The Globe-republican., 1894-04-20
Soldiers Home Chat.
Ft. Dodge. April II

SaIUDIIOus anu uOPS OCoMS NPcA S'SeJ
countenance The grass just grows right
10. That means plenty of milk, beef
and wheat and big appropriation next
winter.
Richard is still at his p0st-''Come.
get your quinine.''
Storms followed the. advent OF the
Board Of managers, but Job says fair
weather cometh out of the north. anu
it was even so.
We thought everything had been fixed.
but the confiscated phOnOgraph slipped
a cog. and disastrous was the slip there
Of
The las, time the Board was here, Rev.
Stewart preached a fine sermon, SO you
see the Board can minister unto us as
well as replenish. The latter has refer
ence to internal Improvements as well as
external adornment.
Rev. Stewart. Secretary Of the Board.
is also an enthusiastic rain maker, being
a member OF the GoOdland Company.
The Home has experienced some losses
in the last month. CONS. Green and
Taggart went east, Com. Bruner was
captured and Com. De Pui is transferred
to Dodge City. Com. Siler was captured
but was parOlcd, and is now waiting to
be exchanged, when he goes on recruit
ing service.
Capt. Reed and Quartermaster SidlOw
have been duly installed in their several
positions and everything moves along
silently with no friction that is discern
able 10 the naked eye.
One cause of trouble here is the mis-
take some county Commissioners make
in sending some distressed old soldiers
to the Home when they should send them
to an asylum. We hope county Boards
will hereafter exercise little more cau-
tionary discretion in this respect.
Bob Shearlng is our new policeman.
and the way he begins, think he will
be success. There is not so much
boisterous proceedings by the younger
folks-hist! yOnder he comes, git.
We learn that our school will be out
May 4, and that an intern csting program
is forthcoming. Prof. Beadle aud
his corps of teachers, misses lmel and
Hobble, are to be congratulated for the
good they are accomplishing in training
the young idea how to shoot.
Families in the Fort are preparing to
plant gardens This will save much to
the State.
Most of the State land will be seeded
to alfalfa; this also will help the State
along. If we still improve we will be
almost selfsupporting. We have about
25 milk cows, aud hogs almost without
number and without price.
Miss Bertha Wright visited friends in
the Fort Sunday.
Com. Jesse Williams, out on furlOush,
appeared before pension board at Syra-
cuse last week for further examination.
Garden City Imprint.
Com. Best is still down In Meade on
furlough. Com. Best, being alone, as
regards the married state. 1t is thought
that he will find his affinity, as Artemus
Ward would say. According to the legis
lative law of last session you can no,
ho a,1un;ttaI ~ n,~rri..I since. s~id lu u
went into effect. You HAY marry inside
the Fort. but you can not do it out side
Neither can families be admitted wher
the wife is under 40 years Of age, accord
ing to those wise provisions evolved from
the aggregated brain of the last RUM
legislature. There is also another crudit,
and learned provision of the statutes
made and provided-that boys over l:
and girls over ii shall not be admitted
nor retained. But, excuse US for thi
depression.
CONS. Roberts and Wright have re
turned from Meade with their 10 day
furlough only half used mp. We lear,
that they fled from the kingdom of th'
Meades by the way Of the Artesian wells
We are greatly interested in the po
litical issues of the day. but perhaps no
as much as the agriculturist, who swing
his corn shelter lightly over his shoulde
and goes out in the bottoms to gather hi
alfalfa. This place is like the American
COngress-it always winds up with al
apOstrOphe to the old flag and an appro
priation. With us seed time aud harves
rises like dream, the widows cruise o
oil never fails. the wind blOweth over tn
Arkansas Valley, and all from Dan L
Beertheba taketh q long rest. This ]
meet and proper. for this stopping plac
is far the old veteran while going dow
the Pacific slope of time.
The health of the Fort is passably goo
at the present writing. The invigoratin