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The Springdale news., 1889-08-16

BaAh, BAJh. IUEIk LINE hAS IOiNLb- tempt its description. The narrator only remembers that for hours the earth trem- bled, and men fell like grass before the scythe. Friend and foe were at times so interminged that it was difficult to tell one from the other. Blinded by smoke, deafened by earthquakin g,feports and burning with thirst they scarce were humans. The forest was filled with small game, such as abound in the woods The poor little birds and ami mals paralyzed with fear, by that continu- ous roar and din, seemed incapable of flight.
 Luke saw birds sitting on limbs from which they refused to stir until knocked oil by the soldiers or hit by stray shot. flares were so frightened that they sat crouched upon the ground until kicked over by the soldiers, and then they would only hop away a short distance and crouch to the earth again, too much terrified to leave the field
 It seemed to Luke the longest day Of his life It seemed as if Joshua had again com manded the sun to stand still, and that It would never go down. Oh, that night or Buell. would come was the prayer of both officers and soldiers, for every body real ized that this was d Waterloo for one of the armies in the field.
 It was five o'clock in the evening, and the Federals on the right and left of General Prentiss' brigade had fallen back, and the rebels taking the advantage they had over the brigade, swung their lines around ,o the rear of it. Luke discovered that their object was to flank them, and with what remained of his regiment succeeded in cutting his way through to the rear, thus escaping capture; for almost all the re- mainder of the brigade was taken-with them brave old General Prentiss
 It was nearly night when they finally fell hack under a bluff on which Colonel J. D. Webster. of General Grants staff, had ar
The Springdale news., 1889-08-16
Arrangement of Canal Locks.

Quite an achievement has recently been achieved by French engineers in the arrangement or working of canal locks, by which the principle of the common hydraulic elevator is in part applied to the raising of the boats. One of these locks, or, as they may be termed, elevators, has been for some time in successful operation on the llne of the Neuffosse, in the northern part of France This sys- tenn, briefly described. consists in rais- ing and lowering canal boats by simply balancing their respective weights, the process being assisted by hydraulic pressure The traffic on the canal in question, from the Atlantic to the highlands of Northeastern France, through the Department of Pas do Calais, is saiC to have reached some eight hundred thousand tons per year. and in order to raise each boat up tho ninety-eight feet incline at Fontinettes has required, under the ordinary sys- tenn, some five or six hours The en- gineers having learned of the con- struction in England Of la hoisting ap- paratus for eighty-ton boats on the canal connecting the Trent and tho Mersey, it was decided by them to acspt that plan for this purpose, en- larging and strengthening the chambers So as to raise boat of three hundred tons, and on this prin- rlrie the traffic is now carried on- IN. I. Sun.
The Springdale news., 1889-08-16
FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
AN UNLUCkY FANCY.

Our Tom was as gay and merry wight As you ever would wish to see: He raced and froicked from mUfn till night, As happy as boy could be; And Tom had fancy vivid and gay That iudulged in many an art, And he thought the Very best kind Of play Was to play he was acting part. Sometimes as a gallant knight and bold He fought with the cornstalks tall; Sometimes as pirate he sailed for gold; Asa robber he scaled the wall. And oft as young fay blith and gay He roved through dell and glade; He was Robin Hood, or a pilgrim good; Or the beau on the grand parade. We'll one nne day as the wheat tieldla lay All yellow and ripe in the sun, Tom racked his brain for brand-new play And novel kind of fun; He thought of Joseph's brethren of old, And the famine that urged their feet. And he seized a stick and with footsteps bold He marched through the waving wheat As his course he took he thought not to 10 ok For an eye that might seem unkind, So ne did not heed, us he went with speed, That his father was close behind, But with sturdy blows that fell and rose, He leyeled the yellow grain, And--''Here goes q young man reaping 1T
 Egypt"
 He shouted in glad refrain. Al last mid the ranks Of fallen wheat Hc came to a sudden stand AS his father approached with footsteps fleet And a birch rod in his hand; And these were the words that made Ton
 quiver,
 And woke d thrnb in his breast; "Herc comes the old man thrashinc in Egypt I'll leave you to guess the rest.
 Anna k. Henderson, in Wide Awake.
The Springdale news., 1889-08-16
TO LIE AWAKE.

