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EPISODE OF TrfE LATE WAR.
Night of • Ooutheni Soldier on the
Battlefield.
“Don’t leave me, captain! Oh, don t
leave mo!’’were the words that came.to
me with an agonized shriek from a bleed
ing and dying
the evening of the great battle of Mai
wn. HIU, July >. >«o- • “«
inf him, along with the ray. of sun
light, on that sad and memorable day.
t for whom that piteous cry was meant,
W as a staff officer of the brigade to
which the Louisiana regiment, the sol
dier boy's regiment, was attached.
Well mounted, IVM galloping back
across that bloody field to report the
duty I had performed when suddenly
arrested in my course by the voice of
despair and woe, coming from my
stricken comrade, the day was fast
passing away into darkness, a darkness
that seemed to enshroud this valley of
death. The terrific cannonading on both
sides that had lasted for hours from the
surrounding hills (Malvern hill being
the central point of attack by the Con
federates) was supplemented by the
shells from the gunboats on the adja
cent James river.
Nature seemed to revolt at this scene
of blood and carnages Thunder and
lightning and an avalanche of rain came
in quick succession with such great
force as to cause the stoutest heart to
quakp., This great battle was the sev
enth day’s dght to capture the city of
Richmond. It was hot an ordinary bat
tle, but a demons’ fight and the final
encounter between those two giants of
war Robert E. Lee and George B. Mc-
Clellan. It gave the laurels of victory
to the southern chieftain, bedewed with
the tears of broken hearts.
Without stopping to consider what I
alone could do for the dying youth
amid the chaos and increasing darkness
of the night that prevailed, I turned
back and dismounted to keep a lonely
vigil with the dead. My horse, which,
strange to say, had seemed frenzied with
fear, became quiet and tractable as
though he knew there was safety with
his master. I called the boy, who had
swooned away from loss of blood, and
was glad to know he was not dead.
Giving him the bridle of my horse to
hold, I tore the sash from around my
waist to bandage his torn and bleeding
limb.
The boy was praying and called down
God’s blessing on me. His petition to
heaven seemed to be heard. The storm
of wind and rain, although still high,
was abating. Naught but the mournful
wail of the wind through the surround
ing forest could now be heard. /The
great armies that had so lately confront
ed each other in battle array had seem
ingly vanished from the scene. I was
alone on a- battlefield with the dead.
Wet and .dripping, with the chill of
night upon me, I waited for morning,
and he, too, the brave soldier boy, was
waiting for morning. Oh, God, will it
ever come?
He clasped my hand with hope and
confidence and seemed to bo happy and
without pain. I believed he had gone to
sleep. Morning came, and he was still
asleep—asleep to wake no more.—Daw
son A. Blanchard in Washington Post.
ANCIENT WARFARE.
Ho* an English Castle Was Attacked In
the Fifteenth Century.
Sir John Fastolf had by his will de
vised his castle, called Oaister, to John
Paston. As a fortification, it was an
excellent defense against foreign invad
ers, and as a residence it was worthy of
royalty itself. In fact, the Duke of
Gloster, afterward Richard JU, atone
time contemplated making it his abgde.
While Paston was trying to establish
his title in the courts the Duke of Nor
folk purchased a pretended claim to it,
and sought to gain possession by force.
The Pastons did not propose to yield,
though the duke was then probably the
most powerful.noble in England, and
John Paston was his liveried servant.
Four professional soldiers were sent up
from London to aid in the defense.
They are described as "provyd.men,
conning in werr and can wel sohote
both gonnes and croasbowes and devyse
bolwerkys and keep wacohe and warde.
They be sadde and wel advysed, saving
on of them, whyche is ballyd (bald) but
yit he is no brawler. Ye shall fynd them
gentylmanly comfortable fellowes, and
that they dare abyde by ther taklyng. ”
Young John Paston, aided by these
four and by a handful of personal mends
and followers, held the castle for several
weeks against a siege conducted by. the
duke’s army of 8,000 men. By the
terms of the final surrender the besieged
were allowed their lives and goods,
horses and harness, and a respite for 15
days, in whioh to go where they pleased.
