Tones OF THE DAY.
The Shonpno, !\ Chinese nowspapoi
gives an account of a man thirty-four
years old with thirty-two children
sixteen pairs of twins. The father i
a poor farmer, and the children are
supported l>y their neighbors.
Four Chicago men have contracted
to build a capitol for Texas, to cost $ i,-
009,000, and take 11,000,000 acres of
public land as payment. Their scheme
contemplates an immenso business in
grazing, and they huve secured #9,000,-
000 for investment for cattle and im
provements.
The Medical society, of Scott county,
lowa, has elected Dr. Jennie MeGowon,
a well-known woman physician of
Davenport, as it. president for the en
suing year. This is the first instance
in the history of the medical fraternity
in which a woman lias been chosen for
the executive position of a medical
society.
The prt sent exports of oleomargarine
from New York, an estimated at from
twenty-live to thirty million pounds.
Chambers' Journal says a large part of
this goes to Holland. American
eheddar cheese is made of oil, lard <>r
this olcomargarino and skim milk.
The imitation is so perfect that compe
tent judges can scarcely determine
which is real and which the imitation
cheese.
It is claimed that ovi r two-thirds of ,
tho German migration cun-ists of
farmers or farm laborers. Three
fourths of the German population of
the Union live on farms. In Wiscon
sin over one-half of the cultivated soil
is owned by tho Germans, while they
also have large holdings in the rural
distrii'ts of Illinois, lowa, Wisconsin,
Nebraska, KanVas, Dakota, Missouri
Still another important canal is talk
ed of in Europe, Hy it is contemplat
ed nothing less than the separation of
England and Scotland by a waterway
from tho Sohvay Firth to the river
Tyne. An engineer is at present
working on the surveys, and estimates
are promised for early publication.
This canal would have a length of
only eighty miles, or twenty miles l<-
than the Suez. It would, of course,
afford a very convenient short cut ,
across the country for ocean steamers. -
Some forty years ago a scheme of the
same kind was talked of.
The growth of the anthracite coal
trade has been something marvelous.
In 1842 only 1.000,000 tons were mined.
Ten years ago an effort was made to
reach what was considered the highest
point that could possibly be attained—
namely, the shipment of 20,000,000
tons. That was considered as much as
the market could take at any time,
'the product fell short of that quantity,
however, as the output for 172 was
19.009,778 tons. Hut that was consid
ered a great year's work. Now it is
nearly 30,<100,000, and who shall say
what it may lie ten years hence?
Tho "isolated city of the great north
west" is up the Missouri river, 1200
miles beyond Hismarck, away from !
any railroad, hemmed in by mountains, j
and at this season shut out from all 1
the world. It bears tho name of Hen- '
ton. in honor of "Old Hull ion," and it;
is the magazine of the Hritish North
west. It is a sulistantial town, because
lumber is so costly there that it is
economy to build with hriek. During
navigation twenty-two steamboats
carry freight to this remote city, and
the volume of business there justifies a
chamber of commerce and mammoth
brick blocks.
A town has l>ccn laid out on the pro
posed line of the Nevada & Oregon
railroad in Nevada, of which great
things are expected. It has been chris-
K tened Helfast. An adjacent lake has
tapped to supply the town with
water, two thousand shade trees have
planted, a hotel is being built, t<>-
BJpgether with a blacksmith shop and store.
and several families have already
up their residence in the new
■<r4'n. There is a tract of 150,000
of valley land around Helfast
which awaits occupation, but it must
be irrigated, and this is ludng arranged
for by the projectors of the town.
One of the most interesting features
of the national exposition of railway
appliances, to be held in Chicago from
May 21th to June 23d of the present
year, will he a collection of antiquated
objects, which, having hail their day,
now serve no purpose except to
illustrate the marvelous development
of railway mechanics. The Troy
Time* says that: "the traveling public
would lie glad to see in that collection
several appliances which are still in
use, including u specimen or two of tlio
stoves which are red-hot from Novem
ber to May, except when they have
been burnt out in the ashes of a rail
road wreck."
