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A recent improvement in sprinkling wagons bids fair to revolutionize road and street sprinkling in the country where there is no water system to sup ply water from hydrants. Heretofore it has been the custom to erect pump ing plants, or to pipe water from dis tant points to stations along the road at ' such distances that the load at one of these stations would last until the wagon reached the next station on its trip. This plan makes necessary the expense of piping, tanks, wells, horse I powers, etc., and has always been a I very considerable item of expense, and ' more or lees of an obstacle to having roads well watered. The improvement consists in attach ing a gasoline engine and centrifugal pump on a platform at the rear of the sprinkling wagon so that water can be taken from any convenient source. A, suction hose with foot valve is attached to the pump which can be lowered into a tank, creek, watering trough, or an water source. 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In quiries have been instituted as to the arrangements made for women students at 162 of the universities of the civil ized nations in both hemispheres, and 139 replifs were recefved. The ques tions asked were: Are women admit ted as members of the universities? Are they admitted on the same terms as men? Are they admitted to lectures? Are they admitted to examinations? Are they eligible for university degrees? It is significant of the advanced liber alism of Scotland and Wales that their five universities have no answer but "Yes" to make save as regards certain medical courses in the north country. Australia, India and Canada also answer "Yes," and Toronto proudly says: "Jrfo advantage is granted to men which is not open to women." New Zealand gives practically the same reply. France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzer land, Greece, Italy, and, of course, the United States, have almost unbroken columns of "Yes." The great sinners of Europe are Ge:m.ioy, Austria, and Russia. The convicts with a good record in the Kansas State Penitentiary now wear suits of cadet gray instead of striped suits. Nine hundred and fifty telegraph submarine cables are now in operation, most of them in Europe; their . total length is over 89,000 miles. The cheeks become . pale from fear because the mental emotion diminishes tt?e action of the heart and - lunes and bo impedes the circulation.,' ' , U OOPYRIOHT BY AMERICAN PRE8S ASSOCIATION, I8B4 Never was there a more gallant deed than that performed by Steve Brayton, and never was hero more heartily ap plauded by friend and foe.t He galloped his horse straight at the woman, and as he canre up to her he leaned over in the saddle, caught her with both hands, and next instant she was on the saddle be fore him, and the horse was flying back to the Federal lines. The woman fought and screamed; and fragments of burst ing shell whizzed and whirred around and above horse and riders, but they dashed into the lines unhurt, and the gallant rescuer was directed to continue down the road until the woman conld be placed beyond danger. Turn quick to the south I Yon will never see a grander spectacle than this. The Confederate command, divided in to three divisions, with double lines dressed as if on parade, has received the order to advance. They had waited for Cnster to charge, but the chevalier was also a strategist. His artillery, being better served, was creating the most havoc, and he could afford to delay. Look! Look! As the gray horsemen be gin to move Custer's guns, which have been grouped in front of his center, limber up and move at a gallop four of them two to the right" and two to the left. In three minutes they are on his flanks and loaded with grapesbot and canister. The Confederate battery does not follow the example, and as the horsemen move forward the guns are useless. "Trot! Gallop! Charge!" You hear the bugles sound the order, and you see 2,000 sabers flash in the sunset as 2,000 horsemen thunder over the plain. Give them credit for brav ery even to recklessness. Before the horses are off a trot the murderous grape shot are knocking them down by dozens, and as the artillerists change to canister 2,000 Federal carbines also open fire. "Rally! Re-form! Forward!" Above the roar of cannon and mus ketry you can catch the notes of the bngles, and as the smoke lifts here and there in spots the eye can detect the gray horsemen seeking to obey the calls. They do rally. They do re-form. They do push forward under that terrible fire, but only to be broken up and swept aside. The Federal artillerists get the order to cease firing, the crackle of mus ketry dies away, and five minutes later the smoke has drifted off, and the eye can scan the plain. Beaten, broken, slaughtered, and yet the gray horsemen are trying to rally again! New is the moment, and Custer has waited for it. Only the dead and wounded are left behind as he moves out, as his entire command sweeps straight across the plain