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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1888-8-3, Page 2V AR'S OBI L L. 4 ?peek was the tallest eel alas ref tiny time at Peeved. saw him welkuag ego day selferi p i felt really et through jeeatoes • Ohre dear Dad deme biose time bat Before Chattetr.tsh•, I was passing the through camp is my uniform w r- • •e see I was EI- gent i. the Harvard bamle» of the Ws admirer. Bet that steer. Third Yhs asehesett•, when I saw an or - meek •' 1 m.t EMi• a tads lets.. deny =wise home Holdrtek's regiment, •Imatt the old Law &howl, sear the with a Dote few the Geastral truss Cul. yp� , I was ball angry with Holditoh. He wore the gray stuff, with Sur let Oohing to Tyask. She blusbed blse fsotna, of the Sewed Connecticut e' l tip, sae n d 1 pet a wwig int..- We recognised .ace other at the first pre es her bla•hes. Elsie," 1 gleam ' It was Meade Tyack. it I celled lar even then by her Everybody in the north volunteered RrMias Same, "thea woo Claud... in those days, had some of se who voi- le* brae talking with you!" untested tram fest tc be field officers, Vaie looked me full in the face with while other of ee .geelly well bern and Mr brown eyes, and answered wooly, bred, remained to the reeks for mouths "Mie bee, Walter, and lis very sorry fur together• ?meek aid I were am.mg tha lie? residuum. He flawed at me curtly and wary for him "' I cried, somewbat passed on. I somehow felt. I don't ► N• tan,. "why .or.,1 What'. know why, thea the hour of his revenge =era ur saying that you abs old could sot be far distant be-tgrry for r' 1 .at down'io m teat that night and 1 *poke roughly, I suppose. I was wrote to LI"'It wall Elbie who bad p legot toad 1 vas angry. E.sie turned wished me to volunteer. I wrote to her bat frig brown eyes upon me once more wbenerar an °weaiuo offered, A mail aid said wily, "l'in very sorry for him. was going out that evening tram the Iger. poor fellow ! I'm vary carry '• field. I told her all about the expected toxin.," 1 answered, "yoa've uu right battle. bot I stud never • word about he speak so about any other fellow. poor Tyack. $, ack's been making love to you. I= Just ss we were tormiog in for the (tem of that Why did you let him 1 night • United States mail eras datrib- iM're mice now sud I claim the whole u=d to ted detachment I opened my et you.'' letter from Elsie with trembling bogera To my great surprise, Elsie suddenly She wrote as ever, toll of tears sod bop - beat into tears, and walked away with- es. A little poet -script ended the letter. Oat answering me anything. I was hot "I beer," aha said, "that poor Claud. end uncomfortable, but I let her go. I Tyack is with you io Burnside's divisio.. didn't even try In any way to atop her I shall Dever nee" to be sorry for him. er ask her why .he should cry w strange- If Pourable, try and • mate lour 9wrr.l ly. I only knew, like a foolish boy as I up before battle. I couldn't beer to wee, that toy heart was full of wrath and think he might be killed, and you unfor- resentment against Tysok. giveQ- That memoir I met halo again in the I eat long with the letter in my hand. dialog-ball—The old hall on the college A battle is s very serious thing. If ly- square that prroeded the big memorial ick bad been there in the tent that even - building we of the Harvard brigade bet ing, 1 think I should have taken Elsie's tap !cog afterwards in honor of the boys advice and maim it all up with him who fell in the great struggle. I looked And then things u%uld hare been very at him angrily and spoke angrily. et- different. ter that we went out together in the col As I sat there musing with the !atter air. Tysck was flushed and still angrier still in ray fingers, the drum beet awl - than I. "You want to triumph over dooly, sod we beard the signal for form- ula," he said in a tierce way, as we battalion. it was the night surprise : reached the doer. "That is mean and Whelock and Bonsejour were upon us aageneroos. You might do better. In suddenly. Everybody knows what Chat - your place I would have more magnanim- tawauga was like. We fought hard, bot ity" the circumstances were leanest the I didn't know what on e.rth+he meant, against the Harvard battalion. Though bat my hot French blood boiled up at Bermuda held his own