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<[ke Drummers and the Wolf Napoleon's victories had sei ali {France ablaze with military glory. Jean Potoir and Antoine S&vary Tvere French' boys ot the depart ment of the Yonne. They shared everything-were nearly always to eejust before the invajaion o? Bus ?ia by the emperor a number of* re ELruits belonging to tho; village were j allowed to return home for a visit, and the two boys heard their sto ries of the last campaign. As Jean could beat the drum and 'Antoine was an excellent fifer, the recruits begged the parents of the bovs to let them go to the army and share in the glory of taking the capital of the czar. The parents agreed, and when the recruits went back thc boys went, too, and were accepted by the mus tering officer. He said he needed a POOd drummer and a fifer and was ?lad to see them. Long before they reached Moscow both had become prune favorites in the regiment. It was a dreary time for the' Trench army when it started away cu that famous retreat from the city of the czar. Winter had set in, the earth was white with deep snows, the air was bitter and cold. Before they had gone far hundreds of soldiers froze to death. At night the wolves would fill the frosty air with their howls, and when a man dropped out, of the ranks they would rush down upon bini nnd devour him before his com Irades. They were large and fierce, and they came in 'great packs and sometimes could not be driven off, not even by a fusillade. . One evening near sundown Jean carno to Antoine and said he had discovered a farmhouse near by. Ile thought they might get some wann milk for themselves by tell ing the people how exhausted they were. Thc boys stole off, Jean with his drum and Antoine with a musket and some ammunition which had been given him by a soldier who bad been transferred to one of the ambulances. "When they reached the place, in stead of a farmhouse they Xound a hut nearly ready to crumble to pieces and no sign of any one near. As they passed into the hut some thing rushed out with a snarl, and the boys found they had disturbed a large gray wolf. Suddenly there entered the cabin a long, low howl that startled the young musicians. "Thc wolves have come!" cried Antoine, springing up and running to the door, which they had shut. On the snow 6tood a huge wolf whose sides shone like s'ilver, show ing that he wore a gray coat. He seemed to head the pack. Ile had .jrought them all on the boys' track. Antoine was for firing at the wolf, but Jean said it would only precipitate an attack. They had liopes tliat some of Prince Murat's horsemen would come along and i rescue them witbout further dan gers. By and by the wolves became bolder. The boys saw them come almost close enough to be struck with a stone. They had discovered the young musicians, and now they began to set up their long, peculiar howl. Jean seized the drumsticks and beat the rataplan in hopes of fright ening the beasts off, but the music mado them howl the more. "Here they come, Jeanl" exclaim ed Antoine. "Look to the door! If they throw themselves against it in a body, it will not keep them out" The pack in front had risen and were rushing forward. Antoine thrust the muzzle of his ' musket through a crack and fired into the howling, struggling mass. Several yelps of pain attested the power of the shot. The wolves drew off, carrying with them a dead comrade, and devoured him bet?re the boys' eyes. Antoine had reloaded. They stood against the door and awaited another attack. Jean seized his drum. The little musician of the Yonne played as he had never played before. ?is drum sticks flew, warming his half frozen fingers and filling the old shanty with strange music, the roll call of Napoleon's army. The hut was" not high, and its roof was covered with heavy snow. Suddenly the boys saw several wolves leap up and disappear. They eeemed to have bounded toward the roof, and wh n Jean cried out that he heard something overhead they both knew that the animals were on the hut Yes, the wolves were np there, trying to scratch the snow away, that they might leap down into the cabin end make short work of the young soldiers. For a moment Jean and Antoine shrank togetbr * aghast. "Look! The door! The door I" shouted Jean, dropping his drum stick. ''They are here again, An toine," ' Once more the boy with the mus ket fired at the lot outside to hear another howl .and. to see. the pack devour a slain comrade. But this time the wolves did not fall back. They continued to try to f oreo the door while Antoine re loaded with half frozen hands and Jean held the barricade. Tho animals on the housetop . . ' ....' ./v:.:-y .. * A made a good deal of noise,, an*, the boys had begun to think the roof could not be forced, when Jean cried out that a pair of eyes were gleam ing overhead, and tho young sol diers looked, and both saw the head of a wolf. 