To lie awake when all the worlds asleen To watch the Night grim wrath stall, sIouy. ly by Then see the Dawn, like some pale mourner. creep
 Down 10 the Bier where Darkness droops to die; While our worn body, as though it were dead Seems severed from the restless heart and brain, And, by the hand of mournful Memory led, We live in thought our whole life o'er again This is thing we hold in dread and fear Through all the brightness of the busy day AS IT we'd shun the Past. 10 hold moro dear me fresent, or the Futures unknown way We shrink as tides of recollection break Like wild tempest OCT our word-worn
 heart When through the day night-watch thoughts
 re-awake
 And Tn the living Now the dead Past plays it's
 part. We fear tho haunting sorrow, and the shame Felt at the helpless facing of q fault In some fond friendship, now an empty name, Since 1t has found grave in Doubts .rlm
 vault. We dread tho meeting with Love long lost Love our captive once in bonds of Pride But freed at last, though atthe cruel cost or wandering homeless til 1t dropped and
 0leO. It is tale of good with evil knit Vain deeds, blind follyto small wisdom we'd That Memory hand in such plain words has
 writ
 Among the shadows round our seepless bed. Thought after thought, each like q sword
 thrust seems:
 "Regretl Rcpentw Hard words we mark
 them all; Then happ'cr fancies; then the word of
 dreams;
 And loi the watcher weary cyelds fall. Night, that brings hours of weary wakeful-
 ness,
 Comes like curse save to our meekcst
 mood; But some shall live those sleeplcss hours to
 bless
 Wherein past faults plead for our future
 good. Some day our bodies shall have plenteous
 sleep,
 Ending all taking thought for this lie s sake Therefore watch well, souls who earth's vigils
 keep,
 Lest in Deaths night ye fail to like awake Kate w. R der m N. Y. Mail and Express.
The Springdale news., 1889-08-16

tears to my eyes. That wasn' t half tho worst of it, either, with Ned Iyln& tbere. white and still, and the pltlLes9 ,ky telling me I had probably killed bim What would mamma do? Oh, l nraved if God would only forgive me this time and get me safely back nome witb Neddie. I'd never, never so long as I lived, be disobedicnt again
 .J don't know how far ] had gone Gt seemed miles, though l could not Vet see the little dock), when l heafo a shout, Hello, Tom-boy! u1Ing your feet for oars? and twisting my afhlnG neck I saw Tom in the old skill Wlti' ''i9 guns and his game. pui'iog lelsure'y home. Then l didn't kno' another thing till 1 opened my eyes in the IL io- dle tent. with mamma and MT. RaYls' and the doctor standing near. Iae sight of that doctor fairly made my heart stand still. I was afraid 10 ask whether Neddio was dead or alive
 Ut was not till Tom peeped in that heard the whole story He said that when he yelled at me out on the water. I looked around at him. and then St-d back into tho boat as limp as a rag where l lay until he came along Ido with the skif. "A pretty time l hal getting you two and the skin and the sail-boat all home together he said.
 "'And Ned? Did the Doctor saTo him9' 1 asked, with dreadful choke in my throat
 Save Ned9 There wasn't any thing the matter with Ned, only he was cross and hot and sleepy, and hardly would wake up when we got home. But pretty fright we had over you, and the doctor was here to dose you, you goose.
 Well, 1 laughed and cried alto gether, and quite agreed with mamma when she said: But Ned was looking pale, and it might have killed him. My foolish little girl will never again want to do, for little pleasure what her conscience tells her is wrong. And I think she never did "-Maude Kitten house, i'll Interior
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PICKPOCKET5 OF PARIS.
The Skill of tho Different Nationalitics as
 Li.ht-Iinrered Gentlemen.


