Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1892, Page 12

12 . le Fe - 4 3 : THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 24, 1892—SIXTEEN PAGES. | through the Moultrie House. No one was hurt, | | but you ought to have seen that crowd run. | NOT A FLAG OF DISTRESS. | “An incident occurred during the first day's | bombardment which has often been misin- 20 Were Mem- tezpreted. In saluting the fleet, which arrived gol | sopn after the firing began, by dipping our Garrison. flag, the flag in the third dip was thrown half way down because of the cutting of the halliard by arebelsheil. ‘The halliard became jammed STORY. | it the pulley and we couid therefore ‘neither _ * | pull the flag up nor down, it remaining at half mast in consequence. Butit was not,as bas often been thonght, a signal of disstross. We made none. “The position of the flag was due alone to an accident. The fag was, however. shot down during the bombard- | | ment by w solid shot, but it was quickly mailed | toa pole, and half a dozen men carried the new = | staff to the parapet and lashed it to a traverse | | made of spare gun carriages, although the | E CONNECTED | rebels turned all their guns upon them. Yet ith the great events | not aman was. hit, A, young Philadelphian, hoes Bringhurst, nailed the fing to the pole. of history are invariably | PULTE 6 sccond day's bombardment began Dretty objectaofalmostperpet | puch ax did the first. During the night neither ual interest, especially our friends in the fleet ner the enemy disturbed | first artillery, December 1, 1854; corporal, July if those events happen | usand I heard some bitter things said about | 1, 1955; sergeant, May 29, 1856; first sergeant, within the memory of | the former. Early in the second day our quar- | Getober 1, 1857; discharged. October 1, 1859; the I Hence it is | teT* caught on fire. We put it out, as we did a | first sergeant, company E. first artiller; nip second one, and then when the fire broke out in | ber 1, 1859: sergeant, November 8, 1 that at this time, when | ,ovcral places we found that the rebels were | sergeant. January 15, 1862; brevet secon‘ lieu- so many thousands of | fring red-hat shot into We theh let the | tenant first artiliery, February 19. those who struggled to | buildings burn. The fire burned everything in | ond lieutenant third’ artillery, April 17 5 maintain the oid fs h and threatened our maguzine. But | brevet first lieutenant, July 3, 1S@. for vallant paced tages powder chamber was fullof smoke before we , and meritorious service in the Gettysburg cam= gathered together, that | closed it. Most of our powder and shell we ; brevet captain, August 25, 1864, for gal- every man wie partici: | covered with wet blankets, and when the | torious service in action at Kear- pated with them carries about him an atmos-) piankets gave ont we were compelled to Phore of interest, strengthened by the knowl- | throw thirty barrels ‘of powder ‘overboard. et a 3 bo the last re-| _ ‘‘As the firing went on the smoke inside the se pores pare: athe standing erect. Our fire at length was SUMTER SURVIVORS. Men in This City W bers of the Bra CAPTAIN CH Only Thirteen of the Original Seventy Known to Be Living —An Accoant of the Bombard- Who Worked a Gun mont Give im the Fort. by a Ma: uns ten. James Chester was born in Scotland; ap- | pointed from the army captain company E, around they will have answered the last roll aced to one thot every five minuies, the call. Especially interesting to the veterans rebels m: Sal he gag agg are those connected with th vents whic | avine be ped in flames and we e form part of the earliest pe f the war. pected every moment to be our last. We still So, to the survivors of that fearl idevoted continued our five-minute fire, however, and little band who in the ¢ es of Fort just as [ approached to fire my gun No. 1, ashe Sumter valiantly answered the open a8 advanced to sponge scovered a face peer- of the war attaches at this time wou Ting in at the erabrasure and I heard a voico est. Less than seventy-five was the uu sa of God's sake don't make me stay of that little garrison a: not more here and be killed by my own shot to be They are muel W. Crawicrd, now al, residing in Washinton. Then I ‘aw No. 1, a 4 Thompson. drag in a man by the nan was in citizen's clothes, very o y+. | much excited, and some of us thought he was leday, captain first United States | drunk. Asking for Maj. Anderson the major | artillery, now retired as colouel, residing im) appeared, to whom the stranger said: ‘1am Mendham, ¥. J. * Col. Wigfall of Gen. Geauregard’s staff. For James Chester, sergeant FE. od’ sake let this thing stop. There has been z Btates artiliery, now captain third United preset rdheslperetgae d Maj. Anderson HESRY ELLER artillery. on duty at Washington city arse d: ‘There has been none on my side, | Henry Ellerbrook was born in Germany, and Heary prook, corporal E. first United , your batteries ure still firing on | entered the'United States army in 1854, and States artulery, now clerk in War Department, om. D.C. served on the frontier in Sonth Dakota. Minne- | sota, Wyoming, Montana, Nel ‘ Wigfall’s request » flag of truce, a large in twentieth jammer, now a captai sheet, was shown from the parapet, I suppose, | sas. until 1850" Joined first United Le noe ng ceased ina few minutes and senti- | States artillery, at Fort Moultrie. 8. ( . 