Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-23
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How the Battery Was Taken.

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How the Battery Was Taken.
Twas at the earliest flush of dawn,
Grant. With his held I sIsss ss stood serene.
Up rushed rider. hand to brim:
Stopt. and cried out. saluting him:
Per rebels hat a battery, take-
SAID Grant: i spsa kas oa aer Y How was it
done?''
aRs aRs battery Ess feoE look
Cried Grant: You spiked the guns, OF
Amazed the Deutscher's voice was
VOTE shp like. dem guns-dem brand
Wy, it Would shpoii dem, You make
Make fun" said Grant. make fun with
Then sharply asked: what did you do?"
.-Do?" said the Deutscher. dot vas plain.
D9amve Y Es,p took dem pack again
Soldiers Resented Discrimination.
Never, except on one occasion"
said the lieutenant, did 1 think the
English way of treating soldiers was
better than our own way. When we
went to Tampa in 1898 a good many
of the restaurants there displayed the
sign, No soldiers fed here AS we had
full rations and very little money,
this did not disturb the boys, but 1t
outraged the sensibilities of a young
Englfshman in my company He
called my attention to the sign and
said no man would dare display such
a sign where soldiers were quartered
in England.
Instead of proclaiming they would
not feed soldiers, the restaurant pro-
prietors in an English town were re-
quired not only to feed soldiers but
serve them at half the regular price.
Listening to the story, the men of the
company began to show resentment,
particularly toward a pretentious es
tablishment which made a parade of
its Cuban proprietorship and the pride
thereof in the American soldiers, but
all the while displayed the sign, No
soldiers fed here
ION the first pay day the men of
the artillery company decided to have
a feast. The company was formed as
if for duty, the orderly sergeant insist
ing that the cooks take their place in
line. Then the company, each man
armed and equipped for hot work,
marched to the, restaurant, took pos
session, put the proprietors and their
employees under guard, and then put
it's own cooks on duty. These pre-
pared and served fine supper.
after the supper had been disposed
of the company marched out without
explanation or remark and the indig-
nant proprietors made haste to pre-
sent a formal complaint to the colonel
in command of the camp. The colo
mel was a strict disciplinarian, and he
was sure the restaurant men were
mistaken. His own men, he said,
could not possibly have done such a
thing. However, he would order the
companies formed for inspection, and
if the restaurant keepers could pick
out the offenders they would be pun
ished.
Things seemed to be going against
the boys when the colonel said bland
ly to the compliments: of course,
you feed soldiers at your establish.
ment?' The Spanish-Americans' re-
luctant1y admitted that they did not
The colonel asked, not so bland1y:
You don't show one of those offensive
placards. NO soldiers fed here" do
you?'' They admitted that they did.
Then Numbered the colonel, get out
of this camp as quickly as your legs
can carry you. Get out or 1 will put
you all under arrest And they got
out"
81 never saw such a sign in the civil
war;" said the captain. 1.-THE Southern
hotelkeepers were, as a rule, ready to
feed all soldiers who had money
have often thought, however, that the
boys in the Spanish-American war had
4 very limited experience of the I'M
usual as compared with the expert
ences of the long service men in the
Union army. This was particularly
true of the things that happened in
the last year of the war, when the
men were seasoned to adventure and
were thrown largely on their own re-
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