Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 338, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1902 — Page 7

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1902.

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POLICEMEN AND THEATERS

EolRb OF" SAFETY WILLING TO ATI THE MK E.t LI 1)1.1). Complaint Una Been Madr of ImpoiU lion Safety Bonrtl Meets Municipnl Affairs. Fire Chief Coots asked the Board of Public Safety at its meeting yesterday to secure the pasxage of an ordinance punishing persons who may be convicted of setting waste paper boxes on fire. He said the department had made several useless runs to burning boxes and he thought the persons who cause ueh fires should be punished. The board thought the State laws punishing malicious trespass ano arson were sufficient to meet all emergencies and decided to direct Superintendent Taffe to arrest persons who may be detected lighting such fires. The punishment for arson is imprisonment In the penitentiary. The board tried Charles McDonald, a member of Hose Company No. 18. stationed on Wesl Wa.-hingt.'n str. t, on chargt-s of Insubordination and assaulting a superior officer. In an altercation with Captain Arnold, of this company, he became insolent and when Arnold suspended him for disobedience he struck Arnold in the face. McDonald said Arnold Insisted on too much discipline, but Chairman Keller responded that Arnold was the first captain who had shown sufficient enforcement of discipline. The board took its decision under advisement. It is probable McDonald will be dismissed, as the board does not believe any member of the department should strike a superior officer. The board authorized the opening of the East market -n Dec. 24 Instead of Christmas day, at the request of many gardeners. The board discussed Informally some police affairs. The board has been bothered by many complaints about the imposition of members of the police department at theaters. The board i.- ready to indorse the theaters If they will enforce a rule of excluding all policemen who seek admission on their badges except those who may be on the districts where the theaters are located and who tnter in the discharge of their duty. The policemen off duty at night, as well as a horde of special policemen with all kinds of badges, have been besieging theaters and the place to draw the line was not discernible. The board Will be satisfied it the theaters exclude all. The board has also prohibited Sam Farb and Nate Ward, who are professional bondsmen, from making a headquarters of the police station. These men are in the habit of going on bonds of persons arrested tr trivial offenses for small fees and the suit has been constant annoyance and work for the police. The board Is seeking to discourage professional bondsmen, known In other cities as "straw-bail men " It fs said these men are accepted continually on an almost unlimited quantity of bonds when their property qualification Is but meager. May Redace Price of Ciaa. The Indianapolis Gas Company believes Its annual consumption for the year ending Dec. 20 of the present year will exceed J80.000.000 cubic feet. Under Us contract with the city, made in 18ÖS, the price of gas must be re4uced to 95 cents per thousand whenever the consumption exceeds 300.000,100 feet and this will be In effect immediate )y after the date named if the consumption exceeds the amount fixed. Whenever It exceeds 360,000,000 feet the price must be reduced to 90 cents. OfflciaUKof the company say the present rate of consumption will probably almost reach the amount required for the first reduction, but it is not yet certain as the daily totals have not been footed and will not be until the year ends. Park Custodians Laid Off. t The Board of Park Commissioners has laid off all the park custodians except those at Garfield. Military and Riverside during December because of insufficiency of funds to pay them for u full month. BOARD OF WORKS ROl'TIE. FINAL ASSESSMENT ROLL TAKEN tNDER ADVISEMENT. Opening first alley east of Capitol avenue from Thirtieth street south. FINAL ASSESSMENT ROLLS APPROVED. Local sewer in Lewis street from Massachusetts avenue to twenty feet south of Fifteenth street; William Bossert, contractor. Gravel roadway in first alley east of Bevllle avenue from Tenth street to first alley south of Tenth street; F. M. Lackey, contractor. PAPERS ORDERED. For a local sewer in Highland place from Twentv-ftrst street to Fall creek. For graveling and grading the alley north of Market street between Oriental street and the alley east of Oriental street. PETITION FILED AND REFERRED TO TDK ENGINKERFor permission to construct under private contract a driveway over the sidewalk in front of No. 243S Central avenue; Charles Haynes. MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT. It Will Be Studied by Shortridge Students 1 Dramatic (lab. Miss Laura Donnan. instructor of civil government in the Shortridge High School, has effected an exceedingly unique and instructive organliation among the classes in civies. She has formed a complete city government, with a view of teaching the pupils the workings of a municipality. Every class has such an organisation, and where there are not enough students to fill the places some take two positions. All of the city offices, from mayor down to ward councilmcn, are taken by the members of the class, with the name of the man that holds the office. City Controller Brucnlg has donated copies of the city ordinances and charters of Indianapolis to the newly-elected officeholders, so that they may be familiar with the laws. The work that Miss Ponnan is adding to her department will be carried on as nearly like a city government as is possible, but no politics will enter