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A aDllel'With the, Bayonet
By Henry Van Gelder.
Wig
EIE morning of June 2, 1862, is in my
memory distinct as. the quiet after
a tornado. It was the morning after the
two days’ fight -'t 1; Fair Oaks,where Sum-
ner’s artillery saved the relics of Casey’s
division and completed a hollow victory
for the union.
As our main army could not, for lack
of bridges, cross the Chickahominy
river, our shattered brigades were uu-
able to rout utterly and pursue the tom
regiments of Johnston, so the t33 0 corn-
batants lay loosely camped not fai
apart, with the woodland battlefield
mainly in the possession of the national
f01ces. Yesterday, r0111 those tiees,
countless enemies had issued incessant-
ly against the continual blaze of our
bullets, and now the dead in their in-
conceivable attitudes lay under the
gleams of ear'l3 sunshine amid 1. craz3
confusion of all the things on which
they had rclied for safety and sub-
sistence.
Haversacks and, canteens; hundreds
of muskets, butts up and held by their
bayonets at all angles; thousands more
thrown away as if useless sticks; field
pieces, gun carriages, broken swords,
coats, blankets, underclothing, knap-
sacks—everything trampled and all
over mud. It was through this wood-
land that I went with Willis and Brad—
ley, for we had obtained early leave
'to look over the field, and incidentally
were ordered to report anything we
might see of the enemy.
When we reached the famous Worm
Fence, where the slain were most n11-
merous, we debated a little as to wheth-
er we should follow its course this way
or that, as all we knew of the locality
was that Richmond was scarcely five
miles away, and we presumed that the
gray army lay between us and the city.
Here Willis, a Maine man who seemed
quite at home in the woods, took the
lead. Soon we had stepped over and
beyond the close-lying slain, though
now and then we came upon the body
of some southern soldier who, wounded
on the fighting line, had sunk down to
die in moving toward the rear.
Reconnoitering the ground carefully,
we had gone forward probably more
than a. mile when we saw ourselves on
the edge of a road that crossed the
woods at right angles to our course.
There Willis, telling us to halt, went
forward, peered in both directions, mo-
tioned us to stoop down and then came
cautiously back to us. There was, he
said, some smoke rising beyond a turn_
in the road—a camp fire might be there;
he would go toward it, and we were to
follow him at 50 feet- distance, taking
care to make no noise.
In two or three minutes he stopped
and beckoned us to his side. There,
looking through the underbrush, we
could see three “johnnics” beside a
small fire, eating a stew from a camp
kettle. Their guns leaned against a
neighboring tree. We were so near
them that we could hear theirtalk dis-
tinctly, which was about one “Em Sin-
gleton” and a recent letter in which she
had stated that she had already “eat
watermelon.” The surprise of the three
when we stepped into the conversation,
with guns leveled, and ordered them to
surrender was laughable, but none of
them lost their wits. -
“Don’t fire, Yanks'
one.
“Sit still, or you’re goncrs,” said Wil-
lis, as one of them attempted to rise.
We cave,” called
~ Then we secured their guns, and after
smashing them, stock and lock, ate up
their stew, which they seemed to regret
quite as much as their captivity.
“ ll hich Way does this road 11m.
asked \lillis.
“Runs to the rivm that 131131, runs into
our lines that w ay”, one prisoner a11-
swered. I am not sure that he knew he
made two false statements.
“Well, we must be off. Come along,
johnnies; right — forward march!”
Willis went ahead, Bradley and I
brought up the rear. '
Thus we had marched" 101' half a mile
or thereabouts, when, hearing voices
and laughter ahead, beyond one of the
numerous short turns of the road, we
put our best feet forward to reach our
comrades, and came plump out upona
company of fully 100 confederates.
“Hello, Yanks!” cried one of our pris-
oners, in great apparent surpiise,
“who’s on top now ?”
“Just so. See you later, Johnny.”
said Willis, and instantly dodged into
the woods.
14:3'. I,'who had been rather in the
rear, and partlysheltered from view,
leaped into the bush on the other side
of the road. How it happened that I
completely escaped notice I do not un-
derstand, but while many of the con-
federates, shouting and shooting, ran
after Willis and Bradley, I got away
without any pursuit.
