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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 Stream. NO'BUSINESS Can be properly rtra without being Advertised, And no advertising pays better than newspaper advertising. 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