6 - â 9 ~ / 9/X CLOVERDALE VOL. T. CLOVERDALE. T ILLAM O O K COUNTY. OREGON. JUNE 21, 1912. shelter But bad luck would have lt*- a bird settled ou one of ihe branches and begun to twitter and chirp. Jim wanted to ring the little tiling’s neck. The bird kept on twitterin', ami pres ently the girl looked up When she saw Jim she gave a shriek and would A Stcrv For Memorial Day have run into tlie house tf she hadn't been paralyzed with fear. Jim dropped By ARCHIBALD DECKER down in front of her She gave him one look and went into a dead falm " I must put a ting ou Jim Trevor's Jim couldn't blame her, for lie wua the grave.” said a civil war veteran ou measliest lookin' cub in Georgia Memorial day when half a dozen gray “ When she came to herself the beards were decorating the graves of found Jim on his knees before her their fallen comrades. “Jim and 1 en­ lookin' like a scarecrow, and she falat listed on the same day and weut i ed again. When she got over that s^e through the fracas in the same regi­ began to realize that the scarecrojv ment. Jim was a good soldier, a good hadn’t hurt her. and she got used to lookin' at him. fellow and a pet of the petticoats. He “ ’ You ought not to he so shocked at was captured at the battle of Chicka- me st*eln' you told the gentleman that ninttgn and taken into Georgia, where before vou'd marry a Confederate he was kept until we advanced with you'd take up with the worst lookln Sherman's army to Atlanta About Yank In the Federal army "Jim had a funny way with him. the time we were passing his way ne managed to escape and joined us. 1 and when he said this the girl couldn't She asked him where remember well when he came into help laughin' he had come from, and Jim told her camp dressed up tit to kill. “ ‘ Hello, Jim.’ I said. ‘ I thought you all about himself. Then she took him to the house, hut she must have been was dead.’ “ ’No: I got taken in by the Johnnies. still uncertain about him. for she wait­ I’ || tell you bow it was.' said he. and ed for him to go fust. Jim was mighty polite about it. for his shirt tail was he did. “ When lie got away, which he did bj bangin'out of the sent of his britches— burrowin' under a wall, he was a that is. the ¡dace where the seat ought mighty sick lookin' chap. His clothes to have been. But the girl wouldn’t was tattered and torn, and a good deal give In. nnd Jim had to go fust, walk of the dirt that he'd crawled through In' as If he knew what he was show- was tickin' ti *lm. Hr was co'vred in'. : nd every row a i.i * H; it t.o Uear.1* with lice, and his hair hadn't been a giggle. “ Jim was given a bath, a fine tooth combed since he was captured in the mornln' he found himself in a wood comb, a suit of the girl's brother's along oue side o' which was a wall and clothes and a bang up meal. When on tlie other side o f the wall was a he came downstairs nil done up fine plantation, or. rather, the garden ad­ the girl looked at him with her eyes joinin' the plantation house. Jim was wide open and asked him if be was so hungry that he was ready to risk sure he was the scarecrow that had most anything to get his teeth ou a dropped down before her tn the gar Jim said he didn't think he huuk' o' corn pone or somepln like ding. that, so tie Jumped the wall and was was—that feller must a flown out the milkin' across the garden for the nig­ winder “ Well. Jim was treated tine, sleepin ger ipiarters when a side door of the house opened and a young girl and a in a downy bed and given the best Confederate otiicer stepped out Jim there was in the house to eat till we darted up a free which he happened passed the plantation, when he came sailin' in. lookin' as if he was the gov­ to be near "The couple came saunterin’ along, ernor of the state." "Did he marry the girl?" the man talkin' for all be was wo'tli “ No. Though she wns really n Un­ about somepin. (lie girl listenin'. When they get under the tree where Jim was ion girl, she was playin' the Confeder Jim went hidin' they sal down on a bench ate she'd turned down The feller was »inkin' love to the girl back to Georgia after the war and on tlie gallop He said he d ridden found her married to him. Give me over from camp to ask her to marry that flag and sonir flowers." him for the last time, for General Slier Causa F o r a R a b a t«. man was coinin' and his command had A colore«! undertaker wua re R E L 'I A B L . E ” I I l A MOOK COUN t v ,„BANK jl . T- I L L A M O O K , O P E ^ » y