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iiónU Dl'LLET FROM REPRESENTATIVE JENKINS' MUSKET PLOUGHED THROUGH U1S HA T. Thrilling Occurrence of the Civil War— Confederates Made Three Desperate Charges In Blinding Midnight Thunder Storm. place of lupnnlng. In Sec- X T. I !_i S. K. to w - ■ —'-------- ’We’ll take him If it's a Johnnie.’ "We stepped into the deeper shad ows, and soon a mounted Confederate officer emerged from the dark bend of the road, and was silhouetted against the sky. In a moment or two be reach ed the point commanding a view of our camp, drew rein and sat not fifty feet away, peering toward us. "I cautiously took the picket’s rifle and we sprang out in o full view. The officer started as he saw us, and wheel ed his horse to escape. " ’Halt,’ I cried, and as he dashed on, with a quick alm, I pulled the trigger. Simultaneously with the report, the picket struck up the gua, exclaiming. My God. Cap'n, you're shooting one of our men.’ Ir. THE POWER OF SONG. AN INCIDENT OF LIFE IN LItítíi FRISON DURING TUE CIVIL II4Ä. How the Prisoners Sang the “Star Spangled Banner,’’ and There was Cheering In the Streets of Rich mond. Cheers for the Red, White and Blue. Veritable cheers j they were. Tears veterans' cheeks, streamed down the t the boys in the room below took up the shouts, and three times’ three were given. Hearing some 1 cheering on the out- side, I moved 1 cautiously near the window—it was dangerous „------ to — - go too near—and saw all the guards in line with their muskets pointed toward the building, but, massed up and down the streets, were hundreds upon hun dreds of people, four-fifths of them women, clapping their hands and wav ing their handkerchiefs, showing by their approval a most remarkable trib ute to the power of song, and that love for Old Glory still held a warm place in their hearts and memories. o*her train which circuited through N Now*^/ Is peace and harmony be tween the two organizations; they have adopted a set of rules regulating the players in each, and schedules are pre pared each Bpring which will provide for as few conflicting dates as PO»*««- New York, atd Philadelphia In Octobei were the scenes of notable battles for supremacy between the teams repre senting these cities, tuat »[ having won the banner in the National and Philadelphia’s that in tbe Ameri can League. A Tension Indicator IS JUST WHAT THE WORD IMPLIES. Taken prisoner while in charge of the rear guard, on Stoneman’s first raid, near Richmond, Va., relates an One warm summer evening In 1895, 1 old captain of the cavalry, and after sat smoking with Judge Jenkins, of various adventures, I, with 2,600 of the Wisconsin, who is now ably represent prisoners taken at Chancellorsville, ing his State in Congress. was sent to Libby prison. The large Bullet Ploughed Through Hat. We were watching the oncoming of excess of prisoners on the Confederate a heavy thunder storm, and the conver “I saw the officer’s hat twitch sharp side procured us, most fortunately, an indicates SOME GREAT DISCOVERIES. sation bad turned, as it often did, to ly as the heavy bullet tore through_____ _ .... exchange in a __________ very short time, and the state the time of his youth when he entered t. For an instant he swayed as though within a month or so I participated in the Union army and was, by the stir I another raid under Colonel Spear of The Chicago University Scores Some of the tension at a glance. ring events of the war, transformed Important Achievements. the 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry over Its use means time saving into the fearless, iron-manhood that groand where I had been the same Almost every day one of the pro has since characterized him. lately led a prisoner of war. and easier sewing. fessors of the University of Chicago, "It was just such an evening In tlie We had passed but one Sunday in financial machinery of which is It’s our own invention summer of ’62," he remarked, "that 1 Libby—93 officers confined to an up- the oiled by John D. Rockefeller, breaks nearly killed Fitzhugh Lee.” most story, About the middle of that into print with some new discovery. and is found only on the "We were down in Virginia, and I afternoon I chanced to look around They keep the world startled and won was in charge of an ammunition train parties the roocn. A half dozen _ which was on its way to McClellan’s were playing cards, many were sleep dering. During the past few years, for in army. ing, several were lying on the floor stance, following epoch-making dis We had been halted by a brief or pretty sick, while one squad of a doz- coveries, the among a host of others, have der from headquarters, and directed t<> en or more had organized a prayer been listed by a Buffalo newspaper as remain where we were—near a little meeting. Not being a saint and per- Chicago University discoveries: village about thirty miles south of haps not much, of a sinner, I was sim- That kissing causes lockjaw. Washington. ply a “Looker