Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1896 — Page 22

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, APRIL 12,

; The Bugler's Story. (From advance sheets of a volume of War Talcs, by Pr. Isaac U Mitchell, of DanMile. Ind., soon to bo published.) One warm spring morning, seated on a Broods box. after the manner of the neighborly village folk among whom our lot in life is cast. I listened to one of the dear "old boys' as he fell Into the reminiscent mood on the- personal side of his army experience. As he. talked I .wondered' "whether, among all that was .written of the deeds and impressipns of generals, colonels and captains, the vast acres of "boys In blue" had been taken Into account properly for. the nodest acts' without which the general, the colonel 'and the captain would havfchad no, place in, history. He was "only a busier." and' he claimed no credit beyond his Voluntary presence at some of the" -tscene's of action." which have made of us the greatest nation on the footstool. : As he passed from one memory, to another ills face glowed with animate Interest in. his theme, and he was far away on the fields of the sunny South; and his story unfolded in a bright, poetic vein of recollections of the camp. Lifting his face to mine, he began: .

4 At the sound of the bugle each comrade must spring , ' . Like an arro, released rbm the strain of the string. The dark future veiled, with Its fortunes unknown, . - .''i Blangs over tho field f fJii ;thV- bugle Is blown ' -7. ,T, Then, after a snort, irauie, during which a thoughtful smiloVrtayed over his feature?, he continued: v?y'( ' "My earliest impression' of military life was formed away backtaMlie forties when Capt. Louis Peacock1 drilled' the militia on 'muster daysif;ti;c:Ui see him now as with soldierly strips' became out onto the commons krieVnV;et) In the blooming dogfennel, withUlVa Oank of his warlike trappings, his ROfrgt-birs coat Of blue and yellow, and his Itevolutlonary cap, with pompons and chin strap, flourishing his sword and crying out his commands, while streams of perspiration cut muddy channels down throu?hthe dust, on his sunburnt cheeks, and ray 'young heart fairly popped out of my mouth . 1 A, . 111 A J A V un mmiary zeai ana painousm as l listened to the fife and drum -and saw the huge, dense cloud of dust moving up and down the road, with the soldiers in the midst of it. How I longed to be in it 'then. I couldn't sit still; I'd spring to my feet and 'mark time' to the rattle of the music, and ' 'Feel that swelling of the heart You ne'er can feel again.' "Since then I've been in it sure enough; there's a difference between being in it for fun and being in for business. Many of the old boys have noticed that. I'm not what you might call a 'clean-cut' talker, but rather the reverse; rather synoptical and rambling, and I shall, therefore, give facts without any special regard for sequence.' "When Col. Lew "Wallace was making up his regimental 'jewels',, at Camp McGinnis, near Indianapolis' where in after years the famous young murder took place, and while' his mind was yet teeming with the details of preparation for the great national struggle, which was destined later to shape, the minds of a peace-loving people for the reception of 'Ben-Hur,' I, together with nlr. of my comrades, was ordered to appear at his quarters, where? were drawn up into line, while Colonel Wallace himself took a hatchet and'Jknocked the lid from a box containing ten beautiful new bugles. "Talk about al)oy with his first red-top boots!' 1 tell you, he wasn't 'in it with rne as I began to realize the purport of this act of the Colonel's, and, as I glanced down the line of expectant faces and saw the boys nudging one another anxiously and slyly, I bubbled over with laughter. The Colonel handed a bugle to the tenth man on the end of the line, with the command 'Blow it then the jiinth, and the -eighth,. and so on, till by the time I received mine the accumulation of grotesque attitudes and barbarous sounds and .llery, swollen faces and bulging eyes was' too much for my selfcontrol, and each, time I overcame my convulsions ' enough to moisten my lips and 'pucker1 for a good blow a glimpse of that ludicrous aggregation of effort and, agony reduced me again to a state of utter helplessness. I don't know where Bedlam Is, but I do know that If any of the birds or beasts in the remote woods where we were posted off to practice had,, been suddenly plunged into Bedlam they must have died from solitude. Oh. it