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WAR ST For Your S we Waker I*. <iou i ."ui, ii J mig ; Thomas !'. Hines, nu m . r ..* General John Morgan's illu.-trious ; band of soldiers duri g the Civil Urar. and, at the time ol' I is '1 at I ? f? ?V years ago, a distingu? !i d K ntucky jurist, sat among a LT?, lp ol' friends gathered in front ol' "The Kenyon," to -moke their cigars und while away the early hours of a -ult ry .IIHIIDW evening. ? The Judge tilted hack his chair: knocked the ashes from his cigar, and said: " 'Twas a very singular coin cidence, indeed; and even more remarkably be cause I had not seen the feliow be fore in nearly forty years, yet re eeg II i/.ed each other almost instantly. I was attending legal matters at a lit , tie town not far frcm l>anvil!c a lew days ago, win n thc facts I'm about to relate o*:e urred. ''The first chapter of tho -tory, however, occurred in tho late fall of ib'.))!. In duly of tho sume year, while endeavoring to reach thu Con federate lines, after our memorable raid through Southern Ohio, about SOO of Morgan's men surrendered to the j Federals at Bullington Ford, alter a lively scrimmage with odds greatly against us. A handful of followers myself among thc number -escaped, however, but wen? later uayturcd near New Lisbon, and taken to the Peni- ' tontiary at Columbus. General Mor- ; r- . i was captured with us and on tho j v h day of November following the j .- ; of us escaped by tunneling, which escapade is part of every history of the Civil War. During our contine- j merit there wc were subjected to thc ; most rigid discipline and harshest of treatment, which was mitigated only I by the kindness and attention ol' Doc- ? tor Roberts, thc chaplain, in .his rel a- j tions with the prison. The warden j was a most inhuman mun, bitterly \ partisan, and most unreasonably ex- I acting in his demands of us. One morning on the rounds, he discovered j whore some ono had spit on the lloor. Ile determined thut the man who did it should bc severely punished, but to locate the man was the task. None of us would tell, so the brute had us lined up and marched toa frozen pond near tho prison and compelled to sit on the ice, with nothing between us and the ground but tho ice. Still we refused to tell. Ile then forced us to stand on tip-toe, with our faces to thc wa!! and our arms outstretched above our heads until wc were almost paral yzed. Ho tried other in. trumcnts of torture but to no avail. We were de termined to die rather than tell, and he never found out from us. "The night before our escapo wc gathered together in General Morgan's oell, and, joining hands, took a solemn oath to God, and to each other, that, should wc prove successful in making our escape, we would never, under auy circumstances, spare the lifo of a 'Yankeo' who fell iuto our hands. "Wo escaped, and once more began our raids in Kentucky. One evening just at sunset, the 21th of December, 18G3-I remember distinctly tho dato -wc captured an elegant little fellow, dressed in a Confederate uniform, trying to make bis way North, out of Frankfort. There was joy in our company, for he was the first 'Yankee' we had gotten hold of since our escape, and the boys wanted to make au example of him and wreak imme diate vengeanoe-a sort of Christmas celebration, as one of then explained. Every man in thc company wanted the honor and pleasure of shooting him, and so warm became the contest that we decided to settle it by lot. Accordingly, a quantity of white beaus, among which was one black one, were placed in a bat; the man drawing the black bean to do thc shooting. Dan Ryan, a fellow-com rade, drew the lucky bean. He was thc proudest man in camp and an ob ject of universal envy. One of tho men offered him ?500 in Confederate .money to sell him tho coveted privi lege, bul Kyan refused. "We were encamped amongst tho hills just beyond Frankfort, and it wai decided to send Kyan and his prisoner to the city at dawn next morning, presumably to turn tho pris oner over to the prison authorities. As they passed over the bridgo going into the oHy, however, Ryan was to fall behind, and, as tho 'Yank' reach ed the middle of. the bridge, shoot him and drop him into thc river, and re turn to camp. The prisoner was in formed of this arrangement by some of thc disappointed boys, who sought tu revenge themselves on tho poor fellow by tormenting him mentally. Sh-- entire company was Unod up to ?see. th- pair start, and the boya gave a Rusty bhout as Kyan patted tho stook of his gun and motioned with his head significantly toward the 'Yank.' In about an hour we heard the report of his musket, and a yoll went up from a 'ORIES. elli earl's Sake.