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Marauding Private Rebuked for
Poor Marksmanship.
The lloliliy IluirMC, Wnlklnyr Ilarrrls
and Other McmIvm of Army IMin-
lMliiuuiit ill Vojjue DurliiK
the Civil War.
Special Columbus (O.) Letter.!
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J
UST before the vf nil of Vicks-
burg," remarked Capt. K., in
a reminiseent mood, as he lay
back in his easy cushioned chair and
thoughtfully puffed nt his fragrant
Havana, "Osterhouse's corps, to which
1 was attached, having driven the
enemy's force across fhe Atchaphal
ayu river, crossed over below Grand
Gulf, to go around Vicksburg. The
troops had two days' rations, and
after those jjave out the boys had
nothing to cat except what they
could get oil the country along the
line of inarch. The blue coats were
good foragers, however, and confis
cated, to meet the demands of empty
haversacks and emptier stomachs,
Hour, ham, shoulders, chickens, live
jitock, etc. The 'rebs' had hidden
everything at the approach of the
'Yanks,' and the way we got the
provender was to subsidize the ne
groes by promises of army privileges
mid protection. The darkies had
helped to hide the coveted articles
and they would lead the Yanks to an
unsuspicious brush pile in the mid
dle of a field, and, after removing the
bruslL, they would dig down until they
struck all sorts of eatables.
"Just before the battle of Kny
raond Gen. Osterhouse had taken pos
session of a country log house, and
was resting himself on the porch,
when a private on n foraging expedi
tion scared up one of those queer
iouthern specimen of the porcine spe
2ies, a razor-back hog1. Jn his haste
to secure the prize, without looking
THE HOBBY HORSE.
where he was shooting, he threw his
musket to his shoulder and Met drive'
at the gaunt porky specter. The bul
let flew wide of its mark and buried
itself in a rafter directly over Oster
house's head.
"Gen. Osterhouse, who was very
Dutch, sprang to his feet and shouted
to some other men near at hand:
" 'Mans, go und git dot soldier vot
shot at der hog, and pring Mm pefore
your sheneral!'
"Five or six men rushed after the
guilty soldier, arrested him, and
marched him before the commander.
" 'Vosj dot you vat shot?' he de
manded of the culprit.
" 'It was, general,' admitted the pri
vate. "'Vot at did you shoot?'
" 'I shot at a hog.'
"'Vy you not hit Mm?' thundered
Osterhouse. 'I say to you now: You
go und make von more shot at de."
hog. If you miss 'im, I haf you
bucked and gagged. 1 don't care von
iam vot you take in ze way of provi
sions, shust so you ton't take any
pabies' shoes und stockings!'
"The soldier saluted and went out
to try another shot. Before he could
do so, however, Mike Thomas, a little
Dutchman in company A, Sixteenth
O. V. I., had caught the hog in a
fence corner, and the lusty squeals of
the frightened 'razor-back' could be
heard for a mile. Mike had no knife
with which to dispatch his prize, and
he jerked u splinter oil' the fence-rail,
jabbed it in the poor brute's throat,
and killed it.
"The fellow who had come so near
hitting1 Gen. Osterhouse came up,
about this time, and asked Mike to lei
him shoot the dead hog, in order to
keep from being bucked and gagged.
Mike agreed to this, and the sojdier,
resting his musket on the fence,
iired a leaden plug into the carcass.
Then he marched confidently back to
where Gen. Osterhouse was still sh
in a Hurry.
"So yon asked old Crusty for his
daughter, oh? How did you come
out ?"
"Through the window!" Chicago
American.
The Mm It.
Drowninsky That fellow Blank is
rather dense, isn't he?
Smithovich Well, T guess yes. The
only time he ever gets next is in a bar
ber chop. Cmeianati Enquirer.
ting en the porch, and told lilm he
had shot the hog.
" 'Fully poyl' exclaimed Gen. Oster
house; 'now you shust go und pring
me two nice juicy shteaks from der
ham, and I vill excuse you.'
" 'Can't do it, general,' sorrowfully
replied the soldier, wlib found himself
in a worse pickle than before.
"Osterhouse was a jolly old soul,
however, and after listening in a high
ly amused way to the fellow's stam
mering explanation, mitigated his
punishment to shooting all afternoon
at a target.
