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BILL ABP'S LETTER;
An Old Paper tarnishes Bill Arp the Sub
jvct fbr His) Regular Lettnr.
Atlanta Constitution.
A last year's bird's nest is Of no
consequence but it is an emblem of
the dead past. It points a moral if it
does not adorn a tail. But the most
suggestive and impressive thing of the
past is a political newspaper that is
about fifteen or twenty years old?
just old enough for you to remember
the people who figured in it. I
chanced on one about the house and it
made me sad, for nearly everything in
it was dead?dead issues, dead Candi?
dates, dead slander;*, dead advertise?
ments, and even the editors are dead.
Some great men figured in this paper
and the people were as wild about
them as they are now over present is?
sues. Ben Hill and Alex Stephens
were before the people then and so
was Toombs, Herschel V. Johnson
and Alfred Colquitt and ex-Governor
Smith and a host of lesser lights.
Henry Grady was there, too, a power
in politics. These are all dead. Even
the advertisers are dead and most of
the typesetters. Grant and GarSeld
and Arthur and Blaine all figure in
this paper and they are all dead. How
paltry and insignificant seem all those
issues now. Fifteen or twenty years
from now how will all the present tur?
bulence and violence of politics seem
to those who then live and look back ?
Most all of the factors will be dead
and there will be a new set to jump up
and down andory "lo here," and "lo
there." It is well to look back occa?
sionally and learn a lesson. There is
food for thought in a last year's bird's
nest or an old newspaper. Politics is
a tiresome thing and we feel relieved
when the issue is over and the ques?
tions settled. I don't blame Mr.
Cleveland for going fishing. Fishing
is the best medicine in the world for
a tired mind. I have tried it and am
tired. I would go to Clearwater one
day in every week if it was not so far
away. It is good for a man to get
away off on the water where he can't
hear any news nor read about murders
and lynchings and stealing and runa?
way matches and the frailties and fol?
lies of society: Watching the cork,
does not strain the mind, but it keeps
it from other things. And so I would
advise General and Colonel Atkinson
to raise a flag of truce and go a-?shing.
They might go together and agree that
whoever caught the most fish should
be the Governor.
But there are bigger things than
politics. I see the farmers plowing
up the withered, wilted cotton and
planting corn. That looks pretty hard
on the farmers, but maybe it is all for
the best. I have noticed that there
is always some good mixed up with
the bad. The mules and the hogs will
have more corn to eat next winter. I
never saw finer gardens than there are
around here. Beans and potatoes and
peas are abundant and my greatest
pleasure is to go with my two little
grand children to the garden every
morning and gather vegetables and
pick strawberries, left from the freeze
to give us a small feast every day, and
they are the finest we ever had. They
are the buback variety, the best berry
in the world for home use, but too
delicate for shipment. There is no
greater luxury than home-made ber?
ries with home-made cream to cover
them. I have been thinking that the
blackcap raspberry was the hardiest
kind, for sometimes I find them in the
fields and fence corners, but the last'
freeze killed them all in my garden
and did not kill the red antwerps.
This surprised me. The grape is,
after all, the most certain and reliable
of our up-country fruits. Dame na?
ture locks up the grapes in embrio, for
they are not in existence until the new
shoots come from the old woods. Our
blackberry crop is unhurt and will
soon be ripe and give the small dar
dies employment. Sugar is cheap,
tariff or no tariff, trust or no trust,
and every housewife is getting ready
to put up the berries. I don't believe
that newspaper yarn about Senators
being bribed by the sugar trust.
Most of our Senators are millionaires
already and don't need the bribe, and
I don't believe that a Senator would
put himself in the clutches of any
rascal, for, of course, a man who
would offer a bribe is a rascal and no
rascal will do to trust. But the na?
tion still lives and there is life in the
old land yet?tariff or no tariff.
Bill Arp.
Ills Cow Comes Higb.
There is a man in Chicago who pays
$18,000 a year for the privilege of
keeping a cow.
He is a sane man, a business man,
a man of family, and generally res?
pected in the community. His poor
relatives declare him a freak, and his
neighbors shrug their shoulders and
murmur things about rich men's
whims.
The way of it is that he possesses a
valuable building lot in a choice resi?
dence portion of the city, and, having
nothing else to do with it he put a
pice little fence around it and quar?
tered therein his pet Jersey cow.
The cow was an artistic cow and har?
monized well with the green turf and
lilac bushes, so people rather admired
the arrangement. One day a man
came along who thought he would like
to build arouse on that particular lot,
so he hunted up the owner and made
him a. spot cash offer of $300,000 for
the land. His offer was refused,
decisively and politely.
"But," remonstrated a relative,
aghast, "that would pay you $18,000
a year ! Why on earth did you rtf use
it?"
The rich man lit a cigar and turned
a protesting face on his accuser.
"Yes," he assented in a puzzled way,
"but what would I have done with my
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A PRIZE ESSAY
For the Best Essay Written on the Seven
Wdndera of the Nineteenth Century.
