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The Escape
OUT OF THE JAWS OF DEATH
lly FRANK A. IIUIIHELL, Lnto Plvnto 1st l'cnn. Vol. nnl Cnpt.
Co. 1) fl"h l'cnn. Pottngc, Wash.
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I was scarcely 18, when nil through
tho North tho wild news came.
Wo heard tho boom of tho gun
on tho hilltop, tho signal gun, calling
togother thoso who were willing to
glvo up home, friends and occupation
and marcli towards the southlnnd to
fight for tho preservation of tho
Union.
Tho drums sounded through tho
streets, as tho captain called out
fall In." And away wo marched to
tho time-worn school house, where
were assembled our friends, parents,
and sweethearts. With a newly
made silken emblem of our country
to present us. With a hearty three
cheers for tho flag of tho free, wo
reached the railway station and
boarded tho cars. With a big Har
per's Ferry musket, bayonet stick
ing In our button hole, forty rounds
of cartridges in our coat tail pocket,
we arrived at our first scene of con
flict, Cockeycsvillo, near Baltimore.
Could we have drawn asldo the
screen that hides from our ken tho
picture of tho future, I wonder if
wo would have had the courage to
go. There was a part of that four
years' service for my country, that
had the perils, hardships and suffer
ings that we were to endure been
cast before me, I am afraid it would
have weakened my nerves, and less
ened my courage.
I could stand tho life in camp, tho
sometimes long and severe marches,'
the tread of the sentinel upon tho
picket post, the line of battle, the
scream of shot and shell, the groans
and cries of tho wounded and the
dying, but my very soul rccolles at
the horrors of tho prison pen. Tho
mighty procession of years, creeping
on down to the end, can never oblit
erate the remembrance of tho deeds
done there; where thousands per
ished; whose wailings were heard
through the fair Savannas to tho far
off regions of the frozen north.
It Is tho eve of the tattle of Win
chester. Tho long roll has sounded
over the tented field. Tho lines are
quickly formed for action. The
quick touch of the elbow, man to
man, the bayonet glistening in tho
sunlight down along that swerving
line, the ricochet of flying shells
scream through the air, tho thou
sands of muskets add smoke and
fury with the blazing cannon. Tho
lines waver forward, then back, over
the dying rush the living, friend and
foo together fall.
Later The smoke clears Itself
away towards the burnished sepul
chers of sunset. The faded leaf falls
to soften their last earthly bed. Tho
blood-stained grass marks tho last
resting place of many comrades,
while the nightingales sing a re
qulenr to their souls as wo bury their
silent forms under a moon-lit sky,
to rest in the sweet sleep of peace
for all eternity.
The morning dawns. The red
crested sky reflects the rising sun
as we make our last charge on a
Louisiana battery. Hemmed In on
all sides, under an enfilading fire of
shot and shell, this morning of tho
third day's fight, a part of the Cth
Maryland, ISth Connecticut, 87th
and G7th regiments of Pennsylvania
succumb, and away to Llbby prison
we are marched. I am thankful I
have not that story of eleven months
confinement to tell over again.
After eleven months confinement
In Llbby, we were removed to Dan
ville, then to Salisbury, and soon to
Macon, Georgia, where a prison pen
was erected, with upright logs.
If you are traveling on the Fyler
or the Indianapolis between Seattle
and Tacoma, one-half mile west of
tho lighthouse near Maury dock, you
will observe great white platforms
built from the shore over the water
and back of them many houses of up
right logs, similar in design. This
is my homo, but there is no deadline
within tho enclosure.
At this prison my friend and com
rade, Lieut. J. A. Rockwell, of Col
umbia Station, Seattle, arranged and
for the first time presented his fam
ous song, " Sherman's March to the
Sea."
It was in this pen we held our
Fourth of July celebration In 18C4,
when Col. Northcott (if I remember
right), of the Twelfth Virginia Loyal
Infantry, pulled from his bosom a
miniature flag, six Inches square,
placed It on a stick and lifted it to
tho gaze of 1,700 prisoners. You
should have seen tho hollow eye grow
bright and tho poor heart almost
';gay, when Gen. Shaler of a New York
rommnnd stnrtml " O Rnv rnn vnn cpa
'by tho dawns early light."
