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Bale had his job cut out for him. He disguised himself in blue trousers taken from a Federal corpse, joined a Confederate night attack on Culp's Hill. At dawn good luck helped him inside the Federal position. Next day Pacifist Bale saw more bloodshed than most soldiers ever see, but he still had enough humor to laugh at the sign in Ever Green Cemetery: "All persons found using firearms in these grounds will be prosecuted with the utmost vigor of the law." He finally discovered his man's corps in the centre of the line...
...With dawn the fire had feasted fully on Hakodate. The bodies of the drowned were coming in with the morning tide, nudging the wharves. Blackened, blank-faced men groped over the steaming ruins. A sharp sleet was falling. Soon it turned to snow. The survivors huddled in barracks on the peaks, in a few schools still standing, in the railway station and the British and Russian consulates. Some strayed out on the bleak mainland, looking for shelter in the huts of the aboriginal Ainus. Sixty of them died in the snow. Officials began doing their terrible sums. They made...
...Before dawn one day last week workmen scurried about a dim, vast room in the Corning Glass Works at Corning. N. Y. For one day they were to be both stagehands and actors. For weeks they had rehearsed every movement they were to make during one eleven-hour performance-the pouring of the 2OO-inch (16 ft. 8 in.) telescope mirror for California Institute of Technology. High as a house in the centre of the room stood a furnace which had been under fire for three weeks. In its great belly was a 34-ton lake of molten pyrex borosilicate...
...less fuss than a hen laying an egg, stood out against it. All night long the physicians argued with her, pointing out that Indian girls of Juanita's generation no longer live the hardworking, outdoor lives of their grandmothers which made for small babies, easy deliveries. Just after dawn Grandmother Annie gave in. The physicians promptly sliced open Juanita's womb, delivered her of a healthy 9 ½lb. boy. Physicians thought that Juanita was probably the youngest woman ever to undergo a caesarean section. But they could not claim that she was the youngest woman ever...
...Mencken is now enjoying a vacation cruise about Europe. On his return to the United States early in April he will publish his new book "Treatise on Right and Worng". This is a study of man's moral and ethical ideas since the dawn of history. No part of it has heretofore been published in magazines or newspapers...