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Show Things. ‘Quaint and: Curious yr Sry of the Mystic. “I walk down the Valley of Silence— Down the dim, voiceless valley—alone! “And I hear not the fall of a footstep Around me, save God’s and my own; ~ And the hush As hovers of my where heart angles is as holy have flown! “Long ago, I was weary of voices ‘Whose music my heart could aot win; Long ago, I was weary of noise That fretted my soul with thelr din; Long ago, I was here I met weary of but the Mumeo ana sin, “In the hush of the Valley of Silence I dream all the songs that I sing: And the music floats down Till each finds a word “ plac ~ the dim valley, for a wing, That to hearts like the Dove of the Deluge, A message of peace they may bring. ' “Do you ask me the place of the valley, .» Ye hearts that are harrowed by care? It lieth afar between mountains, : nd God and his angels are there; : And one is—the dark Mount of Sorrow, And one the bright Mountain of Prayer!” oi. oes Ryan. Gave Orders to the Enemy. | After the battle with Fremont at. -- Cross Keys, Va., and the complete ~ routing of Gen. Shields’ army at Port Republic the morning following, we ‘rested for a few days. in Brown’s - Cove. From thence we proceeded to Staunton, Va., where we had been promised a few days’ rest by aon Stonewall “Jackson. We arrived there on de turday, and > were happily arranging for our coinfort when we received orders to pro~ ceed to the re-inforcement of Lee at Richmond, as quietly and enicly as possible. Our guns (of ane Baltimore Batam. Maryland, line) were placed on freight cars and our men mounted on ~ horses, proceeded in the direction of : Richmond, as directed. ‘We finally : arrived near Richmond, on the Mechanicsville_ road, in the rear ef MeClellan’s © army.. it was there ] sees a ecael of war between five of our generals, all mounted, with maps on- the »:pommels of their saddles, namely, Gens. . Lee, Jackson,- Longstreet, ee . and Pickett. About dusk’< we- ~ap. proached so close to the enemy’s line _ that we fired four-second shells in their midst... Darkness. coming: on,-we. ceased firing, and 2 Bes our guns a night. ; BOSTON “In a peaceful way I never before | - faced so many Yankees.in my life. It is good for, the southerh man to fhdulge in this privilege in order to show how complete’is the restoration of good feeling between: once warring brothers who forevermore, they~ and their children and children’s children, are to vie in loyalty to the old flag.. . “What man is not proud that he is a citizen of the United States? What r greater privilege can be granted him? How can an Astor basely betray his country by Swearing allegiance to another? No southern man blessed with riches gained from his fellow man would be as ungrateful and as unpatriotic as that! ov) thank God often that I am an American. I know no section or creed or party but love of country: To-day the south rejoices because victory perched on your banner. Here and ‘| there in southland a man will say| that the Confederates should have triumphed. Put.that man -down as a fool or a hypocrite. I thank God the! south did not win and so does every sensible southern man and woman. “Gen. Robert EB. Lee told me that the Army of the Potomac was, TURNS ° ON. he oe Pokes ‘Fun at (caused by the inferior * me: “I tell you to stop firing. You are firing at our own men!” [ re plied: “If you have any. orders to give, there’s Gen. Johnson below there; give them to him!” He immediately rode over to the general, his fine horse stretching himself: out as his rider and the general conversed. While observing them and expect: ing orders I heard the general exclaim: “Well, who are you anyhow?” With that the soldier wheeled around, struck spurs to ‘his horse and simply flew across the fields to the Federal lines. ‘ ‘The remarkable part of this incident was that no one on the general’s staff or in the regiment or myself had the presence of mind to shoot at him. It was a Federal officer, and probably the. first to convey the news to his army of: “Jackson in the rear.” Tt was a remarkable escape on’ his part. . He could not: have done such a ‘thing “ premeditatedly, knowing that he was within the enemy’s: lines. His innocent ignorance ‘is what saved him,.so there seenis to be Providence. that controls under Such conditions. I would certainly like to meet him, if he is living,-and break a bottle with him,:as he had my forced con- | gratulations then, and has had my heartfelt congratulations. since.’ That engagement was the opening of the “seven-days’ fight below Richmond.” Southern Loyalty. At the banquet in Boston over the unveiling of the monument to Gen. Hooker, Gen. Rosser, of Virginia, a Valiant soldier of the Confederate army, said: arene on has ¢ a., gomfortable of $2,000-a ‘HERMIT Man year. OF income ~ NEM ENGLAND. of Mystery. tive in a Cave in the Mountains. ‘Fred Willet, a Boston commercial traveler, tells a strange story of a her- mit of New Hampshire. . tates of his father, the late Archduke Ernest, cousin of Emperor HWrancis.: | Joseph of Austria, is forced to work as. a waiter in a restaurant in Buda- pest. This necessity comes to him because his father married for love and not for rank. ‘When Archduke Ernest: chose. a wife he selected a Hungarian girl.otf common rank. He-bought an estate in Carinthia and he and his wife lived . there in retirement from the world, A few.years ago the Emperor, in recognition of the way in which the archduke had kept the. | “disgrace’® of his marriage for love from the. world at large, conferred the rank. of baroy- | Y My ess on his wife, who thereupon assumed the name of Wallbure.. -ihes the imperial decree made no mention of Baely eave | greatest ever -marshaled-under the her children, but it was assumed that, f\ sun. This may not be admitted now asin all casés*-of morganatic, martent of: human wickedness. oS Thurs: oO v but history will so record it. In inriage, they would inherit their mothday’s Boston Globe, a. ‘journal experitelligence. in. esprit du corps, in) ers rank and*title. ~~ « -equipment, in*dash and bravery, in enced | in colonels and not sinning igArchduke Ernest, died in 1899, and | (i personnel, there never was its equal. “norantly against the: slight, was print- his wife followed him into the grave | E% oe this hideous caricature: -“Y think I am fully reconstructed, a few months later, but the Austrian ‘Thus does-Fuvy, the-hell-born hag, for I believe I am the only rebel’ who’ authorities refused to acknowledge : The Wicioone: Hermit. gnash her shining teeth and mumble ever rode in a procession. where a their eldest son.as Baron. Wallburg.' “One night I built a camp fire on curses at excellence and .comeliness. }: statue was going to be unveiled ee B. On the contrary, efforts were made the high. side of: a ‘hountain in the ‘If the staff of the governor of MassaUnion general.’ zg by. the legal representatives of the rear of the little town of Gilead, across - chusetts is not safe from _ribaldry,| ate ‘the line,” said: Willet.- ““The fire got what is safe? How jong “will the scarSe | low, and when I awoke TIT saw what at let: -of the Boston Lancers escape the| first: I thought was>a bear sitting on Paes { mud? How soon will the ancient and AE Loe the other side of theseamp fire. Then ‘honorable artillery, . that parapet’ of as the thing lifted its head and looked : “Kar . ‘and glory,.. ‘totter. beneath the ‘| across at me I saw that it was a man. ‘ Sona” of scorn, piled on it..by “Boston: |< And that the man had long white hair = hands? How. is the sacred ‘codfish, and beard swééping to his waist. He this morning? * as its. ‘faithless. was ‘a very ‘handsome ‘old man, with keepers minced : "into. fishballs?— a peculiarly childlike idok in his face, ‘New York San. es for all of his great 5 age. ad was: so frightened at his queer look that I did not, dare, stir. Finally he got) tp and: crept down the side of fete Designed - Accurmpany Agtomobile | the® hill.