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been in many battle and never saw
general yet. I have seen brigadiel
generals, but not division or corps
commander, or the general of an army
They are away back in the rear
where they ought to be-"
The veteran had personal expe.
rience to relate. He was on the Fed
eral side, and was one of those who
charged the Confederates in the con-
fusion Immediately following the ex.
plosion of the mine under the fort al
Petersburg. His account of the SEN
sation of being shot is an interesting
one. "a sheet of fire shot out from
the opposite line," said he, "and five
of US fell forward at the some instant
1t was rain of bullets that cut us
down. 1 was shot in my leg, in my
arm and in my head. I didn't know
that 1 was shot, and thought that
had fallen down through the weak
ness of excitement. I was numb, fol-
the bullets struck the bone and paral.
yzed me, but I did not lose my sense,
The wounds did not pain me, at first
In the course of half hour, when the
excitement had worn of, my wounds
began to hurt. I did not know that
my leg was shot till saw the blood
running out over my shoe. A com.
rade who was badly wounded tied a
handkerchief around my leg and
stopped the flow of blood. But for
that I would have died. While lay
there another shot struck me in the
side. 1t was two or three hours before
help came. / suffered great pain.
wanted water and I was deathly sick.
1t was year after the war before
got well, and I carry a minnie ball in
nv side this day.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-11-28
RICHES IN An ENGINE.

The Sleepy Eye (Minnesota) CORES,
pondent of the Chicago Tribune says
Hundreds of men have made steam
and steam engineering a life study,
but it has renamed for Sleepy Eye
man to put into a practical working
machine an idea that, although old, is
vet so new that none of the thousands
who have experimental with it have
been able to work it.
Grant Brambel has recently received
letters patent on rotary engine which
does away entirely with the crank
motion of the steam engine. In the
ordinary type of cylinder engines the
steam enters at the end of the cylin-
der, is cut off and used as expansion
from the cutoff to the end of the
stroke.
The Brambel rotary engine does
away with the crank motion and uses
its own plunger for cutoff: The
engine is steam tight and requires no
ring packing. 1t can be either simple
or compound. 1t weighs less and
occupies only fraction of the space
of the old style engine. The working
model weighed but ~ pounds and Z
ounces, yet was of % actual horse
power.
Within the last few days Mr.. Bran
bel has been offered 81, 100000 for his
patent by H. F. Allen of London,
England, the president of a British
engineering syndicate. Mr.. Brambel
says:
"When any one can build 50-horse
power engine that may be carried
around in hand satchel he has some
thing that is very valuable, particu-
larly when that engine is adapted to
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-11-28

Nor MUCH FIGHTING.-The pre-
sumption that there was to be big
battle in Cuba between Captain Gen
eral Weyler and the insurgents, seems
to have been based on false premises.
1t is a fact that Weyler left Havana a
week or two ago at the head of his
army with drums beating and banners
flying. 1t was given out that he in
tended to at once fight big battle
and put an end to the foolishness.
The country awaited the result with
breathless interest. But it appears
that Weyler is not made of the right
kind of stuff. At last accounts he
was back in Havana and his army was
somewhere strongly entrenched in the
hills. The Spaniards were in search
of the insurgents, but it appears to
have been case of looking for some
thing that they did not want to find.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-11-28
aaliseellaneuus 8sading.,
The HORRORS OF WAR.

