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A WISCONSIN FINANCIER.
GENIUS TH AT SOLD GOOD >IO\RY AT
CUT H ATES AT A PROFIT.
liy Offering a Silver Dollar
for RO Cents and Then Sold Quarter
Alatehen for Eaeh—Got Away
Unmolested After a Profitable Two
Hours* Work.
From the New York Sun.
“Don't talk to me any more about Dew
ey and Hobson anil that fellow that swam
from Hong Kong to the Philippines tow
ing a regiment of soldiers with his
mouth,” said Promoter Pimley. “They're
mere innocent bitbes alongside of the fel
low I run across on my hist trip West.
“Do you know Stoughton, Wis.? It’s
one of those towns with a future and one
business street. I'd run up from Chi
cago after an option on some timber lands
and lay over there one Saturday and Sun
day. Saturday afternoort I was hanging
round the hotel office when a man and
boy drove up outside in a buggy. The
boy, who worked in the town livery sta
ble. got down, unhitched the horse and
led him away, and the man stood up and
began to arrange and rearrange pack
ages on the buggy seat.
“In about two minutes there was a
email crowd around him, and in about fif
teen minutes the crowd Included prac
tically the entire male population of the
town. But the man in the buggy seemed
oblivious of any attention. He rearranged
bis packages for fifteen minutes more
without looking up. Then suddenly he
etood erect, pushed his silk hat back on
his head, and held up a silver dollar.
“I nave here,” he said, " a United
States silver dollar. What gentleman
in the crowd will give me 50 cents for
it? *
“The crowd didn’t seem to hanker after
•liver dollars at 50 cents apiece.
“ ’lt’s a perfectly good silver dollar,’
urged the man in the buggy*. ‘lf any
gentleman wishes to examine it let him
etep right up. Besides, how long do you
suppose I’d be outside of .state prison if
I went about selling counterfeit money
in the public streets?’
“Just then his eye lighted on the pro
prietor of the hotel who was in the crowd.
“ ‘I put up at your house last night,
didn’t I?’
“ ‘Yes,’ said the hotel man.
“ ‘Did T pay you with good money this
morning?’
“The hotel man Bald he thought he did.
“ ‘Weil, step up here then and risk 50
cents to start the ball a-rolling. You
may take my word for it, it’s a hundred
per cent, investment.’
“The hotel man laughed and finally
came forward and gave him 50 cents for
the dollar. The man In the buggy imme
diately held up the 50 cents.
‘Now.’ he said, ‘who'll give me a quar
ter for this half-dollar?’
“This time it wasn't difficult to get a
taker, and the man in the buggy there
upon sold the quarter for 15 cents, the 15
cents for a dime, and the dime for a nick
el. These last bargains went like hot
cakes. Then he held up the nickel.
“Gentlemen,’ he sold, ‘I want to buy
eix matches for this 5 cents.’
VHe got a dozen or two offers. The
crowd seemed to be grasping the Idea that
they were trading on a bull market. The
man In the buggy secured his matches
and help one up.
“ ‘What gentleman,’ he said, ‘will give
me a dollar for this match?’
“This was a new* phase nnd the bull
market took on a conservetive tor^e.
“ ‘Oh. I know as well as you do.’ said
Ihe man. ‘thnt that’s a high price to pay
for a match. You can buy fifty boxes for
the money. But. gentlemen, these don't
happen to be ordinary matches, and some
body's going to give me a dollar for each
one of these six. and it’s going to be the
best bargain he’s made in a long lime.’
There was nothing of the salesman
• bout the man in the buggy. He was the
prophet pure and simple. He stated h!s
rose calmly nnd carelessly like a man who
was not concerned with the result. There
was a pause for a few moments; then
pomebody handed up o dollar. The man
!n the buggy folded the match in n bit of
paper and made the buyer step up to
the wheel. Then he poked it into his vest
pocket and said:
“Now. you button your coat up over
that and stay right here, so I’ll know
where you ore when I want you.’
