The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-14
MALICE NOT In HIS HEART.
An Amt STORY OF HATE AND OF
ROIHERLY LOYE.

IL Began Between an Orncer ano . Cor
porai In the southwsst-Enmity Brough
bitterness to Both - Triondship and
Death Together Ia tho Philippines
A 81 Louis detective was talking to some pro
ie.slonnl associates In this city recently and
told this slory;
quite . stretch OF years ago ] was soldering
with a doughboy outnt Of The reg ulaf army down
In tho Southwest One II my bunkios-Im cal
him Ned Cannon. which Is not 80 lar from his
real name-hnd been . mate OF mine when We
wero both kids low on the ST. Louis icveos,
although We hadn't met again until We ran into
each other In the army. Cannon had struck
tho outfit a couple Of years ahead OF me. and he
had the corpora's cheyrons when | got there
lie was a good man and a good soldier. was this
Cannon. but somehow or another he had Incurred
the enmity Of one Of the officers Of our company,
a Second Lieutenant. who had got his shoulder
straps via tho mustang route that Ia. by pro-
motion from the ranks We'll lust call this Second
Lieutenant Nail. which Ia close enough to his
night mama too.
This Nell, you may suppose, vas a cracker
Jack soldier for dubs don't pass the exam,na
hon for promotion from the ranks In the Amer
lean Army. He was q pretty decent officer TO the
men. besidos-to all Of them. that Is to say, ex-
ocp, Ned Cannon. He surely did have It In bad
for Cannon. I never knew why, and l don't
know yet But the way Ndi rubbed II In on
Cannon was a holy show. He hSd Cannon
broke to the ranks soon after ! Joined the outht
for some trivial cause connected with guard duty.
Cannon didn't say much. but the line Of thlnks
he IL ust have entertained with reg ard to the Second
Lieutenant occasionally shown out IN tho haIo
In his eyes when they III upon the shape OF the
young mustang officer. Two months after
he busted him this Second Lieutenant got cannon
into the ellnk on the charge OF neglect Of dnty
while on post as a sentinel. Cannon narrowly
ESCAPED a general courtmarual on that charge.
which was unquesuonably trumped up, and tho
summary court gave hin thirty days with labor
SO Ned had to follow around the slop cart every
morning, a sentry with aloadod rife behind him.
and flush the sewers Of the post and saw and
spli, the wood. and dig gravel, and white wash
ou,hOuses, and In general work out his unjust
sentence from fatigue call In the gray dawn until
late In the afternoon when recall went He set
his Jaw pretty hard, aad took the game a. II hap
pencd along. When he got out and resumed
duty he told me that there was murder In his
hear, for that Second Lieutenant
"Ill get hunk with him. ho told me With say
age ~quietude II II takes me twenty years 10 do
H. I'll play cvens with that one all right
Ten days later Cannon was in the guardhouso
again. awaiting trial by general court-m srtal,
Neil. the Second Lieutenant. had got Cannon into
tho orderly room on some preext or other and
grossly lnsulted him, and Gannon. unable 10
hold himself IN any longer, had Opened up on the
mustang officer, aud would have struck his tor
mentor had not the top sergeant Of the company
leaped behind him and pimoned his arms.
Cannon got six months hard, laboi at tho
hands Of ~ general court martial, and a bob
tail besides-'hat is, a dishonorable discharge
from the serylcc-ior II Is d preity serious thing
for an enlisted man 10 bc even accused OF at
,emr'iry 10 strike a commissioned object
Now. here was a CHSe Of a good soldier who
really got the worst Of II Of the hands Of an officer
"A tlIrs that doesn't, as a matter OF tact. often
When lannon's six mouths IN the clink was up
he was escorted 10 he gate by a tie OF IL" guard.
] gave him n bum sui. u c~!cliAn's clothes that
nd IN my S9 o6ct ana no we vi VIII, fbniT wItieb IN to anS a, hahf h,,
over again. We'd have given him more, but IL
was between pay days
last words Cannon said to me befor. he was
drummrd out Three months later | got a letter
from him. dated st Louis lie announced tAat
he bad got on 'h- 81 louis police forcc
Neil, began e. go 10 pieces IN a canter lie started
60 ,sg Up, once In 8 while at first, but, later on.
right 1ssui',iy \ mnn can't c1uy he aneits
line. Nril got himself disciplined several times
by The Leak. otherwise III. commanding officer,
and he cam" near 10 his finish, about q year after
Cannon wrs hohtGilcd, for showing up nalpahlv
drunk on a day WHEN Il was his turn for an officer.
Of thr-iay tour. Tn old man smothcred that.
however end gave Neil another chance, along
Two months later Neil wen, up to The town,
forty miles. distant, got tankcd up for bear, and
did all binds # things, including The Duplication
NJ his nay accounts. He got back 70 The post
four days overdue, still drunk. and was put under
arrest in quArt'rs Then nus duplication Of his
pay accounts beams known 70 the old man. and
Neil found himself on deck for a general court
martial Having broken into an officers Uniform
from the ranks, hr didn't have any friends 20
in,erccde tor him At Washington, 70 The court
IN disgrace wrote and told Cannon about this,
and got 8 telegram Ia reply, consisting OF ono
word, besides the signature:
Hunk. NED
q served ort my enlistment And wen, back
home to ST Louis where Ned Cannon put mo
mex, 10 the wnv 70 get onto the nolioo force, and /
got on. That's PaTtI Of the story.
"One afternoon, a year. ago last April, Ned
Cannon was patro,ling his beat WHEN he happened
Up against a drum The drunk vas a hnf-
under his ernr tie was a book agent He was
eH-I!eut Neil, aud Cannon recognized him
annon took Ntll 10 his own home and sob-r-d
him up lie got Neil into shape Why h did
II don'tknow nsk-d him how II was tia, be
was carlrR for bis old enemy that way-saked
hlm a number Of but he never answered
ne, | don't understand II, yet Ned put some
-
fine, strong ard cleer-eyed Then Ned did sons
politics for Neil and got the ex-lieutenAnt q Job
In the st Louis tax otfco a. a clerk Neil re-
matned sob'r, and rot along tamously He and
Cannon were always seen together when both
were of duty al the same time
They b'th got 70 hanke-ing for soldering
Wien tie Spanish War was well under way. That
hankertng Is liable 70 hit a man through ~.
who's ever worn a uniform on land or SEA Neil
and Cannon, from i1lEiuR about H. became pos,
~essei Of the craze to e. TO the phil ppines, and
they cas-, around for a tip on an outfit that was
bookcd 70 GO down there They got tie zip, ard
they both threw Mp their Jobs and jolued a Kansas
volunteer outfit as buck prtvstes, Cannon under
his right name and Se!l under an assumed name
Ton a man who's known N he = cnshiercd officer
cant get back INTO the service even as an eli listed
man Tha. tie wnd-up Of Par, IL, and It's oil
on NE De a % ,el, al That
We'll, ! Eot hold Of a pap~r on the cars WIFI
making a TIP a few months back AID read an
account Il tho fighting before Mnlolos, then
Aguinaldo's capital ~ the list II tho killed
among tic mtn # hat Kansas outfit were Can
mons uame and N-i,s fictitious name, Well,
when Ned Cannon stood 10 alteration and answered
10 his name and number on ira other side OF lie
Great Divide, I'll bet he got a white mark for not