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THE DAILY 1 1 Kit A LI). 1'LATTSMOltTII, NEBRASKA, SATUUnAOnEjr
A POWDER -MINE HERO.
A THRILLING INCIDENT OF THE
SIEGE OF PETERSBURG.
How a Common Soldier AcciniipHnli'l
an I iil-rtuUlnx Without I"iirull-I In
the AniiiiN or Military Milling Kuii
ulnn an A v. ful Kink.
When tlio civil war alarm Imr;t uiii tho
country, in lull, the rniiifr.s of the upjM-r
Kihuy lkill n-ion, in tlio iiiuiintains of IVim
tylviuiia, iim-lo up u regiment, tlio Forty
ciglith 1'emisylvaiiiu Unserve. la tlio ranks
of Ouiipuny K was liur. Reese, n young
mail without pn-tentioiis but filled with t!i:it
fjuiet urdor that lx-s not Hash and fado. The,
Forty-'ighth mrved in tho early buttles .f
Virginia and in tho southwest, in Mississippi
imd Teimessw, and when tho siege of Peters
burg lioguii, i:i June, 1WI, tlio ranks of it i
thousand stalwart minors had Ijdl-h thinned
out by bullet and tho hardships of ramp and
Biurch to a rotiplo of hundred, and the.se,
though .bronzod nnd noldiurly looking, wt-re
not tho in-u of lsJl, for fever nnd privation
liiuko wasto with tho fit rongest bodieu.
1 loose vat yet but a common soldier, al
though bo had won tho chevrons of o-r-geaut,
nni) raiik below an oflieo. Vhen tra:t
brought tlio army to M'J ti-onelins ix.foro IV
teivitiiiig that summer tho ton littlo bauds of
tins Forty-eighth, numbering alx:it twenty
men oueli, were plaeed in tho front line, op
jiosito tho most imjx'rtajit fort tho Confeder
al s bad fort!.:: profe-l io:i of tho city. It
had cosi oar army 15,M) men to get up near
that fort, mi I if it could bo destroyed it was
belioved that wo could march into i'e'ivrs
burg. Wo had sjM-nt ton days trying to curry
tho ijsition by regular assault, ami nt tho
rate wo wero Io.-,ing men wo could throw
them all away and make no progress. Theso
jninenj wore so far fro-.U tlu.t they could hear
oiiemv talk in their works, and 0110 day
or night, rather a sort of li'-iglilmrly council
wis bold in tho curnpot too 1- 01-iy-eigMii, au-i
-.. 0110 i.rooose.l to destroy tho .stubborn
tVonghold that Mocked t lio way by digging
i tuunel from their v.-or,;s ij a point 11-in,
tm lxF 1 ftii'taud c ;!. I in-r a iM;vder maga-
xlr.-j tbtro thai woul 1 tear u'.l abovo it to
ruiiu.
Tf. nil b!n.:'.'.-r to bo-'in with, but Kergt.
i v .,i.ri,t. in -.In idea earncsllv. Ho
A.ev:w 1 ' "
fixed U:i n phm nnd 1 ;id it before his supe
riors promising r.iut llioaeiuai moor 01 in
0.0: dd ! ih rL'oriiKvl at al hazard
Finally he cali-.f'-d th:; c Ionel of tho regi
meat, nnd that oUi-.vr, l;c'ng an engineer, uj-
r,.,-..li!i,.wh,"'ii.nn l lia l millieicnt inllu
eui-o to get permission from headquarters to
boo'u the tunnel. ii.it 11 was ierini.vM..ii
Tl.o l i 'her ixi.veis did H it lurmsli
,. ,..1,. .,..!,:-. nor extend any encouragement.
lltvso and about a w.-i.-ro of hi.; fellows took
tor.ie comi'ion twup t.K v.-ith empty cracker
f..r lorrnws. and dii ' tho earth m small
qiriiitities, na 1 at night carried it away out
of siht of tho cii-my. As the tunnel grew in,
len:h tho v. ork bH-pi!io i re diflieult. Tbcro
.....I" .-o,.f..r l.n'e: of earth to conceal, and tho
1. .ft nns !;;i-k tind cl'R. It would not do
to opou an air shaft to tho surface abovo
ho nonfedaratea who occupiel
tbo grouiul w ould discover it and defeat tho
ischeiuo.
