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MecliauicHbiirg, Pti.
CONSTITUTION
OF THE
CENTRE COUNTY
CONSTITUTIONAL, AMENDMENT ASSO
CIATION.
TREMBLE.
Whereas —ln view of the great and
widespread evils of Intemperance, an
earnest effort has been made to secure
the following amendment to the Con
stitution of the State of Pennsylvania,
namely:
ARTICLE XIX.
SECTION 1. The manufacture or sale of
all intoxicating liquors is forever pro
hibited within this Commonwealth, ex
cept for medicinal, mechanical and
scientific purposes ; and the Legislature
shall enforce this provision by sufficient
penalties without delay.
SECTION 2. The manufacture or sale
of intoxicating liquors for the purposes
excepted in the preceeding section shall
be regulated by adequate laws.
AND WHEREAS, In response to the pe
titions of one hundred thousand voters , at
the last session of the Legislature of our
State, the House of Representatives by
a large majority decided in favor of sub
mitting the foregoing amendment to a
vote of the people ; therefore,
Resolved, That this Convention com
posed of citizens of Centre county, to
renew this effort, do now proceed to or
ganize a county Association auxiliary to
the state Association, and adopt the
following:
CONSTITUTION.
ARTICLE I.—NAME.
This Organization shall be called the
Constitutional Temperance Amendment
Association of Centre county.
ARTICLE II. — OBJECT.
The object of this Association shall be
to secure such a State Legislature as
will give the voters of this Common
wealth an opportunity to decide by bal
lot whether they desire the Constitu
tional Amendment recited in the fore
going preamble, prohibiting the manu
facture or sale of Intoxicating Liquors
for drinking purposes.
ARTICLE 111. MEMBERS—REPRESENTATION-
Delegates to meetings or conventions
of the County Association shall be elec
ted and commissioned by each auxiliary
Association in the ratio of one delegate
to each twenty-five members or frac
tional part of that number.
The county meetings or conventions,
shall be composed of the officers of the
County Association, and delegates from
the borough and township Associations,
Ministers and Representatives from
Churches, Sunday Schools, and from
such other organizations as the County
Executive Committee may determine.
Delegates to annual or special con
ventions of the State Association shall
be elected and commissioned in accord
ance with the Constitution of the State
Association.
No member shall be eligible to office,
or as a delegate who is not a subscriber
to at least one share of stock to the
funds of the Association.
ARTICLE IV.—OFFICERS.
The officers of this Association shall
be a President, seven Vice Presidents,
Secretary and a Treasurer, who shall be
elected annually by ballot.
ARTICLE V.—EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
There shall be an Executive Commit
tee composed of the President, Secreta
ry and Treasurer, and as many addi
tional members as may be necessary to
give each township and borough Associ
ation at least one representative in the
Committee.
The officers and Executive Commit
tee and Delegates, shall, if possible, be
composed of persons allied with and
representing all the political parties in
Centre county. The additional mem
bers of the Committee shall be elected
annually by the Association at the same
time as the other officers. A quorum
shall consist of the members present at
any meeting after due notice has been
given by the President or Secretary.
ARTICLE VI. —DUTIES OF OFFICERS.
The officers shall discharge such du
ties pertaining to their respective offi
ces as are usual in other similarly or
ganized bodies.
The Secretary shall keep a complete
record, report meetings, keep a faithful
account of all shares of stock subscribed,
receive all money paid on same or oth
erwise donated to the Association, and
deposit same with the Treasurer.
.The Treasurer shall pay out money
only on orders approved by the Execu
tive Committee : except the first dollar
subscriptions and collection, which he
shall pay according to Article VII.
The Secretary and Treasurer shall re
port annually to the Association.
