Show caused death of friend fried tho the returned philippine soldier shuddered as the companion to whom he was talking took out a cigarette dibacco paper and prepared prepares to roll some to jiacco in it the matter T the other asked of the soldier sold ler aro are you an i anti olgarette crank I 1 bad had always i supposed that cigarettes wert plentifully used out in manila io replied tho soldier 1 I am t not opposed to the use of the little woods weeds and in fact was a confirmed 1 smoker of them myself but some f how the sight of a cigarette paper enow I 1 now makes mo me feel sort of creepy we were lying in a trench at ono time when tho the little brown bro vu devils were bore than usually troublesome they would creep up on an us when wo we least expected it and pour in a f few ew shots and then light out to the hills again before we could get got a crack at thym them we were preparing for a big nolie no lie which it was expected would end with the extermination of a lot of natives and tho the probable pra bable capture of aguinaldo Agul naldo and nd as I 1 said before we were lying in the trenches awaiting the word to advance just jut a few feet from me was jack tracy a montana boy and a picture ol 01 health life and courage we bad had been becil talking of the coming fight and the desire seized me to smoke I 1 had flenty of loose tobacco to but no pa per give me a cigarette paper jack I 1 said sure said he at the some time rising to 0 his knoes and reaching inside bl a coat where hr kept them this action exposed his head above the trench and just as he reached forward to band hand me the paper he gave a faint groan and fell forward on his face I 1 thought he be was fooling f at prist rat but he lay so till still that I 1 crawled over to see what was the matter he ile was stone dead a fali pino bullet having struck him in the tha back of the neck severing the spinal cord card bince then I 1 dont seem to relish the sight of a cigarette paper |