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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-02-06
THE BIG GUN WAS DRAWN OUT

nine men out of a hundred would have
agreed with Mcclure.
But the general was not one of those
ninety-ninc. He insisted that the gun
should be mounted,
80 order yon to mount that gum he
said sternly, to the lieutenant.
"When Gilmore said a thing he meant
1t. He was just rs stubborn as Me
CURE.
"Well,' said Mcclure, you give me
20 men IS feet high and I'll wade them
through the mud, which is Is feet deep,
and mount your gun; but I'm not ready
to die myself just yet
"Gilmore got mad and sent him to the
puardhousc. Mcclure stayed there
some time, and the general came to
him and asked him II he had made up
his mind to mount the gun. McGuiIe
said he would try.
"'And you won't insist on having
your men IS feet highy asked the gen
eral.
"The lieutenant had become sub
mssive during his imprisonment, and
he said he would be content with men
of ordinary size. And he finally did sue
ceed in getting the gun into position, al
though IL was hard and dangerous
work
"Pnnks and logs were laid across the
swamp, and the big gun was drawn onf
across them. Then they opened II III.
on Charleston and poured shot aTl't
shot into the city. The guns On the FRY
ground, way to the rear, didn't do hali
the damage this one of McGuirc's did
The ground all around was so soft aut
| jelly-like that every time the gun was
discharged it shook several acres. tell
you, it spread CONSERVATION in the city
when McGuire's gun began to boom.
Always after that the gun was know,
as the Swamp Angel.
"Both Mcclure and Gilmore are deni.
They were far separated in rank, but
they were both men of marked ability.
which made them conspicuous several
times during the war,"-lsuGalo Tx
| press.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-02-06

old mai. but even so, med.
ical examinations and the
local application y treat.
ment are abhorrent to every
modest woman. They are
embarrassing - often use.
less. They should not be
submitted to until every.
thing else has been tried.
In nine cases out Of ten,
there Is no reason for them.
In nine cases out Of ten, the
doctor In general practice
isn't competent to treat fe.
male diseases. They make
a branch Of medicine BY
themselves. They are dis.
tinct from other ailments.
Thev rau he nrooeylv nm.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-02-06

life, while he was lying there dying,
with his head in the lap of comradc, |
heard his moan: My poor wife and
five little children! What will become
Ct thcmT lie died a few minutes after.
ward just at the noon hour.
"My wound was not serious and was
oul again in couple of days AS
was llmping around the young Georgia
soldier in whose arms Lieut.. - had
died ran up to me and inquired il | had
communicated the fact of the soldiers
death 10 his wife replied that had
not, that did not know even the nnnlc
or residence Of the unfortunate man
and only had II few hours camp ac-
QuIlutunce with him. Read this he
said handing me u letter directed TO
the dead lieutenant, 1t was written
by his wife and expressed her intense
anxiety. 1t was dated on the afternoon
of the day on which the battle OF Mis-.
snnary ridge was fought. The loving
wife wrote that at noon of that day, MS
she sat musing miles away in Georgia
on 'hs events OF those stormy times,
sho was clarified by what she thought
was the voice Of her husband moaning
plaiptiycly;
"'Ny poor wife and five little chill.
drcn' What will become Of them
The voice was, She said, so distinct
~ that Of her husband that she rushed
to the door and, not finding him there
searched about over the place for him.
She wrote that she could not reconcile
the occurrence, and that 1t had added
to her anxiety. She begged her hus-
band to hasten reply, that she might
know her fright had been foolish one.
81 helped the honest soldier write the
melancholy letter, advising the loving
wiicoi her husbands brave conduct and
uulinely death. We told her all OF the
circumstances that led up TO II and sent
her all Of his simple belongings and the
gifts he had received ON the eve of the
battle, excepting the fatal suit. That
was burned by the sturdy comrades of
the unfortunate victim Ms though il
luu been n thing of evil
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-02-06
INQUIRIES SWAMP ANGEL.
How the Gun Was Mounted In the Mid
die of n BOg,

