Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 45, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 May 1876 — Page 2

THE MAIL

PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TERRS HAUTK, MAY«, lKTtf

THAT mysterious DISEASE, the Oriental plague, has broken out hi Southern Turkey, and Is raging in the neighborhood of Bagdad. In these days of quick ocean transit the breaking out of the plague, even in so far away a point as Turkey, mutt be regarded wih apprehenslon by the peoplo of the Western hemisphere, as the disease though bred in Asia, has demonstrated its capacity for taking root and flourishing in Caucasian communities. A brief history of the disease may be of interest to the readers of The Mail: "The first recorded general plague occurred in the vear 7»7 be/ore Christ. In 584 before Christ, the plague ravaged Western Asia and spread over the Mediterranean coasts of Africa so that Carthage was almost depopulated, and led the people in their terror to sacrifice even their own children to appease the anger of their gods. Pliny gives an account of an outbreak of the plague 188 years before Christ, that ravaged the Greek Islands, Syria, and Egypt, destroying 2,000 persons every day. In A- D. 78, the plague visited Rome in the wake of her armies returning from Syria, and carried off 10,000 persons daily for days in succession. In A. 1), 746 this pestilence attacked Constantinople and destroyed 200,000 of its population. This p'ague raped for three years, desolating what is now known as Turkey, Sicily and Greece. In A. D. 95-1, Scotland lost 40,000 of her peoplo by the plague. In A. D. 1095, and again in 1112, both England and Ireland were ravaged by this pestilence. In 1302. and again in 13t7 I-iondon and Paris suffered a dreadful moitality from the plague. Forty years later, in 1407, 30,000 persons perished of this dreadful disease in London alone. In 1300 it again broke out, and became so l'earfnl that King llenrv VIT and all his court fled from England and took refuge in France to escape its ravages. It again attacked Constantinople in 1011 and dostroyed one quarter of a million of the inhabitants. In 1032 no less than 00,000 persons in Lyons, Franco, perished from the plague. In 1056, the plague was brought from Sardinia to Naples by a ship with soldiers on board, and raged with such violence as carry off 400.000 of the inhabitants in six months. Nine years later, in 1005, occurred the memorable plague of Lonwhlch destroyed 70.000 of its population. Everything else failing.great fires were kindled and kept burning to purify the air, nor wax the infection entirely de stroyed till the awful fire of 1000 laid London in Ashes. In 1720 a ship with soldiers from the Levant brorgl.t tho plngu to Marseilles, and 00,000 persons perished in that city und neighborhood. It ravaged Persia in 177.'5, and carried off 80,000 of tho inhabitants of liassoruh. In 1702 more than .S00,000 persons died of the plague in Egypt and in 1S08 in Fez 240,000 perished from this disease. As late as 182S the plague prevailed at Gib raitar and through Spain attended by a frightful mortality and in 1830 not less than 00,(M) jieranns perished of this scourge in Bagdad whore it now again prevails."

IT has come to pass that in the state of New York the luxury of being divorced and remarrying again is a thing of the past. After the law's decree it is useless to forgive and "make up" in the Empire state. Atleast such is tho decision of txgovernor IIofTman who lately acted as referee in a case of this kind. Tho case was this, as related by the Troy Times:

In 1870 the wifeof George I. Amsdell, a wealthy brewer of Albany, obtained a a divorce from her husband on grounds of adultery. She was granted an alimony of?50,000,5520.000 of which was paid in cash and gJMt.OOO in bonds and mortgage. In 1874 he again courted his former wife, promised reformation and wns re-married. After a time the $30,000 mortgage was returned, and they lived happily together for just a year when Mr. Aiusdell returned to his old associations. In June, 1875. tho wife applied to her counsel, How. Mathew Hale, stating the history of her married life. Mr. Halo told her she was not Mr. Amsdell** wifo in the eves of tho law. A suit was commenced Immediately for the rccov ery of the 30,0(M mortgage, ami after a preliminary hearing it was referred to ex-Gov. Hoffman. Tho referee has decided that the re-marriage was null and void, aa by the decreo of divorce Mr. Amsdell had no right to marry during tbo lifetime of his divorced wife. He cites a decision of Chancellor Wall worth to the effect that a marriage with a former wife was illegal without first getting the decree annulled. Tho referee also derides that the surrender of the mortgage by Mrs. Amsdell was illegal and without consideration, and that such release was obtained from her by uudue influence. Ho direct* that a new mortgage be issued to Mrs. Amsdell and that the arrears of interest be paid by tho defendant.

