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M0ME OTHER TIME.

BT FBEDEBICK IIAUGBITLDGE.

U trw i( should come abont Hat jott and Tom itom falling ont; Yon teal your tempw'a got the slip, And catting words are on y»ur lii>; Or if vou linger, half entlcod. To tell some stery highly spiced, About the doings, wrong and rash, Of Mr. Blank and lira. Dash;

•Why, hero's a bit of homely rhyme With co-nnol tag* and truo:

'Botoae other time, some other time— No other time trill do.*

If yon and Tom have had a tiff— For Tom is hot and yon are stiff— And when yon tnrn, and donbting stand, And think "I ought to take his band Or if poor Jock, your neighbor there, Has Kot a heavy load to bear. And just a friendly word to Jack High* make it lighter on His back;

Why. hero s a bit of homely rhyme With counsel sage and true:

*Oh, now'H the time, the only time— Mo other time will do.*

If, walking in or out of town. Yon meet with Jones, or Smith, or Brown; And Jones remarks (that friendly chap) "The crown has (jot a decent tap But "Mary's gown," you think, "is old, ADd Sammy's boots must soon be soled; Yet, all tbe same, a glass of beer Is rather nice, and far from dear

Why, here's a bit of homely rhyme With counsel sage anil true:

"Some other tfme, some other time— Some other time will do."

If Green or Gray, who scorns to shirk, Is oat of luck and out of wors. And round his door, with savage growl, The gaunt old wolf begins to prowl; Apd— though (with eggs at twopence each) The ends don't greatly overreach— You think, "I'll give a hand to Gray— I really Will—some other day ;*

Why, here's a bit of homely rhyme With counsel sage and true :

"Oh. now's the time, ths only time— No other time will do."

One wrote of old, a sage and king, "A time there is for everything; For every work beneath the sun, A season when 'tis meroly done." For selfish folly, idle play, The season is—some ether day; for loving aid and servioe true. Oh, now's the time to ma and yjii.

One word to close my homely rhyme— An earnest word and true:

"There's litMe time, there's little time, And lots of work to do."

—Leitvre Hour*.

FORTUNE AND MISFORTUNE. Br JONAS JUTTOJT.

Honest Farmer Dodson and his son Frank, who bad just attained his majority, were in tbe great city of New York. The purpose of their Yisit was to purchase some improved harvesting machinery, and some otber farming implements, which conld not be procured at their village stores. Mr. Dodson was also to meet two gentlemen from Albany who wished to purchase some property which be owned in that city.

"Wall," remarked the old gentleman to bis son, "we will take a tarn aroand town to-day and see tbe sights, nnd to-morrow we will buy the machinery, And as yon know more 'boat sech things than I»do yon can take it homo and have it all pnt together ginst my retnrn. I will have to stay here to see them dratted fellows from Albany, 'bout that property. They wrote me word to be sure and meet them here day after to-morrow."

"And we will attend the theater to-night, won't we, father?" inquired Frank,who had never seen the inside of one of those popu­lar houses of amusement.

He was conversant though with a great many plays for he was a constant reader, and Shakespeare and Byron were his greatest pleasure. In fact, Frunk's intelli­gence and general information were above mediocrity, for his father, who was very illiterate, realized the advantages of educa­tion, and being wealthy, he had given his son every advantage which erudite private tutors could bestow.

"I don't know 'bout that, Frank," replied Mr. Dodson. "I have alius been aginst sech things. I don't think any good ever comes er going to 'em. They say none er them show folks air Christians, and ever goes to church or prar- meeting. What would Deacon Smith say if he knowed 1 had been to the theater? 1 don't reckon though 'twould hurt to go once jest to see how they do, and as you are so anxious to go I guess we will go. I tell yon right now though I don't never want you to say a word 'bout it outside the family."

"All right, father, I won't," laughingly replied Frnnk. "I know, though, yon will be pleased with the performance. You are only prejudiced by what you have heard."

"Wall, I've beard enough to make me know there air not many show folkB that air deoent God-sarving Christians."

Knowing that it would be useless to try and convince his father of his error, Frank •aid nothing further on the subject. Frank bad heard of the great spectacular drama of "Black Crook," and as it was being played that week at Miblo's Garden he and his father oonciudcd to spend the evening (here. As soon aB they had hurriedly eaten sapper they hired a hack and were driven to the garden. As they entered they were crowded and pressed so in getting to the ticket office that old man Donson thought he would be suffocated, and he heartily wished he had not come. Once inside of the vast building, and occupyin g a cushioned seat he breathed freer; and with a red bandana he industriously wiped away the perspiration which flowed down his honest sun-burned cheeks. He was awed and as­tonished at his surroundings which, he thought, must eqnal in grandeur that of any theater in the world. Had Frank been perfectly familiar with the play they were to witness, and knowing his father's an­tipathy to the drama, he would have wit­nessed "Damon and Pythias," "Ten Nights in a Bar-room," or some similar play in­stead of the famous "Black Crook."

