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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1907)
BV M v i iAv liU I to r i ft r HE SAW THIRTY BRAVES BOUT ten years ago a veteran of the civil war visited the bat tlefield of one of the ear liest important battles of the war was fought He was observ ed to be intent ly inspecting the stony ground on Bloody hill where General Nathaniel Lyon the Union com mander was killed In the fight of Aug 10 1861 What on earth air you lookin fur Inquired a farmer who lived near by ile replied the searcher Oh Im Jist a loofcin fur my false teeth Where did you drop em asked the farmer supposing that the visitor had just lost his teeth Well it wuz right long here some eres said the veteran I wuz so bad scairt when I fust went Into 8tIon here in 01 that my upper plate shook clean outen my head an I been a-need-In them teeth ever sence The late Stephen Crane in the story which mado his reputation as a writer The Bed Badge of Courage drew a iplcture of the Impressions of a youth Jin his first battle which many veter ans have declared Is a faithful por trayal of their own feelings In a simi lar experience This young man went into the fight determined not to show the white feather but as the battle waxed warm he was seized in the grip of a terrible fear and suddenly took to bis heels and made for the rear It Is quite probable that If you will corner any old soldier and pin him Jflown to absolute candor he will tell iyu that he was scared to death or words to that effect when first he Sheard the hostile bullets whiz and knew that he must go forward into the conflict i General Grant candidly confessed to a highly uncomfortable feeling upon two occasions of Imminent battle one being his first experience in the Mexl lean war and the other his Initiation Sn the civil war after fifteen years of jpeace He recorded these sensations iia his personal memoirs As to his ex perience in Mexico he wrote Am wo lay In our tents upon the sea shore tha artillery at the fort on the Rio jGrandft could be distinctly heard The War had begun There was no possible means of obtaining news from the garri son and information from outside could pot ba otherwise than unfavorable fWfcAt General Taylors feelings were dur Ebs this sus enso I db not know but for jnyself a young second II itenant who pad never heard a hostile gun before I sorry that I had enlisted A groat men when they smell battle afar chafe to get Into the fray When ear so themselves they generally to convince their hearers that thav kre as anxious as they would like to COPYRIGHT I0O7 BY ROBERTAS LOVE feS h SSS wSr NOW Youth and Beau y not the snows ftS J WKSM Of Age enwreathe the immortelle SS8P J Siffij To deck the sacred shrines of those tjMllaBHpS Who in their youth and beauty fell tflBf IflHBpSS The boys in blue who bravely swept feBfflSB Si Against the maelstrom of the guns HKmjfSj ii dp efo 1 1 n m oidiers Who Were Afraid v vp By WALTER JAMES JANES Copyright 1907 by A N Lurlo make believe and as they approach dan ger they become more subdued Thla rule is not universal for I have known a few men who were always aching for a fight when there was no enemy near who were as good as their word when the battle did come but the number of such men is small After several years retirement from the army Grant entered the great con flict of the sixties his first command being the Twenty first Illinois volun teers He was sent to northwest Mis souri where a certain regiment was besieged by the enemy with Instruc tions to raise the siege He wrote as follows My sensations as we approached what might be a field of battle were any thing but agreeable I had been in all son creek in I the engagements In Mexico that it had Missouri whpre oeetI PBBlole lor one person to De in Dut not in command some one IS J 4v25wHbbHL m Im W apsBk or 1 SaK3KsBM m fe vaiggaKESM been colonel and I had been lieutenant colonel I do not think I would have felt tny trepidation Before we were prepared o cross the Mississippi river at Quincy aiy anxiety was relieved for the men of Ihe besieged regiment came straggling Into town I am Inclined to think both Mdes got frightened and ran away A few days later Colonel Grant had an experience which once more caused bim In his memoirs to acknowledge I that he was scared This was after he bad crossed the river into Missouri His description of his feelings just In advance of an expected battle that did not take place has a touch of humor This humor is quite justifiable for the regiment of the future general was en camped at the time in the little village of Florida Mo the birthplace of Mark Twain and that individual himself then better known In the neighborhood as Sam Clemens who had just en listed In the Confederate service was doing his best to avoid an engagement with Grant as he confessed many pears later There was a Colonel Har fc tstmrmsurr ris in command of the Confederate troops in that vicinity Colonel Grant went out to corral Harris This is Grants description of what happened and what didnt As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris camp and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt that it was in my throat I would have given anything then to have been back in Illi nois but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do I kept right on When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halt ed The place where Harris was encamp ed a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible but the troops were gone My heart resumed its place It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him This was a view of tha Question I had never taken before but it was one I never forgot afterward From that event to the close of the war I never experienced trepidation upon con fronting an enemy though I always felt more or less anxiety I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his The lesson was valuable General Sheridan whose first field