SPIRITUALISM IN JAPAN. [Chicago Times.) Spiritualism is making rapid strides in Japan. Tho foreraoat medium thereat present is an old woman who bears the name of Owhakakababa. She is said to be a hundred years old. When this lady goes into a trance she swells to an enormous aiae. her "control" being the god Sbaka. He says that he enters her stomach and makes use of her m«uth and when she la under his control she answers all questions, telh the origin and cure of at knees, and what the absent and the dead are doing. Another old lady who Uvea in Onhakakababa's neighborhood, casta out #vli spirits and eures d|seiu»e*. The Japanese, who hare borrowed many of onr customs and institutions of late, might very naturally be attracted by our institution called spiritualism but spiritualism really eomes from the East I.self, and ia as old aa the human rare.

A S N IN tXew Harmony Register.]

Once in awhile Schuyler Col fax cornea out into the front yard, and, putting his hand to hia ears listens intently to bear if his country la calling him and then, unable to detect any sounds or that nature, slowly and aadly he goes back into the house.

A NORWKOIA*, about year agn,when intoxicated, frose hia bands and wet so badly, near Deeorah, Iowa, that it was found neosnmry to amputate them. His wife lately obtained Judgnwnt tor H»,500 against the druggist who sold him the liquor. te ts not so much the finding of truth, MrhHW search for It, that benefitus,

People and Things.

Mr. Moody saya that people an't be rellgioua in bad air. Nineteen of the tbirty-aeven 8tatea in this country have Democratic Governors.

A good deal of the milk sold now adays needs to be wrung out—[Phila. Star. 1

A Keokuk fop sheewxlout his teeth, and hit a belle in the eye, at a party. Much distress exists in Washington among ladiea dismissed by the govern-

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low your fortunes closely aud take an interest in you. It take# more persons to look on while a gilt sigrt is being painted on a glass front than for any other kind of work.

A Tamaqua printer set up "the funwill take place," instead of "the funeral." He forget about the "eral'| in the next lino, und the proof-reader failed to see it.

It may bo correct to call a shirt manufacturer a shirt tailor, as a handsome woman who was directing a man to a business house near a shirt factory did the other day but it is very apt to be misunderstood by most blunt-witted sou la.

Question in the HippodromoChristian Convention: "What should be a mau positiou when he prays?" Reply by Moody: "I'm sure I don't know. I think if a man's heart is all ri:ht it doesn't make much difference whether ho prays sitting, standing, or lying down."

During a recent revival in Canon City, Colorado, a request was made for all wbo desired the pravers of the church, to rise. A shaggy old miner, burning with a desire to do his part, arose, and putting his hand down into his buckskin, meekly Inquired: "How much will it all bo, boss?"

When Major Andro offered his captors one thousand guineas for his freedom John Paulding replied, "No, by G—d, if you would give us ten thou&and guineas you should not stir a step. We are Americans and above corruption and go with us you must." How things have changed in a hundred yeais.

A Texan writing to a friend in Washington savs: "Do you remember when I asked you to see Belknap about securing a trading-post for me in Texas, that you wrote baclk fraying that lie listened to you with a "peculiar smile? That smile we can now much better understand."

The good influence of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is being felt everywhere. A saloon down town contains this notice posted conspicuously: "The nex man wat spits terbacker joose in my dogs ise, will git bowust mitder bier mallet. You heer me." Now, perhaps that dog will be allowed to take some comfort iu life.

Louisville may stand up and crow. It has the boss hen of the period. Her ladyship laid 1(M) eggs in 100 consecutive days, and eight other liens are now industriously at work sitting on them, while she bosses the job with the air of a canal contractor, 'lbo sight is truly beautiful to behold, and exceeds anything that has occurred since the "Lay of the Last Minstrel." And Mr. Cockerill livetli at Cincinnati, whero all the hens lay bacon.

