Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1893-08-18

house, which we have lately bought,
few miles south of Richmond. Little
Sylvia has grown into tall and really
beautiful girl "I am sure she
has," interjected the listener land
is great comfort to my moth
er, who fortunately, has an am
pie income from funds safely invest
ed in Paris, but she spends nearly all of
1t in assisting our soldiers, her whole
time and my sisters also being devoted
to that work, and since thousands of
/ other southern ladies are doing the
same, you can hardly wonder, Herbert,
that we fight so we'll"
You do indeed fight well, SYDNEY.
One of our troopers remarked to-day.
with more force than elegance: Them
lean-loollin' rebs fights like ravin'. dom
bic distilled, ring-tailed hell-cats; but we
won't touch on these questions Each
of US Is firmly fixed in his principles.
and perhaps in after years we shall
meet simply as Americans only to re-
call this terrible war as a huge blunder
on the part of some one"
"All right, my boy, but meantime
what has become of Fred Ainslie? You
say he Joined with you. | did not
think that Fred, though he was a dear
good follow, would ever have voluntar-
iiy r-l .uto Danger"
nevertheless he fought well in his
very Lrst battle. l have told you how
he hunted me up after the wilderness
fight. l have not seen him since
then, but hear that he has never vet
hH rfsa.T
record in his regiment"
Il am very glad to know it. | should
like to see Fred, and, after meeting Won
SO strangely to-day, 1 should not be
surprised to run against him. too. some
time. His sister must be a brick-don't
blush, old fellow, it was through no
fault Of yours that you happened 10
be placed in her ward. just imagine
that pretty little butterfly, Jessie Glynn.
we boys used TO admire so much. going
into a hospital as nurser'
Yet she has done that very thing
Sydl was never so astonished in nv
life as when on furlough in New York
/ went TO look her up one day and
found that she had entered the service of
liit ntAA4lLdlN do1OIAeALADlA. s'iAN - ~ AllAo
moment in Fredericksburg hospital
with Miss Ainslie. and all those other
blessed angels. We cannot always ex-
actly guess what merry little whole
souled American girl lcW do when the
pinch comes"
"Bravol for Jessie, the flower of
Dumblane,' as we used to call her. She
ought to have been south, but I'm
getting upon dangerous ground again.
Anyway, it's a grand thing, Herbert,
that both sides can honestly glory in
their womankind. Everything must
come right in the end, if only for their
sakes."
"God grant i'll" reverently replied the
soldier of the north.
"And do you know, Leslie, where
that hullSing tyrant, Tom White, is
now-you remember him?"
"Ratherl and fancy that he is not
likely to forget you in hurry. Tom
turned out as bullies generally do.
About a year ago he used to strut
around among his cronies Dragging
what he would do when he volunteered,
which was always TO be next week.
and then when matters began TO look
serious he skipped over 10 Canada to
avoid the draft! His father was so cut
mp about it that he actually joined the
Fifty-ninth New York himself, and the
last time heard of Tom he was follow
ing the peaceful calling of a billiard
marker in Montreal"
"A quite congenial occupation,
should say" returned Sydney, and so
the friends wore away the hours until,
all too soon, the time of parting came
and they went their several ways to
what each religiously deemed his duty.
fro RE COSTTyrED