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Show NAME BRANDED ON HIS BACK. Army Lieutenant on Frontier the Vic-. Vic-. tlm ot Singular Accident. Time was when It was a rather corn-man corn-man practice for soldiers and sailors to have portraits of their sweethearts tattooed on- their arms and breasts,' but I never heard of more than one man who has his wife's name actually burned into his flesh with hot - Iron. That was Lieut. Blank I dare not use real names, for this is a true story and the Lieutenant (long sinee retired as a Colonel) and his estimable wife are still living. It was at a frontier post many years ago that the young officer met and wedded wed-ded the popular daughter of a ranchman. ranch-man. Her name was Sarah, but In the West in those days It was almost a mark of disapproval not to reduce a person's Christian name to a single syllable. syl-lable. William was always Bill. Henry was Hank and In the same affectionate way Sarah was always Sal. Quarters at that post were primitive and accommodations few. For Instance, In-stance, when the Lieutenant wished to take a bath he heated the water on a little "Universal" wood stove in the kitchen and performed his ablution in an ordinary washtub. Well, one very cold morning he had filled the-little flat-top stove with wood, making a rousing fire, not only to heat the water, but to counteract the.wtntrj gusts that sifted through the- cracks and crevices of the kitchen walls, i Then, having poured the water Into I the washtub, he threw off his bathrobe and was preparing to enter the tub, when, losing his balance, he fell back, ward and sat squarely upon the red-hot red-hot top of the low stove. i. It doesn't seem necessary to say that he didn't wait for orders from Washington Washing-ton before getting up. Indeed, he assumed as-sumed personal command of the situation situa-tion as quickly as he could and scranr bled to his feet. But the deed was done Irrevocably, Irremediably done. He snatched a bit of looking-glass from the shelf above tha sink and s backed toward the little window fl Va-spectiorr. Va-spectiorr. ' - ' w Need I go further than to say thai the top of the stove bore the name, "The Universal." In great raised let ters, and that the Lieutenant had sM upon the final three of them? Brooke, lyn Eagle. , . J |