"Harmless at doves" is now thought
in Loudon not to be an accurate com- j
parison. The post-ofllco authorities !
complain that these übiquitous birds
make themselves a serious nuisance
by perching on telegraph wires;;
householders have many a lull to pay 1
for mortar which they have pecked
away; at the British museum persist
ent but only partly successful e(Torts
have been made to get rid of them ; at
the ltoyui exchange the authorities
have gone so far as to li\ wire points :
into every nook and corner of the arch
itecture likely to afford a lodgement
for their unwelcome guests; and no
where, it appears, are they in lawful
possession excepting, perhaps, at the
tiiiildhall, where foi several years past
it has been the custom to feed them
everyday with peiis in order to cstale
lish the right of the corporation to
prosecute those who treat tie- lords
w itli ( ruelty.
rim-nix park, iMiblin, the scene of
the a->.i variation of Lord l'rederiek
Cavendish and Mr. Burke, for vvhih
so many prisoners have been on trial,
contains 'JiMH.t acres, and is entered,
like Hyde park, iu Loudon, by a state
ly gateway. it is summit led by a
solid e >ped wall, and t-. the playground
of the Irish metropolis, e;vil and mili
tary, in wliieh solll ud>. pure and ample,
may he realized. It eoiitains statin s 1
Lorl Carlisle, I. rd Cough, and a
hideous granit • ob lisk, frepu ntiy re
ferred to in the evidence, 'J.WI feet in
bight, recording tin; exploits of Well
ington. The spot w itere tie assassina
tion took place it about half a mile
from the entrance, and is ■ verlook. i
by the viceregal lodge, the teini.ollici.d
htune of the lord-li'utenant, which
looks exactly like a twin of our White
House. It lias, however, the advan
tage of many mountain views of great
beauty.
Is not bore a chance for Women
doctors? Mr. Kittridge, of Bombay,
has made a proposal to raise, with the
e.(-operation of natives of India, a fund
guaranteeing women doctors against
hiss, who are willing to go out from
Kngland to that country. The queen
has expressed her interest and approval
of the efforts to send out these women. •
although she did not subscribe to the
fund. The difficulty in India is that
both religious and several laws forbid
the Hindoo woman of the upper castes
the aid of a male physician, and she is .
in consequence left to the mercy of
ignorant native midwives and wise
women. Hindoos of influence and
wealth are exceedingly anxious to pro
vide their wives with the attendance
of educated female practitioners.
Hence Mr. Kitthdge's movement
American women doctors with equal
knowledge and experience will tie as
welcome as the Knglish in this far-off
field.
"If I>om Pedro were to die, there
might lie anarchy in Brazil," writ* s an
American civil engineer and statisti
cian. who has lived there. "The em
! peror's heir, a daughter, "is a complete
1 devotee, crawling on her hands and
| knees, and knowing nothing of the
j state, while the imperial powers are
even now significant, and the popula
tion of Brazil ks grossly overestimated,
probably not moing s,llo*>,f>oo of all
kinds, and of information ai<out the
country there is next to none. Bio
has not over UiO.OOO people, though
put down at twice as much. There
is no free trade nor yet manufactures, !
the land proprietors throwing upon
the foreign trade the expenses of the
revenue, and lumber is brought from
North America, notwithstanding the
timber jungles of the Amazon valley, J
the Inhabited parts of Brazil being
very shrubbily wooded. The two
great peoples of South America are
the La I'lata confederacies and the
Chilians, who will someday probably
portion South America between them." j
A Washington correspondent says of
Senator Sherman's letters: "Senator
Sherman lias got all the letters he has
received during the last twenty or
thirty years carefully filed away in
scrap books with an index moat com
plete. lie told me the other night that
he had aliont 40,000 letters indexed
and filed away. 1 asked what he in
tended to do with all those letters, but
be did not answer me—he changed the
subject. The letters from his brother.
Con. Sherman, must lie very interest
ing. They number thousands, and
were begun when the general was at
West Point, and have continued ever
since. The love of the brothers for
each other is well-known among their
friends. Neither has a thought that is
not In omo way connected with ttio
other. Tho letters of (Jen. Sherman
to his brother during tho war will
make mighty interesting leading if
they are ever printed. They wi re
written in camp sunn times before a
battle and sometimes after one but
they gave the writer's ideas straight
from his heart, and told what he
tln nigh t the same as lie would com
mune w it It himself."
A Forgotten Promise.
