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Solitary Confinement.
BY HELEX KOI1HP.ST GRAVE.
The brief, decisive battle was over.
The seveu-ye;ir-old enemy routed,
though uot subdued, was carried off,
kicking, in his nurse's arms, scream
ing at tho very pitch of hi infantile
lungs, "I won't I I won't! I wo-o-o-n't
bo a Rood boy I" whiletho hint glimpse
his mothor caught was a scarlet coun
tenance where the heels should be,
and the two be-slippcred feet oscil
lating like humnu pendulums.
Mrs. Jessamy looked after little
Tommy iu matornnl tribulation.
"Dj lot mo go to him, Holomon!"
he pleaded, "I am sure I conid quiet
him."
But Mr. Jessamy a bald-hended
sage of five-aud-tlfty, with round gog
gles that gave a preternaturally wise
expression to bis oountennnce, and a
spotless white waistcoat, festooned
with seals suit chains laid a detain
ing hnud on her arm.
"Surah," quoth he, oracularly, "I
am astonished at this very culpablo
weakness on yonr part. The boy has
committed a great fault iu thus giving
way to an uncontrolled temper, and he
must bo punished accordingly, "
"But, Solomon, he is such n mite of
a thing!" pleaded the mother, piteous-
iy.
"That makes no difference, my
dear. Solitary confinement. Sarah
solitary confinement, on bread and
water, is whut will break his spirit."
"But he may come out to nipper,
Solomon?"
Mr. Jessamy settled tho goggles on
the bridge of his nose, with au auto
cratic diguity of movement.
"He will remain iu the buck store
room until tomorrow mornmg,Sarab."
"Alone ? " gusped tho nervous
mother.
"Alone!" prououncod the domestic
grand mogul. "Believe me thore is
'nothing like solitary aonUneuiuut. It
has been proved, my dear, more than
a soore of times. That boy of yours"
Mr. JaHsamy spoke as if he himself
had nothiug whatever to do with the
proprietorship of Muster Tommy
"has u temper, and thut temper has
got to be broken. Pray, Mrs. Jes
samy, do not aunoy me with any fur
ther misjudged intercessions."
And thus pronouncing his ultima
tum, Mr. Jessamy stulkoil out into the
garden, to view the ripening globes of
uotted melons and the budding tube
roses, for Mr. Jessamy was a inau of
hobbies, and the latest hobby was hor
ticulture, the more satisfactorily to
ride which he had rented this little
villa on tho bauks of the Schuylkill,
with an abundance of gables, honey
uokle leafage and water fronts.
"Simmons!" said Mr. Jessamy,
sharply, as he stood with both hands
in his pockets surveying his domains.
"Sir I" grunted Simmons a lank
specimen of the genus general gir
doner, who appeared to exist witu a
spade over his shoulder and a measuring-line
half-way out of his pocket
"How are tha ogg-plants?"
"Getting along nicely, sir."
"And tho cherry tomatoes?"
"Well, sir, the dry weather helps
'em along amuziu',"
"And, Simmons "
Mr. Jessamy beat down, settled Lis
goggles and then resettled them.
"Sir."
"Where is tha big melon that I had
here a watermelon, Simmons, on a
alute, just close to this stake?"
"Well, air, I up and throwed it
way," owned Simmons; "for what a
watermillion, air, was doiu' among
them oantelopes "
"Ton aeoundrel I You rascal I"
roared Mr. Jessamy. "How dared
yon do such thing ? Do you know,
air, that you have frustrated one of
tha Quest scientific experiments of the
age a watermelon grafted ou the
ateui of the cantolope vine grafted
by my own hands ? And you to go
and throw it away as if it were a
blighted pumpkiu or a half-ripe
squash ! How dared you, I say ?
Villain I wretob I get out of my
aigbt I"
i tr t , 'Tiw rc i sbt i
And Mr. Jessamy, stopping short
in his infuriated war-danco,made such
a dive at poor Simmons that that
worthy, fearing for his bodily preser
vation, whisked around among the
young cauliflowers and ran for his
life, crushing through hot-bed sashes
and entangling his long ankle! in
mats of sweet potato vines.
"I never knowed a gentleman with
such a temper before !" panted Sim
mons, as he bolted head foremost
into his tool-shed, among a grove of
dahlia poles and flower pots. "It's
as much as a poor workiu' man's life
is worth to live with him !"
