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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1898-12-8, Page 334 TER TI1VIES LOYE AND Ni R A STORY OF SLAVERY DAYS, By MAY 3, moungs. CliAl?TER, VIII. The day Ives ours, nobly WOO, Witi sweat and toil and blood, and the bray men who woa it were thiuking o th laurels eo laboriously earned, Whee. etul denly the entire scale was turned, and ere they knew whet: the,y were dotng the taxed, jaded troope found them- eelvee rushing headlong from the bat- l'""‘eaeafielecie aever $o much , as casting a baeleward glance, bat eaeli striving to out -run the other, and so eacape from ' they knew not what! HoW that panto happened no one min tell. Sortie*charg- ed it to the reckless conduct of a band of Regulars sent back for ammunition, and. °thee's- Upon the idle lookers-on, tba aurlotis ones, who bad. come "to see' the Rebelwhipped," arid who at the €e-flest intimation of defeat joined in the general stampede, milking the confue eion worse, and adding greatly to the fright of the flying multitude. - It was a strenge retreat, our soldiers made. AD. law and order were at an end, company mixed with company, re- giment with regiment, and together they rushed headlong down the hill, Many in their dismay fording the creek regardless of the shot and shell sent after them by the astonished foe, now really in pursuit. Some there were, however, who made the retreat more leisurely, and among these, Bill Baker. Remembering the mark he bad fixed in his own mind, he sought among the slain for Harry, find- ing him at last, trampled and aritshed by the flying troops. and. wholly un- recognizable by any save a brother's eye. Bill knew him, however, in a moment, but there was no time now to "do the tender," as he had purposed doing, There was danger in tarrying • • /mg, and with a shudder Bill bent over the mangled form, and with his jack-knife ,severed a lock of matted, bloodwet hair, taking also from the • pockets whatever of value they con- tained, not from any avaricious motive, but rather from a-fe,eling that the rebels should get nothing save the body. -- "A darned siglat goad Hal's carcass will do ye I" he said, shaking his fist defiantly in the direction. of the foe, "but the wurst is your own this hot weather,. if you don't bury him decept- ly ;" then turning to the lifeless gore, he continued: "Poor Hal I'm kind- er sorry you are dead- You had now nd then a strea,k of good about _von, and I'm sorry we ever quarreled,af, be, upon ray word, and I wish you could hear me say sca; but you. can't, knocked into a cocked. up hat asayou are, poor Hal. If there was a spot on your face as bag as a sixpence that wasn't smash- ed into a jelly, I'd kiss yoli just for the old woman's sake, but I swan if I can stomach it.! I might your hands, perhaps," and bending lower, Bill's • liaz touched the clammy fingers of the , dead.. ja_lere was something in the touch d whichf-ought to Bill's -heart a pang similar to the one he felt when he saw hisabrother fall, and, rising to his feet, he said, mournfully: "Good-bye, old Hal, I'm going now; I wish you. might go, too. Good -aye," a and wiping away a tear which felt much out of place on his rough cheek, walked. away, saying to binaself, "Poor Hat 1 I didn't &pose I had such a hank - ern' for him. Didn't s'pose cared for , nobody ; but such a day's work as this finds the soft spot in a feller's heart if he's got any. Poor Hal 1' Mother'll nigh about raise the ruff I" Thus soliloquizing Bill moved on, not rapidly as others did, but rather leisurely than otherwise. He seemed to be -benumbed, and did not care much what became of himself. Wading the stream be trudged on, now wondering, , "What the plague they all were run- ning. for, when they'd got the rascals licked," and again. anathematizing the , shot which fell around him. "Spole I care for you," he said, hit,' ting a spent ball a kiek. "S'pose care if I do get killed? better do that than to run." I Thena reflecting that to be shot in the back was not considered a distin- guished mark of honor, he hastened his legging steps until the shelter of the wood vvas reached. Bill was very aired, and feeling conaparatively safe, determined not to travel farther until he had had some rest. Hunting outae thick clump of underbrush near a, stream • of water, where he would