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WAR ST Confederate States vs. SCI' General C. A. Hattie ? During thc winter nf ISH2 <?;;, it wan j cuy fortune to he president of one of j .the courts martial of tho Army of jN'orthcni Virginia. One bleak De cember morning, while the snow cover ed the ground and the winds howled around our camp, 1 left my bivouac .fire to attend the session of the court. Winding for miles along uncertain paths 1 at length arrived at thc court ground, at Hound Oak church. Day after day it had been our duty lo try tho gallant soldiers of that army charged with violation of mili tary laws, but never had I, on any previous occasion been greeted by such anxious spectators as on that morning awaited tho opening of thc ?court. Case after oaso was disposed of, and st length the case of tho "Confederate States vs. Edward Cooper" was called, fie was charged with desertion. A low murmur arose spontaneously from the battlo-soarred speotatorB as -s young artilleryman arose from the prisoners' benoh, and in rosponso to the question: "Quilty or not guilty?" answered: "Not guilty." The judgo advocate was proceeding to open tho prosocatioa, when the court observing that t<hc prisoner was unattended by counsel iaterposed and inquired of thc accused: "Who is your counsel?" Oe replied: "I have no oounsol." Supposing that it was his purpOBo to ?represent himself before tho court, the judge advocate was instructed to proceed. Every charge and BpeciG cation against thc prisoner was sus tained. Thc prisoner was then told to introduce his witnesses. Ile replied: "I have no witnesses." Astonished at tho calmness with which he seemed to be submitting to what ho regarded as inevitable fate, I said to him: "Ilavo you no defense? Is it pos sible that you abandoned your com rades and deserted your colors in tho presence of tho enemy without any reason." Ho replied: "There was a reason, but it will not avail me beforo a mili tary court." "Perhaps you aro mistaken. You arc charged with tho highest crime known to military law; and it is your duty to tn -.ke known tho causes that influenced your actions." For tho first time his manly form trembled, and his blue eyes swam in tears. Approaching tho ..presideut of the court, ho presented a letter, say ing as he did so: "There, colonel, is what did it." I oponed tho letter and in a moment my eyes filled with tears. It was passed from one to tho other of tho court, until all had seen it, and those stern warriors, who had passed with StonewallJaokaou through a hundred battles, wept like ohildren. As soon as 1 sufficiently recovered my self-possession, I read tho letter * as the prisoner's defense. It was in these words: "My Dear Edward: I have always been proud of you and since your connection with tho Confederate army, I have been prouder of you thau ever before. I would not have you do any thing wrong for the world; but be fore God, Edward, unless you come home, we must die. Last night 1 was aroused by little Eddie crying. I called aud said: 'What's tho matter, Eddie?' and he said: 'Oh, mamma, 1 am so hungry".1 "And Lucy-Edward, your darling Lucy-she nevsr complains, but she is growing thinner add thinner every . day and before Qod, unless you come 'horne we must all die." (Signed) "Your Mary." Turning to the prisoner, I asked: "What did you do when you re ceived this letter?" "I made application for a furlough, and it was rejected; again I made ap plication, and it was rejected; a third time I made application, and it was rejected and that night, as I wandet ed backward and forward in the carnap .thiakiag 0f mv home, with tho mild eyes of Luoy looking up tomo, and the burning words of Mary sinking in my brain, I was no longer thc Confed erate soldier, but I was the father of Lucy and thc husband of Mary, and I would have passed those linea if every gun in the battery had fired upon me. I went to my home. Mary ran put to meet me; ber angel arms - embraced me, and sho whispered: ''Ob, Edward, I am so happy, I am ' glad you got yoar furlough; she must havofclt mc sbudder for she turned pale as death, and catching her breath tat every word she said: "'Have you come borne without your furlough? Qh, Edward go back, go back! Let me and my children go I .down to the grave, but oh, for Hea ven's sake Bavo thc honor of our ?ame.' "Aud herc I am, gentlemen-not 'OR? ilS. K'lward Cooper IDc Lei. ii Augusta CbroD?clo. brought hore by military power, but io obedience to the command of Mary, to abide the sentence M your court." Kvery officer of that court martial felt thc force of the prisoner's words, liefere them ?trod in beatific vision, au eloquent pleader for a h unhand and father's wrongs but they Ind been trained by their great leader, Robert E. Lee, to tread the path of duty, though the lightning's flash scorched the gicur)d beneath their f"ot and each in hi? turn pronounced 'he verdict "guilty." Fortunately for humanity-fortu* natcly for tho Confederacy-the pro ceedings of tho court wore reviewed by thc commanding general and Upon tho record wan written: "Headquarter Army Northern Vir ginia-Tho finding of tho court is approvod. The primmer is pardoned and will report to his command." (Signed) "Robert E Loo, General." During a subsequent