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Show LOQAN WAS CONVERTED Sc-Vcnlcc- Vs What Caused the Great Illinois Soldier to Forget Party Prejudices. The attitude of Gen. John A. Logan In the exciting days Immediately following the llret election of Lincoln and the outbreak of the civil war has been the subject of a good deal of discussion, to which a writer for the Illinois State Register of Springfield, 111., has just contributed an Interesting chapter. According to "Appleton'S Encyclopedia of American B.ography Gen. Logan was from the first an ardent supporter of Lincoln and the Vniou. it says: "On the first Intimation of coming trouble from the South he (Logan) declared that in the event of the election of Abraham Lincoln he would shoulder his musket to have him inaugurated. Further on the encyclopedia saya: "In July, 1861, during the extra session of congress called by President Lincoln be. (Logan) left his seat In congress' fhat he might overtake the troops that were marching out of Washington to meet the enemy, and fought in the ranks of Col. Richardson's regiment in the battle of Dull Run. With both these statements the "writer hi the Illinois State Register takes issue. Describing himself as a warm friend and admirer of Geu. Logan, he avers that Logan did not sympathize with Lincoln at the start and was not favorable to the cause of the Union when the.war began. , He further says that while Logans patriotism was lined by the o4r of the Bull Run guns, the story that he left his seat in congress to overtake and fight in the ranks of the Union army at Bull Run is erroneous. He bays: n "The history of Gen. John A. is a family one, and the object of the writer is to correct that history with no intent Or aim to pluck from the brow of one of Americas bravest a single laurel to which he is entitled or to wrong his memory in the slightest degree. But the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, as the oath goes, is this: "John A. Logan was not favorable to the Union side when the war of the rebellion commenced, and those who claim that he was not only do him but themselves a great wrong. On the contrary, John A. Logan denounced the war as a damned Abolition scheme to free the nigger and went so far In his denunciation of the Lincoln party, aa he termed it, as to denounce Douglas and many of his warmest friends In Springfield and at Ills home On 'the train upon which Douglas and his wife were going to Chicago, he declared in the hearing of hundreds of people: "Douglas has sold out tbs Democratic party,, but Mtue damned It be ,eaa deliver the goods.' He was so enraged at Douglas' he would not go to Douglas' room In the American House In Springfield, although Douglas Implored him by sayLo-.ga- ing: John, come up to my room and let ns talk this thing over. " Oh. talk the devil said Logan, Tve talkedjwith you and been led by you, until you have led the Democratic party into ruin! I'll be, damned If you lead me any more! "He would not listen to the speeches made by Douglas at Bloomington. Pontiac and Joliet, at which last place Logan got off the train and Douglas went on to Chicago, where he died the June following. "John A. Logan had been elected to congress as had old Col Dick Richardson, As everybody called him. Col Richardson on the day before the battle of Bull Run made up a party of lx, four to go In a carriage and two on horseback to witness the battle. They arrived near there on the evening before the battle and could get no place to sleep, until one of the party, Col R. E. Goddell of Denver, ... . along until they began to meet stragglers coming toward them, running at their best speed. They came thicker and faster, and then they were met by three men carrying muskets. , "John A. Logan jumped toward them and asked) What is the matter? Where and a hat are you running for? . "One of the men replied: "Therms a hell of a fight and the rebels are giving us hell and e are trying to get outof their reath.. $ , "John A Logan then grabbed one of the muakeUr and exclaimed- - There is but one,si(kj to take' In this fight and, the Union going to take " side , "With fcUnfls 'cheered him. Tor he had bpen edit fihipg fault with the , war and 'eying sharp thing ' tfthis vLfc. - "2 Mincff Killed in Succession of Snoauslidcs, FOR OUR JUNIOR READERS, n Idled. The other a were more or Beventef n men were . killed in a be A serlee of snowslldes which occurred In .ls. Injure,! jjsarly all the buildings of the Libthe Immediate vicinity of the liberty Mountain, ert! bell mlue weic earned down by Bell mine on Smuggler e, thshde One uijg ot the avalauuje three and a half miles north of 1 .ftO feet n roes (he canyon, Colo. wreck ocslides (he opposite moun No less than four distinct more tai or two one each curred, claiming