Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-12-02
A TACKLE IN TIME
A Young American Football Player
Too Much for a Mad Filipino.

A Young American Football Player
Too Much for a Mad Filipino.
Charles Bryant Howard contributes
story under the title Of "a Tackle
In Time" to the st. Nicholas. Mr..
Howard tells of two young football
players who were with their father,
sea-captain, in the Philippines:
Suddenly, amid clatter of wheels
on the rough pavement and the bewil-
dering babel of Spaniards, natives, and
Cinnamon, the boys noticed a louder
sound up the street, which increased
as 1t approached to shouts and yells of
excitement or fear; the people stopped
and turned their heads; somebody
shouted ''Uno loco a madman!" and
at that everybody began lodging into
doorways and fleeing around corners,
as if possessed by deadly terror.
What is it?" exclaimed Jack.
BLESSED if / know" said Harry;
"some row up the street, / guess. Let's
wait and see what father does
And then they saw strange sight;
a half-naked, Misunderstanding Fill
ipino" (native) tearing along the side
flourishing in one hand a soldiers belt,
with a heavy buckle-a very service
able weapon in accustomed hands
while the people made way for him
right and left in mad haste, tumbling
over one another, with shrieks and
screams of fear; evidently he was a
soldier from a native regiment, who
had been sentenced to punishment for
some misdemeanor, and having man.
aged to escape, was endeavoring TO
reach the native quarter of the town;
he was pursued at some distance by
native corporal and several soldiers
and guardias native policemen, whose
shouts of "Cuidado, Para look out!
| Stop him)r' added to the general up
/ roar.
| The boys saw their father turn quick.
! ly and glance toward them, while the
old Spaniard shot into a doorway with
amazing swiftness; then the captain
faced the native again, and swung his
thick bamboo cane aloft. Down it
came with all the strength of his pow
erful arm-whack.-and the belt and
stick went whirling away in the air,
while the runaway, after a Stagger,
changed his course slightly, and came
flying across the street toward the two
boys. They heard their father give a
warning shout. Harry instinctively
sprang in front of Jack, and, not
knowing just what was the matter,
but feeling that the man ought to be
stopped somehow, he proceeded to do
so in his own way. STOPPING quickly
with bent head and outstretched right
arm as the man came rushing up, he
tackled him around his brawny
waist as he had tackled many an op-
ponent on the football field at home,
and almost expected to hear the ia.
miliar roar Of applause from the spec
tatOrs as he and the "Filipino" came
down with a crash and a whirl of arms
and legs, rolling over across the hard
sidewalk till they brought up with a
prodigious thump against the building,
the native struggling atop: but in an
other minute Jack had hurled himself
atop of him, involuntarily shouting
"Held!' as soon as he could catch his
breath.
|, AT tuiS point referee turned up IN
the shape Of the big native corporal,
who promptly grabbed the deserter
and yanked him to his feet; holding
him, wrthing and kissing, in grasp
of iron.
"Buen muchachos Good boys)w said
the great brown-faced soldier. 'In.
gleses (English)"
mo, amigo; Americanos," answered
, Captain Hale. who had now arrived on
, the spot, still minus his stick.
, "Por supuesto (of course)," grunted
the corporal. ~ might have known It.
, senior. This is the worst man in the
, regiment; he would have killed you IL
he could. Cobardes tcowards)r he
growled at the gaping people, who
a were timidly peering from various re-
treats. "These two American children
are heroes, and you-carabaos (tame
buffaloes)" And with that expression
, Of contempt, the worst that can be ap
piled to a Philippine native, he twisted
/. one powerful hand in his prisoners
q long hair, and marched him off to COO