Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 14, 1900, Page 9

| { TIHHE OMAITA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, R e R Y THE CASE OF NO. 10. A TRUE S1ORY OF By JAMES R e (Copyright, 190, by J. Barnes.) f 1t you look in a report made by Eng. | land's greatest surgeon you will find under | se No. 10" a concise and detailed ac- | “Don't move; It's the only thing that will | count of a bullet wound. The course of the | save your life find us in th ball Is traced with all the accuracy and | morning.” exactness of a surgeon's terse phraseology | juet then a groaning came from where We are told how the merciful little pencil shaped, nickel steel Mauser bullet passed through the body of ““Case No. 10,” but who “Caso No. 10" fs and under what circum- stances he recelved the wound—that is no part of a surgeon’s report, and so It does Dot appear. In the old days when the tear- ing, shattering leaden bullets did their fear ful work 10" wouldn't have bee & surgoon’s case; he would have been fn th ebituary 11st. As it fs, thanks to the cleanly perforating bullet which ca \erizes ts own IHE BOER WAR. BARNES. Yer." We're In a ‘ $ ‘ . ‘ ‘ + at shall we | the other wounded man was lying “Water," he moaned, “‘water." Dalton raised his voice. “Lie still, my 1ad,” he sald. “Water is the worat thing for you. Lie still. What is your name? Thé man gave It and his number, and the aptain could almost imugine that o salute accompanied the answer Can you see those other men “Yes, sir; they're both dead, sir.” Tho soldler's agony wus sunk in the sol dierly training. wound, he fs now allve and well, th w:"h “Keep quiet and lle still, I tell you. Try shot 1n what used to be regarded as & V'tal | (o forget your thirst. Moving around will spot. This is the actual story of how | oo m"l\r'fil you Warse *“Case No. 10" h ned The soffiier d1d not reply. 1t was at the second battle of the Tugela, | 1 was thisy A ho strange thing of it all was th EESSEANS it temen] Y A" | There had been no bitter words expressed e 23¢ of January. Captain Dalton, B A | geaingt the action of the Boers. It had M. C. (which means Royal Army Medlcal |\ o "ogiog by as 1t by tacit consent. The corps), had been called off to attend to a wounde flank of the army, (he falling back acre the death-plain over ‘which it had e vored to advance against the hidden rifiemen who lay among the rocks. Tt was quite late in the afternoon when he reached the spot, and on the way the attendant stretcher bearers had picked up & badly wounded man. In a corner among the rocks the surgeon found the wounded officer, Captain de Rougemont. Near by Bim lay another wounded man, and so Captain Dalton found himself {n charge of little ¢ing station all his own. He koew de Rougemont well, and s he bent over him he saw thit he was badly woun led, shot throug the abdomen. The other man lying near had a wound of the same char acter, while the third man, who had been carried along In the strotcher wns shot Af I rememter rightly, in two pleces, th ough officer Iylng on th the head and lungs. The captain—for all English surgeons have military titles— bont over his stricken friend. He saw that the ball had gone stralght through him; yet he felt sure that with great care his life might be saved. But the ambul- ances were from four to five miles away, and It would be almost fmpossible to drive one over the rocky, uneven ground. A glince at the other man showed that his cage was a severe one also. Three casualittes, ali n the category of the dangerous, would spell small hove to the friends at home who would read the returns in the papers. Three casualities and only one stretcher. The men who carried it' were not members of a regular bearer company, but two Tom- mies ‘who Had been pressed for the nonce. The surgeon had got out bandages and was applying the first ald as quickly and doftly as he could, when one of the men standing by shouted suddenaly “My Gawd! Look! Here they come!" Captain Dalton raised his head in time to see about forty Boers, all mounted, ride into sight above the crest of the little bill, 200 yards or o in front. He only glanced at them, for he thought they must have percelved what he was doing and, despite the recriminations that had been indulged in on either side, the Red Cross had always been respected. -He felt safe under the protection of the little bandage around him arm. So he went on with his work. There came a volley and the captain felt a shock go through him. Pausing for & minute, 7 A0bked down at himscft and percelved that he was wounded in almost the same place as the officer whom he was attending. One of the soldiers was shot dead and the wounded man lying on the grcund had received a sccond bullet through the o The other stretcher- bearer had been shot through the arm near the shoulder and had fallen behind a rock. They were all casualties now, him- selt included. But somehow It may have been the effect of training or it may have been the surgeou's abstract the case, he continued working, stanching the blood and binding up the wound of his triend, determined to work as long as he was able. The Boers approached. They got off thelr horses and were standing close about him. A sickening feeling w MY GAWD HERE THE coming over him and 1l slowly back and lay looklng up at