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arrangements made for women students
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ized nations in both hemispheres, and
139 replifs were recefved. The ques
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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
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"Yes" to make save as regards certain
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Australia, India and Canada also
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says: "Jrfo advantage is granted to
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Nine hundred and fifty telegraph
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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. . - . .
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Sentiment in Favor of Any Kind of
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Why It Failed.
The practical failure of our bimetal
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the coinage of gold and silver should
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the occasion of regret. There Is much
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than there was in 1892. Two causes
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The first of these causes is the knowl
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HOW THE FREE TRADE MACHINE WORKS.
1 "lo" 'tf5 1 K I PL P M PSfMsgj&m
great that it cannot retain its former
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16 to 1 or 15 to 1 would so stimulate the
silver-mining industry that from plenti
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In spite of ratio, be a depreciated and
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Silver, during the past decade, has
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The second cause is the growing cer
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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
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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
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small, compared with what it might be
to-day, the mercantile ratio of the two
metals changed from time to time, in
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and other countries has changed from
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thousands of men. They see that the
maintenance of a coinage ratio fixed by
law at 16 to 1 is almost as impractica
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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
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Company, the objects of which are to
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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.
The world has come to know that the
Aiuscles have much to do with the health
of the system, and the era of - athletics has
so much developed them that the whole
man is a stronger being than in former years
But the worry of it all is that the muscles
are of the riesh, rleshy. A little twist, or
slip, or jerk these happen in all work
and then a sprain. Sprains disable and
are costly in tune and money, but not if
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and promptly and the worry of it is over.
A Sad Beginning.
He poised the bivalve on his fork,
And then explained the reason:
"This is," he said, with airy grace,
"My fust un of the season."
He smiled and gulped the biWlve
wasn't he a mad unl
He pranced, he choked, he kicked, he
swore
His fust un was a bad nn.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A New Hartford (Conn.) man one
day set over 1,000 tobacco plants, and
the next morning found that the cut
worms had destroyed every plant but
one over night.
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Cherry Creek, N. Y., has a blind and
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moils on various musical instruments.
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