As soon as I wasconvinced of this I
cautiously W01 ked back to within sig'ht
of the road and then moved parallel to
it toWard the place where we had cap-
tured the confederates. Once there, I
thought I could-find my way back to the
Worm Fence and then into our lines. ,
But I have always been inexpert as a
woodsman, and I lost. my sense of direc-
tion, and could not find the road when
I again tried to do so. But at last, some-
what alarmed and moving excitedly,
though with my gun ready, I stepped
suddenly out on the road and found
myself face to face with a confederate
soldier. He had jumped up hastily from
resting his back against a roadside tree
on
which had hidden him from me. After- '
ward I learned that he had been dozing.
This young man was as much sur-
prised as I, and as instinctively com-
batant at the sight of the hostile uni-
form and the fixed bayonet. Up went
his gun; he cooked it in the same mo- ' .
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tiou. In this he had a fraction of a sec—
ond the start of me, and so, as l cocked
my Springfield, I thrust out with my
bayonet to knock. his muzzle at side. The
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He was followed by Brad-_
in the next instant he came out of the
' smoke or. me with the bay onet. Steel to
set el, eye to eye, without a word, we
'i were trying to kill one anothex, for
neither of us could me an 11y other way 1 '
to save himself
When I think of it now-of :he peace- ,
l to] road, the quiet woodland, and sun-
shine on his gun and his face, of his
lunging at me with the same fear in
his heart that was in my own—the fear
' of having the hard steel in my mid-
rif‘f—when I think how furious and for-
midable he looked, and how inevitable
it seemed, that I must kill or be killed,
it seems more unreal, more incredible
than anything else in my life. Yet I
can now veritably hear the clash and
clatter of our bayonets and gun bar-
rels as I met his expert lunges with the
regular parries and still stood on my
guard.
At first I had been fighting as an au-
tomaton, and even my fear of his steel
was as if mechanical and forced; but
the strangeness of it came into my mind
after a dozen passes. To be poking at
one another’s hearts there without any
reason, under no order, we two stran—
gers, in no battle and with no witness,
stabbing and warding with all
weight of our guns!
My soul began to stir. It shrank from
to stop; and" still I parried ard turned,
agility and said nething.
bHe kept me too busy to settle the half-
fiections would no doubt soon
found w 01ds had they not been driven
forth 1'1om my mind.
my e3e or my motions, for he gave a.
gr,eat fierce 3'ell: “N033, Yank?“1 and
tried to close in and end it. lime, in
the rapid play, my left hand 33 as jabbed
sev erely by his point, and w ith that and
his shout my temper changed.
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STEEL. TO STEEL, EYE TO EYE.
punction departed; his yelling as if he
m3 self for hav ing hesitated.
petuously I gave up the defensive and
attacked with all my might
“Your Yankee is up,e eh?” said the
3oung man in g'ra3, as he began to give
me ground
watchfully, and I remembet how his
deiisive smile whctted my wrath. l
I could not touch him, though I forced
him to back along the road for fully .100
yards. ' '
Bayonet fighting is terribly hard
work. We had both been panting and
sweating for what seemed a long time,
though all was over in 15 minutes, 1
now believe. I was beginning to under-
stand t-hat I must fall down from weak-
ness or drop my gun if I could not soon
kill him, and with the physical natuie, I
3v as nolong or so desirous to kill as I w as
to stop fighting And still we prodded
and tottered and gasped, until suddenly
he said: “Hold on, Yank,” and dropped
the butt of his gun.
It seemed a reasonable thing to do
the same, and we stood there, yards
apart, scanning each other respectful-
ly and catching bi eath.
“Sechcre, Yank,” he d1aw,led “ ’taln’ t,
no use; we vc fitit pretty well out, and
neither of us is killed so fur; s’pose we
back off and call it square?”
“All right, Johnny; 1" m agreeable.”
“Well, all right, then. What did you
start in for, anyhow—never see such a
man!”
"Me—4t- 33'as you that
Suchfool work! I was just going along,
and you—"
"Me—there never was no murderin’
mind in me. I was just settin' under
the tree, kind of dozing, and you come
sneaking out at me from behind,
and if—”
“Came sneaking at you from behind!
Ily thunder that’s’too much!” and at
my motion of fury his bayonet. was on
guard again.
And then we looked into another's
' eyes, and the comicality of it struck us
both at once. Down went our guns
again, and out went our hands, and
' then we shock and smiled; but the sen-
tim'entality of this gaveus a sharp re-
action. We drew apart stiflly; each
picked up his gun.
