The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 8, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 20 June 1912 — Page 2

The Syracuse Journal GEO. O. SNYDER, Publisher. Syracuse, ? - - Indiana. EXECUTIONS IN OLD BAILEY Breakfast Was Served to the Guests Invited to See Hanging of Criminals. ♦ Executions, when criminals were hanged in the Old Baileyon London, had certain customary sequels. The governor of Newgate, for instance, always gave a breakfast to those friends he had invited to see the hanging, and by established custom deviled kidneys always formed the principal dish, although, as John Hollingshead had related, nearly every one was obliged to swallow a glass of brandy first. Another function described in “London in the Sixties’’ was the reception held afterward by the hangman at the Green Dragon, in Fleet street, where he took refreshment with his admirers and sold the fatal rope at the rate of sixpence per inch. In the good old times nearly every crlminaj who was executed was credited with a confession and “last dying words.” whether he uttered them or not. According to Case and Comment these were printed in thousands by Mr. Catnach of Seven Dials. And sometimes an offender was reprieved on his way to Tyburn and had the pleasure, like Lord Brougham, of reading his own obituary notice. Many of these broadsides, printed on a peculiar whitey-brown paper, can still be obtained in the neighborhood of The Dials at certain quaint little shops that seem to have defied alike time and the “improvement acts.” You can see them in the window alongside of old ballads, forgotten comic songs, children's toys, and bottles of sticky looking sweets. An execution "which'never came off was that of Edward Dennis, the public hangman, who in 1780 was sentenced to death for complicity in the Gordon riots, He was respited and resumed his occupation. So thoroughly did Dennis regain favor that in 1785 the -sheriffs of London presented him with a gorgeous robe “as a testimony to his excellent model Os per- ; forming business.” Dennis found this J robe not ojjly inconvenient when, at ' work but rather conspicuous at other times, so he sold it to Old Cain, a well known charlatan of the day. Decked in the hangman’s robe and a pasteboard crown the fortune teller cut an imposing figure. Wall Paper Wrecked a Family. Everything was running smoothly with Mr. and Mrs. James A. Mackay of Yonkers until they tried to select the color of the paper for the wall. ' Then they had a dispute that led to | & separation and to court. Mrs. I Mackay suggested having the wall of I their home papered. Mackay consented and expressed his preference ! for green. Mrs. Mackay said red would • please her better. Mrs. Mackay's mother, 80 years old, said red was the only decent color for wall paper and hade her daughter go and buy it. Mackay was offended and bade his mother-in-law depart. Mrs. Mackay told her to remain. Mackay packed his grip and departed. Child’s Act Delayed Wedding. Just as a prospective brideiF and bridegroom were about to be married the other) night at the home of the bride’s patents in Pittsburgh, Pa., the marriage license was missed and the young couple and their assembled .friends and relatives were thrown into a state of consternation. The ceremony was delayed 15. minutes while a teenzied search was made. Finally the document was found clasped in | the chubby fist of an infant daughter of one of the guests, the child having fc been attracted by the large gold seal on the document. British Possessions in South Africa. The British possessions in South Africa comprise Cape Colony, Natal, the Orange River Colony, the Transvaal, and the protectorates of Bechuanaland and Basutoland, with an aggregate ■■ area of about 865,000 square miles, and a population of about five and •one-half millions. To the north Rhodesia extends into the heart of the con(fluent; but South Rhodesia, bounded •on the north by Zambesi, may be included in South Africa. The only territory in the United States proper is 'the District of Columbia, Arizona and New Mexico having been admitted to statehood. Chance and Choice. “So you are going to marry Tom?" “You saw the announcement, didn’t you?” “Yes, but ” “It wasn’t a fake.” “But, (Jearie —I never thought that Tom would be your choice.” “Tom ain’t my choice. He’s my chance. Have you any other questions to ask, darling?” Darling decided she hadn’t Kittens Saved Boy’s Life. Two kittens, that followed him wherever he went, were responsible for saving the life of a little two-year- / old child living in Rising Sun, Md. Missing her son, the mother made a search and across the fields saw the kittens walking to and fro on the banks of a pond. She hastened to the scene, and noticing a bubble on the surface of the water, jumped In, the depth being almost to her neck, and found the boy. Restoratives were applied, several hours elapsing before respiration became normal. Natural Objection. •It Is useless to talk any more. fThe flat Is too dark.” “But, my d eflr madam ’’ “You see, I wouldn’t mind It so much, but we want to do light housekeeping” —Baltimore American. Parried. “Miss Kitty, you look nice enough to eat.” •1 hope so, Mr. Squlnchley; you don’t think I’d go out to eat without slicking myself up a little, do you?”— (Chicago Tribune.

