Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — The Drum in Warfare. [ARTICLE]

The Drum in Warfare.

The drum plays a most important part in warfare. It is used in every military function. From “reveille” to “taps” the drum calls the soldier to duty and to rest. It helps him on his march, it inspires him at the charge, its roll adds volume to his cheers and its muffled tap resounds on the air when he has been relieved from earthly duty. The awkward squad as well as the veteran corps appreciates the value of the drum, and the deserter or the coward knows its force when it performs its part in the “Rogue’s March.” If is possible for any Chinaman, or even any .Chinese woman, to become a deity by paying for the honor. A few years ago a rich and devout Chinese lady died In Sooehoo. Her friends thought that an apotheosis was no more than her due, and communicated with the priests, who interviewed the gods on the subject and discovered that the God of the Left Little Toe-Nail had no wife. The old lady was accordingly married to his godshlp and is now enrolled as the “Goddess of the Left Little Tbe-Nail.” The honor cost the old lady’s estate over $5,000. Perhaps the greatest fortune ever made by actor or actress is invested in the estates of Adelina Patti. She is worth to-day over $2,000,000, and in the zenith of her career she was rated at many millions more. Every cent of it wai made behind the footlights.