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The Opelousas courier., 1889-03-09
Les Oorbeaux dams Vouest.

t$&&E S4H
Depuis des sr-ois DIES corbeaux au
rombre de 100000 d 10000 Q ont
ourmill6 dams Ia partie sud du comt6
is Douglass, ILL.,, se nourrissant clans
d champs 10 jour, ct Sc reunissant, 10
1 ir, dams an bocage distant de II mile
de Newman. Al la bIhnante ces Oh
seaux se reminiscent en- myriades de
TOT ties les parties du comte, ct font un
brait 6ponvantable ct etoufdissant.
Solvent ils Sc perchent en- al grand
nombre sur les arbres que de crosses
branches sont rompues par le poide.
On jour de Ia semaiDe derniere on
VII nne nu6e noire dc ces oiseaux ira
verser Ia vote fsrr6e de Newman, mails
Ia fnm6e de Ia locomotive les aveugla
ct plus Dc 200 fluent tues. Six chas-
eeurs en- ont tue 1876 en- moins de deux
heures, dams le bocage susdit. Sou
vent ces oiseaug s'envolent en- IN 81
grand nonbre quilts cachent lie soleil d
ID vue. lis font IN terrible ravage
dams les champs de bls.d'inde, ct il est
impossible de les chaser.
Entire er-EsEacSs.-Les tribunaux
dsEat st. Louis snnt en- CO moment
aaieis dun process int6ressant. Fred.
erick Harris de Chicago ct miss Mar
garet Byrne d'Est st. Louis avaient
contract6 m engagement de marriage,
~ 10 iiauc6, en- gallant homne, await
prosecute \ son annie das bijoux de prix.
Tout allait pour le mienx quaud un on
Gle ds miss Ryrne decoavrit que son
tisnc6 6fait i'm honme divorce ct ft
npre i'engagement. In jenne Gle
ayant gasd6 les bijonx, Harris lui in
sshse M psocas pour les reconyrer,
lsasia NJ fauailla az Mics Byrne pretend
quo "a valeut de ces biiOux De convre
point les d6benses faites ponr recevoir
dignement Il ianc6 quand il venait
rsidrB yisite A sa belle. Nous attens
dona avec impatience Ia I'm de Get in
s5rsssant ntige.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-03-09
Un Roman du sud.

Dutemps de pesclavage, Isaac Frank
lin etait Fun des plus riches planteurs
du Sud, ~possedant dams lie Tennessee
ouatre grandes habitations ct plus de
negres que ~quiconque, saul peut-etre
lie pere du general Wade Hampton.
franklin, qui etait veuf, wyatt royale,
ment ct tenait un registre u lequel
ses nombreux visitears s'inscrivaient.
Tn jour plusieurs jeunes personnes de
Nashville vinrent visiter o ~habitation,
ct parmi Giles Sc trouva miss Adecelia
Hayes, a repoque la belle du Sud. La
ieune file, soft sincerement, soft pour
rire, ajouta a la suite de son nom surle
registre qu'elle etait venue pour faire la
cour au vieux Franklin celui-ci Sc lais-
ga seduire sans dificulte etpeu de jours
apres il epousait miss Hayes, d9'il lais,
sa bient6t veuve, avec son eclatante
beaute ct Sd, 600, 600 pour Sc CONSIDER.
En- ce temps-la WYATT a Huntsville,
Ala, I'm jeune avocat dn nom de Joseph
Aeklen, lequel attendait en- vain DIES
process. L'idee lui vint que la neil
leure affaire quill pourrait jamais ga
gner, ee serait d%'epouser la veuve
| Franklin ct il en- parla a des amis qul
lui trent une bourse de $1,000 pour
Quill pat lui faire d~ignement la cour'
Acklen etait aussi beau gareon quiz
etait adroit, ct Sc laissant prendre pour
un millionaire il livra lie siege au ceuE
de la veuve Qui ne demanda qua capl-
tuler. lis Sc marierent done, Sc bati'
rent une belle maison ct vecurent dams
uu grand luxe. Pendant la guerre Ack,
len mourut, laissant quatre entants
don't Fun d'eux etait Joseph Il. AckleD
qui Representa- il y a quelques anneet
IN district de la Louisiana au congre'
ct qui fut. lie plaignant dams un process
aui Went de Sc decider en- sa faveuI
dams lie. comt6 de Davidson, Tenn
Nine Acklen, sa mere, n'6tait pas op
posee au marriage, car apres un cour
veusage ellie SO maria pour la troisiem'
fois avec IN nomme Cheatham. Apre
la guerre, ellie reclama un million d,
piastres au gouvernement pour dom
images fats. a sa recolte de cotton ct ga
gna lie process. Son ~avocat, qui etait
general confed6re Pillow, n'eut riel
pour SEES peines. Dependant depui
, dd13,ars la fortune de Nine Cheatham sc
,or to alice en- lambeaux ct a So mort re
cemlsppt ellie ma laisse que $3O0,0O(
don't 0 RI -&Aclamait le quart.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-03-09

