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Show CAMPJbTRE SKETCHES. GOOD BHODT STORIES POH THE" VETERANS. Diary of Two lira? Ilea Haw tba N.froea aad lh Indians light Inder the riag ol freedom The Soldier at Iton The Volunteer.. The N.aro Soldier. W uied to think lh negro didn't count for very mueh Llaht nnaered In the melon patch, and chicken yard and auch Much inlaod In point of moral and absurd ab-surd In iKrint of dree., Th butt of droll earloonl.lt and the target tar-get ot the press, Hut wa'v got to reconstruct our views on color, mora or leas. Now wa know about the Tenth at La CJuatlnal When a rain ef ahot waa falling, with a aong upon hla lips, In lh horror where auch gallant live want out In death's eellpte, Fac to face with Rpanlth bulleta, on the alopa of Han Juan, Th netro soldier shoncd blmttlt another type of man, ftiad the atory of hla courage, coldly, careletaly, who can Th story of th Tenth at La Qui. Ins! W have heaped th Cuban loll abor their bodies, black and white Tha stramely eorled eomrail.i of that grand and glorious fltht-And fltht-And many a ralr-iktnned volunteer goes whol and sound today rr lh suocor of the colored troops, th battle records say, And Ihe feud la done forever of lh blue coal and the gray-All gray-All honor to tht Tenth at La Quaslnal Kl.ek ami II. d. II la well known that th colored troope In the United flute army have proved very efficient In the crvlce of the plain and frontier, but perhap It la not so well known that the Indians aro more afraid of tbe black soldiers thsn of tho while soldier. That thl I the fact I vouched for by an army officer who ha been "Inlervlewed" on the subject by the Washington Btar "The cavalry troop to which I belonged," be-longed," thl gentleman said, "sol-dlered "sol-dlered nlongalde n couple of troop ot tho Ninth cavalry, a colored regiment, during the fast Bloux troubles. Wo wcro performing chain-guard-that Is hcmmlng-ln duty and our task wa to prevent the Ogallalas from straying front trjo reservation. If any ot them attempted lo pas, wo had authority to prod them with our bayoneta. "The result wa the white troop often had to perform tho risky Job of forcing back armed six-foot tavagr with the bayonet, and thcro were nome very dangerous moment; hut the black troops alongside hail, no such trouble. While tho Indian wero con- iiumi, viunuius upon me niuio eoi-dler. eoi-dler. they let the black entirely I alone, "Moreover, the black troops obtained obtain-ed from the Indian ten time a much general obedience about tho cam pa a the white one did, The Indiana would fairly Jump to obey the uniformed blacks. One day n black sergeant taw a minor chief, who was tunning him-aelf him-aelf at the door ot hit tepee, tend hit tquaw with a couple of pall down to the creek to get water. The black tcr-grant tcr-grant walked up to the lazy savage and prodded blm. '"Look oheaht' he exclaimed, "Jet" thaka yo' no-'count bone nn' go lole date watah )o'te'fl Yo heah met" "Tho Indian did not understand the words, but he comprehended perfectly tho gesture, especially when the black man took the palls frcm the woman's hands and put them Into those of t r lord and master Ho went nftet water, and at an astonishingly rapid pace." During the Pino Illdgo troubles, when the Indians were un one occasion occa-sion In line of hnlile, tho duty of charging them viat confided to tho two black troops, Tho negroes begun to yell a toon aa Ihey started, nnd their yell went on Increasing with every Jump of their lionet, until It teemed to tbe listening whlto toldlert as If the air ro helng rent with tho cream ot ten thousand demons, Aa soon a the Indian caught tight, through tbe cloud of ulkall dust, ot the blck face and open mouths of Iho charging black, and got the full effect ef-fect ot thl mounting roar, Ihoy broko and fled, and were soon surrounded and disarmed The chiefs afterward contested that the brave were scared by the awful ho, ling of tho black trooper. These black soldiers ran fight ns well as they ran howl. Their record on tho plains has been one of absolute Intrepidity. In-trepidity. Ton Urate Men. Smith was a gunner In the service of th East India company, waa known aa "th sweep," a derisive name given to mark some eccentricity, for the man was a character. He had charge of the boata belonging to the military station, and one dsy wrote the brigade major, asking, "When shall ' have the bote rctdyt" Th major replied, "Have the, boat ready at such an hour" When the major went down to the river with a party of Itdlet, he atked Smith how he spelled "boat." Unabashed Un-abashed by the pretenro ot the ladle. Smith, without a symptom of nervout-nest, nervout-nest, nmwered the officer, "Souio people peo-ple spells It b-o-a-t, but I spells It b-o-t-e " Hut Smith, notwithstanding hit mocking nickname, wat not a man to he laughed at. One day the root of the building which held the ammunition caught Are. There wat a panic, even the best disciplined soldiers lost their beads Hut "the tweep" mounted the roof, pulled off the thatch, poured buckttt of water over the flamet, and taved the mtgaxtne It wat at plucky a thing at It wat possible for a man to do; for there wai powder enough