Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 23, 1894, Page 13

BONDACE OF COREAN WOME Noble Ladics and Degraded Slave Gi the Hermit Kingdom. KOT PERMITTED TO LOOK UPON MAN of s Dress—Origin: Divided nt, Powder and Jowelry—~Mar- How They Aro Punishe (Copyrighted, 189, by Frank G. Carpenter.) The present war in Corea is bound to bet- ter the condition of her women. It could not be worse than it is. The 5,000,000 women of the country are practically slaves. They are bound to their husbands with fetters of iron, which only the men can loosen. They dare not go upon the streets. Thelr quarters are kept for them in the backs of the houses, and the best of the Corean wives would com- mit sulclde If a stranger of the other sex rudely put his hands upon her. Many of these women are actually slaves, They have been bought and they can be whipped If they do not obey. Little is known about the condition of Corean womanhood. The lines are so strict as to their being scen upon the street, or as to thelr coming into contact with any but their own sex, that such travel letters and books as have been written concerning Corea contain but little about them. Only the women of the lcwer classes go out of the house, except In closed chairs, and those whom you see with their faces uncovered aro generally slaves. Now and then a com- mon woman goes about the streets of Seoul Wwith a green cloak over her head. She holds this close to her face, leaving a crack out of which one eye peeps, and it she meets A man en a country rcad she runs, There ars, indeed, three d fferent classes of women in Corea, the upper, the middle and the lower class. The upper class are usually the daughters of nobles. They marry nobles, and if tnelr husbands can afford it, which is not often, they have slaves to do all the work for them, and they lead lives of comparative idleness. The dress of all classos is prac- tleally the same, but that of the upper class s made of much more expensive material. It is a very unbecoming dress. ‘The Corean women are not, as a rule, beau- tiful, and this dress does not add to thelr looks. My interpreter, “Gen=ral” Vak, who has a wife, a coneubine or so, and two or three female slaves, has given me the de- talls. The Corean lady starts in with a divided skirt. This consists of a pair of very full drawers, which fall in folds about her feet, and which if stretched upward would have room to spare when being gathered about the neck. The top of these drawers has a band fully eight inches wide, and this Is fastened tightly over the breast by & white ribbon drawstring, which is tied in front. This garment is always white, and it Is fastened so tiglt that the band cuts into the flesh at the back, and among the lower class often runs below the breast, leaving it exposed. Above this band, and Just meeting it, there Is a little jacket with Iong sloeves. This jacket is not more than six inches long, I judge. It is sometimes of yellow, green or blue, and at other times of ‘white. It is tied together with ribbons of the same color ns the packet, and It is so scanty that a great sunburned streak, an inch wide, shines out below the shoulder blades of such women get into the sun. The drawers are not tied at the ankle. They narrow down as they fall to the feet, and below them the woman wears stockings of wadded white cotton. These make her feet look ut five sizes larger than they are, and the winter stocking s half an inch thick. It Is more like a boot than a shoe, and it extends only about two inches above the ankle. The Corean lady wears no shoes while at home. She trots about in her stocking feet, and the poorer classe go bare- footed, When she goes out, she puts on slippers of rabbit skin faced with silk. Some of these are very pretty, but they look uncomfortable, and are quite heavy. They have soles of oxhide, which are nailed on to the slipper with fron pegs, the heads of ‘which are as large around as that of a ten- penny nail, and they are clumsy in the ex- treme. 1In addition to these divided skirts, or drawers, she has overpants of white, ‘Which are very full, and reach from the armpits to the knees, and over the whole 3he wears a cloak-like gown, which falls to Der feet, and which is tied on with ribbon. This practically makes up the costume of a Cor lady. It usually consists of good ‘material, and often of silk. The younger women are fond of red. The middle-aged affect blue, and the widows always wear white, which is the color of mourning. ALL COREAN WOMEN PAINT. 