No1E-Tickets drawing Capital Prizes are
not entitled to Terminal Prizes
@.FoE CLUB RATES or any further inior
nation apply to the undersigned Your
Handwriting must be distinct and Signature
plain. More rapid return mail delivery vii
be assured by your enclosing an envelope
bearing your full address.
Send Postal Notes, Express Money Orders
or New York Exchange in ordinary letter
Currency by Express (at cur expense) I'D
dressed 10 M. 4. DAUPElN,
New Orleans, La.
Address registered letters to
New Orleans National Bank,
New Orleans, La
The Opelousas courier., 1889-03-09

Failing Memory, Exhausting
drains, terrible dreams, head
and back ache and all the eff
fects leading to early decay,
and perhaps consumption or
insanity, treated scientifical-
ly by new methods with
never-failing success.
- Syphilis and all bad
blood and skin diseases per-
manently cured.
gy-gs Y;dnav and Urinary
The Opelousas courier., 1889-03-09

M - !
Probate Court, Parish of 81. Landry, No. 4945
ESTATE OF ALEXANDRA q. RoY.
Nv virtue of an order of the Honorable the
Probate Court in and for the parish OF Saint
Landry, there will be sold at public auction,
TO the last and highest bidder, by the under
signed tutrix or any duly qualified auc'
tioneer. at the last residence of the deeeas-
ed, about three miles southeast of the 0
of Opelousas, parish of st. Landry, on WE'D
NESDAY, April 10th, 1889, the following
described property, belonging to the estate
of Alexandra U. Roy, deceased; late of the
parish of St. Landry, a portion being separate
property of deceased and a portion belonging
to the community existing between deceased
and his surviving widow, to-wit:
II, About two arpents of land, together with
al the buildings and Improvements thereon,
bounded north, west ana south Dy land Oh Sns
estate, and on the cast by the public road
leading from Opelousas to Arnaudyille
9, About line arpents of land situated in
the same locality, bounded north by Ernest
Roy, south by Birotte, east by swamp and
west by public road leading from Opelousas
to Prairie Laurent.
I 3. One hundred and twenty arpents of land
| situated in the same neighboIhood, bounded
| north nv Marcel Nezat and lot No. 2 herein
above described, south by Smith and Mrs.
Castain, cast by swamp and west by J. q.
Roy.
4. One cabin.
5. Three-fourths of the sugar house ma
chinery, &c.
6. Two mules.
7. One pair of oxen,
s. One beef cart.
9. One horse cart,
10. One hack
II. Household furniture.
~. One hundred acres of swamp land, sit
uated on Bayou Conrtableau, bounded on one
side by CourtabIeau, on another side by j. U.
Roy, on the other side by Johnson, and on the
other side by =.
Is. Fifty-seven acres Of swamp land, sitgt
ated east of bayou Delpuenta, bounded MORT
by JOS U. Roy, west by bayou Delpuentd
SOUTH bseS c. pevill'ers' and east by Mrs
.PHIHOMENE NEAT, I
March 9, 1889 Tutne.
a 6,
DUBLIC SALE Yer
Probate Court, Parish of 81. Landry, NJ 45S'
and s. 47O6. 4
ESTATES oE5WM. B. RErNoLDs AM m FLrE'
MAR, A. BUcHANAN. ;a
The Opelousas courier., 1889-03-09
"a s.. z.
UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION ,
Over a Million Distribut ed,
Louisiana State Lottery ~


