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Show LONG THE II IS BETWEEN TIE DRINKS After Forty-Seven Years, Two Veterans Repeat Remark of Carolinas' Governors. Among tho veteran delegates who are attending the encampment and visiting relatives In the city arc Mr. and Sirs. G. II. Pulvor of Vllllsca, In., who are quartered with their boh, C. S Piilver, and famllv, at 0G U street. Mr. Pulvor was a Third Iowa volunteer soldier, mus-tored mus-tored in on Juno 11. 1S61. and, with his regiment, followed the guerilla "Pap Price down Into the southern Missouri swamps. He was at Shlloh. Vicksburg and Corinth, and at Shlloh, In lSt2. received re-ceived u bullet In his light shoulder, which he still carries ns a memento of that battle. One incident he tells Is of the trip of tho old "War Eagle," tho boat upon which were loaded 1200 wounded after the battle of Shlloh to ho hurried to hospital at Keokuk, The first night cut two surgeons were passing among tho wounded, making life or death easier for them, and one of them looked at Charles Moulton, who had been shot clear through the right lung, which was lining with blood. "Never mind him," said lie, "he'll die beforo morning." They passed on and Moulton called to Pulver: "Did you henr that?" "I did," said Pulver. Just then some of the wounded who were ablo to forago came on deck with some whisky, and all took a drink. It braced Moulton up and ho sat up on the edge of tho cot. "Give mo another drink, Pulver," he called. "1 might as well feel good while I am going," go-ing," and he and Pulver took a drink together. Moulton stretched himself, loosened the clotted blood from his lung, coughed It up and fell back. He did not die, but a few weeks later left the hospital hos-pital convalescent, though he did not go back to the war. Pulver returned to his regiment and the war. and they never met again until last year at their regimental reunion. Moulton Introduced himself to Pulver, and then. "Forty-seven years Is a long time between drinks," said he; and they had another one. After the wounded from the battle of Shlloh were placed In the wards at tho Keokuk. la., hospital, Mrs. Senator Harlan Har-lan was, among others, distributing tracts to the soldiers, thesu tracts detailing detail-ing the Iniquities of drinking, swearing, fighting, etc. She loft one at the cot of one of the convalescents and had gone but a few feet away from him when ho began to laugh. She returned and admonished ad-monished him to the effect that tho sentiment senti-ment expressed In the tract demanded serious consideration, and not levity. "But." he said, "I've lost both my feet," and laughed some more The tract was a lecture on the ovlls of dancing. |
