Show FIRING AT RANDOM Certain qualities of the vein volu soldier are Illustrated by the toll story which Gem Gein Nelson A A. Miles Mil of a Massachusetts regiment i iwas was under his command In the I Ish American war The just after atter the Guanica following the landing oPorto o 0 Porto Rican expedition This li n incident which the General tells The night after the Guanica which the volunteers i tied fied by the name o of battle a com of the Sixth Massachusetts Was wajon on outpost duty and occupied a a tion in advance e of the army on i in the midst of a jungle of cl bushes and other thick As a Spanish atack was momen moment expected the strain on the nen the volunteers who were just ou out discipline camp was extreme hours they lay along Iong the brink brinkhill 0 hill listening to The fhe noises of the theand 11 and awaiting the expected attack Presently a man at the of the line could stand the str the silence no longer and rals rifle he blazed away Into the darb This was a signal for the whole v holer t pany and Instantly every man shooting Into the darkness The sound of the firing reached C c Miles's Miless tent orderlies mounted i I hastened to the front The entire was roused and arranged for ae Gen Miles and his staff s started arted W scene of the fight Out on the firing line there wi moment of 01 confusion then the on om succeeded in stopping the shooting began a hurried search for the thet t who started it Presently they loo It down at the end of the line wh private named Parkinson was i f Striding up to the the midnight alarm the Indignant shouted shouted- Parkinson Parkins n what In hen hell were shooting at at j Oh replied Parkinson with apologetic drawl I Iwas was jest shoat sho- sho at random And ever after atter that says saS C Miles when he tells the story i Sixth Massachusetts a was known ts d |