BENEFACTOR OF MANKIND.
lua Put car, to Wkoa the World
Owm a Great Debt.
! Goffering humanity owes to no one a
greater debt than to Louis Pasteur, the
''benefactor of mankind." Ilia re
searches into the
mysteries of sci
ence, as the whole
world knows,
brought about re
sults which enable
the physician of
to-duy to success
fully cope with
maladies which
once baffled the
medical practltlon-
ixiijh PA8TKCH. er and which pre
vent scourges that before his discov
eries yearly claimed thousands of vic
tims. As a tribute to his memory, a
statue has birti unveiled at bis birthplace--
liole. Jura, Trance and Impres
sive exercises marked the event. Pas
teur's death occurred in 38',i5.
Ixmis Pasteur was born Dec. 27,
1S22, and early manifested a liking for
the medical profession. At the age of
til be went to Paris to complete his
studies and made such rapid progress
that eventually the Academy of Sci
ences, the Academy of Medicine and
then the French Academy opened their
loors to him.
, Pasteur was the lirst to dctinitely es
tablish the presence and role In the
human body of the micro-organisms
concerning whose existence savants
had disputed for centuries. Hy culti
vating germs, studying their develop
ment and following out their mode of
life, Pasteur created, in all Its main
outlines, a new science, bacteriology a
wlenee which has since, In his hands
urid those of his successors, yielded
the richest results. Pasteur's Investi
gations Dually led him up to man him
self, and to him belongs the distinction
f proving that In the human body liv
ing bodies are the cause of contagious
disease. Also he whs able to apply his
theory of the attenuation of virus, thus
preventing disease and even stopping it
whcn already at work In the human
organism. Such Is really the whole se
cret of his treatment of rabies, which
has made him one of the great benefac
tor of mankind. lie bad discovered
the rabies virus In the saliva and the
nervous centers of mad dogs; he atten
uated this virus by meaus of a special
dessicuting process and used It to in
oculate animals already bitten by mad
logs. Subjects thus treated did not
1ecome mad. He had, therefore, suc
ceeded In curing rablea lu animals. The
treatment was finally tried on man a
shepherd who hud been severely bitten
ty a mad dog -and the patient was
completely cured. Ever since, the antl
rable treatment has met with remark
able success.
The natural sciences have largely
benefited by Pasteur's discoveries, but
1t Is, after all, inedleal science that
hag been most powerfully affected. By
proving that the penetration and pullu
latkm of living germs Is the necessary
cause of contagious diseases among
human beings, Pasteur at the same
time pointed out the remedy. Thanks
to him, the physician can, by means of
iullable antiseptics, fight micro-organisms,
arrest their development, dcstnvf
tUem, and consequently cure the dis
ease they bad caused. Thanks to Pas
teur, the contagion of infections dis
eases can to-day be averted. Isolation
and disinfection, If practiced Intelli
gently and vigorously, are certain to
accomplish this. To-day these epi
demic plagues can be checked and
u,uiped out in ihe piace of their origin.
Pasteur made his final great discov
ery In IHMti. and soon after, loaded with
honors and enjoying universal admira
tion, he retired to the Pasteur Insti
tute, Paris, to pass his declining yrars
Jn quiet study, lty his life work, he
showed himself to be a sagacious In
vestigator, a fruitful Inventor in chem
istry, biology, uatural history, medicine
and philosophy, and a persistent work
er, and In his death humanity lost one
'whom the honor and admiration of na
tions could not repay for services done.
CIVIL AND MILITARY SERVICE.
General Grant Compelled President
Jobnaon to fee the Difference.
A somewhat dramatic conversation la
that which the Hon. George S. Bout
well reports us having psasexl In 1806
between President Johnson and (Jen
rni (inmt.
"I may wish to send you on a mis
ion to Mexh-o." said the President
"it will not be convenient for me to
go to Mexico," returned General Grant.
