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found the Minnesotians. Some ofthem were
lying down.
What in thunder are you here for2" asked
Lochran.
Il am afraid of getting lost in these woods"
I remarked.
Lost?" said he; a this is the very center
Of the trouble, I should think" Aud we lay
down together. 1t was now obvious that line
OF men some hundred yards of were firing at
Us. Presently we were ordered up and forward
Several of cur men fell the rest answered the
yolley ia a way that meant business Mean
time had got hold Of musket during charge
on the hOwitzers, ia a sort of crazy impulse to
do something After the fighting had gone on
a. intervals for an hour or two an officer Capt.
Pell. think spoke to me and suggested that
l would be. more useful in carrying off the
wounded. Joined the men who were moving
about with blankets, and helped carry some of
the sufferers TO an adjacent ambulance, and
when the ambulanees vanished we bore them
back to the principal hospital, in Sudley Church,
close 70 the ford.
1t was a surprise to find it in charge of DIR.
Stewart, our Surgeon, and he was the center of
SCENE WHOSE HORRORS. 1 SHALL NEVER
FORGET
and can never describe During a large mart
of the time that / remained DR.. Stewart had
only one medical assistant. 1t WAS q spectacle
too frightful and sickening to witness. In the
body OF the church, scattered tbiclly over the
floor and IN the galleries, were go or 70 men
wounded in every possible way-some dead,
some with arHls and legs shot of, scores gasp
ing for water and aid. The pulpit had been
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AIENTs next two hours / had
my hands full. he directed me how to ad-
minister anOdynes, and showed NE what to
do to stop the flow Of blood.
] remember a Colonel with his arm bound
~, sitting on the foCr in one corner of the
CORY tabernacle, and, though too faint TO stand,
demanding TO be put on his horse and headed
again toward the field. / remember q Captain
sitting IA pew with a gTape-shot through his
head, the blood and brains oozing out, and
touched him tenderly TO sec If he was dead.
Every minute OF two a shriekiug shell or can
nOn-bal went over the building with pro
longed "whsh!" The pulpit was occupied by
strange minister. the communion table filed
with strange sacrament, and from the choir
loft rose and fell the intermittent yells of the
dying and the subdued groans of brave men.
And the day was Sunday!
This CHASTITY reflection came over me as
picked my way through the wounded men on
the floor and strOYe 20 minister with unskillful
hand to their needs. Two persons in that
wretched place l remember with peculiar WV
iduess;
ONE BEING A HANDSOME, BEARDLEss BOY,
evidently delirious, whose cries of Mother
mother were heard every few minutes above
all the other affecting noises; and the other a
stout man with his shirt slipped down of his
shoulders, who INDUCED in copious profanity,
the object Of his eXecraton being generally
the rebels" and specifically JEFF Davis"
his language had dissonant note in it which
almost seemed laughable, even with such tragic
surroundings.
Here! Come here!" he said, uttering
some more choice explosives, and Reckoning to
me with an open pocketknife. "Come here
and fix this blankety- BANKED arm" / went
to him and assured him that was not a Sur
geon.
I" Don't want no Surgeon" he exclaimed,
peppering the remark with condiments; If
twas my left arm instead of my right, I'd cut
1t out myself Do you see that there hole?"
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I took il and scraped the skin; it seemed as
If / could not do as he directed.
Devil take it, are you trying to UGcci1dte
me?" ne cried Look "a here" grabbing the
knife; you want 70 cut right down into that
jest rs eff I was a hog! You goin' tor"
promised that l would; and did. With
some assistance from him
MANAGED TO GET THE BULLET OUT,
and, rs he did not care for it, retained it, and
have it yet. He got = sponge and some water
aud washed the wound, wrapped it up in some
lint and a bandage, and started for the field
again. / have often wondered who he was;
but I was so busy and bewildered that | forgot
to take a single name in that pain-stricken
room. did know the name Of one of the AS
sstant Surgeons, but have now forgotten who
he was.
1t was getting dark. The army was in full
retreat | knew that. The woods were filled
with dead and dying. Suddenly DR.. Stewart
said to me, You had better not stay with US,
had you?"
No" answered; 81 will join the regiment
when it goes by
1T has been gone past an hour" he said.
must, of course, stay with the wounded, but
you had better not. We are already within the
rebel lines A Lieutenant has just been here
and told me there would be q squad down di-
rectly to take charge of US. You had better
light out"
l did. I saw that I was about the last.
Finding an artillery horse nibbling in the
woods near by, with u s." brand and part
of his harness on, / mounted him and went
for the rear On a run. Through the scattering
fugitives / made my way till | overlook the
decimated dSimated in fact, it
having lost more than a tenth of its men. My
