The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-04
JIMMY WALLACE.
Tho Most Wonderful Thing Mt Camp Wikof
from n Boys Standpoint.

Tho h1OBG WOnOortuI InlnR mt camp W1kOf
from n Boys Standpoint.
Coop GROUND. l.. l., Sept. ga day spent in
Camp Wikoff at Montauk Point is a wonderful
experience. It teaches war history that can
never be learned between book covers. and.
besides. touches hearts and arouses the i'm
agination as perhaps no other sight on earth
could do.
woman and her little son went to the camp
a day or two ago and for hours he gazed at the
strange panorama. forgetting hunger and
weariness and barely speaking word. On
the train home she asked him what scene in
particular had impressed him most. Without
hesitation he replied:
"Ohl Jimmy Walacel"
For a moment she was surprised then she
realized that from a boys standpoint Jimmy
Wallace probably Is the greatess attraction in
that strange city Of tents by the sea. She first
saw him early in the afternoon. a small black
boy. with a sweet, childish face. gazing up into
an officers eyes with adorinE appreciation.
TIL officer was saying:
Now. Jimmy. don't you d. it again. You
gave me an awful scare when they said that
they could not find you. 1 thought you had
gotten on some train and been carried off.
Don't wander far from the camp!''
And Jimmy touched his ridiculous cap in
true military style and scampered away.
Later, the woman found him adjusting his
trousers, and for a bIissfuI ten minutes She
and her son had Jimmy all TO themselves. At
RhIf his F as Tss say ju nad as saT any at an his S5stsGTs l El1e
boy might have done. But presently he lost
himself, in the glory q his achievements and
~ DID live doxn in Ta9%pS" he said but I
took me long wild dem To- Cuba"
ae s2es s6s w9 I iRas as sS' I Gidn,t 2 s sHtle' I stood
Spaniards al covered up TTiid leaves like de
sometimes dey yell out We'se Cubans.' an
den when we nns went up close dey'd fire on us.
Y{esssuIm Io an l wasn't scared. lust ran after
After a pause he went on. looking regretful-
Use gota suit Just like de boys an q gun. an
a little Spanish pony named Buffalo Bill. an q
Fur mg gS%e Sp 1 on De All Ril fS Sy get &c S 6 iiitsIGi tent gil
an'73dat's what got" with a final burst Of
The woman could not believe all that he told
her. for, he was certainly not more than 70
years old, 50 she vent up to one OF the Ninth
true. the trooper said, but he had left out one
Item be wa @3 stsb t9GShi bg thS d al 1se T re tbot wbh dto
tie lie % Sf s siS I a 3 bullet S vent clean 't Through ugh
carried b%eESE with the wounded hs said:, :,
When the woman left Campo at night she spied
Jimmy Wallace. in a side-tracked parlor car
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him from her view.
"~"Good-nigh.. Jimmy" she called. "but why
did YOU not tell us about how you were
woundedP"
Down went the watermelon and all the white
Why, done forgot dat!' he said. and again
attacked the melon.
"Poorl" exclaimed her little boy. why.
"a rather be Jimmy Wallace than President
MeKinlevl"
As the train rolled on the woman's rehec-
ions ran. about like this: Yes. doubtless that
little soldier Is greatly TO he e~nvied-the pet Of
that, army OF brave men. with belongings that
would turn the head. Of any boy, with memo
Yes. he is greatly to be envied. but, and
as she drew her tired boy to her she thought
Of the lonely little hero in his small tent on
the hill BY the Golonel's. and remembered that
he bad no folks; - his Rood;night was the
ceaseless wash Of the. waves on the sandy
shore; she thought Of the, round, dpsky cheek
unklssed save by the night wind sweeping
through his tent, and with teRr-dimmed eyes
she murmured again:
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