Wallowa chieftain., July 30, 1885, Image 2

sw ollen tongue, which protruded troni
mv m outh. felt like m olten lead.
I had eaten my last food p rio r to the
b a ttle —three sm all arm y cracker»—on
th e m orn in g of A ugust 30th, so th a t in
n n weak condition h u n g er as well as
th irst came to Increase my sufferings
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The follow ing illustrations are from a
book o f illustrated humor by Arthur R
F n a t, published by Cbaa Scribner’s Sons,
an I have no reference to The New York Sun
o fflo cat:
THIS MASH ACT
d
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THT PANO.
U Ì
1H X r . r s u
THROUGH THE HALL.
1
DOWN
T 3 E ST A IR S- NEW
FOR THE GKJVT.
TREATMENT
- ^ “ 7—
I THE HITCH
>N D THFN THE CELLAR
OUT THROUGH THE COALz-HoLE.
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a
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o r a V e .
On one of our pages to-day w ill be
found a striking and instructive ill n i­
tration of the comparative worth of
the various kinds of baking powders
—n I Ht «urket.
TA K E N
HO M E.
A Fncir O rpliau Girl II »ri»« Iu th« i
brar** o f th e Mouth W luti to H er
Mother«
D a v id a v v in a ,
Fn'-
Gnu night, after she had crept t , her
be 1 cf rags, bruised and sore (rent Old
N: it's daily lieating, she had heard the
South Wind softly blowing past the
window, anil she whispered:
“ Oh! South Wind, have pity on me! I
ana beaten anil worked and starved! Be­
hind to a poor orphan girl!”
••But I can not soften Old N an's
heart,’’ answered the breeze, "n o r can 1
bring you food."
"You can take a m essage tor m e."
••To w hom ?"
"M y m other In H eaven."
“ W hat Is the m essage?’’
"T ell her that my days are full of
misery, aud my nights are long svilii
sorrow.
1 w ant to be with her in
H eaven.”
"Sleep, child, aud I will bear your
message!’’ xviiispe oil the wind: and s e
orgot eer wretchedness and, sleeping.
d> earned of g eeu valleys and auuh beau
liful flowers ti n t she cried out in tones
of jov amt awoke Old Nan.
“ How dare vou!” grow led tho hag:
and she beat the child again and again
(or her dream .
Th i noxt night tho Sooth Wind whis­
pered at f i e window« atul the child rose
up and asked:
“ L id you find my m other?”
“ 'T is a long way to (H eaven!" nn
*Uawe p patieuoe and
T he n ig h t ot the 30th It rained quite
TH E DEATHLESS.
b ard an d o b 'U ed the badly w ouuded
to the m ai row. On th a t night, also
Some never ill«. Not all are dead who ««eh
S ergeant Jerro ld s, of Company E, of
Serene repose after the lue-toag «oU,-'
He w as w ouuded
I Bey slee p so sw e e tly m iu th e grassy n n regim ent, dted.
iu the abdom en and hand by a shell,
The solem n elm » and early violet», w h o se*
and It enanoed th a t 1 had been laid
Their h ou ses all In order and arranged
dow n close by him. He could not rest,
Their tired lim bs for slum b er calm and d eep
It can n o t be th at th ey, the good, th e great. com plained of the position of his head,
The useful, faithfu l serv a n ts
.
as we were alongside
of each other
_
Ate dead—gon e hence f.o u t th is th e earth and,
on th e sloping ground. I m anaged to
th ey blessed?
.
th producing
eir cold, bloodless,
s juiriti-
T h e y llv stn alH h elrtb o u g h ts,th eli word» and rig h ’t°and ’o n k u U " " « m b e n ^ his { loosened,
1 think th a t n ig h t I experienced the
in-
no agreeable
feel-
ble feel- first real sjm p to m s of home-siekness
They l i v i In oo a n tlese liv e s. In h istory’s
iii
contact
w
ith
tho
neck. form ing a pillow. “ God bless
« hey came
subsequent to enlisttneAL
To be so
jewel» snatched
From cold ob liv io n ’s relen tless grasp.
you , th a t feels b e tte r." he m urm ured, fa re sain.
i near home, only a couple of hundreds
Yes. th ere as shinin g a» the stars ot h eaven . and thorn. were the last w ords he ever j
E t tho
surgeons and
a
«P
to
one
of
ie
surgeons
of miles away, w ith a loving m other
Au«l there (as here) th ey thru I th e grateful
The well known preacher who addresses In
He w aiting for a sou whom she never ex­
u ttered.
L u rin g the darkness I M t |
“
i w ^ y w « w d s.
Central Mu«fe Hall every Bunday an audi­
repulsed
m
e
rudely
with
an
oath.w
hich
They oheer and b le ss unnum b ered -e e r y h txi shudder and Heard him give
pected, to see (tor my nam e had been
ffive two
ence of from 2,500 to 3,000 jieople, was bom
That taint up on th is th orn y road of life,
! or t h ree sh ort "quick^g&sps. ” Sergeant, struck me h au ler and h u rt m e more published in tho list of the killed,
In Cincinnati, O., Augxiat 18, 1*30. His father
l>i«ralng «h. tourney .note»».
