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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23
a BATTERY IN ACTION.
The Thrilling Sight Which Cheered tn
Dropping Soldiers Hearts.

The Thrilling Sight Which Cheered the
Dropping Soldiers Hearts.
One who has fought on many bat
tle-field writes the following thrilling
description of the work of battery of
six guns:
Did you ever see battery take posi-
ton?
! 1t hasn't the thrill of a cavalry
charge, nor the grimness of line of
bayonets moving slowly and deter
minedly on, but there is peculiar ex-
element about it that makes old vet
Grams rise in their saddles and cheer
We have been fighting at the edge of
the woods. Every cartridge box has
been emptied once or more and one
fourth of the brigade has melted away
in dead and wounded and missing. Not
a cheer is heard in the whole brigade.
/. We know that we are being driven foot
by foot; and that when we break once
more the line will go to pieces, and the
henemy will pour through the gap.
n Here comes help!
& Down the crowded highway gallops 3
I battery, withdrawn from some other
position to save ours. The field fence
, lis scattered while you could count thir-
ty, and the guns rush for the hill behind
us. Six horses to piece-three riders
to each gun. Over dry bitches where a
farmer could not drive wagon, through
clumps of bushes, over logs foot thick,
every horse on the gallop, every rider
flashing his team and yelling-the sight
behind us makes us forget the foe in
front. The guns jump two feet high as
the heavy wheels strike rock or log, but
not a horse slackens his pace, nor can
noneer loses his seat Six guns, six Gals
sons, sixty horses, eighty men race for
the brow of the hill as if he who reached
1 it first would be knighted.
u A moment ago the battery was con-
fused mob. We look again and the six
guns are in position, the detached horses
hurrying away, the ammunition chests
open, and along our line runs the com
mand: GIVE them one more volley and
fall back to support the guns" We have
scarcely obeyed when boom boom
opens the battery, and jets Of fire jump
down and scorch the green trees under
which we fought and despaired
The shattered old brigade has a
chance to breathe for the first time in
three hours as we formed a line and lie
DOWN. What grim, cool fellows those
cannoneers are. Every man is a per-
ect machine. Bullets splash dust in
their faces but they do not vince. Bull
let's sing over and around, they do not
dodge. There goes one to the earth,
shot through the head as he sponged
. his gun. That machinery loses just
z one beat, misses just one cog in the
wheel and then works away again as
before.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23
Afraid of the Kerosene Lamn.

Several anecdotes are given illustra-
ting Gen. Johnstons indifference to
danger in battle, and then this citation
is made of his opinion regarding a ia
miliar household utensil: 81 am the
most timid man in the world, and dread
fully afraid of kerosene lamp. The
other day a servant put one in my room
/ was but half dressed, and l hurried
out as fast as I could run. / knew it
was going to burst Then think of it!
The very next night some kind of pat
ent kerosene lamp was sent me as a
present, and the donor lit it, explaining
to me the method of working it Such
was my nervousness that | never knew
he was talking to me. Later, after
somebody had extinguished the lamp,
/ tried to reason out to myself what
poltroon | was. We get hardened in
time, but l assure you nothing could
ever induce me to light or extinguish a
kerosene lamp An enemy
armed with kerosene lamps would drive
me off the field. / should be panic per-
sonified. -HarperS Weekly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23

tender plants, even including some va
rieties of the grape, in winter. In the
case of many popular and beautiful
climbing plants which die back to the
roots each fall rendering necessary, for
neatLvss on the lawn, the removal of
the dead vines this trellis is a great
time saver. 1t can be bent over to the
worker, who, however short he is, viii
require no stepladder.-A. c. West, in
Farm and Home.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23
FIRST CONFEDERATE GUN.
A Valuable Relic Owned by a Chattanooga
(Tenn.) Woman.

