The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 3, 1898, Page 19

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 1898. ' CHASING SLAVERS ON THE HIGH SEAS s Sharp Tricks the Spamish Deal- ers Played by Using the Stars and Stripes to Conceal Their Nefarious Trade. the unpleasantness of five weeks the forego- ing statement has been made by large numbers of our Congress- men. Many of our people, however, have been under the impression that the utterance was largely ‘jingo talk.” “But no truer statement was ever ade,” sald Captain Jacksonof this city a few days ago, when a group of weli- n men were discussing the situa- on “I have talked to a number of men of American birth who have suf- fered at Spain's hands, and while" I fully believe every word they said, I cannot, of course, swear to their state- ments. But that is not necessary, for 1 have seen Spain’s underhanded blows at the United States and know posi- thirty vessels of varfous classes, en- gaged in putting it down. “My vessel was the Antelope, & three. gun steam brig. She was able to make good time, even under canvas alone, and when aided by her paddle wheels could catch any sailing craft afloat in those days. “My three years on this vessel were days of excitement and peril. As well as the perils of fighting we had to face the terrible fevers that constantly raged along the swampy shores of the Bight of Benin. Our lives were a con- stant turmoil and the roaring of can- non and whizzing of bullets were com- monplace sounds to us. Dead and wounded men were almost constantly around us. Several men were kijled on the decks of our vessel, but hun- dreds of the horrid slavers wers stretched out on the decks of thelr own. How the demons did fight as long as they thought they had the ad- vantage. And how quickly they stop- ped and commenced butchering the but the breeze was light and with our engines we soon overhauled her. Her captain saw that the game was up and surrendered. “We took ‘the entire crew and dumped them on the nearest land and sent the schooner in charge of a prize crew to where the slaves could be re- turned to their homes. “Our next antagonist was a terror. We sighted her at about noon and a few moments afterward saw the stars and stripes flung to the breeze. But our captain was not fooled. He determined to see what was on board the vessel, and gave the sign for her to ‘heave to.” “No attention was paid to it, how- ever. Then the race began. A fine breeze was blowing, and the schooner almost got away from us. She fairly flew over the water with all her can- vas set. Then we sent a shot after her, and then another and another. ‘“These tores holes in the canvas and slackened her speed, so that we began to gain on her. “‘Seeing that escape was hopeless the slaver's crew be -~ to throw theircargo overboard. Manacled men and women were dragged from the vessel's hold and tossed into the ocean, sinking from sight almost ins*antly. “Then we began a musket fire and picked off some of the leaders. They made an effort to return it, but their aim was defective, and none of our crew was hurt. ““When we dld get alongside the ves- sel we were confronted by as hard a looking crowd of men as I have ever seen. Cutthroat was stamped on every one of their Spanish faces. When we attempted to step on board the fight began, and I tell you it was a hot one. Bullets flew over all sides, and the slavers attempted to board us. All of them were blinded with liquor and fought like demons. “‘We rapidly thinned out their re 1ks, though, and soon her decks were cov- ered with dead men and running with blood. “We soon overpowered the slavers, and then .they ran for cover and screamed for mercy. This crew was treated as the others were and we were ready for the next. We got this in about three days. “This time a beautiful schooner was flying the American flag, and when hailed answered that she was the Jupiter of New Orleans, and beyond that they gave us no satisfactip .. Our captain, however, sent an officer to board her and look over her papers. larger cargoes of slaves purchased from the Portuguese slave dealers. The methods adopted by them were similar, but with the difference that the barks were disguised as whalers instead of traders, as the schooners were in Benin. “We took seven more valuable vessels during our next year’s cruise, and four more off the northern division in the third year, making a total of fifteen vessels, containing 3745 slaves, all of whom were sent to British West Afri- ca, liberated and taught trades. “For each slave liberated the crews of the men-of-war were pald as prize money $25 per head, so we were recom- pensed for our hard service to the amount of $93,000 head money besides what the vessels themselves were sold for, in all about $170,000. “As our vessel was a fair average of the cruisers, it will be seen that about $4,000,000 was the amount spent by Great Britain in three years, in addi- tion to the cost of her squadron, for suppressing a trdffic carried on by the Spaniards. LEARNING MUSIC UNDER MME. MEARCHESI LTHOUGH the name of Matilda Marchesi, the first vocal teacher 'of the day, is familiar to Ameri- ‘cans, yet little is known of her personality and method. By some she is described as a tyrant and the terror of her pupils, while