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PLAYS AND PLAYERS. SOME H-.« HOW THE IDEAS FOR THEM WERI BORN IN THEIR AUTHORS. The M mu Who Gar* Btereaaoa lnaplraliou For "Jekyll How Dlekeua IHaeo, eretl the H,dr." "lllltet Twist" and ••Mlebolaa Mekleby.” Among weird fiction there are few novela to compete «'.411 "The Strange Btory of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." ■ nd the story of It» inception 1» almost ■ a strange as tlie work itself, says the Ft. Louin Globe-Democrat. Stevenson. It appears, bad dealings with a man named Samuel Creggan ■nd did not like him. "He's a man who trades ou th** Samuel," averred the novelist. "Ib* receives you with Samuel's smile 011 ills fuce. but every now and theu you catch a glimpse of the- Creggan jceeping out like a white ferret. Criggau’a the real man; Sam uel's only superficial." This was what gave Stevenson the first idea for the dual personality of Jekyll and llyde, but he did not Icegin to write. One night, however, Mrs. Stevenson ■ wakened icy cries of li irror from her husband, and thinking that he bad a nightmare, aroused him. lie was quite angry. "Why did you wake me?" be asked. "1 was dream.leg u tine bogy tale.” He got up nt once and began writing In a sort of fever. His biographer. Mr Osbourne, Bays that it is doubtful whether the first draft took film as long as three days. "Treasure Island.” by the same au thor. had it beginning almost equally strange. One day Robert Louis Stevenson was playing with a box of water colors belonging to bls stepson, and idly drew ■nd colored a map of an Imaginary Island. To quote bls own words; “It was elaborately and, I thought, benutifully colored; the shape of It took my fancy beyond expression; it contained harbors that pleased me like sonnets, and. with tLie unconsciousness of the predestined, 1 ticketed it ‘Treas ure Island.* The next thing 1 knew 1 bad some paper before me and was writing out a list of chapters.” The upshot was that for the next fifteen days Stevenson wrote like one possessed, turning out 11 chapter a day. Then be lost hold, and it was weeks before the inspiration came again, but when It did "Treasure Island" flowed from him "like small talk.” and ran aerially in a children's paper. To go back a good tunny years, ■tories attach to nlmost every one of Charles Dickens* novels. Roon after the "Pickwick Papers” had made their amazing success. Dickens happened to visit the studio of George Cruikshank, and there was shown some drawings of the career of a London thief. Among these was a sketch of Fagin's den and a picture of Bill Sikes. Dickens wag lit the time engaged upon tlie Idea of a workhouse story, and the lesult of this chance visit was “Oliver Twist," as It was soon afterward jails 1 lulled. As for "Nicholas Nickleby,” there does not seem much doubt that the great novelist conceived the Idea of Dotbeboys Hall from the advertise ment of Mr Simpson's academy, Wooden Croft lodge, Yorkshire, which he saw in an old copy of the Times. The famom. Captain Kettle, the most popular rreatlon of Cutcliffe Ilyne, was originally a character in a com paratively little known story by the tall Yorksbireman. Mr. Ilyne, who at the time had hard ly got bls foot on the ladder of fame, took the story to a well known Ixindon editor and publisher. After criticising the yarn In rather merciless fashion, the editor said: “All the same, the little sea captain Is your best character, ami you ought to be aide to do something with him. Why not make him the hero of a series of short stories ?” Fergus Ilume has told the story of how he came to write "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab." He was In Melbourne at tlie time, and In financial straits, for he had entirely failed to dls|s>sB of a play to whl di lie bad given much time He thought be might do totter with a book, but the question was, "What Bort of book?" After some considera tion be went to the leading Melbourus librarian ami asked this question. "What books <lo you find sell best?" "Detective stories,” was the prompt r«Tly. '"especially those of Gaboriau.