- I still looked at him, with on fits Travels. ‘ “. Baron -and~Baroness : Wallburg:! my eyes*half shut and my blood frozen. A genius of. Springfield, “Mass., apes [The former of whom,, although<a' “Every now. and then he turned and at ‘invented — ae ‘portabi e automobile house, : of Emperor Francise Joseph of Austria, looked, back at. me. It was bright works’ in ‘a. restaurant» in oe for -| which .ig made: ‘in §sections,” and which -a weekly wage of “moonlight. and i ‘could See every step |. can: be put up or taken’ ‘down in a few: | Austrian court to deny’ tho. fee at ity of that. he took, : _ininutes,. as imere is not a single nail j Isartiagse on the ground that no mem“AL Sunrise | i Bot uy aud gut my used in its . costruction. .The house is ber of the imperial family can con: = “made of ‘pine, and ihe roof is covered eer tract-a matrimonial union carried in with chemically — ‘prepared’ ‘duck of the Emperor’ § consent. “Joe” r Gen. pressed steel, in ina tation Of oe AUTO Hl fi “The next morning eS we took asl of our shells ) Se Mem- HOUSE ie IN SEC TIONS, ee detour to the left, and about 9 o’clock we ‘planted our battery din a skirt of - ‘woods where we had plain view cf the Federal iorces. Gen. Bradley.. T, Johnson, commander of the “Maryland Line,” with the. Maryland regi- | ment of infantry, were in our rear as “This was the stead support. ‘the.Mexican War by Hooker’s old regiment. We were soon ordered fo open MAE. While seated on my horse taking note of the premature explosion of some Where Are the Cripples? quality of iron they were made of, Which aliowed the flash from the gun to penetrate them), a soldier mounted on a magnificent horse rode up to me and exclaimed, “Stop this firing!” I looked at him and replied: “I guess not.” Our horses were rubbing their heads. together, and I stroked the beautiful horse’s mane. The rider was in his shirt sleeves. So was I. His shirt was flannel, like my own. His trappings were Federal, So were. mine, from the horse out: For that reason I had suspicion of who he was. When the guns had fired another volley he yelled out at SSS se k may be pancaaee: for leas: than $100, and is designed for transportation ‘be: tween the various points. where the ‘bers ‘of the Governor’s Staff: -| owner of the automobile may desire to We had not ‘dreamed that in all temporarily sojourn.” Massachusetts there was a heart depraved enough to meditate; a hand ee BARON AS. ‘A WAITER. ruthless ‘enough to commit: an act of sacrilege and desecration against the He Is a Son of an Austrian Archduke temples or beauty, an act of hostility and Cousin. of Francis Joseph. to the aureate paladins—the ZOVErBaron Wallburg, though the eldest nor’s staff, we did Rot know the exson and heir to the title and great esLeading: doure: 2 __Gathered. Here and “There : “I have often wondered,” ‘Baron e said the’ Major, “what became of the men severely wounded in battle. Nearly 7,000 officers and enlisted. men came out of the Union service minus an arm or a leg. Where are ‘they now? Of the 400,000 36,000 died went home latter fared in life’s: struggle? of his disability; Congressman’ 34 when he it was. not long -before this was his “search for ‘work. Finally after | many vicissitudes he was offeréd $5 a week to act aS waiter in‘a restau-" rant, being allowed in addition whatever he could make by tips. : ne To Castle of Wisconsin has only one arm: and Gen. Rice of. the: census: department lost an arm and a leg, but -in some way you forget that such active men must “have been counted at one time among the seriously wounded. There are Beaver of Pennsylvania, Gen. Sickles, and Gen. O. O. Howard, representatives of men who were not put at any great disadvantage by the loss of -a leg or an arm. There must be two or three thousand others who suffered amputation, and I wonder where they are?”—Chicago Inter Ocean." : SEER was spent and he was evicted. He was forced to send his wife and children to the Poors while he continued men: wounded fn battle, in hospital and - 35,000 disabled. How. have the what extent did the: wounds limit their activity in business, and in what degree were their lives shortened: by the wounds that gave them so oe anxiety forty years ago. “There are comparatively few ie legged or one-armed ‘men prominent in public life. I have in mind Gen. Henderson of- Towa, who manages his artificial leg so.well. that few. ever think but | Wallburg was dispossessed of his father’s, eswees and was’ practically penniless. me. and his family moved to Buda-" eek, in the hope that he: would ‘obtain work.. By selling the story