“Then he held up a second match, and
Bold one after another of the six at a
dollar apiece in less than three minutes
After that he pulled out a five-dollar bill
and said he wanted to buy three msue
matches with it, and the crowd tumbled
over itself. He broke these matches In
halves, and begged to sell the halves at a
dollar apiece. He disposed of three, and
then the market Fagged again. But the
man in the buggy was not in the least
disconcerted. He broke the remaining
halves into quarters, and offered the quar
ters at $2 apiece. The crowd began to
laugh. Then they stopped laughing. The
man in the buggy said little or nothing,
out somehow be was hung as thick with
promises as a Christmas tree. The next
thing the crowd knew he had sold four
of the quarters at $2 each. Then the
market, halted again.
’All right, gentlemen, just as you say’
Bold the man in the buggy. ‘l’ve got ius’t
two more quarter matches, and I'm going
to sell them at $5 each. Two little bits of
matches at $5 apiece! Funny, isn’t it?’
It was funny, but he sold them. And
every match, or half or quarter, he sold
be wrapped up in a bit of paper, poked
it into the buyer’s vest pocket and made
him button bis coat up over it and stand
close so he could be got at when wanted.
“ ‘Now. I’ve got something a little dif
ferent. said the man in the buggy.
“H? took out of an inside pocket a roll
of bills the *dz* of . small cabbage, and
laid it down on the seat before him. Then
he opened one of his packages and h< Id
up a brass watch case without the works.
“ ‘Here, gentlemen.’ he said ’is an empty
case—brass, under land, ro god
about it. And here is something von can
all see* for yours* Ives -good money, too.’
“it was a 12 bill, u i after f Iding it up
in plain sight of everybody he stuffed It
Into the watch case and shut down the
lid.
‘Mho wants the combination for a
dollar?” he asked.
“He got his dollar on the run, put the
case with his own hands into the buyer’s
pocket, and msde him button his coat up
over b and stand close, just as he had
done with the matches. Then he picke 1 a
s.> bill out of his wad. put it in another
brass case, and sol.l the outfit for $3: then
a *lO bill for $5. and then a S2O bill for $lO.
‘This is fun for you, gentlemen,’ he
said 'but my tturn is coming after awhile.’
“Finally he opened another box and
shook out a lot of shoddy jewelry, badges
and pins ard the like, that sell at retail
for 5 and 10 cents apiece.
’* ‘This is the last chance for bargains,’
he said, and began to offer them at sl. $2
and $3. and. so help me. he got it. And
every piece wsa wrapped up and shove*]
into the customer’® vest pocket, and the
customer himself made to stand up among
the elect who were going to have some
thing nice happen to them later. Once in
a while when o sale dragged, he'd wrap
the gew-gaw in a five dollar bill instead
of paper, but never until it was sold. And
this uncertainty as to what the wrapper
was going to be also had a good effect
on the market. I guess he sold fifteen or
twenty pieces at on average of perhaps $2
apiece.
“Then all of a sudden he stopped and
began to pack up his cases. He did it
carefully and leisurely. Then he adjusted
his tic and his hat, said ‘Thank you very
much, gentlemen,’ got out of the buggy,
took his grips and sauntered in the di
rection of the railroad station. The crowd
followed. He stopped in at the hotel on
the way and bought a cigar, and the
crow'd* waited for him outside and then
continued to follow. He seemed amus
ed, and jollied one or two of them pleas
antly. When the mob reached the eta
tlon there was still ten minutes to wait
for the Chicago express. They waited,
and the stranger conversed humorously
with from time to time. When the
train pulled in he stepped onto he buck
platform, still conversing. Then the
train started, and he made a grandstand
bow.
" ‘So long, l>oys,’ he said, and that w'as
the Inst of him.
“Then the man that had bought the
watch case with the S2O bill in it pulled
out his prize.* The watch case was there,
so was the bill; but It was asl bill. Then
the other watch-case buyers and the men
whoVI bought jewelry wrapped up in bills
opened their coats and held an autopsy.
