Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1892, Page 7

—_— THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D. C. SATURDAY. 24, 1892-SIXTEEN PAGES. — — — ee —— 7 [looked as if thore wore a fete. People had imagination which are a credit to the haman in- ‘a handsome though badly rusted ivory handled N be tove- sword, and beside it isa large oa saber. flocked fi sround—tall, tellect, however discreditable they. € AR L 0. aespaiog themes pp Nimreemleiaees Pies, DOGS AND THEIR W AY raelty. The fret speaker told the story of CONFEDERATE RELICS Those te were Sou on the last Sonfederats —— * kobbl jo ticks, accompanied remain frigid crossed over origi that was A Tale of tt v ‘Pr ian e sis nea et mt ‘am their * wolenngit sory ‘oud tg pave eralows on} Some In ing Reminders of the rained at = Greaney tte ee eins ‘ale of the Franco-Prussian | chee aughters, « ou Conch Who cove; He thoug! teresting committee after occupation, Ap: ‘ country finert—all came to attend the con- lusions of One Has Closely Bea ed he pene neloces kat toy saaren 1862. "This is eald to be the firet Uuion ag Wa |scription. The townsfolk, of course, bad Observed Them. it fell fat in jmence. Late Unpleasantnesa, hoisted by citizens of any of the seceding jurned out toa man; all the shops were shat; ‘The next comrade told a bran new story and states after the commencement of hostilities, _ ee aly the refreshment — = en it runs as follows: ——_+—_—_. owe by are three nope we =e Co Pgh where the: id il is ani rig He had ie in hose confederate states, original PORRRKRN TOR TEE RVERING SEER BE | rere elie tecepen The wae guican: ARRANT HYPOCRITES ALL wed emg dpe die . @ad ceased their work and. over their their Across the h tinkle bells the herdsman’s d drive door the v late Lb od, that . Faye rood in qu bad b an bo band of th seboo Some was ti as Cai eve action was Do! bis eyes glisten at Wh: Was his wor Jeacn tary figure maid ram! bis listener rose to leave. Carlo bad never been popu! ane burn. “MUNRAVE SNILLOCK.” Cusrtee L IGHT WAS FALLING Saint Ange. the thin spire of the old ivy-growa eharch and leaving « purple trace on the narrow windows, the last rays of the sinking sun had slowly gathered mm their gorgeous color from the western sky and had faded behind the bi The men in the fields with coats thrown their stooping shoulders, were wending way home in fing groups to cotta, evening meal. the t of the sheep bells mingling with the cow deeper notes and the fro was the anima rT fn the people of Sa red to call it such, ti you coul tie strag ms, eager for the: you conld bi swe ome bi were being m in for the of the at hard and you could also see the at worshipers, for exper b even now a few omers were Lucriediy entering the dusky bold. ‘The soft no organ came mg hushed ev and the faint sound of th nothing broke in upon th ded over the valley. & garden at th pee I DF past, no to the ce A his eyes glistened as if they used to say; y said so. It ws hu- to harbor unaccounted-for preju- en taken to task we laugh shor our shoulders aud say: “Oh, wel e thinks so As if that were a reas pening in ied to him baby, wrapped in a tat- othing to mark or identify how he and his wife—alas! dear soul <i .oug ago, and the good man wou! ool. that white buildin; try, where M. le Cure. mest ce pag moasieur © town readin iting. aritium ul bis pipe was emp at the parish oL BP ow he was not | made th ‘One bor in parti. he leader in the pet rio leaned over th he remembered many little spiteful ay and wm ruel jests of which he was f the originator. But ed that far-off hoo iife had at cared be 0 keep bem busy—for be had J old Pierre's trade; and there were the inte bis mind you would have found this story —Wwuat town, be it ever so smal! . ebem wen to ¢ Th the fied be & ig de m sins « paid i8 ail amount ause You sougit. velie Mureat was the belle of Saint Ange as hot ite Ever since he could remember Carlo vown fer, and in his boyisu way even ly ad- d to find a * school of the cure who re himself her the herome of all those and many were the fierce papil in di son. on the little town of Tingeing | k of | was to leav t oughts of his childhood that made | here th * look on | Went over the ridge. 1 “Nor did the sense of | = others’ opinions? There| The enemy hud been met on the ontskirts of ever-pleasing Walks in the fields and woods to | #Tipts’ first battle No: had you been able to look | had retreated hastil; ! between the hot-beaded lovers | t now. and she had grown bald wsuupy curls and aud glanced coquettishly And in Carlo’s It was no = for Gabricile’s hand. ber gir at he was the favored him was the sweetest. Her s were firmer and longer. upned bim and pitied mistook it ¥ bis hope grew. whole being. Ho bad # no doubt had seen. not noticed the fi k when she was with Kudoif: he had not noticed her eves when on Sai 2 to ad mor Arlo it sm er aps shi n Sa thy Li urday relders r whom the dren. [ut as he had 1 rH womtan beside orn tha: en of d to trees the at was in the summer ond row the last of und no one but This was what ly ed why he wa » the mo tcnlarly subdu bie mind emperor calle pn was F 1 for more sted upon ‘n dre ore ple less life that had nark it It he drew eff to war he might e would die fight- t least. ight b tening un the violet « me were ap- pearing om the co ont peopie ere coming out of the cathedral, Evening Base wax over. Carlo pared a few moments to let the cool Breeze that rustied the leaves in the Qed bore the sweet scent of new Pos ough of ine appie tr s we > ree tops BOW grass ows fau his hot brow; and then. uz away irom the ga, he litte path between the fragrant barbes and the ug—old Pierre had made it for bim—up «cottage. raised the latch, entered and @losed We door suary y bebind him, Cusrten IL ‘The day for the drawing of the recruits had eon, mere | was aluiost goue; it was evening once quiet reigued. The square in front | ized because someth ag had to tend bright | news and gaiety to the scene, A band of music | played patriofte airs daring the day and added } in no small he noise of thecrowd; but | the music and the color and the roar of loud voices and the eh of feet on the ntones | grated harsitly om one’s uerves, All the move- ment and all the brightness were forced. The day had not been a bappy one. The drawirg had taken place, It was a sight to remember to watch the faces of the men as they came out of the hall, All went@y bravely enough and some came out joyfull¥y running down the steps—they had drawa lucky even numbers, and they