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raised Che regiment, the Twenty-sccond. was in dilemma. He did not want to degrade captain appointed by the governor of his state, yet he wanted to give Miles the promotion he deserved. So he went to 0. c, Howard, then colonel of regiment au Washington, and asked him if he didn't want an- other man on his staff. "Yes, if you have good man, said Howard. Miles was sent over to him, and was detailed to conduct a drill. He did 1t so ad- mirably us to excite the astonishment of the colonel. who frankly said to him: Young man, you have done well. don't understand how you can be so well qualified without any experience" !"
 Miles took the praise modestly, and told him there was certain evolution of companies on the field about which he would like his opinion. After Miles explained his point Col. Howard decided it. Miles then went out and brought in a book on military tactics and submitted nn authority to the contrary. Col. Howard at once ac-
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at the beginning of the civil war, his career has all the more popular inter- est. He was clerk in a Boston store at the time, having come to the Hub in his seventeenth year from his native place, Westminster, in Worcester eoun- ty, Mass
 In one of the most rugged parts of the Wachusett mountain region is the house where he was born in 1s40, as well as the one to which he was taken home to die when dangerously wound ed in one of the early battles of the war. The old white schoolhouse on a rocky hillside surrounded by apple or ehards is still in use; and all the chil- dren are familiar with the story of the great general who conned his lessons there when in the winter evenings lis tening to his uncle's wonderful Indian stories. which had a peculiar charm for his boyish ears. He never wearied of hearing of the time when the Indians infested the Wachusett region and of their raids apon the settlers. One incident related made a deep impression upon him. It was of an old settler who lived on friendly terms with his red neighbors sy giving them shelter and food and salt enough to cure their wild meat in the fall. The savages never molested this man in any of their raids. and they brought him all the game he wanted. It may have been these early talks with his uncle that excited in him sympathetic interest in the red men and caused him in after years, when he was an Indian fighter, to deal mercifully with them. While he was stationed in Arizona and the white peo- pie were dissatisfied because he did not make d wholesale slaughter of the Apachess he said; sThe United States troops are soldiers not butchers
 When he became seventeen his reso- lute spirit asserted itself, and he went
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10 this uncle and said: T don't want 10 work on the farm. want to go to Boston
 That is the best thing you can do, said his ambitious relative. Your Uncle George or Uncle Nelson will find you something to do when you get there" Following this suggestion young Miles started upon his journey dressed in a green jacket, short trou- sers and a green tarpaulin hat made of straw and covered with cloth. He was laughable spectacle of new country lad when he arrived in Boston. His uncles, who were men of means. at once fitted him out with more con ventional costume.
 His Uncle George Curtis, fatherof the present mayor of Boston, found him a place :n John Coilamore's large crock cry store on Washington street. His pay was very small, and his Uncle Nel- son Curtis, for whom he was named. took him into his family to live Ut Wes. Roxbury, and gave him his board, Hut young Miles was too independent
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Gettysburg and

