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" Pledged but to Truth, to Liberty a n d Law; No Favors Win us and no Fear Shall Awe." it, VOL. 15. '•M. t M'HENRY, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1889. NO 21. . , ' :'r, i-- K ~ •" jK^earj flaisiealep. PDBUIHID EVBRY® WKDKESDAT BT V AN 8 JD T K®»- ?V#feotroa 4NO PROPttlETd*, ' i:v Office in Bishop's Block,» '1S -oarrowi# PIUT TBRSC* or 9UBiORIPTIOH. « r«Jkr(In Atvauce) ....|1.50 ' **' -- *«yk.g,.« *09 5-^ Iftfet Paid wttfcia Throe Months :*'?V •. Suoscriptkms received for three »on the in t&e same proportion. "«t six Kates of Advertising. *«• V We an nan nee liberal rates for advertising «®- » the I'DUSUBAI.ER, and endeavor to state •->* lem m plainly that they will be readily un. ** - *r stood. They are na&Uows;, . L »r ; 1 Inch one year '» ; • '.•» SM ;< 2 Inches one year • « * * 5^22 Jt Inches one year« S-'M ,t ? - |5J» if Column one year - ' • '• • • jJJJ}® :*t" " 'Ji Oolnmn one year- • . . - JOWJ f'1 . Column one year * - - . 100 00 ' One inch means the •Asauirement of. one ft/. Inch down the column, single column width. * %-.• • • Yearly advertisers, at the above rates, ha*# ,'JI * the privilege of changing as often as they " choose, without extra charge. *. Regular advertisers (meaning those having "V ' • landing cards) will be entitled to insertion * •< local notices at the rate of 5 cents per line <f?t#ach week. All others will be charged 10 * cents per line the first week, and S cents per ;" line for each subsequent week. Transient advertisements will be charged the rate of 10 cents pe line, (nonpareil type, same as this is set In) the first Issue, and 8 cents per line for subsequent issues. Thus, .. 3.. -1_ _ • i.: --..Sit A 1 Ctf - idf, inch advertisement willcost fl.00 for one eek, $1.30 for two weeks, *2.00 for three etkft, and so on. The PLAIKT>BAI.»R will be liberal in giving Editorial notices, but, as a business rule, it ; wnl require a suitable fee from everybody eeklng the use of its oolumns for pecuniary ;ain. BUSINESS CARDS. O. J. HOWARD, M. D. IIY-ICIVN AND SURGBOtf. McTIenry, 111. Office at resldonce, one block east of ublic School Building. O. H. FBGEitS, M. O- SintilSOM, MoHenry, L OHfSlOlAN AND SIMMS %-X , i Ills, office at Residence. WM. OSBOUSE, M. n. IIHYSIOI VJf AVD aiTUQICO^. Offlce at X Residence, West McHenry, III. Calls ^rotnp.ly attended frrday an l night. BARB I AH BROS. ^jrUQAR Manufacturers, McHenry, 111. Or- • dors solicited. Shop, la Did McHenry, : 4n Keiter Block, third dfcor west of Riverside ;,vHouse. Livery Stable. wwraJSa&mSSMKB| Jg» class rigst " furuieUed at reasonable rates, all kinds done on short notice. Teaming of G-• ' ^ HEAR THE WEST MoHENRY, ILL : Keep* ope public a rta n f»* the Of i*1* st-Olass •3v-" Saloon stud Htdsttaiiry all times keep the best , Liquors and 01 to be found in the market. Where he will at teftiuts of Wines ep the I Cigars ^';V; t Mr. id i' BUSINESS CASUS.' PAUL .BROWJT, 1 T TORN ICY AT L VW. EXPRESS OO.'S L Building, 87 and «• Washington St.. n CHICAGO, ILL. |Si. P. Kl.LSWORTH, TTORNEY at Law, and Sotieitor a OHhn- L eery, Kunda, III. ASA W SMITH. TTORWJ5Y AT T AW SolMtMff L Chancery.--Woodstock, IlL la Also Agent For ^FBANZ FALK* LOR BIER. Beer in Large or Small Kegs or Bottles al- ; jvaye on hand, cheaper than any other, <lUll* ' iy considered. *6 Orders by mall promptly attended tp. GOOD UTABLllTU tOR HORSS& KTCali and see us. Robert 8ohieaslo. . W&k McHenry, UL JL. SSnglen's S1L0QN kM RE3T0R 4KT. £ JflcHENRY, ILUNplS. J09LYN AOASEY. A TTORXRYS AT LAW, IWoodstosk IlL XTL All business will raeelve prompt atten­ tion. G P. Bamet t>. T. SmUep BARSB* A SMILEY, A TTORNTBfS, Solicitors and Counselors, £%. Collecttonsiaspecialty. •, WOODSTOCK, lUlVOtl.* ' » V. a LUMLEY. : . ATTORSEY AT LAW, and Solicitor la Chantferv, WOODSTOOK, ILL. Office hi Pant House. Ural floor, A. Ml. CHURCH, Watchmaker and Jeweler NO- One HundredTwentv-Flve State St Chi­cago, 111. Special attention given to re­ pairing Pine watches and Chronometers. 