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SAULTS AT GETTYSBURG AND
KENESAW MOUNTAfN.
l.'H
L WAR CHARGES.
■ Opinion of the Two Brit,
nod Darln0 Dashes—A Lien.
Report on Tired Hole*
Rarenona Appetites.
pfocious to The men of McCook’a Hap- *,ttv_ ~ " -
1X1)1411 MAPM SUGAE
SST brtode.-.Cbta*, 1»» THE MO wuT^r ^ WWT ,
***** TO MAKE THE DAINTY.
WONDERS OF WATCHMAKING
iffter the battle of Cbicka-
‘ 1, ’ M Tlmepteee. Owned by Two of
E-Sland*. Queen*.'
An *®* the treasures of a Swiss mu-
Inserted In the top of on old fash-
**T ““"****”• Wa. Proettced by
All northern Indiana and Waa
Known to Tboee Llvtn* aa Far
Sooth aa Florida and Texas.
:1m- etop of°noldfaah- .
said Captain Pitch, "I was ap- tono- pcDcn coae ’ ,s ‘be tiniest watch , VeFy few ot tbe People to whom ma
nia. evep <°tistrocted. It Is only thre~.iv. •“ 8ugar te “ entirely familiar and
ibief
nicu, i was ap- ■ iiuicsi watcn mo-
quartermaster of the sis- 5 0D8trocted - M l» only three-alx- Pl ° 8U8ar , te 0,1 entirely familiar and
of the department of the “ ,nch ,n diameter, and Its thln * "« aware of the
I. stationed at Chattanooga. dial not only Indicates hours, min- ! iff* .* tbe aK?tllod of niaklng sugar
iccount of the quartermas- f, te * 8ew>D<l8 > but also the days of < Jfff, tau(fht t° the white people by the
• found that I was in need So perfectly formed Is this | ?,ff“, ,U ^ 1 That the * made sugar long
Ight wagons to be used In the | e „t ti m „ , thnt 11 kce P 8 excel-
ous country, and tbe only J median lot «. 8 8 tuarrelous piece of
cot them was to go to Nosh- ?£“'“ ?*1 woriMna " 8b lP.
811 * T "° of ‘be most elaborate and curl-
□s watches which the ■
have them made, so I went to on. J„.f, „ elabornteand curl-
and had five light wa^ns 0,8 " ori “ ka8 «'er
the quartermaster’s depart- her Elizabeth aud
the quartermaster’s depart- her ' wuee “ Aiisabeth and
r isr? sf?s£s Er?.as=va
I. O, u» «w .M tek
[canister, being a green hand, I face wnff i > * art ,.° f wlll , cb °Pe ne d. The
know that mules would eat I irii» a i ^ s , ver ' "1‘b on elaborate
rlthln their reach and W > the wMe " a8 ke P* ta
them to the wheels of the Ltw thh*!^ Wlth bInck
Not long after that 1 got an | knoba ^ 8t,MWed w,th bl ® silver
ready to march, and on go
Inspect my outfit I found
mules had eatpii the spokes of
's nearly off, so thnt the wag-
rcad.v to fall dowu of their
1 As I could not use them
recourse but to drop them
returns, and, being obliged to
cason for so dropping them, I
true oue—viz, ‘Eaten by
afterward I got a letter
quartermaster general snreas-
qulriug If Lieutenant Pitch
ed whether the mules had
tires or not. I replied that I
they had. as they seemed to
Slily tired the next day. Tin
ster general wrote back.
r trifling with this depart-
hc part of Lieutenant Pitch
lily result In his being retired
life.' Thereupon I dropped
but my first report was
ckninnuga,” said the major.
men ran over our boad-
nms. Every niuio in one of
"'cut down, and the wagon
structlon In the road. Plv<
er every mule was oil Its
wounded teamster yelled ut
out. They started without
swept along the road after
regiments and, turning at
it point, came Into our new
oppetl where the bendqimr
id been stuck lu the ground
'•'Ported later and drove In
logs.
hose mules the night before
he blanket off our division
had run over the lines of
ping In close battle order,
he Confederate pickets and
d to our bivouac under
The men of the brigade
mu vow to shoot the mis
ole at daylight, but when
He they bad other tilings to
id the mule was forgotten
me in at the head of tbe
hed to tbe headquarters
en the I toys who bad wit-
liarge and tbe escape of tbe
am counted tbe mule's dev
■ng.”
