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SHERMAN WAS KIND.
A SOUTHERN POET’S RECOLLECTIONS
OF THE GENERAL.
Frank I~ Stanton Beeall* Some Incident*
at the Closing W ot the W
•ral Sherman’. Goodr.ew to the Elder
Stanton, Who Was Very 11l In Savannah.
Frau k L. Stanton, the popular Georgia
poet, always speaks up for General Sher
m»n'when he hears any severe criticism
of that famous commander’s methods.
The story told by Stanton has never
found its way into print, but it deserves
a place among the minor incidents and
reminiscences of the war period.
“ When Savannah fell, ” said Stanton, _
“I was a little chap about 8 years old.
The confusion and tumult in the streets
frightened me, and I was afraid to go
very far from the house.
** Young as I was, I understood that
something very serious had occurred.
Instead of seeing Confederate soldiers
parading the streets with a few Federal
prisoners I saw thousands of Federate
swarming through the town, and they
had a great many Confederates under
guard.
“The situation had becq reversed.
That wa» plain, even to a child.
“My father was very ill, in the last
stages of consumption, and my mother
was worn out with anxiety and the
cares of the household. Our neighbors
were panic stricken, and everybody
seemed to be expecting some awful ca
lamity. „
“Penned up there as we had been for a
long time, without supplies and with
out any money except worthless Confed
erate currency, the outlook was gloomy
enough. How was my sick father to get
the things he needed? That was the
problem with my mother.
“Somebody told Genesal Sherman
about my father and mentioned the fact
that he was a kinsman of a very distin
guished And powerful officer on the Un
ion side.
“One day when I entered my father’s
room I found three Federal officers sit
ting there in pleasant conversation with
the invalid and my mother.
“I was scared and started to run, but
one of the strangers, a middle aged man
with a roughly trimmed brown beard,
called me back He asked my name, and
before I knew it had me on his knee,
and he said so many nice things to me
that I took quite a fancy to him.
“He was General Sherman, and he
had called with two of his staff officers
to see my father. When the visitors
left, the general told my mother at the
door that he knew all about the incon
veniences of a siege and insisted qpon
sending from the army stores something
that would suit a sick man.
“Under the circumstances such an
offer could not be declined. It was a
picnic for the children of the family, I
can tell you.
“After that, while the general was in
the city, something was sent to the
house every day. Brandy, wine, loaf
sugar, lemons, beef, chickens, coffee,
vegetables and I don’t know what else
came in genetous quantities. We had
plenty for the family and for our near
est nighbors.
“Nor was that all. The general sent
. one of the best physicians in the hos
pital service, and the last days of my
father were made far more comfortable
than we had hoped for under the ad
verse conditions of those dark days.
“General Sherman came to the house
once more before he left Savannah. I
cannot remember what he said, but he
was sympathetic and he said something
about the pleasure it gave him to aid a
relative of his distinguished friend at
Washington.
“At that time I was very fond of a
showy uniform, and it vexed my child
ish mind to see my friend the general
always dressed so shabbily. His staff
officers presented a better appearance,
and some of them were really gorgeous
in their spectacular rig.
“The other boys and the negroes
agreed with me that the commander
must be in very hard luck or he would
certainly dress better. Still, I was then
convinced that he was a wonderfully
wise man. With my pockets full of his
loaf sugar, which 1 had surreptitiously
abstracted from the pantry, I would
have been ungrateful if I had formed
any other opinion.
“Sherman left the city and marched
onward through the Carolinas, and that
ended the war.
“No, I never saw him again. My fa
ther died, and I lived in different places,
my work keeping me so busy that I had
no time to think of the general or any
body else not connected with my imme
diate business. I wish now that I had
seen him before he passed away. As it
is, I can only recall him as he appeared
to my boyish and wondering eyes, un
der circumstances which did not give
me an opportunity to study him. Ne
matter what may be said of his conduct
in' war, I cannot help liking him. He
was a good friend just when we most
needed ona ” —Chicago Times-Herald.
Doubtful Compliments.
