Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-04
as stood in its proper position top,

was stood in its proper position top
side of ALL
Then as a final touch each desert
ers Krag was laid alongside of the
right arm in position of carry arms.
There for two days the bones of
Higgins and Hale stayed where all
might see. Then they were buried.
That's the end"
The guitars in the hotel corridor
had tinkled to silence. An alligator
splashed in his pond there in the pa
ito and the noise was like a crash to
the war photographer, broke the
spell.
"Whew, 1 say that makes your blood
crawl"
well, Jimmy, you're used to hav-
ing your blood crawl" 1t was the
army captain who spoke. Lets have
a tale about it,
"Oh, WELL after that kind of a story
what's a fellow going to do? Every
thing will be as weak as milk that
comes after the captains yarn. Any
way, If you want it, here's how 1 wrote
in my little notebook: "Jimmy's gone
too far this time. Good-by all
This is the end of Jimmy wrote.
The War Photographers Tale.
Jimmy composed himself and took
nervous tug at his stumpy beard.
You know I never intended to be
a war photographer. That was all an
accident many years ago when / blum
dered down into Cuba-but that's not
my story I'll tell you about being the
first man in Liaoyang, and what came
Of It,.
churia, you know, were having the
DEVILS own time of 1t with the ia
panese to get anywhere or see any
thing. About fifteen miles from q
fight was the closest they would al
low. They'd take us all up on some
hill somewhere after nearly every
thing was all over and they'd let us
look at the little white puffs of smoke
over the artillery trenches away off
on some other hill and that would be
the end of 1t.
THAT sort of thing went on until
the last day Of the fight at Liaoyang.
Then Kamada or whatever his name
was who was the officer detailed to
keep watch over the correspondents
and attaches, took us all up on a hill
and let us look at the artillery duel
that was going on. The Japanese
guns were masked down in a fiat field
Of kaolin and the Russians were away
off on top of hill feeling 'em out and
trying to locate them.
Little Kamada pointed out the
puffs Of smoke and grinned.
There would be a good place to get
photograph" he said to me, and he
pointed out the field where the Rus
sian shells were bursting. OF course
the little devil had no idea that
would take him seriously, but did.
got on my big black horse and beat 1t
hard.
well, I found out afterward that
all the attaches and the rest Of the
correspondents followed me through
their glasses. They all thought l was
/ didn't think Of that until afterward
1 rode as far as I dared and then left
my horse and started on foot across
the field toward the Japanese bat
teries.
"Oh no! Weren't those Japs mad
when / ran like a rabbit across the
field where the shells were bursting
and nestled down behind their
trenches with the guns! or course
was giving their position away. The
Russians had spotted me- l was the
only moving thing in that little val
ley, and l moved, as they supposed,
toward the cover of the trenches. The
shells began to creep up nearer and
nearer the Jap trenches as a result.
"A little captain came sputtering up
to me on his hands and knees.
"'You will kindly get out says he,
showing all his teeth.
mot me, old COCK 1 came back at
him. Not until we all get out.
"Of course, he couldn't drive me out
into the shrapnel, and so he had to
grin and make the best Of it. l took
lot of pictures of the Russian shells
bursting twenty-five, fifteen yards off.
And l say, they made an awful bang
of ii when they went off! Kind of q
stroke you'd feel against your stom-
ach, then the bank. All the time the
Japs were answering with their
smokelesS powder, just as regular and
methodical as a man working on
lathe or any other piece of machin-
cry.
"One shell lit right in the middle of
the battery. l saw pieces Of a gun and
bits of men going skyward.
'"Then 1t was l took out my little
notebook and wrote in 1t.
This is the end of Jimmy 1 wrote.
He's gone too far this time. Good-by,
everybody
well, 1 thought I might just as
well be killed In the open as in the
trench, so l made a run for it across
the zone of fire. | hadn't run more
than twenty steps when l heard an
awfully loud bang, turned around and
saw the smoke of a shell right where
had been lying. / got a picture of
it, then 1 reached my horse in time
and got away"
There was a pause, then the Texan
with the missing finger spoke up.
Yes, but how about your being the
first man in Liaoyang?"
"Oh, yes" answered Jimmy. IT
did start to tell you about that, didn't
1? Well, the whole story is that l
happened to be the first man In Lao
yang, that's all."-New York Sun.