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* % * \ I ^VOL. VII. A'BLOW TO THE FARMICBH. The Anti-Option Bill Passed by Tlie Senate. Naws and f'nurior. Washington, January 31.?Son at<>r Mills's credentials for his second term were presented. Senator Harris reported haok ftom the committee epidemic diseases the wftntse quarantine bill with a substilute, being the bill passed by the Senate some weeks ago, with the appropriation Rection omitted. Senator Harris's explanation of it* omission was that under the House rules a bill or amendment containing an appropriation would have to go to the comnuitee and ho wished to have that delay and obstruction ' avoided. He asked to have the substitute agreed to now and to have a conference ordered. At Senator Mill's request the bill went over until to morrow. ? The resolution offered yesterday by Senator Chandler requesting the President to enter into negotiations k with the representative of the Provisional Government of Hawaii was laid before the Senate and Senator Chand er explained his motives for offering it. lie had not intended, lie said, that it should he acted on without consideration by the committor* 111* foroiorn I'i.l.i f i.M.a > >w1 I... .... v x v v? -v? v-i ^ iimvuo nuvi 1IU hud intended yesterday to move its reference to that committee. It hud occurred to him, however, that it would be wise for Congress to ini tiute action on 'lie subject. lie thought it due to the commissioners, who were now oil their wav to Washington, that a full and complete statement should be made to them of the American policy and that Congress should be prepared to state fully and frankly the position of the United States with reference to Hawaii to such foreign Governments as might take an interest in the ques tion. He moved the reference of the resolution to the committee on for eign relations. Senator Dolph gave it as his opinion that the time had arrived for a * well defined aggressive American ? . policy and he pVoccded to read a long statement of the population, trade and commerce of the Hawaiian Islands. Before he concluded the resolution was laid aside without ac tion The anti option bill was taken up and the hours for taking the votes to day were prolonged as follows* On tho George substitute from 1 to 3 P. M., and on the bill itself from 2 to 4 P. M , At 3:15 tho discussion on tho hill closed pnd voting began. The first voto was on the amendment offered by Senator Vilas to strike out of the George substitute the words ''option and futures as herein before defined are hereby declared to be obstructions to and restraints upon commerce among the States and with foreign countries, ttnd to be illegal and void." The vote was?yeas 21, nays 50. So the amendment was de feated. The next vote was on the George substitute, which proposed to declare the business of options and futures an obstacle to and restraint upon commerce, and to be illegal and void. 3L was rejected?yeas 19, nays.51. ~ v The question was then on the passage of the bill. Explanations of the reasons why they felt compelled to vote against the bill were given by Senators Harris, Berry, Bate, Vance, Butler and Vest. Several other amendments were presented and all tvere rejected, some without discussion. The bill was then passed?yeas 40, nays 29. The following is the vote in detail. Vnno_ All ,>1-1 J.VUO (.'Cliatuio DIUUK bum, Call, Carey, Chandler, Cockrell. Cullum, Davis, DuBois, F?lkner, Feltou, Krye, Gallingflr, Gordon, Hale, Hansbrough, Haw ley, Higgins, Hinton, lrbv, Kyle, MctySMillaivManderson, Mitchell, Mor /gan, Morrill, Peffer, Perkins. Pettigrew, Proctor, Sherman, Shoup, Squire, Stockbridge, Teller, Turpie, Voorhees, Walthall, Washburn and "Wilson ?40. Nays?Senators Berry, Blodgett, Butler, CafTery, Cameron,Coke, Daniel, Dawes, Dickson, Cibson, Gor man, Gray, Harris, Hill, Hiscock, Hoar, Jones of Arkansas, McPherson, Mill, Palmer, Piatt, Pugh, ifcaneom, Sawyer, Stewart, Vest, Vilas, White and. Wolcott?29. Pairs were announced between Senators Carlisle and Paddock, A id rich and Quay, Bate and Allen, fctr ''one8 ?' Nevada and Saunders, Pasco and C<*8ey, Vance and Warren. The bill is the one passed by the House of Representatives on June 9, 1891, with varlpns Senate amendments is thereto. The 1st section defines the word 'options" to mean a contract or agreej ment for the right or privilege to deJ liver at a future time or within a de/ signated period any of the articles ? mentioned