7 Seon a small boat put out 1860, He served throughout the greater lip Amderman, artificer, residing in Wash- it displayed no | part of the late war, ‘being’ discharged as a ingree, D. —e oursentry. We | tirst sergeant in February, 1865, xd when the rebel ¥ indignant con- One was Stephen D. | in the fe United | Allowance for Every Person's Error in All jexgusom, also | ‘Things That He Sees. tes army; but the | prom the San Fren-isco Chronicle. It was discovered many years ago that if two or any greater number of people undertake to | note the same incident at the same time they will not agree upon the exact moment when the oc, © took place. - Astronomers, in whose observ: 8 the greatest accuracies ob- | tainable is usually desirable, have studied this | question and generally agree to fix the precise | moment of an oceurrence by taking the mean | time noted by a number of observers, and to this difference in the noting of time they have | given the name of personal equation. The dif- ference proceeds, of course, from physical and | mental characteristics, one man being able to think and act with much more rapidity than another. If we extend the idea of the fersonal equa- tion and apply it to other matters besides scien entific research and observation it will tend to clear up many of the perplexing questions which are ro common in the domain of philoso- phy, religion and ethics. We often think it} very strange that one with whom we are dixcus- | sing some proposition should ny be able at once to reach the conelu-ion at which we have | arrived, or, on the other hand, that he should outstrip us and come to a decision with —_—.—_— THE PEKSONAL EQUATOIN. rfax cou ene Ncheibuer, private artiliery. residing in Washington. D. ¢ Francis J. Oaks, private first United States ia Wash on. D. C it H. tirst United States ton. D.C. ) Lyman. a carpenter employed in the | fort, residing in Washington, Charies Bringhurs im the fort, residi John Swearer. more, Md. x-ofticer of the United 8 third I did not know. THE CESSATION OF FIRING. ‘Lee was the spokesman, aff was very indig- being stopped by our sentry, supposing we had surrendered. They had a consultation . Anderson, in which I did not part s repudiated Wig- member Anderson gentlemen, you go back to I didn't send for you!” But back for half an hour, and the ad. At dusk another of truce approached in a small boat from Sullivan's Isiand, when we learned that the fighting was over, and that we would be permitted to leave Fort Sumter with all the honors of war, Jefferson Davis te! om Montgomery, Ala. to Gen. Athat in consideration of Maj. A # brave defense he should be accorded ch honors. ‘The grand. old fag we red were to salute with 100 guns, but when but forty-eight rounds had ‘been fired an occurred, which killed two fellows and badly wounded CAPT. CHESTER’S © “Perhaps the best Robert Anderson, the comm Sumter,” remarked Cay reporter of Tux Stax can give is the one tue men gar heved Liews Col. Jobn L. Moultrie: -He looks lik “Major Anderson arr fast when we were actively p it, and the preparati as much euergy as South Carolina had seceded and the ps flag floated everywhere except on Fort ot trie. We were then virtually a beleag garrison without the formality of a deciar of war. Thus matters continued until Christ- mas eve, 1860, when, having previousiy tram: ferred our women and children—and there another. The dead were buried in the fort, ‘was a great, fine lot of them—to Fort Johnson, | our enemies, in a true spirit of chivalry, sen the garrison was transferred to Fort Sumter. | ing a chaplain to officiate at the funeral.” T ‘The men when we left Fort Moultrie knew not considered to be where we were going. They thought we in- ‘ The surgeon gen- tended captaring the ‘rebel’ guard boat. but | eral of Soxth red for him, and some | not uatil we bad stolen past her, headed for | time the following month he rejoined us at Fort | s« which we deem unbecoming and | Sumer, did they realize our objective point. | Hamilton, New York harbor, having come | neceskarily incorrect, and yet it is only a matter | The guardboat sately passed, another danger throngh the lines on a pass signed by € of the personal equation. threatened us at Fort Sumter, where the only Jeauregard. His sight of one eye was p: There are peop occupants, rebel laborers, must be surprisedg destroyed and for that reason the United just as there are others who are +1 ‘They were found enjoying themselves in h authorities refused to re-enlist him. thing. There are men and women day fashion. and their surprise was complete. | afterward enlisted ma Michigan regiment and | fast’ and for all we know Fort Moultrie was left im charge of four men, was killed, poor fellow, on the peninsula. there are others for and they, when we fired a sigual of three guus, When ‘assembly sounded for us in Fort honrs en lit their torches, and a moment later all! snmter for the Inst time the column was Charleston knew that Moultrie was on fire and | formed, the old flag wrapped around the to Sumter occupied by its garrison. The same | mast which had been shot down and reverent Signal also brought our women and children | carried on the shoulders of six sergeants in a back to us from Fort Johnson. __ | vance, the garrison marehing ont behind to the “The four men left in Fort Moultrie did their | inepiring strains of “Yankee Doodle. Boarding @uty well and remained there until the after-| thePinuicr she carried us to the nteamer Ince ee oe art ree crowd Collected in| bel. which next morning took us to the fleet, on en \e eatene : * : ae the lous venicy who paced his beat as if noth, | Which we sailed to Fort Hamilton, New York ing unusual was occurring. They crowded close to the gate, but the sentry, drawing a line with is bayonet point acrowm the road, said, ‘I'll shoot the first man,that puts his foot across that line.’ They laughed at and cursed him, say the fort wus theirs, but noone passed that line. Atl p.m. the sentry was withdrawn, and the four men escaped to Fort Sumter. “Fort Sumter was hardly defensible when wo got there and for weeks we were kept busily engaged in making 1t so. Provisions were rather too scarce for a siege. Enough for two months, provided the women and children were out of the way. For a while the goveruor of South Carolina permitted us to purchase in open market in the city fresh meat and vege- tables, When that permission was withdrawn we begged for perumussion to send away the women and children. When we at last ob- tained the pon the siege began in ear- nest Soon after their departure we were put | on short allowance, which graduall; shorter until it reached one cracker a day and finally disappeared altogether. But no one | grumbled. for every one of us appre- Ciated the true situation of affaire. Those of the workmen who were willing to east their lot |_ with us we gladly accepted, the rest we sent to Charleston. Those who remained with us| Samuel W. Crawford was born in Pennsyl- served loyally and weil, et the country has | vania and appointed from that state assistan! — fittingly recognized their devotion to the | surgeon March 10, 1851; major thirteenth in- id flag. aabecial Sumi hibesiiclioneate | fantry, May 14, 1861; brigadier general volu: etdidiacdaains ‘until April came, %¢?* April 25, 18¢2; brevet colonel, July 2, 1863, Prag — for gallant and meritorious service in the bat- | jany interesting and amusing incidents oc- _ tle of Gettysburg. Pa.; lieutenant colonel sec- curred meantime, but work and sleep were the | ond infantry, February brevet major sole cecupations in the fort, and the work was! general voluatecrs, August 1, hard and the workmen few. Affairs had gradu- ntry in the battles of th ally been approaching a crisis, and on the Lith of April, 1861, Gen. Beauregard negotiated With Maj. Auderson for the evacuation of the fort. Anderson's reply was that be would evacuate only when compelled to do 80 by hunger. About the next morning a steamer approached the fort and fired a signal gun. We sent out a boat to her and received Rotufication from Gen. Beauregard that he would open his batteries on Fort Sumter in two Bocrs. Maj. Anderson was in bed at the time, but he did not get up immediately. He ordered the flag to be hoisted and the men to remain | abed until reveille. Few did s0, however. “At the hoar appointed by Beauregard I and Lieut. Jefferson & Davis stole upon the ram- red. Promptly q ot was fired. It was @ mortar shell and well aimed. I traced its course by the burning fuse until it burst inside the tort. The rebel batveries then opened on Usonevery side. And « grand night the bom- berdment was, the flashes of the guns in the pitehy darkness looking like lightning. This ie disappeared with daslight, “when the from the enemy's guns became more it. For two hours we remained silent the garrison speut the time in studying the effect of the firing. “Reveille that morning rounded at the usual hour and as if nothing unusual was going on. ‘The usual time was devoted to routine duties | end then the orders of the day were announced. tour of duty at the guns was to be four | ‘There were two consisting each | company of artillery, a few of the band | workmen. Battery E was the first on | divided into three parties, I hav- | the third and manning the guas ort Moultrie, the Sullivan's tteries and the ironclad floating bat- moored close to the shore of Sullivan's} * Abner Island. We opened fire from Fort Sumter at Doubleday was born in New York, : appointed from there brevet second lieutenant Bes tihenesag Ubeanecien beicty vied MMithoars | third artillery, July 1, 1842; second heutenant surrounded by a bank of smoke from their own | frst artillery, February 24, 1845; first lieuten- gas. There was itttic excitement among our | ant, March 3, 1847; captain, March 8, 1855; desery w in ‘ev who he singular feature of thir difference is that the Flow peo- ple pride them-elves on thetr slowness, st porting their way of doing things with all ‘sorts Of wise says and modern instances, and regard: ing with pity if not with scorn those who are | quicker than themselves. They bring to. their aid all the musty eld proverbs in most of them must hav: people, nut as gen- eral rales, but purely a> excuses for their slow- ners. Tn questions of morals, not to ray of theology. n important part adard of ethics, the relation must be a purely subjective one, and whether a certain thing mus often depend on the in which if is re- garded, Just as b e exe of the ob- rorver, so the more delicate shad~s of ethical | | questions must depend on .th | conscience of tho-e who are called tipon to past Judgment on them. It is. very mach the same | lin theology. The dispute between Luiher and | thon grew ont of one phase of the per- Luther was unable to translate | ¥ way except lit- wat.”” remarked Capt. Chester. “wes more And bow much has hxp- Yetit seems to me but which it is generaliy used present day. ‘The personal equation exists universall: | always will, and we must recognize it as ‘co teniedly as’ we do the attraction of gravitation. | Of course nothing can ever drive out of our | | heads the idea that we are right and the other fellow wrong: but if we concede the existence of the personal equation we may be able to rors and attribute his obstinacy not to «tupidity or ill temper, but to something of which he may not be conscious or cannot control if he iy. | He Ha No Sympathy for the Sick “Boy. Fro: New York Tribune. | William was unquestionably ill that hot after- ‘noon when he came into the broker's oftice in | Broad street where he is employed as a mes- senger. His face was the color of ashes and wore an expression of “‘goneness” that excited the pity of every one in the place. ‘The junior partner, with words of sympathy, told him to go home at once. Just as William was starting the senior member of the firm came in. “Hello, what's the matig?” he asked, seeing the boy's pale face. : “I'm “What ails you?” ‘The broker was suspicious instead of sympathetic. - y stomach,” answered the boy. t's the tronble?” “It hurts,” said the boy. | “What have you been‘enting?” sternly asked | the employer as he looked into the boy's eyes. | “Ob, nothing much.”” thesda Church, Petersburg and Globe Weldon railroad, and for faithful service in the campaign; brevet brigadier general, March 3, 1865, for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Five Forks, Va.: brevet major general, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meri- torious