Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1894, Page 14

PARISIAN TYPES POSING FOR ARTISTS | heen The Vocation of a Model and Those | Who Follow It. GLIMPSES IN A PARISIAN STUDIO Women of Beautiful Face and Form Very Rare. TYPES CURIOUS SOME Mritten Exclusively for The Evening Star. HERE SEEMS Tt hover round the pr: ion of an art -l an attractiv *, a mystery and | vague shimmer of | ce. This is | probably due to asi er the other of two conceptions — which | pre’ in the popu- | lar mind concerning | tal attri- | 1 followers | ef this vocation. I | fefer, of course, to the female model, for the | man does not seem to come in for his share of interest of this kiml. She fs con- | sidered, without any idea of compromise, either a creature who retains a transcen- dent virtue in the face of the greatest | difficulties or one who Is necessarily very maughty. The fact {s, naturally, that she may be either one or the other. There are ‘women who pore nude for artists who are, Nevertheless, quite as mable as the best of those In cr out of any other profes- Blon. Ary other statement wo be a calumny. There are others, however, who are not so gcod; but if these are in the ma- jority it ts not the fault of their vocation, for an artist is so pecullarly constituted ‘that he is able to recognize a !ady, whether she be clad in a costume made by Worth or Redfern or in nature's garb; and she is @s certain of respectful treatment in one as the other. Paris, the art center of the world, Is equally the center of the profession of ar- tists’ models, and you can find anything, from & Roman emperor to a cherub. There fre several very excellent models who pose for pictures of the Savior, and the resem- Dlante of some of these men to the con- ventional face in cur religious pictures is remarkable. It is a striking example of what may be accomplished with the human visage by persistent training. Of course, to start with, they have features which are not inharmonious with the idea—a straight, delicate nose, a sensitive mouth and fine eyebrows; but in the matter of expression St fs entirely a question of training. The fultivaticn is entirely superficial, too, for icture tp Not Very Satutly, cture was receiving its finishing and was already in the massive It Became necessary to move it for ¢ purpose and St. Mark gave his as- ance. Ry scme awkwardness the heavy Object was allowed to drop on his sandaled foot reverend saint drop his It was perfectly shocking t intlin ee that s and go hopping round theestudio on one foot, Dlaspheming with such volubility that it would have put to shame “our army in| Flanders." It was very inharmonious with his garb and his pious mein of an instant before, and he swore With such earnes! Nese and and with so much evidence of sincerity and enthusiasm that one could hot withhold the tribute of his admiration. Me had picked up a little English in hin asvoctation with American artists, and he leav 1 the feeble French profanity with an vex an oath, whi © like a bomb among « package erackers It may remarked, in the 4 guage that a French qualitags and he ntitative the American oath. The fra by the f called St dam!" he howled, and in another second he dal through the ple F seized him ‘and on @ settee. The Model Deserves Creait, * matter of professional pride with to be well posted in matters « to art, and many of them pos- wedge of the nject which is ns ine te The Parisian, trade, He " as axsutres for it a shar lems is entitled to some re model the making of a first 1 requires not , oF benuty, if it be a man, but intelligence, an appreciation of the neads of the situation and often some Sramatic ability as well. So when a model = ar all these at the service of the artist ps ip By og oped ed efforts is fs justly no ubt. I happened once to be visiting the m of the Champs Elysees when two models, who had posed for the prize picture of that year, entered the gallery, The — ~— | Probably ficulty; | & - _ se / THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1894—EIGHTEEN PAGES, F MODELS. inting was by Ferdinand Roybet, entitled ‘Gallant Proposals.” It represented a swashbuckler of the four- teenth century with a winey complexion making demonstrations to the fat and rosy landlady of the inn where he was stopping, while she was engaged in the bloody worl of dressing chickens. The resemblance be- tween the two figures in the picture and the originals struck me instantly as they entered, and when they halted in front of it there was no possibility of a doubt of the identity. Although most magnificently painted the subject was very remote from being delicate, but the pair, the swashbuck- ler in nineteenth century coat and trousers and the portly landlady in a stlk dress,gazed at their portraits in the prize picture with the greatest evident satisfaction. Shortly they were noticed by the rest of the vis- itors and in a few moments they were hol ing a levee and receiving congratulations with more airs of consequence than Roybet himself would have exhibited. Beautifal Forms and Features. Models who serve for