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m 0LIT1CAL v igji i i I i i i i i i iigJU44 i i i i i i First Voter In lnJ. Each year In the United States nearly a million men attain the right to vote. The great majority of these first voters are young men who have reached their majority. This element In elections Is scarcely given the weight to which It is entitled. In fact, few realize that In each presidential year at least i"0 per cent of the vote Is from this class. In the closely contested election of 180(. which' brought out a total Vote of about 14.000,000, more thai. 3,000,000 were cast by men who had never before appeared at the polls In a national election. It seems but a fchort time since the election of 1004, i)ut In the choice of Congress this fall over lJDO.OOO first voters will be qualified to participate. Outside of naturalizations this vast number Is composed of young men who will have passed the age of 21 between November. V.m, and November, 190. It 13 the most interesting and potential of all additions to the electorate. These young men are entering upon much more than their political duties. Their social and business careers are In the formative tage. They should grasp clearly the value of the ballot to young (Americans. Their heritage Is the United States, for upon them must fall the responsibilities In the course of the next quarter of a century. A young voter Is generally Influenced In politics by family environment, but many of the ancestral .'Itical ImpresHAS A NEW Chicago Inter Ocean. eions. Influence and traditions are effaced. Eieclally, and happily, is this true of prejudices and outworn grudges. A man of 40 has no personal recollection of the" Civil War, the greatest political chapter In the histury of the country during the last century. Few first voters can le swayed oy any transmitted bitterness of th.it struggle. They are confronted by live questions ;tbat enter into their present and future interesis and activities. The dominant party has . been In national control nearly all the time for forty-five years. It is In charge of all branches of the government at this time. For the young voter the main Issue Is: Shall the BepuMU-an party Ik? deprived of its present legislative power? Shall its fiolicies be condemned and .reversed? Shall Its record of performance be condemned, and the reins of authority be handed to some other party, or the wheels be blocked? There will be a legislative deadlock if the house elected this fall has an opposition majority. A protective tariff is a sharply de--fincd question In the campaign of 190G. First voters must necessarily divide upon It. Do they wish to protect American wages and industries from foreign competition, or open wide the ports to the products of cheap foreign labor, admitting it free from any duty f a home protective nature? Do, first oters prefer to make the next house Democratic, and so cut off the present administration from legislative supjxrt during Its last two years? These are practical business question.! for liOO.OOO first voters who are themelves, for the most part, Jut engaging In business. This year over 00,000 voters in Missouri are entitled to take part In their first State and congressional lection. Yet there are Bourbons who insist , tbat this State is necessarily Democratic, and that an old party label Is of more consequence even to Its yoang men than a living issue. It Is m false view, and fresh surprises are in ttore for such hidebound beilttlement f political duty and opportunity. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Five Woaderfal Year. Ä census bulletin Just Issued shows that the value of American manufactures Increased from $11,411.121,122 In 19CVV14,802.147.0S7 in 1903, or nearly 'JfV;,r cent. Vages Increased from $2,on,303,024 to $2.011,540,522, or over 21 ir cent, while invested capital increased from about $9.000,000 to nearly $13,000,000, or over 41 per cent These figures are, however, only a few of the many signs of the ama':?? prosperity of this nation. Others are the practical doubling of bank deposits, which now are nearly . $l.;,ax,000,000, or over $1C0 for every man, woman and child. In addition to savings of over $m000,000 a year through life insurance; the Increase. if two-thirds In railway earnings. aucL.the doubling of Immigatlon In the last, live years. But the most striking sign of r 11 Is lhe Increased value of farm produevs. Tor the last five years of the nineteenth century the total value of our five leading crops corn, hay, cotton, wheat aüd oats was $0,0OO,0f.iO,00O. For the first fire years of the twentieth, with no notable increase of acreage, nor In 'number of laborers, nor in capital employed, their value was $14.000.000,000, a sheer rie f 53 per cent. From these five crops alone comes about half the gross yield of our farms. Doubling the above figures we see tthat