The compliments paid by the poor are
often put in an amusing way. One old
woman who was very fond of the rector
said to Mr. Bernays: “You know, sir,
us likes the rector; ’is ears are so
clean.” Surely an odd reason for pa
rochial affection. Another admirer once
declared with regard to the whole staff
of clergy, “You are all so plain” (a
word of high commendation), “but as
for the vicar, ’e’s beautiful. ” The great
est compliment, though at the same time
the most curious Mr. Bernays ever heard,
was paid by a workingman to a certain
bishop, famous for his simple kindli
ness, “ What I likes ’bout the bishop is
’e’s not a gentleman.’’—Westminster
Gazette.
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Ethnologists, apropos of the statement
that the original inhabitantsof America
were Asiatics,.tell of a Chinook Indian
woman found in the last century by Fa
ther Huk wandering in the far interior
of Asia.
CRYING AS A SAFETY VALVE.
Scientific Declaration That “a Good Cry"
!• Beneficial.
The Hospital declares that the popu
lar belief that good cry” gives at
times a salutary relief has a good scien
tific foundation. A v riter on that sub
ject says:
“Crying is so commonly associated
With distress that man’s natural in
stinct is to put a stop to it as soon as
possible.’ We should not forget, how
ever, that it has its uses. Dr. Harry
Campbell has recently shown how com
plex are the phenomena involved in *a
good cry. * This does not consist merely
in the shedding of tears, but includes so
general and widespread an action of the
muscles tliAt the whole body may be con
vulsed. In children also a great change
takes place during crying in the manner
in which the respiration is carried on.
Expirations are prolonged sometimes
for as much as half a minute and are in
terrupted by short inspirations. During
expiration the glottis is contracted so
that the intrapulmonary pressure rises
considerably, and there can be but little
doubt that it is the equal distribution of
this increased air pressure throughout
the whole of the chest, leading to the
dilatation of portions of the lungs that
have become more or less collapsed, that
i$ the explanation of the great benefit
which often results from crying in cases
of infantile bronchitis and of the large
discharge of bronchial mucus which so
often follows. Children may become
very blue during the paroxysm, but the
deep respirations which succeed quickly
restore the circulation to a better con
dition than before in consequence of the
larger lung space rendered available.
In women the beneficial effect of a good
cry is proverbial. In them also this is
partly due to the increased depth of
respiration and the improvement in the
often languid circulation thereby in
duced, but to a large extent it is the re
sult of the muscular exercise involved,
by wh*ich the general vascular tension,
and especially the blood pressure in the
brain, are much reduced. The profuse
flow of tears no doubt also acts strongly
on the cerebral circulation in still fur
ther reducing tension. The .sobbing
movements, again, have a good influence
upon the venous circulation in the ab
dominal and pelvic viscera, while the
exhaustion produced tends to produce
sleep and thus to give the nervous sys
tem its best chance of recuperation. We
should not, then, too hastily intervene
to stop a woman from having out her
cry. If we can remove her trouble, by
all means let us do so, but if the trouble
is to remain, let her cry herself to sleep.
This is far better than soothing drafts. ’ ’
AN AFRICAN POISON STORY.
Strange Phenomenon Witnessed In the
Northeast of the Dark Continent.
Charles M. Stern of Chicago, who re
turned to this city after a journey
through northeast Africa, told of a curi
ous meteorological phenomenon which
he observed in a district called Gwallah.
“The vegetation in that region is very
luxuriant,” said he, “and the plant life
must give off an unusually large quan
tity of carbonic acid gas. At least that
was the conclusion I reached after see
ing three natives die and four or five
dogs.
“The moment the animate put their
noses close to the ground they would
fall over and gasp and die in about five
minutes. The natives who died slept on
the ground instead of in hammocks, as
others did. I saw hundreds of dead
birds. My theory is that a stratum of
the deadly gas covered the ground for a
depth of three or four inches, and any
living thing breathing in that area
would be asphyxiated.
“I could not understand, however,
how the gas was not distributed in a
thinner layer and what kept it in one
place for a whole day. Nothing like it
had ever been known there before. The
deaths of the men and the dogs all oc
curred within 24 hours. Then the gas,
if it was really gas; seemed to dissipate.
