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of which kept dropping in by
fves and skies.
In this he succeeded. Dis

of which kept dropping in by
fves and skies.
In this he succeeded. Dis
mounting about half his men, he
directed them to fall upon the
|enemy's flank, while with the re-
mainder on horseback he bore
down along the road, upon his
center. The rifle fire in flank from
these dismounted detachments was
too much for the federal cavalry,
who, in spite of their officers gal
liant efforts to make them stand,
broke and bolted to the rear. Many
were the hand to hand encounters
and hairbreadth escapes of the
southern leader that day, but his
loss was small, while the federals
suffered very severely. 1t was not
so much the defeat of the enemy
he rejoiced at as the confidence
this insignificant success gave his
men in their own strength and
prowess. His second in command,
Colonel Kelly, who before the war
had been a clergyman-or, in
southern language, "a preacher"
was as gallant a7soldier under fire
as ever smelled powder in any war.
In a note written soon after this
action Kelly refers to his leader
in the following terms:
"Itwas the first time I had ever
seen the Colonel in the face of the
enemy, and when he rode up to me
in the thick of the action I could
scarcely believe him to be the man
l had known torS several montns.
His face flushed till it bore astrik-
ing resemblance to painted In
dian warriors, and his eyes, usually
mild in their expression, were blaz-
ing with the intense glare of q
panther's springing upon its prey.
In fact he looked as little like the
Forrest of our mess table as the
storm of December resembles the
quietof June"
Although I cannot pretend ofol-
low this great leader of mounted
troops through his many hard
fought battles, I have dwelt upon
this, his first engagement, because
it fairly illustrates his "cis q
.if,.:. ::,cnSfg5ls St,' b
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u, !. I,iuyo,,-r.---.
tones-tones tina

e. lee II a..ee;. tones-tones tha
nesure makes her sweetest sound
and places IN the throat of woman.
"The fire is right under you"
"I'm coming directly"
With last smiling glance at
the counterft of her beautiful self,
she carelessly threw cloak about
her snowy shoulders and opened
the door.
"I'm ready"
They were obliged, the stair way
being burned, t. larry her down q
ladder, but the triumph was hers.
Neither man nor elements could
make her hurry at her toilet.
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ma, he was very fortunate at this
Business. BY thrifty management
Eef his gains, he was soon able to
Eembark iii the still more remuner-
it;iiys i;i but most i detestable occupa-
ton, ,of; slave dealing. Even among
she planters who used theservices
lofs those who bought and sold their
fellow man, those engaged in this
nefarious traffic were held in very
general ntempt. By all who then
knew Forrest. ihewever, he was re-
garded as a humane man, who
never inh his slave dealings, sepa-
rated the members Of the families
which be bought and sold. Atthis
dsausting and degrading business
lherealized q siderable fortune,
and Boon became himself planter
on, large scale.
His many adventures with pistol
and bowie knife, on shore and of
boiler plosions on the Mississippi
friyerzwou1d alone form an inter-
(asting article. But I must hurry
on ito his military career, which
began at the opening of the scces-
son war in the summer of 1861.
he was then already q man of
mark and influence in his own dis
trict, and, like nearly every South
ernsr, held very strong opinions as
||tosthe right Of each State to regu-
late its own destiny. In June,
1881, he joined the Tennessee
Mounted Rifles, the cavalry COM
pany then being raised in Mem
|phls. He was IN the prime OF lie
and yigor, erect in figure, and over
sixfeet in height, with broad chest
and shoulders. He required good
horses to carry him, for he already
weighed over thirteen stone. Like
maay Of the American officers of
that time, he allowed his dark,
straight hair togrow:long and wore
! itscombed back from. the forehead !;
but while he shaved his cheeks,
no razor ever touched his lips or
chm. Several prominent Confed-
eraie officers affected the style and
|ibe@ing of their cavalier fore
fathers, and seemed especially to
[despias the round head acrop" of
|the regular army Their broad
- - Y -: -.-.--cl,o hafo ~
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then. devolyed the care

then: .devolYed the care and
maintenance Of his mother and
his many brothers and sisters.
They lived on alittle rented farm arm
lately cleared from the wilderness,
and it was only by the hardest
manual labor he was: az first able
to provide with food those who !lll,
were dependent upon him. The
locality was unhealthy, and fever
carried off several Of the family:
and very nearly killed him also:
Bnt lis naturally robust constitution
enabled him to to pull through
through it was many mouths befoer
he fully regained his ~onted
strength.