in the centre to osoe—the Pon.vds came over with the be sure, the right wing had a bad time first Huguenot refugees in the Eroigile of it, and seventy-two of us Harvard `rmo"- —and I answered hastily, "No man calls boys were taken prisoners. I am not me mean for nothing. Blow follows writing a history of the war, so I shall word with men o1 u,y sort, Tyack, In, only say, without attempting to explain salt Inc again, and you know what you'll it, that we were marched off at Dom tc get f. or it. " Bosn,jour'• rear, and sent off at once to "You are • foot and a coward,' he Richmond. There we remained for five cried through ha clenched teeth. No mouths, clow prisoners, without one gentleman would eo treat • conquered word from hams, and what to me was rival. Isn't it enough that yoo have ten thousand times worse, without Dos - beaten me and crushed mei Need moo ability of communicating with Elsie. dance spun me and kirk my corpse after- Elsie, no doubt, would think I was deed. ward. ; ' That thought alone was • perpetual tor - I don t know what i ar,.wered back, 1 taro to nee., Would Tyack take advan- failed to understand him still, but I saw tape of my absence 1 Elsie was mine ; I he was furious, and 1 only felt the ansa knew I could trust her, rier for that ; but I struck him in the At the end of five mouths the other ha, and I told him if hb wished it to b• ateo were roles•ed on parole. They of - open war, war it should be with no gown- gored me the same terms, but I refused ter. to accept them. It seemed to in. a question of principle. I had pledged my word already to fight to the death for my country, and I couldn't forswear my- self y- ee f by making terms with rebels. We of old New England stock took • serious view of the war and its meaning ; we didn't look upon it as • vast national armed picnic party. Even for Elsie's sake, I would not consent to purchase • useless freedom by what I regarded as a public treachery. I oould not have lov- ed Elsie no much, "loved I not honor more," as the poet of our oommon coun- try phrases it. I nes left the oily prisoner in the old barracks in Clay street, Richmond, and of curse I was accordingly but little guarded. A few weeks later an oppor- tunity occurred for me to et away. A New songs. wittiest treating her, trust re•. Yoe wail red yes have psseukd • dnsges.raa easemy. Ct.Acus Trac.. 1 breathed freer. Then he wooed not NB himself. 1 dos% seed '!root of Mnpne.s het I ehoay hagi'busa sorry le bear the geil et him blood opus ne. Neat aurwieg Tye& had gess fres Ca.abridge, bed eobody knew where he had betakes Maleoli. tt. hell. I. =Tarsti11 I could hardly believe my eyes when lee drew himself up to his full height and without uttering a word stalked haughti- ly off, his face purple with suppressed wrath, and his laps quivering, but self- controlled and outwardly calm in his gait and movement I thought be must be going to challenw me—in those day ensiling was not yet utterly dead even ie the north—and I waited for the chal- lenge with some eagerness ; but no lenge ever came. I never saw Claude Tyack again till I met him in the Second Cusneattoot Regiment, jest beton the battle, trembling with excitement, and after our easy American fashion asked at the door to see Miss Elsie. Elsie came down tome alone an fhe dining room ; ber eyes were still a little swollen with crying, but she looked even lovelier and wounded soldier from the (root, straggl. geotler than ever. 1 asked her whet ing in by himself from the entrench - had passed between her and Tyack, and menti, fainted opposite the Clay Street she told me in simple words astury that, Barracks, and was hastily hurried in and sagry as I was, soot a thrill of regret put to bed there, the hospital accommo- and remorse through my inmost being. dation in the city being already more Tyack had ousse up to her that after- than overcrowded. In the dusk of moon io the Elm acetone she said, aid the evening I conveyed clothe s after gently leading up to!it by half hints to my owe room, and next da y i put whose meaning she Dever perceived till them on. a tattered and bloodstained afterwards, bad surprised her at last by Confederate uniform. Then, having asking her outright tr, be he wife mad shaved off my beard with • piece of hoop make him happy forever