"The buck and gng wns n mode of
punishment used both in the infantry
and cavalry. ' A mode peculiar to the
envnlry was the 'hobfi-horso.' Men
-who violated the discipline by leaving
camp without permission, stealing
hogs or chickens, or similar offenses,
were punished in this way. A pole
BUCKED 'AND GAGGED.
would be placed between two forked
sticks at one end and in the crotch of
a tree at the other, about ten feet from
the ground, and the culprits would
then be made to climb up and straddle
the pole. The elevated and constrained
position soon became very uncomfort
able, but a guard promenading tip and
down saw to it that the offenders re
mained on the 'hobby' until their term
of sentence had expired.
"A mode of punishment peculiar to
the infantry was the 'walking barrels.'
A string of offenders would be placed
inside barrels, from which the two
ends had been removed, and tfieirarms
would be poked through two holes near
the top. A file of offenders thus capar
isoned marching along with solemn
tread was a very comical sight, and
was always hugely enjoyed by the oth
er fellows.
"One day in 1S03, just after a lively
skirmish with the enemy, in which he
was put to rout, a body of cavalry
drove some infantry out ot a cabin
and took possession. The two bodies
of men had previously had a tilt or two,
and not the best of feeling prevailed
between tTiem. The cavalry belonged
to a New York regiment, and tiicy
caught an infantry sergeant in the
cabin boiling a nice, fat chicken. The
sergeant was tart in his replies to
questions, and the colonel of the New
York cavalry ordered his men to pun
ish him by hanging him up by the
thumbs.
"The infantry quickly got an inkling
of what was in the wind, and rushing
to arms speedily drew up in line. The
infantry colonel then marched up to
the cavalry colonel.
"'Cut that man down!' he demand-
THE WALKING BARRELS.
ed, 'or I'll do it myself,' at the samo
time suiting the action to the word.
"'He was insolent to a superior
officer, and he shall be punished,' re
torted the cavalryman, hotly. 'The
first man that attempts to cut him
(low n shall take the consequences.'
He, too, whipped out his sword and his
men rushed around him with drawn
sabers. The infantry advanced with
bayonets lowered, and for a moment
the situation was a most thrilling one.
Tiie soldiers' blood was up on both
sides, neither colonel would yield an
inch, and bloodshed seemed inevitable.
"Just in the nick of time, however,
Gen. H galloped up and hostilities
'petered out' as quickly as they had
arisen.
"I wns thnt sergeant," laconically
concluded Capt. K . "Have another
Havana." a. C. CARSON'.
Not hi n k Lout.
Freddie You said you'd bring mo
Fome candy if I'd be good.
Uncle I'm sorry, Freddie, but I for
got all about it.
Freddie Well, I'm glad I forgot to
be good. X. Y. Journal.
Hi XV rh SatlNlItMl.
"Life," said the parson, "is made up
of trials."
"Yes, and I'm glad of it," rcplUd
the lawyer. Ciuciuuttti HivJrer.
Lesson in American
gL lil'UWimMfL i m i w w , in ji minim j. Uiij
COLLECTING THE WOUNDED AFTER THE SECOND HULL RUN.
Find Gen. Keiiriiivy.
In an article In the Century in 1880 Warren Leo Goss says of the
night following: the first day's fighting at the second battle of Hull Kim:
"So soon as the battle ceased many sought without orders to rescue com
rades lying wounded between the opposing lines. There seemed to be
nu understanding bo ween the men of both armies that" such parties were
l.ot to be disturbed in their mission of mercy. The removal went on dur
ing the night, und tired soldiers were roused from their slumbers by the
plaintive cries of comrades passing in the comfortless vehicles." Thin
was on the night of August 29, 18d2, the second bnttle of Hull Run oc
curring on that and the following day. The federal loss was about 12,
000; the confederate between S.000 and 0,000 in the two days' lighting'.
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
An inkeeper of Wilhclmbcrg, who
turns the scale at 502 pounds, is the
heaicst man in Germany.
At the next general election in Aus
tralia 970,000 men and S5G.000 women
will be entitled to vote.
The railway bridge which connects
Venice with the mainland is 12,030
feet hng and has 222 arches.
Mining- enterprises and limited
companies are now taxed two per
cent, of their net profits in Bolivia.
Boma, in the Congo Free State, has
a road nearly 150 miles long, which
is practicable for automobiles.
Since the recent great horse flesh
dinner in Berlin the business of the
horse butchers has quadrupled.
Striking resemblance has been
pointed out between the remarkable
ancient ruins nt Zimbabwe, in Kho
desia, and antiquities in Cornwall.
A comprehensive return of the
financial workings of the "public util
ities" undertakings in British towns
and cities lias just been given to the
public through a government board.
It covers the four years ended March,
190a. The principal undertakings car
ried on by 299 corporations were:
Markets, 22S; water works, 193;
cemeteries, 113; baths, 13S; electric
ity, 102; gas works, 97; tramways, 45;
harbors, -13. The aggregate net pro
fits were $23,417,522.
