The Humeston New Era from Humeston, Iowa • Page 7

The Third Da.y Gettysburg The New York Herald offered a. prize of $100 for the best poem on. Gettysburg battle, and nearly 1,000 vrere sent. The winner is John Harrison Mills of New York city, a soldier the war for the Union in the 21st New York regiment, whose history he wrote. He is now an artist in New York city, belonging to the Water Color Club and the National Academy.

I thought the clock struck five, and father was calling the men; But, tired with the mowing, turned cheek to the pillow "to sleep again-And my pillow was wet with the morning dew; my bed was the hill; the sky "Was my roof and my blanket--and the east the morning sun was high. A gun shakes the ground--another--a volley! Away in the dark Where the sleepless pickets watch--a flash --like the firefly's distant spaik, It nutters along the edges. A stir thro' the shadow runs, And the silent battalions stand in line, and the gunners at the guns. There are eight and fifty guns aligned, And the white slabs rise behind-To fight in their street it is not meet, But the dead will never mind. We came through Gettysburg town, Firing back as the sun went down; 1 Saw there a maid--she was not afraid--And she smiled as the sun went down.

Now under the rising- sun in the woods the fight roars on, Six points on the dial our silent gun marks on tho lunettes ere the right has won. The trenches emptied at Sickles' call when Longstreet tripped, last night, and the fall Crashed down on our centre. And still we wait--oh, the waiting, 'tis worst of all! "When the lanyard is swinging, the fuse is cut. the sabre at carry; ere higher The wheels leap and tremble, the trail spurns the sod, the hools in the dust strike fire. We wait--but we know where the curtain shakes as the flying reek drifts afar Are the scene shifters setting the stage anew for the ever new drama of war.

Now the curtain rings up. To your gxins! Ah! lion of Lee--what, at bay With shell! Load! Since Crecy was lost and won such a sight has not seen the day. Shall It ever again? 'Twixt the crest and the plain, half way, cannon stand wheel to wheel, From the left to the right--mile on. mile- tier on tier--now where that white tongue forks with red molten steel. Aim low! Fire! And now.

as if wired and LOVE IN A COTTAGE Many persons IOOK on tho wrong side of Hie to see the funny side. CUPID'S TRIUMPH OVER COLD, CALCULATING FATHER. Sandwich bread is a novelty in the baker's art. It is steamed instead of baked, and is without crust. fired all at once, at a touch, Like a hundred craters the black Una breaks into fiery eruption, and such A shock is it--met by another--the splits asunder--1 think, with the wall.

The so earn, the deafening crash and tha lash of the c-ttrth, smitten 9S with a flail! It was but the flourish of trumpets, the blare as the gladiators come. Only a red splash here and there, and bursting of the drum Of the overburdened ear; a lull; the volleying crash and the roar Of battle, in echoes, recede, return, a waves from a surf beaten shore. A murmur along the lines is heard, anc there, on the crest, behold! Against the green, and the sheen ot the bayonets, see unfold The gUKlons of Pickett's Virginians am of Carolinian Heth, Over the gathering waves of gray that leap on the tide of Death. Xow is the belt drawn tighter, the visoi down, and well Each rifleman looks to his rifle that every shot may tell. For yon are no kid glove warriors, where they come they mean to stay; Not a man hero but knows what it bitterly means when Lee is brought to bay.

They have passed theii- guns; their columns close; now at "shoulder shift'' they come. Load'. shell! Fire the old muskets go. Here the shells drop again. Fire low! Their batteries over them roll a veil-Through their ranks cuts the blast of the iron hail.

The air is alive with the bees of lead droning their angry hum. On, with colors high, they come. Each heart is its own drum, And every ear hears loud and clear its battle anthem sung. Though the earth is cleft with thundci and the air is beaten dumb As the great guns roll their volleys and the baying- hills give tongue. Half way--a pause--the lines close up! Stj-aight on--like a summer rain Death beats their faces.

Their rifles speak. Then--that old yell heard again. Like a battering ram their column strikes our center--arid as a wall Crumbles oil him that bieaks is, so is it, as they fall. They laid the wounded on the floor. The little house would bold no more; The little maid was not afraid, But the tender eves ran o'er; The spent shoe swept the town, the dying 1 she lav down; The little- maid smifed--she was not afraid To die AS the sun went down.

