Connecticut western news., 1896-02-06
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 General Wolseley.

General Wolseley.
 "War correspondents !" exclaimed Lord Wolseley. "Some of them are desperately brave, while others are anything but he- roes. The majority, I think, do their duty well, even when 1t leads them into tight places. By the way, talking of tight places and war correspondents, I remem- Der an incident that may interest you. It VAS at the beginning of the Ashanti cam paign, just after our landing. A square built little man came up to me and said, speaking slowly and with an unmistakable American accent:
 General, allow me to introduce my self. l as the correspondent of the New York Herald. I'--
 ''Too busy to attend to him, cut him short with, What can do for you, sirs'
 He replied imperturbably, with the same exasperating slowness, Well, gen- sral, l want to be as near you as I can if there is any fighting to be seen.'
 Captain So-and-so has charge of all the arrangements concerning correspond ents. rejoined curtly. You had better see him. And with this turned on my heel and went about my business.
 '0saw no more of my correspondent with the aggravating coolness and slow ness of speech for many a day. I did not , aCGOlllDdnyl0R the column or not.
 Personally speaking, I was only in danger once during the whole expedition. It was shortly before we entered Kumas- si. I had pressed forward with the ad- vance troops, hoping to break the last ef- fort at resistance and have done with the affair, when the enemy, utilizing the heavy covert, came down and fairly sur rounded us. For q few minutes the posi- tion was critical, and every man had to fight, for the enemy's fire was poured In at close quarters. They pressed upon us from all sides, lodging from tree to tree and continually cdging closer, hoping to get hand to hand. In the hottest of 1t my attention was caught by a man in civil ian's clothes who was some Is or 20 yards in front of ma and who was completely surrounded by the advancing savages. He seemed to pay no heed to the danger he was in, but, kneeling on one knee, took aim and fired again and again, and I life and a girl who had to go to her work In her dancing shoes because she had no others. All tho girls felt so sorry"
 "I know it. l almost shed tears"
 "Then they began to say what they would give. Florence contributed dozen American Beauty roses to the sick woman on the spot, and Eunice said she'd give the girl d new pair of dancing shoes. Then she could buy a pair of arctic overshoes herself and wear tho old shoes under them to the shop. Oh, they were as practical as possible, I can tell youP
 "I know they were. made lot of suggestions myself"
 "Did youY This girl said she would give some sheets and pillow slips for the sick woman's bed, which, by the way, was without any. All the girls wondered at her generosity, and some of them wore half ashamed of themselves, when''-
 Why, that was"-
 "As they went to take mp the collection she discovered that she had left her pocket book at home and said she would pay her sharo another time"
 ''Oh, I think that was just horriblel I"-
 "So did the other girls, and Anita, who was taking up the collection, got up and went out"
 '.Oh, but'-
 "She came back, I know. This girl was just saying that she would pay for a comforter, too, If some one would lend her the money-nobody would, you know, be- cause she never pays back-when in walk ed Anita, saying: Here is your pocket book, dear. I just ran over and asked your sister for 1t, so you would not be dis appointed in helping the poor people. Florence says that girls face was a study ss she paid the money out. Why, whsre are you going?"
 II am just going over to ask Florence what she means by telling such a story about me, that's alll"-New York lte sorder.