IAM GILLETTE; COPYRIGHT CHAPTER |. The Battery Passes. Outside, the of an night; the verdure of tree and the climbing roses, already far ad vanced in that southern latitude, sweetly silvered in the moonlight. Within the great old house apparently an equal calm Yet, neither April softness within nor without was the night absolutely soundless Far away to the southward the cloudless horizon, easily visible from the slight eminence which the house stood, was marked by quivering flashes of lurid light. From time to time, the attentive ear might catch the roll, the roar, the reverberation of heavy sound like distant thunder-peals intermin gled with sharper detonations The flashes came from great guns, and the rolling the of tha cannon, detonations explosions of the shells There was the peace God in the heaven there were the of m the be neath, 0 on peals sound the were of abov e, earth passions en on ed here shin Lights gl ing through from the windows which stood far back From a on one which portico eam and there, twining the Fors . irom the rose old the the house street hall of room side of the shion fashion, opened from of arose A group of hands and : while they Colonial f: a hum of volces women, wiih ner anxious working picking lint, bandages the told sad of kings! How " and “Allen” and and “Burton” had dowr Valley Ww hence they this : faces, talked, were and co srsatic other days the death and “Ct haries tearing linen Their chatter of stories of Tom" “Page” into the Death, back. mered before toe Or conv gone of the Shadow f come ham day wounds had How Such 0 How fort tha a yesterday, How So-and-So's been ministered to a-One’s the and clos needs had been relieved enemy er, and how were being bh with courage, which, time was the courage much of their s own kind, less children. A the Upstairs How drawing closer they were eld back that jespair. And of their and father talked alas! by of peech women nd ever was of bereft as they busy fingers flow from ae © the front the light through rooms a window drawn Veneti ‘at the side of would have partly x half wnding list ening chamber words from The was low moaning feverish lips meaningless broken now tenderness and were laid the poor sufferer wi brain Or eyes dropped t bandages and And now I ntle wind ftl odstained which swept so trees bore a toward ths The wheels, sabers Sudden the night out sudd« sound garden creak arms rogea trami 10TEe, rami i £ of and iouder ing of and command re came the faint jing! drew nearer words He rattie of with no rolled horses of punctured 3 battery, with drum or the blare nd but its own down the street Lean, gaunt were ridden and driven by leaner and gaunter men in dusty, worn, ragged, tattered uniforms Only the highly polished brass guns twelve-pounder Napoleons—gleamed bright in the moonlight The sewing women came porch and the blind of above was lifted and a woman stood framed in the light No, those watchers did not the battery swept by on {ts way the front For one thing, a soldier lay upstairs dying. for another, they had passed the time when cheered that tattered flag. Now wept over it as one weeps holds for the last time the face of a friend who dies. Once they had ac claimed it as the sunrise in the morn. the of bugles, galloping It |0u out on the the inevitably to the sunset of defeat, The men did not cheer either, They were not past cheering--oh, no! They were made of rougher stuff than the women, snd the time would come when, in final action, they would burst forth into that strange, wild yell that gtruck terror to the hearts of the hearers. They could cheer even in the last ditch, even In the jaws of PORCELAIN [ DUE 0 ACCIDENT How the Process of Enameling Was Discovered by Chinese Workers About 206 8. C, Near the year 206 B. C., in the be ginning of the dynasty of Han, some workers in earthenware set their pots in the oven to bake, and forgot them. When they remembered them and opened the oven doors they found that the pots were vitrified in shining spots. In ‘his way the enameling of i i | i i | the end better for perhaps; but women silent in the crisis. They and give no tongue