into the scheme. The city council will hold its first session next Monday during the ctvi government hour, and the mayor will have a message prepared t read t.. the members. Every member of the council will be required to have an ordinance ready to introduce at the meeting The first work of the new "administration" is anxiously awaited by the students and those interested in the scheme. Interest in the Drama. Since the successful production of 'Othello ' by students of the two high schools dramatic work has received quite an impetus in the Shortridge High SchooL A freshman dramatic club has been formed among the 9A students of Room A ;. m. Miss Zella O'Hair. teacher of freshman English in the school, will act as critic for the new organization. It is the intention of those at the head of the new club to take up the study of som of the lighter plays of 8h.ki.ar and other writ. rs. The Freshman Dramatic Club now has a membership of about thirty, and meets every second Thursday of tht month. Georgia Krull has been chosen president and Robert Lowry secretary. Montgomery Lewis was selected reporter for the club. Plans for the presentation of a play are already being discussed by the members. It is very likely that a comedy will be put on shortlyafter the Christmas vacation. It will be given at the Shortridge High 8chool and will be presented with a view to paying for the new portable stage, which was erected especially for "Othello. " Several entertainments of various kinds will be given during the winter to pay for the stage. Iliah School Senate. Toe Shortridge High School Senate will convene in Room D to-morrow afternoon at 4:16. after a week's vacation for Thanksgiving. It is said that the machine now In control has several surprises In store fur the "antis." and the meetings In the future will no doubt be lively. Another iaylor-Flalcy measure is said to be in prep-

arstion. and in case this bill is introduced the approaching sessions will develop some interesting sensations. REAL-ESTATE SALES.

Property Bought for Van C amp Hardware Company- Other Traimfera. The property at Maryland and Missouri streets, purchased Tuesday by Joseph W. Beck for the sum aggregating $35.000. was bought for the Van ramp Hardware Company. It is understood that new wirehouses of this firm are to be erected on the ground, although the members of the firm decline to discuss the purchase. Leon T. Leach bought from Louis T. Walker yesterday property on North Illinois street, near New York, for S!).A. This was the largest prle paid for any property sold during the day. Other salts were those of 'hartes T. Boyer to Daniel Leslsy, property on Whrdor street, near Glenn drive, for $5.00. William M. Birk, trust e, to Agnes L. Birk, property on Alabama street, near Twelfth, for $4.01. this property being afterward transferred to Anna B. Birk for the same consideration; and the sale of a lot on Sixteenth street, near Illinois, by Mary A. Goodrich to Eliza T. Sperling, for $2.ii". Mrs. Muy Wrij?ht Sewall yesterday mortgaged her school porptrty on North Pennsylvania street to Thomas C. Day to secure fourteen notes of $500 each. The large brick residence at the north west corner of Kast and Wabash streets j was rold yesterday by G or,"' Welt to Charles T. Boyer for a consideration of 18,000. The lot has a frontage of fifty feet and a depth of 95.3 feet. AFFAIRS OF UNION LABOR REMOVAL. OF OFFICES OF LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN'S MAGAZINE. Third Floor of the Commercial Clab Building to Be I sed Central Labor Committee. The rear part of the third floor of the Commercial Club building Is the scene of some vigorous work this week. The offic I of the Locomotive Firemen's Magazine are being removed from Peoria, 111., to this city and headquarters are being established in five rooms on this floor of the Commercial Club building. Everything about the place is in a chaotic state at present, but W. S. Carter, the editor and manager of the magazine, emerged yesterday afternoon from a wilderness of desks, files, books and papers long enough to tell a Journal reporter something about his work and why he came to Indianapolis. "We have been in Peoria for the past eight years," said Mr. Carter, "but we were greatly handicapped there by the lack of printing facilities. We do not do our own mechanical work, preferring to contract that, and there was not a printing establishment in Peoria that could handle our work and get the magazine out promptly every month. We were Invited to Indianapolis and after making a short investigation we decided to move. We have made a contract with W. B. Burford to print the magazine for the next two years and the first issue will appear next month under an Indianapolis date line. "The Locomotive Firemen's Magazine has a circulation of about 45.000. Last month our Issue required eighteen tons of paper. The magazine requires about 175 pages and it is readily seen that a small printing office cannot handle the work. "We have brought about eighteen people with us and of course we shall be greatly disappointed if we do not make this city our permanent headquarters." The Commercial Club, through secretary George E. Hunt, was largely instrumental in inducing Mr. Carter to come to this city. Mr. Hunt is now going after the headquarters of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and hopes to bring them here in the near future. The headquarters are at present in Peoria. Garment Workers' President. B. F. Larger, international president of the United Garment Workers of North America, is in the city looking into the wants of the local organizations of the union. Several little differences that have arisen between clothing manufacturers in this city and the garment workers because