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(k( b THE PEOPLE S Vol. 5. PLCI ENS, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL18, 1895. No. 14. /OPYRIoHT, $ C After imparting his inforiiation May- e pard went to his own camp, called for i 'his horse, and buckling on his saber a land pistol rodo back to the camp ho had t left. He arrived just in time to join a i econnoitering party starting to ride a over the ridge in the direction of Rin- I t 0t C Tearing up the flooring. gold. Being in a private's uniform, he was not recognized by the mon-his x appearance was much changed by the x loss of his board-and fell in with the i last files as though he belonged to the troop. The squadron trotted up the road lead ing through a gap in the ridge and stood on a summit overlooking the Pea Vine valley. By the light of day May nard .;aked down upon the landscape how a seen a few hours before; but, ah, I how changed I Ton thousand men in 1 gray wore coming across the valley. It is a solemn sight at any time to ( seo an army moving to strike a foe. : There was something in the silent ' movement-too far for him to hear the 1 tramp of the men advancing over the : intervening space, still wearing its sum mer robes of green-to remind him of a thundercloud rising in a clear sky. There were compact columns of infan try steadily marching, while on eithe I flank cavalry trotted forward, head il, like a troop of lions over jungle. Occa-I sionally there came a confusion of dis tant sounds-orders--moro murmurings preceding the storm. The advancing host Roomed rather a troop of specters, moving with the wind, an army of ma licious spirits coming to scatter a plagno from their still silent weapons. This faney vanished with the first few shots from the skirmishers. They were too real, too spiteful, to attribute to any but human agencies. Back goes the thin line of blue before the scattered ConfewLates in advance, supported by thick columns of dusty gray. No skir mish line would care to stand against these columns coming silently, not yet in presence of a foe worthy of a volley. Suddenly there is a rumbling, shout ing, a lashing of horses in Maynard's rear. Turning, he sees a Union battery, drawn by horses, galloping up the slopo from the bridge. Dashing into position, the horses are swvung around, pointing the muzzles of cannon toward the ad ~vancing host. The guns are unlimberod. There is a boom, followed by a shrick ing shell arching toward the heavens and dropping with a sound like an ex ploding rocket over one of the advanc ing columns. The shot produces a change in the disposition of the closely packed Con federates as a turn of a kaleidoscope alters the eombination of colors. The closed columns halt, quickly extend wings oni either side, joining tips, each while deploying, resembling the con tinued line, from tip to tip, of some lhugo distant bird. Now they are in line of LIAttle and once more move for ward, while the Union battery drops shells in their extended and loss vulner able ranks. Marching over open fields, crossing gulloys, now lost in a wood, to .oppear upon its other edge, bisecting oreeik and road, a slowly drawing coil, a line of the "rlbbod sea sand, " a streak of dust before a rising wind, the southerners move steadily forward. Boe fore thorn the Union outposts give way, retreating under cover of their guns. What are theseofunereal looking wag ens driving up and being stationed at different points, those men, with a strip of rod flannel about their arms, scatter ing themselves over the field? To the young enthusiast for war in the dis tance1 who has beeon impatient to see a battle, these wvagons, these mien marked with rod, composinig the ambulanceI corps, getting ready to take care of dead who have not yet been killed, wound1(ed who have noet yet boen ilt, bring the first realization of what wvar means. There is none of the harsh nmusic of bat tie about those grim looking wagons, these men Waitinlg for victims, to bright-i on the eye und s0end the blood( coursing' through the veins. They go about their' work in a methodical fashion that dampens ardor as water quenches fire. They mock a seldior's ambition for glo ry. There Is something in the calcula-| tion, the preparation, to remind him that, after all, the gold lace, the fonth ers, the martial music, are but to cause him, like the pampered sacrifice, to for get what he i.: for-to be shot. But Mark Maynard was a veteran and had seen all this before. lHe gave the amibulance corps a single glance, and theon, looking toward a group of Union offIcers partly concoaled from himi by the smoke of the battery, saw one of thenm, with the stars of a briga * dier general on his shoulder, peer north ward through a fildglass. Turning his / ~ eyes inm the same direction, he could see a light cloud rising west of Ringold. Hie watched it