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Sharp County record., 1880-07-29

we trail arms and withdraw at double.
quick. One company has been wiped
out of eXiStence-one man out Of every
eight in our ranks is left to mark ouI
battle-line.
Fall back and fight. A quarter of a
mile down the road we form anew, our
tanks protected by swamps. They are
coming after us, rendered more wary,
but at the same time more desperate
and determined. They cannot use cav
airy here, but they push forward line
after line of infantry, to be checked,
broken and hurled back by a fire more
hot and steady than has been seen on
the front OF whole brigade.
Fall back! They are pushing cavalry
and infantry along a by-road to cut us
off. leave your dead and wounded"
How many this time? We have fought
twenty minutes and lost forty-two men.
Double,qu for half mile. and we
form in the bend of a road. They can
not flank us on the right, but the left
and front are open for both cavalry and
infantry. Here is there chance. They
file to the right and mass in the fields.
Brigade after brigade wheels into
place-batteries rush into position. and
we are sullen and silent, while a whole
division masses for battle against mere
handful!
Here come their skirmiSherS! They
are feeling our position. They skulk
and creep and crawl and dodge, and
emboldened by our silence battle-line
moves after them. The creek below us
is our dead line. Every man says so to
himself, and not gun is fired until the
purling waters wet the enemy's feet.
Then there is a crash-a reeling to and
fro-anG the waters of the creek are
damned back by bloody corpses!
Fall back for a new line! Who is not
with us as we move away? Twenty
four of the handful mark the point
where the enemy came nearest. Eigh-
ty-siX-forty-two -twenty-four! One
hundred and fifty-two men gone from
our handful, and yet darkness is long
way off! Fall back and fght--fght and
fall back! Every battle-line is marked
so that it cannot be forgotten. Every
hill and every bend in the highway ex-
acted toll in wounds and death. We
are fighting as the sun goes down-we
are fighting as the harvest moon sails
peacefully above the trees. 1t is only
as we see a division in line across our
path that we forget our orders to die
with the rear guard, and pass through
to find the army in position to beat
back whatever dareS attack. Three
hundred and ninety-eight men will
answer roll call no more in our regi-
ment; 1913 from scarce $50 leaves 452!
Was it glory or was it murder. Detroit
Free Press.
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The Chinese Forces.

THE Moscow correspondent of the
Coloqne Gazette gives some particulars
concerning the Chinese army, which,
it SAYS, it has derived from trustworthy
sources. 1t numbers not more than
100000 men. Only 100000 infantry
and 50, 900 cavalry can be considered as
the active army; the rest perform garri-
son service. The strength of the troops
exists, however, only on paper, as the
greater portion is sent on furlOugh by
the commanders, who pocket in conse-
quence large sums. Notwithstanding
the improvements made since 1860 in
the army, it is not in anyway to be
compared with a European army. In
its first organization it proceeded out
of the eight small ManchoO corps, with
the help Of which China was conquered
at the beginning of the seventeenth
century and the present dynasty eStab-
lished: With the eight Tartar and
eight Chinese corps which we're formed
later, China had an army Of about lOO,-
600 men. Only a small part of this
army has European rifles, and is drilled
to some extent by English and French
officers; the greater number have no
other arms but heavy swords, lanceS,
and even bows and arrows. The
guards, formed at the beginning of the
eighteenth century, have no other task
but to protect the residence and the
family OF the Emperor. This guard
is composed of six battaliOns of
infantry, of which four are armed with
reech-loaderS and two with 6-foot long
Guns, for the use of which two men
are required-on to fire and one to
serve as prop. The guards, numbering
altogether about 1900 men, have also
1000 cavalry and a Russian mountain
cannons as artillery. Besides this army,
which may be considered the nucleus
of the Chinese forces, there exists also
a Provincial army, the Luch-ing, or the
army of the green colors, which, as
China has IS Provinces, is composed of
IS corps. This army is reported to
number $500 men, but the part of it
armed and drilled in the European
manner and garrisOned in the large
towns consists of not more than $4,000
men. As to the Chinese fleet, it should
not irrespective of the untitness of the
officers-be estimated. with its II we'll
constructed and titted-out large war
steamers, three frigates and Is gun
boats, so lightly as it generally is. The
correspondent adds that, nOtwithStand-
in n tho wool lynacc of rho RuSSian 1Otillo
IN the Pacific, an attack on the Rus
sian port of Vladiwostock can be i'm
agined just as little as Russian landing
near Pekin, which is now in a better
state of defense than at the time of the
Anglo-French landing in 1860. An at
tack on Kuldja may also be rendered
difficult by the circumstance that the
Russians have found in the Dunghan
devoted alfies.
Sharp County record., 1880-07-29
REVELAITON