hastend to tell their anx- ious friends the good uews; others came down slowly, with downcast eyes, ‘Their meeti with friends was painful. A few who ha drawa odd numbers strode down the steps, looking straizht before them, with a faint smile on their lips, but it was hard to keep up the | semblance of indifference after they had min- gied with the crowd below. But it was all over now. For the conscripts this was to be the last night in their homes—at Jeast for many of them. They all had orders to leave next morning; some would return {ter many months; the others—. ‘The square as deserted, The peopie had gone their sev- eral ways, Many a prayer was offered that nightfor a son,a brother and perchance a ‘They Are Keen Judges of Character, but | sith: Sometimes Overact Their Parts and Excite Suspicion Against Themselves—Fish Stories Eelipsed. ‘Written for The Evening Star. HE YOUNG FELLOW was coming down the street accompanied by three dogs, or moro correctly speaking he was accompanying three dogs, for ho had no time to talk to the companion who was with him in any buta “thoroughly unsatisfac- tory This is the way the conversation sounded. The young fellow who hadn't eny dozs with him was try- ing to tell the other man something important. lover who on the morrow was to leave Saint t for his country and her glory. | ad put bis hand into the urn and his | fingers closed on one of the slips of card board, | but he adropped it, and drew another. He | dared not look at it; but a loud voice at his | side cried out the number “21!" It was the | officer 2 command, and the mayor's quill pen scratched squeaked ax he wrote the namo down. ¢ aconscript. He reeled for moment It a lump in his throat. The be crowd watching him in the w himself on the he saw the enemy, the gu . the odd heaps that once were men; he rattle of the musketry and the sharp commands of the officers, He was a conscript, Kecovering himself with an effort, he turned | about and pushing his way through the crowd | that murmured around lum he went down the | the open air. His courage had left | He would have given at aber for crowded | familiar places. as he saw the | woods and fields beyond, he felt for the frst | time what a pang it would cause to leave them. Ashe stood musing apart from the crowd Jolf came out, pale as death; he, too, had odd number, and as Cario thought is rival had been more And as | | ly the next morning they formed in tho he roll was called, arms were distrib- id Pierre was the only 10; the eure was too busy. | ker was overcome with arms sround the young yas the tears one who stood b The poor old emotion and p nan’s neck emt trickled down the furrows in hie cheeks, Then acheer. a . Vemperuer!” and the first detachment was off. | as they left the square some one running quickly up and touched Carl he was « sile. It was Gabrielle. | nia litile timidly sbe held asp iy—held it met—and he moved on. j jolf was in the next detachment, whieh | some hours later. | Steadily the men turned the corner. the tramp of their feet and the roll of the drums ling loud on the loosely paved street. n slowly up the hiliside the column went white road where they had they reached the turned and took one long the dear old town, with its ivy-covered cathedral, its zigzag streets, its gaint thatch roofs with a few slate ones here cand its red neys and the trees and gardeas. I e | rested at last on some particular spot—some place that call-d up the sweetest thoughts; | and then inal glance down at the square Were still standing they e arm -their ev The alo: ved as chi ight each farewell look at Cuarrex IL the forest, It bad been a sharp fight—the con- but the Germans at length There was many agap in the French ranks, and Carlo was one of the fallen. When he came to himself again he wondered | at first where he was, The motionless bleed ing bodies in all sorts of strange positions dotting the ground soon reminded him. There wasaterrible pain in bis breast, and be saw that hi+ thick great coat was siaine blood. His mouth, too, that be was severely wounded. Lea sump he tried to ease bis position, worse, and now it was so cold— | Far away in the distance he seemed to hear the boom of the guns and the faint shouts of the soldiers, ‘Then be thouzht he was home once more: he beard the tinkling sheep bells on th ne Vespers ; he could we: mass; he tones; and as he and "Pierre—the in looked a little grayer and he ure; the winter was not treating him © tothe little garden—it ever—the ole gate, the a of the apple tree; and the arrow path vusset fielis—there was the low ier the dark trees and the roll- | aug in the distance. Then suddeniy he a figure in white coming | toward it, Itlooked familar, It was—no—| Yes. yes, 1t was—Gabrielle. Just t n called him from his dream. d open bis eyes, With an effort hetarned tosee whence the sound came—th? movement sending a twinge of pain through him. A soidicr lay quite near him, He was suifer- or he groaned again, and Carlo heard him now he wax across the - At that moment he | clo saw—Rudoif. 1 do for him? He couid searcely | much less help another. And d he help at ail? had never so assaida kind word to him; be had al- Ways bated kim. And Carlo tarned his face | away. His eyes on fell an officer’ it flask lying uear the stamp, With trem! for he ting weaker and weaker, he reached out, almozt losis his balance, and | picked up the b He shook it to see how much was left; very little, barely two or three mouthiuls. He opened if and bis first impulse Was to raise it to his hps. He could smell the strong odor of the spirit, But voice within red: jet him’ have it, He bas Gabrielle to live for and you have no one.” wavered a moment. Yes, it was true, 4 Gabreille, while he, ab! he had no | no one! So with set teeth to counteract | pain he dragged himself across to his | « comrade, and, supporting himself | one arm, bh steadily poured the few :fuis down the man’s throat, ‘our elle! Pour elle!” he kept mutteri Then it seemed as if t! silvery tinkle of the | me stealing over the battle field bringing peace with their music, | | th wound wih | : smiling at him, while a faint voice from the ground be- h distinetiy: erei, comrade! Merci!” ‘Then the elbow of his supporting arm the flask slipped from his fingers and he sank inert across Rudolf's body. A few hours later, when the twilight shadows to fall, the ambulance wagons came along to pick up the wounded; and together they found these two—the hero and the man | daided, But they took only one of the