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WAR SI 'low a Kindhearted Sc Oar Women in the War" ' Thc following most extraordinary incident ie told hy Major J. M Wil liams, who obtained it from Mr. ?lohn jiallum'B reminiscences, with sonic corrodions by a friend of thc un known heroine of thc tale. Puring Forrest's twenty cays cam paign in West Teunos.-ee, in the win ' ter of lSG.J-4, James H. Graham, "f Memphis. Tennessee, a member of thc ? famous BluU' City grays of that city, was overcome willi the fatigues of that winter campaign; Ile wa.-? nat urally frail and delicate, sparc in Tra::)?', .it. 1 at best weighing only 11-1 pound.- yet be had the iron nerve of a ll unan, ile was fortunate in being sent to Jackson, Tennessee, where be vas reccr cd in a family who cared for him. The daughter of the house hold, through long weeks of care and 1 nursing, brought the young soldier ' baek to life, after hope ceased to give ? encouragement of recovery. The . city was often thronged with Federal . soldiers, but he lay secreted in an up I ;>cr room. Eu Westorn Tennessee thousands . Socked to the Confederate standard, :k"u r,a:e skulked and when thc Fed ; eral army occupied the country theso latter became frenzied partisans . against their country, solely beeauso of the opportunities the war afforded ? them to pillage and plunder helpless ? aec-ooaibatauts. Thvi protection of Federal authority ' was extended to such organized bands .f irech^oters. Few of them, how ever, i< viud a coniliot with armed s .?oldier?. Fielding Hurst, of McNairy Coun ty, Tennessee, organized a regiment .of predatory thieves, robbers and 'murderers, which was designated tho 5th TcunoBseo Union cavalry. Gen. ,:Wm. Levy Smith, when ho was chief .of Federal cavalry in that department ?wrote to'Gen. Grant: "We have given Col. Hurst a rov ing commission with his cavalry, and - directed him to grub up Wost Tennes see.'* He did not and was not expected to "war against organizod bodies of Con tiedcratCH. His command was never in tho regular service. The horrid work of these "diggers" ^was in full blast whilst Graham lay . sick in -Jackson. His plaoe of oon ? oealment Was discovered by them, but "they wore too oowardly to risk their v own lives in the effort to capture him, ~so they cent a courier to Paduosh for /''bravo men to inour the risk. Thc commander of the post at Pa* . iucah dispatched a lieutenant with -125 men to oapture the one solitary ^-Confederate soldier. -Graham, with a feeling of pori oct -security. ?b.td rapidly recovered vais - strength and was prepared to leave to . ^rejoin "Forrest in utter ignorance of ^ the plans laid to capture him. The uigui preceding his departure t-thc soldiers ?from Paducah surrounded > tbe house "where he had so lo og re r aaaicod ia security, and seeing no ?possibility of. escape he determined to 1 Sghfc io tho leath and to sell his life -as dearly a', pos Bibi o. i vWhen the troops arrived ho was in ?ho upper story of the house whioh '&ad not yet been invaded. He had .-two army pistols and determined to xa&afce that bouse another Alamo. Stationing himself at tho head of the stairway at the left hand of the ?balustrade, which partially proteotod -Ilia, he prepared to make every one -af his twelve shots oount. .^uic t/hen his young nurse came vanishing 'tip stairs, but before sho -could speak Graham said to her: "Go down instantly and get out of the way, before your exit ic blocked with dead Yankees. They will crowd the stair 'way ina minute and I am going to shoot them down as fast as they ap proach." "Nq. .no.," she cried, "I can eave ;you;< ehey oartraot God you.'* t*W&hout waiting for bia decision she 'pushed him back into an adjoining -TV?U, where there was a piano, and /bid brm crouch by the piano stool . upon which she promptly sat, literally . extinguishing him with her balloon i- like crinoline skirt. ".Turning her head with apparent -and possibly real alarm as the officer V burst into the room, she sat as if pet v?ified?with terror at the open instru ment. ;"Whero is that bandit Gra **?-?" he -reddy asked. "Graham!'* ? she exclaimed, "Oh, he was warned ' V? your- approach aud has escaped." * **Tnat is impossible," rejoined the ?nicer, and ? ) searched hho room thor oughly; but most fortunately did not --summand her to move. Not hading ' S rah a? he dashed out again. As he ?waa leaving the sergeant^ ?ame in and Viold him that th s mistress of the "^.ouaehold had been found in the sta *ble/'hut that although every nook and <-poroer had be en searched, Gralum bad DRIES. Oirl Saved a TDarins Mdition News and Courier. 