THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 190.1.
Special Box Coat Offer at $4.98
A very etjlish box coat with tlie new cape effects, lined through
out, the new flat stitched collars. They come iu all the correct
Sale of Ladles', Misses and Children's Hosiery
Boys' school hose stoutly made, medium and i Cp
heavy weight, worth 25c, at tW
Ladles' Misses' atid children's hose plain fine and
heavy ribbed, some fleecy lined, others lisle threadmany
double soles and spliced heels 1 Oty ft IQn
on bargain square, at W gvlVL
a, U VUllWlfc
4.98
fall colors a special for
tomorrow
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Swell Coats and Suits for Wintry Days
The newest ideas in the swagger long coats are here in great variety.
quote some very attractive special values for Saturday.
SPECIALS IN ULTRA STYLISH LONG COATS
Smart new long coats with two
capes, stitched flat collar, new
pouch sleeve, thoroughly lined,
come in all colors, 42 inches long,
Bargain Sale of Leather Goods
We P n
e:m mmi,
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Am .SUrak
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worth $12.50
tomorrow at. . .
8.98
$20 Long Coats at $12.50 The
fashionable long winter coats,
guaranteed satin linings, new velvet col
lar and cuffs, with the smart military trimmings,
made of heavy English kerseys.
easily worth $20 each.
12.50
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very smart Long Coat at $24.50
Made of flue Ribelines, English kerseys, Montag-
nacs, etc., with the military stock collar, bullet
buttons, lined throughout with guaran-
teed lining, a very stunning wrap
at
24.50
6.98
Novel Box Coat Special Made with th new double capes, satin
lining, new flat collar with velvet trimming, the large
sleeve, at-
Specials in Ladies' Winter Suits
Suit Special at $12.50-Very styl- A Suit Special at $19-Choice of
ish suits, made in all new cloths and assortment of fine suits in beautiful
cut in the most favored styles, worth new shapes, including 70 swell sample
na hirr.i nn Jio.-t Mp, -g mat -x Buitt that have nave- been
tomorrow JLaa3
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THOUSANDS OF THE FINEST HAND BAGS,
AUTOMOBILE BAGS, CARRIAGE BAGS,
WRIST BAGS, ETC., AT ONE-FOURTH
THEIR VALUE.
A big bargain chance for Omaha shoppers. One of the greatest manufac
turer of fine leather poods in the east was unable to fill further orders and
called In seven traveling men from the road. Ho disposed of these seven
lines of sample leather goods to us at a remarkable reduction.
They are the latest designs in real kid, levant,
real walrus, real seal, alligator, snake skin,
lizard, Morocco and pig skin some fitted with
genuine cut glass smelling salt bottle, card
cases, and change purses.
Frames of these bags are German silver, genuine gunmctal,
oxidized and copper, finish, etc., beautifully embossed, col
ors are the new poppy reds, rose, French grays, light blues,
modes, wood browns, etc., a remarkable opportunity to buy
now for Christmas fifts, worth up to $3.00, at
49c-59c-69c
Big Sale of Purses and Pocket Books at 25c
Hand purses and men's money purses in fine leathers, some
with two pockets, made in fine chamois skin,
real seal, alligator, snake skin, etc.,
worth up to 75c, at
25c
Artistic Millinery t Very Special Prices
Some of our most handsomely designed hats will be offered tomorrow at
remarkable values. Saturday will be the Millinery Bargain event of the season
Unusual Bargains in Handsome Trimmed Hats.
Splendidly trimmed hats Including
an espaolally fine line of black
bans and toques.
We must clear t-W
them a way to make room for new wJ VV V
arrivals. Thoaa formerly gelling at lV
$3.00 - tomorrow In the 4 i tfrl ' " v V Ll
basement and millinery I 111 I f f -- , v T 3f ?
