Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 8, 1891, Page 10

10 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: A TELEPHONE T0 THE SUY, TFrank Carpenter Visits the Wizird of Menlo | Park in His Den, WE WILL WHISPER AROUND THE WORLD, %dison Reveals the Wonders of Tis Laboratory and Prodicts Marvels ous Discoveries for the Future —~Many Yet to Come. [Copyrighted 1191 by Frank (. Carpenter.] New Yonk, Nov. 4.—(Special Correspond ence of Tue Bre. | t system puts & premium on ra eility 1 h taken out 700 patents for i but 1 have never had one minute's protection.’ The speaker was thoe ereat Thomas A. Edison. ‘The placs was perimental laboratory ar Or Jersey, The time was about 11 morning a few days ago, Mr, 1 no sleop for thirty-six hours and theseventy-two hours before this he had closed his eyes for loss than six, Stil he Iooked as fresh as 4 daisy when the morning sun strikes the desw on its petals and the sparkle of his e and the laugh which shook his frame from t time were those of & boy. He was in the midst of one of the fnventive periods when he takes but little rest and works away it and v to accomplish his ends. He bad left nis chiem- icals to talk to me and b in his shirt sloeves with his vest of Scoten tweed open at the front and with his shirt bosom of white linon decoruted with snots of 21l the! colors of the rainbow. ‘These spots were having a kind a polka-dot dance up and down his ereat chest They went in and out between his eold studs, and some ro stains of yellow and others of wax and melted brimstone. An odor like that of the hell broth of Macbeth’'s witches came from the chemicals in the room and all of the sur- roundings showed the simplicity of ts owner. During these inven- tive poriods Edison sleeps in 1is Iaboratory and his moals are sent from his magnificent home at Lelewellyn park. Upon a plain table cov- ored with brown paper lay the remaius of his breakfast, These were the bones of two mutton ctops, the erumbs of & muMn and a glass fruit can in the bottom of which was a little coffee of the same brown color as that in the eloss beside it out of which Mr. Edi- son had evidently drunien instead of a cup. Inone cornerof ths room iwasa washstand with a couplo of well used towels over it and the remainder of thospace was taken up with bottles, machines and other articles of an experimental kind. The room in which Mr. Edison aleans who at the laboratory. is quite as simple, and his bed is a folding arrangement which you could buy anywhere for $25. Still this laboratory all told must cover several acres. Its original cost must have been more than half a willion dollavs, and it takes more than 3100,000 a year to run It. Itis the most complete laboratory,in the world, and no inveator in histc has ever had anything like unto it. I its storeroom, which by the way is bigger than auy country church in the United States, Mr, Edison has pieces of every known muterial substance from, as he says, a spool of cotton to tho eyeballs of & United Sutes senator. Ho has everything from moss of Iceland to the hip- povotamus tooth, and he has pieces of every variety of vegetable, animal and mineral substances, so that he does not bave to go out of his laboratory for anything. Thero are more than 25,000 differdnt articles iu the storeroom, and some Of them cost as high as $1,000 an ounce. Edison’s Photograph Gallery. The workshops of the laboratory cover, [ judge, more thau four acres of'fioor space, and the great brick building with its vigw dows looks more like a factory than a place for the making of experiments. [verything in iv is of the most complete kind in the world, from its mechanical rooms to its mu- sical department, and you will find 1o fine photograph gallery anywhicere in tle country. Pho head of this, I’rof. W. L. K. Dicison, has an International repitation as o photog- rapher, and he briugs oul every weck some new wonder in his experiments. He has n ‘wonderful skill in the use of the camera ubon objects under the microscone, ind oue of Edi- son's great suits was wained lately solel throurh the photographs made of u slice of Japsuese bamboo from which was shown tho fibre out of which Idison malkes the carbon for his incandescent tamps. This slice, con sisting of a section smaller around thau the smallest slate pencil, wus maguiticd to the 8izo of the bottom of a dinrcr pail, and a sec- tion of this photograph was put under the microscope and again magnitied <o that the victure showed the little fivers of the bumboo which, after experimonting with a_thousand differont articles from ull parts of the world, Edison decided was the best tor his light, One of the last experiments i ihs photo- raphic dopartment was photograph of tho fioan