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ISSUED 9EMX-WEEKLT. l. m. grist & sons, p?bu?hers. { % cfamilp jftaspapcr: 4m the jgrontotion of Tht political, Social, glpricuUural, and Ccmmetrial gitlerijsts of the fjtsplt. j advance, ESTABLISHED 1855^ ' YORKVILLE, S. O., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1902. ISTO. WHEN BOYS BY JOHN X3 Author of "Helen's Bj ingtoi Copyright, 1901, by John Habb^rton. CHAPTER VIII. THE CHARGE OK THE THIRTY-EICHTH. m TTENTION. corapaQjMBBPSxm ny!" shouted our captain. "Draw sa( WKP/y "Flashed aI1 their Babers bare," as Ten\wlV \\Vw^ nyson says in "The jJP*1 \| \1^] Charge of the Light *?' Brigade," but 1 hope for the reputation of their drillmasters that Cardigan's troopers flashed their swords more in unison. Had they not, some of them would not have . been in condition to anuoy the Russian gunners much. Ours was a sort of cumulative flash; it was literally a long drawn out effort. The boys had learned to draw their subers quickly on foot drill or parade, where the scabbard was partly raised by the left hand as the right hand sought the grip, but the saber of the mouuted trooper hangs as low as the straps will allow, and as . ? - J ? UI1?. we never uau ueen uimvu ? uwc mounted many of the men nearly fell from their saddles while leaning to the left in a frantic reach for their sword hilts. "Captain Bright." roared our battalion's major, an officer in whom I had not previously taken any interest, not seeing where his usefulness came in, "why are some of your men'B sabers undrawn?" "You rascals," screamed the captain, facing his horse toward the flank of the company, "why don't you draw your sabers?" "I can't get down to mine," said Brainard, answering for himself. His arm, like the remainder of him, was quite short. "I don't believe I can reach it unless I turn a somersault." "Take your bridle In your right hand; draw your saber with your left; now change hands; the rest of you do the same. There!" the captain yelled. "Make haste, captain," said the major. "You're opening distance badly between you and tbe company ahead of you by being so slow." "Trot! March!" the captain ordered in a nervous shriek. Off went the company, but not ail of it went off in tbe same direction, for at least one man in every three had never felt a horse trot under him. so two or three fell off their chargers before we b..u -..me a hundred yards. Others retained their seats fairly by grasping the horn of the saddle with the bridle hand and trying to seize the pommel with the other. But a sword is as much as a novice can hold in one hand. Several hud to choose between giving up their' rear hold and losing their saber8. Some did the latter, preferring present safety to future possibilities. Among these unfortunates was Braluard. The major dropped back to tbe rear company, for which I was profoundly grateful. It wasn't pleasant to think of any one, even a member of our own regiment, observing all that was ocAiiHMlni* In nni* nnmnnnu riiiriilf* thnQn VUlllUg 1U VUt VVtupMuj %>U4 ...Q few moments. Men who were not accustomed to riding were bouncing briskly in their saddles and looking as wretched as the poor fellow who came in wounded the day before. Mick McTwyuy lost his temper, blamed his horse for everything and. turning tc the roadside and halting, began tc pound the poor animal with both fists and kick him in the flanks with his spurred heels, a proceeding which the brute resented by leaping suddenly forward and tumbling his rider into the road. The lieutenant, who had chauced to look backward, turned und threatened to saber Mick then and there unless he at once remounted and acted like a soldier instead of a donkey. and Mick returned the threat, upon which the lieutenant, using his saber as a paddle, gave Mick a tre mendous spank, aud Mick swore ar awful oath, which he chewed to ex treme laceration as he uttered it, thai he would get even with the lieutenant and the lieutenant promised to give him a season of arrest in which tc think up his vengeful plan. Meanwhile another man bit the dust for ray horse stepped on the heels ol his file leader, who had slackened his pace suddenly. The injured horse reared his hind quarters to kick, and over his head shot his rider, breaking his fall by rolling between two horses In front or liiin. A similar rate Dorei several other men, who, trying tc brace themselves by holding their brl die reins tightly, curbed their horses so severely that the animals haltec suddenly and unhorsed their riders. II seemed to me they must be trampled t< death, but it was impossible