 Licht-Iincered Gentlemen.
 The majority of the Paris pickpock- ets and pickpocke;tcs, according to NJ. Mace, arc foreigners, the English and Italian being the most numerous. The English pickpockct is the best known; ane meets him everywhere; but he is by no means the ceycrcst. He has obtained reputation which he does not doservc lio is etitT in his move ment, and, although very clever with ais hands, he has too much of the Na- ional phlcgm about him. But hc ia an ndefatigablc walker He will visit tlI the principal crowded points in Paris in single day, and fairly tires put the detectives who follow him He as wise a7 serpent and never lets himself De enticad from the path of prudence by temptation to a danger Dus attempt Ilc never remains moro han ten minutes in one crowd, and seldom makes moro than one victim in lhc same place The raca-course is his favoritc field of operations. All the pickpockcts of tho North, English, Russian, Polish, German, arc cool, mcthodical and tenacious, and seldom lct a victim go before they have emp tied his pockets. The German Is ex- ccllent at tho method known as a l'csbroulie. which consists in hustling the victim violently, and robbing him during the confusion which cnsucs He also cxcels in the "vol au radin' '- divcrting the attention of a 4hopman and then anncXing the contents of tho till.
 But the North is not alone in SUD- plying Paris with pickpockets. Italy and Spain furnish numerous contin- gent The Spanish pickpocket de- serves special mention. He combines theft with devotion, and when arrested makes rcvolting display of hypocrisy, protesting his innocence by all tho saints in the calendar. The Italian is extremely clever, is conscious of his superority, and can often snap his fin gers at all the detectives in Europe. Full of confidence in himself, and re- joicing in his triumph, he, ncverthe- less, ends in ruining himself, If tho Italian only had the prudence of the Englishman ne % i'd laugh at the cn- tire police of tho universe; but, car ricd away by the Southern fougne, he gets caught through remaining to rc- peat his triumph in the samo place London Globe.
The Springdale news., 1889-08-16
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-Tennyson received ten shilllngs for his first poem-for one of his latest he received $l,000.
 MT. Wilkie Collins, it is said, never once failed to keep a contract with publisher and never delayed copy be- vond the time stated in the contract.
 MT. Brush, of the arc electric light, owns a million-dollar house in Clcve- land, 0. He was a newspaper re- porter on a salary of fifteen dollars week less than fifteen years ago.
 J. T. Trowbridge, who grew fa- nous by writing clever stories for boys, is one of the prominent authors of Boston. Though past sixty and gray-haired, his fresh face and youth ful bearing make him appear much younger.
 Edmund Clarence Stodman, who, notwithstanding his dislike of the title. is called the Banker Poet" is not banker, but simply broker, and very modest one ut that Ho trans acts a commission business in New York which does not keep him rel markedly busy.
 MT George ". Childs never gives pie Fl rarely, very rarely, do it. and | never sign my name to a blank paper or any thing which do not my self write. This is necossitated by the number of uses tho signature Of any well-known or wealthy man can be put to. said he, recently, when asked for letter to one of his intimatcs
 Julian Hawthorne has written 20 books. In person he is about feet III inches in height, slender but a good deal of an athlete, and he has a very handsome face. His home K at Scotch Plains, N. J., and his summer residence at Sag Harbor, Me. He has five girls and two boys, the former of whom are named, respectively, Hil- dcgardc, Gwendolcn, Gladys, Beat rice and lmogen.
 Sam T. Clover the Dakota poet and humorist has literally "trampedn around the world. Some years ago he set out from Chicago with no money and no companions save two other tramps, who rode in the same box-car with him. In this prccarious manner he went through to San Francisco, suffering on the road all the ills of the tramp's condition and associating exclusively with the ilk to which he at the time belonged. In this manner he made d complete tour of the world, now working his passage, now shipping as stow away always without money, but seldom without the company of a tramp or two
 James Mortimer, who, after hold ing tho position of private secretary to the Emperor Napoleon III. for many years, settled in London just before Sedan and established the London Figaro is an American; that is to say, by birth, but he is just as much of Frcnchman as am Amcri- can, and more ot an Englishman than eithe~, especially the latter in ap- pcarancc. He is perfect terror to the plagiaristic playwright, for how ever carefully the literary criminal may coycr up his stolen plum5 with English conversational sauce, Nor timer i7 sure to uncarh them with ms fearful memory and label them from the French strengthening his as- sertion with data, circumstancc and author.
The Springdale news., 1889-08-16
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
Philadelphia is to have a new
 1rch for cOlored Catholics

