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Show 1 -I....I.I....-I M.I ... ,., ,,,.1 -..,--,1, 'I Ian akmy ornefcRS Se jSift. C(ASIONAI.LT 'J1Vi "I" "ii,,V. where a something happene. 5'V fon,n"n' "' t'i'ry had irflMS!) "' usually hap- 'V.jKeKW I " ' " lift iena In some for- '-iKVfVl'w "",",'y '"r U aaken portion of "Hvis, yu .L our fnted State. fJfMffJl h.hlt of throw- K rl -rrlt.,rle. titer JAM01 f, ,n ' II -lltv of. where clvlllra. T rh"'Ta ln' VA iVIS '' ATI WB j "'"'" 'hereby TT'l den death are moat V. 1 I i ,,,:"T! eVr-A Plentiful. Accord- V, Tv I'" T ho hM to drink. Such PHnl "'Kly hen that i r hlng. -.. tint llintitlonr, aomethlng hai-iia ?-C--- R -In ! aicl. ty re.rt of somebody In Wnah- tf?. " "Sill P.r Ington aaya things Zi " ' "", lf" and somebody elan doea things "siC SihJ Mil rottld le rettmltie.l b. and behold, there spring up from aAxVj(' W 1 Ha MnA' "'" somewhere sundry happily profane inul F Kji.l s,,e ww nnaai.i .1 lth soldiery who rnrry rlvllltatlon In TW? f A7 .T ! ri",lc '"'Ib t cm- th. lr rarlrl.tges and progreaa at the ajT' aWAlti T" '.V 't mon to the army that liolnt of the havonet. Kor. In mo- TT i.Wf Wf-Wj 'til . lcwMimt of the 1 i jp iKf!ifVc.. '-"V'-rVVV"ri'.VV'5v then a hy.terlc.: -0 , splurge. Also. A&'Whi& "P 1 ' t to, eo, ,,Sk4 ultr r"Af the army the gar Tw 1 'U.?T-.a-'? ft ) landa and frill. fcJ V&SrZ'-' are accepted with sf Zjff WlSilf ' JST chlldl.h delight .lM'jtlijir v tV.if the place of the wife I. by he. Somewhere in the 'IfiZ.ffl tyJk hu.b.nd Bo with him .he plunged b torn of hi. well- iUffM W IXZP V' through the Jungle to the ramp. Hhe drilled and cleanly M1$IWa & waa th. drat white woman In the heart there la the WJfU X J I a ... ...... mi ' I place aa.l tho only other one of her lu.n.. of AyJL tfflj' kind was . mile. ..ay. Th. situ.- having dl;I10 , ,,lK m . tlon ... decidedly plcant. The hlng well and be- IMF ? - house ... Ilk. an Inverted waate- n't lnt.-n.ely ,NlJ . VwttjCriSa. I'lr buket. a three roomed bam- human. he give. V&JM X V , . ....afl 19 boo ah.ck .el up on bamboo pole., ear to the pralar A " ' ' . '':.fS Vrf One rotim u dubbed the ceatlpe- of hi. fellow cltl- 10 1 -, 'rl .T&V'X. dorlum becauae-well. becauae ev- ten. And then Hef'i. ; 1-3fht,Vv M ery time the bride went In It ahe again garland, are few. while eon- ' i , VB4i A found centledce and other thlnga re.,onal committee, are prolific JC V aT-lfifc- Y1 There were other advantagea. There The army knowa tbnt It 1. Impo.elble JJMv IUCa'-WVI Vs waa no Move and the cooking had U esplnln to the gentleman from f i 1 Bk. M iST to ba don. over hot rol. Also the hT. il!?,ndvr Po"hKeopsle. N. Y.. !W.V ... I JiWAi water had to be boiled and par- that a little brown brother, hopping in B J'4! . jj ;, TaS V boiled; aot alone the water for wd out of the bruah. fanatically dealr- flV "IS VJT5"J7 'Ij k drinking purpoaea. but o... of elawln, up an American cltlsen lAf J ' 'i A IZ for waahlng. w.m poiMineit nolo, haa little regard tUl for the federal statutes at large. And. F-iSC y of course, neither haa Sammy, Jr., the wa-jv uncommercial ntleman who haa aa- listed for reason a best known to himself him-self and whose duty It 1. to catch the aforesaid Moro, and generally clear the path for thoae that follow after. Private Sammy doea hla work and ha ' e doe. It according to circumstance., CfJT tV which are eaaentlally nonpollllcal. THC A Therefore It happena on occnalonoa yYH7 that the aforcaaid Moro la aent yelp- WOMAN Ing Into eternity and Sammy Jr. re- TMT AZ tarda himself with a pleased grin. Also, rlrcumatanrea force him to other untoward step.. Once there was a famous