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HI tl TOE SOLDIERS' CEMETERY AT AKM.tiGTON. : ft are many, ye are mighty, and your feet they trample hard Ye have trod the mountains under, and the lea. The aea ye, too, have conquered, but within this quiet yard ' It Is I, the grass, am master; hark to mt. Ye have torn me In your marches, scarred me deep with hoof and heel, And my dewy award! have rolled In dust and blood, When amid the cannon-thunder e'en the forest seemed to reel, And your battle shook the hillside where je. stood. , , Were ye victors? Twas not Carthage won by Trasimene's lake, Nor the Britons 'mid the wheat at Wa terloo, For my creeping, crowding legions from them both the field did take, As I took the heights of Gettysburg from you. But I hate the battle fury as I hate the crawling sea, With its wrinkled Swinging tides that cannot ceane; a tweeter far to -me the woodland wnere the dappled shadows be, Or the graveyard with Its lilies and Us peace. :Nay, I will be done w!th mocking. O my masters, naught nm I But the clinging lowly grass about your feet, Crowing green and cool around you", tired eyea to satisfy. And weaving, w hen all's done, your winding-sheet. Sleep ye well! Men bring you roses, but tley wither In the sun 'Bring them In the May with music and a sound, '" 1 .A of old, of timed footsteps; but when all the pomp Is done. In the stillness' tis n. small roots wrap you round, Fold you close, and so will keep you till To tomac shall run dry, And the stars go out like camp-fires In the skies, Till the shivering sea shall perish, and the huddling mountains fly, And the judgment bugle blowing bids you rise. William Hervey Woods, In Youth's Com panion. BLEDSOE'S BATTERY. at Wu Composed of Gentlemen, Sot One of Them Ever Having Ueea Reprimanded. . "I was a member of Capt.. Hiram Bledsoe's - famous Missouri battery," teaid a man who is living in New York. "Hi resent death removes about the Jast prominent figure in the. confed erate ranks from Missouri, Except In 1he presence of his superior officers he preferred to have his men call him Hi. He went into .the war right at the be ginning. The men who first enlisted under him were his neighbors and ac quaintnuf cs in Cass couuty, where he had lived since the Mexican war. "There were five brothers in his first command. When they presented them--selves for enlistment Hi asked them if they had not better divide, nnd add led that he did not want to have the entire family. But the boys insisted, .and It is a singular fact that they, with their commander, fought through thr -war. So far as I can now recall no -member of the Bledsoe battery was ever reprimanded. It was a model or ganization. Itdsciplinewasarmy talk. And when BledTsw met Gen. Beaure gard for the first time Beauregard complimented him on the reputation of him command, and asked him the secret of it. Bledsoe's reply was that his command was composed of geutlenien, and that he treated them accordingly at all times. When this superb organ ization decimated and it wns proposed to recruit, it wjth conscript Bledt-oe re fused. He said the men who fought under him- musit. be- volunteers. He .challenged the admiration of Grant by -the way in which he fought Grant's -command at Port Gibson in 1863. It -was when Grant was closing in upon "Vicksburg, Bledsoe held off the en tire advance 'for one day, and Grant asked, so I have heard, who was in -command, and said if I here, were a few more" as determined' a Bledsoe, the war would have lasted longer. "In 1864 a command of federalsmoved up near Bledsoe's lines, and the boys in blue became very noisy nnd did some miscellaneous ('firing'.' 'i Bledsoe was asleep. The noise awoke him. Turning to the nearest captain, he asked what the trouble was about. And when in formed, he said: 'Well, I must stop this, for I want to gbto sleep.' Andhe shelled the federals until they withdrew. "When the war was over Bledsoe re turned to his farm In Cass county. He represented that county in the legisla ture for aeveral .terms. He was con sulted by. thcleading men of his party, and If he bad not checked his friends lie might have had any office in the statSw.But he insisted on staying at home. "In 1895, there Wns hut one confed erate monument in Chickamauga na tional park. It was the gjft of Mis souri, fan it's sides fs the story of Bled soe's battery .'VX, Y, 8uq,,i:ji The Flrat Ironclad. Thq-ifirst ironclad river gunboat of the civil war was launched at St. Louis October 12, 1861, with boilers and en gines on board, In 45 days from the lay ing of her.