His education was most meagre,
and what he learned as boy was e
, = n
picked up at odd times from casual.
schoolmasters. He could Just
read and write and do some very
simple sums in arithmetic. Indeed,
it may be assumed that during.
all his career as general his orders;
and dispatches were written for for
| him by the educated men he.
collected round him as staff
officers. They put into good clear.
English the views or7orders he
dictated, but he was, however,
very exacting that his letters and, md.
his addresses to the men, and all.
other papers he signed, should
contain his own ideas, and not.
those of the staff officer who was;
his amanuenses. But though his:
book learning was extremely
scant" he was brought up in what
Napoleon termed the best of mili-f
tary schools that of poverty. His
early years were little more than q.
continued struggle for daily.
existence in a lawless borderland
of civilization. There he learded'
the invaluable qualities of endlur-,
ance, sslf-reliance, quickness OF Of
decision and danntless courage,
which are so necessary for western
pioneers. Buff these qualities are.
essential to the man who has TO,
wrest the backwoods from Indian
savageryy they are still more e3so, 80
for him who aspires to lead g
monnted force such as his was
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The Nebraska Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station after sevaral
expert ments, has announced that
taking the tassels out of every
other row of corn lessons the yield
instead of increasing it 1t is the
general belief that if the tassels
are pulled out of half the stalks
in a field that the stalks, thus
treated, will make a larger yield
of corn than those left with the
tassels in. But science stands
agains that opinion and says the
largest yield is made when the
tassels remain.
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ment of volunteer cavalry. The
general officer commanding in the
district was Bishop Polk, who, re-
llnquishing the crozier for the sa-
bre, fought gallantly throug hout
the wal. until be was killed in
June, 1854, during the Atlanta
campaign. In England we have
had many soldiers who became
bishops, and several bishops who
tooKithe field when circumstances
required them to do so, but General
POLK is the last English speaking
bishop who was killed in action.
Cutoff from all the workshops
ofthe North, itswas no easy mat
terror Forrestto find arms for his
newly Ii raised regiment. After some
difficulty he succeeded, however
tnot only in buying 500 Colts navy
reayzio,lvers in Louisville, but in
carrying them off from under the
very noses of the United States
authorities in that city:
Refore many months had passed
awhole battalion of eight com
i paniek of mounted men had beer
enlisted equipped and duly armed
and they elected Forrest to b
,,1Itheir lieutenant colonel. For tn
first eighteen months of the, wa
the officers in all the Confederat
. regiments were elected by the mer
!, d system which led to sue
extremely bad results that it ma
| Itosbe altered to one of selection b
j the secretary of war upon tn
recommendation of the geners
s loMcers ( commanding in th
field.
,1 The first station of this newl,
D raised edregimentwas Fort Donelso'
II from which place companies We
9 sent to watch the movements
9 the federal gunboats on tn
81 Cumberland and Tennessee river
n and one squadron was sent eve
g to the Ohio. In their frequent e.
It counters with these gunboats al
,r| their attacks upon armed steame
5 ladenswith supplies of all kin
,e for the northern troops in the tlel
le Forrest not only gained great Q
d perience himself, but taught h
lg men the duties of the "moss tfoo
Or of old, the mounted raider OF t
Id tpresent age. Many of his M
,g were frst-rate shots, and he NJ
r taught the others to become
a AS soon as a gunboat opened /
ne ports and came into action,
an heavy was the musketry t
poured into them from parties
,r- Forret's men concealed on
IN rivers banks, that very often
ii. sailors would not stand to tn
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Christian Philosophy.
, lie in the heart is as black as

A lie in the heart is as black as
it is in a horse trade.
To love an enemy is the only
possible way of destroying him. =
When you go to church 70 help
the Lord, don't wear squeaky shoes.
If you have given God your
heart, why don't you stop wearing
a long face?
There is deal of praying tor
missions that never puts any
money in the basket.
There are still too many people
who enjoy seeing a tin pan tied to
the tail of some other mans
dog.
It is doubtful whether the Lord
ever made a man who could be q
church sexton and please the
whole congregation.
The religion thatproposes to sell
oyster soup by the dish whenever
the church wants money, is not
the kind that the devil is afraid
of.