to hall and ask questions or offer any assist a nee. During these scenes of humillatlor my heart was strengthened somewhal by the demeanor of our couple of sur vlvors of the historic charge at Bala klava. Each rode as steadily as if h< and his horse were one. Neither mat looked to the right or left, but straigln ahead, and each carried his saber as i! on parade. I afterward told Cloyni about this, and he said: "Why not? They did nothing bu drill from the time they first enlistee in England, and a charge isn't half a; hard to go through as a regimenta drill of mounted troops." Soon the major was on our flanl again, shouting: "Captain Bright what has become o WERE MEN. [ABBERTON. abies," "George Wash -rii V' jour company ? There's only about half of it in the ranks." The captain, who had ridden forward to close the gap between him and the company in front, fell back and looked along the column, which had lost all regularity of formation. Then he screamed: "Lieutenant, why have you let so many ineu fall out. sir?" The lieutenant commanding the rear platoon had been getting ahead of bis proper position. He turned his horse, looked toward me and roared: "Where's the sergeant of the left of the line?" "You ordered him to remount several minutes ago. sir," I replied. "Aud he hasn't returned to his post? Then 'twas your duty as a noncommissioned oflicer to keep the men from straggling to the rear." This sudden and new load of responsibility seemed more than I and my horse could carry, but I afterward learned to bear similar Inflictions better. for I found thev were in accord nnce with military custom. When anything goes wrong during a march, the highest officer with whom fault is found immediately unloads the blame upon the officer next In-low him in rank, and so the scolding passes downward until it reaches some lowly noncommissioned officer, who gets rid of it by giving it to a private soldier. But I had no time to absorb this wisdom during my first charge, for the major suddenly ordered our captain to hurry aioug with such men as he had, leaving the stragglers to the tender mercies of the rear guard. It seemed strauge that we had not yet closed the small distance between us and the troop ahead of us. but as we hurried on we had the melancholy consolation of learning that ours was not the only new company whose men bad come to grief through Ignorance of their duties and by falling out had made many successive gaps in the column. Not all the unfortunates were bad riders, but some of them had pricked their horses with their sabers d'^ring spasmodic endeavors to keep these weapons well in hand, and no self respecting korse could be expected to be even tempered when prodded with a yard of steel with a sharp point at one end and 150 pounds of greenhorn at the other. Such jis wore left of us went faster ami faster, the horses, becoming excited, unconsciously taking the gallop. This being a gait at which a child could keep the saddle, there was no more struggling. Assisted by some vigorous i language from the captain, we formed new sets of fours and went along in really handsome style. When our rush bad lasted about a quarter of an hour. I began to wonder when we would strike the enemy. If we had already suffered so severely, what would be left of us after we had met the foe and been thrown into the confusion which always befalls a eavII c* treat luster and luster. J airy party at the instant of absolute ( clash? Well, if It must come, it were better that it should come while we and our horses were nerved up to fight ing pitch. i The:e come a time in our mad rush ? when tlie road lot! through a bit of [ low, damp ground on which there was ? no dust, so we could look along the column. Dusty though we were, the spectacle was really inspiriting, with its hundreds of flashing sword blades and its successive guidons?small flags, one at the head of each troop. We ascended a gentle slope near the top of which and perhaps a quarter of a mile In advance rode a man with a broad felt hat and a very small horse. I asked the lieutenant who he was and wa9 told: "He's the reb we're chasing. I s'pose." What! All that effort to catch one man?a man who was apparently getting away? All the scare, the terror, the wild thoughts, the helplessness, the disorder, the suffering, merely to overtake one man! 1 felt angry enough to desert. 