** Mr. Hume bad not then read any Ga borlau, but lie wasted uo time In re pairing the omission and bought ■ com plete edition of his works. Tbe result was the story which made bis reputatlou and the" seventy novels which succeeded it. Fergus Hume, it may be mentioned, is credited with having turned out a 00.000 word book tn ■ week < rltlcsl i.rtgic Faile«. Sherlock Holmes bad ■ favorite die turn—' Eliminate the Impossible, and what Is left, however imj>rol>ab!e. mu-t be the truth." This was not at all iu accordance with the saying of Victor Hugo: "Noth!' g Is so Imtnineut as the lmjK>»sible What must t>e always fores.. u |s the unforeseen." Most of us w ill n. -ee. from experience, with Hugo rat than with Holme«. Th- Imposslb <• d>s - b..pj>eu When "Mercy Philbrick'« • bolee" was publish I in tlie “No N e" seiies * e crith • tier ■ greed that it ■ ml t > i e a ...' a y Helen Hunt Jackson. But. as th who km • r love for flowers -i.l . qua utaii w.th aatu. ;•* out. «lie co ,.d not lie : .»■ a ■ fe- there we-. *. veral gia; >g m s « I the namiu* «:i I jilac g >f bl --m « the story Yet. as wa- aft word <1 cloeeil. she did wrt*. it. bo <u> tl theorising went for noui ng far ah B-rubardt'» American tour to gUia In New York In November. Tbe «uu lunceuieut made by Charles Frobmau that be was going to pro duce this season au unusually large number of American plays was a wei- come one. Marie Booth Russell. Harry Leigh ton. Emily Dodd aud Giles Shine have bi':-u engaged by William A. Brady ■» principals In support of Robert B Mautell this season. Victor Herbert has sent to Miss Lulu Glaser a new waltz, which be wants made au added number to tbe score tie finished some time ago for the musical comedy "Miss Dolly Dollars.” Joseph Sheehan. tbe well known ti nor of the English Grand Opera com pany. was signed recently to continue with that organization. Mr. Rbeebaii will alternate tlie leading tenor roles with Francis McLennan. Richard Golden has been engaged by Henry W. Savage to play the lead ing role In the new Georg*- Ade run- edy. "The Bad Samaritan.” which will be given an early fall production at tlie Garden theater. New York. Tlie Sliuoerts have purchase 1 from Agnes and Egerton Castle tlie dra matic rights t 1 their novel. “Tlie Secret Orchard.” Channing Pollard, whose stage version of "In the Biship's Car rl ge" was produced nt Hartford, whi make the adaptation. GERMAN GLEANINGS. Tbe Berlin municipality has decided to establish public s.m aud light baths, it which first, sec >ud and third class feei will be cbargisi. Pet dogs in sunbonnets and blue glass spectacle* are 10 be seen follow- •ng their owners through tbe streets of Berlin in li it weather. A lion and a lioness in tlie zoo at Frankfort, Germany, roared in terror imi tremblingly crouched In.a corner if their cage because a ferret had lie- ciueutally entered it. Franz Kr iu.se, who plunged the blade if a penknife Into an elejihant's trunk at tlie llhlbeck menagerie, Hamburg, was seized by the infuriated animal and hurled with terrific force against 1 brick wall. Krause had his legs bro ken. and lie died the same evening. Tlie municipal authorities of Hatn- uierstem, Germany, have prohibited motor cars from approaching to within twenty miles of tlie town on th« ground that the "Sliced fever” has an “Infectious Influence” upon cab and tram ear drivers and causes them to lrive to the public danger. * EDITORIAL FLINGS. Tlie prediction of a shortage of 10,- pounds in the California prun« crop will be comforting to some.—Bos ton Globe. The man wbo hurries along the street is likely to be overcome by the beat, and if he goes slow an automobile may ruu over him.—Toledo Bee. The feemen are candidly at a com mercial disadvantage, seeing they are unable to adulterate what they sell to tbe public. Glass, the only tliiug that looks like Ice, costs more.—Kansas City Times. Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte re jected Nestor and Orestes as names for colliers. He |K>luts out that one suggests antiquity aud the other in sanity. Another one of “them liter ary fellows'* in office.