The congregation that will pay
it's pastor we'll for telling them the
truth about themselves, is one
that would be watched with a
great deal of interest by the
angels.-Ram's Horn.
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period of his n1e, mngte - $ 80, g
and years OF incessant.; tod were
only now and then relieved by an
occasional days sport with his
gun or in riding matches against
his neighbor's horses. If fortune
endowed him poorly with gold,
she gave him what was fer more
valuable business-like and.
thrifty turn of mind, unhagging
application, and e determination.
| to win. Hetpaid that same close
attention ITO the details and
minutiae of all his commercial ar
ra ngements and speculations
which enabled him subsequently to
clothe, arm and subsist his troops
lin the field without help from the
Confederate government. The
result was that by the time hehad
reached twenty-one he had place d
] Ibis immediate belongings beyond
all fear Of want.
Many stories are told OF ms
prowess with rifle, revolver and
j. bowie knife when quite a youth
A bullying neighbor had bullock
which frequently broke through
Forests fences to feed upon hit
j growing corn. The owners
, attention was repeatedly called te
this, but without effect, for HI
! thought he could easily browbea
3 his hobbiedehoy complainant
Reused at last by the ballock'
n depredations, Forrest warned hin
j. that he would shoot the anima
n the next time he found him on nj
b farm This threat he. carried ou'
o While Forrest was reloading, hl
d bullying neigebor appeared upol
Q the scene, fully armed in western
= fashion, and at once proceeded Z
,e climb over the fence which SCI
! arated them. Forrest took in th
d position in a moment; one or tn
1T other must die or run fot it; b
is would not be that one. Now, {
lie never, thought he; 80, takln
e. steady aim he sent q ball throu'
is ,bully's clothes. This shave #
al his life staggered the would-be a
as sailant, and he fell from the fen
as to run back home 'as fast as
ty could. He never again attempte
de any trick upon his cool your
ly neighbor, whose reputation i
be courage and determination to 10
on mis- own against all hectorll
e's bluster was thenceforward gene
let ally recognized Without snch
,st reputation, life then on t
Arkansas frontier would have be
he intolerable.
lly Successful as farmer, he aft
of ward took to horse dealing,
i'm excellent Judge Of that noble 9
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his operations be carefully ex-
amined by the most pedantic mill
tary critic, they will seem as if de-
signed by a,military professor 50
thoroughly are the principles OF
tactics, when broadly interpreted
by a liberal understanding, in ac-
cordance with common sense and
business principles. The art OF
war was an instinct::n him, its OBJ
iects must necessarily be evident
to most men, but the ways and
methods by which those objects
could and should be secured came
Of. themselves into the untaught
brain of this fearless soldier, this
general by intuition
His favorite maxim was: war
means fighting and fighting means
killing" Hence it was his track was
usually marked with blood, and
the dead bodies of his enemies
were the records he left of fierce
charges down roads and of Federal
camps or bivouacs taken by sur
/
prise. IT may be asserted without
contradiction that no man on
either side killed so many adver-
saries with his own hand as he
] did during that long war.
Forests first real fight did not
come off until the last week o:
1851. Up to that time he hat
! |:practiced his men in long. .marche
| and accustomed them to life il
the open air during cold and yer.
3 trying weather. He thus tempere'
and hardened his young volunteer
9 to the hardship and rough life Q
a soldier in the field, and he ha
: time to shake down himself int
!, the, to him, novel position of con
e manding officer. On the 2Sth {
# December, 1861, Forrest ha
e marched his regiment, then 3C
8. strong, about twenty miles Owe
n execrable roads, either deep wit
/ mud or rendered barely passab
d from frost. In the neighborhoo
3 of Rumsey, KY, he came upon
Is fresh trail Of the enemy, who |
d, learned from the inhabitants We
< 45O in number. A gallop of te
is miles brought him into conta
}" with the federal rear guard, ne
he the village of Sacramento. N
IN more than half of his men hs
w been able to keep pace with hil
%. but with them he charged dow
er the road and drove in the re
SO guard upon the main body. !
re ordered his men to fall back,
of the hope of drawing the enen
he after him, and in this way
he bringing them nearer to the
sir mainder of his regiment, the m
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Evarts says when the Baptists
came to Rhode Island they praised
God and fell on their knees, then
thew fell. on the aborigi-ness
When 1 asked the ex-secretary
about the settlement of Rhode
Island he said: eyes, the Dutch
settled Rhode Island; then the
Yankees settled the Dutch"
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Sheridan, S, o@- ether
leaders of mouusoy Siovps were
justly the popular heroes OF the
day. I can only remember the
refrain, which ran thus: !.