1 lost my temper and expressed my thoughts so loudly that the lieutenant overheard me and. looking angrily at me, said: "Be quiet, you little fool. There's no better way of finding their main body than by chasiug a man who is trying to get back to It, is there?" "No. sir." 1 replied meekly as a flood of light descended upon my wits, and I longed to shrivel withiu my uniform so that I could uot be seen. I did not long bave to chew the bitter cud of reflation, however, for soon we heard some shots In the advance. Our pace was slackened; we became tightly packed In the road, breaking our formation and causing much trampling on horses' hoofs, with the consequent kicking and swearing. Then down the column was passed In rapid succession the orders: "Halt! Dismount!" Were we to fight on foot? Well, whatever might befall the enemy, I was sure It would be far safer for us. rr>\ 1 ul'ii umiijtr ujc uiucto. "I.ooseu your saddle girths. Tie your horses to the fence. Staud by and prevent them from rolling, or your saddles will be broken." What an inglorious conclusion! I did not dare ask the lieutenant what It meant, but he evidently saw I was curious, for he approached me and said: "I guess the advauce has gobbled them. There's never more than a company of these fellows on the road at a time arouud here." That was better than I had expected. and 1 was wild to go forward and see the prisoners. Sqpn there was something else to look at, however, and I don't believe the prisoners could have presented as sorry a spectacle?It was the mass of stragglers being urged forward by the rear guard. There seemed no end to the dismal line of men without horses, horses without men. Some of the stragglers were asking wh^re their companies were, and once in awhile a member of our company would recognize his place by the letter which each of us wore on his cap. What astonished me most, however, was Mick McTwyny plodding along on fo#t and carrying little Brainard on his beck. 1 was so astonished that It was some time before 1 could ask Charley what bad happened, and be told me that something was biting bis side awfully. When the surgeon, of whom we had three, reached our company, Rrafnard learned that in falling from his horse he had broken two ribs. Soon the colonel came riding down the column, looking keenly to the right and left. I asked him about the engagement, but he stared coldly at me and did not answer. When, however, the captain saluted, the colonel told blm that the enemy's entire party had been captured, being unsaddled and therefore unable to get away. He also volunteered the Information that our dash bud been worth more to the regiment than a month of battalion drill in camp and that If half of the new men had kept up with the procession they bad done better than he expected. Thus ended the first charge of the Thirty eighth, and It had been quite as successful in results as early cavalry dashes In general. But what would have happened had we, with 600 or 700 raw meu and only a third as many experienced members, encountered a well armed, well trained regiment as large as our own? Well, either we would have run away or been badly whipped. It Is unlikely, however, that the coloDel. who knew his business, would have led us against such a body, and It Is less likely that be could have done It If he would, for there was not at that tinm n wpII nrnu'd well trained cavalry regimeni anywhere Id the southern army. Greenhorn against greenhorn was the rule in those days, and not only in 'be cavalry service either. CHAPTER IX. back to camp. /o FTEU a long rest, fol'oww* water f?r onr horses,' the regl mcnt started again, IjB though as to where IBwe were going we jf!,. knew no more than MMm wlien we ,cft camp. T^/lSr1Ca/ i said to Cloyne that It would save a great deal of unnecessary worry if the colonel would post a notice before leaving camp for u scout or a light to let us know where we were going, how long we were to be gone and what we were to do. but Cloyne replied that the colonel would first have to know all these things himself. which seemed a great deal to expect. At any rate no such Information had been given out about our present, trip, nor did we ever get any about any trip on which we started afterward, so in time it came to be fun to ask when on the road. "Where are we going?" so as to get a pleasing assortment of improbable answers. At first it seemed too dreadful to take part In some movement about which I knew uothlng?not even whether or not it was judicious. But when I saw the older members of the regiment calmly obeying all orders, asking no questions, I endeavored to be a veteran to that extent myself and let the government manage Its own business in its own way. As 1 had not made this resolve at the time of our lirst scout and charge I was curious and anxious