-Jceel. ; She wns named the 6t.uI.ouis byiliear Xdtjilral Foote, in honor, of the oity. Later heiianie was -changed' to'the'Biyon fc Ifnlb; as an other vessel Itf the "navy was'called the St. LoaiIb. The St. luls--wag one of .eight armored irunboftt's, carrying t07 large guns, which, 'were constructed at this city within, 100 days. St Louis Globe-Democrat. r .'',- v Resemble Post are Stamps. Some men resemble postage stamps; -they stick to one thlnar -until they get there bat you've got to lick them first. . Chicago .Daily News. v.'S ;,i ' ,: '. 'r,::'.-'V-''.Vt' ,f '.' ''-I HONORS FOR A WARHORSE. CdVtrdent : Veterans Attend tie . Knneral of an Eanine i , ' Comrade. ' ' ' ; Colonel, a veteran war horse of the cdnfederaoy, was burled with military honors a short time afro at Oak Grove, ten miles' from Atlanta, ". When Cobb' legion wns organized, company G was made up of young men from that and adjoining counties, and among them were the two Cireer boys, Walter and Will. They took along a colt which they named Colonel, which wna about as ugly a specimen of horseflesh as you would see in a week's travel. He was tall, rnw-boned, long-headed and knock kneed. He wns of that peculiar sallow color that is neither bay nor sorrel, the hair was meager on his mane and tail, and he was as clumsy as he was ugljv Colonel was only used in cases of emergency as a cavalry horse, but he had'the merit of toughness, and his fortitude and fidelity were demon strated on many a long, hard march and in many a hot fight. , The It-gion was at first commanded by Col. Thomas K. E. Cobb, an eminent jurist-soldier and one of the most gal lant of Georgians, until his fall, when other ofilcers In turn led the decimated ranks through the arduous campaigns of northern Virginia. At Seven Pines, Hunker Hill, Sharpsburg, Bunks' Mills, and many other bloody battles Colonel was in charge. On one occasion the union forces stole a march on the legion at Meadow Iiridge, and they only escaped capture by instant and rapid flight, leaving their bnggnge and camp equipage in the hands of the federal troopers. Among the spoils of war thus acquired was Colonel. He had been seized by a federal trooper and led back to the rear. The legion retreated until a stronger position was reached beyond the long bridge, when they made a stand. In the gathering twilight sen tries were posted so as to command the bridge, and the troopers dismounted und remained on the alert for the fed erals, whom they expected momentar ily to follow up their advantage by charging the bridge. Just about dark Hie sentries were nronscd bv the cliit- ter of hoofs approaching the bridge, and then the thunder of a galloping steed on the plunking. They supposCa it was a body of scouts from the federal cavalry, and made ready to give them a warm reception. All they saw, how ever, was a riderless horse dashing along the bridge at the top of his speed. It was Colonel with anew federal hulter ou his neck. He had given his captors the slip, and had followed his comrades as fast as his clumsy heels could carry him. He was welcomed, in the camp with rinjfingcheers, and ever afterward he was held in the highest esteem by every man in the legion. : After long service in the Virginia army, Cobb's legion was ordered to the support of (Jen. Joseph K. John ston, who was posted ut Dalton, con fronting Gen. Sherman's victorious HE HAD GIVEN HIS CAPTORS THH SUP. army. Throughout the long and hard fought campaign, from Dalton to Ken nesaw mountain, Atlanta and Jones boro, Colonel followed the fortunes and misfortunes of the retreating army. When the confederates' under Hood turned backward and begad their re treat toward North Carolina Colonel was still one o the most faithful of campaigners. The roads were rough and the forage grew woefully scarce on that long retreat to Bentonville, where Johnston's army finally surren dered, but Colonel never flinched or faltered. During the. latter days he was more frequently' brought into requisition than during the earlier and more dashing days of the great conflict His staying qualities commended him to his two masters. And when their jaded steeds gave out first one and then the other would mount Colonel, and no matter how wearisome the march he always kept step with his comrades. At the close of hostilities he was brought back to Atlanta and hitched toadray. It is told of him that for many years, while hauling heavy loads along the muddy streets, he would prick up his ears at the sound of a bugle, and it was somewhut difficult to control him on such occasions. He began to grow old and feeble, however, and when the Greer boys died Colonel fell into the hands of their brother-in-law, J. T. Dempsey, of Oak Grove. Mr. Dempsey wns a well-t'vdo farmer and he turned the veteran war horse into a pastur and gave him his freedom after so many years of faithful service both in war and peace. Mr. Dempsey had Intended to bring him to the city dujiig the peace jubilee, but the old horse had grown too feeble to stand the journey, and the project was abandoned. A few days ago be was found dead in