*' ? Si, !; ".-.?.s Kcpuhlic. do/.( n throats thu men who ?:.i<l been waiting to hear it. Wethen dis persed, giving thu 'Yauk' no further thought. Shortly afterwards, Kyan < - :* : i. - ? riding >?<>w!y into camp, and, without saying ;i word lp anyone, ii?-'! 11 j ? hi- liorsi and disappeared in his lent. I never heard him mention the afiuir again. "Hut now comes thc strange part. I was sitting, the other night, in the lobby of a hotel in thu lilli?: town pre viously mentioned, when a tall, elder ly looking gentleman, neatly dressed, with iron gray hair and heard, entered and nut down near me. II? searched my face with his keen, ?lark eyes, and smiled in a way that instantly carried me back thirty-seven year.-:, ti) thc time when 1 saw that poor boy march ed i'll to iiis doom willi Kyan. "'Don't you recognize me?' he asked in a low, subdued voice. " 'No,' 1 answered, 'but if I didn't know positively that thc fellow was dead, I would say you were the lad that Dan Kyan shot on thc Frankfort bridge, thirty-seven years agu.' " 'Well,' be said smiling, 'your memory serves you well, for 1 am tin man.' "Wc arose, introduced ourselves and shook hands. Drawing our chairs close together, he told me the sequel to thc story in these words: "When we left camp for Frankfort that mem orable Christmas morning I knew my chances for life were slim, and gave up all hope as we arrived ut the bridge and my guurd dropped buck twenty paces to the rear, tr) shoot me us I crossed. As my horse's hoofs struck the wooden plunks of the bridge floor, the rip'I ol' his iron ?hoes sounded like my dei uh knell. The swift running curreiii looked cold and cruel, und the 1 driftwood uppeured like my funerul bier. My heurt, that I hud tried so hard to steel, fuiledme, us I hcurd be hind me thu metallic click of the hammer of my executioner's gun, drawn back, which sounded like the thunder of un artillery churge. My guard had stopped his horse, and was wniting with musket crossed on his saddle, for mn to reach tho center of the bridge. I drew up, und, in the anguish of my sorrow, turned back, only to look down thc muzzlo of his raised gun, and into a puir of eyes that burned with a flame of hate und revenge, us .:onsuming us if lit by tho tires of hell.' "'Have mercy, sir, Icried.' 'Ihavo done you no harm; I am too young to die a death like this. Spare me.' 'Done me no harm?' he answered, in a voice of pussion. 'Done me no harm?' You and your accursed gung have done the Southland ull the barm >ou eau, except to rob us of Tar love und all that's good and true, aud you would have dono that if you could. Done me no harm? How dare you say it? You sold us the negroes, intro duced and fostered upon us tho HIUVC ry you now pretend to so ardently de test, und would rob us of a merchan dise you sold us, and give us nothing in return. Freebooters! Robbers ! Worse than pirutes, thut you arc! You would break down between us the social barriers that thc Almighty him self created, and impose upon us a condition of affairs you would not tel crutc for yourselves. Spare you! You white-livered devil! Never!' "'The veins in his neck stood out like whipcords, while his nervous fin gers played with the trigger of bis gun in u fushion that chilled me.' "Ry doing such," he continued. "1 would be disgracing the cause this uniform represents und thc oath I swore. As long us memory serves me, I cannot forget the treatment accorded me und my comrades in that, accursed prison, nor yet the uomea made deso late, nor the firesides despoiled by your pilfering, plundering, vandal ar mies that have devastated the flower of the Southland with fire and. sword, leaving death, desolation and famine iu their wake." "His eyes glowed with tho fires of fury, while his face was black with tempest. I sprang from my horse, and, running to him, fell upon roy knees and begged for mercy. But bc spurned mo as though I had been a viper, and, waving mo off, raised bis piece to fire. "For my mother's sake, sparo me. For the iovo you bear your sisters and your homo, spare my life." "No," ho thundered. "My mother is to-day weeping for her son, the sis tors for their brothers and their sweet hearts, and the head of my aged fath er, bowed to the earth in grief, the home a maBS of smoldering ruins-the wasto your infernal armies havo wrought. No moro parleying, sir; if you wiBh to pray, I'll grant you that, and nothing more." "I saw that pleading was in vain, so resigned myself to my fate. I am a Catholic, hir; so, drawing my rosary and cross from my bosom while yet upon my knees, I consigned my soul into the keeping of thc Virgin Mary, Mother of (Jod. I then drew forth a small locke?, containing the photo graph of tn . .sweetheart, looked at the tender, dark, pathetic eyes, into whose faithful depths 1 never expected to gaze again. 