Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1895, Page 11

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At the beginning of the civil war there re- sided in Hillsborough, Ga., a poor widow, known for miles around as Aunt Sally. Her son, a lad of twenty, whom everybody called little Billy Cochran, was a great favourite, especially with Maj. Goolsby, a wealthy planter, whose dead wife had been tenderly nursed by Aunt Sally. When, therefore, the boy was taken as a recruit to the confeder- ate army, the major threatened and defied the conscript officer; but it was of no avail, and little Billy was forced to go. When he arrived at the confederate camp, Private Chadwick, the drillmaster, who at once liked the boy, took him to his tent, and there, subsequently, they read the letters which Miss Mary Goolsby, the major’s daughter, wrote to Billy for his mother. One night, about Christmas time, the boy received news that his mother was very ill, and asked his friend if he could get a fur- Jough. “There ain’t but one way for a conscript to leave this camp, and that Is to desert,” said Chadwick. Next day little Billy was missing. Iv. Capt. Mosely had the camp searcn2d, but without result, and in a little while every- body knew that the lad was a deserter. During the morning Private Chadwick had a long talk with Capt. Mosely, and ‘the re- sult of it was that no immediate arrange- ments were made to send a guard after lit- tle Billy. Meanwhile Aunt Sally was growing weak- er and weaker. Sometimes in her troubled dreams she imagined that little Billy had come, and, at such moments, she would cry out a glad welcome, and laugh as heartily as ever. But, for the most part, she knew that he was still absent, and that all her dreams were futile and fleeting. Nevertheless, one bright morning in the latter part of December Httle Billy walked into his mother’s humble home, weary and feotsore. Aunt Sally heard his footsteps on the door sill, and, weak as she was, sat up in bed and held out her arms to him. Her dreams had come true, but they had come true too late. When little Billy removed the support of his arms, In order to look at his Gear mammy’s face, she was dead. The joy of meeting her son again was too much for the faithful and tender heart. All that could be done by kind hearts and willing hands was done by Miss Mary and the neighbors. Little Billy shed no tears. The shock Rad benumbed all his faculties. He went about in a dazed condition. But when, the day after the funeral, he went to tell Miss Mary good-bye, the ineffable pity that shone in her face touched the source of his grief, and he feil to weeping as he had never wept before. He would hay hissed her hand, but she drew it away, straightened himse:f, tiptoed and on the forehead. With that she, too, fell to Weeping, and thus they parted. [ut for many a long day little Billy felt the pres- sure of soft and rosy lips on his forehe He sold the old mule that had served his Seeeeses i He Never Heard the Explosion That Shattered the Trees Around. dear mammy so faithfully, and this gave him sufficient money to pay his way back to camp on the railroad, with some dollars to spare. As good fortune would have it, the first man he saw when the train stop- ped at the station nearest the camp was Private Chadwick. Little Billy spoke to | le 5 | | . 5 | Guay Hair and our credit accommoda- tion—makes this the best A thing of the past when Nattan'’s Crystal Dis- his friend with as much cheerfulness as he id command. m mighty glad to see you, old man,” said Chadwick. “I knowed in season that you was certain to come bhack—and, sure enough, here you are. You've had trouble, too. 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Plosh eee ep. after, shaving. OGRAM’S Two Drug Stores, }2!f and Pa. ave. private. “You've gone and broke the rules and articles of war-J reckon, that’s what they call "em. You took Dutch leave. The p. said if you Foaee _come ,back.in ten days he'd send a fy Got men after you, and then your cake w; wta ‘a’ been all dough. But now you've cdife back of your own free will, and the case ie mixed. You are bound to be arrestee All that’s been fixed, and that’s the reagom I've been comin’ to train every day sence you've been gone. I wanted to arrest vevsnyselt. te jighen I'm a prisoner,” suggested little Billy. “That's about thg gize and shape of it,” replied Private Chadwick. His tone was so émphatic that lttle Billy leoked at him: But there was a kindly light in the private’s eyes and a