Show s advising gen crant As may reasonably be supposed in all armies and in all countries private soldiers have their own private opinions even about the behavior of their commanding officers and now and then they cannot help expressing them the historian of the ninety sixth ohio regiment cites an instance at the siege of vicksburg at 9 every morning in full view of the three forts borts and always over the same course gen A J smith could be seen riding the same black pacer at lightning speed at that hour therefore the confederate artillerists stood to their pieces knowing they should have a chance to shoot at the old white hat which the general always wore As a consequence the boys came to expect a daily battle shower at precisely 9 gen grant too made his daily investigations at first riding about with Us his staff apparently paying no attention to consequences ual or collective at last he seemed to discover that his appearing with so many attendants caused an anun unnecessary exposure of his men and next day he came alone this did not lessen the attentions and on the following mornin morning ghe he appeared without insignia of rank and mounted on a mule he halted in the rear of the nine ty sixth ohio surveyed the position to III open view of the enemy and intent in ant on knowledge coolly drew his field glass took a steady survey apparently not being aware of the well aimed shot and shell that whizzed past or exploded above and gunj mm him this play of fireworks over to the soldiers ersin in the trenches was a little blittle ying ng to their nerves and one of the e men became thoroughly indignant see here you old fool he touted shouted to the distinguished observer who was only a few rods distant if f you dont get off that mule you get shot I 1 some one inform informer ei the mn man who it t was to whom he was administer og such peremptory advice ac well I 1 donteale don dont teare care he retorted chats he feeling around here for away way were shot at enough without 1 any chances with WM 11 youtha companion buttermilk as a medicine with the rapid growth of recon octive uc tive medicine comes taneli the reintroduction introduction re of old and well cu known domestic remedies ng which buttermilk demands a reste Pec table place A young lady abent ey ent of the writers was suffering i 00 a severe consumptive cough one of the usual anti I 1 s ahmod cs ants etc seema seemed to do any good soo simply because her stomach was too weak to bear enough medine to effect the purpose finally 1 egester suggested egested eg ested to her mother the use of ao lot buttermilk it was adopted at buee her first nights experience ww was one of comparative freedom from cough and pain and a pleasant slumber for several hours it was continued for a long time with an unvarying relief of all her previous distressing symptoms and almost perfect freedom from cough for several hours after each draught of the hot buttermilk lingering at one time for weeks from an attack of congestive fever dosed with calomel and quinine almost beyond endurance the writer began to desire buttermilk to drink the physician believe in humoring the whims of patients pati ants as he expressed it besides he contended that a single jig drink of the obnoxious fluid might produce death as acids and calomel were incompatible dwellers in the same stomach but I 1 was a good persuader and my mother w was as a susceptible subject the buttermilk fresh from the churn chum wah procured and drank no evil resulted instead came a perspiration and speedy recovery dr 8 F landrey in chicago tows women on the battlefield truth is stranger than fiction and when next you hear or read an impossible atory story instead of exclaiming like a well known authoress to the narrator at a london dinner party go it ananias you had cotter better quietly observe 1 I suppose its true anyhow we are apt to scout the stories of women who have concealed their sex the better to perform r doughty deeds of valor ange and lol lo 1 here are french statistics with their dry facts coming to prove that what novelists and poets have written has not been evolved from their inner consciousness but from the romance of history thirty four french women have been decorated with the legion of honor since the order was instituted and of these seven distinguished themselves them selve on the battlefield two women soldiers were decorated under the first empire one having dressed as a man to replace her delicate brother her sex only being discovered covered d 1 when she was wounded after attaining the rank of sergeant the second heroine took to fighting because she liked it and distinguished hersel at Yem maper austerlitz Austeri itz and jena save for one brave there was a blank from 1815 to 1851 and then came more military women whose exploits would read like an after dinner story whether those women were or were not thus unsexed unsex edby by abandoning their proper sphere is not the point at all the fact remains that women have military qualities capable of efficient training should need arise and in a country where the perils of war the lack of an army and the volunteer question are being debated it is just as well to recognize the fact that if national questions question are at stake it becomes perfectly possible to double the volunteers