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
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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
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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.)
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