incorporated by the Legislature il 1861, for
Educational and Charitable purposes, and II.
franchise made a part of the present State ~
stitution, in 1879, by an OVERWHEIMINr
POPULAR VOTE. Its
GRAND EXTRAORDINARY DRAWINGS
Take place ~semi.annually (June and Decem,
ber), and its GRAND SINGLE NUMRFp
DRAWINGS take place on each of the otbar
ten months of the year, and are all drawn in
public. at the Academy of Music, New Orleans
La.
1--WE do hereby certify that we snperv;ss
the arrangements for all the Monthly and
Quarterly Drawings of The Louisiana State
Lottery Company, and in person manage and
control the Drawings themselves, and that The
same are conducted with honesty, fairness, and
in good faith toward all parties, and we author.
ize the Company to use this certificate, with
fac SMILES of our signatures attached, in its al.
ve~rtisements.'
CT, BEAUREGARD,
j. A. EARLY,
Commissioners
We the undersigned Banks and Bankers
will pay all Prizes drawn in the Louisiana
State Lotteries which may be presented at our
| counters.
R.M. WALMSLEY, Pres. La. Nat. Bank.
?. LANAUX, Pres. State Nat. Bank.
4. BALDWIN. Pres. n. o. Nat. Bank,
CARL KOHN, Pres. Union Nat. Bank.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-03-09
JUDICIAL, NOTICES
D.ono,. rov,I po,;sh Of ST. LANDRY, No. 4945

ID
nUBLIC SALE.
The Opelousas courier., 1889-03-09

Estates o53WM. B. REYNOLDS M m IF
MARI A. BUCHANAN. So
The Opelousas courier., 1889-03-09

Probate Court, Parish of 81. Landry, Nbs45S
ana s. 4706.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-29
INTO THE RIVER.
Mrs. Robert Stewart Leaps
From the Deck of an
Annex Boat.
IN SEALSKIN AND DIAMONDS
Her Husband is Telegraph Super
intendent Of the Central
Railroad
N SEALSKTN AND DIAMONDS

Mrs. Robert Stewart, of No. AGO Monros
avenue, Elizabeth, wife of the Superin-
tendent of Telegraph of the Central Rail-
road of New Jersey, committed suicide
last evening by jumping from an Annex
ferry boat, as it was entering the Brook
lyn slip. Among the passengers who
boarded Annex boat No. 2 at the Penn
sylvania station in this city last evening
was a fashionably attired, middle-aged
lady.
She wore an elegant sealskin sacque
and carried muff of the same material.
In her ears were pair of diamond rings,
which sparkled and glistened every time
the light struck them.
There was nothing about her appear
ance which attracted attention until the
boat was about to enter the slip. Then
she threw her muff upon the deck of the
boat, and, springing over the low guard
rail, jumped into the water. She sank
out of sight almost at once.
Upon picking up the muff which the
woman had dropped, the deck hands
found slip of paper pinned to it's lining
with the address, No. AGO Monroe avenue,
Elizabeth, written upon it in feminine
hand.
The officers of the boat telegraphed to
the address and thus learned the name OF
the suicide.
Mrs. Stewart leaves q daughter, "a young
lady of twenty-five years, and a son twelve
years of age. She was about fifty years
old. Her family were FRUSTRATED by the
intelligence conveyed to them In the tele-
gram, and could assign no cause for the
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-29
A STRIKE VERY PROBABLE
Erie Railway Engineers at Once
Reticent and Resolute.

