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SOCIETIES OF KLAMATH FALLS WANTED THE GiBLETS. An Old Soldier's Story of the Bat tie of Yellow Tavern. JEB STUART'S LAST FIGHT. Th» Wounded General’» Heroic Brav ery In the Face of Dsath—Custer'» Brilliant Charge as Seen by a Con federate Cavalryman. A.O. U. W - l.mkvillo laslge No. 110 An Incident of Revolutionary Day» In meet, in th«« A. O. U. W. hall every Tuesday evening. Visiting Brothers al South Carolina. ways welcome. John Vaden, M. W, There are innumerable stories of J. \V. Siemens, Recorder. Revolutionary days in Charleston. The Evangeline Lodgt* No. 88 Pegre«* of old ladies used to tell with glee how, Honor Lo«lg«> meet» in the A. o. U. W. when the British were supposed to be hall every seeoml and fourth Thunalava out of the way. the young follows in the month. Nancy N. White, 0.of II. Jess«* Marple, Recorder. would come home to dance with them, O. W. Ewauna Camp, No. 7W. W. A message would go to the nearest O. W. W., meets every Tuewiay evening cousins and friends and a supper be at 7 :30 o'clock at Sanderson*» hall. All cooked. It might be only rice aud ba neighborseorthallv invited. con, but it was good to hungry HIVO. C. K. Brandenburg, Clerk. declares Charleston’s historiali, Mn», A. F. A A. M.— Klamath Lodge No Ravenal. The dance and the fvabt 77. Meets Saturday evening on or be would continue until the stars grew for«* th«* full moon of each month in tin* Masonic Hall. W. T. Shive, W. M. pale. W. E. Bowdoin, Secretary. Often these merrymakings were dis turb'd by the enemy, but then* was al- O. E. 8.—Aloha Chapter frio.61, meets ways a negro or two on the watch, and in th«* Masonic hall every »e«on«i and the harsh note of the screeteh owl or fourth Tuesday evening» m each menth. | the cry of the whip|«oorwll! would give Christine Murdoch, W. M. Jennie E. the alarm, then “partings In hot Kearnes, Secretary. I. O. O. F.— Klamath l.o«|g,< No. 137 haste.” a rush for the horses, a sharp scuttle, a hot pursuit and |M»rhaps a meets everv Saturday evening in tin* A.o. W. hall. C. B. Clendenning, prisoner taken. The young men Ifad odd ad venturi'». N.G. Geo. L. Humphrey, Secretary. On«* young fellow betrayed himself by Ewanna Encampment No. 46,1.0.0. F. his appetite. He was pursued and ha«I Encampment meets secotui umi fourth taken shelter nt Mrs. Motto's place, on ’ Saturdays in th«* month in the South Santee. Sin* rolhsl him up In a A. O. U. W. hall. C. C. Brower, C. P. Geo. I.. Humphrey, Scribe. carpet ami. pushing it agaiust tin* wall, Prosperity Rebekah l.«Klge tolil him to keep quiet until the enemy l.o, o. F. meets in' th«* A. < had gon«* and she could release him. Unluckily he beard through the ’ >en hall everv first and thtr«l Thursday» window his hostess giving directions t > tin* month. Mary E. Fish, N. G. Lorinih| M. Sauber, Secretary. the cook about the chickens w'i; !i K. of P.— Klamath Ltxlge No. were to be dressed for the dragoons* dinner. He could not bear to Is* left meets in Sanderson’s hall every Mon Bert Bauiher, C. C. out ami thrust his bead from the car-» day evening. John Y. l ’ iptoii, K. of R. ami S. pet chrysalis and cried out, “Keep the M.W. of A.—Lodge meets in the giblets for me!” The soldiers heard, ami he was at j A. O. I’. W. hall every first and third on«*«» caught an«! carried off to repent Wednesdav in the month. W. B. Mel -aughlin, Consul at leisure of his indiscretion. W. A. Phelps, Clerk. "Th«* most brilliant charge 1 ever Witnessed was mad«* by Custer at the battle of Yellow Tavern." said an old •Tt was Confederate cavalryman. near the beginning of what historians r now call the Wilderness caniiHiIgn. “I was with Jeb Stuart. General Fitz Lee's division. Wickham's brl- gade and Phil Sheridan's troops were hanging ou us like a pack of hungry wolves, nipping ns at every turn. “We left Hanover Junction about 1 o’clock oue night ami reached Yellow Tavern before 10 o'clock th«* next morning. We hadn't more than halte«l nt th«» Tavern when nt1 comes Sheridan and tries to driv«* ns out. It was a pretty tough struggle, a hand to hand tight, and we fell back from the Tav ern. but held our position on th«* tele graph road leading to III« hinond. I was with tin* battery >>n the • xtrcuie left wing, ami it was al«>ut 2 o’clock in tin* afternoon w hen onlers came for th L* XVilolc division, excel t the First fflni. .is, to