They reported that they were forced to
surrender by “lak of vltayl, gonepow
dyr, menys herts and surete of rescue. ”
Edward IV had refrained from interfer
ing in this extraordinary contest, be
cause the troubles with Warwick were
gathering thickly about him, and the
Mowbrays were too necessary to be safe
ly offended.—Sewanee Review.
Smoke and Lightning.
“On the approach of a thunderstorm
French peasants often make up a very
smoky fire, ” says Industries and Iron,
"in the belief that safety from light
ning is thus assured. By some this is
deemed superstition, but Schaster shows
that the custom is based on reason inas
much as the smoke acts as a good con
ductor for carrying away the electricity
slowly and safely. He points out that
caßes of dMBa 8° hr lightning
• 3 churches and 8.5 mills have been
•track, while the number of factory
Chimneys has only been .8.”
“It's so seldom,” said Unde Ebem
data man jes’ puhceeds along, tryin
ter do ’is bonce’ duty, dat when he does
folk, goes ter guesZ’ mi ’ Jictonin
w^Z s V‘ eh ' r *.
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. COST OF SABLES.
• How the Price Advances After th* OU.
Leaves Siberia. .
t Up in the great watershed dividinj
a Siberia and Mongolia lives a peculim
. race of people, half Chinese, half Tib
i etans. Few Europeans have ever seer
. them. In fact, with the exception of out
9 or two enterprising explorers or geo
graphical enthusiasts who have crossed
. the Altai range, European eyes have
never gazed upon the aboriginal Syoti
of northern Mongolia.
Sable hunting in the Siberian moan
, tains and northern Mongolia is confined
almost exclusively to the Syots and oth
er native races, and it would surprise a
: good many fur dealers in England to
, know the prices which are paid by the
, Siberian traders to these poor aborigines
> for the skins they collect
, The Siberian trader, knowing hii
; market, makes periodical journeys into
i Mongolia. It is safe to say he does not
f take a kopek of money with him, but he
t drags behind him a well stuffed caravan
i loaded with tea, tobacco, gunpowder
, and shot, strings of beads for the wom
en and roughly made moccasins for the
I men. In due course he will come across
f a Syot encampment.
The trader sits on his wagon and bar
ters cheerfully. With the eye of a con
t noisseur and with fingers rendered deft
I by long practice he sees and feels the
> smooth, warm skins of the little ani
i mala.
i This small black one—well, a two
ounce packet of tobacco is enough for
; that; that large black one—a handful
of shot and an- equal quantity of gun
powder; a packet of tea for a lovely
j skin with a long black stripe down the
center; this one, a fine skin, but a lit
tle bit hurt by the shot entering the
back—well, say a string of beads for
that
In their original undressed state it is
i safe to say that the skins do not cost
i the Siberian trader much more than a
few pence each on the average. As the
■ poor sable travels farther westward,
however, he gets dearer and dearer. In
Tomsk one can buy a very good sable
i for something like 5 or 6 rubles, about
18s. In Omsk few are sold under 10 ru
bles—£l la In Moscow 100 per cent
goes on. In. St. Petersburg no one ex
cept the middle class or a functionary
would wear a sable under £5. In Paris
and London a real Siberian sable skin
will fetch anything up to £2O, but the
imitation sables of the present day have
done much to depreciate this wonderful
trade.—London Mail.
HIS HIGH, PRICED EYE.
How a Clever Bunko Game Was Played
on a Son of Sunny Italy.
A well planned scheme was worked
on a down town Italian confectioner
the other night whereby he lost SSO.
About 2 p. m. a man who had one good
eye and one glass eye came wandering
along the street and stopped at this
Italian’s fruit stand. He stooped over
to look at some of the fruit, when un
expectedly his glass eye fell from its
socket down among the bananas and
oranges.
The pretending purchaser at once be
gan a diligent search for the missing
glass eye. With both hands he clawed
into the fruit, scattering it in all di
rections. The Italian came forward and
told the stranger to stop. The one eyed
man explained that his glass eye had
dropped down there and that he wanted
to get it
The Italian became enraged and told
the stranger to come around imthe even
ing and he could get the othq? eye. The
man explained he was a stranger and
would not be here in the evening, but
if he (the Italian) found the eye he
should bring it to his hotel, where SIOO
would be paid to him.
