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sausage, with the ends tied together and thrown
over his shoulder The bugles sounded "For-
ward" and the long columns, with swinging
STEP filed out upon the roads and stretched away
to the southwark.
The seasoned veterans of '6l still availed
themselves of every opportunity to mag" the
recent leves-those of the crop of 62. Troops
were always new until they had been
through a battle and by good behavior earned
the right to be called soldiers. Then the good
naturcd jest and gibe were heard no more.
As the 200th Indiana filed past one Of the old
regiments it received the inevitable fusillade
Hey, you paper-colar Hoosiers; had ter
leave yer trunks behind, didn't yer"
bin measured fer yer cotf'ns YETI"
They wont none on 'em git killed; can't
git 'cm uD close enough !"
How they'll climb fer the rear S soon S the
bullets begins ter zip!"
ST klegg felt his angry passions rise at these
imputations. He would have resented them
then and there had he not vivid remembrance
of his experience upon former occasion, under
circumstances somewhat similar. So he bottled
his wrath and kept his eyes fixed on his file
leader.
81 comforted himself with the thought that
sometime he would be a veteran, and another
levy OF new troops would appear in the field.
He would square the account by taking out
his revenge upon Them
We Will not attempt to narrate lii detail the
incidents of that advance Of 80 miles from
Nashville TO NIurfreesboro. 1t occupied four
days. Much of the time the weather was wet,
raw and dismal There was no trouble in
finding the enemy. He made himself con-
spicuously obnoxious day and night, stub
bornly yielding to the pressure of the long
lines of blue, and falling back from one posi-
tion to another.
1t was one Of those jerky, exasperating
<lnc hot y,,,tf fIn and ne
the men to the extreme test. On the pixies
the columns advanced and halted alternately,
reaching out little way and then gathering
themselves up, inching along like huge WORMS.
The men, wet and weary, stood around and
shivered in the chilling air. An occasional
cannon shot or a sputtering fire of musketry
kept all on the alert for active duty at mo-
ments notice.
Between these columns the stretches of field
and wood were swept by heavy lines of skir-
mishers, supported by brgades and divisions
moving in battle array. These forded streams
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FUN.

There has been no strike yet for an advance In
the wages of sin.-PittS5urg Chronicle
The labor question is game of ball. Men go out
on strikes and wait for judgment.-Nel0 Orleans
Ifcayune.
Sam Jones and Sam Small made one great con-
version in Chicago. They converted Just 900 good
solid dollars over to their bank account in four
weeks.-Philadeiphia Press.
philadelphia inventive genius is wonderful.
II is said that firm III this city takes long steel
combs. covers them with Goldfish and sells them as
fresh Delaware shad.-Phitddetphid Chronicle Her.
aid.
pretty maid pink and pert;
A 'cycist with IA navy shirt
A wonder if the maid will fiirt;
A little exhibition spurt-
A sudden tumble III the dirt
An angry maid with spattered skirt
A shock that couldn't help but hurt
A 'cyclist with disaster grt!
It'd Bits
Miss Iili was scolded by her nurse for making
faces You will become frightfully homeIy if you
persist in making such faces" Then YOU must
have made great many faces, nurse, when you
were little girl" replied Lili-Dcarer Tribune
Republican.
A Western man. whose house was attacked by
burglars loaded his gun with box of pills and
killed two of the miScreantS Look out for such q
medical certificate this Il was seriously at
tackled by burglars. took one box of your cele-
gratitude" etc.-Springfe,d Union.
While Mr. Cleveland may not be what is termed
" crack shot, still he can handle breech- loader
very neatly. His best shot yesterday was seven
redheads at one crack. The ducks rose from a cove
in front of our skff, and as they were gracefully
passing the right, the President let them have
both barrels, bang bang! and smiled broadly as
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CORPORAL 81 KLEGG,
The 200th Indiana on the Eve Of
a Great Battle.
BY W. +. uINMAN, 65TH OHIO.
lCoPYEIGHT. 1SS5.l
No. XXV.


