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BULLETS AND SHELLS COULON’T KILL JOHN PETERS.

Pischarced From the Service as a Tlope- jess Cripple, Le Liecovered and Re-en- listed haved by a Noble Foe on the Field at Chancellorsville,

“Among the numerous instances of

and worderful vitality of wounded soldiers that I bad knowledge of during the late war,’’ said aformer hospital attendant, ‘‘I recall pone so remarkable as that of John Pe- ters. At the Ball’s Bluff he was a member of the Forty-second New York regiment. He was badly wounded in the hip, and he fell on the field. While he lay there another ball frac- tured his right knee joint. Utterly help- less, he was trampled beneath the feet of the contesting soldiers until the close of the engagement and was then taken prisoner t Richmond. He remained there four months, when he was ex- changed and sent with other wounded to the Philadelphia hospital. I was an attendant there. Peters’ wonnds had been so carelessly attended to that he was worse off, if anything, than when he was first wounded. We did the best we could for him, but he was in such shape when able to leave the hospital that he was discharged from the service as permanently disabled.

“Some months afterward I was trans- ferred to a hospital at Washington and was there when the battle of Chancel- lorsville was fonght. Two weeks after that engagement a number of soldiers who had been wounded there were transferred from the hospital at Acquia Creek to the Washington hospital. Among the most desperately and appar- ently hopelessly wounded of these I Was amazed to discover John Peters, the soldier who had left the Philadel- phia hospital to pass officially as a life- iong cripple. When he was at last able to tell his story, 1 was still more amezed. After being discharged from the service as permanently disabled he had placed himself in charge of a noted surgeon of that day and after some mouths was made almost as sound as he ever was. Atany rate he was able to te-enlist, which he did in the One Hun- dred and Fifteenth Pennsylvania and became orderly sergeant of his com- pany. At Chancellorsville he was shot in the right thigh, the bullet causing a compound fracture, and almost at the same moment a minie ball struck him in the left hip and lodged there against the bone. He fell and attempted to rise. As he raised his head he was hit by a flying piece of shell, which fractured

his skull and knocked him senseless.

“When Peters regained consciousness, hisregiment had taken another posi-

tion, arid he lay there betweeu two rak- ing fires, bullets, cannon balls and shells whizzing over him for hours, until at last he managed to drag himself a few _ yards away to the bank of a stream where there were bushes. Grasping a bush, he pulled himself over the bank and let himself down into the water, waist deep, which relieved his pain. Our troops retreated soon after that, and the Confederate army swept by where Peters hung. After it had passed Peters endeavored to draw himself out _ of the stream to the bank, in hope that he might be picked up, but he found that the bush to which he clung, while sufficient to support him as he crouched in the water, was not stiff enough to bear his weight in efforts to pull him- self up on the bank. There was a ‘bush Just below him ovidently strong enough toenable him to accomplish his pur- pose, but it was ont of his reach, and if herleased his hold on the bush that Was supporting him to make the at- tem)t to reach the stronger one he knew he wonld drop helpless in the stream and drown. | “While he was thus facing death he Sw a movement on the bank, and the ext moment an emaciated face with a deathlike pallor on it appeared over the édge. It was the unmistakable face of a

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padly woundea Vonfederate soldier who was dragging himself to the water. The_ sunken eyes fell on Peters, and the owner of them must have comprehend- ed instantly Peters’ peril, for he dragged his body forward and, placing both hands on the bush that Peters longed for, bent it down toward his helpless foe and gasped:

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**The bush dipped so close to Peters that he summoned all the little strength he had left, let go the bush he was hold- ing to and grabbed at the other one. He caught it. It withstood his weight, and after a long and painful struggle he pulled himself by it to the top of the bank. As soon as he could recover breath enough he turved to the wound- ed Confederate, who lay quiet on the bank, to thank him for his kindness. The man was dead. His dying breath was spent in saving the life of a foe.

‘‘Two days Peters dragged himself about that bloody field of battle before succor reached him. He had been re- ported dead in the list. He was sent to the Acquia creek hospital, but 11 days passed before his wounds were dressed. His case’ being decided to be hopeless, he was sent to the hospital at Washing- ton. He was there a month, during which it was expected hourly that he would die, so desperate was his case. But he did not die, and I heard subse- guently, having quit the hospital serv- fce, that he had been ae See the hospital so much restored that he was preparing for a third en- listment. Whether he did enter the. service again L never knew.'’—New York San.

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The limit of improvement is not found in producing fruits of great size, beauty and sweetness There are other desirable qualities that the horticultur- ist is anxious to obtain, and toward this end he is devoting his energies. One of the most noticeable ds of the science of fruit cultare is toward the elimination of undesirable organs. The thorns of some of the citrus fruit trees and the prickles of such small berry bushes as the gooseberry, blackberry and raspberry are protuberances that have outlived their usefulness and are highly unpleasant. They not only punc- ture the ripening fruits, but they often make harvesting exceedingly inconven- ient. Gardeners have long wished to do away with these thorns and prickles, but it is only comparatively recently that systematic efforts have been made to eliminate them.