9WA Pall Assortment of Ooods in his line smos STQffSL, A«ent for Phoenix f*f Brooklyn. Rockford Insur'ce Co Lightning and Tirnado Insurance placed safelv and with despatch in either of above companies. Policies corrected, changes, andi transfers made. Call on or address West McHenry, Slraon 8toffel. Illinois. • "WAVERLY House, WM„ H. ROTXOUR, Frop,r WOODSTOCK, - - - ILL. 8tmpl»Roomon First flowr. NEW YORK HOUSE. S39 tc 248 E. Randolph "V Between Franklin and i :V . Market StaN** OHIOAUO. • Best Accommodation to lYavetert ONC! Boarder** E. G. K0EPPE, Prop. fl.SOPXR DAY, GOOD SAMPLE ROOM. Diitei States Var Claim Apicr 1 1 OF "• " WM- It COWLIN, Woodstock • - Illinois. Prosecutes all classM and kinds of claims against the United Htates tor ex-Soldiers, their Widows, Dependent Relatives or Heirs. A specialty is made in prosecuting old and rejected claims. All communications promptly answered If Postage Stamps are enolosed for reply. WM, H. CO Wun Office at Residence, Madison St., Woods toe g. A Hrat-cta*s Haute, the Boy* All Slop There. THE Culver House. RICHMOND, ILL. Good Livery, . Good Sample Room, FREE BUS TO AND FROM ALL TRAINS FOR PAT ROUS dP THE HOUSE. Attention Horsemen! MollBKRY, 111., April 1st, 1838, T would resnectfully invite the Public to Mil and examine m7 stock of Horses before making arrangements elsewhere. Mo, busl. netsdene m t}aw*ay. ;fc «. COLBT ,» , •'Him IU I run a line of carriages to Twin Lakes from k.lchmond, three-fourths of a mile nearer than any other road, and more level and >leasant by far. If you intend going to Twin jakes, stop at Richmond and Inquire for CULVER'S BUS It i» always there, raw O* shine. Kound trip prices as usaat. 1 C. N. CULVER, Prop. WAITED E. R- AUSTIN, Livery, Boardino; and Sale Stable. Af Parker House Barn. SALESMEN to sell Nursery stock \il Goods Warranted MRST-OIi ASS. Permanent pleasant, p roll table positions tor the rlghC men. (iooti salaries ami expense* paid week Liberal inducements to beginners, M<)|' revious experience necessary. Outfit free, "rite for terms, giving age. CHARLES H. OUASS. Nurseryman, Rochester, N. T. Mention this paper. U-3m* V FIRST GLASS RIGS, with or without Drivers, Furnished at Reasonable Hates. Bus and Hacks run k« and fr >na all Trains.-- ILL DIGGING, Quintette Orchestra, | McHENRY, ILL. Are prepared| to furnish t irst Class Musi* to the Dancing I'ublic at Reasonable Rates. J, Smith, 1st Violin. Robt. Madden, Clarionet, C, Curtis, Cot net. L, Osven, Tromboae, E, Iugalis, Basso and Prdinpter, Address all communications to Jerry Smith, McHenry. PmAp Sipaiiing, CEMENTING, ETC. The undersigned is prepared to do all lobs la the line of DJgglng WelJsj J^pamn^ 81 for 13 Weeks. The POLICE GAZETTE will be mailed, securely wrapped, to any address in the United Stales for three months on receipt of ONE DOLLAR, Liberal discount allowed to postmasters Itgentsand oiubs. sample copies mailed free Address all orders to KICHABD X. FOX, FRANKLIN SQUARE, New York ITew Pumpa OB short notice and warrant satisfaction. Is Short will do all work in this line. Cut furnish you a new Pump, eitber wood or iron, warranted, as oheap as any other man. Good references furnished If desired. If pou want a Well Dug, a Pump Repaired or • tew Pump, give me a call. WOrders by mail promptly attended to,* Post office, Jonnsburgb, 111. L. BANTES. Johnsburgh, IlL, May 25th, 1988. i -ATTENTION! f Farmers aad Dairymss. It wtU pay thole looking for CHOICE COWS :' - fresh milkers or springers, to call tl*? premises before purchasing. I *caa furalsh suoh by the car yad or single cow. PORTEEiL WOLFRUM, Ouiroaaii Farm about (bar miles northwest of Harvard, Illinois. 1mm- ! • JOHN P. SMITH : Watchmaker Ac Jeweler, ILLINOIS. A FINE stock of Clooks, Watches and Jew­elry always on hand. Special lattention -- - " - watches. Give me given to repairing flue scalL JOHN P. SMITH. & G. ANDREWS, GENERAL ' Kentucky Liquors, g Prsnch Bitters, >. HcHoiiry Lager Bser, Is --AND-- ' j. ScMifrMiivaoiee Sottis Seef, • ? In aa ̂quantity from * Saits I Glass to 1C0 barrels. At W1)LE ALE OK R&rAIL Boer in bottles, kega or case as , oheap as the cheapest. ~ We buy none but the beet and • sell at Soaaoaable Prices. Call and see me and I will use ̂̂ ANTONY BNGELN. .