Trimmed hats formerly p A nVJ
Bold at $7 basement and J 11 J '01 'feC ' "
millinery floor kmmJJ ytfufiP
Fine assortment of street hata In f yi''J'
the latest ideas and smart designs jVV2'tr
basement and millinery 4 f jr f , IllLy'
floor worth up to $2.3Q I U t V
goat 7. I JV
duplicated, ttome worth up
to 40, at
19.00
Exclusive Modes In High Art Suits
Superior grades of artistically made suits, the most exclusive shapes, no duplicates, made In
velvets, broadcloths, zlbellnes, etc, not a suit In the entire
assortment worth less th. n $60, some worth as high as $70
and $75 only a limited number ol them at
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BIG PICTURE SALE SATURDAY
$3 Pictures at 98c Each
A remarkable picture selling event for Saturday. These
pictures have been displayed in our window and have ex
cited much admiration AVe have never offered such an at
tractive picture bargain in our store. The pictures include
20-inch circle pictures 20x24 parlor pictures
16x20 new oak mission framed dining room
pictures 3 combination batted oak mission
framed game and fruit pictures yard pictures
and an immense assortment tk fv.
of odds and ends worth up H ) i vs
to $3.00
ON SALE SATURDAY AT
The New Trimmed Fur Hats
A special display of mink, Russian squirrel, etc. These hats have underbrim of
fur, some have fur crowns, draped with silk, velvet, etc., and trimmed with
flowers, foliage, laces, etc. They would easily bring S Cf i
$10.00 to $12.00, our special price ' 8 ( 1
for Saturday .w. -A A
Pompons, wings, quills and breasts, entire sample line of an
importer, at
TOMORROW IS CHILDREN'S DAY
Children's Trimmed Hats Flats that
are neatly trimmed in rib- rt,
bona, quills, wings, etc., at I VC
10c
Children's Dress and School Hats, elab
orately trimmed In the prettiest new tr
ideas for Juvenile wear, I
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at
tlrt Special 300 nklrts at a -J f Y
reduction a real 14 "
Oolf Skirt
trreat
ktrt at.
Children's. -Coat Specials
Child's kersey box coat, worth $3.00, 1.50
Child's 13.50 Long Melton Coat.' worth k 4 QQ
U60, at .i i
Child's Lone ZIbellne Coat, worth $6.00, 3.Q3
ChUd's Long and Box Coats, worth V-tt, .4.QS
Dress Skirt Special 185 fine dress A ( Q
skirts, many lamples, mada to sell vj
up to 110, iu one lot
Specials in Furs
Near Seal Jackets, worth 3S, at $24. SO
Krlmmer Jackets, worth 69, at ,..,$35.00
Fine Otter Jackets, worth (145, at , $98. OO
Genuine Seal Jacket, worth $250, at... $149.00
Doubla Fox Scarfs at $4.98
Double Raccoon Scarfs at $7. SO
Choirs of a fine lot of Scarfs, all different
-rare and styles, at..................... ,....,$9.98
$15 HALL RUGS AT $5.98
A fine assortment of handsome Axminster and Moquette
hall rugs. These are in new designs and are remarkably
attractive. The 6izes, 4-6x10-6 and 4-6x12. They would
be excellent value at $15.00 each, Cl W f mfS
as long as they last Saturday, ' &
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Great Book Sale Saturday
A tremendous assortment of popular books goes on sale tomor row. This u
an opportunity to buy Christmas gifts at a great saving. All these boohs are
well and firmly bound.
Copyrighted Books at 25c An immense assortment "of regulation
copyrighted books, such as Dodd, Mead & Co., Scribner, Street & Smith, Sou
venir gilt top,"Coates Edition, etc., some handsomely illustrated, -
worth up to $1.00 and $1.50, special bargain, at wOv
Books for Boys and Girls Gul-
lirer's Travels, Swiss Family Robinson, Black
Reauty. Grimm's Fairy Tales, Arabian 4 1
iNiKnts, Kooinaon urusoe, Anderson s
Fairy Tales, etc., Illustrated and well M. Kj
oouna, worio euc, at
Standard and Popular Novels
at 7ic Merchon & Co. 16-mo.,
cloth bound books bv standard mmm
autbora, also popular novels, mada rC
to sell for 20c, at &
Children's Story Books Five Little Peppers, Dicky Downey, Beauti
ful Joe and hundreds of other illustrated books, worth up to
$1.00 each, at....
