A ————— FITZHUGH LEE'S ESCAPE. BULLET FROM REPRESENTATIVE JENKINS’ MUSKET PLOUGHED THROUGH HIS HAT. Thrilling Occurrence of the Civil War — Confederates Made Three Desperate Charges In Blinding Midnight Thunder Storm. W. M. One warm summer evening in 1895, 1 At smoking with Judge Jenkins, of | Wisconsin, who is now ably represent. ing his State in Congress, We were watching the oncoming of a heavy thunder storm, and the conver sation had turned, as it often did, to the time of his youth when he entered the Union army and was, by the stir ring events of the war, transformed into the fearless, Iron-manhood that has since characterized him, “It was just such an evening in the summer of '62,"” he remarked, “that 1 nearly killed Fitzhugh Lee.” “We were down in Virginia, and 1 was in charge of an ammunition train which was on its way to McClellan's army. We der from headquarters, remain where we wore- village about thirty miles Washington. “No reason was given for the delay, though some of the boys thought it was for the purpose of enabling an escort of cavalry to join us. Others said they guessed ‘Mac’ didn't have any further for powder. How- ever, we were mighty glad to go into camp, as many of the raw men were about ‘bushed’ by the long and ho marching, besides it gs oppor tunity to forage than hard-tack ¢ kHvely that it foll “We pitched Beld, a short ai a high road which sti AWAY wal he me, About a quat of a mile to uth was a thick of tim- ber. Wooster, had been halted by a brief or and directed to -near a little south of use Lance CAs the plece The ou Pic Woman. in cam ne no nE pics DP a Wie her vis other were home-made nothing of that her Dies + on fully good CAM evening Wore r-he ad q n "oor i and the boys pro would have a break the As rved outhwest that we hot spell became uneasy as the night wore | on, and walked about the eamp watch ng the flashes of distant lightning and | the dark masses of drifting clouds which seemed to be flanking us on the north. : noon Vi Lhe on mde th phe sied in the “ ed our { reeled g torrents of rain tensified { lightaing, and it { picket had | almost ‘We'll take him if it's a Johnnie. “We stepped Into the deeper shad- ows, and soon a mounted Confederate officer emerged from the dark bend of the road, and was silhouetted against the sky. In a moment or two he reach. ed the point commanding a view of our camp, drew rein and sat not fifty feet away, peering toward us. “1 cautiously took the picket's rifle, and we sprang out into full view. The officer started as he saw us, and wheel ed his horse to escape, * ‘Halt,’ I cried, and as he dashed on, with a quick aim, I pulled the trigger. Simultaneously with the report, the icket struck up the gun, exclaiming, ‘My God, Cap'n, you're shooting one of our men.’ Bullet Ploughed Through Hat, “I saw the officer's hat twitch sharp as the heavy bullet tore through For an instant he swayed as though HON hit, then spurved up the road be could reload The quick blow aved his life, “With the sm, of his gailoping n JOHN J. JENKINS fore 1 of the ind “THE POWER OF SONG. AN INCIDENT OF LIFE IN LIBB} PRISON DURING THE CIVIL WAR. How the Prisoners Sang the “Star Spangled Banner,” and There was Cheering In the Streets of Rich mond, prisoner while guard, on raid, near Rfthmond, old captain of Tal thie en rear in charge of Stoneman’s first Va,, relates an cavalry, and after various adventures, I, with 2,600 of the prisoners taken at Chancellorsville, was sent to Libby prison, The large excess of prisoners on the Confederate side procured us, most fortunately, an exchange in a very short time, and within a month or so 1 participated in another rald under Colonel Spear of the 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry over the same ground where 1 had been lately led a prisoner of war. We had passed but one Sunday in Libby—03 officers confined to an up- most story. About the middie of that afternoon 1 chanced to look around the room, A half dozen parties were playing cards, many were sleep. ing, several were lying on the floor the Cheers for the Red, White and Blue.” Veritable cheers they were, 'Tgars streamed down the veterans’ cheeks, the boys in the room below took up the shouts, and three times’ three were glven, near , the to go too guards in pide, I moved cautiously window--it was dangerous and saw all with thelr mugkets pointed toward the bullding, but, massed up and down the streets, were hundreds upon hun- (dreds of people, four-fifths them women, clapping thelr hands and wav- ing thelr handkerchiefs, showing the ir approval a most remarkable ute to the power of song, for Old Glory still hel in thelr hearts and near thie of by trib- and that love d a warm memories. i SOME GREAT DISCOVERIES. The Chicago University Scores Some Important Achievements. Almost every fessors of the the financial day one of the pro University of Chicago, machinery of oiled by John D. Rockefeller, into print with some new They keep the world startled and won dering. During the past few years, for in pretty sick, while ene squad of a doze en or more had erganized a prayer meeting. Not being a saint and haps not much of a sinner, I was sim a "lL on In Venice leader was a caplain a Ma selts regiment, The meeting evidently dragging, the great heat and perhaps hunger and our position not proving conducive to much thanks- giving. The National Anthem. Suddenly the captain started up, and i ; his place near the centre of laimed in a volee ply MIKO of the loud per-| stance, the following epoch-making dis coveries, among a host of othe n sted by a Buffalo new Heag ‘niversity dif CAUSES paper as wveries, That lockjaw, That a dog called man. That the Penn: into Indians, That Ireland was That Toat That Adam ca That love is ¢ obhion i That ng once a lake, attract immediate all sing *The tan fn n~ ishment t horse, we heard shots on the north, ! on afterwards our pickets were | by a force of the enemy's | : “The camp and our bey Havon was hurriedly were