Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 15, 1891, Page 19

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, UNDAY GRAND ARMY DEPARTMENT, A Batoh of Thrilling Stories of tha Late U ipleasantness. THE LAST GUN AT CHICKAMAUGA. How Mosby Got tho Federal Pass- word and Made a Raid—The Most Dramatic Cavalry Charge of the Civil War. The Colonel's Dinner. A confedorate soldier of Genoral Brogg's army has much to say of the state starvation in which he and his comrades were much of tho time kept, says the Youth's Companion. “While we were at Chattanooga my father paid mo a visit. Rations wero mighty scarco. X was very glad to see him, but felt ashamed o have him know how badly off we were for something to ocat. We wore living on parched corn i I 1t upon a plan for getting him 8 good dinner. I invited him to go with me 1o the colonel’s tent Colonel Fiela,” said I, ‘T wish to intro- duce you to my fatfier, and, as rations are a little 'short in the mess just now, perhaps you will be good enough to invite him to dino with you.' “iCortainly,’ answored Colonel Field; ‘T shall be huppy to have ooth of you remain to dinner.’ “I accopted tho invitation with many thanks, and just then a youug negro came i with a frying-pan of parched corn and dumped it on wn oid cloth. “ +*Master,’ said he, ‘dinner is ready:’ and wo all sat’ d The colonel, like tho private_sol bad nothing to eat but pare rs, ed corn.” Around the Last Gun. Tt is 10 o'clock in the forenoon of the first day at Chickamauga, writes M. Quad in the Now York World. There is no intention to fight a battle this day, for neither side is ready. ‘fhe linos aro nearly formod, but brigades and regiments aro moviug to posi- tions. In doing this a fedoral brigade runs up against confederate cavalry near Reed’s bridge, and filteen minuteslater a division of infantry on either side is engagod. Our bat- tery has o splondid position—the crestof a ridge which overlooks the confederate posi- tion,and we have been working the guns half an Hour boforo a man or a horso is hit. Three different times in teat half hour guns opened on us from aeross the creek, but each time our fire 1s concontrated and becomes so terri- ble that nothing can stand before it, Jease firing ! The confederates have been pushed back antil they are out of range, while the federal infantey chieers and pursues. We cannot tell how large a portion of the army is engaged, but wo are the victors and we cheer and cheer again as the hot guns bave a little time to cool off. Of a sudden the fiving in front grows heavier. The federals have bocn checked. 1t increases in volume and wild cheoring reaches us, There are ton minutes of uncertainty, and then cowards bogin to rush past us with white faces and trembling limbs. They tell us that the confederates huvo been yeinforced and are regaining their lost ground. Now up come the Fourteenth, Fiftcenth and Eightecnth regulars, and as they pass us on the double- quick, going straight down to where the firingis hottest,wo give them three cheers and a tiger. For the next ten minutes we frot and fume because we are compelled to stand iolo. Ourown men are in front of the guns. Almost without a second’s warn- ing tho lines in front of us begin to break bacic through the smoke, and it 15 hardly o moment before we catch sight of the enemy’s flags. It is stilla struggling and confused mass of friend and foe, and we canunot fire, The regulars ought to check that advance, but they do not—cannot. They are firing fierce volluys into the faces of the foe, when they are dashed tothe rightand left—walked over- almost ground into the carth. More than 500 of them are sent across the creck as prisonors. Our hattery bas no support, and only the two guns on the right can open firo. = The confederates pick up gun aftor gun as thoy roll down upon us, and they are full of e: ultation. Hero is the last gun of the battery. ‘There is noither captain nor lieutenant to en- courage and direct, but the grim faced old sergeant calis o us: “Load with cannister! They can’t have this gun while a man of us lives!” ‘There wore a dozen of us a minute ago; now there are only eight. Eightt No! I can count but six. Six? No! There aro only three of us standing up to be jabbod at with bayonots or clubbed with muskots, 1 sud- donly fail and all is darkuess, but only threo or four minutos have passed when tho roar of battle comes back to my ears again and I stragglo up on my elbow to look around. I'io confederates are choering as they haul away tho gun —the last of our dear old battory. In front--behind —to the right and left—are tho men who fought to save it. Woundea! No! Every man dead! Men—horses —guns —a Whold battery wiped out in five winutes! Fooied by Mosby. “The man with the coolest nerve I ever met,” said Colonel A, E. Seifert, who was in & reminiscent mood, recently, says tho Now York Herald, *was Colonel Johu S. Mosby, lateC. S. A. 1 was ahigh private at tar- per's Forry whon tho place was captured by tonewall' Jackson in 1862, After watting for some time for our exchange we were or- derod down to Kairtax Court House, Va., whero wo wore on the lookout for Mosby. “One cold, cloar night in Fabruary, 1883, T was on picket duty on the Warrenton road. I had post two. I was walking my post al- most on the double quick, trying to keep warm, when I hoard a troop of cavalry com- ing down the Warronton road ata quick trot. They were stopped by the man on post one all right and then cawe down on my post. “When they came close enough to me I halted thom, +Friends with the countersign,’ auswer to my challenge. ‘One man dismount and advance with the countorsign,’ was my next command, “A well dressed ofticor dismounted and ad- yanted to the point of my bayonet and gave the countersign ‘Jamaica,’ Countersign correct,’ I shouted. on.! “Phere were about three hundred of them; @ motly crew in appearance, but they were a jolly o, singing, talking and laughing. They passcd on and in due time I was re- lieved aud soon was sound usleep. “Early the next morning tho sergeant of the wuard roused me and told me I was wanted at beadquarters, lu charge of an ordorly I went. When I got. there the man who wis on post one was ahead of me. He was ushered into the presence of General Alexandor Hayes, our commanding officor, and when ho camo out I weot in, Yo had post tWo Bt ——— domauded the general 41 had, sir." *¢Pell me about the troop of cavalry that passed your post.’ “1 told him what bad happened. swell,! ho said, grimly, ‘you played hell,’ and he dismissed me, 1 discovered pretty soon that the men I had passed were Mosby's comwand with Mosby at thelr hoad. Thoy had ridden hrough the entive camp, taken the tent of one of the general officers, mounted him on a mule and escaped with him to the confeder- ate lines, “How did he get the password! We found out that afterward. Aloue of the outposts was the rawest kind of a raw German, While he wus on picket duty a man dressed in & captain’s uniform with the rod sah of the of fivor of the day across bis broast approached bim. He ohallenged aud the officer respond- od, *4Oflcor of the day with the countersign.’ tAdvance and give Lhe countersign.' “ho officer advanced and gave & word which was not the correct one. *\That's not right,’ sald the sentinel, ‘and you can't pass.’ “After cousiderable wrangling, the officer insisting that bis word was right, he ex claimed angrily, ‘What word have you got' Tho man said, ‘The sergeant of the guard gave me the word “Jamaica,” and nobody can pass without it.’ “T'he officer wes 1o other than Mosby him- J0lf. Ho bad all bo wanted, aud waiting for was the ‘Pass last night?' night, got his men together and made that successful raid Forcool nerve it beat anyshing I ever heard of.’ In Memory of the Valiant Dend. Muskingum county, Ohlo, claims to have the finest and most appronriate soldiers’ and saitors’ monument in the United States. It is a hall, & business structure and a memcrial all in one, and it is an attractive aadition to the eity of Zanesville. Akron has a memorial chapol in her cemetery, and Toiedo has a building containing & moemorial hall and Ohio Nutional Guara armory, but the Zanes villo building is more imposing. Externally it has the appearance of a four- story structure, but the third and fourth tories are united inside in the memorial hail This will seat 2,500 people, is beautitully frescoed and furnished, and aronnd its wall hang tho tablets which commemorate the heroos of 18615, The first_ floor front is in storo rooms, back of whicli is the armory, witt & gun room in the basement, while the second flour is used for offices. The cost was about $75,000, and the rent of the stores and offices will not only pay the remaining in- debtedness, but supply & permanent funa for repair, further adornments and military pur poses, aving the Guns, Dramatic cavalry charges, so far as our civil war was concerned, writes Captain Charles King, began at the vory outset, and the firet rogiment to cross sabres with the southern horsemen on Virginia soil was probably tho last one Mr. Jofferson Davis imagined would bo prominent against him the Fifth regylars. He had selected its officers when it was organized in 1853, most of them pots of his Gwn from the sunny south, and famous troop- ers they were, With fow exceptions the southern born of their number resignod and gone with their state, but, Virginian though ho was, nothing could daunt tho loyaity of Georgo i Thomas, who had risen from major to colonel ing when Siduey Johuson and Robvert E. Loo stepped down and out. It was Thomas who remounted and pro- pared the regiment for the field ou its arrval from Texas, and half its forco wus thrown at onco into Washiogton, guarding tho white house and treasury building until near the ond of Ma when tho dash was made Long bridge. morning of Juue 1, B troop, led by sutenant Charles H. Tompkins, now as sistant quarcermaster general of the army, chargea three times through the town of Fuirfax Court Hous, killing and woundi twonty-five of their antagonists and losing ouly fivo men and thirteen horses shot. It was a brilliant_dash, the first cavalry ¢ ploit of the war, but was speedily forgott in the whirl of events that followed. A born trooper was the veteran bri who commanded the little force of horse, Philip St. George Cooke. Whon toward the enda of June McClellan d to cbange base from the the James, and General Fitz corps was still to the north of came that wonder- adior union Pamunkey to Johu Porter’s the Chickahoniiny, down ful flanker and - marcher, Stonewalil Jackson, from the Shenandoal, and, acting in conjunc. tion with A. P, Hill and Longstroet, swooped upon Porter’s less thau 30,000 with not less than 60,000 fighting men. And the desporate batiles of Mechanics- ville and Gaines’ Mill were the result, Jack: sou was not in the first named, but most e- phatically he was in tho second, und so were what were left of Hill and Longstreet’s peo- plo after their savage handling at Bea Dam Creek the previous day Like every otner battle about Richmond in the campaign of 15 inines’ Mill began o'clock. s Hill who began tne attack about 2 p.m. and got A most unmerciful pounding for two mortal hours. Then Longstreet assaulted the extreme left and the batteries doluged him with case shot and canister. Then Jackson, who seems to have counted on Hi sily ariving the union force into his welcoming line found, in the lauguage of Major Dabney, chief of 'staff, that “‘Porter didn’t drive worth a cont. The six brigades strung out in Jackson’s rour that he never thought to have to use at all were sent plunging into the fight wher- ever they found the encireling line thinned by that ferrible fire from tho crest. Slocua’s division in the uuion blue came cheering over the Chickahominy in time to 1ill the growing gaps in Porter’s sturdy ranks aud