The evening world. Newspaper, December 14, 1911, Page 23

al « Great Moments BIN WAR & Told: by Living Generals By Philip R. Dilion Ooprright, 1011, by The Press Potiishing Co, (The New York Wofld). No. 14—Gen. John C. Black at Vicksburg. Map EN. JOHN C. BLACK, lawyer soldier and public official, personally known to many thousands of the surviving soldiers pf the Civil War, J born at Lexington, Miss. in 18%, the son of a Presbyterian Minteter, In 1M7 nis widowed mothe@removed with her family 10 Dan- ville, ui, She sent her box to Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Ind., ‘4nd there ho was when the Civil War began. le left college, enlisted for three months as @ private in Gen, Lew. Wallace's Eleventh Indiana Zouaves, and received this baptiom of fire at the battle of Romney in West Virginia. At the end of his three months he wan appointed Major in the Thirty-teventh Iilinote Infantry and served with that regiment throughout the wat, taking part in thirteen battles and two sieges, He was Wounded: in the battie of Pea Ridge and later th the battle of Prairie Grove. At lx o'clock In the efternoon of April 9, 1865, he was with his regiment tn the last battle of the war, the storming. of Blakeley Batteries before Mobile, Als. where 600. men were killed or wounded in ten minu rribly useless eaorifice; for at ten o'clock that morning Lee had raised the white fiag at Appomattox in Virginie, 900 milén awey, but the news had not reached Mobile, Black was brevetted brigadier general for bravery in this battle, Tn 1867 he was admitiod to the bar in Chicago, In 18% President Cleveland appointed him commissioner of pensions for four years. He wae Congreseman-at- large from Ilinole in 1893-and 14. In 198 he was elected commander-in-chet of the Grand Army of the Republic. In 1904 President Roosevelt appointed him President of the United States Civil Service Commission, the office which he now holds. He sat lat week in the home of the olf Cosmos Club in Washington and recalled @ memorable night of the great w “It wae at Vicksburg, the sloge was drawing to a clos distant from our own regiment. “Here was a little plateau, seventy-five feet wide and clear, At opposite # des of this little plateau were the rifle pits, Federal and Confederate. All day lou.g the amen in these rifle pits had been firing at each other across the Ii distance. Sharply they watched, as hunters watch, to catoh the ittlest exposed target of flesh, A man's cap, an upraised hand or, arm ramming home the cartridge in the gun; and inatantly the rifle cracked in thie game of death, They had been fighting this diel for days. “But they had estabiished the custom of quitting shooting at night, end ao, t sunset, the firing on both sides ceased and the night guard was detailed from doth eldes. Forward the night guards moved, out of the rifle pits a few feet onto the clear plateau, two thin lines fifty feet apart. Down they lay, each man prone upon hia left #ide with bis gun barrel in the hollow of tie arm, end he watching his énemy, all silent in the moonlight. All night they would lie thus, ready for instant action, and not a gun fired, until the morning eun signalled to begin again the baitie. “And 60 the officers whom I was visiting asked me {f I would like to go out Detween tho lines. I assonted and we immediately moved—elght Union officere—to che centre of the piateau. And there we met an equal number of Confederate officers, all carrying arms, Benind us was our night guard and bebind them their night guard, and the mooniight poured over all suoh @ radiance of peace as we knew in our villages North and South before ever this war came upon our common country. “We saluted each other and entered into animated conversation, discussing noclal aspeors of the sloge. We tasted their ‘corncob’ whiskey and they tasted our ‘commissary’. it was just a gathering of gentlemen, courteous, ever kind, Aw strangers may be who are engaged In necessary duty. There was not @ vestige of hatred in our hearts tn that sweet moonlight. And for a Jong time we talked towethe: “Suddenly @ great uproar of big gune and iittle guns broke out from a Awtance over toward our right. We went on with our harmonizing, thinking It was some accident~séme explosion. But the firing continued, growing Mercer, an@ there came to our ears wild shouts of men. It might mean @ sortie; we recoghized this and in @ moment we all became again the agents of War. WV saluted each other gravely, and withdrew, each man to his own line, and there Wulted the order to begin again the battle, even in the moonlight “T have had flags of truce to deal with, and casual meetings with Con- fefetates under other circumstances, but that was my first Blue and Gray reunion. It brought home to me the awful unnecessary cost of war, and never rhave I changed conviction (hat came to me on that night. “To my mind the uncancellable loss wae in the fatherhood of the American people. We lost some 700,000 men who should have been the fathers of a noxt generation of Americans. Those men who dled, Northern and Southern, were the sons of men’ trained to ilberty, to self government, their souls attuned to the epirit of the early American fathers, Thelr places were taken, too often, by those who knew nothing of these things and who did not Nave their tra lons. And many generations must pass before the loss of those 700,000 fathers shall be made good.” 2 ‘ the latter part of June, 198, when visiting friends at a part of our line ~ Betty. Vincent's Advice to Lovers ’ “Repent at Leisure.’ ANY young people nowadays seem to be proving the M truth of the old saying. They do get martied in haste and repent at leisure, ® I have just received a letter from a gitl who anys: “Lam very unhappy, though I have only been married two months. But I only knew my husbard @ month before I married him, and now I find [ do not care for him at all. We were married more for a joke than anything e The papers are filled every day with similar and their finales—in the divorce court, I 40 not belleve in long €ngagements, but I do belleve in a reasonably long acquaintanceship before any engagement. Surely you should know a person at least a year before promising to epend Bekty Vincent fi) test of your lite with him. Until the young man asks you to The Proper Suvpe-. marty him, he has no flwht to ton A MAN whd signs himself “C, P." opolize your attention, . wrt : What te the proper thing tor} Christmas Gift. me to order when I take @ young jady the theatre?’ GIRL who signs herselt “W. 7." lobater or Welsh rare- A Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), Ed alee Tate RS Bk oP Hen “You MIGHT DROP IN AT S00GLE -KEEPERS ‘ANDO PICK OUT ee eT eeu frie abe OME LITTLE APPROPRIATE GIFT FOR AUNT JULIA ~ “THEN, De A RUN OVER To MOSHEERYS ANO SEE J You CAN % Yes= wane You'RE ABQUT IT Go OVER BALIMANS AND ie LOOK. AROUND HAND BAG, OR A SIOZ Coma - OR A FURS NECK PIECE- OR A SHO! writes; “What shall I give @ boy of vit are all usual supper dishes, eighteen for Christmas, who ts away at school?" Why not send him a pretty sofa pillow which you can make yourself? The Engagement Rina. MAN whe signs himself “A, L." writes: “1 wieht you'd tell that friend of youre ter quit taggin’ around after| “What on earth « us, Genevieve!” | “Dis ain't a friend, WilHe. Dis is my soctal eecretary!" s you youngeters following me for?" ed so stylish, we kind of thought we'd like to ‘foller ‘ = THEN YOU MIGHT RUN ACROSS TO STACYS, AND Pick UP SOMETHING IN THE JEWELRY LINE FOR. EMMA-AND- romgh, bard labor, Be ashamed of yourself, dtm Jenkina! You have no fecling.""