The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1899-04-28
WHILE FACING DEATH
GIRLS AT HOME ARE WELL RE
MEMBERED.
what Man Doe. for I've Tears sung
the Ey~nds when One Pictures
Circumstance Undsr which some
Messages Were inditsd.

when danger 80 encompasses a man
thai death stares him In the face AZ
every turn. all his thoughts might wen
be expected to be OF himself; but az
such crisis he generally thinks Tess
OF his own peril than Of the wife or
sweetheart whom he has left behind
him. A graphic illustration OF what
a man will do for love was given dur
ing the Kaffir wars Of half centure
ago. A small advance party OF white
men were cut on from the main BODY
by a horde OF natives. who seemed To
grow magically out Of the adjacent
bushes Realizing that they were In
a death-trap. the six men fired steadilf
into the thick OF the advancing Kaflirs.
but one by one they dropped dead ana
finally young fellow named Dixon
was the only man left standing. While
the air around him sang with the hight
OF assegais. he scrubbed something In
his pocketbook thrust the point OF
spear through the leaves. and threw
his message far out over the heads OF
the Kaflrs. when. 1--WE minutes later
the other white men rode up and scat
tered the natives right and left. they
found that pocketbook on a rock and
marveled that their comrade could
have written such message. II was
prettily worded letter TO his sweet
heart, in which. after telling her how
much he loved her. he said that she
was on no account to stop away from
the ball for his sake. Leave one dance
blank and I shall be there In spirit
TO take IT," he concluded. Then came
few quiet words OF farewell to his
comrades. and request that they
would deliver the letter TO the girl OF
his heart. Every year pathetic letters
telling OF disasters at sea are washed
up In dozens on our coasts, but the
stone bottle found by Yorkshire fish,
erman last autumn contained lines OF
more than average interest. Cheer
up. sweetheart Hannah-I was never
good enough for you" said this curl.
Gus billet-douX. and II would appear
that the mariner had barely had time
TO finish II and cram II into the bot
tie before the ship went down. for
hif signature was broken on In the
middle, and Hannah's address was not
given at all. Tears sting the eyellds
when one pictures the circumstances
under which that touching message
must have been written. One can al
most see the rough seaman laboriously
printing the words which were TO con-
vey the sad news TO his sweetheart
and patiently wettlng his thick pencil
so that the marks Il made might not
be easily washed away. Not good
enough for herl Why. a queen might
take the hand OF such a fellow and
consider herself ennobled by the
match. Proud Britons are wont 10
wrlggle In their chairs when Majuba is
mentioned; but they should bear In
mind that. even In the midst OF their
humiliation. many soldiers bore them
selves calamity. Pretoria man tells
how one young fellow, when disabled
by wounds In the thigh and the arm.
sat down In full view OF the trlum-
plant Beers and scrubbed letter.
While his comrades were peltlng past
him to safety. he wrote endearlng
phrases to his sweetheart In England.
and carefully prevented the blood
which was oozlng from his arm from
falling on the paper. That letter was
picked up after the engagement. and
would have been dispatched TO this
country Ions ago had the finder
known where TO send IL. but the gal
liant young soldier was shot dead ere
he had finished writing. and his mes
sage was so trampled on by ruthless
feet that II was scarcely readable one
sentence, though. stood out plainly
from the mud that smeared the paper
II was this They'll down me soon.
pet, so for my sake. look after the old
mater; father doesn't care" Alasl
that that pet and the old mater should
never have known how their beloved
soldier laddle sacrificed his life In writ
ing TO theml-RivAl.