The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 13, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 25 July 1912 — Page 6

The Syracuse Journal GEO. O. SNYDER, Publisher. ’ Syracuse, - - ■ - Indiana WOMEN IN THE PROFESSIONS Writer Sees Time Approaching When Opposition to Their Entry Will Be Futile. The demand for women in medicine has become so urgent and women bare so clearly defined their aptitude as physicians that opposition to their entering the medical profession has died a natural death in most civilized countries, men doctors, not general public sentiment, interposing such barriers as are interposed at this late day. In America the woman doctor is already sure of herself, declares the New York Evening Post. In England the hostility to her find expression only in such oblique and biassed outbursts at that lately indulged in by Sir Almroth Wright, who promptly silenced by physicians of wider outlook, notably Sir Victor was promptly silenced by physicians of wider outlook, notably Sir Victor are now nearly 200 licensed women doctors. German women have become much interested, too, in dentistry, a profession in which American methods have long set the standard. Last year 60 German women were officially licensed to practice dentistry. Both In medicine and dentistry Germany is ready for more women, according to the results of an inquiry recently instituted by the University of Berlin. In both Germany and England the opposition to women lawyers continues strong. In England women are not admitted to the bar, though it is claimed that recent agitation of the subject brings their admission notably nearer. In Germany women are not | encouraged to take jurist Or national j economic courses at the universities. In rpite of the discouragement, about 20, who have taken these courses, seem to have “made good’’ in using their degrees in one capacity or an- i other. Do Conventions Pay? Someone in a Baltimore contempo- j rary is discussing whether conven- : tions pay the town in which they are ; held. Generally speaking perhaps they ; do not, but specifically there are j ’ some interests that make them pay. ! Tlfbfee who attepd are usually stuck for largely increased prices for everything from a cocktail to a cold chicken, and when they go away and tell about it the town gains nothing in reputation. It would be naturally supposed that the increased patronage at reasonable rates vrould be enough to satisfy a reasonable appetite for gain, but there does not appear to be any reasonable appetite at such times. These things have occurred at nearly all conventions in the past, regardless of promises to the contrary; and there is no remedy in sight. The next time the convention can go somewhere else, but it will be the same there. —Philadelphia Press. No Foam on the Communllon Wihe. Mildred Elaine, the granddaughter of a south side minister, recently enjoyed her fourth birthday party. Though she often went to church with her mother, last Sunday was the first time she witnessed the solemn ceremony of the Lord’s Supper. With unusually wide eyes she watched her grandfather, the officiating clergyman* pour the sacred wine. The little miss was in a deep study over the communion service and it was not until the family was about the dinner table that she ventured an opinion on the ceremony. With a strong note of childish anxiety in her voice, she looked up at the fond grandparent. “Drandpa,” she asked, “why don’t your beer at church foam like daddy’s?” Making a Fire in Papua. One of the latest travelers in re mote parts of Papua describes their ■method of making a fire: “They get ji piece of dry soft wood, split one end and insert a piece of tapa cloth, then taking a .piece of cane, which they carry twisted round their waists, they\ place it under the wood on which rthey stand. Grasping each an end of rthe cane they pull it backward and forward vigorously; when it has eatSn half way through the wood to the tapa cloth the heat generated is so great that the cloth smolders and is blown into flame. The whole process is accomplished in 10 or 15 seconds.” Subway for Naples Planned. Naples, Italy, is to have a subway, and when under the heights of Vomero the tunnel will lie a tout 500 feet below the surface. Electric elevators wMI be used here as well as at all places lying at depth of over 45 feet. At one end the line con”"c.ts with the Vesuvius railroad outs the city limits, and at the other it joins a suburban electric road. The estimated coat of the undertaking is about $6,000,000. Woman Is an Orchardist. Miss Elizabeth M. Hayward is the manager of one of the largest apple orchards in this country. The orchard is situated hear Hancock, N. H„ and Is owned by Miss Hayward’s father, who managed it himself until a few years ago, when because of his Illness the work fell to his daughter. The farm comprises one thousand acres *nd there are upward of ten thousand bearing trees in the orchard. At the recent New England fruit show Miss i Hayward won several first prizes. One Idea. “What are these society people we hear about?” asked Mrs. Corntossel. “I dunno,” replied the farmer, “but as near as I can make out they’re jes’ folks that make a regular habit o’ wearin’ their Sunday clothes every lay. Where Work Comes Jn. Everett Wrest —Wouldn’t it be fine to have a nice restful sedentary job like occupyin’ a seat in congress? Felix Hawsted—Yes, but you gotta run for it.— Exchange.

