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It was an illâ€"tempered day. with a fine gmnchmting 1111M”x and EL raw oust. wignd. Everyone who «name into the store rshivcred as the warm air struck them, and the east xvi-11d, seemed 10 have yosxrsio‘n of all their tempers. Caéub Wilson, ihe proprietor of Lha store, was at best (i gnnrly 01d gen~ tleman with. an uncertain disposition, which Was growing more uncenain as the day progressed and his trials ac- cumulated. Mrs. Jones could get ev- erything she priced “a. mitu cheaper to Hnrmo‘n’s‘” M 1's. Austin, {his best cus- tomer and butterâ€"maker, brought in doxuhffu] butter; and he dared not. tell Ell-er so, but meekly took it at his Highest (price. Mrs. Sampson returned a dress because she found a "damag~ 0d spot right in the middle of the piece.” So it had gone all day. Just [Lt nightfall Bruce, his only son, a boy Olf fifteen, came in, and stood by tine showcase, talking to a mute {n the vit-inity of M 1‘. Wilson, Wing was mark- Mg goods lye-’hfind asawk of muslins. "I feel awful bad about them chang- ing o-ur al'it‘lhmtics,” the boy was say- ing. "Pa just can‘t afford to get me one, I know.” Bruce went oh: "I tell you I am glad my father’s- rich’. I‘d ’most ruthâ€" er die than, go! dressed as some of the fellows have to, and dig into all kinds of Work." "No. no, boys; you are 1111 right. 1 will give you good recommends. Hope yoE will hiafvg' luck getting aplace." He turned from them, and commencâ€" ed 4:0 pile up the boolas on his desk. They stood an instant in blank amaze» meat. "SCha‘n’t we come back for the avening V” one of them ventured. “No, no; you can go now,” he answered im- patiently. "Yes, Wis bad fdr some of you. fel- 10\\s,”13mme answered in alofl‘y tone. "fo cozursa . with me it‘s different. Fu- ther can get whatever lwanL.” “Yes: but. I don’t; have to,” Bruce re- .tortad with a laugh. "You don’t sonny! Well, we’ll see," Mr. Wilson mulltemd again, peering arolund the m‘uslins at the spruce. m- ther smyerciliousâ€"laoking :boy. Then his gaze wandered down the length uf the long well-filled store. It was the largest in the county; and the hon- est, energetic old. man had the patronâ€" age of the entire countryâ€"side, in spite of his surly ways. He gazed long down into the dim iuLerior, until his Marks commenced lighting up. ale-I‘KS commenced Jighung up. "I am tired of keeping store, anyâ€" way," he said, half aloud. Then. rous- ad Shm‘ply, "Never , mind lighting up,“ he called to the two young men. “Come here.” He moved to the desk, and they followed him. "I shaiz.’t need. you’kny ore. Here’s 'a. monb‘h‘s wages ahead at will last you while you! are hunt- i g another job,” he said, shaving the oney toward them. "Why," they both began in astonâ€" ishmant, "have we{ done anything ’1" He carried Uhem to 1111-. bin: white house just across the alley. Then down the long Village'lst‘l‘eet they went) rewâ€" ldly with coat collars burned up in slight protection against, the drillng mist. Finally, they stood on lhe brid re over the river just above the dam, 'l‘fie fall rains had swollen it. into quill), a Morrent. 'Mr, \"ilfizyn look lhe two lug keys from his packet, and handed them to Bruce. “Tth them in," he said. “\Vhy, la‘th’er, what does this mean '19" “mestiolned Brur‘e, who had been an llnterested auditor to these proceed- dings. His father, vauchsafing no uns- wer, went around carefully, closing the. teat, shutters, setting the burglar- rzw shotgun, and double bolting the doors. He, pujt the front door key in his pocket. "Bring the account hooks from the desk,” he said to Bruce. The boy dbeyed.. Then he extinguished the light, and they grayed their way in the darkness {to the baa-k door. “Take the books to the, house; than ovum 'wixh me," 'WELS the next command) The old man’s face grew grimmer, and {his thin lips set in a. displeased line. “So, so, yo:qu man,” be [0111thâ€" ed; "you are crowing pretty lnud.” “Guess you could work if you had to,” .thg boy replied rather tartly. "Now, young mmn."