about many things besides our probable route. What would we do with our prisoners should a regiment of the enemy suddenly strike us? Suppose we were to get into a light and have a lot of horses shot: how would the riders reach camp?. IIow were our disabled men to reach camp again, as it appeared we had no ambulances with us? Was any one sure that the colonel had calculated time and distance carefully, so that we should reach camp In time to save men and animals from starving? And, speaking of starving, where was 1 to get anything to eat during the coming day or more? This question slowly but surely forced all others from uiy mind, for I had eaten all of my hoecake that I had not given away, I had roasted my sweet potatoes at dinner time and felt, as I ate them, so full that 1 wouldn't want another morsel til) morning, but an hour of trot and gallop had caused a radical change of opinion. 1 had no more silver with which to buy should I be able to find any native who would sell, and my morning's search for corn soft enough to eat bad not been encouraging enough to justify me In trying again. As I wondered darkness approached, and we halted to bivouac for the night Brainard, whom 1 found In one of the straw filled country wagons which had been seized to carry the injured, was as hungry as I and very dismal about it too. How both of us wished we had kept the fat pork which had been dealt as a part of our three days' ration: we buii agreeu iuui a *?-/ little of It would go a long way, but that was Just the sort of ration we most needed at that particular moment. for the void In us seemed to reach nearly dow'u to our boot toes. While we pitied ourselves and endeavored to deaden the pangs of hunger by the time honored truant schoolboy trick of tightening our belts, a detail was suddenly made from our own company to guard the prisoners, and I was one of the noncommissioned officers named. We were marched to the front to take the Johnnies from their captors and bring them nearer the rear. There being no building near by, we camped them in a cluster near the roadside, clearing horses away to make room for them. Their own horses were prudently tied a troop or two distant, so that none of them, should be attempt to escape, could get his mount. They were not bad looking fellows, though they did not appear very soldierly in their uniforms, no two of which were of exactly the 6ame tint of gray and scarcely any two of the same style of button. None looked as If he might be a "tire eater," and the majority were men of middle age. Nearly all of our owu troopers were young. None seemed very sad or angry. In fact, they didn't at all meet my Ideas as to southerners and prisoners of war. They were ordered to sit or He down, but were not bound or restrained In any other way, except that there were guards, revolvers In hand, In front and rear of them, and we were quietly ordered to keep a little blaze all night In Mm flrua tvhlnli werp neflrpst. RO that no one could attempt to get away without lieiug seen. As the sergeant?who chanced to be Hamilton?and 1 had nothing to do hut post and relieve the guards, we lay on the ground aud engaged some of the captives in conversation. We found they were all Georgians, most of them from small villages or plantations, and they did not know much about the war except that they were sorry It broke out. hut they had felt it their duty to stand by their state. "Seems to me." said one of them after we itad chatted a little while, "that you tins was aH to blame for the war, for we uns didn't want none. No matter which side whips. I'm a ruined man. for there's nobody to make the crops while I'm away up here. 1 don't own no niggers, an' tuy wife an' young uns cayn't do no more'n work the truck patch [kitchen garden] an' look after the pigs an' the uillk critters." I heard this story so many times dur ing the war that 1 bad to do a great deal of being sorry for the enemy. Our prisoners had been told to bring their provisions with them, and as they bad eaten nothing since dinner time they asked permission, which was readily granted, to do their cooking at the tires. Their rations were so different from ours that it was Interesting to look on. Instead of boiled fat pork they had raw bacon, thin slices of which they fried or toasted on sharpened sticks. Some had white bread, others biscuit or hoecake, while two or three mixed meal and water and made hoecakes In the frying pau9 which several of them carried; others had sweet potatoes, which they baked in the a sites. Oh, how hungry the smell of their cooking made me! I understood