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About The new Northwest. (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1881)
'4. ' w A. "f '..'' ; i 6 THE NEW XOIlTHTVTET, THURSDAY, OOTOlJEIt 27, 1881.; ; SENTENCED TO BE SHOT, Farmer Owen's ton had been found asleep when - doing sentinel duty, and he was sentenced to be shot, A 'telegram had been repelred by his father, saying that the sentence would be carried , out In twenty-four hours. Mr. Allan, the mlnls- ter, called to ddwhat he could to comfort the sor-. rowing family. During his rislt a letterarrived ; . Blossom, the .farmer's little daughter,; opened ; the door and received itP.lt is from him," was all she said . ' 'Z - It Was like a message from the dead. Mr. Owen took the letter, but could, not break the en velope, on account of his trembling Angers, and held it toward Mr. Allan, wi tilths helplessness of tk child. ' , The minister opened itj and read as follows : "Deab Father : 'When this reaches you I shall be In eternity. At first It seemed awful to me : but I hare thought about It so much now that It has no terror. They say they will not bind me nor blind me, but that I rosy meet my death like a man. I thought, father, that ; it might have been on the battle-field - for ray country, and that when I fell it would be fighting gloriously; but to be -shot down like a dog for nrlv htrvlnir lt La die-far neclect of dutv on. father.- I - wonder-ths -very- thought 4ioes , not ! kill me t But I shall not disgrace you. I am going to write you all about It. and. when I am cone you may tell-my com rades. You Jt now. I promised Jlmmle Calx's mother I would look after her boy; and when he fell sick I did all I could for him. lie was not strong when ordered back Into the ranks, and the day before that night I carried all his luggage, beside my own, on-jour march. .Toward night we went In .on double quicksand, though the luggage began to feel ' heavy," everybody else was tired,, too. And, as for Jimmle, If I had not lent him an arm now sod then he would have dropped by the way.. I was all tired out when we went Into camp, and then It was Jlmmle's turn to be sentry, and I would take his place: but I was too tired, father.. I could not nave kept awake though a gun had been pointed at my head ; butl Ild not know it until " well--untll It was too late." "God be thanked 1" said Mr. Owen. "I knew Bennie was not the boy to sleep carelessly at his post" . (.3 ; ' ' "They tell me to-day that I have a short reprieve 'time to write to you,' our good colonel says. Wvatavl vta . I rr fa i Has hft Anlv tr&m m rtit t w Ha would gladly' save me if be could. And dotrTnwrTU111' ls A iBreo.hciis-Boinhlm lay my death against Jlmmle. The poor boy is heart-broken, and does nothing" but beg ancLen treatthem to let him die In mv stead. I can't bear-to think of mother and 'Blossom. 'Comfort them, father. ' TelJ them I die as a brave boy should, and that, when the war is over, they will not" be ashamed of me. as theyjnust be how. - God help me; It Is very hard to near. Good-bye, father. God seems nearand.tleir to me, as If lie felt sorry for Ills poor, broken-hearted child, and would take me . to be with Him in a better, better life. To-night I shall see the cows coming home from pasture, and precious little Blossom standing on the stoop; waiting for me; but I shall uever never come. God bless you all. Forgive your poor , ' v.. Bennie.'" Late that night a little figure glided down the footpath toward the railway station. The guard, as he reached down to lift her into the carriage, wondered at the tear-stained face that was 'up turned toward the dim lantern he held In his hand. A few. questions and ready answers told him all, and no father could have cared more tenderly for his pniy ciiiid than ne ror our little iiiossoni. dent Lincoln for her brother's life. She had brought Bennle's letter With her: no good, kind heart, -like the President's, could refuse, 4o be melted by It . . .'."'