J are you o l d ? ' I inquired
T here than did the bullet th a t cam e so n e a r though 1 w as not then aw are of the
died In 1832 and hi« mother married again,
lh) live: In lavs of passion, beauty, p o s t r.—
-
,»
taking
my
life-
His
assistant,
how
­
fact) it was terrible beyond the power
ing ho
song with its thousand tongue» of lo.ty I c a m e n o res|MYiisc. an d , su
removing to Readaburg, O., when David " U
ever, a m ore hum ane m an. gave me of language to describe.
«even years old. Three years later his family
IU ’dream s of bile», IU brillian t flower» of m ig h t be sleeping. I said notKinjg more. about two yards of bandage, w h eh 1
N ext day, the 6th, a t high neon. I
In the m orning 1 found him dead.
removed to a farm near Williamsburg, l>.
succeeded in tw isting about my neck in reaehod G eorgetow n College Hospital,
fan cy.
At eighteen years of age he entered Miami
It. ten d er eafloe"« d e .r e r far th an b y .
A PILLORIED ARM.
a
m
anner
to
som
ewhat
staunch
the
They liv e In h o m e , their graelou» deed« neve
University, at Oxford, O., graduating in
I attem pted to w ithdraw mv arm flow of blood, keep ofl’ tho flies an d act ju s t opened, and was taken into
reared,
1852. He studied theology at C.ncinnatl for
W ard ti.
In loftv a sp ir a tio n , th ey h a r e lit.
from under him, but failed. It was as a supporter.
one year, when ho xva» appoint»«! professor
Tliev lir e fo r e v er In a nation s> tren ««n.
IN HOSPITAL AT LAST.
n o t until the afternoon of Septem ber
In i.'od » etern al coven an t w ith Fre-dq in.
of
1-atin and (¡reek at tho Miami U liversity.
a BIT OF FOOD.
2d th a t any one eamo to lift away his
Oh aav n ot a ll m u st die It i . n o . death
I sat down upon thp cot assigned to
Hero ho remained thirteen y ea n , occaaionall;
G
regory,
a
pleasant-
When labor p a u s e , In her »acred eerv.»w;
oodv. then very much
me with a sense of relief.
1 hail won
preaching till 1800, when he was called to tl
i\ hen lo v e aiehanirea w o r ld ., reu we Itself,
teil C onfederate su r­
A nen knowledge roaui. to brighter anorea to
the goal for wli eh 1 hail striven,
now Westminster church, of Chicago,
name,
for
I
m
ot
and
wring
■Olli united with another (Old
■everal years a fte r the reached a place w here even death,
The
Preebyterian church, retaining
,Yij.jneT. teaspoonful should it come, would be robbed of
pastor. The flro In 'Nix d
some of its te rro r/, and was glad.,
_______ _____» o y ste r crackers, I
church,
and he preached
.
her dream s
had not sa t there long before an oi h n •^JMniliWtopT^uñriu
was ravenous for food, but the hardest darkey w ith a bucket of w arm w ater, sho sat beneath green trees and 1 atone-1 ter. In 1873-74 ho wiis tried
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shroud;
.
_ ..
, , I The dav and night of tho 31st of undertaking of my life th u s|far « as my soap and a sponge cam e along.
to such sw eet music that Old Nan was chargee brought by Profossor Pa’
So d ie. the ceuae of free tom w heeH hegold
,
•
n a iw v j jn
attem pt to swallow those two dim inu­
tho Chicago presbytery. D u n g f
"Boss, you’se lookin’ m ighty like’s ao-a n aw akened by her words.
And a r m . o t ty r a n t , drtve It to th e l.earto,
| A u g u s t w e r e p aexe-i In about tho m an-
tong trial which ensued Mr. Swing wil
tive morsels. My th ro at was dry and if you o u g h t’n bn w ash ," said he, with
The b a n d a r glow in g haarts, ot m jn w ho n er th a t the p receding day and night
‘ ••Wretch! In g rate!" cr ed th eo l.l hag from Presbyterianism and preached i l l ?
fearfully swollen, the muscles of the a good-natured grin. I agreed. Then in her fury; and (lie beat the child a» it
ciaap
had
been.
1
was
much
w
eaker,
in
Vicker's theater as an independent ministel
It c lo se , shield It, nil nonr1»h 1« wRh holy g re a te r misery, ow ing to my con- neck and jaw were stift aud inflamed.
he cut from mo my verm in-infested, she m eant to k.ll her.
c sre.
until the completion of Central uiusiu hall,
For th at d e v ‘s labor w hteh It ehxli achieve
i strained position, and during the dav- I t was only by m oistening the crum bs blood and d .rt encrusted clothing, send­
On tho third night the South Wind where ho now preaches.