and observed that one * ~ end of it was trending toward (. ford, north of Reed's ridge. The offiodt soon *lhut up him glass, and in another mo )94 BY AMMEICAN PaESS ASSOCIRfMCV.. iont aids were galloping away to give rders to retreat. A column of Confed rates, extending for miles, were march ug to the ford to turn the Union left, ud no time was to be lost in getting ho little forco back-to tho bridge. There is a quick limboring of guns, ,nd skirmishers, cavalry, gunners, all iurry back over the ridge. At the bridge boy find two regiments ready for any tuty to which they may be assigned. boy are directed to hold the ford to vhich the column of dust is moving. "rotected in that direction, the force at he bridge awaits more confidently the oming of the advancing Confodorates. They have not long to wait. The skir nishers, a thin line of gray, are soon seen currying over the ridge liko light scat ered clouds before a "whito squall. " Pho main line of gray is still tramping >vor the Pea Vino valley, keeping the low pace of their heavy guns. Tho Un on men do not wait for the stronger Iorco. They turn upon those skirmishers ind drive them back through the gap o their more slowly moving comrades. Mark Maynard, following with the ost, soon again found himself on the idge. There, In the valley below, was he line of battle he had seen, but near ir, a crescent shaped line extending rom the bank of the crook above the ord across tha northern end of the ridge uto the Pea Vine valley. Battloflags ippeared above the line at regular inter !als. Each one of 15 flags Maynard iounted, indicating a regiment. Ho inew that the little Union force cast of he Chickamauga could not stand igainst what appeared to be at least a livision of infantry, with a very strong orco of cavalry. Nor was he wrong. Cho scythe swung round as if moved )y the arms of a Titan, mowing with ts sharp edge the opposing Unionists. Choy woro sent flying back to the bridge md hurriedly put themselves into a po Iition to defend it. They are ready for the storm when it 3reaks, meeting it with airtillery and 3harges of cavalry. Tho Confederates xre driven, but by this timo their artil Lry has been got forward and posted at. m point north of the bridge, where it can wop the valley of the creek, tho bridge nd those whoso purpose it is to defend Now there is imminent danger. Will bhe little force on the east hank get wor, or will it be out ol' and captured by these overwholning Confederates? [t can only be saved by ono portion )harging the enemy while tho others tre moving by twos (the bridgo will itand no more) across the structure. Among those who charged aInId re )harged to keep off the gray coats swarm .ng upon then) on that oventful morn ng, always in the advance, in the spit ;ing line of foam that precedes the bil ow rolling upon tho sand, Mark May lard was ever present. As each wave -olled from the margin of the Chieka n1auga broke upon the southerners and receded a number of the Union troops baod passed the bridge. Maynard waited till every man was ver. Then, stepping on the biridlgo, he joined a part-y w~ho were tearing up the flooring to prevent the enemy from fol lowing. At last these left for the shore, and he remainedl alone. As board after board came up the Confederates pushed aearer, but still lhe worked on. Bullets iang to each other as~ they passed( from aat to west and from west to east, while the air was thick with intermin-. able explosions. At hat all was done ~hat ceuld1 be done. Whether his action ind so excited the admiration of his cne nies that they had no heart to shoot aim or whether [an overruilinig power woculd not lot hinm die, he at last turned anhurt and joinedl his comrades. He 1had been exposed as never before, as lhe might never be aigain, hut lhe had aot met death. CHAPTER XXII. TH!E NIN ETEENTnI OF SEPTEMnRR. Seldom has an army been in a mere ,ritieal position thni the Army of the Jumberland at this junicture. T1ho Con 'edorates overlapped the Union front m the north by half a dozen miles, and( between Con federates and the Chatta tooga roadl leading fromi what was both ho Union left and( rear into Chiattanon ga there were only small bodies of cav stry. Bragg had but to overwhelm hose, cress the Chickcamiauga and march i few miles westward to seize this read imd threw himself between his 01oomy md that enemy's base--Chat tanooga. it wasm his initenitioni to cress Reed's bridge by 8 o'clock in the mnorning with OniO >olumn, 0and Alexander's bridge, a fewv milos above, at thle same1( hour, thli two columns to joini and( seize the coveted road, attack Cri tt(ieo'n left, whilo a third Confederato column, crossinig at Dalton's ford, would at tack himi in front. Crittendeni onc ecrushedin under these comIibined( forces, as it was expect ed lie would het by noon, the whole Coen. federate armiy w~as to overwhelm