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Bank***. * A»lo«niifng Politeness. The truck driver Js proverbially pro­ fane. and when one Is discovered who doesn't swear bet weeu syllables when Ills vehicle is jammed iu u bunch of other trucks ami blocked trolley card yoii feel like taking off your hat to him. Down at Second and Chestnut streets one afternoon, vvlieu traiuc was at its thickest and trucks and cars were lined- along both thoroughfares, two truck­ men had equal chances of making the, crossing. One was coming down Chest­ nut and the other along Second street. Had they been ordinary truckmen each would have whipped up, and the chances are that a collision would have resulted. But these two were not or­ dinary truckmen. With Chest erfieldi&n grace one waved his arm to the other. Inviting him to take precedence. "You first!" shouted the driver, whereupon a messenger boy who had witnessed the remarkable scene gasped and nearly swallowed his cigarette stump, "After you," was the next contribution to this remarkable dialogue. "Wouldn't that Jar. you?" muttered a motorman, who was standing clanging his bell for all be was worth. ( . The two truckmen continued to mo­ tion for each other to go ahead. "I insist!" shouted one1. "Oh, no; I In­ sist!" shouted the other. Finally a po­ liceman interfered. "Say. one o' yous ducks git a move on." he commanded. "This ain't, no pink tea." The truck­ man coming down Chestnut street con­ sented to cross the street, and traffic was gradually resumed.--Philadelphia Record. • A persistent Poet. Although R. K. Muukittrick has an •enviable reputation as a humorist, yet he is not the quickest man in the world to see a joke when It is played on himself. Mr. Gibson, one of the editors of Puck and also a practical joker, arranged for a special jest to be administered to Mr. Munkittrick. He had provided a trick telephone which emitted a shower of flour whep anybody spoke into it. When Mr. Munkittrick had arrived. It was suddenly discovered that the paper had gone to press and that his copy was too late. There was only one chance. Mr. Gibson said, and that was to telephone to the printer and tell him to stop the presses unfil his matter should be set up and inserted. He asked Mr. Munkittrick to go to the phone at once. Then the staff sat and held their sides, waiting for the explosion. Final­ ly Mr. Gibson rushed to the telephone and found his friend deluged In flour, but still persistently calling "Hello!" through the phone. He led him back and carefully ex­ plained the joke. When he finished, Munkittrick calm­ ly remarked: "Still. 1 think we ought to let the printer know about the copy; don't yon?"--Saturday Evening Post. The Parisian Way. It must be hard for the untraveled Anglo-Saxon to grasp the idea that a poet can without loss of prestige recite his lines in a public cafe before a mix­ ed audience. If such doubting souls could, however, be present at one of these noctes ambrosianse, they would quickly realize that the Latin temper­ ament can throw a grace and childish Abandon around an act that would cause an Englishman or an American to appear supremely ridiculouc. Os-s's taste or sense of fitness is never shock­ ed. It seems the most natural thing in the world to be sitting there with your glass of beer before you while some rising poet whose name ten years later may figure among the "Immortal For­ ty" recites to you his loves and his ambition or brings tears into your eyes with a description of some humble hero or martyr.--Eliot Gregory In Scrib- ner's. She Heard It. The surpliced choir had done Its duty for the evening service. But all during the church hours there had been a pe­ culiar soupd outside as if a child were crying. In reality It was something the matter with the organ. It coidd be heard distinctly in the auditorium of the church; . When the choir sang the recessional and marched slowly out of the church into the dressing rooms, one of the young ladies among the so­ pranos asked the woman who takes care of the robes: "Did you hear that awful squeaking out here?" "Yes. Indeed, mum; I could almost understand the words." And nothiug more was said on the subject.--Detroit Free Press. Soldiers Avoid the Bean. "I have noticed." said the old soldier, "that there is one vegetable which the veterans of the civil war religiously avoid. That is the bean. It proved a very staying article, but after we had campaigned on it from Shiloh to Nash­ ville and from Antietam to the Wilder­ ness we were ready to cry 'Enough!' I understand it is used but 'sparingly in the kitchens of soldiers' homes. It Will take another generation to rehabil­ itate this vegetable in xne affection of the American people."--New York Mall and Express. A Question off Grammar. "Ain't you got any sense?" asked'the 4-year-old dal&hter of the man who doesn't believ-e in corporal punishment. "Why, my dear." said the father re­ provingly, "aren't you ashamed to talk to papa that way?" "Excuse me. papa," she answered. "I meaned to say isn't you got any sense?" --Indianapolis News. Caused a Sllgrht Family Jar. "Maria, did you read about that Phil­ adelphia woman who was cured of her mental troubles by fasting 45 days? I believe such a treatment would cure that unhappy temper of yours." "Yes. it would make an angel of me. 1B that what you would like, John Bll- IUB ?"--Exchange. | W. C. T. U. PRESS DEPARTMENT 5 I MRS. A. B. AURINGER, Editor. J [The Plaiudealer does not hold itself respon­ sible for the opinions expressed in this col­ umn.-- ED.] I i 'I 1 moity of AH Army Offltwifi. Frank M. Well, formerly Chaplain First Tennessee Infantry, United States Volunteers, Memphis, Tenn. in a letter to Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis, National Suprintendent of Legislation of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Washington, D. C., says: "I noticed in Thursday evening's Star, Feb. 1, your letter to Attorney General Griggs, con­ cerning the anti canteen law and his reply to you in the same issue of that paper. I have had some experience, as an army officer, with the liquor question and, being much interested in the wel­ fare of our troops, both in the army and uavy, I offer you this letter with the privilege of doing with it as you choose. . I received my commission last March and left, at once for Manila. I left San Francisco on the United States transport Zelandia,.