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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-08


AS reached the back door Of the stone
house some very German person received me
with the remark: "Oh, we can't do noting
for you here" Still pushed in, assisted by
an aDle-bodied Confederate who proved more
hospital. o than the host He had stayed In our
lines in order to be with a Confederate officer
Gen. Sibley, who was dying. | walked into
the middle room of the house, which was the
''old folks" bedroom In front was a par
Tor, the floor covered with wounded men Of
both armies. AS lay on the floor with my
head unsupported felt as IL my neck was
breaking; and when a middle-aged woman
came into the room asked her to put some
thing under my HI ad, but she did not seem
to understand Luckily, as was not in good
condition for gesticulating, / knew enough
German to say: "Etwas unter dem kopf,"
and she obligingy put some old mating
under me.
The "old folks" bedtime came rather
early. Soon after the firing had ceased for
the night my worthy German host and
hostess came into my bedroom and climbed
up on their high, fat bed. In the meantime
each soldier lying in the house had adopted
some kind OF sound which he repeated at
pretty regular intervals / can hear some
of them now as think Of IT. These smoth.
cred groans, and signs and brCAthings-none
of them very loud, but intense-recurred
often enough TO be rather Depressing Soon
there were added to the strange concert q
snore by the old man and another, a different
one. by the old woman. And SO we passed
the night, each repeating his own note Of
endurance, and the "old folks" calmly Sleep
ing through 1t all The most painful sound
was the word "watern think IL must have
been that Confederate general who repeated
IL. The clock was just as unconcerned as its
owners and struck the hours at immensely
long intervals. heard them all and they
were the only sounds was glad to hear that
night. My elderly roommates seemed much
refreshed next morning, but did not see any
thing more Of them, as they went down cel-
lar and very sensibly stayed there all the
next day, which was the day Of the artil-
lery. such noise was made that am not
surprised that persons, especially nervous,
sensitive people, should wish 20 avoid IL.
The younger woman brought me some
chicken broth, or something like il, In tho
morning.
dreaded another night in that old house.
1t quite swarmed with surgeons and chapieifu
that day, until some shells exploding quite
near reminded those officers Of duties which
called them away. After dark as Began
to dread the chorus Of wounded men. distrfssr
ing through the day, but far more 50 ~ tho
still night / was carted away IN roekiu9
ambulance and laid on straw near tie creek
My roof was a sagging piece Of canvas
which, when saturated, conducted The ram
directly upon me; and II on the next morn
ing an old chaplain who knew me had not
given me full tumbler OF whisky think
the 4th Of July then dawning would have
been my last CHARLES e. SPRAouE
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-08

LOOKING FOR THE BULLET HOLE.
So found myself wounded man before
knew it. My next reflection was that IL
hadn't hurt much. One tooth-pulling Il
worse than dozen shootings like that.
Now laid down my gun and resolved to
retire. We were not at the crest of the hill,
but little down; so in going back had
first to go up hill little Here the rip-zip
noises were good deal thicker than where
l had been; these were the same balls that
went over our heads
l saw one of our officers, and pointed to
the hole In my coat as an excuse for my
leaving the entertainments The excuse
seemed acceptable.
AS l got over the crest Of the hill the
bullets did not annoy me any more. had
obliqued to the left in retreating, having the
instinct to find that hospital flag So
passed behind part of the Sixteenth again,
and had my last glimpse of Col. Vincent.
The Sixteenth seemed to have fallen back,
but in an orderly way, so that supposed 1t
was by command.
As went on my arm was very awkward.
It hung straight down and was very heavy.
was like young mother with her first
baby and did not know how TO carry 1t.
he'd to walk slowly and felt very tired.
Probably l had bled a good deal. Away
back behind tree found soldier; he was
on the opposite side of the tree to the shoot
ing and appeared to have chill. As he
seemed to have his canteen full of water I
lay down by him and told him to pour II on
my shoulder. He obeyed with alacrity;
perhaps he was relieved at finding did not
drive him to his regiment. The water soon
enabled me to get up and go on, and went
straight to the old stone house where | had
seen the hospital flag; do not think, how
ever, went Mt all by the same road that the
regiment had come
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-08
FOURTH OF JULY SO
As It Dawned for a Soldier at
Gettysburg.
HOLDING LITTLE ROUND TOP
Military Life as Seen from the Ranks
of the Army,