so the battle wore on until nearly 7. Then came the last grand assault along the wholo front and the one chance for the cay- alry. Obedient to his orders, little as he liked them, General Cooke had 'bela his puny bri- ade of troopers to the laft vear of the light- ing gunners along the cres! Porter had woved up by this time battery after batter: to the edge of the platoau until the loft of his line was fairly black with cannon. The triumphant yells of the southern host, risig shrill ubove the thunder, told ot thel burst through Morell's hard pressed line. The flood of wounded hobbling painfully to the rear, becamo thickened with stragglers, and soon all the left winy seemed reeling back toward the shelteriug slopes of the Chickahominy. Still those guns loomed black and threat- ening along the westward —crest. Dim, shadowy, spectral forws, leaped in and out with whirling rammer and sponge staff, and toppled earthiward every instant, borue down by the storm of lead from the smoking for- osts boyond. Fiercer ring the battle cries, louder the volleys; nearer, nearer e come those unseen hosts i gray, and now the cavalry commander can stund 1t no longer, Cardigan, with nis Light Brigade at Ba Kklava, had 670 men. Cooke has but one of his brigades, a mere handful ‘of regulars, lod by Colonel Blake, the Fifth cavalry on’ the oxtreme right, their comrades of the Sixth Pennsylvanin—*Tho Seventh Kegulars,” as wo used to call them—a few yards to their left. Only fivo companies of the Fifth are on the fleld. Trembling for the fato of thoso precious guns, now battling all unsupported to their Tight front, those 220 horsemien of the Fifth aro quivering with eageraess for the word that lets them go. A fresh brigade, Texaas, is bursting through the woods on Longstreet's oxtremno right, and, with exultant yells, forging up the slopo’ toward those riddled batteries, To cease firing for an_instant and limber up is simply to invite a rush into their midst and tne inevitable loss of every gun. Iu vain the communders look for support. Not 800 yards away now the red batle-flags are waving through the smoke; grimy faces peoring along the stained riffe barrels. *For- ward! forward !’ are the shouted orders, aud despite double rounds of canister on they come. Three minutes more of such determine assault and the union guus are gone— those priceless reserve battorios. Jow comes the supremoe moment! Some- thing must be done to check the onset and givo the gunners cover under which to haul their canr.on to the rear. Couke has galloped torward and said a fow quick words to the communder of the Kifth cavalry, which in column of squadrons 1s now facing westward on the southern slope. It is Captain Whiting who receives the ordor, ilo is a veteran soldier who has led many a wild charge against Comanche and Kiowa on the Texan frontier, protectiug the people of the very state whose men are now surging across the low valley in their frout. The eye of every mau in the little battalion ison Bimas ho reins about and casts one quick glance aloug his line. There in front of their men sit half a dozen gallant comrades of the old western d No better troop and squadron leaders e took their meu into action. And now the time has cowme, Draw sabre,” is the quiet order, followed by ‘“forward,’ theu the trumpet souuds Strot.” And’ with Whiting and Male the lead, with MeArthur, Chambliss, Arnold, Sweet and Harrlson o the squadron, out they go over the springy turf of the sloping hillside; on they trot across the low ground under the plateau. Splash goes the foromost lina through the miry bottom of the little stream, its right scraping the smokiug guns. Look well ubon thoso leadors now, for ouly one of their num l:‘!r rides back scatheless whon the charge is done. And now they are past the shoulder of the bluff; and now bofore them lies that smoke shrouded, fire-flashing valley, the yelling swarms of Texans just breaking inio the run, the red battle flags waving in the lead A’ baif whoeel to the right briogs them squarely hoaded for the foe. lop ! sounds the trumpet, and almost before the eager steeds can obey the riuging call, “Charge!” 1s the prolonged call from Whit ing’s bearded lips. Aud with one glorious burst of obeers, the deep-voiced burrab of Wi umion, with thuus dor of hoof and clash of steol, down they go upon the astonished hordos in gray. Through the first line they whirl like madmen, check - ing its triumphant advance, downing scores of officers and men. Then on they crash though many a saddle is m y & riderless horse is about the tield. And at Jost, torn and bieeding, the rom- nant reins up at the skirt of the woods, their duty done Then comes the backward ride for homo sabering their way, evory man for himself now. They have to hew a path through the swarming foe, and ton minutes later, breath- less thoy are rallied by McArthur under tho slopes from which they came in_rear of the sheltering lines of their comrades of the First—one-fourth their number gone. Whiting dragged from under his dead horse by the Fourth Toxas, Chambliss rid- dlad Jike a siove with musket bails, yet fall ing alive into the hanas of nis old friend and comrade, Hood. Brave young Swott shot dead. Arnold, Watkins and Maloy severely wounded. Fifty of their gallant fellows killed, maimed or prisoners. But they have haited Hood's Texans in full carcer when another moment would have borne their battlo flags in tho very midst of our guns. They had charged and bled and died to glorious purpose, for tho guns on the left—most of them at loast—are saved. into the empty, tearing second, thougn madly CTHE SHADOW OF SHAME. Newspaper readers who have been cater- tained by the exceedingly clevon sketches of Mr. Austyn Graaville of Chicago will be pleased to learn that the first novel from his prolif'e pen is shortly to make 1ts appearance her. Mr. Granvillo possesses a remarkablo kuuck of telling a short story well aud