for the first time why It was that some of the poorly fed children in our town used to stand around the bakery while the bread, cakes and pics were being taken from the great oven in the cellar. Some of the .Johnnies asked us if we wouldn't eat with them, but Hamilton and I. half starved though we were, declined until I noticed that none of theiu was making coffee. Then a brilliant idea struck me. I asked one of them whether southerners never drank coffee at supper time. "Not unless they can git it." said he, "which is mighty seldom." I went to tue servuui in our um a mess and borrowed some ground coffee and sugar, promising to repay him when ive reached camp. Returning, I distributed It atnoug the prisoners nearest tne. I wish I might ever again earn so much gratitude with so little trouble as that act cost me. Those Johnnies became positively Jolly, and they made haste to put cups of water to boil. Said one of Hiem, a rough looking man with a huge yellow beard: "Ev'rything I've got's yourn, my young friend. I'm 'most glad we got captured. Take all ray stuff." "Since you're so klud," said I In an absolute delirium of anticipation, "I'll accept a single slice of bacou. It has a more tempting odor than our fat pork." "For good eatin'," said he as he cut several slices of bacon for me and put them In a pan on the tire, "there ain't no hogs like southern hogs. We never buy no'thern po'k. 'cept to feed to niggers." t ?-nc nnitp wllline to believe him. The odor that arose from that frying pan was delicious perfume to my nostrils. After the bacon had sizzled awhile the old fellow took some hoeenke from his haversack, split It with Ills knife and laid It In the pan inner side down, saying: "You need to eat co'n bread with bacon to git the full taste of it" "Bless your southern soul!" said 1 to myself, and I was sure by the manner in which Hamilton eyed the pan that his sentitueuts agreed with mine. Oh, what a supper that was! I've never tasted one so good since the war ended. It seemed to me that If President Lin coin and Jcrr Davis could have sat there with us and shared the contents of that frying pan they would quickly have agreed to end the war on a basis of a general exchange of northern coffee for southern bacon and hoecake. 1 TO BE CONTINUED. ? llisccltancous leading. YANKEE INDEPENDENCE. 1 A Londoner In New York Thlnka He 1 Has Made a Discovery. "I have been In your country a year," said a Londoner, "and a good part of ( that time has been spent In the east. 1 You are an Interesting people to me aside from your manner of business. "What interests and amuses me is ( some of the little things I notice. Has It ever occurred to you that you peo pie are quite obstinate, when, to quote ' one of our dead writers, the hair is rubbed the wrong way? "You often speak of us as bullhead- { ed. You people are stubborn In little 1 things. "I stopped In front of the entrance of ' one of your big buildings the other day and read this sign, 'No loafing here. ' Move on.* Rather commanding, don't you. think? "But what amused me was that In spite of the order I saw at least a doz- I en men standing there with apparently ( nothing to do. As I chanced to know one in the gathering I ventured to ask him why he and the others were there against the wish of the owner. He said 1 he could only speak for himself. " 'This is a free country,' he went on 1 to say. 'I don't recognize the right of 1 the man who put up that sign to tell 1 me in that way what I shall do. So long as I do not make a nuisance of 1 myself I may stand In this entrance If 1 I choose.' "We walked away together and 1 farther down the street he met an acquaintance, who asked to have a word 1 with him, and suggested that they step ' into an entrance that was handy. 1 Your countryman, who had maintained 1 his right to stand in the place where I 1 found him, objected to stepping into 1 the entrance where he was asked to step. I thought it funny, don't you know, and I made bold to ask him why. " 'Because,' he said, 'in this entrance is the sign, "Please do not block the 1 entrance." The man who owns this 1 building is a gentleman. He recognizes that I am a gentleman. He says 1 'Please,' and I respect his wish. You can't bully an American,' he added. "Then I remember that last winter ' I had a temporary stopping place in the office of a friend downtown. I heard him tell his clerk to put a sign 1 on the door which would Indicate that he wanted the door to be closed when one passed in or out. "The clerk put up a placard, 'Shut the door.' His employer saw it and told him write on the placard, 