of Bousefly. Chis photoeraph lies before me. I'he head as magnifivd is us big as that of & Newfoundland dog and it has hair standing out from its center in ull aivec tions as though aboul fifty camel's ha brushes with hair two inchos long had been driven imto a place the sizo of a trado aollar, bis 5 stand out from the head and in the photozraph cach eye of this fly, which in the original wus not larger than 8o head of a pin, is bigeer than tho palm of my band and it is made Upof thousands upon thousands of little bits of eyes fastene together like a honeycomb, and Mr. Dickson, Edison’s photographer, tells mo that if you will lay your wateh, face upward, down near the eya of & fly urder the microscope you can roud the time in oach one of these 10,000 eyes. “Our pate tnventions, inve his ox- one Kdison had during o'clock camo w Lights. can appreciate the cal sppliances of this rge room the machines are so delicate that solid v thirly feet deep have been built under the slato slabs supporting them. They rest on solid masonry ‘wnd are o arranged that nothing nour them can affect theie mation cither by sympathy or by vibravion. Iu onc room | found hun- dreds of these little lobes with wires of ight insido of them all blusing away though it was tho middle of tho after “Theso lamps,” said Mr. MeGuire, all mado aifferently and we aro tosting thom, Eve ono of them has its biography. It is closcly watched from hour to hour and tho brilliancy and the time it will burn without breaking OF wearing out is ally noted. Through this in time we hopa to gt tho perfect lamp and the perfect carbon which will burn forever.’ In another room lamps were being exbausted and filled. Iu another the glass was being blown and 1w a thirdl found a chemical liboratory devoted to the assaying and reduction of metals and here Mr, Edison ks working awuy on the reduction of iron and silver and goll.~ In our conyersa- tion ho told me of the vast ivon lields of New Jersey out of which tho companics with which hie is conunected aro now. making for- tunes and as soon as ha completes his experi- meuts in iron be is going to devote himself to the more precious metals of silver and gold, Other rooms are devoted to hoavy machiner and there is hardly any kind of a machiuo from a steam engine to a pin that could not be made in this Iaboratory. It is Edison's pet. 'The inventor is worth millious but he profers this to steam yachts, conching exe sions, polo and the smuseinents of other mil- lonalres and his greatest delight is i bis work. During our talk I asked him bow he telt wheu he discovered a new principle or something Important in iuvention, uud be told mo that it made him bappy all ‘over and that he grasped at it like the botanist does at » new flower or tho bugologist at a bug be discovers and 15 uew to Testing Kte Only an electric wonders of tho eloc laboratory. In one | 0 knows Inventors and Pirates. Returning to my interviow ana the patent system Mr. Edisou weat on The people suppose | have mude put of my lnventions. I'ne truth uever mide one cent out of wy AlL T bave made tias been out of turing, My inventions huve not pro tected by the patent ofice. The col o with which I s conuccted bave speut wil defend _ thom, about £500,000 would be &500,000 ken outa patent lions in trying to 1 have spent myself and I believe [ botter off if I had never t What I have made has been because | have undorstood the inventions better and have been able to manipulato the manufacturing of them botter thun the pirates. 1 could not have made anything had 1 not had large dapi. tal back of ma and the ordinary inventor has no protection whato His certificate of patent is merely a certificato to the poor house and hundreds of inventers are suined. They spend all they have in getting out their inventions and they dio poor. Let me tell you hiow it works, The inventor has a good thing. He takes out his patent. thinks he is safe and organizes a piant to manufacture it. He has to bave special machinery and ho makes special experiments and like as not iv costs him $200,000 bofore he is ready to bagin to manufacturg. The pirate sces hehas a good thing. He decides to compete with him, organizos a company with no responsibility whatever, bribes his men and starts in oppo sition, Ho can in most cases put up for 0, 000 what has cost the inventor £200,000 and he feels that in a few vears ho can make enough to rotire, having gotten th the invention, Ho begins 1 m The inventor prosccutes him but the court takes three years vofore it will hear his case. If it docides against carries it to the supremo court is three years behind hand and from six 1o twelve years before e could got a final decision. By this time the pirate has made a