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Show VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR IN NEED. "The oillcer tells me that there Is an ordinance In Oclen against beg-, beg-, gmg, but be said he thought no one ! would make a complaint against an idd man like myself If 1 should n.sk I the people to help me a little," said tile veteran soldier, John Anderson, as he sat on the step in front of the Salvation Armv quarters this morning. morn-ing. "1 am.T'.i years old, am badly crip-pied, crip-pied, as you see. and It Is very dilll-cult dilll-cult for mo to walk. I was a Union soldier. You never heard of nn An-I An-I (ieison being on the Confederate side, ami I have louclit many battles. In the battle of Stone River. Tenn., I was shot down and the artillery came along nnd ran over me, frightfully c-uishlnc; luy legs ami body. I havo been disabled ever since that time. "D I draw a pension?" "No. You see, I lopt my papers just after the war and I havo not i been able to llnd them since I have fpent these long years trvlng to find some one who could be a witness for too before the pension bureau and enable me to get a pension. That Is t hat I am doing now and I believe that I will find a man somewhere who Knows me and will be a witness for inc. I shall try to get away for San Francisco this evening, where I have a brother who will help mo, I think. "I do not drink never look u drink In rny life and I don't want money for that purpose I ju;t want to find iome one who can testify that I was one Of the boys who fought for the flag and that I need a little help from the government." The old man is badly crippled, his legs being twisted in such .?hapo that It is next to impossible for him to move about. He was carried to tlx-Salvation tlx-Salvation Army steps this morning by an officer, where he was soliciting a'liis. |