L
GARLANDS FOF1 THE DEAD.
A'Jrnncol Eacli bitrlaJ bro
II now a glorious klnij,
Wbo, proudly leaning on hi cl.ilro.
Await tlio meed yo brln
No tributary ttvir
Your deathless lieruc ciavo;
Ailriuico with ImtMisi) of the blooming ywirj
Let fair hands croiru tbo bravo.
Ttiey Ulil not bleed to raln-
Tliat father, brother, son
Who nimlo pray slioro and jiliio clad plain
Au attar find n throne,
Famo litis tho crimson sign
They once to battlo Ravo,
Anow they fonn their Rallatit line;
l.ct fnlr hnnds crown tho bravo.
Tim surging tido Is s0Ht;
Tim mighty march U o'crj
A mist of mom, tho soldier's tent
Has lied forovcrmoro
. put home and etslo remain)
Wuato'cr they died to sax e
Will quench thu flro and bunt tltu chain;
,, Let fair hands crowti tho brao
THE FORTUNE OF BATTLE.
A STORY OF THE CIVIL WAlt UY JUNIUS
ticNiti nnowNi:.
(Copyright, I8W, by American Press Association
AM so gltul you
aro going, Dar
rclf,nndyt it al
most breaks my
licatt to think of
it. I linilfiohopoil
, you would go.liut
I would not have
asla-d yot: to for
the world. You
tee how woman
llku 1 mil, When
you do w h a t I
una praying tlia
vou would do 1
can't keep tho tears back. 0, how can
I let you roI" And she clasped him more
tightly in her arms und wept convul
sively on liia breast,
"po not make it any harder, flailing,"
ho replied, kissing her tenderly. "I'm
not muoh of a hero ut best. I feel' my
patilottc resolution giving way when 1
'eeo your streaming eyes and your dis
tressed iuco."
"1 will bu br:ivu, Darrell; : will be
worthy of you. Sco now," and sho diied
her cyra with her handkerchief, "the
ten re aro all gone."
"You ure brave, my dear girl; braver
than I am, 1 fear. It is far harder for u
woman to let the man bIio loves go to
battle than it is for him to lead the for
lornest of forlorn hopes."
This very sentimental dialogue, oscu
latorily punctuated, took place in the
drawing room of a conventional brown
Btono front in Thirty-fourth street, Now
York, rather lato one ovening at tho
clo3o of April, 1801. Tho speakers wero
Helen Morley aged 20, and Darrell Sea
ton, agpd. 28. She had au intelligent, in
teresting face without regulnr features,
gray eyes, light brown hair, a slight,
willowy figure of medium height. Sho
wa9 the youngest of three daughters,
two of them married, her mother being
dead, and" her father a prosperous 'dry
gooiWjouber, hi whose residence these
lpvekscbnes were occuiring while h6 was
passionately discussing tho prospects of
the civil war with soveral of his follow
merchants at tho Union club.
Darrell Seaton, after having been
graduated at Columbia, had studied
medicine, and been practicing three
ycain under promisiug chcuuibtiiuces,
as his father was a physician also, and
had gained a prominent place, 'though
little money, in U profr-a-iicn. The
elder Seaton had nix children Darrell
tho eldest .vo sons and four daughters
and, having beei, opposed to .slavery,
JHMI
all his lite, had natili ally reared his fam
ily to tho same view 3, Darrell had )o
Moved, while ut college, thut armed con
flict between the n uth and honth could
not long be postponed, and had made up
his mind, when it .liouhl come, to take
some active part in t. A year befoic lie
had met IJelen Morloy, between whom
and himself a close and sympathetic
friendship soon airwo. They were too
good fricilds, they used to any, to fall in
lovo with ono nnot,titji'i and they ilrmlv
biillovc'd whlitHlie said.. Tims secure,
as they fancied, ngulncl any dungeiotis
attachment, they passed much tiliio 'o
gether, took long walk1 when oecnsi n
favored, real tho&unl) books, nnd, wero
both p.isslonatelyfo;id of music.""' v
,Tljo e,Idor Morlev and Scuton had been
Intimate from boyliood, having boon born
and having spent their early years in the
fomo town in the Interior of New Yoik
state Motley was very dillerent trom
Seaton. lie had fur less intellect, with
less, lltoi'ary and artistic taste, but
a far gi eater fondness for acquiring
money In truth, ho had often eaitl
in youth that ho intended to bo
n ilch man, and lie had largely
fulfilled his Intentions, beinjj worth, at
00, not far from a million. His lovo
of gai.i) as often happens, had increased
with liia gaining until ho had como to
regard wealth as indispensable. He was
not destitute of generosity by any means;
he did many kind things without consid
ering expense; but ho certainly overesti
mated the value and importauco of
money. He had expected to loso heavily
by bad debts. from tho hostile nttitudo
of tho' south, mid this, peilmps, moio
than any pther consideration, moral or
political, had recently made him its en
emy. In conson'onco with his financial
ideas, ho had seen that two of his daugh
ters had married fortunes and ho had de
termined that Helen should follow their
example.
