HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Times, 1891-02-20, Page 2hospital anti committettry tette to Nitride') came the noisy of firing, and
the pine trees, dark, 'against the pele, then the sound of men earning double
bright sky. llotter tif4rton,titooping, quick along the road And crashitig
004% him a drink, but he outy oaks: through the underbrush warned us
Won't yen get the lel imcgle,Moththat something was up, and before Sickleet corer) carne up—Xeclison.
er I Doctor laid it oil the table Igoe we were on our feet into our undst you know,was shot while re•forming
night. poured the Seventeenth corpa. The his line—and the foray was 'toed, Do
This wish, strange for a dying man, old corps was Utterly deinoralized--; you wonder that I an glad that 1 W
aS
does net surprise her, she is used to each man striking out for hiraself, there t
rfo'nel feel hotter now, and strouger
than I've felt for attys. Yes, 1 an
glad I was there, but I aia sorry I
lived through it. Oh, met her, I don't
like to think of that I We lay •there
all reght, the dead and Wounded alone
in the dark. It's a dreadful thine,
isn't it, that thoee tett° node you
happy by tbe eanm,-ere one night,
should be a horror to you the next 1
then the pen of it ! Sheppard
ead at my side, and 1 clidn't kirow
re Will was. We three Ilea always
together, went into college to
get er, but left before the end of the
first year to enlist, It seemed as if 1.
couldn't stand it. At last. I raised
myself as much as possible and cal).
ed Will I Will (Peyton 1 The dark-
ness threw back my own voice, but no
answer from Will. Then someone
spoke:
Is. that you, Frank
Yes, I called, Where ie my brother
do you know 1 ' •
There was silence a Minute, and
Aligo those guns 1 Our breath came then a voice auewered queer -like:
again. Some one was at the fore. Yes, he's here by net.
The next instant following', his order I lay back and asked no more. I knew
came, %Iraq and shrill the rebel yell. it all by the, tone ef that voice. It
Jackson was upon us. There was was terribly still.; even the wounded
nothing to prevent his routing the fellows about me checked their groans,
whole army as be had the Eleventh 1 lay and thought of mother and the
corps, save those guns, aud oh, how little boys at home, I'in glad they're
too small to be called away from her
Yes, he adds gently, I'm glad she'll
• have them.
The moon came out, he continues,
and her light pierced down througk
the pines, only to deepen the shadows,
or show here and there some stilt dead
face. T tell you 1 wished many a
time that I might have died as Will
did; that I had not been left to the
horror of darkness and the longing
for water. Oh, how I longed fur it
and not a drop the 15 hours we lay
there, only for the dew on our faces.
Don't take your hand away; it feels
like mother's.) The next morning
thq ambulances came and brought us
here, but—I feel scedizzy—won't you
—Oh, yes, the boys sleep under the
pines just whore—and 1 wish --
The life that had flickered up fur a
few miantes once more sinks low.
The eyes close wearily, the lips still
murmur, but indistinctly.
Mother Morton stoops and moistens
thoee pale lips, bat there is no res.
p01280. .
The great round sun, climbing slow
ty, locks over the sad pines of Chancellorsyille and throws •his long red
titers on the white face in the doorway.
Then the closed oyes open, the fingers,
but now so lay, clasp • again the old
bugle.
The soldiee. murmurs. It's time
for reveille. Then suddenly, fljbgtng
hack his blanket, sits tip d with
the red eerthelight
the tight of another
flushing eyes, so
call. The not
sleeping
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Ittessramoists4'lis
14410 TAroyn$144.
ifla V4000,
• It, tOr Wife, said yobtle.who had
ottined • • .
silently string ie a penny. eArIleciP
AU* net be ten vein or tee proud,
• toakt alaree in a dasalinw crowd
woula have tout *Bell, and gild and
100 and gifts. you rarely' Most
,ntnst ender, be r knowledge
Yin **lino MVO lighten! tarviedght at
mei • •
Ire'. nee mind if her puree is metal,
etWeeertte ethee she hese' vireo at all.
are not beauty,: uo set it above
toe weightier maters �t ereedeees and -
UPR wrens* • '
'When Itake a 'husband, a maiden said,
IphollWish a num with a loasi hend;
ho doee not dwell on dresiq and knows
That eve). is not made by furbelows
We OF,. earn a penny and save it, too
Who is goedane honest, tender and true;
• o does not put mere beauty above
he higher bleeeing, of earnest love.
would have his lineage honest anttfaii,,
at for hi o money 1de eat eerie • i .
