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THE GAZETTE: Tl'FTOiS, GA.. FRlDAf, OCTOBER IS, 1895
mo witu a grace mat leit me uo nonet
that I was standing, is tlio presence of a
pi’ineo of bldod’royal, ‘I havo the honor
to surrender to you my sword 1’
“ ‘Not field marshal,' X answered,ac
cepting the /sword as I marked tho dia
monds flashing in its hilt, ‘only a cap
tain of her majesty’s loyal regiment of
Munchausen's Own.’ ‘Ah,’ said'his
highness, turning to his followers, ‘what
chance have we against a nation whero
such mon are only captains?’ Bowiug
low, ho followed me, my prisoner, into
tho fort ‘
“That, sir, is the true history of the
defense of Damli. Tho cud is plain.
After my victory they sent a genoral
from home, who reaped its fruits, who
was rewarded by a grateful country by
sticking every condemned letter of tho
alphabet after his blighted name. But
tho nation lias yet to learn to whoso re
source they owe tho victory of Damli.
,You were pleased to observo, sir? Eh,
sir? Wliat, sir? Your obedient servant,
sir. Waiter, two of the samo, with a
j slico of lemon.’’—Now Budget.
BANSHUE'
“But only for a moment Lieutenant
Simpkins saf'd, with a sort of grin, !
‘Now, sir, yon had better surrender to |
tho Fr—to the foreign power. ’ ‘Sir,’ I
answered, drawing myself up, ’a Tom- j
liusou dibs, hut never surrenders. ’ I
beg your pardon? Yes, sir; quite right.
By a perversfbn of history these words, ;
were attributed to Bluclier at Sedan.
But I hope, sir, you will allow that I
ought to know when they were first ut
tered. Blucher nfay havo adapted them.
I make no complaint. Well, as X said,
for a moment—a breathing space—I felt
that tho game was indeed up. I sat
down on one of the now useless -10
pounders to review the situation. As X
meditated my eyo fell on some coils of
telegraph wire which Hudson of the
survey department had brought into tho
fort before the outbreak of tho disturb
ance, to connect us with tho capital. As
my glance fell upon it a thought flashed
through my brain.
“ ‘Saved!’ I cried, leaping from ibq
i eannoii. ‘The captain’s got ’em again,’
! remarked that devil’s imp of a drurn-
| mer boy. -Without heeding this breach
i of discipline I sent for Hudson. In a
An aged desol at ion,
She sits by old Shannon'a Swing, /
A mother of many children!
Of children exiled cud tVsd.
In her home, with bent heed, homeless,
Clasping her knee, she sits,
Keening, ltaeningl '
And nt her keerio tho fairy gras.9
Trembles on dun and burrow,
Around tho foot of bur ancient crosses
The grave grass shakes and the nettle swings.
In haunted glens tho meadow sweet
Flings to the night wind
Her mystic mournful perfume.
Tho sad spearmint by kolj wells
Breathes melancholy balm.
, —Dr. Todhnnter.
| TO Quit Patrols :
Desirous of doubling the subscription
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DEFPSE OF DAMLI
It was sultry in tho smoking rciom. J
For one thing the weather was hot, for ;
another, the commodore had just finish-1
ed a yarn. Markham always maintained j
.that the atmosphere became sulphurous
after the commodoro had recouuted a j
personal reminiscence, but then be was !
given to exaggeration. Still wo felt
grateful that the story had passed off j
without the intervention of a thunder- j
bolt and sat gasping relief and credulity. !
Then Mildmay, from sheer nervousness, ;
I believe, not from any desire for a re
currence of tiio Ananias episode, stirred
up tho colonel. Tho colonol was sitting/
behind a big cheroot, evidently inchbat-
FALL WORK ON THE FARM,
umt
Georgia
said
ing a kettle wherein to cook tho com
modore’s cabbage.
“Wonderful escape that; sir
Mildmay, addressing the colonel.
“Yes, sir. Wo in tho service in tho
old days, before it bocamo a school for
step daucifig and circus riding, used to
have experiences which tho country nev
er heard of. Adventures were.common
as bilberries, sir, in those days. Gad,
sir, a British soldier in those days
thought no more of walking 1,000 miles j
through tho enemy’s country than you
do of stop dancing round tho park.
“Probably, sir, you’ve never board of j
tlie defense of Fort Damli? No, sir, I 1
don’t blame you, sir, if you havo not
beard of a feat of arms which preserved
half a continent for lior majesty, God
bless her! Wo’ve all heard of suppressed
dispatches and ingratitude in high places
lest tho feather bed step dancers should
be replaced by men.
“It- was in—uover mind tho date, sir,
and never mind tho place. If I mention
ed them, you would recall tho episode,
and it is not for mo to boast by telling
tho full extent of the services it was my
good fortune to render this country.
“A foreign power (no, sir, I will
mention no name—damme, sir 1 I hope-
I know my duty better than to rekindlo
international complications) had stirred
up the niggers against us. I was in com
mand of Fort Damli, sir, at that time,
with a handful of men—a mere handful
—but men, sir, such as your dancing
schools do not turn out nowadays.
