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Show - I Til TALES At Dusk. Karth-mothor dear. I turn- at last. A homeslektohlldrto.1"' ,, Tho twilight glow I tams And noon I sUnll bq $f nll. v . To seek tho d-AelllnS-jl"? nnd Na,t- Where, thou nVnltesfln?? 1 nm so weary, mother dear' - Thy child, of dunl-race. Who snzlnfe pint tha'tijljCn,ms dear, SouBht the Undying' f" Now I but usk to know thec nenr, To feel thy large embrace! Trnnqull to llo nKfllnst'tliy breast-Deep breast-Deep source of voiceless sprincs, Whero hearts are healed; and wounds aro dressed, . And nnught or .sobs or sings: Against thy breast to He at rcit-A rcit-A llfo that folds Us wlnga Sometime I may-forwho can tell?" Awako, no longer Mrcd, And seo tho nclds ofjjasphodol, Tho dreamed-of, the desired. And find tho heights whero Ho doth dwell, , ., To whom my heart aspired! And then but peaco awalteth mo Thy peaco: I feel It nenr, Tho hush, tho voiceless .mystery, Tlfo languor without fenr! Enfold me close: ikwant but thcel-I3ut thcel-I3ut thee, Earth-mother dear' Florence 1Earl "Coates, In Scrlbncr'a Magazine. ( He Was a Good Jumper. "Yes," saldTPetor,PrIco of company H, Ono Hundred vand Twenty-fourth Ohio, "I was n good Jumper In tho ' army, but I never' said I Jumped a river, as tho" boys roported. I was ono of Hazen's holllqris, otherwise a member mem-ber of Hazen'B bflgado of tho Third division of the' Fourth corps. At Now Hopo Church, Georgia, May 27, 18C4, bherman sent Hazen against what ho supposed was tho left wing of Johnson's John-son's army In tho air. Hazen struck, however, Johnson's right wing at a point whero the line bent to conform to tho hills alongPumpkin Vino creek. Tho rebel lino ,was not in the air ut all, as wo soon found out, but was compact and ready for business. "However, wo marched to our left, camo in contact with Claiborne's division, charged and drove tho rebels reb-els Into their mnln works, ..where , they woro re-enforced by Walker's division. Wo could go no further, but j we held our p'osltlon until tho two rhol divisions f charged us. Tho brl-gad brl-gad )ni retiring, left our regiment 'left, andtjvo wor4 soon cutf ofr."""Tlid' boys fought llko furies, and,, checking tho rebel advance, made a dash for tho rear, tho enemy (following close. I was late In starting, and tho rebel skirmishers were abreast of mo when I reached Pumpkin Vino Crook. , "As wo came to tho creek at a full run KiSGemod tq soma'of tho boys bout sixty feet wide. To mo It did not appear more than six feet wide, ami L made tho Jump of my life, clearing clear-ing tho streani. Thoso'who didn't Juhip were captured, but I wont across within good deal of company. Jloforo thlsTin going down tho hill I brought up against a log and fell, head first, over It. A rebel right at my heels "struck at mo with his musket and ordered mo to surrender. But I kept up my rolling, tumbling performance until I regained my feoL. Jumped tho creek," and, getting behind a tree, gavo ,my pursuer as good ng ho sent "I never think of that scramble and Jump but I am reminded of Sheridan's remarks about Rosser's robol cavalry In tho Shenandoah valley in 18G4. When they came down tho valley after Sheridan, Rosser's men woro wreaths of laurel and Ivy around tholr hats. After they found Shorldnn and wqnt ecurrylng UP tho valley, tho farmers suggested that they wear pumpkin vines around their hats, because be-cause thoy wero good runners. At Pumpkin Vino Creok I was a good runnor and a good Jumper, and so I llyo to tell the tale of that hot fight." ' -Chicago Inter Ocean. Flag That Never Came Down. ."Surrender," was tho message "Go back to your.homes; I will not havo orio of theso young men oncountor ono .mora hazard for my sake." That night Richard Hunt fought out his, battle with himself, pacing to and fro under tho stars. Ho had struggled strug-gled faithfully for what ho belloved, still bollovod, and would, perhaps, al-' al-' ways bollove, was right. Ho had fought for tho broadost Ideal of liberty lib-erty as ho understood it, for cltizon, Etato and nation. The appenl had gone to tho sword, and tho verdict was against him. Ho wou,(1 accept it. Ho would go home, tako tho oath of alloglanco, resume tho law, and, as an American citizen, do h s duty. Ho had no senso of humiliation; ho had no apology to make, and would never havo ho had done bis duty. Ho folt no bitterness, and bad no fault to find with his foes, who were bravo and had dono tholr duty as tboy had soon it; for ho granted them tho right to seo a different duty tonthyxaa do-elded do-elded w his And that .xna .all. Renfrew the Silent was waiting at r f I inii...i.i.i,ii.iMI Minimum,! iht smoldering fire. He neither lookod 