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OMMEAIT H inn t-M-iO for the last Ave years we have averaged $2.000,COO.OO a year more from our fundamental Industry, on which all others rest, than we did in the last five years of the nineteenth century. Where the farmer then had $10(3 to live on, to buy with, or to spend, he now has $200. Human history does not record a time when the tillers of the soil, and with them all others, were so prosperous as in America for these five wonderful years. Chicago Inter Ocean. 31 r. Bryan' Speech. We believe In Mr. Bryan when he talks about himself, lie was right when he declared he had not changed, and taut he stands where he stood In 1800 and 1900. His speech at Madison Square Garden proves this. Of course he has dropped the free sliver issue, for he knows It Is dead. His proposition for the government ownership of the trunk line railroads and the State ownership of the smaller lines seems like a somewhat radical departure, but is at once modified by the declaration that It Is not necessary to do this at once, but It should be done "ultima ly." This may mean In a hundred years, a thousand years or million years. It' was merely an adroit political play, of which art Mr. Bryan Is a past master. The speech was not marked by that boldness of utterance expected from Mr. Brvan. He has become more cauTOY. tious. He hesitates to tread on new ground. He' hangs to old and repudiated theories and lacks the progresslven ess which might be expected of a man having the advantages of extensive travel. There Is nothing In what he said to electrify the country nor make the twice defeated candidate for the Presidency stronger with the masses. Toledo Blade. Democrat AVer Dlsnppolnted. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Democratic organ of northern Ohio, In the opening paragraph cf an editorial on the New York meeting, crowds considerable truth and gives a fair estimate of Mr. Bryan's speech. The Plain Dealer says: The Democrats who flocked, to hear Mr. Bryan In New York expecting to hear a call from a clarion that would combine the latency of Gabriel's horn to wake the dead and those before Jericho to cause a hostile citadel to fall, must have been disapj minted. It must have occurred to them that they had heard that same horn before. The speech contained nothing that had not previously been said by Mr. Bryan, and In much the same way, and little that could not now be said by Theodore Uoosevelt before an applauding crowd of Ohio Bepublican. As a reaffirmation of Mr. Bryan's well-known views It leaves little to be desired. As the basis of a Democratic platform two years hence It Is open to the objection that It deals for the most part, but with one important exception, with Issues which the Democratic party has repudiated or forgotten or to which It is nov Indifferent, or which the Republican leader has to all Intents and purpose. made his own. ' Republican Party and Trusts. In Its State platform the Republican party of Indiana makes the following declaration concerning trusts: "We favor the enforcement of laws to protect the people against the en croachments of combined capital. We realize that capital must unite In a lawful way to conduct successfully our modern industries and commerce, and we believe In protecting It In Its legitimate functions. We Indorse the actions of President Roosevelt In rigidly enforcing the anti-trust laws placed upon the statute books of the United States by tbe Republican party. Will Not Rebuke Roosevelt. In a recent speech Secretary of War Tnft said: Not while the American people ad mire courage, consistency, high Ideals and practical common sense; not while they believe In energy, honesty and Americanism; not while they take a man for what he Is and what he does, rather than for what he says, 'will Jhpy re'.mke th? man, who not bywords. but bv deeds, as President of the United States, has slwwn his adherence to the principles of Cqual protection to ail, by the return of Congress this fall of an opposition majority." 3 ' "When Xfcfmiarr. Short, expressive and easily under uood Is the tariff declaration of the Michigan State republican Conven tion: We emphatically affirm our continued belief in the wisdom of the Republican protect' ve tariff policy. Whatever change; In tariff schedules may become necessary should be so made as to pre serve the Republican principle of pro fection and to aid the further advancement nf American industry and achievement

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THE PAY OF PREACHERS. DISPATCH from Hartford. Conn., says