Sis hundred of us were removed
to Charleston, S. C, and placed In
the Charleston Jail yard under fire
of the Union guns from Morris Isl
and six weeks In July and August,
18C4. Our government finally de
manded our removal and wo wore
taken to Columbia, S. C.
One dark, stormy night In Novem
ber tho lightning's flash lit up that
loathsome prison. A comrade of the
Cth Maryland and myself watched
our opportunity from near tho dead
line and as tho guards separated up
on their beat, swift as tho bolt
from the heavenB, while Its blinding
effects darkened the eyes of our vlgj;
lant watchers, away wo flew across
the dead line beyond the guard. Our
light footsteps wore muffled by tho
loud thunder, and wo reached tho
forest close by. Then on over logs,
through brush, wo flew as fast as our
emaciated limbs would permit, buoy
ed and strengthened by the knowl
edge that for tho first time In so
many months tho glistening bayonets
no longer arrested our llve3 and our
movements. We had cast from our
fettered limbs the shackles of cap
tivity and with a new and beautiful
hope pushed our way through tho
tangled woods. Nor did wo pauso
until we were far away In the close
woven forest, where the magnolias
grow and tho moss-bearded live oaks
stand sentinels In tho fovor-haunted
swamp, and then only In consultation
of which course to pursuo nnd how
wo should subsist, for at that hour
no ono can lmnglno our hunger.
Tho first wo lind to cat wo re
ceived from a darkey hoo cake
and woro directed by him to travel
in the direction of a loyal woman's
homo; reaching there, wo received a
bountiful supper and wcro Induced
by tho seemingly good woman to ro
maln over night. Tho bed on the
kltchon floor at tho back part of tho
house was enchanting, as it was the
first covering, under or over, that wo
had had for months and months, and
brought to our weary frnmes rest
and oh what comfort. Dut wo did
not close our ever wary ears, and
as the knocks sounded on tho front
door of tho liousc, carefully wo
shoved tho sliding kitchen window,
and out on the wings of freedom we
silently stole away, reaching tho
suburbs of Newbury court house.
Over tho fence Into the cometory,
among tho graves of tho etornal
sleepers, wo found a hiding place
from our would-be captors but be
ing injured to moments of danger
wo were not Hablo to suffer from a
sudden surprise. Long before morn
ing we could hear their horses gal
loping by up the road, while we
nestled there secure around those
ghostly tombstones. Leaving that
chilly spot and taking to tho woods,
we followed In a northerly, direction,
guided by the largo limbs on the
south and tho moss that invariably
grows tho heaviest on tho north
side of -the tree.
(To be Continued.)
HOW TO PREVENT HARD TI5IES.
Writing in "The Leviathan,"
Thos. Tapper places tho cause of
hard times upon the individual, nnd
says:
It is in your power to prevent Hard
Times.
Speaking to me? Yes, to you.
You can prevent Hard Times by
doing your share every day toward
making Good Times.
If every laborer, boss, clerk, mer
chant and banker would do this there
.could be no bad times. When every
man Is tending to his Job and spread
ing cheerfulness, he is making good
times.
If you do not bellevo this labor
er, boss or clerk then stay away
from your Job two or three days,
look gloomy, make others feel
gloomy, and you will flnd Hard
Times sitting at tho table with you
and your family, shadowing your
footsteps around tho house and
creeping silently to bed with you.
This Is the way to make Hard
Times at home privately, so to
speak.
Sometimes a few men get together
and declare that money is tight,
credit is gone, securities aro of no
value. They look gloomy, spread
gloom and talk gloom.
This Is tho way to mako Hard
Times, publicly, so to speak.
Now, what aro tho facts uack of
Hard Times?
Tho first fact is that no money
has been destroyed.
All tho money that existed Just 'bo
fore the Hard Times came on Is
still in the world.
Tho second fact is that everybody
Is scared nearly to death about some
thing. Men are llko a group of sav
ages in the presence of an eclipse.
They do not realize that an eclipse is
a shadow, a shadow that is passing.
Hence, tho second fact of Hard
Times Is Fear.
i'ear Is a mental stato or condi
tion. So aro Hard Times.