1 like the way the Corean women comb their hair. They part it in the middle, and PUt 1t up In a coll on the nape of the neck. They wear the biggest hairpins of their sex the world over. The average one s as thick as your little finger, and Is about five inches long. It is of gold, silver, or amber, and it Is a poor woman, indeed, who does not own one or two of these pins. She 18 fond of jewelry, and she likes finger rings, though she has her own way of wear- ing them. The ocustom is to have two rings on the third finger of the right haud. With such rings, and a hair- pin or s0, and the above dross, she considers herselt decked out, pro- vided her face and eyebrows are properly touched up. All Corean women paint. They cover the face with white and dash their lips with red. They use India ink to mark the line of the eyebrows, and they are very particular that this line should be very deli- cate, and arched in conformity with the line of Aslatic beauty. This is supposed to be a curve like that of a line of swans flying in the sky, and with a pair of tweezers she pulls out the hairs of her eyebrows until they approach her ideal. She is also by no means averse to hair oil, and her locks usually shine like greased ebony. The daily lite of one of the Corean ladies 1s interesting. She rises with the sun and &pends an hour at her toilet. She is waited upon by her own slaves, and her rooms, in the winter time, have fires built under them, 80 that her bare feet fall upon a warm floor. In nine cases out of ten se sleeps on this floor, and while she is making her toilet she Squats upon it' before a little looking glass. Her breakfast is brought into the room to her. It Is served on a Corean table about big around and as high as a half-bushel sure. She sits on her heels while she eats it, and her table furniture consists of m #poon and a palr of chop sticks. The food is served In brass bowls. She has no table cloth, and she uses no napkins. She is very particular to wash after her meals, and, contrary to the general belief, the bet class of the Coreans are cleanly. In wash- ing the teeth a great deal of salt is used. The mouth is filled with salt, and with the finger or brush the teeth are rubbed until they are perfectly pure and clean. She ‘washes her neck and face every morning, and in summer she takes a bath every after- noon or evening. Her bath tub is a big jar, made of burnt clay, and In the summer her bath s cold. A Corean lady seldom takes a nap in the day time. These Corean nobles do nothing. They are the greatest profes- slonal loafers on the globe, but they think it would be a lazy man who would take a nap when the sun is up. HOW THEY LIVE. The winter clothes of a Corean lady are often made of fur and of quilted silk. A fur gown may cost as high as $100, and & quilted silk gown is sometimes worth $26. It wears cotton, she can be dressed for 35, and a lady can get a good svmmer outfit for $20. The clothes are made so that they have to be ripped apart before they are washed, and this s so with many of the men 0 of the men. Corean washing is, in about the biggest industry that is car- wied on In the country, and I shall speak further of it in another place. The Corean lady seldom does any washing herself, This is given over to the slaves. If she is blue- blooded, poor and proud, she may do somo ironing behind the doors of her apartments, but she cannot be a lady and go out to wash. ‘The business of a Corean woman of high rank is to keep the accounts, to boss the id to now and then pay & soclal friends. Some of the women are educated. That is, t ure taught to read and write Corean. As a rule, however, are very lgnorant. Is & great difference In conditions &8 regards the classes of women. A middle- woman, when she meets the wife of a has to address her In reverential tones, and the lower classes bow down to ths middie classes. The middie-class women never go out of thelr house except in chairs, and among them may be classed the wives of scholars or inturpreters and those of doc- tors and of the traders which go to Peking. It 18 the lower classes that you see upon the street with these green shawls upon thelr heads. They do all kinds of work In the house, and, If they are rich, they live per- haps as well a3 the wives of the nobles. The nobles seldom marry them, though they sometimes take them as concubines. Most of the rich men have concubines, and some sport harems which might be compared with those of Turkey. The extra wives are not kept in the woman's quarters, but they have an_establishment of their own in another part of the grounds. The only duty of the concubine Is to keep clean and good looking and to please her master. Her daughters usually marry the sons of concubines, and her sons get a portion of the father's prop- erty, though they have not as many rights as his legitimate children. The women in Corea are not much respected In the laws of the country as regards Inheritance. The sons get all the property, and the daughters inherit nothing. Daughters are by no means 80 welcome as eons, and A woman who bears many girls fs considired @ disgrace to the clan, Corean girls see most of their fun in thefr childhood. They trot around with the boys and play as they will until they are 7 years old. They wear clothes like their mothers, or, it they are poor, practically no clothes at all, and they can do about as they please, After the age of 7 they are not allowed to play outside of the walls which surround the house. They are mever seen on the streets, and as they grow older thelr lives become more and more a secluded