The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-22

afternoon. He was rudely disturbed from
his slumberS and asked what train he
wished to travel on.
Even though they labored with him for
hours they could get but one statement
from his lips and that was: God bless
the sacred clocks in this delicious CITY.
| hope they will be assigned 10 places in
Heaven and the worthy citizens of this
blessed city with them
And out on the Avenue the clock in the
tower of the new postoffice still smiled
and said 12:45.
Even the despised barroom may point
moral or adorn a tale
This was long bar and a short room.
The line had reached the stage wherein
a lot of scornfuI men resemble a stem
mothers congress or sewing bee.
'D'ge's hear about Jewey boombarthin'
Santiago?" asked the barkeep. 'P'wy
were dong paple that liver happened
A general discussion followed. and
photographic reproduction would sound
a follows:
''Acht who couldt yet beat this coun-
try. We hat never yet again
'H'Even if e wuz H I'm HAmeri-
can an hif h'any bloody
An member he amt sayin' muffin.
He! Hei He jes put dem 'Merican solg-
ers dere. My brudder 'wuz wit -
'Bieni Je moi cOmprenezv0us. I make
for like zis- I am ze Yankee. I live
'Good-al HuzEy-c-r-r-a! Italian poof,
Two year now 1 make American. What
IAN I come l am Swedaman. had a
yob- I go Offer for pig Spaniard. I get
tell I'm not fight. | married bin. I am
bin United State
Here the machine would break down
as two Armenians are telling a Turk
what they think of foreigners.
Music may have been the 'silvery
key 20 the fountain of tears In Shell
ley's day. but in these piping times of
supposed peace it has been degraded to
anything but the silvery key 10 the foun-
tain of beers said the Army Mule as
he sorrowfully waited for his enlisted
driver to emerge from the doorway
Some of these smart people have
had the nerve to call me a long cared
mocking bird and pass CHASTITY remarks
on my vocal scale. when I have to stand
and listen to such stun as:
- We thing that Spain was Maine.
We Dewey do. we Dewey do.
But Schley was sly enough to sink
Her ships more Miles than two
Now, imagine the feelings of any mule
after listening to such stuff. Nor is this
all. Only the other day / actually heard
a soldier singing:
Now we can see our title clear
To all those Philippines.
Let's cut the Spanish name an call
Them our own Deweygreens.
Now. you can appreciate my position
when you observe that l cannot stop my
ears | have even had 10 listen 10 a man
who dared to sing:
:. Here's TO the man that won the fight,
For eight-mile bluffs don't go;
Turn Simpsons picture to the wall
And let Schley's have show
He was an army mule. but something
in his tone showed that his heart was
with the Navy Department.
There were four of them who went
for soldiers, and now they were back
from the wars. They were battle-scar-
red and weary-appearing. but in their
eyes there was the glad light that tells
of appreciation properly bestowed. and
they seemed TO be happy withaL When
the writer came across them they Were
standing in a bunch in Tenth Street, gaz.
ing with all their eyes across the street
at the sign which adOrns. or, rather, is
placed in front of the stoop of the house
where the martyred Lincoln breathed his
last One of them-a fresh-featured lad
whose fulsome rudy health had not
been impaired. apparently. by the hard
ships attendant upon course of sprouts
at the front-was launching out on all
he didn't know about the circumstances
surrounding the death of the former
President, while the others listened.
breathlessly.
Say. young feller,' said the most bat
tered of the quartet, lis that really the
house where Lincoln died. is that
bunch of billboard a guy?"
ITS all right" responded the writer
Abraham Lincoln actually died there
and the sign is a true indicator of the
place
ABE died there, did hep" asked an
other of the four. looking incredulously
at the house in question again.
Eyes, he did, and in this place here
he was shot. The building behind you
was Ford's Theater, where Booth stab
bed him.
"Geer' said the lot. in unison
Just then another soldier came up. He
was apparently unknown personally TO
the party which was regarding the his
toric spot that had formed the subject
of the foregoing colloquy, but his uni
form and Santiago-browned complexion
afforded him a sure passport to an i'm
mediate acquaintance.
"Hullo, boys" saluted the newcomer
heartily. There was just the slightest
suggestion of liquor in his voice and
breath, but he seemed all the more a
soldier for it.
'Say!'' he continued. I'VE soldiers own