The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-31
SOME GOOD WAR STORIES,
CLEANS FROM THE SILVER LIN
ING OF THE WAR CLOUD.


Tough Lesson for "A Young Re
cruit-TwO ways of Shooting IL
Illustrated by Andy Burt.
One of the officers who went off to the
rescue OF Spanish sailors on the Vizcaya
tells how angry one Of them made an
American seaman from the Oregon, says
Santiago letter. Our jacl1ies had seized
Mauser rifles and On the way back to the
ship one man was examining with pride
the trophy he had picked up. A Spaniard,
probably the owner of the weapon, watch
ed the American sailor and grinned sar-
donically at him until he caught his eve.
Then the Dago pointed at the breach and
made q gesture of throwing something
overheard. We had seen the Spanish
throwing away their breech blocks, and
the Oregon man knew what his enemy
meant. Already indignant, this triumph
ing over the disgraceful act was too much
for the jacky. He sprang at the Span
iard's throat.
I'm send you after that breech block,
you ---!' he shouted.
He looked as if he meant to carry out his
threat, and the spaniard was terribly
frightened. But the boat officer put a stop
to the scene, compelling Inc jacky to let off
his feelings in looks and growl.
A Maine soldier boy writes home that an
Arkansas guard was Ginning the Maine
sentry who was pacing mis- parallel beat
says the Kennebec Journal.
Smear as / can see. there amt much
difference atween we uns and you uns,
va
guess"
That's about all neighbour" replied the
Maine man. "cept that we can guess a
darn sight better than you can reckon
Our Jap boy Sinkamata Is quite a char
acter, though japanese, and quite inteili-
gible, says a writer on board the battle
ship Iowa. His station at general quar-
ters is in the powder division in one of the
fixed ammunition rooms, where In times
of peace ne is wont to sit on a box and
dangle his feet in the air to go to sleep
But during the bombardments he has to
hustle boxes, and this did not so suit his
taste, for he would come up after it was
all over and say, mo goodee, fghtce ship
pee alice time, dirlee shipse alice uppee. -
If anything goes wrong at any time, no
| matter what Il is it is "allee dlrtee," but
il is literal as to bombardments, for they
do turn things topsy -turvy more or less.
out dLAtI AliC iSIts Oil bIlC I'LL u Ae4S5 IN
came up radiant out of the magazine and
said: Belly finee. No moye Spain Shipee:
no more fightee
However trivial this stuff may seem to
you it is significant; it shows what We
have to interest us when we are not fight
ing. DO you wonder the navy likes to
fight?
An essential frill on the biographies of
heroes of the war seems to be, in the minds
of writers, their fuency in language pro-
fame. Fighting Bob" Evans as always
enveloped in a sulphurous atmosphere, and
Gen Shafter is declared to be another
prize winner in swearing. The Detroit
Free Press relates this about the Santiago
chieftain: One day the general was en-
gagged in house moving. 1t was after his
wife had become an invalid and he was
naturally irritaied at being compelled TO
attend to household details which his wife
had formerly so studiously and efficiently
| relieved him of 1t was probably this
thought that caused the general to go into
the garden before breakfast while the
house was all broken up, and swear a
blue streak for half an hour. Mrs. Shat
ter was reclining on the lounge in the din
ing room, awaiting breakfast, and heard
him. When the general came in he greet
ed her with a smile and assisted her 10 the
breakfast table
us there anything the matter, Will
lamp" she asked gently,
mo, my dear; everything is going on all
right"
'What were you swearing about, then?"
"Was 1 swearing?"
eyes horribly"
BLESS me. 1 am sure 1 can't think
what il is about. Redman! Come here,
Redmanw shouted the general in a stem
torian voice, and his faithful and devoted
| personal attended promptly appeared.
I tl,s.
| ing, Redman?" and he riveted the man
| with is commanding eyes.
Redman fdgeted first on one foot and
! then on the other for a moment, then an
| swered:
81 guess you was thinking, SIR
ooh! yes my dear. That is it, was
| thinking"
| eheerfulness and good nature, while in her
! presence, from the slightest worry or dis
! comfort.
Although the special fitness of Gen.
! Shafter TO conduct the rough and vigor-
out campaign at Santiago de Cuba was
| the primary motive that influenced the
| President i'm his decision to appoint him to
so important command, it is quite like
| ly that the fact of the generals having
had the yellow fever was also taken into
! consideration.
| A Kansas correspondent at Chickamau-
| ga says the Arkansas regiment camped
near the Kansas troops furnishes lots of
| fun for all observers. He recites the case
| of one of their captains who, instead OF
] giving the order ''in two ranks, form COM
| pany!" shouted, Sin two rows like cornr'
and then, in place of the order "fours
right" commanded, now swing like a
gate!"
One OF the wounded Rough Riders hob
bled past another on the beach tat Sibo-
ney, says the New York Press.
You think you're high toned because
you've got crutches, don't you?" said the
second. There wasn't a pair of crutches
in camp when the wounded were brought
down from the front. Where did you get
them?"
Il won them all right" replied the first
! eheerfullY ooh. I'm popular. l am"