others make the sweeping assertion that for any voice except a soprano leggiero her method is a failure. Any of Marchesi’s pupils can tell of the patience she has with beginners and her sympathy with nervousness, while the best of her celebrated graduates will show there is no voice she cannot train. Marchesi was born in Frankfort, Ger- many, about seventy-four years ago. After studying with Garcla she had a successful career as a singer in all the capitals of Europe. She married an Italian nobleman, the Marquis de Cas- trone de la Rajata, who was himself a singer of no small merit, his stage name being Salvatore Marchesi. His wife and daughter have both taken this name for professional use. Marchesi's reputation as a teacher was established in Vienna, where she was for many years director of the vocal department at the Conservatoire. She has resided in Paris so long as to have become alrost entiely French. Her beautifully appointed house in the Rue Jouffroy is a rendezvous for the celebrated musical people of all na- tions. The music room has been es- pecially arranged for ‘he voice. Tt is paneled in wood, has a parquet floor and there are no draperies to interfere with the sound. Nothing s wanting in this room to complete the musical edu- cation of the ,upils. Mme Marchesi's musical library is probably one of the largest and m. ' valuable private col- OUR SHOT STRUCK HER SAILS AND CHECKED HER COURSE AND AT ONCE THE CREW BEGAN TO THROW THE MANACLED SLAVES OVERBOARD. tively that in regard to this country the Castilian S Oon numerous occa- sions violated all laws of honor. This séems a hard statement to make, but [ can prove it, although to do so it will be necessary to go back about forty years. refer to the days when the slave fic was at its height. It was then t Spain permitted slavers and pi- tes to outfit in her ports and fly the n flag in order to protect them- glish warships that were s on the lookout for the in human flesh. “This w simple process, accord- ir to the Spanish way of soning, W 1o thought of the violation of was allowed to t any fig- purchasea s vessel in the United States. She was usually a schooner of fine lines and large sail area, built more like a yacht n any craft afloat at that time. After acquiring posse: rchase the owner took her a, still retaining the American pa- and flag under which she was sold him. Here a Spanish crew was iipped and the vessel outfitted as a r. This was done with the full ledge of the Spanish maritime and ials. In fact, these gen- X in the nefarious work in spite of the English and Amer1- can officials could do to prevent it. “It was then the custom of these ves- to proceed to Africa, where a cargo ves was obtained, and then, flying st tempt to get »anish Govern- made a single attempt to ffic, although having fuli t, but on the other hand moneys from the owners of vessels. It was while aiding in the putting down of slavery that I came to my knowledge of Spanish villainy and treachery, and even after all these ) ds can do it justice, ‘It was about 1856, 1 was just 16 years old at the time, when I began a three years' cruise along the west coast of ;‘Africa as a midshipman in the British navy. The slave trade was at its height ~and England had a squadron of ahout customs oft tiemen. aided of & the back to Cu ment ne stop this knowledge the helpless cargo in the hold as soon as things went against them. “Upon our arrival at Sierra Leone, the capital of British West Africa, in January, 1857, we were met by the commodore with several other vessels of the squadron. They had arrived in take on board their several ‘prize cre that had been bringing u the captured at different points the coast. There were about slavers all waiting to be broken zes along twenty up and thelr material sold for prize money. Some of the pretty and swift craft were more fit for yachts, and all were of American build. D doubt could have been disposed of at s, but, alas! their fate was they could never again sail for a slave ship, once cap- tured by a British war vessel, had to be broken up. “Many an old tar would heave a sigh, turn his quid of tobacco over and with tears in his eves say it seemed almost a crime to destroy such beautiful craft, but it had to be done, the stern law must .be obeved In the interest of hu- manity to prevent any of these vessels ever again being employed in the slave trade. “The thought comes to me that pos- sibly it may be that many of the poor sufferers in Cuba at this day are de- scendants of many poor Afrieans brought from Africa about that period. ““The slave dealerscould afford to lose two vessels out of three and then make large fortunes by the traffic. If a dealer wanted one cargo of slaves he sent three vessels instead of one, thus allowing two for capture. “This will give but a faint ideaof how the traffic was carried on, and it was ali done by the Spaniards from Cuba, who sailed their vessels from Havana under the stars and stripes. “After our squadron rot to sea on the search for slaves, my vessel, the Antelope, was cut a whole month be- fore we had anything to do. But then our work began in earnest. “It was early in the morning when the cry of ‘Sail ho!’” from the mast- head brought us all on deck. “ ‘She’s a slaver,’ cried all the crew at the same