When the curtain rose upon the first act the old man who was unprepared for what he was to witness, was amazed and horror-struck; and as the play progressed he would tarn every now ana then to Frank and ex­claimed in a whisper:

"Didn't I tell you 'twas no place for de­cent folks? - Look at all them gals with their dresses 'bove their knves; don't you know no decent Christian people would dress like that? . See how brazen that gal in the red and gold dress looks!"

It was unnecessary for the old gentle­man to call Frank's attention to that flashily -attired figure, for he had seen but little else since her appearance upon the stage. He had seen a great many pretty women, bat she was his ideal of beauty. Ho occupied a seat near the stage, and Beveral times while he was rapturously feasting his eyes upon her beautiful countenance he caught her glances full npon his handsome, ffice. He felt that he could remain in his 'seat forever if he could only be rewarded by an occasional glimpse of the beaatiful girl whom his father thought so brazen. The curtain fell apon the final act, and leaving the theater, Frank and his father entered a hack and were driven to their hotel.

"Wall," remarked the old man, as soon as thny had gotten comfortably seated in the carriage, "it is fully as bad as I ever heard it was. I ain't got any better opin­ion of show-folks by a long shot. When we get home don't you ever breathe a word about my seeing the "Black Crook," fur I would be etarnally ruined with the church if 'twas known."

Frank was highly amused, but also a little vexed by his father's phlegmatic views, but he was too busy thinking of the fairy in red and sold to pay him much at­tention. The day after their visit to the theater the machinery was bought and •hipped, and Frank returned home, leav­ing his father in the city. The day follow­ing. Frank's departure the gentlemen from Albany arrived, and after Dodson had transacted his business with them entirely to his satisfaction he concluded to return home. Learning from the clerk that the depot wis but a mile from the hotel, he concluded that, as nothing could be seen from a hack window, he would walk. He had covered half the distance, and was slowly wending his way down an unfre­quented street, when suddenly turning to •lew an odd cigar sign, he slipped upon a banana peel and (ell to the pavement with

.. . a err of pain. v: "Oh! sir, are you badly hurt?" feelingly " exclaimed a young lady who was on the

point of turning into a stairway near where : he Ml.

» .»- "I fear I am. Miss. Oh! I ca.mot move i^myleg!" he cried with a groan.

. ~ *-V Three or four gentlemen who were pass-ins had stopped, and to these the young

-'.laSysaid: jl Ji "Gentlemen, please carry him up stairs,

and mother and I will see that he has at­tention, at least for the present. Comeon. I will ahow you the way; then I will run

*". and get a physician." Gently picking him up they followed her

up the stairs. A lady of thirty-five or forty, was standing in a doorway, being attracted to the door by the ^nsual noise.

"Oh mammal'«xelaimed the young lady ". apon beholding her, "this gentleman has

had a fall on the atreet near our door, and 'I fear he ia badly injured. Arrange him comfortably, while I hurry after Dr.

;Brown." • , A* tha-fiSSor's office was only around

v the com«r, she soon returned with that important personage. After a careful ex-

" nmination of the suffering man the phvsi-ciansaid:

"My man, yon have had a pretty severe fell. YewUft lag ia fcrakta justAbow

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Old Veterans' Reminiscences of the War of the Re­

bellion.

Embracing Anecdotes of Actual Expe­rience and Colloquial Ac­

quisition.

In Hampton Roads. BY JAUBS FRANKLIN PITTS.

There she comes, the monster blaok, The mysterious Merrimac,

Sweeping down to Newport News I Beat to quarters 1 man the Rnns! Bore's a tight no seaman shuns,

Ana no patriot will refuse.

Down she bears, the dreadful foo; Wooden walls beneath her blow,

Qape and rend with ghastly seam. Stout Congress and Cumberland, Flaming with destruction grand,

Sink together in tho stream.

Where's the force can stay hor back? Who will meet that dire attack—

Stand those iron sides beforo? Where's our champion ?—Lo! sho's hore! Harbinger of right pood cheer,

Dauntless little Monitor 1

Deathless strife ! Its thunders rolled Bound tho world In echoes cold,

llolling on in history's track. Sunk the ships, tho sailors gono, Who witb mntchlrss blood and brawn

Fought the monster Merrimac;

But tho colors grandly glow O'er the walls of Fort Monroe;

And In XJnion-blost abodes. North and South, and far and wide, They shall read how sailors died

For tho flag in Hampton Roads.

