ESTABLISHED 1800. Volume LXXXVII. NORWALK, CONN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1887. fl THE REEL ACORN. BY JOHN M’ELROY, Author of “Andersonvillc,” Etc. [Copyrighted by National Tribune Publishing 00., and published by arrangement with them.] [The name given this story is made glorious b the valor and achievements of the first division of the Fourteenth Army corps, the cognizance of which was a crimson acorn, worn on the breasts of its gallant Ioldiers and borne upon their battle flags.) Continued. Just at dusk Tuesday night Fortner came in and was warmly welcomed. “There are such countlem hosts of the Con- federates,” Rachel said to him after the first greetings were over, “that I quite despair of our men being able to do anything with them. It seems impossible that there can be gathered together anywhere else in the world as many men as they have.” “I don’t wonder ye think so, but of ye’d been whar I wuz to-day ye’d think thet all the world wuz marchin’ round in blue uni- forms. Over heah hit seems oz of all the ce- dars on the hills had suddintly turned into Confederate soldiers. Three miles from heah the bluccoats are swarmin’ thicker’n bees in a field 0’ buckwheat.” “Three miles from here? within three miles of here?" “Hit sartinly is. an’ the Lord-awfullest crowd 0’ men an’ guns an’ bosses that ever trompcd down the grass 0’ this ere airth. Why, hit jest dazed my eyes ter look at ’em. Como ter this other winder. D’ye see thet furthercst line 0’ camp fircs, ’way on yandcr hill? Well, them’s Union. Ef ye could see far 01qu yc‘d sec they’re ’bout five miles long, an’ they look purticr’n the stars in heaven.” “But if they are so close the battle will be gin immediately, will it not?" “Hit ain’t likely ter be put off very long, but thar‘s no tellin’ what’ll happen in. war, or when." - , “When is my time to come?” “Thct‘s what I’ve come fur ter. tell ye. Ef we’re agwine ter be of service for the guv’- ment. we must do hit to-night, fur most like- ly the battle‘ll begin in the mornin’. Hit’s not jest the way I intended ter make use of ye, but hit can’t be helped now. I hev in— formation that must reach Gineral Rosen- cruns aforc daybreak. The vict’ry may de- pend on hit. Ter make sure all on usmust start with hit, fur gittin’ through the lines is now mouty dangersome, an’ somebody-— nlebbe several—is bound to git cotcht, mebbe wuss. The men 1 expected ter help me are all gone. 1 hain’t nobody now but ye an’ Aunt Debby. D’ye dar and try an’ make yer way through the lines to—nighti” Rachel thought a minute upon the dread- ful possibilities of the venture, and then replied firmly: “Yes I dare. I will try anything that the rest of you will attempt.” . “Good. I knowed ye’d talk theta—way. Now we must waste no time in gittin’ started, fur God on’y knows what dilfikilties we’ll meet on the way, an’ Rosencrans can’t hev the information enny too soon. Ev’ry minute hit’s kep’ away from him’ll cest many vallerable lives—mebbo help defeat the army.” . - I “Tell me quickly, then, what I must do, that I may lose no time in undertaking it. ” “Well, heah’s a plan of the position at sun- down of the_Confedcrates. Hit’s drawed out moughty roughly, but hit’ll show jest whar they all are, an’ about the number there is at each place. Hit begins on the right which is south of Stone river, with Breckinridge’s men; then across the river is TVitbers, an’ Cheatham, an’ Cleburne, with McCown’s division on the left, an’ Wharton’s cavalry on the flank. But the thing 0’ most import- ance is thet all day long they’ve been movin’ men round tcr ther left, ter fall on our right an’ crush hit. They’re hid in the cedar thicketsover thar, an’ they’ll come out to- morrow mornin’ like a million yellin’ devils, an’ try to sweep our right wing ofie’n the face 0’ the arth. D’yc understand what I’ve tole yo?” . “Yes. Breckenridge’s division is on their right and south of Stone river. Withers, Cheatham and Cleburne come next, on the north of the river, with .MQCown’s division and Wharton's cavalry on the left, as shown in the sketch, and they are moving heavy forces around to their left, with the evident intention'of falling overwhelmingly on our right early in' the morning. ” “'l‘het’s hit. Thet’s hit. But lay all the stress ye kin on the movin’ around ter ther left. That’s mo’ mischief-in thet than all the rest. Say thet thar’s 20,000 men gwine round thar this arternoon an’ evenin’. Say thet thar’s the biggest thundercloud o’ danger that enny one ever seed. Say hit over an’ over, tell everybody understands hit an’ gits ready tor meet hit. Tell hit till ye’ve made ev’ry one on ’em understand thet tbar can’t be no mistake about hit, an’ they must look out fur beeps 0’ trouble on ther right. Tell hit ez ye never tole anything store in yer life. Tell bit ez ye’d pray God Almighty fur the life 0’ the one. that ye love better than all the world be- side. An’ git thar ter tell hit—git thru the Confederate lines—cf ye love yer God an’ yer country, an’ ye want ter see the brave men who are ter die ter-morrer make their deaths count somethin’ to’ard savin’ this Union. Hit may be thet yore information’ll save the army/from defeat. Hit may be—hit’s most likely—thet hit’ll save the lives 0’ thousands o’ brave men who love ther lives even ez yo an‘ mo loves cum.” “Trust me to do all that a devoted woman can. I will get through before daybreak or die in the attempt. But how am I to go?” “Hide this paper somewhar. Aunt Debby’ll fix ye up ez a country gal, while I’m gittin’ ycr mar saddled an’ bridled with some com- mon harness, instid o’ the fancy fixin’s ye bed when ye rode out heah. Ef ye’re stopt, ez ye likely will be, say thet ye’ve been ter towb fur the doctor an’ some medicine fur yer sick mummy an’ are tryin’ ter git back ter yer home on the south fork o’ Overall’s creek. Now, go an’ git ready 62 quick ez the Lord’ll let ye.” As she heard the mare‘s hoofs in front of the door, Rachel came out with a “slat sun- bomiet” on her head, and along, black calico riding skirt over her linscy dress. Fortner gave her attire an approving nod. Aunt Debby followed her with a bottle. “This is the medicine ye’ve bin ter git from Dr. Thacher heah in town," she said, handing the vial. “Remember the name, fur fear ye mout meet some one who knows the town. Dr. Thacher, who lives a little piece ofi'en the square, an’ gives big doses of epecac fur everything, from hrakebone fever ter the itch." , “Dr. Thackor, who lives just 011’ the square,” said Rachel. “PM be certain toremcmber.” “Take this. too," said Fortncr. handing her a finely finished revolver, of rather large caliber. “Don’t pull hit onless ye can’t git along without hit, an’ then make sho o’ yer man. Salt him. 7" “Good-by—God bless ye,” said Aunt Debby, taking Rachel to her heart in a passionate embrace, and kissing her repeatedly. “God bless ye agin. No one over hed more need 0’ His blessin’ then we’uus will fur the next few hours. Ef He does bless us an’ our work will all be safe an’ sound in Gineral Rosen- cralm’ tent afore noon. But of His will’s different we’ll be by thet time whar the Con- federates cease from troubliu,’ and the weary are at rest. l’m sure thet of I that the Con- federates war gwine ter whip our men I’d never want tor see the sun rise ter-morrer. Good—by; we’re all in the hands 0’ Him who scclh even the sparrcr’s fall.” Fort-nei- led the mare a little ways, to whcrc he could get a good view, and then Is our army said: “Thct second line 0’ l'u'es which ye see over thur isour lines—them firesI mean which run up inter the woods. The fust line is the Confederates. Yc’ll go right out this road heah tell yc git outside the town, an’ then turn for yer right un’ make fur the Stone J'iVCl‘, ford hit or swim your mar’ acrosr, an’ make ycr way thru or round the Confederate line. l'Cf yo find a good road, an’ everything favorable ye mout try ter make yer way strait thru of ye Ihiuk yc kin fool the gyards with youstory. Ef ye‘re fearful ye can’t then ride beyond the lines, an’ come inter ours theta—way. Aunt Debby’ll go ter the other flank, an’ try tor git a—past Breckin- ridgc’s pickets, an’ I’ll ’tempt ter make my way thru the center. We may all or none 0’ us git thru. I can’t gin ye much advice, ez yell hev ter trust mainly ter yerself. But remember all the time What hangs upon yer gittin’ the news ter Rosy afore daybreak. Think all the time that mcbbe yo kin save the hull army, mebbe win the vict’ry, sarcinly save beeps 0’ Union lives au’ fool the pizen Confederates. This is the greatest chance ye’ll evcr bcv fer do good in all yer “£0. 01' 0 hundred more, of ye could hve ’em. , - by, El? God Almighty smiles on us well meet ter-morrcr on you side 0’ Stone l‘lVOl‘. lit lie frowns we'll meet on you side o’ the Shilliu’ River. Good-by." ' lle released her hand and her horse, and she rode forward into the darkness. Her course took her first up a main street, which was crowded with wagons, ambulances and artillery. Groups of men mingled With these, and crowded upon the sidewalks. When she Passed the light of a window the men stared at her, and some few‘ presumed upon her “finely gm'b so far as to venture upon face- fiou's and complimentary remarks, aimed at W8 :2. better acquaintance. Wm“ minim hurried Ilel‘ mare mm «imam m .919; team She 9001: passed out of the limits of the town and was in the country, though she was yet in the midst of camps, and still had to thread her way through masses of men, horses and wagons moving along the row. The first flutter of perturbation at going out into the darkness and the midst of armed men had given way to a more composed feel- ing. No one had stopped her, or offered to, no one had shown any symptom of surprise at her presence there at that hour. She began to hope that this immunity would con- tinue until she had made her way to the Union lines. She had left the thick of the crowd behind some distance and was going along at a fair pace over a clear road, studying all the while the line of fires far to her right, in an attempt to discover a promising dark gap in their extent. She was startled by a hand laid upon her bridle and a voice saying: “Say, Sis, who mout ye be an’ whar mout ye be u-mosyin’ tcr this time 0’ night?" She saw a squad of brigandish looking stragglers at her marc‘s head. “My name’s Polly Briggs. I live on, the south fork o' Overall’s creek. I’ve done been for Dr. Thacker’s in Murfreesboro, fur some medicine fur my sick mummy, an’ I’m on my way back home, an’ I’d be much obleeged ter ye gentlemen ef ye’d ’low me tor go on, kosc mommy’s powerful sick an’ she’s in great hurry fur her medicine. " She said this with a coohless and a perfect imitation of the speech and manner of the section that surprised herself. As she ended she looked directly at the squad, and inspected them. She saw she had reason to be alarmed. They were those prowling wolves found about all armies, to whom war meant only wider opportunities for all manner of villainy and outrage. An unprotected girl was a welcome prize to them. It was not death as a spy she had to fear, but worse. Now, if ever. she must act decisively. The leader took his hand from her bridle, as if to place it on her. “Yer a powerful peart sort of a gal, an’ ez purty rz a fawn. Yer mammy can git ’long without the medicine a little while, “7—” He did not finish the sentence, for before his band could touch her Rachel’s whip out a deep wale across his face, and then it fell so savagely upon the mare’s flank that the high-spirited animal sprang forward as if shot from a catapult, and was a hundred yards away before the rascals really com- prehended what had happened. Onward sped the mettled brute, so mad- dened by the first cruel blow she had ever received that she refused to Obey the rein, but made her own way by and through such objects as she encountered. \Vhen she at last calmed down the road was clear and louely,’ and Rachel began searching for indications of a favorable point of approach to the river that hinted at a bridge or a ford. While en- gaged in this she heard voices approaching. A moment’s listening to the mingling of tones convinced her ' that it was another crowd of stragglcxs, and she obeyed her first impulse, which was to leap her horse over a low stone wall to her right. Taking her head again, the mare did not stop until she gal- lOped down to the water’s edge. “I’ll accept this as lucky,” said Rachel to herself. “The ancients trusted more to their horses’ instincts than their own perceptions in times of danger, and I’ll do the same. I’ll cram here. ” She urged the mare into the water. The beast picked her way'among the boulders on the bottom successfully for a few minutes. The water rose to Rachel’s feet, but that seemed its greatest depth, and in a. few more yards she would gain the opposite bank, when suddenly the more stepped upon aslippery steep, her feet Went from under her instantly, and steed and rider rolled in the sweeping flood of'ice cold water. Rachel’s first thought was that she should surely drown, but hope came back as she caught a limb swinging from a tree on the bank. With this she held her head above ’water until she could collect herself a little, and then with great difliculty pulled herself up the muddy, slippery bank. The weight of her soaked clothes added greatly to the difficulty and fatigue, and she lay for some time prone upon her face across the furrows of a cotton field, before she could stand erect. At last she was able to stand up, and she relieved herself somewhat by taking off her calico riding skirt and wringing the water from it. Her mare had also gained the / bank near the same point she had, and stood looking at her with a world of wonder at the whole night’s experience in her great brown e es. y“Poor thing,” said Rachel, sympathetically._ “This is only the beginning. Heaven knows what we won’t have to go through with be fore the sun rises." She tried to m6unt,.but her watery gar- ments were too much for her agility, and with the wet skirts fettering her limbs she began