Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 9 July 1895 — Page 2

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BICYCLES will be cheaper next year, as there are so many independent factories starting up. It is impossible to unite all of them and form a combine to bold prices up. It is said the tig Studebaker firm at South Bend is to build a mammoth bicycle factory that will place a first-class wheel ou the market at §35.00.

THE government deficit grows steadily. It has been more than a million dollars a day this month. Up to Saturday it was $8,845,801.12, and that of Saturday was §2,007,340 41. Staving off a few big bills to make last year's deficit a little smaller makes a bad start for this fiscal year, wnicli began July 1.

ONE of the new laws just gone in effect provides that any man who marries a girl to escape firosecutiou and then deserts her within two years' time without sufficient cause, can be prosecuted jnsc the same as if the marriage had not taken place. This is a good, wholesome law and should have been in force long ago. There have been a number or such ca es ia this county the past few years

NEXT week it is thought 50,000 Christian Endeavor delegates wiil aitend the Boston Convention. They represent a membership of 2,500,000 which is now one of the greatest religious forces of this country The phenomenal success of tli: -organization is one of the wonders or ne age. Today it is growing mote rapidly than ever before and its influence widening and becoming more powerful.

GEMS IN VERSE.

The Kiddle of tlio Sphiux.

What's life? A .shadow by a sunbeam shown, A mazy music cloying i:i a moan, A bitt-or potion in jeweled cup, A queer conundrum—till we give it up, And then, perchance, the truth, so long unguessed, Wo all shall know or cl.se be well at rest.

Nay, friend, such answers liuvo the patent twist Of youth—too eft a wanton pessimist, Who, having gulped crude win :, or rather dregs, Views life, not standing firm J3- 011 his legs, But 011 his heart, and so is forced to frown, Because, of course, the show looks upside down.

Yet, verily, though life's gold hath much alloy, Nor can each day be jeweled with a joy, Still the skilled workman may at any rate Carve out a loving cup and blithely pledge his fate. —Henry Austin.

My Daughter's Learned to Cook. We used to have old fashioned things, like hominy and greens We used to have just common soup, made out of pork and beans, But now its bouillon, consomme and things made from a book, And pot au feu and Julienne, since my daughter's learned to cook.

We used to have a piece of beef—just ordinary meat— And pickled pigs' feet, spareribs, too, and othtilings to eat, While now it's fillet, and ragout, and leg of mutton brais d, And macaroni au gratin, and sheep's head Hollandaised, Escallops a la Versailles—a la this and a la that, And sweetbread a la Dieppoise—it's enough to kill a r-.t! But while I sulier deeply 1 invariably look As if 1 were delighted 'cause my daughter's learned to cook.

We have a lot of salad things, witli dres.~i: mayonnaise, In place of oy.-:ters, Blue Points, fricasseed a dozen ways. And orange i\.ly poly, float, and peach meringue, ai:is, Enough to wreck a stomach that is made of plated brass! The good old things have passed away, in silent, sad retreat. We've lots of highlaluling things, but nothing much to eat. And, while I never say a word and always pleasant look, You bet I've had dyspepsia since my daughter learned to cook. —Court Challia.

Curfew Tide.

"The long day closes."

The thrushes sing in every tree The shadows long and longer grow Broad sunbeams lie athwart the lea

The oxen low. Round roof and tower the swallows slide, And slowly sinks the sua At curfew tide,

When day is done.

Sweet sleep, the nighttime's fairest child, O'er all the world her pinions spreads. Each flower beneath her influence mild,

Fresh fragrance sheds The owls, on silent wings and wide, Steal Ir^m the woodlands one by one At curfew tide,

When day is done.

No more the clanging rookery rings With voice of many a noisy bird. The startled wood dove's clattering wings

No more are heard. With sound like whispers faintly sighed, Soft breezes through the tree tops run

curfew tide, When day is done.

So may it be when life is spent, When ne'er another sun can rise, Nor light one other joy present

To dying eyes.

Then softly may the spirit glide To realms of rest, disturbed-by none, At curfew tide,

When day is done.

—Chambers' Journal.

An Old Fashioned Girl.

Eevolt my Myrtle never chose, Nor comely gentleness derided. No cylinders her limbs inclose

Her simple skirt is not divided. Blie neither swears nor bets nor smokes, Zbla she hasn't read a word of, Nor takes delight in doubtful jokes,

Like some young ladies that I've heard of.

She is not forward in her speech, Nor yet too silent to be winning

A kiss for one, a smile for each, Too frank for fear, too pure for sinning. She does not overdress, and yet

Is always trim and neat and tidy— Thanks to her mother, pretty pet, For she was eight months old last Friday, ipfi*' —St. James Budget.

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MANCHESTER, N. Y,, July 9.—The sincss portion of this village was ied out by fire early Monday morn-

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A CHAT WITH OLD RESIDENV THE BATTLEFIELD.

Story of a Veteran of the Fourth Virginia"

Cavalry—How Colonel Bice of Massa

chusetts Stood I.ong at Death's Door.

The Spot Where Both Battles Ended.

