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8 From St. Petersburg to Port Arthur; . . Completion of New Russian Railroad Th* Russians are congratulating tbem- Mtve*. as well as the travelin* public and eMMftercial world, on the completion of th* Chinese Eastern railwar through Manchuria the extension of the Trans Siberian railway which furnishes direct connection between St. Petersburg and Port Arthur, writes Consul General W. R. Holloway to the state department. Il is expected that the trip will be made in less than » days in the near future. It is ndw just M years since the first tie was laid on the Trans-Siberian railway, which has been built from start to finish by Russian engineers and workmen, la boring under great dlfficultiv and adverse climatic conditions, at a cost of ».000,ftX) rubles (lITMMJIt.) The distance from BL Petersburg to VladfVoeioek is 6.W7 •miles, and the (are Is as follows: • Rubles. First class ... • S Second class ® TWtrf claw • ••• *o 30 The road consists of two branches: Th* principal, from the station Manchuria to Sungari. 876 versts (580.7 mfiesi long, and the south line, from Sun gari to Port Arthur. 924 versts (6116 miles.) The Uasurtjsk line to Vladivostock is 308 **Ht« (W.» miles) tn length The Trans-Siberian road was built with light raMe—some of which only weighed 12 pounds to the foot—wooddn bridges, light •euipment. cars without trucks, and tn ma. nr -art- the track was laid on marshy soil As a consequence it has been im pdartH* to make time or take care of the business afforded These defects, how ever are being remedied as rapidly as the means can be provided to meet the ex penses. which tn some sections will ametint to M per cent of the original cost. Th* conductors. porter* and trainmen Russian* and do not understand jnglish, but occasionally one is found who apedka a little German or French The route is through a country resem bitng ifvnses and Nebraska, and is quite TUNNELING UNDER EAST RIVER INTO THE HEART OF NEW YORK BY WILLIAM H. BALDWIN. . • (President of the Long Island Railroad.) fte coMtructlcn of the Pennsylvania and Lona Wand railroad tunnel In addi tion to the rapid transit subway now be ing built. Is one of the factors leading to the absolute unity of the city of New ' York. Tunnel construction will solve the problem which has confronted the city for the past » years and more—namely, how to bouse comfortably and at reasonable cost the enormous population which must carry on business In the first ctty In the world. It will remove a vast resident pop ulation from 30 to 40 miles away from Manhattan Island. At the same time, these people can travel comfortably and cheaply between their homes in the out lying districts to their places of business in the center of the city. In other words, all the lower end of Manhattan, from Forty-eecond street down, will be cleared for traffic and business. The need of more room has been imper ative for yearn. Practically we bare reached the limit of means of surface transportation on the streets running north and south. This is admitted very generally. T think. With few exceptions, every thoroughfare has one, and, tn some cases. wiU have three levels of car lines when the rapid transit subway is complet ed. Beyond that it will be a difficult mat ter to carry many more people toward the north quickly in the rush hours of the day. < Obviously, the only remedy for these congested conditions is for New York City to spread out toward Brooklyn and Long Island. Hitherto we have been met By the barrier of water in the Etest river Close connection between the two islands has secerned a dream almost Im possible of realisation. Through the tunnel and through other tunnels which may be built we are going to realise this dream. It means that we shall move Long Island up against the ahora es Manhattan Island and make one land of it. The tunnel system will more than double the available area of resi dence! property for the city, and in doing so it will enormously increase the area available for business and manufactur ing purposes. The comparatively slow upbuilding of Long Island tn population has been prin cipally due to the fact that It has been impossible for the millions of people liv ing on Manhattan Island to reach the Long Island railroad. Long Island has been an island in every respect, and it Our Best Offer. TWO LOVELY PICTURES FREE 1 •' arc-gj* sH mH N ■ HkjIHH tMr JI ( every new subscriber who will send us $ 1 i ' / for one year’s subscription to the Semi- Weekly Journal we will send post paid one picture of our martyred President and one of Mrs. McKinley; renewals to count the same as new subscribers. The pictures are mounted on black velour mats 11x14 Inches and are beauties. Now is the time to get two good pictures free. ' Send at once before the supply gives out ' Address The Journal, Atlanta, Ga. as hot and dusty during the summer months. It requires eight days to make the jour ney over the first part of this road, which ends at Irkutsk, where all passengers change cars. Trains leave Moscow for Irkutsk twice a week—Wednesdays and Saturdays at 8 o'clock p, m.