EXPERIMENTS WITH WONDERFUL NEW EXPLOSIVE v ■- ~ —•> /& . \ ' A 3*' J! 7 * 4IW '* ss * . * ~ / W?' * s • si! J? THE picture in the lower left hand corner shows Marquis Roberto Imperial! setting the fuse to 800 grams of the new explosive, “imperialite,” invented by him, at experiments held near New York. The central picture shows the 25-ton granite bowlder shattered to atoms by the force of the explosive. The upper right hand picture is that of the inventor. Before setting off the blast, the marquis pounded a handful of the new explosive between two heavy hammers, melted it into vapor and heated it gradually to 400 degrees centigrade, without frightening any of the men and women gathered to witness the experiments.

SPIRITS FIND MINE

Dead Friends Direct “Mediator” to Gold Deposit. At Least Old Trustum H. Brown of Maine, Their Confidant, Declares They Did—Neighbor Felt His Power. Bangor, Me.—Trustum H. Brown, the “Mediator,” was in Bangor, recently, on his return from a visit to Boston, and although eighty-six years of age he tripped down town like a boy and told with enthusiasm all about a new treatise he has just completed on “The Truths of Christ and the Errors of Christianity.” Not long ago the Mediator demonstrated his reputed supernatural or unusual powers by locating a gold mine in California, getting his information, he said, from the spirits of intimate friends long dead. For many years Brown has occupied a little cabin on a mountain slope, spending his time chiefly in fishing, hunting and philosophical meditation and research, all the while holding communication with the spirits of the departed, he says. He calls himself “Mediator between God and man.” Beyond delivering exhortations wherever he may find a listener, the Mediator’s principal occupations are

TOO MANY LABORERS THERE' No More Needed in Western Part of Canada, Says a United States Consul. Vancouver, B. C.—While it is true that with the approach of spring there are' fewer unemployed in British Columbia than a few months ago, it can hardly be denied that there are more than sufficient laborers in this province at present for any demand likely to arise in the course of the year, David T. Wilber reports from Vancouver. The Immigration of laborers from the United States to Canada should be discouraged until further developments have greatly changed the labor situation here. Immigrants from the United States are bound to be disappointed because of the lower wages, higher cost of living and the great uncertainty of obtaining employments. They should in no case come without sufficient means to keep them for some time in case they cannot obtain employment and to take them back to the United States if finally unsuccessful. However, larger numbers have been attracted to British Columbia than can possibly obtain work, although the province is developing rapidly. Hardly- a day has passed during this winter when the situation of the unemployed in Vancouver has not been brought repeatedly to my attention by destitute Americans seeking assistance to get home. No less than 3,000 Americans have permamently returned from Vancouver alone since November 1., It should also be added that the laws against vagrancy are very strict and rigidly enforced in Vancouver.

Must Wed to Get Letters

Austrian Red Tape Carried to Limit in Woman’s Case —Many Common Law Marriages Here. Vienna. —In the Austrian parliament recently a deputy interpellated the government on what is either an extraordinary piece of red tape or an impertinent interference in the private affairs of the public by ’the Austrian postoffice. At Pardubitz a Dr. and Mrs. M —— have lived together for many years. Recently the postal authorities there learned that they had never been legally married, or that, if married abroad, their union was not valid in Austria, and thereupon began to return all letters addressed to Mrs. M., informing the senders that no such person lived in Pardubitz. The woman appealed to the supreme court of administration againsa this action of the postofflee, hut lost the case on the ground of a centuryold law. which prescribes that all letters must bear an exact address.

trapping for furs and bear bounties and preparing and peddling a medicine, compounded from forest roots, barks and herbs, warranted to cure every human malady. His gala time of the year is when the Spiritualists of Maine hold their annual campmeeting at Etna Pond in Penobscott county. This he always attends, entering into the spirit of the occasion with an enthusiasm that makes the job of suppressing him the most difficult of the whole proceedings. The Mediator’s only neighbor is Nymphas Bodfish. Becoming offended at Bodfish, the Mediator, so the story runs, laid the curse on him that he should catch no bear in his traps for 500 years. Bodfish went on setting his traps, but caught nothing. Then he went to the Mediator to try to induce him to life the curse. The Mediator at last relented to the extent of taking off 200 of the 500 years. Bodfish went home and thought it over. Even 300, years seemed too long a time to wait, and again he called tin the Mediator, who consented that the 200 years rebate should run forward from the beginning instead of back from the end of the original 500. At the end of the season the customary array of bear pelts was hanging on Bodfish’s fence to dry. Brown says the spirits told him of the existence of a very rich mine in California. They described is so

