Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 15 January 1892 — Page 2

©he democrat DKOATUR, IND. % BLACKBURN, • - - Ppmjiihh. UK* (toy Chicago courts granted twenty-six divorces inside of two hours and twenty minutes. It won’t be long until those courts will have to he run by electricity. A rnoKKssioNAL ball player has Just fallen heir to $25,000 and announces that he will retire from the diamond. He has 25,000 good reasons ' for doing so. A cattleman droppod SIB,OOO in a little ppker game at Kansas City. Apparently the real estate dealers of that town have not left the city, but have only changed their occupation. The latest addition to the colony of divorce-hunters at Sioux Falls is a Congregational clergyman. Sioux Falls and Dwight are running neck and neck as resorts for the upper classes. The report of the loss of the British steamer Moscme says briefly: “All on board saved except the captain.” This seems to have the ring of the old days and is a noble epitaph for the drowned man. s The world failed to fly into smithereens according to the pleasant prophecy of a Kansas City seer. People who bought lavishly on credit because of this prediction will have plenty of time to repent. Local authorities at Holly Springs, Miss., now wear the belt for dense stupidity. Richard Brounsing, of Chicago, whom they arrested under the supposition that he was John L. Sullivan, was absolutely sober at the time. The big theater hat will have to go. Another suit for damages has been -brought, this time in Minneapolis. When men pay their money tc see a show they are not going to be satisfied with the flowers on a woman’s big hat. A fiery Westerner has sued the managers of a theater for’ allowing a eouple of girls to sit before him wearing hats so large that •he could not see the stage. If he would publish his address contributions to support him in the prosecution of the suit — would flow in from all over the land. It has reached a point where Chicago must mend her lawless ways and brace up for the World’s Fair. Train robbing in the Western wilds Is bad enough, but when a mail wagon can be held up, robbed and the plunder gotten away with right in the heart of Chicago, outsiders will ■begin to think that they would rather their leisure hours somewhere ; In a murder trial in Pennslvvania it was established by medical evfdtncc 1 that a person hit on the head might / be so affebted as to go across the street, get a revolver, come back and shoot the assailant with deadly aim and all the time be entirely , uncon- 1 scious of what he was doing. He was not necessarily insane, but simply incapable of forming an idea or having a motive. Moral: Don’t hit people. Denmark looks very carefully after the interest of its paupers, and there is comparatively less pauperism there than anywhere else in Europe. It* has recently amended its poor laws, md amoDg the new features are the following: “Husband and wife must not be separated if they conduct themselves properly. Aged and feeble persons must not be placed where they will be disturbed or annoyed, and children must not be placed under immoral influences.” These ate wholesome and prudent provisions and will doubtless meet the views of the philanthropic of all •countries. The case of Sawtclle, the New Hampshire murderer, who has just died, shows that the law in that State is a peculiarly stupid one. No person found guilty of a capital crime can be hanged until he has been in prison for a year. If the time were extended a trifle murderers might all realize the wish of the Western malefactor who, when told that he would have his choice as to the manner of his death, replied that he pre--1 erred to die of old age. The Sawtelle wretch richly deserves the rope, and a system that preserved him until nature took him off in its own fashion cannot fail to bring the administration of justice into contempt. The Princess May Victoria, whose father, by the way, used to be called the Duke of Tick, because of his impecuniosity, is a good-natured, spunky young person of respectable middle-class appearance, whosd hair is not dressed as English young women and New England young women of good family are "accustomed to dress theirs, but in the much-frizzed, curled and brought-down-on-the-forchead way which is fashionable in Vienna and St. Louis. One important fact is trio much disregarded by certain statesmen of both political parties just at present. There has never been a tiipe when the country would cease to exist because of the death of a single citizen. There have, however, been times when the nation could attend* funerals more frequently without regretflag the cost. In a nation of 65",000,-