â€"â€"Mr. Wilson fac- ed film]. with, a, kven‘ gaze. on, the boy’s startled countenancevâ€"“Lhat slate “ill slay shiut until I. see fit it should he opened. It may he five years. ll, luny be fifty. Meantime l valuu'late I’ve got about rincmnu enough. from other things to keep us off the lawn. So, after this, if you get anything halter fihaju 'blue jeans, you’ll flux around for "Into the waiver ?" the boy gasped. He was very white; but, knowing his f-aflxpr, I“: said no motel only obeyed. Such a. mystery ‘h'eul never befallen the people. The whole country went wild over it. But the blank, wooden from of the big store and Mr. \Vilsnn’s rim face were nlika imparturbahle. 'l'I‘s. \Vilson and fine, two married daughters, after vain questioning and many tours, dropped it meeklyl Bruce, wilm alone held the ktsy of the pro?» 10m, was naturally silent but allit- tlar desire, in his heart. As the months went by, in spite of his mother's care, his clothes grew shahbier and shubbier. His shoes were Mltvually raggad, but his Ml‘nur mavm» ed not to notice it. But Bruce‘hlad al- ways been unpopular with the Loys fir his "bossy ways" and his “airs.” "Guess when he sees me in rags he Will find same way to fix it up. I‘d like to know what work he expects me to do anyway,” he thought sullenly. S‘EVERE EXPERIMENT. So in his adversity he had no friends to turn to. [1“th mysberi'ous closing of til-a Siam and the pinched “any in which the, family appeared to' live was “good {>11- Osugh for him” in their eyes: and the boy’s soh‘ool life seemr'd sometimes 5L1- mO-‘st Va, purgatory. ' .q " ’Most die if you had to g0 “kg 8.01110 01' w; fellows, wouldn't you? jcered one 0'51 them one. day, Jenkins wants a. boy “1’ in his Lanyard. Better try for the place,” suggpsted a. third. _ _ t _ I - _ “You‘ll have to stay liq 110mg i1? blanket, pretty so'on,” chlmed m an other. “WIhen you see me in Jenykins’ tam yaw, you’ll know it,” shouted Bruce, bmhng with passion. “My father'3 80‘? money enoug "â€" “Oh, bother money, Bruce 'Wfisunl” broke in one of the older boys. “You make me sick! Yom’ weren’t any good’ with it, {ends you: ain’t any good with out it. There’s. Due thing money Vim“- huy and you haven’t got, and that‘s same. Mr. Wilson, coming in, heard her. “No, he can’t," he answered. "A se'lI- respect t'hat’s makle of chthes isn‘t go- ing to stand by a feHow. I’ll own that T'm disappointed in 1the boy. I thought he 'was worth saving; but I. guess he ain’t, I guess he ain’t.” His voice quivâ€" emd, and he turned to the window.‘ I think just that break in his fathâ€" er’s voice went a long way toward saving Bruce Wilson, for he szs in this [next room and heard it. all. “\Y'hy, I believe hka cares for me. He honestly cares, and isn’t doing it for meanness.” he thought, with a. soft,- eniug Throb in his, heart. He lay on the lounge a. long time with his head buried in the pillows. \Vhen ho. got up, there was a look of grim determin- ation on his face, 'very much lika his fath‘s'r’s. That night he announced at Llne (IL-sa- table: "'I’ve beemup to sea DIR Jenkâ€" inB. 'He. will give me my board and fifty cents a week wlxile school lasts. In va‘caiiou 1m Mill. give me two: dollarg” He slunk away (ram: the luughtm‘ «If. the Imys with blank: rage in his heart. “ "fixes a.” his father. He’d maktfl him. SONY." Wags (£11m whole {'houught 01' 131% life. Daily the neat gentle/manly boy grew more careless and worthtless. “He looks and acts like ' a tramp.” his sister said one day to his mofh'en. "('an't father [ix him. up some? It might give ’him a little selfâ€"respect.” “\‘i'hy, Bruce, that’s the dirtiest. awfullesrb’amelling place: and Mrs. Jmikins has the name of. being a. dreadâ€" ful housekeeper.” "Y9 , 'it’s a, pmtty tough place; but ’t’mas