L third fetid ,aine down at 3 o'clock, victims. The first slide occurred at abut one milt btlow tire Liberty Bell 7:30 o'clock In the morning and carand Gus toil Ftutel. John Pow-d!n- d ried away the boarding and bunk Paul Dulpt a who were on their bouses and the trambouse of the mine. The slide came without warning. The l to the an tie were swept away 3tortly afterwai ! the fourth slide were carried three large buildingsgght a party going iiom TeJluridc, down the steep mountain side a disfling two tance of 2,000 feet and ground to splin.fhe buildiis of the none oompied ters, not a board being left Intact. The lench on the mountain side and snow and debris plied in the bottom of .litre erected In a locution that was the canyon twenty-fiv- e feet deep. Those who escaped the slide at once reposed to be proteitel fiom snowbegan the work .of rescuing their less lines by a ridge which It was thought e fortunate companions, A dozen or ruld divert the course of any that might be started. The vast more were taken' out alive, some of cumulation of snow within the last them badly injured, however. to weeks, however, gave the slide Shortly after noon, while ths work . Arousing ai)d Instructive Stories for tb Generation. Tel-lurid- tp pil-Jpj- ifi' t - ava-jch- RlslOS VV hKh inane her look quite saucy. Whichever way I wished to go. The other way went BIJeu, A lili.li maki a a fellow awful mad. It anybody sees you. the beach, jiebblee. loud and long One day we went along Adriing oer the And Itijou in baaaoa and in the company, yon drop In a certain number on your own account- - He ia now asked whether hts number was odd or even; and, the coins being counted, the total number proves to be as you stated, exactly the reverse. The experiment Is tried again and again with different numbers, but the result Is always the same. The result lies In the simple arithmetical fact that if you add an odd number to an even uumber the result will be odd; If you add an odd number to an odd number the result will be even. You have only to take care, therefore, that the number you yourself add, whether large or small, shall ala ays be odd. of Rljm. I had a little donkey once W 1th hair o gray and glossy; One ear atood up. the other down, trebles.- - But when I wanted to giyhornrv; The donkey would uot budge, air. It seemed as If atie really had Against me quite a grudge, sir. When I said "go," she only balked And backed right In the water. The morala thla- Dont reason with A braying donkey s daughter. Amusing Errors. In English as She Is Taught," published by the Century company, are given some laughable examples ot errors found in. the compositions and examination papers of schoolboys and girls. Here are some of the sentences that the pupils composed: ' 'We should endeavor to avoid extremes, likes those of wasps and bees The serfdom of Coney Island Is very high. Herod waa called tetrarch because he was fond of tea. Every sentence and name of God must "begin with b caterpillar, The principal MU. of America are lamb, beef, veal New York was once called the Emperor state because It once had an emperor. The Yosemite valley is the highest mountain In the world." "Mason and Dixon line is the equator." J . . .. "Columbus knew the world w& round because he balanced an egg on the Uble. , "CapL John Smith has been styled the father of his country'. His life was saved by his daughter, Pocohon-tas- ." in Rustle. It might perhaps Interest the readers of this magazine to hear something In Russia, this about snowy land still so full of Eastern lore, ustoms, and tradition- - Ot course, It is, nowadays, a pastime and an amusement Indulged in chiefly during the Christmas holidays, and more tor the fun of the thing than from any belief 1b the truth of the prophecy,,. There are a good many ways of look log Into the book of fate. New Year's eve and Twelfth night are considered the best occasions ot the year for these amusing experiments. Wheuever a number of young people come together during this time of the year, whether IT be for dancing, playing garnet, or jusLepcndlng a pleasant evening together, some one of the party g, or Is sure to oropose In Russian. called is as ft gatlat Met- - John A. Logan. Seeking To "know beforehand the name of ones future sweetheart la leaders thu of his own against party for helping Lincoln and his party ery amusing experiment, and there Rre two methods of going to work. The McClernand at once said. Iheec are the mountain side lodging hOusn of the men of the Liberty Bell He has been converted, and confirst Is managed thus. A sheet of paper mine at Tellurtde, Colo., which were carrid away by the great snowsllde is cut up into strips about four and gratulated him on his change of while they Were full of men. Seventeen sen were buried