MJWJ. K. TENER SUNOS AT HOME ~;n Picture of Nominee For Governor by an Independent. NEIGHBORS STRONG FOR HIM Those Who Know Him Best Are Most j Enthusiastic In Support of His Can didacy. A character study of John Kinley Tener, and a pen picture of scenes in the little town of Charleroi upon the occasion of the recent demonstration there in honor of the Republican nom inee for governor, given by John O'Donnell, editor of the Uniontown Morning Herald, after witnessing the I ovations, will interest the voters in all ] ections of the commonwealth. Mr. o'Donn> 'I. who for more than A-enty years \ >n the editorial staff < >f the Pittsburg : ispatcli, and who is I acognized as one of the most Inde- j endent and versatile journalists in ; 'ennsylvania. told in his own paper j .hat he saw and heard in Charleroi. This Is what lie wrote over his sis .ature, "J. O'D.": "The late James S. McKi better , nown as 'Jim.' was a polith *.i, bank- ! rand builder. He served a term ns j ostmaster In Pittsburg. He whs one 112 the men who placed the big Union i rust company, now prosperous an 1 vweri'ul, on the road to success. Ho I ts also one of the men who made the 1 wn of Charleroi possible, and its ! ain street has been named in his ; onor. Hud theie been no McKean, ■ nere would probably have been no I harieroi now. and no candidate for overnor of Pennsylvania by the name ! John Ivinley T> : or. And 1 believe j knew Jim McKean. "There are seven boys in the Tener | •niily, 1 think, and they all look alike. : ney are tall, erect, clear-eyed, clear- j .inned and cleanlimbed, with features nich denote great keenness of mind j id profiles that are Gibsonesque. j 'allai.e Tener, one of these boys, sat •r a moment or two on the balcony 1 the Coyle theater, in Charleroi, on xturday night, and watched the thou- ! .nda of toilers from the great Mo- I mgahela valley, with Tener banners oft, march by to the steady tread of irtial music. Noting the size, the thusiasm and the character of the geant, with the keenness of percep- j n peculiar to the Tenet - family, he so noted tho spontaneity and slu rity of the demonstration And as realized that it was all in his broth -3 honor, that It was a tribute to his rth as a man and an evidence of j 1 affection in which he is held by ! 3 thousands who know him, a tear j nmed his eye and he quietly arose j a mark of reverent acknowledge I >nt. Just then some one happened tot ike a remark befitting the occasion d Walter Tener broke the silence of | i moment. 'Away back several years | o,' said he, 'when the Brotherhood i se ball movement went up the spout i John was out of work, the tender j a position in the bank down here j ne to him. I did not want him to j e it; none of us did. We told him j aething would turn up soon, but he I no; he would write out his nc- I ance that evening; he could not rto be idle another day—he had j •n out of work two weeks.' That was all Wallace Tener said, j the inference was obvious. At that ' e Charleroi was a village handi ped by the lack of opportunities racteristic of every small town, the Tener boys feared that John would bury himself. Yet today, at the age of forty-seven, I In his youth and at the height of vigor, John K. Tener has achieved cess far and above the most hope- J dreams of himself and his broth | . He is a leading hankei ot the j nongahela valley and tie- financial j ot upon which revolve all. or nearly | of the bridge, street i:tllroad and I jr important interests of his sec. j i. He lias made his fortune He | d the highest office in the grand j I noble order of Elks He has made mark in the halls of congress, and | the Republicans of the state have | le him their candidate for gov i >r. So much for the accident ot j action and his choice of Charleroi. [ Vith a friend of mine I took a k along the principal streets of irleroi Saturday afternoon, for I jted to look over the place that ie possible the development d o K. Tener. We passed stately iness blocks, fine hotels, imposing iks, splendid residences and the dreds of homes of working men, t, attractive, well Kept home'i tie all were tastefully decorated •» was yet ar.ither evidence of the esteem in >vnich Tenor is hold | lis friends and neighbors. In the j iws of little parlors, In the fes- ! is on the modest porches, in what- j consp'cuous plates were avail- j j, could ;>e seen the pictures of the ' dldate. Regardless of racial, reli ts or p ditical predilections the s of the people bore this bit of • mony to the deep regard for him 0 is known and loved by every man, an and child there. Here and there proned matron, industrious daugh or some other member of the jchold was engaged in displaying lithograph, thus showing that n K Tener has a place In the .es as '■ell as the hearts of all the pie of t'iig town. It Is a nity wo haven't the right to vote. Has an Ideal Wife. And what was true of Charleroi 