--J ohn Harrison Mills Sweet Girl Takes Old Gentleman's Own Figures and Works His Discomfiture--Undreamed of Luxury in Her Reach. Plans for th.e Encampment While the plans of the woman's citizens' committee at Washington are not completed as to details, the general features are now ready to give to the public. The reception of the Woman's Relief Corps, Ladies of the G. A. R.

and of tie Woman's Auxiliary Committee have been settled upon as to place. There was very strong talk of holding these receptions in the rotunda of the capitol, and all arrangements had been made to put 'a measure through congress for that purpose. While the historic rotunda is large enough, the provisions 1'or Ingress and egress are very poor, and remembering the trouble on this account ten years ago, Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, chairman of the committee, felt that she would like to have ven roomier quarters for these groat events if possible. The result is that the receptions will all be held in Convention hall.

This is to be magnificently decorated for the A arious functions of the week. It is to begin by holding a great religious and patriotic service on Sunday, Oct. 5. There is a splendid chorus of 500 voices now in training for the musical features of this service. It is thought that a great religious concert, with eminent soloists, will be the feature of Sunday afternoon.

On Monday afternoon a mass meeting will be held. At this meeting a formal welcome will be tendered by the citizens' and executive committee to the Grand Army of the Republic, the Woman's Relief Corps, Ladies of the G. A. R. and the other patriotic and military organizations which are the guests of the city.

Tuesday a great general campfirc reunion is to be held in the hall, taking practically tho wholo day, when campflre talks will be made by promi- Presentiments of Soldi "I never made light of soldier premonitions," said an eld soldier. "At Peach Tree creek, July 19, 1S'J4, as the Fifty-second Ohio advanced to the creek, Francis H. Scott of Company said to his comrade, Joe Swan, that he ha'd a feeling he would not come out of the battle alive. Swan said in reply, 'If you feel that way, Frank, lie down behind this stump, and I will take the responsibility of excusing you to Major To this Scott replied that he had never missed a fight and that he would aty with the boys now. AttacHmervts Between Corps neut members of the Grand Army of the Republic, bands will play the old inarching tunes, and the audience will join in singing them.

In tae evening--though this date may be changed to Wednesday evening, to suit the pleasure of prominent people who desire to be present--will be held the throe great woman's receptions. The rational president of the Ladies of the G. A. Emma Wall, will hold her reception from 7 to o'clock, and will be assisted by her staff and all past national officers who are in the city. From 8 to 9 o'clock the national president of the Woman's Relief Corps, Mrs.

Calista Robinson Jones, assisted by her whole staff anil such past nalional officers as are in the city, will receive the commander-in- uhief and his staff and all visiting veterans and ladies. At 9 o'clock Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, chairman of the reception committee, assisted by Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, chairman of the woman's auxiliary committee, and all the national officers of all the woman's orders, and the membfci-s of the executive com- mitteo, will take their places in line for the grand reception.

It is thought that this will be the most gorgeous affair that has ever been given at a national er.ca.fnpment. One happy thought in connection it is that them will be no necessity for roaming all over a big city in an attempt to locate receptions that one wishes to attend. Besides being under one roof, and held during consecutive hours, those who attend can give themselves up to the thorough enjoyment of the evening and not be ii the least hurried. ers in this strain he said: 'Yen tell njy mother when you see her that I C'-i my duty to the last, and rou can bst your money that if I lall I will in the front Swan railed Scott about having the blues, but as the battalion climbed the opposite bank of Peach Tree creek, Scott, pressing forward in front. wa3 shot through the neck, the bullet cut- i the jugular vein, and he died on the white sands of the crock.

After that I nevet 1 smiled at eohl'ors' presentiments." "Any mention of the Sixth corps," the "always brings pleasant memories to mo. It was was with us in the Shcn.ancloa 1 valley until after Cedar Creek, when it to position in front of Petersburg. We of the Army of West Virginia missed the boys of the Sixth, and Momesick for them. Therefore, when Thomas' Harris, commanding the Second division of tlio Eight 1 corps, received orders Dec. 1, 18C4, to report with his division to Gen.