Some time after thin Grant was In
vited to a Cabinet meeting, at which
Mr. He ward read a paper of Instruc
tion to him as minister of some degree
to Mexico, The content of the paper
could not have made a stnmg Impres
sion on General Grant, for he aald af
terward, in 8M.-aklng of the Incident:
"The Instructions came out very near
wbere they went In."
But at the end of the reading b
remarked, "You recollect, Mr. Presl
dent, 1 said It would not be convent
eot for me to go to Mexico."
Home discussion followed, and then
Mm President roue from bis seat and
track the table with some force.
"la there," said be, "an officer of th
army who will not obey my Ins true
tioir General Grant took Ida hat In hli
hand, and remarked quietly:
"I am an offli-er of the army, but 1
am a citizen alao; and this Is a civil
acrric that on require of me. I de
cline H."
Ha left the meeting. It happened
finally that General Sherman was tent
to Mexico.
T woman whose husband goes
wKk bar to prayer meeting baa aome
ckfebf It ba prood eooagb of ta take tt
lOa re7 frae eaat
"nmsvrs: t
feveniion
At a speed of sixty miles an hour a
train covers 105 feet each second.
The terrific heat of the acetylene gas
blow-pipe is being used lu the welding
of steel.
The Slaby-Arco wireless telegraph
system Is being Installed by Russia on
the Baltic Sea.
A side wind retards the speed of a
train more than a head wind, because
of the flange friction it produces.
The volcanic dust from Mont Pelee
proves to have little fertilizing value.
An analysis by an American engineer
of specimens from Barbadoes, where
though ninety miles away the fall on
May 7 was about three Inches, has
shown only 0.075 per cent of potash
and 0.111 of phosphoric anhydride.
A largo blank on the meteorologlc
map of the world has Just been tilled
by the organization of a weather of
fice under the Argentine Deportment
of Agriculture. An American, Walter
G. Davis, is at the head of It, and dally
weather-maps are published, covering
not only Argentina proper, but Patago
nia. The nasal passages are stated to
have a surface area of not less than
twenty square Inches. A new preven
tive of hay fever Is the rubbing with
surgical cotton twice dally of as much
of this Inner surface, or mucous mem
brane, as can be reached. The mas
sage hardens the membrane, lessening
Its over-sensitiveness.
New Jersey lias long been famous
for Its mosquitoes, and It seems appro
priate that the State should lead In the
scientific warfare on the mnlarial
pests. The Legislature has appro
priated $10,000 for a preliminary inves
tigation of the subject; but the whole
sum being, for some technical reason,
not available, the Governor has set
aside $1,000 from his emergency fund
to get the work under way. A scien
tific Investigation is to be made In a
malarial district ot the State, where
the dreaded anopheles is abundant,
and the result of his Inquiries Is ex
pected to guide the future steps In the
campaign.
How the electric waves used In
wireless telegraphy follow the earth's
curvature Is still an unsolved problem.
K. Lasher supposes that the waves run
along the surface of the earth, and es
pecially of the sea, In the same manner
that they follow a wire, and that part
of the electric energy enters the earth's
surface as part of It penetrates the
surfare of the wire. A suggested test
of the theory is signaling between two
balloons, when the difficulty of com
munication should Increase with the
height The electrical oscillations be
ing at right angles to the wire or
earth's surface, another Interesting ex
periment would be the sending of sig
nals up a precipice, using both hori
zontal and vertical antennae.
Many details of the backwardness of
the world's,metropolIs In those applica
tions of practical science with which
we are so familiar In America have
been pointed out from time to time.
None of them Is, perhaps, more sur
prising than the absence of telephone
connections among the London police
stations. The householder who finds a
burglar on bis premises cannot call up
the police to assist him. In truth, few
privs? hot'cs tn London huvu tele
phones, and recently the operations of
the police In an Important burglary
case were much hampered by the lack
of a telephone service at Scotland
Yard. The fire department refuses to
allow private alarm connections with
the fire stations. Kngllsh conserva
tism Is blamed for the absence of
many of the conveniences of modern
life which the progress of science hag
afforded In almost every other great
city more abundantly than in Loudon,
A8 TO ARCHITECTURAL ART.
