—————————— A JERSEY ROMANCE. “Do you know Rod. Clark" T ask- ed one day of a friend as we sat tc gether under the eternal unrest or Old Ocean. “Rod Clark ? No, I don't think I do, at least not by that pame. Who is he? “Well, he is the man who keeps boats for hire at Clark's Landirg ov Squan River, back of Point Pleasant. He is a tall pleasant faced man. He is lame and walks with the aid of a heavy cane.” «I remember him now. What about him ?” «Well he is a Liero, and has had his I don't know He is very own little romance. that I oughtto tell it. modest and rarely speaks himself. I drew the story from him by repeated questioniogs, aod 1 am not sure that 1 succeeded in obtain ing all the facts most honorable to I was riding with him re- ahout | imself. cently, and noticing his crippled con- | dition, I asked him the cause of it whether rheumatism or a broken limb? “No,” said he, “1 have a wooden leg.” “Where did you leave the original? I asked him. “Oh! I lost that in the war, at the battle of Frederick. We had having hot work of it all the alter. been noon,” he continued. long column of rebels began to pour out of the woods eu our left, and grad- worked around ually our inour rear. Just at that moment a minpie ball shattered my ankle bone into fragments. Of ecurse I fell but two of my comrades raised me up and placing me astride a musket started to carry me off the field, my back, of course, being turned tovard the ens my in front. than fifteen paces before another ball | struck me in the back, went through one of my lungs, and, piercing the bones and muscle of my breast stop=- ped just beneath the skin, raising a projection much the shape and size of a hen's egg. OF! course My illed, ran back to the COmraues ported me dead. After a while sciousness returned and I found th our boys had fallen back and I f the posing forces. By degrees and intense lying between the two fires op- agony I managed to crawl sore fil- ten paces further into a corner of the fence. The sun was yetshining bright- | fence | put my hat over my face to keep the ly, and as I lay there by the sun off. In a few mioutes a coupie of rebels came up to the fence and crouch ing down behind me used what they | evidently supposed was my dead body for a breastwork, and began firing, Our boys returned the fire and the | very first ball grazed my forehead, leaving a long, red mark, and knock- ing my hat off my face. The “rebs” beaten as | thea supposed, got up and | discovered a romasee.—— Er-Judge | ran back, aod was undisturbed save by the oceasional singing of a ball as it passed near me. “Finally a | flank. | We stood our ground, but saw that | we must soon fall back or have a fire | We had not gone more | After a little | living to see the morning, I declare to you that I could hardly help laughing at the disgust he expressed when he found that the bullet which had shat tered my ankle bad also badly torn the hive. He savagely threw the shoe down and went off muttering etirses on the “id——n fool” that had ope time during the night a young rebel came along with a bayonet in bis hand. I asked him for a drink of water. “D——n you,” he said. I have a good mind to give you this, presenting the However, he guve me neither one nor the other bayonet, but afier hesitating a moment went off. the bayonet still in his hand. | In a few minutes he returned and, 10 tell the truth, 1 didn't care told me I couldn't live, and I didn’t want to suffer any longer. But he “Here, I want to show you-uns las he place] it to my lips. | take this; think us.” | the other cases having been attended to, we hopeless ones were looked after I was taken to the hospital. The bul- let was cut out of my breast, my leg | dressed. fearful looking object, covered with | the dust and dirt of the march before | the battle, aud blackened with pow der.” Clark | then he stopped. that much and I again hioted for told me him to go on, but he remained silent [ turned toward him and then noticed a dreamy far away look in bis honest blue eves, and a smile, tender as a maidens and aimost boyish In ils bashfulness, gradually spread over bis features. Pleasant memories seemed to be at work, and | waite said, “We | I might as well you think little he Who do first washed and cared for me teil y u the rest. there? “One of the hospital nurses, I suj pose,” I replied. “No. said he r lady trom presence the sic diers. Nurses were scarce and she was given a basin and towels aud she went bravely to work. She wash. d oft the dirt and powder, combed my hair, matted and, with that genti ! touch which only a woman can give, arranged my pillows, and I dropped That ju t off into a good, sound sleep. girl took care of me then, and pursed me back into life.” “Do you know what became of her ”’ | 1 asked. “Well, I married her. | there, at present on a visit, or we She is down | would see her now,” he added, as we | halted in front of his house, And so I not only found a hero but | Buchanan. | — 8 A—— As One Risen From the Dead while, I turned partly over to relieve | my pain, when I saw oneof the rebels lying back of me dead. The bullet that had grazed my forehead had kill ed him as dead as a door pail. After a while night esime on and the firing died away, Then came the surgeons and searching parties. All regarded me as a hopeless case and left me to die, while they attended to those for whom there was some hope left. And so I lay from five o'clock of the after The family of Mrs. J. S. Brady, of | Toomshoro, Ga., was greatly astonish- ed when a besrded stranger, bent with age stood at the doorstep and inquired {for Mrs. Horn, the mother Brady. “I am your husband,” he said as soon as Mrs. Horn appeared. | After looking at the stranger in- ed away. spoiled a good shoe in that way. At thought my time had come then, sure | : | how soon he put me out of my misery | Every surgeon who came to me had | gave me his canteen instead, saying, | that we uns arenot as hard as you uns | “About nine in the morning, all} was amputated and my wounds were | [ lay there upon the cot, a | of Mrs. | tently for & moment, Mrs. Horn swoon: | A Texas Valedictory. | “Hv og made srrangements with | Mr. K. Bradley to fulfill oll my paid Leontraets, I now bow myself down Land cut us a great journalist. I have | saved the country—hence am happy | — Bradley will continue to keep it I have filled the long felt | want, and Bradley will throw “his saved, | weight on the stopper and endeavor to keep it filled. I huven’t made any money to brag of, but I have had a | large assortment of fun. I kuow that my friends will weep over my retire. | ment, but when I tackle them with a | basket of bavanas or string of garlic | they wi'l still have an opportunity to Italian band. I cannot sfford to be idle, and must Grover | recognize my fine fad keep busy until our Uncle throws a post office or a mission over my manly form und says: ‘Thomas, | your country needs your services, old boy take this, there are better things Then 1 announce that I am in the hands of yet in store for thee” will {my friends. Grover Cleveland is those friends.”-—Texas Black Way. —— AI—— Twenty Good Reasons don't seem to understand why ladies prefer There are some men who sober men. The matter is simple | enough: 1. Wives like sober husbands be- cause they can reason with a sober man, 2. The ionable, ober man 18 more compan. } } hava . SODET Men Dave nride, and pride alin hiodd Is 8 WOAH » rity meats a confortable children 6. A hou 7. Evenings room al noms bar 16. Your family and appre« mle you 17. Your enemies w path of soberity. 18. Scoffers will be disarmed by your works, 19. Your mauly qualities will grow | with your years. 20. God will bless you. 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The wound in my back was clotted with gore Each breath I drew was through a torn lung. The night came on chilly an my wound stiffened and inflamed. The shattered leg booes pierced the torn flesh. I could lie easy in no po sition, and each change added to my suffering. As I grew feverish a rag: ing thirst came on. Sometimes ove of the searchers would give me a drink. Sometime I would be refused the water being needed for others. To crown all my misery, while I lay in this state, a rebel came along and picking up my shattered limb, tore the shoe off my foot. Well! well! didn’t that hurt ? And yet, tortured as I was, and with no expectation of try. Carswell Guards aod served until the battle of Gettysbarg. On the retreat ain, and deserted to the Federal side. After the war he wrote to his wife but the letter was miscarried. 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