PINNLU A WOMAN TO THE GROUND.
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.Mutter Mul Vmnn Hrriou br tli
Furl Tliut Sim Wore Array hii'Mi.
Richu!'4 -M. SoiiimcrH, the foreman of
tlie roller iliii;irtiiiM)t in the mint, was
r.jcently chatting with some of the men
who hart wn service in the late war,
and, after relating an interesting advent
are that had occurred in 1802, said:
I3nt I never was no frightened in my
life as J was t!ie day, I -pinned a fair
yonng rehel to the ground with my bay
onet. I thought I had killed hc-r.
The circumstances- were these; In
AngUHt, 1S:J. when the Philadelphia
brigade was moving toward .Mine linn,
Va., 1 was detailed from iny command,
the Seventy-first Pennsylvania volnn
teers, known us Baker's California regi
ment, to watch a farmer who was be
lieved to le a spy.
In order to throw him off his guard
and also to enable mo to learn the better
whether he was a spy or not, I was in
structed to reiort at his house, on the
Mountain View farm, iu Fauquier coun
ty, and state that I had come there by
command of Colonel V. Penn Smith, in
in order to protect his home from any
straggling soldiers that might trespass
with a vijw to foraging on the premises.
I was well received by the family,
who, living in that out of the way coun
try, were quite timid aud in constant
fear of tho passing troops. I was housed
there, and fed at their exjiense, and soon
I realized that the hospitality of Vir
ginia's first families was all that it was
reported to be. The two pretty girls.
Bisters, one a blonde and the other a
brunette, were at first a little shy of the
"wild Yankee, as they called me, but
we soon became friends, however, al
though they would persist in telling me
the Confederate cause was just, and that
the Union troops were invaders, and all
that sort of thing.
The Mount-tin View farm covered a
good many acres of ground, but the
owner was poor at that time, and "sweet
sixteen," as I called the pretty blonde.
bad no shoes with which to cover her
well shaped little feet. Now I had a
brand new pair of army shoes in my
Knapsack and a fairly good pair on my
feet? I asked her if she would wear my
ynew pair if I would make her a present
of them. She seemed a little loath to
accept them at first, not because of pride,
but because 6he thought it unfair to take
them from a soldier who might soon
stand in need of them himself. But at
last she did accept them, and was real
well pleased to do so. Of course, they
were a mile too big for her, but that
didn't matter. She soon got used to
them.
It used to 1x3 her cnstom to watch for
foraging soldiers and then to send me
after them to drive them away. One
morning she said: "Oh, Yank I there is :
forager out there. Don't you see him?
There he goes under the trees over there."
1 started out after the intruder, but
1 ran all over the part of the farm indi
cated without seeing any one. It was
very warm, and I was very warm and
tired when 1 returned. On seeing her 1
told her that 1 could find no one, when
6he laughed right in my face and said:
"I just fooled the wild Yank for fun."
It was fun for her, but not for me. How
ever, I laughed with her. Just then 1
put my gun down on the ground, as was
my habit, bayonet downward, intending
to stick it into the ground and thus let
the piece 6tand reversed, but instead of
that 1 stuck it through her shoe and
pinned the beautiful girl fast!
1 was never so frightened in my life
as I was then. I would not have harmed
the young woman for the world she had
become to me Jike a sister.
Maybe I wasn't glad when I saw a
twinkle in her bright, blue eyes, and
heard her sweet voice ringing in laugh
ter as she said:
"Well, Yank, you did not hurt me a
' bit; you know these shoes are a trifle
large for me, and your bayonet just went
through the tipper and sole without graz
ing my toes.'
1 was rejoiced to hear 'her talk that J
way. 1 assure you. I was taken away
from there in a few days after that, it
having been found that her father Avas
not what he was suspected to be. But 1
often thought about that family, espe
cially of one member, intmy marches
and in later j-ears, but I never met again
with any member of it. ' Not even with
my pretty "sweet sixteen" friend, for I
was engaged in a great deal "of active
service in the army, and when I was
mustered out of it I returned to Phila
delphia and never went back to Virginia.
Philadelphia Press.
TALKING WITH MOLTKE.
EX-PR ESt DENT ANDREW D. WHITE'S
DESCRIPTION OF HIM.
Intelligence in Slice.
