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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1898)
; - - ; - - - . . ; - - . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - : - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - , - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - p . TilE OMAIL\ . DAILY flEE : T1IIJRSDAY , AtGUST 11. 1SOS 0 \\TOiEN \ \ ENLIST AS SOLDiERS Dithed a Me They Fought Bravely and 1 Well La the Civil War. GIRLS WHO FOLLOWED THEIR SWEETHEARTS 'flilr Six flhicored In Most Only Vhcn T1ieVrre Vnunld -Othcr Thnuht to 1nie ts _ erit ' - , ft iay be pafey aMumed that no woman 1 ! wearIng the blue and 8boulderinz a wkh the Amertean votunteer In the present - ent war. The mLho1s of phyeal examination - tion employed In the ae1etIou of % 0)Ufl ) ( cers rec1ude such a possblHty. 1'h'aIcat examinaflona during the cv11 War dlii tot amouifl to much more than the recruiting omcera eye meaauremeflt of the appHeants nchea. It th applicant approxi- mate.1 ve feet In height and was not ob- rouaIy bind , halt. tame. or deaf and dumb , Instant ai1mIaIoa to the ranks was given. The wonder does not. therefore. seem so great that a considerable number of women actually soIdlreI ac uniformed men .lurlnz _ the civU ar. A majoRity of tbe uus women enlisted on the union ilde , relates the Now York Sun , and tber ex in most cases was only revealed when they were wounded In action. There were 310 doubt a great many more women who enlisted In the northern army as men than the records show-women who. ha'Ing e - caped wounds and tietection. were mustered out at the cloac of their enflatments or at the conctuslon of the war withoUt their se becomtng known to their otflcers or corn- rades. It ceems almost Incredtbte that some of these women. whose cases are welt aU- thentleated , should have carried out their deception with such success under dtmcutt circumstances. but the fact remains that Very few of them were discovered to be womcn through their poor acting of their soldierly roles. A Washington man who has been In the \Var department for forty years and during the ctvU war kept a record of all the cases that came to his notice wherein women vero dtsco'rered under arms In both servIces - Ices , federal and confederate. gave the reporter - porter acce5s to his "Women Soldiers" scrapbook the other day and the following stories are presented as showing that the girls of the early ' 60s aspired to more ten- turesome work in the war than that of nursing sick or wounded soldiers. WflfldCIl nhtit 1)t'tctcd. A girl of 2 , narneti Frances Hook. who Is described as of 'about medium height , with dark hazel eyes , dark-brown hair , rounded features and femInine voice and appear- anee , " enlisted , with her brother , In the Sixty-fifth Illinois Home Guards shortly after the beginning of the clvii war. She and her brother were orphans. In enlisting. the girl assumed the name of Frank Milier. She served three months and was mustered out without the slightest suspicion of her sex having arisen. Her brother was killed In action sea aft.er he enlisted. After re- ceiwing her three months' discharge the girl Frank Miller re-enlisted In the union army , this time In the Ninetieth Illinois. She was taken prisoner in a battle near Chattanooga. In attempting to escape she was shot through the calf of the right leg , The confederate soldiers who pleked her up eearched her for papers and discovered her sex. The confederates respected her sex and gave her a separate room In the 'military prison at Atlanta. The girl claimed that during her captivity sh received a letter from Jefferson Davis oering her a lieu- tenant's commission if she would enlist In the confederate service. This , however , waa iot established. The girl had no home and o relatives. hut she said she preferred to light ax a private soldier for the Stars and Stripes than to accept any commission up to that of lieutenant general in the confed- crate army , She was finally exchanged. She said , upon reaching the north , that her captors tried to extort from her a promise that she would go home and not enter the aervice again. "Go home ? " she replied. "Go home , and my brother. the only relative I had in the worid , killed by my side at Pittsburg Land- log ? I've got no borne to go to. and I would not go to It even If I had one , until the 'tvar In over. " Foiioylng Their Sweetheart. . . The betrothed of a young Ohio girl had enlisted and she determined to join him. 1 , She was inspected , accepted and sworn in with the rest of her company. The corn- pany marched to Camp Jackson , 0. , and drilled there for several days , when the girl was sent with the Third Ohio regiment to Came Dennison. near Cincinnati. Here she assisted in all the duties of forming a new camp , handling lumber , doing sentry go , etc. , for a couple of weeks , when , ascertaining - certaining for the first time that there were two Camp Dennisons , and that her betrothed was .tatloued In the other one , near Lancaster - caster , Pa. , she went to her commanding otflcer , Colonel Morrow , and requested to be transferred to the Camp Dennison in Pennsylvania - sylvania , giving as her reason that she preferred to associate with Americans and that most of the men in the outlit ii , which she was attached were foreigners. Colonel 