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~--------------- 0. R. & N. CO. E. McNEILL, Receiver. TO THE GIVES THE CHOK E OF TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL ROUTES D HD Bl m n. ÇOPYRldHTtO 1894 BY AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION. ay txeorge, but you don’t tell me I you are a rebel!” exclaimed the aston ished and bewildered cavalryman. “I don’t know yet whether I am or ' not,” replied Kenton. ‘‘I’m a Virgin VIA VIA ian and in the Confederate army, and DENVER whether we are rebels or patriots is a SPOKANE question I haven't settled. Keep to the OMAHA left.” Minneapolis AND AND ‘‘And you may be the very rebel scout hoping to capture!” ST. PAUL KANSAS CY we “ were You are pretty near right about that. Keeprighton—I’m coming! Now LOW RATES.TO ALL halt and keep your hands still up!” EASTERN CITIES. “ What are you going to do with me?” asked the man as he was disarmed and OCEAN STEAMERS permitted to face about. Leave Portland Every 0 Days “How far is it to the nearest Confed • • F-OR • • erate outpost?” “About two miles down this road.” "How many videttes between us and the post?” “Three or four. You are not going For bill detail* coll on to kill me out here in cold blood?” C. A. WALLACE, McMinnville, Or. “You may rest easy on that score,” Or Address replied Kenton. “A year hence war W. Il III «LBI HT, will mean devastation, destruction, Gen. Pass. Agt. murder and assassination, but men’s POHTI.4>D, OH. hearts are not brutalized yet. I must the Confederate outpost, but I EAST AND SOUTH reach can’t do it by the road.” VIA “I don’t think you could fool all the others as you did me, ” said the cavalry man, with a sickly smile. “The question is what to do with you? OF THE If I set you at liberty, you’ll raise an alarm.” “Guess I would—in fact, I know 1 would.” Express Trains Leave Portland Daily “And I have nothing to tie you up with until I can get safely away.” LEAVE ARRIVE “That’s so. You remind me of the Portland.......... 8:50 P M | San Francisco..10:45 A M Ban Francisco.&oo P M I Portland............ 8:10 AM chap who caught the bear and dasn’t let go.” Above trains stop at East Portland, Oregon City, “I must take you along with me to Woodburn, Salem. Turner, Marion. Jefferson, Albany,Albanyjiinctlon.Tangent,Sbedds, Halsey, the Confederate outpost. We shall cut Harrisburg. Junction City, Irving, Eugeue, Cres across the fields and woods to reach it. well, Drains and all stations from Roseburg to Ashland Inclusive. You go ahead, and I will follow. It is Roseburg Mail Daily. needless”----- LEAVE: ARRIVE: 'Tm no fool!” bluntly interrupted Portland......... 8:90 AM | Roseburg... 5.20 PM Roseburg........ 8:00 A M I Portland..........4.40 PM the Federal. “When I’m down and the other feller has got his thumbs in my Salem Passenger Dally. eye and my nose in his jaws, I know LEAVE ARRIVE Portland............ 400P M I Salem.............8:15 P M enough to cave. You won't have to Salem............... 8.00 A M | Portland .10:15 A M shoot me, and I want to ask a favor of you.” “Well?” DINING CARS ON OGDEN ROUTE. “Don’t walk me in a prisoner.” "I’ll see about that. Let’s go on.” PULLMHN * BUFFET They struck through the woods, cross SLEEPERS ed an old field, skirted a meadow and ANO entered another piece of woods. As they SECOND CLASS SLEEPING CARS, were traversing this they came upon a negro cutting firewood, and he informed Attached to all Through Trains. them that the Confederate outpost was ;West Side Division. BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CORVALLIS only 20 rods below them on the high Mail Train Daily, (Except Sunday.) way. “At this stage of the game one pris 7:3d A M I Lv Portland Ar | 6:20 P M 10:15 A M I Lv McMinnville Lv I 3:40 P M oner more or less is of no earthly con 1&15 P M | Ar_____ Corvallis Lv I 1:35 P M sequence,” said Kenton as he looked at the cavalryman. “I’m going to let you At Albany and Corvallis connect with return.” trains of Or. Central & Eastern Ry. “Andl’veconcludedto be taken pris Express Train Daily, (Except Sunday.) oner and sent to Richmond, ” replied the Ar 8 : 25 A M man. 4:45 FM Lv Portland Lv A5S A N 7:1» P M Lv St. Joseph “For what reason?” Lv 5 50 A M McMinnville 7:2» P M Ar "Plain as a pumpkin on a gatepost. Through Tickets to all points in Eastern If I go back without my arms, what States. Canada and Europe can be obtained at can I say? I’d just have to admit that lowest rates from G. A Wilcox. Agent, McMinn a Johnny reb came along and played ville. E. P. ROGERS, Asst. O. F. <S P. A., Portland, Or. me for a sucker and got the best of me. R. KOEHLER. Manager. That would mean ridicule and disgrace forever. If I don’t go back until ex changed as a prisoner, I’ll be all right. sort o’ give out that I was tackled LOCAL DIRECTORY. I by ’ll about six of you, you know.” “1 am Sony that I was obliged to de CHURCHES B aptist —Services Sunday 11 a. m. and ceive you to save myself,” said Kenton ?:30p. m ; Sunday school 9:50 a m.; the after a moment of thought, “and there young people’s society 6:15 p tu Prayer is no need to disgrace you. Here are meeting Thursday 7 :30 p. m. Covenant your weapons, and you are free to re meeting first Sat each month 2:00 p. m. turn to your post. The war has not fair E. B. P ack , Pastor. ly begun yet. There will be hate and M ethodist E piscopav —Services every bitterness and rancor after awhile, and Sabbath 