INCIDENT OFTHEWAR A BRAVE DEED PERFORMED ON THE FIELD OF ANTIETAM. Afig Thirty-three Years a Yankees Soldier i Learns the Name of the Confederate Sol- | dier Who Saved His Life at the Risk of | His Own. An interesting war story comes to light from an incident that occurred at | tht battle of Antietam, which demon- stress that even the roar of cannon, the | shiog and chell, the crash of musketry | andl te cold touch of the bavonet ean- the sirit of kindness and humanity. This incident tells of the heroism Linfloess of a Confederate picket the Yadkee : The battle of Antietam had been fin- jsf for ahont 80 hours. The soldiers and cf fwe and McClellan were resting on | tl arms. after a direful eonfliet in. wish both sides had suffered terribly, arf] om the battlefield the dead and | womnd od were stretched out by the! oh omea ds. A shaehing «long his beat keeping vigil dvér the s'~eping Army of Northern Virgipia. Jost ort thers were many of the Federal ¢ ad and wounded. A faint ery « me to the ears of the boy in gray. li was a gasping, despair- ing ery. ‘Water! Water!" that was all that oould be heard The man who gegped out those words was dying Slag of thirst. : ‘he picket resolved to carry water 19 the wormded Yankoe. Near by was a sprig and quickly the picket filled his canfedn and returned to his post.. The ‘wounuled soldier was still begging fiz | water, but the question was how to got | it to him. - The picket knew he to k his | 1ifé in Lis hands, but dropping wp.n his km he began crawling toward the 3 Two shots were dis- | chazged at him {rom the Federal sharp- | - shedters, but he kept steadily on until dving Federal he reached the side of the wounded sol- diese. A wound iu the thigh was letting the life blood slowly out, and the sol- ‘dies, quenching his thirst, thanked the ‘bug in gray for his kindness. The war was over right there and then between those two fellows. The picket then re- turned to his post, and the incident passed into the realm of memory. : Thirty-three years bave passed since that night, but the wounded Yankee and the boy in gray are stillin the land of the living. That drink of water saved the life of the wonnded eoldier, and be had always been grateful to the memory of the ‘‘Johnny reb’’ who gave him the cooling beverage on the field at Ap- - tiotam. : The Federal soldier was Mr. B. L. Burr, who is now editor of the Tolland County Leader of Rockford, Conn. For years be has been trying to find the game of the man who risked his life to ‘bring him n drink of water and has at last succeeded. Through some chance he | happeved to write to Major Ww. B. Pruitt of Athens, Ga., concerning the | incident, and a few days since Major Pruitt in talking with a friend learned that the Confederate picket was Mr. - Matt Norton of Winterville, Ga. Mr. Burr was notified, and he and Mr. Norton bave entered into regular cowaspondence; giving each other maps describing their ideas of how the lines . wee that day, and everything goes to prove that Mr. Norton was the soldier who darried the water to Mr. Burr. Mr, Notton bad long since forgotten the in- cident, but now remembers it perfectly. ~#Asdanta Constitution. es rn an Tormented by Bpirits. Spiritualists and students of psychol- ogy are excited over a statement sworn to hy Miss Rena Leonard, a young - woman of Hamilton, O. She declares that Jim Holly, a farm hand who works | for er father, is tormented by spirits. | She and nine of ber young men and ywopyen companions say that a night or 80 ago they were in Holly's bedroom ont of curiosity and saw a mattress with Eolty lying on it rise from the bed, Hfted by an vngeen power, and rest in oidedr, Sn The alleged spirit throws Holly from his bed and will not allow him to slop. He is 20 years old and has vo ied wo much about it that he is almc.t a liv- ing skelefon. All through . the hot season he has slepé under blankets, tightly wrapped about him, throngh fear of the ghost. — 1'aw York Recorder. Art Not Forgotten. The recent trcubles through which tha republic of Colombia has just passed did not prevent the government from continuing to foster the intellectual in- _terests of the country. It has published a decree ordering a competition, at which are to be examined works upon artistic, industrial and literary subjects relative to the United States of Colom- bin, and prizes are to be granted to the - works which an examining committee declares the best, according to the pro- gramme determined by the government decree. ~New York Tribune. Imitate the Juggernaut, Philadelphia children have a new and jelightful game called ‘‘trolley car. » It is played by from two to twenty ju- yeniles, all but one of whom sprawl