of a, lack of proper understanding of the new scale of wages adopted by the last national convention will be adjusted by Larger while he Is here. He will also in a general way look over the affairs of the unions here and consult with trades leaders looking to the growth of the order In Indianapolis and the prosperity of the local organizations. The union label on all shirts and clothing bought by laboring men should be insisted upon, Mr. Larger believes, and he wants this understood by all labor bodies. Mr. Larger will go to New York from here to attend the meeting of the executive committee of the national organization, which meets Saturdax . Central Labor Committee Meets. The Central Labor Union committee which is planning the reception to be tendered John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers of North America, when he returns to the city, .met last night and informally discussed several proposed features of the welcome. The committee heard the names of the speakers who are to be available for the mass meeting in Tomlinson Halt) but because of the uncertainty of the date of MitchellV return and not being able to guard against other contingencies, no definite plan. were adopted. The committee will meet again the latt r part of this week to complete the programme for the reception. PLEA FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS. Active Campaign Beajun in the Indianapolis Presbytery. The campaign for the cause of missions began in three churches of the Indianapolis Presbytery last night. Meetings were held at Greenfield, Greenwood and Whiteland at which the necessity for more funds was urged by mission workers. To-night at the Tabernacle. First. Memorial and Sixth Presbyterian churches meetings will be held at which returned missionaries, officers of the board of missions and pastors will speak. Among the returned missionaries who will speak is the Rev. George C. Doolittle. who has Just me bark from Syria. He spent three year? in Sidon, four in Deir Kl Knmar and the last two year in Zahleh in the Lebanon district. Mr. DooUttle'fl . was not a lonely one. as it is on a railway line and In the path of tourist travel. In speaking of his work In Syria Mr. Doolittle said: "I am a general missionary, occupying something like the place of a Methodist presiding elder. I have a large district, with forty-five stations to oversee, where the work is carried on by native teachers and pastors. It is a difficult thing to say how many native Christians there are in Syria, but we have 2,500 church members. There are probably something like four time? that many actual Christians in the land." Other missionaries with whon Mr. Doolittle has been associated will be in Indiana for about two weeks pleading the cause of foreign mlsssioi h STREET FATALITIES. egllgence Charged Against Steam nnil Electric Railway Operatives. To the Editor of ths Indianapolis Journal. It ought not require more than four cases of manslaughter in Indianapolis within two weeks through criminal negligence to call attention of the grand Jury to the prevalence of this crime against the State. It is utterly useless to think of supresslng it in any other way than by holding the guilty parties to answer as criminals. It la sheer trifling to call such calamities accidents; they are not. They are as much the Inevitable results of the line of policy pursued as If the plan contemplated and provided for them. Only think! Fifteen laauilaughiers from the same criminal

negligence within this year, and there were eleven killed at crossings last year and twelve reported by the coroner as killed on the railroads' rghts of way. Right of way! Not a railroad has a foot of right of way in Indianapolis. They all have, the steam and the trolley, the right to run cars on certain streets at a stipulated speed and other conditions, and they have no other right. Whereas they seem to ashume that they own the city and especially the streets, and that everybody must look

out and not trespass on their right of way; if they do It Is at the trespassers' peril. Now. we have had about enough of this defiance of law, this utter ignoring of the contract under which they all operate. But the number of deaths caused by the criminal negligence which constitutes everyone of them a case of manslaughter does not measure the calamity their disregard of life and limb has caused. All over the city are men and women who are suffering from wounds caused by their contempt of law; some of them are disabled for Ufa. Only last week one woman r ived a Judgment in court for $2.100 for injuries received through the daily and hourly violation of their contract with the city and the disregard of the city ordinances regulating speed. The ordinances limit the speed of both kinds of cars to live miles an hour, yet the steam cars never abate their speed on entering the city until near the center of the city, and then only slightly, while the street car schedules its speed at ten miles an hour, including stops, and every employe is required to work to that schedule. This 1 ids frequently to not stopping at all for would-be passengers, or allowing but little time for getting on or off. The paintul life-time hurt received by the woman who recovered the award of $2.1to was caused by the sudden jerk of a car in starting as soon as she entered and before she had time to get a seat. Others have been wounded for life or a long while by not being allowed time to get off. And now corres a proposed city ordinance which, rightfully enough, provides mat boys shall not jump on or off moving cars just for sport, but passengers may. Would it not be wise to ordain that the cars must stop long enocgh to allow men and women to get on and off with safety? But will