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CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE

indeed any kind of luck at all. In our evidence rarely errs, Hurt in the past many remarkable cases $ave been, recorded. Jacques Du Moulin, 3. Freneh refugee having brought over to London, England, his family and a (mail -sum of money, employed it in purchasing lots of goods that had been conSem^d at the custom-house, which he feigain disposed of by retail. As these goods were such as, having a high duty were frequently smuggled, those who Sealt in this way Were generally suspected of increasing their stock by illicit cieans, and smuggling, or purchasing Smuggled articles, under color of dealing legally in goods that had been legally lelzed by government officers and taken rom smugglers. This trade, however, did hot, in the general estimation, impeach Uis honesty, though it gave no sanction to his character but he was often detected in uttering or passing false gold. He ame frequently to persons of whom he had received money with several of these aieces of counterfeit coin and pretended !hat they were

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AMONG THE PIECES

trhich had been paid him. This was generally denied with great earnestness, but, it particular circumstances did not conarm the contrary, he was always peremptory and obstinate in his charge. .This Soon brough him into disreprute, /ind he gradually lost not only his business, but his credit. It happened that having sold parcel of goods, which amounted to 1390, to one Harris, a person with whom he had before had ho dealings, he received fhe money in guineas and Portugal gold, several pieces of which he scrupled, but, ][he mart "having assured him that he himfelf'had carefully examined and weighed those very- pieces and found them good, Du Moulin took them, and gave his receipt. In a few days he returned with six pteees, which he averred were of base metal, and part of the sum which he had lately received for the lot of goods. Harris examined the pieces, and told Du Moulin that he was sure there were none of them among those which he had paid hid', and refused t& exchange them for others. Du Moulin as peremptorily insisted on the contrary, alleging that he tiad*PUt the money in a drawer by itself and locked it up till he offered it in payment of a bill of exchange, and then the pieces were found to be bad, insisting thatthey were the same to which he had objected. Harris now became angry, and charged Du Moulin with attempting a fraud. Du Moulin appeared

TO BE RATHER PIQUED

than intimidated at this charge, and having sworn that these were the pieces- he received,

Harris was at length obliged to

make them.good, but as he was confident that Du Moulin had injured him by fraud, supported by, perjury, he told his story wherever he went, exclaiming against liirrV with, great bitterness, and met with !iny. persons who made nearly the same mplaints, and told him that it had been practice of Du Moulin's for a considerable. Upie. Pu. Moulin now found himself universally, shunned,- and hearing from all parts what Harris had reported, he brought ah attion for defamitory words, and Harris, irritated to the highest degree, -stood upon his defense, and in the meantime,"having procured a meeting of several persons who had suffered the same way in their dealings with Du Moulin, they procured a warrant against him, and h$ was apprehended upon suspicions!: counterfeiting the coin. Upon searching his drawers the officers found a great number of pieces of counterfiet "gold in it draper by themselves, and several others were picked from other money that was'found in different parcels in his escritoire. Upon further search a flask, eeveral files, a pair of molds, some powdered chalk, a small Quantity of aqua regia and "several other implements were discovered. No doubt could now be entertained of his-guilt,- which was extremely aggravated, .by the methods he had taken to dispose of the money he made, the Insolence with which, he had insisted upon itSL,)#n's„P$ud him by others, and the perjury by which he had supported his Claim.

His action against Harris for de

famation was afso considered as greatly Increasing his guilt, and everybody was Impatient to see him punished. Under these circumstances he was

BlfOUGHT TO TRIAL.

and his many attempts to put off bad money, the quantity found by itself in his drawer and, above all, the implements for coining, which, upon comparison, exactly answered the money in his possesIon, being proved, he was on this evidence convicted and received the sentence of death. It happened that, a few days before he was to have been executed, 6ne Williams, who had been bred a seal engraver, but had left his business, was killed by a fall from his horse. His wife who was in a critical condition condition, fell into fits. She was soon sensible that she could not live and, therefore, sending for the wife of Du Moulin, Fhe desired to be left alone, and then made to her the following revelation: She stated that her husband was one of four, whom she named, who had for manv Hears subsisted by counteracting gold coin, which she had been frequently employed to pass off, and was, therefore, intrusted with the whole secret that another of these persons had hired himself to Du Moulin as a kind of footman and porter, arid, being provided by the gang with false keys, had disposed of a very considerable sum of bad money by opening his master escritoire and leaving the counterfeits there in place of an equal number of good pieces, which he took out that by this iniquitous practice Du Moulin had been defrauded of his business, Ills credit and his liberty, to which, in a short time, his life would be

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CONVICTED AX INNOCENT MAN.

