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in hand to cut his way through a whole
regiment that stood across the path of
retreat. ENDORSED in the first dash he
sprang into the saddle of fallen trooper
and rode on until he was overcome by the
drain of five mortal wounds. Farms
worth = charge would stand in history as
a second Balaklava had not Pickett's oc
curing couple of hours earlier, given
the world more picturesque feat of arms
to wonder about.
1t is believed that General P. R. Gle
burne who was killed at Franklin, Tenn,
in 1864, while riding all alone against the
Union breastworks-the most heroic cpl
sode of the kind in the war-went
into action that day piqued by remark
from his superior shortly before the
attack, rejecting upon the spirit of
Cleburne's troops. At Shilon, Col. Allen,
of the Fourth Louisiana, led his men four
times against the famous Union hor-
nets nest'' only to meet with repulse.
Receiving an order for another charge he
asked his commander, Gen. Bragg, if the
men must repeat the assault. s'Col.
Allen, we want no faltering here,' said
Bragg, haughtily, then turned away.
Though bleeding from painful wound
the colonel would not abandon his
soldiers to their fate, but rode to the
colors, sounded the charge, and dashed
once more into the frightful carnage.
GEORGE l.. KILMER.
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As well try to come up to saint as to
soldier of that stamp, but he was good
one to swear by, anyway.
There is, unquestionably, species of
fury or battle fever that seiZes upon GER
tain men in action, though many veter-
ans scout the idea. But there are skeptics
as to any form of inspiration whatever. l
have seen men transformed in battle by
sudden changes marked as perceptibly
upon every feature as the shifting lights
and shadows seen upon the face of nature
when the sun darts from behind cloud.
1t is as though bands of restraint were
loosened suddenly, and the pulses seem
to leap as under an electric shock. l have
felt the change and noted it at the in
slant. During such a mood a soldier will
attack anything that shows fight. Actors,
orators and preachers understand this for
there comes to them time when the oc-
casion, the scene, the approving audience
transports them from the real to the
ideal-and Inspiration, as good as any
name, if it has been abused-carries them
away. Again, the spur of a marvellous
deed may be incidental to the moment.
When Fitzpatrick ordered Farnsworth
to lead his squadrons among the rocky
boulders and standing timber on the
slopes of Round Top at Gettysburg in
face of a brigade of infantry the brave
young soldier protested that it was send
ing men to slaughter. ''These are too
good men to KILL" he pleaded. s'If you
are afraid to lead this charge, L will, /"
said Fitzpatrick. There was hot chal-
lenge and fiery answer for moment,
then the general Of day gave
the signal for that wild ride to death
Circling the field to draw the enemy's
fre-the sole purpose of the charge-and
finding his band reduced to handful and
completely surrounded, he started, sword
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jostled on the streets at home, he
a young lawyer, l a student, no far
Their apart than few years makes men.
We were born and reared almost within
sight of each other's homes, fed on the
same mountain air, and spurred by the
same ideals. If one battle can graduate
him as a war leader, surely one battle
can finish me as a follower. In that
shaky moment which precedes the out
break OF smoke and flying things 1 no.
ticed that he was as human as any man
there, but he skillfully threw off the feel
ing which if yielded to develops into ner-
yousness. He assumed a sternness OF
manner and tone and braced himself
gradually until we were launched into
the full excitement, when all came easy,
just as swimming does to a novice the
moment his feet can't touch bottom. AT
that stage, judging from my exemplar,
looked upon courage in battle as a matter
of will power in the Individual. At the
same time | was confused to discover that
my will power was many, many degrees
stronger with General Bartlett in sighU.
That may be courage by proxy, but it
helps many man through. The next
marshal OF my uncertain courage was
leader / first met in the trenches at Spott-
sylvania. We were at very close quar-
tiers and the enemy's fire held us prison.
ers during daylight. At dusk, however.
we would venture out and repair and
strengthen our defenses by patching them
up with logs and earth. The first evening
noticed our battalion major, Job
Hegdes OF the Fourteenth artillery,
handling axe and spade like yeo-
man, While other officers Rugged the
parapet, or any cover within reach-for
the shooting didn't stop only the aim was
haphazard. Noting that j was a new
conner the major put me at ease by asking
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courage adds to the moral obligation
which soldiers assume and feel, quick
presence of mind, a firm grasp on all the
faculties, trained readiness to act and
confidence to deliver the best blow at the
nearest in reach.
| DIR. William A. Hammond has said that
soldiers courage depends upon the
| pathological condition of the heart, and
the theory is good SO far as it goes, but
| 1t goes no farther than does the saying
that wood chopper or prize fighter
should be healthy and strong. In the
case of soldiers, a board of army surgeons
| looks after the heart of every recruit. and
does it pretty thoroughly beforehand.