—Syracuse Her ald. A New York man who received JI per week has been armtixl for bign- mously maintaining two wives and do mestic establishments. The law should spare the man for purposes of sociolog ical inquiry In the department of eco nomies- Atlanta Constitution. ihmi . ihhi ENGLISH ETCHINGS. Iu London out of u bund red wid- owera who marry again twelve marry their housekeejiers. In ■ Loudon theater, at which a mu sical play is having n long run, the members of tlie orchestra Jilay chess on miniature boards during the waits between acts. The English clergy are protesting that more than 000 tons of rice are an- uually wasted at weddings by being thrown after the happy pairs, More than 820.000 Is yearly spent for rice. A parrot which can talk iu two lan guages and which has seventeen pln.ises has been add»l to thy London zoological gardens. It 1» a native of northern India, and three of Its phrases are iu au Indian dialect, the rest being English. A secret chamber, furnished in old oak. was unexpe< tedly discovered dur Ing tbe demolition of the Flow Inn. Little Ealiug. England. Tlie inn was 500 year« old The grandmother of Dick Turpiu. the highwayman, one« kept It. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. You can t afford to accept some pres ents. Some mighty worthless jieopie hive "good dIsfHisition«." A «ickneM will attack you some day •nd tbe doctor cau’t do you any good. A man wbo Is engaged in living it down fiuds there Is aometbing tiesides the cat that ha« nine Ilves. You may think that you have found • but ’ in haven't. No one ever did. When the older children are gladly ■ nd cheerfully taking care of the baity. It Is « ».gn their “ mother is making a cake. When an Inqsirtant matter comes up wherein every one should help. don't expect to aneiik out of your id.ire of t! ■ work. You will feel bet ter to help cheerfully.-Atchison Globe ♦I ! ClflLDkEN, AFTER ALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4-. LINCOLN O TACT THE CAB IN LONDON. ■■ I* Had a Hard Tim* and Many Chang«« Bator« It Was a Succ«»a. In the earlv part of the last cen (Oriftnal.J 1 Qin one of tiicF* women wbo^thlnk. tury English travelers returning To be tied up to -i moral code inherited 1 from ‘the cities of Europe felt so from remote ancestor* has always been disgusted with the stuffy, slow trav Irksome to me. Though work Las not eling hackney cogchea of London been tiecessary to me, I have worked, j that it was urged that an attempt F rom the first I wanted a career. 1 be made to introduce the ‘‘cabriolet chose literature fur a profession, and de place*’ used in Paris. In 1805 living a literary life made me a reader Mr. I’otch, acting with Mr. Brad of many books. Great social questions shaw as joint proprietor, obtained interested me especially, and I stufliel licenses for nine cabriolets. This the different methods that from the n. w vehicle was similar in appear earliest ag.-s have pertained t> th» re ance to the modern gig, carrying lations of the sexes. 1 came out of th use oUy one passenger inside and at studies impressed with tbe belief that the -ide of the driver. It was a finan marriage is a/civil, not necessarily a cial failure. But in 1823 fuller li censes were given to twelve new ve moral, law. • 1 bad reached, this conclusion some hicles, the driver having an outside time before I met Arthur Tracy. He sent and the vehicle carrying two was the manager of a magazine to passengers. The name cabriolet which I sold articles aud by admiring was soon reduced to “cab. In 1831 them first won my grateful attention, there were ouly 130 cabs in all Lon- afterward my love. He was mated dun. These were known as the “cof with 11 woman who had no sympathy fin” cabs. In 1832 was invented the v. liatever with bis fine, apjireciative and discriminating miml. lie found in "back door” cab. In 1835 Joseph 11 e one who could sympathize with Aloysius Hansom drove into Lon him on every point, and it was not long don on a quaint cab, designed by la-fore he told me that 1 could turn himself. This was the original “han bls uumated life Into one of inexpress som cab.” ible happiness. Its body was almost square, and L’ufortunately for us both, there was the wheels' were seven feet six inches uo ground on which be could get a di iu height, a trifle taller than the ve vorce. Mrs. Tracy was a good wife and mother, the only reason why she hicle itself. The driver sat on the coulu not make her busband happy roof at the front, with two doors being her intellectual inferiority. But eneath him, one on either side of why was a divorce necessary? Hail his feet. This extraordinary cab be 1 not reached a conclusion that mar gan to ply for hire, much to the riage was uot necessary to morality? amusement of the drivers of the Had not one of tbe greatest of English lu.ekney coaches, “outrigger” and women