on in Venice.” The That a dog never follows an unedu “No reason was given for the delay, leader was a captain of a Massachu cated We have other striking man. though some of the boys thought it setts regiment. The meeting was That tbt Pennsylvanians are turning improvements that appeal to was for the purpose of enabling an evidently dragging, the great heat and Into Indians. escort of cavalry to Join trs. Others perhaps hunger and our position not the careful buyer. Send for That Ireland was once a lake. said they guessed ‘Mac’ didn’t have proving conducive to much thanks That primeval man had a gizzard. our elegant H. T. catalog. any further rise for powder. How- giving. Tnat music is antiseptic. ever, we were mighty glad to go iuto The National Anthem. That Adam caught fish with a club. cutup, as many of the raw men were That love is a disease of the Medulla Suddenly the captain started up, and hite eitna achine about ’bushed’ by the long ami hot taking his place near the centre of the oblongata. marching, besides it gave us oppor That a cabbage contains more nour Cleveland, Ohio. room, exulaimed in a voice loud tunity to forage and get better rations HON. JOHN J. JENKINS enough to attract immediate atten ishment than twelve eggs. than hard tack and maggoty bacon—so That Boccaccio was a Swede. lively that it followed us around camp bit. then spurred up the road before 1 tion, "Let us all sing ‘The Star Span- "We pitched our tents in an open could reload. The quick blow of tbe fluid, a short distance to the east of ■ picket had saved his life. "With the sound of his galloping a high road which stretched away to ward home. About a quarter of a mile horse, we heard shots on the north, CHRISTY” MATHEWSON. to the south was a thick piece of tim and soon afterwards our pickets were driven in by a force of the enemy’s The star pitcher of the New York “Giants"— ber. the pivotal man upon whom turned cavalry. the w orld’s championship. The Old Pie Woman. "The camp was hurriedly aroused, Over one Million Dollars In accordance with an agreement “The third day we were in camp a and our boys were ready for the at made before the playing of the world’s allowed our clients during the last woman came through selling pies. We tack. Bayonets wwe fixed. The men championrhip series, 60 per cent, of the six years. thought nothing of her visit, other wens ordered to reserve their Are un gate receipts from the first four games than that her pies were home-made til the horses were almost on them. Over one Thousand pUyed was divided among the players and tasted awfully good. “It had become very dark, and from 75 per cent of this going to the win claims allowed through us dur "It was just such a day as this.” the flash of the lightning we saw tliai ners, the New York Giants, and the ing the last six months. Dis continued the Judge, "and In the af the expected storm was at last upon remaining 25 per cent, to the losers, th” ability, Age and In ternoon the heat became very oppres 11s. In a few minutes it broke over Athletics. This netted each individual crease pensions obtained sive. As the evening wore on we uh In all its fury, and as it did' so on the former team nearly $1,200 tn<' observed thunder-heads piling up in the enemy charged, yelling like devils, approximately $500 to each of the lat in the shortest possible time. tlie 'mthwest; and the boys propbe- On they cinre, riding as mad, and led ter. In addition to this the manage Widows’ claims a specialty. sled that we would have a break in 1 by the very officer 1 had so narrowly men', of the Philadelphia aggregation Usually granted within 90 the hot spell. missed. 1 recognized him instantly. has divided among its players its s .are days if placed with us immedi "J became uneasy as the night wore of the gate receipts—nearly $9,000—as on. and walked about the camp watch The Midnight Charge. a reward for winning the pennant n ately on soldier’s death. Fees ing the flashes of distant lightning and the American League “We held our Are until they were fixed by law and payable out of the dark masses of drifting clouds which seemed to be flanking us on almost on top of 11s, and then along allowed pension. A successful the whole front of our triple line, blaz the north. experience of 25 years and benefit ed our guns full in their fades. EXCAVATION WORK. of daily calls at Pension Bureau "The crash was terrific. Troopers With Greatest Economy reeled in their saddles. Hirrses stag are at your service. Highest ref use the gered and went down with their rid Hagis- erences furnished. Local Magis LIBBY PRISON, RICHMOND, AS IT LOOKED DURING THE WAR. ers. The others broke in cqmfusion and pled Banner,’ ’’ and commenced in an That the American negro is gradual- Western Elevating Grader trates pecuniar i ly dashed wildly past on oun flanks. benefited by sending us "It was worse than nightmare—the exceptionally fine baritone, "Oh, say, ly becoming yellow. and Ditcher That Columbus was a grafter. torrents