be sheltered from observittiort, he crawled. into ets midst, and was ere long sleep- ing 601.1ndlY, wholly oblivious to the • strange sights and sounds around him, as squad after squad of soldiers later- a-ied by. Nleanwhile George Graham was sit- ting faint and. Weary beneath the tree, when the first token of the retreat met his view-. • "See, they are running," Isaac said, grasping his sound arm in sonie af- fright. "Let us run, too. You -lean on• me, and I'll lead you safely through." , With a hitter nioan, George attempt- ed to rise, but sank back again from utter exhaustion. A species. of apathy bad stolen overgatim, and he would ra- ther stay there and die, he said, then make the attempt to flee. ale did not think of Annie, until . asaat bending down, seal, entreatingly:. "It will be horrid for Annie to know you died, when you might have got away. Try • for Anniedi sake, can't yoke?" „. Yes, for Anetie's sake he could, and , at the mere inentionaof her name, the ' dine eye kindled, and the pale cheeks f slowed, while the wounded man made another effort to rise. tie succeeded t this (inie,"ana with slow steps the two • commenced their retreat. It was a f novel sight, that muscular man, towering head arid shoulders above the S frail boy, upon whom he leaned heavily P • for eupport-the generous Isaac, , who would not •leave him there alone, even P though be logav the danger 'wee in - earring aor, himself. "Thoy'll treat us cle,ecat if we're tak- en prisbnere, wont they, think?" he • asked, as the possibility or MI6 a cal- amity wee euggest eft to his mind. Not till then Tina GeOrge thought of the t. would not nio Her a Wound- ed Men, he was sare, but they might take him prisoner, arid de:1th itself was almost preferable to daye or captivity 1 alindine'S•"lehneinVg018Y1181Pdeeallsreousaelcrhy;mhi.nTO 1 e. l'efe, ancl with ft superhuman effort, he e hastened on, almost outrunning Isaac, a until they, toe, aad reached the friend ly woods where Hill bad already taken shelter. Just then a loaded wagon passed them, its frightened, excited oc- eupants paying no heed to Isaac's erY tor b.elp, until one whoa° uniform show- eetimhinEnigto: be an °Weer, sprang up, ex". "The strong mast give place to the aroun.ded. I can find my way to Wash- ington better than the bleeding man!" and Tom Carleton seized the reins with a grasp which brought thnfoaming eteeds, nearly to their haunehee. • The vehicle was stopped, and the next in-, slant Tom had. leaped upoa theeground, spraining his ankle severely, and reel- ing in his first pain against the as- tounded Isaac,. who cried out, joyfully: "Oh, Captain Carleton, save Lieu- tenant Graham, won't you? • We can 'avalk you and 1." Tom had not the lea,st euspicion as . to whom he was befriending until then, and now, unmindful of his own aching foot, he assisted George te the seat he had vaceted, and watched the party 1 without .a pang as they drove rapidly away, leaving him alone with Isaac. "We'll do the best we ca,n, my boy," he said cheerily, as he met the confid- ing, inquiring look bent upon him by Isaac, who, relieved of his former charge, felt now like leaning for pro- tection and guidance upon Captain carleton. t Alas, his hopes were short-lived, for a groan just then escaped from Tom's white lips, wrung out by the agony it coat him to step. Issac saw him stagger when he sprang, to the ground. and comprehending the base at once, he resumed bis burden of care, and kneeling before poor Tom, who had sunk upon the grass, he, rubbed the swollen limb as tenderly as.Rose her- self could have done. I "If we could only find some water," i Tom said, scanning' th.e appearance of the woods and judging , at last by indications which' seldom. failed, that there must be some not very far away. "There where the bushes are," he said, pointing toward. the. very spot where Bill lay snoring soundly; and dream- ing of robbing Parson Goodwin's or- chard,. in company with Hal.. "There must be, water. there, and human be- ings too, for I hear singing; don't you?" Isa.ao listened till he, too, caught a i strain of melody, as sad and low as if were a funeral dirge some one wan trilling there. "What can it mean?" Tom said. "Lend. me your hand, my boy, and !I'll soon find out." It was a harder task to move then he anticipated, for the ankle was swel- ling rapidly, and