novelists hved with a mau back door cabs. A few months later wbo could uot get a divorce from his wife? Why should 1, bolding these Hansom, who was financed bv the views, stoop to encourage tbe mau 1 inventor of tlie back door cab, re loved to secure bis liberty by fraudu duced the size of the wheels of his lent means? Would it not be a far vehicle and made several other alter better part to make him happy in de ations, with the result that it lost fiance of a world that had received its rts cattle shed appearance. opinions from antiquity? I made up Ilansom’s cab was a financial fail my mind to rise above an antiquated ure, but John Chapman put the driv custom. My love uud I would pledge er's seat behind and generally im ourselves to each other tor lite. I had never seen Mrs. Tracy, nor did proved the design until it became in 1 wish to see her. There was uo blame distinguishable from the present attached to her that she was not suffi hansom. His invention was patent ciently intellectual to be a tit compan ed in 1S36, about the time that the Ion for a very superior man. I would first four wheeler was introduced. —,---------------- not permit myself to consider that she was standing in tbe way of two peo- ' South Sea Offertories. pie whom God bad esjieclally intended 1 Odds and ends, and as queer a for each other. I was not so human 1 collection as one could hope to see, as that. One day I went to the office of tbe magazine to consult about tbe are found among the offertory con method of printing an article of mine, tributions of the natives of Bugotu, and from the sr.lt of editorial rooms in the British Solomon islands. It is a little girl about three years old came 1 ’ no rare thing there for the minister racing along, a straw hat hung to her to draw from the collection box a back and ringlets flying. She was such string of red bea Is, whi. li, providing a merry madcap that I took her into it measures the length of the arms my heart at once and, stooping, literal- I ly took her into my arms. She strug- 1 outstretched, is coin of the realm gled to be free, laughing tbe while, aud ; equaling a florin, but strings of when I set her dowu jumped again white beads of the same length are but as the insignificant three penny into my arms. "You little bumbug!” I exc^ilmed. bit. Other articles among the collec "You're like most of your sex—when tion on the last Bible Sunday in you can have wliat you want you don't connection with the Melanesian want it. What's your name?" "Helen Tracy.” •' Mission church were white armlets, I looked into her heaven blue eyes, i each equal in value to a shilling; uud for the first time since I had met | pieces of tortoise shell, a bamboo her father the still small voice of con box, such as is used to carry lime for science spoke to me. I was about to betel chewing; a fine string bag, and bring sorrow Into the life of this inno- «1 piece of the native cloth in which ceut child. the Bugotu women wrap their ba "Come and see mamma,” she said. bies to protect them from the Me grasjiing one of my fingers, "She's iu I lanesian insects. papa's office waiting till he comes In." I She dragged me to tbe office door. I A Night Shift Bee. 1 if ad no intention of going in, but The old joke about the man who suddenly it opened and some one came out, leaving it open. Within snt a crossed his bees with lightning bugs, woman with a face as sweet and Inno that they might see to work at cent as the child's. My coufusion en night, appears 10 have been realized aided tbe little one to drag me to tile in India, where an unusually large threshold. species gather honey only in the "Come in." said the lady, rising, ••1 nighttime. wish to speak to you." There are many night blooming She shut tbe door behind me and stood facing me. All my philosophy flowers in that country, and this could not save me froni feeling that I bee apparently finds no difficulty in was In the presence of an accusing gathering his store, for it is record angel. ed that the combs frequently reach "I know you from the picture Ar a height of six feet. thur has. He has told me much nbottt It is not stated that the honey is you and your Ideas—I eas that 1 have of food value, and its use for human neither the learning nor the mind to appreciate. It has conic to me—uo consumption is to be questioned, matter how—that his