not the damages they have to pay to the trlends of the dead of to those who are not quite killed deter them? Not in the least, though in the aggregate they are large. Not one case in twenty gets into court. They are prompt to take the nanus and residence of everybody they hurt and keep track of him or her. If serious enough to attract attention they offer a sin. 1 11 compensation, which is usually accepted rather than go to law, and the same reckles? speed is kept up. They can well afford to pay many thousands annually for the privilege of making a speed that enables them to do the business of th city with not more than two-thirds the equipment it would require to render service according to contract, hence this maiming and killing will go on until the Stat.' protects Um people against the wholesale manslaughter and crippling. In the early yean of the Peru road, when all that part ot the city along Pogue's run. north of Washington street, was commons, the custom Was to put on full ip as if out of the city. One day a child was killed by the tars. The grand jury indicted the engineer and he was tried for manslaughter, and he escaped conviction only on a technicality, but the spaed of all road? within the City was much reduced by his prompt action, which indicated that the killing of a child when going at an unlawful speed was a crime against the State as well as an offense to the individual. There will be no materia change in the speed of cars in the city until this great 'ruth is recognized by the people and the machinery of the Criminal Court is brought to bear on the disregard of human lit. bv the railroads that enter the city or occupy the streets. U. L. SEE. Indianapolis. Dec. 2. SPELLING BEE REVIVED MI CH AMI SEMEM AT CEXTHALAVEME METHODIST CHIRCH. W. D. Cooper. One of the Captains, Downed by an Easy Word Popcorn and Apples Served. "S-e-v-e-r-l-y" was the way W. D. Cooper, captain of one of the teams in the spelling bee at the Central-avenue M. E. Church spelled severely last night and he dropped out of line. There were enough persons present at the old-fashioned spelling bee to place thirty-five on a side, and there was more fun crowded into the two hours than in any church social function held in many years. The modern furniture, carpeted floors, brilliant electric lights and tinted walls were a strong contrast to the surroundings of such entertainments held many years ago. when the country schoolhouse was utilized, but fun predominated last night, and old and young stood in line spelling all kinds of words until they made a miss, when they would have to take a back seat. D. Cooper was one of the captains and Mrs. Ell F. Ritter the other captain. A broom handle was used for choosing sides. There was a great tleal of fun during "choosing." Mr. Cooper selected many of the younger people present, while Mrs. Ritter made her selections from the older ones. Edward P. Thompson was one of the best spellers chosen by Mrs. Ritter, but he missed during the latter part of the match. He created much amusement by spelling his words by syllables in the good old-fashioned way. The second "round" saw one of the spellers miss on the word "baker." Then the misses came frequently. Garlicky proved to be a stumbling block for quite a number on both idea. Some easy words were easily misspelled. Captain Cooper's team suffered many defaats and gradually the ranks were thinned until only three were left, while six remained on Captain Ritter 's team. Members of the Cooper team ta riously remarked that an advantage was - u to the other team by Ell F. Ritter, who gae out the words to be spelled. It was claimed that he pronounced them in such a manner that a person on his wife's t :n could hardly miss, while in giving out the words for the other team his enunciation was said to be poor, but this friendly charge was not well founded. H. S. MeMiehael and two young girls were the longest to remain on Captain Cooper's team. One of the girls dropped out on an easy word and Josephine V ist failed to spell hymeneal, and Mr. Mcllichael was left alone to defend the Cooper team. Many words went the rounds and no one dropped out on the Ritter team About 10 o'clock some one mentioned that popcorn and apples were on tap In the basement and it was decided to declare the match a draw. Mr. MeMiehael Is considered one of the best spellers In the city, and the other team expressed no hope of defeating him. Captain Ritter, aflas Hanrock. Mr-. Anderson. W. H. Smith and Mr.Renner were left on the Ritter team when the match ended. Words were given from the Indiana speller and batfi words were ruled out. The Penalty of Fame. Boston Herald. Gen. Lew Wallace is suffering the usual penalty of fame. The dispatches from his i bailiwick have had him at the point of I death for a week. Now it turns out that he ! has only got a toothache. His recovery is looked tor as soon as nts dentist gets his tV( i zt-rs adjusted. The noys. Where are they? the friends of my childhood enchanted The clear, laughing eyea looking back In my own. And the warm, chubby Angers my ialms have so wanted, A when wi raced over Pink pan urea of clover. And mocked tlM quail's whir and the bumblebee' i drone? Have the bees of time blown their blossomy faces Forever adrift down t.ie years that are flown' Am I never to tee them romp back to their places. Where over the nu acow, In sunshine and shadow, The meadow-larks trili. and the bumble-bees dione? Where sre they? Ah: dim In the dust lies the clover : The wttippOOrwUrs call has s sorrowful tone. And the dove's I hse wept at It over and over 1 want the glad luster Of youth. an1 the cluster. Of faces asleep where the bumble-bees drone! James Whttcomb Kiley. Sickly chddren And health in Jaync's Tonic Vermifuge.