was awful! AwfuJ! And for the sake, of any nervous person who might chance to hear this story I will say that I was the only one of the ten who outlived the bugle practice and was turned over for duty on a bugler's commission. The other poor fellows worked zealously and anxiously to learn, but it was no use. - They couldn't make it go any more than a hare-lipped man could have done, so they dropped out one after another .and exchanged their pretty bugles for" muskets, and there were volumes of sadnesa In the regretful look of farewell they cast after the brazen toy as it was hidden away from their sight forever. " "Our regiment was the Eleventh Indiana. Colonel Wallace wanted the bugle corps to be tirst-class, and, with this object in view, he had endeavored to secure musicians for the places. 'Grapevine telegraph ,was'responsible for almost all the reports in camp in those days,and I was therefore not surprised when I heard that I 'had once been the leader of one of the best, bands in the State.' It is an erroneous notion, however, that because a man can blow an E-flat in a brass band he must necessarily be a bugler in embryo. Many a teacher in brass has been compelled to acknowledge himself defeated by a bugle. I could whistle Dixie and The Girl I Left Behind Me' fairly, well, but :L didn't know one note of music from another, and I think that this latter, fact helped me most of all, for I went at that bugle with an inward determination to blow it or rip some of its seams, without regard to any man's allegretto." . crescendo, diminuendo or technique.- and I got-there; at least, i .1 '-i1lNr Tr-oa co tlcflafl with TTV verslon-of-the. 'numbers rendered before his men In 'action. Another thing which perhaps contributed to my success was the fact-.-thatf I" dldn'.t yearrXor the pedestrianism of a soldier's, Hfe, antf so when Colonel Wallace, commissioned me company bugler I thought that meaut sinecure, side-arms, and saddle, .and X hugged, my jlitterinsr bugle and dreamed of the unknown general whom fate might possibly blow Into promotion through its mouthpiece, The bugle has alwr.ys been 'on duty In poetry and In song, and the importance of its 'calls' can best be appreciated when we remember that for nineteen -hundred, year' the archangel has been -practicing " on a single ''call which shall oohd 'taps' at theclose.of 'time and therreveMe' at the first Sunrise of eternity. But the bugle has its prose characteristics, as well, that would warp the metrical rhythm of poetry and. turn the melody" of. song Into discord. .It 'is supposed according to military parlance. to always -.star in : the modest key of C-natural. by which it may deferentially and arc vouched for by , 4-i c."merary - '"-ylf any there be, nwst look to me J. 4 t r t 'I for

The various incidents from which this etarv is builded were given m- by Harvey 5.l0I?r " , 7-hup?r of 'the Eleventh In-

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7rr as b!n abolute!y true-nisioncauy. ?rS?-mcrtt and expression of them, 'with ff'b.'a 0f a ftw verbatim passages, cr- tSir -I: Vfcclely .to me, ra that tba In-

address a general, a major or a colonel, call a sergeant or a corporal, and issue commands ranging all the way from the trivial orders of the camn to the most

thrilling military tactics and maneuvers f of the field of battle. The bugler 'is sup poses, to understand this, but the grim humor of the bugle itself is such that, unless it is subjected to inflexible martial law, It will 'go oft' on a clarionet tangent or a bag-pipe staccato, and turn a -mess call' into a 'Jabberwockan' squawk that would be as likely to bring out the ambulance as to assemble a line of skirmishers or order a charge. "After two years of -service as private, bugler and funny man in Company I, Eleventh "Indiana, my fame reached headquarters, and Gen. It. A: Cameron commissioned me brigade bugler and placed me on his staff. One morning soon after General Cameron issued orders for a brigade drill, to take place at 3 o'clock p. m. The troops iif the command were all 'old soldiers, having Oeen through Fort Donelson. Shlloh and Vicksburg-.i Our camp was on the prairie land near New Iberia, La., and, as usual in long protracted periods of idleness, the stock of camp amusements was exhausted. - So it. was understood that this drilf was ordered as a counter-irritant to camp ennui, and I was so delighted over my recent promotion that the General's drill order actually sounded humorous to me; but when it began to dawn upon me that I was