on the pavement, while the other pushes a baby carriage over their prostrate forms. —New York Advertiser. Scared In Time. hy ‘woman who proposed to jump from A Brooklyn bridge was scared out of her | was well, purpose by the police. This scare will It is to be trusted that the last long enough to prevent any later: effort to carry ont the woman's plan. — New York World. And No Farther. From her waist up almost any woman looks as well in knickerbockers as she would in rkirts — Washington Times. and grateful remembrance of a wonnded soung Confederate picket was i An Alleged Falling That Has Deferred ‘Woman's Emancipation. : The. bond of fellowship which exists between man and man simply by virtue of a common sex is entirely absent be- tween woman and woman. It is, m fact, replaced by a fundamental antago- the general attitude of a feminine crea | ture toward her kind essentially differ. ent from that of the male creature in jdentical relations. Ip individual casos | this fecling is counteracted hy affectio al sentiment it remains, severing ever; To a great extent this arises from wom- abstract emotion. In life's fray she often, for some one man or VWoms . wham she loves, but rarely for the wel fare of her sex at large. 0 Were it not for this strange lagk of ho manity in ber nature, the emancipation ‘of woman wonld not have been so griev | ously retarded. If the few women sha suffered aforetime under the restrictions which hedged in their liberty had beer able to count on the sympathy and co- operation of all women, the time of their subjugation would have been enor- mously abbreviated. As it was, the first geckers after freedom met with more ‘opposition from their own sex than they did from the other; nor, indeed, do they fare better today. . Enormoms changes in their social status were effected by an incomsiderable minority of women brave enough and logical enomgh to im- press the male powers that be with the justice of their demands. But for their courage they received no s¥mpathy and for their success not one word of thanks —nathing, in fact, but execration from the huge inert feminine mass in whose gervice their strength was spent. —>Sat- urday Review. BRYANT’S MARRIAGE. Union Between the Poel His Wife. | Allusion has already been made to | William Cullen Bryant's marriage. { None could have been happier, no un- jon more nearly an ideal one. Miss Fan- ny Fairchild was a young lady whose parents had lived on the Seekonk, a stream tributary to the Green river, not far from Great Barrington. Early left an orphan, she made her home alter nately with her married sisters in that - place, and there it was that Bryant met her. Charming in person, sweet in dis- ition, lovely in character, she drew im to her through his sympathy with her orphanage, his admiration of her beauty and his msppreciation of her worth. For 45 years she was the stay and blessing of his life. What that mar- riage was to him they knew best who | knew him best. Reserved on the subject to the world at large, he allowed only those who were nearest him to know i the wonderful depth and tenderness of | his affection. Their sympathy was per- | fect, their dependence mutual It Was sn Ideal | He said at her death: *‘I never wrote | a poem that I did not repeat it to her | and take her judgraent upon it. Ifound its success with the public to be pre- cisely in proportion to the impression it made upon her.”” A dear friend of them | both har said: ‘‘The union between Mr. | and Mrs. Bryant was a poem of the | tenderest rhythm. Any of us who re- {| member Mr. Bryant's voice when he | said Frances’ will join in his hope that [| she kept the same beloved name in | heaven. I remember alluding to those exquisite lines, ‘The Future Life,’ to { Mrs. Bryant, and her replying, ‘Oh, my | dear, I am always sorry for any one | who sees ie after reading those line. - | they must be go disappointed.” Beatrice i and Laura bave not received such trib- ; utes from their poets, for Mrs. Bryant's { husband was her poet and lover at 70 as {at 17.