It seems clear, then, that every ono
of us Is in duty bound to contribute
to our associates, every day, all tho
optimism wo can. Optimism Is the
opposite of Pessimism. Tho ono
means a belief and confidence in
good things; the other a belief In
everything that is bad. Optimism is
a belief in tho Sun. Pessimism is a
belief that tho shadow on tho Sun
has destroyed It.
If everybody would contract the
habit of optimism, thero could be no
Hard Times.
But, you say, Hard Times aro on
us. There is no doubt about it. Tho
situation Is serious.
All right.
This Is tho time, then, to apply
the rules; and hero they are:
Keep on talking Good Times,
Do your share In tho way of optim
ism. If your neighbor Is frightened,
count ten before you let go of your
optimism. If you count ten slowly
you won't lot go at all.
Then remember that when a man
laughs ho expands his blood vessels
and his circulation is fine.
But when ho Is frightened, every
part of his system contracts and his
heart falls to work properly.
When business is good everything
expands and tho circulation of mon
ey is fine. But when men are fright
ened about business, money stops
circulating and tho heart of the
business world falls to work.
Therefore, tho best thing to do In
this work-a-day world of business Is
to laugh and spread optimism.
VETERAN STILL CHEWS
"REBEL" TOBACCO.
Allontown Mnn Hat Some Captured
During the War.
Joseph S. Trumbnucr, n war veteran
of Allcutown, P still chews tobacco
"rptuved from the Confederates. Tip
i : co is of the old fashioned navy
..is brand, and Trumbaucr declnrcs
'.iciv is none like It
Although ho will be seventy-three
years old on April 23, Trumbaucr still
has the life of many n man of forty.
Ills walk Is erect, his step vigorous
nnd his tnlk brisk.
He started for the front in rcspouso
to Lincoln's first call for troops ns a
member of the First Pennsylvania reg
iment. Alter his service in that regi
ment ho enlisted In tho Two Hundred
nnd Second Pennsylvania volunteers
In 1802, remaining In that command
until the closo of tho civil war.
While his regiment was part of Gen
eral Sherldnn's army Comrade Trum
baucr was with a detail sent to guard
property along the Mnnassas Gap rail
road nt Sharpsburg, Vn.
In company with nnother young sol
dier ho seized 200 pounds of rebel to
bacco. What they could not carry
along of this loot was securely hidden
until he was mustered out of service,
when tho tobacco was shipped north.
Tnimbaner still has about twenty
pounds of tho tobacco.
INVENTIONS SHOW.
Novel Exhibition Will Be Hold In New
York In April.
A novel exposition, to be known as
tho Inventions show, Is to bo held In
New York in April. The show will
continue for a whole week, and In
ventors of all degrees, from the high
est standard to the veriest "bug," will
exhibit. Tho purpose is stated ns the
enlightenment of the public.
Everything shown must be new and
unique, and the result Is expected to
bo the greatest exhibition of inventive
genius ever gathered together.
Among the novelties scheduled for
exhibition nre an aeroplane sleigh, n
device that locntes oil nnd minerals
and an apparatus for registering un
spoken thought. The method used In
extracting gold from sea water will bo
shown in public for the first time.
Tesla and Augustine will show their
rival rotary steam engines, which
generato hundreds of horsepower in
machines tho size of a coffeepot.
TABOO ON "CIVIL WAR."
President Taft Prefers Designation of
War Between the States.
That President Taft favors "the war
between the states" Instead of "the
civil war" as part of an Inscription of
a soldiers' memorial at Yale Is a fact
brought out by the details of the plans
of the Yale soldiers' memorial commit-'
tec. The title "tho civil war" will,
however, probably bo chosen by the
committee.
The plan favored by the committee Is
a scries of tablets with artistic adorn
ments nt the inner entrance of Memo
rial hall.
All military titles of tho fallen Yale,
soldiers will bo rejected, and only the
full names and classes of the men who
fell on both sides used. Deaths before
tho end of tho year 1805 will limit tho
names on the tablets. The committee
will report to tho Yale corporation next
June. In the war 115 Yalo men died
In the Union army and 49 In tho Con
federate army.
UNION FOR COLLEGE MEN.
Suggested as Means to Insuro Good
Wages For Graduates.
The organization of all college grad
uates into unions, the prescribing of
modes of employment, minimum com
pensation and the enforcement of de
mands by calling strikes was tho solu
tion offered recently by ProfessorVladi
mlr Karnpetoff of Cornell university ns
a means of preventing tho avcrago
salaries of college graduates from go
ing down to the level of common
workers, a condition which, he snld,
is confirmed by European experience.