Many fine looking candidate is rejected,
the reason being held a secretin the exam
lining chamber. A man should be healthy
TO be at his best in any situatiOn, and II
man ever needs to be ttall there'' in
any place on earth, that place is the bat
tie field. Napoleon lost battle by over
eating and sudden indigestion. He de-
bated, hesitated, let slip the golden mo-
ments without blow, and victory fed
from his eagles.
As to the matter of physical courage in
a commander, it takes less than in fol-
lower. The leader is busy planning, d.
recting and thinking of and for his men,
with his thoughts turned from himself
and from danger. Officers noted as lead
a melee. Again leader is liable to lose
his head in the side of extravaganza cour-
age. So absorbed does he become that he
forgets there is limit to human endur-
ance and, paradoxical as it may seem sew
eral officers of the late war were cash
Tered for excessive bravery, or freshness"
as specifications put it.
There is broad distinction between
battlefield courage and the instinct of
self representation
Men will rush into burning building,
dash in front OF runaway team or plunge
into roaring flood to save human life
and declare afterwards that they didn't
know how they came to do thing so
rash. and do not believe that they could
repeat it. But ii one reflects a moment
it is hard to suppose that human being
can see the life OF helpless brother man
IN peril and not instinctively rush to the
rescue thoughtless that the jaws of death
are opening for him as we'll. Much the
same impulse leads to martial heroism.
When 1t comes right down to an issue
OF death OK deeds when the enemy;s
guns are dealing shot into your
ranks, every volley sending victims to
earth. the first desire is TO fly to
the battery, bayonet the gunners, and
spike the pieces. In a lesser degree when
the enemy's banner is defantly waving
where you thing your own should be, 1t
is almost impossible to restrain desire
10 hack down every foeman who stands
between your flag and the spot where
you are to plant it. In crises like these
soldiers do things in an unaccountabIe
way and say afterward they do not I'M
derstand it and never expect to repeat the
deeds. Not that valor of the kind is over
common, but opportunities for the dis
play of personal daring seldom wait for
heroes.
Never is man called upon to face can
non or rifle and wait, supinely, to be
killed. There is always something tina
can be done to ward off the evil, or at
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enterprises of Stonewall Jackson and the
marshal OF Jaekson's famous old bat
talions. In his first battle he boldly rode
into hornets nest'' where 372 out of
62S who followed him were shot down and
thirty-four officers out of forty-six were
killed or wounded. His horse was shot
under him and he carried away nine bullet
holes in his uniform Again apd again, in
charges that failed only because the i'm
possible had been attempted, the dead of
Gordon's band lay nearest the enemy's
blazing guns and where his men went he
rode at the head of the column. The
hottest corners of the fields of Malvern
Hill, Antietam, Charlottesville and
Gettysburg, the deadly thicket at the
Wilderness, the "bloody angle' atSpotts
syivania, the rocky barricade at Cedar
creek. the trenches at Petersburg, held
back no secrets OF marvellous Valor
from his eye, for he was IN them all,
sometimes a victim and always the
bravest of the brave. He was carried
from the 'tbloody lane'' at Antietam-
by all odds the most CORY bit of Ameri-
can landscape the sun ever shone upon
with bullet through the right fore
arm, another through the left shoulder,
q third through the left cheek bone and
two through the LETT leg. That he should
hope to find battlefield courage under
the Jacket OF moral hero is significant
although, looked at closely, the idea is
not surprising. 1t means that if he
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least to turn the mind from it. Lieuten-
ant Cushing, standing on the bow of his
torpedo launch with the ruuzzle of the
100-pounder gun of the Albemarle look
ing at him ten feet away, and men on the
ram S deck scurrying to discharge it and
blow the pigmy launch with all on board
of her to atoms, had no time to ponder on
the danger. His eye, his mind were upon
the torpedo spar which his hand was to
guide to carry the internal machine at its
tip underneath the rams hull and blow
her out of the water. Cushing was
type of the martial hero, an fall-round''
fighter with trained senses. def hands
bold intuitions. Those are the qualities
for courage in general situations, and
battle is no exception apart from the mat
ter of confusion. Confusion will net up
set a ready minded man for any length of
time if he picks up his little end OF the
fight and hammers away at it.
