Show 1TFTFItNS COllm 80MC MPFlnC UKC1CIICS Fan THe OLD noLoilfifla he 0llip ee Os III rl1 rlhI hIeoIa Jolesnu 5 flssOo Is 1111I11111 h Iteor ho I 5 1lo IbiS NOW I 01 my lifer life-r Ira II older Aod m1fuhave t rJ Iranr llIbt If I Th oer C Lt eutnewitere I i There Ret ol tllt l That each sorrow hoe his purpose tip the sorowing I oft unlluflI Ltuui as site a the sun brings morning Wltatevsr ho ii beat I know that each Inful action I As sure IU the nlaht brings < < IhllIo la somewhere Mmetlme punished Tho the hour bo long delayed I know that the oull is I aided Hornttlm by the hearts unretl And lo grow means often to slitter Hut whalevrr la I la I beet Jlla Wheeler Wilson Urn mll > tOad Harj The first lime I went Into a tight said that gallant and genial Alabamtan ten C M 1 holly In talking with a Washington loot man I was In great menial dlilrci My 1 company waa composed of aphndld l young fellow but like myielf not one of them hail been subjected to the enemy fire I knew that hero was no reward blood In any of Ihem and I felt Hire that the epithet could not ho justly applied tome to-me Hut spile of all there was the dread the horror the uncertainty of our ability to withstand attack and for several hours preceding tile conflict I wa In mortal agony II wan the moat awful experience of my life I tad been sent forward IIlIh my company lo delay an advancing force of federal hill the main body of our troop I could be got In renillness ami by order of Col IthojM afterward one of our prominent xtncrala rode nhead several I I mile to meet the hula In blue Well throughout the whole of my ride my nervouane Increased for the Idea still I haunted me that maybe we all would hoW lie white feather and illagrace ouroihr and the southern cause Iresently the enemy came In light n good many hundred to our fifty but we got a pretty fair posltlm on a hlllstdt roiered with ttme4 of moderate growth and awaited their approach The federals kept coming at ua III I ln within range and turned looses volley I that lo my great relief did no harm beyond be-yond Inflicting a slight flesh wound on ono of my men Immediately on receipt re-ceipt of that fire my fcellnca underwent a revolution Impossible to describe I grew aiiddenly buoyant Iliad I felt no disposition to run neither tail n single Individual of my company Instantly my mind which had almost ceased toad to-ad began to operate aa usual I began be-gan to plan and studied out tho dtlalli of the tight Tlmo and attain the federal fed-eral charged ua but every time they got Iho worst of It We killed loveral of them and wounded a good many but not A man of ua had been wiloiutr hurt finally after two hours of hot work they MW the only way to OliloJgo us was tn surround us and flY reluctantly reluct-antly saw the neceailty of retreating This was a bitter pill antI I fell that II would be held up In Ignominy for turning turn-ing back lo the foe A mrasngo came however from Col Hhodr commandIng command-Ing our retreat and wo retired III good order A few daya later I was the recipient of a mcaaago from Cot Ithodei report to him looked on Ito my death warrant war-rant My course In hat skirmish was to be Investigated and I woo going to bo courtmartialed fnrrowardlce Judge of my aurprlio when he showed me n communication ilgni > d by lleaurrgard I complimenting the conduct of Iho out cera and men In that very affair It atruck mo II the roost flagrant case of undeserved praise stud I told Ithodet that I didnt propose to take a particle of It lo iny clf for ever sInce the encounter en-counter I had experienced nothing but humiliation which Ion lleauregard compliment did not alleviate liuoUi ImUrwranl Major Prutlen aialilnnt private Ito relary to Iho Ircnldeut is I a man of many rcmlnlicence says the Washington Washing-ton Port Ha could write n bookAn1 ought to In a recent conversation Major Prudcn related humorous and at the saute time very pathetic Incident Inci-dent In which President Abraham IIn coin of necessity was thin leading spirit of the episode During a part I of the time when Mr Lincoln Will 1resMcnt aid the major I was employed In the onlce of lie Judge advocate general Judge Holt Tho Judge had tho habIt I mid It lasted throughout bio life III IIl 1 ot sticking numerous mlMellaneou I letters I let-ters and document of all kind In the I pigeon hole of his desk One of my itutte was to assort thus paper brief thorn stilt wnd thom on their way to the department they concerned Am that la bow I became acquainted with a DIM Hide story Whm lluriuld commanded the Arm of the Iotonm there WA a Qermin soldier a niero boy ol I he wan who was unfortunate enough on day to find hlinaelf sentenced to bo abet for de rtlou > > Ilia lioople learnei of It and hit deter l came her from Panoaylvanla poet hale to ae Mr Lincoln odom btbalf of her brother I I boy condemned to death I Shun illdn ao the Iront Titer > wire bun I Or < vjj of other people trying o it him I I I I all the time then and the girl woo In the big majority who didnt get an Interview In-terview Hut she wrote letter to him II I I any quantity of them and the President law them too Hhe told him bow her I I brother only Imperfectly understood the Ingllsh language that he hod