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Kendal', Montana, July 7, 1903. 3. A WARTIME MEETING \No remarked an eldcrly, robust -locking man with the gilded braid around his c hat, \Washington dcesn't look mucd like it did when I saw it the last time- in May, 18'35. \My dad brought me down here to Wash- ington from Detroit to enter me at George- town university in Le year 1860. j. was then a bit more tails 10 years old. I liked the life at the Georgetown university until the war broke out. T,heri there were too many rol- licking soldier boys camped around in the neighborhood of Georgetown for me to pre- serve my contentedness. 'they all looked to me as if they were enjoying a picnic, and I made up my mind tnat I'd have to get one of those blue uniforms on myself or shrivel up. \Shortly after the beginning of the war I wrote home to my dad in Detroit—he was then organizing a Michigan regiment, which he took all througo toe war, and it was cut to picas several times, too—and told bias that 1 thougat I would like to join ti.e army, Tne phrase wasn't in use then, hut be wrote back scincthing to the general effect that I had anotner tnink or two a -coast! g. He wrote that I didn't know when I was well off, and said that, as he was getting together 1,000 men for the big conflict, he figured taat he could come pretty near doing all the soldiering necessary in our family. I remember thinking that this was pretty selfish on the old gentleman's' part. I re - fleeted that he had been in the Mexican wrr, and that therefore in wishing to do all of the soldiering in the civil war, too, he cer- tainly was showing a disposition to hog things. \However I studied my lessons and went along all right at Georgetown university until early in 1881, and then I couldn't stand it any longer. So one afternoon I just cut out through the big gate, made for the rail- road station and established connections with a freight car tacked on to a freight train that I found was booked to go to west- ern New York. Inside of three or four days I was incontinentally dropped at Lockport, N.Y. \It didn't take me long there to fall into the hands of a substitute broker, and two days after I arrived at Lockport I waq_dul togged out in a government straigut uni- form that, as I remember it, was the t aldest kind of a joke as a fit. Somehow I didn't feel half so eieerful over tne prospect of • rollicking military career when, with about 100 other young gcseoons, I was herded in corner cf an old storehouse, near thekrail- road, and kept there under guard until the train was ready to take us to the front. \Naturally enough, I was pretty curious to find out to what part Of the 'front' we were going, but never a line of information could I get from anybody about it until we were well past Baltimore. I don't sup- pose any of the others knew any more than I did. \When we got beyond Baltimore, how- ever, I found out, all right, whither we were bound, and the news made me almost wither up. \'We're going -to Giesboro' Point!' one of the young officers announced when the train got outside of Baltimore. Now, only a few days before l'dOnnsped the Georgetown uni- versity I'd received a letter frern my dad in Detroit, saying that he'd be over to the university to see me presently, as his regi- ment was going to be stationed only a little distance away from Washingtor.--at Gies- boro' Point! None of the terrors of battle or sudden death looked half so fierce to me in prospect as my dad's discoverinrrne in a misfit uniform, and right in his own camp, too. after he'd E0 expressly fort iiden me to have anything to do wita soldiering. \I well remember the nigat we were dumped at Giesboro' Point. the little place down toe Potomac a bit on the Maryland side—I arove over there yesterday to lave a look at the old grounds. I made up my mind that the best thing for me to do would be to look up the old gentleman the very first thing on the following morning and take my medicine—I was too tired to think of anything but rolling up in a blanket on the first night we got in. \I found my dad in his tent along toward 10 o'clock on the next morning. Be had im idea, of course, that I wasn't right over the river at Georgetown conjugating Latin verbi., and on that very day. in fact, he was intending to cross over to Georgetown to look me up. \ 'Hello, pop,' said I, strolling into his tent ell4 endeavoring to look is rakish as I could. ' 'How are they all sit home?7 \Well the old gentleman looked at me steadily for a good three minutes before he said a word or before I knew what sal going to happen to me. I put in the time shifting from one leg to the other. Then my dad's countenance broke into a grin. \ \rhat's a queer -looking uniform, son,' he said. 