Sdme time ago that popular illus?
trated1 weekly, Once a Week, of New
York offered a prize of $100 for the
best essay on "The Seven Wonders of
the Nineteenth Century."
A special committee was appointed
consisting of Amos J. Cummings,
Thomas A. Edson, Hon. G. W. Ross,
Thomas S. James, the Very Rev.
Thomas M. Byrne and Sir James A.
Grant, K. C. V., to which were re?
ferred the hundreds of essays re?
ceived.
A recent issue of Once a Week pub?
lished a half page illustration of the
distinguished committee of judges
and with it the announcement that by
unanimous agreements the committe
has awarded the prizewo Mr. Gordon
Hiles, a Georgia boy Bid the son of
Mr. Thompson Hiles, one of the lead?
ing business men of Rome.
The distinction is s rare one, and
the Constitution reproduces herewith
for the benefit of the public the prize
essay, which won in a competition
with the world and a prize for which
was awarded by a committee of men
whose abilicy is recognized every?
where. The essay is as follows :
The Seven Wonders of the Nineteenth Cen?
tury.
Strange are the forms that hurry
hither and thither through the shades
of this senescent century. Knowl?
edge sits enthroned and greatly has it
grown since the last aeon's end.
Death and birth meet on the highways
and pass with averted looks. Crime
and skepticiim, mightier than before,
walk with man like the Moslem Moak
kibat. Speculation stands where the
crowds are thickest and whispers into
every ear its tempting "venture!"
There are kings as of old, but their
thrones are less lofty?the most splen?
did court is the court of czar cash.
Plutus has descended from Olympus
and taken his place among the sons of
men. Money rules. The dollar shines
with the bigness of the noonday sun.
The days are filled with the clink of
coins as they climb into mountains of
wealth. Ill-fed poverty, grimed with
the smoke and cinders of foundry and
forge, looks with no idle eye at the
bespangled coach-and-four whirling by
with its plutocratic passengers. These
notice not; but locked somewhere in
futurity is a day when the poor shall
win their rights. Invention proudly
points where labor is lightest and
accepts the honor which its handi?
work merits. Vox populi has a less
uncertain ring. Liberty is no longer
an empty name. Statecraft hob-nobs
with Democracy. The world still re
volyes, but it bears a happier burden
The "wrinkled front" of war is
smoothed and peace smiles supremely.
Day and night have never failed;
time moves on, and the king of time
is the king of all.
In intelligently discussing "The
Seven Wonders of the Nineteenth
Century," we must invoke the faculty
of looking backward. Public interest
is the "open sesame" to the rendez
vous of wonder. When we have
found the seven subjects which have
called forth the widest comment we
have also found the seven wonders
What then are "The Seven Wonders
of the Nineteenth Century ?"
1. Napoleon.
2. Bismarck.
3. Electricity.
4. Journalism.
5. Gladstone.
6. The Brooklyn bridge.
. 7. The world's fair.
These are in themselves the great
originals of thought and action?the
landmarks of world-wide interest?the
true wonders which the nineteenth
century has held to view. We will
endeavor to draw their bold outlines
with the pencil of unembellished fact
The early days of the century were
filled with one name?Napoleon Bona?
parte. The world was, indeed, a stage
upon which this "man of destiny"
was playing the star part, and a great
part it was.
In 1800 we find him at Paris, facing
his martial fame with bulwarks of
self-conceived law and self-asserted
executive prowoss. He had crossed
the Alps; he had garlanded the pyra
mids with trophies of uneclipsed vie
tory, and now he felt burning within
him the daring desires of the son of
Philip. Nothing should interfere ; he
would be dictator of the civilized
world. And let me say, with all the
disinterested sincerity of an American
wh" has studied this uncqualed life,
ambition in Napoleon seemed vested
with the attributes of whole-souled
patriotism rather than personal ag?
grandizement. There be those who
write and, in writing, vent nothing
but slander at the great names of
earth. To their distempered preccp
tions every man who ever led a people
from servility to sovereignty was
alone influenced by the all-compelling
"ego." As a matter of fact very few
of those "whose distant footsteps
echo down the corridors of time" had
thoughts for aught but their country.
France was Napoleon's mistress and
if the record of his love for her was
written in the blood of her enemies so
much the nobler was the love and
so much more illustrious its exem?
plification.
Napoleon, no less than Shakes?
peare, was a "myriad-minded man."
With the pen he indited thoughts
which would grace the stage-created
intellectuality of a Hamlet; with the
sword he carved passageways to glory
which will baffle the comprehension
of the last mortal on the final day ;
in council, in field, in boudoir, in
study, he was the same master?the
same great unmatched. He himself
said that the siege of Toulon was the
first achievement which gave his
name to history. It cannot be de?
nied, however, that the world was not
fully cognizant of the greatness of
the man until he spoke those inspir?
ing words in the shadow of the pyra?
mids. Then did audacity and genius,
fused into an immortal sentence, write
his name on the scroll which forget
fulness never blots. When he wrote
to Louis : "To return to France you
must trample over one hundred thou
sand dead bodies," he sounded the
note of the superiority of emancipated
man over hereditary oligarchy, and
the nation which was described at the
time as "a Colossus with feet of clay,"
turned to him as from slavery to free?
dom and bestowed upon him the pres?
tige of imperialism.