battle when shot and shell were falling like * tor rents my attention waa directed to tho fact that one of oar batierioa was being silenced by the enemy. When I reached tho battery, every gua had bcon dismounted but ono and by it stood Edward Cooper, blood streaming from his side. Ile called to say: "tell var:, have I saved thc honor of Mary and Lucy?" Dud he once more sent a shell through tho enemy's ranks and Edward Cooper, the hero, sank to tho ground by his gun, dead. While these men who thought they were doing their duty as thc men who should pass upon the deserter a sen tence of death, tho great heart of Lee felt for tho condemned n?:in and par doned him ami a good soldier. And thus thousands stood to duty who ucvjr got to their loved ones, but filled a soldier's ?rave -Thc U. S. blanket their winding sVoct-far from their loved ones. And those who aro living are fast parsing over to rest under tho shade of thc tree of life. - mmm * - Defends ?heeler's Cavalry. To thc Editor of tho News and Cou rier: "1 have just read with regret your slanderous allusion to Wheeler's cavalry in your issue of thc 3rd, and as a survivor of that gallant, true and devoted bard of patriots who served their country faithfully to tho end of thc war, I bogan to impugn the truth fulness of your assertion. That there were a few bad men in our command I do not deny, but to stigmatize all a9 such and say that as a cou.maud they were as bad ad tho Yankees in foraging expeditions in the South is infamously false. This command was composed of BOHIO of tho best; material in the armies of the Confederacy and commanded by ono of the most gal lant, loyal and patriotic generals, who was aptly o*I!ed by Mrs. JD&V?? the Murat of tho Confederacy. No com mander in our army had greater re spect for private property than Gen. Wheeler or did moro to proteot the oitizens. I also beg to call your atten tion to tho fact that in following Sher man through Georgia and the Caro lina's our wagon trains could not keep up with us, which necessitated our having to livo off thc country and take whatever wc could get to cat. Tho writer himself lived for days on parch ed corn and sweet potatoes, hastily gathered wherever wo chanced to stop at night. While as a command we wero regarded with disfavor by some of the citizens, it was largely caused by our having to destroy privato prop erty to keep it from falling into the hands of thc enemy. This was a most painful and disagreeable duty for sol diers to perform and naturally made us disdainful to those who suffered. Then, too, there was organized a regu lar band pf marauders who plundered thc people and called themselves Wheeler's men, which were composed of d?sertera, renegades and stragglers from evory command, all of which did much to injure us. I remember once in Georgia a citizen reported to one of our officers that some of Wheeler's men had just robbed him and rode off. This officer at once set out with a squad of men after thc scoundrels, overtook and captured thc entire party, and not ono belonged to our command. This was only ooo of many similar case J. There was no command io tho Confederate army about which there existed as great misapprehension as the one commanded by Gen. Wheelor, and none that achieved moro for tho cause. v I am aware of thc fact, Mr. Editor, that wo were di dikod by South Caro linians, caused from the regrettable occurrence that took place in Colum bi?, just before its evacuation, which became near ending in a terrible trag edy and was condemned by our entire command. There is much that could be said about their ill-feeling ?o-rards ,!;! t h !.<. L ii ?jr? s h\ Mines ?ind i ?j.fii !<?|cver t<> !>t?'li> t?>f*J j I!, i rc eoiielndii . I should uko to . f( I t" ?til? O? th?; lelil?, l?t lieliii?V? m etil H ni' ibis m juli defamed com .ii LA tn t nu. First their graud raids arouud Rose cra? s anny, 'i uri og thc battle of Murfrccsboro, which HU crippled the Federal commander's resources that he was unable to rcHiinie bis advance for four months; their participation in the battle of Chickamauga, in which they killed, wounded and captured as many men as they had ongaged; tho destruction itt Roaeoran's wagon trains in the Sequatohee Valley after ino battle; their protection of the rear Hanks of Johnston's in the retreat from Dalton to Atlauta; their light ing in the trenches during the siege of Atlanta, holding their part of the line as steadily as veterans, and of their destruction of the graud raids sent out by Sherman in a last, final effort to uso bis cavalry to destroy Hood's communication. This con sisted of 'J,OOO of the flower of the Federal ca' airy, whoso object was, after destroying the West Point and Macon Railroads, to liberate the 3,500 prisoners coffined ia Andersonville. Wheeler, with only 3,800 mon com pletely defeated and dispersed this formidable army, with a loss to the Federals of i ,500 killed and wounded, 2,500 prisoners and twelve pieces of artillery. 