Them as, still teini miles di;t ant, leavinmg 31c. Cook, 20 miles amway, to be filihed later oin. There was) .iothing 'on the left to pro vent thme OX'ction 101f this attracti v( plau but the two biodits of cavalry at Reed's and Alexander's bridges. i.'ight o'clock came, and the(y wre noet, over. Whelmod1. The sun stood high 'ver I'.i valley of the Chickamanuga, and sti I the Confederates had( not crossed either of these two points. The defend ers of the bridges were a swarm of her nets flying in their enemies' faces, with inany an effective sting. At noon they were still stinging. It wa not till 8I o'clock in the afternoon that the do. feniders of Aloxaindor's bridge were feoreed to give wvay, andi those at Rood's )rl(tgo olily rlre ol 'iiVvling infv tao other h1ad huoli (IptnrAl jy lthe enyiv. So tiho itorn ilg and rho ater noont pas' ed, and w lien eveniui" fell hut 8,000 Contelderates ha71d bn thrown aross. What was to liive been executed on Friday, tho 181 of Septelber, uust be deforred till the next day. \Vill it then bo too late? Tho moon is lighting up the fiold, tho Woods, tho sunnuits of the two ridges inclosing t ho valley of th (hickielanauga and 100,000 soldiers. Tle air is cold and crisp, and myriad'; (if canpfires aro soattered over the valley as a reflection of the starry heavens upnt the bosom of a lako. All night the moon gleams upon the stool of tlt two sleep'less armis the Confederatos pushilg across th Chickamauga, the Unionists marehing tocover their uiprotected left. Many a soldier casts his eye up into the sereno heavens alid romarks tho (lueen of niight looking down upon iiim, so palo, so cold, so dead, as if in iockery of his own animato being and prophotio of what may como for him on the morrow. From the southward comes tho tramp of dust covered men in bluo. At their head rides oneo who beforo the sun twice sets is to tako first rank aniong th he roes of Chickamauga. Thomas is leadiig his men from a distant point far beyond Crittendei to the exposed left and rear, to th Chattanooga road-tho road coin mlanding the lino of coluimunicati II of the Army of th( Cuminberlimid. t must be a forcd nmareli, for the timo is short and thu distaneo is great. From I ho a.- I ward th 1 ('oin federat es aro ptudshin, a-ross the Chickan:muga. Every avail able pass:g is (ttevnpieti, bil thero is littble (-ft of tie bridlge:, ani it; iR slow ant hauz:rdous work at the fords. Largo bdlities of it-n aro likoi streains. They tfow% ea-.iiy avcIos; open1 oountries, but becomo eh-dk' d in nirriaw ways. Yot the wvorkl glos on. II is a long nlifgh t-Itlng for t Ioen men waudin through wvtt(r or :taiiiUtg in the ci lly hours past nidn ight in wet clothing. I la an oventFul night, fori' if they "'at across in suifitrient f'orce, anti the wi * is still 1unlo0 a! tket I ;. yte .1 rday, the fat of theo Union army is . aled. At n'idiiight Mnynard lay under a reo trying to tatcli soumt sleep. Tho ox ertion of t he day would lavo brought it, for he was exhausted, but. his position as to the army with which ho had no placo was burning hhn liko a hot iron. A few days t fore, aid he would have boen leading his brigado through these stirring scencs. Now ho was not even a privato iaoldier. lie wts an outeast, a wretch too detastablo for i the ri'pect even of imenial ctooks anl strjkrs, (if teams ters, o' th vura-pinlg ha rdi It ft ar my fellewers, whose objket was to lceat th (tlie(r nial rut tihe <b111 . The( mllon, 11in4ing a cn.ni.t v Oen ing inl tlh huonh' ahnen h. llo -wt at. him inl a w .- thIa il ::. in :.re c1t t him . W hat; . _1:,. , til" "n (,!Io her surfacv! Nat -,:is ro it bor Nv:l leys; lit) arm 101 ctiott il i the p ses. sion of her r ril' rid . T Tihe thoughlt, for a nimelnt chased away his (esiro for oblivion. Ha shrui Ivid at Jr ioith Ingness. Thu scenes through which ho was passing seemned far preferable. Ho was in the) in ids of lImu's coveted ac tionl. While that lastedl ho could not fol long ho phlumgod int despair. Thank hear. oen, ho was permit tad to seek solace in such turmnoil, sueh roaring of guns and yelling of mien as had con(o and wero coming. Toward morn ing his thoughts became less iltelse, lsclear-. Tho sounds coming from a I roop f lorses picketed near hecame mitore and mnore conifusedl. Tho snores of ini rt: ing after a day of hard ligh ting htt.i their vig r. Tho branches a bovo hi in m twined Ind istinct ly. Hie slept. Hel was awak.ieed by tho sound of a gun. It was breadl day. Ho started up and listened. Then came another dull) boom, then anliher ic, andt in a fow min.. utes there was t ho rapid firing of a hat tIe on the left. Surely that is net thu little body of cavalry ini whose ranks ho had fought I ho day beforo. Mountiing, lie redo towardl it through a partly wvooded, partly open country. The fichts5 wero gray, but the woods wero still greaen. Theun t