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.mediately two footmen, in the royal
livery, answered his summons.
"You »hall go at once to the> emperor,"
;he said, is a low and very ttanqnil
voice. "I will give thesft men ordem
tor carriages ".id will see that a special
- train is prepared for you the instant yon
•reach—"
•'»>, no," broke hoarsely from the
jrlncea:*. "Send them away! I—I did
not mean what I said." In a trice she
bad grown r>itcously humble, "I—I
was more than half ia jolie, my dwur
lf-fopr2ssed'•• hardly
j beLtc'reofnceaioil than thiit of (lie fugi­
tive ostrich.) " jly dc?.r, yo-.i ;>.ve quite
rifflit. l"'o'>pl\d and rent
Eoys with their tj-iunt pale faces,
The Irirnds of hurtrer sad thirst:
Men who had looked through the gates tut bell
Aod darod thi devil b±. worst
Up trooi the Mt£»lssin>t
Frost the Sairie-acarred Georgian track,
From th)* wilderness and from Gettystonrrj
Those soldier* came tofmte hack.
Are thesa the aiuae.oBe marvels;
Does the old li^ht (learn and shuxi,
AS they foUoa- the flte and tMtelfi
. la the ion; uawaverlaff ltaer
Ave, vera*! Here are the eonnAes
Wl'h brown heads tuThvd to er»7,
, And linv-whlte locks hare the gray
. Sarong la that elder day.
*u*» lert their joarh bahladUMU
la the temifBat of yeataatnaa
When aveet oat of War"* Ztittgfc cradle
SUyped Peaoe in tte teeakftsrAawa
— " •• _ ' • • " • - * '
HaUofi! Theie'saenateranaj
Unstirred in tta attee. sleep
BF «a* paadewoa tteart of the ttvmt
And the eaaaoa'a tower deep.
An amy that keeps iu nmter
On stones that as Seattle* stand.
WMi tne names of teas of taowada,
Tae never of all the Jaao.
The winds are tonrar ehamnaj
A reqniem tor theee;
Brav» atitaant uatnts thtte haimira
In the flasbintr mapli.i mta.
And the gted birda, wtnting atrafhward.
Over them patne and nat
DronHnsa»oocforkrre,above .
The flower of Staat aaA West.
A trooe to ox9aarj*a dreaaabag;
Oh, Bag that ws live to serve;
Brail that we hold BDst holy,
Never from thee well »wet-vet
Dear nac; that rallies a aatkm,
A mlshiv fiowlmtr asst.
From the hreeav, rtapuns prairtra
To tne ragtrtA mtm-VUm utmmi.
Marzaretkl Saoga^r, ia Harper's
LEFT ON Trig BATTLE-FIELD.
atwW It reels to Km Btravfc Br Tar* »*1-
. . tats *« Otaaa.
I did not fwl th* ali^htaat pain when
struck by two bullets at the same in­
stant. We were ebarging farwanL
must of the meu hurrahing as they
•wept into the eleud of smoke raised by
the two Napoleon guna. when there
oatne such a sensation as one feels
When his foot has gone to sleep. This
sensation extended to the entire body,
and I lurched about; staggered forward
a few steps, and then fell to the ground.
One bullet had entered the right leg
Just below th* hip—the other bad
smashed into the left shoulder.
I was duty conscious of the fact that
I was down, but I could not realize that
I had been hit It was a dreamy aea-
eocnt?" he asked, as he tossed thu tell of the V^att'e,
but I flew mad and called him a liar.
He would hav^ struck me, but just then
we caught sight of a ghoul silsntly ap­
proaching-
"Ah, you devil—I'll fix yoaJ" shouted
my comrade as he raised his musket
The ghoul ran away, and both of u»
laughed heartily. Then ive :wept
again. All of a sudden he began sing­
ing, His song was ,4 Capt Jinks," and
joined in with great -heartiness. We
were singing at the top oi our voices
when a party of three oc four men, hav­
ing a lantern and n stretcher, suddenly
appeared. We ceased our song, and
one of the party held the lantern down
and said:
"Hard lot, eh? WelL you Yanks are
a doggone queer lot of crittura anyhow!
We reckoned you was all holding a>
camp-meeting down yere!"—N, Y. Sun.
PEOPLE vVITH QUEER WOUNDS.
BaUWitfe
Who Stopped
Hlai
There are some veterans with ^oeer
reeorda in attendanse at this encamp­
ment One of these, known familiariy
as Comrade C3use, who serred fa» s>
Maine battery during the
the scars ai forty-eight
«d in a single battle, that a£ G*tty*>
burg. His numerous woucas resuHed
from the explosion of a spherical ease*
bnmediately in front of biat at
aaemorablv battle.
' erporal John Burns, of Ohio,
eeivea a' pension for aopeculTar
wbiebaar described in tb« pension Dwresai
as ahoC ih the hip with a barrel of say
g»r. w Burns was on guard duty at a.
anaiu railroad curve in Virginia 4htrins*
|9» latter part of the war, and wa»
struck on the hip and disabled by a bar­
rel of sugar, which was thrown sudden­
ly from tie rickety car by the ine«nen>
tarn at the turn in the road. Another
veteran who a> present is recorded in
the bureau as having stopped a Cannes*
ball with bis abdomen. He was sitting
in a tent near headquarters when a
spent cannon ball came bounding along
and struck him in the atomaeh with
rafBcient Sorce to reader him bora de.
eombat, but not to kill hum.
