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r t A POST OF DANCER. I.. . Gren Becruit Went Through All the Tortures of Actual Encounter ' 1 ' , with Enemy. ' When the pulse of the nation throb bed in response to Father Abraham's call for "seventy-five thousand men," the rush to arms was so great that the maximum number of companies was exceeded by the enrollment of beardless boys in some instances. The veterans of the Mexican war were in request. One of these was deemed sufficient to season a whole company. The raw young men were eager for the fray how eager we all remember Badly, so many bright boys went brave ly to their death. The Twelfth Pennsylvania regiment In the three months' service were sta tioned on the Northern Central rail road; they did guard duty. That road was all important it was the great highway over which the troops that were to fight the union's battles were dispatched to the capital. The regiment was stretched out over an Interval ot 30 miles, It relieved the First New York infantry, if my memory serves me. There is one thing there can be no doubt about. The First New York "stued" the Twelfth Pennsylvania. We lit down there in the evening. Be- HE STOOD WITH HIS HANDS GRASP ING HIS GUN. fore the First New York left the ground a number of the Twelfth Penn sylvania Imagined there was a confed erate soldier behind every tree and rock near the roadbed. It will not be deemed remarkable, cays Corporal Cloverslde, who tells the Etory in the American Tribune, If 1 add that half the boys comprising Company "I" requested to be put on "posts of danger." . One of these patriots I will call L. His request was not gratified. He had the mortification of witnessing others detailed for duty at dusk. His oppor tunlty arrived with the second relief. His ears were strained, his eyes ditto when the "corporal of the guard" res ponaed to tne nervous queries pro pounded by the men on the posts. When it came to his turn to be left all alone at the foot of a big tree his ' frame of mind may be imagined when I state that the man he relieved whis pered before leaving him: "Keep a sharp lookout back of you, There sre a iot of negro huts up there, I thought I saw some one move be tween them, and, mind, there is only one post beyond you." I L. was deeply depressed by the man ner, as well as the words of his mess mate. He strained his eyes in the direction of those huts or where the AN ANECDOTE the Newspaper Man Had to See the President and He Did in His Night Shirt ' Col. Holloway in this letter gives the following characteristic anecdote of President Lincoln: "William H. Byrlngton, now American consul at Naples, who was one of the Wash ington staff of the New York Tribune during tho civil war, told me last sum ' mer that lato one night following the receipt of the news that Sherman had cut loose from Atlanta for the sea, he received a message from the managing editor of the Tribune to see President Lln'co'.n at onco, and tell him the Tribune wanted to send two corre spondents to meet Sherman when he reached the sea, and desired to know to what point to send them. "This was lato at night, but Byrlng ton must obey orders. He went to the ;Whlte House. Tho president had re tired, but the Tribune man Insisted that the attendant take his card to the president, as it was Important that be huts ought to be it was pitch dark ' until his head ached. He adhered rigidly to the advice given him by the man he had relieved; refrained from coughing; did not budge from the tree an inch; grasped his gun at full cock With both hands; thus he stood for four mortal hours. Four hours! they seemed weeks months ages! The bats flitting past struck terror to his heart until he remembared there was such a thing as bats. The first hoot of an owl caused him to run until he realized it was an owl. But might It not be a signal? What could be easier than for a confederate to hcot like an owl to lull him into fancied security, pounce on him, disarm him and cut his throat? The owl's hoot was listened to with an earnestness that would have served a brigade. A twig snapping seemed as loud to the listener now as the cracking of a saw-log. Every sense was tense. The guard on a dangerous post, resolved not to be caught napping, yet unused to midnight vigils, exhausted his fac ulties before the first hour passed. The remaining hours were simply tor ture. He caught himself dozing he, on a post of danger absolutely doz ing, lime and again he was within an ace oi iamng oniy nis grasp on his musket prevented It. His eyelids were weighted with tons of sand of lead. It .was lmpossib.e to keep his eyes open. If he dare walk! If he could walk around the tree! If he dare sit or hum a low tune! But he was not a tobacco chewer could not even rumi nate like a cow In the shade. Lights gleamed here and there through the trees. They