TUn a-vim l4nw:i tho Uuion nnd Oonfed-
trato lines under which they ivcro tunneling
vnd occupk-l by sbai p.'.hootors, and all day
nml at night, whenever the air was clear, the
bullets did their deadly work whenever a
..Ti.d a Lirii'jt. The amount of
uiatUT t-U:eii out of tho exes vat ion was 18,000
cubic foot, over .-' CUWC lor evei j iuu,
and all of tl.ii had to bo concealed as fast as
it camo out by iilliug it into littlo ravines
tmd sankea sv.t.s behind tho works. And
thyn the movement had to be held a secret
uwav from all Union soldiers that wero not
in tho mining party, bot-auso these men were
frequently captured on the outposts and tho
enemy could for'-v W3 weak prisoner to let
out his secret information.
AN AWFUL UNDERTAKING.
The fear of detection from the ground over
head ako conir'lkxl the men to work in tho
close shaft without air from tho surface Tlio
smallest aperture could not be made over
head without danger of its teing found by
eomo Confederatj scouts or pickets. All of
the fresh air let into tho tuunel came through
,i woodfu tulxj r-.mrung from the mouth of
the shaft and having a partition so arranged
us to carry a foul air current away and bring
In a su;.pfv of fresh air, and the circulating
movement was kept up by a firo burned coii
Btaatly at tho mouth of tho shaft to set tho
air in motion. This contrivance was a help,
but for all that tho miners became faint from
tho fatigiio l.vA foul air, and the bard work
disabled them in about two hours, and they
had to go into tho tunnel m reliefs and bo
cheered and encouraged at every step. It
h.".d looked easier on tuo start than it really
proved to be to run a shaft so far into the
earth without ventilation and without nie
fhauical appliances.
The soul of tha enterprise at this hour of
disrroara-cmeat w-ns Reese, who labored al
most incessantly with tho men and smoothed
over every obstacle o.nd silenced overy doubt.
Tho distance to 1 covered was over iMO feet,
and such an uaderUkiug had no precedent in
mining annals. The experienced engineers
of the army laughed r.t it and the generals in
command refuse i to commit themselves to it
until its projectors should prove- its feasi
bility, and that could le done in this case by
thq fact accomplished only.
At tho end ot" the first half of the shaft tho
tiinnclera ran uiu a bed of quicksand and
i; was impossible to work through it, for it
would cavo in raid fill up the shaft as fast as
men could shovel it out. The work stopped
for a time. Tho surface of the earth abovo
was a thick laver cf clay, and Keeso thought
that by curving tho shaft upward until tho
chsTv was its roof ho could cross tho sand bed
and then descend to a depth to bring tbera
underneath the fort. This delicate work was
k,-i,.-.i i v r.'i almost alone. Tho
possibility i.f ling heard by the Confeder
ates up over them while they worked close to
that shell of a roof made this the most dim
cult of all the ciierations. In fact tho work
was heard, and tho enemy sent out men to
probe the ground with long pikes, but our
u-.vu marksmen bothered them so much with
bullets that they failed to get their pikes into
tho tunncL
THE COMMANDER'S COSIrLIMENT.
Tho commanding general now visited the
mine and complimented the faithful miner
for his triumph. From that time forward
tho generals began to have soldiers and can
non ready to advance over tho wreck irume
diatoly after the explosion and secure tho
heights 'that protected Petersburg. Tho en
thusiasm of Iteese extended over the regi
ment ot last, and willing workers came from
every company to help tho hazardous enter
prise along. Tha immediate dangers wero
many, for tho miners bad reached tho first
lino of Confederate breastworks where there
were hundreds of men and cannon and horses
oyer 'them, Uaidti the concusaiuu 'of tha
heavy cannonading continually shaking tho
. i!t- f ha trpmors of an earto-
W HO IO Jij,v" - j
o aako. Should tho earth cavo mupon tho .
minrg they wouiu do ueyuuu iwu ow-w. .
from our line, and any who survived would
U liablo to execution at the hands of tbo I
pnomy, for although mining is resorted to iu
all war it is outlawed by tho recognized
code, and miners, like spies, forfeit their
lives if caught. Again, tho unuiriy might de
tect tho work here and place torlooa with
mngaziiies in tiio wny of tho tunnelers,
Coiintermining was Ix-gun for this purjMx
while thp miners wero working under tho
main fort, but tlio shafts made by tbo Con
fiiderates w-ro alwiut twenty feet oat of tho
way and failed to detect tho bU-ultby labors
going on so dose at band.