Kipling’s New English Home

Quiet Town of Burwash, to Which Noted Author Moved From Rottingdean. London.—-Although every part of Sussex is within easy reach of London, there are still many out-of-the-way villages in it where you may practically get as far from the Madding crowd as if you were in the middle of a desert. One of these is Burwash, where Rudyard Kipling secluded himself from the torment of sightseers who drove him from Rottingdean. Rottingdean is a quaint seaside village, so close to Brighton that every visitor here makes a point of seeing It, and Kipling used to be looked upon as a valuable asset in the attractions of the place. Every omnibus laden with holiday trippers used to make a point of drawing up close to his garden wall, while the conductor declaimed in a Iqud voice to the passengers (all craning their necks in the effort to see as much as possible). “This ’ouse, ladies and gentlemen, is the residence of the distinguished h’author, Mr. Rudyard Kipling.” There came a day when this oftrepeated sentence was followed by another —“And there, ladies and gentlemen, is the distinguished h’author ’issel, a-takin’ tea with his family on the lawn!’ This was the climax. Rudyard Kipling fled and secluded himself at Burwash, where there are no trippers and where the villagers are of the stolid kind prevalent in Sussex, who mind

Such “wild marriages” are very common in Austria, owing to the provisions of the marriage laws, which 1 forbid the remarriage of divorced Roman Catholics or marriages between Christians and Jews or freethinkers. As the Neue Frele Presse remarks in a leading article on the subject, if the postman is to insist on the production of marriage and birth certificates before delivering letters the business of daily life will become im-; possible. “PUPPY LOVE” NOT FOR SHOW Lecturer of San Jose (Cal.) W. C. T. U. Would Not Permit Little Ones to See “Silly Antics.’’ San Jose, Cal. —All the world loves a lover —except Mrs. Florence Lake, state lecturer of W. C. T. U. Mrs. Lake was one of the speakers at the county W. C. T. U. convention

carefully that the Mediator felt sure he would be able to find it, and he notified some of his earthly friends on the coast. The Californians told him to come on and locate the mine, and he did so, returning with the news that he had pointed out the location of a gold deposit that would make them millionaires. For himself he had no interest in wealth. One day the Bodfishes gave Brown a cat. v “When I got that cat home,’ Brown said, “I took it out in my cook room and placed a pan of fish on the table, and I said to the cat: ‘Bodfish cat, there is a pan of fish on the table lam going out of the room foi a while and while I am gone I do not want you to touch those fish. If you do. Bodfish cat, I will kill you. Now. remember.’ Wfell, I went out of the room and returned when I said J would and part of the fish was gone. Did I kill the cat? Well, I couldn’t break my word.” Epidemic of Homicide. Vienna. —A woman who has been arrested at Lippe, in Hungary, has confessed that she murdered four of her husbands. She is now married to an inn-keeper named Kapruezan. Owing to the revelations she has made, five •bther v'omen of the same town have been arrested for murdering their first husbands. From admissions of Frau Kapreuzan it ap pears that she made a regular business of helping her neighbors get rid of their husbands in order to marry other men.

their own business and keep themselves to themselves, having no more interest, in distinguished writers than in undistinguished readers. At Burwash they still tell the story of how George IV., passing through the village on one of his journeys to Brighton, was greatly chagrined by the air of utter unconcern enveloping the place. He asked the reason and received the explanation direct: “They had rung the bells for him when he the first time and he gave*Them no beer, so they were not going to ring for him again, not likely!" CHINESE IS WOMEN’S ALLY St. Joseph Opium Smuggler, in Jail at Savannah, Ga., Designs “City Beautiful” for Them. Savannah, Ga. —Bo Sing Young, the St. Joseph opium smuggler, who was convicted in the federal court recently and who is now serving a two months’ term in the prison here, is assisting the women of the town in their “city beautiful” plans. Not only has he been a liberal contributor to the cash fund that is being raised by the women to plant the vacant lots in flowers and to clean up the streets and alleys, but has given them considerable valuable assistance in devising plans for a sunken garden on the site of a burned building and in working out several Oriental effects in flower planting. Bo Sing Young is proprietor of a chop suey restaurant in St. Joseph.