I that the supply of ministers In the CongreI gational church Is falling off rapidly. The I n. I .J.lk..n V, ..11 I .wuxim.i that

ia.l is aiuiuuicu tu luv are paid to pastors and freer field for Christian the Y. M. C. A. On the

the Rev. W. F. English, of East Windsor, Conn., who was Instrumental In securing the Information upon which the dispatch was based, has the following to say: "During the past ten years in every other trade and ccupatIon salaries and wages have enjoyed substantial Increase, but during this period the salaries of Congregational ministers have been actually reduced 10 per cent, although the wealth of the country has increased enormously and the cost of living has greatly advanced." There Is some confusion in speaking of salaries and wages together, because It Is certain that there has been no general increase in salaries to correspond to the general Increase in wages. We may doubt, too. If the salary plays quite as Important a part In the meditations of a divinity student as it does in those of a youth who la serving an apprenticeship In business. But certainly th salaries of Congregational preachers are not alluringly large to men with a genius for money-making. From a report on conditions at the beginning of the year It appears that the Congregationalists then had nearly G.OOO church establishments in the country, and that only about thirty of their ministers received $3,000 or more per year. The highest salary paid was $10,000, and there were only two or three pastors who drew that amount. There were two at ?8,000, there was one at $7.000, there were four tX $0,000, and most of the others In the class mentioned drew $5,000. After those exceptional cases there was a long drop, and no doubt hundreds of the pastors have Incomes that would be considered wretchedly Inadequate In other professions than theirs or In business. Chicago Record-Herald.

MAKING WAE ON CONSUMPTION.

OR sufferers from consumption and for those whose duty it Is to care for them, the address which Dr. W. A. Evans, of Chicago, gave before the National Fraternal Congress at Montreal is full of hope and encouragement and stimulating counsel. The "nine commandments" which the speaker pre

scribed for patients deserve the widest publicity possible. They summarize briefly the best advice modern science has to give. Though many of these rules are already known and generally accepted, they cannot be repeated too often. The first commandment Is for patients to live in the open air "all the hours of all the days of all the years." The other rules are no less simple. They call for a nutritious diet of ineat and bread, milk and eggs, an early diagnosis, a determined spirit and confident submission to a good doctor. For his own sake as well as for the safety of his neighbors, the patient must take all precautions necessary to prevent his becoming a danger to others. Equally Important for the welfare of the general public are the rules Dr. Evans prescribes for the community, calling.for the abolition of the filthy habit of promiscuously spitting and for a campaign of education against the evils from which tuberculosis originates and spreads. The public, if it is to tight the great plague effectively, must see that there are hospitals for patients in advanced stages of the disease and sanitaria for those in th-j early stages. It must learn adequate methods of suiervisIon, sanitation and hvclene. In general it must cultivate the

