Plymouth Tribune, Volume 3, Number 47, Plymouth, Marshall County, 25 August 1904 — Page 3

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CHAPTER I. Before commencing the narration of that strange, extraordinary series of events which be gran in my fourteenth year, I must glance back at the earlier years of my childhood, and at those who influenced it. My earliest recollections are of Tabernacle House; previous to those, 'all is dim and shadowy. Tabernacle Ilouse was an establishment kept by the Rev. Obadiah Porter, for the reception of some half dozen boys. The reverend pedagogue was a man whose satyr-like face jrreatly belied his professions of profound piety. I could not understand, child us 1 was, how it ver came into his head to set up as a tutor, or how parents or friends could be induced to confide the education of children to the care of a man-deficient in the commonest rudiments of learning. His criminal occupation was that of a shoemaker, and his hands still retained a coarse, grimed look. His bullet-shaped head was covered with a thi k mass of hair, which had a shaggy, ragged appearance, from being cut in irregular lengths, or rather chopped away in pieces. His forehead was very low. lie had thick, shaggy eyebrows, and small, snake-lik? eyes. In stature he was short, thickset, bull-necked: lus arms were remarkably long, his feet splay and ill shaped. Obadiah Porter was a widower, with one daughter. So powerfully have terrible events engraven her after-image upon my mind, that I can scarcely recall its first impressions. 1 think she must have been about fifteen or sixteen. I being seme five or six. when I first saw her. She did not bear the slightest resemblance to her father; she was tall, thin; her hair was bright red, her complexion pale, her eyes large, her features delicate, and sharply cut. To this young lady was handed over the tuition of her father's pupils. There were five besides myself. There was a strange bond of sympathy between js all not one of us knew anything of our parents. One knew an aunt, another an uncle, a third a grandmoth??, or a grandfather, or a guard ian, but no father or mother. It was a peculiarity of Mr. Porter's establishment that he did not take boys who had parents. His advertisement in the newspapers ran thus: "The Reverend Oladiah Porter undertakes the er.re, education and religious training of orphan coys from the earliest age. Unexceptional references as to piety and discretion will be given. X. B. No holidays." It is not my intention to linger upon this period, or enter into any minute descriptions of our uninteresting, monotonous life. The years crept on, and were almost wholly passed within the precincts of TaberuHcle House. It was a fine, old-fashioned dwelling. It had large gaiders back and front the latter being screened from the road by a high wall besides an extensive orchard and a paddock. Altogether, it was quite a gentleman's house. But rents are wonderfully low in these parts. Mr. Porter was very well-to-do. His boarders alone brought him in a respectable income; his chapel was well attended; and he numbered many of the most prosperous Mawworms of the town among his congregation, to one of whom a Mrs. Humphries this house belonged. By and by there were changes. One boy left, and then another; but others took their places. Grim-looking persons came to take them away; but, except in one case, we knew nothing of their future destinj- or destination, and they dropped out of our lives completely. It seemed as though we were interlopers upon the world, and ought never to have been born. Te exceptional case I mention was that of a boy named .Tosiah Cook, whom Mr. Porter had transferred from his care to that of a printer in the town, as an apprentice. I little thought that Cook's transference to Bury would so materially influence my own future life that out of that event would spring an incident destined to shape its whole future course. There was one large room at the top of the house, in which we six boys slept, two in each of the three beds. Cook was my bed feilow. and we were fast friends and companions. He was a bold, venturesome boy, and on the last night of his sojourn amongst us he proposed the daring plan of some night paying us a secret visit and relating all the "adventures" he should