he has been widely copied by the leading papers of the country, but the present work is his first attempt at a more ambitious style of fiction. “The Shadow of Shame" is laid in Paris during the memorable. sioge of 1570-71, and the time immediately precoding, Heurl do Marguerites, a Frenchman of novle, but impoverished family, who comes to Awerica to recoup his fallen fortunies meets with such success that in a few years he is able to return to Paris, re- storo the ancestral mansion to more than its pristine splendor and to take his place among tho ereat financiers of the luxurious capital. lu the meantime, however, be had met in Baltimorc a Miss Julia Lacombe, daughter of a very old and avistocratic family, and though al years ner senior, fell dvspavately in love with and married ner. ‘The beauty and accomplishments of the American grl at once raised her to the topmost pinnacle ot social success, and Do Marguerites, rich, bonored, the head of a household where the most distinguished and the mo t avistocratic members of ihe Second empire were proud to meet as guests, felt ten thousand times repaid for all the viclssitudes o had passed through iu the course of a not unoventful career. To crown his happiness two children plessed tis union. Puen o began to receive anonymous let- ters retlecting toon the honor of his wife and connecting her name with that of her cousin, Maurice Lacombe. But the two cousins had been playmaies from childhood, were always on terms of the most candid tntimacy, and morcver Maurice was a_favorite with Lo Marguerites who had brought him to Paris, furnished nim with money and always welcomed him as a wruest at his bouse, He accordingly recoived 2 auonymous suggestions with contempt employed detectives for the purnose ting out the author of the cowardly attacks, but so skillfully did that _individual !'his identity that nothing was accom- piished. Not only the letters themseives but the directions on the envelopes consisted of priuted letters carcfully cut out and pasted together so s 1o spoll out the words desired. The lotters continued to arrive, and as weeks passed and revealed his unkuown cor respondent’ intimate acquaiutance with his private affairs, coupled with the - damning construction e invariably contrived to put on the apparently innocent uctions of the two cousins, the “letters began at last to have their effectupon him. Oncof them stated that young Lacomve was lending a very rapid iifeand upon investigation De Maiguentes found that he had become inti- mate with a variety actress known us Mile, Cochinette whom he had installed in some- showy and expensive splendor in p vate apartments and be reflected that if ho was 5o infatuated with Mile. Cochinotto be could suvely have no dangerous penchant for Mme. De Mavzucntes, He determined, how- ever, that there should be ao more dropping in to 11 o'clock breakfasts or 4 o'clock teas and - e promptly informed his nephew by post that until s relations with the ymph of the Varicties were sove hoped be would see the propriety of di tinuing is visits. Half tired of her already, and inwardly glod of some pretext to get rid of hor, Maurico showed the fetter to Cochin- ette. Madamoisselle broke two expensive vases, pi dod to paint and said: 000 franes and [ witl leave you seve tomorrow.’ @Mauvice groaned aloud. Then he sought Alfred ¢ gue, u cashier attho bank whero they were both emploved. Cassague had social ambitions and had sought to gain the entro which Maurice enjoyed by loaning him money, but the youny aristocrat had treated his pretensions “with cool contempt. From that Cassagne couceived for him an able hatred and determucd to revenge himsell for the slight. o when Maurice told him how Dbadly he needed 5,000 francs Cassagne suggested that ho apply for it 1o his cousiu, Mme. Do Marguerites, and to the objection that o dare no longer to call upon her, ho re plied that a letter asking for an_appointment wouid answer the purpose, and even offared 10 furnish a place of meeting—at the house of a married sister, he sald—io the Ruo Muuvais, Now the Rue Mauvais was a locality of a decidedly sbady reputation, but bad as he was Maurice had not heen long enough in Paris to become familiar with ail its wicked byways, and overwhelmed with joy he sized the hand of the little Frenchman and shoolk it warmly. ‘Ihat evening another of the printed letters ched Do Marguerites, It read: Cour wifo will meet her cousin tomorrow night in the Rue Mauvais, No. 91, Jutercept bis letter and read it if you do uot believe me 1t is impossible,” ejaculated the ex-mer- chant, for he knew tho IRue Mauvels, but he was up befora the followlag morning, and as s00n as he heard the lid of the letter box rattic he was out in the vestibule and had possessed himself of all the letters addressed 1o his wife, four in number, Among them was one from Maurice, and opening it he found that s auonymous coreespondent had told the truth. The first flush of passion over, ne sai’: Why shall I condemn her unheard be- cause Lacombe writes her for a clundestine meeting " But to Maurice he wrote: “I have stopped your letter to Julia, 1f you write to bor again or attempt ‘to see her, 1 will shoot you like a dog." This missive the alert ana crafty Cassagno over pormitted 10 reach the man for whom it was intended. *“Phere is no doubt about roceived my letter,” I am certain she aid not,” asserted the cashier, und he urged upon Maurice the necessity of making a personal appeal, *To- night,” said he, *Mons de Marguarito goes to Versailies. I have ascertained that tho wain leaves at 6:50. You must go to tho house between 6:30 and 7. If the servauts refuse you admittance, here is gold; use it liberaily,” Thon as he left he held out his hand und Maarice shook it warmly, It was 6:25 when De Marguarites, dismiss. ing his carriage, entored the railway statien The train was already going at a good rate of speed when a commissionaire