1t was the morning after Christmas The
soldiers Of the Army of the Cumberland had
not suffered during the night from the gripings
of indigestion. IN consequence of having the pre-
viOus day overloaded their stOmachs with tur-
key-stufiing and plum pudding and mincepie.
1t is unquestionably true that their abstinence
from these me-honored accessories of this
festive day OF all the year was not wholly vol
untary. II was chiefly due to circumstances
over which they had no control. This does
not however, alter the fact OF their extreme
frugality in all matters appertaining TO the
appetite. While nightmares were prancing
around upon the prostrate forms of their friends
at home, the soldiers quietly slept, wrapped in
army blankets in their camps that fringed the
city of Nashville.
Nor did they sleep any the less soundly be-
canse they were under orders to march. AT
o'clock they must spring at tap of drum and
blast of bugles aud at daylight the foremost
battalions were TO file out upon the roads lead
ing to Murfreesboro. The Army of the Cam
berland was destined to look into the very eyes
OF its antagonist, and engage it lii deadly con-
flict among the thick cedars on the banks of
Stone River.
All the arrangements for an active campaign
of great army had been carefully made. The
troops were thoroughly equipped and provis-
iOncd. Long trains of wagons loaded with
ammunition of all kinds for infantry, cavalry
and artillery, clearly indicated important buSi-
ness in the near future. The presumption that
the enemy would be equally, or at least suifi-
ciently, well provided in this respect was shown
by the suggestive array of ambulances, stretch
ers. medical stores and hospital supplies. Sur
geons were summoned to their regiments, and
put their instruments in order for the ghastly
work before them. The sick were sent to hos
pitalS and conyaescent barracks. The army
WAS stripped of everything that could impede
its movements or impair its efficiency.
A day or two before this, Corporal kiegg,
while walking just outside the camp, saw an
enterprisng idiot mailing large placard to
tree. He naturally stopped to read it. 1t bore
this legend:
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us a fair up fight!" he said to Shorty, as
the 200th dashed through piece of woods, only
to see the gray troopers galloping off in the
distance. Ever since ST left home he had been
afraid the war would be over before he saw q
real battle.
Don't be in stew, ST, 3 I've told We be-
fore" said Shorty. 81 don't blieve yell have
to wait much longer, fore yen git filled full.
Them Johnnies is only fallin' back to jine the
main army, and we're goin' ter bump agin'
suthin' solid purity quick. Now you mind
what I'm a-tellin ye, N Jest hold yerScif level,
fer ye're goin' to have all the fightin' ye want
this trip!" I
But it was difficult for 81 to restrain his i'm
patience. The forward movement of the army
was all too slow for him.
His heart beat high with ambitious expecta-
ton, undisturbed by thought of the danger
and the awful scenes that were soon to destroy
| the bright illusion.
Four days of creeping along and picketing
| and skirmishing, and the army struck some
thing solid" as Shorty had predicted. Then
another day was occupied in making the neces-
sary arrangements for battle. Arms were cleaned
and put in order. Cartridges were carefully
inspected. and such as had become wet and un-
scrviceable were cast away and replaced by
others. Batteries were placed in position, with
the chests of limbers and caissons filled with
powder, ball and fixed ammunition of all the
various forms OF grape, canister and she'll.
Hospitals were established in the rear; mUsl-
clans and other non-combatantS were detailed
to bear the stretchers attend the ambulances,
and otherwise assist in the work of caring for
the wounded; medical stores were unpacked,
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Setting a Bad Example.

lEsteane ". ~ beHI
A member of Lawrence County (Dak.)
school board was speaking of the teacher en-
ployed.
THAT feller amt givin' no satisfaction at
ALL" he said.
why, thought he came from the East
highly recommended"
oh, s'pose he was, but he don't seem to
suit, jist the same"
But he has "a good education"
eyes, guess he's got straight flush on edu.
cation all right nuff, but the troubles right
here: Naterly, you know, the big boys have d
little poker game at noon, and NV course have
the teacher set in."
ayes"
"Well I'm clssed eff they aint jist bout
cleaned him out Nv his wages! Now what
kind of zample do you call that, lettin' boys
down him that way? don't want my children
go'n' to no sich school. Seems 'sif we can't
hardly git good teacher no more-blamed eff
don't blieve FL go over and take holt Nv the
school myself"
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remnant ri the 5ih moves up to the extreme
right of Howard's now single line. But the
rebel fire grows hotter and hotter, and ow-
inc to this, and a misunderstood order How
ards line begins to dissolve, and then retires
in cOniusion-Howard and others yainly
striving TO rally his now utterly exhausted
men.
SHER9IAN'S GALLANT FIGHT.
Shcrmap's Brigade too has come over from
our left, and now advances upon the deadly
plateau, where lie the disabled Union bat
teries - the prizes, in full sight oil both
armies. for which each seems now to be so
desperately striving.
Quinbys 18Th y. Y. Rifles, in column oi
companies, lead the brigade, followed by
Lieut. Col Peck's ID Wis, Cameron's 18th
N Y Highlanders, and Corcoran's Goth y. \
Ir;sh). "in line of battle"f Down the
slope, across the ravine and up on the other
side, steadily presses Quinby, till he reaches
the crest. He opens fire. An advancing rebel
regiment retires, as he pushes up 10 where
the Union batteries and cannoniers lie
wounded and dying-the other three regi-
ments following in line of battle until near
the crest. when the fire of the enemy's rifles
and musketry, added to his heavy cannon
adinr. grows so severe that the brigade Is
forced back to shelter in a roadway leading
up the plateau.
Peck's ID Wis. now emerges from this
sheltered roadway, and steadily mounts the
elevation in the face of the enemy's severe
fre-returning il with spirit, as they ad-
vance But the rebel fire becomes too gall
ing. The gray-clad Wisconsin boys return
to the sheltered road again, while the cry
goes up from Sherman's ranks: Our own
men are firing at them!" Rallying at the
road, the I'd Wis. again returns, with des-
perate courage, to the crest of the hill, de-
liverS its fire, and then, unable to withstand
the dreadful carnage, falls back once more
In disorder.
At this, the 10Th Highlanders spring for
wand to mount the brow of the fatal hill,
swept as il is with this storm of shot and shell
and musket-balls. Up through the lowering
smoke, lit with the enemy's incessant dis
Cn2T9eS II tue NCocS Dc.J Gnu, tHe piaNCii'SH-
landers iauntily march, and, with Cameron
and their colors at their head, charge i'm
petuously across the bloody hill-crest, and
still farther, to the font. But it is not in
human nature to continue that advance in
the teeth of the whitening fire from Jack
sons batteries, strengthened as they are by
Pelham's and Kemper's. The gallant fell
lows fall back, rally again, advance once
more, retire again, and at last-the heroic
Cameron being mortally wounded-fall back
in confusion under the cover of the hill.
@For part, but not the whole, to retire.
fSherman's Report.
tn 1o
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Salty.