his stall. Un was one of the Inst surviving horses of the confederacy, and must have been close to 40 years of age. That he pos sessed extraordinary vitality is evi denced by the fact that he survived bo long after the toils of his long cam paigns, and after having served for years as a dray horse after his days of camp and field were over. " A large grave wns dug under the shade of a great oak in the pasture where Colonel had spent his last days. The members of the confederate vet erans' camp at Oak Grove marched be hind the body to the grave and fired a parting salute. This is one of the few instances where such military hon ors were paid to a horse, but everyone presant thought that the tribute to Colonel was well bestowed. N. Y. Sun. The Other Man Knows. No man is so Ignorant that he doesn't know what he would do If he were in your place. Chicago Dally News. RECALLS THE PAST. Dr. Talmage'i Sermon If Largely Reminiscent .' 1 9 raws Helpful Leeeans from the Ex perience and Vicissitudes of Life Memories of Home. " Copyright, 1899, by Louis Klopsch. Wash ington, May T. . This sermon of Dr. Talmage calls the roll of many stirring memories and in terprets the meaning of life's vicissi tude. The text Is Psalms xxxix, 3: "While I wns musing the fire burned." . Here is David, Ihe psalmist, with the forefinger of his right hand against his temple and the door shut against the world, engaged In contemplation. And , It would be well for us to take the same posture often while we sit down in sweet solitude to contemplate. In a small island off the coast of Xova Scotia I once passed a Sabbath in de lightful solitude, for I had resolved that I would have one day of entire quiet be fore I entered upon autumnal work. I thought to have spent the day in laying out plans for Christian work, but in stead of that it became a day of tender reminiscence. I reviewed my pastorate; I shook hands with an old departed friend, whom I shall greet again when the curtnins of life are lifted. The days of my boyhood came back, and I was ten years of age, and I was eight, and I was five. There was but one house on the Island, and yet from Sabbath day break, when the bird chant woke me, until the evening melted Into the bay of Fundy, from shore to shore there were ten thousand memories, nnd the groves were a-hum with voices that had long ago ceased. Youth is apt too much to spend all its time In looking forward. Old age is apt loo much to spend all its time in look ing backward. People In midlife and on the npex look both ways. It would be well for us, I think, however, to spend more time in reminiscence. By the con stitution of our nnturc we spend most of the time looking forward. And the rnst majority of people live not so much in the present ns In the future. I find that you mean to make a reputation, you mean to establish yourself, end the advantages that you expect to achieve absorb a great deol of your time. But I see no harm in this, if it does not mnke you discontented with the present or disqualify you for existing duties. It is a useful thing sometimes to look buck nnd to see the dangers we have es caped nnd to see the sorrows we have sulTcred and the trials and wanderings of our earthly pilgrimage and to sum up our enjoyments. I mean, so far as God may help me, to stir up your mem ory of the past, so that in the review you may be encouraged nnd humbled nnd urged to pray. There is a chapel in Florence with a fresco by Guido. It was covered up with two inches of stucco until our American and European artists went there, nnd after long toll removed the covering nnd retraced the fresco. And I nm aware that the memory of the past, with many of you, is all covered up with oblitera tions, and I now propose, so far as the Lord may help me. to take away the covering, that the old picture may shine out again.' I wnnt to bind in one sheaf all your past advantages, and I wnnt to bind iu another sheaf ail your past ad versities. It is a precious harvest, and I must be cautious how I swing the scythe. Among the greatest! 'advantages of your past life were an early home and its surroundings. The bad men of the day, for the most part, dip their heated passions out of the boiling spring of an unhappy home. We are not sur prised to find that Byron's heart was a concentration of sin when we hear his mother was abandoned and that she made sport of his infirmity and often called him "the lame brat." He who has vicious parents has to fight every inch of his way if he would maintain his integrity and at last reach the home of the good in Heaven. Perhaps your early home was in a city. It may have been when Pennsylvania avenue, Wash ington, was residential, as now. it is commercial, and Canal street, New York, was far up town. That old house in the city may have been demolished or changed Into stores, and it