Valuable Relic Owned by a Chattanooga
(Tenn.) Woman.
The first gun made for the Confeder-
ate government is owned by Mrs. II. |.
Miller of this city. The gun was made by
Mrs. Millers father, W. S. McElwaine
at Holly Springs, Miss, in the summer of
1861. 1t was carried through a part of
the war by young man of Holly
Springs, friend of Mr.. McElwaine. 1t
had a rifled barrel originally. About
the middle of the war the barrel was
injured by ball, and the gun was re-
turned to Mr.. McElwaine, who cut it
off at the injured point and bored it for
a shotgun. As seen by Globe-Demo-
crat reporter lately. it was in compare
lively good condition.
Mr. McElwaine was a native of Pitts
field, Mass, where he learned the trade
of machinist Afterward he worked
in gun factory in New York, and then
moved to Sandusly, o., where he en-
gagged in the foundry and machine bust
ness. In 1859 he moved to Mississippi.
In crude way he began the foundry
business, with two partners. When the
war broke out the company had we'll
equipped establishment, and jefferson
Davis being conversant with the prop
erty, induced its owners to convert it
into an armory. Small arms were bad
ly needed and Mr.. McElwaine having
neither the machines nor patterns, went
to work to produce them. He planned
and made the necessary machinery for
making stocks, barrels and borings,
working out the patterns, and with his
own hand made the first gun which his
daughter now preserves
When the battle of Shiloh was fought
in 1862 the plant was turning out TWEEN
ty-tive stands of arms a day and en-
ployed five hundred hands. The armo-
ry was afterwards sold to the Confeder-
ate government for one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars in addition to the
sixty thousand dollars paid for arms up
to that time. The plant was removed
to Mason, Ga After the evacuation of
Corinth and vicinity by the Confeder-
ates, raid was made and the building
of Holly Springs set fire to and destroy
ed. After an eventful career the maker
of the first gun of the Confederacy died
in Chattanooga in 1872 The owners of
Libby Prison, at Chicago, are in CORE
pondence with Mrs. Miller for the pur-
chase of the historic relic st. Louis
Globe Democrat
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23
A SPLENDID PIeesRY.
Barn That WIN Easily Accommodate
Seventy-Five Vogs-

The important considerations in a
hog barn are, tight plank floor in
order 10 save all manure-both solid
and liquid, which can BE done with a
floor made of good S-inch plank laid
when half seasoned IF wholly seasoned
they viii swell and bulge the fioorl,
and with the addition Of liberal bed
ding in the sleeping apartments; then
when this becomes damp or fouled re-
move it TO the feeding floor where the
hogs in feeding on it viii find it and
mix il with the manure and reduce it
TO the best possible condition for appli-
cation to the soil The three next i'm
portant considerations are light.
warmth and ventilation, and / will add
sunshine. as this is very important
with the young filters. In order TO Sc
cure these the piggery is made to face
the south, and an open space is left in
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23

Every gun is using a shcrt-fuse shell.
The ground shakes and trembles, the
roar shuts ont all sounds from a line
three miles long. and the shells 90
shriel1ing into the swamp to cut trees
short off, TO NOW great gaps in the
bushes 10 hunt ont and shatter and
mangle men until their corpse can not
be recognized as human. You would
think a tornado was bowling through
the forest, followed by pillows of fire,
and yet men live through it-aye, press
forward 10 capture the battery. We
can hear their shouts as they form for
the rush.
Now the shells are changed for grape
and canister and guns are fired so fast
that all reports blend into one mighty
roar The shrek OF shell is the wick
eldest sound in war, but nothing makes
the flesh crawl like the Economical sing
ing, purring whistling grape-shot, and
the serpent-like hiss of canister Mems
legs and heads are torn from bodies.
and bodies cut in two. 4 round shot or
she'll takes two men out of the rank as
it crashes through. Grape and canister
NOW a swath and pile the dead on top
of each other.
Through the smoke we see a swarm
of men. 1t is not a battle-line, but a
mob of men desperate enough to battle
their bayonets in the flame of the guns.
The guns leap from the ground. almost,
as they are depressed on the foe, and
shrieks and screams and shouts blend
into one awful and steady cry. Twenty
men out of the battery are down, and
the firing is interrupted. The foe &C
cept it as a sign of wavering and come
rushing on. They are not ten feet away
when the guns give them last shot.
That discharge picks living men off
their feet and throws them into the
swamp, blackened bloody mass.
Up, now, as the enemy are among the
guns! There is a silence of ten sec
onds, and then the flash of more than
5000 muskets and a rush forward with
bayOnets. For what? Neither on the
right nor left nor in front of us is liv-
ing foe! There are corpses around us
which have been struck by three, four
and even six bullets, and nowhere on
this acre of ground is a wounded man.
The wheels of the gun can not move
until the blockade of dead is removed
Men can not pass from caisson to gun
without climbing over windows of
dead Every gun and wheels is smeared
with blood: every foot Of grass has its
horrible stain.
Historians write of the glory of war.
Burial parties saw murder where his
torians saw glory. National Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23
Rheumatism Cured in a Day

