A Gale oflonisiana During the great Civil War the Union soldiers encountered many Ine stances of loyal devotion to the old flag in the South, One particular instance, | 1 recall, of loyalty to the Union on the part *of a Southerner, and a Jew, where a tragedy might readily have been enacted. At the time 1 was Judge Advocate of a military comma. glon, organized in New Orleans during the last year of the war. A Jew was brought before us, upon the charge of having furnished ald and comfort to the Confederacy. Proofs of his guilt appeared quite conclusive. He had been captured within the ene- my's lines, opposite Baton Rouge, and upon his person was found a paper containing a very complete list of arti-| cles, Including revolvers, ammunition, quinine, ete. He had dagreed to deliver these the following evening to the Confederate captain, with whom he ap- peared to be arguing when our boys captured the squad. 1 have forgotten the stated compensation, but It was very large, the amount to be paid for each article being listed at figures far | bevond even war prices, The Jew could speak but little Eng- lish. and his attorney, who had been a colonel in a Western volunteer regi ment, and was permitted by courtesy to act in the prisoner's behalf, antago- nized, from the first, Colonel Buchan- | an, the president of the commission. The latter was a Regular Army officer of the old school, a martinet, red-tape West Pointer, who still maintained that McClellan was the best of all our Generals, and that Grant, Sherman and Sheridan were Generals simply by good luck, and without especial mili | tary acquirements The Articles | of War and military rules and regia tions were to him as sacred as Holy | enator, he sentenee « 10 : fal should stoop to enrie ny's worth by trade property was cause fo hment and everlasting ox Colonel of Volunt Woes i orn style and ind wit! details Wor been | ught to |} hy an Wu nown boy that a lot of Rebels had been seen | several t ir the Ferry, opposite | n Ron nd would be ther again, partieniarly the evening in question. Obtaining permission from the General commanding, the Captain took par mnnny. crossed ove concealed him and men near tl Ferry sed the Interview between eo Confederate Captain and ths Jew He was not ck hear the conversation, hut the Jew was not surprised to meet the Rebels, and shortly after they met he gaw him hand the Captain a paper Metinwhile, his men had eauntiously closed in on the enemy, and after a slight resistance captured the entire party. It was true, the Captain added, that he knocked the Rebel Captain's re solver from his hand just as he was about to shoot the Jew, hut neither of them would whet! ve any quarrel, or If so, the cause, The Jew seemed surprised to be treated as a prisoner, add when the paper was found upon him, and some of the hovs wanted to hang him without trial, he looked bewildered and dazed, He at tempted, two or three times, to make some sort of explanation. but seemed #0 free and unconcerned about the whole matter, and t¢ied to be 0 con fidential, that the Captain, too, at last got angry, and told him that If he didn’t hoid his tongue no great effort would he made to restrain the hovs from earrying out thelr threat, The Rorgeonnt ond two of the mon 4st ified in much the same way. The Sergeant added that when he sald to the Jew, “Why. you gray-headed old sinner, don’t you know that that paper we found on youn will hang you higher than Ilaman™ the Jew merely shrugged his shoulders and sald some thing to the Rebel Captain, who had i mes ns tof him ¢ if i withes me enon he ahs state there or | and I feared he had already prejudged| duced, BY D'ERF MAILLIW taunted him about his “Yankee friends,” fo the effect that “hanging vas petter t'an helping Repels.” The President appeared to consider all this side testimony as wholly ir revelant and useless; apparently his own mind was fully made up as to the prisoner's gullt, although there ap- peared to me room for very grave doubt, The placid and almost con- tented look of the old Hebrew, and his tinconcern when captured with such a damning paper in his possession, com- pelied In me a belief that he was not entirely guilty, or at least that the whole truth had not yet been known, | and that there must be some extenu-| ating circumstances, In my position as Judge Advocate, I endeavored to bring out these points, and worded my questions accordingly. But Colonel Buchanan was supreme] over any court where he presided, and| no question was ever permitted to bel asked that he did not fully sanction! and often change to suit his own views, He tried to be just, yet he was] extremely arbitrary and oplulonated, the case. After a consultation with his client, the lawyer said he would like to have| the Rebel Captain who commanded the captured squad summoned, “What do you propose to prove by him?" thundered the Colonel. “He is a Rebel, taken in arms against the Government; I doubt if 1 ought to per: mit his testimony to have any weight before this Commission,” The lawyer, however, insisted that! he was a very lmportant witness, and | though refusing to reveal his line of defense, demanded that he be pro-| and threatened, If his request] was refused, to lay the whole matter {answer my question; remember this “Do you recognise this paper with formed me that be desired to repay mel the list of articles, which he agrees, | in some way for what he elated to over his own signature, to deliver to] be my great service to him during his you, and in whieh you are described | trial. 