The great, Ihe good I Oh m any such have t me hail bren g reatly pestered with thoroughly that I finally succeeded in
ing it, all save blouse and cap, wh ch I wa- late in coming. The child was
A C o leb ru ted D e t e c t iv e .
ily p lacing them where they would do tho kept, away, and, naked as I was born, alone in the gloomy room, and t <•
And are, w ho n e v e r can know death—«hey ¡lies, such as lust after flesh,
live
clothing, which had been partially m ost g^od.
washed me from head to heel.
fever was on her tint I she to- ed and
Eternal a . th e hill» and TOlcelew «tarn
I
w
ould
like
to
say
here
th
a
t
absence
dried by the sun, was saturated
T alk of your m om ents of luxury. As moaned, and fancied »-,a-ig- thlnes.
And being parta o f all th in g , boaiitttnl.
H aring bleat life In all th in g , good and tree, again at evening bv another shower. of food anil w ater while I lay on the the liquid w ater an d castilo soap were
• • It w on’t c o m e - it w o n t to m e!"
field
was
not
through
any
fault,
so
far
Like reu th herself, are deatnlee».
M eanwhile the sullen thunder of the
softly sponged over my person I forgot she kept calling; but by and bv she
—t i t l e Rich, in Spr««iyteW i.V<M«.' Zi«i
as
I
could
sec,
of
those
having
the
p
ris­
guns, the occasional volleys and ecat-
pain, fear, everything but the exquisite heart! the rustle of tiie South Wind
rer.ng fire of m usketry, with the groaD- oners in charge. Tho C onfederates sensations developed as the feverish afar ofl', and she hail her face to the
were
generally
kind,
but
they
had
i ings of the wounded, had been alm ost
grew co d and clean under his window as it canie up.
DNE OF TH E WOUNDED. eontinuaHv rin g ing in my ears, to­ nothing to r themselves to eat, and the skin
" L id vou find my m other?"
skillful m anipulations. A nd when he
guard
was
not
large
enough
to
w
ait
g eth er with now am i then thedespairing
robed me in one of those wonderful
“ Ave! and she bids you conxe!"
upon
all
of
us
who
needed
xvater
at
On t h e F ie ld o f B a ttle , A m o n g th e death cry as some poor anguished soul once. Some of us had to w ait—others hospital shirts, m ade to fit any size or
" Now?"
yielded lip his life to Him w ho gave i t
“ W ait a little while aud sleep
stature, and assisted me tolio down be­
D e a d a n d D y in g .
were unintentionally overlooked.
I tween fresh white sheets upon a straw
ag ain ,”
THREATS OF DELIRIUM.
was one of the latter.
And the child slept and dream ed of
m attress. Heaven opened before me and
Septem ber 1st and the night of that
A Case o f R e m a r k a b le V ita lity — F r o m t h e
PAROLED.
I was alm ost w .lling to die. Fotne may a path w nitnig through a dark valley.
day
(a
very
rainy
night,
too)
I
seemed
B lo o d y D itc h at O m v eto u to a
About 2 p. m. I left L ogon’s for think this ex trav ag an t language, but 1 Sin- traverse I it in fear an d trem bling,
to have reached the crisis of mv fate.
Cioan C ot by the F o I obib ».
The thirst, the ami m ore than onoe she would have
I had grown som ew hat used Io the Centerville, which place it took m e four felt as I uow write.
pains, continually felt, but the w ant of hours to reach, ow ing to my pitiful hunger, the hard bed of the battle-field, faltered had not the bouth M ind whis­
tho walk of m any weary miles and my pered:
The following article taken from the sleep added a hew h o rro r for me to condition. I met there a friend in cruel
wounds had produced a condition
“ Be of brave h eart—Heaven is be­
Colonel, afterw ardJG eneral. Thoma3 S.
Philadelphia «OVnie«. w as w ritten by contem plate. M aggots began to bur­ Flournoy, of the SLxth V irginia C aval­ of mind and body to which even the yond!’’
row into my wounds and 1 was
Mr. J . S. S later a t the request of the wholly
relief proved grateful. To be
By and by the darkness was dis­
rge of paroling
_ prisoners. slightest
_
helpless
anil
unable to ry, in charge
pelled, aud at her feet she saw the
editor of th a t paper. It deals n o t only prevent th eir desecrating touch. Be­ Several hundreds of unfortunates, w ho : thus tenderly eared for was ecstatic
In about an hour the surgeon of the w aters of a great river. Oil the other
with a rem arkable episode, but tells of sides, m entally, I was approaching had gotten ahead of me. were in hue,
THE LATE A L L a N PINKERTON.
a phase of soldiering rarely touched delirium. My ears w ere harassed by when the Colonel espied me, took me xvaril. L r. W illiam R. L eW itt. formerly shore were gates of pearl and gold,
The founder of Pinkerton'« Detective
from the rear to headquarters aud in of H arrisburg, P a ., cam e d o n g and anti as tliov opened to tho stra ns of agency, who died at hie h «me in Ch(«.»v<o uu
inudcal
sounds
of
purling
stream
s
1
upon in published narratives :
fifteen minutes, w ith a copy of m y p a ­ dressed my wounds. He relieved mv sweo.est music, an nngel issued forth July i, was * native of Scotland where he
A little before five o'clock in the af­ could not look upon; my eyes were role in my pocket, 1 was on my way to neck of a handful of m aggots, removed ami c r ed out to the cow ering ch id:
was born in 1»1V. He I ear tie. I the cooper’«
feasted unon delicious springs of
ternoon of A ugust 30, 1862, at G rove­ w ater — clear, shaded pools, wherein Alexandria.
