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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. . f _ 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? 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