time. Every man jumped to his place. “But this craft did not give us much trouble. She made an effort to escape, He found that she was on a trading voyage, with twenty-one as villainous- looking a lot of dirty, unwashed, cut- throat Spaniards as you ever wanted to see. ‘“‘After a long parley our captain con- cluded that the treaty between the United States and Great Britain should for once be violated, and he resolved to break open the vessel's hatches. This was done, and there, packed away on a slave deck, were 120 men and women, all huddling together from ‘sheer fear,’ having been previously intimidated to silence by threats of being thrown overboard. “Immediately she was discovered to be a slave vessel, as if by magic old glory disappeared from the rigging, and no papers were to be found on board, as they had been burnt and the flag sunk. She was a vessel without a name, with a Spanish crew, six American passengers on board and bound nowhere. “The American who but ten minutes before was ‘captain’ quietly Informed our officers that they had yet a hun- dred more slaves on shore, which they were waiting to go for as soon as the coast was clear of men-of-war. This capture proved a valuable prize to us, as she had on board about 3000 doub- loons to purchase cargoes for the twn other vessels. She was sent to Sierra Leone with a prize crew, and the Amer- icans were cared for on board and sent home, while the Spaniards we invaria- bly ‘dumped’ on the nearest beach, af- ter taking everything of value from them. “During the next six months we took four other prizes along this part of the coast, all under similar conditions, and about forty or fifty others were cap- tured by other cruisers. That will give you some idea of the magnitude of the trade carried on by these Spaniards. “Sometimes a naval commander more careful and timid and somewhat afraid of troubl~ would not force open these vessels’ hatches, and, protected by the American flag, the vessels would sail away with their cargoes of human beings, invariably to be landed at Ha- vana. “Our next cruise was off and about the Congo River, where a larger class of vessel was required to carry off the lections known and most of the works have been dedicated and corrected by the composers themselves, Every avail- able space in the room is filled with autograph likenesses of all the cele- brated composers, sihgers and musi- cians past and present, while under a glass case in a corner lies a silver laurel wreath surrounded by the decorations Marchesi has received from various crowned 1 eads. Marchesi divides her pupils into four classes, each one of which meets three times a week. The two highest are known as the opera and concert classes, indicating for which branch the pupils are preparing. Monsieur Mangin, a conductor of the Grand Opera, is accom- panist of the opera class and keeps Marchesi in touch with all cuts and changes in the productions -' the opera. Monsieur Leroux, brother of the well-known composer, acts as accom- panist to the concert class. The begin- ners’ class Marchesi calls her “kitchen” where she prepares voices. There are several small auditions given for the varicus classes at her residence during the term, and occasionally the opera class gives in costume a series of scenes from different operas at some small theater. On these occasions they are usually assisted by some of the male singers from the opera. which most of the pupils appear is held at the Salle Erard shortly before the term closes. 2 If Mme. Marchesi had not made her name famous as a teacher her remark- able personality would probably have asserted itself In some other way. On meeting her one would never suppose her to be 74 years old. Indeed, she pos- sesses an amount of energy.and a ca- pacity for work that many a younger person might envy. She rises at 6 o’clock, and besides her four classes, of about ten girls each,she has many private pupils. She is very vivacious and has a keen appreciation of a good joke, besides never being at a loss for an answer herself. A gentle- man whose curiosity got the better of his tact once asked her her age, a point on which she is sensitive. She an- swered, “I am 28—and the rest.” There are but few of her pupils who do not look forward to their lessons, for while never forgetting the subiect in hand, An audition in . ‘a soldier. music, she is sure to have raised a laugh more than once before the class is finished. But it is not to be supposed because Marchesi possesses a fund of good spirits that her life has been an easy or altogether happy one. Of nine children, she has only one lving, Blanche, who is at present in London, adding to the reputation she has al- ready made in Paris. Madame Blanche Marchesi does not possess a large voice, but it has been so beautifully trained, her production is so perfect and her diction and style so pure, that she has established herself among the foremost artists of the day. Gounod said to Mar- chesi, after hearing her daughter sing, ‘‘Madame, that Is your chef-d'oeuvre.” Madame Blanche Marchesi has been married twice, first to an Austrian nobleman, from whom she was di- vorced, and the second time to Baron Cacamisi, an Italian. Among the famous singers who are pupils of Madame Marchesl may be mentioned Grauss, Gerster, Melba