Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-05-13
SOLDIERS AT HOME.
THEY TELL SOME INTERESTING
ANECDOTES OF THE WAR.
How the Boys of Both Armies whiIed
Away Life in Camp-Fora&ing Ex-
periences, Tiresome Marches-Thril.
ling Scenes on the Battlefield.

DOCTOR, Il was living IN New ork,
and was engaged in profitable bust
ness. One evening l was seated at
table in a restaurant when a we'll
dressed, elderly man came in from the
street, walked straight toward me, and
said In a low voice i am in great dis
tress. | am at the end of my string,
have no money, no place to sleep, and
an hungry. What would you advise
me TO doY
'.0f course, l was annoyed, and
showed my annoyance There was no
reason why the man should have sin
gled me out for such a speech, except,
possibly that l wore the Grand Army
button However, that did not occur
to me Mt the time, and ! said jocularly,
i know what l would do under like
circumstances. l would so outside,
look for good sized stone, clutch it
firmly in my right hand, find large
plate glass window, and hurl the stone
through it. After that ! would be sure
Of board aud lodging for some weeks
at the expense of the city
"The stranger said with jaunty POI
likeness: You are very kind. Thank
you. sir. | will acu on your sugges-
ton. Thereupon he walked straight
to the door and went out. ana order.
ed my supper In less than five min
utes there was a crash in front, a tin
kle Of broken glass ana clamor Of
voices. went with others to the
street and saw that my acquaintance
of five minutes before had taken my
advice with a vengeance. He had
thrown a stone through the window of
a jewelry store and was awaiting ar
rest. There We're an sorts of theories
on the lips of men who We're awaiting
the second move in what they regard
cd as q daring scheme of robbery.
"Ncantime several policemen were
closing in cautiously on the man who
had thrown the stone, Thay evidently
regarded him as a dangerous character
or as insane piyinlng this the stone
thrower said: oh, | will go with You
No trouble OH that score. In fact. |
broke the glass that | might be arrest
ed As a policeman grabbed him,
said Wait minute. ! am afraid l
am to blame for this / said to this
man when he asked for assistance that
| would throw stone through plate
glass window. and in that way secure
board and lodging from the city, That
was a joke, but he seems TO have acted
on my advice. and feel in Il measure
responsible.
'sThe upshot of the affair was that
agreed to pay for the broken glass aud
to take charge Of the man who had
broken it, paid for the supper of the
stone tnrower secured lodgings for
him. and told him would listen to his
story the next day. | never expected
to see him again. but he kept his ap-
pointment the next morning, aud told
his story. He had been in the employ
OF one house for twenty years. and
when it failed though: he would have
30 difficulty in securing other employ
mpnt. But he found no other place
and finally found himself with no re
sources and no chance Of employment.
The sensation of being turned out
of doors, of being without friends, and
of being hungry. affected him strange
~ and, noticing my Grand Army but
ton as | went into the restaurant he
decided to lay his case before me. In
his desperate mood my suggestion
struck him rs being much better than
suicide. / secured him employment
the next day on trial. and he did so
well that he was regularly engaged the
next week In six months he came TO
NY Office looking SO much better that
| did not recognize him He said th"
jeweler Of the broken window had told
him that paid a bill of $40 or rcplac-
Ing the glass, and he had come to re
pay the money.
He said he had n good position and
was abundantIy able 10 pay the bill;
that he was indebted to me for the 10
stion and for the general bracng M
he received in following my advice,
and that he wanted to he comrade IN
good standing. Then it came out that
he bad seen service in the same bri-
gade as myself. and he recalled IN ex-
plot in which he and some Of my own
regiment had been cngagcd-to their
credit ! understood then the rcck-
less, devil-may-care spirit Of the fpI-
low who threw stone through a viii
dow on my advice"
Men Of fine spirit" said the Cap
tain, were found in all regiments IN
the army. remember well the find
ing of the body Of Captain Peter
Schneider, of the Fifty-second Ohio.
at Peach Tree Creek on the line Of
hand-to-haud fighting, Scbncider's
body was found with bullet hole be-
tween the eyes. Not two feet from it
was the dead body of q rebel major
with a bullet hole in the forehead.
Each man lad a revolver in his right
hand and one chamber i'm each 70