At loii"th t in i-st minted dlSt.-inco hadlKHn
tunnelc'l anl chnmlx rs werepreparwl for tho
explosives. 1 ho coiimiaii'ler 01 ine army nan
out bis forci-s in readin-'ss to go forward, and
all the attention was fixed upon this point.
Tbo patience of the loaders was at full strain;
tho workmen in tho initio were exhausted,
while yet they were jubilant over tho comple
tion of tho t;i.sk. Sudde nly it was sivn that u
mistake in m'.-asuroiiicnt of about nine yards
bad placed the chamU-rs outsitlo the Coiifel-
erato fort, and not under it. Tlio enterprise
would fail. So sensitive wero all concerned
lieoauso f tho criticisms and ridiculo tlm
strango iiroject h i I ca!l-il forth that there
was not hii ollieer w ith the moral courage to
face tho chiefs and reveal tho unwelcome
truth. Kei-so got iti':n pledged for another
elTort and then wont to headquarters and
asked for thrco lays to compl-to tho exten
sions. The new ii!Iieulty shattered tbo faith
of tho generals, but tbo work was finished
alien 1 of time and t he powder was lant, ana
thus a second time I loose bad baved tho whole
cnterirlst.
Now &,X.') men with ca'alry and batteries
wero placed m waiting, ami at iu-sd it sec.'iieci
as though by a master stroke Lee"3 jiowerfui
walls i;'il armament would tie luuverwl to a
useless mas ;, l'etci sburg would fad, and tho
go:.l of three years' campaigning around llich-
moiid would lio reached, for llichmoud and
Petersburg must stand or fail together.
A MOMENT !' UilCll).
The hour for tho explosion wn:;at daylight.
Tho army nn.l every leader in it was awako
waiting for tho great event. Iho mmuto
hand moved on fUUvu. twenty minutes, and
thu expbttio:! did not come. Il'X-so bad lit
the fuse, lio.i. 1 ! rant, tho most anxious 01
them all, went jx-r-jonally to the quarters of
(Jen. Meade to know the cause of delay. 1 O-O
morning's full light would reveal to I,jo
t.hess mussed columns, ami the movement of
surprise- would be forestalled. Gen. f.leudo
?e:it two aids to Gen. r.urnside, in command
of the lino at tho mine, and at 4:10 n. m. he
telegraphed over a special field wire laid for
the occasion. The disjiatch lead:
"Is there any difli - iilty in exploding tbo
nine? It is thrce-qunrtors of an hour late."
Half a ton v f powder was packed in cells
iK'ueath tho fort and a fuse running through
a powder trough was burning slowly toward
tho fatal spot. Tho long fuvo had lieen
splic.tl and might burn uncvenlj". A delay
of even ten minutes now- could defeat all.
At 4:20 Gen. "deado's messago was repeated,
and nt 4 A one came still moro urgent stat
in Hint Gen. Grant was waitinjr to know if
o
SL BEIiXAKIVS MONKS.
MIDSUMMER VISIT TO THEIfl
FAMOUS ALPINE HOSPICE.
tho mino could not h-j exploded in order to
determine other projects of tvwault. Follow
ing that, within a minute, came an order
from Gen. Grant to make an assault regard
less of the mine. Gc:i. leado put. it in this
shape.
"The commanding general directs, if your
mine has failed, that you make assault at
ouce."'
A group of the miners huddled at the mouth
of tho shaft, and with them Itcese, tho first to
put spado to the work and the last to come
out after the magazines were fii'ed and liro
put to fuso. The mtno was now his his if it
should fail, his to lie ridiculed, to. bo h by
word and n gazing stock. Fail? It hud
failed! Daylight was upon us; the enemy
was arousing; his men, under arms, wero
walking about across the lines only 100 rods
away.
INTO THE nORRIBLE FIT.
Reese drew his soldier's clasp dirk, and,
turning to a fellow, said:
"I am going into the mine. If it don't blow
up give mo time to reach tho last splice, and
then you come to me with fresh fuse and
twine."
