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A Noble
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A Story For Memo­
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By f, A MITCIEL
Copyright. IM. by Assorlosa Proso
NB «veiling before Memorial
day i remnant of a Grand
Arm/ poet, a tew old fellow«
whose hair and bearda were
white as enow, had got together to
confer upon the Borrow'» decoration
of the graves of their comrades who
bad gone before them to the eternal
camping ground» Haring perfected
their arrangement», the/ felt to »wap
ping yarns about eplsodM that bad oe-
curred half a century before They
bad told their stories many a time, bat
each listened to the ether with much
of the original Interest and a respect
that had grown with years. This la
one of the stories that were told:
Along about '«S—or waa it '«81—mqy-
be It was «4 (my memory about those
days Is getting mixed). I commanded
General B a headquarters escort, we
being encamped Just back of the tents
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had been corralled and found tbe picket
Hue stretched around tbe group I ex­
amined ad ibe men critically, but
could learn notlunu from any Of them
Comoilenni: I tun || w ould no no uaa
to •iiieatiou (be women. I concluded to
adopt tbe geueml'a xuggesdou I atood
the meu in tine, ordered tbe aergeant
to draw- in ma commit ud and aaaemble
them tor a bring -quad
Wben the
(wo line» faced each otber I told tbe
citizen* thui it they dido t give up tbe
man wbo uad been ebawed In among
them I would sboot every one or tbem
Of course I only did It to effect my
pdrpuee. for I bad do orders to carry
out the threat aod wouldn't have been
ao Inhuman as to do so If I bed
■ They all turned white, but not a man
' spoke I gave tbe word to tbe squad
to aim. and yet oo one fllocbed. I was
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a window aasb In one of the bouooe
; went up and a man pat bis bead out
D elivery E veryw h ere
Phone, W h ite 2 6
j of tbe window
“Don't shoot, cap’a." be said “I’m
your man."
j Delighted at tbe result of my ex
j l>edlent. I turned my firing squad over
' to tbe aergeaut and aent tbe two men
I had brought with me to arrest tbe
man who bad confessed. He proved
to lie very youug- scarcely eighteen I
scanned hi* face with a view to dis­
cover If be were tbe feilow wbo bad
driven tbe cow but saw no resem
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* hiance. though I did uot consider this
of importance, for be bad probably
la the Place where the Transients get their Money’s worth
been made up for every character be
nud played.
F irst Claaa M eela S e t in F am ily S ty le fo r 25c.
I searched ntm. but. finding no pa
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pern directed tbe men to search every
bouse In tbe plate I was not sur
prised that (bey found nothing, for
there bad been plenty of dme to barn
any pajier* ne might have carried.
W ILL E. P l ’RDY C O M P A N Y , Prop*.
Nirt finding any documentary evidence.
I l<>ok biro to headquarters.
lie waa tbe pluckleut young fellow
I ever sew
Tbe general questioned
him and crus* questioned him. bat
could get ootbldg oat of blm Asked
if be wh » tbe man wbo drove tbe cow.
be said No He also denied that be
was tbe man in Federal uniform who
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bad eluded tbe provost guard Ail be
I am glad to say that tbe people everywhere believe in me and
would admit was that be was tbe man
have been my firm friends every since I started in business. I
who had neen ebaaed by tbe pickets
suggest that you visit my store fo r all kinds o f Drugs, Medicines
out of tbe wood and into tbe village.
and Chemicals; Perfumes, School books and Stationery; L iggett’a
and Lowney’a fancy candies and in fa c t every thing carried by an
Well, the case was reported to gen
up-to-date Diug Store. Don’t fo rg et the Rexall One, everything
oral headquarters with tbe expectation
guaranteed. Tmake prescription work a specialty.
