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other relatives. / bade them farewell,
and Colonel wheatley gave the order
for three cheers. They waved their
caps over their heads and gave me three
cheers. He gave the order a second
time and their cheers were deafening.
1t seemed as though 1t could be heard
blocks away.
A deck hand took charge of my horse.
and the officers shook hands with me ana
each thanked me, as he bade me fare
well, for my kindness and attention to
the troops. both in sickness and In bat
tie. went to the lower deck and mount
ed my horse, took his bride and pointed
his head towards the departing troops
When they reached the top or the hill,
each company in command of Its officer.
they were ordered to halt and wave their
caps to me. and when they saw me on my
horse their cheers could be heard far
away.
l named my horse "Dick" after Lieut..
Col. O'Neill. who died about fifteen years
ago In New Orleans. brought my horse
to st. Louis on the Des Moines and found
him very useful in riding to and from
the hospitals where our sick and wound
ed soldiers were sent from some of the
hardest battles.
In the winter OF 1879 lost my horse
with the epizootic. My labors with the
troops and in the hospitals did not end
with the war. / am enrolled with Gen.
eral Madison, Miller Relief corps No.
SO, auxiliary to the G. A. r., and today,
whenever l can better the condition Of
the soldiers and their families, it is my
greatest pleasure to do so.
MRS. DELINA ROBERTS,
No. 4367 Chouteau ave-, st. Louis, Mo.
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two days later, and I went on the track
in fairly good condition, although liber-
ally covered with plaster and badly
bruised and stiff from my fall 1t was
twenty-mile race, and no one in the au-
dience knew what a time had trying to
get my stiff and sore frame to keep up
the race. 1t was neck and neck for eigh-
teen miles, when I managed to summon
up some reserve force from somewhere
and, overcoming my stiffness by sheer
force Of will, won the race.
/ have grown to expect falls and take
them as part Of the trouble of my life,
and ifit were not for the effect upon my
stomach I think + could manage to ride
a race in spite of the worst fall possible,
provided it left me with whole bones.
But only my trainer and I knew the
trouble I have had with my stomach
failing feature of the accident side Of
my training. After all, it is the stom-
ach that helps an athlete to beat COM
petitors in any kind of a test of power
and endurance. No one knows this bet
ter than the professional bicycle rider,
whose stomach is so often called upon to
submit to all kinds Of demoralizing ac-
cidents. JIMMY" MICHAEL.
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lowed to be used by the government. l
was told at the time by the surgeon of
the TWenty-siXth Indiana regiment that
three ladies who had carried to their
husbands, who were officers of the boat,
their laundry, were accidentally taken
along on the boats. During the battle
named they all tainted away and the
surgeon told the surgeon of the Twenty
sixth that it took him all his time to
bring them to, as they would hear the
cries and groans of the wounded and
the firing and breaking of glass on the
steamboats,, and would go right off in
another faint causing the wounded
soldiers to be neglected on their ac-
count
We were three weeks making the trip
from st. Louis up the Missouri river to
a point just above Glasgow, Mo-, where
our battle took place. Our trip was slow
because We We're detained for several
hours at a time. anchored in the middle
of the river fearing to go ashore, as
camps of guerrillas We're seen from the
boat by the aid of field glasses in the
hands of officers. At other times bands
of euerrillas wauld shell the boat but
all the missiles went in the river Just
ahead of the boat or just back of it.
At another time, Capt. George Cayton,
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to laugh at them, but the upsetting Of
my stomach Is too much for me. 1t is
failing that it is impossible to recover
from In a hurry. My trainer always has
a heavy task before him when 1t hap
pens. 1t seems to turn my insides COM
pletely around in sympathy with the
fall, and makes me sick, so that cannot
put on my best speed.
A few days before one of my races with
Chase I had peculiar fall. While bend
ing over the handle bars and speeding
for all I was worth, 1 turned the wheel
in some way and went up into the air.
turning complete somersault and land
ing on my feet not bit the worse for
my experience. l cannot recall that I
have ever duplicated this feat in all my
tumbling experience. 1 came through
1t without a scratch, but. as usual my
stomach was somewhat shaken up.
Another fearful fall that l had was in
Boston on the 18th of June last. 1t was
the night before my race with Duffy,
and l was training hard and riding my
best on a track one-third of mile in
length. l was being paced by sextet.
and having got in behind it was feeling
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NATION THRILLED BY A WOMAN'S DEED
The Heroic Conduct Of Mrs. Da Roberts, Who Faced Flying
Bullets and Bursting Bombs to Garry Wounded
and Dying Soldiers to Safety