a great conflict was imminent, Miles renewed his application for commis- sion to go to the front, but was re- fused. Finally he went to the officer in charge and demanded: "Give me my command or my discharge. He was too valuable a man to discharge at that critical time, SO q commission was given him, although he was not physically fit for fighting He went into the battle of Gettysburg and was wounded again 1t is matter of history how he distin- guished himself there.
 The army authorities then sent to the governor of Massachusetts to have him promoted to colonelcy. Gov. An drew clung to his old prejudice and re- fused.
 Meanwhile New York and Maine had both applied for Miles. He accepted the offer of a New York regiment, so Massachusetts lost the glory of his brilliant career throughout the rest of the war.
 He was made brigadier general for distinguished services during the hat ties of the Old Wilderness, Spottsyl- vania Court House and Charlottesville.
 At the close of the war in October, 1865, he was brevetted major general of United States volunteers, and was mustered out September 1, 1s66
 Instead of returning to business pur- suits as did the vast army of civilian sol diers, Gen. Miles then chose the army as offering a profession for life Within a week he had entered the regular army as colonel of the Fortieth infantry Promotions came slowly but surely. He rose to brigadier general December l5, 1880. and finally in April, 1890, he attained the rank of major general.
 Since the war Gen. Miles has won laurels in the only field open to an am, bilious soldier-as an Indian fighter He has fought successful battles with the fiercest of tribes, from the Ban nocks in the north to the Apaches in the south. Wherever he has been sta toned in Montana, Oregon, California, Arizona, he has commanded the ad- lniration of the white settlers and the fear and respect of the red tribes. Dur ing the Chicago riots and strike of 1894 his judicious generalship was shown in upholding the authority of the gov ernmeIt without unnecessary blood shed and his action was commended throughout the nation. He now en- joys the plcasantest berth in the army service, being stationed at Governors Island, New York.
 HERBERT HEYWooD
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to consent to such an arrangement. So he hired room in Boston, and as his earnings would not admit of his going to a boarding house he took his food to his room and boarded himself.
 While performing his duties at the store through the day he was going to a night school. For he had only att tended short terms at the district school at home 4 few of the older members of the crockery trade in Bos- ton to-day remember Nelson A. Miles as a bright, fresh looking, stalwart young man, and a capable clerk. Some stories are still current about him. One is that shortly after he entered the store and had caused great smash-np of erockery he surveyed the havoc with such coolness that Mir. Gollamore said: ''That boy could see men shot all around him on q battlefield and not get excited" After he had gone to the war Mir Col1amore expressed the opinion that if Nelson Miles could kill rebels as well as he could break crock cry he would make good soldier.
 But the soldiers instinct, which his employer had adunconscionsly discovered, developed as soon hs the war broke out, and fired him with a desire to enlist. He spoke to Mr. Collamore about it and was advised to ask his uncle's consent. They expressed their willingness, pro vided he would take military instruc- ton. His employer paid tor a six months course at q military school, which Frenchman had started in Bos-
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NC PLACE FOR HIM.
He Dldn't Like Town that Had All pn,
 Tc Jokes.