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k OLLECTORS of antiques " have always kept Cnidus ' well in mind. A curious document, which purports to be a marble-hunter’s vade mecum, draw n up by one Henry Petty, who

scoured the Levant on behalf of noble virtuosi in the seventeenth century, sets down Cnidus as one of the likeliest spots; and various excavators have pecked at the place, from the Dilettanti in 1812 to an American party a few months ago; but no one has ever dug it deeply or widely. Perhaps the Germans, when they have finisaed with Miletus, may send Dr. Wiegand to do justice at last to Cnidus with his immense experience and his large resources; perhaps the Americans who have been foiled at Cyrene by the Tripolitan war, and are looking for a fresh field, may anticipate him. The British Athenian school, as it happens,- t js going to begin excavations within a day’s ride of the place —at Datcha, the ancient Akanthps. One could wish it had taken'its courage in both hands and gone for the greater city. The great sites demand, of course, more time and money and men; but it is in them that in ninetynine cases out of a hundred, the great works of art and the great historical records are found. And Cnidus is a great site on all accounts. Its area is very large as Greek sites go; the scale of the visible remains is big, the indications of yet bigger things below ground are frequent. The place was always in the forefront of Asiatic Greek history; and treasures of art which it is known to have possessed were of the very first quality. Even what has already been found there by hasty diggers is out of the common. The great marble lion, which is supposed to have commemorated Conon’s victory at Cnidus in 394 B. C., is not more remarkable as a historical monument than a work of art. The Cnidian Demeter is the finest extant statue which can reasonably be ascribed to the hand of an-Asiatic Greek master. But splendid as is that figure of the mourning Mother—or, at least, as her head is, for her body is by an inferior hand—it would rank far below another Cnidian statues, were that still preserved for some one’s lucky spade. We know the Aphrodite of Praxiteles only from coin types and copies, of which the best is that Vatican figure whose charms a prudish pope caused to be veiled by metal drapery from the too

How Professor Got Radium

Easterner Tells How He Obtained Enough of Precious Stuff for Experiments. An eastern college professor was lecturing on radium. “Radium is so valuable,” he declared, “that most small laboratories have to gfet along as well as they can without the actual experiments. In fact, there are many colleges in this country which do not possess any radium at all, and all that can be learned of the element is from books on the subject. I will tell you how I secured the radium with which I have been performing experiments for a number of years. “It was not long after the Curies made their discovery when a noted French scientist came over to this country with a small quantity of the newly discovered substance. He performed a number of the stock experiments before several hundred students in this lecture hall. When he concluded his discussion he took the small piece of paper on which the radium was lying and poured the precious grains back into their especially prepared receptical. After doing that, he, with the utmost care, brushed the tiny dust from the paper, thereby causing his large class to burst into laughter at his seemingly exaggerated frugality. “ ‘You may laugh,’ said the lecturer, ‘but know- that there are hundreds of institutions in this country that would give a great deal for that little coating of dust I have just saved. Many experiments could be performed with that glone for several years. I know what I am doing all right.’