1 also true of the whole valley essen, just over the river, con futed the largest quota. George 3h sent 2500 men across the bridge h the bands playing, banners fly and every mother's son shouting Tener and Charleroi. Donora did same, and so did Monongahela, California, and Belle Vernon, and yette City, for the valley from wnsville to McKeesport is solid for n K. Of all the happy hearts In Irleroi Saturday night none were iter than those of Mr. and Mrs. er. Cultured, charming, witty and ilbie. Mrs. Tener is fitted to b®- Icome the ideal mi. ess ot any execu tive mansion. A-born politician and tactician, she Is perfectly at home in j evciy her gracious person ) nllty radiatin ■ cheer and good will in i eveiy direction. "Saturday's demonstration would provo an object le-son to many an other town Charier. >i knows neither political factioj >. u?:tonalities nor re ligions. Its enthusaisr.i and sympathies are never divided when It comes to conserving it* reputation. The unanim ity with which the rich and the poor. I the master and the man.the merchant j and his clerk went about the work of I making the day a success was sub lime. Men who in business life do lit tle but give orders took them readily i from men who usually receive them. When it came to pushing there was a place for every shoulder, and every shoulder was in its place. "Let no man think for a moment that John K. Tener is any man's man. He may lack the spread-eagle: and the vociferousness characteri of the average politician; he dot. not speak in measured periods; hi does not gesticulate; he does not furnish | funny stories instead of facts. On the contrary, be takes his candidacy seri ously. He knows full well the weight of its responsibility. In a word, his : utmost aim is to make good. While he | knows thousands aud calls them all j by their first names, ho makes no pre ' tensions to being considered a 'hail fellow well met.' His handshake in ! firm, yet without the hypocrisy of feigned heartiness, lie has a e'ear i eye and a direct look and a bear-tig | which seems to say :'I know wb".t my duty is and I will per.orm it; can i j expect the same from you?' "educated In the common srhoo's, | endowed by his ancestry with an ac tive mind and a health) body, be early ' sought bis '- 'siime en the base ball lots. As a pitcher on the Chicago team he was thoroughly drilled in disci j pline. He I.nows what it is to stand un the firing line, taunted by the jeTS J i or spurred by the cheers of thousands, ' his temper alwvs cool aond his nerve 1 ! never shaken. From this stern school | i he drifted into the realm of business, i i carrying with him the same .ludvuent ' and decision which made him a victor j on the field. Now as a candidate for i the highest office in the gift ot the : millions of the state, and during the stress of a hot campaign, lie can be ' ' depended upon to maintain tb same ' poise :h"t made him a winner in busi- i ness and '"tics lie Is not a man 1 to shy at the cars. Knows How to S«:y "No. 1 "Subserviency is not a wt .es. - of the Republican state | this week takes them to the pic;'e of the ? ,r "re:is of Hunban j dry, at Center Hall. Cen'er county; the convention of the State League of 1 Republican Clubs, at Pottsville; then I to Reading and to the opening mee'- i ing of the campaign In Lehigh coun | ty, near Allentown. State Chairman Henry F. Walton says he is determined to have the | candidates visit every county in th» j state, and in order to do this they will j be kept constantly on the go from now until election day. This year the progressive we=t»rn end of the state has been recognized in the selection of the party's stand ard bearer, and within the laßt few days there has been an exhibition of appreciation of this fact in a remark able dcmo~«tration In honor of Mr, Tener by bis admirers in Charieril and surroundißK towns representing all shs-Jej • --I'tical opinion and ro ligi. if- be':' i'. and in tributes of e c ; teifln from the toilers of Pittsburg nr | vicinity. His Only Blemish. When tlie pious lookiug lady entend I the I.ondou birdsbop and stated bur ! need of a talking parrot the proprietor i "reckoned Vd got tbo worry tliiug the lady wanted." "Course, ma'atn," be said, "you don't want a wulgar bird. This 'ere one. now. was brought over by a missionary. Talks like u reg'litr 'j niu book, e dues. 1 wouldn't let 'i n go if 1 didn't think you'd give 'lni a t - spectable 'ome. Thirty-five shii'.iii ;s that bird, ma'am." "You'll soon know!" screeched Fol !y. "You'll soou know I" "l>ear me! How quaint!" gushed the lady, and 35 shillings changed baiul-s. "What does be tneati by 'you'll soou know.' 1 wonder?" "It's 'is only blemish, ma'am," smiled the birdsbop man. " 'L's p It into 'is 'eud that every one's won ; derful anxious to find out wot a mis sionary sez when 'e 'its 'is thumb with a 'ammer." Fellow Professionals, I'hrenologist (to fellow passenger)— Kxcuse me, but aui I right in taking you for a professional man? Fellow Passenger Yes. sir. Phrenologist— Thanks! It's not often that I make a mistake in judging my fellow men. Er—lawyer? Fellow Passenger No, sir; barber! TENNESSEE LIKE KUKLUX PERIOD Governor Patterson's Campaign Recalls Klan's Activities, FOUNDER TELLS THE STORY, ! Captain John Watson Morton Asserts South'? Famous Night Riders War* i Outcome of Medical School Prank. Slew Few Men Despite Charges. Defied Troops In Last Parade. 