service was in Oregon chasing the half starved and half crazed Pitt river In dians tells of his first apparent peril and his trepidation As this affair turned out there was no fight at all as in the case of Grants non meeting with Harris A young lieutenant Sheridan had volunteered to ride across the wild Indian country with a couple of sol diers to carry messages to a small gar rison In the Interior On the long ride he heard voices In front and through his glasses made out a band of about thirty Pitt river braves These Indians as he knew were armed only with bows and arrows When night fell he was still In the vicinity of the Indians who however had not discovered him He went into camp In the woods and such was his fear of the Indians that he would not permit a fire to be lit He and his two men ate cold bread only with no cof fee I felt somewhat nervous he wrote and passed an anxious night It turned out that the Indians were too nearly starved to death to do any fight ing and that they were look ing for white men only to get something to eat General James Longstreet who at his death was the last survlv i n g lieutenant general of the Confederate serv ice had his first battle in Mexico had a olutt of hsb Like Grant he smile was with General Taylors army He evidently was a young man of some sentiment for it seems to have been his sweethearts picture that nerved him for battle when his heart physic ally speaking had failed him In his account of this initial experience in conflict he tells of his command cross ing a lagoon and pausing to dip cups of water Just beyond up and over the bank the battle was raging Long streets courage wavered but this is what he did I thought of her whom I had left be hind drew her daguerreotype from mv breast pocket had a glint of her charm ing smile and with quickened spirits tnaunted the bank rJHpnrwwVTirnSri JiSnfcc wsfc irfjs gasnC - J - 5d The Cause of 8noring 11lh Is not for you because you novcr snore No one ever does snore himself It is always the other fellow But you can rend tills and then tell that guilty other fellow how to Ureal himself of his bad habit for suorinjj is merely a bad habit and as such can be overcome It is caused pri marily by improper breathing that Is breathing through the mouth Instead of through the nostrils so first of all care should be taken during waking hours to breathe correctly The habii once formed of keeping the mouth as firmly closed as possible he will be less likely to sleep with it open Then see that your troublesome snorer hns a- proper pillow lie should sleep witl his head as Hat as possible for if his head is pushed forward and the neck bent the tongue drops back against the soft palate and forms an obstruc tion winch makes all the iinmiisica Rounds we hear when the air is forced past it St James Gazette The Last Match Saved Them The ship had lain becalmed in a trop leal sea for three days Not a breath of air stirred the mirrorlikc surface oi the sea or the limp sails that hung from the yards like drapery carved in stone The captain resolved to wait no longer He piped up all hands on deck and requested the passengers tc also come forward I must ask all of you he said tc give me every match Unit you have Wonderingly the passengers and crew obeyed The captain carefully arranged the matches in his hands as each man handed him his store until all had been collected Then he threw there all overboard but one drew a cigai from his pocket and striking the soli tary match on the mainmast endeav ored to light it In an instant a furi ous gale swept over the deck extin guished the match and tilled the sails and the good ship Mary Ann sped through the waves on her course Pearsons Weekly The Cods Bill of Fare An Interesting exhibit in the South Kensington museum London illus trates the omnivorous nature of the cods diet Among the fish falling a prey to its voracious maws we note the young of the herring dab whiting and sand eel Shrimps and young lob sters also form an important item in the cods menu The strangest part oi the cods diet perhaps is the sea mouse whose thick covering of bristles might be thought to render it unwelcome to any stomach Large whelks and shells of whelks with their Indwelling hermit crabs are also largely devoured From its partiality to mollusks in fact the cod may become an assistant to the shell collector Woodward In his Man ual of the Mollusca remarks thai some good northern seashells have been rescued unbroken from the stom ach of the cod London Globe Growing Flowers in Winter A long run of dark days in whiter Is bad for the florists It matters little how cold the weather is provided there is Bunshine for the heat can al ways be maintained to the proper point and with sunshine flowers will bloom just aa freely when the ther mometer shows an outdoor tempera ture of zero as at the freezing point though of course more money must be spent for coal But when day after day for weeks at a time clouds over hang the sky nothing will grow as it should The carnation buds develop Blowly until they are half open and wait for sunshine and If it does not come In four or five days the blooms decay So also It is with callas and roses They will open halfway then without sunlight will quickly spoil St Louis Globe Democrat How They Dance In Hungary With the exception of the Spaniards there is no nation in Europe that dances like the Hungarians They love it with a love that amounts to a passion They not only go In for It heart and soul but they will dance on anything In any sort of weather A paddock a village street a stable yard the earth en floor of a wayside csarda It Is all the same to them Not the scorching sun or the whirling dust or the pelting rain or the falling snow will deter them They all dance beautifully too It seems to be in theJj blood Customs of Brittany Brittany alone of all the provinces of France seems to have preserved its types and 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