"The story has never been told In
print OF how we turned the first gun on
Charleston the day that city was de-
stroyed," said \. c. Tarr, of Lewiston,
Me-, who served in the Ninth Maine in
fantry. "At the siege Of that city we
were serving under Gen. Q. A. Gilmore
in the department Of the south. That
was in '63. and few Others were on
detail and were near Gen. Gilmore
when we heard him give instructions to
Lieut.. Mcclure, Of the First New York
engineers, to mount gun out in the
middle Of swamp, the nearest point to
the city that could he reached. Nc
CURE was stubborn, peculiar sort OF
fellow. lie demonstrated with the
general and told him that II would be
impossible to mount gun out in the
middle of that bog It was as bad a
place as could be imagined, and ninety
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-02-06
WAR "REMINISCENCES.
A STRANGE WAR STORY.
The Peculiar Provision Of u Confederate
Ileutenant.

The Peculiar Provision Of n Confederate
Lieutenant
AN active fighter through the late
war-a man who kept well up with the
procession of tragedies--naturally wit
messed and experienced many melan-
choly happenings. The four years were
TO me an unbroken chain of instances OF
mans inhumanty tomana OF strange
and, in many cases, hcartrending coin
cidenccs. Thirty years of active bust
ness life have, of course, served to blot
from my memory many Of these STIR
ring panoramas, but there is one so
weird and so full Of melancholy interest
that 1t will remain with me as long as
life lasts" So spoke an old confederate
soldier as he rested himself in n COM
Portable chair in a hotel lobby here re-
Gently.
slow was 1t, colonel?" inquired sew
eral listeners in concert.
"rell us all about IT,
well, 1t lisa tale that man VINO de'
sires to preserve intact n reputation for
'eracity can relate only 10 MS FRIENDS
II Is as true ~ Gospel, but IL SO strange
and unaccountable that u SOUNDS IKE
reporters fake. Itoccurred way back
i - 4 I .1lr
In '6l. We were cainped near LOOKOUT
mountain, tennessee. IL was Inc gay
before the battle OF Missionary rlogc'
In one ofthe commands was a handsome
young lieutenant from oarroli county,
'in' cannot Tor thc lIie OF me rei'eni-
Der his name, but remember dlstlnctiy
how he looked lie was gallant splr-
tied intelligent Fellow.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-02-06

The old notion that southern won.
en- are languid, feeble folks ought ia
be dispelled by the act of four women
In a suburb Of Macon, Ca, few days
ago. A house took fire during the
night, and the neighbors gathered to
help the inmates in saving the effects
-Four women carried a large upright
piano from the parlor all the way out
into the middle Of the street unas.
sisted.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-02-06
IMPERIAL -HIgh Pdtgnt.
LEADER Iraight Pctynt
lGOODLUCK-G hgceFancy

exchange grinding
grind load feed while Our meal roller ground
Wehave large shelter grind either sheed
We all kinds grain dumps dump
kind of grain Come and We will try please you
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-02-06
A BUCKS county ll.a., scnoolDo,

a BUCKS county ll'a.) scnoolboy
wrote the following composition or
"City and Country" the otherday: "Tht
City-Trolliee ears, Stop carts, blind
Alleys, Big Ilnts, and the Hog Com,
binee and all his children. The Coun.
try-Iurtty Blue Sky, Ducks swimming
in Our Big Pond, chickings in our Barr
yard and the sweetest Of all, the golden
sun sett, back Of the School house
down the lane then we all know is time
10 70 home
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-02-06

A line-looklng negro went into the
union lines on the Potomac and report-
ed himself for work.
Where are you FROM" asked the of.
dcer on duty.
"Cnlpepper Court House, sah."
What's the news down there?"
"Nothin', massa, 'cept dar's man
down dar lost a mighty good and valu-
able niger dis mornu', and | reckon
he done lose more afore night."-Louis,
vile Courier-Journal.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-02-06

I,gnt wnutcyer.ue Is. Tor MS Iapner was
every inch man and soldier, and his
mother was evidently woman Of in
telligence and high character"
lanta Constitution.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-02-06

desstood and treated only by one who has
had years Of actual practice and expert
ence in this particular line. This 10 true Of
Dr. R. v. Pierce, chief consulting physi.
clan Of the Invalid's Hotel and Surgical
Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y. Doctor Pierce's
Favorite Prescription, remedy for all de.
engagements Of the reproductive organs Of
women, has been in actual use for more
than thirty years. II cures every form Of
"iemale Weakness.n
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-25
A HOG ORCHESTRA.

