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About The Dalles daily chronicle. (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1891)
RECOGNITION. MrUuu souls that have put ooTtheir mortal gear Maud la the pore, sweat tight of heaven' day, ad wondering deeply what to do or say. And trembling more with rapture than with fear, Aesh-s some token of their friends most dear. Who there some time have made their happy stay. And much have longed for them to come that way, "What shall It be, this sign of hope and cheer? Shall it be tone of voice or glance of eye? Shall it be touch of hand or gleam of hair Blown back from spirit brows by heaven's sir Things which of old we knew our dearest by? Oh, naught of this; but, if our love be true. Some secret sense shall cry, 'lis you and you. John W. Chad wick. HOW JOE LOST HIS ARM. Ob the TomMgbee river so bright, I was born. la a hut made of husks of the bright yellow corn. jasn xwastaere mat 1 met my Julia, so true. And I rowed her about in my gumtree canoe, Bhudng, row away, row o'er the waters se blue, like a feather we'll float in my gumtree canoe. The clerk of the Pretty Jane had a mellow voice, and blended sweetly with it was little Jennie's cnitih treble. ' He sat upon the deck of the little steamboat gazing around on the bright waters of the Tombigbee as the son danced on them, gazing intently, and willing absently to himself. He was a man of aboat thirty, and his Tight coat sleeve was empty and pinned upon his heart. Little Jennie leaned trpon his knee, staring him intently in the face in a way that children have. She pushed her feroad brimmed hat back from her eyes o that she might stare the better. The kat was a qaeerly Bhaped palmetto atrncture, for this was in '63. and clothes were at a premium. She was the child of one of the passengers, and between "her and the clerk quite a friendship had prong up. "And did yon sure enough meet your Julia here on the Tombigbee?" asked the child, stroking the empty sleeve with a pitying touch. "Yes," said the clerk, roused from his Terrene and smiling down on the eager lit tle face; "I have often taken her rowing n the Tombigbee before the war, when I had my other arm." "How nicer said Jennie. "How nice! Aad in a gumtree canoe?" "Well, I wasn't particular as to the lind of canoe, so it was a canoe," said Jbe, smiling. "And your Julia ain't named Julia, but Mary Jane, after all," said the child. "Yes," said he, "but she's just as weet as if her name was Julia, though 'twouldnt fit in the song so welL" "No, you couldn't say, 'I rowed my Vary Jane so true.' Twould make the ong too long legged." "Trne," said he, laughing, "but that -stakes no . difference. I think of her while I sing it, so that it seems as if it Was her name." "Well, Mr. Perkins," said Jennie, 'tell ate why ha vent you married your Julia, f you've been rowing her around in your gumtree canoe these ever so many years?" "You see," said the mate smiling, "my Julia couldn't make np her mind that he loved me till the war broke oat and I volunteered; then she said directly he'd marry me, but twas too late then; had to go off to fight." "You had both of your arms then!" in terrupted Jennie: "you was born with em?" "Of course, child. Did you ever hear at any one born with one arm? Nature don't ever make no such cobbled, lop sided work as that." "Well, if you had both of your arms then, I don't see why she wouldn't have you." "Bless you, child, everybody had "plenty of arms then; that was' no in ducement to take a fellow. But, as I was saying, when she found I was going off to the war and might get killed, then -ahe found that she loved me." .:-.'' "She'd rather marry you than that you should get killed," said - Jennie. "Yes, I think she ought, after you rowed her around in the canoe." "You are right," said Perkins, laugh ing; "but twas too late to marry her then. We agreed that if ever I got back afely, when the war was over, we'd marry." "Tell me now, how you came to lose your arm," said Jennie. "Twas in one of the great battles ronnd Richmond that year. I had been in many fights before, but this was about the hottest The enemy were bound to get the hill on which we stood, and we were holding on desperately. But at last the boys began to waver and give way. Then our colonel came out to the front, and the rest of our officers followed him, and they ran up and down 'the lines cheering np the men. 'Steady, my boys, said the old colo nel; 'keep pouring it into them. Steady! Se-enforcements will soon be here! Hever let it be said that the line broke where the Alabamians stood! - "The whole air seemed black with shot and shell. Apiece of one grazed the colonel's cheek, and the blood kept trickling down his face, but he didn't seem to feel it The firing grew so hot that the men seemed fairly mowed down, and the line began to waver and weak. Suddenly, clear on our right, there arose a tremendous yelL It grew louder and, loader, and ran down the line toward us. Then, at last we saw a courier galloping down the line. I asever forget how he looked: '"His black feorse was all white with foam and its flanks were bloody from his spar. ' He -rode bare headed down the line as if he bore a charmed life, and he kept waving Ins cap around his head and shouting something to the men, and as they heard liim the wavering line rallied and sent trp deafening cheers. Then he galloped by where we were and yelled: "'Bally, men! rally! Stonewall Jack son is in their rear, and giving .'em ant! ."Then we cheered, too, until we were hoarse. The courier galloped on, and presently our officer shouted: .. 