LEGAL INFORMATION. J

A decree of divorce Is held, In Nolan vs. Dwyer (Wash.), 1 L. R. A. (N. S.) 5ol, not to be subject to be vacated after the death of one of the parties. Refusal to pay money admitted to be due, except upon receiving a certain kind of receipt, is held. In Earl vs. Berry (R. I.). 1 L. R. A. (N.S.) S07. not to constitute such duress as to ren der the receipt void. Property conveyed to a railway com pany for a right of way by a general warranty deed, is held, in Abercromble vs. Simmons (Kan.), 1 L. R. A. (N. S.) SOG, to revert to the adjoinlrg owner upon the abandonment of Its use for that purpose. The authority conferred on a board of commissioners to fix the credits to be allowed to convicts for good behavior Is held, in Flte vs. State ex rel. Snider (Tenn.), 1LR. A. (N. S.) 520, to be an unconstitutional legation of legislative power. The right of a State to revoke the license of a foreign Insurance company for refusal to perform its agreement not to remove suits against It to the Federal courts is upheld in Prewltt vs. Security Mut. L.,Ins. Co. (Ky.), 1 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1019. One who took possession of prem ises under an arrangement with the grantor and subsequently agreed to pay rent to the grantee for a certain period. Is held, In Hodges vs. Waters (Ga.), 1 L. TL. A. (N. S.) 1181, not to be istopped to deny liability to the latter for rent after the expiration of the term of such agreement, although he remained in possession of the premises. Moaunlto Bites. What they can do: Poison the baby. Kill tbe canary. Carry disease. Destroy a night's rest. Make a front porch a mockery. What you can do : Avoid a malaria, swampy, ruosqultoInfested region. Screen your windows. Mosquito-net the baby and the canary both day and night. Employ tobacco fumes on the front porch and oil of sassafras or cloves in the bedroom. . Draw the heat from the sting by bathing in spirits of camphor mixed with pure alcohol. ItUtorr. The contents of a reference library, as they are conceived by the modern youth In search of important Informa tion, are suggested by the Kansas City Independent. The names of the great men who are the objects of the search may be altered to suit any part of the nation. "Here, Johnny," said the father, 'what are you doing In that bookcase?" "I want to find a history of the United States." "What for?" "Well, Billy Jenkins says Tim Riley pitched for the Nationals last year, and I want to find out if he did." The Thread of the Argument. MI intend to take you In hand," said the old maid to the stocking. Til be darned If you do!" returned the stocking, dryly. Needless to say this is only a yarn. JJoston Transcript i ;

Great Papers on Important Subjects.

habit of living better and more temperately and must seek to provide better homes and working places. It Is along these lines that the campaign against the scourge of tuberculosis must be waged. Placing patients in congenial climes will help, but outdoor life, proper diet and sanitation are the main things. The bare fact, cited by Dr. Evans, that "consumptives Intelligently handled do and will get well In any State of the Union," holds out an encouragement which should stimulate everywhere the effort to carry on the educational work. No one has a right to feel that he if free from moral obligation in this matt?r. Consumption can and will be stamped out, but not merely through Improving Individual treatment There must be concerted. Intelligent action on the part of all, the well and the 111 alike. Chicago News.

suiuii nnviuiv.- luuh to the broader and service offered by subject of salaries I Russian 11

tionary policies that have long since been discarded by the enlightened nations of ihe earth. General Stoessel made a valiant defense at Port Arthur. He saw, his soldiers by the hundreds die of disease and of Japanese assaults. Ills forces had been reduced to an extremity where further resistance meant plain butchery. There was no relief in sight, there was nothing in the conditions north to show that by sacrificing the rest of his men he could give valuable aid to the Russian cause. Hence he chose the alternative of the humanitarian and surrendered. We have General Nogi's word for it that Stoessel did all that any human being could do to keep the Japanese out of Tort Arthur. Nogl has declared that the Russlau commander made a brave defease and that Instead of being humiliated and disgraced, he should be honored. But Russian discipline Is not to be denied. Some one must be made a scapegoat for Russian defeat and Stoessel has been marked. It is the prevailing opinion that the sentence of death Imposed by the commission will not be executed, but whether It is or not, the government of Russia has gained nothing In the estimation of the world by this unjust attack on-a brave soldier. Toledo Blade.

FACTORS HOMAS country, II I "the 3

sources. Yet she is fifty times slower. Why? Because she lacks the power of a free press. She cannot unite or harmonize her forces. But when we want to do anything In America, the newspapers take It up. Everybody reads the newspapers, everybody knows the situation, and we all act together." This Is flattering to our free press, and contains several large grrdus of truth; yet In fairness it must be recognized that there are other Important factors in our favor. Free institutions, with all that these include and Imply; uulversal popular education under free schools; a race in which Is blended the strength of many nationalities i a more varied climate,' and many unrivaled natural advantages. Boston Herald.

HRST AUTOMOBILE IN ENGLAND.

