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The Exeter Times, 1885-4-16, Page 6Satisfied. poltroons to skulls ant of the ranks. After the toil and turmoil. But finally we reached the edge of And the anguish of trust belied; the swamp P and deployed. into line be - After the burden of weary cares, Baffled longings, ungranted Pravere: hind A snake fence on the skirts of a After the passion, and fever, and fret, Atter the noising of vain After the hum' and heat of strife. The yearning and tossing that men call life; Faith that mocks, and fair hopes denied, We—shall be satisfied. When. the Adore Main ss broken, • " leen were the balls cut through the leaves beside At she sunny fountain sleet rear, and `"demorali,Fed When the turf Ilea grin and call above falling back out of range, singly and r, us; and these were soda drowned lathe Wrong. and sorrow, and lass, and love; hi squads; and in which, as if theq when the wear dumb walla of silence stan4l 9 rattle of our own musketry when the At the doors of the undtseovered land; rebel artillerists well knew the location order was given to fire. The moll Mien all we have left in our olden place g. is an empty chair, and a Pieture i face; of the clearin„ aliens were eaplodin;y ; were so busy loading and firing.that When the prayer i& prayed„and the sigh ill and scattering their fragments witJi the had little leisure to notice e oc- Weeshall be' satisfied. that pecttliatr ruti;;it 1 *Atingi ting,'' sa'I easional falling together or dropping familiar to men tylia have once heard p Out of a killed or wounded companion. what dots it boot to question. p i when answer is aye delete.; 1t; and ever olid anon one of these un- p Better to listen the Psalmist's rode, comfortable missiles would whiz past w had Ii that an day inling or skulking man And gather the comfort of his creed; us, and be follo►redb theinstantaneous had I pCoralG but one .end in peace and patience Mosses& our sort}. -and he was CQrpart4r Jerry Dayton. a►'hile tide wheel of tate in its orbit rolls. ' ducking of the head by every one of the No sooner had the rebel fire opened Knowing that sadness andgiadnesa pains elven recruits, But, `though 'tlns was u on las than it was all upwith. •Terry. 1n 1 when once ing dews win t© tthe tartheisshore, 'Zie first time our regiment had been 'o was right;he could ot stand it. We shalt be eatisiled. ander fire, the men behaved splendidly. Ile had moved back luta the ranks in Alt the Year Bound.i Casting; Bound. Him eve obedience to my orders, but at the first Dill? 1 KILL fi`: company cdown the line of my could see a decided miajer- volley from the rebel line he seemed to sty' of pale face';, but cempressod lips, lose his senses. He crouched together like a hare, turned, and Was creeping But our surprise was not successful. The regiments of the rebel flank be- came aware of us before they had fall- en into our trap; and, changing front wood whose uutderbrush screened us forward, they opened fire. This was almost entirely from view. Before us our brst experience in an infautryfight; lay an open clearing about a quarter- but the men stood it evidently better mile in breadth, across whreh wounded than the shelling. No close explosions; men limped or were carried to the no noise except a "ehick! chick!” as Jeremiah C. Dayton was the light and mot a sen of wavering; while one dank corporal of my company. No or two of tEe veterans or the devil- D to the rear. But I intercepted him, wonder he was on the right stank, for may -cares would indulge in a joke at with my revolver cocked and pointed:. he was by long odds the biggest matt their neighbors pallor t:r a sneer at "Corporal Dayton, your only chance in the regiment. There were one or some cowardly iva'itive, No olio had for life is in the ranks. One step more, two who slightly overtopped his six been bit as vet, but the prospect looked and, so help you Gad, I blow your foot three and a, half in his stoekinls,. , uncomfortably hot. brains out!" taut they were spindling. nerveless. A,11 this time the infantry fire cavae He straightened himself up to his natio,,► e•hested fellows, whom "Jerry" nearer and nearer our retreating line, full height, leaning beakward and me- eouid twist round his thumb if itcame and the advancing rebels, with ever ' ehanicaby auttiug out lsis band; for a