[Special Correspondence.]

WELLINGTON, Ya., Juno 24.—This little hamlet on the Manassas gap branch of the Southern railway is just threo miles straight south of tho point where the first battle of Bull Run ended, and a few rods from hero Johnston stopped the cars on

their way to Manassas Junction, and like

a true soldier, started his men on the dead run toward tho point where tho firing was heaviest. As all readers know, he took command on arrival, and the face of things changed very suddenly. For many a weary I week after that great humiliation the northern papers were filled with "guff and 1 rot" about tho panic having begun among the teamsters, about masked batteries and I any other silly excuse that could be thought of. It is to be hoped that all such bosh has long since ceased. Tho battlo was well planned by McDowell. The Federals fought surprisingly well for raw troops, and tho result was one of those accidents in war which Julius Caesar and Bonaparte could not probably have prevented if thov had been there.

Present Day Politics.

The scene on this dozy summer afternoon is rich in local suggestion. The old

"DON'T YOU KNOW ME?" SAYS HE. one-third of the people are of northern birth and rearing, and that every kind of political opinion nourishes luxuriantly, from gold monometallism and regular old John Adams Federalism to .Terry Simpsonism and a mild form of socialism.

Old resident ers on tho two battlefields tell many interesting stories, a few amusing and many rather pathetic. Visitors are surprisingly few—so few that as I wander from farmhouse to farmhouse the people soon come to know mo well and a,re very communicative on all matters once so fiercely disputed, As to the war and its results, that is no more a live question than the wars of the roses. Longw ago, 20 years at least, public opinion became unanimous that it turned out for the best, and

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sion has ended and opinion crystallized into dogma. But there is one on which tho ebb and flow of views and guesses is just as continuous as it was 30 years ago—• namely, What progress have the colored people made, and what aro they really capable of? "As to the war," say one and all, "we honor our soldiers and want justice done 'em, but for tho rest wo care nothing." Still they love to tell of tho stirring times and laugh about tho adventures of their neighbors who were "caught both ways, as they thought you all was coming on some other road."

Going to Richmond.

There lived near Sudley church an amusing eharai4ter named Burkett Newman, who was too old for tho militia and too obstinate to believe that there was going to bo much of a war. He had been I living so secluded that ho knew nothing of what was going on and started 011 the I famous Sunday morning for church along the heavily shaded road. His attention was attracted by steps behind him, and

turning ho confronted the long lino of blue and was struck speechless. Recovering himself, he gasped: "Wha—what—what! Be you old Abo's men?" *, /, "That's what wo are." "Why—why, whuli you all going?" "We're going to Richmond." "Oh, you air, air you? Well, go on."

And they did, but not quite to Richmond. A few hours later tho church aud his house were filled with wounded. Into this little cove, which even today can scarcely be seen a few rods away for the dense timber, a few shells were fired from a Confederate battery by mistake. No damage was done, and the church was not struck, but much was made of it in tho northern papers. "We.ro there really any of the wounded bayoneted?" I asked of Mr. Benson, veteran of tho Fourth Virginia cavalry, who has lived hero all his life. "I never heard of any, and I'll give you my own experience. I hadn't 'listed then lived over east of tho run on the Sudlcy farm. On tho second day after tho battlo messengers came ail through tho country calling for everything, as tho wounded were suffering awfully. A few didn't liko to help, but they were very few, and wo all worked hard cooking and making soup. Oh, it was an awful sight all around the place I Some had their jaws broke and some their teeth sliot out, and others were shot in tho stomach, and these all had to have soup, you know. I couldn't but notice, and it's real curious how different sick men aro. Some thanked mo oven with tears in their eyes, and some cursed me because I gave them so little or the soup gave out beforo I got to them. A few were very much astonished and had expected to bo killed. Tho foreign born took it as tho regular tiling and said nothing. Thoy expected to 1)0 treated equally well no matter what hands

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men sit under the trees or on the shady side of the country store and brag about the big things they did when they were young. The listless clerks are excited occasionally by the arrival of a darky with an order for "three sacks of fertilizer." j. Next to the structure which is depot and warehouse, agricultural implement, dry goods and grocery store all in one the most conspicuous building is ono which I at first took for a church, but found it to be the hall of the local Farmers' Alliance, It is worth noting as an evidence of tho great strength that organization has in this part of tho state. Politics is of I courso a perennial subject with the old fellows aforesaid and the farmers, who come and go at intervals, always pausing for a few minutes' chat. I find that all the way up Bull Run from Manassas about

uto. But I must tell you of ono ?sting case. Vliat Colonel Rice Did. •vas a Colonel Rice of Massachuwas shot through both lungs thought. A day or so after was just the same, and so I of tlio doctors. Ho took one

look anu s~id, 'I've got no time to waste on such cases.' and went on to help them he thought had a chance of life. I put some boards over the colonel's head to keep off the rain, and he took his chances on 1 he bare ground, for all the inside was kept for men that had a chance to live and men to be operated on. A few days later I found Colonel Rice just as well, it seemed to me, as when I first saw him, and then the doctor had time to work on him.

