The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1895-05-24
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heY"
1 replied with conviction that ne
was.
III IL had beer me an my brother
| I'd have wanted him killed of, ! guess;
| but the colonel he liked To have went
crazy every time the youngster got In
the hot part of a fight. He SEE TO hin
onct-I heard him-'If you should b.
shot, it'ud Jest end Dora; and one time
they got a letter sayin' that DORIS nad
a little girl. The colonel told Kings
lev then that he'd have to take more
care OF himself than ever. Kingsley,
he lust laughed. He was "A brave Teller.
kind OF ~hot-headed, and ] guess he
wasn't as much in love with his Dora
as the colonel was" :,
The story came 70 an abrupt emo
here. The veteran was thinking over
his past. In course OF time he went on:
.sOnct, Just before the baby was
: born. there was a fight and the colore.
|, couldn't make Kingsley stay where ~
! was safe. lie jest laughed and went
right into the fuss as soon as he couid
get there. The colonel. he was charg-
: ing around like a hen that's Matched
: ducks and sees 'em swimmin. But he
couldn't get near his brother. lie was
' NV me for a minute and he seq To me
70 keen that fool boy out OF trouble.
Bout ten minutes later a she'll busted
= near us and l got in front of kingsley
That's all" -,
: That was all. 1t certainly didn'
sound like much, as the laconic ola iei
low nut it. looked at his face. whici
- was TO the last degree battle Scared
as the soldiers say; at his nervou
hands and wavering eyes, his filth.
coat and shapelcss hat. This was a.
/, that was left of "A hero-a man VINO 10
~ a mere friend had risked death n 81
dured worse than death. ! ADMIRED
character / could not understan'
= Then. with the sophistry OF my rae
. and kind. the mighty virtue OF sma
. souls. | condemned his weakness
. He was disgusting, a dirty old drum
= ard, a beggar, too; a man VINO wou
p ask for a dime to get a drink WIN 10
4 TO all pride and sense of shame wv
men of his kind who gave old soidie
IA such a hard name; and then remel
r hered that it was men OF his KIND w
A. had composed our army; who n
I ..made a thoroughfare for freedom a
MI her train'-a thoroughfare VIM
'lM no fifty by three hundred miles G
measure-a thoroughfare for desu
Iay and a pathway on eternity.
'Tl However, I came down to his men
WIN level by degrees. He was quiverl
= with anticipation, and the hand OF
- good arm was lying on his knee res
Ia be stretched out at a moments
& tice. assumed the air that W
usually with the act of swearing u
into Uncle SANS service. and which
Boys the nearest one to severe II un
ohm peachable virtue that a lieutenant
ev- command.
sion ..What makes you drink like th'
NIB 7 felt that the role of reformer DID
II suit me.
you Il like IT," -,
.But why don't you try to stop
me "~Can't-now.'
lyon could have once"
you yep"
what ever made you start in"
. me The pain IRON the wound. !
drunk to stop it, and by and by, y
hv II had stopped for good. couldn'
M. Amt you done askin' ques'
vet? want hat quarter
s un- Now. | have no doubt that !
regi- guilty of an infringement OF 'ne
of the state of California IN assn