fortune and the oririnal inventor is in most cases bankrupt. If the case is de- cided in his favor the pivate found te_be irresponsible and there is no ctiauce for the fuventor, What the courts should do is to prevent the pirate from manufacturing until hie can prove that he has u right Lo manufac- ture. The original inventor, the mat who has the xm[mru, the wan who has spent h money should be given tho benefit of doubt. When this is done our inventors will have some protoction. ‘Then invention will increase in the United States. Tue country will jump a generation in a decade and every- thing will num.” him he which it is Great Inventions of the Fature. “Do you think, Mr. Edison,” said [, *‘that the inventions of thenext fitiy vears will be cqual to thoso of the lust fifty." “'I sce no reason why they should not,”” re vlied Mr. Edison. *It seems to me though that we are at the beginmng of entions, We are discovering now prineiples, new pow- ers and new materiais eve nd no one can predict the possibilitics of futuro. Take electricity. When wo get clectricity direct from coal, a tump as biz us this tumb- ler will light and_heat a whole house for hours and a basket full would run_a factory a whole day. In the generation. of stenm wo onlygot 14 per cent of the energy of te coal In electricity we get U por cent. When wo get our elec- trical _power direct from coal a fow hundred pounds will carry you_mcross the Atlantic and a few bask- ets full will take a railroad train from New York to San Francisco. 1 believo this to be ono of the great problems of the future and L hayve no doubt but that it will be solved. I have boen working on 1t for yeurs but I haven't got it yet. When it does come it will revolutionize everything. It will chcap_en evorything and it will bo the greatest in- vention of modern times. As it is uow we have to burn the coal to get the steam aud the steam gives us tho power which runs the dynamo and produces the clectricity. “Will we over have flying muchines ““Yes, I think s0,” was the reply, “but it will not be on any of the plans now proposed. Ihavea different idea iv regard to such matters, but Lam not ready to experiment with them yet.” “How about the water?"’ “I don’t believe it will ever Mr. Edison, *Water is the “There is nothing wore like asbes. cnormous degree of heat to mako thy gen and the oxygen compine Lo make and it takes a great degree of heat to fy them. I dou't believe 1t will ever bo com morciaily profitable His Telephone o the Sun. The couversation hero turncd to the telo- phoneand I asked Mr. [Zdison as to his tole phone to tho sux. ‘This folephone exper mont is the biggest thing of the Kkiud in nature. There is in the New Jersey moun- tains a vast mass of iron a milo loniz and of about the same width which runs straisht down into the earth for a numbor of miles. “The telephone,’’ said Mr. Fdison, “is vou know mado by running a wire avound tho topof & magnetic and tuis machine when charged with electricity cuables us to ropister tho sounds which come in coutact with it.” We are using this i tural bar of iron of the New Jecsey mountains as tho basis of our telephione. We have wound miles of wire about 1ts top and bave formed an_inductive circuit in whici vo the most powerful of ele Wo expect through it to heaf wide on the sun and the explosions which are sup posed to bo constantly < o thoro wi beliove, within a favr weolks bo hoa here, Weo have been working al tho matter for some time and have it just about ready for testing," A Whisper making of fuel from pay,” replied 1shios v It took u uvdro- water juna the Worid. *‘We have by no means reached the per fection of the telephone,” Mr. Bdison weut on. “Improvements are being mudo all tho timo and the day will come when cveryouo will have his teléphoue, Long distunce telo phoning is growing and the oaly resteiction of the possibilities of the telopione is iu tho sympathetic contact of tho electrical wire with the rest of nature. If a singlo wire could bo placed so high above the curth that it would noc touck: (he mountain tops, you could whisper uround the world and you could sing a song in London and have it heard in Pekin, Wherever we get the wire comparatively free from coutact with tho carth distanco seems to muko o difforence and on & government lne 1,000 wiles long over a treeless country in Avizona wo get botter telephonic couniection than we do now between New York and Philadelpnia — If wo could have a telephone from the carih to the sun—I mean & wire—wo could send sounds there with pertect case, and with the phono- graph, wero our languuge universul wo could make a speech hero and have it recovded and veproduced in any of tho groat plunetary bodies.” The Kinctograph. I here