Mr. Solomon Jessamy, loft alone
with his blightod "scientific experi
ment," danced around about it, in a
frenzy of wrath, uttering mingled
lamentations and malediction.
Suddenly a hand was clapped on
his shoulder, and a hoarse, chuckling
voice rumbled into his ear:
"I've got yon now!"
"Who are you?" barked out Mr.
Jessamy, turning so abruptly thut the
goggles fell off his nose and tumbled
into the grass. "Are you aware, sir,
that yon are trespassing on private
property?" to a socond individual,
tall and sparo, and apprehensive-looking,
who kept at a safe distance.
"Come, now, none of that!" cried
ho, as Mr. Jessamy tried to wriggle
out of tho grasp of the stouter and
shorter of the two, who was holding
him, as it wore, iu a viso. "No vio
lence it will do no good. Solitary
confinement that is the thing ! Hold
on to him tight, Fink! That's right.
Into the boat with him!"
And, before Mr. Jessamy oonld
raise his voice to halloa for help, they
were darting down the river as fast as
strong arms and a pair of broad-bladed
oars could propol them.
"What is the moaning of this this
outrage?" he panted.
"Solitary confinement that's the
thing!" said the tall man solitary
confinement!"
Mr. Jessamy stared ; a curious sen
sation came over him, as if he were
his own seveu-year-old boy, going to
be shut up for getting into a passion.
"Eh !" he faltered, "Am I mad?"
The short, stout man grinned; the
tall one nodded oracularly.
"A lucid interval, most probably,"
said ho. "All the better, Simpsou ; it
wou't be necessary to handoulT him."
Mr. Jessamy jumped up in tho
boat.
Tho tall man and the short man
fell on him with one accord, and
forced him back into his seat; and al
most at the same moment, the boat
drew up at a little pier or landing, half
bidden in water willows.
"Whither are you taking me?"
breathlessly demanded our hero.
"Solitary coufiuement solitary
confinement that's tha only thiug,"
murmured the tall man, takiug snuff.
"Sir, are you mad?" cried Mr. Jes
samy. "No; but you be!" said the short
stout man. "Easy now, Mr. Par
rott!" "Thot's not my name," said Mr.
Jessamy. "There's soma mistake
here.
"Oh, no, there ain't!" aaid the
man. "You're Malaohi Parrott, and
you've esoapod from the Sanitary
Home; but I guess you wou't ag'in !"
My name is Solomon Jessamy, and
I won't be made a madman iu spite of
myself!"
"Gammon 1" said tha assistant
koeper of the insane asylum. I've
heerd such stories afore."
And, in spite of his remonstrances,
Mr. Jeitsnmy was hurried off to a
dreary stone buil.i n, up an inimeu
sity of stairs into a Binall room, with a
barred window, au iron bedstead and
a throe-legged stool, with tha agree
able prospect of passing the night
therein as a reoaptured lunatic.
As the irou door banged upon him
with the "click! click" of a spring
lock, and an indescribable sensation
of lonlinoss crept over him, ha thought
of poor little Tommy, iu the durk
bed-room, aupperless, and sorely iu
fear of ghouls and goblins.
"If I ever get out of this alive,''
thought he, I'll adopt a new system of
discipline toward the boy hanged if
I don't!"
But just as the dismal shadows of
dusk were beginning to gather in the
augles of the cell, tha spring look
clicked again, aud the moon-like
eounteuanoe of tha keeper beamed in.
"It's all a mistake," said he ; "and
it never would Lava happened if ma
aud Mr, Ellys badu't been new bauds,
We'va found Parrott down fishing in
the woods. And Mr. Ellys, ha hopes
yon ain't been seriously discommoded,
sir, while he's ready to make all apol
ogies.
sir?"
Anything we can do for you,
Mr. Jessamy grew scarlet.
"I shall lay this matter before the
proper authorities, you may rest as
sured 1" said ho. "This this atrocious
assault shall not go unpunished I"
And he stalked dignifledly out of the
"Sanitary Home," followed by the
profuse apologies and protestations of
tho whole staff and faculty thereof.
"But wo never should have sus
pected you," said the tall man, court
eously, "if we had not soen you danc
ing and jumping around in such a
peculiar fashion, sir."