special types, such as th receive very fair compensation, though their occupation is necessarily not very steady. Probably the most fortunate of the guild are the women of beautiful | form or face. They are very rare and very much in demand. Not one combines perfec- | tion af limbs, body and features, at once, so the artist is compelled to rely upon his knowledge of what the form should be or perhaps to employ other models to correct his picture, using this one for her arms, this one for her neck and Dust, perhaps, and vet another for the face, hair or hands. next to @ refined and beautiful | face delicately formed hands are the most diffieutt to find among the professional models, who nearly always come from the | lower classes of the Parisians or from the | peasantry, and though great beauty of fig- ure is often developed by the work which they have been compelled to do, yet this is at the same time fatal to the beauty of their hands. France is not blessed with many of the finer types of feminine beauty, and in thelr conception of it the French painters are consequently deficient. ‘Their goddesses and nymphs partake too much of the characteristics of the ballet girls and their angels are too plainly pro- fessional models. They evidently do not share the good fortune of the Ge-man, Piloty. It is said that his models were | ladies of the best families of his country, | who posed voluntarily for the sake of the flattery of having their charms immortal- ized. Well, why not? They were none the worse for it, and art was vastly the better. The value of such models will readily be seen by contrasting Piloty's work with any of his French or English cuntemporarics. Models by Inheritance. One cannot help wondering, of these hun- dreds of models in Paris, what manner of lives they lead outside of the schools and ateliers. Well, some of them live com- fortably and decently; many in hardship and many in dissipation. There is a large nember of Itallans in this calling, and among these are poverty and squalor. On Monday morning in the Latin quarter you will see groups of them in their gaudy costumes straggling through the streets or loafing in front of some art school. They are very picturesque, very gay and utterly improvident, but they make excellent models. They are such by inheritance. Their great grandfathers posed and their infants begin posing before they are out of swaddling clothes. The children and young girls are often very pretty, and the men are finely formed, but women when youth has gone are hideous; so they turn their attention to raising young models to take their places. And so they go on for generations. One morning a young Italian girl of thir- teen or fourteen commenced posing at Julian's. She was rather pretty, and every- bedy was at work with enthusiasm, when at about the middle of the second hour she began suddenly to whiten about the lips, and before any one noticed she reeled and fell off the platform in a dead faint. There Was a second’s consternation, but a liberal sprinkling and vigorous rubbing soon re- stored her to consciousness, and she sat up with a sob. Qrestioning disclosed the fact, whick was suspected, that she had come to the school without having breakfasted, and had fainted from hunger and weakness. A collection was trken up and she was sent to the nearest restaurant, whence she re- turned in half an hour and resumed her pose. The event occasioned ao special sur- for some such incident is rather ex- from a young Italian, though it went further with this girl than is usual. An Itallan boy never breakfasts before coming to the school on Munday morning. He poses satisfactorily until the students have their work pretty well laid in, then plaintively annouaces that he is sick. He will admit, shortly that it is hunger, and, of course, the majcrity of the students rather give him a few sous than e work of an hour, so he gets his ate expe of sub- * abuse in several as indifferent, in its voelferousness, as he w h transcendental philosop! ny. w the Models Eat. It will n e an unprofitable haif hour to drop into one of the cheap restaurants of the Latin quarter patront y the models, for the sake of seeing them in ordinary. | You will find it just Jike any restaurants of classes, with two or three iron les cutsile, if there is room for them, on the sidewak, leaving a yard of clear space rext the curb for passersby, and these are sure to be occupied if the ther is at all warm. At one of them, perhaps, you recog- nize Francois, who posed at Julian’s three months ago. -But Francois has lost all his ruddiness, and is thin as a herring. He was i fine form at Julian's, and you stop to in- quire the cause of the change. Ah, yes, mor sieur; a ttle meager no . ight weeks in the Hospital de ite, with pneumonia contracted i sed draughty atelier of Merlan But it was @ great stoke of fortune. No sooner had I begun to crawl around than I met Goujon looking for a model for an in- valid. He is at work on a picture of a clinte at the Hospital St. Louts, When he saw me he had an ecstasy in the middle of Due Je