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TAIL YARNS OF WESTERS LIFE
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Come of the Stuff vrith Which Eastarn Ten-
derftet are Regaled.
THE MAN WHO RODE A CYCLONE
tuniiliiR ] from n I.oromiillvr * > nil KtulliiK
ol n I > i-M > crncl" " 'Hi ' ' " > Appcttlu lor
Jtrd-JInlrcil .Men Tin ; Man
Mho Til It'uri.
"You talk about cyclones in the east ! "
said the old man as he laid duwn his pa-
jKjr. "Why , they are nuthin' but sum
mer zephyrs compared o real cyclones
reg'lar built , stand up cyclones like
we hov out in Montana ! 'They knock
down a few trees , blow the roofs off n
few houses and kill a baby or two , and
then your daily papers make a great
wh'oopin1 ever the awful destruction !
It's 'null to maku a man laugh to BOO
bow hard thej try to make sumthin' bid
' '
out of a HUle'bit'o' wind. "
"You've seen cyclones in Montana , I
lake it'r" chirruped the religious editor
of the Now York Herald.
"Ton of 'cm , sir1 lopliod the old man.
"Nino of 'em were about ton times as
destructive as this ono which occurred
in Illinois the other day , but wo only
callud 'cm two-centers. The other was
the genuine thing and was really worth
Valkin' about. "
"I'm sure we'd UKO to hoar about it. "
" Well , I'm no great hand nt story
tollln' , but I'll do my best. It was in the
Cedar vnlloy to the north of Diamond
City. That valley is made by a range of
mountains to the onst and the Gullitin
river to the west. Ityas ono afternoon
in July , and I was on mulcback and
gain' north. Jt was us purty a day as
you over saw. I was feelin' powerful
good that day , and I remember I was
tingin' a religus song when that cyclone
come along. She started in about thirty
miles north of mo and come along down
howlin' for gore. "
"Couldn't you got shelter anywhere. "
"No. I was in the middle of a prairie
twenty miles wide without oven a bush
to shelter mo. And thaiwouldn't
hov bin time anyhow. She was right
at hand before I suspected what it was.
With a scream , and a roar and a whoop
she enfolded me. 1 had just tirao to
utter a pniyor before I was yicked up. "
"WollV"
"Wall , I was exactly sixteen miles
above Diamond City when 1 met the
cloud. I had looked at my watch , and
it was fourteen minutes after 12.
"When I cnmo to I looked at my watoh
agin and it was twenty minutes after 12.
I was then in Diamond City. I had
been carried sixtecd miles in six min
utes and deposited right iu front of the
best saloon in town. "
"Hurtanv ? "
"Isot a mite. I got up and walked
into the saloon and called for three
fingers of whisky just as calmly as if
nuth.n' had happened. '
"Didn't the cyclone strike the town ? "
" ( erlainly , and this was the only
building not destroved. Killed 107
people and destroyed H7 buildings in the
oily. Jt must hov bin the hand of Prov
idence , fur 1 .was very thirsty and the
saloon man owed mo a drink on our last
deaL 1 hat cyclone killed 231 people ,
including Injuns and destroyed 140
buildings along the valley. "
"Did.you ever Und vour mule ? " was
asked , after a long and painful silence.
"That was also a queer thing , "
replied the old man. "Ho was carried
along with mo. dropped at the same
time , and after 1 got my drink I found
him standing at the liitchiug post in
good order. That must have been the
hand of Providence also , as ho was my
only mule , and his loss would have been
u sad affiir to me "
'Did you go out and mount him ? "
' did. "
'I .
'And tlion ride away ? "
1 did "
'And toll everybody you mot just
what had happenedV
"I din. "
"And they appeared to bclievo it ? "
' 'Well , no. I encountered throe or
four fellers who acted a loetlo Auspicious
of mo. They believed the main part ot
the story all right , but when it came
do'vn to the saloon and the drink they
kicked on me. "
"But why ? "
"I told you 1 walked in and called fur
three fingers of whifakv. "
"Thill's whnt they kicked on. Under
the circumstances they tliought any
human critter would naturally usk fiir
live or six , and buy n quart extra to re
sume hit jounioy on ; "
"I suppose you have never been asKed
for prools ? " queried our spokesman
after another Mlencc.
