Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1892-04-09

have a rest for my gun on the breas
work, and when the order comes I,
fire [ cannot miss him. He is liy
ing his last minute on earth! w,
are calmy waiting until our volley
shall prove a veritab]e flame 0
death. Now they close up the gaps
and we can hear the shouts of theil
officers as they make ready K
charge. My man is still opposite
me. lie still seems to be looking al
me and no one else. | know the
word is coming in a few seconds
more, and [ aim at his chest.
could almost be sure of hitting him
with stone when we get the wore
to fire There is q billoW of fame
"A billoW of smoke-a fierce crash
and 1000 bullets are fired into that
compact mass of advancing men
Not one volley alone, though that
worked horrible destruction, but
another and another, until there
was no longer a living man to fire
at.
The smoke drifts slowly away
men cheer and vell-we can see tho
meadow beyond heaped with dead
and dying men. We advance ou1
line. AS we go forward | look for
my victum. He is wing on his
back. eyes half shut and fingers
clutching at the grass. He gasps
draws up his legs and straightens
them out again, and is dead as ]
pass on. / have killed my man!
Ny bulle5 alone struck him, tearing
that CHASTITY wound in his breast:
and [ am entitled to all the honor.
DO | swing my cap and cheer? Dc
[ point him out and expect to be
congratulated? No. | have nc
cheers. [ feel no elation. [ feel
that I murdered him, war or no war
and that his agonized face will
haunt me through all the years OF
my life.
Half Human, Half Monkey
A most remarkable malformed
human creature is now detained at
the barge office. He arrived in this
country recently on the steamship
Kaiser Wilhelm IL, of the North
German Lloyd Line, says the New
York Times. He is the son of John
Ginsler, a Hungarian, who is also
accompanied by his wife and four
other children. The party was
practically without funds Asked
where they were going they said to
New Nork. They were taken to the
barge office as persons likely to be
come public charges, and Will IN ali
probability be sent back.
The eldest child is named Her
man. A stranger creature has
never been seen in the barge office
where strange creatures are by nc
means SO rare as In other places
His mother says he is ten years
old, but he does not look, judging
by his size, to be over three years Of
age. He wears roughly made
dress with a long skirt. He was
taken into a private room and ex-
amined. He was a REVELATION tC
the examiners. He seemed as
lnucn ape as nunldn.
In the first place the child's face
has all the characteristics Of the
face Of the monkey. The general
contour Of the head is ape like
The forehead slopes back ward and
the chin receeds abruptly from the
lower lip to the neck. The head is
small, there being little difference
between it and the neck. The eyes
are sunken in the head and are
never at rest. The hair in the
center of the forehead reaches down
almost to the nose, which is broad
and fiat with over dilating nostrils
The mouth is tremendously large
with powerful jaws and teeth shar1
and very large. The ears are very
small and fiat.
The trunk Of the body is as small
as that Of a two-year-old child, but
is muscarly developed to an un
usual dagree. The arms are un'
usurally short and the legs are very
long, absolutely monkey-like il
formation. The boy. If boy he may