Dodson did not bear tbe decision,' for be bad fainted from excruciating pain. After restoring blm to consciousness thq Doctor speedily set and splintered the broken limb and took bis departure, with tbe admonition, that if tbe patient did not get along all right to let bim know.

"My dear, kind ladies," said Dodson, addressing the two women who wore stand­ing beside his bed, "how can I ever repay you for your kindness lo an old country­man! If I am not able to be carried home, I suppose I will have to go to tbe hospital. As I suid before, I am a oountryman, and not use to city ways, and I bave always had a dread of the hospital; but it seems like I am to get there afler all."

"Indeed, you need not go to the hospital unless yon desire to," soid the elder lady. "Until you are able to return home you are welcome to the poor accommodations which our house affords."

"Thank you, thank you," replied Dod­son. "I want to pay you for your kindness nnd trouble. I am'able and willing to pay you whatever you mind to charge my."

"We could not think ol receiving pay for only doing a Christian's duty," replied the young lady, softly.

"Tbank'the Lord I am in a Christian's house!" said Dodson, reverently; "but I tell you, my kind friends, if you will not let me pny for my board I will have to leave here if I bave to crawl to the steps and roll down."

"Oh, well, you can pay your board if you wish," said the elder lady; "but re­member it is not required of you."

"All right, I will stay then, but I expect I had better send for my old woman, for sbe will be powerful oneasy if I am not home by to-morrow. Miss , I de­clare I have never larnt your names, nor have you larnt mine. My name is Eben Dodson."

"My name is Fanny DuPont, and this is my mother," soid the young lady, sweetly.

"I was going to say, Miss Fanny, that I would be ever so much obleeged to you if you would take a message to the telegraph office for me. And I would like for you to get a carriage and meet my wife at the depot."

"Certainly, Mr. Dodson; it will afford me pleasure to accommodate you."

So the message was written and carried lo the office; and just before train time Funny secured a back and went to the de­pot after Mrs. Dodson, whom sbe recog­nized without any difficulty, as Mr. Dod­son had accurately described her. The old lady was very much excited, but Fanny re­lieved her fears by assuring hor that there was nothing serious tho matter, and that Sir. Dodson would be up and about in a few weeks. Tbe old lady and gentleman were as delighted to see each other as if tbey had been separated a month instead of only three days. Mrs. DuPont and Fanny did everything in their power to make* the old couple comfortable and to feel at home. Fanny contributed greatly to the old man's happiness by her exquisite music on the guitar, and by read­ing to him occasionally. Mr. Dodson wondered why it was that Fanny never came into his room after supper. About a week after the accident to Dodson, as Fanny was in tbe act of setting a glass upon the table from which she had banded him some water, he said; "I don't like to be inquisitive. Miss Fanny, but several times 1 have heard you speak about going to rehearsal, and I would like to know what that is."

"Why, you see, Mr. Dodson, I have lately been playing on the stage, and I bave to rehearse, or practice, in the evening what I am to play at night."

"You don't mean to say you play in the theater?" inquired Dodson, his eyes wide open with amazement.

"Certainly," replied Fanny, who, notic­ing his astonishment, continued: "Iassure you, Mr. Dodson, that necessity is what compelled me to go npon the stage. We never knew what poverty was until about four years ago. Father was very wealthy, and our every wish was gratified; bat he lost everything specu­lating, and when he died we bad to de­pend upon our own exertions for a living. Mamma soon grew too feeble to sew, and as I knew nothing about it I had to do something else. I have wbat some call a pretty face and form and a good voice, so I had no trouble in securing minor parts on the stage. I do not like the theater, but I could not bear to see mamma suffer; so I was truly glad to obtain that kind of employment, as I knew how to do nothing else. My wages are only eight dollars a week, but I am trying to save enough of i * — that to take mnmmn to tbe country for a j certain, had. not deserted) yet could not month or two this summer. Mr. Dodson, | otherwise be officially accounted for; I saw you at the Garden the night before j third, thousands who are buried in snch a serious accident happened to you. | private cemeteries all over the North, Don't you remember a girl in a red and j who died while at home on furlough.

«wdi?SST>it , -or „ ii. | The nation's dead are buried in sev-Fanny"' you, Miss j enty.threo cemeteries, of which only

"Yes", sir, thot was me." twelve are in the Northern States. "I mean no offence Miss Fanny, but | Among the principal ones in the North

when I seen you on the stage I thought you | &re Cypress Hill, Vith its 3,786 dead; a worldly-minded, heartlesB girl; but I find | Finn's Point, N. J., which contains the you a true Christian, and one of the noblest J remains of 2,GM unknown dead; Get-

SHOT AND SHELL.

Facts and Figures.

O S T of the wars of ancient h i s t o r y t h a t the young men pore over in ' L a t i n a n d G r e e k w e r e not very great wars after all, compared with that fought out b y t h e i r fathers for the salvation o f

the American Republic and the cause of liberty.