heart lia« fol since many of the night flowering lowed bls intellect. I do not blame plants possess strongly narcotic either of you. I am deficient In wliat properties. he requires; you possess It. I love him Wouldn't U»e Slang. too well either to stand In tbe way of “I think it is shameful 1 the way his liapplnetta nr to give him reason to net unworthily. Whntever step« be that girl spits slang,” said 1 a pretty may see flt to take to break the bonds girl to a friend. “My, if I twirled binding him to me and the children 1 my talker the way she does my shall accede to. They of course must blooming old dad would dust my remain with me.” During n:y philosophicnl studies a duds till dust was thicker 1 than flies favorite ox; r s iou with me wa* “the in fly time!” “You betcher brass and f serve you cobweb« ef the (Mat.” While I was listening t • these words. Inv living a right!” replied the other young la far greater v l.eiom. a far higher con dy. “My parents are sunflowers of ception than I had ever dreamed of. It the same hue, and if I should make seemed that with a feather the speak a raw crack in my conversation they er waa brushing away the cobwebs of tbe pre«*«it. She had shown me the would thrash the rosy cussidness yawning gulf on which I stood. In a out of my angelic anatomy quicker twinkling she had dissolved tlie air than chained Lightning!” And they castle I had built up about her hus iiroceed to suck the juice out of a band. for It bail flashed npon me that emon through a stick of candy.— be was greatly her inferior. Before Kansas City Independent. I could reply tbe door was opened and His Oegrae. he walked Into tbe room. While he «tood the picture of abashed astonish- "Is young Biukiev going to take nii nt. I answered her through him. ■ degree when he leave« college?” “Arthur Tracy. I can't understand asked the num with the eagle eye. why ym should waste yonr regard on es. I hear they’re going to me when yon have one «0 much more w irthy of yon Your wife has tangtit give him the thirty-second degtee, “ie more in one minute than I have Fahrenheit,” raid the man with the learntsl from all tlie books I have ever incandescent whiskers. read. I leave y 11 with her and your “Thirty-second degree, Fahren child, to whom yon belong." heit? I never board of that hon Me ha*l isith »cred what we or”— wanted and we dl<;.. . It, After "Yas, he plaved freeze out to all, we in* bwf ns chi' much that he failed in hia «»»m«-" WINIFRED ROBERTS. —Chicago Tribune. How I MORGAN’S PRACTICAL JOK*E. • «to»*"! . A tho ITr«!*»»«» Won I ■bake From «■ Anlagoi »niat. M«w atory About the Ft»» Co«, federate General. Three men were telling war stories In tbe spring of ltkil George D. Wise of Virginia and two other young the other day, aaya the Louisville < on. •outberueiB, one of whom stood six rier-Journal, wheu oue of them reuilod feet four, were attending school In an incident of General John Morgan'» A aohlngtoa. Tbe inorulng the new« of career that had probubly never been io tbe tiring on Fort Sumter reached print before. “Morgan was regar*l««| mem they decided thirt It was their *»y th* Union soldiers as a holy terror,” fluty to return at once to Richmond, their home, and enlist in tbe southern sa d one of the famous cavalry leader * cause. As Mr. Liucolu was to give a men. "ami stories had been spread 1'ublic reception that nfeht. young among them reciting bow be shot down Wi>e projHised that they attend, to see his captives and gave mercy to none. wliat suit of man tbe president really | On the contrary, be was kind hearted, lie was fond of a Joke, though. On one was. "No." said the tall fellow. "I for one f of our raids we cajitured about twenty-- five Union men near Murfreesboro, won't go near tbe rascal." “But," urged the third youth, who at Tenn, They expected nothing else than once fell ill with the suggestion, "there to be shot down after tlie general liafl Is going to l>e war, and Mr. Lincoln first eaten a good meal. They begun t, will undoubtedly rise to great promi talk about It so excitedly that some , .e nence. We really owe it to ourselves reported tlie matter to General M. •- gan. Walking from bis tent, he ordered to know something about tbe man. ’ More abuse followed from tbe tall tbe prisoners to be drawn it" in line. Then, mounting his horse, he rode to fellow. “Now look here.” broke in young the center of the small column and Wise, after the argument bad gone ou said to them that they must be ac for a spell. "Fred and I here are going quainted with lii» methods of getting to that reci'ptiou tonight, and you are rid of prisoners, and Le personally re gretted that such a fine looking bo ■ going with us.” Tlie upshot of tbe matter was that 1 of men had fallen Into the hands of a tbe three young men went to the re ; man who, it was known to them .