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Show I RELIGION ENTERS II BORDERREGIMENT El Paso, Tex., Sept. 30. In the great army of guardsmen from all the states scattered along the Mexican Mexi-can frontier, there Is one regiment that stands apart from the rest by reason of its individuality. The others are more or less of the same mold, with the same manners, speech, slang,, songs and Jokes. But the 2nd Kentucky Ken-tucky Infantry goes Its own quaint way, unaffected by rag-time, foxtrots, vaudeville jokes and sensations of the Sunday supplements. "In no other regiment could you cee a thing like this," Bald one of ltB officers. "A long-legged, long-armed 'lanky sentry, swinging his rifle from a shoulder, squirrel-hunt fashion, while with his free hand he held a testament, testa-ment, which he read to himself with a weather eye on tho colonel's tent he was ordered to guard." The idea that military regulations with Interfere with his devotional du. ties, never entered the head of the sentry, the officer explained, adding that he had in a sentry a soldier of old fighting stock, who took his call to arms in tho Bame seriousness as he took his religion. .Texfecond Kentucky is encamped with the Kentucky brigade on the aage brush, plains back of Fort Bliss, Blx miles from El Paso. Its rows of ihaki tents and other externals are quite like those of all other well regulated regu-lated camp. But approaching the lines the stranger is likely to be surprised by a cordial greeting from the sentry to come in and make himself at home. It is the old tradition of mountain hospitality. Officers of this command say that no other regiment in the service can show a muster roll of men whose Americanism goes back two centuries. Colonel Allen W. GulHon, a Kentuck-lan Kentuck-lan and -West Pointer transferred from the Twentieth United States Infantdy, affirms also that no guard regiment boasts so many old regulars. Soldiering Soldier-ing comes natural to the natives of the Cumberlands, accustomed to bear arms from boyhood and hroucht nn in fighting tradition. 1 "No squirrel, no breakfast," otlll is a fact, and not a joke with many of these mountaineers when- at home Thls-acountB-for-the.excellejuehnta the men become ofter getting used to the high-powered army rifle. They can hit moving targets, which Is a thing that soldiers, trained on the rifle range fail at The mountaineers brought with them the reputation of gun fighters that Is not altogether pleasing to them. It Is true that many of the men come of families celebrated for -feuds. But the feudists belong ta tho ilder generation, before "moonlight" "moon-light" schools carried reading, writing and new Ideals to the mountains. The sons of tho feudists are interested only in 'being good soldiers of Uncle Sam and of honoring the Kentucky brigade. They are a quiet, business like lot of men, these mountaineers, good natured but with n large intermixture of -seriousness. At night 'thoy-. gather around log fides and sing hymns in low tones, with one of their numebr as evangelist. Whenever they come together, their speech is quaint with Elizabethian words and pronunciations, pronuncia-tions, including the ancient pronoun "hit" for "it" Relations between officers and men are bo friendly that one officer, used to the discipline of the regulars, said tJaeywereJo-m.uch,so... But thero is' - . ,t- scarcely an officer who can not claim J kinship in tho ranks. So, after all. L they are in a way one large family Tho men say they enjoy soldiering tac and have no complaints to make not even against the climate. rJB |