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How Tildy Drove the Cows Home
•‘Where is that boy ’Bimelech?”
said Aunt Huldah, in an aggrieved
tone “There ain’t a chore done, and
the white turkey has gone across the
field to steal her nest again, and the
guinea-pigs are squealing for their sup
per enough to deafen you, and the
wood wantin’ to he chopped, and Jonas
gone to see his mother. Why he
couldn’t have a mother livin’ in this
town instead of ten miles off I don’t
see; hut hired men have no considera
tion for ether people, any more than
boys have. I should like to know who
is going for the cows?”
Aunt Huldah was a little cross, but
then—poor woman!—she had had a
hard time to manage the farm and
make both ends meet since Uncle
Joshua died. And although she did
scold sometimes, she was very kind to
’Bimelech and Tildy.
“I will go and bring home the cows,”
said Tildy. “I can ride Lightning
bare-backed. I have done it ever so
many times.”
“! don’t think poor old Lightning
will ever run away with anybody,”
said Aunt Huldah. “But it’s hard
work for you to take down the bars
and put them tip again. I don’t be
lieve in girls doing such things, when
it’s what boys are for. But there’s no
telling what time that boy'll be home.
Perhaps you may as well go. And
you’d better hurry, for it’s a lonesome
road, and it will be dark before long.”
Tildy had old lightning out of his
stall and was on his back in a twink
ling. But there was no such thing as
hurrying old Lightning. He knew as
well as Tildy did that they were only
going for the cows, and he didn’t mean
to huiry his stiff old bones on any such
commonplace occasion. It was a long
time ago that Lightning had earned his
name. Jonas, the hired man, said he
was “slower than stock-still” now.
Tildy broke off a beech switch, and
tried that as a persuader. She did
want to get the cows home in good
time, so that Aunt Hnldali need not
think too much about ’Bimelech’s ab
sence. lie had a bright new half
dollar that he had earned by picking
berries, and there was a circus over at
Cranberry Center. Tildy didn’t know
that ho had gone there, but she was
pretty well acquainted with boys.
You couldn’t have ’Bimelech for a
brother without being.
Instead of having his pace quickened
by the beech switch, Lightning, not
being accustomed to such things, stop
ped short, and turned his head around
to look at it. Then he twiched it out
of Tildy’s hand serenely munched the
green leaves.
After that Tildy returned to moral
suasion, and told him how important it
was to have the cows milked, and the
milk taken care of at the proper time,
for of the cream was to be made Aunt
Huldah’s goldenest, sweetest, fragrant
est butter, that was expected to take a
prize at the Agricultural Fair, and out
of the prize money Aunt Huldah had
promised to buy her, (Tildy,) anew
cambric dress—bright blue with tiny
spots—to wear to the Sunday-school
picnic.
I can’t say that old Lightning was
touched by these arguments, but he did
begin to go a little faster, and before
Tildy had fairly decided what color to
have the hat trimmed with which Aunt
Huldali might have money enough to
buy her, to go with the dress, she had
reached the pasture.
Instead of being close beside the bars
as they usually were at night, the cows
were huddled together in a distant cor
ner of the field, as if they were fright
ened, and suddenly as she stopped
at the bars, she began to shiver and
pant with terror.
“What can it possibly mean?” said
Tildy, aloud. Hut before the words
were out of her mouth her heart seem
ed to have stopped beating. From be
hind a clump of busheß there suddenly
appeared a huge shaggy brown creat
ure, that walked with a lumbering gait
straight toward her.
Tildy knew in a moment that it was
a bear. ’Bimelech was very fond of
natural history and knew as much about
animals as the school-master himself,
and he was always showing pictures oi
animals to Tildy and explaining all
about them.
A boar he certainly was, and a big
one, but how he could have got there
was a question. Since the days of her
great grandiatlier Tildy knew no bears
had been seen about there.