—and leave Irkutsk for Moscow on Mondays and Fri days at midnight. Each train consists of nine cars, and they carry second-class carriages as well as first, and are very comfortable: the passengers all eat in the same restaurant car, and excellent buf fets are to be found at the various sta tions on the route. The train de luxe, consisting of veati buled cars, leaves Moscow every ten days. The cars are high and roomy, and are lighted by electricity. Each has four compartments, exclusive of the general parlor, which is in the center, and is pro vided with a table, lounging chair, maps, mirrors, etc. Three of these compart ments are for four persons and one is for two. At the rear of the last car is an obser vation parlor, from which a fine view of the country can be had. It is a three-hour rlda from Irkutsk to Lake Baikal, which is crossed by steam er during thesummer and by sledges (in seven hours) during the winter. The rail road is being built on the south bank of the lake, but will not bo completed before INB. The Trans-Siberian train leaves the east bank of the lake on the arrival of the boat and proceeds to Stretlensk, on the Chilka river, the actual terminus of the line, a stxty-four-hour run. Steamers with indifferent accommodations and food run regularly from Stretlensk to Khaba rovsk. on the Amur river, which occupies fifteen days, more or leas, according to the depth of the water and length of stop pages. Th* railway is completed from Khaba rovsk to Vladivostock. a distance of 400 mile*, requiring twenty hours for transit From Vladivostock, there are steamers hm taken quite aa long in the past for a person to reach the railroad aa it has to ride for a distance of twenty to thirty miles on the railroad. For many years the thought of the Long Islander has been that if a passenger could go direct In a through caj from Manhattan Island to his destination on Long Island their highest dreams would be realised. There have been many plans extending over many yean to bring about these results. In 186? the New York' World of Sunday. May 24, explained'Mn detail the necessity for better connection between New York and Brooklyn aand points gen erally on Long Island. It was a remark able article tn that the conditions and necessities described therein exist today. The tunnel advocated in that article (with, of course, mechanical alterations to meet the improved engineering of our times) is the tunnel which the Pennsyl vania and Long Island railroads are plan ning today to biuld. The World and its plan were simply S 3 years ahead of the times. I have preserved the article in an old scrapbook and here are a few extracts from it. There Is, by the way, a three-column illustration with the article. The World. Sunday, May 24, 1868: •‘About the most pressing necessity we labor under at present is the improve ment of the means of transit between the cities of New York and Brooklyn; which, though bearing different names, having separate corporate bodies and being in dif ferent counties, are still to all Intents and purposes esentlally one and the same city. In Europe the principal cities are inter sected by a river tn the midst as ours, but the two sides of the river are considered aa being in the same city. "The problem arises. ‘Where are the populations contiguous to New York to dwell V "Folks will live as near New York as they can. The nearness will not be meas ured by distance but by time. Other things equal, that spot will attract the most which has the safest and quickest means of access to the city.” "In the World’s recent article,** the wri ter continues, "on the East River bridge it was clearly shown that the ferry fa cilities are already expanded to the last degree. It many more people go to Brook lyn to live but to do business in New York there must be other means of transit pro vided between the two cities. That there will be a bridge is beyond question. Mean while another mode of transit is also pro- THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY. DECEMBER 30. 