The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

another moment. He also knew that
 Bob" would give him chance for h's
 V. hite alley He walked rapidly out of
 the place while his union brother sat down and began to eat oysters.
 Oysters Saved His Brother. The Union Evans ate his oysters as l slowly as he could, cutting every oyster 1 into small pieces, and when the last one i was gone he went out and informed the | provost guard that rebel officer was in 1 town and that in all probability his skif l was to be found at such-and-such q 1 place. The skiff was there, sure enough, l but the Confederate Evans had just pulled out He afterward told Bob that he had the narrowest squeeze cf his life, and that if Bob had eaten one oyster less he would have been caught. Later on when Robley Evans was or dered on the cruise to Fort Fisher which has made him walk lame ever since the i destination of the fleet was kept com- plete secret from everybody aboard The iii st that Evans knew of where they were going was the following letter from his brother sent in under flag of truce; "We will give you a warm reception at Fort Fisher when you get there" The | Confederate spies at Washington had kept their friends better advised than the Union fleet.
 l In the attack on Fort Fisher by the landing party Evans was shot in the right knee by a sharpshooter While he was | trying to bandage his knee with hand | kerchief the sharpshooter continued to l fire at him. at the same time addressing | to him line of profanity which Evans I himself would be put to 1t to equal ard | which no other human being could touch, 1 At the fifth shot he hit Evars Tn the shoe. | At this Evans lost his temper. He | stopped trying to bandage his first wound, e.. f1ar c4laa ptnrl,f afaf | and turned out a line of cuss woNds de- l signed to put it all over the profanity 1 proceeding from the person. At the end l of this competitive exhibition, wherein l Evans, by a violent effort, had demon- slrated the superiority of Yankee profan- ity over the rebel product, he shot the l sbarpshooter dead
 l Evans has never changed his opinion l about the uses of profanity in certain sit- | uatons. few years ago he was the l representative of the navy in an import l ant affair which had an end in the de- | partment of state. In his official capacity
 he went to the state department to con l suit with the eminent diplomatist who had | charge of the matter and who was noted for never being able to state a proposi- ton in any other than diplomatic lan-
 euage and in less than a thousand words | to an idea.
 Waiting Reporters.
 When Evans came out the waiting re- | orters surrounded him and asked him
 what was the result of the official con | ference.
 Blank dash dash-dash- dash blnkety-
 blank to blank'' was Evans reply in ef-
 feet "Cold molasses running up steep
 rrecipice on a January day is Greek fire
 t. that man! Bling blank blankety-
 blanki'
 And so saying. he strode away.
 When Adimral Sampson signalled the
 Iowa that he wanted one volunteer to go
 With Hobson on his death-defying er-
 rand of sinking the Merrirnac at Santi-
 age two men, named Mclean and Mur.
 phy, were selected from the numerous
 volunteers. It was decided that both
 could not go. They were brought befor4
 Captain Evans, who addressed them ln
 tf e following terms:
 T am going to sentence one of you td
 death. Which shall it be?"
 Both men declined to give up theii
 chances and the toss of a penny decided that Murphy should go Mclean offered