In a street car yesterday a man's breath smelled so strongly of whisky that a gentleman moved across tho car to get out of the oircie. "Any zing wrong?" asked the drunkard, as he observed the change. ".Nothing, except your breath smells of whisky enough to knock a horso over!" "'Spect she (joes—she does," was the candid reply but you don't 'spoct poor man like me can buy cologne and whisky too, do you?"

Recently an Indiana schoolmistress attempted*to whip a big boy after school when ho threw his arms about her and kissed her, and got off without a licking. Another boy in another town read this item and thought he'd try the same thing. He threw his arms about the school ma'am and kissed her, and then he became aware of an earthquake. She floored him and thrashed him awfully. This schoolma'am had a grown-up beau of her own that was the difference.

At the White House, "on an occasion I shall never forget," said Mr. Deming. "the conversation turned upon religious subjects and Lincoln made this impressive remark "I have never united myself to any church, because I have found difficulty In giving my assent, without mental reservation, to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize tholr articles of belief and confessions of faith. When any chnrch will inscribe over its alter, as its solo qualification for membership," he continued, "the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and gospel, "Thou shalt lovo the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself," that church I will join with all my heart and all my soul.

How many common figurative expressions in our own language are borrowed from the art of carpentry may be seen in the following sentences: "The law3-er who filed a bill, shaved a note, cut an acquaintance, split a hair, made entry, got tip a case, framed an indictment, impaneled a Jury, put them into a box, bailed a witness, hammered a judge, and bored a wholo court, all in one day, has since laid down law and turned carpenter."

IIKRK is a story to make a sportsman dance with excitement, if it were not so big as to seem almost untrue. Mr. W. H. Jardin, of Point Moullere, Mich., Is said to have educated five wild ducks to so very fine a point that they fly when and where they please, come at call aud accompany their master to the hunting

ouna, either perched on the sid« of boat or swimming by Ha side. Arrived at the marches, they act as decoys, splash and mi), until they attract flying ducka, who come down and are shot, while tbe tame docks "stand tip" in the water, shake their wings and scream with delight. The day's sport over they either fly home or ride In the boat as Mr.Jwiiln directa.

THE Hindoo holy book forbids a woman to see dancing, bear music, wear jewel*, blacken her eyebrows, eat dainty fond, Mt in window, or vtow berMlf in a mirror during tbe abeenoo of ber husband. and allows him

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she baa no sons, injures hia property, soolds him, quarrels with another woman, or presume* to eat before be has finished his meal.

Ix Anoka, Mian., recently, six yea* old girl was overheard telling her playmate that she had attendea a church sociable tbe evening before, and that a tittle boy biased ber while they were engaged in a play, but abe said, '^That's ne barm, 'caused Vft/Htfpreaoher^ boy, you Knew."

Golden Words.

Better not be at all than not be noble. A grain of prudence ia worth a 'pound of craft.

There are more graved In the world than are visible. The great proof of Christianity ia whet it Is.—[E. H. Chapln.

What is virtue but a medicine, and vice but a wound ?—[Hooker. He who is in evil is also in the punishment of evil.—[Swedenborg.

He who is learned and does not teach is like a myrtle in the desert. Amidst the pteans of success, conscience has small chance to be heard.

Laziness travels so slow that poverty soon overtakes him.—[Frahklin. The love of a people is the most sublime crown which can rest on tbe brow of any man.

It is a wicked and cowardly thing to attempt to rule the spirit by the flesh. —[F. W. Robertson.

Because a viper turns and stings you It would be wild vengeance to ring the wood pigeon's neck.

Every undertaking is involved in its faults, as the fire in its smoke—[The Bhagvat-Geeta.

I do not see why wo should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.— [Charles Klngley.

The superiority of some men is mere ly local. They are great becaHse their associates are little.

The wealth of a man is tho number of things which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by.—[Carlyle.

The dread that we have that precious hopes will never bo realized is more than half of tho burden that we have to bear.

Our pravers and God's mercy aro like two buckets in a well while tbe one ascends, the othenadescends.—[Bishop Hopkins.

A tart temper never mellows with age and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keoner with constant use.—[Irving.

There are heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit, sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room.—[Fuller.

Beautiful lives have grown up from the darkest places, as pure white lilies full of fragrance have blossomed on slimy, stagnant waters.

Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it but prodigals, who need it most, have the least regard for it. —[Alexander Wilson.

