Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1917-11-28
"A Message
To Garcia .

y Nlbert Hubbard. Fra Elbertus,
%ent down with the Lusitania, but
~ works will live SO long as men
I've eyes with which to read. One
~ the best things Fra EIbertus wrote.
@ny say the very best. was "A
Message to Garcia"
This little preachment, dashed OF
~ An hour. but printed In every
Known language and distributed to
the soldiers Of all nations, Is partic-
Marry appropriate for men in uni
FORM TO read. It is printed In Trench
end Camp by the special request and
vsrmissiOn Of Ebert Hubbard II.
~ "a Message to Garcia
in ali this Cuban business there is
one man stands out on the horizon Of
ny memory like Mars at perihelion.
Z. When war broke out between
HvAtn and the United States, it was
WY necessary to communicate quick
~ with the leader Of the Insurgents.
Garcia was somewhere In the noun
&9Sn fastness Of Cuba-no one knew
Mere, No mail or telegraph mes
F&gA could reach him. The President
Ds pecure his cooperation, and
ckly.
/ Whst to do!
someone said to the President,
kIhere "a q fellow by the name Of
H0WAn, who will ind Garcia for you,
81 ANYBODY can
n Rowan was sent for and given q
1MeN@R to b delivered to Garcia. How
- "fellOw by the name OF Rowan"
&Qk the letter, sealed IL mp In an OIL
an pouch. strapped It over his
Heart, In four days landed by night
&8 the coast Of. Cuba from an open
&OAkv disappeared into the jungle, and
ID three weeks came out on the other
lie Of the Island, having traversed
= hostile country ON foot, and deliv-
EQn6 his letter to Garcia-are things
EAgve NO special desire now TO tell In
detail. The point that wish to make
~ shig; Mckinley gave Rowan o let
tAE TO be delivered to Garcia; Rowan
took the letter and did not ask,
"Where Is he att"
BY the Eternal! there Is q man
whose form should be cast in death
less bronze and the statue placed in
every college Of the land. It IL not
book-learning young men need, nor
instruction about this and that, but
q ptifRening OF the vertebrate which
mn cause them to be loyal to trust,
I'd act promptly, concentrate their en-
kfgies: do the thing-"Carry q mes
&Age to Garcia
General Garcia is dead now, but
tAGre are other Garctas. No man
who has endeavored to carry out an
Enterprise where many hands were
Needed but has been well-nigh ap-
Dalied at times by the imbecility Of
the average mantle inability or
dnwillingness to concentrate on a
thing and do it.
Eiipshod assistance, foolish mat
kention, dowdy indifference, and half
hearted work seem the rule; and no
nan succeeds unless by hook or crook
kk threat he forces or brides other
&eM to assist him: or mayhap God in
AS goodness performs q miracle, and
hands him an Angel Of Light for an
assistant.
{ You. reader, put this matter to q
test:
You are sittin gnow in your ONCE
TX clerks are within call. Summon
ASsy one and make this request:
please look in the encyclopedia and
lake O brief memorandum for me
&unoefning the life Of Correggi0."
!. WI the clerk say, Eyes. sir" and
70 90 the task?
z On your life he will not. He will
LEX &C you out Of q flshy eye and
80 one or more Of the following
&uewtiOns:
VINO was he?
/, WA1ch encyclopedia?
Where Is the encyclopedia?
Was hired for that?
Don't you mean Bismarck?
I. What's the matter with Charlie
dang ~
I'D he dead?
: e there any hurry7
J Eham't bring you the book and let
x6a Iook g mp yourself?
Wha& DO you want to know for?
/ And viii lay you ten TO one that
HaknP y0a have answered the queS-
nns. and explained how to ind the
eCrmataOn, and why you want It.
- clerk will go OF and get one Of
1ha other clerks to help him try to
Mnd 0arcia-and then come back and
al ron there IL no such man. OF
n1rrse I may lose my bet, but accord
~ to the Law OF Average I viii not.
nw. Il you are wise, you win not
NokheR 10 explain to your assistant"
Mnk CRreggiO IL indexed under the
l. a. K~~k ill ia