The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1917-06-29

Somewhere between Fairview, Ky.
Buena Vista, Mexico, and the White
House at Richmond, Virginia, Age, 2
or rs years; height, full six feet, cree
bearing, refined features, straight
nose, pointed chin, firm lips, high
forehead, intellectual countenance
spiritual expression. Known in late,
life as Jefferson Davis, the "Chie1
Traitor THE South's IDOL" the
"Arch Rebel" the Martyr of the Lost
Cause"-according to the viewpoint.
Suitable reward to the person who
restores said Young Lover, divestec
of the disguise of prejudice and fic.
ton, to the two peoples whom he serv.
ed long and faithfully as soldier
Senator, Secretary of War, President
and Vicarious Victim. Description
must correspond with the facts of
history.
At venture-in answer to the
above-the following is submitted:
Found-Lieut. jefferson Davis of the
U. S. regular army. Graduate Of
West Point, native of Fairview, near
Hopkinsville, Kentucky. About
twenty-four years old. Carriage
proud and "springy as an Indian
brave on the war path" every inch
of his six feet soldier spite Of pro-
portions reduced almost to skele-
ton by the hardships Of strenuous
military duty in the frozen lumber
camps of upper Yellow River; devoted
to his profession, absorbed in study
book or a sabre always in hand;
constantly attended by the intelligent
negro, James Pemberton, his body
servant, who has nursed his master
tenderly through pneumonia In the
Yellow River forests (Where glarlng
SHOWS and bitter cold have well nigh
blinded the intense gray eyes of the
young Lieutenant) and has recently
conducted him safely back to rejoin
his comrades of the First U. S. In
fantry regiment, under command OF
Col. Zachary Taylor.
Place of discovery-Old Fort Craw-
ford, the frontier outpost of the
United States, at Prairie du Chen,
where Col. Taylor has recently taken
command on Wisconsin's bleak wes-
tern border.
Time-Early in the year 1888.
Spring imminent.
In the heart of every fore,tt tree
The blood was all aglee."
Swelling buds or leafless coughs
were softering harshly silhouetted
bare branches into feathery splotches
of, pinkish brown against cold blue
horizon that seemed widely, inf 1ite-
ly to wall off lonely Fort Crawford
from all the world. The mas es of
floating ice from the upper reaches
of the Mississippi and the Wisconsin
rivers were perceptibly smaller and
less numerous, less thunderous in the
crash of meeting where the two
mighty streams joined currents with
in view of the officers quarters,
guard house and barracks that now
crowned Pixies hilltop in place of the
old lNg structure and palisade that
had occupied the site in earlier times.
Yet, "Bluebirds' songs and winds of
spring" but served to deepen the gar
rison's sense of isolation. No "look
about the leafess bowers, as if they
dreamed of flowers could allay the
soldiers thirst for home nor quiet the
longing for sisterly, motherly, cousin
ly corlpaiionship. All signs and por-
tents of spring only intensified the
wish for the society of the attractive
sex that was represeted at Fort
Crawford almost solely by the young
wife of Capt. McCree.
All at once, as a close observer
would have noted, the expectant ire
NOR Of natures Awakening seemed to
communicate itself to the unmarried
contingent in garrison. New life
stirred the camp coincident with the
announcement that Col. Taylor's fam
lily, his wife, three daughters and a
son, were to shortly join him and
take up their residence in the fort.
The sap of youth mounted heart
high beneath military braid and but
tons; side arms reflected brighter
burnish; uniforms were more carefully
brushed; the slightest word or nod
of the martinent colonel was obeyed
as an order; the brusqueries of "Old
Rough and Ready" were good hu-
moredly ignored, his stalest jokes
loudly Neutrality-suspicious. that were
correctly interpreted by the eagle
eyed commander of the post. He
lost no time in applying the remedy.
Addressing himself to the officers, en-
masse, assembled in the mess hall,
he asserted violently, yes, with oaths
and curses, that no daughter of his
should ever marry an army officer.
"a soldiers life is dogs life" he