Not! better illustrates the liberal tend- ency of the times than the great change which | has occurred within the last few years in public rentiment in regard to women entering the #o- called learned professions. The womaa lawyer | is not unknown and the woman journalist is not | uncommon. The woman physician, bowever, | is even more numerous. It is computed that there are between 4,000 and 5,000 female phy- sicians in the United States. ‘The majority of them make incomes which favorably with the average earnings of men in the same profession, and some of them are doing a busi- hess worth at least $20,000 a year. medi- cal profession, abo others, has served to illustrate the adaptability of woman. She en- vered it in opposition to all the theories of the old school practitioners and in defance to the ounger element. She succeeded, and in suck an unmistakable way that she has been recognized asa tmember of the profession and @ the ‘own ball bad been througed ail day; it, | while I was away, and now I have something | over: thing to | | purpose, he will, when | want to play with him he play | thong. Yos,” he was saying, “I saw her every day very important I gant to talk to you about. You know I'm—' i “Fido! here, come in! Flora, Flora!” The dogs were straying and) trying to get under a horso car, The man who bad something to say began over agai ‘ z “Well, as Iwas saying, you know sb perfect beauty, and I'm going to— «Jack, Jack! by Jove! that dog will get run come in here, you rascal. ing seriously of —" Come out of that, I say. Now. como in here and hee! “Well, old man, if you'll Just promise to help do; me out 'l— “Fido! D— that I beg your pardon. Go o1 E you will promise not to tell, but I he won't mind! “Hi, there, you dogs, drop that cat!” and the subject is dropped, while the dogs are taken away from the cat they are worrying. Now, this is merely « very good sample of the kind of conversation that {# carried on when you go to walk with a man who carries his dogs with him. ‘The dogs or the conversation must be given up, andthe consequence 1s that the conversation usually “goes to the dogs,” as it were. When a mangtakes his dogs out walking he ought to carry a whip and go in unfrequented parts of the city and be as free from interrup- tion as possible, He will lose his temper, he will whip his dogs, he will probably awear, and he will solemniy declare thathe never will tale those dogs out again, But the next day whea the dogs come fawning around bim, and beg- ging to be taker out, he will. if he is a good- hatured man, relent und give them arun. And this will go on for years. It is all very well to call the owner of a dog his master, but often it is the dog that is the real master and compels the man to do his bidding. He 1s like the Vir- ginia colonel before the war. who thought he owned his negro valet, but the valet kuew be owned the colonel. Now, the uth of the matter is that, while there are a good many hunting dogs’ ia the world, and watchdozs too, nevertheless the majority of dogs are merely pets.” A man may say he dislikes pet dogs, but if you ask him why he keeps w dog be will be puzzied to answer, and, if you invesitzate, you will find that he never pats the dog to any use except petting. ie likes to have an animal about that in alwaye glad to see him and that he can be as ill-natured to as he chooses. CANINE HYPOCRISY. A close student of the ways of dogs remarked to the writer not long ago that dogs are the | greatest hypocrites iu the world, For instance, he said, my dog will go up toa member of the family and fawn o& bim and lick his hand and make,out that he loves him dearly; then, Ii ing won him over, he will suggest in some un- mistakable manner the feasibility of a stroll down the street. Havin; accomplished bis | comes home, show devotion to some other mgmber of the family th a view tou second wilk of something to t. The truth is, a clever dog living in a fam- ily that is fond of doge has it systematized, Such a one. for instance, he show n for in the moruing because be a hia breakfast; another he worships atter breakfast because this is the one who takes im shop- ping, an amusexent that he dearly loves, be- cause it gives him such e fine chance for doing mischief and geting into troubl he endeavors to conciliate because he some times gots whipped by lim, and it is clearly to intereat to keep him in good humor so that ill eseape punishment for the counti he commits. As for reforming and beb: ing himself. be has no intention o. doimy that, | ‘Tue children of the family he treats with an easy air of patronage, If he wants to piay with them he kuows they are ready, If the; ea itor not just as he chooses, ‘He is not on earth to please them bat they to please him, In point of fact it may be said of him, as it was of a great bat sh statestaan, that he always considers the whole world with reference to himself, ‘The trouble is that a hypocritical dog over- reaches himself sometimes and “gives. bim- self away,” Shus, when he steals into th try and helps himself to a chop tBat right- faily belongs to some other member of tho he comes to his master, after he hus eaten and thorouglily enjoyed his stolen meal, and is so unustslly affectionate, and obedient, and charming. that anybody can tell that dog has committed some gricvous.sin and is try ing to deceive you into the belief that he uever, never stole a Lone im all his life, that he seorn the imputation, that he is no thief, although jhe broadly hints that there are dogs in the neighborhood who would steal the cold meat of a blind beggar. But as soon as you call the dog mto the pantry, the scene of his depre tions, he throws up his case and hides, thereb; admitting bis gmt, When you haul him ow from his concealment and whip him the agony of mind he suffers is terrible to sve. but in fi minutes he will be happy again and if a cho ix thrown im his way the next day, and there i nobody around, depend upon it he will risk taking it, for he believes in himself and thinks he can manage things this time 80 well that be will not get caught. Ob, yes. dogs are clever rascals, Was there ‘ing virtues in men that nobo cares about, and finely bred dogs are apt to contract intimacies with the meanest, most | plebelan cure they can find, Other dogs they will quarrel and fight with, READING CANINE CHARACTER, Yon may talk about the difiicuity of reading human nature, but where is the man who can traly read dog niture? It is easy to tell a good-natured dog fp one that