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Show VETERANS CORNER. BOMB GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR THE OLD SOLDIERS. rta n,ro That Avil-Loaiil- rNt'i Bapalsa ot Miuiiu Hurt Iiet'ii Laid Btorj of FortiFs Why Crook Quit. OT ita Bbaraiaat 1 the gulBh of hearte that are breaking with sn-vl- Come we as m o u r n erg to weep for our dead. Grief in our breasti has grown weary of ach-in- g. Green lg the turf where our tearg we have ghed. While o'er their marbleg the moegee are creeping, Stealing each name and Ita legend Give away. their proud etory to memory! keeping. Shrined in the temple we hallow to- day. Hushed are the battlefielda, ended their marcheg. Deaf are their teara to the drum-beof morn Rise from the god, ye fair coiumna and archeg! Tell their bright deeds to the agea unat torn! Emblem and legend may fade from the portal, Keystone may crumble and pillar may fall; They were the builders whose work Is immortal. Crowned with the dome that la over ug all! From the ItnttleflrldAt the second battle of Manassas, Gen. Longstreet thus describes his action in the field, where Gen. Porter was antagonist. Here one feels the thrill of battle more than anywhere else: Riding forward a few reds to an open, which gave a view of Jacksons field, I came In sight of Porters battle, piling up against Jacksons right, center and left. At the same time an order came from Gen. Lee for a division to be gent Gen. Jackson. Porters masses were in almost direct line from the point at which I stood, and in enfilade fire. It was evident that they could not Itand fifteen minutes under the fire of batteries planted at that point, while a division marched back across the field to aid Jackson could not reach him in an hour, more time probably, than he could stand under the heavyweights then bearing down upon him. Boldness wag prudence! Prompt work by the wing and batteries could relieve the battle. RelnforcementR might not be In time, so I called for my nearest bat' teries. Ready, anticipating call, they sprang to their places and drove at speed, saw the opportunity before it could be pointed out, and went into action. The first fire was by Chapmans battery, following in rolling practice by Boyce's and Reillys. Almost immediately the wounded began to drop from Porter's ranks; the number seemed to increase with every shot; the masses began to waver, swinging back and forth, showing signs of discomfiture along the left and In ten or fifteen minutes It crumbled Into disorder and turned toward the rear. Although the batteries seemed to hasten the movements of the discomfited, the fire was less effective upon broken ranks which gave them courage, and they made brave efforts to rally; but as the new lines formed they had to breast against Jacksons standing line, and made a new and favorable target for the batteries, which again drove them to disruption and retreat. Not satisfied, they made a third effort to rally and fight the battle through, but by that time they had fallen back far enough to open the field to the fire of S. D. Lee's artillery battalion. As the line began to take shape,' this fearful fire was added to that which they had tried so Ineffectually to fight The combination tore the line to pieces, and as It broke, the third time the charge was ordered. The heavy fumes of gunpowder hanging about our ranks, as stimulating as sparkling wine, charged the atmosphere with the light and splendor of battle. Time was culminating under a flowing tide. The noble horses took the spirit of the riders sitting lightly in their saddles. As orders were given, the staff, their limbs already close to the horses flanks, pressed their spurs, but the electric current overleaped their speedy thousand braves strides, and twenty-fiv- e moved In line as if by a single Impulse. My old horse, appreciating the Importance of corps headquarters, envious of the spread of his comrades, as they measured the green, yet anxious to maintain the role, moved up and down his limited space In lofty bounds, resolved to cover In the air the space allotted his most fortunate comrades on the plain. - left-cent- er. Gso. Sharmmn'i Joke Anecdotes of Americas great generals are always good reading and the following new story. Illustrative of ose of the best traits in Gen. Shermans character, is no exception to the rule, says an exchange. The narrator thereof was Lieut. David du B. Galllard of the corps of engineers, U. S. A., who told how the hero of the famous march to the sea once paid a memorable visit to himself and his chum while they were cadets at West Point You know, said the lieutenant, Mit all the rooms occupied by cadets in the barracks have big, open, stone fireplaces, with correspondingly large In these chimneys the chimneys. boys, ever since