of rain, the total darkness. In can you see.” claims. Cards were dashed aside, the sleep That George Washington likef on- tensified by the crashing, blinding lightning, and the cursing, yelling ers awoke, the sick leaped to their I cls and tiipe. TABER & WHITMAN CO., feet, and like magic every one of the That John D. Rockefeller is a greater troopers, charging along over 11s. “The Hashes showed us the killed entire 93 officers crowded to the cen man than Shakespeare. Warder Bld’g, Washington, D. C. That the Junebug has seven stom and wumnded strewn along our front; tre, singing with the greatest enthu and I took a dismounted captain pris siasm. At least two dozen of the men achs. had line voices, and never did the That Arabia produces more bullfrogs oner. ■Three times they charged us tha' grand old words seem so like a mighty than Bulgaria. That marriage is a form of insanity. nlql»t. and as many times were driven anthem. It will take the world a generation the last time retreating south Waved the Old Flag. to ponder over the few propositions ward. Louder and louder swelled the sound here mentioned. The couatless others it hen the morning came, we bur- until the chorus of the last verse was ROAD CONSTRUCTION. fed our killed side by side with tha reached, when a member of a New promulgated by the Chicago savants would keep a thousand scientists busy, Confederate dead. York City regiment, a regular Tam "My prisoner told me that the charge many thoroughbred, reached his hand even if they worked day and night, in was led by Fitzhugh Lee In person and in bis breast and produced a small silk three shifts, for fifty years. AURORA, ILL. Certainly, Mr. Rockefeller’s money then I knew who it was that I so flag, which he had, iu some way, con Accident Proof] being well spent. The fact that the fend for Catxlog. nearly killed with the picket's rifle. cealed when searched by the guards on is "Do you know,” said the Judge af entering, and with a wild shout waved public laughs at the oil-born profes ter a long silence, as he withdrew to it to and fro. Again and again was sors and regards them as low come tho bouse to avoid the heavy gusts of the chorus repeated, and then sud dians is of no significance. The world, it will be remembered, laughed at rain, "I've always been thankful denly the captain changed to "The Copernicus, GEN. FITZHUan LEE. Galileo and Sub-Lieut Na Every reader of this fafer should have this book. that mistaken picket. Army and Navy Forever,” “Three poleon Bonaparte. I realized that the open Hold offered Cut off the coupon and mail to us with $¡.¿0. tho ni ire safety for the nivtiuiinition in case of severe lightning. Still nn un FORTUNES FOR HALL FLAYERS. accountable sense of impending danger By possessed me; and, acting upon what Illustrated Friendly Rivalry in the Two Great appeared to be a foolish lmpnlse, I Eugene P. Lyle, Jr. ordered the boys to move all of the Leagues. ammunition into the timber just below by The great baseball battle which oc Published August ist the camp. This was done without curred a short time ago between the lights; auil the tents and other equip Ernest pennant winners of the National and age were allowed to stand where they 18TH American Leagues for the season’s were. Camp fires were lighted as Haskell playing recalls to mind that it was but THOUSAND usual. a few years ago that these two rival “The more 1 thought of the ple-wo- ALREADY baseball associations were clashing man, the more auspicious it made nie; tooth and nail in a deadly war of ex and feeling ill at ease, I spoke to some termination and survival. It was then All Bookstores, of the boys about her visit. They joked that the American League, under the about It and suggested that her pie <1.50 leadership of Ban Johnson, made in liad given me indigestion. roads into the ranks of the National "’Why,' my orderly said, ’there ain’t League, capturing its star players and n Johnnie reb nowhere« around lier?. enlisting them in its cause through a They’re all down there with “Maze" rainbow of big salaries. Rival teams keepin’ him busy.’ were placed in Chicago. St. Louis, Bos " ‘That’s ail right,’ said another, ‘but ton, New York and Philadelphia and why were we halted here, if there s The romantic adventeres of John Dinwiddle Driscoll (nicknamed ‘The Storm Centre princely salaries offered to the players no danger?' at the Court of Max'milian in Mexico, where his secret mission comes into conflict of ability. There were, of course, suits with that of the beautiful Jacqueline. The best romantic Amertoae novel of re Doubled the Picked*. at law, and injunctions were sought re cent years. straining the contract jumpers. One “No one voluntered au answer particular instance of this is remem bis question, and I deoidyd It would " has what so few of its class possess. the elements of reality', wrought bered !’