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Show U ARE DRAM FROM EVERY ILK OF ' LIFE Will Critchlow, Jr., son of Recorder William Critchlow of this city mentions, men-tions, in an interesting Jetter to his mother, a series of most notable facts regarding his life In the army and takes time to show that drilling did not take up the time wfiich should be used for thinking. Young Critchlow Is sorry to say that the army has not yet lost all its old traditions, as foulness of life and filthy language are far too common a feature jof the "rookie's" life, even of that rookie who had a decent home and (good training but who succumbs to 'the Idea that he has not attained man-'hood man-'hood until he is able to curse profuse-, . Iv and to f linr his moral character lo 1 the four winds. "But 1 havo some rather distin-j guished friends in my battery," he goes on. "One night, not so long ago, after! all the lights were out and most of I the boys were soaring (or Is It snor-ilng?) snor-ilng?) in the pleasant land of dreams., a little group of six, Including myself.: were hugging the stove in the dry 1 room (where we dry our clothes) and . in undertones wo swapped biographies. One of the fellows hailed from Alaska,' a gold seeker with wonderful tales to tell. Another was an Instructor in a high school in South Dakota. Another came from Boston. Another hailed from England. One from California, and I from Utah. Sergeant Bdnnett of California is an Arctic explorer. He has made eighteen trips into the great unknown. He was with Slephanson's crew of 125 men who left for a sixteen months' sojourn in tho Polar regions and returned, with eighteen men who survived the scurvy. lie was also with an expedition that tried to find a passage from the Pacific lo the Atlantic Atlan-tic oceans around Hudson bay that party of millionaires with a specially built ship who got stranded in tho Ice and were rescued by a United Slates revenue cutter after they hnd enjoyed a little fast. You perhaps remember the incident. "Though the company is interesting, no re-enlistment for mine," says the Ogden boy |