The Grand Grievance Committee of the
Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engineers,
at its emergent meeting yesterday list
ened to the grievances of the Brother
hood connected with the Erie Railroad.
The joint committee numbered over
forty engineers, firemen and brakemen
from the several divisions of the jurisdic--
ton. J. Youngston, of Meadville. chair
man of the general grievance committee,
presided. The deliberations were had in
secret session, and the body adjourned
about three o'clock.
1t was decided to demand of the COM
pany the reinstatement of the suspended
engineers and the abolition of the obnox
ious rules and regulations comprised in
what are known as the engineers and
the firemen's books.
The books also contain sort of civil
service examination set of questions
which the men are required to answer.
To this the engineers object.
In their own case they say the book
contains questions which do not properly
belong to their business They also
say that school boy could probably
obtain higher percentage i'll answering
the questions than an engineer, and yet
the boy could not run an engine.
The fireman's book contains number
OF questions winch Gne engineers declare
should have been asked the firemen when
they were appointed, not when they seek
to be promoted
A committee was appointed to formu-
late the demands for presentation to Su-
perintendent Thomas, Another meeting
viii be held this morning when q large
number of engineers and firemen will be
present.
The engineers preserve their reticence
and stolidity and refuse to discuss the
probabilities of the result. 1t is apparent,
however, that if the requests OF the
Grievance Committees are not complied
with by the railroad company general
strike on the Erie Road is not very dis
tant.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-29

Special to The SUNDAY NOTHING Menus
NEWARK, Dec. 2S, 1889. Christina Ka-
bach, of No. 81 Lawrence street, COM
planned yesterday to Justice Dean that a
young man named Fred Hill had taken
her fifteen year -old daughter away from
home on Christmas day and was living
with her since in a furnished room on
Bank street, near Wickliffe.
Warrants were issued against both Hill
and the girl, and this morning Constable
Theodore Tappen arrested the girl at the
above house. Hill was not found. as he
had evidently obtained a knowledge that
he was wanted, and skipped. The girl,
whose name like her mothers, is Chris
tina. will probably be sent to the City
Home
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-29

Special to The Sunday Mor4lino Nelos.

NEWARK, Dec %, 1ss0.--A adjourned
meeting of the Essex County Democratic
Committee will be held at headquarters
Monday evening to complete arrange
ments for attending Governor-elect Alb
INSTRUMENTATION. The finance committee
will make splendid report, and Presi-
dent Price requests that all the sub-com-
mittees will be ready to make their final
report also.
Each member of the county committee
of Democrats who will go from his ward
or township. The coupon books will be
given out to the members who will use
them to sell tickets for the inauguration
AI.tnA
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-29
Hugh Farrar nIcpermott In.

Hugh Farrar McDermott, the poet and
journalist, and the father Of Allan l..
McDermott. is seriously i'll with heart
trouble at the Hotel Gladstone, New
York city. The attack was brought on
some days ago by Mr.. McDermott's efforts
TO catch a swift moving street car
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-29

TRENTON. Dec. 2s. 1889. New Jer-
sey State Teachers Association held its
last session today. DR.. w. n. Mailman,
Superintendent of Schools of Laporte.
Ind, made an address entitled
"The True and the False in
New Education which proved
very interesting The following officers
were elected.-President, Superintendent
S. r. Morse, Atlantic City; first vice
president, John NJ. Wright, of Freehold;
second vice president, Miss NJ. e. Hebber-
ton, of Elizabeth; treasurer, II. r. Harris.
of Bayonne: corresponding secretary, l.
G. Wooley, Trenton; recording secretary,
J. Wilmer Kennedy, Newark.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-29
Ne. flames Belger Dead.

Mr.. James Belger, popular resident
of the Heights, died at his home on Storm
avenue, yesterday He had been clerk
in the Railway Mail Service for the past
twelve years. and his father has been in
the employ of the Government as soldier
and chief mail clerk for forty years.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-29

Special TO the sunday Morning Ne,cs

SpectuI 70 Utt oltNtluY OfOFNtItV 1Ve3cs
NEWARK, Dec. 2S. 1sS9-The members
of Bloomfield Lodge, X. U. ", German
sick benefit society, have been placed in
an unpleasant position through the dis
appearance of Gustave Poetch. butcher,
who was treasurer of the society, and who
had in his possession its funds, amount
ing to SIG. Poetsch. it is reported, has
gone to California. William J. Raab,
Bloomfield hotelkeeper, is his bondsman.
Poetsch's wife has not the least clue to
his whereabouts
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-29
DIR. Rothe BECOMES Postmaster.