'Se of Longstreet, by the
1 e colonel, -was one of the
f the war. and It was ns
•my as a breaker of lines,
(oink of Pickett's charge
r In n class to Itself, but 1
wondered wbelber tbe
’ 011 the Confederate posi
x'saw mountain June 27
"o' he put in the list with
■He charge at Gettysburg.
' 11 p ! ‘ "'an of course the
"lar. a <i<l the assaulting
"'I' compart, but while it
o" 11110 at one point It
% in disastrous retreat,
assault on the fortified
'i' !Ut ua8 made by three
heiter troops than Pick
■■ hut It must be remem
lk ; n ‘ey failed to pierce
’ hue they held tbelr po
, ,'. l0, rp treat. Tbelr loss
"mstl.v as heavy as Pick
Sherman’s idea was
'" army as well as the
m.v that he could make
' If the assault bad
1 '"e assaulting column
Pickeft’a column at
< f! o<-t o Q tlie army
ecu as It was when
11 ' 10,1 'he assault clung
! n '" ,norp than 30 paces
'"""e parapets.
,:| !ed except lu that it
" °f tbe spirit of tbe
1 -■aiiIt. Lee’s purpose
"-s undoubtedly to
"" '"en like a wedge
"'""•A Tbe failure
° 'be retreat of the
army. 8herman's
1 ■' was to capture
' "'ations. Tbe ai
not of Sherman’s
' onreiernte army !
1 * ibai tile grotm l
The ill fated Mary was tbe possessor
of a watch In the form of a skull. The
dial was Introduced where the palate
should have been, and tbe works occu
pied tbe place of brains In the crani
um. In tbe hollow of the skull, more
over, was a bell which bad works of Its
own and by means of which a hammer
struck out the hours upon It.
One of the choicest rarities of the
BernnI collection was a book shaped
watch. This curious time Indicator wus
made by order of Boglslaus XIV, Duke
of Pomerania. In the time of Gustavus
Adolphus. On the face of the boob,
where the dial of the watch Is set,
there Is an engraved Inscription of the
duke and his titles and armorial bear
ings. together with the date, 1827. On
the buck the engravings are also very
finely and skillfully executed, among
them being the portraits of two gentle
men ofthe seventeenth century. The
dial plate Is of sliver, chased in relief,
while the Insides are beautifully chased
with figures of birds and foliage. The
watch has two separate movemeuts nnd
a large, sweet toned bell. At the back,
over this bell, tbe metal Is ornamental
ly plereed In a circle, with a dragon and
other devices, while the sides are pierc
ed and engraved with a complicated
design of beautiful scroll work.—Lon
don Tit-Bits.
DR. BYLES STOOD GUARD.
It Waa a Thanksgiving Day, and the
Can** Waa Lrgeat.
One of the most famous of the oltl
Puritan divines was Dr. Mather Byles,
who was born In Boston lu 1700 and
who was the first pastor of tbe Hollis
Street Congregational church, to'which
he mlulstered for more than 40 years.
Dr. Byles was famous As a' humorist
and wit, and innumerable anecdotes
are related of his clever quips and re
torts. lie was a zealous Tory and
warmly advocated the cause of “the
mother country" against' the colonies.
In November, 1<<7. he was arrested as
a Tory, tried, convicted and sentenced
to be confined on board a guard ship
and sent to England with his family
within 40 days. The sentence wns aft
erward commuted by the board of war
to confinement In Uls own bouse, i
guard beifig placed over blur with in
structions not 1 to permit him fb leave
his residence for a moment under any
circumstances:
On Thanksgiving morfilng. etwervlng
that flie sentinel, who. like many of tbe
eekmliG soldiers, was a simple rustic,
find disappeared and that Dr. Byles
himself was pacing up and down be
fore his own door with a musket on his
shoulder, the neighbors crossed the
street to Inquire the cause of this sin
gular spectacle.
“You see." said Dr. Byles, “1 begged
my guard to let me go out to procure
some cider with which myself and
family might celebrate Thanksgiving
day, but he would not permit me to
stir. I argued the point with him, and
lie has now gone to get the cider for me
on condition that 1 keep guard over
myself during bis nbsence.”
Actor* Who Stutter.
It would seem thnt the stage tn not
only the last profession that would bd
chosen by a person afflicted by stutter
ing, but ibat a stutterer would never
dream of selecting that profession.
Yet It Is a fact that some well known
actors and slngere labor under this dis
advantage.
