Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1890 — The Commissary’s Mysterious Disappearance. [ARTICLE]

The Commissary’s Mysterious Disappearance.

The two lines were facing ope another, With only a short distance separating them. A farmer 1 rode into tm Confederate camp bn a mule. ' Most of the soldiers had been farmers, and were gbod judges of. horseflesh, So that in conversation with the old fartoer. the merits gnd demerits of thp mule caqie up naturally for some discussion. It was a good mule, they agreed with the ’ farmer, “bat,” added the owner, "’Tv*? never seen another man that' cbtild , ride him.” . : u .*■>'< 1 This remppk brought on apother.dis- ' cuSkion. Several of the soldiers protested that they had never been thrown from a mule; and, |were ; filling to, bp! that they could ridpj|iis ?ft p. r ,jQn % p 4 the most vociferous m praising his own horsemanship was a commissary, He Swbte he cotikT ridfe Mt JujS?W finally it was decided to let him try. ■He had no sooner mounted than the tmule beg ft n l ..pl^p ?S .,^ousl i y, T a ft d (thpp he ran around m a circle several times at b're&ktaeeiK speedlthe cbhi&i's- 1 sari holdittg.im.lit jlteSiftfidfiljW v tH '* Suddenly that mule made F^jrpab epy,, attempt 1 ■ was u made* 4 ter "stop' tlieih, bat- ‘ • mglb ■ Was * 1 feild^ftad * thef'conaaifegarjf'ktle'si, that if'.afcah&rit. i i-iC'Cla like gsfthe crow piyftllWe Confederate ouLpbsts amSt heading 'fftj; ’-tm!' Yankee lifi&s.- They Watched- him nn--tii the table Watrlostto tight,: lad ? the las.L«fis£.o*£&em, •haaone word ever*been,,-hgaf Or feprn