service in the field during the war; mustered out of the volunteer service January 15, 1866; colonel sixteenth infantry February retired February 19, 1373, for wounds received in line of duty; retired with rank of brigadier general, to date from February 19, 1873, with pay as such from March 3, 1875 — Act March 3, 1875. “Four glasses, maybe, or five.” “Anything else?” “Yes, some pie.” “How much?” Hy “Well, some apples, and a piece of water- melon and—" * g 5 fh g af 4 { i f : GEN. DOUBLEDAY. “That's all you can think of? ‘Yes, sir?” i you. men in at the little boy with the ‘normous ity, and wondered how it was ei that he | in the fie | the fragrance of orange gr | lating je who are quick in everything, | c1 temperament of } while Melancthon, | j look with some measure of charity upon his er- | y | hind the pillars are extensive warble- IN PARA, BRAZIL. The Traveler's Interest in Its Sur- * roundings Never Flags, OUT TO MORCO DE LEGUA. A Trip to This Suburb to See the Wella That Furnish the City’s Drinking Water—Naza- i reth Plaza, Where Votive Offerings Are | Hung. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. Pana, Brazre, Aug. 10, 1892 HATEVER MAY BE enid of the delights and discomforts of travel- | ing in Brazil, one thing ie truc—that tho in-| terest of it never flags, for each city has ite own distinguishing pe- culisrities which render it unlike any of the others, and each day's sightseeing expedition develops things new i and strange. = T morning we went ont to Marco da Legua, five miles distant, tor visit the wells which farnish the city’s drinking water. A peculiarity of | Para is that in cogtains not one artificial foun- | tain, whereas every other South American town | has a surplus of them. The group of wells above mentioned and some springs in the eastern suburbs are the only water supply for more than a hundred thousand peo- ple, eked out of the —chocolate-col- ored current of the river, by the less fastid- ious, for lavatory purposes. You go to the wells /by tramway, along the aristocratic resi- dence street called’ the Ina de Nazareth, which for the first three miles is lined on_both sides with pretty ca-as, built after the Portuguese fachion, some with wails of tinted stucco, others coated with blue and yellow tules and all fronted by splendid palm. trees whose feathery tops are in perpetual commotion, apparent! nodding and whispering to one another, while their tall, column-like trunks remain unmoved is heavy with in interior gar- dens and in the middle of every house | e trees of the patio--strange trees, known | n the tropics—litt their heads above the About midway ix the beautiful | in form, so named from its church, which is especially devoted to the worship of Our Lady of Nazareth, CONFUSION AT THE WELLS. At the wells we find a scene of indescribable confusion, a deafening babel of voices, acrowd of negro lavender (washwomen) aud Portu- guese watgr carriers, all jabbering and gesticu- | ‘like mad,” so that one momentarily | expects to see knives drawn and blood shed. But it is not a riot, nor an incipient revolution, as one might well only the every-day eerfulnoss of the n lower classes, whose tomary deportment, when two or three | gathered together, is more like that of human beings. In Para the led galiegos, a term of contempt, which was first applied by the Portugnese to the Spanish emigrants from | arryipg | » thix country as uni- from some provinces turn to fishing, from others to fa are ou. By and by t ns _adopte {| word gallegos and it to the few Portu- | e who were en same bnainess, | Pow ev ‘ ries water is a) in Mexico all F liv h-sp Z peo- ple from either side of the ocean are gringoes Until within a few y drinking water was peddled about the streets of Para on horse- taggering under four euor- | ped to bis back, but lately some | land of Bergh the overworked Jetons, intro ach to be | drawn by an ox or mule. But nobody thinks | pi ameliorating the condition of the human | though several hangred Teartsare constantly goiug the rounds of th ¢ negroes and indians, bowed under the weight of + poiced upon the head, ench of which looks heavy enough to crush 2 y skull. On the way buck to town we stopped at Naza- reth placa to take a peep at the votve offerings | which are hung upon the walls of its famous | chayel, for Our Lady of Nazareth—so say the ilians—has wrought more miracles than all the other virgins aud saints on r festival occ October and awa great numbers of to Para from all the Ama- 5 It continues a fortnight or | z ull that time the square ix ed, hundreds of families having ousehold goods and encamped ‘The ig faith of the pioas Brazilian, ‘as well the eficacy prayer and the pc of Our Lady exemplified by the great numbt of these off the spot. wy tui bones, way by cance and other hi tumors, protruding are’ br nearly eaten nous goiters, ny to enumerate. graphic “counterfeit ps at sea about to be| % crags and the Virgin | flying down to the rescue when ap- led to; pictures of men and women on beds ess, and the same obliging lady commg | through ‘the ceiliug with =a bottle of medicine. One of them — shows | an invalid sitting in an arm chair | and the legend below sets forth how the good man had not been able to walk a step. tor until, following some directions a dream, he became weil the There are a good many large.) but though several are much handsomer, there is none 40 interesting as this | of Our Lady of Nazareth. ‘the cathedral isan | enormous ed which boasts of the greatest | of marbles from all parts of the world | at were ever collected under one roof. The | great high altar contains no fewer than fifteen | different kinds and the floors and walls and galleries are a mosaic of countless varieties of the same beautiful material, A BIG OPERA HOUSE. Everybody has heard of Pura’s great opera house, the largest on the South American con- tinent and one of the largest fn the world. It is situated at one end of a plaza and is built of k