An l our later another man came
along, pretended to make a purchase,
and while fingering around in the fruit
suddenly espied the wonderful glass
The man from Italy made a grab for it,
hut was - too late, as his would be cus
tomer already had it. Both claimed the
eye, and a quarrel ensued. The Italian
patched matters up by giving the stran
ger SSO for the eye, thinking he would
get SIOO upon returning it and he
would have SSO clear.
He Went to the hotel with the eye to
get the SIOO that he was told awaited
him there. He found that no such man
had been there and no SIOO was left
there for him. He then saw how he was
worked and notified the police.—Pitts
burg Commercial-Gazette.
Sheep Ticks.
Every one who has sheep knows the
tick, the worst pest of this animal, that
does serious harm to the young lambs
without suspicion of the cause to the
shepherd. Thia reddish brown creature
is a wingless fly and a very greedy blood
sucker. A dozen of them on at lamb will
quickly suck the little one dry. It is to
be looked after at the time of shearing,
when these insects go for shelter to the
lambs. It is found mostly where the
animal cannot reach it—on its head,
buried in the skin, sucking the blood.
Its skin is tough, and it is not easily
crushed with less than a blow of a ham
mer. In small flocks it is not much of a
job to go through, with a pair of
small scissors to cut the ticks in two,
but where the flock is over a score it
will be necessary to dip the lambs.—
Exchange.
V"
The Count** Mistake.
“Bo Gwendolyn is not to marry the
count after all?" *
“No, poor man. He tried to tell her
that her singing was something that
made one glad to live, and his pronun
ciation wm so broken that she thought
he said it made one glad to leave, and
then she requested him to leave.”—ln
diana polls. Journal.
Testing Him.
Bagley—Do you recollect that $5 1
let you have about a year ago?
Brace—Perfectly.
Bagley—That’s good. I see your
memory is all right How’s your eye
sight?—Harlem Life.
CAR HORSES HARD TO GET?
■ Th-> P*nmad Is »»w So Small That ths
Trad* Naglecu Them.
g One of the most curious effects of ths
x general replacing of horses by electrici
>- ty and cable traction for drawing street
n oars is being experienced by one of the
e extensive car lines in this city which
>- still uses horses. One would suppose
d that, since the only lines in the wbola
e country which continue to nee hones
a now form but a very small percentage
of those which used them five yean
i- ago, these lines would have a much
d wider range of choice and could get
i- horses of a grade superior to the gen
a oral run of those which used to be
o offered to them. Remarkable as it may
e seem, this is the exact opposite of the
s truth.
The New York city line referred to
s runs in direct competition with tho
o cable lines of the upper west side, and
t its managers, who recently purchased
e it, determined as soon as they came in
ti to possession to place upon it a superior
r lot of horses, and in this way improve
- its running until mechanical propulsion
e could be introduced. Orders were sent
s out to bny the needed horses. Much to
the surprise of the managers, it was
- discovered that there were almost no
- street car horses of any kind to be
t bought. <
9 The explanation of this situation lies
- in the fact that since the demand for
street car hones almost ceased the trade
j machinery by which they were gathered
r has fallen into disuse. A few yean ago
1 the street car bones were one of the
- most important features of the hone
r market They were animals of a stand
s ard grade and of almost stable price,
- and every part of the country contributed
» its quota. The street car hone had to
r be big and able and sound of ' limb and
Wind, but it might be of any age. Few
s lasted long enough in the service to
t make the question of a few yean more
i dr lest of anyoonsequenoe. The demand
j was constant, and tbe price.never varied
, in New York more than from about
i $125 to $l5O each. Dealers could always
» Count upon getting this price and get
t ting it promptly, and as a consequence
■ every horse which would answer the
; purpose was a safe investment at a lit-
■ tie smaller price, and a clean profit of
> $lO a horse was regarded as a fair mar
i gin in handling them.
i Horses of all sorts, which lacked the
i qualities of speed, beauty or youth, but
> possessed tbe other requirements, were
I quickly sorted out from the markets of
the whole country, and every big dealer
was always able to gather droves of oar
horses as fast as the companies needed
them. The trolley has superseded the
1 oar horses, and oar hones are no longer
quoted as staples in the market The
companies which still use them are
1 obliged to go out and search the marts
and buy them one by one instead of
simply sending out an order for 100 or
200 or 500 and getting them as readily
1 as they would so many loads of hay or
' grain.—New York Bun.
