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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02
SELECT sIFTINGs.

The latest fad in Parisiau society Is the
decorated skirt front.
Claude Lorraine, the italian painter.
was bred pastry cook.
Executions are public in Ecuador. and
the musket is the instrument Of death.
An orange measuring foot in cir.
cumferance has been found In Starke.
Fla. .
Within distance of FIVE or six squares
In Philadelphia, near Chestnut aud Wal,
nut streets, 200 physicians have been
counted.
fbx loosed for chase at Pottstown.
Penn, got tho better Of sixteen. horse.
men and several packs of hounds and
escaped.
A service of carrier pigeons is to be
established between Zanzibar and Lake
Nyassa, in Africa. The stations will be
thirty miles apart.
Australian cannibals show a great pre-
ference for Cinnamon, whose rice diet is
supposed to make their flesh especially
sweet and tender.
OF the original thirteen States, Della
ware was the first to ratify the Constitu.
tion, doing so on December z, 1787,
Rhode Island was the last, on May 30,
1880.
Two fig trees in California are thirty
feet high and bear 1000 pounds of fruit
each year. The man who owns them very
naturally think there is money in the fg
business.
Take in your hand crystal of quartz.
stick of deal, daisy aud an acorn and
you will not find in them single ele-
ment of matter that is not also found in
your physical frame.
A line of railway through Alaska TO
Cape Prince of Wales to connect with the
Russian railway system through Siberia
is said to be perfectly feasible and the
future is sure to see it accomplished.
The alligator is one of those animals
which, like the parrot and tortoise, live
for an indefinite term. 1t is never full
grown at less than twenty years, and may
grow after that. 1t is not known how
long it may live, but it commonly attains
the age of 100 years.
''Boston cockles," which are famous
over very large area of England, are
gathered from the sands, parboiled,
shelled, and in this half cooked conditl IN
are sent by railway in bags, chiefly to
Bristol and the west of England at large,
where they are sold aud consumed As del
icacies by the masses.
"Nephelococcuquia" is q Greek word,
and means translated into English,
cloud-cuckoo-town," built by the
birds, and found in Aristophancs
on "The Birds" This town was
built in midair, so as to cut aif the gods
from men. 1t was used as satire on
Athens, or, perhaps, on the visws OF
conquest in Sicily, Italy.
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Curious Old Indian Signs.

About five miles above Morven :. ,
mystery which the people of that com.
munlty cannot explain. In hummock
near the river are two complete circles
one ninety and the other 140 feet in diane.
1er' the smaller circle inside the larger
inese circles, which are much like tho..
leit bya circus performance, are com.
Pletely barren of vegetation of all k;nds
iheSe circles have been there since the
recollection of the Oldest citizen and
mono know how or when tbeu oa.,a "me
snelo' IL must be that they are Indian
Signs relics of by-gone days, when the
savage warrior was lord of all he sur
'veyed.-Macon (Ga.) 7elegyaph.
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The Two whisSS Ssse w.sohmsn.

These two watt ~ are among the
otdestsmployes of he White House at
| Washington, and one Of "A Sdem is closely
| associated, in humble |" {. =, with one Of
the most exciting perif = q its history.
w. S. Lewis was one ewinWhite House
doorkeepers in the tim ,gs Lincoln, and
| each night, between 1880 and IL
O'Clock during the wafperiod, he acted
went from the ExecdFe Mansion to tho
War Department. to q the latest news
of the conflict befl going to bed.
Lewis left thS Whites II }se and went on
the city police @ fo,es. N8shsls. mi. Semainod
for many yeo&- About twelve -yeers
hecame backtothe White House service,
|, where he has been ever since. Il. F.
Pendel, the other night doorkeeper, has
been employed in the White House for
tyenty-six years. These two men know
tho face of every man of prominence in
public life, aud they can spot crank at
the other end of the avenue by gaslight.
They open any kilograms which come to
the Executive Mansion after midnight,
and determine whether it is advisable to
to show them to the President or not.
There is no one at the Executive Man.
sion at night who can act for the Presi-
dent. Only the members of his family
and the domestic employees of his house.
hold sleep at the White House. So il
anything demanding immediate attention
should be delivered at the Executive
Mansion after midnight, the President
would be aroused from his sleep to at
tend to it. 1t is seldom that a telegram
OF any kind ie- delivered at the Executive
Mansion between midnight and day
break, for the local manager of the West.
ern Union Telegraph Company has in
structions to hold all messages which are
not OF the utmost Importance until morn
ing. Aud it may not occur once in six
months that the President is called from
his bed to read late dispatch.
York Star.
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

