Rock Island Argus., 1914-01-26

! YOU SHALL HAVE YOUR HUSBAND, Hf
SAID.
| cause she knows no one in Washing
ton and has no place where she can
| leave it."
Bring her in," the president di-
rected.
A young woman poorly dressed car
rying child in her arms was ushered
! into the presence of the head of the
nation-not the august presence" by
which we are accustomed to describe
those who WELD governmental power,
but the presence of long, thin man
of large bone and a melancholy eye.
Mr.. Lincoln directed the messenger to
hand the mother a seat beside him and
asked:
What can 1 do for you. my good
woman?"
The visitor told her story, not in the
words it is given here, for she would
not have been able to give it as elabo-
rateIy and the government clock could
not have been stopped long enough for
her thus to tell it. but her words, spo-
ken in tremulouS voice, interrupted
occasionally by the fretting of her
child. were doubtless far more effec-
tive than the following version:
In the spring of 1861, when the war
drum was calling from the Atlantic to
the Pacific for volunteers to fight for
the Union cause, n regiment was drawn
up in the state of. Pennsylvania in col
umn formation ready to march to the
railway station to entrain for Wash
ington. Just before the order For
ward," was given a girl of twenty. car
-fr,e~
to one of the companies looking eager
ly for some one. Private Jack Will
liams waved his hand to her and, ap-
preaching him. she handed him the
bundle containing the last bit OF food
she could hope to prepare for him in
many a month to come. There was
but time for an embrace when the
word March, rang out, the band
struck up an inspiriting air, and the
regiment moved away.
rs that your sweethea:t?" asked
Williams file closer of him as they
marched to the tune of 1.-The Girl /
Left Behind Me-"
Sweetheart and WIFE" was the la
comic reply.
Jack Williams, though he had been
married but few months. heard the
call of President Lincoln for the 10000
volunteers that constituted the first
detachment of the great army for the
Union and enlisted at the nearest re-
cruiting station. One night in Virginia
he was on picket duty, standing peer
ing into the darkness for an enemy.
Suddenly he felt his arms grasped
from behind and a hand clapped over
his mouth. His musket fell over in the |
long grass without sound He was
pushed forward until the picket line of |
which he had formed part was left |
behind. Then gruff voice said:
Move on, Yank, IL you don't want |
any lead in your noddle" i
A very neat job of picket captureI
had been achieved by single Ccnfed. |
crate soldier.
The next morning. when the pIckets
were relieved, the officer of the retirfnci
picket post where the capture had been
made asked:
where's Williams?'
There was no reply to the question.
where's Williams:" the officer re-
peated, and. still receiving no answer.
asked where he had been posted.
Third man to the east of the pike,
replied the sergeant, between Rice
and Kimball.'
Did either. OF you men hear any
thing of Williams during the nisht:"
asked the officer of the men mentioned.
Both men replied that they had not.
How far apart were the men post
'd?' asked the officer OF the sergeant.
'On the west side of the pike put
hem hundred feet apart: on the east
'ide / fell short OF men and mazda II