19v., with connections for Japan, Korea, and Shanghai, any of which can be reached in six days, while San Francisco can be reached in fifteen days. Russia realizes the absolute necessity for additional railroads, in order to move her crops and Insure the settlement of her uninhabited territory, and has already made elaborate plans for the next decade; but while she posses natural resources of practically unlimited value, she lacks for the present the ability to build the roads without the aid of foreign capital. In view of the recent loan successfully floated in France, which will, it is believ ed, be used to build new railroads, the following will be of Interest: The February earnings of railroads in European Russia were 37,038 862 rubles (813.914,636), against 26,952,885 rubles 8(813,- 880,736) in the previous year, an increase of 85,477 rubles. In the first two months of the present year, the gross earnings were 56,468,063 rubles (829,078,477). and for the same period of the previous year 54,- 635.629 rubles u 28.137.349), an increase Os 1.827,433 rubles (8941.128. It appears that during the same period there was a de crease in passengeue this year of 258,598, but an increase in freight of 43,974,000 poods (793,994 tons.) The greatest prospects of railroad build ing in European Russia are lines direct to Viatka and Kief. The first would, it is estimated, open the enormous agricultural northern district and very materially af fect the Importance of Bt. Petersburg. A direct line to Kief would diminish the time t-ken in going to tnat town by at least one-half. An imperial ukase has been issued, ord ering the construction of the Orenburg- Tashkent railroad, in order to relieve the famine-stricken population of th* east ern provinces of Russia, and give em ployment to the iron works in the same provinces, which are suffering from want of activity. Th* Tashkent and Chikment districts are the principal exporters of cotton, and they will be given a new market by means of this line. posed. A tunnel under the East River is proposed. "It is proposed to lay a tubular wrought iron tunnel having a clear height of 24 feet, leaving 40 feet of water in the center of the tideway." Richard Foley was the designer of the tunnel. Among the incorporators of the company were Silas C. Herring, Edwin Ferguson, J.- R. Floyd, J. A. Fithian, O. Sloan Holden, W. C. Higgins, Simon Gult erman, William Garrett, John J. Walsh, George A. Osgood and William A. Smith. Editorially The World said of this pro ject: “A tunnel Is what Is required to insure quick and safe communication be tween New York and Brooklyn. What we desire is a safe, silent submarine con veyance that will not put our shipping to any Inconvenience. We trust that there will be no lagging In this tunnel enter prise, but that it will be pushed forward with energy.” The first important link to connect the island with Brooklyn was the Brooklyn bridge, which by its success has only ex aggerated the difficulty and made more apparent the need tor more bridges and more connections. The people have finally learned that bridges are a successful means of connecting the two Islands, and now the second and third bridges are un der way and will tend to provide for those people who wish to cross the river for the purpose of local transit in the two cities. The problem of crossing the river for the purpose of reaching Long Island, and by through train service to reach the outlying points beyond Long island Ctty and Brooklyn has never been settled until now. Up to the present time the Imagination of the people has not permitted it to think that a tunnel would be an entirely satisfactory and practical means of connection. During the last eight or ten years, since the rapid transit commission advocated Its plans for the rapid transit subway throughout New York, the public has gradually been educated to see that the only means of rapid transit in the city will be by means of underground tunnels and railroads. The change of sentiment within the last two or three years has been most marked. Distinguished men who five years ago believed that the rapid transit subway in New York would be nothing but a failure, a “hole In the ground," now see that the only problem is to have enough subways and not to ex pect too much from the first one. In other words, the means of handling such an enormous population as that centered In and about Manhattan Island needs a great deal of imagination, and unless more Imagination Is used than has been In the past the facilities for transit will con tinue to remain Inadequate, as In the past. The tendency for Manhattan to concen trate more and more its business popula tion, with its high buildings and the enor mous population which goes to Manhat tan only for work, makes It more impera tive each day for additional means of con nection between the Island and the out lying districts. The tendency also for the residents of Manhattan each year to live a longer time In the country and to use the city house or apartment for the winter months creates an additional demand for genuine rapid transit to the beautiful sub urbs lying about New York. In short, the two rivers which create the harbor and make New York possible to be the first city in the world must be obliterated as far as they become an obstruction to the easy passage of people to and from Man hattan Island. A large number of new conditions make it possible to solve this