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Show SOLDIER GF FORTUNE PASSES World Soon to Have Little Us for Picturesque Character Whose Fortune For-tune Was His Sword. If It shall now come to pass, as It well may, that there shall be an end put to wars, the old-time soldier of fortune will become an extinct species. spe-cies. The world, of course, can get along very well without him, ana yet ho will be missed. For he Is a very ancient Institution, Indeed. He was with Alexander Alex-ander and Caesar, Napoleon, the captains cap-tains and the kings of every nation under un-der the sun wherever there was a knife to stick or a bullet to shoot. Slowly but surely, however, the ground has beencut from tinder the feet of the soldier of fortune, and now It seems that, at last, he Is to disappear dis-appear completely. lie had a good time, though, while It lasted, and Jt did last a long time, at that. For there was always, somewhere, some-where, a Job waiting for him. If things went stale on the Spanish Main, he could cross over to the other side of file world and find another banner under un-der which to fight. It was nil the same to him. which side he fought with or against. lie bad no enmities, no hatreds; he had no grudge to satisfy. His business wna fighting. The doubloon of Spain looked Just ns good to him lis the sovereign sov-ereign of England or the yen of Japan. |