horse was seryiceable during the hours of re-
treat in carrying wounded men; and after
resting at midnight at Centerville, advanced
on Washington" arriving here at noon,
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round the bone ana
stopped on the back
side of the shoulder
blade right there"
indicating the probable
sifus with his forefn-
ger. l felt. far under
Meath, something that
might have been . bull
let.
" Very well (; now /
want you TO carve right
through the flesh there
and get thething
ont And he incident
ally expressed his opin-
ion Of JEFF Davis, and
handed me the knife.
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left into the scrub
oaks. and left haver-
sacks, blankets, and all
personal baggage in a
pile. Cannon could now
be heard along the
whole froat, and the
wells and cheers OF
men. At the sug gestion
of Col. German l climb
ed one OF the tallest of
the trees and shouted
down the results of OBJ
seryations. / could see
the Union flag hasten
ing forward and men in
gray running to the
/. .,i9hf-g statement that
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AtS pa sftt - dA bCEn
turned into a labora-
tory, filed with Sur
geon's implements aad
medicines, and the COM
munion table had be-
come an amputation
where form after
form writhed with
agony. Even the yard
outside was filled with
means and supplica-
tons for aid. In the
very desperation of ex-
IRENE need DR.. Stewart
mustered me in as his
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woods at once. If he
sees this article. / hope
he viii write to me-
Obviously the house
was being fred on from.
both directions, as a
ball struck it on the
north side while Istood
there.
! siIenty agreed with.
tie Captains remark, !.
and feeling that if l was
discovered l was lost, l
started down hill after
the LIST biinn., my long
buster flying backward
as Iran AID making me
q truly picturesque OBJ
iect IN the landscape. i
did not know for Ger
tain where the " post Oh
daRger" was. bot | had
ajoyful impression that
il was behind me. The
delnsiOn was not for
long. After passing
orc or two regiments
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he asked, pointing to clot of blood on his
shoulder. Very well now the bullet went
in there, and it seems TO have curved right
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delegation In Congress IN caIl on Gen. Scott. 1
eagerly accepted, aHd the next morning accom-
panied the Congressman TO the veterans otice
This was Oh the west side Of Sixth street, near
Pennsylvania avenue, Up spiral flight OF
stone steps The quarters have since been
renovated and reconstructed beyond recognl-
tion.
The old man received rs in his uniform
He was then lust IS, and me showed the press
ure Of acc on all his energies. When he was
called "infrm. the war party jOcularly re-
spoDded, - Yes, IN firm for the Union But
in reality his words We're feeble, his VIII daccid,
and
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of prisoners of war. 1t Is an outrage on civil
cation to mutilate such.
a. Pray. Specially do so in great straits
5. Appreciate sight.
6. Even children can help.
z. Pay burial respect.
8. Seek our sanctuaries for worship of Je-
hoyah
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PROPHETIC WARNING. was interpreted by the
regiment as a good omen and greeted with
cheers.
When I clambered down I asked the Colonel
for musket I'll give You ore if you want
one" he said; but you are civilian, and If
caught with arms in your hands viii be liable
to he shot" l didn't like that prospect, and
iutimated that l would try to worry along
without any deadly weapon.
ATTENTION! Forward"
and the LIST Mimi. sprang up the slipping road,
here cut through the knoll, leaving the high
banks as a complete protection. Presently we
deployed upon open ground. We were out of
the cut and cut of the woods. A canuon-ball
came singing overhead, and striking in fence
corner behind Us, seemed to fill the sky with
rails. We went on this double-quick along
the crest of the ridge, exposed to the fire
of two batteries, which we now located
quarter of q mile to the left. Some shells
came looking ioT Us. and on the very summit,
seeing the fash Of a Parrot gun and big mis-
sile coming, the regiment split III the middle
as by one impulse. 0ne-half going ahead and
the other half stopping suddenly, while the
screaming shell plUWed up the turf between. /
have often wondered II that escape was any
thing more than a lucky accident.
On we went 10 a tUmbledoWn house on the
roadside, and there turned sharply to the left
and trotted down the HILL where the mHsketry
fight was thickest. / say we " metaphorically
bul, in fact, here fell out of the ranks to take
observations, and got behind the chimney of
the old house. There was a Captain also tax
ing observations land now aud then whisky
IN the same place, when suddenly cannon
ball struck the chimney top. Stones few in
every direction, and the Captain was covered
with mortar and modification.
"THIs Is UNTENABLE,n
shaca xra-a +I,a 7s
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FIRST BULL RUN
a Newspaper Correspondents EXpe-
rience.
BY W. =. cRorFyr.

