Show JOINING THE NAVY LOY AL MOY BOY TRAINS IOB I OB sax SAM 5 9 SERVICE sERvi cr leaves nis hla gill at Iti hivala vals deicy but she remains faithful and freezia rree zia the inter johei out tho the bov was with mith life in the beall counti count i town toku until lie he saw the picture of a man ot war har in eveia Ameil Amet leau cau hoy boy s heart la is some thing about th ill picture it if one oil of our floating fighting machines that taita within him ill all the torrents toi rents ot of latent and love JOVO of a rood feht and this hi la boy was no except exception fort to tile the rule relates the minneapolis lilburne but to want ant to enlist v was vas as but the mere beginning of the boys bov s actual enlistment chete wert werf obstacles to overcome ills ilia father was vai a business man and had nude made other plans lor for his hon bon the village told a few jolly ones about people retting getting seasick to the bunch of tinie time brokers booher a behind ills ibe lia gainess liess shop and the cur ly haired wonder with the blight eye on the main chance who mho pushed dry goods 9 ds across the counted tor for the in spec tion of the town toan belles belics made a mental calculation that with nith the boy out of the way may a cert certain atit birl would have three dinote open nights a week which ich lie he might help to fill A aa tor far the girl bhe seemed to take things very quietly in fat fa t so BO quietly that a shrewd observer cr her ot of home borne inside information which gave her mind tills this peace the curly halhed dry goods juggler as a little more discon disconcerting certini three nights a week eek was as a big open ing to leave and four vears ears a long lille to be gone but blell ho be resolved ved to fiust to an all orbain it il scheme which had bad flashed across his mind when tho the of leaving the alil had bad first presented itself lie went ment to talk it over with tile the girl acts yomo somo moie calculations B U halt interest in it a pertain certain pimp erous little hardware ectore batore waa as discussed a little house too just across hom the girl lived was aas mentioned and the girl thought it aks ws awful for anyone to marry at 18 anyhow then thea must have been a prom ise perhaps a scaled promise some thing anyway the boy left the house with a happy look and the curly halted ity goods whose net weekly income had about as much show of bilsing above eight dollars a week as a new york insurance diree toi tax hag ha of reaching for mole was effectually erased from his thoughts three days lati eatn i tho the boy went ment to minneapolis ile he passed a good ex and was sent away to fria cu co the feame night with mith four other bos bo a with mith the same ambition and destination the boa bo was mas sent shortly after to tho the training ship the loun boys at acif taught all soila bolts of f thins things necessary essaiy to make tapin lef cm r clint seamen jot 1 01 instance he be wrote that lie was taught to sew hew canvas balice tape lope make knots F etc te 1 ahe l lie boy bov haipt his eyes open and boon saw raw diat dial it lie would mould be able to piss tho the examination lur seaman aich would give him mole moie pay and open the wa aa to promotion ills his division bulter en ell him in ili this effort as well uell as some a of the bright bos and it wont ont be long before lie he obtains his hia new late about the time of at his ex ek am illation the new cruiser california mill be commissioned this ship Is a fine example of the new ar armoure ct cruiser of 13 tons displacement the boy has hopes for a place pace aboard this latest product of the union lion works where also was built tile the famous biegon especially as ab blie bhe will be in ili the ablatico leet fleet it the clouds of wai gather above china and bleak bieak into a storm the boy will bo be there to take tahe part in ili it and acquit himself as minnesota boys alwa alwag a do in the meanwhile the he cull cuil haired beginning ot of a mainhall Maie hall bield finish had bad been lis as astute as the tox fox not foi fat a month did he drop around to wake make ills hla call not he for that lie be was too better b bv far to let the butof sight bight out of mind theory prove itself and allow tile the pangs of the boys to ameliorate in the iho fair cues one s heart then one night lie he lost himself in one of broad shouldered ts that make mahe J jeffries Jeff rles look hk u bad case of in Iti growing development changed tile the ends of his cults and dropped wound just casually as aa it A maje when he sat doyn in the lie he noticed several pictures of the yubi buena island bland I 1 tattling station on tit thi piano arid and the belt around the lin alst aist hot boie e in fit old letters lettera U 8 E fa pensacola when bhe turned to chow him sonic picture portals from frisca lie he also observed her collar was aas fastened b a pin shaped U S N and above the mantel piece which he han haft thus far failed falier to bee was the flam photo of a young sailor around which somebody had bad draped the americal Ameri cai call flag iho curly halhed one saw sav lie he bad made a false stait slait wid aud teil izing sadly badly that id 16 and 7 made 23 took the foryt opening for a quiet exit As he mournfully traveled up the lane he gat gai e one farewell glance backward tha blind was aas up a little in one of the windows and through the opening he thought he aaa thra the girl elteto elt sit thyr tto at a desk busy with a pen or of courel he wa walont ut sure for the blind was raised just a little and ho he dian didn t caie anyhow |