There is a young conductor on a
line of street cars in Cincinnati who is
tlic hero of a romantic episode. At the
tlic burning o| tin- llrooklyn
theater, in which so many people were
luiriieil to death, this young man wasa
resident of Hrooklyii. lie attended the
tin iter on the night of the lire, and
sat beside a male companion in the
trout row lie ir the orcln tin. As it
will be remembered, the lire was di - !
eovi-red during the latter part of the 1
first net ol tie "Two Orphans." At the ,
time the llano- ma le tln ir nppi aranre !
behind the vciic". one of iinpany '
billed as Nell I>cll, but who.e M-al
mime wa K.n. M< y. i , a vicing New j
York girl, was doing a song and daiu-e j
act. The lire burst out all over the
•tage with im ri-dible ra| : lily, and the ,
young man saw that this girl was in i
peril. W illi a pring he li npi-d across
the orehe tia railing, elanibi red on the
stage and caught M. Inil in iiis arms
and broke for the private I. nearest
the sir i t. Afti r considerable litli< ulty
he succeeded ill getting Ilito the open
air with the girl i lineup to his iiei k,
I' :'ht. 'nil aliuo-i i i d. ith. 11 •• had
-avi d in r lite, .1 n "st tie who
Were on tie- I age when li" Went to her j
resell" pi-rishcd in the liana-.. Thus
bi gan an a qunintniirc wliich i
ripi in d int • he. c, an I 1 nally tin v w • re !
married. The latlur of tin- girl, who
was a b ; iiu-ss man in New York \
city, made the acipiaintain'e of Ins i
il.c.igbtcr's dcliNcr.-r, ami, pb ao-d with ;
In- appearance, said: "Y'-II have
saved lIIV daughter'- life, and you shall ;
have lor for your wife." Nellie - heart !
had 1 -n -mitten by the good-looking :
fellow (he W.LS a jsnir tinmr at that
tinn i, and a union was- • n i !!• t--d.
The father said to him: "Y-u shall ,
never want for anything." lie must j
have soon forg tten his promise, for '
now bis heroic son-in-law i- mampula- i
ting a bell-punch for a day. Such
i- life in a great city.
Oldest City In the World.
A ride of seventy-two inihrs across |
1 'bo*-11i■ ia, Lebanon, ('--rlo-Syria and
Anti-Lei anon bring* us, by French
i diligence, to I>ama-< us. Abulia and
l'har| ir break through a sublime gorge
alsuit InO yar<U wide, down the middle
of which the French ro.nl winds its
(terpentine rour.-', the rivers on eitlu r
.side being fringed with silv• r poplar
and scented walnut. As we look east
ward fr-uu the 'nrow of the hill tie
great plain of Itauiaseiis, eni irebsl by
a framework of desert, lies liefore us. i
The river, escaped from the rm-kv j
gorge, spr> ads out like a fan. and after 1
i a run of three mile*, enters lama*cus, i
where it (low s through 15, ""0 bouses, !
sparkles In b",000 marble fountains, j
and hurries on to scatter wealth and 1
fertility far and wide over the plain. |
Those who have gazed on this scene |
are never likely to forget its supreme j
loveliness. Its beauty is doubtless i
i much enhanced by contrast. Tho eye;
has !*-n wandering over a chocolate
Cfdopsl an-1 lieated landscape through-j
j out a weary day; suddenly, on turning
a corner, it r >ts on Kden. I lie • ity is -
spread out ls-fore you, eiiiltowered in ,
orchards, in tho midst of a plain of
300 square miles. A round the pearl
colored city first in the world In jsiint ]
of time, first in Syria and Western
Asia in point of importance surge like
an emerald sea, forest,* of apricots and
olives and apples and citrons, and
"every tree that is pleasant to the sight
and good for food," with all their
variety of color and tint, according to
their season, sometimes all aglow with
blossoms, sometimes golden and ruddy
with fruit, and sometimes russet with
the mellowing tint* of autumn.—Con
temporary Rrrietr.
Street -tars.
There are now doing business In this
country and Canada 415 street rail
ways, employing about 35,000 men.
They run 13.000 ear*, and more than
100,000 horse* are in dally use. C.d- j
minting that the average life of n
horse in street-railway service is four
years, it makes the consumption of
horses 25,000 per year. To feed thh
vast number of horses requires an
nually 150, f kK) tons of hay and 11.000,-
0o<) bushels of grain. These companies
own and operate over 3000 miles
track. The whole number of passen
gers carried annually Is over 1,212,400,-
000. The amount of capital invested
exceed $150,000,000.
Japan's Mont Famous Artist.