Now LET the blessed audient sphGcS
Grow vocal through the pulse o nlght,
And bring to my entranced cars
The harmOnies of pure delig1
Earth's passion throbs are Chatileu 10 resi-,
The stars flame out like sOIehh pIreS,
Pale CLEANS the waves phOSHioIeht CREST
As torches die in tlickeringlreS'
Naught but the heavens lie)yerhead;
Naught but the soul alOE WIN WIN pou'
The night wind stills its az Ileap'
And silent dews lmpear INC Sou'
Could l but stray beyonithe spell
Of this my conscious @ IN SnuiIh
One moment with the HSIhal GMcil
Far from the hOlIOwPhere ol paih'
Tbcn ebouId baor ttSe Spheral tones
Rraai[ o'nr thn Ggr nd narrow bound;
The inuermOSt that pusic oMhs'
Deep silence budding ln'o souilu'
The MIGHTY void w,Illd flame with thought,
As dawn unon tl1 front of night
show worlds and ans with spirit fraught,
And letter the geat vault III lgnt. nd
Augusta LGf'Cu' III W. l. EOoItHtJ fOoC'
Sharp County record., 1880-07-29
In the Heart of the California Alps.

EARLY one bright morning in the mid
die of Indian Summer, while the glacier
meadows were still crisp with frost
crystals, | set out3gom the foot of
Mount Lvell, on my way down to YO-
semitic Valley. l had spent the past
summer, and many preceding ones, eX-
ploring the glaciers that lie on the head
waters Of the San Joaquin, Tuolumne,
Merced and Ovens Rivers; measuring
and studying their movements, trends,
creyasses, mOraines, ETC., and the part
they played during the period of their
greater extension in the creation and
development of the landscapes of this
Alpine wonderland. Having been cold
and hungry so many times, and worked
so hard, was weary, and began to look
forward with delight to the approach
ing winter, when | would be warmly
snow-b bound in my Yosemite cabin, with
plenty of bread and books; but tinge
of regret came on when / considered
that possibly | was now looking on all
this fresh wilderness for the last time.
TO describe these glorious Al lps, with
their thousand peaks and spires dipping
far into the thin sky, the ice and snow
and avalanches, glad torrents and lakes,
woods and gardens, the bears in the
groves, wild sheep in the dizzy heights
these would require the homework of q
whole life. The lessons and enjoy
ments of even single day would proba-
bly, weary most readers, however con-
sumingly interested they might be if
brought into actual contact with them.
Therefore, | am only going to offer
some characteristic pictures, drawn
from the widest places, and strung to-
gether on a strip of narrative.
Few portions of the California Alps
are, strictly speaking, picturesque. The
whole massive uplift Of the range, four
hundred and fifty miles long, by about
seventy wide, is one grand picture, not
clearly divisible into smaller ones; in
this respect it differs greatly from the
older and ripper mountains of the Coast
range. All the landscapes of the Sierra
were born again-remodeled deep down
to the roots of their granite foundations
by the developing ice-hoods of the last
geological winter. But all were not
brought forth simultaneously; and, in
general, the less separable are they into
artistic bits capable of being made into
warm, sympathetic, lovable pictures.
Here, however, on the headwate1S $
of the Tuolumne, is a group of wild
Alps on which the geologist may say
the sun has but just begun to shine, yet
in high degree picturesque, and in all
its main features so regular and evenly
balanced as almost to appear conven-
tional-one somber cluster OF snow
laden peaks with gray pine-fringed
granite bosses braided around lis base,
the whole surgingfree into the sky from
the head of a magnificent valley, whose
lofty walls are beveled away on both
sides so as to embrace it all without ad-
mitting anything not strictly belonging
to it. The foreground was now all
af1ame with autumn coIOrs, brown and
purple and gold. ripe in the mellow
sunshine; contrasting brightly with the
deep, cobalt blue of the sky, and the
Sharp County record., 1880-07-29
Bob Burdette'S Boy.