Look over these dreadful figures, poung man, and consider the awful sig­nificance of the following facts:

Official returns show that about 2,900,000 soldiers enlisted during the war in response to the successive calls of President Lincoln, and of this num­ber 186,097 were colored troops.

Reports show that the Northern and Southern armies met in over 2,000 skir­mishes and battles. In 148 of these conflicts the loss on the Federal side was. over 500 men, and in at least ten battles over 10,000 men were reported lost on each side. The appended table shows that the combined losses of the Federal and Confederate forces in killed, wounded, and missing in the following engagements were:

Shiloh, 24,000; Antietam, 28,000; Stone Eiver, 37,000; Chancellorsville, 28,000; Gettysburg, 54,000; Chicka-mauga, 33,000; McClellan's Peninsula campaign, 50,000; Grant's Peninsula campaign, 180,000; and Sherman's campaign, 125,000.

Official statistics show that of 3,000,-D00 men enlisted there were killed in battle, 44,238; died of wounds, 46,205; lied of disease, 186,210; died of un­known causes, 24,184; total, 303,843. Ibis includes only those whose death while in the army had been actually proven. To this number should be added—first, 26,000 men who are known to have died while in the hands of the 2nemy as prisoners of war, and many others in the same manner whose Jeaths are unrecorded; second, a fair percentage of the 205,794 who are put iown on the official reports as desert­ers and missing in action, for those who participated in the.war know that men frequently disappeared who, it was

young ladies in the world. "You must not judge all actresses as bad,

Mr. Dodson," said Fanny, "for there are hundreds of pure Christian women who earn their living by appearing nightly be­fore the foot-lights."

"1 won't never speak against an actress any more if I live a hundred years. And as for you and your mother going to the country, we would like for you to go home with us and stay all summer, or as long as you want to. Wouldn't we, old lady?" he , said, addressing his wife who, with Mrs. j DuPont, had been sitting near the window, j quiet listeners to the above conversation. |

"Of course we would, Eben! I will be , delighted if Mrs. DuPont and Fanny will j go home with us and spend the summer." |

And so it was arranged that as soon as | Mr. Dodson was able to travel that they : would all go to the Dodson homestead; and 1 three weeks later thither they went. With j the first glance at her beautiful, childlike j face Frank recognized in her the fairy who ;

tysburg, Pa., with its 1,967 known and ],C08 unknown dead; Mound City, 111., with 2,505 known and 2,721 un­known graves; Philadelphia, with 1,903 dead; nnd Woodlawn, Elmira, N. Y., with its 3,900 dead.

In the South, noar the scenes of ter­rible conflicts, are located the largest depositories of the nation's heroic dead;

Arlington, Va., 16,264, of which 4,319 are unknown.

Beaufort, S. C., 9,201, of which 4,403 aro unknown.

Chalmette, La., 12,911, of which 5,674 are unknown.

Chattanooga, Tenn., 12,962, of which 5,974 are unknown.

.Fredericksburg,Va., 15,257, of which 2,i 06 are unknown.

Little liock, Ark., 5,602, of which had so captivated bim the night he wit- i 2,3b7 are unknown. nessed the "Black Crook." Ere the summer waned he told her of his love, and how he had loved her from the moment he had first seen her when she flitted like a vision upon the stage at Niblo's Garden. She made him happy by the assurance that his love for her was no greater than her love for him, and that she had thought of hjm daily since the night he attended the theater. They were married in the early fall, and to-day, with Mrs. DuPont, they occupy a beautiful farm adjoining Mr. Dodson's, which was given them by that kind-hearted old gentleman.

CURIOUS FACTS. A BALD-HEADED Italian and a red­

headed negro were among the curiosi­ties in an Albany police court a few days ago.

THE Indian Eiver in Florida is called the straightest in the world. A straight line can be drawn through seventy-five miles of it without touching shore.

A TURTLE caught in York Eiver, Ya., and taken to Baltimore, weighed 500 pounds. It measures nearly seven feet from the head to the tip of the tail.

A BIRD'S nest found on a roof near the United States Mint in Washington was beautifully lined with gold. The pairent bird had carried off gold dust in its feathers and shaken them out in its tiny home.

A TALKING canary has been discovered at Lowestoft, England. It belongs to a lady who has taught it to repeat several words and phrases, and to imi­tate successfully the notes of other caged birds.

A REPORT comes from Dresden, Sax­ony, of a steam omnibus, which it is in­tended to run regularly over the country roads. It is managed by two men, and carries forty-six passengers, with considerable freight.