to make my debut as brigade bugler in the pretence of the boys,-mounted on the back of a woolly gray mule of the 'camp follower type, it struck me all at once that whatever of 'humor' there was left in the situation stood out prominently in the mule's favor. I don't want to detract any from the meritorius creations of Aesop, but I declare to you that if ever a mule laughed over a prospect the 'camp follower did t then, and as I watched his lean, shaggy sides shake with suppressed mirth I confess that I became panic-stricken, and I told the boys that I didn't see how I could sustain myself in the double act of managing a giggling raule and a refractory bugle. The matter preyed upon my mind till, in sheer desperation, I went to Gen. Cameron and entreated him to relieve me from duty at headquarters and send me back to the ranks. I explained - to him that I hadn't been on a horse's back since as a little boy I rode 'old Jack after the cows, and that I had never been on a mule In all my life. lie pooh-poohed and tut-tutted, talked encouragingly to me and told me to meet the crisis like a soldier, and to. remember my motto to blow nay. horn ifvI didn't sell a, clam till I began to feel ashamed of my. weakness, and I' believe I should have succeeded admirably,-but on my way back to my quarters I 'met Bob Hoskins, the wagonmaster and one of the best horsemen that ever cracked a 'blacksnake over a span of 'mule critters' in the whole course, of the rebellion and I sought comfort from him, and got the same kind of satisfaction that Job got out of Eliphaz, Bildad & Co., for he assured me that the mule must be a good saddle animal, since he had been tested thoroughly in every other capacity and had come off more than conqueror in each instance. I merely ventured the comment that a mule 'cn the retired list didn't appeal to my judgment of a good saddle animal, and passed on to my quarters. "There was only one thing left for me I wa3 a soldier and must obey orders. I was glad, however, that the brigade had preceded us to the parade ground, for when the generals, aids-de-camp and orderlies, in their iron-bound clothes, were in proper form and the order to 'Mount was given I went astride of the woolly mule in elegant style, but I quickly recovered, and away we galloped and came to a very gratifying and creditable, halt in. front .. of the waiting brigade. As I sat there on my mule, in my loose zouave trousers, with my back humped up ready for treachery, I was an exemplified prophecy of the modern female cyclist, bloomers and all; but I remembered the story cf Baalam's ass, and judiciously refrained from exercising my prerogative where there appeared to be any likelihood of humiliating the mule. I don't know when the feelings of any animal ever took that precise form in my consideration before. The General's first order was 'Attention!' This I attempted to translate into 'brass from my perch on the erratic source of my anxiety, and as the blare of my bugle rattled and tore along the labyrinths of his ear he shot backward from under me, and I finished that 'call afoot. I got the 'Attention' all right, though, and was cheered to the echo. I now determined to resign, sure enough, but Gen. Llvicy talked me out of it again and gave me a good horse and an additional commission brigade postmaster in recognition of what he called 'salutary services and I guess he was right, for the boys didn't have the blues any more for a month." (To be continued next Sunday.) SBBSBBBSSHBBBSBSHBSBSSSBBMS-aBBBBBSSMSHSaSSMSa--aB TUB I1AVAHIAX AND HIS HEEn. It Largely Supplies the Place of Meat with the Peasant Clans. J. Leonard Corning sr.,. in Christian Register. Here In Bavaria, where I write, all beer Ij subject to strict government Inspection, and if adulterations are found In It the police authorities empty It Into the public sewers, th brewer bearing all losses and paying all costs. As a consequence. Bavarian beer is famed all over the world for its purity; and, chemically considered, its high reputation is Justly deserved. As to Its" heakhfulness, this seems to be a question of quantity rather than quality, and I am not quite ready to affirm that, taken In moderation. It Is not a normal and -wholesome article of diet. They call beer ln Bavaria nussige Brod that is, bread in a iiquld form a name which some would thlnkto be not very complimentary to the "staff of life." Be this as it may, it is certain that beer constitutes, whether for better or worse, a large fraction of the nutriment of the