During the reign of Louis XI Of
France there was attached to his court
one Abbot de Baigne, man OF con-
siderable wit. The abbot was some
what unsteady inclined, and delighted
the court with inventions of odd
musical instruments. One day the
king, after having enjoyed a hearty
laugh over one of these curious con-
trivances, and desiring to battle this
musical genius, commanded him to
produce harmonious sounds from the
crios of the hogs. This seemed ali
impossibility to the king, and he pre-
pared himself to enjoy the discom-
future of the abbot Much to his sur
prise, however, the abbot readily
agreed to produce them. All he re-
CURED was a sum of money, upon the
receipt of which he declared he would
invent the most surprising thing eveI
heard in the way OF musical atrocity.
He secured the country and secured
large number of hogs, trying THEN
voices as to pitch and quality, aud
finally, after having fully satisfied
himself, he arranged the animals on {
sort of pavilion richly decorated. The
day of the trial arrived, and the king
and the court entered the pavilion
prepared for something, but greatly il
doubt as to the success of the abbo
with the hogs. However, there weri
the hogs, sure enough, and, much t.
the surprise and delight of the king
they began to cry harmoniously ant
in good tune, rendering an mir tim
was fairly recognized. The abbot hat
arranged o series Of stops that wer,
connected with the hogs, and upol
pulling one OF them out caused
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-25
when IGetTlme.

When ] Fel time
know nol what shall dot
Ill cut the leaves Of an my books
and read them through and through.
When get time
ili write some loitera then Il
That I have owed FOG weeks and weeks =
70 many, many men.
When gcl umo-
Ih pay those calls owe,
And with those bills. those countless bile,
win not be So low.
When get time
ill regulate my Ito
In such way that may get
Acquainted with my wife.
When get timo-
Oh, glorious dream Of blis8l
A month, year, ten years from now
But ! cannot finish this
have no time.
Philadelphia Commercial List
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-25

A practical machiniat says be has
found the following mixture very eaeo-
iual ia preventing machinery from
gathering rust. Melt together one
pound Of lard aud one ounce Of gum
oamphor skim The mixture carefully,
aud stir 10 a sufficient quantity Of emo
black lead to give IL q color like iron.
After cleaning the machinery thor
oughly smear Il With this mixture, aud
allow ID 10 remain thus for twenty
four hours Then 60 over Il With
soft cloth, rubbing u clean. Treated
thus machinery often retains iia bright
ness for several months Bicycle riders
would end THE preparation Of value.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-25
A cnrsnEp ArrLE pLossoAL

Let me tell you q story about a little
girl and an apple blossom.
This little Helen had always been
very fond OF flowers She would
water plant; and help them all she
could, and if she loved anybody
dearly. shealways wanted to give them
flowers She liked TO wear flowers
pinned on her dress, but as soon as
they commenced to droop she put
them in water, and they always fresh
ened for her. Then she changed the
water every day, and really believe,
never knew flowers TO keep fresh 90
long for anyone as they did for Helen.
One day she came in from school
with tears in her eyes, and her voice
trembled as she held up a spray of APP
pie blossoms and said :"Why, mamma,
somebody threw them down and they
have been stepped on"
Mamma said it was too bad that peo'
pie are so careless.
Helen said: "Oh, any one who
would step on a flower is not kind.S
But mamma told her again that she
thought they were careless, but she
hoped her little children would al,
ways be thoughtful and treat flowers
carefully, then others who loved flow
ers as dearly as Helen did, would no
be made to feel so sad. ISL
Helen patted the flower and put j
in water, and it really frightened up
and seemed to be trying to fill th
room with its sweet odor, to shoy
Helen it was thankful for her care. o.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-25
An Aarravnted Case.

Sympathetic visitor Ito prisoner):
"My good man, what brought you
here"
Facetious prisoner; borrowing
money"
'But they don't put people in
prison for borrowing money"
eyes, know; but had 10 knock a
man down three or four times before
he would lend it TO me. st Louis
Republic.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-25
TH1EvING DOG.