rounded by $4,000 of Gen. Sterling Prices
men. Col Mulligan and his soldiers had
been several days without water. a
fleet of four boats loaded with troops
left st. Louis together to go up the
Missouri river to rescue Col. Mulligan
There was not a woman on the Des
Moines but myself. Government boats
did not carry chamber maids during the
civil war. The private soldiers lay
around the floor of the cabin and lower
deck. The officers of the regiment occu-
pied the state rooms in the gentlemen's
cabin. and the officers of the boat occu-
pied the rooms of the texas. The state
room in the ladies' cabin was not al
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same providence guards the bicycle
racer from serious injury. The expla-
nation of the drunken mans escapes
from harm is that, being mentally IN
capacitated, he falls without making any
effort to save himself. A tumble IS not
made any easier because a man grasps
at the air, the ground, his hair, any
thing in fact to save himself. The man
with a Jag grasps at nothing. He just
falls. and usually falls the natural, and
therefore the right way. A bicycllst
falls in the same manner. He, too, is
intoxicated, dizzy with the whirl, whirl,
whirl around the track and the fierce ex-
citement of the race. The crash comes
instantly. He has no time to think and
he goes to the ground without any at
tempt to save himself, smash, kerfop,
in the way he happens to be shot from
the wheel.
He has to know something about the
great art of falling, however. There is
a way to fall so as to smash yourself to
pieces and way to drop lightly and
with q minimum amount of damage.
have acquired the habit of falling prop
erly. Hence 1 possess whole anatomy
today instead of being in sections, as
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power has ceased 1t connect with them,
is no joke.
1t didn't prevent my riding the next
day, however, and although Duffy led
me for the first twelve miles, l managed
at the end of that distance to overcome
my soreness from the fall of the pre-
vious day and had the race won at the
end of fifteen miles.
During the time was training for the
race with Lesne at Springfield, Mass, 1
had bad fall. 1t was caused this time
by front wheel of the triplet pacing me
blowing up, an unforeseen accident that
resulted in the inevitable collapse and
the grand tangle of legs and wheels. In
some of these practice spins 1t must be
borne in mind that ride at a faster gait
than during a race. as the runs are Of
short duration and l go IN for speeding
more than during race. This was so
at the time l speak of.
On this occasion l was badly cut and
bruised about the spine. besides getting
shock to the nerves that would have
incapacitated any one not Injured to falls
of this nature. My trainer worked over
me like Trojan to get me fit for the race
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and bore him, groaning and crying with
pain, UP to the boat, UP the stairs. and
slowed him away in the stateroom op-
posite the wheel of the boat, as I had
been told a ball could not go through
the wheels.
I ran as fast as 1 could down the
cabin on to the field again. and brought
in the same manner another wounded
soldier. made twenty-five trips of this
kind, and each time brought back a
wounded man and filled the two state
rooms between the wheels of the boat.
All this time the bullets were whiz-
zing in front of us, over us and beside
us. They came so close to my ear that
the whizzing sound went through my
head. The living balls of fire would fly
past us and go through the transoms
and glassware, breaking and falling all
around us. The groans and cries of the
men, the shouts of the officers, and the
whizzing balls I will never forget.
When 1 ran through the cabin for an
other wounded soldier the men were re-
treating in confusion and the lower deck
and plank was full Of excited and rum
ming soldiers. / was afraid l would be
trampled to death and ran back and told
the wounded men in the state room to
let me in, as our boys were retreating to
the boats. They opened the door and the
room was so full it was with difficulty
1 could get in. The bullets were still
whizzing, and the glass was still break
ing. as the enemy was firing from the
cornfield at the soldiers stationed on the
guard. The four boats pulled out into
the river ran back two and one-half
miles and anchored until the earliest
dawn of day.
I was up all night with the surgeon
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the boat ran faster than 1 ever saw a
boat go before. There were many ex-
citing incidents before we reached
Glasgow. The weather was scorching
hot and the Missouri river water was so