runuing breath- lessly along side thrust & note through the window of his compartment. De Marguerites tore it open, bis fuce black as vight. I must alight at once,” he exclaimed, Maurice was in the midst of hiy confession [ cousin when the door opeved and a servant announced that Mgr. de Marguerites bad returned How very singular,” sald Julia calmly, “He must havo missed his traln.” But the servant who had long beou awaro of De Marguerites' jealousy, hastily thrust the young man into an alcove. The next movement, throwing open the door, his face distorted, bis eyes bloodshot and staring De Margueritos precipitated nimself into bis wife's chamber. With the swiftress of thought she anticipated his movement and turew berself in his path. “Tnis is my chamber! shall not pass.” A shadow on the curtaln was wavering and flickering In the uncertalu light of the street lswp, She saw it loom up black sod it; Julla aid Maurice. nevor While I live you | distinot for an instance and then disappear. Do Margueritos saw it also. With a curse he awept his wifo aside and, revolver in hand, dnshed into the aicove. 'As ho did so & man atole from the shadow of the house, and pass- fng through the side gate went out upon the street, The fugitive gave one glanco upward ere he broke into a quick run, In that stant Do Margueritos saw und knew him, The following morning he hastily dressed himself, and descending by an unfrequented stairway passed out through a side door to the street. Later in tho day he was walking down the Boule- vardes des Italiens with his friend the Baron Archambault, As they drew back to permit a carriage to pass De Marguerites and his friend looked up. Leaning back on the cashions, side by side with one whoso name was notorious aMong tho demi-mon- sames of Paris, sat & woman, the upper nalt of whose face was obscured by a slight shield, half mask, half veil. As Do Mar- guerites clung to'the arm of his friend a look of intensest horror froze upon his face, » At theend of the week papers containing the terms of scparation between Madame and monfour Do Marguerités were duly signed and the divorced wifo loft the mansion where he had ruled as mistress. “Lam forsuken of God and man,” she ied. “Henri Do Marguoritos may dony me jutstice, but let him beware of my vengear.c it shall be torrible.” At the end of twelve fonths there had been established in the halt world of Paris a ro- sort whoso magnificence. far surpassed any- thing ever before known, even in that luxur fous city, The extraondinary beauty of its mistress maae her the theme of peets. great artist had stooped toimmortalize her on his canvas, The prefect of police, vielding to her charms, systematically ignored the re ports of his subordinates thatdangerously high play of quite a public character were to be seen nightly at the Villa Rigi, Humiliated bevond exvression De Margue rites o longer dared to show himself upon the boulevards. One unight Bavon Archam- bault went to the Villa Rigi and plead with the masked woman, “Will you not leave Paris for your chil- dren’s sake, e urged, but she was relentless. Then he offered hor 500,000 francs. 1Tho masked woman laughed, Sl the Tuilleries with go!d and it not buy me, I live for my revenge.” Then came the t ble strugele buetween Prance and Germany. There were accom, panying the German forco and prosent in the beléguering army not a few noble mea and women who, themselves non-bolligerents sought the ficld of hattle for the sole purpose of tending the dving and succoring the wounded, The distinctive mark of the Geneva convention, tho red cross on a whit- ground, procured for theiy immunity wnere ever their errands of mercy might take them Among these women was one clothed in the orderof St. Hubert. Her groat persoual beauty, her look of settled melancholy and her extraordinary devotion attracted the at- tention of Dr, Hegeman, an American physi- tinu wno was present at the seige of Stras- bourg. A warm friendship sprang up be- tween ttem, She told him that she had once beon married to the ereat financier, Henri de Marguerites, and lived in luxury in Paris, fer husband was devoted aud her nome 1deal until his mind hal been poisoned azainst he by an anomymous letter writer and he had cast her off. Hegeman was deeply moved by ber story and with a view of ferreting out the mystery, and, if possible; bringing about a reconciliation went to Paris. There he founa De Marguer ites and told him of the woman whom he met at Strasbourg and who claimed to have been his wife. Do Marguerites listened coldly to the coctor’s recital and then said: “You have been imposed upon, The woman who was my wifo i3 now mistress of the Villa Rigi.”” Heeeman, still firm in his faith in the womaa whom ho had seen movitg like a ministering angel among the wounded sol- + at Strasbourg, one day visited the Villa Rigi. He was about to enter vrhen he heard the voices of a man and woman raised in ry altercation. Withdrawing into the shelter of a flowering shrub in the conserva- ne suw that the upper portion of the woman's features was hidden beneath a small, silk mask, through whict nothing but her dark, flashing oves was discoraable. The mau was De Margueritos. ‘Phere was a short but unequal struggle, in which the masi was torn from her face. De - Marguerites released bLer and gered slowly back. Miles away n the Prussian batterics, a dense cloud of smoko tollowed by a_thunder- ous voar proclaimed to all Paris the discharge of anotuer gigantic siexe gun, There was a deafening explosion, the heavy floor of the villa heaved and trembled like a ship strickea with a gigantic sea aud the solid masonry rocke:! and tottered to its very foundatious. The form of the masked woman lay among the shattered furnishings of tho once magnificent house, manzled beyond recogni- tion. Do Marguerites was still breatbing, Ho was removed to his home where shortly before midnight, after everyoue but the doc- tor had retired from the room, he made a con- fossion. The masked woman, whom until the day of the fatal interview, he, in common vith overyone else, had supposed to be nis wife, was, in reality, his wife's sister, who had been kidnaped At an early age, and afte the most untiving efforts on toe part of Judge v given up for dead. She New Orleans under the nas va Surinne. 