1 Oreoo-Egyptlan Painting.
The remarkable series of portraits
found in Egypt are described in The
Monthly Illustrator and the methods of
the old artists employed.
The methods of these ancient days
were totally different from those of the
present day and were evidently vastly
more durable. Panels of wood were
used to paint on—sycamore and cypress
—also panels of papier mache, and oc
casionally they were formed by gluing
three thicknesses of canvas together.
These panels were usually about 14
inches long by 7 inches wide. The artist
used liquid wax instead of oil to mix
the colors, which were made not from
vegetable, but from mineral substances
and were of marvelous brilliancy and.
permanence—blue powdered lapis lazu
li, green malachite, red oxide of iron,
etc. The colors were laid on in patches,
Somewhat after the fashion of a mosaic,
and afterward blended with an instru
ment called the oestrum, which appears
to have been a lancet shaped spatula,
long handled, with at one end a curved
point, at the other a finely dentated
edge. With the toothed edge the wax
could be equalized and smoothed, while
the point was used for placing high
lights, marking lips, eyebrows, etc.
The final process, which gives the
name encaustic to this kind of painting,
was the burning in of the colors. This
was done by the application of a heated
surface to the panel, though George
fibers believes that in Egypt the heat
Os the ran was probably all that was
needed to complete the artist’s work.
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Th* Eye of a Child.
Who can explain qr fathom the won
drous instinct of the child? Lying in the
arms of its nurse, in its carriage or else
where, its large, round, wondering eyes
roam over a tea of faces till suddenly
its features break into a sweet smile, a
baby laugh dances in its eyes, perhaps
the tiny hands are extended, and the lit
tle body gives a bound as though it
would throw itself through space. What
has happened? It has recognized a
friend, nothing more and no less. It
makes no mistake. Wiser, perchance,
in that moment of ' inexperienced
helplessness than it will be years
afterward, when tbe world and Its in
mates have been studied in the light
of instruction and experience, Ito love
offering is seldom, if ever mistakenly
presented. By what power is this obild
love directed? By what subtle influence
does it see and know what in after
years it may strive in vain to discern?—
Good Housekeeping.
Ufo la th* SuhnrtM.
“I suppose you know Jinks, who lives
out in your suburbs,” said the new ac
quaintance pleasantly, in an effort to
be agreeable.
“I know of him,” returned tbe sub- 1
urbanite coldly, “but the fact is we
don’t move in the same class.”
“No?"
“Oh, dear, na Igo heme two trains
ahead of him at night and come down
one train later in the morning.
Cleveland Leader.
THE SUN DIAL
[Oa which *•* written, «I nuuk only th*
bright hour*. "J
I mark the bright houre. and only Ute bright;
I dwell not to darkneae, bat «ver in tight;
(garner the aun aheavee and dnaoa hot of
night.
tea*, fhrt fade* t£« briglitneM, tbe Idootn o'
> th* year*,
And Ilf* seek* th* light while tbe darkneae it
fair*.
Tls too awlft for your sighing, too swart for
your tearsl
I mark the bright hour*. Tho shadow is cast
tbalartl
-Atlanta Constitution
REMARKABLE TOWNS.
On* !■ Bugland That la Mad* *f Bailway
Carriage*.
Scattered throughout the area of
Great Britain are numerous towns and
villages of a curious character. Ono
large village actually consists of old
railway carriages, even the little mis
sion chapel being built out of four large
horse trucks. Another village, with a
population of 1, (00 and a ratable value
of £B,OOO, has neither church, chapel
nor school, the only public edifice being
a pillar letter box
Villages with a single inhabitant are
not unknown. At Skiddaw, in Cumber
land, there is a solitary householder,
who cannot vote because there is no
Overseer to prepare a voters’ list and nb
church or other public building
which to publish one, while the only
ratepayer in a certain rural Northum
berland parish has recently declined to
bear the expense of repairing a rood be
cause he considers it quite good enough
for himself.
In the isle of Ely there is a little
parish which has been somewhat con
temptuously described at "a portion of
land, with three or four houses and per
haps 12 inhabitants. ” This place has
no« roads at all and is consequently put
to no expense in keeping them in repair.
