The Yamhill County reporter., May 13, 1898, Image 6

VIEWS IN CHICKAMAUGA PARK, WHERE 14,000 UNION SOLDIERS DIED
T homas ’ s
headquarters
H0U5É ChlCKAMAuûA.
GLORIOUS VICTORIES.
dexed In the rogue’s gallery. -.n:l start­
On k’ov. 23 came the battle of Or­ ed for the police court between two
chard Knob, on tne 24th Lookout Moun­ officer«. It ciianced that I was going
tain and on the next day Missionary the same way. and joined company. Be­
I Ridge. Etery school boy and girl knows sides, I have certain theories cone •ern-
| aliout these last two battles. Lookout lag toughs which my friend, the ser-
Mountain Is famed In song and story grant, says are rot, and I was not
as the Battle Above the Clouds. The averse to testing them on the kid.
part of the Union army which was not
But the kid was a bad subject,
included In the assaulting column were replied to my friendly advances with a
on the plains below, cheering as men muttered curse, or not at all. and U|>set
never clieerwl la-fore. All the bands in ! all my notions In the most reckless
the army were massed down there play­ I way. Converaatlon had ceased before
ing as tiie attack was made. They say I we were half way across to Broadway.
bands never art- taken Into battle. As He "wanted no guff.” and 1 left him
a rule this Is so, anil whenever there to his meditations rrapectlng Ills de-
is an exception It Is a thing to be re­ 1 fenseless state. At Broadway there
membered to the life to come. The next was a Jam of trucks, ami we stopi>ed at
morning, when the peak of Lookout the corner to wait for an opening.
It all iuip[x-ned so quickly that only a
was gained and a squad advanced with
the Stars and Stripes, planting the staff eonfusisl picture of It Is in my mind till
on the highest [stint, the enthusiasm this day. A sudden start, a leap, and a
below was unbounded and contributed warning cry, and the kid had wrenched
to the still more thrilling event of that himself loose. He was free. I was
dimly conscious of a rush of blue and
day.
Eor the storming of Missionary Ridge brass; and then I saw—the whole street
was not on Grant's program. Grant, saw—a child, a toddling baby. In the
watching the battle on Orchard Knob, middle of the railroad track right in
turned to Thomas, and said, almost front of the coming car. It reached out
Its tiny hand toward tlx- madly clang­
angrily.
ing bell and crowed. A scream rose
wild and piercing above the tumult;
men struggled with a frantic woman
on the curb, ami turned their heads
away-----
And then there stood the kid. with the
child in his arms, unhurt. I see him
now, as he set It down gently as any
woman, trying, with lingering touch,
to unclasp the grip of the baby hand
upon his rough finger. I see the hard
look coming back Into his face as the
policeman, red anil out of breath, twist­
ed the nipper on his wrist, with a half
uncertain aside to me: “Them toughs
there ain’t no «tependlng on nohow.”
Sullen, defiant, planning vengeance, I
sei- him led away to jail. Ruffian and
thief! Tlie [»ollce blotter said so.
CHICKAMAUGA PARK.
F there Is anything of Inspiration In
the asstx’latlon of ideas, any
added patriotism and courage
to be gained by daily life on
a field where 14JMX) Union sol-
dlers died In the hardest fought,
most magnificent and thrilling series of
battles In the civil war, the regulars,
national guardsmen and volunteers
who encamp In the Chickamauga Park
should be able to fight like fiends Incar­
nate. Tenting again on th«» old camp
ground. In the midst of on«- of the most
beautiful bits of country which God has
given to tills falrt-st of lands. It Is tiard
to believe that war and death were
within a few hours’ ride by rail.
As, standing on L«>okout Mountain,
the eye swtx-ps over the glorious view
below, Finch's prophecy rushes to
m Ind-
No mon- shall the war cry sever.
Or the winding rivers l»e red.
No more. Indeed, ns to a divided na­
tion, and foreign complications were Garfield was the only one left to go on
then untliought of. Where battle lines with the all-important message. This
of 140,000 men surgisl thirty-five years was the tightest of nil tight places that
ago, 50,000 eokllers of the redeemeil re­ Garfield had ever been In. He jammed
public awnitetl the word which sends I his lips together, muttered “Now Is your
them forth to strike the shackles from time, l>e a man, Jim Garfield.” and
another race. The heroism of their spurred ahratl In a zig-zag course across
fathers Is an open book to these soldiers the field to avoid the bullets. Hfs horse,
of to-day.
a line animal, was struck, but It was
DEDICATION SEPT. 19. 1805.
only a flesh wound, and It was like an­
Little more than two short years ago other dig of the rowels. Garfield reach­
the Park was dedicated with Imposing ed Col. MoCook. got a new horse nnd
ceremonies, after the nation had spent made a fresh start over a tlre-awept
nearly a million dollars on It, ami vari­ Held. This mount, too, was hfL but the
ous States almost half a million more. young chief of staff remained unhurt.
