The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-05-12

t-A-Nt 30 +i*~iS' a. tAAN~i ONH.+' ~ s''''hA
meet sira2ly rs Americana only to re-
call this terrible war as a huge blundcr
on The pert Of scTnc one"
"All figi.t. ny hoy, but meantime
what has become Of Fred Ainslic? You
say he Joined with you. | did not
thinl. thet Fred, though he was dear,
good fellow, would ever have voluntar-
lily run into danger"
Nevertheless he fought well in his
very first battle. l have told You how
he hunted me up after the Wilderness
then. but hear that he has never yet
been wounded and is making n good
record in lis regiment
II am very glad to know it. ! should
like to see Fred, and. after meeting you
so strangely to-day, l should not be
surprised TO run against him. too, some
time. His sister must lie II brick don t
blush, old fellow, it was through no
fault CT yours that you happened to
be placed il her ward just imagine
that pretty little butterfly, Jessie Glynn,
we boys used 30 admire SO much, going
into II hospital as nurser'
Yet she has done that very thing,
Sydi | was never so astonishcd in my
life as when on furlouyh in New York
| went to look her up one day and
found that she had cntcred the service OF
the sanitary association. She is ut this
momcr. in fredericksburg hospital
with Miss Ainslic. and all those other
blessed angels. We cannot always OK
actly guess what n m Try little whole
aoulcd American girl acW do when the
pinch comcs.'
bravo! for Jessie, the flower of
Dunblanc,' as we used to call her. She
ought to have been south, but I'm
getting upon dangerous ground again.
Anyway, it's grand thing, Herbert,
that both sides can honestly glory in
their womanliind. Everything must
come right in the end, if only for their
sakcs."
God grant itr' revcrcntly replied the
soldier of the north.
'"And do you know. Leslie, where
that hullsing tyrant, Tom White, is
now-you remember him?"
Rather! and fancy that he is not
likely to forget you in hurry. Tom
turned out as bullics generally do.
About year ago he used to strut
around among his cronics 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 to Canada to
avoid the draft His father was 50 cut
up 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 congcnial occupation,
should say returned Sydney, and so
the friends wore away tho hours until,
ali too soon, the time Of parting came
and they went their several ways to
what each rcligiously deemed his duty.
Then, IN quick succession, Scptcm-
Der 10 and %, followed the sanguinary
battlcs of Winchester and Fishers Hill,
both convcrtcd--thc first from seeming
defcat-into glorious victories by the
genius OF Sheridan and his able lieuten-
ants and resulting in driving Gen. Ear
~ to the mountains, where cavalry
could not well operate.
In every slirmish. raid and battle in
which Private Leslie took part he won
golden opinions from his officers and
comrades, and it was rather curious
that on two occasions he owed his own
escape from death or capture, and once
the life Of his captain, to his skill as n
sworsaman an accomplishment ac-
quircd from the teachings of Sydney