in Section 3. f The 2d section defines "futures" f to mean a contract or agreement to 'J sell and deliver at ft future time or IP* within a designated period any of such artioles when the party so con v v ' '* " \ .1* ' ' ' ' . :<i f',;?. ' ' coi tracting was not tho owner of such articles or had not agreed for the ' right to their future possession. Tho Act, however, is not to apply to any contract to supply the National j Stale or Municipal Government with any of such articles; nor to contracts by fanners aiul planters for future delivery, nor to agreements to p&y or i deliver part of the products of land , us compensation for its use or as compensation for work or labor done or to be done on same, nor to agree! ments with farmers or planters to fnmish such articles for use or con sumption, provided that such con1 tracts or agreements shall not ho ! made or settled for or any board of trade or exchange. 1 The 3d section specifies the artic'es to which the bill is to apply ?8 cotton, (raw or unmanufactured,) hops, wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, pork, lard and bacon. The 4th section imposes special taxes as follows: Dealers in %<optiotis" or ''futures" at ?1,0(X) a year license fee and 6 cents a pound on out toil. llilliH tinvt lur/l f??> liaonn , VI "?VV") and 20 cents a bushel on grain. Sections 5 to 14 relate to the details for enforcing the tax, and Section 15 provides that the Act shall take effect on the 1st of July, 1893. A Strniglit Hit. Drunkenness is a criminal disease. It is a crime. Civil law declares it a crime. Divorce is granted upon the grounds of this crime. It is a crime against nature. It is the perversion and debauchery of man's mind and body. Cardinal Manning says: "This evil (intemperance) ought not to be permitted to grow, in order that the police may be called in to repress it. Prevention is not only better than cure, but prevention is a duty.'' Any license system which legalizes or protects by law the production of the criminal disease known as drunkenness, is suicide to the State. I maintain that the State cannot license an institution which produces a criminal disease, which forces and spreads a criifjinal disease, and I maintain that- the saloon is such an institution, and 1 have never seen the man who disputed it. The saloon as an institution increases the consumption of alcoholic poison by from five to ten times what the normal ap peine ot even this debauched age would naturally demand. The sa loon, in other words, forces upon tbo market from five to ten times as much of this poison as the present debauched appetite would consume but for the forcing. Men have said that under prohibition laws any man can get drunk who wants to. But the difference is .that while under prohibition the man who wauts to can get drunk, under our present system of license thousands get drunk who don't want to. It is literally forced down their throat by the ever open saloon. To license such a curse is moral and patriotic suicide. Such a license system is a swindle in itself. You cannot rally to such a system either the force of heaven or hell. Such a system suits the devil as a compromise, which gives him the beat end of the bargain. I know the city of Portland, Me., from personal observation. I have investigated its darkest corners personally, and I testify solemnly, before God ahd man, that if the bett districts of New York city were a3 clean from drunkenhess as^he meanest districts in Portland we would near the millediutij of temperance. IIow can any christian man agree and be satisfied with such a compromise as license? We can gain nothing by it. There are two positions that are consistent?only two. Free whiskey or prohibition. All else between this is a lie and a humbug in its last analysis. If the sale and use of alcoholic stimulants is right, then persecution of the liquor traffic by taxation and license is one of the crimes of tho age. If it is wrong, then it Is wrong, and the saloon is the breeding den of crime and disease, and the state has no right to legalize it. Against ti c institution built upon this poison, against tho social cus toms which flourish in its hotbeds of corruption, 1 hurl the curse of the living God. / tcill not compromise. I know the God of righteousness and of truth will damn it at last to the lowest hell. I arraign it, therefore, and i in peach it and indict it, in the natrfo of all the batchered dead of the past and the desolation