It was a very strange occurrence, and I
might have been induced to make a
more exhaustive investigation if my
presence had not excited distrust. I got
away as quickly as possible rather than
be accused of being the cause of the
sudden deaths. The natives are super
stitious and attribute most of their mis
fortunes to witchcraft, so I thought it
the part of wisdom to get away. ” —New
York Mail and Express.
To Keep Paris Clean.
To do this work and to remove the
2,500 cubic meters of rubbish there are
149 brigades of sweepers, numbering
8,845, in conjunction with 550 rubbish
carts and 1,075 horses.
From before dawn till long after sun
set one sees in Paris the street cleaners
in their peaked caps and watermen’s
boots or sabots hard at their work of
sweeping, swabbing or watering. Each
hour of the day brings its particular
work for them. From 4 to 6:30 a. m.
they have to wash and sweep, the pave
ments and streets, and in winter cast
gravel on the asphalt (315,470 meters)
and wood paving (368,300 meters) of
the city. From 6:30 till 8:80 four of
them and a woman sweeper accompany
the scavenger’s dust cart to clear away
from the dust bins the refuse which the
chiffoniers have discarded. From 8:80
to 11 they are again at work sweeping,
cleaning, watering and flushing the gut
ters, till these almost assume the form
of little mountain torrents. From 11
till 1 they leave off for dejeuner, and
then they are hard at work again cleans
ing streets and benches, and in winter,
from 7 till 9 p. in., it is their duty once
more to throw gravel over the Wood and
asphalt pavements.—Good Words.
An Inatanoe.
“Mere knowledge,” said the prosy
man, “is of little value.”
“Now you hit it that time, ” said the
listening young man with much earnest
ness. “I know what are exactly the cor
rect things in clothes, but I ain’t able
to buy ’em.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.
FIREMEN’S WATCHFULNESS.
Habit* of Vigilance That Pievwat a C*n>
nute** Danger From Being Overlooked.
After twoscore firemen had been tak
en unconscious from the cellar of a
burning building in Chambers street •
curious .citizen who wandered inside
the fire lines asked:
“How do they happen to know in all
this confusion and noise that men sup
posed to be fighting fire in the cellar
have been overcome by smoke and are
lying down there unconscious, and
hew, too, with nearly 40 men rescued,
do they know that there are not more
men in the cellar in a similar predica
ment?”
Under the circumstances the question
was perfectly natural. It was a dark
night and the fact that the electric
lights for a block east and west sputter
ed constantly instead of giving a steady
light did not improve matters. All was
confusion around the burning building.
Firemen were running every which way.
Policemen were beating back the crowd
which was struggling to get near enough
to the engine house to see the prostrate
firemen within. Ambulances and fire
engines blocked the street, and firemen
were clambering over the roofs of ad
joining buildings, yelling hoarsely at
one another and seeking places to fight
the fire.
Naturally in all this confusion it was
a matter of wonder to one not familiar
with the ways of firemen how in the
world they could tell whether or not
any of their comrades was in danger.
The cellar of the building was full of
thick, black smoke, which no man
could live in even tor a short time, and
besides that the temperature was down
to zero, for the fire was in a cold stor
age warehouse and the freezing rooms
were in the cellar.
There is a system in the fire depart
ment by which the men can keep track
of one another. The rule is for the men
of each company to look out for the
members of that company. This makes
it comparatively easy for the men to
keep track of one another, for there are
rarely more than a doien men in a
company, and each man in it knows
about where his comrades are working
at a fire.
The custom among the men is to keep
constantly inquiring for one another. If
Jones hasn’t happened to see Smith for
some time, be immediately asks the
first man of his company that he comes
across where Smith is. If that man can’t
tell, the inquiries go on, and so a man
can’t be-missing for very long without
his comrades knowing it Then it is an
easy matter to trace Smith to the last
task he was ordered to do, and as a rule
he is hauled safely out of danger. From
constant usage the system has become
almost perfect, and the cool courage
that it has developed has made the de
partment one of the finest in the world.
