The daily Alaskan., 1906-11-21

ooasuhg or TMsE De GaU written sol, dler with q clean record had become a sneak and a skulk. Should he reveal himself then and there he would be loaded with anathemaS and approaches. No father with patriotism in his heart would have him for sOn-in-law. No iirl who thought of honor and reputa- ton would welcome him.
 The deserter groaned in agony as he realized the situation, and the people had withdrawn into the house to go to bed before he crawled away. That night be walked fifteen miles. lodging and Skulking and afraid of everything that moved by the roadside. In the morning he was headed for Pennsyl- vania. The papers told him which way Lee was moving. He found confusion in Philadelphia There was no provost guard to pick him up and ask Ques- tiOnS; no citizen to suspect him of be- ing a deSerter. He found place where be could exchange his suit for uni form and was of for the front an hour later.
 The country was overrun by parties from either side, and it was the ser geants fortune to be gobbled up by Confederate cavalry. He was sent to the rear as a prisoner. He was held until the thunder of the three days bat tie was hushed and Lee was falling slowly back on Falling Waters, and then he and hundreds more were head ed for the Potomac. The rest is to be found in the history of his company and regiment That history reads:
 AS Lee fell back, his retreat iucum- bered with wounded men, prisoners and a long baggage train, Custer press ed one division of 1t closely over the mountain roads. There were constant attacks and the Confederates fought oravely to save what they had won. At a point about ten miles from the river, where we made an unusually fierce attack and where the resistance was proving too much for us, sud
  Federal sergeant belonging to Michi- gan regiment and who was a prisoner In Confederate hands rallied about 400 of his fellow captives, rushed their guards and, with arms thus obtained, made a flank movement and scattered the force opposed to us and came charging through to us. The sergeant brought in the flag of Confederate regiment that he had captured, and there is no doubt of his promotion for his brave conduct"
 A month later Sergeant Wise was Lieutenant Wise. The order read on dress parade spoke to the regiment of his being captured while on duty at picket post, of escape and recapture, and recorded his act of capturing the lag and turning on his captOrs as one of the braYest things in war. The ser geant had not lied or boasted. He had left others to figure out as they wanted to, and they had made the most of 1t. 4 year and half later he was a captain and on his way home to marry the girl who was waiting for him.
 He did not march to her house, nor yet to his, from the depot. He took a contrary direction until he brought up before the house of the man who had held his honor in bis hands. Then things happened A year later the jus tice of the peace would have called it felonlous assault, and jail might have been the consequence, but Lee had sur rendered, the war was over, and the home coming veterans owned the coun- try. The wife has never known.
 No human being except the ser geant's chum has ever known. It was a race between honor and disgrace, and konor won. N. QUAD.