11:00 a. tn. and 7:30 p. nt. Sunday school 9:30 a m. Prayer meeting 7:00 p there will be few opportunities to extend courtesies.” tu. Thursday. J ohn B betts , Pastor. “Say, Johnny, that’s a square deal!” C um b . P rksbyterian — Services every Sab bath 11:00 a in and 7:3C p. m. Sunday joyfully exclaimed the Federal as he school 9:30 a. nt. Y. P. C. E.. Sunday 6:30 received his weapons, “and I want to p. m. Prayer meeting Thursday, 7:30 p. ni. shake hands with you! Put it there! E E. T hompson , Pastor. Can’t tell but what we may meet again C hristian —Preaching at 11 a. m. and at 7 30 p. nt on the first and third Sundays ; before this row is over, and if we do I on the second and fourth Sundays at 7:30 hope it’ll come my way to do the fair until further notice At Carlton on sec thing. So long to you!” ond und fourth Sundays at 11 a. ni., and Kenton watched him out of sight and Saturday evening before at 7:30. At No. 8 at 3 p. nt on second and fourth Sundays. then walked down to the highway to find himself at the post of a vidette. He J ames C ampbell , V. D. >L. Pastor S t . J ames E piscopal C hurch —Lay-Ser was directed back to the reserve, his vices every Sunday at 11 o’clock a. in. pasB examined, and he was then within S t . J ames C atholic —First st., between the Confederate lines and ready to push O and H. Sunday school 2:30 p. in. Ves on to Manassas and Jackson’s head pers 7:30. Services once a month. quarters. When his information had T. B riody , Pastor. been laid before the stern faced man, whose title of “professor” bad been SECRET ORDERS. K nowles C hapter N o , 12, O. E. S.—Meets a changed to that of “general” within a Muonic hall the tirst and third Mouday evening few brief months, he quietly said: In each month. Visiting members cordially in “You have done excellently. My vited h . M c K inney , sec. MRS. C. W. TALMAGE, W. M. command is ordered into the valley. I A. O. V. W —Charity Lodge No. 7 meets first and shall have further need of your services third Fridays of each month, 7:30 p. m. Lodge in this line, but you may return to your room in Union block. II. C. BURNS, M. W. company at present.” SAN è- FRANCISCO The Shasta Route SŒHPMbfflWÏ J. D. BAKER, Becorder. 10 Yamhill Lodge So. 10 D. of H. meets in Union ball second and fourth Friday evenings of each month. C uster P ost N o . 9—Meets the second and fourth Saturday of each month in Union hall at 7:30 p m. on second Saturday and at 10:30 a. m. on 4th Saturday. All members of the order are cordially Invited to attend our meetings. J. B. S tilwell , Commander. B. F. C lubink , Adjt. W. C T. U.—Meets on every Fri day at 3 p. tu. in reading room, Union block C lara G. Es. son , Pres. J ennie G allentise , Sec’y Oregon Central & Eastern R. R. Co. YAQUINA BAY ROUTE Connecting at Y'aquina Bay with the San Francisco and Y'aquina Bay Steam* »hip Company. STEAMSHIP ‘‘FARALLON” A 1, and first-class in every respect. Sails from Yaquina for San Francisco about every eight days. Passenger ac commodations unsurpassed. Shortest route between the Willamette valley and California. Fare from Albany or points west to San F rancisco : Cabin....................................... $12.00 Steerage.................................... 8.00 Cabin, round trip, good 60 days 18.00 For sailing dates apply to, H. L. WALDEN, Agent, Albany, Or. EDWIN STONE, Manager. Corvallis, Or. CHAS. CLARK, Supt,. Corvallis, Or. ARTHUR J. VIAL, M. D. Physician and Surgeon, ROOMS IN UNION BLOCK M c M innville , O regon . ment he forgot his prisoner, and when he had recovered from bis excitement over the discovery he no longer had a prisoner. Kenton had walked off into the darkness and made good his escape. And now as the night drew on apace and the cold rain steadily beat down upon the battlefield parties of men went forth in search of the wounded. They cared not for the dead. At the front there is but little seutiment or sympa thy for the wounded. They are cared for because many of them will recover to fight in some other battle. They were found in the open fields, in the furrows half full of water, in the deeper ditches skirting the forest, among the trees and bushes dripping with the rainfall. Some cried out in the darkness with the broken voices of lost children; others prayed or cursed or wept. And here and there, with their faces buried in the grass or dirt or with faces upturned to the sky of night and eyes half open, were dead men, a thousand or more. The morrow would do for them. The dead of a battlefield ask nothing. The living give them a covering of a few inches of blood soaked soil, and give that grudgingly. “Heun’s yere fur no good, and yo’ kin lay to that!” Ike had whispered from man to man. ‘Jist yo’ fellers keep yo’r eyes open! I’m gwine to do it, and if he un tries to play the traitor I’ll put a bullet straight into his car cass! Mebbe he un kin fule Gineral Jackson, but he un can’t play no Yan kee tricks on me!” As they marched forward on the high way Steve Brayton found opportunity to say: “Look yere, Kenton. Ike’s goin to play yo’ some onery trick if the chance CHAPTER XI. comes, and yo’d better be ready fur him. As before stated, Ike Baxter belonged He un hates yo’ like pizen, and he un’s to the class known at that time and tryin to make all the rest do the same.” still referred to as “poor whites.” “I am aware of that,” replied Ken Through the efforts of his wife he had ton, “but can