Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-09-15


"The inmates? What are they to
you|
'From that house | went south TO
Join this army. There | was born.
There less than year ago l was mar
ricd. 1t is not week since | received
word from my wife that she had there
just been delivered of II son. You see
the holes made by those shots, that
rent in the roof from the explosion of
a shell? General for Gods sake let
me go and see if have killed my wife
and boyw
The general sat in his saddle listen.
ing to this brief but impassioned plea
till it was finished, Ehen threw himself
from his horse.
Come" he said. Il will go with
you"
Together they went into the house.
All was silent; all was wreck. Not u
person appeared on the ground floor.
and the two officers hurried upstairs
That, too, was deserted Then sud
den thought struck the lieutenant and
he hurried TO the cellar, followed by
his general. There on n wicker lounge
lay young woman with an ashen
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oral turned coin to the e,rorn Ton.
tenant Pir,o, ,yos l,nooI,na. beside bis
wife Win his arms about hor baaeinc
her 70 1.-Two for his soEn Nor fafhor
was STANDING with bowad baad Her
r.otl,or vas r,rrinc. b,r to ,ri,.a bar
mir
"el,, must l,e r,o,.ad fr,,r, hcy, ;, soid
tbn ccpn,ol and coIIina an several
rrf,.ota. who hrd str,vnd from tboi,,
commands ard wnr, rambIinp arop
fbrourh fine nousn he or,lared tbem 70
oorrv IN. I,urua and its hur,lep nm.
stairs and into a room where tha least
wracl,oga had been done There the
invalid hunvnd law tho rrespnce Of her
husband gathered n little strength and
was enabled to wind her arms about
his nocI,
Then came a surgeon and apnlied
sipnIa rastorotivas
"If sba racovars " no said "after ha-
inc In borsa bottarod Inv artillery
wbilo sho was in sncb n condition If
VIII ba miracle"
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orol ovov Refora leaving he directed
tbo+ ovarvthinp the medical staff could
s,,r,,,, ho broue,b+ for bar usa
and Won Hautenontn be added TO
Rirrav .oro to remain an duty here tin
frrthnr orders"
I-ndor her husbands tender care the
rotber nossed = crisis and recovered,
h,,+ before thot the army had with.
drawn southward and within n fort.
Itch. pi,.rar raioirod his hotterv of
Which the contatp having died of his
wounds be was nromoted to the COM
mond
The general poudered long as to how