EAST NEWARK, Dec, IS. 1889. Mr.. Peter
j. Goodman, superintendent of the Har-
rison sub station OF the Newark post
Office, was notified by Postmaster Conl-
lin this morning 10 turn over TO DR..
Henry r.. Rothe on January all govern
Ment property in his possession.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-29
THE GRIP In NEWARK
County Physician Hewlett Says 1t is Epi.
demic in That City.

Special to the Sunday 3fornin0 Neaos.
NEWARK, Dec. 2S, 1SS9.-County Physi-
clan HEWLETT says the grip is an epidemic
in this city He says there are between
1000 and 1000 cases. He had ten new
cases yesterday and is treating in all
about 40 patients afflicted with the disease.
1t is not mere cold in the head, but
genuine influenza with various compiled
tions,'' said DIR. Hewlett, The serious
nature of the affection depends on these
complications. Some are taken with
symptoms of pneumonia, some with rheu-
matism, others with bronchitis or laryn
gifts. 1t is those cases with lung comph-
cations that are most dangerous. The
majority of cases are bad colds in the
head with violent sneezing and pains in
the head, back and limbs There is no
question as TO its being The genuine grip.
The doctor could not say, however, that
it was the Russian disease. 1t has ten
dency to make anyone taken with IL to
rush to bed.
There has been one fatal case in this
city fran the grip. 1t was accompanied
by pneumonia complications. DIR. Hew-
lett believes that the fatal cases reported
in Paris were of the same nature as this
one.
The cases reported at the City Hospital
were genuine. number of nurses and
several patients are suffering. The dis
ease itselfis not particularly dangerous. IL
lasts usually from three to five days, and
requires only good care and the applica-
tion of ordinary cold remedies to drive it
out of the system.
BRIDGRToN, Dec. 2S-Mrs. Thomas
Taylor, living on Taylor street, this city,
died very suddenly this morning from
the effects of ''la grippe.n She had been
sick only d few days Several other cases
of this epidemic are reported in this
city
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-29
Fine Cloalss and wraps.

An excellent opportunity is afforded
those il need OF cloaks, wraps and
sacques, TO select from an extensive line
of these garments now offered by Harris
& Company, corner Seventeenth,street and
Sixth avenue, New York, at greatly re-
duced prices.
The recent mild weather has lessened
the demand for winter garments, and
buyers will be wise in supplying them
selves while these splendid values may be
haA
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-29

A forty hours devotion" will com
mence at st. Joseph's Church at the
conclusion Of the eleven O'Clock mass
this morning.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-29
Arrested for a Newark Murder.
s.,eeiol 10 Az snlldan Mornina Ns1rs.

NEWARK, Dec. 2S, 1sS9.--As the result
of stabbing affair that took place in this
city last June in which Dominick Sadoli
an Italian barber was frightfully cut.
the police of New York yester-
day arrested Gusseppi Ippolite, an
other barber who did the stab
bling. Though the police have
been on the lookout for Ippolite it was
not until yesterday that they could locate
him. The arrest was made in a Sixth
avenue barber shop. The prisoner ad-
the arrival of the proper requisition pa
pers from the Governor of New J ersey.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-29
Exlt Mnrcaret Manner.

Margaret Mather and her husband, E.
Habercon, today left Taylor's Hotel
where they had been stopping for several
days. to go to Buffalo. The charming Ju-
liet has an engagement there.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-29

u. al.ordsrsa llys..rs DIEeaAn's puL..
Los Cerrillos rustler. (Cerrillos, N.M.) 188?-1891, 1889-01-10
~ X

r ssrn-ht fr ~ HarkeE
ttrf -uaeni sht fur tss over
IaeW D. ras at Ger M bcaufr Eltk her ZEN
oaIad ucdk aud arus
Aad fur me shea daY l. uFaf
And = tHocp ~ f4netes hover
lh-nfs fhe tcudeL. nickeriuF nfsiGat with ia
oer rsuiaE charms
Nher ucfure IL shrine Tn kaeeiiuF.
~n namennEers upward stealing
Ma0 ne in q nu~y Farmeut aud o'crnov ne
dicut uuom.
Then Withdrawing. ~liaserinE dyinE.
All he xanant spsee oatiyinE
Scms . tryaunEplace fnr shafnsz gliding
irum The aespeT gioom.
a my touch again u~pspnnxing
Listen % ne rhythmlc singing
Threr.iold melody Ills weaving. souw Of brook
and bee and bird
Yet with hese there blends another.
strangely swoct-ahi long lost brother,
t. the happy. ~earuless cadence that IN chlld-
hoods days ! heardi
scenes M uunstant breast remembers
Pictured Ne upon The embeus-
laccs that no other where mas greet my long.
ing eyes:
ilesscd hour OF are-lit druamiag,
Al I've lost Il mine IN seeming.
When the spell q thine enchantmeut opes the
gates uf Paradise
Helen Weld IN Transcript Monthly.
Los Cerrillos rustler. (Cerrillos, N.M.) 188?-1891, 1889-01-10
MIaiatur Gaoler.

