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Show a"" ' ' '"'- - "'V'ST ..-.- 'P Next to Church n I'tinUli'iuent, f A group of army ofllceriiwoii talking rcr experiences nt the (irnnd hotel ' one evening lately. 'ITTere wanaUo a linrnl oulcernnd two or three Chilians In the group. Thp nntnl lillieer had ttold of going to Mccp Ih chinch at AunnpollH, dreauiliig tfint lie watt fulling full-ing out of a huggy, and nwal.eiihig to find that his dieani danle near enough 41 ha tl uth to net hltn ten drinci It murks. ("That makes me think of an episode 5nt one of the western nriuj posts roiiic ,cara ago," snld I'. C .meii'iiB, of Oniii-ha, Oniii-ha, on'c of (he eh II In its. "I ivn not one if the victims, hut I had tin' story from one of them. The enptaln at this post wits n religious man, and eer Sunday he neut all the prisoners hi the guard-room guard-room to church. Tlie clinplaiu was ery long-winded, nud the prlnonern rcticllcd. They finally stircpcdcd In getting a hoard of Investigation to liHik Into the Inntter. The hoard derided, de-rided, nftcrduc hixcstlgatlon, that this part of the punishment wan not allowable, allow-able, In that It was not oah 'uiiunial,' hut also 'cruel.' " "Thnt will do for u civilian," laughed tho nulcers, mid two of them left tho hotel for thu theater. -N. Y. Trlhuno. |