The bills were all good, hut they had
changed somehow to one denomination—
sl. The men who had Invested in
matches went home without saying any
thing. But that night at the hotel we
counted up the stranger's profits as fol
lows:
Receipts—
R matches at $1 $ 6 00
3 matches at $1 3 00
4 quarter-matches at $2 8 00
2 quarter-matches at $5 10 00
4 watch cases 19 00
Jewelry, say, 18 at $2 36 00
* SB2 oo
Expenditures—
To horse and buggy $ 1 50
“ 6 matches 1 00
" 3 matches 5 00
“ 4 watch cases, say 25
" Jewelry, 18 pieces, say 30
" 10 one-dollar bills 10 00
Net proflit $63 95
“Pretty good for two hours’ work,
wasn't it? But what's been troubling me
Is the way that smooth stranger is throw
ing himself away. Why, with a little
coaching, that fellow could command Sen
ates and own continents. And the story
I’m telling you is literally and absolutely
true. If it came to a matter of proof, I
could show you one of the $3 quarter
matches.”
KNOWING WILD DICKS.
Seem to Feel Qnlte Safe When With
in the fluny Haunts of Men.
From the Milwaukee (Wis.) Sentinel.
It Is one of the peculiarities of the wild
game fowl thnt when we meet them,
shotgun in hand, out on the waters of the
inland lakes of the state, we have to make
use of all manner of trickery to get near
enough to them to secure a shot.!
Thus spoke an old sportsman, standing
on Grand Avenue bridge nnd pointing
with an index finger to a little patch of
open water in the rear of o store on West
Water street, where a pair of wild ducks
were swimming about as unconcerned as
if they were in the wooded fastnesses of
Northern Wisconsin instead of in the
midst of a city of 30,000 inhabitants.
“How* do you account lor the difference
between the wild duck in the wlldnerness
and the wild duck in the midst of civiliza
tion?” the sportsman was asked.
"I don’t account for it. I only know
that if you try to get near those two ducks
swimming over there, if they were out
on the Horioon marsh, for example, you
would have to rig up a lot of bushes in the
bow of your boat and paddle with the
greatest care in order to get within gun
shot, and even then the chances would he
against you. It may be instinct that l?
the cause of their being sb brave right
here in the midst of a teeming population.
We cannot suppose they are familiar with
the city ordinances and that they know
the policemen are under instructions to
arrest any one who fires a gun in the
city. They don’t even know that the
law against shooting ducks in the state is
in force, for they would still fly away if
they were on Pewaukee lake Instead of
Milwaukee river.
”1 know an enthusiastic Nimrod who
who went down on the government break
water the other morning to look at a boat
he was to buy. As he was passing along
the shore end of the little cnannel cut
through between the two piers at the
flushing tunnel works he saw a large
flock of ducks swimming around in there.
It was the only open water in sight. The
ice had crowded into this shore and the
ducks had to take to this spot or go hun
gry. There were among the birds teal,
redheads, and mallards. My friend had
not lived in Wisconsin long enough to be
come familiar with the game laws, and
the next morning he was down there
bright and early. He told me that he haa
duck for supper that night, and was in
clined to pride himself upon his new
found hunting grounds, when I gave him
a tip on the law and he shut up like on
oyster, and hns not had a word to say on
the subject since.
“The rough weather sometimes drives
the duck up into Milwaukee river. For
example, this was the case last week,
when the ice came over to this shore.
You pee, it is just this way. The wild
duck liven on fish and worms, and unless
he takes a journey to his winter resort
in the South he has to depend on tire lake
for his foraging during the real cold
weather when all the interior lakes and
marshes ore frozen up solid. He cannot
dig worms out of the frozen ground, can
he? No. Then he has to dive down into
the bottom of the lake for them with an
opportunity to capture a small fish on his
downward journey. When the ice com- s
to this shore and extends way out into
deep water his" little game is blocked,
as he cannot go down far enough to reach
his diet of worm In that case he is
forced to appease his hunger in the rivers
that run through the city, which are kept
open by the fire tugs and other boats,
which give him air opportunity for satis
fying the ‘inner duck.’ But whether his
ducksfylp has been driven to the necessity
of foraging in the river so often that he
knows it to be safe, or whether his hun
ger has led him to take desperate
chances, I do not know.