might be fire-flies and they might not What if they were not? Would the relief never come? It is always the darkest before dawn. L. thought there was darkness suffi cient that morning for half a dozen dawnlcgs. He wondered If all war was like his experience. It could make a man gray or bald-headed in a year or less time. Then he won dered who was sleeping in his bed. It was a mighty ccm ortable bed. If he ever gat home sate he'd compli ment that bed in a way The guard on the dangerous post was sound asleep by this time; is sound as though his head was lying on his' pillow. He stood with his bands grasping his gun near the muz zle, his chin resting on the muzzle, and his back against the tree. The stillness was profound, when sudden ly, ani without an Instant's warning, a sound like that of a man falling from a great height smote the calm morning air. The guard jumped Jumped straight up at least Blx Inches, and fettled back in hls.J.racks with every tense as alert as though his soul's Ealvatlon depended on their in stant and effective exercise. A man! And lodging In a tree like that! It was not possible he made that r.olse Jumping. Could it 6e? Yes, It was possible the confederate had dropped fell from his percn. But why did he not cry out? In va'n the guard pricked up his ears. No sound was heard. Yes, there was something rustling in a field near by. Would he shout? No! He would fire his gun off. Pooh! and he laughed out The man on a dangerous post concluded to keep his own counsel. He was glad he did. When the relief came along the cor poral was laughing and talking. "It must be a great country for coon hunt ing. He saw one as big aa a slioat strike into a cornfield down the road a mile or two." L. listened and smiled. He was im mensely relieved in a double sense. The sound the appalling sound that startled him was explained. A coon had dropped, with all the weight of 30 or 40 pounds, from the tree near him, and ran away through the cornfield. All Products of the Mine. Much of our textile materials now comes from the mines. Silk rustles with 36 per cent of salt of tin, flan nel Is weighted with epsom salts and linen table cloths are made from cot ton filled with china clay and starch. OF LINCOLN. should see him Immediately. The Tribune man was taken to the corridor on the second floor. The attendant entered the president's room and a moment later the chief executive came out in his night shirt The corre spondent apologized for intruding at such an unseemly hour, but delivered his message. "Mr. Lincoln looked puzzled for a moment, and then said: 'I don't know;' a curious look came over his face as he added, 'but If I were going to guess I would .say send one to Mobile and the other to Savannah. Now, If Stan ton kni-w I told you he would kill me. Don't tell him.' "The correspondent then thanked htm. As he started to go the presl dent yawned as he was going back to his bed and said: 'He'd kill me, kill me.' " Not That Verb. "Did he really tell you I had a case of stage fright?" asked the amateur actress. "No," replied the dearest friend, "he said you were," . An Unattained Sacrifice. BY DUDLEY She looked Into his eyes with the self-effacing devotion pertaining to women. He looked into hers with the expression of the hunted stag. There was that In his face, however, Which relieved It from the suggestion of fear and painted into his personal ity the mark of the hero. Sh3 saw it and understood under stood not at all what his trouble and his fear wa3, but understood that it was the desperation of a brave man; and net heart of hearts yearned to help him and comfort him. She was 'ho longer a girl, yet re tained the Ineffable charm of "sweet 16." Her attitude toward the man was unmistakable. She was his sweet heart, his very own patient, passion- ate, loving and self-abnegating. He was a handsome fellow or would hav been hail.Jt not been for the lines of care and suffering in his frail face. There were great lines in the face and the bead was marvelous in Its shape and proportions, and the wide, straight mouth and the steady eyes told of In domitable purpose to conquer physical weakness. They had been lovers for so long that they had forgotten the measure of the years. Since early childhood they had been playmates and chums, but since one memorable day ah! the wo man remembered the very day and date, after all they had been accepted lovers the one to the other. It was very, very long ago, 15, 16, 17 perhaps as much as 20 years back In the past. It was all so full of promise and happiness then. He was young, bril liant, rich, with every prospect ahead of him, when he asked her for her promise, obtained it, and went brave ly away to college to fit himself for a great career. And in, all the land lived no such happy girl. She had found her own true knight and he bad broken his lance at her very