The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-07

tired, which means about the same thing
to an army officer
In the absence of definite instructions
final action by the retiring board Shafter
told Dowdy to go ahead. and that by his
the board that he was fit for many a year
of service He pitied Dowdy's youth. and,
besides, he knew he was a good soldier.
aIl-powerful board reaching out for him
went to Cuba and fought well. ] have 1T
on sale authority that he received de1ln mt.
his personal and favorable attention to the
case when it next should come up.
1T was during the most distressful part or
the campaign that orders reached Siboney
directing the return of Dowdy. He went TO
Shafter and begged to be allowed to re-
But, general" ventured Dowdy, Il have
received your personal assurances tnat
when this matter came to head you would
Il don't want 10 hear another word about
it. sir. not another word So spake the
general
mot another word was the generals in
WHEN DOWDY'S HEART BROKE
So Dowdy went, and. though 1 never heard
him complain, there was the look of
broken-hearted man upon him. He said he
was going to try for a commission in the
japanese army when the matter was set
tied" by the board. l have not heard how
it came out.
Now, these evidences Of bad manners and
these outbursts of temper though they may
seem trivial in the telling, had their effect.
They fed the gossips, and the man who
gossips in any army camp ought to be
shot, so evil is the influence of his gable.
And the evidences and the outburstS were
pretty evenly distributed. Newspaper men
got EN-, which didn't matter much for they
get used to that kind of thing. And Amer
lean officers got them, and whether they
ever get used to them / don't know, but
they don't get to like them any better in
any case.
And Cubans, that hot, proud easily-offend-
ed, and easily-won race, got them. We used
to call these SnubS punches of hauteur"
and Jimmy O'Shaughnessy, of the Chron-
having the punches of hauteur thrown into
me that if l ever gel back I'm going to be
the politest, most considerable man that ever
was. This experience has taught me a les
son."
And so it was One came to have some
tnlng very close to an affection for man
OF exalted rank if he was uniformly courte-
Gus and good-tempered.
1t was so novel.
Mere impoliteness and lack of tact cost us
GEAR down there, think, and that's why
OF our warm-hearted allies being once lost
through some petty affront We're lost for a
GOOD while, II not forever, and it will take
soInS LnaneuVerlng to get them back again
nave suggested that the major general
wasn't an Inspiring spectacle at his hest
nor was ne. 1t was wrong and unjust and
Cnklnd to make game of him on that score
but it was DONE Soldiers like a fine-piIt-l1n
man, and the mere physical perfection Of
him is an inspiration to them That's one
reason they respect and like General Miles
he looks his part, every inch of him and
tnough he is terse and business-like in his
manner, you never could accuse him of be-
ing downright rude. l never found him
that, even in the days when he had charge
OF the military functions attendant upon the
opening of the exposition. when he was be-
ing badgered and cartooned. And I'll wager
no cuban, with all his inbred Latin sense
or the groteSque, would ever laugh at Miles
or say cutting things about his appearances
Guile and utilization that swiftly would be
taken up by both sides.
GU see the contrast was quite striking.
On the one hand there was the dashing,
splendld-looking Garcia, about whose per-
sonality chung a host of romantic tales of
perilous ventures by land and sea, of exiles
and Imprisonment and battles.
On the other was round, elderly
friend, who looked like an extremely pros
porous restaurant keeper who had retired
from the active management of his affairs
and was devoting himself solely to the test
ing of his own viands We could see the
corporaFS guard moving his cot from tree
TO tree as the sun moved and we could see
him waddling through the high grass after
1T, the neckband of his short loose, the
irritated air of a Chicago man who has just
been asked rs this hot enough for your"
heavy upon him.
You may say, We'll, what of all this,
since he Won?
Yes, he did win the immediate victories of
won in Cuba, and he has made their win
ming the harder