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dentially, we became possessed of the
fsh-hooks ard lines.
And now for feast on raw catfish, of
which we caught plentiful supply as
we journcyed on in the night. have
previously neglected to mention that [
had with me an old one-bladed knife
without any back, which was our only
weapon, defensive or offensive. This old
knife | had secreted when we were in
the Atlanta prison, and had kept it with
me as Il precious treasure during all our
wanderings.
With this knife and our fingers we
managed to skin and dress the fish,
which we ate raw with our soaked corn.
Matches, we had none, nor had we been
able to get any, and so we had no fire.
| could eat only mouthful or two of
the raw fish at time. My stomach was
weak and feverish, and rebelled against
the flesh. Still, it tasted palatable.
Mark, poor, hungry fellow, tore it
from the bones in great mouthfuls, like
ravenous wolf, until | would beg of
him to desist, fearing the results. He
would set and crunch the bloody flesh,
and look at me with q wild, strange
stare, and never speak word. His
eyes were sunken away in his head,
almost out of sight, and as he would
seize fresh piece the pupils of his eyes
would dilate with the gloating, ferocious
expression Of a panther or other car
nivcrous wild beast.
| had frequently heard of men losing
their reason aud going mad from the
effects of protracted hunger, and | some
times shuddered as | looked at its telling
effects on poor Marks wasted frame,
and the unnatural glare of his eyes
He would mutter and groan in his sleep,
and sometimes scream out as If pierced
by knife, when he would suddenly
start up and call my name. Toward
the last of our Journey his condition
was, much of the time, cause of great
anxiety to me. Still, after we began to
eat the fish, he seemed much better, and
| only feared the unnatural quantities
of the raw flesh he ate would kill him.
The reader who enjoys three regular
meals each day can better understand
our condition when | state that from
the time we left the mountains above
Columbus, to the time Of which l am
now speaking, where we found the fish
ing-tackle, period of nearly two weeks,
we had eaten but four meals, aside from
the stuff we had picked up, such as raw
pumpkins, corn, roots and pumpkin
seeds, all of which we obtained i'll very
limited quantities.
We were now nearing the bay, as was
plain to be seen, for OH each succeeding
morning the river had grown wider.
Finally we became we'll satisfied that we
were nearing large town, which after
ward proved to be Apalachicola, and
this made us anxious to learn something
of the state of affairs below-whether
there were rebel picket-boats or obstruc-
tons, such as torpedo-boats and the like.
ITO be continued
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Capt Wirz. | wore red cap, and
every day could be seen riding Wirz's
gray mare, either at Headquarters. or
about the Stockade. / was acting in
this capacity when the six Raiders
eMosby (proper name Collins, De
laney, Curtis, and forget the other
names-were executed. [ believe that
I was the first that conveyed the ir'A:3i-
gence to them that Confederate ga
Winder had approved their sentence.
AS soon as Wirz received the dispatch
to that effect, | ran down to the stocks
and told them.
al visited Hill, of Wauseon. Fulton
County, O., since the war, and found
him hale and hearty. x
"The world will never know or be-
lieve the horrors of Andersonville and
other prisons in the South. No living
human being, in my judgment, will ever
be able to properly paint the horrors OF
those internal dens.
al formed the acquaintance of several
Ohio soldiers whilst in prison. Among
these were 0. D. Streeter, Of Cleveland,
who went to Andersonyille about the
same time that / did, and escaped, and
was the only man that | ever knew that
escaped and reached our lines. After
an absence of several months he was
retaken in one of Sherman's battles be-
fore Atlanta, and brought back. | also
knew John L. Richards, of Fostoria,
Seneca County, O., or Eaglesville,
Wood County. Also, man by the
name of Beverly, who was partner of
Charley Huckleby, Of Tennessee. They
all know me.
81 will close by wishing all my COM
rades who shared in the sufferings and
dangers of Confederate prisons a long
and useful life.
:" Yours truly,
"RANsoM T. POWELL,
Eckhart Mines, Allegheny County,
Md"
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was about the usual proportion for those
who were in as long as we. In all there
were 1858 prisoners brought into An
Jacksonville. Of these 1912 died there,
to say nothing of thousands that died in
other prisons in Georgia and the Caro-
linas, Immediately after their removal
from Andersonville. One of every three
and half men upon whom the gates of
the Stockade closed never repassed them
alive. Twenty-nine per cent. of the boys
who 50 much as set foot in Anderson
vile died there.
Let it be kept in mind all the time
that the average stay of a prisoner there
was not four months. The great ma
iority came in after the 1st of May, and
left before the middle of September.
May /, 1864, there were 1927 in the
Stockade. Aug. 8 there were SO, ia /;
Sept. 80 all these were dead or gone,
except 8,2lS, of whom 1880 died inside
of the next 80 days. The records of
the world can show no parallel to this
astounding mortality.
/ insert transcript of the evidence
at the Wirz trial, of Prof. Joseph Jones,
a Surgeon of high rank in the rebel
army, and who stood at the head of the
medical profession in Georgia. He Wis
tied Andersonville at the instance Of the
Surgeon-General of the Confederate
States Army, to make a study, for the
benefit of science, of the phenomena Of
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svNorsrs OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.

SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING ShAf IhS'
Ahout . score of men, chosen from the I'll,
2lst and 33d Ohio. and led by J. J. Andrews
daring Union spy, are commissioned to pene-
trate the rebel lines TO Marietta Ga, take
train. run nor,hward again, destroying the
(;eorria Railroad and so break communication
with the South. They leave their division
commander, Gen. q. NJ. Mitchell. April q, lSo2,
near Shelbyville. Tenn. reach Chattanooga on
the llih unfortunately delayed one day.
Reaching Marietta, they return by train next
day, steal the engine and three cars at Big
shauty, in the face of 10000 Confederates, and
dash away.
They are pursued by train. Bridges are
burned, tracks destroyed, wires cut; but the
fuel gives out. They are almost captured.
Aft Wilson tells how the men jump from the
engine and details part of his thrilling ad-
ventures in eluding the pursuers. The country
is full of enemies Wood and Wilson are sur
prised by q cavalry squad and captured.
Old Snow. Captain of the squad, thinks
they are Southern men trying to escape con-
scription. They tell a plausible story. and
are allowed to go on promise 10 return home.
They are harborcd by Uniomist. and later
guided on their way and TO boat. A danger
Gus massage is made down the Tennessee.
They reach Stevenson. Ala, and are captured,
soon identified as engine thieves, and thrown
into loathsome dungeon at Chattanooga,
known as "Swimss Hole" They find there
their comranicns in the Andrews kaiG.
The horrors of rebel prison are aptly de-
scribed Owing to Gen. Mitchel's sudden APP
pesrance ali the prisoners are hurried off by
railway 10 Atlanta. Ga. but are returned to
the Chattanooga prison after the Union troops
leave that immediate vicinity. Andrews re-
ceives his death warrant. Twelve of the men
are taken to Knoxville. The remainder work
energeticaly to escape.
Andrews and Wollam escape. hut the former
is recapiured. All are taken TO Atlanta. An
drews is executed. Wollam returns. Seven OF
those who were taken to Knoxville and there
tried are hanged at Atlanta.
Led by Capt.. David Fry, an East Tennessee
scout. the pri-nners escape. overpowering the
taller and rush tor the woods. They scatter
Wood and Wilson. running together, reach the
woods, crawl across a road between rebel
piekets, and strike ont in the general direction
Of the Gulf Wood and Wilson find boat and
20 down the Chattahoochee River to Columbus,
Ga
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CHAPTER XIII.