One hundred and twenty-three years
ago-In the year junt before the first
übserVfd transit of Venus there wan
a looking-glass milker in Yedo, who,
wan made happy by tin* information.)
"It's a I toy." Neighbors aid friends,
rushed in to congratulate: Mrs. Middle- j
island, tlic happy mother whose son i
North-house t llokusai) was to become |
(lie most famous artist in Japan.
As the hoy grew up he was fond of
drawing, and always had a pencil or
brush-pen in his hand, lie made pic
tures of babies on their mothers' hacks,
•jf chubby children playing. <d the own
frlcss wollish dogs and bob-tailed < at •
:tf Yedo. Nearly all the Japaties •
irtists before North-lion e had p:iiut<-d
inly lords and ladb * of the court,
nobles' cod utiles ami p"rg<-oii ,11-;
Ircsses, and g<>ld-lac>pi< red \ > > - and
pnlampiius belonging to the n al <
Many of their subjects were < hi: • e,
but silken curtains and red temph I
mil pagodas, with abundance of gold
"•lends in the pieint to cover ej II •
•lain, or common parts, wen -v -. it one
aw on the most faiooiis ■ -a .( >i
Hut Flokn ai v. i an n of the
people. I|c cared 111 t t . II >! , '
iltout Chinese heroes, or high I rds ol
'he court except t > mal.i tun of them
and vi he truck out in an v. '.in.
lb- pieturi I 1 rin : < and m •In .!■ .
hatch.-I c .'ta • a' 1 I. ' and li.ar
<ets, pad. hor-. -• d tree' .1 . and
•verythlng in hun 1,1 . lb■ < '■ e
illy entered into tie- j.iM-n.le v. riu
which is only as high as a yard- k
| >nd while his lu tie r arti ' ir> !
t lit., the lie lllita ' o.d il. ■>: . 11
■
:bat . . n the 1 i ■ s under d i
1 1 rawing*, and 1 "1
( for their pattern*. 'I mil
i !he dainty j ietnrei . 1
; Jai anese b. li' -it > . b I .
1
4
reproduced in cob r.
llokusai t V. : •
I -1 1 . and lao .r.sl '■ evil ■ ■
• ilsiut five v. i• • f..rc ' in
I'. rry entered t' • pay of y. ! . Jl
! ?hief books of |;. tur. are!. • nan-in
:>r album of sk. r. b< • . • . .
made journeys, and the finds . f 1 •
| travel w. re hi "Hundred V;> v. . J
I Fnji-Yatua." besides many ; turt ■ ol
; natural ■o .-n.-ry. 1! ■<! .-a
timre simply and h- -: n -te ..' a*. - r
l.tjt are much < barer thai. *I
most .lapani-e drangl.' t at
• f th<-m all. Hot.u ai Übest understood
t by foreign.:
j llokusai i* d<ad. but th an la ol
Japanese still chuckle over his carh
lures : and in \ hi. : •. - t i •..
j lilverware, wall-j ipgr, •-mhr idery, and
i hundn d f-.r:
I
a character all tk.ir .w M.
N lchola*.
Small Hod-Chambers.
There is r- i •. t-. tti.it*!
ra- s of dang-ron- and fatal .|,-..ei
r> gradually dig'mh red annually b;
1 th.- habit of -!<. j ing in small, unv. •/.
j 'a' • d rooli.s, t;.a:i ba . :r. • d fu
a cholera atim> pher. during any yea;
J ince it made it- appearance in this'
j Muntry. Very n my jier .in si. <j. in
| ight-by-tm room-; that is. in r<>ti:s
i (lie length and I r.-adth of u hi< h mill
' liplied together, ari l this multiplied'
•gain by ten for the bight >.f tin
diamlier, would loake just -'• cubic
feet, while the cubic spa •• f.>r < acli
' hod, according to the ling! h app. r
'.ionment f.r hospitals, is Jpsi feet
: Hut more, in order "to give the a.r of a
i room tile highest ib gree of fr> shiie-s,"
!hc French hos|iilals contract for a
complete renewal <f the air ola room
very hour while the F.nglish a*-, rt
'hat double the amount, or over 11.'"*
feet an hour, is re piircd. -pnui f.su of
I jir every hour! ami yet there ar<- mul
litudes in the city i.f New York wh<
'deep with closed doors and window.