of his life: to a newspaper, the baron made Oe, The - Both of these roofs are waterproof, -and the -latter is said to be absolutely, fireproof—which the automobile is not, in ey instances. Such ‘an edifice “TROPICAL, Poe baron ds a waiter proved re-1(é4 munerative both: tothe restaurant and to himself, many being attracted to ‘the place out of curiosity. _ His tips, especially from traveling Amer‘icans, have. been Sere, and the EMBARRASSES RAILROADS | ag ee The Tennis. Well, breakfast. After:. screWing up my courage I walked. deliberately down | the mountain and.saw the. entrance to acave. The old man was not in sight, but:some dogs were, and they sprang -at me.. ‘He heard me fighting them off Land, ran out.-to them-scrying in a strange, ‘unnatural voice to ‘Get away and let the stranger alone.’ The dogs. fell back respectfully and crouched at his heels, while he came forward and greeted me ina child- like, half-frightened and half-embarrassed manner. « “Well, “to: cut it”short, I found that years he had lived: there. foF more ‘than -he could. count, “ie dressed in deer. skins. and they were evidently tanned and sewed by himself. Hig: beard was “white as Snow and his ‘voice, from™ distse, sotinded as if he was talking to himself. or was deaf.” Friend Was Surprised. ; “After much- coaxing’ he took me into..his. cave, the fierce dogs barking “Not long ago I attended a sol: and whining all the time to eee at diers’ reunion,” says a veteran, “and me. ° was surprised to’ see a@ prominent business man come in on crutches. ‘He had no* uns: or pistols, but in a ‘the corners stood an~old and very I had ‘met him scores of times with. a strong English longbow; with oaken out ‘realizing that~he had only one Nee ee A ae De hasdingt! in the ‘Andes. igen oe leg. arrows headed with iron. With this, I knew ‘that he jimped a little, The eiowee of weeds in the tropical jung le “is so, “luxuriant that it Iss medeashiry an me, he had killed bears and but. not more than a dozen of my pray them-with a poisonous mixture in order to keép the line clear’ for the trains. | he, told deer. friends. who are troubled with rheu-. +- One of the most remarkable ‘rail- ‘: Growing. from the: very’ telegraph “T asked him ‘where. he got water matism. I had seen him go up stairs “ways in the wo: ‘id is .that which posts’ are orchids elsewhere considfor drinking, and. taking me by the. and down and walk about his little Americans. aré now building across: “ered rare, and between thesteel rails office, but I never would have known hand he led me down into the deepest the = “Andes to ecnnect Guayaquil onpart ‘of the “cave, “where, pushing | that he had ‘left a leg at Chickamauga .the ‘coast: =with Quito, the capital of ‘and tie plates flowers and plants force their way. So marvellously rapid~ is had I not gone to the reunion, where; aside a plank trap° ‘door, he stooped Ecuador, <in-the interior, a distance this growth that the railway ~cot- | ‘and listened. “Running water was far to please his soldier friends, he apof more than 30¢€ miles. . pany, in order to check the vegetation. below. peared without his cork leg.” Then seizing a deerskin buckFor the first stage the railroad is tion, employs a chemical: Solution | et he let.it:down into the darkness. I comparatively level. Afler: passing composed largely of arsenic, and niOld Soldiers Free From ‘Taint. heard it strike the water and a minthrough a region of plantations it entre. It is a gratifying fact that no vetute after it came up brimming full. ters dense tropical jungles and forest. Properly applied. this has’ proved eran has been touched by any exposof the coldest water I ever drank.” Perhaps nowhere else in the world is quite satisfactory. It is distributed ure in the Post Office department. The hermit refused to talk about the vegetation so rich and luxuriant from a tank car especially construct- himself or to come back to civilizaAll the men implicated are civilians as on the western slope of the Ande ed for the purpose, as shown in the who have been quite sure that the} tion,and much speculation*as to who: an mountains. . illustration. he is has been indulged in, “old soldier business was played out,” . |