Show Young Woman Heroine of Gettysburg T There ere Is or was a couple of years a little old rusty iron stove of ago oCO primitive pattern carefully preserved by bv the Davis family of Gettysburg of Josephine Davis a arave I Pa Pa a in memory brave rave girl Irl who did what she sho could tob to b alleviate the life sufferings of both loth armies battle Josephine Josephine Jose- Jose of tine the great Se tIle the fl first t da day the time was only eighteen at phine bread baker and house house- notable but hut u a the guns began to rum rutn- rumble When ep er her little she arose nrose and stoked up ble with wood She was alone In i cottage all her men folks folls her little Savin with the Southern urmy army gone sone having ln had hind lied fled for the therow therow neighbors und and nd the small houses of which hers of row one was In the tho line of battle was She had hud only a half barrel of flour molasses In the lie house but and aud some same all nil the flour Into luto grea great rent baled baked up slid she crusty loaves these loaves Eh si sliced I I pieces covered them In n thick generous with molasses and piled plIed them in pans pons As the hungry soldiers passed her door she gave rc them bread brend Irrespective of ot the color of ot the tho uniforms they wore Later In the day da badly wounded or dying men stumbled to her door and were taken In and tenderly cared for forby forby forby by this heroic girl Tho The tiny dwelling was filled to capacity Its walls and floors were stained blood-stained and und It echo echoed d with groans All the sheets tablecloths tablecloths table cloths towels and underwear in the hou house e were torn up for bandages Some of thc lie less seriously hurt helped her to care cure for fOl the thu worst cases after she he had bound up their wounds Seventeen Seventeen Seventeen Sev Sev- enteen dead soldiers both soldiers both In blue and gray were gray were carried from Josephine's ephine's cottage after the battle was over mer and antl I double that number of wounded thanked and 1111 ule blessed her when then the ani I I bore them than Kansas awa away Kansas City Times |