"Yos , twice. Boll ) or 'em Bleep in
tint Mime vnlluy and their headstones
cost Slit-apiece. They were newcomers
nnd I buried 'em tenderly. Does any-
boily in this car want any affidavits or
sk-liV"
No one did. Ho [ lulled out a buck-
horn handled kmf ? and bharponed it on
his bootleu , but it was u useless move.
Keno or us had the slightest doubt of
his voracity.
"Did you over jump from your cab
while the train was going full speedy" I
asked u locomotive engineer the other
day.
"Yes , three or four times,1' ho au-
Bwored.
"What's the sensation ? "
' 'That' * according to how you land.
Ono night three years ago the train
dispatcher got twoof us headed for each
other on a single track at a gait of forty
miles an hour. The ilrst thing I saw
was the headlight of the other locomo
tive rounding u eurvo thirty rods away.
1 shut 'er olT , throw ever the lever and
bet the air brakes then make a jump.
I'd no tiino to pick for a spot , und us I
jumped 1 realised that I'd have n bad
tlmo of it , as I knew every foot of tiio
ground. It was on a level covered
with a thistle patch. There was a.
strip Of them forty rods long growing up
like cdrn utnlkii. 1 expect they broke
my fall Homowhiit , but I don't know that
I ever hit the ground until I fetched up
for good. It bcemi'd to mo that I just
swept \hrough that natch about
knee high from the ground , and when
there , were no moro thistles to knock
down I lauded 'kerchugl' against an old
utiiini ) biid uprooted it. The doctor es
timated that tlu > number of thistle
points sticking into my body at one bil
lion. My wife and 1 have l > eon picking
'em out ever blnco and I fool 'em btlck
ing every oneo in a while \ot. "
"Lnnding in n mud puddle would bo n
soft thing , " 1 UL'Ko ted.
"I've boon there , " ho replied , with n
fleeting eiwlo. "While I was running
freight they built -detruck ( to n gravel
pit nt H certain point. In excavating
At the inaiu line they dugti hole about
twenty loot long by ton wide and four
deep. As u rule this hole WIIB always
full of water und , UK It was on my bide
of thn engine and alwayi cume utidoi *
jny eye , J got to think lug what a suup
I'd have if I had to inako a jump right
thero. "
"But you never had to. "
"Didn't little station
1 ? There was a
just a mlle above this hole and It was a
sharp up prado. Ono day while wo
were humping along to make the sta
tion n dozen cars broke loose from a
freight sidetrack at that station , and
down they came like so many roaring
lions after their prey. By the time I
had whistled for brakes and reversed
my engine it was time to jump , and
bless in > soull if I wasn't just where I
wanted to be right at the pond. I
waited to pass the mlle post and then
shut my eyes and took a header , feeling
sorry at the same instant for my fire
man , who'd got to jump among the
stumps. Well , I struck. "
"In the water ? " I asked , as ho paused
and worked a finger into his oar.
"Oh , no. There had been a long spell
of hot , dry weather and every pint of
water had evaporated out of that pond.
The mud was left behind though.
There was three foot of it waiting to
catch some sucker , and it caught ono. 1
wont head first to the bottom. Then I
rolled over and iloundcrod around for
five minutes and could never have
nulled myself out unassisted. I didn't
bread any bones , but ughl"
"What ? ' ,
"Mud ! I took twonty-sovon baths be
fore I got down so I could BOO my hide ,
and It seemed a month before mud quit
working out of my ears , eyes , nose and
mouth. I hated mud. I felt mud
crawling UP and down my back. I
picked mud out of my pockets and
scraped it out of my huir. The thought
of it suffocates mo yet when I think of
it I'm still on the road , but I'm not
looking for any moro mud holes to land
in. On the contrary , if things turn out
as I have figured thuin , my next jump
will bo into a patch of blackberry bushes
with an old dead tree in the center , and
I confidently expect to mow down every
thing in my path. " _
Topping Kmt-lliilrrd .Men.
\V o hoard a shot fired across the
street , followed by a rush of men along
board walKs , und wont over to find a
man lying on the floor of a saloon with a
bullet hole in his side. The bartender
stood behind the bar with a smoking
pistol in his hand and ho was the cool
est one in the whole crowd.