1 assured him that 1 had done us belonging to the Rebel army?” | nothing for him that the case dld not “I should reckon I did. dn't 1] fully warrant, but he insisted that but write it and put it in every blessed ar- for several of my protests he might ticle I thought we Rebs, as you call] have been condemned without a hear- us, could get and make use of 7” ing. 1 explained to him that that was I looked at Colonel Buchanan and simply the duty of any Judge Advo saw a pallor slowly creeplug over his) ate; but he sald that Jews were never face. ungrateful and made me a point blank “Do yott mean to say, sir,” he asked, | offer, that if 1 would resign my coli. “that this prisoner did not voluntarily mission and start a store in Mobile, meet you people, and of his own free | which had then just come into the pos- will agree to sell and deliver the artl-| #ession of the Union forces, he would cles mentiotted In that paper?’ The stock It with ten or even twenty thon witness threw his head back and | sand dollars’ worth of goods, give me lattzhed bolstérously. The old Colo-| the entire charge and ake ne an nel’'s face changed from white to an equal partner, apoplectic red, and he again rapped | As 1 mused over the old Maderia, for order. and sald sarcastically. | viglons arose before me of a prosper “Please restrain vour merriment and | ous business and also frequent calls to 1 Baton Rouge to consult with Mr Isaacs, when I doubted not I would be a welcome visitor at his and his dough { ter's home, and—1 all but aceepted the offer. But ere the evening was spent, the {spirit of war drove “sentiment from my thoughts, An orderly brought the news of another fierce guerrilla raid up is a court room, and not a theatre.” “eg pardon, Colonel, but If you'd seen how the old sinner trembled when 1 shoved my six-shooter under his nose and told him I'd blow out his brains if he didn't sign it, you'd want to laugh, The six-shooter hadn't nary a charge, but he didn't know 4 100. from the Bayou Teche, and making a hasty adieu, thanking the old gentle man for his generous offer and bend ing over his lovely daughter's hand, I galloped back to my command and wis soon again in the saddle on a four days’ ride. that. You see, the way we got hold of him was this: Some of our boys live in Baton Rouge, and they know the old fellow hag alwavs been considered n higger Yankee than old Greeley him gelf., When we saw him inside our lines, near the Ferry, where we learned he had been to visit some sich relative, we made up our minds we'd got a pretty good thing, We knew hs was a rich old cock, and that his store carried one of the biggest stocks of | Men -Prosaic and Unromantic. goods outside of Orleans. 1 decided] Women never can get used to the that 1 could scare him Into signing |lack of romantic sentiment displayed by most anything, but it was tough work | the average man i Rl I thought at one time I'd really have It takes a woman to hoard up every to load up and give him a flesh wound "01 » writing of a beloved hand, to make him ante up. Then Just as! wk it away in a desk with blue he had signed the paper you Yanks Hibuon BY nite be ba 4H swooped down upon us.” rt Sak A $411 ah “Do you mean te say, on your oatl is safely treasured up, ; ald the Colon: ise | ithed unusual or fer on your Rau ah ing ments, but because indited In I~. A DIFFERENCE IN THE SEXES. Sentiment Not Highly Developed in oath, sir” | imperiously, “that the prisoner did not | send erie] out. with the most intense scori | by the lawyer | eomviction, PHA (reneral ommanding before ¢ Den 3 nel fared 1 tou { t ev ed States othe INIIIes on, to bout fear or r members of this Cor do my whole duty wi ’ vor ™ fa painful our dis a few possibly looks that becoming patient with his arbits manner e sald, “Bw 1 do not want to be un n 5 IA Ary “Mr. President visable to = I ventured 1 immoen { if It wn that 1) know | Age | € Utterly ignoring he asked the lawyer how soon he could prod ice the wWithess “A halt hour after you nmons,” was the reply “The court stands adjourned till the sual hour to-morrow Captain” to e, “prepare the necessary summons.’ Sin" to the lawyer, “if your wit ness Is not here pr mptly when the court meets I shall not walt a moment Too much time has ven wasted al ready.” As the lawyer passed ine when leay- ing the room he a sly dig, and with a solemn wink whispered, “My lnning's to-morrow.” Promptly when called the following morning, the Rebel Captain appeared He was a Innghing, brighteyed young fellow of about 28, using crutches as a result of the loss of his right leg. Colonel Buchanan was impressively polite, and told him not to attempt to stand while the onth was administered It was evident from the first that our Hebd had no fear of Yankee Colonels Yankee He enlled out “How'ds" to the different members, md told omer dignified President that he was Jolly glad to see him, but would prefer to change places with hm, and added, “What In the war'd are "uns trying to do with old Unel Isancs 7’ The Colonel rapped severely for or der, and after the usual preliminarios, the lawyer asked the witness If