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Show I f TALES The Lost Key. ' ror fifty years ho turned tho key, And always panned to say, B "I wonder who will wind tho clock I When I nm gone away?" 11 was a habit second crown, When he would reach the shelf, To cay It out nloud mora tlmci 1 whisper to lilmsctf. I Through all the years when babies played I Upon tho kitchen floor TJie'good man used to wind the clock Aid question as before. ,1 Threw all the years when bnbles grew I To man and woman state, I The good man wound the old clock up Precisely ten to eight. W was his habit In the days Of pence and joy nnd bllsn; Ah, he was never known to slip A moment e'er remise. Tqt fifty years, In storm and peace. He'd wind tho clock und say-Sometimes say-Sometimes beneath his bri.ith so low "When I am gone nn7" There was n heaven In tils rye' I never knew until He censed to wind the old clock up, Ad, like It, was ko still. Horace Seymour Keller In New Tork Herald. i An Honorable Deserter. L "A good many soldiers," said tho doctor, "deserted to keep out of a fT Sght. I never lncw hut ono man who deserted to pet Into a light, and his rtory Is worth telling. Peter Mayvllto enlisted In tho Ninth Vermont rogt- mont, which, with 12,000 other Union H soldiers, surrendered to tho Confod- rotis under JnckBon, Sept, 16, 18C2, I at Ilnrper's Ferry. Under tho terms of surrender all tho enlisted men wero I at onco paroled and tho Ninth Vcr- mont was sent to Camp Douglas, Chi' eago, to guard rebel prisoners, until I exchanged. "This was a great disappointment m to Peter Mayvlllo, and as exchange -was dolayed, tho Vcrmonter becamo I rosttvo, and then rebellious. Ono dark night ho slipped out of camp and ncv- er returned. Ho was reported a do-I do-I Hortcr, and was so regarded by tho H men who knew him host. Mayvlllo Bj mado his way to rennslvnnla, and AnllKtnd. under tho name of Peter fl Barry, In a rcglmont on Its way to I tho front Ho saw hard service at onco, nnd at Octtysburg lost both arms V and received other wounds. Not bo-I bo-I Moving that ho could recover, ho told his story to tho surgeon, and In tho end was sent homo to Vermont In as m good condition as was posslblo under W the circumstances. "Mayvlllo had heen something of n character In his homo neighborhood, i ' and was very generally known as Po-I Po-I ter Nowcorao. This narao was glvon Is. him becauso his young Canadian wlfo, f tn tho year they camo from Quobcc to B, -Vermont, was constantly complaining to tho neighbors when her husband. was off earoutlng, 'IMo no come. Pcto was so persistent an offender that tho neighbors camo to call him Peter Nocorao, or Nowcome, and this clung to him nfter no reformed, and ho was better known as Peter Now-como Now-como than ns Peter Mayvlllo. So whon ho returned, nnd, as Peter Barry, Bar-ry, was glvon a pension of $72 a month, tuero was lc3S comment than thoro would have been undor other circumstances. "Barry did not deny that ho had do- J eertod from tho, Ninth Vermont, but fi ho made It clear that ho deserted bo- cause, with lighting going, on in front, t ho could not bear tho thought of Idling away his tlmo at Camp Douglas. Doug-las. As ho could not he oxchanged, and as ho could not get Into a fight s Peter Mayvlllo, becauso Mayvlllo was a paroled prisoner, ho took the hull by tho horns, and deserted Into a J lighting regiment. Tho pension ofll- ! clals conceded that Mayvlllo's notions as to oath and parolo wero a little looso, but thoro was no doubt about . tho success of his plan to got Into a i fight I saw him only a few years ago, a well-preserved, prosperous Vermont farmer, an armless hero to a pcoplo who didn't caro undor what namo ho drow a pension." Chicago Intor Ocean. Appomattox Apple Tree. "den. Gordon," says n veteran, "In r a recent nrtlclo said: "Tho applo trco Incident at Appomattox Is a romance The only connection between tho surrender sur-render and tho appla treo Is tho fact that Gon Leo and Gen. Ornnt mot there for a fow moments and agreed upon ft place for formal meeting,' Gen. Gordon Is misquoted or Is mistaken. Tho famoit3 applo troo was across tho Appomattox from tho courthouso and inside of Leo's linos. Tho Confederate Confeder-ate skirmish lino was parallol to tho Appomattox and botwoon tho courthouso court-houso and tho stroam, and that skirmish skir-mish lino was maintained until tho Confcdorato commands moved out en routo for thoir homos after tho surrender. sur-render. "Now, tho truth is. Grnnt was not within tho Confederato Jlnos at Ap-pomaltox. Ap-pomaltox. Ho camo through tho Union skirmish and battle linos from our roar, and at no tlmo was ho beyond tho McLoan houso, which was between be-tween tho linos of battlo, although our lino aftor tho surrendor was advanced beyond It, Tho applo troo was on April 0, 18C5, not whero Grant and Leo could moot. "As Loo rodo forward to moet Grant, howover, ho stopped at tho roadsido to await tho return of his ( staff offlcor, sont through tho linos to " Bheridan, and to avoid tho confusion L on tho road lod his horso up tho bank I Insldo an orchard and sat down a f fow mlnutos undor tho famous applo t i BIBBBsSsW.'