'It is the big fellow/* said An toine, bringing; his musket to bear o? the apparition. "It is the head of ?he wolf-'ave disturbed when we carno to tho ?hut." ; iThe nert moment the cabin waa filled with smoke, and the boys saw the head vanish, and the stars only were seen through the hole in the root The assaults of the ravenous beasts now began to tell on the strength of the door. Jean placed his body against it, and Antoine fired as often as he could, but the wolves appeared ten times fiercer. "Listen!" said Jean suddenly, and he bent toward the door, mak ing an ear trumpet with hie hands. The little fifer looked through a crack. He turned to his friend, crying out with joy: "I see dark figures moving over the snow. They seem to be horse men. Whatever they are, they are coming this way. They are too tall to be more wolves." Jean picked up. the drum and beat a wild tune, which went out over the snow. It was answered by shouts, and now both could see horsemen galloping forward. "They aro Cossacks," whispered Antoine, his shoulder to the door. "We shall never see the grand army again." The wolves were making a finai effort to force the door. Antoine mechanically met them, firing away 'his last charge and dropping his weapon. In another moment a party of wild looking Cossacks swooped down upon the hut and surrounded it, while the wolves drew off. "Come out!" cried the Cossacks. "Come out, you who are within ! Surrender to the soldiers of the great czar !" Jean and Antoine opened the door and walked forth. When the Cos sacks saw the two boysj they set up a loud laugh, and their hetm?n, a fine looking fellow, satirically touch ed his cap in the way of a salute. They had expected to capture a number of men soldiers. "Yes, there is the big wolf on the roof," 6aid Jean to Antoine, and, sure enough, up there lay the big gray monster, the cause of all their trouble. One of the Cossacks pull ed the carcass from the roof and threw it on the snow. "Play for us," commanded the leader of the wild band. Jean and Antoine drew up to gether in the 6now, and in a moment the lively airs of Trance were waft ed over the dreary waste. For awhile the faces of the Cossacks clouded. But at last they swung *.heir great caps over their heads and cheered the boys of the Yonne. "You shall go back to your army," said the hetm?n. "You shall not be taken to prison. You have been brave. We like brave boys like our own." The next day the rear guard of the grand army saw approaching them with a white flag a troop of wild horsemen of the steppes, and the regiment to which Jean and An toine belonged was overjoyed to re ceive once more into the ranks the little musicians. The boys endured the horrors of that retreat, and in after years, when they sat with old playmates under the spreading trees of the village and related stories of Napo leon's ill fated campaign, they nev er failed to tell how they fought the big wolf and his pack and their rescue by the Cossacks of the Don. Wanted Lota of Love. Librarians have some peculiar ex periences, especially in the down town districts, where the poor chil dren are often sent by their elders to draw books. The other day a little chap of perhaps five and of some foreign extraction toddled into a downtown branch and, holding up a grimy card, said to the young wo man in attendance: "Please, my sister would like a book of love." The librarian suppressed a smile and gave him "Children of the Ab bey." The next day he returned with the book tucked under his arm and remarked: "Please, my sister would like an other book with more love in it than this one has."- New York Tornea. Won't Follow Advice After Pay lu g Foi lt. In a recent artiele a prominent phy sician says, "It is next to impossible for the physician to get his patients to oarrv out any *>re?cribed course of hy giene or diet to the amplest exteot; he has but one resort left, namely, the drug treatment." When medicines are used for ohronio constipation, the mon mild and gentle obtainable, snob as Chamberlain s Stomach and Liver Tablets, should be employed. Theil use is not followed by constipation, ae they leave the bowels in a natural and healthy condition. For, sale by On Gray Drug Co. - Blessed is the peacemaker, but ' more blessed the woman who keeps the peaoe by holding her tongue. To Sure a Cold In Ooo Day. 1 Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. All druggists refand the nione j, if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove'j signature on every box. 25c, . V: ',. BEFORE THE SURRENDER. General Lee's .Refusal to Allow His Soldiers to Disperse. General E. P. "Alexander relates in The Century these interesting words of General Leo just before the surrender. General Alexander having proposed that the Confeder ate soldiers be authorized to dis- j perse and report to General John- ! eton or to the governors of the ! states, General Lee asked: "Suppose I were to adopt your suggestion, how many do you sap pose