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DEATH IN ITS WAKE
SEVERAL PEFtSONS ARE KILLED
BY A CYCLONE
New Orleans Suffers Domascs to the
Extent of 100000 And at Many
Point in Mississippi Oklahoma and
Indian Territory Lives Are Lost
Disaster in the Southwest
About 430 oclock Thursday after
moon a cyclone struck ew Orleans on
the river front just above Peniston
street and swept over a distance of about
a mile and a half or thirty blocks from
Peniston street to Robin street the track
of the storm being about 1500 feet wide
from the river to Annunciation street
The first building damaged was the Inde
pendence oil mill situated at the head of
Peniston street It was unroofed and
building and contents damaged to the
-amount of 6000 The conveyers of
the new elevator of the Illinois Central
Railroad were slightly damaged and John
White Meyer and John J Buck employed
at the elevator were severely injured
Hundreds of buildings in the track of the
-storm were damaged many being partly
unroofed and chimneys prostrated trees
uprooted and fences blown down The
storm swept section of the city is in dark
ness owing to the prostration of electric
light wires and details of the damage
re dilHcult to obtain Some lives were
reported lost at first but these reports
have not been verified The property
loss is estimated at 100000
Tensas Parish La was visited by a
-destructive cyclone at 12 oclock At
Lake St Joseph the large brick gin on
the Mound plantation belonging to Jo
seph Curryu was practically destroyed
Twelve cabins on Locust Island were
-completely demolished and one colored
woman was instantly killed and several
were blown into the lake At Johnsons
Bend on Lake St Joseph leased by A
Bland the gin house containing iquau
tity of hay was totally wrecked SHiree
barns containing corn were also destroy
ed and a great deal of the corn was blown
away Six cabins were in its path and
all were blown to pieces Telegraph and
telephone wires are down and the public
road on Lake St Joseph front is cov
ered with fragments of houses furniture
clothing cotton corn and household ef
fects Two colored men and two colored
women and a baby were drowned in Lake
Bruen where they were carried by the
-wind
The storm passed through the outskirts
-of the town of Delay Miss and demol
ished several houses The house of Mil
ton Eskridge was blown away but his
wife and seven children who were in the
house miraculously escaped with slight
bruises The extent of the damage can
not be given Not a tree was left stand
ing in the cyclones path
A cyclone swept over a stretch of coun
try about twenty miles east of Guthrie
O T at 730 oclock Wednesday night
devastating a district several miles long
and probably a hundred yards wide The
farmhouse of William Toby was first in
the path of the storm The building was
destroyed and Toby was probably fatal
ly injured The other members of his
family escaped Half a mile further
north the Mitchell postoffice and store
was lifted bodily into the air carried a
hundred yards and dashed to the earth
The building was smashed into splin
ters and Postmaster M L Mullin and his
wife who lived in the building wero
tilled They died clasped in each
ers arms Two sticks were driven
through Mr Mullins skull but there was
not a scratch on the body of his wife
The Midlins came from Rock Island 111
The farmhouse of Abner Jones was also
wrecked and many smaller buildings
were destroyed trees uprooted and crops
Tuined
Rumors are current that the same
storm did frightful damage further
northeast in Payne County and that
several persons were killed There was
41 tremendous fall of rain and considera
ble damage was done by washouts and
the carrying off of crops
At Wewoka T T the cyclone destroy
ed Gov Browns store a new church and
four other buildings Several persons
were hurt but none seriously At mine
No 12 near Krebs it is reported five
people were killed In Lincoln County
Mr and Mrs John McLaughlin have
been found dead in the ruins of their
home and Harrison Jones will die of his
injuries
MET A TRAGIC END
Sultans Councilor of State Assassin
ated by Armenians
Nouri Effendi who has been assassin
ated by Armenians in Constantinople
was a bitter enemy of the persecuted race
of Christians The Sultan is deeply griev
ed at his death That Nouri would meet
a tragic end had been feared and pre
dicted No man in the Sultans cabinet
was more outspoken in his enmity to the
Armenians and no one did more to render
their condition unbearable As Councilor
of State he possessed great power which
he used to further the ends of his impe
rial and cruel master It was he who
successfully plotted the overthrow of the
Armenian patriarch Izmirlian The suc
cessor of this patriarch as the head of
the Armenian church is Mgr Bartolo
meos the Gregorian bishop of Brusa
He was the locum tenens of that high
office pending the election of a permanent
patriarch and is highly esteemed by the
Turks for whom he has shown great
friendship Bartolomeos is detested and
distrusted by the Armenians who have
felt all the more keenly their accursed
condition when their religious head is an
