The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-20

was recruited from all parts of the Union. and,
as it is not a State organization in any sense, it
cannot draw material assistance from any of
the volunteer aid associations, which are doing
much to make our other citizen soldiers as
comfortable as the exiEencies of camp life will
permit. Mr.. William Tudor, q Harvard II
man, has started q fund in Boston to buy
hnmmocks and mosquito netting, two necessi;
IL IS believed that nearly enough money for this
purpose can be raised by HE friends OF tho
Haryard.men who are in this regiment. 1t was
probably duo TO the fact that Lieu Col.
Roosevelt is a Harvard man that 30 many re-
cruits were obtained from that university. A
man who recently Joined the regiment from
New York and who lived here at the best clubs
and restaurants. in 3 letter jus, received. said
that he enjoyed the life immensely, but that his
appetite had increased In inverse proportion TO
the quantity OF .%rationS. A.
Il paid So for O besfsteak Yesterday" he
wrote from tho transport at Tampa whore he
was chartered, "and ! was glad to get II at any
price. l don't believe that any such collection
OF men was ever gathered In ono regiment be-
fore, and the experience OF serving in IL Is one
that every Eastern man will, long remember,
With three genuine cowb0ys ran The guard
several nights ago, and although ! am q law
abiding citizen, l assisted in holding up a s-
loon for beer. My conscience didn't bother me
because the saloon Keeper hllhSoI was q rob
ber."
Ono OF the young officers in the Marine Corps
who distinguished himself Mt Camp McCalla
on Guantanamo Ray is a First Lieutenant who
was a member of the entertainment commit
tee at the leet ball in the Brooklyn Navy Yard
IL year ago. and on that occasion u Brooklyn
matron who was chRperoning two daughters
made tho comment that he was past master of
tho art of strategy. The Lieutenant manpu.
vred a party which included half a dozen wo-
men and as many escorts into the room where
tho supper WAS served, and where, because Of
the crush. the walters seemed to be running
Amuck, and not only secured chairs for-ull
his party, but good service as well. The
matron "ho chaPeroned the party ana who had
been discouraged when she entered tho supper
room, asked ono OF The men for the officers full
Ills strategy was perfcct. ":.she said. land
l want TO remember that young mans numo.
l don't suppose hsJs ever likely TO have an
opportunity to fight, but II he does expect to
hear n good account OF him.
II this Brooklyn matrou read the newspapers
last week and remembered the young officers
name, sho may nave ldehllhed MN as tho
from Camp McCalla 10 flank the Spaniards. Per
hapg, however, the victories OF war do not APP
ti~ulariy when the reward .or the latter hap
pened TO be excellent service in q room where
others were complaining.
An elght-ycar-old schoolboy who was taken
to bellevue last week to be examined az to hiI
sanity and who was suffering from neuras-
thCnia, according to the diagnosis, was u vic
TIN Of wknt his mother called "whiskey bis.
cults, which are sold On tho sly in some east
side bakushops. The boys mother described
"A wh,skey biscuit "a n composition Of cuke,
OH, and alcohol. and she su. that the hoy had
bpt dreams dur!ng Tho night after eDtlng II.
a man whose work for several. years has com
pcl'cG MIN 10 spend most Of his time on tho
lover east side. said yesterday that he had
Hrlrd % whi-ksT biscuits, but that he had
never been able 10 buy uns.
The pcopiC who sell these things TO chill
drcn, he said, know well enough that they
are reRdrr.n# themselves Liable to punishment,
aAd an adult can rarely buy them. ldOn't be-
lIrvo that. thepractico OF selling alcoholic can.
dies ard cakes to children Is very general, be-
cause II normal child does not care for such
things. II is an acquired, but very rarely an
inherited, taste. The selling of brandy drops
was discouraged a few months ago, when sew
eral OF the sellers we're arrested. The ''Whis-
key biscuit 10 the successor Of the brandy
drop, and IL alcohol Is used instead OF brandy,
Ldon't wonder that It's effects are deadly"