seemed like sacrilege to, you, for there was more meaning in that small house than there is In n granite mansion or a tur reted cathedral. Looking back, you see it as though it were yesterday the sitting-room, where the loved one sat by the plain lamp light, the mother at the evening Btand, the brothers nnd sisters, perhaps long ago gathered into the skies, then plotting mischief on the floor or under the table, your fa ther with a firm voice commanding a silence thnt lasted half a minute. Oh, those were good days! If you had your foot hurt, jour mother al ways had a soothing salve to heal it. If you were wronged in the street, your father was always ready to protect you. The year was one round of frolic and mirth. Your greatest trouble wus an April shower, more sunshine than shower. The heart had not been ran Bncked by trouble, nor had sickness broken It, nnd no lamb had a warmer sheepfold thn the borne in which your childhood nestled. . Perhaps you were brought up in the country. You stand now to-day in mem ory under the old tree. You clubbed It for fruit that was not quite ripe, be cause you couldn't wait nny longer. You Jicar the brook rumbling along over the pebbles. You Btep again into the furrow where your father in his shirt sleeves shotted to the lazy oxen. You frighten the swallows from the raft ers of the barn and take just one egg and silence your conscience by saying they will not miss it. - Yon take a drink again out of the vpry bucket that the old well fetched up. You go for the cows at night and find them pushing their heads through the barn.' Ofttimei in the dusty and busy streets you wish you were home again on the cool grass or the rag carpeted haU of the farm house, through which there came the breath of new mown hay or the blos som of buckwheat. Yon may hove in your windows now beautiful plants and flowers brought from across the seas, but not one of them stirs In your soul so much charm and memory as the old ivy and the yel low sunflower that stood sentinel along the garden walk and the forget-me-nots playing hide and seek mid the long grass. The father who used to come in sunburned from the field and alt down on the doorsill and wipe the sweat from his brow may have gone to his everlasting rest. The mother who used to sit ai the door a little bentover, cap and spectacles on, her face mellow. Jng with the vicissl tudes of many years, may have put down her gray head on the pillow in the valley, but forget thnt home you never will. Have yon thanked Rod for1 M ,nave yon rehearsed all these blessed reminiscences? Oh, thank God for a Christian 'ather! Thank Ood for a Christian piotherl Thank Go i for an early Christian altar at which iou were taught to kneel! Thank God for an early Christian homnl I bring to mind another passage in the history of your life. The day came when you set np your own household. The days passed along in quiet blesS- edness. , You twain sat at the table morning and night and talked over your plans for the future. The most insignificant affairs in your lire necame the subject of mutual consultation and advisement. You were so happy you felt you never could be nny happier. One day a dark cloud hovered over your dwelling, and it got darker and darker, but out of that cloud the shining mes senger of God descended to Incarnate an immortal spirit. Two little feet started on an eternal journey, nnd you were to lead them, a gem to flash in Heaven's coronet, and you to polish it. Eternal ages of light and darkness watching the starting out of a newly created creature. You rejoiced and you trembled at the responsibility that in your possession an Immortal treasure wns placed. You prayed and rejoiced and wept and wondered. You were enr nest in your supplication that you might lead it through life Into the kingdom of God. There wns a tremor In your earnestness. There wns a double interest about that home. There was an additional interest why you should stay there and be faithful, nnd when In a few months your house wns filled with the music of your child's laughter you were struck through with the fact that you had a stupendous mis sion. Have you kept thnt vow? Have yon neglected any of these duties? Is your home ns much to yon as it used to be? Have those anticipations been grat ified? God help you in your solemn reminiscence, and let His mercy fall upon your soul, if your kindness has been ill requited. God have mercy on the parent on the wrinkles of whose face Is written the story of a child's sin. God have mercy on the mother who, in addition to her other pangs, has the pang of a child's iniquity. Oh, there are many, many snd sounds in this sad world, but the saddest sound thnt is ever heard Is the breaking of a moth er's heart! I find another point in your life his tory. You found one dny you were in the wrong road; you could