all the job I could get. I’ll have to ask you; father, to advance me money enough for a. pair of overalls and a szm'uS. You know you promised me blue jeans.” Mr. Wilson, without. a. word, handed him a dollar and a ha 12? VMer. \V’ilsdn derped ’her fork in dis- may: Monday morning Brwca commenced work. The horrible smells sickened bin}. Mrs. .Teuki‘us‘ cooking spoiled even his appetite; but tlhiere 'Was a good deal of his father in him, after all. so he .weni' on witz'hnum“ a. thought 01‘ giving it; mp. “Yes, Iam ‘Jenki'ns’ boy‘;i and 1 except I do smell,“ of the banâ€"yard," he mmarked, pheerfiwlly, b0 the boys. "And. if any of you fellows object, 1’1! fight it out with you.” Some-how, though, "Jenkins‘ boy" grew in popularity with the “fellows,” in syitze of his hands, and sometimes even 'his father, objectionable smell. All tlm long summer he lived and worked at the tanâ€"yard. Mrs. Wilson missed him sorely. and shed many tears in secret; while Mr. \Viison contracted a habit of strolling up to the yard, and from behind the safe shelter of the big piles of bark watching the boy with an anxious countenance. “Everything has been unnatural for ‘Imost a year back, ever since you took that nation to shut up the store." she answered tearfully. "I’m afraid he’s working too h'urd this hot weather," he said to his wife. "It seems so‘r‘t of unnatural. nnywan to have the only boy we've got boa-rd- ing away from: home." In the. full Bruce obtained a situa~ Lion in Lire, rival store of the village, which was doing a flourishing business now its formidable opponent was out of thr- way. His terms this time were his board and ten dollars per month. The winter dragged slowly and lone.- somely along for the old couple. Still Mr. Wilson L-ided his time. One morning in the spring every bill- board in (own and every fence the country over held big- posters announc- ing, in large, impressive letters: 1, (‘aIeb Wilson, axing rested until "\Vel], we’ll see: we’ll'see. I ain’t over the nation yet,” was the discour- ngjug rejoinder I am (tired, mu Open 1113' store as suddenly as I closed in. Old goods sold at cost. New ones. so‘ma over. Hoping my friends will be as glad to see me as I am to see them, lam; Your obedient servant, Caleb Wilson. “Ail! This is like living again!" he said to himself, as he felt. the old, fuâ€" miliar floor under his feet, and the old, familiar piles of goods confront- ed him‘ He drew long breaths of deâ€" light as he hustled about, direct.ng his her in the "rpdding up” It. was growing a little Ial‘le when he put on his bat and went: slowly down the stbeet .Rutll’er hesitatiugly he opâ€" ened the door, and went lubo'l;he oth- er s‘lm'e. Bruce was alone; the. proâ€" prietor had gone to tea. Somewuy, he looked unfamiliar to Mr. Wilson. He had grown so, and the boyish look had left his face. It: seemed, 8.51 he looked at. 'lri‘m, that he had lost; his boy forever. He mum have gathered him to his heart, in a. strange excess of tender~ mess, The. sudden 'team walled to his uhwcus‘tomed eyes. He walked brisk- ly \w [toLtlm boy. I “ 'ell, (Brute. does your board suit “Well, (Brute, does your board suit you ’I” be interrogated hrugquely. ",fs‘uirly," answered Bruce, with a. smile. "Good 85 mothbr’s Z" "\Vell, no; it don't swam so to me. Maybe I ma prejudiced "Get pretty good clothes?“ Brave looked. down at the plain home- spun. “Bo,th than blue jeans." he answemd laconically. 'l‘hme was a. silence. Then 'Mr. W11- mn mmmenoed Imam. Driven From ma I’m:ch Ocean In “‘04 Amn- lblulslrous Defeat-a by Chile and Porn. The last naval bwhtle fought by Spain in Like new wor‘lgk showed. 0cm- cdusi'vely Show heir maritinfé power has decreased. She was defeakedby Peru, with Chile's aid, and since then, the Spaniard mas kept away from the Pa- cific coast of South America. "I never coufldr abide that mam Har- mon getting ahead of me. So. Bruce, If you Milli come over and work! in my store. PH give yow your board. and [if- Leen dollars a month; this year,and I’ll send you to college next year, But you will have to keep on flaxing.” He came Shearer to file boy, and said, in alow voice, almost a,ppealingly:."