Grant at City Point, therf was great We felt surf that we would soon touch elbow? again with tho boys of the Sixth corps, and whon we left the front tc embark at depot, Win chcs'rr, tiere was as much frolicking as if ve released for a holl CbicAKb Ir.tcr Ocean. He was a cold, calculating father, and he made his figures on a canary- colored blotting pad with a blue pencil. When he had finished he called his daughter Rose into the library and said: "Rose, that young Randall has asked my consent to marry you." "Yes, father," she answered, while a blush as red as a tomato mantled her face. "His salary ia $10 per week." "Yes, I know, and we must practice economy," "I have some figures here to show you. After you have paid the rent on.

your woodbine cottage, fold in a ton of coal, paid tho cook's wages, and allowed for his cigars, you w-ill have something left out of his weekly sal ary." "That's the way we figure, father." "You will have enough to buy hall a pound of poor tea, two pounds ol fish, and a peck of potatoes," he stern ly said, as he showed her the figures "Oh, father, but I'm so glad--so glad! When I tell Will to-night ht will be overwhelmed with delight." "He will, eh? What's the mattei with you?" gasped the old man, as he realized that the belt had slipped ofl somewhere. "Why, father, we have figured on it a hundred times, and the best we could make out was the fish and po tatoes, and we expected to have tc drink water for the whole first year We must have made a mistake some how!" "And you--you "I will marry him and be, oh, sc very, very happy! Thanks, darlini papal No one can equal you whei you take a pencil and sit down te figure." He leaned back and opened Mi mouth to say something further, bu the words would not come. In th face of such love and economy as that he was dumb. And she ran awaj to telephone to Will that they eoulc also have tea twice a day, and tho In the grate flickered and died out and the incandescent light winked the old man with both eyes, and he got up and kicked the cat and growlei! to himself. I I A I WAIST.

Not infrequently a young woman finds it necessary to launder a shirt at home for some emergency when the laundryman or home servant cannot do it. Hence these directions for ironing the waist: To iron summer shirt waists so that they will look like new it is needful to have them starched evenly with Defiance starch, then made perfectly smooth and rolled tight in a damp cloth, to be laid away two or three hours. When ironing have a bowl of water and a clean piece of muslin beside the ironing board. Have your iron hot, but not sufficiently so to scorch, and absolutely clean. Begin by ironing the back, then the front, sides and the sleeves, followed by the neckband and the cuffs.

When wrinkles appear apply the damp cloth and remove them. Always iron from the top of the waist to the bottom. If there are plaits in the front iron them downward, after first raising each one with a blunt knife, and with the edge of the iron follow every line of stitching to give it distinctness. After the shirt waist is irone it should be well aired by the fire or ip. the sun before it is folded and put away, says the Philadelphia Inquirer.

As a living incubator, John Fitson, a farmer, of Eminence, holds the record. During a prolonged fit of sickness 'his wife placed forty-eight eggs in bed with him and in due time forty- four chickens emerged. CURE FOR ASTHMA. Sufferers from Asthma, HPV Fever or Bronchitis will be interested to learn that Dr. R.

Schiffmann's "Asth. ma Cure" instantly relieves the most violent attack, insures comfortably Bleep and has effected cures in thousands of cases that had previously tried every other remedy in vain. No waiting for results. Its action is Immediate, direct and certain. So firm Is his confidence that the doctor requests this paper to announce that he has sent to druggists of this town, as well as to all other druggists in this country, sample packages of his remedy which will given free to sufferers of above complaints, who apply promptly, thus offering an op portunity to such as have not yet tried the remedy to make a personal test which will convince the most skeptical.

Persons failing for any reason to receive a sample package from their druggist will receive one free by mail by sending name and address (enclosing 2 cent stamp for postage) to Schiffmann, Box 814. St. Paul, Minn. A Frenchman was engaged in translating an American novel, and came to a description of a man "hitching his horse to a locust." This staggered the translator, as he had never heard of the locust tree; but he was equal to the emergency and in explanation stated that "sauterelles" or grasshoppers grew to an immense size in the United States. A genius in Hamburg has invented a life-saving apparatus of the size and shape of an ordinary pocket book and weighing only one and one-third ounces.

The action of the water on the contents explodes a small cartridge which generates gas sufficient to enable the" apparatus to sustain on the surface of the water a weight of two hundred pounds. Cows are scarce in Labrador, because it is difficult to keep them in the extremely cold weather. The natives procure their milk for the winter and then kill their cows. The milk is kept in barrels, where it freezes and never turns sour throughout the entire season. When one wishes to use any rnilK, lie has simply to go to the barrel and cut out a Unable to Rise.

Morenci, Sept. J. S. Whitehead of this place has given the following letter for publication: "Unsolicited I wish to recommend Dodd's Kidney Pills and to return thanks for the great benefit I have derived from a few boxes of this splendid remedy. "I had kidney trouble very bad, in fact, I suffered so much that for days at a time I could not get out of tho chair where I had been sitting without assistance.

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