bearing, the least weight upon it made the pain intoler- able. leaning on Isaac's ehoulder, he managed to make slow • progress to- ward the stream bubbling so deliciods- ly among the grass, and toward the musio growing enore. and .more dis- tinct. It was reached at last, and the mys- tery was solved Leaning against a tree was a Confederate officer, whose wilite, face told plainer than words could tell that never again would he be seen in the pine -shadowed home he had left so unwillingly but a few months before. Beside him upon the grass lay a boy, scarcely more than, twelve years old, a drummer in a company of New England volunteers, beat little hands shot entirely off, and the bleeding stumps bound carefully up in the handkerchief , of th,c Rebel, who had smoLliered his own dying an- guish for the sake of comforting that poor child., sobbing so piteously svith pain. "I s'pose any of you was so good, or I ehealdn't have come to fight you. Oh, mother, mother, they do ache so, -my hands, -my hands!" he said, the cry of contrition ending in a childish wail for the mother sympathy never more to be experienced by that drummer boy. A smile flitte.d ticross the officer's face as he replied. "Had we: all known each other bet- ter, this war would nothave been," apd the noble foe held the boy closer to his bleeding boom, dipping his hand in the, running stream, and lav- ing the feverish brow where the drops of sweat were standing. "What makes you so kind to me?" the dying boy asked; his dim eyes gaz- ing wistfully into the face bending so sadly over him:, "I have a boy 'llibout your size, -- Charlie we call him," the stranger said. :And I am Charlie, too," the child replied, "Charlie Younglove, and my homeeis in New Hampshire, right on the mountain side. :Father is dead, and we are poor, mother and I. That's why I came to the war. I wanted to go to college. sometime. Do you think 111 die? 'Will never go home again? -never kee Mother nor little sister either?" The eolclier groaned, and- bent still closet; to the drunimer-boy. asking so earnestly if he must die,. How could he tell him yes, ana yet he telt he must; he would lick be faithful to his trust if he evithheld the knowledge, or failed to point; that dying one to the only eource Of life. "Yes, Charlie," he answered, mourt- ally, I thirik you will, Are, you afraia to die? Did your mother never you of Saviour?" "Yee, yes, 01) yes!" and the little am lighted up es at the mention of a dear friencl. ''I'eveut to Sunday cher)l end learned of ,Telis there. I've rayed to him every night and every morning same I Gerrie from home. I vornised her I would --amother I mean -and she prays, toe, She said so in ler letter, eight her in my jacket ocket. Dona eau want to read ita" The effteer elioole his hetta, and Char - is went 'Al "I didn't want ta fight to -day, be - env, I knew it was Sunday, but, eto, or tain away. Will God pan- el), tee for that, tliirik? Will ha turn me out af He:Lyon?" ' "No, tie, nol" and the North Carolinian's 'lure aropped Me rain uPen. the troubled face, upturned, se enxiouslY te his, "Goa will never peen- ieh those NOM put their trust in Jesus.' "I do, I dot" and tbe trembling voice grew fainter, adding, afte,r tsnlee: "You are a good men, kuow. You have been' to Sunday School, gues$, and you prayed this naorniag, didn't you?" 'The eoldier answered, "Yes," and the child continued: ' 'You are dying, too, 1 anoet know, for there's blood, all over ue. We'll the together, won't we, you and I? Will Ntirritaib baendwasroultzbi eaven, between the "No, Charlie. There is naught but peace in Flectien, and again thewhite hands laved the feverish forehead, for the eoldier would fillet keep that lit- tle spirit till. his eould join it cope: - Pal -1Y, ail d epoed away to the land where trouble is unknown. But it could not be, for Charlie' life was ebbing away; the last sand wa.s dropping froin the, glass. 