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H01IT AT liUTTYSBURO, I'A.
Swinton, in Iiis work puWislicd in 18GG,
ciitit'cd llio "Army of the Potomac," ul
thongh intending, tlonbtloss, to render
full justice ti every one w ho rr.ndo a part
i.f that gaMrnt airnv, falls to name many
o.lioers in liiyli rank a'ul renowned for
ilaiin t'eeds, who cither fell on their
country's ait:r or yet live, wearing the
prcni.l wreath accorded them by tho bands
of tho.-c who knew where lo place it.
My attention at this time will be given
tnoio pari inl.ivly to the battle? of Gettys
burg, in which I took an humble part;
and although I may fill sh';t of the forci
ble and graphic stjle in which Mr. fewin
t 'iis pt ! lias done its work, yet I shall at
least reenll to the inenjory of many per
sons still living some of tho cseitingscencs
of that tci iihle aiiil decisive coniltot.
As early as the morning c-f tho 2d day
of July both armies, with perhaps a corps
on the I'nion sUle and a division on tins
.Southern side, had arrived at fletrysburg.
and t hero is little doubt as to tho feeling
ofeonf.denco entertained among the Con
federates as to the result of tho contest.
Thoy expected a signal victory, and from
that forward to hold eicrythiug in their
own hands.
It is v,c:l Known to any one at all fami
liar with tho history of that battle that
(Jen. Sickles wasoideied to place Lis com
mand on the left of General Hancock, on
the sairic general line, which would rirav
it alot'g the prolongation of Cemetery
1. ridge, toward the llcund Top. The
ground in front of this position being con
siderably depressed, General Sickles took
the rc-ponsilii'Ily of advancing his line
several handled yards, in oider to occupy
the high ground between tho one ho was
ordered to take and the Ilnimitt.-burg road.
This movement of his no doubt had
much to do with subsequent results.
Longstrcet, under the cover of a powerful
artillery fire, commenced the attack an
attack the, mo.-t fearful and impetuous
that I ever witnessed. The weight of
this movement fell chiefly upon that por
tion of Sickles' corps which stretched back
from tho Peach Orchard to Hound Top
that is, upon the brigades of Do Trobriaud
and Ward. -s
Tho brigade of General De Trobriand,
to which I was attached as Adjutant Gen
eral, was at that time made up of tho
Third and Fifth Michigan, tho Tenth
Pennsylvania, tho Fortieth New York,
and tho Seventeenth Maine. That of
General Ward was composed of tho One
Hundred and Twenty-fourth New York,
and some other regiments that I cannot
exactly recall. At the opening of tho at
tack, General Do Trobriand, surrounded
by Lis staff, and with his brigade in re
serve, was awaiting his orders with as
much patience as is usual with a bravo
French soldier, full of enthusiasm, with
his enemy in night. He sat upon his horse
the faithful Chasseur and fixed his ryes
upon the coining foe with a commanding
and most imperturbable air. While thur?
awaiting for orders to advance, an aide
from Gen. Iiirney rode up and ordered a
forward movement and directed that tho
largest regiment of the brigado bo sent
double quick to prolong the line on the
left, so as to (ill tho intervening gap at the
foot of. Hound Top, for tho occupation of
which both forces were now engaged in a
deadly struggle. General De Trobi iand
designated the Fortieth New York fortius
duty, and ordered mo to conduct it to its
aligned position, and if necessary to re
main there with it. Wc proceeded. The
air was filled with smoke and tho inter
changing fires of artillery and musketry.
The shouts of both armies were alino.st
deafening, but I succeeded in placing tho
regiment whero it was ordered, and de
ciuod to remain with it.
The fuemy had us at a disadvantage.
They were on higher ground, and were
pouring a terrific fire into our front, and
nothing but tho fact that "Greek had met
Greek" saved us from a ruinous and over
whelming disaster. I trust in God . I may
never again be called to look upon such
scenes as I thero beheld, and that the fu
ture of our country may never bo again
clouded by fratricidal war the most hor
rible of all wars.