A boy with rifle and cartridge box
got on the car the other morning.
"Fall in according to height, right
face!" facetiously remarked man
who used to drill on the university
campus. "Fall in p said middle
aged man with a gruff voice. 81 never
want to fall in again." 81 would
rather fall out everytime."
| could not help contrasting the
boy and the veteran. Here was the
rosy anticipation of youth side by
side with prosaic, pessimistic and
battle scared experience. The vet
eran seemed to be very much in earn
est, and 1 concluded to draw him out.
"That's very nice for the boys" said
he; "but war is horrible. The more l
saw of it the worse it got. A boy of
Is goes into battle with fewer qualms
than a man of 80, who realizes the
danger, and it takes less grit for fresh
troops to stand fire than it than it does
to keep them there after they have
seen men shot down and mangled. In
my first battle I was without fear at
the first fire. Pretty soon a comrade
fell over on my breast, the blood gush-
ing from a mortal wound and spatter-
ing all over me. That made me weak.
I wanted to get out. A while after
ward a sergeant near me was struck
on the head by solid shot. His
brother close by was spattered with
the poor fellows brains, and some of
them spattered me. Ugh! 1t was
horrible. l turned sick and faint"
did not wonder that he did not
want to fall in any more. But this
was not all of it.
"When you hear a man describe a
BATTLE" said he, "you may put it
down that he wasn't in it. 1t is i'm
possible. After a little while you
can't see 20 feet from you. You can't
tell whether your gun is firing. The
roar of battle browns a single report,
even from your own gun. The re-
bound makes your shoulder so numb
that you can't feel it," Our guns were
muzzled- leaders, and sometimes they
were half full of loads. The soldier
didn't know that his gun had refused
to fire.
"Talk about manual of arms and
beautiful company movements" said
he, "they don't amount to a snap of
my finger in battle. All you can do is
to keep somewhere in line and keep
on firing. You can't see far, and you
can't hear anything but the awful roar
of battle. If a move is to be made,
you get notice of it by motions, or by
seeing the men near you moving out,
and you get out as quick as you can.
"This talk about general leading
his men in battle is all nonsense. If
the men saw a general in front of
them they wouldn't stay there min
ute. They would know something
was wrong. The general has his
headquarters away back, perhaps a
mile or two, and there his flag is fly
ing. He must have place where he
can be found, like the mayor of city,
else it would be impossible to get or
ders when flank is turned. have
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-11-28
FORT f FfR Ff}A A'fNH ME.
BY CAPTAIN CHARLES KING.
Author of Ranks "Foes in Ambush "A Soldier
Secret" "The Deserter," "An Army Portia, Etc.
Copyright, 1896, by F. Tennyson Nicely
SYNOPSIS.

S1NOfSlS.
CHAPTER I-Royle Farrar dlsgraceS
himself at West Point, deserts the school
and leads wandering life, sinking lower
and lower, marries his employers daugn'
ter and then commits forgery.
CHAPTER II-Colonel Farrar, father ol
Royle, is killed in battle with the
Indians.
CHAPTER III-Royle Farrar's younger
brother Will graduates at West Point and
falls in love with Kitty Ormsby, whose
brother Jack is in love with Willis sister
Ellis.
CHAPTER IV-Will is made lieutenant.
They all return to Fort Frayne, accompan-
led by certain Mrs. Daunton.
CHAPTER V.-It has been reported that
Royle Farrar is dead but he turns up at
the fort in the guise Of common soldier
under the name Of Graice. Ellis Farrar
and Jack Orlnsby quarrel over Helen
Daunton.
CHAPTER vI.-Helen Daunton has an
interview with Jack Ormsby, in which il
transpires that she is Royle Farrar's much
abused wife, whom Ormsby has before
befriended.
CHAPTER VII.-Helen Farrar discov-
ers her husband.
CHAPTER VIII.-Ellis Farrar witness
es another interview between Helen
Daunton and Jack Ormsby.
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old friend, the sergeant major, and to
him he appealed.
llNbot,c M, cproaaof 2b

