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ry of Tli rif-t i a nit r 1
TalinaKe in this dit-
J. ruiiw, and remarkable instances of
ts-lf-micrifice are brought out fur illuslra
lifin. The lout is Hebrew ix., "With
out Hliedding of blood is no remission."
John (i. Wliilti. r, the iut of Ihe great
wbool of Aiuoriinu poet tliat made the
hurt quarter of tliU century brilliant, ask
ed me iu the White mountain one tuoni
ing after prajer. in which I had given
out Cowpcr's famou hymn about "the
fountain tilled with blood," "Do you really
lieheve there in a literal application of the
blood of Christ to the goiil?" My negative
reply then is my negative reply now. The
Bible atateuient ucrnt with ail physician
and all pbyt.ioiogit.ta and all H.-ieiitifU in
wiyin)f tliat the blood I the life, and iu
the Christian religion It mean simply
that Uhrit's life a (riven for our life.
Hence all this talk of men who nay the
Bible story of blood is disgimtmK, ni1
that tjiey don't want what they call a
"slaughter house religion," only shows
their Incapacity or unwillingness to hnik
through the figure of x toward the
tiling iiKiiilied. The blood tht on tiic
darken!. Friday the world ever saw (sized
or trickled or poured troiu the brow, and
the side, an.i the hands, and the feet of the
illimtriniis sufferer lin k of .Icna-alem in
a few bourn coagulated and dried up Blll
forever disappeared, and if nian hud de
pended on the application of the literal
bkiod of Christ there would not have 1cmi
a soul saved for the lawt eighteen cen
turies. The Keil Word.
In order to uudcrKtand thus red word of
Diy text we only have to exercise as much
ootnuaon nense hi religion a we do iu
everything else. Itai.g for pant;, hunger
for hunger, futigue for fatigue, tear for
V-ar, blood for blood, life for life, we see
very day illiottmted. The act of substi
tutiom in no novelty, although I hear men
taJk aa though Uie idi of Chrit Bufl'er
lng aubsliinied for "iir mifferins were
something abuoruiu!, one ihlut; duslrew
Inf.'y odd, wniiething uud.y ecreiftrie, a
olilary eptaode in the world's history,
Tihen 1 could take jou out into this city
rid In-fore aundow n iiil you to ."ihi cum ).
of ubaiiliitinn and voluniary hiilTering of
one Id behalf of another.
At 2 o'clock to-iioirow aftem'ton go
annuig the plso of busmen-, or toil. It
d! be no iliillcult tiling for you to titxl
truti who by their look show you thut.
they are overworked. They are prctun
turely M. 'iliey ure hiu,t. niig rapidly
toward their decease, Tlwy hme gone
through crixex in 1iu:im-ks that khattercd
their iirrvo: syxK'in and pulled on the
brain. They h:ne n hortnei of breath
and a vain in the back of the head and at
night an insomnia that alarum ihoin. Why
,j ate tJu'y ilrudgiK at biimnes" early and
4ate'; KnrfiinV No. 1 1 would lie diltlcuit
Veitra"t any a imiim-ii.cuI out of tliat ex
i.hanatiun. Jteeaue they are avariciotiH?
' Jn many ram no. ltecouM their own
certsonnl ettix-nsen are lavish.' No. A I
few hundred dollar would meet all their
mam. The simple fact i the man la en
during all rliat fntigne arid exasperation
aj:d near and ter to keep hi home pro
rTHiH. There ia a;i invisible Hue reach
ing from that store, from that Imtik, from
tat shop, from tl.Mt -.cs ffuiding, to n
quiet little m-ene a few b!'M k. a few mill
amy, and then1 is the nei-ri-t of that biii
tiesa endurance, lie ib simply the cham
pion of a boijiintciid. for which he wins
bread and wardrobe and education and
pros(enty, and in audi ha Hie 10,0MI men
fall. Of ten business nu n v. hun I bury
nine die of overwork for other. Some
udden dlaeaxe limit them witii no power
of resistance, and they are gone. Life
for life! Htood for blood! Sulititution!
A llm I.iuht in the llouar.
At 1 o'clock tomorrow tiioniing, the
hour when uliiniber is moat utiinbernipted
and profound, walk amid the dwelling
aonaeti of the city. Here and there you
Kill find a dim light, hccauM it ia the
household eiiatoin to kei-p a wiIhJihiI light
buniiriK. but moet of th- hoiisea from ba
to top are as dark as though uninhabited.
A merciful (ind haa serrt forth the arch
angel of f l-i, and he put hi wing over
the city. Hut yonder m a cU-ar light burn
ing, and ont-n!e on :i window casement a
gloM or nitcher containing food for a nick'
ehild. The food ! in the frewh air.