Clarenco Williams, a joung man do
voted to society, clubs and pictorial dis
sipation, chiefly distinguished for idle
ness and tho possession of a millionaire
father, had imagined himsolf deeply In
lovo witli 'Helen, and had proposed' to
her n fow months before the firing on
Sumter had loused tho nation from its
proti acted lethargy ,, To his surpriso
and indignation she had imsitivcly
refused him him who had thought
that tho offer of his hand would be
accounted uti honor. Ho had then, with
singular lack of pi ide, referred his case
to Mr. Morley, who fa voted his suit and
encouraged him to believe that the girl
would doubtlebs change her mind; that
sho probably had romnntio notions on
tl;o subject of marriage, which a year or
two more would correct.
In an interview with Helen, she told
him (die had a temperamental uwinloii
to Mr. Williams that never could he over
come, Asked If alio loved iiuybotly else,
she leplied evasively that alio was not
aware that hIio did. "Tlieli there Is am
ple reason," said her father, "for Will
lams to perseveie. A ghl whose lieait
is not pre-engaged never knows anything
about tho atato of her affections. "You'll
come round, Helen, In duo time. Why,
my dear, Clarenco Williams will inherit
two or thiee millions,"
When Daircll Seaton read tho fateful
dispatch oa tho morning of April II), and
fell thai it meant Indefinite, possibly
eternal separation from Helen Morley,
the wild throbbing of his heart revealed
that hit friendship had been hut a m.isk
fornn intense, passionate love. Ho re
solved to tell her so at tho first oppoitu
nlty, and he kept his resolution. He did
not ask her directly to bu his wife, but
felt that she ought to know how ho had
deceived himself, and that ho was nt last
awakened to tho truth the delightful,
distracting, tumultuous truth. His avow
al elicited hers. She, too, had uncon
sciously practiced helf deception. Tlioy
were, und had been fioin the first, sim
ply and completely in love with one an
other. IK fore they wero aware of It, and
before they could undorsUind how it was
In ought about, they wero engaged. D.tr
tell had always thought that lie would
not, under any circumstanced, marry nu
heiress: and hcie he was betrothed to
one. He wan beginning to sec, as so many
young men have seen, that it is Impru
dent to form op'uions without adequate
o."peiience.
mIw wl
"I AM 80 OI.AI) YOU AM! OOINtl."
The enamored couple met dally, and
their conversation much icM'U.blcd that
of which a specimen has been given.
Helen was patiiotie to the core. The
course of the south from the election of
Unroll) to tho rnvi Mouarv measuresof
Carolina, Jmtl tiled her Wood ami made
her wish that she hud been a man. Her
father, busy with mercantile affairs,
never suspected that Helen cated any
moio for Dan el I than for unyonoof a
dozen young men in her social circle. Ho
could hardly have been persuaded that
she would dream of marrying a physician
who had ot his way tQ mako in the
world. Tho idea would havo seemed ho
absurd to him that ho would havo im
agined it equally ubsurd to her. The
ufllanced cotiplo decided not to divulge
their seciet even to him. Whon tho war
was over they would proclaim it. "And
perhaps," began Darrell, but tcara shone
in Helen's eyes, nnd sho cut short his
sentence in a charmingly feminine way
ON TIU: POINT OK TUHU8TINO A
INTO HIM.
Uarrell,Seaton enlisted in it New York
infmitry regiment. Ho had been urged
to tiller his services as surgeon, but he
declined, saying that in such u cause he
preferred to give wounds rather than to
heal them. Before going to Washington
lie was elected second lieutenant, and
had his earliest militarv oxpeiieneo nt
null Run.
Ho has told me that when first under
lire, in tho skirmish at Blackburn's Foik,
ho was excited and nervous, and would
iiavo tun away but for his pride aim the
coiibciousness that if ho should begin
running there would ho no place to btop.
Every time a bullet whistled near him
ho thought lie must bo struck; again
mid again death seemed to be in
evitable. After fifteen or twenty
minutes ho peiccived tho danger to
bo much moio apparent than real,
and he gradually began to grow calm.