dismount. “It did seem good. I can tell you. after so many hours in the saddle, to stretch out on the ground ami take a smoke—that is. all who had anything to smoke. There was just on«* pipeful Foresters of America—Ewauna Camp, among that whole battery, and the DOUGHERTY ISLAND. i No. 61, meets tn the A. O. U. W. hall boy who owned it pass«*d it down the secomi and fourth Fridays in the line, and each man took his turn puff h Is ths Most Remote and Desolate | ' every month ____ i. C. D. Willson, C. R. ing at it. When it was gone we all Spot on Earth. E. K. Jamison, Rec. Sec. began to speculate on what deviltry Which is the loneliest, most desolate Sheridan would lie up to next and and most inaccessible island on the Women oi Woodcraft, Ewauna Circle how Jeb Stuart would head him off. face of the globe? Many people would No. 647, meets everv second ami fourth ,It wasn't long before some fellow doubtless plump for one of the Crozets, Friday in Sanderson's hall. Mrs. IKiiho Virgil, G. N. wlshetl for a drink of water. In the south Atlantic ocean. And yet « "You know how it is. When one man Hog island, the westernmost of the Fraternal Order of Eagles meets wish««s for water the whole company group, is by no means an undesirable every Monday evening at 8 o’clock in begins to swear they are dying of pl^ce of residence, abounding as It A. O'. U. W. Hall. Henry Boivin. W thirst. Jack Saunders and I took a does in bares and rabbits, penguins, P., Otto Heidrich, Sec. bum h of canteens and starte«l over the albatrosses and sea elephants. hill to a spring that hi* had seen that Herd island, in the same seas, is morning. I was on my bauds and knees far more Isolated as well as more bar over the spring when I heard Saun ren. but It possesses, as does Hog, a ders' grunt of surprise. shelter hut for castaways, and It la k “There, only a few hundred yards iliKorporated visited by whalers occasionally. So, away, was a considerable body of cav too. Is South Georgia, but it ba^ no alry. Sure that *c was our right wing. shelter but, and as it is right out of •I wondered to see them mounted and the track of shipping any one unlucky in ranks. Just then the vc.ee of an of enough to be cast away thereon would ficer rang out: General Job Work stand a very poor chance of ever get k’“Cavalry! Attention.' Draw saber!’ ting off alive. Office and Work,—Helman St. and S.I’.K.K. B “The entire line moved forward at a Bouvet Island, in the same seas, is ASHLAND, ORE. quick walk, and as the officer wheeled visited even more rarely, and on the Manufacturer, of Pneumatic Sawing En his horse I saw bis face. My God, it last occasion when a ship touched gine. Sa* Mill,. Architectural Iron Wark. jWas Custer! The situation came to there five corpses were found frozen Iron, Brasa and Bronx« Caatlag, .Saunders and me like a flash. We on the t>each. grim mementos of some E»tltnate, furnished. Order, promi tly Oiled ¡threw down the canteens and started unrecorded tragedy of the sea. Pos GEO. T. BALDWIN, AGENT back to the battery on a dead run. session island, in its turn, is still “ ‘Trot!’ Custer's voice rang out lonelier and more inhospitable than Fain. Then be shouted. ‘Charge!’ Bouvet. ’With wild cheers, bis cavalry dash But probably the palm in this direc ed forward In a sweeping gallop, at tion must be ascribed to Dougherty tacking our entire left wiug at the island, on which, so far as is known, same time. We saw our battery taken, no landing has ever been effected. It our line broken and our men running has only been sighted twice in a cen like sheep. Saunders and I had but one and is officially described in the thought—to Join our fleeing company. tury admiralty sailing directions as “the ’As we reached the telegraph road most remote and Isolated spot on above the din of the battle I beard Jeb earth.”