1 not been fouud. Out went tbe oflicer, , with a rush, to the stable, in his hope j loss quest. The mistress of tho household /vas permitted to ret im to her dwelling, but the company camp ed around the stable. Graham thus had a chance of escape. Ile Bought to thauk thc girl, but she received his effusive declarations shrinkingly and only besought bim never to mention how he had escaped. After the shades of night had spread their protective veil over the earth, Graham emerged from the man sion where death hud knocked at his door twice, without admittance, and was soon in the saddle to find a camp of Confederates. Capt. Hen j. Newson was in thc neighborhood with lifty or sixty reso lute followers in Iiis lair in the jun gles fringing Obian Uiver. At sunset Graham reached the camp and set in motion thc patriotic tide that poured through "Old Ben's'' dauntless heart. l Fifty men marched for Jaokson that night, and iu tho wee hours of tho morning, before tho cock announced thc coming day, they captured all of tho hundred and twenty-five gentle* men in blue from Paducah, without firing a gun. With that thoughtlessness which unfortunately too often is tho accom paniment of great physical courago, young Graham approached the Yan kee lieutonant with that affable smile so characteristic of tho man, and ob served: "My name is Graham. I am the man von tried to eapture and ex? cute. I was in a few feel of you and heard every word you said when you came to thc room I occupied. But let mc assure you that I have no idea of retaliating by treating you as you declared you would treat me if I should fall into your hands. Wo will have the pleasure of taking our morning meal together, in the hospitable man ilion you surrounded, and the noble girl you talked to in my hearing will dispenso tho hospitalities of the occa sion." The Federal felt relieved, but nat urally said be would muoh rather en joy Graham* G hospitality as his pres ence at that home could not be pleas ant either to the ladies or himself. But Graham insisted, dedaring "You are much mistaken." Together they went to the house and so interested was the officer that he offered a large sum of gold to know whore Graham had been hidden, but nothing was told him and when they were leaving she htd disappeared, and Graham finally realized that in taking the offi cer to breakfast at the house, he had noddlesaly inflicted pain and diaoom fork on one who had risked her reputa I tion for his life. An Involuntary Hero. "Speaking of war incidents," said a veteran newspaper man, "a friend of mino in West Virginia who wore the Union blue' in tho Civil war was the principal actor in an affair that was unique. He was promoted from cap tain to oolonel for "bravery in the faao of the enemy," when as a matter of fact he was bravo on the occasion whiok brought about his promotion because he could not help it. It was a oase of bravery being actually forced upon him, against his will. "It appears that the Union troops of whioh the captain'? company was a part had become demoralized to somr> extent by the fire of the Confederates, and the soldiers were scattered over the battlefield in squads. The oaptain hail scoured a stray horse, and soon after mounting the strange animal an orderly dashed np to him and said: " 'Tho general commands you to charge your men and take those works in front of your line." "Turning to the scattered troops the captain sang out: " 'Hally, mon, tho general has or dered us to eapture those works ahead.' "As some of tho soldiers were lin ing up for the advance the oaptain ao* ci don tally touoLcd his spurs to the flank of the strange horse. With a snort tho animal, selling his bit in its teeth, sprang forward, and going like a whirlwind, headed straight for the enemy's works. " 'Come on, mes,* shouted the cap tain, r.B he dung on for dear life and tagged at the bridle in a desperate effort to bring the exoitvd beast to a standstill. But the more ho tugged et the bit the faster tho horse went: toward the enemy. "Ballets were 'zipping' uncomfort ably close to the oaptain and he ex pected to bo punctured by a minie ba? an any instant. Ho glanced (backward and saw his scattered fol lowers far in tho roar. Tie waa close upon tho earthwork?, when gripping : the reina and closing his eyes, in the meantime yelling 'whoa' at the horse he prepared for the woist. With a mighty houud the animal cleared thc works and was on thc inside. Thc sole defender was a gray-clad Confed erate infantryman, who had been peg ging away with his musket at thc Union linc. " 'Surrender, you scouudrel,' shout ed the captain, partly io terror and partly to terrorize thc solitary t'onfed" crate soldier. " 'You go to HadcH, you inferral Yank,' replied the Southerner as be dashed down a hill and disappeared in a nearby thicket, leaving thc captain and his excited prancing steed in solo possession of tho works he had cap tured single-handed and against his will. " 'I was simply rushed into fame and glory by a crazy