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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-05-05

sAod their bloodl That = Whist Jesus Christ
meant when He commanded you TO love
your neighbor - yoursalf.' He never
meant for man or woman to love their
enemy In their wickedness, neveri SuchA
doctrine is revolving and impossible. His
language was left ~ It Il for those to read
who have the spirit to discern between
truth and error; It was 20 left for those
who can discern the things Of God.
Snow, l want to tell you that many .
man has come to me and asked that his blood
be taken, and further,I want to tell you that
could point you to plenty Of instances where
men have been righteously slain in order to
atone for their sins since the setting-up of
Gods kingdom here among these mount
dreds Of people for whom there would have
been a chance If their lives had been taken
and their blood spilled upon the ground
as . smoking incense to the Almighty. It
il your business to watch over your neigh
bors, and, If you see them falling from
grace, you know how they can be saved.
This may seem like very severe doc
trine, but it's Gods will and must be
obeyed. You had better be lost to earth
than lost to Heaven. It is necessary for
the protection Of the Church, too, and this is
Of more importance than any number Of
human lives. For ours is the only true
Church, Gods kingdom on earth, and must
be preserved at any cost. We are His
chosen people; to US alone are revelations
now given. The so-called Christian
Churches Of the world, tell you, are but
the breeding ground of sin and nonsense,
and civilization, as they call their educa-
ton and hnery, is o curse. We must keep
away from it and lead pure and holy
lives. Our work Is great and often
hard, but our rewards will be equal to the
sacrifice. The fullness of celestial glory in
the presence and society of God and the
Lamb shall be ours. The power of increase,
the fruit Of celestial marriage, wherein Is
dominion and exaltation and crowns Of i'm
measurable glory shall be ours, while they
who reject the Gospel as revealed in these
latter days, who fall from once accepted
grace, or shed innocent blood, shall be
thrust away with the devil and his angels
into outer darkness, beyond the spheres
where flows the river Of salvation or
blooms the tree of life, there to suffer in
hell for the period allotted by eternal judg-
ment But we shall be rulers over many
things. In eternity we shall stand in the
order of the family organization, and all
things shall be ours. OF our increase there
shall be no end"
There was more Of this terrible fulmina-
ton; tithing, baptism for the dead, corporal
and spiritual affinity, and other Mormon
dogmas. Trean sat through the long
harangue with eyes cast down, but Elchard's
eyes blazed against the speakers face, and
| when the Prophet ceased to speak he rose
| to his feet, and an unusual ano. extraordi
nary thing took place.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-05-05
WANTED.

Two or three first class table girls wanted
at once, at the Hub dining rooms, Phoenix
ave., J. G. PLACE & Co.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24
Shipped for One Trip.

One day in early spring of the yea,
1888, the revenue cutter Andrew
johnson steamed into the harbor of
Frankfort, little town in the northern
part of Michigan, and made fast to the
dock. The vessel was to be painted,
and for several days AL hands" were
busily employed. After supper, on the
second day, the quartermaster at the
gangway espied small red squirrel
playing on the wharf.
His curiosity being aroused he
watched the little fellow and noticed
that he was gradually nearing the gang
plank. Soon he stopped at the other
end, and sitting on his launches, looked
inquiringly at the big sailor, who laugh
ingly accosted him with:
Would you like to come on board?
As if he had understood the polite
invitation, the wouldbe traveller al
most Immediately scampered up the
plank, jumped over the bulwarks and
ran down the gangway, to the great
amusement of the quartermaster, as
well as of one or two others who wit
messed the incident.
4 search was made for the young
stowaway, but he had effectually hid
den himself, and was not seen again
until the vessel was far out on the lake,
on the second day following. Then he
was observed apparently searching for
food.
Bread and corn-meal were scattered
about for him, and quickly disappeared
in way TO indicate very good appe-
tite. Finding that he was not molested,
he became quite tame, and was great
pet with all on board.
When we made the first port
after leaving Frankfort, it was sup
posed that he would leave Us, and nec-
essarily be logged as "deserter," but
such was not the case. He evidently
had no intention of leaving, for al
though We stopped at many places
during the next three weeks and he
went on shore regularly, he never
failed TO return on time, and was with
us when the vessel again ran into
Frankfort harbor.
Much interest was now manifested,
both by officers and men. to see what
the little passenger would do. He did
not keep us waiting long. When the
ship was made fast to the dock and the
boatswain had ~piped down" our young
friend came up, took look at the wharf
to assure himself that it was indeed his
old home, and quickly, without saying
good-by, ran down the ng-plank, and
was soon out Of sight,
We never saw him again, but coald
he have been followed. no doubt an
interesting scene would have been wit
messed when he rejoined his family.
What wonderful story he had to tell !!
and what a hero he must be hereafter in
the eyes of squirrels who never took
free ride on a Government ship
Youths Companion.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24

