Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-08-26


throughout the valley OF Virginia, as scout.
During one of his expeditions he had FOUNDED
and captured Major in the Union Army.
Not being able to carry his prisoner to camp,
he conveyed him to a neighbOring farm
house, where he took the officers parole, and
left instructions that he was to be properly
cared for until he was able to be exchanged.
Months afterw ards, while within the Federal
lines on a scouting expedition. the Colonel
himself was wounded and captured, and being
in hybrid uniform, half blue and half home
spun, he was tried and sentenced to be execu-
ted as a spy. The circumstance reached the
ears of his former prisoner, who hurried to
Washington, made a personal appeal to Lin
coin and had the satisfaction of carrying to
the condemned and hopeless man a pardon.
While Colonel McCaull was sitting in his
carriage converting with General Loring. q
middle aged gentleman stepped out of the
crowd, and extending his hand, said: "Colo-
mel, do you remember me 2" A quick recog-
milton and the recital of the above incidents
followed, and the reader must imagin the
| warmth Of the meeting between the two men
and their mutual friends who we're gathered
by the novelty Of the occasion, for it cannot
be described.
| NOVEL TREATMENT ON A BATTLEFIELD.
| A similar recognition occurred in the case
OF DIR. Gustave Z. Sussdorff, who, during the
war, was division surgeon in Virginia. In
one of the seven DAYS battles around Rich
mond. he had occasion to visit one of his field
hospitals where the doctors were still at work
with knife and saw in taking care of the
wounded on both sides. Among the Federals
was poor fellow whose leg had been ampu-
tated only few minutes before. but from his
cries of distress he appeared to be suffering
| han of otha obi
his pallet, DR.. Sussdorf kindly in
quired what was the cause of his trouble.
"Oh," groaned the man, 81 have such agony
between my toes" But your leg has been
cut off and you have no toes" Cant help
it," "but they hurt me all the same" and the
sufferer cried with agony. The doctor re-
fected moment and then suddenly turning
to the surgeon who had performed the oper-
alton, asked if he could recognize the missing
limb and knew where 1t was. Yes" was the
reply. at was thrown out Of the window and
buried in a trench" "Please have it dug up
at once" says SussdoH. The order was
obeyed and the leg found. mass Of gravel
was embedded between the toes. "Now,"
confined DIR. Sussdotf, "have that leg washed,
bandaged and buried by itself. This is one
of the cases recorded in the books where an
excess of nervous sympathy has produced the
pain from which the man is suffering"
The directions were followed and an hour
later the patient was as quiet as any of
his companions on the ground. While
the doctor was on his way from up
town to join his brother Confederates,
the same soldier hobbled out of the
ranks of the Union veterans on his artificial
leg, and recognizing his friend of the battle
field, insisted on enthusiastically shaking him
by the hand and making him known to his
says that it was like running a gauntlet of
beer. and if he had been a drinking man he
could have carried away a barrel. Incidents
of similar kind that occurred during the
day might be multiplied by the score.
DoNr BE TOO POLITE.
The danger of miscellaneous courtesy has
an illustration in the recent experience of one
or our city physicisns. Among his patients
is gentleman who will probably lose his arm
from poison which he is supposed to have
taken in his system by handling cigar after
it had been returned to him by a stranger
who had asked for a light. 1t is believed that
the latter was engaged in some business in
which poisonous substances are used. and
neglecting to wash his fingers, had thus uu-
consciously left trace of the poison on the
cigar he had borrowed, which, being absorbed
; in an sbraded surface, had produced the dis
astrous result referred to. If smokers could
see the filth that surrounds nine-tenths of the
men and women who manipulate the weed,
or observe the nasty fingers, and sometimes
lips, that put on the finishing touches of so.
called "Regalia," there would be large de-
msnd for cigar holders, and instead of biting
before lighting, they would use knife to clip
the folded end In the matter of cigarettes,
too, people are beginning to learn that in the
long run a heavy penalty must be paid by
} those addicted to the habit. As doctor apt
ly puts it, if the nicotine which is so often
seen on the fingers of a cigarette smoker can
so easily discolor the outside. what must be
the effect on the more delicate membranes of
the throat. lung and blood vessels. There is
about as much insidious harm done to the
system by indiscriminate and habitual smok-
ing as by the use of bad liquor.
A ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.
The marriage of a well-anown Judge in New
Orleans is another illustration of the saying
that ''truth is sometimes stranger than f1c-
ton" In his youth he WAS student in Yale
College. and while there fell in love with
pretty maiden whom he had reason to believe
reciprocated his affection. The latter was
never declared, however, for he was too hon.
oracle to ask her to share in the struggle of q
poor man until his prospects were fully de-
fined. After finishing his course, correspond
ence was kept up betwee the two for q num-
Der of months, when it finally ceased. A few
years later she became engaged to another,
and in due time was married. On the night
of the ceremony her brother received letter
from the first sweetheart, who Was now q
; prosperous young lawyer, enelosing another
to his sister, which contained formal prefer
of m arriage. The young man, probably think
ing that bird in hand was worth two in .
bush, answered BY enclosing the wedding
cards and threw the letter to his sister in the
fire. More than twenty years elapsed, dur
ing which the couple moved to South America.
Both were there taken Ill, and the husband
died. When convalescent, the widow re-
turned to her home in Connecticut. and last
winter, by the advice of her physician, went
to Florida. As the season approached for
returning home, friends suggested that they
should do so by way of New Orleans On
reaching that city they went to one of the
large hotels, and were assigned table in the