-'ll, ception and lined up with several hun sacrificed human life ns though he down a fatted calf. dred others to greet President Lincoln. were shooting uttie Dutchman at tlie head of Of the three friends tlie tall fellow . .. „ veaker and weaker a» stood first in line, with Ills bands held j e. . , W(>re on until bt resolutely behind bis back. oua'' , tears, exclaiming. "I'll go." he had finally said, ‘'but I’ll "'Oh, for Gott's sake, vot vlll mine never shake hands with him.” do?' Slowly the three southerners passed fa "The g« neral's heart was touch»!. up with tbe line until tbe tall fellow \ Riding up to the little Dutchman, he stood opposite tbe president. His two his hand on his head and said: friends waited breathlessly for the placed " 'Why, God bless you. my nia' 1 expected or tbe unexpected, they would not harm a hair of your head for scarcely knew which. my life. You were all so scared on ac Tbe president reached out bis hand. count of the bad repute in Which you The tall fellow, with Ills hands still l>e- held me th it I thoutht I would play a liind him, looked the president straight practical joke ou you.' ” In tbe eye and with a proud toss of the bead passed on without taking the 1 A HISTORIC INTERVIEW. outstretched hand. Across the sad face of tbe preaident Ueni'i'.-.l ! ocki-'s Fnvc-lt« «1-iry flashed a look of surprise and inquiry, Gen* ral George G. .Meade. aud then a merry twinkle leaped to his The late General Fred T. Locke, says eyes, us be had divined tbe cause of tbe the New York Herald, was an involun slight. tary listener to the remarkable Inter "Just a moment, young man.” he view between General Meaile, Zak said, as tbe tall fellow was passing on. Chandler and Ben Wade nt the sn- • "IIow tall nre you?” camp whet Meade re- ’led to the ot "I-I-I'm six feet four.” stammered .¡ections tie senators had offer* the youth, utterly astonished at the against his appointment ns brigadier question. general. IT'- was born, they said, south “I believe I cau match you.” returned of Mason end Dixon's line, and they the president, And then and there, would not trust the chicken hatch'« before the ussembled throng, he turned from an efig laid In that region. back to back with tlie southerner to de- “Gentlemen.” said the soldier, “had tern*?”» which of the two was the tall I known that in time I might find my er. The ‘southerner outmatched the progress Inq e<led by statesmen so etn- president. ■r.cnt as Wude of Ohio and Chandler of “Young man. I can't match you." tbe ’Hch’can I "boniil have «elected other pre i .’ent was forced to admit, "but." I' 'rents .' i to the jdace of my birth be added, putting out bis hand again lot f:e say I 1 :s born tinder the Amer-l and smiling kintliy into tbe eyes of tbe ienti ti ' - 1 >r e lived and fought un young fellow, "I never let anybody tall der it and - ill die under it." er than I am get by me without slink :-<■ 11:11 • ■-s were not airawt of ths lug hands." fact that Giorge G. Mor-.de was b —n And the routherner, completely over in Madrid, Spain, and that the star» come, took the extended hand. Nor did and stripes floated over the bouse at he ever again speak ill of Mr. Lincoln. tlie time he v as ushered into the worlflj Locke tock great pleasure in telliu) The Great City. tills story arid much pride, too. in git It never misses; it can never miss Ing voice to hl.i opinion that George G any one. It loves nobody; it needs no Meade was one of the grandest soldier body; it tolerates all the types of man that ever smelled powder. kind. It has palaces for the great of the earth; it has crannies for all the SALUTE AT APPOMATTOX. earth's ^vermin. Palace and cranny vacated for a moment flml new ten An Odd In-ldent In tlie Closlnl ants as equally as tbe hole one makes freeue ut the W ht . iu a stream—for as a critic London is The St lxiUis Globe-Democrat tell wonderfully open