at Morgan Hill and was discussing the environment and associations of children. Among other pointed features of her address was a paragraph in which she said: “Children should not be in the same house with silly lovers and newly married people.” Mrs. Lake believes that “puppy love’* has no good place in the home of ' a child, and therefore the very young should not, with the natural imitativeness, be allowed to see the antics of lovers and newly weds. Eight Thousand Flies Swatted. Morgantown, W. Va.—ln a "swat the fly" campaign just closed here 8,000 flies were killed. It is estimated that this represents 24,000,000,000,000 later in the season. The campaign was conducted by W. A. Ream, who paid 10 cents a hundred for dead flies. Appoints Dead Man. North Adams, Mass.—By an order Governor Foss appointed as associate medical examiner of this district Dr. Homer BushnelL who has been dead three yean*

PLAN AERIAL ARMY For Coast Defense and Adjuncts to the Army. • Comprehensive Organization Contemplated to Carry Terror to Hostile Warships Approaching Our Shores. Washington. — Comprehensive and spectacular plans for the organization of a great aerial army, powerful enough to defend the entire coast line of the United States, the Philippines, Hawaii and Panama, are now complete at the department of war. Under the direction of the Signal corps, an entirely new arm of the service will be immediately organized, pro vlded congress gives its consent. Following the system of aerial defense perfected by France and Germany, the plan provides for the establishment of at least fourteen aerial stations along the Atlantic and Pacific ocean, from which they will fly to sea at the first approach of hostile warships, and endeavor to destroy them before they get within range of the forts. Two squadrons of aeroplanes in the Philippines to destroy any attacking force are contemplated. One squadron will supplement artillery for the defense of the Panama canal. Powerful forts top the high hills at the Pacific end of the canal. The tips of these hills, being sliced off, form a plateau, from which aeroplanes will be able to depart and alight with the greatest ease. The naval base now being completed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, will also be equipped with a squadron of aeroplanes. In addition to coast defense and the defense of the island possessions, the plans embrace the organization of at least three aerial squadrons or aeroplanes for each, division of troops in the regular army and a squadron of extra powerful machines for long-dis-tance reconoissahce, in connection with each general army corps that may take the field. A number of specialized machines are provided for use with the field artillery. Extending the new arm of the service to the militia, one squadron of aeroplanes is planned for each division of state troops, with an additional squadron for operation under direction of the general commanding every corps. At the present time only ten officers in the regular army are trained to operate aeroplanes. To provide a capable force it is planned to establish five great training schools, one on the Atlantic coast, another along the Pacific, a third on the gulf and still another on the Great Lakes. The remaining school will be established at a central location not yet fixed. As many auxiliary aviation centers as possible will also be organized. Anticipating the necessity for an entirely new body of officers and enlisted men for this new arm of the service, a bill was submitted by Secretary Stimson to the military committee of the house on March 24. As a preliminary organization it provides for two dplonels, two lieutenant colonels, six majors, 30 captains, 30 first lieutenants and 30 second lieutenants. As the organization progresses an additional request will be made for one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, three majors, 15 captains, 15 first lieutenants, 15 second lieutenants and 600 enlisted men. The war department recognizes that the new arm of the service will be far more dangerous than the cavalry, and, f as an inducement for men to enter it 20 per cent, more pay is offered than in any other arm. AMERICAN NEWS IN CHILE. Because of a treasury deficit 3 of >450,000 the office of vice-president of the United States is to be abolished by congress, according to a paragraph printed in El Mercurio, a newspaper published in Santiago, Chile, and received at the state department. The story appears under the heading, “Cable News From the United States,” and is Regarded by officials as a fair sample" of the misrepresentation of American affairs and conditions upon which the people of Central and South America are fed by their daily press. The paragraph is translated as follows: “According to a memorial presented to congress by the minister of the treasury the estimates for the fiscal year 1912-13 will show a deficit, a thing which has not occurred in the United States since the time of the Civil war, about fifty years ago. It is calculated that the deficit will be $450,000. To cover this the congress proposes to raise the tariff with respect to lotteries, tobacco and wines and liquors and also to make numerous reforms, including the abolishment of the vice-presidency of the republic.”