THE IRON BRIGADE

A STORY OF THE ARMY OF THE CHAPTER XXV. l.AM'K 3 LAST RETREAT. In the two great days that followed there was little to do for the little left of the iron Brigade. Planted by Wadsworth at the point of Gulp's hill, It grimly watched the movements of Ewtll's men. Its old-time antagonists, and when these gentry ventured forth to feel their opponents, they were received with due military honors and sent back satisfied that the weak point of the line was not there. Sore-hearted over the loss of so many cherished comrades, yet confident that their valor had not been vain, the survivors hung silently to their assigned position, and awaited developments. Many most of them. Indeed, slept through that summer night like wearied children, while the scattered corps, far to the south and southeast, were tolling through the soft moonlight, straining every nerve to reach the Held In time to meet the foe on the morrow. And. when that morrow came. Benton was early in saddle and away to the left of the line in hopes of tidings of their headquarters wagon gone astray, as such wagons so often would, with the mess and camp kits of the general and the staff, and as Hancock's second corps came trudging in pst the Round Tops after their all-night mareh. it was his good fortune to meet two oldtime comrades, soldiers he swore by Carver, now serving with Hancock, "the superb," and Haskell, that prince of adjutants, now chief of division staff and through them he heard news that even In the excitement of the afternoon and the tremendous doings of the following day. kept him perturbed in mind and sorely troubled. He had never been reconciled to his treatment at the hands of the secretary. He had never ceased chafing in spirit over the wrongs he had been subjected to. He realized that under existing conditions nothing more than half-hearted acknowledgment of error could be looked for. but he had determined that the moment things settled down and the department had time to attend to something besides the momentous affairs of the nation, he would demand justice or, as he was spunky enough to say, "give them something to pay for the punishment already given" to him. Meantime he meant so to conduct himself in the field that there, at least, he should stand above suspicion. Then through men of weight he might secure attention to his case. And now both Wadsworth and Doubletey had spoken in heartiest praise of his behavior throughout that heroic battle of the first day. So far so good. What he longed for. on one hand, was a chance to square accounts with McIlnnon. What he hoped for, on another, was opportunity to teach that disdainful girl how deeply she had wronged, as well as affronted, him. Passionately in love as he had been, it was a new experience, or he could never have persuaded himself in his prude and anger that her power over him was ended that her queendom was gone. He would have known better had he had time to analyze the chagrin and pain and jealousy which possessed him all the long hours that followed his morning talk with these staff comrades of the Second Corps. It seems that three days before, on the 29th of June, while they of the Second an n pushing cautiously northward through Maryland, on the right flank of the army, they were made aware that a column of cavalry was passing around them from the south passing between them and Washington and that while they were swinging through Uniontown, across a little branch of the Monocacy, the cavalry were trotting through Westminster, only five miles from their flank. "Gregg's Division, of course," said they who saw through glasses the far-distant column. "Gregg, not much!" said Haskeil, who had ridden out toward Union Mills on a scout of his own. "It's Jeb Stuart with his whole outfit and not a little of ours. He must have been helping himself every mile of his way from the Potomac." And this. Indeed, proved to be the case; for, as they lay In the fields about Uniontown that night, there reached them a rueful, crestfallen little party of officers, gathered in by Stuart at the crossing of the Baltimore pike. Two were field officers who from convalescent hospital were striving to overtake their regiments; the third was Major McKinnon, ordered to report without delay to the commanding general. Army of the Potomac; and McKinnon. it seems, had also been convalescing In Baltimore, but not from wounds. These three, with their light luggage, had been pounced upon at a wayside tavern by a roistering troop of Stuart's flankers, and dragged before this cavalry commander, who, seated on the porch of a pretty homestead in the heart of the village, was watching his booty-laden columns as they jogged on northward, and receiving the reports of his scouts. One of these parties presented the three captured officers just as another, represented by an eager subaltern, was finishing his description of the Union force about Uniontown. At a gesture from Stuart the young officer ceased and stood in silence as, very courteously, Stuart invited his captives to be seated while an aid took their names, regiments, etc., and as IfeKianon gave his there was sudden sensation. The young cavalryman sprang forward, seized McKinnon's hand, shook it effusively, and, to the amaze of every one present, exclaimed: "General Stuart, I am