soldier, Mulvaney by name, who took the town of l.ungtungpen, "na-kld "na-kld aa Vantia," and who. prior thereto, helped tho department of Information of the llrltlsh empire, em-pire, with the Judicious administration of hla cleaning rod. Which goea to show that between Private Sammy and Private Tommy there Is a healthy AngloHnion understanding particularly aa regards the treatment of black and brown brothers. All this la merely preamble, but when the Moro has b-en carted away an.l the congressional committee haa committed Itself and the gurlauds are forgotten Prlvato Sammy goea hack to his own llfo, which to him Is a highly Important affair. af-fair. Somewhere, somehow, there remains In his brain an Impression that he la allowed the pursuit pur-suit of happiness and he pursues It. He does It In his own way and In divers places. Tho turbulent tur-bulent tides 'of Juan de Puca. which race by the gtin-oreated belghta of Fort Worden, have heard hla raucou. chorus; the watermelon patches dot-Hug dot-Hug the,deaolallon nf Fort Hllny know hi. footprint. foot-print. On a florid .sntlsplt. In the snows of Aluska. In the heat of the Islands, he pursues It-and It-and catchea what little there Is of It. 1 The world which praises and nlmt.na hint knowa him not, nor hla life. The tuilnt of view la entirely different. A pon.lerotia clvlllnn at i ho wli.dow of the paying teller of a local hank observed an officer In uniform standing behind him. "Well, I guess the country Is si.fe," nbmirved the rotund one, uailng superciliously at the uniform. uni-form. "Thnuk you. sir." snld the oltlcer. saluting. This ofllcer wiih a boy II. tit, mint, nn.l his sar-castit sar-castit was natural. For within his short spuco of years he bail played with the funns of death tin. I iiinde snooks ut the powers of darkness. A short time previously, at l.iiun, ho was ordered to llinl the bmlles of two sol. Hers that had been murdered. The orders Were to llll.l the bodies, io -of. 'rkmrne ..they went and .11.1. With seven troupers mid a siitk mi he pursued IiIh way llniiiiKh Jnnitle rcriib ami ch.il.T.i Inf. ht.'d Ititids. without fiio.l, ilrctichcil with rain, sleei.lng In luainps. Tliey lutiihl them. (lin whs tie. I nil vh iv.t a re.latit hill. silt, r helm: slashed with a r..)o. an. I the other ha.l I n kulf.-.l uii.l i iu-l-,. lth a pnrllnn . r his own flesh. I'resumahly the supercilious clreuiiifereniliil u ntlcinaii .11.1 nut itiow of such things ami this Is what stlnu's .hero sc. in to ho so many citizens nf the cute :ry whose I.I. at of the work of thearmv lseiiually Imlted. rnfiirtiinately. the men who do hlij .hliiKs ii.iiimt talk ill. .ml tin 'in. It follows that what the man nf the army has to uii.lt'iito, so n. list the womiiti nf the army. The autblilo world knows the army woman aa she is ant. It sees 111 her life n succession of society events and realizes not tbu horrible other side. Mere is an illustration: Some years ago. In "the days of tho empire," little army woman went us a bride with her doc- Jl S fl T1 "Thara waa ao much ilHAirNl cholera," she eiplalned. Cflwei C The, (teala were aerved eQ5 U w,u 'leUn'', ov"r Vlk xh """h"" nd bor nd J ' V h0' nl mxxai k ' 'h'1" waa the one thought '"4 .??V cholera. There wea I TJfr ohar dellghta. Tha Moroa ?J fl V J wera out. A aentrr had MT I I been boloed. The roada a, t;! M wera knee deep In mud f&tVBavyA ntf r,ln Pou', ,owo fCaf" In torrents. if There came a night E when the very eoul of her was tried to Ita uttermost. ' Th. r.ln had fallen ceaselessly, cease-lessly, pools were under the house and cholera waa unusually on the rampage. The rain came down In such