There is enough salt in the State of Nevada
to osupply the whole world for ages. In Lincoln
County, on the Rio Virgen. is one of the most
remarkable deposits of rock salt on the conti-
nent. 1t is exposed TO view for distance of
nine miles, the vein, which is about half a
mile wide, being of unknown depth. In places
the canyons have cut through it is as deep as so
or 80 feet. The salt is chemically pure, so solid
that it is blasted out as if it were granite, and
so transparent that one may read a newspaper
through block of it foot in thickness. This
great deposit is situated at an altitude of 100
feet above the level of the sea- and is undoubt-
edly very ancient, inasmuch as it has been COW
cred in spots by flow OF basaltc rock and vol
canie tufa. Sixty or 20 miles north is the great
Humboldt salt field, at the base of the Dun
Glen Mountains which is about 10 miles long
by six miles in width 1t is suggested that if
these deposits were tapped by railroads. salt
would soon become much cheaper article.
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No More Monuments.

To THE EDITOR: A mania appears to have
taken hold of the people of the United States
TO build monuments TO our dead soldier heroes
and illustrious statesmen. This looks to me to
be all wrong, and instead of $500, 600 monu-
meat to Lincoln, and perhaps as much more
for Gen. Grant, l would peter to see this money
put into building on an art-gallery plan; then,
let each dead hero have room assigned or
named after them, in which statuary, paintings
Of battles or charges in which they were en-
gagged or conspicuous in, adorn this room mot
toes, with noted sayings, etc.
/ see no reason why project of this kind
would not be Ear better than ungainIy piles of
granite, which are very well to mark some hal
lowed spot of ground, like Bunker Hill Monu-
ment.
La 1000 years from now the inhabitants of
this country will probably be in doubt whether
Nashington's Monument was built by George
III or the "Tyrant Lincoln, and like the pyra-
mids OF Egypt the time built and objects pass
into ooblivion.-OLD SOLDIER, Chamberlin, Oak.
Loaded with impurities, your blood needs
cleansing with Ayers Sarsa pariIIa
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His Held Was Hops.
Wall Street Ne,rS.l

" az street N6tCS.
Didn't you tell me, sir" he said, as he en-
tered the otfice of prominent citizen of Indian
apolis, THAT wheat would be 81 bushel inside
of four weeks?"
why, presume did"
"Well, sir, your four weeks are up; wheat is
S4 cents, and I've lost $1,000 by following your
advice"
"That's too bad-really too bad that is the
18th or Goth time l have made a wrong predic-
ton on wheat, and | believe I'll give it up.
Come around some day next week and ask me
what l think of hops. l always predict fall
of 10 per cent. in hops"
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THE ARMY MULE.

The " "reminiscences of an Army Mule" are
tip-tcp. The Kunnel, it is plain, will soon be-
come a Brigadier. He might have been Jen-
kins of West Virginia.-IsAAC IL. FARRELL,
Cumminsvilie. O.
4" want TO congratulate sou on producing
ono oi The most unique and interesting works
of the war, and l believe it is dcscined TO be-
come a classic. | have not since reading
Sterne's Tristram Shandy' got hold of any
thing liked so wclI."-JoHN C. LINEHAN,
PenacG0k, \. II.
q have really enjoyed The "reminiscences
of an Army Mule, and must compliment you
on your dialect. Read aloud il sounds exactly
like the Blue Grass kentuckian and is very
realistic. The horse trade scene was immense" !"
NJ. ]. ENRIGHT, Toledo. o.
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He Died and Won the Bet.