When Mr. Jessamy reached home,
his first act was to release littlo Tom
my from the durance vile of tho back
store-room.
"I'll be a good boy now, pa,"
whined Tommy, with swollen eyelids
and tear-besprinklod countenance.
"So will I, my son," aaid the phil
osopher. "It's very wicked to get angry,
ain't it, pa?"
"Very wicked, indeed, my son,"
said Mr. Jessamy.
And they had their supper together
a lobster, with pleuty of cream toast,
and peaches sliced in sugar as ami
cably as possible.
How One Hook Was Written.
Dr. Hoffmon of Frankfort, Ger
many, whose "Shock -headed Peter"
is one of the most famous child's books
in the world, tells as a good joke how
he happened to make it, for he ia a
quaint old German scientist, though
good humored. One Christmas he
had boon searching high and low for
a suitable picture book for his two-year-old
son, but in vain. At last he
purchased a blank copy book and told
his wife ho was going to make a pic
ture book for the boy "one he can
understand, ami in whioh the tedious
morals 'be obedient,' 'be clean,' 'be
indiiHtrious,' are brought home in a
inauuer which impresses a young
child."
Dr. Hoffman was the head physi
cian of tho Frankfort lunatic asylum,
and knew nothing of drawing, but
he set to work and produced tho
gruesome picture of all the naughty
boys and girls which everybody
knows. His child was delighted, and
when some of his circle of literary
friends saw it, they urged him to have
it published before the boy spoiled it,
and Dr. Loning the publisher, said
ho would bring it out.
"Well," said Dr. Hoffman, "give
mo eighty gulden (about tweuty-flve
dollara), and try your fortune. Don't
moke it expensive, and don't make it
too strong. Children like to tear
books as well as to read them, and
nursery books ought not to be heir
looms. They ought to last only a
time." An edition of 1,500 was quick
ly sold, and now 173 editions have ap.
peared in Germany and forty in Eng
land, and it has been translated into
Russian, Swedish, Danish, Dutch,
French, Italian, Portuguese, and it
has penetrated Iudia, Africa and Aus
traliaPaper World.
Why The Colonel Was There.
Seuator Walthall tells a story on
himself, which is none the less good
by roason of the faot that tha scene
is laid during the late Civil War. At
that time the senator was a colonel ia
command of a Confederate regiment
and had brought Lis men into posi
tion, ooonpying a sunken road. A
Federal battery was pouring shot and
hell all around theadjaoeut territory.
This fire, however, passed over the
regiment hidden in the roadway, and
they were to all intents and purposes
out of danger.
On the high bank ia front of the
place where Colonel Walthall stood
was a giant pine tree about a dozen
feet in ciroumferenoe. Acting on the
spur of the moment, the colonel
thought a fine opportunity was pre -
seuted to give Lis men an object lesson
in personal bravery without any risk
to himself. Accordingly La climbed
up tho bank and stood behind the
pine tree. Tha next minute a shell
struck tha tree and sent a shower of
bark and splinters flying in all direc
tions, when Walthall overheard tha 1
t following dialogue between two of Lis
men lying in the roadway beneath:
"Itellvou. Jim. it was a mhrhtv
good thing for the colonel that that
uina tree was there."
"Yes. Tom." reulied tha other . "hnt
if it hadn't been for tha big tree the
colonel would never Lava been there
;n tha first plaoe." Memphis Com
mercial Appeal.
A watch whioh is in good ranniug kiud UM wel1 M ltt tb Wlnu
order in one year's time ticks 157,680,. tar" dolu- - Philadelphia Ro
000 ticks I eoli
qi'AlXT AND CURIOUS.
The watermelon grows wild all over
Africa. It was cultivated in Egypt B.
1 pj 2500,
Dr. Fayetto Hall of New Haven,
Ct., buried bis pet parrot last week
in a silk lined-coffin.
Thomas Flanagan, of Elmwood,
Ind., is the happy owner of a four
logged Plymouth Rock rooster.
Among the curiosities that a Cobalt
(Ct) dentist left after hi death wore
all tha teeth that he had ever pulled.
Many of the inhabitants of India
believe that elephant have a religion,
and engage in acts of divine worship.