■ .e case of Lajoie, Delehanty, wise to double the pickets. by infinite pains of detail, verisimilitude, suggestion." Wolverton. Orth and Townsend, one The men who were detailed tor the —St. Louis Republic. time members of the Philadelphia Na extra duty grumbled some, and as they remarkable first book, of epic breadth, carried through un tionals. who jumped to the rival team started (or their posts one 'giWssed'- sworn ugly. A brilliant story."—'«. V. Times Saturday Review. in that city. When injunctions were se- we were afraid the storm was ’going "There is no more dramatic period in history, and the cured preventing their playing in the to charge us.’ Another was sure tlie story bears every evidence of careful and painstaking Quaker town, they were transferred to study."—«. Y. Globe. ’Cap’n’ was afraid of bls shadow after the Cleveland and Washington teams. dark, begorra!' w . The injunction, of course, prevented About ten o'clock v«ird was brought DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. The Canada Goose. their playing In Philadelphia, and JI that the pickets on the west had ob I33-U7 East 16th St., New York. served a small force of cavalry, but With the cry of "honk, honk.” like proach of a man, are not In fear of when occasion required that their team thought they Were Union men. the warning of mi automobile horn, the cows; this fact has often led liunters should go through that city, these play "An hour later a force of two or hunter Is nxirned of tlie npproiuh of to train oxen to walk straight into ers were always switched over on an- three squadrons was «ported passing tlie leader << a flying flock of t’anadimi ll<H-ks of them, tlie hunter hiding be some distance to the south of our ro gee«-. On come the long necked w il<l hind the annual until withlu guushot Bition and going in a westerly direc fowl from their northern bunting of the flock. The Newest and Best And yet. notwithstanding their wild tion. Again, the pickets were not pos IcmutMl Tltey strenip across tlie >; TO THE TRAVELER these Locks Are Neces itive but thought they were our csv- .much III tlie form of the flying wedge nature. Canadian geese are often formerly toed in football tactics. domesticated and crossed with the airy. are the sities— Not Mere Luxuries the wedge closes together. common barnyard goose, Sometimes "Tlie expected storm seemed to have . Gradually ninkin gi ’ iie homogeneous mass of LYNCH PERFECTION wounded birds are allowed __ ___ to run with On straps they strengthen and make safe the trunk, suit or other passed off to the north, though the mid brown, with sprinklings of the domesticated birds, until some mi YAUC PRINCIPLE staggering halfmoon showed the, black white. Usually the Canadian geese gratory flock passes over tbe head with traveling case, or lock telescope at any fullness. With chain fasten southwestern quadrant still dark and’ slop rtyimg aliout sunset, feeding on Its cry of "bonk, honk." The call of bicycle, horse or automobile or secure umbrella, bag, or coat to car threatening. eel grass, sedges, roots of water plants, the wild is on again and the nursed "The camp had settled down for th* mid oceKsioually on small ti-fli anil bled once more in a state of health, «eat or other permanent object They are email, simple, -l”"iNtl night, bnt I was uneasy, and sat near Insects. Even at times they will eat rok-'ns his companions A wouuded Wapickable. niy tent trying W> pursuade mjmelf thaf the com. wheat or oilier grains bird Is often known to dive beneath the reported cavalry was the supposed dropped by the farmer In tls> stubble. tbe water s surface, exposing only its LOCKS—3 varietie*—50 cents each; with leather trunk strap, escort which had missed the road to Supper over, they return to the water, lioa rtls. until all danger bas paired. 7 ft <1.00, 8 ft <1.25, 8 ft heavy <1.50, 8 to 10 ft double <2.50— with our eamp and would probably pick us sleeping with heads fucked under Surprised, n flock rises suddenly and up in the morning However, I did wings. Making only to start out again apparently In great confusion, tbe beat lf-inch webbing 7 to 10 ft. »1.00—with teleacope, suit cm * not feel reassured, and walked over to In search of breakfast. These two large birds get Into one another’s the post coverins the road to the west flights are so habitual with these geese way, so that tlie marksman oas excel traveling case or mail bag «trap or with chain 7*0. By -.«n prcpsM "Scarcely had I reached the picket ! that limiters can easily reckon when to lent opportunity to bag a brace. With on receipt of price. *■ position 1u the pit In waft of the the typical "honk, bonk" they rise when we heard tbe tread of a hors* I | take flying wedges. against tbe wind until they are once walking slowly up the road. Strangely enough, thane birds, while more In orderly array, tbe wedges fly LYNCH MFG. COW Madison. Wisw V. SJL ” Don’t challenge,’ | wMspered^1 thrown Into a state of |laulc at the ap- ing on to other parts. W. M. Wooster. W hite Sewing Machine. W S M Co. PENSIONS. Foster’s Ideal Cribs Western Wheeled Scraper Co. The Missourian STRAP LOCKS