and ever. iroe, well sharpened against • bone, 1 Elsie was so breathless at this ones- passed out boldly before the very eyes of patted declaration that she had Dot even the lounging sentry, and made my way premium of mind to tail him at Dom of acres the streets of the half-bele•gured oar virtual engagement ; and Tyack see- city- i waited till nightfall in the ro- ing her hesitate and temporize, went on toads of the Exchange Hotel in Frank - reg in the profoundest terms of love iln street, where • man sat and smoked .tectirse, till her woman's heart was and discussed the news ; and when the Meshed with pity. "He said he could j lamps began to be lighted around the =know another happy moment, ' Stab Cepit,l, I slunk off along the whispered, "unless I would have riverside, no as to avoid being hailed sad Me, Walter ; and as he said it i knew she/longed by the sentries, who held all by hie eyes that he really meant it" approaches Irma the direction fo Wash - "And what did youanewer 1 i asked ington. 15 an agoey of doubt, my heart mega.• In those days, 1 need not hardly say, leg >M for my anger that eveeing. .frons lines of earthworks were draw. "I said to him, •Oh, Mr Tyack, I an,wnd Riehmood city on the north, horsy ne mean it, and if it weren't that east, and west, where Los was defend - I love Welts Pon.ard with all a noel, ing it ; and it was only along the river 1 think oat of very pity I should have to ainthwerd that any road was left fairly marry you.' " np n iota the enuctry- i went up the "You said that," f cried, the devil river hank, tb.retore, onward and ,n- withia as getting the better of one for a ward, till the city lights faded slowly one moment. by one, into the darkness behind use. "Yea, Walter, 1 said that And )Ir 1 passed a few soldiers here and there oc Tyaek pee a sort of low, sopperaed. the mad, bat my cnefedente uniform sobbing my like a man whoa. heartis enAkiently protected me from any un- derlaid through. I freak, sod rannad DM favorable notice. if any of teem bailed two hands upon hie breast sod staggered away as if I had .hot him" "Eteiet " 1 sried,takiag her white hand to a tit of car srss " I esdevrnd it all Dow. 1 hope to `te eaves we haven't be 'wean se, soot tbet man Tyesh to blew Ins brains net, sr jump into (b. river.. Whew i got hash to my resume • little post 'midnight, I friend a seer lying us my table. This is what it said : Watson Pn,eaaan : Toa have treated me brutally. No honorable w would est as you have dose Yet, for bar nab•, I mimeo ben reetaraleg the blew Sea pyo ase. Met trtenentr 'my ewe s with a "Rollo, stranger ! where .,e , you of this time of evening r my ase - wax was easy, "Straight from the front flick 1eays. Jost discharged form bra_ I petal in Lee's divi•i .. " riowtherm I • chivalry nodded and pasted on without farther parley. i was going is fact in She wm.g direetles for my geewtions to 1 he asked am in passing. Everybod f rem the meth was berryieg to the beet; a wounded soldier strwwgling horeew.,d eatsested hat Iittle attention. 1 walked in aad on, alwaysalong the honk of the dart river, 1111 1 ba a host reached Um point where the Appestat - THE HURON SIGNAL, FRIDAY, AUG. 3, 1888. Sus WM is the James. 1 wanted to mesh aha awrsMrta lives. and eo get W them 1 meet somehow green aha neer. It was posh dark, now, • nimaleen sight in arty December, and even in V trgwt• the waiter ss. that season was alma ire gold in the tidal sites,,. Bet 1 knew 1 assent swims it, souses er hast, and the vetoer I triad it the better new my loos& 1 had sates neyisg rinse Mae - roe aha berresk. sed I shield probably get nothing to est snail 1 mailed Bars - side's .ray. Tonight, therefore I was oorepsrtively rause ; the lespr I drap- ed, the weaker woad my ms.dm grow wadi imager. To lie oat alt might es the grassed in the cold is sot the batt pay of preparing one's self fee swimming • miles width of chilly river. Besides, I was almost certain to be observed in the daytime, and shut like • dug, by the one as • spy, or by the other as a deserter. My only chews lay in trying at by night, so 1 plunged w boldly just as I found myself. 