—Hoston Traveler, “Goodness me!" Mra, B hearing you must have! T: id aie sald When Nights Were Cold, ONTY MOLLYCODDLE clored the win- dow, Freddie Freshalt Thea they frowned at each other. “Do you mind lowering the window, old chap!” aeid Monty, “This weather's exceedingly treach- trou, and on these chilly evenings one ean't be too éareful.”” “1m the contrary,"* hs sgt What They Heard. HE Ladies’ Aid women were conversation the esting. betworn & mau and his wile, oan incott's "Hare berm to. the 1 heard her ment: did anybody ev ure they king about musitiacs, i retorted Freddie, “one can They must 4, because uty, replit Freddie, "Look at all and compare them with our splendid anc ‘They don't stand compart- ‘And out atteator Aidn’t take medicines, or hott necks with “And Things Not Gegerally Known, By John L. Hobble. Copyright, 1011 by The Prens Publishing Co, (The New York World), A WIFE is @ blessing in disguiee. ORSE sense is merely having the pon c ull for ome one been hitched up. 4s"T'00 good to be true’ was spoken « after you hi the photograph that pleases. A Heartless Father. NEED some help with my household utter," announced a Malden woman when ér husband came home the other ‘the matter with our daughter!” the wanted to kmow, ‘The idea! Why, wrt you don't Know Won't hurt you. Pain ts caused from what the doctors don't know, A WOMAN expects a man to go hand in hand with her thfough Iife, and AN, being of @ quarrelsome nature | then make @ good living with the other and having learned that it takes} yang, two to quarrel, marries, HE man who boasts of alway@ saying Just what he thinks has @ poor éx- couse for making # fool of himeelf. bosle “Our daughtet! know she's awfully delicate and she if ahe had to do eny household work. She has oi echoo) ‘Amd what? Her geacher's report shows that Jim, you would die ehool work." se making a noise jan’t doing @ bit “But ehe a the star member of her basketball team, and you know she ts eager to take the MAN blind in one eve to the Joys Just the right time doesn't get ize at the gymnasiums contest, But that's just of life is only haif living. Stepped an. 0 man—wanting @ delicate giel to engage in “Please teli me tt I may give » AN engagement ring a fow Deforé our engagement is an- A ring may be given whenever you but unless the engagement ts made publle at once the young lady will have to stand considerable questioning. A Lovers’ Quarrel. A GIRL Who signs herself “lH. W." writes: “L was engaged to a young man, dut we quarreiled, He refused to accept iny apolagy, yet he will not give | me back my pleture and letters, He | alao says I must not accept the atten tons of any one else, Does he stili love me?" I vhouldn't walt to find out, but snouta | dismiss such @ rude young man at once, Difference in Ages. YOUNG man wi signs himael!) A 2. C."" writes: } “1 am Awenty years old and in| love with a young woman four years| older than myseif. My parents object | tO o@r marriago because of the 4iffer- ence {3 owr ages. What shall I dot” 1 think you might wait @ year, and then perheps you will abree with your parents. Jealousy, A GIRL who signs herse “G. G." Thy Makes him -very thik 1 should stop itt’ . —_ y; the Quest of a Seat What aulecr a 10 talRing about | 6 Pind out about the | it ert" Mra, ©. exclatmed, | and in silemee, iC ved here last ntght.”* Alter which the three disy Vd, been out in the asking my iiitvand if vutanta retired, abashed | musigiaeduiindle Tha: Awful Change. ONNIB Kone back, oo ‘Here's a gent can't Meve she’ The Conshohocken tan grut went craay over, inciunatt i@ paked. up after a fit of Ml| remember lis wile, and refuse to be | !magine I know whom you mean, MACK, manager of the Athletics, dincmaing in Pidledeiphta: « ‘pitcher ‘a the woman le marned.! uted, nguirers Snes Confirmed His Statement S Dan Voorhees, Voorhees frequently mad 0 ion with a aveech im, Hill ‘guess anybody will admit the weople wi taken a detnk of tro belure hie ing and he confirmed Voorhees’ “Yea, ite tr they drafted us! Indianapolis ENATOR JOUN KERN of Indiana tells this about his predecessor, the late BeUalor! trying to dl more ‘enrolled 0 County, ‘that conal oy bo went into ty were Demo. ¢ front rows had came to the meet ‘statemante, “dol dire tt, Star, > ‘ "Well, be sia't, the fire man,’ he oald ‘that Diamond used {oan't rcaliag ia