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The old-timers had .been talking of trime and criminals, heredity and what hot, the discussidri taking great latitude, when uncle Ben cut in Hvith the remark that lie inclined to believe the generic lerm "luck" might be aplied to some of pie influences which dominate human life |nd human characteristics. "X have in ^ind," said he,, "a case of circumstantial vidence which. occurred in England a ood many years- ago that has always uzsrfed me tp' define—that is to say ?het:her it illustrated good or bad luck,

if application were not imrae-

tely made to save him. By this account Siateiy made to save him. By this account, which she gave in great agony of mind, she was exhausted, and having giv»n directions where to find the persons H'hom she implicated she

FELL INTO CONVULSIONS jnd soon after expired. The wife of the condemned man immediately applied to a magistrate, and, having related the story she had heard, procured a warrant against the three men, who were taken the same day, and seperately examined Du Moulin's servant, steadily denied the whole charge, and-so did one of the. other two, but while the last was under examination a messenger, who had been sent to sertrc^i their lodging:*, arrived fcvith a great deal of bad money and many Vis truments for coining. This threw them Into contusion and the magistrate, improving the opportunity by offering him pis life if- he would become an evidence |or the king, he confessed that he had long, been associated with the other prisoners and the man who was dead, and he directed where other tools and bad money night b6 found, but he could say nothng as to the manner in which Du Mouin*s servant was employed to pass it off.

Tpon this discovery Du Moulin's execution was -suspended, and t}ie king's witness swearing positively that his sorpant and„the other prisoner had frequently coined in his presence, and giving a particular account of the process, and the oart which each of them usually performed, they were convicted and condemned to dte. Both of* them, however, denied the fact, and the ijubiic were still .'S»t -P.

in doubt about Du Moulin. In his defense Du Moulin had declare# that thebad money ,which was found together was such as he could not trace to the persons

whom he had received it that

the parcels with which badv money was found mixed h6 kept separate, that' HS might know to whom to apply if it 'should appear to be bad, but the .finding Of the molds and other implements In his custody was a particular not yet accounted for, as he only alleged In general terms that he knew not how they came there and it was doubted, whether.

THE IMPEACHMENT

of others had not been managed with a view to save him who was equally guilty there being no evidence of his servant's treachery but that of a woman, who was dead, reported at second hand by the wife of Du Moulin, who was manifestly an interested party. H© was not, however* charged by either of the convicts as being an accomplice, a particular which was strongly urged by his friends in his behalf, but it happened that, while public opinion was thus held in suspense a private drawer was discovered in a chest that belonged to his servant, and in it a bunch of keys, and the impression of one in wax. The impression was compared with the keys and found to open Du Mouiin's escritoire, in which the bad money and implements had been found. When this discovery, so strong and unexpected, was made, and the key produced, the servant confessed all that had been alleged against him. He was then asked how the tools came into his master's escritoire and he answered that when the officvers of justice came to seize his master he was terrified for hirfaself, knowing that lie had in his chest these implements which the private drawer could not contain, and fearing that he might be included in the warrant his consciousness of guilt kept, him in continual dread and suspicion that, for this reason, before the officers went upstairs, he opened the escritoire with his false key, and having fetched his tools from his box in the attic, he deposited them there, and had just locked it when he heard them at the door. In this case even the

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of Du Moulin, that the money he brought back to Harris was the same he had received of him, was not true, though Du Moulin was not guilty of perjury, either willfully or by neglect, inattention or forgetfullness. And the circumstantial evidence against him, however strong, would only have heaped one injury upon another, and have taken away the life of an unhappy wretch, from whom a perfidious servant had taken away everything else. The servant and his accomplice were both hanged."

AURORA ON THE YUKON.

Brilliant Display of Northern Light* the Alaskan Heavens. During the winter months the aurora£ on the Yukon is very brilliant and intensely beautiful. It commences early in the fall and lasts, with more or less brilliancy, throughout the long Arctic winter. It generally commences upon the setting of the sun, although in midwinter it has sometimes been so bright that it was visible at noon while the sun was shining brightly. The rays of the light first shoot forth with a quick, quivering motion, are gathered and form a great arch of fire spanning the heavens. It glows for an instant like a girdle of burnished gold, then, unfolding, great curtains of light drop forth. These royal mantles of bright orange, green, pink, rose, yellow and crimson &re suspended and waved between heaven and earth as with an invisible hand. The rapid gyrations and scintillations of light and blending colors are intensely bewildering and superbly beautiful. The whole phenomena of waving wreaths, flickering flames, rays, curtains, fringes, bands, and flashing. colors, the strange confusion of light and motion, now high in the heavens, then dropping like curtains of gold and silver lace, sparkling with a wealth of rubies, sapphires, emeralds and diamonds, penetrating dark gulches and datffeing through sombre forests, lighting the'JtfliolS landscape as with a thousand etecst^ lamps, form a picture of which words,pnrrv convoy but a very poor idea. This unwarming light, as it flashes along the fro zen rivers, the, great banks of snow^. and reveals the huge mountains of glistening ice and black lines of fir, indeed is of the purest Arctic cast, and causes one to button his coat closer-over his chest, and with a shiver he is glad to seek a light of less brilliancy, but one of life-giving warmth. .At the breaking of winter the hours of sunshine are rapidly increasing and continue so until midsummer, when the sun beams forth twenty-two hours out of the twenty-fOtfr, while on the high mountain peaks it is for a period of several days in June not entirely out of sight during the twenty-four hours. During the months of July and August the weather becomes very warm, and even hot, and miners are glad to seek a shady retreat in which to do their labor. After this period the hours of sunshine gradually decrease until during the shortest days the sun shines but four hours out of the twenty-four, .tsut at this period the aurora is very intense and helps very materially in driving darkness from that dreary land. The thermometer goes down to 70"degrees below zero in winter, but the atmosphere is very dry and consequently the cold is not so perceptible as one would imagine.

