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We recommend New Perfection and Puritan Oil Cookstoves PEARL OIL (KBROSBNB) HEAT AND LIGHT STANDARD OIL COMPANY (CALIFORNIA) 1919. up to the dooi and knocked. To their SENATOR SMOOT work of the banka, yet the farm loan astonishment the door was thrown URGES ECONOMY. banks are making money and it la open and in it stepped a white man ridiculous that the government ------ o------ with a gun leveled and ordering should be asked to appropriate for them to throw up their bands. This Republicans Advized to Begin Cut­ their supervision. These are only two ting Appropriations and Expen­ Lederer did, but his comrade dodg­ instances out of many thousands of ditures. dollars that may be saved.” ed quickly around the corner of the ■ ■ — ■ o------ house and out of sight. The confed­ erate stepped out then and asked The Republicans in Congress must What Is Man? which way the man ran, Leaderer begin immediately to cut down the told him that way, pointing back of appropriations and expenditures of A writer of The Electrical Experi­ the house. The man hurried around the Government, in the opinion of menter asks the question (surely an the corner to look for the fleeing Senator Smoot, of Utah, a member of old and baffling one) and submits a Yankee and that was our soldier's the committee on appiopriations, "scientific” answer as follows: opportunity. He ran the other way, there is po possible other way in "A man weighing 150 pounds will and soon was safe in the woods, and which to provide for a reduction of contain approximately 8,500 cubic the last ever heard or saw of his com­ the heavy taxes which were levied to feet of gas—oxygen, hydrogen and rade. Leaderer continued north trav­ meet war expenditures, he said. nitrogen—in his constitution, which eling by night, procuring food when "A beginning must be made, and it at 80 cents a thousand cubic feet he could from the sympathizing should be made at once, in the p.oc- would be worth *2.80 for illuminat­ blacks, until they told him he was j ol reducing government expend- ing purposes. He also contends all! pear the Union lines. Coming one jtures,” said Senator Smoot. the necessary fats to make a fifteen day to a much traveled highway, he pound candle, and thus, together 12 Billions Must be Spent. I hid hlrnself by the wayside, to watch “Taking into account the bills with the 3,500 cubic feet of gases, and see who traveled that road so he possesses considerable Illuminat­ much. After a while, to his great joy which have been made for war pur- ing possibilities. His system contains poses and the contracts which must he saw a troop of Union cavalry 22 pounds and 10 ounces of carbon, with the dear old flag in their midst. be paid for, the government, during or enough to make 780 dozen, or the next year, will have to expend He rushed out and hailed them. Now 9,360 lead pencils. There are about his old blue uniform was long since 812,000,000,000. From taxation it 50 grains of iron in his blood, and will not be possible to raise more gone and he was dressed in the cast the rest of the body.would supply of butternut rugs of some confeder­ than four or five billion dollars. This enough of this metal to make one ate soldier. Now occurred what was means that the government will spike large enough to hold his natural enough, but hard to consider. have to sell securities amounting to weight. A healthy man contains 51 seven or eight billions of dollars. The The cavalry took him prisoner as a ounces of phosphorous. This deadly southern spy, and was tried by a people might just as well realize this poison would make 800,000 matches court martial as a spy, of course. He now as later. I believe that the treas­ or enough poison to kill 500 persons. told them what regiment he belong­ ury department will undertake to This, with 2 ounces of lime, makes loans through the ed to and when and where he was finance these the stiff bones and brains. No differ­ taken, they decided to hold him pris­ banks, selling to them short term ence how sour a man looks, he con­ oner until his story was substantiat­ notes. But whatever the source, the tains about 60 lumps of sugar of the ed. After a time his old regiment money must be raised." "With such a situation confronting ordinary cubical dimensions, and to was communicated with and his the country, it is suicidal for the make the seasoning complete there story found to be true, he was then are 20 spoonfuls of selt. If a man forwarded to his old comrades. Can Government to continue to spend ' were distilled into water he would money as it has been doing the last we realize what a happy day that ( make about 38 quarts, or more than must have been to him. After much two years. Congress must reduce ap- j half his entire weight. He also con­ suffering he had “came through”. | propriations all along the line. ”1 believe the Republicans, now tains a great deal of starch, chloride Henry Lederer in his great simplic­ that they are in control of Congress, of