sure, sir, you will treat this gentleman with every possible consideration. It was he. sir. who so nobly defended my father at Washington when Secretary Stanton would have sent him to Fort Warren and RosaHe. too. for that matter. It was Major McKinnon, sir, who pleaded their cause with the secretary and had them returned to Charlottesville. It was he. sir. who in other ways most generously aided them." "I am very glad to hear It. Jack." said the bearded general, evidently warming toward the Westerner who had so befriended his kith and kin. "Of course, you're sure of it?" "Sure of it. sir? I had it from father and Rosalie both! They had supposed that they were indebted or rather that their helptr was a very different person, a man whom they had befriended; but that all turned out to be an error." And the upshot of it all was. said Haskell, "that Stuart sent the three to our lines, escorted by Captain Winston, the two other officers paroled until exchanged, but McKinnon, by Jove, released with Stuart's compliments, and it's my candid belief, damn him, that Mac would a heap rather be in Washington on parole than out here on duty. Shouldn't wonder if Stuart took his measure before he let him slide." Manifestly Haskell didn't fancy McKinnon. One thing -for Benton to ponder over, therefore, was the question how on earth had McKinnon In so short a time been able, even though he had the run of the house, to iersuade that usually clear-sighted girl to the belief that he had used such powerful influence in their behalf and was really their lavish benefactor. But there was still another thing to add to his chagrin and perplexity. There had been little conference between McKinnon and the two Badger staff offlceru both

GENERAL' CHARLES KING.

Copv right 1M2, bv U. W. Dillingham Company POTOMAC knew and neither trusted him but Colonel Kennard. one of the paroled pair, talked frankly with them, told all he had seen of Stuart and his devil-may-care command, and much about this young Confederate officer Chilton. "Because." said Kennard, "I heard Chilton say to McKinnon he was praying that he might yet meet Captain Benton. There was a Union man he would shoot on slant! And Winston said amen!" "Now. Fred." said Haskell, as he called for his horse. "I've got to ride the lines and get the reports, but we've got McKinnon up with the army at last, and soon as we're through with this business we ll nail him." But evidently it was buaimss first In Haskell's eyes. So between being In Stanton's bad books and those of these young Virginia gallants and of Rosalie herself It must be admiti.d that Kr'd Hrt-n fait all IhA fates ucrp against him. He had two burning desires as toward 0 o'clock he threaded his way through the swarm of arriving batteries men and horses looking worn and haggard ati.-r the all-night march and rode slowly bark to Wadsworth. One was to meet McKinnon and brand him as the author of the slanders (hat had so marred his prospects, personal and professional; the other was In some way to wring from Chilton an explanation of his violent threat. It would certainly throw light on the cause of Rosalie's furious denunciation. Wttle did he dream how soon he should be spar- I tin need, and through what sad. strange circumstance. All America knows the main story of that second day's grapple, when but for Warren s generalship and the heroism of Weed. incent and their fellows of the Fifth Corps the farce lighters nl Ho. d would nave gained tht ir lodgint nt on the Round Tops and the enfilade of tht- Unk line, That, like Pickett's tremendous assault on the third day. overshadowed everything occurring at the flanks. But for this there were deeds dime along the stonv. wooded northward slope of Gulps and far out In the open field beyond Wolf hill that would be ringing In song and storv to this very day, for Ewell made desperate attempt t P'n ne heights and the Baltimore pike behind them, and Stuart, missing until after sundown of the second day. strove as . mak UP for lost time in his ndldly conceived cavalry dash on our right and rear just as Pickett led his mighty irginians to wedge the Union centerthe grand crowning effort of the closing day. Had Ewell won the heights Gettysburg would have baen written in the catalogue of disaster. Had Stuart swept in among the ammunition trains, batterv wagons, field hospitals and reserves at the rear while Pickett was piercing the front nothing could have rettored the field. But again the tide had turned. Ewell left scores of his best and bravest under the muzsles of the Sprlngfields along the bowlder-strewn slope. Stuart was snared and trapped, engulfed, ov, rwhelmed and finally swept bodily from the field, never again to charge on Northern soil Between the twilight of the second of July tnat witnessed Ewell's bloodv assault and the downing of that black Friday of the lost catifiwthe third day something bad happened to give new heirt to Jackson s old men. The "Stonewall" brigade was there still, almost at the extreme point of the ong fish-hook of the Confederate line, lurking in the woods down in the low ground between the rockv point, where crouched the survivors of Wadsworth's division, and the forest-covered heights off to the eastward, where cavalry guidons -I nlon cavalry-had been Hashing in the last rays of the setting