The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-04-20

trouble her no more"
"That fellow2' she gasped. "You
mean"
81 -Jatrobe-killed and
Buried n whole week ago"
"And YOU told her!" she cried clinch-
Ing her little hands in impotent wrath.
"You--brutel"
Another week rolled by. The tide Of
battle had swept inland and northward;
and all eyes were on the plucky advance
Of MacArthur's strong division, while
ar out to the south and east the
thinned and depleted lines Of Anderson
acid an insurgcnt force that forever
menaced but dare not attack. The
Primeval Dudes, sorcly missing their
calmly energetic colonel. had drilted
into IA war Of words with their nearest
neiphburs on the firing line, far vest
ern regiment gifted with great com
mand of language and small regard for
style. The latter had crowed nightly
over their more vigorously disciplined
comrades because OF the compliments
bestowed on them i'm an official report,
wherein The Dudes received only honor
eble mention. 1t was Caps. Stricken of
the volunteers who had led The dash on
the rebel works across the Tripa to the
left of Blocllhouse 70 II was their
Sergt. Firnev who whackei u Filipino
major with ;he butt OF his Springfield,
+ and tumbled out OF him the batch of re-
ports and records that gave the num-
bers and positions Of eYc~g unit of
| pillars division on the southwark zone.
| II was their Corporal Norton who get
| the Mauser through the shoulder Just
as. foremost IN the rush, he bayoneted
the last Tagal at the Krupp guns in the
river redoubt. II was his devoted
bunly, Private Latrobc, who voiun-
teered to carry the division com
mander's dispatch across the open rice
field and the yawning bitches that sep
arated the staff from the rest Of the
charging --teenth. and who died glo-
riouslv in the rush on the rebel work.
Man after man Of the woolly westerners
had been referred to by name, while the
Dudes had nothing to show but their
| wounded coioners modest report that
"vhcrc every officer and man appeared
to do his whole duty il would he UNI
lust to make especial mention of even
limited few" The Dudes were getting
hot over the taunts of the "roughs.'
rs some one had misnamed their neigh
bors; and one night when there was
more or less interchange of pointed
chaff in lieu of fight with common
foe there was heard a shrill voice from
the flank of the rifle pit nearest the
westerners, and what it said was re-
peated in wonderment over the brigade
before the Dudes were another day
older.
well, dash your thievin' gang! We
made our record for ourselves, any
how. We didn't have to rely on any
dashed deserters from the regulars
you did"
And that was why Sergt. Sterne, o.
the Dudes, was sent for by the felt
officers of both regiments the follow
ing morning and hidden TO explain
which he did in few words. He wal
ready to answer that the wounded
Corporal Norton was the very SAM
young man he saw in the adjutanti
office of the --teenth regulars at CAM
Merritt, and was then called Morton
And that evening the veteran sergean
major of the -teeuth was hidden Il
report at the reserve hospital in Err
mita, close to the Malate line was con
Quoted 10 the bedside of pallid younl
soldier whose ticket bore the name o
Norton, and was asked to tell whethe
he had ever seen him before.
81 have. sir" said the veteran, sadl.
and gravely. ale Is a deserler from tn
-tecuth. His name on our rolls wa
Morton" And that night Col. Arm
strong cabled TO "Primate," New York
the single word Found" Nor was
likely the lad would soon be lost again
for a sentry with fixed bayonet stoo,
within ten feet of his bed with order
not to let him out of his sight second
, Mrs. Garrison appeared at the hos
ptal that very evening and heard Of tn
episode, and reached Billy Gray's bed
side looking harassed, even baggard
, During the past three days she had beel
- accorded admission, for Gray was s.
, much improved there was no reason t
, longer Forbid but on each occasion In
/ wounded volunteer officer and the brac
of attendants present had precluded al
t possibility of confidential talk. Sh
must bide her time. Gray would be u
: in few days, said the doctor; and the
/ nothing would do, said Mrs, Garrison
. but he must be moved to their big
- roomy, lovely house on the bay sid'
= and be made strong and well again
, made to give up those letters, too
. thought she; for she had wormed it on
S of n hystander that a packet Of som
e kind had been given by the dying so
e der to the lieutenant, and she we
+ knew what it must be. She had eve
70 penned him n little note, since not
/ whisper could be safely exchanged, an
$ hcadedit: give this back to me the mC
/ mentT ouhavere adit." Init she reminC
n ed him of his promise, and-did he nee
| 4 L. 4 q q L. 4