Century Plant in Bloom

The beautiful' specimen of the “century plant,” Agave atrovirens, which has been a conspicuous object in the Succulent house at Kew gardens, London, England, for many years has been invested with a halo of romance, because, unlike Peter Pan, who never would mature, it has grown and grown, outstripping its neighbors and pushing its way far up into the glass

A Few Browning Echoes

Before the Browning centenary passes out of mind we may put together a few of the things that have been said this week on the timeworn subject of the poet’s alleged obscurity. Mr. Henry James says he clings to “the dear old tradition that Browning Is difficult” Professor Saintsbury (in the Bookman) says that there is only one poem in the whole vast range by which he is baffled, and that is “A

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earnest eye; but we know, too, that some ancient critics (among them Lucian) held the original the most beautiful of all Greek statues in the world which still knew a hundred masterpieces now lost. Probably that perfect type of feminine nudity was rapt long ago from Cnidus —though why more probably than that of Hermes should have been rapt from Olympia? —but, even so, is it not still well worth any art lover’s while to dig the site of the town which put up at Delphi the “Treasury of the Cnidans” whose beauties the French school at Athens have revealed to our time? AU through the classical Greek age Cnidus was a capital city, the chief of five famous neighbors on the mainland and in Rhodes; and the Dorian games, which were the bond of the six cities, were held always on the Triopian headland beneath her w'alls. To dig Cnidus, therefore, would be to follow the best rule of excavators, which is to dig capitals. It was also a mother city, able to send out colonies of its citizens to the Adriatic and even the western Mediterranean. Its situation secured it wealth from the sea, for it lay just at the southern angle of Asia Minor in the track of every ship which beat up from the Phoenician and Egyptian seas into the Greek. The Triopian island, which is now Cape Krio, lay so near the mainland that it could be joined by a causeway, and the strait thus bridged gave the city two bays, one looking westward, one eastward, and both well screened. In the latter, whose old mole still breaks the southeast swell, a modern steamer of much larger tonnage than the average coaster can ride at ease. The site is a good English mile in length, and the walls

“The class broke Into applause after this rebuke had been administered and the gathering broke up. The French scientist went on his way lecturing and experimenting. A week later before one of my own classes I performed all the experiments we had had during the visit of the foreign physicist. Where did I get my radi-

Problems in Egg Culture

Scientific Experiments to Be Mad® to Demonstrate the Possibility of Improvement. The Cambridge School of Agriculture is trying to make hens lay red eggs. There is always the best market for eggs which are of the richest red brown in color, and the problem is to develop the right kind of hen. The Cambridge experimenters hope to produce a red egg-laying hen of prolific habit, just as they have produced a strong rust-resistihg wheat of high yield by working on the curious law of Mendel. Hens have so far proved admirable examples of the working of this law. In respect of single and double combs and in respect of color they are perfectly obediett to the proper scientific principle. They “behave” as they ought, to use the technical verb. Why should not the eggs behave as well as the feathers and comb? There is also the subsidiary question of food. It may be possible to alter the egg color by food as well as by hereditary influences. It has been done in the case of canaries.

roof. Early in March of the present year the plant—which, by the way, was called the “century” because formerly it was supposed to flower only once in a hundred years—showed signs of flowering, the upper leaves that were formed being smaller and less spinous than ordinary leaves. The inflorescence or “pole” soon made its appearance, and growing rapidly, reached

Serenade at the Villa” (“That was I, you heard last night, when there rose no moon at all”). Dr. Darrell Figis (in the English Review) speaks of “My Star” as “a puzzling lyric”— which is odd. “The books that baffled a Ruskin and were too tough for a Jowett are everybody’s reading today,” said Mr. Dixon Scott in Tuesday’s Manchester Guardian, and he is right Perhaps, however, no queerer