and falls upon the broken and disorganized enemy. They rally here and there by the score and meet the shock. They fight.singly and by twos and threes. Men wait and die rather than run away. Brave men, all of them men whose deeds will be spoken of around our campfires for years to come. The only criticism will be that they did not have a leader equal to Custer in the murderous art of war. Night has fallen, and the fight is over. There are piisoners to be guarded, wounded to be cared for, dead to be counted for the official report and spoils to be gathered up. The clonds have driven away to the east, and the canopy of heaven is studded with bright stars. There is no moon, and the blood spots on the snow gradually fade away and are lost to sight. Hark! That sound ls.the cry or wounded men blended, into one great wail for succor. It is freezing cold, and they are in torture. Hark again! That grewsome sound rising at intervals above the wailing comes from the wounded horses. They are also begging and pleading. Some are limping about among the dead and wounded men as if seeking their masters, pausing now and then to rub their cold noses against a body, while others are lying down and lift their heads only to ntter a whinny which tells of fright and pain. Thank God that night and darkness come to the battlefield to hide its horrors! In the darkness we shall search out all the wounded, but we shall not be forced to look upon. the mangled dead mangled by shot and shell and grape and the iron hoofs of the charging horses until re semblance to humanity is lest and one cries out in horror. CHAPTER XXX. While the fight was raging the house and "quarters" were both in flames, fired by the shells from a Confederate gun. But for the strenuous efforts of the detachment guarding the prisoners in the barn that structure would have also been reduced to ashes. It therefore came about that when the battle was over and men began to bring in the wounded the barn was the only shelter to be had. The prisoners were turned out and the place given up to moaning, groaning men and those who sought to succor them. , The sounds of battle had been heard in the Federal lines, and a brigade of infantry arrived about 8 o'clock in the evening. While their services were not needed, the half dozen Burgeons sent out with the column had work to last them the long night through and far into the next day. It is a grim sight, a field hospital like this, and they are grim men into whose hands the wounded fall as they are lift ed off the stretchers, groaning, cursing or crying. The flight of a snowflake in a gale of wind is not more erratic than the flight of death missiles in a battle. Here are men wounded in the face; the next three or four may be wounded in the feet or ankles. Sabers have descend- ed npon beads and shoulders; bullets have plowed their way into arms, sides, hips or legs; fragments of shell have carried away fingers and reduced hands to pulp. Of a hundred men no two have received the same hurt. Bude tables have been prepared, and strong men lift each victim np to be overhauled by the men who have strip ped off coat and vest and tolled their Bleeves far back. They look like butch ers in a slaughter pen, but their hearts are tender toward these victims of bat tle, whether friend or foe. The bitter ness of battle is at its height when the crash of artillery and the crackle of musketry are fiercest. When the battle is over, whether victorious or defeated, pity returns to the heart and blinds the eyea to the color of the uniform. Over each man lifted up there is a brief con sultation. Those bare armed men need waste no time. They can tell almost at a glance what the result will be. If it is a mor tal hurt, the poor fellow is lifted aside to breathe his last as peacefully as pos sible under such surroundings. If there is hope for him, his wound is dressed with agile fingers, and he gives way to the next. , '.'.That's Captain Wyle, my company captain!" ' " So exclaimed Steve Brayton as he en tered the barn about 11 o'clock at night to see if he could recognize any Confed erates being brongbt in. The captain had just been lifted to the table. He ' was conscious, bnt bad not yet spoken. Those who brought him in Baid that he was pinned to the earth by the bind quarters of his dead horse, and that the animal was fearfully mangled by grape shot. "Shoulder dislocated, ribs ,bioken, leg broken, struck in the groin by a car bine" ball," announced the surgeon who made a rapid investigation. "Any hope for me?" asked the cap tain, whose lips had been moistened with whisky, as it was observed that he desired to speak. The surgeon shook his head and mo tioned to the attendants to lift the offi cer aside. When they had left him. Steve Brayton sat down beside him and bathed his face with whisky and gave him to drink. The captain had recog nized him at once, but it was several minutes before he queried : ' "You and Kenton were in the fight at Harrisonburg and were captured. How came. you here?". "We uns made a bolt fur it on the road and got away. " "And what has happened here?" "Waal, Kenton was wounded, then me and him stood off Ike Baxter and his crowd, then the gal's mother died, then the gal and Kenton hev bin driv away to the Yankee lines. Sorry fur yo', cap, and sorry fur the rest of 'em, fur our bull crowd has bin wiped off the face of the airth!" "Have we been defeated?" "Regularly cleaned out, cap. I don't believe a hundred of our men got away. 