SOME FEATURES OF THE MoRTALITY-PER-
CENTAGE OF DEATHS TO THOSE LIVING.
AN AVERAGE MAN ONLY STANDS THE
MISERY THREE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
OF THE PRISON AND THE CONDITION OF
THE MEN THEREIN BY A LEADING sCIEN-
TIFIC MAN OF THE SOUTH.
Speaking of the manner in which the
Plymouth Pilgrims were now dying, [
am reminded of my theory that the
ordinary mans endurance of this prison
life did not average over three months.
The Plymouth boys arrived in May;
the bulk Of those who died passed away
in July and August The great in
crease of prisoners from all sources was
in May, June and July. The greatest
mortality among these was in August,
September and October. The following
table, which shows the number of new
prisoners arriving each month, and the
number dying the third month after, will
illustrate on what | base my theory:
Number arrived in May, S,735; June,
9,114; July, 1928. Number died in
August, 3,O76; September, 2,749; Oc-
tober, 1880.
Many came in who had been in good
health during their service in the field,
but who seemed utterly overwhelmed by
the appalling misery they saw on every
hand, and giving way to dependency,
died in few days or weeks. | do not
mean to include them in the above class,
as their sickness was more mental than
physical. My idea is that, taking 100
ordinarily healthful young soldiers from
regiment in active service, and putting
them into Andersonville, by the end of
the third month at least 33 of those
weakest and most vulnerable to disease
would have succumbed to the exposure,
the pollution of ground and air, and the
insuficiency of the ration of coarse corn
meal. After this the mortality would
be somewhat less; say, at the end of six
months so of them would be dead. The
remainder would hang on still more
tenaciously, and at the end of a year
there would be 15 or 20 still alive.
There were GO of my companions
! taken; Ii lived through. I believe this
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The following numbers have been issued
in the series of The NATIONAL TRIBUNE
LIBRARY:
No. 1. Statistics Of the Mar.
No. 2. Words Of lincoln.
No. 8. Miscellaneous Memoranda.
No. 4. Pension Statistics.
No. S. History Of Slavery.
No. 6. The Monroe Doctrine.
No. 70. Commanders U. S. ArmY.
No. 9. The Story Of Cuba.
No. 10. Life Of Maj.-Gen. Geo. 4.
Thomas.
No. If. Life Of Hon. Vim. Mckinley.
No. II. Life Of Gen. P. H. Sheridan.
No. 13. The Chronological hist Of
Battles, etc.
No.. II. Life Of ADMIRAL Farragut.
No. Is. Fun Of the Mar.
No. 16. Fair Ohio. Csong)
No. IL. Glorious Pennsylvania. Song,
No. 10. Poetry Of the HaF.
No. 10. Life of Gen. U. s. Grant.
No. 20. Memorial Day Poetry and
Oratofy.
No. II. Hauaiian Islands.
No. D. The Alaskan Cold Fields
end hom to CT There.
These raf.,..ale.s conta;g; liis,p.;es. stats.
ti@.i. nuI ii cr ls..,..:,. ,...,.. '.f great
!t..r,.,. IL. ., an ~, 49,. .sll te:re cOrl-
;...r.l I.o..l o...el s,co,. .,s ' Ia. rviied upon
ID correct.
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rs THEY VIEW IT.

To be continued
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CHAPTER XIV.

Passing a Rebel Ram-Capturing a
Boat Pursued Again 0utwittlng
the Rebels Dismal Journev-The
Boat is Stolen = Another Found.
Reaching Apalachicola.
The herald., 1897-09-23
THE ONE THING LEFT

Late yesterday afternoon protest was
filed with the city council from ma
jority of the property owners on Spring
street from Temple to Ninth against the
resurfacing Of that thoroughfare. The
work of securing signatures has been
very actively prosecuted during the past
few days, and the protestants seem now
to have accomplished their purpose.
This kills any plan to resurface Spring
street for at least six months. The propo-
sition to put in sewer had already been
killed, and the main business thorough
fare is what Harry Boyle would call a
monument Of holes"
There is still one thing that can BE-
done. Spring street can be repaired.
That is what The Herald has contended
for all along. The repaving can come
after, but it will not do to let the street
remain in its present condition. 1t will
cost to put it into as good condition as
possible by filing up the holes with
asphalt not to exceed s1.70 a front foot.
The superintendent is confident that the
expense will be less.
The property owners, having succeeded
In preventing the resurfacing, ought to
consent cheerfully to the repair of the
street. 1t would cost the owner Of fifty
feet frontage not to exceed $S5. There
is still time to do the work before the
winter rains and the tourist season sci
in
The herald., 1897-09-23
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2s, 1907.
PRIVATE COUNTRY POSTAL DE-
LIVERY