Professor Kurapetoff spoke at tho
annual banquet of the Cornell Associa
tion of Eastern New York. lie said
that now collcgo graduates produce
tho same effect upon Incomes ns low
grndo Immigrants from southern Eu
rope produce upon tho wages of tho
natlvo worUIngman nnd that unionism
Is quite essential to protection.
FOUR NATIONS CHALLENGE?.
"Tho Bcnool mistress Is interested In
you, dad."
"How's that?"
"Why. today after she'd told mo six
times to sit down and behave myself
she said she wondered what kind of a
father I had." Judge.
England, France, Holland and Belgium
to Send Aviators Here.
Challenges have been received at the
Aero Club of America from both the
Aero clubs of Holland and England
for the International aviation cup race
to bo held In this country next Sep
tember. Tho entries closed with four
foreign entries, tho two qtbers being
Franco and Belgium. Each country
will bo represented by three contest
ants. This Is tho first timo that either Bel
glum or Holland has sent a challenge.
Only France, England nnd tho United
States have been represented In the
former contests.
"After all. success la a disgusting
Jhlng."
"Why do you nay that?"
"It always Involves xucb a lot of
hard work." Chicago Record-nerald.
Stable In Solid Rock.
To comply with tho new state law
requiring fireproof underground build
ings tho Lehigh and Wllkcsbarre Coal
company will hare a mule stablo hewn
out of solid rock In lta No. 4 slope at
Audenrled, Pa. Tho stable will bo 150
feet long, 22 feet wide nd 12 feet
high, the only ono of Its. Kind In the
anthracite field.
JERRY SOUTH AND
THE DESPERADO.
House Disbursing Clerk Has a
Way of Doing Things,
Jerry South, disbursing clerk of the
house of represcntntlves, ndded nn
other big scalp to his belt when ha
held up Andrew Carnegie's witness
fees for n few days. This Is a habit
of Jerry's and recalls ono of his ex
ploits several years ago.
At that time a couple of citizens
named Taylor terrorized parts'of Mis
souri to tho point whero n large re
ward was offered for their capture
"dead or alive." Mr. South was tho
riding bailiff of a sheriff's office nnd
had n habit of rounding up criminals
that were hard to take.
Ono day he was riding along the
rond when bo spied one of tho Tay
lor boys. Ho "took" him. Tho des
perado was peeved about It and shock
ed when Mr. South told him his
program. South explained that ha
was on his way to attend n conven
tion at Little Rock. Ark., when his
mind was diverted by tho sight of tho
nforcsald Taylor. Ho explained that
he had to go to that convention nnd
thero was no wny out of It except for
tho desperndo to go along, ns he (Jerry
South) needed that $2,000 reward.
Mr. South and his prisoner proceed
ed to Little Rock. They put up nt a
hotel and ate and drank together that
night. The next day the desperado
occupied n seat beside Jerry in tho
convention, and the day following ho
was an attendant on the Democratic
meeting.
On tho fourth day Mr. South deliver
ed his prisoner nt Joplln, Mo., and got
the $2,000. The bad man told the
sheriff he hnd had n good time and
that South was a "domed good fel
low." A Sad Event.
Tho late Tody namllton, who was
held to know as much about circuses
ns nny human being could, onco told of
tho misfortune of an Ohio man who
was attempting to pilot a "one tent
Jhow" through the' middle west.
This owner lost a number of valuable
animals by accident and otherwise, so
that It was with considerable sym
pathy that one of his keepers under
took tho task of "breaking gently to
the old man" tho news of further dis
aster. The keeper accomplished this
with much tact, as follows:
"Mr. Morgan, you remember that
laffin' hyenn In cage No. 8?"
"Remember the laughing hyena?" re
peated the owner. "What the deuce
are you driving at?"
"Simply this, Mr. Morgan: he ain't
got nothln' to laff at this mornln'."
Lipplncott'a.
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VOH REPRESENTATIVE.
i nercoy announce rnyseir as a
candidate for the nomination for tho
office of Representative In tho Legls
alture from this district, subject to
the decision of the Republican Toters
at the April primaries.
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