The Executive Committee shall co
operate with and assist the Stale Exec
utive Committee in carrying out their
plans of work, and through the Secreta
ry shall report to the Secretary of the
State Association monthly, the enroll
ment and increased membership of the
county the number of shares of stock
subscribed during tho month, and mon
eys received, remitting the same to the
Secretary of the State Association ac
cording to Article VII. The Committee
•hall during the year organize at least
one branch Constitutional Amendment
Association in each borough and t< we
ship in Centre country, giving to each
a constitution, embodying the princi
pies of the State Association, and in
harmony with this constitution, and in
general to have oversight of the entire
work of the Association, control its
funds, furnish speakers, or organizers,
temperance literature, and secure with
in the political parties a recognition of
our principles, and the nomination and
election of such Legislative Candidates
as will accord with the purposes of the
Constitutional Amendment Association.
They shall also publish calls for Con
ventions and prepare business for tlie
same, and at the proper time make a
thorough canvass lor petitioners asking
the Legislature to submit the proposed
Constitutional Amendment to a vote of
the people of the State.
ARTICLE VII—RESOURCES.
The funds of this Association shall be
raised by collections, contributions, etc.,
as the Executive Committee may de
termine. Also according to the plan
proposed by the State Association, viz :
Any person having the privilege of sub
scribing one or more shares of stock in
volving the contribution of one dollar
annually until the work of the Associa
tion is completed ; the first dollar to he
paid to or remitted direct to the Organi
zer, for the benefit of the State Associa
tion. After that, all funds raised by
subscriptions or otherwise, shall he paid
to this Association ; and after deducting
sufficient to meet its current expenses
(not exceeding 25 per cent, of all mon
eys received) shall transmit the balance
to the Treasurer of the State Associa
tion.
A RTICLE Vlll. — MEET I NOS.
The meetings of this Association shall
be at such time and place as the Execu
tive Committee may decide from time
to time.
A RTICLE IX—ME.NDMKNT.
This Constitution may be altered or
amended at any regular meeting of the
Association by a vote of two thirds of
the members present.
NOTE.—The Secretary should caie
fully transcribe this Constitution in the
first pages of a Minute Book, and im
mediately following the Constitution
leave a lew pages blank for any Amend
ments or By-Laws that may be adopted.
A few more pages further on record the
proceedings of the initial meeting and
organization, and continue these re
cords as meetings are held from time to
time. In the back part of the minute
book keep an accurate list of those who
subscribe to the funds of the Associa
tion.
Now Bon Does It !
CONFIRMED AFTER A LINCII ON CRA.KEHS,
CIIEESE AND CIIAMI'AONE.
Spm-ml illapuli li In Tli" Tliin-s.
WASHINGTON, July 2S.
Crackers, cheese, champagne and Don
Cameron, it appears, are responsible for
the confirmation of the Penn Van
Postmaster yesterday, after he hud pre
viously been rejected by the Senate.
From one of the Senators who was ap
proached by Cameron it was learned
bow this consummation was reached.
During yesterday Messrs. Cameron and
Lapham, the latter the successor of
Mr. Conkliug, were observed to be very
industriously circulating among the
Democratic Senators, When all the
preliminaries had been arranged Mr.
Cameron left the Senate Chamber and
went to bis committee room, where lie
superintended the preparation ol lunch,
tho principal ingreuients of which were
the articles mentioned above. Messen
gers were dispatched up stairs to bid
Southern Democratic Senators welcome
to the (east, care being taken to have
but one present at a time. Each visitor
was first invited to partake of the re
freshments on hand and when it was
thought that ho had become sufficiently
mellow the object of the spread was
disclosed. Air. Cameron announced
that the President was personally inter
ested in the confirmation of the Penn
Van office-seeker and desired that his
rejection should bo reconsidered. This
was followed by a proposition that tiie
visitor to the committee room should
either vote for a reconsideration or ab
sent himself from the Senate. While
the subject was being discussed as a re
ward for such service, C'anie'on said that
he was authorized to promise *llOll any
reasonable request that might bo made
by a Senator for his S:u e would be
granted by the President.
'The offer was indignantly spurned by
several of those summoned before Cam
eron, but that his tactics were successtul
with others less obstinate the vote on
the confirmation plainly shows. This
story was a fruitful topic ol discussion
at the Capitol to day and the (acts as
related above are from an unquestiona
ble source. For his efforts in this regard
Air. Cameron has earned the title of the
third Kenator from New fork.