'Forward men; charge! "And away we went, down the hill and across a field, right toward the Yankee lines, yelling like Indians. - "I held the colors in my hand, and I ran a little ahead. I didn't seem to have .any feet; I seemed to fly, and the men followed me. Bight toward the biasing line we ran. . "All at once I saw the colonel, who was riding by me, grasp the colors, for they were falling. I looked and saw that my hand, my whole arm was gone. and I hadn't felt it! I grabbed the flag m my left hand. .'- " 'I can carry the colors yet, colonel,' I said. 'I don't feel any pain.' "I ran on some fifty steps, when the blood began spouting from my shoul der. - I dropped. Joe Ashe, one of the color guards, snatched the flag, and they all rushed on. "I fell senseless. - I never knew an other thing till weeks after, when I woke up one day in Chimborazo hospital and found some funny looking ladies in black bonnets, that the boys called 'the sis ters,' bending over me. If it hadn't been for their good nursing, I should have died." Perkins ceased. He had been so car ried away by the interest he felt in his own narrative that he had gone quite beyond his auditor. "But tell me, Joe," Jennie eagerly sated she bad been impatiently waiting for an opportunity for some minutes "tell me, did you ever find your arm that you dropped? "No; to be sure not. I never went to look for it" "You couldnt fasten it on again, then?" "Of course not, child. I am not a jointed doU." . "What a pity you couldn't," said the child. "What a pity! And how do you manage to dress yourself and tie your cravat and shoes?" she asked, for she had been burning to make these inquiries ever since she had seen the one armed confederate. " Twas awkward at first, but I learned at last to do it with the help of my teeth." "But how when you get old and lose 'em?" said Jennie, who was of an inves tigating mind. "Providence will raise me up some other way," he said with a pathetic smile. Til have my wife to wait on me." 'To be sure. I forgot; Miss Mary Jane will. What did she say?" "I got one of the sisters to write her for me, and I set her free. I said I wouldn't bind her to a poor cripple like me." "And she said no, sir-reel I 'spose," cried Jennie, full of fiery zeal for her new friend. "Something to that effect" said Joe, smiling. "She wrote me that she loved me more with one arm than she ever had done with two. And whenever I could get home she was ready." Here Joe's eyes filled and he gazed steadily in the water. "Well, now, Joe," said Jennie, who was suddenly struck with a bright idea, "maybe if you would lose both arms she'd love you betterer and betterer." "I believe Tm satisfied with what she feels now," said Joe, laughing. "But why hain't you married?" con tinued Jennie, pursuing her investiga tions. "Because I first had to get well, and then I had to get something to do. I had been a mechanic, and I couldnt work at my trade with my left hand. So Capt Bamsey gave me a place en his boat and I've been trying to learn how to write, so that I can keep his books. I think I'm doing pretty weU. See." He drew from his pocket a little blank book in which were scrawled divers hieroglyphics, at which he gazed com placently. "Why, yes," said Jennie approvingly. "There's a 't with the cross mark, and there is 'k with his broken back, and that s an 'i.' I know him by his eye brow. You see I can read a little." she said proudly. "So I see," said he, laughing and nut ting ap his book. . "Now I must go. The sun has set It is time for me to see after things for the night" He stroked Jennie s curlv head with his left hand, and walked away, softly singing in his mellow voice, "My Own juary Ann." .faul fcrrant in Atlanta Constitution. - - - ' Tttm Origin of High HmU. Heels, it is said, owe tHir oi-itriw Persia, where thev were introdiKwl nmn sandals in the shane of blocks nf wnrvl fixed underneath, such being the root laea ox xnoseaer ormities to which lovely woman owes so many of her woes. A high, unsteady heel, it is an orien wvrrot injures the leg tendons and affects the spine as well as internal organs, which are naDie to De displaced by the thrown forward position entailed. In Persia, the first home of the heel, however, these blocks of wood are used simply to "raise the feet from the burninsr sands of that country, and ' were about two inches high." With the Persian women these blocks were vastly higher than those affected by the men, their height being from eighteen inches to two feet, thus becoming more of the nature of stilts than anything else. b Strangely enough, many years after, a similar fashion came into vogue in-Venice; but the motif in this case was comi cally different for "bv its means -ia.lrma husbands thought they would be able to keep their wives at home." . The sup ports of such shoes in Venice were called "chaninevs." and to armease the v&m'tv of the ladies, and doubtless also to sugar ine pin, were made highly orcste. The height of these chapineys determined the rank of the wearer, an extra coating for the pill, "the noblest dames being per mitted to wear them one-half yard or more nigh." Hospital. The Un't Ailments. If lions and tickers catch cnld a Ana powdered quinine is erven to them in their food. They sometimes suffer from uyspepeia, ana a meal of liver set before them is readilv devoured and u a cathartic They seldom need treatment oowevwr. ior any trouDle except ingrow ing nails. Pittsburg Dispatch. ' An Easy Proposal. Miss Seasoned Sneaking think Frank is a pretty name. Mr. Charles F. Svlver Vans- on Anl That's my middle name. (Gaining cour age.) Er what do you think of Sylver for a name? Harper's Bazar. THE MARSEILLAISE. Haw Bongwt de Ust Came to Write the National Bjwma of France.' This idea of celebrating "The Marseil laise" is a worthy one, for it has led French troops to victory under republics and under an empire, while during the reign of Louis Philippe it was heard often, thus showing that it belongs to all classes. ' -- -. .