Colonel TLcmas W. Fgan, the comman
der of the regiment, one of the bi a vest
men I ever knew, was charging with his
command, when a ball from tho enemy
pierced the heart of his 1 irave little marc,
who sunk under hint and gave up her life
for her country as devotedly as the best
soldier slaiu in tho engagement. Hrave as
her rider was, and aroused by the danger
around him, ho had yet time, as he after
wards told me, to drop a tear on the ex
piring animal that had borne him so many
hundred miles and, through so many perils;
but that uow, fkeked with foam and with
glazing eye, could only look dimly upon h im
for tho last time ami sink into death.
Major Warner of the same regiment was
borne past me for dead, but was only ter
ribly woundod, ami afterwards recovered.
His horse came dashing by a fnw moments
aftervvaius, and my own having been dis
abled by wounds, and rendered unfit lor
tise, I caught ami mounted him. The
poor brute that 1 w as riding had two min
nie balls buried in him, one in the shoulder
and the other in the hip, and was so frantic
w ith pain that he had well nigh broken my
neck in his violent fall. My sword was
pitched a dozen jards from ine, and was
picked up by one- of my men and returned
to me that night.
Colonel A. V. II. Ellis, or tho 121th New
Yoik, one of tho most chivalrous spirits
that ever breathed, had received hi3 mortal
wound. Ha was riding at the head of his
regiment, waving his sword in the air and
shouting to his men (his orange blossoms
as be called them tho regiment having
been raised in Oiango county, New York,)
when a bullet struck him in tho forehead,
lie was borne to tho rear, his face covered
with blood, and the froth sitting fiom his
mouth, and died in a few moments. Ma.i-r
Croniwcll, also of that regiment, was killed
almost at the same instant by a shot in the
breast, lie died without a groan or strug
gle, and in death looked as calm and placid
as a sleeping infant.
The adjutant of the regiment was killed
by a shot thiough tho heart as the regi
ment was moving on tho field. Ho had
fought bravely for hours, and it seemed
hard that one so young and hopeful schnld
be thus stricken down by a chance shot,
after having faced the thickest of the fight
unharmed. Dut such is the fate of war,
and there are, perhaps, thousands of simi
lar instances, known only to the few who
happened to bo present at tho occurrence.
I learned afterward that this roblo young
soldier was engaged to bo married to a
young lady of his native State, but, instead
of the blessing of a happy wedlock, baptised
in his own blood, he sleeps tho last, long
sleep, with tho deadly bullet in his bosom,
not heeding now, savo from the spirit land,
tho sighs and tears of her who watched so
eagerly for his name among the list of the
brave, and whose heart sickened when she
saw it among the killed.
It happened by the merest accident that
I was wiihin a few feet of Gen. Sickles
when he received the wound by which he
lost his leg. When our command fell back
after being relieved by General P.ykes, I
hastened to find Gen. De Trobriand, r.nd
seeing a knot of officers near tho brick
houso into which General Sickles was so
soon to be taken, I rodo up to see if he (De
Trobriand was among them. The knot of
ofiicers proved to be General Sickles and
staff. I saluted him and was just asking
for Gen. Do Trobriand, when a terrific ex
plosion seemed to tdiake the very earth.
This was instantly followed by another
equally stunning, and the horses all began
to jump. I instantly noticed that Gen.
Sickles' pants and drawers at the knee
were torn clear off to the leg, which was
swinging loose. The jumping of the horse
was fortunate for him, as ho turned jur.t in
iitno for him to alight on the upper side of
tho slope of the hill. As ho attempted to
dismount he seemed to loso strength,
and half fell to the ground. Ho was very
pale, and evidently in most fearful pain, as
ho exclaimed : "Quick 1 quick 1 get some
thing to tie it up bcfoi o I bleed to death."
These were his exact words, and I shall
never forget the scene as long as I I've, for
wo all loved General Sickles, who com
manded our corps. He was carried from
tho fiold to tho house I have mentioned,
coolly smoking a cigar, quicllylrcmarking
to a Catholic priest, a chaplain to one of
the irgimcnts in his command, whose name
I tegret that I do not remember, but who
was fearlessly administering to the dying
and wounded, in spite of tho balls which
whistled about liini, "Man proposes and
God disposes." His leg was amputated
within less than half an hour after he re
ceived the wound.