beneath the first t , half inches long, on every one front rush of snow and Ice which took the houses and by the succeeding snow-slide- s. And this, according to the Writer which a name Is written. A big basin which caught the rescuing parties. "The unfortunate Charles First waa wetin the Ulipois State Register, is ths ot out bodies was going on, sue! a volume that nothing could stay is half filled with water, and by executed, and after he was beheaded he digging true history of how John A. Logan, the second slide same down almost In Its yrogrees until It reached the bot-to- a ting one end of the strips ot paper, held it up, exclaiming: 'Behold the for once and for all, threw aside his these are made to adhere to the rim bead of a trater!' the track of the first. The mountainof the canyon. Southern sympathies and enlisted, side Is steep and the descent M ths Ilslx months the death loss by mine of (he basin all round, the dry ends heart and soul, in the war from the snow mass was so swift that pointing horizontally toward the cenaccidents In this vicinity has aggregattwenty Ism Hard SsatencM. Union in which he made so splendid a ter. four of the rescuers were caught, .two ed 2. ' and girls have .at some Most boys record as a brave and loyal soldier. A nutshell containing a bit ot lighted time been asked to repeat some sen- one of wax taper is then set afloat by tence that confuses their tongues, aa IN THE OLDEN TIME. the party, the water having previously She sells sea shell," or the "Sea ceas-et- h been slightly disturbed with the fingers and It sufficeth us," or possibly this ' so as to give It a rotary movement, Ways of imtricu DmIUW Owe Hub-dra-d one, "What a shame such a shapely Sometimes tha skiff will pass by many sash should lmn Ago. shabby stitches show." The New York Evening Post of Feb. names without harm, or again, it may A roof garden where Is very easy to suggest senmeet it Now, tame ths as religious comforts and attractions 1, 1802 a cerftury ago contained the logs, church music and Ice cream sup b afforded by Saloons and theaters. We stay a pretty long while before one tences to thq one who might claim a . following: , pers will taka the of vaudeville can then Interest many more persons without Igniting It; but the name set victory because of soma slip of the "Tester Jay morning an affair of hon- and ragtline Is a place scheme - recently than We would otherwise attract Our fire to Is believed to be that of the tongue. If by asking the teaser to or was settled - at Hoebuck, between person who Is to play a prominent part Give Grimes Jlme gilt does plat W to erect a building tour stories in onea future lire. ' Mr, Chandler of Philadelphia and Mr. fetch-- - In the suffice possibly the task to repeat not offices be will and front Carlisle ot Albany. Three shots were of Importance It to six times In one breath "What a The next pity stortkoma, which we will rent The ascertain Inquestion exchanged, and the latter was wounded lies your direction "what feudltc-Jupoor Peter picked pretty Pollys pigs' will be In the rear of the " , In the thlgn. ' fato that is from which point o I tb may do very well If that will not do offices.! A second was terminated at ths The tell him to compass, you are to expect It r Tfet'basement will contain a well repeat ten times In ten same plape, between two gentlemen. Is obtained In the following seconds "Six misses mixed hisses." answer and roof will ' the etjuippd gymnasium are The particulars of this vari, , , ay: be eon erted Into a summer garden Other difficult combinations to reously related. We give the followoutdoors You. throw your peat are: "If be slipped should she and atop v confind where. hold cab meetings bewe find as mofet the ing current, the' quarcertsYe will not only offer fi place slipper high Into the air, then sip?" "Should a ships steward sell a lieve the most correct: A-- challenge where the public can. find relief from ter to which' the toe point when it shoddy suit?" Ths bore brought boar was given about a fortnight since, and alights Is that whence will come the brawn," "Sam should toon sell Bhem the heat but the garden will be Intime and place appointed, but no weaperson who is to influence your future. six shilling single shingles," and "He closed will which wire bf screening pons agreed upon. When (he chalSt Nichols. threw two true throws" But still more out keep bugs and lenger came to the ground he per.... mosquitos." t difficult is the one. "Should sooty Sue ceived his antagonist (who, It is said, Row Ovor Heidelberg Roto. The Bower Bird. seek aoep?" was a Yankee) there before him, with There to a row over the beautiful Many species of birds are noted for two muskets. This, the Yankee inMle of Heidelberg. One set of archi- their skill in A Flyer of Forty