'Cordin to what them doctors say, yo' can't pull through this. Do yo' want to leave any word with me?" "No," whispered the captain .after a moment's thought. "Not even fur the gal? She won't bear no grudge when she hears yo ar dead." The captain shook his bead and closed his eyes. Steve moved away after a few minutes to look for other Confederate wounded, and two hours later the offi cer's dead body was carried, out with others to make room for the wounded. When morning came and the dead were gathered for burial, Steve Brayton found many that he could identify. In deed a full half of his own company naa been wipeu or, anu among in em was Ike Baxter. But great as was the Confederate loss, that of the Federals was severe. History has said, of that first real cavalry fight of the war that it was terribly brief in duration and ap palling in its list of dead and wounded. It was almost night of the day follow ing the fight before the lst of the Fed erals moved off and left the field. And how changed was Rest Haven, and what a misnomer the title which bad been given to it in the years of peace!. Cin ders and ashes showed where the houses had stood. Across the plain, furrowed by shot and shell and hoof, its snow white carpet now spattered and blotched by a thousand blood stains, they bad dug long trenches and covered in the dead. Trees had been cut down, bushes uprooted, and over acres of ground was strewed the wreck of battle. . I have but few more pages to write. My story has not been all romance, and it is with a feeling of selfishness that 1 part from those of wy characters who are with ns in the flesh today, and whose hands I have held in mine within the last twelvemonth. At the opening of my story Winchester was described as a quaint old town. That was true of it a quaint old town of quaint houses and bcoets and people. War wrecked it again and again. Every street and square and alley witnessed a death grap ple. Every building which escaped the flames was marked by ball or bullet. A few months ago I looked in vain for trace of war.. Here and there a qnaint old house still stands, but the town is full of the bustle of these rushing days. Ah, but there was a trace of war after all. Up in the cemetery skirted by the Berry ville pike I found grave after grave in which soldiers slept their last long sleep, each name engraved on the stone, and behind them the pitiful spot over which all may sorrow, but no one weep the resting place of the "unknown." It was many days ere Kenton or Mar ian or Mrs. Baxter walked in the sun shine. In the case of the latter perhaps it was better that her mind groped in the darkness, and that it was months before she could realize her widow nood. General Custer kindly sent her on to Washington for treatment, and for weeks and weeks she kept calling out: "Ike said he'd go fur help to captur' the Yankee, but he hain't dun come back yit. Ike's goin to be a great ossi fer and hev a sword and a prancin crit ter, and I'll hold np my head with any of 'em." Where is Uncle Ben? Gone to his rest years ago, but he lived to see the end of the war and to enjoy for a sea son the haven of rest which kind hearts created for him. There was a marriage in Winchester about two months after the battle of Rest Haven. They called it a military marriage, because more than 50 Federal officers attended, because a Federal chaplain officiated, because a Federal band serenaded the happy couple. Who do you think gave away the bride? Gen eral Custer, who became a groom him self only a few days later. Royal Ken ton bad recovered from his wound, and the keen edge of Marian's grief had been somewhat dulled by lapse of time and the excitement of her surroundings. It was better so. Kenton was not held for exchange under the circumstances, nor did any one wish him to become a renegade by joining the Federal set vice. After the marriage the bridal couple, accompanied by Uncle Ben, went north and there remained till the close of the war. Steve Brayton was asked to go nay, almost commanded but he replied: ! "See yere, Yank, I've bin thinkin and thinkin, and I make it out this way: I sorter owed the confederacy a grudge fur the way it treated yo', and hevin paid it off and squared the debt 1 orter go back. Thar won't be nuthin said about yo' arter the war, bekase yo' was actually driv out, but the boys would rub it in on me purty heavy to the day of my death. I'll jest surrender over again to this Yankee army, wait to be exchanged and in due time become a good Confed again." And that was the course he followed, and when I shook