Rennes, and was nearly run down by an omnibus. “ “Magnifique!” he exclaime}, dancing round me, ‘Superbe. Such pallor! Such emactation! Ah, mon aml, you have added ten years to my life! Come to my atelier at ot orreow morning! With that gave me a bug and « clap on the back that me coughing for a quarter of an hour. been posing f r him for two weeks now, die, if he does not h lor and flesh. I'm compelled to Look! Three sardines and a boutlion and some bread for dinner, It is wetting tiresome.” Some Cur! ry TH be = Ty per. you are Hkely to find others whom known at Jullan's. It ts bert to rv vomething, #0 as to be one of them, «1 do this without fear, for (f you er with dircretion you will find ft savory, the Partstans of all classes eat well. Further, if you are a student you are not fastidious. H comes Berthe, whose carves and color you found such « problem in school twe weeks ago. Sh® will accept an invitation to dine wit hesitation, nd it is worth your while to tender one for the sake of her conversation and knowledge of the characters At the next ar 1 man, with ven face, whose patrician 1 akLarrest your ° anywher Waning etakish-lovking Mitte model > him for a Kit ights tigerishly irts herself about. { if in anger, half in fun, now thumps him vigorously on the K. now pulls his hair with a vusness which makes him wine “That is Pietro. He a Berthe. “He r ses a Roman, which, in- deed, he is. It ts said that he was a man of wealth and disgraced himself lost hi I havé heard that he noble, are sych terrible lars in such ma‘ . But he ‘Ys 0" pn Eg 3 to bea Fee. Wreteh! I would tear eyes out if I were Marie.” ‘Around a table fe a corner To's aks f= ing group, and among them, the most volu- ble of an immense negro with huge gold rings in his ears. Berthe’s attention is directed toward the group, and, with the interest ope of her class always feels in a black man, who, other things being equal, is absolutely on a ty qwith other people in France, she say! ‘ “Is he not fine? He ts a true Nubian. He speaks several languages and travels a great deal—to Antwerp, to Munich, to Rome and sometimes to London. He is nearly al- ways occupied, as there are not many medels of hig color, and artists send for him from everywhere. He has great talent. No, the man next him is not yo anarchist, though he sometimes poses for that and similar characters. His portrait was in L—s picture of “The Buccaneers” in year’s salon. But he is the most gentle | eon yr in_the world. His greatest joy is to ‘ced the ducks and sparrows in the Luxem- bourg. Ah, here comes la mere Duval.’ Not’for the Nude. She points to a withered and shrunken cla woman just entering the door—a totter- ing figure in a shabby shawl, with eyes bleared and sunken, her tovthless jaw wag- ging hideously with the palsy, and her chin barely failing to attain a contact with her nose. She is one of those rare unsightly examples of the ravages of Time in his merciless mood, which are only seen among the Latin races. She is greeted with great politeness by the occupants of each table as sho passes, end Berthe whispers: “She is a model also.” You gasp at the bare idea. “Oh,” says Berthe, in explanation, notic- ing ycur dismay at the suggestion, “she is not studied for the nude. Mon Dieu! No. But she 1s excellent for a witch, a beldame. She has no equal.” You are willing to admit the possibility. Of such is made up the aggregation of this profession, whose business it is to typify erd represent the race in all its phases, from the height of beauty, through all grades to the extreme of ugliness. C. B. H. — LONGFELLOW’S HOME. A Visit to a Picturesque and Inter- esting Spot. Boston Correspondence Chicago Herald. The ideal is satisfied by a visit to Long- fellow's heme. Trees and shrubbery of varied greens fill the rather small front yard—acacias, elms, lilacs and rose trees crowd each other. The house, of colomal | type, with solid columns in front, gleains white through the shadows. The leaves of everhanging trees sweep the low roof and ivy masses in great.solid patches on the walls. On the heavy front door is a brass knocker, polished to burn in.the sun. It is a task to lift this solid implement, which might be used in an emergency as a batter- ing ram. The quiet servant whe answered it has a Scotch dialect and a great fear of being vandalized; but when she is assured that the visitor is not a sort of curio shop- lifter she relaxes her watchfulness and the strings that hold her tongue. Longfellow’s study ts a large, low room, with many win- dows. In the center is the writing table as he left it, with ink well, paper weights, a dozen faverite volumes. and a pile of cor- respondence never to be answered. Por- traits of Sumner, Emerson and other con- temporaries are on the walis. In one cor- ner is a chair, presented to him by the chil- dren of Cambridge, made from the “‘spread- ing chestnut tree’ commemorated in “The Village Blacksmith.” Doubly quiet now, with the spell of his absence upon it, the room must have been to him, in its remote- ness from the annoyance of a noisy ma- terial