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WILLIAM CHURCH'S STEAM CARRIAGE IN 1S32. The earliest automobile in England was Church's steam coach, an elaborately-decorated affair resembling a circus car, which ran between London and Birmingham. It was something like a double stage coach, but had more accommodations for passengers. It was constructed to carry twenty-eight Inside and twenty-two outside passengers. In 1831 a committee appointed by the House of Commons reported on the automobile movement. Its practicability the committee fully established, but they mentioned that a formidable obstacle existed In popular prejudice, which led to the Imposition of prohibitive and excessive tolls. There was prejudice thus against the earliest automobiles as there Is to-day against the modern ones, but the early opposition could not be based upon the question of ppeed. The clumsy coach of Church could not have attained a Mgh speed, and was thus freer from danger than the excessively speedy machines of tbe present

....i.,t,.i..H....I..I..I...t..l....l....S..lMll"l-. I HE WORKED. There was an astonishing ccntrast between Mr. and Mrs. Payette. Mrs. Payette was the thin, shabbily clad, overworked mother or nine children, and certainly looked the part Mr. Payette was a sleek, robust person of leisure, and wore his adequate clothing with a pleasing air of Jauutlness. Although Payette looked the picture of health, and although the doctors whom his wife consulted anxiously could find nothing wrong with him, this indolent, easy-going Frenchman declared that ha was too much ol an invalid to work, "It ees the heart," he would explain, when kindly disposed but skeptical persons carried cast-off clothing to the always destitute little Payettes. MI have too large the heart Listen! Hear how she ees palpitate! I mos not be hagltate. I mos remain of a calmness within my hinslde. I mos' myself carry with a softness lak the basket of halg." "Oui," loyal Mrs. Payette would af firm. "Mon Adolphe, she uio' nevalre be hagitate. She ees not of a suificleut One year, during the berry season, the Payettes borrowed an old tent and camped out, children and ail, on the berry fields. Afterward Mrs. Payette tired but beaming with satisfaction, told about it "At last, madame," confided she, tri umphantly, "there ecs vork that nion eher Adolphe can do. He ees vork hard, for scex whole veck. Me, I am proud, I am Lol' up my bald. Me, I am tole evalrbody, Mon bon Adolphe, che ees now a man lak odder man she ees vork! "But purely," replied the Interested listener, "he didn't pick berrleä? There's nothing easy about that." "But no, madame. It ees I who pect the berry, hut, madame, behol'I J Adohhe, moa fron Adolphe, wnj

STOESSEL, THE SCAPEGOAT.

HE condemnation of Oenpral Stoessel hv th

commission appointed to investi

gate me surrender or rort Artnur is not surprising when measured by the Russian standards of duty, but It Indicates that the empire must pass through a baptism of blood before It Is purged of tbe old tradi

IN NATIONAL PROGRESS. A. EDISON, looking over the whole has come to the conclusion that greatest factor In our national prog-

ltrs uas urea iuc jJicas. tkuv sla, points out. Is much bigger than this country In every way. "She has a tremendous population and Immense natural re

VWÄaV v finds for me dose plass where I shall peek. DEVOID OF POETRY. The Camel's Bite m Bad Feature ot the Desert Ride. The camel Is a dangerous animal to ride-;-a much more dangerous animal than the horse for the reason that with hi serpentine neck he can reach round when annoyed and bite his rider. Camel are not all the patient, quiet, kindly creatures they are painted. They have very nasty tempers. A caravan, crossing the desert, Is alway noisy ; the loud and angry snarls of the camels make the waste places resound. A camel's bite Is a serious matter. The strong teeth lock in the wound, and a circular motion Is given to the Jaw, around and then back, before th teeth are withdrawn again. The wound is a horrible one. There are few camel drivers without camel scars. Dr. Nacbtigal, the celebrated African explorer, once said to a youth who expressed n sentimental desire to cross the Sahr.ra on camel-back. "Young man, I'll tell j-ou how you can get a partial Idea of what riding a camel In an American desert is like. Take an office stool, screw It up ns high as iossIble, and put It, along with r. savage dog. Into n wagon without any springs. Then seat yourself on the stool, and have it driven over uneven am.1 rooky ground during tbe hottest parts of July and August, being careful not to eat or drink more than once every two days, and letting the dog bite you every four hours. This will give you a faint idea of the exquisite poetry of camel riding In the Sahara." Xot a Ilartl Fleht. Miss Trim The idea of his trying to kiss you! Why didn't you slap him? Miss Koy I did the first time. rhlladclphia Press. It may be possible to trace where one got a cold, bot it is never possible to trace vhere one got a spot on new clothes. , t ;l , .-, iit,