runaway horse,' said tho captain, 'hut when my promo tion came, with a thrilling description of my heroic chargo and capture,' I simply accepted it as ono of the for tunes of war, although it v, as a mistake and I did not deserve it. I was glad I escaped with my life." Hid in The ?ranches. To tho Editor of tho News and Courier: Your correspondent read with a great deal of interest the ac count given by Mr. James of tho cap- j turo of the flag of tho 8th South Car olina regiment] when most of the reg iment was captured. A few years ago thc late Mr. W. W. Moore, of Wedge field, gave your correspondent the simo account, but said that ho escap ed when his comrades were made pris oners, and said that he thought that ho was the only member of the com pany present who did escapo. Mr. Mooro said that when he saw the ene my advancing from the front and rear he looked around to sec if there was not somothing that ho could do, and ho saw a small tree, with very thick branches, a short distance off in the woods, so he dropped his gun and ran to that tree and soramMed up and hid among tho branche before tho Yankees got thero. He sat up there very much afraid that he would be seen, and saw tho other men surren der, and whon they had been carried off he came down and picked out the brightest gun he oould find among a numbor that had been loft on the ground. The gun had belonged to a friend, who took great pride in keep ing it bright and olean. Mr. Moore oarried it to the end of the war, while the owner languished in a Northorn prison. Mr. Moore was a native nf North Carolina but had lived in South Car olina a long time. He was a very re liable man and a most devoted and successful farmer, and one day he was speaking abcut how much more pros perous the North waa than the South. He said that he believed it was be cause Northern men worked so much more steadily, and said he was par ticularly struck with this on marching through Pennsylvania on the road to Gettysburg, where he saw laborers who ?ere cutting wheat with cradles, continue while the soldiers vere pass ing a short distanoe away, instead of stopping to look at them until all had passed, as he said, would have been done here. But what struck your correspondent most forcibly was the diff?rent treat ment the laborers received from Con federate soldiers'from what laborers io the South wo aid have received from United Stntes soldiers. All who remember anything about it know that all of the wheat, or cradles, that could have boen used would have been oarried off, and tho rest destroyed, and the laborers "captured" as prison ers of war. Your correspondent hopes that the return bf the flags will make others of the gallant old soldiers, who follow ed them so loyally forty years ago, write their recollections of the days when those flags represented all that was best in the South; and they are still dumb reminders of the princi ples on which the United States Gov ernment was first formed. It is well to keep that in mind in these days of strenuous commercialism. W. J. K. Stateburg, March 18. People Eating Less* "Health fads, no doubt, have their uses," said the. manager of a fashion-' able restaurant, "but they are bad for our husiccBS. You would be surpris ed.to know how many people go with out breakfast nowadays. They eall it thejfasting eure. Some limit their meals to ono ia day while taking the euro. They don't touoh food until the dinner hour, and then take a light meal. Others take a snack in the morning-probably a toasted bioor.it and a cup of hot milk, and a fairly substantial meal without meat, late in the af ternooo. People as a rule, do not eat os much as they did a few years ago. Many of the doctors' ad vise light eating, and all the books and publications devoted to health and physical training borato over feeding. We still talk about a 'equare meal,* but with, seme it has a different moaning from what it onco had."-New York Sun.y ?hat anti How (o Eat. "When you go to a grocery and buy J beefsteak or milk you're paying for water, for the clemente of water aro predominant in all our foods. Milk ?H 80 per ccut. water and beefsteak is 10 per cent, water." Dr. W. H. Wiley, ohief of the bu reau of ohemiatry of the United States department of agriculture, whoie ex periments with a ''poison squad" have attracted wide attention, made this statement in a leoture at the Woman's college yesterday afternoon on "Foods-Their Composition and function." And speaking of milk, he wasn't referring to thc overridden joko on its experiences under the pump. Milk is 80 per cent, water when it's milk; what it is when it has been watered only those who have drunk "cambric tea" as children can know. Dr- Wiley told his hearers a great many things which do not agree with the average American's idea of eating. Ile