Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1911 — Page 3

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Uw, Abstracts, Real Estate, Loans Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig's Fair. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. J. F. Irwin. S. C. Irwia Irwin & Irwin, Law, Real Estate and Insurance Office in Odd Fellows Block. RENSSELAER. IND. ■' ■ I. O. O. F. Bldg. Phone 159 John A. Dunlap, LAWYER. Practice in all courts Estates settled. Farm Loans. Collection department Notary in the office. Rensselaer, Indiana.

Arthur H. Hopkins, Law, Loans and Real Estate Loans on farm and City property personal security and chattel mortgage Buy, sell and rent farms and city property. Farm and city fire insurance Attorneys for AMERICAN BUILDING LOAN AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Office over Chicago Department Store RENSSELAER. IND. F. H. Hemphill, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Special attention given to diseases of Women and low grades of fever. Office in Williams block, opposite Court House. Formerly occupied by Dr. Hartsell. Phone, Office and Residence, 442. S. Herbert Moore, ft. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. All calls will receive prompt attention night or day from my office over the Model Clothing store. Telephone No. 251. Rensselaer - * Indiana. E. C. English, Physician & Burgeon. Opposite the Jasper Savings & Trust Company Bank. Office Phone 177. Residence Phone, 116. W. W. Merrill, M. D. Eclectic Physician and Surgeon, RENSSELAER. - - INDIANA Chronic Diseases a Specialty. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’s drug store. Dr. F. A. Turfler OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. Graduate American School of Osteopathy. Post Graduate American School of Osteopathy under the founder. Dr. A T. SUII. Office Hours —9-12 a. m., 1-5 p. m. Tuesdays and Fridays at Monticello, Ind. 1-2 Murray Building - Rensselaer, Ind. Dr. J. H. Hansson VETERNARY SURGEON—Now al Rensselaer. Calls promptly answered. Office in Harris Bank Building. Phone 443.

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A Bit of Burned Paper

Two Sisters Struggle on Opposite Sides In the Civil War

By Margaret Howland

Now that we are entering on four years of semieentenu.ate of the civil war it is quite likely that certain secrets will come out that have lain hidden for fifty years. Our family lived on a plantation in Virginia which our ancestors had owned for years. For a few weeks during the first year of the wqr our bouse was on debatable ground, for Confederate camps were scattered south of us and Union camps 'north ot us. Sometimes we were inclosed in the picket line of the one and sometimes in the picket line of the other. When we were in Confederate territory our home was a rendezvous for Confederates, and when we were overlapped by the Federal forces they were equal-

A FRAGMENT OF PAPER.

ly welcome. The reason for this was that on the great issue we were a divided family. My sister Carey, who was then twenty-two. favored the Confederates, while I, a girl of nineteen. favored the Union cause. We were both reasonably attractive and had plenty of attention from the officers visiting our bouse. Father was a colonel in the Confederate army and my brother Sam a lieutenant in the Federal army. But neither of them was fighting in our neighborhood. Possibly we girls might have waited a long while for husbands had it not been for the great influx of soldiers into our neighborhood. The consequence of this influx was the engagement of Carey and myself soon after their coming, I to Captain Hunt, a Federal; Carey to Captain Fitzhugh, a Confederate officer. At one time when we were in the. Confederate lines the general commanding rode up to the bouse and asked my mother if she would give him a room in which to meet some of his officers. She offered the parlor, and he sent messengers with orders for the officers to report to him there at once. Within half an hour they had assembled and were all generals. I surmised that something important was on foot find wished that I might hear what it was in order to transmit it to my friends of the other side. Underneath the parlor in which the conference was held was the cellar. I went down there, but could hear nothing. There was no other position I could take to enable me to gain my information of what was being discussed in the parlor. Besides, Carey was watching me. When the council was ended and the generals had departed 1 went into the parlor and looked about, hoping to discover something—possibly a bit of paper that had been dropped—to indicate what had been the subject of discussion. There were some tiny pieces on the floor which I picked tip and put together, but only figures had been put on the whole before it had been torn to scraps. I kept the bits and found out afterward that they figured the strength of the different divisions of the Confederate army in that location. But there was not enough in this to satisfy me, and I looked further. A stove in the room, owing to the condition of the negroes consequent upon the excitement of war, had not been removed for the summer. In my hunt I opened its door. Lying on the ashes of previous wood fires was a fragment of paper the rest of which was burned. Taking It out, I saw that it was memoranda written in lead pencil. But unfortunately not- one-half remained. What was left of the writing was as follows: ' at daylight ... » flank lliams gbams mes neat hing Williams ’ . arker’s on west side - stltutlng left flank - signal of one gun fired by rias 1 battery. Reyn or feints on enemy’s right flank then Whether there was -anything of value in this fragment to the Union generals I did not know. I didn’t think there was, but I determined to deliver It Into their hands as soon as possible. Carey and I each bad a horse of our own, and, going out to the barn, I told