and Calve. The best-known Americans who have studied with her are Eames, Nevada and Mrs. Vanderveer Green, while San Francisco has been repre- sented by Sibyl Sandersdn. Frances Saville, who claims that city as her birthplace, and_Mrs. Gertrude Child, Thomas Esther Palliser and Ada Cross- ley, two of the best known English concert singers, complete the list. It is to be regretted that the arrange- ments Marchesi was making last fall for a lecture tour in America were not completed. She would have addressed her audiences in English, as she adds to her other talents that of being a linguist. She speaks eight languages, three of which she teaches her puplils to sing—French, German and Italian. The majority of Marchesi’s pupils are American and as few of them speak French with any degree of fluency it is not an uncommon thing to hear Mar- chesi speaking four languages at dif- ferent times in an afternoon. G. B. —_———— BABIES ON THE BATTLEFIELD. FEW days ago an Afridi's baby had a pec.iar experience on the battlefield. On an Afridi being shot it was discovered that he had been carrying a baby, and the British tro~ps could not leave this on the ground with the dead man. Of course . ) provision had been made for such an emergency, but still the sol- diers were quite equal to the occasion and ca. led the .ttle s‘ranger with them on the march. Later on when re- turning, they le™ it n r the spot where they originally found it, and this was done in full vie.” of many of the enemy in the hope that it would soon be hand- ed over to its .other. This little crea- ture had thas had an expcrience which will often be referred to in after life. A somewhat similar thing occurred during the Russo-Turkish war. While the soldiers of a Turkish regi. ent were marching from Plevna upcn Constanti- nople they fei. ‘n with a female infant which had been deserted The men took charge of the little lorely child, and she grew up as the daughter of the regiment. The most romantic part of the story, however, remains to be told, for this Turkish foundling was married two or three years ago to an officer in Russia, when her military foster pa- rents provided her with a handsome dowry. Last year a man died at Birmingham who had through life the satisfaction of knowing that his birthplace was of a unique character, inasmuch as he was born on the battlefield of Waterloo. He was the descendant of a family of sol- diers, and his father, who was with the Ninety-seventh Cameron Highlanders, was killed in the memorable engage- ment at Hougemont. The soldier’s wife had followed her husband out, and thus it happened amid the din and roar of battle. Aichough born under such circumstances, he did not develop into a soldier, but, becoming a railway guard, frequently had the honor of acting in that capacity to the Queen’s train. £ Another romantic story is told in con- nection with the American Civil War. After one of the battles a baby clothed in fine apparel was found among the dead and wounded, and as no one came forward to claim it, the opinion was formed that its parents had perished in the strife. Of course, it was impossible to say whether it belonged to the Northern or Southern side, but ulti- mately a Southern soldier and his wife took the child and cared for her as if she had been their own. She grew into a handsome and cultured young lady, and in course of time married Thomas E. Watson, farmer and lawyer. This gentleman was the Populist nominee for the American Vice-Presidency some time ago. Another incident of a baby on the battlefield {s also furnished by America. It was at the time of the Revolution, during the invasion of Charleston, when the country north of Coopers River was ravaged by Colonel Tarleton and the British. Some of the men reached the plantation of a Mr. Robert Gibbes at night, and after kill- ing the cattl and shooting down the negroes proceeded to shell the house. Mr. Gibbes was unfortunately a help- less cripple, but his eldest daughter, a girl of 13, with the help of the servants, carried him and a younger sl © to a place of safety. After doing this, she discovered that the baby, a boy 2 years of age, had been left behind. By this time, how- ever, the house was in flames, shells were falling thick around °. and the fleld was full of soldiers. Still she de- termined to save the baby. and ran toward the house, but was caught by “Where are you going?”’ he demanc d, and when she replied, “For our baby,” the soldiers stopped firing. When she entered the house its de- struction was so far completed that the walls began to crumble and the flames shot up through the roof. It is said that when she reappeared a moment Jater with a white bundle in her arms, the soldiers cheered her loudly as she ran to the spot where her father had been placed. The heroic girl was badly burned, but she recovered; while the baby whose life she had thus saved afterward became the gallant Lieu- tenant-Colonel Penwick. ‘When Columbus discovered South Amer- ica, near the mouth of the Orinoco, the Spaniards found an Indian village bullt over the water on piles. As it reminded them of Venice, they called it Venezuela, or “Little Venice.” HOW T0 SUCCEED : AS AN INVENTOR Dogged Perseverance Is the First Requirement, Then Keep Your Mind Free and Active in Your