"VOLENS E? POI5N3"
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By George T. Uasury.
asked "Deacond"°’Bunkt^?f !j!UB Vo-’sn3 et potens' mean on these buttons?"
uun,-‘-r duf^Ke> a rest period in the gym.
around and i/one of'"yout^i““-W-T'3Sting °??’ 30 y°« fellows will gather
I' ll tell it to you-. 5?-^ " ~ *V! a ****1»*» cigarette and a match,
then contini'inp »r> ~al* f*0*- --ighcing the extended cigarette,,
spring of 1»J>.?c8,2“v’?9fd wltn &le bett? e. of New Orleans in +h»
the enemy was drtmoim' “aiii^hws- agal!I:”' the United elates "forces,
been for two days' and°nkk?« ^ rf 3 lnCo our front lines and had ’
front evert the cook- ’ casj®lfaos was fierce, every man was up in the
enforcements. General Grant^ns* worried”^co?pany °lsrka, there was no re
Washington1 s' Secreted of“ar for h«n n ' ^ §ot f “““S'* to Garcia,
ud to the li»» hl rJi 1 f V help> or g9t w-ped out- Riding his horse
is srH
:::: tr, ?*
their fm'in™. +» u- *, ? ““luted, taking care that the tip of
the rieh-*- ivf +n* ' • - + U° 151g '"‘e lower Part of their headgear above and to
„•££- f+u *Cgnt ®ye and that +Jleir elbows was cocked at an ancle of
-SV r*
~.^“doS’S.’-SS™££?meT “*>
the wirifi m « u • 1. oppouiTiO r^LCLburg a big storm came utj—
:£ bxe7.a h"rricane-tne skies turned black, for two days and n^hts
course t°°? ' Untilit flna21y blew the men end the boat miles off thei
course out at sea, and to make matters worse, thev had no food or water ‘JVPV*
was starving to death. Fellows, they was in a hellute. fix S Bid they give up’
I 11 say they didn t; they knew they both couldn't get through and that foodP’
was necessary, so-they tossed up a two-bit piece and Sgt. Volens won
waflllgv,0la0k;Jr^every payday> Ihhing a tin can, dipping it full o' sea
^ep'+he oolied lu 0V8r tne engine. Volens then picked up a monkey wrench
him dnldnScutrhed hlS haadu.him l0Si”S +Jie to3&-v’P- Volens then knocked
him cold, cut him up with his bayonet and pt him in the can of boilin- water
and /olens et rotens. Fmi shing the meal and no longer starving to°death
+ ® thetmhlt0 reaCl3‘H’^ “d deliver “is message to Garcia in time, thanks
. t ® bde sacrifice of -pi. Charles V. Poter.s. IV.is noble deed'was a sav
lng for a long time m the Army ana -/as finally commemorated by being put on
the buttons, 'Volens et Potens’p on
.. "dub>" Shunted "Irish" Rogerson. "But that's the do-jigger in the mid
die with uhe two crossed sticks mean?"
. I++ » 1Vhy *I^Sh,,J and y°u here in -Alaska for twenty months and a
butt . in at s a camoilaged coal sack with two busted snow shovel handles »
stated Pedro scronfully. * ’
i a 'Fal1 +n+-f' cried "hQYmy" filler, the Top Kick, thus ending Pedro’s
lucid dissertation. a
APROPOS OF THE HAINES ELECTION:
Poll-- "Did you really vote for me, old timer?"
Tician— ’’Yes. I was the one."
-Punch Bowl.