The men will risk everything and go
against the moat tremendous odds to
save a comrade.—New York Sun.
A Wheelman’s Device.
Ingenious wheelmen of Nice have put
an end to the tribute of lives which
a hill near that city has been ex
acting from them. At the bottom of
this declivity, it seems, there is a sharp
turn, then a bridge with a low parapet,
and just beyond a terrible amount of
nothing at all except scenery. Long ago
the French Touring club put a sign ad
vising caution in a conspicuous place at
the top of the descent, but this did not
prove sufficient to overcome the fatal
attraction of the abyss, and wheelmen
continued to precipitate themselves into
the view—which, by the way, was pri
vate property—with a rapidity that
threatened in time seriously to diminish
the club’s annual receipts from dues.
After long study of the problems,
financial, aesthetic and others, which
the case involved, it was decided to sus
pend just beyond the parapet a strong
net neatly woven of steel wires. The
very day after it was put in place a bi
cyclist came coasting wildly down the
hill, struck the stone wall, left his wheel
—it wasn’t worth taking any farther—
and took a graceful header into the net
For the first time it wasn’t necessary
for thp newspapers of Nice, in giving
their regular news from the bridge of
Baminguo, to say anything about “a
plunge into eternity. ” Since then the
net has saved an average of four lives a
week, and so well known have ite pow
ers become that picnic parties from the
city, which once avoided the bridge as a
place of tragical associations, now re
sort there daily to watch, from the cool
shade of nearby trees, the amusing
postures assumed by the wheelmen and
wheelwomen when they strike the elas
tic wires. According to recent informa
tion from that region the spectacle is
well worth seeing.—New York Times.
Bone and Sinew.
“Wecannot succeed,” said the prime
minister, * ‘without the sinews of war. ”
“By sinews,” said the private secre
tary, who occasionally moved in tbe
lower circles, “I presume you mean
bones.”
And it was with great sorrow that be
found himself compelled to explain to
his chief that dollars were often so des
ignated by tlje vulgar.—Typographical
Journal.
Rough on Abdul Azi*.
When Abdul Aziz, sultan of Turkey,
Was deposed, Queen Victoria tile
graphed to his captors in French,
“Soignez le bien,” or “Take good care
of him.” The wires said, “Saignez le
bien,” which means something very
different—namely, “Bleed him well,”
an error of the wires which reads grew
somely in the light of the fate which
befell that unhappy monarch.
Contentment.
“I saw you last night as I passed by
your house. What in the world was that
contrivance you bad sticking out from
your forehead?”
“Cute, wasn’t it? You see, my wife
lets me smoke in the house, but I have
to wear an arrester to keep the smoke
from soiling tbe ceiling. Clever, ain’t
it?”—Cleveland Leader.
TRAGEDIES OF THE MINES.
Curioua Aoeidt at* That Have to
Delvera After Hiddoa Treasure.
“Ilf this line of work we come across
some curious accidents and narrow
escapee,” said Deputy Mine Inspector
Frank Hunter tbe other night. “One
thing struck me long ago, and that is
how much it takes to kill a man some
times and how easily the thread of life
to often snapped.
“Down in Colorado I knew a fellow
who plunged down BCO feet in a single
pompartmut shaft He went to the
bottom, but did not break a bone. Os
course be was pretty badly jarred up
and a good deal frightened, but he was
all right again in a day or two. When
he fell, he went down feet first, and a
big oilskin that he were opened out at
the bottom and acted as a parachute,
fie said the last part of his descent was
so much slower than the first that he
hardly thought he was dropping at all
and half expected to remain suspended
In the shaft, like Mohammed’s coffin.
“Nearly always when a man falls
any distance he torus over, if he starts
feet downward, and finishes his plunge
head first. I have seen a number of
cases where the man fell with bis boots
on and was found barefooted when he
was picked up. I suppose thia is because
the blood goes to the bead, making the
feet smaller, and besides the pressure of
tbe air upon the heel and counter acts
M a bootjack.