"If you want to smell hell, Just
line the cavalry-jine the
cavalry!"
A general officer, "who rode
with Forrest" for the last year
and a half of the war, gives us the
following information. Referring
to his leaders career, he writes:
"Many of his victories were
achieved with men who had
never been drilled one hour
together"
A general officer, who was
tForrest's second in command
when speaking OF his pecullar
mode of fighting, said: "His quick
dismountsng of his men to fight,
showed that he regarded horses
mainly as rapid means Of
transportation for his troops" If
we wish to know whatiarge bodies
of mounted rifemen can do, We
must study the operations of For
rest and Of Stuart, and learn !
from what Sheridan ccomplishee
with the splendid force under hi
command in Virginia. Thos
leaders were the masters of an ol'
but long-disused fighting art, an
it is from their operations W
must learn it now.
General Forrest was born ]
J, 1921 of very humble parents
He was therefore, just forty Whe
he first donned the soldiers gar
}, as private in. the Tennesse
. Mounted Rifles. In the will
Q borderland of civilization, whe1
he had been reared, he had hoy
ever, been accustomed to the vi
of arms from earliest boyhoo
There life was held cheap, ar
: even the peace-loving citizen wei
about his ordinary avocatiol
!, duly armed with pistol and bow
j knife. Many were the wounds I
ceived by Forrest, and many b
hairbreadth escapes in the person
encounters. he had to engage in
r young man. "Lynch law" W
l. often resorted to by the communi
in which he lived and in the ru
and reckless society of his ear
surroundings, the first lesson
learned was that self-preseryati
s and personal defence of on
own property with steel and bul
was the first great and mi
! important law of nature.
His father died when.
future general was boy of OF
sixteen years. The eldest son
J.. eleven children, upon b
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When a man is praying for q
corn crop God loves to see him
saw amen to it with q hoe.
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spurgeon: The greatest works
have heen done by the units, and
/ would rather choose the solitary
hero in truth than go with the
maioity to the evil.
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Alphonse Karr: Some people
are always finding fault with
nature for putting thorns on roses.
1 always thank her for having put
roses on thorns.
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GEN'L FORREST.
CAREER OF THE GREAT
CAVALRY LEADER s.
Reviewed by General Lord
y Wolseley-An Interesting
Critique Of q Daring
American Genius.
He Was a Soldier
by Intuition.

General Wolsely, the highest
military authority in the British
empire, has for several years
been contributing to the magazines
and the press, critiques on the
careers Of generals in the
American civil war.
His encomiums on Lee and
Jackson are among the strongest
ever pronounced, while hif
criticism of other southern officers
has been severe.
Lee, he considers the first
soldier of the war, if not of the
century.
4 In the following article.
prepared for The Constitution, he
writes of General Bedford
Forrest, the dashing cavalry
leader on the confederate side.
whose name, along with that Of
Stuart, will go down to posterity
in song and story.
General Wolsely thinks the
American mounted troops were
not strictly cavalry, fighting on
horseback, but using horses main
ly as a means of getting about,
and fighting with the pistol
oftener than with the sabre.
After the preliminary discussion
General WolselJ comes to his
subject which he treats in two
parts, in this interesting way:
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You cannot make the cavalry
soldier or the mounted soldier,
whatever may bo his functions in
war, think too highly of himself.
His training teaches him that he
belongs, as it were, to the
aristocracy Of the army, and that
his work, always in the front,
is the most important, and places
him in a position far above that
of what the. -I--a;Aa-anue-
the tsPeida1ls :. aElr, a.. fe
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oYE OF TIE 1AYDrLrGArEs.
WORKS or VIRGINIA AUTHORS.
s'"etarl Morton Receiving Many Contri-
buttons 20 the WorId's-Fair Exhibit.