The strangest thing about It Is that
tbe sad Impediment which Is so pain
fully evident In private life seems to
i vanish entirely when they are en the
boa rda
j It Is curious that appearance on the
| R 'nge or in the pulpit should have this
: beneficial effect, for stutterers In other
! walks of life do not lose their impedJ-
: mem when nt work, however enthusi
astic their love for their profession.—
LodiIoq Answers.
Everv thief ennaes n tot of honest
I':: tti !«■ *11*11,vuxl unjustly. 4’
to only one of the many things that the
White people learned from the Indiana
Others were the weaving of cotton, the
cultivation of Indian corn and the use
or tobacco.
.v 80 " 10 of the early writers tell us that
the French were the first to make this
■ugar and that they learned bow to
make It from the Indian women. The
rap was collected In a rude way. a gash
being cut In the tree, and Into this a
stick was thrust, down which the free-
ly flowing sap dripped Into a vessel of
birch bark or a gourd or into wooden
•Toughs hollowed out by flrefcr the ax.
Then Into larger wooden troughs full
of the sap redhot stones were thrown.
Just -ns In old times they used to be
thrown Into the water In which food
was boiled, and by constantly throwing
fn hot stones and taking out those that
had become cool the sap was boiled
and evaporated, and at length sirup
was made, which later became sugar
This manufacture of the sugar was
not confined to any one tribe, but was
practiced by all northern Indluus and
was known to those living 08 far south
as Horldn and Texas. Among the
sugar making tribes a special festival
was held, which wns called the maple
dance, which was undoubtedly a re
ligious festival in the nature of a
prayer or propitiatory ceremony, ask
ing for an abundant flow of sap and
i ror K°° d fortune In collecting It
Among many If not all tbe Indians
inhabiting the northern United States
maple sugar was not merely a luxury,
something eaten because It was tooth-
some, but was actually an Important
part of tbelr support. Mixed with
pounded, parched corn. It was put up
In small quantities and was a concen
trated forin of nutriment not much
less valuable In respect to Its quulltv
of support than the pewinicnu which
was used almost down to our ow
times.
Among all the Older writers who had
much familiarity with tbe customs o:
the Indians nt-comits are given of tlie
manufacture of sugar, and this custon
was- so general that among man;
tribes tbe month In which the sap ran
best wns culled the sugar month. Bi
the Iroquois the name Uutlrontaks
meaning tree eaters, was applied to the
Algonquin tribes, and an eminent au
° r ‘ Brlnton - has suggested
that they were probably -so called
from their love of the product of the
sugar maple.” On the other hand.
A. F. Chamberlain has very pluuslblv
said “that It is hardly likely thnt the
Iroquois distinguished other tribes- hv
this term. If Its origin be as suggested
since they themselves were sugar mak
ers and eaters.”
A more probable origin of the word i*
that given by Schoolcraft. In substance
as follows: “Ratlrontaks, whence Adi
rondack. Was applied chiefly to the
Montagnals tribes, north of the St
Lawrence, and was a derisive term Id
dlcatlng a well known habit of these
tribes of eating the inner bark of trees
In winter when food was scarce or
whetV on war excursions.”
This habit of eating the Inner bark of
trees was, as is well known, common
to many tribes of Indians, both those
who Inhabit tbe country where the sag-
ar maple grows and also those In other
parts of the country where the manje
Is unknown.
On tbe western prrflries sugar wns
made also from the box elder, which
trees were tapped by the Indians and
the sap boiled down for sugar, and b>
day tbe Cheyenne Indians tell us that
It was from this tree that they derived
all the sugar that they had until the
arrival of the white man on the plains
something more than 50 years ago.
It Is Interesting to observe that In
many tribes today the word for sugar
Is precisely the word which they ap.
piled to the product of the maple tree
before they knew the white man’s sug
ar. It Is Interesting also to see that
among many tribes tbe general term
for sugar means wood or tree water-
that Is to say. tree sap. This Is true of
the Otunhas and Poncas, according to
J. O. Dorsey, and also of the Kansas
Osage and Iowa, Winnebago. Tuscaro-
ra and Pawnee. The Cheyennes, on
the other hand, call It box elder water.
A. F. Chamberlain, who baa gone with
great care into the question of tbe
meaning of tbe words which designate
tbe maple tree and Its product Is dis
posed to believe that the name of the
maple means the tree—In other words
the real or actual tree or the tree which
stands above all others.—Forest and
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