experience in his new home. "I can easily climb over the garden wall from the next field." he said; "so look out. boys; if you hear a stone thrown up at your wiudow, it will be me. Six months passed away and we heard nothing more of Cook. He was rapidly fading out of our thoughts, when, one autumnal night we heard a sharp ciack at our bedroom window. The boldest of our number gently lifted "the sash, and peered out. It was a bright moon light night, and he saw, standing in the garden beneath, the well-known figure of -our old companion. The back of the house was covered with a fine old pear tree. It had not been pruned for several years, aid had thrown out its wood somewhat wildly. A few whispered words, and Cook was mounting the tree with hand and foot, almost as easily as though he had been ascending a ladder. When tie clambered into the room we all gathered round him in a sort of awe-struck manner. "Now. look here, boys.' he said; "what do you think has brought me her toright V "To see us." we supposed. "Well, that of course; but do you think it would be the thing in me to come and make your mouths water with the story of all these nice things, unless I had something to pop int them?" "He has brought us somthing nice to eat," wa3 the idea suggested. But when he nnfolded the meaning of his symbolical speech, our hairs positively stood on end- Of all the delights experienced by him in his new sphere of life, that upon which he most glowingly dilated was the theater. His mast x printed the bills for that establishment, and he was frequently employed to carry them to the manager. lie thus gained admission behind the scenes, while bis acquaintance with the bill-sticker gpintd hi;n an occasional order for the pit, Kis proposal was to present us with some of these orders. Ton can toss up which shall go first, and when old Porter thinks you're snug in bed, you can just drop down that tree, tfike a rvn and there yon are at the the tter." We knew no more about a theater than w did about the Temple of Isis, txcept that the ReT. Obadiah occasionally referred to it as the abode of Satan, and the house of tin woaIs which I ventured to quote to our teniylor.

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Vi "Abode of fiddlesticks!" he cried irreverently; "how jolly green you are to believe what that snuffling old hypocrite tells you! It's the jolliest and loveliest place in the world. Abode of Satan? It's more like the abode of angels! Why, the women are the beautifulest creatures you ever saw such a treat after carrots and gooseberry eyes down stairs." We shivered with affright at the terms applied by this daring renegade to the Rev. Obadiah and his daughter. The power of the strong mind over the weaker is well known. We were fatuously weak mere puppets In the hands of this experienced boy of the world. lie p induced two coins from his pocket, and before wo knew what we were about, he had initiated us into another of the sins stigmatized by our tutor tossing. The fates decided in my fav..r. I tried to get fut of it; but such was the irrevistiblo influence that Cook exercised over us that we had no power to struggle against his will, and I felt myself compelled to acquiesce in his proposal that I should hold myself ready any night that 1 heard a pebble thrown against the window to arise, dress myself, descend into the garden and make for the theater. The cold perspiration started from every pore at the thought: but, with a trembling voice, I promised, for all that. Shaking handi with us all round, and reminding me once more of my appointment, with threats of vengeance if I failed, this wonderful phenomenon scrambled out of window, and in a few seconds we heard him thud upon the ground beneath. Friday evening came. Eight o'clock was our hour for bed. It so happened that on that particular night Mr. Porter hurried us away rather earlier than usual. Crack! There he was! My heart leaped into my mouth, and I could scarcely repress a cry, so excitedly nervous had I become. I gently opened the window and looked ' out. There was Josiah, looking up at me. "Come on," I heard him whisper. CHAPTER II. How I managed to descend the tree without falling I cannot understand; my hands and limbs, shook as with a paisy. and my head swam as with a deathly sickness. When I reached