Thi i the fcixth night that mother has
at up nllh that HiiDeri-r. She has to the
lat point oU-ycd the physician' proscrip
tion, not givii.g a diop too nun h or loo
little or a moment too oon or too late.
Hhe la Tery anxioiia. for ahe hax tinned
time i-hlldreii with the same dWnaae, and
ahe pray and werp". en li prayer and mill
tiding w ith a Us of the pale cheek, lly
, dint of kindness she get the little one
through the ordeal. After it i all over
the mother is taken down. Urn in or nerv
ous fever set in, arid one day nhe leave
' the ' nuivalcMt'iit child with a mother'
bleiiK and got up to join ihe three de
parted oiim In the kingdom of heaven.
Life for life! Suf-tituliou! 'Hie fact
1 that there are in imeoiiiiied iiiimlxr of
rnothera who after they have navigated a
large' family of cliiidreti through all the
discajle pf Infamy and got theiu fairly
atarted tip the tlowci.lig sh-pe of boyhood
and tftrlhood have only alrenglh etiuiigh
left to die.' They fade away. Home call It
ronniiinptlon, wiiiie call it ncrvoua proa
tralloti. aoine call i1 Ititermiitciit or tna
In rin! Indisposition, but I call it. martyr
dom of the' douiiKtk' eirele. Life for life!
" Ulood for blood! Hnbtitutloti!
'Or perhajm a tttoiher liiigcr long enough
1 . to WW a mil get on the Wong road, and
hi former kindness become mugti n-tdy
arlien aha rtpremeNi anxiety atiuut him.
Itut ah goto right on. looking carefully
after hli apparel, reiiiiniiln-ring hla every
birthday wMh mine nie;nenloi, nt when
h 1 broucht hoioe worn ti 1 1, .with disi
pat'oa BUHM-a him till he get weil and
alartt kial afaia ana hoyea and Mpe.:t
and pm and eouioi Is and siifl'ers until
her etrengtli gives out and she fails. She
is going, and attendants. Vending over her
pillow, ask her if who ha any message to
leave, and she maki great effort to nay
something. 1-ul nut of three or four min
utes of itidis,:i utterance they can catch
but thVee w..ri!-, "My poor l..y!" '1'he
simple fai-t is !-!.- died for him. Life for
life! Substitution!
Klood for Itiood.
About thirty -eigit years ago there went
forth from our northern and southern
home hundred of thousands of men to do
battle. All the poetry of war soon van
ished and left them nothing but the terri
ble proee. They waded knee dwp in mud,
'Hiey slept in snowbanks. They marched
till their cut feet tracked the earth. They
were swindled out of their honest ration
and lived on meat not tit for a dog. They
had j'mwh fractured uud ejes extinguished
aud limbs ahot away. Thousands of them
cried for water a they lay on the field the
night after the bottle and g'rt it not. They
were homesick and received no message
from their lovis) ones. They died in barns,
in biixhes, in ditches, the buzzards of the
summer hetit the only attendant on their
otMrtHiuie. No one-but the infinite (lod,
who know everything, kimw rhe ten
thouiiaiidtli part of the length and breadth
and depth and heig-ht of Riiguieh of the
norUiern and southern battleliebln. Why
did these father leave their children and
go to the front, and why did thie young
men, postponing the marriage day, start
out into the prol.abilitie of never coming
back? For a principle they died. Life
for life! Hlood for blood! Sulit-titulion!
Hut we nc-d not go no far. What is that
iiiominiiMit in the cemetery? It is to the
doctor who fell in the Koutliern epitlcinim.
Why go? Were there not enough nick to
be attended in thce lmrthern latitude?
Oh, y; hut the doctor pu's a few medical
books in liih valise, and Home ri.'Ua of med
Uine, and leave hi patients here in tlie
hand of other physician and take the
rail train, lief ore he gets to the infected
regioud he iki s crowded mil trains, reg
ular and extra, taking the flying and af
frighted populations. He arrive in a pity
over which a great horror is brooding. He
goes from couch to couch, feeling the puU-e
and Ktudying symptom and irescribing
day after day, pig-ht after uigbt, until a
fellow physician h: "Ioctor. you had
Ix'tKT go home and rest, you look miwra
ble." Hut he cannot rest while no many
are mifferitg. On and on, untu some
morning finds him in a delirium, in which
Ik- talk of home anil then ries and say
he muwt go and look after those patient.