pleasant smile lurking under his mustache, so that the young fellow thqught he might safely go back to his grief again. When they arrived at camp Private Chadwick, with a great show of fierce for- mality, led little Billy to the guard tent, and there placed him in charge of a newly made corporal, who knew so little of his duties that he went inside the tent, placed his gun on the ground and hada long, familiar chat with the prisoner. After the camp had gone to bed Private Chadwick relieved the guard and carried little Billy to his own tent, where Capt. Mosely was waiting. This rough old soldier gave little Billy a lecture that was the more severe because it Was delivered in a kindly tone. At the end he informed little Billy that the next day a Squad of picked men from the conscript camp was to go to the front in charge of Private Chadwick,the enemy having shown @ purpose to make a winter campaign. “Would you like to go?” the captain asked. Little Billy seized tie captain's arm. “Don't fool me!” he cried. “If I'm fit to Cea let me go. That's what I'm longing ore The captain felt about in the dark for ute, Billy’s hand and grasped It. “You shall go," he said, and walked from the dark tent into the starlight outside. The nights are long to those who sleep with sorrow, but, after all, the days come quickly, as little Billy soon’ found out. The next morning he found himself whirling away to Virginia, where some cruel busi- hess was’ on foot. The 4. went fast enough then, and the railway train, with its load of soldiers, ‘puffed and snorted as if it wanted to Ko faster, too; but tt went fast enough— ough to be switch- od off to the ment of Ric himond its load of conscripts and raw, ri prepared into a furfous battle that had just reached the high tide of destruction. Pri- vate Chadwick was swent along with the rest, and he tried hard to keep his eye en little Billy, but found it Impossible. since they were soon mixed with men who were wounded and with men who were running away. Some of the latter turned again when they saw the reinforcements rush- ing forward pellmell. Litule Billy was far in front of the oth- ers. He heard the: crackle of imusketry and the thunder of the cannon and ran toward the smoke and confusion. A shell dropped in front of him and spun around, spitting fire, but he ran on, and never even heard the explosion that shattered the trees around and played havoc with the reinforcements that w following. He Jumped over men that were lying on the ground, whether dead or wounded he never knew. Some one, apparently in com- mand, yelled at him with a savage curse, but he paid no attention to it. Directly in front of him he saw a battery of three suns. Two were in action, but one had no one to manage it. On cach side of this battery ard a little to the rear the Une of battle stretched away. ing Little Billy running forward, fol- lowed by the recruits from the train, the line of battle begai’to cheer and at the ume time to advate. He had practiced ho an old six-p jer at the conscript camp, and he now’ ¥én, as if by instinct, to the gun that had! been silenced. The confederates chargé@;"but had to fall back again, and then thi gan to refre, slow- ly at first, and theh with some haste, Lit- tle Billy paid no #thintion’ to this, move- ment at all. He ¢otitinuea to sefVe his gun and fire it as rap’ ‘ly as he could, Shot and shell from the ‘al batteries plowed up the ground arodnd him, but never touched him. Preseyfly a tall man with a long brown beard ‘tide out, of the smoke and ordered little Mty to retreat, pointing, did so, to the oristling Ihe of fed- irruy sald the tall man. He spurred hi horse into a rapid trot, and litile Billy trotted by his side, might- ily helped by holding“bn to the stirrup. In this way they Were, Soon out of it, and in a little while had canght' up with ‘the main body, which Fad planted itself a couple of miles farthér back, while the brigade in which little Billy had fought was holding the enemy at bay. Little Billy's face was black with powder, but nis eves shone lke stars. He knew now that never again would danger or the fear of death cause him to flinch. “What regiment do you belong to?" asked the tall man, as they went along. “None,” replied little Biliy, simply. Then he told how he was just from a conscript camp in Georgia” When they arrived at the confederate position the tall man called to an officer. “This is rear guard,” said he. “See that he is cared for.” Then to little Billy: “When this affair blows over, brush