the ground I was so faint that Josiah had to support me for several seconds. When 1 recovered, he helped me over the garden wall. The whole way, Josiah never ceased talking; but I was too bewildered to heed his words. I was only roused to attention when, upon halting before an extremely gloomy, solitary looking building, my companion cried, ''Here we are!" We plunged down a narrow passage, Josiah presented a small slip of paper to a man who stood behind a half-door, and we entered the pit of the theater. It was really a Hall of Dazzling Light. The play, I have since t.scertained, was Shakspeare's "Romeo and Juliet." Sitting in that little country theater,- witnessing what was, perhaps, only a thirdrate provincial performance, a new world was opened to me the glorious world of poetry and imagination. I trembled with a dazed delight at the soft beauty of the love scenes: my heart swelled with kindred fire at the passionate outbursts; and I sobbed at seeing the lovers die in one another's arms. It was no fiction to me. but a reality, beautiful almost beyond realization, yet painful almost beyond endurance. When the curtain fell, I fell with it from my Elysian heights. With a shiver I awoke to the dull realization of myself. My first action was to turn to Josiah, and grasp his hand in silent gratitude. I did not wish to see any more; I wished to get away now. to dream over what I had seen. Josiah had to go behind the scenes to get the proof of the next night's bill, and I waited outside the stage door until he returned. In a few moments he came out in a great flurry. "Look here. Silas." he said; "I can't go back with you. I must get home directly, or there'll be an awful kick up. Come along: I'll put you in the road, so that you can't miss your way." I shall never forget the sense of desolation that fell upon me when I found myself alone in the street. All the directions Josiah had given me vanished in an instant from my memory, and I stood helpless, not knowing which way to turn. I was in the outskirts of the town, it was nearly eleven o'clock, and not a soul was about, I walked straight on, fervently hoping that it might be in the right direction. Finally I was in the middle of a long street, one side of which was occupied by ordinary houses, but that on which I found myself was distinguished by a line of vast, gloomy looking buildings, turreted walls hung with ivy, and broken ruins. I felt awe-struck at the mighty piles of masonry that towered above me. I was standing right before an archway of a grand Norman tower. I walked tim idly beneath its black, vaulted roof, to the iron gate at its further end, and peer ed at the line of crumbling ruins that rose among the trees and shrubs, white and ghastly, in the moonlight As I stood thus, I heard a rustle. Chilled with a sense of fear. I turned quickly round. Through a rent in the w 11, many yards above my head, came a broad ray of white light. As I turned. it was falling upon an object that fasci nated my gaze. It was tie head and face of a beautiful girl, but so pale, so rigid, that, for an instant. I thought they were those of a statue. She was crouch ing in the deep shadow of the black walls. For a moment I stood spell Ijound. my eyes fixed upon hers. She was the first to break the spelL Rising from her crouching position, she timidly advanced towards me, and laid a small white hand upon my arm. The touch thrilled me like an electric shock. "You will not hurt me, will you?' she said in a soft, pleading voice. She was a slight, delicately formed child, about my own age, my own height, clothed in a dark gray dress. Her features were so delicately moulded that they seemed rather those of a wax doll than of a human being, except in their expression, which was full of soul. Her eyes were wonderful; I have never seen eyes like them they were so sad, so abstracted, in their far-off gaze; and, as she Exed them upon mine, they thrilled my very soul. "Hurt tou?" I echoed. I knew not what to say; nay brain was too confused "Can yvu tell me the road to the city?" she asked, In the same low voice. I answered that I had no idea that I had lost my way, and knew not where I was. "What rart do yon want?'' she asked, with a look of deep interest, "I want to get to Little Bethlehem Chapel; then I can find my road, I an swered.