is cross, if You only know how, @&t how many people there that do know how? Asx geueral thing dogs that are hoaest, good fellows. have eyes far apart and broad noses. just as it is with people. but, at the same time, # weazen-faced little doz with foxy whiskers and a pointed nose often has a merry. good-natured. twink- ling little eye that au expert knows as showi bd | good nature, although mischief. Then there jis the fox terrier with an eye that sparkles light, bug look at him closviy and you may detect a fierce, domincering spirit in it, You must look out fora dog of that kind. Unless you master him and show a spirit superior to is be may do you an injury. As for the faces of most bulldogs, they are insolent and suriy— the physiognoumy of the Buily ‘and coward, lutit is never thoroughly safe, evea if you have been # student of dog physiugnomy, to trust too much to appearances, for they are misleading. aud a dog may assume an expres- sion for his own selfish purpqses which thoroughly conceals his real character. ‘There is character in dogs’ tails, too—in fact, nearly as nmuch as there 18 in their heads, A very curiy tail, like a pig's, means that the dog is not of the finest nature, Either it be- lougs to » cur or one of the stupid breeds, but the curly tail is generally an index to good nature, A crescent-shaped tail is s different If it is very tapering it means pluck and intelligence and is usually a sign to show that you had better be introduced before you take liberties with its owner, If it is thick and carried down it means inferiority, and either a or one that has lost all self-respect from treatment, A dog, by the way, thinks another one | CURIOSITIES OF THE WAR. ———— Evidences of the Straits to Which the Con- federates Were Pushed—High-Priced Cloth- ing and High-Sounding Words—A Colleo- tion at the National Museum. peace Skane H, LORD, OUR HEAV- enly Father, the high and mighty raler of the universe, who dost from and so that it ie «wonder heaven hadn't en: him with human speech. But he understood everything that was said to him, bh his master did not always under- stand the dog, from which it may naturally be inferred the dog was the cleverer of the two. Well. the owner of the dog started to hnnt partridges with him, and he would get the Scent at surprising distances, and whenever he and his master went shooting they were pretty sure to bring home some game. Partridge hunting seemed to be the gredtest pleasure that the dog had ever known and his mind ran 6 the subject, continnonsly, Whenever any one would speak of partridges he w. t up and wag his tail and show o which was made by Wyen of the royal mint. Beside these isa dingy picoe of coarse white Paper on which is impressed the seal of the treasury ‘nt of the confederate states ‘The paper itself was manufactured in the south during the war, “DE LY COXPEDERATTS. In the lower part of the case are a number of interesting relics, though the larger part is taken up bye collection of photographs of Prominent officers in the confederate army. Among the misce!lancous articles are a couple of gun barrels made in the confederate states | lainly that he un- Thy throne on high be- | @uring the war, belts and bayonets picked up destood what was anid, Ono day his master hoidall the dwellersup- | °9 Yafious battlefields, rudo camp equipments drove over to ancighboring town where the onthe carth,mostheaf®. | *2d.adrum that was captared at Vicksburg. — — beet aie oc Sacto wits ily we beseech Thee with | There is a pair of shoes of the coarsest sort of leather, with leather tips and wood and iron soles, that give oue the impression that bare feet would have been a luxury at aus time with the exception, perhaps, or midwinter. The shoes were made in Luford. Va., and it is said are of a kind that was worn by the soldiers aud many of the citizens at that time. They were going down the main strect, dog trotting along in front, when all of a sudden hs came to a dead point right in the middle of the road. It was clear that there could not very @ell be a covey of pattridges in the heart of a thriving bu: town, so the d owner was overcome with surprise. He hitched his horse toa post and going up to the wonderfu! beast gave him the word to “go on.” He advanced stealthily and slowly right across the street and charged in front of a dry goods shop, and then the reason of it became apparent, for the sign above the doorway read * “J. C. Partridge. dry goods and notions.” That dog conld- read, and wase Partridge hunter with a vengeance, One of the comrades who heard _ this story said he knew it way true, for he had heard of that dog and his name was Ananias, Thy favor to behold and bless Thy servant, tho president of the confederate states of America and all others a in authority.” Such a prayer as this read from # pulpit in any cburch today would create consternation and surprise, Twenty-seven years ago, how- ever, the case was different, and this very Paragraph was copied not long ago by a Stax writer froma prayer book that is now in the Natioual Muscum in this city. The book was what was called tho army and navy prayer book and was printed in Richmond in 1865 for the use of the people of the sonthern states who had for the time being renounced their allegiance to the President of these United | States, whose namo is the one now used in tho HIGH-PRICED CLOTHIxa, In one or two of the adjoining cases are a number of articles that, while they do not belong to the colicction of relics of the con- federacy, are interesting m tho same connee- tion. Ina loan collection of autograph letters isa bill that gives one a very good idea of the enormous cost of everything in the south during the war and after the slump in their currency. The bili is dated in Richmond oa the 14th of August, 1863. It is fora black cloth coat and ‘one biack c: which a remuneration of #3 Yost that went with it Besa eS BURIAL STRANGE AND WEIRD. How the Vikings of Old Interred Their Episcopalian book of prayer. Already this| making the, suit cost alte e410 Hd ‘ 's gether S410. ‘Dead in Ships. southern volume has become an object of in-| rather startling figure. fo: suit that torest and many of the sightscers as they pass | ¥as probably nothing remarkable in point of FABULOUS TRADITION A8 TO THE ORIGIX OF THE | through the great museum in this city stop to | Ith oF At. The most remarkable thing about CUSTOM—THE ARROW THAT WAS MADE OF MISTLETOR—A SHIP GRAVE IN NORWAY AND WHAT 18 FOUND THERE—A VESSEL FOR 4 KING'S