he recoonized the prisoner “Recognize that old Jew Yankee? You bet 1 do. If you'ns hadn't heen quite so comfonnded smart, we'nns would have madé a right peart han! out of the old rascal, and as they say It's no«sin for A white man to beat a Jew, 1 don’t belleve he'd ever got a cent of pay from us” } "ie issue the au gave ine ne tn via that he would mes you at that Ferry certain information articles for certain sum word to you + ghee can still id furnish You oped with tonider interest the flower and contraband, =... \ wh af uel a day, s of ey? until it and -_ A om The young Confederate jumped up. died nd t and himself on his A foot balancing of gow bit n } 1 mu call this a Ym Couldn't any you take to find out what kh tryh Why, any ha ; “And ¥¢ of fustioe! rouble enough A man yon in Baton were 14 isan A rone '™ ni Rong: o he's had 1 ‘ and been nearly choked into (‘ome by our! tell wher Ve ns nll the lang ve because he w Were te Ro basket than the buresu drawer s beeti known to crumple ber b a £ before his lady 'seyes and sl Nol " iA Rf & ‘ ! ss it to the four winds wi 'h rik 3 notneh $e f n Ask « Vou be puzzled to understand A wand te vont (ninih he bin Hit mt lightsome disregard of his should ‘ , y tn: . little ehlll to her heart. " men are not by nature sentd Titra a nental animals. They can love with . ER ss a i} imbering themselves with endless Rly ond \ wis belonging to the of their frner sani ctions. And far be it to say that wirs is not the wiser method of the It simplifies life and jeast part of this start kely to precipitate future embarrass was partly arranged Dens has always been my He knew from the first at he had a sare case and he had been greatly nettled by the sharp words and rulings of President Buchan an. At any rate, the effect was all that he ould have w i. Never he woul through son tl my own send wi » gon whe meet us, that I we dog If he breath And the down In his chair, wiping the perspira ] tion from his fa« Id shoot el a word indig 8 to 2 uth Ld oct of ti . two is T } That the ' ling denouement dramat! —— i LUCKY STEERAGE MOTHER. Child Born Aboard Ship Presented with Wardrobe and Twenty- Five Dollars. \ A few weeks ago the European lonel's pride 1 ved sue 4 teamer Graf Waldersee came ] + 3 ’ to New York Harbor after hav the old CO Hmping blow ing vb Ta nuts of steamer officials am as he Inimed o the 3 #{ storms ever : tar ithistandine th wis to know about But n wile Hills \ there gard which 1! one of roved ntered on there ngs dizsam know all ilitary law The room was « lenred and the Colo- nel, after a few wonls of explanation, added, “Of course, the ease will be dis | missed at the prisoner re- there mie u gen- ge pass on, I fear I have! DT lately named Herman Walderses 4 to influence my and the cabin PASSO ve Ix wardrobe, «mother, - a Niel in ttent) ns e sf day out once and was of #8 10 ¥¢ nEers a son, who was nj rs gave : ga ’ 5 r ¥ » en nearer | Win a besides 1 ng my military ve and us too old to gir ons in went inte the adlo ok hands most heart ning ly ously th the lnwvyer, the ederate Captain and the old Jew 1 that none of them could be 1 i 1 than he that any susp! had wee found to be fale I was arranging my papers iched me ng around 1 hy « ne KOTO on the shoulder. ar encountersd Isance’ tvhance, He sald, In} n English “1 see you are a ison.” Answering in the affirmative and learning that he was one. 1 asked why he had not made himself known before. “Oh, no” he sald, “not while but now 1 an very glad to know you as one. 1 want mm fo bring of your army friends and dine with me next Sun May handing tne ved 1 accented EN hin » an experience wl : ror I was under charges sO and had ¢ first time of dining In the fam his Inv for t} tation | iy of a wealthy Jew He had in of his ited a number friends, and the board was presided over by his only daughter. the most lovely Jewess | had ever seen. She was tall and graceful as a swan, wit! a clear, olive complexion through which burned the glow of perfect health, and she looked at me with eyes which, even out of the dim han of years, | ean see distinctly today deep wells of melting brown, modest! shaded by long silky lashes, As 1 was presented she eatne ha volt forward, a eharming Blush diffnsin its tint on her cheeks, and taking both my hands In her own two little soft ones, she sald, In the purest Enelieh “Captain. how ean 1 thank vou for your great kindness to mv dear old father? Indeed. 1 shall always wish you Jov and hapniness* I disclaimed having done anvthing at all to warrant her warm thanks: povertheloss, they were most pleasant to hear and the grateful glance she Fave me well nigh set my vyoune bhealn on fire, 1 was sented at her right hand and formd her conversation cultured and herself truly bewlitehing, The dinner itwelt was snlendid and] Yet, there was an early precedent elaborate. consieting of Innumesble| for ocean births, for, according to his courses 4nd of unknowh dishes. Rome tory, the first English child born in the rare wines were brought from thelr limits of New England was Peregrine cobweb beds, Along with costly cigars. White, who first saw | of day on Over the wine and walnuts, Isaacs io: | the Mayflower in Cape Cod Harbor. | THE TYPICAL AMERICAN FAINTING BY MOTHER Notwithstanding the fact that 1.082. 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