At those words she drew back a fewsteps, and something of mistrust crept into her face. "How strange that we should meet!" she said, in a' dreamy voice. T think I can show you your way. I would take you. but I dare not," she added, with a shudder. "But fir-t look out in the street, and see if any one is about." I went to the opening of the gateway, and looked out. Not a soul was in sight. I beckoned to her and she glided to my side and pointed out the way I was to take. "I think this is my way," she said, indicating an entirely opposite direction; then added, in an anxious tone, "But you will not tell any one that you have seen me?" I assured her I would not She took my. hand, and we stood in the silent street, with the full moonlight shining down upon us. I could not talk. I felt

ike one deprived of the power of speech and volition. "I wonder if we shall ever meet again? t is not likely," she went on, with a sigh. 'That is your way. Good by." She lightly pressed my hand, and with one more glance from those sad eye she uirried away. In less than half an hour I was in the garden. As I began to climb the tree the bedroom window was cautiously raised; my companions were sitting up for me. The clock struck twelve. My escapade had escaped detection. I was overwhelmed with eager questions. I do not know what I answered. I had fallen back into my dream. I do not know whether I slept at all that night; my senses were steeped in a delicious lan guor, in which the play and the after in cident were inextricably woven together in which I had changed my identity; was Romeo, and she whom I had so mysteriously met was Juliet. With her acted all the scenes of love that I had witnessed; but mingled with them were new elements, shadowy, intangible; flitting too quickly to be. grasped, but itr which Judith Porter's face was strangey mingled. And so these phantoms chased each other through my brain, until at the last a fair head, with delicate waxen features, wan and colorless, lay dead in my arms. (To be continued.) WARRING CATS SEEK TRUCE. Presence of an Hereditary Eneiui Reconciles the Two Tabbies. Two Staten Island Thomas cats were settling their diflicullics the other day in the manner approved among Thomas cats, while the cause of the disagreement sat on a neighboring doorstep washing her face and disinterestedly watching the fray. In the next yard a third Thomas lurked behind a tre taking in the erntest from safe distance. Finally the smaller of the combatants was worsted, and with a last desperate jowl broke away from his enemy and darted for the back of the- yard. The victor was not yet satisfied with g'.ory, however, and immediately put out after his late rival. A tree in a neighboring yard was evidently the destination of the fleeing cat, but so intent was he on reaching it before his pursuer overtook him and so intent was the pursuer on overhaul ing him that they both failed to ob serve a large white bulldog slumbering under the tree. The first cat landed full upon him. but managel to scuttle up the trunk before the dog recovered frcm his surprise. The second cat was going too fast to stop when he saw the rampant terror vith bristling l ack and snarling teeth at which he was hurling himself full tilt There was only one thing for him to do. and, like a general, he did it Ha cleared the dog with a mighty bound. landing half way up the tree and scrambling the rest of the way before the dog could turn. Cautiously and gently,' with all the fight gone from him, he ventured out on the same limb with his late rival. All cause of enmity was fonrotten United against the common danger. they sat there, huddled close together, craning their necks down at the leaoing, barking dog. Back In the yard they had left the third Thomas ventured forth from seclusion, and after a few preliminary advances ambled serenely off down the street with the fickle cause of the disturbance at his side. New York Sun. FAMINE IN SEA FOOD DUE. Belief that the Supply of Edible Fish Will Soon lie Exhausted. The marvelous increase in the facilities for distribution has widened the field and enormously Increased the demand for the food products of the sea. Fresh oysters, clams, lobsters, shad, rockfish and mackerel from the Atlan tic coast; oysters, crabs, shrimps and red snappers from the gulf coast and lake trout, pike perch and whlteiish from the great lakes, now find thir way daily In their season Into every. State and Territory of the Union; while the Pacific coast and Alaska send fresh halibut, steelhead trout r.nd royal Crlnook salmon all over the United States and to Europe, the fish reaching their destination as fresh and sweet as when taken from the Columbia or the icy waters of Alaska. To expect unaided nature to keep pace with the ever-Increasing demand for aquatic products is as unreasonable as It would be to expect the uncultivated land to meet the demand for grains and fruits and the butcher's food. Cultivation of the coastal and Interior waters Is as possible and imperative as Is cultivation of the land, and promises quite as rich returns. An acre of water can be made even more productive than an acre of land. On land, the producing area is a surface, but the total producing area of a body of water Is many times the superficial area of its bottom. The time will surely come when the oyster harvest of Chesapeake Bay each year will be fully equal to the total harvest of the last fifty years. Oyster culture and fish culture are still In their infancy, and I am convinced that the time is not far distant when, through fish cultural operations, the annual catch of each of many of our important food fishes, particularly the shad on the Pacific coast and In Alaska, "will be many times greater than It has been In the past National Geographical Magazine. The pleasantest things In the world are pleasant thoughts, and the greatest art in life is to have as many of them as possible. Emerson.