"Jim , how did this happen ? ' ' demand
ed the town marshal- who was on hand
with two donuties.
"Tho usual way ju t the usual way ,
Torn1 was the bland reply. "You've
known me for two years und you know I
never take advantage of anybody. "
"That's ' so. You've always played
fair. 1 wonder who ho is ? "
'Dunno. He was in here yesterday
for the first time. "
The marshal went over to the man ,
propped his head up on an overturned
chair and examined the wound. The
stranger's eyes were open and full of
intelligence , and as he looked around
on the crowd a faint smile passed ever
liis face. Ho was a typical border man
rough in dress and ugly of visage.
"What's your numb , stranger ? " asked
the marshal.
"Pete Smith. "
"Where "
from ?
"Nevada. "
"How about this shooting ? ' '
The man chuckled and smiled as ho
glanced ever at the bartender. Theu
ho quietly said :
"Look at his ha'r the color of it ! I've
been huntin' that color fur the last two
years. Ho'd a made my tenth ! "
The bartender's hair wns red.
"I heard about him a hundred miles
away , " resumed the stranger , "and I
cum hero to wipe him out. Huin't
nuthiu'agin him except his ha'r. "
"Then you meant to kill him ? " asked
the marshal.
"Sartin. I'm down on that sort o'
ha'r. I wanted to give him a show ,
though , and so I whooped as I started to
draw. Gun got tangled and ho got the
drop on me. Ho plugged mo plumb cen
ter and I'm a goner.
"Does ho talk straight ? " asked the
officer of the man behind the bar.
"Yos. I didn't know that ho objected
to the color of my hair , but when ho
whooped I grabbed my gun and dropped
him. ' '
"Do you know that you are dying ? "
asked the marshal as ho turned to the
fatrnnger again.
"Sure , but I've told you all you'll over
know. Just plant mo outside und make
no fuss. "
"What's this ? " said the officer as ho
moved the man's bodv so as to uncover
his right hand , which grasped his
shooter.
"I I didn't git it out in time fur the
bartender , and so 1 was layin' low fur
homebody else. Is thar a redheaded
man in the crowd ? "
" " answered marshal ho
"No. the , as
looked around.
"If thar' was I'd I'd try a pop at him !
Just my luck : take the gun ! I wanted
to make the number ten. but I've run up
agin a barbed wire fence ! "
At that moment a doctor who had been
sent for came bustling in. He was n
redheaded man. He knelt to examine
the wounded man , but the latter w.ived
him off , sat up and hoarsely shouted :
"Thi- > crowd has played mo low down !
You took my gun away and then runjr
in a redheaded man on mo. Whoop !
Whoo - ! "
lie fell back , gave a sort of shiver and
was dead.
"I suppose , ' ' h < 3 said , as ho lounnd for
ward and touched the cowboy on the
shoulder , "I suppose you've fit Injuns
out west ? "
"Yes , sir ; lots of them , " was the
reply.
"And you've fit grlz7.lv b'urs ? "
" , "
"I have
"And you'vo killed six or seven mon ? "
"My last victim was No. 13 , " was the
modest replv.
"Wall ! Wall ! What a curus thing
this 'pro world is.unybow ! While you've
fit Injuns and b'urs and killed men and
bin trav'lin' around , I've just stayed
right at homo and lust the und of my
tin go r in a cldor mill ! "
rmiulii-tl Up n I rdcTliI ISullvt.
W. 1) . Walton , a tvoll known citizen
of Petersburg , Va. , recently coughed up
a bullet which ho has carried in his body
since the war. lie was a member of
company I , Twelfth Virtrinia regiment ,
and at tne battle of Spottsylvania Court
House ho was struck by a ball , which
lodged In his budy and has boon in him
over sinco. For years past Mr. Walton
bus boon in very bad health. Some
months ago an abscess began to form on
his- breast near where ho was wounded ,
und ho was cpmnollod to close business
und take to his bod. A few days ago the
abscess broke , and in a coughing spoil
Mr. Walton coughed up half of thobiilL
Ho now looks like an entirely now man.
Before ho scarcely had an appetite ; now
he suys his appetite cannot bo satisfied.
