The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08

resume the fight next morning we found
that the enemy had descended from the
lava caves and skinned and roasted and
were literally devouring these cows. Gen.
eral wilcox, commanding the non-office-
holding forces, requested to not be dis
turbed at his breakfast. The President,
after consulting with his Cabinet, which
he always carried with him, as we'll as
silk parasol and a saber, said it would have
a good effect abroad and so ordered that
the enemy should not be disturbed at
breakfast. We slept on our arms in
banana grove till it was cool enough to go
back to town.
But the great fifth and final day of this
fearful civil war was now upon US, and
bloody day it was, as you shall see. The
sharpshooters, all young men OF the first
ofice-holder families and well up in the
Greek roots, had found the enemy in
trenched on mountain above the eastern
gate of the city and the united forces of
the Hawaiian army moved forth at dawn
to dislodge or destroy him.
Too much cannot be said of these brave
brave young sharpshooters. They were
nearly all white. If there was any one
among them of mixed blood he was at
least prince in his own right, and all so
young, SO young! and all so learned, so
learned! They were infantry and all spoke
either Greek or Kanaka. Some of them
had their nurses with them. These pretty
little native nurses carried their little
bottles or rolled them along in little baby
carts while the pretty little sharpshooters
prattled and played with their Greek roots
as they strobe defiantly to the deadly
front. Infantry in armsI
The Portuguese troops were barefooted,
but the ladies of Honolulu stood by the
gate as they passed out to battle and
handed each man a pair of their second
best shoes. These brave men tied the
shoes together by the strings and swung
them on their guns. General Soper. COM
mander-in-chief of all the office-holders'
armies Of the twelve Hawaiian Islands,
drew his sword, and hating the Portu-
guese soldiers at the point of his sword
commanded them to put on their shoes.
The brave men Observation-Disclosures revolted,
but at last they reluctantly obeyed. That
sword was mightier than the men. How
ever, they did not march as well after that
At least, when in sight of the enemy they
all sat fat down in the road and began
taking off their shoes. The general again
drew that terrible sword, and as he did so
he roared out: "What in hell are YOU
taking off your shoes for?'
What for in hell take off shoe2 If no
take off shoe how hell can rum" roared
the Portuguese captain in return.
At this the President, who also marched
barefooted to the scene of confict-the bet
ter to encourage his men and not at all to
initiate Washington at Valley Forge, or to
be able to go to town the faster, as his ene-
mics have said-now whispered in the
ear of his Attorney General.
1.-THE point is well taken," answered the
astute Attorney General cit is a legal
question, and the law is with the lame
soldiers
So they all marched along barefooted till
within the usual three miles of our mu-
tual enemies. And here the first and let
US thankfully say, the last blood of this
fratricidal war was shed. The captain of
the brave German troops was now sud-
denlv and without warning shot low down
on the bottom of his back; but whether
he did it in attempting to draw his pistol
differ. When we laid him on his face to
dress the wound this noble soldier shed
scarce q tear. Then the President came
mp, leaning on the arm of his favorite Cab
met Minister, both with swords in their
right hands and beautiful little pink Paris
ian parasols in their left. When the Pres
ident saw how the man was wounded he
promoted him on the spot.
The enemy on the distant mountain, sus-
pecting that some one of the brave little
sharpshooters might have got lost in the
brush, and that we were grouped together
in Cabinet meeting to determine what
was best to do, suddenly ceased firing and
hoisted the poi flag. Immediately the
President called a Cabinet meeting to de-
eide what course of action would have the
best influence abroad. OF course, he didn't
care about the President of the United
States, but the Emperor of Germany, one
of whose brave subjects lay there in his
own gore, and s'our cousin" to put it in
diplomatic language, the Empress of In
dia, and also the Gar of all the Russias-
these must be awed awed! The Cabinet
decided that it must stand on it's dig
nifty. 1t accordingly stood, the Greek root
infantry formed in a hollow square around
the nurse maids. bottles and baby car
riages as the fearful half black and quarter
black and freckled and red-headed non
office holders approached, having left their
rifles leaning against the rocks on the
mountain side.
General Wilcox, their leader, who spends
his summers at Newport and his winters
in Italy because OF a slight cough, now
coughed slightly. The Cabinet was like
rock around the President-a wave-washed
rock, where waves roar and roll and-but
let US suspend suspense. After coughing
several times General Wilcox said he should
like to see Acknowledgement Smith. Smith
blushed modestly and pointed his silk Par
isian parasol up at the towering President.
1t was enough, enough. The President
raised his parasol to its full height, and
told Wilcox that he should have to sentence
him to death for few days. "For see
what you have done, said the President
tearfully. "This poor man may be able
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