The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-23
THE DOCTOR GOT HIS GUN.
So Sick Rough Riders Had Chicken
soup at Santiago.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
Santiago had fallen, and so far every
thing was satisfactory. But the men were
sickening, just as if Santiago were still
standing. and the doctors didn't like
things in the least. All around the camp
of the Rough Riders the guinea hens were
sauawking "Buckwheat' and Come
back" but in the camp itself the men
were on bareback and bacon, in small
quantities and not of the best qualities.
Now. shooting guinea hens with Krag-
Jorgensen may be fun for the fellow that
shoots, but it isn't, strictly speaking, GOOD
for the neighbors. So the assistant sur
geon, who had been promoted SO recently
from private that he had not had time to
get his shoulder straps, was anxious to get
a shotgun with which he was certain he
could get the guinea hens with come COM
fort to the neighbors and more certainty
to the hens. With the guinea hens in
hand, soup and stews could be made for
the sick, and with soup and stews in their
stomachs the sick and wounded would
have a better time. But the thing was to
get a gun.
So TO the colonel of the Rough Riders
the surgeon went.
"All right" said the colonel, I'm going
into Santiago, and will get you one"
But the next day the colonel returned
without the shotgun.
Forgot it, DOCTOR" he confessed. "But
here Woody Kane is going in to-day. He
will get it,"
But Woody Kane came back without it,
too.
Didn't forget 1t, Doc" he said
Couldn't get it. Not one to be had in
the town. All been conhscated."
Now, the doctor was man Of resources.
Besides, those guinea hens We're still
souawking just outside the camp every
day. and every time one squawked the
doctor thought of the soup that his sick
men we're not getting, and wondered, in
the style Of the psalmist, How long, o
Lord"
So he went 10 Col Roosevelt and asked
for pass 10 the city.
After that gun stili?" asked the colo
mel. as he made out the pass. "Well. &c
anybody in the outfit can rustic it, it's
you and Knobloch.
So the doctor got his pass, and with his
orderly rode into Santiago.
1t sounds fine and grand to say that he
rode in attended by an orderly But the
reality wasn't so fine as the sound In the
first place, the Doctors hcrse was mule.
Where il came from he doctor never told.
He said he paid 81 so for it, bit, remember
ing Col Rooseven's remark about the
doctor and Knobloch. it may be allowed 10
question the cost of the animal But, at
any rate. the assistant surgeon of the
Rough Riders rode "a mule, and his orderly
walked.
Now. il has been said that the surgeon
had no shoulder straps. In fact he had no
marks of rank about him. To explain mat
ters a bit: The men land that means the
officers tool wore The thinnest things they
could get during the day and at night
wore the heavy blue shirts that Un lie
Sam issues 20 his boys when they so to
hot climates. Now from ChiIlicothe had
come to The Rough Riders a box con-
tanning fifty suits If Dajamas ana fifty
packages OF writing paper ana pencils
and other valuable things, and at the boz
tom OF the box, when the Il iartcrmas ter
onened t. lie 70 lrd a Woman's nightcown
with large puffed sleeves arr ru;llcs all
over a.. II was Of sheer muslin" and
y. hen the sleeves mad been cut or a. the
chow and the skirts cut off ~ the ri;ht
length to wipe 0ae hands on 1t made an
rSt client daytime r9rmont But Il had no
shoulder straps.
81, The surgoon rode and hi, vrdcilS
stked into Santiago Further the mule
Yae decorated win e. pair II sable baps
nrde out OF TWO n.'ti bags fss'e'itI to-
rnther and slLns c'-oss the saddle. Alto-
e.lher q was nie PROCESSION thar the
SURGEON his mule ana the orderly niue
a. they went 20 ii1apfTO 10 get the c'ln
NOt a gun was 10 be- had IN Santiago
Tho surgeon found that QUE very soon
But the thought 81 those darned guinea