a r-siins which do not contain a
housand cubic feet of space, and that
j thousand feet is to last all night, at
I ast eight hours, except such si anty
: supplies as may he obtained of any
; fresh air that may insinuate itself
through little crevices by door or w in
low, not an eighth of an inch in-thick
less. Hut when it is known that in
Ttanv cases a man and wile and in
fant sleep habitually in thousand-feet
i riKitns. it is no marvel that multitudes
( perish prematurely in cities: no won-!
ler that infant children wilt away
ike flowers without water, and that
V<mhi of them are to die in the city
f New York alone during the hum
lrcd days that shall include the l"th
>f July, Another fact issiigges
ive, that among the 15<,m) persons
S"ho sleeji nightly in the lodging
! louses of London, expf s*ly arranged
n the improved principles of space
ind ventilation already referred to,
t has been proven that not one sin
'le case of fever has been engender
din two years! Let every intelli
rent reader improve the teachings of
his aitirJe without an hour's delay.
- [The Builder.
Home Quaint Epitaph
Hem lies my vril let her lie,
I>L poui-H, uml HII AM 1 .
JJciieatli till* HI oil'*, a luinji ol clay,
l.l'i Alatiela Yuttu; 1 ,
Who on HIM 20'h 'lay • f MJ
to liulil In r toilful*.
ITI Yazoo City, MKs. # in tlii* iri'Tip-
Uon:
|!i*r lien intern*! Bird
Who niieiirOi IJI <>-;
Now up on n*xv tl* nky
N > doubt }<• Hku loo#
Till* one appears in Sutton church
yard:
)I*r# Hen fhq boty ol H ituijid IV<* tor,
Who live*! HIM! diod witltout i doctor.
At Oxford, N. 11., is tin* following:
'Jo till my fi i*ti<!• I bd adieu,
A moro Mti ldi ti dfuth >Oll iii'Vi t knew,
AH | will ]< udif the old in.to o dunk,
Hliekii.'kfMl and kdlrd no* pir.*r'ii H winks
An inscription in ivt'-r's chur< h
yard, Hereford hire, England, reads;
wit* tnv j < rtiou,
I'll) -• WIIH 11, JlMfl
Ofoiina V.iih my devotion;
I h j, i ti i• • i.o /< x d,
'J he 1/ i d took pr y on in*,
Jbfjiuei j.i- thought it n*nt
II- t d. Ill* tO ills IMMHIDI
And . i* I he at rent.
Even HV.-tniiii t< r abbey, tiie
burying ground 'I ni'i'iai'liH, is net
without iti |ii r • pitaplis. Ovi r
tin )>■" t *in v ujij.' ir :
J.ife II IJ ', in 1 uli tli RIG- H'I'IW it.
I (bought HO in • E, Mil l now I know it.
IN I NEW ll. in. |. hir<* cemetery
a 11.!111 t .H<* V ,th tin in- ription:
I!> LILT"! .I.'itkiu* lierii "hitli lay,
(I -e. LV I I . I < I 11.MI "II I ll* *> ;)
|j. body 's bi ft he .n.. . m Ilea*' n.
IT'-7.
Mr . den!.ln . ! I ■ • ha 1 a Mini' rua
family, had on h< i tune;
S"!L!M IL I'. e PLL: Ireil. HI'IIII* LLHVM nunc,
ll' I C • a th' IN I. her "I t > uty-om •
'1 ill- hi.l 1 • - * . ta] ill ! "!l the t Illle
T tie I.f a 'hi.A who Hi'-'! in let* !I< 11_
\v; % LIE i i w.T- l.ilh '1 during a |
T .• I' : TERM. <in 11 • *t"ll< ai> the
v, ret -;
Struck
by
Thunder*
An •' 1 in Jiurham nas ti *
in - i ; .1 :■ n "li hi- tombstone:
LI. I' ■ THEE.- .ME, 11,U,ne,
Ol ! :."i 1". .• liMin,
Ih Ul •1 e-Irani imrln year,
And it. EN 1... TI.EI HE k him.
Th." i* ' r th" gi NC IF a victim of
Wat. rl" :
I fen' hm tl. 1 dr of A M I'n*r*on,
V\ o wi* . • i iimiM nrt p. i— i i;
\\ l. , v* 1- t * \ ardw in hit "eking It<+l,
A ikj' .i - . iti-rm* n** i"Mil find j.i"iit
JI * IV- •• w
A* • t *r. 1 \S ut
I*hifcb ' hnnifch
i h ♦ ' I wriit in ht hit thrrmt
A i an* frit til tlio twi k i 4 inn c<At.