The ideal in courage is probably never
attained. A soldier is never satisfied with
his own conduct, no matter how sharply
he may resent aspersions made by others.
Twice / took up an ideal, or at least tried
to emulate two gallant fighters often
under my eye in battle, and it is need
less to say that / never caught up With
my examplars. The first was my earliest
colonel, General Joseph J.. Bartlett). In
my maiden battle l took him for a model.
He had been once under fire, had come
out with record, and reasoned tt is
way: Here is one who few months ago |
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BATTLE OF THE RIVALS.
A Bloody Smuggling Match in the Presence
of the Lady.

A Bloody Smuggling Match in the Presence
of the Lady.
Two young rivals for the affections of
a fair young lady settled their claims to
preference last night with genuine
slugging match, the cause of all the
trouble being an unwilling. witness to the
affair.
1t seems that one of the bloods took the
girl out riding, and while they were
away, the other one called at the young
lady's home. which is in the old Wilkin-
son residence at the corner of First West
and Second South streets. He evidently
learned the situation of affairs, and with
friend waited on the corner until Blood
No. should return. 1t was a long wait
but finally the buggy drove up and Blood
No. 1 jumped out. Before he could
assist the lady to alight, Blood No. 2
was at his side, and something the pre-
else nature of which no one knows but
themselves, passed between the two, and
the upshot was that Blood No. smashed
Blood No. in the face.
1.-Two can play at that game, cried the
latter, throwing the reins to the lady and
making rush towards his rival.
Then the fight began and it was q
corker. The battle was according to
London prize ring rules, the four corners
of the street marking the ring. Blood
No. proved to be stronger, quicker and
much more familiar with the rules of the
manly art than his opponent, and he
seemed to have the best of it all the way
through, although No. was dead game,
and fought for all he was worth. For
couple of minutes there was cautions
sparring, and then No. found an open
ing and landed on the others chest. He re-
peated this moment later, sending his
left home on the right optic, and getting
away quickly No. 1 decided to force
matters and made a desperate rush,
swinging hard with right and left, but
his antagonist stepped out of reach and
he famed the air. Long range fight
three or four hot ones on the
mouth and over the optic, bringing the
cIaret. No. again ventured to mix up,
andin the hot infighting which followed
he was severely punished, and realizing
that he wasn't in it he said: ''I'll put my
horse up and then We'll finish it. /"
s'That's all right" said No. 2, 'syou
can't fight little bit and you had better
quit. But want to tell you that If you
ever make another crack like that I'll
kill you. )"
No. walked to his buggy, the now
agitated young lady was assisted to
alight. and the defeated warrior mounted
Si'Il be back in ten minutes" he said
to Blood No. 2.
ssAil right, y replied the latter sarcas-
tically, 81 II wait for you.
Then No. 1 started up town, and
Fswish, swash, swish" went his whip.
''That's right yelled No. 2 after him,
stake it out on the horse"
But No. / never came back.
He took his horse to the stable and then
went down Main street and met two
friends. The story of the battle was told
them, and the trio walked down to
Dickinson's meat market, where one of
them purchased large supply of beef
steak, and Blood No. 1 retired to his
room to apply the aforesaid steak to his
damaged optics.