'Please shut the door.' Gentleman come into my office, he said, 'I do not command a gentleman.' "The other day when I was in a downtown office my friend told his boy to call up a certain number by telephone. The boy went at it hammer and tongs and reported tnat me hiuhuc. was busy. His master said to him: " 'Call again and say, 'if you please, give me No? "The boy did so, and there was an immediate response. I know from my ' own experience that that doesn't always work. "But I have learned from observing these little things that you people re- ' spond most graciously where the request is in the same spirit. The only instance where I have seen It fail Is when your street car conductors order you to step lively. I notice that you obey that order with, alacrity. I don't understand that."?New York Sun. INDEBTEDNESS OF THE WORLD. , Shown an Enormons Increase DnrInK the Past 1<H) Years. In 1801 the world's debt amounted to $3,000,000,000; in 1848, after the Napo: leonic wars, it was $8,400,000,000; in 1901, $31 800,000,000. It increased within the last century by $28,800,000,000; but , whereas during the first part of this , century, notwithstanding the giganticwars which then unsettled part of he , world. It increased but at the ratio of 3 j to 1, the increase during the second part was at the ratio of 10 to 1. Toward this increase each nation has contributed w?ih all its power. Only 1,1 HlrtrtH two nations preserved tneir wiu Great Britain, which during forty years reduced its debt by $1,000,000, and the United States which reduced Its liabil- , ities by over $1,400,000,000. The Austrian debt, which in 1850 was but $600,000,000, reaches at the present time $1,700,000,000; the debt of Germany has grown from $116,000,000 In 1870 to $559,000,000; that of Italy, which in 1869 was $1,400,000,000, is now $2,583,000,000; the debt of Russia which in 1853 was $400,000,000 exceeded in 1900 $3,000,000,000. France is easily winner in this contest; her debt, which in 1852 was lit- , tie over $1,000,000,000, amounts today to about $5,800,000,000, or almost one-fifth of the total world's indebtedness. The debts of the Germanic and Slavic group of nations the last quarter of the century have been due chiefly to the purchase or construction of railroads, and they possess in these "physical" capital which almost equals their total debt, and derive therefrom a revenue almost sufficient for the service of the debt. Quite a different picture is presented by the Latin nations. These , have within the last twenty-five years , their debts by $5,000,000,000, ; Spain and Italy very nearly doubling I their debt. France almost trebling hers. In return they cannot be said to have acquired any well defined material assets. France particularly, which perhaps spent more money than any other nation has on her railways, will have to wait until 1954 to acquire ownership of them.?Paris Matin. ijim? r.tia.1 nn^E<u uun. h. r He Gori Oat on Patrol, Catcher Barfclars and Has Many Friends. n The policeman all like Bum, anyhow, j and It Is not recorded that he has any a enemies in the precnct, except possi- e bly some burglars who have felt his u teeth. a He arrived at the police station in n Eighty-eighth street far over toward <j the East river, one bitterly cold night ^ four winters ago. Captain Freers was c In command at that time, and he happened to be sitting beside Sergeant n Tom Reilly behind the desk. The street s door opened and a diminutive blackand-tan dog dodged In at the heels of ti Roundsman Hawkins. h "Here's a poor little bum almost froz- c en to death," said the roundsman. \i "Let's thaw him out" "Sure," said the captain; "let him lie down by the stove." But Bum didn't like the stove. He \ was so benumbed by the cold that he could hardly walk. He managed to drag himself around behind the desk, however, and curl up by Sergeant Reil. . . . 1 ly's cnair. That was the beginning of their * friendship. Sergeant Rellly was his ^ favorite from the first, and has con- d tinued so. "He looked up at me in such an ap- ? pealing way, said the sergeant, "I * could not help but pity the little crea- c ture. n Bum was not the spick-and-span- * looking dog then he is today. He was a small, scraggly and half-starved. Ser- 8 geant Rellly sent out and bought him * Rome meat and liver when he was * thawed oat. It was probably the first square meal Bum had ever had. * His next acquisition of fortune was an ^ old blanket to lie on upstairs in the 1 dormitory. The men all came to know him soon, and his fortune prospered 1 correspondingly. c He made his home about the police t station, and began to go about the pre- J1 cinct with the men when they went on 1 post. But he stuck to Sergeant Rellly ^ more than any of the rest, and ever 1 since that time they have been accus- r tomed to take long walks together. 