•en. Meth. a :one I chance to see„
shall wish Ulm suacess,dt be coulee for
Me.
as these Wishesmay :somewhere,
meet,
haleor peeler or field or street
or they are worthy who &toe above
ere Oleg an gewgaw the heart's true
love. •
THE BTJGLE CALL.
SrroHYor T'S OITA-ROL
arrrsic ay ANNIE SOoVII.LE yoit TER
• sPITINGITIRLi REPO-AICA
Day is breakieg over the Piney rid -
a of the wederuese. No sound save
he soft twitter df a mockingerird jars
V Stillness of the welting woods,
diet broods over all. Peace reigns
pretne. It is the quiet before the
own, a peaoe with the signs of past
tifiict upou it and the tokens of
tare strife—one pure, fresh moment ton ?
itched from days of, powder and
, Ah, I catet he a coward, the soldier
,oke. The board a,°°ra, id ,the ol" answers with kindling glance, when 1.
Y born, oPlu. to the ""Ift l'aPPI'''' think how I lest used it! It was -Worth
utiock, show no harvest of Prosper- . e ;
a lifetime Just to sound that cheige I
, bat- instead qhe scatterings of the'
Oh, 1 am not sorry it has ended so.
u4 hand. -of war, ' The earn is fell -L,
If I'd my choice now, I'd rather die
1 of wounded wen. Stretched' on
. with Keenan than command the army
w,ou bleu lists, made as easy as time
of the Poiotnio t
plate would allow, they patiently so you were with Keenan in hie
leeP1 fat& charge ?
r their '1sult.;rings. ‘Some s
ors rtive aud toss in fever, over the She raises Ida berei and gives him a
es of others the blanket is drawn.
drink frooi the battered cop.
ha teeter, a rough board renting on
Ay, it was pretty much the end of
powder kegs, is piled with bands
use mother, bet we saved the army.
bottled,- and : surgical bistro -
Three brindred Men was a little price
ts. The flickering' flame of A toi
gvo for thee, and it's just what we
ky tin lantern Casts a wavering
crane for you know.
le ,flight which brings out in ghast-
Poor boy, she seers, stroking back
eiief the sufferer near it, while be •
the fair hair, I only know it - was a
• its Tinto the feces are dimly ,seen
great pity td throw away so many
shadows in the grey dawn. Seated
, lives.
overturned box by the tabe 1i8
Oil, they Weren't thrown away 1
her Norton, a little worir-woman,
There was eo rniatake you see.-- (She
'-eyed and ' strohg, deeseed hi a
tries to interrupt him, but be hurries
calico ,gown,' with the Sanitary
on catching wistfully alter dress ) Oh
ieeicrit bitihke 0ot:tainting her life p,ease t , er, I , lie ten you, Stay with f86.
l
ve. . It can only bo for a few minutes and
contrkbands asleep in tee door
it makes me feel so much happier.
how the effieiency of her nursing
You see,t ant not afraid of whet entrees
Alsoldter comes in with a pail
after—the chop/alit said I was all right
h water, sets k down, lights his .—and 1 know what mother taught me
the la merit, aeke, when it is true, but itithe gang that fright -
Lo draw, if there is anything ens rne. I feel well, yon know, if
wautea, and being a119 weted m some one uould go with we 1 should
Igytive stretches himself otitside be all tight. It's queer not to have
waren earth foe soother nap.