Private enterprise in Southern Cali
forria is inaugurating a public service
that the United States government
seems slow to materialize. Messrs. Judd
& Dixon, Herald agents at Azusa, Co.
vina and San Dimas, are putting up lock
boxes at private residences in the coun-
try in which they can deposit, not only
the Daily Herald for their customers,
but also the letters and papers which
they obtain daily at the postoffice and
deliver every morning. In this way
they deliver The Herald and mail daily
for 81 per month. This system is grow
ing in popularity and unless the gov
ernment takes hold of the matter 1t is
very probable that the system will ex-
tend to other sections of Southern Cali
fornia, until the people of the country
as we'll as those Of the city, can have
their mail delivered daily at very slight
additional cost. The people appear to
move more rapidly than the government
officials do, but in course of time the
government will catch up, only to find
that the people are still ahead of them in
some other direction. Success to The
Herald circulators in their new enter
prise.
The herald., 1897-09-23
STOCKHOLDERS HELD
The Old Shippee Harvester Works
Case Decided

STOCKTON, Cal. Sept 22-The COM
plicated suit of C. E. Welch against the
stockholders of the old Shippee Harves-
ter works was decided by Judge Jones
today against the defendants. The lit
igation dates back many years. Welck
bought combined harvester of the old
Shippee company under a guarantee.
1t did not work to his satisfaction and
he brought suit and got judgment. The
corporation went into insolvency. This
left Welch in the lurch, but not all of
the stock of the corporation had been
paid up and he brought action to COM
pei the stockholders to pay up on tbs
judgment.
The court holds that the stockholders
are liable now. A number OF the stock
holders transferred their stock to escape
liability, but the court holds these trans
fers are not valid as against the cred
itors. William Inglis paid the balan nee
due on his stock to the Stockton Savings
and Loan society. a judgment creditor,
on mortgage on the harvester works
Inglis act, it is said, placed him in the
position Of a creditor but did not release
him from liability to other creditors. The
next step will be the appointment of re-
ceiver to pro rate the liabilities of the
stockholders.
The herald., 1897-09-23
ARE WE "ON THE vERGEP"

Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Roosevelt has a reputation as re-
liable news source. Therefore, when
he declares that the United States is on
the verge of war with Spain it must be
so, or pretty nearly so. At the same
time it would be we'll to have confirm
atory advices from the state Depart
ment before beginning to polish up the
old musket.
What have we done? For, Of course,
it is Spain that threatens to precipitate
trouble. The United States has no oc-
casion to declare war against any ma
ton. Is Minister Woodford going
around with a Mckinley administra-
ton chip on his shoulder? One rumor
is to the effect that he has notified Spain
that it must suppress the Cuban revolu-
ton by the end of next October, else
the United States will feel called upon
to irterfere
The Herald is Democratic paper, but
it is patriotic paper first, and it would
be glad to see the administration take a
firm stand with reference to Cuba
Such a stand should have been taken
last winter. when the question of recog-
nizing Cuban belligerency was before
congress. That was the proper manner
in which to display our sympathy and
make known our convictions. Such a
step could not have been distorted into
cause for declaring war on the part of
Spain.
In the present instance the admins
ira ation takes the direct responsibility Of
the whole matter. What it has done,
what it expects to do, the people have
no means of knowing. They have the
right to know.
There has been a great deal of foolish
talk on both sides of the water about
the possibilities of war with Spain.
Jingoism of the most ridiculous sort has
been rife. War is very serious mat
ter, and not to be welcomed because it
affords the opportunity for excitement
and brag.
On the other hand. the principles and
The herald., 1897-09-23
A PLEASURE TRr1
Brings Many Terrible Experiences to
the Travellers

