The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-09

, IN cuba, and cheered many O poor fellow
VINO needed his ministrations. He is not in
ciined 10 talk about his experience but one
=, the lntantrymen says that he knows that
rather Hart offc ated at thirty funerals in a
single day. He was at the front and under
tiago.
us queer" said Drum Major McGunn,
the notions that fellows will take into tbetr
EeauS When the fever is en- them You know
the twentieth was my old regiment
served with them for years. and thew All
know me. Well, when l was wing on. NV
cot In the hospital at Camp Wikoff thera
was one of the fellows from the Twentietb
brought in who was able to walk around but
was n high fever. He looked az me and
knew me well enough but he at once h.
gan to roar out that he didn't want to be
! put next 70 any man from the Third He
swore he wouldn't lave 1t. l tried to quiet
him, for the only vacant cot in sight was
! next to mine. 1 urged him to lie down, that
there were no men from the Third in sight
lie looked at me. Sure of that? says he.
sure enough said l. and he lay down along
SIDE OF me and cussed the Third"
"The funniest thing that came off in the
: hospital was In the writing of letter Every
day there came down from New York lot
| or ladies' who wanted to do what they could
for sick men, and they used to come around
and volunteer TO write letters" continued
| the big man. "A fellow from the Twelfth in
| fantry was in cot near mine. He had been
pretty bad, and was out Of his head most Of
the time One day lady put in an appear
ance and asked il we wanted any letters writ
ten. This fellow sad he wanted somebody
to write for him, that he had something ON
| his mind. The lady drew a stool up along
! side Of his cot and asked him to dictate He
dictated letter to the commandant of a
Kansas post, In which he confessed that he
had stolen $1,000 of the regimental funds and
had spent the money; that he was dying and
hoped TO be forgiven. He had it signed in the
name Of the man who had been the commits
sary sergeant OF the post and the letter was
sent OFF. It was found afterwards that the
fellow who dictated the letter was not the
man he pretended to be in the writing of the
letter. and I suppose there was the deuce to
pay somewhere"
There is joke too, that must tell Cal
Stone" continued the major 1T was at WI
kofr. A big Norwegian was brought into the
hospital, and after they had put him 10 bed
the hospital steward came around TO get his
name regiment and address. have forgotten
what name he gave, but when they asked
him where he lived. he mentioned a Min
peSOta Town.
What state is that IMP asked the stew
ard.
Why. It's on the Duluth road. you idiot
said the Norseman.
d" But where is the Duluth road?' persisted
the steward
6 Eff you don't get out ay break your head
said the Norwegian. You bin putty smart
an joke about the Duluth road
He wouldn't give up any more informa-
ton. and had to tell the steward where the
Duluth road was"
''One night when l getting well enough
to move around fellow at the farther end
of the tent called me over to him and asked
II l could keep a secret. 1 tod him I'd try
to, and he remarked that 1t was down there
pointing to the ground under him. I saw
he was out of his head and thought I might
as we'll humor him. 1 asked him what was
down there Seventy-fve dollars said he
mysteriously, all in ten-cent pieces; in the
room down stairs, under the bed The poor
fellow didn't know that the cold ground was
within foot of the bottom of his cot I
winked at him and told him l understood
You take ten cents worth Of it and so and
buy jelly he said. I promised I would
Well need the rest Of it for tobacco he
said, and I agreed that we would.
He died the next day"