The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-18
TWO REGIMENTAL MAsCOTs.
Eugene Higgins of ThOmnsvilIe Says
the Business Is No Good.
From the New York World.

,Ia uusiness Is M GOod
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FROM the NC" 10TH N"ii"'
II Is the opinion Of Eugene Higgins that
mascotting for a regiment at the front
a. ,,,iat,t,r ,,,ao,, hus,nass pugana enoairs
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OUT Oh 'ue luii'le99 VI eNPe' i1iOe' nc -
of the opinion that he has passed through
more than any human mascot In the bust
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lie never met oppheS pehu'ey' also
regimental mascot, until they came 10
gether on Hoffman Island where they
,,,oro q, c,,orort,no stnce tben thew have
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peeh "lseP'iapie Ooiip'ii'O"9' "sioei"9
upon nothing at all except that mascot
ting a regiment at the front isn't any good
o,d ,bat c,nbo 10 tha vyorst olaca IN aarth
nj. -, oo,,o 10 a. Vvarta ofti,a ,.,s
torday ,indnr tba core or Mr. GriHin act-
Inc, co. " ~ yVardvgau treaeurer or me
poa C,,oes societ,, Who win see mar th4v
roach tbeir homes Fugene Higgins Is a
,,arti,,,Iari-, h1iabt -iolili,,o ,,ornrster tIe
b9s fira ro,nd hoad ana rather an nm
1or-si1od frame althongh he Il strong ana
viz Tis home is IN sThonasville Ga
where his father is a grocer Eugene de-
cIares that he has ALWAYS gone to school
and never tonight oftener than necessary
tTts mannars Indicate tbat this a. true.
ha |
inst felt that I Mad 10 go foo" said the
how oT lew there wasn't anv use talk.
mo 10 my father and mother about It,
When tha six1h Cavalry PASSED through
ThonosvlIle' last got on the cars and
rode to Tampa with them. | didn't stay
with the Sixth Cavalry long. [ wanted
n come IN tbe lines one night and the
Guard STONED me. | thought that IL
thew oorldfTt treat a mascot better than
mai thew didn't deserve one So l went
over 10 the Twentieth Infantry They
treated mo like n mascot ought to he
treated
isvVbcn the regiment went on board the
,ransnort I was afraid they would not
take me along. so 1 slowed away under a
nontoon. They found me and took me be-
fore Ideut Williams of Company e. lie
said I coUld stav If / would agree to
bring the regiment good Iuc,t. | told him
| would II they we're all like he was. 1
cot come soldior clothes on the boat. l
landed at sibonev and STAYED right with
the regiment"
Now. II should be remarked right here
that eugene Is a tribe hazy about time
and geography for several Teasons-one of
which Is hat he didn't burden his mind
with details But il NAV be said that he
was in cuba about a month and a half al
togethar
~ didn't think much Of Cuba from the
atart We didn't gel more than half ra-
tions had a blanket 10 sleep on and that
yras all The first time saw
Cubans thew made me hungry.
Thev were 90 Thin Won could al
most soc through them The first time
tbere was 6ohting 7 was scared wanted
to RIM but Inc regiment ,vouldn't RIM. so
ma 10 sfav with n never lei the reg
ipoent eet out Of NV eight The Mauser
hulIets sound IKE an old nanny singing
= Lid 10 aIeon and thew made me Green
az Nrsf tbo,,ebt one of thenn would nut
me 70 eleen T6en the next minute was
enra would starva IN death n wasn't
$40 ,r,bon 7 ,ot tired ahout hotbering
co,,,t ,ornernbe. sbhut tirna hecailse was
~ for throa nj, four ntghts and davs At
q time and things got an mixed m
~,ae i1st dead 10 sIeen for a week
ss,r,,.o davs after he aaee ~ truro wont
IN Coi Hnnnhries concluded bad tetter
s,a horoa 60 ba ,ut mo an, The seneca ana
z 1870 sa,,i,, a MORA agatnst n W.,
a,..ra |,,,arantired on TIofrroan leland ~
10 a. thn,.a. Tle,,t,y M .,t ana a e,ood
80 ~ sioan an 20, uantea 81 ho.b
hr,,, ~, ,oi,i, hoy,a ana ca,,,t s,at mr.
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So a,,i, min Con1fos tra,d1a,, ha a
'.,,,., ~ ~as,at ~ sa,,s ~, &, -
,e h,s tre,,tia ng t % ga o' ~
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