difficulty by the modern tunnel. Among them the use of electricity for transit purposes has only been known for the last dozen years. During that period the science of the use of electricity has made it possible to handle any system of transit by that power. The benefits which wllll accrue to Man hattan with the completion of the Penn sylvania and Long Island railroad tunnel are apparent. I have mentioned the prime advantages already in briei. It will then possess through connection with the west, with western cities, Chic ago, Philadelphia and so on, without change of cars, into the heart o{ New York at Thirty-third street. Any number of tunnnels can be built across the North and East rivers. There can be no monopoly in tunnel building, and I see no limit to the connections which may be made on either side of Manhattan. The Hudson river may be tunnneled for miles up the west shore by railroads running into New York—pro vided they spend the money required to get in. Now as to the benefits which will ac crue to Long Island. Every farmer’s land on the island Is worth more today by many dollars than It was a week ago—all owing to the pro jected tunnel. Miles and miles of open land on Long Island will now be built up with suburban for all classes of people. The cost of maintaining small factories on Manhattan, owing to increased land values due to overcrowded population, has become almost prohibitive. Brooklyn today offers advantages to the manufacturer which makes the cost of manufacturing as cheap In that city as in any city or country town in the United “Marching, Fighting, Camping,” Diary Continued, March 17, 1865, evacuated our position last night at 8 o'clock, but returned after marching a short distance, and re-occu pied our lines and re-evacuated them at 10 o'clock. Passed through Averysboro on the road to Smithfield; camped about half a mile from the former. The mud all the way awful. Marched 13 miles to day. Fair. March 18. Got a good night's rest last night. Resumed our march at 11 o'clock a. m. Cut across the country to go to Bentonsville. We stopped at dark and are about eight miles from Ben tonsville. Marched mostly in a settlement road. Things indicate a fight. Clear day; warmer. ' March 19.—Our brigade was put on pick et last night, until the wagons of our corps passed the point we were guarding. Left our picket post last night at 12 o’clock mid-night and marched about two miles and camped for the night; on the tramp at daylight this morning and got to Bentonsville at about 8 o'clock a. m. A beautiful Sabbath day. March 20.—After building breastworks on the left of th* line yesterday, our brig ade was moved to the Tight yesterday af ternoon, and formed line and charged the enemy. As we were going to take up our position to make this charge we pass-t ed Gen. Joe Johnston, sitting on a log by the side of the road. We cheered him. Terrible musketry fire in our front where we made the charge. Went in arid passed over a line of battle of Alabama troops, lying down to let us pass over them. They fell back after we passed them. Boon got into the thick of the flght. While We were heavily engaged, orders were passed along the line to left oblique. We left obliqued. Another Gettysburg maneu ver. Just wanted to show Sherman's folks that we could make any kind of a maneuver right under the muzzle of their guns, and they could not help themselves—nothing like war when you; get used to it. The enemy fell back out of sheer admiration of us but kept up the flght. It was a hot old time and things were lively if they wer* not lovely, we kept up this left obllqu* movement and fight ing heavily with th* enemy until dark caught us, when w* were suddenly fired into from behind. This countermanded the oblique business, and we halted (that is, my regiment did, as we were on the left of th* brigade and were above them). We were in between two fires. After a little we got orders to cease flring and lie down. We obeyed. After a while the enemy in front and our men in the rear ceased firing. We th*n got up and as the woods were burning the enemy saw us and we at once became engaged again, and promptly the lin* In our rear opened on us too. We stopped firing and lay down again. The firing front and rear stopped. We got up again with the same result as before. We then lay down and remained down for some time. In the meantime n\en had been sent to the rear to notify those people that we were not the enemy, but it seems that they never got the word. Finally we got up and were not fired on. We then moved by the right flank and eventually got back to our lines. This was the battle of Bentonville. We filed out into the woods to camp and* built our fires. Near us was th* fires of some troops already tn camp. While I was standing at my fire I heard a voice from behind m* say: “William.” I turned and lo and behold it was my