The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 23, 1905, Page 10

ie FITZHUGH LEE’S ESCAPE, BULLET FROM REPRESENTATIVE JENKINS’ MUSKET PLOUGHED ‘ROUGH HIS HAT. os ¥ Occurrence of the Civil Made Three Blinding federates rarges In t Thunder Storm. by stir ring even into the f that | 1 in the d, “that 1 pearly kille 6 | We were dowr and I} was in charge of n train | hich was on its way to McClellan's w y army We had been halted by a brief or} 3 and directed to | —near a litile miles south of @er from headquart nain where we we about thirty mn. ason was given for the delay, me of the boys thought it purpo of enabling an to join us, Others auc 1 ‘Mac’ r 1 to war to! ! a thiek piece of thu The Old Pic Woman, FITZHUGH LEE. | afety for the ammur vere lightning. Sul an un- ense of impendir me; and, acting npon appeared to 1 . fooli I ther equip: 1 where they vere lighted as the nt of the pie-wo- it made me, | to some | hey joked hat her pie | 1) here ain't} a Johnnie reb newhet mind here. | all down there with “Mac” n’ him busy.’ That's all right,’ said another, ‘but why were we halted here, if there’s no danger?’ Doubled the Pickets. “No one voluntered an answer to his question, and I decided it would be wise to double the pickets. The men who were detailed for the extra duty grumbled some, and as they started for their posts one ‘guessed’ we were afraid the storm was ‘going to charge us.’ Another was sure the ‘Cap'n’ was afraid of his shadow after dark, begorra!’ “About ten o'clock word was brought that the pickets on the west had ob- served a small force of cavalry, but thought they were Union men, “An hour later a force of two or three squadrons was reported passing some distance to the south of our po- sition and going in a westerly direc tion. Again, the pickets were not pos- itive but thought they were our cav- alry. . “The expected storm seemed to have passed off to the north, though the staggering half-moon peasy weasern quadrant still dark and tenins. , “The camp had settled down for the night, but I was uneasy, and sat near my tent trying to pursuade myself that : reported ca’ e supposed was which had missed the road to j dashed wild the open field offered | ESSE PL Termes, ach- ur The Bullet Ploughed Through Hat. “I saw the officer's hat twitch sharp heavy bullet tore e swayed as th NON, JOHN J, JENKINS hit, then spurred up the road before I id reload, The guick blow of the picket had saved 1 ife “With the sound of bh galloping horse, we heard shots on the north, and soon afterwards our pickets were | driven in by was hurriedly ys were ready for t the yanip dark, and from Ina f the enomy ch On they came, r the very off missed, I recc The Midnight Charge. held our n to t hole fr the whole fro: fire until they - mand Q on our flank: “It was worse than nightmar torrents of rain, the total darkness, in- | crashing, cursing, the the tensified by and blinding yelling , charging along over us tlashes showed us the killed and wounded strewn along our front; and 1 took a dismounted captain pris- oner, hree times they charged us tha‘ and as many times were driven last time retreating south- ward, . ‘wien the morning came, we bur- ied our killed side by side with the Confec te dead, “My prisoner told me that the charge was led by Fitzhugh Lee i then I knew who it was n person and that I so } nearly killed with the.picket's rifle. “Do you know,” said the Judge af- y a long silence, as he withdrew to house to avoid the heavy gusts of rain, “I've always been thankful to that mistaken picket.” ae fowl ground, They formerly used in football fle} | feet | a force of the cnemy 8] {| 5) & | the warning of an automobile horn, the hunter is warned of the approach of | to the leader of a flying flock of Canadian geese. On come the long-necked wild from their northern hunting stream across the sky much in theeform of the flying wedge tactics. Gradually the wedge closes together, makin gone stop flying about sunset eel 88, sedges, roots ‘of er pI an on small fish the corn, wheat or other grains dropped by the farmer in the stubble. teturn:to the water, tucked under Su over, eping with beads homogeneous mass 0! and Drown, with sprinklings of showed the/ white. Usually the Canadian geese ata, times they will eat of 4N INCIDENT OF LIFE IN LIBBY | the PRISON DURING THE CI¥I, WAR. How the Prisoners Sang the “Stat Spangied Banner,” and There was Cheering in the Streets of Rich+ mond, i Va., rela of the cavalryp-and after iventures, I, with 2,600 ofthe at Chancellorsville, by prison, The large rs'on the Confederate i fortunately, an hort time, and ired us e in a ver a month or & side pr exchatr with i participated in another raid under Colonel Spear of the llth Pennsylvania Cavalry over the same ground where I had been lately led a prisoner of war, We had passed but one Sunday in Libby—93 officers confined to an up- most story. About the middie of that afternoon [I chanced to look aroun the room, A half dozen were playing cards, man ing, several w pretty sick, while one squad of a doz- en or more had organized a prayer meeting. Not being a saint and per- haps not much of @ sinner, I was sim- ply a “Looker i in Venice.” The leader wag a captain of a Massachu-j; setts regiment. The meeting was evidently dr , the great heat and THE POWER OF SONG..-.