The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-02

ARP IN FINE HUM0R
TELLS a GOOD STORY ON GENERAL l.
JOE WHEELER.
Hnya "" Forge, 'iimsclr-.That lie Thong ut
He Was Stiil Fighting for the I.o,t
Cause When Charging tho
Spaniarhs.

himself at Santiago when tho Span
inrds fired their dondly volleys from
tho brush, and he spulr rod his stood
forward and shouted, "Chargc 'cm,
boys! Charge the damn yankees;
run 'pm ont Of the brush !--thc damn
Spaniartls, | ncanH And low they
tell 1t on General Lee that when his
handsome hluo uniform came aud
his wife :Dok it. out of tho case, hr
looked at it with solemn countrn-
unco and said: 'Put it back, wifo;
let it Stay there while till can get
rrconcilcd. Pm afraid | might shoot
at it all Of sudden"
The boys in camp get up many n
joke, and they go on the grand
rounds, and that reminds mo Of Pat
Doolan, a fresh Irishmap, who was
put on picket and ordered to let no
man pass without tho password.
When tho officer camo around to
change tn" guard Pat challenged
him with, 'Hnlt, he Jasus, and give
the password" "Oiliccr on the
grand rounds" said tho lieutenant
"Grnnd rounds and ho damned to
yct," said Pat, cam if yc dom! come
forward aud say Bull Rum I'll be
afthor shootih' into yc, Mr.. Grand
Rounds"
The boys say that down Mt Camp
Griffin, whom new recruit comes in,
tt dcvllish fellows take him off to
drill him, "Young man, you must
remember tho Maine, and also re-
member that You are private.
When you mecis ian officer you must
salute him and say, Il am your dog,
sir and tho officer will wave his
hand and smilo and say, 4 know it,
and pass on" They hazo the green
ones as bad rs college, boys hnzo
verdant freshman. There is many
wag around tho cnuip fires and
they spic" the weary hours with wit
and wisdom. The average soldier |
bears no malice, not even toward tho |
foe ho has been sent to fight. Cor
Vera and Hobson arc tho best Of !
friends and if il is possible for rs to
like Corvern, it is possible that the
people who placed him in high com
mand have some rodcoming virtues.
In our civil war tho privatcs of both !
armies exchanged civiiitics on the
picket lines. Stonowall Jackson re-.
buked thcm and onco whom n picket
some Of our ,nrint' ~ W u, ,,",,rr hn
brought him New AufH sphlEpH"cH =,
refused it and said: "TaEc nothing
from them, sir, and give them moth
ing but lead They arc our enemies"
But the common soldier has not con.
sidorcl tho casus brlli, the ng4rava
ton from Il national stand point nor
can ho like Cromwell or Stoucwnll
jackson, Worship GOD by killing his
country's foes.
\ soldiers life is Il good training
school, and he soon loses somc of his
conceit and srl.ishnrsS. When a boy
who has been bumorri aud pcttrd at
homo becomes schoolh"y and has
to rub against other boys, ho soon
learns to give and take aud toto fair
with his schoolmntcs. just SO these
young soldier boys, when far away
from father and mother, soon find
themselves enduring Il common hard.
ship aud in pcril Il common dangrr
and it softens thoir nature aud takes
away thcir vanity. Thry learn from
ono another, and like these CONNER.
cial travellers, absorb knowledge 10y
contact. Tho best informed people
moot with are tho veterans of the
civil war. However dull and nnodu-
Gated wcro the boys when they en-
tored service in 1861, they we're
bright aud genial when they cnmo
out. III venture that thcro was
moro good sense and moro forhcar-
ancc, more real reflective patriotism
and less seltishness in tho recent
grand gathering Of Veterans in At,
lanta than in any body C men ever
assembled in tho United States,
Those veterans MI look alike to me.
Hard service has hammered them
down like steel used to bo hammered
out Of iron. Their faces, their hearts,
their walk, their solidity, their con