8urvivor of Wheeler's Cavalry. Georgetown, S. C. Strangest cf ?l? af lUiary Brigades. (F. Stanley Livingstone in The Boys World.) (>ne of thc most unique military organizations in the world is found in the upper part of Now York City. On tho beautiful green campus of tho New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, a brigade of boys may bc seen drilling, every member of of which is deaf and dumb. This company perfori s thc most difficult evolutions withe .t a word of coniuiaud seemingly from the superior officer, lt is a strange sight. We miss the shout* of command, the bugle calls, the throaty order of thc officers, thc tap and roll of the drum, the burst of military music They aro a stalwart little band, chest * out, heels together, all eyes fixe i m the military instructor. Sud I denly the rifles are shouldered, the j lino steps briskly forward, and the march is maintained to the iimit of tho campus, when tho corps marks time, changes front and swings along in a direoHnn ohltniifily off from that of the first route, marches and coun termarches, fixes bayonets, haltsjand fronts again in tbe direction of the drillmaster,. everything being done with machine-like regularity; but who givos the orders? Not a sound is heard; the silenoe is so profound as to give the spectator a feeling of mys terious agonoy in t te drilling of this Btrango regiment. lint a clone watoh of the drill-master solves the problem. Every boy is looking with steady gaze at the drill-master. A quick motion of the hand, and tho rifles are shouldered; another ges ture, and the company kneels, aims, \ fires and ri HOS to the original position; a fow rapid nangos of the bauds, and the entire battalion forms fours and marches obliquely forward. Suoh splendid discipline and fault less drilling would attract attention in a oompany of men endowod with all their faculties, bul when we cousider thc faot that every member of this corps is without speech and hearing, the performanoo is most interesting aud remarkable. Tho orders aro given in a M <n manual, invented by the principal of the institution, Mr. Enoch Henry Currier, v;ho establish ed the system of military training. When this institution was first es tablished and uniforms ordered for tho boys, tho military tailor reported to Mr. Currier the fact every boy had a narrow ehest but broad back, which showed retarded lung development due to the laok of exercise-the natural result of the boy being deprived of his vooal organs. This showed Mr. Currier the lads must have gymnastics, and the idea of the military drill occurred to him. A marked improvement was soon noticed in the boys, tho exertion of shouldering arms, going through the bayonet exercise, breathing tho frosh air, proving just the exercise to build out their sunken ohests. There are no longer auy broad backs and. nar row ohests. The school today shows as healthy a lot of boys as oould bo desired. Mr. Currier says: "It re quired no small amount of troublo to teach these lads to drill. At first tho novelty gave it a charm, but this soon wore ofi and the drilling seemed irk some, which was largely duo to their poor physical condition. Tho en feebled at? te of tho lungs rendered the exertion of drilling very tiring, but, when they developed the ncocs Bary phyoioal strength to stand the strain, their interest grew in tho work, and keen enjoyment seemed to spring* uo in their hearts. They received many compliments from army oxperts. and these afflicted boys, who. are patrio?ic* o the ?ore, realized that thoy vero becoming more useful, manly might even (i?? i ! r 'UJU1 (Jlory." j lt ia not the inf m n tho institu tion to make soldiers ol the boys, but to benefit them j !;., ,i -al y by the gym nastic value ol' the military drill, and also to inculcate the lesson of discip line. One of thc greatest benefits that thc boys derive from the military drill, next to the physical advantages, is that it trains them to obey the com mand of a central authority. While training them individually is a neces sity, and, in some cases, the only pos sible way of making thc boy learn, yet it is drilling in a body that does thc most good. The erect attitudes, firm step and self-reliant demeanor of thc boys come from the drill they get in this brigade, when, shoulder to shoulder, they move forward or backward, feeling that they are, in this respect, at least, as other boys; that they can go through j tho manual of arms like clock-work, end present aa Sae an appearance SB a crack regiment of national guards men. There is a battalion of three oom* panics, and even a drum and fife corps having eight drums, a bass drum and( a ore of fifers. The- have learned the various calls, t.ud the oompanies march and drill to the .. ".to of the band with entire prooiaior. In March last the batt?