He ia told to lie down, hut he fights his
attendant until he falU back and is weak
er and weaker and dies for ieop!v w.ih
whom he had no kinship and far a way
from hi own family and Ls hjitily put
jaway Ui a stranger' tomb, and only the
fifth part of ft newniKiisT line, tells im of
j his sm-riliii1 hiii lunne jusn mentioned
, among live. Vet he has touched the
furthet height of subVunity in that three
j week of huniJiiiitariai; som-p. He goes
; straight a an arrow to the Ikisoiii of hiin
who mud, "I wax ick, and ye visiutl me.
Life for life! lllood for blood! Sutwtrtu-
I tion!
A Story of Hcwurd,
In trip legal profenon 1 e' the srame
prini'iple of sell saorilh e. In lspi Will mm
Freeman, pa u-riz'd and idiotic negro,
wa at Auburn. N. V., on trial for mur
der. He had slum tiie entire Van Nest
family. The foaming wrath of the com
mniiity could bo kept off him only by
armed constable. Who would volunteer
to be hi counsel? No attorney wanted to
sacrilii-e his sipularity by mioh an un
grateful task. All were silent Bave one
young lawyer with feeble voice, tliat could
hardly le heard outside the bur, pale and
thin and awkward. It waa William II.
ijewnrd, who saw that the prisoner waa
idiotic and irrc-.potisihlc and ought to be
put in an asylum rather than put to death,
ihe heroic counsel ijtAering these lieauti-
ful worth:
"I speak now in the hearing of a people
who have prejudiced prisoner and eon
I'eumoi! me for pleading in hi behalf. Il
is n convict, a piier, a negro, without in
lelleet, sense or emotion. My child with
Hn nff i-vtionate nmile disarm my careworn
face of it frown whenever I rros my
threahold. 'Hie beggar in the titroet
oblige me to give because he says, '(Jod
bless yott!' a I hh. My dog carexaes
me with fondue&B if I will but mile on
him. My hore recognize m wheo I fill
hi manger. What reward, what grati
tude, what yuntby and afTectJon can I
expert here Jnere the pruowier ita.
Lwik at him. Iok at the asseniblage
around yon. Listen to their ill miippretiHed
cenanre aud exciteil rear, and tell me
where among my neighbor or my fellow
men. when- eviii in hi heart I can expect
to find a seiitluH-ut. a thought, not to say
of reward or of acknowledgment, or even
of recognition, (Jetitletm-n, you may think
of thi evidence what you pb-ase, bring in
what verdict you can, but 1 asurvaie 1
fore hiiuen and you that, to the U-hI
my know ledge and belief, the pi'isoni r at
the liar doe riot ai this iiioiin-nt know
why it is Unit my shadow falls on you in
stead of hi ow n."
The gallow got it victim, hut the pot
mortem examination of the poor creature
showed to all the surgeon and to all the
world tliat the public were wrong and
William II. Seward was rlg-ht and that
hard, atony srtep of obhxUy in Ihe Auburn
cuiirt room an the first step of the stairs
of fame up which lie went to the lop, or to
within oik" slop of the lop. I lull hint denied
him through the ticm-beiy .f A iiiiTK-a li
liMitim. Nothing siibiinii r was ever seen
ill an American conn r .oiu ihau William
II. Reward, without renard. stundlitg be
tween the furious ipulace ud the loath -nine
lnil-ile. Siilihtitiitlon!
An l.xntttiiu rrliirlple.
What nn cMili-iig luliieiple tin, uhieh
lead one to siilh-r lor iinoihcr! Nothing
no kindles eiithiiKiiisiii yr awaken elo
quence, or chine's poetii ciinto, ur mnin
nallon. 'Hie principle i the doininaut
one iu our religion-Chrit the mar'jr.
( hrit the eelestiul hem. t'hrl'l the dc
fender, Christ the ubslilole. No new
principle, for II wa old its human nature,
but now oti a grander, w nicr, higher,
ileetx'r nnd more world i'oi, muling ncalo,
Tlie ahepherd l y as a champion fir Is
rael with a ling lopiiii j the giant of I'hll
islilie braggadocio iu the dust, hut here I
another Ilavld who, for all the nnies of
churrlica uiilituit and Iriuinpliniit, hurl
ihe liolialh or pcrdilloii Into defeat, the
erah of hi hin.t li arulor like an ex'ilu
iou at llcil liale. ' Abrehaio had lit
God'a command agreed to aacrlSVe hl aoa
Isaac, aud the name (iod juat in time had
proTidel a ram of the thicket a a attb
atirute, but there U another Isaac bound
to the altar, and no hand arresta the
aharp edges of laceration ami death, and
the universe shivers and quake and re
coil and groans al tLe horror.