PRESIDENT AKiur/j's language on the
political assessment question is strong
and pointed enough. He is authorita
tively reported to have declared in the
Cabinet meeting on Tuesday that for
his part these payments must he entire
ly voluntary : "that no person in any
one of the executive departments de
clining to contribute shall, on that ac
count, be subjected to discharge or
criticism, and no attempt to injure him
on this ground will be countenanced or
tolerated." Hut at the same time Secre
tary Folger notifies the clerks and em
ployes of the Treasury that they are to
"regard the circular of the Congres
sional Committee just as they would
regard any good cause presented to
tht-in in their own meeting-houses call
ing for contributions, 111 the same way
that they would then decide let them
act in regard to the Congressional Com
mit,tea circular." Secretary l'olger ap
parently assumes that officeholders will
readily understand how they are to net
in regard to the "good pause." The
in ference is clear. Jiven a casual church
goer knows that when the preacher in
"meeting" presents a charitable cause
for contributions he is regarded as in
dorsing it, and the brethren are ex
pected to respond accordingly or suffer
tlie consequences, lfe does not threa
ten them with church discipline, but
the unplensAntnesß to follow a refusal is
understood nevertheless; and the most
reluctant generally dives into his pocket
just about the time the hat goes around.
•Substitute the Treasury Department for
the "meeting house," Secretary Kolger
for "the preacher," the clerka for the
brethren and siaters, and you have the
case exactly.— P/ula. Record.
NATURE never sends a great man
into the planet without confiding the
secret to another soul.
I > —■
WE do uot count a man's years un
til he has nothing else to count.
A (Story or Washington in 1735.
One pleasant morning in August,
1775, General Washington set out
from his headquarters at Cambridge
on horseback merely for recreation.
As was frequently the case, he rode
unattended, and wore the dress of a
civilian. He had proceeded a couple
of miles in the direction of Water
town, when he saw a woman, far ad
vanced in years, sitting in a doorway
and moaning piteously. His sympa
thy was at once aroused and bringing
his horse to a halt he inquired :
"What troubles you, my good wo
man ?"
"Oh, sir," was the reply, "some
rebel soldiers have been here this
morning, and stolen or destroyed every
thing in mygarden. I had cultivated
the gardeu with my own hands, and
looked to what 1 should gather from
it for the support of' my invalid hus
band and myself during the coming
winter."
"May I see your husband ?"
"Certainly. He is always glad to
have anyone to call upon him."
Washington dismounted, tied his
horse to the fence, and then followed
the woman into the house, where, on
his way he found evidences of extreme
poverty, lie was, however, cordially
welcomed by the feeble old man, who,
bolstered up in bed, extended to him
a thin, colorless hand. For half an
hour or more, the Commander-in-
Chief of the American Army held
converse with the aged couple, during
which he learned that they were most
pronounced Tories, and had two sons
—their only children —among Cage's
troops in Boston. Before taking his
departure, he drew some money from
his pocket and held it toward the wo
man saying, "This will enable you to
provide for your present needs." She
at first manifested a reluctance to re
ceiving it, but finally accepted it, with
profuse thanks. Then he promised
that General Washington should be
informed of the treatment to which
his soldiers had subjected her.
"General Washington," she ex
claimed. "He is our bitterest enemy,
and will, doubtless, rejoice to know
that any who sympathize with the
British have been abused."
"1 think you are mistaken in regard
to his disposition ; I hope you are at
least," was the answer with a smile, as
he left the house.
He immediately rode to Major Gen
eral Putnam, who commanded the
centre division of the army stationed
at Cambridge—and having acquainted
him with what he had just learned,
ordered a search for the marauders to
be instituted, and that, when identified,
they be sent to his headquarters. The
third day thereafter an aid-de-camp
conducted three soldiers into his pres
ence.
"Arc you the ones who disgraced
the uniform you wiar by plundering a
defenceless woman's garden ?" asked
Washington sternly.
