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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1915)
HOaiE AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION . -., Soldier An A--" His Waterloo. m,nin WHITE. .,. otnnncd In front of Jcp TSSs farmliouso in Owl IS ? township, andnwll Swung man got out. Seated dre5Scl , tifltcd ngalnst the ln hoarding was an old man 7ou2 SS was Jcp, tho head of '"tSJdornlng," saluted tho well dressed young mail. wUhout jrnVasa'varmday. nndho taMr. Hathaway?" .TmPbaston Gnbrlnldl, representing I -Vinn History Company of Chi- We ai now compiling a his e,gr vmit county. I was told you t07 SLn a so 1 "r In that terrible ui '5 between tho Stalea." 'ISKoSoots Bonnle.IwnB thei" answered tho old man. with s0?.dnel!tCrTlicn you would mako a S?d subject for our history. Wo ?'?. ?0 Drint biographical sketches tf Sthe prominent citizens of this of ..V. men who liavo really dono ""Jrti'ln? worth while-soldiers, luwien8, preachers and tho like. Voul I you object to my taking a ? . nnte i of jour war experience?" fh Scent laid hlB straw hat on ftfSrchftookn chair nnd pulled 01i'sneyeCsbEllttered. If lh.ro wy J thing -on earth ho liked to talk IbMtltwM tho war. Ho went In JStmi brought out papers showing rt. ampalgns ho had boon ln, lis onoaSodlBchargo and Indorsements from his commander. Tho roprcBont- ?.. 1, hn firaftim Company wns i, ihtllv Interested. Ho took many Je 5J 8 explained all about tho Me battles Shlloli. M 1 s h I o n n r y rm the Slego of Vlcksburg. tho h o tho Sen. Ho pulled his cbalr up dose to the sweating hls or Ian and bored Into his breast with hU long forefinger to cmplmslzo his .tit ments. Tho march, tho charge the fierce hand-to-hnnd encounter over the breastworks .Icp left noth inlout. Never since tho war had ho ran across a person who would listen to him while ho told tho wholo story, led he couldn't let tho opportunity to by. This stranger was n man of eiccflenco and Intelligence Any body could see that. Tho reason tho people about Owl Creek didn't appro date tho story of Jep's campaign was because It was beyond their groveling minds. Ho understood It now. At no tlmo did tho visitor show tho tllthtest sign of wenrlncsrt or of bo Ins bored. Jcp wns ticked to death. But he finally ran down, and tho caller wrote out a llttlo blank and handed It to him. Jcp put on his tpectacles. , , "What's this?" ho asked. "That Is merely an order authoriz ing mo to print your war history and for a copy of tho book," replied tho historian. "Sign on that spaco, please." Jcp picked up tho pencil, nnd wns about to do as directed when n tall toman appeared In tho doorway. Her ilecTCS wcro roucu up, ami uu mm trldcntly been engaged on somo strenuous work. Sho must hnvo weighed somo 100 pounds moro than the hero of Vlckiburg. "Jep," sho demanded, "don't you Up no paper wrltln'." "Why, ma," said Jcp In n concili atory tone; "this don't hurt nothln'. It merely certifies that what I told Mm Is facts." The woman turned to tho histo rian. "If he signs that paper," sho sharp ly asked, "how much does ho ngrco to pay?" , . "Why cr this is merely n llttlo matter of form" "How ranch docs ho agree to pay? the Insisted. "Only 11G," replied tho book man. "Then ho don't sign!" and with a significant look at her husband tho woman went back to her work In tho kitchen. When sho had disappeared, tho historian again presented tho llttlo Hank to Jep. "Sign there," ho said Ingrallat ksiy. "No I I guess I'd better not," faltered tho old man. "Ma Ecems to be asln It." "What!" exclaimed tho maker of tinted monuments, without trying to hide his contempt, "you n soldlor, a. man who charged on Vlcksburg, who held tho enemy at bay at Shlloh nl ho marched with Sherman to the sea, and you afraid?" 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