The thorns are conspicuous organs of our cultivated plants that have ceased to be of any value, for their original purpose of protecting the plants from animals has no force today in the gar- dens and fields) They should have been exterminated long the

to be thornless, stocks are obtained for a new race of thornless planta Others are noted for the few thorns that grow on them, and by judicious selection of seeds and grafts from these the same work is continued. Already gardeners have cultivated raspberry and blackbes- ry canes that are entirely thornless, and

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When Mr. Gladstone upon one occasion met the artist of Punch at dinner, I was chagrined to flad, when he walked into the dining room, that he had discarded his usual large collar for one of the ‘‘masher’’ type. I felt that my reputation for ac- curacy was blighted and sought consola- tion from the editor of a Gladstonian or- gan, who happened to be present.

‘*Yes,’’ he sald, ‘‘he is evidently dressed up to meet the Punch artists. He is the pink of fashion and neatness now, but last night, when I met btm at dinner, his shirt was frayed at the edges and his collar was pinned down behind, but the pin gave way during the evening and the oollar nearly came over his head.’’—Harry Furniss in Century.

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Mede of Rare Feathers For the Ruler of the Sardwich Islands.

A million dollars seems a pret*y round sum to pay for a cloak, and pro)- ably even Worth never dreamed of as':- ing so fabulousa price for the most elaborate of bis garments. And yet in the National museum at Washington is acloak the cost of which cannot be reckoned at less than this vast amount, and ladies may be pleased to learn that it was not a woman, but a man, who was guilty of such a piece of extrava- gance.

Long years ago, when the Hawaiian Islands, small as they are, supported not one but severai flourishing king- doms, the kings, chiefs and nobles, whenever they appeared in public on state occasions, wore, instead of th» purple and ermine of more civilized potentates, capes and cloaks of brilliant feathers. The ladies of the court were forced to content themselves with feath- er boas, as we should call them, known as leis. These capes and collars were mace from the yellow, red and black feathers of a few species of small] birds peculiar to the Sandwich Islands and called, from their habits, honey suck- ers. Fashion ruled even in those days, and as the yellow feathers were scarcer than the red yel: ow was the fashionable color, and the more powerful the chief the more yellow was his robe of state. These yellow feathers were found only on two or three species of birds, the finest coming from a bird called in the native language mamo and known a3 Drepanis pacifica by ornithologists.

These birds, with their striking black and yellow plumage, were as dear to the hearts of the Hawaiian monarchs as they might be today to the hearts of patriotic Princeton students and were sought for far and near throughout the islands) The populace paid poll taxes in golden feathers instead of golden dol- lars, and as éach bird furnished but a few feathers the taxes may be consid- ered as having been high. Some esti- mate of the value of the feathers may be formed trom the prices paid in later times, when a piece of nankeen cloth valued at $1.50 was the equivalent cf five feathers; but, after all, the great element in the cost of these cloaks was time and labor, since the making of a single cloak required from 50 tw 100 years.

As the feathers obtained for taxes were very far from supplying tho de- mand the chiefs were accustomed to employ a regular staff of bird catchers, much asa medieval baron had his staff of falconers. These skilled foresters pre- pared a sort of bird lime from the gum of the fragrant olapa, mixed with the juice of the breadfruit tree, and with it smeared the branches of the flowering trees frequented by the honey suckers. —Frederic A. Lucas in St. Nicholas.

METHOD IN HIS MADNESS.

Police Officers Who Humored a Man Found Out Their Error.

A tall, slim man, with a vacant stare, walked into the police station of a \ost- ern city, stepped up to the officer on cuty and said in a hollow voice:

‘Sir, I have an important com::nni- cation to make. Lam dead I was inur- dered, and 1 entreat you to find the murderer and have me buried.’”’

The official started back. It was evi- dent he had a lunatic before him. He rang a bell, and the captain of the di- vision, the police surgeon and 21) the constables obeyed the summons. Ina moment the room was packed with a) crowd of persons, all anxiously looking ; toward the surgeon, who, in such cases, has the first word. ;

‘Just so,’’ the latter said, addressing | the stranger. ‘‘I could tell at a iance, you were dead. Do you happen to jinow | your name?’’ j

‘‘Certainly,’’ the maniac revlied “*My nate is Berthold Lenwarz."’

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“The grave. ” ¢

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“Columbus.””

**The same as discovered America?’

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‘*Then let me congratulate yon We. have captured the smart chap. Come, I) will show you to his ceil.’’

‘‘Directly,’’ said the madman in re- | ply to the surgeon’s diplomatic little | speeca and began fumbling in his pock-! et, from Which he quickly produced a! thick packet of neatly bound almanacs. ‘‘Gentlemen, when I was alive, | used to sell these almanacs. They ure the best sold in this country and only cost threepence each. You will admit that these handsome little volumes ought not to be left to molder in the grave, and, as we appear on such friendly terms, perhaps the gentlemen will uos object to buy the lot.’’

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