New Officer (dejectedly)-So I sup
pose might as well resign now.
Colonel-Yes. It'll come to that in
the end.
1t was a fact that the principal
business of these examining boards.
always manned by regulars, was to rid
the service of worthless and undesir-
able officers. The Colonel of regi-
ment always had this weapon in his
hands, and In some cases, too, it was
harshly and unjustly used. But after
what has been said the reader can un-
derstand how it is that some thousands
of war commissions are in existence
(some of them gorgeously framed and
conspicuously hung up in peaceful
parlors), the owners of which never did
a days military duty. But they are
Colonels and Captains DAYLIGHT.
cagO Ledger.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24
AFTER THE BALL.
BY EMILE CLARE.

Fling back the curtain and let in the light,
Strains Of sweet music are floating tonight
On the breath of balm-breathing air;
The light-hearted dancers in circles go by,
With q blush on the cheek and q smile IN the
eve.
For bravery and beauty are there
Fling back the curtain, and once again gaze
On al the old scenes-the wearisome days
The sunshine, the shadow and rain
Are there apples OF Sodom whose ashes stll
Crushed roses whose thorns stu fostering sting,
That gossip AID sport with the brain?
Fling back the curtain-re-enact the old play,
The hopes and the fears; have you nothing to
say?
No sentence or act to recaIl?-
Nothing that brings you pang OF regret
Nothing you would not be glad to forget,
And never know after the ball?
The haunts loved, are they murmuring
still
In their dark robes Of green-the clear singing
ril
At the foot of the spicy birch tree?
Do the choir in the wildwood sing gayly rs when
We wandered together in that love haunted glen
And praised their rare minstrelsy?
Could my steps but keep pace with the wings of
my mind,
would leave this fair land and its treasures
behind
And roam over meadow and void:
The hillside and valley again I'd retrace.
Your true hand to lead, would visit each place
We loved once SO fondly of old
Ring back the curtain and let in the light
This is n that is sacred tonight
And yearly its bliss / recall
And while youth is treading its light mazes
through
III linger moment, beloved with you
In memory of After the Ball"
And now when lifes giddy waltzes are done,
When the lights all out and the dancers are
gone.
With the pleasures that come at our call,
Will you sit in your coy arm chair and repeat
The low whispered words wonderous sweet,
The parting just after the ball?
ANITA, Iowa.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24

the negroes that the devil-the old
personal fellow himself-had made
his appearance in the community. He
first made himself known by leaping
over the fence into the county road,
snatching up horse that belonged to
highly respected citizen and pulling
the animal in two. The next occasion
of the old mans introduction was at a
hog killing. He seized shoat, knocked
down a Justice of the peace with it,
swallowed a chunk of fire and then
went shouting through the woods.
Shortly after reaching the neighbor-
hood 1 learned that all the reports
could be traced to a negro preacher, an
old fellow who was regarded with ex-
treme veneration 1 called on him and
found him in the woods engaged in
prayer.
Il have been told" said I, "that you
could give me some information con-
cerning the devil that is now airing
himself in this reighborhood.
"Ah, Lawd, chile, I does hope an
pray dat you won't talk ter me on dat
subjeck. It's er awful time we's habin'
down yere, an lessen dar's some mighty
tall prayin' somebody gwine ter git
hurt powerful.
"Have you seen the devil ?" asked.
Il wush you wouldn't put me in de
mine O anything so awful.
But have you seen him ?"
"Cose I has Whut you come foolin'
wild me dat way fur? How 1 gwine ter
of II ~
dun seed him."
"What does he look ike?"
Il amt got time ter tell you whut he
do look like. san. Da's so much erbout
him ter tell dat I wouldn't like ter un-
dertake de job. Monst'us, sab; oh,
he was monst'us."
"Now, look here, old man, you are
too intelligent to believe in such nom
sense. You know that no devil has
been seen; you know that you started
the report yourself" D."
"Look we're, sab" he exclaimed, turn
ing wrathfully upon me, "whut you
mean by comm down yere a-foolin' an
meddlin' wild our 'ligious affairs?
Amt you got no bisrless ter tend ter at
home? Doan you know dat you got ter
keep de devil constantly befo' desc
niggers or da amt gwine do no good ?
Whar preached last year. got up an
tole 'em dat l didn't brebe dat dar wuz
any devil, an whut did da do? Da cut
down my salary, dat's whut da done.
Vas, cut down my salary, an den didn't
glib me but half o de cut-down. An,
stead O takin' off dar hats when da
meet NE in de road like da uster do,
dad laugh at me an call me old knock
kneed Ben. So when 1 come ober yere
1 lowed ter myself, did, dat wuz
gwine ter use diffunt tactics, an has.
Wy, sab, ef you take de devil outen
Tgion, de niger preacher would
starve ter death, so go on away now.
an quit foolin' wild er bisness dat you
amt got no intrust in"
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24