By his method of feeding through
the steins instead of the roots S. A.
Mokrsezki, the Kusslan entomologist,
believes, that trees and plants enn be
cured of disease and grently stinm
lated in growth. His special appara
tus is intended to introduce salt of
iron either solid or in solution
into apple and pear trees, and he has
used it for applying chemical treat
ment to 800 fruit trees on the south
ern shore of Crimea. The weak and
diseased condition of the trees was
remedied, while an unusual develop
ment followed.
REGARDED AS DETRIMENT.
Sixty Yearn Aro .SenintreneM 1Vcr
OppoHLMl to I In- VhP.nt the Si'W-
Lnjf Machine.
"It has not been 00 years since the
sewing machine made its appearance
in Washington," said an old timer to a
Star reporter, "and there are quite a
number of not ery old people who
remember the occasion. During the
great meohanics' fair, which was held
in 1S10, opening May 21, of that year,
in a specially constructed frame building-
in Judiciary square, it was one of
the stnr exhibits. It was said at the
time that one of the main objects of
the fair was to influence legislation in
congress on the tariff to show what
the American workingman could do,
and how little we were dependent n
other countries for the necessaries of
life.
"I remember that the sewing ma
chine was the greatest attraction of
the fair aid interested the crowds
about it, and there was difficulty ex
perienced in getting near it. As may
be supposed, the machine at that pe
riod had not been brought to the per
fection it reached by subsequent im
provement, but it did its work to the
amazement, of the thousands of si
tors, and as u labor saving machine,
ftisiory in Puzzle
together witli McCortuick's reaper,
then first exhibited here, caused much
discussion. Among the seamstresses
the sewing machine was looked upon
as the intrument which would deprive
them of a living, and it was predicted
that its adoption would drive hun
dreds to poverty. At that time the
price was high, and many hoped that
so much would be asked for it as to
prevent its general use.
"The efTect of its introduction was
to some extent discussed in the pa
pers of the day, and I believe in somo
of the manufacturing cities the work
ing people were much excited over the
revolution its adoption was expected
to bring. 1 read an abstract of an
address by a pastor in one such city,
in which he saJd to the factory peo
ple and seamstresses that they had
nothing- to fear from its introduction,
lie snidnotwithstandingso much more
sewing could be done by machine the
tastes ofwomenwere such thatshouid
the cost of making a dress or other
garment be cheapened more elaborate
garments would become the style and
there would follow such a demand Hint
instend of faking work from the sew
ers there would be more. In other
words, while the costof making-u plain
dress would be lessened, the additional
trimming, extra plaits, seams, etc.,
would make up for any loss.
"There was no fear that tho labor
saving- mower and reaper would have
such an effect upon the masses,"
continued the narrator, "for all re
cognized that should it be effective
the cost of daily bread would be low
ered. I should mention that tho re
volving pistol, patented by Col. Sam
uel Colt, some ten years before, was
an object of much Interest, especially
to military men, and the fact that it
was then on trial in warfare the
Texan rangers of Capt. Samuel II.
Walker, engaged in the Mexienn wnr,
being armed with the pistols im
parted an additional interest to the
subject.
"There were many other exhibits
nt the fair mentioned, and the dis
play was- a revelation to the masses,
a great educational object lesson, and
probably the most important exhib
its were those named. 1 should not,
however, omit to notice another. As
is customary, admission tickets wore
issued to all exhibitors, and hun
dreds of our younger people were
benoflted thereby, these being mostly
girls, who had specimens of sewing-,
embroidery, etc. There was a boy
living In the old Second ward, who
got up an elaborate aggregation of
cogwheels, lovers, shafts, etc., so in
tricate in looks as to bewilder any
but the initiated, whose sole object
wns to obtain an admission ticket.
This he entered, but not for a prize,
and called it a 'wing wang.' By wind
ing up the motive power, a clock
spring-, it went into operation witli
such a clatter as to drown tlio nohe
of some of the larger machines. Cu
riousity led to many inquiries as to
Its use, but the only reply obtained
was that it will grind smoke, when
forced in the hopper, and cool the
air with its revolving- flippers. Use
less though 'the machine was at the
time it drew the attention of an in
fluential gentleman to the boy, who
made him his protege, and tho results
of the boy's ingenuity were subse
quently seen by an improvement in
draw bridges and in the mutter of
lanterns for liyut house.
FISH FAR FROM HOME.