Lie goes into tho tunnel with resolute cau
tion, following up tha telltalo streak of
black ashe3 that show that the fuse is burn
ing its way toward that train of flashing
po'vvder w hich opens to the sulphur chambers
beyond. Any second tho the may reach
there and set the whole mine aflame, letting
the little world overhead down into this hor
rible pit. At last, just ahead of him, tho
bravo miner sees the uncharged fuse; it may
i.bvaii fir. s:i:i-!r or not: oiie fire spark bid
den in that powder cord is enough to sot tho
train ablaze and engulf him in tongues of
flame, giving him a tomb beyond tho reach of
mm.
Yhat a toy of elements is a human crea
ture in such moments? Reese knows this. A
man who handles powder cannot for ono in
stant loso the keen consciousness of its quick
and terrible iov.-cr wiicn tne connecting nasu
is struck. Ho knows all, yet presses on,
roaches far ahead, and with a blow of his
slia.-p blade severs the cord; danger for that
moment is over.
The dolny of burning had been caused by a
splieo in the cord where it had been wound
so tightly that the tiro couldn not eat through
freely, lie male a now, short fuse for quick
work, relit tho floi-hing ttring and escaped
to the mouth of tho tunnel just rs the maga
zine exploded, its chambers carrying ever--thing
up with it and spreading a mass of
ruins where the armament of Leo had stood
grim and threatening in the morning light a
moment before. Georgo L. Kilruer in New
York iiail and Express.
Tho Jtfiirvolf'fit Work of the ISrother
liood IloHpituIlty That Knowo Neither
Kace Nor Cr-d A Ixolc at tho 1
The Charnrl IIoiih.
A moment later,turningnlnd in the gorge,
we saw the hospice of Mount St. Bernard, a
mass of cold gray stono ugainst the purj'lo
sky, unutterably lonely, weird, desolato
among those bald rooks, ice-bound cataracts
and snow capid mountains. This was tho
middle of summer, und wo were shivering
from head to foot. Whut must it lio in win
ter. The brotherhood consists of about forty
memlK'i s, the inmates of this monastery be
ing fifteen or twenty Augustine monk:;, most
of them under :X. Homo looked mere Ixiys.
After fifteen years of service tho severity of
the climate undermines their constitutions,
and they are compelled to descend to milder
climates Ieiow. Their otlice is to receive and
lodgo strcugers gratuitously and to render
assistance to travelers in danger during tho
snowy season, which hero lasts about nine
months. In this work of lionevolenco they
are aided by tho famous St. Bernard dogs,
whose keen sense of smell enables them to
track and discover travelers buried in tho
snow, numliers of whom are rescued by meso
iiobl'j animals.
Our first impression of tho hospico was of
sonio ruined chateau. There wero lieggurs
hanging 0:1 the outskirts and paupers gathered
about the arched doorway; young Italians
with packs on their backs, mountaineers re
turned from tho bunt with guns and gamo
bags, guides, young Englishmen "tramping
it" through tho Alps, aiid wanderers like our
selves, all alike welcomed by tho fTeat glow
ing lantern which sheds its rays far into the
pass 0:1 cither side. I was not astonished
when tho j-oung priest told ino later that
often they have lodged 000 strangers of a
night under that hospitaMo roof.
"1x3 I'ere Joseph Lulsier" was in charge.
Young, full of action, energy written in every
lino ot tho. figure licucath the long black cas
sock, he camo forward to meet us courteously.
Had he been a wealth- man of the world re
ceiving invited guests to his own home, he
could not have welcomed us moro graciously.
And yet, as ho did so. ho bad not an idea
where ho should place us for tho night. He
n.-ked us to wait a moment, mid turned away,
rubbing bis cliin with a perplexed looked.
He soon returned, running lightly down tho
stone stairs. This quick step was character
istic of tho man, as was also tho merriest
laugh I ever heard, with which, ho explained
his perplexities. It had stormed the two pre
ceding days; some Italian priests on their w ay
to Franco wero spending a few days. Every
nook and corner was full, but these priests
had offered us their apartments and would
lodgo with tho brothers. Thus it was cr
ranged, and wo found ourselves in the rooiii3
of honor, comfortably furnished, and with
lieautif ul St. Bernard dogskin rugs about tho
floors. They sent us dry shoes and stockings,
offered hot drinks, and right royally received
the American strangers.