The organs of hearing and smelling in
mice are very efficient: but their, eye
sight is, we believe, poor. Their intel
ligence is, we should think, low, as
might be expected from the paucity of
convolutions- in their brains. We sns
pended a tin of flour at such a height
from the ground that our little, friends
could not quite jump into it, though .the
smell of the food made them very per
severing in their endeavors to do so.
We then arranged a string so that by a
detour they could get at the good stuff
that way. '.
One mouse by following that course
attained to the desired goal, but evident
ly by chance, for being startled" out of
the tin, it continued for a long while to
make futile efforts to recover its lost io
sition by jumping up, never again "seek
ing the road which had led it before to
the object of its desire." For hours we
have lain in bed watching mice trjnng
in vain to spring into the tin of flour,
none of them ever ierceiving that there
was a feasible road leading thereto.
Chambers' Journal.
A Valuable Set of Vestments.
A famous old set of vestments now in
the cathedral sacristy was a gift to the
late Archbishop Hughes. On these vest-
-Xnents, which were of the finest gold
cloth, was worked the archbishop's coat
of arms. They were embroidered in
gold and incrusted with jewels. This
set comprises vestments for twelve priests
besides the archbishop. It is valued at
$20,000, and was imported from Lyons.
Archbishop Corrigan wears these vest-
jaents occasionally. ;New York Herald.
Ho met Illro at a Ilecepllon In Herlln on
the Occaalou of the Gulden Wedding of
the Old Emperor William Baron No-
thomb'i Felicitous Introduction.
By many people ex-President Andrew
D. White, of Cornell university, ex-min
ister to Germany, is regarded as one of
the best authorities on German affairs in
the United States. Years of patient study
and observation give great weight to his
views on the new Germany of today.
Regarding the great German soldier
and strategist the ex-president says:
I first saw Von Moltke just after my
arrival at Berlin at the festivals attend
ant upon the golden wedding of the old
Emperor William. The first of these
was a great theatrical representation at
the Royal Opera house, at which the
emperor and empress and very nearly all
the crowned heads of Germany, with
representatives of the various royalties
of Europe, were present, and besides
these, attracting even more attention,
Bismarck, Von Moltke and the leading
generals of the Franco-Prussian war.
The appearance of these people comes
back before me very vividly, but no one
is more distinctly present to me than Von
Moltke. He seemed absolutely different
from every other personage in that great
hall. He was a tall, spare man, his face
a mixture of determination and kindli
ness, his whole appearance, as more than
one person has said at various times,
being that of an intelligent, kindly col
lege professor or schoolmaster.
There was something singularly gen
tle about his whole bearing, yet it was
impressive. He sat very quietly, exchang
ing some little conversation with his next
neighbor, Manteuffel, the dreaded vice
roy of Alsace-Lorraine. The contrast
between the two v as very marked Man
teuffel, apparently, all keenness and se
verity. Von Moltke firm, but gentle.
INTRODUCED BY BARON NOTHOMB.
When 1 next saw him it was at an
evening gathering where there was not a
large number present, and where I had
the opportunity to converse with him. 1
was introduced to him by the dean of the
diplomatic corps. Baron Nothomb, some
times called "the father of constitution
al liberty in continental Europe," a man
of very wide political knowledge and
who more than once, as I sat at the table,
gave me accounts of his conversations
with Talleyrand and other men of the
first Napoleonic period.
Baron Nothomb in presenting me to
Von Moltke took advantage of a little
sketch published in one of the German
newspajiers, and said: "Sir Field Marshal,
1 wish to make you acquainted with a
gentleman who was born in Homer, who
lives in Syracuse and who has aided in
founding a university at Ithaca."
At this Von Moltke laughed pleas
antly, and evidently did not understand
the allusion, whereupon I told him that
in the earlier days of this country we
had a way of naming our townships and
villages after noted heroes of antiquity.
but at present we did better, naming
them after the great men of these times,
and telling him that no doubt in the
newer states he would find his own
name and that of Bismarck attached to
some of our younger towns. He seemed
interested m this ana talked on very
pleasantly.
I look back to that evening as one of
the most interesting during my 6tay in
Germany.
MOLTKB IN PARLIAMENT.