COFFIN. it is the fact that the bill ix receipted in ac- knowiedgment of payment in full, In the same ease with this bill is the original copy of the uct of the confederate states in| congress a bled entitled “An act regulating | fees of marsiats, and for other purposes.” | | dated April 16, 1862, aud signed by Th. S | | Bocock, speaker of the house of representa- | tives, and KM. T. Hunter, president pro tem of the senate. The act was signed and approved | read over the open pages that carry the mem- ory back so quickly to the days of the great civil war, A VARIED COLLECTION. For some time past the officials of the mu- seum bave been gathering together acollection of relics of the confederacy, so that now there is on exhibition a group of articles that, while not particularly numerous or valuable, aro sare to prove of lasting interest, the more so as the days of the war sink into the past and the memories of its hardships aro softened by time. ‘The collection fills ono of the large show cases near the main entrance and comprises a curious and motley lot of articles, ranging from an imposing punch bowl that camo from the executive mansion at Richmond to a tat- tered gray uniform. Only a few feet away are displayed the relics of Gen. Grant and the mauy handsome presents that were conferred upon him during his famous trip round the world, Within ’a few feet of each other rests the sword that the northern leader carried through the entire war and the old and rusty gtay uniform of Col. Mosby; brass buttons of the Union in one case, brass buttons of the confederacy in the other, at peace now, It is @hackueyed idea, perhaps, but if those two collections could only describe thei varied 66 \ROM THE ANCIENT SCANDINAVIAN literature we learn a great deal that is interesting about the customs and manner of living of the hardy Norsemen of old,” said Dr. George H. Boemor of the Smithsonion Institu- tion toa Stan reporter. “There has been thus preserved a curious story relating to the origin of ship burial. Those bold Vikings, being rather more at home on the water than on land, were commonly interred in mounds together with their vessels, the great sea-going boat sometimes serving asa kind of sarcophagus for containing many corpsea, The model of the Viking ship now on exhibition in tho National Museum is a restored reproduction on a sinall scale of a big vessel that was found some yeara ago at Gokstad, in Norway. It was dug out of a mound, which had been known for centuries as the King’s Mound, because of a tradition to the effect that a roval personage had been interred there with all his treasures, It was in the ex- pectation of securing the latter that the mound was first opened by robbers, who carried away ‘a great deal that would have been of interest to A siGNiPicanT Pe A letter from Gen. Stonewall Ja Gea, Lee dated Jann: contains the following rather interesting postscript: “P. S—In one of your letters you spoke of our moving on Ph To do this would require well-disei If the move mengcould be successfully executed it would be of vast service to us.” NOVELTIES IN DENTISTRY. Artificial Teeth a Cheap Luxury—A Machine for Making Exeavating Burs, “We sold 1,000,000 more false teeth last year | than we ever disposed of before ina twelve- month,” said the manager of the greatest den- | tal supply establi 1 ton Star | | reporter yesterday, atit was | | because people are loring their teeth more rap- | naieave aad tie wast experiences of more than aquarter of a century | iJls now than ex Lice ionnbly the case that the enduring quality of | 7HE LEGEND oF THE MEoLEorED wierzzroe. | £0 they would toll «story of the war that | Hominy the fave thn | Merman foed “The story I speak of refers to the ago of | Y°Ud surpass all others in point of interest. | gressively less from ge | thie country, tion to gen: It is more the fashion it has ever been in Why would it not be a good scheme for some of the comrades of the G. A. Rt during the ‘at encampment to go over to the museu | at midnight some night and Juterview the relics? At any rate, if that is not feasible, the | collections themselves are bound to be centers | of genuine interest during the stay of the Grand Army in Washington, fable, when tho Scandinavian north was people by a race of gods whovw king was Odin, Odin come | es they are | fact that | st than it | iction was | commonly ob: jed as una-| voidable, j “It is very rare tosce a person nowadays, | | whether a wan or a wom: by the absence of tee An; autiful and gentle and wa: beloved by the gods, who looked to his dream! He had, however, one enemy Loki, the evil God, One night Baldr in a dream heard a voice telling hm_ that his life was in danger and in the morying he told his mother of it. Freya was greatly worried and going to all things animal, min d_ vegetable, #he exacted of them an oath that they would’ not harm Baidr. While on her mission Freya cxme | | to one Hitle plant, the mistletoe, which ap- | peared to be incapable of working harm, and | 0 oath was exacted of it. When Freya dd Sinished her task sho returned home and Baldr and his friends what #she had done, and the gods in their plays often amused them: selves by shooting arrows or throwing stones at his invulnerable body to see them swerve aside just before reaching him. Loki, however, be- i mined to do Baldr harm, went to ui hi EVIDENCES OF HARD SERVICE. ‘There is little about the relies of the confed- eracy that would suggest ease or luxury. Ou the other hand there are many evidences of | PY ‘ie abvence of teeth. Ans body hardship and deprivation. For example, there | tenial surgeon and procure are uniforms representing all three branches | They don't cost much. of the servico belonging to a colonal, a cor- poral and a private, All are worn and shabb, andeven in the case of the uniform of Col, Mosby the trousers are sadly used up in that portion that comes in contact with the saddie when the wearer is on horseback. A pair of shoes that were made in Virginia during the 8 avery good idea of the straits to people were often placed for the very necessaries of life, So in the case of} many of the other articles, it is evident they | were merely used as makeshifts in the absence | of anything better. A pack of playing cards | with emblems of the confederacy emblazoned on the back shows the ruling passion with some | ordered that Baldr’s body be carried to the #ea- | to have been strong even when boots were $100 | shore and be placed upon his ship Stringholmi, | togethor