2.lorrow. a shrewd man. discovered the girl's sex and dismissed her from the camp. A girl named Fanny Wilson enlisted in the Twenty-fourth New Jersey in order to follow her sweetheart. who was a member of the same regiment , Into the flell. lIe Itnew nothing of her action , hut abe stw him everY day. and came near to being s - signed totha same mess tent with him The Twenty-fourth New Jersey fought through the first campaign in western Virginia , the girl soldier carrying herself valiantly. Ttea the regiment was ordered before \'ickaburir. The girl's lover was wounded , and , wthout revealing her sex , Miss Wilson nursd ; rn. She only made herself known to him Just before ha died. The girl herself became ill when her lover was laid away , , .nd. with B large number of sick and wound , was sent to Cairo , ILL Here her sec was re- 'reaIed , and , upon her recovery. shi was dismissed from the service. Tt , girt was thrown Upon her own resources In Cairo and for a time she served an eugagenent as a ballet girl. Then she went to Mmphis and enlisted again , this time in a cavali regi- snent , the Third Illinois. Her sex was dId- covered after a couple of weeks. She was stopped by the guard and arrested for being t woman In man's clothing. She was taken to the oce of the commandiug cfilccr , It being suspected that she might b , a con- fedcrate spy , tut uhe made It. clear that she was a good , loyal federal soldier. She ' ti provided with an outfit of wornan'J clotna and sent back north. A young woman named Mary Oweps of Ianv1ile , Moatour county , Pennayivanla , enlisted - listed in order to be with her bu.ban'.I. The girl' . father was violently oppose.I to her marriage. The couple were married so. cretly. and the young wife donned the United States uniform. enlisted i.nder 'he name ot John Evans In the same co.tpauy with her husband , endured alt of t hard. ships of the camp and the dangers of the deW. saw her husband ( iii dead by her sub , and returned home wounded. 11cr sex was not dIscovered while she was iii the lervice. She was in the service for ei"teeU month. , took part in three battlee , aid was wounded twice , both times in ter arms. She dressed her wounds herself in eider to preserve the secret of hef sex. Sb was a Welsh girl. and pretty and clever. t bright little girl but 1 years of age enlisted - listed as a drummer boy in one of the I'enu. Eyivanla regiments In the early period of j. the war. She gave the name of Charles Mar- tin. She was of good stock , apparently , and had eident1y enjoyed the advantages of an education , for she wrote an excellent hand. and she made herself usetui to the oicers of the regiment in the capacity of a clerk. She was Involved In the chances of live bat- ties , but she escaped unharmed. The ocers reter dreamed of any question as to her sex. She was flnaliy taken ill with typhoid fever and was removed to the Pennsylvania hospital in Philadelphia. Here one of the female nurses discovered her sex and the brave little girl wai returned to her own people. flrasery in IIttie , A Brooklyn girl , whose name is not given , tried bard to enlist in several Brooklyn cc- cruiting omces , without success. She went to Ann Arbor , Mich. . where she had relatives - tives , and remained with them long enough to ascertain the whereabouts of the Michigan regiments. Then she went to Detroit , where she joined the drum corps of one of the Wol" verine regiment. . 11cr sex was not discovered - covered and she was sent with her regiment to the armyof the Cumberland. She cur- vived the hardships of the Kentucky campaign - paign , where so many strong men went down. 11cr regiment had a place in the iii- vision of the gallant Van Cleve and during the battle of Lookout Mountain she was struck in the left side by a minle bail. The surgeon discovered her sex and told the girl that her wound was mortal. She dictated a letter to her parents In llrooklyn and died within an hour after she was shot. Mrs. Belle Reynolds , the wife of Lleuten- ant Reynolds of Company .t , Seventeenth II- linois regiment , was with her hutand dur- lag several heavy hattie. , including Furt Donelson , and for her valiant conduct was commissioner a major by Governor Yates of Illinois. Mrs. Reynolds , however , made no effort to conceal her sex. A young woman l years of ge. attending - ing a convent near Wheeling , \V. V.s. , ran away from the Institution to Jam the army in ls2. ; She enlisted , undiscovered as to her sex , in the Second Tennesscc cavalry and accompanied the Army of the urnhcrland to Nashville. She in the thickest of the fight at Murtreesboro nnl , was wounded in the shoulder. The surgeon who dressed her wound discovered her sex and General Rosecrans was made acquainted with the case. Rosecrans was very favorably impressed - pressed with the girl's nerve and himself saw to the arrangements for chipping her to her people. She did not proceel to her home. but went to Bowling Green , where she enlisted in the Eighth Michigan as a regimental bugler. She was a first rate horsewoman and bravely endured the har.I- ships incident to the life of a soldier. She gained some reputation as a scout. having made several remarkable expeditions which were attended with signal success. She was * 1 tall girl of good figure , auburn hair nod big blue eyes. When her sex was