8 The name "Bum" stuck to him from P the remark made by Roundsman Haw- v kins the first night he came Into the P house. Before long the policemen in 11 the house chipped in and bought him v a handsome collar, inscribed "Bum" k J -I-a KAn-lnrr rofflllatlnn hrflSS flfiT- 1' E1IIU aiOCT wvaiiii6 . __w ures "28," used to Indicate the number 0 of the precinct. He Is very fastidious about his meals a now, but he has friends about the pre- * clnct who give him anything he wants, t The night watchman at the Astoria * ferry house has a plate of cooked meat a or liver ready for him every night at 0 11 o'clock. And Bum Is usually on * hand. So between the policemen In the v house and his friends on the outside h he fares pretty well. 8 He always turns out with the mid- * night platoon and barks his approval 8 as the men march out. v The conductors on the Eighty-sixth n street crosstown horse cars all know * him, and he rides free with them just like a policeman in uniform. He has 8 learned the limits of the precincts v from the men on post, and he has never r been known to go below Seventy-ninth P street or above Ninety-sixth street. P He has the record also of having fas- 0 tened his teeth In the trousers of more 1 than one burglar or thief running to n escape arrest. Bum always manages P to interest them until a policeman could n make the capture. 0 Altogether the men of the Twenty- '' eighth precinct think they have a prei ty Intelligent dog.?New York Sun. u , , . d PECULIARITIES OP BULLETS. n v Queer Antics of Lumps of Lead p When Projected From a Gun. o When General William Crozer, chief of ordnance, was before the Philippine t committee there was a very Interesting t discussion concerning the effect of bul- t lets when striking different substances, v General Crozier showed there was a v marked difference In the effect of the bullets used by the American troops In the Philippines upon different occasions. "It is characteristic of the modern bullet when fired with high velocity," ( said General Crozier, "that when it ( strikes in a semi-liquid mass it is likely | to produce an effect very much like an ( explosion. For instance, soon after the j adoption of the present service rifle in | the United States army, an escaping j prisoner at Chicago was shot in the ( head by a sentinel, and the top of his { head was blown ofT. Sometimes sim- ( liar effects are produced by striking in ( the bowels or other soft portions of the body. In the case to which I allude, of ( course, wie range was very close. \ "An instance occurred in Porto Rico \ of exactly an opposite kind in the ac- i cidental shooting of an officer at very \ close range," continued General Cro- ( zier. "He was fired at by a sentinel. ( The bullet passed through the bowels, f ranging downward, as he was dropping t to his knees when struck. The officer i was well within a week, and yet the j man at Chicago had his head blown i -? "nnoo TKoob notions 3 UIL, LII3U iXL Uiuoc iau6?i * ?ivwv are difficult to account for. Not only I does the bullet produce these curious ( effects in the soft portion of the bod3j, 1 but they are observed In the firmer t portions of the body. I myself, in the Philippines, examined a Filipino who had been shot at thirty yards, immediately after shot. The bullet entered the left side below the shoulder and passed out on the right side at the neck. Where the ball entered the hole I was very small, while where it passed c out it left a gash four inches long. It could only have been accounted for by I something like a liquid mass having I been forced out. The gash was longer I than the longest dimension of the buJ- 1 let." ^ The peculiar characteristics of the bullet used in the Philippines, called * forth an experience of Senator Deit- 1 rich. * "I was up the Big Horn Basin," he ' aid, on a nunung inp. 1 saw a juun abblt sitting on the mound which was hrown up around his hole. As he saw le he settled down into the hole, and fired at him. I presume he was about 1)0 yards away. The bullet struck the arthen mound the jack rabbit flew p into the air, dropped to the ground nd remained motionless. An examlation showed that the rabbit was ead and yet the bullet had not struck im?he had simply been killed by conussion." Senator Carmack laughingly relarked that he did not believe the tory at all. "Your prowess as a hunter is well esablished," added Senator Beverldge as e nodded to Mr. Deltrich, "when you an kill game without hitting it."