Of all the portions of our lifo, spare moments aro the most fruitful in good or evil. They are the gaps through which temptations find the easiest access to the garden of the soul.

We are too apt. in our wonder and our applause at the height to which fi man has attained against all odds, to forget to note whether his steps up tho incline have been clean and justly taken.

Contentment abides with truth.' And you will generally suffer lor wishing to appear other than you are, whether it be richer, or greater, or more learned. Tho mas* soon becomes an. instrument of torture.—[Helps.

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.—[Lacon. ..

Nothing belonging to' Christ's kingdom tells much upon the worlcL which has not in it the element of sacrifice and of Christ-like willingness to participate in pain. A righteous man may effect much good, through beneficent deeds and wise and kind plans, for the benefit of others but it is to the good man, the man for whom some perad venture would even dare to die, the man who himself, if need were, would die for men, that the hearts of men cleave.—[New Helps to a Holy Lent.

TEXTS FROM THE TALMUD. If thy wife be small, bend down to her and speak to her do nothing without her act vice.

Evervthing in life can be replaced tho wlto of early days is irreplaceablo. An honorable mau honors his wife a contemptiblo one desplseth her.

The loss of a first wife is like the loss ofa man's sanctuary in his lifetime. If a man divorce his wife, the altar itself sheds tears overbim.

Man and wifo well matched have heaven's glory as their companion man and woman ill matched are encircled by a devouring fire.

Rather any ache than heart-ache rather any evil than an evil wife. He who loveth his wife like himself, and honoreth her even more tlmn himself who leadeth bis sons and his daughters In the path of integrity, and who provides for their settlement in early lifo to him may be applied the Scripture passage. "Thou shalt know that peace shall adorn thy tent."

A man who takes a wife for the sake of her money rears ill-behaved children. He who marries a woman congenial to himself is loved by the Almighty.

When a man losoth his wife, the world around him groweth dark, the light in his tent is dim, and the light before him is extinguished.

He who ha* no wifo is without comfort, without help, without joy, and without blessing.

An old man in a house Is a terror an old woman is a pearl.

HOW EGYPTIAN WOMEN DRESS. [Cairo Correspondence of the London Telegraph.)

Egyptian ladies walk about the streets upou shopping expeditions (In which 1 am told tney take an even more intense and rapturous delight than my own fair country women) enveloped in a hideous black garment, not unlike the dismal robes of the Roman Confraternita, which effectually conceals the attractions nature has bestowed upon them, as well as those due to tbe adornments of millinery and jewelry. Bat English ladies who enjoy the privilege of free access te some or the leading Egyptian harems have informed ine that this shapeless, lugubrious vestment covers toilets of the greatest splendor in material aud color and bijouterie that might awaken envy In the breast of many a titled Western dame. I have listened to thrilling eooounts of lookete as large as turkeys' eggs, both faces of which are covered with brillianta of tho first prater Che atae of goodly chickpeas of oom-

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lete *oostumes" from Worth and Mme. of ropes of pearls that would have o'er with tbe cast of thought" tbe lavish impulses of Lolhair hisnself of rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, scattered with fine profusion over the aurfhoe of undeniable if somewhat exuberant charms. As the Egyptian ladies so tbe Egyptian bouses, what they are compelled to exhibit to public gmwm. is of a simplicity frequently amounting te rig 1 loess, while that whiah they reserve for private inspection is gorgeous and «rnate in tbe extreme.

fERRJil HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

Fate's Choice.

There were just 103 of ns as we marched out of the little inland village that morning, drums beating, flags flying, and men shooting and women weeping a farewell. It was May, 1861, and we were going to thf "front."

A month later, when the roll was called on the heights of Georgetown, there were only an even hundred In Company G. Deitta had claimed the three even before they had snuffed war's powder-breath.

And a month later still the roll was called on the morning of Manassas. Foot-sore, hungry, excited and anxious, the men answered "aye," and "aye," and there were ninety-seven responses, making jyst a hundred with the three company officers. Would wo fight? I saw our captain looking down the line TheVe were printers, lawyers, mechanics, students, farmers and day laborers in Company G, and not a man knew what grim war was.