people, especially of the peas antry. With this latter element of society I have had much intercourse for several years, and know th- .:' habit and dietetic resources pretty well. a rule, the peasant class in Bavaria are practically vegetarians. Not that they have any dietetic theories as to the uses of animal and vegetable food respectively; for, truth to tell, they have commonly no theories about, anything under 'the sun, being ignorant and priest-riddea to a degree which excludes nearly all the better possibilities of manhood.. Sunday is the only day in the week on. which' the peasants of Bavaria allow themselves the luxury or meat, simply because the conditions of poverty prohibit the indulgence. Beer being cheaper than meat, the working class almost of ne cesslty resort to It as a staple article of nourishment, and it seems to contain, as to chemical constituents, much that Is essential to repair the waste of tissue inseparable from long and sever muscular exertion. In Munich, some years ago, the public had a little taste of the prohibition dogma, which is not likely soon to be. repeated. They have a great brewery here called the Court brewery, by reason of the fact that it is owned by members of the royal family of Bavaria, and is operated under their supervision. In the fluctuations of trade it came to pass not so very long ago that the price of malt ana hops took an upward stride on the market, so that the cost of brewing the royal beer -was slightly increased. Thereupon, following the law of self-protection, fundamental lh mercantile ethic?, the government put up the price of beer a half-cent per quart. Speedily it became evident that bread in a fluid as well as in a solid state can breei revolutions, for such was the threatening attitude of popular feeling that riotous assemblages gathered in the streets and public parks, and especially in the great courtyard of the royai brewery, and It ws for a little while a question how lonj the walls would be llxely to :tand and the great tuns and vats to holdtheir precious contents. The price of beer was forthwith put back at the old figure, the government pocketing the loss. The Weavers", On a At her looms tolled fast early and late she wrougnt: But the grief ani plaint of her days in the silent web were caught. And after her hands were' stilled, all the cold world would see Was the woman that drudged and sighed, and the shade of her misery; Vi One sang. In her" humble place, a song that the shuttles knew. And a golden thread of Hop the warp and . the woof ran through. And after the task was done, and after'the day had fled. The work of her. hands shone fair, though the woman, unknown, lay dead. Frank Walcott Hutt, in Peterson's Magazine. ' ; ' . The DAIJBUBY HAT COMPANY la located at lo. t L'st.Vcihln-tcn, street.

OFFERiy fi S 'OITTIIE POETS. The Prenent Miracle. To-day the air is full of snow, and will the fierce wind cries. The shivering trees show gaunt and black against the sodden skies; Yet, while the storm beats cold without, I dream beside the hearth Of a great and lovely miracle that soon shall bless the earthOld as the sun, but ever new, this a&Iracle of Spring, 'Of flowers, and birds, and sweet south . wind the April month will bring. ' -. I see the gay, tumultuous showers dance o'er ' -. the sunny hills, . I The laughing crocus star, the grass, the darling daffodils: I see the dogwood's fairness spread, the redbud's hectic glow, j ; The crab-apple blooms as sweet as love, the wild plum's crown of snow; I ' The hillsides where the maples are grow dim with rosy mist, , N , The buds are bursting Into leaf by woo- , ing zephyrs kissed. , The willow by the lazy creek shakes out her plumes of down. The beech leaves drop their dainty sheaths like tiny ghosts in brown, And near and far the orchard old, fair gardens of delight, Drip sweetness from their tiny cups of rose, and pink, and white. , Tho early wasps and bcs find out the sweet shrubs' blooms t-C spice. The lilacs scent the homely yards with airs of paradise. A day of sun and all the air is full of glancing wings; We. hear the buzz, the hum, the etir of countless dancing things, - ; The blackbird, in his glossy suit of-black and green la dressed; The Jay, the handsomest of scolds, preens haughtily his crest; The robin comes with cheery song, a welcome guest is he;" The gay woodpecker from the oak salutes' -- 'prlng merrily; 1 . The wood dove pours her sorrow out," safe in her dim retreat,- ' 9 The dear thrush fills the sunny air with ' carol g-lad and sweet.