1 shall never forget that awful swiss in the dead of night aeries the tidal water of the Jaoies neer. The stare were shaniog dimly overhead through the valley mist, and by the aid of the Great Blear ; tur 1 did not know the pole star then • I swam roughly in what I took to be • general northeastward direction to- ward the shore opposite. In • hundred yards or so the southern buck became soil= invisible, told 1 could out hope to see the northern until i bad come within about the same distance of it All the rest of the way I swam by the aid of the stars alone, so far as guidance or mxapsen went and this compelled me to kap my eyes straining pretty steadily upwards. and to hold up nem head in • most diffi- cult unnatural posiucn oo the surface of the water. The ice-cold stream chilled my frozen limbs, and the gloom and the silence overawed and appalled me. 1 don't know how lung I took swim- ming =roes ; rase in such circumstan- ces cannot be measured by more mon- utee. I only know it seemed to ins then a whole eternity. Stroke after stroke, I swam mechanically on, each movement of my thighs coming harder and harder. My trousers impeded my movement terribly ; and though I had thrown off my coat on the further bank, to leave tho arms free, the boots which I had tied around my neck made •wirIming more difficult, and weighted my bead from ob- serving my star guides. Still I went un in dogged fashion, my limbs moving as if by clockwork. I must have been nearly throe -quarters of the way across when I became aware of a new terror unexpectedly confronting me. My eyes had been fixed steadily upon the stars, w I had n..t noticed it before : and the nuiseleses working of the little screw had escaped my ears, eren in that ghastly silence. Put, eating $ hasty glom down the neer sideway, I noticed all at once, with a thrill and horror, that a small steam launch, making up steam, was almost upon me. I knew immed- iately what she must be—the launch of the Rsppanhannock, a Confederate iron- clad, on her way up from Chesapeake Bay to the quays at Richmond. I must live it out to get back to Elsie. That was the one thought that made up my whole being, as I lay there motion- less, floating on the still water, numbed with cold, and half dead with my exer- tions. I dared not move least the launch should sen by the dancing reflection of her light on the rippled waves 1 made, then was something astir ahead, and should give me chase and capture me as a deserter. I floated like a log on the silent surface, and waited with upturned face end closed eyes for the Lunch to pass byme-- or run over me As Ifloated I heard her screw draw' nearer and nearer. I wondered whether I lay direct in ber cource. If so, no help for it ; she must run me down. It was safer so than to swim away and attract attention. I turnei my eyes sideways and opened them cautiously as the nomas came dose. By heavens, yes : she was heading straight for me ! At Harvard I bad always been • good diver. I dived now, noiselessly and imperceptibly ; it would almost be truer to say I let my self co ander without conscious movement The water closed about my face at once. I seemed to feel something glide above nee. I was dimly aware .d the recoil from the screw. I abut my eyes once more, and held my breath in my fall chest. Next instant I was whirled by the after current back to the surface in the wide of the *crow, and saw the white stars still •haoeug above me. "Something black on the water," shouted a voice behind. "Otter, i take it ; or might be a nigger contraband bound north. Whichever it is, 1'11 have • cock -shot at It, Captain, anyway. I dived again at he word, half dead with cold and fear ; and even as I dived felt rather than heard the thud and hiss of a rifle bullet ricocheting on the water, Just at the very point where my head had rested an instant earlier. JI 'Otter ! ' the voice said •gain, as reached the surface, numbed and breath- less, more dead than alive, and afraid to let anything but my mouth and ears rise above the black level of the water. And the steam launch mored steadily on her her way withoot waiting to take any further notice of use. The danger was past once more for the *torment, but I was too exhausted to swim any further. deadened in my limbs with cold as 1 was, and cramped with my exertions, f eould only float face up- wards on my back, and soon became almost senselem from exposure. Every now and strain, indeed, oonsoiiusow seemed to return fitfully for a moonset. and i struck out in blind energy with my legs, i knew not in what direction ; • hot for the most pan I merely floated eke • log down 'tram, allowing myself I to he carried resistlessly before the *log- 1 flash Dumont. As day broke I revived a little I asst then have been at Mast thrall hosts a the ie•-enld erste,. I saw land *this hundred yards of in., With Dee den. pairing final effort, i know not how, 1 struck oat with my lees like galvanized Oahe and made for it—for lead sad Elsie, sable. 