toiling painfully over the spongy, plowed ground, in search of a stump or a rock. She thought she saw many around her, but on approaching one after another found they were only large cotton plants, with a boll or two of ungathered cotton on them, which aided the darkness in giving them their deceptive appearance. She prevented herself from traveling in a circle by remembering this aptitude of benighted travelers, and keep- ing her eye steadily fixed on a distant camp fire. “Then she at last came to the edge of the field she had to lean against the fence for some minutes before she could recover from her fatigue sufficiently to climb upon it. While she sat for a minute there she heard some cocks, at a neighboring farmhouse, crow the turn of night. “It is midnight,” she said feverishly, “and I have only begun the journey. Now let every nerve and muscle do its utmost." She rode along the fence until she came to an opening, which led into what appeared in the darkness to be another cotton field, but proved to be a worn-out one, long ago aban- doned to the rank growing briars, which clung to and tore her skirts, and seamed tho mare’s delicate skin with bleeding furrows. The fiinchiug brute pressed onward, in re- sponse to her mistress’ encouragement, but the progress was grievously slow. Presently Rmhei began to see moving figures a little way ahead of her, and hear voices in command. She realized that she was approaching the forces moving to the at- tack on the Union right. There was some- thing grotesque, weird, cven frightful in the sounds and the aspect of the moving masses and figures, but she at last made out that they were batteries, regiments and mounted men. She decided that her best course was to mingle with and move along with them, until she could get a chance to ride away in advance. For hours, that seemed weeks, she remained entangled in the slow moving mas, .vhose bewildering vagaries of motion were as trying to the endurance of her steed as they were exasperating to her own impa Hence. Occasionally she caught glimpses of the Union camp fires in the distance, that, low and smoldering. told of the waning night, and she would look anxiously over her left shoulder for a hint of the coming of the dreaded dawn. Her mare terrified her with symptoms of giving out. At last she saw an unmistakable silvery break in the, eastern clouds. Half frantic she broke suddenly out of the throng by an abrupt turn to the right, and lashing her mare savagely galloped where a graying in the dense darknem showed an opening be- tween two cedar thickets that led to the picket fires, half a mile away. The mare’s hoofs beat sonorously on the level limestone floor, which there frequently rises through the shallow soil and starves out the cedar. “Haltl Go back,” commanded a hoarse voice in front of her, which was accompanied with the choking of. a gunlock. “Ye can’t pass heah.” 7 “Lemme pass, ndster,” she pleaded. “I’m on’y a gal, with medicine fur my mummy, an’ I’m powerful anxious to git home.” “No, ye can’t git out heah. Orders are strict; besides, if ye did the Yankees’d cotch ye. They’re jest out thar.” She became aware that there were heavy lines of men lying near, and fearing to say another word she turned and rode away to the left. She became entangled with a cav- alry company moving toward the extreme Union right, and riding with it several hun- dred yards turned off into a convenient grove just as the light began to be suflicient to dis- tingush her from a trooper. She was now, she was sure, outside of the Confederate lines, but she had gone far to the south, where the two lines were wide apart. The Union fifes and drums, now sounding what seemed an unsuspicious and cheerful reveille, were ap- parently at least a mile away. It was grow- in g lighter rapidly, and every passing mo- ment was fraught with the weightiest ur- gency. She concentrated all her energies for a supreme effort, and lashed her mare for- ward over the muddy cotton field. The beast’s hoofs sank in the loose red loam as if it were quicksand, and her pace was madden- ingly slow. At last Rachel came in sight of a Union camp at the edge of a cedar thicket. The arms were stacked, the men were cooking breakfast, and a battery of cannon standing near had no horses attached. Rachel beat the poor mare's flanks furious- ly, and shouted: “Turn out! The rebels are coming] The rebels are coming 1” Her warning came too late. Too late, also, came that of the picketa,who were firing their guns and rushing back to camp before an aw— ful wave of men that had rolled out of the cedars on the other side of the cotton field. A hundred boisterous drums were now mak- ing the thickets r1118 With the “1038 "11;” Rachel saw them in front of her leave their coffee making, rush to the musket size their wflTWa a... g In another minute they were ordered forward to the fence in front of them, upon which they rested their muskets. Rachel rode through their lino and turned around to look. The broad cotton field was covered with solid masses of Confederates, rushing forward with their peculiar fierce yell. “Fire!” shouted the colonel in front of her. The six field pieces to her right split her ems with their crash. A thousand muskets blazed out a fire that withered the first line of the advancing foe. Another crash. and the Con- federates had answered with musketry and artillery, that tore the cedars around her, sent the fence rails flying into the air and cov- ered the ground with blue coats. Her faith- ful mare shied, caught her hoof in a crack in the limestone, and fell with a broken leg. So began that terrible Wednesday, Dec. 31, 1862. ' Bragg’s plan of battle was very simple. Roscncrans had stretched out a long thin wing through the cedars to the right 'of the pike. At the pike it was very strong, but two miles away it degenerated into scattered regiments, unskillfully disposed. Bragg threw against these three or four to one, with all the fury of the southern soldier in the onset. The line was crumbled, and before noon crushed back to the pike. Rachel disengaged herself from her fallen steed, and leaning against a sapling, watched the awful collision. She forgot the great danger in the fascination of the terrible spec— tacle. She thought she had seen men scale the whole gamut of passion, but their wildest excesses were tame and frothy beside this costacy of rage in the fury of battle. The rustic southeruers whom she had seen at ball play, the simple hearted northerners whom she had alarmed at their coffee making, were now transformed into furies mad with the delirium of slaughter, and heedless of their own lives in the frenzy of taking those of others. “You had better run back, young woman,” said some one touching ‘ her elbow. “The whole line’s going to fall back. We’re flank .” A disorderly stream of men, fragments of the shattered right, caught her in its rush, and she was home back to the open fields lying along the pike. There, as when a tur- bulent river empties into a bay, the force of the