Ab a matter of fact, therb are no ex
penses of any kind and no rates.
One of the most remarkable villages
in this country is Kempton,\ near Bed
ford, which is seven miles lohg and er
tremely straggling. To walk from one
end of the village to the other occupies
two hours.
Sometimes whole villages will prac
tically disappear. A little Shropshire
village has gradually sunk, until now
it is almost out of sight It is built on
a disused coal pit, and the sinking goes
on steadily every year. Now and then
a tottering house is propped up to keep
it standing, but in spite of all precau
tions buildings are constantly falling to
the ground, and in course of time doubt
less nothing will be left but a few
bricks to mark the spot where a village
<mce stood.
There are plenty of deserted villages
throughout the cdhntry. A diversion of
trade into other channels is sometimes
sufficient to produce this effect Not
many years ago the proprietors of an
iron yrorks at a townlet near Sheffield,
being unable to obtain certain conces
sions from a railway company, removed
their works. Shortly afterward half the
place was to let, and the windows of
many of the houses were boarded up.
London Tit-Bits.
Verastlle.
"I ran across a station agent up in
the hills the other day who came as
near being jack ot all trades as any
man I ever struck, ” said Henry Darby.
“I refer to a little dried up looking fel
low, with more energy than Carter had
oats and more irons in the fire than any
blacksmith of long experience could
possibly keep his eye on. To start with,
my little friend is express, freight and
ticket agent, has a 10 cent store, sends
a telegraph message when he has to, al
though his is not a train order office; is
postmaster, treasurer for the local Sun
day school union and two lodgesand
acts as distributer for a Bible society.
Then he is examiner for an insurance
company, issues policies for fire, acci
dent and tornado insurance, is switch
tender at his place, buys fruit for one
eastern house in summer and produce
for another in fall and winter. He has
long been a justice of the peace, was
twice school trustee and councilman, is
a deaoon in his church and a leader of
the hamlet choir. He was chairman of
the city Republican committee, has the
agency for platform scales and riding
cultivators, sells thrashers and light
vehicles and finds time to fish a little
every spring. "—-Louisville Post
Informs! Rmipt.
Uneducated people sometimes have a
happy knack in coming to tbe point
Here, for example, is a story from the
Boston Herald:
Dan and Mose, neither of them noted
for erudition, were partners in an enter
prise which it is needless to specify.
One morning a customer called to settle
a small bill and after banding over the
money asked for a receipt
Mose retired to the privacy of an
inner room and after a long delay re
turned with a slip of paper, cm which
were written these words:
“We’ve got our pay. Me and Dan. ’’
A Cfcertnot.
Ralph Waldo Emerson ouce told a
good story of a friend who always car
ried in his pocket a horse chestnut as a
protection against rheumatism, just tbe
same as other people wear- shields and
other specifics. Emerson thus testifies
to tbe results in his friend’s case: “He
has never had tbe rheumatism since be
began to carry it, and indeed it appears
to have had a retrospective operation—
for he never had it before. ”
A plant grows in Assam which has
the peculiar property, when chewed, of
temporarily neutralizing tbe sense of
taste as regards sweet and bitter things.
Tbe Hindoos claim that tbe plant is an
antidote to snake bite.
Out of tbe enormous number of wom
an in Constantinople—ti>e population is
nearly I,ooo,ooo—not more than 5,000
can read or write. u
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE ! ‘
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD " C A.BTORIA,” AND
“PITCHER’S CA.STOBIA,” AS OUR TRADE MAB*/ ggj|
j; DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, Byannis, Massachusettg,
was the originator qf “PITCHER’S CASTORIA.” the same
that has borne and does now on eoery
bear the facsimile signature of wrapper.
This is the original * PITCHER’S CASTO RIA, *’ whicb has been
used in the homes of the Bothers of America for over thirty
gears. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the hind you have always bought on the
and has the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to ure my name ex
eept The Centaur Company qf which Chas. H. Fletcher is
Barchß,lß97.
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist ;.v y offer yo"
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he docs not know.
“The Kind You Have Always BoiisdW,
- BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE C7
fit—
Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed lon. ,
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