The Cairo bulletin., 1906-04-07

in seat surrounding one OF lhe column
If in the rouuda Of the Halliday Hote
We last evening lie was grayhaired 4
r. rather adarmauic proportions, an
held a pencil in his hand with whc
- he had evidently been figuring upo
= the margin of newspaper.
\ yes, forty-four years echoed an
J other gentleman vino was comfortable
lounging in a big rocker only a few
feet away, but who quickly added
Pardon me, Sir but ! beiteye ou
thoughts are running exact in The
same channel / CHANGED 10 heal
what YOU said TO Yourself and l TOO
remember that It is Just fortyfoul
D., years since
= The eyes Of the two men met, a
flash OF complete comprehension was
| exchanged two right hands were ex-
tended in warm comrade-hip as each
uttered the word
shiloh
With hands still ella ped lie man on
the circular cushion said, My name
is ---. of the -steenth In
diana and the man in The rocker re.
piled, I'm --, Of the Kansas
Jayhawkers"
Tears welled up into the eyes of both
and there were tears in The voices of
each. A moment before they were
| strangers in a strange city strangers
TO each other Circum tances had
| thrown them into close proximity yer
they were not together A murmured
sentence, quick comprehension had
made them comrades For a time the
interchange of "reminiscences was as
rapid a. the fire of a Calling gun. but
after awhile the skirmish fire ended
and more extended remarks We're pos,
sible The man in the rocker had a /
gray moustache and imperial but what
little hair he had was covered with a
silk skull-eaR which he carefully pulled /
down as gust Of wintery all swept |
through from q suddenly opened door 4
as he said
Sometime about he middle Of /
March fortyfour years ago, came 70 /
Cairo with a regiment of 'Kansa, Jay
hawkers. We reached here or. a steam-
boar from 81 Louis and were iaudebI
on the slopa Of lthe lG&e6 no! vei:N. faf
above this hotel. and biNouatKed,' .orE
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older iu an Indiana regiment thar pi
al seen some service around Louis.
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icty We CAM here m box car. over ds
be- Illinois Central and almost im.lpi
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