potash, magnesium, sulphur and ity of character, steadfastness of will economize. Certainly I shall urgj : hydrochloric acid in his wonderful purpose and loyalty to his cause was human system. a fair representative of the typical it as strongly as I can. ‘Break the shells of 1,000 eggs ln- Union soldier of the civil war. Would Cut in Departments. ' to a huge pan or basin, and you have “ Take the situation with regard to Another hero gone, who his duty i the conlents to make a nian from his had done, his deeds scarcely known, the government departments right : toenails to the most delicate tissues his trials meagerly sung. For a prin­ here yi Wasrington. I believe that at of his brain. And this is the scien­ cipal he fought, starved, suffered and least one-third of all the help the tific answer to the question, ‘What is' bled. To his memory peace, his re­ departments have can be saved. The man?” other two thirds can do the work. mains sleep with the honored dead. In many of the offices they are fall. F. M. Lamb. The first war for which we will ing over each other.” have to furnish soldiers under the ■Senator Smoot said that the big | Versailles covenant is to be at Flume Attorney General a Mitchell Pal- organizations built up here for war mer, who seems to Cbnduct his office purposes have got to go, now that ■ where the national council has ad­ mostly from the-political stump, com­ peace has returned, and that the opted a resolution of fealty to Italy plained in a speech before the Dem­ heads of departments and bureaus concluding: “; Any way trying to change actual facts as to Fiume ocratic National Committee that It might as well realize it. should come and try to impose • used to be said the Republican party “Take these government dormi- I | was the war party. Certainly. Wasn’t tories on the Union Station plaza” he changes by force.” the Democratic national campaign continued “the government is losing President Wilson says we are no of 1916 run on the theory that the about *343,000 a year on them now. longer a nation of dollar worshipers. Republicans were the war party, “Take the farm loan board. The One gets so little for a dollar under while the Democrats, thank God, government is spending about *247,- (a Democratic administration that it kept us out of war? isn’t entitled to any reverence. 000 a year to pay for supervising the R. C. BOONE, Special Agent, Tillameok, Oregon; I sition in the little "Round Top”, 'and sometimes getting corn and veg­ which proved to be where the great etables, where he could steal them Henry L. Lederer, the subject of struggle of the next day took place, occasionally, but in the worn and thiH obituary and narrative, was when the rebel Gen. Pickett made starved condition one night he reach­ born of Baravlan parentage in Mich­ his heroic assault againBt the Union ed the banks of the Pee Dee river. igan in 1841, and died at Garibaldi,, lines with 18,000 men—and lost. I He sat down dejectedly on the bank forgotten Lederer’s wondering how he was to get across. Oregon. June 4th, 1919, being 78 have partly years of age, was buried in Bay City description of what be saw of that I He went to sleep. Was awakened by cemetery. He leaves a wife, Ruth great charge, so will not attempt to a hand on his shoulder to find him­ Wilkes Lederer and four children give it, but we can have no doubt of self overtaken by two rebel soldiers, to mourn their I ohh . uh follows: Mrs. the duty that he faithfully perform­ one of whom was for shooting him at Annie Luarey, Alsea, Ore.; Mrs. ed there. Some time after this, hav­ once. The other one, however, object­ Mary Mathews, Portland: Mrs. ing been promoted to a sergeant. If I ed. Lederer was so disengaged and Bertha Loomis, Alaska; and Ulyssis remember rightly, he was ordered disheartened at his recapture that he Lederer, of Brooks. Or., and many out one night to the front line of beged them to kill him at once, but to old neighbor friends and acquaint- pickets, to carry some word to spite him, neither one wanted to kill euces, who knew and walked with them. He passed some Union soldiers him then, so he was marched back him in life, ever believeing in the playing cards by a little fire. He to Andersonville again. The prison of sincere honesty, integrity, loyalty asked them where the pickets were. Andersonville covered an area of They told him on out further in the about 30 acres, through which a and friendship of Henry I^ederer. Mr. Lederer was an old soldier of brush. He went forward in the dark­ small stream of water flowed. The the civil war, and the story of his ness, but finding no pickets, he still stockade walk was about 10 feet texperlence there, told the writer by continued going and started down a high around the outside, and nearly himself one beautiful Sunday morn­ little hill in the glen, when all at to the top ran a narrow platform, ing many years ago, I never have once' he stepped on a boyonet and where the armed guards could walk forgotten, and was so interested in then