S , is. , ApriH.lSJl.
Dr. J. H , Moore Dear Sir : Huvo boon
troubled with caUrrli iu my boaJ uud fuoa
for throe years at times A us unublo to Cuar
bad a uoutlaul HticiiiK in my oari aud for
two years wis almost doaf. Have tried or-
oral so-called remedies and been treated oy
ruRulur pbyglcians and noted specialists. but
failed to pot any relief. 1 tried ouo bottle of
Moore's Tree of Llfo Catarrh Cure. U gave
immediate relief and effected a perinauent
cure. I heartily rooommpnd U to ull luffor-
crs of tbis disease ana will cbeerlully give
any further in formation on t > eiDg addressed
at lay borne , No. ± 23 Swocnoy ave. , Uurllng-
on , la. for sale by all druggists.
KespectfuUlr ,
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for sale by all druggists. >
GRAND ARMY DEPARTMENT
Benefit ? of the Becently Expired "Relief
for Deserters" Act.
PHIL KEARNY'S ' FAMOUS JERSEY BRIGADE
at IM Splcnilftl I'lclilliiR
In tlifi War Cnusliml Op n
Itiillot llicVA 1iliigl n I'.irailB
A \Vur Trngcilj- .
At noon on Friday. July 1 , the "RoHcf
for Dasorlora" net expired by limitation.
This net was passed by congress March
2 , 1SSO. The purpose of the act and its
olToct wore to enable many deserving
war veterans to remove the stlRinn "do-
sorter" from their record and thus se
cure 11 pension which , under the law ,
would bo otherwise denied to thorn. It
was not intended to apply , and it did not
apply , of course , to those soldiers who
deserted through cowardice , disloyalty
or disaffection. *
There were miny ways by which a
bravo soldier unwittingly became a "de
serter , " and the law was -drawn to clear
the record of those who , within a roa-
sonublo time after the chiirpo of deser
tion was made , voluntarily returned to
their commands and served faithfully to
the end of the term or until honorably
discharged ; tlioso who absented themselves -
solves from their command or the hos
pital while ill or woundoJ , and either
voluntarily returned tu their command ,
or wee permanently prevented from
returning because of their wounds , and
those who enlisted us minors , without
the consent of their parents or truar-
diaiis. nod were released from service by
order of court or on habeas corpus.
The act was made to apply also to the
Mexican war , and the secretary of war
was authorized to remove the charge of
desertion from the record of any regular
or volunteer soldier upon proper appli
cation therefor and satisfactory proof
that ho came within the provisions of
the act. '
Under the act many thousand soldiers
wore restored to nil ihoir rights and secured -
cured pensions from the government
The time in which applications could bo
made to the secretary of war was limited
to three years from July 1 , 1839 , and all
applications not undo in that tirao were
declared to bo "forever barred. " Now
there cache no moro applications.
IMill KearnyS Jersey
Year by year the roll of heroes who
fought the civil war prows shorter and
shorter , yet the muster at Grand Army
posts shows little diminution. The na
tural reison for this is that as the vete
rans fall out the ranks close up as in
times of war , and the laggers behind begin -
gin to feel an exciting interest in mat
ters at the front. At no time , indeed ,
have Grand Army meetings been more
largely attended than they are today ,
and as a natural consequence of these
gatherings of old veterans old war sto
ries are undergoing a genuine revival.
No story can bo told within hearing of
Jorsovmon mat does not bring Kearny
and the First Jersey brigade to their
minds , says the New\'ork Advertiser.
Koarny , to bo sure , neither recruited
the Jersey boys nor led them where the
bullets [ low , 'but they wore "Kearny's" '
Jerseys" nevertheless , and ho was their
"One-Armed Phil" in the fond illusion
of the time , s-o it is all the same thirty
years after , whether the pretty idea was
spun from truth or fancy.
The surviving veterans look upon
Koarny as having boon their military
father ; they "reuno" on his family
manor and ksep his memory green in
countless ways as become bravo soldiers
for u fallen hero. While the gallant
Taylor fell at their hovd and Torbe
led' them to many victories , and half a
dozen other brigadiers as well , Kearny
has been their idol "lirst , last and al
ways. " Surely ho was a grand figure
for any Dody of men to tie to as marshal
on the tented field , and the Jerseys
wore vali nt company for any man on
horseback to fall in with while going to
the wars. Being so well met , though
their contact was brief , let their wraiths
travel down fame's golden pathway to
gether.