Philadelphia is to have new church for colored Catholics.
 -The authorities in Holland have decrecd that woman can not serve on a school board. In Sweden it has been decided that they can.
 Four Chinamcn recently joined the Rose Hill Methodist Church, New York City, on probation. This is only one of many churches in the city which welcome Chinamen.
 At the late general conference of the Dunkards, or German Baptists, they decided that any member of their church found wearing a gold watch should be expelled.
 The Theological Seminary at Co., lumbia, S C., has an endowment of $235, ,0OO yielding an annual income Of $l5,OO0; a full faculty and fine li- brary Of l9, 900 volumes
 -Thorc arc in the United States 345 universities and colleges for the higher education of men and 200 for women, 55O institutions of learning for science, law, medicine and theology.
 The oldest church structure still standing in North America is believed undoubtedly to bo the original First Church erected in Salem, Mass, in 1854, and now carefully protected, still standing in the rear of Hummer lIall in that city.
 There is a larger proportion of the boys and girls of New Jersey than of any other State in the Union who go to Sunday-school. It appears by sta- tistics recently taken that there are just about 2S0,C00 children in the 1897 Sunday-schools of New Jersey.
 Some modest New Haven man, who will not permit his name to be known, has given to the Yale College library a complete Set of the pubiica- tions of Prince Lucien Bonaparte on the dialects of Europe, and particular- INV of the Basque language, numbering some $50 volumcs These books were printed in small numbers, some in editions of 25O copies and some of ~ pulN, diIu IL IF liVN 0dlt " bC q hopeless task to get a sct at any price.
 Massachusetts is discussing the question of corporal punishment in the public schools According to the State Superintendent Of Schools somo eighteen thousand nogging3 were adj minislered last year A rattan is used in all cases. Truancy, lying and insubordinaton are the main reasons for punishment; most of the lighter punishment is done by the assistant teachers, the more rigorous by the principal himself, who has tho physic- al strength often necessary to mako any impression.
 The idea of q telephonic church is being carried out at Tunbridge Wells, Eng, where the pulpit of a Congrega- tional church is connected with siX- teen subscribers We are told that those included doctors and apotheca- ric7, clerks working in various parts of the town, an invalid lady who has been obtaining consolation from the telephone for several months, and some lazy club men who went into the thing presumably more from a spirit | of experiment than devotion.
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CHAPTER XNI.-CONTINUED

Back, back, back their line was forced, until their camp tents and several batteries were in the hands of the enemy.
 Driven beyond their camp the Union troops halted moment, dressed up their lines, and prepared to meet the foe. AL though there had been a lull in the at tack, never for a moment had there been an entire cessation of firing. Colonel Mason did not try q fourth horse, but seized musket and proceeded to command his regiment and fire an occasional shot himself As lie was hurryug down the line during the momentary lull encouraging the men to make gallant stand, he heard a well-known voice growing:
 "Why n thunder didn't they giv' fellcr g chance ter git bite ter eat aforc they driv us inter this fight
 :" Oh, ,sbet yer mouth, Max. UT a gunner II think it's a cau9on n ram q swab inter it,' said a cheerful voice at hls side. The Colonel recognized the gray locks and slouch hat as belonging to Arkansaw Tom.
 ' Thank God the brave old fellow IS still alive" salG the Colonel
 The enemy was determined to follow up every advantage they had gained, and again poured down upon tile army they had drven from it's position. Hooting yelling, shouting and screaming like so many tieuds let loose from the internal regions, they again struck the Union line of battle. The roar of firearms and laundering crash of artillery made the earth and heavens quake.
 This was Shiloh all day long. It was as if hell had suddenly been uncappcd, and fends, fire and sulphur turned upon tue earth. Shot and shell flew like rain among the men and trees. There was no distinct firing but terrific, continuous roar while the whole horrible scene was at times vailed by cloud of smoke From out the lines of white vapor there issued continu- ous jets of flame which ran along from line to line, never entirely dying away.
 My God, what q scenc!' cried an officer
 We'll might he so exclaim As a soldier who was Tn the hornets nest once said to the writer:
 " t acas c day i,l heU.''
 The incessant roar, the crash Of cannon, falling of branches and even trees, cut down by the artillery, the dying men and horses, and riyulets so tinged by human gore as to look like streams of blood, with piles of slain in every direction, made it SC em like day in perditon. The half of Shil )h never has been. and never can be told. Ten thousand incidents escape the minds of narrators every time they at
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ranged abou' twenty five pieces of artillery These cannon soon added their thunder to the general din Luke was sure he had never seen artillery handled so effectually before. Their grape and canister moved down tho Confcderates, checked them, and saved tho Union army.
 Thus ended q day of carnage. When night came the firing had almost ceased. A cold rain fell during tho night, but men lay in their ranks on their arms, while all over the field went up the most pit eous cries and groaus of wounded that ever ear heard
The Springdale news., 1889-08-16
HUMOROUS.

