The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-02-01
e0SsACKs As SCOUTS
u,,,rNr RELATES AN EX-
" ,,rxCE IN THE WAR.
na,.tv who Were About to
" patb Were Surprised
nv the japanese.

!, How f'A y
,o . Bath Were Surprised
by the Japanese
tbo many soldiers tales re-
1nou t.on the front there is the fol
1eu no,~atlon published in the Sara
sins ,1 4' in the actual words OF
L and teeming with naive hu-
|s'I savs the London Globe;
y, %. believe, sir, all that that Mkt
DV u. ror You know he halls from
'sn noro Of Kebekoffka, the people
, all and sundry, are famous
S n.rgorts. and he tells lies just like
D, "s rast, But 1 will tell you the
n tbe affair. 1 come from Kebe-
~. We'll. we were with the whole
.',an as it retreated from Salma1-
l'| 't+or we had gone days march
..are disbanded and formed small
"hmonts Nikifor, Panas and
a'n Dan+ off to reconnoiter. The sun
r. .o,no down, so we halted and in
I'D ourselves as well as we could.
WV noont of flowers was all around
Wonchrria is, indeed, a heathen-
,,nd and therefore l will-st1ll 1t Is
a l-sI
snTely place. Before we iald our
w., ". down to rest we thought we
" tota q bath in little river that
4 before us at a distance OF about a
<ano hundred PAGES. You know, we
Fbodoz must have our bath. We hao
onIv a few steps when we OBJ
- about a dozen almond eyed vel
sEins The devil only knows where
r,scals had come from, but there
l. wore lust as if they had popped
4 Of the ground.
sTrnp # is that the yellow skins are
tbp worst enemies, although they
90 sIv and artful. We were not ex-
h. frightened on seeing the enemy In
ror Numbers than ourselves; all the
no # became unpleasant when the
! advanced against us at a sharp
What was to be done? We had
our rifles and bayonets behind.
ore was no help for it. We must try
cot the better Of the yellow skins by
hning So while the Japanese were
Edpn in a small ravine as they were
hing up we hid ourselves. Panas
nbed up a big tree growing most
0yeniently and disappeared among
branches, l crept into a large thick
and Nikifor ran down to the river
4 hid himself so carefully among the
Elders that he could scarcely be
zn, We managed to hide ourselves
n in the nick of time, for the aim
eyed foe came up and halted just
front of the thicket in which l was
Acealed. Then in their heathenish
lguage, which no honest Christian
herstands (Nikifor says he can
Ike out what they say but Nikifor
hes from Kebekoffka), the little vel
rascals held a council Of war. Be
q could repeat three Paternosters
d yellow devils had settled what they
nld do.
Nine Of them rode off in various di-
tions, while the tenth, who seemed
be in command, stationed himself so
BE to my thicket that / could almost
re seized him in my arms. l cursed
lot in not having my rifle with me,
it would have been so easy to have
Jed the rascal with one thrust Of
bayonet | dared scarcely breathe
kept my eyes on the foe. How
q and clean he was in a brand new
form with facings of rich embroid-
in gold!
All at once the Japanese took
Re OF paper out of his pocket and
leu IT, In a twinkl1ng he had
ped the paper into a drinking cup.
Pn he walked down to the river,
deep breath, filed his paper
Pet with the refreshing water and
~ 1t to his lips. 1 envied him that
~ As l watched him and saw
the draft was greatly to -
lg could not help calling out to
like a good Christian, Good
lm? Great heavens! What was
result Of my doing so? The jap
e pulled whistle out Of his pock-
No blew a shrill blast ON it. and in
vmkIing up popped his comrades
all sides. They dragged me out
,le thicket and handcuffed me.
while | was considering how 1
manage to give them the slip
hui called to mo from tho river