said: "American's eat too much moat. Wheo you've got a great deal of work to do don't eat a lot of meat. Kat fatty and starchy foods-plenty of po tatoes, corn and bread. They build up tissues and don't overwork the kidneys. Beefsteak and other nitro genous foods overwork the body in expelling them. "When I was a boy I was taught, too, that the way to make a man BO that he wanted to fight was to feed him a lot of meat. The present war between Russia and Japan is showing that the man who eats thc least meat for thc Japanese live largely upon rioe-can do the best fighting. They aro not overworking, their bodies in the digestion of food. Their diet makes tho Japanese shorter and hard er to hit and they don't have so much to carry around with them. If I bad charge of tho football equad of my university - Harvard-I would see that they atc very little meat during their training period, and I'd see if we could not win a game from Yale.'' Dr. Wiley sayB that eating too faBt is another evil of American life, and (what sounds moro strange) that the reason for this is not so much that wo fail properly to masticate our food un der such conditions, as because when we eat fast we oat more than wo should. An average man requires 3, 000 calorics cf food a day. If we could measure the amount ol food we ate before each meal we would be moro healthy than we are, but nature, taking care of this, has placed our ap petite as tho register of what is good for us. Whon we eat fastr the balance tho appetite should strike is lost and we eat more than we want? "When spriog comes on," said Dr. *? - -Ky M ?JLAJ Wiley, "reujenibcr ' tbat your body a does not require a? much food as it ? did during 'the winter and moderate t your appetite accordingly. i "And don't drink distilled water. I Drink water as it comes out of thc j earth, with all its mineral foode, mag- \ nenia, etc. ] "Don't oat a grest deal while you ? aro working; eat after the work has ] been done." said Dr. Wiley. "You j are always drawing your strength from thc food you have taken the day be fore. For instance tho laboring man ; snould make supper bis heartiest meal, PO that he would not be bothered hy the labor of throwing off the waste from a heavy meal while he is work ing. Dr.' Wiley was asked by a reporter of The Sun in an interview after the lecture for a diet for the different meals of thc day. "After what I have said there is little to add," ho replied. "For my self, I usually eat a couple of eggs, a potato, perhaps, and bread and coffee j for breakfast. Luncheon I seldom take more than a bowl of soup, a roll and a glass of milk. I eat a hearty meal at dinner time and seldom do night work." Io reply to a question, Dr. Wiley said that the popular idea that the stomach Uuot in condition to receive a hearty meal at breakfast after its 10 or 13 hours fast is erroneous. "It should then be in condition todo its best work," he said, "but one should not eat a hearty breakfast; because work usually follows breakfast. '.Should a woman's diet be different from that of a man? Well, I should say so. You know, I regard woman as a human"-the professor's eyes twinkled-"and I don't seo why she shouldn't cat what man does." "Do you believe in the modern breakfast foods which aro being eate n so extensively?" the chemist was asked. His eyes twinkled. "What's the use of paying so much for a. fancy name?" he asked. "What's the matter with old fashion ed mush, hominy and all tho other old-fashioned things, all of which are extremely wholesome and muoh cheap er? I don't eat tho modern breakfast food myself." "But they are predigested." "You don't want that. Often the food which requires the greatest amount of time to digest does you the greatest amount of good." As for the mau who is eating some of the breakfast foods and beans and peas in all the varieties of the family, esohewiog meat, with the idea that meat contains poisons which do him harm, he might as Well call a halt upon himself at once and limit him self to potatoes; hominy, rioe, corn ind bread, for so long aa be cats the irst named bc is eating chemical mat ers which, narrowed down to the j ?oe poiot to which Dr. Wiley takes . .hem, are tho "real inwardness of ^ beat;" they contain the nitrogen f tvhich ia corroding the innumerable ( passages through which his food must ] pass and which will make him old before his time-- which will "Osler iie" him, as Dr. Wiley said. "I'm not a crank on dieting," said Dr. Wiley. "I believe in a man eat ing what he likes, but I believe io a maa keeping young, sod he can do this best by avoiding an excess of nitrogen io his food, and this nitro gen is oontaioed in meat." The chemist's experiments with the 12 young men under him will have passed the third year next July. The subjects have been fed osnned peas containing