lou have no idea how much beauty
there is shut up in the country here,
and | can't begin TO tell you how much
we are enjoying it. The boy runs about
one hundred and fifty miles a day, and
wouldn't quit then if it didn't grow
dark. He is very busy. He has all the
care Of me, and in addition to his regu-
lar routine duties, he manages thou
sand things no one else would think of.
Yesterday morning before ten o'clock
he picked and ate, regardless of ma
turity, Or color, pint of wild straw
berries, followed q wagon half mile
down the road. got lost in the woods,
choked up the fountain with gravel, fell
out of hammock, stung himself with a
bee, ate some strange looking berries
that his mother knows are deadly poison,
played with a mad dog, (his aunt says
she knows it was maO, talked to
tramp who came to kiduap him, Git was
an honest farmer coming in to the cir
Gus, hut the boys aunt and mother
united on the tramp and kidnaper
theory, stepped on a red lizard, built
a dam and fell into the brook. Il helped
him build the dam; in fact | confess
that built the greater part of it, and
enticed the Prince to assist, but he fell
into the brook himself, and all state
ments to the effect that | pushed him
in and laughed at him and encouraged
him to enjoy it, are simply campaign
stories, circulated for political effect. y
Ha,C6eye Letter.
Sharp County record., 1880-07-29
Drinks for the Sick.

In speaking of the annoying thirst of
fever patients, DR.. H. H. Kane in his
"Sick Room" says, "Thirst is very
prominent and annoying symptom of
fever, and one that requires little con-
sideration. Plain water when taken
beyond certain amount is very apt to
disorder the stomach and bowels, es-
pecially in fevers where much fluid and
but little solid food is taken. Enough
water to quench the thirst would cer-
tainly be enough in most cases to dis
order digestion, or rather, further disor-
der it, and so important is the little that
remains of this function that we cannot
afford to abuse it. Small pieces of ice
held in the mouth, and allowed to dis
solve, sometimes answer the purpose,
but not in the majority of cases. Up
to certain point, the action of water
taken internally, in fevers, is excellent;
aside from allaying irritation by quench-
ing thirst, it tlushes the kidneys, carry
inc off much of the effete material pro-
duced by the high temperature. 1t has
been found that the addition of certain
substances to water greatly increases
its powers to quench thirst. This is
especially the case with acids. One
drachm of hydrochloric acid added to a
quart of water will give it sufficient
acidity to accomplish the desired pur-
pose, while at the same time it adds to
its pleasantness, and sometimes relieves
nausea The use of acids in fevers is
highly commended by some authors,
and this is, | think, the best way in
which to administer them. The same
amount of sulphurous acid may be
added to a quart of water when the
bowels are loose or there is a tendency
that way. In these cases acidulated
barley water is pleasant and nourishing.
The same may be said of toast water.
In constipation, oatmeal water may be
used in the same manner. A few tama-
rinds added to a glass of water will
often assuage thirst and open the bowels
gently"
Dr. Ringer, speaking on this subject,
says, although perhaps not strictly
relevant to our present subject, few
remarks may be made here conveniently
on the drinks best suited to fever pa
tients. To them thirst is most impor-
tant aad distressing, often causing much
restlessness and irritability, these in their
turn often increasing the fever. The
urgent thirst must therefore be allaved;
but if left to themselves to satiate their
craving, patients will always drink to
excess, which is very liable to disar-
range the stomach, impair digestion,
produce tlatulence and even diarrhea.
Theory and experience both show that
drinks made slightly bitter and some
what acid slake thirst most efectually.
A weak infusion of cascarilla or orange
peel, acidulated slightly with hydro
choric acid, was, with Graves, of Dub
lin, a favorite thirst-allaying drink for
fever patients. Raspberry vinegar is u
useful drink. Sucking ice is very CRATE
ful. Sweet fruits, although at first
agreeable and refreshing, must be taken
with care and moderation, for they
often give rise to q disagreeable taste,
and are apt to produce tlatulence and
diarrhea.n
BEACONSFIELD is said to be finishing
Sharp County record., 1880-07-29
How the Mercury