brother. His camp fire was not over ten or 15 steps from mine. He saw me and recognised me standing in the fire light. I was glad to meet him. I had not seen him in years. He was an officer In a Georgia regiment, in Stovall’s brigade. His full name was P. S. Johnson, arid I would like to learn the company and regiment to which he be longed. I have forgotten. So I was recon- Battle of Missionary Ridge. Editor Journal: I noticed the account of the battle above the clouds at Lookout mountain by a member of the Eighteenth Alabama and his close call, and It in spires me to write something as I was there, a private In Company G, 37th Ala bama volunteers. Our regiment occupied some temporary breastworks just below the pinnacle of Lookout, on the morning of the 23d of No vember, 1863. The engagement commenced at daylight. It was cloudy and rainy all during the forenoon, the clouds and fog hanging so thick at times we could see only a few yards before us, hence, we could not get at the situation of the ene my, but skirmishing was going on In front all the time. After a time the clouds lifted, the enemy sighted our situation and brought their cannon to bear upon us. They shelled us with such force that our officers thought it best to fall back from the breastworks to safer ground, hence the rifle pits were lost to us. There was nothing more than heavy skirmishing done during the day; night came on, the skirmishers came In and a strong picket was put out. I was one of the pickets and was sta tioned about eighty yards In front of our regiment on tiio line of battle. A young man by the name of Alonso Allen, of my company (a new recruit), was put on with me. Our post happened to be near a large shell of a stump with an open side that favored us, I bade him alt close at my feet which he did (it was his first time out.) The weather was cold. The officer had given me particular In structions to be very watchful. "The safety of the army depends upon you," he said, "and do just as I tell you; watch close ahead of you, and If you see men approaching, fire on them and run In; L.ates. It has an enormous and steady labor market in which to obtain workmen. These workmen are the most efficient In the world. They can now be housed and fed comfortably at reasonable cost. The construction of the tunnel system will In directly raise the wages of thousands of mechanics am. workmen by reducing the cost of living and rent. A clerk In a downtown store, for exam ple, anywhere from Forty-second street south, can live twenty miles distant on Long Island and yet reach his place of business in thirty minutes. The trip from New York to Long Island city through the tunnel will require about three minutes, and from Thirty-third street to Jersey City, let us say, only four or five minutes. When the railroad tunnel system is completed we can come to work in New York every day from a distance of forty milss In the country as quickly as we now make the journey to Harlem. HSr Just one zrfnT\ thing» prejudice. /Al / A\ keeps some women I < 1 ifrom using PEARL- [/ WINE. They think. •1$ I nq j— -if it BkCts on j zdJ /I ~ dirt so strong- Jja t k must ’1 hurt the A 1 clothes. Soap I n.nd rubbing on <hrt, 1 and the fabric tis rubbed away. PEARLINE loosens the dirt better than any soap and bundles it out with little or no rubbing, and no in}ury. 6«6 Proved by Millionsj died to the left oblique business at last, but for this I would never have camped where I did, and of course would not have had the Joyous meeting which I did. I was one of three in charge of the flag of our regiment in this battle. One was killed, one wounded and disabled, and I received a cut from a shot over th* bridge of my nos* and on the cheek under my left eye—just got the skin. The bullets flew thick and fast about and around the flag, and I had my Sunday vest ruined. I wish to add something here which I have learned from experience and reflec tion. That is, no firing line should have a flag or single flag bearer. The idea of a man carrying a flag and being a target for every gun of the enemy is, to mv mind, radically wrong. The flag bearer simply carries a target and can do no fighting. He is simply the victim of a pre histories! sentiment, which looks very well in a picture portraying a struggle over a flag in battle, or to read about, but there is no business in it. War is a busi ness, and to be successful must be waged on business principles; that is, in action every man must be armed to fight, and taught to go ahead and not be allowed or tempted to stop short of his goal to fight over the possession of an object, and thus arrest his ownward movement, and probably stop a Whole command and turn an advance movement into a sort of foot ball the flag and Its bearers taking the place of a pig skin. I do not mean here to lessen the respect of the soldier for his flag or