* ion gave an exhibition at the military tournament at Madison Square Garden, New York City, and Qeneral George Moore Smith, commanding the First Brigade of the National Guard of the State, expressed the opinion of the review ing officers, commending their military appearance and evolutions with em phatic words of praise. Another Absent-Minded Han. A group of representatives, huddled around one of the smoking room fire places, were talking tho other after noon of the well-known absent-mind edness of Mr. Cannon, in connection with the story of thc spcrkcr'8 having recently made his appearance at the capitol wearing two collars and nocri vat. "Well, there are other absent mind fd ones besides 'the old mao,' " re marked a Democratic representative from the South. "Our own man, j John Sharp Williams, can forget the ordinary affairs of life himself, pretty well, when his mind is away off on a soaring kite. "Willams and I roomed in the same house here during the session three or four years ago. My room was right across the hall from his, sod I used to drop in on him of evenings for a chat. One evening I found him pre paring to go out to a dinner. Ile had made a hot political speech in the houso that day, and he was thinking it over-thinking of the good, snappy points he had forgotten to make, of course, like all the rest of us who en gage in these post prandial post mortems. Anyway, he was a whole lot preoccupied. "He had his vest and ooat on when I dropped in on him and was putting the finishing dabs to his necktie. Then he buttoned up his vest, and turned to me. " 'Say do I look all right?' he asked me. " 'Well, I've seen worse,' I told him. 'But, say, don't you think it would be the au fait kink for you to don a pair of-er-trousers?' ''Yep, he had forgotton 'em, and he blushed a lot when I told him of his little oversight. " 'Ey George,' he gasped, when, he had got fixed out all right, 'I'm glad that you happened to come ia old man!' "-Washington Post. - One thing a girl dosen't care to accumulate is a collection of birthdays. Sickness steals more savings than the burglar. Slowly, coin by coin, the money that has been so hardly earned is paid out for drugs and doctors. Sick ness is the worst enemy of the working man, and the common cause of the work ing man's sickness is disease of the Et on mc h. often involving the heart, lunga, liver, or kidneys. The use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Med ical Discovery will stop the stealing of the savings by sickness. It cures dis eases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. It cures dis eases of heart, liver, lungs, kidney0. etc.? when these diseases are cause?? by the diseased condition of tlie stomach and its allied organs. .3,000 FORFEIT will be paid by the World's Dispensary Medical Association, Proprietors, Buffalo, N. Y., if they cannot ?how he original signature bf the indi vidua* volunteering thc testimonial oelow. and also of the writers of every testimonial among the thousands which they arc con stantly publishing, thus proving their gen uineness, y. "About ten yearsnjro I be?an to have trouble with my stomach." writes Wm. Connolly, of sss Walnut Street, Lorain, Ohio. ?It Rot BO bart I had to lav off quite often. You advised the use of your '"Golden Medical Discovery' and 'Pleas ant Pellets.* vAtr. icvy happy to state that I commenced Jo,?At better hom thc start,ana have not lost a'oHv tili?hummer on account of my stomach. I feel tip-top. nutt belter tba . I have for ten years." Accept no substitute for ? Golden Medical Discoverr." . Dr.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regular? t**?e bowel*. V .'m. ni!.- Views of Marriago. Ho was ?i curly beaded boy willi life bel ?re bim. Shu was a little- girl wiiii a saucy png DOSC, but wise, it would seem beyond her years. Thc fact that she was nursing a doll with eyes that opened and shut with a clink may have been his inspiration. "Say, sister, I t'ink I'd get mar ried if I knew how." "Oh, that's easy," replied the owner of thc pug nose. "First you buy a diamond ring and give it to her; then you buy a gold ring, like mam ma's got and give that to bef, and then you must buy her a watch for her birthday." "An* what she give me?" expect antly asked tho little chap. "Why, nuthin', of course," smartly replied bis liule companion. "Say, eister," he added, "I guess I won't marry."-Philadelphia Tele graph. Won the Mormon's Wife. Salt Lake City, Feb. 13.-Bishop Joseph D. Paul, a high Mormon offi cial, will never try to convert another Englishman to Mormonism. Ile in duced Percy Banger to become a Mormon. That was while the bishop was proselyting in England, a year ?go. Enthusiastic over his convert, Paul brought him to Utah, set him up in business and made him a member of the Paul household. Recently he beard rumors that the relations ex isting between the convert and Mrs. Paul were improper. "I drove Bun ger from my house," the bishop de clared. "My wife oonfessed that she loved him more than she did me. Then before I oould recover my senses both she and Bunger disappeared." Detectives who are at work on the case say that Bunger and Mrs. Paul have gone to the Pacific coast. Mrs. Paul took with her thc bishop's little daughter. Even thc polygamists aro highly incensed over thc theft of tho bishop's wife. Sho is his only wife. Bunger had professed to be an en thusiastic believer in the faith. gjaxative ffiromo Quinine Cures a Cold in One Day? Cripta Z Pay* ^!%?*MJ& on every - At Cherson, Russia, lovers have been forbidden to kiss in public. A kiss given in the street incurs a fine, and a lover who takes his sweetheart by the waist is fined, while the mere putting of a cross to signify a kiss on a post card is also against the law. At Milan a kiss io publie is punished by a fine. - The oldest building in the world that bas been uninterruptedly used for church purposes is St. Martin's oathedral of Canterbury. 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