1 sobbed as I noticed thc lock of soft brown hair, hanging In a waving ringlet on her pale, delicate forehead-th?! winsome, childlike mouth, with half-parted lips, that had never spoken ?in unkind word that I ever hear i. and i li ti had be? n lifted so tenderly and pleadingly io my own, the night I i le her g/j ,.i by. I ;i :l transport ol' anguish, ! clasped the locket io my lue;.-;, and cried: 'Fare well, n:y sweetheart; farewell. Moth* er of (lu ]. b'es.?ed of women, preserve and keep pure" and as blameless as thou art this innocent child of thine, and unit.- us at last in that eternal city, where Cod i-< uni-.m with thee, und thy son rule-, world without end. A men.' ' " 'I feh a hand 1 lid nj on my shoul der arid, looking up, .-aw my guard bending over me - his face piioas death. Hi- lip-, trembled with emo tion as lo- spake: "What I would not do for you, nor for your mother, sis ters, father <>;. brother, 1 will do for the sake ol' that sweet girl, whose face so much resembles'one who waits the return of her sweetheart from this cruel war, as she awaits you, 1 could shoot you ns I would a dog, but 1 have not the courage to lirst. send the bul let crashing through her tender heart in order to reach yours. Hide (JU, I say, and have no fear; I will not harm you. Perhaps the same God that has put ?rito my hear? to spare you will some time, some where, put ii iuto the heart of some one to spare me." " 'I would have embraced him, but he moved away and said, "1 did it for your sweetheart's sake, not yours." "'[ mouuted my horse and, turn ing, rode hurriedly balk across the bridge, shuddering as 1 saw beneath the oaeks thc cold flowing stream of the river, cheated of their prey. Reaching a bend in the road that would hide nie from his view, I turned to wave my benefactor a last adieu. He was standing as I left him, his musket folded in his arms, watching nie. As I disappeared behind the hil! the crash of his musket awoke the stillness of that gray dawn and, in the echoes that died away, I heard again his farewell words: "For your sweetheart's sake, not your.s." ' " - .m . ? -- (jen. John lt. Gordon. Gen. Jehu B. Gordon delivered his famous address ou the "Last Days ol the Confederacy" in the Court HOUS? on December 3rd to an intelligent ant appreciative audience. Before h< reached the city some one asked ui what rank Gordon held in the Confed erato army. This surprised us and wi asked tho same quest-ion of a. pumbei of young people. They knew nothinj about his conspicuous military ser vices and had no knowledge or appre ciation of the great and timely assist ance ho gave South Carolina in 1871 when the carpct-bag government wa overthrown. Gen. Gordon entered the army as : captain in thc (?th Alabama regimen and was elected Colonel when th regiment was reorganized at Yorktowi in April, 18l>2. Ile will be 71 year old next February, but is woudcrfull. preserved, considering the hardship through which he passed during th war. He held no bombproof position but it was his lot al vaya to be in th thickest of every fight in which hi I command took part. That he escape with his life is something miraculou I and a recital ?if his many close call will excite the wonder of those wh are not familiar with his family hil I tory. "Seven l'iues" was the first rei battle in which ho led his regiment His horse was killed under him an three bullets pierced his clothing bv he was unhurt. At Malvern Hill he led Rodes brigade in a charge of half a mile ovi an open field. A bullet passed throug his canteen, tho breast of his coat wi torn by another aud tho butt of h pistol carried away by auother. At Sharpsburg, in tho first part < the battle, Gordon was twice woundei two balls passing through his rigl leg. lie held his ground and andu* ball passed through his left arm, se ering a small artery. In a short tin another ball pierced his shoulde The blood was streaming over his ut form, but he stayed with his men u til a fifth ball