Show NOT LIKE ROMANCE THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE IN REAL LIFE differs differ in many material respects from the heroes who figure so prominently in the pages of novelists Nove liets richard harding davis and other writers of lesser note have haie cast a glamour over the title soldier of fortune n which possibly bl applies to certain victims of wanderlust and loie ione of unusual adenau tint but which Is a nor hor misfit to the only individual the writer e ever er knew whose many adaven tires bv b held field and flood and beneath a half dozen flags properly placed him in the 3 of cap macklin Mackl ln reil red saunders deis and others known to readers of fiction sans a writer in the atcha son globe sim sam chalmers was the name our soldier of fortune to those who ho asked he was the homel homeliest hom eliest lest man we tie ever met a large slouching looe jointed crea ture lire who looked half man and half gorilla ills feet and hands were too large for lifs his big body bod and he be handled both as it they the were something of a burden ile ie was dl ih faced had bleary ei eves es and the complexion compie ilon of a tan shoo shoe after ou on have haie worn it through dewy grass chilmers chalmers was aldava dirty and usually drunk druel a nan man without a vis ible redeeming personal feature and little mental attraction but he had accomplishments he knew enough of the sea to make it carr him where he would and perhaps something more he could speak emeral languages and i a half dozen nithe dialects including tint that of new ew yorks i ork s rast east side ilde the hardest to 0 o understand under where he claimed to ahlie bai e originated at some in definite nite late in the past ile he seemed to haie bae a knowledge know lede of all the ports of all the seen sols seas and could when hen lie he would tell int costing tales of fighting buiu aulus S in so soila in africa irl ca b hush is h men in australia piraeus off on the china cont coast and beneral strange and creatures in other outland lh ish americans meri caris frimd 1011 I 1 tin m in an isolated filipino on the island of lei lete te and he be slid said he be had been taken prisoner oner when he carne came ashore from i hemp ship hip the natives said he had been a captain of the inqui igent gent army and perhaps he had although he be denied it for otmous reason 1 at any rate he an officer with them for patriotism or low for he be turned american scout and fought them with nith a lust for mood blood amounting to savagery lie ile was anas urae brane as the bulldog is be ause it knows no better which seemed to be his on fiatt in common with ith the other soldiers of fortune of whom we nita have hae read later I 1 iler p in mi int t him a s cord ile on a jammer at nagasaki the sea as home to 10 chain ers and he onla quit it occasionally to fit fi d a I 1 fight and a more conNen convenient lent to get drunk lad had chalmers turned to I 1 file tie land instead ot of the ea a in his barbei ears he have bae ended is anin a corn mon tramp As it vas aas lie he is i a tramp but of 0 a more uncommon kind it is tramp instinct which makes soldiers of fortune although perhaps some of nt them moie maie fortu nate do biear ear white bile duck alilis and pith but the onla on one e v ae e en ever er mot was not en cri classy class 1 and he kind of hoai boa our gur faith in capt macklin |