Tho bronzed sailor who lives on tack and junk on board an iron ship, soon shows the hard ware of his occu- patton Puck.
 "A man knows all about the all gone" feeling the patenl-medicnc ad- vcrtisemcnts speak of just after he has lost all his money at poker. Boston Courier.
 Customer VI don't like the shoes; the soles are too thick.' Clerk You will learn to like them, as tho objec- tions you speak of wi gradually wear away. Omaha World.
 -A writer who, when youns was very green,
 In time grew blue as years passed OCT
 his head
 You ask what caused this transformation
 sceuef
 The man grew blue because he was not
 read.
 Life
 Stranger Do you know Dr. Haines?' Farmer Know i'm some. " 'Is he a good doctor, do you think?" "Reckon he ain't nothin' extry Haint no recommendation erbout i'm. "- Drake $ Magazine
 Guest -"Tcll me candidly, waiter, why do you recommend lobster 50 en- thusiastically?' Candid waiter Well, you see if there is any lobster left over to-day, we walters will get 'em tomorrow for dinner, and we have had 'em on hand about week already. "-Tcxas Siftings.
 Ovcrwork. Polite doctor (cau- tiously) Your husband is suffering from overworh or excessive indul- gcnce in alcoholic stimulants Nit is, ahem, d little difficult to tell which Anxious wife 'Oh, it's overwork Why, he can't even go to the theater without rushing out half a dozen times to see his business partners. YIN. Y. Weekly
 MT. Jason-''A nice fool you made of yourself at the sociablo last nightr' Mrs. Jason 1T Me? How?" Mr. Jason -"Yes, you. Telling Mrs. Chal- ly that her baby looked good enough to eat" Mrs. Jason-'W Well, what's the matter with that?n Mir. Jason "Oh, nothing; only you know that they start as missionaries to the Can- nibal Island next week. "-Terre Haute Exp ess.
 A man stood on the city hall steps and indulged in strange gestures and muttcred strange words to himself. A policeman was signaled to investigate him, and he walked bravely forward and asked: Any thing wrong with you, strangcr?" Have I acted queer?" "Veiy queer" Would you say was crazy?N You certainly act as if you were" Good! Please bear it in mind. I'm going out to Dear born to kill a chap this afternoon, and l shall plead emotional insanity in de- fense. Please help me 70 get the names of these people who will swear that l was acting queerly. w. Detroit Free Press.
 Well" said Uncle Hiram, who dsed to belong to a singing club in his early days, Il never heard woman play like that woman we heard in Boston that night. It was just awful My ears ache even now" "Yes," re- piled his nephew, she was rather loud, that 5 fact. But then her ex- ecution-" "Georger' exclaimed the old gentleman, as he seized his nephew by the arm, you don't mean to say that they went as far as that? Well. 'tlsn' for me to judge them. l only heard her once. It seems terrible-a woman, too; but then they had to listen to her every nigot- And they won't have to hear her again Per- hap5 It is all for the best, George. ".-- Boston Tran script
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The wife of q telegraph operator having treated her husband to an inter. minable scene of reproaches and con- plaints, during which he has remained absolutely quiet asks him. infuriated at his silence Well. sir, what have you to say in answer?' And he, after a moments reflection: Just this, that il had to telegraph all that to Bor- deauX, the message would have cost you 426 francs and 50 centi1nes. "- Paris Figaro.
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A dude will help a young lady car ry her prayer-book home from church, and later on will assist ballet girl in getting away from the stage door with her littte handbag; but tho same able- bodied young person could by no means be induced to help his poor old mother split an armfll of kindling-wooi she wants to use in preparing his breakfast