here was the odtor oif thu mnoning inI the comntry and~ thuelhiring of' a birds hunting for their breakfa~t.. It woutld not baa lotng beforo that pt'rfmtan musit riva way to 11ho smeill of gim owdt .r,1 Itfu the chirping otf thte btirds w'nh I -i howred by tho full sl-td 6a wv he itia.llttd ouit, ~'1m i i C- '; a t he firin-g. wihic 'nl wa'i'.t M'an ad . n. a. m of. surpiio mli ph ir' "1ltuow did lht ga I t-re? "i'larchied all night." "Mi1uchi forco in hiis front ?" "'Youn b ot. I l'm gointg fori ro-eniforce mniits, "' anid int a moakeint het wa; out of sight. A courier canmo dlashinig from the op pmosito dlirect ioni. "Thelu heat 1f Mc .ICook'' coltun is at Crawfish Sprlings." "G( tod. TI lhe army3 is saf't for' tho pres out. The gameta is htt aked." Striking thbe rad leading' to Alexain dcer's bridlge, ho faund him ifttI ini rt'ar of thu Un ion liina o' bat 1tle that ha d open (1 a e onth h2/. foc hur/ et tno support of comrades at the front. The jr:lund ho was on had just been fouglht over and dead aid wounded .seat t red everywhore. Entering a wood, he lmshed forward tnrough it. A young roldier, a boy of 18, was sitting on the ground, supported by a treo, gasping for breath. A red stream running down his bosom showed that he had boon shot through the lungs. "You are thinking of home, my boy," muttered Maynard and pushed on. An offlcor lay in his path and begged him for what the woun(ed crave so eagerly-water. May nard rodo about hunting for a stream or a spring. At last he found what hc sought, and filling a onnteon ro(o back to whero the man lay. Ho was dead. i his hand ho hold a picture of wife and two little children. Within hearing of tiho booming in front and shells cut ting the trees abovo him he had passed from the harshest through the gentloes of human feelings to the eternal peace. Riding on, Maynard mot an officer i had known intimately. Without thought of his altered condition the degraded colonel waved his hand in saluto and criod out, "How goes the battle, mnia jor?" The officer passed by with a lool which Maynard never forgot. It sent the hot blood mounting to his cheeks. Ho could have eloven the man's skull with his sabor. But there was no nee( of that. Was there not an onemy at the front? Y-es, and there was death. lc dlaslhed on and arrived at ono of the hot test, points on the left just as a line of cavalry was moving to a charge. Joining them, he rode down into P storm so wild, so florce, so full of do Strut1(ction that surely ho thought the coveted death must come. But the gapF in the ranks wore to his right, to hi, left, anywhere, everywhere, except vwro ho rode. And when the trooper. with whom ho fought came out of th fight Mark Maynard was still amiong I lho living. So opened the battle of Saturday, sept. 19. Throughout that day May nard rodo wherever he saw that grin specter hovered. At times he was witli tho cavalry, at times he would dis mount, and leaving his horso in the rear go forward with a musket. On om occasion, catching the enthusiasm o: batile, ho was forgetting his imisfortun< when tho oflcor of tho regiment witi winch he fought recognized him. Th< two hal bCeoi at onlity. "Leave thoso rankal' Maynard turned, saw that he was ad dressed amd -who addressed him. Throw ing dOwn his gun, the hot tears burst ing fron his eyes, ho turned away Ag in h was tramping through a corn Il oi t lie flank of a regimont when h4 ::.1 (ivisiol general inspeting th Iii wn i iiboy passed forward to nit at I a L. I I e r ceognized the general who h a t the spy to him. Their eyes met 'tivar Ihad by this tino come to si ri tho device by which thu othe I A lhii into his presenit positio (w iregarid tho oficor stalily. Th man turned his hiorse's head andga: loped away. Thoro was one man in th army who did not care to look him i tho oyo. Tho clay passed with a succession c blows upon an army still too " strun, out" for its ownx good. But they wor all successfully resistod. Wherovor i plaee was weak some brigade or divisioi was sent to strengthen it, usually loav ing a place whoro it had boen. But al: points were strengthened in timo. All damago repairod, at least the damag( on which hung defeat. Tho damage tc the dead and thirsting wounded scat tere~d along the line for mileos could taever be rep~aired. It could be countec anid laid down accurately ini the oflicial reports, but who can count or repaim t he hearts broken with every charge, every deofenisel And so the sun went downi over field on which there was no victory, in defeat, only suffering and (loath. CHAPTER XXIV. C'OMING OF THE RESERvES. The night has come again. The smok< has rolled away from the battlefield e Chicizamauga. There is neither soun< of cannon nor musketry, except here an< there an occasional picket firing. Trher is another sound within the dark fores where Thomas' mon are resting-the sound of the