open enemy of theirs and an avowed
friend to the Sultan and his Mohammedan
following Nouri Effendi was known
among the Armenians as the prime mover
in the plot that removed the old patriarch
and his death is regarded as a warning
to the Sultan to be prepared for the end
that has come to many predecessors
News of Minor Note
Miss Maude Hatfield 15 years old was
accidentally shot in the arm by Prank
Lewis at Kingsley Mich Tie limb was
amputated
The Washington mills which form one
of the largest cotton dress goods manu
facturing firms in Lawrence Mass were
badly damaged by fire
Emma Field victim of Robelia Starke
who shot her because she refused to ac
company him home from a political meet
ing died at her home at Jeffersonville
Ind
DEFYING THE CUSTOM OF AGES
Darin Woman in Germany Rides on
Top of an Omnibus
On my way from the Leipziger
strasse to the exhibition while sitting
on the top of a tram car a young lady
of some 17 summers with a fine intel
ligent and unmistakably Jewish face
came on and sat herself beside me The
maiden blushed as maiden never blush
ed before and my curiosity was arous
ed to its highest point when I noticed
every person on the car stare at her
with a smile of approbation Nay
more on the route people stopped and
looked at her Men raised their hats
and women raised their handkerchiefs
Indeed children looked through the
windows and kept their eyes fixed on
the top of my tram till they could see
it no more What could all this mean
That the young Jewess at my side was
the woman of the hour a person whom
Berlin was idolizing some public bene
factress to whom the denizens of the
capital were giving evidence of their
thorough appreciation and heartfelt
gratitude was patent to all who had
eyes to see What then was her he
roic deed Why did every person on
the ear say most cordially Ich gratu
liere Ihnen fraulein when the lady
was about to descend
The solution of the mystery was as
singular as it was amusing It had
by the vigorous laws and customs of
the Teutons been denied until the
morning in question to the fair sex to
ascend the steps of an omnibus or
tram car throughout the length and
breadth of Germany Some of the
manly women of Berlin gasping for
franchise as well as for fresh air in the
summer months declared that they
had tolerated long enough the cruelty
of being pent up in a tram car full of
their own sex while the men were
above enjoying the delightful summer
breeze They sent deputations and pe
titioned the powers that be to break
once and forever a law unworthy of
enlightened Germany Some of the
newspapers volleyed and thundered
against such innovations Oh for the
degeneracy of the fatherland they
sighed But at length the ladies had
their way as ladies always will and
the great privilege was reserved for
me to sit beside the young Jewess
whose name ought to be handed down
to posterity as probably the first fe
male in Germany who was bold enough
to ascend the steps of a tram car
London Telegraph
Spontaneous Fires
Tarnish and turpentine cans placed
too near the stove in cold weather are
liable to explode and catch fire
Lampblack has been known to take
fire spontaneously
Oiled or greasy rags have been seen
to blaze up in a few minutes after hav
ing been thrown on the iloor
Dried rubbish exposed to the heat of
the suns rays has been seen to catch
lire under circumstances that rendered
any other causa impossible
The suns rays focused through a win
dew pane on a plank in the floor con
taining pine sap have been known to
rot it on fire
Sawdust used for cleaning floors or
absorbing spilled oil and varnish should
be removed from the building
Sawdust accumulations around jour
nals of machinery are prolific sources
of fires
Matches in the pockets of cast off
nothing are dangerous
Met an Old Friend
I cannot but admit my condition
your honor said the dignified old gen
tleman who had been carried to the
police station the night before in a
state of collapse but the circum
stances arose from my meeting an old
friend of my younger days an old
friend from Kentucky
I have the honor of being a Ken
tuekian said his honor and I will
let you go By the way who was the
old friend He may be a friend of
myself
The dignified old gentleman first got
himself near the door andthen said in
a soft voice
John Barleycorn Indianapolis
Journal
Couldnt Afford It
Mrs Cobwigger I know it would do
me the world of good to go away for
the summer but I couldnt think of let
ting you stay in the city
Gobwigger Are you afraid of sun
stroke
Mrs Cobwigger Not at all
Cobwigger It cant be possible that
you are jealous
Mrs Cobwigger Of you The idea
Cobwigger Then what in the world
can it be
Mrs Cobwigger To tell you frankly
my dear I dont think we can afford it
Just think what it means for a man to
stay in town all summer who plays
such a poor game of poker as you
New York World
Elastic Truth
Why said the youngster of the
neophytes should truth always rise
again when crushed to earth
Because of its elasticity of course
answered the cord fed philosopher
Dont you know how easy it is to
stretch the truth Indianapolis Jour
nal
The Use of Tears
It is probably not a very well known
