furnished by the government. He Didn't Drop. His name was Moses Sparrow. He was very green. That was the idea that always came into Miss Page's mind when she looked at her country landlady's son. Such a rustic youth, with such fair hair, such big blue eyes, such sloping shoulders, such a jamb like expression. And being there at the farmhouse, whither she had been sent to spend the summer months, the city belle resolved that she would try her powers of fascination upon the boy, who struck her as so good a sub ject for flirtation, in which all the fun was to be on her side and all the sen timent on his. And at it she went, beginning with a smile, a word, and rejoicing to see the fish bite so readily. She enjoyed herself very much until she grew tired of it, and then she decided on break ing the heart she had won and enjoy ing the crash. So she turned him out in the garden, and made him lit beside her on the bench under the wistarias, and said, sadly: "I'm going home next week. I shall send you wedding-cards when I'm married. I'm to be married to a rich old gentleman next winter.'' Then she waited to see him drop at her feet. He only said: "Wall, I'm real glad. I kinder felt afraid I'd been goin' too far with you. I'm a sort of butterfly, flirtin' from flower to flower, you know; and I he? flirted with you, I du allow. I was afraid you'd go off in a decline or 8uthin-you seemed to set so much on me-if you heerd sudden-like that me and Ann Maria was keepin' steady company. But, law, since you're goin' to be married, there ain't no harm done!" Then he smiled at Miss Page, and she arose and sailed away from him with great dignity.-Neve York Jour nal. Brought Into Prominence. Deacon Comstock, of Hatford,Conn., is well-known as being provided with an enormous handle to his counten ance, in the shape of a huge nose, in fact it is remarkable for its great length. On a late occasion, when taking up a collection in the church in which the deacon belongs, as he passed through the congregation every person to whom he presented the bag seemed to be possessed by a sudden and uncontrollable desire to laugh. The deacon did not know what to make of it. He had often passed around before, but no such effects as thtse had he ever before witnessed. The secret, however, leaked out. He had been afflicted fora day.or two with a sore on his nasal appendage, and had placed a small piece of stick ing plaster over it. During the morn ing of the day in question the plaster had dropped off, and the deacon see ing it as he supposed, on the floor* picked it up and stuck it on again. But alas for men who sometimes make great mistakes, he picked up instead one of those pieces of paper which the man ufacturers of spool cotton paste on the end of every spool, aad which reads: "Warranted to hold out 200 yards." Such a sign on such a nose was enough to upset the gravity of even a Puritan congregation. mm . mi - An Englishman came to New York and put up a sign "Established ;<nd rather prided himself upon J ic aniituity of his establishment. . ht* next day his Yankee rival across tue *ay burlesqued his sign in this wa-. EstaDlished yesterday. No old goods on hand." Thirty-five years mak? a Generation. That H ho lon? Adolph Fisher, of ZuifM'i'" Mered from piles. He W*H . .-d ?Jg thrtio boxes of De .. .ir- vvj^jj n ii Salve. Evans Phar u. c.\ I - "oec iiere, Elder, you told me when yo.. ? d me that bay mare that I couldn t make her baulk, liv George, she doesn't do anything else " Ju<t what I told ye. 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AH Sorts of Paragraphs. - Nearly three per' cent, of the deaths in France are from apoplexy. - But one thunderstorm has been witnessed in Arizona during 14 years. - The United States supplies near ly one-half of the wheat used in Eng land. - There are now in Japan 377 Christian churches, and 643 mission aries. - The thrifty housewife never at tains perfection, for she is always mending. - The moment a man is satisfied with himself everybody else is dissat isfied with him. - Don't pay a widow compliments unless you are matrimonially inclined and willing to pay her bills. - The difference between a blonde and a locomotive is that one has a light head and the other a headlight. - The man who originated the say ing, "Hurry is the mark of a weak mind," never was chased by a bulldog. - The population of Japan has in creased at the rate of twenty-seven per cent, in the last twenty-four years. - It is said that more murders oc cur in Paris in six months than in London, Berlin and Vienna in a year. - It is claimed that Lake Erie pro duces more fish to the square mile than auy body of water in the world. - Don't interrupt a miser at his devotions. It might cause him to have to count his money all over again. - Easterner-I understand that you hang people out here for nothing. Westerner-Why, yes ; do you charge out east ? - A sure cure for pain in a hollow tooth is a mixture of powdered alum and common salt, applied with a lock of cotton. A sensation of coldness follows the application, after which the pain gradually subsides. - Louisiana and Pennsylvania are running a close race in the number of annual public holidays, each claiming eleven in the twelve months, with oc casional special ones, which make the rivalry interesting to the participants. - "What ? lot of powder muBt be wasted in useless salutes," mused the statistician, as he listened to the roar of the cannon. "Yes, I suppose there is," said the frivolous girl; "but I expect women will go on kissing one another just the same." - With the desire of giving her husband a true picture of herself, a woman in Atchison, Kansas, had her photograph taken as she appeared at daily housework in her kitchen dress, with a baby on one arm and broom and dustpan on the other._ Oh, the Pain of Rheumatism! Rheumatism often causes the most in tense suffering. Many have for years vainly sought relief from this disabling disease, and are to-day worse off than ever. Rheumatism is a blood disease, and Swiff s Specific is the only cure, be cause it is the only remedy which can reach such deep-seated diseases. A few years ago I was taken with inflamma tory Rheumatism, which became so intense that I WM for weeks unable to walk. I tried sevaral prominent physi cians and took their treat ment faithfully, but was unable to get the slight estT lief. 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