woodchoppor's ax. TPh comnmmander in chief of the Confederate: hiears it and knows, with a general' qluick perce'ption, that another chance o (iu:t roving his enomy is passing. Hie can mot ntr t ho forest at the dead of nigh ii 5t op ithat chopping, and ho knowvs a: heu he ars hunidremds of axes replacing tli ine app alIineg sounds of the day wi LI i Ie: * r of their blades, and now an< in tait great tree orashinig throogi its: i:i neihbors, that by morning his onie auy will ho intronchod behind breast Man\ tard bivouacked on Thomas' line. TFhit two armies lay too neanr to eaol. (it aer to light tell tale caimpfires, anmd at all ettipailgi hadit been enit to the ream ant blanklts were scarce the army spent hi naighit shivering. The wood was tot tl hik to' see anything above the lowem b rances. 'Tiho moni needed s1le1p, hut ii wouIld ho a;s easy to sleep on the battle fivld as ini the continuous clatter of thiost aixis. Besides distrust had come upo)0 t whole army. It was an anxioue ntight to Ihea genorals, anid the nmen par Itook of t heaol ici tudo of their connmnand (ra. It was5 kniown that the Cionomy had 1beii en re-enforced from Virginia, Knox vil lo andi ot her points. It was rumoroc IhatM lhIbisido~ wa's coiming, butt Burn sidoi didl niot comlo. Tro a natural faltigud vwas addict that mot(ro appallinig weai. mmo> of 1beuinmg conmstatly ini11 thipresenice otf d'a th anid thme certainty t hat w~her i he lsohir shiou ld riso ini the morning~ i*o grim spcttor wvould risi withI hmim ( bannmit. himi for anmotlier day. [oNTIJNUED.] A li il ('i hough i f lbuiness 1men tot \ i*ws toutclhg Iihe ineeds of ti: *'elioni as to filnancial le'gishiit iont unh-ilss biased bty somei pjersonal ini t Ir'st inl whielt I lie petoplo) at arg< o)RNAIL one year for A1.295 A REFUGE FOR IbLERS. IBecesses of the Natiothal Capitol a Favoril Loatiug P'lace. The capitol is a shelter for the she terless during oold and nasty weathe says the Washington Post. It is muc more agreeable to sit in the warm gq lories and nod through tie spoeeh4 and debates than to shiver over a fir less stove in an attic. A number of ir pecunious old gentlemen have disco ered this and avail themselves of t0 hospitality of the government wil profit and comfort to themselves ar harm to no one, for on inclement da3 few people have enough ambition to E up to congress, even when matters 4 great interest are under discussion. large contingent of decayed gentili make daily pilgrimages there, with tt excuso that they are interested in legi lation. Some of the more fortuna ones carry a "snack" in their pocket and can be seen surreptitiously convo; ing morsels of bread and cheese. I some cases the fragrant bologna, fro: their pookete to their mouths. TI majority of these worthies prefer tl house side, where there is some mov ment and exoitement, but those wl seek rest rather than entertainment f to the senato gallery, where it is posi ble to sloo jicacefully through tI long speeches. Two very much ou at-the-elbow gentlemen wore ove heard in the rotunda discussix into which gallery they shou go. "I want to be cheered u and they are still fighting abol the currency bill," said the tall, sli one, whose legs wore too long for l trousers and whose nose looked as if I had been accustomed to another sort cheer, but his thick comrade, who lu boon cheered already, decided in fav, of the senate. and they separate There were only seven members on t) floor with Senator Pasco, who was d livering his speech on the Nicaragi canal. Our vendrable friend rested b head against the partition, and so< his gentle snoring interrupted the u: usual quiet of the chamber. Forti nately he escaped the attention of ti ever vigUant doorkeepers and his nr lasted until the senate adjourned. TI doorkeepers do not allow sleeping the galleries if they know of it, sin an unhappy disturbance was one di created by an unlucky slumberer wl had the nightmare and awoke clutc Ing the air and crying: "Kill himl k himi" To those gentry who are intellectual inclined tih library offers an asyli The long tables are fill 'd with me shabby, unlcemipt, almost shoeless, w) read and malco notes in tho inc learned way. It is interesting to no that the favorite books of this class n blood and thunder novels and works 4 - ocialismu. Oceasionally you see 01 I of them, a broken dowvn pedagogl )erlapls, reading tle classics, and mai of theimi call for book(s in foreign u r guages. I looked over the shou'iders i a red-headed, freelled, cadaverous, x o clean specimen and found that grimy hands held a copy of Mlilto e "Paradise Lost." THEIR OWN NUTCRACKERS f Dusy Birds Which You May See in t C Wooda This Month. Perhaps you would like to hear o: & curiouslittle bird. Goout Into the woc in January or February any timo a you may see him. ie is about h Inches long. Le wears a black cap, grayish blue coat and