Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-06-30

The long lines of infantry had swept
UP through the green valleys OF south
ern Pennsylvania and were weariedly
marching northward to a battlefield
somewhere, no man of them could
have told where They only knew that
they were tired and footsore and hun
cry, and the rich green fields they
had passed had brought no comfort.
A young soldier took off his ragged
cap. wiped the perspiration from his
face and looked over at little cot
tage with its encircling vines. 1t made
him think of another little cottage
across the lines, where the vines had
empowered his childhood.
As the head of the column came OPP
posfte the house a girl ran out from
the open doorway to the front of the
portico. She had a United States flag
tied around her as an apron and she
stepped upon a chair that the whole
army might see it and waved it de-
family at the approaching troops.
The leader looked around apprehen-
sively. Some of his men had come
from the most frightfully devastated
part of the South. How world they
take the sudden defiant presentation
of the banner under which that ruin
had been wrought? With a swift,
graceful movement he wheeled his
black battle horse out of line, lifted
his cap. bowed to the warlike maid
and saluted the flag she bore. He
turned to the advancing men, waved
his hand. and every tattered cap was
lifted and eac'. man as he passed sa-
luted the enemy's colors. The leader
rode forward to his place and the long
line moved on.
'She is a little fighter" thought the
boy who had waved his cap to her.
az should like to have her for sister.
Only if she were my sister she would
wave burt one flag"
He sighed remembering the lonely
cottage under the magnolias.
'In love again, by Jove," said the
older soldier who marched beside him.
eli boys. What do you think? ShiV-
ers is in love with the little Pennsyl-
vania amazon.
'Shivers is always in love- said an
other. Hes the victim of chronic af-
lection. Do you remember how he fell
in love with the guerilla's daughter
and came near being shot for spy
Some day Shivers will have fatal
attack of love and General Lee will
quit lying awake nights trying to keep
at the head Of the army, in the light of
Shivers' increasing military fame
Military fame, indeed" growIed a
rugged veteran. ''All the fame Jack
Shivers will ever get will be for writ
ing verses and singing love songs with
guitar Accomplishments"
All the while they were marching on
they who dreamed of lofty love,
they who professed lofty scorn for
sentimentalities and they who went
silently to the field wherein a cause
was to die.
On the morning of the third poor
Jack Shivers was one of these who
lay behind the low, long hill and
looked eastward into the space be-
tween TWO ranges Oh HFe-cToWneu
reaks. a man was crouched down
beside him with his head resting on
his shoulder. Neither spoke. but there
was a comradeship in the touch that
told of love greater than men put
into words
Beyond the crest they waited as the
aslow hours went by-waited till the
Border came and they went down into
The valley of death. What they did on
Mat fatal field of Gettysburg is in
Nribed on the page of history.
pm the beginning of the retreat Jack
4fyers was wounded. The overwhelm-
u force of the epemy were closing in
IN every point.
.He is dead" thought the man. He
7arce noticed the shower Of balls
@yat fell about him nor marveled over
le apparent miracle that not one of
1hem touched him as he bore the IN
conscious boy 10 a spot of greater Sc