with his armor, splendid clothes and | ® PUF aud bread was out of sight, A JounsaLisric centosrry, his horse with all its trappings. ‘The ship was Jaunched, and fire from the friction of the| Qne Of the most interesting and sugfestive rollers burned it, together with its contents, to| pits in the whole collection is acopy of the as And Odin ordered. that all dead men é a should be burned upon their chips, together | Daily zen, & newspaper printed in with all their property, the remains to be col- ksburg. Evidently the sheet was a | lected aud covered with'a mound of earth. riable quantity, depending somewhat on the conditions that surronaded it The par- | * ticular number in the collection at the museum. AN IMMENSE CREMATORY, “Of crematories of this kind the ship grave |is of the date of Thursday, July 2, 1863, just | before the fall of the city. As showing the | at Mokklebyst, Norway, affords an excellent i difficulties that at tends upon jour lustration. The mound is located in a plain, full view of the sea over which the buried ship : used to bound. All aroand the mound is a| ism this paper is printed upon brilliantly col- ditch twelve feet wide and three feet deep, | ored wali paper and as a result appears on one | which, on the south and ‘vest, is traversed by | ide of the sheet only. It is but four columns | bridge-like dam. “The interior of tho mound | jy width and while the typozraphy ia really | presents two layers, one of bone splinters inter- | good there ts a uoticeable dearthof news atl mixed with soil and cinders, and the other con- | jt looks as though the telegraph editor had not | rned his salary for weeks. The paper is filled with accounts of the hardstipe that the | wasting of cinders and burned remains, Over | this a number of objets were strewn, which | people of the city were enduring, coupled with | the complaint that some of the citizens were showed that here a ship had been hauled ashore | muspected of couccaling breadstuffs in their y decorated with shields around its evllars and doling them ont at enormous fig- ures, Que column is headed “Yankee News From AN Points.” 1a the first columa appears the following interesting editorial: “We are indebted to Maj. Gillesp steak of confederate beef, alias meat. We hav: tried it and can assure our friends that if it rendered necessary they uced have no scruples ateating the meat, It is sweet, savory and tender and so long as we have a. male left we are satisfied our soldiers will be contented to subsist on it.” It is a curious looking sheet all the way through and yet between the first and fourth columns is recorded one of the most important events of the war. Down at the bottom of the second column occurs the following paragraph, hardly news and not quite editori “On dit.—That the great Yankce generalissimo surnamed expressed his inteution of diving in Vicksburg on Saturday next, and celebrating the Fourta of Suly by a and so forth. When asked whether Join he said: “No; for fear there will be a row atthe table." Ulysses must get into the city before he dines in it. The way to cook a rab- bit te “first catch the rabbit, &c., &. On the Fourth of July the paper appeared again, but with sort af posteoript that, was ‘not counted on in the original. The northern troops had entered Vicksburg and it is to be presumed that among them were some printers, Hel er the meg ~ Cituen were ey] ey had simply inserted a paragraph an pristed off ancther edition. “At the Dates of the lest columu on the page the original para- graph was lifted out and the following was put in its place: 8. te oa) | 15 to 15 lain, of i ¥are made of p baked in an ove: ‘oved is rubber, lo of celialoid, | ntane of Hi in} d does not resi | from her t { in injuring bis found ‘the little foe, and earving it (oan arrow returned to the spot where the | gods amused themselves sho at Baldr. art from the crowd stood Hoder, the blind, ng him, Loki induced him to | shoot the arrow at Baldr,who fell, shot through | the heart, Jdin mourned three days, and then he development of a thought to be inj fous to the inl teeth fs eon the finiching pr * which they are subjected are so delicate that no two teeth produced can be ly ali t of co all the hundre sands of teeth we keep probably no two wor 1 to absol ction. But those that ay most ne cod of | | rked dis ot do te faire teeth look t lest they appear nd dental wns comme ion of nature so far as to m: in many instan ore or Ie the betier to ea ne dec calle bridge wo n=ist se tooth inn ween t he jaw, f around’ t frequen| viee having th | | | | Hy lays, this di tage that the crown can | for the purnose good condition, ant inventi amachine by which ste Hitherto these de } i} dup, serving thus asthe funeral pyre | of its commander. “Tho remains in this instance having been consumed they were collected in a flat bronze vessel, together with some personal property of the owner, conasting of two combs, check- ermen, dice and arrow hends. Thin receptacle | holding the remains of the dead chief was | plaged ‘in an excavation at the bottom. of the mound. Above it a number of articien were | piled. “In an untanued goaiskin were found the unburned remains of animal bones, possi- bly the portion assigned to the dead ran from the funeral feast for his long journey to Wal- 1a. The bottom of the mound was covered with hundreds of nails. mountings, mast rings, anchors, shields and other things. ANOTHER MODE OF BURIAL. “In another kind of Norse burial the body was placed in the ship without being burned, the entiro vessel being covered with earth 60 as to form alarge mound. The best known ex- ample of this style of interment is afforded by the buried ship at Gokstad. An excavation of this mound, condueted with great cure by opening a passageway through the middle, re- warded the scientific explorers by revealing an entire ship. eighty feet in length. In tho middle of the ship was a large grave chamber of wood, in the form of a span roof with gable, in which the remains of tho dead were depos ited. ‘The spot for the mound was ro- quired to have a free view of the sea. After digging away the soil from the lace chosen the ship was drawn thither yy horses and lowered with its tem seaward into the excavation, being stayed on each side with struts. The sepulchral chamber was then built. Whon it was the corpse, arrayed in state attire and girt with arms, was drawn to the ground, introduced into the cham- ber through an opening temporarily left for that purpose, and laid