Some of the fisht rmen who drop their
nets down sixty and seventy feet out in
the lake tell me it is not an uncommon
thing to catch wild geese in them. The
geese go down to a great depth after
worms and walk on the bottom searching
for them. A duck, when it is wounded,
will also go down to the bottom of the
lake and travel for some distance befor'
it will come to the surface. I have lest
many a duck that 1 hove wounded
through this peculiar ity.
“Of course, what I say about the ducks
coming ino Milwaukee river does not
apply to the bay Inside the government
breakwater. They make that a favorite
resort late in the spring and early in tire
fall, when there is still plenty of open
water in the Interior of the state, as well
as in the winter when everything else is
frozen up. They stem to know from intu
ition that they are safe there ho long os
the people keep posted on the laws of the
state. It may be instinct that controls
them. We know that birds are nearly in
fallible in some things. For example, be
fore any of our scientific appliances have
warned us of the approach of n winter
stprm. a flock of birds will concentrate In
a trectop. chatter away for an hour or
two. then rise up in a body nnd fly a wav
South to a more congenial clime, and in a
day or two there will come a ‘killing
frost’ and n snowstorm, and old winter
will place his grip on the region and hold
it until the following spring, when with
the first bud of the vernal season the birds
will be back ugain with <helr songs.”
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1900.
OSTRIC H HINTING.
It In a Mon* Exciting; Sport in South
America Than C hasing the Foi.
It is not commonly known that there
are almost as many ostriches in South
America as in Africa, and yet the an
nual export of feathers from the former
country to the. United Stales alone is in
the neighborhood of nineteen tone, repre
senting in money $11,647.
The “rhea,” or South American ostrich,
differs from the African bird, in having
its head and neck completely feathered,
in being tailless and having three toes,
instead of two. It may be found in large
numbers in the Argentine and Uruguay
republics and in the country extending
from Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil, as
far south as the Straits of Magellan. Its
home is on the “pampas” or plains; some
times on open ground, and more often
near cover of grass and stunted under
growth. Since the birds are wifd and
wary and their feathers are in demand,
methods have been adopted to catch them
and these methods are at the same time
a business and the most exciting sort of
sport.
A powerful horse in condition to stand
•hard riding and long abstinence from 1
water is the first consideration in os
trich hunting. The course is both an
noying and dangerous, for, though the
c huse is on level ground with no fences
to fear, the rhea takes at once to the
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"pajas,” or high grass. This is not only >
a hindrance in itself, but conceals in
numerable holes, made by groundhogs
and moles, that are a constant menace
to life, and limb. Yet, on a clear day
in the bracing South American climate,
with plenty of game speeding before over
a country witlt an undulation like the
ocean, no more exhilarating sport than
the chase of the South American ostrich
could be asked for. The most effective
hunt is that followed by the Indians or
Oauchos. They use the “bolas,” or balls,
three pieces of stone, lead or heavy hard
wood, made round and covered with raw
hide. These balls are attached to thongs
of the same material, which are joined
together in the center. When all is ready
the Indians mount their horses and ap-,
proach the game In a large, semi-circle,
riding against the wind, for the ostrich is
keen of scent and once he suspects the
presence of a man is off like lightning.
When birds are sighted the riiets swing
the bolas round their heads with great
rapidity, their horses all the while go
ing at full gallop, and when within range
lutrl them at the game, entangling its
legs, wings or neck, and tripping it. or
stunning it if lilt on the head or any
s nsitive sppt. It is wonderful to s°e the
nativ.s rise in tin t- saddles when at full
speed, swing the balls and Hit the mark,
sometimes at a distance of eighty yards,
if ini' bird is brought down the r. st
seem to become panic stricken, and in
sn ad of escaping n main near their fallen
Companion. In this way a score of them
may he killed in one soot.