".She is a Tory," was the indirect re
ply.
"So she told me, and also that her
sonsare in the British army. But she
was a woman, nevertheless, and for
that reason, if no other, entitled to re
spect. Your wanton conduct was
worthy of oppressors rather than of
those who—as does the American
army —aim to prevent oppression.
Accompany them to the woman whom
they molested," addressing the officer
having them in charge, "and see that
they fully compensate her for the
damage they wrought. Another of
fence of a like nature will not be
dealt with so leniently."
Later the same day, while he was
engaged in writing, a servant informed
him that a woman waited in an ad
joining room, who was urgent to see
him privately.
"Ask her to step in here," said
Washington, laying aside his quill.
When the woman presented herself
before him he saw she was the one in
whose behalf he had acted a few hours
previously. She went to him and
placed her trembling hand upon his
arm, saying, "God bless you 1" Then
the tears came and she could articu
late no more.
"Please be seated, madam," and
Washington placed a chair for her.
She seated herself, and as soon as
she could command her voice con
tinued ;
"Only a little time ago the soldiers
who robbed my garden came and gave
me a sum of money, more than suffi
cient to make good my loss. From
them I learned that my visitor of the
other morning was General Washing
ton himself —of whom I had held so
erroneous an impression—and that it
was at his —your —command they
recompensed me. When they had
gone, my husband and I talking the
matter over, came to the conclusion
that such a commander—so unlike
General Gage, who never enlls his
men to account for any violence or
injury they may have done to the
rebels —would not be likely to have
charge of an unjust cause ; and though
we had been firm adherents to the
King, wo then resolved to espouse
your cause in tho future. I think our
sons, when they learn what has occur
red to us, will do the same. I came
hero to tell you this. God bless you !'*
and touching her lips to his hand, she
went from the apartmeut.
Within the mouth two soldiers —
this woman's sons —deserted the Brit
ish standard and enrolled themselves
with those who fought beneath the
flag which was emblematic of freedom,
justice, equality. One of them was
killed, the other was severely wounded
in the assault at Quebec, under Ar
nold.
This story was often told in Boston
and Cambridge during the revolution
and after its close, but we do not know
that it has been given in history.
Stories of popular Kings acting the
part of unknown benefactors have
often been told, as for example, King
Henry and tlm miller, King James
and tin: tinker, hut we have not be
fore met with a like incident of Wash
ington. — F. J'. Foster.
.tlr. Lincoln's Insanity.
A It'nmunce in /lis Early Life and Its Mel
ancholy Episode.
From the Cleveland Leader.
In 1832 at the age of twenty-three
Abraham Lincoln was the owner of a
farm seven miles north of New Salem,
and the half-owner of tlife largest store
in the place. At this time he met with
Miss Ann Kutledge. Two well-to-do
gentleman of the place—Hill and .Mc-
Neil—were courting her with devoted
assiduity ; she decided in favor of the
; latter. He parted with her early in
j 1832 to visit his father in New York,
I promising to return at a given day and
! make her his own. She watched him
ride away on Old Charley, an anti
quated animal that had seen bard
I usuage in the Black Hawk war, and
that had jogged slowly along the bad
roads to New York. Then there came
a letter telling of siekuess in his -fami
ly, which forbade his return at the ap
pointed time. This was followed by
j other postponements, until years rolled
j by. The unaccountable delay, the in
frequency of his letters, and his failure
to give a reasonable explanation of his
postponements finally lessened her at
tachment and made; frightful inroads
upon her health. She only wanted to
see him in order to ask a release from
her engagement, and to let him know
that she preferred another and a more
urgent suitor, whose name was Abra
ham Lincoln. During three years
young Lincoln visited Miss Kutledge
I two or three times a wet k, first as
| a friend in quest of congenial compa
j ny, and finally as a suitor for her hand,
j She was a great favorite in the village,
| loved by all who knew her. h-he was
probably the most refined woman to
whom Mr. Lincoln at that time had
ever spoken. He was always welcom
ed by her father and mother. Tho
latter he always called ""Aunt Polly"
in his familiar way. Both father and
mother entertained for him a deep af
lection, and though theyfeever openly
expressed themselves in regard to
Ann's choice of a husband, yet they
j would, without doubt, have rejoiced to
: receive the manlv Abe Lincoln into
their family, lie lighted up their
home with a cheerful glow whenever
he entered, and gave a pleasant flow of
mirth and joy to their conversation.