‘Say. Bruce. .V’O'u've got more sensn. haven’t you? And you’ve got over the notion that gourl clothes and a. rich old father will make :1. mm] 2 Say, sonny, you. don’t think I was too hard on you, d9 yql ?” The story (XE that war 84nd its disâ€" astrous results i'n Sspaiirtiis told in the Army and Navy Journal. In 1864 Spain sent. a squadron of seven vessels, mounting; 211 guns, ’to punish. the Per- u'viarns im‘ the maltreatment of Spanâ€" ish subjects. The Peruviaans had no- thing on the wwter with which to op- pose this force, bmt Chile came m her aid; with three vesselsâ€"the Esmeralda, carrying Early-emu smootlhborea; the Victorim a small (me-gum monitor and tihe Lon. a diminurtive Merrimao, plat- edI with iron and mounting two sixty- eight pmunders, 'l;hxa,_rLjstgera.lda met the Spanish g-uanmt Cavandaga, three gums, and captured «her in twenty min- utes without the loss of a. mum. The Spaniard-s fired only three sh'ots. They had two men killed and fourteen iwournded. The loss of the C‘mvandago tollcxwed by the capture of an armored. lawnch, so chmga‘imed the Spanish agi- miral qu'ejm. that he blew 0th 1118 brains in :his cabin. "VWeII, Sr'bu'va ffdxed around for “15311 haven't you: ?" ‘ " _... y- . ‘xyn Then his heart fairly leaped from 1-“5 mourth; for his father, his hard, um- yielding 01d f runner. suddenly leaned over and kissed him fwll on his mouth". as be was kissed when he was a little child. Admiral N umez, who succeeded Par- eja when gulla-Jltly assailed thine defense- less Valpuu'iso, where not a. single gum was mounted except: a few saluting NobvaE-waflzéiiretljrom the tom!) and the inhabitants promptly ev- acuated it. This Spamish admiral. in spite (If the protests of the foreign memâ€"ofâ€"xwr in the harbor threw from 2,000 to 3,000 shells 11100 it from his fleet of sin: vessels. The Spamish. glimâ€" inery was .90 wretched that that little damage was dune, except by fiirenvhich destroyed $10,000,000 worth of (new tru guods.‘ It was a most wwnton view of baurha/rityA for if the Spani~ ards had had a. landing form they Could have taken) the town without firâ€" ing. a shot. -. . .. '1 ' "\Veli, the boy said, rEiéfiér hésitab- mg‘)’. "you did jump on a. fellow pret- txy heavy; hutâ€"l guess it was worth it." 'l‘he gallium N'u'nez next. assaulted the City of Cwleu. which taught him the difference between am open town amd one. L-haL was adequately defended. Inn £01»): or five 111095234 the Sywnish squadron was badly used up and was glad to crawl. back to Spain as best in; can“. in its arippled condition. The Villa de Madrid fiftyâ€"six g-wns. got a, shot in her s-teeun chest. and was tmmd out» of action; the Bare-ngula. thirtyâ€"six guns, had a bode twegn-ty feet square knot-ked inio :hm‘ near the water line by zun exploding shell and urawled out at rzxmge to repair damages. Tlhk‘ ammunition in two other Spanâ€" ish Ve-sseis gave (mi, after a. two h-ours' fighri, and, they had Lo retire, one of. them having becm twice on fire in [he nebg-h‘narh-uud of the 'xrmgazine. This left. two vessels, the N-u'mainiriu, iron- clad amid the Almwnza. Two hmrrs lat- er these two vessels ceased their fire and withdrew, the Chilians firing: at them Until they were beyond ranga. The: Spanish loss is not exalotly known. mm: is supposed to have been about 200‘ Commodore Rod-gem, U.S.N., estiâ€" mmted the loss of the "Chillwns at; eighlLy, though others gimme a. larger number. No Sui-Gus dwmage was dome to either ships or farts by the fire, beyond that named. The Spaniards than withdrew dismmfit£d {mm the Pacific, being short. of stores and am- nmmiiimn and. with their vessels foul fur want 