1 The present political campaign In j Tennessee, engendered largely by the | personality of Governor Malcolm It. ' Fatterson, lias caused a hotter condl ' tion of affairs than during the recon ' struction days, according to Captain : John Watson Morton, the founder and ; organizer of the Kuklux Klan, the j dreaded "invisible empire," tho very ! nnnie of which spread terror over the | south in the days following the civil ! war. During the war he was chief of J artillery for General Nathan Bedford 1 Forrest, the Confederate cavalry lead- I or, and he was twice elected secretary | of state of Tennessee, i "There isn't a man, woman or child, i I believe, In Tennessee today who : could be called n iioncoinliatant In the • political tight." said Captain Morton, ] , "and it's all on account of Governor j ; Patterson. lie's one of the most re- I marknble men—certainly the most re i marknble politician—that Tennessee I has known since Hob Taylor, now a ; senator, fiddled his way into tlieguber | notorial chair and beat his Republican j brother, Alf. Some northern editor the ! other day called Patterson the 'Ten | nessee gamecock,' and 1 tell you, sir, ' ho surely hit it right." Kuklux Starts In Jest. "How did you happen to start the ' Kuklux?" Captain Morton was asked. I ; "Oh. that's an old story," he said. ! J "1 went to a medical college after tho | surrender, and it was started as an ns- | i sociation of college boys for playing ] : mysterious pranks down in Pulaski. | That way in May. 1800, and pretty soi i) because rf our scary co'tuuies— I : we wore long white robes and tail ! ! peaked caps with holes for our eyes— ] the rumor started that we had organ- | i Ized to check Repubiicau domination, i Well, of course, the bad blacks and ! | the carpetbaggers and scalawags were j | giving us a lot of trouble in .'hose days, ' ' and the Idea of the klan appeared so J plausible to the disfranchised Confed- j | erates that it crystallized in Nashville i : In ISO". Our sole Idea was to sup- I | press the plundering blacks and law- ! ' less whites. "We called the whole the 'lnvisible j empire.' The states were 'realms,' the | congressional districts 'dominions,' i counties 'provinces' and cities -dens.' j The supreme ruler was tho 'grand wiz- j ard,' and there were 'grand dragons.' i 'titans.' 'giants' and 'eyclops.' "I was made the grand eyclops of I Nashville, and one day I met General ; Forrest on Church street, near tho | Maxwell House. 'John,' he says. 'l've [ heard of this Kuklux, and I've come j here to join it.' We had to keep pretty | quiet about it, so I hitched up my bug- j gy, took him a long way out of town | and said, 'General, hold up your right | hand,' and he did, and I gave Idm the i oath. " 'John,' he said when he was j through, 'that was the worst swearing i I've ever done,' and, believe ine, that : was a compliment coming from him. J 'Well, general,' I said, 'you come to j room 10 In the Maxwell House tonight J and you'll get some more,' and he did, j and we soon after elected him grand ! wizard. Slayings Were Few. "In spite of all that was said of us j —the federal government offered all sorts of rewards for our capture —we ! didn't do much killing. Of course if \ a black deserved hanging lie got it. ; But we mostly whipped 'em or run 'em away out of the locality or scared 'em good, and that was enough. "Most of 'em believed we were the 'han'ts' of dead Confederates. Well, we'd call on one late at night, and when he'd come to the door we'd ask j tor a drink of water. Sometimes he'd ! try to run, but we generally got his ! cabin surrounded. He'd bring a bucket of water, and we'd stick out a skeleton hand and make him tilt the \ bucket for us to drink. We had a j trick of pouring the whole bucketful j down a tube, and when we were j through we'd say. 'That's the best! drink I've had since I was shot atj Sliiloh.' That would come neur being , enough for him. "Well, sir, we did about all we set out to do, and in February, 1801), we ! got tbe order to disband. But Gen- j eral Forrest told us we must make a demonstration. So the word got ' round that on a certain night the Ku klus would inarch through the town, 1 and there was a lot of excitemeut and ; curiosity. There were 300 rocou struct ton police and ."ioo metropolitan police in Nashville then, and they swore to kill or capture every clans imiii. But we pnt on our sheets and saddled our horses, and that uight six teen of us paraded through Nashville by the silent crowds that lined the! streets. The metropolitan police didn't even try to stop us. They lined up in j one place, but they parted and let us j ride through."