Pointer dogs can always be trained
to steal. Many of them are natural
thieves without training, and any
of the species can be taught. Taere
is dog of this kind in northwest
Washington. He will pick up any
thing he can find around yard or
outside of a store, but his specially is
ladies pocketbooks and handbags.
When he sees one of these he grabs it
and runs, always succeeding in get
ting out of sight before he can be cap
tured or followed. No owner has
ever been seen, hence no complaints
have been made at police headquar-
tiers, but there is but little doubt, if it
we're possible to follow the animal,
that it would be found that he has
been carefully trained as a purse
snatcher and that he takes his booty
home to his master. He seems to be
aware that be is doing wrong, jump
ing fences and lodging around houses
when running away.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-25
Too Much Tor uim.

King Solomon vas the wisesl man
that ever lived. People came from
miles just 10 look at the receptacle Of
80 much wisdom. One day a young
man came TO him and knelt before bic
throne. ooh, king, live forever, said
the young man. IL am Ia love. ]
bought the object Of my affection q
diamond pin. She allowed me 10 kiss
her, and later accidentally called me
dear, and blushed and apologized.
Does she care anything for me2" 81
don't know" said King solomon
Oakland Echoes
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-25
THE FOLLY OF NOTHING TO DO.


School was just out and jamie An
drews came into the house, shutting
the door behind him with an impatient
slam. 81 had to bring home my
arithmetic and my geography and my
spelling book, he exclaimed, in an ag-
grieved voice. "The teachers make
MS work awfully hard. 1 wish 1 didn't
have anything to do"
Really" his mother asked, looking
mp from her sewing with a questioning
smile.
Eyes, Teallyp. Jamie's voice
sounded err positive. 81 don't like
to work b L 1 wish 1 didn't have
a single thing to do"
Il saw boy once who must have
felt just as you do, Mrs Andrews
remarked as she threaded her needle.
"And as he had no one to insist upon
his working, he carried ont his ideas
very we'll.
Where did you see him." jamie
asked, thinking enviously of the hap
piness OF a lad who was actually al
lowed to do nothing.
ut was on that Western trip your
father and l took several years ago"
Mrs. Andrews answered. 'He was
an Indian boy and wore ragged cloth
ing, which some one much larger than
himself had probably thrown away. 1
suppose he could easily have earned
enough to dress respectfully, for he
was stout, well-grown lad, and help
was scarce. However, he preferred
to do nothing, even if he had to 90
ragged and dirty"
jamie began to look thoughtful.
81 suppose he must have been hum
cry" Mrs. Andrews went on, "since
he wouldn't work for anything to eat.
though he begged auently. he slept
wherever he could-in barns and
sheds, and sometimes out under the
open sky. OF course, he had never
learned to read. He had no ambition
to be man in the world, to become
respected and honored. To be idle
was his ono idea OF happiness
jamie had picked up his arithmetic.
"Im going to see how many of my
problems l can get before supper, "he
said. II failed this morning, but
I'm not going to again.
He had begun to understand thai
there are better things than having
nothing to do. Laura Leighton.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-25
Face Alters with the Sky.

Here is a strange case which puzzles
physicians. Clement Smith is a cob
ored man who drives an ice wagon at
Belvidere, Penn. AS thesky changes,
the face of the colored man takes on
q different hue, and it is said that his
face is slowly, but surely, assuming
the hues and colors OF the rainbow.
The physicians who have examined
the man say they can't account for it.
The only explanation they offer for
the strange freak Of nature is that it
is caused by the chemical action of the
suns rays on the ice which Smith
handles. New York Press.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-25
ARE pnAxrg INTELLIGENT?

Have plants intelligence? Do they
ever think? These are interesting
questions that would have to be an-
swered by the statement Of an OBJ
server of the ways OF pumpkins and
melons. Says he: "Plants often ex-
hibit something very much like intel
ligence. If bucket Of water, dur
ing a dry season, be placed a few
inches from a growing pumpkin or
melon vine, the latter will turn from
its course, and in a day or two will
get one OF its leaves in the water.
We do not vouch for the truth OF
this, but if there be any young gar
deners among our readers it might
make an interesting experiment next
summer, when they are pursuing
their vacation. - Harper's Round
Table.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-25
HUMOROUS

