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CAPRON, or THE FIRST
ARTiLLERY
' A Brave and Picturesque Officer, As Seen
‘ by a Volunteer at ..antiago.
FTER the close of the Santiago
A campaign, Caprou‘s battery was
returned to the United States and was
sent to Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis.
A volunteer contributes to the New
York. Sun these interesting reminis-
cences of a brave and picturesque of‘
floor: \
most impressed me during the Santiago
campaign was the late Capt. Allyn
Capron, Sr., of E battery, First artil-
lery. From July 8 until early in Au-
gust my company. was - camped on
“Misery Hill,” as we called it, right
alongside Capron’s battery. I saw a.
great deal of him and his men. Capt.
Capron was a short, stout, broad-shoul-
dered, stockily-built man with iron-
gray hair. Evidently between 50 and
60, he was straight as a ramrod. He
wrestler, and a hea ‘that was a cube.
His men danced when he gave a com-
mand, but never tired of bragging
about him. One of his privates said to
me:
“When a thing goes wrong the old
man may cuss the entire battery into a.
E hemorrhage, but he never sticks a de-
’ cent man into the guard house or gets
5 him finec .”
i A few days after the San Juan en-
; gagcment I met an artilleryman whose
i enlistment had just expired. I forget
. his regiment and battery. I remarked
[ that I supposed he would get back to
i the states as soon as possible and bid
, good—by to soldiering.
! “You bet!” he replied, and then add-
' ed: “Unless I can getin Capron’s bat-
tery. I’m on my way to see the old
man now.”'
One of the yarns that traveled the
rounds of the encampment before San-
tiago went this way: It was one of
the three days of the San Juan fight.
Capron was leading his battery up a
road towarduthe front when he came
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E upon a. battalion of men lying down
5 along the roadside. While the rest of
l the regiment went on, a faint-hearted
major had kept this battalion back. As
I Capron rode, stifily by paying no
I heed to the drop shots that fell
i around him, the quaking major got on
his feet, and, saluting, asked:
. men?”
j “Damn your impudencel” thundered
‘ Capron, “are you so badly frightened,
' sir, that you cannot see that I’m a cap-
' tain? Tell your men to go to the front,
and then by , sir, go home, sir, and
get under the bed, sir!”
i One morning on Misery Hill I .wit-
3 nessed a sample of Capt. Capron’s meth-
ods with his men. It is a time—honored
custom in the regular army to give a
' rookie, or new recruit, much more than
> his fair share of fatigue duty. The
regulations protect each man, but- it
: takes the recruit some time to learn his
rights. On the morning in question
Capron’s men had received orders to
_ build their entrenchmcnts higher. A
corporal had put a lone private at work
carrying gunnysacks of sand and pil-
ing them along the battery trenches.
The poor fellow staggered back and
forth with the heavy bags, fairly drip-
ping w_ith perspiration. The other men
of the battery were scattered about in
the shade of the trees, taking their
use. Capt. Capron emerged from his
tent, and, with a grim smile, surveyed
the scene. Then he shouted:
“You, sir! Come here, sir!”
The rookie marched up, suck on back.
As he said himself. “he was scared
stiff.” Capron looked him over sternly:
“Drop that suck, sir!”
The recruit dropped it as if it had
been red hot.
“Stand at attention.sir!”
The order was obeyed with evident
apprehension as to what was coming
next. '
“Don’t you know your rights, sir?
Because you are a willing horse they
are working you to death. One man,
sir, doesn’t do all the work of a battery.
The first sergeant will instruct you.
'That will do, sir.” '
By the time Capron had completed
his reprimand and reentcred his tent
' a dozen privates had carried a sack
each to the trenches, and the rookie’s
morning task had been completed in
about three minutes.
At the engagement at Las Guasimas
Capt. Allyn K. Capron, of the rough
riders, son of Cegt. Capron, Sr., was
killed. His body was left for a time
where it fell. His hat was placed to
cover his face, and a black rubber pon-
cho thrown over the body. Only the
rough, mud-clotted shoes protruded
from beneath the poncho. Word was
sent to Capt. Capron, Sr., and he soon
reached the scene of the engagement.
VVhite-faced, but upright, he stood for
a moment, looking down at the black,
forbidding outline in a by-path, all that
remained of the last of three promising
i sons. Stooping, he lifted the hat from
g the dead boy’s face, and, gazing at him
with moist eyes, said:
“Well done, boy!"
Then replacing the hat he turned on
' his heel and marched stifil y away.
During the bombardment of Santiago
I was in the trenches right beside Ca-
pron’s battery. Overhead the Spanish
3 shells were humming and screeching.
; I could occasionally see the glint of
one in the sunshine as it passed over.
About our ears a bumble bee’s nest of
Mauser bullets was zinging and zooing.
, There was Capt. Capron, field glasses
in hand, and erect and inflexible as ever.
One of his gunners, who had just
thrown a shell wide of the mark, stood
beside him. An unusually low shot
voluntarily dodge. Capron looked at
him impatiently. -
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The army officer whose personality.
had a neck like a bull, the back of a‘
from the enemy made the gunner in- .,
“Who in blank are you bowing 10.0,
you cockeyed dancing master?" be de-
Nil-Now
(wooded. “Can‘t you see a blockhouse
' :right on the end 'of your nose? Look
through these glasses. See it? Now.
try it again.” .
The next shot landed
mark.
“Now, shrapnel!" shouted Capron as
the Spanish survivors begun to pour
out of the blockhouse. ”Give it to
them!” I
And give it to them they surely did.