01' (leaking. They had es- tuhiished :1. base at, the Chimcha Isl- amfls. but, they had no {achiiiies far reâ€" pall‘. My wife got Esq-azure with that burgâ€" ia-r w‘hx) set: the burglar alarm going and; woke the baby. What did she do? mama again An average waltz takes a. dancer over about; three-quarters of a. mile;[ a square dam-c makes him cover halt a mile. A girl with a, Well-filled pro- gramme travels thus in one evening: Twelve waltzes, nine miles: foun other dances all a half-mile apiece, which is hardly a fairly big estimate, two miles more; the intermission stroll and the trips to the dressingqooms to renovate her own and complexion, hall} u mile; granfi total Pleven and a half miles. “7 BET (THE D SPANISH GUN N E RY. SPAIN'S LAST NAVAL BATTLE. SPANISH HAD TO RETIRE pwllad him by the collar and him rock the baby to sleep MIL ES 013‘ DANCING. 1% IVI'ITRTJBUTION . FATALITIES IN BATTLE. THEY GROW LESS AS IMPLEMENTS OF WAR IMPROVE. the Two Great IBM-ties of (fired and Gollys- Inn-g contrasted to .h hslnntlute mo Singular Assertion â€" Arullery First Thought to Have Been Intended Merely to Fl'lghten Cavnlry llorsoi. Every war: of consaquence during the nineteenth century. especially during the latter part of it, has developed new methods of destroying life, some of them of such a high order of destruc- tiveness that one naturally wonders how so many men come out of a battle with their lives. Reasoning from the list of fatalities in the great battles of ancient times. when the weapons in use were (he crossbow, the bow and arrow, the bill hook. the battle ax, the sword, and the bludgeon, one would naturally conclude that when two modern arm- lJES came into collision, provided with improved rifles, Gatling guns. dyna- mite cannon and all the improved field. artillery capable of rapidly delivering explosive projectiles, tenfold more efâ€" fectlve than grape and cannister, the DESTRUCTION OF HUMAN LIFE Would only be limited by the muster rolls of one or bolh armies. Singularly enough, however, with each improvemenL in the enginery of war, battles are fought, with here and" there an exception, with less expendi- ture of human me than when indivi- duul prowess and crude weapons deâ€" cided the issue between armies and nations. Tim destruction of human life in battle may be sharply contrasted by citing thfl actions of Cxweci. in 1346, and Gettysburg, in 1863, a. little more than five centuries apart. Both were fought by the foremost people of their respective ages. and the same num- ber of menâ€"150,000â€"participabed. But with. this difference: At Gettys- burg the Federal and Confederate forces were almost; equally matched, while at Creel, King Edward III. of England commanded but 8,000 men. while Philip of France and his allies mustered over 140,000. The battle of Gettysburg cove-red four days of fighting. At. Creci the carnage lasted from 2 o’clock till sunset, followed the next morning- with the surprise of the allied reâ€"en- forcements which marched ignorant- 1y into the jaws of death. ‘not even axx'are that the French King had. been driven in dismay BACK; roams CAPITAL, The mortality at Cmci was twice as great as the number of killed and wounded in both armies at Gettys- burg. True. the English and 1.000 Wulsh‘men. under Lhe Black Prince, who actually cammambed, while his father. Edward 111., looked on with pride and exulmtiwn, did not kill all the sixtyâ€"odd thousand enemies who were left to choke the field of carnage, but their Courage and address were mainly respunisble for it. The. fatal delay of Philip at Abbeâ€" ville for asingle (My gave the Eng- lish monarch the opportunity to choose his battle ground. which he did with rare judgment, selecting a. somewhat steeply ascending; hill. crowned with a. forest. Both his flanks were promot- ed; by Hm River Maie and a. deep arti- fit-izil. ditch on the right and the \Vadi- court on