One Writer Declare America I Developing-
a National Type.
How about an American style? Is
such a thing discernible through the
apparent chaos of varied local require
ments and practice and Individual
Idiosyncrasies?
Surely not If by "style" we mean a
certain definite and uniform combina
tion of unvarying details; styles have
sometimes meant this In the past. But
there Is no reason why they should be
distinguished by the same definitions In
all ages. If by "style" we mean dis
tinguishing character we have a style
or styles which clearly set off American
work from English, French or German
work, however varied Its decorative de
tails may be, says a writer In the Fo
rum. In every line of design the
American type Is clearly marked.
American country houses, from the
smallest shingled seaside cottage to the
largest "colonial" mansion at Lenox,
are distinctively American, by reason
of characteristics which are not found
In any European type. Certainly Amer
ican office buildings possess styW, un
mistakable and Insistent, and the ques
tion whether their decorative details
are derived from the Romanesque, the
Renaissance or any other historic style
It utterly unimportant beside the fact
of their application to a new type of
edifice unknown outside the United
States. The difference between the
Chicago type and the New York type
It one of exterior detail, and may be
likened to that between the French and
the Italian Renaissance, or the French
Norman and Anglo-Norman churches
of the twelfth century.
Wa are developing national types la
oar church architecture, oar college
architecture, our public libraries, our
readaaatal aratarlaa, oar railway sta
tions, school houses, banks and Young
Men's Christian Association buildings.
In each of these classes our architects
are fitting their work with Intelligence
and, for the most part, with taste to
the changing requirements, the special
conditions, the scientific advances of
our rapidly developing culture. No
doubt they make many mistakes, at
which critics will carp. No doubt
some of them lack artistic training,
and on others the Paris Eeole des
Beaux Arts has set the stamp of Its
Influence a little too strongly. Perhaps
in some quarters there Is too much of
Louis' Qulnze escutcheons and car
touches, and in others too much reli
ance on the five orders of Vlgnola. In
church architecture the English perpen
dicular Is now In fashion, as the Hlch
ardsonlan Romanesque was fifteen
years ago. These are the defects of an
age of transition and development; the
faults of youth and enthusiasm. Be
neath and through them all there is
discernible, ff I am not mistaken, the
evidence of growth and progress and of
constant striving to shape the tenden
cies and conditions that control our
building activities Into forms of beau
ty. Most of the architects I know are
enthusiasts. They are not plying a
trade or merely pursuing a business;
however businesslike, they are pre
dominantly concerned with producing
the most beautiful buildings of which
they are capable. They are not grum
bling about the woruout traditions and
monotonous sameness of their art. Al
most without exception they delight in
their work; they are proud to show nr,d
discuss It. These are symptoms of a
living art. Art Is not dying when art
ists are eager and enthusiastic and
earnest partakers in the strenuous ac
tivities about them.
SILLY PRACTICAL JOKES.
Mean Should Be Adopted to I'unUh
the Aalnitie Perpetrators.
Among recent arrivals from Europe
Is a man who went thither In response
to a cable message which notified him
that his sister was dying. That was
some idiot's Idea of a funny practical
Joke, as the woman was not 111. The
victim of such a cruel and wicked Joke
is ready to urge legislation which will
Impose on the practical Joker penalties
but little less severe than those which
are provided for cases of assault and
Injury to the body. He maintains that
no bodily harm which is not permanent
can be worse than the distress of mind
which he has been made to suffer.
There are other practical jokes which
result In wounded self-esteem or in a
feeling of humiliation and which hurt
more than any bodily bruise. It was a
French critic of penetration who s?ld
that man's best satisfaction is In not
being a dupe. No one, however, can
always protect himself against the in
genuity of the practical Joker.