If you seek for consistency, it is
not to be found in the career of
Napoleon. Professedly the opponent
of the monarchical system, he ac?
cepted the crown ; a thorough Demo?
crat by principle, he became, in all
respects, a king: he cast the pope
who crowned him, into prison; he
shattered Prussia; he suppressed the
tribunate; he established aoensorship
9? tbfl press; but fee eourtocl f?vor
from none, and fleshed the full spirit
of independence.
It must be said that his treatment
of Josephine is the black chapter in
this book of soul-stirring events. No
excuse Can be offered for the hcart
lessness which he displayed in this
battle with the forces of love. Ambi?
tion and affection contended for the
mastery ; ambition won j and on that
December day, 1809, Nemesis looked
down on the "Man of Destiny"?
looked down, and fate's finger pointed
deathward ! His downfall commenced
with the hour of that second marriage.
In the long files of time, four days
stand forth from among their fellows
?the day when Christ was born, the
day when Columbus landed, the day
when the declaration of independence
was signed and the day when Water?
loo was won and lost. This last be?
longs to our country. It was the cul?
mination of the life of a man who will
never be matched in great achieve?
ments, in audacity of genius. Wheth?
er we look upon him eating horse
flesh at Torre di Capitello, or receiv?
ing the iron crown of the Lombards
at Milan, there is a glamor of heroism
about him. He was vanquished, but
the names of the victors are fast fad?
ing away?Napoleon is immortal!
In a capacious old mansion at Fried?
richsruhe, the ''The Man of Blood
and Iron' awaits the coming of "cold
obstruction." He is seventy-eight,
but hale and hearty yet, retaining the
same matchles personality which won
at Sadowa, and the same lightening
like rapidity of thought and action
which made him, in truth, the sov?
ereign of Germany. Like most great
men, in youth he was wild and roys
tering, the terror of weaker students,
one with whose course the rector
magnificus deemed it unwise to inter?
fere ; yet he was intrepid even as
a trencher master, aud the Devil von
Bismarck of the university displayed
the same rigid determination to excel
as did the Statesman von Bismarck
of the outer world. Strange fact, that
from the ungovernable excesses of a
wanton youth, he should erect the
pedestal on which he stands a hero to
unborn ages I
The twenty-eight duels through
which he passed victoriously at col?
lege were prophetic of the twenty
eight years of conflict during which
he literally dictated the affairs of his
own and neighboring nations. I doubt
if a single moment passed after he
attained his majority in which he was
not conscious that his life was to be a
great oni for the world. It is a trait
which genius often possesses?this
self-knowledge of self-importance.
Bismarck's career was not one of
dazzling surprises as was Napoleon's
or of mathematical exactness as was
Wellington's. Its manifold hues can?
not be caught within the focus of
a flash-light camera. It was a daily
exposition of rare endowments?a
continuous chain of brilliant achieve?
ments, every link of which must of
necessity be considered. I
Cardinal Wolsey in the play, speaks
no idle words. To "fall like Lucifer"
is the inevitable end of the great dic?
tators. Bismarck was powerless
against the sovereign fate which
makes and mars; the young emperor
disliked him; he had lost favor in his
old age; and the result was his retire?
ment from public life.
But I doubt if the ex-premier rues
his lot. His life is dreaming itself
away in a series of pleasure-steeped
days. He is the loved master of
many servants, and the undisturbed
ruler of his spreading acres?an em?
pire more satisfying than that which
Wilhelm governs?with never a head?
strong minister or a rebellious reich
stag. And on each recurring feast of
fools, the birthday of this demigod,
the peasantry of Germany gather in
the grounds at Friedrichsruhe to toast
his name with ovation and acclaim
such as no living king commands.
Shakespeare put into the mouth of
Puck, a boast which, in the light of
the present, partakes strangely of the
nature of prophecy. The scientists
of this century have "put a girdle
round about the earth" in less than
"forty seconds." It has not been
accomplished by the magical agencies
of a fairy world, but by a stupendous
achievement of brain and will?the
imprisonment of the ethereal?the
subjection of nature's most ungovern?
able element to the willing service of
humanity.
From Franklin to Edison the en?
larging of the field of electrical
knowledge has been rapid and start?
ling. Life has been simplified, labor
lessened and the impossible well nigh
accomplished. The telegraph, the
phonograph, the telephone, the elec?
tric car, the electric light, other elec?
tric machines of every degree have all
sprung from the fertile world of the
nineteenth centuiy creative genius.
Man, having won from earth every?
thing she has to yield, turned cloud
ward, and filched from the firmament.