the handkerchief and lin t and cleansed
" Be not alraid! I a m thy m other!" trade. During the Chartist exciteni -nt in
It was well on tow ard m idnight. I the gaping cavity with a syr nge. I
A n d as the bout i W ind sp rea d its England he wa« couipe.letl to flee to thia
ton, V a., 1 was wounded. The rni&dle, fair n a tu re ’s drapery of moss and
tel the
“ w ater
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tr.ekling wings and boro the child ac oss tl e country for ntteruig seditious sentiments.
a large sized minie ball, struck me in . brakes and feathery ferns were should judge, when I camo n ear F a ir­ was not until ‘ * I felt
in Dun lee, Iil., he continual a t nu
tin throat, close alongside the “ A dam 's pictured, hut beyond my reach; a n fax Court-house, and know ing of a path d o w n my back th a t 1 knew the ball had silver w aters her joy was so intense she Settling;
trade as u cooper. Wh 1 j gathering ho >p
th a t would cut ofl' some distance 1 •lasseil clear through.
calietl out:
apple" (about five inch«« below the palate was tantalized by visions of concluded to t ike it instead of the pike.
po!e*
on
an
isiau l in n neighbn ing river he
The surgeon under whose care I for­
“ Heath! M other' Heaven!"
left ear), passed between the w indpipe tables sp read w ith richest viands set 1 had gotten about half way to w here I tunately happened to fall was the only
“ L .d n ’t I tell ye!" scream ed the old discovered a djs-rtc.1 camp, winch he be­
ju st beyond my g rasp. L anguage is
(which it grazed) and the ju g u lar and ; iuailoquate tc describe even faintly the would again strike tho road w hen a one am ong scores w ho saw me who hag. who had ju st returno 1; and she lieved bad been th« retort of co.interf jirei'A
b y lolloftiug up clew» »uggeste I by him t io
carotid veins and m ade its exit a t the suflerings of those far-off, awful days. sudden taintness came over me. and. as thought recovery poadble, and h a f i Ih knelt beside tho bed of lags to beat the reeult was that the grin; of counterfeiters
back, a little low er down, between the
T h ^ u io rn in g of the 2d of Septem ber 1 was w alking alongside of a steep was not very stro n g until a m onth had child.
weiu caught and puniahe 1. Tins incident
•‘ Too ia te '” «aid the South W ind, led t » his be.n : frequently employed hy tiu
spinous processes of the fifth and sixth my thoughts were turned homeward. bank on my right, I thought I would passed and more. When sloughing set
in
a
t
its
w
orst
there
were
continual
with its face at the window.
cervical vertebra-, which it 'ractu red . Step bv step mem ory led me back over lean up against it and take n brief rest.
siienff in captnrin; the deqiorad »«4 that 111-
Ave! it was too late.— Detroit Fret festetl the sparsely populated s etton 10
The blow benumbed me, a« a m atter life’s track to my earliest childhood, ; I diil so. but the instant I got out of hem orrhages occurring, and I renietn-
n
-r
til'll
on
two
occasions
when
the
•Feofirse, and th " blood-iru-b«*^ in h ur­ Wnd th ere mv n A ^^ at^ ett at- ia t e n a l -jvthe p e r . ; - u n d u ly dropped a ll in a hsi
which ho live»!. His (ante roa ^hed Cuicago,
______
__ ___
P iefi.
lo that on his removal there ho w ji soon
ried jets, responsive to the throobings for hours, liu t n ot bo m uch upon the in a sort o l d Tell th at ran along Ilio large arteries w ere th reatened he re­
tw
o
en-
slter ap|K»intxl deputy shevtiT »(ldaftartvar J
mained
bv
my
bedside
during
N
O
T
H
IS
PRO
PERTY.
of my heart, as I fell, covering mv face, scenes and associations of my la te r edge of tin» path. I tricsl to get up, but
ippointod tho city’» tin t deseodve. i.i 1371
i
t
re
nights
until
all
im
m
ediate
danger
g ettin g into my eyes and m outh as 1 youth as I had previously rem em bered, could not do so. I wallowed around in
T h e E x p la n a tio n T lia t P r e v e n te d a Dis­
he founded the celebrated de tetivo ogencj
gasped for b reath ; but ve' w onderful seen and known them. Blessed visions ■ the darkness like a wounded anim al. | was past.
tu rb an ce on n T e s s » Itstlroa il.
which has since ferreted out sm u * of th«
ui childhood’s
cuu ’ xuu ’ ju early daw n rose up
u be- —
___ began to bleed afresh and
T hough 1 regretted leaving the good
a- it m av seem, I never It >t conscious­ of
My wound
"W ill you b ) kind enough to lake most desperate crimes of tho age, nn I I as ft»
ness.