-f.. ; *4. X . . .1. A.,_ 5 ,J&. »A... I SPRING GB0VE ILL. Sales ot Stock, Farming Tools and Goods of all kinds attendee to on the most 8 ASOHABIE TIBXS,. Q. C. Andrews, Spring Crvo, 111 IJTRLSJ JPER!, ̂ST»T STH. 1885. VL-LL-is D. FISH, , ft'actioaV Painter AND DBCOBATBE. . HEBRON, ILL. f Decorating, Paper-Hahgtlifl, QALQIMININQI Q&AININQ* T H. FISH. P^nhmi L Yifty WM. 8TOFFEL. \~Ag»nt\ for--,' FIRE, . LICHTNING, Aad Aeeidentil Xasnrsaot. &.Altelowa. Mlnnesotsi Slebraskt, Alabama, #ad Oiltttornla Lat.ris. pfcll on or address • WM.STOritfeL, McHenry, Ql: Pumps, Cementing vlll put u 'i2i .. 1™.^ wells, # OF---BREEDERS RGAN HORSES, Short Horn, T' Bid Foll«d A&gu, And Jersey Cattle Hillside Farm* West McHonry, III. Our Morgan Stock Is all pure bied. sriginatetf from the best Morgan stoek la the O&lted States. Old Gifford Morgan, who stands at the head >four Stock, is one of the best bred Morgas norses in the country, and can show more and *ietter all purpose eoits than any other horts la the West. We invite the Inspection of our stook br horsemen and all lovers ol line animals, full blood Morgan Colts and young f aale. Also one matched team, full A few dorses for Hoodf. In OatMe we have the fall blood Short Horn jrhirh ws are crossing with the Bed Polled Angus and therefore instead of sawin® off the Horne we are breeding them off and with food sueeess, A few Heifers and ^Bulls, both pure bred Short Horns sad the cross above mentioned Cor sale. _ _ J. R. Saylor Jt Sons. West MeHenrv. 111.. Feb. «rth^l«fifc GERMAN Paio-Killer and Empire Salve, McHENRf HOUSE, McHenry, Illiitolw. JOHN THEL EN .. „ JPipp^ftor., • ThtP ^ wttltatod'sZ^* the1- bridge and opposite the HHsainboat Landing, hae be«a newly renjtfffeted and palntod. 'Inside and out, and li.how prepared to accommodate the tlWKeling public, or boarders, by dav or week, on Hie most reasonable terms, and guarantee, to give" satisfaction. The .public is in. vrtsd to#iv« mo *; OBEORSIS Fan Low MADE ON TIME and terms to suit borrowers; no com- mission or charges tor examination of alatli»t»- Money funiched at onoe, without red tavM? ^elay. W HANSTEAD, land 8 Berdan Block, Elgin, IlL SOLOBBS' UPABTXHT. Edited '.by WM. H, COWLIN, WOODSTOCK, IU.--- "lb care for him who ha* borne the battle, and for hit widow and orphant."--LINCOLN, "lftiendnhip, Charity.\LoyaUy-- Worthy sens of Patrio^PiUhen." Q-.A. St, Directory* X'RBNST POST NO. 6*3, • Meets UM first Saturday evening of each month. • L. E. BBMIIBTT, Oom. WOODSTOCK POST, NO 108. Meets first and third Monday evenings ef etch month. * W. H. MOKBOS, Com. VtTNDA POST, NO 8Mt Meets the second snd fourth Tuesday evenings of each month. M- F, ELLSWORTH, Oom. RAKTAKD FOST, NO 2W, Meets the second ana tourtn Monday eves iMi«t each month. aW.OMTHANK.tOoa. XABUMO POST, Ha W| Meets every Second sad Fourth Friday evenings of each month. B. B Mossts, Oom. WATTOONDAIFOST, NO. 368. TPMI meets everv second and fourth (Satur­ day evening In G. A. R. Hall, Mala St. ABTHUBOOOKH, Oom, the CHICAGO "* WSTERN » RAIL Rtes tlj*!Cem *opula|^on: in lil, low?, RAILWAY. iCenters eft Its train servloe is meet requirements of 1 to furnish the through travel l an, • Hinnessta, - Dakota, mini; illy arranged to i travel, as well as stive routes for it Trade Centres. • Its equipment of day and parlor cars, din. ingand place sleeping cars is without rival. Its roaa-bed is perfection, of stone ballast. ed steel. The Northwestern Is the fhvorlte route for the commercial tiaveler, the tourist and the seekers after new homes In the golden Norlhwdili Detailed Information oheerfully furnished b* BERNARD BUSS. Agent, McHenry, III. T. M. WHITMAN, Qtm. Manager. a WICKER, JVaflle " WILQON, Pnuenoer Aoeni. L. W. NICHOLS, JR. gĵ in Wivreia- JEWELER m ENGRAVER, RICHMOND ILLINOIS. All work In my line neatly and promptly done. Pine