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OLD SOLDIERS TALK OVER ARMY EXPERIENCES. The Blue and the Gray Review Incl dents of the Late War, and in a Graphic and Interesting Manner Tell of Camp, March and Battle. 'We all had been telling stories, aid the Ma jar, "except Tulley McKinney of the Ninety-fourth Ohio. There were gathered about the breakfast table half a dozen men from the old home neighborhood who had served In as many different regiments. The ladies of the party had called out from each stories of army experience, all of which were Interesting and many very exciting, but through all of the talk Tulley had said nothing, until one of the ladles asked him if he had come through the war unscathed. 'Yes.'' he said, and then added in a hesitating way, 'I harf my feet frozen, you know.' You did?' put in a young girl. 'Why, how did that happen, Mr. McKinney? Well,' he said, 'after my. escape from prison I was In the mountains about forty days, and well, the long and short of It Is, I came out of the scrape with my feet frozen. "Hovlng said this much, Tulley was silent again until one of the young ladies exclaimed, 'Mercy! Mr. McKinney, why don't you tell the story?' And aftter he had been badgered , and questioned the story came out 'I was captured Pi Chickamauga Sept 19, 1803, he said. 'We were taken first to the Pemberton prison, near Libby, In Richmond, Va. On the 13th of November a trainload of prlsonere say about 700 were transferred to Danville and quartered for the night in a tobacco warehouse near the river. 'We had not been well fed while In Richmond. Little food was given us the morning of the 13th, and none at all on the night of the lStli and none at all on the 14th. We were two days without food and nearly starved. On Saturday, the 14th, a young man of Company C, Thirtieth Indiana, offered to lead the prisoners In breaking through the gate. The men were desperate enough for anything, but I went to the man of the Thirtieth, who was not more than 20 years old, and urged him not to be rash, as there was a better way. " 'I took him into a stockaded or highfenced inclosure leading down toward the river and showed him where It was possible to tear away some heavy boards and escape that way. That night tnere was a heavy rain and It was very dark. The guards were only a few feet from us as we went Into the Inclosure, but they had turned their capes up over their heads to protect them from the cold rain and were not very alert. My friend of the Thirtieth had a razorblade knife, and, crouching In the dark near the fence, he cut and cut until a part of one of the heavy boards could be pushed outward. " 'After the board was ready to be broken off we both , went back to the main floor of the prison, hoping that rations would be Issued before taps. I told two or three of my friends about the scheme, and the Thirtieth Indiana man told several of his friends. There was to be no signal, no general movement, but the men were to slip out one by one, quiet'y, and each was to act on his own responsibility. In five minutes I missed my friend and went hurriedly to the Inclosure. I saw his coattail disappearing through the fence. Watching the guard until he turned his face away from the fence, I went through. " I came out In a cabbage patch, and my first movement was to tear eff a head of cabbage and eat it This was the first food I had had in forty-eight hours, and it was delicious. Then I made my way lu the dark along the river bank, and when about fifty yards away I heard the sentinels call out, KIghty-thlrty o'clock and all's well. I hid In the brush and on Sunday morning came across the orderly sergeant of Company A, Nineteenth regulars, and the sergeant-major of the Eighteenth regulars. Second battalion. They told me that sixty-five men had passed through the opening made by myself and the Thirtieth Indiana man. "The opening was not discovered un til Sunday morning, when there was, a great commotion In the prison, and forces were sent out In every direction to recapture us. Twenty men who stopped in the night to cut loose a ferry boat to cross the Dan river were captured just before daylight Sunday morning. I was with them until I beard the roosters lu a neighboring barn crow, when I left them. I advised them all to go, but they Insisted that the only way of escape was to cross the river, and they were going to do It. Twenty minutes after I left they were all prisoners. "Another squad of twenty stopped the next day at the house of a man named Hoyt, who welcomed them and asked them to sit down to dinner. While they were eating the first cooked food they had had for three days the house was surrounded by rebels, and they were recaptured. Of our own squad four laid In the brush all day on Sun day. In the evening a young boy of 14, who was sick, went back and delivered himself up. The two regulars and myself kept together fot five days, going, at my suggestion, across the mountains toward Charleston, West Virginia. "On the night of the fifth day the regulars declared that they would not go any further In that direction, and Insisted that we turn -toward Eastern Kentucky. I decided to keep on the West Virginia route, and we parted the next morning. The two regulars went their way, and when within a few miles of the Union lines In Eastern Kentucky were recaptured and taken back In Irons to Danville. I went on alone, traveling by night In the mountains, stopping in the cabins of colored people or In caves, or sleeping In the wildest and most InaccesAible places. On Flat Top mountain I struck a Union settlement. Refcre this my feet had been frozen, and I could hobble along with the greatest difficulty, and was all the time suffering the keenest pain. I almost fell Into the cabin of a negro Just before reaching Flat Top. He and his wife took me In and doctored my feet. "Then I was taken on a mule to the Flat Top settlement, where I stopped several days. Here I came In contact with a squad of rebel deserters, who were afraid to go Into the Union lines in the belief that they would bo sent back to Richmond for exchange. . This would, of course place them In the hands of their own authorities. I slept with one or another of them each night, and convinced them that this theory was wrong. In the end they went with me over ninety miles of mountain road I io vaarjeston, , lrguua, . i A rm x . . vwf