A torpedo net constructed Of interlock-
ing steel rings is soon to be put to a
practical test.
A new gun has been perfected by Sig
nor Guidolli, of Lucca, which will fire
sixty-fo shots minute.
The British Admiralty engineers are
conducting experimental ninety. six hour
runs OF boilers under forced draught at
Portsmouth.
About $500 species Of wild bees aud
HOO species of wasps arc known. Great
Britain has 40 species of the former and
sixteen of the latter.
In the German tests of the Maxir, gun.
"a 900 rounds were fred from single
barrel, and the rifling was not materially
injured until after 10000 steel bullets
had been discharged.
Much Improvement has been made in
securing color tints in pictures. One
process combines a hcliotype print with
photographic tints. Better work of this
class Is constantly being turned out.
A small battery has been brought out
which promises to be very useful to
young electricians. The outfit includes
six-candle power lamp, and battery
lasting couple of hours on continuous
work.
A brilliant black coat upon zinc can
be obtained by immcrsing the zinc OBJ
Jects In solution of ten parts copper
free sulphate of iron and six parts of am.
monlac salts in fifteen parts of boiling
water.
The safest piece of water upon earth
is the Lake of Urumia, in Persia, situated
more than 1000 feet above the sea level.
IL is much salter than the Dead Sea, the
water being found on analysis to contain
nearly twenty-five per cent. of salt.
a lasting machine that enables one
operator to last 5000 pairs of shoes a
week is one of the latest things in labor.
saving machinery. 1t tackles anything
from light feminine foot wear to the
heaviest brogans, and the product is su
perior to hand work.
MIR. Edison is trying to penerate
electricity from coal in sufficient auanti-
Ties to be OF value as motive power.
He says that pound of coal contains
enough latent energy to carry itself
around the globe. Fully eighty-five per
cent. of this power is wasted in the pro-
q s.'.;.s.f s.f;aea~ssaion into. .i,eatszzs,.sxWu.
s.eei s,s euoutar frame eight-wbeel waaons.
neted with automatic brakes, on the
Government railways in Natal. South
Airica, and that they shall be paid for
py one half the annual savings made by
using them in moving freight as COM
pared with the cost of moving an equal
quantity on ordinary wagons.
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mere Is more Catarrh In this sectio, of tb,,
COUNT y than all other disc ase put together,
and unt'ii the last few years was suppos d
DC incurable. For q great many year.
anc.ors pronounced it a local pisesse, and
p,,x,ssclIoing local remedies, and by constantly
'a'iing to cure with local treaImsnt. mr.
noancep 1t incurable. Science has proven
Eatarrh to be a constitutional disease a ID
tnerefors requires constitutional treatment
naIIs Cstarrh Cure. manufactured by +. J
In;sney s,;..y q Co., Toledo, Ohio. Is the only CON
sIisueionai cure on tho market. It Is taken
internally in doses from 10 drops to q tea
spoonful. 1t acts directly upon the bic cd
and mucous surfaces OF the system. They
ofier ons hundred dollars for any case il
ttmoDials. Address,
r. j. CHENEY g. CO., Toledo. O
tay-S Sold by Druggists 75c ~
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A Tatooed Kiner

,v;ns ;ornaaotte, King of Sweden. vb.n
iying at the point Of DEATH was a,s wen
witbstand;n, Daed IN tn the arm, bu9 refused, not.
Of fb;"nuing hi. aag the earnest represen atjons
tho, N us medical medical attendants, on the nles
vnn,, ". niexander I, although a mpch @
fsef fs"," man, had succumbed to the ~.
a ,ec's OF a blood-letting. After h;s o.
lease lease the true reason for his refusal NC. ue
G.erea. En.i;s The words "Liberts
n9aiite' Fraternite" were plainly lsn;sss
pn On the Kings arm, where BernsSot.o S.o
t;onar~ M n~u .nem tatooed during the reyolu-
;otary ;.oa;Hy period, but he had decided oh
on" os".ion ;o 70 exhibiting the legend to anv
'ne IN his lifetime. - 1Sues.D Dsmorat '
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The Height OF Waves.

