been drafted enters to obtain a substitute, and is ushered by the man in charge to a group of ragged wrecks of humanity.

VIII.

MAKING CLOTHES FOR THE BOYS IN THE ARMY

A touching scene in a Southern home. The aged mother is at the flax wheel, spinning the flax into thread; one of the daughters is at the loom, weaving the thread into cloth; while the other daughter is making of the cloth, garments for the sons and brothers in the army.

IX. SLAVES CONCEALING THEIR MASTER

FROM A SEARCH PARTY

The master stands behind the open kitchen door, cocked pistol in hand, while the slave-woman directs the armed and mounted party before the door down the road. A young negro boy sits at the hearth, holding a skillet, and endeavoring to reassure a badly frightened younger brother.

X.

RETURN OF A RAIDING PARTY FROM PENNSYLVANIA

A very pretty study of animal life. The officers, mounted, are directing the soldiers, who are driving the herds of cattle and swine which they have confiscated in the rich farming country of southern Pennsylvania. The white-topped baggage wagons are rolling along filled with forage.

XI. VALIANT MEN 'DAT FITE MIT SIGEL.'

This ironical title calls to mind a picture which can be imagined. The soldiers are plundering and burning a home, while the mistress of the house, but half clad, is on her knees before an officer begging that her house may be spared.

XII. TRACKS OF THE ARMIES

The husband returns to what once had been his home, to find

the house demolished and the dead body of his wife among the ruins. The cradle is overturned and the child is gone. A vulture sits by the chimney, eager to descend on the dead. The griefstricken man clasps his hand to his forehead, and staggers in amid the desolation. The leaf of an open book which lies on the floor says, 'By their deeds ye shall know them.'

XIII. FORMATION OF GUERILLA BANDS

One of the band is approaching an armed man who stands by the side of his wife and child, and is persuading him to join them.

XIV.

JAYHAWKERS

A gang of marauders are galloping through a hamlet, burning and murdering as they go. The leader has swung over his saddle in front of him a young girl whom he is carrying off. A man is aiming his gun at two women who are fleeing across the field.

XV. STONE BLOCKADE OFF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA The entrance to the harbor is filled up with the hulls of dismantled ships which have been loaded down with stone and sunk in the channel to impede the progress of the hostile fleet.*

XVI. FREE NEGROES IN THE NORTH

Life among the slums of a northern city is shown. A negro beggar is given instead of an alms, a tract on slavery from the fingers of a high-bred well-dressed man. A physician is bargaining with two negroes for the purchase of a dead body for dissection.

XVII. CAVE LIFE IN VICKSBURG DURING THE SIEGE

A mournful and pathetic picture of a Southern lady kneeling in prayer in the underground cave room which has been furnished *This is rather ambiguous. The ships were sunk by the Government, to prevent either blockade-runners getting in, or hostile vessels coming out.-[ED.]