watch repairing a special ty. . I,- Is the very best medicine ever introduced Into the country. The following are the names of a few of the many who have been 011 red by this great me'1i ;ine: ^ ai, f. Ma tier, lienor, w isi»6uf€u v& of ten years' atandibg. . „ C- C. Defgars, of the same plsoe, cored of a ehronlc sore li ub. „ Mrs, J. J. Huff, Hiohraond, III., cured of lung trouble of six months' standing. Mrs. Hulburt, Nuuda 111., cured of ssthma snd catarrh of long standing. Mrs. Wetisteln, Harvard, cured of Internal tronole of len years'standing. Mr, Hanrteehall. of Harvard, cured of ca­ tarrh, scrofula, aud varicose veins of tve "Theodore1 Borrhold, of Harvard, eared of paralysis of two yeai s* standing. .... This new medicine has cured bronchitis, scrofula, abscesses, boils, burns, catarrh, eta, and relieved asthma and consumption for ail who have u sed it. It is a sure and safe medi- Sine for all troubles and never fails to give satlslaction. Try it under a full warrantee. Price of Empire salve halt ounce box, 28 cents, two ounce box, 75 cents, or three Mxes for >1 so. Painkiller, one-ohnce bottle, 26 cents, Iwo ounce bottle, 50 cents. Gall on your Harvard. Ill* bf Gee. "W. Beslej,S!.sHsssy» / r, • *#- . j ; f V , CON^UMf*'0'1' It has permanently cured THOUBAHSS Of cases pronounced by doctors Hope­ less. If you have premonitory symp­ toms, such as Cough, Difficulty of Breathing. <fcc., don't delay, but use PISO'S CURE FOB CONSUMPTION immediately. By Druggists. 25 cents. s W A N T E D ! A t E S M E N to canvass tor the s tie of Nursery Stock. A full line of leading specialties, SALARY AND EXPEN8E8 paid to successful men No experience necessary. Write for terms stating age. ( Mention this paper ) C. L. Boothby,»"i&H1*fcI"if*'k- S' AZiSSME Waited I To eanvass for the sSle of Nursery Stook. Steady employment guaranteed. Salary and expenses mid. Apply at onoe staling age. B«t» ta thia wser. SNELL ft '.ROWLAND, ' - ; iltB| the Skirmish Line. The wife of Department Commander General James S. Martin is reported as being dangerously ill. General orders No. 8, headquarters De­ partment of Illinois, dated Nov. 20, have been promulgated. Post No. 309, Princeton, will be in­ spected Wednesday evening, Nov. 27, by Comrade F. W. Spinks, Department In­ spector J.4%. The annual election of postofficero.take place at the first regular meeting in De­ cember. Iliram Tilson a veteran of the war of 1812, recently died at Niles, Mich., age 93 years. N Oct. 28 the total number of inmates of the Soldiers' Home, Marahalltown, Iowa, was 315, with abouttorty accepted ap­ plications. The Illinois Soldiers aud Sailors' Home Committee, representing the Department of Illinois, G. A. R., will hold a meeting at Quincy Dec. 4 and 5. The survivors of Meagher's Irish Brig­ ade held a reunion at the armory of the Sixty-ninth Regiment, New York Cit^,* Nov 18. Two handled members were present. The entire cost of the - Milwaukee En­ campment was $70,000. The credit side shows a small balance, and the guaranty fdnd $300,000 will not be drawn upon. During the past few years the time r%, quired for the adjudication of a claim has been very much reduced. Under the present system the information in regard to the army record of a claimant cafe now be furnished from the War Depart­ ment in twenty-four hours. Many Members of Congress in their speeches last fall pledged themselves in favor of appeal of the arrearages limita­ tion law. It is simple justice to many a deserving claimant that it should be done, and we will do our part to help it along. The widow of Captafh Schoontnaker of the Vandalia, recently lost in the storm at Samoa, has filed her application at the Pension Offlce. Her - pension will amount to $30 per month. Within a few dayg a colored women, whose son was employed on one of the lost vessels, ap­ peared at the Pension Offlce and filed her claim for pension. She will be allowed per month. Benjamin Franklin, of Blue Earth City, Minn., is the only member of the G. A. R. who lost both his arms