In Camp and On a March-Getting Out
On the Edge of Fight-The Stage
Fright of a Battle-Green Soldiers and
Seasoned Questioning for the Fight.
Most battle sketches are written from the
standpoint of commanding general or a
war correspondent who saw and knew, or is
supposed to have seen and known, the whole
field of action These sketches are more or
less valuable contributions to history, but
they do not give the civic rehder a very
clear idea of what war really is The fol-
lowing intensely interesting sketch, written
for us by Col. Charles E. Sprague, now
secretary of the Union Dime Savings Insti-
tuition, of New York, who served at Gettys-
burg in the ranks of the Forty-fourth New
York regiment. tells what one soldier saw
and experienced IL great battle. There is
no description o. grand operations in it,
hut as picture Of real experience in camp,
on the march and on the field of battle, it is
most valuable contribution to the litera-
ture of the war.-Editor
VI all tne noHeS Unat L nave ever loved
and left, the one that has made The deepest
impress on my mind is little hut of one
room, about 6x6x6, built of pine logs, sticks,
sod, mui and canvas. 1t was built "by
days works. good many days-and the
architects, builders masons, carpenters,
plumbers and sanitary engineers were two
young fellows Eugene and y, both rather
of tn student class than of any mechanical
bent This residence of ours was situated
in the state of Virginia, county of Stafford.
Nothing in that region is described by any
closer geographical limit than the county.
This part of ''Stahfd' county held more
population to the square mile at the time
our mansion was standing than ever before
or probably ever again, since the Yankee
army, as our Virginia neighbors called u.s.
had dropped down there to stay over night,
and had lived there good many months,
"off and OIL"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-08

THE COLONEL BEFORE HIS LAST FIGHT
When we reached the line, something
unusual occurred. We were brought TO
attention; the colors, which always were
covered with cases, were taken out, the
drummers and fifers PLAYED, "Aint You
Glad to Get Out o the WildernessP while
we marched steadily in the "cadenced step"
across the border into a free state. This
made a good deal of impression ON us, some
what weakened afterward by finding that,
as to wood and water, we were not SO free
as before.
We were now in the last days Of June. On
the first day of July we made our biggest
march-thirty odd miles from sun to sun.
That day we found that there were two
kinds of people in Pennsylvania, and that
only one kind were "like our own folks, as
we said. In the afternoon we heard firing
away off ahead, and rumors reached us OF
fighting in front. By this time there was a
settled conviction in the ranks that there
would be big fight near Gettysburg.
That night we halted at midnight. The
colonel commanding the brigade Ut was the
last fight for HIM sat on his horse close to
tree, at whose foot Eugene and l had rolled
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-08

Luckily we did not have much rain as we
trudged northward. 1t is very close thing
between Virginia mud and Virginia dust,
but l think l prefer the latter. So we
pushed along pretty steadily, though Lee,
away off at the left, certainly got ahead of
us, which was good thing in the end. One
day was like another, except such little
diversity as resulted from a fight at Aide,
where we took hand with the cavalry. As
we began to make four or five crossings Of
Goose run every day, we knew we were APP
preaching the Potomac. We crossed at
Edwards Ferry, where the water wasas clear
as Lake George. We halted and rested a
few days at Frederick on beautiful farm,
where the milk house was built over the
most wonderful spring l had ever SO n,
which Dubbed out in stream as large as a
barrel. Here we heard that Hooker's place
had been given to our own Meade, whom we
knew as resolute, though not kindly
man; not a man like "Charley Griffin, !"
whom we could like, though equally reso-
lutte, because he really liked us
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-08

[The picture above represents the flag of the
Third brigade First division, Fifth army corps, Dan
Butterheld's Old brigade, which held the Little
Round Topl
The Angel Gabriel in his musical capacity
is always associated with Gen. Butterfield
in the mind of any soldier of our brigade
If the buger was not at hand, "Dan" could
even sound the call himself; in fact, there
were few things which soldier of any
grade ought to do, but that he could and
dared. But, though his trumpeted name
rallied us on many field, he was in higher
position at this time.
Mike, the regimental bugler, next lifts his
old battered copper horn to his good natured
mouth, and easy as bird out floats his lit
tie song. His overture is different one;
his musical message is addressed thus:
Forty forty four
And forty forty -four!
Forty forty four
told you so before
Come. comet come! come!
Strke-your tentl strike-y ourtents, strike-your
tents. Strike-your-tents"
And pood-hv to the old shantv
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-08