New York State’s share being $81,000. Just 11s he got by Thomas’ side the ani­
The Governor of Ohio, now the Presi­ mal gave one bound and fell dead. Gar-
dent of the United States, was there. fielti deli vert'll the message nnd Thomas’
All thought then that the park ever­ army was saved. Eighteen years from
more was «h-dlcatix! to pt-ace. Western that day Garfield, the Fresldent, lay
men, almost entirely, represented the dead In the cottage at Elberon. The
Union In the six battles fought within bullet of an assassin had done what
th«' park. Ohio has more than fifty mon­ the bullets of the Confederates could
uments on the fields, nnd Illinois nearly not do.
100. Twenty-nine States had regiments
Tile month tx-foro Chickamauga was
I11 these battles, and each one of these fought the battle of Wauhatehie. a lit­
State« either has put up monuments tle to th»- west of Chattanooga. Gen.
to mark th«* position of her troops or Geary, who commanded the division
will erect them soon. Th«' General Gov­ which made this fight, had a son. who,
ernment has remembered tn similar nt the ago of 17, had enlisted nt the be­
manner th«' position of the regular regi­ ginning of the war, nnd at this time
ment«. Eight generals who fell on was a lieutenant of artillery. Just ns
both sides are commemorated by Geary was al »out to lead the cbnrge.
mounds of shells and s«>lld shot. Where his lx>y fell dead before his eyes, hit
batteries were posted tire 300 or 400 by a bullet fair In the forehead. The
mounted cannon, of the pattern used In father dismounted, kissed the wann
the war. Half a dozen steel towers laxly, hardly still from the agonies of
seventy feet high rear their slender death, then sprang to his horse* and
forms from commanding positions on led his men to th»» attack. The whole
the fields and afford to the visitors com­ war docs not furnish a parallel to this
prehensive views.
instance of fortitude.
The park boundaril's Inclose nltout
Among those who fell nt Chlcknmau-
fifteen square miles, not Including the ga was the Union General William II.
tin«' roads or approaches. The largest Lytle. Ills close friend was Lieuten­
part of th«> lcirk Is th«' battleflehl of ant Richard Realf. nn Englishman of
Chickamauga. In Gt-orgla, and th«' next rare poetic powers, who kllleti himself
largest part takes In Lookout Mountain, In California only a few years ngo.
Missionary IUdge and Orchard Knob, Tlie two friends often wrote verses to­
near Chattanooga, In Tennessee. Nearly gether. and then submitted them to
fifty milt's of r«xuls Improved by the each other for criticism. On the night
General Government connect the differ­ before Chickamauga they were engag­
ent si'ctlons of the pnrk. These ar«' th«' ed in this manner. Lytle had written
sam«' roads which th«» soldiers of th«» part of the poem Ix-ginning, "I am dy­
two armies used to reach the scene of ing, Egypt, dying," when Lytle sud­
battle. All roads which have been open­ denly turned to Realf.
ed since the war have tx-on closed, anti
"I shall never live to finish that." he
those In ust> then which sine«' bail tx>en «aid.
closixl were openetl by the park com­
“Nonsense." replied Realf, “you’ll
mission. Land which was covered with live
write volumes of that sort of
trix-s In war days on«! since iia«l tx'en stuff.”
cleared was plank'd with saplings. Ev­
“No," said Lytle, gravely. “As I was
ery effort has tx>en made to put the park talking to you a minute ngo I saw the
in Its war time condition.
green hills of Ohio ns they looked when
T«> thousands of [x-rsons who novel I st«xxl among them. They began to
have lx>en there. Including many old recede from me In a weird way, ami as
soldl»*rs who fought on other fields, the they dlsapiH-arvd th«- conviction flash­
cyclorama of the batth-s «>f Missionary ed through me like lightning that 1
Ridge and Izxikout Mountaln which has should never six- them again.”
