The Mobile Rifles

The following little incident, touchingly significant of the better feeling existing between the military people of the North and South, occurred recently at Mobile, Ala. A general oí the United States army was on his way írom Arizona to New York where he purposed entering a surgical college to have a diflicult operation períormed. As the train with the sick soldier approached Mobile his aide saw that he was rapidly becoining very ill, and telegraphed ahead for assistance to convey him toa hospital. Dr. Hutton, the medical Superintendent of the Marine Hospital, was at the depot with attendants and a carriage. The invalid was comfortably placed in it with the gentlest and most assiduous attention but he diwl within sight of the building, a stranger In a strange land. The next day Dr. Uutton - who will be reiuenibcred here as a former Detroiter - telegraphed to the family of the dead officer in Arizona for instruotions as to the disposal of the remains and received in reply: "Bury him where he died." As soon as the Mobile Rifles had heard that, "A loldlerof the legión Lay djlng In Alglert," They hastened to his help. But he was already dead and it only remained for thern to do honor to his memory. This they did by taking upon themselves the performance of the last rites as though the dead stranger had been one of their own comrades. They carried him draped with flags to the National Cemetery and gave him all the honors of military burial. In the afternoon of one of the hottest days of the Southern summer they marched in procession over the two miles of dusty road and as the sun went down fired a farewoll shot over the stranger's grave. Then covering it with flowers they left him in the peaceful bivouao of the dead. The deoeased soldier was a Philadelphian, and when the Mayor of Phihvdelphia heard of the "brotherly love" of the Mobile Rifles he sent them an autograph letter of thanks, ' ied by a beautiíul floral tributo. Surely this little incident is an earnest of uu tod inteiests and a prooi that ever and always 'The travest are the tenderest, The lm ing are the daring." - Detroit fi'rte Press. A colored gentleman who is engaged i in the moiiev-lending business at Quitman, Ga., always refuses to let out j money to aiiy of his own race, no ! ter liow good or how numerous the ' securities