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A Soldier’s Sensations When Engaged
in Battle.
Whenever you can find a soldier who
under fire aims low and shoots to make
every bullet wound or kill, you find fif
ty who are nervously throwing away
ammunition, seeming to reason that the
reports of their muskets will check or
drive the enemy. And yet this nerv
ousness need not be wondered at, for
they are playing a game of life or
death.
At Malvern Hill, seventeen soldiers,
belonging to an Ohio regiment, took
cover in a dry ditch, which answered
admirably for a ritle-nit. A Georgia
regiment charged this little band three
times, and were three times driven
back. The fire was low and rapid, and
the loss in front of their guns was more
than one hundred killed in ten minutes.
Regiments have been engaged for an
hour, without losing half that number.
The fire of this seventeen was so contin
uous that McClellan forwarded a brig
ade to their support, believing that an
entire regiment had been cut off.
At Mine Run the writer was just in
the rear of a New York regiment which
was suddenly attacked. A single com
pany of Confederates cut off from the
regiment, and dodging around about to
rejoin it, suddenly debouched into a field
and found itself face to face with the
Union regiment. Fighting commenced
at once. A regiment fought a com
| pany, both lying down for cover. I lay
so near a third sergeant that 1 could
touch his heels and I watched his fire.
Every time he pulled the trigger he
elevated the muzzle of his gun at an
angle of forty-five degrees instead of
depressing it for the enemy lying down.
1 saw him repeat this operation fourteen
different times. The man in front of
him fired as many bullets plump into a
stump in his front, and the man on the
other side shot into the ground about
ten feet away. Others must have been
wasting bullets about the same way,
but the little company was shooting to
kill. In that ten minutes of fighting
the New Yorkers suffered a loss of thir
ty-six killed and wounded, and then a
bayonet charge doubled them back and
opened a gap for the little band’s es
cape. 1 walked over the ground and
found one dead and one wounded Con
federate. Not a gun, blanket, knap
sack or canteen had been left behind.
Any soldier will no doubt fight better
under cover than he will in the open
field, but cover does not always insure
good fighting. At Pittsburg Landing five
thousand Union soldiers skulked under
the river bank, safe from the enemy’s
tire, and many of them threw their guns
into the river rat her than fire a shot.
Again, at Yellow Tavern, five of Cus
ter’s men, dismounted and lying behind
a fence, held five companies of cavalry
at bay for twenty minutes, and killed
twenty-four men, and this without get
ting a scratch in return.
At Mine Run a Union regiment went
into the fight with sixty rounds of am
munition per man, making a total of
perhaps four thousand bullets. This
regiment was pla cd to act as a cheek
to any advance oi the enemy in a cer
tain direction. They did not see thirty
Confederates timing the whole day, and
yet it was twice more supplied with
ammunition. It fired away at least
twelve thousand bullets, and yet only
killed two Rebel skirmishers.
One cool man will do more execution
with his musket than thirty men firing
at random. One must nave a will
strong enough to crowd down all emo
tion, ami oblige his hands to cease
trembling at the word. Out of every
regiment, not more than one hundred
men are fighters. These shoot to kill.
The others shoot at random, and kill
only by accident. Thirty cartridges
would last a good fighter for all day’s
light. The ordinary soldier would tiro
out his sixty in an hour and a half, and
like enough have his eyes shut half the
time when he pulled the trigger. A
member of the becond Michigan Infant
ry hit the case pretty well at Blackburn
lord. When the skirmishing began he
counted his cartridges, and said:
“ Just sixty of’em, and I’ll fire three a
minute, and have these fellers licked in
just twenty minutes to a tick!” Detroit
Free Press
Go Visiting.
There nrny be time this month for
some of the farmers to take a little rec
reation. This can be done profitably by
making it a visit of information and in
struction. There are many of our read
ers who do not know how to farm.
There is an abundant evidence of this
in any neighborhood—in fact, on three
fourths of the farms. Too many farm
ers never see the process by which some
of their neighbors prosper. All thev
see is along the road from their homes
to town, and that they see too of tern
But if you have no neighbors who
Know how to farm, make money and
live happy, go into some other neigh
borhood. or township, or an adjoining
county, until you find a good farmer*
This is the kind of \ isiting to do. There
are many lessons to learn from such
farmers. When you get there do not
spend your time talking politics, but
examine the farm, the stock, the imple
ments used, the systems of underdrains,
manner of feeding stock, when and how
to seed to grass, what kind of grasses
for pasture and what for meadow. A
day spent in this way will be better
than forty spent hanging about town.
A thousand more farmers might pros
per and be independent if they would
try to know their business. And there
is an abundance of opportunities to
learn by having things demonstrate t.