UTILIZING THE FREEZING PROCESS.

Siberian Minors Uso the Expansive Power of Frost to Aid Their Work. In mining for gold in Siberia the ground is kept clear of snow, so as to permit the cold to penetrate as deeply as possible, after which the surface is thawed by fires until a shallow layer of earth can be removed. The freezing is then allowed to proceed, and the thawing operation repeated, and this is continued as long as the cold weather lasts. In this way, through the long Siberian winters, open excavations are made to the goldbearing rocks, the depth attained being from twenty-five to seventy-five feet, according to the duration of the cold season. Artificial cold for purposes of excavation Was first used by Poetsch in 1SS3 by his well-known process of' the circulation of cold brine through a series of buried pipes the most difficult quicksand may be made hard enough to be excavated like rock. In the article under consideration are given general illustrations and details of the apparatus used in sinking the sha^t at the Courrieres mines, together with formula? enabling the safe thickness'of frozen4wall to be computed for round Or square shafts of any given dimensions "Among th'e important application^ of the freezing process afe noted the -sinking of th&< shafts for the cylinders ofi the' hydraulic elevator for the canal lift at Les Fojitinettes, and t^ifc construction x| a, .tunnel at Stockholm. Tfce latter w-ork .was. executed entirely by the introduction of cold, air into the working chamber at the head of the tunnel, the cold preventing the infiltration of water until the beton lining was built, and the work of excavating and mining being carried on at temperatures ranging between zero and 25 degrees Fahrenheit.

Circumstances Alter Canes. "You have been in the cirgarette business so long," said the anxious mother, "that you^must be able to give me the information I want. I hope you will candidly answer my question. Are cigarettes injurious to the health?" "It all depends ma'am." said the tobacco merchant. "On what-?" "On whether you smoke them or sell them," .—

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IMPRISONED TOUB DAT8Ur "A'ai|8OT^-

Remarkable Rescue of a Man Wl*6 Been Ohreii Up for Dead. I

John Wilson, a miner, who, alter Baling been imprisoned over four days-'-hi a coal mine at East Hatton, Eng., wais finally rescued alive, gives a graphic de^ scrlpUon ol his experience, says a. .London paper. The mine bad been flopded, and ten men. lost their lives. WlfeojibpT. ing the only one who was saved. He says: "When the water broke awiy, I was at the far end of the flat, where^ I was engaged in superintending some .©perations. The water burst through by the' side of the, arid soon began to run Bf#© sea, seething and- roaring as it rtished? along with tremendous force. -As it* continued in its course the water seemed *q gather 4n-volume and made its-way down the Hitch, a large hole, which it soon blocked up, and ran .over where I was, My lamp* fortunately," continued to burn, and, using it to guide nie, I hurried as much as I possibly could to a place of safety. I succeeded in gettlh* on to the top of a stone pillar Which had boon built to support the top of tfeo seam, but bad not been finished. I ocrambled on to this, which was from three to four feet square at the top. I endeavored to rest in a recumbent position, and as long as my lamp kept alight I felt somewhat cheered with Its brightness. In the meantime, the water, as it whirled past me. seemed to be getting higher and higher, and I was seized with fear that I might be washed from my place of refuge and engulfed in the hissing flood, the noise of which had now become awful in its intensity. Suddenly my lamp went out, having burnt for about half an hour from the time of my having to run for my life. I seemed to have lost a friend. All around me was a blackened darkness, while the inky stream giirglet and swept along its course at a speed of thousands of gallons per minute. I was alone. My thoughts reverted to home and the wife and children I had left there a few hours before. From them my mind wandered to my comrades. I wondered if any of them had been able to get to a similar position of safety to tuat I mfrself had reached. I never de'spail*^ btfl I bwran to think would I ever be to reach the bank again? How the time sped I could not tell, but after a while I imagined the water had fallen considerably, and thus counted upon the depth being decreased. This gave me heart to make an effort to get out, and I got dotfrh:from the pillar. I sunk into the watier/and when I felt my feet toucn the bottoin I was immersed over the oepth of my ahoul. ders. The under-current was running with such tremendous rapidityfthg^t it was with the greatest difficulty,!: seuld keep myself erect. After making^a^ effort to advance, I found myself^in such straits that I was glad to retrace my way and again take up my former pdsiti&h on the top of.the pillar. How muctr'I&hger I remained on the pillar after tHis I am unable to say. I must have fallen into a state of drowsiness, or semi-conScious-ness. After a time, however, seamed to recover myself, and, realizing-s|ny surroundings, began to think of making another effort to get out. Owinjjf to the limited space my position on tlfe top of the pillar was narrow and contracted, -aiid I felt somewhat cramped. A second time I dropped from the pillar, and on ."jhis''occasion I was gla4 ^at the yc'ater had gone down lot. I tried to resf&i the landing first. This'HKras a dreadful battle for life, and had I not been 'able-to ratch hold of the tail rope which rune along the roof and use it to guide me, I don't think that I would have managed to live. As it was, I was several times overheard, and twice or thrice thought I was gone altogether. I managed, however, to always keep my mouth shut, and succeeded in getting my head aboVe water again. There was some floating timber, which, although a source of danger, I managed to utilize as a means of helping me into safety. This I kept hold of with one hand, and the tall rope with the other. In tljls manner I partly walked and partly floatgfirj/Hntil I was overjoyed to hear noises, and then