There Is room for discrimination as
to practical Jokes The Injury which
Is Inflicted on an unsuspecting person
by a loaded cigar or whatever wounds
or disfigures or endangers life Is In no
way different (save that It la more cow
ardly) from any other brutality. It
does not belong to the category of such
practical Jokes as those which strike
at a contemptible weakness or at un
warranted vanity and self-control, or
which expose a humbug or a braggart.
It was an excellent thing to ring In on
the experts at the New York cat show
a stray veteran of the alleys as a ..1,ihio
prize, since It proved that the judges
(who awarded the first prize to the
mongrel) were humbugs. The same
Jester fattened up a retire! street car
horse, and by the gorgeousness of Its
harness and blankets and the style of
its hostlers caused the New York horse
show judges to give a high rating to
the animal. Never was a Justice bet
ter done than In the case of a fool who
pretended to have hydrophobia, and
who terrorized the people In a cafe by
growling and trying to bite. Two men
seized him, and, having enlisted the
aid of a doctor, they put him through
a course of treatment which was al
most as distressing as hydrophobia
would have been. The Connecticut man
who thought It was fun to spring from
behind a tree and cry "boo!" to a girl
escaped with a fine of $1,000, which
was light punishment considering the
permanent Injury to the nervous sys
tem of the victim. Philadelphia Rec
ord. Kindle Officers In Demand.
The overcrowded condition of the
residential quarters at the various mil
itary posts In this country, due to the
return of regiments from the Philip
pines, Is embarrassing the military au
thorities. The trouble Is not so much
with respect to bousing the officers
themselves as with the members of
their famlli, says the Washington
Star. The situation has reached a
point where bachelor are favored over
benedicts In assignment to stations
with limited living accommodations
where such discrimination Is imsHlhle.
And It Is even assorted that where
there Is no other choice between two
young candidates for a commission It
Is bestowed an the slngie man In pref
erence to one who Is married. Even
then It Is recognized, however, that
the bachelor appointed Is not likely to
continue long In single blesscdiic.
The powers that be admit that their
authority doca not reach to the extent
of Interfering with subsequent affairs
of the heart It Is made plain that
there Is no official prejudice against
matrimony quite the contrary but
just at present the military posts
would afford better accommodations
for more officers If It were not for the
family attachments of some of them.
Congress provided liberally for the
army In this respect during the session
Just closed, but It will be many months
before the additional quarters authoriz
ed art ready for u .
A man bates to stand Idly by aud
tee bit dog whipped.
OLD2
i FAVORITES
Destruction of Hennacherib'a Host.
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on
the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple
and gold; -And
the sheen of their spears was like
stars on the sea,
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep
Galilee.
Like the leaves of the forest when sum
mer is green,
That host with their banners at sunset
were seen;
Like the leaves of the forest when au
tumn hath blown,
That host on the morrow lay withered
and strown.
For the angel of death spread his wings
on the blast.
And breathed in the face of the foe as he
pass'd;
And the eves of the sleepers wax'd deadly
and chill
And their hearts but once heaved and
forever grew still.
Aud there lay the steed with his nostril
all wide,
But through It there rolled not the breath
of his pride;
And the foam of his gasping lay white
on the turf,
And cold as the spray of the rock beat
ing surf.
And there lay the rider, distorted and
pale,
With the dew on his brow and the rust
on his mail;
And the tents were all silent, the ban
ners alone.
The lances unlifted, the trumpet un
blown. And the widows of Ashur are loud in
their wall,
And the Idols are broke in the temple of
Baal;
And the might of the Gentile, unsmote
by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of
the Lord!
Lord Byron.
Nearer to Thee.
Nearer, my God, to Thee
Nearer to Thee!
E'en though it be a cross
That raiseth me;
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
Though, like the wanderer,
The sun gone down,
Darkness be over me,
My rest a stone;
Yet in my dreams I'd be
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
There let the way appear
Steps into heaven;
All that Thou send'st me
In mercy given;
Angela to beckon me,
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
Then, with my waking thoughts,
Bright with Thy praise,
Out of my stony griefs,
Bethel I'll raise;
So by my woes to he.