and stucco, three sides of it having deep alcoves supported by massive marble pillars with fluted shafts and Corinthian capitals. Be- paved romenade of shed upon bee! orticoes, in which people may etween the or find shelter from the rains which fall every day dur- ing nine months of the year. Squatting all along the pavement in front of the main en- trance are always ecores of greasy negresses doing flourishing business in the sale of eetmeats and bonbons. Just inside the doors isa large bar room, which the audience visit frequently during the evening, gentlemen tak- ing out their ladies for sweet,drinks, beer and champagne. ‘The interior is very handsomely decorated in crimson, white and gold. There are five tigrs of boxes and each box has @ little ante-room, where the occupants receive and entertain their friends both between and dur- ing the acts, for here, as elsewhere in Spanish- Ameriea, people come to the theater apparently ing except to listen to the per! bell room that fils the front of the building. re are no, nium boxes, but i of ‘the middle ter is a. gorgesusly ornansented stall reserved for the a wasn't dead instead of being only sick. A Grinding Monopoly. ‘From the Chicag» Tribune. Grinnen—‘Yes, I've been having somegmore teeth pulled. They are all gone now, except ten, and they worked the guns in a steady, | major seventeenth infantry, May 14, 1861; business-like way, their markmanship being | revet general volunteers, February 3, 1862; fairly goot. Only the lower tier of guns were | brevet licutenant colonel, Bion ne 1362, service manned, and we were comjelled to use solid | gor ond. mertecions Seseeee tan] ‘them not | Shih | sick and can't go to the store. | words were: | of aerial steerage. commemorate that event it was named the “Theater of Our Lady of the Peace.” . PUBLIC BUILDINGS. ‘The next building in point of architectural pretensions is the government houso—a very large but plain two-storied building, facing an extenéive plaza, which is covered with rank grass like a meadow. This plaza is surrounded Dy quaint, one-story casas and rows of old mango trees, and in its center isa tall, white inarble monument, erected in honor of some | famous Paranese warrior, but we must beg you to excuse us from wading through that” tangled, —pathless and doubtless snake-infested ‘grasa to discover his name. Close by is a fort mounting guns of light cali- ber, and following the same street, which for half a mile or moro ia bordered by a double row of royal palms, like those in the botanical gardens at Rio, we may pass the governor's mansion and bring up at the great market | house. But the latter is an institution of an especial visit, and today we will pass by it. While the city, as you know, fronts the river, ite rear is skirted by a shaded ‘walk, or Paseo, as it is here called, whose equal would be hard to find on the American continent, It is called the Exbrado dos Mangabeiras, from the hugh man- gabeirn trees which line both sides and extend #everal miles—from the Marine arsenal on the river wide to the Largo da Polvora on the east- ern extremity of the city, and is intersected by | avenues leading to the Largo do Quartelald, the palace square. ‘The bark of these trees is silver and they produce a coarse cotton is used for various purposes. beyond the Estaba das Manga- . which is always filled with carriages and pedestrians, one may plunge at once into the primeval forest, and in five minutes’ stroll become lost to every trace of the near resi- rorthy, | dence of man. Stories are told of persons who. even within the present year,have become bewil- dered in the mazes of these jungles, and though but so short a distance away were utterly una- ble to find-their way back to town, and many | are known to have perished in that manner, All important posts throughout the city and the approaches thereto are regularly guarded by soldiers, and whoever appreaches after 8 o'clock is bailed by the harsh call, Quem vai ln? (who goes there?) The proper answer 1s, “Un afriend; and then the guardian of Fansite B. Warp. _ “NUMBER THIRTEEN.” The Little Cash Girl Who Helped Support Grancmother and Sister. From the New York Recorder. She was only a little cach girl, twelve years No one thought of calling her pretty, too large for her thin, old face. Everybody liked her; even the stern, fault-find- ing floorwalker sometimes patted her kindly on the head. body in the store knew her real name; she was “Number 13” to every one. I hgd been attracted by her sad smile, and as I visited the store quite frequently we soon be- came great friends. I often took her fruit or cake and noticed that she never ate them while I was near, I entered the store in great haste, scarcely noticing that no little figure in rusty mourning came forward to leasing I'was accosted bya little hun girl, who pressed a little soiled note into my hand. “Dere Mis Arnold,” it said, “am orful Can you plees cum and see me. Yours traly, Number 13." It wasso pathetic and tear-stained that I made up my mind to go see the child, The girl who H vod gazing eagerly up will show you where Are you her sister’ and, as wé walked along, she | told me the sad, short story of their lives ‘Their parentsdied when they were both very young, leaving them to the care of their old gtandmother, a poor washerwoman, The older | d played the part of Eva in“Unele Tom's | for three years, until, one fatal night during the en rhe appears as an angel, chinery gave way and she fell. At first | agnt to be dead, but it was finally | at her little back was broken. Ob, the long, weary weeks of pain that follow ‘Then the little’ sister of nine had to be taken from school to aid in supporting the almost destitute sister and grandmother. Unused to the continement of a store, the rosy cheeks soon lost their bloom and the face grew thin and careworn, Still the brave child struggied on. No murmur ever escaped her lips, until coming e night inthe cold and ‘rain she was