which enclose it can be followed from sea to sea. The fine Greek masonry is especially well preserved where the fortification runs down to the water on the east, and a terminal tower was built out into the waves; but the older parts, constructed in the polygonal fashion, which made for strength, are on the Acropolis of the Triopian island. Here were evidently at once the stronghold and the holy places of Cnidus. The mass of the city needed, however, the larger spaces of the mainland, and climbed terrace above terrace to the summit of a high rocky hill. Its main plan and the situation of many of its public buildings were made out of the Dilettanti expedition and by Newton, and even after years of neglect they can still be traced. The marble facings have been much damaged, partly by the builders of Rhodes, partly by native lime-burners; but even in such an obvious quarry as the Theater offers, a good deal of the finer material remains in place. There is a rich harvest to be reaped by anyone who can induce the Ottoman government to expropriate the peasant cultivators, and thereafter will break down their terraced plots and search them systematically from the harbor’s edge to the hill-top. Cnidus is the most promising and favorable Greek site which remains for a well-financed and well-equipped expedition to undertake. There is no modern village, no modern graveyard, to hamper diggers; communications with well-supplied centers —Rhodes, Cos, and Budrum — are easy, and labor could be procured in abundance from both the Tripolian peninsula itself and from the isles. Finally, there is no lovelier spot than Cnidus on one of the loveliest coasts of the Mediterranean.

um? I didn’t steal it as you may suspect. You will recollect that I mentioned the fact that the radium had been brushed from a small slip of paper. The Frenchman got his radium and threw the paper away. I picked up the paper and with the particles of radium still adhering to it I can now= perform all of his experiments. I have been doing so for several years and will continue for several more, when I expect to buy a larger quantity after the price goes down."

If Cambridge achieves the poultryman’s Ideal of a hen that lays yearly 250 two-ounce red eggs, no one will then say that the universities are not practical or even commercial —New York Sun. Sugar Cane Introduced by Jesuits. Sugar was first made in Louisiana in 1751 by the Jesuit fathers from San Domingo. The cane grew well, but all attempts to manufacture sugar from it were abortive, and it was not until 1791 that Don Antonio Mendez succeeded in extracting sugar from cane. Three years later Etienne de Bore made such a large crop of sugar that many were induced to go into the industry, and .it is to him that the real credit of being the father of the industry belongs. In common with all industries in the experimental stage, the sugar cane industry of Louisiana was at its inception a very crude and unimportant one, but by 1820 the crop approximated some 20,000,000 pounds of sugar.

the roof in the course of Uiree weeks. It then became necessary to move the plant into the open air, and this entailed the removal of the greater part of the end of the building. The flower spike has continued to elongate and is now some 18 feet high. The plant has exactly 60 leaves, the longest of which is 7 feet 3 inches broad in the middle and inches at the base. Some of the lower leaves are 11 inches thick in the middle and 15 inches at the base, but only 4 feet to 5 feet In length.

thing has been said about Browning tn these days than Mr. W. L. Courtney’s condemnation of “Bishop Blougram’s Apology” as an “unpleasant’ piece.” Think of that, now!—Manchester Guardian. Envy. Bald One —I would give any inlng fol your splendid head of hair. Woolly One—Would you, really? Bald One—Yea I would like to go to the barber shop just once and feel that I am getting my money’s worth.*' X