one. At 8 or 9 they are taught the Corean characters and how to sew, to embrolder and to keep house. They are often engaged at 10, and are mar- ried at 13 and 14. It is a curious thing that they practically lose their names after they are 11. The custom is just the reverse of ours. We often call a girl “baby” when she is little. The Coreans call their girls by prefixed names until they get to be 11, after which they are called “aga,” or “baby.” In fact, all the girls of Corea over 11 are nick- named “baby,” and this name sticks to them until they are married. Thus, an old maid of 60 will still be knocked about with the title of ‘“baby.”” After a woman is mar- ried she takes her husband's name and loses her own, She is known as her husband's wife, and she Is universally addressed and spoken of as such, except by her own fath. and family, who may still call her ‘‘baby After she has children she is known as the mother of the boys. For instance, Mary Jones, upon marrying John Smith, would be called" John Smith’s wife,”” and it she hap- pened to have a boy named Jim, every one in the village or town would speak of her as little Jimmie Smith’s mother. THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY. A woman never sees her husband before she marries him, nor has she any part in making thé engagement. The matter .is carried on, as In China, through mateh- makers, and it is customary for the groom to furnish the money for the bride’s ward- robe. The swan is the emblem of martial fidelity, and after the engagement has been made, the bridegroom goes in state to the house of the father of the bride, carrying a white swan in his arms. There is usually a tent with a spread table in it walting for him, and about this stand the matchmakers and the bride's father. As he comes in he places this swan on the table and bows to it four times and a half. He then goes to the other side of the yard, where the bride sits in a hall. She rises as he comes up, and she usually has a slave on each side of her, holding her hand, so that the long sleeves, as the hands meet in front of her face, completely hide the face from the groom. Then the two go through numerous bows, the woman still keeping her face hid- den, and the bridegroom finally going down on his knees and bumping his head against the floor in front of the bride. After this is over, the bride and groom are offered cake and wine, They drink out of the same glass, and it is this drinking that constitutes the ceremony of marriage. There is also a ma riage certificate about as big as a small tablecloth, which is sent to the bride's father in a ceremonial box. This paper contains The first is taken up with the date. econd expresses his wish for the bride's father’s health. The third and fourth read somewhat as follows: “My son and heir is old, but as yet unmarrried, and you have agreed that your daughter should marry him. I am much obliged to you for the compliment, and I herewith express it in this letter.” This letter Is signed by the Dridegroom’s father, and the lines which fol- low give the name of the grand ancestor and the district from which the bridegroom comes. It closes with the words: *I salute you twice.”” This paper is folded up and put into a long envelope, which is sealed with a piece of ribbon. On its outside is the bride's father's address, with all the honorific titles that can be added to it. After the ceremony of marriage at the bride’s house is over the bridegroom changes his wedding clothes and sits down with the men of the family to a feast. The bride, meanwhile, goes back to her apartments and the groom later on goes home. Following this thie bride Eoes tc the groom’s house and she Is treated to a dinner by the ladies of the family. The first night that the coupls begin their life together it is the groom’'s duty to undress the bride, and it is etiquette that she resist in every way possible. After marriage the bride goes to the house of her husband’s father to live. She no longer has any place in her own home, and she is bossed by her mother-in-law. She is carried to her new home In a closed chair, and she changes from the prison of her girlhood to the prison of her married life. Hereafter she is practically the slave of her husband, who can treat her as he will and who can divorce her with little trouble. Divorces among the higher classes are not common, and the women are, among these classes, fairly well treated, as far as the use of the whip is concerned. It i only the slaves and the wives of the lower classes who are much punished, but if a woman is unfaith- ful, no matter what her cla: she can be taken by her husband to the magistrate and be punished with a paddle. WOMAN SLAVERY. This punishment with the paddle or the whip is, T am told, sometimes meted out to woman servants or slaves by their masters. It is against the law to punish women as men; that fs, in a nude condition. They are required, however, to take oft thelr clothes and put on a single cotton garment which entirely covers thelr body. This is then wet 