Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 17 September 1898 — Page 5
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J. BICKHART.
HOODOO Oft MASCOT.
"Where was yer today, Bill?" "Laid oft' for a rose." The latter speaker was a tall, lank, raw boned specimen, with a Grecian nose of noble dimensions. The person who sat opposite him at the table iu the cheap restaurant where they were taking their evening meal and who next spoke might have been his reflection in a glass. "If I had Bill's luck,. I'd lay off for half a year." c"What's happened now, Joe?" asked one of the two other occupants of the table. "Struck the China lottery today for a hundred an seventy dollars." "That so,Bill? Well, I'll be hanged." "Tell yer what I've known Bill to do," said Joe in a tone of mingled pride and pessimism. "I've seen iiim fall into the river an come out dry as a bone, with his pockets full of fish." "Yes," drawled Bill in the tone of ono receiving homage due, "an Joe put the fish in the kottle ter boil an left thom so long they all boiled to glue an spiled the kettle."
Only a feeble laugh saluted theso passes, as all the hearers knew the proverbial good luck of Bill and the equally certain ill luck of his twin brother, Joe. So unvarying were these characteristics iu the two brothers that Bill always spoke of Joe in his absence as the hoodoo, and Joe called Bill tho mascot, and they were pretty generally known by these terms. Joe's ill luck made him simulato a tone of pessimism in his conversation, while Bill's confidence iu his luck was the height of optimism. Of course this was more often assumed than real, for both had a keen sense of humor and delighted to exaggerate their own qualities. Still, years of following out this plan could not help but make an impression on them. It was perhaps more so with Bill than with his brother, for he had almost grown to believe that fortune could never fail him, but he would never have forgiven you if he had discovered that you thought he looked with pity at times on his less favored brother.
The brothers were day laborers, in the fullest senco of the California term, turning their hands to whatever afforded employment—at present, carpenterr
There existed in each of them a fondness for a certain little dressmaker who lived across the street from their lodgings. This fondness was the one subject the brothers never dif^ussed. The marriage question, though, was a well worn theme, and both agreed that a bachelor of 88 was a fool to throw up his life of ease and independence and bind himself to the cares and drudging of a man of family. Their fellow workmen, knowing well th^ir views on this subject, used to twit Joe about Bill's attentions to the little dressmaker and vice versa, but the only result would be a gruff "Bill's a fool" or "Joe's an ass."
It would appoar that Bill, in the con fidence born of his title to mascot, felt assured of the success of his suit, and it was doubtless with a sense of pity for and a desire not to tako any advantage over Joe that led liim to say that night: "Joe, I'm going to ask Mary tomorrow. That winning I made would give me a start. I always draw an ace, you know, so if you want a chance you've got to get ahead of me on the deal."
Joe cast a look-of astonishment on Bill. "Going to get married, eh? Well, I'll be doggoned!" And he left the room with a look of supreme contempt and disgust. Nevertheless he accepted Bill's challenge to try his fortune first and that night offered himself to the dressmaker.
Somehow the boys fou^d out what was going on and awaited with interest for Bill to make his proposal on the following night.
Joe did not show up that day nor the next, and the boys, wishing to get some particulars of the result of the double courting, approached Bill with, "Well, what luck'd hoodoo have with the dressmaker?" "Usual luck, poor cuss." "S'pose you'll invite us to your wedding then?" "Wedding bo hanged." "Why, what's the matter? She didn't throw you over, too, did she?" "Don't s'pose I'm such a darned idiot as to go an get married, too, do yer? Guess I've got more sense'n that fool Joe."
The boys had sense enough to shut up at once, but iu spite of his carriage they felt that the spell of the mascot was broken. As for the hoodoo, it is not so certain, for the boys say Joe never forgave his wife for refusing Bill.—Elizabeth Harlow in Boston Post.
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THE AFTERMATH OF WAR
Grovtb of the Demand For a Rigid Army Investigation.
WHAT THE NATION WANTS TO KNOW
How 1110 Popular Indignation Over the Wrongs of the Soldier Finds Expression and the Probable Outcome—Departments
Which Are Under Suspicion.
It takes a long time for this big nation to make up its mind to do a thing —that is, long compared with an individual It was moro than two months after the blowing up of the Maine that President McKinley sent an ultimatum to Spain. But once the American mind is made up the work of the nation is done swiftly and surely.
Just now the natiou is considering another line of action. Probably every individual citizen has settled the ques-
TSFFOIIE AND AFTER SANTIAGO.
[From ]iliolographs of Private A. A. Scheidlcr, Seventy-first New York volunteers.] tion for himself and has decided what ought to be dono, but the crystallization of theso separate purposes is being brought about so slowly that individually we are impatient.
What tho nation is considering just at this moment is how to get at the men whose incompetence and criminal inefficiency have clouded the sunshine of victory and turned days which should have been days of peace and thanksgiving into periods of suffering and anxiety. It wants to know why, with an unlimited war appropriation, volunteer soldiers have been allowed to starve at the home camps, suffer from lack of equipment and die from lack of proper medicines and medical attendance. It wants to know why the boys who fought so heroically in Cuba, who uncomplainingly boro the hardships of campaigning in a fever breeding country, were shipped back home in cattle steamers, with neither surgeons nor suitable supplies for the sick aiul wounded. It wants to know why those shattered heroes were dumped down on a barren point and left for days without shelter or sufficient food. It wants to know why a busy cofiiii shop has been a necessity at Camp Wikoff.