25c
EVER ON A RUNAWAY TRAIN?
If Kot, Bead Th'i and Bea How Ton Think
You'd Like It
tOOKING DEATH RIGHT IN THE EYE
rirtmaa'i Story of a Traim Oettlaa
Away la a Paaa la ColTado -I'rsbSrm
( Jimplai or
Not Jamplaaj.
How it feels to be lacs to faoa with
death. looUng the grim monster in the
tym at such closa rang- "tht rather thin
holt' the yasa on will taka as an only
chanca some thin a that aeems to put the
nd of thlnga for this world only a little
further away, Is not an easy thins; to de
scribe. A good many persons have wondered how
it feels to eo out into space front the cab
of a locomotive going at a rata anywhere
from forty to flfty mllea up because of
a conviction that the chances of Ufa are
greater by taking such a leap than by
remaining oa the seat of the cab and tak
ing chances with tha machine. To make
such a leap Into a level or grass-grown
right-of-way Is something that would
maks an ordinary man hesitate somewhat,
but a great many have made it and made
It sucoeesfully. To make such a leap out
NOT A STIMULANT
BUT A CURE'
of a runaway engine that is descending a
stretch of track such as the Midland has
down Ute pass, however, taking chances
on landing against a granite boulder or
tha slda of a mountain, against a rock
ribbed tunnel or over the aid of a precipice
over which no one could go and live, it
is even a little more strenuous, but this
tha feat that Engineer Frank Watts
and Fireman James Brandeberry performed
recently, and both men are still alfva to
tell tha tale.
Tha fact that tha airbrakes would not
stop tha train dawned upon Engineer Watts
soon after crossing tha safety switch be
low Cascade, As is well known to per
sons familiar with tha operations of this
road, every train that cornea down Ute
puss, regardless of how lata It may be,
stops at Cascade for Inspection. Tha run
ning gear of tha train Is inspected, the
brakes are examined and tested, and four
different men have to sign a book that
says tha train is In shapa to make he
descent of tha pass safely before the en
gineer is allowed, to pull tho throttle to
start his machine on its downward journey.
As a further safeguard against runaways
tho company haa a safety switch built on
the aide of tha mountain about a halt mile
below Cascade, and before any train can
have the main line to make the descent the
engineer must whistle for tho trsck, when
'Uncle Jimmy" Taggart, one of the best
known characters of tha mountain around
this vicinity, turns the switch and opens
tho main Una. If tha engineer falls to
whistle for this switch his train runs up
ths elds of tha mountain and ' nee-saws"
back and for on tha switch tnil the
main track until U comes to a stop at the
bottom of tlie "sag."
- Trtttia Beyond Control.
some Nerve Remedies Stimu
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Is th B3oM wondrful prrparatlo la th. world.'
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ara ahoal aot hasltala. but laka KbttVAN.
Th.y ran.w Vigor and Vitality la yoang and ld.
Toa a.vr lur aarthlng baa worda ol Praia tor
tharn from popi h bav triad Um and aaow
tb.ir worth.
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aiona anaolicii:
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auMllrlu aa aartk. . ar both galatng la lull
thd alranglta. W both ehar-rfully r.utuiuad N.rva
labl.ia to tha aufferlug kuiuaulty aad aal.ly Toutk
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or otbar lujurtuu. InKraUiauta
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Maiuory, diftculty In ronautratliig your thoutfUl,
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. tal ha.k. a4i.. atoul4 aot drlay. but taka
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lAHl tllf Itey will .urvly cur ou.