000 one man does not weigh as much as he appears to when standing on the scales created by his own self-es-teem. We are not troubled In this State with violent altercations or exhibitions of violence on railroad trains, but at the same time a decision ol the Supreme Court of tho United States may boos interest to travelers. Tblsdccisipn was sent back to the Mississippi court from which it originated, a caso in whlch an unruly passenger was shot by tho conductor, for which shooting a verdict of $7,000 was returned against the railroad company. The Mississippi court refused to charge tho jury that, if from the manner and attitude of the passenger, the conductor had reason to fear -ap assault and shot under tho belief that he was in imminent personal injury/ the company was not responsible. The Suprcme Court decides t hat tho jury should have been so charged. Byron- addressed men as retpiles; Emerson as inferiors; Longfellow as critics; Wordsworth simply soliloquized, careless whether his voice he heard or not; Bryant spoke more to the intellect than to the heart—in select thoughts and chart expressions; but Burns and Whittle/will be more deeply loved,- if not- lbnger remem bered, than others, from the fact that they speak to us in the language of the heart and from the broad level of humanity. Besides this quality of generous, genial manhood, Whittier is distinguished by a vigorous moral earnestness. His creed may not be entirely orthodox, but his spirit is essentially Christian. No poet has more beautifully expressed a profound conviction of the reality and value of the great moral principles and obligations of our nature. Rejecting the shifting sand Os human "theories as the foundation of his 'faith, how grandly has he built upon the solid rock of the Divine Justice and Love! In cool, deliberate daring a performance at Portsmouth by English Torpedo LieutenantSturdee, furnishes one of the most notable instances on record. To prove tho correctness of falseness of his views regarding the availability of a steelspiked boom intended to check the rush of a torpedo boat, the Lieutenant and four volunteer seamen made h rush in a boat provided for the occasion against a test boom. The trial was so hazardous that the lives of all concerned were especially insured for the benefit of their families by order of the admiralty. The importance of the experiment as a means of making an actual test of the advisability of a promising means of defense alone justified the risk in the eyes. of the officials. The torpedo boat was sent the boom at full speed. It was caught, spiked and torn so that when finally set free it foundered before , reaching shore-., Ehe men were cued iu a By the oV the affair LieutenanVSfmrdee’s views were disproved, had said ho could break the boom. But he had established his own bravery and dash beyond a question. He and his four companions are of such stuff as makes naval heroes in time of need. The masses of the Mexican people have taken occasion more than once recently to display their unfriendly feeling towards Americans notwithstanding the prosperity which American capital and enterprise are developing in that country. It is said that in*many parts of Mexico Americans cannot travel without the danger of insult or molestation, and that the display of the American flag has more than once provoked hostile or unfriendly demonstrations. The memory of the Mexican war still remains and the masses probably feel towards us somewhat as the French do towards the Germans for taking hack their two i>rovinces. But so far as the area lost by the Mexicans is concerned, it is utterly hopeless that a single acre of it ever will he recovered, hence it is stupid folly for the Greasers to be sulky or revengeful and to display their personal animosity towards Americans. The progress and prosperity of Mexico as well as the development of its resources depend upon American trade, capital and friendship. Whatever tends to weaken or alienate the latter can only react upon Mexico. It is for its immediate and material Interests to cultivate friendly relations with this country and to invite American investments and free intercourse between the two peoples. The Potato Among (Germans. It is doubtful whether many of our German fellow-citizens, from the north of the. Fatherland especially, who can afford it. will sit down to a dinner without their dish of German potatoes before them in some»form or shape of culinary art. The endless variety of dishes prepared of* potatoes in their totality, known only to German cooks and German housewives, would fill half a column. There is a German restaurant not many squares from the corner of Smith and Haiti-, more, streets whose Saturday potatopancake lunches are famous all ovei Maryland. Even sourkront without mashed potatoes is only half -a delicacy to the true Teuton. Herring, .tgtfeeVer. with potliid or roasjied -potatoes in the shell is the ne plus ultra appetizer before or after genuine Bavarian. But as only the genuine German herring is the true solace for the thirsty soul after a banquet • among the. singers or students, sc only the genuine German potato is the proper ingredient for a genuine German “kartoffel salat,” .or, which is still sublimer,.a “herring salat.”— Baltimore Sun.

