The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-02-06
by FRANKLIN MATTHEW VS..

night. 1t was the wonder Of the other
forces. And now they say they are
perfecting a system of photograhing
twenty miles away by electricity. Well
have that, too. Fancy the advantage
it would have been to take a picture
over a mountain twenty miles away
In fighting Indians in the time OF
Custer and Crook. Lawton might have
| got old Geronimo sooner if he could
have taken his picture several times
as he was fleeing into the mountains
Of Mexico. When the wireless telegra-
ply is perfected we'll have that in OPP
GRAFTON. To some extent we'll use the
| telephone
| The Hospital Corps passed by. The
General stopped them. "Show this man
! how you operate with those First-Aid-
to-the-Injured packages you carry" he
| said. One of the men dropped to the
| ground. He was supposed to be
wounded in the leg. Out came the
bandages and appliances for stopping
! the flow of blood. In few minutes
he was bound up and ready to be put in
| the stretcher to be carried off. ''Pity
we didn't have such fixings in the old
days." said the Colonel. MANY a
| life would have been saved
| The sharp rattle, deepening into a
roar, of the half dozen field-guns was
heard from the top of bluff in the
distance. The General pointed out
how those guns were lighter, stronger,
and fully four times as effective as the
feld-guns in the Civil War times, shoot
ing ammunition and scattering bullets
right and left in a way that the old
grape" guns could never do. A train
of mules with mountain guns, taken
apart and strapped to their backs. IL
Illustrated the latest development in
campaigning, especially in mountainous
territory. There's a pack train for
yOu," he said, "the like of which we
| never saw even in later days on the
plains"
AT the close of the day squadron Of
cavalry stopped to water the horses
on the way to camp. The Colonel's
eyes lighted up as he examined their
equipment. ''Ah,' he said, there's one
thing you haven't improved upon. You
still use the old Mcclellan saddle"
yes" was the reply, nothing better
than that has been found for cavalry,
but you will notice the saddle is better
finished than formerly 1t is stuffed
as it never was before, and, if you
will look close, you will see that it's
endurance is strengthened by the way
oil is worked into it. 1t is fifty per
cent. stronger than the old saddle used
to be, and because of that it lasts
longer and is far more comfortable" :
| THE so-CALLED BABYING.
Then the Colonel plucked up courage
to tell the Brigadier that the general
opinion of officers Of other armies was
that the men in the United States
Army were "ba bied'' too much. A snort
of disapproval, amounting to half rage,
| was the first answer. "Other people
don't see why we make our men as
comfortable as possible in ordinary
routine army work. he said. And then
he told why one finds the American
private soldier with napkins, good beds,
good rations, and even confections,
such as chocolate, provided for him.
1.-The best at all times is the creed
Of our Army" he said. when the
men are in barracks or camp why
not make them comfortable ? They
know that in war it's another story.
Time and again they are likely to go
half starved. But what's of Importance
is the fact that they know the officers
will be half starved with them There1l
be no favoritism when the fighting is
on. No food is too good for the Amer
lean private soldier at such times, and
he knows he'll get just as good things
to eat as his superiors in rank if he
gets anything. He's willing to give
up his napkins and his sweets, just as
he is willing to go without his clean
linen and creased trousers and WELL
brushed coat. when time for business
comes around.
Eyes, we do 'baby' the men in the
sense that we. care for them all we
can. On the march to Pekin we had
distilled water for them We made it
ourselves from our own plants, as we
went along. Our ccmmissary and quar-
termaster arrangen.en were the won
der Of the troops oe the other nations
in that march. We had 'em all beat.
That was one result of our desire to
make our fighting machine as strong
as possible. 'Babying' 'em, they call it,
Ell? Well, I call it making strong men
of EN-" -Harpers Weekly.