would get away?" General Alexander replied: "I* think two-thirds of us could get away. We should be like rabbits and partridges in the bushes, and they could not scatter like that to catch us." "Well," he said, "I have less than 16.000 infantry with arms in their hands. Even if two-thirds of these got away it would be too small a force to accomplish any useful re sult, either witn Johnston or with the governors of the states. But few would go to Johnston, for their homes have been overrun by tho en emy, and the men will want to go first and look after their families. As to any help from Europe, Knave never believed in it. I appreciate that the surrender of this army is, indeed, the end of the Confederacy. But that result is now inevito1 and must be faced. And as Chris tian men we have no right to choose a course from pride or personal feel ings. We have simply to see what we can do best for our country and people. Now, if I should adopt your suggestion and order this army to disperse the men, going home ward, would be under no control and, moreover, would be without food. They are already demoralized by four years of war and'would sup ply their wants by violence and ?dunder. They would soon become ittle better than bands of robbers. A state of society would result throughout the south from which it would require years to recover. The enemy's cavalry, too, would pursue to catch at least the general officers and woulcl harass and devastate sec tions that otherwise they will nevei visit. Moreover," he said, "as to myself, I am too old to go to bush whacking, and even if it were right to order the army to disperse the only course for me td pursue would be to surrender myself to General Grant. But," he added, "I can tell you for your comfort that Grant will not demand an 'unconditional surrender/ He will give us honora ble and liberal terms, ?imply requir ing us not to take up arms again un til exchanged." He then went OE to say that he was in correspondence with Grant and expected to meet him in our rear at 10 a. m., when ho would accept the terms that had been indicated. The Tables Neatly Turned. There is a certain brilliant young lawyer in Brooklyn with a reputa tion for ability in "rattling" wit nesses who had the tables neatlj turned on him in a damage suit thc other day. A prominent physician testified as to the character of thc injuries sustained by the plaintiff, and the young lawyer was seeking to ridicule his testimony. The phy sician had said that the plamtifi?? brain and spinal cord had been in jured and that the injury to thc brain was manifested by an increas ed knee jerk. "Now, see here, doctor," said thc lawyer, going through a series oi physical contortions, chiefly witt his knees, "what does this increased knee jerk of mine show?" "Well," said the doctor slowly "taking your exhibition of yourselj before the jury and this knee jerk I should say that you were suffering from serious brain trouble."-Nevi York Times. He Hatched a Joke. Dr. Theophilus Leigh, some time master of Balliol college, would bi remembered if only for the fact thal he was Jane Austen's greatuncle. In addition to this distinction h< had an indefatigable wit-humo] ran in the family-which kept aler until his death. T^vo days before he died he show ed himself an incorrigible punster One might look for a causal relatioi if his age, ninety years, were no enough to account for his death. Some one spoke of an old ac quaintance as having been "eggec on to matrimony." "Then may the yoke rest easy oi him," said Dr. Leigh. . Kicking the Bucket. The rather irreverent expresaioi "kicking the bucket," as a designa tion for death, has a very plausibli explanation. Before revolvers wer; as common as they now are the com mon method of suicide was by hang lng. The would be suicide usual! attached a noosed rope to a beam ii the barn and mounted an inverter bucket to adjust it When all wa ready for his departure from thi world, he "kicked the bucket" fron beneath him and accomplished hi purpose. $ CASTOR IA For lufants and Children. the Kind Yon Hate Always Bought Boars tho Signature of - Some wives are so averse t mending that they won't even try t paob np a quarrel. ? -' w ^ . JfcAT JL lill? IXVI J Birds That Trap Snakes. Ia the southern part of California there is a strange bird called the road runner. Few birds oan fly bettor than this one, but rarely does ho evor rise from the ground, and thoa only when hard pressed. He prefers to escape f;om man or beast by running, and as he cen easily outrun the s w?test horse his speed saves him from all his ene mies. The male bird is not larger than a common barnyard rooster, and his feathers are as gayly colored as those of the peacock. The hen is of a dark brown sagebrush oolor. The roadrunner has one mortal en emy-the rattlesnake. This reptile is fond of devouring the road runner's eggs whenover it oomes across a nest in the sagebrush. But the road