Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-10-12

With his apotheosiS,
And they tell about his capers
While the shells above him hiss.
But behind the grimy gunner
Steadfast through the wild hubbub,
Stands a greater god Of battles
lis the man who cooks the grub
Selected
Let me bow Introduce 10 you our
cook, the Wit ana life Of th4 mess. \
tail and ungainly Irishmap, who was
chosen by the chief of our mess to be
our cook for the reason that he had
spent many years on the western
frontier, il that capacity, and many d
meal had concocted from what seemed
almost nothing, and always mace a
palatable mess Of il, when it seemed
TO the others that here was nothing
to get. His only draw back was his
volubi!ity, and it seemed that it WAS
impossible to stop his talk, even when
we were all tired out and wanted to 90
to sleep. Ked ht AIDED, Of course, and
pockmarked. be had had the list of al
diseases, and was considered an i'm
mune.
On the morning Of July 29th, after
our fun with the merchants, we were
Gale d to breakfast by Reddy, with the
pleasant information that ''there 8
nCthin' at AL to ate, except few
i.th ip1 In
att er pickup up in the ould basfe of
market beyand." We found d
smoking breakfast Of b., led potatoes,
roast Of beef, pile of soft bread
aid fruit galore, as one Of the boys
said.
{" a, Reddy, that is one of your old
jokes" said Lieut.. james. "TpdAde
it is 10 joke," said Reddy as he pre-
pared 10 pour out the co fee. Didu't
the Guild spalpeen te M he was out
of everything to ate that | called for,
and ] just walked into Ills ould shs.
bang and took what he had put aw y
my honey" says What is the price
Of all this now" And the Guild hay
then went on to sputter an c.ugh An
tell of 'peset oS an cusrtcs' an lots of
outlandsh thiugs that | knew nolhin'
about, all so l jst took what l had
and kim away leavin' the Guild fella a
sweatin' like he was hot" ''In the
meantime We were liiling up the Inner
man with an avidity that showed tha;
we cared more for the eatabl les than
how they had been procured.
'Arragh, me bys," said Reddy
"What did the wild haytheRs name at
all at all, l don't know, by their shout
in and skramln' last night. Shure ]
heard thin say so many tonnes, Viva
los Americana I" and thin another one
wud skrame out like the divil was
afther him, "Viva Porto Rico Libre -
and they kept it up SO long. WI,
didn't Misther Porto Rico LibIe
come ard see ME what the haytter;
wanted of him | don't know at all al
all"
why, that was their way of rejoic
ing to be free from Spanish rule"
Ventured 10 say.
Ri icin' was it? Why didn't the
haythens say HuFra! thin, loike white
paple wud be afther sayin' | do know
at all at ALL"
They are not Yankees, yet" said
Lieut.. James.
Not YaLkaes are they, DO and il
will be a blatherin' long tonne befor1
they will be YaI KEGS too" ansWered
Reddy.
After breakfast the troops were
called up in the Plaza, and the orders
were read to them, placing Gen. Will
son in command Of the city and sur
rouGding country. We expected to
have "a rest of a few days, but were
disappointed in thst. as we got orders
To report to Headquarters at once, and
waen we got there we found that we
had work laid out for us, that Was no.
altogether what we had expected.
Lieut.. James was sent to the City
Jail TO release the Mayor, who haC
been imprisoned the day before, fol
singing Yankee Doodle" He also
ordered him to release all the poitica
prisoners in the jail. was sent witt
detail to hunt for spanish soldiers ol
sympathisers. We were told that none
were in town, as they had filed pillow
cases with clothes wadded together
and put them in the seats of thei
pants and on their backs to protet
them from our bullets, and then left
the town. They also said that the
Police padded their backs with car
riage cushions, or whatever they
could to protect themselves from tn,
wrath which they seemed to fee
coming.
Every where we went we we're me-
with cheers and the stores were deco
rated with the red white and blue