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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
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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
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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
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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?”
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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
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For sailing dates apply to,
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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
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