a dirty whi i shirt front. Ie runs up and down t) tree tr-inks, searching diligently f little insects who thinkc they have hi den themselves safely away in soz little crack in the bark, says the Ne York World. lo Is a quiet little fellow, having i song. The only noise he makes ls harsh call, which sounds likec the we: "quanki" This bird is called the nti hatch, because he is fond of nuts, crac lng them open and eating the kcerne You may see one of them take an aco as big as his head, and fixing it in soi crevice in the tree pound away upon with his little bill until it breaks op and rewards the little worker with meal. These birds are also expert gymnas They wUl run up a tree, going swifi roun~d and round it all the way i2 b Then quickly turning about they w ) come down the trunk head first in t same fashion, stopping now and thi lto snap up seine little bug or wor 4 which has ventured out to see what t1 weather is. Country boys sometimes speak these birds as "little devil dlown headr lit this is longer and not so pretty the nuthatch. The Ring of flelgium. A tall, slim, rigid-faced man, of at tere mnanneri, is the king of Belgim Hbis forehead is broad, his featur keen, his beard full and heavi streakced with gray. King Leopold seventy years old, and a simple--live quiet potentate, who divides his apa time between studying scientific pre lemns and outwalking his courtiers. I eats or drinkcs sparingly, sleeps on camup bed, rises abnormally early, los England, and hates any form of ent4 tainmnent, especially theaters. Hie however, a ravenous reader, and oste up to date, not only on matts o oitical importance, but witht court goship of the day. Personal he cannot b)e saId to b)0 popular wi his subjects, but he Is net a bad so as Icings go, and a zealous adversary capital punishment. "Neveir," he clared, 1)eforn his accession, "shall dIrop of blood flo~w (luring my reign." lDescendents of Molly Mtarir. AMolly Starkc not only did not die wtidowu because of the valorous~ biatt Iof liennington, b~ut she livedh to becon. a11nob)1( miother of Israel. At onel tin: thirty out of forty of the children tendIing the district school in what cal led the ''Stark district" of Nc I iiuampshilre were named Starkc. Th'i were all descendants of the four chi dreun Molly born to the hero of lik nington. Now, however, the name alnost extinct in New llampshiro, a in Manchester, the center of the Sta district, only two or three persons a left who bear that name. Molly Sta has a namoesakce now living in Alamoi 3 Cal., a little girl of thirteen years, w B is the sixth generation in lineal desc< from the hero1oeg Di enniton,. RETARDING PHYSICAL DECA 4' I1ow Life Could no 1'rolonged to Next Twlce Its Usual Length. Without eating and drinking there no life; but we may select certain kin of food containing a minimum anou of the elements which cause the ossi 98 blockages in the system. An Engli b physician, Dr. C. F. Do Lacy Evai who made many researohes in regard our food, comes to the conclusion thi more fruit should be eaten, especial d apples, grapes and bananas, they bot , rich in nutritious elements. Being loient in nitrogen, they are best I >f iliderly people, as they koop the blo A in a better condition than flesh. Flourens, in his well-known work < y "Human Longevity," cites the ease e the Italian centenarian Cornaro, who 3 roipe for health and long life was e tremo moderation In nl things. Flou ens himsolf insists that a century Is ti normal life, but the fifty years beyon and even two hundred years, are humi possibilities under advantageous con< L tione. Hiufeland also believed in tv to hundred years as an extreme lim Sir James Orlohton Browne, M. D., oc P0 iedes, in a late address, that Floure was right. Duration of growth ghi e .he length of life. Hufeland held th the human body grows till the age twenty-five, and that eight times t growth period was the utmost limit man. But if twenty years be talcen the time of growth, even five times tLi -Will give us a century. According it Plourens and Ouvier, man is of the f. I givorous or fruit and nut-eating clh o of animals, like the gorillas and oti 1o apes and monkeys. Man has not ter d like the lions and carnivorous beaw neither has ho tooth like the cows a r herbivorous ones. Intestines in I * man are seven or eight times the len of the body; the lion's are but th times the length of his body. Herb orous animals, like the cow, have is testines forty-eight times the length the body. So, judging man by his teeth, I stomach and his intestines, he is nat rally and primitively frugivorous, al was not intended to eat flesh. Fruit i aperient, and apples act on the livi e and are good brain food al as they contain much phosphorio ac , As to the effect of certain elinat h- perhaps too much stress has been h hl upon that. We find that Thomas P who lived in England, died in hisc 1 hundred and fifty-third year. aL u D. dissected by the celebratod discovei of the circulation of t he blood, Dr. \\ liam liarvey (who expreed no dep 0 of his ago), was never ouI, t of his nI t (country. Accounts of mei wiho hi1 lived to..extremo ago in Iiunir a Mexico ind ke.to possibilities. A t maito that allows inwimh oit otdoor livi is the best. for Iealtih. rr dep-I on food t1l on m eibIte. 