IN a tribunal at Paris the other day the judge suggested to a wordy lawyer that he had better be brief, and that worthy responded as follows: "He is wrong, I am right, and your honor is a good judge." Then he sat down.

THE Germans are training dogs to do out-post duty in the army and to per­form all sorts of military services. In addition to the canine contingent the Prussians are mobilizing a lot of hawks for the capture of the French carrier pigeons.

A FLOCK of will geese on the wing near Chico, Cal., were lately struck by lightning and six of them killed. The dead fowls were plump and fat, without a mark to show where the electric fluid had struck them. This is said to be the first instance on record of these j birds being struck by lightning while flying.

IN Washington Territory the Indians have an ingenious scheme by which they i kill a large number of deer with btit' very little trouble. Taking some old blankets, they fasten them (it short in­tervals upon the bushed", making* a loi line of bushes so covered. Then a large area of timber, they gradi close in on the frightened deer. When the animals have reached the line of blankets they travel round in a circle like a whirl-pool, refusing to pass ths line of blankets. This enables the Indians to kill them a* rapidly as tbe/ please*

City Point, Ya., 5,122, of which 1,374 are unknown.

Marietta, Ga., 10,151, of which 2,963 are unknown.

Memphis, Tenn., 16,997, of which 8,817 are unknown.

Nashville, Tenn., 16,536, of which 4,700 were unknown.

Poplar Grove, Va., 6,190, of which 4,001 are unknown.

Kichmond, Va., 6,542, of which 5,703 are unknown.

Salisbury, N. C., 12,129, of which 12,032 are unknown.

Stone Eiver, Tenn., 5,602, of which 288 are unknown.

Vicksburg, Miss., 16,600, of which 12,704 are unknown.

Antietam, Md., 4,671, of which 1,819 are unknown.

Winchester, Va., 4,559, of which | 2,365 aro unknown.

In all 300,000 men who fought fqr the stars and stripes find guarded graves in our national cemeteries. Two ceme­teries are mainly devoted to the brave men who perished in the loathsome prisons of the same name—Anderson-ville, Ga., which contains 13,714 graves, and Salisbury, with its 12,126 dead, of whom 12,032 are unknown.

Of the vast number who are interred in our national cemeteries 275,000 sleep beneath the soil of the Southern States, and 145,000 rest in graves marked "Unknown."

The total number of men furnished to the Federal army by the United States during the war, under all calls, was 2,688,523. The total number of colored troops in the Northern army was 123,156. The heaviest loss by dis­ease was suffered by the colored troops. While but 2,907 died in action and of wounds, the enormously large number of 26,301 died of disease. Among the white troops the proportion of deaths in action and from wounds to the deaths from disease was about one to two; among the colored troops as one to eight Of the colored troops enlist­ed one out of every seven died of dis­ease. The proportion among the white troops was one to fifteen.

Now that we are brushing up these figures, it will be well enough to re­member how many men were furnished by each State, and the following list will show: Maine 71,746 New Hampshire 34.605 Vermont 35,256 Massachusetts 151,785 Rhode Island ;... 24,711 Connecticut 52,270 New York 455,568 Now Jersey. 79,511 Pennsylvania 360,326 Delaware 13,651 Marvland " 49,730 West Virginia 30,'003 District ol Columbia 16,872 Ohio 317,133 Indiana 193,147 Illinois 258 217 Michigan 9ojll9

Jiicona n 96,118 ince3ota 25 024

75,860 "W5ri 108,778

**en'.:ieky 73,540 "Km.119 ; 20,097

To il 2,1V-8,062 In the number of her sons sacrificed

ia the cause of the Union Vermont led a'l the other States by a heavy per cent., with the exception of Kansas.

Vermont's proportion per thousand •oatributed to tbe total of deaths ia

action was 58.22; that of Ohio 36.55: that of New York 35.68. Massachusetts was 47.76; Iowa, 45.44.

In the proportion per thousand of deaths from disease Iowa led with a percentage of 114.02, and Vermont fol­lowed with 91.81. Ohio's percentage was 46.83. The proportion of deaths from all causes in the troops of eaoh State was as follows: Maine, 1 in 7;< New Hampshire, 1 in 7; Vermont, 1 in 6; Massachusetts, 1 in 9; Ehode Island, 1 in 11; Connecticut, 1 in 10; New York, 1 in 12; New Jersey, 1 in 12; Pennsylvania, 1 in 12; Delaware, 1 in 20; Maryland, 1 in 26; Ohio, 1 in 26; Indiana, 1 in 8; Illinois, 1 in 7; Michi­gan, 1 in 6; Wisconsin, 1 in 7; Minne­sota, 1 in 8; Iowa, 1 in, 5 (nearly 6); Kansas, 1 in 5; California, 1 in 20; Virginia, 1 in 0; Kentucky, 1 in 19; Missouri, 1 in 9.

