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t t . Down through the dimly, lighted ward she led General Logan. Far in the end of the room, by the wall, lay ~thff silent soldier. He was grandly lhgnasome in death. (General Logan "passed his hand over the still face, looked steadily a moment, and then ~turned away. "Yes,mother, heis safe with you. I couldn‘t bear to think such a man as McPherson should be left alone, in a place like this, and afâ€" ~ber such a battle! I must go; it‘ll â€"comfort Sherman, too. God bless you for all you do for the boys. I may be brought to you one of these days myâ€" self." General Logan crushed his old soft hat in his hand, brushed the glitâ€" tering tears out of his big black: eyes, and worn and weary with the awful day‘s work, smiled into the field urse‘s face, and was off like a whirlâ€" fir{d "to report to?Sherman" that the «dead officer. was "safe." > So the young General was carried to Mother _ Brickerdyke. _ She dressed him tenderly for the grave. She washed off the blood stains where the bullet had gone to his heart, brushed his hair and covered his handâ€" some face with his finest linen and lefté him for the night. Then thinking of the brokenâ€"hearted woman who was hereafter to look upon it, she washed his coat where the breast was stained, gathered together all the small belongâ€" ings, and packed them ready to send to his/mother in Ohio. . She had been on her midnight rounds. _ Wounds. were freshly _ dressed, mediciines given, nurses looked after, and the brave, cheery woman sat down to rest for a moment outside the hospital door. "The noise of the battle had ceased. Furiouslyamancame riding toward the hospital. He stopped, sprang from his saddle, threw the bridle over the horse‘s neck. The tired nurse came ‘out to see who it was in such hot haste. "Why, General Logan ! is that you! "What new thing has happened ! What are you doing here after such an awful battle ?‘â€"«"Mother _ Brickerkyke, is McePherson here ? Is he safe? I am to report Sherman‘s headquartersâ€"then we move on. T could not go without seeing McPherson once more. Show him to me.‘â€""Yes, General, he is all ready, poor boy, to go home to his moâ€" ther. I have his box packed. The doctor has written a letter for me, and the handsome, honest, brave boy is all through with fighting,. General." In those terrible days at the West the nurse of whom we have spoken was a whole Woman‘s Relief corps emâ€" bodied in one person. . General Grant used to say he "could not carry on the war without Mother Bickerdyke." A sick soldier was precious to General ‘Grant. He "always had time" to make arrangements for his wounded men. . He converted a large academy at Corinth, Miss., into a hospital and gave the entire and authoritative charge of it in Mother Bickerdyke‘s hands. He had perfect confidence in her wonderful executive _ ability. Brought under her motherly wing, the sick and dying soldiers rested in peace. In nameless and flowerless graves which no one can find now to decorate; lie hundreds whose eyes she closed, and hundreds more are still living simply because their lives were saved by her wholesome care and good nursâ€" ing. al Slrtrman‘s headquarters, a shot pickâ€" ed him off ; he‘ was instantly killed. ‘General Logan took the command and led the raaddened army. "McePherâ€" son ! McPherson !". the battleâ€"cry. "Ewelve thousand men _ were killed before the victory was won. That was the smoke and fireside of "Black Logan" as the men loved to call him. "General McPherson was carried to the Howard House, but shot and shell struck the building, and General Sherâ€" man, taking thought, ordered the body earried to Mother Bickerdyke‘s hospitâ€" al for safe keeping. "Yes, bring him to me, boys?" the old murse said at once. "General Logan has just sent his orderly down here to see if the body hadn‘t come from the Howard House. Bring him to me, he‘ll be safe here !" As years go by it seems to be stories of the kindâ€"heartedness of their great general the old soldiers remember best, not the splendid fighting that was «dlone ! Whatever historians may say to the contrary, there should be no doubt that there was a warm friendâ€" ship among the old commanders. Loâ€" gan, Grant, Sherman were as tenderâ€" hearted as children. The army nurses and doctors very well know how this was. Let Mother Bickerdyke, for instance, and auy offthe old veterans «chance to meet and these reminiscencâ€" es well up to the surface. "General Loganâ€"Black Loganâ€"oh, yes, it was â€"a sight when he went thundering over the field, all smoke and fireâ€"but, boys, it was a grander sight to see