hands with bim in Winchester last spring I was proud to give him his title as lieutenant. Did the match please Uncle Ben? Hear what he says as he congratulates the bride: "Now, Miss Sunshine, yo' all has dun gone an married Mars Kenton, an it does jest seem to me dat I ar' walkin round on sigs! Hu! But when 1 was tied up to dat post an yo' was 6tandin dar wid dat big dissolver, ah de sojers an gorillas was gnasbin their teef, I B'pected de Lawd was so fur off he couldn't git dar in time to save ns." The Percy mansion was burned, as you remember. A mnch finer house oc cupies the site today, and it is there the Kentdns dwell, honored and respected by all. What more could I add? Good byl THE END. My pen is at the bottom of a page, which being- finished here my story end ; 'tis to be wished it had been sooner done, but stories somehow' lengthen when bfegxm. Byron. . - . . CAUSES NO SURPRISE. WOLCOTT COMMISSION'S FAIL URE NOT DISAPPOINTING. Administration Is Neither Surprised Nor Sorrowing Over the Outcome Sentiment in Favor of Any Kind of Free Coinage of Silver Diminishing. Why It Failed. The practical failure of our bimetal lic commission to induce the leading European nations to join in a confer ence to adopt an International ratio for the coinage of gold and silver should cause no surprise; neither should it be the occasion of regret. There Is much less intelligent sentiment to-day in fa vor of any kind of free coinage of silver than there was in 1892. Two causes have conspired to produce this change of sentiment The first of these causes is the knowl edge of the fact that, considering Its uses, the output of silver is practically limitless. Science, experience and cap ital have revolutionized the methods of silver mining. But for the Inventive mind of man the production of silver would be so limited that its old value before the bonanza mines were opened could have been maintained. Science, experience and capital have made the annual production of silver bullion so HOW THE FREE TRADE MACHINE WORKS. 1 "lo" 'tf5 1 K I PL P M PSfMsgj&m great that it cannot retain its former value. No doubt, its value by Interna tional coinage at the old value ratio of 16 to 1 or 15 to 1 would so stimulate the silver-mining industry that from plenti fulness, compared with gold, it would, In spite of ratio, be a depreciated and fluctuating money. The advocates of free and unlimited coinage seem to ig nore that natural result of the almost unlimited production of silver bullion. Silver, during the past decade, has ceased to be a precious metal. The second cause is the growing cer tainty that there is sure to be enough gold to make it "the money basis of the world," in connection with the free use of silver as a subsidiary coin. The world's annual output of gold has dou bled, and more than doubled, during the past decade. The annual output of gold this year Is of greater value than the output of both metals twenty-five years ago. At the same time, the facili ties of exchange have been so increased as to economize the use of gold as money. If the output of iron or any other commodity were increasing as is the output of gold at the present time it would become a drug like silver bull ion and fall to a nominal price. Another cause of the failing interest in what is commonly called bimetallism is the growing conviction that a double standard is impracticable. The history of coinage in our own country sustains the theory of a single measure of val ues. When the output of silver was small, compared with what it might be to-day, the mercantile ratio of the two metals changed from time to time, in spite of coinage ratios. The intelligent consideration of the question in connec tion with the history of coinage in this and other countries has changed from birnetallists to gold monoinetallists. thousands of men. They see that the maintenance of a coinage ratio fixed by law at 16 to 1 is almost as impractica ble as to establish an arbitrary price for wheat and corn upon a basis which would make one bushel of wheat the equivalent of two bushels of corn. In dianapolis Journal. Watching the Yankee Closely. According to the latest advices from America, the Yankees are determined to secure their share of the world's trade In Iron and steel, and for this pur pose six manufacturers in Pittsburg and the vicinity have formed a com pany called the Export Iron and Steel Company, the objects of which are to enter and seek trade in the British markets. The officers of the company have been opened at Pittsburg. The capital is only $110,000, but sufficient backing has been obtained to guaran tee any amount as soon as the increase of the business demands it. A London agent has been appointed, and an at tempt will be made to do business in India, South America and Japan. The Americans are an enterprising body of men, and as a rule if they take a thing in hand they do it well; it there fore behoves every iron and steel firm of this country to watch Mr. Yankee's movements very closely. It will, per haps, be easier