I soou found Gen. Do Trobriand, and
told him about the accident to Gen. Sickles,
and reported to hint what the 401 h New
York had done, and mentioned tho names
of tho officers that had been killed and
wounded as far aa I kucw thciu. Leu ho
noticed my face all blackened with dirt
and smoke, and that I was riding another
horse, ho remarked, "Why, Captain, where
is your horse ?" "Poor fellow, 1 reckou he
is dead, General," said I, "and this is one
that Warner was riding when he was shot
down." When I came to dismount I found
the poor horse also bloody to the foot from
a wound in tho hip, and the front of tho
McClcllan saddle strapped ou him entirely
shot away.
The part taken in this action by our di
vision was brief and determined. It fought
until tho last cartridge was gone, and then
fell back slowly aud stubbornly uutil re
lieved. That evening, after lying down among
the dead and dying to obtain a little much
needed rest, tho cries of the sufferers ren
dered it impossible for me to sleep. I went
to the assistance of many of tho poor fel
lows, on both sides, who were calling for
water. I was accompanied by Licuteuant
Houghton, of the staff, and, supplied w ith
six or eight canteens, we ventured on our
errand of mercy. Many called to us whom
we dared not risit, from the imminent risk
of being shot, as the firing of the pickets
was incessant ; but we had the satisfaction
of moistening the lips of scores of dying
men, who, doubtless, passed to their long
account with unspoken but heartfelt pray
ers in our behalf.
We rode down next morning and brought
off of the field a great many wounded of
both armies. Ono officer, a Major, had
been shot through both thighs, just above
the knees, and was utterly helpless. He
had, however, the samo proud look of de
fiance (hat doubtless characterized him
when in full strength, and as he was placed
upon the stretcher, exclaimed, with an air
of hauteur remarkable to observe, "I am
much obliged to you, Colonel," and was
borne in silence to tho hospital. Another
Oilicer, Lieutenant Perkins, of an Alabama
regiment, w as also carried oif tho ti.ikl by
us. He had been shot in the foot, and also
lost a thumb. Ho was a polite a:vl gentle
manly young follow, evidently unused to
hardship. He told us that his mother had
begged him to go into the army as a duty
lo hi. country. I saw in f;p:!e of his in
juries he was glad that ho had. I never
met either of these officers afterward.
One of the most singular Fights I ever
witnessed was on tho morning of the 4lh of
July, after all the fighting was ended. Un
der a locust bush, in a yard near tho battle-ground,
was lyiiiir, Hat on his back, a
de;id soldier, with all Lis accoutrements on,
and dead comrades scattered thickly around
him. II is eyes were widely open, and
strange to say, instead of having the usual
ghtzed and ghastly appearance, were as
bright and clear as they could possibly
havo been in life. As I knelt down beside
him to observo carefully this strange
phenomenon, I c mid see as distinctly as in
the eyes of p living person tho reflection of
the leaves and sprigs of the bush that
waived above his rigid and motionless
corpse I called the attention of many of
my brother ofucers, and several cf them
came to look at him.
Ma,i. Hkx. M. Piatt, U. S. A.
Covington Christian Loumjcr.
'i i; 1st.
Searching for strawberries ready to eat,
Finding them fragrant ami large and sweet,
Av hat lo you think 1 found at my feef,
Deep in the green hill side ?
Four brown sparrows, the cunning things,
Feathered on hack and breast and wings,
Promt with tho dignify plumage brings,
Opening their four mouths wide.
Stooping low to observe my prize,
M'atching their motions with eager eyes,
Dropping tny berries with glad surprise,
A plaintive sound I heard ;
Aud looking np at. the mournful call,
I spied on a branch near the old stone wall,
Tho poor little mother bird.
With grief and terror her heart was wrung,
And while to the slender bough she clung,
Sh felt that the lives of her birdlings hung
On a still more slender thread.