Bob, my boy for such work, to saddle him at once while I put on my riding skirt As I was riding past the house Carey came out with a suspicious look on her face, and called: “Where you going, Bet?’ “Fora ride.” ’ “Want me?" “Haven’t time to wait" With that I rgde away, preventing her asking me any more questions. Coming to a crossroad, whom should I see riding toward me but Carey’s fiance. Captain Fitzhugh. I knew he would see Carey in a few minutes and if I turned northward on the road he would tell her I had done so, and her suspicions that I was bent on some aid to the Federate would be confirmed. I therefore turned southward and when Fitzhugh bad ridden out of sight turned and rode the other ,way. My meeting Fitzhugh was unfortunate—not in his giving information of me to Carey, for when he reached the plantation he didn’t find her at home, but that it delayed me. and by this delay I fell into a trap. While riding in the open, looking sidewise, I saw a girl on horseback galloping across country and aiming for a point ahead of me A second glance told me she was Carey, and I knew at once that she was intending to cut me off and prevent my reaching the Union camps. I urged on my horse, but it was no use. Carey jumped her animal over a snake fence, lighting in the road. When I reached her she had taken position in the middle of it and was covering me with a revolver. “You can’t go on. Bet.” sue said. “Turn around and ride the other way.” “Well. 1 like that!” I exclaimed. “Do you mean you’re going to shoot your own sister?” “These are wartimes.” I wasn’t afraid of her shooting me, so I gave my horse the whip, but Carey was a splendid horsewoman and put herself in my way. Do what I could. I was unable to pass her. At last she seized my bridle rein and, leading my horse, started back toward the crossroads. “Where were you going?’ she asked. “I don’t know that I am accountable to you for where I go.” “Oh. yes. you are. I’m your older sister.” She slipped the pistol in her pocket—we had pockets in our dresses then—relying on her superior strength alone. Of course the revolver was all gammon. She wouldn’t use it on anybody, especially on her sister. She kept a tight hold on my horse’s rein, and it seemed to me that my object was surely thwarted when suddenly 1 saw a group of horsemen coming, and by the dark color of their uniform I knew they were Federals. Carey saw them too. It was too late for her to turn back wi|h me. and there was no road by which to evade them. When we met them and they saw a girl bolding another girl’s bridle rein, leading her along forcibly, they looked very much astonished. "Please release me, gentlemen,” I said. “I’m Union, and this girl is Confederate. I’m her prisoner.” The absurdity of the point didn’t strike Carey or me. but the troopers burst into a laugh. Then I smiled, but Carey looked awfully savage. She knew the fortunes of war had turned against her. Well, I told my story to the officer in command of the troops and showed him the partly burned paper. He seemed much Impressed and decided to take it to his general. Considering that Carey knew something about the find and might upset the situation, he concluded to take her and me with him. So we all rode together to the headquarters of the general commanding, and I gave him the paper. He and several of his aids undertook from their knowledge of the Confederate force confronting them to restore the burned words. This is the result of the attempt: The men will be under arms at daylight, Reyner’s division on the right flank at Crosby’s crossroads. Williams next on the left on Brigham’s farm. Calhoun comes next, his right wing touching Williams’ left: then Harker on west side of the hill, constituting left flank. On signal of one gun fired by Watriss’ battery Reynor feints on enemy’s right flank then— There was nothing more that was legible, but nothing more was needed to show that a dawn attack was to be made and the disposition and intention of the attacking force given. When it was to take place there was nothing to show, but the Union troops were ordered to be under arms every morning at 1 o’clock and in line of battle. Carey and I were detained at the Union headquarters that the Confederates might not know that the Federals bad information of the intended movement. We had not long to wait, for the very next morning the Confederates attacked their enemies. They found the Federals waiting for them and. instead of gaining a victory, suffered a disastrous defeat I won a double victory, the one I gained for the Federals—for the Union general said that without the information 1 brought him he would have doubtless been taken unawares and defeated—and in the fact that the Confederates having been driven off their ground, Carey was separated from her lover, while I was united with mine. It is hard for me to realize that half a century has passed since those eventful days; that 1. who am now a white haired, wrinkled old woman, was then a rosy cheeked girl, and of all who were enacting that particular page In the voluminous history of the civil war I alone remain. And now. as the half century anniversaries of the events of that struggle are coming round, I am living them over again, not In reality, but in feeling.