-. - :-: ' . The next morning they reached New York, and - the guard hurried her on to Washington. Every minute now might be the means of saving her " brother's life. The President had Just seated hlmT - Self at his evening's task, when the door softly opened, and rBIoHom, with downcast eyes and '-folded hands, stood before. him. . "Well, my chiTd.lie said In his pleasant, cheerful tones, "what do you want ?" - t" J "Bennle's life, please, sir,'' faltered Blossom. r" lierinIeI"Who Is Bonnier ' . - "My ' brother, sir. They are goings to shoot him for sleeping at bis post." ''Oh,' yes; I remember. It was a fatal sleep. You see, child, it .was a time of special danger. Thousandsof lives might have been lost by his negligence.".. , -"So my father said," replied Blossom, gravely. "But poor Bennie was so tired, sir, and Jlmmle so weak, lie did the work of two, sir, and It was Jlmmle's night, not his; but Jlmmle was too' ' tired,' and Bennie never thought about himself,1 ana he was tired, too." . "What Is this you say, child"? Come here, I do not understand." Aim! the kind man, as ever, caught eagerly at what seemed to be a Justlnca- tlon of an offense. Blossom went to him. He put his hand ' tenderly on her shoulder, and turned up the pale, anxious face toward his. - How tall be seemed I ndha wASPresIdent,oftheUnited States, too. through little Blossom's mind; but she-told her simple, straightforward story and handed Bennle's letter to Mr. Lincoln to. read. . ; He read it carefully; then, taking up a pen, wrote a few hasty lines and rang his bell. Blos som heard this order given: r . "Send this dispatch at orice." .---' . The President then turned to the girl, and said I 'Go home, my child, and tell that father of yours, who could approve his country's sentence, even when It took the life of a child like that, Abraham Lincoln thinks the life far too precious to be lost. Go back, or wait until to-morrow; Bennie will - need a change after he has so bravely faced death; he shall go with ytu." God bless you, sir I" said Blossom.- V .Two days after this J.ntervJw, . the '-young soldier came to the White House with' his little sister. He was called Into the-pretklent's pri vate room, and a 'tran was fasteued, on " his shoulder. ' Mr. Lincoln then said: 'The soldier thatouId-crry-a-stckcomrad' baggage, and die for the act so-uncomplainingly, deserves well of his country." Then Bennie and blossom took their way to their Green Mountain home. - A crowd gathered at ths railway, station to welcome-the in back ; .jtndagjrWMjjam'AJinnd grasi boy, tears no wed down his cheet iieard to say, fervently : The Lord be praised." "PERFECTLY LOVELY" PHILOSOPHY. ... A tew days ago a Boston girl, who had been at tending the School of Philosophy at Concord, ar rived at Brooklyn on a visit to a seminary chum. After canvassing thoroughly the fun and gum drops that made up their education In the seat of learning at which scholastio efforts" were made, the Brooklyn girl began to Inquire into the na ture of the Concord entertainment. "And so you are taking lessons in philosophy. How dfryou like It?" , ""- :.. .ir . t "Oh 1 it's perfectly lovelyr It'sjabout scleBce, you know, and we all Just dote oil science." " Itmust benlcer-AVhatlaltabout?" . ' v "It's about molecules amuehs anything else, and molecules are Just too awful nice for, any thing. If there's anything I really enjoy, It's molecules ' s Tell me all about them, my deaf. ' What are molecules?" ,. , .- - y "Oh I molecules ? They are little wee things, and it takes ever so many-of them. They, are splendid things! Do you know there aln'l any thing but what's got molecules Jn It. And Mr. Cook is Just as sweet as he can be, .and Mr. Emer son too. They explain everything so beautifully.' , "How I'd like to go there 1" said the Brooklyn girl, enviously. itYou'd enjoy it ever So much.They teach pro toplasm, too, and if there is one thing perfectly lovely it's protoplasm and molecules. -7' - "Tell me about protoplasjn. I know I should adore it." " - 1 M- : "Deed you would. It's Just ,too sweet to live. You know It's about how things get started, or something of that kind. You ought to hear Mr. Emerson tell about It. It would stir your very soul. ' The first time he explained protoplasm there wasn't a dry eye In the house.