passed entirely throuj his left cheek he fell to tho groun He rose again and ordered bis mi forward but his injuries were so gre that he was carried from the field, addition to these wounds, ono bi passed through his cap, ono throni his pocket aud a spent ball struck hi on tho breast, bruising him severe! When he recovered he again enter tho field and was in aetive service u til Appomattox. In tho dark days of 1876 Gen. Gi don went to Columbia and stood Gen. Hampton when President Gm sont Gen. Buger with a good milita foroe down to intimidate our pee-] and sustain the carpet bag govci ment. Thc .situation was critical, for Ruger ! had determined to drive the lawful House of Representatives from the State House. A gang of hunkidories from Cain hoy were on the grotpl to get up trou ble as an excuse ?or ..-.Hilary interfer ence. When the plan became known to ??en. Hampton he told linger that not one of his noldiers should escape if a man in the .State House was hurt. Gen. fjord on wini stood by Hampton's side said to J?ugcr, "And I am herc to back ??en. Hampton i.i whit he has said." < hi account of the services of (jen. (Jordon to South Carolina io these tr} iii?: times a spleudid portrait ol' him was secured and now bani.;- in thc Senate Chamber. Iii - indeed a strange thing thal auy juan could live in this section arni not. know something of Gen. Gordon. He rose from Captain to Lieutenant Gen eral in the Confederate army, IK: was Governor of Georgia and I; ni ted States Senator and is one of the most distin guished men on the platform in the United State.-.-Abbeville Medium, Dec. 18th. White Man's Day la Indian Nation. Atoka, I. T., Dec. 31.-Ten million acres of fanning land ure to be devid ed among Indians in the Choctaw und Chickasuw Nutions beginuing on the first day of February, 11)03. Ou this date tlie United States will open u Government Land Oilicc in Atoka, I. T., and euch mun, womu i and child in the two nations will receive ?J20 acres of uverage ullotuble lauds. In uddition to. the 10,000,000 acres to be given to the Indiuus the United Stutes will sell to white people more than 2,000,000 ueres of farming and grazing lund iu the Choctaw Nation. When au Indian receives a patent to his lund he will be allowed to sell one- j fourth of it in one year, one-fourth in j three years und the remainder iu five yeurs. For thirty-five long and weary years the Indians have had control of the lands und they would not permit thc white mau to own one foot of it, but now that the land is to be divided among the Iudians und thc surplus sold to whites uud thc right to sell his or her holdings given to euch Indian, thc white mau now has the golden op portunity of the age to get u good home cheup. This is the last new country in the Great Went, aud it is good newt" to | the thousunds of farmers und stock men in the old States who have the Western fever and a strong desire to come West and muke their fortunes. The Indians will not work, but they will have to support themselves, so their first thought will be: "Where may I find a white nan to whom I can sell part of my land? I have more than I want and more than I oan pos sibly handle, so I will sell and get money to buy food, clothing and cat tle und send my children to school. The climate in this country is mild and healthful and the land produces great crops of corn, cotton, wheat, po tatoes, cabbage, buy uud fruits of all kiuds. The greatest soft-coalfields in the world are in the Choctaw Nation, and these mines are all to be sold to the highest bidder in the next three years, beginuing about next full. There are twelve railroads in the Ter ritory, and others coming soon. The town lots in the Nation are be ing sold every month by tho Govern ment of the United States and the Choctaw Nation and titles to property issued. At last that point in our his tory hus been reached where tho white mau can get title. Tho members of the Choctaw tribe of Iudians will be the most wealthy people iu the world after their coal mines, town lots, surplus farming land uud their allotments are sold and the mouey paid out to them by the United States. It is estimated that each man, woman and child will get something liko $10,000, in addition to his homestead. Tho reul Indians are fast disappear ing, half-breeds are increasing aud the chances ure thut this it? soon to be the white man's country iu name and fact. -St. Louis Republic. Paralyzed As He Swore Oath. Vienna, December 27.