Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-31

about and visit with his former school
and piaymstes"
"You spoke about scolding Paul after
tho war"
"Yess I g,rve him Il terrible scoldfng
md then presented him with a choice
package Of advice. I said his mind
vas weakened from sickness and his
prison Life. He came to me a few
mouths after the war and told me that
be believed he was going to die before
long; thAt he had no desire to live;
that his ambition was gone-that he
felt like giving IN and going to pieces.
I told him to stop such nonsense and
brace up; that he could, If he was g
mind to DO so, make a great success
Of life, that he must pitch right in and
do lots Of work. Get q job on a farm
and so right al your tasks as you used
to when a soldier so IN to succeed
He grasped my hand and said he
would not give up-that he would
pull himself together and fight out Of
his gloom and distress"
did he do it,"
W w W Tic SLile lulT ut I1dlA.
line and see his first premium apples,
pears, grapes. corn, wheat and other
products and hear him tell, as he
told me, Of his 3OO-acre Minnesota
farm, all paid for, with his herds of
1tne and stable Of blooded horses ;
at his bonds, bank account and mort
HSeA Why, man, Eric is well to do
-RArh IN roNf md ha told mo, fn-1ou
that he owed It all to my scolding in
1868 Paul was as good a soldier as
his company had, yet he never mar
Rcd" said the old general. A.
Watrosls In Chicago TimeSIIerald.
A Touching Incident.
4 touching incident Of the civil war
was related by one OF a group of old
soldiers who We're recently talking over
old times, says the Washington Post.
"You will remember" said he. that
at one time during the war there was
a little cavalry fight between Charles
town, now In West Virginia, and Ber-
yv1lle, and for quite a while there
were q series OF skirmishes taking place
nearly every day. The women in
that neighborhood did everything they
possibly could In the nature Of sue
corning the unfortunate soldiers who
were wounded, many of them right in
front of their homes, and their devo-
ton was absolutely angelic in it's char
setcs. They interested themselves in
getting the names OF those who fell in
the fights did everything they possibly
could for them as they lay wounded in
their homes, and obtained the names
Of the men who had fallen, and when
tho wounded died sent word to their.
friends and saw t. it that the dead
received Christian burial.
zone day there was n young boy
shot, and. as it proved, mortally wound
cd, Just IN front Of the house of a
lady who lived in Berryvflle. Two
ladies' were on the porch at the time.
They went to the gate and brought the
young Confederate soldier to the porch.
He lived Just long enough to tell his
name and died on the porch with his
head In the lap Of n of the good
women They had him buried in the
little graveyard ut Charlestown In the
family lot OF one OF the women.
III was twenty-five years after this
that the Lady in whose lot the lad was
buried was visiting In Abingdon, in
the southwestern part Of the State.
She fell down in the street one day and
vns very seriously injured. She was
taken into the house Of an old lady
who reoided IN Abingdon and carefully
nursed The Good Samaritan in whose
house she was III for quite a long while,
spent a good deal Of her time attending
DO heR, md they became great friends.
One day the Abingdon lady related
that she had a son who vas killed in
q light somewhere in the valley of Vir-
g1nia, and that she had never heard
anything Of his body nor of the details
concerning his death.
This freshened the mind of the 9TH
er woman, who went back to her home
as Boon as she recovered from her In
jur1es and procured the address that
"rs still in her possession. She wrote
Xxx to her good friend at Abingdon,
md found hat the boy who died with
his head in her lap was the son of
the good woman who had been caring
for her when she was i'll at Abingdon.
The mother, fully satisfied that the
lend soldier was her son, went to
Charlestown, got his dead body that
had beer buried for many years, and
took 1t back to her home, where the
remains were rGinterred in the family
lot at Abingdon"