him with tears in his eyes, and I‘ve seen that, too ; yes, I have." And then the old field nurse tells a story of Atlanta. All soldiers on both sides know the mad battle which besan at noon and The brave General McPherson met his death on the field. A little in adâ€" vance of his staff, riding toward Generâ€" ended at midnicht! Day after day she rode on horse Stories of Our Generals Tender and Trug. with a farm wagon and army mules to bring into camp some supplies sent her for the sick. â€" They were riding through a forlorn little town and she had stopâ€" ped to inquire of someone about the railroad aud supplies. She spoke loud and cheerily, as usual; as she leaned over the side of the wagon. | Suddenâ€" ly, not far away, a glad whinny and neigh of af horse was heard Then there was a bound and leap over a fence, crushing the old boards and tearing up the soil and grass. "Jupiâ€" ter !" screamed the soidier boys. ‘"Juâ€" piter!" said the nurse‘s sweet tender voice. The big white horse bounded to the wagon and Mother Bickerdyke climbed over its side to Jupiter‘s head and put her _ arms arouand _ his neck and cried. The boys cried, too, while Jupiter rubbed his nose all over the sun bonnet with eloquent dumbâ€" ness. He went back home with them and marched into the new camp, and the pale, the maimed, the crippled, met him with exclamations of joy. General Grant was never afraid to openly trust and honori{a brave woman. Let me tell one more story to his memâ€" ory. In 1861 Major Powell, now Chief of the United States Geological Survey, was professor of geology in an Tllinois town, and just married. He and his bride took their wedding jourâ€" ney straight into the war. . Their honâ€" eymoon was spent in camp; and the girlâ€"wife went prepared to follow her soldierâ€"husband wherever he might go. Within one month of their marriage, at the battle of Shiloh, Major Powell lost his arm. He was brought into headquarters, where his wife nursed him faithfully.. General Grant sat one day inside their tent trying to cheer the young man through an hour of terrible suffering, but as he went away he said to someone: "A right arm, too ! his army work is done !" Mrs. Powell heard it. She stood in the tent door with a very positive look on her face and as General Grant came out she said: "No, no, General ! Don‘t say so! I‘m a woman, and young, but T‘ve enlisted in this war! Let me be the right arm ! We‘ll find plenty of hard, good work to do yet! Try me, if I fail, discharge us! See howa threeâ€"armed soldier can serve you !‘â€" "All right, Mrs. Powell," said General Grant. *You are a commissioned offiâ€" cer from this hour? Send your husâ€" band‘s messenger to my tent ; I will make out your papers." General Grant shook hands with the small plucky woman, and, with a merry twinkle in his eyes, said : "How soon will the threeâ€"armed soldier be_ready for marching orders ?" Mrs. Powell sometimes tells this story herself, and she adds : "I sat down beside my poor sick husband, and blushed and cried at thoughts of my audacity to General Grant." That evening a document signed by "U. $. Crant" was given to "Mrs. Major Powell." In the wild haste and confusion Juâ€" piter was forgotten. Since the early morning of the battle he had not D en seen. "My good soldiers," the nurse said, "he has been shot." With the Army of the Tennessee, some weeks afterward, they moved. noctaward, many miles away. _ Mother Bickerdyke and a few of her best men had gone And she did. For miles tha "white flags? blew and fluttered from lines of rope and wire aud branches of trees. To facilitate her work, which General Grant understood as woll as though he were a woman himself, he gave her a big white horse, tall, stout and handâ€" some. â€" His nams was Jupiter. _ Never rode a prouder woman. than Mother Bickerdyke, then in her calico gown and sunâ€"bonnet, as Jupiter carried her like a queen from hospital to camp, from the dying to the living. Everyâ€" body knew Jupiter and Jupiter s mistâ€" ress. Sometimes he grazed in the woods, sometimes waited at the hospitâ€" al door and ate soup like a soldier and enjoyed bread or hay, just as was most convenient. â€" Stray lumps of sugar found their way into Jupiter‘s mouth from many a sick, lonely man‘s cup, sent to Jupiter by Mother Bickerâ€" dyke‘s hand. Those were dreadful days for thehospital when General Rosecrans was defending Corinth. It was one continuous roar. Shells exploded in the streets, and the battle raged almost over the hospital, and at last orders were given to move. â€" Eighteen hundâ€" red sick and wounded men were moved that night to Kincaid‘s Grove. . Tents covered them and big trees were felled and spread over the ground for those least injured to lie on. Everyone worked like mad, and by starlight all the sick and wounded were safely beâ€" yond the battle. back miles over the country, attending to her great wash houses in the woods, where springs were abundant and wood plentiful. Big fires blazed day and night, and men washed thousands of pieces of soiled linen for the comfort of the wounded and sick. â€" Some of the officers said : "Throw them away, Moâ€" ther Bickerdvke ; we‘ll get more.