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iv THE SADDEST INCIDENT OF THE WAR. •y F. A. MITCHKL. (Copyright, 1112, by American elation.] 'HAT is the MddMt occur rence you witnessed dor lug the civil war*" I ask ed the white headed Yet- wan. "The saddest occurrence?" "Yea. the most pathetic." Til tell you. hot the circumstance Involves a little preface. I can't call It a story, for there's not plot or plan to It. I fought In the ranks during the whole of those terrible four years and waa In many skirmishes and tmt Vtles. 1 started In the west, my ft rut fight belujr at Shiloh. my next at Per I BAT1NS WITH THK EN IKY. •jrrllle, and so on, including Stone Blv ar, Chickamauga. Mission Ridge, Re and Kenesaw. and moat oi the While this lot lasts we will sell it at $2.25 per bushel Quick Meal Gasoline and Oil Stoves The farmer's wife is beginning to realize that she can do her cooking, baking, washing and ironing with a QUICK MEAL GASOLINE or OIL STOVE with less labor than with the COAL RANGE. We are selling more QUICK MEAL GASOLINE and OIL STOVES to farmers each season. They are safe and economical in the consumption of oil, have very few parts to get out of order. Cream Separators Buying a Cream Separator is like getting married. After you have bought it you have to keep it, if you like it or not. A cheap separator weighs just aa much and sometimes more, than a good one. The EMPIRE is alight machine, as well aa light running. A ten-year-old child can turn the Empire. Having less parts than other machines, it takes less time to clean it- A postal card will bring one to your home on approval •psssi«wgg!^^ cnat wasn't In battles—on the Atlanta campaign—I waa under Are. "Our people up here only knew of the war by some one near and dear wIm) went down there to fight for the Union and never came back. Some times those lost ones were brought back In a box. sometimes they were burled with martial honors, with a wooden henrtnfone over them some times they were marked 'Unknown,' and so met 1 lues tbe.v were all shoveled Into a trench together. At the time their northern friends didn't know much about all this. They read In the newspaper* of a battle, and It was exciting and all thai But they realized war. "It was the southern people who found out what war was. It was right among them. That's the reason that as It progressed they became more and more unanimous about It. Many of them didn't wish to go out Of the Union. They were driven out of It by their leaders. But when they were overrun b.v urmies, their little garden patches destroyed, their fences used for firewood, their fathers and brothers killed, they changed their minds. Many a time the men of a family when we Yanks were approach ing their homes joined with the Con federates for the first time and fought against us. "1 was with that army that advanced south In the spring of 1862 through Kentucky and Tennessee. One night while carrying a message from one part of our army to another I lost may way. Coming upon a cabin, I knock ed. A man came to the door and ask ed what was wanted. I told him 1 would like forage for my horse, a place to sleep for myself and to be put on the road in the morning. He complied with all these requests, and after sta bling my horse I lay down on the floor In his cabin and went to sleep. "In the morning my host's wife gave me what she bad in the house for breakfast, and. being' hungry, 1 ate a good ineal. The family name was Shanks. The father was about forty, and there were two boys aged, respec tively. fifteen and twelve. They treat ed me kindly and insisted on filling my haversack with salt pork and corn 'pone, which was all they had. They were an uncouth lot. but they were a family, and we a!i know what that means, united and with no wish ex cept to live thoir simple lives together, I noticed their affection for one anoth er, and it made me homesick. "They put me on the road, and I con tinued my ride. After delivering my dispatches 1 returned to headquarters and handed a reolv to the feneral com- The best milling of the best wheat in the world produces OCCIDENT* Millet for Hay Owing to the scarcity of seed corn for fodder, very little corn can be planted. The next best plant to grow for hay is millet. We have about fifty bushels of very choice seed, both German and Siberian. manaing. "We met many people in the south for a moment, a day or a week. Tlu ••ants through which we passed were ever changing and filled with excite stent. For that reason we didn't re member people. 