I saw a light, which increased my delight. Soon after I observed Mr. Chipchase, the manager, who waded through the water waist deep, and, catching hold of

saturated clothing, conducted me

out by it. It was a splendid sight to again be allowed to see the glorious light, breathe the fresh air, and look upon the green fields, after undergoing such terrible experiences." After Wilson had slept some time he awoke and, feeling .considerably stronger, he was removed to bis home,, where an indescribable scene'of joy was witnessed. Tlie meeting ^Vrilson and his wife was" of a most affectionate character, and tne"'-rescued :Wiil'embraced his little ones*tifrie after "'tifne^in the ecstacy of his deligM at beIng «6le to return to them agaift. Relatives and neighbors welcomed Wilson with enthusiactic ardor. It was-rfindeed the dead returning to life. So qertaln were those engaged about the pit-.that the whole of the eleven poor fellows who were overtaken by the floods *pf water were dead, that the- rescuedjjn^ner insurance money was paid ove^t^his wife during the latter part of. day on which the catastrophe occurrc

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MOCKING THE WOLF'S

Brutes Can Be Easily Lured Train Their Retreat by a Bogus Nbiifet Lew Wilmot, who lives Almost anywhere in the state of Wasliftigton, is a westerner of the old type. He tells about fooling wolves by imitating their cries. "One Sunday morning," he writes, "while we were mining on the Clearwater. along about the 1st of May, I took my revolver and went over to the cabin of my partners and proposed that we go to the hills and kill some grouse.. While going up the hill we saw a very big wolf fresh track in the trail we were climbing. The trail forked, one branching up the rivSr, the other turning back into the hiUS. We stopped, wondering what a wolf jcould be doing in that part of the country at that time of the year. Suddenly the beast began to howl, and shivers -crawled along my back—-they always do when I hear a wolf howl. When the sound died away I mog^e*! it, and was answered with quick vigor. Again I answered it. 1 told the boys if we would wait the beast would come, but they laughed at me, and we went on after grouse. The wolf howled back to our left after we got to hunting and was plainly looking for its mate. We went to a small mound, sat down and howled in a low voice, because I feared it wojAld notice the deception. It did not answer, but pretty quick came trotting through the small brush. As it ran along on a fallen, rotten pine tree I shot it with my revolver and over it went. We ran up and found it badly wounded, and, wolflike. sulking. Its skin made a pretty good rug. A while after that I was going from Mount Oregon one morning on a cayuse, when a big wolf came into the trail and kept on before me, turning to the left after a while where-1 had to go to the right. I went on ^..^w^.v, got off my animal, and howled to see^'hat would happen. An answer camie ",J?ack quick »and long, and, though I kjrjew I was perfectly. safe, 11 felt lones6hj£ with the dread'a wolf's howl giva? toeV I'started on after a "bit, and on reaching the divide looked back, and thefe w«r the wolf on my trait. I kept on till frame to a thicket, howling once in a while in a way that made the wolf folWw, though suspiciously. When I was half through the brush I dismounted and crawled back. When the wolf came to the.gdge of the brush I pulled on him with fliy revolver and over he wejjt shot through the

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Absolute Certainty.

"Are you sure this wheelman was riding faster than the law "allows?" asked the judge.

"Absolutely certain," replied the policeman. "But it is possible to be mistaken on such a point." "Not In this case. He was going so fast that he kept ahead of the brewery wagon whose driver was trying to run him down."

Buy the MORNING EXPRESS.

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Mills's

HEROIC EMI

ACCEPTED DEATH RATHER THAN THE BETRAYAL OF A FRIEND.

COULD H0E SAVED BIS LIFE

With One Word, But Refused to Speak It When Stapdlng at the Foot of tho Galloirs.