I shall not soon forget the first fresh
beef I had in Cuba. It was a red-letter
day in my career. Caprou’s battery got
it, and we were told that everyone
would save some the next day. But 1
was so hungry for itI couldn’t wait. So
I'went over andfiiwatched the battery
men cut up theirs, and ' managed to
make a trade for a. piece big enough for
.myself and a bunkie. 'I asked one of
the commissary detail how they gotit
when we didn’t.
“Oh,” he said, “the old man worked
it. He came into camp and told the
sergeant there was some-beef at come
missary headquarters, but not enough
to go around. He said: ‘Take a detail
and go down and take some! Take it!
If anyone objects, say that I said to
take it. Don’t be a blanked hog or im—
pudent to anyone, for if you are I
shan’t help you out—but take some
beef.’ We obeyed orders." .
So for as I could learn, the balance of
the‘aeef, after Capron’s men got theirs,
went to officers only. The next (1313'.
however, every one had it.
I was down in the roadway at the foot
of Misery Hill the day that Capron’s
battery pulled out to go to their trans-
port. Capron rode ahead on horse-
back. Once in awhile he turned in his
saddle and gave a command in a roar
that made the little valley echo. The
guns came clanking down the bill be-
hind him. The road was barely wide
enough for two wagons to pass. Just
at the foot of the hill Capron rode
square up against a wagon loaded with
supplies coming the other way. A
teamster .. and some volunteer major
were in the wagon. Capron looked
black as a thunder cloud.
“Get out of my way,
claimed. .
The teamster looked puzzled and the
major scared.
“How will we do it, sir?” asked the
major.
“What do I care how you do it, sir?"
shouted Capron. "Get out of my way,
fair on the
Sir! ” be ex—
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“WI-IO ARE YOU ROWING TO?"
sir!" Then, looking around a second,
be fairly roared, “Get into the bushes,
sir." ,
The major grabbed the reins and
whip from the tcumster and lashed the
mules out into the thicket to let Capron
pass. The one wore a major’s and the
other a captain’s straps. Capron’s men
smiled grimly under their campaign
huts and silently rode on.
Capt. Capron always appeared pleas-
ant with the enlisted men of the volun-
teers. He usually had a. cheery “good
day” for them. He would stop and
respond to a-u‘eniai'l; or question that
was respectfully put. But he did not
seem to consider them in the same class
with his owu men. His attitude toward
the volunteers was as if he looked on
them as a lot of promising young cubs.
In fact. he said of the lads who loafed
around his tent:
“The cubs have stuff in ’em. i
wouldn’t mind whipping some of the
whelps into shape myself.” ,
But his own men he treated as if they
were a herd of full—grown roaring lions
seeking that which they might devour.
His simplest order was delivered in a
hoarse bellow. Not that his men were
a noisy lot, for they were singularly
silent and self-contained. But they one
and all seemed to approve of Capron’s
attitude toward them. ' Big, brawny
and hairy-chested, they were in com-
parison with the volunteers like a lot of
untamed grizzly bears beside a litter
of white mice. And they seemed happy
to be treated as grizzlies by Capron.
In my memory of the men and“events
of the Santiago campaign there will
always stand out clean—cut the image
of Capt. Allyn Capron-man and sol-
dier. His Creator forgot to put it hinge
in his back. And he deserves from his
countrymen a monument inscribed:
“Well done, Capt. Capron!"
Not to Be \Vondered At.
An absent-minded German professor
was one day observed walking down the
street with one foot continually in the
gutter, the other on the pavement. A
pupil, meeting him, saluted him with:
“Good evening, Herr Prpfessor. How
are you ‘P” “I was very well, I thought."
answered the professor; “but now I
don’t know what’s the matter with me.
i For the last ten minutes I’ve been limp-
ing!"—London Answers.
Not the Time to Leave Her.
. “Do you mind if I go into the smok-
ing compartment of the car a few min-
utes?” he asked. ' '
“You’d better not go just now?’ she
replied suggestively. .fi‘We’re. coming '
to a tunnel ina few minutes.”—Chica.gc
Past. '
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September.-—-Rural New Yorker.
CARE OF YOUNG TREES.
\Vithout a Good Root or Stem :1 Plant
Makes But Little Progress
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A large proportion of the trees that
are lost in resetting die because they
have been injured when they were
taken up. -Without a good root or stem
a tree can make but little progress in
growth. In digging up trees the surface
soil should be removed to the root sys-
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outside the mass of roots; then by cut-
ting under the reots with a sharp
spade on each side, the tree may be
loosened from the soil with a good sup-
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No matter how carefully a tree is dug,
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injured or destroyed. Thus only a small
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branches and buds, which nevertheless
continue to evaporate a large amount
of water; thus the tree often starts very
slowly and sometimes fails entirely.
By removing the branches and buds in
proportion to the injury of the roots, a
balance is maintained. All injured
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knife and the wounds. of large roots
should be painted over with some water-
proof covering.
When trees are planted the roots
should have a fine mellow bed of soil,
which should be pressed firmly in con-
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space around. them, and all should be
spread out in natural position. The soil
should be pressed very firmly around all
5the roots, so that the new roots will be
encouraged to make a rapid growth. If
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same depth as it was before it was re-
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should be shallower; if lighter, it
should be placed deeper. The surface
of the soil which is over the roots should
be fine and light because the capillarity
is then broken up and the moisture
cannot escape—W. H. Moore, in Farm-
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