1'> cio, fresh atir to livo inl 1111(1 tio -Aleu p of daily 1bathiinj.g 11n1id fr((m4 ,l frim In in- cino are the importiaiml t 1iing.. In . bil 189U, the Courer-Journal, of lbouisvi published a long aeeount of JaImies Mullin, wio died in Carlislo cour Ky., at one hiindred and sevent years of age. When Buffon, Hnfelai Flourens, and mni of that class, hehad studied the subject, believed In a possibility of ono hifndred and fifty d two hundred years of lif(e, the sulij is not to be laughed at. ix a PUBLIO SOHOOLS IN MEXIC to They Will De Like Our, ad Enloglish V 30 Be Taught In Them. :>r I have it from pretty good authori d- says a recent traveler in Mexico, thaI me is the purpose of the Mexican govei w ment, within four or' flvo years, establish a complete system of publ 10 schools reaching Into every corn~er a the republic. The teachers there: rd cannot be obtained hoere, nor for ye~ it- to come. Thmis will make a demand k- probably ten or fifteen thousand tea is. era. In view of this it will be seen h rn important it is for those who have no idea of teaching to stndy the Span it language, so as to be able to> as en thetnselves of the opportunities whl a will thus be opened. IKansas City I already moved ,in this direction bs. making Spanish a part of her coimlt .by school course. The students of Mex p. are now ahead of us oni this que-athi ill Thley recognize that English1 is t l10 rival language of the continent, a ml they go to colleges in the Unaited Stai m for thme solo purpose of adding Engli 10 to their literary stock in tradie. Mexi is developing scholars who canx hr: of thmeir owvn with any ont the~ conmtinoi ." Thiey are delving Into every resear< "1 end are wvell-read and liberal-mind, Th'le literature of Afexico, Is no0w qu extensive, covering thme filid of histoi ~. biography, political economy, seier n. and poetry._______ Tlo LD'BY 'ABLINDMAN. is How H Manag'es to Oet About and Hie d, Objects. re "I can't see the least light in b- world; the brightest sun that es 10 shone and the darkest night arc alli a same to me. I once received a vioh es blow on the oyo-accident ally, of cour 'r- for no one would strikeo such a s us wv is, fully-after I had beccomo stone b)1h is and then I saw a flash of lire ilko lig irs niing. I remember what lighatninig he like, for I wvas grown up wihen I li Ly, my eyesight. I somnethnies wvished FI h th lost it earlIer, for it takIesi a long thi rt, learning to be lhind. Aly ma11te, bie of who plays the concertina.l nelveri sa1w le- all, and 1h0 is much cuter than mte a mnul~y timings. Ie had~ niothing to f< got, whlerels 1 had1(. a Ia to tsay, as there is n' Iothling inl the, w lo lower thanu tho heighit of imty ''ar. \\ hi io th ey areO lowri thanl tha, I, do (1not hei 10 thetm so wvell. Yes, I mien wh viat I se *t- I cani tell without touchliing it when~ am passing, say, a lampl post, 01' at wv graph p)o10, or comning near11 a high w.1 The substanlco seems to strikco uponi t n. ear' he foro~ you come upl to it. It seems n. mabIko a differenice in the air, and is 1)1blind~f men woso CL' earshvo nothing I Itd matter with themi will tell you rk same. You notice no dlifference? re courso not' You have got your ey rk andl would never think of uising yi La, ears for that purpose, even if you knr ho how. Yes, I daresay you are righ ut should say it does require training. 1know i tooi me n. lng time to inn. f MARKS THE MASHERS. -y The Hotel Slouth Who Proteots Is the Telephone Girl. Ut 'When Ohapie (4ets a Little Too Promis cuous the i1awk-Eyoctt larn Intorfores t11 -A 8ample Casen of the lioth 18, ersoio Dudo. to at A pale-faced yvoung woian ith deli ly cato features and auhurn hirI sat along 3g side of the telephone closet in the read le- Ing-room of an upl)-town hotel the other or day reading a book, says the New York 0d Sun. "Will ou please ring lp flwi) Spring )n for me?' asked a young nua who had of just oomo in from tho lobhy. se The tone of his voice was fainilar and patronizing, and 1ho lookted dowl, r- at her with a very friendly sllile She, 10 however, did not smilo in return, but d, looked extremely bored. Without mkic in Ing any reply to his question, sie wont 1i- Into the closet and rang the telephone. 