The bust of Sam Davis, the confederate hero who irifet death on the scaffold at Pulaski, Tenn., to save the life of a comrade, is one of the best pieces of sculpture in the Nashville Parthenon. It is the work of George Julian Zolnay, is heroic in size, noble in conceptiom.and absolutely true to the original.' Joshua. Brown, now ol New York city, who belonged to the Second Kentucky cavalry of the confederate army, and was a fellow scout with Samuel Davis, tells the thrilling "and awful story of his fate in an article in the Veteran. General Bragg had sent us, a few men who knew the country. Into middle Tennessee to get all the infbrmatldri possible concerning the movements of the federal armv, to And out if it was moving from Nashville and Corinth to reinforce Chattanooga. We were to report to Colonel Shaw or Captain Coleman, who commanded Coleman's scouts. We were to go south to Decatur, and send oui reports by a courier line to General Bragg at Missionary Ridge. When we received our orders' we were told that the duty was very dangerous, and that they did not expect but few of us to return that we would probably be captured or killed, and we were cautioned against exposing ourselves unnecessarily. After we had been in Tennessee about ten days, we watched the Sixteenth Army corps, commanded by General Dodge, move up from Corinth to Pulaski. We agreed that we would leave for the south on Friday, the 19th of November, 1863. A number had been captured and several killed. Wo were to start that night, each man for himself each of us had his own information, but I did not write it down or make .•

ANY MEMORANDUM

of it, for fear of being captured. I had counted almost .every regiment and all the artillery in the Sixteenth corps, and found out that they were moving on Chattanooga. Late in the afternoon we started out, and ran into the Seventh Kansas cavalry, known as the "Kansas Jayhawkers," and when we were told that regiment had captured us we thought our time had come. We were taken to Pulaski, about fifteen miles away, and put into jail, where several other prisoners had been sent, and among whom was Sam Davis* I talked with him over our prospects of imprisonment and escape, they had searched him that day and found some papers upon him, and that he had been taken to General Dodge's headquarters. They also had found in his saddle Seat maps and descriptions of 'the fortifications at Nashville and other .points, andran exact report of the federal army in Tennessee. They found in his boot a letter, with *ther papers, which was intended for .,G$fi?Eal Bragg. Davis was. taken to G,en^al Dodge's headquarters, and this is"-,what took place between' them, whichjjFe^ieral Dodge told me recently: "I took him to my private office," said

General

Dodge,

"and "r told him it was

a very serious charge brought against him that he.was a spy, and from what I found upon his person, he had accurate information in regard to my army, and I must know where he obtained it. I told him he was a young man and did not seem to realize the danger he was in. Up to that time he said nothing, but then he replied in a most respectful and dignified manner: 'General Dodge, I know the danger of my situation, and I am willing to take the consequences.' "I asked him then to give the name of the person from whom he got the information that I knew it must be some one near headquarters who had given him the plans of the federal army. He replied: 'I know that I will have to die, but I will not tell where I got the information, arid there is no power on earth that can make me tell. You are doing your duty as a. soldier, and I am doing mine. If I have to die,

I DO SO FEELTNG

that I am doing J»y duty to God and my

"I pleaded with and urged him with all the power. I pqsssps^to^give

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chance to save,, his^jife, for I discovered that he wasTa -ijos^y admirable young fellow, with Jh.e Ju^iest..character ahd strictest i'nte^ityr He thfen said: 'It Is useless to talk W nife. I do hot intend to do It.

^ou'rt-martial me, but

I will not betray^the trust reposed in me.' "He thanked me for the interest I had taken in him, and I sent him back to prison. I Immediately called a courtmartial to try him.''

The night before he was Jiangpd he wrote the following letter to his mother, and father: (wr "Pulaski, fctiles County, Tenn,, "November 26, 1863^** "Dear Mother: Oh, how painful it is to write to you! I have got to die tomorrow morrting—to be hanged by the federals. Mother, do not grieve for me. I must bid you good-by forevermore. Mother, I do not fear to die. Give my love to all. Your son, "SAMUEL DAVIS. "Mother, tell the children all to be good. I wish I could see you all once more, but I never will any more. Mother and father, do not forget me. Think of me when I am dead, but do not grieve for me. It will not do any good. Father, you can send after my remains if you want to do so.. They will be at Pulaski* Tenn. I will leave some things, too, with the hotel keeper for you. Pulaski is in Giles county, Tenn., south of Columbia.