Go visiting among your prosperous
neighbor farmers. There is some rea
son why they succeed beyond surround
ing neighbors. And this prospetous
class of farmers are not generally
selfish. They take pride in telling and
showing how good farming is done
why their stock is better than their
neighbors’—why their land stands wet
and drouth, and why their crops yield
more to the acre. Such visits can not
only be made profitable, in stimulating
and awakening new processes, but win
be found to be pleasant and wholesome
recreation.— lowa State Heuisler.
“The committee appointed to con
sider the question of substituting a
nickel coinage for the bron/.e coin ape
now circulating in France, hsk<= decided
in favor of nickel, which fias already
been adopted in Germany and Belgium.
GRAND and
Public Pbocessiob
OF THB
GREAT FOHEPAUCH SHOW
Bring Out the Children to See
251 ELEPHANTS
40 SUN-BRIGHT CHARIOTS
OPEN DENS of WILD BEASTS
300 Handsome Horses
DROVE 3 OfCAMELS
WILD BEASTS LOOSE
ORIENTAL PAGEANT
HT LALLA ROOK II
Eindcomcst Womaa in tai
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Chamberlain of Iho Harem
CABHMERIAN MAIDENS
BEAUTIFUL PERI
GUARDSoftheGREAT KEDAR KHAN
EG YP TEA NJPA GE A NT
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
BARGE ABLAZE WITH GOLD
SAILS OFJ? URPLK
VENUS, Goddess of Love
BOWER OF BEAUTY
TREASURES of the ORIENT
MYTHS OF THE NILE
ART, POETRY and SONG
MIRTH, MUSIC AND REVELRY
BARBARIC GLORY OF ASIA
STILL ANOTHER PAGEANT
BA ND of ER EEDM EN
COTTON FIELD NEGROES
Camp - Meeting Melodists
COTTON BALES and MULES
SONGS AND SHOUTING
Hippodrome Racing Chariots
KNIGHTS-FA 111 LADIES
9-FEET-HIGH BICYCLE RIDERS
PROCESSION OF INDUSTRY
’ 3 Great Brass Bands
ILL EIITDB OF MUSIC
.11 SORTS OF MUSICAL INVENTIONS
2 MILLION PARADE
FREE FOR ALL
NOTHING SO GRAND EVER SEEN
NO SHODDY-NO SHAM
It is nil there—not on payer, hut n tangible
reality ; can be seen by all. and it is Worth
More to see the Grand Street Parade ot the
Great Forepangh Show than it la nil the In-ide
and Outside Displays of all the Shows in
America. IT IS FREE TO ALL. It will pay
to see it, and let it not be forgotten, that it
costs no more to visit this world-encircling,
mighty, moving maslodonic. combination than
it does any of the transparent frauds that
visit your locality every season Usual Popu
Inr Price of Admi-sion. Children under 9
years, half price. Opens nt 1 and 7. A rente
exhibition commences at 2 and b P. M.
People from out of tow n, should reach here
ns early as 9 30, |n order to witne— this
MAMMOTH SPECTACULAR DISPLAY
Waste In Feeding Corn-Fodder.
The amount of corn-fodder annually
wasted on every farm through careless
ness is very large. To throw it loosely
over the fence into the barnyard in
, hopes that it may be eaten in place of
other provender is only to place it
where it can be picked over amt finally
trampled under foot. It saves time
» and labor, of course, to feed it in that
manner, but it depends on the supply
i whether such usage will enable the
farmer to carry his stock over winter
and bring them out in the spring in
good condition. The stalks are never
eaten when the fodder is given directly
from the shock, but, after the Hades
are selected from them, are wasted It
is the judicious use of corn-fodder that
aids the hay to last till grass, and as
lai or in winter is expensive, in a cer
tain sense owing to the fact that but
little out-door work can be done, the
preparation of the corn-fodder so feed
ing should be made an object on every
farm, hor this purpose, the cutters used
should be of a kind that not only cut
sta kslnto short lengths, but also crush
and tear them to pieces after they are
cut As most cutters do this, the man
ner of doing the work is well known.
As to the importance of so doing, it
can be safely stated that horses and
cattle will eat them when sb cut and
crushed, especially if they are moistened
and sprinkled with bran or meal
and seasoned with a little salt. The
crushing tears the outer ha d covering
of the stalks in such manner that stock
will not ieject them In fact, they be
come easily digestible, and when fed
in connection with good hay will take
the ) lace of it in proportion to the
quantity used. It is not claimed that
corn-fodder is a complete food, for
neither is hay. if animals are to be win
tered with the expectation of the best
results; but as all stock men make a
practice of feeding concentrated food
in addition to coarse prow nder, corn
fodder answers a good purpose when
it is prepared, and. while the item of
labor is to be considered, it should be
remembered, also, that it is much
cheaper to keep laborers at work on a
farm than to purchase hav, and, as the
whole of a corn-stalk can be made
serviceable, there is no reason why wo
should allow any portio i to go to waste
especially at times when the stock of
hay is insufficient for the winter’s de- '
niand. — lndiana Scntincc,
IStkx Annual Tour of America., First
TO UAJuTOBJ;
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WITH THE
GREAT FOREPAUGH SHOWS
Will Exhibit Afternoon and Evening, at
DALTON, Tuesday, NOVEMBER 14th,
LARGEST IN THE WORLD! (18th ANNUAL TOUR.)