you tell me the reason managed to hold onto a small farm just for it?” outside of Winchester, left him by his “Reckon thar ar’ several. In the father, but it is doubtful if her argu fust place, yo’ didn’t happen to be bo'n ments would have carried the day had down yere, while Ike Baxter and the any one made a cash offer for the few rest of us critters did. In the second, acres. While Ike always referred to yo’ took the shine out o’ the officers at himself as broken down by hard work, Bull Run. In the third, as nigh as I kin about five days out of every week had make out, thar’s a gal in the case. been spent tramping around the coun Looks to me like Ike had been hired to try with his gun or discussing “ Yan talk agin yo’. At any rate, he’s got the kees” and “niggers” in the village bar boys all stirred np, and yo’d better be rooms with others of his ilk. Accord keerful not to git too fur ahead of the ing to his own line of argument, he was crowd in case we b.ev a fout down yere!” a martyr. Ill luck had always followed “How does it happen that you are him, even to the birth and death of not down on me with the rest?” asked triplets. Kenton. Mrs. Baxter also had a constitutional “Reckon thar ar’several reasons in and ready made grievance. If she had that too. Fustly, yo’ could hev got been allowed to have her way about away to the Yankee army if yo’ had things, she always argued, they would wanted to. Yo’ didn’t, and that’s a long ago have been rich and owned nig purty good sign yo’ un ar’ all right. gers, “Yes, sah, real niggers and mo’ Nextly, yo’ve got pluck, and I like a or fewer $75 mewls.” plucky man. Mo’ nextly, the mo’ men Ike Baxter had also been granted a we hev the less chance of my bein hit furlough, and according to the stories myself. Lastly, I’ve seen Captain Wyle he told after reaching home the battle and Ike Baxter with their hoads together of Bull Run would not have been a vic about yo’, and I’ve heard that both tory without him. When anything was yo’ and the captain was sweet on said about Kenton, he was prompt in the same gal, and I’ve sorter put two replying: and three together and made seven. I’m “Dnrn the Yankee! But we uns has goin to be right alongside o’ yo’ in this got our eyes open now, and he un can't fout, ’cause I like yo’r way o’ fightin, play us no mo’ tricks!” but yo’ jist mind what 1 tell yo’l The He was so outspoken in bis language, bullet which hits yo’ today is liable to and his language was so bitter that come from our side!” Lawyer Williams aud others were given Jackson’s command, numbering not an inkling of the true state of affairs. quite 6,000 men, made a rapid march The lawyer found opportunity to in of 40 miles down the valley to strike a quire of Ike: blow at General Shields’ command of “Didn’t my nephew enlist of his own 8,000. They were waiting for the Con accord, and is there a man in the com federates. Jackson attacked at once. pany who has exhibited more bravery Even while the rear of his marching and won more of a reputation?” column was still two miles away he at “ What did he un rush in and rally at tacked. It was a fierce and bitter fight. Bull Run fur befo’ Duke Wyle could As daylight began to give way to twi git thar?” demanded Ike in reply. “He light on that dismal March afternoon un just wanted to show off and make the guards were ordered to charge a believe. And isn’t he un givin us away battery which was making a portion of to the Yanks all the time? And isn’t he the Confederate line untenable. They un talkin ’bout Gineral Jackson and dashed forward to be met by a volley holdin his head above ns? And if he un which killed or wounded a dozen men, gits the chance won’t he un give up our and a sw’ift move on the part of a Fed hull army to Gineral McClellan? Oh, eral regiment resulted in the capture of wc uns has our eyes open fur him!” nearly one-half of the others. An hour Mrs. Baxter had got the idea from later Jackson was retreating. He had Ike’s letters home that he had not only been defeated. won a crown of fame under fire, but Ike Baxter was among the wounded. was holding the whole Federal army in With others he was taken to the field check. She conld read and write, but hospital to be cared for, while the un very poorly. She had picked up most of wounded were marched to the rear and her information and all her military placed under guard. Ike had been hit terms from others scarcely less ignorant. in the shoulder. While bis hurt was When Ike appeared in sight down the being dressed he said to the surgeon: road, she ran to meet him and welcomed “If a Yankee deserts to our side and him with: fights agin yo’ unt, what happens to he “Hurrah fur Gineral Ike Baxter, who un if yo’ captur’ him?” fit and fit till the Yankees dun run “He’d be shot!” was the blunt reply. away!” “Buts’posin he un also played spy “Don’t yo' un know nothin?” angrily fur our side?” demanded Ike as he came nearer. “He’d be hung instead of shot! Do “Didn’t yo’ un fit and fit?” you know of such a case?” “Of co’sel fit, but yo’ needn’t gab it “Reckon I do, and I feel it my docty to tell yo’ about him. Jist tell yo’r all over Virginny and make other folks gineral to inqnar among the prisoners jealous!” fur a man named Kenton—Royal Ken “ Whar’s yo’r stripes?” she asked. ton. He un’s a Yankee deserter and a “What stripes?” spy fnr Gineral Jackson!” “On yo’r arms—yo’r gineral stripes?’ ’ “But why do you tell of it?” queried “I hain’t no gineral!” the surgeon. “Yo’ hain’t? Why, I thought yo’ “ ’Cause it ain’t a fair deal.” was boss of the hull army! What’s the Half an hour later Kenton was taken matter yo’ hain’t no gineral?’’ before General Shields under the charge “What’s the matter yo’ hain’t got no made by Baxter. The latter had over sense in yo’r head?” reached himself. Had only the two “But yo’ un’s a corporal!” been captured it would have been a dif “No.” ferent matter, but there were 20 of the “A major?” guards who gave testimony in favor of “No.” Kenton, though it came from mest of “A leftenant?” them grudgingly. A search of his per “No.” son brought to light a pass from Gen “Hain’t yo’ un nothin but jest com eral Jackson in which he was mentioned mon folks?” she persisted. as a scout. “No.” “While you are cleared of the “Didn’t I alius say yo’ un had no charge, ” said the general after a long speerit about yo’, and that’s why we examination, “how does it come about was alius pore and low down?” she that you, a northern man, are found in bitterly exclaimed as they passed into the Confederate ranks?” the house. “Ike Baxter, yo’ hain’t “I enlisted in the cause of Virginia, shucks! You un’s low down, and yo’ my adopted state,” was the reply. like to stay right thar! Everybody else “But the cause of Virginia was and is comin home with gineral’s and cor is unjust. She is guilty of treason. poral’s and major’s stripes on thar Every one of you under arms is a traitor sleeves, but yo’ has dun let ’em walk yo’ to the government. The principle is so inter the mud and hain’t got no speerit CHAPTER X. plain chat no one need doubt.” to resent it! If I'd gone down thar, I’d No part of the south witnessed so “But there are doubts, sir. A large ’a’ come back as big as anybody! I’ve much of the wreck and misery of war dun told everybody yo’ un was a gin as the Shenandoah valley. Its high proportion of the northern people are eral, and now—now yo’s only jest com ways, fields and forests, its houses, barns doubtful, and some of the most influen mon!” and sheds, its every breeze by day and tial of the northern papers contend for Mrs. Baxter sat down and wept and night for three long years, echoed the the right of secession.” used her apron for a handkerchief. Ike The general could not gainsay that. fierce shouts of contestants and the had expected just such a reception, and groans of wounded men. Nature made The government was rushing troops he had a plan to develop at the proper into the field, and battles were being it a garden. War converted it into a fought, but the principle was etill being time. While she continued to weep he vast graveyard. helped himself to a bite to eat from the The Federate had begun their march discussed, and men eminent as jurists, cupboard and maintained silence. up the valley from Harper’s Ferry. statesmen and journalists were still di “And why didn’t they make a gin Jackson was ordered over to bar the vided. Kenton was dismissed to be re eral of yo’?” asked Mrs. Baxter after turned to his fellow prisoners. Only way. Historians may write with prej about 10 minutes. udice and politicians speak in bitter one guard accompanied him. “If yo’ un dun had any sense in yo’ Half way between headquarters and ness. Let us be fair and conscientious. the spot where the prisoners were be head, I could tell yo’,” he sullenly re even if we cannot be neutral. Jack ing held under guard they encoun plied. “Sense! Sense! If I hain’t got sense, son’s fiist battle was on the broad fields tered two men bringing in a wounded of Kernstown. All historians who have man on a stretcher. The victim proved who has? If it hadn’t bin fur my sense, written for the future have pronounced to bo th« guard’s brother. For a mo- we uns would hav bin right down to him a wonderful man in the science of tater skins y’ars ago! It's my sense that has kept U6 outer the porehouse and let war. Before his command was fairly in □s hold our heads up with the best of the valley Royal Kenton and others ’em! Leastwise I’ve alius held my were far ahead, scouting for informa head up, even if yo’ hain’t!” tion. Their reports decided Jackson on “It’s this way,” said Ike as he con moving swiftly up and attacking the tinued to eat and reflect. “It’s cor Federate as they reached Kernstown. poral, sergeant, orderly sergeant, Jeften- He was beaten back and fairly routed, ant, captain, major, kurnel and gin but that was to be the first and only eral. Takes a heap o’ time to git up time. thar! Everybody has got to begin way As Jackson’s own brigade swept for down.” ward into the fight Kenton was in the •“But yo’s not even a corp—corporal lanks of the Shenandoah guards. On yit!” she exclaimed as one eye filled his right was Steve Brayton, on his left with tears of disappointment. Ike Baxter. He had known but little “And what’s the reason I hain’t? Do Of his company since detailed for scout yo’ un remember that Yankee lawyer duty. He divined that Captain Wyle’s who lived yere—feller named Kenton?” bitterness had intensified, and that the “Seems like I did.” prejudice against him among his com “He un’s to blame. Tried to git us rades had rather increased with his ab all captur’d at Bull Run. Tried to put sence. He had been detailed from his all the officers down. Got in with Gin company, and his return to it as Jack- eral Jackson and talked agin us, par- son ordered an advance and