the academy was established, have been in the habit of rigging up shelves as storehouses and places of concealment for luxuries in j the nature of food and drink, which are forbidden by the exceedingly strict military regulations imposed upon us. This smuggled provender we were in the habit of devouring with great gusto late at night after final inspection was over. Now, it so happened that my roommate and myself occupied the quarters which had once sheltered Gen. Sherman when he also wrestled with his conic sections and military engineering at the Point' One June afternoon, just before examination time, we were both surprised by a smart rap at the door. I opened it and in walked the illustrious former occupant, with a party of ladles and gentlemen, who were anxious to see what a cadets quarters looked like. Of course my chum and myself Baluted and stood at attention all the time the old general was bustling about showing his friends around. The veteran looked happy enough as he pointed out the hard mattresses and Iron bedsteads which constitute the young sleeping accommodations, and illustrated the manner in which we folded up our trousers and slept on them to keep them from becoming closing his explanation with a detailed account of the cadet's method of sweeping out and keeping their rooms in order. We both thought he was through, but he wasnt. "Just as the party was about to leave the room their experienced guide went up to the fireplace and said in an exasperatingly cool way: When I was a cadet the boys used to secrete af sorts of plunder that was contraband of war in their chimneys. I wonder if they do it now.' Then be took his cane and poked it up the chimney. Chummy and I looked at each other with anxious eyes and nearly had a fit. The eminent strategist's reconnois-sanc- e was one of the most successful in his career. He knew Just where to look, and hiB cane hit the mark at almost his first poke. The pies, cakes and bottles of prohibited fluids fell on the hearth with a clatter and dull thud, breaking to pleqps. By this time Chummy and I were ready to faint. The old general must have observed it, for he turned to us with a hearty laugh and merry twinkle in his eye, saying: You neednt be afraid, young gentlemen. It was all my fault. I shant say anything about it We were on tenterhooks for several and dismisdays, fearing sal. But our distinguished visitor religiously kept his word, and we heard nothing more about the incident. Sherman's bummers burned my grandmothers house at Columbia, S. C., concluded Lieut Galllard, "but I liked the dear old fellow all the same. He was so genial and considerate of others. ; ! West-Pointe- r's knee-sprun- g, court-marti- al Why Gan. Crook (Jnlt. When Crook started after Geronimo in the '70s, he took only a small force of soldiers, but a large force of Indian scouts. When he got down to Sonora, Mexico, to where Geronimo had retreated, these Bcouts turned traitors. They threw away the provisions, filled up all the water holeB they came across, and in other ways hightened the hardships of the campaign. On account of all this, when the men finally overtook Geronimo they were half starved and nearly famished. Crook saw this, says the Thoenix (Ariz.) Gazette, and so did Geronimo, for the scouts had told him. It's all right to curse Geronimo, but the man who knows anything about him will deny that he was a shrewd, clever scoundrel. He was quick to take in the situation, and after surrounding Crooks small force, told the general he would either have to make terms or be annihilated. Crook, under these circumstances, decided to make terms, and, according to the dictation of Geronimo, promised, as a United States soldier and a gentleman, not to make war upon the Indians any more. Crook, thinking of his men, and not of himself, for Crook was not the man to think of himself very much, made the promise, and was allowed to escape. When he came back he was retired at his own request, and Gen. Nelson A. Miles succeeded him. Big end Antonio Maceo, lira. lieutenant-gener- al of the patriot army in Cuba, is one of the tallest men ever seen in the tropics, standing 6 feet 5 inches in height He is fairly worshiped by his followers, who have again and again demonstrated their willingness to undergo the graveet perils in his service. One of hla Intimate comrades describes him as child deep in his a big, heart but on the surface he is all soldier and patriot His skin is of deep brown in color, bis eyes are dark, soft and kindly in expression, and he is famous for his good nature to all but the enemies of Cuba's liberty. Ex. good-natur- ed GAME DOESNT WORK. REFORM CLUB OF NEW YORK DELUGED WITH NAYS. Coaatry Fa bib bars no Not Waal Froo Staraotypo riates Saoipla of tba llnndrada of Latter lialng Kacalvad by tba Brltbhars Hally. In reply to liberal offers of free plate service the Reform Club is being deluged with hundreds of letters, like the following from editor of the Press, Adrian, Mich.: A few days since we received a letter from the sound currency annex of the Reform Club of New York, a sort of a mugwump combine, with more mouey than principle, offering us plate matter and supplements free, containing gold standard arguments. We have sent the following reply: Calvin Tompkins, Esq., Chairman, etc. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of recent date, containing a proposition for pushing the educational work for a sound currency and also sample of the educational literature you desire to furnish. You say you will furnish me free, every four weeks a page of plates, and a 1,000 supplements, being broadsides for sound currency. This you do to resist the efforts of the free coinage advocates to put this counI observe, try on a free silver baBls. too, that you are a section of the Reform club of New York. I heartily approve of any and every effort in behalf of sound currency. The great business interests of the country demand that we not only have a sound currency but that we have a reliable and currency, ample in quantity and uniform in quality, with power to pay any debt of the country at any time, and any place, to any person, for anything, a currency that is as good in a farmers wallet, as in a bank; a currency so Bound that it will pay a bond, or pension; a mortgage or a month's wages, and one that cannot be placed at a premium in order that it may be demanded of the government in exchange for any other currency. We want an honest currency, one that will and the interest pay the taker; one that will pay the gun holder and the bond holder; one that the United States alone issues and fathers; om that will fight our battles, or buy oar wheat; one as much for the use and benefit of the producers of the country who raise the 700 millions dollars experts for our foreign trade as well as for tbose who buy the bonds and clip cou pons. We need a currency bo sound that no coaahine of financial thieves can organise a raid on the treasury and embarrass it in its dealings, and disturb the business interests of the country, in older that the currency they hold, may be turned into an interest-bearin- g debt. We need a sound currency, that will admit of no juggling, nor compel the United States to keep on hand a hundred million dollars in any one kind of money Just to accommodate a class of men who make their living by raids on the currency reserve, not because they need one kind of money more than another, but simply to make trouble. We need a sound currency law which would oppose every effort to embarrass the government, by demanding the redemption of the government's pai er money, and declare such a demand high treason, punishable with death here, and damnation hereafter. The only sound currency I recall, was the old red dog that was in existence before the war. and which as I understand it, your "Reform club is anxious to restore, and that you voiced this by getting such a scoundrelly proposition inserted into the last democratic national platform and it is favored by the reform president, the Hon. Grover Cleveland, an ardent "sound currency statesman, who links arms with Sherman, McKinley, Fairchild, Hoar, Reed, Brice, Carlisle, and the two Mortons, one the seed secretary in the cabinet and the other a political seed in New York. Believing in a sound currency and in the honesty of our forefathers who the government before you were formed or reformed, feeling that they made no mistake when they established silver and gold for unlimited coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1, and knowing that up to 1873 both metals were a sound currency (except during the war, when gold and a lot of reformers slipped out of the country, and watched the soldiers and greenbacks put down the rebellion), I unhesitatingly declare for sound currency and honest money. I believe the United States in the days of 61 to '66, made no mistake when gold and its friends were not "at home, in organizing the greenbacks, and declaring them money and they have been ever since, the only really "sound money of this country, and that the man who demands their redemption In gold. Just to get the gold for money to use at home or abroad, Is a thief, and has less patriotism than Jeff Davis, whose efforts were devoted to destroying the country the greenbacks saved. The men who ask for greenbacks to be redeemed in gold, will. If given the opportunity, demand that the Savior anti-monopo- ly wage-earn- er ron-duct- ed who died to save them, In ay be prose- THE MOUFlON 13 SLY GAME. cuted for coming to life again. A perusal of your plate editorials