Frightened, as lie confessed himself to
havo been, ho declared that he was cool
ness itself compared with hundieds that
ho saw about him. Tills encouraged nnd
emboldened him. When ho learned, an
hour after, tint not more than one hun
dred and twenty men had been lost on
both sides during the skirmish lie wan
amnxed, He would have sworn at the
time that the casualties must have
reached three thousand at least.
Ho was afterward in the advance
movement on the Confederate center.
Tho Unionists weie confident of victory,
and ho was in high sph its, when suddenly
the whole right wing of the Federal army
gavo way before au unexpected assault
from the enemy, mid fled in the wildest
confusion. He and all tho ofllcers who
tetulned any reason tiled in vain to rally
their men. It was a perfect 'panic, nnd
the Hying multitude, incapable of con
tiol, carried everybody and everything
along witli it. He likened it to an ava
lanche or a tidal wave. Tho only way
to avoid being crushed to death was to
jrWd to the luighty pressure. He, with
thousands of others, was home along
jovcral miles, and ultimately found him
belf r.tQenterUllo.
UAYONBT
CAPITAL CITY C0UR1FR,
i.
Tho scene nt the narrow wooden bridge
over a brook on tho Ccntorvlllo turnpike
was extraoiillnary and bowlldeiing. A
throng of civilians had come from Wash
iugtou on lioisehaek and in catrhges to
witness what they had been told was a
glorious victory. Bitter was their disap
pointment and great their alarm when
they saw, at that point, hurrying, fright
enetl masses of soldiers, army wagons,
aitlllery Inextricably involved and hope
lessly confused The heat was excessive,
tho dust choking, tho panic complete.
Men weie shouting, swearing, struggling
like mad, horses plunging, whluneyitig,
evidently soared as much as their mas
ters. A cannon shot struck a caisson on
the bridge, shattered It and obstructed
the way, Then the dismay, illsortkl- and
uproar inci rased to a terrific point. Men
surged over the broken caisson; others
leaned from tho I'-'dire: mnnv i united
through tho stream; nrtillory horses were
cut from thu traces and ridden by their
fi antic drivers through tho tieinbling,
sci earning crowd. The wonder was that
hundieds wero not killed in tho chaotic
jam. Tito fugitives scrambled through
and over cvury obstacle, and pushed their
tumultuous courso toward Borne Imagined
phuo of safety as the shadows of uvon
lug fell.
The defeat was evidently Inepaiable.
It was ulsocident that tho enemy was
in no condition to pursuo his enormous
advantage, which was a gieat consola
tion. Darrell's idea of war was rudely
changed. It seemed to him that ninny
of tho Union troops wero consummate
cowards, and he did not spare his hitter
denunciations. Holeniued in subsequent
battles that what wo call coinage is
largely dependent on accustomed ncss,
Men who had run Jlko sheoji from Indef
inite peril on that memorable Juh flay
afterward proved thenisclves.vallantantl
'anted the name of heroes. Bull Run
was a gieat and impress! vo lesson to
Dairell as well as to the whole iioith.
The mortifying repulse anil disgraceful
piiiio was of immeasurable benefit to tho
fedcinls in tho end. Darrell was deeply
chagiiued that ho had notbcC.i wounded,
buthe was without a scratch, beyond tho
biulses Indicted by tho fugitive mosses
in their mad ruco for Washington. He
soon lellectcd that there was still time
for wounds; but he had no idea of the
slaughter of tho next four years, which
turned tho nation Into n common house
of mourning.
Bull Run had made u soldier of hint;
had increased his horror of aught up
proachiug cowardice: had taught him
tho priceless lesson of the need of cool
ness under any and all circumstances.
Bull Run was to him, as indeed it was to
every fieo suite, a kind of military edu
cation, and wns duly profited by.
As may bo supposed. Helen and Dar
rell corresponded, nnd their letters wero
very much, no doubt, like those the ma
jolity of joung men nnd women writo
who are hi lovo with ono another. The
correspondence may havo been ntoro io
mantle, for their environment was more
romantic nnd their emotion quickened
with mice! tninty nnd peril. She was, for
the first few months, in constant fear
that every newspaper sho took up would
inform Iter of his death. But, as the
time lengthened, nnd as he passed
through battlo after battle unharmed,
her terrors diminished, though her anxi
eties continued.
She became, us men become who me
habitually exj)oseil to danger, a kind of
fatalist, without any process of reason
ing. She wrote, soon after the battle of
Bull Run, thut Clarenco Williams had
again proKsed to her, encouraged, as she
believed, by her father to renew his suit.