1 Enteral emyealt op lead, ram the meddy ti a! Le, .red ?seed in ted midst of that terrible. reampy regime kauwa as the Wilder- ness, the soiree of ties ehiel eerie strag- gle whore Iwo and Ytunewall Judaea steed at kit/ like weseisd ti . ra Whoa I ata to rt.aliss my mewl dight I begs. to fed what a fool I had Wm to roe away from Redwood. 1 um these us the horse and drip- ping here from ad to foot, my soaked bores hangieg .solves rotted my seen, my blood °killed, my limbs alumnae, m7 heart almost d.aJ, and yet with a terrt- bl. scow of fever in may 'mid lips, and • a tierce throbbing ismt aching head. I had no feud, and no Ames of ratting any. Arornd ree stretched that broken, marshy country, eheresting between tutsaim .w•espy bottoms and pickets held the chief points everywhere ; to show myself before Maar in my wet sadwed Coafedsrats uniform would be w draw lire at mo - meet's notice. Whet to do I had uo conception ; I merely est there, my head io my hands, and waited and wasted and waited stall, till the sue was high up in the blank blue heaveas. I won't describe the eight days of speechless agcoy in the Wilderness. I mtadered up and down through the scrub and pine woods, not daring at first to show myself openly, and then, when hunger and fatigue at last conquered my fear, not knowing when to look for the Federal outposts. Night after night I lay upco the bare ground. in the higheet and driest part of the wild pine -barren., and saw the old .tan shining above, and heard the whip -poor -will .cream shrill overhead in the thick darkness. It was an swivel time ; I dare nut trust myself rvrra noir .real? ii i.o vividly. If it had toot 1 .. foe the weld persim- mon trees, indeed, 1 might have starved in that terrible week. But luckily the persimmons were very plentiful, and though a mao can't live on them forever w ith absolute omfort, they will serve to keep body and soul together somehow for • longer time than any other wild berry or fruit I know of. At last, on the fide morning, as I lay asleep on the ground, wearied and feverish, I felt myself rudely shaken by • rough haod, and,opening my eyes with a stare, saw to my joy the northern uni- form on the three men who stood around me. "Spy !" the sergeant said briefly. "Tie his ,bands, O'Grady. Lift ham up. March him before you.' I told them at once I was a moldier in the Harvard Battalion, escaped from Richmond, bot of course they din't and couldn't believe. My Confederate uni- form told too false a story. However, I was far too weak to march, and the men carried me, one of them going on to get me food and brandy ; for, spy or no spy. one thing was clear past all doubting, that I was so faint and ill with hunger aid exposure that to make me walk would have been sheer cruelty. "Take him to headquarters." my a tor ur my rescuer said in a short voice as soon as 1 had eaten and drunk greed ly the bread and meat and brandy tie first man had brought op for me. They tarried me to headquarters and brought me up before three Alarm The of&o.n gseetioued melclosely and incrudulomsly. They would hear noth ing of my being • Federal prisoner. T j uniform alone was enough to condom me. "Take him away and search him, they said peremptorily. The serm:man took me to • tett and arched we ; and found nothing, I knew thou what would happen sex They would try in. by a rode ruugb-and ready court-martial, and hang me for spy that very morning. As I'marehed oat from the serges.t tent again, absolutely despondent wit fatigue and fever, an officer in a major' snifcrm strolled casually toward ren. Promotioc was often very quick in those days. The major I saw at a glance, was Claude Tyaok. He skipped and gazed at me stem? for • moment Not a muscle of his face stirred or quivered. '•Sergaaet," ha said, in a cool, unconcerned tone, eyrie me from head to foot," "who's yo prisoner "One of Lee's spies," the sergeant an meted, carelessly. "Took him this moruing out on the Wilderness. Fourth we've taken this week anyhow. Th. Rebs are getting kinder desperate, I reckon." 