An Auliual Which Knowing Iporlian Mail on Canlcaa Mills. convinces me that you are masqueradare some surprises awaiting There false colors. You advoore under ing cating the only dishonest money the Bportsman who visits Corsica, a few of which ure told about in the Badrniu-to- n known. You are opposing the best interests Magaziue. Tin; writer of the article was a British naval officer, and the of the people. You are fighting silver, the people's Corsican commandant treated him and money, and you fight it for selfishness. his party very politely, refused to look You oppose it because you do not at their hunting penults and passports gave them a dinner with fine cigars w'sh to see money plentiful. And this leads me to remark that and wine captured from a brigand band sound currency must bear a lower rate by hla own gendarmes, and sent for the best native guide to be put at their of interest The farmers and wage earners get it, disposal. What Is more, he put a small squad of cavalry at their service to ressimply to exchange it for labor. cue any member of the party so unare to work trade and They willing fortunate as to be captureJ and held labor. They do not want the Interest in the for ransom. The goatherd who served as guide exchange, to rob them of their profits. Now sir, I suggest that you reform at was a good one. He knew the moufioiA or wild mountain sheep, perfectly, and once. it was through his efforts mainly that Men methods. honest have Adopt been sent to prison for less than your the party was successful. The writer d reform proposition to me. I am a carried a hard-hea- d bula express rifle, man. shooting own own 1, however, poor my let. A long, hard climb in the steep office and have been taught politically I am not mountains, with frequent pauses for that bribery is a crime. out to sell my views to a rich using the telescope, resulted in sighting willing syndicate, able and willing to debauch the quarry moving in a patch of heaththe press of the country. You can pur- er, which frequently hid them from chase my plant, but not my ideas or my vlow. All but the old ram were feeding You cannot furnish views. gold In a restless, shifty manner; he was enough to get your plate editorials in- perched on an overhanging ledge looking out for hunters. The mouflon knows to my paper, either. The Press is for sound currency, one a thing or two, and when a flock are that is good for all classes, at all times; feeding they always have some keen a currency of the United States and old ram or ewe where It can see the country below best. They are as wild good for the world. It is for the free coinage of silver as as, perhaps wilder, than any of their an honest and sound currency, and to kind, whether found in Europe, Asia or place the law of 1873, back on our America; but, like others, they may be statute books should be the first duty approached from above, wind and ground permitling. No bungler need of every true, loyal citizen. The enemy of silver is the enemy of hope for one, as they are so constantly hunted by natives as to be always on this country. the lookout. The natives kill at alt The man who attempts to disrupt the kill and all times, no things from lambs to more a who is he than traitor union, disrupt our currency, or who opposes rams. The first kill was by good luck, not by reason of skill, for the animals its restoration. ran past one of the party, who shot, st I am fully able to write my own edieighty yards, missed the big ram, and torials and express my own views. hit another, which happened to be just d If I want manufactured editorial utterances, I can pay for beyond, in the neck. The throat shot them. The shameless heresies you put is a right good one to makei It kills quicker than either head or shoulder forth, under the gulBe of "sound curto convince every loyal shots, which are somewhat easier to rency ought democrat of the country that you are make. The guide refused to dress the killed conspiring with the republican party to maintain the robbing gold standard, animal. Why should ho waste the and that the only hope that the farmers, best part? he asked. So he carried pounds five miles to workmen and business men of Ihe where he camp, got his choice and the recountry have is to repudiate your form methods, and denounce you as the Englishmen got theirs. Their camp was an attractive place;, germ of all monopoly, trusts, aristocracy at the edge of a clump of trees, at least and caste, and as dangerous to a government of the people, as a wolf is to 120 feet high, near a babbling trout stream, just fifteen miles from Corte. a flock of Iambs. I do not wish your plates, nor your They bought some fresh milk, a loaf of broadsides. I know the devil's hoof chestnut bread, and some goat milk when I see it, and a reform