'Closer the fair curly head' neetled to its stren.ge, pillowe-the bleeding boom of a foe,-ancl the lips murmured inco- herently of the elm -trees growing, neer the mountain' home, and 'the mother watching daily for her boy. Then the train of thought was changed, and Charlie heard the. bell just as it Peal- ed that morning from his own village spire. I-Iow grand the music was echo- ing through the Virginia woodas and the blue eye closed, as with a whisper be aeked: "Don't you hear the old bell at home, calling the folks to chureh? It has stopped now, and the children are P in gin g before the organ, 'Glory to God ma high.' I used to sing it with them. Do you knovv, it, 'Gloria, in ex- celsis?" "Yes, yes!" the soldier eagerly re- plied, glad to find thay were aoth of the same faith, -that little Yankee boy, been among the granitehills, and shoeilallorth Carolinian,born on Southern "Then sing it," Charlie whispered; "sing it, won't you? Maybe Pll go to sleep. I don't ache any now." With a mighty. . effort the soldier forced down his bitter grief, and. in a low, mournful tone, conamenced our beautiful church chant, the dying child for whom he sang, faintly join- ing with hien for a time, but the $weet voice ceased ere long, the curly head pressed beavier, the bleeding stumps lay motionless, and when the chant eas ended, Charlie had gone to his last sleep. Carefully, reverently, the ., North Carolinian laid the little form upon the grass, and kissed the stiffened lips Lor the Bake of the mother, who might never know just how Charlie died. Just then footsteps sounded near. Tom and Isaac were coming, and the face of the soldier darkened wheri he saw them, as if they had been intrud- ers upon hina and his beautiful dead. Their appearance, however, disarmed him at once, and with a faint.snaile he pointed to his companion, and said: "He was in the federal army two hours ago; he has joined God' army now. Poor Charnel I would have d.one much to save nun" and with his hand he smoothed the golden hair, on which the flecks of western sunshine lay. Isaac knew it was a Rebel speaking to him, and for an instant he exper- ienced the same sensation he had felt in the midst of the fray, but only for instal:zit, for though he knew it was a sworn foe., he knew, too, that awes a noble -hearted man, and with a pity- ing glance. at the dead, he asked if aught. could be, done for the living. "No," and the soldier smiled again; "my passport is sealed; I am going after Charlie. Some one of your men did. his work well - see!" and opening his coat, he disclosed the frightful wound from which the, dark blood was gushing. Then, in a few, words he had told them Charlie's story, adding in conclu- sion. "You will escape; you will go home again: and if you do, write to Charlie's mother; and tell - her how he died. Tell her not to weep for hina so early saved. Her letter is in his pocket: take lamas a guide where to direct Your own." ' • , This be said to Teaac, for he saw Tom was dietiblea. Isaac did as he was bidden, and the letter 'from Charlie's mother, written but a week before, was safely put away for 'future refer- ence, and .then Isaac did for the North Carolina Foldier what the North Caro- lina Eoldier had done for the Yankee boythe staunched the flowing blood as best. he Could., bathed the throbbing' head, and held the cooling water to the dry, parched lips, which feebly murmured their thanks. To be Continued. , THE VASTNESS OF LONDON. The vastness of London is becoming more and more striking. The real Lon- don is comprised in what is called the Metropolitan pence area, and in that area I here is a populatioa of 5,633,806 which is as great as the pombined pop- ulations of four great capitals of Eur- ope -St. Petersburg, Berlin, Paris and ROTee. Already London extends 18 miles from Charing Crele aii around, and the mind' cannot grasp the idea of the London of 50 years aence. In its streets, houses, workehops, rivers, 66 Persons die from various kinas of vio- lence every week,; so ,that nearly 3,- 500 men, women and children, every year meet their deaths front ac,cident, negligence, or design. Theee is a grandeur in simplicity which is all its own. The plainest language is the most effective. The noblest acts seem at this time the simplest. True greatness is like the mountaila that does not imprese you with it massive ruggedness until you gaze beak at it Irma the far-diee tent valley, A FOREGONE CONCLUSION. Whet e tall girl Itrighana$ daughter has grown to be She panel: be six feet at least, • Yee, but she's a mighty nice girl and the little fellow that's going to marry her will be a Dimity elnip. Who is he? don't know. But you just. spoke of him as a little fellow. Well, being n tell Oirly She Wenldn't merry any but it ,little fellow, would