Mystic Cure" for Rheumatism and
Neuralgia radically cures in to days,
Its action upon the system is remark
able and mysterious. II removes at once
the cause and the disease Immediately
disappear. The first dose greatly ben
eits. 10 cents. Sold by Stone &
Hassell, Druggists. Lancaster. 4Sly
Large size soc andS1.O0.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23
When the Earth Was Young

!
Says DR.. Ball, astronomer r. yal for Ire
land. it went around so fast that the day
was only three hours long. The earth
was liquid then, and il spun around and
around at that fearful speed, and as the
sun causes ever increasing tides upon
its surface. il at last burst in two. The
smaller part became the moon, which
has been going around the earth ever
since at an increasing distance The de-
mand for speed is one which no inven
ton of man seems to satisfy. Ocean
steamers now cross the Atlantic in
week, but the public clamors for short
er voyage. and some Of abe companies
are holding out hope of three days.
Perhaps the speed indicated above, when
our old globe whirled around at the rate
of 5000 miles an hour, would satisfy the
people who travel, but as the world is
getting on in years now, and is little
slow, they will have to be contented
with such gait as the railroad can
strike. When they want speed com
bined with smooth running and safety.
those who are posted select The Bur.
lington, the fayorite low grade smooth
track line from Minneapolis and ST.
Paul to Chicago and ST. Louis For tick.
cts and any further information apply
TO your local ticket, agent or write to
W &c. KENYON, Gen. Pass. Agent
N R.R.. ST Paul. Mimi.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23

n y. Press IS that wire screen 10
prevent people from breaking into the
bank? No; that is to prevenI the bank
officers from breaking ont and running
away with the money
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23

HucS; Rowne de Bout thought
Miss Upham Upham was very partic-
ular. should think you would wear
dress snit when YOU call upon her
Epson Downes-'You wouldn't if you
saw the suit
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23

Premature gray whiskers should be
colored to prevent the appearance of
age, and Buckingham's Dye is by far
the best preparation to do it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23
INGENIOUS TRELLIS.
Study Its Good Points and You VIII BE
Sure to Utilize the Idea.

Wisterias, roses and other climbers
frequently interfere with the painting
of houses and have 10 be badly dam
aged by removal OF their branches
when this work must be done An in
genious trellis / saw recently was
hinged to two posts set in the earth, so
it could be bent away from the house
or even laid fiat on the ground. This
position is often desirable one for
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23

Smith & Gray's Monthly: How did
Wall street get its name? There's no
wall there. Yes there is, l went to it
about month after began to specu-
late
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23

Equally safe for young or old, Ayers
Sarsaparilla cleauses the blood from all
impurities.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23
WHY It Is Popular.

Because il has proven its absolute
merit over and oyer again, because it
has an unequalled record OF cures, be-
cause its business is conducted in a
thoroughly honest manner, and because
ii combines economy and strength,
being the only medicine of which 100
Doses One Dollar" is true-these stront
points have made Hoods Sarsaparilla
the most successful medicine of the day.
Truth: Marie Harry married that
rich Miss Firetung. He made great
catch Julia-'Yes. and from all ac-
counts he has been catching it ever
since
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23

Puck: Kind lady-'And if You pile
up this wood properly will give you
some more work to do Weary Raggles
-.Den l t'row up de fus. lob. mum
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23
Druggist.

n. Y. Recorder: Wouldn't it be a
great and GLORIOUS thing for this big ma
ton if our leading statesmen only real
ly knew as much as the newly Pledged
college graduate thinks he knows.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23
HAVE a CAB I?