been on exhibition In rarions cities has
llealf laughed at him, but after a
given a good Idea of the country and whllt» tx-cnnie so filled with unnatural
the battle scenes.
fear tliat lx- begged him to finish the
It was at Chickamauga, where verse«. Before daybreak Lytle woke
Thomas stoixl “like a rock," that Gar­ his friend nnd rend tn him the complet-
field dlxtlngiilxlied himself. He was cd jxs-m. Then, without another word.
chief of staff to Rosecrnmi. and was Lytle put It In his breast ¡xx-ket. At
sent by that general to warn Thomas dnwn came the call to anna, an»l the
that Longstreet, with his 70.000 men, friends separatcL When next Realf
was marching to turn the right flank of saw the General. Lytle was among
Thoma«' army. Garfield start«*! off th«» slain. Remembering whnt the Gen
with a captain and two orderlh's They oral bad done with the poem. Realf
ran Into an ambnsh. the captain was aearcbtx! the pocket and found it, ami
wouuded, the two orderlies billet) and sent it to th« Genera!'« friend«.
Shakspenro Strangled by Electricity
Electricity and spiritualism do not
make a good combination. An Inge­
nious attempt to utilize them conjoint­
ly nearly gained for Its contriver the
honor of a coroner's Inquest all to him­
self. A medium who made a specialty
\TH& BLOODY POND
THE BATTLE IT5 banks
LOVER.ec> WITH WOUNDED
FALL OF A FOREST MONARCH.
Sawing Down a Giant Pin« Tree in the
Minneaotu Forest.
W. 8. Harwood contributes The
Story of a Pine Board to the St. Nich­
olas, tracing the wootl from the fall of
the seed In th«' forest mold through all
the processes of lumbering until It
emerges from the mill a finished board.
Mr. Harwood says:
I had my eye on a grand old pine
standing a little away from any of hfs
fellows, a monarch in the forest. It
must have been a hundred and forty
feet, [»erhaps more, from the topmost
point ill Its glossy green coronal down
to the dead goldenrod In the snow at
Its base. It was about three feet in
diameter at tlie ground, so tall, so
itrong, so straight, a noble tree Indeed,
in very truth a king of the forest. It
Was the result of the life which dwelt
In the tiny black, winged seed which
■was lost to view more than a century
and a half before.
While I was admiring the splemlid
proportions of the tree, three men came
toward me. One was a bright-eyeil
fellow, short of stature and swarthy of
skin, looking like one of tlie Chippewa
Indians whose home this forest had
been nobody knows how many centur­
ies. He looked the tree over sharply,
stei»plng to this side and to that, eyeil
It critically from various points of
view, and then with a small, sharp ax
cut a keen gash in the trunk about a
foot a.bove the top of the dead golden­
rod In the snow. He was an under-cut­
ter, a man whose business It Is to cut
into the tree on the side on which it
shouhl fall, so that It may not lx» brok­
en in the fall, or lodge in the crotch of
another tree. The cut on the side of
the tree is the guide for tlie sawyers.
The other uien, lx-aring a big suw, be­
gan cutting down the pine, sawing
steadily and powerfully through the
fragrant yellowish-white trunk Sow
and then the under-cutter would step
up to them to see bow they were pro­
gressing. When their saw had pass«?«!
the heart of the pine lie placed a small,
bright stix'l wedge in the path of the
saw, and drove it in.
“Look out. there, now!” came the call
of the under-cutter as he looked in my
direction.
1 made a quick scramble through the
deep snow, m arly tumbling over a hid­
den log, and grabbing my camera as I
went. I had no Intention of staying in
the immediate vicinity, for I had seen
trees like this fall before, and I knew it
was a risky thing to stand hard-by.
The best-dlrecti-d tree will sometimes
veer a little in its fall, ami woe to tin-
one who stands below it. Many ail ex­
perienced wotxteman has been killed in
Just such a place: many a one has been
caught and pinioned, perhaps to es­
cape with only broken legs ot ribs. In
a second moi» the noble pine came
crashing down through the branche« of
the other trees, falling upon the frozen
earth with a n-oise which drowne«l all
the other noises of the foresit—a roar
which echoed ami re-ex-l.oixl through
the long, dim aisles of the forest like
the Ixxunlng of some mighty cannon­
ade.
The Boy in the Bundle.