everybody ticklarly me. Reckon he un said a heap knew that a battle would be raging ’bout yo’, too, while heun was at it. If within a couple of hours proved fate it hadn’t bin fur heun, I’d hev had metal in the eyes of all. And yet not stripes on my arms—heaps o’ stripes— over a dozen men in the company had a and yo’d bin proud o’ me. It’s jest he nod or a word for him. Ike Baxter, un un that keeps me down. We all hate he der the tutorship of his master, was car un, but him’s got Gineral Jackson on rying out a plan to drive him out in dis Hoyal Kcn‘on a prisoner. his side,” grace. “The pesky varmint!” she gasped, with uplifted hands. “He un’s all to blame then?” “All to blame.” “Talked about mo to Gineral Jack- son! What could he un say?” “Dunno, but I reckon heun went on ’bout yo’r gwine b'arfut to church and dippin snuff andgaddin ’bout and com- plainin. He un rubbed it in on both o’ us powerful hard, most likely. Befo’ that Gineral Jackson was as good as pie tome, but afterward he un wouldn’t dun notice me ’tall!” "Then—then it’s the Yankee who dun keeps yo’all back?” sheaskedaft- er taking a couple of minutes for reflec tion. “Jest ho un alone,” answered Ike as he finished his snack. “And yo’ all hain’t got spunk nnff to drive he un ont! Ike Baxter, yo’ un alius did dun let folks walk yo’ inter tho mud, but I didn’t reckon it was as bad as this! Fur shame on yo’l” “How’s we all to drive he un when Gineral Jackson is in the way?” asked From 6| acres, J. G. Gray sold to She looked up, but the captain had general excitement scarcely abated. Humphrey & Segar, of Eugene, at 1 The Percys were among the first to disappeared. c?nt per pound. 65,862 pounds of It hear of Jackson’s defeat aud the news CHAPTER XIII. that the Federal army was following alian and silver prunes, which Jackson retreated no farther than him up and would soon be in Winches amounts to $658.62. On this tract ter. They were excited, but not terrified. Strasburg. Shields advanced no farther are yet between "0 and 60 bushels, than Winchester. Prisoners captured "We will remain right here, and we 6hall not be disturbed,” said Marian to ' during the first year of the war were which he will dry. The trees are her mother. “The Federate have not j not held long. Within 30 days from seven years of age, and have been burned towns elsewhere nor made war the battle of Kernstown those members well cultivated. on women and children, and they will of Captain Wyle’s company who had not do so here. We have no cause to be been taken prisoners were exchanged. Last August while working in the har Ike Baxter was among them. afraid.” vest field I became overheated, was sud Neither had they, but circumstances denly attacked with cramps and was which could not be foreseen soon caused nearly dead. Mr. Cummings, the drug a change in the programme. Among Jackson’s troops was the remnant of gist, gave me a dose of Chamberlain’s the Shenandoah guards. All the house Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy servants about the Percy mansion were which completely relieved me. I now colored people and slaves. Like others ; keep a bottle of the remedy bandy.—A. of their color, the general excitement . M. Bunnell, Centerville, Wash. For had made them half crazy. They had | sale by S. Ho worth & Co., druggists. left the house for the street to see aud hear and were ready to catch up and believe tho most absurd tales. There Tho*. F. (lakes, Henry C. I’a.vne, Henry C. were two men and four women. Buck, Rouse, Receiver*. who was a young man of 25, joined a party of the fleeing inhabitants hurry- 1 ing up the valley. Uncle Ben, as he was called, was a man of 50, born and reared in the Percy family, and though sharing to some extent in the general excitement he would not leave his post of duty. He had said to the female servants: “I nebber dun did see no Yankees in 1 all ray life, but I hain’t gwine to be ‘‘Would Ike ride around on a critter and afraid an rnn away. I didn't bring on t/anyle a ewordt’’ dis wah. I hain’t killed nobody. What Two days after the battle Kenton had dera Yankees want to hurt me fur? reported to his company at Strasburg. Miss Marian hain’t skeered. Her mud- It was known that he was captured der hain’t skeered. If dey hain’tskeered, with the others, and his truthful story what yo’ all want to be skeered fur?” of his escape found no believers except The four women were on a street cor Steve Brayton. While the others de ner in a group when Captain Wyle clared that his escape was all arranged passed by and recognized them as be for by his Yankee friends, Steve gave longing to the Percy family. He had him his hand and said: “It’s gettin purty hot fur yo’ around heard from the gossips of the town long ago that Kenton was to carry off the yere, Kenton, ’cordin towhat I see and prize. He had written to Marian with hear. If yo’ could surround and cap considerable fervor and without men tur’ a hull Yankee army and turn it ST. PAUL tioning the news, and she had replied in over to us, the boys would think yo’ un MINNEAPOLIS a very brief aud formal manner. To had some game to play. Reckon yo’ DULUTH revenge himself on a woman was quite know whar it all starts from?” foreign to his nature, but as he saw the ■ “I think I do.” FARGO four servants aud noted their state of ' “Can’t no two fellers love the same 6KAM> FORKS TO alarm he remembered that he and Ike gal without sunthin bustin