Ann's relatives were all united in en
couraging the suit, which the young
man pressed with great earnestness,
but she firmly insisted that her honor
demanded her to wait until she could
be released from her first engagement
before she nmde a second. In 1835
she and Lincoln were formally and
solemnly betrothed, but she asked to
I w ait another year, hoping that McNeil
; would return and that she might re
lease herself from her pledge to him.
Weeks and months passed and he re
turned not. While she was waiting
Lincoln was studying night and day
to make himself more worthy of Ann
and while he was growing in mind and
body and daily developing the great
intellect that was to fit him to lead a
mighty nation through the fierce strug
gles of war, Ann was hourly fading
away. In August, 1835, she died, as
her physicians said, of brain fever,
but, as her neighbors belieyed, of the
long series of disappointments and the
pangs inflicted upon her heart and
mind in striving to do right in regard
to two lovers, to whom she had pledg
ed her hand. Ann was buried in the
little cemetery at New Salem, and as
the future President stobd over her
green grave with streaming eyes, he
said: "My heart lies buried here."
After the burial Lincoln began to ex
hibit that deep vein of gloom and sad
ness so often noticeable in his conduct
while President. He lost all self-con
trol, and every friend he had in N ew
>Salem pronounced him insane. He
was constantly watched, and with spe
cial vigilance, says one of his neigh
bors, "during storms, fogs and damp,
gloomy weather, for fear of an acci
dent," At such times he would rave
piteously, saying, among other wild ex
pressions, " I can never be reconciled
to have the snow, rains and storms heat
upon her grave." His friends finally
succeeded in secluding him in a log
hut u little way from town, were he
was watched over with anxious solici
tude for a few months, until he appear
ed to be restored to his reason, but the
traces of the sadness always lingered
in his character. He visited the ceme
tery daily oud spent hours over her
grave. At this time he was heard fre
quently to repeat a few lines of that
poem he often recited in after years,
entitled : " Why should the spirit of
mortal be proud?" Some nights as
he left the grave of Ann Hulledge he
was-heard to murmur portions of it.
On the evening of March 22,1804, as
he sat in the White House, he drop
ped his pen, turned from his letters,
and with half-closed eyes repeated it
entire to a friend.
TRUST men and they will be true t®
you; treat them greatly and they will
show themselves great.
Shams.
No, Ido not like shams! I never
did fancy shams! I do not care
whether they are pillow shams, or sham
sheets, or sham shirts, or shame of
etiquette, or any other kind of sham!
I like good, honest truth in everything.
If you cannot afford fine cloth enough
to cover both sides of your pillow,
why just get what is a little coarser'
and have both sides alike. It does
not look right to see a fine, flounced,
starched sham spread over a dirty,
coarse pillow case. It looks like a
great many folks that I have met in
this world—very uice, smooth spoken,
agreeable people out in company, but
at home! bless me! you would be
astonished to see how rough and cross
they are! They are human shams.
Then I have met ladies dressed in
silks, and ruffled and fringed, that un
derneath wore soiled linen, and, like
as not, their shirts were trimmed with
fagging, or there were holes in their
stockings that were encased in French
kid boots. This is another kind of
human sham!
Then there are other kinds of sham ;
for instance, two people meet; they
are delighted to see each other; you
would think they were the best friends
in the whole world, when, in truth,
they do not care a copper for each
other, and perhaps make ill-natured
remarks concerning each other just as
soon as their backs are turned. That
is all put on for sham. There is no
real kindness in it. People that ac
tually dislike one another will shake
hands when they meet, which is all of
no account, and is only done for effect.