diseov- ered for the second time and she was mustered - tered out she took It good naturedly and went to the home of her parents. This young woman stated that she had discovered - ered a great many women In the army and that she was intimotely acquainted with a young woman who held a lieutenant's corn- mission. She bad , she said , assisted in burying three female soldiers at different times , whose sex was unknown to any but herself. The history of Major Pauline Cushman , the federal scout and spy , is familiar to students of the civil war. Miss Cushman resided in Cleveland , 0. , and. upon going to Louisville to take part in a theatrical entertainment , she wes arrested as a south- era spy by the federal authorities. She proved her loyalty by offering to enter the secret service of the union army. Her servIces - Ices were accepted and her achievements are a matter of history. She penetrated the southern lines time and again in the disguise - guise of a confederate soldier and her idea- tity was never discovered. A girl named Annie Lillybridge of Detroit became betrothed to a lieutenant in the Twenty-first Michigan and determined to 'share the fortunes of war with him without his knowledge. She enlisted in the same regiment , but in another company , and carefully - fully preserved in secret her identity. One of her comrades , after several months of hard service alongside the girl from Ken- lucky , became aware of the secret as to her sex , but promised to hold his peace about it , but when he was killed in battle the gin found his body on the field. She was finally disabled by a shot in the arm and her sex being discovered she was sent ho me. A REFOR3IED GLT. Once Tall and Wicied , Sow Short and Sc I'reat'her. The Rev. Charles Kesterson was born in tbo wilds of Hancock county , Tennessee , seventy-three years ago. His father was one of the early pioneers and his mother was a maniber of the tribe of the famous Malun. geons , who compose nearly the entire pop- ulntlon of Hancock county now. The Rev. Mr. Keterson is no ordinary man. says the Cincinnati Enquirer. lie is one of the tallest men La Tennessee , per- hap. in America. His height is seven feet eight inches , though he claims that when in the prime of manhood he was over eight feet tall. His weight Is 3Oi pounds. Years ago , when Hancock county was not so thickly populated as it Is now with men of education , and when lawlessness was at its height , the Rev. Mr. Keaterson was the terror of that part of the country. Brought up more than 100 miles from a city of any note he never beard the whistle of a ioco- motive or saw the Iron monsters till a year or so ago , when he went to Knoxville. Tenn. The Rev. Mr. Kesterson , it is claimed by many of his neighbors , has killed at least coven men. The old preacher denies this ; he acknowledges the errors of his youth , but says that be never baa killed that many. to inc number of men that have bitten the dust at his band be is client. About thirty years ago be joinedtbe flap- tlst church and began preaching. Until he reformed he ran a moonshine still on Walk- er's Ridge , and betide the revenue otU- car that dared molest him , In fact it is said that no revenue oftjcer ever bothered hint much , he was so well known and they knew his deadly aim. Now , however , since his conversion , a vhange has come over him , He does everything he can to break up law. lessnesa antI is "death" on the inoonshin. ers. ers.When When not preaching in the different school houses he farms. He works bard , though getting along in years , gives his money to the poor sad needy and lives a happy lire. Though old In years he would not be taken for a man over 50. He is an inveterate chewer and smoker. For seventy-three years this old men has lived In "single blessedness. " A Man 'cliii * l'aat , "One of the unluckiest fellows I knew in the civil war , that survived his army ex- perience. " tells a grim old veteran to the Detroit Free Press man , "was a man named Horton , from Plaindeid , Coon. At the breaking out of the unpleasantness he enlisted - listed in the navy and was wrecked at the Bahamas. Shortly after that be undertook to run a prize into port , but was himself run in by the enemy and brought up In Libby. " "That was hard luck. " "That's only a beginning of my story. When horton was exchangei he was on ( be ship that was to tow the Monitor to Charles- too. The vessel went down , you will remember - member , and while ho was attempting to rescue some of the crew he drifted ott into the gulf and was not picked up until the next day. lie came through all right , but afterward , while he was bring a salute at San Domingo , both of his arms were blown off by the explosion of the gun. Strange to relate be as again a bale , hearty man wbea his wounds healed. " " \Vonderful' But I suppose that was the last risk he ever took. " "No. sir the due-ned chump went and got married" COAL OIL S A LIFE SAVER Gnard a &ld-ffeaded Man from the Tang of'a Rattler. TALL STORY OF A HAIR RENOVATOR oie of the HiTecic of lloekefclier' . Grower an l'nnheri antI Hear. , on SIte LenIent for oil Creek I'Ilgriiia , . , "In trying to make hair grow on his bald head , " said . , tsa Bushnell. an early operator in the Venango county oil fields of Pennsylvania - sylvania , to a correspondent of the Phliadel- phia