MONEY NOT LACKING It Is Men That the Educational Movement Needs. $ Dr. Fletcher of United States Bureau of Education Says Income for Common Schools Is $403,647,289, an Increase of 83 Per Cent. Washington.—“No one who is conversant with the educational history of the world will fail to see evidences of a movement which can not be matched from the records of the past,” declares Dr. Fletcher B. Dresslar of the United States bureau of education in a report on educational progress for the first decade of this century. The -report has just been issued for free distribution. “Greece, and Rome in the days of their greatest advances knew naught of school buildings as they exist today. Far more money is invested in public school property than was requqired to maintain all the machinery of our federal government in 1910. • “But let us not boast of good work? and forget those useless expenses of our so-called enlightened civilization. We spend each year for purposes which all reason and scientific investigation condemn as harmful, enough money to duplicate all our school buildings and have millions of dollars left for providing worthy playgrounds for children.” In proof of the assertion that the people of the United States are making unparalleled expenditures for edu- . cation, Dr. Dressier cites statistics coij lected by the bureau of education ■ which show that “the total income from all sources for the common schools has increased from $219,765,989 in 1900 to $403,647,289 in 1909. “This is truly a remarkable showing,” Dr. Dresslar continues. “The school population has increased only in the neighborhood of 15 per cent., while the total income for common schools has increased more than 83 per cent.” “As indicated above, the large item in this increase is the income from local taxation. This fact adds great significance to’ these figures; for not only does it emphasize, as already indicated, the willingness of the people to support their common schools in an immediate and direct way, but it should furnish a striking object lesson to those states which are yet afraid, apparently, to trust the people with power to tax themselves for the adequate support of their common schools. “Those states which persist in preventing the people from exercising the right to local taxation for school purpos- are surely out of line with the democratic faith so strikingly shown by these figures. Whatever qualms may arise at times on account of civic inefficiency in other lines of endeavor, it is plain that the American people believe in the education of their children, and are willing to pay for it directly, out of their own pockets.” As a further indication of the large increase during the decade of America’s investment in education, Dr. Dressier notes that the total value of ail school property has increased from $550,000,000 in 1900 to the enormous sum of $968,000,000 in 1909. Great cutlays have also been necessitated by the increases in teachers’ salaries, whose monthly wage has risen about 35 per cent, for the men and 25 per cent, for the women. In view of the fact also that the school term has lengthened from 144.3 days of 1900 to 155.3 days in 1909, the teachers, who are paid by the month, have had a further actual increase in salary, and at the same time have been able to increase their educational effectiveness in this particular alone by some eight per cent. Ar'ong the deplorable factors in the educational trend it is the relative elimination of men teachers from the public schools. This elimination “has been going on steadily and rapidly since 1880.” In the first decade of this century the proportion dropped from 30 men in each 100 teachers to only about 21 in the 100, a decrease of nearly 30 per cent, in ten years. Discussing these figures, Dr. Dresslar said "there is no doubt that it is unwise to intrust so important a matter as the teaching '-f .boys and girls so largely to women, but the facts are known and have been for many years, and yet the hoped-for change does not come.” Another regrettable circumstance in our educational development is the ; slight attention given to “those finer instincts of our nature expressed in poetry, music and art." Especially is this true of Instruction in music. “The j American people,” says Dr. Dresslar, < “are eye-minded, and moving pictures seem to suit their desires better than ( music. In some way the people should ( be taught to hear the significant things of life as well as to see them.” / Dr. Dresslar also takes up the urg- ( ent need and almost universal demand j for vocational training. In this connection, he says: “We must not give ( up our endeavor to create in this coun- , try high standards of general culture, f but we must make our educational , work function more efficiently in the , common duties of life.. Our big prob- 1 lem is that of creating a democracy which will not be limited largely to mediocrity.” FOREIGN TRADE INCREASES. , According to a statement of the bu- , reau of statistics, the foreign trade of , the United States in May exceeded, in both Imports and exports, that for the corresponding month of any earlier year, and this is true also of the figures of the eleven months ending with May. Imports amounted to $155,600,724, against in May, 1911, the former high record for the month of May. Exports were $175,895,328, against $153,152,353 in May of last year, the former high record for May. The total imports for the eleven months ending with May were: $1,522,137,975, against $1,404,418,921 in the corresponding month of 1911; and exports during the eleven months ending with May were $2,066,603,937, against $1,907,613,462 in the corre- - i