current subsided, and she was dropped like silt. The cowardly ones, hatless and weapon- less, ran-off toward the pike, but the greater portion halted, formed in line, called for their comrades to join them, and sent for more cartridges. Almost dropping with fatigue, Rachel made her way to a pile of cracker boxes by an Osage-orange hedge, on a knoll, and sat down. Some fragments of hard bread, dropped on the trampled sod while rations were being is- sued, lay around. She was so hungry that she picked up one or two that were hardly soiled, and nibbled them. The dreadful clamor of battle grew louder continually. ’l‘he musketry had swollen into a sullen roar, with the artillery pulsating high above it. Crashing volleys of hundreds of muskets iii-cl at once, told of new regi- ments joining in the struggle. Confederate brigades raised piercing treble yells as they charged across the open fields against the Union positions. The latter responded with deep lunged cheers, as they hurled their as- sailants back. Clouds of slowly curling smoke rose above thickets filled with mad- dened men, firing'into one mother’s breasts. Swarms of rabbits and flocks of birds dashed out in terror from the dark coverts in which they had hitherto found security. No gallantry could avail against such over- whelming numbers as assailed the Union right. The stream of disorganized men flowing back from tho thickets became wider and swifter every minute; every minute, too, the din of the conflict came closer; every minute the tide of battle rolled on to regi- ments lying near the pike. A surgeon with a squad of stretcher bear- ers came up to where Rachel was sitting. “Pull down some of those boxes and fix a place to lay the colonel till we can make other arrangements,” said a familiar voice. Rachel, looked up, and with some difficulty recon- ciled a grimy-faced man in torn clothes with the trim hospital surgeon she had known. “Can that be you, Dr. Denslow’i” she said. He had equal difficulty in recognizing her. “Is it possible that it is you, Miss Bond?” he said in amazement, after she had spoken to him again. “Yes, this is I, or as much as is left of_me. And here,” and his voice trembled, “is about all that is left of the regiment. The rest are lying about the roots of those accursed cedals, I. fall mile from here.” . “And Harry Glen—where is he?” she said. rising hurriedly from the boxes and posing along the line of stretchers, scanning each face. . . A new pain appeared in the doctor’s face as he watched her. “You’ll not find him there,” he said. “The last I saw of him he was forming a handful of the regiment that were still on their feet, to retake cannon which the Confederates had captured. I was starting of! with the colonel here when they dashed away.” “Come,” he said, after making some tem- porary provisions for _ the comfort of his wounded. “You must get away from here as quickly as possible. I fear the army is badly defeated, and it maybe a rout soon. You must get away before the rush begins, for then it will be terrible.” He took her over the pike, and across it to where some wagons were standing. As he was about to put Rachel in one of these their attention was arrested by an ofiicer, ap- parently acting as provost marshal, dragging from behind a huge rock a lieutenant who was skulking there. They were too far away to hear what was said, but not so far that they could not recognize the skulker as Lieut. Joseph Pancake. The provost marshal apparently demanded the skulker’s name, and wrote it in a book. Pancake seemed to give the information, and accompanied it with a lugubrious pointing to a bandage around his knee. The provost marshal stooped and took the handkerchief ed, to find that not even the cloth of the pantaloons had been injured. He contemptuously tore the straps from Pancake’s shoulders and left him. “The rascal‘s cowardice is like the mercy of God," said Denslow, “for it endureth for- ever.” He put Rachel in a‘ wagon, and ordered the driver to start at once for Nashville with her. She pissed his hand, as they separated and then sank back ,on the boxes, overwhelmed with fatigue and grief. ' To be Continued. Elephants at Sea. The hoisting into the air and lowering elephants into the hold of a ship is not only an unusual sight to most men but also a strange experience to most elephants. They were lashed with strong ropes, slung as far as practicable in slings, hoisted up with cranes and three-fold tackle and lowered into ' the steamer-’3 hold like bales of cotton. When in the hold they were placed in pens built of strong teak timber balks, bolted to the ship’s side to prevent' them from breaking loose. The fear the animals sufiered was the only pain they underwent, and by watching the eyes of the poor beasts their terror was very manifest. Tears trickled down their faces and they roared with dread, more especially when being lowered into the hold, the bottom of which was sanded for them tostand upon. We are told that one timid female elephant actually fainted and was brought to with a fan and many gallons of water. At sea it appears that the animals got into a curious habit of occasionally—evidently at a precon- certed signal—setting to work rocking the ship from side to side by giving themselves simultaneously a swinging motion as they stood atth the. ship, the vessel rolling heavily as if in a seaway.—-Youth’s Com- paniou. Hie Lack of Confidence. Jim Webster—I was jess sayin’ de udder day you was one ob, do mos’ reckless men I cbcr seed. “You is right. I isn’t feared of nufiin,” replied Uncle Mose. “Jess what I said. Den, ob course, you isn’t afeared to lend me a dollah,” “No, J ecms, I isu’t afcared to lend you a ' dollah.” “Jess what I said. Hand ober do docker- ment.” “I isn’t afcarcd to lend yer a dollah, but I does so hate to part with an old fren’ for- eber. I’so got do dollah, J eems, but I lack: ccnferdencc. ”—Texas Sittings. The Last Year’s Ice Palace. The structure of the St. Paul ice palace last winter was of rectangular cruciform ground plan, 180x154 feet, with principal tower 106 feet high, surrounded by other teams, etc, giving very beautiful and com- plete architectural charactertothe building. The principal entrance was under a Gothic arch of‘ten feet spanand twenty-five feet ' high. The blocks of which the palace was constructed were twenty-two inches by forty- four inches by twenty. inches, the latter being the thickness of the ice. They were marked out on the surface of the ice on the Missis- sippi river, and sawed at' once to these dimensions, which were unchanged after- ward, except where, in round towers, etc, some trimming with axes was required. The blocks were raised in place by ice tongs and tackle operated by horsepower. The blocks in walls and arches were cemented with water, which, at the existing tempera- ture froze almost immediately—Boston Budget. ‘ Wolves are very numerous in the Texas Panhandle. .wistful solicitude. I l QUAILS AD NAUSEA M. A MAN IN CHICAGO EATS THIRTY BIRDS IN THIRTY DAYS. A Gastronomic Feat Said to Be [In- equaled—Scenes at the Final Feast. How a Wager of $1,000 “’as “'on. Enough. John C. Mann ate his thirtieth quail in thirty consecutive days the other evening, at cx-Alderman Jonas’ restaurant, and his backer, George R. Clark, wins $1,000 from Alderman Hildreth. A little over a month ago Alderman Hildreth offered to put up $1,000 as a wager that Mann could not eat thirty quails in thirty days, one each day, 'a quail to be eaten between the hours of O and 7 o'clock in the evening. The money was covered, and the contest of J. C. Mann vs. his stomach commenced on the evening of Dec. 2. He at once put himself under the care of Drs.,Bryden, of Chicago, and Mit- chell,,of Minneapolis, and acting according to their ...