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where l had served before and chatting
commonplaces in familiar way the
while we both ducked our heads in con-
cert when a shell went by-pointing out
the best places for a log or a spadeful of
earth, and in fact dwelling upon any sub
ject besides the one of first importance,
namely, the fact that we occupied hot
corner and might expect bitter fight in
holding on.
a few days later we crossed the North
Anna river by wading on an old broken
mllldam over which the current rushed
with force that carried many off their
feet, attacked the enemy on the hither
shore, drove them back and divided
our forces SO that part could be
fighting while others slashed down TIM
Der and tossed up the earth to build barri-
cades. Again the major was out, spade
IN hand, chatting and directing the men,
laughing over wet plunge he got while
trying to make the ford on horseback, and
keeping our minds off from the serious
side of things. Wounded men were
streaming past from the outposts, and 1t
was plain that we would have to fight, go
to Andersonville, or take chances of being
shot while swimming to the rear, but our
leader kept cur minds on other things IN
til the breastworks were done and our po-
sltiOn secure. tThere, - thought /, sis
another kind OF hero. He doesn't give
fear chance to forestall courage A
few days later he led the battalion
against Lees earthworks at Peters
burg, going in mounted, an I'M
called for exposure unless he did it to in
spire the men. The ground was one
where several attempts had failed. After
the order was given tie prepare for the
change and while awaiting the fateful
word he took a picture of his wife and
babe from his pocket, kissed it. and in
that moment of tenderness confessed to
friend that he felt a presentiment that he
should fall in the coming assault. Then
he sprang into the saddle, and before he
had ridden ten PAGES beyond the crest
where the line formed he was shot dead.
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COURAGE Or THU SOLDIER.
What Sort of Men Stand the
Shock of Battle.
HOW THEY FACE DEATH.
Some Thrilling Stories OF Brave Men
and Gallant Deeds.
Ehe Distinction Between Battlefield Cour-
age and the Instinct of Self Pres
ervation-A Trifie May Siam
pede Army.
HOW THEY FACE DEATH.

The brilliant confederate soldier, Gen
eral John 3. Gordon. once delivered in
two short sentences what appeared to
those who heard it, capital thesis on
martial courage. Commenting on the
conduct Of union veteran which struck
MIN as morally sublime, he exclaimed,
81 would like to know that man S soldier
record. I wager he was hero in the
field The chance remark will bear a
strong Interpretation and that not be-
cause General Gordon held high rank in a
modern army, but Tor the reason that no
soldier on either side performed greater
deeds OF personal daring, or led picked
men into the Jaws of death with greater
frequency or with better results than he.
Entering the army civilian captain in
1861, Gordon came out lieuuenantg gen.
eral, the successor in Lees councils and
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SCHOOL YEAR ENDED.
The b. Y. Students OF for the vacatio,
A Child Drowned

The b. Y. Students OF for the Vacation
A Child Drowned
Provo, May 27.-The present week has
been one of mental and physical exercise
for the students of the B. Y. academy.
After today's proceedings, the curtain
was rung down for the present school
year and the students are preparing to
take their departure homeward. On
Monday the commercial school will open.
however, and continue until the time
arrives for the summer school.
A CHILD DROWNED.
Joseph Williamson, of Provo bench,
mourns the loss of baby boy fifteen
months old. The little fellow ATTEMPTED
to cross bridge over a ditch in front of
the house and fell into the stream. When
found the child was dead.
Monday is circus day and the little bows
will be in their best spirits. Sanger and
Lent give very good show Tor the money
and it has been long timessince a tent
was pitched in Provo. They should do
fair business.
Extensive preparations are being made
by the Free Masons for grand time at
Castillo springs on Decoration day. a
parade and appropriate services have been
arranged for that day in Provo.
WORLDS FAIR REPORT.
Provo's Woman's Worlds Fair club
have completed their work and below is
their final report:
Received in fees 81 So
Received from County association SS IS
Received from Mems club. IL Go
Total receipts. --------....----.......s 300 IS
Paid for cloth for portieres ..........S is 90
Other material ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS % 90
Express and postage. ............ So
Light and fuel. so
Embroiderers- Observation-Disclosures 80 so
s10O So
The following articles are reported from
Utah county:
Plush embroidered banner from Goshen.
Feather cape-Mrs. Whitney, Mapel-
ton.
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wanted to raise an army Tor desperate
work and had choice in the matter. his
recruiting ground would be those COM
munities that cluster around the school
house and the college, the church and
the cultivated home, rather than the
towns and the slums of cities teemiag
with vicious idlers. This draws a sharp
line and many striking exceptions NAV be
placed on either side.