on a couch wi The opening was then perm:nently closed. Finally, imals were slain, and, together with other ar- ticlea that had belonged to the deceased, were Jaid in the remaining unoccupied parts of the vessel, its entire hold, with the exception of the sepulchral chamber, being filled up with clay, The surface of the clay was in turn covered with a layer of moas and hazel branches, the mound was heaped over it, and all was fin- by hand. Yor cate ther are j erfal ma was a ve £600,000 was spent in experiments before thachine for prodacing them was successfully | constructed. It turns them out with such rapidity that they ouly cost 19 cents apiece now.” ae THE CRYPTOPHONE, A War Device for Indicating the Approach of Torpedo Boats, From Electricity. ‘The apparatus is connected by wires with the indicator at the observing station. The vibra- tor is so sensitive that it is effected by the passage of a half dozen men along the road, or by the vibration caused by a cart being driven along withina hundred yards of where it is placed. As coon as tho vibrator gives any indi- cation of disturbance the lind wires are con- nected with a telephone, and the noise made by traffic can then be distinctly heard and the direction in which the movement is taking place can be determined. ‘The cryptophone is equally effective for naval Purposes. For some time difficulty was found in keeping the inside water tight feing, Une lateceaY and ecboctel pemaurent fe eo not to destroy the sensitiveness ot the vibrat- {ng needle or the teusion of the dia Ulysses—the : iy “Two days bring about great changes. The bauner of the Uulon fies over Viekabetg. Gea, Grant has ‘caught the rabbit.’ He has dined in Vicksburg and he did bring his dinner with him. [he Citizen lives to see it’ For the lust time it appears on ‘wall paper.’ No more will it eulogize the Inxury of mulo meat and fric- assoed kitten— southern warriors to such diet no more, This is tho last wall paper edition and is, excepting this note, from the type as we found thom. It will be valuable ing the approach of another ing a fog. In the experiments in Cherbourg ular thud of the screw of a vessel enterigg or leaving the harbor, over a mile away, ceptible. Tt is said’ that four {he direddon in which ‘From the New York Tribune. | other incidents of her life. | The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide, | Help of the be | of sunshine. SONGS THAT SOOTHED Lines That Were Sung by Good Women in Hospitals. SIMPLE MELODIES OF HOME. Words and Music That Awakengd Tender Memories—A Touching Sce:. Mospical Described by Veteran—Dunes That Were | Better Than Drags. —_+___ ARROW BEDS BY) one another White and low, Through them softly as in charch aisles Nurses go. For the hot lips ice drop bring, Cold and clear; 2 Or white eyelids gently closing For the bier. Strong men in @ mo- ment smitten an ‘Wilson, an Town boy. He bad ripped enongh to couscu him te pargatery tury vince he had come to the loepitel bullet through: his leg. He wase big, Some fellow. Lat was abad jot That Htte women found his heart, thoagh, and when after that they sang ‘Nearer, my God, to Theo, Nearer to Lhe; Even thongh it be a cross ‘That raiseth me. Dros down and cried, but the fellows a si groans joined m aad Af Ull you'd almost thoaght a camp # in Progress, “T reckon you've heard thateld hymae thousand times, “Ly cool ol Siloa’s shady rill, Rw fair the lily grows, How sweet the breath beneath the hill ‘Of Sharon's dewy rose,” but you've never heard it wnder eirenm stances like that. One sweet woman, bolding j her dying husband's hand and singing home songs to ease his pain, while all around ber | were men whose breath grew shorter every | Second, and hundreds of others whese chances of life were not worth the toss of a copper, | listening to her singing, forg: ment that there was anyth war, anda ery quiet, ai I knew the face getting gray to sing it, sho kissed bis closed eyelids and said, Yes, dear,’ and she and Bill Wilson an@ Down from strength, Brave men now in anguish praying Death at length, Baras the night lamp where the watchers By the bed, Write for many a waiting loved one, “ile is dead.” White and whiter grows the glory Ou bis brow: Does he see the towers of Zion Rising now? Stands the doator, weary, burried, By his bed. “Here is room for one more wounded— He is dead.” To say that men are roid of sentiment is to state an untruth, They are fall of it, and given the occasion to cali it forth can display more sentiment to the square inch than any Woman who ever lived, A couple of old sol- dicrs, for instance, with only a pair of fect or hands between thom will reel off sentiment by the yard for hours ata stretch. How they marched together here and bivouacked there, | fed together on acorns at Chickamauga and starved together in Millen; and then they'll sing: “There are bonds of all sorts in this world of ours, Fetters of friendship and ties of fowers And true lovers’ knots, I ween; The boy aud the girl are bound py a kiss, But there's never a bond, old friend, like thia, We Lave drunk from the same canteen. We have shared our blankets and tents to- gether And merched and fought in all kinds of weather, And hungry and full we've been. Had days of battle and days of rest, this memory I cling to and love the best, We have drunk from the same canteen.” There never was a woman on earth who treasured a battered old tincup because her particular chum had helped her to drain it or an any one of the thousands of These old veterans ges of letters tied with the yellow at came around “Uncle Sam's” ers penned by hands they never w. let alone pressed, written to a "and filled with girlish exuber- And they have old sabers and faded hes, brass buttons and dilapidated shoulder Amoug those old traps will often be housewife,” its tiny pockets filled have pack: bbons ci, son was! | with needles, thread, pins, buttons and an old thimbie. NOW T MAKES THEM TALE. How the sight of that little bag sets that old feliow’s tongue to flying. If you just have time to listen to Lim he will give you the whole history of the war, and it will all center aronud that little “comfort’bag.” He was in the hospital waiting for his stump of a leg to heal when it came to him among the stores of ry commission, There was a letter | in it, and he will tell you, word for word, every e that was in that lette then he will mauuder on for a whole he n the women Visited the hospital, what they said, what y did and how they san; Their singing!” exclaimed