wandered away from his command and tidal know where ho waa or how to aak where to go mil she prayed and supplicated and begged and argued llko awelhi like a good sister na she wab I Well to OAK story elinrt the soldier I waint shot The commanding general reviewed the case and pirdoned him The facts were communicated to the President and ho sent the communication I communica-tion to the judro advocate general Just aa he had all the other paper In the rase only tiula one waa Indorsed In the President own handwrlltlng I nor no-r lo that said the major with these word Out of the ncrape A Lincoln Ive often thought continued I hell the major how glad ho must hUll been to have been able to write tliio four wordi Out of the scrape lltllUN Iteag In llnUni An occasional correspondent writes from Demerara In Ilrltlsh Qulana under the date Oct 27 na follows Since I I have been here I have heard a lot of nonwnsi about the Venezuelan and Ilrailllan boundary qurtitlon that will sound strange to reader In thin United Stales think that I have caught the I public opinion very well I have dined In different hotel and table dhote restaurants res-taurants playing 1 the part of n Frenchman French-man who cannot understand n word of Kngllsh and I have heard atartllni opinion expressed In tbo latter language lan-guage I have chatted with the principal I prin-cipal nhopkeeper when I have gone to piirchaim trilling articlr nnd I have I I I found that every ond is I cuailng the chances of a war between the United I I I I enoJ II tl mate nnd England The Hon Charles I luis governor of Hrltlih lulana was summoned by cable and I he Bailed oa i I list Thuraduy I In the I It M B Kolfnl I Thn Ungllshrpeaklng peoplo here e > I press pity for the United Slates and the conviction that they will lie l mashed I to pIeces hl II Cngland go < l1 lo I j war with them Bo Ignorant are then llrlllih merchant hero that thla very I I day In n table dhote ono ot them mated I aa n poillUo tact that the United tales I navy poiwenen only one cruiser tht at called New York and that she wiuld I I he only a mouthful for the lllake This I English merchant went on to say that I thn other ihlp 1 In our navy ort I schooners and that they were arnM with guns that were londnl with pelts I I leum and were of no use Anojitr I Kngllih 1 merchant said that ho lse I the United Stale had another crlur I the Columbia and ho had heard If fat II I aha waa n Ixauty Hut ot what e would be he ridded The Amer1 1n sailor are n In 1 f of Jumpers and flop will Jump overboard when the first sal la I fired They liars mule a reputation aa hrldgn 1 Jumper and as noon aoa gin I la fired they will make n repitatkyi II shin Jumper They are ot 10 iaj and It the United State docatt it talking pretty quick New Yoik It Ion anti Chicago will be In aalea Ii I few week Thl is I the kind of ni I aenao one hear In all the pubic pIta I here and from tho most Influential Ihe English merchanl They let a gy deal of sport In talking about the In I regiment that would be ralacd In U i I United Slate lo repulse lie limit In case of war In another hotel ye lerday every ono was talking war 0 merchant expressed Ibo general oal Ion In thIs way It la 1 lime to remit llrother Jonathan that ho was once I aubject anti that Ilngland I make ld law for all III Kuropo and for Iho civil world It la I lime to call down 3 United Stales In another reataurt moro cosmopolitan there was an A trim and an Italian merchant I night and they were for arbitral Theno are tho only men whom I ha heard talk that way thu far A why arbItrate Bald the Kngllihrt present Would jour emperor or kl arbltratn nboul Vienna If lbs claimed It or about Turin II 8wlU land claimed lit Then why ahouM arbitrate about a land which beloi I lo lilT Yea answered Ihe Austrl who has become a llrltlsh siibjV which belong to III III the ito poeketbook belong to the thief The people here consider the V I roe doctrine nonsense and sheer Imp tlnenct They any that It la I Ihe atn inent ot a single statesman who li I moment ol patriotic exaltation clared that American policy mutt ono ot neither entangling In the brat < br-at lluropo nor Buffering other heower > Interfere with the broil of the h 1 World This they say tins nolhlni do with the present case when K landa rlghta ore apparent and J Tub is I the kind ot talk that I h hoard here and from represent men Ma ki for Holllr Maika for soldiers engaged In war In the colonies not aa a defense ago the aword or the bullet of the roe but aa a protection ngalnit the no dangerous cohort ot fevers lIch Is I original proportion which hu been submitted the Academy ot > Iclno It emanate from Dr lieu l professor of the Ilhelms School ot M cine who argue that the use of mask would prevent tho germs f penetrating to the lungs of the 01 engaged In colonial warfare who he la l not acclimated and liaverwor la I much moro liable to attack I fever than other people In short ho maintains It would place a bal between the deleterious atmoyp nnd the organs of respiration There are three women clergymt Ilerfaat MeMlsa Klngabury pot > p-ot the Ualverwllst church Miss I ot the Church of the Advent and McIntyre of the Church of God Envy U a tog that bltca before las > l-as |