All good men have for centuries lieen
tryiii to tell whom this s-ulistiiulo wa
like, and every comparison, inspired and
uninspired, evangelistic, prophetic, apoa
tolic and human, falU short, for Christ
wa-lhet!rcat I u like, Adam waa tyjie
of Christ, bei-ain-e he ame directly from
(Jod; Noah a ly, of ChriKt, la-cause he
delivered hi own family from deluge;
Mch-hisc.h-o a type of Christ, because he
had no predecessor or successor; Josejih
a tjlM' of Christ, because he wus east out
by bis brethren; Muses a type of Christ,
because he was a deliverer from bond
age; ,.iiuia a npe'or lytirisT, oeeaus
hi was ounitiuTur: Samon a type of
Christ, because of his strength to slay tie
lion and carry off the iron gales of im
possibility; Solomon a type of Christ in the
affluence of his dominion; Jonah a type of
Christ, because of the stormy sea in
which he threw himself for the rescue of
others, but put together Adam and Noah
anil Melchisetlee and Joseph and Moms
aul Joshua and Samson and Solomon aud
Jonah, and Ihey would not make a frag
ment of a Christ, a quarter of a Christ.
the half of a Christ or the millionth part
of a Christ.
From the Top of Glory. '
He forsook a throne and sat down on
bis own footstool. He came from tlie
top of glory to the lsUom of humiliation
ami changed a circumference seraphic
for a irciiuifif eicc diabolic. Once wait
ed on by angels, now hissed at by bri
gands. From ii fa r aud high up he came
lown, past meteors, swifter than they;
by starry throne, himself more lustrous,
past larger worlds to smaller worlds, down
mair of firmament and from cloud to
cloud and through treetopa and into the
earners stall, to thrust his sboalder under
our burden and take the laucea of pain
through his vital, and wrapped himself
in all the agonic which we deserve for
our misdoings and stood on the splitting
deck of u foundering vessel huiuJ tie
druohiug surf of the sea and parsed mid
nights on the mountains amid wild beast
of prey and stood at tlie point where all
earthly and infernal hostilities charged on
him at once with their keen sabers our
ail bstituto!
When did attorney ever endure ao much
for a paiiK-r client or physician for tlie
patient iu Uw lazaretto or mother for the
child in uieiiiliraneoiiM croup as Christ for
ns and Christ for you and Christ for me?
Shall any man or woman or child in thi
audience who has ever suffered for anoth
er find it hard to understand thia Ohristly
suffering for us? Shall those whose sym
pathies have Is en wrung in behalf of the
unfortunate have no appreciation of that
ope moment which was lifted out of all
the ages of eternity as most conspicuous,
when Christ .gathered up nil the sins of
thoee to Is- reibi'ttied under his one arm
and all tin Ir sorrows under his other ann
and said: "I will atone for these under
my right arm and will heal all those un
der my left arm. Strike tne with all tiiy
glittering shafts, oh, eternal justice! Holl
over uie with all thy surge, ye s--ai! of
sorrow.'' And the thutiderlsjlts Htrnck
him from ale, and the seas of trouble
rolled up from lieneatii, -hurricane after
hurricane and cyclotte after cyclone, and
tlieu and tiiere in presence of heaven and
earth and hell, yen, al! worlds w-itiiess.itijf,
the price, the bitter price, the transcendent
price, the awful price, the glorious price,
tlie inlinit price, the eteruiii price, was
paid that set us tree.
The Iieliuioii of Jtlood.
That is what I'nul uiearut, that ia what
I mean, that Is what all those who have
ever hud their heart changed mean by
"blood." I glory in this religion of blood!
I am thrilled n I we tlie suggestive color
in sacramental cup, whether it be of bur
nished silver set on cloth iiiiuinctilately
white or rough hewn from iukkI set on
table iu log hut meeting house of the wil
dcrnesn. Now I am Ihrilliii as I we the
altar of ain-lout sacrifice crimson with
the blood of the slain lamb, and Leviticus
is to me nut so much the Old Testament
as the New. Now I see why the destroy
ing angel passing over Egypt in the night
spared all those house that had blood
sprinkled on I heir doorsteps. Now 1
know what Isaiah means wheu he speaka
of "one in red uiiparel coming with dyed
garment from Huzruh," and whom Uie
Apocalypse mean when it describes
heavenly chieftain whose "vesture wa
dipped in blood," and what John the
apostle uieoiis when he speak of the
"precious blood that cleanseth from all
in," and w hat the old, wornout, de-rcpit,
missionary Paul means when, in my text,
he cries, "Without shedding of blood is no
n-niission." Hy that blood you and I will
ho aved or never saved at all. In all
the age of the world (iod has not once
pardoned a aitigle in except throug'li the
Saviour' expiation, and he never will.