I spending month of last year. Imports for the eleven months exceed by $85,I 000,000 the largest "ever recorded for the corresponding eleven months, that of the fiscal year 1910. The exports ■ exceeded by $159,000,000 the largest total ever recorded for the corresponding eleven months, that for the fiscal year 1911. The share of merchandise entering free of duty in' the month of May was 54.3 per cent., against 48.3 per cent, in May, 1911, and ip. the eleven months ending with May, 53. R per cent., against 50.9 per cent, in the corresponding period of last year. The duties collected from customs in the month of May were $26,578,973, against $24,073,285 in May of last year; and for the eleven months ending with May, $285,030,210, against $269,487,994 in the corresponding monthK of last year. AMERICANS COFFEE DRINKERS. More than one-third of the two and a half billion pounds of coffee annually entering the International commerce of the world is consumed in the United States, Its imports of that article being twice as much as those of Germany, three times those of the Netherlands, four times those of France, nearly ten times those of Great Britain and half as much as those of all Europe, next to the United States the great coffee-consuming section of the world. The world’s leading importers of coffee, according to the latest official reports of the various countries thus far received by the bureau of statistics, department of commerce and labor, are: The United States, 875,000,000 pounds; Germany, 404,000,000; Netherlands, 265,000,000; France, 245,000,000; Austria-Hungary, 127,000,■000; Belgium, 95,000,000; the United Kingdom, 88,000,000, and Sweden, 65,000,000. Italy, Norway, Switzerland and Denmark also consul .e considerable quantities, ranging from 45,000,000 to 25,000,000 pounds each. Os the countries on the hemisphere, Argentina and Cuba each import about 20,000,000 pounds per annum; Canada, about 8,000,000; Chile, 7,000,000 and Uruguay about 3,000,000, while Australia, the Island continent, consumes between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000 pounds per annum. Certain of the African countries are comparatively large importers of coffee, the imports into Egypt averaging 15,000,000 pounds a year; Cape of Good Hope, 20,000,000, and Algeria about 15,000,000 pounds. MEETINGS NEVER DULL. Something is always stirring when the Daughters of the American Revolution hold their meetings in Washington. Handsomely gowned women are in the lobbies of the hotels, and the new D. A. R. Temple is aglow with life and discussion. When the continental congress of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, began its session the scene was truly awe-inspiring. President Taft stood reverently as the immense American flag was raised to the ceiling, and while the band played the stirring strains of the “Star-Spangled Banner” three thousand women joined in the national hymn and every one of them seemed to know the words—when they looked at the leaflets. A long line of prettily gowned page girls bearing flowers then marched slowly down the center aisle, clearing the way for Mrs. Mathew T. Scott, the president general. After the impressive opening exercises it was not long before the ladies were indulging in enthusiastic discussion, for no one could ever charge a meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution with being dull.—Chapple’s News-Letter. UNCLE SAM’S INSULAR POSSESSIONS. Probably the average American citizen is ignorant of the fact that Uncle Sam’s Insular possesions number some 4,000 tropical and semi-tropical islands. These great colonial possessions are not, as the Occidental mind is inclined to believe, mere stretches of sand and palms and jungles, sparsely inhabited by savage tribes. Some of the islands, it is true, are simply coral reefs, too small to be habitable, set In the midst of the South Pacific. But some, on the other hand, are giant tracts of land. Luzon, in the Philippines, the largest; has an area equal tq the state of Ohio. The total area of the islands is about 130,000 square miles, equal to New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. The population is about 10,000,000. Indeed, the islands are anything but sparsely settled. In Porto Rico, for instance, the population per square mile is thirteen times that in continental United States, in the Philippines nearly triple. Candles That Grow. Seeds of two very remarkable trees have recently come tq the United States plant bureau through the hands of the agricultural explorers. Both of tl»m might be called light bearers, though in ways somewhat different. One of them is the “pili” nut tree, which grows in the southern part of the Island of Luzon, and nowhere else in the Philippines. It is quite a large tree, and its seed is described as extraordinarily rich In flavor. All the Americans in the Philippines think it the finest nut grown. When the nuts are roasted, If a lighted match be touched to one of them, it will burn like a lamp, so rich is It in oil. The other trre Is a native of the Isthmus of Panama, and is one of the most remarkable trees of the tropics. It is known as the “candle tree,” most appropriately, inasmuch as its aspect, when its fruits are ripe, is that of a tree whose branches are covered with candles, much after the fashion of a Christmas tree. Regrettable. “I can’t tell you how sorry I was to hear of your husband’s death, Mrs. Nurich. It is too bad that he had to go that way.” “Yes; 1 j-Just c-can’t get over it If it bad only been appendicitis or something fashionable; but plain conjunr tion of the brain! It makes me fee so bad on the children’s account.’’—Judge’s Library. Got Right Into It Howell —“He went to a picnic and fell Into a barrel of beer.” Powell—- “ Well, there is nothing like entering into the spirit of the occasion.” I

