The morning call., 1892-06-27
SOLDIERS Oh THE STATE.
A Peal of Harmless Thunder
From Sacramento.
The swsll.Headed Eighth Regiment Cycle
Infantry Drill Russell Restored to Com
mand-Manual Of Guard Duty.

After all Tehachaprs brigade will not be
at the division encampment The COM
mander-in-ehief has issued the following
orders:
l. Pursuant 10 provisions OF section 2O22,
Political COde, a division encampmenr, to be
composed of tile following commands. the Sec
ond, Thhd Fourth. Fifth and Sixth bTigades, is
hereby ordered for discipline aud dill for a
period Of not less than eight days, including
going 10 and returning. No enlisted man not
mustered into the service prior 10 July /, 1892
Will be allowed transportation TO said encamp-
ment.
IL. Major General William Fl. Dmond, COM
handing the division, viii al once issue orders
designating the lime and place Of holding said
encampment, with necessary details Of trauSpor-
tatlon, forage etc., and VIII assume command
Of the encampment.
III. Orders for The encampment Of the First
Brigade viii be issued IN Tie near future.
The most extraordinary thing in con-
nectiOn with this order is the second sem
tence in the first paragraph. The presump-
ton is that it is intended against the
disreputable practice of some-not few
either - company commanders who take
suffers" to camp at the expense of the
State suffers" being persons who are not
members of the guard, but attend camp 10
have cheap recreation and answer at roll
calls 10 the name of some one who has duly
enlisted. But how this practice can be
STOPPED by forbiddingithe taking to camp of
any enlisted man not mustered into the
service prior to July !. 1892. none but
massive brain, eagle eye" can comprehend.
1t IS desirable that this practice of taking
'stuherS" TO camp be stopped. because il is
like many other things in the guard
shameless fraud on the State. But TO say
that man duly enlisted after July l. 1892
and who goes to camp will not be allowed
transportation, is to say something for which
there is no authority in law, and 10000
acknowledgements could not under color Of
law stop the allowance Of his transportation
HARMLESS THUNDER
The man who enlisted after July l. 1892,
has as much right to that trans poTtatiOn TO
take part in the discipline and drill of the
camp as the man who enlisted two, three.
four or five years ago, ''the Office at Sacra-
meuto' to the contrary Notwithstanding.
That part OF the order Is Illegal and there
fore no order at all. The anclents had
saving which fitted such a prORunciameat0.
They called il fulmen brutum. That was
the ancienPs elegant way Of saying, Hes
talking through his hat" Rendered in
frawing-roOm English the two words mean,
Harmless thunder"
The Second Brigade is not backward as
regards the camp. Assistant Adjutant-
General Edwards went down on Saturday
to measure off the field for the brigade.
which will be located pretty much where il
was in 1891. The FIRST Infantry as usual
was first again, and QuaItermaster Cluff
and COmmlsSary Gray went down also and
made their contracts. General DmOnd was
to have gone, but the death Of a member Of
his aft prevented, and he will probably go
on Wednesday. The brigade has had to
play second fiddle in regard to so many
things in connection with this camp that il
determined TO be first in something at last.
II has been given out that the State will
pay for the hire OF six horses only 10 a regi-
ment and that the brigade will take only
one band of 80 pieces, under the lead
eTSblD Of BandmaSteT Casassa, the senior in
the division. To take one band Of 80 rather
than three reglmental bands of to pieces
each will save the cost Of 13 musicians,
which IS SAG. with not too much money on
hand either.
HOW WE APPLES SWIM"
Tie impression around the bayshore is
that he Eighth Infantry mas no fegimeutal
motto. IL has been suggested, therefore,
that it choose for a shlbboleth, How we
apples swim" Two squads from two COM
paaies had a sho0ting-match on the 18th at
Marysy.IIe, and the local paper said of this
gigantic struggle that determination was
stamped in the face Of each man who par
tcipated IN the contest, and though the
CROWD was large and sometimes talkatiyely
bOisteTOus, this did not seem to disturb the
GOODNESS Of the shooters" The home squad
was victorious, ard so completely lost its
head that ut challenged any company IN
the State to shoot il as a whole or in SQUAD"
This challenge" coming from the source
that il does, Is the more ridiculous when the
capacity Of the ehalleBgers is considered
TIE shooting In the contest was fair, as
ShoWu by The fQllDWiup spoTp.