run ners often have opportunities of re venging themselves. Whenever they come across a sleeping rattlesnake, Bunning himself oe a warm rook, they immediately prepare a trap for his destruction. Prickly pears abound in these regions. The road runners, gen erally a pair, at once begin picking up tho spiny avered leaves of this plant and piling them about thc sleeping snake in aeircle. When their work is oompleted they give their enemy a few pecks to awaken him, and then retire to watch the result. In vain tho rat tlesnake tries to escape. Tho ring of prickly leaves holds him a prisoner. At every move ho ?makes the spines prick 'aim, until at last in despair ho turns, bites himself and dies. Travelers often como across these circles of dried leaves, with the dead snake in thc centre. At first no white man would believe the Indian talcs of this strange method thc road runners employed in killing their mortal enemy, but they have since been observed ic the act by several eminent naturalists who hava coroborated the stories tole by thc Indians. Reasons For Tardiness. Teachers who require written ex cuses for tardiness from parents oj pupils sometimes receive very amus ing notes. Here are a few specimen* from a number received sometim? ago: "Dear Sir, please forgive Bill] for lateness. I kneaded him aftei breakfast." A second note reads Please forgive Billy for tardiness I was mending his coat." The thin excuse goes more into details: "Mis ter sir, my Jason had to be late to day. It is his bizness to milk ou cow. She kicked Jase in thc bael today when he wasn't looking o thinkin' of her actin' ; so he thot hi back was broke but it ain't. But i is black and blue, and the pane kep him lato. We would git rid of tha cow if wo could. This is the fourtl time she kicked Jase, but never kick ed him late before. So excuse hin forme." A girl absent for half a day brough the following exouse: "Miss teache -My dotter's absents yesterday wa unavoidable. Her shoes had to b half-soled and she had a sore-throte * I Her konstitushun is delikit and if sh is absent any more you can know tha it is on acoount of unavoiabel sick ness or something else." A boy ab 3 sent for half a day laid the follow i n? E explanation on his master's desk i "Dear sir, plese exouse Henry. H * went to grandpapa's funeral with m this forenoon. I have been promis IJ ing him for several weeks that h might if he was good, and he has bee: very good, so I kept my word." } J Evening Wisconsin. Faid For Supper. Three mer had been out on a spree and on the way home late at nigh they made a wa^er that tho one wh did not do as his wife told him shoul pay for a champagne supper the fol ? I lowing night. The first one returned home, an i hi wife greeted him thus: "Hullo, you beauty! That's righi I I kuock all the ornaments off the mar t J tlepiecc!" He knocked them all off. The second returned, and on goin into his house fell against the pianc whereupon his wife said: "Go on, get tho chopper and smas it up!" He did so. The third returned, and, on goin up-stairs, his wife said. "You miserable soamp, fall dowi stairs and break your neck!" Needless to say, he paid for the sui II Cause of his Troubles. 1 5 A youth with an open ingeniou 9 countenance rose in a Christian Et deavor convention the other evenin and made the following speech: "Dear friends-large ships that loo sound-and good and-and-seaworth ?re sometimes found to be, almot ruined-almost, yes-almost ruined b -by ship worms. They honeyoom the heavy timbers and-and-althoug the ship looks as if it might do gret things for its masters-it cannot. It it has ship worms. "Dear /friends, it is just so wit some Christians. Outwardly a Chri: tian may look like a fair ship. Dei 0 I friends I feel that often I anMike tb 01 ship, and that I-that I-too, hav ship worms." UJL* VJUi? To Pick Cotton by Machinery. - Birmingham, Ala., April 28-A special to thc Birmingham Neves from Jackson, Miss., says: The first regular contract ever made in the vrorld to piok cotton by ma chinery was closed in Greenville a few days sinee, and the first ex periment with the machino will be made on a plantation ia Washington county next fall. A Pittsburg man is the inventor of the device sod for the past ten years has been conduct ing experiments in the vicinity of Greenville. He now olaims that the devioe has been modeled on a practi cal working basis and feels oonfident that he will revolutionize tho cotton picking industry in the South. The machine, he admits, ls valueless ex cept on level uplauds, low valleys and prairie grounds, but even if it should prove successful with this limit, its effect on the labor question in the South will be very marked. New Way to Marry People. An elderly minister is fond of tell ing of a "break" ho once made at a double wedding of two sisters. It was arranged that the two couples should be married with ono ceremony, the brides responding at thc 6amc time and the two bridgrootns doing the same. Tlvjre had not been an j provious rehearsal, as thc ministei had came a long distance and r.achcc tho church but a few minutes befon the time for the ceremony. All went well until it came time fo the minister to say, "And now I pro nouncc you man and wife." It suddenly became obvious to th minister that the usual formula wouh not do in the case of two men am two wives, and could not think of au, way of making "man" and "wif I I plural in the sentence. In his det peration and confusion he lifted hi hands and solemnly: "And now I pronounce you, on and, all husband wife!"