Ills second rejection had apparently as
tonished him moio than tho first, and
had bo visibly excited his anger that she
was forced to tho conclusion that he
wanted, unaccountable as such motive
scents, to niarrj her from something llko
malice. The next month lie sailed for
Europe, to bo absent indefinitely, and her
father upbraided her for what ho pro
nounced her extreme folly in onco moro
declining n rich, handsome, well con
nected fellow, whom most of tho girls in
her set would lw overjoyed to get.
Mouths and seasons passed, very, very
slowly, for the horrors of the civil war
seemed to stretch out time immeasurably.
Darrell had taken actlvo part in most of
the engagements in Virginia, serving
under McClellan, Burnside, Hookei,
Meade, and finally Grant. He had gone
unscathed through the bloody battles of
tho Wilderness, nnd In tho summer of
180J wns sent with his regiment, which
ho now commanded as colonel, to be
siege Petersburg. Ho had been greatly
opposed to asking for leavo of absence,
but had several times, dining lulls of
active hostility, seen, with iuci cased love,
his betrothed, who had gone on to Wash
ington under chnperonage of a maiden
aunt. Helen had been anxious to serve
as a voluntary nurse in the hospitals of
thut capital, but her father, who was not
very well, had persuaded her that he
needed her care at home. Tito lovers
had often been tempted to marry clan
destinely, but they had leslsted the
temptation, oven when sho had, in de
spairing mood, a horrible presentiment
that ho would die in tho field.
"Remember, my darling," he would
say, in mock heroic tone, "that it is
written in the stars that our matiimo
nial war shall begin after the nation's
peace."
tin told mi:
l I ,
--" f I) -
IMS NAMU WAS
SUATON.
DAItRELI.
SATURDAY, MAY 3t,
In the winter of 1801 -Alio wasordered,
with his regiment and a considerable
Union foiee, to mako another attempt to
get H)ssesslou of a railway to the south
of iVtetsburg. They started at dawn,
and had a sharp engagement with a
larger Confederate foice, encountering
au admirably managed battel y. which
threw his regiment into confusion. A
numbr of the men had been killed anil
sevemlnf tho ollleers wounded. While
attempting to rally his command a shell
exploded over his head, a fragment strik
ing and killing his horse, and another
shatteiing his left leg. He fell undei
thu animal, and u midden charge of the
enemy, In overwhelming foico, drove
back his regiment. A southern soldier
was on the K)lnt of hrusting a bayonet
Into him as ho lay ioio stunned, when
ticantnlt' of tho command knocked tb
fellow tiowu with the flat or his sword.
The Unionists Boon retreated, and Dar
rell on recovering his senses found him
self apilsoner ami suffering Intensely.
After a while he was romoved ton tem
porary hospital, wheio the Confederate
captain viMlcd him und dil what ho could
for his comfort. Tho two men, about
tho same ae, appeared to havo au nfiln
Ity for one another, and soon became.
a.s they called It, very friendly enemies.
Thumiceeodlng weeks were full of events;
the catiMt fif thu south wan rapidly disin
tegrating. Ah soon us possible Darrell
wrote to Helen what had occuued, but
tho letter was lost Everything in the
south was chaotic. He was sent to Mo
bile, wheio his wound refused to heal, and
wheio fever wuh consuming his life. Ho
was not aware when Richmond fell, lw
lug semi-delirious at the time. Mean
while ho hud been leported killed and
his Iwdj missing. Tho New York news
papers contained touching ohiluuiics of
lilin, mid poor Helen .Morley, wishing
that she had died with him, mourned
without hope. Her father had failed In
business, nnd thu shock of his failure
made him an almost hopeless paralytic.
As tho daughter carefully uttonded to
his wants in asmallerand humbler home,
sho fiequontly whispered to Iter despair
ing Item t, "My presentiment was the
projected shadow of destiny."
Two months after tho surrender of tho
last of the southern forces our foes no
longer, hut our common countrymen 1
met a lame, pale- man In Broadway, who
accosted mo warmly. I recognized him
not. Ho told me his name wns Darrell
Seaton, and then 1 saw In his altered
featuies my old friend.
"How Is it with you now, my ileur
fellow'r"
"It Is all well. I married Helen Mor
loy a week ago, and with such a woman
as my companion I defy fato."
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thority i eckons thu annual mortality of Afri
can elephants ns high as (V,000 for tuqiort
alone, besides which thero Is n lnrneconsum
tion In Africa itself, tho chiefs In tho center
keeping tho, choicest tusks for tho decoration
of tbuir temple, houses and graves.
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