Cochise review., 1900-10-17
THOSE WHO ENLIST.
Their Reasons for Wanting to En-
 ter Uncle Sam'S Service.
Unrequited Love in Many xnstaAseA Ia the ReaSOn-Trick of an un~ feeling GuaPdian-CulliA0
 Out the IneliEtbles.

In one of the smaller cities of Texas is big man with a small conscience who has accomplished one of his chief objects in life. He has got rid of a small boy whose dying parents con. signed him to the big mans care. He did it by sending him to Chicago to en- list in Uncle Sam's navy, though he must have known that the boy could not pass physical examination, When the boy arrived at the recruiting sta tion in the Masonic temple and related his story to Commander Blockinger, whos has charge of it, he was sent to the officers of the Y. M. C. A., and by them was found work and home in a city in central Illinois. says the Chi cago Tribune.
 Of the many strange eases that have come into the recruiting station here, that of the boy excited the greatest in- terest
 He was not more than IS years old and had been leftby his parents when small child in the care of a guardian who never liked him. There wasn't much of an estate and the old man,was not half the friend to the boys parents after they died that he had been before. So he hunted for some means to get the youngster off his hands He found it when he saw big advertisement cali ing for recruits and which said appren- tices were wanted in the navy.
 There is suggestion attached that the boys must pass physical examina- ton and had better be examined by their home physicians before they start, so that if they are deficient they may be spared the expense of car fare to Chicago. The big man kept sti.l about that, gave the boy box of lunch to last him till he got here, put him in a day coach with ticket and no money, and went home to have quiet laugh by himself on his own cleyerness. The boy arrived here and was found 10 be lame, deaf in one ear, and near-sightsd. but he told such s pitiful tale that he was we'll cared for.
 Commander Blockinger has many strange eases among the hundreds of young men who enlist. There is some thing in the evolution of youth that makes him peculiarly tragic in his love affairs when he has about reached the age at which he is eligible Tor an ap- prenticeship in the navy As 8, result there are many bitter-hearted young started either on the road to fame or to oblivion--for they are usually dirded in opinion between becoming great and disappearing as the best means Of mak- ing her" sorry Not long ago a.young man son of rich New Yorker, was brought to the local office for enlist menr, He had had money all his fife and had misused 1T until he was moral wreck, The old man decided nothing but naval discipline far at sea would make a man of him so he came out here where the boy was living, "corrsLed" him and took him up to the office and bound him over 10 Uncle Sam. It Is safe to say the boy will learn to do without some things during the term of his en- .istment
 From 50 to 100 boys pass through the offce ln the Masonic temple every month on their way from farm or city home To the sea Of these the greater number are from the city, but out of the total number of applicants from coun- try and city the percentage accepted is larger among those from the farm. These boys are Sturdier. and the most of them have taken advantage of the departments notice and have had themselves examined first in their coun- try town before chancing trip 10 Chicago. This preliminary examina- ton culls out those who are obviously unfit As between city and country lads when once enlisted there is said 10 be little choice. Each is about the best there is.
 At army recruiting quarters on West Madison street,on the contrary there is demand for city men. The recruit ing sergeant declares that the country men are not so apt to pass the rigid ex- aminations, and they do nor make as good soldiers as the city men, having not as much endurance. Many co.ored men are being enlisted just now over there, as there is demand for men 10 fill the Twentyfourth and Twenty fifth regiments, both of which are in the Philippines with depot battal. ions" at Fort Wright and Fort Bliss in this country The white men who are taken on are sent, if they desire home service, to Fort Wayne to join the Four teenth regiment, or if they wish to go immediately to the Philippines are sent to Columbus barracks, Ohio, to await the sailing of transport.