sulphate of copper used to color the vegetables, and othc adul terated foods. "We have proved that borax, whioh is used largely in adul terating American foods, is injurious," said Dr. Wiley, "aud we have found tho sulphate of copper decidedly in jurio u Close Shaving. The following is told of a politician in a Pennsylvania town well known for his ardent support of tho priuoi ples of the prohibition party. Accord ing to the physician who was consult ed by thia man, who fancied himself quite ill, he was. told that there wat really nothing the matter with him. "What you need," said the doctor "is a stimulant-a little whiskey not and then will make you all right it no time." "Whiskey 1" gasped the politician "why, doctor, my folks wouldn' stand such a thing for a minute Don't you know that I am a pro hibitiooist?" "I think," replied the physician "that the difficulty may be overoome I'll send you a j ig of excelle.it liquoi You'll take it in hot water from th? four times a day." "But, doctor," persisted the prc hi bi zionist, "when I send for the he water, the family may suspect som thing." "You shave, don't you?" suggeste the physician. "Send your shavin mug down-stairs. The hot water mi be sent to you in that." A short time after, the physioh called to see Low his patient was ge ting on. Every one in tho h ouse a peared to be greatly disturbed. In i spouse to the dootor's surprised qu?r, the family chorused: ? ? "Oh, ho's all right physically, do tor, but we really think he's quite o cf bis mind. Why, he's been sha iog himself every hour or .so for week."-Harper s Weekly. What a Wife Heard. Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Gragg, Hv ag near Lancaster, in Atchison conn- - y, Kansas, celebrated their 69th redding anniversary, last Fridays-says he Kansas City Star. They ?ere uarried in Clinton County, Mo., in 836. Five of their 15 children are iving. Mr. Gragg has chewed tobacco all tis life.' ?.When ? married her/' he said Fri lay, speaking of Mrs. Gragg, "she vas the.prettiest woman, with one ex septioo, th?,t I ever saw io all my ife." "Yes," she retorted, "and I never ?new till five years ago that he even thought I was good-looking, and then lie told it to some one else." "I lon't believe in paying women compli ments and spoiling them," Mr. Gragg said. One Man's Idea of Joke. "This artifioiaMimb business is get ting to be something wonderful," riaid a Cleveland man, according to the Milwaukee Sentinel. "When a man oao wiggle the fingers of an artificial i band it is uncanny... Practical jokes of terrible effect are possible with the artificial limb, and the victim is auch in the true sonso of the wcrld. I saw a man in Denver about three weeks ago who walked up to the . hotel derk and in a friendly way reached across the counter to shake hands. Then he wheeled away and left his hand in the grip of the derk. The clerk fainted actually fainted--although he realized. I believe, that the hand he held was but an artificial ono. The mau who wore it had devised a Boheme by which he might throw it off by pressing a spring. The delight he took in the joke ceased when hie victim col lapsed." Does the Senator Rem smiler? "Don't you remember the box of flowers in front of the oabin door when you were a boy? Don't you re member the violets growing there?" asked Senator Pettua in a reoent speech, says tho Denver Post. Do we, Senator? Well, we guess yes. And gee whiz! the sore toe, Senator; don't you remember it? And the sun-peeled bade from goin' , ia swim min' in the meadow dam! and the. soreness just south of the back from the maternal palm when we brought the sore back home. Don't you re member it, Sen Dior? And the mumps and the measles and the stone brut on tho heal, and the feeling of exul tant pride whioh swept through whole Bystem af ter we had licked the fellow who dared to knock a chip off oar. shoulder? Ab, Senator, don't yon wish we were a boy again?" Afford If you can, you owe it to youise??H:o your fam?y-to buy cae package of Unetela Biscuit to-day> not to-m?brr?w, TO-DAY! After that you ?will ever buy and eat U needa Biscuit because your appetite will demand them, becafcse your common sense will teach you that there is no aridela of food so wholesome, so satisfying, so economical^ are really soda crackers but ?uch soda crach?rs as y?ti xiever hiad b^?fc or even imagined. . - - ' Indeed, it is a great achievement to make soda crackers $o dela&oua and to driver them to your tai>le a? fresh as they werfe at tt??w6?t?v of the oven, untouched by straife?hasds,; w odor, ^p^Jed by dampness, dust or genus. ^ T?&?nk df ? beautify pacWe M *oy?d pur^e ^ ^ such afeast as that, for s f '. .. . . "?? . _ J. Mm Think what it means to you Mm Housewife or you Mr. Breadw^er and what you are losing Tr^ u^^^ -.UIUM^ 3>art of yo^ ,