The First Jersey brigade was made up
of certain odd volunteer companies leftover
ever from the three months quota in
Auril , 1801 , and other companies that
took time by the forelock , got them
selves up in military shape and wore
hoping the rebellion would not collapse
without permitting New Jersey to pot in
a lick , when Lincoln's second call to
arms May 3 , 1801 made it seem to
them a pleasure just to live. The First ,
Second and Third regiments hurried to
the front and served in the reserves at
Bull Run.
In August the Fourth regiment and
HoxamorV buttery "A , " First New
Jersey Liipht nrtillorv joined their
comrades , and Philip Kearny , n hero of
many Holds , already wearing nn empty
sleeve , was commissioned brigadier to
load them. The old fighter was u stern ,
unbending martinet , and for seven
months ho put the Jor oys through n
course of hammering that turned out
4,000 soldiers where 4,000 budding novices
ces had boon. The upshot was a crack
brigade , ahead of all its follows in de
portment and drill. Kearny had done
it , and the whole array , as well as half
the country , admired the performance.
So Kearny and his Jertoys were in ilno
feather before the fighting commenced.
In April , 180:2 : , when the army started
for the Peninsula , Kearny was promoted
meted to the command of a division and
separated from Jersoymon for good ,
They drifted into the Sixth corps und
remained there to the end.
The first affair of blood was at West
Point , on York river , May 7 , where
Ilexiuner repulsed a charge with canis
ter und the Jerseys made n counter
charge. The division comrades of the
Jorsovs quickly concluded that Kearny
hadn't erred in farming out his soldier
ly reputation among such ready fighter -
or * . It was at Galnos Mill , though , that
the Jersey boys learned that the rebell
ion wasn't u bubble to collapse at the
first pricking. They were called out in
Slocum's division of reserves to ivid Per
ter's Fifth corps , in a struggle whore the
odds wore two to onj. Colonel Torburt
got up from ills berth , sick with a fovor.
to follow his regiment. In the Second
there wore only four companies for duty ,
but. their loader. Colonel I. M. Tucker ,
put them in the front line to relieve a
full regiment that had boon cut to
pieces.
Colonel Tucker was mortally wounded ,
and jxhon some of his men started to
carry him to the roar ho called out ,
' Don't mind mo , but gn ahead ! " The
major , II. O. Ityerson , then ran to the
colors , wuvod Ills sword to rally the
moo and was quickly shot down. Jn
this little batlnlion alone fifteen were
killed and forty-oight wounded iusldo
of nil hour. The Fourth regiment ,
under Colonel J. II. Simpson , refused
to retreat when cut off from all support
and defended its ground until fifty-two
were killed und 11XJ wounded , aud guvo
up only when completely eurroundod.
The Third lost fifty-oight killed
130 woundoJ. The firsl lost forty-four
killed and eighty wjjundod.
Reserves always liml the hottest place
in n fight if they flnh Sny , and Koarny
himself could feel prond of the ranks
that steen up until 'rfdarly ' GOO bit the
dust out of loss than " .ODD outraged.
Every man doubts hi * own courage and
that of his follows until the baptism of
fire is passed , and 11,10" , ' soldier who loft
Gaines Mill field without deserving the
hatoi brand of "coward" had no longer
envy in his hearth-fop tno heroes of
Btiona Vista and CKonultopac. Ho was
in the swim with the "battle scarred. "
But the heads of fh , Jerseys \vore not
swollen with coneeifcovur their exploit
at Gaines Mill. Tlifcto ; was n corner left
for some of that plebeian enthusiasm
they had shown in the training camp ,
and ono of their proudest boasts today is
not Ihoh1 huco battle losses , but a com
pliment from "One-Armed Phil" Koar
ny. It was at Glendale , in the "Sovon
Diys , " just after Gaines Mill , when
Kearny's division needed support In n
hot fight with Longstreol's column.