Down across the meadow, up along the edge of the wood, and there we rested and waitecLuntil the fight opened —waited half an hour longer than that, and then came the order to move. It was like a dress parade as we movod by the left flank, down across the old pasture, and into the edge of the blue cloud of powder'smoke floating on the morning nir. Only the men's faces were white and their eyes anxious, as they caught the roar of small arms and felt the ground tremble under the discharge of the hoavv cannon, which were throwing shot ancl shell into the hillside above

Down went a company to the edco of the forest, spread out like a fan, and the skirmishers were hidden by smoke. The rattle of musketry increased they nad found targets for their bullets. Standing in line, we looked down into the smoke cloud, trembled a little, and then carne the order to go forward. March! march! and then the smoke hid us. and wo strck the Confederate line of battle thrown out in front of an earthwork.

Crash! crack roar! The lino wavered, fell back, sprang forward again with a cheer, and we were all thece—all but those dead or wounded. It was like a wild dream. Forward retreat forward—now at the earthwork, now hurled back by the sheet of flame, and finally driven back to stay. A thousaud men had been fighting three thousand, and there could be but one result.

The roll was called at Arlington Hoights, and seventy-four men respond-ed—seventy-four from ninety-seven— twenty-three of the rank and file of Company left dead along the little creek which meanders past banks of willows, over banks of gravel, and around gray old trees which have felt the blasts of half a century. We had no wounded—all dead—all lying under the smoke-stained leaves of the dark forest. It was sad, and yet glorious. Thero would be thirteen widows in the little hamlet, and ten sons and brothers would be wept for, but we had been tried in the balance, and Company had made tho whole regiment famous.

Winter came, and war was chained for awhile. When the south wind blew the frost away and war shook off its lashings, there were but seventy men to answer roll-call. With muflled drums and arms reversed we had followed the others to their last sleep, and they cared not whether it was war or peace. The peninsula campaign was not for us, but the thunder of Jackson's cannon as he swept down on to Manassas a second time called us out. He was the flail, we the grain—it was no longer a battle, but a slaughter. In the gray of morning his columns came'feeling^through tho woods and over fields to liud us. We heard him coming. There was a weak brigade to oppose 10,000 Confederate muskets, but if we could hold him one hour more, help would come. Company went groping through tho woods that ifiorning to meet death. There were but sixty-eight of us then, and it was a poor, thin skirmish line which crept under the trees and frightened away the birds just sinking their morning songs. We crouched down beside a fence, and saw a heavy line of gray come over the hill and half way across tho open field, and then Death took command. Wo staggered their line, and as It bent back and twisted about like a huge serpent in his death struggles, we cheered until the forest leaves danced and quivered. The line straightened, and with answering cheer it came forward—500 muskets to sixty-eight. And yet wo held our own, and" let tliein come, and men fought hund to hand over the fence, with clubbed muskets and blood-stained bayonets. Each rail had Its stain of blood each corner had its burden of dead and wounded. They hurled us back, and then the great battle opened all around us.

I was first sergeant then, and wh«n wo fell back I was in command. Along the fence, where death had struck them down, lay captain, both lieutenants, and thirteen of tho rank and file—sixteen out of sixty-eight. Tho fifty-two retreated behind the line of battle, joined our regiment, and again and again IXJforo nightfall we gave Jarknon's veterans shot for shot. It wa* to be, and when night fell the brave fllty-two were living and unharmed.

Aftar Manassas they filled us up to eighty-five, but somehow we went on couunting fifty-two, and felt as if the strangers were intruders. My commission as captain came one day, and tbe two lieutenants were men who had bravely won their shoulder-straps.

At tfharpsburg we numbered fortynine—old veterans, I mean. The other three bad been killed on picket. As we deployed to tho left of the pike, and filed across tbe fields. I wondered If the now men would do us credit. N\ wore elghtv strong as a company, and over tbhtv of tbo inen had never betm under flre. Lee's artillery was pounding at our columns half an hour before our brigade got the order to move. Meadows, fields, groves, knolls, fetn-ea, and a creek—and we knew that Lee was standing on the defensive and bad a strong position. When the work came I could see that some of tbe new men trembled, but the old forty-nine took up their knap-sacks and fell into line as If we were breaking camp. Down across tbe fields we went, following the double line of skirmishers, and at last we struck the enemy. He had a fence, a long ditch, and a line of willows, and he did not yield until we crushed him by weight of numbers. As bo retired we followed, men falling dead every moment. Unknown to us a weak 3,000 were piercins Lee's lino. He saw bis danger, and a battery wheeled into the gap, opened on us, and tbe left and center of our brigade swung back under the fearful rain of grapesaot and shell. The right caught tbe order to retreat, the left to g-i forward. Home fell back