Slender strings of steel link Yeddo
with New York, and the seemingly
senseless ticking of a small instru?
ment, announces in Chicago the do?
ings of the czar. The orations of
Gladstone are converted into clicks,
and the citizen of Cape Colony ap?
plauds their sentiment shortly after
the echoes cease to reverberate
through the houses of parliament.
Pope Leo speaks a few sentences into
a box-like affair at Rome?a few weeks
later they are ground out in Chicago,
with the identical articulation, tone
and emphasis with which they were
uttered. The human voice is heard
distinctly half way across the conti?
nent. Vehicles glide along the streets, j
propelled by an unseen power?to buy
a nickel's worth of lightning is noth?
ing but to get aboard and ride. Thou?
sands of brilliant lights burst forth
simultaneously. A condemned crimi?
nal sits in a chair, and death comes as
quietly as the twilight and painlessly
as sleep. The pressure of a button
releases the steam-giant and starts
ponderous engines in the twinkling of
an eye. Man stands proudly amid it
all. The unwilling service of his fel?
low-human is denied him, but he has
made a greater captive. The light?
ning has superseded the negro, and is
slave to all alike.
Unpretentiously, at Orange, N. J.,
dwells the great brained wizard of the
wonderland of science, and the reward
of his inventions is the proudest of
our country's boasts.
Journalism, the greatest education?
al agency of this earth, cannot be ex?
cluded from the catalogue of wonders.
The press is an object lesson of the
conquering mind of man. The crude
and tiresome device of Caxton is now
the mammoth perfecting monument of
mechanism ; the small, semi-occasion?
al sheet of a century ago is now the
great budget of closely printed pages,
recording, twice daily, the progress of
the world. Millions of votaries serve
this "tenth muse" with an inflexible
faithfulness, and the people of the
day, though accustomed by repeated
surprises \q goirot nothing impossible,
tax credulity to its utmost in watching
the ffliraCuiou's achievements of the
dauntless copartnership of trclcnt and
type
The artist has come to the aid of
the reporter ; expressive pictures re?
lieve the sameness of the printed col?
umns ; the soundest judgments of the
day speak their minds freely from the
editorial chair. There is no character
too high for the criticism of the edi
tor, and no place too sacred for the
invasion of the reporter. The geni of
the pencil and pad are everywhere at
once. "While one is piercing the Af?
rican wilderness, fatigued and thirsty,
another strolls through Fifth avenue
solons and notes the gorgeous cos?
tumes and magnificent decorations
One witnesses a real tragedy on a dark
street at midnight; another sits calm
ly at the play and describes a feigned
emotion or an acted murder. And all
these, in their several ways, are pre?
paring your morning eulightment.
Nor is the newspaper at all partial
in its disclosures ; it is' the spirit of
equality, and tells as much to mendi
cant as to millionaire.
William Ewart Gladstone came into
eminence as the rising sun?he rose
on the wings of a great principle?
wings which stili waft him through
the empyrean. Men cannot fight for
liberty without attracting attention.
It is a cause which yields laurels of
glory to its every promoter. It gave
the name of Cromwell the association
of heroism; it placed Washington
among the fixed stars ; it is focusing
the attention of the world upon the
"grand old man."
England is awakening to the de
mands of a world which is rapidly be
coming universally Democratic. The
heel upon the neck is a tableau which
is fast disappearing from view. Ire
land has been the scene of greatstrug
gles for right. The emerald is be?
daubed with the slime of inferiority.
The growth of the shamrock is stunt?
ed by the weeds of inherited sover?
eignty. The sturdy Irishman looks
upon his country's pa3t history and
reads but one word across the page?
oppression: he "dips into the fu
ture," and the curtain which ob
structed his view is lit by the likeness
of an aged statesman. Hope mounts
higher?"perhaps he will redeem us
yet."
Gladstone has many enemies. A
few of these are actuated by honest
opinions, but the greater number is
composed of dolts and demagogues?
simple poseurs, ciphers in the sum to
tal of humanity, and anglomaniacs?
prodigies late known to earth?with
their Scotch castles, built by the un
requited sweat of American brows
and their tory newspapers?journalis
tic hobby horses on which their own
ers ho'pe to ride into the peerage.
But liberty will win. Ireland will
be self-governed, and Gladstone will
stand forth in heroic outlines above
the cringing corruptness, the hypo?
critical mock justice of the Heeps and
Quilts of English politics.