. jjl - " M'lM&f treo There Col. Marshall, his chief of staff, returning with Col. Babcoek, found him. Becolvlng their report, ho mounted his horso and rode forward with them to tho Mcl.eaq house. This is tho true story of the applo troo." Cavalry Charge at Gettysburg. A cavalry chargo, met by a counter-chargo counter-chargo of cavalry, Is Btlll, perhaps, tho most torrlLlo spcctaclo witnessed in war If tho leader has novor seen such a chargo, he can form llttlo con ception of tho awo-Inspirlng fury. Imagine yourself looking down from Gottjsburg's heights upon tho open, wido-spreading plain below, whero five thousand horses aro marshalled In battlo lino. Standing bcsldo thorn are flvo thousand riders, armed, booted and spurred, nnd ready to mount. The bugles sound the "Mount!" and instantly in-stantly flvo thousand plumes rlso abovo tho horses as tho riders spring Into their saddles. In front of tho respective squadrons tho daring leaders lead-ers tako their places. Tho fluttering pennants or streaming guidons, ten to each regiment, mark tho left of tho companies. On tho opposlto slopo of tho samo plain nro flvo thousand hostile hos-tile horsemen clad In different uniforms, uni-forms, ready to meet thoso In countercharge. counter-charge. Under thoso ten thousand horses aro their hoofs, lronshod and pitiless, beneath whoso furious troad tho plain Is soon to qulvor. Again on each slopo of tho open Held tho bugles sound. Ten thousand sabres leap from scabbards and glisten In tho sun. Tho trained horsps chafo their restraining bits, and as tho buglo notes sound tho chargo, their nostrils dllato and their flanks swoll in sympathetic Impulso with tho dashing riders. "Forward!" shoutB tho commandor. Down tho lines and through tho columns in quick succession suc-cession ring tho echoing commands, "Forward, forward!" As this order thrills through tho eager ears, sabors flash, an 1 spurs nro planted In palpitating palpitat-ing flanks. Tho madly flying horsos thunder across tho trembling Held, Ailing' Ail-ing' tho air with clouds of dust and whbzlng pebbles. Their Iron-rlmmcd hoofs In romorseless tread, crush tho stonos to powder and crash through tho flesh and bones of "hapless riders who chanco to fall. As front against front theso furious riders plungo, their swooping sabres slashing edgo against edgo, cutting a way throtigh opposing ranks, gashing faces, breaking arms, and splitting heads, It Is a scono of wildest war, a whirling tempest of battlo, short-lived but terrlblo. Gen. John B. Gordon In Scrlbncr's. Loss of Horses In War. Deaths duo to wounds recolvod In bnttlo constitute but .an Insignificant part of tho lossos of cavalry horses in war. It was only nfter a war experience ex-perience of two years that a cavalry bureau was established In 18C3. This rosultod In economy nnd Increased offlcloncy, for an enormous number of horsos, temporarily disabled through oxcesslvo marching and lack of forago, worb turned la at tho general depots nnd recuperated suftlciontly to bo again Issued. Tho number turned In was but a fraction of tho wholo number num-ber issued, owing to tho difficulty of returning re-turning worn out horses from distant and isolated points. Some idea of tho dimensions of tho romount business may bo had from tho statomont that 188.7J8 horses woro nurchasod during tho fiscal year end ing Juno 30, 1S64. During tho first eight months of that year tho cavalry of tho Army of tho Potomac was supplied sup-plied with two completo remounts, which required 40,000 horses. Tho total to-tal uumbor of mules and horses required re-quired to keep up tho supply for nil armies was C00 each day, nnd tho data collected showed thnt for ovcry two mon of tho wholo force employed ono animal wns required In tho ranks or trnlns. Tho recont oxpenenco of tho British army In South Africa Indicates that iho loss of animals in tho civil war was not exceptional, and that whonovor campaigns aro undertaken In a sparsely-settled country history will repeat itslof. United Stat03 Sorv-Ico Sorv-Ico Itoviow, i "Grant'o Luck." "I did not go out to sco tho surrender sur-render of Gon, Loo. I remombor well tho ovont of Gc'n Grant's return after tho surrortdcr. I think tboro wero not moro than threo porsons prosent when tho general camo In nnd took n seat at a table to wrlto. Ho looked up with somo oxprosslon of animation, nnd ronmrked: , "Moro of Grdnfa luck!" This was nn allusion to tho newspaper newspa-per critics who had been in tho habit of calling his, success luck. This little' comment on tho surrender sur-render of Leo was tho only word of exultation ex-ultation I ovor hoard from tho victorious victor-ious soldier. It was a very slight oxprosslon of triumph to follow such a stupondcous achievement but wholly characteristic. characteris-tic. Tho National Magazine. New York Renlment's Reunion. Tho annual reunion of tho survivors of tho Sixty-second rcglmont, Now York Volunteers (Anderson Zouaves) to hold on Aug. 21, tho anniversary of tho doparturo of tho regiment for tho soat of war. O. It. Uondricks Is tho secretary of tho nssoclutlon. |