sun. Somewhere out in the dim fields to the north and northeast there was stir and excitement even in the wearied bivouacs of Ewell; and. under the starlight, eager to satisfy his general s restless desire to know what it all ment, Fred Benton had crept out to the tront taking a leaf from Haskell's primer and hoping for a side scout of his own But everywhere he found the same conditions: whispering officers, commanding the foremost line, pointed out that they were bent bek like a hoop, connecting with the left of Greene's division of the Twelfth Corps, and that, as thngh In a ring, the defenders of the hill were utterly hemmed in. save to the southwest, by lines of unseen, wary, vigilant Johnnies, for everv man that ventured down in hopes of filling his canteen at the running stream at the foot of the slope, had failed to return They were nearly surrounded, yet safe so long as they stayeu where they were. Early was planning, evidently, an assault at dawn. By half-past 10, however, comparative silence reigned at the right flank. The famous conference Meade with his corps commanders-had been held in the Leisler farm house In rear of the center The word had gone the rounds, to the joy of every soldier heart, that the new commander meant to stand and fight, and if Lee could muster no more men than these already thrown in, he might hammer the lines In vain. They did not know, perhaps that, away over in the woods back of Willoughhy run. Heths whole division was still nursing the wounds received in the ms, imkj b uttiue. oui would be ready on the morrow, and that Pickett's magnificent command of Virginians would all be there to strengthen the lines to the west Now If only Stuart and his pet brigades would but stay lost. o that no fear need be felt for the far right flank, all would Indeed be well! But would Stuart stay lost? Could he have got so far away as not to be found and by this time returned to the army and when he came, would it not be from the north, and thus bring him In on the very flank they were now defending? Tired as he was, Benton could n t sleep for thinking of the disclosures made through Haskell. Twiee he had crawled from his grassy bed, underneath an ambulance, and gone out along the front, crouching among the watchful pickets. There was no change In conditions, they whispered. The slopes were still covered with the lurking enemy though no moving thing could be seen! Toward half-past 2 a staff officer from Meade stumbled in and roused the generalwanted to know If anything had been hoard of large bodies of cavalry out to the north and Wadsworth was compelled to report that it had been found impossible to ascertain. But, when the aid left, Benton could stand it no longer. Alone and afoot ft r a word with his gray-haired chief, he slipped out of the circle and away to the Baltimore pike. This he followed southe.'steily nearly half a mile, greeted occasionally bar low-toned challenge of sentry; but other officers were hurrying swiftly to and fro. and there was little detention. As early as 3 o'clock he found himself following the patrol down a rocky pathway toward the creek, and. learning fnm outlying sentry there that no force seemed to be in his Immediate tront only a few pickets Benton explained that he wished to crawl out far enough to be beyond the sound of trampling hoof and rvmbling wheel at the pike, that he miht listen the better. The entrtea demurred but finally decided to take the chances and let him go. And. creeping from bush to bush to avoid the moonlit ppae. than half an hour before the dawn he had succeeded in gaining fully four hundred yards out toward the northeast, and theTe low voices warned him to lie still and listen. He was either on or within the Confederate picket line, and had much to kam and little time. And then, hardly breathing as he crouched cloee to the trunk of u spreading tree, somewhere among the leafy shad. along the slopes of Wolf hill a whip-poor-will began his farewell hymn to the flitling night, and, just as on that April morning among the heights of the Hedgeman faint and sweet, soft yet stirring, so out to the north that the performer doubtless thought It beyond the range of inimical ears, a cavalry trumpet began to sound the martial rtvtille. stilling the mournful plaint of the feathered herald ot the dawn and stirring some near-by watcher to instant, even profane, remonstrance. "Damn that infernal dash-dashed idiot!" stormed a tow. half choked voice "He'll tell the whole dash-dashed Tanke army our fellows have come. Go back there, sergeant, and tell our trumpeter if he dares to toot a horn I'll murder him " Then somebody rustled off throagh the bushes and somebody else spoke, "iiome of Hampton's crowd I reckon. How long'd the general want us to stay cut hyuh?" "Till Ewell attacks at dawn. Then we'll mount and look out for Gregg. His people are out here to the east of us. Stuart 11 at after them, you bet. as soon as it's light." "We haven't sot a horse that can more'n stagger. All worn ov.t, I tell you." protested the second voice. "No mre n theirs are. Jenninejs met us back there on the Hanover juke and I heard him tell Fitz Lec Gregg's horses were all ployed out " Jennings be damned!" broke In a third voice, impetuously, and Benton started at the sound. It was Chilton's beyond shadow of a doubt. Chilton again with his old regiment, and these with him were doubtless officers of Fits Lee's brigade, scouting, probably, well In front of the cavalry lines, yet proving that Stuart was there at last, and could be counted on to make things lively In the morning. And Jack disapproved of Jennings, did he? Small blame to him! And Jennings was way up

