The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-16
NnLITIAMEN ARE JoKERs.
They Tell of Captain Sharp's Pipe and
Its Wonderful Value.


The Journal reporter dined at brig
ade headquarters at Camp Bailey last
night and awoke this morning fully
expecting to see the full dress and
epaulets of a major general hanging
over the bed post or at the least a
pair of puttee-leggings but there was
nothing doing, except the alarm clock.
He found the officers jolly and jok-
ing each other.
The best place to enlist is to begin
at a brigadier general and then work
up for even the vicissitudes of cruel
war enter into the brigadier generals
tent They served prunes on the table
last night If you wish to avoid prunes
stay out of the army. The reporter
didn't take up with the invitation to
dine right away because there were
so many officers of glittering names
about that he forgot entirely what
Eddie Box says about table manners
in the presence of generals, so he
hung about until no one was eating.
injured or something like that. On
the straight, though, the eating was
fine and the courtesy peter.
A lot of information can be picked
up by simply going around and look
ing Those military outposts which
you have heard of so often are out
there They've got eight of 'em al
ready set.
previous to renting the grounds for the
encampment and all it was necessary to
do was to rip off the boards under the
direction of Captain Hamilton, engi-
neer in chief, and presto the posts stood
forth. The out posts stand out mighty
fine under the glare of moon light, sit
uated as they are right on a big wart
OF hill. More about those posts anon.
And then there is the board of stra-
tegy upon which you hear the officers
sit A careful search failed to reveal
them sitting on anything else than reg
ulatton camp chairs. The nearest ap-
Oh To hn -fr-e,f
by four plank which Major Minnick
of Battery A was tantalizing with a
saw. 1t is probable that the major
was about to cut-up the plank into
rather occupied and the question was
not put.
Close under the throne of the strategy
board sits Captain Sharp with his pipe
The captain claims that he can work
out any maneuvers with the aid of his
elongated pipe The other officers state
that the difficulty under which the
street railway was working yesterday
was due to the fact that all of the
available cars were pressed into SER
vice to transport that pipe. Captain
Sharp has got everything scheduled on
the pipe system A battalion movement
means one smoke and so on. He says
he has nothing scheduled for a flank
but this is rankly false. He
was the fastest man on the place when
it came to getting next to flank steak.
has the concentrated food
product bested. Captain Hamilton is
the corps commander of the engineers.
He places his shake on when giving
commands and then taking of the emol-
umentS of office executes the COM
mandS. No red tape about this though
he does happen to have some pieces of
clothes line with which to measure off
the situation for each of the tents
Replying to question Captain Geo.
Huron in charge of the quartermaster's
department stated that the rakes and
brooms were purchased for the medical
department When the remains are
left on the field the medical corps rush
es out and gathers in all of the intact
upon a stretcher. The smaller pieces |
like a rib or an arm are raked up
while the still smaller articles which |
might happen to be lost in the confus-
ion are swept up by the brooms, eyes
and fingers usually come in the dust |
pan.
Even in the midst of war are the pur-
suits of peace. An enterprising darby |
has started barber shop in the woods |
close to the camp. Trees and tall grass |
the place and make a natural |
-oom; a chair of regulation pattern |
stands in the enclosure which nature |
has made while the mirror is propped |
Up on the remnants of a stone fence. |
A chair holds the various pieces of /
which BARRIERS are ac-
sustomed to use, while the barber pole |
S a strip of red, white and blue bunt- |
ng suspended from the overhanging /
rec branches. The barber says that |
he effect is too artistic and will move |
Up in a tent.