Little oak trees, an inch and a half
in height, are grown by Chiuesa gar
deners. They take root iu thimbles.
Count Tolstoi always replies to let
ters in tho language in which they are
written, and he gets letters in several
languages.
A land-locked salmon was recently
captured in Lake Quinsigamond,
Worcester the first of its kind ever
seen iu those waters.
Johanu Kirchebner of Steinach, in
the)Austriau Tyrol, is a tanner. What'
more, so have been the male Kircheb
ner before him for 300 years.
Chicago's board of education an
nounces that it proposes to forbtd tha
teachers in its employ to smoke pipes
or cigarettes, or to chew gum.
The republio of Audora, ia the Py
renees, has a population of 6,000 and
the republio of San Marino, in the
Appenines, a population of 8,200.
A laborer grubbing root recently
in Bowmauville,Ill., found, three feet
below the surface, and under the roots
of a tree 300 years old, a fine three
pound stone axe.
They say that Grey never got a
cent out of his immortal elegy, though
his publisher made $5,000 by it. Grey
held that a poet should not degrade
his art by taking money for it
Dawsou Oldham, a seventy-eight-year-old
resident of White Hall, Ky.,
never has missed a sermou at tho
Methodist Church in that place in tha
forty years he has been a member.
In tho private chapel at Windsor
Castle, which is octagonal in shape,
with a lantern roof, the Queen's pew
is in the gallery, iu the division uext
to the organ loft. The household sit
below, the women on one side aud the
men on the other.
A gray Afrioau parrot owned by a
family iu Providence, B, I., has a vo
cabulary of 140 words, and can imi
tate the sound of a clanging boll with
I astonishing clearness. It is believed
to bo at least sixty year old, and bus
been iu the possession of one owner
for twenty-Beven years.
The Absent-Mlnded Man Again.
Tho absent-minded man took his
seat at th restaurant table, aud, as
usual, buried his face at once iu a
newspaper. A waiter placed a bill of
fare, a napkin and a knife and fork in
front of him, and stood two or throe
minutes unnoticed before asking:
"What shall I bring you sir?"
"What's that?" said the absent
minded man, starting up suddenly,
not remembering what it was all
about.
"What do you want for lunob,sir?"
the waiter asked again.
"O, yos," Baid the absent-minded
man, trying to collect his wits. "Briug
me a cup of coffee and a ham sand
wich." The waiter supplied the order, and
put a large pasteboard oheck for it
down on the table, the absent-minded
mau continued to read hi paper. The
waiter went away to attend to tha
wants of other people, and about 13
minutes later came back.
"Do you wish any more?" he naked
politely.
"Yes," snapped tha absent-minded
man somewhat viciously, "Go aud
got me a
fresh ham sandwich. The
brought was as dry as a
one you
1 bone."
1 "Why, here is the sandwich I
j brought sir," said tha waiter, pushing
the plute toward him. "You've eaten
the check." Chicago Tribune.
Uses of Sawdust.
A growing industry ia this city is
the sawdust
business, Forty years
tue Iumber wllu wera 'a t0
mwuusi oariaa away ; twenty.
! fl J"" a8 U 00l,lJ ha "ought for
oenU lod! now U brin8 3-60
a loau. i( is useu ia noteis, saloons
groove. sud other business bouses
for tha absorption of dirt wheu
sweeping. Plumbers use it a great
deal about pipes and wall to deaden
sound. Soda water men and paokers
of gluss and small articles of every
THE PLATFORM.
P Hnolplss of th Republican Party Plainly
and Ably Sat Forth.
The following Is the platform adopted by
th Republican National Contention:
"The Republican of the United fltntes, as
sembled by their representatives In national
convention, appealing for the popular and
historical Justification of their clnltns to the
matchless achievements ot thirty years ot
Republican ruin, earnestly ami confidently
address themselves to the awakened Intel
ligence, experience, nnd eoneene of their
countrymen in the following declaration of
facts and principle-
"For the tint tl me sines the civil war the
American people have now witnessed the
calamitous consequence of full and unre
stricted Democratic control of the govern
ment. It has been a record of unparalleled
Incapacity, dishonor end disaster. In the
administrative management It has ruthless
ly sacrificed Indispensable revenue, eked out
ordinary current running expense with
borrowed money, piled up the publlo debt
U,000,000 In time of peace, forced an ad
verse balance of trade, kept a perpetual
menace hanging over the redemption fund
for pawned American credit to alien syn
dicate and reversed all the measures lind
results of successful Hepuhllcan rule. In the
broad effect of this poller It has precipitated
panic, reduced work and wages, halted en
terprise ami crippled Amerlcnu production
while stimulating foreign production for the
American market. Every consideration of
public safety and Individual Interest demands
that the government shall be rescued from
the hands of those who have shown them
fives Incapable of conducting It without
disaster at liome and dishonor abroad, anil
shall be restored to the party which for SO
years administered It with unequaleds'-uces
nil prosperity.