On the oontrary. my min ’ ap­ fò i^ m e “ dearly"foved, 8miling"fM»s”of ! I thought th e'd ay lig h t would find m-: Ì S am ar,tan who cared for me so fa th
.
i
.«
i
i i (m
l,- m
i l fo
m ln r lv y et it
fully
and
tenderly,
it was n a crini
glad that grip- ack ofl that s a t," said a tamed its respectability an I the conlldeuce
peared m ore keenly active, although mv ___
early boyhood’s friends thronged dead.
I hail la n there probably an hour i day when he accom panied me to the countrym an, who got on a Hain at L ul­ of tLe public through the rule htk. -o w n by
tor a m om ent the sense of sight failed | jn ^ , «¡«w; is tender m other came to
its founder never to operate in a divorce
alto g eth er and sounds were eonfused
a n pain.
1 was her boy when 1 h.-aril footsteps approaching. depot and saw me ofl' for a brief season ing, Tex.
case, or where family m atterj were In dis­
as if I w ere in th e m id st o f a hurricane. again, sittin g upon her knee, th e n —a The com er proved to be Billy Glasgow, a t home. He w as one of G od's noble­
“ No, sir, I d o n 't propose to do any­ pute.
a e ra io rs sensation .
tw inge of pain—a feeling as if the lin­ of mv own regim ent, whose left Blioul- men, w ith sym pathies tender as a wom­ thing of the sort,” replied the dnim m er,
B r i d s l i F o r e ig n • « c r e t a r y .
an
’s;
a
firm,
steady
hand
ami
a
strong,
der-bla
I
■
had
been
shattered
«bv
a
bul­
A com rade helped me to a sittin g gers ot death were groping for my
faithful h e a r t I pay this tribute to Ins who was sitting on the other side of the
posture, and while I was endeavoring h eart and I was returned to the real ­ l e t I lost no time in a ttractin g his a t­ worth and gooduess, not only for w list «.■at.
tention H e worked with his one good
to repair dam age* by stopping the leak ties th a t enveloped me.
“ Lo you say th at you are going to let
arm for fully ten m inutes before he got he did in my behalf, but because of his
m mv anatom y with a small bail of lint
MENTAL PHENOMENA
me balanced on my feet, and then we kindness and un rem ittin g oare of all that grip sack stsv right there? r
and nandke-cnief I chanced to have, I
es. air, I d o ."
after hour, like the second hand , t raveled together, lie suiting his pace to who were under his charge. W herever
the lighting was going on fiercely a l l 1 of H a our
"In case you d o n 't remove th a t grip­
watch, my m ind k ept d a rtin g from
ho is m ay he dw ell in the ver.table
about and over me snd men were fall­ one th o u g h t to another, but with so I mine and occasionally steadying me orcsence of all th a t m akes life pleasant. sack I shall be under the painful neces­
ing by dozens. B ut I did not m ind t h a t , much regularity th a t the sam eness soon , over rough ground.
sity of calling the conductor.”
so much. I was in no pain. I reg t i d ­ grew monotonous and tiresom e. T he j T he next m orning, Septem ber 4th,
“ You can call in the couducto-, the
[ilSM A H G K .
nd sang circle of ideas traveled over was al- i about daybreak, we m et between F a ir­
ed the bullets th a t flow by and
engineer, ¡..id tbe brakotm an, if you
th eir d'—-ily music only with a . languid ways about the sam e a t the start, and I fax and Annan laic, our am bulances III» P eraon allty s a d H ow l i e A<Jfire»net w ant to Perhaps you had better stop
(lie H eieharsil».
interest. I t was a curious sensation; g rad u ally narrow ed down, like the ves­ going to the battle-field w ith surgical
at the next sta tio n ," aud send a special
and medical «applies and provisions
i*AC A
J AAAA th
fcAAVAAS
.« » .J .
the
lying
ere «.-»
so helpless .n in n w—
the very
Bismarck is the greatest figuro which to old Ja y Gou d himself about it? '
sel's course in a m aelstrom , to the cen- under a flag of truce. We borrow ed a
vortex of de.»th w ithout realizing the tra l atjygs> which then for me was ' to ^ f^ f^ r c a d apiece, but my tongue lias appeared in the statesm anship of
"T h e conductor will put you off the
d an g er of the situation. 1 ° *
° ‘ , home. ' 1 realized
realized the
the precarious
precarious condì-
condi­ and th ro a t were so
tra in .”
now, after more th an tw enty years tion of my m ental faculties, but yet, and th ro at were so inflamed th a t I Europe since Richelieu, and he carries
" I d o n 't oare if lie doe«. I am not
made little headw ay a t eating; besides, with him all the outw ard signs ot
have passed, causes me to shudder.
going to tako th at grip-sack from that
though striving h ard to do bo , could I had all the time to steady my head in
majesty
and
power
in
a
g
reater
degree
AN OVERPOWERING THOUGHT.
no t control them. I be! eve I could so ne m anner, else, on account of my
piano where it is.”
I t was not until I saw o u r boys driven have died then feeling com paratively injured neck, it would bo d ropping than any personage of his time. He is
The indignant passenger
went
and going back th a t my m ental facul­ little of m ental anguish—the physical ov -r aud causing the m ost excruciating taller than the late Czar Nicholas, lias through the train, and soon returned
ties took lairly hold of realities. Then, pains of dissolution had been already pa n.
a head the size of W ebster’s and a with the conductor.