1t was after ho bhad met and loved Julin Lacombe that he dis covered her identity. Then he deserted her aud went to Paris where ho again met Julia while skie was visiting there with her mother, proposed and was accepted. Iu the meantime the girl whom wronged followea him to Pavis. With the aid of Cassizuo she bogaun tho auonymous correspondence which resulted in the divorce, and then, taking advantage of tho sudden disappearanco of Madamo Do Margueritos and bev striking resemblance to her, she com- pleted her terriblo revenge by opening tho Villa Rigi and deceivitg bimself and the pub- lic alike 1nto the belief that she was tho woman who had formerly, as mistress of his house, led the social world 'of Paris., Shortly before daylizht he expired, and by his bedside sat the woman who had been his wife, “Forgive me,” were his last words, aud sho stooved and kissed him, At the end of three years France, rising Phanix-like from the great disaster which had overtaken her under a monarchial form of zovernment, soared aloft to rencwed pros- perity and greatness in the pureratmosphere of the young republic. The blood-stained soil of many a battie field Jay bidden beneath ner enormous harvests, joyously reaped by a contented and happy peasantry, and Paris aguin became the Paris of ' yore, the a of tho pleasure seeker, the wonder of the world, but the Baron Arvchambault is lonely. Now York is a fine city and ne has never soen it. He intends to 2o thero during tho coming winter and will be the guest of two old friends, who are now Dr. and Mrs, Hege- man would stag- he had Mr. Grauville's story 1s an ingenious one, grapbically told, and if it bo truo that a ro: fined ana devoted wife could under any cir- cumstances give utterauce to the throat which enabled Laura Surinne to carry out her extraordinary revenge, the story is in the main consistent. Phere are many evidences of undue hasto iu its preparation, but we wust not expect too much of a Pegasus 1 the harness of daily journalism pesl ALl D, Birney cures catarrh, ough Here for All Philadelphin Record: According to the latest statistical information the ,..Yumuuu of the earth is distributed us ollow: Bee bdlg. Square niiles, 50,800 01 Popu- I s, m Asly Africa Awerica Australin Ovennie islands Polar reglons Ro1, 402 A §1,130 173081 Total......... 6242168 Holding, ns we do in the United States, that men born into the world have u vight to choose where they will reside in it, 0 long as they behave them- selves well, it is difficult > on what tenable ground wo ¢an oppose emigra- tion from more populdud countries, Nor is it any wonder that”in the struggle to live the people in the' crowded spaces should seek to tind hoglgs for themselves on soil less cumberedt with dependent humanity. L 12171 824,000 7,420,005 0, 400 1,470,729.000 10 8¢ otk Dr. Birney eures estiserh. st sl Hassan Beo Ali of Morocco is seoking a concession to make a Marocco uxhibit at the exposition. He says be will spend 0,000 in the people, manuers,customs, amuse- ments, ete., of bis country, sud la bringlug t Chicago a tribe of Berbers, Beo bldg. NOVEMBER 15, briof in- 1801 -"TWENTY PAGES. 0LD DAYS AT WEST POINT. Reminiscences of Oaptain Oharles King, the Author of Popular Army Stories. WHEN EVERY CADET BEGAN AS A PLEBE. An Interesting Description of the Means Used to Puat thy City Ex- isite and Country Bumps kin on a Lovel. (Copyriaht 1891.) Weo had been drilling three times and reciting twice o duy from the moment of the arrival at West Point until hauled ug for “preliminary examination” aftor the 20th of June. Physically this was rigid and searching; mentally it was a mere bagatelle, Wo had all beon measured for our uniforms (good old Morrison, rest his soul! telling mo that I wasn't half the man my father was before me, for ho mude his cadet and engincering uniforms away back 1 '33--n comparison which proved eminently well founded.) We had thanked heaven most devoutedly when our porsecutors, the yearliugs and the now first class were marchod off to camp. The graduating class was rushed to the front and the “furlough class” having com- pleted just one-half of the proscribed four years' course, was permitted to scaiter homeward fora two months' visit. How quict and peaceful aund altogethor deligktlul the deserted bar scomed to us, with our tormentors away. One blessed weelk we were free from unauthorized bully- ing by day, though time and again those dar ing scamps of yearlings stolo out of camp in the dead of night, and stealthily invading tho barracks while our guaraians(!) were sounaly sleeping, whipped our blankets from under us, leaving nothing but the baro boards of the tlooring for our couch, and disappeared as noiselessly and quickly as they camo, car- ryilog with them our shoes, boots and bed- ding. Deaf as were the cadet corporals on duty to the scurry of their classmates, there was no reflction on their vigilance whenewe were the breakers of rogulations. Venturiug to strike u match and light our single as jet that my Maine und Maryland roommates might join me in a search for shoes, in camo ab the instaut a stern-faced cadet corporal. (How we have laughed ovor it since; be the now distingvished major of engineers and I the banged up dragoon.) ‘“‘How dare you have: a light in quarters aftor taps! Consider vourself iu close arrest, sir. What do kentlemen mean by being out of bed at this hour of the night* “Cause we'ra out of beddiug, sir,” replics Mr. Greeno, of Maine, with tho broad grin that 1o cadet tormentors ever succeeded in bapishing from his wood humored