The Mena star., August 31, 1898, Page 2, Image 2

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FEELINQ OF MEN UNDER FIRE.
Statements of a Couple of nen Who
Have Had the Experience.
From the New York Press.
Men on the Yankee have had to an^
swer a dozen times the question:
“How does it feel to be under fire?"
Every friend who climbs ab< ard the
trim little auxilary cruiser to see a
former chum shakes a grimy hand and
bombards the able seaman with the
question. As a matter of fact, only a
few of the boys are able to explain
their feelings, and say: “Oh, I don't
know. You get used to it.
General Furlong, who was a member
of Grant’s staff and participated in
battles from Arkansas to Appomattox,
says any man who says he isn't afraid
under fire tells an untruth.
“You don’t get used to it; or at least
I never did,” said the general a few’
nights ago. “Sheriden said be never
got used to it, and l don't believe any
body ever does. It isn't courage that
keeps a man at the front; it’s pride.
I’ve seen the time when I would have
liked to leave the front, but 1 couldn’t
afford to do so. It wasn’t courage that
kept me where I stood; it was pride,
and the knowledge of the fact that if
1 ran I’d be disgraced.
“When the boys come back from the
front they will tell the same story. 1
was on old General A. J. Smith’s staff
jn the Red river campaign. There was
an opening in our lines and the two
lines of battle were about 500 yards
apart
“General Smith gave me a dispatch
to carry to the right of the line. I
could have ridden behind our own lines
and delivered it. As I started to do so
be said: ‘That way sir,’ pointing to
the opening. To go out and ride to our
right was to pass between the fire of
our own men and the Confederates.
My heart went up into my throat. I
expected to be killed. I started with
two orderlies, and they were killed
before we had gone two hundred feet.
I was shot in the leg and got through.
It wasn't cop'rage that kept me up; it
was pride and orders.
“Ten years afterward, in St. Louis I
met General Smith. I said to him:
•General it’s all over now, but why did
you 6end me down between those two
lines to carry that dispatch?’ The
general looked at me and said:
“‘Well, I wanted to impress on our
men that there wasn’t anything terri
ble abo^t the lire, andjthat the officers
weren’t afraid of it’ ”
On board the Yankee the boys viec
with one another to see how cool thej
could be. There is no doubt that the
majority of them thoroughly appreci
ated the danger they were in. A mem
ber of gun crew No. 1, talking of tin
feeling, said;
“I was awfully anxious to see ai
engagement, and at Santiago ha<
enough to last me. When we bangei
away, gun after gun, until you eouh
not hear yourself think, I felt a littli
queer. Every time a shot came in ou
direction I said, ‘Oh Lord’ and wa
glad when it passed over.
“At Cienfuegos, where Kennedy
was injured, I didn’t see him. If
hail, I suppose 1 would have wilted
The bovs who were serving the gm
with him, however, held out, and
after making him comfortable, wen
on with the game. No spot on boan
a ship is safe in a battle, and that fae
adds to a man's being brave. II
knows he can’t get away, and he isn’
going to show a white feather; so h
sticks. Some boys, made of mere he
roic clay, may not feel any fear, or b
callous to fate; but I’m inclined to be
lieve that, like myself, when shell
are whistling, they’d rather be out o
it. ”
The man who said this is one of th
best men in the reserve. No mai
worked harder at a cmn than he j.
when the Yankee was in action, am
the question of how it feels to be un
dor lire is still open to discussion.
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THE SPANIARDS’ WIRE FENCES
They Are Hard to See and harder t<
Destroy.
From the New York Evening Sun.
Captain Cavanaugh of the Thirteentl
United States regulars, now recuper
ating from a wound received in tin
famous charge of the Thirteenth be
fore Santiago, says that the defense;
of Santiago are fur stronger than the
reports would lead one to believe. Th*
barbed wire fenses, he says,form one 01
the most efficient barriers it is possible
to conceive.
The posts, according to the captain,
are usually set where they are covered
by a dense growth of green foliage.
They stand about five feet above the
g.ound and are twenty-five feet apart.
Into each post two iron bars are driven
at right angles to each other, and the
ends are left projecting about four
• inches on either side. Then, instead
of fastening the wire firmly to the
post, which would give an opportunity
to cut it with nippers or axes, the wire
is looped loosely around the irons and
strung looselv from post to post in
strands so numerous that a sort of net
work is formed, which is almost im
possible to penetrate. The loose wire
gives' no backing for a blow from an
axe, and the number of strands in a
trocha makes it an hour’s work to cut
through with nippers.
The posts used in these fences or
trochas are made from the plant pal
mettos cut green and planted with the
foliage still on them. This serves ef
fectively to conceal the attachment of
the wire. Various methods were tried
to remove these posts, but it was
found that burning was too slow a
process, and that it was next to impos
sible to break them off, because of
toughness and elasticity. The only
recourse was to chop them down, and
as they are always set up in places ex
posed to tire from Spanish trenches,
this was a very dangerous piece of
work.
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Public Schools of Santiago.
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The public schools of Santiago, Cuba
will open September 15, under the au
spices of the American army.
There are 4.000 little ideas in Santia
go which will be taught to shoot
on the American plan. They will
learn how to think straight. The
Yankee schoolmaster is abroad in Cuba
and if the Cubans do not profit by his
presence it will be because they are
incorrigible.
Gen. Wood is to be commended and
congratulated. It is not usual for mil
itary commanders in conquered ter
ritory to think of schools and
schoolmasters, but we Americans dc
not care for the usual unless it is good
This incident may help foreigners to
understand why Americans succeed sr
well in politics, business and war.
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rooms. The tables are supplied with all the market af
fords, and the service is most excellent. Corner Mena
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Rates $2.00 Per Day. Proprietor.
THE MM BOTTLING WORKS.
lee ai?d Soda U/ater
Delivered to All Parts of the City.
FRED RAUSH, Mgr.
WATCH ME!
FOR WATCH BARGAINS.
INSPECT THIS.
No. 1. A B. W. Raymond
enteen red ruby jewels, five paji
in gold settings, patent regulator
full adjusted, double sunk dial’
b roquet hair spring, a life time
watch movement fitted in a screw
bevel dust proof case. A stem
winding bargain for $15.00.
No. 2. A Hampden “Railway*
patent pinion, patent regulator
fully adjusted, full jeweled, jew! ■
els set in gold, full nickle move
mcnt fitted in a dust proof coin
silver ease, and $10 will boy it. 1
No. 3. A genuine Elgin, full
nickle, eleven jewel, stem wind
movement, in a four ounce coin !
silver ease. A good time piece, i
only $7.
No. 4. Here is a bargain. A
finely jeweled Hampden move
ment in a guaranteed 14-K solid ;
gold filled case, handsomely en- ■
graved, guaranteed for twenty
years. It’s yours for only ?15.
These bargains are at The Mena
Jewelry Store, Janssen avenue, ■
where they do watch repairing as
it should be done.
New Meat Market!
On DeQneen near Janssen.
23P5 The best of meats of all kinds i
on hand in their season,
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Proprietors
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Embalmer.
Goods always in stock.
Pickering Avenue South of Depot.
J. C. BYERS, j
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Will practice in State, Federal and S'1'
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Notary in Office.
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