asked Mr. Edison as to the phono- graph and he told me that a large number of thom were in use, and that ho believed thoy would be eventually used everywhere. Ho took me out into his laboratory and showed me his last invention 1n councelion with tho phonograph which he calls Ly the nawe of the kinetograph and which is dlmost as won- derful as the phonograpl itseif. With tho phonograph you can take a song of Patti's from the lips of the diva and can reproduce it before an audience iu all its wtonaity und beauty 8 year laterana a thousand miles away. By the kinetograph with tho aid of a stereopticon you can throw upou i screen i picture of Patti just as she looked and acted at the time sho “vas singing the soug, and ono of the great exhibitions of the future will be the reproduction of great spcechies aud songs 1n this way. You ocan reproluce a panto- mime with the kinetograph and you can make Chauncey Depew deliver the sume after dinnerspeech & thousand times with the samo gestures and the same smile if you can onco got bim before it. It is made by instantano- ous photography of the man wlio is 1o bo re- produced. The machine takes him in action and it so works thatit takes W photo- graphs every minute that he i5 speaking, or forty-six pictures of him every se ond. Theso photographs are tuken on a long strip of gelatine niw and in reproducing them thoy are made to revolve as fast beforo the ove as whea thoy wera taken, The result 15 that the eye does not see the forty-six bhoto- graphs but it sees ouly the ono with tho mo tions or gestures of the man. 1 saw one of these machines in motion representing one of Mr. Edisou's employes taking u smoke and You can see the man raise the cigar (o his lips, turu bis head and blow out the smoke just as naturally as though bo were in life. Another set of plotographs represented a boxing-match and it was a5 natural as though the men were actually fghting before your eyes and it sometimes took # dozen photo- grarhs to make a single motion, Mr. Edison expects to show this maching in its porfection at the Columbian exposition, ‘The machine 1 saw was o nickel-in-the-slot machine and it will probably bo on tho mar- ket in & short time, The sirp on which the photographs are taken is about as wido as a tapo weasure, but the figures ure magnified through a glass i look at thei. The Future of the P I asked Mr. Edison as to the p phonograph. He replied tnut the invention had not beon managed us well as it should bo, and he spoke of Mr, Lipplucott of Phila- delphia, the mau who sometis > had the contract to manage th phono- graph and g:.\fin“,,m,.w Said he during the tal on this subject: Lippincowt is suffering from a clot of nograph. biits of the | blood on nis brain, Tho doctors say this clot is_about the weight of a gram, but however bigitis it has lost Mr. Lippincott a million dollars, A million doliars a gram. Sixty miliion dollars an ounco. That's'the most expensive matorial I have ever heard of. | don't know whother he will ever recover or ot but the phonograph will evontually puy and pay well." [ rvicity and the Newspapers. Mr. Edison takes pride in having boen u newspaver man. He likes to taik of thedays when as @ boy he edited and printed the | Grand Trunk Herald. Hotells mo ho wasa newsboy on tho train when he did it and ho believes it is the only nowspaper that has ever beon published on a uewspaper train, Hoe ran it for moro than & year aud by virtue of it e says he is now a member of the Now York Pross club, He talked with mo as to | the newspaper reports which he sent out | whilo a telegraphnr and told me that the | worst copy he ever handled was that of George M. Blvss of the Cincinnati Enquirer, He snid : “I was atelegraph operator at Cinetnnati ut the time ho was editor of the Enquirer and his copy sometimes came into the office I remember one piece which nono of us could translate and we sent it back to the Enquirer ofiice aud had them copy it forus. It \was orso writing than that of Horace Grealey and I remember that wo tacked a piece of it upon the wall of the telograph oftice and ieft a standing offer bolow it of £10 to the first man who couid decipher ten lines of it and the money was never claimea.’’ Such a thing will never happen,'’ said I, “when newspaper reporters turn in their copy on the phorograph.’ “No," replied Mr. ~ Edison, *at The phonograph and the telephor considerably used in newspaper work and we may have newspaper phouographs in the future, and newspaper pictures may be sent from one part of the country to the other by electricity.” “Will it ever be possible, Mr. Edison,” said 1, “to take the page of & newspaper as setup in New York and telegraph such a photograph of it to the other great citics of the country as could be placed at once on an ctebing plate, and one settig up in this way do for the whole country " Mr. Edison thought for n moment and then said, **Yes, that could be done, though 1 don’t know whether it would be pr and the day may also come wh ting at a typesetting machine in may by tapping the keys of a typewriter se up tho pross dispatches ny mean:, of similar machiues in_every newspaper office in tho United States. There 15 a0 doubt” but this could be dono now, and_ when we have per- feet typesetting machines our egraphers can do the setting up of thew own dispatehes.’” The Iron Ficlds of New Jerse Mr. Edison’s new processes of iron reduc- tion have brouzht a vast deal of new ore into the market. Himself and his partuers have secured miles of iron territory in the moun tains near his home, aud Mr. [dison says there are 0,000,000 worth of iron ore in sight. The first order taken by the company was for @ 100,000 tons of ore at $ per ton, aud ho tells me that they can produce some of the finest iron to be wotten in the United States right here within an hour of New York. ‘Cney not only can produce it but are producing it, and they have enough ore beforc.them to last them for many years. Ho showed me an istrument for détermining where ivon is. 1t was shaped like a compass and a needlo upon it points to figaves showing tho claracter of the magneticore pelow it. This is kuown by the dip of the necdle, ana Mr, 1idison’s ‘sur- veyors now make maps of mining countries and tell just about where the veins of irc oro are located. | suet amap of a county in Michigan aud it located with certainty the various deposits. Thero is uo_doubi but thers is a bjg fortunc in these New Jorsey iron miues. They have been worked for years, but herctofore the roelshad 1o contaiu 20 per cent of iron or it was no good. By Idison’s process 1f it contains 25 per cent it pays well. . idison's New Flectric Road. Befora L left T looked at M streot raitroad, upon which ne ‘s wor “The car and track are i the yard surround- ing the laboratory, and the invention I un- dorstand is ready for use. [U1s intended for large cities which will not permit the us the overhead wire. * It will b> much che tian tho cabl but will be mors cxpeasivo than the iroiioy system, and iv may be used ou arezular railrond ns weil as on a streot car. Its locomotive will aave 1,000 power and it will tako up the elo from a rail which runs along throuch the center of the track and between the two rails on which the cars move. It will not bo expon- sive to put dowan und Mr. Jgdison says the streots will not have to be torn up i are for the cable, He believes it wiil be tho streev railway for cities of tho near futuro and says ho is maliug the invention for Mr. Villard. will not. o now e L way The Stomach a ¢ he As wo talked in thi from one subject to auotusr my w Mr. Eaison’s wonderful vitulity increased As I saig above though he had had only hours slecp in seventy-two he showed signs of weariness and his heaith seemed to be perfect. What man of f{tv-two wio teads this paper could act and feel frosh after thirty-six hours out of bed! Fdison is 52 and ho looks as thouzh he would live 1o be 100, Said he in response to my quostion : @ fecl that Iam in my prime und 1 sup- pose I am a better man than I have ever boen. I have the knowledge and oxpericuco of the past to go upon and Idon't kuow why I should not do_good worl 1 the future.”’ “How about your stomach,” said 1. “Thomas Carlyle you kuow ho did not know ho had a stomineh until ho was 22. How about you! Do you know that you bave a _stomach “Yes,” replied Mr. Edison with a lauzh, “Lam like Carlvie in that I bave discovered the fact. 1 find that 1 bave indigestion some- | times, but I can easily cure myscll. o | this by changn of diet. 'Thostomach is a chemical laboratory and digestion is merel a cnemical operation. 1f I find that stomach is not workinz riehtly I know the right chemieal action is not woi 1n- sidoof it and I cnango my food. 171 havo been eating meat [ drop fiosh foods altogether and _confine mysclt to v and in a short time I find mysell If 've been eating wmove v st drop tho vegetables and the meat brings mo back to my normal state,” “How do you get along sleep?” 1 asked. 1 don’t bolieve,” sajd Mr. Edison man needs as much sloep as is generally sup- | posed. I think we sleep too much and oat | 100 much, Six hours or six and a half are plenty for me and 1 seldom take more. [f I sleop eight hours [ find that after breakfast I want to go to sleop again, whoveas fivo hours puls me In splendid condition aud I am ready for anything. I inhorit a very good constitution. My wrandfathor ived 10 moro than 100 years of aze and my father is Neither ‘of thom were long sleepors und think sleop aftor alt is moro a matier of habit, | than anything else, and that in the far future Af we stiould have ‘an artiivial hght which | would make the world like duy year in and year out, we would never sleop at all."