—Arthur Lawrence in Century. A Case or Fourteen to One. Queen Victoria, during her reign, has bad 34 parliaments on her hands, and | all her speeches to them eombingd are not as long as one president’s message. | A president who keeps his messages ' down to u column and a half will re- | ceive general commendation and get in | his work far more effectively. —St. | Louis Globe-Demcerat. We're Getting There. The snake and sea serpent stories that sre now doing such.a rushing business | suggest that the imagination of the | American people was never in better | condition. Each new story beggars all | the others. Evidently the great Ameri: | can n@vel is soon to be born. —Philadel- | phia Press. For Fun or For Keeps? A certain young man in our commu- nity entertained his best girl last Sniiday evening by playing her a game of mar- bles, — Roberta (Ga. ) Correspondent. i fp - 3 - A HARVEST SONG. Behind the scythes a trodden path, Bind, bind the sheaves. Wide and wider grows the swath. ‘Either side the bright corn heaves : Billows of gould. Trees a glory of bronze and red, Bind, bind the sheaves. Misty sunshine overhead. Through the chequer of thinning leaves The air is cold. : Breath of the coming frost is thers, Bind, bind the sheaves. = Vines that cling to the house grow bare. Swallows leave their nests in the eaves Empty and old. Apple globes, crimson and white, . Bind, bind the sheaves. Winnowed grain, sunnily bright (Glittering gold that want relieves), The wide bins hold Fill the flagon up to the brim, Bind, bind the sheaves, Until the foam runs over the rim. (It mellowed long where the spider weaves "In dusk and mold.) Fill and drink the cider clear, Bind, bind the sheaves. Bid farewell to the passing year, Close th» book with blotted leaves. Their tale is told. ~Neith Boyoe in Outing. INCAPABLE OF IMPERSONALITY. nism, a vague enmity which renders; or by sympathy, but apart from perscn- | on ¥ 1 Children { vite Wome ( 1 Yes OF 80%, . . \ living woman from the rest of h Lages of 6 and 10, attend the former. not dive from the breast of the soldier 14521 : : { 2 Tari tv for fpersonnt fooll F Children betwesn (la : 8 ineapacity for impersonal fooling o 1 3 an oat Yl ey Lng orf ra eligiblis to the higher grads Fechoolhouse or sol | iar with the highest forms of discipline. | are scared by the bloomer apparitions. JAPAN'S CHIEF FORCE , 80 1 HER EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM. | {| Mast Attend School Up to the Age of Fourteen -The Suljects Taught -Teach- i { ers’ Qualifications. | 1 The commen school system of Japan ix in my opinion the chief support. of the empire and the promise of the fn fuse. are only two schools—tho ordinary and the higher of both betwonn rT 4 1 ~ thera grades « 1 % XP ti SOX, ti wy a ii Bard OF 11 AQ i +4 i Qf his i * ; ‘| Every municipality, township, vii fights either for ber own hand or. rin 13 YOrY mummy PY {tawn and city is uired to build a irothouses, according | to the eensus returns of children of school age. weoording tio the capacity amd require | menfs of the school divisicn. In the | cities the school buildings ere quite are seemingly overcrowded. In ne country many of them are poor wodrien structures, It is obligatory for a'! old 1 dren between 6 and 14 years to attend a common schooluntil (Lc vo Lise is finished. The law is not rigidly en- forced becanse of the poverty of the | ccuntry and the absolute necessity for children to aid their parents by some kind of labor. But where children are permitted to attend scheol there is no trouble shout the attendance. There is no snch thing ig Japan as a schoolboy “creeping like a snatl anwillingly to school.”’ They gp trotting to scheol | with happy faces. They all wear a black 1 | COLONEL COCKERILL DESCRIBES | ho shows the littleness of New York as The horses are constracted | cornmodions and pretentious, though all | | man said rec: tly that he would never | or white cap with a Jeather visor, and they carry their books in a leather | satchel. The majority of thom are sta- | notoriously bad character or who are | comstitationally disqualified for regeiv- ing instruction are not admitted to the schools. : In the crdinary or lower grade school ‘the subjects tanght are readigg, com- position, caligraphy, arithmetic anc gymnastics. The latter is optional, ac cording to the character of the locality. One or more of the following subjects are also taught in addition to the above: Japanese geography, Japanese history, drawing, singing and handiwork. For girls sewing may be added. Iu the high- er grade school the curriculum embraces moral lessons, reading, composition, caligraphy, arithmetic, Japanese geog- raphy, Japanese history, foreign geog- raphy, science, drawing, singing and gymnastics. For girls sewing may be added. Foreign geography and singing may be eliminated. One or more of the following subjects may be added, ac- cording to requirement: Elements of geometry. a foreign language, lessons in agriculture, commerce and manual training. In all the schools great stress is Inid on essay writing. Every class is trained in calistheniewa Where singing is taught, the children enter into it with great zeal, and they make thomselves heard for a considerable distance. In the common schools the summer vaca- sion lasts from two to six weeks and the