FOR THE CHILDREN

Running Away. Three little children running away (Hush! Don't tell! Don't tell!). Hand in hand to a lovely land. Off where the fairies dwelt Oh, what fun, for the land is large. Shaded with candy trees! There you can play the livelong day. There you can do as you please. • Come In the early morning time. Come in the dusky eve. Come With the throng and hurry along To the Land of Make Believe! Up to Snuff. We have a habit o£ saying of a person who knows how to make ths most of opportunities that he is "up to snuff.” When we associate the powdered tobacco which people put into their noses with this expression it appears to have small sense. The reason lies further back in the origin of the word snuff itself. Snuffen is the German for smell. It formerly meant not only to identify odors by means of the nose, but to scent a thing—that is, to discern a thing. “To smell a rat" and “on the right scent” both have their origin in this. Thus “up to snuff” means up to a superior standard of discernment, or the ability to follow a clew, etc. Accordingly the expression has a deal more sense In it than appeanr-at first glance. A Young Fireman. Naly Reese and his little brother, Earl, were alone in their house in Manor, Pa., when of them accidentally set fire to the window curtain. The curtain flared up In an instant. and Naly ran outdoors, calling for help. Naly is eight years old, and boys no older than that cannot be expected to fight fires. They cannot be expected to, but sometimes they do. Earl is only six years old, but he was old enough to be a brave boy. He did not run after his brother. He pulled at the burning curtain, got it down to the floor, and then rolled it up, burning as is was, and stamped on it When some neighbors hurried into the house they found that the fire was out and that Earl was sitting on the floor by the side of the charred curtain and crying because his hands were burned. Leapfrog. This is the simplest but one of the best of overback games. The players stand behind each other, forming a long line. The first player in the line makes a back, the second leaps over and makes a back a few feet farther on, the first one still remaining down. The third player goes over the first one, then the second, and in his turn makes a back a few feet beyond the second one, and this is continued until all the line are down. Then the boy who made the first back starts again and leaps each of the backs and makes another back beyond the end of the line, the next player follows suit, and thus a continually advancing line of backs Is formed. The whole fun of this game lies in Its being played with spirit A Happy Family. In Los Angeles there Is a cat named Polly, and she four kittens. Three of them were taken away from her, and she felt unhappy. She roused herself long enough to kjll a rat, and then she found that there were three little motherless rats left in a soft nest. She had had a good meal, and so she did not eat them. She adopted them. She took each one in her mouth and carried it to her own bed, where the lone kitten remained, and when she had made her family complete she set about taking care* of them. People came for miles around to look at the cats and the rats and take pictures of them. Conundrums. How long did Cain hate his brother? As long as he was Abel. What Is that which lives in the winter, dies In the summer and grows with Its roots upward? An Icicle. Why Is necessity like a stupid lawyer? Because it knows no law. Why is Athens like a wornout shoe? Because It once had a Solon (sole on). Why will an Insolent fishmonger get more business than a civil one? Because when he sells fish he gives sauce with IL _ ' ~ . Why is a banker’s clerk well informed? Because he is continually taking notes. Game of Sergeant. One child is c#osen for the sergeant, the others representing the soldiers. When the sergeant says “Do this,” all the players must Imitate him. However, when he says “Do that,” they must take no notice. If a soldier makes a mistake he drops ouL The soldier who stays In line longest becomes sergeant next or wins a prize. Delicate Workmanship. An expert workman In one of the great needle factories in a test of skill performed one of the most delicate feats Imaginable. He took a common sewing needle of medium size, an inch and five-eighths in length, and drilled a hole through its entire length from eye to point Interesting Postage Stamps. Postage stamps tell the story of the history of Switzerland when they mark the unification of the government of the country under one central power. In 1850 one uniform set of stamps took the place of all the many stamps which bad been used In the separata cantons.

Humor and Philosophy

By DVNCAN M. SMITH

PERT PARAGRAPHS. rpHE woman who Is a good cook, if she is wise, will apprentice hqr husband to the cooking department The water of life seems to go through some sort of meter that has a quarter-ln-the-slot attachment. We never make a new start as long as we can bold on to a rag of the old condition. A man can always give a good account of himself who has a healthy balance at the bank. Some men never think of their wives without simultaneously thinking of a sheaf of unpaid bills. Many a man has tried to Impress a Woman only to find himself suppressed.

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