“Yonder is your army,
said, gravely.
“Obliged to you, Johnny," said 1, and
took his word for it.
After I had gone about 50 yards I
stopped and looked back. The 301mg
man in gray turned his head at the mo-
ment, and waved his hand to me.
“Good-by, Yank."
“Good-by, Johnny."
Twenty minutes latex l was in camp
1 w1th Willis and Bradley, who had es-
caped with some bad scratches. They
gave me the particulars of their escape,
but I did not dare to tell them about
that lonesome bayonet fight, for they
would not have believed so strange a
1 story.\—Youtl1’s Companion.
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the killing of him. I knew the fight L
was a causeless, crazy thing that ought = "
for he 3v as shifting about me with great ’
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It Is Offered byithe Life Story of Dr.
_ Schnrman, President of the
Philippine Commission.
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man, whom the president has chosen as
I head of the Philippine commission,
,1 might have been written as an incentive
f to boys, so fully have the sacrifices and
endeavors of his yo 1th been rew arded.
The son of a poor farmcr' 1n that cheer-
literally made his own way in the 33 oer
and was only 28 years old 3v hen, in 1892,
he succeeded I’lof. Charles Kendall
Adams as president of Cornell uni-
versity.
Schui man, says the Philadelphia Sat-
] urday Ev ening Post, 33 as first 1133 akened
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JACOB GOULD SCI'IURMAN.
(President of the United States Philippine
I Commission.)
to the possibilities that lay before him
by r'eading the life of Lincoln. Ilis first
librar3 was the Bible, I‘ox s Book of
' Maltyrs and Bunyan’ s Pilgrim’s Prog-
Iress; the first money he earned, ten
cents, paid him by one of the neigh-
bors for helping with the‘ threshing;
{ his first regular occupation, clerk in a
village shop for the magnificent salary
| of $30 a year; but he was a boy with an
imagination, and while weighing out
flour and measur'ing oi'l' ribbon‘ nis eyes
3v ere fixed upon the stars, and they ham 0
never been lowered.
Dr. Sehurman has attained great suc-
cess and has enjoyed many t1iumphs,
l but the greatest day in his life .vas that
' on which he learned he had 3v on the
scholarship in the U1 11iv ersity of London
or Edinburgh, open to all the colleges
of the Dominion, and entitling its hold-
er to $500 a year for four years at either
of these great institutions.
After taking the examination in J one.
young Schurman went ‘to Prince Ed-
ward island for the summer, and, hear—
ing nothing from his papers, imagined
he had failed. He returned to Acadia
college, therefore, to finish his course;
but on the way met a number of people
who overpowered him with congratula-
tions. He had won the scholarship.
GIFT FROM FRANCE.
Two Beautiful Sevres Vases and
Pedestals Placed in the Blue
Room of the \Vhlte House.
An interesting ceremony took place
in the. blue 1'00111 of the white house a
few days since when the French ambas-
sador, M. Cambon, presented to the gov—
ernment and to the American people, as
represented by President McKinley,
two magnificent Sevres vases, a gift of
the late Felix l“aure, president of the
French republic, in commemoration of
the ope11i11g.11 mist August, of the new
Fr 1nco- l‘11'11c11can cable, on which occa-
sion the 11 ads of the two nations ex-
changed the first messages over the
new line. The vases and pedestals
stand about eight feet high and are of
that exquisite deep blue so characteris-
tic of the very finest Sevres ware.
The history of this exquisite ware is
as interesting as that of an ancient
SEVRES VASES FROM FRANCE.
(Gift of the Late President Faure to the
American People.)
noble house. In 1756 the entire works
of Sevres were purchased by Louis XV.
It is related that when Oscar ofSwedcn
was in Paris a few 3ca1's ago he went
into the official exposition of Sevres
p01 cel11111
year is arranged with care. The king
noticed that of blue celeste there were
but three pieces, and with considerable
surprise consulted the attendant, who
told him that those three plates were
worth a small fortune.
“I have more plates of blue celeste
than that,” his majesty replied.
“You!” exclaimed the attendant.
“W 110 :11 e 3 on. “” '
“The king of Sweden,” the caller an-
swered.
“May I ask your majesty how many
of these plates you possess?"
King Oscar turned to Count Resen,
his companion, and asked: “How many
have we?"