He Didn't Like 8 Town that Had All Rnn
 Tc Jokes.
 s'I dunno much about the laws of . city like this," he began as he entered the central station the other eyenin. and I'd like to ask few questions.
 Every well" replied the sergeant as he looked up from his desk.
 sKin a feller come. up to me and poke me in the ribs and call me bloomin' old l1uss on wheels? Does the law allow him to do it?''
 "If anyone did that to you he was only in fun.
 ''Mebbe he was, but don't like such familiarity. and told him so. too Does the law allow anybody to come up to you and smash your hat down over your ears and yell: Hello, Rubent" in your ears?"
 "Of course not, but some men ara joyial, you know"
 ''Yes, know they are, but don't like such jokes. If I'm in saloon drinking glass of beer by myself does the law allow the fellers in there ia call me old Borax' and elbow me around till I'm strangled with beer2p
 sOh! no. but they didn't hurt won any smiled the sergeant.
 "They hurt my feelin's, and don't like it bit. Has feller on the hind platform of a street car any right to brush hay-seed off my coat-collar and grin and ask me how turnips are git tin along?"
 You are no hand to take joke.s said the sergeant, as he turned to his work.
 No, Pm not, , replied the man, as his face grew more sorrowful. q heve lame back, holler tooth and the ear. ache, and on top of that I've lost five hogs by the cholera this summer and had my barn struck by lightning. No. can't take no joke. was calkerlatin' to stay in town four or five days. but guess I'll pull out to-morrer. It's too jovial fur me. If thar hain't no law to purtect a feller who feels sad then he'd better git right out. Is thar anybody around here who kin play Home. Sweet Home, on the accordion?"
 sI don't think so.n
 Well, l hardly expected it,T guess won't wait till mornin', but I'll leave tonight It's a one-sided town-all runs to joles-and no place for me"
 ''You ought to stay over and visit the island park" suggested the ser. geant.
 'rd like to- but dasn't If did some feller would jump out from be. hind tree and tickle me in the ribs and call me old Squash" and make me mad huff to bust No, III 20 nome tonight and take my sadness along with me. and you kin tell all the iokers in town that they kin Hal la, and be hanged to 'emi'-Detroit Free Press.
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knowledged his mistake, and said to Miles: 'sI am glad to have a man who can correct me-"
 The next day Senator Wilson went to Col. Howard and asked ''if the new man suited"
 ''If you have got any more extra captains like that you can send them over. can use regiment of them, ," was the answer.
 The position on Towards staff was all that young Miles needed as d van tage ground. The first battle he was in was disastrous. The enemy had surrounded a part of Col Towards troops, and every staff officer was wounded. Miles was shot in the foot. But when 8 retreat was ordered he rode up to Howard.
 ''If you will give me division, he said. T will drive the rebels out of the woods and rescue our men who are cut off.
 "Talze your choice. was the answer, and Miles went forward with an ax brigade, followed by several com panies of troops. The enemy, who swarned in the timber, were driven back from their ambush. The young staff officer led back in triumph the union men who were about to be made prisoners.
 The next engagement that Howard's s troops went into did not result so for tunately for Miles It was a fierce conflict, and he was in the thickest of it. He was shot from his horse. When he had been taken to the hos pital, the doctor examined his wound, which was in the abdomen, and said he could not live The bullet had buried itself so deeply and in so vital a part that it could not be located or probed for. But Miles pluckily in- sisted that he would live, but he want ed to be taken home to recover. The attendants granted what they thought was q dying mans request. He was placed upon streteher and put aboard B train for Boston. His ever faithful uncle, George Curtis, met him at the station, had him transferred to a train for Westminster, and accompanied him as far as Fitehburg. He there en- gagged the best surgeon of the place to attend the stricken soldier at the homestead, five miles west of the city.
 The case seemed hopeless at first, but in few days the doctor located the bullet and extracted it.
 As soon as he could move about he became restless. s'The rebels did me up pretty well, , he said, sand I want to pay them back He was weak and used crutches, but he went back to Philadelphia and asked for the com mand of company. They told him he was not sufficiently recovered for serv- ice, but as he insisted on doing some thing they gave him companies of re- eruits to drill
 As the hostile armies approached Gettysburg and it was apparent that
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fu the appointment of Gen. Nelson 4. Miles to fill the vacancy. Gen. Miles is the senior majo general of the army. It is the prerogative of the chief execu- tive to appoint any major general, but custom has made it almost a law to ap- point the senior officer of that rank
 Gen. Miles will be the first soldier 10 hold this high position who enlisted as a volunteer; heretofore it has been held sn unbrolxen succession by West Point graduates.
 From the fact that Nelson <. Miles entered the ranks as a citizen soldier
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NEW HEAD OF THE ARMY. Gen. Nelson A. Miles Likely to Become Commanding General First Volunteer So to Rise-TTitherto Un- written Chapter in the Life of
 Popular Hero-fIe C1erked in
 Crockery Store.
COPYRIGHT. 1895.

IF retirement of Gen. John NJ.
 Schofeld on the 29th of this month from the
 position of gen eral command ing the army of Unit ed S ta te s is ex- pected to lead
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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-11-06
The Moose is Not Beautiful.

Truth compels the statement that,
considered artistically, the moose is
a very homely creature; his legs and
his head are too long, and his neck
and body too short for beauty. He
has high and sharp crest on his
shoulders, coarse, bristly hair, and
not enough tail to speak of, even in a
whisper lin short, he has no tail at
all. His eyes are too small to match
his immensity, but his voice is like
that of bull of Bashan.
But all these homely features have
their uses. His overhangiug nose is
as useful as tapir's snoutin browsing
on the twigs of the birch, maple and
poplar, and his keenness of scent is
worth more to him than an accident
insurance policy. His long and pow
erful legs simply annihilate distance,
no matter whether it be in the form OF
forest, swamp or prairie, covered with
snow, mud or water. His fayorite
gait is long, swinging trot, and his
speed and endurance surpass those
of any ordinary trotting-horse. In
small lakes and ponds he strides about
like Colossus, feeding on lily-stems
and bulbs, and swimming with ease
and comfort whenever he thinks 1t
necessary. st Nicholas.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-11-06
-Foghorn Experiments.