IL Is not uncommon in prose works T.
read OF mountainous waves. Exoc
measurements seldom confirm first Inn
Pressions. Scoresby found that fort,
feet was the height from trough TO cresi
OF the largest waves measured by him i,
the North Atlantic and in cyclonit
storm, when bound for Australia in tn,
Royal Charter. This has long been &C.
cepted as the extreme limit 4.~..'..
height. Captain Kid :. 'ldno' SuH'tions
and experienced ns o's ""' 'oA pus
ever, encountered Xnu u0ne IL as
were seventy feet hi aS2sent; but c.: CO.
mlral Fitzroy had previously b ,"n ~, u
waves as high; and some obser( '"e
made at Ascension in 1886 support f6Se f6eeaass as
au'norities. In 1874 k:r Majesty's shin
lnconstant was scudding with her stern
upon the crest and her bow in the de.
preston between two successive waves
an" the wave ahead was observed exact,
~ level with her foretopsail ward. lust
seventy seven feet above the water line.
on the 9th of July, 1888, the On
narder Umbria was struck by wave not
less than fifty feet high, which did much
damage. Two days before, the W;,oo,
liner Martello had similar experience.
an enormous solitary wave struck her
completely submerging her decks. The
hartello was much smaller and mora
aeoply laden than the queenly Umbria'
NO connection could be traced betv.o,,
~ .ueSe waves, which were referred to -
sI sne oailies as tidal waves, although nf
aiasogether aog different origin. In October
tooi, the Italian bark Roslna had All
nands, except one man who was III ~ ~
us Dunk' swept off her decks bva wava
rnlch broke on board as thew we,e
u sail during heavy soualI n
ma Atlantic. The British bark ITnd;na
'au 'a one watch washed overheard and
Ter Captain killed under similar circnn
tances. 1t is said that the maaive I'LL
the Bishop Rock was wrencbed fron, %
. iastenings by tho momentumIof div
lg seas III gale of wind, and tbe col
ny containing it thickly strewn 1;tb S
'no' although 100 feet above b;ah
a'er mark. Scoresby gave 900 feet ss
e maximum length of sea waves hnt
ere are many longer. Mr.. Donols.
nen building lighthouses on the cosst
Cornwall, noticed waves 1900 fsst
'g from crest to crest.-O6au1.r.,s
lrSial. 0''""'"e'ss
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'ys'" young and old, o,,. J.. l
: s,0gf So es day, .ro peepeSHax.to ~ ouy
up $500. ,,atarrh Remedy
| One failure bottalssl bottalssltt to max, make
take the profit from 1000
sales.
Its makers profess to cure
"cold in the head" and even
chronic catarrh, and if thew
fail they pay $500 for their
over-confdence,-
Not in newspaper words
but in Aara easA/ Think Of
what confidence it takes to
put that in the papers-and
-azean.it..
Its makers believe in the
Kennedy. Isn't it worth
trlalf Isn't any trial prefer
able to catarrh :
After all, the mild agencies
are the best. Perhaps thew
work more slowly, but they
work w surely. DR.. Pierces
Pleasant Pellets are an olI,ys
agency but qutet and nxzH
i, hey're sugar-coated, easy to
take, never shock nor deranoe
lhe system and half their pow
r IS IN the mild way in which
.helr work is done. Small. .
st cheapest, easiest to take. {.
rlpss dose. Twenty-Five cents I
. vial. OF ,aEn.;s,ggists. n
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FOR Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Stomach
disorders, use Browns Iron Bitters. Phe Bed
Tonic, 1t rebuilds the system cleans the BloCs3
and strengthens the muscles. A splendid ton
ic Tor weak and debilitated persons
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less In effect, quick and positive in action.
sent prepaid on receipt of 81 per bottle.
AQeler % 20. o. Wyandotte at .K KanRas CITY Mo
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lazy appetite bothers the rich man
great deal more than an active one does the
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For impure or thin Blood, Weakness. Mala.
ttIa, Neuralgia, indigestion and Biliousnesr
saKe Browns Iron Bitters-it gives strength,
making old persons feel young-and younS
persons strong; pleasant to take.
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Timber, Mineral, Farm Land, and Ranches
bought and sold. Tyler & Co., Kansas CITY. Mo-
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Russia has agreed to bear the expense
OF increasing the efficiency of the Mon
tepegrin army, and that priucipality is
virtually Russian province.
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oklahoma Guide Book and Map sent any whore
onreceipt Of 50 cts.Tylor q Co, Kansas City. Mo.
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ONR ENJOYS