But tho charm of all came later, when,
gathering around tho flaming logs, listening
to the crackling of pine cones, tho Fevo
T.i-;ier told us of their winter life, tbo dreari
ness of their lone vigils, the thrilling udven
THE ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER.
Story of tho Ityrdcll Murder How Frank
IvhI1 MuiId a lllg Hit.
I was chatting the other day with Stephen
II. Horgan on the subject of illustrated jour
nalism. Mr. Horgan is u great enthusiast on
that subject. He was for ten yours connected
with The Graphic, und tbo process used on
that publication for making pictures raj
idly was bis invention. Conversation on
tho Ir. Burdell murder case brought tho sub
ject up.
'Few jK-oplo know that tbo Burdell case
did more toward making tho American illus
trated tiewspaM-r a success than even tho
civil war," Mr. Horgan said. "In 1-VI I". T.
V.Mi-nmii rmti'.-ht, Tho Illustrated New York
News; but, not withstanding tho vast capital
In bind tbo enterprise, the pnix-r didn't tuko.
mid only one volume was published. Tbo
foreman of tho engraving department was
Henry ( arter, afterward known as J-rnnk
Leslie. Carter, or lx-slie, still bad faith iu
an illustrated paper, and on Dec. 14, ls.V, ho
issui-d th first number of Frank Ix-slio
Illust rated NewsiiatxT. It was not profitable.
"But I.cslio had a faculty for sharing bis
own hopeful spirit with his creditors. In this
V.11V li miuiaicd to keen tho concern coin
until tho winter of ls..7, which promised to
bo mi exec dinghy cold 0:10 for him. Some f
tho artis and engravers had gone without
salaries for a month, tbo paper men wero
threatening tbev would deliver no more
paiK-r, und there were signs on all sides that
'Leslie's' would follow its predecessors ami
another wreck 1x3 added to tbo attempts at an
"But just us tho collapse .seemed unavoid
able Dr. Burdell, a popular New York ilen
tint, was found brutally murdered in Mrs.
Cunningham's bouse 111 Bond street, m v. loeh
he boar. led and where bis ollieo was. Mur
ders were not frequent iu those days, and con
sequently it was uio taiK or tue wiioie ciiy
.ho next day.
"That morning Mr. Berghiius, Leslie's chief
artist, got into tlio- Bond street hou:e and
sketched tbo murdered man us he was found.
the disordered room, tho blood tracks on tho
stairs, and, in fact, everything about tbo
. it, i.n L'm III, I'll :lnl .l.'iLti t. ..tYicr. nuil
Leslie saw at onco it would Ik on opportunity
to demonstrate to the public the value, of an
illustrated paoor. lie impressed the artists.
engravers, paper men, in factevoryono whose
hcii ho needed, with this idea. In a few
hours bo had every available artist and en
graver in tho city working 011 his wood
blocks, and in twent v-four he hail them 011
tho press and the first copies of bis extra
edition were be ing rushed out on the street,
"The paper sold quicker than the prover
bial 'hot cakes' nnd ho printed an edition of
copies to supply the demand. Having
awakened a widest, read interest in tho cast
ho followed it up each week with pictures il
lustrating every event down to tho acquittal
of Mrs. Cunningham, who bad lieen accused
of thut crime. Lot-lie would have made a
fortune out of it had ho not been so deeply in
debt, but be sottkd with his creditors and
was enabled to put his puper on such a solid
foundation that it lias stood many financial
storms since.
ftrol:o
,ied Tho
what a hit Leslie had rade be immediately
transierrea iesuus pictures to now uiocks,
had them re-engraved and reproduced them
in his own paper. This brought aliout a
quarrel between Leslie and Matscll, which
ended in Leslie copyrighting his paper, o
BOOTS &
SHOES
The paint' quality
the Miirijii
ot floods 10 iereent. t-lieajter than any house west ot-
VH1 lif.V IT lll 11 ll(lp-k ill I. CaJI ami becoiivineeil.