"Ah, birdie," 1 said, "if you only knew
That my heart was tender and warm and
true !'
But the thought that I loved her birdlings
too
Never entered her small brown head.
And so through this world of ours we go,
IV-aring our burdens of needless woe.
Many a heart beating heavy and blow
Under its lead of care ;
Rut oh! if we only, only knew
That God was tender and warm and trn,
And that He loved us through and through,
Our hearts would be lighter than air.
There was once a German nobleman
who led a foolish and dissipated life, ne
glecting his people, his family and his af
fairs, drinking and gambling. lie had a
dream ono night which vividly impressed
him. Ho faiv a figure looking at hini
with a serious face and pointing to a dial
when the hands marked the hour of IV.
Tho figure looked at him sadly and said
these words, "After four 1" What could
it mean ? It must mean that he would die
in four days. So ho set his houso in order,
sent for tho priest, confessed his sins and
received absolution. He also sent for his
family and begged their forgiveness for
past offenses. After arranging his affairs
with his man of business he waited for
death. Tho four days passed on and he
did not die. He then concluded the visiou
meant four weeks, but at the expiration f
that time he was still alive. It is plain
row, he said, the vision meant four years,
and in the next four years he gave his
w hole life and fortune for tho improvement
of his people, bis neighbors, and the poor,
taking an honorable part in public affairs.
At the endof four years he was elected
Henry IV'th, Emperor of Germany.
An Old Maid's Onxiox. If it doesn't
make me laugh, and I can't help it, to hear
married women pity old maids, never think
ing for one moment how an old maid might
pity the married women.
Oh, no.
Poor soul, she hasn't any husband.
Poor dear, she hasn't any children. .
It's so very, very sad.
Of con: so it is, poetically speaking ; but
don't you ever pity a woman for not mar
rying until you are quito sure what sort of
a man she hasn't manied.
I've known a broken engagement or two
that really were subjects of congratula
tion. There isn't any other timo wheu a wo
man feels so like feeling of her shoulder
blades to seo whether tho wings have
sprouted, as when she Las slipped tho
Wrong man's ring off her linger, nnd feels
that she will never bear the brunt of his
hateful temper, or put up with his neglect,
or grow old befoie her time because of Lis
unfaithfulness when r-he stands free again
and ready for the right man to come along.
I suppose a woman never feels quite cer
tain that the right man won't coaio in sill
her life.
However, we'io talking of old maids,
and the people who pity them.
It is all very well to get poetical over
married life, and set single womeu lowu
as miserable creatures ; but, liko most
theories, tho thing "won't wash."
If you get an adoring husband, ready to
cherish and protect you while life lasts,
you're certainly a happy woman ; but how
many do? Ono out of fifty, peihaps.
It's a lottery with few lucky numbers,
and even an old maid-doesu't bitterly cuvy
a woman with a moan, or a quarrelsome,
or a neglectful husband a woman who is
loft alone with all her cares, a woman who
is a slave, not a wife nor even always all
that falls to the lot of the best loved w ife ou
earth.
There is peaco and rest in life when ono
is one's own mistress, at all events; and
when I hear worn-out, worried matrons
pitying single women, I often feel like
laughing it is so funny.
Limit Yocu Wants. From the nature
of things, the income of most of the inhab
itants of the earth must be limited within
very narrow bounds. The product of la
bor throughout the world, if equally divi
ded, would not mako the share of each in
dividual large. It is impossible that every
one should be what is called rich. Cut it
is by no means impossible to be independ
ent. And what is the way to compass thi3
"glorious privilege"? Tho method is very
simple. It consists In one rule. Limit
your wants; make them few and inexpen
sive. To do this would interfere but littlo
with yonr real enjoyment. It is mostly a
matter of habit. Yon require more, or you
are satisfied with less just as you have
accustomed yourself to one or the other.
Limit your wants, estimate their cost and
never exceed it, taking pains to keep it
always inside of jour income. Thus you
will secuio vour lasting independence.