- any one with me, to leave even nry
were between the fire of two armies,
that wasn't for long.and it wasn't
as bad as it had liPTICA tO be trampled
on by our own heroes.
leer sick boyte feticiee. She steps from Oen. Pleasouton tried to check them
the doorway and ite faint dean of the at first, hilt saw it was hopeless to
eotning morning into the yellow circleattempt to reform there. Ail we
of night light, to get the' bugle, allude gathericl was that •Stonewall was iu
tiering a little as she does so. This the rear. Away they went and dise
fatal hour that closes night and beluga appeared over the ridge; (Noin ' I feel
us a new day is always hardest forth° i better now. Then 1 tell you there
nurse as welt as patient, and here in I was confusion 1 The batteries had no
this hospital at the front there iii noth•,, common commander. leech othcet
utg to soften the change. The woman's gave orders indeperdently. 1 can
httert feels the breath ef deatleceld in hear
the mem. ' Fire
Alother Merton's tender love yearns Clairol
over the poor hoy, whotse fight is ale and s
Moat done, Sitting down irk the door- some caissons and a gun after the fly-
ing eorps. Sueh a tumult as followed!
Every gunner was trying to work for
himself, and it seemed to, um for a -
Moment as if ontehelf of ue would
blow the other half into eternity be-
fore things could be righted. But it
Was only a tnintlte: (1 think I could
breathe easier if you'd put something
more under any ).zeate—therel Thanks )
Above the tumult we heard,Gen. Pleas-
anton's voice ring out, .
way she smooths back the • yell°
lucks and asks hint if there its anything
440 she can, do for him. Slowly he
raises his oyes from the bugle, say-
ing "
Oh? no'm, One of 'the boys wrote
home for me last night. I want this
to give me courage. it won't be long
now, will it t •
Not long, sire answered gently.
I am glad of it.„1ain so tired- and.
cowardly, too. I'm afraid, so 1 want-
ed my bugle to help ine, It's bright,
isn't it 1 When I was first hurt mei
WH ley them all that night and day in
the pines. 1 kept my patience by
polishing it on my jacket. I didn't
think then that I was plush hurt, not
uearly tto bad as come of 'ern,
So he talks en in broken tones, but we needed time I
eagerly, as if her listening gives help Then Gen. Pleasanton gave his or -
to hie lonely eoul, facing in that hush, flees to Keener):
ed hour the great eternity. Major you must charge with your
Mottle'. Merton, knowing well that men and hold the enemy till 1 get
companionship was the host comfort these galls into position. We must
she could offal now, Softly asks have AIN minutes at all costs.
liow does the bugle help you, Clay- How our blood tingled 1 Why any
Man of us could have charged them
alone. 1 looked around for my
brother but couldn't See *fijrn. Shep-
pard,rny comrade, sort )04' laughed,
not happy, but gririlike.ernd said : •
• 1 gimes 1 shan'treieve: any message
for you or you for me, we are both
booked this time, Cleytop. I laughed
fur 1 felt as easy as could be, and
waited with my pligle up, ready to
sound the ad% mice, '
Hale 'women addittlin water to body that el me, you see how it jot
ug drink she haa been peeper- is as if vou hadn't even yourself any
1 marries it to the strong man tong
er But what was 1going to sayl
°44•11" who'wilti with lever, 18 Its.entin 1 011, yes, the boys, you soef
incoherently of the hay flekis
they've done it, so I like to think and
puof his 11-ew Ilanyellirefarrn.
, talk abuut them, (es, just a
kis The cup with ererclied heal low, thank yeti )
ehriv.
jet) ws• *Vetoes good for hayin.l,
to'ihri right iput.'
thea ithe urns to another,
hoht low- and helps him
00 spot OH ht l hard bed,
gees patiandly around.
Major Keenan wheeled around and
gave rhe order so all could hear
Boys, it's a forlorn hope for us, but
We the' only hope for the army.
Charge 1
So I bounded my dear old bugle for
the last time—no retreat was ever
needed—apri we went in.
We charged with seah a rush that,
only three huittlred horsemen as we
were, we staggered Lite onset of twenty
thousand fighting ROM. Jscksltfl
StOrpeti.fkild reformed.his lino, op-
posing of course that more were oem.
ing, But there were no rilore to
yowl; no mere, we algae must hold
them. Alt 1 drawing his breath
through shut teeth. What a Moment
of horror that was 1 The night Was
falling, thesmoke and shadows shut
ea in there with the enemy, away from
our men. Ali that iustant the
certainty of death rushed upon ns bbs
Olghttottri*. Well, we didn't stop long
to feel, bet charged 'twilit. They
received us with the fierce rebel yell
and closing in around our troop tried
to sweep us from their path,
With a cry of Courage, boys I Kee-,
nan died.