taken with pneumonia. very day the hanchback sister hnd crawled around to stand in front of the store, hoping to | e of “Miss Arnold,” for) whom rer called so often. into a rickety gid tene- of dark, Screakiny ened a door and wi ark room, From an old, in one corner, came a feverish discovered ente: broken so! groan. “Number 13 * I whispered, bending over the | little bed. It is I, Miss A | ‘The brown eyes opened wearily and regarded me for one vecond; in another the feverish | e both about my neck axa defighted voice cried weakly, “Oh, dear Miss Arnold, I | knew vou wouldcome I have waited so long to wee you.” For two long days and nights the brave spirit ‘truggled to free itself from the suffering little body. There was no hope for her, the physi- | cian <aid, her constitution was too much weak- ened by overwork and insufficient food. She died in the greatest agony, and her last ake care of my sister and grandmother, please.” 2 Flying Machine. 4a column of space toan alleged definite solution of the problem Turpin, the originator of me'inite and widely known as an ingenious and practical inventor, has been giving his spare time while in prison toa solution of the aerial problem. Turpin, with three others, was sen- tenced to four years’ imprisonment about fif- teen months ago for selling to the Armstrong | ¥ the secret of the | an Manufacturing Com: manufacture of melinite, which the French government owned and wished to retain for itself, it being a new and powerful explosive. Turpin was also sentenced to pay a fine at the same time aud deprived of civil rights for five ears. Soon after entering prixon he showed an earnest desire to solve the problem of acrial igution und thereby hasten hie liberation by giving the kecret to the government. If the Figaro story is correct fuccessful and an aerial vente! built on bis plat could be navigated with,ease and steered in any | desired direction. WIPING OFF TWO SCORES AT ONCE. He Suggests a Practical Joke. Prom Tito | and give them a live obj | a monument to the rank and file of the war of | that portion of chapter 18 of the general incor- rpin hax been entirely | AN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. A Proposition Adopted at Union Veterans’ Union. | The following resolution, offered by Col. Neill | Dumont of the Department of the Potomac at the session of the Union Veteran’s Union, was referred toa committee consisting of Col. Du- mont, Gen. Rutherford B. Haves and Gen. Green Clay Smith: | “Whereas we seek the unity and best condi- tion of onr fellow men by kindly methods and im the woods a day of two your wn tell vou when it is dinner tim after that ome the hammocks and the books, and t rest under #uch cf Mountains, AN IMMENSE TRACT OF WILD Laxp—tme pe- TAILS'OF CAMP LIFT—IN COMTORTAPLE QtAB- TERS—prrn NO bY ack LowT—TmE EXCITEMENT AT THE SUPREME Nome, th its hustle and bustle campaign, prize fights and cholera scares, IN THE EVENING, If your camp is properly located yon cam ig yout hammocks under grand old mon- ent and on the very edge of the surface #0 closely pre F THE THOUSANDS tonians who scatte places da: the heate broad ways of aid; and whereas the objects of Comparative fe ord tha Bommeys ped olden days are in large measure accomplished, great atime. Hrening | and new objects for tle benefit of the race, the good of the nation, the benefiting of our widows and our orphans are sought; and whereas these can in our judgment be best accom- | plished by putting into the hands of others wins form a wall for to hide behind as it goes down in the {the cans) fire glows in genial warms 1 bh. No matter if te ant the cool «pote for well known. very heart of the wilder | ways and knowledge by which th one to leave the capital at noon and be you will in the a yA y which they canearn a 5, oe . ga : — | livelihood and work out a career: and wh fally ensconsed in camp or at one of the d ra ns of the rei many veterans would prefer to have their youth Ught of both sexes trained for praetical life and so} enoor become useful to the nation and humanity, cars of the ia therefore the national command of the Sort, [Veteran Union now assembled proposes “yy by some means to be effected thr: pa epeng: | charter incorporating the national com- ™M0st a desecrati mand with the several commands through the times wh: | out the nation, to the end that, say, 10,000 acres of cheap lands be purchased in or contiguous to | the mineral, coal and timber fields of some state | having coal, iron, other mineral and timber, which are adapted also to agriculture and Frazing ures, and thereon establish & techno- logical school of large capacity, at which shall | be tad@ht mining and civil engineering, work- | | ing in timber, the digging, «melting, fusing and | weighing of metals, the forging of and working | therein, practical chemistry. machine building | and enginecring. the forces from which powe | is derived, how to produce, control and get its | benefit, the rearing of all domestic animals, tanning and currying and all useful trades, the of soils, the uses of all kinds of fer- , the study of grain, stock and fruit grow- ing. the building and use of agriculcural machinery, and also practical — agricult- ure; iso the different schools of practical agriculture; also the different schools of medicine, surgery, veterinarian- ism, drafting and other arts, dairy work, house- work, the making of fabrics and of clothing. so that none should go away helpless of self aid by their own hand and brain. We propose t be managed by first-class business talent, under the direction of a committe depart vear by the national command at its annual meeting, aided by the three past department command- ers for the preceding year, the commander-in- chief for such preceding year to be president of such committee for the year seceding that of his being — commander-in-chief. That as educators and instructors the very highest practical talent be employed, with first-class