Young men, think of this. A great deal
of the happiness of your lives depends
upon it. After having made your money,
spend it as you choose, honestly ; Lul bo
urc you make it lirbt.
Daughters. An intelligent writer says:
"It is not possible to overestimate tho ad
vantage which would result from men
in trades and professions allowing their
daughters some participation in tho work
of their daily lives. What girls want is a
larger observation of tho world, and a
deeper knowledge of human nature. There
are few of our merchants and manufac
turers, and professional men, who could
not largely avail themselves of the services
of theircducated and competent daughters,
and if such services weie more generally
Available, it is not too much to say that a
wider and more fertile social life would
ai ise for mankind. Men's occupation would
in no sense be prejudiced, whilst women
would at once find that outlet for their
faculties for which many of them have so
long been striving. A certain responsi
bility w ould increase their self reliance. A
capacity for earning would remove their
sense of dependence ; a definite occupation
would bring both health and cheerfulness,
and the larger exierience of life would
give force and completeness to their mental
character."
JYo Lcgs Allowed on the Cars.
It happened the other day on the Lehigh
Valley Hailroad. The train had just left
Easton and the conductor was making his
first round, when be observed a small
white dog with a bushy tail and bright
black eyes sitting cosily on the seat beside
a young lady so handsome that it mane his
heart roll over like a lopsided pumpkin.
But doty was duty, and he remarked in
his'most deprecatory manner :
"I'm very sorry, mad.im, but it's against
the rules to have a dog in the passenger
cars."
"Oh ! my. is that so ?" and she turned
up two lovely brown eyes at him beseech
ingly. "What iu tho world will I do? I
can't throw him away. He's a Christmas
present from my aunt."
"By no means, Miss. We'll put him
in a baggago car, aud he'll be just as hap
py as a robin iu the Spring."
"What I put my nico while dog ia a
nasty, stuffy, dusty baggage car ?"
"I'm awfully sorry, Miss, I do assure
you, but the rules of this Company are as
inflexible as tho laws of tho Medcs and
them other fellows, you know. He shall
havo my overcoat to lie on, aud tho brake
man shall give him grub and water every
time he opens his mouth."
"I just think it's awful mean, so I do;
and I know somebody will steal it, so they
will," and sho showed a half notion to cry
that nearly broke tho conductor's heart ;
but he was firm, and sang out to the
brakeman, who was playing a solo on the
Btovc :
"Here Andy, take this dog over into the
baggage car, aud tell tern to take just the
best kind of care of him."
The young lady pouted, but the brake
man reached over and picked the canine
up as -tenderly as though it was a two
weeks old baby, but as he did so a strange
expression camo over his face, like a wave
of cramp colic, "and he said hastily to tho
conductor :
"Here, yon j'ist hold him a minute till
I put this poker away," and ho trotted out
at the car door and held on to the brake
wheel, shaking liko a man with the ague.
The conductor no soonor had his hand j
on the dog than . ho looked around for a
holo to tail turougis. .
"Wls-wh-wby, this is a worsted dog."
"Yes, sir," said tho little miss, denmre-
t you know that ?"J
"No, I'm most awfulj s.rty to say 1
didn't know that," and he laid tho Christ
mas dog down in the owner's lap, and
walked out on the platform, where ho
stood half an hour in the cold trying to j
think of a hymn tune to suit tho worst sold i
man on tho Lehigh Valley road. Boston (
Transcript.
How Din It Get There? Tho Frank
fort (Ky.) Yeoman says : Mr. S. South,
Jr., ono of the officers of tho State prison,
furnishes us w ith the following remarkable
item : The other day, while ono of the
stewards of the prison was carving a shoul-
j der of bacon for the convicts, who were
i then at dinner, he found imbedded in the
shoulder next to tho bone near the joint, a
j toy m;tal tea cup, evidently ono of a set
that formerly belonged to some little girl,
j Now, the question is, how did that toy
t metal tea cup get into the center of that
joint of meat? Did it get thero by the hog
', swallowing it? Or was a holo cut in tho
' hog whilo still alive, tho cup placed in
thcie, tl.o wound sewed up, and the cup
left to woik its w ay to the bone ?