tuend-What made you leave Har- |
lem2 suburbanite-A young lady |
who was learning to play the piano.
Author-Why do you depict her
with courtplaster on her cheek?
Artist-Why, in the last chapter her
face fell, didn't it?
She-This novelist writes Of his
heroine as tall girl with becoming
blonde hair He-I suppose he means
that she was having it bleached.
Mrs Pert-Mrs Kean is the clever
est woman in our set Mrs. Dull
So? Mrs. Pert-She can make every
man she talks with think that he is
clever.
"He is good-natured, isn't hep"
''Good-natured? Why I've known
that man to wear a smiling face when
he was speaking of taking off a porous
plaster"
Il can't see why it is, said Bobby,
"that when little boys are cross folks
say they are naughty, and when pa
pas and mammas are cross folks say
they are nervous.
Miss Prettie-Mr. Ryder is SO en-
tertainingl he seems to have como
in contact with SO many people. Mr..
Wheeler (vieiously)-Yes, indeed.
You should watch him on his bike"
81 beg your pardon!" she exclaimed
solicitously. 81 didn't mean to step
on your foot" lord bless you, miss, -
returned the man in the blue drilling
blouse, II didn't know you did"
"Her husband is little bit wild,
hear. "Well, I think he had a right
TO be, when he came home and fo,-nd
she had traded off his last summer
suit for lot of ported flowers, DOM
you?"
"There is no use denyingit," said
the young man, who uses slang indie-
criminately, "Cholly Chuggins hal
wheels. " "ReallyP" said the CIR
from Boston. "What make arr
they?"
Frederick" said she, "lon't lie
the baby stand alone" 'fWhy, She
old enough to learn to walk =
sold enough to learn to walk Why
she hasn't even learned to ride a bicy
Gle yet"
"There is going to be great dea
of blood shed here before long,, sal,
the Central American officer. eyes,
was the reply. eve may as we'll pre-
pare for it. The mosquito season /
almost at hand"
Slowman-There is one thing fee
glad OF. All the love letters eve
wrote to the widow are destroyed
Fligh-Are you quite sure of that
Slowman-Quite. You see, neve
had the courage 10 send them t
her
A mother, trying to get her littl
daughter OF three years old to slice
one night, said: Dora, why don
you try to go to sleep?' II am try
ing" she replied. "But you haven
shut your eyes. "Well, can't hel
it; dey comes unbuttoned. "
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-25

spike to prick the hog it connected
with. making him squoal his note.
The rest vas easy, for by pulling out
the different stops be produced the
tune,-Philadolphia Press
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-25

The pleasant effect and perfect safety With
which ladies may use Syrup Of FLEA uodor all
conditions, makes Il their favorito remedy.
To get the true and genuine article, look for
the name OF the California Zig Syrup Com-
pauy, printed near the bottom OF tho package.
For sale By an responsible druggistA
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-25
Eewars Of Oinimonts for Catarrh That
Contain Mernury,

a. mercury win surely destroy the sense Of
smell and completely deranEo the whole system
when entering 10 through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never be used except ON
damage they will Do q ton fold 10 the COOL YOU
can possibly derive from them. HALLS Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by +. J. Cheney & Co.,
Ioe1o, O., contains no mercury aud is taken
internally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces OF the system In buying
Halls CHtarrh Cure DO sure 90 get the genuine.
IL is ttkeu internally. and Is made In Toledo,
Ohio, by II. ]. Cheney q Co. Testimonials free.
sold 10y Druggists, price nc. per bottle.
Hulls Family pills are the best.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-25

B'Jones: "That was a good scheme
I worked on my neighbor, Bugly, last
evening""
B'Jinks: "What was that?"
B'Jones: 81 got him into an argu-
ment about lawn moving, and insisted
he knew nothing about it; he got so
excited that in order to prove his point
he lit in aud moved my whole pard. "
Town Topics.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-25

Mirrors that will not break are
made of polished and transparent
celluloid plate, backed with quick
silver, like ordinary glass mirrors.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-25

Few people are aware that the sultan OF
Turkey j. French descendant
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-25

Men that can produce business 10 sell
monthly installmeut bonds. Liberal commits.
sons and bonus paid. Address u. s. Bond
and Mortgage Company, Atlanta, Ga.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-25

piso's Care for Consumption has saved me
many "a doctors bills. +. HARDY, Hopkins
Place. Baltimore, Md. Dec. 2, '0i.