1loked Claude Tyack beak in the face. He knew me perfectly, but never one instant quailed faltered. "What will you do with him r he repaired. "String bim up," the sergeant rept*, with a quiet grin. 1 stood still and said nothing. They took me back and held a shote informal drum bead court-martial. It m all occupied five minutes. A an's life counts for so little in woe time. I was ball dead already, and never li.teoed to it. The bitterness of death wee past for me long a.go. I stood bolt upright, my arms folded desperately in front, and faced Claud. Tyack. wittiest ever flinching. Claude Tyaek, who oeily look- ed on as a mere spectator, faced me is Morn, mute and elate, is solemn ex- pectation. ' Do mos admit you err a spy r' the pr.midintt "ilio.. asked me. "No," I replied, "1 am a Federal prisoner from Richmond, late sergeantasada n the Maueette enatingen "Cm you get anyone to idea tilj you r' "In Bern.ide'b division—yrs ; Deiie deeds." The presiding =Seer .mild grimly. "Burnside • division is a losg way 011.now," he said eaaly. "It mewed a11 month ago. Ws can't bring men • the way (rein Kentucky, you meow, to took t you. I bowed my bead. it mattered little. was too wearied out to light for my de any longer. I only thought of EMie'. maery. TDen 1 hems,* aware that Dimes. Tysck had j the ring • Wkskes • e., and was Io"Fmg at ems with red and rigid slterotmoo, "Nobody .earner r' the Atom asked. P- P- e - be n t t a 's • 7 E ren • Would Federal piek.ts he geardsse the phenol That was ay new anxiety. it so, my dens was sealed. Fortunate- ly the .here hers was •rtgw.rded ; b. - low Mit•hell's redoubt. indeed. Wttedt fromsthward wag always hey eves - kept kept my eye, riveted on Tyaek'a 1 amid net appeal to bim ; sot ems hr glide. He e.utd ser help sae 1 sewer kora kotill that mrmest I wag a fthem*read.. ; bet kms Tp.sk'e fres 1 ,m.4 ie aY —all h. wsa tkinkisg el it psand tlresgh his Mod ; teed it, aid felt nebula 1 .m w sol et a*vrwetly. 11 be showed me te be abet Thole sod then, he would not Daly wipe cat old .mores, but he would ales i• time marry Ekren. 1 saw these very words peniag rapid? tivuugh kis entrygaud—••If it were not that 1 love Walter Pwissid with all my teal, I think. Me Tyask. for yeey pay I should have to marry you Elbe woeld have te marry Um! Hs w ould go bask, eertaia el ay death ; be would tell her sll,mve this eseepteediri be would plead hard, as he had pleaded bie furs and thee, fur pity, Else would marry him ! Our eyes met still ; I returned he stare , tall and pale he stood a sirontng ate ; he gloated over my mislurt sue we spoke never • trued to one souther ; and yet we two sten knew perfectly in our own hearts each what the other was thiukimg• There was a deadly pause. The pre - aiding officer waited patio:10y. The words seemed to stink to say throat I moistened my laps with my tongue, sed w etted my larynx by swallowing. Then I said slowly, "Nobody aearar. " The presiding officer waited aeatn. Clearly ha was loath himself t. condemn • man so weak and ill as 1 was. At lot he cleared his throat nervously, end tarred to the court with an wgiinog gesture. Theo Claude Tyack took three paces forward and .toed heft -re hut. The man seemed taller coal paler than ever. Great drupe of dew gathered ou hie brow. His lips and nostrils quivered with emotion. A frightful struggle was going on within ham. The demos of revenge --just revenge, tf revenge is ever joie—for an uodeeerred insult -1 recog- nized that—fought for mestere in hie soul with right and mercy. "I need not identify him; he stied aloud, clasping ha two hands one over the other, sad talking as in • dream. "1 am not called to give evidence. He has never asked me !" "I will never ask mos, I replied with dogc•d despair,. "You have found me, ch, my enemy ! 