up and call on Gen, Zeb, Stuart, He needs a courier, and you are the man.” As there was no sign of a fight the next day, little Billy went to Gen. Stuart's head- quarters and was ushered in. That famous fighter, who happened to be the officer who had noticed him the day before, took him by the arm and introduced him to his staff, and told “how he had found him serving a gun, after the entire brigade had begun to retreat. This was the beginning. Little Billy be- came a courier, then én aid, and when the war closed he was in command of a regl- ment. His recklessness as a fighter had given a sort of romantic color to his name, So that the newspaper correspondents found nothing more popular than some anecdote about Col. Cochran. His fame had preceded him to Hillsbor- ough, and he had a queer feeling when the older citizens, men who had once awed him by their pride and their fine presence, took of their hats as they greeted him. The most deinonstrative among those was Maj. Goolsby. “You are to come right to my house, col- onel. You belong to us, you know.” This was Maj. Goolsby’s greeting, as he clung to Col. Cochran's hand. “It will be a great surprise to Maty. She'll never know you in the round world Why, you've grown to be a six-footer.”” So there was nothing for Col. Cochran to do but to go to the Goolsby place, a fine house built on a hill beyond the old church. The major wanted to give his daughter a surprise, and so he carried Col. Cochran into the parlor, and then told Miss Mary that one of her friends had called to see her, The young lady went skipping Into the par- lor, and then paused, with a frightened air, as she saw a six-foot man in faded uniform rise to meet hi “Miss Mary out his hand “Are you—" She paused, grew white and then red, and suddenly turned and ran out of the room, nearly upsetting the major, who was standing near the door. “Wh: what on earth’s the matter?’ he erled. “Well, if this don't beat— Did she know you, colonel?" “Tm afrald she dit” grimly. The major tiptoed:to his daughter's room, opened the door softly and found her on her knees by her hed, crying. Thereupon said Col. Cochran, holding replied the colonel, He Fought the Battles Over Again, he tiptoed back again and said to Col. Cochran: 's all right. She's crying.” The colonel smiled dryly. “If I make the women cry, what will the children do when they see me?” " The major laid his hand affectionately cn Cochran's arm. “Don't you fret,” he said. “Just wait. * And se wonderful are the ways of wo- men, that when Miss Mary came out again, she greeted the colonel cordfally, and was as gay as a lark. And nothing would do but he must fight his battles over again, ‘which he did with great spirit when he saw her fine eyes kindle with enthustl- asm, and her lips tremble from sheer sym- pathy. Strange to say, ndbody knew what it all meant but the old cook, who stood in the doorway leading from the dining room to the kitchen and watched her young mis- tress. She went back in the kitchen and said to her husband: “Ef you want ter see how folks does when dey er in love, go ter de door dar an’ look at dat ar chile er our’n.” The old man looked in, watched Miss Mary a moment, and then looked hard at Col. Cochran. dunno so much "bout de gal,” he said, when he went back, “but dat are man got mo’ in his eye dan what his tongue want ter tell.” And it was so, and, being so, the whole story is told. (The end.) amis FIENDISH WORK OF THE TURK. Story Told by a Resident of Kaisar- ith, Asia Minor. Special Correspondence of the Associated Press. LONDON, December 18.—The following is the full text of a letter received from Kai- sarith, Asia Minor, dated December 2, de- scribing in detail the disorder which oc- curred on November 27 last: At Jast the storm has struck us, and the horror of the past three days is beyond de- scription. I have hardly the heart to at- tempt it, and yet something must be writ- ten. Saturday, one of our school boys rushed into the room, crying: “The destruction has begun.” i hastened to ourroof ani saw the scene which has so often been enacted of late— Turks kil.ng every Armcn.an on whom they cou.d lay their hands. Much of the fiendish work was carried on from the roof of the houses, Most of the houses have flat mud rcofs, and one can go nearly everywhere frem the roofs, which are practically con- tinuous. Turks swarmed over the houses, breaking in doors and windows, stou‘ng, cutting and shooting all wh» opposed them, and many who did not. I sneceeded severdl times in