she? NIAGARA'S WHIEJPOOL. MEN MAKE A BUSINESS OP SEARCH- ING IT POR HOMES. )Utn&iiit u the AWini kiNViri of the Winters —How the Ovate PO 'Their i'Voric. • There are raen at Niagara Falls who Make a business of see,relliag for dead bodies of victims of the ruthless wa- ters. They are time described in an ilatiele in an American paper The men who follow this weird. call- ing are almost the only inhabitants ef that lonely end my,steriou.s section of the ebore ' known as "the.Unknown Niagara." It is a wild stretch that lieat the base of perpendicular rocks, and at whose feet are the waters that whirl and. whirl eternally, that have never ceased for a single moment, to be calm, and where the debria and the wreoles of life has been known to float rouncl- for days, and even weeks, with that some continuous, monotonous 'rotary motion. This stretch is some- where just below the whirlpool proper on the Canadian side, and few and hardy are the tourists that venture down those Alpine sides to taste of the • WILDNESS AND GRANDEUR of the spot. It is here, however, that this curious class ,of men, with their few hardy wives, live from day to day, dulled to the fearful roar of -the waters, and but little impressed by the spectacle about them, Here they lie in wait and watch the turbulent tides like hawks or eagles watching for their prey, and no upheevel, no relic of tragedy, nothing vomited up by the subfna,rine eddies of tb,at unrestfue stream ever escapes their eager atten- By a system of daring of their own, by a series of evolutions by which they have long , studied to laugh and mock at death, they enter the very clutches of that grim element and bring out en- tire the thing for which they entered. It may prove to be but -a log worth no - pr it may prove to be a body laeleiT with wealth, But whatever it is they grasp it, and back again they leap through the buffetings of death and. upon the shores where the perpen- dicular rocks rise sheer to the skies. HOW IT IS DONE. • Arid this is how they do their work,' what they have done for years, and Will continue to do, and think nothing of the awful daring of the thing and the fearful risk they run in the weirdest of all callings: - 'ne Oman, bolder and more daring 1 than the rest, stands ready on the shore with the stoutest of ropes about his breast, waist and portion of his limbs, and so arranged as not to in- terfere with his movements when he takes the leap into the whirlpool. And that leap! Those who have seen him take it say they hold their breaths and their hearts beat as he disappears be- i neath the raging surface, Seven strong men hold that rope, away in- shore, and then when he rises, to be tossed and buffeted about, they take ; a double grip ana shut their teeth.; More than once the roar, strains, and I every race is anxious and pain is plain- ! ly visible in the features until the swimmer is seen above the surface again,. And when he appears it is again only for a moment, and the face is white and gasping, but even then plainly showingthe grit of this strange ram, as they might be called, who haz- ard life mug all in this weird way. , 'But the object for which they are I straying. It has been seen by the man on the lookout but a few minutes be -1 fore the swimmer took the leap. Be has indicated in what part of the whirl- pool it is, and. the swimmer is now IN THE SAME CURRENT, in the same eddy, and finally the two bodies -the warm and the cold, the . puand the dead, life grapples death, and I lsatin.g and the lifeless, the quick the two are hauled in. It is a long -sae and, etroag pull, c /tall altogether, afid with a about the daring evvinaher is etreatied away Up An eluere ena Out of the rapid whirl - Veen the bold swiaallearallau that he age,faints, and a drink of whlakeY is brOuglit, It is poured down his threat, • aud be quielely recovers. When he is able to move about, in e Inaulent or two, he is tie Most aotive in the work tef prepaiang the remains far ioepee- ban, 'Ile body is then put in ellepe for tile reception of relatives, ana if that of a rich Man, tbe daring reeeuers are made the recipients of a bandsome conmeneation. It may be a body la- den with treasure -rings of value, meet- IY jewel.