After his sentence he was put into a cell in the Jail and we did not see anything Of him until Thursday morning, the day before the execution. We were ordered to get ready, as we were going to be removed to the court house on the public square, about 100 feet from the jail. Davis was handcuffed and was brought in just as we were eating breakfast. I gave him a piece of meat that I had been cooking, and he, being handcuffed, was compelled to eat it with both hands! He thanked me, and we all bade him good-by, and were sent to the court house and the guard was doubled. The next morning, Friday, November 27, at 10 o'clock, we heard the drums and a regiment of infancy marching down to the jail, and a wagon with a coffin in it was driven up, and the provost marshal went into the jail and brought Davis out. He got into the wagon and stood up and looked around at the court house, and, seeing us at the window, bowed to us his last farewell. He was dressed in "a dark brown overcoat, with a cape to 'it which had been a 'blue federal coat, such as many' of

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had ckpturM and

'then dyed browrf. I iibte this becfeflse it has

been

stated thai he was dressed ifis

citizoi's clothes. I do not remember ex--actly, but I think he had on A GRAY JACKET I underneath. He then sat down upon his coffin, and the regiment moved off to the suburbs of the town, where the gallows was built. Upon reaching the gallows he got out of the wagon and took his seat on a bench under a tree. He asked Captain Armstrong how long he had to live. He replied. "Fifteen minutes." He then asked Captain Armstrong the news. He told him of the battle of Missionary Ridge, and that our army had been defeated. He expressed much regret and said: ••The boys will have to flght without me."

Armstrong said: "I regret very much having to do this I feel that I would almost rather die myself than to do what I have to do." Davis replied: "I do not think hard of you you are doing your duty."

General Dodge still bad hopes that

Davfe wodld recaht when ho saw that death was staring him in, the face, and that he would reveal the sine of the traitor in his camp. He sent Captain Chickasaw of his staff to Davis. Ho rapidly approached the- scaffold, jumped from his horse, and went directly to Davis and asked if,it would not be better for him to speak the name of the one from whom he had received the contents of the document found upon him, adding: "It is not too late yet." And then, in his last extremity, Davis turned upon him and said: "If I had a thousand lives I would lose them all here before I would betray my friends or the confidence of my informer."

He then requested him to thank General Dodge" ftfr his efforts to save him, but to repeat that he could not accept the terms. Turning to the chaplain, he gave him a few keepsakes to send to his mother. He then said to the provost marshal, "I am ready," ascended the scaffold, and stepped upon the trap.

Thus passed, away one of the subUmest and noblest characters known in history, and in future ages his act will be pointed to a« worthy of emulation.

The bust in the Parthenon by the sculptor, George Julian Zolnay, is a heroic figure, and one of the most admired works of art in the building. Mr. Zolnay has given the work a nobleness, a firmness that, while it appeals to the masses on account of its strength, also visitor. It isr one of Mr. Zolnay's best productions. A number of leading confederates are now raising a fund to erect a monument over the spot where he was executed. A large amount has already been contributed for the pur-

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Tflfc SPY WHO TOOK ATLANTA.

To This Day Mo One Knows Whether It Wai Man or Woman, In the spring of 18M Atlanta was full of Johnston's officers and soldiers. An uneasy feeling prevailed in every circle, and it was feared that the federals might any day make a forced march or a raid and surprise the city. Still the people faced the situation courageously. They had passed through so many dangers that they were not easily frightened. The sullen boom of Sherman's big guns could then be heard forty miles away, but Atlanta maintained her usual serenity outwardly and gave no sign of her secret misgivings. The theatre was then on its last legs, but occasional performances were liberally patronized. One. of the star attractions in a strolling company at that time was a pretty black eyed young woman, about twenty years old, who carried the town by storm. This girl was a wonder. She was equally at home In tragedy and comedy. She could sing and dance, and when she took a male part in a play she. was a howling success. A better all-round artist had never visited Atlanta, and that was the general verdict. When she told her story it excited sympathy. She was a creole of Louisiana, and her family had been murdered by a raiding party of Butler's troops. She had taken refuge in the confederacy, and, having no relations or friends, she had decided to use her rare dramatic gifts and earn her own living. The story made the pretty actress very popular, and she was patronized in a social way by leading citizens. Young officers took her out driving, and generals and colonels showed her over the fortifications, which were then nearly finished. The Creole's curiosity about.

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military men, and it afforded them the •greatest possible pleasure to answer her questions, and explain every doubtful point. Several weeks rolled by, and when her company disbanded the actress remained In Atlanta. She established herself at a popular boarding house and told her friends that she needed a rest before going on the Richmond stage. She received a great deal of attention, and was practically the belle of the army. The lines were closing around the city, but the creole charmer still lingered. The officers of Johnston's army were at her feet. They^scni her costly presents, and every fine d*ay they might have been seen riding with her along the lines of breastworks. Suddenly the actress disappeared.