n the observer will closely note the
conditions Of the surface of a hillside
after the sno has gone away he will
eften see That the stems OF the plants
are bent downward and that small
stones have been slipped from their
original bedding places and carried a
little way on their glacial journey.
Although this mode of glaoiation which
the ordinary winters bring about Is
trifing compared to that of the age Of
winter of the glacial time, the analogy
between the actions In the two cases
Is as perfect as that which exists be-
tween the brook coursing through tho
meadow and the majestic Mississippi
Prot. N. S. Shaler, In ChautauQuan.
Los Cerrillos rustler. (Cerrillos, N.M.) 188?-1891, 1889-01-10

the dcath~hAmher I'll uprz &c tar In
IN Instant - - awaru ~ 80 @oldier
moFcd along he rsad with The a. ~ .
cunqucrur Iialf = auaen mcu sQsunx
to his side Tenaeriy they ial1 him
ao~n In the shadow of agruAt oak his
lips parted h SPEAK ; messare - 90 .
thousand miles auaY. and the line sas
short n man for the opzninE assault
lie died II his hurl bat b. died like .
King.
Oh. my hos don't yell the ianrs out
Of you over . mashed thumb ~hen only
three files down the line a soldier sAlutcs
his Captain before he faces about b 90
~ the rear with 4 death bullet In hts
hreast You can't help getting hurt
Tlere isn't a safe place In The line.
There are cruel people In the world Nho
love n wound ~ there are the thought
less, needless people who don't think.
there are people who don't carr, and
there are thick-skiuncd people who ara
not easily hurt themselves. and they
think mankind Il a thsck-hided ranc; In
fact. the air Is full Of darts and arrows
and singing bullets al the time. and It's
dangerous 70 be safe anywhere. But
when you get hit-as hit you certainly
will be-d0n't s'holier any louder than
you have TO- Grin and bear IL the best
YOU may. There ARE some people -
badly burt hat they must moan. do you
forget your own hurt In looking after
them. -Burdette. in brooklyn Eagie.
Los Cerrillos rustler. (Cerrillos, N.M.) 188?-1891, 1889-01-10
BEAR IT
One Man who Howled Over Trines and
Another Who Died Like n King.

One Man who Howled Over Tribes and
Another who Died Like n King.
One day at the investment Of Vicks-
burg-it was on the memorable 22d of
May-during a lull in the desultory
skirmishes which preceded the assault,
while | was lying close to the surface of
the great round globe which we inhabit,
and wishing | could get a little closer to.
IL, we heard a tremendous bowling and
shrieking, and down the dusty road
from the front came a blue-jacketed
skirmisher on the trot, holding one hand
up in the other, and the hand he was
holding up had no thumb on 1t. II hurt
like the mischief, ! have no doubt, but
It was only a thumb after all, and how
the fellow was bowling about IL. He
was a brave man or he wouldn't
have been where he could have lost
that thumb. But you would have
thought 1t was the only thumb in the
whole United States army, and that no
| one else on the skirmish line had been
hit that morning. So the soldiers saw
only the funny side of the picture, and
a perfect chorus OF howls, In vociferous
imitation of the mans own walls, went
shrieking up from The sarcastic line OF
the men who were waiting their turn to
face death. In a minute another soldier
came walking back from the skirmisf
line. lie was walking slowly and stead
lily; never a moan fell FROM his com
pressed lips, though they were whittier
than his bronzed face, and he held his
hand against his breast The silence o