Then ho sent a courier to another part
of the field to summon his old brigade ,
and they responded by making a double-
quick march , enlivened by lusty cheers
for the hero who had won now laurels
at Wllinmsburg aud at Fair Oaks slnco
parting with their company. The
enemy didn't stand to moot the on
slaught o [ fresh reserves and Kearny
"
took" the will for the deed , ni it was
given , gallantly , in u way the boys never
forgot.
If Kearny or some man with a
romantic legend clinging to him had
led the Jerseys in their next fight the
pages of history would glow with an ex
ploit that ono must search for with
a calcium light as things are.
Everybody huzzahs ever Stone
wall Jackson's flank march around
Pope in August , 1802 , and his
capture of the union army stores at
Manassas , the prologue to Second Bull
Run. The Jersey brigade happened to
bo the advance of Franklin's Sixth
corps , sent out in a panic from Wash
ington to find out what had become of
Pope , as the telegraph and railroad had
been cut bet\yoen him and the capitol.
The four regiments mustered only 1,100
men. General G. W. Ttiylor was in
command. The instructions worp "to
find Pope or the onetny"and the brigade
proceeded alone by rail without opposi
tion , until it crossed Bull Run bridge ,
where it was fired upon by a battery in
position.
General Taylor put his men in line
and charged. The troops held their
fire , relying upon the bayonet. When
within 803 yards of the guns two other
confoderatp batteries and four brigades
of Jackson's infantry , under A. P. Hill ,
opened from masked positions upon the
gallant column. As a matter of course
disaster fallowed. Taylor drew the men
back in good order in the face of Hill's
pursuing regiments , aud in making a
stand at the bridga ho was mortally
wounded. Stonewall Jackson witnosbod
the fight , and in , his oflicial report
praised the Jerseymon for their gal
lantry. The affair ( Sos't ' the brigade n
loss of about 350 , about half the number
killed and wounded , "but it taught tha
War department that Washington was
in danger , and led t6 the speedy relief
of Pope.
The next fight of the Jerseys is like
wise unknown to fame. It was the
storming of Cromptoh's Pass , South
Mountain , Md. , September 14,1802. The
brigade formed the thLrd line , and when
the enemy was most defiant charged
over rail fences and itono walls , all vho
time under a peppery fire from the
mountain side , and'at last scaled the
rocky slopes over 2 < SJeet / ) high , wjioro
the men had to go .on till fours. The
Fourth regiment , just out of Libfay
prison , captured two stands of colors and
enough muskets to rearm the whole
command. The work was done at a
spurt , but the loss was 174 killed and
wounded.
At Fredericksburg , throe monthsaftor
the Maryland campaign , the brigade
took the field re-enforced by the Fif
teenth New Jersov and the Twenty-
third nine months' regiment. The
Fourth regiment , led by Colonel W. B.
Hatch , and numbering 300 muskets ,
charged , under a fire of grape and canister -
istor , upon an enemy posted in a rail
way cut , carried the point , losing eighty
men in the attempt , among thorn Colonel
nel Hatch , mortally wounded. Just
over the crest of Marye's Heights , in
front of which this dash was made , the
whole command charged , on May
3 , 1803 , in the Chancellors-
villo fight The Jerseys were
reserve to the column that stormed
Marye's Heights , aud , following up the
successful assault , they ran into a heavy
force of the enemy that stood at bay be
tween a breastwork of logs and brush at
Salem church , three miles back of
Maryo's Crest. The brigade , with the
exception of the Fourth regiment , was
engaged for two hours and a half in n
wrestle with superior numbers. The
commander , Colonel H. W. Brown , was
wounded ; Colonel M. W. Collet of the
First was killed , Colonel Buck of the
Second wounded , und the total loss was
ever 500. It was a hopeless fight , but a
plucky one , and the new Fifteenth regi
ment gave notice that New Jersey's
fighting timber hadn't boon exhausted
by the draft of Kearny's original 4,000.
It lost 150 killed and wounded.
Gettysburg , following Chnncollors-
villo , the Jerseys missed so far us fight
ing was concerned , but they made the
famous forced march of thirty-live miles
which put the Sixth corps on to the field
in nick o' time. After Gettysburg came
the long wait until the Wildernoss.May.