1o The young man stood Just oitsido the It. door and leaned against. It. n- "This is a lovely-" he began, but us was interrupted by the girl's reatching CS out her hand, apparently in a incithan at toal way, and pulling to the door. Ilo of got out of the way just in tihic, an11d 110h stood biting the ends of his maustache. of , Presently she pushed open the door all again. at "829 is at the telephole," she<l; id. to "Kindly ask if hit.. ,o10 ,lones is u- there," he said very sweetly. ism She shut the dooragaii and IlddIessed ier the person at tie other leinii of t1 he le Ith phone. Presently showheele( irounlid ts, in her chair, opoettd the door, and14 said: id "They say they don't. know any such he person." th There was a frown on her fice, buit it eo not in any way disconcert the yoing iv- man. In- "Oh, pshaw," hie said, "I imust hazvo of made a mistako in t he Iunber. Never mind; how mu11ch is it?" 1is "Fifteen cents." u- 110 pulled out a roll of hills, which 110 id displayed ostentiatiou vsly, ad then Is thrust batck Into hi.s , ockt. agin. ir, Fron another poolkel. he Llin drew out 3o, the exact chanllge, whilh le h lel1llod to id. her. At tho same iiie he Ia mdt, on cs, her in a laguilslilig inatinit*I, It, as Lid her face was aver'ted, all this etort to Ir, iillpresli 1her' wals lost. As st)ln i ts shio no reeilved the on sh' restliid lie alis seat, recordod t he t ral intioln (I :1 Slip 'er ol' ptper, picled 1 up her book 1nd1 re il- tu irled to her rea:,iin' The N 11112un lt fdid lot, leave, h .-1 bu 11--d to ell -li- gunl, "but" l to 14() ioent.t lig3 At (his 1114't, lhe w:!s l ii.-r(' )lIted ('('by aIld s'illtrp-eyet, in ir ."yiini r wo hoollhe ~.hn i o m in(, 7ie from1 's corn ': 19 mi Olled 511sh -il- , had sioppd up iun ' - l I ialga i h-n I 'ly i t the n:: linm ltmt tl -I),1 ( ien if .y 110. aciet he- "eleg pardon," hlit sai , L - l ., W1 ty, ireait hurr1.1-y, "buil I wallt, I 111 Cair VVen Ilandt right away, m1i.ss." nd, The gil's fu b)rihI Itenl ed ts soe rho jumped uip and ent ered t he closet agailn, Clho while the young" man11 lookced savar.gelyv or at h intruder, and then walked o1! ec t d isgust ed. As toon ats he' had( gono the WOWt man lapped nl the widow of the closet and winiwod signIllillatly, anld O0. tho telephonle 1gir. enlledl into the tranls t111ter:' "Nove mind, on't ral, 11 wa'is only and other o of t hose <i' lds. Ile, has gonto now, thankgoodess. Ev ee 'any sdmu ll (Sjenes art en-l(I oneh such Oocurrecae, "tI here is ai lot of 1w uuvoll-dressed fellows who conl" ill her'e u51 andparnz the har11 mor 'I'r' less, whoii woul1lik to flirt with It hIe ',irl, and1( it 'al svouildn't do to have m( UU yI ra. hyns abioult Ihit. So whlenever I see an Iy of themiu 188, around I steer in her'eU ( and wa'th Lthem. byWhen they got too fr'eshi I give tem 071 this sort of a song and11 I:llne'. It always leo works, too." hie Locomotiven a1114 sIps. ad It is estimated bly 311'. 1 l~uhl In are es eent article iln thed C'ontemporarII'i y Re sh1 view that the shiipping (If all nat1 ions is uo of tile approximate vahit o' $1 ,i00,000, lt. workc represent IL value, o4f'$,000,000,0i00. h1, The railways give etnploymnent to 2, d. 804,000 people, while siinilg ('lmploys te only 705,000. Th'ie life of aL I'Ooniot ivo y, is fifteen ye'ars'. It wvill run 270,000 coe miles, c'arry (60',000 t ons11, or' 1,00,000) passengers, and1( earn I'l::00.000~l. Its first cost is 210,000, amnd its generacl'l averclago is 300 hIorse-po)wer1. Then aIvera'go lifo pared with its cost, Is niot given, and1( rnot likely to equl~ or' approa02ch1 that of he theo locomiotivo, whichii may13 faiirly raink ltas tile most8 p)otenti inist rumiient, of civ ilization ever devised by mn,~II so, 111- A Spring'That, nunsai I(js 11111. 1(d, One of tho few in1stanles'. of IL streamli lat- running up ilhi canI~ be found in1 White is county, (Ga., says ihe CIincinnati En >st qirerV. Near ilt Le tp of aL m~ounftatin is aid IL spring, evidentl~y 11 siphion, n'ud tihe ino water r'i1ushe fromli it wtih sulllicient '0, force tol enrr'ly itu Iihe 11(ido1 of ai ver'y at stoep hill for nlear'ly hl f a mile. leach inl ing the erest, tihe wat er1 flows onl to tho >r-* cast, tand ev'entully tids its waty into I the Atlantic oceani1. Of cours'~e, it ig is of thle same11 nturtt as 11a geyser'1, but at ih spectaelol of IL strleaml oft water ty Ilowing uip a steept ituino enn1('~l prioblily cIn be founid nu(whero( else inl the countrl~ly, y. thlan the geytjers of the( Yellowstonu. - Thle Kaiser as an~ Art Critle. K iaiser Wdhehnllt, as8 a critic of art, has 110 puit h1is foot downi on1 thlo detcisiOns of to thle jury of tihe Berlin art exh~ibitlon. lie has annulled the (Laard of thle gold ho medal in Prof. WaLilot, tihe architect of ,he tile new parliament house, which tihe Of onlperor two years ago at Roeme de es lared to be the acme of tastolessness, 'and has himself given the medal to ur, Mmne. Vilma Parlaghy, the painter. She ; was kept out of the Ulerli academy, Ibut by thle emperor's orders her pictures a will be exhibited at the royal national Igallery.