The stupendous achievement of en
gineering which is exemplified in the
Brooklyn bridge may' well be classed
with the century's wonders. The
spanning of such a body of water as
East River was no easy task, and only
by the pluck and push of the citizens
of the great twin cities, coupled with
the genius of the engineers was the
work accomplished. No such bridge
was ever before constructed, and the
Roeblings have connected their names
indissolubly with the record of great
works for the convenience of the race
And now, in the twilight of thecen
tury, comes the world, civilized and
uncivilized, to participate in the peer?
less panorama at Chicago. The cele?
bration of the results of the greatest
voyage that ever was sailed goes on
apace. Millions are lavishly spent,
the finest buildings ever constructed
rise on the shores of the wide-stretch?
ing lake, and "Columbus?1492" are
the tocsin words of triumph. The
wise and great of earth drop in to see
this climax of exhibitions. Princes,
princesses, dukes, courts and other
titular dignitaries cross the Atlantic,
led by the curiosity that promises and
the circumstances which ensure sights
well worth the seeing. Chicago ex?
tends the hand of hospitality to all;
it is western America's debut into
world wide prominence.
We have won from the uncertain?
ties of attempt the certainties of ac
complishmant; we have rebuilt, in
twenty-five years, the structure of na?
tionhood which the internecine con
flict well-nigh demolished, and we
erect our own monuments from the
now historic soil of Jackson Park.
There science, art, trade, agriculture,
manufacture and law display the in
creased stature of a hundred years ;
there strange people from stranger
lands walk beneath the searchlight of
sight-seeing; there is a wondrous
maze of freaks and frescoes, statues
and State buildings, potentates and
pickpockets, mongers and millionaires,
greenhorns and globe trotters, cosmo?
polites and Carter Harrisons. After
witnessing such an exhibition as this
no poet need whisper in our car :
"To be living is sublim0."
Thus imperfectly have I outlined
what to my prescribed vision are the
"seven wonders of the nineteenth
century;" they are of that grand
group of things earthly which defy
forgetfulness?
"And the Lord is the maker of them all!"
Brief It*m.p.
Walnuts came from Persia.
Coffee grows wild in the Soudan.
The United States if the richest na?
tion on earth.
The Egyptians kneaded their bread
with their feet.
Brooklyn has 355 churches and G95
secret society lodges.
Chicago has 384 Churches, and
1,088 secret society lodges.
Seventy-five per cent, of New York?
ers live in vented houses.
During the reign of Henry VIII,
300 beggars were executed in one year
for soliciting alms.
The agricultural resources of the U.
S. are equal to supporting a popula?
tion of one billion people.
There are nearly 200,000 negro
Catholics in the United States.
America spends $1,309,750,000 per
year for intoxicants.
Nevada is second in gold production
and fourth in silver.
It is said that coffee long boiled will
produce indigestion.
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WADE HAMPTONS DUEL.
On Battlefield at Gettysburg With a td~
eral Soldier.
T. j. ttackcy, in Atlanta Constitution.
In tho breaking dawn of July 2,
1S63, four thousand cavalrymen sat in
silence upon their horses on tho ex?
treme left of the Confederate battle
lino at Gettysburg. The field in their
front was curtained with a heavy mist,
as if kindly nature had sought to veil
the appalling traces of the tragedy
there enacted. It had been sown
with shot and biadcd thick with steel
on the previous afternoon, and the
harvest of death was ungathered, lying
in winnows along the ghastly furrows
that had been cut by the red plough?
share of war. The infantry line
stretched far away to the right, and
their gray uniforms blending with the
hazy atmosphere gave them a very
shadowy appearance. Many of the
regiments were indeed but shadows of
what they had been at noon on the
preceding day. Some were in line
without even one commissioned officer,
and others with but the normal
strength of a single company. For
example, as attested by the official
record, the 26th North Carolina enter?
ed the battle with 800 rank and file,
and, although none were captured, but
eighty answered to their names at the
close of the day. Col. Henry K.
Burgwyn, Jr., who commanded it, and
all the field officers were killed. Capt.
H. C. Albright, who took command of
it after the battle, was its only com?
missioned officer left unwounded.
Company H of tho same regiment
went in with eighty-four men and
three officers and came out with but
one man standing upon his feet, all
the others having been killed or
wounded. I knew the sole unstricken
survivor well. He was Private John
Secrest, a robust young farmer of
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina,
and I regret to state that instead or
being grateful to Providence for hav?
ing plucked him as a brand from tho
burning, he grumbled loudly over the
loss of one of his shoes, torn from his
foot by a grape shot that struck the
heel while he was falling back in good
order.
The fifty squadrons of horse that
were awaiting orders in a dreamy half
?leep were commanded by Brig. Gen.
Wade Hampton. He was the beau
ideal of a cavalry commander; of tall,
heroic form, a superb horseman, brave
ind enterprising without being rash,
ind with daring always tempered by
sound judgment. He was unquestion?
ably the strongest man in the Confed?
erate service, and the only one in
either army who, enlisting as a private
soldier, rose to the rank of lieutenant
general. But, although a judicious
Commander, he was possessed of a
knightly spirit of adventure, and, as
ldventures come to the adventurous,
bis brilliant military career was mark
3d by many thrilling personal experi?
ences.