WAS p member Of the
LIST Mimi. during April,
Nav aud June. 1851,
aud then I left TO do
some work for the New
York Tribune with the
Army Of the Potomac.
Daring the second
reek IN July / gos 70
Washington and at
once began 70 think OF
going over 10 Virginia.
/ had met Owen Love-
Joy, whose views / en-
thus astically adopted,
and euc0unteriHg him
one afternoon near the
National Hotel, he
kindly asked me to ac-
company the Illinois
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us is UNTENARLF.n

he quickly said, and those were the only words
l ever heard him speak, for he took to the
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There is some considerable trouble in fixing
definitely the date of Samson's death, from the
difficulty of determining whether the Judges
mentioned ruled excessively in all cases, or at
times jointly. We may put-the date, as many
do, in the year 1884 A. NJ, or 1920 B. G.
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The scene of the lesson is GAIA. 1t is three
miles from the Mediterranean Sea. The sea
cannot be seen from GAIA on account of an in
tervening ridge of hills. GAIA was one of the
Eve towns which formed a league and practi-
cally became sort of nation. 1t was sur
rounded by walls. 1t has population now Of
about $1,000 people.
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4. Dagon.

Dagon was a sea-god. It was part human
and part fish. Diodorus Siculus thus describes
that object of worship: cit had the head of a
woman, but all the rest of the body resembIed
a fish, The PhiIistines living near the sea-
shore naturally sought a sea deity. They
maintained their strength along the seacoast
against the incoming Israelites, and so may
have supposed that their sea-god protected
them from the Israelitish God. who had en-
abled his subjects or deYotees to take the in
terror lands
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Practical Dufies Taught by Study of the Inter.
national Sunday-sehool Lesson Appointed for
Dec 16. Judges, 18 :si-31.
Zone reading these notes should first carefully
study the paragraph from the Holy Scriptures as
indicated aboye.l
SUBJECT: THE DEATH OF SAMSON.
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We ARE MAKING HISTORY NOW.

We AXE MAKING HISTORY now,
and every picture that we get viii be valuable
/ remember that when q squad of us stopped
at one OF the few wells on our line of march. a
girl came out Of the bOuse-nOt pretty. but
young blooming and viYacious-and she leaned
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1. Cooperate with God. God and Samson
overthrow the pillars. Notice Samson used all
his might. (V 3d.
2. Thank God for all our victories and other
blessings The assembling of the people to
praise their god was appropriate from their
standpoint. {V. %, 24) Surely, then. Chris
tians should thank God for all national benefits.
3. Do not make fun of men who are afflicted.
Be kind to all such. Do not have sport over
the blind. We notice here also our treatment
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Saved from a Sad Fate.

a am truly sorry to give you pain,
Mr.. Hankinson," said the young lady,
"but please do not allude to the sub
ject again. can never be your wife"
THAT is your final answer, Miss
IreneP"
1T is.
Nothing could induceyou to change
your decison?"
MY mind is firmly and unalterably
made up"
Miss Irene" said the young man,
rising and looking about for his hat.
"B fore coming here this evening |
made a bet of fifty dollars with V an
Perkins that you would say no to nv
proposal. ! have won. 1t was TAX
ing risk, but | was dead broke. Miss
Irene" he continued, his voice quiver-
ing with emotion, you have saved a
despairing man from the fato of
suicide, and won The life. e.long re- >pect
and esteem of a greatful heart Coed
evening. ~ Chicago Tribune,
Sharp County record., 1888-06-14
A SURPRISED ARTIST.
How Matter Of Fact Man Insulted Hi
Really Talented Wife.