TIME CHANGE FAVORED. Postmaster General Hitchcock is taking a personal interest in the new system of computing time adopted by the French postal service, counting 0 to 24, beginning at midnight. “Os course the operation is still in an experimental stage,” said the postmaster general, “but I am much intersated and have started an Inquiry into its details. It seems to me to have many advantages over the present system. In the stamping of mail matter I believe it would prove much less confusing than the system now in vogue of marking the letters a. m. or p. m. It would be just as easy to stamp halfpast 16, as It would to stamp halfpast 12.” STICKLER FOR/ FORMS. Senator Newlands of Nevada, who always looks indignant, though he Isn’t at all. Is a stickler for the strict forms of etiquette. For example, he frequently takes time on hia busiest days to write letters in his own handwriting, rather than dictate them, when he thinks the situation calls for something more personal and less mechanical than a typewritten letter.

U. S. PRODUCES BULK OF WORLD’S COPPER The copper mines of the United States have produced more than 15,250,000,000 pounds us copper, and of this total 12 mining districts have produced in excess of 100,000,000 pounds each, according to the United States geological survey. These 12 districts, in eight states, have yielded 94.69 per cent, of the total output of the country since 1815, when the product of the United States was little more than 200,000 pounds: These districts are: Butte, Mont., which has yielded 5,315,000,000 pounds, or 34.75 per cent, of the total production; Lake Superior, Mich., 4,756,000,000 pounds; Bisbee, Ariz., 1,285,000,000 pounds; MorenciMetcalf, Ariz, 882,700,000 pounds; Jerome, Ariz, 570,000,000 pounds; Bingham, Utah, 465,000,000 pounds; Shasta county, Cal., 336,000,000 pounds; Globe, Ariz., 334,000,000 pounds; Ducktown, Tenn., 211,700,000 pounds; Ely, Nev., 125,000,000 pounds; the foothill belt, California, 104,000,000 pounds, and Santa Rita, N. M. (where mining is believed to have been begun as far back as 1800), 103,000,000 pounds. All other districts have produced 804,300,000 pounds. The United States geological survey’s report on copper production for 1910 shows that the first ten of these districts are also the first ten largest producers today, although the order is slightly changed. These ten districts yielded 93.84 per cent, of the production for 1910. The United States is by far the greatest copper producing country, the smelter output of copper in 1910 being 56.75 per cent, of the total for the world. WEATHER BUREAU GRILLED. The United States weather bureau again has been made the subject of official criticism of alleged failure to render reliable forecasts of the weather. Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, U. S. N., commanding a division in the Atlantic battleship fleet, has made an official communication to the navy department in which he blames the weather bureau for failure to properly forecast the actions of the elements on the day of the Maine memorial services, held in this city on March 23. • “The weather was exceedingly raw, and, by reason of an erroneous prediction given to me by the weather bureau, I prescribed a uniform without overcoats,” says Admiral Fiske in his report to the secretary of the navy. ‘We all had to stand an hour and a half near the state department in a cold wind and rain, then march to Arlington in a rain as cold as it could be without becoming sleet, and then stand at Arlington one hour, from 4:30 to 5:30, in this cold rain, and on the wet grass.” TEACHERS NOT WELL PAID. Higher paid and more thoroughly equipped teachers are urged for the public schools of the country by Dr. F. P. Claxton, United States commissioner of education, in his annual review of educational conditions. The report, which deals with a period covering the first ten years of the present, century, shows that though the average monthly salary of male teachers increased 38 per cent, and the salary of female teachers 27 per cent., the average annual pay of teachers, including those in the big cities and high schools, is less than SSOO. The. report shows that in the period covered the average number of days attended by each child enrolled in the public schools increased 14 per cent.; the value of school property increased 75 per cent.; the income of public schools increased 83 per cent. It also shows that the expenditure foi public education is less than $5 per capita in 25 states and less than $2.50 per capita in ten states. The number of public schools increased during the period 70 per cent. QUICK TO LEARN. Manuel Quezon, one of the Philippine commissioners in congress could not speak a word of English when he struck San Francisco on his way to Washington. Six months later he was making speeches in congress, and everybody could understand him. Remarkable Spring. One of the most remarkable springs in the world exists in New Mexico. It is saturated with sodium sulphate. Dis tilled water weighs eight and - onethird pounds per gallon;; the water of this spring weighs ten and two-thirds pounds. The temperature of the spring is a little over 110 degrees Fahrenheit. As ihe saturated liquid overflows and cools it forms crystalline mass like ice, which, in the course of ages, has spread into a snow-white bed of solid sodium salts, miles in extent and as level as a lake. The warm brine, it is reported, is inhabited by a shrimplike organism, and a species of plant is found growing in the dry expanse of sodium sulphate. Puzzle in English Slang. Police magistrates are as a rule familiar with slang terms for money. The late Montagu Williams once asked a diminutive prisoner before him how he had spent some money which he admitted he had stolen. “Well, yer worship,” said the boy, “I ’ad a pint o’ mahogany, two doorsteps and a stinker, that was a steever; and then a London mystery and a slice of spotted plain, and that’s ’ow I spent the sprat” “I see,” said Monty, to whom thieves’ slang was an open book, and adder: “Seven days.” Breakfast table problem: How much did the boy spend altogether, and what was the price of each item? —London Chronicle. Going Down. Salat Peter—Well, what do you want? Applicant—l’m looking for the Wellknown Philanthropist who put up the price of ice to the poor, and left a million-dollar library to his home town when he died. Saint Peter —Take the elevator —going down. Next! Step lively, please! —“Tickleweed and Feathers,” Flynn I Wayne, Tn Joe Chapple’s News-Letter.