To the n an who loves hunting, for sake
of the chase alone, horses and grey
hounds appeal more. It is a sportsmanlike
race, where the game has a chance for
its life, it is very tike .fox hunting, cx
r pi thill li e ostrich Is swifter, if any
thing and employs even more dodges than
the fox. For install, e, \vhrn the hunters
are pressing close on the game and It
would seem that the digs were about to
capture it, the bird takes advantage of
tbe hast breath of air. raises one wing
slightly, using it its a sail, and running
slantwise against the breeze vanishes
from sight like a leaf in a whirlwind. If
by any chance the breeze dies out and
the hunters again feel sure of their os
trich. the latter, doubles like a fox, and
so qu'ckly an I suddenly that the dogs
pass beyond, making tlie hunt long drawn
out, difficult and exciting.
Though game laws have been passed
prohibiting the killing of ostriches during
the bredlng season, little, if any atten
tion is paid to them. It is estimated that
from 300.000 to 500,000 birds are s'aughtered
annually, a number which has not only
thinned out the species to a great extent,
but premises in tinio to extinguish It al
together. The only remedy for this in a
Country where law is ineffective would be
to establish ostrich farms similar to those
In Africa and California.
Nor is the ostrich hunted for Its feathers
alone: its flesh Is agreeable, somewhat
resembling mutton, and an omelette made
of the eggs, or rather several omelettes
made of one egg, p iss ss a tie lcious flav
or. Consequently egg hunting Is almost as
much cf a sport as ostrich bunting Sev
eral hens lay in one nest, which sometimes
folds from twelve to twenty-live eggs.
The cock often hutches the rggs, and it
! disturbed during the operation becomes
very dangerous, not hesitating to attack
with his 1 gs a man on horseback.
HANDS IN BATTLES.
History of Their I se, and an Expla
nation of Their Becoming Obso
i fete.
From the Pall Mall Gazette,
i In battle pictures painted prior to the
i war of 1870, artists were fond of introduc
ing military bands, whom they depicted as
picking their way over bodies of ‘
and wounded in the very thickr''’ of tho
1 light, and instrumentalists blowing away
to drown the cries of artguisli, and the
| drummersr—particularly the bass-drummer
j —pounding the riarchment as if to vie with
i the roar of thnr artillery and the crash of
the exploding el is. Such incidents were
sometimes real, but more often imaginary;
I lor
ing the meeting between Wellington and
j Blucher contains a mounted Hus.-ar band,
who arc as blaring forth a
/triumphal march lin ; honor of the occasion,
whererta the introduction of this highly ef-
I fectivr group is proved to have been an
artistic liberty pure and simple. That there
wan, however, one British cavalry ban !
present at the battle of Waterloo may be
deduced from the fact that a bass drum,
emblazoned with the royal arms and bear
ing the inscription, “VII Queen's .Own
Hussars,” was found by a Belgian gentle-
Using the bolas.
man on the Held, and taken away by him
as a memento of the day. After his death
it was given by his son to the local band
at Bcondael, where it probably payed a
conspicuous part in many village fete,
from whose possession it pa ted into the
hands of Messrs. Mahlllon & Cos., who sent
it to the Royal Military Exhibition of
1890. However, in furnishing a biief con
nected narrative dealing with the ] r sencu
of hands in battles, it will first of all be
necessary to explain how comparatively
modern a thing military music tea ly Is.
