The Springdale news., 1889-08-16

"pEAR LUKE: If Heaven has spared you, and good fortune should permit you to receive th s, come to us at once. Albert IS badly woundcd Colonel Morgan IS also here, nor tally wounded, l fear. Blackhawk, whom accidentally met, wlI guide you LILLE"
 Tcnderly folding the note he thrust it into his pocket next his heart, and turning to BIacl7hawk said;
 '.Cau you take me to the house!"
 ''Ncs, sah.'
 ''iIoW far is lt!'
 '.'Bout six miles, sah, may be seven"
 Did you walk or ridft"
 ''Walkcd, massa; couldn't find a hoss."
 "Well, Blackhawk, we must get horses to ride back"
 At this moment the door of the tent was darkencd by the appearance of Q white haired soldier, who had q bandagc about his head and one arm in q sling.
 '.Whar yc gWiue, KcrnelH he asked, with tho familiarity of a friend.
 II shall leave camp for short time, Tom y
 T iist came ter tell ye, Kernel, that Max II grumbe no more"
 What -dead!'
 "Yes, Kernel, jlst breathed his last"
 'HoW is Ned Cotton"'
 First rate. I reckon; the doctor tux his
  Ned $ most tuckercd out'
 Did you find Bill e;now!"
 ''Yes, n buried him"
 Colonel Mason bowed his head and for a moment was lost in painful thought. Then, with a sigh, he said
 Tom, l am the only one of the orgina five who escaped unsarmed. ItIs sad, but it s the fortunes of war"
 Two fOllarpJ Vp hrOuph tbif.ly T, thin; I've fit every time at yer side, Tn I'm sorry can't go wi you ths tune. Sumthin might happen, ye know"
 No. 10. Tom; stay with your dead friend and see him dccently buried, nurse Ned un- til he IS able to go home. There is ID dan ger, for the enemy arc all out of the imme- diatc ncighborhood A wounded friend has sent for me, and must go.'
 The wounded veteran of the "Hornot's Nest" could make no answer. Those eyes that had long been dry grew moist with tears, and wrnging his Coloncls hand he said:
 "They'rc all gone but you an me, Kernel, Tn next it II be old Tom. But l won't kick. Good bye"
 Luke left him and with his guide mounted the horses he had ordered, and they began thclr journey. On every side of the road little mounds of fresh earth marked the last resting place of some brave soldier, who wore either the blue or gray
 Shnoh's tubborn fight taught both North and South a lesson They learned that there were men of metal on both sides. They were brothers of the same family and equally brave.
 Luke could not repress . shudder when .l ,I,.t,, ,t,l .L brush at the roadside reached his ears
 far off in the wood could be seen torches movng about They seemed the lights of ghouls or ghosts who lowered over the field of the slain. There still remained many dead yet in the woods who had to be gath cred up, and those lights belonged to the scarchers of the slain. The forest, which but a few days before had been the scene of such . pandemOnlum, was now silent as the tomb The intense darkness, broken only hero and there by the ghoulishliko lights that fitted about, seemed to cast an ap palllng gloom over the battlefield, magnify ing instead of decreasing it's horrors
 Are you acquainted with this country" Colonel Mason asked Blackhawk as they passed beyond the outlying pickets.
 "Ycs, massa, has been all ober it many a time. Vars ago l lived fur week ia desc woods.n
 ''In the woods. Were you a runaway!n
 "Don' talk bout dat, massa; it am all over now"
 "Blackhawk, won't you explain that mys- tery to me, at which you have intimated time and again? Who arc youi Who am |? Fc- feel that you have my past history locked up in your breast"
 I .1,, Y hut pn m no time now" After a few moments si. lence Luke said:
 Blackhawk, where were you during the battlcm
 "Righ. in t, massa. from fust to last. I fought all de time and kill um; eber so many" The chuche of infinite satisfaction which followed this sent thrill of horror through Lukes frame, and he almost loathcd the cold booded, heartless African. In order to change the subject he asked:
 "Did you see Lillie NeffF'
 "Yes, massa; I saw Miss Lillic on de berry fust day ob de fight She came to house wha' all de folks dun ran off, an was dar to shoot rebels By n by some rebs came in wid her brudder n she made me hide my gun. Do shootn' could be heerd down hcah, an all lowed as dar war aw- S~ in heap O trouble bout dat secesh gal, Elsie Morgan, who couldn't be found, but by n by she came wid her father-an' I wush I'd my gun r kill 'um, but promise Miss Lille won't, n I won't. Den dar war a lot ob soft talk n kissin' tween Miss Elsie 'n Massa Albert Tn he go away wid all de sojers to fight an both O de missus foller to take keer of de wounded.
 Fl got my gun an went to de woods ter fight, and spent two days shootin' men hated. 1 didn't know zac-ly which'd whipped, when 1 meets de leetle Missus Elsie comin' fur dis chile. She say fur ne to come to lone cabin in de woods an | go dar wd her. Iknowed it, cos it war de cabin stayed in many, many y'ars ago. I'd been dsr since an 1t had two beds and cheers dar. When come dar found Massa Albert llin' on one bed wid big shot in