New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-25
STORIES OF CAMP OFF
A SOLDIER ASSURES A MAIDEN THAT
HE Is NOT A HERO. MERELY
REGULAR
o>.p v.x prcoNEs ANXIOUS BECAUSE THE
NURSES INVADE HIS REALM AND COPY
Irs ~ oTtIrNG-A PATIENTS TRIB-

ONE MAN BECOMES ANXIOUS BECAOSh ihH
NURSES INVADE HIS REALM AND COPY
HIS crOTHrNG-A PATIENTS TR1B-
UTE To woMEN.
Speaking Of her work at Camp Wikon one Oh
the nurses said TO Tribune reporter s eS's
entering ward Of the General Hospital one
morning to call on soldier who for few Gays
had been in the delirium OF typhoid fever' am
finding him conscious. though somewhat dePle''e'
I said You are better to-day
Don't you know why? he asked
..Thinkng 10 arouse and amusc him said as !
glanced al three pretty nurses near MS pea.
mink there are so many pretty girls near you nad
70 wake I'D to look at them. did you NOT?
o.protrv girls he said I don't sec any pretty
girls -, ,orr cots replied.
They are not pretty girls; they arc nurses
But can they Lot be pretty as wei nnou, T.. no
lea. they ,,, ~" hen we owe them our lives and
will forget IT. In my estimation 'ne' "'e
su 5pe rainS morning as one of the nurses vas
about 10 lea We her ward. one OF the patients 'oo
-. Nurse you are not going out in the ram Will
on, your macintosh ar are yT Sft +, in my tent,
Then take my coat NJ said. II Is wa'epP no ve
and viii moi look badly. We can't amor" " nav
PARTY af to humor him and partly to sh GT,n shS
appreciated his klnd sned f fnTh Half down
the walk she mot Stewart Nell VINO e'""'
''e. We, Veil First the ladies donncd our nats
next our leggins then our shirts ana NO" ""'
I wonder what they VIII 90 next
.tto,. oro vour men IF for rations? captain
x,nesburv. Of Troop A. asked YESTERDAY.
plenty of everything thanks 10 good supply
of armv rations and the Merchants ASSoo'". 'o,
Of Now-York the Red Cross and others va, nv"
have nqt onN short. call Sergeant Burns
v,cnso Ict him speak for the men.
SfTgsan nrd G ,he men OF rations. Sergeant
Lieutenant Short asked -.,,, % ton them OF
g hox ~ candy and Ike as not the women VIII
send hem before the day Is donsS' ,rer,elv pop,i-
The sergeant is an Irshmah anu
lar.
A. tho train was leaving for Ncw-Yorls last even
inc with q number Of soldiers coupe VI '',
women entered the car with naSN'' VI ''
with ribbons - horooe. 10,
m ,,,.o hin, sonc fruit" exclaimed one OF I unern,
and rushing Up TO Of the men she sa,rh heroes
Won nave some fruit? You have pee" S"'"
we want 10 do something for you .o,,hor n tho
list nor 1n "' To- the Rough Riders am only Regular
Consequently not = hero , ,,ror,so tho
As he Young women looked their SURPRISE ''''
whistle blew and the car started
g, ,.v mornings ago entering ward WIN 'ne
doctor 10 60. a dangerously sick soldier boy siio
nurse Yesterday. we found him conscious ~
soon as he saw us he said;
"'fIello doctor"
".tIow arc YOU asked tho doctor.
4 fcel well today . o,, = ,o,, moro
20 YOU fol TX" returning ~ rEh' ~" '
'i"'.'Yio indeed II owned cuba and Hades /, o
roni ont cuba ana take m my r"si'rnre III
o,n"Ib prl"ing through 10 sc, here and learn the
rohili,v ~ women Those nurses and the women
who visit ne 'ca ~ rs respect Tor 'h' s'N '"''
nothing els" cou1.
DEATH OF A CHRIsTtAN SOLDIER.
..,,,o,, tho many pathetic scenes ~ IN" General
tIos,,,al which Witnessed" said ono nurse. none
was more 81 than ne death ~ young soldier
hoy lie vas ONLY seventeen. he saif. nut was so
m vio,,s o. 20 10 tho war he had declared himseh
70 be eighteen years ~ axe"
"oro afternoon | visited him. taking him some
writing paper and asked II he would not IKE 10
have mo write homo for him. as he was so III.
Smiling. he said
no thank Won | Will write; e. might worry
mott her TO So. a strange handwriting. ana guess
sho II anxious enough but VIII write ms u INC
Nv p~ir Mother. will try 10 write to you.
though ms strength IL going very last am ~ me
Mn again Whon . ler you was hayward
how and me burden ~ your heart hut ny the grace
Of d;ol and the work - tho Young Mems christian
answered and your boy Ia ''hdiSlan vi YOU
and sister Mtry pray that God VIII stu SEND great
blessing 10 the Young Mons christian Association
and tho Rod Cros9. God alone knows ~hai tn"y
have been ..oirg FOR tho boys ont here. Pray that
God NAV pat u into the hearts OF many TO help
with ihci. NO hy sending them money ~ which
kr.r wiring tho lc'ter he foll into sleep II
was his last The next afternoon saw him laid In
tho cemetery on tho hillside