Again we heard the old familiar sound Of
"Dan-Dan-Dan-B tterfeld-Butterfeld
with his call for us to break up our camp on
the noble Maryland farm, and once more
march-northwar still Cherries were now
ripe and we ate all we could hold. l have
no doubt the acid fruit did us good on the
whole. though some Of us got badly doubled
up. We felt in good spirits too; we knew
that we were going to fight, but somehow
we felt that it was going to be different
affair from the bucking against their forth
fcations which we had tried so many times.
etallxed it over and concluded the fight
was going to be something like Antietam.
The very atmosphere, the looks of the people
and the beautiful country as we went
through Maryland reminded us of our homes
in the north, and as we drew near the
border, we had wonderful fancies Of the
country north of Mason and Dixon's line,
where most of us had not been for twoyears.
W. pictured it as an earthly paradise.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-08

As to or fires, can't remember how it
was that we always had matches. l suppose
we got them from the suffer- But wood was
abundantly supplied, at least for a short
stay The Virginians had custom, worthy
from our point of view, of the highest COM
mendation They had lavishly piled all over
their lands, in the form of zigzag fences, the
most elegant rails of hard wood; as fences
they were neither useful nor ornamental; as
tirewood, they were superb. When we had
finally halted for the night, it was a race for
the most eligible fences. / have chased
vanishing fence for some distance at the
bestspeed of my long legs and could not catch
up with its melting lengths. No matter how
wet the rail, the wood just below the surface
was dry and seasoned, and we had men, ex-
pert fire lighters, who would build up a
cheerful blaze in the middle of plowed field
in pouring rain, with some fence rails and
one match
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-08
strike-your

The last bugle note had ceased, and our
regiment stood in line in marching order.
This procedure was an unusual one when on
the march, for military ceremonies on
actual campaign were dispensed with as far
as possible There is degree of elasticity
about military formalities. II this had
been review we should first have had the
companies formed and taken charge of by
the captains, then the companies would
have marched out into line, and the
regiment when complete would have been
handed over by the adjutant to the colonel,
who would have then marched to the place
designated by the brigade commander and
reported to hin; and thus, in orderly, dig
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-18

Ben. Perley Poore's "reminiscences have
swollen to two volumes with an aggre-
gate Of 1000 pages.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-18

Nine-tenths of the audience ] addressed
were workingmen. | told them they could
all at leisure learn 10 draw and design, and
apply il TO all arts, and that it would specially
aid in every department of manufacturing
was struck by the TACT that they appre-
ciated and appauled the idea that no true art
work could be made by machinery, and that
a thing is not work Of art, however beauti
full it may be, unless ii Is really made di
rectly by mans handG and shows his per
sonal influence. 1t was almost the only audi
ence | ever addressed which clearly distin
guished the fact that minor art work was the
proper preparation for practical or me
chanical education and adapted to girls as
well as boys.
have often been told, 1T is no prepare
ton for practical life TO teach modelling, and
sheet-brass, and Woodworking, and fancy
work Give our boys good practical edu-
cation-set them at carpenters work. This
is all very well; but j have found that all
that mere boys can really effect at carpen-
ters' work only amounts to what may bc
called the fancy WORK OF it-or what Is light
and easy. To develop their constructive
ability and prepare them for becoming good
carpenters, design and modelling and the
minor arts are the best and easiest prepara-
ton and will take them much further in the
end. found, to my establishment, that tho
Bradford operatives thoroughly understood
and admitted this. regret, as an Amer
lean, to find hero In England, ON the whole,
q much higher or broader Wow of art 0duca
ton for the young than in America II e
An- eJOpdon Letter
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-18
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The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-18
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the country have acknowledged their inability to
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The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-18
AnvIcR IN marnKRa.

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The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-18

THIRTEEE boys in the school at Arcol",
III. struck against further study when
called in after recess. The teacher, who
apparently is born diplomstist, called
up the thirteen largest girls in the room,
told them of the state of affairs, and
ordered them to march out and each
bring in boy. Within three minutes
and half a bakers dozen of lads with
very red faces were trying 10 study holes
in their books, and haye been too busy
since To talk about the sad affair.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-18
ZINE Editor II Harp.r,, pau.r.

miss Booth, the editor Of Harper's Bazaar,
Is large, dignifed, noble-loosing woman
writes a correspondent. "Her grey hair il
drawn back over pompadour roll which 10
extremely fitting to her face. She has solved
the secret of hospitality, for the large draw
ing and dining rooms were crowded with
clever people Miss Booth asked us to meet
Miss -, whose name cannot bring myself
to tell you, because the girl looked 50 scared
aud uncomfortable that evening that | do not
want to fix that look of terror permanently
in her face by repeating her name | could
think of nothing but little, trembling white
rabbit as one after another of these gifted
people went up to congratulate this little
country girl You are reading her stories in
Harpers every month or so, and she is a pro.
noiInced success "-Exchangc
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-18

