Show FROM FIELD chicago daily news jack says it is worth it ifa he means that the seventh heaven ot at blissful adulation in which he now moves and hats has his being is full ment for the th e soaking nights and the dusky marches the hardtack hard tack and even the mauser bullet wound in hla his shoulder which has sent him home on a furlough do you know what it means to A lot of butterfly girls who have courage to stick a hatpin through a caterpillar to have a real live man who has been through a real battle and been knocked out by a real bullet descending sc in their midst can you imagine how they would act then you know why jack is the most contented matt man in chicago today there was a shriek of derisive protest when kirby stone atone enlisted months ago jack always had a preference for well served meals and expensive clothes ool cool drinks and the various luxuries of life and his friends move around him in admiring but puzzled circles today and shake their heads unbelievingly never had my clothes off for fourteen days said jack last evening from the midst ot a bevy on the lili days front porch A chorus of interrogation what was the use went on the hero of santiago if I 1 got lein cm off I 1 get em on an again they were too soaked say if you could have seen tommy Vander chump one day you know kilow he hes in my company have died he had just juat gut nicely seated on the ground with a tin cover of a meat can balanced on one knee holding three beautifully toasted boasted hardtack k some crisp bacon babon and beans and his coffee beside him when along came one of these ugly land crabs which are so thick down there unless you are prepared for them they are apt to make you think you are seeing things well mr crab poked his nose under tommys tommas arm tommy gave a yell jumped scattered sea everything spilled his cr offee and when we looked the tableau presented tommy staring openmouthed open mouthed into the distance where was vanishing mr crab wobbling along on his stilt like I 1 legs S triumphantly waving in the air one oneat of the toasted hardtack hardback looking for all the world as though he were saying thanks awfully old fellow fell oiw see ee you yo later was stephen crane in a trance or did he really know what he was talking about when he wrote wrate the red badge of courage 11 asked the girl in the hammock really said mr KIrb 1 I dont know you see when the fight was going on an I 1 was too busy to notice I 1 whether the scene lied up to stephen or not we were after the blockhouse when I 1 got hit bit and they walked back and forth on me till a dead spaniard fell on me and saved me the only good deed of his life I 1 warrant and that happened after he was dead concluded the speaker cheerfully but what did the girls care for logic and sequence of thought and such things 1 I know one thing said mr kirby stone with conviction as he arose stiffly and thea that Is IN it if frederick fx ae rick remington the artist ever gets back bach alive it will be because fate has some special al home grown kind of death picked out tor for him I 1 saw him away ahead of our firing line perched on ia a rock rack calmly making macking sk sketches etche while the spanish sharpshooters missed him simply because they were dazed at his carelessness might I 1 have a drink please 9 teri ten girls all made a dash for the door at the same instant and left jalk jack on the porch parch with two men these gentlemen looked at him solemnly then reached over and shook hands when I 1 ask for a drink howen van broke the silence plaintively they SELY say oh you know where the glasses are and bring me one boo howell dear well they sut tinly was good to tn me sang mr Kirb aggravate ag gravat angly and only his bullet wound saved him from being pushed down the veranda steps it is a great thing to be a hero |