fact that the shedding of tears keeps
the eyes cool Such is the case how
ever and no matter how hot the head
may be so long as there are tears the
eyes will be cool
Simple Enough
Friend Why is it that your son rides
to business in a cab and you always go
on a bus
Old Man Well he has a rich father
and I have not London Tit Bits
People who are always chaperoned
dont escape trouble any better than
those who are not
NOTES ON EDUCATION
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO PU
PIL AND TEACHER
fiome Remarks Abont Proposed Be
forms in Spelling The Youngest
College President in This Country
Value of the Teachers Personality
Spelling Reform
Some months ago we referred to the
persistent attempts now being made by
certain advanced philologers to deface
and disfigure written arid printed Eng
lish by a reform in spelling the
foundation motive of which is alleged
to be an economy of time in writing
and typesetting We then expressed
our dislike of this projected reform as
dictated in fact more by a restlessness
for change than by a solid desire for im
provement We see no reason to cor
rect our view then expressed although
we do not wish to include in this some--what
sweeping affirmation all those
who give it their support We are now
in receipt of a nw reminder that this
reform is still upward and onward a
circular letter with a list of weighty
Jnames accomyanying among which we
remark that of a distinguished citizen
of Newark William Hayes Ward of the
Independent We are sorry to differ
with Dr Ward in this matter but
even witlz Dr Ward and Max Muller
Prof Sayce and a committee of the
iPennsylvania Legislature admittedly
a body of scholars of high philological
attainments and authority against us
we feel that this reform is one to be re
sisted We are accustomed to spell
after the manner of the century and
expect to continue in that way
We are aware of course that there
have been some changes in spelling
since 1S00 not very many however
and involving but a limited number of
words and with tAvo or three small ex
ceptions none upon what may be called
a system One of these was the drop
ping of the u from favour honour
and the like But a great many schol
are and literary men did not like this
change when made and do not like it
now The best usage in England is to
retain the u and some Americans
retain it Sidney Smith who once lost
some money in a Pennsylvania invest
ment was very sarcastic about this
dropping of the u He said that the
Americans were so fond of robbing the
English that they not only robbed their
English creditors but robbed also the
language
We attach a good deal of importance
to the historical argument that is to
say to the proposition that it is desira
ble to retain the historical forms of the
written and printed words of the lan
guage so far as that is possible the
historic forms we mean since the print
ing art gave them fixity Moreover
there is a great deal to be said on the
artistic side of the question A skele
ton is not a beautiful object no matter
of what It may be and the general re
sult of the reform spelling would soon
be if logically applied a system of
word skeletons of a hideous kind
We first have launched then handl
ed and now lancht We do not
think much of puncht nor of winkt
still less of fust and less still of
bust for bussed to kiss or touch
with the mouth a really beautiful
word infamously profaned by the pro
posed new spelling We have no liking
whatever for colleag Gazet looks
poverty stricken trechry is an abom
ination and deth more hateful than
ever Dropping the e from mis
sive captive nerve and two or
three hundred words of a like kind does
not commend itself to us but what
shall be said of so shameless a propo
sition as a change of love into luv
We might extensively multiply in
stances but it is not worth while We
concede of course that in some cases
in very few however slight changes
might perhaps be profitably made but
we will not be party to the systematic
mutilations involving hundreds of fa
miliar words proposed in the circular
letter referred to Newark Advertiser
How to Read
After all is said and done the one and
only secret of successful reading lies
contained in one simple sentence Make
what you read your own Not until
what we read has become a part of our
mental equipment until it has been
literally assimilated by the mind made
an integral and indivisible part of our
sun of knowledge and wisdom is what
we read of any particular avail Too
much system is like too elaborate fishing-tackle
it Is all very well for the ex
perienced angler but it seems useless
and an affection in the amateur First
prove your skill and keenness then
elaborate your means at will How
ever for a certain sort and a certain
amount of system there is this much to
be said namely that it is an excellent
antidote to that insinuating and ener
vating habit of wholly desultory read
ing Wholly because as Lord Iddes
leigh has shown us there is a desultory
reading wkhich is very profitable and
not cue whit pernicious Selected
Personality of the Teacher
It is encouraging to note the stress
which is being laid in these days upon