civilization, a veritable repository of high and gentle thoughts and true and ten- der impulses. More than a decade has pass- ed since his death, but even now his home reposes in an almost rural peace, and the front windows of his study look out upon a long stretch of green sward, broken in the distance by the glow of sunshine on a phicid lake. In Longfellow’s house Wash- ington is said to have bivouacked, and the place is therefore twice sacred to history, but the temporary kdging of the soldier and statesman is of little comparative in- terest to the visitor of today, who finds a closer and higher sympathy with the im- press which the poet's life has left upon his ome. coo The Soul the Beard. From the Cincinnati Commerctal Gazette. In Russia it was the common belief up to the time of Peter the Great that beardless men were also soulless, and that a man who purposely admitted of havirg his beard marred could never enter heaven. The great Peter above referred to ordered his heath- ens to “shave up,” so as to appear more civilized, and when they refused to comply with his edict he fined the wealthy and middle classes one hundred rubles for each beard that was permitted to grow, and each peasant and laborer a copek for’ the same privilege. Finally the priests were appealed to, and they informed their parishioners that unless they submitted to having their beards shaved they need not expect that St. Nicholas, the gatekeeper of heaven, would be able to distinguish them from the : _ Turks. That had the desired ef- ect. From Life. - Reginald cannot resist | dazzling some bad bx jent. the temptation of ys with his new pres- ‘They unjustly hold Reginald responsible for the stubbornness of the animal. = A PRISON EPISODE The Andersonville Prisoners Put a Stop to Lawlessness, AN ORGENIZATION CF REGULATORS Six Prisgngrs Executed by Their Fellows: for Murder and Robbery. JUSTICE VINDICATED Written for The Evening Star. HESE FELLOWS who are defying law I at Chicago do not un- derstand the spirit of the American peo- ple,” sofd Maj. John % McElroy, the editor ay of the National Tri- bune, when the riots at Chicago were the question of the hour. “The people who are creating riot now do not know what prim- itive spirit of retribu- tive justice dwells in the American nature. Did I ever tell you the story of how a mob hanged six men in Andersonville stockade? It is a good illustration of what law-abid- ing men will do when they are driven to extreme measures to preserve their lives and their property. Come up and see me scme day and T'll tell you about it.” In re- sponse to that invitation I called on Mr. McElroy one afternoon last weck and he told me the story—a stcry, like many of the strange incidents of the war, always rew and always interesting. You know what Andersonville was?” sald Mr. McElroy. “It was a big stockade, entirely without shelter, built In the most remote part of the confederate territory— about sixty miles: south of Macon, Ga. It was in a pine forest. It ran about 1,100 feet one way and about S00 feet the other. They took twenty-five-foot timbers and planted them five feet in the ground and made a stockade twenty feet high. Per- haps a hundred yards away was a fort with eleven guns trained on the inclosure. That: was at the southwest. At the north- West, on a piece of rising ground, was an- other fort with five guns. At the other two corners were lurettes with two guns each. So there were twenty guns trained on the prisoners all the time. The guard was composed of about 10,000 troops. As to the prisoners, there were 25,000 of them in June, 1864. But in the latter part of July and in August of that year there were 35,000, “I ought to explain to you how some of the prisoners came there before I tell you my story of the hanging. There were a lot of bounty jumpers in cur army—peopl> from the slums of New York—and when they thought that it was not safe to stay any longer with us, they deserted to the rebels, At that time we held a preponder- ance of prisoners, and the southerners, wanting to make the best possible ex- change for, themselves, were prepared to offer these deserters as prisoners of war and exchange them for some of the south- ern prisoners whom we held. Meantime these men were confined in Castle Light- ning, in Richmond. They were a rough, bad crowd: Well, early tn 1864, when it did not seem likely that there would be any nore exchanges, they built the Anderson- ville stockade and moved all of the prison- ers down there. I was in the first squad that went into, Andersonville, February 14, 1864. A Good Deal of Trading. “Of course, the first men who went into the stockade had very little property of any kind. I remember that five of us had a blanket between us. I had a set of chess- men I had made for myself, but beyond that I was without property of any kind. You see, most of us were taken In the field, and about all that we had to bring with us was a blanket, perhaps, and a few cooking utensils. I cocked my rations in a little tin can. But the later prisoners came in such numbers that .hey