Times. "Dan Mitchell was saved from the most horrible death that a..man can die , I suppose. lie was prospecting for oil. He bad a bald spot on top of hIs beau and it worried him a good deal. t native told him that It he would keep the rpot well anointed with crude petroleum It would restore - store the lost hair to the spot , nod eited many cases to prove it. The native didn't lie to Dan , either. about those cases. I knew of many bald heads myself to hlch the hair had been brought back by persist- eat use of crude oil. The treatment was by no means pleasant , and I don't suppose it could well be used anywhere outside of the oil camps and towns of that day , where everything was saturated with crude oil ; but it will knock baldness just the same , "Dan began the treatment and used the odoriferous ointment liberally. One day he had to make a trip over the mountains. The journey was through the and a rough one. When Dan got ready to start he found that some one bad stolen his 1orse , so he went on foot. The weather was warm , and long before be got to the place he was beaded for be was pretty well tuckered out. He had smeared his bald spot generously with crude oil before leaving , and the beat of the hard journey had caused it to take on a more penetrating and tar-reaching odor than common , and had distributed the grease pretty generally over his head and face. face."Dan "Dan hadn't gone far when be overtook a pack peddler trudging along. He walked along with the peddler a short distance , but the peddler's pace was slow , and he uiled on ahead. lie had gone , perhaps. a hundred - dred yards when he came to a little rivulet that ran across the road , and he saw that it came from a spring at the roadside , the spring being almost hidden by overhanging bushes. He was parched with thirst , and be got down on his knees , took oft his hat and shoved his head through t small opening - ing in the bushes to get a drink. The spring was deep and about two feet In diameter. He quenched his thirst , cooled his face In ( be water and proceeded on his journey. tie had gone only a few paces , though , when he heard a yell behind him. He turned quickly and saw the peddler lying in the road in front of the spring writhing in agony. Dan hurried back. The writhing peddler was livid and with one hand was clutching his neck. His eyes were staring and bloodshot , and with a look of horror in them. He pointed toward the spring and cried : Tui..lp TItl $ a Rattler , " 'There he Is ! Keep back , for God's sake ! He struck me in the neck ! ' "Dan looked where the peddler was point- lug and saw an enormous rattlesnake coiled at the edge of the bushes , its big head raised above the coil , its eyes blazing with fury , and its rattles sounding. Before Dan could make any move toward killing the snake the peddler threw himself forward. and with an oath seized the snake. As he did so the rattler struck him again , sinking Its fangs into his wrist. The peddler tore the reptile in two , threw the parts on the ground , and , rising to his feet , stamped the ugly and still defiant bead of the snake deep into the ground. This was all done so quickly that Dan bad no time to Inter- fere. The peddler's neck and face and arm had swollen frightfully , Still stamping the snake , he fell to the ground in paroxysm. . Dan forced the contents of the whisky flask down the unfortunate man's throat , The peddler was able to say that be had stopped to drink at the spring , but had no sooner put bis head through the opening in the hushes than the rattlesnake , which lay coiled in the ferns on the opposite side of the spring , struck him. The fangs bad sunk 50 deep In his neck that when he threw hImself back into the road he drew the snake out of its ambush with him. It had instantly coIled for another attack , The man died in a short time , sufferlog terribly to the last. Dan placed his body in the bushes and hurried on to get help to bury it , lie fund an oh shanty two miles fur. ther along , where some drillers were put. ting down a well , He told the story of the peddler's fate. . , 'dighty lucky for me that the rattler wasn't there when I stuck my head in the spring , wasn't It ? ' said Dan , shuddering to think of it. , . 'That snake was there , all right. ' said one of the drillers. 'I see you're doctoring for a bald bead , There's where your luck comes in , young man ! If It hadn't been for the smell of that bald bead cure the peddler would have been here now asking us to go back and help plant you instead of you doing that favor for him ! Rattlesnakes just squat and lay low when they get a whit ! of crude grease. ' "And that was a fact , as the pioneer oil men found out before they had roamed long about that wild region , where rattlesnakes were as common as tIles. So Dan saved his life by trying to make hair grow on his bald bead. The drIllers went back , dug a grave in the woods and buried the unfortunate - nate peddler. They named the spring Dead Man's spring and It is so called to this day. Faprrience with a Panther , "The Oil creek country was largely an Unbroken - broken wilderness when the first operators went into It and fierce wild animals abounded , The panther still lurked in the mountain fastuesses. the Canada lynx was by no means uncommon and there were so many wildcats that I have heard many