The New York papers teil about a
"drawback on sugar." P&hawl that's noth
ing. There has Lceu a fearful pull-back
on ' lilacs all summer.
"Sad;e, She's the ilos."--The Jackson i
( lenn.) &un relates tno loiiowing Miuaay
school incident :
In a Sunday-school in this city recently
a friend of the cause from Iiladensbnrg
was introduced, who, after losing his way
several times in the exordium of his few
remarks, rose on I113 toes, closed his eyes
and proceeded to address tho.children as
follows : "Onco upon a time, my littlo
lambs, thero were two little girls, ono
named Sadie and one named Mollie, and
Mollie was a veiy good little girl who used
to save up all her pennies for the Sunday
school, and learned plenty of verses, and
never mussed her dress, and was ruch a
comfort to her mother as you can't think.
And Sadie was a careless little girl ; she
never wept for the heaihen, and she ya .Til
ed iu church and usedn't to care where sho
was going to when she died. Dear chil
dren, you ought always to remember that.
So one day their great uncle Peter, after
whom they were both named, camo to see
them, and gave them each a new fifty cent
shinplastcr. So Mollie took her fifty cents
to the Sunday-school and put it in the box
to buy tracts for the little heathen children
that cculdu't read. And so it happened
that the wicked heathen chief caught and
killed a missionary and was about to roast
him, and when the heathen chief went to
light the firo in the cooking stove, he took
one of these very tracts to do it with, and
read the contents, aud he and all the tribe
were converted. So you see how much
good you can sometimes do with a very
littlo money. Hut Sadie went out by her
self, and took her fifty cents and bought
with it what do you think tho brought
with it? Well. I will tell you. She bought
some oranges and some figs, and some mo
lasses caudy with some great big split al
monds in it (here an un regenerated fat boy
in Miss Warren's class hugged himself in
rapture and passed his tongue around his
cars) and a doll whoso eyes would open
and bhut, and a transparent slate, and a
picture book, aud a prize package ; and
she went home and locked herself up in a
parlor, aud ate them all up. Now, d?ar
children, which of these two little gills do
you think spent their money best?" Tho
dear children, with a voico as tho sounding
of many waters, lustily shouted : "Sadie !
Sue's the boss
Triumphant Midas. "Midas I want
to 'sposen a case to vou. an' I want.
gim the gospel truth on your 'pinkm 'bout
! de matter."
! That's the manner in which one cf
I Washington's duskey damsels put it to her
; adorer last evening.
j "Now, Midas yon knows you'so tole mo
j more times 'an you'se got fingers an' toes,
; as you lubbed mo harder 'an a marble top
j wash stand, an' 'at Ise sweeter to you 'an
! buck-wheat cakes and 'lasses forcber.
.; Midas, dis am only 'sposen case, hut J
wants you to 'sposen jus' as ifn 'twas a
thonuflfoLic.
"'Sposen me an' yon was goin' on a
'scursiou down de ribbcr.""
"Yas," broke in Midas "down to Mount
Wernou."
"An wha'a 'tall, down do libber. Midas,
kin you swim ?"
"No, Luce, I'se sorry to 'form you dat
de ouly drcckshon wbat;i kin circumstan
febiate fru de water am de bottom."
"Well den as I was Matin. 'Sposen we
was on de boat, gliding lubbir.gly an har
munly down do bussnrn 0b do ribber'a
stream, do moon was look in shiniugly
down 'pon de smokestack, and you was
sotten' rite up to. me jas (slide up here
closer, an' lem me show you how dat's
de way."
"Yah! yah! but wouldn't dat be scrump
tuous" interrupted Midas.
"TSposen," continued Lucy, "you bad
jast put your arm roun' my wai (dat's it),
dey wasn't nobody 'bout, you was L
suueczen mo up, an' was jest gwine to
gimme do loubinest kind ob a kiss, an'
' de bilor would bust 1"
"Oh, do debbil 1" said tho disappointed
Midas.