feet All she had to do was to wait and dream What more could fair maid desire? And so, 'neath sunny skies, with no cloud on the horizon, the two fond hearts waited the fruition of their hopes, Impatient only at the length of the days and nights which Intervened between them and bliss. Then came the crash, and in a single momen; Clarence learned he was the orphan of a bankrupt and a suicide and his loved and respected father would have been a convict had he not forestalled it all by taking bis own life. It was a terrible blow, but Clarence never wavered. He left college within the hour, never to return, and bravely took up the burden left by his father. It was an awful task for an Inexperi enced youth, without business training, who had always been taught that, come what might, the fortune of the family was safe and that his ambitions were to find an outlet In other ways than money-getting. Besides, he loathed business with the true, abhor rence of the born aristocrat But he never flinched. He mastered the situation and started In to work out ths problem. After the remnants of his father's fortune had been gath ered together and paid to his creditors, despite the protests of his mother and sisters, Clarence obtained employment with a business concern and pushed along doing work at which his very soul abhorred. He supported his mo ther and the family, educated his younger brother and, above and beyond It all, paid In year by year what he could save to reduce his father's debts, But the years were long and dreary and the great cloud of the debts hid the funlight beyond. Only one ray of light did he have excepting Alice, of course and that was that certain ar tides he wrote were accepted from time to time by magazines of the bet ter class. Upon these articles and their acceptance Clarence and Alice built their fondest hopes. For Alice never wavered in her love and accept ed the years of waiting as her very heritage. The strain on the man was fearful, and he felt things giving way within him. One day he consulted a physi cian and emerged from his office with an expression on his face which com bined resolution with fear. After this he ever looked haunted, but always resolute. The debts had been paid, the boy ed ucated, the girls married and the mo ther dead. Then came an offer from a great magazine to take up a series of Investigations along the lines of his writings on the basis of a very liberal salary. A representative of the maga zine had come to see him and close with lira. The Interview was over and he had come straight to Alice. So they stood, she looking into his eyes vita self-effacing devotion, and he looking Into hers with the expression of a hunted stag. "How did it come out, dear?" she asked, eagerly. ' , "I have signed with them," he said, gravely. "Oh, Clarence," she said, clasping ,VIDV(3 JAMES. her hands, "and gere they nice about the salary?" "They pay me more than I .ever hoped tc earn," he replied, looking at her with an Inscrutable expression. She flushed like a schoolgirl and her eyes bought the carpet. A great spasm of pain crossed the man's face. "Alice," he said, harshly, "I have something to tell you." "Yes," she said, simply. "Our engagement must end." The woman looked at him, stunned, Then she smiled a rare, sweet smile, such as only Alice had. "Come, no Joking," she said. "It's too happy a night." "It is true," said he, fiercely. "I tell you I cm going out Into the world now and I will not be hampered by any woman." , She looked at him, at first with In credulity, then with horror; then: "As you desire, Clarence so It Is foi your best interest. Remember, though, you are not so strong as you were 20 years ago. Be careful of yourself." A lock ot agony came into his eyes, Then followed an expression of mas terful extermination. "Lat us part without a scene," h said, coldly. "Neither of us want It. 1 I have many things to look after to night. I leave In the morning. Good by." He took her hand coldly and hast ened away. The woman dropped her face In her hands and the sobs came straight from her heart. true'" she said aealn and Pse Peruna, but the wholesome, use true, sne sam again ana jul women enp(l(,ed in honest toil self. It Is not true! He would not be wlthout Dr. Hartman's It is not again to herself, Is not disloyal. He Is not cold. What is it? What is It?" A low sound like a moan aroused her, and she hastened to the door, There was a huddled heap on the side- vuuoiuo. new uunu u oio and in a moment bad Clarences un conscious head In her lap. She un loosed his collar and called for help. Water, brandy and chafing presently brought him around. "Alice!" he whispered, "Kiss me.' "What Is it all about?" she asked, as she lifted her lips from his. "This Is it," he said. "The doctors warned me years ago. It Is the begin ning of the end. I could not let you sacrifice