the personality of the teacher as a fac
tor in the education of the child It
would be well if much that is written
and spoken on this phase of the teach
ers qualifications could be brought to
the notice of boards of education and
of others having to do with the selec
tion of teachers There are many
boards of education who are actuated
by a sincere desire to secure none but
the best teaching ability for the schools
under their control but who fail to ap
preciate the importance of those ele
ments of character which exert so pow
erful an influence on the pupil in shap
ing his ideals of thought and conduct
If school committees and
dents had a more rivid realization of
Emersons declaration that it makes
very little what you study but that
it is in the highest degree important
with whom you study our schoolrooms
would all soon become centers of In
spiration and power The fruitful con
tact of soul with soul not the results
that are tested by examinations is the
all important thing though there are
hundreds we feel justified In saying
thousands of schools in which the suc
cess of the teacher is judged entirely
by the number of pupils who pass the
prescribed examinations for promotion
from one grade to another There
flows from the living teacher says Mr
Mabie at power which no text book
can compass or contain the power of
liberating the imagination and setting
the student free to become an original
investigator Text books supply meth
ods information and discipline teach
ers impart the breath of life by giving
us inspiration and impulse How to
get the public to appreciate these vital
truths is not easy and before we shall
have a more enlightened public senti
ment much missionary work must b
done Journal of Pedagogy
Youngest College President
John Huston Finley President of
Knox College Galesburg 111 to whose
efforts is largely due the splendid suc
cess of the Lincoln Douglas celebration
is the youngest college president in the
country He is himself an alumnus of
Knox Just five years after the col
lege conferred the degree upon him
young Mr Finley returned to take his
JOHX HUSTON FIXIiET
place at its head and to direct all its
movements President Finley was
born on a farm near Grand Ridge 111
thirty three years ago He was gradu
ated in 1888 and went immediately to
Johns Hopkins where he spent two
years in post graduate work He en
tered the department of political and
economic science and there became as
sociated with such eminent men as
Profs Ely and Adams His great
ability and capacity for the absorption
of knowledge was at once recognized by
these educators and they took a spe
cial interest in him He was of much
assistance to Prof Ely in the prepara
tion of the noted work on taxation in
American States and cities which was
published early in 1889
Compulsory Education
The compulsory education law of
Pennsylvania does not seem to be a
glittering success especially so far as
Philadelphia is concerned The census
lately taken shows a school population
of 100000 in round numbers between
the ages of eight and thirteen but the
number in the schools is only a little
over 05000 showing that fully 33 per
cent are to be accounted for The pub
lic schools are so crowded that many
of those who do attend can secure only
half time accommodations The fault
lies not with the Board of Education
but with the city councils who seem to
have made no effort whatever to make
appropriations with which to provide
the necessary school facilities and the
law is practically nullified Education
al News
How the Corpse Blundered
The morgue in New York had a sin
gle customer says the New York Sun
the body of an unknown man At last
recognition came The telegraph sum
moned from Poughkeepsie seven broth
ers and sisters Tears filled their eyes
as they recognized the body of their
father High priced undertakers came
in and no expense was spared for the
burial In moving the corpse to the
handsome casket the mouth flew open
Then one lovely daughter screamed
This Is not our father See he has no
teeth Our father had a head full of
them It was too true Without
teeth he was not of their kith and kin
Out of the casket the corpse was hur
ried The grand hearse moved away
and the mourners departed The corpse
and the attendant stood alone in the
temple of death It was too much for
ordinary nature Wrath gave way to
pity and shaking his fist at the corpse
the attendant shrieked in dismal ma
jesty You miserable fool Had you
kept your mouth shut you might have
had a first class funeral
Old Story but Good
Sir Andrew Clarke while traveling
In Italy ascended a high tower one
evening and found at the top another
tourist an Englishman They chatted
pleasantly for a few minutes when
suddenly the stranger seized Sir An
drew by the shoulders and said quiet
ly I am going to throw you over
The man was a maniac The physi
cian had only a moment in which to
gather his thoughts but that moment
saved him Pooh he replied uncon
cernedly anybody can throw a man
off the tower If we were on the
ground you could not throw me up
That would be too difficult Yes I
could retorted the maniac I could