‘â€" No you won‘t, boys. The dear woâ€" men who have sent me these good garâ€" ments can‘t send ten thousand clean ones to you now. We‘ll make ‘em sweet and clean as your mothers would." Until the final day of the war that «perpetual pass" gave her permission to follow the army through all its serâ€" vice, to be her husband‘s "richt arm" He (after the proposal) â€"I hope you don‘t think I‘ve made a fool of myself, Miss Penelope! _ en The lake levels are rising again, From, the period of highest waters in the seventies when the St. Clair was up to the string pieces of the wharves along the river; and when a gust ot north wind sent the water to the baseâ€" ment doors of the stores on the riverâ€" side of Front st., the water levels <of the great lakes has fallen year by year‘ until it really looked as if the St. Lawâ€" rence system was going dry. The winâ€" ter of 1891 brought the water to the lowest level yet recorded. The very lowest reading was on the 4th of Deâ€" cember of that year, when, according to the register kept by Mr. Turner at the Sarnia Waterworks, the water of the St. Clair stood four feet eight and a half inches below high water mark. During last winter it fell somewhat, but this spring it took an upward turn again ; and has of late been advancing. There was a considerable rise in May, and again in June; and a measure: ment made by Mr.. Turner last week shows that the rise during July was four and a hbalf inches the greatest gain in one month on record. The rise of the water level has been much more rapid than its fall. It has risen two feet nine inches from the low water mark of December, 1891, and is now within one foot, ten inches of mean high water mark, and within two feet six inches of the highest stage of water ever recorded, RuEvararism CurED in A Day.â€"South ‘American Rheumatic Cure for Rheumatism and Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 3 days. TIts actoin upon the system is remarkable and mysterious. It removes at once the cause and the disease immediately disappears. The first dose greatly benefits. 75¢. War ranted by Ed. M. Devitt Druggist, Waterâ€" Ioo. you are ta king about ! Di{l you ever hear of my threeâ€"armed soldier, Officer Powell 1‘â€" "No? I think not."â€" "Well, if it hadn‘t been for a litte darkâ€"eyed girl I should have lost a good officer and a brave man. He did me and his country good sefvice," and then General Grant to!d him the story of his perp(-\bual) pass. Let me add, and let it be a flower for his grave, that General Grant‘s life abounded with acts of consideration, gentleness kindness.â€"Interâ€"Ocean. Sheâ€"Obh, no. (A pause) You know I am not an atheist.â€"Truth. in camp, in field, on marches, or in batâ€" tles. The Major was well. He r de about as usual attending to his duties and his command. His wife never faltered nor _ failed. She. _ acâ€" cepted _ her_ soldiecship, lived . in tents, slept on the ground on blankets, took care of their sick, and never was a "Daughter of the Regiment" better loved. General Grant used to say, "I never regretted that perpetual pass." Just before his last illness a brother officer remarked to him one day : "It was a mistake to allow so many woâ€" men to follow the army.] â€" The Generâ€" al took his cigar from his mouth, pushâ€" ed_his hat to the back of his head, and said : "Colonel, you don‘t knowe what When strength of body has departed, when health has failed, and vigor is absent, appetite all gone, hope deferred, and the heart sick. Then ask for one box of Celery Tron Pills, and after using, compare conditâ€" tions. Then write us. Druggists and dealers, or mail. Price 50 cts., or six for $2.50,. . WTheCelery PillCo., Toronto, Ont. Down the street through the busy way A lady passed on marketing day. Who, pausing at a grocery store, Stepped quickly in at the open door. With bated breath and anxious mien She queried : ""have you COTTOLENEF! The grocer, leaving off his work, Interrogated every clerk ; But none up to that time had seen An article called " COTTOLENE." 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