Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-08-13
THE YOUNG
 TELEGRAPHER.
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similar positions Ill history. General John Morgan started on his military career as commander of company of young Confederates and operated al ways in the middle southwest. His career was fulf of daring He would approach Union picket assuming to be a Federal officer, reprimand him for some negligence get possession of his musket and thus capture single handed a whole picket post.
 It was during the campaign of Gen. eral Halleck against Quaker guns at Corinth that Morgan was operating in Halleck's rear in western Tennessee. harassing lines of communication. This is very important service. An army must be fed. That means that the avenues of communication must be kept open and the supplies passing over them to the men at the .afront must be protected. In this work an important feature to the protecting force was the telegraph.
 The telegraph office at the town of F., station on the railroad supply ing the army before Corinth, was in charge of Tom Venable, who lived with his family on the upper floor of the two story station building, the tele- graph and ticket office being below. One night when Venable was in his office sending the dispatches necessary to get heavy tran load of supplies south he heard a tap on the window pane Looking up, there stood man in Confederate uniform covering him with the muzzle of his pistol. The off cer had tapped with the pistol to at tract Venabe's attention and ordered him to throw up the sash. Ncnable did so, and the officer climbed in at the window.
 'I'm John Morgan" he said.
 Morgan usually declared himself in this fashion. It was the best possible way of striking an enemy with terror.
 Meanwhile the station was surround ed by Confederate cavalrymen. Mor gan put his own te,esrapher at the key, who began to telegraph the train Ven able had been ia coinmunication with. Tue conductor had been warned that the ConfetieTates were making a raid in the @isn and was waiting to be asS,red that it VAS safe to advance. Mo ans teingrapher sent Il dispatch that Morgan had gone off in an easter ly direction and an order signed by a Union commander for the train to come on.
 Now, tl.ere is hero 10 this story. though hr is asleep i:1 hi; hal above the telegraph office Et.; o elattr' Ha meath awallos him i,etH- E0. over thirteen je:l,; o,t,. 4e , 5;n't a,,-a,.e iii hurry, but his mother helps hu by telling him that the station k il pos session of the dreaded ND.zsJ9 jim mic Nenabe was of q Seicn lic G!:s.3 and had already q miniature telegraph outfit in his own little room Il% cir cult was but ten feet and was confined to the room, but it was big enough to play with, and he knew the do. and line alphabet His father Was Il pgis oner downstairs. but he heard i;:S mother say that doubtless Morgan hal captured the telegraph in order to de coy train into q trap and destroy the supplies intended for the Union army
 Jimmie got an idea. The telegraph wires passed within ten feet of his window before entering the office be- low. He told his mother what he in tended to do, and she helped him. He took his play wire. tied harbrush to one end of it, threw it over the line wire and completed his circuit by of T tn ground. It didn't make very good connection, but it sufficed He didn't know the calls of stations nor what station to call He waited till there was comparative quiet below, then clicked: 'P. station. Morgan here'' This he repeated several times. It was heard at several stations up the road. and the conductor of the train was at' vised of it at once.
 One man heard it for whom it was not intended. That was the Confederate operating in the office below Jimmie's room. He was sitting near the key when he heard the words clicked and Knew that some one had outwitted hlm. He notified his commander and search was made, and Jimmie's hair brush was seen dangling from the main wire. It told them the story Going upstairs, they discovered Jim- mics device. The general was the nrst to enter the room Jimmie was still at his key.
 Have you been sending informa- ton to the enemy?" he asked.
 Yes, 1 have" said Jimmie nrOudIv He did not know the extent of the service he had rendered, but was sure he had done something valuable to his cause.
 DO you know what we do with lit ue poys who are spies?" asked Mor- gan
 "No."
 Well, it's something very terrible. put ln this case the boy is a very VI al,