Show CURIOUS FEATURES OF LIFE the old soldier was a woman A story comes from butler county that while a terrific storm was razing otto schaffer a hermit biad lived there many years took shelter in hia cabin and was offering up a prayer for protection when a bolt of lightning demolished moli shed the house and killed schaffer neighbors found the dead body on the floor and summoned the coroner this official prepared the body for burial and in doing so made the discovery that hrs been the talk of the county he says schaffer was a woman the deceased was an ex aldier and participated in many of the battles af ahe war despite this discovery the grand army veterans turned out aud gave schaffer a soldiers burial As alie comrades fired a last salute over the grave into which the coflin had been lowered it wae found that a gun was loaded with ball as we tl as powder and the ahot killed a dove which was flying over the dove fluttered and fell on the coffin dead schaffer leaves considerable property but no one in the county knows of relatives of the deceased st louis |