THE COURIER.
ADVICE TO VOLUNTEERS.
Before wasting much time on your own
accommodations, however, tear up to
the other end of the lot (lot really ought
to be .tOO yards Ioug), and assist a gang
of sweltering recruits to put up 'com
pany quarters. After doing the very
best you know bow for an hour and
having been told a dozen times by a
Gash- Thomas, Chicamauga.Ga., June
14. 1808. Social Correspondence of
The Courier.) It a Nebraskau Ehould
strike this camp at the present lime and
allow his eyes to wander up and down
the clean swept streets, the tastily ar
ranged tents and note the general air of corporal, who probably doesn't know
neat3rs3 prevailing in the present quar- skirmish line from a me6s tent, that you
ters of the Second Nebraska regiment are a blanked idiot, etc., you are at lib
it! comparison with others, he could erty 0 ra0p the sweat from your throb
swell up with honest pride without bing brow and rush back to your own
using a bicycle pump. If ho stayed tent. Do not delay or linger around
over to meals he would soon discover antj wonder if the thermometer is long
that prido was about the only thing he enough to register the heat, grab an axe
could conscientiously swell up on even amj 8tart driving stakes. As you are
if he could down the "sow belly," cold aaout to swat the fourth stake in a
beuis, hard tack and government poison vehement manner, do not neglect to re
known as coffee. If these did not suit gpond promptly when the corporal yelps
be could go out and eat baled hay with out an(j wants to know 'what in
the mules. To the uninitiated I will you ar0 loafing around there for," lope
state that "sow belly" is meat that has up him with a smile on your face aB
been condemned by the inspecting offi- ,f you enjoyed theso things, and when
cor, forbidden by our Savior and damned ordered to "git over to them tents and
by the soldier. If he had more enthu- do something," don't stand around and
siasm than common sense he might argue, but "git."
want to enlist. When these "quarters' resemble a
It is said that a word to the wi6e is suite at the Waldorf, skin back to your
sufficient. Presuming you who read this own tent and drive three more stakes,
are among the wise I will mak? the As you are preparing to smite the nett
statement that the man who is one drop everything and beat the three
thinl-ing of throwing up a good hundred yard record and find out what
position and fair prospects for eating the corporal is howl;ng at you for. He
three tiaics a day, to come' out here and wants you to put down five hundred
do scavenger work at glfiGO per month, stakes around the mess tent. For a
ought to have his dome of thought ex- moment your heart leaps with joy, but
amined by the board of insanity and be you soon discover that he did not refer
placed under the care of a guardian, to hesfstakes. After performing the
Don't imagine that becauso you have operation referred to, hike back to your
enlisted youjvill be jabbed into Cuba at own abode and Btart in again. Before
once. Ob, no. You may not get there straining yourself in tha quarter, how
for a week. It iB best not to sell the ever, hustle down the ravine about a
old bear-skin rug, expecting to have a mile with the water de;ail and four wash
nico brunette rug for next winter. You boilers and return with the same filled
may never get a 6calp in the first place with spring water. According to the
and then again you may be down here corporal's ideas you can saunter to the
with the i est of us, tilling up swamps, epring and back in fifteen minutes,
dusting out the yard end doing other When you climb the last hill and turn
odd jobs for two years yet. If you the water over to the cook, stagger back
really want to fight and feel that you to your tent again, heave eleven sighs
must be recognized as a belligerent, and wade in. Before the last sigh is
trot down the street on your hands and completely hove, do as the corporal
knees till you meet somebody's bull commands and rustle out with the "wood
terrier. Then growl at him in a savage detail" and lug back forty cords of wood
manner and grab for a vital spot. If for fuel. After doing this wipe enough
you miss the spot flee for your life. perspiration out of your eyes to see your
If you insist on enlisting, however, road clearly, then start for your own
veil your head off amid the din of brass tepee again in order to get something
bands and cheering crowds as the train over your person during he night. Just
leaves the station. Leave with your as you are reaching for a stake rush
system as thoroughly soaked with en back to the wood pile as requested and
thusia6m as possible, because after you monkey with a 6ix pound axe and a
are here about three weeks, a lemon government bucksaw till the wood is
squeezer wouldn't bring out enough to cut in stove lengths and split to suit
be visible to the naked eye. the cook, then pile it nicely.
Ky tins time you snould nave
your tent up. At least the ser
geant thinks so and asks you
in an exasperating tone if you ex
pect the colonel to come down and as-
four or five lives to give up lor ineir bisi you. ii is Deat to noia your temper
country in just this way.
Vow before you enter the service of
Uncle Samuel it might be a good idea his instructions put up your tent. Af
to take up a course of light training. It ter this start to move in your stuff. Ab
is hard to tell exactly what kind of light this operation is being performed the
training is most beneficial but the fol- corporal looms up and asks with a sneer
lowing program is easy and if followed if you were brought up in an idiot asy
closely for j.bout seven days before lum. It is customary to blame yourself
starting, will give a man an advantage right then and there and candidly admit
. ,a ravr recruit and will enable him that you never attended school a day in
to smile in a condescending way when your life. This gives the corporal an of 20 per cent on all Boys' and Children's Clothin
addressing said raw recruit and act im- opportunity to display his ignorance
nTtant and puts him in better spirits. When
To train properly it is first necessary to he discovers you to be an absolute idiot
selecta nice vacant lot where the sun can he explains that a tent should be
have some show. The lot should be com- "ditched" and orders you to "ditch" it.
pletely covered with a rank growth of He then leaves you and you pike out
underbrush and weeds, with a few car to find a spade. Being unable to se-
loads of stones thrown in. Keep your cure one. get a sharp stick and dig a
peepers peeled on this lot till the mer- trench about large ecough to carry off a
curv lands at 100 in the shade, then heavy dew thinking this will foolsome-
amble over and with the aid of a spadet body. It might-deceive a chiropodist
--"'
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tv rnt imagine for a minute that the
Second Nebraska boys are at all dissat
isfied. Not at all. This is just what
they closed up th ir business for. They
all kicking becauso tnoy naven i
up for their
are
GREAT
REORGAN
IZATION
SALE
Preparatory to reorganizing
our firm, caused by death of
partner, Mr. Henry W. King of
Chicago, we. give the people
of Lincoln and vicinity the
opportunity to buy Our High
Grade
CLOTHING.
r
HATS.
and FURNISHINGS
at astonish ly low prices.
WE WOULD SUGGEST
on occasions of thiB kind and say nothing
that is audible. Then actine under To mothers of boys that this would be n. o-ranrl r-.,.,:.. a
. a. wuiy w
buy Boys and Children's Clothing, Shirt Waists, Under
wear, Hosiery, Hats and Caps and other fixings for boys' and
children.
REMEMBER WE GIVE AN ABSOLUTE DISCOUNT
rVRHSTROHfc
perspiration and profanity, make the lot but when Mr. Corporal loiters by you
look like a newly polished hard realise at once that if the ditch had
wood floor. Now jou are ordered to been large enough for breastworks the
erect a tent for yourself. Start in with corporal would" have ripped out a line
will and don't dally around about it. of "cuss" words that would make the
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