The officer In command saw the little group of women on the porch The moonlight shone from the street glide and high-lighted them, turning the rusty black of most of the gowns, 1e-dyed mourning—all that could at in those awful days In Richmond—into soft shadows, above which their faces shone angelic saw the woman's head in the window, He knew who lay upon bed ath within the chamber. He had helped to bring him from the front several He lips for a then, of his With ed the from the room, death-—face cheering more be come too. the of de back before and voice OD days moment emotion, h harsh salut while irawing he lint slender after the dis full of envy tamped disappoint rang battery passed the great room of t arm and sal the women an window { Oopposita the on, pickers and bandage-tearers, a stared stared guns, his eyes exatious he 8 futile boy and ing ind tear: as his oti In protest and ment The noise made by the died away in In 2 1111) % iness supervened passing can fistance work ne whom soon the as before; rs whispered together, reallzl that those ked would yme of they £4 passing upon would pass no look Upstairs the had died persisted look they never again had mors and that 1pon them of the m AWAY; ANS he wounded man only thing that ing that was the thunderir bale d 18 of the distant aguered P #411 ah Aron etersburg. With rawing-room, the boy lown r sl 1 restiessly, mutt ind walked msaelf, evidently desperate resolution longer h the ly opened The dimly lighted by the wall ny door a other end was soft but sconces on great room w candles in AR the lighted for ri great chandelier was not lack of tapers, but a more brilliant radiance was esently cast pr by the She had been and the ’ the of Ver id Martha Mamm apartment advent th boy's boy's father's By. ‘Mammy’ apecul the pi “Is the room two and much ran back dat you, Mars old woman, waddling into both hands extended, bearing many-branched candlesticks, which she proceeded to deposit upon the handsome mahogany which the long drawing-room was fur nished ‘Yes, it is I, Aunt Martha Benton's battery go by? “Lawd lub you, chile, many guns an’ hosses an’ a-gwine by Ah don't tek no notice ob ‘am no mo’. ‘'Peahs lak dey keep on a-passin’ fo'ebah.” “Well, there won't be many more of them pass by,” sald the boy in a clear accent, but with that soft which would have betrayed his South ern ancestry anywhere, “and before they are all gone, | would like to join one of them myself.” “Why, my po’ li'l lamb!" exclaimed Martha, her arms akimbo, “dat Ab done nussed in dese ahms, is you gwine to de fight?™ The boy's demeanor as well, no one farther to ite how 18t she Wilfred? Did you Hee 20 was anything porcelain was discovered. When | freed of ita dross the substance grew lighter, become clear, and acquired a grain as fine and smooth as vel vet and a thin, hard, translucent body that rang like a bell The art of monochromatic was discovered In the time of the dynasty of Sung (960-1280 B. C.). Oceastonally the action of the fire sep arated the pigments and produ ed ex. ceasive richness of color gol invasion checked the progress of ceramic art. I. 1368 Tal-Teu, the glazing THE CENTRE REPORTE but lamb like toward her “Don't more,” He made a fierce step me anb ridic started you call he sald, “it's Mammy Martha alarm any 18 and 1101 back '"Peahs mo’ lak llon 'd be bet ter,” she admitted “Where's mother?” dismissing the of argument “1 reckon she's upstaihs Howard, euh, Yo' bruddah “1 want to see her right away,” tinued the boy Impetuously, “Mars Howard he's putty { ebenin’,” returned Martha tell her dat you EO an’ Ah dunno’'s she'd a asked subject the unworthy boy, as wid con bad die “Ah bet want want to | tah | but him “Well, as she can. { Howard, but Confederacy “Yas, with a eyes atl Dey suah tinued, and passionate tell her I'm awfully it's living needs returned cal look slender boy you to come BOITY that a8 BOOD men now the old of her before most sub,’ quizzi the black her con out does need as the step men,” she youngster her took 1 ward she deft]; t the passed of i the hear he and heavily The boy and stared into Oteupath on he did