When you are addressed as above, your first inl-
pulse is TO look at the driver. II the day be stormy
and the driver is wise man, YOU viii ind that he
wears " Fish Brand SleSer," and he will tell you
that he is as comfortable the box as his passen-
ger In the cab and that for his business this coat
is invaluable. When you get once inside +" Fish
Brand Slicker," there's such thing as weather
for you. Ii doesn't make the smallest difference
whether il rains, halls, sleets, SHOWS, or blows.
You are absolutely and sodly comfortable. Get
one at once. No danger Of your not liking after
wards. II is waste Of money 10 buy any other
waterproof coat. They arc worthless after few
weeks Of hard usage. Beware of worthless i'm
itstious, every garment stamped with the g Fish
Brand Trade Mark. Don't accept any inferior
coat when you can have the Fish Brand Sliekern
delivered without extra cost. Particulars and
illustrated catalogue free.
a. J. TOWER, Boston, Mass
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23
Rare California Views.

Enclose stamp for catalogue. Sam
pie Of views will be sent upon receipt Of
twenty-five cents.
California Art Gallery, Santa Rosa,
Cal. 48ly
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23

-Judge-and he took you by the
throat and choked you, did he? Pat
Yis, sor: he squazed me troat till OF
to'ht he'd mex either out Of me Adams
apple Buffalo Express
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23

Reflections make us sadder, said
an ugly philosopher, who must have
been gazing into mirror.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-09-11
THEY GOT EVEN.
The st. Adams Gentlemen Were Abbre-
vIatOrs Themselves.

The st. Adams Gentlemen Were Abbre-
vIatOrs Themselves.
1t is related of a certain LAWYER
named Radcliffe, who was famous in
his circle for his scepticism and his
hatred of religious things, that one time
he had to go to St Adams to take testi-
mony in "a law case in which he was
engaged. lie amused himself during
the proceedings by continually alluding
to the town as Adams instead of st.
Adams. Presently one of the local
lawyers asked:
why do you call this place 'Albans?"
because don't like saints" said Mr..
Radcliffe.
OH
Nothing more was said on the subject,
but bye-and-bye, the work being COM
pleted. the lawyer rose to take his de-
parture.
Goodbye, gentlemen" he said to
the three or four st. Adams men who
were present.
Goodbye, Mr.. Cliffe!" they all an
swered at once.
What do you mean by calling me
Mr.. Cliffe?" he exclaimed.
why, we don't like rats" said ono
Of the st, Adams men,-Jury.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-09-11
CREMATED THEIR JOSS.
A Chinese Family Burns an Idol for Bring
ing Bad Luck.

A Chinese Family Burns an Idol for Bring
ing Bad Luck.
The corner of jackson and Eupont
streets witnessed as heathenish a scene
recently as any four corners of China.
town ever presented.
1t was about 1890 o'clock in the fore
noon and the narrow thoroughfares
were crowded, but the crowd made no
difference to the Mongols who gath
cred there to perform their heathenish
rites.
First bonfire was built in the middle
of the street, then big wooden idol
fully three feet tall was carried and
placed in the center of the flames.
Twenty-four bowls of rice were laid
ont in Il circle about the fire; six bowls
of fat came next, and then four roasted
chickens.
A crowd of Chinese gathered with un.
covered heads. First one salaamed to
the idol, then another, then all to.
gether. A tomtom was sounded until
those in the distance thought boiler
factory had started up near by.
The big idol grinned and grinned and
grinned and did nothing but grin, albeit
the flames were fast consuming his
cody person And as the idol grinned
the heather worshipers grinned, until
it became a grinning match all around.
Him bad luckee," said Tim Chum,
who was asked to explain the queer
performance.
1t seems that the family of Bod Ding
Lee was consuming an old patron idol
of the family, because he brought ill.
fortune on the house, so the patron Idol
was burned alive. - San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-09-11
AUTHORS, RLuNpERS.
Small Words Which Sometimes Trip the
Writer.