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Frelgnt No. 43 last Monday evening jauaed
Inspection at Caspar and srcurntl tlie main
track at tha f)fy switch. It was not
long theifatr, huwoviir, liat Enginoer
Watts, In recharging air brakes, made
the halr isislng discovery that hl.t train
s beyond control. His brakes were not
of sufficient por to wlthruuud tha power
ful weight of his sixteen cars of gold ore
and lead and silver bullion, and there was
no reasonable expectation that tha train
would remain on the tracks through the
first tunnel of tha eight that lay .between
him and tha level track. If tt should by
any miracle past the first tunnel, the next
curve and there were curves everywhere
down that stretch of track would probably
precipitate the train over the side of the
embankment to destruction.
Fireman Brandeberry, as he tells the
story now, says: "The train was Inspected
at Cascade by tha regular Inspectors and
everything appeared to be In perfect trim
The last safety switch Was paased with the
train under perfect control, stealing nlowly
and safely down tha mountain side. It ran
as usual until we had covered about three-
fourths of a mile, when the engineer
thought he'd better recharge his air brakes.
There Is a certain amount of loss of air
In running the train, and It is necessary
from time to time to recharge the brakes.
'If this is not done the brakes will lose
(heir grip on the wheels. This recharging
process requires nearly three minutes and,
with the terrible weight of tha train (we
ere bringing down this time, gave us a
terrific Impetus. When the brakes bad been
recbaraged the engineer applied them, but
there seemed to be little effect. He ap- (
piled thara again and again, but it was
of no perclptlble effect whatever. Tou may
Imagine that wo were feeling mighty un
comfortable just then, and we had to de
cide pretty quick what we were going to
do. We simply sised up tha situation as
best we might and derided that we had
a chance only by Jumping from the cab.
and a email chance, and that the rest of
the buya on the train had only tha au:e
chanca wat we had. When as made up
our minds to make tha leap, we had stayed-
with her for three-quarters of a mile and
knew that aha was wild and that every
second lessened our chances; Watts made
the leap ahead of me. When he jumped
we were on a straight stretch of track
and ha was fortunate enough to strike
tha ground on a gravel slide. Ha went at
least twenty-five feet flat on his stomach,
and I thought still less of my own cbances
when he bad made the leap. I think it
was about twenty seconds later that I
followed him. I hit a bank of disintegrated
granite, on tha upper side of the track.
rolled over and over for about thirty
feet and how my head kept in connection
with my body is something I will never
know. I realized that I was rolling far
ther down the embankment all the time
and that If I didn't stop, I was going
under tho wheels of the tialn, sura. I
grasped and reached for something to
stop ma, but caught nothing. When I
realised that I had stopped sliding and
rolling my head was swimming and every
thing was black aa night before me.
Sitting- t'p and Thinking-.
"I couldn't tell until after the whole train
had passed whether I had been ground up
beneath It or not, but I knew that I was
not dead. In a few seconds, although they
seemed hours, I realised that the train had
gone, and I sat up. There was Watts about
sixty feet behind me. also sitting up and
looking at me. I don't think I cried, but it
was not because I didn't want to. In a
moment we remembered that the engine
that had helped us down from Leadvllls
was following and we flagged It. From that
point down to Manltou we made a slow
run, expecting ta find the train piled up In
some ot the canons along tha way and to
have to carry the remains of the rest of the
boys down to Colorado City with us. We
were forty -Ave minutes making tha run to
Colorado City, Our surprise at finding that
there had been no one hurt In tha wreck
that wa found there was equaled only by
our surprise at being alive ourselves."
Ao investigation was held at the
office ot tha superintendent at Colorado
City. Thosa present were the crew of the
wrecked train, tho superintendent of the
motive power, the traveling engineer, tha
air brake expert and the general superin
tendent. The main reason for the cause of
the wreck brought out in the investigation
was that the train was composed of so
many foreign cars with low braking power.