"we renew and emphasize our allegiance
to the policy of protection as the bulwark ot
American industrial Independence and the
foundation of American development and
firospertty. This true American policy taies
nrelgn products and encourages home In
dustry! ft puta the burden of revenue on
foreign goods; It secure the Amnricnn mark
et for American producers; It upholds the
American standard of wanes for the Ameri
can worklngmani It puts the factory by the
Ida of the farm and makes the American
farmer leas dependent on foreign demand
Mid prlcet It dltTuse general thrift and
founds the strength of all on the strength ot
-ai'h. In Its responsible application it U
ust, f ill r, and impartial, equally opposed to
foreign control and domestic monopoly to
sectional discrimination an Individual favor
itism. Anil In this connection we heartily In
dorse the wisdom, patriotism and the suo
jrti nt the administration of President Har
rison.
We denounce the present Democratic
'.arllT as sectional, partisan and one-sided
tnd disastrous to the treasury and destruc
tive of business enterprise and we demand
luch an equitable tarilT on foreign Imports
which enme Into competition with American
products as will not only furnish adeouate
revenue for the necessary expenses of the
government, but will protect American la-
Mr from degradation and tne wage level or
other lands. We are not ideilged to any
particular schedules. The question of rate
s a practical question to ue govnrneu by tne
somlitlon of times and ot production. The
ruling and uncompromising principle Is the
protection and development of American la
oor and Industry. The country wants a
right settlement and then it wants rest
we believe the repeal of the reciprocity
arrangements negotiated by the lost Repub
lican administration was a national calamity
ind we demand the renewal and extension
n such terms as will equalize our trade
with other nations, remove the restrictions
which now obstruct the sale of American
products In the port of other countries, and
lecure enlarged markets for the products of
?ar farms, forests and factories.
'Protection and reciprocity are twin meas
ures of Republican policy, and no hand In
hand. Democratic rule has recklessly struck
iown both and both must be re-estaollshed.
Protection for what we produce; free ad
mission for the necessaries of life which we
io not produce; reciprocity agreements of
xutual interest which gain open market
for us In return for our open market to
others. Protection builds up domestlo In-
lustry and trade and secures our own mar
ket for ourselves; reciprocity bulbil up
foreign trade and find aa outlet for our
lurplus.
'Ihe Republican party Is unreservedly for
sound money. It caused the enactment of
the law providing for the resumption of
ipecle payment In 1H79; since then every
Jollar has been as good as gold. Wears un
alterably opposed to every measure calculat
ed to debase our currency or Impair the
credit of our country. We are, therefore
opposed to the free nnd unlimited coinage
of silver, except by International agreement,
with the leading commercial nation of the
world, which we pledge ourselves to pro
mote, and until such agreement can be ob
tained the existing gold standard must he
preserved. All our sliver and paper cur
rency now In circulation must be maintained
st parity with gold, and we favor all
measures designed to maintain Inviolably tne
obligations of the United Mates and all our
noney, whether ooin or paper, at th pres
ent standard, the standard ot the most en
lightened nations of the earth."
'we condemn the present administration
for not keenina faltb with the beet sugar
producers of this country; the llenublican
party favors such protection a will lead to
'.he production on American soil of all the
itigar which th Americans use, and for
which they pay to other countries more than
100,000.000 annually.