But a brave heart is no buckler
igainst a steel blade, as Gen. Hamp?
ton realized that morning. Hearing a
bullet hiss just over his head he turn
id his face toward the belt of open
cvoods on his left in time to see the
Hash of a gun at a point about three
bundreu yards away, and then he
beard another leaden messenger cut
the air near him. He at once rode at
i brisk trot in the direction of the
timber to find out the early bird of
the sharpshooter who thus broke upon
the quiet of the morning with his
?hrill note of battle.. When he had
ridden about one hundred and seventy
five yards at a right oblique he came
to a high stake and rider rail fence.
Looking to the front he saw, standing
cn a large stump, some four or five
Pect in height, a soldier whose blue
coat bound with orange-colored braid,
and pantaloons with stripes of the
same color on the outer seams, indi?
cated that he was a United States
cavalryman. He seemed to be what
the Scots term a "braw lad," and,
although not engaged in a political
campaign, had "taken the stump,"
doubtless that he might get a better
view of the Confederate troops on the
elevated plateau south of the woods.
The contour of the ground hid Gen.
Hampton from his command when he
halted at the fence. As he drew his
pistol the quick-eyed skirmisher saw
him, and they both fired at the same
instant. The ball from the soldier's
rifled carbine splintered a rail near the
horse'H head, and that from Wade
Hampton's 44-calibre revolver made
the bark fly from the stump. The
duel was clearly irregular, as there
were no seconds, and the principals
were about one hundred and twenty
five yards apart instead of fifteen or
twenty paces, as prescribed by the
Code of Honor, and they were une?
qually armed, although each was
within fair range of the other's weapon.
Hampton held his pistol muzzle up, at
a ready, and courteously waited on his
antagonist, who threw back the lever
of his carbine, and, flinging out the
empty shell, put in a fresh cartridge.
Again the reports of the carbine and
pistol blended, and a bullet passed
through Hampton's gray cavalry cape,
grazing his right breast.
The soldier then inserted a third
cartridge, but could not close the
breech of his rifle, the trouble evi?
dently beiLo that the gun was foul,
and hence the butt of the metallic
case did not go in flush with the
socket. He raised his right hand with
the palm to the front, as if to say to
his adversary. "Wait a bit, I'll soon
be with you," and then drew his wip?
ing rod and, after driving out the
stuck cartridge, took a piece of rag
from his pocket, and wetting it with
bis tongue, attached it to the slit in
the rod and deliberately cleaned out
his carbine. The delay sorely taxed
the patience of Hampton, as it would
that of any gentleman who was kept
waiting to be shot at. But he was as
incapable of taking an unfair advan?
tage of his enemy then as he was at
Brandy Station, where, during the
fiercest cavalry engagement of the
war, he dashed up to a Federal colonel
to cut him down, but seeing that his
sword arm was disabled, saluted him
instead and passed on to seek another
foe.
The high-roosting cock of the woods
soon relieved him by again opening
fire, but at Hampton's return shot the
carbine fell from his grasp and he
jumped down, and, after picking it up
with his left hand, retired to the rear.
At that moment Gen. Hampton re?
ceived a blow on the back of his head
that would have unhorsed a less stal?
wart rider. He turned upon his as?
sailant, who instantly wheeled his
horse and fled at full speed. Hamp?
ton followed quickly in pursuit, his
thoroughbred mare springing forward
at the touch of the spur. The fleeing
Federal officer, for such his uniform
stamped him, was also well mounted,
but Hampton overtook him, and level?
ling a pistol within thre'C feet of his
head, pulled trigger. But tho cap
Spppoa. Several tfipes he pulled,
but with the Same result". The Union
officer bounded on as if conscious of
his peril.
Hampton was about to draw his
sword when' his intended quarry turn?
ed short off to trVc left through a gap
in the fence which Hampton himself
had not seen until borne past it. He
had the flatisfaction of hurling the
pistol rft his flying foe, accompanying
it with soin'e words which did not en?
tirely become his cifftraefcr as a ves?
tryman of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, but that was all.
Gen. Hampton found that the Union
j officer's sword had given him a deep
; gash about four inches in length, and
that but for the thick felt hat and
I heavy suit of hair he wore would have
cut to the brain. A few inches of
! courtplaster enabled him to keep on
duty until he received a severe gun
shot wound in the leg at the end of I
the battle. Ten yesrs later Col.
Frank Hampton, a young brother of
I the General's, while on a visit to I
Mobile became acquainted with a gen- j
tleman from" Detroit who had been an
officer in the Union army. A few days
after their introduction the Detroit I
man said: "Colonel, I sought your
acquaintance in order that through
you I might make the amende honora-}
ble to your brother, Gen. Wade Hamp?
ton. The sabre cut that he received
on the head at Gettysburg was inflict?
ed by me, and the matter has troubled
me greatly ever since. It was my only I
act during the war that I regret. I j
was a young fellow then of 22 and a J
lieutenant in the 6th Michigan cavalry.