An explanation of this Is that the braking
power of tha foreign cars is only from 40 to
(0 per cent, and that of the home cars is
from 70 to 90 per cent, the difference being
due to the fact that foreign cars, as a rule.
have comparatively level roadbeds to travel
over, while the home cars are adapted to
the steep and curving tracks of the moun
tain sides, when toe foreign cars are
placed on the mountain roads and loaded
heavily and the air brakes being about 40
per cent of the weight of the cars, they
cannot be applied with nearly the force of
those of the mountain cars, whose braking
power is about 80 per cent of the weight.
This train was composed mostly of for
eign cars. We have descended the same
mountains over the same roadbed with
just as many cars aa wo had Monday morn
Ing, but never with so many foreign cars'.
The road had been very careful not to have
too many cars of low braking power on the
same train, but they will bo much more
careful now that the accident has occurred.
Colorado Springs Telegraph.
REASONS WHY THEY DESERT
Esldiers iu Garrison Olaued as a Very
Sentimental Lot
MUSIC MAY START A QUITTING EPIDEMIC
Deadly Work of sv tither in tho Phil
ippines Loto and Grief aad
Homesickness Among the
Leading Causes.
An old sergeant of the regular army now
staUoned at a New Tork harbor post, who
fought the Bloux under Crook and Custer,
helped to chase the 'Pacha Kid and did his
trick In tbs Philippines at tho beginning of
the row down there, recently delivered him
self of some of bis own Observations on the
desertion question. Ha has soldiered In
more than fifty posts and has known bat
talions of deserters.
'There are plenty of reasons besides those
given by the boss soldiers in their reports
behind desertions from the army," said the
old sergeant. "I am not speaking of pres
ent conditions, but of desertions In normal
years. .
'In tho first place, desertions become epi
demic in certain posts, and when one of
theae deserting epidemics sets in nothing
can stop It short of switching the whole
outfit to another post. Some years ago one
of these deserting epidemics began at Fort
Sheridan, near Chicago, and lnulde of less
than three months nothing but the skeleton
of the command was left. They quit In
squads and sets of fours, good men as well
as roughs and no-accounts.
That epidemic was started by a layout
Of bad and unpopular officers. One domi
neering or unjust officer In a post can cause
more desertions than bad rations or crucify-
Wants .lodgment Set Aside.
A petition has been filed in the district
court In the caae of H. K. Cochran against
P. A. Wells, as administrator of the exlule
of John P. Johnaon, deceased. It is a.aij
that the judgment of the court In thla cas
b set audio, on the ground that th rase
was tried In the sIxhuii a uf the defendant
and through mltke, fraud and nilaun 1-r-aianding.
It is aliened that tho juim-nt
of the court will work Injury to tha de
fondant at.d thxt be aliould be permltlud
to be preoeot, wiuast thu ease ta UUd.
SUITS THAT SUIT
the season, the wearer, and
the wearer's purse bear this
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J 1519-2 Dougla. Street
Ing fatigue duty. I once knew a little runt
of a shavetail Just out from West Point to
cause thirty-two men from ona cavalry
troop, stationed In Arlsona, to Jump th
outfit within two months after he'd Joined.
"The deserting epidemics ara started by
caures that would seem mighty trivial to
outsiders who do not know what an emo
tional, not to say absolutely sentimental,
lot soldiers In garrison are. The minds of
soldiers In garrison ara easily played and
preyed upon, and when a few of them hap
pen to go up In the air at the same time the
thing becomes Infectious, like getting re
ligion at a camp meeting. For example,
there are always more desertions from the
army around the holiday season than at
any other time.
"There used to be a very widespread,
but hopelessly erroneous idea among
American army officers that the presence
of a band In a post contributed to the con
tentment of the men and made the wabbly
ones less liable to desert The Idea's been
punctured. It Is well known that the mili
tary band, Instead of keeping men from
deserting, sctually causes many of them
to desert.
"The musio gets at the hearts of the
Impressionable fellows and It tells a-plenty
of them that they are making hashes of
their lives by sticking to the uniforms of
tha buck army private. Next time you
get a chanca Just watch what's-the-use
expression on tba faces of the soldiers
listening to an evening band concert and
you'll get a better understanding of what
I mean.