a night made hideous around the drilling camps by their yells. As for bears , they were so common that after we got used to things out there we never thought it worth while mentioning the fact that we had meter or scared up a bear in the woods , "I bad a lively experience once with a panther in that region. I was driving through the weds over a road that bad been cut Into a new territory. The road was so bad that it was dark long before I got to the place wbere I was going and I began to feel uneasy. I knew that some drillers were at work in the woods somewhere along there and I gave a shout , thinking they might hear tue and take me into their shanty for the night , My shout was answered , as I supposed. by a man in the distance. I repeated the call several times and was answered each time , the answer coming from nearer and nearer. The last response to my call was quite close and then It struck me that the voice did not have much human quality. I didn't shout again , but the voice in the woods did , and then tier. was no mistaking it. A panther had been responding to my call , as Is the habit of that ferocious and treacherous beast. and before I could think of what was beet for ens to do I saw the fiery eyes of Ibe animal glaring on the roadside not ten feet ahead of my horses , which began to snort and plunge. The next second the panther sprang and landed square on the wagon tongue be- tweea the horses , and there he crouched , his eyes blazing straight at me. The horses tried to run , but the heavy road , full of atumps and roots , prevented them drawing the wagon at any great speed. In their plunging about. though , they broke loose from the wngin , sad away they went. The panther clung to the tongue , ad never moved those glaring eyes from me. My hat ad clotbiag were seterated with crude oil from working sheet the pumps. In despera- tlon I struck a match and set fire to my hat , waving it and yelilag at the top of my voice. The fire lit up the scene. The panther glared at the blaze , his long tail waving to and fee. but it did not frighten him away. I thew the burning bat at hIm. He jumped from the wagon tongue , but crouched at the rood- side , still latent on me. Then I whipped off my coat and set fire to that. I waved It , yelling like an Indian. According to all I had ever read about Danthers. this one should have Instantly turned and rushed away in terror , but be was evidently not one of the kind you read about , for instead of fleeing in terror from the blaze he rose in one grand bound. passed straight through the fire and landed on my chest with his great forepaws. Fortunately for me the burning coat clung to the panther. That was more than the fierce beast could stand , and with a shriek of pain anti bamed fury he lcapod from the wagon and bounded Into the woods , The burning coat caught on the brush and was torn off the panther , but the smell of singed hair and flesh the disappearing - pearing beast left behind indicated that be had not got away unscathed. I heartt that panther's yells for a long time , each one. however , growing fainter and fainter Ia the distance , I lost no time in hurrying on as fast as I could go in the darkness. I had not gone far before I met a couple of the drillers , who had heard the cries of the panther , although their camp was a miic away , and had come out to see what was going on. I didn't find my horses until next day , and I never traveled that road again at night. I'irl&a ft liter. "To this day , if you should ever go Into the Cherry Tree Run district of the Oil creek region , you will be sure to find somebody - body who will remember how I set a bear on fire once in that district , and set two or three miles of creek on fire in doing it. You may never go over there , though , so I'll tell you about it myself. Folks may not know it , but bears can swim like ducks. I don't know whether they can dive or not , but if they can toy bear made the mistake of his life by not diving nod swimming under water from one bank to the other of the stream he had ventured into. Good paying - ing territcry had been found and a number of good wells put down in the vicinity of Cherry Tree. Trout fishing was excellent in the mountain streams of that region. oil not having yet been produced in sufilcient quanuties along them to mingle with the water and spoil it for fishing. I was an enthusiastic - thusiastic trout fisherman and one day in June a fellow operator and I went for a day's fishing almost to the headwaters of one of the small creeks that emntied into Cherry Tree Run. It had got along toward dark by the time we bad fished down to the mouth of the creek. We were loaded down with trout and about as nearly tired out as two vigorous young fellows could well be. In fact. we were so near tuckered out that we concluded to camp at the mouth of the creek for the night rather than trudge the three miles that lay between there and our shanty. After a hearty trout supper we built a big camp fire and lay down on the ground near it to sleep. The fire threw a glare across Cherry Tree Run , which was wide and deep there. "I wasn't long in falling asleep. I never knew what woke me , but t awoke some time in the night suddenly and wide. The camp fire was still burning brightly and as I lay there looking at the broad pathway of light