of the present. I refuse to strike hands with its friends in any compromise short of ultimate death.?Thomas K; Dixon, Sermons in New York. If yon desire a luxuriant growth of healthy hair or natural color, nature's crowning- ornament of both 1 sexes, use only Hall's Vegetable Si cilian Hair Henewer ffi ' fe'-: "h 'i$Sm 'Be True to fWAY. S. C., T Groat Tliinkors on the Snhhath Daniel Webster; "The Sabbat! is the bulwark of our liberty, be dause it is the bulwark of morality.' Macau ley, the historian: "If Sun day had not been observed as a da^ of rest during the Inst three centuriei I have not the slightest doubt thai we should have been at this motnem a poorer and less civilized peoph than we are.'' Adam Smith, the greut politic* economist: "The Sabbath as a po litical institution is of inestimable value, independently of its claim tc divine authority." Blackstone, the great jurist: "A corruption of morals usually follow* the profanation of the Sabbath." Kx-attorney General Dales: "11 the Sunday laws be neglected am despised the laws of person and ol property will soon share thoir fate and be equally disregarded." Judge McLean, who for man} yenrs adorned the Supreme Court ol the United States: "Where there is no Christian Sabbath there is nc Christian morality, and without thit free institutions cannot be sustained." Benjamin Franklin: "What art laws without morals?" Mirabeau: "God is as necessary a' liberty, to the French people." Do Toqueville: "Despotism may govern without faith, but liber!) * * * France must have youi Sabbath or she is ruined." Karl Russell: "There is no neces sity in the nature of things that na tiouB should die. History points tc no people which, while strong in faith, in reverence, in truthfulness in chastity, in frugality, in the virtues of the temple and the heartl has sunk in atrophy and decline We may decide, therefore, that si long as moral energy fails not the life of the nation will not fail." Prof. Goldwin Smith: "Without religious sanctions men have nevei been able to live under a govern ment of law.'' Geo. Bancroft, pur greatest histo rian: "Certainly our great unitec commonwealth is the child c-f chris tianity; it may with ecptai truth be asserted thut modem civilization sprang into life with our religion and faith in its princ:ples is the life boat on which humanity has at divers times escaped the most threaten ing perils." Hallam: "A holiday Sunday if the ally of despotism." Dr. Bauer, court preacher at Berlin, at a recent gathering of Luther una in ttiof niftr aoi/l? u * ? viit V va WJ | QUIU iUUI III' li'l* ther declared the doctrine of justification by faith to be the doctrine of a standing or falling church. I cannot regard the sanctificntion of the Sabbath as any less a ground piller of the church of our whole social life.'' Judge Noah Davis: "There can be no liberty without law; there can be no personal liberty except in obedience to law." "Sunday," says Itylph Waldo Emerson, "is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence, it invites' to the nobles solitude, the best society, the loftiest knowledge of truth and duty." Let us get tho opinion of the two eloquent Congressmen of to-day. Senator Reagan, of Texas: "You may search the English charter and whatever there is in Xhere is in the Constitution of the United States concerning the rights of man, and all the bills of rights of the several States, and you will not find a single sentence in which there is any protection ;or that which is injurious to flia o/\oi^ vi?w iiiiuivovo ui oui/inijr, The brilliant John Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, says: "Break down the fence of Christianity and liberty, and law, and civilization will perish with it. 1 wish to testify mj belief that the institutional custom of our fathers in remembering the Sabbath day to keep it holy us the conservator of their Christian religion is the foundation of our political system, and the only hope of American freedom, progress and glory." Let all ponder these golden thoughts of the good and great.? American Sabbath Union. .You can never tell what a slight cold may lead to; it is best, therefore to give yourself the benefit of the doubt, and cure it as soon as possibh with Aver's Cherry Peotoral. A day's delay, sometimes an hour's dt* lay, may result in serious consequences i :' ^ s SS 4. - ? Your Word, Your Work, juul \ 11 U i&BD A Y FE1 IIEALK1) BY HI5It FAITH. ' i . i . A Paralytic For Eighteen