Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-28

erner will wish to see that tree, or, il
the tree be dead and gone, the spot
where it stood. Richmond Dispatch.
Fathers Old Cantcen.
often gaze upon it, hanging there upon the
wall,
Amid the treasures in my home prize it moro
than all
1t is not nea or handsome is of no intrinsic
worth
Yet it has ever been to me the dearest thin,
on earth
Its rounded sides are battered from rough
usage in the camp
It's blanket coat is tattered like the garment
OF tramp.
1t bears upon its body many deep. un.
slightly scar,
That faithful old canteen my father carried
through the war
I used to sit when but a child and list to
many a tale
OF when the angry cannons roared and bull
let's flew like hail
or weary marches in the heat or in the pelt
ing rain,
Down ir the fair historic land of cotton and
of cane
And often in the many years since he has
passed away
To that great camp beyond the stream in
realms of endless day.
Il
deep seated scar
Upon that old canteen my father carried
through the war
How often on the march and when the storm
of battle burst,
The water fir ON that old can teen has quenched
his burning thirst
And sometimes on the bloody field when death
was in the air
Its cork was drawn in answer to q dying com
rade's PRAYER
I've heard him ell with knowing smile OF no W
he sometimes went
On heavy extra duty to the commissary tent
And stun not sparkling water, but u liquid
STRONGER far
Went in that old canteen my father carried
through the war.
Sometimes in scouting they would find o hid
den mountain still.
And liquor which, like rebel lead, was often
known to kill.
Then each canteen was loaded for the officers
of rank
Because, he ways would explain, the prl-
Yates never drank
He said the stuff was worse than any light
ming ever seen
IT'S funny tn ut it didn't burn great holes in
his canteen-
But there it hangs, yet wateruyht, though
marked with many q scar,
The wonderful canteen my father carried
through the war
On many a big plantation, too, the water he
has spilled,
And when he went to camp again the old can.
teen was filed
With thick 'black strap" molasses or with
creamy unsk immed milk.
Or cherry brandy, which he said was finer far
than silk.
1t never shirked duty, never grumbled. not
bit
Molas ses, milk or water made no difference
to it
But now tits idly resting from those stirring
scenes afar.
That faithful old canteen my father carried
through the war
He used it as pillow In the wayside bivouac
For sledge to break the spirit of the finty old
bareback,
And sometimes as weapon when the dogs
would interfere
With expeditions after hens beneath the
Its knotted shoulder. sling Is soilel with ser
vice in the field
Its sides are dinged and battered as the
olden knightly shield,
And yet I dearly love 1t. prize each deep In.
denied scar,
Upon the old canteen my father carried
through the war
Captain Jack Crawford.
How Farragut Came to tho North.
Just previous, to the fall of Norfolk,
Va, Admiral Farragut, himself of
Southern birth, as was also his true
and noble wife, was invited by the
emissaries of the insurgent chiefs to
join his fortune to their cause. He
promptly declined. The effort to
he, Il &c Ia
was urged by every consideration
that was supposed could influence his
pride or ambition, by the ties of con-
sanguinity and place of birth, to side
with his native South; he still re-
fused. Those chiefs well knew the
man. They knew him better than his
own government the n did. and they
knew the lion-like qualities that
slumbered beneath his modest and
ha bitually retiring de meanor, and the
! achievements of which he was capable
when the latent powers of the man
should be reused to active energy.
As last effort to w in him over to
their cause, they offered him any
position which he should be pleased
to name. Admiral Farragut was man
of sincere but unobtrusive piety, a
piety as modest as his own habitual
department; but this assault upon his
loyal virtue was more than his nature
could endure, and, with a sudden and
sailor like burst of Indignation, he
replied, as he pointed to the emblem of
the republic, which floatcd near him
Gentlemen, your efforts are use
less. ] tell you / would see every
man of you --, before / would
raise my arm against that flag" This
answer was an extinguisher.
Norfolk soon fell, and Farragut was
warned that the South was no place
for him. A few hours onl v were al
lowed him for escape with his family,
leaving as he was compelled to Go,
all his property behi nd, which was
Immediately absorbed by the relent-
less confscation of the foe. He
reached the house of friend, nort.l-
ward of the Potomac, exclaiming, as
he did to him:
Here am without farthing, or
place where / can lay my hcad!"
In this way came Farragut to the
North-to the government to which
he ,.a va bic IN tho fnor ha