discovered a line of them stret­ and easily look over and watch the it that I had him repeat facts of it ching away on either side of him. various movements of the prisoners, several times afterwards. But like He had walked into a regiment of 10 feet inside of the stockade and the generality of such tuen.’Lederei rebels lying flat on the ground. An running clear around the enclosure never seemed to realize that he had officer talsed and ordered him to a marked line, called the "dead line” went through anything extraordinary surrender, which of course there was across which no prisoner was allow­ but simply accepted his experiences nothing else to do. After questioning I ed to step, and was liable to be in- as a mere matter of fact. He volun­ him as to how he came to be there, a stanaly shot if he did. Lederer one teered in a Michigan regiment in the guard marched him to Longstreet'B day tdok his cup and went down the early months of the war, and 1 think headquui ters for examination. He little stream to get a drink. He knelt was a member of the 11th corps, that was questioned as to what . general down, but not over the line, but he said done some running at Bull I direction the Union army was mov reached over the line to get the pur­ Hun. 11c was in the unfortunate un­ ing, he told them he did not know er water from above, A guard saw dertaking of Gen. Burnside to break anything about it. Lederer said he him. tired and slightly wounded Lee's line by crossing the Potomac had an idea of which direction our Lederer. Enraged at the inhumanity and-capturing Fredercksburg. where, army was going, but determined to of the act, cussed the guard round- after a bloody repulse, a noiseless re­ not give away information that he {ly. The latter swore he would kill treat back across the Patomac in ' might possess. He said Gen. Long­ him as soon as he could but our sol­ the following dark night alone sav­ street cursed a little and ordered him diers hurried away out of danger. Lederer'» escape _ from Andersonville ed the Union army from a loss of I Kept prisoner without any food in________ many thousand prisoners. 1-ederer's 'order to make him reveal his know- I was accomplished in this way: The regimen' was also in McClellen's at­ 'ledge. Being called the second day to prison authorities (for which they tempt by change of base to break headquarters, Longstreet came him [should have some credit) allowed the through to Richmond, resulting [seif into the tent and demanded sick, those able to walk outside the in the bloody repulse of Fair­ 'again Lederer's knowledge of the prison under guard, a short distance oaks. Seven Pines and Malvern Hill. Union army movements, but he still to a hillside where they could lie After the latter battle, worn out by stubbornly disclaimed any knowledge down 1c the grass and shade, as a marching and fighting in the hot of the matter, Longstreet whirled 'respite from the odors and stench of Virginia sun, he said he awoke the with an impatient feature to a sub­ [the prison grounds Thia was usual­ next morning to discover that he ordinate and exclaimed "To hell ly done in the morning, and th*y was lying on his back in four inches with the damned fool Dutchman, 'marched back in the afternoon or of water It had rained in the night, take him away.” and Lee’s famous evening. Lederer and a comrade but in his exhausted condition he marshal strode disgustedly out of planned to fall in behind the line of Individuals it it could be accomplish­ had not known It. At the great battle the tent, He was ordered sent along with ed without the notice of the guards. of Gettysburg, the second day. it be­ out, coming now evident to Meade that some other prisoners, south to the [This they successfully carried themnelve« notorious prison of Andersonville. I [and managed to secrete Lee was geing to give a trial of strength Lederer's regiment was will not undertake to give all that in some way, when the sick was re- 30 miles away, but was ordered to Led-ter stated as to the prisoners turned to the grounds. Their absence march Immediately to Gettysburg, I wretched treatment at thia prison. nO( being discovered, after nightfall this march that day was a fright, as his story corroborates Just what they were clear away and on their the day very warm and admist history afterwards gave it. Hundreds way north. After some time travel­ clouds of dust stirred Into the air by of the weaker ones simply starved to ing by night, sometimes starving and the marching thousands, together death. Nearly evety day finding at other times procuring food front with troops of cavalry hastening by sand In their beans, and few beans at negroes, they came to a point finally on the gallop, eieated• eondltlona al­ that, after some months he managed in their destination that they were most unbearable, but they got there to escape (I hive forgotten how) compelled to apply to what they on the battle unwind at night fall, a and traveled by night to the north th. li was the residence of negroes uu