winter vacation from ome to five weeks. The number of holidays shall not exceed 90 in any one year. In schools of the ordinary grade military drill is left optional. In the higher grade the military training of the male pupils is obligatory. To this branch great attention is given and every boy who leaves school at the age of 16 has in him all the elements of the =oldier, gave perhaps efficiency in the manual and use of arms. They are made famil- Teachers in the schools must have due qualifications. They are selected and ap- pointed by the governor of the prefec- ture or the city in which they are to teach. These teachers are regarded as government officials, and a small pen : sion is provided for them when they are incapacitated by age or permanent ll. ness. Their salaries are small, ranging from 10 yen $c 25 yen per month. Text DOORS are CnOrerx Irom nose auwnarizen . by the minister of education, and are selected by the governor of the district upon the report of a committee selected by him. Last year Japan expended on common schools the sum of 8,055,980 yen. The government maintains a num- ber of high grade schools, and the coun- try is well sapplied with excellent pri- vate schools and colleges, which are maintained by tuition fees, and in some cases by government contributions to cover deficits. Last year the number of children educated in Japan at public expense was 3, 30,452, and the average daily attendance was 2,489,657 pupils. —John A. Cockerill in New York Her- ald ‘ Bloomers Scare. the Horses. The eity council of White Pigeon, Mich., has be petitioned by a consid- erable body of the citizens of that place | to prohibit women from wearing bloom- ers on the stre:. An ungallant ‘‘where-. as’’ in the petition alleges that horses At Coldwater, in the same state, some of the women bicyclists recently passed dious and fond of books. Children of i + ‘nts gets into the city directory. As seen New York, his enthusiasm for his ' Cal, recently, to Miss Grace Pitney, out of the bloomer stage and took to men’s knickerbockers and goli stock- | Ings. For Red Armas. Rough, red arms are a source of much annoysuce to many women, especially to those who are given to wearing short sleeves. They should be washed every night in very hot water and scrubbed vigorously until quite red with a coarse turkish towel. Before drying rub in a little lomon juice mixed with an equal amount; of lime water. nse —————————r—— A. Woman Customs Inspector. The best inspector in the French cus- tom house is a woman, She is in the Havre office, and she has a nose that can’ detect dutiable goods without opening a lock. $he is naturally amiable and slow to anger, but woe to the foreigner or countryman who provokes her ire.— New York Press. : : ‘the boat, waving her handkerchief to air. In striking the mountain side again . burg Dispatch. ~ STORIES OF THE DAY. Bome Confessions as to Chicago by a Na- The sidswalks of Chicago are chiefly. | board planks. Miles of this baard walk 4 i } laos . ¥ : 1 : | Coedneation 8 Feature of the System — All | is elevated ‘much above the lot level Sundry beards are missing, and there. fore Chicagoans are getting to be greas jumpers. * The streets of Chicago are paved with cobhlectenos and blocks of wood. Many of the inhabitants say that the blocks o7 wood onght to be dumped into their Wn «1 bins, 2 puts them to a grea: deal of inconvenience and labor to dig them ont of the street. : ax The postmaster of Chicagl has re- | mariah He without Aanbt thy greatest statistician in tho | city. Tw ie a wick reralarly he quotes statistics to the Chicago papers in which whiskers. 18 wmpared with the city by tho lake. i a | The wearin: of dress suits in the day. | time in Chic "gradually going nb of style. A co spicunous Chicago society | think of wear ng a dress suit before 4 | o'clock ir the afternoon. From 13 to 1 o'clock the business men of Chicago seek the dairy lunch counters. They eat as a rule 15 cents’ | worth and then go back to their work | thoroughly contented. Thera is a railroad that owns the whola of the like front, and nobody is allowed {0 fich in the lake. Ho far th railroad company has not refosed th lake breezes admittance over its tracks Chicago is so flat that tho city has built in some of the parks small hills, People regard these hills with great cariosity "The Chicago river continues to emit | nnspeakabla oders, yet Chicagoans ap- 4 near to like it, for they stand on the bridges ever. the river for hours at a! time watching the busy scencs below. | Occasionally one of them shufles off his | jortal coil by jumping into the river. The atmosphere of Chicago when an- | lyzed yields 40 per cent of suft coal |