StiH another queer ease ia that of a
Pennsylvania veteran who wiiL «e>
doubt be found ia the «%l»»at bt*«sde"
during the parade. He was ratsdered
totally deaf by a eaan^o ball, which
whizzed by his bead in uncomfortably
eloee proximity at the battle of ttstvem
Hill. In deseribiug tae sensation ftftfl**
ward he said it felt for an instast a* ft
fifty cyclones had burst loose about his
bead The eoacussAon also paralysed
tUm for several miuutea. There Ji •ay-
Other pensioner here who receives a
monthly allowance from Uncle Sam's
tiljl/fora "horse bite oa the neek," He
was a cavalryman, and claims to have
been bitten by a vicious animal while
serving with Sheridan in his valley ride.
Th« bite resulted in partial paralysis of
the spine. -These are but a few Utos-
satioa. The roar of battle was subdued, 1 *ratf»us of the varioua and multitu-
the shouts of men seemed to coots from*ain°«* pecaliariUes of war which will
miles away, and I f«lt too tired to spec­
ulate on what was, happeaing around
me. By and by X went to sleep. I had
noticed the sun just as we moved for­
ward. It was witnin half an hour of
setting. When I awoke it ws* night
and the Stars',were twinkling brightly.
My throat was as parched as if I had
been without drink for days, and my
tongue seemed to be a stick in my
mouth. I sat up, got hold of my can­
teen, which was full of water, and
drained it to the last drop.
What bad happened? Away down on
the left a single gun was firing at in­
tervals, and here and there was a sput­
ter of musketry. I found it hard to re­
flect, but after a time it slowly dawned
upon me that there nod been a battle.
When did I fali cut of the ranks, and
why? Where was the regiment? Who
are these men lying 1 about on the
ground? Let's see, Yes, this is a bat­
tle-field. We were held in reserve an til
midafternoon. Then the brigade was
sent to Hooksr, and we formed battle
line along a ridge covered with bushes.
We pushed. down thei .slope to a creek,
over the creek to the edge of a cotton-
field. They got a couple of guns to enfi­
lade us, and we-r-we—let's see. Our regi­
ment got the order to charge. I had
just filled my canteen. We fixed bayo­
nets lying down. I remember that we
sprang up and rushed forward, and I
remember falling. Did I trip or stum­
ble?
"You, there! Are you badly hit?"
I came out of my stupor as a dream is
broken. I was sitting tip, stUi holding
my empty canteen. , The soldier who
had spoken was lying on his elbow ten
feet away. He had been shot in the
knee.
"Can you crawl?"
"Yes, of course."
"Then get a canteen from oae of
those dead men for me.
be repre&eftited at the Grand arssy
eampment —Washington Post,
OldttarCowirA.de*.
Joseph Morrison of Clinton, I1L,
came into the headquarters tent of the
Seventeenth corp* and said he wanted
to register. While waiting his turn ti.%
the book Dr. Littlewootf of that city,
who served in the Twentieth Illinois,
looked at him rather suspiciously, then
got up and walked around and took hint
in from th* other side. Then he tapped
him on the shoulder and remarked*
"You were at Fort Hency end Fort
Doaelson, weren't you?** "Oh, yes, 1 *
came the answer, and then the strange*
began to look. "Took part at Shilob,
didn't you?" continued Dr. LhUewood,
"and the capture of Vicksburg and th*
march to the sea?" "Of course I did,
and so did you, and—wall. Til be
—if it istft Littlewood." shouted tb»
stranger; as he jumped from his seat
and made a rush for his old comrade,
whom he had not seen since the day.
they were mustered out after serving
in the tame company during the war.
Maybe they were novdelighted.—Wash­
ington Tost
SMALL SHOT.
THE largest number of men enlisted
from the thirteen states of America,
during the revolutionary war was 69,-
761 in 1776. The aggregate of troops
furnished the Union army in the war of
1801-S5 was 2,320,272.
PBOBABI.V the tallest G. A. R. veter­
an is \Villiain P. Boyne, of Green coun­
ty, Pa, who stands seven feet in his
stockings. "During the war he was a
private soldier in the Twenty-second
Pennsylvania cavalry.
ON-K of the old soldiers who was in
Washington during the recent reunion
carries on his body forty-eight scars,
and exhibits an empty coat-sleeve and
I made a move, and then for the first! *» artificial eye, all the result of a
bursting shell at Gettysburg, H»
time felt the pain of tny wounds and
realized that I was helpless. The
knowledge frightened me, and I be­
gan to shout for help The wounded
man laughed at me llis paroxysm had
passed away, while I was lying in a
stupor.
"Keep quiet!" he commanded, as he
began to move himself toward m% "If
you call out that way some ghoul wi!l
come along and knock you on the
head!"
My fright passed away as he drew
nearer. There was a dead man between
us. He stepped and procured 'he poor
fellow's canteen, and as he finally
reached me, hitching along on his back
by the ust cf one Jeg, we drained it be­
tween us. I had not recognized h's
voice, but. I now found that he belong*
ed to my own company.
"How many dead bodies «aA you
name is J. F. Chase, a veteran of the
Fifth Maine Cavalry.
THE late Gen. John Pope, by dating
one of bis orders "Headquarters in the
saddle," prompted the confederate com­
mander, Robert EL Lee, to perpetrate
what was said to be the only joke of hia
life. "What can you expert" he ia
I credited with saying, "of a general who
I puts his headquarters whore his hindV
j quarters ought to be?"
j GKN\ L-0SQ8TOKKT, one of the most
famous of Lee's corps commanders,
speaks in high praise of the b avery
and skill of the late Gen. John Pope,
1 whose qualities he had good occasion
to appreciate and remember. Loag-
strect says that no one could have dotra
better under the circumst&tices than
Pope in the struggle of August, USSS, *%.
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