gusts that ah. had to faaten down the window., thereby making tho hou.e too dark for reading purinees. So th. day long, while her doctor husband wandered about through mud an.l rain with rhlorodyna In band, ahe peered through the alata, gaillig at the bamboo palmtreea whipping whip-ping to and fro before the fury of the storm. At the appointed time ahe prepared dinner. She produced pro-duced her row of cana. la her girlhood daya thero waa a household Joke. "What we cannot eat we can." Now aa .ho gated at the canned milk. Die canned butter and tba canned meata aha wondered If she could eat all they can. Somehow Some-how or other the fleeting thought of the girlhood dnys made her choke. You see It was the rain nn.l the slnrtn and the centipedes and things which got on her nerves. Her husband came In for dinner ami nidi.'t aw.iy .iKiilii. Whereupon little Mrs. Army Womnn went to her trunk and for the first tl'tie unp.icre.l all the finery of the duvs that bn.l hem "I found a dress which I had worn nt a dunce nt the Presidio the Insl time." she snl.l. ami I cried and I cried -" lletnre leavlnit, the hil-tiati.l had pushed a chest nRiilnst the disit. Inckhii! h.r In completely, thla being dei Hied the safest Ian Therefore on leav hut he bad to cr.iwl throiich the window, and ns be InitiK on lb.- window sill she bent forward nn.l kissed htm Then she heard bltn drop with a splash Into the disease Inteste.l pools below. Alto-set Alto-set lor It was as nice a spot for the pursuit of bap plness IIS could be found. Then she went lo the loneliness nn.l the dark ntid the centipedes and cried The wind whipped the bimann pnlms iigalnst the house, the rain slashed down, she heard the llnr.ls sen. I. Iln iiround and a big one outside, In n nintino tree, culled "tuck cihi" so Hint she Jumped up In tear and alarm waiting nn.l wondering All thrmiKh the night she lived the horrors. tltlf mm mo wow ir a mfcr.Ar 7f MMMO" The atorm passed and there followed Ihe silences, weird, uncanny, nf dripping water, of moving thlnga underfoot. Ultimately she heard Ihe apla.h-Ing apla.h-Ing of kindly American boota, and looking outside aaw a wet apeclmen of private Sammy, manning philosophically up and down on .entry go. She called lo him, half hy.terlcal, and he an.wered her with cheering word.. Ileaaaiired, ahe waited for her hiiatmnd'a appearance, wrapped In an army blanket, chilled to the heart, l-alcr. when her hueband and daylight had come, ahe learned that ahe had been alttlng nppnalto a window with a lighted candle by her, offering a aplen.ll.l mark for the prowling Filipino aharpshoolrrs. This was an experience and one which the fal gentleman In Ihe bunk had never Imagined. To the army this Ignorance and narrowness Is Incotn prehensltile. The agony and blondv sweat of hiding death bad gripped him ao often Hint Private Pri-vate Hum cannot understand why Hie gentlemen who employ htm fur this class of work do not realise that there are particular horror, connected with It. Ilelng of Ihe army, he doea not spenk of them, but his gorge rises within him when fat gentlemen sn.-er at the uniform which he haa made respected. Hut he remetnhers the pursuit of happiness an.l the day comes when he Is ordered home Then It Is that the army and Its women, gathered aft. watch the walla of Manila fa.lo from then vision. The crowding thoughts chase each other across their brains, forming themselves Into memories, mem-ories, horrible and happy, uf cholera and imlsoncd bolo, ot the perfume of tlio llilalig Ihlnng and the love flourishing while the constabulary ham! played songs of home, around thu the l.uneln Kan Francisco Call. |