“Fort Damli is built on a promontory
running out into tho sea and is only
get-at-able from ono side. Tho niggers
had mussed nil their forces in tho f lain
in front of tho fort. Twenty thousand of
them, sir—or rather, as I wish to guard
agaiusf; exaggeration, I will say that I
counted 19,8GB—a-swarming over tho
plain thick as cheese mites in a Stilton.
“Iliad Oil men nil told, including a
one eyed drummor boy, but wo laughed
at them, sir. ' Whenever the niggers
came nt tho fort, we loaded our big guns
With broken bottles, bedsteads, war of
fice regulations, which was about tho
only thing they had supplied us with
cry two guns with a spool of wire. In
| this way we connected eight guns on tho
] land side of the fort and six commanding
! the hay. Then the wires from each gnu
| were taken into the powder magazine,
! where Hudson had rigged up an infernal
! machine of his own devising.
K “We had hardly completed our work
I when night foil. ‘You aro sure they
j haven’t any muskets?’’ Hudson said to
! mo before we separated for tho night. j
j ‘Perfectly,’ I answered. ‘Only spears j
j and knives.’ 'Then it ought to bo allj
I right,' lie murmured,‘hut how about;
j the ships?' ‘Let’s sottlo the niggers first,’
j I replied. ‘ Sufficient for the day aro the !
i ructions thereof. ’
! “With those remarks lie left mo, and
: I sat in my powder magazine awaiting j
events. Tho hours crept by very slowly.
I tinglod with excitement, for I knew
tho next hour would determine our fnto.
At length in tho pitchy darkueSi the
drummer boy, with his only eye glow
ing in tho blackness liko a carbuncle,
whispered softly, 'Captain, they’re com
ing !' Still I waited.
“Then in tho deathlike stillness a yell
hroko on tho startled air. I know tho
crucial moment lmd come, and I—I
pressed a button. There was a whirring
sound. Then all was quiet again until a
cheer from my men rang out and I knew
that all was well. Seizing my club I
hurried out into the darkness. Every
thing was as dark ns—ns tho war oflico
—nnd tho fort was deserted.
“Justrontsido tho gato I stumbled
across a body. I turned it over with my
foot. It was a nigger in full warpaint
and unarmed. Then I knew that my
plan hacl succeeded. Hurrying forward,
j whither a dull thud, varied by an occa-
S sional groan, guided me, I found my
| gallant Bombardiers clubbing for dear
i life—for tho bayonets and barrels of
their muskets had been removed by my
i orders—among a scurrying crowd of
j savages.
“Well, siri we. banged and banged
i untilwo could no longer raise our arms.
As day hroko I ordered tho drummer to
heat to quarters. Ho was nowhere to ho
found. Shouting to my men, I bade
them retiro to tho fort. Then the sun
SoTVhlir of Grain Crop.tra Twofold ilbneflt.
A Word About I'inu TUU'ket#.
At this season tho farmer becomes sc
absorbed in tho effort to save iiis cotton
crop that he is linblo to delay or entire
ly neglect tlio seeding of fall crops. The
sowing of grain crops in autumn and
also tlio seeding of, the grasses, and
clovers accomplish a twofold object.
; Wo add other crops to ovir farm sup
plies, and by thus qovering the bun*
! fields wo prevent the leaching and work-
! ing that occur where only summer crops
aro cultivated.
Experience tells un that tka fall of the
j year is tho best- time to sow oats, from
| September un, according to locality. .
1 Not only is tho yield greater and the ;
- grain of superior quality, hut ff it should !
[ bo winter killed, which occasionally :
: happens, wo have still another chance in :
1 the spring sowings.
At tho south the wheat crop is uneer- ;
i tain, hut each farmer should at least ;
i raise enough to supply homo wants,
j This crop must ho sown according to lo-
i oality, about ten days before the usual
killing frost, according to Southoi u Cul-
! tivator. The authority quoted advises.In
j selecting to chooso the red hoarded kinds
1 of Mediterranean origin. High lands
j and red soils arc best suited t o this crop.
I Our system of shallow plowing and
i then turning the laud out after the crops
aro gathered is responsible for most of
the seamed and gullied fields of the
south. Whero the sowing of clover or
grass is not practicablo there is always
tho fall out crop, nnd at later dates, up
to December, rye and barley. If there
are difficulties in the way of sowing
these crops, wo havo tho alternative ot
deep fall plowing.
On many of the pino thickets, which
disfigure our southern farms, kspedizu,
or Japan clover, could bo sown. It is
best suited to stiff soils, and in such sit
uations'flourishes. It is good for pas
ture, nnd while furnishing food for stock
will gradually fill tlio worn soil with
i nitrogen and humus, tho two ingrodi-
i ents of which wo stand mo«t in need.