Particular Field. BY THOMAS A. EDISON. F you want a recipe for how to suc- ceed as an inventor 1 can give it to you iIn a very few words, and it will do for any other business in which you might wish to engage. First, find out If there is a real need for the thing which you 'wan* to in- vent. Then start in thinking about it. Get up at 6 o'clock the first morning and work until 2 o’clock the next morn- ing. Keep on doing this until some- thing in your line develops dtself. If it don’t do so pretty soon, you had bet- ter shorten your sleeping hours and work a little harder while you are awake. If you follow that rule, you can succeed as an inventor, or as any- thing else, for that matter. It was the following of just such a rule that led to the invention of the electric light, the phonograph and the kinetoscope. I believe that any person, even of the most limited capacity, could become an inventor by sheer hard work. You can do almost anything if you keep at it long enough. Of course, the man With a natural aptitude would get there first, but the other plodder would eventually gain his point. The con- stant brooding on the one thing is sure to develop new ideas concerning it, and these, in their turn, suggest others, and soon the completed idea stands out before you. Above all things a man must not give up, once he has out- lined his plan of action. A ball roll- ing down hill is sure to reach the bot- tom ultimately, no matter how many obstacles stand in the way. It is this principle which finally levels moun- tains. So, once fairly on your way, don't stop because of some seemingly impassable obstacle in_ front of you. What you want may be just beyond your nose, though you do not see it. 1 once had that fact forcibly pre- sented to me. I was working'on an in- vention and finally reached a point when I could go no further. The thing lacked something, but, try as I might, I could not tell what it was. Finally T got angry at it and threw the whole business out of the window. After- ward I thought how foolish the action was and I went out and gathered up the wreck. In putting it together again 1 saw Jjust what was needed. Repair- ing the broken portions suggested it, and it was so simple that 1 wondered I had not seen it before. Now that lit- tle addition to the apparatus could have been ascertained by a little thoughtful experimentation. I suppose 1 found it out quicker because of the “accident,” but that does not alter the moral of the incident. How do I go about inventing a con- trivance? Well, that is hard to say. Everything requires different treat- ment. First, as 1 said, I find out if there is a real need for the thing. Then 1 go at it and attack it in every way I can think out. This multiplied attack soon simmers down, until I get what might be called a composite idea— something which is a combination of all I have thought before, or else the one feasible idea which really seems to discount all the rest. Having once got started on what I think is the right track I keep up the pace until the goal is reached. The only thing, therefore, I can say to the young inventor is to go and do likewise. There is one piece of advice I can give, however. When a man starts in to invent let him do so with his mind free from all knowledge of what has been done already-in the par- ticular field he is investigating. For instance, if 1 am about to work out something I never read up on it, nor do I inquire what has been done on it by other inventors. Knowledge of this kind is almost .ertain to prove a snag in the path of the inventor. He gets_into the rut made by his prede- cessors and stops off where they have stopped. On the other hand, if he goes in a direction of his own, there are no ruts ahead of him: nothing, in' fact, to obstruct his progress. I haye several times made inventions in fthis manner; then when I had completed them I have read up on the subject. I found my own ideas were entirely original, but at the same time the ideas of the other fellows were so good un to a certain point that I should have been tempted to have followed in their footsteps if I had done any previous reading up. Of course the question of natural ap- titude enters into the matter, and with- out it no man can become a star; nevertheless, it is an auxiliary attain- ment; dogged perseverance is really the quality most to be desired. Dogged perseverance is the keystone of success. In the arts, such as painting, mu poetry and so forth, a very special tei perament may be required, but in the workshop of science men of the san- guine, “sandy” kind come out ahead. The man who keeps at one thing and never minds the clock is always sure to do something. He may miss many so- cial .engagements, of course, but his success is assure ‘What line of invention is most profit- able? That depends on what is meant by the term “profitable.” If an invention is of great public utility it is seldom personally profitable to the inventor. If, on the other hand, it is a money- maker for the inventor, then the ben- efit to the.general public is apt to be limited. This is the fault of our mod- ern patent office practice. Inventors are afraid.to engage in large opera- tions which would have to be pro- tected by patents, because our laws, as they now stand, give every opportun- ity