Glory be to (Jod that the hill back of Je
nisalnn waa the battlefield on which
Christ aHiieved our lilsTty!
Our great Waterloo wa in l'alestine.
There came a day when all hell rode up,
led by Asjlyoti, and the captain of our
salvation confronted them alone. The
rider on the while horse of the Apocalypse
going out against the black horse cavalry
of death, and the battalions of the de
moniac and the myrmidon of darknesa.
From 1'.' o'clock at uoou to ,'! o'clock iu
the afternoon the greatest hia.de of the
universe went on. l.lenml destinies were
being decided. All the arrows of hell
pierced our Chieftain, and the battleaxea
struck him, until brow and cheek aud
shoulder aud hand and foot were incarna
dined with oozing life, but he fought on
until he gave a final stroke with word
from Jehovah' buckler, und the com
intitHler iu chief of hell and all hi force
fell buck in everlasting ruin, and the
victory I our. And on the mound that
celeb rule the triumph we plant thia day
two ligure, not in bronze or Iron or
sculptured marble, but two figure of liv
ing light, the Lion of Judah' tribe and the
I. mull that was shun,
i npjilgUt, ISilS.
Sliort Sermon.
Viod anil Mutt. -Man 1h fiod'a big
thought In this earth. Man Ih greater
tbiin nil iiistliuiliiii. Man, you nntl I,
wp it re mnslei; we lire the objects
(iml eiiroK fiif. A be looks upon ('firth
lie l not iinxdoiis in know whether a
cerliiln portion of Ivn'y time la kept ac
cording lo el nib', iut whether that
time I used to ninke u boiler men and
women, more Coilllke, truer to bin owu
Inuige; That In what concerns GoA
mill that la hi solution of the Sabbatb
iin-Nt ion. Ilev, F. A. llortou, PrtMbf
tcrlan. Philadelphia, p.
THE BATTLE-FIELDS.
OLD SOLDIERS TALK OVER
ARMY EXPERIENCES.
Th Blue aad the Orar Review Inci
dents of tbe i.Bte War, and in a
Graphic and latereatinu Manner
Tell of liap, March and Battle.
The Wut of Womideil Men.
"Wounded men," said the Colonel,
"wen- often misunderstood, (ieneral
Filler of Toledo fold me that be never
expoi-loil forgiveness for one harsh
Judgment of his. In the midst of a
battle he was trvlrig to stop the flight
of patiic-stricketi men. One man came
aitimbliiiir along, tun heeding a word
that was said to him. ' Indignant and
Impatient, Fuller as he came near him
leaned from his horse and toiichwl the
limn with ins swonl, saying sharply:
'Go back, sir!' The man looki-d up
w 1th a look tliat said as plain as word:
'I am looking for a plant to die' He
opem-d his liloit.se uud showed u Kr'':lt.
gaping wiMiud lu his lueasl. Then he
dropped lo the ground. The jrcuoral
dismounted as soon as he could, but al
most as he took the man's head on his
arm the poor fellow died.
"Some men when struck showed no
sign- I remember one little fellow who
was struck three times 'In as many
minutes. Tliir first shot struck his
right arm, and he jipx'ffdfd to load
with his left. The next shot struck
him In the leg, ami brought him to his
kniH-s. He had his left arm up, ram
ming home a load, when a bullet struck
that arm. Then he looked up and said
quietly: 'They have a particular spite
against tne. I guess I'll quit,' and he
dropied (low n."
"We had one man In our company,"
said the seigeanl, "who was shot
fnroiigli the IXMly at the battle f Shi
lolt. lie was carried off in an ambu
lance, and the boys supposed they
would never see hint again. I'ut three
days after the battle the regiment
went Into camp not far from the Held
hoapitul, and that afternoon the men
were surprised (o see tbe man who
had laocu shot through and through
walk into camp, usIiik his title as a
caue. He .ninoniiccd that he had bad
enough of the hospital, and wouldn't
go back to It. The regimental sur
geon swore a goisl deal, Insisting that
tie wounded man shuuld return to
the hospital, but In the end agreed
that the plucky fellow should be cared
for lu the coiiiatiny's quarters. The
boys took great care of him. He Im
proved rapidly, went on duty as soon
a he was able to walk, and was with
the company to the end of the service.
