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Show Military Bearing of Americans. H "Tho day of tho Swift boiler ox- H plosion," eald tho doctor, "I was call H od hurriedly to look after tho wound H ed. I notlcod as I drovo up dozens ot H teamsters sitting erect on their wagon H seats with their arms folded looking H over stolidly toward tho turmirll about H tho boiler houso. In somo wiiy their H position and bearing reminded mo of H artillerymen sitting on caissons when H tho batteries woro scurrying forward H to go Into action. I have no doubt I that most of them wero soldiers or H sons of soldiers. I havo noUccd fro- H quently workmen engaged no sew H buildings sitting on wheelbairowB in H tho samo way. I have noticed cow H boys In Montana sitting their horseB H or bronchos with arms folded. Why I fold their arms? Becauso of tho fixed I habit that camo with four years of ''I war. tl "I havo been called here in tho city 'I to seo patients and I know they were I men of soldier habits the minute I en I tered the room. You pass any ono of I tho hack stands In tho city and you ,1 will notice that some of tho men sit I orect in their seats with ami folded I waiting, while others lounge. There ' I is soldier blood in tho folded iims. I iP am not the only one who has noticed k all theso things. Matthew Arnold and '(jS other observing Englishmen and Uer ! man soldiers who have trnvo)a . through tho soveral states nil haio Pm remarked upon tho unconscious mill " 'Am tary bearing of Americans, frforto ane, B South. This Is not tho result of a Ilk , a mM ing for military life, because there if '' ! no such liking. It Is a habit, hide 2fl pendent of nnd distinct frqm.puy ton IM dency toward militarism, tfiTl is worth ' 0 study." Chicago Inter Oclan. jM 3 " t-s-- |