face. Cadet Corporal Miller knows this just as well as wo do, but will tolerate no witicisms. No lovity, Mr. Green, You ought to bo asbumed of yoursel, sir. Men who can not guard their own vroperty are not fit to be o of government stores, Stop that laughing, Mr. Greene. As for you, Mr. King, shoulder that broom and walk t here in tne hall for the next two hours Tor lighting your gas without permission.” Meantime, of course, most of the plebes had been *turned out” ‘and after an hout's ch in the gymnasium, the bacrack cellars, on the wide level of the' plain: indeed. far over toward camp (where two of our num- ber were now fiercely surrounded and ar- rested vy the now vigilant guards and marched off to prison on suspicion of being spies), the scattered blankets, sheets, etc., were recovered aud we were permitted to turn in again and get such rest as was_pos- sible 'wixt 4 o'clock and the reveille at 5. And then, examinations over, one fine day, about the 25th of June, We poo.' youug boears, with a world of trouble ahead of us, were marchod across the cavalry plamn to the glistening white tents of camp; were ro- ceived with tumultuous acclamation by the whole yearling class—the seniors patroniz- ingly lookiug on—were distributed to tho companies to which we had beeu assigned; were shown in which tents to unload our “Splunder,” and then loft to the tender mercies of the third class, Iu the summer of 61 the new class entered, over 100 strong, and the yearlings, reduced by rosignations, ete., to barely thirty-ive, managed to keep tho plebes busily occupied. Lf under these conditions life was made a burden to tho new comers, think of our plight in '62, when the yearhug class was bigger than our own. Think what it must have been in company A of the corps of cadets in that memorablo summer of ‘63 when I tell you that only eight plebes were assigned thereto, and promptly notitied thut they must ta of the bolongings of some forty uppor ciass men. What did that meaut “Well, perhaps the ramarks of Cadet L— of the third class, U. 8. M. A, June, 1562, will expiain. “Hero you plobo—Mr. King. You are as- signed to special duty at my tent. You will report thero every morning at polico call with a bucket of fresh water; tie up the tent walls; moko up the bedding; sweep and dust. Tf there's anything wrong at inspec tion, sir, you will Do ‘vanked’ thirty times that might. You will keep the rifles of Messrs, B—and B—and myself in perfect oraer: you will sco to 1t _that our cartridee boxes and bayonev scabbards are always properly varnished; that clean, white belts are in every other day, and always for guard and inspection; that the pompon sockets, engles, castles and buckles of the dress hat, the belt plates, ana all other brasses of our accoutrements are freshly polished overy ulternoon ; that all the shoes are cleaned and blackened every day (carry them to and from the shoeblack’s tent, sir, and keep them properly dusted, but never black them yourself, sir, that's menial labor). You ill report hero ever; day the moment we get back from diunor aud entertain us with cheerful and improving conversation while we smoke our pipes and prepare for the alternoon sigsta; vou will sco to1tthat we are nov disturbod by intruders—or flies—will awiken us in time for drill, and mako up the tont again ot afternoon police call; st down and fasten the tent walls befors parade, and make down the bedding after tattoo. ‘These are your general instructions, Special orders will be 1ssued from time to time. Of course you will bo called upon to do similar work for othior gentlemen in A company, as tho commandant has been so thoughtless as to assign ouly eight plebes to us, while thirty have been uuloaded on com pany B where they are not needed, there veing only ten geutlemen prosent witn tho company, but understaad distinetly your fiest. duty is to us, even atthe expense of getting reported for the condition of your own tent; vour demerits dou't count “vet, ours do, Now, sir, you are duly placed on duty." But that was only one tent, It presontly transpired that 1 would be expected to look after the domain of our next door neighbor on the left, a dashing yearling whom I had known when be was ui Charlier's and I at Authon’s and both at Wood's gymunasium and the same dancing school in New York. Three of us aspirants for militury glory wero quartered in the sccond tent on tho south side of tho company street. One of my tent mates, tho Yale man, was ‘‘detailed on special 'duty® ovor tho tent of a hrace of happy third cliss meu at our right hand, with incidental duties to perform at the tent of two cadet officors and the cadot first sorgeant. The next, a dark-eyed boy from Oswego, had two tents assigned to bim, and as for our own ‘‘plebe | VAN acks HouTen's Gocoa.; hotel'* wo took weok and week about. Pro- sently one of our eight was taken ill and to the hospital, and bis duties wero “distrib- uted” to mo. It the Jovil finds mischief for idle hands to do the devil had no show what- ever 80 far as [.was concerned and the sum- mer of '03 lasted. From the rising of tne sun until several hours aftor the going down of tho same no A company plebe had an in stant of leisure, It was a point of honor with the old cadets to keep tho new ones at work. Each day, morning and ovening, the “police detall,’” ' consisting of four mem- bers of the third and fourth olasses, put the compony ground fn thorough order, the third classman simply requiring his spe clal duty plebo to appear in his stead. A first class private, in those days, when dotailed for guard duty would merely in- quiro what plobe in his company was sufticiontly well instructed to represent him, and gave no further thought tothe matter. Nearly one-half of tho class was in uniform befors the Fourth of July came round, and 1 had worn cadet uniform, perforce, beforo going to examination, Indoed, T went to the hospital for physical examination in