Years 1 , Leaves Her Bed aii<l Walk-. ( Tho (Columbia journal. ^ The prayer of Ajax was for light. The prayer of Mrs, Aon Eliza J Tutt was for strength that she [ ( ! II might take up her bed ami walk. 1 For eighteen years sho has been a , * helpless paralytic, given up as in- t curable bv tho doctors, but during 1 I ' r> all the long and dreary years of suf- j ' foriug and helplessness she kept the N ' faith. Like the Psalmist, she wait i * ed patiently on the Lord, and now J lie has heard her cries. k A Journal reporter to day proeur } ed the particulars of this, perhaps the most remarkable instance of i F [ faith cure that has been known in e ' this section. The lady who has been 11 F fi ' thus happily visited by Providence is 1 Mrs. Ami Eliza Tutt, the wife of Mr. William 11. Tutt, tho well known ^ r printer,, who lives at 2G1 North : Marion street, two doors from Lutn- ? J bor street. The reporter called upon c ' Mrs. Tntt and secured frotn her the 5 story of tho marvellous cure. Mrs. Tutt's parents were Mr. J. (L () - Forbes and Mrs, Sarah Forbes, ami t she was born in Charleston. She is t ; <11 years of age and has several chil dren. 01 VKN n? BY TAB DOTTOltS. g Mrs. Tutt was paralyzed in Octo- u l?er, 1875. Her physician at that s ime was tho late Dr. 11. W. Gibbes, 1 ' and when he was about to leave for ' the North for his health, on the v > journey from which ho returned to s 1 sloop forever, she procured the ser> vices of Dr. Taylor, who attended her for six years. I 1 After tho Becond stroke Mrs. Tutt , was confined to her bed. and for a t > year she could not move herself and ' ' had to be lifted and fed like a little 1 child. k J.n 1881 Dr. 'Taylor gave up the r : case as incurable, and Dr. Talley was called in. For. three years he J treated her, witlt no result except to ' relieve the pain temporarily. By I this time she was paralyzed all over | her body. I > wanted to thy mesmerise. > Dr. Robert Lynch was called in to c ') see if sho could ho mesmerized, but ? she said that she did not believe in t this and the idea was given up. She ? was then told by the physicians that she . o ? OOULI) NKVKU WAI.K AOAIN. a The effect of such an announce* ' meat was enough to depress the spirits of any human being, but Mrs. ^ ' Tutt says that she realized that "we walk by faith, not by sight," and H she pnt her trust in the Almighty ii jmd prayod continually to the end " ' that she might bo spared for some ' wise purpose. She Was one in whom faith had ^ become a passionate intuition. She e felt like Michael Drayton when he wrote: "Now, if Thou wouldst, when all have Siven 1dm over, 11 euth to life Thou mighst him yet h ^recover." b PAT IK NO K AND IMtAYKH. t; Mrs. Tutt said that the late Itev. a Mr. Oliver, the well-known faith S( i cure minister, called on her and told a , her that Christ could heal right then ^ and that she must get right up and walk at once. She told him that sho 8 1 did not believe in that kind of a cure. She had been trusting in the ? f.ord.ever since she could remember, 8 bat If is time had not come then. "I have got to lie here and do His will,' 1 1 said she, ' and if I am faithful when 8 1 Ilis time comes, lie will either put " me on my feeror take me to heaven." v J r THH BI11LK IIKK OUIDK. , (?\V hnn f li A*f /1 ^ * f * * ' *' it ?> fic.jr iuhi hid mm 1. w jlliu 1; , not get well.'' said. Mrs. Tutt to the v ( reporter, "I never wavered. I can j bring my friends to witness that 1 1 always felt that I was to be made 8 1 whole again for some good work. (i "I read the Scriptures all the r time. The Bible has been my great' est comforter, and but for it I would r have given up. In all my distress I t 1 tried to lemembor what the Psalmist ^ ' said: "Let not your heart he trou- H 1 hied. Ye that believe in God, bo- t 1 lieve also in my Father." H "For eight years I have been us \ 1 ing a roller chair, and I never dur- ( irg that time, until recontly, set out t 1 of it, except when I was placed in \ ' bed. t kbvtcai.kd is a drkam, i "Monday night before lust I had 1 ' a dream. I thought that 1 was 1 ? walking. The next morning t spoke j > to Patsy ^ the nurse, about it, and ' * told ber not to be frightened if the 1 L pood Master should suddenly give i ' me the nse of my limns. "That afternoon I lay down and again I dreamed that J was walking. r<?nr Country." SIujXIiY 9, 1 8 L'uesday morning, I wtw sitting be 'ore the lire in my roller chair inerti atiug, niul I thought 1 heard the Joort Shepherd saying to me: 'Arise, oke your chair and walk.' TllK PAHA LYTIC WALKS. "There was a chair close by me? he same one you are sitting in ? iart 1 got up, caught hold of it and >egan to walk, something I hart not j lone for eighteen years, and some | hing that tho doctors told mo 1 ; icver would rt?