The children throng the woodland ways. through all the daylight hours; Jhey know where the viclets are, the pale spring beauty flowers. And where. May apples, shjly hide their rchalices of white. '- . And where the deep, dark pools are found,. " ' half shadow and half light; The vexed crows scold them as they pass, the catbird mocks their glee, The squirrel from , his hiding place surveys them curiously. The brown brook laughs the while they lave their long-imprisoned feet; They grow so tired, the little ones, but youth and spring are sweet. Oh, men and women racked with care, or worn with sin and tears, Look on the children and the spring and lay aside your fears; See sweet life burst from roughest bark, break from the hardest clod. So from the darkness flowers out the sweetest thought of God. Brazil, Ind. Mary Bassett Hussey. A Message. The restless waters of the mighty deep Forever surge and moan, advance, recede; Upon the sands I watch the slow tide creep, And wildly long to follow In the lead Of one white gull, now nearly lost to view, That floats on steady wing, far out to sea. Whose further boundary, lost In yonder blue, Must be its goal, and mine, were I but free. If I should follow in the white gull's wake, Across the trackless waste to yonder shore; Seek that I crave, and, finding, cease to make The effort to renounce .what I love more Than all earth holds beside, or life can give, Should I be less unhappy than I am? My heart misdoubts me. Must we always . live In deadly strife, or yet more deadly calm? . With purpose came I to this beetling height, Whose lofty summit pierces heaven's blue ' dome, Where, 'gainst Its rock-ribbed base, the -' breakers might. However fierce, is dashed to harmless foam. For "well I knew the high resolve would fail. And while it lived I fled across the sea; When storms and doubts and fierce desire assail, Safe anchored on this rock I fain would be. Oft sounds a wild, weird music, when the gale Has lashed the waves to madness; and I hear The universal heartache In the wail Above the tempest's roar; I know not fear. Nor grief, regret, nor longing, neither pain; While listening to the Anthem's mighty swell, A solemn peace is mine. In the refrain The voice of nature's God speaks "It is well." Harriet Nowlin Bullock. San Francisco, Cal. Unrest. O doubting heart, Is it so hard to learn That some there be Whose faith is lived In calm simplicity? Thine from life's calm would turn, Seeking death's dart I O tired head, Is It for thee to know Aught but distress? Some things there be Other than weariness. Hope from a present woe Slow wings outspreads. O waiting soul. Where is thy destiny? What if the tired head Said to doubting heart Can such things be We are alive, yet dead?" What of the soul, And of eternity? Logansport. L. A. II. Youth and Age. Bweetras the breath of cows in clover x x meadows. Changing as ancient trees' long, quivering - " shadows. Bright as the butterfly with colors rife, Brief as the white day lily's fragrant lifeWas youth, that went as goes the morning Now age, kind age, steals softly to my side; Still as brown forest deeps wherein abide Wee creeping roots and hidden buds for springShe hears me out on upward-soaring wingShe carries me beyond life's evening mists. Topeka, Kan. Annja Sears Arnold. "In April's Front.' A hint of gold among the willows,. A glimpse of green along the hedge, A sunny crest upon the billows That lap the softly whispering sedge, The snow-wraiths flee far up the hollows, ,Tae sky has wept Its azure clear; And blue-bird calls where echo follows, "Up, heart, and greet the dawning year." -Emma Carletoo. New Albany, Ind. - Queer Blunders of Great Writers. Youth's Companion. Shakspeare speaks of turkeys In plays the times of which long antedate the Importation of the first turkeys from America, In Henry IV' the carrier complains that "the turkeys in my panier are quite starved, though Henry IV reigned a hundred vprs before America was discovered. In "Henxy