ONR ENJOYS
Both the method and results shsss
Syrup of Figs is taken; It is pleassA2
and refreshing to the taste. and s,5ts
gendyyetp promptly on the Kidneys.
Liver and Bowels, cleansea the sys.
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head.
aches and fevers and cures habitusl
constipation. Syrup of Figs Is the
only remedy Of its kind ever bro.
duced, pleasing to the taste and no.
oeptab!e to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial In its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substancea
Its many excellent qualities com,
mend it to all and have made Il
the most popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 900
and 81 bctNss all leading drug
gists. pr Of lShble druggist who
may me- syssGop hand VIII pro.
cure IL wv, hptlyS for any one who
wishes to try it. E>aot accept
any substitute. -.
CALIFORNIA rio SXRUP ca
...... SAN FRANCISCO. oAL
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Fascinating TO Watch the Pilot.

Ihere Is something extremely fasciuat.
ing In observing the managing OF
ferryboat in dense fog. One
is likely to forget that there is
any danger, for he finds himself
wondering at the skill with which the
boat Is coaxcd across the river against
wind and tide and safely into its slip.
Long training and discipline enable tho
pilots to find their way over the water
when there are no lights aud no land
marks to SsaiiaaS them. But while the
passenger hears many iSg::bells sending
out their sharp clangs from piers, the
pilot hears OILY one-the ono toward
which he is working his craft. He knows
its tone, the regularity of its strokes, and
can judge its distance from him by the
way it smit the air. It isn't much of
trick for him To do all this, but to the
man ignorant Of the pilots knowledge
and skill it seems far different.
There are the Mississippi River pilots,
too. Many of them are familiar with
every bend, every current, every sandbar
and every snag ior u stTo..ch Of a thousand
miles. In the blacklist night, when an
amateurs eye cannot see the sharp PROV
of the packet. the pilot up in his dark
box will wheel his craft to the left, take
her clear across the river, and bringing
her gracefully around again, sweep in SO
closely to the bank that he skirts tho
81 ----
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IL afflicted with sore ewes use DR.. Thorn.
sons Eve water. Druggist sell at 25c per bottle
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NkRvn REsTORER. No Fits after frat 5avAs.
use; use, Marvel0us cures. Treatise and "a trial
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Bride the appetite with reason and save
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when man cannot have what he Iovee
he must love what he bas ~N
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The A.
diatnrhed

disturbed
plans OF lstrian Government is much
"een,2ver the discovery that fifty
a. the Notifications of Cracrow
:,I,Jasn stolen. 1t is feared that tho
of them to Russia
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De Ysu kver spee.Iasss
Any person sonding US their naune and ID
qross will receive Information that Will lead
2 fortune. Bont. Lewis = Co, Security
Building, Kansas CITY No
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Live leisurely unless you arc anxious to
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CALIFORNIA rio SKRUp ca
SAN FRANCISCO, oAL.
e0UySYfiE, kY rEW yoRx. Nv
TRINITY COLLEGE.

HiSh grade College for Young Men
I,est instruction, leading TO Five Degrees.
ESas Tt onaoie hNponses-Si5J to s2 u q year.
Eve new buildings to be erected this year.
lsature, ~ e''''e' !" 'eoe"' o'a'' beS-
Frca Snd Tor Catalogue. Bullctn. Degree Book ETC..
JOHN F. GEowELI, a. n, DR.. LIT. Pres,
Trinity College, Randolph Co., N. q.
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kdifficult cuH the other bank again,
the night, tut Fs.-.-a bar. or snag, or
changing his 8 There he is all through
self. .possessed ing his wheel always,
and ability course untiringly, calm,
sees better confident in his strength
rays OF the bat, for all you know, who
the pilot might than in the binding
get tired. b. If he will let you sit in
one hours Use with him you will never
the next. ! e may not open his lips from
mechanism beginning to the ending of
and fascip.But he is a perfect piece OF
ness.-NTn hat looks swiftly and silently,
Gates you by its elusive subtle
- York Tribune.
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15g Sold 10y Druggists 75c.
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may truthfully be said that their
action upon the system is universal,
not q gland or tissue escaping their
saHatlve influence.
The Pellets" are put up in
walls, Theoretically sealed, therefore
always fresh and reliable, which
is not the case with pills put up
In wooden or pasteboard boxes.
The " Pellets " are purely veee-
table, and operate without disturb
ance to the system, diet, or occu-
patton.
They are a convenient vest
pocket remedy.
DR.. Pierce's Pellets are the
cheapest pill, sold by druggists,
because they are guaranteed to
give satisfaction in every case, or
their price (25 cents a wall is re-
funded. You only pay for tie
good you get.
Can you ask more? :
Manufactured by Worlds Dis
pensary Medical Association, 683
Main Street, Buffalo, ". Y.
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a SPLEa9lD SOUVENIR.
Free for a Club of One.
EXTENDED FOR 30 DAYS.
Fac-Simile of the Thirteenth
Amendment.