% or with ntoney in dank soggy wallets, and if a° one.calle, the raon.ey is held for a while, and tleen divided, ' BRITAIN'S REASSURANCE. Her Colonies •Sitid to IlaYe Offered. all Kind of Aid la the Event or 'Mir. The British naval preparations are not without their wholeseme and roes - Suring. effect. They have shown to Englishmen the resolution and vigour of a Government that was suepeeted of too much fonduess for vacillation and coxicession, when vital interests are at staka and when publie opinion stands unitedly behind. Lord Salis- bury and his party are the stronger for them. In spite of such campaigns as those in. the Soudan, Englishmen are distrustful of the organization -not of the spirit -of their army in the event of ever with one or more of the great military Powers of the continent. On the other hand, they, are fail of faille in the strength and the prompt effi- ciency of their .navy aact of the con- trolling admiralty. So far, as pre- paration for war goes, it is justifying , their confidence, and its energerie ; readiness from Hong Kong to Halifax makes their satisfaction at the weak. - .ening of the continental notion of the inevitable yielding of England the more keen and just. Besides, the stress of the Fashoda dispute has strengthened anew the tie between the ; colonies and the Mother Country. De- tails, ofcourse, are not to be obtained or printed, but the Colonial Govern- ments have been quick to suggest that their military resources were at the disposal of the home Government, with their zealous co-operation in the long -neglected plans for inapexiai de- fence AMERICA'S SOUTHMOST POINT. Treaelierons Waters Where Many a Call:int Teisel has Perished. Cape Horn, with• its steep, black summit 5G0 feet above the surface of those storm -troubled southern seas, stands like a grim, watchful sentinel on the southernmost island of the Eue- gian archipelago, i.outh of South Am- erica, It was discovered by Schooten, 1616, and named after his birthplace inethe Netherlands. It now belongs to Chili, althoug-h formerly ir was owned by the Argentine Republic. A_ more dreary, deeolate stretch cif coast could not be, found in navigation, and its. waters have submerged many cost- ly cargoe,s and meet thousands of valu- able lives No. matter how fair the weather may be on the approach of a ship, it changes so suddenly and with such intensity that even the most trutworthy barometer fails to indi- cate anything but the preceding calm, the mercury acting as if bewildered, easing and feeling several inches in a few hours or reniainiag in a fixed condition. This indicates the dis- turbance of the atmoephere when the wind blows from all quarters at once, a peculiarity of weather not equalled in the China seas, when the typhcon rages and the barometer announces' its coming. The phenomenon of one ship -where two were speaking each other in passing - sailing in fine weatbee and another in a stiff gale, has been observed, at the same time. • WIDELY CONCERNED. Does your wife 'take any interest in local politics.? with me election nights -to hear the returns and get me home in good time. Yes; she always goes down town PRINCL, GEORGE, DUICL OF' "VORA, OF RUSSIA, Two raeral first e AND NICHOLAS, C.ZAR a Striking; mutual resemblance, INOIDENT.OUTHE: PLAGUE BRITAIN' OOVERNSXIWIA By LOVE AS WELL AS FORCE, ELEPILWTS IN THE Alin, semi. reint(•• Their 1Km14olne6t h ijic opium' in loofa, of°17hee itf.ae8tpin.regetlinatai';d4r1,43os "4"uauisixed by Tivaettli7isir.f4letrivlic:;,m111117;1"ill4:(41,k: (1,111yj»1: XePaiica'ieniScerf Nailer reaseeee,-4 eryeaeal envielena. , PXUiUI brigade, ,eaost highly developed liie Belganne railway etation was on through the skill oa .the alurlaeae SePtember a5 the *smile of a. reinarla- bandialla the giant animele "Their able outbuest of na,tive gratitude to neefianees in ladin can ecareela lis it Plague magistrate, says the Laralen lmagined by one not familiter With the Mail, axneaint and variety of work Whieb Belga,ute is a military station in the, aceolnplish, but it Wolald be a Western India, and has been the scene serious mistake to lineable that this of a virulent plague epidemaa. Majer degree of nsefulness is attainea through Minchin, ef the India 'ataff Cox0, was e ny aptitude Of the unwieldy animals or natural tendency toward it, It 'is due, solely and eatirely to the wonder- ful ability of the natives in training the huge animals and overcooling their natural inclinations. Tide eannot