‘.vico has lived for the month on a diet of oatmeal for breakfast and light cold meats for dinner, winding up with his quail supper each evening. He got along very well until he reached his twenty-ninth quail . on the evening of Dec. 31. On this oc- casion he got through with his grand supper only after a hard struggle, and it was ex- pected that he would fail in the attempt to consume his thirtieth. This belief was strengthened by the fact that Charley Mil- ler, a rugged eater heIOnging to the Jonas restaurant, had but a few days previously failed on his twenty-ninth attempt at the same feat. Hence there was a large crowd of spectators at the place the last evening when young Mann, accompanied by Dr. C. Mahouey, the referee in the contest, entered and took his seat at one of the tables. , AT 11‘ AGAIN. Immediately as the hands of the clock pointed to O, the thirtieth quail, which had been excellently broiled and placed on a pyramid of toast, was set before Mann. The accompaniments were salt, celery, bread, butter, Saratoga chips, etc. He brought with him a bottle of Waukesha water, of which he at first took half a glass, and then commenced eating bread and butter; after consuming half a slice of bread he reached for the quail with an air of a hungry man, and brought it to his plate. Cutting off a good sized mouthful he masticated it thor- oughly, and with apparent relish, along with a liberal supply of Saratoga chips well salted. This performance was repeated three times. Then Mann resorted to bread and butter, and finished his first glass of Wanke- sha. Ho next turned his attention to the celery and ate two stems, using salt freely, and following with three more “bites” of quail. Then be poured out another glass of TVaukesha, which emptied his bottle, ate some over salted Saratoga chips, another stem of celery, another mouthful of bread, with an extra supply of butter, and then commenced on the last half of the decisive half. At this juncture Mann was justalittle nervous and looked up at the clock with But nine minutes of his time had expired. Mr. Mahoney, who was by his side, handed over a cup of coffee which had been furnished him, and this seemed to encourage Mann’s langushing ap- petite. But opposite him sat George 0. Clark, a-most interested onlooker, who had 81,000 on the six mouthfuls of quail that yet remained to be eaten. The crowd gathered close about the tired eater, and for a moment he appeared to weaken. Charley Miller, the defeated man in a similar match, remarked to a friend next to him that he would not at that moment bet a “V” either way. “He may get through, and he may not,” said Miller. “It is just at that point that I failed.” But young Mann quaifed a portion of his glass of Waukesha and commenced on the remainder of the quail with a steady nerve. He used salt and salted Saratoga chips, and celery and salt, and butter freely, taking a mouthful of the quail at intervals in such a way that its taste could scarcely reach his palate from the abundance of other cdibles which be consumed. THE LAST wmo. . At 6:15 but one wing of the quail was left. Theater-eyed it mth considerable nervousness. All the meat upon it would not have constituted half an ordinary mouthful, but it was a part of the agree- ment that alltho bones should be stripped completely, and that not a particle of meat should be left on any of them. To accom. plish this he had to dispense with knife and fork and resort to his fingers and teeth. An empty plate was provided for the bones, each of which had to be deposited thereon and inspected by the referee. Before at- tacking the final wing Mann swallowed the remaining portion of Waukesha, ate a stem of celery, half a, slice of bread, and then took up the wing in his fingers, pulled it apart, and cleaned the meat carefully from the tiny bones with his handsome teeth, but ' the task was a difficult one. As he was struggling with the final act a. man wearing a silk hat entered the restaurant, pressed his way up to the table, and commenced a sort bf speech with the evident intention of sickening the eater. He referred to the idea that Mann should now be able to go into the dimecting business, as he must by that time be thoroughly acquainted with joints and bones, muscles, etc. Dr. Mahoney got rather hot, and ordered the newcomer to “shut up,” but it was hard to control the intruder, for he was about three sheets in the wind. But Man was not disturbed. He gulped once or twice, but by the use of salt and celery quieted his stomach. As be tossed the last fiber upon the bone plate, Dr. Mahoney said: “Done; Mr. Clark wins the money,” and rising, took the successful quail eater by the hand and shook it heartily. Turning to the reporters he said: “This is the first time that this feat has ever been successfully performed. Men have eaten thirty quails even in a shorter space of time, but that is not so difficult. The task of eating one quail a day for thirty consecutive days, at a stated hour each day, is no easy job. This young man has done it, and is the first who ever reached .the end of the last quail with victory, though many have attempted it.” Young Mann is a fine looking fellow of about twenty-two, medium sized, rather fleshy, with a. handsome face and pleasant manner. He has for some time been on- gaged in the restaurant business in Louis- ville and Minneapolis. The latter city is at present his home. He ate his thirtieth quail in exactly eighteen minutes and thirty sec- onds, but evinced a". great desire to leave the restaurant soon after completing his work. It was believed that he would part with his winning-supper before it was half an hour old. At all events, he has had all the quail he desires for a lifetime. “If you find any man hankering after quail,” he said, as he bid the reporter good night, “please tell him that he may have my share from this out.”