|2 Red, White and Blue.” _cheera tthey were. Tears down the veterans’ cheeks, were Hea | sid€, oved cautiously near the window—it was dangerous to go too }ear—and saw all the guards.in Hne with their muskets pointed towatd the build but, massed up and down es ere hundreds upon hun- ople, four-fifths of them clapping thejr hands and way- r handkerchiefs, showing by their | ute to the power of song,“and that love for Old Glory still held a warm place in their ‘hearts and memories. _— Oe SOME GREAT DISCOVERIES, The Chicago University Scores Some | important Achievements. Almost every day one of the pro- fessors of the University of Chicago, the financial machinery of which is oiled by John D. Rockefeller, breaks into print with some new discovery. They keep the world starUed and won- proval a most remarkable trib- | o*her train which circuited through New Jersey. Now all is peace and harmony be in the room below took up| tween the two organizations; they have , and three times’ 2g © ecg a-set of regulating the players in eath,:and schedules are pre ome cheering on the Out-| pared each spring which will provide for as few conflicting dates as possible, New Yags ard Philadelphia in October were thej scenes of notable battles for Supremacy between the teams repre senting these cities, that of New York having won the banner in the National and Philadelphia’s that in the Ameri can League, dering During the past few years, for in- stance, the following epoch-making dis- coveries, among a host of others, have been Listed by a Buffalo newspaper as Chicago University discoveries; ‘That kissing causes lockjaw, That a dog never follows an unedu- caied man, . That tc Pennsylvanians are turning perhaps hunger and our position not proving conducive to much thanks- giving. The National Anthem, Suddenly the captain started up, and taking his place near the centre of the room, exclaimed in a voice loud enough to attract immediate atten- Uion, “Let us all sing ‘The Star Span- ~ hae qyira gee La ——— Emm LIBBY PRISON, sled Banner,’” and commenced in an exceptionally fine baritone, “Oh, say, can,you see.” Cards were dashed aside, the slecp ers awoke, the leaped to their] feet, and like m : every one of the} entire 93 officers crowded to the cen-} tre, singing with the greatest enthu- siasm. At le two dozen of the men had fine voic and never did the grand old words geem so like a mighty anthem, Waved the Old Flag. Louder and louder swelled the sound until the chorus of the last verse was} ree a cates i Ls MOND, AST? LOOKED DUI into Indians. That Ireland was once a lake, That primeval man had a gizzard, Tpat music is antiseptic. That Adam caught fish with a club, That love is a disease of the Medulla oblongata, That a cabbage contains more neur- ishment than twelve eggs. ‘Lhat Boccaccio was a Swede, NG THE WAR. That the American negro is gradual- ly becoming yellow, That Columbus was a grafter, That George Washington liket on-| ici.s and tripe. } That Join D. Ro man than Shakespeare That the achs. That Arabia than Bulgari: That ma Tt will t to ponder over here mentioned promulgated } greater | unebug has seven stom- voduces more vullfrogs ge is a form of inss e the world a gene the fe reac rh mber y Carian ekcen eees my us : Ta 294 would keep a the ntists busy, ae ine si ope) am-) oven if they worked day and night, in many thoroughbred, reache hand hs hif ‘ej ‘i : in his breast and produced a It silk | three shifts, for fifty years. | ine whieh he some way a ue Certainly r, kockefeller’s money od c by tt ds a is | spent. The fact that the wild s te s act public at the oil-born pgofes- | way gree! ois . | sors and re 1s them as low come- d thea it to the chorus denly the Army and Nay W DSRS Ee EDIE GOR }eurred a-short tins ; pennant w jAmertcan = L | playing re The world. laughed at lians is of no ance, t will be remembered, . Copernicus, Galileo and Sub-Lieut, Na- poleon Bonaparte. ————— FORTUNES FOR BALL PLAYERS, : Friendiy Rivalry in the Two Great Leagues. at basel2ti Th battle which oc icQ between the; s of the National and} j for the season's io mind that it was but go that these two rival | associations were clashiag 1 nail in a deadly war of ex- on and § It was then American League, under the) hip of Baa Johnson, made in- | into the ranks of the National | ie, capturing star players and ing them in i ause through a rainbow of big saiaries. Rival teams were placed in Caicago, St. Louis, Bos- ton, New York and Philadelphia and princely salaries offered to the players of ability. There were, of course, sults at law, and injutictions were sought re- straining the contract jumpers, One particular instance of this is. remem- bered im e case of Lajoie, Delehanty, Wolverton, Orth and Townsepd, one- time members-of-the Phiiadelphia-Na- tidnals, who jumped to the rival team in that city. When injunctions were se- at a ke wt The Canada Goose., With the ery of “honk, honk,” like |proach of a man, are not in fear of} should go through that city, these pl cows; this fact has often led hunters) +3 wore always switched over on an- train oxen to walk straight into cured preventing their playing in the Quaker town, they were transferred to the Cleveland and Washington teams. The injunction, of course, prevented their playing in~ Philadelphia, and when occasion required that their team has divid “CHRISTY” MATHEWSON. 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