to sharks to go in and infringe the rights of the legitimate owners, em- ploying eminent legal assistance mean- while to cause a stay in any lawsuits instituted by the rightful inventor. I have inveighed against this condition before now. It is a serious discour- agement to all great public inventions and it is a point which should be heed- ed by all who intend bringing out any, invention. So, then, as things stand, if a man wishes to make money from his inven- tions, he had better devise some little thing that costs but a trifle to man- ufacture. He will be sure to get fleeced if he does not. Then, when ha brings the contrivance before the pub- lic, let him steer clear of the patent of« fice, but manipulate the sale of his ar- ticle so that no one can compete with him. His “trade secret,” as it is called, will be more valuable to him than any patent office papers, and it will cost him nothing to produce it. After all, however, I suppose the real Simon Pure inventor is not apt to be a shrewd business man, and therefore the thing he wants to know principally is how to lay down any absclute rule. The history of great inventions shows that accident has been responsible for many Initial ideas. This, however, is not always the case, nor should it be so. Given a small amount of aptitude and a large amount of application, any man can enter the business of invent- ing and make a living—scant at first, but more lucrative as he goes along. There are not many who realize what this “large amount of application™ really means; the getting up very early, the staying up very late and the sticking at it, meanwhile, with a vim that never can recognize failure. Men of this kind are sure to succeed. Probably millions of persons are dab- bling to-day, in mechanical invention of some nature, but the most of it is too spasmodie to count for much in the long run. They do not keep at it enough. If a business man were to *clect the routine end of his daily ork, if he were to go to his office one day or two days in the week and then put the rest off until next Monday, or until some cther time when the spirit moved him, he would soon have to as- sign. Tt is just so with invention. You have to pursue it as a business, and even more steadily than the ordinary business. OLD GLORY OVER The BLUE AND THE GRAY PERSONAL friend told me tke following incident as a part of the experience of a search party over ground which had been fought over three times during three of the six days in the Wilderness. “For three days we were fighting all the time,” he said, “now up and now down, till toward the third evening a lot of us were detailed to go over a mis- erable excuse for a farm where the struggle had been the hardest, to see i£) there were any wounded men left un« cared for. “As we came out of a strip of woods, where the leaves and broken limbs of! trees covered the ground almost from. sight, we were close to the blackened| remains of a house, and a little way om, to our left we saw two pairs of up-. turned feet in a deserted cattle shed. In a moment we stood looking into the! faces of a dead Cenfederate and a dy- ing Union soldier lying side by side, the cold hand in gray scarcely colder than the one in blue which held it, and, cov- ering both, was the strangest Old Glory, ever made. “The living eyes were wistfully raised to mine, and I read in the trembling of the chin a feeble attempt to speak. We gave him brandy, soaked bits of hard tack in more and gradually fed him. The sta: of death was upon his face and its chill was creeping toward his heart. I knelt and put my ear close to his lips. “‘This is my friend, now,’ he whis- pered. ‘No more Johnny Reb, but true 0Old Glory man—same as you and me. Put us in same grave—side by side,and this flag over our faces.’ “Noticing my look of inquiry fixed upon the flag, he continued in half- breaths and with many a halt that might mean death: “*“We were hit almost alike—and sure to die. Got in here and waited. Next day a Reb, wounded in the neck, gave us water. 'Nother day—and nobody came. Johnny said, ‘It's all up with both of us, comrade—an’ I reckon taps has sounded for me. Don’t you think I might be buried with you, under the Union flag—if only we had one? My father fought for it in Mexico. Say— can’'t we make one? I've these for stars.’” And he showed some brass caps, such as they used to cover screws in bedsteads once. ‘And there's that roll of bandages we found in here. Your blood an’ mine will make the red stripes—" **‘And my blouse will make the blue field,” I said, ‘and I've a needle and thread.” *‘“Where's your hand, Union? he sals ‘S—o. Guess I'm off—but you'll make the flag—and—and—maybe when Gabriel blows his horn and the dead come out of their graves—you’ll let me keep hold of your hand, and you'll say, “This is my friend, Lord. We fought each other once. but we lay in one grave under Old Glory. You know Old Glory, Lord. And please forgive our sins—especially Johnny’s.”” “‘And so I made the flag—an’ him a- lying dead beside me—not fine, as you see—but Old Glory all the same. You'll put it over our faces when you bury us side by side, won't you, comrades?—an’ me a-holding his hand.’ “And his look of happiness as we all said ‘Yes' changed instantly to the peace of death. HESTER A. BENEDICT. .