books, instruments and equipments, | leaving other teachers and monitors to com from the pupils up through the grades, We would not resttict the echool to veterans’ chil- dren. To purchase, establish and support such aschool we would suggest an addition to the dues of each member of the order $1 per an- num, more orless, dependent on the number of veterans in the jurisdiction named and «uch other reasonable ¢cholastic fees ax would be wise. The thought in oar minds is that many | ¥eterans cannot afford to send their children to the university and technological school now existing, co that by establishing such a place as is outlined herein the men could be more tically taught to pay something, and at to those who vould not pay. Thus we e: veterans to maintain their standing and order ect without divert the purpose. In @ few years « t be making its own clothing and its own food. be in a large measure self-«up- | and by keeping up the high grad: for practical culture, by building inex- | pensive, substantial buildings from the material on the ground and the force in the school, build DEER NUNTING BY JACK LIGHTS, If it is daring the open season and the and you are ou'll be off at even- coping with mand that pen none ia more excit= at night. You leave into might ing j Int same and | 37, or at least th homet can go to the m and all, with the least ; comfort, onsil AN IMMENSE TRACT. | The traveler who hax never visited the Adi- rondacks agueidea of the magnitude of the re; 4 in this nam that it cor “e Jack light,” which isa half-roand tin affair with glass front Tying two candles to givé the light, ie the bow of the boat three feet high, back of this and under it <ite the hum the guide site at the the boat and p how these gua do paddie. ot even a commowor is heard, and yet the bat glides id lako with the 6, WO that ite ghostly may be thrown upon the shore. The ad and whitened trees, which have lain neration half buried 4 water, look her end Island pat to: an in the It is s ing civilized » found in tho we ithas be by the ation rise to think th together « le rave there cangpt New York, with trioticm, to passa bill f entire tract tarried out for Rive the people and pro in the ent seem to be masq uncertam raya at rest everywhere nd that t pushes al now and then thro which grate along the the light there is the still- There is but one eraft under vor ithile, cha bunch of lily Je of the bont na noise and brealt s. You listen vou look until it p from their nervously rifle to see that great white vapors from the waters in al away in «pectral billows Your nerves on, was that» din the woods just ahead Yes, for vou bi an, the boat guide knows that it ea deer, nds away «0 hard and rapidly break through. You wait, and It seems an age, and then the lo. tells you ck has into the pond anpeti on the young lily realize that about to shoot perhaps your Is this back fewer which has its nm vou? You have heard of it, but knew ver have it. Slowly the guide is e boat toward the charmed pet — Int. He stops—then not ® noise now, nota ar chane which every is | gate holding: of these 1 when 4,900,000. rising grandly el of the im st as great its base. of your di T @ merrily un at of vou and # gan fr sh that crac P fear it wil t, and wait, slosh, the b jto enjor nd ten >a ary rat dec grasp you pme out ing meal pods. You it is one of th may be rge numb: a few « mt and_reere ined. Th and hotels, a shion got the upper hand negiige «birt still rv of the region happily nforta which has nis ill find all the had anywhere, ¥ sort, oF ¥ nd the li mrts and ho; nin but will miss the trae e This can be had only bi Jone of the m erfect rest and had at one 1861-65, which did ghe work of the war, one which will mark a brighter spot on the history than the scratches on monuments to men whom they made illustrions. We should trust that no mere creed -hould ever enter there, and would insist that the workings of God and the teach- ings of the holy scripture by members true to the principles of our own and similar organ- a Ae ion of the Union soldiers, And to this end nt the other da: invite the aidand ion of our organ- | or to Willis ization of the Union so! and sailors. | in the econ eates lakes }and they will put The repert on this proposition, which was fete Kd GaNle. who when Ihe knows the oon adopted, was as follows: | be to in tt 7 t To the National Command of the Union Vet- | how laxurious a “camp” you erans’ Unio fother points of Your special committee to whom was referred Low to go about it, | the resolution concerning the purchase of land aught to bring with | nd the founding thereon of a technological ‘school have considered the same and beg leave to report that we believe the plan outlined in| the resolution to be practical, useful and capa- ble of performance, gnd.’ in order that the same be carried “ont, we recommend for your adoption the draft of a charter under | if not by expe- k. He raison while his two eves, 90 like The gaide whiapera, your rifle slowly and All tremor bas heart has stopped, vou dra fevers thing aprings cht crowd is nd look balls . start Sho go or how to go) who enter- | Saranac and up j tho ra: | echoing with | Alead of you the ng lashed into a foam —all is action, boat creeps up closer, vou wonder if you've lost him. Ye the bn tup into the bushes, hit that fellow square in the heart,’ | is all you hear him say. F. 8. Paeswaer. Stole From Iimset From the St. Louis G | “The most puzzling ease I ever had was ia Denver four or said 8. 