Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-06
ECHOES OF THE WAR.

Washingtouians fulfilled to- the letter, even
tossing of the dregs Of Colonel Archie Hop
kins' prophecy about Dewey when the then
commodore bid farewell to his associates
two years ago:
And when he takes the homeward tack,
Beneath an admirals flag"
They sang in mournful tones when he went
away, but
Wen hail the day that brings him back
And nave another jag"
And so they did-the largest taken aboard
since the Potomac overflow. The jag was
not photographed owing to its great ex-
panse, but was cautiously referred to by the
Post in these modest lines: There was
considerable interior decoration last evening
red being given the preference. This morn
log the dark brown taste will predominate,'
Fighting Bob" Evans is credited with this
story by New York paper when Eulate
the commander of the Vizcaya, got on board
of the Iowa l took him into my cabin and
gave him the best had, Through the open
port he saw his vessel beached and burning.
Tears trickled down his cheeks l felt very
sorry for the poor fellow as he moaned,
'Adios, Vizcaya! Adios, my noble ship!'
After he had composed himself bit | Of
fered him a cigar-the best on the Iowa-a
5-center He looked at 1t. thanked me,
Strengthened up, laid back his shoulders
and running his hand inside his coat,
brought forth an 'invincible' that couldn't
be bought in New York for less than dol
lar And, captain, he said, emotionally,
will you have the goodness to try one OF
mine?' 1t was the best smoke I ever had"
Captain Wilhelm of the Fourth cavalry,
serving in the Philippines, is one of the dan
ditst OF the army. But well-fitting clothes
are his only weakness. or courage, gal
lantry and cool nerve ne has large stock
correspondent relates that during the ad-
vance on San Mateo, August 12 Captain
Wilhelm saw four of the enemy running
away at close range. He ordered his men
to fire on them and bring them down. Just
at the critical moment and just in time to
save +hem a native woman ran out and
placed herself with extended arms, imme
| directly behind the fugitives in the line Of
fire. There was but one thing for wilhelm
to do as American gentleman and he
did it promptly. He ordered the men to re-
serve their fire and moved on, while the hur-
rying Filpinos got as quickly as possible
out Of range, sheltered from harm by Amer
| lean gallantry and their guardian angel,
This same Captain Wilhelm showed him
The command was moving along an open
road when 1t was assailed by very lively
shower of bullets. All Of his men did just
| what they should do under such circum-
| stances. They hunted what cover they could
| find in the muddy rice fields, where they
| tloundered about as one must under such con-
| ditions. Wilhelm remained alone, standing
| the only prominent object in the whole
| field, while Mauser and Remington bullets
pattered around him, kicking up, they
| do, each it's little puff of dust. People who
want TO chaff Wilhelm say he stayed there
| because he preferred getting shot to getting
| his clothes muddied. That is as 1t may be-
but, clothes or not, it took plenty OF cold
nerve to stand there the sole target for the
| Filipino fire.
! Kansas could not longer restrain its mod
| eSty when Dewey landed and promptly laid
| claim to the Farragut flag presented to Ad-
| miral Dewey by Commodore Baird The
| claim Of Kansas is that the flag was made
| by Quartermaster Knowles out of blue
number flag when Farragut was first made
| a rear admiral. The Quartermaster
| Knowles spoken of was A. w. Knowles,
! vice president of the Bank of Topeka, who
was a sailor on Farragut's flagship Frank
| lin. Mr.. Knowles served five years in the
navy during the period OF the civil war un-
der the, great Admiral Farragut. He entered
| the service as common jackie and ad-
vanced by industry and devotion to duty.