* A Gentle Hint. Little Bobby had been forbidden to ask for dessert. The other day they forgot to serve him, and as Bobby is very obedient he remained silent, nl- j though niueh affected. "Josephine." said the father, "pii-s me a plate " j, "Won't you have mine?" cried Hi tie Bobby. "It is very clean." A Difference. M I am told that Joues Is a regular leech. Is Uiat true?" -No; 1 would hardly say that, n leech, you know, never gets stuck oo himself." 3,347 MILES ON THIS POLICE BEAT But Canadian Mounted Squad Inspector Performed Feat. CANOES USED IN WILDERNESS Nino Months Spent Traversing Top of ' Continent to Report on Route From ; Hudson Bay to Mackenzie River, j Swimming Deer Blocked Passage i Down River, Pelletier Reports. A policeman with a bent 3,317 miles i long through it wilderness that yielded progress only to canoes and over Ice fields passable only with dog teams and sledges—that In effect was Inspec- j tor E. A. Pelletier of the royal north- i west mounted police, who, with Cor poral M. A. Joyce and Constables It.l 11. Walker and I*. It. Conway, spent nino months in traversing the top of the continent to reaffirm Canadian 1 jurisdiction over that area and report on a feasible route from Hudson bay i to the Mackenzie river. The story of their performance is a j recital of simple pluck and exploring j skill, a matter of fact carrying out of | orders without the lure of a prize like ! the pole. While the royal northwest mounted | police is everywhere accepted ns prob- j ably the last word in police efficiency, I the popular conception in the United | States of the individual unit of this corps is a trimly uniformed "Tommy ; Atkins" sort of mounted soldier, giving attention to the suppression of bad j men and "gun fighters" and protecting the settlers from violence. All that j the police do, but more. Advance Guard of Civilization. They are thrown out far ahead of the northward advancing line of set tlement. When civilization catches up i with their outposts they move on. Not many years ago the southern portions of Manitoba, Alberta and Sas katchewan were distant fields even for | the police. Since Captain Hornier, a Canadian explorer, discovered coal in Melville island the police are pushing a patrol in that direction. If the coal is worka ble and settlement or prospecting that arctic neighborhood is forthcoming the i police with a well ordered system of. justice will be ou the ground first. \ Only once were the police ever out- j stripped by settlement, and that was when gold was discovered in the Yu kon. Inspector I'elle tier's duty ou his lone ly patrol reveals hardships that have no place in pictures of smart quads anil trim barracks with which the pub lic is familiar. Daniel Boone rather than "Tommy Atkins" is represented by the far flung outposts of the po lice, although perhaps it would be more appropriate to compare the in spector and his men with the early voyagers. Started at Saskatchewan. The patrol began at Fort Saskatche wan and proceeded northward, partly by steamer and partly by canoe, to Great Slave lake. Skirting the shore of this great body of water in canoes, the travelers turned their course al most east toward Hudson bay and made their way by river and lake with many portages, through almost unbro ken wildernesses aflllcted with the in sect pests for which the north woods are notorious. The party arrived on the shore of Hud-sou bay with the expectation of being able to lay aside the paddle and ease calloused shoulders from the por tage Hut the sailboat which had been provided was wrecked, and the police were obliged to delay at Fullerton un til winter snows permitted a start with dog trains for the south. The trip from Fullerton, which is on tho sixty-second parallel of latitude to Churchill, 'KW miles south, was at tended by many hardships. Tho auiount of game observed by the patrol was wonderful. Describing the journey from Artillery lake to the Height of IJUUI. Inspector I'elletier writes; "Aided by the sails, we were making good time, but were delayed by large numbers of deer crowing at various points. We must have seen between UO.OOO and 40.0U0. The hills on both shores were covered with them, and at a dozen or more plai eu where tbe take was from a half to a mile wide solid columns of deer four or flvo abreast were swimming across and s» closely that we did not like to venture through them for fear of getting into some mixup." No Dry Clothes or Be-»tters worse." One of the Natives. A gentleman was onco showing a countryman round a zoo, when they came to a cage containing a kanga roo. "What is that?" inquired the coun tryman. "Oh," replied the gentleman, "that is a native of Australia!" Immediately the countryman threw up his arms in horror, exclaiming. "Goodness gracious, my sister married one of them!"