be too highly praised. Neither must it he iMagined that the use,of elephaats in army life is not el -tended by great the - advantages, not the least of whieli is itrhieluadvioffriteo. ulty with which they are Naturally the elepleini is riot an in- telligent animal. He ean be taught re- markable things, ie . -which his strength ancl encluranete play au important part. Ire can never, however, perform these feats without continual attendatimeand laviroleketliosiaunaApbpeleTctly, hie power of by skillful hands,iahbOwe e; vweiheenitdijerectreed- The transportation facilities which are provided for the Sole use of the elephant are quite as remarkable. I Witnessed recently the loading and de-, training of a lot of elephants on the Madras Railway. Both were remark- able processes. In loading, a rope is fastened to his fore leg and e. lot of natives haul and pull at it to induce the animal to take the first steps into the car. This is only acconaplished, however, by admonishing him in the haunch by means of a tusk. The first step, taken is rapidly followed by the others until he stands safely on the Belga,urcescantomn,ent magistrate, and on him deaeloped the duty of directing the fight against the pestilence among the netive population. Major Minchin left Belga= for E'rtgland on the date raentioned above. A correspondent of the "Times of In- dia," thus describes his departure "There were triumphal arches about the station and floral decorations -- tlie spontaneous offerings and labours of affectionate hearts. No official whip had gone forth -no highly placed native officials had been busy supervising mere task work. THE G11EAT CROWD outside the station gatee-a crowd of the lowest, raggedest, poorest, scarred with suffering and want-ewas the strangest, the most eloquent, and, if not scenically, morally, the most splen- did tribute to the power eidelded over simple natives by an erainentally just and sympathetic man. Hardly a Euro- pean was visible -Major Minchin's Eng- lish friends had already feted him at the caub and said. good-bye. "But the bazaar was there. Old tote 'tering women, little children, all the rag -tag and bob -tail of the bazaar slums lined the road, nioved to the depths, for once, of their simple souls by the magie of an Englishman's sym- pathy. They could not get into the sta- tion -they were not respectable enough -but they stood stolidly in the pour- ing rain, rank upon rank, weeping and lingering to the last glimpse of the departing train, before they plodded wearily back to their dull hard lives, out of which they left that one ele- ment of gladness was lost for ever. . "On the platform the better classes -fellow-workers with Major Minchin in fighting the plague -all the leading shopkeepers, bankers, Parsees, Hin- doos, and Mohommedans, crowded about him. Every man offered gar- lands, and Major Minchin, who would refuse his friends nothing, was barely visible under the load of flowers he bore. The poor majqr could find no words to speak. A pretty little. Parsee girl was lifted. up by her father to add a. final garland as the train was start- ing. With perfect naturalness Major Min.chin kissed. the ehild on both cheeka, as his eyes ran over, and all about his aative friends muttered parting benedictions." WHY THEY LOVED HIM, How the gallant major gained so 1sling from the wharf to the ship, complete an ascendancy over the struggling to escape and rending the hearts of the people is told by the 'air with their cries. Once aboard ship same correspondent: they are east y managed, the motion 'Throughout the terrible sufferings not affecting them, because they do inflicted on the humblest inhabitants not see themoving panorama before by plague, Major Minchin had devoted them. Unloading them is easy_ Thaa himself to their cause, with unobtrusive are lowered to a raft beide the ship • self-abnegation. All day and every and allowed to swim ashore. They take day he wa,s with them, encouraging to the water easily and are excellent them under awful trials, supporting swimmers, being able to swim eight or them with that rare blend. of sternness ten miles at a stretch without tiling. and living sympathy w-hich the poor- The eize of the Indian elephant is est Indian understands and reverences. usually about eight feet in height and "His compound was often filled with ten feet