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
Or if on joyful wing
Cleaving the sky,
Sun, moon and stars forgot,
I'pward I fly;
Ktiii all uiy song shaii ie,
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
Done on Hoard Ship.
The party in the smoking-room of tbc
steamer was talking of Irish wit and
the quickness thereof. Several gave
personal experiences, and one .man, to
his sorrow, tried to use an old story.
Then spoke the agent for an exporting
house, says the New York Tribune.
"I was coming up the South Ameri
can coast on a sailing ship last winter,"
he said, "when this happened. There
was a Norwegian In the crew who was
absolutely fearless aloft. He did a
number of tricks for us one afternoon,
and as a grand finale stood on his head
on top of the mainmast. We held our
breaths until he swung himself back
Into the rigging.
"1 would like to see any of you do
that,' he boasted when be reached the
deck.
" '1 can do it,' said a little Irishman,
one of the kind who will never be
'stumped.' T can do It, and forthwith
he started up the mast.
"We could see from the way he
climbed that be knew nothing about
moving about aloft, and the captain
yelled at him through the megaphone
to come down before he killed himself.
He howled buck tbat he was going to
stand on his head first. He reached the
crosstrees, and was actually putting
his heels into the air, when the ship
rolled and down be came. We held our
breaths again.
"Fortunately he struck lu the sag of
a loose sail, bounded off and alighted
on the deck tit his feet.
" 'I'd like to see any of you do Hint!'
he cried, even before he had recovered
from the shock. 'I'd like to see yon!' "
American llrewers In Cuba.
American brewers have already In
vested $4,000,000 In and about Havana.
What does a girl do wheii her wed
ding day Is set, and the groom falls
to arrive? The last girl who went
through the ordeal fainted, or pretend
ed to.
When a girl makes up her mind that
she loves a worthies man, how many
opportunities people who should know
better give her for seeing him!
Nerve s sometime
nerve ire worse.
annoying, but
Before accepting the story (which ap
peared in the St. Nicholas) about the
negro who aviis "emancipated" by the
explosion of a mine in Vicksburg, care
ful Inquiry was made as to the truth
of that Incident. The Inquiry resulted
in finding out that the bite Theodore
It. Davis, well known as artist and
war correspondent during the Civil
War, was present at the explosion and
saw the negro fall to the ground.
The incident is referred to in the
novel "The Crisis," by Winston
Churchill. Mr. Davis's letter follows:
Dear St. Nicholas: Yes, it is true
that a colored slave escaped unhurt
and became a freeman when a ton of
gunpowder was exploded under one of
the forts built by the Confederate sol
diers for the defense of Vicksburg, and
after a short explanation of the situa
tion I will tell you exactly how it hap
pened. The city of Vicksburg is built, on very
hilly ground on the east side of the
Mississippi river, and when it became
one of General Grant's tasks to capture
this strongly fortified city, Grant's
army was camped in Louisiana, on the
west side of the Mississippi. After
much planning, General Grant man
aged to move his army across the river
in steamboats, and then to be success
ful in the hard battles fought against
General Pemberton's army, which tried
hard to drive General Grant's men
back. Unable to do tills, Pemberton's
men hurried back to their strong forti
fications alwut Vicksburg, followed by
Grant's army, which, after unsuccess
fully trying to fight its way into Vicks
burg, went to work building earth forts
and trenches called rlflepits. The sol
diers of each army were busy shooting
cannon-balls, rifle-bullets, aiid mortar
shells at one another, and these dan
gerous things came so thick and fast
that a soldier on either side ran a great
risk whenever he showed his head or
even his hands above the protecting
earthworks. The digging aud shovel
ing and shooting went on, and Grant's
men steadily pushed ahead with their
zigzag roads, wblch were sunk deep
enough In the earth to screen the toil
ing soldiers from the sharp eyes and
whizzing bullets of Pemberton's men,
who could not safely reach up to look
over to see exactly what was going on,
although they knew tbat Grant's men
had dug away on their approaches, or
saps, as the zigzags are called, until
they could walk Into the ditch of the
fort. And they also knew that Grant's
men were probably burrowing away
under the fort, which was exactly
what they had done for a long, nar
row tunnel had been dug, at the end
of which a cave or chamber was
scooped out large enough to hold, in
several distinct piles, nearly three
thousand pounds of guniovder -each
pile connected to the others by trains
of loose powder and fuses. The tun
nel had been tamped, or filled, and at
tiin-e o'clock on Friday afternoon,
June 20, mm, the fuse which led out
Into the ditch of the fort wns lighted,
and General Logan, commanding the
division of General Grant's soldiers at
that point, ordered everybody back a
safe distance from the expected explo
sion, which was probably to blow most
of this particular fort out of existence.