-The Zoit publishers the following remarkable story ot' a wouder that ocourred at MOBOOW: A merchant's widow demanded the payment of a debt of $12,500 which her husband bad lent his partner. The partner came to see the widow and assured her that he had already re paid tho money during ber'hnsband's life time. The widow refused to be lieve him, whereupon tho partner knelt in front of a picturo of the Vir gin Mary hanging io the room and he swore a solemn oath that ho had re paid the money to her husband. Scarcely had he uttered thc oath when his right arm, which hr had stretched np toward Heaven, beoome paralyzed. Several weeks have elaps ed since tliis occurrence, but tho per jurer's right arm hangs helpless at his side and the doctors say that he has lost the use of it permanently. - The vineyards of Germany aggre gate 238,025 aojf i. Fortunes Io Samples. Few people realize tho extant of the sample department of the modern re tail dry goods house, says the Youth's Companion. Fewer still realize that when a bolt of dress good?? come into j the house and is unpacked the first thing done with it is to anio off a full yard for samples. As much of this goods is 51 inches wide, the average of one yard to the bolt ia low, as is the prie:, fixed at 75 cenes. A writer in the Chicago Tribune makes the fol lowing estimates as to the cost of sam ples given away i ii that city. Tcu big retail dry goods iiouses in down-town Chicago sent out every year 220,000 yards of woolen di ess goods, representing a retail price of 77? cents a yard, and only that an indi vidual ?'.""Monier nay satisfy herself as to what is hiing worn, or in one case out of five, that she m?:y order a dress pattern from one of the samples. Eighty thousand yards of silk are cut into minute triangles, squares and parallograms, meaning a retail loss of $80,000 a year to these ten stores. And on top of this, nearly every line of goods in a house suiters from the shears of thc sample cutting depart ment, aggregating in these cen stores more than $150,000 a year. In one of the largest retail stores in Chicago the time for the sample craze sets in about the middle of February for summer goods and about the first of September for winter goods. At such times GOO letters a day is a fair average. lu this house the silks, laces and finer goods generally arc cut at the several retail counters, and cut only on order. For this purpose sam ple blanks arc sent down to thc sales men, and if other samples are asked from the sample cutting room they are "assembled" from pigeonhole boxes and mailed as soon as the list is com plete. No one not in the business knows just how bard it is to meet some of these requests," said the manager of one of the large departments for sam ple cutting. "It would take an ex pert mindreader, working io conjunc tion with the owner of the mind, to find it out with any certainty. There is nothing carried in stock in this house that we are not asked to cut samples from. Calls for carpet sam ples are frequent and ruany times a large piece has to be cut from the roll in order to give any idea of the pattern. "Looking at the seeming waste of cloth, it seems to be almost too heavy to be considered, but every year the territory of the mail order business is enlarging, until it has become one of the great factors in the trade of every big retail house. Considered as an established department that must be kept up the sample cutting rooms are important as advertising centers. Sending a bunch of new goods patterns to the ordinary country town, we might estimate that at least half a dozes families will see it; and even if our retail trade through mail orders is not stimulated, we may suppose that many a country merchant is reminded of our jobbing department by these students of samples." - It is reported that larg? eales cf pianos are now made to Indians. - The first celebration of Christmas in the White House occurred on De cember 25, 1800. - The extraordinary volume of freight trafile throughout the United States is wearing out locomotives fast, and it is impossible to get enough ma chinists to do the work. Thc freight traffic has played havoc with nearly all the engines, and, while none have been put out of service, it is only be cause of the constant repairs .being made. SHS alf and 8?mMa The dyspeptic moy well bc represetrted ??ctoriafly as being half mescrdme and lalf feminine, and combining tire least desirable characteristics of etflier MK. 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