SILKS FOB. FALL DSE.

rAFFETA IS STILL MOST POPULAR VARIETY. Less of Solid Color Seen, and Stripes Appear, Wide, Medium ami Narrow, and in All Colors from a Match to a Bold Contrast. New York correspondence: ILKS for fall dresses are attractive for newness in the stores, but in the fact that taffeta is SÜ11 the most favored sort, the summer tendency is continued. Rut only a little looking about will show that there is less of solid color taffeta and that it does not rank so high in the fas1ionable scale ; do the striped ami figured weaves. The former show satin stripings, in color all the way from complete harmony to bold contrast, and in width from narrow to strikingly large ones. And it should be noticed, too, that at times thtr bolder colorings are in the wider stripes, which must mean that they are to be employed as trimming, sinco they would be altogether too conspicuous as dress goods. Watered silks are presEXAMPLES OF FALL ent in the showing, and will be used tainly as trimming, likely also as d;v material, the 'summer having furnished endorsement for watered ribbons. Some drassmakers talk sagely of a revival of sstins, but the soft taffetas would seem sure of first choice. Shades of brown assertively tinged with yellow are impressive among the new trimmings, and it is hinted that they are to be put with blue or yellow or both in the making. Yellow and yellowish browns are to trim grays, which will be stylish for the material of fall gowns, especially for street and walking suits. Greens and reds, too, will trim such costumes, at times separately, again in combination. Violet shades make their showings among new fancies In trimmings. appearing on very light colore.! materials and on some white suits. Yellow and orange still go with blue indeed, are so stylish that they may be put variously where at first glance they seem to clash. They are not safe In altogether Indiscriminate use, however, so those not sure of their eye for color schemes should seek reliable advice in following this fashion. Gren is put on dull browns and also on biscuit shades. Solid color stuffs of Inconspicuous shades are to be trimmed with checked materials, the latter at times used so freely as to make the whole more a combination of two stuffs, rather than a material and a trimming. Braid trimmings are striking in new fall dresses, some of the model suits showing a freer employment of braid than has been permitted since that time nearly ten years ago when all tailor suits were plastered thick with heavy SEW WAISTS AND braids. Only a few of the designs suggest extravagant freedom, and it is unlikely that this fashion will soon go to an extreme. Several expressions of it appear in the accompanying pictures. The first was the dress of the initial sketch, which was dark gren cheviot and blac , ilk braid, the waistcoat being black broadcloth. At center and right in the uaxt illustration are two more a blue

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broadcloth, with fancy blue tad ' fill braid, and a tan cloth braided in darker tan and appliqued with velvet discs. Admirers of pattern dresses will enjoy the showings of them in the shops, both silks and cloths appearing in many very fine examples. Two of these are sketched here; a brown figured pongee showing cording and faggotting, and a gray cloth embroidered in a darker shade. In these dresses there is found a deal of the new reddish brown that promises to be much worn in it3 various shades. The present liking for self-trimmings seems likely to continue through fall, at least for the novel aud pretty effects obtainable with flouncings, bandings, Tuchings and the like seem not to be exhausted. Separate waists for dressy use are not being made quite so elaborately as they were, though at times they show so much of shirring or puffing that the plain surfaces are small and few. But applied trimmings are less often resorted to, and when used are in smaller quantity. Three sample waists appear in the last of today's pictures. The upper one was oriental embroidery, the background cream white, narrow strips of white silk showIng where the bands joined. The lower sleeves were white silk embroidered to match the bands. Below this are a blue crepe de chine trimmed with tucks and embroidery in white and blue, and a white crepe de chine trimmed with fancy passementerie. Golden browns and red browns make a considerable showing in these separate waists, and there is quite enough of lavender to excuse a choice of it by any who especially admire it Fashion Notes. Elbow sleeves, consisting of three puffs, each separated by a fall of lace, are smart. Long coats are surely creeping back Into vogue, if, indeed, they can be said ever to have gone out This is a good year to observe the

