Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-01-18

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much Of a shower. He eaalght sight OF
me, however, mi asked what was the
matter. I drew my oyorcoat back,
showed hiin what had happened, and
cussed the auarteSmaster about the
clothes. Old Rosy said it was too bad,
and he weuld see about 1t. 1 don't
know whether he did or net, but / do
know that the higher privates In our
regiment had longer clethes.''-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Capturing n Guarded Calf.
While lying at Rome, Ga, In 1864,
our rations needed a little repienishing,
and enc Of cur mess discovered a calf,
too big for enc to handle, which calf
was hoasred by a guard of two soldiers
1t was a rule Of our mess that any one
discovering sue a find" must report
1t at mess, and this was accordingly
reported, and our mess determined, in
spite Of the guard. to raise that calf.
Old Pink led the party. 1t was in
the eastern part Of the village, and the
inclesure In which the calf was con
fined was surrounded by a picket ence.
A few pickets were taken off quietly,
and then the fun began. Such a love
Of home as hat calf manifested would
have lone honor to Barzillea of old. He
would not see, nor find, nor pass out
through that hole in the fence, not
| withstanding we drove him back and
forth like a viewers shuttle time and.
tiMe again. At last Old Kit Ga brother
OF eur leader) out Of oil patience, de-
ternlned to try force; and, grabbing
at the calf's neck, and missing by a
couple Of feet, grasped him around the
body, whereupen the creature began to
run with all his might, Old Kit cling
Ing the tighter. The calf was about
eight months old, in good condition.,
and the way he drew that seven-footer
through the deg-fennei and cherry
sprouts was too funny for a Sunday
school class. Had the brute kept his
mouth shut we should have been all
| right, but, unable to shake off Old Kit,
he began to below around and around
the inclosure, which aroused the
guards, ana bang! bang! Went their,
muskets; whereuloon all but Old Pink
and myself lit out, n the guard,
| thinking all had gone, became quiet
again, we lying close to the cherry
| sprouts meanwhile. After a while we
! tried the calf again, and had little
difficulty in conducting hin cut through
the fence and in the direction Of thei
camp. At about half way Our calf be-
gan to recover his attachment for home
and show a decided inclination to con-
| tribute nothing more toward the trans
portatisn Of his own corpus away
from his native field Of deg-fennel and
cherry sprouts. II he wouldn't he
| wouldn't, and, as we were determined
to own that calf, we had to accept the
situation and abide by 1t. Catching
the calf By the hind foot, Old Kit
handed me the Ratchet with the curt,
command, XIII him. The first blow
only started that siren below again.
but a second blow laid him hsensiblel
at cur feet. Old Kit now showed him-
self a good deal OF q butcher, for inl
a few moments that calf's head was
severed from his body and we were
dragging the latter up the sidewalk
to the hilltop, when Old KIT, out Of
mere bravado, returned to where we
killed the calf, and, taking the head,
pitched It through the window to the
second pafr OF guards. We suppose
they breakfasted upon It.
III due time we arrived in camp, and
while dressing eur beef ! a a cfump OF
elder bushes At absut the hsur Of mid
night, the swnsr Of the calf and the
guards came prswiing absut hunting
the calf, just then covered deep In
elder bushes. Never was q qnieter
place than that camp at ,tAat hour.
1t was peetically quiet Every soldier
was asleep, save the TIVE they were
hunting fsr. and didn't find. They
finally departed, and We were glad to
see thcm r, and thsn we Ha4shed our
%butchering and stored sur beef.
The camp guard each got a good
slice, and we-why we had meat to
sell at twelve and one-half cents pei
pound.
How His Wife saved Him.
During the raid Of John Morgan
through Ohio in 1858, he halted q part
of his command at Senecavhe to rest
while the advance proceeded to Camp
BELLS station to burn the warehouse
and cut the telegraph wires Of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. MOI
gan, who was a man Of splendid per-
sonal appearance, stepped his carriage
in front Of q millinery shop t1at was
presided sver by a strong-Aasded, pa
triotic lady whose husband and two
brothers were in the Union army at the
time. Her husband had presented her
with a fine revolver before he Went
away, and she had promised TO shoot
the first rebel with it that put himself
in reach OF is contents, bat little
dreaming that such an event w0uld oc-
cur in less han = fortnight sfterward.
She stepped t . window, = parted
the blinds enough to see Morgan and
not be seen by him. As the hady spiad
the large silver star that Morgan inva-
riably wore on the lapel OF his ceat, she
concluded it would be d good forget TO
shoot at. She stepped back to q draw
er where she kept the pistol, took It
out, cooked 1t, and 0 deliberate aim
through the aperture in the mind at
that silver star but, just when she was
ready to touch the trigger, b thought
Of Mrs. Morgan and what her anguish
would be when she heard Of his death,
and how grateful she would be q her