—Pearson's Weekly. Stuart’s voice. There be was. making a stand with a handful of men around Eyes Keen For Colors. him. A young man who had made appiica- 1 “It seemed but a momei ! before Cus ter’s troops were coming back as fast tion for the position of clerk in the as they had gone forward. They had silk department of a large store was met the First Virginians. We greeted questioned closely as to the exact .them with the rebel yell and the last shade of a great variety of samples ¡charge in our weapons. Jeb Stuart shown him. “We do that,” the super icheered us on—ah. how he cheered us! intendent explained, "to make sure I gave them my last shot and was fol that you are not color blind. A dry lowing with my weapon clubbed when goods store is the one place where I saw a man who had been dismounted color blindness is a positive bar to and was running out turn as he pass efficiency. Very often you bear of color blind workmen in all other ed our rally and fire his pistol. “Jeb Stuart swayed in bis saddle. It branches of business. There are, it ap ¡was only for a moment: then his voice pears, even color blind engineer» and rang out, cheering his struggling color blind artists, but the big stores froops. The enemy ralliel just across absolutely shut out men who have not keen eye for all colors.”—New York the road and fired a volley into the a ro-1* little band gathered around Jeb Stuart. His horse sprang forward, with a They All Thought About Alike. ■cream of agony, and sank down on its Three “tired” citizens—a lawyer, a knees. As we lifted th«' general off doctor and a newspa[>er man—sat ip a the young officer who was helping me back room in the gray light of the exclaimed: early dawn. On' the table were many • “ 'My God. genera), you are wounded! empty bottles and a couple of packs Your clothes are soaked with blood! i of cards. As they sat in silence a .? < You must leave the field, sir!’ rat scurried across the hearth into “‘No,’ General Stuart answered: ‘I the darkness beyond. The three men < •i' Wil) not leave until victory is assured. shifted their feet and looked at each i.t d Get me another horse.’ other uneasily. After a long pause F “When I returned with the horse / the lawyer spoke. “I know what you he was seated with his back against a fellows are thinking.” he said; "you ¡tree, and when he tried to get up, think I thought I saw a rat, but I .weakened by loss of blood, be sank didn’t”—Argonaut. back again. *■ “ ‘Go!’ he commanded us. ‘I am done Observant Man. for. Fitz Lee needs every man. I It is a popular belief that no men order you to go.’ “ ‘We cannot obey that order, gen "understand dress.” Still, it should be eral,’ the young officer told him, and known that they have a-sort of rough I’ll never forget the look that came appreciation of general effects. They over his face when he faced the gen can distinguish between the woman eral. ‘We must carry you to a place who dresses well by instinct and one I who does so with an effort. They are of safety, however the battle goes.’ “ Tt must not go against us,’ Stuart able to recognize at a glance the girls Replied, and the thought seemed to put and women who go through life in fresh vigor In his body. ’You must the wrong kind of garments and wear ing bats which infatuation has Im put me on my horse and keep me there. pelted them to buy against their bet- My men must not know that I am ter Judgment. — London Lady’s Pic- rot’tided.’ torial. “We lifted him on his horse, and, jnou'iting our own, we held him in his I Microscopic. ■addle. When the tide of the battle The best microscopes are warranted turned, supported between us, he mad« to magnify about 10.000 times. Thoso A last effort to rally his fleeing troops. are the kind most people would make I “‘Go back, men!’ he cried. ‘Go back, use of In examining their neighbors’ men! Go back and do yonr duty!’ faults.—Washington Post. | “We felt him »way in his saddle. The youDg officer turned our horses’ beads A Phlfosophar. to the rear, and we carried our fainting Askltt—Why do you consider Smiley general from the field, still holding him a philosopher? Noitt—Because of his t in the saddle. That was Jeb ability to liear other people s troubles ’• last. battle and Custer's most with forlltuds.—Kansas Citj Independ BrilHast charge.”— Washington Post ent I i Republican Hds Bring Results 5 Such is the popular verdict of our Advertisers Mr Business Mail, you will do well to try the Republican columns, as it is read by practically everyone in this city Get in the game l1 ir*Mt CliiMM <>f fill l< 111(1 ASHLAND IRON WORKS at 5. B. GRIZZLE KLAMATH FAI 1.5 ORPOON ENGINEERS, FOUNDERS and MACHINISTS Iv< IWCNf of Prices Standard** Laundry Trays H. BOIVIN, the Plumber, Agent, IWI« J*» ralli. Orafa Buy Lots in Hills’Addition of the Depot \ $125 FOR A LOT 50x120 FEET I LOTI / Can you find a better investment in the city? 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