—l.oudou Telegraph. $85,000 GUNS TO LAST 70 ROUNDS Uncle Sam's Armament For New Dreadnoughts Expensive, TONNAGE FIGURES ENORMOUS I | Two New Battleships Greater Than Entire American Fleet at Time of | Spanish War—Fourteen Inch Rifles ; Largest In History of World's War fare and Most Costly, j At its last session the congress au thorized the construction of two titanic ships of war and stipulated that they I bo armed with fourteen inch rifles, tho most powerful weapons yet construct j ed. These guns cost $55,000 each, and, I although it seems incredible, yet it is no less true that under the excessive pressures of battle conditions the life ! of these expensive weapons is only seventy rounds, i Tho distinctive features of these Dreadnoughts lie in tho tremendous battery which they are designed to ■ carry and tho increased size which the 1 increase in tho weight and power of the main battery has made necessary. The plans contemplate a displace | incut of about 27,000 tons as against j tlio 20,000 of the Delaware and tho i North Dakota, America's pioneer bat tleships of the Dreadnought type, )vhich were but recently commissioned. Greater Than 1893 Fleets, j The united tonnage of the giant twins is far greater than was our : entire battleship tonnage at the time • of the war with Spain, including even the Maine, whose destruction brought 1 about the war. Toe fleet that block , ailed Snutiaifp was reckoned as a for midable one in its day, the battle j line comprising tho superb lowa, the heavily armed and armored Indiana, Massachusetts and Oregon and tho hard fighting old Texas. So much for the size of the two new ; vessels. Turn now to their armament. The plans contemplate a battery of ten fourteen inch rifles for each ship. These weapons are by far the most powerful ever constructed for any navy, grcntly exceeding in range and bitting power the twelve inch guns with which the Delaware uuj tlie North Dakota are armed, i With a weight of 03.3 tons the new gun is more than ten tons heavier than tho twelve inch type carried by the Dreadnoughts that the United States now has in commission. The weight of the projectile which the new gun will carry is 1,100 pounds. The weight of the powder charge will be about 450 pounds. The designed muz zle energy of the new weapon is Go,COO foot tons. Example Is Appalling. To translate this into plainer Eng lish and to afford some idea of what i this power means, let the reader sup pose the 10,000 tons of the battleship Connecticut etnplaced ou top of the Lusitania, whose displacement is 32,500 tons, and the biggest of the Kail Itiver steamboats superimposed ou top of all. Next try to conceive of the united weight of the three and the power that would be required to lift them. Tho | muzzle energy of this gun exerted at the moment of discharge is so tremen dous that it would be able to lift all three vessels one foot. The mechanism of the carriage must In the fractiou of a second take up and | absorb a shock equal to that of a heavy engine and five Pullman coaches running at a speed of seventy miles an hour and brought to a sudden stop—a stop as sudden as though such a train had smashed into- a stone wall. On leaving the muzzle of the gun the shell has an energy equivalent to that of u train or cars weighing 580 tons and running at sixty miles an hour This energy Is sulli<-leut to semi the projectile through t weuty-t w<> nntl one half Inohcrt of the hardest of steel ar mor nt the muzzle, while at a range of 3.000 yards the projectile, moving at the rate of 2,235 feet per second, can pierce eighteen and one-half Inches of steel armor at normal Impact. Life Is Seventy Rounds. One of the ordnauce experts of the navy made some calculations which goto show that If one of these new fourteen Inch rifles was constantly submitted to excessive pressure, such as might obtain In a hot action, the gun could not last more than seventy rounds. The length of the gun Is a fraction more than f<3 feet—o4l loches, to be exact. Although the muzzle velocity of the projectile Is 2,000 feet a second, the ordnance experts have figured that J It requires one-tenth of a secoud for the shell to leave the gun, this because of the fact that the shell moves from zero to 2,C00 foet and that the mean velocity must be taken. This mean being one-tenth of a second, the actual Ras life of this $85,000 weapon is shown to be only seven seconds. Judging from the performance of the twelve Inch guns, these greater weap ons should be able to deliver three shots a minute. If all ten guns of the projected Dreadnought should be brought into action and should main tain that rapidity of fire for one hout the cost of the ammunition exjiended In the hour would reach the enormous sum of or about one-fourtb of the vessel's entire cost. Father Knows. She-Did you say anything to papa about your being too young? Uo—Yes. Uut be said when I once began to pay your bills 1 should age rapidly enough. —New York Journal. Knew What His Few Days Meant. Quackly—By the bye. have you got $lO about you that you don't need for a few days? Smaekly —I have, but 1 might need it some time.