At various other times I met Von
Moltke, but do not recall anything of es
pecial interest. No man was more free
from the slightest tincture of vanity. As
he walked through the streets and in the
parks, going to and from the office of the
general staff, he was undistinguishable
save by his tall, scholarly form from the
crowd of military men about him. He
evidently wore just as little in the shape
of orders and decorations as was permissible.
At court he was expected, of course,
to appear in more splendid attire, but
even then there was always the same
quiet modesty and simplicity. He seemed
to me in some respects "the noblest Ro
man of them all."
But perhaps his most impressive ap
pearance was as a member ot the lm-
Ierial parliament. From time to time
as I happened in to hear the discussions
I saw him in his seat, quiet, imperturba
ble; but on two occasions I heard him
speak, and on each of these his subject
was the necessity of larger votes of
money and men to maintain the mili
tary supremacy of O-ermany.
Nothing could be better in their way
than these speeches of his. He looked
and spoke as 1 could imagine Julius
Caesar looked and spoke in the Roman
senate. Nothing could be more simple
and yet nothing more effective. ' He was
listenedito by men of all parties with the
utmost respect.
He seemed to stand in a sense aloof
from all parties, and to be guided simply
and solely by what he considered the
best interests of the German empire. On
hearing him speak ous could not resist
this conclusion, aud as his manner was
simple, voice good and statements very
clear, direct and strong, but without the
slightest tendency to exaggeration, his
words carried great weight.
I remember hearing him say in sub
stance in one of these speeches that
Germany must be prepared for any
emergency, nd must maintain the very
highest condition of military efficiency
possible for at least fifty years. And I
remember, too, with what a sort of sol
emnizing effect these words, quietly ut
tered, but evidently the result of con
viction based on knowledge," had upon
the audience. They seemed to carry a
sense of responsibility to the heart of
every person present. New York Herald.
Robert Hallance came in from
Holyoke thin morning-.
Charley Miller went to Omaha
this morning on base ball business
Flra. Oliver came this morning
from iioutli Ilentl where tne has
been viwitinir friends for a few days.
The K. of P. Lodge moved their
coous and elrects into tneir new
hall over Ilennett ATutta last night.
O. D. IJuzzlwdeparted
ing lor Iteveii I'oints
this morn-Wisconsin
satisfactory
where he hus obtained
employment.
A chance for every boy and girl
to get a ilag for Decoration Day
FKKK by going to J. P. Young's
store. fiOO Mali street, at 10 o'clock
next Saturday morning and get one
gratis.
"The Twelve Temptations" com
pany played the first portion of the
week at Isoyd s Opera J louse, Oma
ha. The elite of the city packed the
house. It was their fifth visit j
during the past three years.
Mine frent. vas you not likes to
try our Hoots and Shoes. lhey
wear list like py gracious never vas
before, lhey out wear any HarU
ware in town, iney stand me very
roughest wear and fit, oh my! ust
like the shell on eggs. Veil you
not tinks so ust come vonce in. You
will find our leather strong and
solid, without paper in soles or
counters. Our prices are not the
lowest in the city. Hut our figures
fit the fjuality of our goods the
closest of any in Cass county. To
demonstrate this fairly drop in at
W. II. Schildknecht's shoe store,
west half of 1. I'. Young's room, on
Main st., Plattsmouth, Neb. d2wl
MI O 3E5 "T
J 0 E ,
The largest line of patent medi
cines will be found at lirown & Bar
rett's tf
r Will you suller witli Lj'spepsia
and Liver Complaint? Shiloh's Vit-
alizer is guaranteed to cure you. 2
Opera House Corner PL ATTSMOUTH
Hair chains, rings, crosses
hair work of all kinds to order.
Mrs. A. Knee.
tf 1720 Locust St
and
I am now prepared to deliver ice
to any part of the city. Telephone 72.
tf II. C MW1AKEN.
Notice.
The first Graduating class from
the Dominican Sisters' school will
be dismissed with honors at the
opera house, naay evening, may
29th. A rare treat will be in store
for those present as talents of a
high order will be displayed .in
every number on the program.