! This remark concluded my interviow and after a walk with Mr. Edison through his laboratory I drove to tho station past Llow- ollyn pari, where Mr. Edison has one of tho most beautiful residences in New Jersoy. Hero simple aud unpretentious he lives com- fortably with his faiily, dovoting the most of bis time to bis life work of invention. His greatest happiness, he tells me, comes from his work and among the millionaives of today his life stands out as a lesson for the young men of the futu atory. my that s0 little that with, Frank G Mary's Annu il A tall, angular-looking woman walked up to Condudtor Joe Colling of tho Southern Kunsas xgad at the union depot sterday, says the Kansas City Even- ing Times, and attemptod to board the teain, .ot me see your ticket, ma'am,” said the conductor in his characteristically polite manner. 1 won’t do ity [ know where ’ replied the woman rathor )b, but yoy must. You canuot get on the train ufless you do it: it’s tho rule,” said Collins, Youmust let me see your ticket.” *I'don’t travel on a t pass,” exclaimed she loftily, and she attempted 1o pass, : I nust see your puss, then,' “Well, you haven't enough to tell wWhether it's pass or a ticket, I guess. Hut sho showed him the pass, Tt was | all right—an annnal pass. It wus issued to Mrs, Mary Lense, denouncer of mon- opolies, female orator, the cle of the CARPENTER. I'm go- tartly. s0nse Farmers’ Alliunce. NDAY. NOVE GRAND ARMY-DEPARTMENT. p O Goeral Palmor Rébiikos the Use of Rebel Flags in Proozssions. TABLE OF ENLISTNLENTS AND DESERTIONS. A Remarkablo, jtifls Duet--A North- ernor's Fatimpfe of tho Lafe and Character of Stonewall Jackson. Goneral Palmer, commander-in chief of the Grand Army, was asked whothor he had is- sued an order against Grand Army of tho Repubiic men parading in processions whero oufederate flags wore carried, Heo said: “After caveful consideration aud medita- tion I have decided not to 1sue any order to thateffect as yot, but I will do so immed- fately after the coming eloction, If I 1ssus the order now, parties would claim that it was a campaign issua and the order was is- sued for that purpose. There are democratio members of the Grand Army of tho Republic who ure just as much icensed over the mat- ter as republican membvors, 2ud 1 think it is a shamo that any momber of the Grand Army of the Repubiic should parade under that rebel flag which wo gave four of tho best years of our life to wipe out of existence,and which we did. What we desiro to imprint upon tho minds of the risiag generation s that the only flag is the Stars and Stripes, and that no other flag should be recozuized whatever.” Enlistments and bes The New York Sun publishes the follow- ing table, giving tho percentages of enlist- ments of foreigners in the Federal armies during the revellion, and a table giving the percentages of deserters : ENLISTMENTS, 1801-1865 Per cent ative Americans. o vevaee BR00) 7548 Irish W20 British 5500 Enghish 45500 Other fore N ( Amnericins Total : DESERTIONS, A Rifle Due When the opposing armies of the Ameri civil war lay near sach other, says Pearson's (London) Weekly, 1t was common for the pickets to exchange friendly conversation,an informal truce being meanwhile observed. After a while tho confederate would call out, “i'm going to shoot, Yank! Hunt your hole ! and tho federal would answer, **Look out, Johunie, or your hide won't hold water aminute!” and then whiz! would fly tho bullets. Oue Johnnie fired, great vapidity and pr from behind a tree that stood a littls way buck from a stream which divided the opposing forces, aud which was so beut as to alford good rest and cover, Ths Yapkes soldicrs whom he had salutea with tus leaden cards grew chary about exposing any part ot their per sons within ranye of his rifla, If an old hat was raised into view his oullet was expectod 10 go throuzh it or uucomfortably close to it. One brizht ovening thorifle music re sounded all the stream, and scarcely a trace of Yunk orJoluuis could be seen from elther shore. Colonel Brown chanced to Le passing along the line, and the men called his atten- tion to this coufederate marksman, so fright- to and so hard 1o find with their They had beet tived at, and had fired in_roturn, till tho.affawr had become WoNooNOuS, ‘The colonel listenc then taking a soldier’s prompily ou the bauk and stood motionless 15 0 statue 1 ful 1t seonied an act of ess, but the gallant Johanio understood it was intended, and sccepted itas a persozal