? Washington Star. MOST FAMOUS SHOT IN FRANCE. Vonderfnl Exploits of Sergeant Holt, the Famont Franc Tlreur of the Siege of Paris. Sergeant Hoff, the famous Franc 'ireur (sharpshooter) of the siege of 'arls, who was Janitor of the Aro de 'rlomphe for a number of years, Is ead. At the time of the siege of Paris iergeant Hoff became a terror to the 'russlans. He used to go out at night, rawl along on his hands and knees for niles and approach right tip to the 'russlan lines, where he would shoot .ny of the enemy who exposed themelves. He caused so much alarm that he Prussians Investing the west of 'axis doubled their sentries, and at ist the soldiers became so fearful that hey would not go out except in bands. Umost every time Hoff fired at a 'russlan he would killed his man. Hoff seemed to bear a charmed life, 'he Germans ofTered a reward for his apture, dead or alive, and even dealled bands of men for the special obect of catching him. No one, even loff himself, ever knew how many lerman lives he took. He would shoot he enemy from the least expected toints, and when a search party was ent after him he would have disappeared as If by magic. Sometimes he ^ould lead two or three daring companions, and there was hardly a night n the course of the whole long siege In fhlch one or more Germans were not Jlled as the result of his exploits. A irge proportion of his victims were fflcers. On one occasion a party of Prussians ctually found Hoff, and with a yell of rlumph, rushed upon him. He waited 111 they came right up to him, and hen, using his rifle as a club?he was n extremely powerful man?put two f his assailants hors de combat before he others had a chance to realize yhat had occurred. Then Holt ran for lis life. The Germans flred shot after hot at him, but not a single bullet ouched him. After this the Prussian oldlers were more than ever coninced that they were dealing with a nan who possessed supernatural atributes. At the time of the siege Hoff was bout 30 years old. Soon after order v&b restored in Paris he began to pan the reward of his darin?. A ension was settled upon him and the ost of guardian of the Arc de Trlmphe was given to him. In a short ime he became one of the best known nen In the French capital. Country eople on their visits to Paris would 10 more think of returning home withut having seen and, If possible, havng talked to Hoff, than of omitting to sok at the Vendome and Bastile colimns. Hoff was always modest in his lemeanor; but, when In the right hunor, would tell of his exploits and trould keep a whole room full of peoile interested for hours with accounts f his hairbreaths escapes. Hoff was also known to a large number of foreigners, and he was reputed o have amassed quite a comfortable ortune as the result of the "tips" ^hich he received from tourists. He vas a member of the Legion of Honor. -New York Express. The Spider and the Tuning Fork. A gentleman was recently watching iome spiders, when It occurred to him o try what effect the sound of a tunng fork would have upon them. He mspected that they would take It for :be buzzing of a fly. He selected a arge. ugly spider that had been feastng on flies for about two months. The iplder was at one edge of Its web. Sounding tbe fork, the man touched a hreud at tbe other side and watched he result. Mr. Spider bad tbe buzzing sound . onveyed to him over bis telephone jvlres, but bow was be to know on ivblcb particular wire It was travelng? He ran to the center of the web rery quickly and felt around until be :ouched tbe thread against the other ?nd of which the fork was sounding; hen. taking another thread along. Just is a man would take an extra piece of ope. he ran out to the fork and sprang ipon It. Then he retreated a little way ind looked at the fork. He was puzsled. He had expected to find a buzzng fly. Then, strange to say, he got >n the fork again and danced with deIgbt Evidently tbe sound was music :o him. #. ^ m Foiled. "Anger," he said thoughtfully, "short;ns iffe." She looked at blm sharply. "It also," he went on, "spoils beauty. lion on oTnonflnnn IIV InlurloUB effect iV uuu uu m >n a pretty face." "John Henry," she exclaimed, "what s It you want to say to me? What irovoklng suggestion have you to make low? For what offensive ruling In donestlc economy are you paving the vay ?" Then be knew that all his precauIons were useless and that he might is well have told her In the first place hat she would have to wait a month 'or that new bonnet?Chicago Post