Seeing a solitary Confederate firing J
into our lines I determined to capture J
him. There was nothing about him J
to indicate his rank, but I presumed
that he was an officer. The bend in j
the fence prevented him from noticing
my approach. Indeed he was looking j
to the front as I came on his rear, and I
the ground being soft near the fence
line, he did not hear my horse's step. I
I would have run him through with
my sword, but I was incapable of
stabbing any man in the back. I saw
that when I got near him that he was
of formidable stature, and as his pis?
tol was in his hand I was sure that if
I ordered him to surrender he would
instantly turn and fire upon me. He
was mounted on a horse of light chest?
nut color, which I thought was the
finest animal I had ever seen. It was j
a sore temptation to a cavalry officer,
and I at once changed my plan ana
decided to unhorse the rider and cap?
ture his splendid mount. An I struck
the blow he turned upon me. It was
a half mile race for life. I heard his
pistol snap three times at my back,
and also his parting curse as I went
through the gap in the fence."
Col. Hampton delivered the explan?
ation tendered by Major S., (for he
rose to that rank,) and later Gen.
Hampton acknowledged it by letter,
assuring Major S. that it had given
him great gratification, and since he
had received it he could only regard
the failure of his pistol to fire with a
deep sense of gratitude to Him in
whose hands are the balance of life
and death.
In reply to an inquiry to Hampton
Major S. wrote that the name of the
rollicking rifleman was Frank Pearson ;
that he was but 19 years old at the
time of the duel; that the pistol ball
had wounded him a few inches above
the wrist, and that he was mustered
out of service at the close of the war
as lieutenant, and was a successful
farmer living near Kalamazoo, Mich.
Subsequently Gen. Hampton received
a letter from Mr. Pearson himself in
which he assured the General that he
was glad he had missed him, and the
General responded that he was very
sorry that he had wounded Private
Pearson.
Obeyed Orders Strictly.
"When I was a youngster of seven?
teen," said a successful business man
to a Detroit Free Press reporter, "I
got a job as collector with a man who
was about as strict a martinet as I
ever saw. He insisted on everything
being done just as he said, and there
were times when life was verily a bur?
den, but I stuck to him for six months,
then we had a difference. It was this
way: One morning he called me up
and handed me a bill on a man I knew
and said to me to take it around and
collect it.
?'"It's one of our standbys,' he
sajd, 'and every collector I ever sent
to him reported him absent or not
findable or something. Now you go
and don't come back here till you see
him.'
"'Do you mean that?' I asked, as
two or three clerks looked up.
" 'You know me,' was all he said in
reply, and I went out after my man.
"He wasn't at home, the people
said, and wouldn't be for six weeks.
So I stuck the bill in my pocket and
went off up the country on a visit.
The old man sent after me half a dozen
times, but my folks could only tell I
was out of town, and I never paid any
attention to a letter I got from the
boss, but went on enjoying myself.
Then I came back and had a visit with
some other friends, and at the end of
six weeks I called on my man again
with the bill. I found him at home,
and told him what I had done, and he
paralyzed me by paying the bill with
interest. Two hours later I stepped
into the boss's office.
" 'There,' I said, before he had time
to gather his wits, 'is the amount of
your bill and interest. He was out of
town for six weeks, and I couldn't see
him before. You told me not to come
back till I did see him, and I was
obeying your instructions. I had a
rattling good time and the house owes
me six weeks salary.
"The old man gasped, got blue in
the face and I thought he was going
to explode, but he didn't; he gulped
it all down and stuck out his hand.
" 'Young man,' he said, 'you ought
to have been a soldier ; I'm going to
put you in charge of the collection
department and double your salary.'
And," concluded the merchant, "when
I was twenty-five I was a partner."
? Some months ago, a young man
of Warren, Indiana, wrote his name
and address on an egg he was shipping,
and a short time ago he received a
letter from a resident of Sydney, Aus?
tralia. The writer said that probably
the sender might be interested in
knowing how far this egg traveled in
finding a customer.
. ? Oh ! tongue of man, what great?
ness thine ! and yet of all things evil
thou canst be the worst. Attuned to
music, how doest thou thrill the soul
with melody; and yet how often doest
thou prostitute thine almost infinite
powers and descend into darkest infa?
my. Words of comfort, of hope, of
love thou speakest, and yet how with?
ering thy blight when by hate or
malice impelled ! A ministering saint
art thou, or devil incarnate ; and from
the fullness of the heart thou speak*
est, whether hies* or gum!
I All Sorts of Paragraphs.
! ?? A foolish friend does more harm
j than a wise enemy.
? Talk aboot sensational trials:
wait till 7011 hear the recording angel's
i testimony.
j ?? Fasts of from 30 to 40 days are of
j common occurrence among the religi?
ous fanatics of India.
? The Iowa farmers have paid off
? $600,000 of mortgage indebtedness da
I ring the last three months.
' ? A Parisian dentist filled a hole
the size of a silver dollar in an ele?
phant's tooth with composition and
tin.
? A farm of more than 2,000 acres,
near the Delaware Water Gap, is
devoted entirely to the cultivation of
celery.