it cast across the run I saw the water where the light rested upon it suddenly become - come agitated and I soon became aware that some bi object was swimming the stream and eomIn , directly tcvard where I was iytng. It was a spooky sort of situation , and , to toll the teeth , I was scared ; so much so that I couldn't stir. I lay there scarcely daring to breathe , with my eyes fixed Intently on the approaching object. It pulled deliberately across the stream and by and by reached our shore , where it crawled out of the water and up the bank. Then I discovered that it was an enormous bear. He paused a moment and then moved toward the camp fire , either prompted by bear curiosity or attracted by the scent of our trout , bears being particularly fond of trout. A lien for Cover. "The spot where we had camped wasn't more than twenty feet from the run. The appearance of the big bear and his impudent - pudent advance upon our camp broke the spoil that held rae. I sprang to my feet , grabbed a blazing stick from the fire and hurled it at the approaching animal , who was then almost within arm's length of me , The brand struck the bear. If I had been frightened at the first appearance of the bear in the run. I was simply terrified when the burning stick hit him. for like a flash of gunpowder flames burst from the poor beast , enveloping him from snout to tall. With a bowl that filled the woods with frightened echoes and brought my sleeping companion to his feet , the blazing bear turned and fled to the run and plunged in. It he bad expected to find help in the current - rent of the stream he was wotully mistaken , for in an Instant the run , from bank to bank and tar above and below us , became a line of leaping fire , lighting up the gloom of the forest for rods on either side and form- lag a spectacle awful beyond description. There caine from the stream of roaring flame one long. unearthly wail of agony. For a moment we saw the blazing form of the wretched bear writhe in torture in the burning creek. Then we neither saw nor heard him more , "The heat frnm the moving wall of lire drove us back into the woods , where we remained more than an hour. Then the stretch of fire died gradually away and became - came extinct , leaving upon us and about us such a sense of gloom and ghostliness that neither of us had the courage to remain longer on the spot. We lost no time in making our way in the darkness to our shanty up the run. Upon reaching there we learned that an oil tank had sprung a leak that evening , and before the break could be repaired a great quantity of oil- hundreds of barrels-bad run into the stream and floated down on the surface. The unfortunate - fortunate bear had swam through this , and his fur bad become saturated with the inflammable - flammable stuff. My flrebrand bad Ignited it instantly. In returning to the run , all ablaze , the bear had set the whole oily surface on fire. and met his terrible fate. " A , . to } tnOsietlg Detroit Journal : "You would be pretty , " persisted the other , "if you didn't know it yourself ! " The gorgeous Boston creature shook her bead , "I can know nothing , " she argued , "I have mental impressions , but they do no establish external fact. Externality is a fig- meat of subjectivity. Ergo. I do not koow I am pretty , qUQtl real denionstrandum , " Sasuistical subtleties , doubtless ; but not easily to be swept away , for all that. l'lie l'rudIggI Outili. Cleveland Plain Dealer : lie went away from home a spindly youth , with shrunk shanks and a neck like a Garcia camp fl. lower , lie came back a proteuionai bicycle rider. with huge legs and muscles like Iron. "I see the prodigal hns returned , " said the next door neighbor. "Yes. " replied the father , thoughtfully. as tie stared In amazement at the bulging hosiery of his hopeful ; be seems to hays returned - turned anti brought the fatted calf with him. " Corea Will .ttiopt tolti Stantlard , YOKOhAMA , Aug. lO.-dviccs reveLvei here from Seoul say Corea intends to adopt the gold s'andard , REVEALED BY THE CLICK How a Telegraph Operator Diccovered lli Friend's Murderer. VICTIM PINNED DOWN BY A DAGGE ' . and Train Itoh- $ t'CtC ci' a Trngr.ly a brry l.nltl flet'.act'fl tnnhl % anti ! iion - - % . ' LviI to .Intice. I had knocked around in Australia for fire years , put in a year's service in India antI had a stback at the Transvaal insurrection- late as a volunteer. says a. writer in the Chicago - cage Chronicle , and .ettled doan at last as a telegraph operator at Rocky Forks , a ide- graph station betevn Omaha and Sioux City. It was my business to transfer me- sages between the two places and to connect with points further along. The next station , fifteen miles further up the road. was tMsrnal Point , and here Torn Brown , my oldest and truest friend , operated. Torn and I had roughed it all over the world together and when we settled down here it was to be near each other. One day Torn telegraphed down to me that ho would meet me at Rocky Forks next Tuesday for a day's shooting. lie said he would come down on the S o'clock train in the morning and ait for tue to get oft at noon. After that we would go up into the bills and shoot along the points of the ra- vine. I liked nothing better than a day's outing with Torn and I quickly ticked back word that he could rely on