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"Julius Caesar." in which Brutus says to Cassius, -Count the clock!" To which Casslus replies, "The clock hath stricken three." Striking clocks were unknown in Caesar's time and for many centuries afterA curious blunder was that of Chaucer In his "Court of Love; in which he says that the throstle "sings so sweet a tune that Tubal himself, the first musician, could not equal It." He meant Jubal; he had forgotten hi9 Bible. . if , A less excusable error of time than bnakspeare's, because It belongs to a period when authors had begun la regard such matters, is made by Schiller, the great German author, in his "Plccolomini.,, lie speaks there of a "lightning conductor, ' though the time of the piece Is at least loO years before that Invention. , , THE DEADLY HAMADHYAD. A Military Campaign Airainst SnnUes In lndln: Philadelphia Times. ..",. One of the most Interesting sights to the tourist In India is the snakebouse in Madras. It is maintained by the government, and contains representatives of every native reptile. The venomous class are kept separate, and the terrible hamadryad has a den to himself, for he is a snake-eaer. and would soon depopulate all the other cages. Of all the poisonous species he is the most aggressive and deadly, with an average length of twelve fct and fangs three inches lonxr It is January, the heat damp and stifling. The cobras are alljettwind employed in running along-the' TgKsi.,Tronts of the houses, pressing ; their 'heads against the glass and leaving behind a green, glutinous Btreak. This is their -poison, with which the fangs are overcharged. The keeper will show you a pint In a glass cup that has been scraped . off. , 'It looks like dried in VI oil 21 G - There is a rock python in the snakehouse thirty-four feet long; ,One, crush of his etetjl muscles would end .a man's life as effectually as acannon baUrbut he hangs inert from a tree branch, :and the native' attendant cleans his quarters without' molestation. Not so Inert i )the hamadryad. As soon as your shadow falls on the glass he makes a dart and races 'Up and down the cage.-following your movements. Nothing but the quarter,-inch of glass saves one from death. Captain. Kewv ot the Madras infantry, saw one pursue a- native along the highroad. The man dropped his turban. The snake. pounced on it, colled ana bit. and then resumed its pursuit of the man. who had sprung Into the) river and boarded a native boat. The snake was at his heels, and was killed by strokes of an fhe hamadryad has about the same range as the cobra, but its bes-t-know-n habitat is the country of the Gonda, in Central India, In the Vindhya mountains.. Here the land 1? covered by denae thickets of wild fig trees, and on these the snakes lie coiled. The people were all robbers fifty years ago. and no natlvo force would invade their coverts until Sir James Ou tram took things in hand. He captured s neof their chiefs, made friends with them and organized a corps of Gonds, . who brought the district into subjection, but the snakes remained, and in 1840 a regiment" of Sepoys passing through the district had five men killed Sfcaptafn Selligref the First Gonda. Regiment, stationed at Indur, determined to have a snake battle. With three companions and two Ghorkas-these men from the mountains of Nepaul are utterly fearless cf wild inimafs. ana. unlike the Hindoos, ttlck to their officers till