not sleep at night; there was just one word that seemed to sob through jour banking house or through your office or your shop or your bedroom, and that word was "eternity' You said: "I'm not ready for it. Oh, God have mercy! "The Lord heard. Peace came to your heart. In the breath of the hill and in the waterfall's dash you heard the voice of God's love; the clouds and the trees hailed you with gladness; you came into the house of God. You remember how your hnnd trembled as you took up the cup of thecommuniBn, lou remem ber the old minister who consecrated it, and you remember the church officials who carried it through the aisle; you remember the old people who at the close of the service took your hand in theirs in congratulating sympathy, as much as to say: "Welcome home, you lost prodigal," and, though those hands be all withered away, that communion Sabbath is resurrected to-day. It is resurrected with all its prayers and songs and tears and sermons and trans figuration. Have you kept those vows? Huve you been a backslider? God help you. This day kneel at the foot of mercy and start again for Heaven. Start now as you started then. I rouse your soul by that reminiscence. But I must not spend any more of my time in going over the advantages of your life. I just put them In one great sheaf, and I call them up in your .memory with one loud harvest song, such as the reapers sing. Praise the Lord, ye blood bought immortals on earth! Praise the Lord, ye crowned spirits of Heuven! But some of you have not always had a smooth life. Some of you are now in the shadow. Others had their troubles years ago. You are a mere wreck of what you once were. I must gather np the sorrows of your past life. But how shall I do it? You say that is impossi ble, as you have had so many troubles and adversities. Then 1 will just take two the first trouble and tho last trouble. As when you are walking along the street and there has been music in the distance you unconscious ly find yourselves keeping step to the music, so, when you started life, your very life was a musical time beat. The air was full of joy and hilarity. W'ith the bright clear oar you made the boat skip. You went on, and life grew brighter, until after awhile suddenly a voice from Heaven said: "Halt!" and quick as the sunshine you halted, you grew pule, you confronted your first sorrow. You had no idea that the flush on your child's cheek was sn unhealthy flush. You said It cannot be anything serious. Death in slippered feet walked round about the cradle. You did not hear the tread. But after awhile the truth flashed on you. You walked the floor. Oh, if you could, with your strong, stout hand, have wrenched that child from the destroyer! You went to your room, and you said: "God, save my child! God, save my child!" The world seemed going out in darkness, You said: "I can't bear it; I can't bear it." You felt as if you could not put the long lnshes over the bright eyes, never to see them again Bparkle. If you could have taken thut little one in your arms nnd with it leaped the grave, how gludly you would have done It! It you could let your property go, your houses go, your land and your store house go, how gladly you would have nl lowed them to depart if you could only have kept that one treasure! But one day there came up a chill blast that swept ibrough the bedroom, and instantly all the lights went out, nnd there was darkness thick, murky, impenetrable, shuddering darkness. But God did not leave you there. Mercy spoke.- As you took up the bitter cup to put It to your lips God said: "Let it pass," and forthwith, as by the hand of angels, another cup was put Into your hands. It was the cup of God's con solation. And ai you have sometimes lifted the head of a wounded soldiar and poured wine into his lips, so God puts His left arm under your head and with His right hand He pours into your lips the wine of His comfort and His con solation, and yon looked at the empty cradle and looked at your broken heart, and you looked at the Lord's chastise ment, and you said: "Even so. Father, for so It seemeth good In Thy sight." Ah, it was your first trouble. How did you get over It? Cod comforted you. Yon have been a better man ever since. You have been a better woman ever since. In the jnr of the closing gate of the sepiilcher you neard the clanging of the opening gate of Heaven, an I yon felt an irresistible drawing Heaven ward. You have been spiritually better ever since that night when the little one for the last time put its arms around your neck and said: "Good night, papa; good night, mamma. Meet me in Heaven." But I must come to your InteBt sor row. What was it? Perhaps It was sickness. The child's tread on the stair or the tick of the watch on the stand disturbed you. Through the long weary days you counted the figures