The faint hearted citizen who has seen these things continue for weeks without a check tells himself that tho nation is rotten to tho core and curses his country. But his optimistic neighbor, whose faith in America is still unshaken, tells him that things will soon be righted and the guilty punished.
The movement toward a general investigation of the army is rapidly taking form and substance. The low voiced growl of the people is swelling into a hoarse but distinct demand. Probably the first organized effort to voice the indignation of the people is that which is being made by the committee for the protection of the soldier. This committee was formed in New York city and recently presented to President McKinley a demand for a thorough investigation of the alleged ill treatment of the troops during the Cuban campaign.
For two months Augustus W. Peters, chairman, and Robert B. Eoosevelt, secretary, of the committee, who were appointed a subcommittee to collect evidence, labored unremittingly. Part of the result of their work was made known at a recent meeting of the general committee, and a resolution was adapted embodying the sentiments of that body. The evidence gathered by Messrs. Peters and Roosevelt was considered so conclusive that the committee resolved to ask President McKinley to institute an investigation at onoe.
Tbo committee appointed to meet the chief executive was composed of men to whom partisan motives can hardly be ascribed. It, as well as the larger
SOLDIERS RETURNING FROM CAMP ALGER. committee, was made up of men of both political parties, and Republicans were in the majority. There has been, according to Mr. Peters, tho most earnest effort made to keep politics or any political considerations from entering into the work of the committee. "Tho investigation we have made," said Mr. Peters, "reveals in an entirely satisfactory manner to us that there have been gross negligence and ill treatment. We do not say upon whom blame should rest for this negligence. What we want is for the president to create a nonpartisan commission, whose business it
will be to make a full investigation and fix the blamo where it belongs. We are certain, from our inquiries, that it should fall soniowhere. "There was no reason, tbat we can see, for the lack of food and the want of proper medical and surgical treatment in the Santiago campaign. There was time enough surely to get together sufficient food and medicines for that small body of troops. This nation does not want its troops to suffer unnecessarily. It is a rich nation, and wo should have considered tho expenditure of many millions of dollars as a paltry thing if it had been necessary for tho health and comfort of our soldiers in Cuba. We did not want anything to stand in the way of their well being, and we would gladly have paid the cost of their comfort in the field, no matter what it may have been. "Now, in the face of all this, we find that our soldiers did not get, apparently could oot get, either proper or sufficient food, that they were not properly clothed and that they were not properly looked after when they were wounded or sick. Who was to blame? Surely some one was at fault. We think the country should know who it is. "Tho war department could not put off an investigation by saying that it had incompetent men in the commissary, quartermaster and medical departments. This is tho usual reply to an inquiry. It had plenty of time to find good men. It did not have to appoint the men it did. It was its duty to get good and competent men. There was time enough, and there were competent men enough to have had all of these departments thoroughly equipped for their important work. The main thing is that our soldiers have suffered through somebody's incompetence or negligence, and we are determined to ascertain who is to blamo and to see that the guilty are held to strict accountability before the people.''
Mr. Peters added that the committee had succeeded in getting together a tremendous amount of evidence, every particle of which could be established, showing the sufferings that the soldiers had to endure in the campaign and had had tc endure since. Soldiers, officers and others were, he said, submitting statements daily, and he could get a roomful of the sufferers who would substantiate every charge of ill treatment and neglect.
But it is quite probable that the investigation will soon assume such proportions that the part of the New York committee in bringing it about will be entirely forgotten. The army departments to be put on the rack of inquiry will be the commissary, the quartermaster's and the medical. It is generallyndmitted that whatever incompetency or negligence is discovered will be traced to these departments.
The commissariat is the organized system whereby armies are provided with food and daily necessaries other than those connected with daily war-
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THE COFFIN SHOP AT CAMP WIKOFF. fare. Since 1875 this division of the army machine has been technically known as the "commissariat and transport department." At its head just now is Commissary General Eagan.
The distinction between the commissary department and the quartermaster's department is one not generally understood by civilians. It is the province of tho latter to furnish equipment and materials of war. Broadly speaking, the commissary feeds the soldier, while the quartermaster clothes and lodges him. The quartermaster's department is supposed to furnish the soldier with his uniform, tent and pots, kettles and pans. It should provide forage, lumber and all necessities of camp and garrison life. It also provides transports.
So if it is proved that soldiers anywhere suffered from lack of proper food the commissariat must explain. When proof is brought that *fk soldiers were put on filthy cattle steamers, the quartermaster's department will be asked to toe the mark. The lack of medicines will of course be charged up against the medical department.
As a matter of fact, all these departments, though technically distinct, are so closely allied to each other that they must work hand in hand. Theoretically they are supposed to do this, and when our army comprised only 20,000 men they did it to a great extent. With the expansion of the army, however, came a relative expansion of these departments, and the result was that they ceased to work in harmony.
All the long investigation will probably simmer things down to this point. Then, if the investigators are not tired out, they will begin to look for the individuals whose inefficiency or dishonesty, if such there was, destroyed the harmonious action which was of such vital importance to the army and the lack of whioh has saddened far more homes than did the effects of Spanish bullets, N CAPTAIN T. B. FRANCIS.
Little Willie Knew.
Sunday School Teacher—Come, now, children, tell me, what house is always open to everybody—to the rich and the poor, the young and the old, the sick and the well Do you know what house I mean?
Little Willie—Yeth, ma'am, I know. Teacher—Well, Willie, what house is it?
Willie—The polioe station!—Baltimore Life.
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