colors, but to enlarge his duties as an advantage fighter. Fighting over a flag is just so much energy diverted from the line of at tack or defense. It is cruel and unnatural to require any man to expose his life in battle unless he is provided with arms to fight with and defend himself. He should be put on an equal footing with his an tagonist. The sense and business of a bat tle demands that every man engaged should flght and be provided with th* means of fighting, IT a defenseless color bearer falls some other soldier takes the colors, thus again weakening the firing line by one; then, perhaps, another and another in this way is added to the non combatant color bearers. The flag draws a concentrated fire which Are does more damage than it would if it'was scattered along the line. I would instead mak* every man on the firing line and in the whole army a color bearer. The flag should be on th* shoulders of the man—the flag-staff lying in the should*r and th* flag rampant on the coat collar. This to apply to the offi cers as well as to .the men. The flag and color bearer of the general staff to be retained as at present, or every general staff should have colors and a color bear er. I make this observation byway of parenthesis in my narrative, as by my plan captured flags would not b* so nu merous and when one was captured it would be a prize of great value. I received a military education, and this added to my experience in actual war fare, justifies me in coming to the con clusion which I have. But to my narrative. The troops who fired into us, I learned, belonged to Walthall’s division. We took up line of battle on the right again this morning, but were moved to the left. Thank the Lord for my escape; clear day. March 21.—Brother came and stayed with me last night; moved our brigade forward today to connect with the left of General Wheeler. The enemy attacked the right of our division, but were repulsed with loss. They got In the rear of our brigade, but were driven off with loss. Commenced to rain in afternoon. A. A. JOHNSON, Co. D, Second 8. C. V. Atlanta. Ga. x ■ ' don’t hail them; don’t provoke a night fight by shooting at objects of imagina tion. If you see anything and it is not coming in, don’t fire, but keep quiet and watchful; I will relieve you at the proper time. Now, listen, ‘Jackson* is the coun tersign; don’t forget, nor don’t go to sleep for that means death." The officer went his way. I was the last picket put on. Just about fifteen minutes after he left, I saw objects just about thirty yards away In front of me. I whispered this to my companion and told him I was going to fire on them. I could see and heard plainly It was the enemy putting out pickets. They passed on; dark clouds were flitting between us and the moon; at times I could see a man plainly outlined and then again I could not. I raised my gun to shoot and bore hqrd on the trigger but something seemed to say, "Don’t shoot, his blood will be on your hands before God: don’t shoot.” I took down my gun and whispered to ray companion: "My heart has failed me, I can’t shoot that man. I will watch him.” And I did watch him, until the moon was covered with darkness and I heard in my rear creeping footsteps very close by. I said In a low tone, "Who comes there?” . t "A friend with the countersign," he ans wered over the point of my bayonet. "Jackson, he said, "I came to take you back." We stealthily crept out of danger, then made our way to Mission Ridge; Just af ter crossing the bridge over that wind ing stream of death (Chickamauga) going through an pld field I stumbled over the biggest bass drum I ever saw. It was fully four feet high and twenty inches wide. Feeling about it I found the should er straps and strung It on, then went on to the foot of Mission Ridge, where I came up with hundreds of men rolled up In blankets asleep. I did not know what regiment they were as all were asleep, so I stopped near, corded up the drum (It was about an hour before day), and thought I would try it. I tapped It pretty hard with my fist, and every man was on his feet in a moment. There came near being a stam pede, but my colonel, Aik A. Greene, who was nearest, recognised my voice. He quickly quieted the men and taking the drum felt about over it and pronounced it a good drum; adding that we needed a drum and for me to just lay my gun down and hold on to that drum. When daylight came that drum was a sight for all to look at. Nobody had ever seep or heard of such a drum. It was a wonder to everybody and all were wondering who It belonged to and where it came from. But oh my, when I got that drum strung up on my back and started on the march everybody whooped; they hallowed, "Where you gwlne with the commissary?” "Going to wash for the brigade," “Come out from behind that drum—l see your legs wiggling” were some of the comments- that greeted