to muscle, and anon a taunting yell of defiance, momeut his lesser fear of the rebel fire Where Jerry trailed from I never seerueti to be appre"aching so as to pre- seemed frozen out by his greater dread knew. Ile enlisted in New York in sent their flank as they passed our poral- of my own threateningweapon, He. the spring of 1862, and, I -fancy. hood at tion. foo sed at inc with gret, pleading eyes, that time been swaggering about ameang `Ilia was just what was expected and in which entreaty, shame and coward - the Bowery boys and living oil' the ail desired, ars, unless: they discovered us ice seemed contending; and, with a ' wirers of his ineffable wood -nature and in tinge, we oould take theta in "verse' sad, lifeless look of resignation to his natlear:131eled bleeps, But I have never and vrcr rte a diversion in favor of our fate, completely at odds with his for - known to what set•tion is due the credit own forces. whose comnmauders had al- mer trembling cowardice, he cried: of raising so glorious a specimen of the ready been notified of our intended at- "You've filled mo, Lieutenant--- phv.ieaf ulna:. tack, and would co-operate with it, you've killed sue!" bavton was a good soldier. To be But all this is far from the purpose.No sooner had lie uttered this cry, Rure.'he had not been in action as yet, ami we will now return to Corporal and, with the patient look of a brute and so had not had a chance to show Dayton. As soon as our line was form- driven to the shambles, bad turned to. his ri allantryi but he was obedient, and ed, I began pacing up and down in the ward the enemy, than his musket fell attentive to duty, 1111014gent and up- rear of my eompany—I was in cont- from his grasp, his huge frame crashed right, He seemed suinetinee5 to dis. wand—.Rpeakiup words of encourages" together like a ant of the forest bo- na.. to enforce etrderrr when the rnen tient to the men and impressing upon neath the woodman's ax, close at my made any objeetion or resistauee; but them the necessity of wasting for and ver;• foot, sad his upturned face show - lentwas only of a, piece of his own len- obeying all orders promptly and 0411- ed me a small, round hale, pierced by lent impul es. and never called for neatly; above all swags aautioaiZ a; rebel buckshot in one corner of his mere than at passing criticises, Tape them to reserve their fire till the right forehead, from which thick blood was st all in all, he.►vas on the high road to moment, when they should receive the slowly oozing; while his hands clutched slimes.;in the profession of arms, yr01.d, and ';napped the dry twigs which lay sl:ton�.h it heel been taken alt as tial. a While thus engaged I turned toward uponthe earth,in the last convulsive temporary one. the corporal, and noticed that he look- struggle, his eyes rolled upward far an Dayton was one of my favorites. Ile en as if he were having a chill. He was iustant before theylazed over, and was :alway s willing, nay. eager. to be shaking as with an ague fit, but eaelt then half closed; and his features set of srr►ice to me. He would volunteer man was intently watching the pano- in the ghastly stare of death. his help whenever there Was any work rano before us, and only his close Had I killed him? to he donee about int quarters; and. . be- neighbors seemed aware of his condi- «..-------- side: his enormous strength, he possess- viola Bus all at once there was a loud Ravenous Tigers. edsteadiness and aptitude at work in no explosion above our beads, and in the ordinary degree. He was handy, too, company on our right a yawning gap Mr. II. G. Tanner, acting agent to in little things. 1115 thick, coarse fin- was rent. the governor of Viza„apatain, writes to 1 ger a ould seize any little, delicate job "Steady. men, steady! It's nothing the chief secretary of the Madras gov- as daintily as if they had been as taper but a shell! Close up your ranks! ernment, from Lothugedda, on the 3rd as a woman's. Nor did he ever scent Came from the officers of the adjoining of June as follows; "I' have the honor to weary in offeringhis services. Before companies in as loud se tone as was to report that the neighborhood of this I knew I wanted a thing done Jerry prudent. And one poor fellow lay village. together with the neighboring would have started to do. it; and all doubled up on the