Cheap Sugar ought to bring
Cheap Coffee. FOUR packag
es Lion or McLaughlins
XXXX Coffee for $1.00 at E
G. DOVEY & SON'S.
Needles, oils and parts for all
kinds of machines can be found at
the Singer office, corner of Main
and Sixth streets, with H. Beck. tf.
for lame UacK, suae or chest, use
Shiloh's Porous Plaster. Price 25
cents. For sale by F. G. Fricke &
Co. and O. II. Snyder. 3
Brown & Barret carrv the largest
line of druggists sundries in the
city. tf.
Take your prescriptions to Brown
&. Barrett e,they dispense pure med
icines, tf
fJIVlL. ENGINEER and SUBVEYOB
E E. HILTON.
Htl mates and plans of all worjc furnished ana
itecorus Ke&t.
Office in Martin Block.
Plattsmouth - Nebraska
MEAT MARKET?
SIXTH STREET
F. II. KLLKNBAUM, Prop.
Mrs. M. J. "White left for
home in Chicago this morning
ter a pleasant weeks visit with
cousin Mrs. Y. II. Malick.
her
af-
her
The best of fresh meat always found
in this market. Also iresh
Kggs and Butter.
Notice of Probate of WIM.
In the niattei of the lat will and testament
of Klislia Siradiey, deceased, in county court
Cass m-univ. eiravKa.
.Notice is hereby civen that on the Hn day ol
nine A. p., ism, at me countj junee's omce in
Plattsmouih, Casn county, Nebraska, at 10
o'clock in the forenoon, the following matter
will be hear and considered :d Ti e application
of Samuel Htrsdley t admit to probate the
last will and testament ol fchsha btradley late
of Greenwood precinct, in aH "county, de
ceased, and for lefeis of administration with
the will annexed to Aaron C, Lder.
Dated May 18th, 18ni. Bv order of tre court,
B. A. RAMSEY.
County Judge
Wild game of all kinds kept in their
season.
SIXTH STREET .
Meat marketT
First National
BANK
OF PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA
Paid bd caDltal S50.OUO.00
Surplus 10,000.09
HAVELOCK
AEE - YOU - GOING - TO - BUILD - THERE?
-IF SO-
K. DRESSLER.
The 5th St- Merchant Tailor
" Keeps a Foil Line of
P.ordiii O.Tt33tiG Soodi.
Consult Your Interest by Giving Him a "aD
SHERWOOD BLOCK
Plat Tf?moi -x tla
P. J.
HANSEN
DEALKK IN
STAPLE AND FANCY
Offers the very best facilities for the promp
transaction ot uguimaie
Banking Business
rttocke. bonds, gold, government and local te-
Burities bought and sold. Deposits received
8,ud interest allowed on the certificatee
Drafts drawu. available in any part of the
United States and all the principal tfewns . of
Europe.
OOLLECTIONS MADK AND PROMPTLY REMIT
TKD. aighest market price pnid for County War
rants, State ana County bonds.
DIRECTORS
John Fitzgerald D. Hawkswortb
Sam Waugh. F. E. White
George E. Dovey
John Fitzgerald. 8. Waugh.
President Ca h."-
GROCERIES,
GLASS
AND
QUEEN SWA RE
Floor Riid Feed "a Specialty
Unfortunat. .
"The effect of Kev. JVlr. Harlan's ser
mon on the terrors of hades was lost.
"How so?"
"The church was as
and the prospect he held
agreeable. Jbpoch.
t 1 atronagje the Puble Solicited.
cold as a barn,
ut .was rather
JOHNSON BUILDING, NortH 6tHS
Lumber Yard
THE OLD RELIABLE.
H. A. WATERMAN & M
PL
UMBER
Remember that R. O. Castle & Co hare an immense stock of
LUMBER AND ALL EUILDIDQ MATERIAL
.A.T HAVELOCK
And Guarantee Satisfaction in all Things
R." O- CASTLE & CO
HAVELOCK, NEBRASKA.
SLI
GIVEN
A "W
Shingles, Lath, Sash,
Doors, Blinds
Can supply everw demand of the city.
Call and get terms. Fourth street
in rear of opera house.
Slnpipers to "be g'iTren
Q,TX7"SL37- tO X-CLe OIELe tlZLCut
guesses tltLe nearest
snTTLirLToer of To-ULttoirx loolsis
3.is;pla,37-ea. irn. o-cur -win-;
W. A. BCECK GO.
EdgThey will be counted June 151891" . . -
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