“ So vou refine to remove th a t g rip ­
in the tw inkling of an eve, camo the borne.
A fter we left A nnandale my com rade breadth aud massiveness of body equal
thoughts: “ 1 m ust die fiere, w ith no
B ut it was not to be. In the after­ stopped to rest, but I continued, reach­ to those of the late General Scott. sack, do vou?” asked the conductor.
XABL OBAXVILLK
“ I do.’'
fa m ira r face to cheer, no voice to corn- noon ass stance came. T he corpse was ing Alexandria about 12 m. of the day.
In ths cabine; of Mr. G lalstin". Earl
fort no kindly hands to care for mv 1 lifted from my arm , w ater was brought From Cloud's Mills to tho city lim its, When he enters the Reichstag it is like
Great sensation.
O ianvllla holds the most difflcu.t |Misition,
dead body when 1 have done using i t .'' in the crown ot an old slouch h a t to on botli sides of tho way. sat people the entrance of Ju p ite r am ong the liier-
"W hy do you persist in refusing to b u o n » in which by irevloiis issin iu g li» is
It was terrible. N ever before had I quench the f iver b u rning in my veins with food for the wounded com ing in, nrcliy of Olympus His eyebrows are remove that grip-sack?”
better fitted than probably any ether man
nor have I ever since, felt the awful Hope grasped me firmly with her good and such a display! Hog and hominy, thick, white and overhanging; his m us­
“ Becaus i it's not m ine."
ip ih» kiugdom. He is >¡0 years old, and
anguish of th a t moment, n or do I ever rig h t hand. I resolved, God will ng, to bacon and ureens, baked beans, “ biled tache, likewise snow white, aud, as a
•'W hy d id n 't you s iy so a t once?"
wax first appointed under serre ary of
recent correspondent describes him,
expect to again, not even in the final do my share tow ard living.
"B
ecause
nobody
asked
m
o
."—
Te,xat
foreign
affilila in 1340. a ln o which he lies
dinners,” cakes, pics, fruits, chickens,
grapple w ith the g reat destroyer.
several times had m arge of the olllce. Hi»
It w as difficult, a t first impossible, roasted, fried -anyw ay one lik ed —it “ his face is covered with folds and Siftings.
faoo indicates tbe cool de.iberated J idgm nt
D eath was then bending over me; I was for me to d rink; but drop by drop the was a perfect paradise for a hungry wrinkles, broad rings surround his eyes,
C annibalism o f F ishes.
be brings to m a tu re of stat>. HU popu­
gazing into his fearful features; his liquid blessing trickled dow n my th ro at, man, and yet I could not eat. B ut It and even his forehead is draw n into
larity la equal to that of tho premivi'.
chilling oreath w as stealing its way to slowly I felt its refreshing influence was difficult to refuse to m ake tho a t­ minute corrugations like the skin upon
A
few
weeks
sgo
[opened
the
stomach
iiaxed
my h eart; b u t the m ental agony did within, th ro u g h o ut my system, and up­ te m p t Tho banquet was furnished a withered apple. His head is nal
G o p h e r - T a ll C u r r e n e y
on the>wouii<ls which were bathed with w ithout cost by U nion-loving people ot hair and shines like a dome of of a codfish w eighing nine and a qu arter
not long continue.
polished ivory. His eyes have a cold and
[bism irck Tribune.]
IL You who have suffered deeply in and a
A SPEEDY CHANGE.
tion to p artak e seem ed to a somewhat cruel expression, ami when pounds. I found in it two full-grown
Some of our countie» pay
m n-l and body endeavor to think, if
-et to the volunteer host he begins to speak tue color of his face herrings, one large whiting, ouo eod-
for «rephers, and In L a 31
g reatatam m y relief
from pale to red, and gradually liageae.iv en flounders, one a m a !l sole, currency. A m m go»« ml
th a t one old colored changes
gravated by an o th er W ound cati«e,
AN ATTEMPT TO WALE.
anti
one
sm
all
skate,
all
newly
sw
al­
fo r a drink throws on tho conn,
'iniyTBBBR|BSe so n ara tn a t x cook a assumes a light bronze shade which
a piece of shell th a t struck my left hip
On the 3d of Septem ber a C onfederate bit of nii.efcorn dodger and " g re e n s,” gives his powerful skull the ap|>earanre lowed. From the m outh of the whit­ t i l l s When tlie drawer 1» full
as I lay upon the earth. T he benumbed officer came and told u s th a t those able
of burnished m etal.” His voice is soft, ing a largo live worm issued. Besides taken to th.« county oifloe and rede«
sensation produced by tbe bullet as it to g et to C entreville could do so and be with vinegar, which w ent first rate (the alm ost weak, and when he has spoken Hies - there were half-digested rem ains paid out. It look« a liltla novel ii Chur
little
I
succeeded
in
sw
allow
ing),
and
forced its course through the bundled paroled. I resolved to m ake the a t ­
for a while it grow s somewhat hoarse. of other llsli, chiefly flounders. All the seo goph r narrative« going into tho cc
network of nerves and muscles of neck te m p t At mv request I was helped to she thanked me as though I h ad done He speaks rapidly or with deliberation, large m outhed fishes are curiously bution box._________________
her
a
favor.
and spine gave way to the m ost excru­ my feet, but the m om ent those who hail
I
according to his mood, but never in a voracious and usually cannibals.