How a Matter Of Fact Man Insulted His
Really Talented Wife.
"Now, George, DEAR" said a fond
little Newark wife to her husband OF a
year the other day, "this is your birth
day, isn't it? You see didn't forget
if you did, and I've been working
dreadfully hard for four months to
get up surprise for you, and Pm
going to give you something that's all
my own work" "
She threw back q silken scarf as she
spoke and George saw before him a
large oil painting in frame that he
knew he would have to pay at least
twenty-five dollars for when the bill
came in.
"Now, my DEAR" she said, glecful.
ly, "aren't you surprisedP Didn't t
know l could paint, did youP ]
couldn't four months ago. but l paint
ed erery bit of that picture myself"
"Yol did?' said George, "well, ]
am surprised. How perfectly natural
those cows are.
"CowsP Why, George; those are
horses"
"Oh, so they are; l wasn't looking
closely. l was so taken up with the
natural look this old stump has "
That stump? Why, my dear hus-
band, that's a man,"
"Ol, of course it is; l see it plain
enough now, and suppose that is his
little dog running by his side. Looks
wonderfully like our little Fido."
George, it isn't dog; it's little
boy"
"Why, 1.-the picture isn't in a
good light, is it? Let's move it
around little. There; that's better.
You have succeeded wonderfully with
that mountain in the distance"
George, where are your eyesA Tha
isn't mountain-it's haystack.
$50 it is. What am l thinking of?
I've been looking all the time at that
pretty rustic bridge"
There's no bridge in the picture.
You must mean that rail fence.
"No, surely not What is the mat
ter with this lightP l see now it is a
fence, and there's white COW lying
down on" -
George jenkins, that ,Ohite co,0 ly-
ing down is lady in white dress
sitting on fallen log You're max
ing fun Of the picture and"-
mo, no, my dear, l-T'-
You're just as mean as YOU
Now, now. dearie, r.
You're horrid; you just are! I'll
neUer paint another picture as long as
live. Inever WM "-Tenas Dane, in
Detroit Free Press.
Sharp County record., 1888-06-14
FULL OF FUN.

Wife (club night = will you be
home early John?" Husband
"Ye'es, l think so; but don't keep
breakfast waiting for MT" IN T.
Sun.
The Man with an Only Son
"What kind of scholars do you turn
out at this institution" Principal
"Thosc who won't study. y."-Ne~ Ha-
zen NewS.
We shall sing on that beautiful
Shore the melodious songs of the blest,
and the neighbors will no longer roar
%, letup, and give us a areSt"-Ws@
ern Powman
-Housekeeper gotiating for pair
of ducks) But you don't weigh the
head and feet do youP' Butcher
'Oh, yes. madam; we weigh every
thing but the quack. "-Td- Bits.
-Lady-"Aro these eggs freshP"
Smart Boy-(on deck while the boss is
away)-"You bet they are fresh We
don't salt our eggs. We've have had
them on ice right here in the box for
three weeks" "-Critic.
The true meaning of the woman
suffrage movement is very easy to
see. Woman wants to be first in war,
as we'll as first in peace, and first in
the hearts o, her countrymen.-PUcG.
Mrs. Bascom- They say that
Jim Simpkins lost all his money in a
Pharaoh bank in New York. | tell
you, them Egyptians air a graSping'
lot The Children of Israel found that
out" ."-BurLtngton Free Press.
The man who was cOnvulsed with
laughter at a woman trying to sharpen
a pencil, was soon after discovered
trying to cut u paper pattern by the
united efforts of a pair of scissors, his
right hand, lower jaw and two-thirIs
of his tongue
Wife (who has been driven nearly
frantic by habit of her husbanO-
John, read to-day about man out
in Minnesota whose wife killed him
because he said 1 want TO know so
much" Husband (surprised)-"
want to know" "-Judge.
Lady (entering editors sanctum)
Il should like to find out, sir, some
thing about the condition of the poor
in this town" E litor well, ma am,
at present we are we'll supplied with
potatoes and cordwood, but anew pair
of trousers or spring overcoat would
be quite acceptable. "
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a Voice From Florida.