Toot Ago, and the formed him, was his mode of fighting, tects declares that the ruina are in a It is not generally known that aa of the nest when finished, peculiarity offering him hts choice of the guns; dangerous condition and proposes the but the "bower birds" easily long ago as forty years ago an Amerithe other declined the musket, as not restoration of the greatest number of hold first place among them They se- can constructed an airship, practicala gentlemans weapon? The Yankee buildings to the condition In which lect a small sapling with a trunk about ly the same in type and principle as remonstrated that it was placing him they were when the French burned It was s cigar-shapone Inch in diameter, and around this that of Santos-Dumoon disadvantageous terms to use pisthe castle in 1789, Others assert that balloon driven by air propellers erect a slender number of poles, they the ruins will stand forever, and that tols, as he had never fired one In his the framework having the form of an moved by a email steam engine, and the projected restoration is an act of life; but If the meeting could' be postthe inventor exhibited 1 frequently In . Indian wigwam. poned for a fortnight, so that he might ' nndrilsm, as no trustworthy descriptand around New York. Since that time baa the fork Each a at top, pole ion of the castle before Its destructpractice In the meantime, he was conin to and them this evolved many, otbtfinventore have .worked- - on. the Rev. Charles strange keeps by Reign sty, .tent to use pistols; or his adversary ion is to be hadthe problem, but It Is to be feared in birds the Then and of pass the Scoville, position. Metropolitan might take the same time to practice Church ofpastor leaves that none of them, uot even the cleTer and of bits direcThe out, Christ, weaving Chicago. grass' Postal Kedera System. meet would he with the gun, and then tors of the church already have apTh comparatively modern origin of between the pole until they have a young Brazilian, has yet overcome him with that weapon. The, first offer Mr. roof for their home. On one many ot the difficulties. So tor it has arRcovilles and ths plans, present postal system, not only In rain-prowas acceded to, and the parties met proved leave an open space aa a been found that a trip In the air is too side are made to raise Great rangements over being they all but the Britain,, on world, ' yesterday accordingly. Three shots the of means shown is entrance, expensive for ordinary persons, 500 necessary money. Edthe fact that King by each side were exchanged; the Yancost of a single trip in the we What the of to want do." ward said About the trunk the sapling, being Is the first monarch whose ae the Rev. kees second fire carried away' the Mr. More than this, Dumont machine. to cession of is the which tbelr establish forms a house, Scoville, has made Issue the pillar of place freshly others pocket flap, but his third, shot for so to speak, they build an embankment however, the use ot such an airship as religious services which will offer designed postage sumps necessary. him through the fleshy part of both of moss, and all around the Interior a has thua far been constructed is only thighs; and here the affair ended. gallery, likewise of moss. This com- possible in very light winds. The third duel took place In New pletes the Interior, and then they do The since. ten about only days Jersey their "landscape gardening" outride. Ways of Tallies Tina. particulars which have come to hand Beginning at the door of the house or The natives ot Liberia in Africa have worth mentioning are that there were "bower" they make a lawn, clearing no clocks. They take the kernels from several spectators who accompanied One of the principal features of the away and smoothing and covering it the nuts of the candle tree and wash' the parties to the field, and all of celebration In with a layer of moss. and string them on the rib ot a palm whom, together with the two seconds, great Hugo centenary was France of the Barrlas dedication flow, Then they gather leaf. The first or top kernel is then out to of climbed the trees, be thus of the poet era and butterfly sings and anything lighted. All of the kernels are of the harms way while they saw fair play. statue There was an Immense concourse to else of that kind that they can find, same size and substance, and each will But, as one of the gentlemen chose to witness the monof the and with them decorate the lawn. The burn a certain number of minutes and Inauguration terminate the affair by firing his pistol gallery Inside the house they decorate then set fire to the one next below. The in the air a things unforeseen the ument, erected on the Place Victor In the Passay quarter, within In the same way, and when it fas all natives tie pieces