1 no- made nny comment when tho conoral spoko his determination. His own face grow more sullen, and ho lonohotl his hand Into his breast nnd pullpl from his fndod Jacket tho tattered tat-tered coldrs that ho onco had homo. "Thoso will novor bo lowered as long as 1 live," ho said, "nor nftor-wards nftor-wards If I can provont it." And low-orod low-orod thoy novor woro. On a llttlo island isl-and in the Pacific ocnan this strango soldier, nfter leaving his property and his kindred forover, lived out his llfo among tho natives with this bloodstained blood-stained remnant of tho Stars nnd Dars over his hut, nnd when ho died tho flag was hung over his gravo, nn! abovo that gravo today tho tattorod emblem still sways In southern air. John Fox, Jr., in Scrlbnor's. Origin of "Fighting Joe." Gen. Hooker's sobriquet of "Fighting "Fight-ing Joo J looker" is said by Sltlnoy V. Lowell of Brooklyn to havo originated as fallows: "I was reading proof on tho Now York Courier and Enquirer and had boon nt work from 7 o'clock In tho evening until 3 In tho following follow-ing morning. McClollan had como into contact with tho confederate forces and was pressing them back toward Richmond. Our press dispatches dis-patches from tho front, written with carbon on manifold shoots of tissuo paper, told of desperate fighting all along McClcllan's lino. Among his corps commnndors was Gen. Hooker, whoso command had been perhaps too gravely engaged. Just as tho last page form of tho " Courier and Enquirer En-quirer wns made ready for tho press another dispatch came In from the front, giving further particular's of tho fighting In which Hooker's cor'ps was so desperately engaged and across tho top of the dispatch was written 'Fighting Joo Hooker.' I know that this lino moant that tho matter should ho added to what hnd gono beforo, but tho compositor who put It in typo know nothing about about tho preceding preced-ing matter, consequently ho set tho phraso as a head lino, 'Fighting Joo Hooker.' Concluding that it made a good hcadllno I let It go. I realized that If a fow other proofreaders treated treat-ed tho phrase ns I did Hooker would live and dlo as 'Fighting Joo Hooker.' i ,Knouffli additional proofreaders acted likewise to do" tho business." Southern Cavalry Sabers. "Speaking of cavalry," said tho col-onol, col-onol, "thero was an incident of tho fight botwoon Shoridan's and Job Stuart's Stu-art's cavalry at Hanovor Courthouso that made a great impression on me. Th6 Union and Confodorato lines .crashed together In a charge, onch breaking through tho' other. A Union cavalryman sitting his horso llko a statue struck at a Confederate ns ho prtHBod. Tho latter rtwung clear hnd, rising, mado a back cut, severing tho Union soldier's head from tho body. So perfect wns tho cavalryman's pdlso, howovcr, that tho body retalnod its erect position for flvo or six yards and then toppled over. "A Confederate olllcer, on my rofor-lng rofor-lng to tho incident after tho war, ox-plained ox-plained that In 18G1 tho Black Horso cavalry secured a. number of flno Spanish sabers from the government arsenal at Harper's Ferry; that tho mon ground these, until thoy wero llko razors, and thnt as a result a good many heads went off. Tho young Virginians Vir-ginians of tho Black Horso cavalry wore good riders, having been trained in tournaments, nnd in tho servlco thoy gavo special attention to sword exercises. Thoy belloved, at ono time, they wero superior to any other cavalry In tho world, but learned by oxperlonco that thoy wero not." Chicago Chi-cago Inter Ocoan. Gen. McClellan's Statue. Tho commission appointed somo time ago to select a sculptor to design a stntuo of Gen. George B. McClellan, to bo erected at Washington, has chosen Frederick MacMonnles of Now York City. Somo weeks ago an advisory ad-visory committoe examined a numbei of models submitted by competitors, but failed to find a satisfactory do-sign, do-sign, and tho commission then dccldod to Intrust tho work to somo American Ameri-can artist who had not been in any way identified with tho competition. Tho result was tho cholco of Mr. MacMonnles, Mac-Monnles, who has accepted tho order. Tho site for tho stntuo will bo probably prob-ably bo chosen in tho reservation south of tho State Department. Survivors of the Eighth Vermont. Tho rocont doath at St. Paul, Minn., of Col. Edward M. Brown mado th first break In tho field and staff officers of tho famous 8th Vt. regiment. regi-ment. Gen. Stephen Thomas, Its colonel, col-onel, are now living, as aro Charles Dillingham, major, John L. Barstow, adjutant, Fred E. Smith, quartcr-tormaster, quartcr-tormaster, J. KHiott Smith and W. H. Gilmorc, quancrmaBtor sergeants. |