"Another incident of Leslie's happy 1
was this: Chief of Police Matsell ownei
ness 01 men 10110 vijii, iimmiH.u.5 - - . . .
tures of their daily search for travelers, whi n custom which has prevailed among lUustra.ed
.. . - -1 i 1 ir.iiimnli r.vir smeo iAt'1 )onil 1 m iSiili:iIo
Express.
nil tlm Tt.n vf.irers nn noor. when cold IS in
tense, the snow of great depth, and tho dan
gers from storms even threatening their
strong monaster"- "W went to our rooms
trembling with excitement and crept under
the elder down quilts, thankful that ours was
-McDonald in Buffalo
The Ameer Punishes an Alarmist.
Some strange stories have been told of the
way in which the ameer lords it over Ins peo-
.ln rPt.rW it? 1 1 11 11 1 ' .r" 1-1 1 1 ' Tl" .1 I' 1 1 f 1 .1 1 1'i 11 'T
the elder down quilts, inamiiui uiai vu. .u , -"j -1
o-dy a twenty-four hours' stay in this deso- j I'lc There is a humor m his way of playing
,f,v; the part : of lord absolute which can Lest bo
The Atgelu3 wakened us at 5 tho following
morning, and wo heard the monk3 chanting
their morning prayers. Later wo found tho
chapel open and mass being said. The Italian
priests were hero gorgeous in scarlet i)id
white lace, and a few poor wayfarers kneeled
on the prio tlieus telling their beads. It was
wonderfully solemn, and when ono of the
brothers, having finished his celebration in a
si lo chnpcl, entered tho organ loft, and tho
deep tones of music filled the entire monastery,
I felt that his soul must indeed bo satisfied,
his life complete in the wonderful harmony.
Tho vaulted corridors reverberated tho
chords, and long after tho chapel was erapty
aud matins over, tho young priest sat as if
inspired, and we heard the music still as we
nn flown rha oath and crossed tho
boundary into Italy, the limit between Sw it-
the part of lord absolute which can Lest bo
appreciated at a distance, as the story w hich
1ti -iiwt. i-oneiifxl ns vlifnv "Vr.t. lfirrr firra
...... j ... - . i. - . . --n ,
we are told, the ninocr was sitting in durbar
Uj.scu"iiig public aiiairs. ino iiomc' cie-
r.nvti-iei-t. had r-orio thronrrh their n-nrk.
Orders bail been issued to release certain per
sons from the sorrows of existence, when th-
durbar suddenly dashed into L-reater thinrra.
and began to talk about the English and the
Russians. A man who had lately been intro
duced at court and was not well acquainted
with his sovereign s ways, remarked: "Lord
of the earth, let people say what they like,
but this humble one has boon scanning tho
political horizon with far reaching eyes, and
4 i, i PiKvinra o pnmHifr " Tlir 1 1 1 1 t f 4 1 1
j earth smiled a sweet smile soma of tho old
courtiers wno Knew tuat smue also smiled
and, turning upon him with the 'Tar reach
ing eves, said: ""iinght jawell or our dui-
zerland and Italy being marKeti uy mo j
two national shields cut into the rocks side bar and son of our unden.tanding art thou
r .. . . . ... . i .- ji.-.i .se.ro of this.'" "The lord of the earth is ou-
V.'cdilingS in Colonial Days,
"Weddings in early colonial clays were usu
ally celebrated quietly at the homo cf the
bride. With the increase of wealth there
was a marked chango in this respect. Not
only were the banns proclaimed in tho church,
but a general invitation was given from the
pulpit to attend the ceremony, l riends and
neighbors wero entertained with a lavish
hospitality at the brido's house. On the wed
ding dev muskeU wero fired, and those who
attended the ceremony marched iu procession
to the brides homo. The wedding feasts
lasted somet i mes for t wo or three days. At a
grand wedding in Now London, on tho day
after the marriage ninety-two, ladies and
mmtlomfn it is siid. proceeded to dance
ninety-two jigs, fiicy-two contra dances,
forty-five minuets and seventeen hornpipes.
History of Connecticut.
lrs- Langtry's Kusinesa Ways.
Ars. Langtry's attention to business details
has often loen commented upon, but it is not
i- . i i . . i i '
generally known now maeiatigauio sue uu
is at times. When tho curtain is down be
tween tho acts, and tho Lily has finished
dressing, sho has her maid tuck up her skirts,
cover her with white aprons, and then she
comes onto the stage, gives directions right
end left, but in tho mildest of tones, and often
places a piece of furniture or a bit of bric-a-brac
where it will thow to tho best ad
vantage. Boston Transcript.