WHO OWN TAX'LAWS? PROTECTION 19 FOR PRIVATE • INTEREST. Tho Number of Tartfl'Brn«*flol»rle»~ Fewer Wuikmcn Dependent on tho Tariff than Are Rngugad In Producing A rtlclea for Our Export Trade—Wool uud Uio Tariff lnlSOl. How It Work*. A year or more ago a well-known New York lawyer raised tho question, “Who own the United States?” In an article published in a popular magazine ho presented a collection of facts, partly within his own knowledge and partly tho fruit of canful porsonai inquiry, that were startling, oven to those who bollovod themselves awake to tho phonomonal massing of wealth to this countiw. His conclusion was that the United Stateß are to-day practically ownod by 250,000 people, or one in sixty of tho adult population, and that with the unoheoked momentum of existing forces the number will bo rodueed In thirty years to 60,000, or ono in 500 of tho nduitrpopulation. The greatest force in this rapid and, as all must admit, perilous concentration of wealth must be lookod for in another question: “Who own the taxing power in the United States?” I shall seek an answer to this question; for it Is a fact as capable of proof as any fact In politics can be that the taxing power In the United States, so far as it works through tho tariff, has been transferred to private ownership and only in a subordinate senso subserves any public purpose. By the admission, even by the boast, of those who framed the McKinley bill, we have now a “tariff for protection with incidental revenue.” Now protection Is for the individual and private interest, and revenue is for the government. Who and how many, we may well ask, are the individuals who have prior and paramount claims to the public in taxing the people of this country? They are that portion of our producers who mako goods that might be competed with in our market by goods imported from abroad. They alcme can be beneficiaries of a law that shuts out of the country such goo is, or admits them only under heavy burdens and penalties, and any advantage claimed for others must be filtered to them through these direct beneficiaries. I am not aware that any one compepetent to do so has listed these beneficiaries and ascertained their number as compared with our full population. But very competent inquirers have ascertained facts from which a "shrewd” guess can bo made as to the number of those who enjoy—thanks to a great political party—the prerogative of taxing the American people, for their claim to possess this prerogative is made, not in their dwn name, but in the name of the laborers they employ. Fortunately, we can very accurately estimate the number of their employes, as compared with our entire wage-earning population. Secretary Manning submitted to three eminent statisticians, among them Prof. Simon Newcomb, the distinguished mathematician and writer on economic subjects, the question, how many employes were engaged in the industries supposed to be protected in whole or in part by the tariff. Their answers, made without concert and after careful study of the census of 1880 and our revenue laws, were in striking concord. The average of these anpwers was but little more than 5 of our working population. attempt to solve this same question has been made by a gontlemaywhose ability to deal with statistijSns not surpassed by any authopir - Jmr. Edward Atkinson, in a letter addressed to the Boston Herald a few weeks ago, and in a speech which I heard him make before the Beform Club of Massachusetts, gave both his method of solving the question and the results he had reached. I will only deal with the latter, and that for the purpose alone of answering the question at the head of this article. As the census of 1890 is yet incomplete, the census of 1880 was used. In that year one out of every three, or, speaking exactly, one in each two q.nd nine-tenths of our population, was occupied for gain, making altogether 17,400,000 in gainful pursuits. These were distributed in round numbers as follows: In agriculture, as farmers or laborers, nearly 8,000,000; in professional and personal service, 4,000,000; in trade and transportation nearly 2,000,000, and in manufacture, mechanic arts and mining not quite 4,000,000. For the entire country forty-four out of each hundred are engaged in agriculture, but in the Southern States, including Missouri, the number so engaged is seventy out of each hundred. Mr. Atkinson finds that of this entire wage-working populatian 1,200,000, at most, are or can be in any way subject to foreign competition, while, on the other hand, 1,400,000 in agriculture and 200,000 factory operatives, mechanics, and machinists depend wholly on foreign sales and tho export of the products of their labor for their sustenance. This is one of the moat suggestive and telling facts brought out in the tariff controversy, and cannot be too strongly dwelt upoy. After all the boasting of the tariff as (lie protector of American labor and a creator of a home market, there ire 400,(l0(r more laborers wholly dependent on the export and sale of their products in foreign markets than there are laborers protected from competition in any measure by the tariff. We have,, therefore, the following distributipn of our working population: Number who are wholly dependent on the export of the products of their 1ab0r...., 1,600,090 Number subject in some measure or in part lo an import of a foreign product to compete with their own 1,200,000 Number subject to no direct influence”' by the tariff except as consumers.... 