80 that it clings to the skin, and the woman is laid face downward on the ground and whipped upon the back of the thighs. I do not mean to say that such punishment is general, but I was told it is according to law, and where a master or a magistrate 1s cruelly inclined you can see what a terrible weapon this might be in his hands. The slavery of Corea ls by no means as bad as certaln kinds of slavery in other parts of the globe, and the sons of slaves are free. The daughters of slaves are stdl the property of their master, but the law provides that they can pay the amcunt which was paid for them and thus secure thelr freedom. Slaves here bring different prices, according to age, muscle and beauty. Young girls of from 14 to 18 are worth, according to their good looks from $30 to $60 apiece, and you can get a good, hardy woman of 30 or 40 for one-third of this sum. The number of slaves diminishes from year to year, but fathers can sell their children and persons can sell themselves. The slavery which exists is a sort of sertdom, and many of th ™ belong to the old families of the past. The worst form of slavery is that which Is meted out to the families of rebels, by which the females are taken into the employ of the oficials and condemned to work for their husbands’, sons’ or fathers' crimes. Such laves are treated little better than beast, and they become the concubines or drudges of the officlals, according to the whiny of the latter. CLOSE SECLUSION. Speaking of the seclusion of Corean ladles, I saw a lady go forth to make a call one afternoon during my stay in Seoul; at least, I suppose she was golng to make a call. | also suppose 1 saw her go forth. As far as getting an uctual glimpse of her, 1 did noth- ing of the kind. The house in which she lived was surrounded by a wall of small houses devoted to servants’ quarters. These were ranged on each side of gate, or stable-like door, which formed the entrance to the yard, and there was another gate fn- side of this, sa that there was no chance to see flnto tl yard. She went forth . chair of about the size and shape of a small dry goods box, swung between two long poles. The moen who bore these poles upon T ——— people from flocking to our store. We'll sell you a suit twice asgood as anybody else for the same money. Might as well stop an elephant by twisting his tail as to try to stop the = M %0 ~try to We will sell you a chilly morning and evening Overcoat for ALL NEW GOODS AT NEW money comes, f0o. Mail orders always on all goods if the PRICES Half what you've been used to paying. 13th and Farnam Sts.,, Omaha. e M. H. Cook Clothing Co., successors to Columbia C]Othing CO., fae shouitrs tok e e ot skt t | HPROES IN BLUE AND GRAY front of the chair was then inside the yard. The men outside. The crawled stayed ‘woman in and pulled down the eurtain. B P} The men then dragged out the chair and | Horrible Atrocities’ Committed by Border carried her away. I have looked Into one or two of these chairs when they were not in use. They are just big enough for a woman welghing about 100 pounds to sit cross- legged within, and there is no support for the back, nor well for the feet. It is in such boxes that all Corean ladies go out calling, and all that they ever see of the big Corean capital {s through the cracks in the chair or the little glass peep holes, as big around as a red cent, which they are now introducing into the closed paper windows of their houses. It is only in this way that they see men other than their husbands, and the man who would dare to enter another Corean house without an invitation could be severely punished, and a man of the lower classes who dares to look over the wall of o gentleman's house to take a peep at his wife can be caught and whipped by the man or sent to prison. If he breaks in and takes hold of the women he can be banished. And if he commits a worse crime than this of a similar nature he can be killed. & i A, Caduatss ———— RELIGIOUS. his escort. 1864. It Is authoritatively announced that Car- dinal Gibbons will visit Europe during the fall. He will visit Rome and remain abroad -some months, The rate of growth of the Christlans in India is more than double that of the popula- tion. The pope’s income amounts to $2,200,000 yearly, exclusive of speclal gifts like those of his jubilee year. Peter's pence provide two-thirds of the amount, the remainder being the interest on various investments. Bishop J. M. Thoburn of the Methodist church, who has spent thirty-five years In India as missionary, presiding elder, and bishop, held services and preached sermons in two of Chicago’s churches last Sunday. He wlill soon return to his work in the far east. Mohammedanism has a history of thirty ocenturies. It has won 200,000,000 foilowers, and its degraded and wretched myriads are confined to southern Asia and northern Africa. Christianity, after nineteen centuries of life, has won 400,000,000 fuilowers, and, with the exception of China and Turkey, its happy and enlightened people rule the werld. According to the census