Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-06-21
WAR "REMINISCENCES.
RAPID RIDING.
Comrade Jones Relates Startling Experi-
ence at Gettysburg.

Comrade Jones Relates q Startling Expert
ence at Gettysburg.
"You seem to have been very fond of
fast travelling all your life" encour-
agingly remarked Robinson, as Jones
finished somewhat stiff narrative of
having had his coat tails caught on the
rear platform of the Chicago limited as
it passed through Dunkirk, and Of fly
ing behind from there to Toledo.
''Of what other rapid trsyeling did /
ever tell?" inquired Jones.
We'll, there was the time you rode
your hen-farm down Pixies peak, the
turn you took on the Montana iaguar,
and the trip you enjoyed in your
cyclone cottage, not TO mention the
time you stopped the balloon by taking
hold of the drag rope. and went across
the country, putting down one foot
here and the other from a quarter to
a half mile further on.
Jones smiled complacently, and
flicked the ashes off his cigar. The re-
hearsal of his enormities appeared
rather to please him than otherwise.
Then his eye fell on jackson Peters
WIZ SNtAA00 ~ NC intoxicating l&CdesOt-
able sarcasm. He arched his eyebrows
and said to him:
Still, | dare say that on none of
those occasions did go so fast as did
my young friend jackson on that night
when he ran twenty blocks while re-
turning from late club dinner, hav-
ing mistaken freely for the head
light of LOGON otive which had jumped
the track and was chasing him with
murder in iCs iron heart
Peters smiled weakly, but made no
reply, though it was the first he had
ever heard of the incident But after
a moment he said: Il was just read
ing of young man who recently got
married and bought five dollars worth
of merry-go-round tickets and rode
them out with his bride for wedding
tour,
Not a bad idea" observed Jones.
"FIe didn't have the Illuminating ex-
perience OF attempting to deceive a
hotel clerk by trying to register and
wife for the first time like man who
had been married ten years, and having
the esgle-eyed fellow call boy and
direct him in a distinct voice TO brush
the rice off the gentleman's hat brim
and show him up to the bridal cham
Der
Now that the subject of rapid
transit has come up, if you gentlemen
win pardon me. will tell of my fast
est experience in that line was, as
you must remember, a captain IN the
Tenth Minnesota cavalry during the
late war
why doyou never use your title?'
inquired Smith.
For the first few years after came
out of the army l was always called
Captain was living in Illinois at
that time, 1 moved to Iowa, and the
people there called me Major. ! then
went on to Nebraska, and they called
me Colonel. / made another move. to
Colorado. and found myself referred to
as General saw that promotion de-
pended simply on moving west, and
decided that it was beneath man of
parts, AID have always since asked my
friends to refrain from calling me by
Il thing but my name. AS / started
10 say, it was at the battle OF Gettys-
burg. The Tenth Minnesota played an
important part We were exposed to a
severe fire. and after several hot
charges found that every officer above
me had been killed instantly put
myself az the head of the troop, and
determined to break the enemy's cen
ter, two miles away across the valley.
We were in front of battery of heavy
New York artillery, which was sta
toned on a ridge above us and was
firing over our heads Calling my men
about me, / told them that proposed
to smash the enemy's center or die in
the attempt They were wild to have
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