, 1885-08-09
cRIssFIEIn.
The Place Where our Bold soldier boys
Have Been Encamped.

Gated. has about ten 10 twelve bouses n
bank, drug store. a few grocery stores,
blacksmith shop and. since we came here.
several lemonade and r~efreabment stands
have sprung into existence. but the little
money the soldiers brought with them is
by this time very near all expended.
To day is Sunday, the first cool day since
our arrival here on July 10. Last week
we had a severe rain and thunder storm.
and the weather is. therefore. now less
oppressively hot. A rumor reached us
to-day that we very soon will return to
our respective stations. Well, most of
us are ready and willing to leave, although
the general health of the troops is as vet
very good. Drills, battalion and COM
pany inspections, dress parades, when the
thermometer registers way up in the so;
horrible MOSQUITOES, tarantulars. cent?
pedes, big spiders. rattle snakes and a
variety of known as well as unknown in
sects and reptiles, make our camp life
anything but agreeable. The soldier base
ball nine came of victorious in a game
which they played an organization from
Harper, a little town on the S. X. rail
road. Our officers PLAYED n few days ago
a game OF ball with the cavalry officers
Of this command. OF course the infantry
beat the cavalry, because dismounted a
horseman is at a disadvantage. We had
a grand review on the ODD of July, on the
day when the Geographic news of Gen.
Grants death reached us. The following
troops participated in the review: 9th in
fantry, five companies; 7th infantry, five
companies; 4th infantry, three companies;
Dist infantry, six companies; cavalry
troops from 9th, sth and Sd cavalry. The
day was horrible hot, still a great crowd
OF people gathered from the surrounding
country and also from the small towns
along the S. X. railroad to witness, to
the most of them, the novel and interesting
spectacle of a grand military review. The
reviewing officer was Col. Morrow, 2nd
infantry, who If in command Of troops on
the Kansas border. The soldiers of
course could not see the fun because it
was 80 uppfessively hot, but the border
citizens seemed to enjoy it immensely.
Most of them had brought luncheon
along, and after they had satisfied their
curiosity, they seated themselves
on the prairie and supplied the
inner man with refreshments.
Soon after we had left Cheyenne the rise
in the temperature was remarkable and
when after a forty-eight hours ride, We
arrived at McPherson,a own in Southern
Kansas, on the Atkinson. Topeka and
Santa Fe railraod. the thermometer regis
tered 9s' in the shade. An unsophisti-
Gated countryman who stood on the plat
form ofthe depot when our train arrived,
inquired of a soldier, who with canteen in
hand, had just jumped off a car in search
of cool water, or more likely though, in
search Of an a%rterial stimulaat, | do mot
know which, however, it is immateriul
anyhow, ] do not mean the water or the
stimulant either, inasmuch as physiological
materialism teaches us to look upon the
universe as a phenomenon and to consider
the conservation of energy and the indis-
tructability of matter as among the most
important discoveries of our scientific age,
but / must not digress. When this hur-
rying soldier was addressed by the granger
and the question asked of him: "Say, my
soldier, where do you fellows come from,