She bad not much time to think,
however, for Lightning, quivering in
every limb, dashed over the fence—
Lightning, who had not leaped a fence
tot twenty years!—and with Tildy
clinging lor dear life to his neck, went
on a dead run across the pasture, over
a stone wall on the other side, through
the brook, and half-way up the hill,
where he stopped exhausted.
Tildy slipped down to the ground.
She thought the bear, at that distance,
was preferable to Lightning in his pres
ent state, which might lead him to
daßh off again at any moment, for
Lightning’s terror had not abated. He
was only exhausted.
Tildy thought of the cows with a
dreadful sinking of the heart and look
ed about her for help. But there was
not a house or a person in sight.
She stole softly down to the stone
wall, as if she expected the bear to ap
pear from behind any bush by the way,
and peeped over. The cows were still
huddled together in a distant corner of
the pasture. Against the bars she
could see the huge outline of the bear.
Could a bear climb a fence? Tildy
had forgotten the teachings of ’Bime
lech’s natural history books od that
subject, but she thought it more than
probable that he could. But he cer
tainly did not seem to he making any
attempt to do so. Slowly, and with
her heart in her mouth, Tildy climbed
the stone wall. She was very nimble,
and she was sure she could get over it
again before that unwieldly creature
could reach her, and she might by some
means save the cows. If she could
only drive them over the stone wall
She walked slowly toward the bars,
armed with a large stick.
The bear did not seem ferocious; per
haps she could drive him away. She
stopped at a respectful distance and
stared at him; Bhe dared not go very
near, although the bars were between
her and the huge creature. As she
stood gazing at him a very strange
thing happened. The bear rose on his
hind-feet, looked over the bars at her
in a friendly fashion, and held out his
paw as if for a cordial shake!
This proceeding was so entirely for
eign to Tildy’s previous ideas concern
ing the habits of beats that she did not
know what to think. But when the
bear, finding his friendly overtures dis
regarded, began to dance a slow and
stately minuet, Tildy felt like the little
old woman on the King’s highway,
who cried, “O lank a-mercy on mo,
this surely can’t be I.”
’Bimelech’s natural history books
said nothing of this kind of a bear.
He seemed to belong in a fairy book.
He looked at her as if he really wish
ed her to admire him. Tildy remem
bered a fairy story she had read of a
Prince who was turned into a deep by
a wicked fairy; perhaps somebody hail
been turned into this queer bear.
But being a shrewd, sensible little
Yankee girl, Tildy soon came to the
conclusion that there must be a more
practical solution of the mystery. And
suddenly there flashed into her mind a
story that Jonas had told of a perform
ing bear he had seen at a circus. She
had almost forgotten it, because she
had been so much more interested in
the other wonders of which Jonas told
—the baby elephant, the giraffes and
the talking hyena; but Jonas had said
that the bear was perfectly harmless
—“as gentle as a baby.”
This was certainly a trained bear,
and he seemed harmless. Tildy had
ceased to tremble now, and she took a
long look at him. He was muzzled!
Tildy’s courage arose with astonishing
suddenness. It was not easy to be
lieve in the gcntlenees of a bear after
reading those dreadful stories in ’Bime
lech’s books; it was a comfort to know
that this bear could not bite if he want
ed to. He might hug the breath out
of her body with those great shaggy
paws of his, but he did not seem in the
least disposed to any such violence,
and Tildy began to feel as brave as a
lion.
“What silly cows, to be afraid of a
tame creature like that, when lie didn’t
try to touch them!” she exclaimed, for
getting how her teeth had chatted ten
minutes before.
There was a collar around the bear’s
neck, and from it hung a stout rope.
If she only dared to take hold of the
rope and lead the bear home, what a
sensation she should create! thought
Tildy. She extended her hand over
the top bar and the bear immediately
placed his paw upon it and gave it a
little friendly shake. It was such a
huge, shaggy paw! Tildy felt a cold
chill creeping over her, but she did not
flinch. He certainly was a very soci
able bear.