There are lots of cases where sham is
used when reality would he better. I
think in our intercourse in society
that truth is preferable to pretense. I
do not believe in putting on appear
ances. If you like a person, of course,
show that you do. If you dislike an
individual there is no need of pretend
ing you are loving and kind. One
can be civil, and not hurt any one's
feelings ; but there is no need of mak
ing believe what is not true or real.
The world would be happier ami bet
ter if there was more sincerity and
less shamming. I want to have real
things around me, for I am a sober
reality myself, and I do not choose to
make believe I am any better than I
really am.
Animal Sagacity.
"1 have made some of my most in
l(Tfctjng studies of nature in the
morning/' said (Seth Green. "That is
the time to seethe insects at their best
—to see the mud wasps stinging the
spiders without killing them, and
packing them away where they are
i kept alive for weeks to be used when
needed. I have seen a small greeu
; worm hanging down ou a web. An
j ant, stationed ou the limb above, pulls
| up the web, and just as the worm
! comes in reach of his tiny claws,down
| drops Mr. Worm. The ant pulls up
I again and again, and worm lets out
another reef and goes down. This
| sort of thing continues until finally
j the ant grapples the worm and both
! go down together in a grand scramble,
j in which the worm manages to shake
olf the ant. This leaves the worm on
tho ground. His web is so stroug
that it is still fastened to the limb
above. What does Mr. Ant do? Give
it up? No, sir. I have seen him go
| up the trnuk of that tree, crawl out
; onto the same limb, and go to work
again pulling up the same web. Then
j a I ter another battle, I have known the
ant to get the better of the light and
lug the worm off to his hole, three
j rods away.
"Why, talk about reasoning powers!
: The perseverance and instinct of these
little creatures is wonderful. People
go out to fish. They splash around,
stand up in their boat,drop their lines
three feet away, and wonder because
they don't catch trout. They forget
that trout can see. Fish learn that
tackle and fish are, as a rule, local in
their habitation. There are not as
many gypsies among fish as among
men. Any man who will take the
pains to study fish—or who will re
member a tithe of what he reads about
them —cau catch them. They are
smart, but our brains will beat them.
I remember once of fishing for salmon
trout for a long time and taking noth
ing. Finally I concluded to get down
and look into the water, and so, throw
ing my coat over my head, I got the
required shade and peered dowu. The
salmon would sail up and look at the
minnow. Then, with a quick dart, he
would close his teeth rouud oue-half
the minnow and open them again like
a flash. He did not attempt to eat
the minnow, and half of the severed
body would drop to the bottom. When
it had falleu to the bed of the lake the
salmon would go down leisurely and
eat it. The next timo when I drop
ped my hook and felt tho quick bite
of the trout I let out enough line to
send the hook to the bottom, and the
rosult was that when the salmon went
down for his meal he was fooled and
I had him."
Introilnced to Ills (Sou.
Plii!a. Record.
A strange thing happened at Fre
derick Station, in Montgomery county,
Pa., a few days ago. Aaron Bout, a
well-to-do trucker of the neighbor
hood, a halo old man of fifty, was in
troduced to bis father, Aaron Bout, a
rich merchant of seventy, who lives
on Heas street, in this city. Although
they had been residing two
hours' ride of each other for a quarter :
of a century this wan the first time
they had seen each other, and thereby
hangs a tale. Fifty years ago the
father was well kuowu as a horse
jockey in Montgomery county and
lived near Frederick. lie was a crack
rider across country and the most
popular horseman to be found in the
radius of fifty miles. At all the
county fairs young Bout was authority
on all matters pertaining to horse
flesh, and none daritd dispute his opin
ion. He was a perfect dare-devil in
the saddle, and no one could manage
a four-in-hand as gracefully as he. At
twenty he went off with a, circus, and
in a few months his first son was born.
He did not return to Frederick until
the day, fifty years after, when father
and son first met face to face. The
mother had died and the father sup
posed that the son hail also died. I Jut
while the one was roaming the earth,
leading an adventurous life, the boy
grew to manhood and to middle age.