easily throw you up here from the
ground Let us go down and I will do
It The descent was accordingly
made during which Sir Andrew man
aged to secure help and release him
self from his perilous situation
THE FIELD 0E BATTLE
INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES OF
THE WAR
The Veterans of the Rebellion Tell of
WhiBtlins Bullets Bright Bayonets
Bursting Bombs Bloody Battles
Camp Fire Festive Buss Etc Etc
Gettybnrcr os It Novr Iooks
The town of Gettysburg is given over
to the battlefield That is almost the
only business and furnishes substan
tially the only occupation of the great
er part of its people The 3G00 inhab
itants of the little shire town are most
ly hotel keepers photographers guides
and carriage drivers The founders ot
the town could hardly have realized
what sort of industry would eventually
engross the attention of the people
They are very good natured about it
and evidently live from one years end
to the other saturated in the atmos
phere of the battle
The artistic merits of the collection
of monuments on the field of Gettys
burg is matter of much controversy
Sometimes Gettysburg has been refer
red to as our national museum of mon
strosities or chamber of horrors The
Idea of putting cemetery monuments
all over a town for a space of six miles
long by two miles broad Is to many not
a tasteful idea Others declare that
this city of memorials is wonderfully
impressive and could not in Its line
be excelled To criticise the monu
ments themselves would be a large
task since there are no two designs
alike The equestrian statues of Han
cock Meade and Reynolds are quite as
beautiful and artistic as anything of
the kind in Washington while some
of the smaller monuments like a few
that might be found in Mount Auburn
Dr Forest Hill are a little short of be
ing artistic I was much amused by
the comments of a party of Ohio men
returning from a druggists convention
somewhere who were riding over the
field When they reached one monu
ment at the base of which rests a
bronze dog representing a faithful ani
mal that followed the regiment
throughout the struggle the guide told
the story of the dogs fidelity with pon
derous seriousness Just as the party
tlrove on a dog appeared running about
the exact counterpart in size color
md looks of the bronze memorial The
flecorum of the druggists disappeared
and they shouted to the man standing
beside the newly discovered canine
Put him back he belongs on the mon
ument hes just got down we saw him
there
One of the most artistic endeavors of
those having the field in charge is the
attempt to keep things just as they
were on the day of battle Reynolds
grov where the gallant soldier fell
Is kept of the same size and with the
same kind of trees and new ones are
constantly planted and the older
growth thinned out so that for all time
Reynolds grove may look as It did on
the day that made for Gettysburg a
spot on the map of the world Old
houses and barns that formed a part or
the play are kept in place and no new
ones which would change the outlook
are allowed to go up This of course
is done through wholesale purchase of
land on the part of the Government and
each congress has before It a bill to buy
still more territory The highways
about Gettysburg were taken out of
the control of the town and given to
the United States Government by spe
cial act of the Legislature of Pennsyl
vania but to this move the provincial
inhabitants objected even though it
saved them thousands of dollars
The guides of Gettysburg are rather
ponderous in their style of diction
They dole out the accumulated folklore
of thirty years concerning the battle
although the more enterprising ones
keep abreast of the times and quote
freely from Hay and Nickleby which
confusion of names amused the author
of the Lincoln biography when I told
him he was passing in Gettysburg for
the original Nicholas by that name
Boston Transcript
Veteran Who Amputated His Iegs
John Wales January the Illinois
Union soldier who is famous as the
man who amputated both of his own
legs with a pocket knife while in a reb
el prison was in Chicago recently hav
ing a new set of artificial limbs made
by an ortheopedist
Mr January who Is as fine looking
and Intelligent a man as any one could
wish to meet Is now a farmer and
stock raiser at Dell Rapids S D He
was for three years postmaster of the
Illinois House of Representatives has
been tax collector of his town and De
partment Inspector of the Grand Army
of the Republic for South Dakota and
could have been State Senator if he had
had any aspirations to political honors
His gait and carriage are still sodierly
His story as related to a reporter was
as follows
My grandfather was a Frenchman
who came to this country before the
revolution and was the first settler on
the site of what is now Lexington Ky
My father was born in Kentucky but
removed first to Ohio and then to Illi
nois I was horn in Clinton County
Ohio and moved to Minonk 111 in
1S6L In the fall of 1862 I enlisted in
Company B of the Fourteenth Illinois
Cavalry and served mostly in connec
tion with the Army of the Cumberland
In July 1S64 while on Stonemans