chalinege. He, too, steppe. promptly from behind bis cover Both men auickly raised their od, the ball of Johnvie woing to Colonel Brown, who his gun to be loadel, adver sary, with all specd, loaded his. Evidentiy Wils i exp loading as in_fiving, for zain obtained the first tire, after taking 105t detiverate aim at ihe living statue. e buliet bad just passed when the Colonet took aiin, Johunie keeping his positiou, husily loa finz is piece. Neither shot produced any effeet. It was steel to steel, brave men looking st nd calm into the face of death. - tease iuterest in the drama stopped the fiving along the whole line, wuile awe silencad every lip. Johnuic, for the third time, gained the first fire, whon Colonel Brown leveled, simed and fired at his adversary, who was again load- ing, The bullet nissed across the river, aud, without any sign wbatever, the gallant sol- dier stepped baci under his cover, and the strangely dramatic duel was ended If 1y be true that a man has a higher re- gavd for another after fighting with him, Colonel Browx, no doubt, felt a touch of sor- row o learning that Johnnie's vifle was never move heard; and the station at the bent tree was thereaftor vacaut, after duy, with dto thew statements, rifle ho stepy rifle Stonewall o ekson. Rov. Heary M. Field, D.D,, writing of Stonewall sou in Harper's Magazine for November, says The midsummer of this year witnessed a scono in the mountaids of Virginia that ve calied the events of a past goneration. Bull Run, where north and south met i the first real battle of the war, for the eng ments in West Vieginia, vear the Obio, hardly roso to the dignity of battles. -But Buii Run was a confict of armies, in which both sides took theiv iirst lessons in wur,and out of which came at least one great soldier, who stood so tirmly while the battle raged around him that 0thers who were broken and dis nayed took courage as they saw his unshalen column standing “likp o stone wall,” fro which be received the name of *‘Stounewall’ Jackson. This was the hero 1o whom 4 1non- ument was now to be unveiled in Lexington, wheve o is buvied, Of those who stood beside him on that bioody day, thirty years ago, almost all had followed bini 1o tho grave; but tho suvvivors, the shattered wreeks of war, cawo from fur and near to do Bonor to him who once lod them to battls, and wept with overpowerng emotion at the vo of their beloved copmander, ‘'ho demonstration furnishes an occasion for a northerner to glye Wis opinion of this extraordinary man. Tha' years that have passed have romoved s s far from the gront tragedy of the war, and. from the passions it aroused, that we can dofustice even to thoso who were 1n arms agitiust'tis; und no one can read the history of Stajjeysll Jackson without recoguizing in bim alltho,Quaiities that go to make o popular hero. &s.a soldier, some cow- potent critics rauk himyasthe first that the was produced on eithde side. Not that be was at the head of the lag#pdt ey, or undertook the oxtensive a\'\'.u-\ operations, but that with the means that, ho had he accom- plished wore than anpobhr commander. He vad made study of Wheppmpaigus of Napo- Leon, and saw that success lay not merel7 in having “'tho strongest? batfalions,” vut in se- creoy of design and rapidity of execution. In the [atter ho outdid even Napolcon himself, training his men to such a pitch of endurance that he could *rush’’ them twenty-five miles wday ovor & broken country, across civers &nd ovec mountains, and fight a battle as tho sun was going down. Noching in the war gave more decisive proof of military genius than the campaign in the Shenandoil valiey in tue spring of 1362—the only oue which ke conduetod absolutely alono, with no interfer- eng from those above him —where be was pitted not o t one army, but four (under Banks, Fremout,Shields and Milroy),advan ing upon him different quarters, and tmancuve pallatt 1def ing each in turn, till he droy anoiber, out ol the v wi all the siip, aud cr of nis rapid tho fi wond when b weut t the ) bo The | 21st of July was the thirtieth anuniversary of h MBER 8, 1801-SIXTEEN ington, and the second Bull Run proved far more bloody than the first. All this is mat- ter of history which it is not necessary to recall, nor to follow the tireless soldier to Harper's I'erry, to Antietam, to Fredoricks- burg and Chancellorsville, where he fell at the very moment that the groat flank move- ment, which be hiad eonceived and conducted, had struck the union army with a shock from which It reeled ana could not recover, but sought safoty on the other side of tho Rappahannock, which it bad crossed only a fow days before in all the confidence of victory. 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