this left. Edward, who had marched against Paris with 10.000 English troops and 40,000 Flemish and. other allies,‘ who deserted him and went over to Philip found himself in imminent danger of capture. and began a retreat. which culminated. in the famous battle of, Creci, where he was penned up and had to fight. Pushed into this place by his pur- suers. who could. lwve captured him: had they nob halted at Abbeville, he spent the whole of the day preceding the battle in disposing of his forces TO THE BEST ADVANfl‘A(.:‘rE. W'ell up the slope of the hill he formâ€" ed them in three “herses,” or "battles." These triangles were made up of Knights, men-(Ltâ€"arnm, archers and 01w,<isâ€"l,roxvmen, those in ulrmor and of the most redo'ubtable prowess being massed at the points of the "hattles'" which would receive the impact. of the assaulting column Back of these zian inside the lines were placed 1,000 \Velshmen armed with short. heavy swords or knives, not unlike the Cuban machete; uf Hm present day. The baggage and (he cavalry were placed upon the brow of the hill to the rear of the “battles,” while the first artillery perhaps ever used in war was stationed between the divis- ions. Villuni, FI‘OlSSflI‘t and Jehan le Bel speak of “bombards” that were used. "which." in the language of the latter. "with fire and a nuise like lod's thunder threw little halls of iron to frightened the horses," the French and Flemish cavalry. Nor are. they recorded as. doing other execution than imparting‘ fear to the cavalry horses. The disposition of the English forces was admirable. [t was impossible to flunk them and the assault was necessarily ascending. The ranks my one above another, the arch- ers and cross-bowmen, facing Nightly forward, shot over each others’ heads down into the ranks of the Genoese infantry, every “cloth yard shaft" being a messenger of death, fully 80 per cent of the Let fly being found the next (I the Indy 9? an enemy, fr'LgihlJul storm déluyed the upon- CLOUD OF A RR()\VS in tug of the battle for half an 11mm. The line of attack being necessarily short. brought the first disaster to the French King. The vast column pressâ€" ed forward from the mar. until it was thrown into confusion, and Philip, in a. frenzy, ordered the cavalry to clear the field before the atth on the English was begun. Thousands were cut down and tra mp- led under foot in the execution of this order. after which the Count: of Ab encont the King's brother, at the head oi the, cavalry. supported by the Genâ€" oese foot soldiers, charged up the nar- row hill belween the two streams. against the sharp points of the. "bat- tles." The mailed knights at these points checked the advance, and a. hand.â€"to~ha.nd conflict followed. in which the Black Prince nearly lost his life. Meanwhile the archers were sending a clnud of arrows past the mull~coated cavalry into the ranks 03 the unprotected infantry, making ten rihlg havoc. ' The superior weight of the cavalry" and the impervious trappings of horses and men, put the English in deadly peril. The points of the "herses" wera being driven in and pushed backward. Then the courageous Welshmen and the absurd artillery turned the tida of battle. The \Velshimen. drawing their deadly knives, Jushed between the legs of the Knights and men-atâ€"arms, and, dodg- ing the blows of the c-uvuliers. STAB BED TH E HORSES From beneath. At Lhe same time the bmnbards began to “speak with the noise of God’s thunder." As the homes fell from their wounds the cav- aliers sprawled helpless on the ground. their heavy coats of mail making it imâ€" pussible for than; to regain their feet. The \Velshmen, with their cleavers. quickly dispatched them. As squadron after squadron of. the cavalry went down the charging col- umn. in the rear became panic stricken. Neither officers nor men could unâ€" derstand the “born-bards" nor guess why horses and men