14,WX 1 ,000 Total 17,400,000 Who, then, we may now ask, own the taxing power in this country? The capitalists who employ the 1,200,000 laborers specified in the above table. As to their number we can only guess, but if we average ten employes to each employer we have 120,000 out of the population of 1880 —say 180,000 of our present population, as the' entire number of the direct beneficiaries of the tariff laws. Here, then, is our privileged class enjoying two privileges elsewhere accorded to royalty alone; first, an exemption from their just share of the burdens of government, and the sovereign prerogative of taxing all the rest of the people for their own benefit. —Congressman W. L. Wilson, in St. Louis Republic. the Tariff In 1801. When thexfcK in,ley tariff, which "increased the duties on wool, went into effect, it was predicted by McKinley and his associates who made tho bill that it would boom the wool industry, raise the price of wool and decrease the importations of foreign wools. The American Wool Reporter’s nimuai review of the wool market shows now complete has been the failure of the tariff to do what was expected of it. “The course of the wool market/,” says the Reporter, "during the past year has been a great disappointment to the trade, as well as the wool growers, As far as the volume of business in primary markets is concerned, there is no very radical difference to be noted, taking the year as a whole, she aggregate of sales, being not far from thope of the previous year. The receipts of wool in Boston, the •

principal wool market of the United j States, during 1891 show an increase , over 1890 of $$ per cent, of domestic and 37.4 per cent,of foreign wool, while the total sales during the year aggregate only 1,331,230 pounds moro than in 1890. At thsoame time tho stocks on | hand at the dose of this year, as compared with 1890, are oh follows: 1810, 1881. Pounds Pound ■ Domestic. 'J5,874,4112 80,391,480 Foreign 2,85X480 4,888.810 Tills, token* in connection with the reoeipts and the total sales for tho year, show oleariy that while there has been a large lnorease in the consumption of foreign wool, It has been at tho expense of that of domestio growth. What in view of this becomes of the olaira made by high-tariff organs that the dooreaso in the importation of goods during the year meant a larger consumption of domestic woql? Concerning prioos the Reporter says: says: “In the matter of prices realized the trend of valuos has been almost steadily toward lower figures, when there has been any movement. The year has been characterized by long periods of depression, and after eauh period of weakness there has not beon ono rally oaloulated to lift values upon a higher plane. In spite of the increased duties upon foreign wool, importations of the latter show a dooldod increase, as those who havo been at all familiar with our market reports very well know. The strengthening influence, therefore, that was to come from anticipated redueod importations has been characterized by its absence. The result is that the markets at the seaboard and in the interior closo tho year at practically the lowest point of the year, and, on tho avorago, with wool about two cents per pound lower. Ohio and Pennsylvania neecos have shown the most marked depression, which is significant, certainly, in view of the fact that the growers of those wools were the most clamorous for the increased duties, and that it was their interests more partfcularly than others that the tariff was designed to protect." How general has been the fall in the prices of Eastern wools is shown by the following table prepared by the Reporter: Deo. 81,189 L Deo. 31,1890. Varieties. Cents per U>. Cents per lb. Ohio and Pennsylvania XX and above 30 @3l 34(335 Ohio X and above 23 @4O 32@H3 Ohio X 28 31@82 Ohio No. 1 ...35 @BO S7@SB Michigan X 26q@27 29@30 Michigan No. 1 33 @ 4 38337 Michigan delaine 32 @33 54@35 Ohio delaine 34 @35 36@37 Ohio fine unwashed and unmerchantable 20 @24 22@25 Michigan do 18 @22 21@23 No. 1 Ohio combing, washed 38 @3O 40@42 No. 1 Miohigan do 36 @l7 39@40 No. 2 combing 33 @3l 3' @47 No. 8 combing. SO @3l 33@34 Kentucky, Michigan and Indiana, Kbld.combing.97 @29 29@30 One-fourth blood 25 @27 27@28 Concerning the probability of in-, creased importations of wool next year, the Reporter says: “We noted the probability, in our review of last year, of increased importations of foreign wool, and the outcome of events has justified our predictions, and