others leaped tbe ditch with a wild cheer, and charged the battery. Company led. Hair way to the guns we left the recrnlts behind, and only tbe forty-nine kept on. Men could pause and retreat from that charge, and no one would QS|1 them cowards.

Tbe smoke and the flame hid us for a moment, and then we reached the guns, leaped ever them, crawled under them, shot, stabbed, sbouted and hurrahed. The whole battery WAS ours! We seized the guns to drag them off, uhen a heavy line of battle came down through tbe gap, closed it lip, and men fought hand-to-hand ovor the cannon, over the' caissons, over tho great heaps of dead on the grasp. Less than three hundred Federals were flighting five thousand Confederates! It could not last lontr. After a moment wo were driven back, over the ditch, beyond tho fence, into the Federal line of battle.

Pretty hot in there. Captain!" shouted a brigadier as the torn and mangled remnant halted to reform. "Pretty hot!" My God! it was tbe work of nends and devils! Forty-nine of the brofized old fighters in Company had dashed at the cannon onl twenty-four came back! Twenty fiv were lying dead under the jrmis. heaped up so they blocked the heavy wheels!

The recruits were there to answer "aye" at the next roll-call, N one thought ill of them men cannot turn to devils at once. We still had a strong company—stronger than some, but we went on counting twenty-four—count-ing only those wiio could stand until touched by the flame of death. Both lieutenants were gone, and they gave me men from the ranks.

Wo looked down upon the placid river from tbe north bank in front of Fredericksburg, and when tho blue column crossed we wero near the front. We we re still twenty-four. Death had taken aomo of the new men, but tho old ones had been spared. On through the curious old town, up through the valley bohind it, and then tho line of battle followed tho line of skirmishes on to the low stone walls behind which Lee's veterans wero panting for the word to fire. Their sheets of flame almost scorched our faces. Tho battle line melted, doubled, twisted, and then foil back, the living leaping over heaps of dead. Forward again, back again, and then the walls were hidden from sight by pi lea of dead dressed in blue, and we did not charge again. Six of the twen-ty-four were left close to the walls, and eloven of the new men never answered roll-call again. It was not war, it was not murder—it was butchery. But no one murmured. Tbo order had come to char-e, and we had charged, though every soldier knew he had charged into the open jaws of destruction.

Not a soldier in Company had been wounded not one of those who fell back to the river bank could show a scratch from bullet or bayonet. It had been thus ever since our first battle. There was nothing to report under the head of "wounded" and "missing," but all the names of those who had heard their last roll-call went down under the heading of "killed iu action." When they fought it was to the death.

After Fredericksburg more recruits came down to us. We received them kindly, but we kept on counting eighteen, just as if Company would be wipeu. out when the last old veteran went. And they said my company was fated. Other companies bad been decimated, and othor companies could show long lists of "captured" and "wounded" but no other company in tho brigade had suffered like G.

Then came Gettysburg. The eighteen old veterans were there, and the company numbered sixty-eight with the new men. Other divisions were held in reserve, or escaped the hottest of the fight, but ours was to beat back the fiereost charge of the bloody war—the charge against Round Top. Somehow Companv was at the front again, and as the fierce yells of tho coming Confederates were heard above the mighty roar of tho cannon, I looked down the line. Some of the new men were looking this way and that, as if seeking cover, but the old veterans peered coolly through the smoke, ana waited with leveled muskets to catch the glimpse of gray uniforms. On across the fields came the charging, cheering host, up tho steep hillside, and then a sheet of flame leaped out and withered them Tho gray line was absorbed in that flame of death just as water dissolves salt. But a second line sprang at us, and a third and fourth, ana then they were at tho guns which we were supporting. Some one gave an order. No one exactly understood it, but all rushed for the guns. Shrieks, groans, shots, shouts, and then tho line of gray pushod back the line of blue. They wero all around us—front, right, left—and men neither asked nor eave quarter. Back, back, wont the line of blue, and Round Top, the key to Gettysburg, was won for tho Confederates."