*‘l had to go over to Sand Coulee to
Investigate an accident in which one
man was killed and another had three
Mbs broken. Speaking of Sand Coulee,
it struck me while I was there that if I
wanted to commit suicide I would go
there to do it I don’t mean that lite
becomes such a burden in the Goal coun
try that tbe ties that bind are more
easily severed than elsewhere, but that
it affords unsurpassed facilities for a
cheap and happy dispatch. It’s a won
der to me that some of the many peo
ple who annually launch themselves
into eternity from Butte do not take
the Sand Coulee route.
“Down in the coal mines there is
one passage that is three miles long, and
in some of the chambers air does not
seem to circulate. Upon the walls
there is a gathering of moisture, and if
you puff a cigar in one of these cham
bers the smoke will seek the walls,
where it clings with an undulating
movement like a spray of weeds under
running water. That dew on the walls
is white damp, and the dead air of the
chamber where it is found is poisonous.
In a few minutes a feeling of drowsi
ness steals over a man who breathes it,
and before long he is asleep and dream
ing deliciously, so those say who have
been resuscitated. But tfae sleep is akin
to that of the lost traveler over whose
numbed limbs the arctic snow eddies
and drifts, for unless help comes soon
there is no awakening. If, however, the
venturesome explorer of these under
ground deathtraps realizes his danger
Th time and manages to stagger out in
to the fresh air, he has an experience
to undergo which may cause him to re
gret that he did not remain inside. Ev
ery bone and muscle aches with the Ip
tolerable poignancy that is known to
convalescents from yellow fever. The
treatment is simple, but effective. Be
ing nearly dead, the sufferer to nearly
buried. A hole is dug in the soft earth,
and the victim is made to stand up in it
while tbe dirt is thrown in around him
until only his head is seen above ground.
This seems to draw out the soreness,
and in a short time the patient has ful
ly recovered.”—Butte (Mon.) Miner.
Use of the Sultan.
Richard Davey, in his book, “The
Sultan and His Subjects,” says:
* ‘As to tbe sultan himself, his life is
of the simplest and most arduous. He
rises at 6 and works with his secreta
ries until noon, when he breakfasts.
After that he takes a drive or a row on
the lake, within his vast park. When
he returns, be gives audience to the
grand vizier, the sheik-ul-islam, and
other officiate. At 8 o’clock he dines,
sometimes ialone, not infrequently in
company with one of the embassadors.
Occasionally his majesty entertains the
wives and daughters of the embassadors
and other Pera notabilities at dinner.
Tbe meal, usually a very silent one, is
served in gorgeous style, ala Francaise,
on the finest of plate and the meet ex
quisite of porcelain. The treasures of
silver and the Sevres at Yildiz are hors
de ligne, both in quantity and quality.
Very often in the evening Abdul Ham
id plays duets on the piano with his
younger children. He is very fond of
light music, and his favorite score is
that of ‘La Fille de Mme. Angot. ’ He
dresses like an ordinary European gen
tleman, always wearing a frock coat,
the breast of which, on great occasions,
is richly embroidered and blazing with
decorations.”
High Priced Bumblebee*.
Many years ago the farmers of Aus
tralia imported bumblebees from Eng
land and set them free in their clover
Helds. Before the arrival of the bees
clover did not flourish in Australia,
but after their coming the farmers had
no more difficulty on that score. Mr.
Darwin had shown that bumblebees
were the only insects fond of clover neo
tar which possessed a proboscis suffi
ciently long to reach the bottom of the
long, tubelike flowers and at the same
time a body heavy enough to bend down
the clover head so that the pollen would
fall on the insect’s back and thus be
carried off to fertilize other flowers of
the same species. According to a writer
in Popular Science News, tbe bumble
bees sent to Australia cost the farmers
there about half a dollar apiece, but
they proved to be worth the price. «
Tbelr BoatotaauZ'
Mrs Eastlake—You vfcited Venice
while you were in Europe, I hear, Mrs.
Trotter?
Mrs. Trotter—Yes, indeed, and we
were rowed about by one of the chande
liers for which that atty to noted.—
Harper’s Bazar.
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