- We named our hats after him. This Is an Emerson hat. You see the ribbon Is drawn over the crown and caught with a buckle and a bunch of flowers. Then you turn up the side with a spray of forget-me-nots. Ain't it Just too sweet? "AH the girls In the school have them." . ', And the Brooklyn girl went to bed that night itt.lbe dumps because fortune had" not vouchsafed her the advantages enjoyed by her friend, while the Boston girl dreamed of seeing an ascidian chasing a molecule over a differentiated back fence with a club for telling a protoplasm that his youngest sister had so many freckles on her nose that they made her cross-eyed. '. very solemn In a large convict prison at midnight. A faint sound of healthy slumber, comes from the cells where th4 convicts sleep. Perhaps there are a thousand. rTerhans only live hundred, undergo ing punishment: but whatever may be the num ber, one is conscious that nowhere. else save In a convict prison could so many human beings sleep with so little to interrupt me sense or calm repose. In-the-sam number of people taken from the ordinary world, there would be slight sounds aris ing from nightmare following on Indigestion perhaps from some , reminiscence' troubling the conscience on the question whether the strong steps taken for payment of that bill were not In the circumstances slightly harsh, "or some other disturbing recollection; there might also be un easy thoughts and dreams creative of restlessness. None of these troubles disturb the sleep of" the habitual criminal. This Is not because his con science lies easy on him, but because he does not possess the article known to the rest of the world as a conscience. Hence he neither enjoys the eat Iffaetion of Its healthy and genial condition nor the trouble. attending-on-iHtftMlons, and It Is, gratification I -BPe-warwticr way to yingon-o'r;wl Indlf. ),0Ht OM, ferenoe," by iireviiie, as it may ie round in the old VKIegant Extracts," is granted. ilaekwoor Magazine. ' - ' . ; ." of natfonal pride that all which Is Justly the self-sacrlflce-and of th'e thoughtful and tender devotion of Mrs. Garfleldlo her ..husband during his long and distressing Illness, might be said with eual Justice of almost every American wife under similar circumstances. Indeed, nothing less is expected of American women ; and though they attract little or no attention, such Instances of-wifely care aiMlatchfui-airectlon-rf -co in stant occurrence, in the palatial mansions of the rich and In the humbler dwellings of the poor and lowly; so that when Mrs. Garfield is praised, the high eulogies pronounced upon her belong not-to her atone, but are. tributes to the-character, the disinterestedness ami the fidelity of American wives In general. -Jndecd, so much Is the exercise of all these womauly virtues looked upon as a matter of course, that the public would be greatly, shocked at the manifestation of any lack of them Lin a case where the sufferings of a husband- had tieenso tcrrinie and proiouged. Alany a common laborer, living from hand to mouth on his daily earnings, possesses the priceless treasure of a wife Just as devoted ; while It Is fortunate that the con spicuous exsmpieor a l'resiuent's wire has brought these common but highTi'iualities of American women scKpromlnently before the world. JV. Y. Sun.' ':: A dim thought of thlsklnd passeil for a momen( ABoWomxfWPEAT-BETJ7Orr'thcextenslOTr of the New England road from Brewster's to the Hudson there Is one of those peat-beds like the one which, near Walllngford, has caused the Con solidated road so much trouble. This one, west of Brewster's, required over 000 car-load of eartb to flIK It- before a foundation could be had.for the abutments of a bridge serosa the shallow pond. For this structure, piles, one upon another, have been driven 110 feet Into the peat, and the longest goes down 114 feet below the surface. A 3000 pound weight has been used In driving them, and, at the last fall of this Immense hammer, a fall of 20 or 30 feet would drive the piles only half an Inch, so great was the friction on the shies of the piles. As It wan, bottom was hot reached after all; the friction on the piles sustain them. Some 70,001) or 80,000 cubic yards of earth have been dumped Into this pi U-Jarffonl (Conn.) 7'iinr. Sweakixo-oIV Xorxr. "Give me a match," said a wee little boy to Mr. A. I Davis. ; . i iutlyoojrantamalcJijQrjrii J WW B1U Ull U1VIIIII, lulling some paper. 'I want to light my cigarette." "You oujrht not to Smoke." "Well, give me a bit and I'll swyar efft" up jHFgot htniTtTand hasllfus far kept tils Word.