1 have wronged you bitterly. I know it sed regret at. I w ill ask your forgiveness, but never your mercy.' Claude Trick held up his hands, like • child, to his face. He vasa rugged mao now,though still young and handsome . but the tear rolled slowly, ter?.lues? , oat after eseeber, Join Vie V> ckeahs. "Yen shall hen my sera', be asswendate gt with a groan. "lm - arose you do not ask it ; but never, never, never, my forgivenese. For Elsie s sake, I cannot let her loner be shot for • traitor.' The presiding officer caught at at all as if by instinct "You know this lean, Maior Tyack i" he asked, quietly. "1 kuuw him. Cul. Libthotbe. "Who is he r Th. words came as if from the depthe of the grave. "Walter l onsard. Ser- pent of the Harvard Battalion, laird Maasachusetta Iofantry, Buro,ide s diri- seon. He was missing aecro months ago, after Chattawaoge "The name and description he gave himself. That is quite sufficient The pncoor is discharged. Serer. P:,nsard, you shall be taken care of. Tyack, • word with you." III. When I next was conscious, 1 found myself lying in a hospital at W asbaogt.,o. Elsie, in a nerve's dress, was leaning over my bed. She kissed me on the forehead. "How abuut 7 yack 1 I asked eargerly. "Hash, hush !" she whispered, mo..th ing my cheek. '-You muan't talk, darl- ing. The fever has been terrible. We Lever thought your life would ne reared for rm." "But Tyack," I cried. "1 must hear of him ! He bast shot himself 1 His face was so terrible ! I could never live if I thought I had killed him. "He is there," Elms whispered, point- ing with her hand to the adjoining bed. "Wounded the very next day at the fl;ht at Fredenck,burg. I have nursed yew both. Hush, now, bosh darling'" • he died now, be died for he count world of ours. He had had hu ordeal, yuor breathing machinery. Very nun. andd mused through it like a man and • dark,' riti.chiasry it u. Not .Wily the s Mese weepw =«arae. • Appetites e was 441be saprigj•ga is the spree, seismal/ es break - lasta. Duu't tune. the (a tdp gyitat at tbi.mosses tamptampwrath are eel rebell- e d. It is out prurdw dishes • Dish will be emu with d nk Vat awl .r.,u1J awl be raved at More thew one o re•kn feet as • week. Vary the fere by g am hurray, crooked wheat, wheat g ra, yellow arra regal, ata legs ermismd, poschd, boiled, and oo•ked in the forms of modern, should be seed free- ly. Beetled halt, thin slanm tit ham, of txesllesdeo .0 baou uesly broiled, beetled uc chops, •ud add osetuually a sleek, salt tnh ie craven esu,., corned bed hash, bashed newt ulA Inc..... of ohick- or veal—here are aeabu.•hle dishes Have potatoes o Joked to steeple, savory says. L.t the bread be light and well baked. Alsays have sures Land of coarw bread, either nut ur Mid Dry, water and mak toasts, are all good for breekfmt. Avoid tried food. When tolled the meat ..r tab ?ernes • part of hLamaism in spring, at se a good plan to b... a dish (.1 water -cremes or radish- es uu the table. Have fruit on the table when you can, and • few dowers, if possible. A few dower, aid • bit of ore is bnug a great .teal of amidstoe to the table. It takes thought awl tams t., prepare thole asvury dishes whack are ✓ es desirable at this somas, bat it pays to goo the Nuo.,Kbt and time To the ironer --aid vie are alimat all workers— it makes couaiderable difference all day long *Letitia • ileaileastart is leads to the moraine, Ti. mao or suwan who be- gets :he dy nab a bot, well cooked, simple b ? easet will get through bus or end.her work an • hundred per et. better mealitao,u thio he or she ab„ has • poor weal. As the heel lat part tit the duly wok usually Cowes between brvakfset and the wsd•day meal, all huuwkeepsse should do their part to seeks the battle of I,fe easy by providing proper food fur the morning meal. The tonic and alterative properties of Ayerteareapertlta are too well known to require the specious ud of an, 'wave • ted or fictitious certificate. Witnesses of the marvelous r arlous cus effected by this pre- p•rstio,n are to -day larsag au every city and hamlet of the land. r teesnee ane Frewhama. Nothing is so reprehensible as the American habit of saying da.a,reeekle Atop and calling thems habit fa.lianty or frankness. There is a very great ab- sence of that respect for others which is insisted upon an Europe, as from ser- vants 10 their employers, hotel keepers to their policies ; in fact. from use Ver- son to another. A lady stopping in a western hotel overheard the proprietor my to his clerk, as they were arranging • dingier table . "Well, where as Jim Garfield grin' to sit It would improve our national ttannere did we must on a more proper form of syesich. In Puritan Yan.eedum then was • de- light as plain truths winch was aocle- plimentary. "Ain't yuu lookin' • little than "- or "Wail, I see you are a-gettin' old as well as myself, or "Seems to w. you are a little down ' These are rude vulgar lel! assertions of en ry and • de- , sire to be superior. Let us hope that !this spirit will lire and dm an its own mountains. •— Mrs M E W Sherwood, Emus 1 ad.r.i.md. The cross of summer eomplamt, darrhoea, dysentery, cholera morbus, etc., are the esoeeatve heat satiric green fruit. impure water. over exertion and sodden che1L Dr Fowler. Wald Straw- berry is an ibfallible and prompt remedy 1 for all bowel c,mpltouts frog whatever muse. 2 Nothing that could be said regarding the prubhc crops in the Praire Provtare would be evagg.ratcd. it is estimated , that the surplus of sheat will be about 20,000,000 bushels and other gr..r. in proportion. I said r,o more, but cried silent? . I as glad his blued was not un my sad. � rave .here • Cesare. inIt the Duly just war ever waged on try That u to say, y',ar lung.. Also all soldier. and air-pasesge, but the thousands of Late that night I heard a noise and little tubes and cavities leading from bustle at my bedside. Soomebod teem. y was ...ten these are duetted and chocked talking low and earnestly. 1 turned round co my side and listened. Elsiewith carter which ought ,, to tie there, was standing by Tysck'. bed, and hold- your lungs cant), t half do there work. ing hishand tenderly in hen. I knew And whet they du, they cannot do y well. and was not surpn•md at her. "Elsie, Elsie," he said, in a tremulous tone, "press ire tighter. It will not be long now. I feel it creeping over inc. Ie Poniard onecioss r I sat up an my bed with delirious strength, in spite of Elsie, and creed aloud io a clear voice, "Tysck, I hear you. " 'Punaard, ' he said, turning his eyes and, without moving his neck, looking across at me, "I mid once I would never forgive you. I am sorry 1 said so. If there is anything' to forgive, I forgive it free) Before I die give me your band, Walter ' He had never called me Waiter before. The bet tears roes fast in my .yes, Feeble and ill as I wear 1 sprang from my bed Elsie clasped my lett hand tight and flung the mares coverlet loosely ironed one. I sat nu the edge of Tyack's bed, and grasped his hand hard in mine. Elms Mid hen over both She kissed me teaderly with her tremb- ling lips ; then she bent down and kissed the dying man too on his white forehead. His bald relaxed ; his lips quivered. "Elsie, good -by 1" ha said, slowly, and all was over. lisle gang her vee wildly around my neck. "Me saved your life,my darling,,' she cried. "Walter, i hoped I might have saved he for him." "it is better so, Elsie," i aaewered wick me siert ; sad thee I fell back fainting bestir hit.. The remedy whish most semerefel ..miste malarial disorders, is Ayer's Agee Core. jt is a purely vegetable semp.usd, and eustaies neither gelato. err say other dangerous iagvwdiq.t. Warranted to sere ehi1M and tever. Call it cold, cough, croup, pneumonia, catarrh, comes/ewe or any of the family of throat and now and head and les obstruction., all are bad. All I might to be got rid r.l. There is ;ate ose sure way to get rid of them that is take Ro•abee's German Syrup, which any druggist will sell you at 75 cents a bottle. Brea if everythng else has fai ed or artau.• you may depend upon the lolly It is staled nn the hest authority that the radians at Skeet= are honest and ID. offensive and the stories from there are doubtless largely exaggerated. Melbern'. Arvx.atee Cline= Rine is di.ti,uetly superior to any other as an appetising tonic and forth ]m ,John \Valdie, who represented the sonatitueney during nn! sermon of par- liament, is the choice of the Reform moment ion in Halloo, As • Healing, Soo hang application for outs, wounds, braises and epees, then e nothing better than Victoria CarbolicSalve. 1 to Mrs CREAM BALM TAW H IS WGItTH TO ANY MAY, mesau or em Si.serrormi from The prehability of the teensr et fltea- Net Lord sr eve ley Is migrates K heroism M repented with densr''e.';«&:CSay is matt:: elm A WWI, Attprzteselk.esetrti age ti Ovasnwes t