To au our product to those ot the mine
and the Held ss well aa to those of the shop
ma tne factory to nemp, to wool, tne pro
duct ot the great Industry of sheep hus
bandry, as well a to the finished woolens
of the mill we promise the most ample pro
tection. "Wo favor restoring the early American
ollcy of discriminating duties for the up
ulldlng of our merchant marine and the
protection of our shipping In the foreign
carrying trude, so that American shipping,
the product of tha American labor employed
In American shlp-yarda sailing under the
itar and stripe and manned, officered and
owued by Ameiicaus, muy regain the carry
ing of our foreign commerce.
I ha veterans of the union army deserve
tad should receive fair treatment and gen-
erous recognition. Whenever practicable
they should be given the preference in the
matter of employment, ana tney are entitled
to the enaotment of such law as are best
-aloulated to secure the fulfillment of the
pledges mad to them In the dark days of
the country's peril. We denounce the prac
tice In th pension bureau, so recklessly aud
unjustly carried on by the present adminis
tration, of reducing pensions and arbitrarily
dropping the name from th roll, deserv
ing the severest condemnation ot the Ameri
can people.
The Hawaiian Islands should be controlled
by tha Called Htgte, and no foreign power
ihould b permitted to Interfere wlta them;
ih Ninriuriian canal should be built, owned
n.l nmimtxil hv the United Mates t and by
th purchase of the Danish Islands w should
secure a proper and much needed naval sta
tion In the West Indie.
Th mauuuirea in Armenia have aroused
th deep sympathy and Just Indignation ol
tha American people, and we believe that
the llnlte.1 Mates should exercise all the Iu.
tluence it call properly exert to brlug these
atrocities to nil eud. Id Turkey Americau
residents have been exposed to the graveht
j..ian mut American nronertv destroyed.
f bare and everywhere American oltiieus and
American property must d aosoiuteiy pro
lu,..! .11 haants and at 1DV eoaL
W reassert th Monro doctrine in Its full
extnt, and we rearTIm tne right of the Unit
ed Htntes to give the doctrine effect by re- 1
ponding to the appeals of any American
Htste for friendly Intervention In case of
European encroachment. We have not in
terfered and shall not Interfere with the ex
isting possessions ot any European power In
this hemisphere, but these possessions must
not, on nnv pretext, be extended.
We watch with deep and abiding Interest
the heroin battle of the Cuban patriots
against cruelty and oppression, and our best
hopes go out for the full success to their de
termined contest for liberty. The govern
ment of Spain, having lost control of Cuba,
and being unable to protect the property or
lives of resident American citizens, or to
comply with Its treaty obligations, we be
lieve that the government of the United
Htntes should actively use Its Influence and
good office to restore peace and give Inde
pendence to the Island.
Wo favor the continued enlargement of
our navy and a complete system ot harbor
and secoast defense.
For the protection of the quality of our
American citizenship and of the wage of the
worklngmen against the fatal competlton of
low-priced labor we demand that the immi
gration laws be thoroughly enforced and so
extended as to exclude from the entrance to
the United Htntes those who can neither read
nor write.
The civil service law was plsoed on the
statute book by the Hepuhllcan party which
has alwavs sustained It and we renew our rs-
fieatcl declarations that It shall be thorough
y and honestly enforced and extended wher
ever practicable.
We demand that every citizen of the Uni
ted fltntes shall be allowed to cast one tree
and unrestricted ballot and that such ballot
shall be oounted and returned as cast.
We proclaim our unqualified condemna
tion to the uncivilized and barbarous prac
tices well known as lynching or killing of
human beings, suspected or charged with
crime, without process of law.
We favor the creation of a national board
of arbitration to settle and adjust difference
which may arise between employers and
employees engaged In Interstate commerce.
We believe In an Immediate return to the
free homestead policy of the Republican
arty, nnd urge the passage by ('(ingress of
the satisfactory free homestead measure
which no already passed the House and is
now pending in the Hen ate.
vie rnvor the admission of the remaining
territories at the earliest practicable date,
having due regard to the Interests of the
people of the territories and of the United
Htntes. All the federal officer appointed
for the territories should be elected frorj
bona tide resident thereof, nnd the right of
self government ahould be accorded a lar aa
practicable.
We Imlleve the citizens of Alaska should
have representation In the Congress of tha
United Mates, to the end that needful legis
lation may lie Intelligently enacted.
vte sympathize with all wise and lesltl.
mate efforts to lessen and prevent the evil
of Intemperance and promote morality.
ine nepuoiican party is miuiiiui 01 tne
rights and Interest of women. Protection,
of American Industries Include equal op
portunities, equal pay for equal work, ant
protection to the home. We favor the ad
mission of women to wider spheres of use
fulness, and welcomo their co-operation In
rescuing the country from mismanagement
and misrule.