1&04. Meanwhile the Twenty-third reg
iment was discharged , and tbo Tenth
took its place. Colonel Torbert had won
spurs too big for plodding infantry to
keep bright , and was given a cavalry
division under Shoridun. BO for the third
time the brigade lost a dashing com
mander. Colonel Brown of the Third
regiment succeeded him.
Two years ot stoadTTlghting had re
duced the originul'iVwr regiments to
moro battalions. Esalnhad its colonel
killed in battle. With' only a month
yet to serve they onCarM the bloodiest
campaign of the war , and every step
they took toward Rigaroond was marked
with dead Jersey boys of the brand of
1601. In the first dajv nt the Wilder
ness Colonel II. O.liRyorson of the
Tenth was shot to don as a sort of ini
tiation sacrifice to place the regiment
on u footing with the- old hunds. The
hardest fighting of tl\oi\Vildernoss \ , May
C and 7 , was shared Urtheso men , and
nt Spottsylvania the KMi Oln , 10th and
12th , ths different rSments ) were fated
to got into every md charge , now
with the horoiu Warrr-M , now with the
fiery Upton , and again with Hancock ,
the superb.
In nine days May 6 to 14 the First
regiment lost 224 , of which 49 were
killed ; the Second , 03 , 14 of thorn killed ;
the Third , 158. of which 47 wora killed ;
the Fourth , 185 , of which 68 wore killed ;
the Tenth , 140 , 23 of them killsd , and
the Fifteenth , thitentorod ; tbo shambles
with 15 ufllcors and 429 men , emerged
with only 0 ollleors and 130 men. Its
killed ulouo in five days of the unequal
slaughter reached , the pnortnous total of
110. or ever 20 par .cent. , dead on the
field. This regiment came out with the
highest roll of honor in the state. Its
killed numbered 240. and 100 of thorn
belonged to the original 057 that joined
the old brigade in 1801
The original four regiments of Phil
Koarny'a day were discharged at Cold
Harbor in Juno. Their deutli rolls were
as follows : First , 153 ; Second , 00 ; Third ,
157 ; Fourth , 101. Uoxnrnor'a battery
made a wonderful record for execution ,
but it was fortunate enough to place the
big donth roll on the otiomy's sld e , a
way these so diors have who substitute
science for dash in fighting.
Tim AVmlilncttm J'nr.ldc.
Commander-ln-Chlof Palmer an
nounces that it has boon decided not to
admit into the p.xrado at Washington
any who arc not members of a regular
Grand Army post , Il assigns as n rea
son that there will bo 80.000 regular
Grand Army mun in line and it will take
ten hours to pass a plvon point , and to
admit all visiting veterans would raakoa
procession that would bo almost endless ,
ho argues.
It is stated that the veterans will betaken
taken ever the same grounds that were
traversed in the grand review of 1805.
ADVERTISINQ A BIO SHOW.
How tlin KliiRlInK Ilr < > . Annnnticp the
Cuinlni ; of Thrlr lirciit Kxlilliltloii.
The readers of Tin : BKE , who have
during the past week snen the lavish
way in which the Rtngling Brothers
tire advertising the coming of the
"World's Greatest Shows" to Omaha ,
Monday , August 1 , have undoubtedly
been impressed by the seemingly reckless -
less expenditure of money in that direc
tion , and something about the methods
ornployod in advertising this big show
will bo intsrestlnp.
The Ringling Brothers spend moro in
preliminary arrangements and in adver
tising their great amusement enterprise
than nny other circus , management now
before the people. Their ngonts and
billposters alone comprise an urmy of
cinjiloj'os moro numerous than the entire -
tire number of people employed by
many shows of considerable pretensions.
Their contract with ono printing house
"
alone this season for ouo "kind of litho
graph paper was for the enormous sum
of $123,000. There is no printing house
in America that could handles nil their
advertising matter and get it out with
the rapidity with which they ro-
qulro it
There nro a multitude of details
which must be arranged before the big
show can exhibit in a city , and each
series of details is looked after by agents
especially engaged for that purpose.
The first intimation that the circus con
templates a visit is vrhon the general
agent and his assistants arrive.