me. Well, we went upon Mission Ridge and formed line of battle along the top' of this ridge. The Thirty-seventh Alabama was held as reserve. Fighting soon commenced on the ex treme right. We passed the whole army, or very near it, going to the right, the soldiers keeping up their Are of comment. At one low place on the ridge, the Yan kees caught sight of me and they sent shells screaming over us. After getiing to the right we were ordered back to the left—back and forth we marched—the boys whooping and yelling. The colonel told me not to mind the boys, but to hdld on to that drum and ordered me to lay my gun down, but I didn’t do it, for I thought I would need it before night. I have thought about it since and have come to the conclusion that General Bragg had us march backward and forward from right to left for a purpose. The men would whoop at the sight of the drum DO YOU SHOOT?. '**• If you do you should send your name and address on a postal card for • , WINCHESTER IqU N*C ATALOG UE? 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All was safe on the right, but very soon fighting com menced on our left and in a few minutes after a courier came along the line and said the Yankees had broken through Bates’ division and were flanking us on our left. Colonel Green commanded us to form a line of battle to stop the Yankees’ approach. We tried to form that line, but did not get much of a line, as the enemy was upon us. We charged them with a will and yelling at every jump. The enemy halted and lay down close to the ground, and we ran right Into them. They met us with a deadly fire. I received a flesh wound just below the right nipple and another across any back, just breaking the skin, another Just un der my left elbow; my gun was shot out of my hand. Two of our men fell over me at the same Instant, one shot in the forehead and the other in the back of the head. / The enemy had begun to fall back over the ridge. I found that I was not hurt very bad, and I crawled back until I got out of sight. I went to Chickamauga, or near there, where I found a smalt rem nant of my regiment. Out of eight hard fought battles that was my only close call. pjvORCE IN TURKEY. London Telegraph. , Divorce is very easy In Turkey, and does not require a judge and jury to settle mat ters. All that is necessary is for the injured party to say, ‘“I divorce you," three times, and the deed is done. The husband has to make the wife a proper allowance, and all is over. Two cases have recently occurred which are rather amusing. A certain Turkish gentleman is a keen amateur gardener, and his garden contains at all seasons a brilliant, show of flowers, to which he devotes most of his time, rather to the disgust of his wife, who is never allowed to cut them. Last month his chrysanthemums were in the height of their glory, when a tremendous downpour of rain came on. This threatened to destroy the magnificent blooms, many of which were equal in size to the best results attained in England. Seeing the danger the gentleman called all his servants and set to work to carry the pots into the house, and arrange them up both sides of the staircase. When they had finished the lady suddenly ap peared and fell into a violent rage, declaring that her husband thought more of his flowers than he did of her, ami that he insulted her by bringing earth- into the bouse. In vain he explained that in all the best European houses flowers in pots were the proper thing. Nothing would appease her; she said he was defiling her house by bringing dirt In, and she Would divorce him. She sent for her sister to come and be a witness of. the divorce, and setting to work with her women bundled all the flowers out again. When the sister ar rived. however, matters were settled up, and the divorce did not take place. On another occasion the same lady sent her small son down to breakfast in a pink shirt and a green tie. The father was shocked at this barbarous combination, and made a re mark to the English governess, who sent the child back to change his tie. But down came the lady of the house in a furious rage, say ing she knew how to dress the child; that a pink shirt and green tie was the best of taste, and - she would not remain to be In sulted by his giving preference to the opin ions of an English girl. Again she threatened to divorce him. but again It fell through, as ( the husband could not find the £GOO he would j have had to pay her until her wrath had 1 cooled down. ■ II I .11 UK. _ CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Th* Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the J gignatwr* of K Beautiful Paradox. Cleveland Plain Dealer. « "Actress Lillian Russell had a birthday party, ths other day.” "How old Is she?” “That’e not polite. They say a woman is only az old as she looks." 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