We fought on stubbornly then, sell-
ing our lives dear, Thee T. hardly
You eee, it hipponed this way knew "at liallPeod3 only 1 was down.
We were wining in is ma/ opening .It seemed as if the blood would drown
the pines by a cult path. There was
our Veep. fear Of Sickle's battalion The sett I know was the era,b,
the batterha and the whir,
ng I attery under General d
yt
PhAseriton. 82ckles Iiiinself VisS hi'6 he/14.11 head. 1hu
etp of tl s v r my
our rear. We werA retell eagy, Man Ikext tittst4a 'Himself. nu ins
adopt and cheer te ell. She for wt' iiutht itily ides, Haat itiW an s .
tir4/44° ts Y"eg leelei werenourme their wey ilerre4 "'vfY"" it ?The guns
doot*Art • ilJA tuuta.. t_there Row, ire at w,.2rk t Then lie dl upped batik .
1at)
,.. -
How to (,,te Rid et' the T4t4I retro.
miniIm nt
Telies .
e N. P. Was ado by Sir JAR
11Iaodoualcl arra means of seunriug rektie
procity at the heeds If our neiehbore.
As Ste John himself put 'Of we cermet
get reciprocity of trade we twist bee*
reeiprocity of tariffs, but •to tined:I
we have been unable WI get any thing
in the shape of reel procal :rade relation*.
As a matter of fact the tendency is all -
in the other chreetion,as the el eKinlett
Bill.plainly proves, every artiole tete
farmer produces being thud ou solve*
into the United States, just no 'awok4
every article °entitle front the States et
taxed on entering Canada. There bpi
been enough of this tea warfare.
The natural marlret of this country le
the United States, and for Canada rex
carry an a tariff war with a nation of
60,000,014 people is to cut her 0 We
throat. it was in 1878 that 4ir Joke,
promised to get reciprocity of trade
with the United States and he has no
got it yet. Why should not .the Lib**
ale begiven a &lance to show wleete
they can dot Matters are about as, halt
oow as they can oe 'nada and there
no telling what injury the leIcKiuler
Bill will do the agricultnrel interaril,
of the countey,before it is repealed. 1.%
is surely worth while trying the Liberk,
els to see if they cannot get the Megin.
ley Bill repealed and a treaty if
reciprocity made with our neighbeete
bi face and
arid in his
t e morning
ring oat °ire'. the
y, rousing the minded
on th.'cotts, the general in his tent
wakes the heron by the river end.tunes
the dirge to jubilee.
But the lasttiote breeks and fails
the bugler falls back, and before the
first echo dies away another hero has
joined Keenan's troop.
e'er Influenza or "La Gripre" Wilson%
Compound Syrup of Wild Cherry is it auto
and sato remedy. There bine betttr meth -
eine for the cure of Influenza, Bronehitis
Coughs, Colds,Croup and kindred diseases'
Gat the genuine in white wrappers.
teeficint be'yond 010 W14 'ivno 014 tLa 44antilo ft# 4 Ode wo
jA
_et
Pint little girle-Thon't you associate
with that little girl 'I
Second little indeed. We
dou't move in the same set at all, Ile
family is below us.
Pint little girl--ts they
'Second &tat g(rl—Yea,
live* the ,at 4boye ae/
54
Toey
MA'AM TO MOTHERIL—Are yon disturbed At mght
and broken of your rest by a slekehlhi stigethig
crying with pain of Cutting Teeth? If so send 14
once and got a bottle of ' Mr. Mallow's Soothhig
Syrup" for Children Teething. Its ralue is incalmr..
able, will relieve the poor little • suffer
er
immediately. Depend upon it, mothers ; there le nis•
ndigake about it. It cures Dysentery and &Sambre* •
regulates the -Stomach and Bowels, cures Wind Clh
oe,
softens the Gums, reduces Inflammation, and fettali
Ana and energy to the whole system. " Airs, WM;
s
loow'Soothing Syrup " for children teething
pleasant to the taste and is the prescription of one of
the oldest and best female physicians and nuties
the United States, and is for sale by su druggist.* •
throne:haul, the world. PrIcaAwenty.flve cents
" *a
bottle. Be sure and ask ibr Alas. Wm:mama
Somme Suter .m) takei other.kind
What Kra Graudy says.