itor of the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle,
recently wrote General Sherman on the
subject and received the following
reply:
MY DEAR SIR: The march to the
sea- from Atlanta was resolved on after Hood
had got well on his way to Nashville. then
detached to General Thomas force sufficient
to whip Hood, which he IL December 1864, hand
somely and conclusively did. Still had left a
respectable army and resolved to join Grant at
Richmond The distance was 1 900 miles, and
prudence dictated base at Savannah or Port
Royal Our enemy had garrisons at Macon
and Augusta ! figured on both and passed
between to Savannah. Then starting north
ward the same problem presented itself in
but passed between. did not want to drive
out their garrisOns ahead of me at the crossings
OF the Santee, Catawba. Pedee. Cape Fear, etc.
The moment passed Columbia the factories.
Augusta were lost to the only two Confederate
armies left-Lees and Hoods So. IL you have
q military mind. you win see I made better
use Of Augusta than II had captured it, with
Augusta twice as q buffer; its garrison was
just where it helped me. II the people of Au-
gusta think 1 shghted them in the winter Of
1854 '65 by reason of personal friendship formed
in 1874 they are mistaken; or il they think
made . mistake in strategy let them say 80, and
with the Presidents consent think can send
a detachment of 10000 or so OF -Sherman's
bummers' and their descendants who will I'm
ish up the job without charging Uncle Sam Q
cent. The truth is, these incidents come back
to me in Q humorous vein. OF course the civil
war should have ended with Vicksburg and
Gettysburg. Every sensible man on earth must
have then seen there could be but one result
The leaders Of the South took good care mot to
die In thA last ditch, and left brave men IKE
Walker, Adams, Pat Cleburne, etc, 20 do that.
Yours tsuly, W. T. aHxRNAx.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24


sent it in his descriptions, the artist in
his paintings. Even the writer of an
official account must limit himself to
the presentation OF such movements
as demand special treatment, or to such
episodes as involve important and in
structive tactical movements. All
those events which are less striking,
which pass more quietly, but which,
nevertheless. contribute to the final
result, can not he reproduced without
too much expansion. Those incidents
which no account of the battle, official
or unofficial, takes any note of, the
thousand and one events observed only
by the participants, the innumerable
cases in which the direction and con-
troll of affairs glide out of the hands of
the oi1icers-these are the little drops
of water that make the mighty ocean
of battle, and determine victory or de-
feat.
The opening of the day of great
battle is generally very prosaic. After
an uncomfortable night passed in
wet or cold bivouac, where the men,
wrapped in their oyercoats, have been
gathered shivering about the camp
fire, trying in vain to get warm; after
the simplest of breakfasts, of which
the draught of pure cold water was the
only palatable constituent, the soldier
goes forth to battle There he may
never even see the enemy; indeed, un-
usually long halts, uncomfortable
standing still under shrapnel fire, or
on,,o fIv, 40 ~, mud on1
under small-arm fire await him. The
feeling of being exposed to the invisi-
BILE missiles of the enemy, mingled with
the uncertainty as to what is going on
to the right or left, often produces i'll
the best of troops great depression and
a consequent falling off IN offensive
strength, even when the battle in gen
eral is making splendid progress. In
such moments tactics are exhausted,
and it is only question of grit and
sense of duty.
Sheridan tells us: Indeed, the bat
tie of Chickamauga was something like
that of Stone River, victory resting
with the side that had the grit to defer
longest its REIMBURSEMENT of the field"
Still more pressing is the appeal to the
morale of the troops when an unfortu-
nate termination of the battle forces
an army which has done its duty to re-
tire. Exhausted to the last gasp, its
resistance, pushed to the highest pitch,
gives way, and with frightful reaction
the resistless mass plunges to the rear.
This is to-day no longer an organized
retreat from position to position, as
our predecessors taught and practiced.
but an uncomfortable current, like
the mountain torrent, which, fraught
with havoc and disaster. overfows its
banks. Woe to the land that can OPP
pose no other dams to this stream than
strategy, tactics, and the instruction
of the troops. These will be washed
away like sand-heaps by the roaring
waters.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24