A merrier Incident was the reply
Rosecrans returned to a soldier, who
expressed before Chickamauga his
firm conviction that the army was not
well fed, which was the fact. The
¡»revision trains were called by the sol­
diers the “cracker line.” One day as
Rosecrans was riding through the
camps a soldier called out to him with­
in hearing of all the others:
“More crackers and less review."
Rosy turned In his «addle.
“A lean dog for a long race," was his
quick reply.
In the two months that elapsed from
Chickamauga to the iiattle of Chatta­
nooga occurred the Incident which re­
sulted Inter in giving the badge to one
of the army corps. the Fifteenth. Some
of tlie men who had ixx-n with Hooker
at Chancelloravllle nnd shared in the
defeat nnd retreat were telling of the
various corps badges, and asked an
Irishman of the Fifteenth corps what
his badge was.
“Badge? I’hat's that?" asked the
Irishman.
“Why some distinguishing mark by
which each corp« can bi- told from the
rest. For Instance, one of the corps at
Chnncellorsvllle had the moon, or n
crescent Another had a star, and so
on.”
“Ah, yes, I see," said the Irishman.
“Begorra, ye needed the moon and the
stars to show ye the way ncross the
Rappahannock. Here's our txidge,” slap­
ping his cartridge box. “Forty rounds.”
The reply was so apt that Logan, tip-
on Inuring of It, adopted the cartridge
box. with the figures 40 on it. as the
badge of the Fifteenth Cor[»s.
After the disaster at Chickamauga.
Grant cam«» down and took command.
In the two months' wait the pickets of
the two armies got Into quite friendly
relations. They exchanged greetings,
anil sometimes swapped tol»acco across
the lines, line day Grant rode down
to th«» Union pickets. One of the guard
saw him and. according to the military
custom. called out:
“Turn out the guard for the com-
mandLng gvneral."
“Never mind the guard." returned
the t reneral. not caring for any fuss
and anxious to spare hts men any trou-
ble. Just acr«>ss th«- little creek were
tlie pickets of the Johnnl«»s.
“Turn out the guard for the com-
mantling general, Gen. Grant," some
Johnny «•ailed out. Ont came the guard
an«l pre«ent«x1 arm«. Grant returned
the salute a« l»e woukl one from bls own
men. Never In the war wai this extra
ordinary seen«- duplicated.
“Thomas, who ordered those men up
the ridge?”
“I don't know.” repllixl Thomas, tn
his usual deliberate manner. “I did
not.”
“Hid you order them up?" Grant nsx-
ed Gen. Gordon Granger.
“No,” saitl Granger, “they started np
without orders. When those fellows
get started all hell can't stop them.”
“Some one will suffer if It doesn’t
turn out well.” was all the comment
Grant made. Rut everything turned
out well, and Missionary Ridge was
ours.
Benjamin F. Taylor, the war corro-
spondent, whose son was In the fight ns
a soldier, saw an«l report«*! the battles.
Theodor«- R. Davis, one of Harpers art­
ists, also was there for his paper. And
so the story of those Novemlier days
comes down to us from tlie [x-ndls of
those specially gifted in description as
well as from the drier official reports.
of luminous apparitions gave a seance
on Monday night at the house of a sci­
entific man, and successfully repro­
duced from his recess in a darkened
room the luminous visions of various
deceased personages».
While Shakspeare was on view the
awe-stricken audience were surprised
to hear a gasping, gurgling noise pro­
ceeding from his throat, while the head
swayed to and fro as If In pain. A gen­
tleman rushed forward just In time to
save the great port from suffocation by
pulling out of his thorax a miniature
electric lamp, connected by a slender
wire to a small Ivattery underneath Ills
coat. On the principle of the school-
boy’s salamander trick of Illuminating
the face by putting a lighted match In
the mouth, the medium caused a faint
spiritualistic glow, enough to satisfy
wonder-seekers, to suffuse his counte­
nance by inserting, before his hands
were tied to insure confidence, the tiny
electric lamp behind his teeth. Unfor­
tunately in this case the article slipped
TOUGH, BUT HAS A HEART.
too far down, and as the medium's
One Touch of Life in the Crowded bound hands prevented him pulling It
Streets of n City.
np again the unfortunate man might
He was an every -day tough, bull­ have been choked by an Incandescent
necked. square-jawed, red of face and light.—London Telegraph.
with his hair cropped short In the fash­
Language.
ion that rules at Sing Sing and is ad­
If a pioneer goes forth, how Is he
mired of Battle Row. Any one could first?