-——Chicago Herald. Talking Across the Continent. “I’ve heard all the stories of long tole- graph circuits,” said a postal telegraph operator at Buffalo, “and in my time I’ve worked some pretty long ones myself, but I never heard of anything that equaled one that we,had the other afternoon. Our peo- ple are building a line from the terminus of the Cauadain Pacific to ’Frisco, and I heard Vice-President Henry Rosener talk- ing with President Chandler in his office, in New York city. Mr. Rosener was at New Westminster, which is on the Pacific coast just opposite Vancouver island, so they were talking across the continent. By that route it is about 3,000 miles, for the wire was made up via Bufi'alo, Toronto, and the Canadian Pacific. Every few min- utes I could hear Medicine Hat chip in, and all along the circuit the operators were ‘on. ’ It was a wonder to everybody, and the in- struments were working as clear as a hell on that long copper wire.”-—Chicago Times. What Might Have Been. Had Paris seen Helen attempt to shoot a row out of the back yard, it is safe to say that the Trojan war would never have been waged and Homer would have been obliged to take the Haymarket riot for an epic. Had Anthony seen Cleopatra chase a street car down a dusty avenue of Cairo, it is safe to state that he would have fled disen- chanted back to Octavia, and the divorce court lawyer—“decree quietly secured; no publicity”—would never have made a cent from him. Had Dante seen Beatrice fire or half brick at the vandal hen which pros- pected for seeds in her flower bed every spring, it is again safe to say that he would have sent back her notes, her white mouse pen wiper, the lava smoking set with “Merry Christmas” painted across the stern, and dis- continued that rocky courtship which be sub- sequently celebrated in a poem called “The ' Inferno. ”—Chicago Inter-Ocean. Easy to do Right. - The Count de‘ Beaujeancy, who teach French for “amusement” and a high con- sideration, is very thin and very pious. - He was seen coming out of Mgr. Preston’s church the other day by Joe Howard. ' “It’s very easy for him to do right,” said the veteran journalist, “we have the world, the devil and the flash to fight; he has the only the world and the devil.” There are 96,000 women on the pension tolls as widowa, dependent. or relatives of deceased soldiers. base for the waist of productions. PAINTING ON CHINA. RECENT REVIVAL OF MINIATURE POR- TRAITURE AMONG AMATEURS. Soup Plates that Bear the Impress of Beauty and Dishes Bacon-atoll With the Heads of the Pretty Girls of the Family. 3 The young New York-iwoman has found a new amusement. She p‘aints on china—not the sort of painting on china that was the rage during the first years of the great American renaissance of art succeeding the centennial; she no longer ‘decorates her mamma’s soup plates with'wcluster of cat tails that resembles nothing unearth so much as a bunch of sausages hung up on a. green string. She paints her mamma’s por- trait on the plate, so that when papa cats his dinner he finds aslice of rare beef rc- clining on his‘bettcr half’s plump cheek and her well preserved locks plentiquy bo- strewn with green peas, while. her right eye regards him tenderly th‘ro'ugh a film of gravy. ‘ , This is one of the phases'of‘ an endeavor to return to the lost art of. miniature paint- ing which fell into innocuous desuctudo when the reign of . the dnguerreotypo began —tllat charming method of Teaching im- mortality still to be found in country par- lors. Little brown leather cases fastened with two little hooks, iu-‘ivhich papa and momma sit hand in hand with asmile of vacuoua amiability, waiting to be “took” and ambitions to hand down his big collars and her crinoline to an afiectionate poster- ity who have to figure around with the light to catch a glimpse of them at all. LATELY INTRODUCED. Whenever Americans go to Sevres or Dresden they order portraits of themslves or their friends painted onporcelain. It is this art of porcelain miniature that has lately been introduced herb by Miss Smith, who is a graduate of the Cincinnati School of Porcelain Painting, cull has studied in both Sevres and Dresden. Classes of young women study under her and are learning to produce the sort of porcelain portrait for which it was formerly necessary to go abroad. These are in many respects very satisfactory. They lack some of the exquis- ite softnem and purity of tone given by the old ivory grounds, but they have the ad- vantage of being practically indestructible. The life of any painting on canvas is easily' calculable, but a portrait on china is very nearly imniortal, time and exposure to-light have no effect upon it, and after 1,000 years it would be as fresh and pure in tint as the day it came from the kiln. ' These porcelain miniatures can be made of any size, from a head a fifth of life size on a plate or plaque to tiny productions on bits of china not larger than a silver quar- ter of a dollar. It issaid that one lovely young female here, whose head has been photographed from every point of the com- pass and in every pose, made a well known bachelor a handsome dressing gown, whose every button was painted with one of the many protraits of herself, and she painted them with her own clever fingers, making very excellent likenesses of herself on every button. . - There are two methods of painting these miniatures. The French, which is almost entirely stippled, much of it requiring to be done under a magnifying, glass. This is necessitated’by the weakness of the French colors, which stand but two'firings. The other, the German method, as used in the Dresden factories, is much less difficult and ' the pictures are done by a series of washes, the German colors standing any number of returns to the kiln. This latter method Miss Smith finds the favorite one with her pupils, as the results are so much more rapid and the work less fatiguing. For her own portraits she used a combination of both manners and finds the fusion of the two very successful. - sour. CHARMING PORTRAITS. Numbers of fashionable women have taken up this new. fancy, and, as a result, have made some charming portraits of their own babies, which are set as brooches or in bracelets, children’s heads, with their soft curves and delicate tints, lending themselves effectively to this work. Onemother, whose quiver is , m—b in which—the tiny heads of her five babies are set, and it makes a. charming adornment for her plump white wrist. » These miniatures are not always 'so small, however. The favorite size is a small square plate of procelain about the size of an or- dinary photograph, and framed in plush they are a very desirable form of preserv- ing the features of one’s self and friends. The Americans had at one time a great reputation, immediately before and after the Revolutionary war, as miniature painters, and the only record of the loveliness of the colonial belles is frequently found in one of those exquisite little ivory portraits. Cop- ley and Sharpless, both did excellent work in that line, and later Shumway was well known for his exquisite work on ivory. He _ was a great favorite in the south before the war and used to travel there every winter. getting commissions. Even yet there could be found in many southern homes speci- mens of his fine work and imperishable testr many to the beauties of the women of a past generation. ’ One curious phase this revival