The Lamar register., 1898-09-07

The business is funny one,
Its tilled with doubtful tricks,
But few there are SO handy
In changing politics.
Pueblo Opinion.
f. r. French, of the Lakiu Inves
tigator, was in town Wednesday.
Frank is quite a traveller, here today,
there tomorrow and in some other
place the next day. He is like Joe
Dillon who used to run paper at
Hartland He would go some place
every day Ou one occasion a pas
senger tram stopped at the Hartland
station, it waited and still waited, the
conductor sat down on the platform
Finally the engineer asked the con
ductor it he was ready to go, and IL
so, why he didn't give the signal TO
pull out. 20, yes,r replied the con-
ductor, Il am ready, bat Joe Dillon
has not vet shown up" What cansei
Dillon to miss his trip that day has
never been satisfactorily explained.
Garden City Herald.
-
Curley Kirk, Wichita boy who is
in the regular army at Santiago,
writes 10 the WichitA Eagle as FOL
lows, 1.-TWO months ago left Tampa
for this blasted land which we are
trying to libre. For forty Eve days
| never saw woman. Fellow citi-
zens, IL you want to appreciate wo
uiau get away from her You don't
know what the Creator did when he
performed the first surgical opera
tion on Adam. II You want to know
what grand, glorious and sugar
coated thing woman Is. Join the
army. Join the army as did See
nothing but men from morning till
night Join the army and loaf with
men, eat with men, talk with men,
help men, carry men, walk over men,
shoot men, surcor men, see tnen,
men, men and nothing but men.
Live in perpetual atmosphere OF
suppressed profanity, boot smell and
tobacco smoke and at the end OF three
weeks you would become passionhtelY
enamored with the mummy OF an
Egytian servant girl and give her an
electrical kiss that would burn three
thousand years of dried hide into
flushed and yelvety aninimation."
-.
We are not the onlv people who
have had sick soldiers Mulhall, the
highest statistical authority aud an
Englisbman. says. "In the Crimeau
war 1880 British soldiers took the
field, of whom 2755 were killed in
action, 1880 were wounded, and of
these 1916 died in hospital, and H.
$50 died of disease The same au.
thority states that Of 3Og, 400 soldiers
engaged in the Crimean war on both
sides, q, ,375 died Of disease He adds
Only II per cent OF the French army
we've admitted to hospital for disease,
whereas 147 per cent of the British
were admitted that is, the whole ar
my nearly twice over during the cam
paign, such admissions reaching 144,-
900, or 10000 more than the total
strength" From the same authority
is learned that in the Macmillan 10
vasIou Of Mexico, 1862 G6. there were
$4,000 French troops landed in AIex.
leo, OF whom llS0 were killed in &C.
tion, 2559 were wounded. and OF
these 80 died, and 1925 died Of dis
ease. During the Franco German
war, ont of a total loss by the French
of 1876, $40 men, 45, 600 were from dis
ease, while the Germaus lost 6965
men from typhoid fever alone. But
all these peoples are used to war
Last wes k London journal which
has been our friend throughout the
war contained this editorial: Those
of US who thought we understood the
Yankee character must reorganize onr
views. We have been taught to be
lieve that the American was hardy
and level headed man who could
stand the maximum of misfortune
with the minimum of complaint. But
the noise Just now being made in the
United States over the Spanish war