sooner or CROOKSTON__ Baxter had a plan to carry out. Ten later. I kin jest shet my eyes and see minutes later one of bis company was what the captain is layiu fur. He un’s WINNIPEG achin powerful bad to hev yo’ killed off saying to the colored women: HELLEN A and “The Yankees are only a couple of or driv out or used up in some way. He wouldn ’ t hev minded if half of us had miles away! If you all don’t hurry, BUTTE you will be taken prisoners, and that bin wiped out down thar if yo’d bin means that every one of you will be i one of the dead.” burned at the stake! They shoot down i Two or three days after Jackson reached Strasbuig Captain Wyle had an CHICAGO white folks and burn niggers!” That was sufficient to start them off interview with him. None of his own WASHINGTON to join the fleeing throng. Not one of company knew it, and what passed PHILADELPHIA them returned to the house. Jackson could only be inferred from circum NEW YORK sent out couriers to advise the panic stances which developed later on. It BOSTON AND AI.L stiicken people to return, but hundreds was announced that it had been decided POINTS EAST and SOUTH had gone too far to be overtaken. Among to reorganize the guards as a cavalry For information, time cards, maps or them were the four women. Shields company, and in the course of a week tickets, call on or write entered Winchester without opposition. this change was effected, much to the Within an hour the excitement had sub satisfaction of the men. Just as it was C. H. FLEMING, Agent. MCMINNVILLE. sided. The Yankee soldiers had neither finished Royal Kenton was ordered to horns nor hoofs. No one was molested report to Jackson again. He found the A.D.CHARLTON. Asst.Gen.Pas.Agt. nor made afraid. Where timid women same stern, low spoken, plain looking 255 MORRISON S t .COR 30. requested it guards were placed at their man and received the same quiet greet PORTLAND, OREGON. doors, and instead of the merchants be ing. The general adverted to the brav ing robbed and ruined, as most of them ery of the guards at Kernstown, aud had fully expected, their properties then to Kenton's capture and escape and asked for the details. The latter at were safely cared for. “Didn’t I dun told you all so!” ex once realized that some one who pro claimed Uncle Ben on the street that fessed to know all about it and who was evening as he was out looking for the seeking his injury had reported to the missing servants. “Yankees am jist de general. He, however, proceeded to same folks as anybody. I’ze bin lookin give the particulars not only of bis es at heaps of ’em, an I can’t see no differ cape and his efforts to rejoin his com ence. All dem folks who got skeered mand, but of the charges brought an run’d away was fools! Yankees against him by Ike Baxter and the in hain’t gwine ter hurt nobody onless yo’ terview with General Shields. This por tion of his adventure he had not spoken unbehave yo’self fust!” Captain Wyle knew where to find Ike of to any one on rejoining bis company. Baxter’s wife. She had moved into Jackson seemed to be thinking very se for town two weeks before, leaving the farm riously as Kenton talked. The facts Burns, to take care of itself. That was one of just related no doubt surprised him and the points in the plan presented by Ike perhaps gave a different turn toaffaiis. Caked & Inflamed Udders. and accepted by her. She knew that After awhile be said: “General Banks is pushing up the Jackson had been beaten and was on the Piles, retreat, but she did not know of the valley with a large force. I wish you fate of Ike and many of his comrades. to scout along his front and secure all Rheumatic Pains, Some of those who escaped both death possible information of value. Can you and capture had seen Ike go down, and set out at once?” Bruises and Strains, it was certain he bad fallen into Fed “Within half an hour, sir,” was Running Sores, eral hands. Mrs. Baxter fell to sobbing Kenton’s reply. as she heard the news from the captain, “And do you wish a companion?” Inflammations, but her sorrow did not last long. “I think I can do better alone, but “Drat that Ike fur a fool!” she sud if you think two might do better than Stiff joints, denly exclaimed as grief gave place to one I shall”----- indignation. “Didn't he un promise “Do as you think best, but report to Harness & Saddle Sores, me last thing befo' him went back that the captain of your company that you if him ever got into another fout he un have been detailed.” Sciatica, would scrouch down so the bullets As Kenton left headquarters he felt Lumbago, would fly over him 1 It’s all in him—al that something was wrong. Jnst what ius wantin and hevin bis own way spite it was bo could not determine, but it Scalds, of all I kin do!” seemed as if there were mistrust and “Ike and the others would have been suspicion. He had been thoroughly Blisters, all right if they had not been betrayed, ” loyal in making his previous observa observed the captain. Insect Bites, tions and reports, but an enemy was at “Shoo, that’s what Ike was afraid of! work to discredit him. He was fully All Cattle Ailments, Was it that Yankee agin—that Lawyer satisfied of this as be left camp on hie Kenton?” scout. After reporting to Captain Wyle, All Horse Ailments, The captain nodded his head. who treated him with strict military “Ike hates him. So do I. If heun etiquette, he went to his tent to make All