dcath-they started. A coil of wire netting five feet high and two hundred feet long was loaded on a camel, and the party staFted. The Ghorkas were armed with korbashes, or six-foot whips, made or buffalo hide and tough as wire. The wild flg tree grows low. but Is . enormously broad; the limbs are as thick as a man's body, full of cavities, and in these the shakes coil. A site was found on a bare hilllide the netting was set In a circle, and was Staked fast. In front wis the high road ana fifty yards away, was a dense fig thicket. Through the woods ran a nul ah .or ravine, filled with high reeds, and this it was proposed to fire. One of the men threw stones at a huge trunk near the road, and in an fnstant a long black and yeUow band slid to the ground. The man stood firm holding hu ifcket in front. In an Instant the hamaJ struck It. dashing his head against the 52tf "Sy and nearly knocking him down The reptile's fangs caught in the cloth, and the Ghorka plied his whip, and lashing the gVound like the stroke of a flail, the snake died He was eleven feet long. The men were now cautioned not to be reckless ana e dried grass in the nullah as fired. Under e hot sun It quickly spread to the ss In the forest, and every .one got inside the netting and waited. Soon the long grass began to move sinuously, and a, loud hissing waa heard: The smoke lay dn under the trees, and the serpents made for. the open in leisurely fashion,' their ion?, pointed heads up, waving from side to , side, crossing each other in involved folds. . And now the broad rca.a,;white to the sun, wan streaked with black and yellow that glSwed like metal, ana there was a subtle creeping odor, not unlike valerian. They had not Sceited an enemy. Suddenly one of the ?nakw saw the forms behind the net, twenty yards away, and raised three feet, gave a prolonged hiss, and dashed straig ht tor his enemy. The guns opened, the net "book as the reptiles struck tne wire, and the Ghorkas yelled as they -used their whips. Twice a had rose above the defense, the eyes darting fire. As fast as the breechloaders could be fired the fusillade was kept up. The road was full of a wriggling mass, in blind rage they struck one another, coiled and fought. -It was a horrible sight to the nervous Europeans, but the Ghorkas wanted to charge, and could scarcely be restrained. Behind the forest was glowing like Alfurnace and hot smoke blew rlKht in the men's faces, and a retreat was ordered up hill. It the snakes .got around the netting, look out, was the thought. Fortunately, the column tarned south on the road and were shot down. ' "See, see. Ther. come the big fellows. Sure enough, one not less than-twenty feet came on, his : huge 'toM3-forked alone the path. The' others parted. as.wlth head up, the monster moved alons. Two shots were fired into the body. With a tremendous hiss the head reared six feet in the air and burled its fangs Into its own flesh. The smoke and heat bewildered the column, and It slowly moved down the read. In spite of orders the Ghcrks charged down the hill and cttacUed the outsiders. Come showed fihL' but th tz vrh'-j vrcrs tco much for thcn.4 V.zc'.r.z cut cf tha r:zzl camts thrcs Izz-Zly ttt'-r ct3 c -'jlr.z. cr.i rrn r'c-i f:rk

the shakes and were bitten. They kept up a gallop for about a hundred yards, when two squatted. The other ran a short distance further and then toppled over. All were dead when examined ten minutes later. A short distance away was an old Mahratta fort with high bulwarks, and up these the reptiles swarmed and gathered in a mass, writhing and striking, and for an hour the guns cut them up, the Ghorkas, barelegged, racing after the outsiders, and, fortunately, escaping the fangs.