has taken is the fancy for immortalizing some one feature. Women will have the miniature painted on porcelain of a very lovely hand, or a round, white shoulder, a perfect arm; a rosy, Cupid’s bow mouth, and Mme. Bar- rios, the widow of the dead president of Guatemala, has had her superb Spanish eyes painted, the rest of the face entirely shrouded in a. black lace mantilla. A society woman here has had her velvety cheek reproduced, with its deep and lovely dimple, which has caused so much wild envy of her husband in the breasts of less fortunate men—New York World. MANUFACTURE OF BOGUS WINES. “Imported" Brands Made In a New York Basement—Distillation of Raisins. There are several old Frenchmen in New York who have made almost national repu- tations as wine dealers and experts. They have about retired from business. but. with the proverbial thrift of their nation, they still find time to tend to their shops a few hours dlily. Some of them have large restaurants in connection with their whole- sale and retail wine trade, and favored cus- tomers are often given an opportunity to smack their lips over some rare old w ne, whose label is too dust begrimed to be legi- blc, and as they hold the wine to the light they become enthusiastic over its color, flavor, and bouquet, and probably order several dozen bottles of it sent to their homes. New this wine may be old and it may be new. It may have been imported from France, or perchance it was pressed out on the sunny Italian bills; but it is more than probable that the old Frenchman, unless he knows that his customer has a trained and delicate palate, has. given him some wine that is but the partial product of the vine, and was concocted under the skilled eye of monsieur in the sub-basement of the very establishment where it is drunk. Why should one find fault? It is surely more com- plimentary in a host to give one the result of his own labor than to furnish one with that of another. If it is a real wine there is exactly one chance in 10,000 that it is what the label represents it to be. It may be the outcome of a judicious mixture of several indifferent varieties blended into a harmo- nious whole, or it may be an American wine sailing under false colors. Human ingenuity has never yet been able to make wine without some small percentage of alcohol, so this element remains as a As a rule the manufactured. wines are ofl’ered either as California wines, or as vin ordiuaire, or sour claret. They are the distillation of raisins colored with logwood. The raisins are placed in a vat filled with water at a temperature of 60 degrees, there being fifty~ five gallons of water to every hundredweight of raisins. Some sugar is often thrown in to hasten fermentation, which usually lasts eight or ten days, at the end of which time the liquid is drawn off and wine ismade. It is, of course pale, and it is dcctored with some high colored Spanish wine, which is cheap, and then a solution of logwood is added. These wines do not, at the most, contain more than 10 per cent. of alcohol, and having but little tannin they will not keep long. When _ wine is thus produced it will not cost much. Raisms' ' are not expen- sive, and a moldy article answers as well as one that is fresh. A noted French chem- ist has declared that the raisin wine, if not drugged, is vastly more beautiful than many of the mixtures, most of them dele« terious,‘sold for genuine wine. This may give wine drinkers a spark of encourage- ment, for there is no way of accounting for the consumption of the enormous raisin pro- ducts of Italy, 'lbrkey, Spain and Greece, unless one admits that they are used to take the place of grapes—New York Commer- cial Advertiser. A Hard Coal Base Burner. The first hard coal base burner stove was takento Deadwood, D. T.', recently. Asthere is no hard coal out there to burn in it, the importer of the curiosity thinks of convert- ing it into an ice cream freezer. ... \.~— 1 on THIS ‘BVERY MARK _. WRAPPER. CLYCERIN 3 is a pearly white. semi-transparent fluid having a re- markable afilnity HERWWE . that wfll' penetrate ‘23 the skin WITHOUT * - " INJURY. Beth" I‘m-g. Beautifies the Complexion, Braille-tea all awn, Freckle- T-n, Moth Betcha. Black orml, lmpurltlel and DI.- coloratlona of every klnd, either within 01-11 the skin. 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We intend to prove to our customers that we deserve their patronage by fair and generous dealing. ly40 LOCKWOOD Jr ANDREWS. R e m e m 'b e 1' ! The Best Meats in Norwalk -—-—ARE SOLD AT— WIXSON'S MARKET, ON THE BRIDGE, -—-AND FOR THE—- Lowest Prices for Cash. PLATES 0F BEEF, 5 cents per lb; CORNED BEEF, from 5 to 10 cents per lb. I will not be undersold for the Best Qua.lties of Meat. Poultry Drawn to Order. lyl James E. WiwsOn, 27 Wall Street. file at Geo. 1’. “'8 PAPER BOWELL G Co’s Newspaper Advertising Bureau (10 Spruce Street),whereadver- Wm new VIIIIII be made for it in a may be found on - were heard. —-——_ A LOUISIANA BALL. .HOW THE caeouzs or THE AT- TAKAPUS PRAIRIE ENJOY LIFE.“ A You Picture of Village Hospitality. Frolic at 3 Lone House on the Prairie. A Lively Scene—“Combo" and Chivalry. The Old Paddler. Across the rolling Attakapus prairie a small cavalcade trotted, apparently in no hurry to reach its destination. The natural gait of the little Creole ponies was an easy “lope” or cantor; therefore it was that the irregular, rough trot of the animals evi- denced a restraining pull at the heavy bits. There were five in the party, all excellent horsemen and all dressed in the coarse but durable homespun cottonade of that section of Louisiana. They seemed to be enjoying themselves, for their hearty laughter and loud repartce, in French, all talking at one time, bespoke a freedom from cars and also a source of amusement they possessed in common. . In the distance, just peeping above one of the swells in the prairie, the slender spire of the little church of St. Pierre broke the line of the horizon, and in its direction the party were riding. Out upon these broad stretches of almost treelcss country distances are very deceptive, and it was about two hours after the steeple was first seen that the riders reined up italic little town. The settlement did not comprise more» than twenty-five or thirty houses, the most con- spicuous of which were the church referred to and two stores. The visitors alightcd at one of the stores, and were cordially greeted by the crowd there assembled. They seemed to know everybody and everybody was on terms of intimacy with them, for they were ad- dressed by their Christan namcs and slapped affectionately on the back. The lately arrived horsemen were taken in charge by friends, and each was escorted oil! to dinner in some of the comfortable dwellings, from the chimneys of which the finding smoke gave sign of the good cheer within. General hospitality were away the after- noon, and as the evening came slowly over the prairie from the far east, where it was already dark, a number of riding parties passed