them. The anger that came over him mado him speak in cold, severe tones “Look what you have done,” he said “You have shot me, a surgeon performing his duty, and you have fired upon the wounded. Do you call that war?" “We're very sorry, sir’" sald a middle- aged bearded fellow in good English. “We aidu’t see who you were. We thought you were lying there and were about to fire on us." The others stood about silently, leaning awkwardly ageinst thelr saddles. The man who was slightly wounded tFrough the arm stood up; he began to swear. The captain silenced him and he sat down on the rock nursing his wounded arm. And now comes the strangest part of the story and one that 1f it had not heen verified, would be bard to believe. The Boers went over nnd ex- amined the wounded man. They shook their heads. The captaln felt his senses golng, the weakness was becoming overpowering Someone spoke in Dutch and u horseman mounted. The captain looked up and asked, slowly: Who Is in command here?" “Well, I suppose 1 am,”" sald a loy brow=d rufian, who spoke English Well, for heavon's sake, let this slightly main body of which was already | Interest in | inhuman part of It, the surgeon perceived, was not intended for torture. he saw that the enemy had regarded them all as belng practically dead men. HE BEHAVED FOR ALL THE WOLD I To describe in detafl that night of horror would Le too harrowing. Captaln Dalton knew that his only chance of living was in remaining absolutely still. Since he had lald down he had hardly moved a muscle, but poor De Rougemont had begun to wan- der. He began to shout to tho stable guard and insisted that the horses were tothered over the hill. He ralsed himself on his elbows and called aloud time and agaln. Dalton plead with him in vain. He would not listen to reagon. In the meantime the temptation of thirst, that overpowering dreadful agony of t sdraly. wounded,-had been' too much for the soldler. He had mapaged to crawl to the body of one of his companions and had | drained his water bottle. In a few min- utes his agony was increased three fold and he tossed, rolling and wretching, to and fro among the rocks. In a few minutes he was silent and the doctor knew that relief had come to him. Captain de Rougemont was growing weaker, but A dreadfui thirst was | on him, too. His water hottle was by his | slde; despite the sur ho took a drink’ It seemed at first to help him, for his mind censcd wandering, and then—but why go on? Early in the morning his moaning ceased. | Dalton was stff from lying in the same | position. It was bitter cold and his flesh | quivered. He felt the thirst, too, but his | will power was strong and, strange to say, the overpowering weakness was leaviug him and his braln was cle to think. His thoughts wero not pleasant. He remembered u's remonstrances, | in such a way that the | the date of his appol | lumped 1n o fetch them.” The n walkl direct In al n hour I men coming toward him. In ar ho was jn a hospital. The enly m had ever walked six miles with a wou that should have been vital and had Iy to tell the te PECK PRESY rs IS ML sloner Genernl Foots up the Cost of Ous Show at Paris A Washington dispateh to the Chieag {hbune announces that Commissioner G ral Peck has made his report of the ex | penses of the Paris Exposition commiss | ¥or the year Yovem ; has been tra tted to congre 1 | Peck has bLeen criticised for his ox rused wi diture was |expenses, the re | interest. ' The tot [and the principal ftems Pulldings and other construction 191 Fxperts' sala . UT6M Al emy Jurors k' ‘walarics iards e 1 Officers Commi e Additional commission Rent Travellng expenses of Jurors, . clorks, | other e Showcase construction 20,683 | Contingent expenses 20,000 Facades constructed around the ex- hibit dopartment Officlal catalogu Slgny and deco Furniture Insurance tions Flags, bunting for decorating exe nibit sections . Storage and labor 9,018 Eubsistence allowance for govern- JKE ON ment vl 1 installation cablegrams omnib Ing tlonery ostage Camera ... Photographs, ‘mounting, prints and ‘plates Office supplies Newspapers and newspaper clippings Rent of typewrlters, supplies and re- BRI Ty e maie st iz 3 Bronge lfon ... woonersesees LIO The commissioner general to Parls has been in hot water over his expense account ever since he was appointed and the sched- ules submitted are not likely to make mat- ters any easier for him. The money has been appropriated, however, and Mr. Peck has merely spent 'what was glven to him. There {8 and will be great criticism regard: ing many of the items which are considered grossly extravagant The strongest critictsm sioner general, howe . came first of ml; from his disposition to lump his accounts ‘ in such a way that no intelligent an; ~1.