The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-30

should crown his manhood with great
works and wealth and ease and affiuence
and all that men long for and strive for
should be his. Leona listened half doubt
ingly to the fancies Roy painted of a
golden future and she babe him good-by
and he went away. Juanita, Neb., was
the scene of his first endeavors away
from the home which had sheltered him
through his brief years of boyhood. There
he worked on a farm, that calling near
est to his hand but he promised himself
it should not be for long. He would do
better than that when he saw his way
clearly. Then came the call to arms
for the Spanish war and Roy Sutton
thought his chance had come Like Put
nam he left his team standing in the
furrow and FASTENED to respond to his
country's call. His mind was filled with
high ideals. He knew not what this en-
listment might lead to, but other men as
unknown he had climbed the ladder
of fame through the fortunes of war.
Why not he? In fancy he saw himself
rising rapidly IN the military line of pro-
motion until his shoulders were decorated
with a commanding officers straps. That
would be something worth taking bach
to Mason City. That would be suf-
ficient answer to the wiseacres who had
scoffed at his departure. And he went
to Lincoln and enlisted in the First Ne
braSka volunteers
But his dreams of martial glory were
doomed to fade away into nothngness.
Although his regiment has been fighting
its way to undying fame in the Philip
pines, Private Roy Sutton never heard
the crack of a rife or inhaled the in
toXicating odor of powder smoke. He
went TO the Preside in San Francisco
with his regiment and there fell i'll. The
raw winds and dense fogs from the Pa,
cif1c which are now threatening to wipe
out the returned soldiers encamped there
preyed upon his lungs and he developed
pneumonia.
Baked HIS AMBITION.
In the camp hospital the surgeons
shook their heads gravely and said his
parents would best be notified, and when
the message came flashing over the wires
to Farmer Sutton that his boy had gone
for a soldier and was lying close to death
in the camp he hurried across the con-
tinent to aid him. He got trained nurses
and a furlough for the suffering lad. He
cared for him tenderly as the shepherd
does for the stray lamb which has wan
dered from the fold into the rain and
mist without, and when he was strong
enough to be moved he obtained ar
honorable discharge, for the lad was
under age for enlistment and they could
not hold him If they would, and brought
him home.
And so Roy Sutton came back, but
without the wealth and leaving undone
the great things he had vaguely planned
to do and he sought out his old sweet
heart, Leona Elmore. She was still
heart-free and Roy told himself that II
was for him she had waited. All this
was in August of last year and the at
tentions begun in boyhood were renewed
and redoubled in ardor by the tall youth
on whose lip a faint mustache was be-
ginning to appear. His father became
interested in a farmers elevator estab-
lished in the city and Roy was assigned
to represent his father there, and thus
he remained in town nearly all the time
1t was no longer necessary to drive In
three miles from the farm to see Leona
At almost any hour of the day he could
| feast his eyes upon the girl who had
woven q net around his heart, all uncon-