"Other nien who couldn't bear phyal
ci.f" oalu were greatly troubled by
fit ,dt wounds, and received less sym
paihy than they deserved. The hard
est wounds to bear were those from
speril Imlls. These were more painful
than the wounds' from the hard bit
ters, but men struck by spent bullets
received, no sympathy at all. For some
reason It was eounied disreputable to
be hit by a spent ball or a splinter from
a rock, and many men worried along
under the most painful wounds with
out golii to the hospital, or without
even consulting; the siirgcan. Some of
the.se fellows carry tae marks to-day,
and Bay nothing aliout them."
"The olllclnl reirt of the capture
of Lookout Mountain," said tlie Ma
jor, "stated that (Ieneral Walter C.
Whltaker was wounded, but that he
didn't leave the Held. That Ih all true,
but. It Is only half the story. Whlt
aker was one of the hums t Impetuous,
driving officers in the army. lie wan
a rejrulftr old stor.ner. He wan push
ing things In great shape In frout
when he waa struck by a rifle ball. lie
beiamf deathly .sick and It was mip
peod at first that he was fatally
wounded. Tlie surgtions ttnd some of
his associate olUcers gathered alxitit
him, anxious and nervous. A purgeon
opened the general's coat and vent look
ing for the wound which Hooinod to be
In the vicinity of the stomach. He
found !n-tween the vest and the under
clothing a rllle ball that had not broken
tlie skin.
"lie said quielly; 'A spent Uill.' The
general ociiod his eyes anal looked up
wrathful and Indignant. 'What Is
that? What Is that? Somebody hit me
with a spent ball? I won't stand It!
llring me my horse!' And fairly throw
ing aside all the people, about him ho
sprung to his feet, climbed on his horse,
and with his clothing lu disarray and
his lint banged on his head started for
the front, swearing at the man who
had hit him with a spent ball. Hut
the old general after that prolmilily had
Ino.e in i hi I by Willi Ihe men who
were struck by balls that iiied to full
from the air that came wlt.lt as Hide
force a.t a slone thrown by a vlclmi::
boy. Sometimes these would atrike a
man on the foot and fairly craze blm
wllh pulii. Sometimes they would drop
on Ms back as he lay face down on the
ground kicking up his heels, ami he
world writhe a though he were lu the
agonies of deulli."
"( ascH o-f malingering w ere no com
mon," said die (bs-ior, "dial surgeons
were suspicious over wounds that had
any mystery about them. Sometimes
R man would come from the biilde-
llchl, pretending to be dazed or uncou
scloiis, and would shrink from die
touch as though he were sore all Over.
There were so many cases of fraud
ninoiig the men who acted In thin way
Hint surgeons were In constant dunjry
of doing Injustice to severely wounded
men.
"One day a iran was brought back
who s ed In great agony, but upon
whom we could find no wound. Ho
couldn't talk coherently, but he pioss
d his hand constantly to his rltflit aide.
Close examination showed tliat he had
been atruck by a fragment of ahell or a
niece of rock, no large a to make a
iuulao two or three Indira acroaa. It
wmm, la fact, mm of the moat AlfflcuH
eases to freat that came tinder my per
sonal Lo'frr, and tfie inun'a suffering
for weeks wan intense. And yet prob
ably 'tuf run rk of a wound Is on that
man's body.
"While I was in charge of one of the
hoHpitals at Nashville, the tucsst ditli
eult cases to handle were those It)
which the Milijiers were influenced by
hallucinations or superstitions. The
patients were arranged In a large ball,
the cous in long rows extending the full
length of the room. One night u pa
tient nlKnit half way down the hall
died. The next night the man coming
next in the row died, and the next day
the third man iu order died. Immedi
ately Nos. 4, 5 and (i insisted on being
moved from the row, and they were so
wild alsmt It that they had to 1
moved.
"No. 7, I noticed, was a quiet, un
complaining man of equable temper,
and, feeling that I must In some way
stop the panic and break the line of su
perstitious dread, I went to him and
led up to the point by asking him if he
had any superstitious tiotions. He said
he had not. Then I asked him if he
would be satisfied to remain as ae was.
and explained that if be did not insist
on being moved 1 could quiet the ex
citement. He smiled and said he would
trust himself In the unlucky row. Tri
fling as this circumstance was, it had
the groata-st influence on the patients
in the row. They watched that man
for two days with unflagging interest,
and it was a grint trial for him to sec,
whenever be was lifted up by the
nurse, a dozen wild-eyed men looking
him over to see whether death was on
fnfen or not : but he stood his ground
and stopped the panic. He recovered
rapidly, and has lieen as hearty as a
buck ever since." Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Fighting Forces af the World.
The latest addition to the military
census of the world presents some
queer figures. At the present time
Kurope lias 3,504 i,CH) men under ams.
Tbe following are the figures of the dif
ferent armies on a peace fooling:
Men.