The opposite of courage is commonly
designated fear, but this designation will
not do for the battlefield. Courage in
battle and fear are lnSeparable and but
for fear there would be no courage. The
soldier who knows no fear in a literal
sense displays no more courage when he
marches TO the death dealing cannon than
would a man both deaf and blind. It is
TO see and realize danger, to fear it first
and then take issue with it and brace for
the encounter that calls out man IS cour-
age.
The brigade OF troops which in the civil
war exemplified above all others the lofti-
est devotion and fighting courage. the
Kentucky Orphan brigade, was once
stampeded by a trifie such as earns a
scoldIng for babes in the crib. The conn
mand was in the presence of the enemy,
and, overcome by fatigue on a night
march, the men dropped asleep in the
road where they had halted to await
orders. An aid of the general shortly
passed along on horseback, picking his
way carefully among the PROSTATE SOL
oiers. One of them, half awake and startled.
thought he saw the horse about to tread on
a comrade and cried sharply, LOOK outiv
That was all. In an instant hundred
Of the sleeping men cintched the mus
kets that rested in their lax fingers.
sprang TO their feet and over fence into
the first ff1msy hiding place they found,
like a covey of hushed cartridges. With
no other alarm than the precipitate haste
OF the first exodus other hundreds fol-
lowed suit. So there were men who at
Shiloh had rushed to the charge upon
Sherman's rallied line with the ringing
war song:
s'Cheer, boys, cheer, we'n march away 10 bat
ties'
men who in their last previous action
Stone riyer-had stormed Union batteries
that not alone moved down soldiers, but
actually cut wide swaths in the forest
through which Kentuckia-z marched to
the attack, the survivor scattering
companies wading the r sr unde- a gall
ing FIRE to silence thu murderou a guns:
men who IN their ne st battle hicka-
mauga-were to char. se breastwo ks in
open field against dORlle odds. AM carry
them, too, and who at ~ issiona " Ridge
and before Atlanta were 10 cicse their
martial career with deeds OF valor match
less in American annals, started out OF
their wits because thoughtless fellow in
a moment of trepidation called out
'sBool'' in the darkness.
The best definition OF faltering at those
times is the current slang term ssrattIed. y
Ii is more than to be simply hustered or
disconnected. It is a mental, moral and
nervous collapse, q loss OF grip on ones
self and the existing situation at the time;
a sudden blurring of the consciousness as
10 who and what we are, what adyan-
res lie under our feet and the response
t.es that 60 with them. True battle
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New Yorlx stock Market.

NEW York. MAY q. = Speculation at the
stock exchange opened weak under the intiu-
ence oflower cables from LONDON, and in the
first 10 minutes prices declined i 10 Z per
cent. right through the list. Distille-y and
Cattle Feeding. however, moved up gradually
IL and the general market showed a disposi-
ton to rally and early losses wore recovered II
most instances. The improved feeling did not
last long, however. for General Electric dis
played marked weakness and broke from ia
to 50. This sharp decline affected the Whole
list, adversely and even the favorable bank
statement with its increase in surplus receipts
failed to check it. The heaviness OF General
Electric is attracting attention, and no salts
factory reason is yet given for the steady
shrinkage in price. At the close, prices were
at or near the lowest OF the day.
Government bonds-Easier.
Petroleum-Neglected.
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COMMERCIAL.
New york General Markets.

NEW YORK, May 7.-Hops-Quiet, firm,
state common to choice, 1s92ll2; Pacific coast.
18021zc.
barely steady at 1880 points down on others.
Sales. 10000 bags; May. 16.50016 30; June.
10 9O016.0O; July, 15.55015.65; spot Rio, quiet,
firm; No. 2. 171s.
centrifugals, 96-test "a refined firm, fair de-
mand; of A, 413-l6G515 mould A, 55s stand
ard a, 5316D5%; confectioners' A, 3 11605l4
cut loaf, 5000 1916; crushed, 55sQ5 49, Is 4;
cubes, 9-1605N.
Copper-Quiet; lake, 1915.
Lead-Quiet, steady domestic. 800.
Tin-Weak; straits, 1905 bid, 10. 10 asked.
Plates-Dull; steady.
Spelter-Quiet, weak; domestic, 4.l5.