and legs in the service. He served in the Minnesota cavalry from 1801 to 1866. He was at the Pension Offlce in Washington lately, when one of the lady clerks stepped up to him and called him by name. Wonder­ ing how she came to know,him, she said she knew he was the only pensioner of his class, and so recognized him. The Legislature of the State of Maine has appropriated $60,000 for State pen­ sions for 1889 and $65,000 for 1890; amended the pension law so as to allow a pension to dependent children of deceased soldiers or seamen; appropriated $1,500 to provide for the burial expenses of des­ titute soldiers and seamen for the year 1889 and $2,000 for 1890, and $8,000 for current expenses of the Bath Military and Naval Orphan Asylum for the year 1889 and the same sum for 1890. Make better times. Put money in cir­ culation by liberal and just pension laws and rulings. The eighty odd millions paid out each year as pensions not, only prevents such wants and misery among tie veterans, widows, and orphans, but, it helps all. All branches of industry are benefited, aed the money, after paying a hundred times the amount of its indeb­ tedness, get back in the Treasury of the United States in good time to meet mar turing bonds or current expenses. A memorable ceremony took place at old Fort Sumter, last month, when Rob­ ert Anderson Post, No. 1, G. A. R., of South Carolina, was mustered in, with a roll of thirty members; named in memory of Sfajor Anderson who held the fort for a long time against large odds in 1861. When the boys in bine went to be muster­ ed in, they were escorted by a number of Confederate soldiers who occupied the Cowards in the Bear. While the war for the preservation of the Union was in progress, and when our comrades were marching both day and night, oft-times when the sun's rays were so hot that many brave and hardy fel­ lows fell by the roadside and were either covered by what of mother earth there might be time for their comrades to throw over them ere the march was re­ sumed, and hundreds who survived be­ came physical and mental wrecks on ac­ count of the hardships undergone, hav­ ing been times without number exposed to drenching rains, often being wet to the skin for days and nights at a time, suffering from hunger, cold and thirst, and thousands undergoing untold misery in Southern charnel houses, over fifty thousand having' died while thus incar­ cerated, besides standing up as a target for the enemy on scores of battle-fields, and all for the princely sum of thirteen to sixteen dollars per month, or about six dollars per month in gold, averaging the whole period of the war. While these sufferings, privations and hardships were being borne by those at the front, there were a few in the rear party, right at home, who were disloyal to the stars and stripes but were too cow­ ardly to enter the rebel army as soldiers. These sympathizers were in many in­ stances after the Quantrell stripe--they gloated over the burning of private houses, Bchool houses and churches, the sacking of cities and villages and whole­ sale murder of defenseless women and children; were friendly to those engaged in endeavoring to spread small-pox and yellow fever to depopulate the North; aiding in resisting the draft, burning ne­ gro orphan asylums in New York in 1863; designating Union soldiers as "Lincoln hirelings," and in thousands of ways seeking to render assistance and encouragement to the enemy who were engaged in an unhjoly war to break in twain this glorious Union. These sneaking few-in-the-rear cowards were known as copperheads, and no sec­ tion of country, village or city in the North, was without more or less of such. They were on hand to congratulate each other in secret, over the defeat of our armies in the field and in hundreds of in­ stances ^ere known to be wild with joy when they knew the lamented Lincoln had been assassinated. There are scores of those men living to-day, but a large majority of them have sense enough to keep their thoughts to themselves, and