thick it could be cut with knife. Lying
around the floor of the gentlemen's cabin
were about fortysix soldiers. They
were very sick with fever and could not
eat a soldiers fare. 1 used to buy three
meals in the morning. three dinners and
three suppers. 1 paid the steward 80
cents for each meal. would divide the
meals into three and give portion to
three of the sick boys. Then the next
meal l would give to the following three
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On the eve of my departure for Eu-
rope l nave been asked to give the par
ticulars of some of the most exciting
moments of my career.
AS whirlwind rider l can relate some
startling incidents of the many marrow
escabes l have had from death.
More than once 1 have during the
wreck Of wheels and terrible impact at
tending grand smash-up, when riders
going at fast clip collapse in writh-
ing heap, thought for an instant that the
game was up.
There is, however, a mistaken idea
existing that fall from wheel when
the rider is going fast must surely re-
suit in death, or at the best the frac-
ture of a number of bones and the gen.
eral decentralization of the riders an
atomy My falls, and here l may re-
mark that they have been so numerous
as to be uncountable, have only caused
temporary distress.
l account for it in this way: 1t has
frequently been remarked that a spe-
cial providence looks after the life of
drunken man, and I suggest that the
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now deceased, was at the wheel. He was
an old lower Mississippi pilot, and Capt
Baldwin stood at one side and the mate
on the other, each with a pistol leveled
at his head. ] was sitting on the bunk
in the pilot house when q shell Whizzed
right in front of the pilot house, not two
feet away. Capt Cayton turned the bow
Of the boat little toward the shore in
the direction the shell came from. Capt.
BALDWIN told Capt Cayton to order the
engineer to put on full steam and run
them out OF there, or he would blow his
head off. Capt. Caption at once turned
the bow of the boat straight ahead and
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Tard.ly congress recognizes that there
lives in America the bravest of women-a
woman whose heroic conduct in battle
makes her wothy to stand In the same
place with Florence Nightingale, as de-
serving of the admiration and gratitude
of the world From comparative obscurity,
Mrs Delina Roberts of 1861 Choteau ave-
nue., St. Louis, becomes the most-talked-of
woman of the day. Congress is about to
reward her heroism during the war by
presenting to her a medal. The incidents
during which her woman's sympathy for
wounded and suffering soldiers made her
move fearlessly among bullets and burst
ing shells. while men dropped behind cover
and crawled to places of safety, are here
told for the first time over her own sigma
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sixth Indiana infantry We're coming
double quick down the levee of the boat,
one thousand strong, a full fresh regi-
ment that had been enlisted only six
days. A few minutes later the PLANK
was swung in and the boat was starting
for mid stream.
There was no possible way of escape
for me, as the plank was full of running
soldiers from the minute the courier
came until it was swung in. The cause
of this excitement was that the Twenty
sixth Indiana regiment had been or
dered to reinforce Col. James a. Null
ligan, who was at Lexington, Mo-. sur
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ture Mrs Roberts, heroine of the civil
war, writes the thrilling story especially
for this newspaper.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 19.-(Special Corre-
spondence to The Herald.) In Septem-
Der, 81, and Immediately following the
Fort Donelson battle, which lasted three
days and nights, l secured from the
provost marshal at St Louis, a govern
ment pass to go aboard the government
steamboat called the Des Moines, which
was ordered to Donelson to bring back
a load of wounded soldiers who had
fought in the Donelson battle. They
We're to be cared for in our government
hospitals here. 1 got the pass so that
could bring to my fathers house in st.
Louis my brother, Charles II. Reader
of Company l, Second Iowa infantry,
mustered in at Clinton, Ia. He was ly-
ing at Fort Donelson wounded l was
then II years of age. My name was
Delina Reader.
When the Des Moines was about to
draw in her gang plank to leave for
Fort Donelson, a courier on horseback
rode furiously down to the dock and
handed note to the captain of the boat,
Thomas Baldwin of Cincinnati, Ohio.
In less than five minutes the Twenty
The Monticellonian., 1898-10-28
BRIEF MENTION.