of cloth at regular ball passed through the upper limbs of aHugo, 124 Avestones throw of the house, done they have a home that is a mar- intervals along the string to mark the the very tree where the second of his nue Victor Hugo, In which the poet vel at Ingenuity and beauty. divisions of time., . Among the natives had his and taken post, antagonist died. Naturalists think that they do all at Singar, In the Malay archipelago who was so much alarmed at the whistAddresses were delivered by the this simply to gratify tbelr aesthetic another peculiar device Is used. Two ling of the bullet that he fell and broke President of .ue municipality and the tastes, but we may be permitted to bottles are placed neck and neck and his collar bone, which was the only chairman of the monument committee, believe, nevertheless, that they are sand la put In one of them, which poura accident attending the exhibition; hapglorifying the memory of Victor Hugo. guided by their instinct for' some prac- itself Into the other every half hour, no were lives lost' pily The monument, which la the work of tical purpose. wfeen the bottles are reversed. Louis Barrias, is in bronze and stone Nut Turks Hostile to Christians. It represents Victor Hugo seated on a BxbM la m Wood. Slmpte bat ItMtlx Trick, A Belgian diplomat who recently rock, with Drama and Poetry at his Odd or even is a trick which will From Sweden comes a story of two returned from Turkey saya that the feet offering him a lyre. bccaslon considerable perplexity, and little girls, who returning home durTurks are not hostile to Christiana yet is very simple. Yon take a handAt Constantinople the minister of ing a violent snowstorm, became lost A Valuable Painting. ful of coins or counters, and invite In a wood. For three weeks a tireless waters and forests has chosen a RoThe duke of Marlborough is believed another person to. do the same, and search by the entire population of man Catholic priest as a tutor for his to be tpe possessor of the costliest to ascertain whether the number be the village, toiled to trace them, but son. It is also asserted that the ArJn the world, which was At takes Is odd or even. You request the at the end ot that time the children menian massacres were not provoked painting one time the property of me first duke to observe that you have not were found frozen to the ground, but by hatred against Catholics, but by of Marlborough. The painting is of the best preserved of the artists company asked a single question of him, bnt still alive. After wandering In the the detestation in which the Arme- known as the "Blenheim Madonna," works In existence. fallen exhausted unthat yon are able, notwithstanding to storm, they-ha- d nian face is held for its tendency to by Raphael in 1507, and now painted divine bis secret intentions and conn fir tree, and awoke to find a der big overreach In trade. no lesa than f350,000. It is valued at Da weon Citys Growth. teract them. In proof 6f this yon their feet so frost bitten they could The growth of Dawson City In Indieight feet high and represents the take a number of coins and add them not stand. Life was sustained by the Amount of Gold Cola. madonpa and child seated on a throne, cated by the fact Methto those he has taken. If the number extra clothing they wore and a basThe amount of gold coin la actual with a figure of John the Baptist on odist church of that the f irst that city hA called to be took was odd, the total shall be ket of provisions they carried, hut circulation In the world Is estimated the left and that of St Nicholas of the pastorate Rev. jmes Livingthe even; If even, the total shall be odd. when taken to the hospital It waa Bari on the right Its almost fabulous stone of Windsor, by the Bank of England officials t b at a salary of Ont, Requesting him to drop the coins found necessary to amputate thetr( about 865 tons. is tnat fact it value is due to the onq 83,000 a year and a parsonage... he holds in a bat, held on high by one feet. Fete-Telli- fate-readi- W1' "fate-readin- J -- Roof Garden and Church. - glg-wj)- !p " ... . j- nest-buildi- nt ed of 1 Monmvent to Victor Hugo gay-color- John A. a Latin. camp by taking sheaves of cats from a field near by, upon which the party slept that night "The party, consisted of Col RichColo., Improvised ardson, CoL John A. McClernand, con- gressman from Springfield; John A. Logan, the Hon. Burt Cook, Col R. E. Goddell and one other to be remembered. The party were soundly sleepbeds when the ing In their sound of a cannon was heard and Gen. McClernand exclaimed: " My God, boys, it is the beginning Get up and let us of the hurry to the front "They went without their breakfast were as hungry as bears, but still anxious to see the fight They pushed oat-she- tug-of-w- ad af - . |