AT eleven O'Clock ves.
a citizen about seventh
der an awning on lISI
cool, placid and coDpI
mercury of his feeling, \
sixty, He might Sod
asleep, but along came \
zen about the same age1
a moment to fan his begI
Purity warm Outm d
" Well, yes, but if \
young men who are ped
here to-day had ligedip
guess they'd know what
was. l tell you that w
and no mistake
"June, ~. Now, LEI.
you a little OFF,"
d" No, sir; | remembe,
1t was so hot from the s..
that men could not wori
and hundreds of cattle
heat.
You are off just a y.
other, beginning to wake
in 1928. / remember il
for office that fall"
Il can t help about 70
office. | know it was in
broke my leg that year
Il don't care ii yc
neck!' exclaimed the Q:
curry. rising 70 eiglty-}1
single jump. 81 guess
year | ran for OiliceI"
Il say it was in '29 d
diary to prove it!'
" And I've got two diG
was in '28! You are talk
pioneer, sir!'
" And so are yOu-Of
the wolves howling be.
born! Don't imagine tA.
all!n
&" What's the dispute!
toner who came out Of t.
"Why, sir, I've been c
that person there!' reI
"If | wasn't SO old FAD
tracksm
"And he's called me
the second. "l'm fyeyeS
is, but if he wants to II
me I'll clear him OF the
was in 1927 ..
1T WASH t; it was in z
"Look out!'
"Look out yourself
"Don't tick my nose a
you!" !,
Don t push me back
injury!'' ,,
And bat for the yoIIl 1I
two old pioneers WOall a
each other about a IL
neither probably had G CO.. o..
years, and which douO',
deal cooler than any o.
ever saw. They started
directions to hunt up C
prove each other taIslLl
ture they won't hl'cn Il,
other on the street caI al
from the same soda u
know it, and seeing ca, y.
the street will groWI ou
"'There shoG d be d
such an old liar from rlIl
Detroit Free Press.
Sharp County record., 1880-07-29

white of the TtcE' fock,sAla5 ala y
Inrougn was asdn the midst h Ir(
tsiSs miS seen enIE pouring 3,i! tGpo'p
changing back assin ! ~ N
ing in white cascs5t, s5u Q n
snow; 81 gliding RIGHT = :
the granite bosses as' a ! III
through Il the smooth Iea y
the valley, swaying .. y
to I?! side with calm, s st5e
dipping willows and d. ,9 Y
groves of arrowy pips. ss
its whole eventfuI ,ellr coo. /
or SLOW singing loud frl J
ing the Landscape Tf wifi
tion' and manifestinDr, D,p "
Its sources in ever,
tone. ''y Ed
.1,u Pursuing my lonelr |PP''
valley, | turned AGAIN BIl
on the glorious Ipjct1k'cf
my arms to inclose }
After long ages Of gaE d
ness beneath the giSac:E q
shine and storms, it ,I0|
I!7 ready 9I and waiting fort le!
like yellow wheat 70, las
LEO l could not help wis rer
that artist. had to ! ib'
ever to take it into nr, sh
ate after rounding a pred sic
that puts out from tbe Iev
valley, every peak v9S,Ei,
and | pushed rapidlv m
meadows over the ditre
waters of the Mercei ad,
and down through Nov
that clothe the stope,dIto
arriving in Yosemite n
which with meis aagt1 IS
IN Harper'S MOnthE Il
Sharp County record., 1880-07-29
A Dried.up p'

WHERE at one time, y
(Nev.) Leader, was RuoI
now not a drop of water ~
years ago this sheet Of wv W.
eighteen to twenty n'y
varied in breadth ron olDnIirI
two or three miles anu
places was very degp ,3Er,
fed by numerous sP1lnfS' Panf rs
of Ruby Mountain, lh't 's,lr IN n
body Of water in Ea'S,s'b Y S,, bs
some years past j. it t.. D., =. i h
drying up, until ,,gs IT. n',' fcrii 70
appeared, No !s.nrd. ca,'si !, Tbi
ance can be asslgneu' euu.'ider.
of mountains IS O0 40 Ri
and finest between w TersI
tains and the Sierra loj 0iT \
sides being well woooSir g,io 4
best watered mouli''
vada. ~
Sharp County record., 1880-07-29

WHAT does the pupil of the eye
Studyp
Sharp County record., 1880-07-29

BEACONsFIELD is said to be finishing
novel that he began long ago.
Sharp County record., 1880-07-29

cocoa-nuts filed with hcv eoS5 &
milk, and the way IA''
puzzle to the doctors
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-28
COMPLIMENTARY.