raid from Atlanta to Macon I was cap
tured by six rebels and sent to Ander
sonville When Atlanta fell I was taken
to Charleston S C where I remained
during the winter of 1864 65
In February 1865 while at Florence
I was attacked with the swamp fever
and was delirious for three weeks
When the f ever abated scurvy and gan
grexra followed as I was sent to the
gangrene hospital The disease settle
in my feet and ankles and after some
time they lost all sensibility and the
flesh began to slough off The surgeon
gave me no attention and brutally toldt
me I would die I told him I would live
if he would amputate my feet but he
refused to do it So after suffering a
while longer I concluded to amputate
them myself
The only instrument I could procure
was a pocket knife belonging to a com
rade named William Beatty The large
blade one half of which had been brok
en off was all that was left of it and
with this I cut off both of my feet at
the ankle I had no assistance of any1
kind except in disarticulating the an
kles in which one of the boys gave me
a little help But when I got through
the bones projected five inches beyondl
the flesh and so remained until after J
was exchanged
The exchange occurred in April
1S65 and I was taken to Wilmington
N C The Union surgeons weighed me
and the 165 pounds of healthy flesh and
bones I had taken Into the service had
changed to 45 pounds of such poor ma
terial that it was universally supposed
I could not live Nothing was done for
me and some time after I was sent to
Davids Island On my way the bonesi
of one leg broke off even with the flesh
and six weeks after my arrival the bonej
of the other leg did so But never to
this day was I given any surgical as 4
slstance whatever One year later
when I was discharged from the
ice I could hardly sit up In bed but the
stumps had begun to heal in a sound
and healthy manner It was twelve
years afterward however before I wasl
perfectly well The Government haal
treated me well I was given a penslonj
of 100 a month by a special act Intro
duced by Senator Cullom in place of
the 72 allowed by the general act
Lees Cottace at Gettysburg
Gen Robert E Lees headquarter
during the three days battle at Gettys
burg reported to have been destroyed
by fire was a stone cottage It stood
on an eminence opposite Culps Hill
and was occupied by him during the
contest in which he was worsted Built
of stone the house contained four
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GE3TERAI LKES HEADQITAIiTEKS
rooms and an attic and was embower-
ed with trellis trained grape vines Itj
was from this little cottage built in
colonial times with high roof and
mond shaped window panes that Geiu
Lee directed his repeated assaults upon
Cemetery Hill
Col Freeman Conner who command-
ed the Forty first New York Volunteers
tells the story of this little house as fol j
lows
Standing out In bold relief on the
side of a hill it was out of cannon
reach but from the movements of tho
Confederates we knew that their
charges were inspired from this point
It was realized that Gen Lee had his
headquarters in the cottage and
though no assault was made on thej
point as we were on the defensive Itj
was from this cottage Picketts charge I
was directed his defeat witnessed and
the victory for Meade and the Union
army realized as soon as that great
charge was seen to have failed
Who Wounded General Hancock
A claimant for the honor of having
fired the shot which wounded Gen Win-
field S Hancock at Gettysburg is put
forward by Augustus Michie of Wash-
ington in behalf of Sergeant W Rf
Wood Company H Fifty sixth
ginia which was part of Garnettd
Brigade of Picketts division Long
streets corps Mr Michie says that his
brother was commanding Sergeant
Woods company and gave the order to
fire during Picketts charge July 2M
1863 Captain Michie saw a mounted
Federal officer advance at the head of
a column of apparently fresh troops
He inquired of his men whether any of
them had a cartridge left and Sergeant
Wood replied that he had one and de
sired to know whether he should shooti
the officer that he then directed the
sergeant to shoot which he did and
that the Federal officer immediatelv
fell over and would have been dragged
by his horse but for assistance rendered
by Federal officers who extricated hinv
A Reminder
The dedication of another memorial
at Antietam serves to recall the fact
that this battlefield was the scene of
the bloodiest battle of the war of thei
rebellion More men were killed on
that one day than on any other onei
day of the civil war the aggregate of
the killed wounded and missing
bering altogther no less than 12410
There were battles with greater loss of
life but they were not fought out Inj
one day as at Antietam At
burg Chancellorsville and
vania the fighting covered three dayaj
or more at the Wilderness Cold Har j
bor Shiloh Stone River Chiekamaugaj
and Atlanta the losses were divided be-
tween two days of fightingbut at An 1
tletam the bloody work commenced atj
sunrise and by 4 oclock that af ternoonj
it was over and the bloody TQcord waj
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