> again on earth. By , uishing tho chair in front of me tul steadying myself 1 managed to valk into the next room. Patsy was (i mere; notwithstanding my warnn<? to hor, shu was almost frightenl out of her wits. I told hor not o bo afraid, that the Good One had lomtnenced to work on me. 4<Sitico then I have suffered no >ain, not even in my hack. I walkd about the house a little each day md have been getting- stronger and itronger.' THK UlCt'OUTKU KKES IlEU WAI.K. The reporter asked Mrs. Tutt to et him see her stand up by herself, fter she had assured him she would lot suffer thereby. All during tho onvorsation sho had moved hor lands and limhs about like a person >ho was convalescent, and from her ppenranco and general demeanor no would not havo suspected that hero were any symptoms of paralysis hero. Mrs. Tutt arose without any aplarent trouble, though sho was ji 1 itle awkward, and had fb steady herelf by catching hold of the railing iow and tlion. The reporter later aw her walk into the house from the torch. Mrs. Tutt says that she followed lie Scriptural injunction to pray always though slto could not kneel to do o. <kMy pray01 to God," said she, has been that lie would send His lealing power and restyre the use of ny limbs to nio that I might set my louse in c rder and that I might live ic.irer the cross. Ito has been bet* er to me than I deserved. It has teen the prayers of my friends and ny own prayers that have made the treat Master begin his work on mo aid start me on the road to complete eoovery." "My faith is getting stronger and n all my trials I am trusting n the Lord, and I hope that my riends will pray more and more for ne until 1 get entirely well as I know shall. Satan has tried mo sorely, mt T thank God that my faith in lis wondrous healing power has nevr Hugged. "When lie gives me full control ?f my limbs and restores my strength o me, 1 am resolved, by Ilis help, to ro out and work more faithfully." Mrs. Tutt has been a member of lie Marion Street Methodist Church vor since she was twelve years of ge. She Wont Lay ill the Nest. My boy has a hen of good breed, urge size, in fine condition, who *ys an egg every day. But she has it unaccountable aversion to deposing this egg in the well arranged iest that he has prepared in the neat, O'/v linnRn luiilf. mi nnftviou fn* a.?i/l w? j ?/? w was |/v?t |/vau *.*/* o?m en and her follows. She will hunt he yard over to find an opon door o some other building, or utilize an mpty box 01 an old barrol, or sail ver the fence to got into the house r do anythingels? sho can to securo place for the egg rather than to 3uve it where ample provision has eer. made for its reception and safey. And so, though one of the best nd most, prolific hens I have ever aen, she is one of the most unprofitble, just because by this habit her ggs are lost. Sometimes they are aft under a pile of rubbish, and aio poiled when discovered. Again, hey are broken by the rolling lumps f coal, or stepped on before seen, or pirite:! away by unknown hands, itray dogs eat them, and bad boys ireak them, old John tho horse, mashes them, and ourjloss is all the noro tantalizing because the result vholly of her failure to lay in the lest. We have some people very nuch like this old hen. They wont ny in the nest. Though able and villing to do much, with fine capacties and opportunities, their labor is ost because of their strange propenity to go by their own rules, or lisregard others' rules , or follow no ules. "<) 111* work is hirwlm-ml nr?f-. ti\ u.iv narred, at this pcint to a greater ex,ent than many suppose. One (00(1 brother who disburses thousands, thinks he knows much better ,han we do where to place his money i0.as to secure the best results, and tonee, turning away from tho wellsonsidered appeals that are issued by is in behalf of case3 which wo have round after the closest investigation ,0 be meritorious, he answers a den&nd from a plausible brother whose plans are ever immature, and nearly * ways chimerical. Having tried us md failed becauso we diacovered how impraoticablo he was, he resorts tc this method of paivate personal <tp< peal, and the