The blare, the crash, and the rousing sug
gestiveness associated with men in 1 in
strumentation were quite unknown to
Western Europe before the beginning cf
the eighteenth century, at which period
Frederick II of Prussia received as a
present from the Sultan of Turkey a com
plete Janissary band. The characteristic
instruments of those semi-barbarous
treops were cymbals, triangles and bells,
be sides 4a tine variety of drums. The proce
dure of the performers "themselves was as
follows: As near to the fighting line as
possible the bandmaster would plant a pole
surmounted by a crescent, and decorated
with one of more horsetails, according to
his Pasha’s rank. Round this standard the
instrumentalists would gather, and then
the melody instruments, consisting cf zir
nas—hard reed instruments with cup-shap
ed mouthpieces—would star! off with n
sustained penetrating squeal, the accom
paniment being supplied by the remainder
of the band shaking and clashing the per
cussion. while the kettledrums, ttnor
drums, and bass drums beat the time.
As the Asiatic performers In Frederick
ll.' imported eontlgent died off their places
were taken b.v Prussian reed and b ass in
strumentalists, with the result that it was
then for the first time discovered how
well the latter blended with the percus
sion. This, accordingly, was the genesi3
of the modern military band. For many
years, however. Prussia was the only na
tion that conducted its martial music erv
these lines, for in other armies, the few
oboes, clarionets, horns, and bassoons,
without any percussion accompaniment.
In the British Army, the Guards' bands,
first introduced in 1685. were constituted on
the non-percussion model down to so late
a period as 1800, In which year, o’.vtng to
a question of discipline, the Duke of York
sent over from Germany a full band of
twenty-four instrumentalists, equipped
with clarionets, oboes, trumpets, trom
bones. and serpents, together with a st iff
of colored meh to play the cymbals, "tam
lwurs de basque.'” and to carry a crescent,
or. as il was vulgarly termed, a "Jingling
Johnny.” as the standard of the band.
Hitherto, it should be added, the three reg
iments of Foot Guards had been the only
corps permitted to own bands, but shortly
after this important innovation the war
office granted permission to regiments of
the line to raise bands, provided that the
pay of a professional instructor and the
cost of the instruments should be borne by
the olllcers of each corps. These bands
were rarely, If ever, taken on active ser
vice, and, therefore, the regiments as a
rule marched to the music of the drums
and fife, or, in the case of the Highland
ers, to the bagpipe*. Accordingly, during
the Napoleonic wars, it appears to be ex
tremely doubtful If any of the British reg
iments engaged were played on to victory
in the held Itself. On the o her hmd. j
however, the French armies were every- .
where accompanied by magnificent hands, j
each consisting of as many as 100 per
formers. who did undoubtedly animate the
men with their stirring strains, and ■who.
still playing' in their organized units, ven
tured as near to the fighting line as pos
sible. J
In the Crimea, the British. French., ana
Turkish armies were accompanied by thjfelr
bands, but. in the case of our own
at least, the bandsmen, on arrivinjC&lr the
front, appear to have discarded^jf, e j r in
struments and taken their pianos in the
tanks as active combatents. Certain it is
JsXJJwtiflh'.'yicn the gov
ernment determined upon the entire recon
struction of the band system cf our army,
a circmstance probably prompted by the
split-up of the bands which the war had
occasioned.
The Schleswig-Holstein campaign of 186 t
was marked by an incident recalling the
French bands at the eommenerrent of the
century. At the storming of the Duppri
redoubts by the Russians, the storming
parties were played to their respective re
doubts. right through the zone of fire, by
the stirring music of the “Preussen'.ied.”
Again, on seeing that victory was his. the
“Red Prince" ordered up the massed hinds
to play aTe Deum. “In the broad ditch
to the wear of Fort Number 4 ” wiote Dr.