"Now, Midas I is a 'sposen dis case, an
I wants you to miud de words what I am
a speak iu 'Sposen when that bilor bust
ed we bef went up in de air.Jcomo down iu
de ribber, an' when we arriv in de watter
wo found de onlyhing kf ob dat boat was
ono pivjee of board dat wasn't big enuff to
holo us bof, but we bof grab at it; now
Medas wud you let go dat board,Jor wud
you put mo off an' took it all y'solf ? Dat's
do question what I'm 'sposeii."
"Luce, kin you swim?" Lo asked after
hesitating a few moments.
"No, Midas ob course not. You know
I can't swim."
"Weil, den, Luce, my conshenshus 'prn
iou ob da whole matter am dat we wont go
on no 'scursions." Washington Chronicle.
Mormon Courtship On Satnrd.iv &
Mormon by the name of Falmer, who had
been chosen among the faithful to go ou a
mission to Arizona, called upon Krigham
Young.
"Married?" queried the Piophet,
"Not any," paid Fuhr.cr, o'er whose
brow forty odd years h.id left their Imprint.
'Must marry, Brother Fulmer, before
you go to Arizona to build tip the Kimr
dom." "Don't know anybody who will have
me," was the reply.
"I'll fiudsome one. Do yon know Broth
er Brown in the Seventeenth Ward? Well
uangrucrs ; you go to Broth
er Brown's and tell Lio. I want you tt
many one oi tus daughters."
Fulmer left and obeyed counsel to tho
letter. Knocking at the door, fce was ad-
miu-u uy iirotner lirown, who,
learning wiiat
to
upon
was wanted, called in l.ia
several daughters to bo selected from,
Fulmer taking his choice. Brown told the
girl to get ready in fifteen minutes. I'll
do as you say, dad," was her meek reply
as sho walked out.
"That's tho way I raise my daughters : if
they disobey, there's war in camp."
j no weaaing festivities take place lo
ght. Salt Lake Tri!,,,.
Perhaps children are tho silver cords
that bind us to heaven, and yet a man
doesn't thbik of tnat who, after listening
until three a. m. lo the music of his h-fant,
just glances wearily at tho clock i.rtd re
marks to his wife : "My dear, I think 1 ii
go out into tho wood shed and try to get a
littlo sleep."
She Wanted To A pedestrian passing
along Fifth street, Detroit, says the FTM
r,i, glanced down the alley and saw a
female kicking and pounding on a barn
door. He stepped down and inquired, "Do
you want to get into the bam, madam?"
"Do I !" she exclaimed, as she pointed to
a bad rake on Ler nose ; "do I look like
a woman who'd let any man hammer her
nose with tho stove handle and not try to
kill him ?" At this moment the voice of
a man was heard in the barn, entreating
her to overlook tLc offence just that one
time, but as the pedestrian turned away
she had hor mouth at the knot-hole and
was saying, "I'll ,jive yon jiut one second
to open this dor 1"
The Feeling in the Hlral Districts.
Some, negro in a crowd asked Si yesterl
day what the Legislature was doing.
"Oey's pikiu' 'long dar wit do new con
stctmhunviilo bill and de prczemptin' ob
coin and cotton from do payment of taxa
tion," replied Si.
"Weil I'm against de new consteta-sherium-I
is !" said ono dao, rr darker.
What you k no' bout it anj how, nie.
ger?" akcd Si. ' S
The dapper fellow bad no justification to
make.
"Dat s de way w id you inonim nigyen,
n!!ns-posi,,! of s-imeriiiff dat ver don't
r.nuerstan"! Ko-.v is yoi r fokts ortt ia do
distriek '.'"' tiii itirxr t o a p.iimii ..
"I c' V.y. e'e ii-geis o it di. i
inr any uong oat K got c rn j :f ,pd(j?r
its a rub nr a l.x-kyai ai d dev'll c;t da
corn if : dar!" replied the enthusiastic
ruial n-gro.
Si swoio and slopped the conversation,--A.taut.t
(7..) ConsHiuttai,.