in the carpet or the flowers in the wall pa per. Oh, the weariness of exhaustion! Oh, the burning pangs! Would God it were morning, would God it were night, was your frequent cry. But you are better, or perhaps even well. Have you thanked God that to-flay you can come out In the fresh air; that you are in your place to hear God's name and to sing God s praise and to implore God s help and to ask God's forgiveness? Bless the Lord who healeth all our dis eases and redeemeth our lives from de struction. Perhaps your last sorrow was a finan cial embnrraRsment. I congratulate some of you on your lucrative profes sion or occupation, on ornate apparel, on a commodious residence every thing you put your hands on seems to turn to gold. But there are others of you who are like the ship on which Paul sailed where two sens met, and you are broken by the violence of the waves. By an unadvised indorsement, or by a conjunction of unforeseen events, or by fire or storm, or a sense less panic, you have been flung head long, and where you once dispensed great charities you now have hard work to win your daily bread. Have you forgotten to thank God for your days of prosperity nnd that through your trials some of you have made in vestments which will continue after the last bank of this world has exploded nnd the silver and gold are molten in the fires of a burning world ? Have you, nmld nil your losses nnd discourage ments, forgot that there wns bread on your table this morning and that there shall be a shelter for your head from the storm, and there is air for your lungs and blood for your heart and light for your eye and n glad and glo rious and triumphant religion for your soul? Perhaps your lasttrouble was a be reavement. That heart which in child hood was your refuge, the parental heart, and which has been a source of the quickest sympathy ever since, has suddenly become silent forever. And now sometimes, whenever in sudden an noyance nnd without deliberation you say: "I will go and tell mother," the thought flashes on you: "I have no mother." Or the father, with voice less tender, but with heart as loving, watch ful of all your ways, exultant over your success without saying much, al though the old people do talk it over by themselves, his trembling hand on that staff which you now keep as a family relic, his memory embalmed in grateful hearts is taken away for ever. Or there was your companion in life, sharer of your joys and sorrows, taken, leaving the heart an old ruin, where the ill winds blow over a wild wil derness of desolution, the sands of the desert driving across the place which once bloomed like the garden of God, And Abraham mourns for Sarah at the cave of Machpelah. As you were mov ing along your path in life, suddenly, right before you, was an open grave. People looked down, and they saw it was only a few feet deep and a few feet wide, but to you it was a cavern, down which went all your hopes and all your expectations. But cheer up, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Com forter. He is not going to forsake you. Did the Lord take that child out of your arms? Why, He is going to shel ter it better than you could. He is going to array it in a white robe and palm branch and have it all ready to greet you at your coming home. Blessed the broken heart that Jesus heals! Blessed the importunate cry that Jesus compassionates! ? Blessed the weeping eye from which the soft hand of Jesus wipes away the tear! There Is one more point of absorbing reminiscence, and that is the last bout of life, when we have to look over all our past existence. What a moment that will be! I place Napoleon's dying reminiscence on St. Helena beside Mrs. Judson's dying reminiscence in the har bor of St. Helena, the same island, 20 yeurs after. Napoleon's dying reminis cence wus one of delirium "Tete d'armee" "Head of the unmy." Mrs. Judson's dying reminiscence, as she came home from her missionary toil and her life of self sacrifice for Ood, dying in the cabin of the ship In the har bor of St. Helena, was: "I always did love the Lord Jesus Christ." And then, the historian Bays, she fell into a sound sleep for an hour and woke amid the songs of angels. I place the dying rem iniscence of Augustus Caesar against the dying reminiscence of the Apostle Paul. The dying reminiscence of Au gustus Caesar was, addressing his at tendants: "Have I played my part well on the stage of life?" And they an swered In the affirmative, and he said: "Why, then, don't you applaud me?" The dying reminiscence of Paul the apostle wns: "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept my faith; henceforth there Is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me in that dny, and not to me only, but to all them thnt love nis ap pearing." 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