managed to slip in all sorts of property. And everything had an extraordinary value among us. A blanket was not only valuable to form a shelter, but it was good to exchange for food and luxuries of different kinds through the guards. Even buttons were valuable, for if there was one thing the southerners could not male it wes buttons. Their. home- made buttons weighed about two ounces apiece. Talk about taking buttons from a @ead man’s eyes! I suppose I have cut more than a hatful of buttons from dead men’s coats" and used them in trade. The spirit of barter is strong in some men; and even in this prison there was constant ‘trad- ing going on. A man would get a small sack of flour from # guard for & in green- backs—oh,some of the late prisoners brought in a good deal of money conccaied in their clothing~-and with this flour he would make some biscult and perhaps sell them at three for $1 to a poor devil who was sick and yearning for something better than ou re,ular rations. There was this constant | exchange of prop y and of money going on 3ut there was another form of ex- These New York hs of whom I spoken were known a as the raiders, They camped by themselves on one side of the creek, and almost every night | they made raids on the other people in the prison. They did not stop at taking life, Sometimes we would wake up in the morn. ing to find men with their throats cut and their pockets stripped. “Of course, to the late comers the older prisoners were all alike. They did not know bat that we-were all in the same busine: But we knew who was doing the dirty work and finally it got so bad that my company organized for protection. As the first com ers, we had chosen a spot in the southwest cerner of the inclosure, and here we es- tablished a guard. n had gone to get our rations the raide-s came down on our camp, and when we got back Marion Friend, whom we had left on guard, was lying there with a cut in his hand and a big hole in his neck dangerousiy close to the jugular vein, and $40 of green- backs gone from his pocket. That incident determined us to do something to stop the business, Like a Vigilance Soctety. “The whole credit of the movement be- longs to Leroy L. Key, a member of our battalion. He planned the attack and or- ganized our forces and led us against the enemy. It was necessary that we should organize secretly, because the raiders had friends and spies all over the camp, wanted to tek them by surprise, So the word was pissed uround as quletly as pos- sible, and we organized into companies, It was necesnéry’ for Key to get permission from Wirz ‘to R my the attack, because there was atrulé that not more than ninety men should atHer together in one place. If as many as 100 men Were seen together the gunners on thePhill had orders to open fire without wathifig, and some Httle things which had Whpfened from time to time had made us béliewh that they would follow these orders sirictly. Key therefore wot permission fromé Wirz to carry out our plan, “On the 2@ of July the raidera pot. wind of the affaint awd that night three of them, armed with bludseons and slung shots, came over wo Kill deve He was ready for them. He had a Fovolver which some one hui smugsled into Whe prison, and he blufted them off. Byt #¢ was then plain we would have to make tye attack Immediately if we wanted it to bo successful, So it was made ba ye day. ie “It was a remarkable scene, an: I will never forget. The authorttion ton not absolutely sure that we were acting in good faith, and they prepared for a sur- prise, The guns were loaded, and the gun- ners stood at their posts. Between the two forts on the west @ line of infantry was drawn up. The other prisoners in the stock- ade weré massed together, and as I looked back for a moment eemed as though the sloping ground painted with faces, There were five hundred of us, armed with pine-knot clubs, Spotened to our wrists with st ; There were five hundred raidet I was on the left not in much of the fightin; hard work was in the cen’ Boe ee ee ae eee gees to say my bower—was a man we ‘Egypt.’ He he @ powerful mah “ai hard hitter, and as he struck out with hi Jeft bund he usually found a man unpre- pared. I did the talking for o! iytie rty and pt did the hea! work. ell eck this ly basal se it js typical of the } we aid tp inging bs cused Whey I found Donnel Fhe ¥ backed by a crowd, id when I told what we wanted he Sworé at me, and started for me with a club, Bat before we could come to- gether Egypt's left shot out and Donnélly fell in a hedp. We had him tied in a min- ute, and carried him off to Key's head- quarters, Running the Gauntlet. “Key had made arrangements with Wirz to take care of ‘his prisoners, and we sent them outside the stockade. The next day Wirz sent word to him that he could not guard so many men and that we would have to pick out the worst of them and let the others come back into camp, So Key made up a list of men to be tried, and the others were turned back. But they did t come back in a body. The other prisoners were drawn up ready to receive them, and the