In the region of Tampa Bay we have
experienced a most unprecedented
rainy spell, but as we are high above,
and so near the sea, there is no danger
of flooding" Our winter is consid-
cred past, and has left no traces of
frost, all kinds of vegetables having
fourished. as was natural. consider
ing the poor soil and the little atten-
ton usually paid them We plant or
set, and if they don't make we 60
fishing or "work OUT TO make up the
deficit. Our orange crop was light,
but prices were good. The prospect
is good for large crop for 1888;
trees are in bloom and in fine condi-
ton. Our tourist travel was for time
q complete failure perhaps owing to
the 'yellow-fever scare" which pre-
vailed through the fall. Tampa is,
nevertheless, pushing dead ahead and
preparing to build magnificent hotel,
while adding several more large cigar
manufac ores, and looking for the
construction of several new railroads
TO her great waters. But perhaps
your readers would be more interested
with recital of agricultural m alters
| feel that there is little to be said on
this subject, since we have made but
trifing efforts in this line outside of
grove-making. There is evidence
enough to support the conclusion that
were the suitable lands selected, the
proper methods applied, and the great
staple crop planted, an intelligent, in
dustrious man might make sur
prising competency. Rice usually
yields thirty to fifty bushels per
acre, sweet potatoes two to four hun
dred bushels, sugar cane two to three
hundred gallons of sirup, worth fifty
cents per gallon, per acre. Now the
vegetables usually grown for market
purposes would yield as we'll on the
farm | have in my minds eye as al
most anywhere and sometimes prices
ana returns would be WOnderful; but
right here, in justice to the reader, [ |
must drop the curtain-fgures do l,e
and theories fail. l propose to ex-
plain nothing, but to try another way
of making living in florida than
market-gardening or orange growing.
Making living at home is the new
idea All! but it is really a new idea;
it is a new idea for The whole South, and
it is passing strange that it should
be; it is ridiculous that it has no,
been practiced in the past. But it is
never TOO late to learn to do good,
and "better late than never" Land
that man can live on and farm,
under these skies, is worth all it will
ever cost. 1t is often said here among
our cracker" people, that if a man
Sharp County record., 1888-06-14
Growing Fodder Corn

Many farmers do not attach as
much value 10 fodder corn as it Is
entitled to. When cut early and
properly cured, it is valuable fod-
der, and is, year by year, becoming
moro highly valued, especially in the
Middle and Eastern States, where
many farmers plant piece especial
Iy 10 cut for fodder. The practice of
sowing it broadcast has been aban-
dOned largely, and now most farm
ers SOW it in drills, though some
plant in hills, and | like this method
best, planting sixteen to thirty-six
inches apart. When planted in this
way believe it is of more value than
when it is planted thicker, as it will
have more nubbins on it. Nv method
of raising this crop is to plow and
harrow thoroughly piece of ground
about the first of June, and mark the
rows off three feet apart; then, with
the Macomber hand planter, the seed
is quickly and we'll put in. With one
of these pl lanters man can plant
four acres a day, and do it in a better
manner than in the old way of drop
ping by hand and covering it with
the hoe, as many persons still do.
Labor-saving nipple ments are pay.
ing investment on the farm. and the
best ones shoIld be chosen. - Ueste
pinInnnlL
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WHAT is DECORATlON2
A Bes citing Sin of Amateur Decorators
Sharply Criticised.

Sharply Cflticiseu'
In strictness, 10 decorate is to add
beauty to something by adding to 1t
ornament, or perhaps color, and inn
plies something to be decorated. 1t is
an inconvenience to have no better
name than trinket, knick- knack, gew-
gaw, for a thing that exists for its
prettiness alone; and we do so stretch
The more reputable word TO cover
such things. So, also. people speak
of decorating slab of wood or stone
by painting or carving something on
it, when the slab if it exists only for
the sake of what is on it, is no more
decorated by this than the painters
canvas is decorated by his picture.
Let us use the word now in its true
sense, by which decoration exists for
the sake of the thing to which it is ap-
piled. The distinction concerns us,
for neglect of it has led decorators
into serious faults. 1t is easy, in the
desire to do something called decora-
tive, to think only of the charm of what
we are doing, without regard to the
thing to which we are doing it. This
is n besetting sin of amateur decora-
tors.
The sense for color of the army of
amateur decorators has gained Won
derfully within few years. But this
Improvement in color of our painted
decoration. of our stained glass, of
the work of our Societies of Decora-
tive Art, makes their shortcoming in
other respects the more conspicuous.
There is tinge of the barbaric IN it.
1t wakes the kind of admiring dissat-
isfaction with which one always sees
art that supplements conspicuous
beauties with conspicuous defects.
When we 90 below the best of it, and
look at the things which fill the COM
mon shops and attract cheap buyers,
we are disheartencd, and long to bar
ter the gaudy ugliness of our day for
the quaint ugliness of our fathers. OF
course the present condition of things
will not last As color becomes pop.
ular it also becomes vulgar in any
people which has not hereditary in
stinct for it. - IVnl p p LongfeItoW.
in Scribner'S Magazine.