Iieuiimik Io.ikKI
Servlu IO.IKKI
Holland rJ.IXK,
i , reece
Portugal
Uoiiiiiunta
licliiium
Sweden and Norway .,
Spall,
Sw II zeriu ml
Turkey
-Jo.isiO
, ... an.ooO
4,ooC
. ... B'.'.Oofi
fo.ooc
. ... SU.IKKi
. .. .K.".,ISI
. .. .1S0.OOU
. .. .'JOO.UOU
Creiit Ilrltuia . .
Italy liH'otx;
Austria itdo.OOO
France. ...570,tiOC
lienoaiiy .fiSal.iKiC
Itussia KW.OOQ
The. above armies employ ,ri."iO,(MiO
horses in time of peace.
In Asia there are about NilUHKl men
under arms, divided as follows: Per
sia, 'i"i.(KKi; Japan. 100,000; India, 200,
0(Si; China. L'To.'a'si; and the remainder
in the other Asiatic countries.
North and South America are set
down as the least protected, consider
ing the extent of territory. They foot
up, on a peace footing of course, only
liiU.OOO regular soldiers, scattered as
follows: Mexico. 40,000; the United
States, .''.0,000; nnd OO.OOO in Hrazil, the
Argentine' Kcpublic, Chile, Paraguay,
Peru, Venezuela juid Colombia.
In Africa and the archipelagoes of
Oceauica there are about 150,0ot regu
lars. The standing armies of all civilized
nations amount to A. (JIO.OOO soldiers with
700,000 horses. The cost of keeping
this military jKipulatlon amounts to
aliout $5,ooo,0( tO.itoo a year.
So much for the armies In time of
peace. Now let us take a look at the
figurcR in war paint. Here they are:
Men.
Turkey 700,oOC
Spain llKJ.OOO
bervla 210.00(1
.Sweden and Norway 4.10,00(1
lUiuiiiiuila ItiO.OOU
lien mark UO.OOC
Kelghmi KiT.Otid
Austria, Including all reserve f (iree . 2,OO0,0OtJ
Iwlv 3,0UU,(WC
Itiissla B.OOO.OOG
Oerniany 4,5UU.OO(
France i.'JHD.WK
Fnglaiid WO,!!
Japan 000,00(1
South American republic (iOO.OOO
China 8.-iO,(J04)
L lilted Slates 200.OOC
No doubt the statistician, while wad
ing through the aliove flood of figures,
forgot some of the National (iuard of
the United Mates, but one can easily
afford to forgive him. His discoveries
are Interesting nil the name. New Voi'l
Sun.
A Corporal's Lesson.
1 Hiring the Itcvolutliuiary war thi
captain of a little band of soldiers was
giving orders alsiut a heavy beam thai
1 they were ciulenvurlng to raise to die
I r , ,llll..r u-orlru iel,l..l, I..,-.,
were repairing. The weight was al
most lie) out! their power and the voice
of ihe superintendent was often heard
shouting at them. An ollicer, not In
military costume, waa passing, and ask
ed the superintendent why be did not
render a Utile aid. The latter, aston
ished, turned around with the pomp ol
an vmpcror, anil said: "Sir, 1 am a
corporal!"
"Yon are, are you? 1 n.sk your par
don. Mr. Cor)sraI," and taking off his
lint he bowed, saying, "I wtus not aware
of Unit."
Upon this, he dismounted and pulled
until great drops of perspiration stood
on his forehead. When the lieom wag
raised, turning to the little great man,
he said "Mr. Corporal, when you have
another such Job and not enough men,
send fisr your commander-in-chief, nnd
I will gladly come and help you a sec
ond time."
The llUIe corporal was thunderstruck
It was Washington who thus address
ed hltn.
Mortality from Amputation.
The surprising statement la made
that the mortality from amputations,
which waa 48.7 jx-r cent. In our civil
war, la now only 0.9 per cent. Antisep
tic methods of Margery would bar
saved a large army of aoMtera lo 1M1
UtV St. Lout GtotoDiHMcn.
ficbrasha IHotes
Tbe men who were tracing tbti stolen
bides yesterday with bloodhounda, re
turned to VV'ymore without hayiBaT
aptured the thieves.
William Canan and Miss Bradbury,
.laughter of the late 1'roieBsor Bradbury
of Wyniore, were married at tbe resi
dence of the bride'e parents in that city
Thursday night.
Upon a petition ( fcitiz-us the board
'f county commissioners issued a call
for a special elec'ion to vote $60,000
bonds for 'he purpose of erecting a court
housa in Auburn.