~‘ of them could be made. Now, however, he | has itemized his schedules to a larger ex- | tent, but his reports overlap each other authorities in con gress find it impossible to follow his system of bookkeeping. | It 1s likely that Mr. Pack will be called | upon for a_complete ftemized aecount from | tment to the end Y‘ his service. The present report is for \H--‘ year ending November 15 &t and there fore 1t overlaps and includes his last regu- lar report, which was for the first three | months of 190, Besides that, things were the last account which are ftemized In this and vice ve The {tems which have caused the most critielsm are those of traveling expenses of varfous employves, amounting to $6 0, and the sum of $147.6M for the salaries of ex- pert Besides this there has been a @eal of laughing over such items as 81, for newsvapers and newspaper clippings, to | say nothing of the extraordinary sum’ of | $6.518 for cab, omnibus, car and 1'ul’l‘|dk’fi‘ hire. This, ag will be seen readily, will be an average of ever T in mural trans- portation for Mr. Peck and his for every working day during th year So, too, it can be figured out he spent about | a day for telegrams and cable The total appropriation for th tatlon of the United 8; amounted to 81,448,786, This total reached by a number of separate ap tions running over a perfod of three years. The report presented hy Mr. Peck accounts for about tw hirds of that approj ition and it {s assumed that 1t will, with money | expended before, wine out the entire sum | set aglde for the purpose. Con s will h 1 chance to overhaul the {tems, because Mr. Peck was given a decoration by the government, and he will have to appen! t misston to aceent it. When he reauest It is likely that the whol will be gone over. | NAME negatives, 1,310 of the commis- | congress for per- | FOR AN AMERICAN, s an ¥ € Dow auet recently given In or Joseph 11 Choate wi ors and retafled the followl Mr. Choate Te nwlish Andience | ing Street. the spea! the great birds whose shadows he knew would be sweeping over the ground the next morning. He knew that the army had gone back, and he reckoned gloomily the chance of being found. He knew it was not ono fn a thousand The sun rose and earefully he ratsed himself and lookcd about; he was the only {one alive. Slowly, inch by inch, ho raised bimself, ment he took a s until to his wonder found that he could , holding himself u popsible, He took another he could walk. It took him half an hour {to go 200 yards to the bottom of the hill where the ground was more level and there he found a path. He began to ha ipterest of the surgeon in studying his own o. How far would he be able fore the deadly pang would & Steadying himself before each be went cn. He saw no living th wore a few bodle hery and there where the troops hud advanced. The sun rose higher and bigher' and soon the sweeplng shadows appeared. He did mot turn his head to look to right or left, nor did he and amaze stand. He He found that fze him? ovement 8. There wounded man go and get help for us."* darc to rest. Soon, down in a hollaw, he “He's our prisoner," sald the bearded |saw a moving figure. It was a Kafir one. “We've got to take him along. We |werking about a little lonely hut. He can't stay bere." {rawed his voice. The man saw him, but “Surely you're not going to leave us in this plight?”’ Thefe was no answer. The next thing the captain remembered | wave was someone tugging at his feet and then he heard a sound of horses' hoofs going away over the rocks. He lost consclous tnstead of coming to him the black made off. Again he called. He was afrald to his arm to beckon, for the mo: ment might mean death. The KaMr turned and approached him. He circled near | He behaved for all the world like one who pess. When he came to himself the sun |stalked an enemy. The captaf all th was down behind the hills and the cold |time stood silent. At last the man came evening shadows were coming on. He |near enough for the captaln to talk to him knew now what the tugging at his feet had meant. His spurs wero gone. Captain de Rougemont, lylng beside him, was talk- tng “Dalton,” he sald, “can you hear me?" and then he saw th man's strange hehavlor “Troops, baas?" “Yes, where are they The Kaffir polnted, reason of the white stralght as | e Yhe | to go ho- | | of nistory. which, if new to many Inzlis men, s Mr. Choate suggested, must also | be somewhat W _to not a few nerieans In referring to Downing st 1 name ‘mnn\mnnh used as a synonym for the Brit- |ish” gavernment, because the official home | of the premler’ I8 situated on that thor- | oughfare—Mr. Choate snfd: “T doubt whether many within the sound of my volce know why it fa called Downing treet, Now at the 1 at which I had the * good _fortur attend in Mass; chusetta—the best colony that was ever | planted under the English flag an nt In the hest way you drove tir out to shift for th At that seh wer the archwa¢ nee, there w | 1 the words, “Schola publica pei first school organized in Massach setts, Underneath was insertbed the na | ot Georze Downfng, the first pupil of (ht | sehaol. Then at Harvard collee find him a graduate of that Institution the firat year that It sent any youth into the | world—th 12 He 8¢ | 1 his wav to England. He | | | became chaplatn to Colonel Onkley's arm under Cromwell and soon began to displu the most extraordinary faculty In the art | diolomacy of any man in his day. 1t w the old diplomacy. He developed fnts wonderful master in the art of hoodwinking | \ which that kind of hey. ch | consisted. Tn the first vl Cromweli himself, which was a very astufe voung mi 1 per suaded him to send him as ambassador to | The Hague. Well, after the Protector died, tried his arts upon the,Rump and he | hoodwinked the 1 they anpointed | { him ambassador to zue. 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