ready f ACK tantly. The Midnight Charge. “We held on our fire until they were of us, and then along » whole front of our triple line, bla} | guns fall in their faces J crash was terrific Troopers | in their saddles. Horses and went down with The others broke in confus lashed wildly past en our flank “It was worse than nightmare the total darkne in by the crashing blinding the cursing, yelling charging along over us ashes showed us the tor “The stag: | their rid! on and | ered the | roopers, “The killed {and wounded strewn along our front: | rain, I re the sase of s« scoountal POsB ah appeared ordered th smmuniti the camj Sights; and the tents and age were allowed to stand where were, Camp fires were lighted wsual The m man, the more suspicio and feeling 111 at ease, of the boys about her visit about it and suggested that Bad given me indigestion. “Why, my orderly sald & Johnnie reb nowheres around They're all down there with Reepin’ him busy.’ “ “That's all right,’ sald another, ‘but why were we halted here, if there's po danger? Doubled the Pickets. “No one voluntered an answer to his question, and | decided it would be wise to double the pickets, The men who were detalled for the extra duty grumbled some, and as they started for their posts one ‘guessed’ we were afraid the storm was ‘golog to charge us.’ Another was sure the ‘Cap'n’ was afraid of his shadow after dark, begorral’ “About ten o'clock word was brought that the pickets on the west had ob served a small force of cavalry, but thought they were Union men, “An hour later a force of two or three squadrons was reported passing some distance te the south of our po sition and going In a westerly direo tion. Again, the pickets were not pos "ive but thought they were our cav- alry. “The expected storm seemed to have passed off to the, north, though the staggering balfmoon showed the southwestern quadrant still dark and threatening. “The camp had settled down for the night, but I was uneasy, and sat near my tent trying to pursuade myself that the reported cavalry was the supposed escort which had missed the road to our camp and would probably plek us i H n other equip they ax re 1 thought of the ple-wo us it made me, | poke Lo some They joked her pile | ‘there ain't | here, “Mac” night f and I took a dismounted captain pris- | mer | “Three times they charged us tha | and as many times were : nat #4 1 4 re driven ting south JET) te Tea ong sii ‘ he house to avo “Ivy always that mistaken anthe LC — * LIBBY PRISON, gled Banner” and commenced in an exceptionally fine bariteme, “Oh, say jean you see” Cards were dashad aside, the sleep ers awoke, the sick leaped to feet, and like magic every one of the | {entire 53 officers crowded to the cen- | tre, singing with the greatest enthu siazm. Al least two dozen of the me: had fine voices, and never did the grand old words seem 80 like a might m Od | lag. r awe Waved the | uder a: 1G rF 4 ! : : With the ery of “honk, honk.” like the warning of an automobile horn, the hunter Is warned of the approach of the leader of a flying Sock of Canadian goose, On come the long-necked wild fowl from their nert hunting ground. They stream across the sky much In the form of the flying wedge formerly used In football tactics, Gradually the wedge closes together, makin gone homogeneous mass of black and brown, with sprinklings of white, Usually the Canadian geese stop flying about sunset, feedin eel ss, sedges, roots of water plants |o n oceasionally on small fis insects, Even at times they will eat the corn, wheat or other grains dropped by the farmer In the stubble, Supper over, they return te the water, sleeping with heads tucked under wings, waking only te start out again In search of breakfast. These twe flights are so habitual with these geese that hunters can easily reckon when to | lo take position in the pit In walt of the | the fiying wedges, these birds, while th = of panie at the ap- The Canada Goose. proach of a man, are not In fear of cows; this fact has often led hunters to train oxen to walk straight lato flocks of them, the hunter hiding be hind the animal until within gunshot of the Nock. And yet, notwithstanding thelr wild nature. Canadian geese are often domesticated and crossed with the common lsrnyard Bomotimen wounded birds are allowed to ran with the domestionted birds, until some mi fintory flock passes over the head with “honk, honk.” The call of the hd is on again and the bied once more in a state of rjoing his companions, A wou bird is often kmewn to dive beneath the water's surface sxpouag only its nos'rila, until al danger Surprised, a flock rises gh A wd apparently In great confusion, ltye birds into one fol Pporiunity to bat o Page Wi opportunity gn 1 “honk, honk” they nursed RICHMOND, AS IT LOOK! their! | penna | play : baseball | their Catt 307 D DURI That the American be om ng Jtlow That 8 was a grafter That ‘Washing pton liked on and pe | That Jo in D. Rockefeller 1s a greater man than Shakespeare. That the Junebug has seven stom chs, i That Arabla produces more bullfrogs | Ian Hh i lgar ia marriage is a form of insanity 1 4 gone NG THE WAR negro is gradual iy olum} Georgn t1 th Wor a FOR BALL FORTUNES PLAYERS, Friendly Rivalry in the Twe Great Leagues. which oo betweon the Natioba the BOA at It was but two rival ’ ug | of ex- then Curt ] ! WO winners American Leagues ing recalls to mind a few Yenrs ago that Associations were tooth and nall in a deadly termination and survival that the American League, ur the leadership of Ban Johnson, made in-| roads into the ranks of the National | League, capturing its star players and | enlisting them in its cause through a! rainbow of big salaries. Rival teams were placed in Chicago, St. Louis, Bos- | ton, New York and Philadelphia and princely salaries offered to the players of ability. There were, of course, suits | at law, and injunctions were sought re | straining the contract jumpers. 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