down the road, bound for some place beyond. Soon there were twenty-five or thirty on their way, and with them the visit- ors. Dressed in all the brilliancy of highly- colored calicoes, dark eyed demoiselles gal- loped along as if grown to their side saddles, and their merry laughter made the somber quiet of the prairie musical as they rode. An hour’s ride brought the party to their destination. The house stood alone on the prairie, sheltered by two or three live oaks. Four rooms, with a. broad gallery in front, a hallway through the middle and large dining room, taking up theground plan of the isolated dwelling. A bright bonfire was burning in front and the windows glistened like squarely cut rubies, with the genial il- lumination inside. A large number of men and women, at- tired in quite gay toilets, welcomed the newly arrived, and for a time nothing could be heard but the warm salutations of friends. The large dining room in the rear was the main object of interest, and after ribbons had been arranged, back hair adjusted and skirts smoothed down all the ladies hurried to its precincts. The floor was cleared of all furniture, and around the walls long benches of boards had been put up, that as many as possible might be accommodated with seats. Beside the windows and doors smoking can- dles, inserted in anger holes bored in small pieces of wood, gave a bright light that afforded one an opportunity of a more care- ful inspection of the guests. All ages were represented, but the young were in the majority. Married dames with infants in arms moved about as full of the enjoyment of the hour as the belles decked out in ribbons and perfumed with cinnamon essence. At about 8:30 o’clock the shrill squeak of a. violin sounded from one corner of the ballroom and was followed by the deep diapason of an accordion. The floor was cleared and the young gal— lants selected their partners. The full faced old gentleman with silver spectacles whis- pered to his neighbor with the accordion, “Uni Deux! Trois!” and off they started—- sometimes the accordion ahead, and then the violin, in the inspiriting movement ofan old fashioned mazourka. The benches around the room were now crowded with the feminine portion of the guests, the male admirers being compelled to stand in the doorways. from whence a galaxy of eyes drunk in the animated scene. After each dance there was a promenade, which afforded anxicfl. mothers an oppor- tunity of seeking their infants where they were all nestled together on one bed ina rear chamber, and there to quiet lusty cries induced by hunger by a hurried administra- tion of nature’s best infantile food. Dance followed dance. Then» the quadrille was announced, and three sets took the floor. The old violinist was now inhis element. Beating time with the toe of a very heavy boot, he made it impossible for the dancers to forget the measure, and in a musical lit- tle voice~he instructed the more modest in the figures with “Ath deux? Balancez! Chassezl Croisezl Chaine des domes!” In the midst of the “lady’s chain” a. sten- torian voice from the front room called out “Combo.” The music lost its influence and there was a rush for the hall. Men sought their favorites this way and that, anxious maidens kept their eyes on the floor hoping for the coming of certain gallants. There was some crowding around the entrance to the improvised refreshment room from which came the savory odor of a rich gombo and strong coffee. Unlike the custom at balls‘ ivithin the jurisdiction of a more cere- monious social code the gallants passed their fair ones alone by the doorkeeper into the sumptuous feast and then adjourned to the front gallery to smoke a. cigarette. As the ladies completed their hurried re- past and approached the door to make an exit, the doorkeeper with lusty voice shouted the name of the demoiselles’ escort, “Jam Servat! Alphonse Descallel Bebe Latourl These knights soon put in an appearance, and paying the modest sum of twenty-five cents for the gombo their belles had eaten, secured their freedom from the doorkeeper‘s demands. With chivalric regards the men await their repast until the fairer areall served. Happy in the enjoyment of the lovely’ dance and gay conversation, the guests for- got tho gallop of the hours, and when the gray of morning began to steal over the prairie then only did they realize that New Year’s day had come and another year was ushered in.——Charles E. Whitney in Times- Democrat. LIST OF COLLEGE WAR CRIES. The Peculiar Whoops and Shouts Adopted by Different Students. One of the college papers has compiled a list and history of college cheers. Accord- ing to it the original shouts of the colleges were a repetition of the name of the college. This gave an advantage to the colleges which had sonorous names, and as the con- stant aim of cheering is to make more noise than the other cheerers, new yells were evolved by a process of evolution. These came into existence 3. quarter of a century ago, when Yale and Harvard had their boat races on Lake Quinsigamond, when the ’Rahl ’Rah! ’Rahl thrice repeated was first heard. Harvard sounded the ’Rahs full, and added “Harvard,” pronounced so that the or and a clipped d were all that “Yale” was added to the New Haven college’s ’Rahs with along bowl on the a. Princeton’s cheer was developed soon after, as Princeton came into athletic rela- tions with the other colleges. They took the three ’Rahs for a basis, and added the sky— rocket siz-boom-ah, which they hold on to as long as the nine ’Rahs of their Opponents hold out, and then yell “Princeton” as a calliopo climax. Dartmouth has one of the most novel cheers of all. Some Indian must have invented it, and stout college lungs give it the right aifiatus. It is Wah—hoo- wah! Wah-hoo-wab Diddy, diddy, Dart- mouth! Wah-hoo-wah! It is very pictur- esquc, and only a sophomore can \Vah-hoo to the best advantage. The hoo is like a human owl’s hoot. Everybody has heard Columbia’s Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! C-o—l-u—m-b-i-a! The name spells out rythmically. Johns Hop- kins university at Baltimore has taken the ground plan of the cheer and built on it, al- ding J -o-h-n-s H-o-pk-Ln—s, instead of C-0— l-u-m-b-i-a, Stevens institute at Hoboken and Union college at Schenectady have simi- lar cheers. Rutgers has a cheer almost as original as Dartmouth’s. It is ’Rahl ’Rah! ’Rahl Bow-wow-wowl Rutgers! Williams has . an entrancing and resonant ’Rahl ’Rah! . ’Rahl W’illiaml yams! yams! yams! Penn- sylvania University has a wild Philadelphia cheér without any special charm. It is the three ’Rahs and Penn-syl-van-banl The College of the City of New York cheer bet- ter. They say ’Rah three times and add Cl C! Nl Yl Cornell has a cheer that, once heard, can— not be forgotten. It is like the rhyme of the passenjaire. It is given with proper emphasis only in times of excitement. Here it is: Cornell! Cornell! Cor-cor-cor-nell! I yell like --l Cornellh-New York Sun.
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