After they have satisfactorily
arranged the license with the authori
ties , they must secure a lot on which to
give the exhibition. At first sight this
seems a very simple mutter , but it is
not. The Ringling Bros. ' show is BO
vast that no ordinary lot will suffice- ,
and considerable difficulty is often ex
perienced in gottlnp a plot of ground
largo enough to admit of the erection of
the enormous hippodrome and menagerie -
rio pavilions , as well as the veritable
city of other tents required to shelter
the 350 head of stock and other accessories
series of the show , to say nothing of the
cook tents , the blacksmith shop and the
sideshow. Then there are contracts for
supplies of all kinds to be made , for the
hundreds of employes as well as the
stock and wild animals must bo fed. and
the supplies for each day must necessa
rily bo furnished by the people in the
cities where the show is exhibiting.
Now comes a very essential feature of
the preliminary work. The show must
bo "billed , " as the circus men say , and
in order to do so places must bo secured
for the posting of the bright-hued circus
paper. it would never do to wait until
the billposters came aloup before secur
ing places to advantageously display the
announcements of the big shows coming.
This would waste too much time , and.
"dead" walls and
besides , after all the
fences and billboards and "daubs" in the
city have been secured there are not
half enough to satisfy the paste-bucket
brigade , and whole acres of temporary
billboards must bo contracted for and
erected before the billposting begins.
That means a lot of money spent with
the carpenters and often a considerable
sum left with the owners of properties
whore the lots are rented for the erec
tion of billboards. About this time , also ,
the general press agent and his asso
ciates are arranging with the newspapers
in the city as well as the rural press
within a radius of sixty miles or moro ,
to announce the coming of this great
show. The newspapers are never
slighted , for they are recognized as the
most powerful of all agents In securing
the attention of the public , and thou
sands ujjon thousinds ot dollars are expended -
ponded in this direction every year.
Following close upon the preliminary
arrangements comes the hrst of the
four advertising cars used by the Ring-
ling Brothers. It is designated as No.
1. No novice would imagine that this
magnificent -aihvay coach was used for
advertising purposes. It is the largest
and finest advertising car ever con
structed. From the outside it has the
structural appearance of a Pullman pal
ace car , except that it is painted pure
white , with illuminated gold lettering
and trimmings. This car occupied u
prominent position on the tracks of the
Elkhorn road in Council Bluffs on Mon
day and Tuesday of the past week , und
attracted a great deal of attention. The
interior is finished in Imrdwood. There
is an office for Mr. A. G. Ringling , who
directs the first brigade , and sleeping
accommodations for thirty billposters ,
of which there is a full complement In
ono corner there is a complete printing
office and largo press , und in another a
great boiler , used in making the paste
used in pasting the bills. Twelve bar
rels of paste are used by car No. 1 every
daj. Very early in the morning , if the
car has arrived during the night , or us
soon as posslblu ufter its arrival if it
reaches town by daylight , the bill
posters are divided into squads und put
to work. Some of the squads , with the
aid of the regular licensed city billpos
ter , cover all the boards in town , while
the others take teams , which
the contracting agents have previ
ously arranged for , and driving out
into the country cover every barn and
fence and outbuilding for which permis
sion can bo secured with the beautiful
pictorial paper used by the show.
Within twelve hours these bustling fol
lows , with their paste buckets and
paper , can literally cover thirty miles of
territory in every direction. When
they are through there is no longer any
doubt but that the biggest of big showu
is coming to town.
When advertising car No. 2 arrives a
few days later the MI mo operation is ro-
pouted , and much wonder is expressed
us the second brigade covers till the
paper put up by tbo first. The bill-
posters on the third cur ul&o repeat this
seemingly extravagant procedure , and
tiiua iiiburo the brightness and cleanli
ness of the "stands. " The fourth car is
devoted principally to excursion work
and distributing the small bills und fold
ers of the show.
All this preliminary work is conducted
under the direct supervision of the five
Ringling brothers , who comprise the
solo ownora and proprietors of the show ,
and the system they have inaugurated is
the admiration of all intelligent show
men.
A coutract involving ttie expenditure of
t31OOO.lX hM beod closed ID St. Umh. U
is stated tbul urarly alt the snrfaoe-car lines
iu ttio city will bo contolidatod , uad connect
ed tuto a naglo olectrlo system-
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