After many years of wandering, and
when lie had been lost to family and
friends in Montgomery, Bout, the
elder, married and settled in this city,
and became a domestic man of busi
ness, accumulated property and be
came the head ola numerous family.
His last child is now but two years
old, and was born when the father had
reached the ripe old age of sixty-eight.
There are twenty-four other children,
not including the supposed-to-he-dead'
first born, all of them alive. In the
meantime, Aaron Bout, jr., had lived
an uneventful life, had married,
bought a little farm and also reared a
family of children. One day Mr.
George Bilger, of this city, who was a
relative of 1 Bout, died and was taken
to Frederick to be buried. Among
; the mourners was the father, and in
I the company at the church was the
I -on. Neither was aware of the other's
name or identity. An old patriarch
of the neighborhood met Mr. Bout, sr.
He had known him when both were
boys, and was amazed to find him
alive. Falling back in the fuucral
procession he took the son aside.
"Come," said he. "I will introduce
you to your father."
"My father," cried out the astonish
ed man. "Impossible! I have no
father. He is dead."
"No, no," replied his friend, "he is
here. Come with me."
In a few moments the father of
seventy and the son of fifty years,each
somewhat bewildered, were in a long
and warm embrace. For hours the
two sat close together under the friend
ly shade of a neighbor's vine-clad
porch, all unconscious of the curious
gaze of the country folks who had at
tended the funeral.
The son, who has been in Philadel
phia lint once, was pressed to pay a
visit to his father's house on Hens
street, above Twelfth, and when the
I crops have been harvested on the Fre
derick hills there will be another
meeting in this city.
Brave Deeds in the Face of Deulli.
The despatches from Alexandria
enlarge upon the wonderful devotion
and extraordinary bravery of the gun
ners on board one of the British ves-
I sols, who picked up a shell with a
! burning fuse and inuno-ml it in a
bucket of water. This was a courage
ous act, hut it was not "more gallant
than anything of the sort ever before
chronicled." During our own war for
the Union hundreds of cases as deserv
ing of mention occurred.
At Stone river when Craft's Brigade
of Palmer's Division was pursuing the
rounted rebels on the 2d of January,
they came suddenly on a reserve bat
tery that opened on them with surpris
ing fury. The men were ordered to
lie down, and dropped in the soft mud
of a cornfield. The rebel artillerymen
had the rauge, however, and poured
shot and shell into the advance line in
away that tore some unfortuuates io
pieces and covered nearly everyone
with mud. Iu the midst of the terffic
fusilade a shell struck between two
men lying fiat on the ground so near
to their heads as to stun both. Dozens
of men, the bravest there, closed their
eyes in anticipation of the terrible
scene that would follow the explosion.
But one of the soldiers at whose
shoulder the smokiug shell had struck,
digging up a handful of mud, held it
aloft a moment while he said coolly ;
" Ten to one, boys, she don't bust," and
then with a sort of gleeful agility he
brought his great wad or mud down
on the shell smoking in the shallow
hole, and " she didn't bust." No one
thought George Hunt, of Company C,
First Kentucky lufantry, a hero for
doing that, hut possibly he ranked as
high as the courageous gunner on
the Alexandria.
Auother case: When Sherman was
getting ready for his move on Atlanta
great quantities of ammunition were
stored iu the railroad sheds at liesaca.
One day in the midst of a thunder
storm that dismantled the camp, the
ammunition building was struck by
lightning. Hundreds of the bravest
soldiers ran blindly away as they saw
the boxes of shell thrown about, saw
the guards drop as if shot, and saw
smoke issuing from the top of the great
pile of explosives. But one man,
clear-eyed and cool-headed, saw that
the smoke came from tow in which the
shells were packed, and climbing to
the top," A" right, boys; no fireworks
this time," H>> intrepidity and alert
ness saved the ammunition and poesi
bly many lives, and his record should
be kept as green as that of the gallant
gunner of the Alexandria.— Chicago
Inter-Ocean.