| alaw|ne, his Indian name (signifyins
yellow Bird" J, was educated at Fay
etteviIle, Ark, and graduated with
| distinguished honors at Great Bar
| rington, Mass. He was first cousin to
the gallant Colonel E. G. Boudinot, SO
well known to the people of Texas as
the leader of regiment of Indians In
the Confederate army, and who has
been for years the representative OF
his people at the national capital.
At the breaking out of the Califor-
MIA gold fever, in 1S49, Yellow Bird
emigrated to that country. and en-
gagged in placer mining in Shasta
County, where this writer, then small
boy, learned to love and honor him for
his manly virtues, his kindly SYM
pathy, and brilliant intellect. His idle
moments were devoted to the muses.,
and his numerous poems q now have
them in book FORM, published in the
provincial papers of that day, were
extensively reproduced in the literary
journals of the country, and met with
distinguished popular favor. Gifted
with commanding physique, irresist-
ible personal magnetism, and a classi-
cal education. combined with an ex-
ceptional wealth of imagery and flu
ency of language, he became one of
the most popular writers OF the day.
He was vigorous and lnclslve
political writer, and edited with
marked ability one of the leading daily
journals of the State; but his devotion
to the arts and sciences and the higher
branches of literature disinclined him
to engage permanently in the partisan
warfare which prevailed in California
in the early years following it's admis-
sion into the Federal Union Some of
his fugitive pieces possessed such re-
markable literary merit as to attract
the attention of the profoundest think
ers and ablest writers of the age.
A few years since, while our poet
was visiting the national capital, where
his genius was recognized and greatly
admired, Miss Winnie Ream (now Mrs.
Hoxie), lady known to fame for her
genius as sculptress, and whose
cunning hand created from cold mar
BILE some of the most beautiful statu-
airy which now adorns the most stately
CdpitOI VI tlle NOllCl, eluSSCeu Iellow
Bird to write her a little Indian love
song. Without preparation or thought,
on the impulse of the mo.
ment, he wrote this little gsm,
which has been set to music, ana be-
come one of the most popular melo'
dies at the capital:
LOVE THEE
love thee as the soaring bird
The bright, blue morning
When he sings;
In circling, circling melodies,
With heavens sweet sunlight
On his wings.
love thee as the pillows love
In tropic lands the
Pearly shore;
They come and go, they come and so,
With answering kisses
Evermore.
love thee the mariner,
Far driven DER the
Stormy sea,
The bright and silver rising star,
Which tells him where his
Home may be.
love thee, ever, ever shall.
Thine eyes, their bright and
Glorious light
Dwell in my soul forevermore,
1lluInining its
Deeps of night.
GEORGE T. AFFORD.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24
A Real DOWn.Easter.

where do you come from?' asked
the lady, addressing the girl in the in
telligence Office, who was an applicant
for cooks situation.
"Sure an I'm down-Easter, ma am,
replied the girl in decided brogue.
"A down-Easter? Why, / would
take you to be an Irish girl by your
tongue"
well, it's true I'm Irish, but came
from the County Down and that's east
of here, so I call myself down Easter. I"
Boston Courier.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24
Sherman's March to the Sea.