vol or the the army by b including both sexes sydney sidney abnes AX the for 2600 2500 years yean the hittites Hitt ites have been lost to history this mysterious nation was known as jerusa lem thebes and nineveh during a period of 1000 years the first f treaty of peace on record was waa be tween the hittites Hitt ites and the T egypt fians in the assyrian inscriptions insert which have been exhumed annine in are found many references to these people the pharaohs Phara left records of their victories over the hittites Hitt ites the bible in several places speaks of them but information of this long lost nation has until recently been confined to these references of other nations who knew them the hittites Hitt ites it has long been supposed ased were wiped out and left no relics no historical assets nothing but a reminiscence consul bossinger at beirut sends the state department some intelligence he has received about the discoveries of hittite remains in marash and vicinity in central turkey from this it appears that the world is to learn leam more than it has known for twenty centuries about this lost nation it is well known that the plaice lains of central turkey are s scattered over with mysterious mounds of earth they are of different sizes sized but generally covering from two to four acres and are from 50 to 75 feet in height with a level acre on the summit they are seen only on the pl plains 1 in all cases several miles from aa each other and in nearly every instance close by a fountain of water some suppose they were watch towers others that they our supplied the place of a fort the people w le se gathering on the summit to defend ind themselves from the attacks of horsemen who could not ascend the steep sides still others hold that they are monuments over the tombs of buried kings while there are not wanting those who think 10 that they are merely natural formations but the fragments of pottery and the alluvial soil that compose them prove their human origin in modern times a rude turkish village often appears at the base and part of the way up the mound in other cases the whole moua mound is covered with a vineyard or a wheat field or its steep sides are perforated with the dens of foxes and J jackala jackals jac ackels kals no light is to be found concerning them in written history expect in the assyrian department of the british museum where upon n an immense block of ston stones die e representation of a multitude of men actually engaged in buildt building ig such a mound may maybe be seen some of thew these mounds which are very regular may have beau built for a special purpose now uncertain but others irregular in form and larger in area must have been formed by the debris of mud walls and roofs roof one of the latter class of mounds on the plain near the eastern base of the aganus mountains about fifty miles south of marash has attracted the attention of the american missionaries sion slon aries for many bews yews and at their suggestion several travelers have visited it the little turkish village of is built on the side of the mound the special interest connected with it was a dozen slabs of black basalt four feet high and two feet square at the ends form jug ing a reentrant entrant re angle at one edge of the mound near the base and apparently extending further in towards the centre to complete the basement walls of a building on the face of each block were hittite bas the attention of american antiquarians qu arians lans was called to this mound and it was hoped that american enterprise would undertake its exploration the past winter a party of germans unde under 4 the the patronage of their government nave have commenced the work of excavation and laborers in a few weeks time laid bare a large number of blocks forming as had been supposed the basement of a hittite palace they were nearly all in situ resting upon rude foundations of masonry A line of blocks extends along the entire front then opens midway into an entrance hall which soon widens into a court 40 feet square A narrow hall connects this court with another large court farther within which has been uncovered only in party part but seems to be several rods square these halls hails and courts are lined by a single row of basalt blocks each standing on end and nearly every block contains on its inner surface a hittite sculpture at one place is a hunting scene continued along a dozen blocks the men are armed with daggers spears and the bow and arrow deer rabbits bits and birds represent a variety of game at the entrance to the main court on either side are the bare bas re lief sculptures of an immense lion looking toward the outer door and behind each lion stands a heavily armed sold soldier lec the superstructure resting upon these hittite blocks must have been made of sun dried brick and perhaps in part of wood the stones bear evidence that the buildings above them were burned the pile le of earth that forms form the mouna mound must be the debris of mud roofs and walls from hittite palaces to the present hovels of modern times no hittite hieroglyphics have yet been discovered but the most remarkable find is the colossal statue of king of nineveh eighth century B C standing on a pedestal in the smaller court of the palace the workmanship is very fine the