The military men were nearly crazy because they could not trace her, but the ladies of the city did not seem to regrether departure—in fact, they hinted that she. was no better than she should be. Tlie month of Jujie slipped by and there were no tidings from the missing .star. Then came July and with It the beginning of the siege. At such a critical time people soon forgot the favorite of the loot, lights, and at the end of forty days' shelling people were thinking of far more important matters. The siege was over at last and the federals marched in. One fine morning a western corps commander^ with his staff, rode through the city and took.a look at the .fortifications. At Jusside was a email, dark faced, black eyed young man, who acted as his guide and pointed out various things of interest. A prominent Atlanta man met this youngster face to face, and his surprise "paused him to stand almost paralyzed in his tracks. He was the pretty actress who had turned the heads of so many officers! The stranger's eyes met "those of the Atlanta man and snapped viciously. Then a mocking smile spread over his piquant face, and his glance was plainly one of recognition. The Georgian spoke guardedly to several of Sherman's officers about the mysterious young man, but they gave very little satisfaction. Finally, it was learned that he was a famous personator of male and female characters on the French stage in New York city. But was he a man or a woman? Nobody could answer this question, but he or she, as the case might be, was one of the most successful sp es whohad ever served the Union cause. The mystery of this person's sex remained unsolved. ......

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A CONTETKD MAN.

Happy In His Snrrooudlngi Although Out of Humanity Reacl). "Dear me. my friend, how can you endure to live in such a lonely place as this?" Inquired a traveler who was journeying through the backwoods of Arkansas and had come upon a lone cabin deep in the wilderness. "You are. seemingly almost as far off of humanity's reach as was Alexander Selkirk." "Dunno so much about that, podner," replied the hirmit ingenuously. "I hain't never met up with the gent you sneak of. It hain't so pow'ful thickly populated around yere as it might be, for a fact. Wife has been dead goin' on nine years, oldest daughter is married an' moved off somewhurs, two sons in the penitentiary for moonshinln. or a little suthin' that a-way, and wife's people has took the rest of the children an' gone to Mlzzoury. I'm fawty miles from the railroad, about thirty-five miles from the cou't house, twelve miles from the sto'. furder'n that from the postofflce, an' I dunno how far from a church." "Upon my word! You are clear out of reach of companionship, pleasure and excitement!" I

Wall, no, taot so durn bad as all that, stranger? I'Vt got fo*te«Jri mighty fine dogs* for cdrftpaniobshlp Whin it comes fo pleasure L'm iless'n: half a* mile from the distillery an' as for excitement, I'm only about a mile from a bloodthirsty cuss that is alweff shootin', at,me when I least expect It. So you see, poaner, beln' as I've' got 'a3F the edmpanfoinShip, pleasure anr excitement that any'reasonable mart could want, I hain't noways as bad off as you thought I was. If it wasn't for a thing or two that wouldn be nuthin' in the world to pester me. But sometimes I'm kinder bothered by the thought thiat suthin* will git the matter with the dos an' kill 'em off. an' the distillery may git broke up by them dad blamed revenue fellors that occasionally come snoopln* around whur they hain't wanted, or els® I'll accidentally kill that tbar bloodthirsty gent sometime when r.ra casually shootin' at him. Cou'se, if them misfortune#, should ever happen to occur, I reckon I'd be left high an' dry an' have to move somewhurs whur I could git the necessities of life agin."

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The»e Foreign Military Sharps Are la WasliincloD as Ours Axa to En#^- flans of Forts.

To (lie courts* of Vienna an4 and to the-^ repubHc of Switzerland the president reeerftiy appointed military attaches for tire-"American legation*. Military and naval.attaches to be reuqr suecessful ought -tp be compounded of rs many ingredients as the Heavy Dragoon in "Patience." He should be a gentiesaao of engaging manners and of wealth en officer of proved, ability, a close observer, quick of "perception, open and free In manner," secretive to a degree, seeing all things -and appearing to see nothing a m*n able to drink and' never lose his head, one quickly capable of put. ting two and two together a man .eagerly looking for the secrets of the people among whom he lives, and, above alL a man of spotless honor and integrity, who would scorn to 'get information by any underhanded means, or receive informa* •ion so obtained. Take of these elements

that is fusible, melt them all down In a pipkin or crucible. Set thein to simmer and skim off the scum, and an attache is the residuum. All the important pow-

ers have serving with their foreign legations naval and miltary attaches. Thos# men are. really accredited and received spies. Their business is to find out all they can about the military and naval establishments of .the powers to which, they are accredited and to make report* thereon to their governments. They must do all this, however, in a lesitimate wa by their

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eign nations at Washington are furnishing constantly' lo their governments the same kind of information about our tary establishment as we are a he W a attaches' tt.- of course, equally tstfc of naval attaetes. Not a great no .on In Europe but knows all about the United States from a military point of view. itstmilitary /resources and its natural and artificial defenses. If they had looked •_ only at wh&t is on the surface and visible to the eye. of the civilian wc would have been attacked by som great power in need of riionef or land long ago. In con- 3 nectlon wifit this object it will be remem bored thatwben the Germans invaded Franofe tfiey"were found to have better military'ttifcps'^of the country than the French had themselves.

