Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-05-02
THE TWO sropsNrs.
Peculiar Circumstances Under which They
Several Times Met.

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Peculiar Circumstances Under which They
Several Times Met.
Among the many interesting pieces
OF personal history which, one BY one,
are coming to light as local episodeso Of
the civil war, few are moro striking
than the story Of two young men,
who, shortly before the war broke
out, were fellow students and room
mates at a college in Pennsylvania,
ono OF them southerner.
Both were hard students. and rs.
pired to be leaders Of their class, and
in time the sharp rivalry between
them changed their friendship TO bitter
enmity. Mutual charges were made,
and the hostile feeling finally culmi.
mated in challenge from the south.
erner, which the other treated with
contempt.
After graduation the young duelist
went home, and in the cares and ex.
elements OF the following years his
college quarrel was forgotten The
memory Of It suddenly came back to
him one day, after he bad become
Christian, and shocked him with the
discovery of surviving hatred.
II was at the battle Of Stone River.
Our student, now a Confederate OH
Ger, was riding across the battlefield,
when his horse nearly trod upon a
wounded Union soldier. He dis.
mounted. with the humane intention
OF giving some assistance, but when
he looked the soldier in the face he
recognized his old college enemy. He
turned quickly to remount his horse,
but better thoughts and feelings
checked his first cruel impulse, and
lin Christ's name" he caused the sol.
der to he removed to q place of re.
fuge, and procured for him the ser
vices Of surgeon and q chaplain.
The wounded man knew his deliv.
erer, but was too weak to utter in.
quiries or thanks. Informed that his
wound was fatal, he could only re.
quest that his mother be written to.
and assured that he "died like q true
soldiers" and this kind service also the
southern officer faithfully performed,
as soon as the battle was over.
He had no suspicion that the care
he had secured for the sufferer would
prove the means Of Saving his former
enemy's life.
After the war the northern man
wrote to thank his forgiving enemy;
but no answer was received, and fur.
Their inquiry brought the information
that he had been killed.
Twenty-one years passed; the north.
erner was physician in prosperous
practice, when business called him to
Charleston, s. @. In q street Of that
city, then partly in ruins, the two men
who had twice been dead to each other
met again.
The startled doctor saw the class.
mate who had once been willing to
take his life, and once had saved il.
The man had lost his all in the great
earthquake; and his old enemy and
grateful friend took him and his needy
family back with him to his own city,
and established him in good situa
ton?
Not often does the chance of shift
ing events enable penitent foes to for
give and repay each other after this
romantic fashion; but the Christian
spirit may always be exercised, and
may be all the more praiseworthy, be
cause all the moro difficult, if main
tanned in the midst of commonplace
and every day surroundings.
And even if there be no opportunity
for its display, if the old enemy be
dead, or his Whereabouts unknown.
we may still cherish the kindly feel
ing, and be sure that the will is count
ed for the deed. Youths Companion.