A MARCHING REGIMENT.
Th 18th Wis. Covrd 3,380 Mils ia
Twclv States Snrlng th War.
In a modest little book of 300 page, writ
ten by II. W. Rood. Superintendent ot
Hchools In Wisconsin, I find the history of
the mnrcbes and campaigns of the lith Wis.,
which contains a detailed account of tnetr
i..u.,ilia. !..., ...V. ,1. -o. nff till.... I,. Mla
souri, Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, jllsals
sippl, Louinlaua, Alabama, Georgia, Hotith
Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia, cov
ering the unprecedented distance of 8,810
mile on foot during three years of the civil
war.
Having access to nearly all the great libra
ries of New York City and Ilrooklyn, and to
the Inexhaustible ofllclal records of that war
now on II le at Cooper Union Library, I can
Mud no parallel ot this remarkable feat by
any foot regiment In the United Htntes army.
1 men wrote to tne commanding (teneraia
of the English, French aud Herman armies,
all of whom furnished me, through their Ad
jutant-General's department, with polite re-
pllej, but failed to llnd the record of any of
their foot regiments who, In the short space
uf three years, hsd covered sucn a great
number ot miles ou foot, even In times ot
peace.
The records also show that the regiment
took part In the campaign at the extreme
ngnt nana 01 tne enure grand army 01 tne
North in the early part of the war, and after
participating In many of the principal cam
paigns of the central part of that arinv found
themselves at the extreme left Hank when the
war wo declared ended;
no, that after nearly one year of studlou
research and letter-writing I have no hesi
tation in placing the litli Wis. an the cham
pion murchlng regiment of the world.
The records also show that the Vith Wis..
together with the lrHb Wis., formed the first
line of the brigade, of which the wth. 80th
aud 81st III., formed the second line of the
assaulting columu of ilea. Hhermun's army
that charged and captured Leggctt's Hill, the
kev to the position of the right dank of the
Confederate army at Atlanta on the illst of
July 18t!4W. K Mitchbll, 76 broad way,
Anw York. 4
On Wist Virginian's Expsrieno.
I have read with pleasure the recent ac
count of the second Dull Run. I was with
Hlegel' Corp, Milroy' brigade. We cut
McDowell out of a serious place on the even
ing of August US. The Eleventh Corp
fought In the center the next day. McDowell
on the left and Fits John Porter lay back on
tne ngnt.
At about 3 o dock p. m.. while charging
on the railroad embankment, I received a
gunshot wound in the left knee, entirely dis
abling the limb. I was carried back by the
Johnnie to the pike, 100 yard distant. The
next morning when the battle opened I wa
In range of our guua. I crawled to a small
oak tree for protection, aud by so doing no
doubt my life wa saved. I was again re
moved, September, ii, a short dlstuuce In the
direction of the gup, aud In speaking dis
tance of 40 or 60 wounded comrades, prin
cipally McDowell' men. We lay there with
wun tne earin lor a uea and tne heaven lor
a shelter until the eveuiug of the 5th, when
the ambulance train wa onnounceda If
there are Joy greater than ours when that
nibulanoe train oaine I have never experi
enced them.
We were moved about one mile toward
Alexandria and camped over night; started
out again on th mornlngof the 6th, arriving
at Georgetown college, at 4 o'clock a. m. on
on the 7th. I had to hav my leg amputated
after that. F. M. H uftman, Corporal Co. D.
8i W. Vu., Marquess, W. Va,
WEYLER ON THE DEFENSIVE.
Opanly Admitting What Cuban Loag
Hav Asserted.
The Spanish Generals recently called to
Havana, Cuba, for a council, met at the Pal
ace and the difficulties ot oampuigulng dur
lug the rainy season were dlscuised.
Surgeon-Qeneral Loaads urged that mill,
tary operations be limited to defensive move
ment for the present, and thi wi llually
agreed upon.
Report com from Remedlos, Santa Clara
Provinoe, that many native, driven front
farm to village and towns, hav yellow
fver.