? 3Iore than four-fifths of the mur?
ders in the United States last year
were by men who had no regular occu?
pation.
? Electric pianos, which play them?
selves, the keys being depressed as
though by some unseen hand, are now
being manufactured.
? "I am going to marry your sister,
Johnny, and take her far away. What
do you think of that ?" "Guess I can
stand it if you can."
? At Defiance, la., there is a "liv?
ing skeleton" in the person of a man
who is 5 feet and 8 inches tall and
who weighs but 65 pounds.
? Young women in Denmark are
able to insure against being old maids.
Should they remain spinsters at 40
they receive a weekly allowance.
? A well recently dug in the Arctic
regions near the Okhotsk Sea proves
that the ground in that vicinity is
frozen to a depth of nearly 50 feet.
? Some people have yet to learn
that there is a wide difference between
making a business of one's religion
and making a relieion of one's busi?
ness.
? The largest Sunday School library
in the world is in Washington, D. C.
It is the property of the Assembly"
Presbyterian church. The librarian
is J. C. Stout, of the senate library.
? The only monstrosity mentioned
in the Bible was the giant who, had
"six fingers oa every hand and on
every foot six toes, four and twenty
in all." See Samuel IL, xxi., 20.
? Gump: I wish a fellow could
borrow money as easily as he can bor?
row trouble. Hump: If you could
make money as easily as you can make
trouble, you wouldn't need to borrow
any.
? The Mjkado of Japan has recent?
ly issued a decree allowing a Japanese
woman to lead, if she chooses, a single
life. Hitherto, if found unmarried
after a certain age, a husband was
selected for her by law.
? Miss Arabella: Don't you think
I look dreadfully pale, doctor ? The
Doctor: Yes, indeed, you do, made?
moiselle. "Then what do you advise
me to do?" "Wipe some of the pow?
der off your face."
? Uncle: Now, Robbie, if I gave
you 20 cents and Ned promised you 10
more how much would you have ?
Robbie: Twenty cents. Uncle: How
can that be ? Robbie : 'Cause Ned
wouldn^t pay his.
? It costs about $4,700 per shot to
fire one of Krapp's 130-ton steel guns.
The gun costs $195,000, and it can
only be fired at the most 60 times.
The gun has a range of 15 miles, and
the projectiles weigh 2,000 pounds.
? Father?"Yes, I admit your lover
has a good income, but he has very
expensive tastes, very." Daughter?
"You amaze me, what does he ever
want that is so very expensive?"
Father?"Well, you, for one thing."
? Last year more than 2,000 car
loads of beans, mostly Lima, were
shipped from Ventura County, Cali?
fornia. Merchantable beans on one
ranch were raised at the rate of 1,000
pounds per acre, the entire product
being 100 car loads.
? In a recent lecture Sir Robert
Ball said that a telegraphic message
would go seven times round the earth
in a second, a&d if a telegraphic mes?
sage could be sent to the moon it
would reach its destination in a little
more than a second. He also thought
that it would take something like eight
minutes to arrive at the sun.
? The latest development in the
milk business in London is to drive
the cows around the route and have
them milked in presence of the con?
sumer. The customer is thus able to
judge for himself of the healthy ap?
pearance of the animal, and is sure of
fresh milk. The practice is a common
and ancient one in Egypt.
? A French electrician, M. Trouvc,
catches fish by sinking in the water a
net with an incandescant lamp attach?
ed. The curious fish collect around
the light, when a pneumatic tire
around the edge of the net is silently
inflated and rises to the surface, en?
trapping them without frightening
them, and, hence, without destroying
the spawn.
? A collection of tools used by
workmen in building the pyramids of
Egypt that is owned by a famous
Egyptologist indicates that many tools
credited to modern ingenuity were in
use when Moses was troubling the
Pharaohs. It is also announced that
a furnace has been unearthed along
the Nile in which hot blast was used
centuries before the modern Neilson
formulated the same idea.
? A writer in the Forum draws
attention to the fact that women have
helped to elect two of our Presidents.
One of them was Mr. Cleveland, the
women of Wyoming having voted at
the last presidential election. The
other president whom women helped
to elect was Thomas Jefferson, in
1801. The women who cast votes that
year were those of New Jersey. Politi?
cal history repeated itself after the
long lapse of eighty-eight years.
? Harris Beck of 202 Eastern Park?
way, Brooklyn, is the latest victim of
the hiccoughs. He is afflicted in much
the same way as Carberry, the Newark,
(N. J.) unfortunate, who died in
April, after a lingeringillness. Beck's
spasms have become chronic, and far
less violent than at first, but still
there seems to be no chauce of any
permanent relief unless the sea voyage
theory is tried. Beck, according to
the statements of physicians who have
been interested iu the case, may live
for many months yet, but if no relief
can be obtained, there is- every likeli?
hood that the continued hiccoughing
will indirectly cause death byaffecting
the action of the heart.
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