-Lippiaoott' Magazine. Swallowed a Frog. A large frog was removed from woman's stomach in St. Catherine' Hospital, in Williamsburg, N. Y., tl other day. The woman is Mrs. Charl? Kurtis, of Hopwell Junction, ncr Mattewan, N. Y. She had been su fering from a trouble which ba?lad he physicians for some time. It wt finally decided that an operation fo appendicitis would be advisable ac she was taken to the Williamson] hospital. A Fishkill, N. Y., doct< performed the operation, which revea ed that she was not suffering from a] pendicitis. But the doctors did di cover and remove from her stomach live frog, said to have been five inch? long. It is supposed that she swa lowed tho frog when it was very sniu while she was drinking water. What He Came For. S. D. Faust, of Cleveland, while < a visit to thia city a few days ag in company with a Philadelphia decided to go to Atlantic City. B fore buying the tickets the Philadt phian proeeeded to show his guest tl improvements along Delaware avenu Sitting on the edge of the wharf w a typical street arab,. fishing. Ju as they were about to leave they we startled by a splash, and discover* that tue boy had tumbled overboar After some trouble he was drawn ou "How did you oomo to fall in?" i quired Faust. "Ah, gwan," said the boy, "I dide oome to fall in. I come to fish." Philadelphia Times. - An estimator of more or le ability says there are 70,000,000 pn ric dogs in the State of Kansas, ai that they are multiplying at the ra of millions a year. Various devic have been tried in thc hope of era icating the little animals, but th grinningly bob up from below and on increasing. Since thc meat tm put up tho price of beef, some Ka sans have discovered that the praii dog is not bad eating and have qi patronizing the butcher shops. - Many a would-be jolly good f low might be really so if he wot only stop telling jokes. - The more money a man has t harder it is for him to convince t world that he is a fool. - Whether an evening gown fashionable depends on how mu neok and sleeves it hasn't got._ it Rain and ???mt WfV \\ \\ have no effect OS A jfVvS tffttTti barnet, treated MMIK F SOT/W with Eureka Har- g^MwJLtMUJrVi nets Oil. It re- m \. ii?ta tba damp. Vlf \ \. A _ keeps the Icath- sT%?MlDA/Bj&&' er ?oft and pli- \M Mf\m\ fwML^^M able. Stitches JJrTrVv \\ do not break, v ? \*\?r??a? No rough sur- \ \ \ \ jg M?M\. \ face to chafa t |^#J>\ \ harness not yfTld?^^^^ \ \ \^ looiin^hka ^jJVO^ \ ^i^^^l wears '*'c^ Ijfrffi 1 t^^^^^^sj^' IllrnessCji* ^^^^^^^L\ *W^"^ Pueuuionla Chief Danger. Pooplo aro growing healthier and livos are becoming longer in this coun try, if medical statistics can bo relied cn. According to figures published in the last week lifo has been length ened by an average of 4.1 years in tho last deoade. In 1890 the average length of life in the United States wat* 31.1 years. In 1890 this mean average had rison to 35.2 years, chiefly by reason of the decrease in mortality among the|very young. The three diseases whioh have caused tho most deaths? in recent years are pneumonia, consumption and heart disease, in the order namod. Deaths from the first cause have in creased slightly, and medical soionco has made comparatively little progress in finding a specific treatment for it. Pneumonia is an infectious discaso like tuberculosis. Althoughjit is not so contagious as are mauy other dis eases, the sanitation of houses, shops, schools, factories, places of businoss and amusement, in medical opinion, undoubtedly determines to a great ex tent tho vulnerability of the system to it.-New York Sun. - When one man meets auother that he is said to look like bc usually swears. a '8 ie ?3 ir f sr is >r id rg jr 1 ?' s a ?S 1 11 (MOTHERS, DO YOU KNOW the many so-called birth rneaicines, an< most remedies for women In the treatmcn of her delicate organs,contain more or les opium, morphino and strychnine ? Do You Know that opium and morphin* are stupefying narcotic poisons? Do you Know that In most countries dru? gists aro not permitted to sell nu roo ti cs with out labeling them poisons t , Do You Know that you should not tak Internally any medicine for the pain uccoiu panylnK pregnancy I Do You Know thnt Mother's Friend is purely vegetable preparation, and that it i applied externally only. 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