It was my duty and wish, as war cor
respondent to see precisely what hap
pened, and to 1h present at the attack
that was to follow, so I did not go back
far. Boom! Two more booms, nearly
together. A great round cloud of
snowy white smoke broke from the
crest and side of the fort, followed In
stantly by a vast cloud of earth ami
dust. It was like a tornado, and out
of It something whirled eastward over
the trenches, and presently struck on
the side of a sap between two gabions
(fortification baskets), then fell Into the
sap. It was a man's body. "Poor fel
low," I thought, "another of war's vic
tims." I turned to look agnln, when,
starting, to follow the attacking party,
now rushing forward to gain the crater
made by the explosion, I saw the sup
posed victim traveling with surprising
rapidity his luck ngain-4oward a
safer Ux-allty than his landing place.
Most of the earth thrown out by the
explosion had fallen, a barrier. The
fort was not destroyed, but a lodge
ment bad been gained towards the
crest. The stars and stripe and stars
and bars waved with only the separa
ting space of a few yards of earth. It
was at a point directly between the two
flags, as I learned later, that the fly
ing man had been digging when the
mine was fired.
The Incident of the afternoon was
over, so I started back through the heat
and dust of the hither and thither go
ing saps to the navy battery, whose
big guns thundered away, hurling
short-fused shells over the saps Into
the fortifications beyond and above
them. Finding General Logan at his
headquarters near by, I aaked concern
ing the sky-rocket man.
"Come see him," said the general.
"Belle has him hungry contraband."
"Where'e your contraband?" I aaked
Isabella, General Logan's courageous
colored cook,
"Dar In dat ehell bole, loading nlm
elf. Dat nlgger'a nuffln but feather
-dat 'a w'at aaved him, ihua. I'
prlne tar heap Mm, too, for da luck
tic's noun' to bring; beadqua'tera."
And she did. The darkey was a droaT
fellow, and quite untrurt from tbm
quick-transit experience, when he left
the shovel In the Confederal fort, and
landed unhurt, some hundreb.'' of foef
away among the labyrinth of rifle-plta
at a point which a few days late- I
pointed out to General Grant, who re
marked the escape as most wonderful
Aa Colonel Jones Would Hay.
"Hard swearers," said the Major,
"abounded. In be army. Co!. Janes or
our brigade was an expert and waa
held up as a frightful example to the
men. Col. Warrington of the Fifteenth
Kansas said a good deal about Col.
Jones and used Wm to enforce the rule
that neither officers nor men in the Fif
teenth should swear. For a time the
rule was rigidly enforced. Ooi. War
rington standing as a shining example
of the Amerk-an officer who did not
swear under any provocation.
"Then the rule was broken, and by
Col. Warrington himself. We were In,
line under heavy artillery fire when a
shell or cannon ball struck In a hog
wallow near which Co-1. Warrington
was standing. There was a tremen
dous splash, and a mass of mud and
filth struck (VI. Warrington squarely
ill the face. Gasping for breath and
digging with his hands at his mud-covered
eyes and mouth and nose, CoL,
Warrington raised his voice and swora
as no man in the brigade could swear
except Col. Jones.