- 'Kerosene lamps rarely explode. . -'; which ,are - trimmed dally -5 . , SMOKE ON TAP, - f - We understand that some enterprllng young men In a Western city, acting on the plan of,' the steam supply companies, are forming a company to supply imokers with tobacco smoke. They will start up with a capital of $10,000, $5000 of wbicbrwlll be Invested In a large meerchaum pipe, something-like a cauldron kettle, to be centrally located, from which service pipes will reach in all directions., Pressure will be applied, and the cool, ure smoke forced through all the ramifications of he systerauof tubes. It is -claimed by the pro ectors that the plan possesses features that will ' ring it at once Into favor with smokers,, and that t will be much cheaper, besides doing away with he trouble and annoyance of keeping a pipe, a lobaccp pouch and matches. It is enti mated that he average smoker consumes an hour's time each day in keeping, a plje In order,. in borrowing tobacco and hunting up a match, which is liable to go out, which amounts to fifteen days' time in a year, and this at three dollars a day amounts to an aggregate Pf forty-five, dollars. - All this will be saved by having a convenient ceil of tubing and a nice amber mouth-piece, whjch the smoker can take up at any time and find already lighted and "going." It Is also shown that a man who smokes a pipe smokes more than Is good for him, as he always smokes it out froni" force of.habltj while, by the new plan, he will only take a few whiffs to take the rabbit fur out of his rhouth and clear his brain, when he will lay the subject aside for fu ture reference.-- Thecompany will guarantee first class tobacco-no dog-leg brand or "dry removal" stuff from the sewer being permitted to be thrown Into the fire at the central oftlce-rrand the smoke will be thoroughly denlcotinized by passing it through a task of rose-water, thus avoiding that unpleasant sensation caused by tipping up a pipe carelessly and getting a taste of something-like Lake Superior whisky, or oil of vitriol. Nothing will be left undone for the comfort of patrons, and a gentlemanly jcolIectorlwlll calLonceLa. month and. take the meter. There does not seem to be any possible chance for the failure of the scheme, and It la destined soottlo anklongslclethe tele phone and milk wagon, as one of the conveni ences and luxuries worked out for humanity by the inventive genius of the nineteenth century It will be nothing less than a giant strides In to bacco smoke progress. Exchange. -, j . Jv J ' A weeping widower fell Into his wife's grave during .a . funeral at Decatur, 111., and as he fane that the clergymau-felt compelled to reprove mm. ;TIme.never rests heavily on us when It Is - well employed. ' - - ' ' ' ' " ' .. The followlngstatement of WTlliam J. Coughlin, of Somervjlle, Mass., is so remarkable that we beg to ask for It the attention of our readers. He says: "In the Fall of 1870 J was taken with a violent bleeding of the lungs, followed by a severe cough. I soon r began' "to lose iny-appetite and flesh. I was so weak at one time that I could not leave my bed.- In the SuTiimer of lh"7 I was ad mitted to the City Hospital: While there the doctors said I had a hole In my left lung as big as a half dollar. I expended over $JO0 in dbctsrs and medicines. I was so far gone at one time that a report went around that 1 wan dead, I gave up hope, hut a friend told nie of Dri Wm. Hall's Bal sam for the Lungs. 1 laughed at my friends, thinking that my case was incurable; but I got a bottle to satisfy them, when to' my sumcise and commenced to reel better. Mv ;ai o revive, and to-day I fee) in belter spirits than 1 have ror the put three vears.i I write thIhoiinir vou will bultlish it. so rthal eycry one afilietctl with IimnHl lungs will tie induced to take Dr. m. Hairs Kalsam for the American Women. It may well be a soureti Lungs, and be convinced that coivsumptloncnn be V said of Turei. i pave taKen-iwo iiotties, and.;c an ik)h1 tlvely say that It has done more good than all the other medicines I have taken since my sickness. My cough "has-almost entirely dfrapiteared, ami I shall soon be able to go,to work." Sold by drug gists. , . '. ' - ' : Qnlaln mid "Aroeule , Form the basis of manyM4te-sgue rcmetlles In tje market simI aretlM-bHt-retort -of-pliysielans s7hd eople wiio know no letter medicine to em ploy for this distress' lug 'complaint. The effects of either of these drugs are destructive to the sys tem, -producing headache," liitestllial- disorders, vertigo, dizziness, ringing in the ears, and depres sion .ofthe constitutional health. -Aykk's Aoue Ct'RK is a vegetable discovery t'ontaining neither quinine, arsenic, nor any deleterious Ingredient, and Is an Infallible and rapid cure for every-forui of Fever and Ague. 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