to-day indications point to a still further use of Australian and other foreign wools than we have seen during 1891. Many houses which never handled Australian wools before have done so during the past few months, and others aro preparing to do so. “Increased importations and sales of Australian wools, in the face of higher duties on the one hand and increasing stocks of domestic wools at lower prices on the other, together form a striking commentary on the inefficiency of a higher tariff as a remedial measure for the grower. With like conditions prevailing in the year 1892 there is no reason for expecting a different state of affairs than have prevailed during tho past year.” Tho failures of the wool tariff briefly summarized are: 1. It has failed to raise prices of domestic wool. 2. It has failed to decrease the imports of foreign wool. Why, im view of this, does it longer remain on our statute books? Who Pays the Tariff Tax? The following table shows the value of dutiable imports, and the amount of duties collected for the past five years: Average Dutiable Dnties rate ol Year imports. collected. duty. 1887 64V),325,321 *214,222,310 47.10 1888 464,143,774 216,042,256 45.63 3889 484,856,768 220,576,989 46 13 1890 507,571,7 G 4 226,540,036 44.41 1891 466,455.173 215,103,729 16.28 T0ta1...52,377,352, 01 *1,093,295,323 46.40 The values of imports given above are the values of the goods at tho place of purchase—that is, tho prices at which the goods are offered for sale to anyone in foreign markets. Tho duties collected represent the tax which is imposed. on these goods by the United States at its custom houses. Who has paid into the treasury of the United States tho sl,093,285,320 within the past five years? It was certainly paid by one of the two parties concerned in the importation of the $2,377,352,801 worth of goods, either by the importer or the foreign manufacturer. If tho importer paid the duties he added the amount to the price of the goods, and as Mr. Depew says, the tariff tax “rested on the bottom,” that is on the consumer. But Secretary of the Treasury Foster says that the tariff is a tax, and that, the foreigner pays it for the privilege of selling his goods in our markets. If his view Is the right one, the foreigner has within the past five years been doing a most unprofitable business in exporting goods to the United States, for for every dollar’s worth of goods which he has on hand —say in Liverpool —to be shipped to the United States ho must pay not only the cost of insurance, handling, and freight—which amounts to say five also 46 4-10 cents in duties to the United States. His net return, therefore, when he lands his dollar’s worth of goods here, is loss than 50 cents. Is any one stupid enough to think that this is true? If foreigners send their goods to the United States, do they not do it because they can got more for them here than where they are made? If this is true, the consumer in the United States, not the foreign manufacturer, pays the tariff tax. Which view of the matter is.the more reasonable one? The Hartford Times of tho 16th inst. publishes the following from its correspondent in the neighboring city of New Britain: “This morning the knitters at the American Hosiery Company were notified of a Hi per cent, reduction in wages. For the past week there has been a general reduction of wages, comprising the spoolers, ravelers, spinners, and seamers.” The Dry 'floods Economist reports that “the, employes aro very much dissatisfied." A correspondent informs us thot, at the hearings before the McKinley Ways and Means Committee in the springjof 1890, Mr, J.aiYres Talcott, the principal owner 6f the American Hosiery. Company’s works a wag jm eloquent advocate of the proposed higher duties on hosiery, and that ho expressed deep solicitude for the welfare of employes in the hosiery factories of this country. As almost everybody knows, the duties on hosiery were largely increased by the McKinley act.—Now York Times. A» Unaccommodating Conductor. >Ptetreet car conductor in Maine felt like grumbling because a woman' a»ked him to “wait a second” while she went into her house to change het drew. 1

——— I —-- (around the camp-fire OLD SOLDIERS TALK OVER EXPERIENCES AND SPIN YARNS. The Blits, and the Gray Revive /Incident* of the Late War, and In a Graphic and Intereating Manner TeUof Camp, March* and Battle. _____ The Burial of tho Dead. . & rplIE muffled drum’s ead 'ajk . JL The soldier’s last tattoo; AMA No more on life's ptirado (.bull The bravo and daring few. Oq fame's eternal if Tlielr silent tents The bivouac of tbo vßßsV>'K?y§§P/ No answer of tho Now swells upon Np troubled^thought Os loved ones loft Dehind 1 No vision of the morrow’s strlfo The warrior’s dream alarms. No braying horn or screaming fife At dawn shall call to arms. Their shivered swords are red with rust; Their plumed heads are bowed; Their haughty banner, truilod in dust. Is now their martial shroud. And plenteous funeral tears have washed