Again, the young man must not for get as he reads of the great battles of history that few of them can compare in magnitude with tho great battles of the civil war, and that the battles of that war were the bloodiest in all the history of wars in the proportion of killed to those engaged. Waterloo was one of the most desperate and bloody fields chronicled in European history, and yet Wellington's casualties were less than 12 per cent., his losses being 2,4:-;2 killed and 95.S wounded out of over 100,000, while at Shiloh one side lost in killed and wounded 9,740 out of 34,000, while their opponents reported their killed and wounded at 9,616, n aking the casualties about 30 per cent. At the great battle of Wagram, Napoleon lost but about 5 per cent. At Wurzburg the French lost but <H per cent., and yet the army gave up the field and retreated to the Rhine.

At Racour, Marshal Saxe lost but 3£ per cent. At Zurich. Massena lost but <*> per cent. At Lagriz, Frederick lost but (H per cent. At Malpla niet, Marl­borough lost but 10 per cent., and at Ramiifies the same intrepid commander lost but 6 per cent.

At Contras, Henry of Navarre was reported as cut to pieces, yet his loss was less than 10 per cent. At I.odi, Napoleon lost but 1J per cent. At Valmy, Frederick William lost but 3 per cent., and at the great battles of Marengo and Austerlitz, sanguinary as they were, Napoleon lost an average of less than 14i per cent. At Magonta and Solferino, in 1859, the average loss of both armies was less than 9 per cent. At Konigratz, in 186S, it was 6 per cent. At Worth, Specheram, Mars le Tour, Gravelotte, and Sedan, in 1N70, the average loss was 12 percent., while at Linden Gen. Moreau lost but 4 per cent., and the Archduke John lost but 7 per cent, in killod and wounded.

Of the gentlemen who were at West Point during tho period of cadetship fifty-six were killed in battle, and, esti­mating tho rate of killed and wounded at one to five, two hundred and eighty were wounded.

In addition to the vast list of dead from the war must be added those who have died from wounds received during the war. The killing is still going on about as rapidly as ever, and the men are dropping daily from "wounds re­ceived in action," who ought to live for long years yet. The figures that I have given really give but a glimpse into the sad truth of the awful mortal­ity of the war that saved the Union. I hope the young men who read this will feel no more impatience because the sacrifices of the great war are talked about, and they will cut out the figures I hare collected for them and save them for reference whenever they feel that way. F. D. M.

Fun on Wooden Legs.

During the war two young men, brothers, enlisted in a Massachusetts regiment, and did good service until at one of the battles in Virginia both were wounded, one losing the right and the other the left leg. There was a good deal of fun in those days, and tho loss of a limb or two did not suppress it. In fact they were then and are now noted for their lively, pleasant dispositions. Of course each is supplied with a cork leg

full of all sorts of springs and appliances, and manage to get around very easily. But these cork legs are the cause of some very amusing incidents. A few years since one of them, then residing in a neighboring city, attended a high-toned evening enter­tainment to which some of the ladies had come unattended by gentlemen, and as it was late before the party broke np, his nat­ural gallantry induced him to act as escort to one, a bright and intelligent young lady, and offering his services they were accept­ed, and the pair started for her resi­dence, gayly talking over the events of the evening, and had accomplished nearly half of the distance and arrived at the middle of a rather lonesome street when there was a snap and the combination of cork, steel springs, straps and buckles that furnished the walking-gear for one side went out from under him. An important strap had broken and our friend was hung up under rather distressing circumstances. It was near midnight and few were passing. But the young lady was plucky and she would not leave him and he could not go with her, and neither wanted to call up the resi­dents, so they sat down on the steps of a house near by and waited. The delay was not particularly objectionable to either, but the uncertainty of its duration was. In the course of an'hour, however, a friendly hack came along and relieved them from their dilemma, and each arrived safely at their homes.

At another time the two brothers arrived one evening in Newburyport and put up at a hotel which was for some reason so crowded that they were obliged to occupy a double-bedded room with two strangers. The brothers retired first, and in the spirit of fun one took the two cork legs and placed them in the bed so that the feet pro­jected several inches beyond tho foot­board, and then lay there awaiting results. After a time the two strangers were showed to the room, and proved to be two country­men. They had nearly completed prepara­tions for re tiring when one of them stepping along to extinguish the light caught sight of the feet. Glancing on the bed he saw that the man was resting his head on the pillow. He turned to his companion, re­marking, "Great Scott! See what they have put in this room with us! Here is a fellow eight feet long!"

Frightened on Picket.

Our command lay six miles from Nash­ville, on the Nolansville turnpike. The story had been circulated through uamp and throughout the brigade that in front of my regiment a picket had been killed every night for two weeks. It was my lot to go on that picket watch one night.