Sheep Ailments, hadn’t stood in Ike’s way, Ike would a few preparations. He had left it and hev bi:i a gineral befo’ this. The onery was making his way out of camp when skunk, to betray his own comrades! If he was overhauled by Steve Brayton, Penetrates Muscle, I could git hands on ho un, I’d kill who said: him! I’ll never rest till I hev his life, Membrane and Tissue “The gineral is sendin yo’ off on an even if Ike lets up!” Yo’ think yo’ ar’ goin Quickly to the Very “Have you seen the—the Percys late other scout? but yo’ hain’t. I’ve follered ly?” asked the captain as Mrs. Baxter alone, along to tell yo’ that the captain has Seat of Pain and got ready for another wave of sorrow. put Reube Parker on yo’r track. Yo’ “Did Ike tell yo'?” she whispered. Ousts it in a Jiffy. know Reube? He hain’t bin abusiu yo’ “Partly.” bis mouth as much as some others, "I’ve bin tryin to do as we planned, with Rub in Vigorously. but couldn’t fetch it. Ike thought as but he’s down on yo’ and playin into the hands of the captain. I tell yo ’ to Mustang Liniment conquers I might get a place in the house, but Pain, they uns hev got too many niggers fuh look out fur him!” Kenton turned white with anger and Makes Han or Beast well that.” again. “All their women have cut and run started to retrace his steps. “No, yo’ don’t,” said Steve as he —not one left. If you should happen to offer your services there now, I think barred the way. “I fust took to yo’ on account of yo’r sense, and I hope you they’d be accepted.” won’t lose it now. Thar’s a game bein “Shoo, nigger women all gone?” played, and yo' wanter come out on “I know it for a fact.” “I’ll go over thar this very hour!” top!” “Is it possible that after what has said Mrs. Baxter as 6he reached for het TAVERN OF sunbonnet. “Capting, was Ike right passed they still continue to look upon when he said this yere Yankee stood in me as a traitor?’’ demanded Kenton in a voice broken with emotion. his way?” “They do, but it’s fur an object, yo' “Yes, he waj.” “Was he right when he said if we see,” replied Steve. "It’s all on ac Opens June 1,1895 uns could get the Percy gal to hate him count of the gal. If thar was no gal, yo’d be the first lieutenant or mebbe he would bother nobody no mo’?” Geo. Schonewald, Manager. captain of the company today. If thar “Yes.” was a gal and no war, yo ’ and Wyle “If the Yankee was shot or killed or sunthin, would Ike ride around on a would hev fit a duel over her befo' this. Luxury, Good Cheer, Hospitality, One would hev challenged t’other.” critter and dangle a sword?” llelightful and Healthful Pastimes, “ But, but ” — stammered Kenton, “It’s quite likely. What plan have Matchless Mountain Scenery. boiling over to say something and yot you got?” “Jest leave that to me! Mebbe I not wishing to drag Marian Percy’s haven’t got any, and mebbe I’ve got a name into the case. SWEET BRIER CAMP. “It’s jest this way,” interrupted heap of ’em!” Established last year in a romantic dell “Here is what you are to remem Steve: “Yo’ un’s got the inside track, of the Sacramento (Janyon, jm*t below and in full view of grand old Shasta It was ber,” he said as he rose up to go. “If and thar’s but one way to keep it—play a great bit, and promises even more en to win. Beat the captain at his own couraging rcbults for the present year. it hadn’t been for Kenton, not a man in game. Go right along about yo’r biz- T. J. L ofti s , at Cantella, is »till in charge and will answer all inquiries. our company would have been killed or ness, but keep an eye out fur Reube. captured.” A new candidate for public favor thi* He’s put on yo’r track to sell yo’ out, year is “And what becum of he un?” “Oh, he was captured, too, but of and he’ll do bis purtiest to please the SHASTA VICINOCAMP course that was all a trick. However, captain.” Also in the Shasta region,about a mile and a half from Dummuir It is a genuine It was true that Banks was moving I don’t want you to say anything as paraoise for hunters, fishers and seeker* coming from me. You needn’t even up the valley. He had an army five of health and pleasure. Easy to reach (near the railroad), sightly, and all the times as strong as Jackson’s, and he say you have seen me.” necessities of camp life easily procurable. “I understand. Ike said yo’was after meant to annihilate the latter before All inquiries aliout Shasta Vicino Camp, if addressed to W C. Gray, box 4, Duns the gal too. I hope yo’ll git her. Do re-enforcements could reach him. Ken muir, Cal., will receive prompt attention. ton had set out in good time. It takes yo’ reckon Ike was killed?” an hour to move a regiment of men as CAMPING IN THE “I’m quite sure he wasn’t.” signed to a certain place on a march. “Then I’ll see him agin?” SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS It takes three hours for a brigade to “Yes, after a bit.’ Alina, Wrights, Laurel, Glenwood, Felton, Ben Lomond, Boulder Creek. “Pore, pore Ike!” wailed the wife as march and countermarch and file out of her apron went up to her eyes. “He its camp onto the highway. Divisions REDUCED RATES had his streaks—he was shiftlees—but ordered to move at 7 o’clock a. m. are During the Camping season will be baiting and lingering at noon. An army he never complained. He was onery made by the of 20,000 men with its artillery, bag about some things, but good as pie SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. about others. He wasn't wuth shucks gage trains, ambulances, camp follow For full particulars address ers and beef cattle is a gigantic sloth. at farmwork, but as fur knowin all E. P. ROGERS, Asst.Gen. Pass. Agent Portland, Oregon, about mewls, why”----- To be Continued, NORTHERN PACIFIC Ru s “Shoo, how you talk!" ike. “If I never git to be a gineral, it’s he un’s fault. If I git killed or captur’d, it’s the same. Duke Wyle would make me sergeant tomorrer but fur that dod blasted Yank!” “Then if yo’ doan’ pay him out I will!” exclaimed Mrs. Baxter as she rose up with a look of determination on her face. That’s what Ike was waiting to hear. He was now ready to develop the little plan sketched out in Captain Wyle’s tent before leaving camp. “I reckon yo’ kin do it better’n we all if yo’ want to try, ” he finally said. “Yo’ know them stick up Percys in town, of co’se?’ “Of co’se.” “He un’s in luv with the gal.” “I heard that yisterday.” “If we all could brek it up, it would flatten he un out. Jest think of a south ern gal luvin a reg’lar Yankee spy, and probably goin to marry him, when she could hev Duke Wyle!” “Shoo, how you talk!” “And if we all could flatten him out I’d soon be a gineral and prance around on a hoss,” continued Ike. “Drat him, but he talked about yo’ to Gineral Jack son, and that’s what hurts me mo’ than t’other!” “How kin I flatten him out?” she asked, ready to begin work at once. Ike slowly lighted his pipe and sat down on the doorstep and made room for her beside him. He kept her wait ing for another minute and then unfold ed his plan. She listened patiently until he was through and then pointed out the obstacles here and there. He re viewed the case and explained how ev erything was to be overcome. Although in ignorant woman, she had a good deal of natural shrewdness in her com position, and after the plan had been gone over in detail for the third or fourth time she said: “I’ll try it anyhow. I hev alius dun bated Yanks like pizen, and that Per cy gal is jest too stuck up fur anything! Might do her a heap o’ good to come down a few pegs! If I flatten he un out, that will make yo’ a gineral?” “I reckon.” “And yo’ll ride around on a critter and w’ar a cocked hat?” “Yes.” “And buy me two new kaliker dresses, a bonnet, a pa’r of shoes, a— a”----- “Yo’ll jest be richness and wealth and look like a queen!’’said Ike assbe hesi tated. “Then I’ll do it if I hev to walk through fire, and p’raps I’ll ride around on a critter too!” CHAPTER XII. Panic does not always follow defeat. Indeed it seldom does. A battle is a checkerboard wherein all the spots are marked with blood. The checkers are men—men lying in reserve, men on the battle lines, men charging on flanks or center. The generate in command watch the board. If one makes a move on the right or left, the other seeks to take ad vantage of it. For the time being they shut their ears to the roar of battle, shut their eyes to the 3ight of dead and wounded. Beauregard halted at the threshold of victory at Shiloh. So with McClellan at Antietam. At Freder icksburg Y<ee permitted Burnside to re treat after defeat. At Gettysburg Meade did the same with Lee. Jackson had thrown himself against Shields at Kernstown on the right, on the left, on the center. He could not break the line anywhere. He left his dead along a front of a mile and a half, but the sacrifice was in vain. It was military tactics to re treat—to fall back to a strong position and oblige Shields to attack him or give over his march up the valley. There is sometimes more generalship in a retreat than in an advance or in fightings bat tle. The trains must be saved, the broken and disorganized commands picked up and re-formed, the best troops sent to the rear to stand as a bulwark between the exhausted army and the en thusiastic enemy. Jackson left nothing behind him—ar tillery, wagonsot muskets—worth gath ering up and reporting. Most of his wounded were carried up the valley as he tell back. Shields followed slowly, and the rear guard had no fighting to do. The panic of an army, of an army corps even, is a terrible sight, but the panic of a town is something which no one can fitly describe. The news of Jackson’s defeat preceded him, and when he reached Winchester it was to find a town wild with fear and crazed by terror. War was young then. In after years the old town changed hands without a tremor, gathered up tbo dead off its streets and buried them as part of the regular programme. ” The Yankees are coming! The town will be given up to sack! Winchester is to be burned, and women and chil dren must flee!” So rose the cry from house to house. Some locked their doors and rode away on horseback or in their carriages. Others left their doors wide open and took the turnpike to the south on foot, carrying whatever they had at first laid hands"on as a burden. Furniture was brought out and piled in the streets and set fire to, and had not Jackson’s ad vance arrived as it did the people of |he fown would have applied the torch to their own rooftrees. The Yankee sol dier was popularly supposed to be with out honor or pitv—a ruffian who stopped at no crime. Jackson paused to refresh his men and allay the excitement. Those who had not fled decided to remain, though fearful <¿1 fousequences, but the Pullman Sleeping Cars Elegant Dining Cars Tourist Sleeping ( ,ars THROUGH Mexican Mustang Liniment (I) 0 Z I- □ 0 (/) 0 Z F □ 0 Castle Crags