Cabanal is new postofflee in Carroll county.
 Triplets were born to Dr. and Mrs. Mills, of Polk county.
 Citizens of Bonneville raised a bonus of SEQ 900 to secure a shoe factory.
 Montgomery county farmers raised 100, 900 bushels of wheat this year.
 The trouble between the coal miners and operators at Jenny Lind has been settled.
 It is said a railroad is to be con structed from Hope to Stamps, on the Cotton Belt,
 Pete Gable has resigned as division master mechanic of the Iron Mountain at TexarlSaua.
 Hon. " F. Kirby, senator-elect from the Twenty-frst district, and Miss Ella Kelley, were married at Texarkana October %.
 Chas Mum, the self-confessed mur- derer of Frank Dubary, near Helena, was convicted and sentenced to be hung in November
 The Salvation Army is attempting to establish place in Fort Smith where the poor and needy can be sheltered and fed during the winter months.
 "Dazzlern noted pacer valued at s1, LOGO, broke his leg in race at the Pine Bluff fair and had to be shot. He was the property of Dr. NJ c. Berry, of West Plains, Mo.
 Over 10000 pounds of tobacco was raised on the state convict farm near Palarm this year. It cost the state s, 400 last year to supply the convicts with tobacco.
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Second Regiment Appointment.

Gov. Jones has made the following promotions in the Second Regiment:
 Chas NJ Wing, major, vice Major Johnson, deceased
 Ernest Neiu, captain Company A, pro- noted from frstlieutenant Company B. Augustus c. Moser, first lieutenant Company B, promoted from second lieutenant Company A.
 Henry Shackleford. second lieuten- ant Company A.
 John L. Marshall, first lieutenant Company D, promoted from second lieutenant.
 Albert H. Glasscock. second lieuten- ant Company D.
 Walter B. Willard, first lieutenant Company E, promoted from second lieutenant
 James ". Butler, second lieutenant Company E, promoted from sergeant major of regiment.
 Walter R. Taylor, second lieutenant Company H.
 Horatio Wells, major and surgeon, vice Major Orto, resigned, promoted from first lieutenant and assistant sur geon.
 Robert NJ. Enders, first lieutenant and assistant surgeon.
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WILL HEAR PLAIN TALK.
Spain wnI be Totd that Procrsstination Must Cease anu the M.,In
 Issue Discussed.

Washington, Oct. 25.-lt was expect peace commlssIon Ill Parls the Amer iean commissIouers would delyer to their adYeIsarIes something very clearly approaching an uIumatum. The president IS satlsied at last that the opauIsn commssIoners are pur- posely delaying the negotiations. This IS the belief o1 the Amerledn eomlnls- sioners. The time has now come to cut off all false pleas and come direct ly to the man issue lett open by the protocol, namely, the disposition of Philippines. Up to this polnt the en tire time Of the commissioners has been consumed In repeated efforts on the part ol the Spanish commlssloners 10 force the Cuban debt question upon the attention of the jont commission American commissioners. The latter have stated as positively as they could that under no circumstances will they assume sovereignty over Cuba, involy. ing an assumption of the Cuban debt and the time has now come when, in the opinion of the American commis- sioners, the Spaniards must be made to understand that this answer is final and conclusive. So far the American commissioners, while preserving q firm attitude, have treated the Span iards with the utmost courtesy and consideration, allowing frequent post ponements of the work of the joint commission to accommodate the Span iards, but now, without departing from their courteous treatment of the Spaniards, the American commission CTS will find it incumbent upon them to speak very plainly as to the deter imitation of the United States govern ment to regard this matter of the Cu- ban debt and sovereignty as passed over and beyond recall.
The Monticellonian., 1898-10-28
THE APPLE CROP FAILURE.
The Crop Of Apples in the United States the Smallest Since Statistics
 Have Been Complied.

Chicago, Oct. 25.-The Orange Judd Farmer says:
 The apple crop of the United States is smaller than it has been since re- liable statistics have been collected. The total supply from the 1898 crop of the United States is 27,70O,000 bar rels, compared with something over 40,o00,0oo last year, and 70,000,000 in the record-breaking crop of 1896. The failure is widespread, reaching from the Pacific coast to Maine. and in none of the states does the output of fruit approach an average. In the great apple states of the west, the crop is almost an absolute failure, although the situation in Michigan is better than elsewhere, having about two thirds of the bumper crop of '96. New York has only one-fifth of full crop. The failure is attributed to the fact that during the blooming season there was excessive rainfall, which washed out the pollen and prevented proper fertilization by insects. while a cold wave added to the injury. and subsequent moist, humid weather was very favorable to the development of fungous disease. The Ontario crop is decidedly short. The crop of Europe Ia reported below the normal.
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A NARROW ESCAPE.
Gen Wood and Maj. Brooks Came Near Being Victims to an Engi-
 neer's Carelessness.