Wanderer Sometime Found In Odfl
lMncca Iliilf Way Round '
thv Eur th.
"One need not resort to tricks in or
der to obtain wonders in Ichthy
ology," said an officer of the fish com
mission, in discussing hoaxes on sci
entists,! recently referred to in the
Washington Host. "We are eonstant
ly picking- stragglers along tho Atlan
tic, fish belonging in tropicnl and
arctic waters that have wandered out
of their course. More hae been taken
nt Woods IIoll.Mass., than at any other
point on our coast, for the reason that
the configuration of Woods JIoll and
the neighboring coasts is of a charac
teristic so peculiar that the Island
forms a sort of natural fish trap.
"It wns here some years.ago that the
most remarkable event In the history
of ichthyology occurred, when one oC
the fishermen caught a flic fish (Alu
tora. monoceros), Indigenous to tho
Fast indies and unknown In the wa
ters of the western hemisphere. The
next year another was taken at the
same place. How did this strange
Asiatic fish, common enough on the
Philippine coasts, reach America?
That Is one of the puzzles which sci
ence has yet to solve. The only wny
we enn account for It Is by supposing
thnt possibly tho snme fish may In
hablt some restricted area In the WcBt
Indian waters-, where It has not thus
far been discovered.
"Nor do we need- to leave home in
soarch of iehthyologlenl wonders. Tho
Potomac will, and has already, afford
ed some remarkable cases. Some years
ago the fish commission distributed
spawn of the Lake Superior pike, the
Warmoulh bnss, and the Mississippi
channel catfish in the Potomac.
"They have thriven and multiplied
and every now and then some Potomac
fishermen comes in with a strange fish,
confident he has caught a rarity, in
ivory case it turns out that he has
taken some one or other of the varie
ties which we placed In the Potomac
in 1889. In this way we are able to
tell whether or not the fish we plant
In a stream are thriving. The chan
nel catfish weplunted in 1889 and heard
no more of them until one day in Jan
uary, 1902, when 100 of them v,arv
caught in a net nt Georgetown.
"Several years after thewarwehnd
n very dry summer. The Potomne fell
below low-water,mark and the sea wa
ter encroached further up stream than
had ever been known. With the salt
water came a lot of sea fish, and for tho
first time in the history of this sec
tion fishermen at Fort Washington
caught specimens of the red-mouthed
grunt, spot, whiting," spadcflsh and
one specimen each of the very curious
toadfish and sen robin.
' "But the most remarkable event that
ever took place in the Potomac wns In
the summer of 1880, when n porpoiso
came up stream to a point just beyond
the Aqueduct bridge. There he re
mained, plnyingnnd sportingabout for
three days, his gambols witnessed by
thousands of people. He seemed to bo
nfraid of the shadow cast upon the wa
ter by the bridge, and, though appar
ently anxious to return to sea, he would
venture down until withih a few feet
of tho shadow and then scurry back,
keeping this up for hours at a time,
to the amusement of the onlookers.
Finally he screwed, up courage and
made a wild dash under the bridge,
and when last seen was going down
river at a pace that would have put the
master of an Atlantic liner to shame."
WORKED IN ODD MOMENTS.
How a FatttoiiM Frenchman lltlllxcil
Time That Mlirht Have llecn
AVukIoiI.
Mine. Do Genlis, in n work on
"Time," tells us that the famous
Chancellor d'Aguesseau, observing
that hjs wife always delayed 10 or
12 minutes before she came down to
dinner, and reluotnn). to lose ho much
time daily, began the composition of
a work which he prosecute?! only
while thus kept waiting. At the end
of 15 years a book in three quarto
volumes was completed, which rnu
through three editions and was held
in high repute, says Success. Mine.
De Genlis profited by this example.
Having to wait at the dinner hour in
the Palais Koyal for Mine. De Char
tres, who was always 15 or 20 min
utes lute, she utilized the time by
copying a selection of poems from,
eminent authors.
It is told of a German critic that
he could repent the entire "Iliad" of
Homer with scarcely an error. How
11111113' years, .think you, did he spend
in depositing the immortal epic in
his brain? Years he had not to spat"
or months or weeks or even entire
days, for he was a physician in the
full tide of practice, but he con
trived to store in his memory the
24 books of the old bnrd of "Scio't;
rocky isle" in the brief, disconnected
snatches of time from hurrying:
from one patient to another. Dr
Mason Good, a celebrated English.
physician, performed a similar feat,,
having contrived to translate the
whole of Lucretius during his long
walks in Loudon to visit his patients.
Can Overdo It.
You enn overdo an apology .--Atchlr
on Globe.
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