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here in Pennsylvania, playing informant for both tones again, and doubtl -ss siting big pay from ours! It was high time to slip back and give warning, but getting back was slow and tedious even periloue work. The dawn was breaking when. In bedraggled garb. Benton made his way across the plateau to the farmhousa on the Taneytown road, where officers and orderlies were thickly grouped, and where he found his own gray-headed gt-neral in the circle about the commander. Before Benton had time to whisper half his explanation. Wadsworth's tired eyes flamed with eager light. "Here's the very news to prove it. general!" he cried. "Captain Benton, of my staff. Is just in from that front. Stuart is there and Ewell means to attack" "How do you know Stuart is there?" demanded Meade, whirling sharply on the young officer. The most courteous and polished of gentlemen at other times. Meade was irascible in the extreme in battle. "I heard voices, sir one that I wHl knew, an officer of the First Virginiaheard them say that Fits Iee was there, and that Stuart would settle iregg. and that Ewell would attack at dawn " But even as he spoke came confirmation of his words. In the dim light of the dawn the guns of Greene and Geary had suddenly op ned on shadowy gray lines, issuing from the opposite woods, and Wadsworth sprang for his horse. Hut the commander signaled Benton to remain. "You have done a gallant deed, captain, and have brought me most valuable information.'' were his words a moment later. "It shall not be forgotten." Yet Benton was surprised late that afternoon when, after the din of the most terrific cannonade ever heard on this continent, and, after daring and determined attack, Pickett Bwtll tad Btuart ill had tx ii repulsed-Pickett with dreadful loss there came a message summoning the aid-de-camp to Meade's headquarters. He was faint with the fearsome sights encounter, d on the way, for all the Held was one vast hospital. A sympathetic staff officer gave him a nip from his flask, and then lciini.il to where a little group of prisoners w-re gathered hack of the farm house. Several were slightly wounded. All were sad and weary, but there was none he knew. An orderly led him toward a rude wagon-shed beneath which knelt four officers, surrounding a prostrate figure, "he asked for you." said a surgeon, briefly, and one glance at the face of the stricken soldier was tnough. Never heeding the others of the group never even seeing them with a cry. hair stilled, of mingled anguish and amaze. Benton threw himself on his knees and clasped the cold, nerveless hand, feebly lifted to greet him. The falling eyes lighted up one moment in love, recognition and relief, then closed In agony, as a spastn of dreadful torment seised the fragile foini. "Paul Paul my Qod!" was all that Benton could murmur, for a great sob choked his utterance, and a surgeon hurriedly brushed before him and h--ld a little silver cup to the twitching lips of his pitient. "Mortal, yes." was his whisper, as the poor lad. exhausted, lay for a moment In a deathlike swoon. Then the stimulant teemed to revive him a bit. The dark eyes slowly opened and fixed on Benton's quivering face. A flicker of setting Kunbeam. breaking throunh the smoke still drifting over the field, threw for an instant almost a halo of rosy light about the dark, damp hair, and gave a touch of warmth to the sweet. yet piteous little smile that played, oh. so short a moment, about the almost girlish lips, and then they moved: "B'ess you, old boy! and every whisper seem d to come with a gap "I heard I knew you'd never give up her letters. Where's McKinnon?" And here the poor lad seemed drifting away aijain. Benton thrust his left arm un U r the fallen head and strove to raise It. while once more the surgeon placed the cup to the parted lips; and. noting the name, a staff officer turned quickly and said a word to a waiting soldier. It wa3 another minute before the swooning lad reopened his eyes. The end wis swift coming, for th- ir light had Bed. Two other forms had joined the silent group, uncovering In the awful presence. But Benton saw notnlr.g but the love.: f xc heard nothing but the labored breathing of his friend and comrade whoee young llf had known such cruel sorrows, whose early death was so surely due to the malign InrtttCncee that had turned him. all unwilling, against the flag that once at least he had loved so lova'.ly. And now. in spite of soldtvr resolution, big tears fell from Benton's brimming eyes and plashed on the fragile hand still fondly clasped In his own. It seemed to rouse the dying boy. He looked yearningly up Into the face of his sorrowing friend, just as somewhere down the field to the south, noting the disappearing sun. some bugler hau softly begun to play, slowly and solemnly, the vesper hymn of the army, the salute to the departing day,

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