Tildy took the bars down slowly,
watching him narrowly all the time.
She took the rope in her hand, and he
still looked at her in the mildest man
ner possible. She might lead him
home with safety, she thought, but she
could not leave the cows behind, and
their objections to the bear could not
be easily overcome. Hut she resolved
to try an experiment; she led him down
the road out of sight, and, she hoped
beyond the scent of the cows, he fol
lowing her with the docility of a dog.
She fastened his rope to a tree, and
then went back and drove the cows out
into the road. They were a little wild
and unruly, being evidently still in
terror of the bear, but once in the road
they started on the trot for home, and
Tildy brought up the rear with the
bear.
'Bimelech was sitting on the door
step eating apple-pic. Jonas had also
returned, and was looking anxiously
down the road for Tildy and the cows.
Tildy and the bear wore attended by
a throng of admirers. Men, women
and children had rnn out of their
houses, and were following the bear.
“Jehoshaphat!” said .Jonas.
Aunt Huldah rushed to the door,
uttered a shriek and fainted at the
sight.
“There isn’t another girl in Ponka
donk who would have dared to do that.
That comes of being my sister, and
knowing all about bears and things,”
said ’Bimelech, with his mouth full of
pie. “That’s the bear that strayed
away from the circus. There are pos
ters all over Cranberry Center offering
ten dollars reward for his return. Won’t
you be rich, Tildy? I’ll tako you to
the circus, and you can pay for both.”
Jonas went in search of old Light
ning, and soon brought him home,
looking thoroughly ashamed ot him
self, and neighing humbly to Tildy.
’Bimelech carried the hear over to
Cranberry Center to his owners that
very night—although Tildy felt very
sorry to part with him—and brought
Tildy the ten dollars. And Tildy had
her new cambric dress and the prettiest
hat in Ponkadonk, without waiting for
Aunt Hnldah’s butter prize; and she
bought for ’Bimelech a very big hook
on natural history, full of pictures of
animals and birds, and a beautiful new
butter stamp for Aunt Huldah, and a
gay neck-tie for Jonas. And when the
circus came to Ponkadonk Tildy met
her bear again, and he greeted her like
an old friend. —Sophie Sweet, in Ilar
pcr’t Young People.
Disgusted But not Disheartened.
M. Quad in Detroit Free Press
There were, beginning from the hour
when McClellan was attacked on the
Ghickahominy, half a dozen periods
during the war when Richmond was
open to capture by the Fedeials, and
yet it was held until events necessita
ted its evacuation. There never was
an hour from the time Vicksburg was
first invested until Pemberton’s sur
render, when there was the least chance
for its capture, and yet the Federal
Government made na count of life or
treasure in seeking to bring it about.
All military men saw, alter the war,
how Richmond could have been taken,
and wondered that it was not, but no
one has asserted that Vicksburg should
have fallen an hour before it did. The
iron clad fleet could run the batteries,
but with the bluffs lined with guns for
miles, and field batteries posted all
along the banks, a boat could effect no
more at one point than another. The
country back offered every advantage
to an army of defense, being broken
and timbered and easily fortified, and
when Sherman let go of the undertak
ing it was in the belief that nothing
but a long seige could ever give a Fed
eral General possession of the place.
Other points along the river fell into
Federal hands at the first attack, but
Vicksburg was a Gibraltar which the
Confederates were determined to hold
at any cost.
A DETERMINED rEOI’LE.