French Joke.
An American went 10 one of his friends who
was sick in hospital. "Well, and how are
you getting along?" he asked.
Badly, old man, very badly. The doctor
has just told me that if | turned over on my
left side it would kill me Immediately"
You surprise me-"
"It's just as l have told you"
"Its all nonsense"
"You don't believe it well, 1 will bet you
$40 it is So"
"Pll take it,
turned over and died. His friend deposited q
SO bill on the side of the bed and left
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were likely to follow, he was not dazzled by
the splendor of martial glory. Shorty was no
more a coward than ST. His "pard y would
always find him at his side, whatever of danger
might betide, but he did not banker after and
| pant for il as ST did.
The prevailing idea among members of the
2OOth Indiana was that If Gen. Bragg only
knew that their regiment was coming he would
be wise and give up Murfreesboro without a
| fight. They hoped, however, that Bragg
wouldn't hear of it, because they wanted to
annihilatc his army and end the war.
Seems 10 me-" said 81, as he was talking it
| over with Shorty" we ought to use em up
purity quick. / amt much on fggerin. but
Pve worked it out in this way We've got q
hundred rounds of cartridges apiece. There's
| bout six hunderd Of us, and that'll make sixty
thousand cartridges. / reckn the rebs III be so
thick t we kin hit a man every crack. We
kin load II fire once every two minits, easy
'nuff, N 'twont take us more IL three hours er
so to kill of Bragg's hull army. L can't see
why the 200th Indiana hadn't orter cook their
goose for EN-"
What dye s'pose the rebs II be doin' all
that time?" said Shorty. &" Dye think they're
goin' ter stan there like SO many rows o
wooden men N let US shoot EN- down N their
tracks? Ye don't want ter forgit t, they've
got guns, too, N they know how to use 'em
jest S well s we do.
81, in his enthusiasm, really had not thought
of this. He felt the force of Shorty's sugges-
tioas, however, and saw that it would be nee
essary for him TO revise his calculation.
"Wal, l don't care how We fix it, he said
"we're goin' ter lick EN-, anyhow! The 200th
Indiana S goin' to walk right inter that town
there and we're goin ter plant the first flag on
the urt-house."
q hope yere right" said Shorty, but ye
can't most always tell. Well know more bout
it after the racket S all over"
Far and near sounded the revcille through
the camps of hundred regiments that covered
field and hillside, circling about the Capital of
Tennessee 1t was two hours before dawn, but
by the glare of the cleaning fires the final
preparations for the advance were made. Every
officer and man was busy. There was 10 time for
lettering or for sentimental meditation. Horse
men dashed hither and thither with ORDERS
and men sprang at the word, in willing and
prompt obedience. Breakfast was soon over
and gradually order was brought out of the
chaos that seemed TO reign supreme. All bag
gage and camp equipage were loaded upon
wagons and sent to the rear. AT the appointed
hour the assembly" was sounded. Companies,
and then regiments and brigades, were quickly
formed. The men carried full haversac!ss and
cartridge-boxes, with 60 additional rounds per
man in their pockets Nearly all chose to be
unincumbered by their knapsacks, and left them
with tho baggage train. Each man had his
overcoat and blanket rolled up like great
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"a little fire is quickly trodden out
L.. -

A little fire is quickly trOdden out
Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench."
Procrastination may rob you of time but by
increased diligence you can make up the loss;
but if it rob you of life the loss is irremediable.
If your health is delicate, your appetite tickle,
your sleep broken your mind depressed, your
whole being out of sorts, depend upon it you
are seriously diseased. In all such cases Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery" will
speedily effect genuine, radical cure-make a
new man of you and save you from the tor
lures Of lingering disease.
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Recalling a Quotation.
IN Y Sun !

Young Featherly-Do you recall that quo
tation, Miss Waldo, beginning: No pent-up-
no pent-up-pent-up Ithaca contracts -
Miss Waldo" No-pent-up Utica" think,
Mr.. Featherly.
Young Featherly-Ah, yes, Utica; thanks.
I knew it was some town in central New
York.
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Amounts to the Same Thing.

IFHUuueIpNtU CtIt.I
De Baggs-Haven't seen Twombly for about
a month.
Ponsouby-He has gone into the grocery
business.
"Why he hasn't $1,000 to his NAME"
"Well, he has $4,000 in his wife's name, and
1 guess that will go just as far