and there is great uncel tainty whether the
measure can now he passed at this session.
The resolution for adjournment on Tuesday
was up in the house, and those who are OPP
posed to the redistricting made an effort to
have the same adopted, but after long
fight it was finally referred to the finance
committed The senate redistricting
bill was then called up, and after
q second reading it was found that there
were not sufficient votes to SUSPEND the rules
and place it on its passage One of the Re
publican members of the committee on fed
eraI relations stated that unless there
are great many changes made in the bill
it can not pass at this session 1t is under
stood that new bill has been prepared as
compromise In case this course is purs ued
it is doubtful if an ad journment is reached
before the latter part OF next week
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-18
How to Make a Coal Fire.

There is as much art in making a coal fire
as there is in any other of the arts of house
keeping. In this season a fire should he made
in the CRATE that Will last through the day.
giving a moderate heat and ventilation for
the house. To do this, first clear the CRATE,
then fill it up about half full of coal, then
make a wood fire, putting on only a few
sticks Of wood, which viii burn slowly, grad
ually igniting the coal. The wool ashes on
top of the coal will prevent its rapid eonsump-
ton, and a FIRE thus constructed, burning
slowly, with moderate heat, will last all day
1t is always good economy to put one or two
sticks of wood on the top of coal fire in a
CRATE, as the ashes will prevent the coal from
burning out fast and throw more largely the
heat into the room. Try it Philadelphia
Call
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-18
NYE ANSWERS A CORRESPONDENT.
How CeIInloid IL Bfnds-A Complex Pro
ccss-Other Interesting Notes.

ccss-Other Interesting Notes.
LucgErIA MCTwosRLEY-1. Celluloid /,
made mostly of ingredients. Take about
equal parts Of ingredients and foreign sub
stances and unite them at given tempera.
ture and they viii harden under a certain
pressure that they will become celluloid
The process, dare say, Is less complex than
you had at first supposed.
Celluloid is used in the construction Of va.
rious articles of trade, such as combs, knife
handles, billiard balls, poker chips, etc, etc,
but il has distinguished itself more in late
years in the collar-and-cutf line than else
where. The celluloid collar Of commerce has
tired and time-stained hue even in youth,
and in age il Is scklied Ger with the pale cast
Of thought
am now engaged in perfecting celluloid
garment, to consist of pair of cuffs to 10
fastened inside the sleeve of the cont
in such manner as to he independent
Of the Endorsement Of the shirt. A
standing collar with Rhine stone button
and buckskin scarf, so made as 10 spring
around the neck as set forth In designs ac-
companying application for patent, and held
down by weights in such manner as to pre-
NNii1 'Diii ilbAil DFOi btutlf wall lN
used at the same time Both collars and cuffs
will he made with buttonholes, so that
shirt may I've buttoned on while in use-if it
can be borrowed. These garments viii IN
worn by American authors In cese an inter
national copyright law should be deemed in
advisable European authors will have to
economic also, but whether they will squan-
der their royalty on such gaudy trnppings as
collars and bread remains to be seen A
literary friend of mine, writing from Eng.
land, says that unless speedy justice is done
10 authors on his side of the Atlantic his
costume hereafter will consist of email
haversaca of snuff to threw in the eyes of the
police
But forget, Lucretla, that you were not
mquisitive about celluloid only.
2. You can bleach your hair by exposing il
10 the night air You may also produce the
game effect by getting yourself scared TO
death. These things may be carried to ex-
cess, however.
3. Pare it down as much as you dare TO and
then put on a few drops of kerosene.
Nye in Chicago News
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-18
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The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-18

EACH Of the twelve inspectors of the
county prison in Philadelphia, gives =
dinner yearly to his eleven companions,
and, what is better. pays for it. The
dinner gwen by DR.. Wister, president Of
the board, is generally the best for ne
always has il in canvas back duck season
and cooks the ducks himself. When the
inspectors are assembled, the doctor
makes a memoranda of the manner in
takes off his coat, rolls up his sleeves,
puts on a big apron, and when the birds
come on the table they are said to be
mighty good eating.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-18
Chr AraMs.
JOHN W. POTTER.
TUESDAY, MAY IS, 1886.

Mr.. JOHN L. SULLIVAN dropped into
the Chicago police headquarters on
Wednesday night and expressed desire
TO see the four arrested anarchists. His
request was st once granted, and, after
walking slowly by the cells and looking
closely at the prisoners, he turned to the
admiring policemen who surrounded him
and remarked. well. Is them the
fellers that's been KILN everybody? I'd
like to take contract to lick de hull
party"