tn the building to wreck the station. ' There la no telling what "a atnged cat" will do. The preaent writer knew a Oloucesttr boy, ao weak In body and' so effeminate In deposition that bit ' brother, who were teamen, used to speak of him aa our "poor little Davie" Da-vie" At the beginning of the civil war Davie enlisted In tho navy, and being a high school graduate, wa mado a petty officer Ono day a fire broke out on the vet-eel vet-eel near the magatlno. Davie, seeing; that the men and officers hesitated to take the pipe or the hose down into the smoky between-deck. tnatcked It, Jumped down and held It against tho Are until the water bad quenched It. Then he felt down, scmelcse, overcome by the heat and smoke. Davie was again promoted, and had lo listen to tho commander's praise uttered ut-tered from tho quarter-deck, the sailors and officer standing at attention, Davie Da-vie almost fainted again, Ha llrr.iu. a Hern. Some ex-confederates" were swapping swap-ping war stories recently, when one of them told the following, which conveys a wholesome lesion against hasty Judgment. Judg-ment. Just before tho battle of Murfree-boro Murfree-boro a detachment of .Morgan' command com-mand wa guarding a mountain pass a few miles rrom llrndyvllle, Tenn. A portion or the valley leading to the pats waa densely wooded and swampy. Tho marshy ground abounded In bullfrog bull-frog or huge proportions, and tho trees afforded a roosting place for numerous owls. Among the soldier wat a strip-pllng strip-pllng by the nnmo or Spreelcr. It wa a wild and windy night when Spreeler waa called upon In do guard duty. About one o'clock when the sky waa or a leaden hue and tho wind alghed. fitfully through tho trees an owl on near-by limb hooted- "Who who are oii?" "John flprceler," exclalmmed the sentinel, trembling In his boots. Just at that moment a bullfrog, Id deep bass tone, teemed to say: "Sur ur surround hlml" ' "I'll be hanged If yoli do," eiclalmcd Spreeler at he fired hi musket and broke for the ramp which had been' thrown Into the wildest contusion, by the alarm, which woaeuppoted to mean that the enemy wat attacking tho ouf-post. ouf-post. " When the trde state of affair: was understood the other men mado lift, n burden Tor John until the Ilattle ot. , Miirfrretboro, when tho Lincoln county stripling wpt promoted for conspicuous bravery, lie was afterwards Unsigned to Ilragg's army, and died like a' hero at lbs "battle nbot the clouds" while In tha forefront of tho charge, trying .to spike an enemy's cannon. Th Notdler at Home. Colonel Theodore Itooaevelt, In blr talk to tho Itough Itldera, gave them , somo,tlmely advice, which Is worth tbe attention of every soldier who It returning re-turning to take upon himself tho duties du-ties of peace. Hero It a motto for all military heroes. "Hut, bojs, don't get gay and pose at heroes or Ho on your laurels, because they w liber. He careful of your conduct con-duct In the future, nt jou have In the pntt. Tho world will bo kind for ten ilnye, and then, In thoso cold wordi that tho world It capable of tpeakln . at times. It will declare jou'ro spoiled by going to war" The beneficiary of thlt advice, If II It taken, tayt tho Ntw York Tribune, will be the soldier himself far mori than anybody else, and when tho sol-.(I- 1. .. .. . 1 ... ,.- m , m,.i-i, iu no iiiuiiest ii 11 noi because of nny lack of appreciation ol his bravery or of the splendid work he did, but rrom a realisation ot the tendency of human nattiro to rcactlom of sentiment duo to slight cause. The American people today nre profouudly grateful to tho troop who responded to their country'! call, deeply grieved over tho fatalities which attended tin pretention ot the war and much disturbed dis-turbed over the mlahnpa which have caused necdleta suffering It Is deslr-nblo deslr-nblo that they should rctnln thoso feel. Inns, and both for thrlr own sako nnd the take of tho soldier never think lightly of the soldier or teat future generation that military servim car ho forgotten. The Volunteer.. In tho management of the men, ' writes a correspondent with tho army' In Iho Philippines, Ilea the whole weak-no weak-no of n volunteer army. It It dim- . cult to Imprest the volunteer with tho Idea that they nro bent on aerloui business; most of them act aa If they were on a plensuro trip It la per-hapa per-hapa not policy to dwell on the dlstlne. Hon between our small trained array and our multitudinous volunteer fore -but tome factt It It the duty ot ov-cry ov-cry obterver to bring to public notice. It It the opinion or tha majority at good Amerlcani that, when the occasion occa-sion requlret, wo can ralte an army ol volunteer! nnd "lick the world " Thlt crude Idea or war ha been rottered, by Ihe late rebellion, whero both ildet were volunteer 'orccs. Fatal as such a crude doctrine Is, the attitude of the puhllo It likely to And support In th rosy victory wo had 01 er tbe Spaniard, ' In spite of the fact that that Victory ' wne mado polbte by our highly train-ed train-ed navy The weakness of our volun-teer volun-teer force should, therefore, bo well noted, that o may not bo led In th arrogance of our ooty victory to rush headlong Into a now war. |