Russell, “the bands of four regiments h id
established themselves, and while the can
nons were thundering close behind them
they played a chorale for the day’s suc
cess. The effect was striking, and ths
grouping of the troops and of the musi
cians, with their smart uniforms and
bright instruments, standing in the deep
trench against the shell-battered earth
work, and by palisades riven and shat
tered and shivered by shot, was most pic
turesque.” Nevertheless, the experiment
was not repeated by the victors in either
the Austrian of French campaign. In
each, it is true, their full band accompa
nied every Prussian and Saxon regiment
while on, the march, but once the fighting
had begun the musicians were converted
into ambulance men pro tern., or attached
themselves to the bearer companies. Ac
cordingly, we have to wait for the Russo-
Turkish war of 1877 before finding military
bands again bringing their influence to
bear as an incentive to discipline - and hero
ism. Skobeleff was the General who util
ized them with this object, and the occa
sion arose out of one of those bloody
fights round Plevna, when the flower of
the Russian infantry had been driven from
their parallels with terrible slaughter. To
retrieve the fortunes of the day appeared
hopeless, for the men were thoroughly
cowed, and hung back when ra'.liel by
their officers. At this crisis, the celebrated
General remembered the bands of the Im
perial Guard standing idle in the rear, and
these were hastily summoned. Son ihe
strains of the Russian national anthem
burst forth above the rattle of the Turkish
musketry and the scream of their shiap
nel. and simultaneously the spirit of tie
disheartened assailants underwent a start
ling transformation. They plucked up
courage again, responded cheerfully to the
word of command,and finally succeeded in
huriing the enmy back from the position
he had won. In fact, such was the re
markable nature of the me!amorphous
from dispirited to spirited treops, that In
the subsequent attacks Skobeleff had the
hands stationed with the supports, wiier ■
they could enliven with their strains!
National hymns and marches formed th "
principal feature of the pcogtamm*, hut o<
several occasions the firing line.' fough
their way across bullet-swept zones with
the haunting refrain of a Strauss wiitz
ringing in their ears.
The short though sanguinary campaign
between Bulgaria and Servia in the Au
tumn of 188.7 witnessed the last Instance
of the employment of bands during active
hostilities, and here, too. the example set
by Skobeleff was pushed to a truly start
ling extreme. The third day of the battle
of Slivnica found the Servians apparently
impregnably posted on the steep hills in
the neighborhood of Fragoman. ,N til nr
daunled, however, the brave Bulgarians
formed for frontal attack, and Gen. Ben
dereft issued the extraordinary order that
every battalion of infantry would be no'
only accompanied, but headed, by 1 s
band playing the "DJumi Maritza,” the na
tional air. Accordingly, the charging bat
talions tolled up the ascent itt ihls fo--
mation.the bands never ceasing playing for
one Instant. A German officer attached
to tho staff of Prince Alexander of Bat
tenberg, in recording his experiences,
states that the progress of each unit could
be easily followed by tho crescendo aid
diminuendo of the musl", In the mos
exposed places the air became thin and
ragged, and the rattle of the hull is . n
the brass Ineirumt ms was plainly audible
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from the valley below. Then, when the
crest was reached, and the Servians
broke and fled, the "Djumi Maritza” swell
ed forth again in victorious volume.
Strange to relate, though, the casu alties
among the musicians were nothing like a
serious as one would have expected.
Since 1837, when the “Queeii’s Regula
tions" have laid down that bandsmen are
to be effective as soldiers, to be perfectly
drilled, and to be liable to serve in the
ranks on an.y emergency, Un
hands of British regiments have
discarded all musical responsibili
ties when accompanying their units
on active service. But there is one
comparatively recent instance—it is the
last on record—of a British military band
finding thmselves in action with their in
struments about them. At the present
juncture, the engagement at Bronkhorst
Spruit, on Dec. 20. ISSO, possesses peculiar
significance, and the details of that trerci
erously-platjned disaster are, alas! too fa
miliar to need recapitulation. Therefore, it
only concerns this paper to point out that
the band of the ambuscaded Ninety-fourth
Regiment, under Col. Anstruther, was in
its usual place at the head of the column,
and was abruptly stopped playing by the
terrible volley which so unexpectedly com
menced tlie first Boer war. The musi
cians .indeed, suffered heavily in this one
sided affair, for their instruments and
comparative helplessness rendered them an
easy target—a circumstance of which the
Boers took every advantage as the casual
ty returns will testify.
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