We have come into possession of a war
relic Of priceless value-a facsimile Of the
Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States, which abolished slavery
and made this a free country indeed.
The fac-simile contains the autograph
signatures of Abraham Lincoln, President OF
the United States; Hannibal Hamlin, Vice
President; Schuyler Collax, Speaker of the
House of Representatives, and of 50 Senators
and lis presCntatives-mOstO Of them then
or since among the most prominent men in
the Nation. 1t is a priceless collection Of
autographs.
We have had the fac-simiIes carefully
engraved, so as to exactly reproduce all
these autographs, and had il printed on
heavy tinted paper. 1t makes a splendid
ornament for the house OF the Post.
Price, securely packed in a pastebOard
tube and postage paid, % cents. Or,
We VIII send it, for 30 dlS 0HlV, FREE
to anyone who will send US 81 for q new
subscriber to TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE for
one year.
Anyone who renews his subscription be-
fore May 1 can have the benefit of this
offer by requesting the picture when he
renews his subscription
Remember this picture JciH not Be cent 20
anyone unless astef for at DE time Of sending
one or more Subscriptions
Address TIE NATIONAL Tribune,
Washington, ID. O.
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PrnrInr Nhnt He SnId.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In the issue
of March 10. in a short article giving the or
ganization Of Fourth Division, Fifteenth Corps,
/ stated that the Third Brigade, Fourth Divis-
ion, consisted # the 9Th, 50Jh, 57th H., 39th
Iowa and 10th u. S. q. T. This has called
out many protests from members Of the Third
Brigade all denying that there ever was any
cOlOred regiment in Tie brigade or corps. Now,
if they will turn to Memoirs of Gen. Sher-
man." written BY Gen. William Il. Sherman
edition Of ID. Appleton & Co., 1879, Vol. III. page
$50, they will find the brigade as given above
also find the regiments, batteries and detached
companies Of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sew
enteeuth, Twentieth Twenty third and Tenth
Corps, all under his command in North
Carolina i'm April, 1865. The 1l0th U. s. G. +.
was the only colored regiment in all the COM
mand outside of Gen. Paiue's Third Division,
Tenth Corps, which consisted Of the following
regiments, viz: 1st, 4th, 5th. 9Th, 9th, 30th,
37Gh, 39.h and 107th U. 5. q. t." HIGH PRI-
yATE," Box $50, EmpoTia Kan.
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USED THEN IN HIS BLOW-GUN.

Doctor" Well, my fine little
fellow, you have got quite well
again. / was sure the pills I left
for you would cure you. How did
you take them, in water or in
cake ?"
Boy" Oh, 1 used them in my
blow-gun."
The little fellow put the nasty,
great, gripping, old-fashioned pills
to a good use. At most, all his
internal economy needed was a
dose Of DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pei
lets. They are tiny, sugar-coated
granules, easy to take, and are
gently aperient, or actively cathar-
tic, according to size of dose. AS
laxative, only one tiny Pellet is
required.
The "Pellets " cure Sick Head
ache, Bilious Headache, Constipa-
ton, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks,
and all arrangements Of the Liver,
Stomach and Bowels. In explana-
ton of their remedial power over
so great a variety Of diseases, it
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cade after a gallant fight, whereby the 9Th sus-
tanned loss Of 10 officers and 232 enlisted
iNon."
Now shall not dispute the loss which Mr..
Plat alleges his regiment sustained, for IL
seemed to me we made very near cleanup
but if there were any other troops engaged on
tho Confederate side except the 9TH Va. Cav.
never saw them. and yet ] was in the fight
Ii was a square contest between the two regi-
ments ] frankly admit we were driven back
some 300 or 400 yards Ia the Grst collision,
owing 10 the superior discipline Of our COM
hatauts and had they followed mp the advan-
tace thus gained the result would doubtless
have been quito different; bnt from some cause
they atercd, and 20 ialter in battle is 10 fail /;
il gave ms an opportunity 10 rally" aud we
charged in turn, but before either could taste
the doubtful pleasure Ola thrust" or parry
with the saber they broke and took 20 the
fields, but could not get over the substantial