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took to Richmond and got well fast. Only a few years ago he came to see me and staid around some days. I happened to mention that there was a debt on our church, and not long after he went home I got a letter from him with a draft for the whole amount, and the letter said it was made up mostly by Grand Army men and some that had been wounded tliero. The letter was road out in church, and

A red sandstone monument north of tho house marks the spot whore both battleended. Tho Confederates held the ridge at the first battlo and repulsed the Federals. Tho Federals held it in the second battlo and kept tho Confederates at bay till they wore able to retire in something like order. Mr. Hugh F. Ilor.ry, who now owns tho house, is *3 years old and a gentleman of unusual intelligence, lie has refused oilers to purchase the farm at a very high prico and has had it entailed to remain in tho Henry family as long as property can be so fixed by the laws of Virginia. It was a strange experience indeed to walk with this old gentleman around his mother's grave, where bravo men struggled so fiercely 34 years ago, and hear him talk with all tho vivacity of youth of the..happy future of our common country.

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you when the reading was finished thero were not many dry eyes. It seemed too good that the old feeling between Americans had come back so completely."

Mrs. Benson has feather more pointed story to tell and tells it in a more snappy southern way. As the flanking division of our army passed by the house on its way to the Sudley ford she stood on the porch, and noting her black looks a jocular Now York boy sang out, "Say, old lady, where's your rebels?"

Her eyes gleamed as she replied: "You just keep right on, and you'll find 'em. They'll be glad to see you too."

In the rout of the afternoon these troops, as men nearly always do in a panic, tried to find the road by which they came in and ran through the yard and garden, throwing off their outer clothes as they ran. Mrs. Benson clapped her hands and shouted with delight till exhausted, but not one paid any attention to her. Many years had passed away when, says Mrs. B., "a very genteel man drove up to tho house, walked in as if he had an interest in the place and appeared right glad to see us all. 'Don't you know me?'says ho. 'Indeed I don't,' says I. 'Ah, I had

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clothes when I made your acquaintance.' And, would you believe it, it was tho same New Yorker who spoko so saucy to me- in the morning! I was delighted to see him. He staid round quite a spell and showed himself a very pleasant gentloman." Mr. Dogan's house, where Mr. Benson now lives, also has its little story. On the morning of the second Bull Run battle tho Confederate generals breakfasted there, and soon after shells were flying about it so thick that the family ran into the hollow. Thinking the bat tie over, they returned to tho house and in ton minutes were caught between two tires. A shell exploded in tho middle of the room and wounded a woman and child, but not seriously. Fact is," said one of thoso present, "we got cotched both ways. We naterally calculated tl ey'd e.nne in same as they did at the first battle, but it was faced right round the other way, each shooting contrary to what they shot before, aud completely fooled us."

A r'Hi.Jietic Case.

But the saddest story is that of Mrs. Judith Henry, which has often been told. Her husband, Dr. Isaac Henry, was surgeon

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stellation when it was commanded by Commodore Truxton, and her son now lives at tho old place. She was 85 years old and unable to walk. When tho shells began to fall near the house, they carried her into the hollow, but, finding it no safer, returned to the house, whoro sho was killed a few minutes la,tor. Jler grave is in the front yard, and around it aro a few of the old trees, all twisted and deformed as a result of the battle. Thero was a heavy locust grove, and seven trees survived the first battlo. Four of these were shot all to pieces in the second, and the other threo are worth going many miles to see as specimens of what a locust can endure find live.

J. II. BEADLK.

A Scientific Investigation of Grief.

Wo are all familiar with cases whore travel, amusements and constant rushing about from place to place have been recommended as curative agents for people who have sustained great shocks or liavo had cause for deep and heartfelt sorrow. Medical science has demonstrated that violent and depressing emotions cause many serious physical ills, and that it is almost impossible to restore health until the causes are removed. Wild creatures that have mourned themselves to death held in captivity have been carefully examined. Although their food was sufllcicnt and of proper qualitj' and enough w.us consumed to sustain life under ordinary circumstances, the tissues were found to be in an unnatural condition, and all of the organs had undergone degeneration similar to that brought about by ordinarily infectious diseases. Grief generates a poison in tho system and should bo treated liko many of the other ills of life brought about through poisonous infections. The relations between mind and body aro much closer in some persons than in others.

This state of things is not by any means confined to the '"higher orders of life, as death from grief or loneliness or captivity is not uncommon among creatures of all grades. It is supposed that tho sudden and violent depression of spirits causes chemical changes that develop toxic atoms of great virulenco, sufficient indeed to change the oliaracter of tho tissues and cause degeneration in tho blood a?id brain and spinal cord. It is believed by some excellent authorities that what is known as softening of the brain may originate in a longing for something that tho patient is unablo to secure. Science has wrought many changes that are little short of miraculous, but in no particular has it done a better work than when it proves that baffled ambition, disappointment and sorrow are real, causes of physical ills. In ulden times nervousness and sorrow wore things to be punished. Thank heaven we have lived past thac period.—New York Lodger.

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