well-disposed, but unweaey, old brother finds out when toe late that his money would have done mnoh more good to have gone 198, V through the regular channel** which j ktho church has provided. Let the eggs I?o found in the nest! , Another good brother, gifted in the , use of his pen, but averse to that . sort of painstaking effort that is so needful in training his people to j help themselves to avoid the worry ( and odium of a thorough and systo ,, nuitic canvass of his own charge, f mnvo n iiuiiiiu^ nuuiiiiiu <>i iuu km - ' | portunce .of Inn llcltl?not 11 whit more important than fifty others in j his Conference and depicts its wants j , in colors that makes one feel that it * is a sin not to help him, forgetting ( or not knowing that a hundred oth j or charges in the Connection arc f worse off than his charge. Then , aomo kind, hut uncautious editor * prints Ilia piece ana speaks well of ( him and his cause, and our people j respond with tons and lives and twos , and ones until about one-fourth the j need sum is raised and then rospon ses cease, and the whole project fails I If this case had been referred to the Church Kxtcnsion Hoard, tho j careful inquiries which it always , institutes would have elicited all the ( facts, and its importance,as compared with a hundred others, would j have been learned. Then tho systeinatic methods of the Hoard ,would have secured tho title and comple- j tion of tho house before the money ( was paid, and the Church would not have suffered loss. To provide u.w.K n i.j ugu.uou JMOI OUI.I1 ?i"> idi"J UIH' iii.it * named, a law was inserted in the l)is- | cipline many yours ago, and for the ( very end of meeting such demands was our Cnurch Extension work in- . stitntcd. The.so sporadic appeals | divert attention from tho work at t large, and tho sums given in response to them are usually deducted from the regular contributions for the ( yearIt is always safer to put the egg j in the nost. Talk Is Not Always Cheap. Without degenerating into across- ' grained, sour-visaged, crabbed and | altogether unpleasant fellow a retail merohant may, to his own advantage, refrain from becoming excessively sociable. Sociability is one thing, garrulousness another. A. man may be polite, suave, urbane, courteous and considerate, without being lo quacious. Too much "talkeo, tulkee,' us the celestial would say, leads to the disclosure of business secrets, the possession of which by outsiders bodes no good to the merchant or his business. Too much sociability, as 1 sociability goes, loads to too much talk. Therefore the cautious merchant refrains front becoming excessively sociable, remarks the Farm Implement news, lie passes the 1 j time of day with his neighbor, discusses the political situation with the traveling men, and the crops with , I IaJci miof Atwntm l.iit vvlw.i* t lw. ?>>-. > alio v>uotuiiiuio) muv n n\ ii ijhj l^uil Vt'?* nation lags, ho lags with it. The talkative man boasts of his , achievements in business deals, how he secured such an excellent bargain , with so and so, and why i>o is mak* | ing so much tnorc money tha i his j I rival across the way. With him conversation never lags, for when the weather, the crops and politics are , threadbare there is always his business affairs to fall back on, After awhile everybody knows something ( about his business that should be , known by nobody except himself, i He loses caste with his customers, who, under other circumstances would regard him as a man of function and feel Mattered to be counted , among his customers. Encouraged by past successes, persons, whose most promising feature is their curiosity, wurrn new secrets from the apparently willing talker. Tongues were made to talk with, but a wise Creator appointed the brain as guardian. Sometimes the guardian fails to look after the word and the tongue becomes its own master. The talking habit crows w O steadily unless checked by strong resolution, and now is the time, Mr. Garrulous, to make yours. If you must tell your business affairs to somebody, find a man who can neith er talk or write, or retire to tho subbasement two or threo times a day and talk to yourself. Hut curb ytyur voice even then, for the ''very walls! have ears." There are no very terrible secrets about a legitimate business; nothing that would disgrace the merchant or even reduce his standing in the community wore they known; but to be continually harping on one's business affairs is, to sj^y the least, illadvised, and cannot hut reaulgin the i disclosure of facts to Alii siilmvs \vlir?l might otherwise never hear of them, ami who on becoming possessed of the information, use it to the business man's disadvantage. There are peo pie in every community who make a specialty of poking their noses into other people's business. Dealers should not drag these nasal organs into their affairs by telling facts i which should be kept "sub-rosa."