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Show CnWBOY HOPES SOULS OF WEARY Reformed Adventurer Works in Buenos Aires Neai ihe "Backwash of World' BUENOS AIRES, Auc 1. (Cor-responde.nce) (Cor-responde.nce) Qn a stre'eti n Buenos Aires which m ght be palled the back wash of the world Judging from llv human derelicts cast uu front every stream and every land, a North American Ameri-can cow punouer of the old wesi 1 conducting a rescue mission where hungrj children arc fed ami tirej souls are comforted. He bj John Calvert dC bohun. who sa.vs he ".was born on the hurricane deck of the cayuse" in Mexico. Mex-ico. Cowboy, Jockey wanderer, and fln-all) fln-all) ordained mlnlstei doiiun s lite has been such us to tnaki b in one with the dead wood th.it drifts Into his mission, as he tells his story and his redemption to i.odli.v and spiritual health B parallel to that Ol Bbtns k-his k-his people. There wai a time, he says, when American Whiskey wa- no longer enpugb for him so that he satisfied his appetite with Chinese whiskey, which Is like drinking mixed turpentine turpen-tine and banaiirt oil I T N M LI REFORM Mid through the years came glimpses to him o( something better A touch of remorse rj Vustralla, a g.oii example In Europe the sight of a woman who reminded him of one h used to know " the liifluenci of Esther Da mi en who gave his life to the lepers of Hawaii and who was s loved that there was scarcelv ;t dry cyt In gi.g shop or ship's eubln from Manila Man-ila t Melbourne w hen he died, suv h things made hlni wonder. And ftnallv WOm and world -knowing when h drifted buck to that New Brfexlbo from Which he hail started ami found ' 'loni the l"vll preaching instead of running run-ning the Old gambling gam. and saw others follow in bin steps Bohun says that the light came to him 11.- b came a minister. Kohnn's mission Is located In a building something In appearance like San Antonio's Alamo, anil w 1 1 ii a his-ton his-ton as eventful as those who repair to it 1-tullt for a Masonic lodge man J eara ago. It has been variously dance bail, gambling house, headquarters of the Black Hand In Argentina and IS, now a combination church school, or-i phnn's home and first aid to the mor-allv mor-allv Injured Ml i II ( II INGE SINCE In 'he room where c women and men drank and danced now there are I religious services In Spanish and be-; tween times children, seldom less than ina of them, ut lunch or supper. Children of sVery race and religion' are fed there other work of th ml-slon ml-slon Is with lepers, and with old men' and women. The mission of which Bohun b))bk chargt about four years! ago. Is not maintained bj an) organization, organ-ization, hut is held together by free will subscriptions. When Bohun talks with a visitor.' I wilh American w h knows Ihe w est, his referen'es to his i work are mingled with spontaneous! tales of 'hard riding and hard shoot-, ing men Of John Wesley Harding, tor Instance, the frock-coated gambler1 of 1.1 I'.s,, who. Rohun s.ivh bi, Pd 14 men but ' was everv Inch gen- tleman and always killed with regret of Calamity Jane, whoso story was bound up wiih the tight between law nd things as they were that desolated ' Tombstone Arizona, oi Moro8b, king "f cuttle thieves, of Wild Kill Hlkok. 1 who met his end at Dodge Cltv , and I of many more who made the west a place of romance. Minister though he Is. he Is still a cowboy, bent on getting his herd safe into the final roundup. |