"Soldiers In barracks ara la fact queerly
affected by music, particularly muslo of
the moving and tender sort. For, instance,
we had a trig outfit of moderately con
tented and fairly healthy men In the little
Luzon settlement in the Philippines where
we were quartered, until a fellow with
a slther Joined the company.
"He was a windjammer trumpeter, that
Is to say from French Canada,, and when
ha transferred to our fit-out ho brought
his slther, l a big concert-grand Instru
ment from Austria, along with him. The
things that that French-Canadian boy
could do to and on that big sither were
curtainly sinful, not to say devilish, and
even us old relics of the bucklng-and-gagglng
days bad to either duck out of
tho sound of the kid's musia or And our
selves gulping and coughing a lot.
Tnoagnts ot Homo.
"He'd spread tho thing out on his bunk
o' nights, between supper and tattoo, and
he'd no sooner make tho first swipe at the
strings and work In the tremolo stuff than
the boys 'ud knock off gassing and begin
to look serious and thoughtful. Every
once In a while, while that slther muslo
was going on, you'd see some fellow, a
burly ruffian aa like as not, slinking out,
so's not to make a show of himself before
the outfit.
"Iess thst two weeks after that boy
with the sither began those nightly per
formances we had twelve men In the hos
pital, down with nothing else in the world
but nostalgia, which means homesickness.
And If you've ever picked up the notion
that nostalgia, as it's called, Is merely a
harmless and boobylsh disease, I'll men
tion that two of these twelve men died of
It. The boy with the sither put It away
then and never played on It again until
we were on our way homo on the transport
and then it didn't matter; the boys were
coming borne.
"The well educated men who drift into
the American army cause desertlona Nine
out of ten of these well educated men are
failures In civil life. In spite of their good
education, and In nine cases out of ten
they are perfectly useless as soldiers.
Almost without exception they are
grourhy, grumpy kickers and korxkera.
"When they bud themselves in the army
with lUUe show ot getting out again
without deserting, tho majority of them
choose that alternative. Those that stick
through their enlistments develop into bar
rack room chaw bacons, and make the
other chaps discontented, and then tha de
sertions begin.
"Tha reappearance in a post of a former
member ot the outfit, diked out In happy
mufti rags and exhibiting other evidences
of prosperity, always haa tho effect of
creating ouch envious discontent that de
sertions result from that slight and foolish
causa.
Visits of a I port.
"I belonged to a troop once that was sta
tioned at the Presidio of Ban Francisco.
One rjt our men, a bright fellow with a
pleading way about him, and a skilful and
Inveterate gambler, caught on as a main
faro dealer in a big Ban Francisco gambling
house at the wind-up of his second enlist
ment. It wasn't long before he bad an In
terest In the business himself, and he made
money fast.
"All togged out In expensive clothes, and
wearing diamonds, he used to drive out to
the Picaldlo behind a fast and stylish pacer.
In a trig and tidy trap with yaller running
gear. Well, after a few months, the com
manding officer of the Presidio had to re
quest that' ex-swaddle, as a special f-tvor,
to cease his visits at the post. Desertions
by tho doion were traced to those visits.
"Tho bunch would look their former mat
over and get ambitious all of a sudden. If
he had made such a rattling good Job of it
In civil life, why couldn't they, too or, at
any rate, make some sort of a stab at It?
They went out of the Presidio gate, not to
come back any more, In sets of fours, Just
because they had seen, the visible signs of
the prosperity of a man who had formerly
bunked under the same roof wllh them.
"The death of a cherished officer, or even
of a very popular enlisted man. Is often
liable to start aa epidemic of desertions. In
the far northwest, at a dinky little two-
troop post, there died a first lieutenant who
was enormously prized by tha enlisted men.