—K osm th, xviule still a liv e, enjove
ciating pains, wh ch m anifested them ­ hold of me let go I fell to the earth like
MANSION HOUSE HOSPITAL.
loud voice; is courteous, though some­ have seen a small eel swallow a still tho satisfaction of know ing w hat llie
selves m ost cruelly th ro u g h o u t my an em ptv sack. They were about to
R eaching tbo city lim its I m et a bri­ times ironical in m anner and gives sm aller eel, head iirst, the tail half of world s nn n io i of h in w 11 be a lt r
left s de, jio p a rt of which, above the leave me, one rem arking th a t I could gade surgeon, who, after" inquiring token of his rising w rath, which is fre­ the swallowed fish projecting from the
IIo has, it is asscr.oil, cut out
wa st, was »en« ble to the outw ard never again w alk a dozen steps, b u t at when and where I was wounded, quently excited by his opponents, rather inoutli of the swallower and m oving for (leatli.
touch. I t seemed as if m illions of red- mv earn est en treaty they gave mo a n ­ rode on. Presently ho cam e g allo p ­ by the sw elling of the huge veins in his some hours. The swallowing thenco- all t ie obituary notices th a t hav i
hot needles were being th ru st into my oth er trial. T o m eet it I summoned up ing back, dism ounted and accom panied neck and by clutching at the collar of iortli proceeded very slowly, evidently reaclie 1 h ni and they till h aii a d iz qi
flesh, or as if each nerve and muscle all my stren g th and resolution. W here me to town, supporting mo w ith an his uniform than by any furious rhe­ accordihg to the rate of digestion of the scrap-books, hundreds of n -w q ■• • ri
having been sent him from diticrohl
were being reeled off my bones by I was, if I rem ained, death teem ed in­ arm.
He took me to the M ansion torical outburst. He makes the m em o­ part that had reached the stomach, as
some massive enginery of irrcsistable evitable. T h irty miles o r so away were H ouse H ospital, introducing me to the randa toi his spee<-iiws on loos«! sheets some days elapsed before the end of tho countr.es as toon as it was know n that
the rep o rt of his death was u n tr u*.
power.
all the com forts necessary to m inister surgeon in charge w ith: “ T his boy has of (piarlo pa|>er with pencils more than tail of the swallowed fish disappeared.
At the base of my skull, too, a h and’s to a aorejv w ounded body and weari- d walked from Bull Run w ith his b ind a foot I- .q aud the words which he jobs To show the mouth capacity of somo
—Twenty-five G e rm a n who haveen-
breadth above the place w here the ball brain. I m ight die on the way Put half shot off; do w liat you can for down "'uli them and utters in so soft a fishes take two Jo h n Lorys of equal tered tho Ch aosc sorv ue w -re re p i.r ;d
had m ads its exit, there was a curious then 1 would be n earer friends. T hus I him ;” and left me. T he first question tone h iv e the weight of eanmm balls. size, open the mouth of one to its full to take C hine.o names. One of them,
sensation, which can only be described reasoned and started.
asked. "Do you wish som ething to The old C liaucellor draws now to Ihe capacity, and it will be found large who was form erly cat I tin ot a cor­
by saying th a t it felt as though some
On lifting me up they steadied my ea t? ” I of course answ ered In the af­ end of his career; his imperial m aster is enough lo take in the whole of the vette, is now called YVang-Ll-Triaug.
one were endeavoring to bore into my form u n ’il I " g o t my h e a d .” so to firmative.
which, w h ei turned in ‘o English, means
»lumbering aw ay Mie rem nant of Ids second fish. -Ucntleman's ita q m in t.
brain, upw ard, with a g ig an tic auger. speak.
Mr. Hegii Wall. Hu has ju st been pro-
1 was quite dizzy a t first, and
n.~.
........-
They gave mo a cup of bean soup
Y«I, at first, this feeling was not so then, hope’s tap er aim ly burning. I (arm y stren g th ), bread aud coflee and hours, and when lie passes awav, which
be at any time, the work of his
—Ju d g in g from tho annexed local moicd to the rank of A dm iril. and
very painful; it was s-mply annoying started to follow it to death or W ash­ sent me to the surgery, w here one of m
com m ands the Chi o Yung.
A nother
and uncom fortable.