miVILCCED COMJIUMCATIONS. The London Verdict for Damages In . terests Professional 3Ien. Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. Medical and social circles in London, have been a good deal exercised very recently over a suit for slander brought by a lady whom ihe had seen as a pat'ent In consultation, against Dr. Playfair, the well-known obstetrician a suit resulting in a verdict against the defendant with the extraordinarily heavy damages of $00,000. The amount of the damages does not concern us, but, so far as the question of professional ethics i3 Involved, we are impelled to say most emphatically granting always that the report as rendered is accurate that the Jury must have (found in favor of the plaintiff. That . "privileged communications" should be inviolable, except, perhaps, in criminal casea involving questions of life and death Is, we believe, a proposition which would be upheld everywhere in this country by the so-called "learned professions." How is this very important question actually treated by the courts? First of all. In regard 'to our own, tho medical profession, there is an utter and pernicious absence of uniformity In tho various States of the Union. In the State of Massachusetts, for instance, we are ashamed to say, the "doctor" 'is not protected by the court in his refusal to reveal a professional secret a "privileged communication." He may preserve his professional honor untarnished and go to Jail for It. In New York, on the other hand, and in Michigan, for example, the "doctor" Is not only protected by the court in his refusal to betray a professional secret, but is punished if he answers a question Involving such betrayal. The priest, certainly In Massachusetts, finds- himself in tho same position as the "doctor." But the lawyer, for some fiction best understood by the legal profession, i3 in all our State, we believe, a privileged personage for privileged communications. Theoretically and practically, there undoubtedly should be uniformity in practice In the courts of the different States in regard to this matter, and there Should be .uniformity in tho treatment of the three professions we have cited. We are not forgetful of the difficulties which have been experienced in France, for Instance, in accurately defining what Is and what is, not .'privileged;" in our own country, however, there is both this difficulty of definition whicfo after all should not be insuperable and the absence of uniformity to be contended with. When will the legal profusion not only permit, but encourage, -a reform. The verdict with which we began these remarks as a text suggests the present abnormal and unenviable position of the medical adviser, at least in Massachusetts. If he privately makes use of knowledge acquired in a professional capacity to. guard the honor or protect the interests of members of his own famUy he- is liable to severe punishment, and yet the same knowledge, which should be secret, and should be privileged, is, in public trial at law, at the mercy of opposing counsel and the court. Is this as it should be? to r.jt the best interests cf the public, of the medical profession, of the clergy demand some change in the direction of consistency, of greater national and professional uniformity in the provisions of the law? NYE'S FAMOUS LETTEn. Ills Humorous Resignation ot United States Commlsslonershin. New York Journal. In 1881 Bill Nye w;as a briefless lawyer, dabbling In country newspaper work at Laramie, Wyo. The thing which drew, him out of "his obscurity and eventually made him a famous humorist with a good-sized fortune Was the letter in which he resigned his place as United States commissioner. That letter, which was reprinted everywhere, marked the advent of a new comic writer, and the turn of the tide in the affairs of Edgar Wilson Nye. Here is the famous epistle:"To the Department of Justice, Washington, D. C Several months ago I resigned as United States commissioner of this Judicial -.district.. The government did not accept my resignation, thus tacitly asserting that there, was no one who was considered competent to take my "place in holding up this corner of the national fabric. - "I now once more resign. I do not do so because I am displeased with the government, or because I am displeased wlih public life. There is no reason why the government and myself should not continue to be friends, but under the new regime for Unite! States commissioners of district. courts I am compelled . to retire from -the official capacity which I have so long filled with so much skill and credit, both to myself and the United States. . , ' . 'The Department of Justice now requires me to 'furnish a detailed statement each month of all the business done by the commissioner, with his official certificate attached. -1 am also required to keep a large volume in my office as a record of the United States eases -examined by me. I am to do this at my own expense, in order that tSe honor and high moral tone -of the Nation may remain unsmirched. "All these requirements I could, of course, comply with, but I am cursed with the horrible apprehension that In the future I shall be required to do more of this, till the expense will be more than, I can meet. I could now, of course, get little chores to do around town. - enough for necessary funds to buy the records, etc., bat before another year the government may require me to buy . a marble-top center table, and two . or three paintings by the old masters. In order to give the popular amount of terror to the United States criminals. This would c:mpel me to go without a new. overcoat and underclothes, of which I am sadly in need. I had hoped1 that with the financial prosperity of the past year there would be on cise. at least, for examination, for which I . could realize ?3 or J7. and which would eae this branch of the Department of Justice temporarily, but I have been disappointed all the way thrcuh. I could tqueeis along without th9 ovcrc-it in order to r;?t the required. reccrd tr'.3 winter, tut th? u-lsrclothca I feci p if I cv-ht toMva. "I z ' i Cli c':::r;7.r::3 cn t!:o th.

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