A series of experiments with fog
horns, which will probably result in
systematic investigation, have recently
been made. In one of these boat
steamed directly toward lghtship
from distance of 4 1-2 miles. At
2 ga miles the sound of the horn be-
came audible, and at 2 1-2 suddenly
increased in loudness, and held the
same intensity until the boat was
within two miles of it From 3-4
to 1 1-2 the sound could scarcely be
heard, but after that it at once in.
creased and became 80 loud that it
seemed to be quite close to the vessel.
Here the steamboat reversed its
course, and the fuctuation was found
to be the same. Again reversing, the
sound disappeared and reappeared
after 1 1-2 miles, became entirely in
audible at half a mile, reappearing
again at quarter of mile, after
which it steadily increased until the
lighLship was reached. New York
Gun
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-11-06
Philadelphia Twins.

There is a good joke on German
town father and mother, who not long
ago found some difficulty in finding
acceptable names for their twin babies
who by the way were girls. After
celebrating over the matter and COM
ing to no satisfactory conclusion pater'
familias struck happy idea and de-
cided to name his girl babies Kate
and Duplicate. Recently another pair
of twins appeared under the same
roof, this time the infants being boys.
The husband saw here an opportunity
to get even with his wife and he de-
termined that she should find suitable
names for her latest otfsprings. I'M
agine his feelings when the mother
one day with happy and satisfied air
told her lord and master that she had
named the boys Pete and Repeat
Philadelphia Record.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-11-06

Georgia and the entire South are
under greater obligations to the elder
Whitney than to any other inventor
remarks the Atlanta Constitution
he made it possible for the despiscd
cotton crop of his day to become the
king of agric ,ltural staples. 1t has
built up the States south of the Poto-
mac and their product is now manu-
iactured in all the leading countries
of the world, clothing and supporting
countless millions of people in every
quarter of the globe. Before Whit
ney's day cotton was comparatively an
unimportant product, and in Georgia
it was subordinate to rice. indigo,
and even silk at one period. 1t is
gratifying to know that the younger
Whitney, who died recently, took u
friendly interest in our industrial de-
velopment, and it is to be regretted
that his visit to our exposition in 1881
cannot be supplemented with another
to our greater exposition this fall.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-11-06
A Rebuke From the Pulpit.

Preaching in the Abbey Canon Will.
berforce told good story of the cele.
brated Welsh preacher Christmas
Evans, who dared publicly to express
his thankfulness for Jenny Liud's
beautiful singing. A member Of his
congregation, straight-laced Calvin
list, standing on the steps OF the pull
git, asked the preacher whether man
dying at one of Jenny Lind's concerts
would go to heaven. ''sir," replied
Mr.. Evans, ga Christian will go to
heaven wherever he dies, but fool
remains fool even on the pulpit
steps" Even the sober Abbey con-
gregation could hardly stiae its enjoy
ment of this repartee. --Westminster
Gazette.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-11-06
Loudpn,s Last Thatched Cottage.

A statement in one OF the English
papers received in Washington is to the
effect that the authorities are about to
pull down the last thatched cottage in
London. 1t is situated three miles
and three furlongs from st. Pauls.
Some remark was caused on account
of the length of time the structure has
been standing and thati all that time
it has escaped fire. 1t was stated by
q person who had travelled in England
when he read the paragraph that there
were wooden houses in England which
were 500 years old. This seems almost
incredible. In this country a wooden
house would need to be almost entire
ly renewed in every hundredyears. 1t
is said that the hard wood and the care
that had been taken of the houses ac-
counts for their preservation. n.-Wash-
ington Star.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-11-06
Grass That Makes You Tired.