It was, perhaps, ington. I was desperately weak, and the attendants, after looking a t tho ttnghty m inister, the greatest who lias from tin Blanco (Tex.) News, borrow ­ G erm an officer is how nam ed L .n-l’ao,
ever served the house of Hohenzollern or ing is apparently done with somo talent
two hoars after I fell th a t th irst began stag g ered when I walked like a d ru n k ­ wound in my neck, insisted on putting
o r Mr. 8.x Cannons.
to torm ent me, but I had no w ater. en man. W ith my rig h t h a n i I was on a compress o f plasters to draw the wrought in the political concerns of tho In th at town: One of our young men
— in P aris they havo “ m orphine p a r­
The last drop from my canteen ha-1 obliged to su p p ort my head, and the ragged edges of the opening together. Fatherland, may bo regarded as prac­ while out gathering in some wood with ties" of the small a i d early kind
tically accom plished.— Cor. Hmokh/n which to make himself a fire last W ed­
been given to ««dying comrade.
paralyzing effects of the bullet and I objected, u rging th at the w ound
nesday, got badly left, as when he cam e Those inv ted to such lilt’.c g ath erin g s
In the edge of the evening a guard piece of shell upon my left side re ta rd ­ should bo cleansed and properly Eagle.
-- --- - -
back heTiad no stove iu which to build are known to the hoateis a sb tin ; in the
of Confederates was form ea about the ed locomotion, so th a t it required great dressed, if a t all, but he prevailed,
—“ So you went to tho party with the fire—it had gene mysteriously. The habit of resisting ills to which liesh is
field, and 1 w as borne back a hundred caution to keep from falling, and when squeezing tho sensitive flesh to g etu er Mrs.
Elberton, d d you?" asked a wife fact was ho was borrow ing from n heir by subcutaneoits injections of tho
yards o r eo beyond tbe railroad cut, on onoe down I knew I could not get up regardless c ’. the handkerchief and lin t
of her husband. ‘’Yes, as you «yero neighlxiring woodpile, and wnlle out narcotic above named. T he tujeol on is
the edge of w hich o ur im e of b attle w ithout assistance. Before leaving the w ithin or of the agonv he caused me.
p e r i'o m e d with a H it« instillm ent, the
awav I thought it. would do no harm tho n e irh ,,' ' r he—•»«•—t hi« «teve.
had stood, and m ere, until toe atter- o th er prisoners I saw a num ber of
inanufsotiirc of wli ch is parsing from
"
! « < « -----------
Then I was directed to the w harf and as Elberton asked mo to, being detained
nodn of Septem ber 8d, four days and com rades from my own regim ent who
—A sleigh In W aterbury, C onn., is 111‘ s u r g e d n stru m en t m aker lo the
nights, I lay in the m idst of some 1,800 were unable to travel, and Dade them placed upon a boat th a t was to take a t home and not w anting his wife to lie
ieweler, and .«be.oniing an o h jet d 'a rt.
dead and w ounded men. U ntil about good-bye—some forever, others to m eet a cargo of wounded to W ashington, disappointed." "W ell, I d o n 't believe said to be 136 y e a n old. Sleighs Jid Guest* and the indy of the house sit in
and there offeyod m ore coffee and bread, In lending mv husband to anybody." not g et sm ashed up in the oldvn t m o­
two o'clock p. m of the 2d of S eptem ­
again.
but my suffeiings were so g re a t th a t I "W hy not, pray?" “ Becati«cit la not t s they do now. Y oung eolom sta were a Oirciu and lisl in io a concert lr a dis­
ber no t a d ro p of w ater touched m j
declined. M eantime, tbe com presses good, according to the Bible, for a ma.i bashful; and drove with both hand*.— ta n t room. Th*y duzer be their m o m -
A SITHT o r THE SURGEONS.
lips except as the rain fell, and teen
tion* to each other.
Uarlforul C'nwant
From the ormt wa h»d vainly gt- had caused iuoh acute pain th a t I to be a lo a n ." —Dotton T iint...
.each d ro o th a t struck mv parch <d and
/
w k
THE FATAL MISTAKE.
.
tem pted to take I m ade my way to m e pi___ _____
farm house of tho widow Hogan, where, blood flowed profusely, sa tu ra tin g the
upper
portion
of
ray
person
with
beneath the »bade of the fruit and
o th er trees surrounding It, tho su r­ corruption.
geons were a t wprk a t their bloody yet
ON A TKANSrOBT.
m erciful trade. It was only a tittle
The n ig h t of the 4th the vessel re­
over a mile distant, but It took me ail m ained a t A lexandria, and the space
of an hour to traverse the Intervening being crow ded 1 lay in the stern sheets
| soace. Several times I was on the of the sm all boat on dock with ray neck
point of giving out; the exertion of resting upon the gunw ale for a pillow
w alking caused the wound in tny neck to deaden the pain.
1 had not slept a
I grew ta in t—a slight m om ent since the night of the 2Vtn of
i to bleed afresh
nausea
set
iu.
bjR
the
prospects
of
re
­
A ugust and then for not m ore than an
;
lief cheei i me. and I persevered -s u c ­ hour, and d u ring tho long hours of
ceeded. By this time the wound in my darkness 1 listened to tho groanm gs
neck hail become by rapid increase one and m oanm gs of those about me while
festering m ass of m aggots, gome of inv mind d arted from one thought or
which, ever and anon, w ent rolling m em ory to another unceasingly, as it
j down
inside my clothing w hich I h ad | ga‘¡ X n o on the field of battle.
IB M ’ •