Writer.
Apart from natural objects of any
description, what an abyss of blunders
do the eXacting rules of grammar plunge
us into! Neither and NOR for in
stance. How absolutely uncomfortable
some pens find these little words, and
what tiresome trick they have OF
taking upon themselves plurallzln9
properties to which they have no
right! Continually we hear that mel
Their Ida nor Gerald were able to speak
for some moments" Well, then, we
suppose both CT them was" silent.
One needs to come to close quarters
with these will-o'-t ne-wispish parts OF
speech. They are almost as terrible to
deal with as these perpleXing verbs to
LAY" and Ito lie"
Even those authors otherwise ire
proachable frequently trip, while the
great host of minor writers appear TO
give up wrestling with them, for we get
heroine who had laid on the sofa
an hour; a hero who lies his tired
head; or another who cries out, let
that glove lay sir" in nearly every
book we open. AS for the past partici-
Piles and past lenses we give up noticing
their little vagaries, SO constant are the
stream of characters who 'rung for
their maid, and drunk the water
hastily after having sang the song
And so forth. But one of the common
est stumbling blocks in fiction is that
much courted and frightfully misman-
aged orb, the moon.
Considering how useful this luminary
is for love scenes, meditations, murders,
etc, the way in which people who IN
troduce it persist in ignoring its natural
movements is really most ungrateful.
Thus we are frequently confronted with
''day-old silver crescent moons high up
in the clear heavens'-when? Why as
soon as the sun has set? New moons
are continually rising" in the west,
while full moons get solemnly up at
midnight. More than once they have
preferred to do this in the north, but
in for one eccentricity, they think per
haps they may as well be in for anoth
er. AS for waning moons, they get ur
as the sun goes down and wander about
the north, south, east and west, just a.
the situation requires them.
For the better control of poor SLAM
dered Luna may we suggest a helping
hand in that shining light of every ia
miliar book shelf-"W Whitaker" An.
other meteorological snare is the rain
bow. Far less frequent in fiction than
the moon, still, when it does get there,
it ought to be properly placed. What
was that lady thinking of who, having
put her heroine in church toward the
close of showery day, made her gaze
out of the window in a westerly (9 apse
land behold in the heavens before hel
brilliant, many-hued bow" Very
few minutes after we hear the building
was in total darkness, at which we are
not surprised. After achieving that
phenomenal effort in the west, nature
must have wanted repose. London So
ciety.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-09-11
A SECRET TALlSMAN.
An Old Story Related Among the &c
mans.


mans.
The Germans have a story which that
home-loving people like to repeat A
father, when his daughter became a
a bride. gave her golden casket with
the injunction not to pass it into other
hands, for it held charm which in her
keeping would be of inestima BILE value
to her as the mistress of house. Not
only was she to have the entire care of
it, but she was to take it every morning
to the cellar, the kitchen, the diningS
room, the library, the parlor, the bed
rooms, and to remain with it in each
place for five minutes, looking carefully
about. After lapse of three years the
father was to send TIE key, that the
secret talisman might be revealed. The
directions were followed. The key was
sent. The casket was opened. 1t was
found to contain an old parchment, on
which were written these words: "The
eyes of the mistress are worth one
hundred pair of servants hands" The
wise father knew that practice of in
spection followed faithfully for three
years would become habit and be self
perpetuating-that the golden casket
and the hidden charm would have ac-
complished their mission. Christian at
Work,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-09-11
LOVES FOREVER.

" Then must we really part forcverf''
Some rashly spoken word had chilled her,
And scornfully she turned away
From the soft speech whose potent sway
Had evening after evening thrilled her.
Responsive to the plaintive plea
That certified his hearts endeavor
She glanced ut him disdainfully,
And cold as rolls the polar sea,
Her voice pronounced the word Forever
Sob moan. With leadcn feet
From the vcranda he descended,
Trod ruefully the murky street
Praying to find winding sheet
And whatsoever with it blended
" This woe must ceasc!" he said, then laid
His hand upon a dagger straightway;
A gasp A shudder, Then the blade
Was poc,ctcd and tracks were made
Back toward the cruel maidens gateway.
A form. rushed out, four arms did lock
AS if they never meant to sever,
A simultaneous labial shock,
And twenty minutes by the clock
Had marked the bounds of Loves forever.
Boston Courier.