In recent Washington letter to the Hous-
ton Telegram, the correspondent of that
paper remarks: at is gratifying to Texan
to observe tae respect shown TO the menu
bers from that State and the high position
they occupy in public estimation. The
older of these have been often spoken Of
heretofore in the letters from your cores
pondent. Among all the younger members
of the House there is not one who has crea-
ted a more favorable impression for his in
dus,ry and worth than Hon. DIN Wellborn,
the able young Representative from the
Third Texas district. While his course 10
the House has constantly been marked by
becoming modesty, he Is always active and
wstchfal in behalf Of his constituents, and
neglects no effort by which his district or
State may be benefited. An old member
who served as member # Congress many
years ago remarked recently that Colonel
Wcllborn appears very much like Stephen
A. Douglas did when he first met the latter.
feel that l can safely predict that our
young Texas representative will at no dis
tant day, like the Little Giant Of Illinois, oc.
cupy n prominent position as leader of his
party as he now does as an able and faithful
representative of bis section and people"
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-28

DALLAS, Tex, April 70, 1850.
Whereas. II has pleased an Allwise and,A
merciful Providence 10 remove from "ur
mi lst cur brother In arms and comrade, Alli-
son Cummins and
Whereas, BY the sudden andun imely dea'h
ofhim the Queen City Guards mourn the loss
of valued friend, courteous gentleman, a
generous comrade and Jealous mem Der, be 1t
Resolved, That this company, as an organ
ization, and we, rs his comrades and brothers
in arms, will ever cherish his memory most
eacredly and will eyer look upon his vacant
place in the ranks and miss his answering
voice at roll call with sorrowful regrets. Be
II further
Resolved, That the gun OF our deceased COM
rade, our armory end company flag be suita-
bly, drapcd In nour. ing for thirty days. and
be 1t further
Resolved, That u memorial page he dedi-
Gated to his memory on the company's min
q e., and that u copy Of them be engrossed
and sent to his beroayed pareots aud relatives
as an earnest OF our coincidence with them
and of our grief at the death OF our oomrade,
and copy OF them he furnished the daily
papers OF the city for publication.
Jos. JuNISGER,
E. 4, SEYLg, COMMITTEES.
ID. HiNcNLEy.
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The unIln, the 0rnnd.wlndsor.

Probably ono Of tho most recherche md
elegant social entertainments of the soaaon
was given last evening nj tho Grand
Windsor hotel. II was had rs com.
pituitary to certain young ladies now
visiting friends In Dallas and rendered
by their gentleman friends. Until near mid
night CalIopo and Terpsichoro held sway,
and graceful forms with gracious faces thread
and glidcd through the glddy mazcs of
the dance. There seemed to be something In
tho atmosphere to enlvon the event, rs every
one evincod the fact Of real enjoyment. The
music was good, tho dancing appeared to be
unusually graceful, and the dressing, rs II
rule was in excellent tasto and attractive
style, There wasa sufficient number present
to be in accord with the size Of the hall and
of tho supper room, unless perhaps an mad
cQuotcly proportional number OF gentle
men. We would like 10 describe some of tho
truly tasty, rich and elegant
dresses that added to lovelincss n
iovolier hue, but time and space forbid.
The following named ladies were pres nj, the
list being ms complete as 1t was possible for
our reporter to procure
Miss Julia Stafford, of Nashville, Tennessee;
Miss Marian Seward, of Houston; Miss Ida
Miller, of Lcavenworth, Kansas; Miss Fan
ME Ripley of Mobile Alabama; Miss
Grace Aide of. Houston; Miss Dick,
Of Cincinnati; Miss Allie Gray, Of CAL
wort; Miss Lulu Moore, Of Sherman; Miss
Emily Bradley, of huntsville, Alabama;
Miss Lucy Crawford, Of Jefferson; Miss
Resale Fitzpatrick, of Montgomery, Ala
bama. Also the following of Dallas; Misses
Furst Rainey, jenkins, Burford, Cabell,
Knopny, Hill, Peak, Wright Simp-
son, Coughanour; and Mesdames
Harris, Of Msrshall Law, of
Pennsylvania; Walker, of Marshall also
from Dallas; Mesdamcs Morgan, ST.; Nor
gan, ir Stafford, Stanage, Hail. Mayfeld,
Conner, Morton, Fosdick, Whceock, Faw-
cctt, Beach, Whita and Wallace,
AT midnight the company filed into
the supper room and sat down
to an elegant entertainment spread for the
occasion, after which Terpsichorc again
waived her wand until the "wec sma hours
agant the twa."
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~ y - -
His First Ride on tlc rnrs

MIR. Charles Lewis, of Kaufman county,
who stopped over in this city on his return
from the Odd,Felows celebration at Fort
Worth Monday, left last evening for home,
1t was the sixty-Grst anniversary of Odd
Fellowship MS we'll MS the sixty-tlrst anniver-
sary of his birthday, which he celebrated by
riding on a railroad train for the first time in
his life, from Terrell to Fort Worth He
expressed himself rs delighted with the cars
aud says he means to celebrate his next birth
day by riding from Dallas to Kaufman on
the Nrunk Dine road.