510RIH ; CA&mWt AND WAS S IEFF DAVIS MADE A CAPTIVE Interesting Tale of Capture of Confederate President Told by Member of Michigan Regiment. For forty-six years a controversy has been carried on concerning the capture of Jefferson Davis The prize money offered by the United States government was divided among members of the 4th Michigan, the Ist Wisconsin and the Ist Ohio regiments. The story of the capture is presented here as told by George M Munger, who was a corporal of the 4th Michigan at the time of the searqh for Davis. His narrative corresponds to ' that sworn to before the secretary of war by his colonel, B. D. Pritchard. “Several searching parties were looking for Jeff Davis when we started out early in May, 1865,” said Mr. Munger. “We were passing ourselves off as a detachment of confederate soldiers, trying to catch up with the fleeing president. The night of May 9 we found what we were after. We had reached Irwinville. inquiring there, as at other places, for news of the fugitives. We got no information L iOK® \ fit ?■ ■ wlllls The Mother Had a Shawl Pinned Around Her Fac6. except from an old colored man, who told us that there was a traveling party epcamped about two miles from town. I was in the advance guard, who got this Information, and we reported it to the colonel. “We made an advance to a point from which we could see the camp fire, and there we lay. Lieut. Puringron and twenty-five men were sent around to the other side of the camp. All was quiet until the morning began to come. Then we made a sudden charge into the camp and took them by surprise. “My position in the line brought me into the camp at the rear of Davis’ tent. With me was Private James Bullard. Some horses were tethered there, and we took,.two of them in place of our own, changing the saddles to the fresh horses. Mrs. Davis, I heard afterward, had come to the door of the tent and asked the right of privacy for the women that she said were the only occupants. Soon she came to the door again and passed out with her ‘old mother,’ who tfras dressed in a waterproof coat and a shawl, and carried a tin pail. Mrs. Davis said that the ywanted to go to the brook for water, and the guard let them pass. “They "were not many rods from the tent when I saw them. I said to Bullard, ‘Those women ought not to be leaving the camp,’ and he, still busied with his saddle, told me to go on and not wait for him. I mounted and rode up to the couple. I asked where they were going and Mrs. Davis said that she was going to the brook with her old mother to get some water. The ‘old mother* bad the shawl pinned around her face so that not much was visible, and the waterproof coat was long. But the dead grass was long, too, and as the ‘old mother 1 held up the coat I saw high top boots beneath it “ ‘What’s your old mother doing with those boots on?’ I asked, and brought my gun from half to full cock as it lay across the pommeT pointing at the two. “Mrs. Davis heard the click of the hammer. ‘Don’t shoot!’ she said, and then Bullard came up and helped me show them the way back. Davis wanted to take off the shawl, but we did not give him time. I found the colonel and told him that I believed we had taken Jeff Davis. The colonel came up to where the prisoner was and asked, ‘What shall I call you?' ‘Anything you please,’ said the prisoner. ‘I think I will call you Davis.’ said Col. Pritchard. “The 4th Michigan and the Ist Wisconsin took Davis back to our lines and I was one of the guard that went with him to Fort Monroe. CoL Pritchard and I both made sworn statements about the' capture before the secretary of war. We saw nothing of the Ist Ohio regiment, who say that they did the capturing." Wanted to Know. A “raw one” of the Forty-fourth Inliana sat down when he had been Supplied with his f 0 rounds, and began to :ear open the cartridges and pour the powder on a pile- When the last one was emptied he looked up, and saw the dumfounded contain looking at dim. He said: “Powder, when d« we get our powler horns?" Disgusted. Pat was raked over the coals by the idjutant, and when he left that digaitary he said to a comrade: “Did God make th’ loikes of him? I wouldn’t a’ done IL”