That it is a poor compliment to a
society wotuau to have Jenkins *teli
who she was.
That it seems to be a reticle mooted
question whether professional politi-
cians are honest.
That fashionable people of tosday
are no more affected by scandal theft
a rahl day.
That it must needs be a cast-iroet
will that eannot be broken 'in these
days.
That the stringency of the money
market does not seem to decrease the
crowds shopping. s
That so many fashionable dross'
makers have brought about the sharp-
est competition.
That no one oould enumerate tile'
number of men of note who live a
double life.
That people have become weary rife
seeing the same names everlastingly its
society news.
That the so-called fashionable stxlis
of band shaking is worthy of fools.
That subscrihera to every ft‘shioit4
able (home are not often down on this -
charity list. •
That a lr
ack of conscience is no, rsa,
obstacle nowadays to fashions ble
That true friends never wait to be.asked to conte to us hi time of lecture-
eity,
Owing to the unprecedented demand far,
plate;glass tit has advanced considerably is,
price. Messrs Melatialand & fion4Torollta.e
fortunately made a contraot beton tit,*
advance for a very 000siderabletittaittlby,
and are thus enabled, to.offor their puttees,
this season a decided advantage prim?,
the quality being superior to a my ever prf:T=
viously imported..
On the firat of 'Tanury last the new
law representing dogs came into fore*
Under this law there is ait anima tee.
of ono dollar on each dog mut two,
dollar* oftener) bitch in every meal*
cipality itt ()Mario, but the taw pro-
vides th at houid tWenty.6ve rtitepaye re
petition the coakeul cf their Triattioi •
pality, the eouneil may pass a by-law
that the said talc or t'lity part of iti
shall not be levied in said munieipali.
ty. Should such bylaw not ba passed
then the eollution of the tax i4
core pulsory on the
'let Grippes
Id simply veidernio laditeete; Wrisee%
Oherry will cure it veal sol quiokle-
(.4,1i the gnaw*, white vrarepera kale,
"reel toe; It s# thrikuieu fur ludissuls$1116
•
4
014 Ana
•,What lish is al*
Tte kale,
what, p.i,ittiitl neVti
goo.
What animal so
Ttift 00800,
• rrOlti" SYhISb
Po vat.i:,
Where 1 124peine
rdintiontir,
Where are mules
Vliere are tows t
In the (jnywise%
Why is it cat's fit
is fur to the itd
It lett kin is the
-door? it is a stepef
When is tt chair
'When it le sat itt.'
When is a barn
l41)515 it becomes a
Wl'at did Adam
gimlet, of Edo" 1-;
What fish would
Milt 1 The hillier's
yam, bird -reel
edit balky 1 The tire
et\ hut fish would
nape ihe -net ? The
Why is Intel) lilt
tel 'chines to ell
Ity is a mouse
,8coc u se the cat 11
'in ct bat key dOi
.141 tile key ef be
Why (lore tin ()I
teae To keep tit
Settee ate you
1li'n 1 am 25 liLt
Whet atieks ck
postage titloW,
a:)‘u‘ttuliWay1:14::(1.atintt,Riacii(pTii
area ed 1 Just bei,
What bird is ft,
like xleatil 1 It's h
From what e
'aockney's horses
Why does a
too
givi
end pay the dont
,When does
Ne hen he it
ttititriVI:Itilayt ein
ve:: om
EierN8V.hy are tl
Heaven ? They
in, this.
Why is, tbe 1
locomotive1 E
What -is the ri
leaking bee; y
red ear.
What tWo
Nether make
Alta.
aVhriellool ‘oc•ry
.goodl,
egried out.
What lIattle
boy 1 Thirtee
tiltee and earn
Why istbel
cb'1d1 Because
*finally :linty,
Wby s it WI
ltics deformed
where here fa
t
122toeoWvdellottat:ninaaaciteuestle?t1
Why do yor
it brave bird 1
show a white
Why is the
spending the
(Oise (s)
Why tic dtt
glessit Tope
more than WI
Why le a oi
liYse21 p unv•I
t'ae 0120 side