1 forgot all about the Shanks family. Indeed, they never again entered my bead till they were called back by the incident I'm goiug to tell you. The army I was with ad vanced to northern Alabama and re mained there nearly four months. Then in August of that year Ueneral Bragg marched through Chattanooga and on up toward Louisville. General Buell, commanding our force, went marching north by another route to head him off. The two armies came together at Perryville and fought a battle. "Perryville Isn't considered today one of the great battles of the war, but I don't remember in all the fights I was in hiving such hard. Incessant firing as there was that day. I sup pose it Isn't considered of so much Im portance now because only a small part of the Tnion army was engaged, the rest being held back by the com mandlng general. "Weil, uow I'm getting to tbe point of tnv story. After the battle we found the Confederate dead and wounded a good deal uiixed, some times Confederate lying across a Unionist it ml sometimes vice versa The wounded were picked up and laid on the grass in a long line for the sur geons to visit and operate upon. Some of them died before a surgeon got to them at all. I was walking along this line and came to two of those who had died. A boy was waving a green branch over them to keep tbe flies away. '"Are they related to you. my boy?' 1 asked. 'That one." he said, pointing to the CAKING Fult THE WOUNDEP, man, 'is my papa, and that one.' point ing to the boy, 'is my brother.' "I looked at him and recognized him. He was the younger of the two Shanks boys. When the battle came on the father and the oldest son left their cabin, which was near by, with their shotguns and joined .the Confederate ranks. After the battle the boy found them, and they died while he was keeping away tbe flle9." Saved by Enemy's Picture. James Garrabrant. a New Jersey sol dier. while fighting at a battle on the Rappahannock, in Virginia, saw a da guerreotype fall from the pocket of a dead Confederate soldier. He picked It up and placed it in the breast pocket of his own blouse. Soon after he was struck by a ball and fell. His brother picked him up ana found that the met al plate of the picture by receiving the bullet had saved Mis life. (Jarrabrant waa not wounded. How He Was Wounded. At a council of Confederate generals early in the civil war one remarked that Major Blank was wounded and would not be able to perform a duty that it was proposed to assign to him. "Wounded!" said Stonewall Jackson. "If it really is so I think It must have been by an accidental discharge of his duty." Franz Emil binder,, a Mandan far mer, waa adjudged insane, having ob tained property under false pretenses. He will be deported to his old home in Sweden. W. O. Allison, the Indiana murder er, who eacaiped from Rugby offlolaJa, has not been apprehended and the Indiana sheriff returned without Mm. Some our at Grand Prate planed a lot of ihort broad headed nails on a street crossing, with aerloaa effects on several auto tins. Nineteen county fairs have already been scheduled. The Ward county fair will be held at Mtnot Sept 14 26. The McLean eotraty Mr will he held at Underwood Sept. M-ST. A LanCord man tad his garden plowed with a gaa flowing ottflt. O. R. Moon at CRMbtirn Mltovee In deep plowing, tat «ot more than he bargained for wfcen to ran Mi plowing engine Into an old It1.'''™»w McCOY ANNOUNCES A SALE Suits and Coats $7" to 22s" Beginning Friday, May 24 And continuing as long as we have a suit or coat in btock, we offer our entire stock of Women's Suits and Coats at half price. In our stock you'll find many of our coats and suits are man-tailored, and quite a few are the well-known LaVOGUE GARMENTS. If you are going to have a new suit this spring now is the time for you to get it because one dollar will now go as far as two would have gone earlier in the season. At our regular prices our suits are marked to sell at $15.00 to 45 00. Prices now are just one-half, or from $7.50 to $22.50 For style and quality our stock is unequalled in Minot. We have Navies, Tans» Browns, Greys and Fancy Mixtures in all sizes and, no doubt, you can find a suit or coat or both to please you in roost any color you prefer. Remember, too, that McCoy's sales are always legitimate in every particular- We do not close our store to prepare for our sales, and remember, too—"McCoy don't do anybody." Come see for yourself. Prices are now and always have been marked in plain figures at McCoy's store. PAUL McCOY Women's Ready-to-Wear Masonic Temple Minot, N. D. v.V M' it -Si SSI ,SV jl