It was dark when we relieved the pre­ceding watch and mine began—10 p. m. How still everything was. It was a corn­field where I stood, while in front was a large meadow. I could ns^keep my mind free from thinking of the fate of that picket post for the past two weeks. In a little -while it seemed as if I had been on that post about forty-eight hours and no relief had come. You see, my heart and my thoughts were both on the double-quick, and I measured time by them.

Hark! A puff of wind rattles those serried ranks of spookish sentinel corn­stalks standing like grim guardians of the grave. It was a spookish place,-1 can as­sure you—what with those dead lines of corn-stalks and the aforementioned story.

I wheeled to confront the noise. As I wheeled I felt my hat rising on my head and my heart rising in my mouth, trying its best to get out and see what was going on. Fact is, I was ghostly soared. I ex­pected the same fate which had befallen* my predecessors. I was on the lookont to prevent it; and now when I heard the noise of the coming enemy I was too badly scared to accomplish anything liktfgood work. "I looked from whence the sound had

come.. I involuntarially raised my gun. x es, there he came. I had tbe drop on him. He, evidently, had not yet caught sight of me, but was on the watch. He was not two rods distant. What stealthy movements. Such were the thoughts that coursed through my mind as I then stood at ready arms. I was ahead of him, that was evident. Influenced by suob feelings how my heart cooled down—my hair, too,

had lost its Btiffness. 1 was a man agaia. The more I looked at that fellow in tho

corn the plainer I saw him. It was too dark for anything but outlines, but these were painfully distinct—man and gun. How glad I was it was dark.

I advanced. I was within a rod of my enemy, ready to fire on the instant, when the moon struggling through a rift of the cloud revealed my man. His head was a great ear of smut-corn, while in the dark­ness husks and stalks outlined the man with a gun so that I could see him plainly.

Daniel Pratt.

Among the war reminiscences of the late Daniel Pratt, not the least humorous and interesting was that which occurred at one of the forts south of Alexandria in the fall of 18G2. The Fourteenth Massachu­setts Regiment, afterward the First Massa­chusetts Begiment of heavy artillery, was stationed at this place, and when the "Great American Traveler" put in an appearance, the boys—many of whom knew him, and all, of course, had heard of him—gave him a rousing time. They made a banquet for him, among other things, one of the dishes in the menu being a genuine Virginia mud pie. The pie carried on its face so sus­picious a nature that the "General" de­clined to eat it. In other respects the ban­quet was a success. The toasts and speeches were of the most extravagant character, and Daniel spread his eloquence over the crowd like gentle rain upon a thisty soil. He sojourned several days with the regiment—long enough

COMFORT CORSET

to enable the concoction and carrying out of a plot which was a serious matter to him, at least while it was in action. One of the boys thought that a little tragedy might be worked in with the comedy of the occasion. With Confederates he had written dis­patches from Jeff Davis, Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and other rebel leaders, addressed to Daniel, in which tho receipt of impor­tant information from him was acknowl­edged. These were placed in his coat pocket without his knowledge, and the first act of the drama was accomplished. Th e next was his arrest. Daniel was taken into custody by a corporal and file of soldiers, taken to headquarters and searched, and the evidences of bis guilt found upon him. His denials of knowing anything about the documents were soouted at as being vain. A drum-head court-martial was con­vened, and upon the evidenoe found in his possession Daniel was sen­tenced to death. He received the announcement of his doom with a good deal of perturbation, and was loud in his protests of innocenoe. But his doom was sealed, and he was led out, as he thought, to be shot. One of the boys had been sent out with a horse. Ho was mount­ed, and, just as the squad of soldiers were drawn up to fire upon the "Great American Traveler," he rode into the lines in hot haste, flourishing a paper in his hands. It was—that is, it purported to be—a pardon signed by President Lincoln, and stayed the execution. One of the conditions of this pardon was that Daniel should imme­diately go North, and not be found south of the Potomac during the war. He ac­cepted the happy respite and its conditions, and it is said that the wuy he left the camp of the Fourteenth and crossed the long bridge to Washington illustrated that his title of the "Great American Traveler" was not an unmerited one.

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Raphael Semmes.

Colonel Capers tells the following graphic story of the makeshifts and expe­dients resorted to by the Confederate effort at government to get a place among the nations of the earth, in a recent issue of the New York World:

The first to report for duty was Raphael Semmes, afterward commander of the Ala­bama. He was on hand before they had a deck for him to stand on, and worked for a short time in the Treasury Department at Montgomery. A merchant vessel was soon bought, and Semmes, after inspecting her, returned to Montgomery nnd an­nounced to his fellow clerk, Colonel Caper:

"She is a good craft, sir; a good craft. When I have strengthened her timbers and cut her down to fighting trim, my word for it she will do brave work, sir."