old friend, the sergeant major, and tt
him he appealed
whats up sergeant"
"Been fight, sir-oowboys and In
dians. Christmas drunk, I reckon. The
cowboys were having some fun with
their lariats, and they roped old Big
Road off his pony and shot at him when
he showed fight. Then his two sons shot
Laramie Pete, and it looks like gen.
eral scrimuage. Big Roads whole vii
lage is camped only ten miles down
stream, and they're war dancing al
ready. Ther's a lot of drunken owboys
over at town, and they swear theyl
rouse the county and clean out the
whole Indian outfit"
Thanking the staff sergeant for his
information, Ormsby pressed on to the
crowded room and stood in the outskirt
of the throng Of officers. Fenton was
speaking as he entered the hall, and his
voice had no uncertain ring. He had
been questioning one Of the cowboy
leaders, a scowling,' semidehant, but
splendidly built specimen of frontier
chivalry, and it was evident that the
verdict of the commander was against
these turbulent gentry and in favor Of
the Indians.
"By your own admission, Thorpe,
your fellows are on a tear, and whether
they meant it as fun or not it was
rough fun at best and nothing less than
mad Drained trick in my eyes and an
outrage from the Indian point Of view.
Big Road would have been no chief at
all if he hadn' t resented it furiously. 1t
may be, as you say, that he was first to
pull his gun, but you pulled him off his
horse. The neil that did it deserve to be
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AT the tflTe8h0t0 ne CuTnSU U7lU OUCS UtOTc
faced the post commander.
shot, and I'm sorry he missed. You say
there are cowboys enough in the county
to clean out dozen such bands as his
and that Laramie Pete's friends won't
rest until they've done it. Go you to
them right from this spot and say for
me there are not cowboys enough in all
the territory to lick this regiment, and
you've got to do that before you can
raise one scalp in that village.
"An right, Colonel Fenton. In the
old days we used to say blood was
thicker than water, and in many a
tough place we've stood by the soldier
against the savage. There was never a
time we went back on you, and this is
the first time I ever heard Of an officer
who would go back on u.s.
Don't distort things now, my
friend" said Fenton coolly. II never
would 60 back OH you. as you say, If
you were the assailed and the wronged.
This is a case Of simple justice, and 1
interpose to keep the peace until the
rights and wrongs can be sifted and set
tied. Take my advice and keep away
from the village"
"There's higher power in the land
than the military, Colonel Fenton, and
that's public opinion, and public opinion
says Big Roads people murdered Lara
mie Pete. Public opinion says we want
the murderers, and, by God, we mean to
have 'em even If we have to clean out
the whole village! We want no fight
with you; but, through the press and
congress, We'll use you up till there
won't be as much left of you as the
Sioux left of Custer's crowd. Take my
advice and keep away from u.s."
And so saying Ben Thorpe, liking Of
the cowboys, as they called him on the
Platte. strobe angrily out of the room,
the officers parting in silence to let him
CO. At the threshold he turned and once
more faced the post commander.
"Another thing, Colonel Fentonp'
And as he spoke Ormsby could see how
the strong frame was quivering with
excitement and wrath. lyon say we're
not the sheriff's posse and we cannot act
in accordance with law. There's no
sheriff in all Wyoming nearer than Rock
Springs. and I'm sheriff i'll these parts
until he comes. I'm sheriff enough to
hunt murderers, and sheriff enough to
run down horse thieves, and do it with
out waiting for warrants, either, and
that damned redskin whom you're pro-
tecting there by your side is one Of the
four that shot Pete Boland. I'll send a
sheriff's posse here in ten minutes, and
I'll give you warning here and now we
mean to have the law on him or you,
and you take your choice. Will you sur
render him?"
Ornsby felt his nerves and muscles
quivering This was indeed boarding
the lion in his den. 1t was new thing
to see post commander braved in his
own bailiwick. Fenton, however, never
showed the faintest irritation. Check
ing with gesture the indignant move
made by some of the younger officers,
he turned quietly to the officer Of the
day.
Captain Amory, let file Of the
guard escort that gentleman off the res
ervation."
$50 be it, Colonel Fepton, and let
the country know was thrust off the
post at the point of the saber. I'll wait
for my escort"
He had little time to wait. Almost
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any and all kinds Of work wherever
power is used.
"The Brambel engine of 5O-horse
power, weighing less than 100 pounds,
may be attached to the end of the
armature of a dynamo, and all the
betting done away with, or Brambel
engine, not larger than a common
saucer, could be attached to cream
cry separator and set it whirling at
the rate of $500 revolutions minute.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-05-13
IN THE HOUSE.
A Contested Election Case ensrosscs the Al.
tention Of Members Of Lower Branch.

Washington, May I'm the House.
today Cooke Rep. of Illinois. called W
the contested election ease of Rinaker
Illinois. The majority report finds Rim
aker. Republican, was elected and that
Downing, Democrat, WAS not elected.
The LASTS Of the committees recon
mendation was an error made by the
election officers. with no charge of
fraud or ballot box stuffing. The re-
turns as finally canvassed. gave Down
ing a plurality of 40 The committee
thinks Rinaker was entitled to a GER
tiiirate and seat, having figured out
that his plurality was 80. The minor
chusetts, Joining with the Democratic
members and recommending that a re-
count of votes be ordered and the CON
test he recommitted to the committee
tor that purpose.
Leonard Pep. of Pennsylvania,
opened the argument for the majority
of the committee Bartlett. Dem, of
Georgia. opened for the minority and
was followed by Moody. Rep, Of
Massachusetts. who spoke about an
hour and u half. concluding with an
bring upon the House the stain of I'M
seating Downing simply because 1t had
power and might to do so.
Cooke. Rep. Of Illinois, began an ar
gunient in support of the majority re-
port. The matter went over and the
House adjourned.
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GROWS MORE SERIOUS.
Threatened Strike at the Biddefort
Mills Has a SquaIly Aspect.
Board Of Trade Appoints Committee 10 Con.
suit With Agent Macarthur.