turning back the crowd from the roofs adjoining our houses, but beyond that 1 could do nothing. They ev.dently had received strict orders to let us alone, for but one attack was made on us, that being by a reckless fellow with an ax, at our street door, He got scared, however, and soon ran away. No special gvard was sent to our house, but by cailing upon passing soldiers, I got temporary men stationed near the door, but they would stay but a tew minutes, then were off to have their share in the business. However, we suffered no harm. Frightened citizens came rushing over the roofs and up the ladder, which I placed for them, until we had over sixty people under our narrow roofs. The riot was terrible for three hours, but after sundown it gradually quieted. During these three hours the city was pa- trolled by soldiers, who cleared] the streets temporarily, but they reaily did little to stop the pillage. I cannot accuse the soldiers of Killing any one, but I sa in several in- stances, soldiers carrying of some of the plunder, The first two men who were stationed at my door told me plainly that they expected to be well paid for being tius deprived of their share of the fun. Notwithstanding the fact that I assured them that this would be all right, they deserted after a few moments. This in spite of the fact that their com- manding officer had told them to remain there. When a company of soldiers was notified from our roof that a certain house near was being destroyed, they formed with the ut- most delay and slowly marched in that di- rection, being pretty sure to allow ample time for the rascals to escape. Firing on the mob by the troops was absolutely forbidden until special orders to fire were received from Constantinople. This order was con- veniently delayed until about sunset. 1 have this direct from soldiers, and believe it to be tone. From sunset on, however, I give the gov- ernment credit for making honest attempts to rectore quiet. On Sunday morning there was considerable disturbance, but by noon comparative order was restored. ————— RAILWAYS AND EQUIPMENT. Low Water Mark Reached in Building of Roads. 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RATES TO ALL POINTS HOLE JOBUENE HORSE PUNISHES GOODS LIN LEADER OF THE HARNESS, FRATERNITY IN THE DISTRICT, For 30 days 10 per cent off op all our new and latest desizns in Coupe, Coach, Carriage, Single Buggy, Express and Wagon Haraces. We have on haut 20 sets New Carriage, 25 nets Single Bi 10 seis Conch, 10 sets Coupe, 15 sets Express, sets Wagon Harness. In Second-hand Harness’ we are jlcaders and have some great bargains. hand-made : nese 2 tO eete Compr. 2b) eats Sinaie. one 15 sets Express and 12 FEBS, t' Carriage, § THE HORSE FUR- » ‘Thanking you ail for Four past Liberal. patrons 2 and solleiting 2 coutinsancs of the same in future, I am, very reepectfu S. D. HOUCK, 301 10TH STRAET. ALL GASES OF DEAFNESS, CATA! ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS And Other Lung Troubles are treated by me with due regard to each Indi- ‘vidual condition, no detail too smail to neglect, aot one remedy for everything—that is why I am successful in curing this class of diseases. Consul- tution free, Dr. Jordan, 1421 F St, N. W. Office hours, 9 to 11 a.m, 2 to 4:30 and 6 to 8 om Gelt-284 ‘Coke makes hot fire -it 1s economical fuel, for it insets longer then coal. Very quick to igulte, and contains neither dirt nor clinkers. 40 bu. (unert shed), $2.90. 40 ba. (crushed), $3.70. Delivered to any part of city. WASHINGTON GASLIGHT CO., 413 10TH ST., ‘or Wm. J. Zeh, 926 N St. "Phone 476. 16-284 SSO de24-6r* ier ssrociation, Bien fan giv {HE Mictest SLIM at the kewest cost, and 1p connection with our special appliances insures pa Jeas operations invariably shall be glad to make an os mate on your dental needs. Eratis, of :onree pease, BE . S. Dental Assn., e Sen eke Long Hair Switches. Formerly $5.00. Boo: Formerly 36.50. 6.50. Formerly $10.5 TF First-class attendance in Hair Dressing, See Guctette,” for keeping the hair in earl S. HELLER’S, 720 7th Street N. Ww.” jet-204 . oO a ain and Dentistry ave Parted Forever. ——tThat Is, when our absolctely patn- less methods are employed in performing A dental operation, No sleep-producing ( esthetics are usel, bepce there are no serious results to fe: ur simple solu- 5 tion, when applied to the guns, ly deadens the nerves aod never caw: pleasant after effects. Painless extrac- tion, 50 cents. \Evans Dental Parlors, = \H j | 91217 Penna. Ave. N. W. 25-280