The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-05-26

hybrid carnage grating aboutsto get away
from the fire. There was danger anywhere
IN the surrounding country, till one man
more reckless than the others snatched
the match from the vent and aVcrted a
catastrophe.
But John Phoenix well, he had a very
vivid imagination.
The 9Th Cav. a-c giving their horses swim
ming lessons IL the lay near their camp,
ano ] saw reaTly 200 thus engaged the
other Gay. ScIne Were swimming beside
the animal others rode ore ard led an
osher, and occasionally u black head ecu d
be seen behind a horse, which the CIV or
was guiding by the tail. This viii lie Vi u
able GTlll, when horses have to lie swung
over vessels side and landed on Il beach.
Much COURT has Eeen expressed reca d.
ing the continued good health Of men
brought 10 this climate from higher lati-
tudes and attitudes, at this season, hut
the Medical Director assures ne that the
SICK number less than two per cent. Of the
command, and those are only light cases
OF bowel troubles BROUGHT on by oyerndul-
gence in fruits, etc The water suEpIy is
abundant and of first quality, oltaired
principally by boring down throuth The
sand and its underlying rock, ard in scrle
cases, when the drill is Put down TO mere
than 100 feet, water rises above the surface.
SOME "TALL" WAR STORIES
Won't someone send the fool-killer down
this way? There is q rich harvest of seal s
waiting for hiEi Ard he tribe OF Anani4s
and Sapphira has grown large ia numbers
and vocIicrous in speech since was WAS &C.
cl3red, and the greatest representation,
and first ia oIality, deal in views o. war
and runlors of war.
Stranger" said the man from Pike,
"'tailt perlite nur safe in THIS yer c2mp ter
cell a man a li;Lr. bu, an il ] 1suz gtyine ter
tell the biggest lie cId Think ny / reckon
" ia Il
o yourn what you iist bin telI;n'"
Like the man from Pike, if / wanted to
tell gigantic untruih / would tell some of
the war stories which now find here listen
ers, and, until the next one is told, be-
| Levers.
And in nothing is there more difference
than in the stories told by men who have
been IN Cuba. One man, sent over by "A
prominent journal, and who says that
| during his two years stay i'm the island he
saw both the camps and other locations of
insuTgent authority and the inside Of a
Spanish prison IN Havana, declares that
the insurgent force is, in point OF useful
ness, "a myth, and his disbelief I'm any
stability OF character in its friends in the
island.
Another, who has also spent years with
the same forces, declares that it only
needs arms and supplies to make il for
Unstable, and M connection with on: army
| "a very effective ally.
OtiIftiS WiBD tsiNt bctH sent over refuse
| 10 talk for publication, and the bulletin
| board Is made 10 bear the weight of CON
! fiicting stories dozen times a day We
| have not seen, yet, that Sampson has
| landed his vessels near Havana, and with
| the torpedo boats deployed as slGirmishers
was advancing TO give battle to the Span
ish army; but wait till night
GEN. JOE WHEELER.
The happiest man about Tampa Just
now is Gen. Joe Wheeler. The FIRST time
| he put on his new uniform his feelings
must have taken a retrospective turn, and
| he doubtless thought of the day when he
SO ioolishiy discarded il years ago, and
| donned the rebel gray. He holds quite a
levee in the hotel rotunda every evening:
/ and Witnessed meeting between some
OF the members Of his old command and
| himself. No one cared to intrude upon
them, but both parties seemed in a happy
| mood, and one afterward said tn me: you
bet, little 10 Is mighty glad to get back into
a blue Uniform"
Though 62 years Of age, he is "spry as a
| cricket" bustles about in town, making
purchases for camp life, which, unless
| very bulky, he refuses To have sent TO his
room, preferring to carry them.
: With his (abou) Us pounds of bone and
nerve he is a most marked contrast to
Gen. Shafter with his (neaTly) 300, and one