to checkmate early, be fore he holds anything like a strong position on the board. We know well what they can do; if not we have only to look at the tin plate trade. In this branch they, In a very short time, built up a huge Industry, driving our Welsh friends practically out of their market, and have now made their first ship ment towards establishing an export trade In tin plates. Ryland's "Iron Trade Circular," England. No Doubt of It. There is no longer any doubt that the "money power" of Europe dominates this country. The "power" has been sending sold into the United States, through New York, San Francisco, New Orleans, and other ports, until we now have a gold cir culation of $50,000,000 in excess of that of a year ago, with a total circulation nearly $100,000,000 larger than a year ago. This foreign "power" is evidently determined to ruin us, if possible, by dumping a lot of gold in on us ra exchange for our wheat, corn, meat and other prod ucts. ' American Silks to the Front. Our Imports of silk manufactures last month were much below the value of similar imports in the month of Sep tember In the three previous years un der the free-trade Wilson bill, showing that the Dlngley protective tariff Is operating t the benefit cf the Amerl- Can manufacturers of silk goods. .The Import values were as follows: September. 1894 f 2.251.390 1895 i 2,245,554 1896 1.491,846 1897 1,156,534 Loss of Tin Plate Trade. A contemporary in a very plaintive tone wants to know what South Wales will do with its plates when the Ameri can trade has gone. "We have been asking this question, or variations of it, for any number of years past, but have never yet had a practical response," It writes, "and we scarcely hope for one at this late stage of the melancholy history we might almost say suicide of the Welsh tin plate trade." The term suicide is rather uncalled for. If the trade is ended by American ac tion we should rather call it murder the first blow having been adminis tered by the McKiuley tariff and the mortal stroke by the Dingley bill. The Welsh makers could not help this, and it is not their fault if the American works, brand new in all their appoint ments, turn out plates a little cheaper than the Welsh mills. Besides, the Americans get their tin bars cheaper. With all this it is surprising that the Welshmen can make any struggle at all. Yet they are doing so, and dis patched 21,021 tons abroad last month against 20,726 tons in the same month last year, which does not look like throwing Tip the sponge. Or course, the loss of the American trade is a great disaster, but it came in the nat ural order of things, and must be ac cepted patiently. Hardware, Metals and Machinery, London. No Decrease in Exports. The August report of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department shows that there has yet been no de crease in our exports of manufactures under the Diugley tariff. We are told that: "The present indications are for ex ports of this character, amounting to 294,000,000 for the calendar year 1897, as compared with $201,153,668 for 1895 and $253,688,527 for 1800." - This will be a gain of $93,000,000 over the 1895 exports, and of $40,000,000 over the 1896 exports of American manufactures. Last August's ship ments of such goods exceeded by near ly $4,000,000 in value the August, 1SS15, exports, and they were $1,750,000 more than similar exports in August, 189G. In view of the fact that American manufacturers are now busily em ployed in making goods with which to supply the American market, it is quite possible that there may be a falling off in our exports of American manufac tures. We first need to retain and sup ply our home market. If, after doing that, we can sell our goods profitably in other markets, thou let us secure all of such trade that is possible. But our past experience has been that our sales of manufactured goods to foreign coun tries were not all attended with a profit. On such a basis we do not want any foreign business. That important business barometer, the bank clearings of the country, continues to indicate clearly and certainly business prosperity. The total September clear ings at seventy-eight cities are quoted by Bradstreet's as $5,521,933,332, a gain of nearly 15 per cent over August, 1897, and 50 per cent over September of last year. The total is only 7 Per cent smaller than that of the highest month on record, De cember, 1S92. . Advocacy of a "tariff war' by Europe against the United States now seems to be confined to the peculiar persons who write free-trade editorials for Democratic newspapers. Yonkers, N. Y., Statesman. And with them the wish is father to the thought. The Republican party believes and acts upon the belief, that he who pro vides not for them of his own house hold, or country, is worse than a heathen. Green Bay, Wis., Gazette. This is a Christian belief, aud the be lief of civilization. The Eclipse of 1804. The Passing of tbc SJiadow. THE WOBET OF IT. 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