The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-24
Md PHASES OF COURAGE.
.,,cs THAT HAVE MADE OFF,
ms OF PROVED SPIRIT FAINT.

tAwakeninE of a LOutish
..,-,,au-Brave Act of a Powder
-,..-,tcn W no Have Acted Prompt
~ ,be Right Moment-MRny Va
-t.ties of Bravery.
FROM the New York Sun.
... nossesses a man completely at
and at another does not even find
81 may be 100 much to say that the
-... called nerve is a mood, but there
.-, instances that 80 to show now
man may be on one occasion and
,.. ,gonanish on another
rae1jar army cavalry officerone Of the
r, 20 down with bad'Tound in the
fatt before SANTIAGO, had proved ms
,..t.r .r Indian campaigns when he was
n.-n. his first shoulder straps. He had
49,, a witness OF many scenes of VIC
+.,.... I'm The frontier, and he fought wei
.-.5 a4rd before Santiago. He has always
hen known among officers and men VINO
have. soIoiercd alongside OF him as intre-
.:l lew years ago, when ne was com
r,,..l.os his troop down in one Of the Ari-
-sfs cavalry garrisons, one Of the soldiers
arms outfit shot himself in tit OF renorse
after a protracted spree. The soldier walt
III .,ntu mess call for dinner. Then he got
1i. -at1ine out of the rack, put bali in
H. pulled of his right boot, and, work
is. the trigger with his toe, sent the bull
10 crashing into his mead, dying almost
Instantly. The commander OF the troop
the officer of proved courage was oL,
mud I'M a few moments. He passed
,irofab the crowd OF troopers, and took
an. lao}, at the dead man. Then he put his
rsrd 40 his head, rceled dlzzlly, and, IN a
J,,J faint. fell into the arms of a couple
of soldiers He was unconscious Tor tuil'
fen minutes. and it was the sIght or inc
bia0d thai did il. There mad been no com
raoeship between the officer and the dead
s.Iii-r. such as often springs up between
enlisted men and officers who spend many
wears together IN the same outfit or post,
tor me suicide had been recently trans1er-
red TO line troop. It was a pure case OF
vgl.Ius at the sight of blood on the part
nj ,hr officer although he had been used to
v,oent scenes since mis- earliest manhood,
and ho could afford to, and did acknowl-
td.e IL freely.
can't. Grdley, who died at Hong Kong,
whittier he was carried very i'll after he
had done mis- share OF the fighting with
Dewey in Manila bay, had similar eX-
perience when he was a commander. Elc
was in some of the bad fighting jobs of the
civil war, and was a conspicuously brave
and cool-headed man. When he was pro-
noted TO the rank of commander his first
ship. had as a member of her crew a Jack
o-tha-Gdst who was a heavy drinker, but
So valuable a man that the officers over
looked q good many bad breaks. A jack
o-ihe-dust is striker for the paymas-
ter and the paymaster's yeoman. Tie holds
the rate of seaman, and is assigned as
.lrss i F.~la Hnsa
ions 10 the mess cooks and to act as gen
eral factotum for the pay Office aboard
ship Gridley had not been in command
of the ship for month before the jack
o-thc-dust went on a spree and had TO be
pui in the brig over night. Gridley had
been 5hipmate with the man on and off
for twenty years and liked him and hated
to see him lin trouble So, when the jack
o-the-dusJ got sober enough Gridley had
him brought aft to the cabin instead of
jaWlOg MN at the Sick and gave him
as clever a man-to-man sort of talk as
bIuejacket ever listened to. Then, instead
of Furnishing him for his spree. he turned
him loose This was on a monthly muster
morning. The remorseful Jack, on whom
Grldeys kind talk had pressed heavily, got
into his mastering clothes and appeared
on deck all right for muster When the
men were dismissed he went below to
stand i'm one of the paymaster's store
rooms until the skipper had finished in
spectiug the ship Grdley made a very
thorough inspection of the ship In com
pany with the executive officer, and the
Inspection was to wind up with the offices
and storerooms in the after part of the
vessel on the berth deck. He walked a few
feet ahead of the executive officer, and
when he reached the last Daymaster's
stoIeloom aud peered inside he fell back
into the arms of the executive officer ut
terry unconscious. The executive officer
called out for the surgeon and then looked
into The storeroom to see what had had
sotn am effect upon the coOl-headed Grid
ley, The reuentant JACKIE -the-dust was
sllUhg on a box of saltwater soap, dead,
With mis- throat cut from ear to ear. The
lnne made so painful an impression upon
GfdIey that he was under the weather
LOT some Time, and yet he was one of the
newest men in Uncle Sans line of fight
Ing packets
An engineer cadet, who is now an as
slSIant engineer on one of the cruisers in
Ounan waters, went ashore in Honolulu TO
NpsA coal for his ship one morning about
nNe Years ago. When he returned aboard
Iof luncheon all hands were at mess, eX-
C'p1 loutlsh, moon-faced lanGsman, a
4osmer farm hand from interior Califor-
ma, VINO had been the butt of his mates
as am innocent OF Jhe rawest kind. This
t@AdSInan had bolted his dinner and was
!e'hns oyer the starboard rail-, looking
40 more stupid or inert than he generally
"-t' A big coal lighter was moored along
sac the ship, and the cadet in order 60
81. ABOARD ship had to climb from the
s's'in launch that brought him off onto
Ce 4snter, ana then pun himself up on
1- 'Aed non gangway ladder to the gang
There was a space OF about two
oe tween tho coal lighter and the ship.
-i.'o lI's space the cadet, missing his hold
"te" Ae attempted to clutch the ladder,
49,, ie.t foremost, with a splash The
~" oI 'he steam launch heard the slash,
"1- "'" not know what had caused it. Ii
@' "pout lOJ TO l against the cadets saw
''. l.e by his own efforts, for when he
t t ap his head was due 10 bump against
1''' '''.on of The lighter. and it is a hard
'a.N'A even for a good swimmer 20
~" nerve under such circumstances.
49, .'''. oi1n't keep his nerve, and he
'--I surely have been a goner had il not
-i. Use loutish landsman leaning over
'''erd rail. The loutish lands
i'.''' 10 be The right man. He did
gym SICK Oh his government straight
~'' ore he let himself fall into The
ID, ."een the lighter and the ship