their mouths shut, notwithstanding their sympathy with the lost cause. There is, however, in almost every com­ munity, one' or more of the rising genera­ tion who came into existence while the war was progressing, or just alter its close, and who have grown up and culti­ vated their dislikes in such a manner that they are bitterly opposed to all that was accomplished for the Union cause by those who responded to their country's call, thousands of whose remains lie buried near or where they fell. Thauk God, there are but few such, and they are despised and shunned by all patriotic, Union-loving people, irrespective of na­ tionality, religion or political opinion. Woodstock is not exempt, for we have here just such a person (for his record of late years has demonstrated that fact) who has been shown up from time to time in our columns. This latter-day young copperhead, thinking of no other method by which he can extricate himself from the position in which he has placed himself before the public, has as a last resort, having gotten BO low in the scale of humanity that he imagines the follow­ ing ammunition fired from his pen is go­ ing to kill somebody, and at the same shot prove that he is a staunch friend of the old veterans and a zealous champion of the cause for which they went forth to do or to die. The following from Young Bayonet Points is therefore most respectfully sub­ mitted for the perusal of our comrades and others who would never see what the poor, siHy ignoramus has to say about us aud others, did we not help to Bpread his hallucinations: ; "Billy" Cowlin says he is stall on earth. The people supposed it was sewer-gas they"smelt". "Capt." Riggs of the Richmond Re­ corder, says amen toCowlin'smouthings. "Birds of a feather," etc. Mouth-pieces of the party of obsolete grandeur--the McHenry County "trian­ gle"--Cowlin, Southworth, Walsh! What a trinity! Gaze upon it and expire, ye seekers foMlie sublime in nature. The "triangle"--'Senior Guardian Billy," the "colonel," and "Michael the Supe"--is just more than laying on of late. Are we to look for the "removal" of "Young Bayonet Points"? We want? to ask "sweet William" if he has heard from Iowa, and Ohio, and New York, aud New Jersey, and Mary­ land, and Virginia. The "nawsty cop­ perheads" seem to be thicker than June bugs this year! Nature has developed the fact that "it is the wounded bird that flutters," and still other evidences of the correctness of the observation appear from week to week. Observe how "Billy" Cowlin flutters! Department Commander A. Barto, of Minnesota in General Orders, No. 7, "de­ sires to thank thecomrades of the Depart­ ment for the loyalty with which they stood by each other in foregoing .the pleasure of attending the National En­ campment. In no other way could the rapacity of the railroads be so effectual­ ly rebuked. The Encampment itself recognized this fact, and in indorsing the action of the Department Commander indorsed the comrades who remained at V.'" Ihey Let Him Off. Some time alter the war General Qrre*: Bussey, assistant secretary of tins la*,"* terior, was living in New Orleans. WISt there he was drawn on the jnry on a case which promised to be very protracted and annoying. He felt he couldlkot neg- lect, his important business daring the weeks that the trial would profAbty ©e- cupy. He thought of a subterfuge. , "Here,"he said to the officers of the \ court, "I can't serve. I can't take the i. iron clad oath." "What do yo»i mean?" !