Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02

Schof1eld. Sheridan, Granger AND
many others. and the list was long and
impressive. At asst 1T became neces,;'
sary for General Grants signature TO-
be added.
when l entered the Office" sayI
Miss c.. "the general was smoking, his
feet higher than his head. But he
seemed instantly to stand upright be-
for ME, and his cigar was thrown
away In a moment.
II handed him my protection.
"'You have rather a formidable list
of names,' he said. as he took it from
me.
"'And I hope that o will add yours
to It. and make 1T even more formid-
able | replied.
"For answer he sat down again,
ready to put his signature at the end
o: the parchment. hen he suddenly
stopped and looked at me.
"'For how long do you wish this
protection for your estate. Miss c.?
he asked.
Until the day Of judgment, gen
cral.' answered, boldly.
Then he smiled that sweet, ~quizzical
smile OF his that made 80 many pee.
pie. ever when they were his enemies,
love him. and said:
My dear young lady, you have
great confidence in your armies! But
with such courage and with such q
leader as General lee, ! cannot won
DER Then, with a great flourish, he
added the words, TIL the day Of judy
ment, Ulysses s. Grant, and handed 1t
back to me-" HEF
The First Charge of the seth Illinsis
The troops who We're assigned to the
southwest in the early days OF the
war, remember what a d~ilapidAted,
~"one-horse town the terminus of the
railroad was in 1861. Every shanty
was n whisky shop from whence pro
ceeded every form Of loathsoms
disease and death to those who patron
lied the places. On Colonel Grensel,
of the Thirty-siXth Illinois Regiment,
devolved the command of the post. The
first measure i~naugurated by him. and
the first expedition in which the
Thirty-sixth participated was n demon.
stration against the whisky lens"
The Colonel headed the charge in
person, seized all the liquor that
could be found, emptying it Into the
streets. The natives who witnessed
this onslaught of the Yankee crusaders
on their (to them) elixir Of life,
thought we'uns were very wasteful.
Out Of this chaos and disorder thu
colonel soon brought cleanliness ant
order. War, with its wonder-work1nt
power, brought n great change in thu
appearance OF this sleepy town. White
walled canvas villages sprang up al
around the hill-sides; sentinels paced
up and down it's once quiet walks
army wagons soldiers, mounted Off
GERS, orderlies hurrying from camp tt
camp, gave the place an air of business
activity quite in contrast with tbs
primitive days of the town.
The population was largely made F
Of apple women, mustang ponies, fugi
tives from the outskirts Of civilization
mules, contraband negroes, with nov
and then a secessionist not smar
enough to run away, and too worth
less to be hung. Such was Rolla 81
we found 1t. Any n visiting thai
part Of Missouri, and Rolla in particu
lar, please make a note Of the ther
and now contrast. Another institution
somewhat aboriginal, and yet peculiarl,
Missourian, was the pie and cake yend
ers, generally skinny, snuf-rubbing, to
bacco-chewing old women, who fOcket
from the country with ''~buckskin" o,
'leather apron" compositions callet
pies and gingerbread, made from sor
! ghum, Jour and bacon grease 9TH
color suggested tar. The vendors o
these villainous articles would han,
about the confines of the camp, hawk
ing their wares with voices as musica
and feminine as horse fddles.
1t was absolutely marvellous to so
the quantities which an average "thir
ty-sixer' could hold, and how it was 1
continual source of wonder how mer
could endure the surfeit Of leather and
sorghum, beans and "~sow-belly" witt
which they tormented their digestive
organs and survive. It could only be
accounted for on the theory that with
the change from civil to military lffe
their stomachs, like their costumes
had undergone a wonderful transfor'
nation, perhaps were lined with Cutta
percha and riveted to q diaphragm OF
boiler iron. Yet they lived and, like
Joshua Of old, waxed fat. The demand
for this indigestible native pastry was
occasioned by the poor quality Of the
~rations Mt that time issued to the
troops. Tho boys of '61 well remem'
Der some Of the early issues of b old,
round. wormy, mouldy, hard bread
with "B. G." marked on the barrels
When soaked in coffee more or lesl
worms would wiggle to the surface o.
be found among the dregs. The mem,
bers Of the band Mt one time had Is
sued to them n barrel of ''tack" inhn'
itely worse than any that had hitherto
been received. After a hasty council
they determined to give it a militar,
burial. Headed by the leader, thu
whole burial corps Of the regimen,
marched in solemn procession to a spoa
situated outside the camp, and thu
rites of sepulchre were gone through
with. Dutch Charley, the bass drum
mer. suggested that an epitaph b.
written upon the head-board. On bein,
asked what it should be, he replied:
Here lies Won mans his names harl
pred;