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22.-Among
the cabin passengers who arrived from
the Orient on the steamer City Of Pek-
ing were Mrs. "A. Nlcnols. Miss M
Nichols, and the formers little son, who
are en- route from Hong Kong to their
home in Bath, Me-, after having passed
through terrible experience They
left New York in March last on board
the ship Abner Coburn, of which Mrs
Nichols husband was captain, for a
pleasure trip to Hong Kong. On June
10Th the Coburn ran into a gale. Sail
was shortened and everything made as
snug as possible, but just as Captain
Nichols was coming up the companion
way to take an observation a big sea
washed over the stern, smashed the
wheel, rolled the two steersmen into the
scuppers and hurled the skipper down
the companionway. infiicting injuries
from which he died eight hours later
against one of the small boats and Sc
riously hurt. The storm continued for
two days after the captain died, but the
second officer, ]. F. Nichols, son of the
skipper, rigged UP jury rudder and
navigated the vessel for fifteen days,
during which time Chief Officer Sparks
was confined to his berth. Captain
Nichols was buried at sea, his son read
ing the burial service as his remains were
consigned to the deep.
The Coburn arrived at Honk Kong In
time for Mrs. Nichols and her family to
catch the City of Picking homeward-
bound
The herald., 1897-09-23
UNIVERSITY REGENTS
Decide to Give Degrees on Berkeley
Examinations

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22.-At the
meeting Of the regents Of the University
California today, Regent Reinstein ad-
vocated the consolidation Of the great
educational trusts and the giving to San
Francisco Of great polytechnic institu-
tion which would combine all the good
features of the Cogswell, Lux, Wilmerd-
ing and Lick schools. No action was
taken. The board after thanking Mrs.
Hearst for offering to light the campus
and library for a year, discussed the
proposed viticultural experiment sta
tion on the Moffatt ranch, near ST..
Helena, but failed to accept the three
acres offered by reason Of the tenure.
The committee will look further, for it
Is felt that investigations into the phyl-
loxera should be made.
The committee on applications report
ed against permitting the Cooper medi-
cal college and others to grant the de-
gree of bachelor of science, but favored
a plan which will allow pupils of any
college in the state to be examined at
Berkeley for a degree, which was
adopted.
The committee to investigate the Lick
observatory and recommend a director
for the Wilmerding school will report
next Wednesday.
The herald., 1897-09-23
Two Shrewd Crooks

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22.-Two Of
the shrewdest confidence operators in
the country are under surveillance Of
the police here. They are best known
by the names Of H. M. Summerfield and
"Chappie" Morgan. In June last they
were arrested in Denver on charge OF
tapping the telegraph wires. Notwith-
standing the close watch Of the police,
"Chappie" Morgan and his partner,
Summerfield, have duped two promin-
ent sporting men. in this city, one Of
whom is closely connected with pugil-
istic matters in San Francisco, and the
other is prominent in baseball and pool
room circles in Sacramento. It ie be-
lieved that the operators have secured
no other victims. though 1t is thought
that they have duped few women out
Of small sums.
The herald., 1897-09-23
JAPANESE GOLD
To Be Cornered by Chinese
Syndicate

yAA0AC0t0
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22.-The
steamship City of Pekin brings the fol-
lowing news from China and Japan: Rus :.
sia has obtained from the Corean Cabinet
permission to use part of Zetsuel Island
as coal depot. Japan already occupies
the larger portion Of the island.
1t is stated by Japanese newspapers
that the Chinese have formed syndi-
cate and are buying in all the silver OBJ
tainable in anticipation Of the adoption
of the gold standard after October 1st
1t is feared that sufficient silver may be
collected, when Hongkong and. Singapore
are taken into consideration to purchase
all the gold coins minted. The govern
ment is alarmed at this prospect and is
studying to avert the catastrophe. Some
advise it to stop exchange altogether,
While others suggest that restriction
should be placed on the aggregate
amount Of exchange and that this should
not exceed $4,000 yen daily.
On August S1st a tunnel on the line Of
the o. U. railway in Japan caved in and
buried alive twenty-one persons. Seven
were excavated, three of whom were
dead. The remaining fourteen were still
entombed at last advices
The herald., 1897-09-23
Skillful Surgery

ST. LOUIS. Sept. PA wonderful
surgical operation has been performed
by Drs. Parsons and McCaughan. of the
Children's Hospital, upon 9-year-old
Lille Statenius. They constructed for
her palate and nose and upper lip.
She is an orphan and was sent to the
hospital from the Episcopal Orphanage.
Her face was deformed and was fright
full to look upon. The surgeons saw but
one way to remedy it and that was by
an operation, which was done. The
palate was gone, and her nose had
grown over and attached itself to her
hair lip. The case was singular one
and called for the most delicate Of sur
gical work. The operation was sue
cessful, even beyond the anticipation Of
the surgeons.