wife {i the athe ‘icamin he once | Thur day December 14, 1911 The Two-Gun Man The Best Cowboy Story in Ten Years By Charles Alden Seltzer (Coprriant, 2011, by ) vung Pubaeatag ts forces an Apo tacit war bet t Laviatt of Tine "ite calla surprised Wo ese i who seems on Dim again, CHAPTER IX. (Contiaued,) Would You Be a Character? | once naa sat down wi then that I'@ come ever ferent thoughts at different times. Y¥. sey your brother ain't here now?” “He left early thi cow with her orphaned calf, proved nothing. Radford m could do, except to he might from the young man's appe ance when he should find @ Two Di mond man at the cabin. But anzie to neo the brother was not the onl; reason that Would keep him waiting, He removed his hat and sat regarding it With a apeouiative eye, Mise Radford mmitled khowingly. peot I have been a a. ‘cely polite,”” “Won't you get off your mark fairly, for Miss Radford nibbied her lips with suppresse@ mirth. The subtiencss of the speech, fof) the tone in which it had been uttered was rich in interrogation, as though ite author, while realizing the pony'a dimneas of perception, Kat believed the animal had noticed Miss Radford’s lapse of hosp!- tality « “I'm thinkin’ you are laughin’ @t me again, ma'am,” he said as he came to the etxe of the porch and stood look- ing Wp at her, grinning. “oe them from twitehing. No-o. J wouldn't say that you was lqughin’ With your Npe—laughin’ regu- Jar. But there's a heap of it inalde of you-tryin'’ to it out.” “Don't you ever laugh inwa: queationed, 116 laughed frankly. "T expect there's timed when I do, “Hut you haven't lately?’ “Well, no, I reckon not.” “Not even When you thought your horse might have noticed that I had Neglected to Invite you off? “Did 1 think t he questioned, | “Of course you did.” “Well, now," he drawled, “An' so you took that tnuch interest in what T was thinkin’! I reckon people who Ienow a 16t. expressed absolute Honed. “Nobody told me | heard tt heard ma'am. T fut @& man tell another man that you Had thréatened to make Her face was suddenly convulsed, “I she “A young cowboy from the Two to annoy me quite a Mttle, unt! one day T discouraged him. His amile grew broad at this answer, | But he grew sertous instantly, | “I don't think there ts | about tn this country m: ‘You don't? Why, T bel jourage mi | “L reckon you ston to m ma'fm, 1f you want to write, [ve who writes Is a " they just e'n I can help comin’ here to see your brother, You see, they Itke tt a heap.” ‘They both Inughed, she because of the clever way In which he had turned the conversation to his advantage; he through sheer delight, But she did not purpose to allow him to dwell on the | mata, Clare = By Victor Dwiggins to see your brother. But we have dit-| unlimited bigness of ‘oulof the Infinite power morning to go]of the mysteries of life and could horseman and. the dead Two Diamond | vigiet ae St ve Mr the hills, til Radford, returned, to form whatever conclusions ft 3, vee Y | a y he responded, obeying brvod “Why, promptly; expect Muntard's been doin’ a lot of wonderin’ why I didn’t Kot off before . Tt he had meant to imply that Wa. |” vitation had been he had hit the underplay of meaning wae not the only |ma’am,” he retw you think I am jaughing?” she Lay sa wi questioned, again biting her lips to keep Point he had raised, #0 took up the thread where he off to apply his sinsiitude, e me of that ts true,” returned, ving him @ look on her acrount; “especially about a writer loving by tell pretty near what sort a man is aay crate, work. But T don‘ think one weeds to Vouk anes te tek rena be a ‘special’ kind of perwon, One must a eee rs, ray ai bas Eh wi be merely a keen observer. That Pee Thai Weer Rasrot Ben P| He shook his head dowbtfully. “I a neigh . Mary line come for the) everything that goes on a i matert Ferguson, {alld in| he returned. "Most of the thme 1 Tore with Terviatt, pane ed | lookin’ at his face and watching way he moves. Butt lon I'd never make a writer. Times mn T1008 At this country—at a nice @anset, for in- stance, or think what @ py Fe th country te—T feel like in’ * wom thin’ about it; somethin? inside of seems kind of breathiom@-like-—kind of scarin’ me, But I couldn't write about It.” She had felt it, too, and more new sem) ERBE I did," ho said.