your 'life to my broken one. I knew you would If I gave you a chance, so I lesolved to drive you away." "Sacrifice!" she exclaimed then, laughing hysterically, "You great goose." "What did the doctors say?" she de manded. "That I might be stricken down at any moment unless 1 gave up all work and went into the country and lived without worry and nervous excitement This Is only a warnlne. But It nre- sages the end." . "We will co Into the countrv. Clar- ence." she paid, simply. "I have a small Inheritance and nlenty of strength. We will get a small place and you can cultivate It I can make ends meet on very little and maybe you can write some from time to time as you get stronger." The glory of love-light came Into the man's face Then the cloud of des pair. "I cannot accept the sacrifice," he said, determinedly. "Sacrifice!" she exclaimed, again. Then, with the same hysterical laugh ter as before, she added, "You goose!' Whereupon she bent down and placed her Hps on his, where they remained a long time. And he threw his arms about her and all the determination and all the reststence faded from his lace. (Copyright, 1906, by Dally Btory Pub. Co.) Wonderful Eyesight of Eagles. The sharp-eyed hawk can spy a lark upon a piece of earth almost ex actly the same color at 20 times the distance It is perceptible to man or dog. A kite soaring out of human sight still can distinguish and pounce upon lizards and field mice upon the ground, and the distance at which the vultures and eagles can spy their prey Is almost Incredible. Recent discoveries have Inclined naturalists to the belief that birds of prey have not the acute sense of smell or hear ing that has hitherto been accredit ed them. Their keen sight seems better to account for their action, and they appear to be guided by eight alone, as they never sniff at any thing, but dart straight after the ob- tacts of their desire. Their conn. terparts In the ocean, doubtless smell and see, dui are more guiaea Dy smell than slirht In both sharks and rav the eyes are good and have a dls- Unct, expression, though since they scent their prey from a short dis tance and swim up to It with great est rapidity, smeir may be called their real eye. PREIT MILKMAID Thinks Pe-runa Is a WcncUrful ' Medicine, TWTlSS ANNIE IIENDREN, Eocklyn.i AA Wash., writes: j "I feel better than I have for over: four years. I have taken several bottles' of Peruna and one bottle of Manalin. I " I can now do all of mv work in the house, milk the cows, take care of tho milk, and so forth. think Peruna Is a most wonderful medicine. "I believe I would be in bed to-dav if I had not written to you for advice. I had taken all kinds of medicine, but none did me any good. "i'eruna lias made me a well and happy girl. 1 can never say too much for I'eruna." Not only women of rank and leisure world renowned remedy. The Doctor lias prescribed it for man v thousand women every year and he never iaus to receive a multitude ot let ters like the above, thanking him for tli.Q AflvlnA nni ocnoniullir 41ia aeriui benefits received from Peruna. Sleepy Policeman's Mistake. An urban councillor of Milton, Sit- Ungbourne, England, got Into a com partment at Barking in which a po liceman and a prisoner were travel ing. I Presently the policeman fell asleep and when the train reached Plalstow, the prisoner, falling to arouse his cus todian, quietly got out When the po liceman woke up he mistook the urbanj councillor for his prisoner and tried, to force him out to the platform. The1 councillor resisted, and the train went on to Bromley-by-Bow. Here the policeman succeeded In hauling the victim out and took himj back to Plalstow by train. After a, h0ng cross-examination the councillor! ras liberated and reached home by ( cab In the small hours of the mornlng.i Tne Things We Eat. 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Our friends advertise us. They eat EGG-O-SEE for a while. They grow strong. They are well and happy and thev pass the good word along. Next time you send to the grocer's tell your boy or girl to bring home a, lacs age of EGG-O-SEE. Have your' chilaren eat EGG-O-SEE. It Is their, friend. They'll eat EGG-O-SEE whin r.othlug else will taste good. You try EGG-O-SEE and you can deduct the cost from your doctor's bill a. We send our book, "Back to Nature," free. It's a good bookful of plain, good, common sense. If you want a copy, address EGG-O-SEE Company, 10 First St, Qulncy, III, It is better to decide a difference ucweeu lu"" -- - of our friends will certainly become) enemy, and one of our enemies a j friend. Bias Mr. Window's Soothing Byran. For children tMlMnf , totMni Ui curat, rtaucM h SuimiUua, klltjl ptin, ourM wind oullu. MottoM. "The best hearts are ever the brav st," said Sterne. i A, 1 ' : '' - :i ;S'.::;;J:f:-: V ' " , i ' f j , IJJLA 1 ' MIS3 ANNIE HENDREN. I ' S , v '