taken fin 1891, Bngland and Wales report 24,232 clergymen of the Angelican church over against 21,033 in 1881; 2,511 Catholic priests, as compared with 2,089 ten years before; 10,076 Noncon- formist clergymen, while there were 9,734 a decade earlier. In addition to these there were 9,313 missionaries and traveling evan- gelists over against 4,629 in 1881, Cardinal Lavigerie's plan for the civiliza- tion of Africa is to be tested. The first cara- van of 100 Afric: plonee reared on the Algerian and Tuonisian farms of the confra- ternities founded by him have just left Mar- sellles for Madagascar, where they are to settle as agricultural colonléts, Another 100 will be sent as soon as these are established, and other companies are under orders (o go to the Soudan, the Tourareg country, the Tchad region, and the Congo, where they will spread the Catholle 1 and French civiliza- tlon. The mountain peak of Orizaba In Mexico has just been surmounted with an iron cross seven yards In height. It is asserted that this cross is the highest symbol of Christianity above the level of the sea to be found on the American continent, The clalm in this re- spect has heretofore been conceded to the cross on the volcano Mistes, in Guatemala, but according to recent measurements Ori- zaba s the highest peak north of the Isthmus of Panama, and the highest point in the western hemisphere upon which a cross has been erected, Though he Is a good Presbyterian, Mr, John Wanamaker thinks that it makes little difference which denomination a man belongs to. “Religion,” he says, “is broader than crecds, and I am a Christian first, then a Presbyterian, and as long as a man lives up to an honest bellef I have no fault to find, There are 200 religions in the world, and there must be one somewhere in the number to sult every sort of a man. I should like to see 200 or 250 denominations, If in that way every man could be brought into some form of bell ‘The crowd I addressed on Sunday was made up of all sorts and conditions of men, and it must be the love of Christ and good will to men that must be.preached to this mixed assemblage. Catholic and Protes- tant, rather than denominational doctrine. road, death. gine over ther so-called, preme hea in it. . General lows: nationality, cha took from sanguinary Ruffians jn Missonri, GUERRILLAS DETESTEDBY BOTH ARMIES A Romarkable Instance In Which the Con- federates und Yankees Marched Side by Slde Each Under Its Own Colors— An Act of larbarism. (Copyrighted 1894.) Among heroic deeds of our late clvil war heretofore unrecorded none is more worthy of historic notice than the conduct of Lieu- tenant James W. Graves of the Third Mis- souri mounted infantry, C. 8. A., in risking his life in defense of union prisoners under To appreciate the emergency that Lieuten- ant Graves was called upon to face, writes T. J. Mackey, late captain of engineers, C. 8. A., It is necessary to understand the mlli- tary situation in Missourl during the year Bands of armed guerrillas, commanded by Quantrell, Anderson, Todd, Holtzclaw and others, traversed the state and harried the homes of thousands of its people with fire and sword, The excosses committed by those leaders, all bearing commissions duly signed by the president of the confederate states, surpassed in atrocity the deeds, perpetrated by savages in omr Indlan Parke, commanding a company of the Fourth Missouri cavalry, thus reports the result of an attack made upon him by a band led by Anderson and Holtzclaw at Rocheport on August 26, 1864: k their hands were most barbarously massacred, four being scalped, one hanged and scalped and three had their throats cut.'” General W. S. Rosecrans, U. 8. A report of operations in Missouri, say the 1st of September, 1864, Anderson’s band attacked a train on the North Missourl rail- it twenty-two soldlers, many on sick leave, and after rob- bing placed them In a row and shot them to Some of the bodies they scalped put others across the track and ran the en- On September 27 this band, with numbers swollen to 300 or 400, attacked Major Albert V. Johnston, eommanding 130 men of the Thirty-ninth Missouri volunteers, near Centralia, and shot every man of them in cold blood.” ORDER OF AMERICAN KNIGHTS, The men who composed these bands were members of the Order of American Knights, a_ secrol treagonable organization hostile to the state and the United States, that had an enrolled membership of 30,000 in Missourl, under the ‘leddership of one John H. Taylor, who way dpsignated their “su- It wag a part of their policy to have every member thke the oath of alle- glance to the United States, themselves enrolled generally into the active militia, in order tha suspicion of the authorities and at the same time procure arms aid ammunition. As mili- tiamen they co-operated-with the guerrillas, glving them information of projected mili- tary movements and'frequently joining them after shooting down thelr loyal officers, and surrendering at the The entry of General Price’s army Into Mis- sourl In the early autumn of 1864 