'•NAVIGATION IS AlWAWOPE.?|-l

Btyattf ^eyOT Cease to Traver*».the Wateri -aof Lake Hublgvn. Navigation on Lake Michigan is never closed... Steamers run back, and forthKt across^Ute lake and between the ports ,' of the

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POWERS OF OBSERVATION alorfe. The greatest ambassadar in the world might and does see things almost every day when at his past of duty which are absolutely meaningless to him,, ^ut which to the trained eye of bis military attache mean a great d?al—parts of a. mosaic which when he has put it tOf t| gether will ten him what he came td ^|jj find out. Our own system of fire control ir* is worked out "backward from the English drill book for sea coast artillery. All the ambassadors at the coaft Of StT James' could not have done-that*, but bright young American officer ©f a*tUlerjr(fi could and did. In the secret archives ofs§f the war department are -ofe *11 th«^ important forts of Britain, %n^,-:in tho. British war office there are, «cnicnt ^,-'j plans of our forts. We f~ maps of the greater part ot jEurRg? the condition of'the roads. facilities for railroad transportation that^ sort of thing accompanying tfiem. war' department khows $11 the time Just how many troop# a European power has?36 under arms, just where they are «ta-'. tioned, the condition of those troops, the'?*' position of the military magazines and^' storehouses and Just what i& ia A thousand -v

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it knows about the armies of Europe and the forts of the nations. One continual stream of information flows "into the war department from Our military attaches abroad. Yet all the time these gentlemen ai*e gilded butterflies of the legations to which they arc attached* and are supposed to spend their time in a aon-g^ tinuous round of social pleasures, -where they can disport thoir uniforms and generally

themselves. It is needless

that the military attaches of for

of the lake during th«Vjf

entife.winter, jvi.th remarkably regularity.^ Th^'.'itoi^attempts at wfntfer navigation^, on the \tarti&*ke routes wert made by the Detrbtt arni MilSvaulcee Railroad company and by the now defunct Engelmann«TransrJwhittotl company ihany years ago, and--Xhe^ucf-ess 0? winter' ventures became tktfebliShed as the'Character of the. steamertejwas improved and developments— were made in marine enginery. Now a winter navigation proceeds atynpst ur.in-

terruptedly, and the n^w c^ftyyies steam back .and forth ^jthJ^ttlef«Kari weather or for lce.j-jTRc.gtfcCesS of the car ferries on Lake ^KoijWh ferry which defies ^IhlfeT1 fn'We Straits of Mackinac is

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announcement that negotiations are in progress looking to^th# CbV.l«*ructton of-*# ice-breaking frelgM »«te$ra«rs th?.t will enable their ownerfri.'tan keca».'Qtlcm in commission on the- Lrfjte^^upei tor and^,lower lake route during the winter. The report is without foundation. There is a

vast difference between the navigation of Lake Michigan from one shore to the other.- and along Its west shoie, and the navigation of the greaf lakes throughout their lengths and through the interlake channels. Ice-breaking is expensive, and--occasionally the ice floes dofy the crushing powers of the best of the so-callea' Ice-breakers.

One of the car ferries was

recently stalled by a floe near Menominee. which defied not only tho rteanier, but the explosive power of dynamite. The trouble of winter na* igation on the thain of lakes would occur in the interlake channels aiid in the canals. Owing to the clogging effects of tho ice it would be almost impossible to operate canals during midwinter. Another and a v^ry serious bar to genercl lake navigation In winter is the prcvalax'.ce of snow storms,' during which nothiss whatever can bo seen. Sno\y is more 'obsttuctivc to th»' eight than fog, and during a driving snow storm it is hivrjos.M'i'e to see anything ahead, even in th*? daytime. Wintcr navigators on Lake Michigan, who, are never out of sight of land for any length of time, experlrm-a their chief nnnoyance from snow storms. They manage to steam into port when snow is ... 'flying thick becatse of their faml!!arity with the route, but they occasionally getinto trouble while they are wrapped in "the tumultuous privacy of the storm.' ,-tf|

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does not follow by any means tint because winter navigation is successful on 5/, I^^'l/tichigaii it can be made successful in the upper afd lower lake service.

The Greatest Park in the World. tfucje Sam set apart a roy».l pleasure grohnd In Northwestern Wyoming and called it Yefldwetone Ivational IMtk. tfi¥iiln~id«h? of what Its size, 3 Sl? 31".'fro milci"VealI^ means,'l?t us tliar the ilcor of tHe park, and teii?rly place some of. vthe. great cities of tii% v/oild taer-N ci- a .together, as chilis en do t.ieir bioox-i.

First. in th»n G.*eatw New^f York, «Tcag». ®08\d| ton.

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Frithqisco and Wa-ftSrc«.

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the park would then but hcJf Mg Then lift up Jthode Ia!*.*»d caxefsJ'iy. as not to spill any of its

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dawnJ and piw» i«i t'le Wo.: tholes— cn«» 4*v«n th®n there arc t*ro hundred square-, miu»,l«t. No a-wo. in wo..rt has sufch a dlversKy of nsiturcl p.ienou.eng. and sue'* ma.rjni^apt stetae*:-- It a marvctfeus l*nd of sf^ras and w-t orfalls. gcySr! and hot sf.rtngs. canyons, and of

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