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from homo, and mowed them down by , whl ,, .. si „ h ,
thedozons. When they reached tho walls |° ’ f
mot our cyos 1
aozons. Every cannon 'in the fort was studded
my boys, giving them cold pig, took tea | witl / sp0arg and kniv08 ag thick us u
pudding is of plums, as close as a pin-
with tho niggers.
“I used to sit on the powder maga
zine, smoking a cheroot, us comfortably
as I’m doing now. Gad, sir, liow it ail
oomes back to mo 1 That little dovil of
a drummer used to nip out after the
fight and mend his drum with niggers’
skins. After about a fortnight of it wo
had tlio niggers piled up three deep fac
ing the fort.
“Well, wo had hold that fort for
■ seven weeks—no, dammo, let’s bo nc- j
curate, for 48 days—and wo looked liko '
holding it for seven years, or until there j
wasn’t a nigger left to como on, when j
one afternoon, it was about half past 4
on Fob. 21—I’m not likely-to forget j
that date in a lmrry—Lieutenant Simp
kins of tho Bombardiers, my subaltern, j
canio to mo and said: ‘It’s all up, sir. j
We haven’t a round of ammunition left, i
and tlio niggers aro preparing for a gen- '
eral assault tonight.’ Ho was a bravo !
man, was Simpkins—foil afterward at
Seringapatam, cut clean in half by a j
cannon ball—hut ho looked u bit scared
then.
“ ‘la that all?’ I said offhand. ‘Then
we shall have some fun with the bayo
net-. I am surprised at yon, sir, for re
porting such a trifle.' After this rebuke
I turned away, when the little drummer
almost ran into mo in his excitement.
“ 'Captain,' said he, saluting—I was
only a captain in those days—'tlireo
meu-of-war reported in tho hay. ’ I look
ed out to sea and saw, as plainly as I
see yon, sir, threo frigates standing on
the horizon, flying the,—flying tho flag
of the foreign power whibk was aiding
nnd abetting the niggers.
"Well, sir, I must admit that when
I saw these ships and remembered that
we had not a grain of powder in the
whole blcsseibfort I admit, sir, that, for
a niomeut, I felt at a loss. Another
man, who was less anxious to keep to
facts, might tell you, sir, that be never
hesitated, but I, wishing to deal with
- things ai they were, I confess I, felt at n
tins.
cushion is of pins.
“What had happened will bo obvious
to you, sir. By tho telegraph wires and
an electric battery in tho powder maga
zine I had turned all my cannons into
electro magnets of 40 horsepower. Con
sequently as soon as tlio enemy wero
within range I turned on tho curront.
Every stool weapon in the hands of tho
niggers simply whirled out of their
grasp nnfl stuck liko liorso leeches to,my
magnets.
“Tlio absence of the drummer boy
1 was soon explained. As, against my dis-
; tinct orders, lio had been wearing a
I hanger when I turned tho current on, ho
! flow against tlio nearest gun and stuck
; there as a C. O. does to a decoration. It
! took six men to haul him off.
! “Then, in tho joy of victory, a sud-
I don dread came upon me. How about
! tho throe meu-of-war? Tho foreign
! power ought to havo landed its myrmi
dons by this time. Scourged by my ap
prehensions, I hurried to tlio seaward
battlements of tho fort. There, in tho
gray dawn, a strange sight met my eyes.
"Nailed to tho cruel rocks to tho west
ward of Damli lay thoso three meu-of-
war, hopeless wrecks, buffeted by tlio
wavos against the grinding crags. What
had happened was simple enough.
Dammo, sir, it flashed across me in an
instant. Tho force of my seaward mag
nets had been such that it had deranged
tho compassos of these vessels. Follow
ing their distorted guidance, they had
run ashoro on the reef westward of the
fort.
“Even as I watched I saw a bout push
off from tho wrecked flagship. At once
1 donned the gracetnl uniform of my
regiment, the Mauchausen’s Own, as
the service fondly termed it, and drew
up my gallant 98 in platoons to await
onr vanquished fig. A tall officer, of
gallant bearing, his dripping uniform
decorated with a star, stepped ashore.
“ ‘Field marshA* '-aid he, bowing to
New# and Notes.
Tho northern limit of successful rasp
berry cnltnro 1ms boon greatly extended
by the practice of laying down the
canes in winter nnd covering with
earth.
It is estimated that tho cranberry crop
is about one-third that qf tho fall yield.
A correspondent of Country Gentle
man gives the assurance that winter
turf oats can ho sown in tho spring with
success.
Secretary of Agriculture Morton has
closed all tho special sugar experiment
stations and has had the property sold
for what it would bring.
Tho trade in frozen milk, which 1ms
advanced to important proportions in I
England, is attracting attention hero, j
as it renders shippers independent of j
distance.
It is proposed to hold an international |
beekeepers' congress on Dec. 4 and 5 in ;
Atlanta during tho Cotton States expo
sition.
It is reported that tho 1895 onion crop
is a fnll yield, though not up to tho
bonanza crop of 1891.
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