face speaks like the finest grecian statues the statue had been thrown down doWD and broken but the fragments are all there and the whole figure can easily be restored on this statue were several square yards of assyrian inscription in cuneiform hieroglyphics from which the name was determined but how this statue of the assyrian king came to be placed in a hittite palace is not easily accounted for it is presumed that when bardana dana palus made his expedition through u asia minor he conquered this hittite city and erected his own statue in the center of the palace wace carefully preserving intact all 11 the productions of hittite art several shafts have been sunk in different parts of the mound but thus far no other important results have been reached A few feet below the surface in various places were found the rule rude foundations of mediaeval media medi eval seval and roman peasant huts hute with stone hand mills mortars jars and other relics of those periods one shaft reaching to the level of oi the plain disclosed a colossal image of an animal designed for a lion but its rude workmanship belongs to an early period in the art of sculpture there are traces also of a wall and moat a few rods distant inclosing a mound opposite the ent entrance rimce to the palace a dozen sculptured blocks have been uncovered they mark the gateway in the city wall the germans propose to continue their excavations three years and turn over with the spade the entire mound in the year 1879 the mounds of Jera blous on the euphrates six hours below were identified by mr henderson the english consul at aleppo as the site of hemish the capital of the ancient but long lost nation of the hittites Hitt ites soon afterwards the american missionaries visited those mines and examined them with deep inter interest estand and as they toured through the mission fields from time to time they scrutinized nihed every fragment of chiseled stone in search of hittite sculptures and inscriptions two lions of black basalt t were found on top of the wall of the old genoese castle in the city of marash guarding the entrance their workmanship was so unlike the other ornamentations of the wall that it was but natural to infer that they were made for some other purpose one of them was covered with hieroglyphics in the same character as those at hemish they were found also to te be identical with the mysterious writing on the hemath blocks in the museum at constantinople the inscriptions are in raised characters arranged in a horizontal band four inches wide extending from left to right and then right to left with a raised line separating the bands from frem each other among the characters appear the heads or of men oxen goats hares bares and other animals human hands feet faces with rings in the lippand lip sand many other similar figures an and others still which in their presen present form do not seem to represent any natural object the smaller characters axe are written one above another beewen the lines but the larger forms extend nearly from fineto line to line the faces and feet on the first band all look toward the right but on the second they look toward the left and continue alternately in the same order indicating the direction in which the writing must be read these inscriptions bear very little resemblance to any known system of writing and no attempt to decipher their meaning has thus far been successful near the base of the fort was found the colossal trunk of a human statue or an idol which must have been nearly eight feet in height the head and both feet have been broken off this large trunk now serves as a stop step I 1 in tr the stairway of a mosque J on a grave in the christian cemetery we found a slab of black basalt four feet in length two in width and one in thickness the upper surface only had been trimmed and contained in bas baa relief a human figure dressed in a long tunic fastened by a girdle in the hand was a wand or staff the beard resembled that of the assyrian sculptures but the hair was long and gathered at the back of the neck in a peculiar roll turned upward the shoes were pointed and turned upward at the toes these peculiarities are characteristic act of nearly all hittite sculptures this slab also contained an inscription covering its face the bands of hieroglyphics extending back and forth across the human figure but the characters differ from others in being incised instead of in relief they were however mu much ch de faced fifteen to twenty other slabs of the same general character have been dispo discovered vered in marash one is the doorstep of a minaret another is in the pavement of A dooryard door yard another still containing the figure of a chariot serves as a horse block at a street door one heavy slab was found lying on its face four feet under ground in a vineyard on which was represented two human figures sitting in chairs on either dither side of a cross legged table on which were plates of bread and fowl these slabs are all of black basalt having only one face of the stone trimmed ed the figures are in bas relief and th the IU in script ions sall all in the same characters though there is a variety of form corresponding to the handwriting hand writing 4 of different men or possibly of different times the great desideratum in |