STYLISHNESS. -trikiug difference betweeu wearing iothes and being well gowned. Lovely hats are of yellow lace straw heaped with shaded pink and crimson roses. Black satin is recommended as the best sort of petticoat for all-round serviceable wear. Novel color effects are produced in evening gowns by placing one color over another. Many light gowns have black velvet baby ribbon run through insertion for trimming. Up-to-date girls are lacing their boots upside down to show the wide bow at the bottom. Some very fetching sunshades boast of enameled and gilded ribs, with pronounced ball ends. If yoi are of the world worldly you must wear hung from a chain a tiny mirror hidden in a jeweled flower. One wonders just why it is better to wear tae long haircomb vertically instead of horizontally, but so it is ordained. Harmony in dress is still further promoted by those inexpensive parasols which come in all the season's colors. Petits chapeaux tilted over the face and elaborate trimming falling gracefully over the back are among fashions revived. Just such a meandering trimming as ornaments bead bags has broken out in pink and blue and green beads on taffota gowns. Blue, gray and white linen suits have to a great extent replaced the lightA PATTERN GOWN. weight woolen gowns formerly worn at the summer resorts. . 1 Very sheer, fine quality, tucked shirt waists without other trimming are the favorites of the moment to wear with duck or linen skirts. Fashion arbiters unanimously . agree that light-weight semi-diaphanous voiles are to continue to be the swagger dress fabric for some seasons to come.

THE BOOMING CANNON

RECITALS OF CAMP AND BATTLE INCIDENTS. Survivors of the Rebellion Relate Many Amaiing and Startling Incidents of Marches, Camp Life, Foraff" Ins Experiences and Battle Scenes There are good many Kentuekians In Chicago," said the Doctor. "I saw a prominent Blue Grass statesman at the theater the other night and I wondered If he knew how man"? Kentuckians were in the audience, or how j mnnr TreniHont. fhc-ra nro arnnnf ! us who have lived longer in Chicago than they lived in their native State. For some reason Kentuekians began to come here soon after the close of the civil war, and the colony has increased every year since the great fire. 'Tn the colony are hundreds of men who saw service in the Union regiments during the war, and I never met one of them who didn't insist that the Unfcn men of the State had never received credit for what they accomplished under very trying circumstances, and I was told only the other day that the so-cailed Kentucky regiments of the Union army were mainly mongrel regiments, made up of men from other States. 'T smiled at this, because I happen to be familiar with the organization of at least thirty rgiments as distinctively Kentuckian in personnel and spirit as any regiment raised in Illinois was distinctively Illinolsan. The truth Is, Kentucky had in the Union army seventeen regiments of cavalry, forty regiments of fully organized infantry, iifteen more regiments of short-term mounted infantry, 4,000 State guards, 102 companies of Lomo guards, and five batteries of artillery. "It is true that there was great uncertainty in the beginning. An attempt was made early in 1S01 to hoM the organized militia companies iu the State guard and to carry the whole guard over to the Confederates. This movement failed and the crack companies in the cities went, some one way and some another. For example. Captain John II. Morgan and his Lexington rifles went to the Confederates, while Captain S. D. Bruce and many of his chasseurs of Lexington and Captain S. W. Price and many of his "old infantry'' of Lexington, dating back to ISl'J, went into the Union army. "There was r.o lack of gocd material fcr ofiicers on the Union side. Jackson, Speed, Ilobson, 'VYbitaker, Rousseau. Wood, AYard, Crittenden, Anderson, Garrard.; Lanbran, Woodruff, Smith. Johnson and others had seen service in the Mexican war. Nelson had been in the navy, and several West Pointers were ready fcr duty. Several regiments were organized outside the State, but most of the cavalry and Infantry regiments were organized In the State and hurried into the service. "vYclfordV First