Santiago de Cuba, Oct. 25.--Gen. Wood, the acting military commander here, and Maj Brooks. had narrow escape. Sunday evening, from SC lious disaster. They had started down thc hay. on the way 10 Morro castic, on board steam launch which, seemingly. had loo pounds of steam registered. But she lost 90 pounds in the first two minutes, and green en- ginecr was ill charge of her, discov- eling that there was little or no wa ter in the boiler, was about 10 fill il wlsilc ii was almost red hot Mai. Brooks saw the danger stopped the launch, had the fire withdrawn, and the launch was towcd back to her starting place. The engineer was dis charged.
 Maj. Starr and Maj. Brooks re- turned, Sunday from a trip to Bara- eoa, sagua and other pl7ees. They report that there is no destitution among inc Cuhans at the places vis- tied, and they add that the distribu- tion of free ratians is having demor- alizing effect upon the people, who do not want t1 go to work, though the sugar estates, in conmon with other industries, arc badly in need of la borcrs.
The Monticellonian., 1898-10-28
ARKANSAS STATt NEHS.
The Iron Mountain Announces Its Determination to Build
 New Road.
EVENTS OF THEWEEE BRIEFLY CARONlCLED
List of Promotions in the Second Regi- ment-a aIoonshiner Sentenced Sheriff Houpt, of Garland County, Acquitted of the Charge of EmbezzIement-Ite of General Interest

On the 18th inst Vice President c. G. Warner, General Manager Eoddridge, General Solicitor Cochran, and General Superintendent Peek, of the Missouri Pacific system, arrived at Little Rock from St. Louis in special. Accom- panying the officials was a corps of en- gineers and surveyors, and Mr. Warner announced that their coming meant the beginning of work immediately by the Missouri Pacific of line westward from the Capital City on the south side of the river, in the direction of Fort Smith. The route proposed by the Missouri Pacific people is parallel with the line projected by the Choctaw X Gulf people, who, il is claimed, recently closed deal for the Memphis X Little Rock road, thus forming a through line from Memphis to the southwest. MT. Warner denied that the party re- ported working across tue river from Morrilton was connected with the Mis- souIi dclnc. from present lhdlcdIlOnS it looks as though it will be race be- tween the surveyors of the Choctaw & Gulf and those of the Missouri Pacific in securing the most desirable route though the Fourehe Valley. In speak ing of his eempany,s action, Mr. War ner said: "The building of this line has been discussed by Mir DOddridUe and myself for 10 years, and we have now decided the time has arrived to build if r
The Monticellonian., 1898-10-28
THE TABLES TURNED.
Ted Sloan Attacked by the London Pre.s Because He Complained of Un-
 fair Treatment

London, Oct. 25.-The newspapers which have hitherto been almost unan- imous in their praise of Tod Sloan. the American jockey. denouuce his impu- tGtion of unfairness on the part of the Sandown Park judges. The Sun says: "The best thing that can be wished for Sloan is that he will promptly carry out his expressed intention to betake himself, with his followers, out of the country. He has already received more grace than would have been extended to other jockeys"
 Continuing. the Sun recommends the withdrawal of his license and calls lord William Beresford's attention to the fact that, in its opinion, Sloan is unworthy 10 ride the prince of Wales horse in the race for the Cambridge shire stakes.
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DIED IN THE ORIENT.
Dispatch From General Otis showing ths Deaths in Hts Command since
 the Last Report.

Washington, Oct. 25.-The following dispatch has been received at the war department:
 Manila, Get. 23.-To Adjutant-Gen- eraI, Washington: Following deaths since last report:
 5.-Qaartermaster Sergeant William D. Gillespie, First Idaho, gun shot wound
 October 16-Corp. Christopher Rock efeller, Twenfy-thjrd infantry, drowned; Private Jonas E. Adams, band, Eighteenth infantry, alcoholism. October 17-PriHate George $. Ham son, First NebrasNa, typhoid fever
 October 20-PriNatesI Ira Griffin. First Nebraska, typhoid fever; Charles Il. Ruhl, Second Oregon, meningitis.
 October 21-Gorp. Vim. H. Jones' First Idahao, dysentery; Musician Thomas r. Fitzgerald, Twenty-third infantry, diarrhoea; Private Sage Fresstrom, First California, pneu. monia.
 October Private Daniel MeElliott- First Montana, dysentery.
 Date unlnown-Sergt. John A. GIov. CT, First Nebraska, pneumonia; Pri- yates Henry A. Stube, First California. dysentery; Frank w. tucker. Twen- ty-third infantry typhoid fever; Ed ward s. Fislle, hospital corps, dysen. terv.
 The last four died between Manila and Nagasaki on transport Rio de Ja. neiro.
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