'You'll have to be looking up your company tailor to have it whittled down to your proportions.' \That was al. He didn't roast me at all, and I had been expecting him to swoop upon me like a thousand of bricks. Not a ones- tion did he ask mess to why I'd disobeyed him and jumped the university. I'm not cer- tain that the oid gentleman wasn't just a bit tickled inwardly that one of hi a cubs had taken, the bit in his teeth in that way. \Well pretty nigh' four years after that, in the month of March,loefore Appomattox, I was dumped, along with many scores of others that had been pretty badly hit, into a boat on the dairies river bound from there to a Washington hospital. I had got mine in a skirmish, and yet it was a bad enough piece of 'work for a man to have got in the biggest pitched battle of the war. Down the James and up the Potomac was the course of the boat, and when I came to I found myself on aoot in an,institut ion called Campbell's hospital \I was still there when Lincoln was as* sassinated, and I can remember how I pitched and tossed around in a hostile humor because I wasn't in shape to get up for the grand review of the army. My dad, who'd been through the entire war with his Michi- gan outfit, come to see me at the hospital—. I hadn't clapped an eye on him since leav- ing Giesboro' Point, nearly four yeats be- fore—and he inqutred,of one which appealed _ to me the more—the life of a soldier or a student? He got me out of that place when I was just able to walk, and, ,with a lot of back pay and the like in my -rags, back to Detroit I went with him—ahd that's the last I ever saw or Washington:until about four days ago. I'd like to have brought the Old ger t . e‘inan along, but he stood his 'last inspect on and muster long years.age, That's how near I came to getting what you call 'a college eddication.' My chance was gone, of course, whelk .1 got. back fran the war— things weren't so prosperous as they had been, and it was up to me to go to week. \But all the same, when I take a look at Washington, the miraculously changed and\ the marvelously beautiful Washington, as it is to-day—well, I dunno but what I have a tendency to sort o' swell up over the re- flection that I chose to be one of the no Matter how infinitesimal units that helped to keep the little old place together at a time when it looked likes fair even money bet that the capital might go out of bust- ness.\—Washington -Star. DISAGREEABLE DISEASE. O no That AffiLets /Many People la ate Home as W,eU as In Places of Baslaena. -- There is no meaner disease of mind or body than that of fault finding or worry. It may have a medical name; If so, we don't kilow it, and if we did, it would do no good, as there is no cure for the pesky - thing except death. Persons afflicted with it are sure to let you know they have it. and in less time than it takes to tell, they have made you and every one they come in contact with miserable. The weather, that furnishes such a topic for so many, is their peach subject, and they thresh that over until it is threadbare. They find fault with everything. Their clerks can never please them ,and their customers call them \crabbed oid things,\ and finally go somewhere' else. They believe every one \has It in for them,\ and they enjoy no peace of mind -because always an- ticipating some evil thing that nbver happens. If they ever get to heaven they will find fault with everything there. The obly time they really seem to enjoy - life 'a when they are pouring their ills, real and imaginary, into your ears, says Gold and Silver- smith. The less people hear of the ills and aches of others the better they like it. Each one has enough of his own to bear without other persons' bur- dens, and the little sunshine they have they don't want clouded over with these woes. People admire the pluck of the man who, when his body is racked with pain, never lets a sigh escape, or has a complaint to offer at any of the quibbles of fortune, but in storm and sunshine, in prosperity and adversity, has always the cheerful and pleasant smile for all. Such persons make the world better fur having been in it. Drded Apple Fruit Cake. Two, cupfuls dried apples cut up and soaked over night in water; in the morning add three cupfuls mo- lasses, one teaspoonful .grated nut- mcg; let this cook slowly for two hours until reduced to one-thrid the oliantitv; when cool add the follow- tek+4•44.testkeettfsfe**********************************te Club Saloon! 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We also have a Complete Line of Vagons, Buggies, Harness, Shelf and Heavy Hardware, Steel Ranges, Cooking Stoves, Woven e Fencing, Poultry Netting and all other spring goods Screen Doors, Garden Seeds, Lawn Grass Seeds i Call in or send your orders by the Kendall Stage Company 'Montana Hardware Company Telephone 52 - -- Montana Lumber Company Sash Doors Mouldings Shingles, Etc. Estimates Furnished on Application Corner Fifth Ave. and Water Street, Lewistown ing ingredients and bake: Four eggs, two -third cupful butter, one tea- spoonful soda dissolved in one table- spoonful water, and flour enough to make a stiff batter. This will make two loaves.—Good Literature. Sweetbread In Spianala Cases. Boil the spinach in uqual way and when tender chop very tine; season With salt and pepper and add a little 'Melted butter or hot cream, but do not make it too moist. Have some large rounds of bread nicely toasted, place on a hot dish and arrange a wall of spinach around the edge of the toast rounds. Fill center of these with creamed sweet bread and serve very hot.—Washington Star. Kendall Bakery and Confectionery Store .11.1.12TIX CL.I1USEX Proprietor Bread,' Pies and Cakes Fresh Every Day Candies, Tobaccoes and Cigars, Very Choice Local Agent for Kendall Stages