Kentucky cavalry was active from the very first The Eighth cavalry, under Shackelford and Bristow, and the Ninth, under Jacob, were organized in three weeks and were hurried into battle. A good story is told of the latter. Jacob, with about five hundred men. was in camp cn Greasy creek in 1SC3 when the camp was rushed by Morgan's full command. Jacob didn't want to be llekcd by anybody, but most particularly he didn't want to be licked by Morgan' men. "He made his men feel the same way and they stood. Jacob had one piece of artillery in action, and he took command of this himself. He directed the artillerists to load and fire as rapidly a3 possible and he, with field glass In hand, would t;rve directions. That gun fired twenty-two shots in forty-five minute, putting every shot into the rebel line at a point where it was trying to form for a charge. The rebels thought there was a battery there. Jacob held his ground, retired In the face-of a demand to surrender, and shortly thereafter joined in the pursuit of Morgan in his raid through Kentucky, Indian and Ohio. "With the Eighth under Shackelford and other Kentucky regiments, the Ninth cavalry mcde a wild ride of twenty-nine days from the Cumberland to the Ohio, through Indiana and Ohio, to the capture of Morgan and his men. That was a great experience. It wasn't like war In front The women of Indiana and Ohio, it seemed to me. were always singing and cooking for us. We fed our horses at the wheat shocks in the fields. We ate at the best tables in the two States, and at last the Kentucky cavalry with other troops swept down on Morgan's rough riders with such exulting shouts as only hardriding Kentuekians could give. Several of th t .ys who made that great ride are in Chicago and they are as proud of it. as Sheridan was of his ride down Winchester road." "There was," said the Major, "more adventure, romance and deviltry associated with the organization of the Kentucky regiments than with any others in the Union army. One regiment organized by Colonel J. F. Buckner, near Hopklnsvllle, and drilled In the colonel's dooryard, never had a number er a name. General S. B. Buckner, hearing of his relative's plan, marched against tie Unionists, and their colonel, knowing he could make no resistance, in a military ßense, told his men to scatter. They scattered and within a few weeks had enlisted in other regiments. "There was constant friction between ths Union home guards and the rebel freebooters in the mountain regions and some hard fights. On one occasion we came upon a scrap of this kind, the doctor of the neighborhood leading the Unionists. He was a sixfooter and wore an old-fashioned high Bilk hat, and when we rescued his company there were five bullet holes In his hat and one of his fingers had been thot off, but he was äs cool and und'v mayed as a trained soldier. "Most of the Kentuekians from Wolford down were opposed to employing negroes as soldiers. Wolford was par J ticularly violent in his opposition to

. the organization of colored regiments.; In spite of his efforts over 14,000 col-J ored men were enlisted in Kertucky, and formed into what were called national regiments, many of which were officered by Kentuekians taken from , the older regiments. "Wolford would have none of It, however. But when wc were penned I up In Knoxvllle and had very hard j service Wolford said to Colonel Pennei baker, I say, Charley, I am opposed

to this nigger soldier business. I don't like nigger soldiers and neither do yon. but if Lincoln sent a lot of darkiea down hero and run oft old Lojjgstreet I wouldn't care, would you? Wolford knew at the Kentucky blacks, like the Kentucky whites, had shown themselves to be good fighters." "Speaking of home guards," said the Colonel, "Humphrey Marshall always Insisted that tht Kentucky home guards stole his artillery one night lie was raiding some of the eastern counties, and had one cannon said to be of improved construction, Iii story was that some of the home cuas who had access to his camp as peddlers carried the gun off. The truth was, however, that the gun, weighing 1Z0 pounds, was carried off by Captain Iteuben Patrick of the Tenth Kentucky cavalry. Patrick went into Marshall's camp to recounoiter, found Vie sentry at the gun asleep, lifted it from the carriage, put it on his shoulder, and carried it to a point where his men were waiting, and they brought it to our camp and called the exploit a joke on Marshall." Chicago Inter Ocean. Sunshine Saved the