With two, three, and requires often 4 GREAT RAILWAY TRAINS.
1,200 Men and Horses, 1,000 Wild Beasts. Rareßirds
C APITAL invested three millions.
, E / ES " EPT CLEAN OF ITS AMUSEMENT FEATURES
vnvv xL-vT-,®. I ,’?,”’ t,lne consolidated GREAT FOREPAUGH SHOWS
10l COMBINED. Three GREAT CIRCUS TROUPES. '
an am v? pro’.?? ’ .A 1 • LI M> OCEANIC AQUARIUM.
ADAM lOh El.Al GH, Jr.’s Great CONGRESS OF 22 TRAINED ELEPHANTS
RENZ S BERLIN CIRCUS, HIPPODRAMATIC SPORTS AND ’
GORGEOUS ORIENTAL SPECTACULAR DISPLAYS More than
equalling in magnitude and cost nearly.
ALL THE SHOWS ON EARTH COMBINED
TT’ la , rßer ' p,r « r,n<ler ' c °’ ts more
• i i ? 8t P e . rfect - chaste and respectable traveling tented exhibition ever or
E^r S 1 t Z «n't I n°i k *!• the u "P* ral J eled and astonished array of famous foreign features •
l-irst and Only Great Herd of 12 Performing Elephants, an the just added ‘
ROT Jv AT? LARGEST & HEAVIEST
Elephant “to” Exist
? W1 | ll i’’ e l i oArJ‘it 0 A r J‘i te r d if “ny circus in the world can duplicate the unparalleled
t aCt of ‘ ,K - A I J- Iron’-Milan R ac ing upon a Bicycle up and down a snir i
] e rated broad* ay 60 feet in height; or the Famous French Troupe—Si I bon s
le m FeXs\’docitv o°f CUrd * ng gymnastic exhibitions ;or the incomprelSj
GREATEST Living LADY Riders m the World.' LOUISA RENZ, from Berlin f
LIZZIE DEACON, from London, Behold! See! 100 {Peerless Performers!
Tallest Giants! Smallest Dwarfs! ZOLA blown from a cannon! Wild men Zolus!
i 2001 erforming and Ring Horses! Hippopotami! Trained Lions! Tigers !
i Hyenas! BABY Camels! Wonderful SACRED Cattle of PERSIA!
Moi e rare animals than all the Shows in America! Handsome women ! Fat ladies!
! TW( ‘ RACE TRACK ARENAS EQUAL to ANY.
FOUR GREAT CIRCUS RINGS!
Seats for 20,000 in the Cloud-Towerin g Pavilions!
5 ,000 OPERA CHAIRS ON THE GRAND STAND! THREE GREAT BANDS I
PEERLESS, POETIC, PRINCELY, GRAND, GORGEOUS FREE STREET
PARADE,
U V-?-Vl ay ’ between 9 =3O and 10 :30, thb greatly grand and
a'n d g Sublime Pagelnts, REET PARADE ’ in which is seen tbe wonderfully grand
CLEOPATRA, QUEEN of Egypt!
AND
LALLA ROOKH, Princess of Delhi I
WITH THE
Handsomest Women in
n^o^n^Lm^firh 8 ! 1141 Ko , ok ?‘’” and , tbe Rar ge of Cleopatra, with Egypt’s Queen, the
I kina Wu/rp^ s L. ectac ! eH ever beheld upon the streets of ah American city.
’AT RTox °? Se ln •\ e i stroet - A score of sun-bright sumptuous chariots,
nf ramn Pg ?°r g , Wltb I ' ,s9 feet ll,gb bicycle. A real simon-pure troupe
of camp-meeting melodists, singing as the procession moves.
3 Great Banda of JMtaaie
And grand, new and novel procession of industry, the very largest, longest, great
l?r«ndest, Rratmtous and only 2 million dollar pageant ever seen on the streets.
nnJ 50 * Centß i v chll “ ren under 9 years > cents. Exhibition after
i‘ ‘ ' lr \R at usual hours. Arenic chairs. Promenado concerts one hour
nn ,dE nC »' ng by A. h - e tbree great bands - ty Low rates and excursion trains
11 nu'i/i i ia 0 see this Great Show. ESUFortheespecialaccomodationofla-
L f’v,' r ° n ' n j' V " ho desire t 0 »™id the crowd surrounding the ticket
’ ' agon on the ground, tickets will be on sale the entire dav the < xhibition is here,
.at J. B. Gudger,s Book store, ADAM FOREPAUGH,
Sole Proprietor