The Alaska prospector., 1903-05-21

n.isfit uniform, and right in his own camp, too. after he'd so expressly forbidden me to have anything to do with soldering.
 "l well remember the night we were dumped at Giesboro' Point, the little place down the Potomac bit on the Maryland side-l drove over there yesterday to have . look at the old erounds. l made up my mind that the best thing for me to do would be to look up the old gentleman the very first thing on the following morning and take my mtdicine-l was too tired to think of anything but rolling up in . blanket on the first nigat we got in.
 ''l found my Iad in his tent along toward 10 o'clock on the next morning. He had no idea, of course, that warn't right over the river at Georgetown canjugating Latin verbs, and on that very day. in fact he was intending to sross over Co Georgetown to look me up.
 Hello. pop said 1, strolline into his tent and sndeavoring to look e rakish as could. How are they all al home!
 "W(n. the old gentleman looked at me steadily for a good three minutes before he said word or before knew what was going to happen to me. put in the time ting from one leg to the other. Then my dads coun,enance broke into grin.
 That's queer-lookink uniform, con. he said. You'll have to be looking up your company tailor to have 1t whittled down to your proportions.
 That was all He didn't roast me at all. and had been expecting him to swoop upon me like thousand of bricks. Not ques. tion did he ask me as to why I'd dsobeyed him and jumped the university. I'm not cer- tain that the old gentleman wasn't just hit N.cElnl ,p~ J1v b.t xs l-l taken the bit in his teeth in that way.
 Well, pretty nigh four years after that, in the month of March. before Appomattox. l was dumped. along with many scores of others that had been pretty badly nit. into boat on the James river bound from L ere to a Washington hospital. l had got mine m a skirmish. and yet il was bad enough piece of work for a man to have got in the biggest pitched battle of the war. Down the James and up the Potomac was the course of the boat, and when l came to found my self on cot in an institution called Camphcl's hospital
 ''i Wa. still inere when Lincoln was ass sasslna. cd. and l can remember how piicned and tossed around in hostile numor becau,e l wasn't in shape to get up for the grand review of the army. My dad who'd been tnr"ug i:e en.ire Wa. ait i. MicLi- gan outfit. came to see me al tae hospi; al l hadn't clalpcd an eye on him since l.av- ing Cieshoro Point. nearly four years be- fore-and ne inquired of me whica ap, ealed to me the more-tae life oi a sol,! fer or d student! He got me out of tat place when l was just able to walk. and, with a lot oi back ray and the like in my rags. back 10 Detroit went with him--and that's the last ever saw of Washington until about four days ago. I'd like to have brought the old gentleman along, but he stood his last inspection and muster long years ago. That's how near l came to getting what you call a college eddc,tion. My chance was gone. of course, when l got back from the war things weren't so prosperous as they had been. and Ii was up tc mt to go to work.
 'Rut, all the same. when take look at Washington, the miracuicusiy e;.an ged and t:e marvelously beautiful Washington, as t is to-day-well, dunno but what have tendency 10 sort O swell up over the re- Election that l chose to be one of the no matter how iniinitesimal units that helped 10 keep tne little old place together at a time when it looked like fair even money bet that the capital might go out of busi- ness. ss.-Washington Star.