Arizona republican., 1898-06-28
VOLUNTEERS IN THE BLUE
 GRASS.

tCLUNTEERS IN THE BILLIE GRASS.
 These mOuntaineers created a good deal of interest. Twenty-Five per cent o1 them were rejected, I was told, be- cause Qf their extraordinary height. One big fellow went to town, turned into a saloon, and called for whiskey.
 T haven't had drink for ten years D Ee said. '1 came down here to fight for the United States and to free Cuba. and they won't let me fight, so I'm go- ing back home and tell them that they say down here that I am too big to fight. I haven't had a drink for ten years. but I am going to get on a big drunk now" And he did The rest of the rejected cavalrymen went home weeping and cursing by turns.
 It was contrast to the camp of the regulars, this camp of volunteers. It was like picnic ground. All the SOL diers who were not on duty seemed to go where they pleased and do what they pleased. One sentinel walked his beat with girl on his arm, and I my self saw a typical scene. A lieutenant was escorting the coloners daughter through one of the camps, and a sent incl stopped and presented arms.
 Why, is that George" said the girl Dear me, didn't know you, Cant you shake hands with me?" she added to the serious soldier, who stood at rigid attention.
 George grinned helplessly, and with a comical compromise betwen his dig nity as soldier and his personal re- lations with his superior, said, 'Yes, 1 can, if Jim there will let me-"
 Lieutenant Jim at once let hiE.
 May I sec your gum" said the col CnePS daughter.
 Sure" said George: with pleasure
 Lieutenant Jim smiled uneasily and looked conscientious.
 ''You go to the guard house for that, George he said Don't you know you mustn't give up your gun to any body but your commanding officer?"
 ''I am the commanding officer" "Jsail the colonel's daughter, and the gallant lieutenant took off his hat. I do not think George went to the guard house.
 At first the volunteers almost starved. So one morning a company lined up before the colone's tent, sang him a song, and told him how hungry tLey were. Then they said they had Q request to make which they feared he might not grant. The colonel told them to make the request fearlessly.
 Please, sir, have you a calendar" asked deep voice. respectfully, at one end of the line.
 "A calendar?' said the colonel. "Why, certainly. Orderly But what do you want with a calendar?" he ask ed. bit mystified.
 Please, sir, said a squeak from the littlest man, at the other end Of the line, i've should like to eat the dates" And thereupon the soldiers ran
 Now this dearth of food got abroad and proved a blessing. It touched the hearts of the mothers in bear-grass and bluegrass, and now these boys have the fat of the land in plenty.
 That afternoon there was regimen tai drill in one of the pasture lands of Ashland, through knee-deep blue grass. and with the singing of meadow larks overhead The mOuptaineerS, who had no uniforms and were un- dl filed, kept the crowd back. One big fellow in a slouch hat, who was push ing it back firmly, saw girl with bicycle. and her escort, retiring before him.
 He put one big sunburnt hand on the mans chest, and with the other took off his hat. Lady" he said, you come out here where you can see"
 They drill well, these volunteers some of the companies exceedingly well-and the officers, charging up and down the field in a running walk or rack or gallop on their southern-galt- ed horses, were a contrast to the sturd- fly trotting regulars, and-shade o1 Custer and substance of Chaffee at Chickamauga-I saw one Of these ofh- cers, when his horse did strike trot, post to it, At dusk the crowd melted away anu the star and crescent rose over the monument of the Great Commoner and sank among the hills of the capital, where lived that gallant Crlttenden who. with 150 other Kentucklans, went to Cuba in 1851 to fight the fight we are fighting today. Crlttenden and fifty Kentuckians were captured, and shot in platoons of six. It was when he was ordered to kneel, with his back to the firing soldiers, that he made his famous assertion:
 "A Kentuckian kneels only to his Goo. and faces his enemy.
 And he died standing, and with his