HE q u e S tion
Why d i Il n t
General Sher-
man go to Au-
gusta instead of
S av a n II a h =? 3"
when he made
his great march
through Georgia
has been so often
asked and COM
mented u p o II
and without sat-
isfactory sol u
ton, that Mr.. p.
A. StOrell ed
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24

How ARE the mighty fallen! An
heroic-size figure of British lion is to
be used to ornament the grave of q
patent medicine man in q Yankee
graveyard.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24

being used as lavatory and laundry by the 81,
600 prisoners, soon became filthy in the ex-
tTeme. At the religious meetings which were
held, in which the well-known Boston Corbett
was prominent leader, better water was prayed
for. The appearance of this spring shortly
thereafter was regarded rs miraculous. and it
was given the name Of Providence Spring" by
which it is known to this day among the resi-
dents of that section of Georgia.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24

t@~ which the officers of
volunteer regiments in the service of
the United States got their authority,
and the effects of the system, makes a
very curious chapter by itself, and it is
we'll worth while to consider it. My
actual knowledge on the subject is con-
fined to the Union volunteers; but as
the Confederates substantially took
our army organization for their own
use, and as pretty much the same rela-
ton existed between each seeded
State and the Confederacy as between
each loyal State and the Federal Gov
ernment, my statements will probably
have an application South as well as
North.
It is to be borne in mind that the
volunteer armies were furnished by the
States. Under each call of the Presi-
dent the quota of the State was as
signed to it on the basis of population,
and the State authorities furnished
the troops. Each regiment as it was
completed was duly mustered into the
service of the United States, officers as
well as men, although it always bore
the State name with its number; as
the Twelfth Illinois Volunteers" the
"Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Volun-
teers," etc.
At this point the trouble usually be-
gan between State and Federal author
ity. Without reflection upon the pecu-
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY
BRAVE MEN WHO MET UPON THE
FIELD OF BATTLE.

Thrilling Stories of the Rebcllion-Old
Soldiers and Sailors Recite Interesting
"reminiscences of Life in Camp and on
tho Field.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24

The electric companies seem to be
almost IS proud of their dead men -
they are of their live wires.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24

THIS is an age when everything
goes, except the bore and the Sunday
night caller.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24
\ CHEROKE EE POET.
TempeStuouS Life of a Civilized and
Educated Red Man.

H E subject of
this sketch was
born in the Cher
okee country, on
t h e Oos-te-nah-
ly River, at what
is row the -four
ishing CT ty of
Rome, Ga, on
March 10, 1927.
His father, Gen.
John Ridge. a
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24
The Devil Broke Loose.

HlLE working on
a Southern news
paper I was sent
down into a swamp
neighborhood to
investigate a ru-
NOR to the effect
that the devil had
broken loose. No,
/. was lot a po-
litical disturbance.
1t was dec1arod hy
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24
The Reality of Battle.

BATTLE does not
consist, as many
imagine, in a grand
advance of victori-
Ous lines of attack
every-
thing before them,
Or the helter-skelter
fight of the unfor-
t u te defeated,
says a writer in the
United Service Re
rielo. The histo-
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24
How Volunteer Officers Wore Made,
BY JAMES FRANKLIN Fits.

G Il T. Al m an V
things relating to
the vast and COM
,plicated machinery
fby which the war
was carried on were
mot well understood
d u rim G wartime,
and at this day are
hardly understood
at all by the mass.
One of these mat
ters, the way in
-I,oI xL e
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24
providence Spring."

HE story which furnishes
the text for the appended
poem runs thus: One morn-
ing in August, 1854, the
Union prisoners in Ander-
sonville were overjoyed to
Ind that a spring, yielding
the purest Of water, had
made its appearance dur
ing the night. Their supply
prior to this was from q lit
tie stream two feet wide and
about four inches deep. and.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24

Berleeye in merickIes? Shud say did
But didn't alwus, jim;
Thar wuz a time, yer know, when backslid
Nd lost my grip on tn pious things a kid
Hez larruped inter him.
Thomas County cat., 1890-04-24
An Old Idea in a New Form.

The first cut shows q very prettily de.
signed and stylish combination chair
and table that is just now coming into
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-05-01
Remarkable Rescue.

Mrs. Michael Curtain Plainfold, III makes the
statement that che caught cold, which settled on
her lungs; she was treated for month by her
family physician, but grew worse. He told her
she was hopeless victim Of consumption and that
no medicine could euro her. Her druggist sug-
geated Dr. Kings New Discovery for Consump.
ton she bought bottle and to her delight found
herself benefited from the first dose. She contin-
ued its use and after taking ten bottles found
herself sound and well, now docs her own house
work and is as well as she ever Was. FREQ trial
bottles of this Great Discovery at E. g. Leadbeater
IL Bros drug store WHOLESALE agcnts) Largo bot
Ties SOC and 81.