Swords. "You remember, perhaps," remarked a vetoran army officer to a New York Post writer, "the terms of surrender which Grant prepared for Lee to sign? They were notable, first for their terseness, as they crowded into a dozen lines what almost any one else would have spread over as many pages, but still more for the fact that they were written In Grant's own hand as, ladeed, was substantially every one of his papers of the whole war and while the party sat at the rendezvous. Horace Porter, our present ambassador to France, was there as aid to the general. He tells me that at McLean's bouse Grant, after gretting Lee and his secretary and exchanging a few seu-l, tences of conversation with them, motioned them to chairs opposite the center table and then seated himself and began to write. If he had been sending a casual note inviting a brother officer to dinner he could not have been less agitated, outwardly at least, aud yet he was bringing to an end a war of four years' duration, one of the slubborncst and bloodiest in modern history, and one which, but for his success, might have changed the whole current of human civilization. "He had just closed a sentence, as shown by tho momentary cessation of the scratching on the paper, when a little ray of light broke through an opening between him and the confederate officers and fell on Lee's sword hiit. Ordinarily nothing would have resulted from this, for at that stage of the war the field uniforms and arms were in a pretty battered condition on both sides. So in preparing for the culminating act in the drama that morning Lee and his secretary had discarded their old toggery and dressed themselves in the best they had. Including a jeweled presentation sword which Lee probably never had out of its case before. The light falling upon Its ornamented hilt was reflected with a piercing flash which struck Grant full in the eyes. He had just raised them for an instant Responsive to the flash, they sought the details of Lee's attire, and down they went upon the written sheet again, wnile there flowed from the nib of his pen the provision that the confederates should be allowed to wear home their side arms. It w.ts a fine illustration of the power of momentary suggestion. "When It was all over and Lee was riding off in the direction of his headquarters. Grant Issued a few routine orders and then summoned Ingalls by a nod and silently mounted his horse and rode away in the opposite direction. Ingalls had ridden over with him that morning, and they had been engaged on the way in reminiscences of the men and adventures they had both known In the Mexican war. Porter, youthful and full of enthusiasm, believing that the first utterance of his chief after this magnificent day's work would be of historic significance, hastily mounted and rode after the pair. Grant did cot open his lips for some minutes. Then, taking up the thread of the morning's chat, and with a faint smile creeping over his sunburnt face, he said: "By the way, Ingalls, do you remember the fellow who drove that shavetailed mule in the baggage train of the th infantry the morning we went cut to relieve Jones?" Drinking: in Canada. An anti-treating movement Is making considerable lieadway in Montreal, Que. Members of the leaguo pledge their solemn word of honor not to accept nor to offer to others any Intoxicating liquors in any public bar, hotel or club. Ilabitual drunkards after conviction in Montreal are now given the option of paying a fine, imprisonment or taking a certain cure. At present there are twenty-two under ' treatment ten at their homes and twelve at, the Jail. Each patient is expected to take sixteen doses of the prescribed medicine each day and is warned not to drink any intoxicating liquors during the time of trial. One official, asked about the effects of the experiments, said: "Wait; we are doing very well." At the present rate the British government will soon cease to be Englisn. It will be composed of Scotchmen and Irishmen. The present prime minister Is a Scot; so is the leader of the opposition, the chancellor of the exchequer, the attorney general and the secretary of the board of trade. The lord chancellor, the solicitor general, the secretary for India, the foreign secretary, the war secretary and the chief secretary for Ireland all are Irishmen. Of all the birds, the humming-bird, when young, is said to be the most easily tamed. They are much more docile and teachable than canaries and j other song-birds.