The reply was: “T330 hundred and
fourteen pieces, your majesty"
‘hc attendant was duinfounded, but
managed to inquire how the chin. 1 had
been so carefully preserved. Whereat
the royal 3isitor remm kcd, sagely:
“Oh, that is easil3 accounted for.
You see, in S33 edcu we don' t have any
rcvolutiOns.”
less country, Prince Edward island. be,
Here the pioduct of each'
CONVENIENT CRATE.
Almost Indispensable \Vhere vaine,
[Sheep or Calves Have to Be
Moved Around.
Often is it desirable on the farm to
move swine, sheep, calves and the like
. from one building, pen or pasture in-
closure to another, but just how to do it
always is a problem, for neither a calf,
sheep nor pig likes, as a rule, to be led
01' driven. Albeit they are usually
willing enough to go in'company with
others, they decidedly object to going
alone, and if “forced” it generally takes
a lot of energy to convey them even a
little ways.
lIappil3','however, all this trouble
can easily be averted, and the feelings
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CRATE FOR MOVING STOCK.
of the young animal not imposed upon
in the least. Simply go to work and
make a crate 011 wheels, such as is
shown herewith in the illustration, and
into this any calf, pig, sheep or the like
can be driven, the door closed, and “His
majesty” wheeled away in triumph.
Indeed, if any calves happen to be
dropped by their dams in the pasture,
nothing devisable is more convenient
for bringing them1into the barn. It
is also exceedingly useful for convey—
ing fat sheep and veal calves to that
place where it is customary on the farm
to “dress” them for market. The fact
is, the 3301 th of this simple affair can-
not be estimated as a labor-s13 1110‘ de-
vice until one has used it awhile, and
as its cost of construction in the com~
parative sense is very small, no farmer
ougl. t to be without it. —Frederick O.
Sibley, in N. Y. Tlibune.
. GIANT AMONG HOGS.
It Measure Over Nine Feet from the
Tip of Its Nose to the Tall and
“'elghca 1,669 Pounds.
The 1111 gcst hog 6: e1 laised was re-
ccntly slau ghte1cd in New York. The
animal 33' as a J'c1 323' led boar, t33 o and
one- -half years old, 33 eighing ali3e 1, 009
pounds and dressing 1, 336 pounds. The
National P1 ovisioner has. the following
to say of the pr”odig3: “This huge
swine measul ed ov c1 nine feet from tip
of its nose to end of its tail. It Inc-11s—
ures t33o and one- -half feet neloss the
loin, 1330 and one- -11alf feet across the
ham and six feet in gil 'th. This makes
the hog th1ee feet through. It is split
at the shoulder. and to look into the
great carcass is like looking into the
cr‘c3ice of a cav e111. The carcass spreads
across the per spectivc of the store like
a Titanic statue of pork personified It
also looks like tl 1c body of the erect hog
god embalmed and lcposing in its gi-
gant ic majesty. Fiom hip bone to too
it 111L11s1110s tln c e and one- -l1alf feet and
about thes same f. '0111 the crest of the
shoulder blade to The bottom of the
foot. The great fat jowls extend nearly
two feet across. From between the ears
to the tail is over seven feet. The tail
itself is thL s1111'1llest thing in the big
monortions. It is 11 mc1e point in the
air. 'Ihe face of the hog is also small
for the size of the animal. It is only 16
inches long. The hams a1c monstersin
sin e, and the vast stretch of pork in the
long 33 aist is home just above the
ground by four comp'u 11t13 ely small
feet. The usual p01l:e1 is amere pigmv
by its side. The biggest hog heretofore
grown weighed 1,250 pounds deac
weight.”
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Brazilian Balm.
ited from Tennessee two bullets which
had met each other in midair, and also
a muzzle-loading Springfield rifle into
the barrel of which a. rebel bullet had
found its way. This remarkable cir-
cumstance was duplicated at the battle
of Caloocan, an insurgent bullet having
passed the whole interior length of the
rifle in the hands of Private Stuteville,
of the Abilene company, in the Twen-
tieth Kansas. Stuteville had just fired
his piece and still had it at his shoul-
der when the insurgent bullet passed
in at its muzzle. The bullet proceeded
the whole length of the barrel, break-
ing the breechloek
empty cartridge shell into the upper
part of its chamber. Gen. Otis heard
of the occurrence and sent for the rifle,
which he intends to send to the war de-
partment as a curio. '
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