—Exchange- Want of care dups us more damage than want of km:-wiedge. - Franklin. THE ORDER TO FIRE, A Young Union Officer Shrinks From Obeying It. By F. A. MITCHEL. [Copyright. 1910, by American Press Asso ciation.] The horrors of ibe civil war fell more heavily on the people of the bor der states than on any other. This territory was fought over by great ar mies swaying southward and uorth ward, their houses riddled by shells, their stock appropriated, and first one army and then another quartered upon them. In Kentucky, standing in the center of a group, is a house in the walls of which are to be seen a number of scars due to the impact of round shot and shell. There is a story connected with it that after nearly forty years is still told among the people who live in its neighborhood, a story of one of those occasions wherein one member of a family was called upon by the fiend of war to sacrifice another, only in this case it is not a brother spilling the blood of a brother or 11 father of a son, but of a man obliged to— But fo the story. In the late autumn of 1801 Win field Dirney, a young Kentuckian, was married to Jeamiette Onnsby, a girl who had grown up with him in the same neighborhood. Her father was a Unionist, and her sympathies went to the side lie favored. Iler htisbaml. loath to choose against the wife he had just married, hesitated a long while as to which cause he should em brace, but at last, notwithstanding the pleadings of his bride, finally bid her adieu and, going south, entered the Confederate service. The Union armies during the next spring passed southward over the Kentucky border, down through Ten nessee and into Alabama. Young Mrs. Blrney saw them march past (he house In which she lived with her fa f "WHAT DO You WANT TO GO THEItE FOB?" ther and mother, and it seemed that every regiment formed an additional barrier between her and her husband. Hut when the next summer came they all marched back again and this time were followed by a Confederate army. A part of this pursuing force was fighting its way one day through what had been two years before one of the pieasantest, happiest regions of Kentucky. With its artillery was Win field Birney, now a lieutenant. His battery was being dragged onward for a short distance, when it would stop, its guns would be uniimbered, trained on retreating Unionists, then advanced again and the firing repeated. "Birney," said its captain, "take two pieces over to that rise in the ground and shell tiutt grove just below." Hiru try paled. Me made no move to execute tile order. "Well." said bis captain sharply, "what are you waiting for?" Birney was saved a reply, for at thue moment a shot struck his commander, and ho felJ. red blood trickling from his chest. There had been a desultory Are from the grove in question, which now gathered force and was doing much damage to infantry regiments support ing the artillery. The brigade com mander galloped up to the battery In hot haste. "Why don't you shell 'em?" he cried angrily. "What are you doing here with these etuis while the Yanks are slaughtering us?" "General." gasped the disabled cap tain, endeavoring to rise, "I've ordered Lieutenant Blrney in take two pieces over to that knoll wbirh commands the position and open tiro. I ut I can't gel hi into move." "Open fire right here:" thundered the general. "We must stop this sacrifice at once!" "General." said the lieutenant, "must 1 fire into that grove?" "Yes. sir Didn't you hear the or der? Have you lost your head through cowardice, or are you afraid of hurt ing the Yankees?" The lieutenant turned and gave the order. The slnjlls went crashing through the trees. "Now move your guns forward." said the general, "and give it to them agalc n«d again till you clear the grove." blrney, looking more like a corp.