cadot geay (befaro the surgeons we all apponred in uniform—natural bluff), but it was that or nothing. A gallant fellow eraduating pre maturely two_days previous concluded thut he liked my Now York college suit (tho last made for me by Jim Bell of blassed memory) bettor than his own, and his natty gray coatteo and trousers fitted o to a dot. ‘The swap was mado by the advice of our cudet lioutenant commanding tho plebes —it hardly needed my consent. “Bosom shirts' too, were things 1o cadet’ could use, so they went to another good fellow. whom wo next heard of as fighting liko a gladiator in Hancock's foremost line at Gottysburg, [ wondered if the bullet that ripped away sashand belt and wlong futrow 1n his cont had similarly chan- neled one of those lamented shirts of mine. Al this labor, all this rough iuitiation, all this apparent “harrassing or molesting" of the plobes weat on openly and above board, and nobody in authority seemed to care a whit. Iudeed, we thought, the old cadets thought, and I believed to this day it w gonerally thought by ofticers old and young, that it was all “winked at” because of its utterly hiveling effect: 1t brought the col- lege-bred youth und the country bumpkin down to the same plane. It sternly forbade their seeking comrades or associates among the upper classmen and made the plete rely solely on one another for friendship or sympathy. It laid each year the foundations of that deep, abiding and simost enthusias- tic class feeling which at West Point, more thon any college 1 ever heard of, bloowed and flourished, year aftor year, stronger and stronger. 1t may have beon all wrong in principle, but it was great in rosult, and then what ex- perts wo became in cleazing guns and buck- les aud belt plates! Yet that, too, is a thing of the past. CHARLES KING, Captain U, S. A. - Dr. Birney cures catarrh. Boe bldg. THE CROWN OF THE rter in The Dulepend:nt In sapphire, emerald, amethyst, Sparkles the sea by the morning kissed; ‘And the mists from tho far-off valleys lio Gleaming like pearl in the tender sky: Soft shaves of cloud that melt and drift, WIth tints of opal that glow and shift. For the strong wind blows from the warm southwest And rufiles tho snow breast— Iilts all tho sails tll tho boats careen ; Low over the crested waves they lean, Driven to leoward, dashed with spray. Or beatiug up through the beautiful bay. on the white gull's Ab, happy morning of antumn swoet, Yot ripe and rich with_tho summer’s heat! By the ruined wall on the cocky hight, In shadow I gaze at the changing light, Splendor of color that clothes theo round, Huge orb of the earth to its utmost bound. Near me each humble flower and weed— The dock’s rich umoer, gono to secd, The hawkbiv's gold, the bayverry’s § Oue late wind rose beyond ali price; Bach is a friend and all are dear, Pathetic signs of the waning yoar, The painted rose haws, how they glow ! Like crimson wihe the' woodbines show, The wholesome varrow'’s clusters fine Liko frosted silver dimly snine; And who thy quaintest charm shall tell, Thou little scarlet pimpernel ! The jeweled sea and the deeps of the air, All hieaven and carth are good and fair. Ferns at my feet and the mullein’s spiko, And the souring gull I love alike ; With the schootier’s graso us she loans to tho tide “TLe soul within me is satisfied. In the mellow, goldon autumn days When the worid is zoued in thelr purplo haze, A spirit of beauty walks abroad “That fills the heart with the peace of God ; Tho spring and summer may bless and encer, But autumu brings us the crown o’ tho ye SRR e Pirst Bad Boy—Hi there, Jimmy snipe from that drug storef ccond ditto—Ther nicest thing yer e sae—como on and have sum. Second bad boy pulls out bottle of Haller's Sure Cure Cough Syrup. Rirst ditto—Oh, my ! ain’t that bully! ccond ditto—Betcber life, ma suys it's best thing she evor saw for coughs and colds. bl TALL GIRLS ARE GOOD FORM. Woty or or Slimness and Aspiring Hoight Quite the Thinz at Present. It is the fashion for girls to be tall. This is much more than saying that tall girls are the fashion, says a writer in Harper's. It means not only that the tall girl has come in. but thut g are tall and are becoming tall because 1t is the fashion, and because there 1sa de- mand for that sort of girl. Thereis no hint of stoutness. willowy pattern is but neither is leannes gested; the women of the period have wot hold of the poet’s idea, “‘tall and most divinely fair,” and ave living up to it, Perhaps this change in fashion is more noticeable in Engiand and on the continent than in America, but that may be because there is less room for change in America, our girls being always of an aspiring turn, Very marked the phe- nomenon is in Europe this year; on the streetf, at any concert or reception, the number of tall girls is so large as to occasion remark, especially among the young givis just coming into the conspicuousness of womunhood. The tendoncy of the new generation is to- rd unusual height and gracious slim- ness, The situation would be embar- rassing to thousands of men who have been oo busy to think about g rowing un- ward, were it not for tho fact that the tall girl, who must be losked up to,is al- most invariably benignant, and bears her height with a sweet timidity that disasms foar. Besides, the tall girl has now come on in such force that confi- dence is infused into the growing army, and there is u sense of support in this survival of the tallest thatis very couraging to the young. ol 1y wiil expend $20,000 in an i are British Guian exhibit, PLEASE READ THIS. OO Cents a pound for VAN HOUTEN'S COCOA (“Best & Goes Farthest") seems to be high. Let us compare it with the price of Coffee: 11b. of good coffee costs at least 3 8 o u 1 “ V., H, Cocoa ** makes clore 90c,, ** 90c,, 31 hall-pint cups 08 s o u B0 ¢ u o th also DG~ Which is the Cheaper Drink ? “SRl RETAIL PRICE. 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