guards let them in one at a time to run the gauntlet. Three of them were killed trying to get through the crowd. One of them, I remember, was a sailor. He had smuggled a bowie-knife into the prison, and when he came through the gate he reached down into his boot and drew it, and started through the crowd, slashing right and left. The crowd fell back, and he came straight at me. I stood looking at him, not know- ing what to do, but prepared to defend my- self with my club as well as I could. Just before he reached me he passed a man who had carried out a dead man that morning and brought back a piece of timber. It was considered a privilege to carry out a dead Tran, because it gave you a chance to pick up some wood. Just as the sailor passed this man the timber fell on the back of his neck. He dropped, and before he could rise the others had set on him and beaten him to death we gave the prisoners as fair a we could. Very few of us knew anything about the forms of law. But we hamed thirteen sergeants to constitute a court to try the prisoners—that was the highest rank in the prison—and we allowed them counsel. Dick McCullough of the third Missouri cavalry prosecuted, and a little lawyer from New York named Meyer defended. I was not present at the trial, and though I have often tried to get a clear story of it from some one who took part in it, the only one I could ever trace was a man who is now a Methodist minister in Ohio, and he could not give a connected account of the affair: He was a member of the court... There is no doubt. though, that the men were treated-fairly. Some ef them were condemned to wear ball and chain around the camp, and six of them were sentenced to be hanged. The 11th of Juiy was the day fixed for the hanging. We had to get permission from Gen. Winder to carry out the sentence. There was a little drummer bey who had been picked up by Wirz, and made his orderly, and he took the first news of the decision of Gen. Winder to the cordemned men. Boy-like, he did nct_ stop to think what it meant te them. He ran down to where they were sitting, under the trees, crying: “The gen. eral says they can hang you.’ I asked Red Cap (that was what we called the boy) what they said, and he told me they didn’t say much, but he noticed that they stopped playing cards. They had not believed that we would really carry out the sentence, nd there were a good many of us among the regulars who did not half believe that Key would hang the men. The Execution. “On the morning of the 11th a messen- ger came from Key and told me that he wanted my company to go to the place where they were building the scaffold and guard it. It was a primitive scaffold. Wood, as I have told you, was scarce. In the midst of timber, we had hardly enough for fuel, and none to use for shelter. So the scaffold was hardly more than two posts with a board between them and a beam above. The board was held up by a piece of timber to which a rope was fastened. This was the trigger with which the drop was to be sprung. The scaffold stood just opposite the gate where our rations were brought in, right under the guns of the headquar- ters fort. As before, these guns were ready for action and the infantry was drawn up in line between the forts, but in a depression between two hills a crowd of camp followers had gathered and gradu- ally it edged over until it was between the guns and us. Four companies guarded the scaffold. Around it were grouped about 12,- 000 of the prisoners and another 12,000 stood on the sloping ground on the other side of the creek. When the scaffold was reedy and Key and his confidential ad- visers, ‘Limber Jim,’ Ned Carrigan, and the others, were gathered about it, the gate swung open and Wirz rode in, mounted on his white horse. He was followed by a guard and the six condemned men, who were accompanied by Father Hammond of Macon, the only preacher in the neighbor- hood of the camp. “Wirz halted the guard and said: ‘Here are your prisoners. I return them to you as geod as I got them. You have tried them and sentenced them and I wash my hands cf the whole matter. Guards, about face! Forward, march!’ “And with that he marched out of the stockade, leaving the six men to us. They looked at us and at the scaffold, and one of them said: ‘You ain’t really going to hang us, boys?” “That's about the size of it,’ said K quietly. Then they began to talk all together; but presently the priest spoke and they were quiet, while he asked us if we were not satisfied to punish them in some other way. Before he could say much the crowd outside our lines began to cry: ‘No! ! Hang them! Hang them!’ So the priest stopped talking pretty quickly. Desperation of the Condemned. “Just about that moment I heard the man at the end of the line of prisoners ‘IN try, even if I die for it,’ and low- ng his head, he made a rush for our line. beat him to his knees, but he was up and through our lites before we could ve! him. His name was Curtis. The man next ) him in line was a big Irishman named De- | laney. He started after Curtis, but Limber Jim ‘stobd over him with a big bowle-knife and he did not get away. Curtis’ escape, thovgh, had createl great excitement—in fact, a regular stampede in the crowd. There were well holes all around, some of them thirty feet deep, and into these the men fell, breaking arms and legs, and bruising them- selves badly. I lined up my company again as guickly as I could, and some one told me that ‘the two Iowa boys’—two men from an lowa cavalry company—had started after Curtis, They followed him through the crowd and through the sink at the other end of the stockade, and they caught him on a little island in the middle of the creek and brought him back. He was badly wind- ed and I think he drank half a gallon of water before he was ready to go on the sceaf- fold. But the six men who had been de- tallc 1 to attend to the hanging got the pris- oners on the plank, bound them hand and foot, adjusted the ropes, put meal bags over thelr heads (after the priest had read the service) and at a sign from Key the trigger was pulled hy two corporals In my compony and the men swung off. All of the ropes held but one. That broke and dropped a man who was known to us as Mosby. When they brought him to, he begged them to spare him, but he was believed to have killed Limber Jim's brother, and Jim read- justed the scaffold, picked him up and hand- ed him to the man on the plank, the rope was put ecound his neck again and then Jim pulled the trigger and he went off again, this time to his death, “When the bodies were cut down we form- ed a Jane and all who wanted to went through and took a look at them. Pete Donnelly stoopet and wiped the froth from Delaney'’s Mp and swore that he would ‘get even’. with us, And he tried it when we were confined at Milan, But later he enlisted and the last time T saw him was when he was in the fort at Milan, dressed in @ gray uniform and I was picking up pine bougha outside the prison. We ex- changed the compliments of the season at Jong range then.- : “After cur experience with the raiders in Andersonville, we established a regular po- ice system. A. R. Allen, who is now mar- shal of a little town in Ohlo,was at the head of it; and he administered even-handed justice to offenders against our primitive laws. The worst punishment that he or- dered was spanking with a paddle. We had no more hangings, for they were not neces- sary. We had vindicated justice and es- tablished that system of law and order the love of which is strong in every American heart under any and all conditions,” eee Learned by Experience, From Life. - Bates—“Fact is, old boy, nobody can ac- quire a thorough command of English with- “Gen nt i I know but ter now Aira, Gases never studied Latta BABIES NEVER Lactated Food Relished in Hottest Weather. Growth Steadily Continues and Strength is Kept Up in Summer Without Taxing the Weakened Stomach or Bringing on Diarrhoea. “It t# truly a triumph in infant feeding when babies take @ food with evident relish, even when the weather is the hottest, and when the tone of shetr little stomachs is eo reduced by the beat,” says a writer in the Globe, And this fs why physicians and trained nurses everywhere, as well as countley mothers who have reared large families successfully, ———— urge a diet of lactated food whenever the Infant digestion ts feeble. This ideal baby food Is made up'of simple ingre- dients that every mother knows to be wholesome and rich in nourishing qualities. It is a well-nigh perfect substitute for healthy, vigorous mother's milk, and the one infant food which posseses a Scientific combination of all the elements necessary to the complete nutrition of the growing child, There is no secret about its composition. In {ts manufacture in Burlington, Vt., under the Personal supervision of no less a man than Prof. Boynton of the Vermont Medical School, every pro- cess $s mest scrupulously guarded against any source of impurity. It is, as has been sald, DRINKS FOR SUMMER. Some Cooling Beverages Which Are Easily Concocted. From Harper's Bazar. This is an admirable receipt for the re- quired tankard which holds the standard claret cup: One gallon of claret, the juice of twelve oranges, the juice of twelve kcm- ons, one bottle of good bitters, one pound of loaf sugar, of which half has been rubbed on lemon peel until yellow. Pour over a block of ice, and add apollinaris water to taste. It is better to make claret cup the day before it is used. If uncertain as to the amount required, a sirup can be made of the oranges, lemons and sugar, and when cooked bottle and mix ingredi- ents in same proportion at the last mo- ment. One and a half gallons cf Wine is @ moderate allowance for one hundred guests. Cider cup, as concocted by English college dons, is a pleasing beverage to “sip in idle dalliance.” One quart of champagne cider, one liqueur glass of cognac, one glass of sherry, and a half-glass of maraschino; one dessert-spoonful of crushed rock candy, peel of half a lemon, and the other half cut in slices, one sprig of borage. Mix well and place it in salt and ice for two hours. Hatfield is also an