8. Cor rigan, a veteran detective, who is «pending © few days at the Laclede. “A wealthy dry goods merchant made a practice of taking bis receipts puzzled hat was when from one pond to another on ough an almost impenetrable | for a moment. poration laws of the United States of America se cote relating to the District of Columbia which | covers the organization of benevolent and edu- cational societies. We further recommend that cher this committee be continued or another © amet 0 ONPORTABLE QUARTERS, after banking hours home with him and lock Serpond with eed weccive: Becvowls: from | In the well-equipped Adirondack camp one | them up ina large safe which ne kept in his b cthona for the sale of 1000). acres of | Sleepson a radely made rustic bedstead, with | 00M. Several times considerable sums were PS 2 .009 acres abstracted from the safe, but how it was man- such lands as con timber, and are adapte gn slats of yeliow birch and mattress of pine boughs, a combination which makes tiul a resting place as can be im making of a good bed of this 8 an art, and an old wood the larger ends of the boughs that nm either to be seen or feit. A rubby is | then thrown over the surface. and upon that is coal, iron and to agriculture and zing, and that such committee examine the tracts offered, take into consideration all the surroundings and conditions of climate, health- | fulness, remoteness from lines of travel, and reasonably speedy oversight by the board of managers. and if conditions, terms and come within the scope of the capital stock, allow- | a quilt, and then the inga percentage of, say, $20,000 for the erection | these are a suggest of buiidingand expenses, to purchase the same, if | ness which are 1 at can be done on fair terms of payment, from | uine camps. Proveeds of sale of the eapttal tock and issue os cc een: of mortgage bonds to secure deferred payments EARS caik Gk ck Co and. proceed at. once to. the entibitiment| After night's rest on such a comfortable J of the "school, “We alto recommend that | amd eweet-scented couch one avakons full of such committee draft such necessary by-laws | vigor and enjoys the luxury of a wach or for the governing of the society to be incorpo- | plunge in the cold water of the pond, for no rated a« may be proper and lawful, and adopt | well-intentioned such regulations as may be necewary for the is and pitchers. governing of the school, and that the society re- | jjv-ukfast—-such a meal port quarterly to the commander-in-chief a de- | joved. 4 tender bit of venison anda pan of failed statement of all. its doings, its receipts | {ict trout supplemented by flapjacks and and expenditures, which rej ort, as soon a8 Te- | maple sirup —all cooked a la A . ceived, the commander-in-chief shall report to of the guides, who has a “kinck, the several department commanders, and that | coupled with the surroundings brings out atthe next annual meeting of the national | appetite of which only a camper knows the command the committee shall report fully | jengih and breadth. After the morning meal and detail all its doings, its receipts | js over the work or play of the day begins. If and expenses tonching the matter. We further | the wind and sky are right ou slip ol with recommend that the committee confer with | One of the guides to a ucighboring pond Union soldier and sailor organizations | where he ‘knows of a, le bele™ in a view to their co-operation in and pur- | wi tempt the wary brosk chase of stock in tie enterprise, and that such | trout ie ie "ae terms and requiremehts for admittance to the school be established by the committee. Your committee respectfully returns the resolution referred to it. in was amvstery. He alone knew the com- ion and the safe was always properly locked: after being looted. He had locks and bare.on | rami windows and these were not die |turbed. I puzzl the case. a good deal | and finally con Le must be mistaken t the rol that, in short, he was @ tri Tid of the case, but be was oft and | ing t is quite man will «0 tuck under and chilli- 1 —. ad Lim place acot for me in his om and I slept there, Every night before I would ascertain what was in the safe and inspect it in the morning. A’ weck went by thing occurred to solve the mystery. ne night Iwas awakened by the clicking of {e lock, aud I started up to find the mer- chant rifling the each drawer, A closer inpeo- tiou showed him to be sound asleep. I slipped clothes and awaited dovelopmenta, He ly closed the safe, lit a candle, opened or and passed out.” He went direct to an 1 building back of his residence that had been home before he became wealthy and con- Ais plunder in a cavity that had been in one of the sills. The mystery was solved. He had been systematically. stealing from himself in his #leep. ‘The cavity in the sill of the old house had been his treasure chest in the early days of Denver, before the advent of banks and fireproof vaults, and, worryit over his money in bis drenms, he bad arisen an transferred it to what in the olden time was the safest place he kuew o! the cam; and 80 heartily en. | bi ceal m le you to \takea ti | trout, whi can rise The postage on axixteen or twenty-page Stam | the ist of July are so illusive Or if | is two c Papers not having fall on you prefer you may take your-hot gun and | them willl not be forwarded by the Otic Pick upa few peasants. After you have been Department. DOUBLE MEANING. Grex Cray San 3. i. Rovesrs, N. Demoxr, Committ The articles of incorporation for this institu- tion were filed yesterday. pecs <A ‘ What fs a Wife? Frotit the St. Paul Pionee: Press. ‘The pretty school teacher, for a little diver- tisement, had asked her class for the best original definition of “‘wife,” and the boy in the corner bad promptly responded, “A rib.” | She looked at him reproachfully, and nodded to the boy with dreamy eyes, who seemed ious to say something. “Man's guiding star and guardian angel,” he said in response to the nod. ‘A helpmeet,” put in a little flaxen-haired ‘One who soothes man in adversity,” sug- Le een phd aa cot emery pled 5 aye added the incorrigible boy in the corner. suggestion. “And keeps him from makings fool of him- self,” put in another girl. “Some one for a man to find fault with when things go wrong,” eaid a sorrowful little there,” said the schoo! rr A teacher, "Stat the bart ded 2 Yabsley—“‘Don't you know that the opal is an unlucky stone?” Mudge—“I guess not. This one bas been my comes r