BIddeford, May 12.--At a specia
meeting of the Biddeford board o
trade. this evening. a committee OF /:
prominent business men. headed b,
Mayor Carlos Heard. was appointed IL
confer with Agent Robert McArthu,
and with the operatives Of the Pep
perell and Laconia mills to see If some
understanding could not be reached II
prevent the strike which IL threatened
because of the cutdown that goes into
effect, Monday.
A committee Of three. headed by w
+. Youland. president Of the board OF
trade, was also appointed to make
arrangements for the meeting Of the
York County Agricultural Association
which is 10 be held in September.
Matters in regard TO the threatened
strike on the Pepperell and Laconia
mills grows more serious every hour.
Agent Robert McArthurs reply to the
committee Of mule spinners who waited
on him was that he had no power u
change the policy of the company; that
the cutdown had been decided on at a
meeting of the board OF directors in
Boston and he could do nothing differ
ent than put it into effect In the mill.
He talked freely. but intimated that mo
concessions would be made. The oper-
atives have sent for Secretary Ross Of
the National Union Of New Bedford,
who viii advise them.
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THE UP TO DATE NOTE.


Raised Monosram In Gold within snall
Circle-stub Pen, Perfume and Wax.
The most fashionable note paper for per.
sonal correspondence, to answer invita-
tions, ETC.. is stamped with a small cir
Gle about three-eighths Of an inch in d.
ameter. Within this disk Is the chifire OF
monogram In raised gold letters upon
either plain or colored background, the
same stamp being used for paper and en-.
velopes.
Fer general house use In well managed
establishments a plentiful supply Of paper
Is kept, with the address stamped in black
letters at the head Of the sheet or cards,
the latter being used for hasty notes. Gold
letters on white paper seem to be much
used, says the New York Tribune In not
ing the etiquette Of correspondence
The most up to date handwriting now
is vertical or backhanded, and broad stub
pens should be used. Ease, iegibility and
q command of colloquial language should
all be apparent in a modern note
A slight soupccn of violets is the favor.
lite perfume to be recommended for note
paper
Wax, although always attractive looking
when neatly stamped, is not 90 much used
as formerly. 1t takes too much time for
busy women Of the world to bother with
1t, who, however, to their credit be 1t said,
rarely write slovenly or untidy notes In
spite of their manifold occupations, 1t be.
ing an unwritten law that "noblesss
oblige' in such matters
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CUBAN REFUGEE
Continued from page -

when we knew 1t meant the death d
some victim of Carreras and his
friends. that had been taken from th'
prison and executed but for no othei
reason than to make room In the pri-
son FOR more victims.
Captain Carreras and his men e.
on, To- the small farms about the city
OF Sagua la Grande. day after day. ana
kill innocent men. women and children
who are guilty of nothing else than the
fact that they are Cuhans. Small chill
dren and women are brutaiiy outraged
while the men folk are taken To a near
by tree. bound. and one shot given close
to their breasts does the rest"
win you describe the trocha, that
Gen. Weyler had hoped to work
wonders WITH" asked the reporter.
1t consists Of two deep parable
bitches. extending from the town OF
Mariel on the north coast TO Majana or
the south coast. "A distance of seven
leagues. between these bitches are
constructed forts of masorey armed
with heavy guns backed up by 40. 0oo
troops the flower of the Spanish army
The object of this trocha is 10 keep the
eastern and western portions of the
insurgent army from joining forces"
Papers have stated that Maceo can
not cross this trocha or dead line but
as q matter of fact Maceo has many
times sent small attachments of his
army back and forth across the bitches
and his reason for not joining his two
armies is that he had rather keep the
flower of the Spanish army looking af-
ter the trocha and in a position where
the fever and disease will work the
saddest havoc in the defeat of the
Spanish idea of subduing the insurrec-
ton. The wet season has begun and ii
is my opinion this war cannot last
many months longer and that the ulti-
mate result will be the success of the
Cuban arms
Senior Ruiz is very intelligent young
man and during the narrative did not
give To excitement to any perceptible
degree. merely giving the details in an
off-hand conservative manner He
has entered the office of his step
brother. +. S. Cairns, who carries on ar
extensive grocery business on Water
street. acting as book keeper. 1t NAV
be we'll to say that Senior Ruiz mother
and Mi. Cairns father were married
on the island but Mr. Cairns is an
American citizen and as such is being
protected by the United States consul
with special protection from Sec
Rotary of State Olney.
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THE NICARAGUA CANAL.
Several Amendments Made TO the Bill in the
House. Tuesday.

