The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-08

-"A s==- on account of his fathers services in the militia since 1863, but more particu- larly because of his own worth and ca pacity, he had been assured of Q con- mission sooner or later.
 Now, when you're expecting a call to arms at any moment, and when you're young and full of courage and enthusi- asm, you're likely to read the news concerning camps and warriors With unusual interest. Young Adel and his friend Sanford read that Woodland had voluntarily relnquished her chance of serving the nation. It didn't occur to Adel to condemn or approve. He only set his cup down, and, looking across the table at Sanford, said:
 T bet could raise a company in an hour to take it's place.
 Why don't you do it?" asked his companion immediately.
 Adel's coffee was about to fulfil it's manifest destiny and go the way of all good coffee. But again the cup was set down and the young man started for the telephone
 He called up Adjutant-G General Bar rett, and the adjutant passed him with the military open sesame to Governor Budd's telephone, whose number is one of the mysteries no civilian and very few even of the martial elect may pen- etrate
 II can report at Camp Merritt with one hundred and twenty men, mostly ex-members of the militia, on twelve hours notice Governor" said young Adel. Give San Jose chance to take Woodlands place.
 Y will let you know in two hours" said the governors voice finally over the phone.
 Young Adel's coffee was never drunk. There were things to be done in these two hours. The man who organized the forty-minute company was nor the man to sit idle planning what he would do at the end of two hours should the governors decision be favorable. He would do first and plan afterward. The company should be formed imme- diately. If over the wires should come disheartening NO the loss Of time and money and heart would not com pare with what might result should the word be Yes" and two precious hours | have been wasted.
 T ran down to the fire house." said Lieutenant Adel, in telling of the for l nation of the speediest company in all l Uncle Sam's army. T had the militia call sounded-eleven taps, three times. All the old mlitiamen understood the l signal, though they hadn't heard a word of the story. Hundreds of men | gathered about the fire house, wonder | ing what it all meant: some were the men wanted, many were not But ev- l cry man who heard the news was at | my disposal immediately for any ser- | vice l might designate. The whole | town was mad with enthusiasm. Eve- l " man in it was animated by the spir- l it of patriotism. We felt it to be an 1 honor that town like San Jose should have the privilege of furnishing two | companies, when bigger places compe- | ted with us. Men volunteered as mes | senger boys, as clerks, as aids. There was no service so small or so great that they were not willing to render, if only we could get that second company"
 First Lieutenant Adel is a tall, straight broad-shouldered soldier of about twenty-eight. His sun-burncd face is strong and resolute, his dark hair is close cropped, his brown eyas are clear and smiling, He was working for his father in San Jose, whare he
 was born and went to school Adel
 senior had retired from business, and l this only son of his acted as bookkeep-
 CT and general manager of the cid
 mans affairs.
 But all thought of business had
 slipped from the young fellows mind l The only business, the real business of
 life just then, to him, was to get to be
 a soldier; to organize that second com pany for the glory of Uncle Sam and
 San Jose, and to get it done so quickly
 and so thoroughly that the rival towns
 of the state should forget envy in ad-
 miration.
 Two capitalists and a school teacher became recruiting officers. Of course the whole town was engaged in recruit ing; in hunting up men who had beer | so inconsiderate as to go about theil
 usual business at so unusual a. time as
 this. But Mitchell Phillips, F. c. San | ford and H, G. Squires were the three
 specialists. Captain A. P. Murgotten
 of the California Rangers, Company K, i acted as adviser-in- chief, even handing | over to the potential lieutenant num- | Der of men he had been collecting tG
 form part of another company. Byror 1 Willard began posting bulletins under
 the direction of the omnipresent Adel Of every hundred men who looked anG
 read, ninety-nine constituted them | selves pnmODittanc nf tp SnPna6 thf