in length. The male ie a lit - the live stock of, segregated families; tle leirgek, perhaps., eleven feet, and his energy and tender -heartedness se- weighing about 5,000 pounds. cured his people at least a few com- forts in the arid miseries of plague camps, so that as the days of -death and suffering passed on, his sustain- ing personality gained in their imagi- nations vivid attributes of divinity. It is the simple truth that the ignor- ant, superstitious Kakers believed that the cantonment magistrate was some- thing more than human, and wor- shipped him as the near relation of a god." ' 1Vhat Major Minchin has done at Belgeum other Englishmen are doing realizing that he had, after all, only throughout the country. It is these dis- set a burglar alarm going, the guest trice officers that in truth rule India. descended to reassure the household, when he instantly found himself in danger from a dozen roving dogs, who A WONDERFUL RECOVERY. had obtained their freedom and were growling and enapping in the ugliest manner, at breakfast next morn- ing he learned all about this curious facl of Mme. Patti, and wondered at it. The singer has a great dree,d of burglars. Some time ago a gang of these gentlemen from London at- tempted to obtain admittance, but were clefeatea in their oliject, and siace that date aime. Patti has set up every kind of burglar alarm that ex- ists. frlee queer part about one of these i,, however, well eoetli noticing, lIer largest clog, an enormous brute, who might be relied on to cope with' a little army of thieves, is kepi, reigor- ously cleaned in a patent kennel. Bat the ehein is so arrangetl that should any one at! empt to open It window or a door in the cast le the dog is released end free to rove at his pleasure, it; be- ing presumed tint he watild at once make for the burglars and do his duty. The idea is ingettious, and, es the traveller diseovered, not is little aerigerous. This portion of the task is accom- plished comparatively easily, however, when compared with the next. At first he is timid and slightly frighten- ed,- but when the car starts his fear is wonderful be behold. Though he may ride a hundred times, he never over- comes this fear, though it is much more pronounced when he tikes his initial ride after, say, two months' an- quainlaeace with civilization. He rends the air-with'wild trumpetings, endeav- ors fruitlessly to escape, and only cease es his efforts when the car has again come to a standstill. Of course, wonderfully strong' Oa" are necessary to hot& aden.--al.lheY are inade eompletely of iron, with- huge iron bars rising to a height of en or twelve. feet above the platform. Oaten' these cars are rendered useless by ties twisting of the bars, due to the eppli- catioia of the occupant's re.markeble strength. In transporting the elephant by sea the difficulties are almost as great. They are raised by means of a canvass AT MME. PATTI'S CASTLE. Visiting Mme. ratti's superb castle in Wales, a. gnest not Jong since had a very curious experience. He chanced to open hie window in the middle of the night, and, to his surprise, bells began to ring in every Quarter of the grounds. Very- much 4cared, but One of the most wonderful recoveries on record, fro/fad a wound receive(' in aotion must surely be, says a corres- pondent, that made by Lieu -Colonel Slogget, R. A. M. C. This officer was, states Surgeon-CaptainJameson, shot through the breast and lungs at the battle of Omdurman, and reported dead in the casualty Ilea When,' lat- er on., a more detailed examination was made, it appeared just possible that life was not yet wholly extinct:. Ace- cordingly, the Medioal Staff resolved to perserveae in their efforts, and Col- onel Slogget was treated by Lord Lister's antiseptic inethod, The re- sult was a happy.one, for in three days the woun,d, had closed, and in a month the gallant °Meer had nitrate au elle tire recovery, PRETTIEST GIRL IN PARIS. Mile. Ernestine Caeca has been chos- en as the muni of Paris, she having been proclaimed in public eotnpetition tae Mast beautiful girl in the city, IVflie. Curot follows the eceupation of inilliner, She is eighteen years of age, has blencle hile, and largo dark eyes". GIVE AS WEDL AS RECEIVE. Give out as well as take in, or expend as well as receive. 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