I:i 1..:. ■ aMi'ilral. Ireland, may
1 • a ! • . . w ing imo rijitii>n <n a
hate. • .tie 1 ii-let:
"Mr* f','l M I! r* Ji*th Kitti* S* ir,.
iliri t gtcit t"*d r 1 *k*r •!
It, • t k > 1 i h .m* M *k* r. I.r
li, x b • * Inn* i;* r •!% mil tint
t n i, t* i IM'*h • t <•••: h; tr< ;.tr ]*!;•
1 f • f v v. i i < i ) v iv r-t. An 1 I r
If'- • ti ' .< I • ..•*. Jiy lii >'fi Jb ,
. !
If"** I'.tm'ielt* I.cot an Eye.
II IF..' 1 v. LIO lia 1 11" J re\ JM'.n ' F
tin ' fa! rity, \* ante 1 t"
'
I ••:,*!. . .a H I am Immunity J
fr :n 1 R.:. • W.O 1 r-aight a • ill - I
< !• :I* a.L; V ia*l. I 11.1 \* I. V ateh
in_* a K f. rr EH R •■]>• rate on a wheel, j
the MILD. "I kn.fe g.t detarhol J
fr m th- ' ami Ih-** into tin |
1 i ld.adol .t. lie was very <
M h J eti 1 A I a-. ( N nee. AINL th'
mother **;<• iml Idenol by her IN- J
Ir- i"d t -:■ ; -I ■ m-.-t upon I.' "Il
In ing • t i ih. I'et.t Neminain of •
Mojitfai' n i.ri*<ii* a < hw;eal edu
cation. Her linil and was an enemy
to 1. "! r m-trm-. and thought the
communal *• h" I for a ley
who- do-t r y r was to be a provineia)
gr-e •r. [ • ■n' arv.
What to Un When ChoVJnc.
l)r. J. W. White gives these direc
tion* to s.ivi' one who ih choking : I>o
not 10-.e an instant. Force the mouth
open **ith the handle of a knife or of
a Mmng s|Hion; pu"h the thumb and
lingers down into the throat beyond
trie riH-t of the tongue, and feel for the
fonign lsly. if the uldruction can- |
not lie grasped, a hairpin lent into a j
hook and guided hy the left hand \*ill |
often bring it out. If this fails, get j
s unc one to pr*ss against the front of
the chest or supjiort it against ,
a table, and strike several hard
<jiii< k blows with the open hand on the
hack, between the shoulder blades. ,
Further treatment must be applied by
a physician, who should have been im
mediately sent for.
Two Wrecked I.fve*.
I An eccentric hut gmsd-hearted old
miser recently dii*d in the village of
North Lima, Ohio. When a young
man ho had loved a pretty Herman
maiden, hut through the efforts of her
father they were prevented from mar
i rying. The young man. l>*sing all in
terest in life, came to America and Is*-
rauio a recluse, and the maiden became
insane, and has been in that condition
for the last fifty-eight years. The will
i of the old man was discovered after
his death ; and it was found that he
gave the saving* of Ids lifetime to his
, earlv love, whoso mind is too impaired
I for her even to understand the slgniff
-1 canco Q( CIQ act
WAB'S HOKUOKH.
turvld Drif rlptlon of (Itc Unfile of
f r nk 1111 •
It was the tfOth of November, IWJ4.
At 1 o'clock in tin- afternoon the line
•>f battle was formed, Stewart on the
! right, Cheatham on the left, their right
tail J'*ft flanks, interlocked like J'ar
tbi.tri shields, composing the writer.
'•Mural Stephen 1. Lee's corps was
held in reserve. Cleburne's position
was in the renter; bis division formed
iii three battle linen, and he at itsheuiL
1 bus arranged, Hixxl's line wan nearly
two mites long. advamlng, curved like
, a Mussulman's r-imcter, with tho blade
to the foe. Jlut let u follow Cleburne,
Illicit were blowing, drums beating,
and band . playing. A courier (lashed
iij> to rteburiu's presence, arid ivxin tho
word "Attention!" was given, then
I "Forward, man h!" and the column
j a >-d over a hill and through the little
I i n of w< . Soon they CTiUTgnJ
, into an oj n fi!d arid steadily they
.j a- •! i with "proper cadence" tee
ward i !•• 1 and (hath. 'J lie I "tend
iat t ri• 1< /an to ojx-n. First '"Uii'i
I 1 ' i i r thi • arth and
tear.!. ' era-lo through the ranks,
' • .!e.' h'. flew thr igh the.