ground, while a see- villages belonging to Gangaraz Mad= manner of little conveniences, such as and was carried to the rear. But, at- golo, aro infestedwithman-catingtigers a shelter of boughs in front of my tent, ter the first startled exclamation, never to such an extent as to render some or an elven for my eontrabrand to bake a groan. special measures being taken for their bread in, or it nice bunk, or a camp- This was the climax of Jerry's forts- destruction a smatter of urgent impor- table and chairs, grew up around me tude, The Goliath turned, and, leav tante. During the last four months whenever we remained a few days in ing the ranks, he staggered up to me. l upward of forty people have been killed one place, under the cleft hand and His face was ash • pale, while huge in the vicinityof the police stations of willing heart of Corporal Jerry Day- drops f cold sweat stod all over it, Padcru, Nandapoor,Padawa, and Su - ton. rind have I seen the bigcorporal and plowed their way downward jankota. In the neighborhood where I Ofter'p oral through the dust and dirt. His Reck- am now encamped, which is within with a half dozen muskets and knap- les stood out upon his pallid skin al- the circle of the Lanlsinghi police sacks slang all about his brawny most like spots of blood. His eyes station, upward of thirty-five people person, which he was carrying along were staring and purposeless, as I have have been killed within the past twelve for some weary comrade, and laughing seen them in the insane. He was trona- months, and in both places there is a at the idea of being overloaded. A bling like an aspen, and thohuge frame weekly recurrence of deaths from the mighty man was Corporal Jerry Day- actually looked small, so unmistakable same cause. The panic that existshere ton; a mighty man of valor—yet un- were the signs of the craven heart with- is terrible. People will not go out of tried. in. their houses after dark. -They are There were two of his fellow -soldiers "Why, corporal, what is the matter? obliged to gather in large parties to go who did not believe in Jerry's courage. You frightened? Nonsense. Move to market; villages are deserted; culti- One was the orderly sergeant, an old back into the ranks, sir." vation is pursued under theeatest soldier himself, and the other a man "Oh, Lieutenant!" He could scarce- t difficulty and in constant trepidation. who seemed to have known something ly whisper the Words, for his mouth This morning I was shown a deserted of Jerry's antecedents, though he nee- seemed parched with thirst. "This is village, abandoned on account of the er gave anv reason for ]lis opinion. awful, Lieutenant! I can't stand it. I tiger terror. Both teknowledged Dayton's good know I can't. Do send me to the rear ""Recntly a man and his wife were qualities in camp and on the march, somewhere before I disgrace myself," plowing a field near this abandoned vil- he mumbled out by starts, and between lage, when a tiger attacked the man in •' Yon keep a good lookout on inns, Lootenant, fust squall we git inter; the wards he made great swallows as the middle of the day. He hit him with an' of Jerry run, then I'll if to, choke down something, in his a bill -hook, and the tiger turned on the a0 beg his pa Dayton for don't run, so mean throat; while, at every exploding shell woman and carried her off before his shown a on him. Ef Jerry hadn't been jilted like discharged mapd"Piece, he shuddered place where the same acalrriied off two he'd ha' know'd too much to ha' gone "Nonsense, Corporal! poral! Move • back and 'listed." men in one day. Yesterday ' I was into the ranks. Everybody feels so at shown a place where a tiger sprang up - "You thought he vas really lame first. You'll be over it in a few min- on a constable, knocked him down, and that danwe e went said the h obu hwh ck- k- utes," I added, as kindly as I knew mauled him so severely that he died the erhow; for I could just then appreciate a next day. This constable was one of I've always had a shrewd notion that he was lame nearer the region of his part of the poor fellow's trepidation. the guard who were escorting about one g"Oh, Lieutenant, I can't! I know 1 hundred people home.from market. heart that time." can't!" pleaded Jerry. "Do let me go' Three days ago a village munsif came convinced All this that I