But only for a moment. A double line of blue puihed its way up through the smoke, hurled Itself forward, and Round Top was won again! And how won! Men slipped and fell on the bloody grass, heaps of dead were piled up like logs, and the shrieks and groans of the wounded were awful to hear.

And when l/oc faced southward, fighting as he marched, I called the roll again. None wounded, none missing, but upon tho crest of Round Top wo left ten old veterans and fourteen new men. Ten out of eighteen, twenty-four out of twenty-eight! The blood-thirsty fiend who "wields the sword of war -should havo been satisfied with that Sixteen more widows back In the little villago, more orphans, more sobs and teare. Not one or tbo living could show a wound, but each one of us would have rejoiced at tbe loss of an arm—at some grievous wound which would have made the surgeons shake their beads and look serious.

Only eight left! Only eight men ef the one hundred and three who marched out of tho bamlet that May morning! The now men had fought well and we respected them, but we went on counting eight. Three held commissions— the other five wero sergeants—not enough tm offlccr tho company 1

In the dusk of the evening Stonewall Jackson c*ined»wn throngo the forests and thickets beyonu tbe Rappahannock, and struck the Federal camps and opened tbe battle of the Wilderness. The eight old veterans of Company were there, and the new men msde upa band of forty strong. As we heard the crash of musketry over on the left, our poor skeleton brigade, numbering twentythree hundred instead of four thousand, fell Into line and pushed on through tbe stunted pinea after a lino of skirmishers. Company was on tbe left of the skirmish line, and we found the enemy first—a heavy line of gray ooming through tbe wilderness at a half run. Down we knelt among the vinee and brushes, and our lire checked them. They fired a few wild shots, retreated a little, and then we leaped up and drove them—a band of forty drove a double line of skirmisher*, supported by a line of I tattle! History has not told It to the world, but blood was left on the vines and corpaea on tbe ground to prove it. They w« re feeling over strange ground, after a fo3 whose strength wa« not

known, and that was tho reason of our succesv. We pushed them back to the line of battle, attacked that and then we were tossed back, torn and bleeding, almost blotted out of exlatenco a»r a \., company.

Or the eight old veterans tlx wero

ing dead under the treee,oftho new men twenty-five answered roll-call after tbe Wilderness! Was that war or* slaughter? A captain and a sosond lieutenant only were- left to represent the one hundred a* three!

Tbe end was not yet, but the e:id was coming. There wore no now recruits for .. my company, but we marched toward Richmond "numbering tweuty-soven. Has the country forgotten the liorjcconfliet at Petersburg? As wc foil inte line* to make twenty-seven niore in fho bri-,,, gade, saw tbe lieutenant looking at me. Poor fellow! thero was no needv for him to speak. Would this fight wipe out tbe old comp&uy entirely, or$ would one be spared And which oue He had a wife—I had none. I hoped he, might live to call tbe roll after the baUw, ». tie was over, and that death wo'ild have. taken me. f*,

Tbe line quivered as they iblt the order coming, and then it dashed at an earthwork, went forward with the same old cheer which had boon iLs own ever since its bronzed veterans hoard tho whittle of bullets. But it \\\vtoo much for us. They had forgotten bow weak wo were, aud some ono had blundered., Tho lines had withered before the stormof shot WH fell back were barged in turn, and I went down among tho heaps^l of dead and wounded. Tho :\wr of bat-* tlo died away in a moment daj'light,

Thero was no one to call h«i roll. The1 stark, stifi' form of tbo lieutenant had been given to oarth, and tho soven men who represented Company looked to themselves. Fate bad a choice who should be taken and who loll, and death passed me by. I alone of tho ono hunared and threo veterans returned to the A country village to tell tbcm how this one and that one died to hear the sobs. of widow and orphan, until 1113* heart: ached. Sometimes in my day reveries'

or night dreams I call the roll again. I and shadowy forms stand in line,

A LITTLE five-year old follow living in^f, this village, canio up to his mother the^^j othor morning, aud with great earnestness said "Mother, I saw something run quickly across tho kitchen floor this* morning, and it hadH't any legs either—^ what do you suppose it wus?" The^ mother's curiosity was exeUed at tho7 apparent strangeness of tue supposedf"*' animal, and not knowinar what else to say, said she guessed it was a snake or a worm, or somctning of that sort, she didn't know what. Having onjoyod his*"^ mother's inability to solve the problem^ for some time, said he, "it was somefv,^ water 1" And that's whero tho laugh^,,, came in.— [Fishkill Standard.