me next Tuesday , as that was ml- day off. The following day there came a message through Omaha that the United express would ship a quantity of bullion over the road to Sioux City the next Monday night and that the train would pass through my station , Rocky Forks , at 5:15 in the evening I telegraphed back that I understood it and then opened up the instrument and asked Torn if he had received his message yet. He said that he had and would look for the train seventeen minutes earlier at Dismal Point. That day and next I passed In my usual way. Sunday was uneventful and would have seemed long. eacept for the constant ticking of the instrument. which was kept busy sending messages about the Important shipment to be made the next day. Monday evening at 7:10 : I looked at my watch. "The train will soon be along , " I said. "I guess 1 wilt call up Tom and see if he knows where it is. " I called up Dismal Point and Toni answered. "The express train is one statIon up the road , " said he , "and Is ahead of time. It will wait here five minutes. I'll let you know as soon as it leaves here. Tomorrow - " row- hears n Strange Hand. There was a sudden pause in the ticking and then a. strange hand sent the message : "That 1. all. " I called up Toni again , but be dILL not answer , I kept calling , but no response came and I thought that. the wires hail become entangled. I waited for the express with its bullion until 5:15 : , but it did not arrive. Then I tel- egraphed up the road to Torn , but there was no answer. I waited five minutes longer and telegraphed again , but stihi no response. "The wires must be down. " I said. I walked out upon the platform and looked up the road. To my surprise I saw in the dIstance an engine coming toward me , slowly swinging down the track. As it came nearer I saw it was empty and as it passed me I boarded it. Reversing the engine I started back up the road. I went with such fire as I could get up back to Dismal Point. Here , in front of the station , stood the express car , rifled I of its contents. Across one of the trunks the express messenger lay dead. The engineer - gineer and fireman were so badly stunned that at first I thought they , too , were killed , but after some time I brought breath into the life of the former. He , poor fellow , was too dazed to speak and I lifted him into the chair , thankful that he was alive. When I stepped into the little station where Toni always sat an awful sight met my eyes. There. sitting at the instrument with his back to the door , was my old friend , a dagger sticking through him and fairly pinning him to the table. I grasped the wooden handle and pulled it out with all my strength , only to receive his cold body in my arms. Well , they never found out the robbers of the train. The engineer bad been struck from behind and could remember nothing and after waiting only long enough to sec my old friend buried I resigned my position - tion at Rocky Forks and struck out again. But on Toni's grave , back in the woods at Dismal Point , I put a shaft of , fi and on It I carved these words : "Living , I will pursue to the end of the world. Dead , I will come back to you. " Below it I put Tom's name and age and vowed aloud tb oath that I had there written to find the murderer - derer of poor Torn Brown. The .tssnM..in Itun flown , Three years later I found myself stationed at New Elswortb , a suburb of New York , I was Ia charge of a private wire of the Pacific Telegraph company , which communicated - nicated with all parts of the new wand , and I was proud to be an operator in its employ , My duty here in part was to trans. mit the private messages of the higher oIcials. I never liked the president of the company , though be lived in the handsomest house in the place and treated me with uniform courtesy. He bad a cold , uncer- tam manner that dlii not seem to be worthy of trust. Certainly , I should not have put up my millions in his hands. One night when be did not reach home his wife came down to the telegraph otfio and asked me if I bad beard from him. I was forced to 'tell her no. This happened frequently - quently , and one evening when he bad been late and she had made three trips in her carriage to the telegraph omce be said to me : "Tomorrow I will have a private wire put in my oiflee in Pine street and when I am detained I will telegraph you and you can send a message to my wife. " The next day the wire was put in , but as the president came home promptly that night it was not used. But on the following day at o'clock I got a telegram from him teiIin mehe touli not be home until S o.cIocK sac erecting me to send word to his wife. I did so by the station messenger. An hour later there came another message from the president's office , It was that he would be detained still later and telling me to send word home to that effect , "Is that all ? " I asked. The message came back In short , Btacato notes : "That I. all" I leaned back in my chair cold and faint , for the band was the same that bad sent me the message on the night poor Torn Brown was kiied , The next day I came to the city on a leave or absence to Investigate the life of Inson Tryson , president of the Atlantic and Pa. cific Telegraph company. I found that three years before he had been a laborer on the Sioux City railroad with not