Tho Wlii to Cow.
Four-year-old littlo Edith, after seeing
mxnv wvi mill hrown and black and parti
colored cows, suddenly noticed one that wore
nn npni-n of whito. "Oh. sco there'."
the exclaimed; "there's a cow they didn't
paint." Harper's Bazar. ,
i.-v- iilo and above a Roman column mscrib.
with curious figures and signs. On the ad
jacent Plaiue do Jupiter once rose the tomnlo
to Jupiter Pooninus, aud later the Romau3
erected a hospice there, about 100 IJ. C, on
the sito of which have been found many very
beautiful coins and relics. Thi3 collection,
in the library of tho hospice, well repaid the
tinio v.-e gavo to it, as did also tho vellum
bound manuscripts and rare old books we
found there.
From here wo went to pay cur respects to
the dors, whose kennels aro well worth Boe
ing. The great awkward puppies balls of
soft yellow and white fur wero rolling
about among tho hay. Tho dogs have al
most intelligent faces, great, soft eyes and a
gentle manner. They looked as if they com.
nrehonded their mission in life, and were
ready for it. Each know his nomo and an
swered tq it readil-, crouching low beside
his master or standing erect for service cs
tho call directed. They wero indeed glorious
beasts.
The last memory of St. Bernard haunts us
still. A little way from the hospico stands
a small stone building surmounted by a cross.
This is tho morgue tho roceptable for bodies
f.-i.rl ;-i tho smw. Wo supposed it to bo
like other morgues wo had seen, a temporary
resting place for the unfortunates until
decent burial might be given them, and
urged by our guide to visit the place we
turned from our path -tOss tho snow to
enter when, to our ho.-r, wo found tbo
place literally paved with human bones; and
there, in their dark, cold cells they stood
erect, ghastly frozen creature, just as they
had been found, their earthly belongings
still clinging to them tho cold of winter and
the heat of summer alike impotent to alter
their last rigid smile, till time in the centu
ries to come will tum them back to dust,
like those of their fellows beneath their feet
tho dust of mortality fine as tho finest pow
der, light almost as air. TTo shuddered as
we turned away. It is so uncanny to keep
them thero unburied. Cor. New lorn .sun.
sure of this.'" "The lord of the earth is om
r.iseent and know3 cvervthinz." replied be
"Well, to bo sure wo do se things and know
one or two things, but we aro old now. More
over, von tree obstructs our view. How
ever thou art young; go thou, therefore.
climb tho tree, watch the cursed Muscovite's
miiL-pmciifci. mill wlum be is very close uoon
in? -,mr nnil 1 n f nTn 1 lis 'Plin trVl is hiriSi Krt
that thou shalt bo enabled to seo a long way
Forthwith tho man was led to the to and
made to climb to the topmost branches. To
keen iro his courage if he etv.v weary of his
po.-.t, a guard with lxiyor.ets fixed was told
oil to remain neiow. i-u 1. Liiuocii
man fvlt considerably elevated by his inas-
tcr'-s humor, anl felt very exhiliaratod at
first: but three days' contemplation of the
beauties of nature, even frooi such a com
manding position, is apt to tiro o:vj, and ro
ho fell. Ihc v say ho got nuvt ami UictL .no
one dares to raise alarms in
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An Echo of Papa's Thoughts.
A little member of a Boston household has
been greatly wrought up by the advent of a
litter of kittens, anil particularly exercised
over the drowning of tltf cuofat of them. The
question ps to which should be permitted to
live aiid which consigned to a watery grave
had been long discussed, and the decision had
inff m imfolibla imuression on tho littlo fel
low's mind, bomo days after, tho family of 4
which ha is a member was augmeniea uy me
birth of triplets, and the littlo boy, oa being
llrst presented to tho new comers, startled
everybody by tbo query: "Papa, how many
u 00 goin' to drown r Boston Budget
I.enl Assistance to the Thinkeru,
"We go a step further, and assert that mou
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to public institutions,-ostentatious charities,
catholral windows, and the like, should re
member that tbey benefit the public quite as
much vben, in a private way, they assist tho
thinkers. Xor should it be held against 6uch
thought workers if they so accept such at
tempts to lighten their struggles. S. G, W
Benjamin in Magazine of American History.
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Boston Journal fcf Education.
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