She was accordingly altered and armed, and, with Semmes on her quarter-deck, made good his prediction to the dire cost of such as went down to the sea in ships under the stars and stripes in those days. The vessel was the Sumter.

But when she was ready to sail and her register made out, it was discovered at the last moment that the Treasury Department of the Confederate States had no seal. There wasn't an engraver to be found in Montgomery, and Semmes was impatient to get his papers and be off. So he jand Col­onel Capers, aided by a handy young army Burgeon, and at the expense of two or three pen-knives, carved a rude seal npon a piece of boxwood which met the immediate need. Semmes got his register, and the Sumter set sail under the stars and bars. There was quite a time over the adoption of the flag. A considerable number were in favor of sticking to the old flag, with slight mod­ifications. but Mr. Miles, of South Caro­lina, Chairman of the Congressional Flag Committee, argued at length in his report against this sentimental idea, and added, by way of a clincher, that Liberia and the Sandwich Islands had flags very similar to ours, and the committee was not disposed, therefore, if for no other reason, "to keep, copy, or imitate it. They have no inclina­tion to borrow second-handed what has already been pilfered or appropriated by a free negro community and a race of sav­ages."

The very first Confederate Hag that the sun ever saw, Colonel Capers testifies, was hoisted by Judge Clitheral at Montgomery. He was in the confidence of the flag com­mittee, and as soon as they told him tho design selected he got his, lady friends to­gether and had one made. On the day the committee was to report to Congress he mounted the roof of the Capitol, fixed his flags to the halyards of the staff and waited.

The recommendation of the committee was approved. He got his signal from be­low, and in the twinkling of an eye the new ensign of the South was floating proudly in the caresses of the gentle March wind. The news spread quickly through the city, and when Judge Clitheral shouted down from his lofty perch, "Three cheers for th« Confederate flag!" the crowd answered with a mighty greeting that, it was thought at the time, must have given an earache to the bronze statue on the dome of the fai Northern Capitol.

Music and Drama at Libby Prison.

The prisoners fared rather badly, writes an old soldier in the Alta California, foi eatables until kind Providence softened the hearts of their captors, and by orders of the Confederate Government boxes oi provisions were passed through the lines, and the boys had an epicurean feast that surprised their stomachs. But it did not last long, says the General, for just after the arrival of several boat-loads of boxes, marked for different ones in the prison, the Confederate Government concluded to retain them and issued an order to that ef­fect. In those boxes received wfere many things besides eatables; different kinds of musical instruments, enough to comprise a full band,.were sent to different ones, so we had a fine one, whioh discoursed sweet music. We had a first-class minstrel com­pany, also a dramatic company of no mean dimensions. Tney were BO pro­ficient that many times the Con­federate officers would attend, and every night the streets of Richmond were crowded with people who came to listen to our band. We also gave large and select hops, made so because there were no ladies present. Our minstrel show took im­mensely, and one was forced to go at three or four p. m. in order to get in. What little wo had to cook was done in one large room, on stoves erected three in eaoh end of the room. One end was used by Chickamauga and the" other by officers of the Potomac army. We used little tin cans to boil our rioe in, and would raise up the lids of the stove a little, so that the flames wonld shoot up; then yon conld see some fifty or sixty little cans all over the stove, their owners standing around, eagerly watching their staff of life as it boiled. We easily detected a new "ar> Sometimes officers from the Potomac end of the room, their stoves being full, would sneak a can on ours. We would knock it clear across the room. Yon may think this unkind, bnt had we infringed on their stove they wonld have done the same thing.

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'•The Fair," during the past five years, and with an earnest del nation on my part to merit, by enterprise, a continuation of public jut-rouage, I have on this date, July 18, 1887, deposited with my attar neys, Parliman & Stoddard, of Sioux Falls, Dak., a bond for deed ol the following described property Keal Estate towit: Lot 7 in 28 in Gale's 3d addition to Sioux Falls. Size of house on said k 28x3(i double with 10 rooms, which I propose to donate to my custom ers in the following manner: To anjrone purchasing of me to tl* amount of $1.001 will give an interest represented by a ticket, andfo each additional dollar a corresponding ticket, and when the a mount n goods sold represented by these tickets shall have reached the rmgB tude of ten per cent, thereof shall equal the value of the property,' propose to deed the same to any person indicated by the ticket hoU ers. The method of the final distribution shall be left entirely to tin ticket holders at the final conclusion of the distribution.

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To whom it may concern: Frank C. Bowen, proprietor of "The Fair,"hMj this date, July the 18th, 1887, deposited with us a bond for deed of the abort i" scribed property, with directions that the same shall be deeded unto the indicated by the ticket holders, as above provided.

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