And in this opinion I heartily concur. NOTE—The killed and wounded in the two days’ Battle of Shiloh numbered nearly twenty thousand Federals and Confederates, or about thirty per cent of the entire number engaged. These figures become the more significant when it is remembered that a very large proportion of the troops engaged on both sides were absolutely raw and were at Shiloh in their first baptism of fire. These losses again become most significant when compared with the losses in the world’s most noted battles. Waterloo is considered one of the most desperate and bloody fields chronicled in European history, and yet Wellington’s casualties were less than twelve per cent. In the great battles of Marengo and Austerlitz, sanguinary as they were, Napoleon lost less than fifteen per cent, while at Shiloh, Americans fighting against Americans, the killed and wounded numbered more than twice the casualties of the Duke of Wellington’s Army at Waterloo. SATAN FISHING Ole Satan went a fishin’ when de Lawd he fus’ made man, En all de fish dat cum his way he never fail to lan’. He had all diff’unt kind er bait to suit dey appetite, En all de patience in de worl’ to wait fer dem to bite; He cotch Eve wid a apple, en ole Adam wid de core, Changed his bait en went on fishin’, en he kep’ a-ketchin’ more; De sinners breed tremendous fas’ en cum a-swimmin’ by, He drap de hook, dey dive en bite, he lan’ ’um high en dry. En he sets dar still a-fishin’, wid a wicked, sinful look, En des to hoodoo niggers, he hangs chickens on his hook, Er a great, big watermelon, er a white man’s ’tater hill, Er sump’n des ez certain ter be swallered pas’ de gill. So mo’ners, turn yo’ haids away, keep lookin’ to de right, Ef yo’ never fools aroun’ de bait you’ll never want to bite; Turn f’um de things dat tempt de flesh en watch out fer yo’ souls En yo’ won’t be ’mungst de suckers dat he fries upon de coals! _W. M. Goodman._ AMERICANS AT THE PEACE CONGRESS By Hayne Davis Secretary of the American Delegation