§ff mm they said, in astonishment. "W® know of your distinguished services iftllMI Union army and your loyalty and saoi* fices." "WeO, all the same," he aaswei- • ed, "I can't not swear I never gave aid or comfort to the enemy." "How's that?" "Why, I once loaned a clean shirt to a rebel soldier, and it disguised him so com­ pletely that he was able to escape to our lines. That was clearly aid and com­ fort." He was excused. General Sherman aad the fltek. X The other evening General Sherman went to a well known hotel in New York and inquired of the room clerk if he could hire an umbrella, at the same time ex­ plaining that he had been caught out in his evening suit and he feared rheuma­ tism and ottap complaints. Hie dark didn't know him but he thought he maid well afford to take chance* on mch an eminently respectable looking gentleman^ and although the polite clerk has a rotund figure and weighs about 212, ha gladly offered to loan him his overcoat as well as his silver-handled umbrella. But," said the General, "you are lend­ ing these things to an entire stranger, • and you ought to accept some kind of a deposit to secure you against ilia- honesty." "Oh, thafs all right, Colonel," replied the clerk, "I can't be deceived by yon. I'd trust that face of yours for anything." The warrior was tickled by the comj pliment, and he remarked casually as he went out, with his tall gauut form ni#' oped in the garment that fitted him 19m a meal sack. "I'll take you at your word, and you shall have my card when I qp*. turn these things." The next day the coat and umhreHj arrived, accompanied by a note of thaa}£tf . ^ and a photograph of General Wm. T; Sherman, with his autograph across its face. "Great Scott!" said the stark,; "and I called him Colonel, just as if he heid been any ordinary American citizen 1 I wouldn't mfoid it half so much 'if T called him 'Judge,' but to be reduced la military rank after all his years of sarviaf v --aad by a hotel clerk! ItMawrall" ,,,(f '» ^ A Brave Confederal*. Lieutenant C. A. Coryell, formerly ol ­ die One Hundred and Forty-first New York Volunteers,/Twentieth Army Corps, * was with Sherman on the famous march j to the sea, says the Atlanta Coastittttkm. One bright Sunday in December, 1864, the Lieutenant was detailed to MM charge of the picket line in front of Sa­ vannah, on the edge of a rice swamp. : There was a truce between the pickets and every tiling wore a Sabbath-like mM- • ness. Coryell had nothing to do and was oat of tobacco. How to get a chew was the question. Finally a handsome young officer frbm the Confederate side strolled out between the lines. Coryell hailed him at once: "I say, Johnny, if I eome ova: to yott can I get tobacco and xatant aaMy to my lines?" 'Come along. I'll treat you right." 4 'How do I know that I'll not be taken prisoner?" "You have the woxd of a gentleman and a Confederate officer." Coryell thought a moment and then decided to make the venture. He laid aside his sword and belt, and started"; across the high and narrow dyke leading" to the Confederate line. On either side % of the dyke the water In tike rice Adda was five feet deep. The Jjieutenant reached the opposite shore without any misgivings. The Con­ federate produced some tobacco aad a trade was made in no time. Then tfca two fell into a pleasant conversation. Suddenly Coryell saw a signal flatter from a house some distanoe in the rear of the Confederate line. "What does that meant^ IKWM sharply. "I don't know," replied the ' erate. 4 Just then an orderly dashed open horseback, and, with a dignified salute, said to the Confederate officer: " v "Lieutenant, the General orders yoa to v>, take the Yankee officer to headquarters." Coryell was dumbfounded. Then h« ' looked at the Confederate LienteaaaS " ,v I and noted his honest eyes and his maaityf % % face. • >" J "Am I your prisoner?" aaked CotyelL The Confederate extended his hand. "I offered you my protectiM^** he said. "Go to your lines. I will you over the dyke, and if my body shield you from Confederate lead, yoa: shall reach your command in suMlJU Good-by and God bless you." The Federal started on his He was half way across shot came. There was anottar aad«0k» other, until a whole brigade firing at him. .y fi£L "z* « "* ' ,r?- ,*£~1..: % * i U < "t * W'ti ** * ' ' sr'* < ^ HJt- " ** 1/ «M> * i/- The fugitive walked rapidly onv til he reached the Federal finer vaulted over the bmartwork. Tt«H( looked back and saw his protector I iug on the dyke. ThuOoall * his hand, turned about back to his own sid*. Ha promise like a tra> aot#W.