TWO WOMEN.

An testhetic editor writes: "I don't know why it is or how it Is, but ono woman steals ovor the senses like a bower of honeysuckles, twined with graceful tendrils and odotous blossoms she is^ as harmoniously perfect throughout as a faultless vino or flowing gladiolus thero -uf is no touch of color or fold of drapery it lacking ono would as soon think adorning a rose bush with elephant's ears as to imagine any evolution of more fitness in tbe perfect symmetry of form and color. Another, with estimablo qualities of mind aud lieart, looks like a Dutch farm-yard in Pennsylvania, with hollyhocks and sunflowers dabbed onrt, with a tack hammer, on tho side of hcrj head, tho flat of ber back, or whore^, *. there Is vacant space among tho garden,..fi.„ vegetables. Men and brethren, wo can not be expected to know why this is** onewiso, while that is otherwise. The* -j same wise Creator that gives us appleblossoms gives us also onions, and wo can only be silent and adore."

WINGING SLANG.

As a t'fewly engaged commercial trav-" eler was about starting upon a "drummlng" trip from his place in Chicago the other day, ho suddonly turned to his employer, a grave old merchant, and' inquired "I say, bo«s, what shall I do if I get out of'soap?'" 'Soap?" said t»'» old gentloman "why, save your samples, and then you uon't get out.*', "But I moan what If I should get out of •preaso?'" continued the young man. "Grease? grease?" pondered tbe merchant "why you don't need any greaso —you're not working for a lubricating ontab——" "Oh, but you. don't understand me," chimed in tho youthful emt•ploye, rather embarrassed "I mean^ what shall I do if I run out of 'spondu-* lix'—'stamps'—'wealth?'" "Hpondulix? stamps? wealth?" echoed the mystified/' merchant, looking at tbe young fellow^ over bis glasses, to see ir he had gono crazy. "Yes, currency—green backs"— explained tbe drummer—"cash, money"»'• —you know?" Alight seemed to dawn upon the old mercaant's mind at this moinont, for gaxing upon the creature before him with a look of mingled contempt and pity, be broke forth "Yonngl man, I rather guess you needn't go out,

for I

anut

ghostly voices answer "ave" and "aye"-, until start up with a sob in my throat at the remembrance of those who sleep* in the trenches besldo tho Potomac,' 'neath tho shadow of Round Top, alcng tho Rappahannock, and down among" the durk thickets of the Wilderness, sleeping thero never to know war again, -fe —[C. B. Lewis, in Galaxy for April.

I SUPPOSK," remarked a Chicagoman to a gentleman of Michigan, "there are plenty of saw-mills in your state.'" Tho gentleman of Michigan replied "Shud say there wuz. Why, Michigan' is gettin' so dcrn full uv saw-mills thatr you can hardly meet a man tliar with, 1110re'11 two fingers 011 a hand." Ami* sticking up a paw on which was a single'* finger, he quietly added, lTvc shuthands with um myself

don't believe our class of cuptom-L

ers

could get along very well with you —they all speak English. Step up to the desk, and tbe man there will settle with you." And that is the way the "high-toned kid" got "bounced*—all through tbe pernicious habit of slinging slang."

HANDS OUT.

Don't go through the world with your bands in your pockets. A boy who $oea moping through life In that manner never amounts to anything. When bes grows up he is too indolent to earn his bread by honest roil aud bis hands are often transferred from hi» own to his neighbor* pockets. No one respecta bim. He doee not respect himself and when a boy or a man loaes hlseelf-re-snect it is impossible for bim to be bonesU Tbe habit of keeping the hands inthe pockets has much to do with formins the character and it should be studloualy avoided by boys. When a man wants a boy for some responsible or difficult task he never employs one who keeps his hands in his pockets, fori the habit is positive evidence of worth-^ lcsnctn.