have told it at a glance. The bruised
If n tramp takes a tramp to the
ami wrathful fact- of the policeman woods, are there two of him?
who brought him to Mulberry street to
If a man is fast In the meshes of toil,
lie “stood up” before the detectives In is he leading a fast life?
the ho[x> that there might be something
If 3 nnd 2 make 5 after dinner, why
against him to aggravate the offense of could they not before?
beating an officer with his own club
If a business man is shaky, how is it
bore witness to It It told a familiar that It Is a firm business?
story. The prisoner’« gang had started
If n prisoner turns pale, can he be on
a fight on the avenue, probably with a bail or is th«' bail on him?
scheme of ultimate robbery In view,
If a capitalist gives assent to a
and the police had come upon It unex­ scheme, may he not give a million?
pectedly. The rest hail got away with
If a sighing lover cannot express
an assortment of promiscuous bruises.
himself, why not send himself by mall?
The “Kid" stood his ground ami went —Peck's Sun.
down with two “cop«»" on top of him,
after a valiant battle, in which he had
Examination of Horseshoes.
performi-il the feat that entitled him
The constitutionality of Colorado's
to honorable mention henceforth In the law requiring horseshoers to pass nn
felonious annals of the gang. There examination will be tested.
was no surrender In his sullen look as
“You hare called me a liar." shouted
he stood before the desk, hfs hard face
disfigured further by a streak of half- the angry citizen to the offensive citi­
dri«*«! bkxxl, reminiscent of the night's zen. “ami you will live to regret that
encounter. The fight had gone against sfieerh. sir." “That jest shows the dif­
him—Chat was all righL There was a ference In fellers," remarked Cowboy
time for getting square. Till then he Bill, who happened to be present,
was man enough to take hfs medicine; “when a man calls me a liar, he don’t
lire to regret IL No, sir!"—Pick-Me-
let them do their wrest.
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It was there to read, plain as could t’p.
be. Tn his set jaws and dogged (»caring
Men hate to wait; It is more disagree­
a* be came out, numbered now and In- able to men than to women.
An Iowa boy recently passed through
an experience which he will not forget
if he lives to be 100 years old. He is
only five years old, anil one day when
his father went to the wheat field to
drive the harvester be took him along
and perched him on the high seat at bis
side.
Fttr a time all this was very interest­
ing, but presently the little fellow
grew tired and l»egan to squirm and
complain. And then, just as hfs father
was leaning over to look more closely
at some of th«' machinery, off tumbltxl
the little fellow to the conveyor. He
shrieki'tl just once nnd his father tried
vainly to stop the horses. But before
he could even slacken the speed the
boy hail been driven up through the
elevator canvas with half a bundle of
wheat, the binding twine bad twisted
swiftly around his neck and l«-gs and
he was rolle«l out on the wide carrier
st'curely bound in a wheat bundle. lie
was almost chokt'd and there was a
tiny bit of skin torn from his shoulder,
but otherwise be was unhurt when his
father cut the string and helpetl him
up again. But a worse frightened boy
would have been hard to find.—Chicago
Record.
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Bachelors and Electricity.
Whether, in the long run, electricity
has done the solitary bachelor a good
turn is a debatable question, but it has
certainly eased the burden of his do­
mestic anxieties. While he is dressing
he connects his electric coffee pot. and
tlie brewing of bls morning beverage
proceeds forthwith. Meanwhile his
eggs are being cooked in the electric
boiler, or a chop Is being done to a turn
on the electric gridiron, which glvra an
unmatchtsl flavor to the meat. As he
sits down to the table sllci-s of bread
are placed in the electric toast rack
ami are browned before his eyes. If be
be an adept of the chafing dish, he can
produce the subtlest culinary effects
without fear of failure.—Chautauquan.
Where He Agreed with Him.
“Wcat! What!”
The irate old man almost choked
with indignation-----
“You want to steal my child from me.
to rob me of my daughter? Why,
sir!-----"
His rage got the upper hand of him,
ami he gaspwl some more----
"Rascal Is n«j name for you!”
The young man was perfectly calm.
“You bet it isn’t,” he said slowly: “and
If anybody says otherwise there’« liable
to be trouble.”
Iu the face of such sublime gall what
could the old man do?—Fuck.
In almost every case of marriage,
one of the partit's in time look« the
rabbit to the o<her's wolf.
It is impossible to find either com­
fort or profit in a mistake.