English mixture, made with a bottle of iced ginger-beer and a Nqueur glass of good gin. ‘Tea punch holds its sway with an unerr- ing supremacy, and a good way to make it is with a quart of rum, one and a half pounds of sugar, six lemons, one cup of strong green tea. Peel the lemons, and pour the tea boiling hot upon the peel; mix all together, pouring in the rum last. When ready to serve have a silver pitcher filled with crushed ice, and pour in the punch; the melting ice will make it a pleasant strength. A good glass of lemonade is as rare as “a beaker ull of the warm south.” It should not be the thin fluid which ts its common presentment, but shoald have “a body,” which can alone be got by reducing the sugar to a sirup before adding the lemons. Take half a pound of loaf sugar and uce it with one pint of water; add the rind of five lemons and let it stand an hour; remove the rinds, and add the strain- ed juice of the lemons; add one bottle of apollinaris water and a block of ice in the center of the bowl, and before serving add one tablespoonful of brandy to the above proportions. Peel one lemon and cut it up into thin slices; divide each slice In two and place the pieces in the lemonade. An excellent champagne cup is made thus: Peel the rind of a lemon as thin as paper, and throw it into a loving cup with two lumps of sugar and about a half a teacupful of boiling water; cover over so that the lemon peel may steep, and in about ten minutes add a glass of sherry and a large lump of ice. Pour on this a bottle of claret and another of champagne, and take out the lemon peel, adding in its stead a good spray of borage, a sprig of mint and a shaving of cucumber rind. Stir well, and when thoroughly cold it is ready t drink, - There is nothing more refreshing at all times than a good cup of tea, but it is seldom found at home or abroad. ‘There is @ tradition that only at Carlsbad can tea in its perfection be drunk. This lets in | Por Ladies’ $250 Bright Meht on the mystery of the problem—the solution is the character of the water with which the tea is » The best means of imitating the soft water of Carlsbad ts to add a pinch of soda to the water before it is boiled for brewing tea. A_ pretty sliver | aud bonbon box filled with bicarbontc of soda should be the vaseal of the hissing urn, and have os with equal rank by the side of the caddy. The Russians, so famous for th put the tea into the boiling wat the boiling water upon the tea, maintain, the temperature of thi lowered by pouring it Into the teapot, It is conceded that tea should come into contact with boiling water (212 degrees Fahr.), and should remain at that temperature as near- ly as possible for several minutes. Take an ordinary brown earthen ware teapot. Put into it the required quantity of water, either cold or hot, and place it over the fire or gas stove; when the water boils, and blows out of the hole In the lid, which will be In a few minutes, put in the tea, place the ld upon the teapot, and put It on the table to draw for a few minutes, and then pour {t into the silver teapot, leaving the tea leaves in the earthern ware pot. —_———-e2—_____ Subterranean London, From the London News, It gives an impressive idea of what sub- terranean London fs fast becoming to learn that on emerging from the river the new — = =—=—=»F eas the alr among the Vermont hills where 16 be no ejaal to tact oreing: ontatus Cie b The converting baby's natural ts Urtle outlay « * have aiik in fond fow is recom the prime ilk sugar.* And not only docs it give a pleasant taste, bat it has been found to allay extreme trettability of the stomach and check diarrhoea, and thus proves of inestimable value to the large clam of infants that are predisposed to teri © stomach and ra infantum, The basis of Inctated food Is sugar of milk ‘The one safety for pale, weak, sickly bables ie to keep up their strength without trritating thetr intestines, This great problem of feeding deticate babies in hot weather has been solved to the com- plete satisfaction of hosts of mothers by lactated fad. It has saved thousands of Infant lives, Mothers worry less about their children when they eee them datly eating and with evide Children that cannot ext milk or little, not enough to nourish the should use 0 earnestlylactated food. This generous diet soou shows Itself |. clear skin and the its that betoken health. Sound constitutions, sturdy growth of bone and flesh, deep, uninterrupted sleep all come from diet of lactated food. ‘The healthy child whose picture ts shown above cate nothing but Inctated food. Her mother, Mra. C. H. Sisson of Potsdam, N. ¥., writes “The original of this picture consumes two cap fuls of lactated food every three hours daily, bee ginning at 6 in the morning and ending at 6 at night. It was prescribed by Dr. I. D. Brown of this place, and she eats nothing else, As she is @ teething bahy, we ‘let well enough alone,’ tamper- ing with no other food, as she thrives on this, Seocececescoccsoooes. eoeeeee iHave You A Broken Trunk? 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