-March 28, in company with, the Ninth regulars. Whisky was sold on the Zelandia at any and all times to both officers and enlisted men, the entire voyage over. We arrived at Manila April 36. The launch soon came for us and each officer in hlis turn went on shore to report to General Otis. Our com­ manding officer had l)een drinking and. when he got into the launch to go ashore, h ; was very much under the influence of liquor. He reported to General Otis for duty about 11 o'clock a. m., was put in command of a battalion, went out on the firing line that night and was either c ntored or killed about 2 or 8 o'clock next morning. I received passport to Hoilo, but had to remain in Manila seventeen days before I could get a transport. This gave me an opportunity to see Manila and to what extent liquors are used in that city. I never counted the saloons, but I am sure it is not exaggeration to say there are at. least 500 saloons in Manila to-day. Anybody can get liquor any time they want it, if they have money to pay for it. While in Manila, at the Hotel del Oriente, I learned from a whisky drum­ mer that fie liquor dealers had a freight- rate from Louisville, Ky., to Manila, for if 1.29 per hundredweight. This is 29 cents less than the freight rate is from Louisville to San Francisco for the same amount. He, the whisky drummer, also told me that there were a dozen whisky Irummers then at that hotel, and he supposed that there were no fewer than 100 whisky drummers from the United States in the Philippine islands. * I joined my regiment at Iloilo, May 15, and very soon discovered that liquors, were sold in regimental headquarters, within fifteen feet of where I stood to preach. I reported the matter to Major Paul, provost-marshal of Iloilo, and he at once had it discontinued. September 15 we went aboard the United. States transport Indiana to re­ turn to the United States via Cebu. Drinking was very much indulged in. One of our officers was too drunk to 1V T 0 0 r > * * O ARaai* J,, off to bed. We disembarked at Cebu and had a battle September. 22. Upon our return to the ^Indiana much drink­ ing prevailed and six or eight of our >fticers were actually drunk. One of our majors, in this disgraceful condi­ tion, tried to put a drunken private in the. stateroom of the chaplain, and only lesisted upon threatened violence. Charges were preferred against the major, a copy of which I have in my possession at the present time. During our stay in Cebu we were compelled to witness the most disgraceful and dis­ gusting spectacles constantly. Native women, with bottles of liquor and a tin cup, sold to the soldiers from their places on the sidewalk. Houses of ill-fame were wide open and one-half of the men captured by the enemy were taken from these houses. •< The conduct of some of our officers on the Indiana en route home was too vile for me to mention, all caused by the enemy, drink. I do not believe that our regiment was any worse than many others. Homeward bound we stopped eight days in Manila, and while there learned from one of the Ninth regulars that fifty-two men captured. near Manila since we first landed, April 26, were either drunk or in company with dis­ solute women when captured. Strong drink and bad women were associated together in Solomon's day and have never been separated long at a time since. October 8 we left Manila, having in charge 100 prisoners of war who had been dishonorably discharged from the service and were serving a sentence of from one to ten years. They were guarded ifi the lowest part of the vessel 4ay and night. One night, however, they broke into the compartment of the Indiana where liquors were stored and made way with about thirty bottles 11 f the ship's whisky. They became very drunk, and when the officers took them in charge there was a hard fight and several men were injured. Intoxicating liquors were sold on the United States transports Zelandia and the Indiana. I went over on the former and returned on the latter. We were fifty-six days on the Indiana returning, and I was compelled to make complaint to the master of the vessel many times, but without effect. What I have written I have written-- "with malice toward none and love for all." I love our regiment, our govern­ ment and love our soldiers. I am most heartily in favor of expansion and for the present administration, less the whisky in the army. Let us hone and pray that our great leaders of nit ©nil a fairs will see the need of putting in­ toxicating liquors out of the army." Free Complexion lieMiitifler. ' We want every lady reader of the McHenry Plaindealer, to try D wight's Complexion Beautifier, the most ex­ quisite toilet preparation. It is pure and harmless, makes the face smooth as vel­ vet and fair as alabaster. To induce a fair trial of it we will for SHORT TIME ONLY SEND FREE a full size, Fifty Cent box to, every lady who will send us her post office address and SILVER DIME to pay for packing and postage. Only one FREE box to each address, but ladies may order for her friends. Each box mailed separately. Send this no­ tice and your order AT ONCE to D. W. CUSTER & Co., Huntington, W; Va. Feb. 22, 1 y. #lOO CaKlt rrUen.- I will give One Hundred Dollars in cash to the persons who can arrange these four groups of letters into the names of four well known and common food articles which are used by every housekeeper. "Guras," "Eat," "Uofrl" ' 'Foecef." You can only use each letter its own group and only as many times as it appears in its own group. Each group makes a name. The $100 will be paid April 30, 1900. If two or more per­ sons send the correct answer, the $100 will be divided pro rata. 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