"lie blankety-blanked the rebels who
tired the stmt, the General who formed
his lrrigade in such a blankety-blanked
place. He consigned the mudhole and
all mud holes 1o a hotter place, and
roared out the most, picturesque profan
ity until his eyes were clear of mud,'
and he saw the startled and amused
looks on the faces of his men. Them
he summed up the case by repeating In
order all ic swear words he had used
and added, 'as Col. Jones would say;
were he in my place.' After that the
boys would swear at will, but after ev
ery oath or outburst would add, 'aa
Col. Jones would say.' "
"Col. Dan McCook," said Sergt. Grim
shaw, "was a little free in the use Of
strong language, but wasn't a hard
swearer, as army swearers went. On.
the morning of Nov. 2G, 18113, after the"
capture of Missionary ridge, our divis
ion wns pushed out after the retreating
rebels. We struck them about sun
down, but they cut out after we bad!
given them two or three volleys. Wa
camped for the night in line of battle,
but were not disturbed.
"The next morning companies A and
B of the Fifty-second Ohio were seat
out as skirmishers under Capt Bucke.
Soon we were lost In the high under
brush of the wooded country In front.
We kept our formation and kept mor
ing aud picked up more prisoners than
we had men, but we couldn't find brig
ade or regiment. Orderlies and staff
officers sent out from brigade head
quarters failed to find us until we came '"
Into the open country near Rocky Face,
ridge. ,
"We were then five or six miles front
our regiment and were escorted to
brigade headquarters by two staff offi
cers who had been hunting us all day.
and who reported that Ool. Dan was In
a slate of mind over our disappearance.
We expected a scoring, but we marched,
up in good order with all our prisoners
in the line. We met with a hearty re
ception, but 1 will always remember
Col. Dan's face, as he said: ' , boys,'
I hardly expected to see you again. I
thought the rebs had gobbled you sure.
, Isiys, but I am glad to see you
come in all right and with so many
prisoners.' "Chicago Inter Ocean.
My First NiKht on Guurd.
It was in November, 1804, just before
the city of Atlanta, Ga., was taken by
the Union army, at a little town named,
Dnlton, Unit I did my first duty as a
soldier. I was young then, oidy a boy.
I Joined the Forty-fourth Illinois regi
ment as n recruit, and aliout three hun
dred of us were stationed at the above
named place 1o guard the bridge across'
the river. We were nearly all new re
cruits and did not understand much,
about the rudiments of war, but did pot
see why we should not bo as good sol
diers as ever shouldered a musket. The
rebels were rather plentiful around
there and we expected an attack at
any moment. I was one of the first de
tailed to stand guard at the bridge. t
received my orders and took my place
to perform my first duty as a soldier. It
was about 8 o'clock at night and the
rain was pouring down In perfect tor
rents, the little river was rising about
twelve Inches an hour, and rushing
down against the abutments of the
bridge with maddening speed, I paced
my bent, along the west end of the
bridge, listening every moment for an
attack from the enemy. Pretty soon
I heard a rustling In the bushes a short
distance from where I stood. I was
sure the enemy was advancing ttpon
us; but the rustling soon stopped and
nothing could be heard but the falling'
rain and roaring of the little rlTcr.
There I stood as still as death, think
ing what I should do In case of an at
tack. My enp would rise np upon my
head; I would pull It down and then
look for the enemy. It again advanced
toward me. I called out, "Haiti" and
for a moment everything was as still aa
death, but was soon heard to advance
nearer.
It being s dark I could not see. 1
leveled my musket as near tbo spot
where the noise waa heard a I rould
and fired. The only response from the
spot was the squealing of an oM bow,
whose brood of pigs had been captured,
by the boys, and she was wandering!
around In the stillness of the lhjraf
mourning the loaa of bar little i
The annual army expeadltara at
Greece I 18.000,000 drachaU, At
ma la abeat 30a.
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