A few families out of the many
sought safety in the interior, or left the
State altogether when it was realized
that Vicksburg was to be attacked and
defended with desperate energy, but
the majority remained. Indeed, they
were not prepared to go. A seige of
fered scarcely more anxiety than a hur
ried removal to a locality among stran
gers who had enough to endure with
out further burdens. As the city laces
the river the only danger to he feared
was from the fleet. To escape this al
most every household had its cave in
the bluffs. These were tunnels, hav
ing their openings on the far side of
the bluffs, and generally ending in a
chamber after running in ten or twelve
feet. Having from 50 to 500 feet of
solid hill between them and the river,
and the people sheltered in these caves
were perfeetly safe from missiles, but
the danger was in getting to them.-
The Federal fleet did not send word in
advance when a bombardment was to
begin, and the fire was as likely to
open at midnight as any hour in the
day. At the first gun everybody would
start up. At the second or third the
non-combatants would prepare to rush
to shelter, and the rush must be made
with solid shot and bursting shell
sounding their fearful warnings to
make haste. Women and children
were at times half buried or knocked
down as they ran, but the deaths were
few and far between. Probably the
entire list would not count up a dozen
names.
A man rvould hardly dare attempt to
compute the weight of Federal metal
hurled into Vicksburg, from first to
last, but he visits the place, and looks
for what he may consider legitimate
results, will he greatly disappointed.
There are not six buildings in the city
showing scars of the bombardment.
Not more than two or three buildings
were fired and destroyed, and the citi
zens do not remember a case where any
one was killed in a house. Cannon
balls and pieces of shell and grape-shot
were thick enough in the streets, and
bullets could be picked up everywhere,
yet the fire from the river, from first to
last, amounted to little more than
throwing away ammunition. Upon one
occasion an iron-clad steamed slowly
along for a distance of two miles,
throwing grape into the town as fast as
her guns could be fired, yet only one
house was hit hard enough to leave
scars. That house is there to-day, and
so are hundreds of people who passed
through it all, and dodged deaths so
often, and in so many different forms
that they came to consider themselves
bullet-proof.
THE CANAL.
The cut-off which Gen. Williams
first began across the peninsula oppo
site Vicksburg and about five miles
from the city was intended to isolate
the post and render its defenses worth
less. The length of that cut was only
a mile and had things worked as inten
ded Vicksburg must have surrendered
or been ovacuated within a week. Wil
liams could not get the waters of the
Mississippi to run into his ditch. He
had the advice of the best civil engi
neers, but however well they under
stood surveying a line of defenses they
did not understand the nature of the big
river. The angle at which they struck
the river was incorrect. It was correct
from an engineers standpoint, but the
erratic nature of the current had not
been considered. Therefore the diggers
had the strange spectacle before them
of a great river rushing past the open
mouth of a ditch five feet lower than
the drift-wood hurrying by and yet
without enough water flowing into the
cut to float a skiff. It was a matter of
annoyance and chagrin, and the job
was finally abandoned in disgust.
GRANT TRIES HIS HAND.
The two fleets had bombarded Vicks
burg without serious effect, and Sher
man had lost 2,000 men by attacking
from the land side. Grant now con
centrated at Young’s Point to try his
hand on the canal. He had determined
to capture Vicksburg, and this was the
easiest way. Thousands of soldiers
went to work with pick, wheelbarrows
and spade, and a powerful dredge boat
was also brought into operation at the
lower end of the ditch. A bulkhead
was constructed across the mouth ol
the cut, and it was hopefully believed
that when the spring floods came the
canal would prove a grand -success.
The work was begun in January and
vigorously pushed until near the mid
dle of March. At that time the bed of
the canal was down at least eight feet
in the shallowest spot, while in others
it was three or four feet lower. The
hard work had sent hundreds of men
to the hospital and the grave, but a
few more days would see the iron-clads
and transports floating across the pe
ninsula and flanking Vicksburg. Then
came disaster. The flood in the Mis
sissippi suddenly increased, the bulk
head was driven in with a terrible
crash, and seven feet of water went
booming through the ditch with such
speed that a number of the diggers were
overwhelmed and all the tools lost. It
was hoped that the current would scour
out a deeper channel, but it simply
caused a removal of all the camps in
the neighborhood, filling up the swamps
and then ceased running. Grant had
failed just as Williams had failed. The
Mississippi would run past the canal
instead of into it.