stimulated the these red-handed moss-trooper used his encampment, as Aheir basa of opera- tions, and when hard pressed sought refuge wars. Captain “My men who fell into in his “‘On unarmed d and to have they might avert the frst. opportunity. greatly operations of for they On becoming aware of this practice General Rosecrans protested against it in a letter to Price, from which 1 quote as fol- Permit me, general, to express my surprise and regret that you have allowed to assoclate With your troops bands of Missouri guerrillas, without feeling or prineiple of whose crimes at which humanity shudders. It F unnecessary to enumerate what these crimes are. The newspapers have not exagger You and I have tried to conduct this war in accordance with the highe manity and the laws of and 1 hope t in this respect. I am able to state, advisedly, as the chief saglneer of the Missouri expeditionary force, and 4 member of General Price’s staff, tha record s stained with d. dfotates of hu- among clvilized future will make no two weeks prior to the receipt of that pro- test he issued an order prohibiting any of these predatory bands from entering his lines. ~ Notwithstanding that order, they were harbored in the encampment of General Shelby, one of our division commandzrs, until the -extraordinary incident that I am ‘about to relate led to their being treated as mere cutlaws by all our troops. On October 15, 1864, the federal garrison at Glasgow, Mo., after a_ gallant resistance of several hours, surrendered to one of our brigades _commanded by General John B. Clark. General Shelby had co-operated in the attack with his artillery from the oppo- site side of the Missouri river, where his di- vision was posted, but the actual fighting at the intrenchments and in the town was done by Clark's brigade. Tho force that sur- rendered consisted of the Forty-third Mis- souri infantry and Seventeenth Illinois cav- alry, constituting the garrison commanded by Colonel Chester Harding, jr., a brave and skillful soldier. 1t was stipulated in the terms of sur- render that the federal officers and enlisted men should be immediately paroled and per- mitted to return to their homes, there to re- main until duly exchanged. It transpired, however, after the surrender, that General Rosecrans, the department commander, had issued an’ order aunouncing that he would not recognize paroles as binding upon any of his officers captured by us, unless we de- livered such officers at one of his military pusts to be there certified as paroled. “BLOODY BILL" ANDERSON'S GANG. Hence on the day after the surrender, Colonel Harding and the officers of his com- mand, numbering twenty-eight in all, were started for Boonville, about thirty miles south of Glasgow, that being the nearest federal post. Thelr escort consisted of com- pany H, Third Missouri mounted infantry, numbering forty-nine, rank and file, under the command of Lieuténant James W. Graves. Lieutenant Graves had taken the precaution to throw out flankers, and an advance guard of two or three men while on the march. About ten miles from Boonville the sergeant in command of the advance guard reported that there was 4 body of 100 or more seem- ingly federal cavalry halted at the forks of the road half a mile ahead; that they all wore federal uniforms, but that he had ap- proached and reconnoitered them through his fleld glass, and discoverel that they were “Bloody Bill' Anderson's gang of guerrillas. The lieutenant at once formed his command in line of battle, and stated to them that when they left Glasgow Anderson and his band were in Shelby’s camp, and had no doubt followed them to take the prisoners from the escort, and murder and rob them. He added: ‘‘Men, you are confederate soldiers, Anderson and his gang are but robbers and cutthroats who dishonor our colors. 1 have served In the ranks with you for three years, and 1 need not ask if you will do your duty. The orderly sergeant answered, ‘“Lieuten- ant, you can bet your life on the m They will stand by you, and defend the prisoners to the death.” The whole company responded “Aye, to the death.” Turning to the federal officers Licutenant Graves sald: “Gentlemen, you have heard my statement and understand the emergency that we are to face, if 1 do not mistake the purpose of the miscreants in my front. I shall advance at all hazards, but do not feel warranted in taking you under fire without your free consent. You need not consider yourselyes prisoners any longer, should you wish to retire, and make the effort to reach Beonville by another road. I have twelve extra rifles in the wagons, with plenty of ammunition, thet T brought along, expecting to secure some recruits before rejoining my command, You can have them and I can supply you also with ten 4é-caliber re- volvers.”’ BLUE AND GRAY CO-OPERATE. They answered with one accord that they would stand by him and consider them- selves for the occasion not as prisoners, but as American soldiers and the confederates as comrades In arms. Colonel Harding stated that those who could be armed would take position in line and the others could render good servica by acting as horse holders. AlL this occupied but a minute or two and wiile the arms were being distributed among the federal officers four men were seen ad- vancing up the road, one of them carrying & white flag. Lieutenant Graves rode = out to meet them, accompanied by six of his soldiers. When they eamo within four or five yards they halted, and he sald to the bearer of the flag: “Who are you, and what do you want The answer was: ““We belong to Colonel Avderson’s cavalry. We want those Yankee officers you've got along with you. They ara the ones that butchered some of our men at Palmyra. They belong to MoNeil's brigade and Colomel Anderson says if you refuse to give ‘em up he will take ‘em anyhow. He bas 300 meéh with him and | Yanks. to_ hiave ‘em dead sure.” 9th Arderson that his damnabl> proposal is too infamous for me to consider for an instant. We are confederate soldiers, and he and his men are murderers and thieves. if he does not get away from my line of march and clear out with his gang of cut- | tain F. Shumaker, throats in five minutes I him. word from you. for bringing such a proposition.” tenant repeated the message that he had received answer that that the cow pany flag by secreting it under his over- coat at the time of the surrender, and, hold- ing it in his hand, he said with your leave, I will add to the gaiety of the occasion by holsting this flag on our part of the allied line.” attached to an Improvised staff, waved sid> by side with the confederate battle flag, a | The red St. Andrews cross on a blue field. merts of the enemy, that if they found Anderson ing they should and report, and that, to avold falling into an ambuscade, they should proc:ed in single file at the distance of about fifty yards apart. It was indeed an extraordinary command—a confederate-federal company composed of veterans of both great armies. Nothing could have been more incongruous tested by the laws of war, and yet was nothing more nat- ural than the spectacle of American soldiers in the same line of battle advancing against the common enemy. It was a happy augury of the coming of this present time when all true Americans render homage to the one flag of their common country, and will be henceforth in brothers in arms. baggage wagons about 100 yards to the right and rear of the advancing line. men were arme improved Springf of the federal cont{ngent, who were provided with Colt's army revolvers, which had an effective range of 150 yards. their front numbered, as subsequently ascer- tained, 165, but the disparity in n more than' equalized by of the soldiers oppos: of the Forty-third Missourl served in tinction, and were all brave men, while the confederates of the Third Missourl had won laurels in numerous battles on both sides of the Mississippl. ville road, east, reached it at the point where the guerrillas were first reported to be (n position. were nowhere in sight, scouts had also passed on. still_pursued its march through the belt of [ Toof. woods that skirted the road for a mile fur- ther, when it was met by one of the scou's, who reported that Anderson's band after fol- lowing the road to Boonvile for two miles, had turned to the left aml gone off in a west- erly direction. sumed thelr march upon the main road, it was de tion was selected for that purpose, with easily guarded approaches. nels was posted, the federal ofcers request- Ing that they, too, should be detaile:d for guard duty. The tinctive colors of the blended forces furled up, and the normal situation being re- stored, they marched under the white flag. were met by two companles of federal cay- alry that were marching to succor them, the commander of the garrison having been in- formed that they were surrounded by Ander- son's guerrillas. company there recelved a most kindly and generous welcome, mingled with much good cheer, as no hands clasp so warmly as those that have dropped the sword. our army that the chivalric conduct of a confedes you can save trouble by giving up the . ha They're our meat and we're going Lieutenant Graves replied: “Tell Bill Tell him | 11 open fire upon Now, be off quick and not another You deserve to be hanged vere loss. demanded the On returning to his command the lieu- from the guerrilla leader and the he had returned. He found twenty-two f:deral officers who One of them, a captain, had preserved his | of a tree, claimed “Lieutenant, that the Consent was freely given and the flag, The company dismounted and formed in one rank, advanced through the open wood, | Black Flags of the Confederacy. while four mounted men were ordered to | ralsed to that bad eminency ride along the road and observe the move- | Graves' humane and fearless defen They were Instructed gang advanc- fall back without firing the prisoners savages. murdered his ‘Thirty-third peace friends, and In war discharge of The horse-holders moved with the two token of the with his family Texas and At least one-half of Licutenant Graves' with Winchester