On the floor beside the general was the historical edition of the Sycamore Ridge _Banner_--rather an elaborate affair, printed on glossy paper and bedecked with many photogravures of old scenes and old faces.

A page of the paper was devoted to the County Seat War of '73.

The general had furnished the material for most of the article,--though he would not do the writing,--and he held the sheet with the story upon it in his hand.
As he read it in the light of that later day, it seemed a sordid story of chicanery and violence--the sort of an episode that one would expect to find following a great war.

The general read and reread the old story of the defeat of Minneola, and folded his paper and rolled it into a wand with which he conjured up his spirit of philosophy.
"Heigh-ho," he sighed.

"We don't know much, do we ?" McHurdie made no reply.