THE SWAN LAKE ROUTE.
Grant turned from the canal to find
another route, lie went seventy-five
miles above Vicksburg to Lake Provi
dence, intending to work down into
Swan lake, Black river, Red river and
so on down into the Mississippi. This
would flank Vicksburg just the same,
and he went at his task with a deter
mination to win. If Capt. Eads were
asked to-day how much money and
time he would demand to open that
route and send ten steamboats down,
he would place the sum at hundreds of
thousands and the time at months. At
the very outset 5,000 men were set at
work to deepen a sluggish creek six or
seven miles long. It was the story of
the cut offat Island No. 10ov,ragain.
Trees, stumps, snags and roots were
tlie constant and troublesome obstruc
tions, and the men working in the mud
and water and malaria were soon made
sick. There was scarcely a mile of
the long route free from obstructions,
and Grant was beaten again He suc
ceeded in passing a few craft as far as
Lake Providence, and then he gave up
the task. It was a route which could
not float a barge unless the Mississippi
remained at a high stage to furnish
water.
Grant was disgusted, but not dis
heartened. He at once prepared fora
third attempt. Striking north cf
Vicksburg about 140 miles he began
operations at Moon Lake. The lake
discharged into Ya/.00 Pass, the pass
into the Coldwater, the latter into the
Tallahatchie, and this stream emptied
into the Yazoo. Grant could flank
everything by this route, and the North
now looked upon Vicksburg as good as
captured. The Mississippi poured into
Moon Lake and created a heavy cur
rent along the entire route, and the ad
jacent country was overflowed, so that
the Confederates had little show to pre
vent the complete success of this grand
scheme.
A SUDDEN HALT.
But if they could not prevent Grant
from opening the route and using it,
they were not to remain passive spec
tators. The day that the Federals be
gan operations at Moon lake the Con
federates began work on the Talla
hatchie, eight or ten miles above the
Yallobusha. Here, at a sharp bend in
the river, Fort Pemberton was erected.
While the fort was hurriedly construc
ted, and was nothing to boast of as a
work of strength, its location and the
nature of the ground on all sides made
it impregnable and brought disaster to
Grant’s scheme.
The iron-clads were leading the way
down to Tallahatchie, and nothing
more serious than fusilades by conceal
ed sharpshooters had been encountered
when Fort Pemberton suddenly made
its presence know. The Chilljcothe, a
heavily armed and thick-plated iron
clad moved boldly down and opened
fire, supposing it to be some field work
thrown up in a hurry to protect two or
three light guns. In the course of
half an hour the iron-clad backed out
of range of the heavy guns of the fort,
and later on a second gun-boat also
found the fire of the fort too much for
her.
A force of infantry was then landed,
a battery constructed as near the fort as
possible, and when all was ready the
gun boats and battery opened fire and
continued it for hours, sometimes silen
cing the Confederate guns for a time
and again having plenty to do to hold
their own. The gun-boats were con
siderably damaged by the accurate fire,
and as the infantry had no show to
carry the fort by a land attack the expe
dition was abandoned, and Grant had
to score another failure.
THE STEELE’S UAYOU ROUTE.
There was jnst one more chance.
Above the mouth of the Yazoo was a
creek running from the Mississippi riv-
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er to Steele’s bayou. This bayou was
connected with others, and finally with
the Sunflower river. It away could
be opened Haines’ bluff could be flank
ed. The soldiers were again set at
work to dig and saw and clear’ away,
and Porter load the way with his gun
boats and Sherman followed with a
force of infantry. Between the bayous
the streams were only wide enough to
pass a steamer, and for miles the trees
had to be cut away or trimmed up to
get overhanging limbs out of the way.
