The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-07-25
Cultivated Army Nurses.

Cultivated Army Nurses.
The almost comic incongruity of the
situation will be understood by the reader
when it is known that one of the Olivette's
nurses is an assistant professor of biology
and zoology in New England institution
of learning and that, in addition to his
college diploma, he holds certificate Of
graduation from one Of the most famous
technical schools on this continent. He
has delivered addresses before some Of the
most important scientific bodies in the
United States and is even now in constant
correspondence with several men well
known for their learning in every intel
lectual center Of the world.
Another Olivette nurse Is the son of q
solid business man in a city of 10000 in
habitants One night at his club q men,
Der thereof dared all the young fellows
present to enlist. They accepted the chal-
lenge to a man, and before they went
home all had signed the roll as recruits.
Next day they were put through the med
ical examination, all passing but one. He
was tremendously chagrined by his re-
lection and took the next train for Wash
ington, hoping to be accepted there. At
Baltimore he lett the train, enlisted in the
hospital service, was examined and accept
ed and detailed at once to the Olivette.
Still another of the nurses Is graduate
of medicine who was fast building up q
practice when he put his name down as
volunteer and was mustered into the serv-
ice as private, though later assigned to
the Olivette and placed over the dispen-
sary. Every one of these men is as well
educated and of as high social standing at
home as the average army surgeon Is any
where, yet none may even be called by the
courtesy title of "Mr" while a member
of the hospital corps unless by an igno-
rant or stiff necked civilian who knows the
ropes not at all.
1t should be added, however, that none
of all this Is the fault of the Olivette's
surgeons. They did not create the social
chasm between the nurses and themselves
and could not bridge it, even temporarily,
II they would.
Popular Fighters.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and General
Joseph Wheeler are the most popular off,
GERS among the wounded who came north
on the Olivette. Concerning Roosevelt q
rough rider whose left arm Is still In q
sling, but Is able to put up ut hotel in
stead of going to hospital, said this morn
ing:
"That feller's the stuff, all right. He's
got little dude voice, and his teeth and
his eyeglasses are funny enough to make
q Springfield rifle laugh; but, Lord, how
he can fghtr"
Concerning Wheeler there isn't q man
brought north by Captain Stevenson who
doesn't tell this story as often as no gets q
chance 1t has been printed already, but
I'll venture to repeat the Olivette version,
emitting the name Of the engagement,
which has escaped my memory:
"Wheeler was perched on an eminence,
shouting out encouragement to his men,
absorbed in tho fighting, keen eyed and
alert and yet by some curious mental twist
half living in the past Of thirty odd years
ago. He could sec the Spaniards waver-
ing, yet there was slight tendency to I'M
steadiness among his own men, and he
called out warningly:
Steady, boys, steady Fire q little
lower and keep your headsl We've got
the blamed Yankees started, and we'll
have EN- on the run In minutei Steady J.
1.-THE words had hardly left his mouth
before everybody saw tho joke, and q
laugh so loud 1t could DO heard above the
shooting ran up and down the line. Wheel
or saw 1t, too, and took of his hat to the
boys, who then thought better Of him than
ever" DEXTER MARSHALL.