a veteran recent- ly, as he related his army and hospital experi- singing was heavenly. I remem- woman who used to sing this, and he lifted up his cracked voice and sang and te with me: fast falls the eventide: When other heipers fail, and comfort flee, jess, O abide with me, Swift to its close cbbs out tife’s little day; arih’s joys grow dia, ite glories pass away. Ch d decay in all around I see: © Ton who chuugest uot, abide with me.” His teeth were gone and he mumbled dread- nd he couldu’t have been much of a| rat auy period of his life, but one forgot | that in the carne: of his manner and “the | tender grace of a day that is that filled his eyes use wandered back in the track of | the past set so thick with whfte stones of memory where comrades had dropped from wae to “Rest where they wearied, And lie where they fell, “It wos at Fair Oaks that I got this sear,” said, touching his disfigured face. “I never | was very pretty, but that saber slash spoiled my beunty for life.” White Iwas in the hospital for repairs the wife of ou: lonel came down touurse him. He was wounded through the chest im the same bai It was sad enongh” her there. She was a bride of afew moaths when her husband seat to the nt, and now he was dying. ‘The hospital was fellows were dying of neglect as much as any- thing else. ‘THE COLONEL'S WIFE. “The colone!'s wife came in there like a ray Her husband was o bead and imagined he wasacbild again, and kept teasing his wife to sing, but Lord! she couldn't raise a note at first, her heart wasso full. But the colonel fretted and @ young fellow in the next cot cried because he wanted to bear his | mother sing, so she tried it, Iremember it as though it was yesterday. We hadn't seen many women down there, and you don’t know » voice, Well, she sat on an old cracker box beside the colonel’s cot and, holding bis hand, sang: wasn't mother’s i HA itt & HEE ? He HT f Jim Winters sang it, * ‘Asleep in Josus! blessed sleep! From which none ever wake to weept A caim and undisturbed repose, Unbroken by the last of foca, Asicep in Jeans! 0 for me May such a blissful refuge bet Securely shail my ashes Yo, Walting the eummone trae'en high. Asleep in Jesus! far from thee, ‘Thy kindred and their graves may bey Bat the Ul a blessed sleep, From which none ever wakes to weep.” “tacem #0 very far away from, us old fellows just then, and down under the covers more than one man was crying as be had not since achild. And the colonel, with her hand on his, her voice to lull him to rest, had shpped away from his pain likes Iittle child going to sleep. His home to glory borne on het « whe eso brave one. When she saw that his heart bad | stop she caught her breath a little, thea d laid her bead on the d said prayer, She didu't were burned up before they r big bright eyes, She looked like | one struck with death herself, bat she di die. She saw her husband decently buried and then came back to help take care of us, She was made of the right kind of stuff and Was as brave @ soldier as ore Was among Us, but the best medicime she measured out was when she sat down and sang to us the tunes We all learned at our mothers’ side.” THE PRIGHT FACES OF WOMEK. Thé vetcran was right, too, The bright faces of the wotmen nurses and their tunefal voices were worth a drug store of doctors’ stuff, The boys in the hospitals didn't care a great deal for war songs. They were beartsick, and | heart hungry for home faces, home voices am home care. The women reminded them of sweethearts, wives and mothers, and the im- pression was deepened when they sang the old hymns and household songs, The wounded men and those racked with Farious othor ailments were like little childrem, They cried at trifes, They wanted women about, They wanted to besung tosleep and kissed on awaking. “They liked the old familiar air, Sweet as the bugle call, All hail the power of Jesus’ name, Let angels prostrate fall. They slept easier for gaying the childis> prayer—“Now I lay mo down to sleep. “And up from many a boarded lip, In whispers soft and low, Arose the prayer the mother ‘The boy long years ago.” ‘One of the songs most sung in hospital wards was “Home, Sweet Home,” and the tender sentiment tooa on yet deeper such fearful surroundings, jery. The te | got to he his nureo sang “Jesus, lover of my soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly, ‘While the pillows mear me roll, While the tempost «tii is high, Bide mo, O my Savior, hide, ‘Lill the storm of life be past, Bafo into the haven guide, © receive my soul wt last,” And surely in the fight he fought the “Rook of Ages,” to which be still clung through his taith im his mother's God, proved a sale apebor~ age for him, | ‘TRE ARMY NURSE. If the brave lads, now grown gray and grim, who braved the batth perils and lived e their way about it, every woman who ever | to comforting and administering to the sick | in the list who would stand « ghost of ashow beside an “army nurse,” ‘The cleanest, purest memories of some sol- rs’ lives cluster around the gentle women who went among them to heal and help, aud not the least of the accomplishments of most of them was the ability to sing. Not the frivo- lous trilis and rans of opera or the mandlia melodies of the comic stage, but the songs of home and mother, so rich in sentiment, eo tonching in expression, so altogether comfort | inj ‘One time,” said an old voteran who lost s leg at Resaca, “I was in the for te second time.” My leg was taken off below the kuee at first, and I got out with it, but it got bad end had to come off above the knee cap. Iwas blue and disheartened. I was but twenty- y child, with my mother depending Tcouldn’t bear to think what the for me, That day I woke frome All journeys end ia. weleome to the 5 Aud heavcn, the beart's true home, will come at last,” “I lay there with my eyes shut, too weak to even raise np and see who the woman was, Har voice was soft and round and clear. and fell om my heart bike bala, Sho stopped for a. to catch her Lreath, and then through the loug ward, with its suffering inmates and borrivie sights and smells, came stealing her musical voice joined with choir in singing: “There is a spot where spirits blend, Where friend bolde fe! with frien@y Though sundered far by faith ‘Around one common mercy i é i il apse Hl AEG HT f i i would be canonized today. There ian't a saint Emap’ "pose Uow's soul drifted out into the unknown es through months of hospital experience could set foot inside the hospital doors with a view