- ' Let me tell of its origin, though some of you may already have heard the story. France was in danger, her people were called to arms and they responded nobly. In the house of the mayor of Strasburg a friendly dinner was going on, at which men swore to die for liberty against the aiiieu songs or .Europe. ; Some one sooke of those heroic songs that stimulate the ardor of the soldier, and lamented be cause France had not one such. Bouget ae ijisie, an omcer or engineers, was at the table; it was known he dabbled at poetry and music, and the mayor asked mm 10 compose a new march tor his fel lows. He set about the work immedi ately, r ;' I - - V. The night was superb. He took down his violin, played and sang. Air and words came both at the same time; the subject transported him. It was as if the soul of La Patrie was passing into his own, as if through his mouth liberty was uttering her enthusiasm and her generous anger. He wrote, he sang, he improvised, but it was the soul of France that dictated. In the morning six verses were completed, and, vibrat ing with patriotic excitement, he read the "War Song of the Army of the Rhine" its first title to his friends, who became electrified by the manly ac cents. The new hymn was sent to Luckner, commander of the Army of the Rhine, who distributed manuscripts '- of it throughout Alsace, and it was executed on the public square of Strasburg. Thence it traveled over France and south to Marseilles, which town told it to her volunteers, and they sang it when they entered Paris on that 10th of An ust, 1792, when they took the Tuileries. That was how it got the name that will cling to it forever. It was played in the army, and generals said it was worth 10,000 men. Copies of 'The Marseil laise"' were ordered when requisitions were made out for weapons. The aristocratic captain was desolate at having contributed the part which "The Marseillaise" had taken in over throwing the monarchy, for he never in tended his hymn should be a republican anthem. Later on, when proscribed as a royalist be was fleeing' over the Alps and heaid its strains. "What is that hymn called?" he asked his guide. : The peasant replied, "The Marseillaise," and it was thus he first learned the name of his own great composition. ' 'The Mar seillaise" became the national hymn of the First Republic, and it remained so un der the First Empire. Napoleon had such admiration for -the hymn that he pro hibited its being performed except on grand occasions, just as the "Te Deum" is only sung when there has been a brill iant victory. ' ' At St. Helena he said, "The imperial guard always 'marched to the tune of The Marseillaise.'" No ; wonder they won battles. Forbidden under the res toration;" the song came into favor again with Louis Philippe. Because of hear ing it sung at republican manifestations the government of the Second Empire prohibited its execution, but in 1870, the day war was declared, an order was issued authorizing its use, and the troops went; out singing" "The Marseillaise. " More than this, managers of ' places of amusement were invited to- perform it and when Mme. Marie Sasse sang ' it at the Theatre Francaise women wept and men were wild with excitement Her wonderful voice sang the words in a way that raised the morale of . the popu lation and provoked them to patriotic enthusiasm. Paris Cor. Chicago Herald, " V Gm. Bauer's Bat. In the United States district court in the Federal building no lawyer is better known than Gen. Butler.' The "court officers hear of his appearance - with much the same feeling that they receive the announcement of the arrival of the judge. -' " : ' " ' : " -" -:- ' - As soon as his ponderous figure, sway ing from' side- to side,' appears bearing down toward the court room 'they scur ry about 'arranging the chair at ' the counsel's table and assist him in remov ing his outer garments in a manner that shows their regard for him. Gen. But ler's hat is a curious article. It is just like one that Buffalo Bill would be ac cused of wearing out on the plains. ' It is probably the most abused of the gen eral's belongings. The manner in which he jerks it off his head, slaps it down on the counsel's table and drops his heavy stick upon it determinedly, makes one wonder why it does not disappear sud denly some day out of spite. It has stuck by him . though for years, just like his faculties' of mind, and perhaps will be buried with him. Boston Advertiser. Enervating Influence of Dress. ' ' Herodotus tells us that whefl Cyrus had 'received intelligence that ' the Lydians had revolted against ' nftry ' he was in despair, ' and indeed had almost determined, to make them slaves; when Croesus nut a flea m ' the' KasmsA baf nf the Persian monarch. ' "Command them to lay aside their arms," eaid he1; "and to wear long vests and buskins.'1 Let them Vie with each " other in thrfv im&n. up: "'Make dudes out of them, and it won t oe long Derore they will be as tractable as women." . Croesus, as the result Droved, had a lone head. Cloth ier and Furnisher. . , The use of beans in ancient times was rather'" more- sacred "than 'culinary-; Among the Egyptians it was held to be a crime to look at them. Pythagoras forbade them to be eaten. In Athens a judicial' as well as a sacred character is attached to them. ' They are need as ballots in all ' affairs in which a vote is taken, especially in electing magistrates and in casting lots. In V.ngiTi they were unknown until 1509. 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