The red stains from each brow, And their proud forms. In battle pushed, Are free from anguish how. The neighing steed, the flashing blade. The trumpet's stirring blust, The charge, the dreadful canuonade, The din and shout are past No war's wild note, nor glory’s poal, Shall thrill with flerco delight Those breasts that never more shall feel The rapture of the fight Like the dread northern hurricane That Bwceps his broad plateau, Nerved with the triumph yet to gain Came down the serried foe. Our heroes fel the shock and leapt To meet them on tho plain, And long the pitying sky has wept ' Above our gallant slain Sons of our consecrated ground. Ye must not slnmber there, Where stranger steps and tongues resound Along the heodless air. , Your own proud laud’s heroic soil Shall be your fijtcr grave; She claims from war his richest spoil— The ashes of her brave. So ’neath their parent turf they rest. Far from the gory field; Borne to a Spartan mothor’s breast On many a bloody shield. The sunshine of their native sky Smiles sadly on them here. And kindred hearts and eyes watch by The hero’s sepulcher. Rest pn, embalmed and sainted dead! Dear as the bloody grave; No impious footsteps hero shall tread The herbage of your glaive; Nor shall your glory be forgot While fame her record keeps. Or honor points the hallowed spot Where valor proudly sleeps. Your marbleAntnstrel’s voiceless tone In deathless songs shall tell, When many a vanquished age hath flown. Tho story how ye felL Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight, Nor Time’s remorseless doom, , Shall dim ono ray of holy light That guilds your glorious tomb. Died for the Flag. Sment the banners were unfurled t o the breeze, and the command, “Forward, quick time, march!” was given, the whole army seemed to be, inspired with a zealous determination to drive the enemy from his stronghold. While they marched across the plains in solid phalanx under the inspiration of a dozen bands of music, their step was firm and elastic, and their hearing proud and defiant. The appearance, to the spectator, was that of a grand review on some “gala day.” Never did an army go forth to battle with more pomp and splendor. The eclat was grand in the extreme. As they approached the foot of the ridge, an electrical current of enthusiam passed from one extremity of the lino to the other. The officers lost control, but the troops pressed determinedly on, keeping their respective organization intact; and, without orders, rushed heroically tip the hill, and in the face of a most galling fire, scaled the enemies’ breastworks, and gained a complete and glorious victory. The heroism of the whole was but an aggregation of the bravery, the gallantry, the noble deeds of daiing of the individual soldiers composing it. But few of these find their way into print, yet many of them are of the most thrilling interest, and ought to be preserved as examples for future generations. I have an instance at hand. Among the first to plant its banners on the ramparts was the Ninety-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteers. AVhen the regiment began to scale the fortifications, the standard bearer—a man of great strength and courage—boldly threw himself forward, and, gaining the summit, stood erect, planted his flagstaff firmly on the top of the parapet, and fearlessly and triumphantly waved his colors in the face of the enemy. The effect was wonderful. The regiment .were wild with excitement, and the victorious huzzas rose loud above the clang of arms and the din of battle. As one man, they bounded over the parapet, charged their foes with impetuous fury, and in a hand-to-hand combat, in which the butts of their guns were freely used, succeeded, after a stout resistance, in vanquishing them. All this time the scene around the flag was most exciting—a scene of carnage, of bloodshed, of heroic sacrifice. The brave standard-bearer stood manfully at his post, although the balls were whizzing around him thick and fast as hailstones. His position was conspicuous. The colors drew the fire of the enemy, and he. soon fell, pierced by a dozen bullets, and rolled down the embankment a lifeless corpse. The color-guards were faithfully discharging their duty, and one of them promptly took the place of his dead comrade, caught the flag as it was falling, and planted it again on the summit, shouting, triumphantly, “Oh, long may it wave over the land of the free and the heme of the brave!” / I The feat was hardly accomplished