|trangcribe her though! 66 “Sometimes I'm mighty| hat it wae not exectly carcless in handiin’ the] Cvernowering realisation oF ‘ jj truth, Métbe 1 thought | Smee tne utter world; @ gro’ comsoteusnewe things; an yearning of the soul for down tl she informed him,| She aynwpathise with “He said he would be back before sun. | the knew y ho: . — Imountaing, bentnd, whieh te aie His eyes narrowed perceptibly. "Down" the rivet meant that Radford'e | iuet, then swine Y} trail led in the general direction of the “Whe ever ai Woe Aa cee te have been niles away whe 4 | anked suddenty, had been done, sheer delight. For the present thai It's ert'niy pretty, mater,” ix Bhe catne closer to him and an arm toward the laine. t that saffron fs Just blenting With the streak of ing the etett between these the violet tinge that has come inte sen of orange and the touching the snowoape ef the tains. A: deep yellow, the slate blue; ee tak te, se and afte. ing and duiling as the da: ge Crom the watleyer™ gee Her flashing eyed sought Ferguson's. ght had suddenly come, eer! t te the most beautiful country ip, - world!" eho wee sired eg Be Mane & Whole Doom out OF on¥’ Bunch. Mor eyes fasted. "No," she retirned, “Nor can I make a whole Book ont of ently one character, -But 1 am suing tr try and draw : Wat's ins ae iin tal ome teat snark Stora in tt 2% 4 to. have. the a a6 fy Mae talk Cy be Maturalty,” 0 suddenly fooke® ih 8 Wieninennn expreseton A ti) net be an Master: swagaer through the of the scart péesple irito t Personalijy. 5 wn ao eels Wee will dayth! jer the manne: i § tr te care-tree bencnarse + @ You got Your e¥s on budh” ay man?” he asked, astuting Nmvelt, (het he Knew of no Man Whd would Alt the Fequiirements she had named, ‘I don't mind telling you that I have” the returned look: at him It suddenly Suret upee fim. ‘ite orimsoned. He felt ite bot ue m to grin, tho ‘cou that the erin was Ms “It's gittin’ 1at®, ma'am," he ap turned hie pony. “1 ns be gettin’ fo the Two Diamond.” , Bhe laughed as eat Into the saddle, There was hoofs ftom around the is alee i! of many mental plotures thet 70 sag ny He had seen her fore ng Onee he ithanin e wy oe her shoulder, He had seen @ ene & punchér, pon Which she be working, representing @ mee looked very lke himself. ie ot member that he had been P sed, Did writere draw the pictures it appeared in their books? ‘his puncher was sitting in @ ehait;, one foot wae bandaged, As he w overt the girl's shoulder he saw thé ponet] forming the o of ant fgure—a win. As this aevel he saw that It was to represent Radford herself, It was « clever that the girl wielded, for the scene Wang strikingly real.’ He éven caught subtie wiances from her eyes. But as looked the ecene changed and the girl stood at the edge of the porch, her eves! u mocking mith. And then, to Ma slits » prise, @he poke, ‘IT am going to pul you into @ BOO,” she sald. othe Then he knew why she had tolerate? him. He had grown fot end embar- teased. “You ain't goin’ to put mete, any book, ma'am," he had sald. “You ain't givin’ me @ square deal. T Wouldn't love no girl that would put me into « book.” $ He had seén a sudden seorn in here eyes, “Love!” she sat, Ker lips ow ing. "Do. you really believe the 1 would allow # puncher to make love to then the scene ihad changed ooting the wend olf. want you to love lared to tt, And than,” writhed, he saw ati. other head grow! lt was the face mockery in this face also, looked It apoke. ° ‘ou'll nurse him go's he won't die It had sald (To Re Continued.) athens HIS ALI RastusWhet yo’ tink Ip de niattah © wit me, aoctah? s Dovtor-On, nothing but the enloken: . pox, I i Restus (getting nervous)—I ‘clare on ”" 4 i i .