Exciting Experiences in Our Wars with Spain and the Filipinos (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...(That's the sound might make men wish they were at home, Hear the rattling Maxim, barking rapid fire), See her loom out through the fog with bows afoam Then some will wish for land--They'd be sand fleas in the sand Or yellow grubs reposing in the loam.--James Barnes. A STIRRUP CUP. A Song for the War Correspondent. A HEALTH all round ere the last bell rings, Ere the signals shift and the whistle sings; There's a moment yet while the trains delay, We've turned life loose on the world to-day On an unknown quest for East or West, East or West on the unknown way. For some went South when the Cuban rose, And some turned North to the Yukon snows. By sledge or steamer, by mail or freight, From the Koord Kabul to the Golden Gate, We've gone the rounds of the world-wide bounds, From the Hoang-Ho to Magellan Strait. We stood by the guns when the impi broke, And the field glass strained through the whirling smoke; We scrawled the dispatch by the thorn-bush fire, Then a hundred miles to the telegraph wire A ride by night, from the field or fight, A rattling scoop or an Angel Choir When the bucks broke loose from the tribe reserve, We sketched the scalping, and saw them swerve When the pistols cracked and the rush was stayed By the crackling line of the News Brigade. Up the Peace with the Plains Po-lice-In the Alkali hell our bones are laid. But if o'er our hearth stone hovers The glory of sacrifice--We will make to the East no moanings, We will make to the West no cries. The big gong clangs from the depot wall; The whistles shriek and the signals fall; Around the curve and along the bay--We're out once more on the open way. East or West, or cursed or blessed, We've turned life loose on the world to-day.--Frank L. Pollock. The fires of conquest...