~Kx. >1 ?v I Society church members run hotels with bar-rooms attached, and pray > "thy kingdom come." They are as > much whiskey dealer*, as-the keeper > of the largest saloon to b-% found: NO. 30. <J?ui. Orant CuiiKht Tlioni. "(ion. (irant.once interfered in a moat unwarranted and arbitrary winner with a poker ^ame that was paying tne a big profit," said Andrew Oannor, one of the vets who were Ighting tlio war over again, ^to a frlobn-Jh mocrat. writer. "It was shortly after the battlo of Sliiloli, ?nd we confeds were feeling pretty juuly down in the mouth. "1 was on the picket line one jright moonlight night, antl tho finks hud u post only u f?nv hunI red yards away. We shot each )thor until wo got tired of the sport, ;her. we swapped newspapers, coffee md tobacco. A date-devil young Yankee corporal walked right into >ur post, sat down on a log as tinconcerned as you please, and asked 113 f we know how to play poker. Did ivo? We rather thought we did. Mad wo any greenbacks? A few. "Then wo pulled out a deck of jards and wo sat down to play. Pretty soon another yank came, then mother, until there were six of them, mil we all joined in and played a ivido open game, forgetting that tho jruel war was not over. Duck came ny way, and 1 soon had everybody 3111 the yankee corporal broke. The est were squatted around, blue and jtuy, w atching the game, when there mine that ugly ic-l-ick ick-ick' so funiliar to the soldier's ear. "We looked up and there stood a r'unkco sergeant with four nten, their rmskets cooked. "Members of the l-'ortyninth, consider yours-Ives tinier arrest,'said the sergeant. 'O, jome now, sergeant,' tho corporal :>eguu, when a horseman reined up >ehind the guard, and he concluded: 'Gen. Grunt, by hokey.' Tho blue joats got up looking like a lot >t whipped school hoys, and saluted their commander, who eye 1 them as -ternly as a sphinx. They filed in front of the guard and started for camp. "When their backs wero turned >11 him, (<rant removed the cigar from his mouth, and with a cynical smile asked the Confederate nearest hint: ''Who's ahead?" (), we're ahead," replied the defender o the stars and bars. Those chumps you've brought down here can't play poker a little hit. lint they can fight, General,' I remarked. i lave to sometimes,' said Grant dryly, and rode away." The Mannish (iirl. Trout Truth: She begins innocently enough. Site has a troop of brothers, perhaps, and is drawn into their sports in spite of herself. She catches their contempt of girls; cuts off her hair like Maggie Tulliver; takes pleasure in a riding habit and its odd accou tor men t s. Horses and dogs nre her favorite companions. So she falls out of sympathy with Inr sex. She loses its delicacy; she is reckless of its conventions. That is always the peril of the mannish girl. But the fact that a woman in body, she tries to lie a man in mind, exposes her to tho animad vorsiuus ui uiu riuiiui. As slic minglds with the world, sho feeds a kind of vanity by being mannish. To talk slang, to smoke cigarettes, to rule to hounds, commend iter, in a measure, to her male companions. They take her yachting when they leave her companions at home. Thoy love to chat with her in a box at the horse show. They even propose a surreptitious visit to the Arion ball. But they rarely marry her. That is when sho maidenly girl has her full revenge. When it comes to taking a wife?a wile who shall adorn h:s table; a wife who shall entertain his friends?a man seldom thinks of the mannish girl. lie knows that the arts by which she attracted him will bo just unattractive toothers. He knows that the lack of refinement, which has a kind of zeal in the girl of twenty, will turn to hopeless vulgarity in a matron of forty. Then what is the end of the mannish girl? Kternal spinterhood or the divorce court. ^ If no man will have her sho gets more acidualated month by month. * Iler mind turns to bitterness. She has nothing but ill to say of her neighbors. 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