were falling in the. front. Then they turned and fled. Thye handful of English cavalry charg- ed the retreating column. Charles. King of the Romans, attempted to save the: day. and was unhorsed and killedi John. the blind King. of Bohemia. the father of the Roman monarch. hear‘ ing of. the death of his son. compelled two of his knights (.0 lead him into the charge, and all three of them were killed side by side. and the Prince of Wales, the Black Prince, dralnuiically appropriated his black plum, and. at. ChIB same Lima. the royal motto, "lch (ii-en.” "l serve." both; of which attach to the ho-uSe of Wales to the present day. The whole of the .‘lflng‘lish force charged across the mm, as John ofl Hixinault dragged the French nmnurrh from it, and killed and plundered until physical exhaustion CAUSED TH EM TO .l)I‘ISlS’1'. The English lost; less than 500 men in killed and \s'lnndod. while‘ the French and allies. inrluding a divider) of rev-enforcements, which were cut off the next, morning, lost between {$0,000 and 70,000, killed in battle, crushed in the rout: or (il‘()\V!1t‘(;l in the I‘t‘tJ‘ttut. In additinn to King Charles of tho Romans and King Jo'i'm 0f Robe-min, 12 sovereign Printers of the blood royal and over 1,300 knights were found dead on the field and their gaudy sun-outs, armorial hearings and coats of mail helped to make up the l‘ooty curried offl by ihii‘.» English. [t is suid that awry European court went into mourning because of the hattle of Creci except: that of England. All the battle of, Gettysburg, win-n the deathâ€"dealing machinery was of l he highest. type may UHeti in a grout hull;- tle. up to thmt time. the totle numl'ar of killed zmd wounded on holh sides was not more than 50 pm: cent of the fatalities at: ("rec-i, although tiliu :u-lual contest continued for days instead 0‘2 noura This Federals: and (“unredeth each had about: 75.000 1mm in action. The oftiuial report, places the Federal 1053 in killed and wounded at 16,543. No official report of the Confederate loss was ever made, but it was approximata ed at a little above 18,000 killed and wounded, Pickotzt's charge alone m3â€" counting for the greater Confederate 108%. The fatalities of the chief officers at (‘l‘eoi is somwlhing st riking. comparâ€" ed with modern battles. The deaih of the two King‘s. 1‘2 Princes nnd ovex 1,300 Knights, would menu That more than half the offiuvra in two contending armies of 75,000 earn, from 111:9. rank of Captain t0 Generals of divisions, would he. killed in comlmi, whereas there are hut few precedenm of 5 per cent. of fatalities. There is another thing that. is Bt-I‘ik- ingly peculiar. \Ve all know Some.- Hfing of the fatalities of stnwt fights. Two saparate men open a duo! in a moderately crowded street. and tire seven shims each. 0110 is protahly found dead and the other mortally wuunded; two 01‘ three hystnndm‘sare killed or dangerously injured, and 1m) 01‘ three others more or less serialme hurt, so that. seven of the. shots have been effective. Do you think ivL's [unlucky to walk under a ladder? "H’s apt to heâ€"if there’u a man wixh u paint pail on ilk." Supposa hen, tlhat two volumns of 5,(70 3 men em-h. :erad \\ it h (zur improvâ€" ed rifles. and a<sisl6d by li-puund field builories and (w‘ulliug guns, slmuld 9nâ€" guge. in l'utlle. \\'itl1i11 an hour. at UL“ low estimate of 10 rounds for each rifle-mun. “10,000 shots would he fired. to my nothing of tlw havoc of the l;:xt~ terips. Wilh 1h? average, street duel fatalities ave't‘y one 0f the [0,000 would be. killed or wuumlml. And yel. il, would be, beyond all modern precedvnl; if 1,001) were killed unll 2,500 wounded. 1‘ is; nu-t an easy waiter (.0 gin- 1mmâ€" hlf‘ Humans why the. effusion of Mood is lessened with ouch improveman that increases the desl ruutiveness ul‘ the engrinery of war, hui nevertheless it is a. fact. IN A MODERN BA'J‘J‘L'PL I? TO BE I'NLUCKY.