minded. Ou succes of a curious .ncldent of which no w n sive days It welcomes Its king going tion is made iu tlie books which han to be crowned. Its general who has treated of lhe closing scenes at App'i given it a province, its enemies wbo mattox. Tlie muskets of tbe Confed-- have fought against it for years, its ates were nPowed to remain stacks pi potentate guest from Teheran—it will on the field. The grass caught fire li welcome each with identically raptur some way and was allowed to liu.a ous cheers. This is not so much be So suddenly Lad the fighting ceased >n cause of a fickle mindedness as be the morning of the 9th that thous.au ; cause, since it Is so vast, it has au of the pieces were left loaded. As tin diences for all players. It forgets very fiauies of tin* grass crept along the Lai soon, because it knows so well that iu of stacked muskets tlie guns were he: the scale of things any human achieve i ed to tbe firing beat, aud s ion th ment bulks rery small.—Huepfer's was incessant popping. The balls wett *l‘Soul of London.” up into the t lr almost straight u.,t: the force of tbe discharge was sj" a The Chevron. and then dropped down. To *liis da; "Did you ever notice," inquired an tlie field of surrender Is strewn will old veteran, "that tbe sergeants aud 4 these bulletr, so little has Appomatt corporals of tbe army now wear their been visited that the balls are easilj chevrons with tbe point up? It’s ohly found. been in late years that they've done so. This firing of the muskets by tlx The marines always did, but the army burning grass was the only salute thxl for years had the points down. It's accompanied the surrender. YVliJ only lately that the chevron has been Lee had received Grant's terms ani understood. Tbe chevron is Inherited accepted them the firing of a hundreJ from the feudal days aud meant a roof. guns in token of victory was begun A man wbo had rank enough to be a but Grant quickly stojiped it. noncommissioned officer was required to be a freeholder, a man wbo owned Last Shots of the Old Sixth Cori». the root over bis head. The chevron The last shots of the famous old Sixtl representeil a gabled roof. The pri corps were fired by the Second Vo vates owned no home. The Increase In mont infantry. At least that Is tfJ rank for different grades of noncom claim made by Its men. This regimes mission»! officers was measured *-▼ participated in all the battles of till additional roofs, the sergeant, for In unit, whose insignia was a Greek c: > I stance, having three chevron« against serving from first to last in the Sv I one for the lance corjioral. You’ll find brigade of the Second division. Its tii.j that nearly all of these military devices fighting was during the sklrm!< tave some origin of hist rival Interest." with the rear guan! of the vanls' I —San Francisco Chronicle. Johnnies at Sailor's creek. Tlie I ment had 700 men engaged nt t!i<> I Rlnit* Frmn «hIxlinldln. tie of the Wilderness, where < * I What a que«r old earth it Is! Down Newton Stone fell dead from bi - In Martinique we have a safety valve and where Lieutenant Colonel .1 I In wicked old Mont Pelee. which Tyler, who succeeded him. rec I belches out death to thousands as the mortal wound. Out of a totn! c I spirit mov. < ber and away up In Alas ment of 1,811 the regiment lost 22 I ka there is another on Unimak island, In killed and mortally wounded.—\i I called Riiishaldln. striving with might Ingtou Font. I ■ nd main to inclt some of the Ice of St. Elias and warm the gold hunters of tbe Forels :i Federal Soldier«. Klondike ai d Nome ShlsbaldL' i» the According to a detailed statist lea most remarkable volcauo in the work! port published some time after In addition tj a cnitlnuoiis emission of war. th*» nnmber of Irishmen !n t dense white «tr.oke or steam, circular Union army was 144.221. Accordin ring* npii-ently several hundred feet the same statement, the number in dian et*r «nd of wonderful arm- Germans was 178.707. The total n - Tetry and wb’tene*« emmce in pnff« her of foreign born soldiers of all 1 at «' irt Intervs < from tbe very top of tlonalitles was atsmt 500.f»M). The the mo mtain. It ennses one to think of □red people furnished 180,(’17. of wb: th* p> s’hlllty of o!d Pinto of Paminion a maximum of 125,000 served at 1 smoking a cigarette.— New York Pres. time In tbe army. Co Mi Ck the ILL