Bart Miner, the young man from Table
Hock, who was injured in a railroad
accident at Pawnee City and whose lite
nas despaired of, is reported better, and
it is thought his life may yet be spared.
At the regular meeting on Wednesday
night of the Knights ami Lad iea of Se
curity, at Humbolt, tlurty-eight new
members were initiated. At the pre
eeding meeting forty-one new member
were initiated.
Tlie students of the musical depart
ment at the institute for the blind at
Nebraska City gave a pleasing and inter
esting imisicale in the institue hall
Thursday evening. They were aaaifted
by Mr. Fred Iloliingswotth.
Polk county's boa d of inwaity hw
just had the case of Mrs. Matilda Swan
so.i, charged w ith being dangerous. She
was adjudged inBane and ordered to be
sent to Lincoln, aud Thursday morning
she was taken to the asylum by Sheriff
Nuquiet.
The seventy-ninth anniversary of Odd
Fellowship and the twenty-second anni
versary of the organization of the order
in Fremont were fittingly celebrated
Tburs.lay night by the various Odd
Fellows organizations. The festivities
liegan at 8 :30 o'clock with a concert at
Masonic hail by the Tuxedo trio of New
York, and it was attended by about five
hundred.
Fire was discovered in F. H. Holl-
wortii'g general merchandise store
Th irsilay morning at Greeley about. 5
o'clock. About $1,000 damage is said to
have been done, fully covered by iusur
... . . i
ance. Had the discovery not oeen
made just when it was a large portion
of the business part ot town would bave
been burned out. The origin of the fire
H not known.
The executive committee of the Ne
braska Woman's Christian Temperance
Union concluded tbe midyear session
at Crete Thursday night. A very busy
and as well profitable meeting bad been
held. Much interest was displayed from
the state abroad. The intcie-ta of the
woman's temple were presented by Mis.
A. M. Bunting of David City. The Ne
braska women stand loyal and trua to
tliis enterprise, ... ..
Timothy Cliff, a carpenter Jiving in
Auburn, committed suicide Thursday
afternoon at 3:50 by shooting himself
tiiro igh the right temple with a 22 cali
bre revolver. He died at 5:30. He has
been a hard drinker fur i-everal years
past, lie leaves a wife and four Binall
children. He is an old res dent of the
county, aired about fifty ytara. Isa
tl.au a week ago Sam Smith of Auburn
committed Buicide by hanging. J
A man giving the name of Morgan'
was arrested at Ashland as a deserter
from the United .States army. It is
claimed that he deserted from a regi
ment passing through the state and ha
been followed for some distance by
Deputy Sheriff Daily of Douglas county.
He stole a horse in Saline county which
he rode as far as this place and made a
sale to James Eggart, who keeps a feed
barn. The she. iff of Saline county is
expected, but whether be v ill be tried
as a thief or as a deserter is as yet un
settled. Judge Stull finished the work of the
April terra o( th district court at Falls
City and adjourned. Henry Hoffman
and John Murry were eaou given a sen
tence of thir'y days in the county jail
for petit larceny. Hoffman is the young
man whose desire to go to Alaska over
came his former notions of honesty to
such an extent that he represented to
Power Bros, that he ownd corn, and
hogs which he desired to contract, when
in f.ict he owned none at all, and ob
tained an advance ou the same. Power
Bro. soon dincovered that they had been
imposed on and followed Hoffman to
B'-atMce, where h was arrested.
The trial of Edw. rd Loreni at McOook
f ir the alleged murder of Michael
Travers ended Thursday in the acquittal
of the young man, This case was.
recently sent back from the supreme
Court for a hearing. On the first trial
Lorenz was found guilty and given a
life sentence. Perhaps r,o trial in the
history of Bed Willow county hss
attracted so much attention as has this
otic, public sentiment being widely di
vided as to the (a :ts in the case. The
prii-otier and the state were ably repre
scti od in the tiial and the sentence has
been watched with inten-e interest. H
is sad that Ixirenz will goto Kansas for
the present, at least, as therein consid
erable leeliug against him in (.he neigh
borhood in which the m.irdor was
committed. Quite a demonstration fol
lowed the announcement of the vnrdict.
R. A. Wherry, the member of the
board of supervisors from Falls City, is
very sick and is not expected to live,
J. W. Hyatt's rewidnnne, corner of L
and Ninth street Fremont was burglar
ized Thursday tiignt and a gld watch,
$12 in money and other minor aniens
t.ikcii. The robbers entered, the house
th'ottgli one of the sitting roo'u window
which bad been unlocked. The wstch
was taken from Mr. Hyatt's treat ia the
sitting room and the money Irom his
trouso's in the b4d room. . '
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