repeating other men in line had the breechloader, except tin while all th last year, The outlaws in mbers was the superior quality to them. The officers infantry had with dis- ferring many campalgns “BLOODY BILL" LOSES COURAGE. They moved on the right side of the Boon- which there atrenched to the 80 that marching south they soon They d the The company however, koees. As it was near nightfall when they re- Jamle fra' ded to encamp, and a strong posi of your hand. A double line of senti- next morning the dis- 2 %re | prayer. When within two miles of Boonville they muttered to dangerous?” ous?'" Lieutenant Graves and his way." Bugle, who ha AN UNWARRANTED HANGING, the collection, 1 esteemed It & fortunate circumstance for e officer and his command should been so heartily recognized at Boon- be treated as war, and promptly paroled. was delivered up by the provost guard, on t] demand of a number of officers and soldlers of Shelby’s brigade, and hanged to the limb betrayed crime “richly deserved death.” after a thorough investigation, t Shumaker’s record was that of a true gentle- man, and a brave and stainless soldier, that visited upon him such an undeserved fate aided to stamp General Shelby as the chief of the “‘By merit unspeakable committed to his served to convince the people of the war- stricken section that General Price's army. did not consist entirely of a horde of brutal his duty gratitude, thefr inquiries local papers failed to the event designed to commemorate, i IMF ‘'O Lord!" he prayed, Robble, for he is in a strange country and sairly needs watching, But dinna’ He sald: himself: A friend standing by sald: the proper spirit in General Shelby, fn an officlal report, dis- having ‘authorized the murder, yet gave it his sanction by declaring of the horrible I can state, hat Captain victim treachery Lieutenant Graves, on his northward march to rejoln his regiment, which he reached & few days later, halted at Lexington, whers he received the thanks of General Rosecrans, who made him the bearer of the letter to General Price from which I have quoted. Within a week after Anderson’s barbarous and audacious demand that the prisoners should be turned over to him to be band county, and he himself was killed by the regiment of troops, commanded by Colonel S. P. Coxe, I should add that the federal ofiicers who owed their lives to Lieutenant Graves' noble sought years after the war to ascertain his whereabouts that they might bestow upon him some suitabla He had removed to the western border of through thelr to meet his eye until A correspondence resulted in his meeting them at St. Louls, where they pre- sented to him a massive gold medal of el gant design, bearing upon one of its faces two clasped hands beneath the flag of the union, and on the other an inscription re- that the medal was was routed in Missourl 118, ““The Intimate acquaintance which some of our people have with the Almighty,” remarked & flery-headed son of Caledonia to a writer for the New York Advertiser, rise to amusing Incldents, old country two years ago and stopped one night with a stalwart three sons, one ih the army, another in the navy and a third still under the paternal He was a plous man and when it ws time to retire he read a chapter from the bible and then we all got down on eur myself." A captain in the Salvation army in Spring- field, Mass., last week made a very earnest ““Good Lord, come down among us and show your power and shake these sinners over the brink of hell” An old man on the outskirts of the crowd “That's dangerous— “Why danger- 0ld Man—“Thelr coat collars might give 'l hope, brethren,” sald the editor of the been appointed to take up 1 hope you will bear in mind Which to contribute, In other words, you should not give to the Lord for publication, but as an evidence of the goodneas of your faith.” ville, for our entry into that town on tha ay of that same month was signalizcd by an act of barbarity that added a new hor- ror (o0 the annals of civilized warfare. On that day our advance brigade, commanded by General Joseph O. Shelby, entered the town and aesaulted an earthwork garrisoned by 250 enrolled militia under the command ot Cap- The column of attack was gallantly met and repulsed, suffering se- Shelby then sent in a flag and surrender of the garrison, offering honorable terms, and at the sam time stating that his artillery wonld soon be up, and that he would then reduce the fort, but in ‘that event he would give mo quarter. Captain Shumaker surrendered, re- Iying upon the written guarantee that he and were armed had formed on the left of the | his men would line, and he requetted them to take position at the center, saying, “Gentlemen, I desire you to be where we can guard both your flarks.” prisoners of On that night he execrable Lieutenant charge federal “often gives 1 was over In the McDonald who had “have a care for And keep my son peril, for he is on the ocean, and You haud the great deep in the hollow Bash Yourself about Malcolm, for he is still at home and I will look after him