* than a live man, advanced his guns as ordered, stopping now and agaiu to empty tliem, till the fire from behind the trees had ceased. Then he was or dered by the general, who continued to direct the operations in person, to take his battery through an open gateway and post it beyond tho intervening trees. The guns were hauled into the place through the grove and past a large dwelling with massive pillars In its front. The Federal troops had been cleared from that, part of the field, and tho general was satisfied. Turning to Birney with a scowl, he said: "Lieutenant, goto the rear under ar rest." "General." replied the young man, sheathing his sword, "I crave your per mission to first go into the house yon der " "What do you want togo there for?" "To see If the Inmates are alive." "The iucnates? What are they to you?" "From that house I went south to Join this army. There I was born. There less than a year ago 1 was mar ried. It is not a week since I received word from my wife that she had ther® just been delivered of a son You see the holes made by those shots, that rent In the roof from the explosion of a shell? General, for God's sake let me go and see if 1 have killed uiy wife and boy!'' The general sat in his saddle listen-, lng to this brief but impassioned plea fill it was finished, then threw himself from his horse. "Come," he said. "I will go with you." Together they went Into tho house All was silent; all was wreck. Not a person appeared ou the ground lloor. and the two officers hurried upstairs. That, too, was deserted Then a sud den thought struck the lieutenant, and he hurried to the cellar, followed by Ills general. There on a wicker lounge lay a young woman with an ashen face and closed eyes, while an old man and woman were administering restor atives. A negro mammy was holding a baby. The two olficers. who had en tered, stood awe stricken. Birney saw his father, mother, child, wife. He was a soldier and a brave man. but iu all men there Is something womanly that when pent to overflowing will burst its bounds. In a fury of tears tiie young husband and father, point ing to the livid body of his wife, ex claimed: "There, general, is the cause of my cowardice. Y'ou have forced me to Ore on those who are all tin? world to me, to kill my own wife. And now you have put me under arrest. Take my sword; 1 have no further use for it. I wish to G» d 1 had disobeyed your order and you had cut me down for mutiny. Coward! 1 have been a cow ard. nail 1 lie n bravo I would liavo shot you rather than have turned my guns on my own home," The general stood looking from his subordinate fo the pale face of tho wife and mother as one turned to mar ble. lie saw a horror of war such as lie had never seen before. And it was by his order that his lieutenant had fired the guns against his own wife, recovering from the effects of child birth. Then, suddenly starting from ills lethargy, he cried to an infantry man who had come down the stairs: "Go for a surgeon. Don't lose a mo ment! Itide for a life!" The man disappeared, and the gen eral turned again to the group. Lieu tenant Birney was kneeling beside his wife, with his arms about her. begging her to live for his sake. Iler father was standing with bowed head. Iler i:.-.ther was fanning her to give her air. "She must be moved from here," said the genera!, and. calling on several privates who bad strayed from their commands and were rambling agog through the house, lie ordered them to carry the lounge and iis burden up stairs and Into a room where tho least wreckage had been done. There the invalid, buoyed by the presence of her husband, gathered a little strength and was enabled to wind her arms about Ills neck. Then came a surgeon and applied simple restoratives. "If she recovers," he said, "after be ing in a house battered by artillery while she was iu such a condition it will be a miracle." His official dmles carried the gen eral away. Before leaving be directed that everything the medical staff could supply be brought for her use. "And you. lieutenant." he added to Birney, "are to remain on duty here till further orders." Under her husband's tender care the mother passed a crisis and recovered, but before that the army had with drawn southward, and within a fort night Birney rejoined his battery, of which, the captain having died of his wounds, he was promoted to the com mand. The general pondered long as to bow he could make reparation fo his in ferior and at the same time refrain from 1 tying br.re the delicate situation und«r which his own unintended In justice had been periefratiil. It is lusjoniar;-. in armies after go engagement for tin i omniander to ta sue an order detn, ag what has oc curred. On this o aslon the order contained, among oilier matters, this brief mention: "Such courage as was displayed by Lieutenant Wintield Birney in success fully driving the enemy from under cover of a wood surrounding a manor house notwithstanding a Union re-en forcement on tiie premises was never before witnessed by tho commanding general." The army was agog to know what the general meant, and the members of Birney's battery wondered where was the enoniy's re-en forcenient. Meanwhile jt m#is pulling lustily on a butUe. SOU IV! A Reliable TIN SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing, Spoutlne nnd Coneral Job Work, Stoves, Heaters, ftanv«e„ Furnaces, eto. PRICES TDG LOWEST! OIiILIVY TDK BEST' JOHN HIXSOJfI NO. 11# E. FRONT IT.