The flood had now subsided and the
woods were full of Confederate sharp
shooters, while every negro who could
be found was set to felling trees across
the streams and otherwise obstructing
them. Some days the boats did not
advance forty rods, and one obstruction
was no sooner removed than another
was encountered. Sherman’s infantry
could do no more than protect the force
engaged in clearing the way, and finally
it could not even do that. As the ex
pedition approached the Sunflower
river the Confederates began obstruct
ing the line of retreat with the inten
tion of capturing the entile force.
Success might have attended the de
sign had not Sherman been re enforced
and the expedition ordered to return.
It had consumed weeks of time, lost
many men, accomplished an immense
amount of labor and without return.
Haines’ Bluff was still crowned with
guns and Vicksburg, was still safe and
defiant. Grant had tried every way
but one. That-was to move up against
Pemberton’s fortifications and hang
there and fight him until Vicksburg
was starved into surrender. He had
sought in every way to avoid the loss
of life sure to attend this plan and to
gave the time that a siege would con
sume, but he had been baffled. He
now prepared to adopt the fighting
plan, and Vicksburg made ready for
what was to come.
A MODEL BAPTIST.
WHOSE LIFE CONTArXS A LESSON OF TCNCT
UALITV WORTH EMULATING.
From the Christian Index.
Mr. Editor: I wrote you some time
ago that I had traveled a mouth in this
State staying in the country every
night except Saturday and Sunday,
and found none that had family pray
er. I have been traveling continually
since then, through six counties, and
after staying with several local Meth
odist preachers, stewarts, etc., have at
last found one man who asked me to
hold family prayer and he is the only
one that has asked me or held it him
self. And this man belonged to the
Primitive Baptist church. He is sev
dhty-six years of age, has been a mem
ber of the church fifty years, lived where
he now lives forty-eight years, and
told me he had missed only three of
their regular meetings (every fourth
and fifth Sunday) in forty-six years.
Besides this he has attended associa
tion, etc., every year. He commenced
taking one of their church papers, pub
lished in New York, in 1833, still takes
it, and have nearly every paper receiv
ed in that time, neatly folded and put
away. He says for nearly thirty years
he has made it a rule to read the New
Testament through once every month,
and can quote almost any passage you
want, giving book, chapter and verse.
He has contributed to the building of
churches for other denominations, when
called upon, one time giving three acres
of land (two more than asked for) to
build a Missionary Baptist church on.
He anked me to read an article in his
paper for him, giving the experience of
one of their preachers, and when I was
through, the tears were in his eyes and
he went on to talk of God’s goodness
in sending his Son to die for him. I
don’t think 1 ever saw a man in whoso
face the love of God shone more bright
ly than in his. He seemed weaned
completely away from the world, and
only waiting for the Master to say, “It
is enough, come up higher.” 1 shall
never forget the night spent with him
and his godly wife. God has blessed
him in many ways. He has never had
to buy corn but one year in his life,
and last year with his little boy just
large enough to plow, he made two
hundred bushels corn, two bales cotton,
three hundred bushels potatoes and 71
gallons of syrup. When I asked what
my bill was for staying with him, he
said all he charged was a promise to
call again if I ever came through there.
If the Methodist church was composed
of just such men. earnest God-loving,
what a work it could do! Dr. Allen
would not call for money to help con
vert the heathen; men would give free
ly of what they had.andChiist’s king
dom would soon cover the world. May
God awaken in us a deeper zeal, and
help us to live up to what we profess,
and profess all he requires of us.
Physiciaiis use Shriner’s In
dian Vermifuge in their practice and
pronounce it a first class article. . A
trial will convince the most skeptical
of its intrinsic merit.
Men pray for holiness as if it were
something entirely apart from their
every day life, something that had
nothing at all to do with their conduct
in their domestic, social and business
relations.
“Facts are stubborn things,” and
sufferers from chill and fever gener
ally find their complaint a very stub
born fact, until they commence the
use of Ayer’s Ague Cure. That med
icine eradicates the noxious poison
from the system, and invariably cures
even the worst cases.