catch of a nor door ou door behind her i s» could r ponderous slowly mountin teps ndow In tho ne again his the gentle stairs dic woma 3 mother a4 801 in er the have hands, saw Levond the heyon and Divine, to and ited momen more bowed his prayer, too was the know How ard how it shook suffered 80 fight me said: T kr all suffered, we the ng is go the we yes" wow how flered AWAY, table, yOu =i She turned sat beside the her hands, and gave “There has suffering since war began.” she murm “Mother,” sald Wilfred abruptly, speak to it. of course, but you to listen this time." Mrs, Varney lifted her hands Wilfred chalr head in emo but down in a her toy } 0 her leaned way tions been nothing this awful ured You don’t like have just got to you her came head from nearer to One hand she shoulder, the other on stared down into his 1 know~-[ know, his She face laid upon his head up-turned my boy want “1 can’t stay here any the youth; “it is worse than shot to pieces. 1 just have to myself the floor whenever | hear a cannon-shot or see a soldier an [ go? The woman stared at him saw faintly the face of the dying upstairs. In him she saw. the longer,” said | being to she the dew, dead at Seven Pines ghe saw all her kith and kin, who, true to the traditions of that house, had given up their lives for a cause now In him R, CENTRE HALL, PA. { Bhe could not one, She drew him gently boy-like, he drew away with a not that he loved but honor-—-as he practically lost. up her lust ito her, but, himself and of his ad, | mother the { it—the more “Why don’t | pered at last “1 don't what to Wilfred,” faltered his though there was but one and she knew that she | yet she fighting, 16 less, he you speak?” know gay to mother, must say WA woman-like, will "What?" that y mind Petersburg and enlist “But that not be fred,” sald his mother, smiling “True or mother, 1 here.” “Oh, WK | Howard “Say ou won't . down to would true, not, ilfred, has is going, kil want EOne, go and get led “1 don't mother to be killed at my Tom K Ing, boy. it: younger Stared Down into His Upturned Face $ why ar hove as had as she strangel) ANOman writ thought Wel said at last, iil o your fathe nd “Bat,” the boy interrupted in great ‘that’ II where ver can tell day. I can't i forever brigad:« fo disappointm take You ns his is from d AY do that “Wilfred,” said jet must be ter at once, special tomorrow.” The boy turned away and strode toward the Vilfred,” said his mother gently The tender appeal In her volce | checked him She came over to him and put her arm about his shoulders Don't feel bad, my boy, that you have to stay another day with your mother it may be many days, you know, before “It isn't that" “My darling boy-l know want to fight for your country-—and | I'm proud of you. | want my sons to do their duty. But with your father at the front, one boy dead, and the other wounded, dying She turned away “You will write | won't you?” “Yeg-—yeon'! “I'l wait, then, time to get a reply, “Yous, what to wait you to “l can’t You write the let send it by You ought to hear his mother go without his patient. [I will and we you consent will measenger by impatiently door sald Wilfred. it. You father tonight, until we have had * said the boy i and then you will go away. 1 { know vour father's answer will ! be. | boys!” (TO BE CONTINUED.) ” COMMERCIAL | lil Weekly Review of Trade and | Market Reports I \N Bradstreet's «tate of trade pre financ ERAYHE sented uy s8im- “Vary this factor report ing are week's fal pe i810 chanzs very curri apprefension over in sharj favora e reiurns nt weather retall ail of t i Clover $8.00 N¢ ) @ 10.00 $2150@ 1 tangled $§10@11; No $7 508: No. 1 £8 ax fanc 30; hoice Rip Ly creamery, 26@ 27: creamery, prints, 30@ ks, 290@30; ladies, and Pennsylvania y, No straight $206 21.50, No , do No. 2, do, NO i rve, No - oO 50 ‘reamery, creamery, cof good, 311. creamer b Maryland 21922 Jobbing 9% @ 27 rolls, Chaos iota, per 1b, 16@ 16% Eggs nearby Weat firsts Mar and firsts, Pennsylvania Western firats, 18; 19; Southern and rehandied | yiand, 19¢; Virginia firsts, 18. 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