pooh-poohed; oh od sedajudge nd back. Do let me; ,go help, that ere to see me, with the story that the tiger cthe man as wasone else, held ride 'wounded man. I can t, indeed.I can't,"got into his yard, in the middle of the my for any the corporal. of be reiterated he. "Oh, my!" village, and seized his wife, and al- myullikingstick to a fight, I said, This last was jerked out by another though he beat it off, the poor woman therewouwas not a man in the company shell, and my petit corporal fell out of died the next day. the ranks a step or two with his arm ""I think it likelythat this rece- who would. Time showed whether 1 un P Shattered and bleeding; and holdfngup dented human slaughter may arisefrom was right or wrong. witha It was at Fair Oaks. We had been his broken gun in the other, wit a an unusual'dearth of fis,;t;arms in the smile upon his face, which all the country. It is clear to me thatifsome- hurrying forward to the support of time was twinging with pain, he said: thing is not done to stop these ravagesCasey s shattered division, and I was "My musket's gone, Lieutenant, and the country sidewill be :gradually de - too busy to keep much of an eyeon so's my arm. But I guess I'll stay here oP ulated. I should say that at least any particular man. I had glanced at , with the file -closers.. six villages have been abandoned quite Dayton several times, but had noticed ""Findyour way back to the rear, my recently from this cause,and this mans nothing beyond the paleness of his boy. Surgeon Coit is not.far, back. face; and, as pale faces are not unus- ual y ,t go on, or be of any use with that the people try to live on jungle gthat lands have fallen'out of cultivation, al at such times on the bravest of men You can npaid no heed to that. that arm. Then, turning to Daytoproduce, and, failing in that, go off to who looked helplessly on, "For shame!"theplains as laborers. It is not only Our regiment and one other, both said I. "Marc"back into the ranks, the absolute danger to life that we have under of olonel had been sseellected toCproceed hough a pin'sou ward, o sr eourwith anfe t be worth ominous to think but allagriise culturalal ois iser- White Oak Swamp, along an old aban-stopping g P movement toward myrevolver, ations. tis horrible to contemplate doned road which Kearney had discov- ered that morning, and take upa osi- All this time the firing came closer the feelings of a poor laborer going out tion so as to fall upon the flank p ofthe and closer, and the stragglers grew in for his day's work to a field a few bun- rebel unrebel advance, which, it seemed likely, number till the groups numbered twen- dred yards from his house with the would drive Couch's and Keys' divisions ties and fifties. Regiments and brig- knowledge about him that there is an far back to the river. We had march- ades seemed all mixed up in one heter-even chance of his being carried away ed a good part of the way at a double- ogeneous mass. Our troops seemed to from the side of his plow, and that his quick, and the men were too busy be fighting with much less regularity wife may be seized when she is bringing picking their way along the rough path than the enemy, the , rattle of whose him his midday meal Yet this is, and to devote more than half their thoughts musketry was continuous. But fresh must be, the attitude of mind of every to the rattle of small arms and sharp 'Union regiments were coming on the man in this country who pursues the artilleryfire,which showed us but - too field, andda line was being established usually peaceful avocation of the hus- plainly owour men were being borne facing the clearing, and almost con- bandman."—London Standard. back and the elan of the hurried march nesting with our own, which promised - .., ' gave no time to the dead -beats ' and to make 10 IRM,W.A.IROD T The above reward will be paid for the conviction otthose Merchants who are selling inferior Machine Oils, and calling them McColl's Lardine The only genuine is manufactured by McColl Bros. & Co, Toronto. FOR SALE BY M. PICKARD, EXETER. 41 Burdock BLOOD BITTERS Cures Dizzrneas, Loss of Appetite, Indigestion, Biliousness, ,, Ll fspcpsicc, Jaundice, X1,17 pct sults of t he Liver and Kidneys, Pimples, Blotches, Boils, 1 lumors, Salt _Rheum, Scrofula. 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