In some parts of New Mexico, says
an article quoted in Current Litera-
ture, there grows grass which pro-
duces q somniferous effect on the an
imals that Craze upon 1t. Horses,
after eating the grass, in nearly all
cases, sleep standing, while COWS and
sheep almost invariably lie down. 1t
has occasionally happened that trav-
elers have stopped to allow horses to
feed in places where the grass grows
pretty thick and the animals have
had time to eat considerable guam
tity before its effects have had time to
manifest themselves. In such cases
horses have gone to sleep on the road
and it is hard to arouse them. The
effect of the grass passes off in an hour
or two and no bad results have ever
been noticed on account of it. Cattle
on the ranches frequently come upon
patches of this grass, whore they feed
for perhaps half an hour and then fall
asleep for an hour or more, when they
wake up and start feeding again. The
programme is repeated perhaps q
dozen times until thirst obllges them
to go to water. Whether, like the
poppy, the grass contains opium, or
whether its sleep-producing property
is due to some other substance is not
known.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-11-06
Rooms Trimmed With Buttons.

zone of the latest craze of orna-
mentation is the employment of fac
tory buttons of all sorts and sizes, ="
said the head of one of the greatest
decorative firms in England. "We
are now fitting up for a great manu-
facturer, whose wares arerecommended
on thousands of boardings, a smaller
drawing room, the walls of which are
covered wholly by Thousands upon
thousands of buttons of every imagin-
able pattern, these being fixed by
means of special cement. The eff
feet is, I can assure you, very hand
some, and at the same time quaint,
and I have received orders for two
Railways to be similarly decorated. -
New York Sun.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-11-06

A petition from the inhabitants OF
the London suburb, Shepherds Bush,
reveals an entirely new difficulty
which boomers have to contend. 1t
seems that Miss Braddon invariably
put into her novels very low, com.
mon families, and made them reside
at Shepherds Bush. Other novelists
followed her evil example, until now
a-days every English novelist puts his
low characters down as residents OF
Shepherds Bush. The result is that
all the reputable people who could
move went down, and fiction became
feet. The land and house-owners
of Shepherds Bush ask the County
Council to give the place another
name, so that their efforts to restore
its ancient responsibility may not be
in vain.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-11-06
Whistling Automatically.

The automatic whistling device is a
recent invention. In connection with
it is q system of electric wiring to all
parts of the bridge, by which the
whistle can be instantly blown by the
pressing of q button. To blow fog
signal regularly every sixty seconds 1t
is only necessary to put in connec-
tion which puts the whistle in control
of the electrical work clock, and it
needs no further attention as it will
blow all day at regular intervals, and
every time it blows stamping de-
vice in connection with the clock
registers on paper tape the date, hour
and minute when the signal was gwen
as we'll as the duration of blast. New
York Herald.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-11-06
mBilly Black Tail,v

Coming down to the members Of the
Deer Family that are universally
known as Deer, we first meet fine,
lusty fellow who inhabits the widest
portions of the West BY the men
who live in his country he is called
the Black Tailed Deer-hij pet name
is "Billy Black Tail, but naturalists
call him the Mule Deer, simply be-
cause he has large ears.
In the Canadian Northwest this
creature is called the Jumping Deer,
and very appropriate name it is, too.
| shall never forget my unbounded aas
tonishment when I first saw big
antlered buck of this species go flying
down the crest of bare ridge in the
badlands of the Musselshell. He
bounded past my position, in full view
for quarter of mile, and l had an
excellent view of him. He did not
gallop, as do all other deer, reaching
far out with his fore feet, but he just
jumped into the air, stitfened his legs,
and went bounding forward as if the
ground were On India-rubber cushion
that threw him upward and forward
every time he touched it with his feet.
He did actually bend his knees triae,
Just as his feet touched, to throw his
body upward again, while his strong
hind legs shot him forward. 1t was
all SO easy, aud SO completely without
effort, that he seemed to be almost
flying along, like William Tells eagle,
Blythe sole act OF his unlorded will
That buoyed him proudly up.
have lost my record of the length
of his leap, but I think it was sixteen
feet; and SO 1 say Jumping Deer" is
good name. Nicholas.