charged from service as the war was over. Mrs. Lytle and the soldier were talking over the surrender and the future looked very dark and gloomy. During the conversation Mr. Pucci pulled a roll of Confederate bills from his pocket, with the remark, "What is it good for now?"

Under the inspiration of the moment, Mrs. Lytle wrote the poem, just as it appears below, and the soldier copied it on the back of a $5.00 bill.

Wingo, Ky. MRS.. I. A. WESSON.

A $5.00 CONFEDERATE BILL-WHAT WAS

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Representing nothing on God's earth now,
Nor in the waters below it:

The pledge of a nation that's dead and gone;
Keep it, dear friend, and show it-
Show it to those who will bend an ear

To the tale that this paper shall tell,
Of Liberty, born of a patriot's hope,

Of a storm-cradled nation that fell. Too poor to possess the precious ore,

And too much of a stranger to borrow, We issued today, our promise to pay,

And we hoped to redeem it tomorrow. But the days rolled by, and weeks became years,

And our coffers were empty still; Coin was so scarce that our treasurer quaked If a dollar should drop in the till.

And our poverty, well we discerned; And those paper bills represented the pay That our suffering veterans earned. We knew it had hardly a value in gold, Yet as gold our soldiers received it; It gave on its face a promise to pay, And each patriot soldier believed it. Our boys little thought of price or pay, Or of wage that was overdue; They knew if it bought them their bread that day,

'Twas the best their poor country could do.

Then keep it! It tells our victory o'er,

From the birth of the dream to the lastGlorious! and born of a nation's hope, Like our hope of success-it passed.

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and maybe you'll understand how the trouble happened.

The photographs are sent to an engraver in Atlanta, who returns the photographs with the plates to be used in the magazine.

When the pictures and the plates reach the office, proofs or copies-of each plate is made, and on these proofs the name and age of each baby is written.

This data is then given to the foreman of the composing room to be used by him in making up the page.

Well here's the trouble: the young man who was told to "check up the

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It isn't much comfort to us to know that the accident was a peculiar one, as it has upset our plans and calculations to a great degree.

If you are going to enter your baby, hurry up, as the contest is drawing to