IN PURSUIT OF HOOD’S ARMY Member of Minnesota Regiment Gives Details Leading to Capture of Pointe Coupee Battery. A sketch of the incidents leading to the capture of the Pointe Coupee Battery at Nashville is given by Theo- '! dore G. Carter, captain. Co. K. 7th Minnesota, in the National Tribune as follows: “At Nashville the sth Minn, was on the left of the Second Brigade, First Division. Sixteenth Corps, front line, its left flank resting on the Granny White pike.’ The Pointe Coupee battery was in front of my company. On Dec. 15th we had charged and driven the enemy’s forces from two forts or I redoubts, without stopping to place guards over the guns, colors and other captured property. Our colqnel. W. R. Marshall, was in command of the Third Brigade on the 16th. and l\ it-® Rh f \*/ / si “Lay Down Your Arms and Surrei> der.” he was the only brigade commander who led his brigade in that charge of the Sixteenth Corps, and he was on horseback at that. A lane ran along the front of and below the high woodland upon which the Pointe Coupee battery was, and the Confederates took the Inside fence rails and placed them on top of the outer fence, with the ends resting on top of the fence and sloped towards us. the lower ends covered with dirt to keep them in place. They were laid close together, and it was difficult to climb them. A shell had knocked out a part of the obstruction. As I was looking towards the battery (it was pouring grape, canister and shrapnel at us all the time), I did not notice the movement of the regiment to the right; consequently when I saw it there was a break in my company of some 75 or 100 yards. I told the remaining eight or ten boys that we would go to that gap and go over. The boys ‘boosted’ me up, and as I gained the top I saw Col. Marshall come galloping down from the right. He rode out into the crowd of fleeing Confederates, calling out: ‘Lay down your arms and surrender.’ I jumped down, and telling the boys to follow me, ran after the colonel, giving the same call. There were apparently thousands of them trying to get over the hills to the Franklin pike. Our left claimed the capture of that battery, too, yet we had been in possession quite awhile before their line had fairly started.” Sykes’ E'Jg and Hood’s Army. After battle of Nashville a friend asked President Lincoln if he expected any more trouble from Hood’s army. He replied: “Well, no, Medill; I think Hood’s army is about in the same flx of BiM Sykes’ dog, down in Sangamon county. Bill had a long, yellow dog that was forever getting into the neighbors’ meat houses and chicken coops. They had tried to kill it a hundred times, but the dog was always too smart for them. Finally one of them got a smaH bag and filled It up with powder, tying a piece of punk around the neck. When he saw the dog coming he fired this punk, split open a hot biscuit and put the bag in, then buttered it and threw it out The dog swallowed it at a gulp. Pretty soon there was an explosion, and pieces of the dog fell all around. Bill Sykes came along, and, seeing the scraps lying around, said: ‘I guess that dog, as a dog. ain’t of much more account* There may be fragments of Hood’s army around, but I guess his army, as an army, ain’t of much more account” Twice Mistaken. Major Maglnnls, of Montana, resemtled General Corse so strikingly that the major says himself that they were “as like as ‘two’ twins.” General Hawley was one of Crose’s friends, and. meeting Maglnnls one day, he exclaimed: “Why, how are you, Crose?” The major drew himself up and said: “My name is Maglnnls, General.” General Hawley apologized profusely, and later in the day, seeing a familiar figure, marched up to him and said: “It’s strange. Maginnit., that I took you for Crose.” “But I am General Crose,” replied the hero of Allatoona. Thoroughly Surrounded. A colonel of a Michigan regiment called upon another in camp and found him, as he usually was when duties were not pressing, surrounded by a group who always enjoyed his witticisms. The visiting colonel, upon entered. remarked: “Hello! Surrounded by your coterie, as usual.” “Yes,” replied the witty one; “lfk» wise by my ‘panteriw* and my ’«■< •rie.*" *