that we would be ordered to send
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tbe spy there No such order came
No general like* banging a spy. and
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rank. We were ordered to try tbe
youngster by drumhead court martial
and bang him at once He was con
victed and sentenced to be banged tbe
next morning at sunrise
Thai night the boy weakened end
withdrew bis confession. He said that
before I arrived oh tbe groand the*
reel fugitive bed gone Into a boose,
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dressed himself aa a woman and. com­
ing ont with a bucket, started to a
spring for water He passed one of
tbe guard, wbo failed to stop him. and
never returned
No one believed this story told by a
man ss s last resort to save his life,
and preparation* were made for the
execution next morning About mid
night a telegram came from general
hendquarter* countermanding tbe or
der for tbe spy’s execution We were
farther Informed that a man dreesed
In woman's clothing had applied for a
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John M- Seott, General Passenger Agent
Portland, Oregen
n was so stum p rr was iktohuli to
oar ajctthdio out or in t
of tbs general and bis staff One morn
ing an officer of a picket poet sent to
headquarters a country bumpkin who
bad driven his cow right up to otfr
line The general asked him why be
bucked up against an army with no
better support than a cow. and be said
be bad bed bis row in pasture down
below end didn't know our men were
there He was questioned about the
Confederate forces In the region from
whence be had coma bat be was so
stupid that It waa Impossible to get
anything out of him. As to numbers.
It was always “a beep o' borne sogers."
or “right smart o’ cannons." or “a bull
regiment o walkin' men." Tbs general
soon gave over questioning him and
Issued orders that be be permitted to
drive bis cow on homeward.
Two or three days later, while talk
Ing with one of the elds, be told me
that a circular order had been sent out
from general headquarters tor sll com
manders to look out for a spy wbo bad
first appeared driving a cow. pretend
Ing to have got confused without the
picket Una A tew hours later a man in
Federal uniform bad been picked ap
by tbe provost guard for being absent
from bis command without a pasa
While Inquiries were being made about
him be bad given the guard tbe allp
and had disappeared. At our head­
quarters we wondered if the country
man we had passed and this straggler
were not one and the same man.
While we were talking about it a
telegram cam» In from the left of our
command stating that a man wbo was
trying to steal tbroagb our picket line
to go south bad been fired on. but bad
disappeared tn a wood thick with tan­
gled undergrowth The officer of tbe
post sent a sergeant with twelve men
Into tbe wood, wbo deployed to cover
tbe ground and swept ont every live
thing there. A man waa seen run­
ning to a email village, or, rather, a
clump of bouses, half a mile distant
and before be could be captured bad
disappeared among a group of a few
men. more women and a lot of chll
dren. When our men got there they
couldn’t tell wblcb of tbe men they
bad chased Tbe sergeant sent a pri­
vate to report tbe matter to tbe offi­
cer of the picket poet while tbe others
surrounded the people so that none of
thgm should get away. The officer re­
ported the situation to the general, and
the general sent for ma
After going over all this that I’ve
been telling you tbe general told me
to go over with part of the escort and
axerdae my Ingenuity to discover the
man who had tried to steal through
the picket line. “A spy." be said, "has
undoubtedly been moving about our
camp# collecting information and la
trying to get south with It I rely on
yon to find out which one of these peo­
ple is tbe man we want They are all
probably devoted to tbe Confederate
cause and will use every effort to con­
ceal his Identity I would suggest that
you threaten to «boot every one of
them unless they give up the spy "
Taking a couple of man. I rods over
to tbe place where the supposed spy
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pans to go through the line« south
ward Having * very coarse voice, he
wa* suapected. searched and full In
formation found upon him concerning
the strength, equipment etc., of our
turps d'arniee He was to be executed
at ooce and bad confirmed tbe story
of tbe young mao now tn our bands
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pier man than our general at tbe out­
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prisoner and. taking blm by the band,
called blm a noble fellow Then, put
ting bis own hand In bis pocket, be
took out tbe principal part of hla last
pay and gav* It to blm
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that young man. I learned that be bad
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