a dollar to his name anti that his sudden rice bail been the talk of Wall Street. Well , I did not let it drop tbrre. but I hunted down the case until I proved that Auson Tryson , with a gang of accomplices , had robbed the cx- press train that night and killed my itl friend Torn Brown. Anti one day I took a trip up Country to see him swing for It , f'nhi of linruti' . iiiiie Tree , Mural's lime tree on the battlefield of Leipzig has fallen a victim to a , iolent storm. reports the Pall Mall Gazette , The tree wbirb witnessed such terrtiie carnage # 0 mebr if you are dissatisfied with the size of piece or with the quality of the chewing tobacco you are now usng- t. . . I I and you ll get your money's worth. g The 11 0-cent piece of Battle Ax is , larger than the I 0-cent piece of any other brand of the same high qua1ity and is the largest piece of really good chewing tobacco that is sold for iOcents. * : ; rnrnber the me I whyou buyaan. ( t BEAR IN MIND THAT "THE GODS HELP THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES. " SELF HELP SHOULD TEACH YOU TO USE SAPOLO ! "Areyou ? JTerTbOdT is. What ? Colectinir the Bee's Pitotogt'avures of the Exposition , of course , It is the fad to c1iect views and rouvenirs of the Exposition , You know , to keep then nice , The Bee has issued a PORTFOLIO COVER FOR 15 CENTS. I The price is what they cost us by the thousand. and you could not huy ( been elsewhere for less than fifty cents. They arc mude of still book batted covered with cloth , with gilt lettering. They are indeed handsome. You can put. all sorts of pieturc and souvenirs of the Exposition In them and when November comes you will have a eallection of I which to be proud. h1 Wiere o you 'Ii ' get them ? , - . - ' - - - - 0 , The Omaha Bee rhotoravure Dept. c N. 13. Portfolios by mall 5 centt extra forpostage. ' : ST , I _ Z : K _ _ . Vttalizcr viii uicy cure alt nervous or dlseae. ' of the renerailco or- , < ' -t..5 . gins trutictit on by rottht'.d errors or excee's curt. a. hot Manhood , \ , ¶ ' Insomnia. epermatorrtoea. I'in' . to flack Et1 Dr"anis , Seminal ) inl.- . sbus. xervou , Debility P1mpie. lIzu1iciie Unfitness to Marry , lix- - . . hauhtir.C PrtIflH Viricoceic and Conettpaiion Stope ioes by day o - r.tjht l'reventaqtue'snea ofdt.char. . which leads totiporrntornIo.a and Inteot'ncy Cisansec the liter. tlduey and urinary organs of aSS BBFORE and A1-TEfl Inipunitles. Str'nrthens * nd restorCs etitati steak organs , 41.OOa box , * 1 tor * .UO ( SuSranteed I , ctre Send Cot tree ciretUar and 6000 testS. monIai. . Davol Ikiltalne Ca. , San Francisco.Cal. Forcle Dy Meyers , DitlOn Drug Co. Qtn&ba , Neb. was already. according to popWar hlief. 20u rears old and more ben the bee' days' battle was fought. PeraaDs it drew new strenth from a soil enrth"i by the countless dead , perhaps like prid Being- LiLke "blood watered it to m5c" it grow : " I , , at v case , it has survive I 'or more iliau tour score years the great event Cf its his. tory , and now lies prostrate on the battle- field-the last tallest to the battle of giants. The tree has sometimes been called Napol- eon's lime , and the legend has been told that the leader of the baule of ngtioos iisctl it as a watch tower at a enitieai period of the aght. But , according to an authentic evidence , it was not apoleoa , but Murat , who made it fatuous. The great captain of souadreem , who bded the veterans of Spain , seems to have climbed ittle it ; brsacbu and established his orvatory here on the morning of October jg , l13. anti here for some tins. he remained , till an Intrusive cannon bail pa.soeti through the braaehe and drove she bird from the scm. It is a grand old yeterus , grand even In de&th. Its trunk is twenty meters hgli and oae awl oase-balf meter. in dtaweier : it has several times teen struck by lightning - ning , and Is at last overthrown by ( em- . sear it Ic the peat. Ivy-covered menu- meat to tse Frenib who fell , whose epLtaph it may justly share , ' Let none disturb their rest. " l'rniii Strike. a l.iiiidslide , MiDDi.ESIItJROI'GIl , Ky . Aug. SO.- \'htle a northbound train was coming from Norton , Va. . It struck a landslide near Pen- nington Gap and three coaches attached rolled down an embankment atxty feet. About twenty passengers were eboard , all of whom were more or less Injured. Suerin- tendent .1. iv. Logsdon of the Cumbeiiantt % 'ahIey division of the Louisville & Nashville road bad 4 rib broken and was otherwise badly beetied . Cbarl..a I' . I'ernio. manager of the \VaUs Steel and iron syndirate , badly bruised about the head. and SV. W. Tiagley of Knox county and little son were conkleraliiy bruised. Mr. TIosley' . wounds ins ) ' prove fatal. Seeral women were also burl. 'l'nL.t'ii .tion ii , SIte i'liiIIpiiitej , , Thoje who have relatives and friends In the several expeditious to the l'hilippine islands wtiI he pleased La Luow that a good supply of Ch.snIsrlain'g Colic , Cholera and Diarrhoea Jtemedy ha ; bi taken along ti atore will be procured train the agency Ia Iloag Koug as required. The great iur. team of this geinedy in he treatmr , of bowel omplaIeti ha. made it standar4 over the greater part of the civilized orld , During the epidemic of cholera In Iiont'iuta ! it proved more suece..ful than any cther I treatmeat. For ; ale * , j all druggists. . . r-- - _