This officer died of too much drink. Ho
was a fine man and a splendid soldier
never was a better soldier man anywhere
but the drink bad him, and It took him. The
men,, though, didn't think any the less of
him for that, although they all felt pretty
sorry for him, for the drink was a tlilna-
that had got beyond him.
"Often, when he was officer of the dav.
and I was humping my guard post in the
middle of tba night. I've taken that officer
to his quarters led him quiet-like by the
arm, and hint not saying a word, but Just
submitting like a young 'un. He'd be
prowling around the post In the dark.
dased, and not able to take cara of him
self.
"But he was a fine man a grand athlete.
too, until tho drink sapped him and he
was to square us bucks of tho barracks,
and fought our battles in tho teeth of the
old man and always won, too. He wouldn't
stand for anybody Imposing on us, and
Well, as near as men can get to loving a
man, I guess us fellows loved that good
man and square officer.
"Pretty gulpy layout, we were, son,
when we scraped out a hole in tho hard
frosen ground for that ons, and tossed blm
Into it, and fired the volley over him, and
listened to the blubbering kid of a wind
jammer sounding taps. Ths desertions
began the next day.
They ml axed him. They said that the post
was not only lonesome, but uncanny, with
out him. When, a month later, tho fit-out
was shifted to the southwest, wa were not
much more than one troop. Instead of two-,
and tho cashing In of an officer with tho
heart and the glszard of a sura enough maa
was the cause of It.
Transfers Canso Trooblc.
i.llln. nf tha transferrina of out
fits, that, too. has got to be taken Into con
sideration ss a cause, ana. ia too aggre
gate, a big big cause for desertlona Maa
j who enlist in a certain part of tha country
for aervlce in that same section don't Ilka
to make a long shift to a different pagt with
another climate. Mora desertlona result
from the shifting about of regiments than
ever appear in the figuraa,
"Boldlers that get mixed up with women
outside, the post gates ara particularly lia
ble to desert when their outfits are ordered
away. The soldier rarely has the funds to
pay the woman's way to the new station,
and he doesn't feel like leaving her, and so
there's only one thing left, and that is to
duck.
"Any old country looks good enough to
soma soldiers who become Involved with
women. The most aggravated case of that
kind I ever saw, and I've seen a lot of such
cases, happened when the layout to which
1 was attached was about to leave tho
Philippines.
"With us was a snappy, hustling kid from
Kentucky, a boy about 22 or so, who got tho
corporal's chevrons right soon after he took
on for bright work In campaigning, and who
had all tha makings of a fine soldier. Pact
Is, he was in lino for a commission.
"But he got mashed on a pretty Filipino
girl, the daughter of a Filipino comman
dants, and when we were ordered to Manila
to take the transport for tha statea ha
couldn't sea tho thing of leaving her. I be
lieve they had been married, or something
like that. Anyhow, when we went to
Manila, this Judgment-lacking fool boy
stayed with his Filipino woman.
"But he did something oven mora foolish
than that. When 'the old man sent a non
com, and some men back after the kid, he
was locoed enough to Join the enemy. In
stead of Just taking to the buttes and stay
ing there for a while, until the search for
him wss over.
They got him by the time our transport
reached the statea D'ye know whst that
promising, good-looking boy from Kentucky
Is doing now? He Is doing ninety nlna
years on Alcatrax Island for deserting to tho
enemy the court-mart lal's sentenca wss
death, but It was remitted..
"Did you ever happen to take a peek at
Alcatrax Island T Not Well, most men
would prefer death to aven ten years there
but ninety-nine years on ths rock! Man,
let us pray to bo good!
"And to think of a white boy, from Ken
tuckyboy with a hesd, not to mention
biceps letting a skinny, mop-haired,
pigeon-toed, rice-powdered Filipino glri
land him for a dose like that, oven tt her
eyes were fine!" New Tork Bun.
Watch for the mis-spelled worda they're
coming.
Mis-spelled words next week.
If you can spell, you may win a prise.
Watch Tha Sunday Boa,
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