"There I was given transportation to wha, and from there was sent down the

river to Cincinnati. Leaving the boat at Cincinnati I had not gone ten yards before I met a lady of the old home mighborhood. She was richly anil handsomely dressed, and had Just stepped put of her carriage. I was a? dilapidated a specimen of a soldier as any one ever saw. She saw me, recognized me, shouted my name, and tool ooth my hands m ners. o words tun 1 ver heard in my life were as w?t us that woman's sobs: 'Poor Tulley; poor Tulley.' She almost dragged me to her carriage, and, after a rest I started for home, where I arrived the night before Christmas. "Of all the sixty-five men who escaped fom Danville that nlgat ou'y three reached the Union lines. AH th others were captured or shot I have never seen the man of the Thirtieth ludlana w-ho led In the escape. He was thvJJi a light-haired, boyish young fellcw cf 20. as dar ng a man as there wa In tbe army, and would glre ha'.f m.r salary to hcr from him now. Chicago Inter' Oean. The "Swamp AnBfl." General Serrell, who has lately died, was one of the most prominent military and cl vir engineers In the country. It was he who planned and constructed the famous suspension bridge at Niagara. Another piece of his work, not so well known and on a less pretentious scale, but Ingenious and o' great service, is described In varlouV accounts of the siege of Charleston The Federal troops had captured Morris Island, a tract of sand-dunes, ajud marshes, but commanding .good rangd of Charleston. Colonel Serrell, one of the volnntarj engineers, was informed of the great desirability of establishing a battery on this .bit of marsh land. He and an assistant started out to see If there was any hope of finding a foundation firm enough to plant a gun upon. They carried with them n broaö plunk. When the mud would not bear them, they 'iat upon the plank and pushed it fo'.ward. The examination was made in open view of three Confederate forts, and on a day of inteusa heat At last a spot was found in plain sight of the city where the mud did not seem as dgep as In other places. Serrell reported that he considered H feasible to construct a battery played upon sand-bags, which, In their turn should rest on a grillage platform, lit thought guns, weighing not over ten thousand pounds, might be put on skids and taken across the marsh. Twentythree hundred men could carry in one night enough sand-bags to form the foundation for the battery. Soundings showed that the mud wa lu places twenty feet deep. Grass grew on the top, but the turf had no resistlüg power. It was quite easy for a man on a plank to start waves of mud across the surface of the marsh. This was the bed on which Colonel Serrell had the foundation f his battery. A grillage was built of pine logs. Oe this the sand bags were placed. It was a dlcjuragl;ig task. The platform would suddenly tip, letting the bags Into the mire, where they would sink cut of sight One officer gave out notice that Colonel Serrell had sent in a request for "twenty men, eighteen feet lone, to work In fifteen feet of mud!" Nevertheless, the v.