cloak cheese, Just to get acquainted with the herders of a big flock of goats and a few does not hide it in this instance. Yours for .Silver, greenbacks and sheep. Later they were welcomed to huts of the herders, which shows the gold, irredeemable and Interchangeable. best way to treat the natives of any reW. STEARNS. gion, more especially in a region where native cavalry is put at one's disposal How It Works. officials. If they had Straws show which way the wnd by themselves on put pinnacles for the blows, and here are a couple of str. .ws. herders to look at, half the fun of the On Thursday, April, 2, there were two trip would have been lost, or gained, in petitions presented to Congress. One man hunting. of them was from the Massachusetts State Board of Trade of Boston, and Us I'oyof anil Jack Italiblt. object is the maintenance of the single The Hon. II. II. Sappington was in gold standard in coinage. The other the and brought up several city Friday was from the Drill Press and Milling Machine Union, No. G503, American coyote skins to be punched by the Federation of Labor, of Toledo, Ohio, county clerk, says the Boyeman, Idaho, Chronicle. Mr. Sappington relates an praying for the free and unlimited coin- Incident, to which he was an age of silver. The fate of these two pethat the proves coyote to be a titions is highly complimentary to the sharp-witte- d was out in the beast. He spirit of American fair play, the pin-cipl- e hills near his he noticed a when ranch, of Republican Justice, the theory of liberty and equal rights for all, coyote chasing a jack rabbit at the top which is by a somewhat fantastic flight of his speed. Away they went, the rabcourse and finof the imagination supposed to pervade bit gradually curving his to back the coming starting poinL this ideal land. The gold standard peti- ally Now suddenly a second coyote sprung tion was very courteously referred to out of hiding and took his turn at the Committee on Finance, and will around the circle, the tired doubtless be utilized when needed In swinging resting. coyote They kept the performthe future to brace and sustain the recance up until they wore out the poor ommendations of that astute commitMr. Sappington was of the opintee. The other petition, that of the la- Jack. the coyote, in order to secure & that ion boring men for the free coinage of sil- dinner of Jack rabbit, had entered into ver on the same terms as are extended with a brother coyote an arrangement to gold, was ordered laid on the table, to join him in the hunt, for no wolf or in other words snuffed out of existcan singly run down a jack rabbit, and ence then and there. It is worth noting If the latter should run In a straight too, as ah instance of the irony of fate, course no number of wolves could possithat the plea of the iron workers was catch it; but the rabbit nearly albly presented by Senator John Sherman, of ways runs in a wide circle, because It is Ohio, himself the Judas Iscariot of finits nature to return to its native slope or ance, who has done more than any ten pasture. living men to prostitute the coinage of the American Republic to the base uses Fragrant Iloan Jars. of European money lenders. There is are made by putting a layei Rose Jars at the present time but one satisfatcion of of any fragrant variety of rose petals connected with this incident, and that a jar. On this scatter of bottom in the is the irony of fate in another direction some coarse close the jar tightly salt; in casting down the ambitious and and place In the sun. Next day, or as withering the hope of the Ohio statesBoon as you have enough material to man, whom nature generously enrichmake another layer, put In more petals ed with gifts, whose life work was the of salt. Conand another attainment of the Presidency, but who tinue this as sprinkling as you have flower long is standing on the threshold of Then add cloves, cinnamon, orris-roanother world, with the ashes of Sodom and other fragrant articles, and mix in his parched mouth, with the honors the whole mcBS well. Keep the Jar well of the Presidency cut off by his perfidy, closed. Ladies' Home Journal. and with a keen realization gnawing at his heart that his treason to the honest Nat With Me. at Least. tollers of his native land, while it may West Virginia has produced wkat have made him rich, has also made him be called a superservlceable inmors to be pitied in the evening of life might who wants to take out a patent ventor, than the pauper dying in squalor and for a bicycle screen to hide the feet and rags. ankles of wompn who ride wheels. It is doubtful whether this device can over-bThe right kind of a Christian will made popular with either sex. always do right. re, double-barrele- pewter-pye-pare- good-natur- ed eye-witne- to-d- ay ot |