'* when the\messehger of death sent a missilo through his heart. A second, a third, anil a fourth guard successively caught the flag as it was about to fall, and, for a moment, kept it erect and unfurled; but each, In turn, waa Bhot down. As th6 fourth one fell, Major Will Birch, than whom nouo braver ever drew the sword, took his place, and gallantly bore tho ensign aloft, ’shputing at the top of his voice, “Soldiers! rally around the flag. Never permit It to trail In the dust. Strike for It and your country. Defend them at the porll of your lives. Charge the enemy once more, and the victory is ours." They did charge, fought valiantly, and were triumphant; but the victory was sealed with the blood of the chivalrous Birch. An unseen hand took deadly aim, and the ball passed through his brain from temple to temple. Strange as it may seem, he not immediately fall, or lose his cumciousness, but turned to Sergeant PoSfier, the only color-guard remaining, instructed him to throw himself fifth on the ground, and keep tho flag unfurled at aH hazards. As Poiner received the staff from his hands, ho uttered a single groan, sank to the earth, and instantly expired. nattle-Flold Humor. ana regiment, worn out by a long march on a sultry day, struggled along with but little regard to order. Hurrying up to the men the captain shouted: “Close up, close up. If the enemy were to fire when you’re straggling along that way they couldn’t hit a cussed ono of you! Close up!” The ranks closed up immediately. General Lee, of the revolution, who had a supreme contempt for anything approaching affectation, once administered what may in reality be termed a cutting rebuke for such to one of his_command. Finding, one day, a Dr. Cutting, an army surgeon, who was a handsomo and dressy man, arranging his cravat complacently before a glass, “Cutting,” said Lee, “you must he the happiest man in creation.” “Why, General,” asked the surgeon. “Why," replied Lee, “because you are in love with yourself, and have not a rival on earth.” The General, however, sometimes met with an advrsary enjoying a wit as keen and dry as his own, notably in the following instance: When a prisoner at Albany, he dined at the house of an Irish gentleman. Before commencing tho afterdinner pastime of wine drinking, the General said to his host that he hoped he would excuse a fault of his afterdinner drinking, which, he was sorry to say, was a tendency to abuse Ireland and Irishmen. “By all means,” replied the other, dryly, “I will excuse your fault, but I must also beg of you to excuse a parallel defect in myself. Whenever I hear a man abuse my country, I have a trick of cracking his head with my shilialah.” The General drank his wine, but never said a word about Ireland that evening. An amusing anecdote is related concerning a certaiu pompous. Captain during one of the battles on the Mississippi. His company were advanced toward the scene of conflict when the Confederate General, Pillow, who was well acquainted with his subordinate’s weakness for riding the high horse, called out in a very solemn manner: “Captain, fire! the crisis has come.” Coolly turning to his men, who were standing with their guns shotted and primed, he simply cried “Fire!” The men were naturally surprised at the order, there being no object within range, and an old sergeant stepped up with, “Plaze your honor, what shall we lire ftt?” “Fire at the crisis,” said the Captain. “Didn’t you hear the General say it had come?” As is well known, American militia officers do not rank very "high, and sometimes get ratbftr broad hints of it to their very faces. “Cuff,” said one of these dignitaries to a negro at his side as he prepared to swallow his seventh tumbler; “C«ff. you’re a good, honest fellow, and I like to compliment a man wot’s led an4tjonest life, even if he is a black. You shall take a glass of something with mfe, Cuff.” “Well, Capta’n,” said Cuff, wiping his mouth with his coat sleeve, t “I’se berry dry, so J won't be ugly alxiut it.' Some niggers is too 'proud to drink with a millishy ossifer, but I tink a millistiy ossifer —when he’ssoherr-is-jis’ as good as a nigger, especially if the nigger’s dry. "- General Scott’s Orderly. There'resides in Junction City, Kan., a veteran of two wars, John Black, now a pensioner of the Gov-, ernment. He was born in Ireland sixty-seven years ago, but came to this country when a mere boy. As a. young man he entered the regular army b serving twbhty-one years in the Second Dragoons under General Harney. He was in most of the battles of the Mexican war, and carried the first shell to the battery that began the against the stronghold of Chapultepec. He was general Scott’s orderly when the triumphant entry was made into the City of Mexico. He holds General Kcott in high esteem, but at the same time believes that his old leader was too indifferent to the lives and comfort of his men. After the Mexican war Black was, with his command, In the Utah expedition. His company was the one that first visited the scene of the . Mountain Meadow massacre, where he helped bury the bones of the unfortunate men, wofnen and children who were killed by Indians under leadership of the Mormons. He secured from a thorn bush a long tress of silky brown which told a sad story of some poor woman who there ended her life. In 1859 he ,was stationed at Fort Riley, where he served six years as orderly sergeant, his days of active field service being over.

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