-oik progressed. A mock mattery had been construct ed nt another jwint to draw off tht Coulederate fire from , the working parties. At last the platfonus were established and weighted with thirteen thousand sand-bags. An eight-inch Parrott rille gun, a two-hundred pound er, was successfully placed, and Imme lately christened by the soldiers the "Swamp Angel. On August 22, 1S03, the first she!was 'fired from Morris Island. The noise of the whistles and bells In the city to!u the soldiers it had reached it?. mark. On the second night, alter firing thirty-six shells, the "Swaiur AngeP Lurst After the war, among a loV of oli guns sold as junk, some one recognized the "Angel" of Morris Island swamp, and rescued It from au Ignominious fate. The gun now rests on a monu mental foundation built by the town of Trenton, N. J. General Lee's Breakfast. Toward the end of the Civil War tht value of a well-organized scout service came to be fully appreciated by the leaders of both armies. Perbas no commanders of modern times were better served In this respect than General Grant and General Lee. Both were kept informed daily as to nearly everything that went on within the enemy's lines. ' General Gordon relates that one morning toward the end of the long nflict, when the Confederates, officers and men alike, were reduced to unpleasant straits for food, a captain from the Union headquarters went, uuder a flag of truce, with a communication to General Lee concerning the exchange of prisoners. "General Lee," said the captain, with a smile, after delivering his message, "General Grant sends you his personal compliments, and bids me to assure you that he knows exactly what you had for breakfast this morning." "General Grant must be misinformed as to this," replied General Lee, surveying the message-bearer with a sad 6mlle. "General Grant Is a generous man; and If he had known with what a breakfast I had to content myself, he would certainly have sent me half of his. But give blm my compliments,"- he continued, with a sudden twinkle ; "and pay that although I do not know as to his breakfast, I have full particulars concerning his dinner last night." Jordan Knapnck. While on the march from Frederick City, Md., to Gettysburg, In the summer of '03, Sergeant Jordan of Company G, Nineteenth Maine, carried an unusually large knapsack, wh:oh was the occasion of many sarcastic and teasing remarks by the boys. One very bot day, when the dust and blazing sunlight were almost blinding, Jordan was trudging alonf beneath the weight of his mammoth knapsack, h.'s hat pulled down over his eyes for protection, when some cjte on horseback rode np and called out: "Say, sergeant, how far are you going to carry that knapsack?" "Farther than you can drive youi old horse if you swap three times," yelled Jordan, whoso patience had been already pretty thoroughly ex hausted by a thousand such questlora, The horseman with his scabbard gently raised the rim of Jordan's hat, locked him la the face, and replied: "Well, you will do, by thunder I" Imagine the surprise of Jordan when he recognized General nancock in tti person who had fpokea t$ bhd ' . .t

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