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Show FOR MY BONNIE ANNIE LAURIE Lieut. Fiscus Comes From the Philippines Phil-ippines to Wed Miss. Wheeler. If was only a short time ago that the country'- was filled with the praises of the name of Miss Annie Laurie Early Wheeler, daughter of "Fighting Joe" Wheeler. The noble young avo-man avo-man had given up her lovely home and renounced the world to go to the bat- . tlefields and act as a war nurse by the lde of her fighting father. Miss Wheeler's heroism was dwelt upon and many confidently as.ertej that the I young woman would henceforth devote de-vote her life to deeds of charity. It was thought she would join the Red Cross and in time become its head. But Cupid sly little winged fellow was at work; and a few days ago Washington was startled and delighted delight-ed by the news of the engagement of the young woman; to this was added the intimation of an almost immediate wedding, thus removing from the ranks of high u.efulness one who had been its proudest ornament. But Washington is intensely domestic. domes-tic. It is a city of homes. No nation in the world has a capital so filled with families as Washington. Intrigue may exist, but it is frowned down and the example set by the White House is the I one that is admired and followed, j Therefore, Washington, while it mar-! mar-! veiled at Miss Wheeler's change of 1 plan, thought it well done, j A WAR ROMANCE. ! It is one of those pretty love stories j which will extend the list of war and diplomatic romances, and it will have J its culmination during the early sum-i sum-i mer, when Lieutenant W. W. Fiscus come.i home to claim his bride. I Miss Wheelor, who is the youngest I daughter of the general, is a charming young woman with a face as beautiful aa her name is poetic. She has recently recent-ly returned to the United States from j the Philippines, where she has been I with her father, administering to the : wants of the wounded fallen, with a ! sympathy that is in tender contract to the progressive campaign conducted by the veteran general. Lieutenant Fiscus is still in the east winning laurels upon the battlefield which are rewarded with personal com- j mentations and medals for meritorious service, but he will soon secure a leave of absonce and sail westward to America Amer-ica to claim his premised bride. The friendship of 'Miss Wheeler and Lieutenant Fiscus is not a recent one; nor a battlefield romance. They have been Iovera ever since the young man was a cadet in West Point some years ago. During that time the Wheeler boys were also receiving their military education at West Point, and there waa a mutual attraction between the Wheeler brothers and young Fiscus which resulted in a life-long friendship between the young men; and a feeling inexpressibly stronger grew out of the frequent meetings between, Mr. Fiscus and Miss Wheeler during the former's visits to his schoolmates when the summer vacations came. But nothing was whispered of this attachment between be-tween the young people until the outbreak out-break of the SpanashrAmerican war in 1S9S OFF TO WAR. At the first call to arms young Fiscus eagerly responded, and was one of the first cadets to receive a commission. He served with distinction throughout the Santiago caimp'aign. and became popular in Cuba, as well as at home. Th? war -denartment heard of his unflinching un-flinching bravery and constant alertness alert-ness in the heat of battle, and promoted promot-ed him to the Philippines. The tihought of separation was, however, how-ever, too invincible an enemy against the young man's Silence, and so, when he went to bid the wheelers goodby before leaving for the war, he managed man-aged to whisper into the ear of the fair young daughter the s'tory which secured for hiro the promise of her heart and fcand. When the Red Cross expedition was organized to go to Cuba, Miss Wheeler joined the corps of nurses and eerved several TnoTDths in the hospitals ' stationed sta-tioned at differentt parts of the island. Here her skill and kindness of heart brought her into 'a prominence entirely separate from that-which she enjoyed as the daughter of a distinguished general, gen-eral, and her name was immediately associated with those, .Of such grand women as Mire Barton Miss Margaret Aster Chandler and others. When the Santiago campaign was ended MitH Wheeler returned to America Amer-ica on board the Olivette, and again, for her though tfuilneiss and care f the sick, she was known as "The Angel of the Olivette." So highly appreciated were her services to their wounded by J ffri Y Miss Wheeler Has Forsaken Her Vocation Vo-cation of War Nurse For That of Matrimony. the women of Alabama that they gave her a magnificent silver service, elaborately elab-orately decorated' and engraved with her name and events of the hospital corps with Which she was prominently connected. Mli-s Wheeler is a very accomplished young woman, fond of athletics and society, but tfhe loves best that work which will most advance her father's pet hobby and keep her near her future fu-ture life's partner when he will need her meat that of nursing sick soldiers, tihua rendering war as humane as it is possible for it to be. |