ll. oacrug o. works If Virginia authors
" il. lolumblau-kXpOsitiOn collection,
N- ias been made IN response 10 the
Ga publish bed Dy Secretary Morton IN the
ii.Itlof several weeks ago. has been very
encouraging.
among those offered are: "In Ole VIZ
t,-, On Newtouud River. Elsket,'
I.r O.d south, " Bofo' de War, Two
I.'. toatederates," and Among the
'-i-. by Thomas Nelson Page; Tho
Illogical History II the Lee Family
By b. G.. Mead of AibemaTlo: THE Gene
e." ~ The United States" by Alexander
A' $40. ~ Nelson Women Of the
, by Miss Bette Horsley. Of Augusta;
orals of Old Virginia Clerks" by +.
aston. Oi Salem, Wheat and Iares
Orerlale: OF, Pen-pictures OF Farm
A..r pv GIanam ClaytOr. OF Bedford
ih" Gospel % tho Kingdom" by Wiley
"-c- ~ Manchester: " Death Of Death"
John N. Patton. OF Albemarle; Home
4'. H hlscences Of John Randolph and
Dl lrunk. byP. Bouldin; Biography
d Commodore NJ. j. Maury. United
-.''ts and Confederate States ma
~ j ariDy Vale. Lead Ne 90 the Rock"
Eey. T. W Hooper, ID. D., of Chris
,'is..Wg Practical Guide for Railroad
by Martin and S,rachan, OF Farm
.-e. " iankee-DoOdle Dixie" by John
.-.rnl ksais. Of Allegheny; Life. Cor
~ ppAdencc, and Speeches OF Patrick
Lrtfy,' by bis grandson. w. Writ Henry,
kichmOnd and the works of Miss NJ.
w. AoClelland, Of Nelson.
4is, although good one. is but be.
tihing Of what the Board Of Managers
W pose 20 collect Ia this department.
DE- exhibit will be unique. as no other
Hta-e seems % have undertaken O similar
.-e; AID Il will be most credi.able one
if fireinia IL all her authors contribute
~ ,' NJ There are said TO be not less than
sAd whether the author now resides in
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WHIPPED IN COURT.
Two Little Negroes Punished In This Way.
Assaulted with Collector.

The timely suggestion Of the DISPATCH
that fresh saw-dust should be placed upon
the floor of the Police Court has at last
been taken into consideration. ~ on yes
terday morning q large pile Of newly
graduated tinbers was 10 be observed IN
one corner of the room.
The attendance upon tho court was quite
large, bat the docket was unusually tr-
fling.
Andrew Woodbridge and John W. Sadler
(cOlored boys were whipped IN court for
stealing set OF buggy harness from Mrs.
H. T.. Clemmit.
Nelson Watkins (colored) paid $40 for
assaultine and wounding Hattie James
with a colcc.pOt.
4 number Of men were fined 81 and
costs for allowing their sons 10 throw
rocks ia the street.
Raphael Francioni, reported az keeping
his bar-room open on Sunday. was dis
charged Julian Alright, who keeps an
lcc-cream saloon IN the rear Of FranciOni's
place. was fined = and costs for conduct
ing bus business on the Sabbath.
Edward Riley was fined @25 and sent on
10 the Hastings Court for selling liquor on
SuDQaV
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MEMORiAL.DkY AT HOLLYWOOD.
The Ladies Making Preparations for Its
obserNancf--Mr Robertson the Orator.

A well-aitended meeting Of the LADIES'
Hollywood Memorial Association was held
yesterday afternoon at DIR. Hogc's church.
Many OF the arrangements for the OBJ
servance Of Memorial Day. May 30th. were
completed.
The military organizations who part CT
pate In the ilill-monument unvoiing cere-
monies on the morning of the same daY
viii first VISIT the Exposiuon-Grounds.
and at o'clock IN the afternoon meet the
association ~ Monroe Park. The ladies
WI follow the soldiers TO the cemetery in
carriages, while the Juniors will 50 in
omnlbu ses and large wagons. The process
sion Will enter Hollywood through the
mann gate, and they will oil PASS around TO
the circle set apart for them with ropes
and decorated with bunting. AS the ladies
approach the band viii play.
Mr. Leigh Robertson. of Washington.
VIII deliver the address and Rev. Dr. W.
". Landrum will be invited TO offer the
prayer.
ON the Sunday night preceding Memo
rlal-Dav the association will assemble IN the
lecture-room OF ~. Paul's church and 90
IN body 20 the main auditorium. Bishop
A. vi. Randolph VIII preach the memorial
sermon. Lee Camp and other veteran or
CARNATIONS viii attend the services.
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