ar • i tin- w.ng ! ruction, bur t
itig under and a!- -ve and around the
en. and. at ry • p! ..ion unbinding
•• i .1- than ever flew from I'ando
r.M box. Twilight was coming on,
"Forward menw as repeated all along
tie-l ne. A 1.-...\g sheet of (ire was
j nil into th- ir rank-. Jlut the men
pre' ed f rward i.-.nt.l the terrife- r- r
ii .; ■• r ' f . from wing ?
: wing.
N ght came and two armies
(• t t vi.) i.; f g i* ,n de pair,
i a irm ' <!dvar <: • rat, : ■ it abovu
' .< il.n of am. "i me. tx.y-!"
ni • amain, 1 a.- iin, and agam seven
'.ne-. ' h uric - divi-;on, and. in
ih • . ..ii • I II f- army, eharged the
breastworks. And once again, and
again, ami agin, seven times were
the;, repu! -d. I.', ery tine-they formed
and r< ! rim u:. ler a meet galling fire.
\t ••! t just after . . (':• !,urne
eoptured a portion of the work- and
' rre itf- gai.-of a Federal battery
n * • r former owners; lut it was
nly f.r . few moment" i little silver
, rift .11 tie battle eteud- that eUVI loj.i I
| him in d irkinss. It the hottest
lire I'leburne bad ever inet. It was
! nt one stream of biasing hades. Can*
P e-.it - ep'oii..ni -eh- f the breast
; w ri.s and F'sb-rais on the other. Men
bll l! ;t mi their faees and firisl from
la-hind the h.hes of their dea l com
rates. I>'.id soldiers filled tie intrench
ne e!-. Isi l made the earth as slijs.
pery as an . c-jxind. Thus the firing
■ w.i kept iij until after midnight, and
gra .ally do i out. Jlut both armies
i held tle-.r own. The Confederates
I i- '-l the night w here they were, just
out-o'e the In istwork*. The Feder
j al-. only a few f ■ t ofT, held their cover
until near daybreak, when they quietly
marched b.e k t • .N a hville.
lint when the i rrow's sun l>egan
to light up the sky the surviving sol
dor- 1 .ked out uj> -n a sail battlefield.
Tin dead were piled one on lop of tho
otlnr in awful heaps, and wounded
-is in'si thieker than the uncounted
stars. Horses, like men, had died
game upon the defenses. Cleburne's
Ixuly lay th'-re <>n the top of the breast
works. ghastly in the sleep of death,
pop dwitht rty-nine bullets, through
and throng! . His mare hail her f<>rc
f. i t on t ji of the works, dead in that
I position.
N >t far f- mi win-re Cleburne lay was
S'-en the .e.id ImnlV <>f General Adams.
His h<r-- h i 1 liis forebs-t on one sido
of th'- w rks and his hindfeet on tho
"tln r. de il. The general ins-ms to
liave I.cn i aught so that he was held
to tin- ler-.b.< k. sitting lx.lt upright
I in his s.iddb', as it liv ing, riddled and
tern with balls, General Stahl lay by
the road-side and bis horse by his side,
: Ix.th dead, and all his staff. General
' i.-t from s<mth Carolina was lying
with I-.is sword, reaching across tho
briastworks, still grasped in his han<L
He, too. was dead. Gem ral GraaWrry
of Texas and his h r-e was seen, horso
and rider, right on top of the breast
works, dead. All dead. Four thou
sand live hundred soldiers all lying
side by side in death. Thirteen Con
federate generals were Killed and
woumbsl. te\ 1 rothers, members of a
Mississippi regiment, were all dead.
"This was the bloodiest picture in tha
I Ixvok of time."
A Spunking Team.
Johnny and Tommy were playing
out In a stn-et w here there was much
fast driving, and wherp they had Intea
forbidden to go.
"Hello," said Johnny, "there comes
a spanking team."
"Where?" rcpltel Tommy.
-Ilight across the street there; it's
your mother ami mine, anil we'd better
cut sticks and get out of this" which
♦hey did, with their mothers after
them.