Washington. May 12.-The amendments
made IN the Nicaragua canal bill today
have reference to the manner in which
the old stova shall be retired. the method
OF starting the accounts of the expendi-
lures incurred by the Maritime Co and
the reimbursement of these expenditures
IN bonds instead of stock. The bill was
called w in the House committee by
sherman OF New York. The discussion
which preceded the vote was rather in
formal. 1t foreshadowed the position
which four members who voted in the
negative would take. The objections
made by these gentlemen We're based in a
general way upon discrepancies contained
IN the report or the Maritime Canal Com
pany and the report subsequently made
Dy the board of engineers which visited
Nicaragua in an official capacity, last
summer and inspected the proposed
route. The companys estimates We're
500 100000 Colonel Ludlow, in a recent
hearing given him by the commute
stated with reference to this matter
that II he were again to venture an Off
cial opinion. he would fix the cost of the
canal at $150000.
Patterson explained that he would file
minority report in which he would in
corporate his reasons for opposing the
present bill. in view of his previous posi-
ton with reference to the project Bart
lett favored canal but deprecated com
mittns the government to its construc-
ton without a more thorough investiga-
ton Hepburn did not think it proper TO
report the bill at this time Corliss OK
pressed similar views
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-05-13
A Disastr. us Failure.

FINANCIAL commissions which disturb
the equilibrium of the business world are
productive of far less mischief than the
failure of the kidneys to perform the
ONCE assigned to them by nature. When
these organs become inactive the circu-
lation acquires impurities which bring on
catarrh of the bladder and other mala.
u Iis; 10 impart to the kidneys and
bladder a healthful impetus, very dir
lerent from the excitement PRODUCED nv
an unmedicated alcoholic stimulant. uss
lli;ostetlers stomach Bitters. the finest
miuretlc IN existence. This excellent
remedy for inactivity of the kidneys Is
aiso Oh !he greatest service in maliriai
ayspepaic. bilious. and rheumatic troubles
a anu nss received the unqualified sane
ION, OF eminent physicians. The ner-
xous, the elderly and infirm and conva-
iit ts nna derive unspeakable benefit from
f -, ds e., Use II with persistence and at
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NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought BY the Wires from the North. East
South and West.
Mckinley

The paper box factory Of Chas Place.
corner Hampshire and Norfolk
streets, Cambridgeport. Mass. was
burned. Monday night. Loss. probably
sooCua: insurance, 5000.
In the superior criminal court at
oanhury CT. Tuesday. VIM. Flitcroft.
held on the charge of murder in the
arst degree in shooting Frank Ket-
,ham, pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
was sentenced to 10 years
a number of drivers in the employ
If the Hartford and the Spring Brook
les companies at Hartford, CT. have
struck The cause of complaint is the
restrictions requiring the men to
weigh ice and sell by weight only.
Sir John Fender. NJ. P. for the Wick
district and one of the leading promot-
ers of the enterprises of ocean tele-
sraphy has resigned his seat in Parlia-
merit owing to the condition of his
health. He is paralyzed and speech
less.
AT Manchester, n H. Tuesday. DR..
j. {. Moore was arraigned on IS new
indictments. pleaded not guilty and
furnished $4,000 bail on two, and gave
personal recognizance in the remain
ing IL. The question of Venue and time
of trial on one Indictment will probably
be arranged, Friday.
A dispatch from Shangai to London
says the land seized by the Russians at
The Foo comprised part of the British
concession of that place. The land was
secured by the Russian Steam Naviga-
ton Co. through the company's agent
at enc Foo. j. Smith an American.
VINO is also agent for various Ameri-
can missions at that place
At meeting of the Concord. n. n
city government. Acting Auditor Ly.
tord reported that the aggregate defal-
cation of ex-TaX Collector Albert
roster. last year. was s22,715.1l The
hnance committee was instructed ia
'onier with the city solicitor with ref
erence to taking action to call on Fos-
ters hondsmen to make good the def
cheney.